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attend a special service at the Menin Gate, | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
which stands on the road taken by so many to the frontline. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
100 years on, we still stand together, gathering, | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
as so many do every night, in remembrance of that sacrifice. | :00:38. | :00:52. | |
Tonight, thousands watched on in the town of Ypres, | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
as the story of the battle was retold. | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
There's a show of strength from America in east Asia, | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
after another ballistic missile test by North Korea. | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
There's more violence in Venezuela, during controversial elections | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
for a new parliament to change the constitution. | :01:13. | :01:21. | |
COMMENTATOR: Jody Taylor for England! | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
And England beat France 1-0 to reach the semi-finals | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Good evening from Tyne Cot cemetery in Belgium, | :01:28. | :01:49. | |
the final resting place for almost 12,000 allied soldiers | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
Most of them were killed in the battle of Passchendaele, | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
which began here 100 years ago tomorrow. | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
It was one of the bloodiest battles of the conflict. | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
In all, half a million allied and German soldiers were killed, | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
wounded or went missing, in just three months of fighting. | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
This evening, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
joined the Prime Minister, Theresa May, here, as two days | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
of commemorations to mark the start of the battle got underway, | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
This is a city that has dedicated itself to remembrance. | :02:20. | :02:53. | |
The fireman of Ypres have sounded the last post in summer and winter | :02:54. | :03:06. | |
as the decades rolled by. Around them, carved into the great Darch of | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
the Menin Gate, over 54,000 names, men from every corner of the UK, who | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
travelled across the globe to join the fight, men who disappeared in | :03:16. | :03:25. | |
the cauldron around Passchendaele. With the sounding of this bugle | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
call, the 250,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers who were | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
killed during the First World War in Ypres are remembered. The defence of | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
the city, at such great cost, meant that it became hallowed ground. | :03:44. | :03:55. | |
On this evening in the summer of 1917, the third Battle of Ypres had | :03:56. | :04:04. | |
already begun. But early success was followed by the rain, weeks of it, | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
which slowed the advance. Passchendaele, the final target of | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
the attack, came to symbolise death and misery in a muddy wasteland | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
where many still life. -- still lie. Gosh, I didn't think it | :04:16. | :04:27. | |
would be that moving. Dorothy and her cousin Peter were | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
here to remember their grandfather. They are among 200 invited | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
guests with personal That word on there is as close | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
to a body as we are ever The ethos behind building this | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
was for people to say he is here. In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow | :04:44. | :05:08. | |
between the crosses. In Ypres main square, Dame Helen Mirren spoke the | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
words of the war poet to try to express the horror he witnessed. The | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
larks scarce heard amid the guns below. I was in the front-line | :05:18. | :05:29. | |
trench at Passchendaele. Winston Churchill wanted the ruins of Ypres | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
left as a memorial. Tonight, meticulously rebuilt, they told the | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
story of men now gone, their generation may have left us, but | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
this city still marks their passing, still keeps a promise it made all | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
those years ago. Robert Hall, BBC News, Ypres. | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
Ben Brown is at the Menin Gate, just a few miles from here, | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
where Prince William laid a wreath earlier this evening. | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
And, Ben, descendants of those who died were watching | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
Poignant scenes this evening. Yes, exactly, Sophie, 100 years ago | :05:59. | :06:09. | |
tonight, British and Commonwealth soldiers would have marched along | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
this road right behind me here, where the Menin Gate now stands, on | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
their way to the front line, on their way to the start of the | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
offensive that began in the early hours of the morning, the start of | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
the Battle of Passchendaele, one of the bloodiest battles and all of | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
human history. Well, altogether some 4000 British descendants of people | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
who fought and often died at Passchendaele have come from Britain | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
to Belgium to remember their ancestors, bringing pictures of them | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
with them, letters, diaries, to try to remember them. I spoke to one man | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
whose father had joined up when he was only 15 years old. He was no | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
more than a boy, really, and he fought at Passchendaele amid the | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
mud. He was gassed and he somehow survived, but this man was telling | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
me it is so important to teach the younger generation about the horrors | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
of Passchendaele, and not to let the memory of Passchendaele fade with | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
the passing of time. We'll have more from Tyne Cot | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
later in the programme. President Trump says he's "very | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
disappointed" with China for not doing more to stop | :07:13. | :07:21. | |
North Korea's weapons programme. His comments, in a tweet, | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
came after Pyongyang launched its second intercontinental | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
ballistic missile in a month, which landed in the sea, | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
off the Japanese coast. The North Koreans say it's a "stern | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
warning" to Washington, that the "entire US mainland" is now | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
within striking distance. From Tokyo, Rupert | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Wingfield-Hayes reports. The unmistakable shape | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
of an American B-1 bomber, sweeping This is President Trump's pointed | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
response to North Korea's It was accompanied by an equally | :07:46. | :07:54. | |
pointed rant on Twitter. "I am very disappointed in China", | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
the President tweeted. "They do nothing for us | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
with North Korea, just talk. "We will no longer allow | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
this to continue." China today has been showing | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
off its own military might, in a huge parade overseen | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
by President Xi Jinping. He has condemned North Korea's | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
launch, but China is not prepared to bring Pyongyang to its knees, | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
even though it probably could. North Korea, meanwhile, | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
is making the most of its success. Pictures of Friday's missile launch | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
are being played over and over. And, once again, Kim Jong-un | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
is the star of the show. This latest missile test represents | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
a profound challenge He put a lot of hope in getting | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
China to rein in Pyongyang. He now appears to have accepted | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
that is not going to happen. But the US President has explicitly | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
stated he will not allow North Korea to acquire the ability to strike | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
the United States The rising tension is making people | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
here increasingly nervous. In a village in northern | :08:59. | :09:10. | |
Japan, a siren "A missile is heading in this | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
direction", the announcer says. Practice drills like this are now | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
happening all along this coast. TRANSLATION: It's very scary, | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
I don't know where to run I need practice like today's drill | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
to learn what to do. Off this same coast last month, | :09:32. | :09:42. | |
the most powerful US armada to be A military strike on North Korea | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
may seem unthinkable, but Pyongyang and Washington | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
are locked in an increasingly dangerous game and there are no good | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
choices for how to end it. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
BBC News, in Tokyo. Our Washington Correspondent Laura | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
Bicker is at the White House. Laura, what are the President's | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
options for dealing with North Korea now, do you think? Well, he had | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
played such hope in China influencing North Korea, that | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
strategy is simply not working. You have seen the military build-up in | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
the area, those bombers flying over the peninsular. Here in the US they | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
have also been testing their missile defence system, based in Alaska, a | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
successful test, they say, but they are also looking at diplomatic | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
options. They are looking at working with Japan and South Korea and | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
perhaps even a UN Security Council resolution, but make no mistake | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
about it, the Trump administration knows North Korea is a growing | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
threat. And in a separate development, Russia has now | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
confirmed it will be expelling US diplomats in response to fresh | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
sanctions. This is hugely significant. It will cut the number | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
of US diplomatic staff working in Russia by half. To put it into | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
context, when President Obama found out from his intelligence agencies | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
that Russia had meddled in the US presidential election, he expelled | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
35 diplomats. At the time, Vladimir Putin did not respond, did not | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
retaliate. He said he wanted to work with the new administration. This | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
has all backed Donald Trump into a corner. On his desk, he has a bill | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
ordering new sanctions on Russia. Russia says they will retaliate even | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
further if that Bill is signed. It does look like Donald Trump's hopes | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
of a fresh start with Moscow are in tatters. | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
A 27-year-old man has been charged in connection with the rape | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
of a 14-year-old girl at a railway station in Birmingham last Tuesday. | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
British Transport Police say they're still looking for another man, | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
who attacked her later, after she flagged down | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
There's enhanced security at major airports across Australia, | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
after investigators uncovered a plot to blow up a plane. | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
Four men were arrested after raids on several homes in Sydney, | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
with the Prime Minster Malcolm Turnbull saying it was | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
Police believe the plot was inspired by Islamist extremism. | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
The International Trade Secretary, Liam Fox, has cast fresh doubt | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
on the Chancellor's claims that the Cabinet has broadly agreed | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
that free movement from the EU, should continue after Brexit | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
Speaking to The Sunday Times, he said that would "not keep faith" | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
Chris, are we any clear on what the Cabinet has agreed on this? The | :12:36. | :12:49. | |
short answer is no, we are not. Or shouldn't be that surprised that | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
there are disagreements around the Cabinet table. The referendum was | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
something that divided the country, it divided parties and it divided | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
the Cabinet. From the Prime Minister's perspective it is much | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
harder to ensure that, publicly, they say the same things, because | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
after she mislaid her majority her authority has shrivelled. This is a | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
discussion now about what exactly a transitional period immediacy after | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
Brexit looks like. There are clearly disagreements in the Cabinet. But | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
take a look at the Labour Party and there are disagreements over Brexit | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
there. They have been disagreeing with one another for months on end. | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
Meanwhile, the clock continues to tick down, one year and eight | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
months, just under 600 days until Brexit, the end of March, 2019. | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
Chris, thank you. To Venezuela, where polls will soon | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
close in a controversial election to choose a new parliament, | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
which will have the power to rewrite It follows months of violent | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
anti-government protests, in which more than a hundred | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
people have died. Opposition groups have boycotted | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
the vote, saying it's another power-grab by President Maduro, | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
whom they blame for Venezuela's Katie? Well, as you said, the polls | :13:54. | :14:12. | |
are closing shortly but the result will not come as any surprise. All | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
candidates have been proposed by the administration. What is really | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
highlighted in the vote today is the polarisation in Venezuela. You go to | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
a pro-government stronghold and people are happy about the | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
constituent assembly. You go to the opposition stronghold, people there | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
went out on the streets in defiance of a ban on protests and often | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
violent confrontations today, with several people who were killed. | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
The sense of celebration here made it easy to forget for a moment | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
the dark times Venezuela is going through. | :14:46. | :14:46. | |
But for the people waiting to vote, the problems are real. | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
Lisbeth told me she's voting for peace for our children | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
Antonio said he's here to ensure there is more food | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
Late President Hugo Chavez looms large in this part of Caracas, | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
on the walls it's his face, not President Maduro's you can see. | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
But Mr Maduro wants to continue his legacy. | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
He says a new assembly that could rewrite the constitution | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
is the only way to bring peace to the country. | :15:16. | :15:17. | |
The opposition boycotted the vote today. | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
Instead, many came out onto the streets to keep up | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
Carlos is a university student and part of what's | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
known as The Resistance, playing his part in the protest | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
movement by blocking roads, because he says he wants a better | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
Everything that we can find here, we use to protect us, | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
because this is, as I say, is a critical situation. | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
They are shooting us, they are killing people. | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
There are more than 100 people that are dead. | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
As police gathered on the other side of the street barricades, | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
the protesters got ready for another confrontation. | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
People here can't quite understand how such a rich country | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
The political and economic crisis has never been so bad. | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
But the feeling is here it will just get worse. | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
That much was clear - just a few metres from here, | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
a police convoy was hit by improvised explosives. | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
The government says the opposition are terrorists. | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
The protesters say they are fighting against a government that is | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
From this part of town, the vote was almost irrelevant. | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
People here are worried about politics, about food shortages | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
Protesters keep building the blockades. | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
The police keep trying to destroy them. | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
Divisions here are so deep in Venezuela, neither | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
With all the sport, here's Karthi Gnanasegaram | :16:45. | :16:53. | |
England are through to the semi final of the Women's Euros, | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
It's the first time England had beaten them since 1974, and sets up | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
a final four encounter against the hosts, | :17:08. | :17:08. | |
The other semi-final sees Denmark take on Austria. | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
Our correspondent Katie Gornall reports from Deventer. | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
Deventer is a place with a long history. | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
One of the oldest cities in the Netherlands, here, the past | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
But England have their sights set firmly on the future and are aiming | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
England haven't beaten France since 1974. But these players have every | :17:30. | :17:42. | |
reason to feel confident, having won all three of their group games. | :17:43. | :17:44. | |
In this latest chapter of an old feud, England | :17:45. | :17:46. | |
But in the early stages, the play didn't match the PR. | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
Marie-Laure Delie with the only warning shot of a nervy first half. | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
Mark Sampson described his players as a team of street fighters. | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
A card that will rule her out if England progressed. | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
As France started to take control, that looked unlikely, | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
until Lucy Bronze got on the ball and queued up Jodie Taylor. | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
This, her fifth goal of the tournament. | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
An injury to goalkeeper Karen Bardsley only added | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
to the second-half tension and France never gave up. | :18:16. | :18:17. | |
With England backpedalling, they threatened to steal the attention. | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
But, for the first time in a long time, England held out | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
against their rivals for an historic win. | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
England advance and have taken a huge step forward. | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
England's cricketers are just six wickets away from victory | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
against South Africa in the Third Test at the Oval. | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
Half centuries from Tom Westley, making his debut, captain Joe Root | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
and Jonny Bairstow helped England to declare their second | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
They then took four South Africa wickets before the close | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
of play on day four, including two wickets | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
Wigan Warriors will face Holders, Hull FC in Rugby League's Challenge | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
Wigan booked their place at Wembley with a 27 points to 14 win over | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
Oliver Gildart scoring the first and final tries for Wigan, | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
Great Britain have won a silver medal on the final day | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
of the World Swimming Championships in Budapest to take their total | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
Today's silver came in the men's 4x100m | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
The relay team included Adam Peaty, who had already won two | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
Great Britain finish the competition in second place | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel has won the Hungarian Grand Prix, | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
while Lewis Hamilton finished in fourth place. | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
Hamilton honoured a promise made earlier in the race to his team-mate | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
Valtteri Bottas and allowed the Finn to overtake him and | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
That result means Vettel has extended his Formula One World | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
Championship lead over the British driver to 14 points. | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
Details of the day's other sports stories | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
are on the BBC Sport website, including the draw for the second | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
That's all for now from the BBC Sport Centre. | :20:03. | :20:11. | |
The battle of Passchendaele - one of the bloodiest of World War I - | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
began 100 years ago tomorrow, in the early hours of the morning. | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
This cemetery behind me is where just some of the fallen - | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
But the vast majority of these graves have no names. | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
I'm joined here by Dr Glyn Prussor from the Commonwealth | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
This is very much the focal point tomorrow of the commemorations. It | :20:31. | :20:41. | |
very much symbolises the real horror of that battle? Perhaps nowhere | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
better epitomises the horrors of this particular battlefield. There | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
are even some of the remnants of the German defences, concrete pillboxes, | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
within the cemetery. 12,000 graves of British and Commonwealth soldiers | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
and a few Germans, a reminder that this was a battle that traumatised | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
soldiers on both sides of the line. The amount of land they were | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
fighting over four months and months, a lot of it in thick, deep | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
mud, is so small, five miles? You can actually see the spires of Ypres | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
on the horizon from the cemetery. It's almost impossible to imagine | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
what this will have looked like 100 years ago. But it's important to | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
reflect on the experiences of all those from across the world that | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
came here. Tomorrow's service will do that. It will be a very poignant | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
occasion. We are at the centenary, 100 years now, will be | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
commemorations continue? I think so, we have seen thousands of people | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
coming here to commemorate the battle. People are discovering new | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
things about their family history and the history of the war all the | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
time. There was no sign of it coming to an end any time soon. | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
That's all from us here in Belgium for tonight. | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
In a moment, we'll have the news from where you are, but first we'll | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
leave you with some images from this evening's events to remember | :21:55. | :21:58. |