:00:00. > :00:12.A big hike in electricity prices for British Gas customers.
:00:13. > :00:15.More than 3 million will be affected.
:00:16. > :00:21.Electricity bills will go up by 12.5% from September.
:00:22. > :00:25.Consumer groups says it's a slap in the face for families.
:00:26. > :00:28.The bills go up when the prices go up and then
:00:29. > :00:31.they don't go down when the prices go down.
:00:32. > :00:34.I'm not sure where British Gas is coming from but I guess the
:00:35. > :00:35.other option is choose a different supplier.
:00:36. > :00:38.But British Gas argues its own costs have risen.
:00:39. > :00:40.We'll be asking what, if anything, the Government can do
:00:41. > :00:47.At least 60 people have died this year after overdosing
:00:48. > :00:50.Dozens more deaths are being investigated.
:00:51. > :00:55.Police reveal new tactics to tackle the two-wheeled crime wave
:00:56. > :01:01.The President's men - but not for long.
:01:02. > :01:03.What Trump's latest White House changes could mean
:01:04. > :01:10.And counting down the days to retirement as Usain Bolt gets
:01:11. > :01:16.Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News...
:01:17. > :01:19.England women's goalkeeper Karen Bardsley has been ruled out
:01:20. > :01:22.of the rest of Euro 2017 after breaking her leg
:01:23. > :01:42.in the quarterfinal win over France.
:01:43. > :01:48.More than 3 million British Gas customers are facing a big rise
:01:49. > :01:56.From September, the company will charge 12.5% more for electricity.
:01:57. > :02:00.It means a typical household on a dual fuel tariff
:02:01. > :02:02.will see its annual bill go up by ?76.
:02:03. > :02:05.British Gas says it's putting up prices for the first time
:02:06. > :02:09.in nearly four years because its own costs have risen.
:02:10. > :02:12.But the Government and consumer groups have condemned the move.
:02:13. > :02:16.Here's our business editor, Simon Jack.
:02:17. > :02:20.Electricity, a basic need, a simple product.
:02:21. > :02:25.It's the same wherever, or whomever, you buy from.
:02:26. > :02:29.If you buy it from British Gas, it will be 12.5% more expensive
:02:30. > :02:32.from September, as the UK's largest supplier hiked prices for the first
:02:33. > :02:36.Given wholesale costs have come down over that
:02:37. > :02:42.We do agree that, over the last few years,
:02:43. > :02:45.since we dropped electricity prices the last time,
:02:46. > :02:50.wholesale costs have indeed fallen by about ?36 on a
:02:51. > :02:53.typical bill but we've seen these other factors of transmission and
:02:54. > :02:56.distribution costs, and energy policy costs,
:02:57. > :03:02.Electricity may be a simple commodity but the
:03:03. > :03:05.factors that influence its price are complicated.
:03:06. > :03:07.22% of the bill is made up of the company's
:03:08. > :03:14.The wholesale price makes up 36% of the bill.
:03:15. > :03:16.That's the price at which the energy suppliers
:03:17. > :03:21.buy the energy they then sell onto us.
:03:22. > :03:24.British Gas concedes that this has actually fallen since the
:03:25. > :03:27.Then there's the cost of delivering the
:03:28. > :03:35.British Gas says rising costs here is one reason
:03:36. > :03:45.Figures from Ofgem show these costs fell over the last year.
:03:46. > :03:49.That includes increased use of renewable
:03:50. > :03:51.energy, and promoting energy-saving measures like insulation.
:03:52. > :03:56.Ofgem says, yes, they are, but only by 2%.
:03:57. > :04:00.No wonder some consumers are confused.
:04:01. > :04:03.They make them as complicated as they can and people don't
:04:04. > :04:06.The bills aren't very clear, I don't think.
:04:07. > :04:08.I'm not sure where British Gas is coming
:04:09. > :04:10.from but I guess the other option you've got is choose
:04:11. > :04:16.The fact the wholesale prices have stayed
:04:17. > :04:19.the same, or going down, as far as I'm aware.
:04:20. > :04:21.The fact they're putting them up, for the consumer, is pretty
:04:22. > :04:25.British Gas froze prices when others raised them earlier this
:04:26. > :04:27.year, so it's catching up with the rest of the pack.
:04:28. > :04:29.Consumer groups say it is the Government's
:04:30. > :04:30.responsibility to take industrywide action.
:04:31. > :04:33.The Government needs to urgently look at what it does for
:04:34. > :04:35.those customers who are paying over the odds.
:04:36. > :04:38.There has been so much discussion about the energy market
:04:39. > :04:41.and that it doesn't work for consumers.
:04:42. > :04:45.The discussion needs to end we need to see some action.
:04:46. > :04:48.According to the opposition, that action should include a cap on
:04:49. > :04:53.We've said from the Labour Party we'd introduce a price
:04:54. > :04:56.cut initially, but also we would develop alternative energy supplies
:04:57. > :04:58.so that this cartel we have now cannot control pricing
:04:59. > :05:02.levels, and hold us over a barrel ever again in the future.
:05:03. > :05:04.I think they're exploiting their customers.
:05:05. > :05:07.Policies like capping energy prices to support working families.
:05:08. > :05:09.The Conservatives had a cap in their manifesto.
:05:10. > :05:12.It was dropped from the Queen's speech, and now the Government wants
:05:13. > :05:17.Ofgem to find ways to keep the bills down.
:05:18. > :05:20.Once again, energy is a hot political issue.
:05:21. > :05:31.Our political correspondent, Alex Forsyth, is in Westminster.
:05:32. > :05:42., can the governor do to keep energy prices down? What should the role of
:05:43. > :05:45.government be in the energy market scratch but this was an issue during
:05:46. > :05:49.the election campaign because Theresa May had said if the
:05:50. > :05:53.Conservatives win power than they would introduce the energy price
:05:54. > :05:58.cap. The Conservatives did win power but they did not win a majority, so
:05:59. > :06:03.that plan has been shelved. That is in part because of Brexit. The
:06:04. > :06:07.Government has a heavy programme of legislation to get through the
:06:08. > :06:12.Commons. Not every Tory MP with back the idea of a price cap. This is a
:06:13. > :06:18.parliamentary battle they cannot afford. Ofgem has sufficient powers
:06:19. > :06:21.to do something about this. There is currently a consultation and Ofgem
:06:22. > :06:25.is expected to bring forward proposals later this year which may
:06:26. > :06:29.help the most vulnerable customers that ministers are stressing that
:06:30. > :06:34.idea of a price cap is not entirely off the table. It is something the
:06:35. > :06:38.threat warning to energy companies. If you do not do something about
:06:39. > :06:43.this, the Government might. Do not expect any significant government
:06:44. > :06:46.intervention on this any time soon. For now they are keen to be seen to
:06:47. > :06:51.be talking tough. Thank you. The National Crime Agency says that
:06:52. > :06:54.60 people have died in the UK in the past eight months
:06:55. > :06:56.after taking the painkilling It's 50 times more potent
:06:57. > :07:00.than heroin and is the drug that was linked to the death
:07:01. > :07:02.of the rock star Prince. Now dozens more deaths
:07:03. > :07:04.are being investigated. The painkiller is usually
:07:05. > :07:06.given to cancer patients, but it's increasingly being added
:07:07. > :07:09.to heroin and other class A drugs, The rock legend Prince died suddenly
:07:10. > :07:19.last year at the age of 57. A year on, medical examiners
:07:20. > :07:30.concluded his death was due to an accidental
:07:31. > :07:39.overdose of Fentanyl. The drugs that killed this showbiz a
:07:40. > :07:45.list is responsible for an increasing number of deaths in the
:07:46. > :07:49.UK. Fentanyl is a painkiller used to treat cancer patients. It is 50
:07:50. > :07:55.times stronger than heroin. It has been linked to the deaths of 60
:07:56. > :07:59.people in the UK and there is an even more powerful substance which
:08:00. > :08:03.can be up to 10,000 times stronger than street heroin. We talk about
:08:04. > :08:10.people playing Russian roulette with these type of drugs. It is an
:08:11. > :08:15.extremely dangerous game now with the fentanyl addition to be heroin.
:08:16. > :08:20.Sean, who does not want his face shown, lost his sister to a
:08:21. > :08:28.suspected fentanyl overdose. She had bought some. She knew what she
:08:29. > :08:33.bought it was from the dealer. They found her two days later on the
:08:34. > :08:37.toilet. In most of the deaths, fentanyl had been mixed with heroin
:08:38. > :08:42.for a bigger fix. They are that far gone on heroin and the other drugs
:08:43. > :08:45.and the lifestyle they lead, nothing matters to them. All they are
:08:46. > :08:49.bothered about is that relief, getting out of their head and
:08:50. > :08:54.getting away from the world for an hour or two. Fentanyl is so lethal
:08:55. > :09:02.that this is how police were kitted up when they raided a suspect's
:09:03. > :09:04.house. Officers had to be protected against breathing it in. Why is it
:09:05. > :09:10.coming onto British streets? We believe this is partly down to the
:09:11. > :09:13.ongoing need for dealers to be trying to compete with each other
:09:14. > :09:20.and sometimes introducing drugs into the marketplace they believe might
:09:21. > :09:25.enhance their profits. Fentanyl is what is known as the synthetic
:09:26. > :09:29.opioid. Most of the UK deaths have been in Yorkshire and the north-east
:09:30. > :09:32.of England. The police are highlighting the dangers but, have
:09:33. > :09:36.addicts got the strength to heed the message?
:09:37. > :09:38.Police in London are having to adopt new tactics to deal
:09:39. > :09:42.Criminals on two wheels have been riding around the city targeting
:09:43. > :09:47.Police say the number of incidents has tripled in the last year.
:09:48. > :09:49.Our special correspondent, Lucy Manning, has been investigating
:09:50. > :09:55.Last night near Harrods the police and fire brigade rushed
:09:56. > :10:00.Liquid, possibly acid, thrown at the victim
:10:01. > :10:06.A few months ago in east London and a motorcyclist
:10:07. > :10:12.A fire extinguisher let off in his face.
:10:13. > :10:14.In London it is increasingly the crime of choice
:10:15. > :10:20.Police telling the BBC the average age of moped gangs is 15.
:10:21. > :10:34.Please send me the location of where he is...
:10:35. > :10:37.Delivery driver Jabed Hussain was attacked three weeks ago
:10:38. > :10:40.on his moped when acid was thrown at him as they stole his bike.
:10:41. > :10:43.He is now part of a social media group with hundreds of moped drivers
:10:44. > :10:49.Just turning left to go towards my next job.
:10:50. > :10:58.How often are people posting that they are seeing
:10:59. > :11:11.We go with Jabed to meet other delivery drivers,
:11:12. > :11:14.some have stopped working after ten o'clock at night, they're
:11:15. > :11:24.Everywhere, everywhere around and police do not care.
:11:25. > :11:36.Some of them will come when we are just stopped at traffic lights.
:11:37. > :11:42.As we talk, a bike cuts across the pavement,
:11:43. > :11:48.the driver and passenger with their faces covered.
:11:49. > :11:53.The delivery drivers say this is one of the moped gangs,
:11:54. > :11:58.Later we check the number plate, the bike is not taxed or insured
:11:59. > :12:04.Police believe the characteristics of a stolen bike.
:12:05. > :12:07.In the last year there were 16,000 moped related crimes in London.
:12:08. > :12:09.Three times as many as the previous year.
:12:10. > :12:12.But the BBC has been told police are testing a new way
:12:13. > :12:21.Spraying them with liquid that can later be traced.
:12:22. > :12:26.We're looking at a spray that delivers a unique DNA piece
:12:27. > :12:31.which sprays on them and can be traced back to them later on.
:12:32. > :12:40.If equipment or clothing or the bike is UVd.
:12:41. > :12:44.And can you use this spray on them as they are taking off?
:12:45. > :12:49.We're trying to find a way to do that safely.
:12:50. > :12:51.It is being tested under Home Office guidelines.
:12:52. > :12:54.There is a misconception that there is less pursuit
:12:55. > :12:57.and people do not pursue because they think they
:12:58. > :13:01.That is not true, in fact our number of pursuits has increased
:13:02. > :13:05.You do not pursue every moped gang when a call comes in?
:13:06. > :13:10.That is true but the reality is by the time we get the call
:13:11. > :13:12.for most of these offences, that moped has already gone.
:13:13. > :13:14.Bristolbiketaker, with pictures of mopeds,
:13:15. > :13:22.Avon and Somerset Police who are investigating say
:13:23. > :13:25.the account is used to taunt the owners of stolen bikes.
:13:26. > :13:27.Others appear to offer keys for sale to unlock mopeds.
:13:28. > :13:30.And teenagers post videos of themselves driving recklessly,
:13:31. > :13:36.This is believed to be riders filming themselves
:13:37. > :13:42.And police video shows phone thieves fleeing up
:13:43. > :13:50.The BBC has been told moped gangs are now coming
:13:51. > :13:53.into London from Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Buckinghamshire.
:13:54. > :13:54.Police believe this growing problem in the capital
:13:55. > :14:05.Five prison officers have been taken to hospital following violence
:14:06. > :14:09.There has also been a second day of rioting at the Mount
:14:10. > :14:13.It's understood that prisoners seized control of part of one wing.
:14:14. > :14:15.Officials say the incident is now under control.
:14:16. > :14:17.The John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford has become the first
:14:18. > :14:19.in the NHS to move patients because of concerns
:14:20. > :14:23.about fire safety following the Grenfell Tower disaster.
:14:24. > :14:26.It's closing the inpatient wards of the trauma unit after a review
:14:27. > :14:29.found problems with the cladding on the building and with other fire
:14:30. > :14:38.A great day at the White House - that was Donald Trump's assessment
:14:39. > :14:40.last night after his new director of communications,
:14:41. > :14:42.Anthony Scaramucci, was sacked even before he'd formally taken
:14:43. > :14:45.But the President's take on events seemed -
:14:46. > :14:48.not for the first time - at odds with many observers
:14:49. > :14:50.of his US administration, as our North America editor
:14:51. > :14:57.It is being billed as The Last Supper.
:14:58. > :15:03.Anthony Scaramucci last night having dinner at where else?
:15:04. > :15:06.The restaurant in the Trump Hotel just hours after he'd been
:15:07. > :15:09.At roughly the same time came this extraordinary
:15:10. > :15:17.What? Are you kidding?
:15:18. > :15:24.The swearing-in of General John Kelly as chief of staff being
:15:25. > :15:26.seen as a new beginning for this administration.
:15:27. > :15:30.He will do a spectacular job, I have no doubt, as
:15:31. > :15:34.So, could this mark the end of what's been a turbulent,
:15:35. > :15:38.dysfunctional six months for all the President's men?
:15:39. > :15:40.The former national security adviser was the first to go.
:15:41. > :15:47.Fired after just 24 days in the job, after he lied about
:15:48. > :15:48.his contacts with the Russian Ambassador.
:15:49. > :15:50.Three months after being fired, Trump's first communications
:15:51. > :15:52.director, the rather anonymous Mike Dubke,
:15:53. > :16:04.The high-profile and brutal dismissal of the former FBI
:16:05. > :16:06.Infuriating the President with his investigation
:16:07. > :16:10.into links between the Russians and the Trump campaign.
:16:11. > :16:12.11 days ago, it was the turn of beleaguered press
:16:13. > :16:16.He walked, furious that President Trump had
:16:17. > :16:20.hired Anthony Scaramucci as communications director.
:16:21. > :16:23.The departure of Reince Priebus came as little surprise after he was
:16:24. > :16:28.subject to a vicious verbal attack by incoming communications
:16:29. > :16:41.After just ten days into the job, Mooch was front
:16:42. > :16:43.stabbed by the incoming chief of staff.
:16:44. > :16:45.The profound hope among those close to President Trump is that
:16:46. > :16:48.with General Kelly in charge there will be a fundamental change
:16:49. > :16:57.A change in personnel leading to high
:16:58. > :16:59.expectations, followed by a swift return to normal.
:17:00. > :17:05.In the meantime, the late night comedians are making hay.
:17:06. > :17:09.The President has been very busy repealing and replacing his staff,
:17:10. > :17:19.most notably Anthony Scaramucci, the Mooch.
:17:20. > :17:26.The Mooch Lasted as communications director for only ten days.
:17:27. > :17:29.Then he left us with nothing but memories, like a bunch of weird
:17:30. > :17:39.But some things are still refreshingly familiar.
:17:40. > :17:42.Donald Trump tweeting a short time ago, only the fake news media
:17:43. > :17:44.and Trump enemies want me to stop using social media.
:17:45. > :17:47.The only way for me to get the truth out.
:17:48. > :18:00.The general election in June confounded pollsters
:18:01. > :18:02.and commentators, taking many by surprise.
:18:03. > :18:04.Very few had expected Theresa May to lose her parliamentary majority.
:18:05. > :18:07.For the past three years the British Election Study has
:18:08. > :18:09.followed a panel of the same 30,000 voters, asking them
:18:10. > :18:11.hundreds of questions about their political
:18:12. > :18:14.It offers the most detailed look at the issues which most
:18:15. > :18:21.Our home editor, Mark Easton, has been examining the results.
:18:22. > :18:25.And what we're saying is the Conservatives
:18:26. > :18:31.They don't have an overall majority at this stage.
:18:32. > :18:33.It was the election result that almost no one forecast.
:18:34. > :18:36.Certainly not Prime Minister Theresa May who had anticipated the result
:18:37. > :18:42.I felt, I suppose, devastated really.
:18:43. > :18:47.The gold standard of electoral analysis is regarded
:18:48. > :18:52.as the British Election Survey which followed a panel
:18:53. > :18:56.of 30,000 voters before, during and after the campaign.
:18:57. > :19:00.Now we can reveal what was really on voters' minds.
:19:01. > :19:04.Many issues were mentioned as the single most important but one
:19:05. > :19:06.came up three times more often than any other.
:19:07. > :19:11.Normally you would expect to see a balance of issues.
:19:12. > :19:13.You would see the economy particularly but you would see
:19:14. > :19:20.What was unusual about 2017 was that Brexit seemed so dominant and not
:19:21. > :19:23.just in terms of the things that people were thinking
:19:24. > :19:25.about but in terms of how people actually voted.
:19:26. > :19:29.The Conservatives wanted the election to focus on Brexit.
:19:30. > :19:38.While other parties, notably Labour, wanted to talk about austerity
:19:39. > :19:43.But if the Tories assumed a focus on the negotiations to leave
:19:44. > :19:45.the EU would help them, they were mistaken.
:19:46. > :19:48.At the start of the campaign, Labour were far behind the Conservatives
:19:49. > :19:52.and while the Tories did win votes, from Ukip and floating voters,
:19:53. > :19:59.During the campaign, the survey suggests Conservative
:20:00. > :20:05.But Labour went up by 14%, more than half of floating
:20:06. > :20:11.They had a good campaign and they increasingly won over
:20:12. > :20:14.Remain supporters who were looking for a home, so there might have been
:20:15. > :20:20.Labour were really the only viable option for a lot of people
:20:21. > :20:23.There is always churn in an election but this
:20:24. > :20:28.was predominantly one way - towards Labour.
:20:29. > :20:31.Undecided voters like the parties promised to retain the benefits
:20:32. > :20:33.of the EU's single market, even if the leadership's
:20:34. > :20:36.position on Brexit was not always crystal clear.
:20:37. > :20:38.But there was another factor at play too.
:20:39. > :20:43.At the start of the election, Theresa May had a sizeable lead over
:20:44. > :20:49.Jeremy Corbyn in terms of her likability.
:20:50. > :20:52.But by polling day, the two were almost neck-and-neck.
:20:53. > :20:55.People were a little bit scared of Corbyn at the outset but I think
:20:56. > :21:00.the more they saw of him the less that became the case.
:21:01. > :21:02.And, in contrast, May had quite a bad campaign.
:21:03. > :21:04.One could interpret the election result with both Labour and Tories
:21:05. > :21:07.getting more than 40% of the vote as a return to traditional two-party
:21:08. > :21:11.politics but scratch the surface and it's clear the divide was not
:21:12. > :21:14.about left versus right, but Britain's relationship
:21:15. > :21:25.Pancreatic cancer is one of the most challenging to treat -
:21:26. > :21:28.fewer than 7% of patients make it beyond five years after diagnosis.
:21:29. > :21:33.Now a team based in Birmingham believe that moving to surgery
:21:34. > :21:36.earlier than is currently the case could improve success rates.
:21:37. > :21:40.Over 9,500 people are diagnosed with the cancer each year in the UK.
:21:41. > :21:45.In a pilot scheme involving 32 patients, the average waiting time
:21:46. > :21:50.from diagnosis to surgery was cut from two months to two weeks.
:21:51. > :21:53.In the vast majority of those cases - 31 patients -
:21:54. > :22:01.Doctor says it will be two years before they can be really sure
:22:02. > :22:06.if operating earlier does extend life chances.
:22:07. > :22:10.In Venezuela, two opposition leaders have been taken to a military prison
:22:11. > :22:12.by the security services - a move that has been
:22:13. > :22:20.The family of the former Mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma,
:22:21. > :22:22.released this video of him being taken from his
:22:23. > :22:32.They'd called for a boycott of Sunday's controversial vote
:22:33. > :22:38.In the last few days at least ten people have died in protests.
:22:39. > :22:41.In Afghanistan, at least 29 people have been killed in explosions
:22:42. > :22:44.at a mosque in the western city of Herat.
:22:45. > :22:47.Police said the attack took place during evening prayers
:22:48. > :22:50.and was carried out by a suicide bomber and another assailant,
:22:51. > :22:57.South Africa's ruling party, the ANC, is facing one
:22:58. > :23:04.With the country in recession, its president, Jacob Zuma, has been
:23:05. > :23:09.It's a charge that's divided his party and he's facing
:23:10. > :23:20.Today, party members were told if they don't back him, they should
:23:21. > :23:24.leave the ANC. One MP who has openly called
:23:25. > :23:27.for the president to resign has been She looks nervous,
:23:28. > :23:31.and with good reason. Makhosi Khoza, a member
:23:32. > :23:36.of parliament here in South Africa, You have 14 days to
:23:37. > :23:43.live, says one text. Her crime - to speak out in public
:23:44. > :23:51.against South Africa's Dr Khoza is an MP for the governing
:23:52. > :24:01.ANC but she's broken ranks, calling for the President
:24:02. > :24:05.to step down. If we get threatened,
:24:06. > :24:10.our lives get threatened because we express particular
:24:11. > :24:14.political views, that begins to tell you that you are actually
:24:15. > :24:19.officially in a dictatorship. In public, the ANC's leaders
:24:20. > :24:26.still pretend they're united. But President Zuma himself
:24:27. > :24:30.admits a ferocious power There is a war that is
:24:31. > :24:38.silent, eroding the very existence of the African
:24:39. > :24:43.National Congress. of looting the state,
:24:44. > :24:52.of monstrous corruption, it's a charge they deny but leaked
:24:53. > :24:55.e-mails are fuelling new allegations I think every South African is very,
:24:56. > :25:06.very worried about what is happening and we are hoping for
:25:07. > :25:14.a miraculous solution. Some believe that solution
:25:15. > :25:19.could take the form of an upcoming vote here in parliament
:25:20. > :25:24.on whether to remove But there's no guarantee that
:25:25. > :25:28.disillusioned MPs like Dr Khoza These are alarming and invigorating
:25:29. > :25:35.times for South African democracy, so much to fight for,
:25:36. > :25:38.so much at stake here right now. The fate of President Zuma,
:25:39. > :25:41.of the economy and of Africa's Many, perhaps most South Africans,
:25:42. > :25:51.still hope the ANC can self-correct. When good people keep quiet,
:25:52. > :25:57.then the evil prevails. And we want to make sure our people
:25:58. > :26:02.do not lose faith in us, simply because we have taken one
:26:03. > :26:04.or two missteps. But Dr Khoza, in hiding now
:26:05. > :26:12.and threatened with expulsion from the ANC, believes her party has
:26:13. > :26:14.sunk too far. It has not been easy to confront
:26:15. > :26:21.the reality that maybe as a liberation movement,
:26:22. > :26:24.maybe we have reached the dead end. A bleak warning
:26:25. > :26:26.from a defiant woman. Andrew Harding, BBC
:26:27. > :26:33.News, South Africa. He's the fastest man in history,
:26:34. > :26:36.with eight Olympic golds But Usain Bolt's glittering career
:26:37. > :26:43.is coming to an end. He'll run his last
:26:44. > :26:44.ever 100 metre race at the World Athletics Championships
:26:45. > :26:48.in London on Saturday and then his final sprint
:26:49. > :26:51.relay a week later. As he prepares for retirement,
:26:52. > :26:53.he's been speaking The world's fastest man
:26:54. > :27:00.is about to say farewell but Usain Bolt remains
:27:01. > :27:05.the star attraction. This, the stir he caused
:27:06. > :27:08.in London today at the end In one of his last interviews before
:27:09. > :27:14.his final 100 metres on Saturday, the Jamaican telling me retirement
:27:15. > :27:17.was the right call. I think it's time for me
:27:18. > :27:22.to slow down a little bit, you know what I mean and then
:27:23. > :27:26.I decide if I want to pick it up. But for me after I retire
:27:27. > :27:36.I want to take it slow Is there no way you could be
:27:37. > :27:42.persuaded to reconsider retirement? I don't think so. I think I am just
:27:43. > :27:43.done so much, I really - I feel accomplished. I feel like I have
:27:44. > :27:47.done enough. Here comes Usain Bolt,
:27:48. > :27:49.he is pulling away! Bolt's decade-long sprinting
:27:50. > :27:53.supremacy has entered the realm of legend with a remarkable eight
:27:54. > :27:55.Olympic golds and a further 11 He currently holds three world
:27:56. > :28:00.records and with the personality to match the performances athletics
:28:01. > :28:02.is losing a figure who If you could describe the legacy
:28:03. > :28:10.you want to leave behind, how you want to be remembered
:28:11. > :28:13.in sport, how would it be? Just simple, I just want
:28:14. > :28:16.to be one of the greats. When conversations are had
:28:17. > :28:20.about greatest sports star I wanted I want people to say yeah,
:28:21. > :28:25.Usain Bolt was one of the greatest sports stars that has ever
:28:26. > :28:27.done any sports. Do you believe your world records
:28:28. > :28:30.will be beaten, taken away one day, I haven't seen anybody
:28:31. > :28:34.in this era now to do it. So, maybe a couple of years,
:28:35. > :28:37.ten years from now, I don't know. But right now, I think my
:28:38. > :28:40.record is safe so far. Bolt burst on to the scene
:28:41. > :28:43.in Jamaica 15 years ago when he starred at the World Junior
:28:44. > :28:46.Championships. Since then, he has become a national
:28:47. > :28:51.hero and a true sporting superstar. And back in the north of the island
:28:52. > :28:54.where he grew up those closest to him are willing him to go out
:28:55. > :28:57.on a high. Because if he lost, then it
:28:58. > :29:25.will be heartbroken for me. Usain Bolt is a genius. I can't
:29:26. > :29:29.think, other than Mohammed Ali in my sporting lifetime, I can't think of
:29:30. > :29:34.anybody that has so had an impact inside or beyond their sport. With
:29:35. > :29:39.recent doping scandals casting a long shadow over his sport Bolt's
:29:40. > :29:41.often been portrayed as the saviour of athletics and he issued this
:29:42. > :29:47.stark warning to those tempted to cheat.
:29:48. > :29:51.I think as long as they understand if they keep this up, the sport
:29:52. > :29:55.Hopefully at least understand that and they will help
:29:56. > :29:58.Arguably the greatest track and field has ever seen,
:29:59. > :30:00.sport's ultimate showman intends to mark his retirement
:30:01. > :30:04.The World Championships will provide final memories of a unique talent,
:30:05. > :30:06.filling the void he leaves behind could prove athletic's
:30:07. > :30:19.And you can watch Usain Bolt's last races before he retires on the BBC.
:30:20. > :30:24.Full coverage of the World Athletics Championships begins this Friday at
:30:25. > :30:27.7pm. That's just about it from us.
:30:28. > :30:30.Newsnight's about to begin over on BBC Two in a few moments.
:30:31. > :30:40.International condemnation of the crackdown in Venezuela.
:30:41. > :30:46.Tonight we speak to an opposition Senator in Caracas as the
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