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