:00:23. > :00:26.Britain will lead the fight against modern slavery
:00:27. > :00:30.Theresa May promised to make it her mission to help rid the world
:00:31. > :00:32.of what she called the barbaric evil.
:00:33. > :00:35.She will chair a new Cabinet taskforce tackling what she
:00:36. > :00:36.said were sickening and inhuman crimes
:00:37. > :00:40.lurking in the shadows of our country.
:00:41. > :00:43.More than ?33 million from the aid budget will be used
:00:44. > :00:45.to fund initiatives in nations from where people are trafficked.
:00:46. > :01:00.Behind closed doors, on our streets and in the workplace, modern slavery
:01:01. > :01:07.often goes undetected. But the new Prime Minister is promising to do
:01:08. > :01:10.more to help. Theresa May led the government's campaign to tackle
:01:11. > :01:15.slavery when she was Home Secretary. Now as Prime Minister she is keeping
:01:16. > :01:26.it a personal focus. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph she said:
:01:27. > :01:33.Police need to have a better understanding of what is going on in
:01:34. > :01:36.modern slavery and what their responsibilities are in relation to
:01:37. > :01:42.that. This is an issue that needs to be dealt with in much broader terms,
:01:43. > :01:46.in terms of both our national immigration policy, our national
:01:47. > :01:52.crime policy, but also international trade and development policies. Now
:01:53. > :01:56.?33 million will be spent in countries like Nigeria to help
:01:57. > :02:00.tackle the roots of the people trafficking trade. With accusations
:02:01. > :02:04.it isn't being properly investigated, there will be an
:02:05. > :02:08.assessment of the way police forces in England and Wales respond to the
:02:09. > :02:12.crime. There could be up to 13,000 victims in the UK. The Labour Party
:02:13. > :02:19.supports the fight against modern slavery. Slavery is closer than you
:02:20. > :02:21.think. But it warns against cuts to the border force and local
:02:22. > :02:24.authorities if the Prime Minister is serious about tackling the crime.
:02:25. > :02:27.Eleanor Garnier, BBC News. With just days to go before
:02:28. > :02:30.the start of the Olympics in Rio, the International Olympic Committee
:02:31. > :02:32.has said a review panel will make the final decision
:02:33. > :02:35.on which Russians can take part. The IOC had said the governing
:02:36. > :02:37.bodies of individual sports should decide if they'd accept Russian
:02:38. > :02:40.competitors after claims of state-sponsored doping,
:02:41. > :02:42.but now it says the panel will make Wyre, what does this mean
:02:43. > :02:51.for the 250 Russian athletes who have so far been
:02:52. > :03:00.cleared to compete? It is complete confusion. The IOC
:03:01. > :03:03.was severely criticised when it decided to pass the buck, despite
:03:04. > :03:07.evidence of widespread state-sponsored doping in Russia.
:03:08. > :03:10.The IOC decided each individual sport to decide which of its
:03:11. > :03:16.competitors would appear here in Russia. Most athletes are banned. A
:03:17. > :03:20.lot of canoeists are banned and all the weightlifters. Other sports
:03:21. > :03:24.decided to allow Russians to compete which was severely criticised
:03:25. > :03:28.described as a devastating blow to all clean athletes. The IOC has gone
:03:29. > :03:49.back on itself and set up a 3-member panel to
:03:50. > :03:53.analyse all of this has got to be done before the Games's opening
:03:54. > :03:55.ceremony on the fifth, four days away. It is complete confusion. A
:03:56. > :03:56.lot of Russian athletes already in Rio don't know if they can compete
:03:57. > :03:59.or not. Thank you. A former Conservative
:04:00. > :04:01.pensions minister has called for the scrapping of a guarantee
:04:02. > :04:03.that state pensions Baroness Altmann said
:04:04. > :04:07.the Government's triple-lock policy had outlived its purpose
:04:08. > :04:09.and should be removed by 2020 The Government says there are no
:04:10. > :04:13.plans to review the policy. Britain's 12 million pensioners have
:04:14. > :04:16.seen their state pensions rise faster than most people over
:04:17. > :04:19.the past six years due to a policy introduced
:04:20. > :04:21.by the coalition government in 2010. The triple lock is a promise that
:04:22. > :04:24.state pensions would rise every year at least as fast as wages,
:04:25. > :04:27.the pace at which average prices are rising, or 2.5%,
:04:28. > :04:32.whichever the higher number is. Since 2014, prices and wages have
:04:33. > :04:37.risen by less than 2.5% a year and now one key voice says
:04:38. > :04:39.the triple lock should be For the long-term the 2.5% does not
:04:40. > :04:46.have any logic to it. What makes sense is to make sure
:04:47. > :04:52.pensioners are properly protected and if we, for example,
:04:53. > :04:54.promise to protect them by either prices or earnings,
:04:55. > :04:58.they get the best of both and therefore they are
:04:59. > :05:01.properly protected. They don't really need
:05:02. > :05:06.that 2.5% underpinning. A spokesperson for the Department
:05:07. > :05:09.for Work and Pensions said Lady Altman had no bearing on policy
:05:10. > :05:12.and there were no plans Age UK said the triple lock
:05:13. > :05:17.was essential to prevent the state It also said there were an estimated
:05:18. > :05:32.1.6 million pensioners living The billionaire Sir Philip Green
:05:33. > :05:37.could be asked to appear again before politicians over the collapse
:05:38. > :05:40.of the retailer BHS. Revelation came from the Labour MP Frank Field who
:05:41. > :05:44.co-chaired a cross-party investigation into the failed
:05:45. > :05:51.retailer. He also told the BBC he is going to meet the pensions regulator
:05:52. > :05:53.to discuss Sir Philip's claims on filling the multi-million pound
:05:54. > :05:58.shortfall to the company's pension scheme.
:05:59. > :06:01.Millions of people have attended an open-air Mass with the Pope
:06:02. > :06:03.on the final day of a global Catholic youth festival
:06:04. > :06:05.in Poland which some call the Catholic Woodstock.
:06:06. > :06:07.Many camped out overnight in a vast field near Krakow.
:06:08. > :06:16.Our correspondent Tom Burridge was at the Mass.
:06:17. > :06:23.A congregation to match a big city. The Pope's pull factor brings in the
:06:24. > :06:27.most international of crowds. People have come from all over
:06:28. > :06:43.the world, from Australia, Pope Francis told the young audience
:06:44. > :06:50.to dream of a world where there is no hate between different peoples.
:06:51. > :06:55.First and foremost, this is a celebration. Think of it as a
:06:56. > :06:59.religious kind of Glastonbury. The site is immense, stretching in all
:07:00. > :07:03.directions as far as the eye can see. And Pope Francis, in typical
:07:04. > :07:10.fashion, has had a very colourful message. The Pope's supporting act
:07:11. > :07:18.last night, a 26-year-old Syrian student from Aleppo, a city
:07:19. > :07:22.devastated by war. Everyday we lead lives that are surrounded by death
:07:23. > :07:31.and there is no way to nobody to help. God, where are you? And the
:07:32. > :07:39.Pope, in simple language, urged young people not to be lazy couch
:07:40. > :07:44.potatoes. We are hearing it from the Pope. You are a couch potato, like,
:07:45. > :07:48.OK! It makes you think and you realise you are being a couch
:07:49. > :07:54.potato. This Catholic festival started with morning for a French
:07:55. > :08:01.priest. The Pope has since spoken against extremism and in support of
:08:02. > :08:12.people suffering poverty in war. Frances leaves Poland with a trail
:08:13. > :08:17.of discussion and debate. Tom Burridge, BBC News, in Krakow.
:08:18. > :08:20.Two cyclists have been airlifted to hospital and are in a serious
:08:21. > :08:22.condition following separate incidents on a 100 mile race
:08:23. > :08:25.They were due to be among thousands of amateur riders finishing
:08:26. > :08:30.It's also the starting point for 150 of the world's top cyclists taking
:08:31. > :08:32.part in the professional Prudential Ride Classic which starts
:08:33. > :08:43.Yes, after all the excitement this morning, we saw those 26,000 amateur
:08:44. > :08:48.cyclists taking off from the Olympic Park. We then heard the news that
:08:49. > :08:52.two cyclists had been injured in two separate incidents, the first around
:08:53. > :08:55.nine o'clock. It is understood he hit a tree and he had to be
:08:56. > :09:00.airlifted to hospital which caused major divergences in the area, which
:09:01. > :09:04.have since been lifted, and the race is continuing as normal. The second
:09:05. > :09:25.was around 11 o'clock and he was airlifted to hospital and it is
:09:26. > :09:29.understood he suffered head injuries. It is hoped that will not
:09:30. > :09:31.cast a shadow on this afternoon's event, the elite race, with some of
:09:32. > :09:33.the world's greatest cyclists, including Chris Froome, fresh from
:09:34. > :09:36.his victory at the Tour de France. He will use this as an opportunity
:09:37. > :09:37.to prepare for next week's Olympics in Rio. Thank you.
:09:38. > :09:39.An American skydiver has entered the record books by jumping
:09:40. > :09:41.from a height of 25,000 feet without a parachute.
:09:42. > :09:44.After free falling for two minutes, Luke Aikins landed
:09:45. > :09:46.safely in a giant net suspended 20 storeys off the ground.
:09:47. > :09:49.The event took place in southern California and was shown live
:09:50. > :09:53.You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.
:09:54. > :09:56.The next news on BBC One is at 6:35pm.
:09:57. > :10:14.Good afternoon. July is almost over. Looking back on the month, the first
:10:15. > :10:21.two weeks, nowhere in the United Kingdom got above 25 degrees but we
:10:22. > :10:23.did peak at 33.5. It was very dry in the South East of the United Kingdom
:10:24. > :10:24.with some