:00:39. > :01:51.Russia's fencing squad may already be here in Rio, today collecting
:01:52. > :01:54.their accreditation at the Olympic Park, but remarkably, they still
:01:55. > :01:58.don't know if they will be allowed to directly compete. These were
:01:59. > :02:02.among the 250 Russians cleared to participate by sports federations in
:02:03. > :02:05.the wake of the country's doping scandal, but still await their fate.
:02:06. > :02:10.The International Olympic Committee has now said it will have the final
:02:11. > :02:13.say on every athlete. This afternoon, the president remained
:02:14. > :02:19.defiant. How damaging to the credibility of these games is this
:02:20. > :02:25.chaos? I don't think that this, in the end, will be damaging, because
:02:26. > :02:33.people will realise we have to take this decision now. Imagine the
:02:34. > :02:42.situation if we had not taken a decision, what the limbo would then
:02:43. > :02:47.be. I trust the people that they realise the difficulties we are in.
:02:48. > :02:52.Despite a damning report into a vast state-sponsored doping programme
:02:53. > :02:56.that saw the Sochi Winter games sabotage, the IOC resisted demands
:02:57. > :03:00.for a ragged by the Russian's and poutine. More than 100 athletes have
:03:01. > :03:07.been barred under the new eligibility criteria, but today a
:03:08. > :03:11.Russian swimmer became the third to appeal against the punishment, the
:03:12. > :03:15.Court of Arbitration for Sport even having to hold emergency hearings in
:03:16. > :03:20.this Rio hotel as the uncertainty continues. This is the Russian
:03:21. > :03:23.handball team and despite the fact that we are now just five days away
:03:24. > :03:27.from the Rio games, they are in limbo, like many of their comics.
:03:28. > :03:32.They don't yet know whether the IOC will allow them to compete.
:03:33. > :03:35.TRANSLATION: Of course it's not easy, because the most difficult
:03:36. > :03:41.thing is the emotional pressure for the athletes. For those who are not
:03:42. > :03:47.diapers, it's not fair. Meanwhile, British athletes are continuing
:03:48. > :03:50.their preparations. Some are waiting to see if the competition will
:03:51. > :03:55.include Russians. It's a shame the whole thing wasn't sorted out a lot
:03:56. > :03:58.earlier before the games got started. We support the strongest
:03:59. > :04:03.possible sanctions for athletes that are cheating. But at this stage, it
:04:04. > :04:07.is just focusing on our game. These games have already had a troubled
:04:08. > :04:10.build-up, but the IOC's handling of the Russia crisis has ensured the
:04:11. > :04:14.controversy will continue, even once the action begins. Dan Roan, BBC
:04:15. > :04:16.News, Rio. Well, it's not just the doping
:04:17. > :04:18.scandal that's overshadowing the Games, with the opening ceremony
:04:19. > :04:21.just five days away. Some in Rio believe the organisers
:04:22. > :04:23.have failed to honour commitments Our South America Correspondent
:04:24. > :04:36.Wyre Davies reports. Rio is a city transformed by the
:04:37. > :04:40.Olympic Games. Billions have been spent on investment in new sports
:04:41. > :04:44.venues, museums and public transport. But critics say it's
:04:45. > :04:48.money that should have gone to other, more important priorities. If
:04:49. > :04:53.cities want to prioritise the needs of their citizens, basic safety,
:04:54. > :04:57.access to water, food, transportation etc, things that make
:04:58. > :05:02.a good life, the Olympics is clearly not part of that any more. What the
:05:03. > :05:08.Olympics are about is winners and losers. Few have lost as much as
:05:09. > :05:13.local residents like Donna Maria. There is nothing left here now, she
:05:14. > :05:19.says gazing through a fence to a corporate car park where the homes
:05:20. > :05:25.of almost 600 families to be. She was bloodied in the battle to save
:05:26. > :05:29.the favela next to the Olympic Park, but deemed an intolerable eyesore
:05:30. > :05:34.for this global mega event and bulldozed to the ground. Putting on
:05:35. > :05:40.this showpiece has almost bankrupted the local government. The impact can
:05:41. > :05:43.be seen and smiled everywhere. Cleaning up its chronically polluted
:05:44. > :05:48.waters was another key promise Rio made when it was chosen to host the
:05:49. > :05:52.games. But it's a pledge that simply hasn't been kept. Guanabara Bay is
:05:53. > :05:58.full of solid waste, sewage and chemical pollution. A commitment to
:05:59. > :06:02.treat 80% of the sewage entering this be as long since been
:06:03. > :06:06.abandoned, the very waters were Olympic sailing events are taking
:06:07. > :06:12.place. But officials say there will be a legacy, and spending is tight.
:06:13. > :06:19.The games in Brazil and Rio represent a new model for the games.
:06:20. > :06:28.A model of games that are more lean, with reduced costs, under control.
:06:29. > :06:33.We have spent less public money to do 20 venues than London spent to do
:06:34. > :06:39.one venue. These games will be unique because Rio is a unique city,
:06:40. > :06:45.rich and poor living cheek by jowl, but not all reaping the same benefit
:06:46. > :06:47.from hosting the games. Wyre Davies, BBC News, Rio.
:06:48. > :06:53.Let's go back Dan Roan in Rio for us tonight.
:06:54. > :07:01.It seems the fallout from the doping scandals threatens to cast a shadow
:07:02. > :07:05.over the games even once competition begins? That's right. Amid such
:07:06. > :07:09.unprecedented pressure, today represented a fightback by the IOC
:07:10. > :07:14.president, Thomas Park, in the face of this criticism over the legal
:07:15. > :07:19.quagmire that the IOC now finds itself immersed in. He will now be
:07:20. > :07:22.desperately hoping that in the next few days, the narrative shifts away
:07:23. > :07:27.from all of that controversy you have just been hearing about and
:07:28. > :07:33.moves towards the sporting action and becomes more positive.
:07:34. > :07:38.Certainly, the fact that this could be the most visually stunning and
:07:39. > :07:43.spectacular games in history, being staged here in Rio, will help that
:07:44. > :07:48.objective. The problem that Bach faces is that rarely were there have
:07:49. > :07:53.been so much since it is a -- cynicism and scepticism surrounding
:07:54. > :07:56.sporting achievement because of this doping scandal. And in the past,
:07:57. > :08:01.despite all the challenges they may have faced, organisers of the games
:08:02. > :08:05.could rely on the fact that this show has an enduring ability to
:08:06. > :08:10.inspire and entertain. The sense here in Rio, though, this evening is
:08:11. > :08:13.that that assumption is being tested like never before. Dan Roan, thanks.
:08:14. > :08:18.The Prime Minister is to lead a new task force aimed at tackling
:08:19. > :08:20.thousands of suspected cases of modern-day slavery in the UK.
:08:21. > :08:24.In a newspaper article, Theresa May, said it was a "barbaric evil",
:08:25. > :08:28.and more than ?30 million from the foreign aid budget would be
:08:29. > :08:38.Behind closed doors, on our streets and in the workplace, modern
:08:39. > :08:44.But the new Prime Minister is promising to do more to help.
:08:45. > :08:47.Theresa May led the Government's campaign to tackle slavery
:08:48. > :08:50.when she was Home Secretary, and now as Prime Minister,
:08:51. > :09:08.Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, she said:
:09:09. > :09:11.Police need to have a better understanding of what's going on in
:09:12. > :09:13.relation to modern slavery and what their responsibilities are,
:09:14. > :09:17.but this is an issue that needs to be dealt with in much broader
:09:18. > :09:20.terms of both national immigration policy, national crime policy,
:09:21. > :09:29.and international development policy.
:09:30. > :09:32.Now, ?33 million will be spent in countries like Nigeria
:09:33. > :09:43.to help tackle the roots of the people-trafficking trade.
:09:44. > :09:46.The Government thinks there could be up to 13,000 victims in the UK.
:09:47. > :09:48.It's ordered an investigation into the way police forces
:09:49. > :09:50.in England and Wales respond to the crime.
:09:51. > :09:53.I don't doubt the sincerity of Theresa May's words,
:09:54. > :10:01.but I do question whether they're being backed up by real actions.
:10:02. > :10:05.who as Home Secretary has cut the police, cut the Border Force
:10:06. > :10:07.and part of a Government that is cutting councils.
:10:08. > :10:09.So she's taking away the ability of professionals to do
:10:10. > :10:13.If she really is sincere, she should stop the cuts and give
:10:14. > :10:16.people the resources they need to tackle this growing problem.
:10:17. > :10:19.It's often a hidden crime, and one the Government says
:10:20. > :10:25.an international trade it says it is determined to stop.
:10:26. > :10:36.The mother of an American Muslim soldier who was killed in Iraq has
:10:37. > :10:40.accused the Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump
:10:41. > :10:42.of being ignorant of Islam, and not understanding
:10:43. > :10:45.Ghazala Khan's comments came after Mr Trump mocked her appearance
:10:46. > :10:48.at this week's Democratic Party Convention.
:10:49. > :10:56.From Washington, here's David Willis.
:10:57. > :11:06.From a grieving family came a speech which stole the show. This couple's
:11:07. > :11:15.son was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq. If it was up to Donald
:11:16. > :11:27.Trump, he never would have been in America. Donald Trump consistently
:11:28. > :11:37.smears the character of Muslims. You have sacrificed nothing and no one!
:11:38. > :11:42.Today, trumpeted to the airwaves, saying his sacrifices have been
:11:43. > :11:48.different. I think I have made a lot of sacrifices. I work very hard. I
:11:49. > :11:52.have created of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs. He then turned
:11:53. > :11:57.his attention to Mrs Khan, who had stood silently at her husband's side
:11:58. > :12:01.throughout his address. Was she forbidden from speaking by her
:12:02. > :12:08.faith? She had nothing to say. Maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything
:12:09. > :12:11.to say, you tell me. Mr Trump's main rival, Hillary Clinton, said such
:12:12. > :12:16.rhetoric was beyond comprehension. Mrs Khan, for her part, said she had
:12:17. > :12:24.stayed silent because she is still overwhelmed with grief. I am very
:12:25. > :12:28.upset when I heard that I didn't say anything because I was in pain. When
:12:29. > :12:33.you are in pain, you don't say anything. I am not a fighter. I
:12:34. > :12:38.can't fight. Mr Trump has since sought to temper his remarks,
:12:39. > :12:44.calling her son a hero and seeking to refocus debate on the so-called
:12:45. > :12:51.Islamic terrorists who cost her son his life. But it is not in his
:12:52. > :12:55.nature to back down. Indeed, after last week's Convention, which put
:12:56. > :13:00.Hillary Clinton firmly ahead in the polls, Mr Trump has vowed that the
:13:01. > :13:04.gloves will now come off. Nothing, it seems, is off-limits in his
:13:05. > :13:05.unorthodox campaign for president. David Willetts, BBC News,
:13:06. > :13:07.Washington. A 12-year-old boy has been arrested
:13:08. > :13:09.on suspicion of murder It follows the death of a man
:13:10. > :13:13.in his forties, who was assaulted Three teenagers have
:13:14. > :13:17.also been arrested. The Government insists it has no
:13:18. > :13:20.plans to review its so-called triple lock guarantee on pensions,
:13:21. > :13:23.which ensures they rise by at least A former Conservative pensions
:13:24. > :13:30.minister had said the policy is unaffordable, and should
:13:31. > :13:37.be scrapped by 2020. At least 24 police officers have
:13:38. > :13:40.been killed in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand,
:13:41. > :13:43.in clashes with the Taliban. It's thought the extremists
:13:44. > :13:45.now control 60% of the region, which British troops
:13:46. > :13:47.spent almost a decade defending, Our Defence Correspondent
:13:48. > :13:52.Jonathan Beale has been back This was once home to thousands
:13:53. > :14:00.of British troops, but Camp Bastion British forces were here
:14:01. > :14:05.in Helmand for eight years, but much of what they left behind
:14:06. > :14:10.has turned to dust. When he announced Britain's
:14:11. > :14:15.withdrawal, David Cameron called mission accomplished,
:14:16. > :14:16.but that's not the view of the new Afghan
:14:17. > :14:19.commander in Helmand. Soon after the British left Bastion,
:14:20. > :14:26.the Taliban attacked the camp, Do you think they
:14:27. > :14:34.completed their mission? This is what happened to the Afghan
:14:35. > :14:36.army when the British Last year, there were even fears
:14:37. > :14:42.that the whole province would fall This graveyard of vehicles
:14:43. > :14:47.is evidence of the fierce fighting there has been here in Helmand since
:14:48. > :14:53.the British left just two years ago. It's also evidence of the poor state
:14:54. > :14:56.the Afghan security forces were in, a situation that has only
:14:57. > :15:00.recently changed with the return At the start of this year,
:15:01. > :15:07.500 US troops went back into Helmand, their task
:15:08. > :15:11.to rebuild an army that was, in the words of one US adviser,
:15:12. > :15:14.a sucking chest wound, down to a third of its strength
:15:15. > :15:18.with casualties, Dozens of senior officers
:15:19. > :15:27.have also been replaced. The Americans are now
:15:28. > :15:30.training the Afghans, just as the British did before them,
:15:31. > :15:35.sometimes the very same soldiers. So is this return to Helmand proof
:15:36. > :15:42.that British forces left too soon? We've helped prop it back up over
:15:43. > :15:45.the last year, but if we didn't have the British and the Marine
:15:46. > :15:50.involvement here in Helmand, we would have been
:15:51. > :15:52.starting from zero. We made the decisions based
:15:53. > :15:55.on what the assessment was at the time of the capabilities
:15:56. > :16:00.we thought they had and the numbers of coalition forces that were
:16:01. > :16:11.allowed to remain in Afghanistan. I think they made decisions based
:16:12. > :16:14.on where they thought their US soldiers now occupy a tiny
:16:15. > :16:20.corner of the old Bastion. 456 British service personnel
:16:21. > :16:25.lost their lives in Afghanistan, There are still 500 UK troops
:16:26. > :16:30.in the capital, Kabul. But here in Helmand,
:16:31. > :16:33.it's been left to the Americans Jonathan Beale, BBC News,
:16:34. > :16:41.Helmand. More than two million young
:16:42. > :16:44.Catholics from around the world have attended an open air mass held
:16:45. > :16:47.by Pope Francis in Poland. The gathering was the final event
:16:48. > :16:50.of his five-day tour of the country. In his address, he urged young
:16:51. > :16:53.people to reject hatred In America, some Democrats
:16:54. > :17:03.on Capitol Hill say Congress should be recalled from its summer break
:17:04. > :17:05.to approve emergency funds The call comes as officials
:17:06. > :17:10.in Florida confirm the first infections on the US mainland
:17:11. > :17:14.from mosquitoes carrying the virus. Here, Public Health England has
:17:15. > :17:16.advised pregnant women to consider postponing non-essential
:17:17. > :17:19.travel to Florida. This is the front line in the battle
:17:20. > :17:28.against the Zika virus in southern Florida,
:17:29. > :17:31.health officials trudging the streets, looking
:17:32. > :17:34.for the mosquito that carries the virus and persuading people
:17:35. > :17:37.to take precautions. All four people who are thought
:17:38. > :17:40.to have caught the Zika virus from local mosquitoes live and work
:17:41. > :17:44.in a mile square area in this up-and-coming
:17:45. > :17:46.neighbourhood of Miami. None has ever had to go to hospital,
:17:47. > :17:51.but the authorities This man has been preparing for this
:17:52. > :18:00.for months, and while there will be more local cases,
:18:01. > :18:02.he says there is no reason I would not delay my travel plan
:18:03. > :18:16.here at all, because the living conditions here are so much
:18:17. > :18:18.different than elsewhere We have AC, we have window
:18:19. > :18:22.screening, we have a strong public Florida gets more than 100 million
:18:23. > :18:25.visitors a year. More than 1.5 million
:18:26. > :18:27.of those come from Britain. Some travel firms have offered free
:18:28. > :18:29.cancellation to pregnant women, but among those tourists already
:18:30. > :18:31.here, concern seems low. I think if we brought our children
:18:32. > :18:35.here with us, we would have been concerned, because they're
:18:36. > :18:38.in their twenties, of child-bearing Are you taking any
:18:39. > :18:43.precautions? I'm taking no
:18:44. > :18:44.precautions, no. More than 1,600 people have
:18:45. > :18:48.developed Zika in the continental US, the majority of
:18:49. > :18:51.them through travel. Florida has had 307 of these cases
:18:52. > :18:55.and these southern states are most at risk, because the mosquito that
:18:56. > :19:04.transmits Zika already lives here. What's likely to have happened
:19:05. > :19:06.is that travellers with Zika got bitten by uninfected mosquitoes,
:19:07. > :19:11.which then infected local people. These boys and girls seem oblivious
:19:12. > :19:14.to the concerns about Zika. Their parents, though,
:19:15. > :19:16.fear for their future You would have to carry that
:19:17. > :19:23.worry for the full nine months of your pregnancy,
:19:24. > :19:25.so I think that, you know, But now, Britons who are pregnant
:19:26. > :19:31.are being told to consider postponing travel as everyone waits
:19:32. > :19:34.to see what kind of foothold Zika With all the sport, here's
:19:35. > :19:46.Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes Britain's Lewis Hamilton
:19:47. > :19:54.won his sixth race of the year at the German Grand Prix to move 19
:19:55. > :19:57.points clear at the top of the Formula One
:19:58. > :20:06.Driver's Championship. In recent weeks, Nico Rosberg has
:20:07. > :20:10.seen the drivers championship turn on its head. His Mercedes team-mate
:20:11. > :20:14.Lewis Hamilton had overtaken him in the standings, but here he was on
:20:15. > :20:19.pole with a chance to reclaim the lead. In Formula 1, the start is
:20:20. > :20:23.all-important. Rosberg's was a disaster. Bogged down, when he
:20:24. > :20:28.emerged from the first corner, he had slipped back to Fort. This was
:20:29. > :20:33.already Hamilton's race to lose. He was at the front, and when Rosberg
:20:34. > :20:37.attempted to gain ground, he was penalised for forcing Max Verstappen
:20:38. > :20:39.of the track. All the while, Hamilton kept his cool, bruising
:20:40. > :20:43.around the Hockenheim circuit to finish ahead of the Red Bulls of
:20:44. > :20:50.Daniel Ricciardo and for staff and for his fourth victory in a row.
:20:51. > :20:54.Fantastic job, guys. At one stage, he was 43 points behind Rosberg in
:20:55. > :20:58.the championship. Now Hamilton is running away from his rival and with
:20:59. > :21:01.four weeks until the next race, it's clear who will enjoy the break the
:21:02. > :21:06.most. Katie Gornall, BBC News. Golf's USPGA is turning
:21:07. > :21:08.into a real battle at Baltusrol with Sweden's Henrik Stenson
:21:09. > :21:11.in with a good chance of winning This year's Open Champion is a shot
:21:12. > :21:15.behind the leader Jimmy Walker on 10 under par midway
:21:16. > :21:18.through his final round. The last pairings are being forced
:21:19. > :21:21.to play 36 holes due Tyrrell Hatton and Paul Casey
:21:22. > :21:25.are the highest placed Britons on 7 Meanwhile, Thailand's Arriya
:21:26. > :21:30.Jutanugarn held on to win The overnight leader
:21:31. > :21:35.survived a patchy final round to take her first major title
:21:36. > :21:38.by 3 shots, finishing on 16 Scotland's Catriona Matthew,
:21:39. > :21:41.the last British woman to win a major, finished joint 5th
:21:42. > :21:43.on 9 under. Carl Frampton is being hailed as one
:21:44. > :21:46.of Northern Ireland's greatest ever The 29-year-old beat
:21:47. > :21:54.Leo Santa Cruz in New York to win the WBA featherweight Belt,
:21:55. > :21:56.becoming the first Northern Irishman to win world titles
:21:57. > :22:09.in different weight categories. I'm in the driving seat now. I can
:22:10. > :22:14.do big-money fights that will change my life and my family's life. I am
:22:15. > :22:18.just looking forward to the future, and it is still going. I am
:22:19. > :22:22.approaching 30, but I feel like I am getting better and I have a new
:22:23. > :22:24.lease of life. There is plenty more to come.
:22:25. > :22:27.The Ride London Surrey Classic was won by Belgium's Tom Boonen
:22:28. > :22:29.after a dramatic sprint finish in the Mall.
:22:30. > :22:31.Welshman Geraint Thomas had looked like taking the title before heading
:22:32. > :22:34.off to the Rio Olympics after leading for most of the 200km
:22:35. > :22:37.race, but he was caught by the peloton in the final stages
:22:38. > :22:40.and Boonen fought his way through to win on the line.
:22:41. > :22:43.Tens of thousands of amateur riders also took part in the weekend's
:22:44. > :22:45.event, which was marred by serious crashes.
:22:46. > :22:51.Two cyclists had to be air-lifted to hospital.
:22:52. > :22:56.And that is all the sports. Back to you, Clive. Lizzie, many thanks.
:22:57. > :22:58.An American skydiver has entered the record books
:22:59. > :23:01.by jumping from a plane at 25,000 feet without a parachute.
:23:02. > :23:07.Luke Aikins was free-falling for two minutes as he zeroed in on a giant
:23:08. > :23:10.safety net suspended 20 storeys off the ground.
:23:11. > :23:13.And to his relief and that of a live television audience, he landed
:23:14. > :23:19.safely, later saying that was "awesome."