11/08/2016 Outside Source

Day six of the Rio Olympics and all eyes tonight

The Great Britain team saw off South Africa's in the semi's today

and they will meet Fiji who beat Japan.

Fiji guaranteed to get their first ever Olympic medal.

The UN is investigating reports of a chlorine gas attack

The BBC has seen exclusive pictures of women and children in respirators

Ukraine has put its forces on a war footing after threats

The US State department says it is extremely concerned.

And Hilary Clinton lays out her economic plans -

while her Republican opponent Donald Trump describes

President Obama as the "founder of the Islamic State group".

we always welcome your thoughts. If you want to get in touch, that is

the address. Day 6 of the Olympic Games

now well underway - things get started at

the Velodrome tonight - big hopes there for Team GB -

and the rowing was back on today More on those results in a moment,

but let's have a look This is what it is looking

like at the moment. You will see the United States at

the top there, China following and Japan in third place. Great Britain

in the hunt for a medal in the sevens rugby tonight. Strong

possibility of a gold medal tonight. It is speedy's first appearance in a

sevens rugby final because it is the first time they have appeared at the

Olympics and they could also get their first Olympic medal. You

mentioned Fiji, they are guaranteed a historic first Olympic medal after

their men's rugby sevens team secured a place in the final where

they will meet Team GB. Fiji shouldn't be a surprise, they wear

their pretournament favourites and they demonstrated it by beating

Japan by 20 points- five in the first semifinal. You will recall

that Japan read -- beat New Zealand earlier in the tournament. It is

down to Great Britain and South Africa to decide who would be Fiji's

opponent. Britain came back from a shaky first half. The final is

coming up in a few hours' time. The rowing, Katherine Grainger, and

Victoria Thornley, particularly Katherine Grainger, the first woman

to win five Olympic medals. Plenty of excitement at the rowing regatta,

not least in that thrilling final of the women's double sculls. Let's

mention the race winners, it was eventually won by the Polish pair.

They had to come from behind to secure a narrow victory over Great

Britain who had led for much of the race. Incidentally, Poland's first

gold of the Rio games. But Katherine Grainger, one half of the British

pair, the silver for her in that race. It makes the nation's most

decorated female Olympian. She has won medals at last five Olympics

dating back to Sydney in the year 2000. And some sparkling golf.

Several of the men's leading golfers opting to miss out on the Olympics

amid fears of the zika virus. There were some famous faces, not least,

Justin Rose who managed a hole in one. Their big name in Rio is also

Henrik Stenson. He has five under par, three shots off the lead which

is held by Marcus Fraser, an Australian, on an impressive eight

under par. We will catch up with you a little later. Samora results,

let's talk about the tennis. Andy Murray has reached the quarterfinals

in the men's singles. He had a bit of a scare against is Italian

opponent. He will mean the American Steve Johnston in the next round.

Elsewhere, in the kayaking, David Florence and Richard Hounslow took

gold for Britain. You can keep up-to-date with all the events live

as they happen on our website, you can get live updates on each event

and find out the latest news across the games.

Another security scare, tell us about it and what the authorities

have been saying. Yesterday here in Rio, three security agents from the

National security force, three soldiers, took a wrong turn into one

of the favelas and were met by drug dealers. They run into a group of

drug lords and were shot at. One of them shot in the head, had to

undergo surgery and is in a serious condition in hospital. This has

reinforced the issue of security here in Rio and the fact there are

no go areas in the city. How divided the city is. You have

reinforcements, heavy reinforcement all over areas where the areas are

that you have this situation in Rio's favelas shantytowns where you

have areas dominated by drug trafficking, drug lords and even

police cannot go in these areas safely. The security around this

area is being reinforced, which of course, means people are not able to

go in. They have blocked the entrance is so other people won't

take the same wrong turn that these security agents did. This reinforces

the concern about security. This comes after another incident where a

bus with journalists was, the windows were shattered. It wasn't

clear at first if it was a gunshot or rocks. Organisers of the Olympics

say the bus was under attack by rocks and now all the buses taking

journalists will be escorted by police to avoid any such attacks.

One or two headaches for the authorities. One or two headaches

for the management of the Brazilian men's football team because they've

not been performing very well and I am reading that everyone is turning

their attention to the women's football. Yes, the men of Brazil's

football team had been very heavily criticised because they hadn't

managed to score once in the first two matches. They had played Iraq,

South Africa, both matches were 0-0. They vanish to redeem themselves a

bit yesterday. The score against Denmark was 4-0, but it has been

very much the talk here that people have turned their support from the

men's football to the women's football because of the poor

performance that the men were having. This even became a joke with

people on the Internet posting pictures of the Brazilian Jersey

with Neymar's name on the back. Scratching out his name and writing

the name of Marta. She is the captain of the team, she is very

experienced and she is the hero of women's football and now the

Olympics. Women's football often suffers complaints that they don't

get enough attention, but now this situation has been inverted and it

will depend on how the men perform from now on to see if they can get

back into the Spotlight. Pressure on Neymar and the gang, let's see how

Marta gets on. The United Nations says it's

investigating evidence of a chlorine gas

attack in the besieged Broadly speaking, the purple areas

are rebel areas and the blue areas government control. You can see they

are surrounding each other in a mutual stranglehold. The gas attack,

if it did happen, would be a war crime and would be considered as

such by the UN. The Syrian government has denied involvement.

The BBC has obtained exclusive pictures

Quentin Sommerville sent this report a warning,

it contains some disturbing images from the start.

The battle for Aleppo is a desperate struggle,

Last night, what appears to have been a chemical attack on the people

As the hospital struggled to help, there was even worse to come.

When chlorine gas gets inside small lungs, it can do terrible damage.

Children and babies are especially vulnerable.

When the rocket exploded, we smelt gas, my eyes

I had difficulty breathing, it was a horrible smell,

After a gas attack, clothing is removed and patients are washed

The medics here at this hospital have had training from British

doctors in dealing with chemical attacks.

They know what to look for and how to react.

We received lots of injuries, about 30 minutes ago.

The injuries were caused by chlorine attacks in the area.

When we checked the injured, we saw it was from chloride

It's hurting me a lot, says this boy.

The doctors tell him, we will have to wash it out

This neighbourhood was hit by as many as four

barrel bombs from regime helicopters, say eyewitnesses.

The remains of shells were taken away for analysis.

President Assad's troops are under pressure and losing

Despite evidence to the contrary, the regime has denied

The attacks come at night, because people can't see

It's a desperate tactic and it's horribly effective.

A mother and two children were killed in this attack

Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, Beirut.

The Ukrainian President has today put his army on the highest level

That's after Russia accused Ukraine of armed incursions

The peninsula was annexed by Russia in 2014 after

Russia says two of its security personnel were killed

This was the warning from the Kremlin today

"We would like to warn Kiev and its patrons that the damage

caused to Russia and the death of Russian military servicemen

Ukraine says Russia is making false accusations as a pretext for more

Ukraine never thought to solve any issues with Russia by military

means. Instead, this was called as a fake provocation by the Russian

federation. Several days before

these allegations were pictures like this -

allegedly showing Russian military equipment being moved into Crimea

began popping up on social media. This video was posted online

by the Crimean Human Rights group. It shows what is believed to be

Russian military trucks moving through the Crimean town

of Kerch on 6th August. The BBC believes these

pictures are genuine. which reportedly shows Russian

military hardware arriving on a train into the town of Kerch -

again on 6th August. A little earlier I spoke

about all this to Alexander Kan from BBC Russian, and our defence

and diplomatic correspondent Russian Ukrainian relations is so

much more important for Moscow, President Putin, in the sort of

domestic view than the incident and situation in Syria. That has been

moved somehow into the backyard of the national attention even though

it remains very intense. The sooner something like what has happened in

Crimea happens, the focus goes there. Syria goes to the background.

Surveying are not mutually exclusive because maybe he wants to push the

Syria picture into the background. -- so they are not. This is

potentially so dangerous for the fragile peace that has existed since

February 2015 between Russia and Ukraine, and the tension now is as

high as it has been ever since then. Very little detail. Tell me what

Russian television showing of these servicemen that were reportedly

killed. Our day trying to convince the Russian public there was this

incursion. -- how are they trying. They are saying there was an

incursion in two Crimea which is now considered as Russian territory and

they are showing ammunition, weaponry, they are showing that this

was indeed saboteurs who in crouched on their territory and they caught

one person. A Ukrainian citizen. They claim he is a servicemen of the

Ukrainian military. If we were to believe what the Ukrainian side is

saying, there are to area motives for this and we might point to

Parliamentary elections coming up, perhaps, what might those motives

be? Clearly, Mr Putin wants to reassert, re-affirmed his position.

I think we need to know why he should necessarily want to raise

tensions now. Clearly, if there were to be a major Russian military

onslaught again, it would not go down well in Europe. Remember in

Europe, which has enacted significant economic sanctions in

Russia, Europe has a lot of other problems on its hands, Brexit,

migration crisis and so on. While Mr Putin may want to put all that in

play again, the difficulty is as I understand it, you still have a

significant niche military capabilities for the pro-Russian

Rebels in eastern Ukraine being provided by the Russian military.

Those Russian Rebels have undertaken quite significant amounts of

training over recent months. It is quite clear and I think that is one

of the problems throughout, they could mount something through their

rebel allies assisted through their own forces from a standing start. It

doesn't need to make on boys of vehicles to sound a warning note.

Whether this is all smoke rather than fire, theatrics, an attempt to

influence the mood rather than the practical situation on the ground

remains to be seen. I told you the velodrome was

underway tonight, and Team GB looking forward to.

The women's team setting a new record in the women's pursuit. The

men did pretty well, as well, setting a new Olympic record. We

will be talking about their big name in e-commerce, Ali Babar, who have

just released an impressive set of results.

Professor Alexis Jay will lead he independent inquiry

into historical child abuse in England and Wales -

after Dame Lowell Goddard became the third chairwoman to step down.

Our Legal Affairs Correspondent Clive Coleman says the child

protection expert will be the first chair without legal background.

She's not a lawyer, the previous three incumbents have been senior

judges and lawyers. She breaks that mould. Why you should qualified to

do its? She has the experience of running a major enquiry. She ran the

enquiry into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham and was

regarded as having done a very fine job there. That found some 1400

children had been subjected to appalling sexual exploitation in

that town between 1997 and 2013, so she has that hands-on experience of

running an enquiry. This is Outside Source live

from the BBC newsroom. Day six of the Rio Olympics

and all eyes tonight The Great Britain team saw off

South Africa's in the semi's today and they will meet Fiji who beat

Japan. Fiji guaranteed to get their first

ever Olympic medal. The government in Ecuador says it

will allow Sweden to interview the WikiLeaks founder Julian

Assange. It will happen at the Ecuadorian

embassy in London, where Mr Assange He faces allegations

of sexual assault in Sweden - which he has dismissed as a pretext

to extradite him World Service radio reports

that police in Canada have shot dead a suspect

in an anti-terror operation. The suspect, a muslim convert,

had allegedly planned to carry out We're expecting a news conference

from Ottawa shortly. And plenty of you reading on the BBC

News app about the first black footballer to play for Liverpool -

Howard Gayle - who has turned down an MBE nomination,

saying it would be "a betrayal" to Africans who suffered

at the hands of the British Empire. An MBE is an honour awarded

in the UK for service Maternity leave for many working

mothers in India will be more than doubled after the country's

parliament voted changed the law. At the moment only government

workers qualify for more than 12 weeks off following

the birth of a baby. The BBC's Divya Arya

reports from Mumbai. In India only one in four females

aged 15 and over ironwork according to the World Bank. -- are in work.

Why? Raising a child is seen as a women's job in India, not a shared

responsibility between both parents. Existing laws already give job

protection during maternity and 12 weeks paid maternity leave that now

Parliament is changing the law, doubling paid maternity leave to 26

weeks, and forcing firms employing more than 50 people to provide

creche facilities. The government says these measures will help at

least 2 million women across the country but what do women think? We

have too many nuclear families so getting additional leave will

definitely be helpful. With the example of my friend, she is

pregnant and I think it is a good idea because by her to come back in

three months is too short a time. I think you need more time with your

baby and I think it is a good decision. Getting more women into

work and keeping them there is something that the report suggests

will boost India's economy but for many in informal employment it will

still depend on family support, affordable creches and is changing

attitudes to work. The Australian government has

blocked two Chinese and Hong Kong bidders from taking a stake

in Australia's biggest electricity network -

because of concerns The two companies were attempting

to buy more than a 50% stake in Ausgrid -

a sale reportedly worth around Our Asia Business Correspondent

Karishma Vaswani explains. Mr Morrison didn't go into a great

deal of detail that their dad that during the review process, national

security issues were identified in critical power and communications

services that is grid provides to business and the government. It is

the country's largest electricity network. China's State grid is state

owned and is the country's main distributor. It has not made any

official comment yet, but the company in a statement said this

issue was not related to see KI. China is Australia's biggest export

partner and the blocking of this deal will likely strain ties between

the nations. The number of deals have gone through both countries in

the past that in the last few months Australia has blocked China's

attempt to buy some of the assets in the country including Australia's

biggest land mass in agricultural terms. The Australian government has

asked both bidders to submit proposals addressing the Ausgrid

proposal. And Arianna Huffington,

who co-founded the news website Huffington Post 11 years ago,

has announced she is to step down In 2011, she and other shareholders

of The Huffington Post sold it "I thought HuffPost

would be my last act. But I've decided to step down

as HuffPost's editor-in-chief to run my new venture,

Thrive Global." We will be back with plenty more

including Hillary Clinton's economic plans were she to become