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Our top stories: The British radical Islamic cleric Anjem Choudary has

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been convicted of inviting support for

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At the Olympics in Rio, American gymnast Simone Biles has

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taken her fourth gold medal in the

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Russia has launched air raids in Syria from a base in Iran

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for the first time - we'll hear

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from BBC Russian about that in a moment.

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And we've been trying to analyse Donald Trump's hand movements.

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I'll show you that report in about 15 minutes.

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For the first time, Russia has begun using an air base in Iran to launch

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air strikes against jihadist groups in Syria.

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The defence ministry says Russian long-range bombers and fighter jets

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took off from the Hamedan base in western Iran.

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Until now, Moscow has been launching attacks from inside Syria.

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Russia and Iran have discussed boosting military co-operation

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I spoke with Olga Ivshina, from BBC Russian about the significance

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It is very significant for both sides and both sides presented at as

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diplomatic. As for the Russians, it eases the pressure on them

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significantly because before, these bases were based in Russian airbases

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and they had to travel more than 3000 kilometres to get to their

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target, now the only have two flight 700 kilometres. It means they can

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decrease the amount of rockets. Early, they needed more space for

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fuel. They can now take up to 20 kilograms of bombs. They say

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militants have already been killed but what is the Russian reaction to

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this? Do they agree with using a third place to launch air strikes

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from? Russian media is quite cautious. They first report they

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were citing Arab sources but then a official confirmation came and was

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presented as a diplomatic victory because we see Russian ties with

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Iran are strengthening and Russia opposes political isolation which

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was presented. It shows Russia is getting more and more allies during

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this fight. That is part of the conversations that are taking place,

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is Russia becoming more powerful with this conflict in Syria as it

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begins to align itself perhaps with not only President Assad of Syria

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but also with every knee and forces? Yes, absolutely and it is also a win

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win a game for Iran because if they have Russian bombers on their

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military bases, they have additional card in the game with Israel because

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now the balance of power has changed completely sober boss says it is an

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important step and also Vladimir Putin is using this to increase

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pressure on Western leaders because he's trying to reduce sanctions on

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the Russian economy which is a huge danger for him, bearing in mind the

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Russian parliament elections which are coming in September.

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For President Obama, closing the Guantanamo Bay detention

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Now, his administration has announced the biggest ever transfer

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At its peak in 2003, Guantanamo held 684 inmates.

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Of these, 20 have been approved for transfer,

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34 face continued detention, but only seven have been charged.

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This is the largest release of Guantanamo prisoners

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12 Yemeni and three Afghan prisoners transferred

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Some have been held without charge for

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Throughout his presidency, Barack Obama has been

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With this plan we have the opportunity finally to eliminate

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a terrorist propaganda tool, strengthen relationships

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with allies and partners, enhance our national security,

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and most importantly, uphold the values that

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For many years it's been clear that the detention facility

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at Guantanamo Bay does not advance our national security.

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The process of clearing detainees for release is glacial.

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It's unlikely that the latest announcement was timed

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But it does serve as a riposte to the Republican presidential

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candidate Donald Trump, who has vowed to fill Guantanamo

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with America's enemies and treat them harshly.

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I said, I think we should go much, much, much further

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There were once almost 700 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay,

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after years of releases, there are now just 61 left.

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Campaigners and former inmates have given the latest move

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They'll be returning in some cases to places where they still can't

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These men are often resettled to countries that

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So the ability to travel will not be afforded to them,

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they may not be able to see their children now,

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who have actually grown into men and young women.

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They may have missed the deaths of their parents or other relatives.

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The Obama administration wants to put some of the remaining

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a move fiercely resisted by Congress.

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The long, tortured saga of Guantanamo Bay will almost

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certainly rumble on long after Barack Obama has left office.

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The number of wild bees across England is on the decline

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They say the sharp fall of up to 30% can be linked to the use

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of a controversial pesticide, which is temporarily

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The research, which was published in the journal Nature

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Communications, was carried out by scientists based in Oxfordshire.

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They are vital for the environment - pollinating our flowers,

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But Britain's bees are in trouble and now scientists say

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there is evidence that pesticides are linked to their

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In farmland across the country, neonicotinoid chemicals have been

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This field of oilseed rape is just about ready for harvest

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and it is this crop that is treated with the insecticide.

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The chemical's applied to seeds before they are planted and this

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protects the plants from pests as they grow.

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But since 2013, farms have not been allowed to use the pesticide,

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after the European Union put a temporary ban in place.

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Smaller lab-based studies suggested they were harming bees.

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However this latest research from the Centre for Ecology

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and Hydrology analysed their effects on dozens of species

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across the whole of England and they found that bees that

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foraged on neonicotinoid-treated oilseed rape were three times more

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likely to be in decline than the species that did not.

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What we have been able to do is massively increase the scale

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We are looking at the whole of England.

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We are looking at long-time periods, over 18 years and looking at 62

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And it is this massive increase in scale which separates this study

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But one company that makes neonicotinoids says it is not clear

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that the pesticide is to blame and the ban is hurting farmers.

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The alternatives, when it comes to growing oilseed rape,

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in the UK landscape, seem to be very few and the ones

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that are there do not appear to be really helping.

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We are seeing a lot of destruction of crops out there and farmers

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are really struggling to be able to grow this crop in the UK now.

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This growing body of research on the plight of bees is currently

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Next year, they will decide whether to lift the ban

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The United Nations has raised concern for what they see

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as an "intensification" of air strikes in Yemen.

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Yesterday, a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres

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was hit in northern Yemen, killing at least 14 people.

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It's believed it was carried out by the Saudi-led coalition,

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which is backing Yemen's government in its fight against Houthi rebels.

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Pictures from the ground show the scale of the damage.

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Another 19 were injured in the attack.

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Yemen's Prime Minister has spoken to the BBC's Arabic Service

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and said his government was looking into all cases like this.

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In truth we should focus on the main reasons about what has happened in

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Yemen. We want everyone across the world to know the exact truth but

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you have to be very clean about it and say explicitly. Those

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responsible for this war have to beef held fully accountable for the

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damage in Yemen and for the casualties the cause.

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Iona Craig is a recent recipient of the prestigious Orwell Prize

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for journalism for her work inside Yemen and has spent much

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She returned in March and told me who would be behind this attack.

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It's clear when you're on the ground that the only person that can be

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responsible is the Saudi led coalition has nobody else with their

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power in Yemen. The Yemen air force can operate at the moment and the

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only people dropping bombs on the country are the Saudi led coalition.

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It's quite clear that is the case and I think MSF have been clear

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about that. This is a regular occurrence in Yemen and the fourth

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MSF facilitated hospital that has been hit in the last 12 months. Why

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would a hospital be targeted as some people believe it to be? I think

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that's the question. The GPS coordinates are given out to the

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coalition and to all the parties in the conflict. UN aid agency

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facilities around the country, so it should be easy to avoid but these

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kind of strike patterns of neural regular basis, I've seen it on the

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ground myself, give seen civilian houses being targeted, I

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investigated it strikes in which up to 175 civilians were killed in

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those strikes, which included civilian homes and buses, I've seen

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schools head, maternity wards hit and most of the time, the Saudi led

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coalition blames them for having targets near these areas are when

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they hit a school at weekends, the Saudis try to say it was a trail

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soldier training camp when Unicef and other agencies have been there

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and it is clearly a school. Your work is focused on Yemen but I think

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many would say this is a war that is underreported, some people call it a

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failed state, one of the poorest countries in the Middle East. Why is

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that, do you think? Yemen is the Buddhist country in the region. It

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has all been underreported -- Yemen is the poorest country. It is

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convenient that it is underreported. But the British and American

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Government climb are heavily involved and the British Government

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have sold ?3.3 billion's worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the start

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of this war. The Americans have sold nearly five times that amount so it

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is very difficult for journalists to get into the country, particularly

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now the airport has been closed again in the last week and while

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it's difficult for reporters to get in, the stories don't get out and

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the governments are not held to account. In the last few minutes, we

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have had unconfirmed reports that year -- Yemen rebels have fired a

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missile into Syria. If this proves to be accurate, it will be the

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highest number of civilian casualties in the country since the

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Saudi led coalition intervene 70 months ago in Yemen.

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Let's get the latest on Team GB at the Olympics today.

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First, we are off to the velodrome but history has just been made.

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Britain's Laura has a record-breaking fourth Olympic gold

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medal. These are life pictures. She has just completed the final event,

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the points race and she eased to her fourth gold medal, her second of the

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Rio games. Laura Trott becomes the most successful female British

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Olympian in history. We'll have all the action and reaction in Olympic

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sports day at 10:15pm. I can see a future years for Laura Trott and her

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fiance is said to be Chris Foy's record of six gold medals in half an

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hour. Jason won it last time so there could be ten medals between

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that couple. Britain's first gold medal of the Olympics on day 11 was

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won by Giles Scott in sailing Finn class. He had the luxury of treating

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it as a lap of honour. He continued in the next three games by Sir Ben

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Ainslie and ensured his country took back a fifth consecutive medal. Good

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news for Britain's sailing team because they're guaranteed gold with

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the medal race still to come tomorrow. The duo will arrive

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tomorrow with business after they took silver in London 2012. It's

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going to be gold this time. A meeting could is the youngest and

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she has now won a bronze in the gymnastics floor final -- Amy

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Tinkler. She is now an Olympic medallist after this stunning

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performance. She scored 14. Less than an hour after that success,

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Nile Wilson left British Olympics happy when he scored his seventh

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gymnastic medal. More at 10:15pm. This is Outside Source live

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from the BBC newsroom. Our lead story is: The British

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radical Islamic cleric An jem Choudary has been

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convicted of inviting support If you're outside of the UK,

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it's World News America next. It's got more on why Russia has

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started using a base in Iran to Here in the UK, the

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News At Ten is next. It reports that Inflation in the UK

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rose more than expected Now to politics, where lately we've

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been spending a lot of time talking But tonight, it's body

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language we're focused on. A lot of us talk with our hands,

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but the Republican nominee takes We asked an expert to help break

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down what all those motions mean. Trump is a creature of New York City

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and New Yorkers tend to use a lot of hand gestures. We all do. He is

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entertaining even if he doesn't say a thing.

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I don't think he has been coached heavily on body language and people

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pick up on that in an instant. They pick up his authenticity. We're

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going to take care of our veterans. This is his baseline. It's an

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alternating hand gesture with an L shaped. It looks precise. People are

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shocked. he uses this as cautionary. Look out. This is a tough competitor

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or he'll say, we don't what's going to happen here. This scares people.

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It looks like wow, hold him back, its defensive. If you hold people

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back and say here's what we need to do, his prescription, you've got a

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good package. I'm taking the gloves off, yes? the no no is pointing at

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people. Bill Clinton backed off from that. He started to do more of a

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pinch towards somebody, it is less accusatory. Slicing means, this is

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precision, we've got to do something about this. I don't want to hit the

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first ball, I don't want to hit anything. he gets people whipped up

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with his gestures. He gets them to give a sense of chaos, whether he

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says, we don't have a plan! It's everywhere! That's chaos and then he

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follows it up with precision moves. Elect me and we'll get to the bottom

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of it. Breaking news about Laura Trott, she

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has won a gold medal in the women's's omnium at the Rio

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Olympics. Her second gold of the Olympics, her fourth in total. That

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makes her the most successful British female Olympian ever. Well

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all the excitement is, at the moment, focused on the competition,

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what happens when these athletes leave?

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Will these games leave any lasting impact?

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Chris Mitchell has been to see a new project in the shadows

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of the Olympic stadium which hopes to help develop Brazil's next

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This place is just a few hundred metres from the Olympic Park in Rio

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and yet this is where you might find Olympic champions of the future.

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That's because thousands of dollars have been invested here to provide

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sporting facilities for underprivileged locals in the hope

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that it might inspire them to become active. The Olympic village is at

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the heartbeat of their communities. This is where they come to play, the

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own this, it's a safe space for them and in the five-year commitment, we

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are making sure we are working together with the city and with the

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community to make it sustainable. Ultimately, we want to transform the

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community and impact the lives of these kids so they grew up loving

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sport, being active and it really helps the community. We believe in

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that unlimited potential of the kids. if you want to inspire a new

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generation, then why not get in an athletic superstar? Carl Lewis won

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ten medals at the Olympics for the USA, nine of them gold. Getting kids

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involved in sports young, you can teach all kinds of lessons, physical

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activity, engagement that you can't get if you start over and for me,

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it's personal because I have a youth programme, an athletic programme in

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the United States, and I started at eight years old, a programme my

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parents started, and this is personal for me and I think it is

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wonderful and I'm happy to bring it into these neighbourhoods and

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realise spaces like this which wouldn't be utilised. the fact the

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money for this regeneration is coming from the sponsor and not the

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state tells its own story. Rio is putting on a good chauffeur now but

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the real test will be whether it has a vision to make the Olympics pay

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for to come. Each day we've been bringing you the

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lesser reported stories on the Olympics. Here is today's.

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When Brazil's de Silva won the support of everyone in the Olympic

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Stadium, he didn't sit well with the silver medallist who was upset the

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fans were booing him during his last jump. He said that everybody was

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against him, not showing the Olympic values of excellence, friendship and

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respect. He was so upset he compared his experience to Jesse Owens during

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the 1936 Olympics in Berlin when he was booed for being black. He took

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back that statement but still wasn't happy that he didn't repeat this

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time as the Olympic champion. The Rio games may go down as the romance

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games. So far, we've had a wedding proposal from Chinese divers, a

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Brazilian rugby player, a British race walker and a British dressage

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proposal. Now people are asking if they're taking away from the

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sporting accomplishment. Chinese diver was barely off the podium with

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her silver medal, Britain's Charlotte had just won gold in

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dressage, this athlete waited until he finished his own event before

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asking his own partner. For the record, they have all said yes. One

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area getting a lot of attention at the fingernails of some of the

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competitors. Four years ago in London, there might have been some

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nail art it seems there is -- it is a key here, being used to show

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patriotism. These athletes are masters of detail. When Simone Biles

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arrives to compete, she doesn't just the stars and on her and stripes but

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also her nails, the swimmer from Sweden had golden nails but

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hopefully wasn't too disappointed with her silver medal and I really

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wonder whether those designs survived through the nail-biting

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competitions. To remain due, in case you missed it, Laura Trott has won

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gold in the velodrome for Great Britain in the women's's omnium. It

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is a fourth Olympic medal, making her Britain's most successful female

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Olympian. What a title! Lets see what that does to the medal table.

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The USA is still leading the 28 gold medals, Great Britain has increased

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its tally to a team of Laura Trott's win, China remains in third, Russia

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despite its depleted team has claimed to fourth place. You can get

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all the latest results on the BBC sport website weather BBC sport

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application. But from us in London, goodbye for now.

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