:00:11. > :00:12.Hello and welcome to Outside Source. By
:00:13. > :00:15.Hello and welcome to Outside Source. By now of international news from
:00:16. > :00:20.the BBC newsroom. We start in Brazil because a top political official has
:00:21. > :00:25.been arrested accused of illegally passing on tickets. We will bring
:00:26. > :00:27.you up to date on all the action including the fastest ever Olympic
:00:28. > :00:34.goal in the football scored by this man. Brazil's men's team are through
:00:35. > :00:37.to the final. We were appalled from Istanbul as Turkey leases thousands
:00:38. > :00:43.of prisoners to make room for all those arrested since the attempted
:00:44. > :00:49.coup. We have reporting from the BBC's James Cook was covering the
:00:50. > :00:55.fires in California which has forced people to leave their homes and we
:00:56. > :00:56.will be live in Washington as Donald Trump makes some significant changes
:00:57. > :01:20.to his campaign team. Let's start in Rio. A senior member
:01:21. > :01:23.of the International Olympic Committee has been arrested by
:01:24. > :01:27.police as part of an investigation into the illegal Sale of Tickets
:01:28. > :01:34.Bill for the games. The man in question is Patrick Hickey. He is a
:01:35. > :01:40.member of the IOC executive Ward and also head of Ireland's Olympic
:01:41. > :01:48.Council. He is now temporarily stepped down from his various roles.
:01:49. > :01:55.Ireland's sports Minister is Shane Ross and he offered his reaction
:01:56. > :02:02.saying shell shock year in real. The IOC has also made a statement. Here
:02:03. > :02:06.it is. He was taken to hospital this morning. I believe that police have
:02:07. > :02:09.had a press conference this morning and confirmed there was a search
:02:10. > :02:14.warrant and an arrest warrant. Needless to say we will be corporate
:02:15. > :02:21.with police any investigation should there be one. We don't know what the
:02:22. > :02:32.charges or the evidences yet. This involves 1000 tickets of the 6
:02:33. > :02:37.million tickets. We wait to see what comes from the enquiry but first and
:02:38. > :02:46.foremost let's wait to see what the allegations involving him are. So
:02:47. > :02:49.some detail there. Here is more. With a Davies explained to me what
:02:50. > :02:56.Patrick Hickey is alleged to have been involved in. He is alleged to
:02:57. > :03:01.have been a part of a conspiracy to sell and picked up -- tickets for
:03:02. > :03:08.events like the athletics finals and the opening and closing ceremonies
:03:09. > :03:11.at inflated prices. That is illegal in Brazil. The allegation is that
:03:12. > :03:20.somehow he may have facilitated along with individuals from a
:03:21. > :03:27.company called T H G the resale of the tickets. They arrested the
:03:28. > :03:30.71-year-old and he is one of the most senior figures in the European
:03:31. > :03:35.Olympic element and is the latest in a series of arrests by police
:03:36. > :03:42.investigating this alleged fraud. They say it could have netted the
:03:43. > :03:45.gang as much as ?2 million. The company has denied doing anything
:03:46. > :03:53.illegal and say any tickets that have been sold were sold illegally
:03:54. > :03:58.for -- legally. We have seen before in Brazil exactly the same things
:03:59. > :04:03.happen back in the World Cup in 2014. There will be some viewers
:04:04. > :04:07.thinking there is an irony here because we have been watching action
:04:08. > :04:10.from that stadium behind you with lots of empty seats so is there any
:04:11. > :04:17.connection between the poor attendance and the suspicions of the
:04:18. > :04:21.police? Good question. There are many reasons for the poor
:04:22. > :04:26.attendances. The athletics stadium is a long way from the centre of the
:04:27. > :04:30.city. It's difficult to get to. Michael Johnson said he thought it
:04:31. > :04:36.was a mistake on the stadium should have been closer to the city centre
:04:37. > :04:42.or part of the Olympic Park. Ticket prices anyway are pretty highly.
:04:43. > :04:46.Some of the prices were more than the average monthly wage in Brazil.
:04:47. > :04:51.And there is the lack of engagement in some sports by Dursley and fans.
:04:52. > :04:57.Football, volleyball, gymnastics have all been sold out but other
:04:58. > :05:03.events like athletics and hockey and rugby have not sold very well. There
:05:04. > :05:07.are a number of reasons for the low numbers of bums on seats but the
:05:08. > :05:12.fact some people are trying to sell tickets at inflated rises could be
:05:13. > :05:23.partly to blame. Let's go live now to real. We can debate live there
:05:24. > :05:36.are empty seats but is their concern about how this is looking around the
:05:37. > :05:39.world? There is the point that the organising committee has said that
:05:40. > :05:45.more than 80% of the ticket touts unsold. The fact is that many of the
:05:46. > :05:49.ticket holders are not showing up and that might have to do with
:05:50. > :05:56.transport or the location of some of the venues. There is also the fact
:05:57. > :06:00.that Brazil is going through a huge economic crisis and the camp --
:06:01. > :06:06.country is in deep recession. People are saying they can't afford to buy
:06:07. > :06:12.tickets. Officials say that more than 100,000 tickets are being sold
:06:13. > :06:19.on a daily basis. I was done at the beach a few days ago and a common
:06:20. > :06:22.line was I had thought about buying tickets because I am watching it and
:06:23. > :06:28.people are talking about it and I feel like being part of it. Let me
:06:29. > :06:32.ask you about the atmosphere in the city. I was in Paris for the
:06:33. > :06:36.European Championship sand when you walked around the city you would not
:06:37. > :06:44.all that tournament was happening. Would I definitely know the Olympics
:06:45. > :06:47.were in town? Behind me you have the Olympic Park, the main hub of
:06:48. > :06:51.competitions. You do have the feeling that one of the biggest
:06:52. > :06:56.sporting events is happening here. Thousands of people are coming here
:06:57. > :06:59.and having a fantastic time but if you go into the suburbs and other
:07:00. > :07:08.parts of the city you don't have this feeling. Restaurants and bars
:07:09. > :07:13.are showing the events. In the lead up to the games there was a lot of
:07:14. > :07:17.criticisms on concerns about security and a lot of negative
:07:18. > :07:23.coverage. Any Brazilians say we are now happy that the games are
:07:24. > :07:32.happening without many major incidents. Let's go to the BBC
:07:33. > :07:39.sports centre and bring you up-to-date with all the action we
:07:40. > :07:42.have seen today. Let's start by talking about the women's 800
:07:43. > :07:48.metres. The winner look in incredible form. Yes, the woman who
:07:49. > :07:52.found herself at the centre of a gender row following her victory in
:07:53. > :07:57.the 2009 World Championships had to go gender tests before being cleared
:07:58. > :08:04.for competition and she is the red-hot favourite for gold. She
:08:05. > :08:09.cruised through the semifinals. The 25 adult has been cleared to run as
:08:10. > :08:13.a woman but the controversy surrounding her eligibility remains.
:08:14. > :08:18.Lots of talk on Twitter about that. She ran the fastest time in the
:08:19. > :08:27.world since 2008 earlier this year so she is the big favourite. There
:08:28. > :08:31.are many favourites that the canyons are locked on for the steeplechase.
:08:32. > :08:38.Yes, the others might not bother turning up. A Kenyan runner has been
:08:39. > :08:48.on top of the pile at every Olympics since 1984. On Wednesday that streak
:08:49. > :08:53.was extended as he overtook Evan J go at the start of the last lap and
:08:54. > :08:58.set an Olympic record despite slowing down and waving to the
:08:59. > :09:05.crowd. Great riches of him celebrating down the final straight.
:09:06. > :09:11.American runners have not medals in the event for 32 years. They have
:09:12. > :09:15.not won the event since 1952 but perhaps in four years the American
:09:16. > :09:21.camp at the stop to that Kenyan statistics. Run us through what we
:09:22. > :09:26.have got coming up later today. Plenty more in the athletics
:09:27. > :09:29.tonight. If it's not sold out tonight it will never be sold out.
:09:30. > :09:41.The women's long jump final, the women's 200 beta final. Then there
:09:42. > :09:46.is the small matter of Usain Bolt in the men's 200 metres semifinals. The
:09:47. > :09:50.world record-holder over the distance says he wants to become the
:09:51. > :09:55.first man to go and 19 seconds. That would be something special. This is
:09:56. > :09:59.the semifinal so perhaps that would be the day it happens but he is
:10:00. > :10:06.certainly trying and he is also looking to win this event for the
:10:07. > :10:10.third consecutive Olympics. What about this fastest goal in Olympic
:10:11. > :10:16.history? The Brazilian men's football team have turned it around.
:10:17. > :10:21.After drawing against Iraq and Denmark they can to stop scoring.
:10:22. > :10:27.They beat Honduras 6-0 in the semifinals including the fastest
:10:28. > :10:30.goal in Olympic history. 15 seconds. The Brazilian women were beaten in
:10:31. > :10:40.the 70s by Sweden yesterday but the men on course to become the first
:10:41. > :10:46.Olympic gold medallists from Brazil. Thank you very much. Let me show you
:10:47. > :10:49.the medals table and this will shift once we see the action in the
:10:50. > :11:12.athletics stadium but at the moment we still have the US on top.
:11:13. > :11:17.Turkey next because the fallout from the attempted coup continues. They
:11:18. > :11:23.have been thousands of arrests and that to be -- is applying pressure
:11:24. > :11:26.on the prison system so today we got the news that 38,000 prisoners are
:11:27. > :11:32.going to be released. Even before the cool we know the system was
:11:33. > :11:39.struggling. Around 4000 inmates overcapacity. At the moment in
:11:40. > :11:44.Turkey since the attempted coup the government has released some
:11:45. > :11:51.official figures and is saying over 40,000 people have been detained and
:11:52. > :11:57.over 20,000 have been arrested on top of that. Over 79,000 people have
:11:58. > :12:06.been removed from public duty. Extraordinary numbers which are
:12:07. > :12:09.putting huge pressure on the system. Our reporter told me earlier about
:12:10. > :12:14.the link being made between all these arrests since the cool and
:12:15. > :12:19.these prisoners being released. The government has not made an official
:12:20. > :12:22.link because it is reluctant to admit the prison service is
:12:23. > :12:27.overcrowded but the reports are widespread of overcapacity. There
:12:28. > :12:31.are reports of some prisoners having the sleeping shifts, that some
:12:32. > :12:36.sports halls are being used for sleeping areas. The prison service
:12:37. > :12:41.was already under strain and suddenly there was this post coup
:12:42. > :12:47.purge with more than 23,000 people now detained or arrested and it
:12:48. > :12:52.seems clear that the decision taken today to release these 38,000
:12:53. > :12:58.prisoners early on parole was done to try and create space for the new
:12:59. > :13:03.wave of prisoners to come in. The government says all of those who are
:13:04. > :13:11.detained and suspended or have a link with the plotters. But there
:13:12. > :13:14.are still concerns from left-wing groups and right wing groups who say
:13:15. > :13:21.this is a witchhunt now and the government is rounding up its
:13:22. > :13:27.alleged enemies. The government denies that. Is the expectation that
:13:28. > :13:33.these 23,000 people will mostly faced trial? Most of them will
:13:34. > :13:39.because under the system in Turkey you are detained and if you are
:13:40. > :13:44.found to have cause for a trial you are arrested. The equivalent in
:13:45. > :13:49.Britain would be you are arrested and then charged. Here in Turkey you
:13:50. > :13:53.are detained and arrested. Most of those who are arrested would face
:13:54. > :13:58.trial but you have to look at the numbers. How can the state function
:13:59. > :14:03.with 23,000 people being tried all of a sudden? They have been 3000
:14:04. > :14:10.police and judges who have been removed so that will make the trials
:14:11. > :14:15.difficult to process. The shake-up in Turkey in the past month is
:14:16. > :14:19.staggering with the numbers. When you say that the government they say
:14:20. > :14:22.it is the gravest attack the Turkish state has ever faced so Turkey must
:14:23. > :14:27.respond in the toughest possible terms but it is bring home the
:14:28. > :14:32.magnitude of what has happened in the last month and the biggest purge
:14:33. > :14:38.in Turkey's modern history. If you are watching in New Zealand or in
:14:39. > :14:43.the UK let me mention the reference back to the Olympics and the women's
:14:44. > :14:48.hockey semifinal has just begun. New Zealand against Great Britain. It is
:14:49. > :14:56.a 0-0 and that is alive page on the BBC sport website. In a few minutes
:14:57. > :15:00.were going to be turning to California. I don't know if you've
:15:01. > :15:02.seen these pictures of the wildfires in California. A state of emergency
:15:03. > :15:16.has been declared. Here in the UK to women have been
:15:17. > :15:21.jailed for murdering a business woman at her home in Lancashire.
:15:22. > :15:25.Sadie Harty who was 60 was paralysed with a stunned and and repeatedly
:15:26. > :15:30.stabbed by Sarah Williams who had wanted to resume a relationship with
:15:31. > :15:34.her victim's long-term partner Ian Johnson. Williams who is 35 was
:15:35. > :15:39.convicted at Preston Crown Court along with her accomplice Katrina
:15:40. > :15:46.Walsh. Detective Superintendent Paul Withers welcomed the conviction.
:15:47. > :15:53.Sadie Hartley was an honest lady who was innocent of any wrongdoing. The
:15:54. > :15:58.murder in her own home can only be described as a premeditated brutal
:15:59. > :16:04.and senseless act committed against a defenceless lady. Albeit Williams
:16:05. > :16:10.may have been the one who wielded the knife there can be no doubt that
:16:11. > :16:21.Katrina Walsh was also heavily involved in this dreadful crime.
:16:22. > :16:28.We are live in the BBC newsroom and our lead story comes from Brazil as
:16:29. > :16:31.a senior lidded official has been arrested by police investigating
:16:32. > :16:34.illegal ticket sales. He is suspected of passing tickets to
:16:35. > :16:40.touts to be sold illegally. Let's have a look at some of the men
:16:41. > :16:46.stories from the World Service. The son of the Mexican drug lord was
:16:47. > :16:56.among six people abducted by rival gangs which happened in the Mexican
:16:57. > :17:02.seaside resort on Sunday. BBC Russia report the Special Forces in Saint
:17:03. > :17:05.Petersburg have killed four men in a shoot out with suspected militants
:17:06. > :17:11.from North Caucus region. Officials say they opened fire at an apartment
:17:12. > :17:14.block when the males -- the men failed to surrender. Lots of you
:17:15. > :17:20.have been enjoying these pictures of Madonna celebrating their 50th
:17:21. > :17:27.birthday. You can see these on the BBC News Channel. Let's turn these
:17:28. > :17:32.wildfires in California. More than 80,000 people have now been forced
:17:33. > :17:36.to leave their homes in a state of emergency has been declared in the
:17:37. > :17:39.affected areas. Most of which are close to San Bernardino to the east
:17:40. > :18:08.of Los Angeles. The evacuation area has spread to
:18:09. > :18:12.the West this morning. When those officers ask you to leave we would
:18:13. > :18:22.ask that you do leave and not shelter in place. We would hate for
:18:23. > :18:27.the fire for -- the fire to overrun you. The fire was unstoppable. Many
:18:28. > :18:35.residents who fear the worst for their homes. They flew 30 feet in
:18:36. > :18:44.the air and across the yard and they almost knocked me out. The firemen
:18:45. > :18:47.are doing a wonderful job. Among the structures, the summit in, the deck
:18:48. > :18:53.is a favourite spot for drivers between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
:18:54. > :18:56.This is the main route across the desert claims between Southern
:18:57. > :19:04.California and Nevada. The lifeline has been cut off. This blaze which
:19:05. > :19:09.is still raging is extreme but far from unique. At this moment have a
:19:10. > :19:13.dozen big blazes are on fire across California and more than 20 are
:19:14. > :19:18.ablaze in the Western United States. As the fire continues to rage a
:19:19. > :19:22.state of emergency has been declared. Here in the high desert
:19:23. > :19:33.after five years of drought nothing it seems is safe from fire. Let's
:19:34. > :19:37.bring you some of the main global business stories. Banks and
:19:38. > :19:43.accountancy firms that help their clients to avoid tax may find
:19:44. > :19:48.themselves facing huge fines. It comes under new proposals today that
:19:49. > :19:52.would give courts the power to impose fines of 100% of the total
:19:53. > :20:00.out of tax avoided. Let's give more details from the BBC's business
:20:01. > :20:03.editor. Up until now you may not have any sympathy for those
:20:04. > :20:07.celebrities who have been caught out but when HM RC the tax office finds
:20:08. > :20:11.out they go to them and say now you're going to have to pay tax
:20:12. > :20:14.because this scheme doesn't work and you will have to pay interest on the
:20:15. > :20:19.tax he didn't they. That is in addition to the fees you paid to the
:20:20. > :20:24.people promoting the scheme. Whereas those figures who melt into the
:20:25. > :20:27.background, the advisers and professionals, they don't have to
:20:28. > :20:31.pay anything. That is what the government is now saying, if you
:20:32. > :20:35.have put together one of the schemes which you knew probably would be
:20:36. > :20:38.against the rules then you're going to have to pay a fine. The find is
:20:39. > :20:45.going to be quite substantial because the percent is a very large
:20:46. > :20:50.sum of money. Something like ?2.7 billion is lost every year through
:20:51. > :20:58.tax avoidance schemes so you can imagine hundreds of millions being
:20:59. > :21:03.lost and advisers being told you're going to have to pay a fine that
:21:04. > :21:08.matches that. A huge cheque for them, Cisco, and there are reports
:21:09. > :21:15.that it be about to lay off 14,000 employees. It has 20% of its global
:21:16. > :21:25.workforce. We urge you to get its quarterly results today. Those two
:21:26. > :21:28.things may be related. Start off with what Cisco is because this is a
:21:29. > :21:34.company which is evolving pretty fast. The challenge with Cisco is
:21:35. > :21:40.that it's a company that was mainly rooted in hardware that as people
:21:41. > :21:46.are moving away from hardware and looking for software updates that is
:21:47. > :21:50.where Cisco has had to move. That is where the growth is. So the
:21:51. > :21:54.challenge for Cisco has been moving away from hardware and moving
:21:55. > :22:01.towards software so that is one challenge. So you are seeing they
:22:02. > :22:11.have tried to mix investment in that direction and they are also
:22:12. > :22:15.investing in cloud computing. But what a lot of people are talking
:22:16. > :22:23.about is that we are going to hear the quarterly results but there is a
:22:24. > :22:25.lot of talk about these lay-offs. These are still rumours and there is
:22:26. > :22:29.no confirmation as yet but it would make sense as you consider just how
:22:30. > :22:39.this company is trying to evolve into a new, Morne Morkel software
:22:40. > :22:44.company. You can get more information through the BBC business
:22:45. > :22:50.section of the app. Let's talk about Silicon Valley's millionaires. They
:22:51. > :22:55.are often making big investments but perhaps this is an unusual one. It
:22:56. > :23:02.comes in the form of an investment in a tiny village in North Devon.
:23:03. > :23:06.Michael Birch spent summers there as a child and was struck by its state
:23:07. > :23:14.of repair so we decided to do something about it. Wolves area is
:23:15. > :23:17.getting at her back. There is still work to do but thanks to an
:23:18. > :23:23.investment in bricks and mortar by a man who made his fortune on
:23:24. > :23:26.high-tech. Michael Birch founded people and he is now putting some of
:23:27. > :23:32.that money into this North Devon village. But why? You lives in
:23:33. > :23:38.California. But this place holds many fond childhood memories. My
:23:39. > :23:48.ancestors have been living in the village since 1700. Many generations
:23:49. > :23:51.of the church at my left. I love living in America and I love coming
:23:52. > :23:56.here. It is a great escape and for me it's very studied. It is where I
:23:57. > :24:02.spend all of my summers as a child. I like ringing my children here.
:24:03. > :24:07.Over the past two years he has bought other businesses and feels a
:24:08. > :24:10.need to transform the village. That extends to the boarded-up manor
:24:11. > :24:14.house which will be turned into a hotel. People have looked at the
:24:15. > :24:19.place and say we don't want to live here because the pub looks awful and
:24:20. > :24:23.everything but with Michael coming in and basically doing the centre of
:24:24. > :24:29.the village justice by renovating both buildings it has had a
:24:30. > :24:33.feel-good factor to the village. It's as good as winning the lottery
:24:34. > :24:38.because there is no way the parish council and local residents could
:24:39. > :24:44.come together with enough money to make a go of the pub. The original
:24:45. > :24:48.village shop was built by Michael Birch's rate great-grandfather. Now
:24:49. > :24:56.he is a welcome visitor. He really nice guy, down-to-earth. Mr Birch
:24:57. > :24:59.says he has a huge emotional connection to the village and his
:25:00. > :25:08.investment will be toasted in the restored pub when it opens next
:25:09. > :25:15.year. The world's largest aircraft has made its maiden flight. It is
:25:16. > :25:19.fast. This is a British designed aircraft. It is a hybrid between a
:25:20. > :25:26.conventional build aircraft and an airship. It is 92 metres long, 15
:25:27. > :25:32.metres longer than the biggest passenger jets. It was first
:25:33. > :25:36.developed for the US government as a surveillance aircraft. The British
:25:37. > :25:42.firm behind it also campaign to get it back in the sky. Its makers are
:25:43. > :25:45.trying to persuade people appear to invest in it because they say it can
:25:46. > :25:51.travel very long distances with little fuel consumption.