:00:14. > :00:22.Hello, I'm Ross Atkins. We will start with one image from Syria
:00:23. > :00:27.which has focused the world on the suffering that continues there. This
:00:28. > :00:34.video shows a five-year-old boy in Aleppo. It is believed he was
:00:35. > :00:44.injured in an air strike last night. The UN says no aid is reaching
:00:45. > :00:53.besieged areas of the city. Not one convoy because one thing, fighting.
:00:54. > :00:58.Police in Rio say a group of US swimmers made up a story that they
:00:59. > :01:01.were robbed to cover up an incident where they broke down a door at a
:01:02. > :01:05.petrol station. We will have more on that. An
:01:06. > :01:09.incredible day for the Brownlee brothers who took gold and silver in
:01:10. > :01:16.the triathlon. Plus, we will talk about Google's plans to use
:01:17. > :01:28.driverless cars in the US within the next two weeks -- Buber -- Uber's
:01:29. > :01:44.plans to use driverless cars. Such has been the torrent of
:01:45. > :01:49.disturbing images from Syria that there is a risk we will become
:01:50. > :01:55.desensitised to the horror that they show. Today though one video is
:01:56. > :02:02.demanding the world's attention. There is a little boy covered in
:02:03. > :02:09.dust and sitting in the back of an ambulance. The boy is not screaming
:02:10. > :02:14.or crying. He appears in shock. He is one of a number of children who
:02:15. > :02:23.were injured in an air strike on a rebel held part of the city. Aleppo
:02:24. > :02:26.is usually important in the battle for the control of Syria. It is the
:02:27. > :02:35.biggest city in the north, as you can see. You can see how the city
:02:36. > :02:40.is. The purple is areas controlled by the rebels. The green is
:02:41. > :02:47.controlled by the government. Today, UN Syria envoy has had this to say.
:02:48. > :02:55.In Syria, what we are hearing and seeing is only fighting, offensives,
:02:56. > :03:05.counteroffensive is, rockets, barrel bombs, mortars, cannons, napalm,
:03:06. > :03:15.chlorine, snipers, air strikes, suicide bombers. Not one single
:03:16. > :03:25.convoy in one month has reached any of the humanitarian besieged areas.
:03:26. > :03:31.Not one single convoy. He clarified those comments later to say no aid
:03:32. > :03:34.had reached besieged areas of Aleppo since the beginning of August.
:03:35. > :03:41.Needless to say, that aid is desperately needed. The doctor who
:03:42. > :03:44.treated that five-year-old boy, earlier speaking to BBC World
:03:45. > :03:52.Service radio described those moments.
:03:53. > :04:02.Last night, Omran came to our hospital. He did not cry, because he
:04:03. > :04:09.was shocked at what had happened to him. We cleaned his face and suited
:04:10. > :04:19.his wounds and treated the wound in his head. He was discharged after
:04:20. > :04:29.two hours after we treated him and he is lucky because he had the only
:04:30. > :04:35.wound in his head and it was treated. That was part of an
:04:36. > :04:39.interview earlier. Earlier, I spoke to Lyse Doucet who made a
:04:40. > :04:44.documentary for the BBC called children of Syria.
:04:45. > :04:49.It is quite extraordinary. Syrians are saying the world has forgotten
:04:50. > :04:56.them and then this image of a little boy who seems to symbolise the
:04:57. > :04:59.suffering of children like him who live under the daily bombardment in
:05:00. > :05:05.Aleppo. He was pulled from the rubble of his home in the dark at
:05:06. > :05:09.night, woken up, and you saw the bewildered look on his face. He was
:05:10. > :05:14.pushed in an ambulance and from that moment he sat on his own. It seems
:05:15. > :05:33.to symbolise Syria's feeling alone in the world as well.
:05:34. > :05:47.The image has gone viral. It is like the image of the little boy who
:05:48. > :05:59.washed up on the shore. I was going to ask you when one image has such
:06:00. > :06:06.an impact, it can translate into action? The UN diplomat is very
:06:07. > :06:11.polished, he is not known for speaking out. You could see from his
:06:12. > :06:16.comments he has reached the end of his patients. They in, day out, they
:06:17. > :06:21.have been pleading for even a 48-hour truce. Now Russia has
:06:22. > :06:25.announced there will be one but it is only a respite. Syria's war is
:06:26. > :06:30.not only the most punishing of our time, it is the most entangled. It
:06:31. > :06:41.is not as Russia who has two act, there is Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar,
:06:42. > :06:47.there are all the warring States and also Islamic State. The biggest
:06:48. > :06:54.prize is Aleppo now. Sadly, however shocking these images are, it will
:06:55. > :06:59.not stop. While all of us are looking at this particular video,
:07:00. > :07:03.all Syrians know, you know, there are children's most days, if not
:07:04. > :07:11.every day in Syria, experiencing trauma like that little boy. It is
:07:12. > :07:15.one image, it is such an arresting, troubling image. It was just one
:07:16. > :07:19.little boy, I'm sure many people looked at that and they will have
:07:20. > :07:23.seen boys elsewhere, maybe they have fallen and scraped themselves and a
:07:24. > :07:30.bit shocked and dazed. This morning I went through social media and
:07:31. > :07:40.there were lots of other pictures of children in Syria, also in Yemen and
:07:41. > :07:43.other countries. Children outside Damascus, in distress, suffering,
:07:44. > :07:48.crying, none of those are on the world's radar today. It was Omran,
:07:49. > :07:53.the five-year-old, who has really touched a chord, but the court will
:07:54. > :07:59.resonate sadly for only a short amount of time. In Syria, every step
:08:00. > :08:01.matters a lot and this may be a big one.
:08:02. > :08:05.Thank you. If you want more background on the conflict you can
:08:06. > :08:09.find it on the BBC news at and the BBC News website.
:08:10. > :08:14.Let's turn to this very strange story from Rio and the four Olympic
:08:15. > :08:21.swimmers and the alleged armed robbery. Police are saying they made
:08:22. > :08:27.the whole thing up to cover up an incident at a petrol station. Let's
:08:28. > :08:31.take the story from the start. August the night, Ryan Lochte wins
:08:32. > :08:40.gold as part of the US men's 400 metre relay team. Then on August 14
:08:41. > :08:44.he describes in detail how men pretending to be police officers
:08:45. > :08:48.attacked him and three others. These are quotes from Ryan Lochte. He
:08:49. > :08:53.said: they pulled out their guns, they told the other swimmers to get
:08:54. > :08:58.down on the ground. He took our money, he took my wallet, he left
:08:59. > :09:06.myself open, he left by credentials. On Tuesday, Lochte flies home. On
:09:07. > :09:11.Wednesday, two of the other swimmers are detained at Rio airport. That
:09:12. > :09:15.brings us to today. The Brazilian authorities said the swimmers got
:09:16. > :09:19.into an argument at a petrol station. They broke down a toilet
:09:20. > :09:25.door. In other words, the police say the swimmers lied about what
:09:26. > :09:29.happened. We can bring in the BBC's Chris Mitchell in Rio. It is hard to
:09:30. > :09:35.predict where this story will go next.
:09:36. > :09:43.It is unbelievable. It is very strange and close to a diplomatic
:09:44. > :09:48.incident in a way. The judge handling the incident has the
:09:49. > :09:53.passports of the two swimmers and there is no indication when they
:09:54. > :09:58.will get those passports back. Ryan Lochte is one of the most successful
:09:59. > :10:04.swimmers in the world. In America he is second only to Michael Phelps.
:10:05. > :10:11.Here is a man who recently had his own TV show. He is a big
:10:12. > :10:14.personality. The chief of police said basically, they got into an
:10:15. > :10:24.argument at this petrol station, that Lochte was hot tempered, that
:10:25. > :10:31.is the word that he used. No gun was brandished. It was actually the US
:10:32. > :10:35.swimmers, the four of them, that could be accused of vandalism,
:10:36. > :10:39.perhaps damage to a toilet door, ripping the sign off a wall. It is
:10:40. > :10:44.incredible. The other way of looking at it is you had four young men who
:10:45. > :10:48.had been competing at the Games. Ryan Lochte got a gold medal. They
:10:49. > :10:59.had let their hair down, gone out for a night out, like young men do,
:11:00. > :11:01.they had too much to drink and were intoxicated. Lochte I admitted that
:11:02. > :11:04.himself, and they got into an argument with people, and they
:11:05. > :11:10.covered it up. You might go home to your mum and dad and cover up when
:11:11. > :11:13.you got drunk for the first time. I think the United States Olympic
:11:14. > :11:18.Committee are very embarrassed about it. Ultimately, if they apologise,
:11:19. > :11:24.which undoubtedly they will, they will be left off. A few twists and
:11:25. > :11:29.turns to come. I have been trying to concentrate on my work today but it
:11:30. > :11:36.was hard not to spend an hour and a half watching the Bradley brothers.
:11:37. > :11:40.It is fantastic. 1.5 kilometres in the Atlantic, you and I could not
:11:41. > :11:49.manage 100 metres, I am sure! Then you have 40 kilometres on a bike and
:11:50. > :11:53.then a 10K run. Alistair was the nominal, no one got close to him
:11:54. > :11:58.apart from his brother. The defence of his title, no one has done that
:11:59. > :12:02.before. You have to feel for his brother. He often beats him in
:12:03. > :12:09.training, Jonathan, but not in contests when it really matters. He
:12:10. > :12:13.won with such ease. Another British athlete defending their title here,
:12:14. > :12:18.a bit like Laura Trott, defending their title in Rio. But he did come
:12:19. > :12:23.in as favourite and with some hot form so he was expected to do well.
:12:24. > :12:40.We will have more on the Brownlee Brothers in a minute. And a word on
:12:41. > :12:44.a doping story. A weightlifter has tested positive and has been sent
:12:45. > :12:50.home so Columbia have picked up their medal. I would much rather be
:12:51. > :12:56.telling you about tonight's action. We are outside the Olympic Stadium.
:12:57. > :13:01.Bolt is due to run. The women get a chance to get into the relay final.
:13:02. > :13:06.Hopefully, we will forget about the doping and until the next episode
:13:07. > :13:09.comes along, we will forget about Lochte and his three mates on their
:13:10. > :13:14.night out. Thank you. Full coverage of BB
:13:15. > :13:22.athletics on the BBC live page. Let's quickly bring up the medal
:13:23. > :13:28.table. There have been a couple of golds for Great Britain today. It is
:13:29. > :13:33.first and foremost the gold medals which decide the order. Russia have
:13:34. > :13:37.more medals overall than Germany but the fact that Germany has one more
:13:38. > :13:46.gold means it sits above Russia in the medal table. That will chop and
:13:47. > :13:53.change over the next few days. In a moment, I want to show you
:13:54. > :13:58.reports by Emma Simpson. She has had a look at robots being used in
:13:59. > :14:08.Amazon's warehouse which will change how people will be working.
:14:09. > :14:12.Health experts have criticised the UK Government's plan to weaken their
:14:13. > :14:20.childhood obesity strategy for England. Several measures which were
:14:21. > :14:23.in the draft report in March were removed today. Sarah Woolston is
:14:24. > :14:28.chair of the Health Select Committee. She is one of those who
:14:29. > :14:34.is disappointed that Sarah Wollaston.
:14:35. > :14:40.I would like us to see putting promotions and marketing back in the
:14:41. > :14:44.strategy. It is great the report highlights the importance of making
:14:45. > :14:49.every contact count, so that those starting to slip into obesity, that
:14:50. > :14:54.everybody gives advice about how they turn that around. All the
:14:55. > :14:58.health messages that parents are receiving will be completely
:14:59. > :15:02.outgunned by the sheer power of advertising and marketing from the
:15:03. > :15:07.junk food industry. That is very disappointing. Not just advertising
:15:08. > :15:13.on TV, it is about advertising when children are online. There are times
:15:14. > :15:20.when they think they are playing a computer game but they are actually
:15:21. > :15:24.having products sold to them. This is Outside Source. Our lead
:15:25. > :15:29.story concerns Syria and images of this injured little boy in Aleppo.
:15:30. > :15:37.It is believed he was her last night in an air strike on a rebel held
:15:38. > :15:44.area of last night -- it is believed he was hurt last night.
:15:45. > :15:50.A suspected car bomb has exploded next to a police station in the east
:15:51. > :15:54.of Turkey. At least three people died, over 100 were injured. This is
:15:55. > :15:59.the second bomb attack in this part of the country in 24-hour 's.
:16:00. > :16:05.China and Myanmar have signed deals to build a strategic bridge near
:16:06. > :16:11.their border. They will build two hospitals as well. Aung San Suu Kyi
:16:12. > :16:16.has been in Beijing. She holds several government posts and was
:16:17. > :16:19.heavily involved in this deal. BBC Burmese and BBC Chinese are covering
:16:20. > :16:24.that story. And a British nurse who was infected
:16:25. > :16:29.with Ebola is Sarah Leone is facing disciplinary action. It is alleged
:16:30. > :16:37.she concealed her temperature during checks on her return to the UK.
:16:38. > :16:46.Many of you will be watching in countries where Uber has shaken up
:16:47. > :16:50.the taxi industry. Uber have confirmed it will start using self
:16:51. > :16:55.driving cars in Pittsburgh within the next two weeks. We can bring in
:16:56. > :17:00.the North American tech correspondent Dave Lee who is live
:17:01. > :17:09.from San Francisco. Good to have you an Outside Source. How will this
:17:10. > :17:12.work? Well, it is a very ambitious plan but quite a straightforward
:17:13. > :17:14.one. Uber will start rolling out these cars in the next two weeks.
:17:15. > :17:20.People will hail them in the same way they hail Uber at the moment.
:17:21. > :17:26.They won't know they will get a self driving car and they will see it has
:17:27. > :17:32.all these gizmos on top to allow it to look around the road. There will
:17:33. > :17:35.be a driver in the car. They will be sat behind the wheel. They will make
:17:36. > :17:40.sure nothing goes wrong and it is not careering off the road or
:17:41. > :17:44.something crazy like that. They will take notes on the performance of the
:17:45. > :17:49.self driving aspect, and if they have to take control, they will do
:17:50. > :17:55.that. It is an ambitious plan and one we did not expect to happen for
:17:56. > :18:00.a few years yet. Does this mean if a company is willing to do it, the
:18:01. > :18:05.regulations are low a company like Uber to operate something like this?
:18:06. > :18:11.The regulations put a big emphasis on that driver, the supervisor,
:18:12. > :18:15.being there. In several years' time there is a hope that these
:18:16. > :18:19.driverless cars will not even have a steering wheel. I was talking to the
:18:20. > :18:23.boss of Ford earlier this week and they say they are aiming to have a
:18:24. > :18:30.completely steering wheel less car on the road by 2021. When it comes
:18:31. > :18:32.to regulation, that is more difficult. In that instance, you
:18:33. > :18:39.cannot just take over if something is going wrong. It is within the
:18:40. > :18:43.regulations but it is halfway to a driverless car. Someone will be sat
:18:44. > :18:48.there able to drive it normally but for the most part they hope the
:18:49. > :18:55.computer will do all the work. One other story I want to ask you about,
:18:56. > :18:58.Twitter say they have suspended an additional 235,000 accounts for
:18:59. > :19:05.violating policies related to the promotion of terrorism. They say
:19:06. > :19:10.this brings our overall number of suspensions to 360,000 since the
:19:11. > :19:15.middle of 2015. There are some big numbers. What are
:19:16. > :19:20.these accounts? Do we know there are real people behind them? It will be
:19:21. > :19:24.a mixture of real people and automated accounts which will be
:19:25. > :19:29.posting propaganda. Twitter has had a difficult year and has been
:19:30. > :19:33.criticised for some of the content on the site. When it comes to the
:19:34. > :19:38.terrorism and related accounts they are getting praise for how they deal
:19:39. > :19:44.with it. Twitter say they will add more tools for users to filter out
:19:45. > :19:49.abusive comments whether they are terrorism related or trolling.
:19:50. > :19:54.Twitter seems to get hold of what it begins problem is and that is an
:19:55. > :20:02.desirable tweets on the platform. Thank you. I saw this story on the
:20:03. > :20:07.BBC News earlier. It is all about how US athletes who are winning
:20:08. > :20:14.medals in Rio may be hit with what is being called a victory tax. Take
:20:15. > :20:20.Simone Biles, for instance. She won four golds and a bronze. She may end
:20:21. > :20:26.up with a bill of 400 and -- 43,000 dollars. The person who wrote this
:20:27. > :20:30.article on the BBC News is Sophie Thomas. She is live from New York.
:20:31. > :20:38.Americans are taxed on global income. Anywhere they are in the
:20:39. > :20:44.world, they pay tax. If Olympians win a medal in Rio they will be
:20:45. > :20:49.taxed on the prize money they win and the medal itself, that is
:20:50. > :20:53.regarded as income. It seems punitive, especially with the medal
:20:54. > :21:04.which they are unlikely to melt down and sell on. It is crazy. The bronze
:21:05. > :21:08.medal is worth barely anything. In terms of any leniency here, I'm
:21:09. > :21:13.saying Simone Biles may get a bill that high but will this definitely
:21:14. > :21:20.affect all athletes? Right, there are some caveats to that. Olympians
:21:21. > :21:23.can take tax deductions on the money they spend to train and their
:21:24. > :21:29.coaches so they can lower their tax bill that way. And Simone Biles has
:21:30. > :21:33.a lot of endorsements, it is the assumption that she will be taxed in
:21:34. > :21:40.the highest income bracket. If she was taxed at that level she would
:21:41. > :21:44.have a very hefty tax bill. Is there any bracket for sports people are
:21:45. > :21:49.rather a treated like any American working abroad? Athletes are treated
:21:50. > :21:57.like anybody else even though they can take exemptions for being self
:21:58. > :21:59.employed. There is no special exemption for American athletes, and
:22:00. > :22:05.that is separate from other countries in the world which have
:22:06. > :22:08.similar global tax systems. The Philippines has a similar system of
:22:09. > :22:13.taxing income worldwide but they have an exemption for Olympic
:22:14. > :22:19.athletes which means they do not have to pay a tax and the US does
:22:20. > :22:25.not have that. Thank you, Zoe Thomas. If you want to read her full
:22:26. > :22:30.article on this tax the US athletes will have to pay, just go to the BBC
:22:31. > :22:34.News at One. You can download it from an App Store on your smartphone
:22:35. > :22:38.right now or the BBC website which the vast majority will already know
:22:39. > :22:43.about. Next, we are going to visit an
:22:44. > :22:47.Amazon warehouse in the UK. New robots are being introduced and they
:22:48. > :22:51.are set to change how hundreds of the country's employees will work.
:22:52. > :23:05.The BBC's Emma Simpson has been to see how.
:23:06. > :23:14.Instead of a human walking miles each day to pick the
:23:15. > :23:17.orders, this robot finds the right shelf and takes it to the pickers.
:23:18. > :23:22.We used to go around, look for it, find the item and then pick it so
:23:23. > :23:30.Then we get to pick more quantities than we usually would do
:23:31. > :23:41.There are hundreds of them in this vast warehouse.
:23:42. > :23:43.The robots use sensors to know where to go
:23:44. > :23:49.For Amazon it is all about being more efficient and keeping up
:23:50. > :23:55.Over the past few years we've launched
:23:56. > :24:03.We do next day deliveries, same day deliveries.
:24:04. > :24:06.For us to be able to keep up with that with the
:24:07. > :24:09.growth of the business then this technology allows us to do that.
:24:10. > :24:14.This task it seems is right for robots,
:24:15. > :24:19.In America some retailers are trialling them
:24:20. > :24:26.No more time-consuming stocktaking for staff.
:24:27. > :24:31.Freeing workers to focus on customers.
:24:32. > :24:35.Technology is driving big changes in this industry.
:24:36. > :24:37.Over 60% of jobs within retail are at risk of automation.
:24:38. > :24:44.That sounds a bit of a worry because there will be fewer jobs
:24:45. > :24:54.Back at Amazon they insist they are not losing jobs.
:24:55. > :25:01.They are creating thousands of new posts.
:25:02. > :25:24.Now an update on the wildfires in California. This is affecting an
:25:25. > :25:30.area north of San Bernardino, which is east of Los Angeles. It is mostly
:25:31. > :25:36.forests in this area, there has been a long drought and this area has
:25:37. > :25:42.been dry. This graphic highlights where the fire is burning. That is
:25:43. > :25:47.about ten to 15 kilometres across. The yellow area is the evacuation
:25:48. > :25:54.zone. You can see this image from Nasa taken from space, these three
:25:55. > :25:57.plumes of smoke here are what is causing the problems. We will keep
:25:58. > :26:02.you up-to-date as that story develops and we will have another
:26:03. > :26:06.half-hour of international news in a minute.