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Hello, I'm Ross Atkins. We will start with one image from Syria

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which has focused the world on the suffering that continues there. This

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video shows a five-year-old boy in Aleppo. It is believed he was

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injured in an air strike last night. The UN says no aid is reaching

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besieged areas of the city. Not one convoy because one thing, fighting.

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Police in Rio say a group of US swimmers made up a story that they

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were robbed to cover up an incident where they broke down a door at a

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petrol station. We will have more on that. An

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incredible day for the Brownlee brothers who took gold and silver in

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the triathlon. Plus, we will talk about Google's plans to use

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driverless cars in the US within the next two weeks -- Buber -- Uber's

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plans to use driverless cars. Such has been the torrent of

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disturbing images from Syria that there is a risk we will become

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desensitised to the horror that they show. Today though one video is

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demanding the world's attention. There is a little boy covered in

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dust and sitting in the back of an ambulance. The boy is not screaming

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or crying. He appears in shock. He is one of a number of children who

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were injured in an air strike on a rebel held part of the city. Aleppo

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is usually important in the battle for the control of Syria. It is the

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biggest city in the north, as you can see. You can see how the city

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is. The purple is areas controlled by the rebels. The green is

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controlled by the government. Today, UN Syria envoy has had this to say.

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In Syria, what we are hearing and seeing is only fighting, offensives,

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counteroffensive is, rockets, barrel bombs, mortars, cannons, napalm,

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chlorine, snipers, air strikes, suicide bombers. Not one single

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convoy in one month has reached any of the humanitarian besieged areas.

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Not one single convoy. He clarified those comments later to say no aid

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had reached besieged areas of Aleppo since the beginning of August.

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Needless to say, that aid is desperately needed. The doctor who

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treated that five-year-old boy, earlier speaking to BBC World

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Service radio described those moments.

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Last night, Omran came to our hospital. He did not cry, because he

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was shocked at what had happened to him. We cleaned his face and suited

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his wounds and treated the wound in his head. He was discharged after

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two hours after we treated him and he is lucky because he had the only

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wound in his head and it was treated. That was part of an

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interview earlier. Earlier, I spoke to Lyse Doucet who made a

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documentary for the BBC called children of Syria.

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It is quite extraordinary. Syrians are saying the world has forgotten

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them and then this image of a little boy who seems to symbolise the

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suffering of children like him who live under the daily bombardment in

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Aleppo. He was pulled from the rubble of his home in the dark at

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night, woken up, and you saw the bewildered look on his face. He was

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pushed in an ambulance and from that moment he sat on his own. It seems

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to symbolise Syria's feeling alone in the world as well.

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The image has gone viral. It is like the image of the little boy who

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washed up on the shore. I was going to ask you when one image has such

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an impact, it can translate into action? The UN diplomat is very

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polished, he is not known for speaking out. You could see from his

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comments he has reached the end of his patients. They in, day out, they

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have been pleading for even a 48-hour truce. Now Russia has

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announced there will be one but it is only a respite. Syria's war is

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not only the most punishing of our time, it is the most entangled. It

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is not as Russia who has two act, there is Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar,

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there are all the warring States and also Islamic State. The biggest

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prize is Aleppo now. Sadly, however shocking these images are, it will

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not stop. While all of us are looking at this particular video,

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all Syrians know, you know, there are children's most days, if not

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every day in Syria, experiencing trauma like that little boy. It is

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one image, it is such an arresting, troubling image. It was just one

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little boy, I'm sure many people looked at that and they will have

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seen boys elsewhere, maybe they have fallen and scraped themselves and a

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bit shocked and dazed. This morning I went through social media and

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there were lots of other pictures of children in Syria, also in Yemen and

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other countries. Children outside Damascus, in distress, suffering,

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crying, none of those are on the world's radar today. It was Omran,

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the five-year-old, who has really touched a chord, but the court will

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resonate sadly for only a short amount of time. In Syria, every step

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matters a lot and this may be a big one.

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Thank you. If you want more background on the conflict you can

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find it on the BBC news at and the BBC News website.

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Let's turn to this very strange story from Rio and the four Olympic

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swimmers and the alleged armed robbery. Police are saying they made

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the whole thing up to cover up an incident at a petrol station. Let's

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take the story from the start. August the night, Ryan Lochte wins

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gold as part of the US men's 400 metre relay team. Then on August 14

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he describes in detail how men pretending to be police officers

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attacked him and three others. These are quotes from Ryan Lochte. He

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said: they pulled out their guns, they told the other swimmers to get

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down on the ground. He took our money, he took my wallet, he left

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myself open, he left by credentials. On Tuesday, Lochte flies home. On

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Wednesday, two of the other swimmers are detained at Rio airport. That

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brings us to today. The Brazilian authorities said the swimmers got

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into an argument at a petrol station. They broke down a toilet

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door. In other words, the police say the swimmers lied about what

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happened. We can bring in the BBC's Chris Mitchell in Rio. It is hard to

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predict where this story will go next.

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It is unbelievable. It is very strange and close to a diplomatic

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incident in a way. The judge handling the incident has the

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passports of the two swimmers and there is no indication when they

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will get those passports back. Ryan Lochte is one of the most successful

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swimmers in the world. In America he is second only to Michael Phelps.

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Here is a man who recently had his own TV show. He is a big

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personality. The chief of police said basically, they got into an

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argument at this petrol station, that Lochte was hot tempered, that

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is the word that he used. No gun was brandished. It was actually the US

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swimmers, the four of them, that could be accused of vandalism,

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perhaps damage to a toilet door, ripping the sign off a wall. It is

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incredible. The other way of looking at it is you had four young men who

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had been competing at the Games. Ryan Lochte got a gold medal. They

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had let their hair down, gone out for a night out, like young men do,

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they had too much to drink and were intoxicated. Lochte I admitted that

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himself, and they got into an argument with people, and they

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covered it up. You might go home to your mum and dad and cover up when

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you got drunk for the first time. I think the United States Olympic

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Committee are very embarrassed about it. Ultimately, if they apologise,

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which undoubtedly they will, they will be left off. A few twists and

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turns to come. I have been trying to concentrate on my work today but it

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was hard not to spend an hour and a half watching the Bradley brothers.

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It is fantastic. 1.5 kilometres in the Atlantic, you and I could not

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manage 100 metres, I am sure! Then you have 40 kilometres on a bike and

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then a 10K run. Alistair was the nominal, no one got close to him

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apart from his brother. The defence of his title, no one has done that

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before. You have to feel for his brother. He often beats him in

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training, Jonathan, but not in contests when it really matters. He

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won with such ease. Another British athlete defending their title here,

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a bit like Laura Trott, defending their title in Rio. But he did come

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in as favourite and with some hot form so he was expected to do well.

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We will have more on the Brownlee Brothers in a minute. And a word on

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a doping story. A weightlifter has tested positive and has been sent

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home so Columbia have picked up their medal. I would much rather be

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telling you about tonight's action. We are outside the Olympic Stadium.

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Bolt is due to run. The women get a chance to get into the relay final.

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Hopefully, we will forget about the doping and until the next episode

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comes along, we will forget about Lochte and his three mates on their

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night out. Thank you. Full coverage of BB

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athletics on the BBC live page. Let's quickly bring up the medal

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table. There have been a couple of golds for Great Britain today. It is

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first and foremost the gold medals which decide the order. Russia have

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more medals overall than Germany but the fact that Germany has one more

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gold means it sits above Russia in the medal table. That will chop and

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change over the next few days. In a moment, I want to show you

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reports by Emma Simpson. She has had a look at robots being used in

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Amazon's warehouse which will change how people will be working.

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Health experts have criticised the UK Government's plan to weaken their

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childhood obesity strategy for England. Several measures which were

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in the draft report in March were removed today. Sarah Woolston is

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chair of the Health Select Committee. She is one of those who

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is disappointed that Sarah Wollaston.

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I would like us to see putting promotions and marketing back in the

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strategy. It is great the report highlights the importance of making

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every contact count, so that those starting to slip into obesity, that

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everybody gives advice about how they turn that around. All the

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health messages that parents are receiving will be completely

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outgunned by the sheer power of advertising and marketing from the

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junk food industry. That is very disappointing. Not just advertising

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on TV, it is about advertising when children are online. There are times

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when they think they are playing a computer game but they are actually

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having products sold to them. This is Outside Source. Our lead

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story concerns Syria and images of this injured little boy in Aleppo.

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It is believed he was her last night in an air strike on a rebel held

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area of last night -- it is believed he was hurt last night.

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A suspected car bomb has exploded next to a police station in the east

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of Turkey. At least three people died, over 100 were injured. This is

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the second bomb attack in this part of the country in 24-hour 's.

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China and Myanmar have signed deals to build a strategic bridge near

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their border. They will build two hospitals as well. Aung San Suu Kyi

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has been in Beijing. She holds several government posts and was

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heavily involved in this deal. BBC Burmese and BBC Chinese are covering

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that story. And a British nurse who was infected

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with Ebola is Sarah Leone is facing disciplinary action. It is alleged

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she concealed her temperature during checks on her return to the UK.

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Many of you will be watching in countries where Uber has shaken up

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the taxi industry. Uber have confirmed it will start using self

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driving cars in Pittsburgh within the next two weeks. We can bring in

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the North American tech correspondent Dave Lee who is live

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from San Francisco. Good to have you an Outside Source. How will this

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work? Well, it is a very ambitious plan but quite a straightforward

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one. Uber will start rolling out these cars in the next two weeks.

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People will hail them in the same way they hail Uber at the moment.

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They won't know they will get a self driving car and they will see it has

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all these gizmos on top to allow it to look around the road. There will

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be a driver in the car. They will be sat behind the wheel. They will make

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sure nothing goes wrong and it is not careering off the road or

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something crazy like that. They will take notes on the performance of the

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self driving aspect, and if they have to take control, they will do

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that. It is an ambitious plan and one we did not expect to happen for

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a few years yet. Does this mean if a company is willing to do it, the

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regulations are low a company like Uber to operate something like this?

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The regulations put a big emphasis on that driver, the supervisor,

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being there. In several years' time there is a hope that these

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driverless cars will not even have a steering wheel. I was talking to the

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boss of Ford earlier this week and they say they are aiming to have a

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completely steering wheel less car on the road by 2021. When it comes

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to regulation, that is more difficult. In that instance, you

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cannot just take over if something is going wrong. It is within the

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regulations but it is halfway to a driverless car. Someone will be sat

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there able to drive it normally but for the most part they hope the

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computer will do all the work. One other story I want to ask you about,

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Twitter say they have suspended an additional 235,000 accounts for

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violating policies related to the promotion of terrorism. They say

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this brings our overall number of suspensions to 360,000 since the

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middle of 2015. There are some big numbers. What are

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these accounts? Do we know there are real people behind them? It will be

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a mixture of real people and automated accounts which will be

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posting propaganda. Twitter has had a difficult year and has been

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criticised for some of the content on the site. When it comes to the

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terrorism and related accounts they are getting praise for how they deal

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with it. Twitter say they will add more tools for users to filter out

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abusive comments whether they are terrorism related or trolling.

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Twitter seems to get hold of what it begins problem is and that is an

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desirable tweets on the platform. Thank you. I saw this story on the

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BBC News earlier. It is all about how US athletes who are winning

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medals in Rio may be hit with what is being called a victory tax. Take

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Simone Biles, for instance. She won four golds and a bronze. She may end

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up with a bill of 400 and -- 43,000 dollars. The person who wrote this

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article on the BBC News is Sophie Thomas. She is live from New York.

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Americans are taxed on global income. Anywhere they are in the

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world, they pay tax. If Olympians win a medal in Rio they will be

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taxed on the prize money they win and the medal itself, that is

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regarded as income. It seems punitive, especially with the medal

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which they are unlikely to melt down and sell on. It is crazy. The bronze

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medal is worth barely anything. In terms of any leniency here, I'm

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saying Simone Biles may get a bill that high but will this definitely

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affect all athletes? Right, there are some caveats to that. Olympians

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can take tax deductions on the money they spend to train and their

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coaches so they can lower their tax bill that way. And Simone Biles has

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a lot of endorsements, it is the assumption that she will be taxed in

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the highest income bracket. If she was taxed at that level she would

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have a very hefty tax bill. Is there any bracket for sports people are

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rather a treated like any American working abroad? Athletes are treated

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like anybody else even though they can take exemptions for being self

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employed. There is no special exemption for American athletes, and

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that is separate from other countries in the world which have

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similar global tax systems. The Philippines has a similar system of

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taxing income worldwide but they have an exemption for Olympic

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athletes which means they do not have to pay a tax and the US does

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not have that. Thank you, Zoe Thomas. If you want to read her full

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article on this tax the US athletes will have to pay, just go to the BBC

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News at One. You can download it from an App Store on your smartphone

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right now or the BBC website which the vast majority will already know

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about. Next, we are going to visit an

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Amazon warehouse in the UK. New robots are being introduced and they

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are set to change how hundreds of the country's employees will work.

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The BBC's Emma Simpson has been to see how.

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Instead of a human walking miles each day to pick the

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orders, this robot finds the right shelf and takes it to the pickers.

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We used to go around, look for it, find the item and then pick it so

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Then we get to pick more quantities than we usually would do

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There are hundreds of them in this vast warehouse.

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The robots use sensors to know where to go

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For Amazon it is all about being more efficient and keeping up

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Over the past few years we've launched

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We do next day deliveries, same day deliveries.

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For us to be able to keep up with that with the

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growth of the business then this technology allows us to do that.

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This task it seems is right for robots,

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In America some retailers are trialling them

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No more time-consuming stocktaking for staff.

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Freeing workers to focus on customers.

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Technology is driving big changes in this industry.

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Over 60% of jobs within retail are at risk of automation.

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That sounds a bit of a worry because there will be fewer jobs

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Back at Amazon they insist they are not losing jobs.

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They are creating thousands of new posts.

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Now an update on the wildfires in California. This is affecting an

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area north of San Bernardino, which is east of Los Angeles. It is mostly

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forests in this area, there has been a long drought and this area has

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been dry. This graphic highlights where the fire is burning. That is

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about ten to 15 kilometres across. The yellow area is the evacuation

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zone. You can see this image from Nasa taken from space, these three

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plumes of smoke here are what is causing the problems. We will keep

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you up-to-date as that story develops and we will have another

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half-hour of international news in a minute.

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