:00:12. > :00:18.Let's look through some of the main stories here in the BBC Newsroom.
:00:19. > :00:20.Syria's President Assad gives a rare interview.
:00:21. > :00:23.He says he's not laying siege to Aleppo, not
:00:24. > :00:24.using barrel bombs - and not responsible
:00:25. > :00:40.And I believe that the United States is not genuinely regarding having
:00:41. > :00:44.And we have the latest in series looking at issues
:00:45. > :00:49.Tonight's stop in Montana looks at issues of race
:00:50. > :01:05.And in sport, we will be talking about rugby in the Pacific Islands.
:01:06. > :01:06.The fact that the big rugby clubs around the world are recruiting some
:01:07. > :01:23.of their best players. If you have been watching through
:01:24. > :01:29.the week, you will know this. All this week, we've been
:01:30. > :01:31.following Aleem Maqbool's journey He's covering the election -
:01:32. > :01:35.and has already been through Minnesota and North Dakota,
:01:36. > :01:56.then onto East Glacier, It is a pretty tourist town bind the
:01:57. > :02:01.mountains in Montana where Whitefish is home to this prominent white
:02:02. > :02:06.supremacist. We want to expand white privilege and to deepen it. I do
:02:07. > :02:11.care about my people more than I care about other people just like
:02:12. > :02:14.you care about your family more than you care about other children. Why
:02:15. > :02:18.is an African-American not your family? An African-American could
:02:19. > :02:23.never be part of my family because it is a race. They are all part of
:02:24. > :02:27.the American family? They are living in this country in a way. In terms
:02:28. > :02:34.of who defined the United States, it was never defined by Africans. It
:02:35. > :02:39.was defined by Anglo-Saxons and white Europeans. Just as you are no
:02:40. > :02:43.longer European, they are no longer African, you are American. Who I am
:02:44. > :02:49.ultimately does derive from Europe. A tremendous amount of white people
:02:50. > :02:54.want race and identity to just go away but it won't go away. Before
:02:55. > :02:57.the selection, he and other white supremacists and separatists felt on
:02:58. > :03:03.the margins of society but one man has changed that. Donald Trump came
:03:04. > :03:07.along and I feel like my movement and ideology, we can be a kind of
:03:08. > :03:12.vanguard for a presidential candidate. His arrow is pointing in
:03:13. > :03:16.our direction. That is what is worrying many Americans that somehow
:03:17. > :03:26.unpalatable racist views have been in a sense legitimised by the rise
:03:27. > :03:28.of Donald Trump. The idea of Trump stepping up the leadership in our
:03:29. > :03:35.country is absolutely terrifying. What is terrifying about that? I
:03:36. > :03:41.believe that he could just tear us apart. He is playing on people's
:03:42. > :03:47.fears and he really wants to pretend he is not racist but he totally is.
:03:48. > :03:50.I don't really think he realises what he is really saying. But kind
:03:51. > :03:56.of inflammatory messages he is sending. Others think Donald Trump
:03:57. > :04:02.is more calculating and playing on the same fears white supremacists
:04:03. > :04:07.talk. He has brought national cement the campaign, it is about survival.
:04:08. > :04:10.In America, is it really white people here struggling to survive?
:04:11. > :04:17.Obviously, white people are better off but there is a sense of our
:04:18. > :04:20.power is going to be diminished. We will be entering a new world where
:04:21. > :04:25.we will increasingly be a minority. I think in terms of average people,
:04:26. > :04:29.they see Donald Trump is going to take care of them. Richard Spencer
:04:30. > :04:35.may be excited by Donald Trump but whether he wins or loses, many
:04:36. > :04:36.others here said they felt Trump was already helping cause deep divisions
:04:37. > :04:50.in American society. Different developments all the time
:04:51. > :04:55.on these election campaigns. The Washington Post reporting 75 retired
:04:56. > :05:00.diplomats have signed a letter opposing Donald Trump for President,
:05:01. > :05:06.and more recent polls saying... But look at the New York Times poll of
:05:07. > :05:11.polls and Hillary Clinton remains but not the distance she would feel
:05:12. > :05:17.comfortable about. This building up to...
:05:18. > :05:21.the first Presidential debate between Hillary Clinton
:05:22. > :05:22.You'll see it here on the BBC, whether you're in
:05:23. > :05:25.Katty Kay's been looking into what works and what
:05:26. > :05:27.doesn't in these things, from people who've
:05:28. > :05:38.The presidential debates give American voters the only chance they
:05:39. > :05:45.have to compare the candidates side-by-side. The stakes are
:05:46. > :05:48.enormous. And in this election, the biggest challenge for Hillary
:05:49. > :05:52.Clinton is how do you debate somebody like Donald Trump? There
:05:53. > :06:00.has never been a candidate or a debater quite like him. A lot of
:06:01. > :06:05.times, let me talk, quiet! Trump doesn't do traditional debate with
:06:06. > :06:07.this policy briefings and in-depth analysis, he prefers off-the-cuff
:06:08. > :06:14.remarks and almost childlike insults. He holds the Bible high and
:06:15. > :06:20.he puts the Bible down and then he lies! Lying Ted! During the
:06:21. > :06:25.Republican primaries, Todd Harris was senior advisor for Senator Marco
:06:26. > :06:30.Rubio, the man Trump with a wrinkly dismissed as little more code. Our
:06:31. > :06:35.strategy for most of the campaign was to ignore all of the insults of
:06:36. > :06:40.Trump but the challenge with that was that the media was not ignoring
:06:41. > :06:45.any of them. The best thing for Hillary Clinton in terms of debating
:06:46. > :06:51.Trump would be to just not show up at all! The best way to engage with
:06:52. > :06:52.Trump is to let UMPIRE: Let, first serve.
:06:53. > :06:58.To hang himself with his own words and with all of his insistence ease.
:06:59. > :07:05.-- to let him hang himself with his first. Under attack, Marco Rubio
:07:06. > :07:09.repeated himself four times. Let's spell out the Sphinx in that Barack
:07:10. > :07:15.Obama does not know what he's doing, he knows exactly what he's doing. He
:07:16. > :07:20.knows exactly what he is doing. That is the memorised the 25 seconds
:07:21. > :07:25.speech! Within hours, the internet was buzzing with jokes. His campaign
:07:26. > :07:29.argued deeply ended that night which is why preparation is taken so
:07:30. > :07:35.seriously by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. She has briefing
:07:36. > :07:40.the box and she talks about the debate strategy with campaign
:07:41. > :07:44.veterans and she will do mock debates with somebody standing in
:07:45. > :07:48.for Trump. I do not believe we have been told he will stand in for
:07:49. > :07:53.Trump, that is interesting for somebody to play! He got the first
:07:54. > :07:59.word tonight and the last word. Donald Trump does not debate the way
:08:00. > :08:05.anybody debates, he does his Trump thing. He projects strength and he
:08:06. > :08:09.uses some of the moves he learned as a reality television star. In a way
:08:10. > :08:14.that is completely different from anyone I have ever seen on a debates
:08:15. > :08:20.stage. President Obama has also learned election debates can hurt a
:08:21. > :08:24.candidate as much as they can help. On October three, 2012, he met Mitt
:08:25. > :08:29.Romney in damper for the first debate, it was a disaster. Shall we
:08:30. > :08:35.double down on the top-down economic policies that helps to get us into
:08:36. > :08:37.this mess or do we embrace a new economic patriotism? He was tetchy
:08:38. > :08:42.and distracted and gave the impression he did not want to be
:08:43. > :08:46.there. Stephanie was the Deputy campaign manager. It was pretty
:08:47. > :08:50.clear we were losing not just by what we were watching on TV but the
:08:51. > :08:56.commentary we were seeing developed. For the first time, Twitter was a
:08:57. > :09:00.decisive factor for how that debate was covered so we knew what we were
:09:01. > :09:05.dealing with and we started churning out changes before that debate
:09:06. > :09:10.ended. President Obama recovered in later debates, but those around him
:09:11. > :09:16.suggested one big problem in damper was he underestimated his opponent.
:09:17. > :09:20.Political scientists do not agree how much a debate helps you to win
:09:21. > :09:25.the White house and the polls, they are inconclusive. They do know this
:09:26. > :09:30.will be box office, mossy television and don't expect the candidates to
:09:31. > :09:33.play it safe wooing the voters in the middle -- must see television.
:09:34. > :09:37.They will be trying to scare the living daylights out of their
:09:38. > :09:42.supporters at the prospect of the other person on stage occupying the
:09:43. > :09:44.Oval Office. That will mean a lot of sharp attacks, not necessarily
:09:45. > :09:58.edifying but certainly entertaining. You can stream it in the UK through
:09:59. > :10:00.the BBC News application. You will be able to watch the debate. Time
:10:01. > :10:04.for the sport now. Fiji's Men's Rugby 7s team took gold
:10:05. > :10:11.- Fiji's first ever gold medal. Well this gold told us
:10:12. > :10:15.what we already know - that Fijians - and in fact more
:10:16. > :10:17.generally Pacific Islanders, That makes them very attractive
:10:18. > :10:27.to rugby clubs in richer nations. And Fiji's former 7s coach
:10:28. > :10:32.is worried about this. Ben Ryan says, "They end up trying
:10:33. > :10:35.to get islanders across, Where there is un-regulation,
:10:36. > :10:45.you're going to get cowboys out there that don't care and are just
:10:46. > :10:53.looking to make a quick buck." Let's try and understand what he is
:10:54. > :10:59.getting at, Arlene Foster, what is the central portion of the
:11:00. > :11:03.allegation -- Ollie Foster? Ben Ryan had three years with Fiji and he
:11:04. > :11:09.came to care deeply not just about Fiji but the Pacific island rugby.
:11:10. > :11:14.They have always had to go abroad is to play at a higher level because it
:11:15. > :11:19.is a semiprofessional league. What he is deeply concerned about and
:11:20. > :11:21.they are not just allegations, that scouts from the top Southern
:11:22. > :11:27.hemisphere leagues and Northern Hemisphere go around the Pacific
:11:28. > :11:31.Islands harvesting these incredible specimens, these athletes. We saw
:11:32. > :11:34.what they did to Great Britain in the final in Rio de Janeiro at the
:11:35. > :11:39.Olympics, they tore them apart with some of the most scintillating
:11:40. > :11:43.rugby. They have long been at the forefront of rugby sevens but he is
:11:44. > :11:47.worried about players being harvested and he says it has become
:11:48. > :11:54.like the wild West, with backhanders and corruption tempting these
:11:55. > :11:59.players into the rich Northern hemisphere, Australian leagues, New
:12:00. > :12:03.Zealand. But he is claiming, and these are just allegations from Ben
:12:04. > :12:08.Ryan, he says you come over and play for a lot of money and then you must
:12:09. > :12:13.make yourself eligible after those residency laws, living for three
:12:14. > :12:17.years in New Zealand, Australia, and you have to play for those national
:12:18. > :12:25.nations and adopt the French for example. As many players have with
:12:26. > :12:30.the all Blacks and others. And he says that is damaging the structure
:12:31. > :12:37.within Fiji. BG still have a lot to do to make it more viable for
:12:38. > :12:41.players to stay within those specific islands -- one. But this
:12:42. > :12:46.has been going on for a number of years and Ben Ryan, one of his
:12:47. > :12:50.parting shots, he loves and cares for Fiji and they love him back but
:12:51. > :12:55.he says something is very wrong here and something has to be done to
:12:56. > :13:05.clamp down, or they just will not be the teenagers who make rugby in Fiji
:13:06. > :13:09.so good. He says there will be an explosion of Fiji players coming
:13:10. > :13:13.through the ranks, and he says that are a dozen in the Australian team
:13:14. > :13:18.and many more in France in the top 14. Allegations from Ben Ryan but he
:13:19. > :13:25.says he has major concerns and he does know what he's talking about
:13:26. > :13:27.when it comes to rugby in Fiji. There is a story about that as well
:13:28. > :13:43.on the BBC sport application. This is the Liberty Stadium, some of
:13:44. > :13:49.you always say is the screen real? That is prove it is. That is the
:13:50. > :13:55.Liberty Stadium West Swansea City play. More people than you think
:13:56. > :14:02.follow the Games from Gambia. That is where Modou Barrow is from. Let's
:14:03. > :14:15.learn more about him. And his country, with the help of this video
:14:16. > :14:22.he has made. As you can see, I have a smile on my face so I am really
:14:23. > :14:28.happy to make it to the plane. It is not an easy level to come to but as
:14:29. > :14:33.a Gambian football player growing up in Sweden, I am really pleased, I am
:14:34. > :14:37.happy to come here in Wales and joined the football and join the
:14:38. > :14:41.city. You can see the water, everything is nice. This is really
:14:42. > :14:45.amazing living here because sometimes you can just take a walk
:14:46. > :14:56.and free your mind and you can go jogging outside and exercise a bit.
:14:57. > :15:03.It is an important part. The people in Gambia, they watch the Premier
:15:04. > :15:08.league for many years. But they haven't seen any Gambian player to
:15:09. > :15:12.support but now the whole nation never misses the Premier League when
:15:13. > :15:16.Swansea play. So that is a proud thing for me to do that for my
:15:17. > :15:23.country. Now they have something to believe in like, maybe we can try as
:15:24. > :15:29.well to get there. Because now they believe that they can work hard and
:15:30. > :15:33.focus to get where they want to be. That is my mentality right now, to
:15:34. > :15:37.focus on the Games at the weekend thinking we need to get something
:15:38. > :15:42.out of that game. Playing with Swansea at the weekend.
:15:43. > :15:45.And we'll have more later on why these Iranian women are defying
:15:46. > :15:49.a ban on cycling in public and getting on their bikes.
:15:50. > :15:57.It is corrupting, apparently, we will get more on that story.
:15:58. > :16:00.Farewell to soggy bottoms - the parting words of Mary Berry
:16:01. > :16:04.as she announced she won't go with the Great British Bake Off when
:16:05. > :16:12.She says her decision is "out of loyalty to the BBC".
:16:13. > :16:15.Her fellow judge Paul Hollywood has announced he is going to stay
:16:16. > :16:19.It means Bake Off will lose three of its four current hosts
:16:20. > :16:23.I could take more orange than that...
:16:24. > :16:28.VOICEOVER: Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry, judges on Britain's
:16:29. > :16:45.Their expert eye and devilish challenges have been the key part
:16:46. > :16:49.Now that it is off to Channel 4, the partnership is over.
:16:50. > :16:52.Mary Berry says, my decision to stay with the BBC is out of loyalty
:16:53. > :16:55.to them, as they have nurtured me and the show.
:16:56. > :16:58.I'm sad for the audience who may not be ready for change and hope
:16:59. > :17:08.I am so very sad not to be part of it, farewell to soggy bottoms.
:17:09. > :17:09.Paul Hollywood, seen yesterday walking into Channel 4,
:17:10. > :17:29.For many, the new Great British Bake Off will be a different recipe.
:17:30. > :17:35.It will be hard to pull it off with different presenters on a different
:17:36. > :17:38.channel and that will be the test for Channel 4 whether they will try
:17:39. > :17:44.to make this a success or whether it will be flat as a pancake. So the
:17:45. > :17:49.BBC loses the Bake Off but fights to hang onto the presenters. Channel 4
:17:50. > :17:53.says it wants as little change is possible but there is only one
:17:54. > :17:57.familiar face left. A lot of loyal fans are disappointed, this battle
:17:58. > :18:03.over baking has because -- has become a bit of an Eton mess. These
:18:04. > :18:07.are two public service broadcasters. It is up to the production company
:18:08. > :18:10.if they sell it to another broadcaster but I am slightly
:18:11. > :18:15.surprised that Channel 4, and other publicly owned broadcaster, should
:18:16. > :18:21.poach a successful show from the BBC by paying them more money. Channel 4
:18:22. > :18:24.says it would not have the show at the relationship with the BBC had
:18:25. > :18:29.not broken down. There may be a line-up change but they think they
:18:30. > :18:33.have saved the Bake Off for free to air television.
:18:34. > :18:35.This is Outside Source live from the BBC newsroom.
:18:36. > :18:47.A humanitarian convoy has reached a rebel held suburb of Damascus, this
:18:48. > :18:50.is the first aid delivery in Syria since missions were suspended and
:18:51. > :18:59.that followed Monday's attack on a UN convoy near Aleppo.
:19:00. > :19:01.Yesterday, we were talking about how the Iraqi government is saying it's
:19:02. > :19:05.ready to take back Mosul from the Islamic State group.
:19:06. > :19:08.It was back in June 2014 that IS took the city -
:19:09. > :19:11.really, it was the moment the world woke up to the scale
:19:12. > :19:20.One young engineering student in the city has shared his
:19:21. > :19:52.Today is Monday. I met with this man and he Tommy... Today is this
:19:53. > :20:00.morning, my friend went shopping, he told me that IS executed three B --
:20:01. > :20:05.three people because he was talking about IS. Today, my mother made
:20:06. > :20:11.cookies for us, it is delicious and famous in Iraq. We buy the
:20:12. > :20:19.ingredients from markets, which are somewhat expensive. My dream, like
:20:20. > :20:24.any other young man in the world, only want to live a normal life like
:20:25. > :20:30.complete my studies and look for a job and secure my future. Today is
:20:31. > :21:05.Wednesday. been posting photos
:21:06. > :22:59.of themselves riding bicycles. They're doing so to defy
:23:00. > :23:01.a fatwa forbidding them I'm not sure how you
:23:02. > :23:04.can cycle privately, A fatwa is a ruling
:23:05. > :23:09.on a point of Islamic law. And this one was announced
:23:10. > :23:10.by Iran's supreme leader, He says: women cycling
:23:11. > :23:19.in public "exposes Feranak Amidi from BBC
:23:20. > :23:23.Persian joined me earlier. I asked if there had been any
:23:24. > :23:34.ramifications for these women. Nothing has happened, they haven't
:23:35. > :23:39.stopped -- they have been stopped by police on some occasions. There is
:23:40. > :23:45.no real law and legislation against women cycling. This is a recent
:23:46. > :23:50.fatwa. The debate about women cycling in public has been going on
:23:51. > :23:57.for more than 20 years. Because it started around 20 years ago when the
:23:58. > :24:05.Mayor of Iran wanted to encourage women to cycle and families to cycle
:24:06. > :24:10.inside Tehran and then the debate happened and the Conservatives were
:24:11. > :24:13.against it but there is no legislation in the constitution
:24:14. > :24:20.banning women from cycling. Why do we have this fatwa now if the issue
:24:21. > :24:25.has been around 20 years? The President Deputy, of President
:24:26. > :24:32.Hassan Rouhani, she had a message on Twitter saying the Supreme Leader is
:24:33. > :24:38.OK with the fact that women cycle in public places as long as they look
:24:39. > :24:45.modest enough or Islamic enough. This is part of a bigger project
:24:46. > :24:50.called clean Tuesdays, the government wants to encourage people
:24:51. > :24:57.to use cycling instead of using public transport or their personal
:24:58. > :25:04.cars to go to work. To fight pollution inside Iran. So after
:25:05. > :25:09.that, the website of Hassan Rouhani, the leader of -- Ayatollah Khamenei,
:25:10. > :25:16.announced this. That is all, thank you for watching.
:25:17. > :25:22.The jet stream will play more of an important role over the next week in
:25:23. > :25:24.our weather and it will become more changeable, wet spells