:00:10. > :00:21.Raise Welcome back. These are the main stories: Iraqi security forces
:00:22. > :00:26.are launching an attack to free Mosul from the Islamic State group.
:00:27. > :00:34.Reaching the city may take several weeks and cost many lives. Today,
:00:35. > :00:40.they liberated 10 villages. They will need to liberate another 70.
:00:41. > :00:46.And the UK politician who ended up in hospital after a row with a
:00:47. > :00:51.colleague. Steven Woolfe said Ukip is in a death spiral and he is
:00:52. > :00:56.quitting. The BBC has been given special access to the launch of a
:00:57. > :01:02.Chinese space mission and in sport we will bring you the latest on
:01:03. > :01:18.Liverpool against Manchester United and more trouble for Nick Kyrgios.
:01:19. > :01:24.Let's talk about what is happening in the area of Iraq around Mosul.
:01:25. > :01:30.This is a city that matters for a number of reasons. First it is where
:01:31. > :01:35.Islamic State really made us all aware of its power when it was
:01:36. > :01:40.seized in 2014. Second it matters, because it is one of Iraq's biggest
:01:41. > :01:44.cities. It matters because this is where the Islamic State chose to
:01:45. > :01:52.proclaim a caliphate. So symbolically it is significant. The
:01:53. > :01:56.consequences of what happens in Mosul if they can seize the city
:01:57. > :01:59.will be profound not just for the strength of Islamic State, but for
:02:00. > :02:04.the thousands who call the city home. It is feared that tens if not
:02:05. > :02:12.hundreds of thousands of people will have to flee Mosul, perhaps into
:02:13. > :02:24.Turkey or into Syria. The BBC's world affairs editor has been
:02:25. > :02:31.looking at the issues. In 2014 they seemed unstoppable. Their leader
:02:32. > :02:36.announced he was setting up a Muslim caliphate, covering large parts of
:02:37. > :02:42.Iraq and Syria. But their extremism alienated people. Especially given
:02:43. > :02:46.the public brutality of the constant executions they carried out, often
:02:47. > :02:54.for trivial offences. These men were shot at the weekend. How serious is
:02:55. > :03:01.this for Islamic State? Well this was the area IS controlled at the
:03:02. > :03:08.start of last year. Now, 21 month later, it is in retreat. But because
:03:09. > :03:14.Mosul is Sunni dominated, the operation will be extremely
:03:15. > :03:22.sensitive. Kurdish troops make up part of the attacking force. The
:03:23. > :03:30.Iraqi army has Shia majority and there has been hostility between
:03:31. > :03:36.them and Sunnis in the region. The force is backed by western air
:03:37. > :03:51.strikes. There are around 30,000 troops against 3,500 Islamic State
:03:52. > :03:55.troops the. But they have dug tunnels and planted booby trap bombs
:03:56. > :04:04.and may have chemical weapons. Britain is involved in the Mosul
:04:05. > :04:10.campaign. Yesterday our aircraft were striking terrorist position and
:04:11. > :04:14.our army has been helping to train the troops. We are not putting
:04:15. > :04:19.combat troops on to the ground into this operation. The real danger is
:04:20. > :04:24.the attack on Mosul could result in a humanitarian disaster. A million
:04:25. > :04:28.inhabitants may need food and shelter and be used as human
:04:29. > :04:38.shields. If things go wrong, Mosul could turn into an Iraqi version of
:04:39. > :04:43.Aleppo and Russia could claim its ferocious tactics there are
:04:44. > :04:48.justified. A member of the European Parliament who spent three nights in
:04:49. > :04:54.hospital after a row with a party colleague is quitting the party,
:04:55. > :04:58.saying Ukip is in a death spiral. Steven Woolfe has been running to be
:04:59. > :05:11.the next leader of Ukip. But he is not any more. Here he
:05:12. > :05:19.is explaining what happened. : He rushed at me and there was a blow
:05:20. > :05:24.that impacted me in the face. I was pushed back into the room and hit my
:05:25. > :05:27.back head against the back of one of the walls that was there. Prior to
:05:28. > :05:33.this you were the first person to say you wanted to be Ukip's next
:05:34. > :05:39.lead. What now for those hopes? Well there are no hopes as far as I'm
:05:40. > :05:48.concerned. I will be withdrawing my application to be become lead and
:05:49. > :05:52.I'm withdrawing from Ukip. I'm resigning with immediate effect. If
:05:53. > :06:01.you want to watch that again it is available on the BBC web-site. Now
:06:02. > :06:07.sport and in particular some more bad News for Nick Kyrgios has been
:06:08. > :06:13.suspended for eight weeks and fined after his behaviour in Shanghai. He
:06:14. > :06:18.didn't try on certain points. He was sharp with a fan who took issue with
:06:19. > :06:25.that. He has posted a statement on his web-site that you can read in
:06:26. > :06:30.full. Some of the key quotes, my body finally gave out mentally and
:06:31. > :06:35.physically. This is no excuse and I know I need to apologise to the fans
:06:36. > :06:39.and the organisers in Shanghai. He also thanked Andy Murray, who had
:06:40. > :06:44.this to say on the whole matter, sometimes the mental health of
:06:45. > :06:50.players is not discussed, because we are supposed to be strong. Kyrgios
:06:51. > :06:55.has agreed to seek professional help. That will see his ban reduced
:06:56. > :06:58.and he will be back playing in November. Now football and Liverpool
:06:59. > :07:03.are playing Manchester United. Jurgen Klopp against Jose Mourinho
:07:04. > :07:13.at Anfield. The kind of mouth watering match that makes the
:07:14. > :07:18.Premier League such a big hit. Olly foster has been watching. You
:07:19. > :07:23.haven't missed. Really? You would think this is one of the fixtures -
:07:24. > :07:27.Manchester United at Anfield, under the flood lights, it is one that the
:07:28. > :07:33.Premier League sells itself on. You would not wish to find a worse first
:07:34. > :07:39.half of football. An absolute stinker. Hard lay chance for --
:07:40. > :07:43.hardly a chance for either side. Wayne Rooney dropped by Manchester
:07:44. > :07:47.United for the fourth game in a row and remember he was dropped by
:07:48. > :07:52.England as well. He has just come off the bench. But very, too early
:07:53. > :07:59.to say whether he can change the match. It has opened up more in the
:08:00. > :08:07.second half. Zlatan Ibrahimovic had a header. Coutinho has had a chance
:08:08. > :08:13.and Can. But it is not a very good match at all. Jose Mourinho has set
:08:14. > :08:17.up his side very defensively and he has been very animated on the
:08:18. > :08:20.touchline. He will be happy going to Anfield and getting a point.
:08:21. > :08:24.Liverpool, if they had got a big win, they could have gone top of the
:08:25. > :08:29.table. A win for United would jump them up a couple of places. But this
:08:30. > :08:32.is not one that you will want to remember in a hurry. Kevin
:08:33. > :08:36.Pietersen, we are trying to work out if anybody's excited about this,
:08:37. > :08:41.Kevin Pietersen, the cricket Irish Republic said the engines on
:08:42. > :08:48.footballers these days, feels like I'm watching my son play Fifa 17.
:08:49. > :08:54.Incredible athleticism, speed and endurance. But this match isn't very
:08:55. > :09:00.good. Thank you. If after you have heard that you are still minded to
:09:01. > :09:05.find out how the game is going, go to the BBC sport app and it says,
:09:06. > :09:11.lives, if you hit that you will get the live page updating with comments
:09:12. > :09:16.and tweets and so on. Now comments that the chairman of the English FA
:09:17. > :09:25.has made he said he thinks Premier League play ers who come out as gay
:09:26. > :09:36.would still suffer abuse. Here is the chairman talking to MPs earlier.
:09:37. > :09:41.I would be amazed if we haven't got gay players and I'm ashamed they
:09:42. > :09:47.don't feel safe to come out. There is a very small minority of people
:09:48. > :09:51.who hurl vile abuse at people who they perceive are different. Our job
:09:52. > :09:55.is to stamp down hard on that behaviour. I can't give you enough
:09:56. > :10:00.of a commitment about how much I loathe that sort of behaviour. And
:10:01. > :10:06.the good news is we are not in denial. We may not have figured out
:10:07. > :10:14.how to crack it, but there a is deep loathing of that in football. This
:10:15. > :10:20.weekend there were reports of homophobic chanting at a match and
:10:21. > :10:25.there are currently no openly gay male professional players in
:10:26. > :10:31.England. Now later we are going to get a report about making a new UK
:10:32. > :10:38.polar research ship. This is the ship which after a public vote was
:10:39. > :10:48.almost called Boaty McBoat face. That didn't happen, but we will tell
:10:49. > :10:53.you what happened. Great pictures of people lining the streets of
:10:54. > :11:00.Manchester to celebrate Britain's Olympic and Paralympic teams. After
:11:01. > :11:05.a summer spent in the Rio sunshine, it seemed Manchester had initially
:11:06. > :11:09.got the weather memo. Self--ys were the order of day with Britain's
:11:10. > :11:19.stars. Before the parade a chance to renext. I recognise my achievements.
:11:20. > :11:23.I am loving every minute, it is a hard four years and it is nice to
:11:24. > :11:28.think it was all for that moment. But this is Britain and the weather
:11:29. > :11:32.was bound to play its part, with the crowds in places not as big as
:11:33. > :11:38.hoped. But those who made the effort had a simple message for the
:11:39. > :11:44.athletes. It's been so hard to find your way and not see people that are
:11:45. > :11:50.so excited, wearing all the flags, it is a brilliant atmosphere.
:11:51. > :11:58.Amazing and it got me out of school! Supporters had done their maths. 147
:11:59. > :12:08.of the medals came home from the Paralympic team and Team GB smashed
:12:09. > :12:13.Olympic records. For some, it was their first experience of a parade.
:12:14. > :12:19.For others, their last. Jessica Ennis-Hill retired last week after
:12:20. > :12:24.winning silver. She said Rio was the perfect end. In my heart, I knew
:12:25. > :12:28.this was the right decision. But it is still very difficult to make it
:12:29. > :12:31.public and say it. You know the messages and the support I have had
:12:32. > :12:36.over the years it has been incredible. So I can't thank you all
:12:37. > :12:46.enough. It has been very special. For some, those experiences are just
:12:47. > :12:49.beginning. Ellie Symonds inspired GB's youngest medallist to get into
:12:50. > :12:55.the team. Friends maybe, but rivals too. She beat me in some of the
:12:56. > :13:00.races, so not happy about that. Hopefully that will change in Tokyo.
:13:01. > :13:06.But no, I support my team mates all the way, the whole of Paralympics
:13:07. > :13:17.and Olympics GB. We are a great team and we are proud to be British.
:13:18. > :13:21.Innit seems -- Britain it seems is equally proud.
:13:22. > :13:31.Welcome back. Our lead story that is Iraqi Government forces and their
:13:32. > :13:36.allies have started an offensive to recapture Mosul from the Islamic
:13:37. > :13:42.State group. 30,000 troops are thoughts to be involved. Coming up,
:13:43. > :13:47.if you're out side the UK it is world news America and claims from
:13:48. > :13:52.Donald Trump that the election is rigged at many polling places. Here
:13:53. > :13:59.in the UK it is the News at 10 with an interview with the new chair of
:14:00. > :14:00.the child sex abuse inquiry. Alexis Jay is the fourth chair of the
:14:01. > :14:05.inquiry. The TV network RT says
:14:06. > :14:07.all its bank accounts It's a Russian state-run broadcaster
:14:08. > :14:11.that is available internationally. It's posted the letter the Nat West
:14:12. > :14:35.bank sent to its London "We have recently
:14:36. > :14:41.undertaken a review of your banking arrangements with us and reached
:14:42. > :14:44.the conclusion that we will no In the past, RT has been sanctioned
:14:45. > :15:02.by the UK's broadcasting regulator We have had an update from Royal
:15:03. > :15:10.Bank of Scotland, which owns NatWest.
:15:11. > :15:19.In the past RT has been sanctioned by the broadcasting regulator for
:15:20. > :15:25.biased reporting, but there is nothing to suggest that is connected
:15:26. > :15:29.to this ruling on its bank accounts. Now one RT presenter based in Moscow
:15:30. > :15:36.explained the service she says RT provides in the UK. We have been
:15:37. > :15:41.under some pressure in the UK. We don't think that it is because of
:15:42. > :15:47.the lack of impartiality, in fact we don't think that any broadcaster
:15:48. > :15:52.present in the UK is impartial for that matter. But we do believe that
:15:53. > :15:56.we are bringing valuable alternative position to the British audience and
:15:57. > :16:02.we hope to continue doing so. Specially given that the BBC has
:16:03. > :16:07.very sprawling operation in Moscow and are hiring a lot of people to
:16:08. > :16:12.bring... You know Russian language news to the Russian audience and
:16:13. > :16:16.hiring producers and reporters, this what is we have been doing in the
:16:17. > :16:24.UK. And we hope that we will continue to be doing that. And if
:16:25. > :16:28.you want your news in Russian, do go to the BBC Russia web-site.
:16:29. > :16:30.China has launched two men into space.
:16:31. > :16:32.They'll carry out research in the Tiengong 2 space lab
:16:33. > :16:35.and they'll complete the longest stay in space by Chinese astronauts.
:16:36. > :16:41.And there's no question that China is committing to space.
:16:42. > :16:46.There are 181 Chinese satellites and 11 astronauts
:16:47. > :16:56.It has 20 space missions slated this this year.
:16:57. > :16:58.Today's launch happened in the Gobi desert in North-western China.
:16:59. > :17:10.Stephen McDonell was there - this is what he saw.
:17:11. > :17:13.Seeing this Chinese rocket take-off was every bit as powerful as you
:17:14. > :17:31.This country has great ambitions, when it comes to the stars.
:17:32. > :17:33.And there is a feeling nothing can stop
:17:34. > :17:42.It is not something a journalist is normally allowed to
:17:43. > :17:52.Our journey here began 28 hours earlier,
:17:53. > :17:57.driving through the night, deeper into the Gobi Desert.
:17:58. > :17:59.Visiting a Chinese space launch, meant being
:18:00. > :18:04.escorted into a remote military zone.
:18:05. > :18:07.We saw the preparations to catapult two astronauts into space,
:18:08. > :18:14.where they will spend one month carrying out research.
:18:15. > :18:16.TRANSLATION: The astronauts will work eight hours
:18:17. > :18:19.a day, six days a week on this mission.
:18:20. > :18:23.They will follow the same time zone as ours on earth.
:18:24. > :18:25.Why would journalists, especially
:18:26. > :18:26.foreign journalists be allowed inside this
:18:27. > :18:33.For one thing, this country is proud of its
:18:34. > :18:38.When it is copping flak, especially in the South China
:18:39. > :18:41.Sea, this is them showing there are strong nation, getting good
:18:42. > :18:53.Not often you go to a press conference with astronauts,
:18:54. > :18:58.This is the bubble they will appear in.
:18:59. > :19:02.The reason they are behind glass, they do not want to get sick.
:19:03. > :19:04.If you are blasting off to spend one month
:19:05. > :19:12.on the space station, you would not want to do it with the flu.
:19:13. > :19:16.TRANSLATION: Being an astronaut is my dream and my duty.
:19:17. > :19:19.Although the job is full of challenges and risks,
:19:20. > :19:31.In two days' time they will be on board the space station, orbiting
:19:32. > :19:41.They said they could not wait to look back down on the planet
:19:42. > :20:09.If you're wondering why China isn't sending astronauts to the
:20:10. > :20:17.international space mission, there are concerns about that and from
:20:18. > :20:24.that story to another, you remember the story of the polar ship that had
:20:25. > :20:34.its name put out to a public vote and it was voted as Boaty McBoat
:20:35. > :20:55.face. Now it has been called Sir David Attenborough.
:20:56. > :21:05.News of the investment in polar science was almost ecliped by the
:21:06. > :21:11.vote to name the ship boaty McBoat face. Now it has been named Sir
:21:12. > :21:19.David Attenborough. It is very humbling if you have any knowledge
:21:20. > :21:23.of Antarctic exploration or the navy, you can think of some very
:21:24. > :21:30.distinguished names that have been carried by ships. That my name
:21:31. > :21:42.should be among them now is a very humbling realisation. Sir David took
:21:43. > :21:49.part in a ceremony to begin the ship's construction, winching a huge
:21:50. > :22:03.section of the keel into place. But this is a Boaty, a submersible that
:22:04. > :22:07.will be used. With the first mission scheduled for 2019, Sir David and
:22:08. > :22:13.Boaty will set out to explore together. Just checking to see if
:22:14. > :22:17.that boring Liverpool/Manchester United game is over. It is not over
:22:18. > :22:23.yet. But it is a couple of minutes away. Still 0-0 and also the
:22:24. > :22:28.president of European council tweeting, had a good phone call with
:22:29. > :22:34.Theresa May and we agreed she will update us on Brexit article 50 at
:22:35. > :22:38.this week. He is talking about the latest European Union summit. It is
:22:39. > :22:50.taking place on Thursday and Friday outside source will be live at the
:22:51. > :22:55.summit on Thursday. The first time trooem time Theresa May will attend
:22:56. > :23:00.as a Prime Minister. Thank you for watching. See you soon.