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More from me at 5pm, right packet is time for reporters. | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
From here in the world's news room, we send our correspondents to bring | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
you the best stories from across the world. | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
Richard Conway reports on Syria's World Cup dreams, | :00:29. | :00:37. | |
and asks whether soccer can help to unite a country at war. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Football coming back to Syria provides the people with a chance | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
The plight of the people of western Mosul. | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
Orla Guerin reports from the camps in Iraq, struggling to feed up | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
to 500,000 survivors of the so-called Islamic State. | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
They say they have no running water, no electricity, no access | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
to medical supplies, and people in the queue are really | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
afraid that the food is going to run out before they have been able | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
Returning to Crimea, after three years. | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Steve Rosenberg finds out how people feel about Russian | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
Moscow insists that most of the people who live | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
And from the greatest show on earth - to a ghost town. | :01:26. | :01:35. | |
Six months after the Rio Olympics, the organisers tell Wyre Davies | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
I feel that Olympic Games in Brazil was not so successful, | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
because legacy was not the number one. | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
You might not think football was Syria's biggest priority | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
at the moment, but you would be surprised to hear the country | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
still has a national football team, and it's competing for a place | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
With the country at war, they can't play on home soil, | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
but the national team is still giving many Syrians | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
They played their first qualifying match against Uzbekistan | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
on Thursday, and Richard Conway joined them as they trained | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
They are the nomads of world football. | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
But Syria's players are making friends on their travels. | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
With their country at war, they must play home games on neutral ground. | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
Here in Malaysia, the players are preparing for the most important | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
fixture in their history, while back in Syria, | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
there is renewed fighting in the capital Damascus. | :02:42. | :02:50. | |
TRANSLATION: The condition of the people at home is quite | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
difficult and there is additional pressure over there, | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
We try to forget all those things and focus on the match | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
and training at two hours a day, and with a happy mind-set | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
as well as winning, the match and making the people at home proud. | :03:04. | :03:13. | |
Football is still being played in Syria, but six years of conflict | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
has thrown the domestic game into crisis. | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
The performances of the national team have already given | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
President Assad's regime a propaganda opportunity. | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
But facilities are crumbling, very few countries want to play | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
them in friendly games, and their best players have | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
Syria's coaching staff have the toughest jobs in world football. | :03:36. | :03:51. | |
Six years work in Syria, six years we're training in our field, | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
on not so good field, not in good condition, | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
we can not make any friendly game inside Syria or outside Syria. | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
Give us more, trust with us to make good result in future, | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
because everybody wants to make something for Syria. | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
It is hard work, hard job, hard situation for us. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
Syria's President Bashir al-Assad wants the perception | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
to be his country is returning to normal and sport | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
helps with that aim, but regardless of his intentions, | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
it's clear that sport, that football coming back to Syria | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
provides the people with a chance to forget about their worries. | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
That need is all the more acute after this week's surprise attack | :04:27. | :04:37. | |
by rebels in Damascus, and the Government's | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
I met the most senior figure in Syrian sport and asked, | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
given evidence of war crimes by the regime, if his country should | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
TRANSLATION: When terrorism and Jihadis came to Syria, | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
it became our duty to defend our schools and hospitals. | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
If a thief arrives at your house, will you let him steal it | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
or will you defend your house and your family? | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
For the first time in six years, Syria's women are preparing | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
to play competitively at international level. | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
They begin their own World Cup qualifying campaign | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
We have the power to participate and we have the hope | :05:20. | :05:31. | |
With all the support we have and the coaches | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
who are helping a lot, we will achieve this. | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
But the war has destroyed football careers. | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
This man was a promising young player in Syria, | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
but fled the violence with his family in 2012. | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
Now living in the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan, | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
he works as part of a scheme that provides football coaching | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
He, however, has not given up on his own football dream. | :05:55. | :06:07. | |
TRANSLATION: Of course I still have dreams and ambitions | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
To be famous and play with one of the big clubs. | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
I also met one player who has proven what is possible. | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
Mohammed fled Syria after his brother was killed by a mortar. | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
Leaving behind his career with Syrian Premier League club Al-Majd. | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
He has just signed a contract with a Jordanian Second Division team. | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
TRANSLATION: Yes, it is a success story. | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
It was a dream to play with the club. | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
I was playing for a club back in Syria, and it became a dream | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
When I first came here, I suffered a lot. | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
I had many problems with my documents and my passport. | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
But every time I face a problem, I am more | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
And this is the beginning of the road. | :06:58. | :07:07. | |
Back in Malaysia, those fortunate enough to be pursuing World Cup | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
hopes are focussing on the biggest game of their careers. | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
But this Syrian team also had a unique perspective on why | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
sport matters so much - and so little. | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
Richard Conway, BBC News, Malacca, Malaysia. | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
One month into the renews offensive to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
from the so-called Islamic State, there is new evidence | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
Thousands have fled the fighting in the western half of the country's | :07:39. | :07:55. | |
second city in recent weeks, but 500,000 people are struggling | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
Orla Guerin sent us this report from the edge of Al-Mansur | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
In the clamour for help, many go empty-handed. | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
The gunfire from Iraqi soldiers trying to control the crowd | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
Survivors of the Caliphate now at risk from hunger. | :08:13. | :08:26. | |
Troops not keen for the chaos to be caught on camera. | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
In the distance, smoke from an IS car bomb. | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
But those who flee the fighting here end up in overcrowded camps. | :08:32. | :08:44. | |
There are no good options for the people of western Mosul. | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
Well, you can see here the utter desperation in this area. | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
Local people here tell us this is the first aid supplies | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
They say they have no running water, no electricity, no access | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
to medical supplies, and people in the queue are really | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
afraid that the food is going to run out before they have been able | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
Barely able to walk, but with many mouths to feed, | :09:11. | :09:21. | |
Hamda Mohammed, whose family is living on bread and water. | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
"I am crying", she say, "because my children don't | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
This woman has suffered a double loss. | :09:27. | :09:46. | |
"IS killed two of my sons", she says. | :09:47. | :09:47. | |
As the troops keep watch, there is tension in the crowd. | :09:48. | :10:07. | |
With the frustration building, this man compares the security | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
"What's difference between the IS police and these guys?", he asks. | :10:15. | :10:25. | |
"The IS police beat us and they beat us, just for asking for food." | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
"Is this the liberation they have brought us?" | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
Nearby, some are returning to this battle scarred neighbourhood. | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
His home was occupied by IS for three months. | :10:37. | :10:49. | |
He says they threatened to hang his wife because she | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
IS knocked through the wall, he tells us, so they could move | :10:52. | :11:07. | |
Their reign of terror has destroyed the fabric of his neighbourhood. | :11:08. | :11:17. | |
"We can never live again with those who collaborated with IS", he says. | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
"If I catch the man who informed on my wife, | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
The battle for Mosul may now be in its final phase. | :11:24. | :11:32. | |
This ancient city emerging from modern day barbarity. | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
When the Caliphate crumbles, there will be much to rebuild, | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
Orla Guerin, BBC News, western Mosul. | :11:38. | :11:51. | |
It was a move that sparked sanctions from the west and a revival | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
Three years ago, Russia sent special forces into Crimea | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
The take over was followed by a separatist conflict in eastern | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
Ukraine that has claimed tens of thousands of lives in nearly | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
Steve Rosenberg has been back to the region to find out how people | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
are coping with life under Russian rule. | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
Blessed by nature, beset with contention. | :12:19. | :12:27. | |
It's three years since Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine. | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
Pushing east and west into a new Cold War. | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
Today, Moscow is cementing its presence. | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
With a bridge that will bind Crimea to the Russian mainland. | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
With its military, too, Russia's moved its most | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
powerful weapons here, and where ever you go | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
in Crimea you'e left in no doubt who's in charge. | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
She chides western leaders who disagree. | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
We don't understand them because we are already for three | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
We changed our rules, our documents, everything | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
I even have the T-shirt, T-shirt with Putin, and the words | :13:13. | :13:21. | |
are "In Putin we trust", like "In God we trust". | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
Moscow admits its take over of Crimea was a military operation. | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
Days later, after a referendum, not recognised initially, | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
Svetlana had opposed the annexation, but three years on, her perspective | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
They were expecting us, they were happy to have us back, | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
Ukraine are not, they really hate us, they think everyone | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
Even if you were ever pro-Ukrainian or you are now pro-Ukrainian, | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
you are still a traitor because you didn't leave. | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
The White House says it expects Moscow to return Crimea. | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
It's almost inconceivable that Vladimir Putin would perform | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
a U-turn on Crimea and hand this peninsula back to Ukraine. | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
For one thing, the Kremlin doesn't do U-turns, and reclaiming | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
this land for Russia, well, President Putin will regard | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
that as part of his legacy, and Moscow insists that most | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
of the people who live here are happy to be in Russia. | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
Since annexation, the Crimean Tartar community has come under pressure. | :14:37. | :14:50. | |
Its governing body, which had opposed the 2014 | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
Human rights groups accuse Moscow of creating a climate of repression. | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
This man is desperate for information about his son, Edvin. | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
A Tartar activist, Edvin was abducted ten months ago. | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
CCTV cameras caught the moment he was seized by men in uniform. | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
Not knowing where his son is is driving him to despair. | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
His heart, he told me, isn't made of steel. | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
And yet this Crimean spring feels calmer than three years ago. | :15:23. | :15:41. | |
Most people here don't think about sovereignty or sanctions, | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
They can't predict the future, so navigating | :15:44. | :15:52. | |
Can Marine Le Pen do what her father failed to do and win France's 2017 | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
Her party, the Front National has long had significant support | :16:01. | :16:08. | |
and could now win the most votes in the first round of the election. | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
It struggled in the past due to its reputation for extremism. | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
Its attitudes to issues like immigration, homosexuality | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
As Lucy Williamson has been finding out, Marine Le Pen has been credited | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
with detoxifying the image which her father had | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
A year ago, Boris and his husband Eric left the urban rat race | :16:27. | :16:36. | |
With an orchard, a vegetable garden and pet chickens. | :16:37. | :16:53. | |
Named after President Holland's girlfriends. | :16:54. | :16:54. | |
Boris describes himself as an orphan of the Socialist Party, | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
pushed away by what he sees as the left's cosying | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
Now he says he feels most at home with the leader | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
of the Front National, Marine Le Pen. | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
If it were her father in charge, it would be no, | :17:10. | :17:18. | |
Back then there were skinheads, thugs and fascists in the party. | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
With Marine it's not like that at all. | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
There's an elegance, a bit of restraint. | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
Marine Le Pen has tried to rid her party of the racist, | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
homophobic image it had under her father, Jean-Marie. | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
Several of her closest advisers are now openly gay, | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
and she expelled her father after he described the Holocaust as | :17:43. | :17:44. | |
Where Jews and gay men were once seen as outsiders, | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
the party's target now is immigration and radical Islam. | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
Marine Le Pen is presenting herself as the defender of minorities, | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
against what she says is a growing threat from political Islam. | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
Gay voters, jews and women all have something to fear, she says, | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
and the Front National is the party to protect them. | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
Analysts say the party is now being pulled in two directions. | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
They have said there is a red line we shall never cross any more. | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
It's anti-Semitism, and there Marine Le Pen | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
is definitely different from her father. | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
But if she goes too far, on that line of de-demonisation, | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
she will lose the voters for whom it was a party that, | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
that knocked on the tables strong, that wanted to shake the political | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
system, and her father put it very well. | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
FN traditionalists these days look not to Marine, | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
but to her 27-year-old niece, Marion, a star of the party's | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
conservative wing, whose members often say they preferred things | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
the way they were, under Jean-Marie Le Pen. | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
TRANSLATION: I think that Marion is more like her | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
France really needs strict leadership. | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
It's not OK to say "Let's carry on as we are." | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
And Marion is better able to do that. | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
Marion has much tougher views than her aunt on issues like gay | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
marriage and abortion, and she's made it clear | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
she is a fan of Donald Trump's immigration policies too. | :19:29. | :19:38. | |
TRANSLATION: The famous Muslim ban, as Donald Trump's | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
It's not in our programme right now, but if it turns out there's | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
a particularly high threat coming from a country that is identified | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
with or infiltrated by radical Islam, yes, we could temporarily ban | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
Some say Marine and Marion are a useful double act that allows | :19:56. | :20:07. | |
the party to keep all its members on side, but the glue | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
may only be as strong as the party's electoral score. | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
Power is attractive, even to those who see popularity | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
At the time it was billed as the greatest show on earth, | :20:19. | :20:30. | |
but several athletes and officials involved with last year's Olympic | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
and Paralympic Games in Rio have told the BBC they are angry | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
and frustrated by the failure to provide any meaningful | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
It is six months since the 2016 Games came to an end, | :20:40. | :20:51. | |
and while Brazilian officials insist there were tangible benefits | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
for Rio, others feel the games were plagued by broken promises | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
and lost opportunities, as Wyre Davies has been fining out. | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
For five weeks last summer, Rio de Janeiro was the centre | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
Host city for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
Exactly six months later, the stage is empty. | :21:09. | :21:17. | |
Rio's Olympic Park, which should by now be operating as a sporting | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
centre of excellence, is eerily quiet. | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
Arenas where medals were won and lost are little | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
Venues that should have been dismantled, some to be rebuilt | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
If there is a legacy here, it's not the one that those | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
who campaigned for Rio to win the games had expected. | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
I feel that Olympic Games in Brazil was not so successful | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
because the legacy was not the number one. | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
We delivered good games, we had a lot of problems and we keep | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
with them and nobody's doing anything for changing, | :21:54. | :21:54. | |
This is the Olympic tennis arena, where Andy Murray won his second | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
For now, this is being run, like many other venues | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
in the Olympic Park, by the Brazilian Sports Ministry, | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
because no private company, nor the local authority, | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
can afford or want to take on the huge running costs. | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
Team Brazil missed its own medal targets at Rio 2016. | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
Archer Ane Marcelle came a creditable ninth place, | :22:25. | :22:25. | |
but has since lost her funding and her coach. | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
Improving on Rio and even making the Tokyo Games will be tough. | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
TRANSLATION: A month after the games they cut everything. | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
My health insurance, my salary, everything. | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
We made history in archery but it's all over. | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
It made me think my sacrifice wasn't worth it. | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
Such was Rio's desperation to get things ready on time, | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
legacy was the last thing on anyone's mind, says one official | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
who had worked previously on the London Games, | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
I never once had a conversation about legacy, at any point or in any | :22:56. | :23:06. | |
discussion I had working on the games. | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
You have to remember, this was the games where | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
we were scrambling to put the event on on a day-by-day basis. | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
There was no time to think about what was going to happen | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
the day after the games finished in September. | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
There were undoubtedly improvements in Rio, | :23:21. | :23:21. | |
In public transport, some infrastructure and the opening | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
I think that there are a few promises that need to be delivered, | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
but I do believe we should have time to work on these promises, | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
and the promise we need to be first of all is the delivery | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
of the Olympic Park, and improvements in the sports legacy. | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
A brand-new velodrome built at huge expense, barely used. | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
A state-of-the-art whitewater course, meant to become a public | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
Wyre Davies, BBC News, Rio de Janeiro. | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
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