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Hello, it's Thursday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

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Team GB's women's hockey team make history as they reach their first

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It's means they're guaranteed at least a silver medal

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What can I say? Seven games out of seven is not shabby. The girls were

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superb today. Tactically executed spot on.

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We'll have all the latest from Rio including the men's triathlon -

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can the Brownlee brothers repeat their 2012 success?

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7000 anti-Muslim racist tweets were posted last month according to data

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seen by this programme. Victims tell us how they have been targeted. Do

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you want to talk about sharia law to me? I wasn't talking to you. Who

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were you talking to about sharia law, sir?

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And the wait is over for thousands of sixth formers in England,

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Wales and Northern Ireland as they see if they've got

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Welcome to the programme, we're live until 11 each weekday morning.

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We want to know this morning, whether you think we should hold

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an Olympic Parade for Team GB athletes and paralympic athletes

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There isn't one planned, despite it being the most successful

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Games outside of Britain in terms of medals.

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So, would it be a fitting way to thank our athletes, to honour our

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Obviously it'll cost money in terms of policing and security

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and there would be traffic disruption?

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And if you do think it's a good idea -

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Let me know - use the hashtag VictoriaLIVE and if you text,

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you will be charged at the standard network rate.

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Let's get the latest on the Olympics with Hugh,

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and no medals yesterday for Team GB, but not too much disappointment.

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Hello, well no disappointment at all really, Team GB weren't

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expecting to win many medals, the one that was expected

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was in the 470 sailing where Saskia Clark and Hannah Mills

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They would have sealed their medals yesterday but there wasn't enough

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So weather permitting they'll cross the finish line in that

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There will be a Gold or Silver in the Women's Hockey competition.

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Team GB reached their first final with an excellent 3-0

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They go on to face double defending Champions,

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There was, though, a feeling of 'what could have been'

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for Sindy Ofilli, on the left, who ran alongside her sister

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Tiffany Porter in the final of the 100 metres hurdles.

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Ofilli was in third place for bronze after the final hurdle but missed

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out on a medal by just two-hundreths of a second to Kristi Castlin

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She was edged out in a dip for the line and as you can expect

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Porter finished down in 7th but Ofili ran a season's best

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and she called the result 'bittersweet.'

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Usain Bolt was back on the track

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Doing what you saying I'll does best, yes. -- what Usain Bolt does

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best. You may have seen the images of him

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grinning for the cameras Well, he was back on track

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to defend his 200 metre title as he aims for an 8th

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Olympic Gold in the event. But just look at him being pushed

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all the way to the line He actually had a little word as he

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crossed the line in 19.78 seconds. The pair comfortably moved

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through to tonight's final but Bolt wasn't happy

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at being made to work hard. Britain's Adam Gemili came

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through in third to qualify Yeah, he was supposed to slow down

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but he didn't! That's why I said, what are you doing, it's the

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semifinals! He said he had to push me. You said you were tired after

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the 100 but you were not showing it on the track? I was a little bit

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lazy today but I executed well and that is the key thing.

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What have we got to look forward to today?

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Well it's a big day for the Brownlee brothers of Yorkshire.

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Jonny and Alastair will go in the triathlon at about 3

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The Brownlees will of course be amongst the favourites

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after Alastair took the Gold in London four years ago.

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His younger brother Jonny took the bronze but the man that

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split them in London, Spain's Javier Gomez

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will not be at the Games, after breaking his elbow

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Gomez has won the last three ITU World Championships so that

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Also in Rio, Olympic Champion Nicola Adams will fight

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for a place in the final of the Women's flyweight boxing.

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She is already guaranteed at least Bronze and Liam Heath

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and Jon Schofield go in the Men's 200 metres Kayak Double

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The Bronze medallists from London say they have 'unfinished

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So, no medals on Day 12 for Team GB, they are still second

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in the Medal table though, with high hopes for today in Rio.

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One last thing that I should mention. In the last hour or so Team

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GB has confirmed that one of its athletes has been involved in what

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it calls and incidents of theft in Rio, following reports an athlete

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was held at gunpoint returning to their accommodation. We will have

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more on that. Obviously it is early morning in Rio now. Thank you very

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much. We will try and find out for you.

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Annita is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

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As the Government unveils its long-delayed obesity

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strategy for England, the BBC has learned that some local

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health services don't have enough funding to provide help to families

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Charities says children and families seeking support face a confused

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Here's our health correspondent Dominic Hughes.

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I bounce on the trampoline, I do roller-skating,

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Holly Ann is now an active 11-year-old,

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A few years ago, she was putting on too much weight.

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But when her mum sought help from the family doctor,

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It was very frustrating, and he didn't really seem

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to know what to suggest, other than things that may have gone

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on a waiting list or things that wouldn't have been

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The obesity charity Hoop believes this is an all-too-common story.

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It says less than half of clinical commissioning groups,

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the bodies that pay for local health services in England,

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provide funding to help families struggling with obesity.

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We need to treat it as the war on obesity,

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That has to start at the top, has to come from government,

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And then the CCGs, the local authorities need to work together.

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Let's have some joined up thinking here.

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Health experts say tackling obesity, particularly childhood obesity,

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isn't just a case of eating less and moving more.

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and a strategy for the next two or three decades.

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The Government's new obesity strategy

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promotes a healthy diet and reducing sugar.

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cooking classes help patients get a grip on weight problems.

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Tried eating better, do a lot more exercise

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You're getting your five a day, you feel a lot different,

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and I also had a weight problem, and it's subsiding a bit now.

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One of the best things to be able to do is to cook for yourself...

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But money for schemes like this one is tight,

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and the body that represents clinical commissioning groups

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across England says there are competing demands

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for limited funds - difficult choices have to be made.

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Ministers want children to be more active, but many health campaigners

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say the childhood obesity strategy is a missed opportunity and families

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will continue to struggle to get the help they need.

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campaigners have criticised the campaign for not going far enough.

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The minister who was previously in charge of drawing up

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the child obesity strategy, Jane Ellison, has dismissed

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accusations the plans didn't go far enough to stop supermarket promotion

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One of the reasons it's so important to tackle the formulation of food at

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source is because then as that flows through into promotions we will see

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more healthy food featured in those promotions. But we also have to give

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credit to supermarkets for the work they've already done voluntarily.

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Black and minority ethnic people in Britain face far-reaching

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inequality in many areas, including education, health

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and criminal justice, according to a report published today.

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The Equality and Human Rights Commission says

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unemployment rates are also significantly higher

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with black graduates earning 23% less on average

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New research from the think tank Demos, exclusive to this programme,

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suggests that 7,000 Islamophobic tweets were sent in English every

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collected from tweets sent in English-speaking countries over

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the last five months, also suggests Islamophobic tweets

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increase in the wake of terrorist attacks.

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And stay with us for more on that story, just

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Thousands of students are receiving their A-level results in England,

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UCAS says a record number have been accepted at university,

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Those who have done better than expected may find they have

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more choice about where they want to study.

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Today they get their results, two months after sitting exams.

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Record numbers of candidates sat A-level maths this year,

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But cuts to sixth-form funding mean some less-popular subjects

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We are seeing a continued drop in the number of subjects,

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including modern languages, music, design technology.

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And one of the reasons behind this, we believe,

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is because the funding for 16 to 18-year-olds is at such a low

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level, that schools and colleges can no longer afford to run

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Since a cap on student numbers was lifted in 2015,

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universities have been able to recruit as many students

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That, coupled with a fall in the number of 18-year-olds,

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means there may be more unfilled places at good universities.

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The appeals process for candidates who don't receive their expected

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grades has been tightened up this year.

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Independent schools say that might affect borderline candidates

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For those who do enter campuses this year, fees

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at some universities, such as Exeter, will rise to ?9,200

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a year, as colleges increased costs in line with inflation.

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Two American Olympic swimmers have been released after they were taken

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off their flight home by Brazilian police over their claim

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that they were victims of an armed robbery.

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Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were questioned by police in Rio.

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The pair, along with Ryan Lochte and another team member,

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say their taxi was attacked as they returned from a party.

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The government's being urged to force local councils in England

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to provide emergency accommodation for homeless people

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MPs on the Communities and Local Government Committee say

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a lack of social housing, steep rises in private rents

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and welfare reforms have contributed to rising homelessness.

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Our Social Affairs Correspondent, Michael Buchanan, reports.

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In here is where we have fires to keep warm at night...

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Mental health problems, a family breakdown, and this shelter

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A single man, he was not a priority for help.

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Homelessness, understandably, was isolating.

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It is just like you are walking around with nothing.

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Sometimes you just hope the nearest bus will knock you over.

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Homelessness is on the rise across England.

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Since 2010, the number of people in temporary accommodation

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Rough sleeping has increased by 100%.

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MPs say some councils are not doing enough to help and are pushing plans

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to make it harder for councils to turn people away.

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If someone is homeless and they go to the council and all they get

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is a piece of paper with some phone numbers on there to ring estate

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agency and they aren't up to date or they get a website with no

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access to a computer, that is not adequate.

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Under the MPs' plans, councils would be forced

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to help people like Mark, providing up to two months

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Local councils say they could reduce homelessness if they were given more

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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds fears that a rare bird

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of prey, which has disappeared in the Highlands, may have become

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The young Hen Harrier, which is a protected species,

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was fitted with a tracker, but the signals stopped on a grouse

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moorland where a number of golden eagles have also gone missing.

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More than 80,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes,

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as eight large wildfires continue to rage in California.

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Thousands of firefighters are battling the blazes,

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but officials say one of the largest is still out of control.

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For my help after mile the blue cup fire burns and burns. The ground is

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tender dry, baking hot and a strong breeze is fanning the flames.

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Conditions for firefighters could hardly be worse. There is

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destruction here and teams are searching remains of homes in case

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anyone was trapped but counting the cost will have to wait as the fire

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marches on. In this tourist town, these are

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nervous moments - residents have been ordered to leave but some are

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staying put. We packed last night, we are ready to get up and go at any

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point in time. It must be stressful. Very stressful, yeah. Pretty crazy,

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having to pack up my stuff and get ready to leave, a crazy thought,

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knowing that your house might burn down. , this fire is far from

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unique, half a dozen are burning across California, and more than 20

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are ablaze in the western United States. James Cook, BBC News, in

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southern California. That is a summary of the latest

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news, more at 9:30. Thank you for your messages about an

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Olympic parade, I will read a couple for now, Christopher says, why do we

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want an Olympic parade? It is a waste of money. Stuart says, because

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there is nothing else to celebrate in this country, and this is quite

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an achievement! Thank you for those, would you like to see an Olympic

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parade for Olympians and Paralympians when they return from

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Rio? This has been our most successful away Games ever.

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Almost 7,000 Islamophobic tweets were sent in English

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Compare that to April, when it was an average of 2,500 a day.

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July saw the most anti-Islamic abuse on Twitter for five months as Europe

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was hit by the Nice terror attack and the murder of a priest.

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The data has been collected by a think-tank called Demos

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and seen exclusively by this programme.

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In Catrin Nye's film, which is ten minutes long,

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there is some very strong racist language towards the end.

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of the kind of abuse that's been posted online.

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If you have children around, or you think you might be offended,

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please do come back to us in ten minutes' time.

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Islamophobia on Twitter is on the rise, and sometimes that turns up

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offline too. When you start muttering about sharia law, that is

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the issue! If you have got something to say, say it. These are

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significant increases in anti-Islamic activity... Is

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researchers have been looking at Islamophobia on Twitter for five

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months and I've given us exclusive access to the data. We have been

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seeing 5000 tweets every single day which are anti-Islamic, seriously

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derogatory and hateful. It has been building month on month, July was

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the worst so far, with just under 7000 tweets judged as anti-Islamic

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every single day, and all of that amounts to over 200,000 tweets in

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total. That was in the wake of terror attacks across France. The

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fear is how much an attack could worsen the situation in the UK. East

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London Mosque, more than 7000 people which appear every Friday. It is a

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massive landmark and a target for abuse. -- worship here. We have

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received a lot of hateful messages, someone is calling Islam the evil

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truth. What is he saying? Or she? Muslims attack and kill people,

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Muslims lie, Muslims cannot be friends with others who one

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non-Muslims. Quite graphic and gruesome, like this one. That is

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someone being beheaded. Yes, someone is carrying a decapitated head.

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Sometimes it is really abusive content which kind of leaves a scar

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in your mind, and I have sometimes looked at it from the point of view

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of my baby son, who is going to be growing up in this kind of

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environment, and what kind of abuse is he likely to face as a result of

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his faith? Ruqaiya Harris is 23, a student who lives locally and comes

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to the mosque. In between her studies, she is a published writer

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and uses Twitter at lot. This says time to go, time to pack, you have

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had a good run, you need to leave, you are bad enough time here, you

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are not integrated enough, you are threatening our way of life. And you

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get more messages like this after the attack in Nice? Always, it does

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not matter what I say or what I am writing about, the response after a

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terrorist attack will always be slating Islam in some kind of way or

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insulting Islam or insulting me or my hijab, even if I am talking about

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something completely unrelated, even if I am sending condolences to the

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victims. The Demos research shows large peaks in Islamophobic tweet

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around terror attacks. 20,000 today during the Nice attacks. In July,

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the most Islamic -- Islamophobic month so far, the rise was

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significant. This is a reaction to the Nice attacks. A massive red

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mass. Angry, abusive, anti-Islamic, all happening at the Nice. It is not

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surprising that people are angry after a terrorist attack. It is not

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surprising, no. This is what makes these attacks dangerous. These are

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not people that are being angry at the terrorists, not people being

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angry at Islamic State, it is people being angry at the wider Muslim

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world, people that are blaming Muslims for the terrorist attacks.

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These are the things which are Islamophobic, and surprising not,

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they are damaging, whether they are happening on the street or social

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media. Obama is a right head, explains a lot... What we do about

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it? It is very difficult, it is important to say that only a thin

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sliver of this is actually illegal. Only when there is an actual threat

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to life people breaking the law. All the rest of this is some

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criminality, so the people in the online space bar less protected than

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the offline space. -- sub criminality. Muslims doing enough to

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separate themselves from these attacks? I think they are, community

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leaders are constantly coming out to condemn these kind of attacks, at

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Friday prayers, the imam will often condemn attacks that really have

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nothing to do with them. It has come to the point where I don't really

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think that me condemning these kind of attacks is going to change

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people's opinions. While I am interviewing Ruqaiya, a man behind

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the stars interrupting. I asked him if he can keep his voice down. He

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replies, saying it is free speech, and then he adds, there is no sharia

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law here. You have obviously chosen to sit here right now, do you want

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to talk about sharia law to me? We can talk about it, you obviously

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said it for a reason. I wasn't talking to you. Who will you talking

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to about sharia law?! We are losing our rights to freedom of expression,

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we are, we are being told to be politically correct when we don't

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want to be. OK, listen, political correctness is one thing, I

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understand, I understand that you feel that you want to have a right

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to say something, I understand that. But we don't want sharia law. I am

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telling you, as a Muslim, I am telling you, that is not something

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that I want. The way I sit, Islam, I don't know too much about it, but to

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me I see it as an ideology, as opposed to a religion. I don't see

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it as a religion. But that is you, sir, that is a result of the things

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that you see happening around the world... I understand, when you see

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things happening around the world... No, no, I am not stereotyping you, I

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do not wish for you to stereotype me.

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So in a strange twist, our conversation about Islamophobia just

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get interrupted by some Islamophobia. What do you think of

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what he had to say? It makes me a bit sad that it is this normalise

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now, that it is like I cannot sit in a park with you and have a

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conversation without someone wanting to get a word in. But as the

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conversation went on, as I engaged with him, you know, which I think

:24:42.:24:45.

sometimes it is worth doing, because you do not know where these people

:24:46.:24:49.

form their opinions from, and I think that people really struggle to

:24:50.:24:53.

differentiate between everything they read and see and then use. The

:24:54.:24:59.

things they see happening around the world, how they disassociate that

:25:00.:25:07.

with everyday Muslims that they see. I am pretty used to abuse, things

:25:08.:25:13.

have been getting worse, people still calling the things, that has

:25:14.:25:18.

not really stopped. A jihadis sympathiser, telling me to BLEEP

:25:19.:25:23.

back home from what Islam at BLEEP I crawled out of, which is annoying.

:25:24.:25:31.

Also, someone called me an undercover jihadi. I think people

:25:32.:25:34.

are just saying it now, we are hearing about it now, I have to be

:25:35.:25:38.

honest, I think the feelings have been there for quite a while. I

:25:39.:25:47.

don't actually want to say these people are just bad, because the

:25:48.:25:51.

rest of us have a responsibility, we are not having the conversations

:25:52.:25:57.

that need to be hard for people to feel safe enough that they can have

:25:58.:26:02.

real conversations and get beyond the name-calling. Deeyah is a

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documentary film-maker who set up a magazine called Sisterhood to

:26:09.:26:14.

showcase female Muslim writers. Every time a terrorist attack

:26:15.:26:19.

happens, we don't need to get a bland press release from the mosque

:26:20.:26:22.

around the corner saying, we condemn it. That is not the impression I get

:26:23.:26:26.

that people want to see. I think what people do not know in the UK

:26:27.:26:31.

and in the West is that the first targets of extremists are other

:26:32.:26:36.

Muslims. Muslims have been dying and suffering at the hands of these

:26:37.:26:41.

barbaric groups for decades, and nobody cared, because the victims

:26:42.:26:45.

looked like me. Now people care because the victim looks like you.

:26:46.:26:51.

Many of us have faced, and many of our colleagues have faced,

:26:52.:26:54.

persecution, violence and imprisonment because they have taken

:26:55.:26:58.

on extremists, but that is not the story that you are often told.

:26:59.:27:03.

Deeyah says shutting down abuse is not the answer. Look, I don't like

:27:04.:27:08.

racist Islam of those, I don't like sexist pigs, I don't like lots of

:27:09.:27:13.

people, but just shutting them down is not going to resolve this, the

:27:14.:27:18.

feelings do not disappear. The fact of the matter is the UK will never

:27:19.:27:22.

be white again, it is not going to happen, it is not realistic, and

:27:23.:27:28.

similarly, our people who have left Muslim countries, for them to think

:27:29.:27:33.

that they can re-establish those countries and the lives they had

:27:34.:27:36.

there over here, that is not going to happen, and director Guy is the

:27:37.:27:42.

fact that is a big loss for both people. -- and I recognise the fact.

:27:43.:27:48.

But the reality is that we have to move forward, the reality is that we

:27:49.:27:51.

are going to have to find out what it means to be British moving

:27:52.:27:55.

forward, what does it mean to build a society that includes all of us,

:27:56.:28:00.

where it means looking like me and looking like you?

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If you have got experience of Islamophobia online or offline, let

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me know. We will talk about it more after ten o'clock this morning, and

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if you want to share the film, please go to the programme page on

:28:27.:28:36.

the website. Still to come on the programme... Later I will be telling

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you what the national picture for A-level results is in England, Wales

:28:40.:28:41.

and Northern Ireland. Finally, after eight months

:28:42.:28:44.

of delays, the government's plans to tackle childhood obesity

:28:45.:28:46.

in England are out - but campaigners say they're watered

:28:47.:28:48.

down, embarrassing and inexcusable - Time for the sport now with Hugh

:28:49.:29:10.

Great Britain are guaranteed another Olympic medal in Rio after the

:29:11.:29:13.

women's hockey team reached their first final with a 3-0 win, Alex

:29:14.:29:22.

Danson and this penalty stroke meant that GB will get at least a silver,

:29:23.:29:27.

an improvement on the bronze they won at London 2012. Usain Bolt ran

:29:28.:29:30.

his fastest time of the season to cruise into the 200 metres final,

:29:31.:29:36.

aiming to complete the triple triple, the 100 metres, the 200

:29:37.:29:40.

metres and the 4x100 metres after doing so at both Beijing and the

:29:41.:29:44.

London games. Adam Gemili also qualified for the final with the

:29:45.:29:50.

fastest loser's spot. And Alistair Brownlee and his younger brother

:29:51.:29:53.

Johnny will be two of the favourites in the triathlon later today, they

:29:54.:29:59.

get off at around three o'clock, but the London 2012 silver medallist

:30:00.:30:02.

Javier Gomez will not be there, missing through injury. That is all

:30:03.:30:05.

the sport for now, back with more just after ten o'clock, see you

:30:06.:30:06.

then. Here's Annitta in the BBC Newsroom

:30:07.:30:08.

with a summary of todays news. Thousands of students in England,

:30:09.:30:15.

Wales and Northern Ireland are The gap between girls and boys has

:30:16.:30:28.

narrowed to the smallest it has been for ten years.

:30:29.:30:31.

The Government's long awaited plan to tackle childhood obesity has

:30:32.:30:33.

been heavily criticised as a "missed opportunity".

:30:34.:30:35.

Senior doctors, dentists and local government representatives

:30:36.:30:37.

say they are disappointed the measures, which are

:30:38.:30:39.

being published today, don't go far enough.

:30:40.:30:40.

The plan includes a tax on sugary drinks, but it misses

:30:41.:30:43.

out curbs on marketing and supermarket promotions.

:30:44.:30:52.

The minister who was previously in charge of drawing up

:30:53.:30:54.

the child obesity strategy, Jane Ellison, has dismissed

:30:55.:30:56.

One of the reasons it's so important to tackle the formulation of food

:30:57.:31:01.

at source is because then as that flows through into promotions

:31:02.:31:06.

we will start to see more healthy food featured in those promotions.

:31:07.:31:09.

But we also have to give credit to supermarkets for the work they've

:31:10.:31:12.

New research from the think tank Demos, exclusive to this programme,

:31:13.:31:17.

suggests that 7,000 Islamophobic tweets were sent in English every

:31:18.:31:19.

collected from tweets sent in English-speaking countries over

:31:20.:31:29.

the last five months, also suggests Islamophobic tweets

:31:30.:31:31.

increase in the wake of terrorist attacks.

:31:32.:31:37.

Two American Olympic swimmers have been taken off their flight home

:31:38.:31:40.

by Brazilian police over their claim that they were victims

:31:41.:31:42.

Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were questioned by police in Rio.

:31:43.:31:47.

The pair, along with Ryan Lochte and another team member,

:31:48.:31:49.

say their taxi was attacked as they returned from a party.

:31:50.:31:54.

The government's being urged to force local councils in England

:31:55.:31:56.

to provide emergency accommodation for homeless people

:31:57.:31:58.

MPs on the Communities and Local Government Committee say

:31:59.:32:03.

a lack of social housing, steep rises in private rents

:32:04.:32:06.

and welfare reforms have contributed to rising levels of homelessness.

:32:07.:32:13.

More than 80,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes,

:32:14.:32:16.

as eight large wildfires continue to rage in California.

:32:17.:32:21.

Thousands of firefighters are battling the blazes,

:32:22.:32:23.

but officials say one of the largest is still out of control.

:32:24.:32:28.

The horrors of the conflict in Syria have been brought home to thousands

:32:29.:32:31.

of social media users after a distressing video

:32:32.:32:33.

of a little boy injured after an airstrike in Aleppo

:32:34.:32:35.

The video, which we are about to show you,

:32:36.:32:44.

is thought to be of 5 year old Omran Daqneesh,

:32:45.:32:47.

one of possibly 5 children injured in the bombing.

:32:48.:32:56.

Doctors in Aleppo have confirmed

:32:57.:32:59.

he was brought to the hospital on Wednesday night following

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an airstrike on the rebel-held district of Qaterji with head

:33:03.:33:04.

wounds, but no brain injury, and was later discharged.

:33:05.:33:07.

The medics in Aleppo accused the coalition of targeting hospitals

:33:08.:33:14.

with air strikes and say they are forced to use code words when

:33:15.:33:17.

Chancellor and patients by ambulance. -- transferring patients.

:33:18.:33:25.

Some comments from you on the level of tweets sent in English,

:33:26.:33:31.

anti-Muslim tweets sent in English on Twitter in July. This tweet says,

:33:32.:33:39.

thanks for shedding light on the rising levels of Islamophobia on

:33:40.:33:43.

social media, it is time to end this hate. Stuart says, if you state an

:33:44.:33:47.

opinion in public you must be prepared that others will disagree.

:33:48.:33:53.

This viewer says, the man who interrupted the interview is a hero,

:33:54.:33:57.

well done for standing up for Western values against the vile BBC

:33:58.:34:03.

propaganda. Sarah says, abuse is totally unacceptable. If it has

:34:04.:34:08.

happened to you, let me know and we will talk to you in the second hour.

:34:09.:34:11.

After the women's hockey team reached the final,

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Emotional scenes as they get to the final, fantastic.

:34:16.:34:30.

Spurs fan Andy hailed the teams "great

:34:31.:34:34.

Usain Bolt again became a Twitter star after easing his way

:34:35.:34:41.

Look at them chatting to each other. They are literally having a chat as

:34:42.:34:55.

they finish, can you believe it? Finishing just above

:34:56.:34:57.

Canadian Andre de Grasse, the pair exchanged a friendly glance

:34:58.:35:00.

as they crossed the line. I'd love to know what they were

:35:01.:35:03.

discussing as they crossed the line. Canadian Jennifier says

:35:04.:35:08.

was a 'bromance'. One of the more unusual

:35:09.:35:13.

sights from this That was Donghua Li -

:35:14.:35:15.

the Pommel Horse gold medallist He made his Olympic debut aged 29 -

:35:16.:35:21.

and was called "too old" at the time He's now 48 years old -

:35:22.:36:27.

but as you can see you After the 2012 Olympics

:36:28.:36:33.

there was a victory parade on London Mayor Sadiq Khan to hold

:36:34.:36:39.

a similar event this year. There's got to be a parade, has a

:36:40.:36:53.

Mac? However Kiera asks for a parade

:36:54.:36:57.

all round the country, because everyone is so impressed

:36:58.:36:59.

with the team. You've been letting me know what you

:37:00.:37:08.

think about that. Let's have a look at these. Stuart says an Olympic

:37:09.:37:15.

parade is a great way to celebrate Team GB's Rio 2016 success.

:37:16.:37:21.

Brilliant idea, but not in London, it should be for the whole country.

:37:22.:37:25.

This one says we should hold a parade, we should be proud of their

:37:26.:37:29.

achievement, and it would inspire people to take up sport. Wayne says,

:37:30.:37:35.

great idea for a win is parade, let's celebrate their success. And

:37:36.:37:42.

so it goes on. Quite a lot of you. One or two saying, no, it's too much

:37:43.:37:43.

money. Let's go to Leeds, where the brown

:37:44.:37:54.

the brothers trained, they start today. We will speak to Tish

:37:55.:37:59.

triathlete Mark Buckingham and Jenny Vincent who has recently become

:38:00.:38:03.

involved in the sport. Jenny, what do you reckon to the idea of a

:38:04.:38:08.

parade, where should it be, and should we wait until after the

:38:09.:38:12.

Paralympics is over? I think it's a great idea and it should be in the

:38:13.:38:18.

place that most accessible. It would be fantastic and it would be great

:38:19.:38:21.

if we could include the Paralympics as well. So you mean mini parades in

:38:22.:38:27.

different cities? Yeah, definitely. It would be good for them to tour

:38:28.:38:32.

the country and local athletes could get involved in their local area,

:38:33.:38:37.

come and inspire local people. Mark? I totally agree. We want the

:38:38.:38:43.

athletes back in their home towns so everyone from their city can come

:38:44.:38:48.

and celebrate them. Here in Leeds they will be watching the Brownlees

:38:49.:38:53.

at millennium Square today. To have them back in millennium Square in a

:38:54.:38:56.

week's time or so would be fantastic. Yeah, that's a great

:38:57.:39:03.

idea, having the athletes relevant to their particular area. I mean,

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we're just showing pictures of the parade last time. It's just, it made

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you feel really good again, didn't it? That's the beauty of it, kind of

:39:12.:39:19.

extending the Olympic spirit, isn't it, I suppose. I think it kind of

:39:20.:39:23.

get everybody really excited again so they can see their heroes and it

:39:24.:39:27.

kind of makes you want to take that next step into sport. Mark, tell us

:39:28.:39:34.

what you are hoping for the Brownlee brothers? Well, they got gold and

:39:35.:39:39.

bronze four years ago in London, I'd like to see them go one better and

:39:40.:39:44.

get gold and silver. Doesn't matter which way round they finish but

:39:45.:39:49.

yeah, it would be great to see that. The world champion, Javier Gomez, he

:39:50.:39:55.

will not be there, after breaking his elbow. He split them in London

:39:56.:39:59.

four years ago. Maybe it's time to see a Brownlee 1-2. Jenny, can they

:40:00.:40:06.

do it? 100% I think they can do it and I can't wait to see them later.

:40:07.:40:12.

Is it true, Jenny, that you were inspired to take up the triathlon

:40:13.:40:16.

because of those two young men? Definitely. The Brownlees introduced

:40:17.:40:25.

triathlon to me as a sport, and off the back of that I got involved. I

:40:26.:40:31.

did a couple of those. So yeah, definitely due to watching them. OK.

:40:32.:40:43.

Mark, in terms of your own progress in the triathlon, tell our audience

:40:44.:40:48.

a little bit about yourself? Yeah, so I've been on the British to

:40:49.:40:51.

triathlon squad for about a year now. Unfortunately this year I am

:40:52.:40:57.

injured. I kind of made a pact with the guys that I would be the guy who

:40:58.:41:01.

is injured this year so unfortunately I couldn't be out in

:41:02.:41:06.

Rio with them. To echo what Jane said, triathlon is one of the

:41:07.:41:09.

fastest growing sports in the country and so easy to get into,

:41:10.:41:15.

now. I only started at sort of the age of 25. So I came into it really

:41:16.:41:20.

late and soon got into it and managed to get to the point where

:41:21.:41:23.

I'm representing my country so it's a brilliant sport to get involved

:41:24.:41:28.

in. And is it easy to get into because everyone, pretty much, can

:41:29.:41:33.

run, cycle and swim? Yeah, definitely. The access to facilities

:41:34.:41:38.

is good as well. Every town has got its own pool, and you can get your

:41:39.:41:43.

hands on any old bike to do the writing, and you can run straight

:41:44.:41:47.

from your doorstep. Obviously I am injured at the moment but the good

:41:48.:41:51.

thing about triathlon is I can still swim and bike, so I can still train

:41:52.:41:55.

the other two disciplines. That's the real unity of it, it's so

:41:56.:42:02.

varied. Thank you both. And of course you can watch the Brownlee

:42:03.:42:07.

brothers progress on BBC One, BBC Two, listen to commentary on 5 live

:42:08.:42:11.

and there's the BBC sport website as well.

:42:12.:42:13.

Thousands of students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are

:42:14.:42:15.

Official figures show the gap between the top performing boys and

:42:16.:42:22.

girls has narrowed for the first time in five years. The total

:42:23.:42:29.

proportion of A* grades has also dropped.

:42:30.:42:30.

Let's speak to our education correspondent Gillian Hargreaves

:42:31.:42:32.

who is at a college in Stoke-on-Trent.

:42:33.:42:34.

How have they done? It's pretty busy here because they've got to get

:42:35.:42:42.

through something like 500 sets of A-level and BTEC results this

:42:43.:42:46.

morning. As you say, the headlight figures are a record number of

:42:47.:42:51.

people entering university this autumn, by my reckoning that's

:42:52.:42:56.

something like 500,000 people, more than half a million people will be

:42:57.:43:01.

going to university this autumn. The headline figures, the gender gap at

:43:02.:43:05.

the top between boys and girls is closing slightly. At the bottom it's

:43:06.:43:09.

still quite wide which is one reason we've come to Stoke-on-Trent,

:43:10.:43:14.

because Stoke-on-Trent is a classic case of a poor, white working-class

:43:15.:43:17.

city where boys have not traditionally done well. However, I

:43:18.:43:23.

have a boy here, Jordan, who is bucking the trend, tell us what your

:43:24.:43:33.

results are this morning? I got two A*s and two As. So that is good

:43:34.:43:37.

enough for you, to go where? Cambridge, to do economic. You must

:43:38.:43:42.

be thrilled? I'm over the moon, really. I hadn't thought it was

:43:43.:43:46.

going to happen. You fat chance to talk to your mates, how have they

:43:47.:43:53.

done? -- you've had chanced. As far as I know everyone has done well.

:43:54.:43:57.

Critically, what has your mother said? Yeah, I text her, she's over

:43:58.:44:05.

the moon, too. Do you realise this is a Game Changers for you? This

:44:06.:44:10.

will change your life. You are not just going to university, you are

:44:11.:44:13.

going to one of the top five universities in the world. Well, no.

:44:14.:44:20.

It hasn't really sunk in yet. I've just kind of got in, I assume it

:44:21.:44:25.

will sink in soon. One other very satisfied student this morning is

:44:26.:44:30.

Samantha Harding. Tell us what you got and where you are going to go? I

:44:31.:44:37.

got a distinction star in my BTEC dance, distinction star in BTEC

:44:38.:44:42.

Theatre, a A-level history and a English literature and I'm going to

:44:43.:44:48.

hurt college in London to study professional dance. And what will

:44:49.:44:53.

that lead to you in terms of career and where do you think you might end

:44:54.:44:59.

up? I'm hopefully going to be on the West End, that's my goal. What do

:45:00.:45:05.

your family say? My mum was almost crying, so they are very pleased for

:45:06.:45:10.

me, they know how hard I've worked. Are many of your family in

:45:11.:45:15.

University? My sister went to university to do primary school

:45:16.:45:18.

teaching, she is fully qualified now. I'm the second in my family.

:45:19.:45:24.

Mum and dad didn't go? Knows. And classic play that is the challenge

:45:25.:45:30.

for communities like this. They have to spot talent at 18 and nurture

:45:31.:45:34.

people and really make them believe that they can go one and do these

:45:35.:45:39.

things so that they can go on to university, and in the case of

:45:40.:45:42.

Jordan and one or two other students, go to some very

:45:43.:45:46.

prestigious universities and realise their potential, because that's what

:45:47.:45:47.

this is all about. And TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has

:45:48.:45:52.

offered his condolences to those who didn't do as well as they'd

:45:53.:45:55.

hoped in a message on Twitter. I am not sure that will consult you

:45:56.:46:08.

if you did not get what you wanted, but you do have to put things in

:46:09.:46:13.

perspective, that is my humble advice. Will forcing local consuls,

:46:14.:46:22.

councils to provide emergency accommodation help tackle

:46:23.:46:23.

homelessness? The Government's childhood

:46:24.:46:26.

obesity plan has finally been published and has

:46:27.:46:28.

attracted widespread criticism. Here's what is in the plan,

:46:29.:46:31.

and here's what isn't. A new sugar tax on soft drinks

:46:32.:46:34.

is in, The plan encourages children to do

:46:35.:46:36.

an hour's exercise a day. to cut sugar in food and drink

:46:37.:46:46.

by 20% over the next four years. There are no restrictions

:46:47.:46:51.

on TV advertising of unhealthy foods

:46:52.:46:57.

before the 9pm watershed. There is no ban

:46:58.:47:01.

on multi-buy promotions, such as buy one, get one free,

:47:02.:47:03.

in supermarkets. Critics say, with a third

:47:04.:47:13.

of children overweight, this is a missed opportunity

:47:14.:47:15.

to force food and drink companies to reduce

:47:16.:47:17.

sugar in their products. It's reported that

:47:18.:47:19.

the Prime Minister, Theresa May, decided not to burden the industry

:47:20.:47:21.

at a time of economic uncertainty. Here to react, Ian Twinn

:47:22.:47:24.

from the advertising body ISBA - he's pleased the Government

:47:25.:47:26.

hasn't caved to health lobbyists. Jenny Rosborough is a registered

:47:27.:47:30.

nutritionist and campaign manager with Action on Sugar and feels

:47:31.:47:33.

disappointed with the strategy, as does Malcolm Clark,

:47:34.:47:40.

the coordinator And parents Julie Creffied

:47:41.:47:41.

a mum-of-one, and Emily Leary, who has two

:47:42.:47:44.

children aged four and eight. Welcome, let's start with the

:47:45.:47:58.

parents, what do you think, Julie? I think it is really difficult, as a

:47:59.:48:02.

parent, too, you know, have all of this shame placed on you when it

:48:03.:48:07.

comes to what your children are eating, but ultimately you are

:48:08.:48:10.

responsible when they are at that small age. But I think what is

:48:11.:48:15.

really interesting is, I read a company that is all about sport and

:48:16.:48:18.

women, and I think if we empower women to kind of make better choices

:48:19.:48:22.

for themselves, their children will follow. Do you think the Government

:48:23.:48:27.

should have done more? Do you think they should have bought food and

:48:28.:48:33.

strength firms to change? About it doesn't say a lot at all, there is a

:48:34.:48:37.

lot of talk about sugar, but sugar isn't the only issue, too many

:48:38.:48:42.

calories is really the issue. When I read the report that went out, there

:48:43.:48:47.

was a footnote about education, and I would like to see more about

:48:48.:48:51.

educating parents and educating children so that they understand

:48:52.:48:56.

what a healthy diet looks like. Martin Clarke, what do you think? I

:48:57.:49:00.

think children and taxpayers should be disappointed and feel let down at

:49:01.:49:09.

this plan. All we have got is dirty pages of recycled commitments and

:49:10.:49:12.

the same failed voluntary approaches. -- 30 pages. It is not

:49:13.:49:21.

good enough at all, the absence on marketing and promotions, it was in

:49:22.:49:24.

there even innately to draft one month ago. What has caused that to

:49:25.:49:29.

go? Why is the advertising industry so scared of even a public

:49:30.:49:35.

consultation on further restrictions on marketing and advertising, which

:49:36.:49:43.

was in the original document? Ian Twinn, from the ISBA, you must be

:49:44.:49:47.

delighted. I think it is the right approach, I think it is a great

:49:48.:49:51.

opportunity for business, campaigners and governors to work

:49:52.:49:55.

together. The idea of getting parents and children to understand

:49:56.:49:59.

what a healthy lifestyle is is much more important than naming and

:50:00.:50:02.

shaming people for the food they eat. We can go a long way now in

:50:03.:50:08.

working with government, we can use the power of advertising to

:50:09.:50:12.

reinforce very positive messages about getting people to understand

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that they are eating too much and not exercising. But there is no

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incentive in this plan for people who make food and drink, people who

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advertise these products, to reduce the sugar content? Well, I think

:50:26.:50:31.

there is. Which bit? Businesses will realise that if we do not see

:50:32.:50:36.

results over the next five years on obesity, the Government will

:50:37.:50:39.

probably have to say, then, there will have to be legislation and

:50:40.:50:43.

regulation. But in the meantime, it is not right to say that we are not

:50:44.:50:47.

consulting, we are doing exactly that, we have been doing it for the

:50:48.:50:50.

last few months. There will be tough new rules on HFS food advertising,

:50:51.:50:59.

foods that are high in fat, sugar and salt. There is a nutritional

:51:00.:51:03.

profiling test that already applies to television. So what things will

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be coming in? They will not be able to directly advertise to children in

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print, in the media, and online is cover. TV is already covered. And

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who is defining advertising to children? Unfortunately, we had a

:51:23.:51:25.

perfect opportunity year plans for the Government to say this is what

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this means, this is how the industry should define these things.

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Unfortunately, it is left to the advertising industry and the food

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and Trent industry to set the terms of their own rules, they regulate

:51:41.:51:43.

their own rules, and unfortunately we know from the experience of huge

:51:44.:51:49.

amounts of marketing, children are bombarded with four less healthy

:51:50.:51:54.

food and think, that this does not work. The industry says, we will do

:51:55.:52:04.

something. You know, public health has defined, you know, the

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government's own public health advisers have said, this is what is

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needed, there are other proper recommendations, both on the 9pm

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watershed, TV adverts, a whole series of things, loopholes that are

:52:18.:52:22.

not covered in the current rules. The answer to the question is the

:52:23.:52:26.

Government defined what advertising to children is, it was done by

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Ofcom, it was done when television advertising was brought in, and the

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same will apply to things which look like television but are on the

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internet, the same will apply to other forms of advertising. That is

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not right, it is misleading. Jenny, you are a nutritionist, what is your

:52:48.:52:52.

view? A really sad day for public health, they should have prioritised

:52:53.:52:56.

public-health over anything else, it is inexcusable. To give industry

:52:57.:53:01.

another five years' chance to make voluntary changes is a complete

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shambles. They have had the opportunity before, we have seen

:53:05.:53:08.

some change, but not enough to tackle obesity. What has happened is

:53:09.:53:12.

someone in the new government has lent on the delete button of the

:53:13.:53:18.

draft plan, which I have seen... The Prime Minister? Perhaps, she should

:53:19.:53:22.

be taking control of it. She said she wanted to tackle health

:53:23.:53:27.

inequalities, and this plan has had removed most of the evidence based

:53:28.:53:31.

policy is that need to be implemented. Emily, as part of this

:53:32.:53:38.

plan, we could all do this anyway, and encouragement that our children

:53:39.:53:43.

should do an hour's exercise a day, it is obviously a good idea, but we

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sort of know that, don't we? Yeah, and again I think it is about

:53:50.:53:53.

investment, because obviously we talk a lot about how children are

:53:54.:53:57.

not able to play in the streets, like they used to. Communities need

:53:58.:54:01.

good recreational spaces where children have the opportunity to

:54:02.:54:06.

exercise safely, as well as the organised exercise that they do at

:54:07.:54:08.

school. I would like to visit, rather than the footnote about that

:54:09.:54:13.

hour of exercise, I would like to see that turned on its head so it is

:54:14.:54:17.

much more about giving children the opportunity to be healthy and the

:54:18.:54:20.

opportunity to run around, as children love to do. I just want to

:54:21.:54:26.

bring in Julie, in terms of advertising, particularly on

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television, you have a three and a half -year-old, how much of an issue

:54:32.:54:34.

is it for you? I don't think it is an issue at all, because the biggest

:54:35.:54:39.

role model to children and their parents, and particularly the female

:54:40.:54:42.

in the home, and I think if children are seeing their parents eating well

:54:43.:54:47.

and exercising as part of a balanced lifestyle, they are more inclined to

:54:48.:54:51.

follow that than something on the television. That is a good point,

:54:52.:54:57.

isn't it? At the moment, the current rules are about what can be

:54:58.:55:03.

advertised on TV to children. This numerical criteria, they are saying

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it is really hard to understand. But the point is that your kids will

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learn more from parents. They have is what is on telly, don't get me

:55:14.:55:20.

wrong, they mimic loads of adverts. Absolutely, but this is about the

:55:21.:55:23.

power and control of parents, rather than not. So for instance we all

:55:24.:55:28.

understand what a 9pm watershed is and the means. At the moment we

:55:29.:55:32.

don't understand what adverts might be seen by children watching

:55:33.:55:36.

Britain's Got Talent or X Factor, well, we do, high sugar, high fat

:55:37.:55:41.

food and drink. But at the same time, I say that what we are wanting

:55:42.:55:45.

to see in this strategy was how the Government could give a helping hand

:55:46.:55:52.

to parents. I do agree... I think we are missing a huge point of this

:55:53.:55:58.

discussion, why are people over eating sugary goods? We are not

:55:59.:56:05.

talking about the reasons we self-medicating but you don't do

:56:06.:56:16.

that with kids. They learn about food being used as treats, and I

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spoke to the producer, and it was somebody's anniversary, and they had

:56:24.:56:28.

come back with a big bag of sweets. We are having this conversation.

:56:29.:56:35.

Let's be fair to parents, it is their responsibility to be healthy

:56:36.:56:39.

role models, and that is difficult when there is this kind of situation

:56:40.:56:42.

going on, lots of food and drink being heavily marketed, because

:56:43.:56:46.

manufacturers know that it will increase their choice. It is really

:56:47.:56:50.

disappointing that the health minister, our new health minister

:56:51.:56:57.

has said in response to this... Jane Ellison, sorry, she is the former

:56:58.:57:02.

health minister. She has said, in response to this, about inspiring

:57:03.:57:06.

new GBA Libyans, and I think that cannot be further removed from what

:57:07.:57:10.

we are trying to do in tackling childhood obesity. -- new GB

:57:11.:57:19.

Olympians. Should we hold a parade for Team GB when they return from

:57:20.:57:24.

Rio? There is no plan, despite it being our most accessible way Games

:57:25.:57:27.

ever. Time for the latest weather with John.

:57:28.:57:35.

It has been very dry across the UK, good news for holiday-makers but not

:57:36.:57:41.

gardeners, and it is all about to change. This could be seen tomorrow

:57:42.:57:46.

near you, and the culprit is this area of low pressure developing in

:57:47.:57:50.

the Atlantic with our name on it. Ahead of that, one more fine day,

:57:51.:57:54.

dampness bursting across parts of southern England, still the odd

:57:55.:58:00.

shower possible, but most places having a lovely day. This is

:58:01.:58:05.

mid-afternoon, always cooler across Scotland, and onshore breeze, but a

:58:06.:58:15.

fine and pleasantly warm day in the south. I mention the risk of a

:58:16.:58:19.

shower in the south, but pretty isolated, the vast majority of us

:58:20.:58:23.

will stay entirely dry with a fine evening in prospect. Not so across

:58:24.:58:29.

south-western parts of England and Wales, here comes the rain as we

:58:30.:58:34.

head into the early hours, heavy rain too, increasingly gusty winds.

:58:35.:58:38.

Temperatures in some rural spots, across the Glens of Scotland, down

:58:39.:58:43.

to single figures, but no real problems temperatures wise. Get out

:58:44.:58:49.

and enjoy the weather while it can, the rain will be in the south-west,

:58:50.:58:53.

pushing northwards and eastwards, a few hours of rain in most places, a

:58:54.:58:57.

gusty wind. Last to arrive across the far north, by which time it will

:58:58.:59:01.

be brightening up across south-western parts. Temperatures

:59:02.:59:04.

not too bad in the brightness, but for most of us cooler than it has

:59:05.:59:08.

been for some time. This area of low pressure is going to spin its way

:59:09.:59:12.

across northern part of the UK, and it is on the southern flank during

:59:13.:59:16.

Saturday that we will see runs of heavy showers, but very strong

:59:17.:59:25.

winds, big waves battering the coast. Inland, where there are

:59:26.:59:29.

events taking place, B1, these gusts of up to 50 mph could well cause

:59:30.:59:38.

some destruction. -- be warned. Slow-moving heavy downpours across

:59:39.:59:41.

northern parts of the UK, all in all, not that clever on Saturday, I

:59:42.:59:46.

am sure you will agree. That low pressure will idle out into the

:59:47.:59:50.

North Sea, that means lighter winds and fewer showers on Sunday, but

:59:51.:59:53.

still a few knocking about on the breeze. In the sunshine, not too

:59:54.:59:58.

bad, but temperatures certainly a lot lower than in recent days,

:59:59.:00:01.

typically high teens to low 20s. Hello it's Thursday,

:00:02.:00:09.

it's 10am, good morning I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

:00:10.:00:10.

welcome to our programme. Team GB are guaranteed another medal

:00:11.:00:19.

after the women's hockey team reached their first ever Olympic

:00:20.:00:22.

final with a 3-0 win over They'll be going for gold

:00:23.:00:25.

when they face the I never thought in a million years

:00:26.:00:35.

that I would be stood here today. I'm so very proud of what this squad

:00:36.:00:40.

has achieved, not just the girls here, but the girls at home as well.

:00:41.:00:43.

And Team GB's Brownlee brothers will be in action today.

:00:44.:00:45.

Alistair and Jonny will aim to repeat their success from London

:00:46.:00:48.

2012, when they compete in the men's triathlon this afternoon.

:00:49.:00:50.

Plus, should British athletes be welcomed home

:00:51.:00:54.

We'll be talking to former 2012 Olympics minister Tessa

:00:55.:00:58.

Plus, 7,000 anti-Muslim tweets were posted, in English,

:00:59.:01:05.

every day last month on Twitter according to data seen

:01:06.:01:07.

Victims of the abuse tell us how they're being targeted,

:01:08.:01:11.

Do you want to talk about sharia law? You want to talk about sharia

:01:12.:01:22.

law to me? We'll talk about sharia law. I wasn't... I wasn't talking to

:01:23.:01:28.

you. Who were you talking to about sharia law here, sir?

:01:29.:01:32.

Now for the latest from the Olympics, here's

:01:33.:01:34.

Hugh Woozencroft at the BBC Sport Centre.

:01:35.:01:37.

There were no medals on the twelfth day of the Rio Olympics for Team GB

:01:38.:01:41.

- but no need for disappointment really.

:01:42.:01:43.

And there was an impressive performance

:01:44.:01:45.

from the Women's Hockey Team saw them into their first Olympic final.

:01:46.:01:48.

Patrick Gearey has a look at what's ahead for Team Gb's medal hunt.

:01:49.:01:51.

For days now the rollercoaster has raced on.

:01:52.:01:56.

Bursts of speed, sudden twists and turns, pulsing adrenaline.

:01:57.:02:03.

But on all the best rides the pace must slow before building again.

:02:04.:02:08.

On the hockey field Britain's women are on the march.

:02:09.:02:12.

Every game they've played in Rio they've won, but to beat New Zealand

:02:13.:02:15.

in the semifinal they would need to be at their best.

:02:16.:02:18.

Alex Danson gets the first goal of the match for Great Britain!

:02:19.:02:28.

Now they had real momentum, a lead they held until the fourth

:02:29.:02:31.

For Helen Richardson-Walsh this was one important flick.

:02:32.:02:36.

One of the most crucial goals of her career,

:02:37.:02:39.

but her body denied her the celebration.

:02:40.:02:42.

As she limped, Great Britain cantered.

:02:43.:02:45.

Another penalty and for Danson a chance to finish what she started.

:02:46.:02:51.

Into a first final with a silver assured,

:02:52.:02:54.

but one last demand of them - one more.

:02:55.:03:00.

Mo Farah knows the value of slowing things down so you can

:03:01.:03:03.

When you can run 5,000 metres as fast as him,

:03:04.:03:09.

the heats are about conserving energy, avoiding slipups.

:03:10.:03:13.

In the 10,000 metre final he tumbled.

:03:14.:03:15.

It's difficult to relax over five kilometres of running,

:03:16.:03:20.

His fourth gold medal might be just a few days away.

:03:21.:03:28.

How well do you feel you've recovered after the ten?

:03:29.:03:31.

Not as well as I wanted, but I've just got to rest now.

:03:32.:03:34.

Put my feet up, just chill in my room.

:03:35.:03:37.

Adam Gemili had no room for relaxation in the 200 metres

:03:38.:03:43.

semifinal against Canada's Andre De Grasse and,

:03:44.:03:45.

Gemili wasn't happy with his race, but still did enough for third

:03:46.:03:57.

and qualification for the final as the fastest loser.

:03:58.:04:00.

Bolt, meanwhile, is the only man around who can exchange a joke

:04:01.:04:03.

during a sprint and then gatecrash an interview.

:04:04.:04:04.

He was supposed to slow down, but he didn't!

:04:05.:04:07.

That's why I said, "What are you doing?

:04:08.:04:09.

He said he had to push me, so it's whatever.

:04:10.:04:12.

Bolt's big rival Justin Gatlin, second in the 100 metres,

:04:13.:04:17.

Proof that surprises happen and proof that might sustain

:04:18.:04:22.

sisters Cindy Ofili and Tiffany Porter in the 100

:04:23.:04:24.

Ofili excelled and got about as close to a medal

:04:25.:04:28.

That is one of the toughest margins in sport.

:04:29.:04:40.

No medal either for Dina Asher-Smith in the 200 metres final,

:04:41.:04:42.

but fifth fastest in the world is not bad

:04:43.:04:44.

But she will have to go some to catch Elaine Thompson,

:04:45.:04:48.

who added the 200 metre title to the 100 metres.

:04:49.:04:50.

On a hot day in Rio the Lagoa was a good place to be,

:04:51.:05:00.

but no chance of taking it easy in the sprint canoe semifinals.

:05:01.:05:04.

The two Brits in lane five say they have unfinished business

:05:05.:05:07.

on Olympic water, they took bronze in London, so they paddled

:05:08.:05:12.

through to toda's finals as quickly as they could to ensure they'll

:05:13.:05:15.

Heath, in front, was 32 yesterday and will be happy to wait a day

:05:16.:05:19.

for his present if it's a gold medal.

:05:20.:05:21.

This was a day when even the wind was calmer.

:05:22.:05:26.

Not enough breeze for the women's 470 medal race, which Saskia Clark

:05:27.:05:29.

and Hannah Mills just needed to finish to win gold.

:05:30.:05:32.

So their final voyage together will depart a day late.

:05:33.:05:34.

For them, any way the wind blows doesn't really matter,

:05:35.:05:36.

Alistair and Jonny Brownlee go in the triathlon later today.

:05:37.:05:54.

And with their biggest rival, Javier Gomez of Spain, missing,

:05:55.:05:56.

they'll have their sights firming set on a Brownlee 1-2.

:05:57.:05:59.

Gomez split the brothers in London four years ago with Alastair taking

:06:00.:06:02.

gold and the younger of the two Jonny winning bronze.

:06:03.:06:04.

Also in contention for a medal today are

:06:05.:06:06.

They go in the Men's 200 metres Kayak Double at around 1:40pm.

:06:07.:06:14.

The Bronze medallists from London say they have 'unfinished

:06:15.:06:16.

Also in action today, Olympic Champion Nicola Adams

:06:17.:06:19.

will fight for a place in the final of the Women's flyweight boxing.

:06:20.:06:22.

She is already guaranteed at least Bronze.

:06:23.:06:24.

So the medal table is as it was yesterday,

:06:25.:06:26.

in terms of position and number of medals for Team GB.

:06:27.:06:32.

They sit second with 19 gold, 19 silver, 12 bronze -

:06:33.:06:35.

But China do now have the same number of golds.

:06:36.:06:40.

Team GB's superior number of silvers keep them in 2nd.

:06:41.:06:47.

USA are top with 30 golds and 93 medals in total.

:06:48.:06:49.

Team GB are all but guaranteed another medal in sailing later

:06:50.:06:52.

with Saskia Clark and Hannah Mills - their final race was delayed

:06:53.:06:55.

That's all the sport for now.

:06:56.:07:03.

Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of todays news.

:07:04.:07:08.

Thousands of students are receiving their A-level results in England,

:07:09.:07:11.

The number of candidates receiving top grades has fallen

:07:12.:07:16.

for the fifth year in a row, while the gap between girls

:07:17.:07:19.

and boys receiving the top grades has narrowed

:07:20.:07:21.

to the smallest it has been for at least 10 years.

:07:22.:07:28.

The government's long awaited plan to tackle childhood obesity has

:07:29.:07:30.

been heavily criticised as a "missed opportunity".

:07:31.:07:32.

Senior doctors, dentists and local government representatives say

:07:33.:07:34.

they're disappointed the measures, which are being published today,

:07:35.:07:36.

The plan includes a tax on sugary drinks, but it misses

:07:37.:07:40.

out curbs on marketing and supermarket promotions.

:07:41.:07:45.

The minister who was previously in charge of the plans,

:07:46.:07:47.

Jane Ellison, said it was important to tackle the problem at source.

:07:48.:07:52.

One of the reasons it's so important to tackle the formulation of food

:07:53.:07:57.

at source is because then as that flows through into promotions

:07:58.:08:01.

we will start to see more healthy food featured in those promotions.

:08:02.:08:06.

But we also have to give credit to supermarkets for the work they've

:08:07.:08:09.

New research from the think tank Demos, exclusive to this programme,

:08:10.:08:17.

suggests that 7,000 Islamophobic tweets were sent in English every

:08:18.:08:20.

The data, collected from tweets sent in English-speaking countries over

:08:21.:08:26.

the last five months, also suggests Islamophobic tweets

:08:27.:08:28.

increase in the wake of terrorist attacks.

:08:29.:08:31.

And stay with us for more on that story, just

:08:32.:08:34.

And stay with us for more on that story, just after this news summary.

:08:35.:08:38.

Black and minority ethnic people in Britain face far-reaching

:08:39.:08:40.

inequality in many areas, including education, health

:08:41.:08:42.

and criminal justice, according to a report published today.

:08:43.:08:48.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission says unemployment rates

:08:49.:08:51.

are also significantly higher among ethnic minorities, with black

:08:52.:08:57.

graduates earning 23% less on average

:08:58.:08:58.

Two American Olympic swimmers have been taken off their flight home

:08:59.:09:03.

by Brazilian police over their claim that they were victims

:09:04.:09:05.

Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were questioned by police in Rio.

:09:06.:09:12.

The pair, along with Ryan Lochte and another team member,

:09:13.:09:14.

say their taxi was attacked as they returned from a party.

:09:15.:09:19.

The government's being urged to force local councils in England

:09:20.:09:21.

to provide emergency accommodation for homeless people

:09:22.:09:23.

MPs on the Communities and Local Government Committee say

:09:24.:09:29.

a lack of social housing, steep rises in private rents

:09:30.:09:32.

and welfare reforms have contributed to rising levels of homelessness.

:09:33.:09:42.

Later Victoria will be talking to two people who have dealt with being

:09:43.:09:49.

homeless and to one of the MPs calling for reform.

:09:50.:09:51.

The horrors of the conflict in Syria have been brought home to thousands

:09:52.:09:54.

of social media users after a distressing video

:09:55.:09:56.

of a little boy injured after an airstrike in Aleppo

:09:57.:09:58.

The video, which we are about to show, and some of you may find

:09:59.:10:03.

distressing, is thought to be of 5 year old Omran Daqneesh,

:10:04.:10:05.

one of possibly five children injured in the bombing.

:10:06.:10:08.

Doctors in Aleppo have confirmed

:10:09.:10:10.

he was brought to the hospital on Wednesday night following

:10:11.:10:14.

an airstrike on the rebel-held district of Qaterji with head

:10:15.:10:16.

wounds, but no brain injury, and was later discharged.

:10:17.:10:23.

Medics in Aleppo accuse the Syria government of targetting

:10:24.:10:26.

hospitals in airstrikes, and say they are forced to use

:10:27.:10:28.

codewords in communications when they transfer patients by ambulance.

:10:29.:10:33.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News, more at 10.30am.

:10:34.:10:37.

Thanks for your messages. Mary says, let us celebrate with our athletes

:10:38.:10:43.

for the amazing work they've done, let them know we appreciate all that

:10:44.:10:47.

hard work that it took to get them to Rio. Yes, let's have a parade,

:10:48.:10:53.

says Mary. David says, yes, let's have a parade to honour Team GB, it

:10:54.:10:59.

would be a marvellous idea. Doug says a show of parade is not in the

:11:00.:11:04.

spirit of the Olympics, it's not the winning, it is how you play the

:11:05.:11:08.

game. Other countries may be miffed that we are able to spend so much

:11:09.:11:12.

lottery money to create so many winners. Better to be modest.

:11:13.:11:17.

Stewart says, we are a fantastic nation, yes to a parade. Smith says

:11:18.:11:25.

a parade in local areas to spread the inspiration and hopefully it

:11:26.:11:30.

will help cut down on obesity as well. Thank you for those, keep them

:11:31.:11:38.

coming in. We will be speaking to Dame Tessa gel who was part of

:11:39.:11:42.

getting the games to come to London in 2012.

:11:43.:11:47.

7,000 Islamophobic tweets were sent in English every

:11:48.:11:49.

In April it was around 2500 per day. July saw the most abuse for five

:11:50.:12:01.

months as Europe was hit by a terror attack and the murder of a priest.

:12:02.:12:04.

The data, collected from tweets sent in English-speaking countries over

:12:05.:12:07.

This one says you are threatening our way of life.

:12:08.:12:40.

And you get more messages like this after

:12:41.:12:42.

Always, it does not matter what I say or what I am

:12:43.:12:46.

writing about, the response after a terrorist attack will always be

:12:47.:12:49.

slating Islam in some kind of way or insulting

:12:50.:12:51.

Islam or insulting me or

:12:52.:12:52.

my hijab, even if I am talking about something

:12:53.:12:54.

completely unrelated, even

:12:55.:12:55.

if I am sending condolences to the victims.

:12:56.:12:57.

The Demos research shows large peaks in Islamophobic tweet

:12:58.:12:59.

We've seen 5000 and team Lynn tweets, and it has been building

:13:00.:13:11.

month on month. July was the worst. A man behind us start interrupting.

:13:12.:13:15.

I ask him if he can keep his voice down. He replies saying it's free

:13:16.:13:19.

speech, and then he adds there is no sharia law here. It's freedom of

:13:20.:13:24.

expression but you've chosen to sit here right now, so if you've got

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something to say than you can say it. Do you want to talk about sharia

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law to me? We can talk about sharia law. You obviously said it for a

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reason. We are told to be politically correct when we don't

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want to be. The research shows large peaks in Islamophobic tweets around

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terror attacks. In the immediate wake of news it was 20,000. In July

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it was significant. Each of these dots is an anti-Ms limp tweet.

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Massive red mass. That's right, all happening in the immediate

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aftermath. This film-maker has been sent Islamophobic abuse on Twitter

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but says the feelings being expressed on my need to be listened

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to. I don't like Islamophobics, I don't

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like lots of people, but shutting them down will not stop this. The

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feelings do not disappear. The reality is together we need to find

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out what does it mean to be British moving forward, what does it mean to

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build a society that includes all of us when it means looking like me and

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looking like you. Lets talk to Carl Miller from the think tank Demos who

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carried out the research. Ruqaiya Haris who is a student

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and writer and Ajmal Masroor How do you identify Islamophobic

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tweets? This is social media research and we have to cope with

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enormous body is of tweets. So we use artificial intelligence to make

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a distinction between those using slur terms in ways that are not

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derogatory and those that are. That cuts down 34 million tweets into the

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numbers we saw on your report just now. What do you think of the data

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you collected in terms of the month of July? I think it shows that

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underneath the amazingly brilliant things we are used to seeing on

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Twitter and other social media platforms there is quite problematic

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and worrying underlayer of hate and Islamophobic hate. And this is

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something we as a society have to confront in of different ways. Is it

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a worldwide problem? It is, it is not just coming from the UK. The

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numbers are for the English language but it is happening in in other

:15:54.:15:54.

languages as well. This twice to three, we saw a little

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bit of what you have to undergo quite regularly in your life. --

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Ruqaiya. Tell us what it is like? It is weird, I wouldn't say it happens

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every day, very often, but online it has become something that is quite

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normal to me, to receive that kind of abuse, and it is weird. I feel on

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the one hand quite hard and do it, because it is so normal, and it is

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something that I have grown up hearing, but at the same time it

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never stops being something that plays on your mind, angering and

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irritating you. Does it weigh you down? It can do, but I have learned

:16:38.:16:42.

to kind of accent that it is going to happen, there is nothing I can do

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about that. -- acceptable the moment people see a woman wearing hijab,

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there is going to be some kind of reaction. What do you think of this

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conflation in some people's minds of Islamist terrorists and ordinary

:16:59.:17:04.

Muslim people going about their lives in Britain? I mean, I think it

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is, you know, it is a shame that people conflate the two, and I think

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it is really a situation where people do not engage that much with

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Muslims and their community. Apps Muslims do not engage with them, but

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I think the problem comes from the fact that they cannot differentiate

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between the terrorists they see on television that actually have

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nothing to do with ordinary Muslim people, but it is just about how

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they are going to engage and overcome those prejudices. As an

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imam, I wonder if you hear people saying a lot, you should be

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condemning attacks from IS and other terrorists. I have been condemning

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them, and people continue to associate and connect Islam with

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terrorism, you have just done it by calling it Islamists terrorism. Why

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give it about accolade? How would you describe them? Terrorists,

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criminals, do not give them the honour of Islam. Islam is a religion

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followed by 1.8 billion, none of them support these idiots, so we

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need to make that differentiation. I am very sad to hear of Ruqaiya's

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experience, that she feels it is normal, when our children, our

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generation, we think that prejudice and discrimination is normal. We are

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heading for a big disaster. Finally, I believe it has become... A big

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disaster, what do you mean? I am just about to say. In our pub

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banter, in our conversations in social settings, it has become sexy

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and fashionable to deride the Muslim, talk against Islam. That is

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the disaster we are talking about, our children feeling pier. My nephew

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said, I don't want to be a Muslim anymore. When our prejudice cascades

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down to school playgrounds, we have failed, failed miserably, and that

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is what we need to challenge. I get it every day, between after

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appearing on television, the media pundits, media personalities who

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speak freely and candidly without any shame, calling us all sorts of

:19:14.:19:18.

names, making Islamophobic and derogatory remarks, there is no

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accountability, and this is very bad for all of us. I'm glad Demos has

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done this research to show us the elephant in the room. In previous

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generations, when this happened, what we saw in Europe was bloodbath,

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and we don't want to see that ever again, not in our lifetime or the

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lifetimes of our children or anyone in the future. It is very

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frightening. Yes. Is there and element of the EU referendum vote,

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to you think, we should talk about in relation to the data or not? Yes,

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there is. The first large spike we actually saw was in the immediate

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wake of Brexit, and that, in a sense, I think, began to legitimise

:20:05.:20:09.

these certain views up to that moment, although some people felt

:20:10.:20:12.

they could not talk about it. We began to realise that a lot of the

:20:13.:20:16.

view is that we thought were being confronted and indeed defeated were

:20:17.:20:20.

actually being played out in the public space, and in a sense the

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Brexit vote, like in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, opens up

:20:25.:20:29.

that public space for views to the air. Islamophobia online is

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incredibly ever and specific, it is not constant. It really explodes

:20:33.:20:37.

after terrorist attacks when people are angry and scared. Of course,

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really worrying and really problematic is that we can see this

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in the Twitter response to this very programme, there is no distinction

:20:46.:20:49.

in some people's minds between legitimate criticism of Islam and

:20:50.:20:56.

Islamophobia. They regard the criticism of Islamophobia to be the

:20:57.:20:58.

shutting down of any legitimate criticism of Islam. The only thing

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this plays into the narrative which IS wish British Muslims to hear.

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None of this mixed terrorist attacks less likely to happen, it only plays

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into that narrative, and that is what was worrying in the wake of the

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attacks. So we have hate crime legislation, is it enough? We don't

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have it. It is not enough, we have two more robust legislation... What

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can be more robust? Let me give you a three step solution, we need to

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start from schools, we need to educate our children that racism is

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not right, we taught that. I was taught that when I was younger.

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Sorry, I'm just going to pause and each point, please join in this

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conversation, even if there was a period in the curriculum where a

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teacher has that kind of conversation, actually, if you are a

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racist child it is because you have got racist parents. It almost

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doesn't matter what the teacher says. The generation will change.

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When I was younger, I had bottles broken in my face because I was

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black or brown by white supremacist BNP thugs. It doesn't happen any

:22:14.:22:18.

more on the basis of race. We change that by fighting back and educating

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our children. On the education point, I don't know what you think,

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but the really important thing, at least online, is education around

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digital citizenship. That is right, yeah. Online, we do lack the basic

:22:35.:22:38.

norms to actually treat one another assembly. The etiquette is missing.

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-- civilly. People think they can do what they like online, it is not

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acceptable is the one point you made earlier about criticism of Islam, it

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is absolutely open, even God says you can criticise the Koran. You can

:22:58.:23:03.

be critical but you do not have to ridicule people for that. That needs

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to be said loudly and clearly. The last point is about the politicians.

:23:09.:23:12.

Many politicians panda to the right wing in order to get their

:23:13.:23:16.

popularity up, shame on them! They need to stand their ground and Satan

:23:17.:23:21.

no Islamophobia will be tolerated, even if we lose votes. We need to

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challenge the thuggery, challenge the education, and a lack of it, and

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media and politicians need to be responsible for it. I think the

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biggest issue was how socially respectable it is. It is not

:23:40.:23:42.

something that can be changed with legislation, it needs to make

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Islamophobes feel marginalised. The real issue is how socially

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unacceptable it is, and it is the fact that these politicians are

:23:54.:23:58.

coming out, they are insinuating very Islamophobic things, they are

:23:59.:24:01.

stereotyping us, making sweeping generalisations. So it is these

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problems that are... It is asking people to take care. Take care, be

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accountable. Be specific. It is a challenge for the BBC and other

:24:16.:24:21.

channels, stop using the word Islamic before describing a

:24:22.:24:24.

terrorist, call in a criminal, call them other names. If you can do

:24:25.:24:28.

that, we will win the fight together. It becomes a subliminal

:24:29.:24:32.

message in the minds of people, the moment Islam is mentioned, they

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think about terrorism. I have learnt this from playgrounds in schools, I

:24:37.:24:40.

have asked kids, what do you think about when you think about Islam?

:24:41.:24:43.

The first thing they say is terrorism. When that were

:24:44.:24:49.

accidentally wrote a terraced house, we call that subliminal messaging

:24:50.:24:57.

that is embedded in his head. -- terrorist house. Terrorism has no

:24:58.:25:01.

religion, and extremism has no religion. We need to call them

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extremist terrorist and do not give them the description of Islam. OK.

:25:07.:25:12.

Right, Chris says, what a revealing interview in the park, which was

:25:13.:25:16.

interrupted by the face of modern Britain. How ignorant. Peter says,

:25:17.:25:23.

how can you reason with such bigots? That is a decent question, you know.

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Yeah. The view is set, they are entrenched, as you say, and when you

:25:31.:25:34.

talk about telling them it is not acceptable, they believe it is some

:25:35.:25:39.

kind of censorship. I do think it is important sometimes to engage with

:25:40.:25:42.

these people, but at the same time you have to pick your battles and

:25:43.:25:46.

expect every Muslim to go about your life, you know, every single day,

:25:47.:25:51.

and engage with Islamophobes is unfair. What person has to engage

:25:52.:25:55.

with bigots or racists on a daily basis, and is it really our duty to

:25:56.:26:00.

educate people? But at the same time, I think it is important in

:26:01.:26:03.

certain situations. It is important to say that there are 500 million

:26:04.:26:09.

tweets sent every day, so follow the numbers are worrying, they are very

:26:10.:26:13.

small. We have to come to terms with the fact that public life has

:26:14.:26:17.

changed. People can jump into public life with the use of a smartphone.

:26:18.:26:21.

We are rubbing up against that, this content is going to be at there, and

:26:22.:26:26.

there is nothing we can do about it. In the time it takes Twitter,

:26:27.:26:29.

Facebook or the police to remove content, to judge it, judge against

:26:30.:26:35.

policy and take it down, you can send ten tweets. Led me read some

:26:36.:26:41.

more comments from people who have a different point of view. Emily on

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Facebook, I think the man in the film was right, the man that was

:26:47.:26:50.

talking to you, that you had a conversation with, although he went

:26:51.:26:54.

about it in the wrong way. As a country, we are losing our rights to

:26:55.:26:57.

freedom of speech, but there is a way to go about it without being

:26:58.:27:02.

racist. People confuse being a respectful Muslim and being a

:27:03.:27:07.

terrorist. I bet you any money that person doesn't know what sharia

:27:08.:27:10.

means, has never done a single reading about Islam and is

:27:11.:27:14.

regurgitating what they have heard in the media. This tweet, you showed

:27:15.:27:20.

a clip of a man confronting a woman about sharia law, if you want to

:27:21.:27:25.

practice sharia law, do it in your own country, not here? I am sure

:27:26.:27:30.

that is something you hear a lot. It is, and I am talking about sharia

:27:31.:27:34.

law because this man started a discussion, I did not go up to him

:27:35.:27:38.

and say I would like to practice sharia law here. And what is your

:27:39.:27:42.

home country? Britain, I was born here. Established grooming gangs

:27:43.:27:48.

across the UK kill and heckle British soldiers, this tweet says,

:27:49.:27:52.

promoting anti-Semitism and homophobia then claim you are being

:27:53.:27:57.

persecuted. This from David, Muslim people make no effort to integrate,

:27:58.:28:01.

they choose to make themselves different. This is great Britain, we

:28:02.:28:07.

don't want to change. I find that incredible, the relationship that we

:28:08.:28:10.

all go out of our way to build is what counts, and we're not doing

:28:11.:28:15.

enough of that. Muslims and non-Muslims are not doing enough of

:28:16.:28:18.

that. Do not blame Muslims for the lack of integration, I can go to

:28:19.:28:22.

errors of the UK where you will not see anything but one monolithic

:28:23.:28:27.

community, and I believe in integration fully, I think Ruqaiya

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does, and I am sure all your guests, including Alex, sorry, Carl, I got

:28:33.:28:36.

your name wrong, believes it is, we all do. But how do we integrate? It

:28:37.:28:41.

is a two way processed by relationship, by trust, by

:28:42.:28:45.

interaction. I want to open my doors to my neighbours, openly mocked

:28:46.:28:49.

doors for people to come and see. That is the trust building we are

:28:50.:28:55.

missing at the moment. Honest conversation is missing, and that is

:28:56.:28:58.

how I believe integration will happen and we will defeat

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Islamophobia. Thank you very much. Coming up in the last half hour,

:29:00.:29:13.

will forcing local councils to provide emergency accommodation help

:29:14.:29:16.

reduce homelessness? It has certainly helped some homeless

:29:17.:29:19.

people, will it reduce the problem overall. We will hear from two

:29:20.:29:26.

people who have been homeless. Also, we will be looking at whether there

:29:27.:29:30.

should be a parade after the Olympics and the Paralympics to

:29:31.:29:31.

celebrate the success of Team GB. Now for the latest from

:29:32.:29:36.

the Olympics, here's Hugh Woozencroft at the BBC

:29:37.:29:38.

Sport Centre Great Britain are guaranteed

:29:39.:29:42.

another Olympic medal after the women's hockey team

:29:43.:29:55.

reached their first final with a superb 3-0 win

:29:56.:29:57.

over New Zealand in Rio. Alex Danson's double

:29:58.:29:59.

and Helen Richardson-Walsh's penalty stroke mean GB

:30:00.:30:01.

will win at least silver, improving on their

:30:02.:30:03.

bronze at London 2012. Usain Bolt

:30:04.:30:05.

ran his fastest time of the season The Jamaican is aiming to complete

:30:06.:30:07.

the 'triple triple', to win gold in the 100 metre,

:30:08.:30:17.

200 metre and 4 by 100 metre relays after doing so at both

:30:18.:30:21.

the Beijing and London Games. Britain's Adam Gemili also

:30:22.:30:25.

qualified for the final Defending champion Alastair Brownlee

:30:26.:30:27.

and his younger Brother Jonny will be two of the favourites

:30:28.:30:37.

in the Triathlon later today. They get off at around 3 o'clock

:30:38.:30:40.

but London 2012 silver medallist Javier Gomez

:30:41.:30:43.

is missing through injury. So, lots to look forward to later on

:30:44.:30:51.

today. Coverage across BBC TV and radio.

:30:52.:30:52.

That's all from me for now.

:30:53.:30:54.

Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:30:55.:30:57.

Thousands of students are receiving their A-level results in England,

:30:58.:31:01.

The number of candidates receiving top grades has fallen

:31:02.:31:05.

for the fifth year in a row, while the gap between girls

:31:06.:31:08.

and boys receiving the top grades has narrowed

:31:09.:31:10.

to the smallest it has been for at least 10 years.

:31:11.:31:12.

The Government's long awaited plan to tackle childhood obesity has

:31:13.:31:15.

been heavily criticised as a "missed opportunity".

:31:16.:31:19.

Senior doctors, dentists and local government representatives

:31:20.:31:20.

say they are disappointed the measures, which are

:31:21.:31:22.

being published today, don't go far enough.

:31:23.:31:27.

The plan includes a tax on sugary drinks, but it misses

:31:28.:31:32.

out curbs on marketing and supermarket promotions.

:31:33.:31:35.

The minister who was previously in charge of drawing up

:31:36.:31:38.

the child obesity strategy, Jane Ellison, has dismissed

:31:39.:31:40.

One of the reasons it's so important to tackle the formulation of food

:31:41.:31:46.

at source is because then as that flows through into promotions

:31:47.:31:50.

we will start to see more healthy food featured in those promotions.

:31:51.:31:52.

But we also have to give credit to supermarkets for the work they've

:31:53.:31:56.

New research from the think tank Demos, exclusive to this programme,

:31:57.:32:06.

suggests that 7,000 Islamophobic tweets were sent in English every

:32:07.:32:08.

The data, collected from tweets sent in English-speaking countries over

:32:09.:32:15.

the last five months, also suggests Islamophobic tweets

:32:16.:32:17.

increase in the wake of terrorist attacks.

:32:18.:32:23.

Two American Olympic swimmers have been taken off their flight home

:32:24.:32:26.

by Brazilian police over their claim that they were victims

:32:27.:32:28.

Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were questioned by police in Rio.

:32:29.:32:34.

The pair, along with Ryan Lochte and another team member,

:32:35.:32:37.

say their taxi was attacked as they returned from a party.

:32:38.:32:46.

More than 80,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes,

:32:47.:32:49.

as eight large wildfires continue to rage in California.

:32:50.:32:53.

Thousands of firefighters are battling the blazes,

:32:54.:32:54.

but officials say one of the largest is still out of control.

:32:55.:32:57.

That's a summary of the latest news, join me for BBC Newsroom

:32:58.:33:00.

Let's talk about the sort of financial rewards that Olympic gold

:33:01.:33:08.

medallists might enjoy. Rewards can be quite considerable

:33:09.:33:15.

depending on which country you represent. The estimated bonus for a

:33:16.:33:21.

Singaporean gold medallist, for example, is over 700,000 US dollars.

:33:22.:33:32.

Aaron is here. Tell us about British winners and what they can expect?

:33:33.:33:37.

The British winners? We can start with that, nothing. The country

:33:38.:33:41.

doesn't give the British winners a single bonus. Right, OK. Other

:33:42.:33:46.

countries do and I did not realise that some of these guys, it comes

:33:47.:33:51.

from the government, give bonuses to their athletes. So you've got these

:33:52.:33:54.

athletes at the games not only striving for gold, silver or bronze

:33:55.:33:59.

but striving for a bonus. You mentioned the Singaporean $750,000,

:34:00.:34:03.

but I've put a little chart together just for you. One of my favourites

:34:04.:34:09.

is Malaysia. Malaysia gives a gold winner by Goldbach worth 600,000 US

:34:10.:34:19.

dollars. Italy, France, they are still working out $185,000 for gold.

:34:20.:34:29.

25,004 gold in the United States, 15,000 dollars for silver. Most of

:34:30.:34:35.

these countries where these athletes get these sorts of bonuses, they are

:34:36.:34:38.

tax-free, it's exempt. Not the United States. It's called a victory

:34:39.:34:45.

tax. Some of these athletes going back, Michael Phelps, with all his

:34:46.:34:50.

gold medals, they are going back to face hefty bills. For US athlete

:34:51.:34:57.

with a gold medal, probably worth around $10 million, the tax bill.

:34:58.:35:03.

Because in America they taxed the medals themselves. That seems very

:35:04.:35:09.

harsh. It doesn't. I understand the logic, I suppose, of taxing the

:35:10.:35:17.

bonus. Yes, 600 bucks they put down as the value of a gold medal, 400

:35:18.:35:24.

dollars for a silver, only about four bucks for a bronze. So how is

:35:25.:35:29.

this in the Olympic spirit? Can they spend it on what they want? Yes,

:35:30.:35:37.

it's a cash bonus. It depends. A gold medal still costs the UK

:35:38.:35:43.

Government, if you will, about $5 million. I contribute it costs the

:35:44.:35:49.

Australian government $16 million. How? All the training programmes.

:35:50.:35:54.

But anybody who has bought a lottery ticket? Here it is different, funded

:35:55.:36:00.

by the lottery. We did this only on our programme and we've had mixed

:36:01.:36:04.

tweets, people saying that's not in the name of sports. But the Olympics

:36:05.:36:08.

has changed, we have professionals in the Olympics now like Andy Murray

:36:09.:36:11.

and the golfers and they make vast sums outside of the Olympics, so

:36:12.:36:19.

some will say it's only fair for some of the more amateur athletes,

:36:20.:36:23.

because of all the time and dedication they put into this, and

:36:24.:36:26.

they get endorsements as well. If they are good. The sums are quite

:36:27.:36:35.

staggering. Retail sales here for July our bumper. Because June was

:36:36.:36:40.

dismal. But nearly 6% growth compared to July of last year. They

:36:41.:36:44.

say the better weather prompting people. They say nothing to do with

:36:45.:36:49.

Brexit, it's not putting off consumer spending. Also a positive

:36:50.:36:55.

spin on the Brexit with the pound dropping in value, more foreigners

:36:56.:36:57.

are coming in because it's cheaper and they are spending their money in

:36:58.:37:02.

droves. Thank goodness for that. Cheers, Aaron. He's in a rush. A

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record number of students have been accepted for university places.

:37:10.:37:14.

Let's talk to our correspondent at university clearing HQ. Hello,

:37:15.:37:21.

Daniel. Hello, yes. The headline figure is 424,000 places offered, up

:37:22.:37:30.

3% on last year. I am here at Ucas where they are taking calls and

:37:31.:37:33.

enquiries from students who need more information about the process,

:37:34.:37:37.

what has happened to their application, or if they haven't got

:37:38.:37:41.

the great they wanted, how they go about finding an alternative course.

:37:42.:37:45.

Going one step back to A-levels, the results are generally stable though

:37:46.:37:51.

there has been a fall in the number of modern language qualifications.

:37:52.:37:54.

Girls are still doing better than boys, although for the first time in

:37:55.:37:57.

five years that gap has been narrowing. Let's talk to the schools

:37:58.:38:03.

standards minister. A-levels are generally stable? Yes, and this is a

:38:04.:38:08.

combination of two years of hard work by students, so we should

:38:09.:38:11.

congratulate them on their achievements as they get their

:38:12.:38:14.

results today. But we are seeing record numbers of students securing

:38:15.:38:18.

places at university. Not only that, record numbers of students from

:38:19.:38:22.

disadvantaged backgrounds gaining a place at university which is

:38:23.:38:25.

precisely what the government wants to achieve. The fall in languages

:38:26.:38:30.

must be a worry? It is a worry and something we are keen to address and

:38:31.:38:35.

have been addressing. It's why we emphasise the English baccalaureate,

:38:36.:38:38.

range of GCSEs, including foreign managers. All year seven students

:38:39.:38:44.

will be expected to take a foreign language GCSE and in time that will

:38:45.:38:48.

feed through to A-levels. We want more people studying languages at

:38:49.:38:51.

university because we are an international trading nation and we

:38:52.:38:54.

need our young people to have those languages. Boys narrowing the gap on

:38:55.:39:00.

bills but still work to do? Yes, very encouraging that the gap is

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beginning to narrow. We have reformed the curriculum at primary

:39:05.:39:08.

school in secondary school, refund GCSEs and A-levels. We are securing

:39:09.:39:11.

higher quality teachers coming into the profession and the aim is to

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improve the quality of teaching at schools to narrow that gap. Looking

:39:18.:39:21.

at university places, record number offered. For everybody getting a

:39:22.:39:25.

place that's a very good thing, but does there come a point when the

:39:26.:39:28.

currency is devalued because too many people are going to university?

:39:29.:39:35.

We have a demanding, economy, and we need graduates to fulfil the demand

:39:36.:39:39.

for skills. There is also the apprenticeship route. We secured 2

:39:40.:39:45.

million apprenticeship starts in the last Parliament and we have the

:39:46.:39:49.

ambition for 3 million apprenticeships in this Parliament.

:39:50.:39:52.

For anybody that has a degree now, statistics show that you will be

:39:53.:39:57.

earning about ?9,500 more per year over your career, so it is worth

:39:58.:40:02.

gaining a degree because our economy is crying out for more and more

:40:03.:40:06.

graduates and young people with the skills. Earning more, but many

:40:07.:40:10.

people will be leaving with hefty debts at the end of their courses?

:40:11.:40:16.

Yes, and that means we can have a sustainable universities sector

:40:17.:40:18.

which is properly funded. Of course those student loans are not like

:40:19.:40:22.

credit card debt or bank loans, it's very benign. You only start repaying

:40:23.:40:27.

once you are earning over ?21,000 and then the repayments are not hard

:40:28.:40:34.

on young people. If you have the ability and motivation to get a

:40:35.:40:37.

degree, it is worthwhile financially doing so. You say that it is benign

:40:38.:40:42.

but it's a big chunk of money and some universities are considering

:40:43.:40:45.

raising fees. By the rate of inflation they are allowed to, but

:40:46.:40:49.

only if the quality of teaching is high. And if it is not high then

:40:50.:40:53.

they will not be allowed to raise their fees. With universities having

:40:54.:40:58.

a cap on the number of students they can offer places to removed, some

:40:59.:41:02.

people are now saying this is a buyers market, that things have

:41:03.:41:07.

shifted, giving students more control, universities having to

:41:08.:41:10.

fight harder for the best students? Yes, there's never been a better

:41:11.:41:14.

time to be an undergraduate looking for a place at university. The

:41:15.:41:18.

universities are competing amongst themselves for the best graduates.

:41:19.:41:22.

As a government we have insisted that universities improve the

:41:23.:41:26.

quality of teaching, and to ensure that universities are offering

:41:27.:41:30.

courses that give the widest opportunity for graduates when they

:41:31.:41:33.

leave university to have the best chance of securing a job in what is

:41:34.:41:39.

a very demanding, modern economy. Many thanks. Questions behind me

:41:40.:41:43.

being answered by students who need that extra help. We are told that

:41:44.:41:47.

enquiries for the most popular courses are for economics, law and

:41:48.:41:52.

for psychology. Of course if anybody does need any more help, that is

:41:53.:41:56.

available on the BBC News website, where there are a number of links to

:41:57.:42:00.

get that information to get the extra help. Thanks, Daniel, thank

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you. On any one night 3,569 people

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are sleeping rough in England alone. Today, a group of MPs is backing

:42:04.:42:07.

a plan that would see homelessness really reduced if it was made law

:42:08.:42:10.

because it would make it harder for councils to turn

:42:11.:42:13.

away homeless people. Let's talk now to Petra

:42:14.:42:25.

Salva from St Mungo's, MP Bob Blackman who a Conservative

:42:26.:42:27.

MP on the Communities and Local Government Committee

:42:28.:42:31.

who believes the government needs a whole new approach on tackling

:42:32.:42:33.

homelessness, and Daniel Harris and Kelly Judge who have

:42:34.:42:35.

both been homeless. Tell us about the plan? At the

:42:36.:42:41.

moment the performance of local authorities is mixed, some get good

:42:42.:42:45.

service but the vast majority of people are just turned away without

:42:46.:42:50.

help or advice. There is no early intervention by local authorities so

:42:51.:42:53.

they wait until someone literally has their bags packed, on the

:42:54.:42:57.

streets, and then they say, let's look at whether we have a duty to

:42:58.:43:01.

house you are not, they do a tick box exercise, and then say you do

:43:02.:43:06.

not qualify. You are not vulnerable enough. So you are on your own. So

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we are trying to say let's have a requirement on local authorities for

:43:12.:43:14.

a statutory code of practice so that they have to help and advise. Not

:43:15.:43:19.

necessarily how is everyone but help and advise people, tell them you can

:43:20.:43:23.

go to this charity, this registered social landlord, and these are

:43:24.:43:27.

people that will help you, not just a directory of estate agents and so

:43:28.:43:32.

on. But early intervention so that before people are threatened with

:43:33.:43:36.

homelessness they will produce a personal housing plan for those

:43:37.:43:40.

individuals that are potentially at risk so that we get to a point

:43:41.:43:43.

whereby we prevent people from becoming homeless in the first

:43:44.:43:49.

place. What's the 56 day bit? If somebody is literally rough sleeping

:43:50.:43:53.

and has nowhere to go then the local authority will have the duty to

:43:54.:43:57.

house them for up to 56 days. There will also be a duty on the

:43:58.:44:00.

individual to cooperate with the local authority, identifying and

:44:01.:44:05.

following the plan so they get into housing on their own. Daniel, Kelly,

:44:06.:44:10.

tell our audience what it's like to be homeless. It's not fun. It's

:44:11.:44:22.

scary, it's dangerous. As a woman, there was many times I felt very

:44:23.:44:27.

vulnerable. And would try to find somewhere dark and secluded so that

:44:28.:44:32.

no one could bother me. I was having a discussion earlier actually, my

:44:33.:44:37.

probation officer asked me, I was on integrated offender management, I

:44:38.:44:41.

said, aren't I meant to be under curfew? He said yes, at the beach

:44:42.:44:49.

hut on the seafront. Daniel? I live in emergency accommodation at the

:44:50.:44:52.

moment so I am actually still homeless. The accommodation I live

:44:53.:44:56.

in is substandard. We've had ceilings for through. People at home

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might look at me and say, you not on the streets. Yeah, you've got a roof

:45:03.:45:08.

over your head. But you also need to know what the roof over our heads

:45:09.:45:14.

look like. They used to be temporary basis, these emergency accommodation

:45:15.:45:16.

is, but people have been living in them for years now. People are

:45:17.:45:20.

isolated socially, you are not allowed visitors. It's just not a

:45:21.:45:24.

great position. In your experience when you've been to the council and

:45:25.:45:28.

said, I need somewhere to sleep, please, have you both been turned

:45:29.:45:34.

away? Yes. Because you are not, for example, a single woman with three

:45:35.:45:37.

children or whatever. And they have a shortage of housing stock, if they

:45:38.:45:39.

could, they would, presumably? It is social housing, at its worst,

:45:40.:45:51.

but the criteria you have to meet, like Bob was saying, I don't fit

:45:52.:45:57.

that. So they cannot assist. Whether I have just come out of prison,

:45:58.:46:03.

whether I am in treatment, domestic violence, whatever the case may have

:46:04.:46:08.

been. And that is what I have said to the action group, people in

:46:09.:46:12.

temporary accommodation, from my own experience, when I went to the

:46:13.:46:17.

Council, I have actually been turned down, so they said I wasn't eligible

:46:18.:46:22.

for homelessness, then that had to get overturned, I had to get

:46:23.:46:25.

professionals involved. You are at the worst point in your life, you

:46:26.:46:29.

have been through it, to crisis, having to deal with that. Then the

:46:30.:46:33.

other side, I really want to make clear to people that many people are

:46:34.:46:37.

profiting from us vulnerable at the moment, and the private sector of

:46:38.:46:42.

rented accommodation is massively increasing, and this policy, it is

:46:43.:46:47.

great because it will take people out of street homelessness, but what

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we really need to be looking at is a 100% increase in Brighton and Hove

:46:52.:46:55.

for private than that of companies having ownership of emergency

:46:56.:46:58.

accommodation, and they are making millions of pounds, we know 10

:46:59.:47:02.

billion has been spent every single year from housing benefit money

:47:03.:47:05.

going to private companies, landlords, and we have to put

:47:06.:47:08.

pressure on local authorities to build council housing as it used to

:47:09.:47:15.

be in the 1960s. What to think of the plan that people like Bob

:47:16.:47:20.

Blackman are backing, this early intervention, 56 day accommodation

:47:21.:47:24.

straightaway? As an organisation that sees rough sleepers and

:47:25.:47:28.

homeless people every single day, we are fully supportive of it. It is a

:47:29.:47:32.

scandal that people have to turn to the streets or have to have the

:47:33.:47:35.

bailiffs come to their door before they can get the help they need. I

:47:36.:47:41.

think it is absolutely the right thing, prevention is absolutely the

:47:42.:47:45.

right way to go. It is costly not to do this, in fact it is a no-brainer

:47:46.:47:50.

not to do this, to extend the local authority's duty. It is costly for

:47:51.:47:55.

the individual, once they get to the crisis point, and it is costly to

:47:56.:48:00.

the taxpayer. In actual fact, I think we would save money in the

:48:01.:48:03.

long term if we were to go further upstream and help people further

:48:04.:48:08.

upstream. I take the point that we need to build more social housing, I

:48:09.:48:12.

take the point that it will be difficult, but in one of our

:48:13.:48:16.

projects, we see a third of people who have come to our door, sleeping

:48:17.:48:21.

rough in the capital, months beforehand, they have been to see

:48:22.:48:25.

their local authority. All we end up doing... That is where this plan

:48:26.:48:31.

would kick in. The idea, obviously, is that the local authority

:48:32.:48:34.

intervenes early, and this will save money in the long term. Helping

:48:35.:48:42.

someone who is on the streets, suffering health problems, all of

:48:43.:48:46.

that costs the public services are enormous sums of money. Be honest

:48:47.:48:51.

with the audience, what chance of this becoming legislation? We are

:48:52.:48:55.

waiting to see if the government supports us, we have cross-party

:48:56.:48:59.

support. A very strong chance, a very strong chance. This is not the

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panacea for all ills, we have to increase supply and do other things

:49:05.:49:07.

as well, but this is a starting point. Is it true you might be made

:49:08.:49:12.

homeless again in November? Yeah, I am currently in a dry house, a

:49:13.:49:20.

charity organisation, and after the addiction, homelessness, prison,

:49:21.:49:27.

treatment and a year of clean time and getting my life back together, I

:49:28.:49:31.

am potentially facing being homeless again in November. Because the place

:49:32.:49:36.

runs out. You only get allocated time, there is no social housing.

:49:37.:49:41.

They used to get nominations from the council, but they don't get that

:49:42.:49:47.

anymore because they haven't got it. So I would be left to fight in the

:49:48.:49:53.

private sector, and I have got no chance whatsoever, on benefits, I am

:49:54.:50:00.

hoping to go back to studying, but I would have to sign off benefits, get

:50:01.:50:05.

no housing benefit, which means I would have to leave my

:50:06.:50:09.

accommodation. Potentially, the stress of finding somewhere to live

:50:10.:50:14.

good lead me back to the streets, which could lead me back to using,

:50:15.:50:18.

which could lead me back to crime, prison, back to where I was this

:50:19.:50:23.

time last year. Wow. That has not got to happen. Definitely, I'm going

:50:24.:50:30.

to try everything I can to not let that happen. But at the same time,

:50:31.:50:38.

you know, you have got a problem in the sense that the government voted

:50:39.:50:42.

for a planning bill that is the nail in the coffin for social housing.

:50:43.:50:48.

Well, clearly, what we have got to do is increase the supply of

:50:49.:50:52.

housing. Governments of all persuasions have failed to deliver.

:50:53.:50:57.

Answer Daniel's specific point. In the housing and planning bill, we

:50:58.:51:01.

have the right to buy for housing association tenants, it completes

:51:02.:51:04.

the loop on encouraging people to take responsibility on their own,

:51:05.:51:10.

for their housing, but equally, we are increasing the supply and

:51:11.:51:13.

increasing the responsibility of local authorities to look after

:51:14.:51:17.

people who are most vulnerable, and the point I would make, in

:51:18.:51:20.

conclusion, is that we have record levels of employment, relatively

:51:21.:51:25.

low-level is of unemployment, yet still we have people sleeping rough.

:51:26.:51:31.

A quick final word. The right to buy in Scotland and Wales has been taken

:51:32.:51:35.

away, and most of the right to buy properties on the market, within the

:51:36.:51:42.

private sector, they used to be social housing, and now they are

:51:43.:51:45.

priced four times as much. It is not working, it needs to stop.

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Thank you all very much. Thank you for your comments on whether there

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should be an Olympic parade for Team GB athletes after Rio. Sue said,

:51:56.:51:59.

many of us have stayed up to the early hours to watch the

:52:00.:52:01.

achievements of our athletes, wouldn't a parade be a nice way to

:52:02.:52:05.

show appreciation? In 2012 it was brilliant. Let's talk to the former

:52:06.:52:12.

Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell, Dame Tessa Jowell, good morning. Good

:52:13.:52:17.

morning. What do you think? I think they should certainly be a parade,

:52:18.:52:22.

and as I have been thinking about it this morning, I think the question

:52:23.:52:26.

is whether it should be in London, or whether it should be in one of

:52:27.:52:30.

our other cities, other parts of the country. Because there was a logic

:52:31.:52:37.

to have the parade in London because London had been the host city. But I

:52:38.:52:45.

think that we don't necessarily want to insist that every moment of

:52:46.:52:49.

national celebration is held in London. So what about Birmingham?

:52:50.:52:55.

What about Manchester? Hull will be the City of Culture, what about

:52:56.:53:00.

Leeds? So, yes, there should definitely be a parade, because that

:53:01.:53:03.

is a chance for people to come out and show their appreciation and join

:53:04.:53:07.

in the celebration of the achievements of our athletes. I also

:53:08.:53:12.

think, though, that there should be one parade to celebrate both our

:53:13.:53:17.

Olympians and also our Paralympians, because I think a very important

:53:18.:53:24.

part of the legacy of London 2012 was the equivalence between the

:53:25.:53:28.

summer Games and the Paralympics, and we can all remember the

:53:29.:53:32.

extraordinary excitement, seeing and understanding, many people for the

:53:33.:53:37.

first time, the power of Paralympic sport, so yes to a parade, yes to a

:53:38.:53:42.

parade with Olympians and Paralympians, and I think the

:53:43.:53:46.

question is where the parade should be held. Yes. We were talking to

:53:47.:53:52.

some people earlier he would definitely up for a parade, and they

:53:53.:53:55.

suggested many parades all around the country. That might cost too

:53:56.:54:00.

much, I don't know, there is policing and... If you remember,

:54:01.:54:08.

after 2012, letterboxes in the towns of the athletes who won gold were

:54:09.:54:14.

painted gold, and so there are also of ways of celebrating. There is

:54:15.:54:19.

something, though, about bringing all the athletes together, every

:54:20.:54:22.

single one of our athletes who has won an Olympic medal, so I think it

:54:23.:54:30.

will be for individual towns and villages, cities to celebrate their

:54:31.:54:38.

citizens, their Olympic citizens. But I do think that, for the country

:54:39.:54:43.

to say thank you, to say congratulations, to say, we are

:54:44.:54:46.

proud, there should be one parade that brings all the athletes

:54:47.:54:49.

together. Thank you very much, thanks for coming on the programme,

:54:50.:54:54.

Tessa Jowell, former 2012 Olympics Minister. Lots of action today on

:54:55.:54:58.

day 13, and one of the highlights will be when Alistair Brownlee seeks

:54:59.:55:04.

to retain his London 2012 triathlon title. His brother Jonny, who won

:55:05.:55:10.

bronze four years ago, is going to try to beat is Big Brother. They

:55:11.:55:15.

train in round a part in Leeds, let's talk to British triathlon's

:55:16.:55:20.

head of participation, and China, who took up triathlon to improve his

:55:21.:55:26.

fitness. Hello, both of you. Natalie, tell me first of all

:55:27.:55:36.

exactly how much the Bradley -- Brownlee brothers are important to

:55:37.:55:40.

inspire others to take up triathlon. Massively important, the whole squad

:55:41.:55:46.

is so inspiring, particularly the Brownlees, they love the fact that

:55:47.:55:50.

they inspire others to take part, lots of young people to take part,

:55:51.:55:54.

they are great ambassadors. And is it true that you are a former boxer,

:55:55.:55:59.

you bumped into them one day, this is the story and they inspired you?

:56:00.:56:05.

Yeah, to be honest, they do not live far away, I am from the north of

:56:06.:56:11.

Leeds, and I bumped into Jonny, he was with Mark Buckingham, who was on

:56:12.:56:15.

the early morning show, BBC Breakfast, and he said, do you fancy

:56:16.:56:20.

a cup of tea? We had a little chat, and I mean, very open, very

:56:21.:56:28.

welcoming, difficult Leeds boys. Sorry, this is going to sound like a

:56:29.:56:33.

really stupid question, but what is the difference in training between

:56:34.:56:39.

triathlon and boxing? I think it is a similar sort of mindset, you have

:56:40.:56:44.

got to really, really wanted. With triathlon, I would say it is more

:56:45.:56:48.

open for anyone to do it. Boxing, you need a certain mindset to

:56:49.:56:55.

actually advance in that game. With triathlon, we're not talking about

:56:56.:56:59.

the elite levels now, just participation levels for everyone, I

:57:00.:57:04.

think it is there for anyone to do. There are three disciplines, take

:57:05.:57:08.

the pick of the one you want to be best at, but if you are a great

:57:09.:57:13.

swimmer, fantastic, focus on that. Some people are really good runners,

:57:14.:57:18.

some are really good cyclists. It is important, good because you have got

:57:19.:57:23.

the three disciplines. In terms of training, boxing was extremely hard

:57:24.:57:27.

because you are getting hit back. In triathlon, it depends on how many

:57:28.:57:30.

competitors are taking part, you might get the odd knock while you

:57:31.:57:37.

are swimming. But you learn a lot in the game. Natalie, what are you

:57:38.:57:42.

expecting from the Brownlees in Rio, then? Well, you know, we would love

:57:43.:57:49.

to have a kind of 1- to, we are hoping for kind of two to three

:57:50.:57:56.

medals across the men's and women's, so high expectations, but we are all

:57:57.:58:00.

really proud, and they are doing a great job at there. We are all

:58:01.:58:06.

pretty excited and geared up for this afternoon, really. Presumably

:58:07.:58:09.

you do not mind which brother wins gold and which wins silver, is that

:58:10.:58:18.

fair?! Not at all, not at all! No, I was just going to say, obviously, I

:58:19.:58:24.

would be nice to see Jonny, but as long as it is one or the other, I am

:58:25.:58:28.

sure we are all going to be happy, as long as they are doing it for

:58:29.:58:34.

Team GB, for Leeds, fantastic. Thanks for watching, back tomorrow

:58:35.:58:35.

at nine. There is rain on the way, before too

:58:36.:58:48.

long holiday makers will have to find some other distractions. Yes,

:58:49.:58:49.

trouble

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