18/08/2016 Victoria Derbyshire

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

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

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

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

superb today. Tactically executed spot on.

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

can the Brownlee brothers repeat their 2012 success?

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

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

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

were you talking to about sharia law, sir?

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

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

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

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

an Olympic Parade for Team GB athletes and paralympic athletes

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

Games outside of Britain in terms of medals.

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

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

and there would be traffic disruption?

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

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

you will be charged at the standard network rate.

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

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

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

expecting to win many medals, the one that was expected

was in the 470 sailing where Saskia Clark and Hannah Mills

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

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

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

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

They go on to face double defending Champions,

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

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

Tiffany Porter in the final of the 100 metres hurdles.

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

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

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

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

and she called the result 'bittersweet.'

Usain Bolt was back on the track

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

best. You may have seen the images of him

grinning for the cameras Well, he was back on track

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

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

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

crossed the line in 19.78 seconds. The pair comfortably moved

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What have we got to look forward to today?

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

Jonny and Alastair will go in the triathlon at about 3

The Brownlees will of course be amongst the favourites

after Alastair took the Gold in London four years ago.

His younger brother Jonny took the bronze but the man that

split them in London, Spain's Javier Gomez

will not be at the Games, after breaking his elbow

Gomez has won the last three ITU World Championships so that

Also in Rio, Olympic Champion Nicola Adams will fight

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

She is already guaranteed at least Bronze and Liam Heath

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

The Bronze medallists from London say they have 'unfinished

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

much. We will try and find out for you.

Annita is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

As the Government unveils its long-delayed obesity

strategy for England, the BBC has learned that some local

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

Charities says children and families seeking support face a confused

Here's our health correspondent Dominic Hughes.

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

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

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

But when her mum sought help from the family doctor,

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

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

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

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

It says less than half of clinical commissioning groups,

the bodies that pay for local health services in England,

provide funding to help families struggling with obesity.

We need to treat it as the war on obesity,

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

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

Let's have some joined up thinking here.

Health experts say tackling obesity, particularly childhood obesity,

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

and a strategy for the next two or three decades.

The Government's new obesity strategy

promotes a healthy diet and reducing sugar.

cooking classes help patients get a grip on weight problems.

Tried eating better, do a lot more exercise

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

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

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

But money for schemes like this one is tight,

and the body that represents clinical commissioning groups

across England says there are competing demands

for limited funds - difficult choices have to be made.

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

say the childhood obesity strategy is a missed opportunity and families

will continue to struggle to get the help they need.

campaigners have criticised the campaign for not going far enough.

The minister who was previously in charge of drawing up

the child obesity strategy, Jane Ellison, has dismissed

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

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

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

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

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

Black and minority ethnic people in Britain face far-reaching

inequality in many areas, including education, health

and criminal justice, according to a report published today.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission says

unemployment rates are also significantly higher

with black graduates earning 23% less on average

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

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

collected from tweets sent in English-speaking countries over

the last five months, also suggests Islamophobic tweets

increase in the wake of terrorist attacks.

And stay with us for more on that story, just

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

UCAS says a record number have been accepted at university,

Those who have done better than expected may find they have

more choice about where they want to study.

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

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

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

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

including modern languages, music, design technology.

And one of the reasons behind this, we believe,

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

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

Since a cap on student numbers was lifted in 2015,

universities have been able to recruit as many students

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

means there may be more unfilled places at good universities.

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

grades has been tightened up this year.

Independent schools say that might affect borderline candidates

For those who do enter campuses this year, fees

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

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

Two American Olympic swimmers have been released after they were taken

off their flight home by Brazilian police over their claim

that they were victims of an armed robbery.

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

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

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

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

to provide emergency accommodation for homeless people

MPs on the Communities and Local Government Committee say

a lack of social housing, steep rises in private rents

and welfare reforms have contributed to rising homelessness.

Our Social Affairs Correspondent, Michael Buchanan, reports.

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

Mental health problems, a family breakdown, and this shelter

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

Homelessness, understandably, was isolating.

It is just like you are walking around with nothing.

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

Homelessness is on the rise across England.

Since 2010, the number of people in temporary accommodation

Rough sleeping has increased by 100%.

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

to make it harder for councils to turn people away.

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

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

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

access to a computer, that is not adequate.

Under the MPs' plans, councils would be forced

to help people like Mark, providing up to two months

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

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

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

The young Hen Harrier, which is a protected species,

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

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

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

as eight large wildfires continue to rage in California.

Thousands of firefighters are battling the blazes,

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

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

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

Conditions for firefighters could hardly be worse. There is

destruction here and teams are searching remains of homes in case

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

marches on. In this tourist town, these are

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

southern California. That is a summary of the latest

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

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

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

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

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

parade for Olympians and Paralympians when they return from

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

Almost 7,000 Islamophobic tweets were sent in English

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

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

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

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

and seen exclusively by this programme.

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

there is some very strong racist language towards the end.

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

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

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

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

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

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

significant increases in anti-Islamic activity... Is

researchers have been looking at Islamophobia on Twitter for five

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Muslims lie, Muslims cannot be friends with others who one

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

victims. The Demos research shows large peaks in Islamophobic tweet

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

do not wish for you to stereotype me.

So in a strange twist, our conversation about Islamophobia just

get interrupted by some Islamophobia. What do you think of

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

showcase female Muslim writers. Every time a terrorist attack

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

persecution, violence and imprisonment because they have taken

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

where it means looking like me and looking like you?

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

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

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

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

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

and Northern Ireland. Finally, after eight months

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

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

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

Great Britain are guaranteed another Olympic medal in Rio after the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

then. Here's Annitta in the BBC Newsroom

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

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

narrowed to the smallest it has been for ten years.

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

been heavily criticised as a "missed opportunity".

Senior doctors, dentists and local government representatives

say they are disappointed the measures, which are

being published today, don't go far enough.

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

out curbs on marketing and supermarket promotions.

The minister who was previously in charge of drawing up

the child obesity strategy, Jane Ellison, has dismissed

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

at source is because then as that flows through into promotions

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

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

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

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

collected from tweets sent in English-speaking countries over

the last five months, also suggests Islamophobic tweets

increase in the wake of terrorist attacks.

Two American Olympic swimmers have been taken off their flight home

by Brazilian police over their claim that they were victims

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

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

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

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

to provide emergency accommodation for homeless people

MPs on the Communities and Local Government Committee say

a lack of social housing, steep rises in private rents

and welfare reforms have contributed to rising levels of homelessness.

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

as eight large wildfires continue to rage in California.

Thousands of firefighters are battling the blazes,

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

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

of social media users after a distressing video

of a little boy injured after an airstrike in Aleppo

The video, which we are about to show you,

is thought to be of 5 year old Omran Daqneesh,

one of possibly 5 children injured in the bombing.

Doctors in Aleppo have confirmed

he was brought to the hospital on Wednesday night following

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

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

The medics in Aleppo accused the coalition of targeting hospitals

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

Chancellor and patients by ambulance. -- transferring patients.

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

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

thanks for shedding light on the rising levels of Islamophobia on

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

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

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

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

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

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

After the women's hockey team reached the final,

Emotional scenes as they get to the final, fantastic.

Spurs fan Andy hailed the teams "great

Usain Bolt again became a Twitter star after easing his way

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

they finish, can you believe it? Finishing just above

Canadian Andre de Grasse, the pair exchanged a friendly glance

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

discussing as they crossed the line. Canadian Jennifier says

was a 'bromance'. One of the more unusual

sights from this That was Donghua Li -

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

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

but as you can see you After the 2012 Olympics

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

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

Mac? However Kiera asks for a parade

all round the country, because everyone is so impressed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

triathlete Mark Buckingham and Jenny Vincent who has recently become

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

and there's the BBC sport website as well.

Thousands of students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are

Official figures show the gap between the top performing boys and

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

proportion of A* grades has also dropped.

Let's speak to our education correspondent Gillian Hargreaves

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

University? My sister went to university to do primary school

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

this is all about. And TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has

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

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

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

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

councils to provide emergency accommodation help tackle

homelessness? The Government's childhood

obesity plan has finally been published and has

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

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

is in, The plan encourages children to do

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

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

on TV advertising of unhealthy foods

before the 9pm watershed. There is no ban

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

in supermarkets. Critics say, with a third

of children overweight, this is a missed opportunity

to force food and drink companies to reduce

sugar in their products. It's reported that

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

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

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

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

nutritionist and campaign manager with Action on Sugar and feels

disappointed with the strategy, as does Malcolm Clark,

the coordinator And parents Julie Creffied

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

educating parents and educating children so that they understand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

consultation on further restrictions on marketing and advertising, which

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

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

opportunity for business, campaigners and governors to work

together. The idea of getting parents and children to understand

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

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

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

reinforce very positive messages about getting people to understand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

amounts of marketing, children are bombarded with four less healthy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

good recreational spaces where children have the opportunity to

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

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

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

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

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

bring in Julie, in terms of advertising, particularly on

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

disappointing that the health minister, our new health minister

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

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

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

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

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

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

ever. Time for the latest weather with John.

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

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

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

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

dampness bursting across parts of southern England, still the odd

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

be brightening up across south-western parts. Temperatures

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

welcome to our programme. Team GB are guaranteed another medal

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

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

when they face the I never thought in a million years

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

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

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

Alistair and Jonny will aim to repeat their success from London

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

Plus, should British athletes be welcomed home

We'll be talking to former 2012 Olympics minister Tessa

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

every day last month on Twitter according to data seen

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

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

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

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

Now for the latest from the Olympics, here's

Hugh Woozencroft at the BBC Sport Centre.

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

- but no need for disappointment really.

And there was an impressive performance

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

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

For days now the rollercoaster has raced on.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For Helen Richardson-Walsh this was one important flick.

One of the most crucial goals of her career,

but her body denied her the celebration.

As she limped, Great Britain cantered.

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

Into a first final with a silver assured,

but one last demand of them - one more.

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

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

the heats are about conserving energy, avoiding slipups.

In the 10,000 metre final he tumbled.

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

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

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

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

Put my feet up, just chill in my room.

Adam Gemili had no room for relaxation in the 200 metres

semifinal against Canada's Andre De Grasse and,

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

and qualification for the final as the fastest loser.

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

during a sprint and then gatecrash an interview.

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

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

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

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

Proof that surprises happen and proof that might sustain

sisters Cindy Ofili and Tiffany Porter in the 100

Ofili excelled and got about as close to a medal

That is one of the toughest margins in sport.

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

but fifth fastest in the world is not bad

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

who added the 200 metre title to the 100 metres.

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

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

The two Brits in lane five say they have unfinished business

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

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

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

for his present if it's a gold medal.

This was a day when even the wind was calmer.

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

and Hannah Mills just needed to finish to win gold.

So their final voyage together will depart a day late.

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

Alistair and Jonny Brownlee go in the triathlon later today.

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

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

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

gold and the younger of the two Jonny winning bronze.

Also in contention for a medal today are

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

The Bronze medallists from London say they have 'unfinished

Also in action today, Olympic Champion Nicola Adams

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

She is already guaranteed at least Bronze.

So the medal table is as it was yesterday,

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

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

But China do now have the same number of golds.

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

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

Team GB are all but guaranteed another medal in sailing later

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

That's all the sport for now.

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

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

The number of candidates receiving top grades has fallen

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

and boys receiving the top grades has narrowed

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

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

been heavily criticised as a "missed opportunity".

Senior doctors, dentists and local government representatives say

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

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

out curbs on marketing and supermarket promotions.

The minister who was previously in charge of the plans,

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

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

at source is because then as that flows through into promotions

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

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

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

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

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

the last five months, also suggests Islamophobic tweets

increase in the wake of terrorist attacks.

And stay with us for more on that story, just

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

Black and minority ethnic people in Britain face far-reaching

inequality in many areas, including education, health

and criminal justice, according to a report published today.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission says unemployment rates

are also significantly higher among ethnic minorities, with black

graduates earning 23% less on average

Two American Olympic swimmers have been taken off their flight home

by Brazilian police over their claim that they were victims

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

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

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

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

to provide emergency accommodation for homeless people

MPs on the Communities and Local Government Committee say

a lack of social housing, steep rises in private rents

and welfare reforms have contributed to rising levels of homelessness.

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

homeless and to one of the MPs calling for reform.

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

of social media users after a distressing video

of a little boy injured after an airstrike in Aleppo

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

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

one of possibly five children injured in the bombing.

Doctors in Aleppo have confirmed

he was brought to the hospital on Wednesday night following

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

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

Medics in Aleppo accuse the Syria government of targetting

hospitals in airstrikes, and say they are forced to use

codewords in communications when they transfer patients by ambulance.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

getting the games to come to London in 2012.

7,000 Islamophobic tweets were sent in English every

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

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

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

This one says you are threatening our way of life.

And you get more messages like this after

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

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

slating Islam in some kind of way or insulting

Islam or insulting me or

my hijab, even if I am talking about something

completely unrelated, even

if I am sending condolences to the victims.

The Demos research shows large peaks in Islamophobic tweet

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

carried out the research. Ruqaiya Haris who is a student

and writer and Ajmal Masroor How do you identify Islamophobic

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

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

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

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

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

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

underneath the amazingly brilliant things we are used to seeing on

Twitter and other social media platforms there is quite problematic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

between the terrorists they see on television that actually have

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

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

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

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

them, and people continue to associate and connect Islam with

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

appearing on television, the media pundits, media personalities who

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

names, making Islamophobic and derogatory remarks, there is no

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

really worrying and really problematic is that we can see this

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

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

Islamophobia. They regard the criticism of Islamophobia to be the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Islamophobes feel marginalised. The real issue is how socially

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

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

stereotyping us, making sweeping generalisations. So it is these

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

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

channels, stop using the word Islamic before describing a

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

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

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

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

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

The first thing they say is terrorism. When that were

accidentally wrote a terraced house, we call that subliminal messaging

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

racist. People confuse being a respectful Muslim and being a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

promoting anti-Semitism and homophobia then claim you are being

persecuted. This from David, Muslim people make no effort to integrate,

they choose to make themselves different. This is great Britain, we

don't want to change. I find that incredible, the relationship that we

all go out of our way to build is what counts, and we're not doing

enough of that. Muslims and non-Muslims are not doing enough of

that. Do not blame Muslims for the lack of integration, I can go to

errors of the UK where you will not see anything but one monolithic

community, and I believe in integration fully, I think Ruqaiya

does, and I am sure all your guests, including Alex, sorry, Carl, I got

your name wrong, believes it is, we all do. But how do we integrate? It

is a two way processed by relationship, by trust, by

interaction. I want to open my doors to my neighbours, openly mocked

doors for people to come and see. That is the trust building we are

missing at the moment. Honest conversation is missing, and that is

how I believe integration will happen and we will defeat

Islamophobia. Thank you very much. Coming up in the last half hour,

will forcing local councils to provide emergency accommodation help

reduce homelessness? It has certainly helped some homeless

people, will it reduce the problem overall. We will hear from two

people who have been homeless. Also, we will be looking at whether there

should be a parade after the Olympics and the Paralympics to

celebrate the success of Team GB. Now for the latest from

the Olympics, here's Hugh Woozencroft at the BBC

Sport Centre Great Britain are guaranteed

another Olympic medal after the women's hockey team

reached their first final with a superb 3-0 win

over New Zealand in Rio. Alex Danson's double

and Helen Richardson-Walsh's penalty stroke mean GB

will win at least silver, improving on their

bronze at London 2012. Usain Bolt

ran his fastest time of the season The Jamaican is aiming to complete

the 'triple triple', to win gold in the 100 metre,

200 metre and 4 by 100 metre relays after doing so at both

the Beijing and London Games. Britain's Adam Gemili also

qualified for the final Defending champion Alastair Brownlee

and his younger Brother Jonny will be two of the favourites

in the Triathlon later today. They get off at around 3 o'clock

but London 2012 silver medallist Javier Gomez

is missing through injury. So, lots to look forward to later on

today. Coverage across BBC TV and radio.

That's all from me for now.

Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

Thousands of students are receiving their A-level results in England,

The number of candidates receiving top grades has fallen

for the fifth year in a row, while the gap between girls

and boys receiving the top grades has narrowed

to the smallest it has been for at least 10 years.

The Government's long awaited plan to tackle childhood obesity has

been heavily criticised as a "missed opportunity".

Senior doctors, dentists and local government representatives

say they are disappointed the measures, which are

being published today, don't go far enough.

The plan includes a tax on sugary drinks, but it misses

out curbs on marketing and supermarket promotions.

The minister who was previously in charge of drawing up

the child obesity strategy, Jane Ellison, has dismissed

One of the reasons it's so important to tackle the formulation of food

at source is because then as that flows through into promotions

we will start to see more healthy food featured in those promotions.

But we also have to give credit to supermarkets for the work they've

New research from the think tank Demos, exclusive to this programme,

suggests that 7,000 Islamophobic tweets were sent in English every

The data, collected from tweets sent in English-speaking countries over

the last five months, also suggests Islamophobic tweets

increase in the wake of terrorist attacks.

Two American Olympic swimmers have been taken off their flight home

by Brazilian police over their claim that they were victims

Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were questioned by police in Rio.

The pair, along with Ryan Lochte and another team member,

say their taxi was attacked as they returned from a party.

More than 80,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes,

as eight large wildfires continue to rage in California.

Thousands of firefighters are battling the blazes,

but officials say one of the largest is still out of control.

That's a summary of the latest news, join me for BBC Newsroom

Let's talk about the sort of financial rewards that Olympic gold

medallists might enjoy. Rewards can be quite considerable

depending on which country you represent. The estimated bonus for a

Singaporean gold medallist, for example, is over 700,000 US dollars.

Aaron is here. Tell us about British winners and what they can expect?

The British winners? We can start with that, nothing. The country

doesn't give the British winners a single bonus. Right, OK. Other

countries do and I did not realise that some of these guys, it comes

from the government, give bonuses to their athletes. So you've got these

athletes at the games not only striving for gold, silver or bronze

but striving for a bonus. You mentioned the Singaporean $750,000,

but I've put a little chart together just for you. One of my favourites

is Malaysia. Malaysia gives a gold winner by Goldbach worth 600,000 US

dollars. Italy, France, they are still working out $185,000 for gold.

25,004 gold in the United States, 15,000 dollars for silver. Most of

these countries where these athletes get these sorts of bonuses, they are

tax-free, it's exempt. Not the United States. It's called a victory

tax. Some of these athletes going back, Michael Phelps, with all his

gold medals, they are going back to face hefty bills. For US athlete

with a gold medal, probably worth around $10 million, the tax bill.

Because in America they taxed the medals themselves. That seems very

harsh. It doesn't. I understand the logic, I suppose, of taxing the

bonus. Yes, 600 bucks they put down as the value of a gold medal, 400

dollars for a silver, only about four bucks for a bronze. So how is

this in the Olympic spirit? Can they spend it on what they want? Yes,

it's a cash bonus. It depends. A gold medal still costs the UK

Government, if you will, about $5 million. I contribute it costs the

Australian government $16 million. How? All the training programmes.

But anybody who has bought a lottery ticket? Here it is different, funded

by the lottery. We did this only on our programme and we've had mixed

tweets, people saying that's not in the name of sports. But the Olympics

has changed, we have professionals in the Olympics now like Andy Murray

and the golfers and they make vast sums outside of the Olympics, so

some will say it's only fair for some of the more amateur athletes,

because of all the time and dedication they put into this, and

they get endorsements as well. If they are good. The sums are quite

staggering. Retail sales here for July our bumper. Because June was

dismal. But nearly 6% growth compared to July of last year. They

say the better weather prompting people. They say nothing to do with

Brexit, it's not putting off consumer spending. Also a positive

spin on the Brexit with the pound dropping in value, more foreigners

are coming in because it's cheaper and they are spending their money in

droves. Thank goodness for that. Cheers, Aaron. He's in a rush. A

record number of students have been accepted for university places.

Let's talk to our correspondent at university clearing HQ. Hello,

Daniel. Hello, yes. The headline figure is 424,000 places offered, up

3% on last year. I am here at Ucas where they are taking calls and

enquiries from students who need more information about the process,

what has happened to their application, or if they haven't got

the great they wanted, how they go about finding an alternative course.

Going one step back to A-levels, the results are generally stable though

there has been a fall in the number of modern language qualifications.

Girls are still doing better than boys, although for the first time in

five years that gap has been narrowing. Let's talk to the schools

standards minister. A-levels are generally stable? Yes, and this is a

combination of two years of hard work by students, so we should

congratulate them on their achievements as they get their

results today. But we are seeing record numbers of students securing

places at university. Not only that, record numbers of students from

disadvantaged backgrounds gaining a place at university which is

precisely what the government wants to achieve. The fall in languages

must be a worry? It is a worry and something we are keen to address and

have been addressing. It's why we emphasise the English baccalaureate,

range of GCSEs, including foreign managers. All year seven students

will be expected to take a foreign language GCSE and in time that will

feed through to A-levels. We want more people studying languages at

university because we are an international trading nation and we

need our young people to have those languages. Boys narrowing the gap on

bills but still work to do? Yes, very encouraging that the gap is

beginning to narrow. We have reformed the curriculum at primary

school in secondary school, refund GCSEs and A-levels. We are securing

higher quality teachers coming into the profession and the aim is to

improve the quality of teaching at schools to narrow that gap. Looking

at university places, record number offered. For everybody getting a

place that's a very good thing, but does there come a point when the

currency is devalued because too many people are going to university?

We have a demanding, economy, and we need graduates to fulfil the demand

for skills. There is also the apprenticeship route. We secured 2

million apprenticeship starts in the last Parliament and we have the

ambition for 3 million apprenticeships in this Parliament.

For anybody that has a degree now, statistics show that you will be

earning about ?9,500 more per year over your career, so it is worth

gaining a degree because our economy is crying out for more and more

graduates and young people with the skills. Earning more, but many

people will be leaving with hefty debts at the end of their courses?

Yes, and that means we can have a sustainable universities sector

which is properly funded. Of course those student loans are not like

credit card debt or bank loans, it's very benign. You only start repaying

once you are earning over ?21,000 and then the repayments are not hard

on young people. If you have the ability and motivation to get a

degree, it is worthwhile financially doing so. You say that it is benign

but it's a big chunk of money and some universities are considering

raising fees. By the rate of inflation they are allowed to, but

only if the quality of teaching is high. And if it is not high then

they will not be allowed to raise their fees. With universities having

a cap on the number of students they can offer places to removed, some

people are now saying this is a buyers market, that things have

shifted, giving students more control, universities having to

fight harder for the best students? Yes, there's never been a better

time to be an undergraduate looking for a place at university. The

universities are competing amongst themselves for the best graduates.

As a government we have insisted that universities improve the

quality of teaching, and to ensure that universities are offering

courses that give the widest opportunity for graduates when they

leave university to have the best chance of securing a job in what is

a very demanding, modern economy. Many thanks. Questions behind me

being answered by students who need that extra help. We are told that

enquiries for the most popular courses are for economics, law and

for psychology. Of course if anybody does need any more help, that is

available on the BBC News website, where there are a number of links to

get that information to get the extra help. Thanks, Daniel, thank

you. On any one night 3,569 people

are sleeping rough in England alone. Today, a group of MPs is backing

a plan that would see homelessness really reduced if it was made law

because it would make it harder for councils to turn

away homeless people. Let's talk now to Petra

Salva from St Mungo's, MP Bob Blackman who a Conservative

MP on the Communities and Local Government Committee

who believes the government needs a whole new approach on tackling

homelessness, and Daniel Harris and Kelly Judge who have

both been homeless. Tell us about the plan? At the

moment the performance of local authorities is mixed, some get good

service but the vast majority of people are just turned away without

help or advice. There is no early intervention by local authorities so

they wait until someone literally has their bags packed, on the

streets, and then they say, let's look at whether we have a duty to

house you are not, they do a tick box exercise, and then say you do

not qualify. You are not vulnerable enough. So you are on your own. So

we are trying to say let's have a requirement on local authorities for

a statutory code of practice so that they have to help and advise. Not

necessarily how is everyone but help and advise people, tell them you can

go to this charity, this registered social landlord, and these are

people that will help you, not just a directory of estate agents and so

on. But early intervention so that before people are threatened with

homelessness they will produce a personal housing plan for those

individuals that are potentially at risk so that we get to a point

whereby we prevent people from becoming homeless in the first

place. What's the 56 day bit? If somebody is literally rough sleeping

and has nowhere to go then the local authority will have the duty to

house them for up to 56 days. There will also be a duty on the

individual to cooperate with the local authority, identifying and

following the plan so they get into housing on their own. Daniel, Kelly,

tell our audience what it's like to be homeless. It's not fun. It's

scary, it's dangerous. As a woman, there was many times I felt very

vulnerable. And would try to find somewhere dark and secluded so that

no one could bother me. I was having a discussion earlier actually, my

probation officer asked me, I was on integrated offender management, I

said, aren't I meant to be under curfew? He said yes, at the beach

hut on the seafront. Daniel? I live in emergency accommodation at the

moment so I am actually still homeless. The accommodation I live