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30 people including competitors have been hit | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
by an outbreak of gastroenteritis at the World Athletics | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Issac Makwala, the world number one at 200m, the man | :00:09. | :00:23. | |
who will be taking on Van Nika, does not start. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
We'll have the latest from the Championships. | :00:29. | :00:37. | |
The family of a seven-year-old boy with a rare condition wins | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
a High Court challenge over a life saving drug. | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
Police in Norfolk step up patrols after a pensioner | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
was stabbed to death while out walking his dogs. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
More than 40 maternity units in England closed their doors | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
to new admissions at some point last year, according to new figures. | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
And the National Games begin in Sheffield for competitors | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Coming to these Games actually gives them a chance to express | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
themselves and to really show, not about what they can't do, | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
And coming up in the sport on BBC News: | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
Near misses for Britain at the World Athletics Championships. | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
BBC commentator Steve Backley says it's not going to plan. | :01:33. | :02:06. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
The organisers of the Athletics World Championships | :02:10. | :02:10. | |
in London are working with Public Health England | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
to try to contain an outbreak of gastroenteritis, which has | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
affected 30 athletes and support staff. | :02:16. | :02:16. | |
Botswana's Isaac Makwala, who was one of the favourites | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
for today's 400 metres final, was forced to withdraw from the 200 | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Let's go live now to the London Stadium and our sports | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
Jane, you can imagine what it's like for these athletes. They train all | :02:29. | :02:42. | |
year in order to peak at these major championships. This is the World | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
Championships, it's absolutely right up there with the Olympics and for | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
them to have to miss it because of something out of their control is | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
obviously devastating. As you said, while those athletes was Issac | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
Makwala, one of the favourites for a medal in both the 200 metres and the | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
400 metres, he was forced, he says, to pull out of a 200 metres when he | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
became sick yesterday and he told me this morning that he is heartbroken. | :03:06. | :03:14. | |
It was supposed to be the start of his bid for world domination. Issac | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
Makwala, he was aiming to double up in the 400 metre final tonight. But | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
yesterday, he vomited before his 200 metre heat, seemingly a victim of | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
the illness sweeping around the Tower hotel. Despite feeling OK, | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
officials pulled out of the race as a precaution. Today he also feels | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
fine but still has not been told if he's allowed to run in tonight 's | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
final. His dream hangs in the balance. It's big. I feel | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
heartbroken yesterday. I was ready for this. I worked hard for this. I | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
was top of my game to come here. I was ready to make it possible. I | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
came here for a medal. If some people force you to withdraw, I | :04:07. | :04:15. | |
don't know, they could hang I'm OK to run but they might say no, I | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
can't run. A bad thing. He's not the only one struck down at the worst | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
possible time. The German team have been particularly affected. Four | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
other athletes and several others in their support staff are taking ill | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
before the weekend and many of athletes have now moved hotels. We | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
understand the outbreak is isolated here, but the tower hotel released a | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
statement concerning the hotel was not the source and went on to say | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
that strict hygiene protocols have been put in place and that all | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
public areas have been thoroughly sanitised. Gastroenteritis causes | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
vomiting and diarrhoea and is usually caused by Mauro virus, | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
believed to be the cause in these cases. It unpleasant, and easily | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
spread, toxic combination for a hotel full of athletes. The | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
important thing is if people have it, stay away from other people, so | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
they're not at risk of passing it on. And to be very scrupulous about | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
washing their hands when been to the toilet and vomited. The London | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
organising committee say they are doing everything they can to get the | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
illness in hand. In any event, when you have 20,000 people minimum | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
coming in from every corner of the world, a possibility someone might | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
come in with a bug. We've taken all the steps we needed to and we had | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
the first indication that a member of the team had some symptoms as | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
early as Friday. We were straight in with medical experts and Public | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
Health England and they've been working with the teams at the hotel | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
to make sure we have the right processes in place. The IAAF, the | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
world governing body for athletics also released a statement saying | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
they are also working with Public Health England to control this | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
outbreak. They wouldn't comment individually on Issac Makwala's | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
case, but we do know that one athlete from Ireland was forced to | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
pull out of the 400 meter hurdles semifinals yesterday after coming | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
down with a bug on Sunday. The British athletics camp say no one in | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
their team has been affected and are saying they are staying in a | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
different hotel but you can imagine the devastation for those athletes | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
who have been affected by this at the worst possible time. | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
Natalie, many thanks at the London stadium. | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
The family of a seven-year-old autistic boy with a rare condition | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
that puts him at risk of severe brain damage, has won a High Court | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
challenge against a decision by the health service to refuse | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
funding for a potentially life changing drug. | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
NHS England had said the effectiveness of the drug, | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
which would cost ?100 a day, hasn't been proved. | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
Today a judge ruled that decision must be reconsidered. | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
Our Legal Correspondent Clive Coleman is with me. | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
It is quite a complicated case. Explain more about this. This little | :06:59. | :07:08. | |
boy has a condition called PKU which means he can't metabolise protein. | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
In fact, if he has more than 12 grams of protein a day he could | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
suffer severe brain damage. On top of that, he is severely autistic and | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
does not have speech or language, so managing his diet is incredibly | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
difficult for his parents. His NHS consultant wanted to have a drug but | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
it's a very expensive drug costing ?100 per day. NHS England turned | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
that request down saying that it wasn't clinically effective or | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
hadn't been proved. Today, Mrs Justice Andrew 's look at that | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
position, dismissed the case on two grounds, but she did find that that | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
decision was irrational. She said the clinical efficacy was beyond | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
question. Is what that means there's NHS England will now have to go and | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
look at that position again. It doesn't guarantee he will get this | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
drug, there is very strong judgment behind him, is a good chance of that | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
and NHS England have acknowledged the case failed on two grounds and | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
they will look at this funding decision in his case again. Clive, | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
thank you. Clive Coleman. Norfolk Police are running extra | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
patrols in the village of East Harling, after an 83-year-old | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
man was murdered at the weekend. He was stabbed in the head and neck, | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
while walking his dogs in woodland. Our correspondent Adina Campbell | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
reports from East Harling. The woodlands in East Harling, | :08:23. | :08:35. | |
neither centre of a major centre. And 83 old man who had been walking | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
his two dogs here was stabbed to death multiple times on Saturday | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
morning. People are shocked and hurting because of the place where | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
people go to enjoy their own leisure time with their families. The | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
pensioner 's body was discovered near the five ways junction by a | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
member of the public. The woodlands here in East Harling is a popular | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
part of Norfolk, used by walkers, runners and bike trails. His body | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
was found just over there where police have set up their forensic | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
tent. He had been repeatedly stabbed in the neck and head. The pensioner | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
is described as a family man from the East Harling area. Three days | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
on, police are continuing their murder investigation and say the | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
motive is still unclear. People will be shocked in relation to this and | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
anybody shocked of this brutal murder, we have got our major | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
investigation team investigating this matter, we have visible police | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
at the scene. Police are now urging people who use these for paths to | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
get in touch. Particularly if they were in this area and saw some | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
unusual activity on Saturday morning. Uniformed officers remain | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
at the scene. And local police patrols have also now increased. | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
Adina Campbell, BBC News. More than 40% of maternity wards | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
in England closed their doors to expectant mothers at least once | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
last year according to data 42 out of 96 trusts in England | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
which responded to a Freedom of Information request said they'd | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
shut maternity wards temporarily, Labour has blamed staffing | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
shortagesbut the government says closures are well | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
rehearsed safety measures. Our Health Correspondent | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
Dominic Hughes reports. Midwives provide specialist care | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
to some of the health service's most But a shortage of staff, | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
combined with a rising birth rate, Andrew Canter campaigns | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
for improved maternity services. He and his wife lost a baby | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
when their local centre was closed. You're in a situation when you been | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
looking forward to the birth of your child for nine or ten | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
months, and that is really So it takes a long time to get back | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
on track and the ramifications are that it goes right | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
across the family, whether it's the parents or grandparents, | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
brothers or sisters, In England, 136 NHS Trusts | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
offer maternity services. Last year, 42 of them | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
closed their doors to There were 382 separate | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
occasions where units The truth is, you cannot keep trying | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
to run the NHS on a shoestring, putting them through the biggest | :11:22. | :11:29. | |
financial squeeze in its history, and not expect | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
standards of care to slip. The Royal College of Midwives said | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
sometimes it is right to close a unit, but that doing | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
so on a regular basis is the sign It's very rare for maternity units | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
to be closed, and the fact that we have seen a 70% increase | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
in how often that is happening, I think should give us cause | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
for serious concern. More midwives are being trained, | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
and the Department of Health says hospitals need to use temporary | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
closures to manage peaks in admissions, but it is misleading | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
to use these figures to indicate a shortage of staff, | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
because of the difficulties around Students in Scotland have been | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
receiving their long-awaited exam There has been a slight fall | :12:17. | :12:29. | |
in the number of passes 77% achieved grades A-to-C, | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
down very slightly on last year. More than a third of students signed | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
up to an email or text alert to get their results, | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
rather than waiting for the post. Our Scotland Correspondent | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
Lorna Gordon reports. After all the hard work, | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
the wait is over for these pupils at the Eastbank Academy in Glasgow, | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
as they find out how they have I got the results I needed | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
so that's really good. I got one A, two Bs and Cs, | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
I know I know I lost maths I happy with that and I can | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
come back and take maths I failed maths but I was | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
expecting that so I'm OK. I got an A in Classics, | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
how did that happen? Across Scotland, the pass rate this | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
year in the higher exams sat by 16 and 17-year-olds, | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
was broadly in line with last year. There was, though, is a significant | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
drop in the number of candidates entered for National four exams, | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
down from 123,000 It was all good news for these | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
pupils but the Scottish education Exam results don't themselves | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
telephone much about the standards Exam results don't themselves tell | :13:43. | :13:52. | |
us much about the standards To do that, we need to look | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
at international evidence, standards of literacy of declining | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
in Scotland, and numeracy also. And in some respects, | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
more worryingly, inequality of attainment is getting worse | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
in Scotland, especially compared The Scottish Government has made | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
closing the attainment gap between pupils from richer | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
and poorer backgrounds a priority. This school has spent the money | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
they have received on trying to increase the proportion of pupils | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
who passed their Highers. And then go on to further | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
or higher education. The Scottish Education Secretary, | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
today meeting other students getting their results, | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
said the government had a relentless To these results give us enormous | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
confidence about the strengths that The investment we are making | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
in people equity funding, which is supporting the measures | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
that are designed to close the attainment gap in Scottish | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
education, will be a fruit For now, the aim for many, | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
to celebrate their results Has it all been plain sailing and | :14:49. | :15:12. | |
gone according to plan? Not quite. A few candidates have faith and | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
challenges finding out how they've done. As of 10am they said 90% of | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
those who registered to receive their results by texted found out | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
what their results were and 33,000 had been delivered but for the boat | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
had still to get through. They say they understand people are probably | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
pretty stressed and apologise and say everyone will get their | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
certificate through the post by the end of the day. As to those who | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
already know if they have done better or worse than expected, well | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
help is on hand. There is this exam results helpline hearing Glasgow. | :15:45. | :15:53. | |
It's received hundreds of calls from students and their parents | :15:54. | :15:54. | |
discussing possible options going forward. Thank you, Lorna Gordon. | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
A British woman is recovering in hospital after being shot | :16:00. | :16:01. | |
while on holiday with her family in Brazil. | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
Eloise Dixon from South London was driving with her partner | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
and three children, when they took a wrong turn into an area controlled | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
Our South America Correspondent Katy Watson reports. | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
An innocent family on their summer holidays, Eloise Dixon, | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
together with her partner and three young children, made one mistake | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
It all happened in Angra dos Reis, about 90 miles south | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
of Rio de Janeiro - a part of Brazil that's popular | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
with tourists and has some of the country's | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
The family had rented a car and, according to local media, | :16:31. | :16:39. | |
were looking for a place to buy water when they made a wrong turning | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
into a favela controlled by drug traffickers. | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
Armed men fire at the car after the family failed | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
Eloise Dixon, sitting in the front passenger seat, was shot twice - | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
Taken to the local hospital, she underwent two hours of surgery. | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
This could so easily have been fatal, but she survived. | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
TRANSLATION: The bullet passed through the abdomen and fortunately | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
did not hit the big blood vessels or the important organs. | :17:07. | :17:08. | |
Many are no-go areas of cities and can be so dangerous even | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
TRANSLATION: We have a community that we cannot enter, | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
the press cannot enter, the public service cannot enter... | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
That is inadmissible, we have to take urgent measures. | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
According to doctors, Eloise Dixon is recovering well from surgery. | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
Awake and talking, she is expected to be transferred to a hospital | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
in the city of Rio de Janeiro, where she'll continue her recovery. | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
About 30 people, including the Botswanan medal hopeful | :17:39. | :17:51. | |
Isaac Makwala, have been hit by an outbreak of gastroenteritis | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
at the World Athletics Championships in London. | :17:54. | :18:02. | |
And still to come on the programme... | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
An insight into why some British women from a South Asian | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
background are delaying getting treated for cancer, | :18:10. | :18:10. | |
England's World Cup cricket star Anya Shrubsole will miss | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
She's out for at least two weeks, suffering from side strain. | :18:16. | :18:28. | |
South Africa's parliament will vote in secret later this afternoon | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
on a motion of no-confidence in President Jacob Zuma. | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
It was tabled by the opposition in response to his sacking | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
of his Finance Minister earlier this year, a move which sparked | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
Mr Zuma has survived several votes of no-confidence in the past - | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
and the governing ANC party says it will back the President this time. | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
Hundreds protesting outside South Africa's parliament - | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
calling for President Jacob Zuma's removal from office. | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
A vote of no-confidence was initiated after nine Cabinet | :19:04. | :19:05. | |
ministers were sacked in March, including the well respected | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and his Deputy, Mcebisi Jonas. | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
It was widely believed they were removed as they were not | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
cooperating with the President's close business associates, | :19:20. | :19:20. | |
the Gupta family, in giving them government contracts. | :19:21. | :19:29. | |
A controversial decision lead the country to an economic | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
downgrade, plunging it into a second recession in a decade. | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
Opposition parties approached the Constitutional Court, | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
asking it to rule that a secret ballot against the President | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
would be the best option to ensure that members of Parliament vote | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
The choice is quite simple, actually. | :19:49. | :19:59. | |
It's a choice between whether you stand, if you stand with Jacob Zuma | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
or against Jacob Zuma, it's as simple as that choice. | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
You stand for the interests of South Africa or you don't. | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
But the question is - are there enough ANC MPs | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
disillusioned with their President to vote against him | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
Just over a quarter are needed for this motion to pass. | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
We are throwing a serious, we are detonating a serious | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
bomb in South Africa, to our government, but also | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
to a very important party that has brought us where we are. | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
It is anyone's guess how the voting will go, | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
but there is no doubt that the ANC is divided now more than ever, | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
as it prepares to choose Jacob Zuma's successor in December. | :20:40. | :20:41. | |
Long queues are being reported at polling stations in Kenya, | :20:42. | :20:50. | |
with many people waiting all night to vote in the country's | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
Kenyans are choosing representatives for six levels of government, | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
There are eight candidates running for president, | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
including the incumbent, Uhuru Kenyatta, and his longstanding | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
BUT THERE ARE FEARS THE RESULT COULD SPARK ETHNIC VIOLENCE. | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
Our Africa Correspondent Alastair Leithead is in Nairobi. | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
THE POLLS HAVE BEEN OPEN FOR A FEW HOURS. WHAT IS THE MOOD, WHAT HAS | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
BEEN HAPPENING? A couple of hours to go before they close. Still queues | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
of people. A big turnout, we think, and so far everything has gone very | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
well. The key thing has been about the system of voting, it's a | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
electronic, the first time this has been rolled out to this extent and | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
seeds to be working so far. People put some down or show their IDs, | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
found of the folders voters roll and they can vote, it has slowed things | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
down a bit but as long as it works, things are set to go well. The key | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
thing for success in this election is that that system to work and for | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
whoever loses, and this is basically a two horse race between the current | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
incumbent president Uhuru Kenyatta and his opponent, Raila Oding. If it | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
is very close its the latter of which of them takes that defeat | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
well. Whoever loses, if they stay back and say, yes let's bring this | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
country together, things will go well. If they don't, that is where | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
the questions live. That is why people here are afraid, because | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
there has been violence in the past and allegations of rigging. We are | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
waiting now for those votes to start coming in. Thank you very much. | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
Britain's most senior judge has told the Government it must provide more | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
clarity about how UK law will be developed after Britain | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
Currently, UK legislation is subject to rulings made | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
Lord Newberger, who steps down as President of the Supreme Court | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
in October, said Parliament must be "very clear" in telling judges how | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
The internet giant Google has fired an employee who wrote an internal | :22:56. | :23:06. | |
memo defending the gender gap in technology jobs as | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
James Damore, a software engineer, suggested there were fewer | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
women at the organisation because of biological differences. | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
Google's chief executive said the memo broke the company's code | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
of conduct, and advanced harmful gender stereotypes. | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
Let's speak to our technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones. | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
It does seem that Google fired him pretty quickly? I think it became | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
clear how seriously the company took this. When the chief executive broke | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
off his holiday, came back to Google and sent out his 11 oh, it said he | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
supported the right of staff to express themselves. But then it | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
said, our job is to build great products for users that make a | :23:53. | :23:54. | |
difference in their lives. To suggest a group of our colleagues | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
offensive and not OK. He took it very seriously and ended up with | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
this man being fired. Thanks very much. | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
A number of British women from South Asian backgrounds | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
are reporting cancer later than other ethnic groups, | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
because of a perceived stigma about the disease. | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
That's according to researchers, who say they are worried that | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
cultural taboos are leading to women dying prematurely in | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
Amber Haque has been looking at what could be done | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
This lady found a lump in her breast when she was 36. She grew up in a | :24:30. | :24:45. | |
strict Indian community where even talking about the disease was | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
something shameful. I didn't tell them, because I just thought if | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
people hear the fact I've got cancer, they're going to think it's | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
a death sentence. Maybe I lead a balanced life, therefore God has | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
punished me, and so hiding it was the obvious choice. This researcher | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
has spent the previous years looking at attitudes towards cancer in the | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
South Asian community. They would hide the shame, in their | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
eyes, of having a cancer diagnosis, because they felt it would influence | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
their children's future. Also about the influence from males and elders | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
in the family and if they didn't think will and should be going for | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
screening, they wouldn't go. The reluctance to go for a sneer, it's | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
like you don't want to be defiled. The husband, it's like you're being | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
unfaithful to them. It's like infidelity. If you research projects | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
Abingdon in this area show South Asian women have reduced survival | :25:47. | :25:48. | |
rate and are more likely to go to the doctors when their tumours are | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
advanced. Because of the ignorance of not | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
presenting early, not going through the screening programme not | :26:00. | :26:01. | |
examining their breasts, they are presenting late and this reminds me | :26:02. | :26:09. | |
of a woman who came to see us. Her breast was smelling so much you | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
couldn't even sit next to her. I don't know how long she was hiding | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
that. She had literally left it that long? What happened to her? And | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
fortunately she died. You see? Because the cancer had spread. | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
Charities and local authorities have been trying to help the South Asian | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
community addressed this issue, but many feel it such a deep rooted | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
cultural stigma that it will not be easy to change attitudes stop here | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
on from the medical profession and I know these things, and yet I still | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
felt I had to hide it from everybody else. That's down to my upbringing. | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
That's down to the baggage, and I consider it baggage, that I carry. | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
Pravina is still in relation but worries other women are suffering | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
unnecessarily. Amber Haque, BBC News. | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
We have been talking about the world athletics Championships in London. | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
There is another sporting event going on. | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
It starts in Sheffield today, bringing together two and a half | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
Every competitor at The Special Olympics National Games has | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
It's estimated that one and a half million people | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
across Britain live with some form of intellectual disability - | :27:25. | :27:26. | |
but sporting provision for them faces major funding challenges, | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
as our sports correspondent Joe Wilson reports. | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
In Sheffield this week there is sport everywhere. The National games | :27:36. | :27:45. | |
of the Special Olympics, 20 disciplines, two and a half thousand | :27:46. | :27:47. | |
competitors and what links the lives they love sport. What links them all | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
if they have a learning disability, and that can make life a daily | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
challenge. Getting like around, travelling and stuff like that and | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
everybody being nasty to Lee, bullying me, stuff like that. That | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
happen to you? Yes, it does. Doesn't happen here, doing the sport? Know, | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
everybody is the same. A lot of people with intellectual | :28:14. | :28:15. | |
disabilities, they feel they're being left out from the community | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
and from the exclusion. Where is coming to these games gives them a | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
chance to express themselves and to really show not about what they | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
can't do, but about what they can do and more. | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
To stage all this board takes money and for the first time this national | :28:35. | :28:42. | |
games of the Special Olympics has received direct treasury funding, ?2 | :28:43. | :28:45. | |
million from the government. But when the event starts at the | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
weekend, so does that cash. We're hoping that this event will | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
just show what the benefit of supporting Special Olympics by the | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
government is. The Olympic movement was about friendship, was about | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
camaraderie, was about achieving to one's best, so perhaps that has got | :29:03. | :29:09. | |
lost. That's what you get here in Sheffield? Yes, yeah, yeah. | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
Participation is everything. To date competitors are classified so they | :29:15. | :29:17. | |
can be matched against others of the similar standards later this week, | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
but each local club has had to raise some ?400 for each competitor just | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
to enter. James Thorpe and his dad Simon exploring the athletes | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
village, father tries to find the opportunities for his son to do | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
gymnastics. How many different disciplines do you do? Floor? Floor, | :29:37. | :29:43. | |
high bar Cole Hammer horse on the rings. P bars... What's the jump? | :29:44. | :29:53. | |
The vault. There's one place that I know that James is accepted and | :29:54. | :29:59. | |
that's where he's gone since he was five or six. Even that is now | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
struggling for funding. While Sheffield United's up the opening -- | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
hosts the opening ceremony this evening with some special guests. | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
1.5 million people in this country have a learning disability, let's | :30:14. | :30:17. | |
put the spotlight on them, give them their chance and everybody deserves | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
a chance. That's just what this is about. That spirit defeats the | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
weather in this city but it can't overcome a lack of funds and as this | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
national games begins there is no certainty where or if there will be | :30:31. | :30:33. | |
another. Joe Wilson, BBC News, in Sheffield. | :30:34. | :30:36. | |
Police in south west London are asking for help to identify | :30:37. | :30:38. | |
a jogger, who appeared to push a pedestrian into the path of a bus. | :30:39. | :30:48. | |
Keep an eye on the man on the right of your screen. | :30:49. | :30:51. | |
This CCTV footage of the incident shows him running along | :30:52. | :30:53. | |
Putney Bridge, and appearing to push the woman into the road. | :30:54. | :30:57. | |
The oncoming bus has to swerve into the next lane | :30:58. | :30:59. | |
The bus stopped and passengers went to help the woman, | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
Time for a look at the weather... | :31:05. | :31:15. | |
That is the Yorkshire coast. Rain is not the whole story this week that a | :31:16. | :31:34. | |
big part of the story. You can see from the radar picture, what a soggy | :31:35. | :31:37. | |
day so far in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and in the Midlands. We | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
have started the season heavy showers across parts of East Anglia | :31:42. | :31:44. | |
and the south-east. Also towards the south-west. These were the shower | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
clouds beginning to build in North Devon a little earlier on this | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
morning. As we go through the rest of the day, across England and Wales | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
generally quite cloudy, some outbreaks of rain and heavy | :31:58. | :32:00. | |
downpours in places. The driest of the weather and the brightest of the | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
weather today will be across Scotland and Northern Ireland. A few | :32:06. | :32:10. | |
showers but plenty of sunshine, 18-19d. North-east England on the | :32:11. | :32:14. | |
Midlands, look at the temperatures, just 13 or 14 degrees this | :32:15. | :32:23. | |
afternoon. A bit warmer that East Anglia and the south-east but these | :32:24. | :32:25. | |
heavy downpours could give some poor travelling conditions and perhaps | :32:26. | :32:27. | |
flash flooding and hefty showers continuing in Wales on the | :32:28. | :32:29. | |
south-west, but with some glimpses of blue sky and Sanchon in between. | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
A lot going on through the rush hour and into the night. These clumps of | :32:35. | :32:37. | |
wet weather with some thunder and lightning at times continue to | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
circulate around the Northern Ireland and Scotland largely dry | :32:42. | :32:44. | |
with clear spells and temperatures a little chilly in the north, staying | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
fairly mild further south. Two halves to weather story tomorrow. | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
Low-pressure hanging around towards the east and south-east. More rain | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
to come here but more high-pressure toppling in from the West. That | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
means for Northern Ireland and Scotland, increasingly northern | :33:02. | :33:04. | |
England and West Wales, some better weather prospects tomorrow. Not so | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
further south and east. This band of wet weather is sinking very slowly | :33:10. | :33:14. | |
southwards and eastwards. Some heavy rain moving slowly enough it could | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
cause some big problems, travel disruption, maybe some issues with | :33:19. | :33:22. | |
flooding. On Thursday, the last of that rain still hanging on across | :33:23. | :33:26. | |
the south-east. The area of high pressure builds further across the | :33:27. | :33:30. | |
country, so many places fine and dry on Thursday. However, the end of the | :33:31. | :33:33. | |
week brings this frontal system from the West. It will bring some | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
outbreaks of rain, heavy in the West, lighter and more patchy in the | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
south-east. Quite windy with gales in the far north-west, 16-20d, but | :33:43. | :33:47. | |
the weekend, a little bit of hope because it looks things will turn | :33:48. | :33:53. | |
dry with some sunny spells. Goodness, I hope so! Thank you. That | :33:54. | :33:57. | |
is all from us for now. On | :33:58. | :33:58. |