:00:00. > :00:07.North Korea accuses Donald Trump of being bereft of reason after his
:00:08. > :00:15.The regime says only absolute force can work on the US President as it
:00:16. > :00:17.says it may fire four rockets towards the American
:00:18. > :00:25.We'll be live from Guam in the western Pacific as we assess
:00:26. > :00:31.Also this lunchtime: The latest NHS figures are released.
:00:32. > :00:33.Waiting lists hit a ten-year high in England.
:00:34. > :00:35.Other key targets, including urgent referral for cancer care,
:00:36. > :00:42.After 18 people are convicted of abusing girls in Newcastle,
:00:43. > :00:44.the former Director of Public Prosecutions says treat
:00:45. > :00:52.Modern slavery and human trafficking is said to be far more prevalent
:00:53. > :00:54.than previously thought, as the National Crime Agency reveals
:00:55. > :01:03.there are tens of thousands of potential victims.
:01:04. > :01:06.A second chance for gold - Botswanan athlete Isaac Makwala
:01:07. > :01:08.will run in tonight's final of the World Athletics 200m
:01:09. > :01:15.after running his heat alone, against the clock.
:01:16. > :01:18.And coming up in the sport on BBC News: One major away
:01:19. > :01:21.from a career grand slam, but Jordan Spieth insists he's not
:01:22. > :01:23.feeling the pressure ahead of the USPGA Championship in North
:01:24. > :01:45.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:46. > :01:49.North Korea has accused Donald Trump of being bereft of reason saying
:01:50. > :01:53.only absolute force can work on him as it gave more details
:01:54. > :01:55.about its threat to an American military base in the Western
:01:56. > :02:00.The regime, which is reported to have developed the ability
:02:01. > :02:03.to attach nuclear warheads to its missiles, says it's
:02:04. > :02:05.considering firing four rockets towards the American
:02:06. > :02:16.Our correspondent Yogita Limaye reports.
:02:17. > :02:20.One more fierce message on North Korea's state TV.
:02:21. > :02:25.This time, it's details of how it plans to attack Guam.
:02:26. > :02:30.This US island in the Pacific Ocean is in Pyongyang's crosshairs.
:02:31. > :02:33.North Korea says it plans to fire four missiles
:02:34. > :02:38.It's home to tens of thousands of people.
:02:39. > :02:41.Obviously for me, because I'm a father, it's really concerning.
:02:42. > :02:45.I wish it didn't have to come to that.
:02:46. > :02:48.I'm pretty confident that the US will protect us.
:02:49. > :02:51.But in the war of words with North Korea, America's president
:02:52. > :02:57.He boasted of his country's nuclear arsenal, matching the aggression
:02:58. > :03:03.people have come to expect from Pyongyang.
:03:04. > :03:06.What's different this time is that we're hearing very similar
:03:07. > :03:10.rhetoric from the US president, so that's certainly ratcheted up
:03:11. > :03:13.tension and perhaps gives Pyongyang a bit more justification to keep
:03:14. > :03:21.So it will actually feed their anti-American propaganda.
:03:22. > :03:25.But while Donald Trump's remarks might be provocative,
:03:26. > :03:28.there are hopes that others in his government could help
:03:29. > :03:30.tone down the message coming from America.
:03:31. > :03:35.I would say this, that his Secretary of Defense
:03:36. > :03:38.and National Security Adviser are universally respected.
:03:39. > :03:41.There are some cool hands around him during this crisis
:03:42. > :03:48.One country that's hoping to defuse this crisis soon is South Korea.
:03:49. > :03:52.It's seen this kind of situation many times before, and while it's
:03:53. > :03:56.working closely with the US to ramp up its defence programme,
:03:57. > :04:04.Its National Security Council held a meeting to discuss the issue,
:04:05. > :04:12.and it said it was keeping a channel for dialogue with North Korea open.
:04:13. > :04:17.But the mood on the streets of Pyongyang was not conciliatory.
:04:18. > :04:19.On Wednesday, a mass of people marched
:04:20. > :04:26.No evidence here to suggest that things are going to cool down.
:04:27. > :04:33.We can go live now to the Western Pacific
:04:34. > :04:40.Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield Hayes is there.
:04:41. > :04:42.Rupert, South Korea appealing for calm and yet no sign of it.
:04:43. > :04:59.What's the view from those living in Guam?
:05:00. > :05:07.Well, there are very mixed feelings here. We have been talking to locals
:05:08. > :05:09.and tourists here today out on the beach is enjoying themselves. This
:05:10. > :05:18.is peak season in Guam and there are tens of thousands of tourists from
:05:19. > :05:23.Asia. The locals are fairly calm. They told us they have experienced
:05:24. > :05:27.these threats before and they are upset and angry and do not like
:05:28. > :05:32.being threatened like this, but they are confident in the US military.
:05:33. > :05:36.They have anti-missile systems based on the island, so if North Korea did
:05:37. > :05:40.fire at the islands, it has defences. But we had a different
:05:41. > :05:46.message from Japanese tourists, many of whom are here with families. They
:05:47. > :05:48.said they are nervous and friends and family in Japan have been
:05:49. > :05:54.sending their messages asking them if they are OK. So there is
:05:55. > :05:55.nervousness and tourists are starting to think about whether this
:05:56. > :05:58.starting to think about whether this place is safe.
:05:59. > :06:01.The number of people waiting for routine surgery in England
:06:02. > :06:03.in June was the highest since December 2007.
:06:04. > :06:06.NHS England said 3.83 million patients were
:06:07. > :06:13.Other key targets were also missed, including urgent
:06:14. > :06:19.I'm joined by our Health Editor, Hugh Pym.
:06:20. > :06:36.This figure is an important gauge of how the NHS is performing. Waiting
:06:37. > :06:41.lists for routine operations and surgery. The NHS is doing more than
:06:42. > :06:45.it was, but that waiting list has been climbing and it was 3.83
:06:46. > :06:50.million patients waiting for routine surgery and operations in the month
:06:51. > :06:55.of June. NHS England says it could be even 4 million because not all
:06:56. > :07:00.hospitals reported their figures. What about the key target of waiting
:07:01. > :07:13.18 weeks and no more for a routine operation? In June the percentage
:07:14. > :07:18.that was seeing was 90.3%. For cancer treatment, another very
:07:19. > :07:23.important target for the NHS, 80.5% of people were waiting after an
:07:24. > :07:28.urgent referral to be seen within 62 days. That is the target there.
:07:29. > :07:35.Obviously a lot more were not in terms of the number above that. They
:07:36. > :07:40.have missed the target of 85%. Can you put that into context in terms
:07:41. > :07:46.of the background of these figures? It demonstrates the pressures on the
:07:47. > :07:50.NHS. Key targets have been missed all year, and target in A as well.
:07:51. > :07:55.It shows the stresses and strains on the NHS, dealing with more patients
:07:56. > :08:00.every year and resources and finances in England not keeping up
:08:01. > :08:04.with the patient demand growth. Many would say more money is needed,
:08:05. > :08:07.others say the NHS needs to be more efficient. But certainly patients
:08:08. > :08:09.are having to wait longer for these important treatment.
:08:10. > :08:13.The former Director of Public Prosecutions,
:08:14. > :08:15.Lord MacDonald, has said that the grooming of vulnerable
:08:16. > :08:17.white girls by south Asian gangs needs to be recognised
:08:18. > :08:21.Yesterday, 18 people, mainly of Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin,
:08:22. > :08:24.were convicted of abusing girls in Newcastle.
:08:25. > :08:27.The force involved in the case, Northumbria Police, has been
:08:28. > :08:31.defending its decision to pay a convicted paedophile ?10,000
:08:32. > :08:35.for information during the course of that investigation.
:08:36. > :08:42.Our home affairs correspondent Nick Beake reports.
:08:43. > :08:53.The raids across Newcastle smashed a grooming gang that was
:08:54. > :08:56.drugging and abusing young girls, one just 14 years old.
:08:57. > :08:58.The victims were mostly white, the attackers mainly
:08:59. > :09:01.British men from Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi heritage.
:09:02. > :09:04.It's a story we've heard time and again,
:09:05. > :09:08.Oxford, Rochdale, Cardiff to name a few.
:09:09. > :09:11.Today, one former leading prosecutor condemned what he said had been
:09:12. > :09:15.a reluctance to investigate Asian gangs who target vulnerable
:09:16. > :09:19.white girls, and that a big change was needed.
:09:20. > :09:22.I think some recognition that this is a problem in all communities
:09:23. > :09:24.and across communities, and recognising it for what it is,
:09:25. > :09:28.not pretending it's something else, recognising it for what it is,
:09:29. > :09:37.It's thought more than 1,400 children in Rotherham were groomed
:09:38. > :09:41.and abused by networks of predominantly Asian men.
:09:42. > :09:44.The town's MP says a fear within the public sector
:09:45. > :09:48.of being branded racist has allowed this to happen.
:09:49. > :09:51.Sadly, I think there is political correctness going on.
:09:52. > :09:56.People historically have been more concerned about not being seen to be
:09:57. > :09:59.racist than they have been concerned about protecting children.
:10:00. > :10:06.In the light of these latest Newcastle cases,
:10:07. > :10:09.there are now calls for an inquiry into why groups of men
:10:10. > :10:16.Some warn against stigmatising whole Asian communities.
:10:17. > :10:20.Others insist that the problem needs to be tackled head-on.
:10:21. > :10:25.there is a mindset that white girls are worthless,
:10:26. > :10:28.that white girls can be used and abused and discarded
:10:29. > :10:32.unlike their own daughters and sisters.
:10:33. > :10:39.We in the British Pakistani community have to confront that.
:10:40. > :10:41.Police forces say they have learned from their own failures
:10:42. > :10:44.in tackling grooming gangs, but the Northumbria force has been
:10:45. > :10:48.criticised for paying a child rapist for information to help secure
:10:49. > :10:54.Yes, you might have got that evidence through other means,
:10:55. > :10:57.but it could have taken a whole lot longer and that in itself would have
:10:58. > :11:01.exposed vulnerable women and girls to an unacceptable level of risk.
:11:02. > :11:06.Personally, that doesn't sit comfortably with me morally either.
:11:07. > :11:10.Controversy over the race of sexual abuse gangs has
:11:11. > :11:17.But these offenders in Newcastle, at least, are now facing
:11:18. > :11:25.Modern slavery and human trafficking are far more widespread in the UK
:11:26. > :11:28.than previously thought according to the National Crime Agency.
:11:29. > :11:32.It says there are currently more than 300 policing operations ongoing
:11:33. > :11:35.with cases affecting every large town and city in the country,
:11:36. > :11:38.many involving the sale of very young girls.
:11:39. > :11:40.Our home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani is here.
:11:41. > :11:47.The figures make for disturbing reading, Dominic.
:11:48. > :11:54.It is one of the stories of crime in the modern world if you think about
:11:55. > :11:58.it. There have been six months of intensive operations from the
:11:59. > :12:01.National Crime Agency coordinating red across the country with global
:12:02. > :12:06.police forces and international partners. The more it has looked,
:12:07. > :12:13.the more it has found. Before today we had an estimate of about 10,000 -
:12:14. > :12:18.13,000 hidden victims across the UK. But it says it is the tip of the
:12:19. > :12:23.iceberg, it cannot count how many are out there. One third of known
:12:24. > :12:30.victims are British, but people from all sorts of nationalities in the UK
:12:31. > :12:34.are being forced to work across Great Britain against their will.
:12:35. > :12:43.Each of them is most likely today to come across somebody. The director
:12:44. > :12:49.of vulnerabilities says he is directed by what he has found. We
:12:50. > :12:52.have seen people being moved across and into the country for the
:12:53. > :12:57.purposes of being exploited and there was a case of a 12-year-old
:12:58. > :13:03.girl for labour exploitation. We are seeing people as young as 13 and 14
:13:04. > :13:08.being sexually exploited and being engaged in prostitution. This is a
:13:09. > :13:10.growing problem to which we think there is a shared responsibility
:13:11. > :13:16.across society in the United Kingdom to be addressed. The NCA said it has
:13:17. > :13:19.stepped up efforts and is coordinating more operations, but
:13:20. > :13:24.there have been questions as to whether this is too little too late.
:13:25. > :13:27.The official anti-slavery commissioner raised questions last
:13:28. > :13:31.night about the amount of effort that has been put into the problem
:13:32. > :13:37.recently, saying too much intelligence has been lying dormant
:13:38. > :13:41.on databases and not acted upon. The NCA in its defence has said there
:13:42. > :13:45.has been a sea change in operational activity, but it says it needs to
:13:46. > :13:49.hear from the public and once the warning signs at their people who
:13:50. > :13:53.may be victims of this appalling crime.
:13:54. > :13:55.The United States has expelled two Cuban diplomats amid suggestions
:13:56. > :13:58.that mysterious technology was used to damage the hearing of US
:13:59. > :14:02.US State Department officials believe covert sonic devices may
:14:03. > :14:06.Cuba says it's investigating the claims.
:14:07. > :14:09.Our correspondent Tom Burridge reports.
:14:10. > :14:14.It was a moment when Cuba and America's relationship changed.
:14:15. > :14:18.For decades, they were enemies, but the opening of America's embassy
:14:19. > :14:21.in Havana two years ago set this island and its neighbouring
:14:22. > :14:24.superpower on a new path, with some trade and travel
:14:25. > :14:33.Now, news about bizarre events in that very building.
:14:34. > :14:35.It's emerged that several US diplomats had to leave Cuba last
:14:36. > :14:43.They had apparently suffered severe hearing loss.
:14:44. > :14:47.One theory is that the diplomats were subjected to a device
:14:48. > :14:50.which gave off low or high frequency sound which is inaudible
:14:51. > :14:55.to the human ear - and that caused the damage.
:14:56. > :14:59.The US State Department has given few concrete details.
:15:00. > :15:03.They've reported some incidents, which have caused a variety
:15:04. > :15:09.I'm not going to be able to give you a tonne of information
:15:10. > :15:11.about this today, but I'll tell you what we do have
:15:12. > :15:16.We don't have any definitive answers about the source or the cause
:15:17. > :15:20.Since 2016 you don't know what this incident is?
:15:21. > :15:23.What this requires is providing medical
:15:24. > :15:29.Initially when they started reporting what I will just call
:15:30. > :15:32.symptoms, it took time to figure out what it was, and this
:15:33. > :15:37.But despite the uncertainty America expelled two Cuban diplomats
:15:38. > :15:49.Via state television, the government categorically
:15:50. > :15:54.denied any foul play against the US embassy.
:15:55. > :15:57.Cuba said it was carrying out its own thorough investigation
:15:58. > :16:01.and called on America to share information.
:16:02. > :16:05.America is not overtly blaming Cuba, probably because so much
:16:06. > :16:08.is still unclear, and the relatively constructive reaction from officials
:16:09. > :16:12.in Havana at least shows how much the dynamic between these two
:16:13. > :16:25.North Korea accuses Donald Trump of being bereft of reason
:16:26. > :16:27.after his "fire and fury" nuclear threat - and says it
:16:28. > :16:29.may fire four rockets towards the American
:16:30. > :16:45.Coming up, I'm at the World Athletics Championships, where the
:16:46. > :16:48.amazing story of one Botswana sprinter has captivated the world.
:16:49. > :16:51.Coming up in sport: The English FA are planning to enter a British
:16:52. > :16:54.women's team into the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, even if they
:16:55. > :16:56.don't have the support of the other home nations -
:16:57. > :17:02.who the FA say won't stand in their way.
:17:03. > :17:06.More than 9000 people currently sleep on the streets -
:17:07. > :17:08.and the number of people sleeping rough across England,
:17:09. > :17:10.Scotland and Wales could jump by three-quarters
:17:11. > :17:14.That's the warning from the homeless charity Crisis, which says
:17:15. > :17:18.homelessness has increased significantly in the past five years
:17:19. > :17:20.and will continue to do so unless long-term action is taken
:17:21. > :17:26.Our correspondent Sima Kotecha reports.
:17:27. > :17:30.Not having a place to call home - a reality for thousands,
:17:31. > :17:33.a problem expected to get a lot worse.
:17:34. > :17:38.Meet Alan, a former courier, now homeless.
:17:39. > :17:42.That's why people drink a lot and are on drugs.
:17:43. > :17:47.I don't blame them, because they can't live.
:17:48. > :17:55.It's not difficult to find people like this here
:17:56. > :17:57.in Leicester city centre, who tell us they have no choice
:17:58. > :18:02.This man says he's been homeless for more than ten weeks and believes
:18:03. > :18:05.that the main driver for homelessness is drugs
:18:06. > :18:11.According to today's report, almost 160,000 households
:18:12. > :18:16.were experiencing the worst form of homelessness in 2016.
:18:17. > :18:23.That number includes more than 9000 people sleeping on the streets.
:18:24. > :18:26.It's estimated that number will increase by 76%,
:18:27. > :18:33.to 16,000, in the next decade, if there are no policy changes.
:18:34. > :18:36.The report includes more than 68,000 households who are staying
:18:37. > :18:42.with others on a short-term basis - so-called sofa surfing.
:18:43. > :18:45.Charities are calling for urgent action.
:18:46. > :18:47.We know that if we stopped the welfare changes,
:18:48. > :18:49.the welfare cuts, that are going through the system
:18:50. > :18:52.at the moment, if we stopped them now, that projected figure
:18:53. > :18:56.of growing homelessness would be reduced by up to 7%.
:18:57. > :18:59.If we substantially increased the number of new houses
:19:00. > :19:05.Ministers say they are investing more than ?500 million
:19:06. > :19:07.into solving the problem, and that building more affordable
:19:08. > :19:13.Today's report is largely based on estimates.
:19:14. > :19:16.There are questions around how the figures were calculated,
:19:17. > :19:18.but few are disputing that homelessness is a real issue
:19:19. > :19:32.Surveyors say falls in house prices in London are beginning
:19:33. > :19:34.to spread across the country, with the South East of England,
:19:35. > :19:36.East Anglia and parts of the North now affected.
:19:37. > :19:41.Our personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz is here.
:19:42. > :19:47.What exactly are surveyors saying? It's often been the case there's
:19:48. > :19:52.been this ripple effect, when prices have either gone down or up in
:19:53. > :19:55.London, then that spreads across the United Kingdom. They seem to be
:19:56. > :19:58.pointing to something like this happening at the moment. London
:19:59. > :20:02.prices, they say, have stalled. That's not yet reflected in the
:20:03. > :20:06.official registers, but surveyors have a more up-to-date view of
:20:07. > :20:10.what's going on, and so London is stalling the last three months they
:20:11. > :20:15.are saying other areas too, the south-east. The north, not the
:20:16. > :20:19.north-west, but the North, and East Anglia. Against that, there are some
:20:20. > :20:24.areas as well that are still going up quite strongly and amongst those
:20:25. > :20:28.are Northern Ireland, West Midlands, south-west of England and Scotland
:20:29. > :20:33.as well. So there are some reservations about this. One is that
:20:34. > :20:35.prices have gone so high in London they are simply out of reach for
:20:36. > :20:41.many people. That's not the same as the rest of the country. Also, if
:20:42. > :20:44.there is an effect from Brexit uncertainty, I think people
:20:45. > :20:48.generally think that's more marked in London and elsewhere. Any
:20:49. > :20:52.predictions in terms of what could happen in the longer term? That's
:20:53. > :20:56.the interesting thing about this surveyors' report because it's not
:20:57. > :20:58.the exact data about house prices after the event, they are
:20:59. > :21:03.forward-looking, what's happening to the house market. They are expecting
:21:04. > :21:06.a similar effect over the next couple of months of stalling and
:21:07. > :21:18.rippling out, but they've moderated their view over the next five years.
:21:19. > :21:21.They are expecting increases still put of about 2.7% a year over the
:21:22. > :21:23.next five years and that's the lowest that they've expected in the
:21:24. > :21:25.history of doing this survey. So real moderation of their view of
:21:26. > :21:27.what's happening to the housing market.
:21:28. > :21:30.A widow has spoken of her "shock and horror", after a private GP -
:21:31. > :21:32.who treated her late husband - admitted failings in the case.
:21:33. > :21:34.Dr Peter Wheeler, who was Princess Diana's doctor,
:21:35. > :21:36.has acknowledged he failed to properly monitor his
:21:37. > :21:38.patient, by not arranging the recommended blood tests.
:21:39. > :21:40.Our health correspondent, Jane Dreaper, has the details.
:21:41. > :21:44.Stefanos Vavalidis died from liver failure after spending
:21:45. > :21:47.the last eight months of his life in hospital.
:21:48. > :21:52.His widow is suing the private GP who was the family's trusted doctor
:21:53. > :21:55.over the prescribing of a drug Mr Vavalidis took for a skin
:21:56. > :22:03.It was an insidious build-up of health problems, as a result
:22:04. > :22:07.of the drip drip drip of each one of these prescriptions over
:22:08. > :22:14.It's heartbreaking enough to lose your partner of 45 years,
:22:15. > :22:20.but the complete shock and horror when we found out that it had
:22:21. > :22:27.That last period of his life was horrifying, so we'd
:22:28. > :22:31.like to prevent it from happening to other people.
:22:32. > :22:35.Dr Peter Wheeler continues to practise at this private surgery,
:22:36. > :22:38.which was declared safe when inspectors visited four years
:22:39. > :22:42.ago, but he's since admitted in legal papers for this case
:22:43. > :22:45.that there were no systems at the time for flagging up the need
:22:46. > :22:49.for regular blood tests in cases like this, and that he failed
:22:50. > :22:53.to properly monitor Mr Vavalidis and that had he done so,
:22:54. > :22:57.his patient could have lived up to two years longer.
:22:58. > :23:01.The lawyer working on the family's legal claim says it's one
:23:02. > :23:09.Private health care does have certain advantages over the NHS.
:23:10. > :23:13.It's more convenient, generally, and it's more comfortable,
:23:14. > :23:21.Dr Wheeler states in legal papers that Mr Vavalidis would still have
:23:22. > :23:24.died from liver failure because of his diabetes and obesity.
:23:25. > :23:28.The doctor is under investigation by the General Medical Council.
:23:29. > :23:38.Relatives of the Omagh bomb victims have announced that they are to sue
:23:39. > :23:43.Next week will mark 19 years since the bombing by the Real IRA
:23:44. > :23:46.Families of the victims have issued a writ against
:23:47. > :23:50.It focuses on what happened afterwards and why no-one has been
:23:51. > :24:01.successfully convicted in a criminal court.
:24:02. > :24:04.A man who used a "quick sale" firm to sell his home claims he received
:24:05. > :24:07.less than half of what the property was actually sold for.
:24:08. > :24:09.Quick sale companies offer to buy your house quickly,
:24:10. > :24:13.But Phillip Edwards says that when he sold his three bedroom house
:24:14. > :24:15.in Hawarden in Flintshire, he received just ?68,000
:24:16. > :24:20.He's one of four alleged victims of what's believed to be a house
:24:21. > :24:23.sale scheme based in the Midlands - and police are investigating,
:24:24. > :24:29.It's advertised as an easy, fast and hassle-free way
:24:30. > :24:32.to sell your property, but some claim that using a quick
:24:33. > :24:36.home sale company has ruined their lives.
:24:37. > :24:39.How or why should they be able to get away with it?
:24:40. > :24:43.Phillip Edwards sold his house through an organisation
:24:44. > :24:46.called Speedy Property, after seeing a notice
:24:47. > :24:51.It had belonged to his late parents and was the family
:24:52. > :25:00.Mr Edwards expected to receive around ?100,000 for the sale
:25:01. > :25:06.He was selling the house because he owed around ?60,000 to his ex-wife.
:25:07. > :25:09.He wasn't clear how much the firm would deduct from the sale.
:25:10. > :25:12.Mr Edwards expected to receive around ?100,000 for the sale
:25:13. > :25:14.of his property, once payments had been deducted, but once
:25:15. > :25:16.the sale was complete he received just over ?4000,
:25:17. > :25:21.while two named companies received ?51,000 and ?45,000 each.
:25:22. > :25:28.It's as if everything that my parents worked for,
:25:29. > :25:32.and what I've worked for, you know, and at the end
:25:33. > :25:40.It appears to be a large scale operation and West Midlands Police
:25:41. > :25:41.have confirmed that they are investigating a number
:25:42. > :25:46.Two of my three clients are suffering from cancer.
:25:47. > :25:50.They've lost their life savings in these transactions.
:25:51. > :25:53.Nigel Cole is pursuing negligence claims against one of the solicitor
:25:54. > :25:57.firms which handled the sales on behalf of the victims.
:25:58. > :26:01.He says they're all elderly, vulnerable, or in ill health.
:26:02. > :26:03.All of them say exactly the same thing to me.
:26:04. > :26:06.They don't know the name of these companies these large
:26:07. > :26:09.It's only when they received the balance of the proceeds
:26:10. > :26:11.of sale that they realised that they are missing
:26:12. > :26:16.in one case ?99,000, another case, ?96,000,
:26:17. > :26:24.Whilst there are genuine companies which offer quick home sale deals,
:26:25. > :26:28.the warning is that if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
:26:29. > :26:31.Take a bit more time to read through all the paperwork,
:26:32. > :26:33.find out exactly what you're getting, get some expert
:26:34. > :26:38.Go and see a solicitor you trust, not a solicitor that they recommend
:26:39. > :26:43.to you, because if there's a scam they may well be in on it as well.
:26:44. > :26:48.Mr Edwards is now hoping that the police and civil
:26:49. > :26:51.investigation will see justice done, but some of the other clients
:26:52. > :26:58.There are estimates up to four people a month were attracted
:26:59. > :27:00.by the company's advertising and promises over a four year
:27:01. > :27:04.period, and reports that Speedy Property were active
:27:05. > :27:14.So the number of people affected may be much higher.
:27:15. > :27:15.The Botswanan athlete, Isaac Makwala, has qualified
:27:16. > :27:19.for the final of the World Athletics 200 metres - after running his heat
:27:20. > :27:24.He was unable to take part in the heats on Monday night,
:27:25. > :27:30.because the athletics authorities said he had the norovirus.
:27:31. > :27:31.Our sports correspondent Natalie Pirks is at
:27:32. > :27:43.It's been nothing if not eventful. More drama no doubt to come? Well,
:27:44. > :27:46.the curious tale of Isaac Makwala really has captured the public's
:27:47. > :27:52.imagination. On Monday was despondent at what he called
:27:53. > :27:55.sabotage, but tonight he could have a gold medal in the 200 metres
:27:56. > :27:59.final. It would be an astonishing turnaround in a World Championship
:28:00. > :28:01.that's already seen its fair share of shocks.
:28:02. > :28:04.One arm aloft, with the crowd cheering his name.
:28:05. > :28:07.It's fair to say Isaac Makwala's day had gone from bad to brilliant.
:28:08. > :28:10.12 hours of madness began with him heartbroken in his hotel room.
:28:11. > :28:15.He told me he'd lost everything after being diagnosed
:28:16. > :28:17.with norovirus that he claimed not to have and being forced
:28:18. > :28:26.This was my time for taking a gold medal here.
:28:27. > :28:29.But just hours later, he was out of quarantine
:28:30. > :28:32.and boarding a bus to come to the stadium.
:28:33. > :28:36.Athletics' governing body had agreed to allow him to race alone
:28:37. > :28:41.against the clock in a bid to make the 200 metres semifinal.
:28:42. > :28:44.As the rain poured, it was the strangest of sights,
:28:45. > :28:51.COMMENTATOR: I think that is a message to the IAAF to say
:28:52. > :28:58.Even rival Wayde van Niekerk was glad to have him back.
:28:59. > :29:01.But there was no time to soak up the adulation.
:29:02. > :29:04.Two hours later, he was back in the semis
:29:05. > :29:14.What a performance from Isaac Makwala!
:29:15. > :29:17.I wish to thank the IAAF for giving me another chance.
:29:18. > :29:23.They gave me belief, the British crowd.
:29:24. > :29:30.Tonight, he will face the likes of Van Niekerk,
:29:31. > :29:34.and Britain's Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, who also qualified
:29:35. > :29:44.Those 200 metres that he performed last night were just staggering,
:29:45. > :29:48.in horrendous conditions, it was cold, the rain was relentless.
:29:49. > :29:55.And he's one of the favourites for the 200 metres as well,
:29:56. > :30:00.What began with sickness and despair
:30:01. > :30:09.could end with a World Championship medal.
:30:10. > :30:17.Well, what else is around today? Britain's team captain Eilidh Doyle
:30:18. > :30:20.will run in the 400 metres final. Katarina Johnson-Thompson is in the
:30:21. > :30:24.heat of Hyderabad Laura Muir will hope to put the fourth place in the
:30:25. > :30:31.1500 metres behind her in the heats of the 5000 metres. The Makwala
:30:32. > :30:34.final tonight, all eyes will be on the triple jumper Christian Taylor,
:30:35. > :30:38.especially those of Britain's Jonathan Edwards. Could his 27 year
:30:39. > :30:41.world record be about to go? Taylor has come very close indeed. Natalie
:30:42. > :30:55.Pirks, thank you. Better than yesterday, yesterday we
:30:56. > :31:00.were on the verge of gathering the animals two by two on to no dark. In
:31:01. > :31:04.the last 24 hours, it's been the most important thing it's been and
:31:05. > :31:09.gone, because that's the cloud from yesterday. Today, almost gone. We
:31:10. > :31:13.still have the remnants of yesterday's bad weather. We even had
:31:14. > :31:17.a thunderstorm earlier on in Kent and still one or two showers around,
:31:18. > :31:22.but for most of us today it's looking absolutely fine. A lovely
:31:23. > :31:24.picture here from Leicestershire, scattered Fairweather cumulus
:31:25. > :31:28.clouds. Here's a nice positive spin on the weather on Thursday, sunshine
:31:29. > :31:34.for most of us. That's because these are little area of high pressure is
:31:35. > :31:38.nosing into the UK, it will not last long, but today, is giving some of
:31:39. > :31:44.that fine weather. The temperatures are probably a bit below. It's a
:31:45. > :31:46.cool air mass coming in from the North Atlantic, so temperatures
:31:47. > :31:51.typically in the teens. These are the pesky showers in the south-east.
:31:52. > :31:55.You might catch a downpour. But for most of the country there is not an
:31:56. > :31:58.awful lot to say. It's just a fine day. Notice that the clouds are
:31:59. > :32:02.gathering and a bit of rain just of the North of our neighbourhood, this
:32:03. > :32:05.is the next area of cloud and rain that will be approaching us and
:32:06. > :32:13.winds will be freshening from the south-west. That will be reaching
:32:14. > :32:15.Northern Ireland and West of Scotland tonight, but probably not
:32:16. > :32:19.until around midnight. The rest of the UK tonight, so England under
:32:20. > :32:23.way, is in for a dry night, around 12-13d. I mentioned the
:32:24. > :32:27.high-pressure is only a cameo appearance because by the time we
:32:28. > :32:30.get to Friday it's out of the way. Here's the next area of cloud and
:32:31. > :32:34.rain that sweeping into the UK. Windy in the north-west around the
:32:35. > :32:39.Western Isles, even gale force winds. Tomorrow, this time tomorrow,
:32:40. > :32:42.it will start to cloud over, dribs and drabs of rain. Notice the East
:32:43. > :32:47.Anglia and the south-east getting away with it, so tomorrow should be
:32:48. > :32:51.mostly dry. Then Friday night into Saturday, that weather front pushes
:32:52. > :32:56.through. It's in France and Germany and behind it we get another cameo
:32:57. > :33:00.area of high pressure, briefly visiting us. But just in time for
:33:01. > :33:04.the weekend, so mother nature is going to be kind this weekend. There
:33:05. > :33:08.might be one or two little pesky showers across northern areas, but
:33:09. > :33:13.on balance, it's fine. Again, the temperature is not quite where they
:33:14. > :33:16.should be. We are talking about 17-18s, more of its September
:33:17. > :33:21.temperature and we are statistically one of the hottest times of year.
:33:22. > :33:22.Maybe reaching 21 in London, 16 in Glasgow, but the weekend is looking
:33:23. > :33:26.fine. On BBC One we now join the BBC's
:33:27. > :33:30.news teams where you are.