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David Cameron prepares to leave office as he hold his | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
No time to waste - the removal vans have already | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
Theresa May attends her last meeting as Home Secretary - | :00:13. | :00:20. | |
the next time she walks in that door, she will be prime minister. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
The labour party at war - a decision is expected tonight | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
about whether Jeremy Corbyn can fight off a leadership challenge. | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
The divisions turn nasty - with threats and a broken window | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
at the office of the leadership challenger Angela Eagle. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
As one party welcomes in a new leader and a new era, | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
fighting over the leader of the other turns nasty - | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
At least twenty people are killed after two trains | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
Learning maths Chinese style - new funding to revolutionise the way | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
it's taught in primary schools in England. | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
And why are so many top golfers pulling out of the Rio Olympics? | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
And coming up in the sport on BBC News. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
Britian's Chris Froome retains the leader's yellow jersey | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
after stage 10 of the Tour de France, but Mark Cavendish loses | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:13. | :01:36. | |
The removal vans have arrived in Downing street as David Cameron | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
held his last cabinet meeting this morning. | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
Warm tributes were paid to the suddenly outgoing prime | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
minister by his senior colleagues, including Theresa May. | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
She posed for photographs on her way in to Number 10, next time | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
she walks in the building, she will be the prime minister | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
and a new chapter for the party - and the country - will begin. | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
Our deputy political editor John Pienaar has more. | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
The van always comes in the end, whoever's Prime Minister. | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
Dreams and plans, like winning the EU | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
referendum, like handing the keys to Number 10 to his friend George | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Osborne next door, packed up with everything else | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
and carried away by the removal men, always somehow too soon. | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
For a moment, David Cameron was glimpsed at a | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
window, a practical politician who'd gambled on a Coalition Government, | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
So nearly a winner, David Cameron leaving | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
Theresa May looked pleased with life. | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
Fixing relations with Europe, handling economic troubles, uniting | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
a divided Britain, all for the future. | :02:46. | :02:46. | |
Ministers were obviously thinking ahead. | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
I'm very optimistic, I'm very positive about Mrs May, I | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
think shall be a great Prime Minister for this country. | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
The cars carrying Cameron 's Cabinet crowded into the last time. Business | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
on the agenda but it felt like leaving do and everybody thinking of | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
what was next, maybe their next job. Will you be moving to number 11? | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
Stephen Crabb was once tipped as a possible leader but he fell behind | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
like all the rest. Michael Gove didn't hang around, he fell out with | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
David Cameron then fell out of the race. In Cabinet David Cameron spoke | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
of his pride and honour had been PM. Ministers banged the table in | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
salute. Theresa May left after speaking | :03:27. | :03:27. | |
of the warmth and respect We had some wonderful tributes | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
to a great Prime Minister led by Theresa May who will be Prime | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
Minister and by George Osborne. And I think there was a feeling | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
across the Cabinet of great pride at what David Cameron has achieved | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
over the last six years. Tomorrow Mrs May's Cabinet reshuffle | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
starts. Old foes and rivals may get a job, | :03:46. | :03:46. | |
Boris Johnson was front runner until he was forced | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
out by Michael Gove, Chris Grayling could rise | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
in the pecking order, Andrea Leadsom failed | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
spectacularly, but may yet appear There is speculation in every | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
studio, but Prime Ministers Any Prime Minister when they make | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
a cabinet puts noses out of joint. We are in politics because we | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
want to serve. We want to serve | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
at the highest level. At the end of the day, there will be | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
people who will be upset. Tomorrow David Cameron | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
will take his last question There'll be tributes | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
and they will be sincere. He won two elections | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
and two referendums, before defeat in the European vote | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
carried away all he had gained and his dream of leading a one | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
nation compassionate That's the task Theresa May | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
has pledged to carry on with her new team, | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
and without seeking a new mandate But the David Cameron, as the | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
removal van loads up and leaves, that's someone else's problem, which | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
may be some consolation, but not much. John Pienaar, BBC News, | :04:59. | :04:59. | |
Westminster. A meeting is taking place now over | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
the troubled leadership Labour's National Executive | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
Committee is deciding whether Jeremy Corbyn can | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
automatically stand in a leadership ballot even without the support | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
of 20% of the party's At the moment Mr Corbyn doesn't | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
appear to have sufficient support whereas his challenger, | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
Angela Eagle, does. Our political editor | :05:18. | :05:18. | |
Laura Kuenssberg has the latest. Good afternoon, lovely to see you. | :05:19. | :05:31. | |
He knew this moment might come. A bit of politeness, please, can you | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
all make way. Jeremy Corbyn fought through the Labour establishment to | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
win, now it's taking him on. Can you guys be really kind for once and let | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
me get into the meeting? His refusal to make way, though most MPs want | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
him gone, mean Labour is stuck in a stalemate. Good luck Jeremy! It's | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
not about luck but the meaning of the law. MPs who want Mr Corbyn to | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
quit belief that under the rules he does not have an automatic right to | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
stand again as leader. But his supporters have had legal advice | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
that says the opposite thing. It's cut and dry and eventually we will | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
sort this matter out and Jeremy will remain. Most MPs believe his useful | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
team as leader is over, and the rules say he would need the support | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
of more than 50 of them to run again. After dozens of resignations, | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
that's just not likely to happen. So in effect this meeting could kick | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
him out. We have now got up new Prime Minister coming in tomorrow, I | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
think that will concentrate everyone's minds carefully. Does | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
that mean Jeremy Corbyn must go soon? Jeremy Corbyn is the elected | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
Labour Party leader. The build date to the meeting has been frantic. Mr | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
Corbyn's allies even try to shove one MP off the crucial committee in | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
the middle of the night. What happened to you in the middle of the | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
night? I was asleep in the middle of the night. They went in for hours of | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
discussion and one big decision at the party HQ. There is a leadership | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
contest in labour, so should Jeremy Corbyn, the current leader, be able | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
to stand without getting dozens of MPs to nominate him first? This | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
isn't just some strange fuss outside an anonymous London office block on | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
a wet Tuesday afternoon. The NEC is extra Labour MPs, union officials, | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
ordinary party members, and they are roughly split between those who want | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
Jeremy Corbyn to stay and those who want him out. It's nasty. A brick | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
was hurled through the Merseyside office of the MP who wants to be | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
Labour's next leader. Then Angela Eagle had to switch venues on a | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
campaign tour in Luton because of threats. Protesters, one wearing a | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
T-shirt of the Corbyn backing momentum group still tracked her | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
down. Billy Bowden condemned any abuse but Angela Eagle, who wants to | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
replace him so badly, says it's not enough -- the leader condemns any | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
abuse. They are being done in his name and he needs to get control of | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
the people supporting him and make certain this behaviour stops and | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
starts now. It is bullying and has absolutely no place in politics in | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
the UK and it needs to end. But Mr Corbyn does still have the muscle of | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
most of the unions on his side, and it's thought most of the parties | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
still growing membership. An attempt to kind of keep Jeremy off the paper | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
would be seen as a sordid fix. And I'm but be hoping that that doesn't | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
happen. I hope common sense and a bit of decency prevails at the NEC | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
this afternoon. Disquiet about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership spilled | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
out from Labour's backrooms into public view long ago, but the charge | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
against him maybe far from over. I contest, not a departure, is still | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
the most likely end. -- a contest. As we've heard, Angela Eagle's | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
constituency office in Wallasey was attacked overnight when a brick | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
was thrown through the window. Labour supporters there are divided | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
as to whether she should replace Reeta Chakrabarti has spent the day | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
in Wallasey talking to people about the crisis engulfing | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
the Labour Party. A boarded-up window is a common | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
enough sight, but the brick through Angela Eagle's office window | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
is an act of political They include the present police | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
and crime commissioner It is an absolutely disgraceful | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
situation that you cannot take part in a democracy without having this | :09:21. | :09:31. | |
kind of threat, the violence of it. Local party members know the brick | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
isn't an isolated incident. There have been claims | :09:35. | :09:45. | |
of intimidation and bullying, too. Claims they say | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
are wide of the mark. I don't recognise that picture | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
of the Labour Party. I've never seen any intimidation, | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
I've never witnessed any homophobia. It is crazy to say Jeremy Corbyn | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
is this out of touch crazy Both men back Jeremy Corbyn | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
as leader over their own Where's the evidence, | :10:06. | :10:17. | |
they ask that he is unelectable? He's articulating policies that | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
people haven't been talking about for many years, | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
like public ownership of the railways and the energy | :10:26. | :10:26. | |
industry, tackling tax These are all massively | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
popular policies. Nearly 400 people have joined | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
the local Labour Party Signs of healthy | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
participation, say some. Infiltration by extremists, | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
say others. Both these party members think | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
Mr Corbyn should go. Jeremy's position as party leader | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
is completely untenable. I think Angela offers | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
a better alternative. She offers a positive view | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
for what Labour could be and a positive vision | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
for what Britain can be. A brick through her office | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
window and a possible The mood here in Angela Eagle's | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
own constituency is bitter. It reflects the atmosphere in Labour | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
right across the country with deep tensions caused by conflicting views | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
as to what the party Labour's leader, whoever it is, | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
has a major task to reunite it. Reeta Chakrabarti, | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
BBC News, Wallasey. Laura Kuenssberg is | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
live in Westminster. Laura, this meeting of the National | :11:25. | :11:34. | |
executive committee about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership still going on, | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
what's the latest? It is grinding on and it may be some time yet. If | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
you've been following Labour Party politics for a while you learn never | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
to be in a hurry if we are expecting something to be over quickly. But | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
they will conclude something tonight. One of the interesting | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
things about this is that some months ago Jeremy Corbyn's close | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
team thought that this kind of extraordinary intervention might | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
actually happen and they sought legal advice to try to protecting | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
from this. His opponents inside the party on the other hand didn't think | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
that it would come to this. They thought that with resignations, with | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
critics coming out one after the other after the other they would be | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
able to pile so much pressure up on him that he would have to go. But | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
they failed and he is still there, and now we are in a situation where | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
two different sides of one political party are scrapping with each other | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
over what that party's own rule book says. There's even the prospect now | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
tonight if Jeremy Corbyn is told by the National executive committee | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
that he does not have the right automatically to stand again in the | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
leadership contender, that he might instead of withdrawing take them to | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
the courts. So you might have the possibility by the end of this | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
evening where one part of the Labour Party machine is challenging the | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
other part of the Labour Party machine to a legal fight with a | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
judge expected to sort it all out. But whatever the legal machinations, | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
the rights and wrongs of who's right on the narrow point of the party's | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
rule book, the big picture is this: there's been internal upset, rows, | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
ramblings, all sorts of things going on behind the scenes in the Labour | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
Party. Months and months and months of it. And now the two sides are | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
both completely and utterly dug in to their positions. They are now | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
having to try to resort to the law to sort it all out. And in the | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
meantime of course the idea that any MPs in the Labour Party are really | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
being able to push ahead with proper decent scrutiny of what the | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
government is doing is really pretty hard to imagine, that they are not | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
being completely distracted by all of this. Thank you. | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
The Governor of the Bank of England has defended its impartiality | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
to a committee of MPs following accusations it | :13:49. | :13:49. | |
overstepped its remit in the run up to the EU referendum. | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
Mark Carney hit back at those accusing him of employing scare | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
On Thursday, the Bank will announce whether interest rates will be cut | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
to cushion any impact from the vote. | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
At least 23 people have been killed, and dozens injured, | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
after two trains collided head on in southern Italy. | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
It happened on a single stretch of track between the towns | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
Rescue workers are trying now to pull people from the wreckage | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
The two local trains smashed into each other this morning. | :14:21. | :14:29. | |
The carriages which took the full impact ripped apart. | :14:30. | :14:39. | |
With debris scattered through the olive groves. | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
A massive rescue operation has been underway for hours, | :14:42. | :14:43. | |
with teams picking their way through the mangled carriages | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
And finding many who'd been injured, and others in a state | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
TRANSLATION: I was thrown forward, I don't know what happened, | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
I saw my mother on the ground, my father and my sister bleeding. | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
The trains, owned by a local private company, collided | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
There are unconfirmed reports that an automatic braking system failed, | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
and the train drivers were unable to see each other because of | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
A field hospital has been set up | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
nearby, and there have been appeals for local people to donate blood. | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
This has been one of the worst train crashes in Italy | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
over the past decade, and the government has | :15:36. | :15:37. | |
pledged that investigators will find out what caused it. | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
Removal vans in Downing Street as David Cameron prepares to leave | :15:44. | :15:59. | |
office tomorrow. And still to come, an extraordinary | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
discovery in Sussex, as archaeologists uncover signs | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
of prehistoric farming. Brendan Rodgers takes charge | :16:06. | :16:06. | |
of Celtic for the first time, less than an hour to kick-off | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
against Lincoln Red Imps from Gibraltar in their | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
Champions League qualifiers. Thousands of primary schools | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
in England are to be offered the chance to follow an Asian style | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
of teaching maths. The government is providing | :16:24. | :16:25. | |
?41 million to encourage schools to adopt a method which is used | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
in high performing maths lessons in Shanghai, | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
Singapore and Hong Kong. Tests have revealed that | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
15-year-olds in China's biggest city are three years ahead of those | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
in England in their ability Our education correspondent, | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
Gillian Hargreaves, reports. The equation you could do is 16, | :16:40. | :16:58. | |
plus two... Maths savvy 11-year-olds confident in net abilities. The | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
pupils at this primary School have been taught in the Chinese way for | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
the past two years. They enjoy doing sums. I liked everything about | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
maths. I like numbers and calculations to find stuff out. I | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
like algebra because it's like a puzzle. The Chinese say British | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
teaching is a mile long butters and to deep. Too much is crammed in, | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
whereas they focus on fewer topics but make sure pupils understand each | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
concept before moving on. The idea is that because the maths is broken | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
down so clearly, the children who might struggle, they keep up and | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
they understand. Last year the government invited Chinese teachers | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
to Britain to share their knowledge. Now they are setting up specialist | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
maths centres, with textbooks modelled on Asian teaching methods. | :17:52. | :18:01. | |
The benefits are certainly being felt at Elmhurst. Undoubtedly this | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
is a bold and ambitious plan. So that England's pupils can compete | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
with the brightest and best in the world. But parents will only be | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
convinced if it works best for their children, whatever their abilities. | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
There is a constant thirst to learn in Shanghai, failure is shameful. | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
Something not easily translated here. We really need to address | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
cultural attitudes in this country, which are very different to | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
attitudes in China. It's socially acceptable to say I can't do maths. | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
We need to challenge that very explicitly. The government wants | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
this new way of teaching to promote a can-do attitude. The Chinese have | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
a phrase, maths gets you everywhere. Gillian Hargreaves, BBC News. | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
Barack Obama is arriving in Dallas this evening, | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
where he'll attend a memorial service for the five police officers | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
who were shot and killed at a protest last week. | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
The US president is expected to speak at the event, | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
and talk about rising racial tensions across the country. | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
Further demonstrations are being held in major cities | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
Our North America Correspondent Nick Bryant reports. | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
Dallas Strong has become the mantra of this traumatised city. | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
And last night its citizens gathered together. | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
All ages, all races, in a vigil to honour the five | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
The city's black police chief has emerged is that rare thing | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
in modern-day American life, a unifying figure. | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
This his message to the mourning families. | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
Because we will not only be loving you today, | :19:37. | :19:45. | |
Micah Johnson, the soldier turned sniper who carried | :19:46. | :19:54. | |
His murderous response to the spate of police shootings | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
A surgeon who treated the wounded tried to make sense of that rage. | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
I understand the anger and frustration and distrust | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
The problem is the lack of open discussions about the impact of race | :20:11. | :20:22. | |
The national conversation on race is taking all forms. | :20:23. | :20:32. | |
This poem delivered by a 14-year-old boy in Georgia entitled | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
I love it because when I see a police officer I see | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
To be honest I'm scared of what it would be like if I wasn't on the top | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
rung, if the tables were turned and I didn't have my | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
White Boy privilege safety blanket to protect me. | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
Across the country protest chants, not poetry. | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
The Dallas slaughter has not subdued the Black Lives Matter campaign. | :21:03. | :21:13. | |
And the voice we are waiting to hear from belongs to America's first | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
African-American president. He will speak in the next hour. A gifted | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
orator, a tough challenge to find words to consult the grieving | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
families, but also to find words to acknowledge why so many protesters | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
have taken to the streets. A plea perhaps the unity, for | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
understanding, her empathy, from whites, from blacks, and also the | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
uniform blue. Four-time golf major | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
winner Rory McIlory has defended his decision to join | :21:45. | :21:45. | |
a number of top golfers in pulling out of the Rio Olympics, | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
because of fears over He said it wasn't a difficult | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
decision for him and that he was unlikely to bother to watch | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
the golfing action from home. So why are so many golfers pulling | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
out of the olympics? Here's our Sports | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
Correspondent Richard Conway. It's under a month until the start | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
of the Rio Olympics. But one of the biggest issues facing | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
organisers is a virus. One that is threatening | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
to overshadow the world's Tens of thousands of Brazilians | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
have contracted Zika, But it's also believed to be | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
responsible for microcephaly, a disorder which causes babies to be | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
born with abnormally small The world's top four golfers say | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
they will not play the Olympic courses built on reclaimed swampland | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
and near sewage-polluted waterways, given their worries | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
of contracting the virus. Critics claim Zika is being used | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
by them as a convenient excuse. But today, ahead of | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
the Open Championship, I didn't get into golf | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
to try and grow the game, I got into golf to win championships | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
and win major championships. I'll probably watch the Olympics, | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
but I'm not sure golf will be one The World Health Organisation | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
insists the Games should After facing criticism over the 2014 | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
Ebola epidemic they say their There's absolutely no question, your | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
risk of getting Zika is very low. If you take specific measures | :23:14. | :23:22. | |
you can make this risk very low The Olympics are something | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
very, very special. Some health experts are also | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
concerned with the potential So far, it's known to be transmitted | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
by mosquitoes in 65 countries. With half a million expected | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
to attend the Olympics, it's feared That's because Zika can also be | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
transmitted through sexual contact In the past 18 months there have | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
been 14 reported cases in the US of the virus | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
being transmitted this way. When visitors come to Rio, | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
they can pick up the Zika virus through mosquitoes or through sex, | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
and then they go home. Many of them to places where, again, | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
there are mosquitoes, And it's highly possible | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
for the virus to spread that way. A single infected traveller | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
came, and now you've got More stars may yet decide | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
to stay away from Rio, as far as Olympic organisers | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
are concerned, the show must go on. Archaeologists are hailing an | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
extraordinary discovery in Sussex. They've discovered field patterns, | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
buried underneath woodland in the South Downs, that suggest | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
pre-Roman Britain was much more Duncan Kennedy joins us | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
live from Bignor Hill, The breathtaking woodlands | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
of the South Downs. Beneath this lush canopy, | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
historians have uncovered It took ground-breaking lasers | :24:55. | :24:55. | |
to reveal the underground secrets. For two years, they scanned | :24:56. | :25:07. | |
the floor and analysed the data 300 square miles of fields | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
from 1500 years BC. Organised farming on a scale | :25:12. | :25:22. | |
and age not seen before. It is really important | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
and exciting that in England's newest national park, | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
we have used aerial radar to make archaeological discoveries that | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
are some of the most extensive and significant in England | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
over the last decade. Until now, it was thought | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
large-scale organised farming The researchers say that | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
their findings put that With the scale of this | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
on the South Downs and the quality of the preservation | :25:50. | :25:57. | |
within the wooded part of the South Downs, it is a truly | :25:58. | :25:59. | |
remarkable discovery. The ancient fields under these trees | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
would have seen wheat Prehistoric people farming, | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
not hand-to-mouth, Let's take a look at the weather | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
now. Are we ever going to get the summer | :26:14. | :26:32. | |
back. It's not raining everywhere, it's been quite beautiful today in | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
western parts of England and Wales. This shot taken in Cornwall. But as | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
Fiona did hint, it's not been the same for all of us. It's been soggy | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
in the south-east. London has seen some really heavy downpours. Some | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
trees and branches down from the strength of the wind, too. | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
Torrential rain quite now -- right now across parts of East Anglia. | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
Downpours lingering in the south-east but for most other | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
places, relatively quiet. Some showers coming in on the breeze to | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
some western areas. Where the skies are clear overnight it will be cool. | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
In Scotland it could get as low as four or 5 degrees. Around about Dawn | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
some brightness for many of us. Early showery rain across the | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
south-east fading away. Then we'll see some showers coming in on the | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
breeze to northern and western areas. A sharp shower in southern | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
England by the afternoon and in Scotland and Northern Ireland a | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
scattering of showers. Nothing too intense. Not exactly warm, we are | :27:38. | :27:45. | |
struggling on the temperature front. Mid, possibly high teens in places. | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
In western coastal areas of England and Wales, a few sharp showers, and | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
in southern counties of England. But not the destructive downpours we've | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
seen today. Looking further ahead, a ridge of high pressure building in. | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
Ignore this stuff behind me. But that ridge of high pressure will | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
enable a fine day for most of us on Thursday. We've got the open golf | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
starting and the Test match at Lord's. Very few showers, sunshine | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
and light winds. How long it lasts is another matter. | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
David Cameron is preparing to spend his last night at Downing Street | :28:25. | :28:32. | |
ahead of the appointment tomorrow of Theresa May as Prime Minister. | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me, | :28:36. | :28:39. |