26/07/2016 BBC News at Six

Two armed men storm a church service in northern France, murder a priest

The two attackers were shot dead by the police.

One of the hostages is in a critical condition.

The killing of the elderly priest was condemned by the French

president who said the attackers claimed to be

TRANSLATION: This group has declared war against us.

We must face up to this war, by all means.

It's being reported one of attackers had been in prison after trying

to get to Syria and was wearing an electronic tag.

Changes to BT's broadband service, Openreach.

Campaigners say its woeful level of service can't change fast enough.

Only one person I believe is truly qualified to be President of the

United States. And that is our friend, Clinton Clint.

Michelle Obama wows the party faithful at the Democratic

convention and tries to rally support for the

Online retailer Amazon is to begin testing the use of drones

And using only the power of the sun, the first ever solar

Coming up in the sport on BBC News - all the latest developments as

Russian athletes continue to learn of their fate as they arrive in

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

An elderly priest has been killed in northern France after two armed

men stormed into a catholic church service in Normandy

The two attackers were shot dead by police.

One of the people inside the church is in a critical condition.

The french president, Francois Hollande, said

the attackers claimed to be from so-called Islamic State.

A french official has revealed that one of the attackers had previously

been imprisoned after trying to get to Syria and was wearing

This scene has become France's short hand for horror. Today the sirens

was sounding for the he dead and wounded of St Etienne church. For an

elderly priest and a handful of nuns and worshippers, knife during their

morning service by two men claiming their wage their version of a holy

war. Father Jacques Hamel was executed in this quiet local church.

Reports say his throat was cut. He was 84 years' old. His attackers

shot dead by police, as they stepped outside the church door. Jean-Claude

had Joan Father Jacques for years. "This was a peaceful town, too small

to be a target. We thought we were safe here." TRANSLATION: I knew the

priest personally. The nuns were my neighbours. They would have lunch

together next door. They were humble people. The priest was a good man,

calm and friendly. Today the line when president and public was thin.

But this was an act designed to start a war, create division. An act

the President linked to so-called Islamic State, also known as Daesh.

TRANSLATION: The threat remains high. Very high. This is what we

have lived through over the past few day, even the past few years. Daesh

has declared war against us. We must face up to this war, by all means,

whilst respecting the rule of law. The far right leader, Marine Le Pen

has described it as another horror carried out by Islamist terrorists.

Less than two weeks after the last attack here, France is again faced

with the problem of how to confront its jihadist threat. Police have

raided a nearby flat, amid reports one of the attackers was a local

man, who may have been wearing an electronic tag, after trying to

travel to Syria. But this is a national battle for the things

France values most, its freedoms, its lifestyle, its identity. Each

time France argues a little more over the cause of this menace and

how to beat it, and this time, it happens again.

The challenge for France is that it is facing more than one kind of

threat. There are those attacks that are linked to established networks.

There are those inspired by IS. And there are those copy cat attacks by

the angry and marginalised. The government here is under a lot of

pressure to prevent any more attacks, but that's very difficult

to do when, as we saw today, they can erupt anywhere at all.

Thank you Lucy. BT's Openreach division,

which runs the UK's broadband infrastructure covering

30 million customers, should become a distinct company

within the BT Group, The media watchdog has resisted

calls to split Openreach off entirely, saying people should

receive faster, more reliable Campaigners have described

the current level Oh it's impossible. I can't work.

Ian Firth wanted to run his property firm from home today, but he

couldn't. His broadband here in Somerset is often unrelial. This

afternoon it wasn't connecting at all All the planning applications we

prepare are submitted online through the government planning portal.

Client files are shared with clients through PDFs and e-mail. We don't

have paper files. You can't work right now? I simply can't work. It

is not just rural areas like this. Consumer groups say too many homes

and businesses across the UK are struggling to get decent broadband.

They have been calling for the whole system to be overhauled. Just as

networking rail own the tracks down there, and train companies operate

trains on them, well, it is a bit like that with broadband as well.

The UK's communications' network is owned by BT subsidiary Openreach and

companies like Sky and Talk Talk pay to access all the cables and the

wires. But critics say Openreach hasn't

been open enough. And claim it would be better for customers if BT had to

sell it off. Today the regulator, Ofcom, said that wasn't necessary,

but it does want Openreach to operate as a distinct company,

within the wider BT Group. We believe that will deliver more

reliable, faster broadband. Engineers who it up up on time, do

the job first time and also more investment. So Openreach will now

have its own board and will be told to work for all customers, not just

BT's, but rival broadband firms aren't convinced I don't think that

legally separating Openreach goes far enough. Because you are

dependent on detailed regulation, lots of lawyers pouring all over

what BT can and can't do. Whereas if you probably separate, create

Openreach plc, there is no need for that complicated regulation. But BT

said the proposals were sense I will and claimed breaking up the company

would have been bad for customers. With less choice and liar prices.

There is no evidence, anywhere around the world, that structural

separation works. In fact, the examples, the few countries that

have done it, have laid to chaos in many cases. As for Ian, he has to

drive nine miles to a specially-rented office, just to

connect to the internet. He hopes the changes at BT will mean he soon

gets better access to the information superhighway.

Hillary Clinton will become the first woman presidential

nominee of a major US Party later today at the Democratic

But her name has been repeatedly booed there -

despite her former rival Bernie Sanders calling

Michelle Obama also tried to rally support for her in a

Our North America Editor, Jon Sopel, was watching.

To angry Bernie Sanders' supporters this probably wasn't the best

approach from actress and comedian, Sarah Silverman.

Can I just say to the Bernie or Bust people - you're being ridiculous.

But the person who did manage to simultaneously unite

and electrify the convention was the First Lady, Michelle Obama.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.

two beautiful, intelligent, black young women playing with their dogs

And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters and all our sons

and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president

And she took this shot at Donald Trump's make

Don't let anyone ever tell you that this country isn't great.

That somehow we need to make it great again.

Because, this, right now, is the greatest country on earth.

But now it was Bernie Sanders' turn to bring his

Any objective observer would conclude that based

on her ideas and her leadership, Hillary Clinton must become the next

Nearly all other mentions of Hillary Clinton were met

with jeers from sections of the audience.

I'm not going to support her because she is a war hog,

she is a liar and she is a bad person.

Would you rather have Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton?

That's all I can say, they're booing every time

Polls suggest 90% of Bernie Sanders' supporters will back

But those that won't, are making a lot of noise.

In a few hours' time we'll have what is called the roll call vote,

wheneverry individual state will cast their vote in favour of Hillary

Clinton at the end of which she will become the Democratic nominee for

president. It'll also represent the last chance for Bernie Sanders'

supporters to make a commotion and commotion they will make.

The prospect of using cloning to treat humans has been boosted

by new evidence that suggests it can be used safely in animals.

Scientists had been worried that cloning could make

animals age prematurely, after Dolly the Sheep,

the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell,

was diagnosed with osteoarthritris at a young age.

Now, four more sheep, cloned from the same cells as Dolly,

have just passed their 9th birthday in good health.

This is Denise, Debbie, Diana and Daisy.

They're clones near the end of their lives and,

It's that combination that puts pay to some scientific and

ethical concerns arising from cloning animals.

This small flock were cloned from the same adult cell used

to produce Dolly the sheep, 20 years ago.

Her birth was a scientific first, but when she died, relatively young,

affected by the aliments of old age, it raised serious questions.

Dolly developed certain diseases like osteoarthritis

at what was considered to be a relatively young age

and there were concerns that her biological age might be

But the systems for cloning have changed slightly over

the years and it's much more efficient now than it was.

This is the first detailed study to look at the health of cloned

offspring at an old age and it shows that they're, for all intents

Using technology like MRI scanners, scientists at Nottingham University

searched for signs of illnesses commonly seen in older lowland

sheep, including the osteoarthritis that inflicted Dolly.

I was surprised at how little osteoarthritis we actually

There was only really one sheep that had quite bad arthritis

and I suspect if you looked at a population of farmed sheep

of that age, I think I would have expected to have found more

arthritis in more joints of more of the sheep.

The significance of these four for human health is that the study

has proved they've long and healthy lives.

It means that one day the technology behind their cloning may be used

to create treatments for disorders and diseases in people.

The so-called 'Nottingham flock' came about because scientists

are trying to improve the efficiency of the cloning process.

The fact that these sheep have outlived their identical genetic

sister, Dolly, by two-and-a-half years, is an important step forward.

It means renewed hope for human treatments such as stem cell

therapies and, say the scientists, an improved quality of life

Sangita Myska, BBC News, Nottinghamshire.

At least 19 people have been killed and 20 injured in a knife attack

A 26-year-old man, who used to work at the home, later handed

The attack happened in the city of Sagamihara at a centre for people

with learning difficulties. This CCTV footage from outside

the care home is thought to capture the moment,

late last night, that the killer This morning, forensic teams began

pieceing together the elements of And Japan is a country

in profound shock. In room after room,

the victims were found Many had serious

mental disabilities. The oldest of those

killed was aged 70. Shortly afterwards, a former

employee at the care home, 26-year-old Satoshi Uematsu,

seen here in a Facebook photo, TRANSLATION: This wasn't

an impulsive crime where the suspect He went in the dead of night,

opened one door at a time and stabbed sleeping

people one at a time. Again, this footage is said to match

the timings and shortly afterwards the alleged killer handed himself

in at a local police station. Uematsu had begun to publicly

express his disturbing view that disabled people,

unable to live independent In February this year,

his employment here came to an end after he wrote

to the national parliament. The letter, pictures of which have

been broadcast today, was enough to prompt the authorities

to act and Uematsu was detained But, just two weeks later,

he was released, returning to live in this house,

a short distance from the care home. When I worked there, the staff

and tenants were like friends. Amid the grief, the debate

is already turning to whether more John Sudworth, BBC News,

in Sagamihara, near Tokyo. Two armed men, claiming to support

so-called Islamic State, have stormed a church

service in northern France Still to come: He's already won

three Olympic Gold medals, can cyclist Jason Kenny win

a fourth in Rio? Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News.

The Irish jockey JT McNamara has died at the age of 41.

The online retailer, Amazon, is to begin testing whether drones

can be used to deliver packages in the UK.

The company says that if the experiment is successful,

small parcels could arrive within 30 minutes of being ordered online.

Amazon will work with the Civil Aviation Authority

and the Government to examine how the drones can be used safely,

but there are concerns about possible invasion

Here's our transport correspondent, Richard Westcott.

It sounds like something out of Harry Potter -

thousands of parcels being flown through the air then

dropped off at your house, but drones delivering your shopping

could eventually be a reality across Britain.

We're not about to see drones delivering parcels onto our

doorsteps any time soon, it could be a few years.

What this is about is working out how to do it safely.

Are we going to need new laws, for example?

Of course, they're going to be going over people's gardens,

How do you guarantee they're not just going to fall out of the sky?

There are going to be people who just don't fancy the idea.

We take privacy extremely seriously at Amazon,

we always have and we're not in the business of surveillance,

we want to be able to engage in safe parcel delivery.

This advert from Amazon shows what it could actually look like.

A machine that's part aeroplane, part helicopter would fly

at around 50 miles an hour, 300 or 400 feet up.

When it gets to your house, you put down a landing mat and it

That's the plan anyway, but one drone manufacturer isn't convinced.

I think we're going to see drones definitely used by businesses

for commercial tasks like surveying buildings,

like search and rescue, things to do with construction

and keeping an eye on building projects, not so much probably

in delivery to your door, just because there are are a lot

The Government says it's Amazon partnership is a world first,

eventually, opening the skies to a whole host of companies

who want to move goods through the air.

All right, so it's not going to be like Robot Wars,

but one of the programme's expert judges says there are some very

Well, I guess the biggest concern is privacy, but it's

What are we going to do about criminal activity -

hacking, stealing the drones delivering drugs with them,

bombing us and also other companies getting them.

Although Amazon say they have no cameras, how do we know that

The sky is the limit for drone technology, if they can convince

A 12-year-old scout has died while attending an international

Charlie Girling, from Aylesford in Kent, collapsed on Sunday

at the camp where on-site paramedics tried to save him.

The Scout Association said it's thoughts and prayers

The production company behind the latest Star Wars film has

pleaded guilty to two criminal charges after the actor,

The 74-year-old, who plays Han Solo, was struck by a hydraulic metal door

Our entertainment correspondent, Lizo Mzimba, is there for us now.

It's clear from the details of the case that this could have

Yes. That's right. The #3r0s cueings was brought by the Health and Safety

Executive after Harrison Ford, reprizing his role as Han Solo was

pinned down by a heavy hydraulic door on of the set of the spaceship.

The prosecution told Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court it could have

killed someone. The fact that it didn't was because an emergency stop

was activated. Now there is no suggestion Pinewood Studios were at

fault. Safety on the set was the responsibility of the production

company making Star Wars. Today they pleaded guilty to two breaches of

health and safety law. Although they did dispute the precise levels of

seriousness and risk surrounding the incident. They are now facing an

unlimited fine. Sentencing will be at Aylesbury Crown Court on the 22nd

August. Lizo, at Pinewood Studios, thank you.

The first round-the-world flight by a solar powered plane has been

The Solar Impulse has landed in Abu Dhabi,

26,000 miles and 16 months after beginning its journey there.

It made 17 stops on the way, but without using a drop of fuel.

Here are some of the key moments from its flight.

In an adventure like this one, we have a lot of unknowns.

A lot of unexpected, of unpredictable.

When you fly several days and several nights,

you start to use your cockpit as your little house

We have dared to fail and when you dare to fail, you

The first solar powered flight around the world.

There are just 10 days to go before the Rio Olympics and one of Team

GB's leading lights is cyclist Jason Kenny.

He may not be a household name, but he's already won three Gold

Were he to win in Rio, he'd join a very select number

In the latest of our series looking at the British 'ones to watch',

our sports correspondent, Andy Swiss, went to meet him.

Three Golds, two Games - one sensational cyclist.

COMMENTATOR: Kenny is the Olympic Sprint Champion!

London 2012 propelled Jason Kenny to Olympic greatness,

but what happens when the crowds have gone and the gloss

Well, for Kenny it proved an agonising question -

rediscovering his motivation, he told me, was one of his

It was horrible, to be honest, because you come off

the form of your life, going faster than ever and then

you kind of come crashing back down-to-earth, you know,

to an empty Velodrome, on kind of average kit

So it is difficult to kind of soak that up.

By this spring though and the World Championships,

But this highest of achievers still has a less than high-profile.

Remarkably, he still has no personal sponsor.

But, at the end of the day, if people don't want to sponsor

me, then that's just the way it is, you know.

I just learn to accept that now and we're in competition with,

you know, all the pretty athletes and all your Tom Daly's

and people like that, who I would never be able to compete

with when it comes to like a marketing point of view.

Do you quite like being under the radar in some

I couldn't think of anything worse than being a celebrity.

His relationship though with fellow cyclist, Laura Trott,

The pair are engaged and will both be in Rio.

Good news for them, if not for their pets.

We have to find someone to look after the dogs when we're away.

Whereas if, you know, one of us wasn't at the Olympics,

But, yeah, generally speaking, we support each other

I guess it's nice to be able to actually see each other out

there and spend time with each other in the village as well.

Who will be the calmer come the Olympics?

She worries more than enough for both of us, so I don't have

If I had to retire tomorrow, I could retire and be happy

with I've achieved but, obviously, you can never have too

So we'll be going to hopefully add to the collection.

And if he does, an already glittering career will be

Good luck to him and I'm sure he found someone to look after the dogs

by now. Deckchair weather today on the south

coast. Things are on the change. Thanks to Robbie sending that

picture in from Worthing. The sunshine was in evidence across the

south-east. The cloud is invading. The main event is arriving across

Northern Ireland, central and southern Scotland. A damp evening to

come here. That rain will move southwards and eastwards through

England and Wales later on in the night. It will take all night arrive

across East Anglia and the south-east. Never making it to the

northern half of the Scotland. Fresh to Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Muggy across the south. A three way split tomorrow morning. This is

breakfast time. For most of England and Wales, misty, damp, a lot of fog

up over the high ground. Across the far north of England much brighter

skies here, as there will be for Northern Ireland and most of

Scotland, blue skies and sunshine. Lovely start to the day. The

blustery showers keeping going across the far north-west of

Scotland. The third piece to the jigsaw, if you like. The damp

weather across central and southern areas will ease away. It will take

quite a while. It stays quite cloudy. We might just see some

brightness. We might just see the odd heavy possibly thundery shower

to the heart of the Midlands. The best of the sunshine further north

and west across the UK. Pleasant temperatures into the low 20s. Mug

across the south. On Thursday we do it the same. Low pressure from the

Atlantic. Further rain at some stage, through this central slice of

the country. The far north will escape the worse of the rain. Humid

and muggy to southern areas with one or two showers perhaps. The fresher

conditions for all of us come the weekend. Thank you.

Two armed men claiming to support so-called Islamic State have stormed

a church service in northern France and murdered a priest.

That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me,

and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.