22/08/2016 BBC News at Six

Heading home - Team GB fly out of Rio as they celebrate their most

successful games in more than a century.

They won a total of 67 medals in Rio - more than in London -

putting them in second place in the medal table.

Inside the Olympic Stadium, a spectacular end to Rio 2016,

as 19 days of competition draw to a close.

But away from the Games, the city's violence has continued -

we'll be asking what Rio's legacy will be.

Trying to stop the spread of extremism in jails -

the Government announces plans for England and Wales to segregate

the most dangerous Islamist prisoners.

Labour's leadership contest gets underway in earnest,

as almost 650,000 ballot papers are sent out to party members.

And the teenagers who've risked their lives to get to Europe -

now living alone on the streets of Italy.

And coming up in the sport on BBC News.

A "sporting Superpower" - that's how Team GB are being viewed

by UK Sport, after finishing second in the medal table at Rio 2016.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

after their most successful Olympic Games in more than a century.

They finished second in the medal table - behind the United States -

with a total of 67 medals, beating their medal haul

Their departure follows a spectacular closing

After 19 days of competition, the Olympic flame was extinguished

at the Maracana Stadium, as Brazil handed over

the baton to Tokyo, who'll host the next Olympic games.

It is a city synonymous with Carnival, and last night, Rio said

goodbye to the Olympics with all of its hallmark colour, noise and party

spirit. Tokyo, set to host the next summer games, sent the Nintendo

character Superman Rio, or was it their Prime Minister? It was hard to

tell. Team GB celebrated their success with red, white and blue

flashing shoes, perfect pairing for all their gold, silver and bronze.

67 medals including 27 golds represents Britain's greatest haul

in over a century. To be able to fly home with medals in our pockets that

make us the most successful team ever is something we hope and dreams

as we flew out, but it is amazing that it has happened.

How did Team GB achieve such success? Funding is key. UK sport

targeted ?274 million of lottery cash on 24 sports. Of 28 sports in

total in the Games, GB finished on the podium in 19. Just over a third

of athletes are returning with a medal. UK Sport's catchphrase is no

compromise, a reflection of a targeted investment strategy. Team

GB is forced to watch from the sidelines in some sports, such as

basketball, which receives no funding. Winning athletes are set to

benefit if the dash as the build-up to the next games gets under way.

Many of our athletes have tasted and away games, and they go from Brazil

to Japan, and there is a real commitment to continue that drive

and that success. At around ?4 million per medal, British Olympic

success certainly comes with a hefty price tag, but after a golden

Brazilian summer, those in control of the finances believe it is worth

every penny. Well, Rio 2016 ended spectacularly,

but the Games were certainly not without their problems -

played out against a backdrop of huge economic turmoil,

political unrest as well as anger from many at the amount

of money spent on them. And the big question,

as always with the Olympic Games, is what will their legacy be

for the host country. Our Brazil correspondent,

Wyre Davies, reports. As Rio said goodbye to the Olympics,

a moment to take it all in. For the last two weeks, the city has put its

many problems to one side. Their problems and divisions that cannot

simply be discarded and forgotten about. The power of sport as a force

for change was typified by Rafaela silver-macro, Brazil's first gold of

the Games, a woman from one of Brazil's toughest neighbourhoods.

Amazed by her own achievements, and optimistic about what it meant.

TRANSLATION: If my medal can help persuade people that the Games are

good for Brazil, they are not a waste of money and they have

improved the image of the country, that is a good thing. Rio certainly

felt like a more confident, safer place during the Olympics, but this

is what it took to guarantee the safety of tourist and athletes.

There have been almost unprecedented levels of security during big aims,

meaning thousands of heavily armed soldiers on the streets. They have

kept many parts of Rio safe in the past few weeks, but elsewhere,

things have continued just as normal. Almost every day, before and

during the Games, there were heavy shoot outs between police and the

gangs that control many of Rio's favelas. It was particularly bad

here in a sprawling community within sight of the Olympic Stadium. A

community almost untouched by the Games.

TRANSLATION: For us, they may has well have taken place in London. The

Olympics haven't done anything, and we did not feel part of it. We

didn't see any investment in the community. But the Olympics did

serve as a catalyst to transform some parts of Rio. New

infrastructure and previously no go areas revitalised, already being

used by thousands of locals. Brazil bet on the cycle of the event as a

way of pushing forward a certain model of development, and medal -- a

model of transformation. It did benefit the city, but I do think it

benefited the majority of the population. There are challenges

ahead, not least the forthcoming Paralympics. City and state covers

are almost bare. The city can breathe a sigh of relief.

And we can speak to our Sports Editor, Dan Roan, who's in Rio.

Dan, where does Rio leave the Olympic movement?

There's no doubt, I think if you told the IOC and the local

organisers three weeks ago that this is how it would have played out,

they would definitely have settled for that. These games, a global

sports event, were being staged in developing countries for the first

time on this continent, it's a political crisis and economic

recession, all of the worries over the Zika virus and security, there

is a real conclusion that Rio got away with it. It could have been a

whole lot worse. There is great relief on the part of the

organisers, but there is no doubt that there were empty seats and

other issues, such as the challenges when it comes to legacy that it

leaves behind. There is a question over the burden that these games

play from countries like this. It could force the IOC into some big

questions going forward. To the Olympics need to be smaller, cheaper

and easier for developing countries to stage? Will be IOC Gophers safer

bets in the future? Tokyo has five new sports coming into it, so there

is no sign that they are in the mood to become a smaller affair. But for

the millions of people watching around the world on television,

these games will be fondly remembered, not just for the

spectacular backdrop, but that those fantastic sporting moments,

especially at King Great Britain, of course.

The Government has announced plans to segregate what it calls the most

dangerous Islamist prisoners from other inmates in jails

in England and Wales, in a bid to stop the spread of extremism.

The Justice Secretary set out plans including the removal of extremist

books from prison libraries and stronger vetting

Our Home Affairs Correspondent, Daniel Sandford, reports.

Among the most infamous Islamist extremists now incarcerated

in Britain are Anjem Choudary, found guilty last month

of supporting so-called Islamic state, Abdulla Ahmed Ali,

who led a failed Al-Qaeda plot to blow up multiple passenger

jets over the Atlantic, and the 21st of July bombers

who tried to attack London two weeks after 7/7.

They are just a few of the men who could spread

Men who converted in jail include Richard Reid,

the shoe bomber, and Nathan Cuffy, who unknowingly supplied the gun

for a failed Islamic State attack in London.

The new Justice Secretary told me it was now time to keep the worst

There is a risk there of those highly subversive individuals

being able to collaborate with each other.

That is why we are talking about a number of small units rather

than a single larger unit, which has been tried in the past

and where there have been significant problems.

The idea is to create a set of units within prison,

special units inside high-security jails like Belmarsh,

where a few of the worst extremists can be kept completely isolated

from the rest of the prison population.

Jamal, not his real name, spent two years in prisons including

Belmarsh, where he saw young, violent criminals and drug dealers

being quickly radicalised by a hard-core of 20 extremists.

There is an Islamic movement in prison.

It is not an Islamic movement based upon the beautiful virtues of Islam.

No, it is an Islamic movement based upon bullying,

But this man, previously a senior London police officer and a Muslim,

warns that special units for extremists are a risky solution.

Well, the danger is that if you put people into one unit,

The danger is that these individuals then want to become the individuals

It is very, very dangerous that we have these individuals there.

Prisons are full of vulnerable people.

And we want to try and ensure that those vulnerable people do not

Beyond the proposed special units, all prison staff

will now get further counter-extremism training, too.

But there are no points to set up special units in Scottish prison is,

where Islamist extremism is not seen as a major problem.

Two people have been arrested by police on suspicion

Officers from Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command have

detained a 20-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl for allegedly

planing to travel to Syria to join a proscribed organisation.

The leaders of Italy, Germany and France have been meeting

in Italy to discuss the future of the European Union.

They have stressed the need for giving the Momentum new impetus. --

giving the European Union. The talks between Matteo Renzi,

Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande come as European countries

try to coordinate their negotiating position, as Britain

prepares to leave the EU. They're also expected to discuss

the economy, the migrant crisis The first of around 650,000 ballot

papers have been sent out today to people who can vote

in the Labour leadership contest. Party members will get a say,

along with those belonging to unions and almost 130,000

registered supporters. Our Political Correspondent Vicki

Young's report contains He's getting backing from some

senior Labour figures, but Owen Smith needs to persuade hundreds of

thousands of signed up supporters that he'd do a better job than

Jeremy Corbyn. Today he made a bold promise, to put them in charge of

party policy, and did all he could to distance himself from the years

where Tony Blair took New Labour into power. Our party was more

interested in good relations with the bankers, with big business and

the media than with ABBA grassroots. And he said that the era when Labour

members were seen and not heard were part of the past. I will not seek to

overturn it what ever my views, but I will seek to influence it, as

leader. A warm reception for Owen Smith here in South Wales, but look

what he is up against. Last night in North London, thousands turned up to

see Jeremy Corbyn. His team say he is inspiring people to join the

party all over the UK, and they are confident he will still be leading

Labour at the end of this contest. We know that Owen has a good

campaign, but we have honesty and integrity, and trust. I think those

are things he doesn't have. Labour Party members see that in Jeremy.

Labour Party membership is now at its highest since 1979. When Tony

Blair won his landmark victory, membership was around 400,000. That

nearly halved after the Iraq war in 2003, and the slump continued until

2010. Now their arm or than half a million full members, under Jeremy

Corbyn. After rows over the rules and who can vote, two thirds of a

million people will elect the New Labour leader. A recent surge in

those signing up to support Labour has been remarkable, and the party

now has more members than any other elliptical party in the UK. That

this leadership contest has come up YouTube the divisions over the

direction the party should take. Bringing the two sides together will

not be easy. Team GB prepare to fly home

after their most successful Olympic Games in more

than a century. I will be reporting on how the next

generation of particular fish -- British Olympic heroes are being

spotted sporting glory. American swimmer Ryan Lochte has

been dropped by his sponsor Speedo, following the controversy

over his false claim that he was robbed at gunpoint

during the Olympics. Last year, more than a million

migrants arrived in Europe from Syria, Africa and South Asia,

sparking one of the biggest crises This year the numbers have fallen

but many still try to make Latest figures suggest more

than 100,000 people have reached Over the same period, 2,700 men,

women and children died. Save The Children says the number

of unaccompanied children who've arrived in Italy has doubled over

the past year to close to 15,000. Our correspondent Chris Buckler

was with a rescue ship when it arrived in the port

of Catania in Sicily. Arriving from Africa, both young

and old see Europe's wealth. A different world from the poverty

and, in some cases, turmoil that But each new face that appears

in places like Catania adds to the pressure on resources,

and that is particularly true for the children,

who arrive all too often alone. It's obvious in the city around this

port that many live on the fringes of the system that is supposed

to protect them, if not Among the teenagers we found

here was Fatah. He travelled by himself

from the troubled country of Somalia We're not showing his face

because he is only 14. Are there not dangers

for you because your mum's not here, Workers from the charity

Save the Children were with us when we spoke to Fatah,

and they helped to find him But in towns and cities

across Italy, that's becoming increasingly difficult,

with the reception centres filling up, as boats continue to arrive

with vulnerable children. Today there was one girl who was 15

years old, from Eritrea, Many children choose

to continue their journeys alone, and this is extremely dangerous,

because they are constantly falling at the hands

of smugglers and traffickers. Many girls are forced

into prostitution in order Keeping a separation

between the worlds of children and adults is proving to be

a challenge here. There are children who simply leave

the reception centres, and there's little the staff

there can do to stop them. Europe is starting to struggle

to provide the education, shelter and stability needed

by the unaccompanied children For refugees and migrants

of all ages, home is both something that's been left behind

as well as somewhere The go-ahead has been given

for a ?7 million research project in the UK to try and help identify

Alzheimers disease It's thought there are brain changes

for several years before the more obvious signs

of the disease become apparent. The former Radio One DJ

Chris Denning has pleaded guilty to a series of child sex offences

dating back as far as 1969. The 75 year old -

who was one of the original line-up of presenters -

admitted abusing eleven boys, but denied three charges

of indecent assault. An investigation by BBC Scotland has

found that the vast majority of new schools built under a private

funding scheme are now So-called Private Finance

Initiatives allow private companies to take a stake in,

build, and then run, 17 schools built under one of these

schemes in Edinburgh had to be closed for safety reasons,

as Fiona Walker reports. Pupils and teachers are back to work

after the summer in Scotland. At 17 schools in Edinburgh,

they're back to buildings which had The problems came to light when this

wall collapsed into the playground It was really distressing,

to be honest, that has made it very, very upsetting for parents,

knowing that we trust, when we drop our children off at school,

that they are going to be kept safe. We don't want them going

into buildings that are unsafe. What surprised parents is that these

were relatively new schools. They are also private

financed schools, or PFI, which means they are built

and managed by a private company. Hundreds have been built

across the UK, and now stakes in the projects are bought and sold

on financial markets. The whole PFI machine, really,

is really a profit machine, a wealth machine, if you like,

and there are an awful lot of people making very substantial

sums of money out of it, which have nothing to do with,

and have no benefit to, Research shown to the BBC suggests

that in Scotland alone the vast majority of the PFI schools

are at least partially What we don't know is how much

money is being made, except for one sale,

which included the 17 Edinburgh schools, where we know that one

company made what some would call That is a very high profit,

but what you've got to look at, in terms of the way the council

provided that service, was what happens to the project over

the 30 year period. But does it sound like value

for money, I mean, given what's happened, a wall has fallen

down, does that sound We did a comparison,

in terms of value for money, between public procurement

and private procurement, and it came out showing

that this method provided us So does it really matter

who owns your school? Edinburgh City Council says it

should have no bearing on safety, but for families, their faith

in the system has been shaken. Nobody has really been held

accountable for what has happened, in putting so many children's lives

at risk, really. The enquiry into the construction

failures at the Edinburgh schools will consider whether the private

finance scheme contributed If it did, it could change the way

things like schools and hospitals And viewers in Scotland can see more

on that story in "BBC Scotland Investigates: How safe

is my school?", on BBC One A brief look at some of the day's

other other news stories. Hundreds of people have observed

a minute's silence at Shoreham in West Sussex to mark the first

anniversary of a crash at an air A vintage jet came down on a main

road outside the show An air accident report is not

expected to be published before The owners of an oil rig, which ran

aground on the west coast of Lewis, have been given the go-ahead

to refloat the vessel this evening. The 17,000 tonne Trans

Ocean Winner was blown on to the shores of North West

Scotland in severe weather There's been heavy rain

in the Yorkshire Dales, flooding one of the longest cave

chambers in Britain. The manger at the White Scar Cave

said he's not seen such bad A number of roads in North Yorkshire

have also been flooded. After the success of Team GB in Rio,

the focus is already turning to the next generation of Olympic

and world championship stars. Who will they be and how do they get

spotted in the first place? Our correspondent Frankie McCamley

is at the Lee Valley White Water Yes, and this is where some of the

future's Leticia Olympic hopefuls are being spotted for sporting

glory, hoping to follow in the footsteps of the kayak bird

medallist, Joe Clarke. Some come here for around four hours a day,

others fitted around their schooling work, and for some, training has

become a full-time job. They are not short of talent here and following

Joe's gold-medal win, they are definitely not short of enthusiasm.

Just over a year ago, 13-year-old Jack had never been in a kayak. Now

he trains his six days a week. He was talent spotted at a nearby

school, and he's just one of the many youngsters inspired by another

local boy who trains here. Joe Clarke, picking up gold in the men's

kayak final for Team GB. It's quite inspiring because it makes you know

that someone from around here can get gold and makes you want to get

as well. I remember watching it on TV, thinking how amazing it is for

where he trains, I train as well and how local it actually is. And the

man in charge of is cutting that talent at this club believes Joe's

gold is only going to lead to more. It is tangible for them, they can

see that if they put in the hard work Joe has done, then it is

entirely possible. Joe's legacy has not just spurred on these beginners.

His team-mates are also now hoping to represent Team GB in the next

limpets. My goals are to medal at Tokyo. I am not that far behind and

I really could compete at that level. So the work for 2020 now

begins. The devil will be in the detail for

you in the next couple of days. Almost Copacabana beach here in

northern Scotland earlier today, it has been today a big day of

contrasts, as we saw just a few moments ago, flooding across parts

of northern England caused by the heavy downpour. This picture taken

by Kevin in Cumbria. The downpours have eased a bit and we will keep

the contrast for the next few days. They will be hotting up for some of

us, but for others it is going to be still quite fresh, and there will be

downpours around. That rain has eased for Northern Ireland but still

a bit damp and drizzly across western Wales. Turning soggy across

Northern Ireland overnight, that rain creeping towards the south of

Scotland later on too. Foremost, a dry night, quite warm across the

South, quite and murky -- misty and murky. Some early rain across

Cumbria clears, damp and drizzly from Northern Ireland, maybe a touch

dry early on but rain on and offer much Scotland. Temperatures suppress

just in the teens here but for England and Wales, once the sun

comes out the temperatures shoot up and we could get close to 30 degrees

in the London area. The difference between hot and cold air, a weather

front that gets going tomorrow evening and could cause some

thunderstorms as part of southern and eastern Scotland particularly

during the early hours of Wednesday. A comfortable night across the West

but tomorrow night could be quite difficult for sleeping because some

southern and southern areas -- southern and Eastern, temperatures

staying at 19 or 20 degrees was a warm start into Wednesday, slowly

the rain shimmies away, a bit more clout in central areas but a

brighter day for Scotland and Northern Ireland, and still that

heat across the south-east, 30 is again possible.

Team GB prepare to fly home after their most successful Olympic Games

in more than a century. The government announces plans for

England and Wales to segregate the most dangerous Islamist prisoners.

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