:00:00. > :00:07.Hello, I'm Mariko Oi in Singapore with BBC World News.
:00:08. > :00:10.Our top stories: In Iraq, at least 30 people have been killed
:00:11. > :00:13.and more than 60 injured in a suicide attack on a Shia shrine
:00:14. > :00:21.More protests in the United States, as President Obama says
:00:22. > :00:24.all Americans should be deeply troubled by the recent shootings
:00:25. > :00:36.Thousands have evacuated their homes and offices are shut,
:00:37. > :00:43.And which of these two politicians could become Britain's next Prime
:00:44. > :01:09.It is now certain the new leader will be a woman.
:01:10. > :01:12.In Iraq, at least 30 people have been killed and 60 injured,
:01:13. > :01:15.in an attack by suicide bombers and gunmen on a Shia shrine
:01:16. > :01:19.According to officials, the attack started when a suicide
:01:20. > :01:22.bomber targeted policemen guarding the entrance to the Sayid Mohammed
:01:23. > :01:25.bin Ali al-Hadi shrine in Balad, 90 kilometres north of the capital,
:01:26. > :01:35.A second bomber entered the shrine, with nine gunmen targeting security
:01:36. > :01:37.forces as well as families gathering to celebrate the Eid festival,
:01:38. > :01:40.marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
:01:41. > :01:41.Officials say a third bomber was killed.
:01:42. > :01:44.The attack comes as the official death toll from a suicide bombing
:01:45. > :01:46.in Baghdad on Sunday has risen to 292.
:01:47. > :01:49.That attack, which took place in a busy shopping street
:01:50. > :01:56.in the mainly-Shia Karrada district of Baghdad,
:01:57. > :01:58.was claimed by the so-called Islamic State.
:01:59. > :02:01.It was the deadliest bombing in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003.
:02:02. > :02:16.We will bring you more on this latest attack as we get it.
:02:17. > :02:18.President Obama says he is deeply troubled by the latest fatal
:02:19. > :02:21.shooting of a black man by police in the US.
:02:22. > :02:23.Video footage emerged of the moments after the shooting
:02:24. > :02:26.when it was live-streamed on social media by his girlfriend.
:02:27. > :02:29.The victim, Philando Castile, had been pulled over in his car
:02:30. > :02:36.His girlfriend said he was shot as he was reaching
:02:37. > :02:51.The President has been speaking after landing in Poland a little
:02:52. > :02:55.He said that all Americans should be concerned about the shootings.
:02:56. > :03:02.When incidents like this occur, there is a big chunk of our fellow
:03:03. > :03:07.citizenry that feels as if, because of the colour of their skin,
:03:08. > :03:31.This is not just a black issue, it's not just an Hispanic issue.
:03:32. > :03:33.This an American issue, that we should all care about.
:03:34. > :03:39.All fair-minded people should be concerned.
:03:40. > :03:41.Now, let me just say, we have extraordinary appreciation
:03:42. > :03:52.and respect for the vast majority of police officers.
:03:53. > :03:57.They put their lives on the line to protect us every single day,
:03:58. > :04:05.they've got a dangerous job, it is a tough job.
:04:06. > :04:07.Our North America correspondent Nick Bryant has spent the day
:04:08. > :04:10.in Minnesota, where the shooting happened, and you may find some
:04:11. > :04:12.of the images in his report distressing.
:04:13. > :04:15.He's licensed, he's carrying, he's licensed to carry.
:04:16. > :04:20.He was trying to get out his ID and his wallet.
:04:21. > :04:23.The immediate aftermath of yet another police shooting,
:04:24. > :04:26.this time not just caught on camera, but streamed live on Facebook.
:04:27. > :04:32.The officer just shot him in his arm.
:04:33. > :04:34.The female passenger in the car, Diamond Reynolds, has just
:04:35. > :04:37.seen her boyfriend shot by a policeman.
:04:38. > :04:42.He is fast losing blood and fast losing consciousness.
:04:43. > :04:49.You told him to get his ID, Sir, his driver's licence.
:04:50. > :04:55.Please don't tell me my boyfriend went like that.
:04:56. > :04:57.Philando Castile had been pulled over because his rear light wasn't
:04:58. > :05:02.working, and apparently told the officer he had
:05:03. > :05:04.a legally-purchased, concealed weapon with him
:05:05. > :05:09.Mr Castile had worked as a cafeteria supervisor at a local
:05:10. > :05:18.Protesters converged on the governor's mansion,
:05:19. > :05:21.draping it with police tape taken from the scene of the shooting.
:05:22. > :05:31.Giving angry voice to now-familiar cries of protest, that have echoed
:05:32. > :05:51.Then, Diamond Reynolds stepped before the crowd carrying her young
:05:52. > :05:54.daughter, who had witnessed everything from the back seat
:05:55. > :05:57.Not one shot, not two shots, not three shots, not four shots,
:05:58. > :06:01.It is the second shocking incident this week.
:06:02. > :06:04.This is footage from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, showing a black man,
:06:05. > :06:11.Alton Sterling, being held down by police and shot several times.
:06:12. > :06:14.Another police shooting, another black family left to mourn,
:06:15. > :06:21.We're seeing this with alarming regularity.
:06:22. > :06:26.Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray.
:06:27. > :06:28.The names associated with some of the more high-profile police
:06:29. > :06:36.This year alone, 123 African-Americans have been killed
:06:37. > :06:45.It's stunning to see in two days what we've been seeing for years,
:06:46. > :06:49.and that is police killing of citizens.
:06:50. > :06:51.And the question is, when will there be a systematic
:06:52. > :06:54.response to what has been a systemic problem
:06:55. > :07:11.And I think that we've been saying this over and over again,
:07:12. > :07:14.and I think the last two days brought this to a real tipping point
:07:15. > :07:16.for how this country deals with policing.
:07:17. > :07:25.With so much fury in so many communities, the fear is this
:07:26. > :07:28.could be the start of a long, hot summer,
:07:29. > :07:31.words which for decades have been uttered with a sense of foreboding.
:07:32. > :07:34.Taiwan has had a lucky escape after a super-typhoon made landfall
:07:35. > :07:40.The category-five Typhoon Nepartak is travelling south-east
:07:41. > :07:42.of Taiwan's Hualien City, with wind speeds of up to 240
:07:43. > :07:45.kilometres an hour, but that is much slower than expected.
:07:46. > :07:47.Cindy Sui joins us live from the capital, Taipei.
:07:48. > :07:50.Let's get the latest from our correspondent Cindy Sui,
:07:51. > :08:08.It is slightly windy where you are, but I guess the damage hasn't been
:08:09. > :08:14.as bad as anticipated. Yes, Taiwan definitely feels we have gotten sort
:08:15. > :08:21.of a reprieve, in a way, from the Typhoon which at one point was
:08:22. > :08:23.classified as a super-typhoon, with wind speeds of more than 200
:08:24. > :08:28.kilometres an hour but after it made landfall in Taiwan, around 6am this
:08:29. > :08:32.morning, in south-eastern Taiwan which is not far from here it was
:08:33. > :08:36.downgraded because the mountains in Taiwan made it weaker. But still
:08:37. > :08:41.this typhoon has caused some damage and we are hearing that one person
:08:42. > :08:45.has died from drowning in coastal areas, and 66 people have been
:08:46. > :08:51.injured. At the same time, some 180,000 households lost power at
:08:52. > :08:55.some point, and 14,000, 15,000 of them still remain without
:08:56. > :08:57.electricity. Now we also have about 15,000 people evacuated from
:08:58. > :09:03.mountainous areas in the outlying islands. And several thousand
:09:04. > :09:08.soldiers as well as Cosker officers and police officers mobilised to
:09:09. > :09:12.deal with this problem. But the typhoon is moving away from Taiwan
:09:13. > :09:16.at this point, they have got a lot of rain to the southern and eastern
:09:17. > :09:21.parts of Taiwan, but thankfully the damage seems to be quite limited at
:09:22. > :09:24.this point. Of course, another story is dominating news headlines at the
:09:25. > :09:30.moment, and an explosion on a commuter train which has left 25
:09:31. > :09:33.people injured. You were just attending a press conference by the
:09:34. > :09:43.authorities. Do we know exactly what happened? Yes, this is quite a rare
:09:44. > :09:46.incident in Taiwan. Explosions rarely happen here, especially on
:09:47. > :09:50.Taiwan's extensive railway system but last night about 10pm just as
:09:51. > :09:55.many commuters were heading home to try and avoid the typhoon, an
:09:56. > :09:59.explosive device was set off on a commuter train. Now, the police are
:10:00. > :10:02.investigating what may have set off this device. They were saying
:10:03. > :10:07.initially that they think it was some kind of firecracker. They found
:10:08. > :10:11.a metal tube that was broken, with explosives stuffed inside, and they
:10:12. > :10:14.believe that this is what caused the explosion to happen but they have
:10:15. > :10:18.told me just recently, this morning, that they haven't ruled out that it
:10:19. > :10:23.may have been an accident. But they are looking into whether it was
:10:24. > :10:26.intentional. And in fact, The Premier told reporters last night
:10:27. > :10:32.that he thinks based on initial evidence that it was done by someone
:10:33. > :10:36.on purpose. As you say, a very unusual incident. 25 people were
:10:37. > :10:43.injured. Do we know their conditions? Yes, fortunately of the
:10:44. > :10:48.24 people injured, most of them suffered in light injuries. At
:10:49. > :10:51.around two of them, at least two of them suffered serious injuries
:10:52. > :10:55.including one person has 30% burns to his body, they have been
:10:56. > :10:59.distributed to different parts of Taipei's hospitals but at this point
:11:00. > :11:03.authorities are looking into what happened, who may have been behind
:11:04. > :11:07.it, and if it indeed was intentional, then they really do
:11:08. > :11:10.want to find this person. And right now they have very little beads,
:11:11. > :11:14.very little to go buy because there was no CCTV camera on the train. So
:11:15. > :11:19.they are looking at video footage of the train station itself, as people
:11:20. > :11:24.flooded out, to see if there was possibly a suspect who also came out
:11:25. > :11:27.with the injured passengers. -- very little leads.
:11:28. > :11:30.Voters in Japan will elect members of the upper house of the parliament
:11:31. > :11:32.on Sunday, and the stakes are particularly high
:11:33. > :11:35.If his group can increase its majority, he might gain
:11:36. > :11:38.the power to try and change the country's constitution.
:11:39. > :11:48.Stephen Evans has this report from Tokyo.
:11:49. > :11:59.If the government can win more seats in this election,
:12:00. > :12:01.so it has a two-thirds majority in the upper house
:12:02. > :12:05.the first constitutional change in seven decades becomes possible.
:12:06. > :12:07.For 70 years there's been no change at all.
:12:08. > :12:11.But the ruling LDP has always wanted to revise the constitution.
:12:12. > :12:17.They regard it as an imposition by the American forces,
:12:18. > :12:20.and so there is a very strong baggage attached.
:12:21. > :12:28.The baggage is that Japan's constitution is pacifist.
:12:29. > :12:31.There is a navy, but by law it can only defend the homeland.
:12:32. > :12:35.The army can't fight abroad without constitutional change.
:12:36. > :12:40.Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is out campaigning.
:12:41. > :12:42.He doesn't mention wanting to change the constitution,
:12:43. > :12:53.but his opponents say that is the intention.
:12:54. > :12:56.Itsuki reads her daughter stories of war.
:12:57. > :12:58.These images play strongly in a country that was all
:12:59. > :13:13.TRANSLATION: When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came back to power,
:13:14. > :13:16.3.5 years ago, his promise was to change the constitution.
:13:17. > :13:19.My daughter was eight months old then,
:13:20. > :13:21.and I felt I could only give her a peaceful future
:13:22. > :13:25.The subtext of this election is whether Japan should
:13:26. > :13:32.That is becoming a theme on this planet now, as economic power shifts
:13:33. > :13:56.British politics and stability haven't exactly gone hand-in-hand
:13:57. > :13:58.lately, but one thing is now certain.
:13:59. > :14:00.A woman is on track to become the next Prime Minister.
:14:01. > :14:03.In their ballot to select a new party leader, Conservative MPs
:14:04. > :14:06.have narrowed it down to Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom.
:14:07. > :14:08.Party members will decide the winner in September.
:14:09. > :14:09.Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg has
:14:10. > :14:23.all the details, and there is flash photography in her report.
:14:24. > :14:28.The march of Theresa May, striding easily on to the ticket.
:14:29. > :14:31.Miles ahead of both her rivals today.
:14:32. > :14:34.Her supporters already crying "Prime Minister."
:14:35. > :14:40.This vote shows that the Conservative Party can
:14:41. > :14:43.come together and that under my leadership it will.
:14:44. > :14:47.We need proven leadership to negotiate the best deal
:14:48. > :14:51.for leaving the European Union, to unite our party and our country
:14:52. > :14:55.and to make Britain a country that works, not for the privileged few,
:14:56. > :15:01.And in the grand rooms of Westminster, the vote was clear.
:15:02. > :15:20.Therefore Michael Gove with the lowest number of votes has been
:15:21. > :15:21.eliminated from the ballot. With Michael Gove out,
:15:22. > :15:23.and the Energy Minister, Andrea Leadsom trailing,
:15:24. > :15:25.Mrs May's supporters were delighted. Not quite waving on the steps
:15:26. > :15:29.of Number Ten yet, but she has just won the very clear endorsement
:15:30. > :15:31.of the majority of Tory MPs. Her backers hope her experience
:15:32. > :15:35.makes her the clear favourite. She can truly say,
:15:36. > :15:37.as we go to the country, Are you surprised by how
:15:38. > :15:42.strong the support was? Well, she got 165 earlier
:15:43. > :15:45.in the week, a fantastic, To go forward even further
:15:46. > :15:50.and get to near 200, it is a clear indication
:15:51. > :15:52.of what parliamentarians think we need in our
:15:53. > :15:57.next Prime Minister. I can't hear you, are
:15:58. > :15:59.you ready for Andrea? Traditional Tories, though,
:16:00. > :16:01.are excited by Andrea The eurosceptic Energy Minister
:16:02. > :16:04.is far less experienced. Her colleagues need reassurance
:16:05. > :16:06.about her record, but one wing of the party is enthusiastic enough
:16:07. > :16:09.to march along the river in in an unusual show
:16:10. > :16:13.of Conservative support. What do we want?
:16:14. > :16:16.Leadsom for leader. When do we want it?
:16:17. > :16:18.Now. She was hardly known
:16:19. > :16:25.before the referendum. How difficult was it to decide to
:16:26. > :16:33.run I feel, having played a part
:16:34. > :16:36.in showing this country the prospects for us outside
:16:37. > :16:39.of the EU, I just felt I needed to put myself forward
:16:40. > :16:41.to offer to lead the way through it because I
:16:42. > :16:44.really believe in it. But just a couple of days
:16:45. > :16:47.into the race she's already been I spent the best part of ten
:16:48. > :16:55.years in BZW and Barclays and the best part of ten years
:16:56. > :16:57.in Investco for Petrol. I've also had a part-time
:16:58. > :16:59.job in Sainsbury's. I started life as a 14-year-old
:17:00. > :17:02.silver service waitress. My CV is incredibly varied
:17:03. > :17:07.and it is all absolutely true. I think this is,
:17:08. > :17:32.you know, ridiculous. I'm naturally disappointed that I
:17:33. > :17:36.haven't been able to make it through to the final round of this
:17:37. > :17:41.leadership contest. This is a moment to raise a's team will treasure. A
:17:42. > :17:45.more successful start to the race than they could have hoped but now
:17:46. > :17:49.MPs lose control and the contest goes to the country. Is the
:17:50. > :17:53.Conservative party not Parliament who makes the call. Laura
:17:54. > :17:55.Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster. -- it's.
:17:56. > :17:57.And a female politician could hold the key to
:17:58. > :18:00.Six days after the poll, there's still no result.
:18:01. > :18:02.But as counting continues, the governing conservative coalition
:18:03. > :18:04.led by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, is edging towards victory
:18:05. > :18:07.although they might need some help to form a majority.
:18:08. > :18:11.There are five independent or minor party MP's in parliament.
:18:12. > :18:13.Firebrand politician Bob Katter has confirmed he will support the Prime
:18:14. > :18:30.But Greens Party MP Adam Bandt has made it clear Malcolm Turnbull
:18:31. > :18:36.Of the remaining three, two have signalled they won't
:18:37. > :18:42.Leaving first time MP Rebecca Sharkie to potentially
:18:43. > :18:47.decide the fate of Australia's political future.
:18:48. > :18:50.Earlier my colleague Ali Moore spoke to Chris Uhlmann,
:18:51. > :18:53.the ABC's political editor, about when we can expect
:18:54. > :19:03.Sometime next week but don't forget in the Australian system if it's
:19:04. > :19:07.very close there will be recounts. We would expect the parliament will
:19:08. > :19:11.be resumed in August and things will be settled before them. We know for
:19:12. > :19:14.sure they're Coaition win be able to govern with the help of some of
:19:15. > :19:19.those crossbenchers but if it's in a position where it's under 76 votes
:19:20. > :19:22.that will make it shaky for the coalition government led by Malcolm
:19:23. > :19:32.Turnbull. At this stage the ALP actually looks like the winner, the
:19:33. > :19:34.Labour Party, they are having a caucus meeting today to celebrate
:19:35. > :19:36.the fact they came second. They came so close is the point. It's a great
:19:37. > :19:39.irony that Malcolm Turnbull called this election because he was trying
:19:40. > :19:42.to get some clear air to get his legislative agenda through but it
:19:43. > :19:46.has backfired fairly spectacularly? One of the things he was trying to
:19:47. > :19:52.do was clear the upper house where he had a problem with a bunch of
:19:53. > :19:55.parties and independents refusing to pass his agenda, he did that using a
:19:56. > :20:00.provision in the Constitution which meant he could dissolve the whole
:20:01. > :20:05.house. What that meant was that the quota for electing a member dropped.
:20:06. > :20:09.Now he faces a house that he returns to, an upper house, which will be
:20:10. > :20:14.even more complicated than the one he left behind. On almost all counts
:20:15. > :20:15.the Prime Minister's calling of this election hasn't turned out very well
:20:16. > :20:17.for him at all. This Saturday marks the first
:20:18. > :20:19.anniversary of a massive crackdown Hundreds of activists
:20:20. > :20:22.were taken away. awaiting trial and possibly life
:20:23. > :20:26.sentences. Their families say the detained
:20:27. > :20:28.lawyers have had no access China correspondent Stephen McDonell
:20:29. > :20:32.met a group of the lawyers' wives A year after their husbands
:20:33. > :20:46.were taken away by Chinese police, these two women have still not
:20:47. > :20:51.been able to visit them. On the ninth of July 2015,
:20:52. > :20:55.officials here launched a massive offensive against China's
:20:56. > :20:59.human rights lawyers, turning the lives of their
:21:00. > :21:03.families upside down. These two lawyers were amongst
:21:04. > :21:10.the hundreds of lawyers The BBC believes 17 of them
:21:11. > :21:14.are still being held, At least nine are facing
:21:15. > :21:20.state subversion charges, which could lead
:21:21. > :21:23.to life imprisonment. The stress on those close to these
:21:24. > :21:29.lawyers remains considerable. TRANSLATION: Every
:21:30. > :21:33.day, I'm really sad. I cry because I'm worried
:21:34. > :21:40.about his safety. I don't even know whether
:21:41. > :21:43.he is dead or alive. I'm so worried I can't sleep
:21:44. > :21:49.and I need to take pills. At first, we were all pretty
:21:50. > :22:01.lonely and desperate, Then, after a while,
:22:02. > :22:04.the relatives all started talking to one another, so we weren't
:22:05. > :22:07.so lonely, and gave We encourage one another
:22:08. > :22:13.to remain positive. We ask them about how
:22:14. > :22:16.they are managing to get The authorities want us
:22:17. > :22:23.to wash our faces with tears. They want us to break down
:22:24. > :22:25.and hide in corners, feeling that we have no support,
:22:26. > :22:28.but lots of strangers have called At the time my husband was taken
:22:29. > :22:43.away, my son was two and a half, so he has no way of
:22:44. > :22:46.understanding this. How can you tell a two and a half
:22:47. > :22:50.year old that the police have So I had no choice but to lie
:22:51. > :23:07.to him, to tell him that dad is away on business, that daddy will be
:23:08. > :23:10.back when he finishes, and that he loves and
:23:11. > :23:12.misses you very much. Earlier this week, the wives of six
:23:13. > :23:15.detained men protested in front of Beijing's Supreme
:23:16. > :23:16.People's Procuratorate. They wrote messages of support
:23:17. > :23:18.for their husbands. But, for the moment,
:23:19. > :23:20.nothing has changed. In China, realistically,
:23:21. > :23:22.when people are detained for this long and face this type of charge,
:23:23. > :23:26.they tend to lose in court, meaning that it could be quite
:23:27. > :23:29.a long time before these lawyers can When the Indian company
:23:30. > :23:44.Ringing Bells announced a smartphone priced at just under $4,
:23:45. > :23:48.many wondered if this was too good The company now says the first batch
:23:49. > :23:51.of handsets is ready to ship. Our business correspondent
:23:52. > :23:54.Shilpa Kannan had a chance to test So this is Freedom 251,
:23:55. > :24:07.the phone that is being billed It is priced at 2.51
:24:08. > :24:10.rupees, or under $4. At first sight it is an Android
:24:11. > :24:13.phone, but feels very much It has four inches of screen space,
:24:14. > :24:23.and has a camera in the front And when you look at the apps,
:24:24. > :24:32.there are a few basic ones, It's got an e-mail, it has
:24:33. > :24:37.a browser, there is a music player, Everything seems to
:24:38. > :24:39.be functioning fine. But many question if these kinds
:24:40. > :24:42.of features can really be delivered The company, Ringing Bells,
:24:43. > :24:46.which makes these handsets says it is actually going to suffer
:24:47. > :24:50.a loss of $2 on every But right now the company has
:24:51. > :24:56.about 5,000 sets which it says it is ready to deliver,
:24:57. > :24:58.and has placed an order But the real order book is around 70
:24:59. > :25:11.million phones. Can it really deliver
:25:12. > :25:13.that kind of numbers? Now, how's this for
:25:14. > :25:17.an extravagant purchase? A single bunch of grapes has been
:25:18. > :25:32.sold in Japan for a record price Each piece of fruit is as big as a
:25:33. > :25:36.golf ball. They were bought by a supermarket and they will be put on
:25:37. > :25:37.display and handed out for free to selected shoppers.
:25:38. > :25:40.France has beaten Germany 2-0 in the second semi-final of the Euro
:25:41. > :25:43.No wonder the French fans reacted like this.
:25:44. > :25:46.It's the first time since 1958 their team has beaten Germany
:25:47. > :25:54.We'll have the full story of the game in about 15 minutes
:25:55. > :26:06.That's it for this edition. Thank you for watching.
:26:07. > :26:11.Conditions are looking pretty unsettled now for the next
:26:12. > :26:15.There will be some warmth and humidity in the air