:00:00. > :00:12.The headlines: Bangladeshi police says militants have attacked a cafe
:00:13. > :00:16.in the capital and are holding a number of hostages.
:00:17. > :00:18.Residents say they heard sustained gun fire -
:00:19. > :00:27.police have sealed off an affluent district in Dhaka.
:00:28. > :00:30.Commemorations have been taking place in Britain and northern France
:00:31. > :00:32.to remember the fall of hundreds of thousands of troops
:00:33. > :00:49.The British government has scrapped a pledge to cut the budget surplus
:00:50. > :00:52.by 2020. It said country cannot afford it.
:00:53. > :00:54.These are the lucky ones - Welsh fans gather in Lille ahead
:00:55. > :00:57.of their crucial Euro 2016 match against Belgium but hundreds of less
:00:58. > :01:12.fortunate supporters have been held up on the wrong side of the Channel
:01:13. > :01:16.We start with breaking news and we're hearing of a gun battle
:01:17. > :01:18.in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka.
:01:19. > :01:22.The head of Bangladesh's elite police force says militants have
:01:23. > :01:25.attacked a cafe in the capital Dhaka and are holding
:01:26. > :01:29.Some reports suggest foreigners are among those being held.
:01:30. > :01:33.The cafe is in the affluent district of Gulshan
:01:34. > :01:37.and is popular with expatriates and middle-class families.
:01:38. > :01:39.Residents said they'd heard sustained gunfire shortly before
:01:40. > :01:47.There's been a spate of murders in Bangladesh recently,
:01:48. > :01:50.which have been blamed on Islamist militant groups, but high-profile
:01:51. > :01:53.Police have sealed off the area and say at least three
:01:54. > :02:01.people have been injured, two of them police officers.
:02:02. > :02:05.Three men have been killed. And we are getting more information and
:02:06. > :02:08.want to go to our correspondent. Akbar Hussain joines
:02:09. > :02:18.me now from Dhaka. This is a serious situation. What do
:02:19. > :02:24.we know? It is a very serious situation here in Dhaka and police
:02:25. > :02:29.say a group of men entered the restaurant at night and took a
:02:30. > :02:35.number of people hostage. When they entered the restaurant, they started
:02:36. > :02:40.firing indiscriminately and police told us that they believed a number
:02:41. > :02:47.of foreigners are being held hostage inside this area. The elite force,
:02:48. > :02:53.the police chief has told the journalist that they are trying to
:02:54. > :02:58.negotiate with the criminals, and they might belong to a hardline
:02:59. > :03:03.Islamist group and the manager of the restaurant and edge to escape
:03:04. > :03:07.and he told the local media that he heard there are at least 20
:03:08. > :03:11.foreigners being kept hostage by the gunman and maybe some of them tried
:03:12. > :03:15.to escape but they could not manage. Release are trying to negotiate with
:03:16. > :03:20.the gunmen to avoid further bloodshed and locals say they could
:03:21. > :03:23.hear sustained gunshots for more than one hour and both police and
:03:24. > :03:29.tourists exchanged hundreds of rounds in that area. A very scary
:03:30. > :03:33.situation. The restaurant is situated in one of the most affluent
:03:34. > :03:38.areas which is also a dramatic career and also, all the foreign
:03:39. > :03:46.ambassadors in Dhaka are located there. It is a very compact area.
:03:47. > :03:51.This is very strange to see, how the attackers managed to get inside the
:03:52. > :03:55.restaurant and hold hostages. Where many foreigners are believed to have
:03:56. > :04:01.been trapped. Tell us more about this area. It is the diplomat --
:04:02. > :04:05.diplomatic quarter. Any indication if any diplomats or ambassadors are
:04:06. > :04:14.being held hostage? This restaurant is a very popular destination for
:04:15. > :04:16.foreigners living in ten three. Basically, European and American
:04:17. > :04:20.citizens frequently visited this restaurant but we have not received
:04:21. > :04:25.any information that they are trapped inside. The information we
:04:26. > :04:31.have, the people who managed to escape say that there are around 20
:04:32. > :04:37.foreigners being held hostage. They are basically European and some from
:04:38. > :04:43.that in America. There are no diplomats trapped. The information
:04:44. > :04:50.so far we're getting is that the militants have taken a very strong
:04:51. > :04:53.hold on the restaurant and were firing towards the police, police
:04:54. > :04:57.tried at one stage to get inside the restaurant but later decided it was
:04:58. > :05:01.better not to go inside and rather it was better to go see it with the
:05:02. > :05:04.terrorists because they need to avoid further bloodshed and many
:05:05. > :05:12.foreigners are trapped inside. Thank you very much for that update. The
:05:13. > :05:15.US State Department is holding its briefing and a spokesman said it was
:05:16. > :05:21.much too early to say who was involved in this attack. Mr Kirby
:05:22. > :05:26.said that he had accounted for all Americans working for the chief of
:05:27. > :05:36.mission authority in Dhaka and the situation was very fluid and live
:05:37. > :05:38.stop. Our South Asia Editor,
:05:39. > :05:47.Jill McGivering, is here with me. months. We still do not know who was
:05:48. > :05:52.behind this but the suggestion is it could be Islamist militants and if
:05:53. > :05:55.they are the kind of people involved in this spate of targeted killings
:05:56. > :06:00.we have been seeing in Bangladesh, that would be unprecedented, that
:06:01. > :06:03.would be a real step up any sort of attacks they have been involved in
:06:04. > :06:05.but you are right, there has been growing concern about the security
:06:06. > :06:09.standard were in Bangladesh throughout the last year with an
:06:10. > :06:13.increasing number of targeted attacks often hitting religious
:06:14. > :06:20.minorities, liberals and some gay activists and nobody is quite sure
:06:21. > :06:24.who is involved. Some suggestion that the Islamic State group says it
:06:25. > :06:27.has been involved but the Bangladesh government has been quick to say
:06:28. > :06:31.they think that these are home-grown groups and they do not accept the
:06:32. > :06:35.idea that this has to do with any international terrorist network. We
:06:36. > :06:40.are looking at pictures coming in from Dhaka, it looks at very fluid
:06:41. > :06:45.situation. No deaths, as we know it yet. Do we know that these are
:06:46. > :06:51.hostages whether these are people just trapped in the building 's? It
:06:52. > :06:54.is very confused. One issue is that police are clearly still trying to
:06:55. > :06:59.get control of the situation. They have sealed off the area but they
:07:00. > :07:02.are outside the building, trying to negotiate with people inside but
:07:03. > :07:06.they have confirmed that people are being held hostage and my colleagues
:07:07. > :07:12.in the language services spoke to a woman who lives nearby and she says
:07:13. > :07:17.she knows two female relatives and two of their friends still inside so
:07:18. > :07:19.clearly this is ongoing and there is a lot of concern for the safety of
:07:20. > :07:21.the people inside. Thank you. Events have been held
:07:22. > :07:24.to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme,
:07:25. > :07:29.which started 100 years ago today. It was the bloodiest battle
:07:30. > :07:32.in the history of the British armed forces and came to define
:07:33. > :07:34.the brutality and horror The ceremony was held in the shadow
:07:35. > :07:38.of the famous memorial It bears the names of 72,000 British
:07:39. > :07:44.and South African troops whose The Prince of Wales,
:07:45. > :07:49.David Cameron and President Hollande were among those who took part
:07:50. > :07:52.in the presence of hundreds of descendants of those who fought,
:07:53. > :07:54.as our special correspondent It is the largest First World War
:07:55. > :08:03.memorial anywhere, its scale commensurate with the loss of life
:08:04. > :08:07.in these fields. It is a memorial to
:08:08. > :08:11.the missing of the Somme. The names of 72,000 men with no
:08:12. > :08:18.known graves are carved here. Its plea to posterity, to us,
:08:19. > :08:25.is plain - never forget. Heads of state and government,
:08:26. > :08:29.present and future, listened to Clive Adlam as he read
:08:30. > :08:32.the words of his father, Lieutenant Tom Adlam,
:08:33. > :08:36.who fought and survived. You did a job out there and I never
:08:37. > :08:39.realised that there was There was a job to be done
:08:40. > :08:46.and you just got on and did it. I was more frightened
:08:47. > :08:50.going up to the trenches, I was very frightened then,
:08:51. > :09:00.very frightened indeed. We were taught we had to be
:09:01. > :09:03.an example to our men and that, if we went forward,
:09:04. > :09:07.they would go with you, you see. And you'd sort of lose
:09:08. > :09:10.your sense of fear, The nurse Olive Dent
:09:11. > :09:28.treated the wounded. Here, her words described that first
:09:29. > :09:33.week on the Somme. I am too tired to sleep,
:09:34. > :09:37.too tired to shut out of sight and mind the passionate
:09:38. > :09:44.appeal of two dying eyes and the low faint whisper of,
:09:45. > :09:55."Sister, am I going to die?" A week after Britain voted
:09:56. > :09:59.to leave the European Union, David Cameron took his place beneath
:10:00. > :10:01.the memorial to the enduring alliance between the UK and France,
:10:02. > :10:05.and described a moment of mutual respect between enemies as a British
:10:06. > :10:10.major risked his life to rescue a wounded soldier
:10:11. > :10:13.from no man's land. He walked as though
:10:14. > :10:18.he was on parade. The Germans never fired a shot
:10:19. > :10:22.at him as he went. They never fired a shot
:10:23. > :10:26.as he went back. And they cheered him as he lifted
:10:27. > :10:37.the man onto his shoulders. The poppy and, in France,
:10:38. > :10:41.the blue cornflower are the emblems of the sorrow of war marked
:10:42. > :10:58.in two minutes of silence. In these moments of remembrance,
:10:59. > :11:00.the dead cry out their warning In the words of the poet
:11:01. > :11:06.Siegfried Sassoon, recited here today, "Do you ever stop
:11:07. > :11:10.and ask, 'Will it all happen again?' Look down and swear
:11:11. > :11:13.by the slain of the war that There's been a significant
:11:14. > :11:27.development here for the UK economy. Chancellor George Osborne has
:11:28. > :11:31.abandoned his key economic target of restoring government finances
:11:32. > :11:35.to a surplus by 2020. It's been one of his long cherished
:11:36. > :11:39.plans but he now says the UK must be realistic in light of the country's
:11:40. > :11:42.vote to leave the EU. Here's our Economics
:11:43. > :11:47.Editor, Kamal Ahmed. We will fix the roof
:11:48. > :11:50.when the sun is shining. We are going to fix the roof when
:11:51. > :11:54.the sun shines. Fixing the roof when
:11:55. > :11:59.the sun is shining. Repairing the public
:12:00. > :12:01.finances while the economy Today, a very different tone,
:12:02. > :12:06.many predict the post-Brexit sunshine will be weaker
:12:07. > :12:08.for the UK economy. It's incredibly important
:12:09. > :12:17.we maintain fiscal credibility, that we are tough on the deficit
:12:18. > :12:21.while being realistic about achieving the surplus
:12:22. > :12:24.by the end of the decade. That is exactly what our fiscal
:12:25. > :12:28.rules provided for. They explicitly acknowledged
:12:29. > :12:30.the impact of a significant The Chancellor insisted he wasn't
:12:31. > :12:35.breaking his own budget rules. The austerity target
:12:36. > :12:38.on cutting public spending It does mean there is now likely
:12:39. > :12:45.to be an easing of the Government's Since 2010, the Government has cut
:12:46. > :12:52.public spending by 10%. The amount the Government borrows
:12:53. > :12:56.has fallen from ?137 billion a year to ?75 billion -
:12:57. > :12:59.that's a lot of cuts and tax rises. Now the Chancellor has suggested
:13:00. > :13:03.ending the Government's central target of balancing the books
:13:04. > :13:07.by 2020, which could mean fewer cuts In some ways I'm pleased,
:13:08. > :13:13.he's acknowledged the reality What we need now is a clear
:13:14. > :13:17.investment programme so we can counter the recessionary trend
:13:18. > :13:20.we have in the economy, but also, we can start investing in the areas
:13:21. > :13:24.that felt left behind and therefore Pain deferred for the country
:13:25. > :13:30.is not pain cancelled. Chancellors have choices
:13:31. > :13:34.about what they do into the future, but it looks like we'll be borrowing
:13:35. > :13:37.quite a lot more in 2020 That will have to be
:13:38. > :13:43.paid down at some point. It may well be that we get more
:13:44. > :13:46.austerity through the 2020s. It may not be just one decade, but
:13:47. > :13:51.a decade-and-a-half of austerity. I think reality bit today
:13:52. > :13:53.for the Chancellor and his officials An economic reality
:13:54. > :13:58.and political reality. Few economists would want to be
:13:59. > :14:01.raising taxes and cutting spending in the teeth of a possible
:14:02. > :14:05.contraction in the economy. And politically, Theresa May,
:14:06. > :14:07.the favourite to be the next Prime Minister, has already said
:14:08. > :14:10.she wants to consign George Osborne's pledges on spending
:14:11. > :14:15.to the waste paper basket. Frankly, George Osborne
:14:16. > :14:19.had nowhere else to go. He's been the hard hat,
:14:20. > :14:22.hi-vis Chancellor, warning of economic shock, but we haven't
:14:23. > :14:28.had any post-referendum economic data yet and the markets have
:14:29. > :14:32.recovered their pre-referendum mojo. Whatever happens, Mr Osborne
:14:33. > :14:33.wants to be prepared Slovakia has now taken over
:14:34. > :14:44.the rotating Presidency of the European Union and confirmed
:14:45. > :14:47.that there will be no negotiations on Brexit before the UK triggers
:14:48. > :14:50.the leaving procedure known Prime Minister Robert Fico said
:14:51. > :15:01.there will not even be informal talks and that all the other 27 EU
:15:02. > :15:04.member states had agreed on how to proceed at their meeting
:15:05. > :15:09.earlier this week. He also stressed that he wanted
:15:10. > :15:12.to make a breakthrough when the EU leaders meet in September
:15:13. > :15:14.after saying he saw immigration as the biggest issue
:15:15. > :15:16.the organisation faces. Austrians are heading back
:15:17. > :15:18.to the polls after the country's highest court annulled the result
:15:19. > :15:21.of the recent presidential election. Independent Green candidate
:15:22. > :15:24.Alexander Van der Bellen won the May The Freedom Party candidate,
:15:25. > :15:29.Norbert Hofer, lost That result was challenged
:15:30. > :15:38.by the far-right Freedom Party, which is known
:15:39. > :15:40.for its anti-immigration views. Today the Constitutional Court
:15:41. > :15:41.ordered another election after finding irregularities
:15:42. > :15:43.in the way postal Freedom Party leader
:15:44. > :15:45.Heinz-Christian Strache has welcomed the news,
:15:46. > :15:54.saying it's a win for democracy. TRANSLATION: I believe
:15:55. > :15:56.that the Constitutional Court's election will hopefully also be
:15:57. > :16:00.a healing shock so that something And so that the electoral law can be
:16:01. > :16:07.optimised and improved. His victory may have been
:16:08. > :16:09.short-lived, but Presidential candidate Alexander Van der Bellen
:16:10. > :16:11.says he's very confident TRANSLATION: Of course I will stand
:16:12. > :16:24.for the repetition of the election, The Constitutional Council
:16:25. > :16:36.decided as it sees fit. And we will once again organise
:16:37. > :16:39.a large citizen movement in Austria It's thought the re-run could be
:16:40. > :16:48.held in September or October. Here's our correspondent,
:16:49. > :16:52.Bethany Bell, from Vienna. The Freedom Party brought in a legal
:16:53. > :16:56.challenge shortly after the result of this election was announced,
:16:57. > :17:01.the election it so narrowly lost to the former Green Party leader
:17:02. > :17:06.Alexander Van der Bellen. And the Constitutional Court has had
:17:07. > :17:09.a number of hearings over the last few weeks where they have heard
:17:10. > :17:12.testimony that there were widespread irregularities when it came
:17:13. > :17:14.to the ways that postal votes Some of them were opened too early
:17:15. > :17:22.and some were opened by people And because of this, the court has
:17:23. > :17:32.ruled that the election They say they did not find
:17:33. > :17:35.evidence of manipulation. What they needed to do
:17:36. > :17:37.was to reintroduce trust In just under an hour's time,
:17:38. > :17:52.Wales will play Belgium in the quarter finals of Euro
:17:53. > :17:54.2016 in Lille. It is their biggest match
:17:55. > :17:56.in almost 60 years. But there might be heartbreak
:17:57. > :18:01.for some Welsh fans caught up Broadcaster and singer
:18:02. > :18:04.Cerys Matthews was among those stuck at the Eurotunnel,
:18:05. > :18:07.and called the situation a shambles in a series of tweets,
:18:08. > :18:12.saying she faced five-hour delays. We have been here
:18:13. > :18:17.personally since 11am. There hasn't been any particular
:18:18. > :18:21.movement that we can see at all, even though we have been
:18:22. > :18:25.promised that there is movement expected and with promises of more
:18:26. > :18:29.trains this afternoon. But it is the afternoon
:18:30. > :18:45.and the clock is ticking. As we could hear, very miserable
:18:46. > :18:49.situation for the fans. She has made it, but what about others? She is
:18:50. > :18:55.over there and has finally made it but she is one of thousands stuck at
:18:56. > :19:00.the Eurotunnel, trying to get onto the Channel Tunnel to make the
:19:01. > :19:06.journey of to Calais and France. Many of them were tweeting about the
:19:07. > :19:10.chaotic situation at the terminals and they were not told there were
:19:11. > :19:14.problems when they set out on the journey. They allow for plenty of
:19:15. > :19:18.time but they were not planning on a one-hour queue just to get into the
:19:19. > :19:22.terminal and after that, a five-hour wait on the terminal. And with the
:19:23. > :19:27.clock ticking ahead of such a very big game, lots of worried faces and
:19:28. > :19:32.people in tears and some begging other passengers who did not need to
:19:33. > :19:36.go to sell their ticket. This is an astonishing moment for Wales. Very
:19:37. > :19:42.depressing for the fans cannot make it. What was the problem? It started
:19:43. > :19:46.yesterday evening. There was a train that broke down in the tunnel,
:19:47. > :19:51.mechanical problems, around 500 passengers evacuated during the
:19:52. > :19:53.night and that took several hours. That has caused knock-on problems
:19:54. > :19:59.through the day because of was going to be a very busy day and Eurotunnel
:20:00. > :20:02.needed full capacity but this train was out of service and others were
:20:03. > :20:06.not in the right position. As a result, it was not until the
:20:07. > :20:10.afternoon that they could run all of the trains they should have been but
:20:11. > :20:11.by that stage, a huge backlog of thousands of people, including Wales
:20:12. > :20:15.fans. Simon Jones, thank you. Let's concentrate on the game,
:20:16. > :20:18.because whilst the Welsh fans might not have made it,
:20:19. > :20:30.John Bennet, our reporter, has. This is a huge moment for Wales.
:20:31. > :20:36.Chris Coleman, the manager, has big ambitions. What are their chances? A
:20:37. > :20:40.very good chance, up against the Belgian side who have a lot of
:20:41. > :20:45.individual stars like Eden Hazard and Lukaku, who are big players in
:20:46. > :20:49.the Premier League. But Wales have proven that they can beat anyone on
:20:50. > :20:53.their day. They have Gareth Bale, the star of Real Madrid and one of
:20:54. > :20:57.the top five best players in the world and he is raising the level of
:20:58. > :21:01.the other players and they have particularly good defence, they have
:21:02. > :21:05.not given away a lot of goals. And they are proving to be very, very
:21:06. > :21:12.tough opponents. The plastic atmosphere here in Lille, but to
:21:13. > :21:16.150,000 Belgian fans have made the trip year, despite the fact that the
:21:17. > :21:22.fan zone only holds 30,000 in the Stadium only holds 55,000 but were
:21:23. > :21:26.only 25 kilometres away from the Belgian border so the Wales fans are
:21:27. > :21:33.a little bit outnumbered, it has to be said! You said the Belgian fans
:21:34. > :21:39.out there, Belgium must be the likely side to win this one is Mike
:21:40. > :21:45.definitely. They are the big favourites going into this, the
:21:46. > :21:48.pressure is on them. Officially, the most expensive squad at this
:21:49. > :21:51.tournament if you can add up all of the transfer fees their players have
:21:52. > :21:56.moved for in the past. Big individual talent coming from
:21:57. > :22:00.Belgium. They are called the Golden generation, the pressure is all on
:22:01. > :22:05.them and that could be the key factor. Wales, whatever happens they
:22:06. > :22:09.will have a heroes welcome. The first time in a major tournament
:22:10. > :22:14.since 1958 and back then they made it to the quarterfinals. That was
:22:15. > :22:16.the World Cup. To be here at the quarterfinals right now is
:22:17. > :22:20.incredible and to have a chance to go through to the last non-Ford
:22:21. > :22:25.teams, that would be something so special for the nation, it would be
:22:26. > :22:29.the biggest moment in Welsh history. Whatever happens, they will go home
:22:30. > :22:34.as heroes but if they win this, they will go home as icons, their names
:22:35. > :22:37.will never be forgotten in Wales. This is a massive moment in Welsh
:22:38. > :22:45.football history. Thank you very much.
:22:46. > :22:47.Researchers say they have found the first clear evidence
:22:48. > :22:49.that the thinning in the ozone layer above Antarctica
:22:50. > :22:52.The gains have been credited to the long-term phasing out
:22:53. > :22:56.Scientists say that in September 2015 the hole was around 4 million
:22:57. > :23:00.square kilometres smaller than it was in the year 2000.
:23:01. > :23:02.That is an area roughly the size of India.
:23:03. > :23:07.Our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh has this report.
:23:08. > :23:10.30 years ago, a team of scientists discovered that
:23:11. > :23:15.ozone, the atmosphere above the Antarctic, was thinning.
:23:16. > :23:20.The layer shields the planet from the Sun's harmful ultraviolet rays.
:23:21. > :23:23.Unchecked, skin cancer rates would increase.
:23:24. > :23:27.And plants and animals would be harmed.
:23:28. > :23:30.It posed one of the greatest environmental threats
:23:31. > :23:37.The ozone was corroded by chemicals used in aerosols and refrigerators.
:23:38. > :23:42.But in a triumph of international cooperation, these chemicals
:23:43. > :23:50.And now the most in-depth study to date has found the clearest
:23:51. > :23:53.evidence yet that the ozone hole, shown in blue, is beginning to heal.
:23:54. > :23:56.Over the past 15 years, it shrunk by 40 million square
:23:57. > :24:08.It probably will not go back to normal until mid-century
:24:09. > :24:12.so we do not expect to see complete recovering until 2050 or 2060 or so,
:24:13. > :24:16.but we are starting to see that in September, the ozone hole is not
:24:17. > :24:23.But experts warn that there is still some way to go before
:24:24. > :24:33.It is important to stress that there is still a big
:24:34. > :24:38.It is early days and it is beginning to show signs of tentative recovery.
:24:39. > :24:39.But worryingly, scientists are finding that illegal CFCs
:24:40. > :24:45.are beginning to find their way back into the system again.
:24:46. > :24:47.So there is certainly no room for complacency.
:24:48. > :24:49.Even so, researchers are pleased that efforts to repair the ozone
:24:50. > :25:08.And now for more on that gun battle at a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital
:25:09. > :25:10.Dhaka. A little while ago the BBC Bangladeshi service spoke to Rashila
:25:11. > :25:16.Rahim who lives in a building next to the cafe where the incident is
:25:17. > :25:20.taking place. TRANSLATION: I heard at around 10pm police shouting
:25:21. > :25:25.through the loudspeaker asking them to come out. They were maybe talking
:25:26. > :25:29.to the terrorists, after that we heard a lot of signed from police
:25:30. > :25:33.operations. When I tried to leave home at 8:30pm by Draper told me
:25:34. > :25:39.something was going on and he said, do not leave, there was firing going
:25:40. > :25:44.on. I heard a loud noise in my living room and the glass shattered.
:25:45. > :25:55.I heard continuous gunshots. My daughter and... That visit from the-
:25:56. > :25:58.bye for now. -- that visit from me. -- that is it.
:25:59. > :26:11.Good evening. The weather has been far from ideal today and if we go
:26:12. > :26:12.back exactly one year ago, the 1st