:00:07. > :00:19.This is BBC world News today. This is a headline. Gun battle in the
:00:20. > :00:26.Bangladeshi capital. Gunman holding hostages in a restaurant. White
:00:27. > :00:29.House report saying up to 116 civilians have been killed by
:00:30. > :00:33.American drone strikes since President Obama took office.
:00:34. > :00:41.Commemorations Beverage serving held to remember
:00:42. > :00:48.the fall of hundreds of thousands of troops. And we will have the latest
:00:49. > :00:49.from Euro 2016 as Belgium take on Wales has they aim for the
:00:50. > :01:08.semifinals. Calm men have stormed a popular cafe
:01:09. > :01:13.in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka Mack, a number of people are being
:01:14. > :01:17.held hostage, among them several foreigners. The battle is taking
:01:18. > :01:22.place in a district which is known as the diplomatic area of the city.
:01:23. > :01:25.Police have sealed off the area and said at least three people have been
:01:26. > :01:30.injured, two of them police officers. In the last half an hour,
:01:31. > :01:38.the Islamic state militant group says it is behind the attack. One
:01:39. > :01:46.woman who lives next to the building talks. TRANSLATION: I heard at
:01:47. > :01:50.around 10pm local time people shouting for them to come out, maybe
:01:51. > :01:54.they were shouting at the terrorists, after that we heard a
:01:55. > :01:58.lot of sounds from police operations. My driver told me
:01:59. > :02:03.something was going on outside, the later said don't leave, there is
:02:04. > :02:09.firing going on. Next I heard a loud noise in my living room, I saw the
:02:10. > :02:13.glass in my living room shattered, I heard continuous gunshots. My
:02:14. > :02:18.daughter and all of us started crying, terrorising situation. We
:02:19. > :02:23.have been hearing continuous gunshots after 9pm, too much to
:02:24. > :02:26.take. My auntie, and daughters and others have gone to break the
:02:27. > :02:32.Ramadan fast and we cannot even check where they are. Let us speak
:02:33. > :02:37.to somebody who is in the studios, this appears to be a very serious
:02:38. > :02:42.attack, IS has claimed responsibility, what more do we
:02:43. > :02:46.know? We understand at the moment that there had been a great deal of
:02:47. > :02:51.shooting and now it has gone quiet and dark. Police are very much
:02:52. > :02:55.focused on trying to negotiate the release of the hostages. Police
:02:56. > :03:01.have-nots confirmed how many people are inside. But one person has
:03:02. > :03:04.talked about, there were eight young men armed with knives and guns and
:03:05. > :03:09.he said that quite a lot of foreigners were inside and he thinks
:03:10. > :03:15.that they may be hostages. This comes off the back of a very serious
:03:16. > :03:21.series of incidences in Bangladesh. This seems to be a serious
:03:22. > :03:25.development? Very much so, were not absolutely certain behind this. But
:03:26. > :03:29.if it were the Islamic State militant group involved in this this
:03:30. > :03:36.would be a very definite escalation of their violence in Bangladesh. We
:03:37. > :03:41.have seen a whole series of targeted killings, mostly on religious
:03:42. > :03:45.minorities, secular writers. But nothing on this scale and in fact
:03:46. > :03:51.this is pretty much unprecedented for Dhaka. Well we can speak to a
:03:52. > :03:56.South Asia expert at the Chatham House think tank. Thank you for
:03:57. > :03:59.being with us, so Islamic state appeared to have taken
:04:00. > :04:05.responsibility for this attack. Can you tell us what the presence of
:04:06. > :04:10.this group is inside the country? It is hard to tell, as we all know,
:04:11. > :04:14.there have been numerous incursions reports about the plotting of a
:04:15. > :04:19.major attack for about a year now and the Bangladeshi government did
:04:20. > :04:24.not take much notice. And the Bangladeshi government, has pinned
:04:25. > :04:29.down the responsibility for extremist attacks thus far, at the
:04:30. > :04:34.hands of home-grown militant groups. And also, pinned down the blame to
:04:35. > :04:39.the opposition party which is the Bangladesh National party. In a
:04:40. > :04:44.sense, not much has been investigated so far on the presence
:04:45. > :04:49.and activities of IS, although intelligence agencies within the
:04:50. > :04:53.region are aware, that there is a faction fight to a growing dispute
:04:54. > :05:00.over control between Al-Qaeda and Islamic State has been on for a
:05:01. > :05:07.while. Across the region. But as far as activities in Bangladesh are
:05:08. > :05:10.concerned, this is news. It is a worrying development, because
:05:11. > :05:16.previous attacks have taken place on minorities, but this is an attack
:05:17. > :05:22.involving several hostages, several foreign hostages in fact. What are
:05:23. > :05:28.your thoughts on that? Most certainly, this is a very rapid
:05:29. > :05:32.escalation of what is a pretty bad situation in Bangladesh. As you
:05:33. > :05:36.rightly pointed out, this is the first time that a hostagetaking
:05:37. > :05:43.incident has arisen. This is predominantly a target on Western
:05:44. > :05:47.presence is within Bangladesh and no attempt has been made to conceal the
:05:48. > :05:52.responsibilities. There has been a claim of responsibility but also as
:05:53. > :05:55.we look at what is happening within Bangladesh at this moment, we
:05:56. > :05:59.mustn't lose sight on what has happened over the last decade. The
:06:00. > :06:09.fact that there has been complete impunity for attacks, whether they
:06:10. > :06:13.were by groups that are home-grown or external is not the point, the
:06:14. > :06:18.government has not reacted, there has been a spate of attacks against
:06:19. > :06:26.those who are bloggers and others who ups upheld secular bloggers, or
:06:27. > :06:32.were journalists and writers. And nothing was done. In fact very
:06:33. > :06:37.little has been done in terms of investigation and prosecution. There
:06:38. > :06:38.is also a climate of the extreme political infighting within
:06:39. > :06:43.Bangladesh and the responsibility has always been laid on the door of
:06:44. > :06:47.the opposition party. No responsibility has been taken by the
:06:48. > :06:51.party in power. As we examine what has been happening at this moment,
:06:52. > :06:54.we have to look at what has happened in the past. Thank you very much for
:06:55. > :07:04.joining us. Up to 116 civilians had been killed
:07:05. > :07:07.by American drone strikes since President Barack Obama took office
:07:08. > :07:12.according to a new White House report. The civilians were killed
:07:13. > :07:20.outside of war zones in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia between 2009 and
:07:21. > :07:25.2015. The report comes as the Obama administration claims to place a
:07:26. > :07:29.greater emphasis on protecting civilians during operations. We can
:07:30. > :07:32.go to the BBC Washington correspondent. Gary seems that the
:07:33. > :07:37.bomber at ministries have been meaning to release these figures for
:07:38. > :07:42.some time, but why have they decided to release them now? As you say they
:07:43. > :07:47.have promised to do this for some time, they have come under a lot of
:07:48. > :07:52.pressure to do this not least from human rights groups. It is really to
:07:53. > :07:57.address the question is, the controversial policies that they
:07:58. > :08:01.have had. In terms of hitting people outside of normal combat areas.
:08:02. > :08:07.Outside areas of war basically and as you said, we are looking at
:08:08. > :08:11.things like the tribal areas of Pakistan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.
:08:12. > :08:15.What the Obama administration is trying to do is to explain how they
:08:16. > :08:19.go about choosing these terrorist targets as they put it, in those
:08:20. > :08:22.areas and what safeguards they put in place before and after to make
:08:23. > :08:28.sure that the only hit the people that they are intending to hit. This
:08:29. > :08:33.number, they issued a pretty stark health warning with these numbers
:08:34. > :08:36.anyway, they say it is impossible to be sure about the numbers
:08:37. > :08:41.particularly in areas where they cannot verify afterwards but also
:08:42. > :08:45.there is a lot of scepticism from some of the groups like Amnesty
:08:46. > :08:51.International, saying, that Howard County is that you have killed a lot
:08:52. > :08:53.more civilians. There is a disagreement between administration
:08:54. > :09:01.and the groups that modern these attacks. Significantly they can
:09:02. > :09:03.seems to leave out people killed in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq and
:09:04. > :09:14.therefore we're not getting overall picture? Tick elite in Syria and
:09:15. > :09:18.Iraq, the coalition does publish estimates of civilians killed in
:09:19. > :09:24.those areas as well, the reason they are doing this is because in these
:09:25. > :09:27.nonhostile environments, they come under this pressure and they say
:09:28. > :09:33.that they only try and go after people in these areas if there is
:09:34. > :09:34.near certainty that they can't kill civilians at the same time. Thank
:09:35. > :09:43.you very much. Let us go back to our main story,
:09:44. > :09:47.and we can go to Akbar Hussain. You are very close to where this gun
:09:48. > :09:59.battle is taking place, tell me what you know? Now, I am in, the area, it
:10:00. > :10:05.is literally one of the most secure areas in the country. You can see
:10:06. > :10:10.the hind me, this road leads to wear the restaurant is located. This
:10:11. > :10:15.restaurant is managed by an Italian manager, and he told us, a group of
:10:16. > :10:20.gunmen entered the restaurant with a knife when people were having dinner
:10:21. > :10:25.at the time. And the gun men, they took the people and made them
:10:26. > :10:31.hostage. So when police received the news, they weren't at the location
:10:32. > :10:33.and tried to dismantle them, but the attackers started firing
:10:34. > :10:40.indiscriminately. They also exploded some crackers. Some people, we have
:10:41. > :10:44.talked to them, local people, the rest room manager and another
:10:45. > :10:50.person, they manage to get out of the rest room. What they told us, at
:10:51. > :10:55.least 20 foreigners are still being trapped inside the restaurant. And
:10:56. > :11:00.they are being taken hostage by the gunman. This restaurant is a very
:11:01. > :11:06.popular destination for European and American citizens living in Dakar.
:11:07. > :11:11.The area where I am standing now, this is a well protected area
:11:12. > :11:15.compare to other parts of the city so people this area very surprised
:11:16. > :11:21.to see the way that the gunmen breach the security system of the
:11:22. > :11:25.area. If you see the road behind me. You can see, the police are not
:11:26. > :11:33.allowing anyone to get inside the area, now, they are waiting to get
:11:34. > :11:37.response from the criminals. The elite police force, the chief of it
:11:38. > :11:42.told us, that they are thinking, that they are trying to negotiate
:11:43. > :11:47.with the gunman to avoid further bloodshed because so far, the news
:11:48. > :11:52.we have received. One police officer was shot dead by the militants and
:11:53. > :11:57.another 50 police officers received bullet injuries, and they're now
:11:58. > :12:05.treated in a local hospital. So that they can avoid further bloodshed. It
:12:06. > :12:11.is now going on here and police are saying, that all of the preparation,
:12:12. > :12:15.will avoid further bloodshed. In the last half an hour Islamic state has
:12:16. > :12:23.claimed responsibility for this attack, do we know how many
:12:24. > :12:27.militants are involved? What police have said is that at least eight to
:12:28. > :12:31.nine militants that took part in the whole operation, this is such a
:12:32. > :12:37.coordinated attack, and they were carrying heavy weapons and they were
:12:38. > :12:40.firing indiscriminately. You say that Islamic State claimed the
:12:41. > :12:44.responsibility but the Bangladesh government has long denied the
:12:45. > :12:49.presence of Islamic State inside the country. They always say that some
:12:50. > :12:52.home-grown jihadis groups, I involved with militant activities.
:12:53. > :12:58.Because we have seen at least 45 people had been killed in manga dash
:12:59. > :13:03.in the last half year. They include secular brothers and writers,
:13:04. > :13:08.especially Hindus and Christians are being targeted. But the government
:13:09. > :13:15.said there is no existence of this Islamic state. So now, their main
:13:16. > :13:18.focal point is that, they are trying to save the lives of foreigners who
:13:19. > :13:25.are being trapped inside the restaurant. Akbar Hussain from
:13:26. > :13:30.Dhaka, where the attack is taking place, thank you very much indeed.
:13:31. > :13:34.Stay with us on BBC world News, still to come. Struggling Serena,
:13:35. > :13:38.the number one seed comes from behind to reach the third round in
:13:39. > :13:45.Wimbledon, Novak Djokovic's position is even more precarious.
:13:46. > :13:50.China mark is first day of rule in Hong Kong with a series of
:13:51. > :13:55.spectacular celebrations, huge fireworks display was held in the
:13:56. > :14:00.former colony, the Chinese president said that unification was the start
:14:01. > :14:04.of a new era for Hong Kong. The world's first clone has been
:14:05. > :14:07.produced in an adult mammal, scientists in Scotland have produced
:14:08. > :14:14.a sheep called body that was cloned using a cell from another sheep. For
:14:15. > :14:19.the first time in 20 is Russian and American spacecraft have docked in
:14:20. > :14:28.orbit in the sign of a new cooperation in space.
:14:29. > :14:34.Challenger powered past the lighthouse at almost 50 knots
:14:35. > :14:37.shattering the record that had stood for 34 years, there was no hiding
:14:38. > :14:47.the sheer elation of Richard Branson and his crew.
:14:48. > :14:59.Is this BBC world News today, I am your newsreader. Gunmen have
:15:00. > :15:03.attacked a cafe in Dhaka in an affluent cafe, reports say that as
:15:04. > :15:06.many as 20 foreigners may have been taken captive. American drone
:15:07. > :15:11.strikes have killed 116 civilians since President Obama has been in
:15:12. > :15:21.office according to an official US report. Events have been held in
:15:22. > :15:25.Britain and France, for the same two free of the Battle of the Somme. It
:15:26. > :15:29.was the bloodiest in the British Armed Forces and came to define the
:15:30. > :15:34.brutality and horror of the First World War. The ceremony was held in
:15:35. > :15:38.the shadow of the famous memorial, in northern France. It bears the
:15:39. > :15:43.names 72,000 British and South African troops who bodies were never
:15:44. > :15:46.found. The Prince of Wales, David Cameron and President Hollande were
:15:47. > :15:50.among those who took part in the presence of hundreds of descendants
:15:51. > :15:58.of those who fought. As our special correspondent Little reports. It is
:15:59. > :16:01.the largest First World War memorial anywhere comic scare was
:16:02. > :16:05.commensurate with the loss of life. It is a memorial to the missing of
:16:06. > :16:13.the Somme. The names of 72,000 men with no known graves are carved
:16:14. > :16:21.here. Its plea to posterity, to ask, is plain. Never forget. Heads of
:16:22. > :16:27.state and government, present and future, listened to Clive as he read
:16:28. > :16:33.the words of his father. Who fought and survived. You did a job out
:16:34. > :16:37.there, and I never realised there was anything unusual about it.
:16:38. > :16:41.There was a job to be done and you just got on and did it.
:16:42. > :16:43.I was more frightened going up to the trenches, sitting,
:16:44. > :16:51.I was very frightened then, very frightened indeed.
:16:52. > :16:55.We were taught we had to be an example to our men and that,
:16:56. > :16:58.if we went forward, they would go with you, you see.
:16:59. > :17:01.And you'd sort of lose your sense of fear, thinking
:17:02. > :17:19.The nurse Olive Dent treated the wounded.
:17:20. > :17:26.Here, her words described that first week on the Somme.
:17:27. > :17:29.I am too tired to sleep, too tired to shut out of sight
:17:30. > :17:32.and mind the passionate appeal of two dying eyes and the low faint
:17:33. > :17:46.whisper of, "Sister, am I going to die?"
:17:47. > :17:50.A week after Britain voted to leave the European Union, David Cameron
:17:51. > :17:52.took his place beneath the memorial to the enduring alliance
:17:53. > :17:55.between the UK and France, and described a moment of mutual
:17:56. > :17:57.respect between enemies as a British major risked his life
:17:58. > :18:05.to rescue a wounded soldier from no man's land.
:18:06. > :18:08.He walked as though he was on parade.
:18:09. > :18:12.The Germans never fired a shot at him as he went.
:18:13. > :18:14.They never fired a shot as he went back.
:18:15. > :18:34.And they cheered him as he lifted the man onto his shoulders.
:18:35. > :18:38.The poppy and, in France, the blue cornflower are the emblems
:18:39. > :18:50.of the sorrow of war marked in two minutes of silence.
:18:51. > :18:53.In these moments of remembrance, the dead cry out their warning
:18:54. > :19:00.In the words of the poet Siegfried Sassoon, recited
:19:01. > :19:03.here today, "Do you ever stop and ask, 'Will it all happen
:19:04. > :19:06.again?' Look down and swear by the slain of the war that
:19:07. > :19:24.Austrians are heading back to the polls after the country's highest
:19:25. > :19:29.court annulled the results of May 's presidential election. The
:19:30. > :19:34.Independent Green candidate one, with 50.3% of the vote, the Freedom
:19:35. > :19:40.party candidate lost by around 30,000 votes, that result was
:19:41. > :19:43.challenged by the far right Freedom party today. The Constitutional
:19:44. > :19:47.Court ordered another election after finding irregularities in the way
:19:48. > :19:54.that postal votes were handled. The Freedom party leader says that it is
:19:55. > :20:04.a win for democracy. Let us go to Hugh for some sport and an amazing
:20:05. > :20:09.performance by Wales? 2-1. Yes Wales are leading, it is the biggest game
:20:10. > :20:13.for them since the 1958 World Cup. Elche is the world number two side,
:20:14. > :20:18.they were favourites for the match, so far it is very entertaining,
:20:19. > :20:22.Belgium, took the lead with a stunning strike. That was the Wales
:20:23. > :20:31.captain Ashley Williams heading in from a corner. Everything still to
:20:32. > :20:35.play for with just under half the man left in the match. The winner
:20:36. > :20:40.will go on to play Portugal in the last four. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
:20:41. > :20:44.completed his transfer the image Premier League side Manchester
:20:45. > :20:49.United on Friday on a free transfer. He left the French champions PSG at
:20:50. > :20:56.the end of last season, having scored 156 goals in 180 appearances.
:20:57. > :21:01.He is reunited with Jose Mourinho who he played under at Inter Milan.
:21:02. > :21:06.I am super excited, super happy, there has been a lot of talks, but
:21:07. > :21:12.this is the moment when everything is done. And now, we start, now the
:21:13. > :21:17.hard work starts. So I am super happy. I am just waiting, to get to
:21:18. > :21:23.know the guys, to train the first training and I am here in the
:21:24. > :21:31.training facility. It looks that, it is a big club. A huge club. I am
:21:32. > :21:35.excited. Wimbledon have announced that there will be play in the
:21:36. > :21:39.middle Sunday of the tournament after rain affected the week in
:21:40. > :21:42.south-west London, Catherine we weren't really expecting this news
:21:43. > :21:49.to come at this time, what have Wimbledon said? Yes confirmation in
:21:50. > :21:53.the last half-hour, that in the first time since 2004 there will be
:21:54. > :21:56.play on the middle Sunday at Wimbledon, the first time, the
:21:57. > :22:00.fourth time in the long illustrious history of this Championships. We
:22:01. > :22:04.did quite know what it will mean for the schedule, we will get more
:22:05. > :22:07.detail at one o'clock, but we do know that tickets went be available
:22:08. > :22:13.for fans, you will have to buy them online. We will be live to a more
:22:14. > :22:18.about that, it is an unusual turn of events in a Topsy, Turkey Day in
:22:19. > :22:22.terms of the schedule. Also topsy-turvy in terms of some of the
:22:23. > :22:28.tennis. Some really big stories from the day. Let me tell you them, a
:22:29. > :22:34.shop development in another one court. Novak Djokovic. He has lost
:22:35. > :22:38.the first set of his match against the American Sam Querrey, he lost
:22:39. > :22:42.the first in a tie-break and then he lost the second 16-1 and then the
:22:43. > :22:46.rain came, the was on the number one Court which doesn't have a roof.
:22:47. > :22:50.There will be no further play on that court today so Novak Djokovic
:22:51. > :22:54.gets to go home and get some rest but he has got to come back and do
:22:55. > :22:58.it all tomorrow. Roger Federer, no such trouble for him against the
:22:59. > :23:06.British number four, Dan Evans. He won through in straight sets, 6-4,
:23:07. > :23:10.6-2, 6-2. Roger Federer is the seven times champion and he goes through
:23:11. > :23:16.to the next round. Serena Williams, looking for the moment, she dropped
:23:17. > :23:22.the first set against her compatriot Christina McHale 7-6. But she came
:23:23. > :23:27.back 6-2, 6-4, but there were exchanges breaks of serve in that
:23:28. > :23:30.match. Serena Williams did not look entirely comfortable either. Venus,
:23:31. > :23:37.her sister, she also dropped a set on the way to beating somebody else.
:23:38. > :23:42.She was at match point in fact when the rain came, they had to clear the
:23:43. > :23:47.court there. Venus, came back to try and serve out that match. She didn't
:23:48. > :23:54.manage to do that, and the last set went to 10-8, so Venus and Serena is
:23:55. > :24:00.both through. Another big shot, the fourth seed and two times champion
:24:01. > :24:04.Stan Wawrinka was out. He was beaten by Juan Martin del Potro the
:24:05. > :24:08.Argentine in four sets. The former US Open champion of course but he
:24:09. > :24:12.has had a couple of years out so stand Wawrinka was the real
:24:13. > :24:17.favourite to win this. The number four seed is out. And Novak
:24:18. > :24:20.Djokovic, the number one seed, the defending champion also struggling
:24:21. > :24:25.and he has to come back tomorrow to see if he can come back from two
:24:26. > :24:27.sets down. March to come at Wimbledon this year but you can see
:24:28. > :24:39.more on those. -- much to come. Now let us return to the anniversary
:24:40. > :24:45.at the start of the Battle of the Somme. We have a look back now at
:24:46. > :24:45.some of the events that have marked the 100th anniversary today and
:24:46. > :26:12.across Britain and France. just some of the poignant moments,
:26:13. > :26:16.marking the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. Now on BBC News
:26:17. > :26:21.Channel, here is News watch.