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This is BBC world News today. This is a headline. Gun battle in the | :00:07. | :00:19. | |
Bangladeshi capital. Gunman holding hostages in a restaurant. White | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
House report saying up to 116 civilians have been killed by | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
American drone strikes since President Obama took office. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
Commemorations Beverage serving held to remember | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
the fall of hundreds of thousands of troops. And we will have the latest | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
from Euro 2016 as Belgium take on Wales has they aim for the | :00:49. | :00:49. | |
semifinals. Calm men have stormed a popular cafe | :00:50. | :01:08. | |
in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka Mack, a number of people are being | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
held hostage, among them several foreigners. The battle is taking | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
place in a district which is known as the diplomatic area of the city. | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
Police have sealed off the area and said at least three people have been | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
injured, two of them police officers. In the last half an hour, | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
the Islamic state militant group says it is behind the attack. One | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
woman who lives next to the building talks. TRANSLATION: I heard at | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
around 10pm local time people shouting for them to come out, maybe | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
they were shouting at the terrorists, after that we heard a | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
lot of sounds from police operations. My driver told me | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
something was going on outside, the later said don't leave, there is | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
firing going on. Next I heard a loud noise in my living room, I saw the | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
glass in my living room shattered, I heard continuous gunshots. My | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
daughter and all of us started crying, terrorising situation. We | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
have been hearing continuous gunshots after 9pm, too much to | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
take. My auntie, and daughters and others have gone to break the | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
Ramadan fast and we cannot even check where they are. Let us speak | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
to somebody who is in the studios, this appears to be a very serious | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
attack, IS has claimed responsibility, what more do we | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
know? We understand at the moment that there had been a great deal of | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
shooting and now it has gone quiet and dark. Police are very much | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
focused on trying to negotiate the release of the hostages. Police | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
have-nots confirmed how many people are inside. But one person has | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
talked about, there were eight young men armed with knives and guns and | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
he said that quite a lot of foreigners were inside and he thinks | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
that they may be hostages. This comes off the back of a very serious | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
series of incidences in Bangladesh. This seems to be a serious | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
development? Very much so, were not absolutely certain behind this. But | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
if it were the Islamic State militant group involved in this this | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
would be a very definite escalation of their violence in Bangladesh. We | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
have seen a whole series of targeted killings, mostly on religious | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
minorities, secular writers. But nothing on this scale and in fact | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
this is pretty much unprecedented for Dhaka. Well we can speak to a | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
South Asia expert at the Chatham House think tank. Thank you for | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
being with us, so Islamic state appeared to have taken | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
responsibility for this attack. Can you tell us what the presence of | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
this group is inside the country? It is hard to tell, as we all know, | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
there have been numerous incursions reports about the plotting of a | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
major attack for about a year now and the Bangladeshi government did | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
not take much notice. And the Bangladeshi government, has pinned | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
down the responsibility for extremist attacks thus far, at the | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
hands of home-grown militant groups. And also, pinned down the blame to | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
the opposition party which is the Bangladesh National party. In a | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
sense, not much has been investigated so far on the presence | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
and activities of IS, although intelligence agencies within the | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
region are aware, that there is a faction fight to a growing dispute | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
over control between Al-Qaeda and Islamic State has been on for a | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
while. Across the region. But as far as activities in Bangladesh are | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
concerned, this is news. It is a worrying development, because | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
previous attacks have taken place on minorities, but this is an attack | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
involving several hostages, several foreign hostages in fact. What are | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
your thoughts on that? Most certainly, this is a very rapid | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
escalation of what is a pretty bad situation in Bangladesh. As you | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
rightly pointed out, this is the first time that a hostagetaking | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
incident has arisen. This is predominantly a target on Western | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
presence is within Bangladesh and no attempt has been made to conceal the | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
responsibilities. There has been a claim of responsibility but also as | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
we look at what is happening within Bangladesh at this moment, we | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
mustn't lose sight on what has happened over the last decade. The | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
fact that there has been complete impunity for attacks, whether they | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
were by groups that are home-grown or external is not the point, the | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
government has not reacted, there has been a spate of attacks against | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
those who are bloggers and others who ups upheld secular bloggers, or | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
were journalists and writers. And nothing was done. In fact very | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
little has been done in terms of investigation and prosecution. There | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
is also a climate of the extreme political infighting within | :06:38. | :06:38. | |
Bangladesh and the responsibility has always been laid on the door of | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
the opposition party. No responsibility has been taken by the | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
party in power. As we examine what has been happening at this moment, | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
we have to look at what has happened in the past. Thank you very much for | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
joining us. Up to 116 civilians had been killed | :06:55. | :07:04. | |
by American drone strikes since President Barack Obama took office | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
according to a new White House report. The civilians were killed | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
outside of war zones in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia between 2009 and | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
2015. The report comes as the Obama administration claims to place a | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
greater emphasis on protecting civilians during operations. We can | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
go to the BBC Washington correspondent. Gary seems that the | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
bomber at ministries have been meaning to release these figures for | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
some time, but why have they decided to release them now? As you say they | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
have promised to do this for some time, they have come under a lot of | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
pressure to do this not least from human rights groups. It is really to | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
address the question is, the controversial policies that they | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
have had. In terms of hitting people outside of normal combat areas. | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
Outside areas of war basically and as you said, we are looking at | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
things like the tribal areas of Pakistan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
What the Obama administration is trying to do is to explain how they | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
go about choosing these terrorist targets as they put it, in those | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
areas and what safeguards they put in place before and after to make | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
sure that the only hit the people that they are intending to hit. This | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
number, they issued a pretty stark health warning with these numbers | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
anyway, they say it is impossible to be sure about the numbers | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
particularly in areas where they cannot verify afterwards but also | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
there is a lot of scepticism from some of the groups like Amnesty | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
International, saying, that Howard County is that you have killed a lot | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
more civilians. There is a disagreement between administration | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
and the groups that modern these attacks. Significantly they can | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
seems to leave out people killed in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq and | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
therefore we're not getting overall picture? Tick elite in Syria and | :09:04. | :09:14. | |
Iraq, the coalition does publish estimates of civilians killed in | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
those areas as well, the reason they are doing this is because in these | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
nonhostile environments, they come under this pressure and they say | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
that they only try and go after people in these areas if there is | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
near certainty that they can't kill civilians at the same time. Thank | :09:34. | :09:34. | |
you very much. Let us go back to our main story, | :09:35. | :09:43. | |
and we can go to Akbar Hussain. You are very close to where this gun | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
battle is taking place, tell me what you know? Now, I am in, the area, it | :09:48. | :09:59. | |
is literally one of the most secure areas in the country. You can see | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
the hind me, this road leads to wear the restaurant is located. This | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
restaurant is managed by an Italian manager, and he told us, a group of | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
gunmen entered the restaurant with a knife when people were having dinner | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
at the time. And the gun men, they took the people and made them | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
hostage. So when police received the news, they weren't at the location | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
and tried to dismantle them, but the attackers started firing | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
indiscriminately. They also exploded some crackers. Some people, we have | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
talked to them, local people, the rest room manager and another | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
person, they manage to get out of the rest room. What they told us, at | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
least 20 foreigners are still being trapped inside the restaurant. And | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
they are being taken hostage by the gunman. This restaurant is a very | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
popular destination for European and American citizens living in Dakar. | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
The area where I am standing now, this is a well protected area | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
compare to other parts of the city so people this area very surprised | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
to see the way that the gunmen breach the security system of the | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
area. If you see the road behind me. You can see, the police are not | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
allowing anyone to get inside the area, now, they are waiting to get | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
response from the criminals. The elite police force, the chief of it | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
told us, that they are thinking, that they are trying to negotiate | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
with the gunman to avoid further bloodshed because so far, the news | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
we have received. One police officer was shot dead by the militants and | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
another 50 police officers received bullet injuries, and they're now | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
treated in a local hospital. So that they can avoid further bloodshed. It | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
is now going on here and police are saying, that all of the preparation, | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
will avoid further bloodshed. In the last half an hour Islamic state has | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
claimed responsibility for this attack, do we know how many | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
militants are involved? What police have said is that at least eight to | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
nine militants that took part in the whole operation, this is such a | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
coordinated attack, and they were carrying heavy weapons and they were | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
firing indiscriminately. You say that Islamic State claimed the | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
responsibility but the Bangladesh government has long denied the | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
presence of Islamic State inside the country. They always say that some | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
home-grown jihadis groups, I involved with militant activities. | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
Because we have seen at least 45 people had been killed in manga dash | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
in the last half year. They include secular brothers and writers, | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
especially Hindus and Christians are being targeted. But the government | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
said there is no existence of this Islamic state. So now, their main | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
focal point is that, they are trying to save the lives of foreigners who | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
are being trapped inside the restaurant. Akbar Hussain from | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
Dhaka, where the attack is taking place, thank you very much indeed. | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
Stay with us on BBC world News, still to come. Struggling Serena, | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
the number one seed comes from behind to reach the third round in | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
Wimbledon, Novak Djokovic's position is even more precarious. | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
China mark is first day of rule in Hong Kong with a series of | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
spectacular celebrations, huge fireworks display was held in the | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
former colony, the Chinese president said that unification was the start | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
of a new era for Hong Kong. The world's first clone has been | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
produced in an adult mammal, scientists in Scotland have produced | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
a sheep called body that was cloned using a cell from another sheep. For | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
the first time in 20 is Russian and American spacecraft have docked in | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
orbit in the sign of a new cooperation in space. | :14:20. | :14:28. | |
Challenger powered past the lighthouse at almost 50 knots | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
shattering the record that had stood for 34 years, there was no hiding | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
the sheer elation of Richard Branson and his crew. | :14:38. | :14:47. | |
Is this BBC world News today, I am your newsreader. Gunmen have | :14:48. | :14:59. | |
attacked a cafe in Dhaka in an affluent cafe, reports say that as | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
many as 20 foreigners may have been taken captive. American drone | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
strikes have killed 116 civilians since President Obama has been in | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
office according to an official US report. Events have been held in | :15:12. | :15:21. | |
Britain and France, for the same two free of the Battle of the Somme. It | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
was the bloodiest in the British Armed Forces and came to define the | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
brutality and horror of the First World War. The ceremony was held in | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
the shadow of the famous memorial, in northern France. It bears the | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
names 72,000 British and South African troops who bodies were never | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
found. The Prince of Wales, David Cameron and President Hollande were | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
among those who took part in the presence of hundreds of descendants | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
of those who fought. As our special correspondent Little reports. It is | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
the largest First World War memorial anywhere comic scare was | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
commensurate with the loss of life. It is a memorial to the missing of | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
the Somme. The names of 72,000 men with no known graves are carved | :16:06. | :16:13. | |
here. Its plea to posterity, to ask, is plain. Never forget. Heads of | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
state and government, present and future, listened to Clive as he read | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
the words of his father. Who fought and survived. You did a job out | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
there, and I never realised there was anything unusual about it. | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
There was a job to be done and you just got on and did it. | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
I was more frightened going up to the trenches, sitting, | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
I was very frightened then, very frightened indeed. | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
We were taught we had to be an example to our men and that, | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
if we went forward, they would go with you, you see. | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
And you'd sort of lose your sense of fear, thinking | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
The nurse Olive Dent treated the wounded. | :17:02. | :17:19. | |
Here, her words described that first week on the Somme. | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
I am too tired to sleep, too tired to shut out of sight | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
and mind the passionate appeal of two dying eyes and the low faint | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
whisper of, "Sister, am I going to die?" | :17:33. | :17:46. | |
A week after Britain voted to leave the European Union, David Cameron | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
took his place beneath the memorial to the enduring alliance | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
between the UK and France, and described a moment of mutual | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
respect between enemies as a British major risked his life | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
to rescue a wounded soldier from no man's land. | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
He walked as though he was on parade. | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
The Germans never fired a shot at him as he went. | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
They never fired a shot as he went back. | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
And they cheered him as he lifted the man onto his shoulders. | :18:15. | :18:34. | |
The poppy and, in France, the blue cornflower are the emblems | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
of the sorrow of war marked in two minutes of silence. | :18:39. | :18:50. | |
In these moments of remembrance, the dead cry out their warning | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
In the words of the poet Siegfried Sassoon, recited | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
here today, "Do you ever stop and ask, 'Will it all happen | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
again?' Look down and swear by the slain of the war that | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
Austrians are heading back to the polls after the country's highest | :19:07. | :19:24. | |
court annulled the results of May 's presidential election. The | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
Independent Green candidate one, with 50.3% of the vote, the Freedom | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
party candidate lost by around 30,000 votes, that result was | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
challenged by the far right Freedom party today. The Constitutional | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
Court ordered another election after finding irregularities in the way | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
that postal votes were handled. The Freedom party leader says that it is | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
a win for democracy. Let us go to Hugh for some sport and an amazing | :19:55. | :20:04. | |
performance by Wales? 2-1. Yes Wales are leading, it is the biggest game | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
for them since the 1958 World Cup. Elche is the world number two side, | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
they were favourites for the match, so far it is very entertaining, | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
Belgium, took the lead with a stunning strike. That was the Wales | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
captain Ashley Williams heading in from a corner. Everything still to | :20:23. | :20:31. | |
play for with just under half the man left in the match. The winner | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
will go on to play Portugal in the last four. Zlatan Ibrahimovic | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
completed his transfer the image Premier League side Manchester | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
United on Friday on a free transfer. He left the French champions PSG at | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
the end of last season, having scored 156 goals in 180 appearances. | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
He is reunited with Jose Mourinho who he played under at Inter Milan. | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
I am super excited, super happy, there has been a lot of talks, but | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
this is the moment when everything is done. And now, we start, now the | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
hard work starts. So I am super happy. I am just waiting, to get to | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
know the guys, to train the first training and I am here in the | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
training facility. It looks that, it is a big club. A huge club. I am | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
excited. Wimbledon have announced that there will be play in the | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
middle Sunday of the tournament after rain affected the week in | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
south-west London, Catherine we weren't really expecting this news | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
to come at this time, what have Wimbledon said? Yes confirmation in | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
the last half-hour, that in the first time since 2004 there will be | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
play on the middle Sunday at Wimbledon, the first time, the | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
fourth time in the long illustrious history of this Championships. We | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
did quite know what it will mean for the schedule, we will get more | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
detail at one o'clock, but we do know that tickets went be available | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
for fans, you will have to buy them online. We will be live to a more | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
about that, it is an unusual turn of events in a Topsy, Turkey Day in | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
terms of the schedule. Also topsy-turvy in terms of some of the | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
tennis. Some really big stories from the day. Let me tell you them, a | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
shop development in another one court. Novak Djokovic. He has lost | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
the first set of his match against the American Sam Querrey, he lost | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
the first in a tie-break and then he lost the second 16-1 and then the | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
rain came, the was on the number one Court which doesn't have a roof. | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
There will be no further play on that court today so Novak Djokovic | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
gets to go home and get some rest but he has got to come back and do | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
it all tomorrow. Roger Federer, no such trouble for him against the | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
British number four, Dan Evans. He won through in straight sets, 6-4, | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
6-2, 6-2. Roger Federer is the seven times champion and he goes through | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
to the next round. Serena Williams, looking for the moment, she dropped | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
the first set against her compatriot Christina McHale 7-6. But she came | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
back 6-2, 6-4, but there were exchanges breaks of serve in that | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
match. Serena Williams did not look entirely comfortable either. Venus, | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
her sister, she also dropped a set on the way to beating somebody else. | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
She was at match point in fact when the rain came, they had to clear the | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
court there. Venus, came back to try and serve out that match. She didn't | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
manage to do that, and the last set went to 10-8, so Venus and Serena is | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
both through. Another big shot, the fourth seed and two times champion | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
Stan Wawrinka was out. He was beaten by Juan Martin del Potro the | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
Argentine in four sets. The former US Open champion of course but he | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
has had a couple of years out so stand Wawrinka was the real | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
favourite to win this. The number four seed is out. And Novak | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
Djokovic, the number one seed, the defending champion also struggling | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
and he has to come back tomorrow to see if he can come back from two | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
sets down. March to come at Wimbledon this year but you can see | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
more on those. -- much to come. Now let us return to the anniversary | :24:28. | :24:39. | |
at the start of the Battle of the Somme. We have a look back now at | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
some of the events that have marked the 100th anniversary today and | :24:46. | :24:45. | |
across Britain and France. just some of the poignant moments, | :24:46. | :26:12. | |
marking the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. Now on BBC News | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
Channel, here is News watch. | :26:17. | :26:21. |