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Hello and welcome to BBC World News today. | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
The Headlines: French religious leaders call for more security | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
at places of worship following the brutal murder | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
Fresh pictures emerge of the siege at the Normandy church | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
where Islamists carried out the killing on Tuesday. | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Pope Francis has said the recent spate of jihadist attacks in Europe | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
is proof that the world is, as he put it, at war, | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
but he said he didn't mean it was a "war of religions." | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
A big explosion in a mainly Kurdish city in northeastern Syria has | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
caused massive destruction - at least 40 people have died | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
On patrol ahead of the Rio games - the head of security tells the BBC | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
the threat of a terror attack is one of his biggest concerns. | :00:45. | :01:00. | |
The head of France's Muslim community has described yesterday's | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
murder by Islamists of an elderly priest as "blasphemous | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
sacrilege which goes against all the teachings of our religion". | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Dalil Boubakeur joined representatives of Christian, | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
Jewish and Buddhist faiths in a show of unity with President Hollande. | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
They called for more security at places of worship. | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
The priest, Father Jacques Hamel, was killed while conducting | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
morning mass in his church in a suburb of Rouen. | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
His killer, 19 year old Adel Kermiche, had twice | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
previously tried to join the so-called Islamic State group - | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
also known as Daesh - in Syria. | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
Our correspondent Lucy Williamson reports. | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
The words that follow these attacks have lost their power to console. | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
They used to give France strength, now they highlight its betrayal. | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
In the streets where he grew up, Adel Kermiche is remembered | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
as a troubled man whose radical views had already alerted his | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
TRANSLATION: He was clearly pro-Daesh. | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Once his parents took him to the police station, | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
they said, lock him up, he's going to commit a crime. | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
The police said they were already monitoring him, but couldn't | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
Last year, he was arrested in Germany while trying to reach Syria. | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
Two months later, he was caught again in Turkey and | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
In March this year he was released with an electronic tag, | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
which allowed him to leave his house between 8:30 | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
During that window yesterday morning, he came here | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
and together with an accomplice, carried out his assault while elite | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
The moment filmed by a local resident who was woken by the noise. | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
With every new target and every new location, | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
So that the death of a local priest in this small suburban church | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
becomes a test of national resilience, an attack | :02:51. | :02:51. | |
In Paris, the government was left defending itself against | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
the charge that its defence of France had failed. | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
But was this a failure of intelligence, security or judgment? | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
Or simply the result of freedoms the country wants to protect? | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
TRANSLATION: Everything that can be done under the rule of law | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
There can still be some changes, discussions. | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
We are open to suggestions from the opposition. | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
But you cannot protect the rule of law by rejecting the rule of law. | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
And on a visit to Italy today, the Prime Minister said | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
In the Church of Notre Dame tonight, prayers have begun to honour | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
Father Jacques Hamel and the hostages of Saint Etienne. | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
But faith in France's protectors is harder now, | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
with the country divided over what protection means. | :03:37. | :03:37. | |
Pope Francis has said the recent series of jihadist attacks in Europe | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
is proof that the world is, as he put it, at war. | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
The pope was careful to stress he did not mean | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
it was a "war of religions", but rather a conflict between | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
He made the comments to journalists on board his plane to Poland | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
TRANSLATION: The world is at war, in pieces. There was the war of 1914 | :03:58. | :04:24. | |
with its methods, then the big war of 1939-1945, and now this. It is | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
not organic. Organised, yes, but not organic. But it is war. | :04:32. | :04:57. | |
This holy priest who died at the very moment in which he offered the | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
prayer for peace is one, but how many Christians, how many more | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
innocent people, how many more children will die? | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
Let's take you to Krakow and speak to our correspondent Tom Burridge. | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
- Adam Easton. Strong words from a very sombre Pope Francis but she was | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
very keen to point out that he did not mean it was a war between | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
religions. I think what he wanted to point out was to actually call a | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
spade a spade. He said often terror attacks, the word used is insecurity | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
and he said that is not the correct word. The word we should be using is | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
war. So I think he wanted to highlight the severity, the gravity | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
of the situation that the world is facing. He later came back | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
afterwards and said that he wasn't referring about a religious war. He | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
said that all world religions want peace, so the assumption would be | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
that the people who carry out these terror attacks are not true | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
believers of their faiths, and as you said and in the clip we just | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
heard, he talked about some of the more general causes of conflict such | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
as competition for scarce resources, competition for land, the domination | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
and also for power. A little bit later, he gave a speech in front of | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
the Polish president and the Polish bishops in the beautiful Gothic | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
castle. He did not refer to terror attacks there, but he did refer to | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
consequences of conflict, of war, and she meets a rather pointed | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
comment to the Polish host and said that not only society and churches | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
but states should do more to welcome refugees, asylum seekers, people | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
fleeing war and hunger, and to say that in front of the Polish | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
authorities is quite something, of course, because the Polish | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
authorities have made it clear that they are not interested in taking | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
any Muslim refugees or asylum seekers. That is also pretty much | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
the opinion of the majority of Polish society so a rather pointed | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
remark to be made by the Pope in his first speech after he arrived in his | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
host country. Adam, thank you very much. Adam Easton in crack of in | :07:29. | :07:29. | |
Poland. -- Krakow in Poland. There was another reminder today | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
that most of so-called Islamic State's victims | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
are in the Middle East Around 50 people were killed | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
after a truck bomb, which IS says it planted, exploded | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
in the predominantly Kurdish town The BBC's Yogita Limaye reports | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
from Beirut. Even before they understand what's | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
hit them, another explosion. A fuel tank blows up, | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
triggered by the bomb that went off near a Kurdish military | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
government building. There used to be shops, homes, | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
and a busy street here. Dozens have been killed in the worst | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
terrorist attack this city has seen. Two of them are doctors and like | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
most of the family they are living here, most of the family | :08:17. | :08:25. | |
have lost members here. Not just here, I'm living far | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
from here about 700 metres, all the windows in my house | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
are destroyed completely because of So-called Islamic state has | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
said it was behind the This woman was in her house when the | :08:37. | :08:59. | |
explosion occurred. TRANSLATION: When I looked at myself, I saw blood | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
on my hands. Then my son came rushing out of the bathroom and | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
asked me how I was. I said, I don't know. And I wasn't sure if his wife | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
had been killed. As for the rest, they were being pulled out by | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
others. I don't know if they are dead or alive. | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
So-called Islamic state has said it was behind the | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
Qamishli is a mainly Kurdish city near the border with Turkey. | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
The Kurds are battling Islamic state across northern Syria. | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
Backed by the US, and along with some Arab forces, | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
a major offensive has been underway to regain the town of Manbij. | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
And IS say the attack in Qamishli is retaliation for that. | :09:36. | :09:49. | |
Freelance journalist Basheer Talate is in Qamishli. | :09:50. | :10:01. | |
And looked at this officer, they told me they could not stop it. The | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
attacks happen everywhere. Not just here but also in Europe. There is a | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
lot of sadness but because a lot of the people you can see that they are | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
used to this but at the same time they are saying that ices cannot | :10:19. | :10:29. | |
kill the lights inside us. -- ices. -- Isis. | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
Police in the East of England investigating the attempted | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
abduction of a Royal Air Force serviceman last week have released | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
e-fits of the two men they suspect were involved. | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
The victim fought off the attackers who tried | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
to bundle him into a vehicle, as he was jogging | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
Police said both attackers were of "Middle Eastern appearance." | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
Our correspondent Robert Hall reports. | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
Were you in this area between 1pm and 4pm? | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
It was an instant which lasted less than a minute, but which has led | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
to another day of intense activity on the lanes of Norfolk. | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
The focus has been on these faces, created from the memories | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
of the young serviceman who ran for his life a week ago. | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
Investigators believe someone from the RAF community may have seen | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
the men as they prepared or fled from their attempted abduction. | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
The serviceman had told police that he became aware of a dark | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
vehicle, possibly a people carrier on the other side of the road. | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
He said in a matter of seconds a man had jumped out of that vehicle, | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
If he had not reacted as he did by head-butting that man | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
and knocking him to the ground the outcome would have | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
The landscape here illustrates the challenge of tracing that | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
Empty farmland, quiet roads and little CCTV. | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
Last week's incident has added to concerns over security | :11:45. | :11:54. | |
Police say that the motive for this attempted abduction | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
We said last week that there was no credible evidence of it | :11:59. | :12:10. | |
being a terrorist-related incident but we couldn't discount it, | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
But if it is not a terrorist related abduction, attempted abduction, | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
I am looking at other possibilities, could this be a case of mistaken | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
identity, could this be something entirely unconnected? | :12:22. | :12:22. | |
Norfolk police are in close touch with anti-terrorism specialists | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
but they believe key information will emerge locally. | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
They have warned anyone spotting the suspects | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
Robert Hall, BBC News, at RAF Marham. | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news. | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
The man who tried to assassinate the former US president | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
Ronald Reagan is to be released from a psychiatric hospital | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
John Hinckley Junior injured Mr Reagan and three others | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
when he opened fire on them outside the Washington Hilton hotel in 1981. | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
Hinckley was found not guilty on grounds of insanity. | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
The judge said Hinckley no longer poses a danger. | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
Prosecutors in the US city of Baltimore have dropped charges | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
against three police officers still facing trial over the death | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
last year of Freddie Gray - a black man who was critically | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
Freddie Gray's death fuelled perceptions of police brutality | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
towards African Americans and sparked the worst protests seen | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
Former French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier has been appointed | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
by the European Commission to negotiate with | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
In a tweet, Mr Barnier said he was honoured to be | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
The European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he "wanted | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
an experienced politician for this difficult job". | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
In November, American voters are going to make a choice. | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
Some are choosing between Republican and Democratic. | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
Others are choosing between what they've described | :13:45. | :13:46. | |
Hillary Clinton may have made history as the first woman to be | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
the presidential nominee for a major party, but many Democrats backing | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
Bernie Sanders have told us they think Clinton is part | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
On the Republican side some have told us they want anyone but Trump. | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
It's left a large share of American voters feeling disappointed, | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
if not angry, at the options for their next leader. | :14:06. | :14:17. | |
I'm probably going to vote for Hillary, | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
but I'd rather not have to | :14:20. | :14:20. | |
because I want more optionsthat are actually more representative | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
of what people want and not a lesser than | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
If the best that we can do for people that are | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
going to represent usis Donald J Trump | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
and Hillary Rodham Clinton, I | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
Maybe being involved within the Washington world | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
for so long I think that can kind of have a bit of a | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
dehumanising effect after a while in that it doesn't | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
seem like she really has the ability or feels like she | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
has the ability to think for herself as a person | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
and so I think that when | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
she's trying to cater to what can and cannot be | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
done that there isn't going | :15:07. | :15:07. | |
to be any of the real change that we need | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
I guess she's really the only person to vote | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
I mean, once the Republican Party chose Trump, I mean who else | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
I mean, as a woman, it's definitely a step | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
I truly believe it's anything but Trump, but | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
I think Hillary Clinton is a better choice, for sure. | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
The Democrats convention in Philadelphia is about to | :15:42. | :16:00. | |
I'm joined now by Michael Scherer, the Washington | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
I hope you can hear me. I hear it is quite noisy there. I just wanted to | :16:04. | :16:15. | |
ask you how much of a problem for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
these people who do not see anything they particularly want to vote for | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
in either of these candidates? It could be a big problem but polls | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
show that about 90% of Bernie Sanders voters in the primary | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
support Hillary. What is different about this primary is that the real | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
die-hard activists, the people who work all year to get Bernie Sanders | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
elected, our year and it is not even representatives. That said, if this | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
sort of anger at Hillary Clinton continues, it will be really | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
problematic, not just the people who voted for Bernie Sanders, but for | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
young people and minority people who Hillary has to find a way to | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
motivate and she has not been able to so far. How unified or otherwise | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
would you say the Democratic party is right now? We heard jeers at the | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
name of Hillary Clinton in this convention. That is right. Both | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
parties are not very unified. But been surprised by how un-unified the | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
Democratic party is. It is too soon to know what consequences that will | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
have. If you're watching the Republicans in Cleveland, you would | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
see a similar disunity so it is bubbly going to hurt both candidates | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
and we have a long way to go before we know who will turn up at the | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
polls. But what this will come down to is turnout. It is about | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
motivating people who are not your regular voters and a lot of young | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
people are listening to their friends and they are saying that | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
Hillary is just part of some giant machine of corruption, even if they | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
are progressives, that will be a big problem for her. I want to ask you | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
about a story that is beginning to really get some traction now. This | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
row breaking out Clinton's campaign spokesman saying it is the first | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
time a major presidential candidate had encouraged a foreign power to | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
conduct espionage against a political opponent. I am talking | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
about Donald Trump and what he has apparently said about Russia. Yeah. | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
It was a remarkable press conference this morning. I think it is not as | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
the Clinton campaign. I think a lot of Republicans and political | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
observers are sort of still getting their bearings after he said it. | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
What he said was that he has nothing to do with the hack of the | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
Democratic National committee and does not know if Russia was behind | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
it but then he added that if Russian hackers could find the 30,000 | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
e-mails that Hillary Clinton says she deleted because they were | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
personal correspondence not work correspondence, they should put them | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
out quick. It was essentially the Republican nominee for president | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
asking for a crime to be committed by a foreign power against the US. | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
It was quite a remarkable statement. And reduce the damaging? You know, | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
Donald Trump has been making remarkable statements for six months | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
now. -- who do you see a damaging? And in a lot of cases this has not | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
damaged him. I do not know if it will change the race dramatically. I | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
think it will remind people who are not yet on board list on why they | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
have concerns and it will play into Hillary Clinton's message on trumpet | :19:11. | :19:12. | |
which is that he is just not prepared for the job. At the same | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
time, I think that Trump has shown that there is an anger, a | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
frustration, a fury with the way the rules and politics are set up in | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
this country and that breaking them helps him. It motivates his | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
supporters and then again he may be able to pull other people into the | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
process by speaking like this that he has not been able to before. The | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
other thing to mention is that Trump often says the things we're sort of | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
a glint in his height, almost as if he's kidding when he says that. It | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
is interesting because with the whole campaign he has gotten away | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
with a lot of things that other candidates would never be able to | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
get away with. He said a day after the Republican convention to the | :19:46. | :19:55. | |
National Enquirer that John McCain, the former Republican nominee, is | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
not the kind of war hero he likes because he got captured. These are | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
things that just would not be acceptable in any other year but | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
this is not any other year. It certainly isn't. Only a day after | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
history was made, we have the first female President candidate, it is | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
not even really top of the agenda. Where are we? What is going on? You | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
was asked about Hillary been the first female nominee in his press | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
conference today and we will hear a lot more about that tonight with | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
President Obama and Joe Biden and her vice presidential pick Tim Kane | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
speeding so I do not think that will go away but it is certainly a | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
strange time. Thank you. As we mentioned there Barack Obama, | :20:34. | :20:43. | |
Vice President Joe Biden and Clinton's running mate Tim Kaine | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
will speak in the coming hours. As always we will have live | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
updates and analysis There will also be plenty of content | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
on our smart phone app. The Russian Olympic Committee chief, | :20:51. | :21:00. | |
Alexander Zhukov, says international federations have approved more | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
than 250 Russian competitors to take This comes after a report | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
into state sponsored doping. 108 Russians have been banned so far | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
- including all but one The Russian President Vladimir Putin | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
has once again criticised the decision to barr | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
some competitors, saying medals won at Rio 2016 | :21:21. | :21:21. | |
will be devalued and that the Games He made the comments at an event | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
with Russian athletes, Here's some of what President Putin | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
had to say. TRANSLATION: I think that your | :21:29. | :21:41. | |
colleagues would understand that the quality of their medals will be | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
different now because it is one thing to win against strong, equal | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
competitors and it is a different thing when you compete with someone | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
so obviously lower in class. Such a victory has a completely different | :21:52. | :21:52. | |
taste, if any. Meanwhile, the man in charge | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
of security at the Rio Olympics has told the BBC the threat | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
of a terrorist attack An extra 80,000 security personnel | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
have been brought in to patrol the streets of Rio de Janeiro | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
and the Olympic venues. As our Brazil Correspondent, | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
Wyre Davies reports, there's concern the country | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
is a soft target for criminals. Rio has a reputation | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
as one of the world's Within sight of the beaches where | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
Olympic volleyball and triathlon events will take place, armed police | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
patrol narrow alleyways which by night revert to the control | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
of violent drugs gangs. They let off fireworks to let us | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
know they're watching. After a quiet couple of years, | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
violence has returned to many Rio is a much safer | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
place today than it was 20 years ago, but even in the last | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
year or so, in these pacified favelas, the drugs gangs | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
have moved back in. There have been more | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
murders and more attacks. And with the Olympic games taking | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
place down in the tourist areas | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
on Copacabana beach, there is a real concern | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
that some of this violence could spill | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
over during the games themselves. In this Olympic city, | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
shocking numbers of innocent victims are killed | :23:03. | :23:03. | |
in crossfire, often by police. Children are taught to dive | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
for cover at the And petty crime invades | :23:10. | :23:11. | |
the tourist beaches below. Police officers warned | :23:12. | :23:23. | |
they might not be able to guarantee Welcome to hell, | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
their stark message to visitors at Rio's | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
International Airport. We police officers are hiding our | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
badges, our wallets, our guns because they | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
are being hunted. But city and state officials say | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
that with an extra 80,000 security personnel on the streets, | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
Rio will be safe during the games. But says Rio's security chief, | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
there is one overriding concern. TRANSLATION: For me, | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
the biggest threat is terrorism. Brazil is not an obvious | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
target, but we have a weakness and it is | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
our immense borders. The BBC recently saw evidence | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
showing just how easy it More than 70 Syrian nationals were | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
able to acquire genuine Brazilian passports from crime gangs | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
and corrupt officials. Training exercises are designed | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
to ease concerns, but with 10,000 miles | :24:29. | :24:29. | |
of often porous land borders, Brazil would be a soft target for anyone | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
seeking to disrupt the games. Rio de Janeiro is still | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
one of the world's most beguiling cities | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
and will provide a stunning backdrop | :24:43. | :24:43. | |
for the Olympics, but it has | :24:44. | :24:45. | |
an ominously dark side too. Stunning aerial video has | :24:46. | :24:56. | |
been released showing what is believed to be the world's | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
deepest underwater sinkhole. Researchers in China studying | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
the so-called Blue Hole - in the South China Sea - | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
believe that it's 300 metres deep. The team says it looked at things | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
like tidal water levels and temperature to | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
work out the depth. Until now, the deepest known | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
Blue Hole was Dean's Blue Hole, which is two hundred | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
and two metres deep, We end on an object lesson on how | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
not to invest your money. A man from Georgia in | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
the United States who won three million dollars in a lottery | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
has pleaded guilty to using the money to invest | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
in a crystal meth ring. 45-year-old Ronnie Music Junior | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
used his windfall to buy the drugs, then supply them | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
to others who could The local Attorney described it | :25:38. | :25:39. | |
as an "unsound investment strategy". Mr Music is expected to serve years | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
in a federal prison. If you want to get in touch with us | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
here at BBC World News, But for now from me and the rest | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
of the team, goodbye. Hello there. If your gardens didn't | :25:53. | :26:11. | |
get enough rain today, you could be in luck tomorrow, when the next | :26:12. | :26:13. | |
batch of rain pushes | :26:14. | :26:14. |