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This is BBC World News Today with me, | :00:07. | :00:15. | |
The headlines: A dramatic escape and a terrifying moment | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
after an Emirates passenger plane crash-lands at Dubai Airport. | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
These are the remarkable pictures of the moment the plane landed - | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
all 300 people onboard are said to be safe. | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
Mounting excitement in Rio, as the Olympic torch | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
I'm Babita Sharma in Rio, where the sporting action has begun, | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
despite ongoing confusion over whether Russian athletes can compete | :00:37. | :00:49. | |
Fresh divisions are emerging within the Republican Party | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
over its presidential nominee Donald Trump. | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
A bridge collapses on the main route from Goa to Mumbai. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
Two buses and several cars are feared to have been | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
It's the most dramatic of emergency landings - | :01:01. | :01:19. | |
a passenger jet forced to touch down, apparently | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
The incident happened at Dubai International Airport | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
to a plane arriving from Southern India. | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
All the 300 passengers managed to evacuate before | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
and just a few minutes later, the fuselage was engulfed | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
in smoke and flames, though one fire fighter was killed. | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
Passengers have been speaking about their narrow escape. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
You can only imagine what it must have been | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
A normal landing turns to chaos as the aircraft | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
skids along on its belly, smoke pouring from the cabin. | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
An explosion, probably fuel, centrepiece of the aircraft spinning | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
through the air, although we don't know if everyone | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
300 people escaped down these inflatable slides. | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
They say they got no warning anything was wrong. | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
We had not heard any announcement or anything, | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
The smoke was coming inside and they asked us | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
to evacuate so we escape through the emergency exits. | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
All of the people were shouting, the children and women, | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
This is what it looked like from another aircraft sitting nearby. | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
I turned and we saw this plane on its side, | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
the wings down, sparks coming off, on fire, it was horrific, we saw | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
The chairman of Emirates said everything seemed fine | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
Yet the plane doesn't seem to have had its wheels down | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
We don't yet know if it was down to a mechanical problem, a mistake | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
Still, it's incredible all of the passengers | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
For more we can speak to Sean Maffett, an aviation analyst | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
who joins us from Gloucestershire in the UK. | :03:20. | :03:33. | |
Any information the sadly not. It seems to be a why would be coming | :03:34. | :03:43. | |
down I understand at some stage air traffic control said check it is not | :03:44. | :03:54. | |
clear whether down the approach or whether the wheels were down and a | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
go around, which means that they put the power on the engines and try to | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
they were clear to do that by edge up control. Pick up the wheels and | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
the aircraft continued sitting, we don't know that the moment what | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
happened. What is worth considering aeroplane skidded along Richard | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
Wescott said and issue, and yet the cabin crew and a flight crew managed | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
to get all 300 people off the plane without anybody being killed. It is | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
dreadful that one of the emergency crew has apparently died fighting | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
the, I think this is what, and how quickly would you expect as to how | :04:48. | :05:03. | |
quickly, that is what they will are the two important recorders in the | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
air plane, sometimes in one box, sometimes in two separate ones, the | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder, which will tell them | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
what was happening in the final seconds and earlier, as well, I | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
suspect they will be able to get those out of the aircraft without | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
much trouble. It seems as if the back end of the aircraft, the | :05:30. | :05:39. | |
tailplane area, was of course, we cannot be built to withstand fires | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
and huge impact and other things. So we will be able to get good | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
information out of that. And the crew and passengers are still alive | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
so they will be able to say what went on. It shouldn't be | :05:55. | :06:07. | |
Two days before the official start of the Games, | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
the Olympic torch has arrived in Rio. | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
Yet tensions remain between Olympic chiefs | :06:12. | :06:12. | |
There are Russian athletes who still don't know | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
Let's go live to Rio - and Babita Sharma. | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
it looks stunning it is fantastic, isn't it? We are live on Copacabana | :06:21. | :06:35. | |
Beach in the. We are 48 hours away from on Friday at the Maracana | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
Stadium. The sporting action has already begun here. The first round | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
of the woman's football has taken place in the Olympic Stadium and | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Sweden triumphed against South Africa when I can zero in that first | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
in the last minute and are playing Australia, 60 seconds into that | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
match getting Jenin Becky as their goal scorer for Canada the action is | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
still taking place. We are waiting to find out from the International | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
Olympic Committee whether or not some 250 Russian athletes will | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
finally be given in these games. They are still waiting to decide | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
that. We were told that we would know at some point today but the | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
waiting continues it is an historic day to in because after an epic | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
journey of some 20,000 kilometres across Brazil, the Olympic torch | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
arrived in the, as our sports editor Dan after a journey across Brazil, | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
this morning's arrival in the Olympic torch and was a symbolic | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
moment. In today's time it will be the focal point of the opening | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
ceremony, but the build-up to these games has been troubled, dominated | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
by the Russian doping scandal pressure the accuracy is meeting | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
amid a crisis of faith Britain's most successful Olympian told me | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
that start or the sport cannot have seen some amazing performances | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
across the board from other countries, not just Team GB. Just | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
something, and remember the point of the Olympic Games. It was about | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
bringing the world together and celebrating humanity through sport | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
and not focusing on negative issues all but are the games worth the | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
billions they cost? Fans found this in London but failed to make Britain | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
a more the Winter Sochi were the most expensive ever and the most | :08:44. | :08:54. | |
damaging and terms there are concerns and pollution some want | :08:55. | :09:04. | |
other values to be prioritised. Campaigners in Rio insist that | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
events like this are often linked to human rights the international | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
federations, if they don't react and continue as they did and say, we | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
don't care, then it might be the Olympic Games, the end as we know | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
them, as a message, about as laid down in the Olympic charter. But in | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
Rio, the games remain millions of pounds generated in webcasting and | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
sponsorship revenue. And some lessons cities still want to play | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
house. Los Angeles, one of those budding to secure the games for | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
2024. Their sustainability and 97% of the babies overboard. We only | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
have to build one permanent venue. We are a sporting town, with the | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
facilities and 80% of residents not to bring the games back to the city | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
of Los Angeles. This afternoon, the spirit began, the women's football | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
tournament in front of other spectators. Organisers will hope the | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
atmosphere builds as a games progress and provides the showcase | :10:14. | :10:14. | |
that the Olympic movement it was a momentous | :10:15. | :10:30. | |
moment when that torch leaving the city and making its way through, | :10:31. | :10:38. | |
being Mayor of, who said this was that the Brazilians should be. They | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
have declared a public holiday tomorrow and Thursday as the torch | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
makes his way through the city. We are expecting that many people, | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
thousands in fact, will come out on the streets to we have seen shows as | :10:53. | :11:00. | |
some of the football magistrate under way. The country is going to | :11:01. | :11:13. | |
get behind the that there was a lot of excitement. For many people, they | :11:14. | :11:24. | |
did not understand that the games 's adaptation with the women's first | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
round in further Brazilian locals, Brazilian football is about the | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
men's team. It is there were lots of empty seats in the Olympic Sweden | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
against South Africa match I think that when the games get under way, | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
in full swing, if you like, following on Friday and over the | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
weekend, we will see more and more of the tickets being sold, and other | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
of the stadiums that have been built, the Maracana Stadium, for | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
example and the with lots of spectators, because we still | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
understand, there is about 15% of tickets left, which is | :12:11. | :12:23. | |
And you can keep up to date with all our Oympics coverage | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
there will be a full breakdown of taking place and also more on the | :12:26. | :12:40. | |
controversy over within the Republican Party | :12:41. | :12:50. | |
divisions are emerging over its presidential | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
candidate Donald Trump. Major Republican donor Meg Whitman, | :12:54. | :12:54. | |
has endorsed his rival Hillary Clinton, saying Mr Trump | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
was "a dishonest demagogue" and it was time "to put country | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
first before party". In the latest controversy, | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
Mr Trump has refused to support two | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
senior figures in his own party. Barbara Plett-Usher | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
is in Washington for us. , how significant is that and how | :13:08. | :13:25. | |
will that go down with Republican voters, it was significant because | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
the presidential candidate is seen as the standard-bearer of the party | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
so he would be expected to support and endorse all of the Congressional | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
Republicans also running to be and for him to state clearly that he | :13:39. | :13:48. | |
wasn't going to back including the house speaker, Perl Ryan and Senator | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
John McCain, the subtext being because they had criticised the | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
reason is quite a big deal for the party. The party responded | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
furiously. The leaders, builders and strategists. By then, this is the | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
latest example that they are not quite sure what is going on. They | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
feel that the messages out of control. This comes off the back of | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
five days during which Donald Trump a Muslim American family whose son | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
died in Afghanistan, whose son is effectively and therefore | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
Republicans have felt the need to come out and distance themselves | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
from Bell's kind of statements. Having said that, the vast only | :14:30. | :14:37. | |
distancing themselves. They have not abandoned Donald Trump. He members | :14:38. | :14:49. | |
of Congress did not want to eliminate one big question is, how | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
many more Republicans, senior Republicans, will move over the next | :14:55. | :15:08. | |
Mr Trump's campaign, must a number of other Republicans have said they | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
were back Hillary Clinton. There are certainly not a Maas -- a mass | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
defection. They will decide whether it was in their interest in effect, | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
but I should say it has given a certain bump the Mrs Clinton's | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
campaign. At a speech at the Democratic convention last week she | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
appealed to Republicans to join her well going to be representing all | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
people, members of the different parties. And some have taken her up | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
the campaign will make as much as it can out of this latest business | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
criticising the parents of a dead soldier. They have put out an e-mail | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
with all the negative coverage that that has a brother and I love the | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
negative statements aware that his own advisers have said this is | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
counter-productive, he shall be attacking Mrs Clinton, not these | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
people, so as far as the Clinton campaign goes, they are quite | :16:05. | :16:05. | |
pleased The Italian authorities | :16:06. | :16:17. | |
are investigating whether so-called Islamic State is now involved | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
in organising, and profiting from, the passage of migrants | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
from Libya to Italy. The crossing is becoming more | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
popular, as other routes close down, More than 3,000 migrants | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
or refugees have died Our correspondent, Chris Buckler | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
joined a rescue ship, operated by the charity MSF, | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
and sent this report. each day, the Mediterranean appears, | :16:32. | :16:42. | |
tempting those who see it as a even if they are able -- the stand | :16:43. | :16:51. | |
reality of what that Search and Rescue teams have become a fixture | :16:52. | :17:00. | |
on they are a necessity the boast that leave the Libyan with no | :17:01. | :17:33. | |
hope of they had no obvious way of I was afraid. I was really afraid. In | :17:34. | :17:43. | |
Libya, I was put in prison with my children. I had to pay money in | :17:44. | :18:03. | |
order to there is joy for this group. They have found from Gambia, | :18:04. | :18:16. | |
over the last fortnight a dozen babies each they have been brushing | :18:17. | :18:36. | |
up on the Internationally, more than 4000 refugees and migrants have | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
died. It is thought around three quarters of them drowned here in the | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
Mediterranean Sea. This charity that operates this rescue ship is now | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
refusing money from European governments because it says their | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
policies are not helping refugees. Am ashamed of being European and | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
seeing how Europe is treating these people. We hear numerous times about | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
people getting tortured, girls are getting macerated and people being | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
sold into slavery. You see the people back home basically talking | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
about, we are bringing the terrace to Europe. There have been attacks | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
that have been linked to refugees. Are you worried that the | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
governments, the authorities in Europe are actually on only going to | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
become tougher on how they deal with this problem? They probably are, | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
absolutely, that is worrisome. I'm terrified it will be tougher because | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
right now people are suffering and they are suffering a lot. Some are | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
looking to Europe at the place really can build a better life. | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
Europe is obviously a place that a lot of people are going to at the | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
moment. Do you think it has room for everyone? I believe in Greece. | :19:56. | :20:05. | |
Everybody is not the same. I believe my luck will shame. But the medical | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
staff say it clear to them that many who have come through Libya have | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
suffered. There are some very harrowing tales of abuse that has | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
happened, people who have been forcibly imprisoned as well and they | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
carry many injuries than that. Whatever they are leaving behind, | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
rescue is a moment of relief. A time to savour. This journey is only the | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
start. Europe will bring its own challenges. | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
Now for a look at some of the day's other news. | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
Fierce clashes are continuing between government forces and rebels | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
on the southern outskirts of the Syrian city of Aleppo. | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
Activists say that pro-government forces backed by Russian airpower | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
have regained ground after a major rebel offensive was | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
More armed officers are to be deployed on the streets of London | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
in response to a series of recent violent attacks in Europe. | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
The Metropolitan Police force has already said it's increasing | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
the number of officers carrying firearms by 600 | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
Nationally the threat level hasn't changed and remains at severe. | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
A police officer who worked on Washington DC's metro system, | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
has been charged with attempting to provide support to | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
It's claimed that 36-year-old Nicholas Young bought nearly 250 | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
dollars worth of credits for mobile messaging accounts used | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
South Africans have voted in local elections, seen as a test | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
of the popularity of the governing African National Congress | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
Opinion polls suggest the ANC is facing a strong challenge - | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
for the first time since the end of apartheid - | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
in the key urban centres of Pretoria, Johannesburg | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
Here's our correspondent Karen Allen. | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
This is one of the thousands of times for millions of South Africans | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
have been casting their vote in an election widely seen as a referendum | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
on the ANC and of the leadership of President Jacob Zuma. This is one of | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
the townships where we have seen protest. These are local Government | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
elections and the things that matter to people I did provision of | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
housing, education and jobs. But these elections could have national | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
implications if the ANC sees its power erode and some key strategic | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
areas. If that is the case and it has been in power for more than two | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
decades, serious questions could be asked about his leadership. This is | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
where the people's voice gets heard. 26 million South Africans are | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
eligible to vote in an election for the opposition are threatening to | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
inflict severe damage on the status quo. The big question is whether | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
they can garner sufficient support. 22 years after black South Africans | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
won the right to vote, one of the key things to look out for might | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
also be voter turnout with some disgruntled voters are abstaining | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
altogether. Rather than switching sides. At least 22 people and | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
At least 22 people are missing after a highway bridge connecting | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
the city of Mumbai with the beach resort state of Goa | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
Officials said two buses carrying passengers plunged into | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
a flooded river as the bridge came down early on Wednesday. | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
Justin Rowlatt reports from the site of the collapse | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
Raging floodwaters tore down a huge section of the bridge on the main | :23:36. | :23:47. | |
road between Goa and Mumbai. Rescue workers say the buses were on this | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
bridge when it crashed down into the flood waters early on Wednesday | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
morning. They believe a number of cars will also swept into the | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
torrent and feared the death toll could exceed 13. Specialist search | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
teams including expert divers arrived early this morning but | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
haven't yet found any trace of the missing people or their vehicles. | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
The water is so strong it could carry the wreckage for males. They | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
are not expecting to find any survivors. TRANSLATION: We cannot | :24:18. | :24:26. | |
trace those buses. They haven't reached their destination. We think | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
a total of 22 people were on the buses. This is the latest tragedy in | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
a particularly strong monsoon season in South Asia. More than a .5 | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
million have been affected and more than 200 killed as floods have hit | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
large parts of India, Bangladesh and Nepal. It is part of what appears to | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
be a pattern of increasingly brittle weather. India recorded its highest | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
ever temperature the summer, more than 50 Celsius. It was the climax | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
of two years of drought, which left 300 million people facing water | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
shortages in India alone. This dramatic weather is pushing the | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
region's often crumbling infrastructure to its limit. | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
Experts warn that it will take vast investment to avoid tragedies like | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
this, if the pattern of extreme weather continues. And today, it is | :25:31. | :25:32. | |
still raining. A passenger plane coming from India | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
has made an emergency landing at the Middle East's | :25:38. | :25:46. | |
busiest airport. All 300 people on board | :25:47. | :25:47. | |
have escaped unharmed but a firefighter was killed | :25:48. | :25:49. | |
while trying to put off the flames. The incident happened at the | :25:50. | :26:01. | |
International Airport in Dubai the plane coming in from southern India. | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
Some areas enjoyed a half decent day through Wednesday but for the | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
greater part of Scotland and Northern Ireland, it wasn't bad at | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
all. Thursday quieter for many with sunny spells around and a scattering | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
of showers again. This was the culprit for the | :26:24. | :26:25. |