:00:00. > :00:13.Free to walk away - the civilians of Manbij in northern
:00:14. > :00:23.Syria celebrate as so-called Islamic State is forced out of the town.
:00:24. > :00:29.I'm live at the Olympics with the news of the ban of the only track
:00:30. > :00:32.and field competitor from Russia. A state of emergency in the US state
:00:33. > :00:35.of Louisiana as heavy rains cause what's been described
:00:36. > :00:37.as "unprecedented" flooding. He was the actor inside one
:00:38. > :00:40.of the world most famous Hundreds of residents
:00:41. > :01:07.of the northern Syrian town of Manbij who were used as human
:01:08. > :01:11.shields by Islamic State There have been scenes of joy
:01:12. > :01:17.and relief as they celebrated The Syrian Democratic Forces,
:01:18. > :01:21.a broad alliance of fighters who are backed by the US,
:01:22. > :01:24.captured Manbij on Friday of Manbij, celebrations at the end
:01:25. > :01:40.of Islamic State rule. She praised the Kurdish
:01:41. > :01:44.and Arab forces. She says, may God salute you,
:01:45. > :01:52.you are heroes. All around in the ruins of Manbij
:01:53. > :01:55.there was huge relief. For many months, the militants laid
:01:56. > :01:58.down rules on every aspect of life. Now the beards that were compulsory
:01:59. > :02:02.could come off. Some women even burned the veils
:02:03. > :02:06.they have been compelled to wear. And stories of the harsh realities
:02:07. > :02:12.of IS rule began to emerge. This man said the militants
:02:13. > :02:15.cut his hand off after accusing him This roundabout is where executions
:02:16. > :02:22.were carried out. Severed heads used to be left
:02:23. > :02:26.hanging here for days. The Kurdish and Arab fighters
:02:27. > :02:29.began their offensive more They had help from US
:02:30. > :02:35.Special Forces on the ground, and help from the American-led
:02:36. > :02:41.coalition in air. There were weeks of
:02:42. > :02:43.fierce street fighting. Manbij was hugely important,
:02:44. > :02:48.it straddles a crucial supply route The loss of Manbij for IS is
:02:49. > :02:57.a major blow. Now the people of this battered
:02:58. > :03:00.place have a chance to rebuild With me now is Fawaz Gerges,
:03:01. > :03:12.Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics
:03:13. > :03:23.and author of ISIS A History. Firstly, how big of
:03:24. > :03:40.a blow does the loss There is a wager context of the
:03:41. > :03:46.Civil War. It is a major setback for them. They are bleeding, they are
:03:47. > :03:52.losing. This is not the first city they have lost. The idea is the
:03:53. > :03:59.American coalition organised the local forces. It is a caution made
:04:00. > :04:02.up of cards and other fighters. The idea is to squeeze them and
:04:03. > :04:08.tightened the noose. To a select them and call for the kill. This is
:04:09. > :04:16.the beginning of the end. Most of the reports talk about the city
:04:17. > :04:23.about ending their access to the world, it is not true. They have two
:04:24. > :04:31.major cities on the order. They are as important. The fake goes on. It
:04:32. > :04:35.is a long, complex fate. The fault of the city represent a major
:04:36. > :04:42.setback because it as an operational centre for them to send -- plan and
:04:43. > :04:51.carry out attacks on Turkey and elsewhere. Is it possible to beat
:04:52. > :04:56.them because they just move on to another area. Even if you could win
:04:57. > :05:01.against them, you have people fighting against President Assad.
:05:02. > :05:07.You are asking to important questions. One of the lessons we
:05:08. > :05:13.have learned is that this is not a house of glass that is collapsing
:05:14. > :05:20.overnight. It has taken Arab fighters 78 days to take over the
:05:21. > :05:25.city, more than 600 American air strikes. The American basically
:05:26. > :05:30.carried out 700 air strikes. The question is, yes, you captured the
:05:31. > :05:33.city at what cost? Not to mention hundreds of fighters have been held
:05:34. > :05:39.and hundreds of civilians and the fight goes on. The second question,
:05:40. > :05:44.you need a bigger, more complex fate within Syria between the Assad
:05:45. > :05:50.regime and the previous coalition forces. This is costly and long,
:05:51. > :06:00.more than five years, 300,000 killed and on and on. We believe that the
:06:01. > :06:05.head of Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been killed in the
:06:06. > :06:18.drawn straight. How much of the -- difference will that make? This is
:06:19. > :06:28.not the first time that a leader of Isis has been killed. Every time he
:06:29. > :06:35.Americans say that this will disrupt their operations and the operations
:06:36. > :06:40.continue. More than the killing, the internal fighting with in
:06:41. > :06:44.Afghanistan between Isis and the Caliban and Al-Qaeda, this internal
:06:45. > :06:53.fate would do more damage to them than the American killing. Thank you
:06:54. > :06:57.for your time. Let's get all the latest
:06:58. > :07:12.results from Rio on Day 8 Let's start with this banning of the
:07:13. > :07:19.last Russian to be competing in athletics. Tell us about that.
:07:20. > :07:26.As we know there has been so much discussion of the doping bans here
:07:27. > :07:31.and Russia, or the track and field team had a blanket ban because of
:07:32. > :07:35.the allegations that there was a state sponsored doping scheme in the
:07:36. > :07:45.country. One of the athletes had managed to be cleared but after more
:07:46. > :07:47.evidence that there was a new report with more evidence against her, she
:07:48. > :08:08.has been suspended as well. Says that she will appeal. She has
:08:09. > :08:11.now been suspended. I am speaking to you from the Olympic Stadium where
:08:12. > :08:16.we have seen all the big names of the track and field and earlier
:08:17. > :08:33.today, the highlight was the first appearance of using bolt. -- Usain
:08:34. > :08:36.Bolt. She had his first sheet and he managed a time of ten point 07
:08:37. > :08:56.seconds. -- 10.07 seconds. Are doing here
:08:57. > :09:01.believes that was not his best to go at it and we will see his best
:09:02. > :09:07.performance today when the medal is up for grabs. She will be here to
:09:08. > :09:12.get his third gold in the Olympics. There has been lots of action here,
:09:13. > :09:23.a bit further away from the Olympic Stadium. The day started off as hot
:09:24. > :09:33.and sunny day. We had some very remarkable races. Lots of drama. A
:09:34. > :09:36.very dramatic finish with New Zealand and cutaway shirt
:09:37. > :09:40.distributing -- disputing that they came in at exactly the same time and
:09:41. > :09:42.the results had to be called by examining the photo of the initial
:09:43. > :09:58.line. The women's eight got silver, the
:09:59. > :10:04.first time they had an Olympic medal. That was celebrated as well.
:10:05. > :10:08.We have seen a lot of grabbing competitions elsewhere, with the
:10:09. > :10:20.tennis round is underway as well and right now there is the gripping much
:10:21. > :10:27.going on. Whoever wins this match will have to face Andy Murray. She
:10:28. > :10:36.made it to the final earlier today so she has at least a cold or a
:10:37. > :10:39.silver in his pocket. I think it is also interesting to mention that it
:10:40. > :10:46.is not just about who is winning. Some of the highlights from today
:10:47. > :10:53.here in the Olympic Stadium, there was a remarkable moment when when
:10:54. > :10:59.the Ethiopian athlete lost her shoe in the middle of the 3000 metres
:11:00. > :11:04.steeplechase. She just kept going. She threw away her shoes and socks
:11:05. > :11:09.and she was cheered by the clouds. She did not manage to qualify and
:11:10. > :11:10.call ahead in the race, but it was one of the memorable moments that
:11:11. > :11:22.will mark the games. And now a look at the medals
:11:23. > :11:31.table on day 8 so far. The United States is still
:11:32. > :11:34.in the lead with 21 golds. China is in second place still,
:11:35. > :11:37.and Great Britain is in third, Hundreds of people have been rescued
:11:38. > :11:50.in the US state of Louisiana where at least two people have died
:11:51. > :11:52.in severe floods The governor has declared a state
:11:53. > :11:56.of emergency as authorities there Chris Fawkes from the BBC
:11:57. > :12:07.Weather Centre gave us more details. It is staggering. It is the far
:12:08. > :12:14.south of the United States and the state of the -- Louisiana has been
:12:15. > :12:18.worst hit. We can see some astonishing pictures, actually, of
:12:19. > :12:21.the flood waters near covering fields and we have seen some pretty
:12:22. > :12:35.big floods attacking some of the roads. It is no surprise that." On
:12:36. > :12:38.the comedy had the wettest August day on record. That has led to these
:12:39. > :12:45.plodding pictures that we had just been seeing. Essentially, if we look
:12:46. > :12:50.at the satellite picture, an area of low pressure has moved away from
:12:51. > :12:53.Florida towards Louisiana and it has become slow-moving and centred
:12:54. > :12:58.across that state itself. The only real difference to this and a
:12:59. > :13:05.tropical storm is that the winds are not very strong, but make no mistake
:13:06. > :13:07.about it, the amount of moisture is very similar to a tropical storm and
:13:08. > :13:09.it is just not moving. Seven people including a young child
:13:10. > :13:12.have been injured in Switzerland, when a man attacked passengers
:13:13. > :13:14.on a train. A 27-year-old Swiss national
:13:15. > :13:16.is said to have started a fire on board using flammable
:13:17. > :13:19.liquid, before stabbing The incident occurred near Salez
:13:20. > :13:32.in the canton of Snt Gallen. There's no indication yet
:13:33. > :13:35.as to a motive for the attack. Sweden's youngest-ever government
:13:36. > :13:36.minister has resigned after being caught driving over
:13:37. > :13:38.the alcoholic limit. 29-year-old Aida
:13:39. > :13:40.Hadzialic was minister for higher education
:13:41. > :13:43.and was the country's first Muslim In an emotional statement,
:13:44. > :13:52.she described the incident as "the greatest mistake
:13:53. > :14:10.of my life". Thousands of Venezuelans have been
:14:11. > :14:12.crossing into neighbouring CoLOMbia to buy supplies after the border
:14:13. > :14:21.was officially re-opened. Venezuela had closed the frontier
:14:22. > :14:23.a year ago citing security reasons. The country is experiencing a severe
:14:24. > :14:25.economic crisis and suffers shortages of many basic
:14:26. > :14:27.foods and medicines. The Venezuelan president
:14:28. > :14:29.Maduro said he wanted a 'new beginning in economic
:14:30. > :14:31.and commercial relations' Our correspondent Natalio Cosoy
:14:32. > :14:45.in Colombia has been monitoring After both presidents decided that
:14:46. > :14:48.they would open the border for pedestrians, on this first day, it
:14:49. > :14:53.has been open for about seven hours and already the authorities are
:14:54. > :14:58.saying that some 30,000 people have crossed from Dennis Wheeler into
:14:59. > :15:06.Colombia, mainly through the five places on the border that have been
:15:07. > :15:11.opened. They have mainly commented: the to buy basic food, race, flour,
:15:12. > :15:13.oil and medicines. These are the sort of things that are really hard
:15:14. > :15:16.to find currently. Leicester City
:15:17. > :15:34.begin their defence Free to walk away, the civilians
:15:35. > :16:42.of Manbij in northern Syria celebrate as so-called Islamic State
:16:43. > :16:44.is forced out of the town. The governing body for world
:16:45. > :16:47.athletics bans the only Russian track and field athlete
:16:48. > :16:49.at the Rio Olympics, The father and first husband
:16:50. > :17:03.of a British woman who was killed in Pakistan have appeared
:17:04. > :17:07.in court in shackles. They were arrested on suspicion
:17:08. > :17:10.of murdering Samia Shaid, a beautician from Northern England,
:17:11. > :17:12.who was found strangled in a village Her second husband has
:17:13. > :17:15.described her death Shaimaa Khalil has more from
:17:16. > :17:21.Islamabad. Shackled, with their faces covered,
:17:22. > :17:25.Samia's father, Choudhry Shahid, and her ex-husband,
:17:26. > :17:27.Mohammed Shakeel, were they kept their identities
:17:28. > :17:38.hidden for safety. Police say Samia died
:17:39. > :17:42.of asphyxiation. Her ex-husband, who is also her
:17:43. > :17:46.cousin, is the prime suspect. Her father is now being probed
:17:47. > :17:49.as an accessory to her murder. The media were not allowed in,
:17:50. > :17:54.but the hearing did not last long. Shakeel and Shahid were brought to
:17:55. > :17:59.the this court room, and the hearing could not have lasted
:18:00. > :18:01.more than two minutes, The judge remanded them in custody
:18:02. > :18:05.for four days while the Samia was married to her
:18:06. > :18:12.cousin in Pakistan. She then travelled to the UK,
:18:13. > :18:15.filed for divorce, and got married to her second husband,
:18:16. > :18:17.Mukhtar Kazam, in Leeds, Mukhtar claims that her family
:18:18. > :18:21.killed her for marrying The police say they have not yet
:18:22. > :18:26.determined the motive. In July, Samia travelled to Pandori,
:18:27. > :18:30.a small village in Punjab, Samia also visited one
:18:31. > :18:38.of her friends when she She did not want to be filmed
:18:39. > :18:43.or for her name to be mentioned. What was Samia like
:18:44. > :18:46.the last time you saw her? As Samia's father and ex-husband
:18:47. > :19:09.left court, investigations continue. Police have denied reports that
:19:10. > :19:11.Mohammed Shakeel has confessed. Both men will be questioned over
:19:12. > :19:14.the next four days before The poisonous relationship
:19:15. > :19:30.between Russia and Ukraine First Russia accused
:19:31. > :19:41.Ukraine of a plotting in Afghanistan and Pakistan has
:19:42. > :19:48.been killed a US drone. BBC's Tom Burridge sent this report
:19:49. > :20:02.from southern Ukraine. Russia are accusing Ukraine of what
:20:03. > :20:10.they see was a terrorist attack one week ago. Ukraine said the whole
:20:11. > :20:15.study was made up. The border, the Ukraine border guard are in charge
:20:16. > :20:19.of this area. The military is on high alert. We have seen evidence as
:20:20. > :20:24.we have come down from Kiev. Russia has announced that it has moved
:20:25. > :20:29.servers missile systems in to claim you. There has been other evidence
:20:30. > :20:36.that Russia has been shifting military hardware onto the peninsula
:20:37. > :21:12.and the resort of speculation about this increase in tension.
:21:13. > :21:29.Leicester City have been beaten in the first game of the new season.
:21:30. > :21:40.Norway -- the Norwegian player give them a first-half lead before
:21:41. > :21:52.Leicester plot level with a penalty. They were smarter than us. They
:21:53. > :22:11.scored on the corner and we lost the ball. Our strength is when we play
:22:12. > :22:17.as a team. After we conceded the second call, they played very well.
:22:18. > :22:21.It is always a difficult situation for football players but at the end
:22:22. > :22:25.of the day, they are professional football players playing in probably
:22:26. > :22:28.the best the leak is there. They have earned the right to be in this
:22:29. > :22:36.week and I think they enjoyed it themselves today. I think they have
:22:37. > :22:47.enjoyed themselves and the acid test is when you get a result.
:22:48. > :22:50.Pep Guardiola made a winning start as Manchester City manager
:22:51. > :22:54.Sergio Aguero gave them the lead at home to Sunderland before
:22:55. > :22:56.Jermain Defoe equalised it then took an 87th minute own goal
:22:57. > :22:58.from debutant Paddy McNair to give City a 2-1 victory.
:22:59. > :23:07.Elsewhere on the first day of the Premier League,
:23:08. > :23:16.We dominated and we needed to be quicker and the last part of the
:23:17. > :23:23.field but of course we have to improve and we're not going to leave
:23:24. > :23:25.bar that. I think today we deserved to win.
:23:26. > :23:31.Elsewhere on the first day of the Premier League,
:23:32. > :23:33.promoted Burnley lost 1-nil. at home to Swansea.
:23:34. > :23:35.Leroy Fer with the winner FA Cup runners-up Crystal Palace
:23:36. > :23:47.Everton and Tottenham drew 1-1 Middlesbrough led for almost
:23:48. > :23:53.an hour but could only draw with Stoke City,
:23:54. > :24:01.The visitors had Ben Watson sent off.
:24:02. > :24:09.The actor who played the robot R2-D2 in the Star Wars films has
:24:10. > :24:13.died at the age of 81 after a long illness.
:24:14. > :24:15.Kenny Baker, who was 1.2 metres tall, played the character
:24:16. > :24:18.in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi,
:24:19. > :24:39.as well as the three Star Wars prequels from 1999 to 2005.
:24:40. > :24:46.His nephew worked after him for the last years of his life. We really
:24:47. > :24:52.discussed Star Wars but when he did discuss it, it kept him going. She
:24:53. > :24:56.loved to go to conventions and meet everybody and it gave them that
:24:57. > :25:00.extra lease on life. It was a genuine love, and I really mean
:25:01. > :25:05.that, without going over the top, that the fans have for him and his
:25:06. > :25:18.character, because he was the one who brought him alive. The film with
:25:19. > :25:22.Terry Gilliam was one of his favourites because you could see him
:25:23. > :25:27.as an actor as a force to inside the robot. Obviously, the robot is the
:25:28. > :25:40.iconic one, but he wasn't 20 films all over. -- he was an 20 films.
:25:41. > :25:51.Signs of joy and relief as many celebrated their freedom in the
:25:52. > :25:54.streets. From me and the rest
:25:55. > :25:58.of the team, goodbye.