:00:07. > :00:16.Thousands of government supporters march in the Venezuelan capital,
:00:17. > :00:21.Caracas, as the new constitutional assembly takes office.
:00:22. > :00:25.America's Attorney General condemns what he calls the staggering level
:00:26. > :00:26.of unauthorised access to classified
:00:27. > :00:35.We will investigate and seek to bring criminals to justice.
:00:36. > :00:39.We will not allow rogue anonymous sources...
:00:40. > :00:41.with security clearances to sell out our country.
:00:42. > :00:45.Health warnings across Europe as some countries experience
:00:46. > :00:55.Neymar, the world's most expensive footballer,
:00:56. > :01:16.Hello, and welcome to BBC World News Today.
:01:17. > :01:21.Venezuela's new Constituent Assembly has been sworn in.
:01:22. > :01:25.Their role - as controversially called for by President
:01:26. > :01:27.Nicolas Maduro - is to re-write the existing constitution.
:01:28. > :01:29.The elected representatives - more than 500 of them,
:01:30. > :01:32.almost all of them allies of the President -
:01:33. > :01:41.gathered in the parliament building for the ceremony in Caracas.
:01:42. > :01:43.While, outside, confrontations between police and anti-government
:01:44. > :01:47.Opposition leaders, and leaders internationally,
:01:48. > :01:51.have condemned the Venezuelan government's plan as an attempt
:01:52. > :01:59.BBC Monitoring's Luis Fajardo is following events from Miami.
:02:00. > :02:11.He told me the swearing in of the new assembly was very symbolic.
:02:12. > :02:17.When the leaders walked into the building carrying the portrait of
:02:18. > :02:20.Hugo Chavez, the father of the Revolution, in the same building
:02:21. > :02:23.that will now hold the pro-government assembly has been the
:02:24. > :02:27.house of the National Assembly which has been controlled by the
:02:28. > :02:30.opposition and when they took over the National Assembly a couple of
:02:31. > :02:36.years ago, they made a big deal of removing this portrait of Hugo
:02:37. > :02:40.Chavez. Really set the symbolic effect of showing the pro-government
:02:41. > :02:43.faction taking over one of the last introduced zero bastions of the
:02:44. > :02:47.opposition in Venezuela right now. There seems to be some confusion
:02:48. > :02:52.about what happens next in terms of the need for a referendum. Explain
:02:53. > :02:58.this process to us. Actually that is one of the big issues that no one
:02:59. > :03:01.knows what happens next, because the Venezuelan participant assembly has
:03:02. > :03:04.such a degree of power and autonomy they could basically rule that they
:03:05. > :03:09.would not need any further endorsement by any kind of
:03:10. > :03:12.referendum. In theory they could even replace a president. One of the
:03:13. > :03:16.issues of great uncertainty is the amount of power that is going to be
:03:17. > :03:20.controlled by the constituent assembly. Of course the leaders of
:03:21. > :03:24.the assembly who have just been named are closely associated with
:03:25. > :03:28.President Nicolas Maduro, seen as close allies of this, but there are
:03:29. > :03:31.still a strong degree of uncertainty and that was one of the things the
:03:32. > :03:38.opposition was complaining about, the fact that this is an enormous
:03:39. > :03:42.amount of power that is being given to a new constituent assembly that
:03:43. > :03:44.is going to rewrite a lot of the constitutional framework in
:03:45. > :03:49.Venezuela and the opposition is afraid that they will move against
:03:50. > :03:57.the last bastions of institutional opposition in Venezuela. We can
:03:58. > :04:02.cross now to Washington to talk to the co-director of the Centre for
:04:03. > :04:05.economic and policy research and an expert on the politics and economy
:04:06. > :04:10.of Venezuela. Thank you for joining us. There has been international
:04:11. > :04:14.condemnation and direct reaction as well. We are starting to see the
:04:15. > :04:21.first signs of sanctions against Venezuela and President Maduro. Yes,
:04:22. > :04:31.I think sanctions from the US will further polarise the situation. The
:04:32. > :04:35.problem that the US has is regime change like you had in Iraq and
:04:36. > :04:40.Syria and Afghanistan and Libya and this really needs, it has led to
:04:41. > :04:44.disaster and will else and if they keep going in this direction it
:04:45. > :04:50.could push the country into civil war. It is a polarise country. What
:04:51. > :04:54.they really need is negotiations like they had in the fall of last
:04:55. > :05:03.year, and something that leads to elections, of course, as President
:05:04. > :05:06.Maduro has promised, scheduled presidential elections and that is
:05:07. > :05:13.what they need and instead the US and its allies, including Europe,
:05:14. > :05:19.and US allies in Latin America, who are on board with the regime change
:05:20. > :05:22.strategy. Those are the ones that support what the United States, the
:05:23. > :05:27.drug Administration is doing and those sanctions are already taking
:05:28. > :05:32.effect, having an enormous negative impact. The black market value of
:05:33. > :05:37.the currency crashed by 40%, the fastest I have seen it falling in 15
:05:38. > :05:40.years. Some of these sanctions on individuals will deprive the
:05:41. > :05:49.government of most of its foreign exchange. One of the officials of
:05:50. > :05:56.the order companies is, they cannot sign contracts. This is already a
:05:57. > :06:01.serious attempt to destroy the economy and overthrow the
:06:02. > :06:07.government. The Secretary of State said it. He said, we are trying to
:06:08. > :06:09.force President Maduro to design -- resign, and look at policy options
:06:10. > :06:18.that will get rid of this government. Is President Maduro good
:06:19. > :06:24.for Venezuela? How does the present Venezuela defer to the vision
:06:25. > :06:28.previously? That is why they have elections, they have a president
:06:29. > :06:31.elected for the next year, people can vote him out of office if they
:06:32. > :06:36.want to do so like they voted him in. The point that the vast majority
:06:37. > :06:41.of the 7 billion people on the planet would agree with is that a
:06:42. > :06:44.foreign government does not have the right to overthrow the elected
:06:45. > :06:50.government of another country. That is what most people believe what the
:06:51. > :06:55.Trump administration doesn't believe in that. There have been suggestions
:06:56. > :06:59.that there was widespread electoral fraud in the selection. Where there
:07:00. > :07:06.observers on the ground in Venezuela at the time of the election on
:07:07. > :07:13.Sunday? There were some observers. You know, first of all, I don't know
:07:14. > :07:17.that you can really call it fraud if they inflated the turnout. This was
:07:18. > :07:21.not a competitive election between the government and the opposition.
:07:22. > :07:25.The opposition didn't participate. If they did do that then it is
:07:26. > :07:29.terrible for their credibility. I am not sure that they did. They have
:07:30. > :07:35.posted all the numbers for the individual races and they do seem to
:07:36. > :07:39.add up to about what the government claimed. It would be very hard to
:07:40. > :07:43.fix this. So we don't really know what the totals are, but even if it
:07:44. > :07:51.did happen, that is not the same thing as stealing an election from
:07:52. > :07:55.your rival power, and that is not justify it at all. It would be
:07:56. > :07:58.terrible if those numbers were inflated, but it doesn't affect
:07:59. > :08:04.relations between the government and the opposition. I'm not defending
:08:05. > :08:13.what the governments do. I wasn't in favour of this assembly, either. The
:08:14. > :08:20.point is that we need calm voices, people are calling for dialogue and
:08:21. > :08:24.negotiation, people within the opposition do favour that but they
:08:25. > :08:29.are not in the ascendancy right now. Right now it is the hardliners, the
:08:30. > :08:34.ones who want regime change by any means, and Lopez himself, by the
:08:35. > :08:41.way, he was arrested because he called on a video for the military
:08:42. > :08:46.to rebel and to stop providing security for President Maduro
:08:47. > :08:52.himself. We're going to have to stop you there, sorry about that, thank
:08:53. > :08:57.you very much. Let's take you to Caracas. We can show you this scene
:08:58. > :09:01.live now. This is at the new assembly. Unfortunately, we haven't
:09:02. > :09:04.got those scenes, but there are reports of some protests that have
:09:05. > :09:16.been taking place by opposition supporters.
:09:17. > :09:24.Many of the leaks have been about the Trump campaign and their alleged
:09:25. > :09:25.links to Russia. The FBI chief investigator into this has stepped
:09:26. > :09:28.up his inquiry. Donald Trump is never happier
:09:29. > :09:42.than when is out of Washington. An adoring crowd in West Virginia,
:09:43. > :09:46.the problems of Russia, collusion, special counsel and grand juries
:09:47. > :09:48.are a long way from The Russia story is
:09:49. > :09:57.a total fabrication. It is just an excuse
:09:58. > :10:00.for the greatest loss in the history of American politics.
:10:01. > :10:03.That is all it is. He didn't mention the special
:10:04. > :10:06.counsel by name but had him I just hope the final determination
:10:07. > :10:15.is a truly honest one. The grand jury is made up of members
:10:16. > :10:19.of the public meeting behind closed They can force people to testify
:10:20. > :10:25.or hand over evidence. They will decide whether
:10:26. > :10:27.the material is strong enough Crucially, they don't decide
:10:28. > :10:32.if a potential defendant is innocent or guilty.
:10:33. > :10:37.That is done by a conventional jury. Of course, it may be that the grand
:10:38. > :10:42.jury meeting at this courthouse will come to the conclusion
:10:43. > :10:44.that the evidence doesn't add up to much and there's no
:10:45. > :10:50.need further action. The fact that a grand jury has been
:10:51. > :10:53.called is a sign that this and will last a good
:10:54. > :11:04.deal longer yet. The other worry for
:11:05. > :11:10.the Trump entourage scale of the enquiry
:11:11. > :11:12.will spread as well. Another is the endless
:11:13. > :11:14.damaging and revealing leaks Today, the Attorney General
:11:15. > :11:21.revealed a new crackdown. This nation must put
:11:22. > :11:28.an end to these leaks. We will not allow rogue sources
:11:29. > :11:38.to sell out our country. The president visited the emergency
:11:39. > :11:40.centre for hurricans. With this grand jury,
:11:41. > :11:43.one could soon be barrelling Let's take a look at some of
:11:44. > :11:51.the other stories making the news. The US economy has seen strong jobs
:11:52. > :11:54.growth thanks to a wave of hiring President Trump has welcomed
:11:55. > :12:02.the news, tweeting... Excellent jobs numbers
:12:03. > :12:04.just released - South Korea's spy agency has
:12:05. > :12:09.admitted it tried to manipulate the result of the 2012 presidential
:12:10. > :12:12.election to ensure Park Geun-hye did beat
:12:13. > :12:18.liberal Moon Jae-in, but she is now facing trial
:12:19. > :12:21.for corruption and abuse of power. Researchers warn that half
:12:22. > :12:27.of India's nearly 800 languages Experts says children
:12:28. > :12:32.from linguistic minorities or indigenous communities aren't
:12:33. > :12:35.educated in their mother tongue, and there's little incentive
:12:36. > :12:38.for following generations Parts of southern Europe
:12:39. > :12:52.are suffering from the hottest sustained heatwave for more
:12:53. > :12:54.than a decade. Temperatures have reached 45 degrees
:12:55. > :12:57.Celsius in some parts of Italy and the Balkans and several
:12:58. > :13:03.countries have issued Several countries have issued
:13:04. > :13:09.Vadillo health warnings and some regions are contending with drought
:13:10. > :13:12.and forest fires. Sophie Long reports. Planes putting out while
:13:13. > :13:17.files in Corsica. Last week the north of the Mediterranean island
:13:18. > :13:22.burned, and now it is the turn of the cell. The extreme heat has
:13:23. > :13:28.sparked wild fires across Europe. Swathes of the South of France are
:13:29. > :13:32.scorched. Now in Hungary, too. Here, hundreds of hectares of grasslands
:13:33. > :13:39.burnt. Firefighters battled to put out planes before -- flames before
:13:40. > :13:43.they spread to urban areas. Italy is experiencing its worst drought in 60
:13:44. > :13:46.years. Thousands of tourists travel there every year in search of
:13:47. > :13:51.sunshine but the intense heat means people are desperately searching for
:13:52. > :13:56.shade. We find some nice weather this year but it is not as hot,
:13:57. > :14:01.nowhere near, making sure that we just drink lots of water. It is
:14:02. > :14:06.fantastic having the water fountains around Rome. Across the country 26
:14:07. > :14:17.major towns and cities are on heat alert. Hospital admissions have
:14:18. > :14:20.increased by 15%. The prolonged drought has affected the agriculture
:14:21. > :14:23.industry to the tune of billions with 11 regions facing critical
:14:24. > :14:29.water shortages. All of crops are 50% lower than normal. It's a silly
:14:30. > :14:34.beaches are quieter than usual, as people follow the lead of the locals
:14:35. > :14:38.and stay indoors. Others do what they can to protect themselves and
:14:39. > :14:50.keep cool, as forecasters see no respite in the coming days.
:14:51. > :14:59.Still to come we talk to the National Geographic photograph --
:15:00. > :15:01.photographer of the year took this explosive shot of a volcano in
:15:02. > :16:09.Mexico. Thousands of Venezuelan government
:16:10. > :16:17.supporters have attended the swearing-in of the controversial
:16:18. > :16:22.new constituent assembly as protesters opposed
:16:23. > :16:24.to it confront police. The US Attorney General,
:16:25. > :16:26.Jeff Sessions, has announced a tougher approach towards dealing
:16:27. > :16:28.with leaks of classified government information,
:16:29. > :16:44.saying he won't hesitate A British computer expert who
:16:45. > :16:49.stopped the worldwide cyber attack has been arrested by the FBI. Marcus
:16:50. > :16:55.Hutchins is accused of creating software to steal bank details. The
:16:56. > :17:00.charge is not related to the piece of malware he disarmed in May after
:17:01. > :17:07.it affected tens of thousands of computers in 150 countries. Marcus
:17:08. > :17:12.Hutchins was arrested in Las Vegas after spending a week partying in
:17:13. > :17:15.the desert city. He had been attending a cyber security
:17:16. > :17:18.conference. He was detained minutes before he was due to board a flight
:17:19. > :17:23.home at Las Vegas International Airport. In the cyber security
:17:24. > :17:31.industry he is regarded as something of a folk hero for his role in
:17:32. > :17:36.stopping the so-called Wannacry virus which hit the NHS in May
:17:37. > :17:39.before spreading to 150 countries. But he is accused in an indictment
:17:40. > :17:45.laid down in the US state of Wisconsin of creating software which
:17:46. > :17:53.was designed, the prosecutors say, to harvest online banking details
:17:54. > :17:57.and credit card data. The software is called Chronos and was used in a
:17:58. > :18:02.number of countries including France, the UK, the US and Canada.
:18:03. > :18:07.He is due to appear in court in Las Vegas. He has some support within
:18:08. > :18:10.the cyber Security industry and from his mother Janet Hutchins, who said
:18:11. > :18:17.he spent an enormous amount of his time trying to combat these kind of
:18:18. > :18:23.problems, to improve security on the web, and she says the charges
:18:24. > :18:27.against him are outrageous. Time for the sport with Will Bury. Starting
:18:28. > :18:30.with the latest from the World Athletics Championships in London.
:18:31. > :18:33.Usain Bolt making his final appearance on the global stage back
:18:34. > :18:40.at the stadium where he won those gold medals five years ago at London
:18:41. > :18:43.2012. He has been in action in the 100 metres eats ahead of the
:18:44. > :18:48.semifinal tomorrow. He won his heat with a time of 10.0 seconds, but
:18:49. > :18:54.described his performance as a very bad, and he is unhappy with the
:18:55. > :18:57.starting blocks. Not at his best, but you Usain Bolt, importantly,
:18:58. > :19:03.into the semifinals of the World Athletics Championships. Mo Farah
:19:04. > :19:07.has fond memories of the stadium, he won gold in the 5000 metres and
:19:08. > :19:13.10,000 metres four years ago, and is about a run in the next couple of
:19:14. > :19:18.minutes in the 10,000 metres final. 25 laps, it starts at 9:20pm UK
:19:19. > :19:24.time. Also tonight a big upset in the long jump. The Olympic champion
:19:25. > :19:29.Jeff Henderson of the US able not be coming back to the final. He could
:19:30. > :19:35.only manage a jump of 7.74 metres. That was in his final jump. Not
:19:36. > :19:41.enough to make the cut tomorrow. He's not a happy man. There has been
:19:42. > :19:47.abuzz in Paris because of that man, the world record signing, Neymar,
:19:48. > :19:51.for PSG, paraded in the city, and hundreds queueing at the club shop
:19:52. > :19:55.to buy shirts with his name on the back. He gave his only British media
:19:56. > :20:01.interview to our correspondent Richard Conway, and he told him that
:20:02. > :20:04.it was a wrench to leave Barcelona. TRANSLATION: The decision was
:20:05. > :20:10.difficult to take. During the month I was thinking about all this. But
:20:11. > :20:16.then my heart told me that I had to follow it. And I took the decision
:20:17. > :20:21.and I am very happy to be here. There has been so much said about
:20:22. > :20:24.this transfer this week. The world is talking about it, and also about
:20:25. > :20:30.the amount of money involved, the huge transfer the. Lots of people
:20:31. > :20:34.saying that perhaps you are doing this for the money, that that is
:20:35. > :20:38.your motivation. What do you say to that?
:20:39. > :20:46.TRANSLATION: I have nothing to say to those people. If people think
:20:47. > :20:49.that way, it is because they do not know me, they do not know my life
:20:50. > :20:54.and I regret that they think that way. I did not come over here for
:20:55. > :21:02.the money. I came here for the motivation of the challenge. You are
:21:03. > :21:10.morally comfortable with this. You are a religious man?
:21:11. > :21:16.TRANSLATION: I could not be unhappy. How could I be? In the final day of
:21:17. > :21:23.the test between England and South Africa there were half centuries for
:21:24. > :21:31.Joe Root and Ben Stokes. They faced some disciplined South African
:21:32. > :21:37.bowling. England were 216 to six at the close. You always want for
:21:38. > :21:42.hundred at any Test match and having lost Ben Stokes at the close, if we
:21:43. > :21:47.can get 350 we would be taking that right now. 350 plus, we'll was won
:21:48. > :21:56.to try to get as close to 400 as possible. Maybe that last wicket
:21:57. > :22:02.might knock a few for that. A round of 60 included an eagle. She is 11
:22:03. > :22:08.under par at the halfway stage, two shots clear of the field. The US
:22:09. > :22:11.open champion Stan Wawrinka will not be defending his title. He needs an
:22:12. > :22:15.operation on his knee and that will keep him out of the rest of the
:22:16. > :22:18.season. He said it was the only solution to make sure that he could
:22:19. > :22:30.continue to compete at the top level. Mo Farah is underway, still
:22:31. > :22:35.24 and a bit laps to go! The results of the National Geographic travel
:22:36. > :22:41.photographer competition are in. 15,000 voters were entered from more
:22:42. > :22:43.than 30 countries. It is a coveted title for photographers, which can
:22:44. > :22:48.catapult them into international photography stardom. The grand prize
:22:49. > :22:56.this year went to an incredible shot of a lightning strike on the
:22:57. > :22:57.erupting volcano on Mexico's West Coast. Let's take a look at the
:22:58. > :24:38.winners' list. Aren't they beautiful? According to
:24:39. > :24:45.the photographer who took the winning photographer, taking a
:24:46. > :24:51.picture like his takes a lot of patience. He has photographed the
:24:52. > :24:55.volcano over 300,000 times over the years. A lot of patience. I have 15
:24:56. > :25:08.years taking photos of the big volcano, and this was from 2015, in
:25:09. > :25:11.December. If you want to have a good picture of a volcano, you have to
:25:12. > :25:20.analyse all the time what the volcano is doing so in December, I
:25:21. > :25:24.was 20 nights outside of my home, just trying to get a good picture,
:25:25. > :25:32.but I didn't know that I was going to get this kind of picture. It is a
:25:33. > :25:42.magical moment, because it has a big lightning and this lightning makes
:25:43. > :25:47.the whole scenario bright. It is an amazing picture. And of course I am
:25:48. > :25:56.very happy, as a Mexican, as a Latin American photographer, because it is
:25:57. > :26:02.a strange kind of picture. It is not very common to take pictures of
:26:03. > :26:05.lightning. That's wonderful. Stay with us, more coming up.