this is bbc news, the headlines. free at last. three americans and a kremlin critic — imprisoned in russia — arrive on us soil — part of the biggest prisoner swap deal since the cold war. myjob is to make sure that they don't get there and if they do, we get them back. i don't buy this idea that you will let these people rot in jail. russia admits that the convicted assassin, vadim krasikov, who was released from a german prison as part of a major prisoner exchange, was an fsb agent. the funeral ceremony has been held in qatar for the hamas political leader, ismail haniyeh, who was assassinated in iran on wednesday.

to the paris olympics — where team gb have won their third gold medal of the day — with showjumping champions joining top winners in trampolining and double sculls rowing. and the world's biggest annual arts festival — the edinburgh fringe — opens in the scottish capital. now with all the latest sport, here's jane dougall. a second boxer who has previously failed tests for eligibility for the women's category has won their match at the olympics. taiwan's lin yu—ting was fighting sitora turibekova of uzbekistan and won by unanimous decision. meanwhile, angela carini has told the italian media that she's sorry for not shaking the hand of algerian fighter imane khelif. their fight lasted just 46 seconds after carini pulled out saying she wanted to protect her life.

khelif was also cleared to compete in the women's boxing in paris, despite being disqualified from last year's women's world championships for failing to meet eligibility criteria. sport secretary lisa nandy said there were questions to be answered. it was incredibly uncomfortable to watch for the 46 seconds it lasted and i know there's a of concern about women competitors and about whether we are getting the balance right in notjust boxing but other sports as well. and the decision that successive governments have made are that these are complex decisions that should be made by sporting bodies. in this case i understand the biological facts are far more complicated than is being presented on social media and in some of the speculation, but as sporting bodies try to get the balance between inclusion, fairness and safety, there is a role for government to make sure they have got the guidance and framework and support to make those decisions correctly, and it is something i will be talking to sporting bodies

about over the coming weeks and months. it's been a fantastic friday for team gb, winning five medals, three of them gold. the most recent coming in the last hour in the equestrian team jumping final. the british trio of ben maher, harry charles and scott brash picked up just two time penalties to top the standings, winning gold for the first time since london 2012. in the trampoline, bryony page won team gb�*s first—ever gold in the category. she has completed her set of medals after winning silver at rio 2016 and bronze in tokyo three years ago. page went into the competition as the reigning world champion and gold medalfavourite and she delivered, with tears ofjoy at the end for the 33—year—old. two of those five medals came in the rowing, where tom george and ollie wynne—griffith won silver in the men's pairfinal, pipped at the line by the croatin pair of valent and martin sinkovic.

that was before emily craig and imogen grant who won gb�*s first gold of the day in the lightweight women's double sculls. they led for most of the way and comfortably claimed victory, adding the olympic title to back—to—back world and european wins. and the other came in the diving, the team gb pair of anthony harding and jack laugher taking bronze in the men's synchro three metre springboard final. the gold was won by the chinese pairing of long daoyi and wang zong—yuan, continuing china's domination of the sport at these games. they have taken all four gold medals available so far. away from the olympics, manchester united manager erik ten hag believes the foundations are in place for success at old trafford, following a restructure off the pitch during pre—season. since the arrival of new owners ineos and sirjim ratcliffe, there have been significant changes

to the clubs�* boardroom and coaching staff, something ten hag feels can help manchester united progress. we knew we had to change when we started the project and it's good. the new structure, the new leadership is coming in. players... new players coming in. we improve the dressing room, but of course, the structures are still there. the club has made changes and can look forward with people with great abilities and i am sure that this will give us an even better foundation and that we can attack. and that's all the sport for now. more on the olympics now and as the paris games approaches its half—way mark this weekend, let's have a look at what the atmosphere is like in the city. another is like in the city. beautiful day down here in paris another beautiful day down here in paris and we've come back to one of the fan zones in the centre of the city and we will pan away because in

the last few hours the crowds have picked up air and let us show you what we have got. these are the three centres open for the public to access across the olympic games and we have the game is set up and the crowd are fixed on that screen and the reason why is the judo. one of the reason why is the judo. one of the hometown favourites in the 78 kilos division is the world number one and has been participating in the last few minutes and is expecting to do well in the competition and we have been hearing loud cheers in the last 20 minutes for her. more than 10 million visitors are expected to come to paris across the games and we've heard constantly that olympic organisers wanted to bring the games to the people and over the last week we have been here it feels like that and there is a bus across the city —— a buzz across the city. lots of these events are down in the city themselves with plenty of places to walk around and we have seen tonnes of fans and multiple national kits and lots of colours and lots of fun displays and chanting songs and lots of flags. i want to talk about a

little bit earlier that we have the crowds they are watching the french team in the team equestrian jumping event and we had a lot of big cheers and then it went a little quiet. france took home the bronze medal and the gold went to team gb and the reason why i bring it up, if we can bring up the medal table again, it's been a pretty solid day for team gb and it pains me to say it has an australian but they have catapulted up australian but they have catapulted up the medal table and sit in third and they started the day in sixth. three gold medals in the space of the last few hours on the team jumping event we saw in the women's trampolining and earlier in the day in the rowing. it has been bronze for the divers as well, so a huge day for team gb who expect to continue to do well and i will also bring up something we are seeing on the tennis with carlos alcaraz, he is through comfortably to the final and who will face him will be decided in the coming hours. lorenzo

musetti from italy versus novak djokovic, a well—known name and plenty of hard work for him and he has won almost everything that is to win in tennis but the one thing that has eluded him is an olympic gold, so we are keeping a close watch on that and we expect him to do quite well and we could very well see a match of novak djokovic and carlos alcaraz in the final, one to watch there. ,., ., alcaraz in the final, one to watch there. h, ., ., , alcaraz in the final, one to watch there. ,., ., ., , ., .,, there. good to see the weather has im - roved there. good to see the weather has improved because _ there. good to see the weather has improved because it _ there. good to see the weather has improved because it was _ there. good to see the weather has improved because it was so - improved because it was so torrential for that opening ceremony, so that must be a relief for the organisers and it looks a lovely day. a quick word about simone biles, because you are watching and it was an extraordinary performance. watching and it was an extraordinary performance-— performance. yes, incredible, truly one of the most _ performance. yes, incredible, truly one of the most phenomenal - performance. yes, incredible, truly| one of the most phenomenal things i've ever seen. we really witnessed history last night and we know simone took some time away from the sport after she withdrew from events in the tokyo olympics so this game is feels like a moment not necessarily of redemption but we know she has always been great, but we were lucky enough to be in the

arena last night when she gave the performance and did not run away with a gold medal, she was really held to it, the silver medal by the brazilian who led for most of the rotations and really did come down to the final rotation, the floor event, but i can tell you everybody in the room was focused on that performance and she was the last performer of the day in that floor routine and everyone in that room, all spectators and journalists, all of the coaches and teams and every athlete in the competition was watching the floor routine and there were loud cheers and when she made the final pass and everyone realised what she had done, there was an almighty roar across the crowd and truly one of the most incurable thing is to witness and i should also mention that rebecca andre anderson has had injuries and this was an incredible achievement and the bronze medal when this was the all—round champion in tokyo and had some health battles of her own and has come back and she was not sitting in the bronze position until she did her own floor routine so to

say happens there's three great stories. lots more gymnastics to come in the next few weeks so in terms of those athletes, particularly simone biles, we have not seen the end of her medal haul yet. not seen the end of her medal haul et. �* . ., not seen the end of her medal haul et. �* ., not seen the end of her medal haul et.�* ., ., ,, yet. and lucky for you to witness that. yet. and lucky for you to witness that you — yet. and lucky for you to witness that- you get — yet. and lucky for you to witness that. you get all _ yet. and lucky for you to witness that. you get all the _ yet. and lucky for you to witness that. you get all the great - yet. and lucky for you to witness that. you get all the great gifts. | that. you get all the great gifts. great gigs. police in nigeria have put all security forces on red alert after protests on thursday left several people dead. thousands took to the streets across the country to protest against poor governance, corruption and the increasing cost of living in africa's most populous nation. the rights group, amnesty international says 13 people were killed by the security forces as they tried to break up the protests. it accused officers of shooting indiscriminately at peaceful demonstrators let's speak to akinbode oluwafemi who's executive director of corporate accountability and public participation africa,

a pan—african organisation that helps local communites take collective social action. thanks for being with us. what is at the root of these protests, do you think? what is causing these protests? think? what is causing these rotests? , ., , , ., protests? the protests in nigeria, is the economic _ protests? the protests in nigeria, is the economic issues _ protests? the protests in nigeria, is the economic issues nigeria - protests? the protests in nigeria, | is the economic issues nigeria has been facing since this government came to power and i would also say when this government came in the may there were high hopes that given what the current president did in lagos he could replicate at a national level but it appears that that hope has been dashed and the economic recovery does not seem to be insight and the economic policies that this government have embarked upon like the removal of subsidies,

which has seen high electricity bills but they have bitten deep into the pockets of nigeria and most importantly is the basic cost of living food has jumped so importantly is the basic cost of living food hasjumped so high in energy and transportation on the rest of them, and when you look at the main team of these protests, it is about bad governance. nigerians are not saying we should not have a government and at some person but the government officials are living flamboyant lifestyles, buying suvs and the rest of them and we say, we have to address the issue of good governance and corruption in nigeria and then and there must be development and prosperity not only for a few but all nigerians and if

you are hungry, you are going to be angry and that is at the heart of the protest. angry and that is at the heart of the protest-— angry and that is at the heart of the rotest. . , ., , ., the protest. that is what is at the heart of it in _ the protest. that is what is at the heart of it in your _ the protest. that is what is at the heart of it in your view _ the protest. that is what is at the heart of it in your view and - the protest. that is what is at the heart of it in your view and when | heart of it in your view and when you hear the view —— news that at least 13 protesters have been shot dead and we don't know the exact numbers and it might be more than that in fact, but what is your reaction when you hear those people have died? it is reaction when you hear those people have died? , ., ., , have died? it is so sad that anytime there is a peaceful _ have died? it is so sad that anytime there is a peaceful protest - have died? it is so sad that anytime there is a peaceful protest in - there is a peaceful protest in nigeria some people try to hijack for whatever motive. they have been claims and counter claims of what some areas like lagos, the protest there have been peaceful, but of course there has been violence in other states where they declared a 24—hour curfew and it is very sad. we said for us it is the right of citizens to peacefully protest and it's part of democracy and the responsibility of government to do this and it's also the responsibility of government to ensure that criminals or hoodlums,

whatever you want to call it, they cannot hijack this situation so nigerians are prevented from dying needless deaths. but nigerians are prevented from dying needless deaths.— nigerians are prevented from dying needless deaths. but you don't think the security forces _ needless deaths. but you don't think the security forces have _ needless deaths. but you don't think the security forces have been - the security forces have been trigger—happy in shooting people dead? trigger-happy in shooting people dead? , ., , trigger-happy in shooting people dead? , . , , dead? yes, there have been claims and counter — dead? yes, there have been claims and counter claims _ dead? yes, there have been claims and counter claims and _ dead? yes, there have been claims and counter claims and we - dead? yes, there have been claims and counter claims and we think. dead? yes, there have been claims. and counter claims and we think that the police should not use maximum force and we do not think the kind of force displayed was necessary and we also think that the government have been very high—handed in restricting the nigerians who cannot protest, and it is the kind of situation that brings this kind of violence, so we have said that the nigerian needs to let the police force know that it is the democratic right of nigerians to protest and protest peacefully.— right of nigerians to protest and protest peacefully. thank you for our protest peacefully. thank you for your analysis _ protest peacefully. thank you for your analysis of _ protest peacefully. thank you for your analysis of the _ protest peacefully. thank you for your analysis of the latest - protest peacefully. thank you for your analysis of the latest in - your analysis of the latest in

nigeria. thank you for your time. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

venezuela's foreign minister has accused the united states of being at the forefront of a coup attempt against his government. it comes after sunday's disputed and controversial presidential election. president nicolas maduro claimed victory for a third term, but the opposition have accused him of electoral fraud and the united states says there's overwhelming evidence the opposition won the poll. in the last few minutes, argentina joined the us and several other countries in recognising the opposition candidate, edmundo gonzalez, as the president—elect. from caracas, here's our south america correspondent ione wells. these people desperately want answers. where are their families?

what is happening to them? are they in here? this woman spots a relative inside. shouting. all of them have relatives who were arrested in anti—government protests. the son of isabella, who didn't want us to use her real name, was one of them. translation: the national guard grabbed my son unjustly _ because he was not harming anyone. my son did not have stones, did not have weapons. he only protested. they beat him. they accused him of being a terrorist for defending their country, for wanting a change. through tears, she told me she just wanted a better future for their children and the country.

i haven't been able to see him or pass him food. i can't even hand him his clothes. i don't know if he has been beaten. i don't know if he has bathed, if he has eaten. there is so much misery. many people eating in the streets, many people dying in hospital. my daughter and son left university because there are no teachers. i had a granddaughter who died on 6th december last year because there was no oxygen in the hospitals, no medical supplies in the hospitals. lawyers say people inside aren't allowed private lawyers, in a country where the judiciary and public lawyers are controlled by the government. these public defenders are actually part of the state. so it's the whole state. i mean, the tribunals, the prosecutor, the public defender. so it's totally an imbalance injustice. so it's like the one who accuse you is the one who defends you. thousands turned out for peaceful protests. others turned more tense.

tear gas and rubber bullets fired at protesters by armed police and military. cars, tyres, rubbish set on fire. president maduro accused the opposition of starting a coup. | translation: this is all directed | by a perverse and macabre duo that has to take responsibility. edmundo gonzalez and maria corina machado. it's notjust criminal because of the violence, but because they looked for criminals to attack their own people. mass arrests and detentions are nothing new in this country. there were hundreds of political prisoners in venezuela even before the election. but now that the president has asked courts to take action against those protesting, it looks inevitable that that will increase. determination to protest endures. the fear of punishment expanding. ione wells, bbc news, in caracas.

here in the uk — seven men have been charged with violent disorder after a riot broke out in hartlepool. it follows multiple pockets of unrest across england in the aftermath of a stabbing attack in the town of southport. one of the men has also been charged with assaulting an emergency worker. sir keir starmer has condemned the far—right demonstrators and announced that police forces across the country are to co—operate more on tackling violent disorder. police have also released the images of eight other people they want to identify after objects were hurled outside a hotel housing migrants during a protest in aldershot. with more on this here's our political correspondent damian grammaticus. tuesday in southport, and the violence that followed the fatal stabbings. the riots were fuelled by misinformation on social media and outsiders intent on causing trouble. yesterday, it was quiet. for a second day, police were given

temporary powers to stop and search anyone suspected of carrying a weapon or planning any criminal act. after southport, the disorder had spread. this was hartlepool on wednesday. the prime minister said it was the work of the far right showing who they are. 11 arrests were made here, and there was unrest, too, in london, manchester and aldershot. so, summoned to downing street yesterday, police chiefs, here for an emergency meeting with the new government. sir keir starmer promised a new national capability to tackle the violence. these thugs are mobile, they move from community to community, and we must have a policing response that can do the same. shared intelligence, wider deployment of facial recognition technology and preventative action — criminal behaviour orders to restrict their movements. in london, more than 100 arrests were made. the police say they are now ready

if more violence happens. what i committed to the prime minister to do today was to write to all those commanders to be very explicit about new guidance and rapid learning from these events, about how we separate what might be legitimate protest from what is, frankly, downright violent crime. and so that we can intervene more quickly, we can arrest offenders, we can act to deter, and we can work with the criminal justice system to bring those people to very swiftjustice if people break the law. sir keir starmer also had a message for social media networks. he said whipping up disorder online was a crime and it was happening on their watch. damian grammaticas, bbc news, westminster.

the world's biggest annual arts festival, the edinburgh festival fringe, has opened in the scottish artists from fifty eight countries are bring represented with over 52,000 performances taking place throughout august. our reporter courtney bembridge, who is heading up to edinburgh to cover the festival fringe for bbc news. what sort of thing are we expecting? i promise we are working up there, i am working very hard. taste i promise we are working up there, i am working very hard.— am working very hard. we believe ou. am working very hard. we believe you- there _ am working very hard. we believe you- there are — am working very hard. we believe you. there are more _ am working very hard. we believe you. there are more than - am working very hard. we believe you. there are more than 3000 i you. there are more than 3000 performers from all around the world, 58 countries and we are trying to showcase as many as we can over those three days.— over those three days. every hour around this _ over those three days. every hour around this time _ over those three days. every hour around this time of— over those three days. every hour around this time of the _ over those three days. every hour around this time of the hour - over those three days. every hour around this time of the hour you i around this time of the hour you will see a different act and we have magicians, musicians, circus performers, acrobats, beat boxers and somebody who plays pop bangers on accordion and someone who can make me levitate, apparently so a jam—packed programme for you and i want to highlight some of the ones we will speak to. first of all we

have barbarian barbies. they are a circus collective based in berlin and they are described as an underground berlin circus seen and if that was to have a love child with vegas spice girls. quite the mix. this is the thing about the friends, if you can imagine it, you can put on a show and it's open to anyone so it can be amateur, professional and everything ranging from free shows, but the average price is about £13, about 15 us dollars so it's not an expensive undertaking and the whole idea behind the friend is anyone should behind the friend is anyone should be able to get a seat and some of the other performances we have from around the world is the bubble man, known as the amazing bubble man and he has been doing this for 30 years and last year he put me inside a bubble, which was quite a feat, so he does this incredible thing. i do fit inside a bubble. did he does this incredible thing. i do

fit inside a bubble.— fit inside a bubble. did you get out? you _ fit inside a bubble. did you get out? you obviously _ fit inside a bubble. did you get out? you obviously did. - fit inside a bubble. did you get out? you obviously did. what. fit inside a bubble. did you get - out? you obviously did. what else? we also have a performance based on a korean culture, a 300—year—old korean legend, and you can see this incredible performance here, so theatre is amongst the offering there but really something for everyone from all over the world whether it is circus based, out of africa or we also have an ogre inspired burlesque performance and you will have to wait till next week to see it. ., ,., , you will have to wait till next week to see it. ., , ., to see it. thousands of performances, - to see it. thousands of performances, so - to see it. thousands of performances, so how| to see it. thousands of- performances, so how many will to see it. thousands of— performances, so how many will you get to? this performances, so how many will you net to? �* , . , performances, so how many will you ietto? �*, ., performances, so how many will you aetto? a ., , performances, so how many will you aetto? ., ., , get to? as many as i can, dozens, i would say _ get to? as many as i can, dozens, i would say full — get to? as many as i can, dozens, i would say full stop _ get to? as many as i can, dozens, i would say full stop dozens, - get to? as many as i can, dozens, i would say full stop dozens, or- would say full stop dozens, or right. would say full stop dozens, or riuht. ., ., ., ., right. en'oy. you will have a great time. right. enjoy. you will have a great time- lucky _ right. enjoy. you will have a great time- lucky you- _ right. enjoy. you will have a great time. lucky you. you _ right. enjoy. you will have a great time. lucky you. you get - right. enjoy. you will have a great time. lucky you. you get all - right. enjoy. you will have a great time. lucky you. you get all the l time. lucky you. you get all the best gigs. courtney, thank you very much indeed, and stay with us. you are watching bbc news. plenty more to come. thank you for watching.

hello. i thought i'd start off with a look back at the enormous thunderstorms that developed yesterday across central and southern england. the storms that went across fairford in gloucestershire dumped 35mm of rain in the space ofjust one hour. i think that's the heaviest downpour i've seen all year. the result of those massive storms was some quite severe localised flooding problems that we had. today it's all changed weather—wise really. for the north and west of the country we've got a band of rain edging in here. for northern ireland and western scotland it's a wet afternoon. holding on to a reasonable amount of dry weather for east scotland for most of the day. for most of england and wales things are looking fine, with some sunny spells breaking through. it's still very humid across eastern england and that humidity could bring a few showers near to the east coast of east anglia and kent as we go on through the afternoon. there is an outside chance of a rumble of thunder,

but the storms won't be as severe as the ones we had on thursday. overnight tonight we'll see that band of rain push its way southwards and eastwards into parts of england and wales, but as the front continues to push eastwards it will weaken. we've got the fresh air behind the front across scotland and northern ireland, but another quite warm and humid night for england and wales. we pick up on that front on saturday morning, draped across east anglia and south—east england, with outbreaks of patchy rain. most of it is going to be quite light, but there could be a few heavier bursts mixed in. eventually that clears through the afternoon. what follows for most of the uk is a fresher feeling day, with sunny spells widespread and just a few showers running into the north and west of scotland. heading into the second half of the weekend, it's not a bad start to the day really. most areas dry with variable cloud and there should be some sunny spells coming through that as the day goes by. however, we end the day in northern ireland and western scotland with the next area of rain moving its way in. that rain is associated with the next area of low pressure that's going to be bringing rain across these north—western areas of the uk into

the early part of next week. the rain could turn out to be really quite heavy across these areas, so there is a risk of seeing some localised flooding. even beyond that, as the rain clears through, we'll be left with quite a few showers around, temperatures generally running into the high teens to low 20s across western areas. the east and south—east of the country fares a bit better. closer to an area of high pressure, at times the weather could become quite warm with some sun.

live from london. this is bbc news. free at last — three americans and a kremlin critic — imprisoned in russia — arrive on us soil — part of the biggest prisoner swap deal since the cold war. myjob is to make sure, number one, they don't get them. and if they do, we get them back. i don't buy this idea that you're going to let these people rot injail. russia admits vadim krasikov — the convicted hit man released in the swap — was an fsb agent. he'd been serving a life sentence for the murder of a former chechen rebel commander in berlin. the funeral ceremony has been held in qatar for the hamas political leader, ismail haniyeh, who was assassinated in iran on wednesday.

to the paris olympics — where team gb have won their third