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hello from the bbc sport centre. plenty of action from day 10 at the olympics to start with. no medal for us gymnast
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simone biles in the beam. a silver on the floor. but earlier on monday — the mixed triathlon got to go—ahead, after sunday's practice swim was cancelled due to the seine water quality. the race went ahead this morning and it was dramatic straight from the off. the french were favourites for a medal but the race opened up when pierre le corre was taken out in a bike crash — their hopes of a medal going there. they did manage to fight their way back to fourth place. and what a finale we had on the run — a dramatic photo finish for silver — with taylor knibb from the united states just inching it to take second place and beth potter for team gb in third. but there was no doubt who was taking the gold with laura lindemann from germany in first place. south korea's badminton world number one an se—young won the gold medal in the women's singles event earlier. on her olympic debut, the 22—year—old won 2—0 in the final against china's he bingjao. the chinese player hit her
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final shot long to give victory to the south korean, taking the second game 21—16. and a shock in the women's pole vault too — molly caudery, the world indoor champion, is out afterfailing to make her opening height in three attempts. caudery had previously gone over a height of 4.92m, a world leading mark — but not to be for her in paris. earlier, tokyo 2020 pole vault bronze medallist holly bradshaw was eliminated early in qualification. later, the men's pole vault final takes place, featuring sweden's mondo duplantis. in gymnastics, china's zou jing—yuan has defended his parallel bars olympic title in style. he scored a huge 16.2 with a near—flawless routine to take the gold medal, with ukraine's illia kovtun taking the silver medal. shinnosuke oka ofjapan claimed bronze in the hotly—contested final where five of the eight athletes scored 15.1 or higher.
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and onto the women's beam final. in a shocking turn of events simone biles on a fourth gold medal after falling off the beam. her teammate sunisa lee also took a fall, leading to a deduction. this saw italy's alice d'amato taking the gold medal, simone biles took a silver on the floorjust missing out to her arrival from floorjust missing out to her arrivalfrom brazil. algeria's imane khelif — who fights for a medal on tuesday — has called for an end to what she calls the bullying surrounding her participation in the women's boxing. khelif is through to the women's 66kg semis after beating hungary's anna luca hamori, securing algeria's first ever boxing olympic medal. khelif�*s been the subject of abuse online — her progress has been in the spotlight over to a gender eligibility row. translation: i send a message to all the --eole translation: i send a message to all the peeple of— translation: i send a message to all the peeple of the _ translation: i send a message to all the people of the world _ translation: i send a message to all the people of the world to _ translation: i send a message to all the people of the world to uphold - the people of the world to uphold the people of the world to uphold the olympic principles, to refrain from bullying all athletes because this thing has effects, massive effect. it can destroy people. it
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can kill people's thoughts, spirit and mind. and it can divide people. because of that i ask them to refrain from bullying and that's it. away from the olympics now — and former england and surrey cricketer graham thorpe has died aged 55. the left—handed batter was known as one of the finest english players of his generation, playing exactly 100 tests and scoring 16 centuries before retiring in 2005. he went on to take on various coaching roles for england and was appointed afghanistan head coach in march 2022. however he did not take up the role due to ill health. graham thorpe, who has died at the age of 55. you can get more on that story as well as all the latest from the olympics in paris over on the bbc sport website at the usual address, as well as the bbc sport app. and that's all the sport for now. another exciting day at the
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olympics. the army chief in bangladesh says he is forming an interim government after sheikh hasina resigned and fled the country a few hours ago. he said he had been talking to political leaders. he promised the army would maintain peace. we have seen thousands of anti—government protesters storming the prime minister's official residence. there has been looting across the capital dhaka. our south asia editor gave me his reaction. it's a simple people's power, that is what ended the regime of prime minister sheikh casino. we witnessed a similar incident into an longer two years ago, how people stormed the official residence. this is a historic moment. history was unfolding, as many bangladeshi colleagues were saying, because how a student protest, which started at dhaka university, came out and it
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became a mass movement, an uprising against the government. and people from all walks of life laterjoined and it was not happening only in dhaka. in fact if you watched on the last two weeks people have been protesting in smaller towns and cities like chittagong. so it became a protest across the country and sheikh hasina failed to read the pent—up anger and the killing of so many people two weeks ago, that was the red line. it was crossed at that time. , , ., ., ., time. the pent-up anger about what? what the issues _ time. the pent-up anger about what? what the issues everyone _ time. the pent-up anger about what? what the issues everyone was - time. the pent-up anger about what? what the issues everyone was so - what the issues everyone was so passionate about and so angry about? in the last few years the cost of living crisis really hit people hard and the economy stagnated.
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joblessness, especially for the youth, even though the bangladesh economy was growing there were not enough jobs for graduates coming out of the universities of bangladesh. and complete suppression of dissent and criticism. journalists were jailed, civil society actors were jailed. many people would disappear. there were hundreds of cases of killings and enforced disappearances. opposition was completely sidelined. thousands of opposition supporters were put in jail. write allegations of torture? allegations of torture in prison and the un documented these human rights violations and that is why the us state department in 2021 sanctioned one of the notaries paramilitary forces and senior officers for alleged rights abuses. these were alleged rights abuses. these were all put together and the way they tried to suppress this movement, sending the government for my governing party to attack women
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students. when picture spread like wildfire, where women students were targeted and beaten by the youth wing of the league, that made people angry and one protester was holding his hands wide open, asking police, if you can shoot me. and then they shot him and he died. that was a turning point for these protesters, galvanising people. once again i would say, this is an extraordinary moment of people's power and gaining control. we moment of people's power and gaining control. ~ , ., . . ., ., moment of people's power and gaining control. ~ , ., u ., ., ., control. we saw this accumulation of fear, of control. we saw this accumulation of fear. of anger. _ control. we saw this accumulation of fear. of anger. of— control. we saw this accumulation of fear, of anger, of frustration. - control. we saw this accumulation of fear, of anger, of frustration. but. fear, ofanger, of frustration. but also the youth are very politically aware now, perhaps in a way they haven't been before. this generation, _ haven't been before. this generation, the _ haven't been before. this generation, the younger. haven't been before. ti 3 generation, the younger generation, they did not know much about the country's history, independence of 1971, how they won the war. they were talking more in terms of practical terms. were talking more in terms of practicalterms. forget were talking more in terms of practical terms. forget that history, we know that history now. they were asking, what are you going
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to do now. that is what sheikh hasina always claimed. her father was the founding leader. she thought she had the divine right to rule the country in fact when i interviewed her a couple of times you always come out with the feeling that she was giving, i am here to rule this country. bangladesh is ours. the youth social media savvy and then politically aware and with the trends going across many other parts of the world. when i was in sri lanka two years ago many people were tweeting, can this happen, similar things happen in bangladesh? so that was going on at this point. here the students, i spoke to a couple of leaders and they were in hiding two days ago and they said, this time we are determined. we know people are... i was a bit sceptical about how they can mobilise the whole support but they were confident that
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people were with them, when tens of thousands of people started moving towards dhaka and that is when sheikh hasina realised that time was up. sheikh hasina realised that time was u n . �* ., sheikh hasina realised that time was u -. ~ ., ., sheikh hasina realised that time was u . _ ~ ., ., ., sheikh hasina realised that time was u -. a, ., ., ., up. more than all of the developments - up. more than all of the developments in - up. more than all of the - developments in bangladesh on up. more than all of the _ developments in bangladesh on the bbc news website. we have a life page “p bbc news website. we have a life page up and running with developments in rights across the region and analysis there for you. one more story to bring you. tropical storm debbie has strengthened into a category one hurricane. it is approaching florida's gulf coast. it could bring historic levels of rainfall as it moves north. storm surges are a concern when it makes landfall. most of florida is under emergency orders and flooding is also expected in georgia and south carolina. hello. thanks for joining hello. thanks forjoining me. quite
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a cloudy and humid picture across most of the uk. how about the week ahead? here is the headline. it will be quite changeable with some rain at times, but also plenty of sunny spells in the forecast. let's look at the here and now. here's the forecast for later on today as this cold front approaches to scotland, west of england and wales. here it was earlier as it moved across northern ireland will stop you can see the cloudy skies and humid air ahead of this. it was 18 degrees in the morning in northern ireland and then that fresher air arrives. the yellow coloured show temperatures sub 20 celsius, where is the mid 20s are expected across eastern parts of the uk in that humid southerly. to this evening and overnight the weather front continues to cross the country and will gently move eastwards and northwards, delivering a fair amount of rain to south—western scotland and perhaps the lake district. early in the morning on tuesday it would just be dribs and drabs of rain across central and southern england, just the odd heavy shower here and there.
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big temperature contrasts first thing tomorrow. ahead of that weather front still muggy. towards the west we have these fresher atlantic conditions. it will be a fairly sunny start for many of us tuesday but many don't make some cloud will bubble up and still the remnants of the humidity across east anglia and temperatures of around 25 where it is more like the high teens across western parts of the uk. here is wednesday. weather front to the north of the uk. low pressure here bringing breezy conditions with frequent showers for scotland and some of these western areas as well. best chance of sunny skies at towards the east and south. quite gusty. 30—110 mile an hour gusts. not quite so windy in the south. temperatures high teens in scotland, low 20s in the south. come thursday we are expecting at least potentially another by the front to sweep in. this one may bring more extensive cloud and outbreaks of rain to at least the southern half of the uk. this really is somewhat
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uncertain at the moment. the rain could be anywhere but the indication is there will be at least some wet weather heading our way. this is the week at a glance into the weekend. if you have any plans it remains a little on the unsettled side. that is it from me. thank you for watching.
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live from london. this is bbc news. bangladesh's prime minister resigns and flees
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the country after weeks of protests. the army chief says there'll be an interim government, as widespread looting is reported in capital dhaka. more than 300 people have been killed during weeks of anti—government protests. uk prime minister sir keir starmer announces a "standing army" of specialist police to tackle violent protests after a weekend of far—right disorder led to more than 420 arrests. i have asked for early consideration of the earliest naming and identification of those involved in the process, who will feel the full force of the law. kamala harris is expected to announce her choice of running mate for november's presidential election. on day ten of the olympics in paris, us gymnast simone biles wins silver in the floor final.

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