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killing at least 13 people accoding to the ukrainian interior minister. dozens have been injured. four men are being sentenced following protests in leeds, as uk prime minister sir keir starmer says police should remain on "high alert" after a week of rioting across england and northern ireland. another teenager has been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to attack taylor swift concerts in vienna. and lee carsley has been announced as the interim manager of the england men's football team. he said it is an honour to step up and lead the squad.
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the son of the bangladesh prime minister has said his mother does intend to return to the country. —— the son of the bangladesh former prime minister, sheikh hasina, has told indian media that his mother plans to return to the country when fresh elections are called. ms hasina quit and fled to neighbouring india on monday, following weeks of deadly protests against her government, sparked by anger about civil servicejob quotas. a caretaker government led by the nobel peace prize winner muhammad yunus was sworn in on thursday and will be tasked with holding elections. our south asia correspondent, samira hussain, spoke to the locals in dhaka. we've already heard from this caretaker administration and muhammad yunus, in which they have divided a lot of the government ministries to the panel of advisers that they have assembled as part of this interim government until they get a more stable government in place. so they've really divvied up all the different departments
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amongst these different advisers. and i want to take a mention of this advisory committee and who's a part of it. you have a lot of people from, you know, civil society. you have lawyers that are represented, you have people from the business community, and you also have student leaders that were part of the protest, also part of this sort of advisory committee. i think i want to actuallyjust sort of talk a little bit more about the students. in fact, you can probably see... 0h, of course you can't, because the bus has just passed by, but i'm actually standing just near a monument, and it's a monument that actually commemorates the people when they were doing an uprising against a military government back in the 1990s. and this is just near the university campus, and i'mjoined by two students who participated in that protest. you know, similar to the statue that we see here, you participated in a life—changing moment for your country. i'm wondering, how do you feel about the trajectory of your country right now? i do not feel safe in bangladesh right now because the anarchists are committing crimes like murder, arson and armed robbery, abductions, etc. but we do have trust in the interim government that they're going to fix everything as soon as they start working. what is the priority for the interim government right now? the government has basically three
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| priorities, as i have spoken about. | first, they need the law and order situation in control. _ number two is they need to make lthe institutions more democraticl as they were not democratic in last 15 years. _ and number three is basically| they need to hold an election, free and fair election, - within six to eight months, as this interim government is not l directly democratically elected. i they were selected i by the stakeholders, multiple stakeholders. then they have i guess they have six to eight months and they need - to ensure these three primary tasks to make bangladesh a democratic, i secular, democratic, l inclusive bangladesh. quickly, i want to ask you, what do you make of the fact that we're hearing that sheikh hasina will come back to bangladesh once elections are called? we believe that she played a very critical role in the recent student massacre. and if that is right, then she would be brought underjustice. what do you make of it? i second it.
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basically sheikh hasina is a genocider. - she is a genocide insider. and she has notjust committed this genocide, she has already— committed three genocides. there are thousands of abductions, l killings, lootings in her regime. l so when she came back, we welcome her. - she will basically under brought underjustice. i and this is what we i expect for, basically. that's certainly looking forward. but for the moment, people here, especially students, are pretty hopeful about what comes next for their country under the leadership of muhammad yunus. japan's prime minister, fumio kishida, has cancelled a planned trip to central asia after scientists warned the country needed to prepare for a possible major earthquake. following a seven—point—one magnitude tremor off the southern coast on thursday, japan's meteorological agency has issued its first ever mega— earthquake warning. residents living in the heavily populated region that faces the seismically active nankai trough have been told to be on alert. huge earthquakes along the nankai trough onjapan�*s pacific coast occur between every ninety and two hundred years, and are normally accompanied by huge tsunamis.
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to understand a bit more what a megaquake is, i spoke tojudith hubbard — she's a geologist specialised in earthquakes and author of the substack earthquake insights. a megaquake is kind of a new term. it comes from the term megathrust, which is a kind of fault that would rupture to produce amega quake. it's a big subduction fault, in this case, in the nankai trough, offshore japan. a megaquake is just defined as any earthquake here that's greater than magnitude eight. and what, then, are the dangers in this forjapan, do you think? well, we've known for a long time that the nankai trough is capable of producing earthquakes of this magnitude. it's done it about 12 times since the seventh century, a couple of times in the 20th century. so it's really something that's been on our radarfor a long time. right now, we know that the earthquake risk is a little bit elevated because there has been some
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activity, and so that's what this advisory reflects. and it's an advisory which has been strong enough for the japanese prime minister to cancel a planned visit to central asia, as i say. but is it possible to say how accurate this warning is, whether it could happen? this is the first time that an advisory has been issued ever. this advisory system was put in place in 2019, and in part, it was inspired by the tohoku earthquake in 2011, which was preceded by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake. and so the scientists injapan really don't want to miss that kind of potential warning again. but the reality is that most large earthquakes are not preceded by magnitude seven earthquakes, and most magnitude seven earthquakes are not followed by magnitude eight earthquakes. so this is really, it's a warning. it's not... well, it's an advisory, it's not even a warning. we know the risk is elevated,
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but a large earthquake probably won't happen. it's the best we have. judith hubbard with her analysis. it's a packed day in paris today, both on the track and off it. 35 gold medals up for grabs today — and a brand—new 0lympic sport making its debut. let's take you through some of the highlights. team gb�*s toby roberts has won gold in the mens boulderfinal — a stunning victory after his japanese rival sorato anraku fell. 0n the track, the big medal events include the women's heptathlon and team gb�*s katerina johnson—thompson is in second place going into the final event of the heptathlon. that is the 800 metres, which takes place this evening. it meansjohnson—thompson, who has never won an olympic medal, will have to run roughly eight seconds quicker than the current
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leader and defending champion, belgium's nafi thiam, to win. also on the at the stade de france this evening are the ax100m men's and women's finals and the men's a00m hurdles final. two golds in play in the track cycling today. the women's and men's sprints take place late. team gb�*s emma finucan and jack carlin among the media hopefuls — against some tough competition. the men's football final takes place later, with hosts france taking on european champions spain. the women's beach volleyball final will take place between canada and brazil. brazil aiming to the bring home brazil's first women's olympic gold in this event since its debut in 1996. in the women's hockey the netherlands take on china in the final today. the dutch have now reached six successive 0lympic finals and are favourites in that match. argentina won the bronze after beating belgium in the shootout. now let's turn our attention to a sport which is making its 0lympic debut today. and that is the sport of breaking! everyone here in paris is so excited about this breaking is a unique sport made from a mix of dancing, rhythm, musicality, and physical expertise. the competition begins with the women's event today and culminates
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with the men's tomorrow. a little earler my colleague maryam moshiri caught up with clarisse costas, the breaking manager at the paris 0lympics. breaking is a type of dance created in the �*70s in the bronx in new york, made to avoid all the violence between the gangs and then there was a big wave during the �*70s and �*80s, so it is actually a battle, a dance battle between individuals or between crews. for us at the olympics, it is individuals and one against one. it's quite amazing because basically the b—boys and b—girls, they do not know the music they will be dancing to. so they have to improvise,
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they have to be creative. they have, of course, to beat their opponents. but, above all, they have to have fun, perform and create all the time new stuff, new moves, to impress the crowd and their opponents. what are theyjudged on? it's a big topic, yes. they arejudged based on musicality, their capacity to adjust and to adapt to music, we do not want gymnasts, that we want them to learn and listen to the music. also vocabulary, the capacity to have a diversity of moves and the clarity of what they do, it has to be really straight and well performed and also being judged based on the capacity to occupy the stage, character, personality and all that is what is judged as well in terms of winning the battle. we are here at concorde and this is the venue for the breaking, it's a huge venue that will be packed out, there is a lot of interest but there is also a small body of people who ask if this is a proper sport or if it is just dancing. for us, paris 2024, we don't want to oppose sport and culture, i think it's a very french thing to do, actually, for us, it's one. it's culture and sport. this is going to be a format which is basically for the olympics,
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one against one, 16 b—girls, 16 b—boys, the rest is still existing, you know? all the battles with different ways ofjudging, they exist, for us, we're showcasing part of breaking at specific moments, which is 2024 injuly. it is all about inclusivity and gathering sport and culture. who are favourites in the men's, the b—boys and b—girls? who are the ones to watch out for? i am french so i will say syssy of france but also
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japan's ayumi and lithuania, lithuania have a young, young girl, amazing. nicka. we also have the netherlands. it's really, really tight. we don't know who is going to win. for the b—boys, we have victor, american b—boy, very amazing, and danny who is a french guy. and for the rest, same thing, i mean, it is really close by. we have lee, who has been performing amazingly, so, tight competition with a lot of suspense. clarisse costas, the breaking manager at the paris 0lympics. it has been a hugely successful olympics for latin america, with some medalfirsts and some medal legends. earlier my colleague maryam moshiri caught up with laura garcia from bbc mundo and talked about some of the big latin american names who have performed well this year. so mijain lopez has managed to do what not even michael phelps has managed to do. michael phelps might have 28 medals, but mijain lopez has won five consecutive gold medals across five different 0lympics. so this man started winning medals in 2008 when barack 0bama was elected president. it's a completely different world, and he's been consistently
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dominating in his sport until he's now retired at age a1. at the end of the match, after he knew he was the gold medallist, el gigante de herradura, like we call him in spanish, it's the giant of herradura. that's the name of the town that he comes from. and he's literally a giant, isn't he? he is enormous. he's almost two metres tall. his categories in the 130 kilometre... kilometres, no, kilograms! i've also been here 35 days. we've been here forever, haven't we, laura? but we love it. we love it. yeah, i walked past him the other day and he is a mountain of a man and powerful and an inspiration for the sport in his country. and he's retired now with five gold medals and a feat that no other athlete has managed to do apart from him. tell me a little bit about rebeca andrade, the brazilian gymnast. she just looked absolutely amazing on that arena. and also, she gave simone biles a run for her money in quite a few events and ended up winning gold as well. —— around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.
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boaty mcboatface — britain's most famous robot submarine — has returned to shore after two months exploring the deep ocean. scientists hope that data gathered by the craft, will help us learn more about the pace of climate change. 0ur climate and science reporter
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georgina rannard has more. with only birds for company, boaty mcboatface is on the longest journey of its life — from chilly iceland to the shores of scotland. but as it dives thousands of metres, someone is keeping an eye on this little robot. we can be at home having a cup of tea, on the internet, and we can send it a message via satellite while it's out 300 miles to sea and tell it what to do. from mission control at the national 0ceanography centre in southampton, rob templeton and team track boaty�*s every move. the robots are their pride and joy. they look after a fleet of six, all with the same name voted for by the public. they're built to go where humans can't. the advantage of boaty is really the endurance and the ability to carry lots of sensors and stay
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out at sea for 50 days at a time. it can go and extend the reach of the scientists. we've sent alr1 underneath the ice sheet at 40km, where you couldn't go with a ship. and it's here, inside the machines�* bellies, where the team install instruments, turning boaty into a mobile underwater lab. those robots are part of a huge british science project to understand this — phytoplankton. this sample came from the water down there and it's teeming with microscopic life. scientists need to understand marine life better to predict climate change. the robots can do some of the work, but, to find out the rest, scientists need to go to sea themselves. steph henson invited us aboard the james cook as it prepared to sail to iceland. scientists will live and work on here for weeks for a project called biocarbon. this is a working vessel. there's no swimming pool. there's no, like, bar and entertainment and all that kind of thing. this expedition wants to uncover what happens
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when animals eat phytoplankton, creating something called marine snow. this is actually sediment taken from flows to the bottom of the ocean in a sediment trap. this contains a lot of carbon and, believe it or not, it's this falling onto the sea floor as marine snow that keeps our atmospheric carbon dioxide levels about 50% lower than they would otherwise be. it's made up of tiny little particles of organic carbon and quite a lot of poo, actually. deep in the ocean, that marine snow is keeping our planet cooler. but life here is still mysterious. understanding it should help scientists make more accurate predictions about our warming world. and now they've got a head start. approaching scotland after 55 days at sea, boaty comes home with plenty of secrets to reveal about the ocean depths. georgina rannard, bbc news, southampton. georgina rennard joins me live now from our cardiff newsroom.
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how important do you think this mission by third make has been? late mission by third make has been? - might have given boaty mcboatface a bit of a silly name in the public vote if you years ago but what it is doing is actually very serious and interesting signs, diving to really deep depths, down to 6000 metres and when and brought it back ashore in scotland this week it was covered in slime and ocean spells, bits of marine life living on it and that is because of the amount of work it has been doing, being full of sensors that measure chemistry, biology, in the ocean, these nutrients and what they are trying to do is understand life really far down in the deep ocean, also called the ocean twilight zone and what happens down there is something called marine snow which happens when animals eat plants that live in the surface of the ocean and then they sink down
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transporting carbon is that the processor atmospheric temperatures would be much higher so scientists are really hopeful that the data being collected and is now transmitted will help them understand that process and with that help predict better the pace of climate change and hopefully come up with some more solutions to help the rest of us as we try to adapt to a world with increasing temperatures. there is so much we know about the world but not that much about those parts of the deep ocean. absolutely. peo - le parts of the deep ocean. absolutely. peole sa parts of the deep ocean. absolutely. peeple say we _ parts of the deep ocean. absolutely. people say we know _ parts of the deep ocean. absolutely. people say we know more _ parts of the deep ocean. absolutely. people say we know more about - parts of the deep ocean. absolutely. people say we know more about the | people say we know more about the moon the knee deep ocean. it is incredibly difficult to get down there, light does not penetrate any twilight zone as it is called. any piece you've just seen, we saw some strange creatures, the squid and crab, wandering around in all those particles of marine snow but that is the good thing about boaty mcboatface as it goes where humans
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cannot. it would be difficult for us to run missions that fell down and we actually know very little about the ocean floor of course as well but what these robots can do a spend all that time deep in the ocean gathering all this information, mapping the floor, giving temperatures about —— information about temperatures, oxygen level. it play such a vital role in mitigating climate change. white make very interesting, thank you very much. —— thank you very interesting, thank you very much. judging with all the information about boaty mcboatface. you're watching bbc news. lee carsley has been named the interim manager of england's men's football team. the former ireland player will replace gareth southgate, who stepped down last month after eight years in charge. carsley has been the manager of the england under—21s since 2021, and won the european championship last year. football journalist henry winter had this to say
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about whether lee carsley could get the england managerjob permanently. if you look at the sort of the development, internationally, we've obviously we've seen it with, england with gareth southgate stepping up from the under 21 seconds eight years ago. we saw it very successfully with the spanish, with de la fuente in the summer, beating england in the euros final. he stepped up from the under 21. we've seen it with argentina, the world champions, with lionel scaloni stepping up from the under 21. so there is a sort of philosophy and idea that coaches who are brought up within the age group system of a country, they get embedded with a dna. they embed that into the players who then step up to the seniors.
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and if the under 21 coach steps up with them, as carsley is going to do, certainly on an interim basis, then then there's long term benefits for perhaps keeping him on, but it's a totally differentjob being under 21 coach of england and being someone who hasn't played for the national team because carsley played for republic of ireland and then stepping up as the senior manager because southgate found out and he handled it absolutely brilliant. he gets asked everything from the price of fuel to political stories as well. so it's it's a differentjob from the under 21 when you're mainly focusing on headers and volleys. yeah, and for many fans, lee carsley won't be a very familiar name. in fact, they probably never heard of him. whereas, you know, there were big names being associated with this job when southgate quit, you know, jurgen klopp, pep guardiola, eddie howe and so on. but but you're really saying this might be a change of direction because is the fa's new philosophy perhaps. well, possibly. it all depends whether momentum picks up. i mean, you say that football fans don't know him. i mean, he is fairly well known after particularly after what he did last year with the under 21. i mean, it was a fantastic
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performance by the under 21 seconds to win that. southgate couldn't win it, other managers couldn't win it. and what people liked about that team, the under 21, is that he had some really good players anthony gordon, levi colwill, players like that, but he unleashed them. he played them in their right position. it was quite adventurous. it was forwards looking forward, attacking football, good pressing, good energy, bold football. a lot of the things that southgate was criticised for lacking at key moments, certainly in the in these euros. the former model, katie price, has been warned by a judge she must attend a further court hearing with "no ifs or buts", after she was arrested at heathrow airport. she was held on her return to the uk on thursday evening for failing
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to attend a previous hearing relating to her bankruptcies. she appeared at the royal courts ofjustice after an arrest warrant was issued on 30 july. 0ur reporter sam harrison was at court. yes, katie price back in the headlines. this time relating to two cases of bankruptcy. she first filed for bankruptcy back in november 2019. the second time was more recent, in march 202a. now, because she'd filed for bankruptcy twice, she was told that she must attend a specialist bankruptcy court here in london onjuly the 30th. judge burton, who was in charge of that hearing onjuly the 30th, said that she had been given very clear instructions that she must attend, and that she had been warned that she risked arrest if she didn't turn up. we now know that is what happened. we have been told she was instead away, actually, in turkey instead of attending this hearing. she is said to have provided no explanation as to why she didn't turn up and she couldn't provide even the most basic information relating to those two different bankruptcy cases. so katie price was arrested last night when she returned back from turkey, at about 7:45, when she crossed the border back into the uk. she was bailed a few hours later then today, a couple of hours ago, she appeared here at the royal courts ofjustice, just behind me.
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sam harrison reporting. now it's time for a look at the weather. hello. it is a decent enough day for most of us, all though a little bit windy with scattered showers across northern parts of the uk and it will turn really hot across southern parts of the uk and we have brisk westerly winds across scotland and the irish sea and we have some showers earlier on here on the radar and we also had thick cloud earlier on in the south and that is a weather front which has now cleared towards the east and it is much brighter.
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and the temperatures this afternoon are mid—20s in the south—east of england and low 20s in the north—west but the teens for scotland and northern ireland. it should be a fine friday evening although in the north—west of scotland the showers will continue and the western isles too. later in the night we are also expecting thicker cloud to spread into wales, central england and the south—west, and it will really be quite murky around some coasts with a bit of rain and drizzle forecast and the further east you are, the drier it will be. tomorrow starts off quite murky across the southern parts of the uk and the clouds should fade into the afternoon and so we will call it bright rather than sunny although the south coast of england should be sunny and in scotland, showers are expected and in northern ireland and the lake district i think it should be quite sunny tomorrow. now, the forecast for sunday, i think a generally sunny day across the bulk of the uk. the winds will start to come in from the south, so pushing hot
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air from the near continent, and we will probably hit 30 degrees in the south on sunday, not in the north, though. there is that hot stream of air out of spain through france and spreading to other parts of europe as well and this will be a short—lived heatwave, so a couple of days of some quite intense heat, sunday into monday. but not everywhere — look at that, storms are forecast for parts of northern ireland and scotland and maybe the north of england throughout monday. the heat will be reserved to more central, eastern and south—eastern parts of england and 33 is possible but more typically it is around 30 and then we have the high 20s further north across northern ireland and scotland and that heat doesn't last very long. and it looks as though next week, we will have weather fronts lining up like buses heading our way.
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live from london, this is bbc news. four men have been sentenced following protests in leeds, as uk prime minister sir keir starmer says police should remain on "high alert" after a week of rioting. my my message to the police and all those charged with responding to
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disorder is, maintain a high alert. russia sends reinforcements and heavy weapons to the kursk region, following a major ukrainian drone attack in the russian territory. in ukraine, a russian strike on a supermarket leaves 14 dead and dozens injured. more than 1000 palestinians are reported by the united nations to have been forced from their homes because of escalating violence by israeli settlers in the occupied territories. i israeli settlers in the occupied territories.— territories. i live in paris, it is da 14 territories. i live in paris, it is day 14 of _ territories. i live in paris, it is day 14 of the _ territories. i live in paris, it is day 14 of the olympics, - territories. i live in paris, it is day 14 of the olympics, 35 - territories. i live in paris, it is. day 14 of the olympics, 35 gold medals up for grabs and a new 0lympic medals up for grabs and a new olympic sport making its debut. i will have all the details in a moment.
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