this is bbc news. i'm vicki young. the headlines at seven. pioneering research in gene editing in embryos that could pave the way in preventing inherited diseases. a method of not passing on the infected gene could be important for those families and allow them to get out of this cycle. terrorist calling themselves the three musketeers, have been found guilty of conspiring to attack british police and military targets. dozens of army cadets, aged 12 to 17, have been rescued off the mourne mountains in northern ireland, after getting into difficulties in bad weather. donald trump signs off on new sanctions against russia for their alleged meddling in the 2016 election, but claims the bill is ‘significantly flawed'. also in the next hour... bowing out after seven decades of royal duties. prince philip carries out his last solo engagement watching a military

parade at buckingham palace. and the £198 million man. the record—breaking price tag for barcelona star neymar to transfer to paris st germain. good evening and welcome to bbc news. there is new hope tonight for thousands of families who live with the prospect of passing on inherited diseases to future generations. for the first time scientists have successfully repaired a faulty gene in human embryos. the us and south korean team used a process known as ‘gene editing' to correct dna that causes a deadly heart condition. the controversial technique

is still at the early research stage but it raises the hope of preventing 10,000 gene disorders which pass down the generations. 0ur medical correspondent fergus walsh reports. the goal could not be more ambitious. to eradicate inherited diseases. these scientists have taken an impressive first step on a long road. editing dna in human embryos. so how is it done? inside the nucleus of each of our cells is our genome, billions of pieces of dna. it is the instruction manual for life. the scientists were targeting a faulty gene that causes a serious heart condition. they fertilised a healthy egg with sperm from a man carrying the faulty gene. they then injected the gene editing system. this scans the dna like a spell—check or a sat nav.

it then cuts both strands of the dna and removes the faulty gene. a healthy copy of the gene from the egg was then naturally inserted. now here are some of the embryos from a study in the journal nature after being edited. 42 or 58 embryos were corrected. they were allowed to develop for five days. none was implanted. we are very excited about all the work... the research has been welcomed by a team in london who have a license to edit human embryos. they said the technology could eventually help many families. there are some nasty genetic diseases such as huntington's or as in this case, a disease that affects the heart function later in life. which can basically blight families for many generations. so a method of being able to avoid having this affect your children and passing on the defective gene could be really very important for those families. nicole mowbray has the same

heart condition which was corrected in human embryos. she now has a defibrillator implanted in her chest in case her heart stops. she has a 50% risk of passing on the condition but is unsure whether she would ever consider gene editing. i would not want to pass on something that caused my child to have a limited life or a painful life or a life of risk. that does obviously come to the front of my mind when i think about having children. i would not want to create the perfect, in inverted commas, child. and i feel like my condition makes me, me. previous attempts at editing human embryos in china lead to serious errors in the dna. so there's a lot of work needed before this can be considered safe. and it raises ethical issues about how far science should go to create healthy babies.

and fergus is here with me now. reading about this it sounds incredible. how much of a breakthrough is that given this is about heart failure? on this particular heart condition, it affects one in 500 people. you may remember the footballer fabrice won but who had a cardiac arrest, it is the most common cause of ardeer dzagoev cardiac arrest in young athletes. —— common cause of cardiac arrest. initially these scientists are us and south korean, it is a breakthrough of sorts but we must be careful about that word. we are a long way from the clinic, at the foothills of a mountain of research

still to come because it has been tried before in china and there were lots of what they call of targets, errors in the dna. so careful consideration before any of this actually goes into clinic. and then the potential presumably to use it for other inherited diseases. absolutely, there are around 10,000 single gene disorders it could be used for. then comes the question, you would say of course why not if you would say of course why not if you are eradicating these diseases, it must be a good thing. but it raises the moral question of how far would you go, what about if we could edit in enhancements. then potentially you're entering the era of designer babies and people who know that they carry a single gene disorder do have the option of having ivf embryo screening already. so there are options there but this is going to create moral and ethical issues that society will have to

address. and when it comes to this country, we've seen before with mitochondrial disease, new rules in parliament going through and in this country it is regarded as being encouraging to this kind of thing? it is because we have the regulatory body and parliament was the first body and parliament was the first body in the world to pass legislation to allow what is called 3—person ivf to try to eradicate inherited mitochondrial disorders. and there is a team, that the francis crick institute, who are going to be doing gene editing in human embryos looking at the causes of miscarriage. so a lot here not just about stuff going into the clinic but looking at some of the fundamental reasons why the human body goes wrong. so very exciting. thank you very much. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:40 this evening in the papers — our guestsjoining me tonight are steve hawkes, deputy political editor at the sun and the broadcaster and author damejoan bakewell.

some breaking news coming in from the metropolitan police that a doctor from romford has the metropolitan police that a doctorfrom romford has been charged with 118 sexual offences. amongst the charges that doctor mannish shark is facing is one of sexual assault on a child under the age of 13. the doctor who was 47 is due to appear on bail on the 31st of august at barkingside magistrates‘ court. four men from the west midlands have been found guilty of plotting a terrorist attack similar to that carried out on the soldier lee rigby. a gang calling themselves "the three musketeers", along with one other man, were planning to attack police and military targets here in the uk. for security reasons some of the trial had to be held in secret, as phil mackie reports. a major alert near the centre of birmingham last august, homes and businesses were evacuated, the bomb disposal unit had to be called.

it was the culmination of an elaborate operation resulting in several arrests, including these men who called themselves the three musketeers. undercover officers found a cache of weapons in the back of one of their cars. there was a partially constructed pipe bomb, an imitation firearm, and a meat cleaver with the word "kafir" or unbeliever", scratched into the blade. they found them there behind that red door, which was a small delivery business called hero couriers, but it was all a front. the boss was an undercover police officer, and it had been set up by m15 as part of an elaborate deception to catch the terror cell they thought was plotting to attack either the police or military. and they recruited two of its members to be delivery drivers. naweed ali and khobaib hussain had previously been jailed for travelling to a terror training camp in pakistan. in prison, they met mohibur rahman, who was serving time for possessing terrorist material. they left prison with the same

extremist ideology. then a friend of rahman‘s, tahir aziz, was also recruited. but when they held meetings in birmingham and stoke, they were being watched. they believed that violence was the answer and they were prepared to use violence somewhere in the united kingdom in the furtherance of their ideology. four very dangerous individuals, who had they not been stopped, would have caused loss of life somewhere. the ministry ofjustice says it has provided support and training to its staff to challenge extremist views. but this case highlights the potential dangers from those with an extreme ideology when they are let out of prison. the fact that people are being released, and you know they are terrorists, they have been convicted, of terrorist offences, they are released back into society and there is no reason to think they have been de—radicalised we need to ask ourselves a question, are you happy with that? it is expected the four men will be jailed tomorrow, three of them for a second time. we can speak now to chris phillips,

who‘s the former head of the national counter terrorism office who you saw there in phil mackie‘s report. he joins via webcam from south west london. thank you forjoining us. on this particular case we had some remarkable background details about this undercover operation. basically it isa this undercover operation. basically it is a really good job by the police and security services. it goes to show the length they‘re going to keep us safe. but what it also shows is the difficulty they have in trying to deal with these people when they have been released from prison and still intent on killing and maiming. i think as a society across the west we need to rethink our ideas on this because it is such a big problem. and u nfortu nately i is such a big problem. and unfortunately i believe the terrorism problem is at its early stages and we will see many more

terrorist attacks in the coming months and here —— and years ahead. many politicians are concerned about this and see this threat, we had numerous discussions in parliament about what to do particularly about people who they know may be a danger, control orders have been tried, what do you think the answer is. well you can save the politicians have given it much thought but what they have done is let us down because the control orders were much stricter than the current ones. and neither of them really have done a great amount to assuage the dangers of these people that are on the streets. let‘s not forget as well there is an enormous number of people, tens, 15th and 20s of people who have been released already from the early days of terrorism in 2005, 2006 and they show no signs of being radicalised and terrorism is not like any other

offence, not a shoplifter being released to steal again from shops. these are people intent on killing large numbers of members of the public. so there is a radical aberration in prison, people coming out and then what you do with them, do you think surveillance is the answer, that takes a lot of manpower. yes and there's enough manpower. yes and there's enough manpower to keep them all under track at any one time. this may sound quite extreme but during the second world war where we had german citizens and japanese citizens, they we re citizens and japanese citizens, they were taken away from society and locked up in places like the isle of man and other places and kept away because they were deemed potential dangers. i‘m not suggesting that we do that but at least we must get the security services are reasonable chance of monitoring those people that are out there. i would say

control orders actually putting a tag on someone is not going to stop them being a terrorist but it will at least show that they are being monitored. thank you. 50 army cadets have been rescued after getting into difficulties in the mourne mountains in northern ireland. the cadets, aged between 12 and 17, had been camping when they were hit by bad weather. 16 of the group were reported to be suffering from hypothermia — but the ministry of defence has confirmed that all cadets are now safe and accounted for. 0ur correspondent chris buckler is in the mourne mountains. the weather does not look so bad now but presumably it was pretty dreadful earlier when they got into trouble. absolutely and through this afternoon up this pretty steep and narrow path, four by four rescue vehicles have been driving up and coming back down with teenagers in

the back, many of them on stretchers, some suffering from hypothermia. also suffering from ankle and leg injuries. taking a look at the mourne mountains, there is still a little bit of mist, it looks quite calm at the moment but the weather can change in a moment and that is exactly what happened to these cadets from the cleveland army cadet force. there were caught out in very strong wind, in heavy rain. at some stages the rescue teams tell me that visibility was down to perhaps 20 or 30 yards and that is why there was such difficulty here. they had hoped to use helicopters and they were here to rescue them but in practice many of them had to be brought down by the rescue vehicles. and here at what is normally a very quiet cross rhodes, they were transferred from one vehicle and into ambulances. many of them quite shocked, a lot of them having to be warmed up, hypothermia a big concern for many. and the

rescue services have had to take this very seriously, the northern ireland ambulance service referred to this is a major incident at lunchtime to get the extra help they needed to get all the cadets down from the mountain. but that has happened. the ministry of them —— the ministry of defence said in a statement it had been a remarkable rescue operation and they thanked the teams who got their cadets to safety. the headlines on bbc news. scientists successfully repair a faulty gene in human embryos to correct dna that causes a deadly heart condition. four men from the west midlands are found guilty of plotting terror attacks against police and military targets. 17 children have been stretchered off the mourne mountains in northern ireland after a group of army cadets from england got into difficulties in treacherous weather. after 70 years of official public

engagements, the duke of edinburgh made his final solo appearance on royal duty today. now 96, he‘s the longest serving consort in british history. 0ur royal correspondent nick witchell reports. it was the kind of afternoon weather—wise which might have made anyone glad to be retiring. quite apart from the fact that in the duke‘s case he‘s been doing this sort of thing for 70 years. but there he was, on the forecourt of buckingham palace, a man of 96, standing to attention in the pouring rain for the salute he has heard so many times. there were many things to remind him of the past decade. the parade had been mounted by the royal marines, the fighting force which is part of his beloved royal navy. in which he served in world war ii. and in the background was the palace where he has attended so many events, garden parties and the formal dinners, alongside the queen.

and where his programme, 22,000 solo engagements, more than 5000 speeches, has been planned. the duke strode across the forecourt, no stick for him and woe betide anyone who might suggest such a thing. and as he went, the crowd outside the palace applauded. by now it was almost time to go. the royal marines gave him three cheers. the duke waved his hat and strode away. and as he went the band of her majesty‘s royal marines played, for he‘s ajolly good fellow. after 70 years service, and with his own separate programme of royal engagements now concluded, who today would have dared to disagree? nicholas witchell, bbc news, buckingham palace.

the technology company which provided the voting system for sunday‘s controversial election in venezuela says the turn—out figures were manipulated. antonio mugica, the boss of smartmatic, said his firm estimated the difference between actual participation and the one announced by the authorities was at least one million votes. it is therefore with the deepest regret that we have to report that the turn—out numbers on sunday 30th july for the constituent assembly in venezuela were tampered with. the automated election system used in venezuela is tamper—evident and self—reports any attempt to interfere with it. will bryant is the venezuelan

capital now. the opposition had said they suspected something was afoot. what will the opposition say about all this and what will the reaction be on the streets? if you already thought you were living in venezuela that this election will somehow tampered with, just hearing those words from the head of the voting technology company that has been running the elections in venezuela since 2004 would only go to confirmed the fear is that you had. that the opposition as you quite rightly said suggested that the numbers were inflated. we‘ve seen a report from the reuters news agency that with just a couple of hours to go before the voting stations closed, but somewhere in the region of 3.5 million votes had only been cast. the government says it minimum votes were cast so how those last couple of hours made up that difference, all of this is on

people‘s minds in venezuela. and they feared the election simply was not free and fair. and meanwhile there are going ahead with the swearing in of this constitutional assembly, to people think it has any legitimacy and does the president really care that the criticism is raining infrom really care that the criticism is raining in from abroad? exactly, so the pressure is growing internationally, the pressure internally growing over these latest comments about the voting. but it seems that the government simply is ignoring that. mr majoris pushing on regardless. they‘re swearing in the new deputies, the ones they want to ta ke new deputies, the ones they want to take over the existing national assembly, it is trying to hold onto its power and it really is a confusing and difficult situation. but you‘re right, president majoris simply does not seem to care, in fa ct if simply does not seem to care, in fact if anything he is pushing back and for example where the sanctions

from the united states, he is wearing both as a badge of honour. the trump administration has referred to him now as a dictator. thank you very much. a man and a child have been killed after a light aircraft made an emergency landing on a beach in portugal. local media reports say the incident took place on a beach at in almada, south west of lisbon. a portugal news channel is reporting that a 30—year—old man and a girl have died. reports said the pair were sunbathing when the plane made its emergency landing. members of the plane‘s crew are said to be unharmed and being interviewed by authorities. in the us, one person has been killed and others are trapped after part of a school building in minneapolis collapsed following a possible gas explosion. rescue workers are extinguishing a fire and searching for victims at the school. new research on the government‘s state pension reforms has found that more than a million women in their early sixties have

become poorer as a result. according to the institute for fiscal studies they are losing — on average — more than £30 a week. meanwhile, the government is saving more than £5 billion a year. emma simpson has been looking at the plight of some of the women affected. no trips to the pictures. no trips to the pub. my life, my lifestyle, has changed. i can‘t do the things i used to do. shirley from aberdeen is 61. she can‘t work because of ill—health, and she can‘t get state pension either for another five years. the effect it has had on me, ending it all... because having to... rely on your family. but my son said to me, he said, "mum, you brought me up. you always gave me when you had it.

it‘s my turn." but it‘s still hard. for decades, the pension age has stayed the same, women retired at 60, men at 65. but by 2020, both men and women will have to wait until they are 66 before they can draw their state pension. the changes for women began in 2010, and it all depends on your date of birth. so, for instance, if i was born before the 6th of april 1950, i would still get my state pension at 60. but if i was born two years later, i would get that benefit at 62. and if i was born a couple of years after that, then i will be 66 before i draw my state pension. this former pensions minister told me the government was right to take action on the spiralling pensions bill. but... given the savings of many millions of pounds that the government

is making, a small amount of that could be allocated to helping those women that have been pushed into poverty, bridge the gap between when they would have got their state pension, and when they will now receive it. women have been campaigning for that. ministers insist the changes are fair, we are living longer, and women retiring now will get a state pension longer than previous generations. theyjust need to get there. a former british soldier is facing a terror charge whilst on holiday in turkey. he is accused of being part ofa turkey. he is accused of being part of a kurdish terror organisation according to the turkish authorities. jill robinson was on a

beach with his fiancee went turkish police arrived at their resort. he was taken into custody along with his fiancee and her mother. his grandmother got a call from a turkish solicitor last tuesday saying he had been arrested. that he was safe and he was with his fiancee and her mother. and that was it. 24—year—old joe is now being accused by turkish authorities of being a member of a terrorist organisation. i found out on friday he had been arrested for terrorist charges or propaganda, i was devastated. arrested for terrorist charges or propaganda, iwas devastated. he previously had a career as a soldier in the british army and served in afghanistan. but in 2015 he travelled on his own to syria and spent time with the kurdish rebels the ypg who are fighting against

so—called islamic state. it is because of this thatjo robinson now finds himself in trouble in turkey. always trying to help other people, he's not a terrorist, but as the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard. but because of long hostilities with the kurdish, the ypg and anyone associated with it is seen ypg and anyone associated with it is seen by turkish authorities as a terror threat. the concept of terrorism and how it is defined in turkish law is broader than in europe. and they are more afraid of the propaganda aspect of a british national fighting with the kurdish army against islamic state rather than that person being a threat to public security in turkey. the british foreign office says it is aware of a british national in detention in turkey and said that has requested british officials to be given consular access. but in reality the bbc understands it can ta ke reality the bbc understands it can take several weeks before turkish authorities and now —— allow british

officials to have contact with someone accused officials to have contact with someone accused of offence. president trump has cast fresh doubt on his willingness to impose fresh sanctions on russia — only minutes after signing the measures into law. he said the law was "significantly flawed" and unconstitutional because it limited his powers to lift the sanctions. they were originally imposed in retaliation for russia‘s actions in ukraine and its alleged interference in the us presidential election last year. joining me now from washington is our correspondent laura bicker. he says it is flawed, but he signed it anyway, why? when he says that this was approved ina rare when he says that this was approved in a rare moment of bipartisan unity. the measures now land on the desk of president trump and have been there all weekend. he said he would find it but it has taken a day

for him to do so. he has done so relu cta ntly a nd for him to do so. he has done so reluctantly and with the whole flurry of reasons as to why he believes it is flawed. 0ne flurry of reasons as to why he believes it is flawed. one of the reasons he does so is he believes that congress is stepping on his turf so to speak. tying his hands when it comes to various aspects of doing business with russia. he believes congress is overstepping its mark in this case and that is one reason why he is pushing back. the relationship with russia poses crucial in this, that investigation going on. some have described the relationship between america and russia as the worst it has been for a long time. is that the case? this was not the hope of a president trump who took hold of the white house. it was his hope that he could reset relations with russia and build a new relationship with vladimir putin. that is one reason why he does not like this sanctions bill. plus the fact that he says he will that it will affect the energy sector. he is not the only one not

happy about this sanctions bill, the eu is also coming forward worried about is infringing on the energy sector based in russia because it will place limits on how many people, what kind of people can invest in that russian energy sector. so when it comes to jobs, donald trump has said i‘m the best negotiator for this country, the people of this country elected me to do thisjob people of this country elected me to do this job and now congress is getting in my way. and there was overwhelming bipartisan support in congress, will this be something that we see again over other controversial policies? he ran as an outsider and this is another example of that. he does not believe he is part of the republican party, his administration, that establishment figure, he believes he is outside of that and that is one thing we seen that the administration and who he has around him. when it comes to the kind of

president he will be and the kind of president he will be and the kind of president he will be and the kind of president he promised the people he will be, it is not the kind of political manoeuvring we have seen in the past. i think it is one of a number of things we will see over the next few years of donald trump disagreeing with what is going on in congress. thank you. time now for an update on the weather. today brought a summer soaking for many but not quite all. bulbs in scotland have blue skies and sunshine and if we look at the satellite earlier there was not much cloud across the northern half of scotland but a different story further south with heavy bursts of rain moving across southern counties of england. the wet weather affecting the south—east and east anglia overnight. the rain will bend its way through northern scotla nd will bend its way through northern scotland and after a fine day things will turn wet overnight. showers will turn wet overnight. showers will packing from the west. a day of

sunshine and showers. where the wind stays brisk across southern areas showers will move through quickly and there will be sunny spells. in the north, heavy and slow—moving with thunder. a mix of sunshine and showers continues on friday and into the weekend but with fewer showers further south. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines. for the first time, scientists have successfully repaired a faulty gene in human embryos. the us and south korean team used "gene editing" to correct dna that causes a deadly heart condition. four men from the west midlands have been found guilty of planning a lee rigby—style terror attack against police and military targets. the emergency services in northern ireland have been rescuing dozens of army cadets from the mourne mountains in northern ireland.

the group, from middlesbrough, got into trouble in bad weather president trump has reluctantly signed into law a bill imposing sanctions on russia, but he declared the legislation ‘significantly flawed‘. the duke of edinburgh has attended a royal marines parade at buckingham palace as his final solo public engagement before retiring from royal duties today at the age of 96. let‘s return to our top story — the news of a landmark breakthrough in repairing human genes. scientists have used a process known as ‘gene editing‘ to correct dna in a human embryo that causes a deadly heart condition. we can now speak to professor darren griffin, professor of genetics at the university of kent. we use the word breakthrough a lot,

but do you think this is, especially given it is about a common heart condition? yes, ithink given it is about a common heart condition? yes, i think it was the sort of report that was inevitable. this new technology has been with us for a few years and is easy to use. someone correcting a defect in a human embryo, it would happen sooner or later. could it have the potential to treat other inherited diseases? people were talking about 10,000. it has potential for anything caused by a single gene defect of turning the mutant gene into a normal one. but there are questions we need to ask from a practical and ethical point of view. i was going to ask you the ethical questions, a lot of people using the term designer bogeys and the fact it is work that is done and gene

editing done on embryos and people questioned this legislation and whether any change these to be made before it goes further. absolutely and if it were to go further than legislation needs to change because currently it is illegal to deal with genes, and go on a pregnancy. groups can perform experiments for basic research purposes. there are questions we need to ask and some are practical, about whether in the future... do you think people should feel optimistic, people who know they have inherited diseases in theirfamily, how they have inherited diseases in their family, how much comfort should they take from the news? for 25 years we have had a technology,

implantation. in that case we select embryos free from diseases. what we need to ask is what does this technology add to that already? the embryos would have to be tested in the first place and potentially corrected and tested again to see the correction works. the practical issues surrounding this, and at the moment couples would go ahead with preimplantation genetic diagnosis and we need to look hard at what this technology adds. ok, professor, thank you forjoining us. the number of deaths due to drugs in england and wales last year, reached their highest level on record. the office for national statistics says there were 3,744 ‘poisoning deaths‘ involving both legal and illegal substances, in 2016. the figures also show that more people in their 40s died, than those in their 30s.

a person from the centre for social justice says he is not surprised by the findings. it is a continuation of what we have seen in the past decade, such that we now have the most number of people dying as a result of drugs related deaths than we have seen since records began and one striking thing we have seen is there has been less money going into treatment services and less good treatment services and less good treatment services and less good treatment services commissioned by local authorities as well. what we have seen is a perfect storm where those with addictions are seeking help and if they manage to find some, they are not getting effective treatment and they are being left stuck in their addiction, not helped to recover. it is difficult not to see this as part of the same big problem. we know the solution is there, which is an effective set of

treatment services. if you are rich and can afford your own treatment you can get help, if you are poor, it is difficult, so it is an issue of social justice. the president of the prison governors association, has attacked the government‘s management ofjails in england and wales. andrea albutt, says she‘s "devastated" at the "complete decline" in the service, that she says over—stretched staff are able to provide. she made the comments in an open letter, after recent violence at prisons in hertfordshire and wiltshire. the ministry ofjustice, says it‘s recruiting more prison officers. our home affair correspondent danny shaw reports. troubling times for jails in england and wales. this was the scene outside the mount prison in hertfordshire this week as a team of prison officers prepared to deal with a disturbance. they are known as tornado units, specially trained and equipped to restore order when prisoners take control. the problems add up to a crisis, caused by a toxic mix of population pressures and staff shortages. that is the view of the leader

of the organisation which represents prison governors. the situation is bad. and until we get sufficient staff in our prison, the situation we are in will continue. so we will continue to try to control the situation in our prisons, but we will not be delivering in a significant number of our prisons, good—quality rehabilitative regimes. we will literally be holding and controlling people in our care and this is unacceptable. in an open letter that‘s sharply critical of the government‘s handling of prisons, andera albutt said her members had seen nothing tangible from ministers to ease the burden on staff. she said... she claimed there was a gaping hole in operational knowledge in the ministry ofjustice, that she said was being filled by moving governors

from their posts in prisons. but some question why prison governors are only speaking out now. we would like to think they are analysed, but where have they been for five years? we have all been affected. it is not their members getting used as punch bags, it is ours. the ministry ofjustice is recruiting an extra 2500 staff and has set up a new agency, the prison and probation service. in statement, they said, "this will help to create a professional front line service and will ensure that policy and operations are working closely together to deliver these much—needed reforms." new prisons are being built, but the overall prison population is increasing at such a rate, there is little spare capacity. more now on the duke of edinburgh who after 65 years of official public engagements, has made his final solo appearance on royal duty. prince philip braved the rain to attend a parade

by the royal marines, of which he‘s the captain general. now 96, he‘s the longest—serving consort in british history. martin palmer has been a friend and religious adviser adviser to prince philip. i‘ve known him over 30 years and in the last years it has been more difficult. he has been more tired. we did a meeting with religious leaders from china a couple of months ago and he was looking really tired. you have to remember he has been used to having periods of time. when you plan royal diaries you do them in six months labs from january tojune and them in six months labs from january to june and july to them in six months labs from january tojune and july to december and all ways we knew we could not put anything really before mid—0ctober for the second part. it is not as though he is never relaxed and he

knows how to relax. having been with him ona knows how to relax. having been with him on a few relaxing moments. we can now speak to the royal historian sarah gristwood — she joins us via webcam from dover. this is a big day for the prince. do you think is right, he will know how to relax after yea rs you think is right, he will know how to relax after years of duty? i'm not sure relaxes the world. i suspect he will take his pleasures in different ways, but i think nobody could begrudge him that. after such a record of service. his workrate is something people talk about. even last year, he was carrying out more duties than prince william and prince harry.|j carrying out more duties than prince william and prince harry. i know, it is truly astonishing, when you start to tart up the number of engagements and speeches over those decades. it

reaches a really astonishing total. and, really, ithink reaches a really astonishing total. and, really, i think he has done an amazing job. i think we are only now coming to appreciate it. he has obviously been around an awful long time and people have talked a lot about the way he has supported the queen, when she was at a younger age, thrust into becoming the queen unexpectedly. but his own charity workers well, do you think people have appreciated how much he has contributed? no, i think have appreciated how much he has contributed? no, ithink the have appreciated how much he has contributed? no, i think the number of young people who have been helped by the duke of edinburgh‘s award scheme is astonishing. it really is that support for a queen and we need to rememberfor a that support for a queen and we need to remember for a man that support for a queen and we need to rememberfor a man of his generation and background and temperament, to spend their career walking two steps behind their wife is really quite a difficult thing to do. especially as it came to him so

early. also the time it came, in the 19505, that early. also the time it came, in the 1950s, that was not the usual set of affairs. much has been said about his sense of humour, his gaffes. some would say that is just his strong personality. i think there is probably several things going on. on the one hand it is his personality and maybe a safety valve, who knows, for having to walk two steps behind. also he has said if you are someone who breaks the ice, the risk is going to be you fall through it. in the way, he has seen his role as being partly to break the ice for the queen. certainly in the early yea rs, the queen. certainly in the early years, she really was notably having difficulty being smiling, relating to people. he was very anxious to try to help her with that and in doing so to help to modernise the

monarchy. it is not the last we are going to see the visit. his solo duties will come to an end but he will probably pick and choose other events. i'm sure that right. also we have to assume he will be advising behind the scenes. thank you for joining us. the headlines on bbc news. scientists successfully repair a fa u lty scientists successfully repair a faulty gene in humans to correct dna that causes a deadly heart condition. four men from the west midlands are found guilty of plotting terror attacks against police and military targets. 17 children have been stretchered off the mourne mountains in northern ireland after a group of army cadets from england got into difficulties in treacherous weather. jodrell bank in cheshire is known

for its work shaping our understanding of space and the universe and it is 60 years as the receivers of the iconic telescope we re receivers of the iconic telescope were switched on. to mark the anniversary six new parts of the site willjoin the structure as listed buildings. for more than 70 years, jodrell bank has been at the forefront of scientific research. the work carried out here revolutionised our understanding of the universe. carried out here revolutionised our understanding of the universem carried out here revolutionised our understanding of the universe. it is a special place to work out because you‘re doing cutting—edge science, but you know you are following in the footsteps of people worked here many years. it feels like an historically important place. the lovell telescope is the star attraction. as. as well as a symbol of the north—west, it is an icon of science and engineering and named after the man who founded the

observatory. the telescope you can see in the distance has been grade i listed almost 30 years but now another six structures are getting heritage protection, including this one. it is unusual and these are unusual structures, these massive, sculptural scientific instruments. to have two close together grade i listed is exciting. the control room for the telescope has been given grade two listing. this control desk is the original. the timing is no coincidence, the announcement marks 60 years since the telescope collected its first radio signals from the universe. that was the day it first started working as a scientific instrument, this phrase first light is a romantic phrase in astronomy. mark two old control room has grade two status. and also listed two of the earliest structures, a workshop and remains ofa structures, a workshop and remains of a searchlight aerial. it is

special because these are places people worked in and thought about things they were doing and they built the instruments they did the science with. the plan is to open the buildings to the public over the next few years with the hope of inspiring the next generation of scientists. in america, the trump presidency has been controversial for many reasons — among green activists it‘s his plans to allow more oil exploration in the arctic ocean that has ignited protest. a coalition of organisations has called the plan unconstitutional. the inupiat whale hunters of northern alaska could feel the greatest impact of any future drilling. 0ur environment correspondent claire marshall travelled more than 300 miles north of the arctic circle, and sent this report the climate is changing and the ice that covers the arctic is disappearing. here the conflict between the natural world and the business of oil is at its most stark. this town is the furthest north in the united states,

so remote it is cut off by road from the rest of the country. the inupiat call the ocean their garden. and this is where they store the harvest of whale meat. is that kidney? if that‘s kidney put it on top of the heart. i don't know where the heart is. it‘s right in front of you. this is an ice cellar dug out of the permafrost, the perfect freezer. it helps to sustain them during the long arctic winter. back up. s your mouth starts to warm it up, it softens up like chocolate. it‘s a richness you can get from anything else. so take that one. i‘lljust have a little one. put it on your tongue. don‘t try and chew it real fast, just kind of let it dissolve a little bit in your mouth. then start chewing it. but it should...

it‘s not oily. it‘s not like crisco oil. no. no, it‘s not my thing. i don‘t mind the meat, i don‘t mind the meat of it, but i‘m not mad on that. hunters always have a knife on them. we use white because the whales can see colour. niaomi is a whale hunter. she takes us to a feast on the beach. the inupiat have hunted the bowhead whale in their sealskin boats for thousands of years. now donald trump intends to reverse the ban on drilling in the arctic ocean. and many are afraid they will lose their way of life. i honestly want to be at the shore and tell him no, you can‘t. i mean, just imagine if there were to be a big spill in the ocean. none of this would be happening right now. but like the rest of alaska, this town is almost entirely dependent on oil. taxes on the industry in other parts of the country pay for the infrastructure and every alaskan gets a yearly cash dividend. we will start slicing it all off.

fred brower believes that oil is the only way they can carry on hunting. you can‘t go whaling for free. it costs money to go whaling. so there‘s an opportunity to coexist together. and an opportunity for not only industry to thrive but also the local traditional hunters. we are closer to the north pole here than we are to washington, dc. but the white house has its eyes firmly fixed on this region. it is an unstable world and what lies beneath this ice could be crucial to the energy security of the united states. but drilling here would be very risky, just as it is risky to hunt. armed in case of polar bears, some other hunters take us out to the very top berger. to the very top of america. the arctic is warming twice as fast as anywhere else on the planet. most scientists agree that oil, a fossilfuel, is helping to bring about this change.

i love my people and i love my land. maybe we should start looking ahead for something that‘s more renewable. maybe wind in the winter and solar in the summer. any options are better. traditional inupiat dancers tell the stories of their land and its creatures. donald trump and his decisions may well be woven into the songs of the future. it looks like the record for a football tra nsfer it looks like the record for a football transfer fee is about to be shattered. with french club paris st—germain preparing an astonishing £198 milliond bid for the brazilian footballer neymar. that‘s more than twice the current record. neymar‘s current club, barcelona, have given him permission to hold talks — one of his advisers says the deal could be done by the weekend.

our sports news correspondent richard conway is in paris and has this update on that world record fee. it is a huge amount of money but one of the mottos of this club is "revons plus grand" — dream bigger. and there can be no bigger dream in world football right now than signing a player of neymar‘s calibre. this morning he went to barcelona, his current club, to officially train, but they gave him permission not to train and instead he say goodbye to his current team—mates and then the club issued a statement saying he had formally requested to leave and that full release clause in his contract must be paid in full if he is to depart — that is 222 million euros, around £198 million. all day today at the club shop there have been a lot of fans a lot of excitement and people coming up to say, has he signed yet? notjust yet, but the inevitability is it is going that way and perhaps by the weekend, in time for paris st germain‘s first league fixture of the season, we will see neymar in a blue shirt of paris st germain.

for years these familiar faces of have dominated the world of athletics — but as athletes begin arriving in london for the world championships — we look at who will pick up the baton. natalie pirks has been finding out. gold for great britain again. expectation rather than hope, so successful have british athletes been over the last few years that older moments have become the norm, golden moments have become the norm, but guaranteed medals are a thing of the past. jessica ennis—hill has retired, world champion long jumper greg rutherford is out injured, mo farah is bidding farewell to the track. i have achieved what i wanted to achieve, and it would be nice to be able to finish on a high. i guess, why not do it where it all started, in london, at that track? where i became 0lympic champion, that is what changed me as an athlete.

you come back years later as the world champion, i am like, i am going to end it at that track. aggressive running from laura muir. who are those moving into the spotlight? laura muir is aiming to do the middle—distance double in both the 1500 and 5000 metres, despite fracturing her foot injune. look at the grit she is showing. currently studying to become a vet, the 24—year—old juggles her love of animals with a tough training programme. she set five british records in the last 12 months, but she wants much more. breaking those british record, i am very happy to have done that, i am sure down the line there will be somebody coming up and breaking my record. the medals are things that stay with you for ever. uk sport has targeted six to eight of those medals, a big ask for a squad juggling injuries. but the bigger picture focuses on the next generation. born just a few miles from the london 0lympic site, never

natheneel mitchell blake is the second fastest 200 metre runner of all time. the 23—year—old believes now it is time for new athletes to write their own chapter in british sporting history. people are seeing a changing of the guard in sport. whatjessica ennis—hill, mo farah, what they have done is remarkable, there are feats cannot be replicated, they have made their own legend in their own right and people want to come here and build our own legacy. it is always hard to say goodbye but fond farewells bring new beginnings. podium places may not be as plentiful in these championships but the potential for future 0lympics will shine through. time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good evening, today delivered a summer soaking for many places, particularly close to the south coast of england and if you planned a trip to the beach in lyme regis

you may have headed home because that was the scene for one of the weather watchers there. but across northern scotland some blue skies. you can see from the satellite picture not a lot of cloud across northern parts of scotland. elsewhere, cloudy skies and some outbreaks of rain and heavy rain that moved across southern parts of england in particular. that will continue to fall across east anglia and the south—eastern night. blustery winds. rain going back into northern scotland. and then further showers packing in towards the west. low pressure still with us as we head through tomorrow and we revert to something we are used to recently, a mixture of sunshine and showers. where you are closest to the low pressure the winds will be light and shower slow moving. plenty of downpours across scotland tomorrow morning and persistent rain in place across the far north of

scotla nd in place across the far north of scotland and the northern isles. showers moving from northern ireland into northern england but in east anglia and the south—east, more sunshine. showers packing in across wales and the south—west. in southern areas, the showers should move quickly. not so in the north with light winds, the showers will be slow—moving and could give a lot of rain in a short space of time and could cause disruption. not too many showers getting into the south—east of england. through thursday night, many of the showers will fade away and will continue across northern areas. they will continue to be most widespread where we are closest to the low pressure which on friday will be sitting up to the north—east. showers across scotland, north—east. showers across scotland, north—east england perhaps. the further south you are, more spells

of sunshine. we will keep showers at times through the weekend but particularly in the south a fair amount of dry and bright weather as well. this is bbc news. i‘m vicki young. the headlines at 8:00pm.

pioneering research in gene editing in embryos that could pave the way to preventing inherited diseases. a method of not passing on the infected gene could be important for those families and allow them to get out of this cycle. terrorists calling themselves the three musketeers, have been found guilty of conspiring to attack british police and military targets. dozens of army cadets, aged 12 to 17, have been rescued off the mourne mountains in northern ireland, after getting into difficulties in bad weather. donald trump signs off on new sanctions against russia for their alleged meddling in the 2016 election, but claims the bill is "significantly flawed". also in the next hour...