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... bowing out after seven decades of royal duties. hip hip hooray.

prince philip carries out his final solo engagement watching a parade of royal marines 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 of 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. they can speak to a doctor from the head of the centre of embryonic cell and gene therapy in the oregon university in portland and one of the key authors of the study. thank you for discussing this tonight. we talk a lot in science about breakthroughs. how do you see this work and where it goes from here? breakthroughs. how do you see this work and where it goes from here7m sat ina work and where it goes from here7m sat in a very early stage. 0ne work and where it goes from here7m sat in a very early stage. one of the intended embryos that was never intended to be transplanted into a uterus. we are seeing if we can eradicate this mutant gene early in development. the idea was, the

reproductive cells... since that is passed to children, we need to correct it at the very beginning. the idea was how you go about correcting a mutant gene. the technology available nowadays, all it does is make additional cuts in the dna strand. we were thinking the cells themselves could repair the dna break. the embryos themselves have a very strong system that a lwa ys have a very strong system that always checks. in this case the mutant gene would only be in one copy. we all have two copies of almost every gene. this mutant gene would come from sperm, from the

mail, and the egg would be normal. we found that by making a cut in the mutant gene, the embryo starts trying to repair the damage, and by repairing it will check for errors around the gene. that's how it finds the cut that's there, and also the mutation next to the cut, which will also now be looked at is something wrong. the maternal copy, which is normal, of the gene, is used as a blueprint. this is the main discovery that shows we can actually induce or improve the embryo. so what's the next step? you are saying that in theory this can be done, you have done it in certain circumstances, but presumably broader trials will be needed and presumably as well there might be

ethical issues surrounding that. exactly. this is one of the first steps and we hope this will initiate some more discussions in society and with medical agencies about moving this further. the research can be done across laboratories, but putting embryos into patients, that's where we need a consensus from society about whether we should go there, and if we do, how and who will be regulating this kind of clinical trial. thank you for joining us this evening. 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. 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. fifty army cadets aged between 12 and 17 have had to be rescued in northern ireland after getting into difficulties in the mourne mountains. the group, who'd travelled there from england, were caught in bad weather. 16 of them were understood to be suffering from hypothermia. the ministry of defence has confirmed that all are now safe and accounted for. 0ur ireland correspondent chris buckler is at the scene and sent this update. this afternoon up this pretty steep and narrow path, axa rescue vehicles have been

driving up and coming back down with teenagers in the back, many of them on stretchers, some suffering from hypothermia. 0thers 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. is 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 crossroads, 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 defence said in a statement it had been a remarkable rescue operation and they thanked the teams who got their cadets to safety. a doctorfrom east london has been charged with 118 sexual offences. the metropolitan police say manish shah, from romford, the 47—year—old has been charged with sexual assault on a child aged under 13 years. he is due to appear before magistrates in barkingside on thursday. 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 he's not keen on these at all but he has signed it anyway. why is that? he was boxed into a corner and had to sign it. congress approved last week, overwhelmingly, approved last week, overwhelmingly, a vast majority, republicans and democrats coming together. a rare moment of unity. this lands on the president's desk. the rule is he either signs it or vetoes it. but with the number of votes it got in congress, it means if he had vetoed it, congress could override it. he

was boxed into a corner, and that's one of the reasons he has had to sign it. but when he says that this is significantly flawed, what he is looking at, and this is what he said in his statement, it almost amounts to congress overreach. he believes they are treading on his toes, because it ties his hands regards to him trying to lift or waive any sanctions on russia in the future. this contentious relationship with russia, it's at the centre of an investigation. what does it say about the us and russian relations? we have just had some about the us and russian relations? we havejust had some reaction about the us and russian relations? we have just had some reaction from russia over the reuters newswire in the last 15 minutes and we are hearing from a russian spokesperson that this is the end of hopes for better ties between russia and the us. that it is tantamount to a full—scale trade war, and the relationship with the administration is perilous. that will hurt donald

trump because when it comes to the administration he has felt that with regard the statements put out, he has felt his executive power as president is being overruled by congress in the way it has been done. he feels some of the sanctions that target energy companies in russia, it would limit the number of american companies and personnel that could work with the energy sector in russia. it yields that is putting america at a disadvantage especially at a time when he's trying to negotiate betterjobs and a better position. this is so far from what the jump administration hoped at the start of the year. they had hoped for a reset with russia. not only is russia the subject of various investigations and whether 01’ various investigations and whether or not there was collusion between moscow and the tramp campaign, now congress has made sure that extra sanctions will hit russia and the

jump sanctions will hit russia and the jump administration is not happy about it. 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. 16 children suffering from hypothermia have been stretchered off the mourne mountains in northern ireland after a group of army cadets from england got into difficulties in bad weather. time for the sport, and fora in bad weather. time for the sport, and for a full round—up from the bbc sport centre, here's will perry. we'll we' ll start we'll start with this sensational story, one of the most ridiculous tra nsfers story, one of the most ridiculous transfers in the history of the game. the brazil star neymar is

hours away from joining paris st germain for a world record fee of £198 million which would buy him out of his contract, that's 109 £198 million which would buy him out of his contract, that's109 million more than the current record fee that manchester united paid for paul pogba. neymar told his club this morning that he wants to leave the nou camp and head to the french capital in a dealfunded by nou camp and head to the french capital in a deal funded by qatar sports investments who took over psg five years ago. the player has been excused from training and is now barcelona say, play is the money and paris st germain can have the player. we will have to see how it plays out in the coming hours and days. there is now an increasing certainty that neymar will be a paris st germain player for this coming season. the

implications for that are huge for barcelona, who will be without one of their leading players. paris st germain desperately wants to bridge the gap from being champions league wannabes to champions league winners. and for uefa, with financial fair play, where clubs have a requirement to live within their means. this size of deal and their means. this size of deal and the money potentially involved, and many people are looking at it to see if paris saint—germain can live within those obligations. for now, the fans in parisjust within those obligations. for now, the fans in paris just want to know one thing, when will neymar sign? celtic are in action in their champions league 3rd round qualifier it's currently 0—0 in the 2nd leg against rosenborg in trond—heim. james forest has come closest, a decent save from hansen for the norweigens. the first leg finished goalless but one of these teams will advance later tonight to the final qualifying round. england's women play their euro 2017 semifinal tomorrow —

and they'll be without their first choice keeper karen bardsley, who broke her leg during the quarters. siobhan chamberlain will step up to replace her and she's looking to make the most of the opportunity. it's really disappointing for karen. she hasn't conceded a goal so far in the tournament. you never know who will be called on at any moment in time. we work hard every day. we'll support each other. should nothing will change there and she has been great since she has been injured as well. there was a surprise in the big race of the day at goodwood with 20—1 outsider here comes when winning the sussex stakes. 0dds—on favourite ribchester who was looking for a third straight

win finished in 2nd after rival churchill was forced to pull out because of the heavy rain. here comes when though held on to win by a neck to give trainer andrew balding his first topflight victory since 2014. robert kubica sat in an f1 car officially for the first time since he partially severed his arm in a rallying accident six years ago. the pole managed to complete an impressive total of 7a laps in testing the renault at the hungaroring in budapest. the session was another major step in kubica's potential comeback to the sport. claire molloy will captain ireland on home soil at the women's rugby world cup, standing in for the niamh briggs, who is out of the tournament with an injured achilles. molloy, who will play at flanker, is one of the most experienced members of the ireland squad with 53 caps. the tournament starts this time next week. that's all sport for now. i'll have more in the next hour 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? this is what they always suspected but i think they have been vindicated by having it explained in those terms by the company that runs the voting system. the first hugo chavez government and the maduro

government sub subsequently have pointed to that company as the reason the elections are credible. they say the voting system is flawless a nd they say the voting system is flawless and they are very proud of the fact that company has run the system since 2004 stop so it's a big blow to their claims to have a credible result of some 8 million votes as the turnout they claim is the number, when the ceo of the very company that runs the system says they were manipulated and tampered with. does president maduro, given the criticism coming from around the world with countries calling him a dictator, does he care? what's his response been to all of this? so far, the war, the sanctions against him, they have been worn like a badge of honour. he has not backed down, not for a second. today he is

already swearing in the various members of this new assembly. he is pressing on with plans to have a new legislative body in venezuela. he says he has the popular backing. but when we see people out on the streets, and when we have seen the protests taking place, it's very ha rd to protests taking place, it's very hard to see how he can marry those two things. the fact he said the turnout wasn't what he said it was. the demonstrations, strikes and so on, and the demonstration shows no sign of getting better whatsoever. given that, what happens next? has there been more protests since the news about the election and the so—called tampering? is there likely to be more violence on the streets? there hasn't been yet, but i think there is probably going to be on thursday. that's how we will start to see people take to the streets again. on both sides, actually, the maduro government has also called on its supporters to take to the

streets. i think the situation in venezuela is reaching a point where it needs serious international support to find some negotiated solution, like it was a conflict. it isa solution, like it was a conflict. it is a conflict, really. the country is a conflict, really. the country is almost at war with itself, co nsta ntly is almost at war with itself, constantly in a state of dispute, political, economic, social, and normal law and order and the rule of law is starting to break down. thank you. a man and child have been killed after a light aircraft made a landing ona killed after a light aircraft made a landing on a beach in portugal. the incident took place on a beach at in almada, south west of lisbon. there are reports that a 50—year—old man and a girl have died — they were said to be sunbathing when the plane landed. members of the plane's crew are said to be unharmed and being interviewed by authorities. in the us, one person has been killed 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. it happened at a town in minneapolis. 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 decades. 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. time for a weather update.

today brought a summer soaking for many, but not quite all of us. look at northern scotland, blue skies and sunshine. looking at the earliest satellite picture, you can see there wasn't much cloud across the northern half of scotland. very different further south with outbreaks of rain, some heavy moving across the south of england. this weather continuing to affect the south—east and east anglia overnight with strong and blustery wind and rain heading into the north west of scotland. after a fine day, things turning wet overnight. showers packing in from the west. setting is up packing in from the west. setting is upfor packing in from the west. setting is up for tomorrow, a day of sunshine and showers. where the wind stays

brisk across southern areas, showers moving through quickly and there will be lengthy sunny spells. further north, more showers that are slow—moving and the odd rumbles of thunder. two bridges of 18—22. a mix of sunshine and showers through 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. dozens of army cadets — a number suffering from hypothermia — have been rescued from the mourne mountains in northern ireland. the group, from middlesbrough, got into trouble in bad weather. all have now been accounted for.

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. barcelona have told paris st—germain they must pay a world record £198 million fee "in full" before their brazilian striker neymar canjoin them. ina in a moment parent of a former british object facing a terror charge in turkey following his arrest while on holiday bed speak exclusively to the bbc to protest his innocence. new research has raised hopes that a pioneering gene editing technique can be used to eradicate inherited diseases. scientists in the us and south korea have successfully altered defective

dna in embryos so they are no longer programmed to develop heart disease. experts believe the technique potentially opens the door i asked our medical correspondent, fergus walsh, how much of a breakthrough this research is for heart conditions. 0n on this particular heart condition it affects one in 500 people, you may remember the footballer the who had a cardiac arrest it is the most common cause of cardiac arrest in otherwise hearty athlete. 0ften common cause of cardiac arrest in otherwise hearty athlete. often the first thing that people realises when they fall down on the ground with it. they have chosen a good target to go for, initially the scientists, us and south korean. but, it is a breakthrough of thoughts but we have to be careful with that word. we are a long way from the clinic, we are at the

foothills of the mountain of research took to come. it's been tried before in china and no a lot of what they cool off target, ever in the dna. —— there were a lot of what they cool oft targets. and then the potential to presumably use it but other inherited caesar's? absolutely there were about 10,000 single gene disorders it could be used for. # inherited diseases. and you would say why not if you are about keeping these diseases that must be a good thing but it raises a moral question, how far would you go what about if we could edit in enhancements? then you are, potentially, entering the era of designer babies and people who know they carry a single gene disorders do have the option of having ivf embryo screening already so there are options there, but this is going to create my one ethical issues that society will have to address. and when it comes to this country, we've

seen before new laws in parliament going through, in this country it is regarded as being encouraging to this kind of thing, isn't it? it is because we have the regulatory 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, you sign that report at the francis crick institute who are going to be doing gene editing in human embryos looking at the cause of miscarriage. there was a lot in not just about stuff going of miscarriage. there was a lot in notjust about stuff going in the clinic but looking at the fundamental reasons why the human body goes wrong. it is very exciting. a former british soldier is facing a terror charge in turkey after being arrested on holiday. joe robinson and his fiance, who live in leeds, were taken into custody during a police raid at their resort. mr robinson is accused of being a member of what turkey views as a kurdish terror organisation.

his family have spoken exclusively to our correspondent emma vardy. joe robinson was on a beach with his fiancee when turkish police arrived their resort. he was taken into custody along with his fiancee and her mother. joe's grandmother got a call from a turkish solicitor last tuesday basically saying he had been arrested and he was safe. he was with mira and her mum and that was it. 24—year—old joe robinson is now accused by turkish authorities of being a member of a terrorist organisation. when i found out on friday he had been arrested for terrorist charges, or propaganda on facebook, i was just devastated. he previously had a career as a soldier in the british army and served in afghanistan. but in 2015, joe robinson 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 that joe robinson now finds himself in trouble in turkey. he's always trying to help other people. he is not a terrorist. that is the most ridiculous thing heard in my life. because of long—standing hostilities with the kurds, the ypg and anyone associated with it, is viewed by turkish authorities as a terror threat. the concept of terrorism and how it is defined in turkish law is a bit broader than how it is described in european law. they are afraid more of the propaganda aspect of the british nationalfighting with the kurds against isis, rather than that person being a real threat to public security in turkey. the british foreign office says it is aware of a british national in detention in turkey and says it has requested for british officials to be given consular access. but in reality, the bbc understands it can take several weeks before the turkish authorities and now

british officials to have contact with someone who is accused of terror offence. 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. ed boyd from the centre for socialjustice says he's not at all surprised by the findings in these latest statistics. this is a continuation of what we have seen over the past few years, the past decade such that we now have the most number of people buying as a result of drug—related deaths that we have ever seen since records began. 0ne deaths that we have ever seen since records began. one of the striking things that we have seen over the yea rs things that we have seen over the years is that there has been less

money going into the treatment services and actually less good treatment services being commissioned by local authorities as well. so, what we have seen is a perfect storm were those with addictions are seeking help and if they are managing to find some they're not getting effective treatment at the pink wrap stockinette addiction, not helped to recover, i think it is very difficult not to see this all part of the same big problem. we know there is a solution there, and effective set of treatment services. at the moment if you're rich and middle—class and can forge a own treatment you can get help if you are poor actually it's a lot more difficult. —— you can afford your own treatment. this is a real issue of social justice. a change in the rules on how much sleep—in care workers must be paid could leave the whole system on the brink of disaster. that's the message from the charity, mencap, which looks after people with serious learning disabilities. it says that demands from the hm revenue and customs to backdate six years of payments to workers who provide overnight care could amount to a total

bill of £400 million. the game of thrones star, kit harrington, has been raising awareness about the issue and he's been speaking to our health editor, hugh pym. do they go together in groups to do their activities? with time out from his filming commitments, kit harington is campaigning for a cause close to his heart. he's concerned about a financial threat to charities which run supported homes like this for residents with learning disabilities. what is her favourite song? he is worried about the future care of his cousin, who has downs syndrome and learning disabilities. he loves swimming and dancing and is back and going to the disco. he needs to live the life that he loves living. my aunt cannot care for him in the way that she has, we need to find that for him, my worry is that we will not be able to. care workers who stay overnight used to get a flat rate of around £30, including when they were asleep

but after a court ruling, employers now have to pay the minimum wage for every hour, around £60 a night. they have been told to fund six years of back pay, which they say is unaffordable. what is your favourite colour? ahmed is a care worker with mencap, he does several sleep in shifts each week. he says getting what he is owed from previous years is important. he knows that charities will struggle to find the money. it is a sense of reward, an incentive which would boost my morale, and my motivation, to do what we do right now, even more. unions say it is only what the care workers deserve. they need to be paid, they have done this work already. because of the important work that care workers do, they deserve to be paid this money. it's important that the government

forces the minimum wage. a whitehall spokesperson has said... kit believes the government has to find the money. charities cannot pay this bill, if they cannot pay this bill, then people like the guys that are here, who we are here with today, will be left without the care they need, that just cannot happen. it needs to be... it needs to be footed by the government. echoing the fears of charity care providers that being forced to find the money will lead to closures with vulnerable residents the big losers. as tensions rise on the korean peninsula — events are closely watched by thousands of families in the south, who're hoping they can once again be allowed reunions with family members in the north. it was part of an olive branch offered by president moonjae—in

just a few weeks ago— but the deadline for pyongyang to respond was meant to be today. karen allen reports. i mention not seeing each otherfor half a century, brothers and sisters separated are now united in only for a few precious hours before another goodbye. this was two years ago plans when the pipeline bought more reunions like these soon. then this happened... north korea tested a second ballistic missile just last week blasting apart any hope of further humanitarian gestures. the border with north korea lies beyond this barbed wire and this past wall of ribbons with messages to loved ones on the other side really a sign of hope. but, after last week's missile test expectations of more family reunions have been pretty

much dashed. some people this would have been the final chance. but the pensioners like this 90—year—old watching developments unfold time is marching on. he arrived herejust before war erupted in the 1950s and like many on a divided korean can ensure he has been trying to find family members ever since. most are now dead. but, there is a niece who has survived. translation: just when i is about to give upi translation: just when i is about to give up i received a message, nice that she was looking for the family in the south. then in 2007 he received a letter and with it betray should photo of his niece. she looks just like her mother. uncle, i'm writing this letter to my uncle that i missed so much, uncle how is your

health? i finally took to you in your 80s when you told us that you would come back after graduating from college. after the korean war in the 1950s the country was divided tens of thousands of families torn apart forced to lead separate lives as the cold war rivalries persisted over competing ideologies. the legacy is some 30,000 people on the waiting list should the reunion programme be revived but every week more and more die, soon entire generation could be lost and with it his hopes of seeing his niece for one last time. 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 that has ignited protest. a coalition of organisations has called the plan unconstitutional. the whale hunters of

northern alaska could feel the greatest impact of any future drilling. our environment correspondent, claire marshall, travelled more than 300 miles north of the arctic circle, and sent this report from uchiar—pic. 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. as your mouth starts to warm it up, it softens up like chocolate. it's a richness you can't 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 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 dances tell the stories of their land and its creatures. donald trump and his decisions may well be woven into the songs of the future. claire marshall, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news...

using pioneering gene editing techniques, scientists in the us successfully correct the dna of human embryos to remove an inherited heart disorder. four men from the west midlands are found guilty of plotting terror attacks against police and military targets. sixteen children suffering from hypothermia have been stretchered off the mourne mountains in northern ireland after a group of army cadets from england got into difficulties in bad weather. in a moment, find out which structures at cheshire's jodrell bank have been granted grade 0ne listing, on the 60th anniversary of the lovell telescope's "first light". the government's been urged to do more, to persuade european union

countries to increase staffing levels at airports, after british tourists faced long waits at border controls. some holiday makers say they were forced to queue for hours, because of additional security checks, on travellers from outside the schengen free movement area. airlines uk, which represents british—based carriers, says ministers should use whatever influence they can to improve the situation. dan johnson reports. queues at passport control, nothing new. but some delays have been as long as four hours at airports like barcelona. passengers have even missed flights because of the wait. kate was in a group of 22 who were stuck in spain on monday. even though they were at the airport three hours early. by the time we got to the gate they told us the gate was closed. the plane was still there, the bridge was still attached to the plane, but they refused to let 22 of us on this plane and yet it took them half an hour to unload our luggage off the plane. which is an absolute disgrace. this is all because of tighter security checks across the european

countries that share passport and border control under the schengen agreement. more passengers are being checked against more databases to stop terrorists and criminals — that is all taking much longer. the reason for these delays is that some national governments had not foreseen the proper staffing resources and technology solutions at airports to make sure these checks can be done in a smoother way. these new rules have been enforced since april. but they have really made an impact now that airports are busy with holiday—makers. august is always the busiest time of year for travel, so inevitably you see long queues at this time of year. if you add to that the fact that they're bringing in these new security requirements, it's understandable those queues are longer than normal. so the most important thing to bear in mind is that when you leave for your destination abroad, leave some extra time to get through passport control, otherwise you run the risk of your losing your flight. there is always a trade—off, between the level of security and speed through the airport.

many are calling for more staff — these new checks have not even been fully rolled out yet so the queues could get longer before they get shorter. dan johnson, bbc news. jodrell bank in cheshire is known the world over for its work shaping our understanding of space and the universe. and it's exactly 60 years since the receivers on the iconic lovell telescope were switched on. to mark the anniversary — six new parts of the site — will be joining that structure as listed buildings. as katie walderman reports. 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. 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 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 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. as charity records go, this one's a classic. three women in their 70s and 80s, from melbourne, australia, have been channelling their inner beyonce. they've recorded a version of the hit, ‘all the single ladies,‘ as part of a campaign to save their local bowling club from demolition. in just three days, the track ‘all the bowling ladies,‘ has had a million views online. 0ur sydney correspondent hywel griffith has more. # all the bowling ladies...

with a combined age of 236, terri, janine and wyn may have thought their chances of pop stardom had passed. butjust four days after posting this video online, the bowling ladies of chadstone have caught the attention of the world. their impassioned plea to save their bowls club from being replaced by an indoor sports stadium has clearly struck a chord. even if they were not too familiar with the original version. two of us had heard of beyonce, but two of us had not any idea about that song. it is a wonderful environment, especially for the older people. we do not want to lose it because then where would we go? we'd have to travel and most of the ladies are older than i am, i'm 72 — it is their second home.

everybody cares. the local council says that the club is just one potential site being considered for a new stadium which would help meet demand for several sports. but chadstone's bowlers feel they are the victims of ageism as their sport may not be considered sexy enough. although the demanding choreography left one member saying she may need a hip replacement, the bowling ladies have clearly got their voices heard. and it would now take a brave politician to try to turf them out. what a great story, there was anyone way to follow that and that is with an update of the weather. you were singing in the rain today i tell you. many southern areas had a lot of wet weather in fact it was

southern part of the country that bore the brunt of the heavy rain, as we can see from the pictures taken by our weather watchers... if you chose a date to go to the beach or public turned around and went home again. look at this across northern scotland, my favourite picture, blue skies. the satellite picture compounds there was barely climb the sky —— a cloud in the sky across scotland. some particular we heavy rain across southern counties of england. still some heavy bester, across the south—east of england and east anglia and after that beatable day northern scotland will turn wet as the night goes on. some showers packing in from the west as we go on into the area hours interpreters dropping between 12 and 16 degrees. tomorrow, low pressure in charge of the scene and this brings us a mix of weather that we have become pretty used to buy now, and mixture of sunshine and showers. where you are of sunshine and showers. where you a re closest of sunshine and showers. where you are closest to the central areas of low pressure across parts of scotland, very light winds indeed. that means tomorrow morning the

showers will be slow mooning and could give you asked a lot of rain. —— slow—moving. to lincolnshire, east anglia and to the saudis not too many showers are told. some good spells of sunshine to start the day. —— lincolnshire, east anglia and to the south. the showers in southern errors will be going along by a fairly strong westerly winds seem might geta fairly strong westerly winds seem might get a shower but it should clear away fairly quickly to reveal sunny spells once again whereas the showers will stay very slow moving across scotland, particularly up to the north—east weather could be the rumble of thunder. the showers will plenty of ease of the day go on to because northern ireland, damages 18-22d. because northern ireland, damages 18—22d. thursday evening, most of the showers will fade away but they keep going across the bar not because our area of low pressure is still close by and still will be

close by on friday drifting onto the north—east at this stage. some showers continue scotland may be a north—west england in the midlands. further south there are few of showers, you are... began the weekend a month is that we keep the mixture of sunshine and showers but most of the showers will be towards the north and the north—west, the further south and south—east you are a better chance of staying dry though much of the weekend. full details the weather for the week ahead on the website. that is all the may, for now. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is 0utside source. we will start in venezuela where there has been an explosive accusation about last sunday's elections. that the turnout numbers on sunday the 30th ofjuly for the constituent elections were tampered with. those accusations have been called irresponsible. president trump has signed into law new sanctions against russia — but says they are deeply flawed.

that sanctions bill also targets north korea — and it comes as the us secretary of state strikes a conciliatory tone after weeks of tensions with the country. we do not seek a regime change. we do not seek the collapse of the regime. barcelona confirms its star striker neymar wants to leave —