let's begin the paper review, what shall we start with, mo farah? it's kind of the big story of the night. i don't know if you saw the race but it was really close in the end but it was really close in the end but it was really close in the end but it was pretty emotional stuff out there and the crowd loved it. sealing his place in history as probably the greatest british athlete ever. remarkable, retiring ona high, athlete ever. remarkable, retiring on a high, which very people don't like few people do, fantastic, a real feelgood factor for british sport at the moment —— which very few people do. he hasn't been beaten ina few people do. he hasn't been beaten in a global competition since 2011. a fantastic record and i don't want to tell tales out of school, i come into this newsroom quite a bit and i've never heard the news room break out in applause very often but he did when he finished. it looked a bit close towards the end. at one point he was being jostled. he looked tired at one point. this is by viewers from when he won the gold at the olympics in 2012 —— five

yea rs. at the olympics in 2012 —— five years. phenomenal to stay on top for that long. he's trying to do the double, the 5000 metres as well, that may have taken it out of him a bit, brilliant to see him with his little son on his shoulder who had been asleep two minutes earlier and he was woken up and put on his shoulder with his crowd shouting at him. let's do a bit of politics given we have the two of you here. this is nick timothy, who until recently was working with theresa may as one of the... he was the co— chief of staff. giles, did you ever worked with him 7 chief of staff. giles, did you ever worked with him? a bit, not massively. this is his first so—called kiss and tell in a political sense except for it isn't that amazing, there's no real bombshell in here whatsoever as far asi bombshell in here whatsoever as far as i can see, it seems pretty anodyne. the top lines out of this are he says reports that philip hammond was going to get the bullet are wide of the mark. that theresa

may will still walk away from brexit without a deal and the so—called dementia tax, which many people claim cost of the tories the election, was still the right thing to do. so far and we've only got the front page here is that it doesn't seem like he is trying to settle any old scores, but we haven't seen the inside pages, now he's got a regular column in the telegraph so perhaps there's more to come. but based on this front page there is nothing really we didn't know. do you agree the tories did well because they abandoned mrs may's message of change? i don't agree with that and thatis change? i don't agree with that and that is a curious conclusion for nick timothy, it's they abandoned change but it was the wrong kind of change. they were proposing change ina way change. they were proposing change in a way that concerned the way social care was paid for in the dementia tax, free school lunches for kids, proposing change to the triple lock on pensions, they were

proposing changes but people didn't like the changes proposed. i think what he fails to face up to is the fa ct what he fails to face up to is the fact the conservatives went into that election convinced they were going to win, taking the public for granted, it was the election nobody needed, apart from mrs may wanting to increase her majority and she took the country for granted and the election for granted. what might be interesting is so far we don't know what theresa may stands for. she hasn't defined herself, she didn't define herself at the start and maybe some of these columns might shed some light on it but so far she hasn't got a defining ideology. the only thing that will define her is the election and brexit. waiting for fiona hill's version of events?” suppose out of the two she has taken a lot more stick, the press has been unrepentantly a lot more stick, the press has been unrepenta ntly hostile towards a lot more stick, the press has been unrepentantly hostile towards her andi unrepentantly hostile towards her and i suppose the next big flashpoint in this will be the two

books on the election that come out on the yvonne conference, that will be incredibly problematic for theresa may. it's becoming an annual thing, the bookjust beforehand. we've done this every night this week. you have come in from france. i flew in from the south of france yesterday and i went through passport control at marseille airport faster than ever before. may be the guy doing the passport checks has been watching the news channel online and had seen what was going oi'i. online and had seen what was going on. but they barely looked at my passport on the way through. you look like a nice guy! doesn't mean i wasn't delayed by three hours but that was easyjet and their planes breaking down. who wouldn't want to be anywhere in southern europe at the moment? —— who would. if it isn't the delay is coming back it is the threat of... that's the next story. anarchists. i am going to

spain next week. good luck. not looking good, is it? it will be so hot i can't go out during the day andi hot i can't go out during the day and i could be stuck at the airport and i could be stuck at the airport and then anarchists protesting about what? accusing you of wrecking the island and saying tourists are destroying the pearler garlands and barcelona and majorca. this coincides with one of the busiest weeks when people go away so it adds to the chaos —— bowie eric islands. i think there's an element... i had a friend in one of those queues on the front page of the papers and he said it cleared within five minutes but at the moment they were bad —— that moment. there are a number of issues here. good luck. a bit more politics now. the irish prime minister coming up with a suggestion about what should happen because of the irish border, which is a problem

both sides have said is a priority, but there haven't been many concrete ideas coming up about what they do about it. he is suggesting the a nswer about it. he is suggesting the answer is for britain to stay in the customs union or have a bespoke customs union or have a bespoke customs union. it underlines the difficulties facing theresa may, she has 27 other countries to deal with in these negotiations. it's not unreasonable to say they wasted the first year not doing that much, they we re first year not doing that much, they were unremittingly hostile towards business and now they are bringing them back into the tent and they are paying the price and now it's a race against the clock. they are going to get these negotiations done by march, 2018, but that would be unprecedented. the eu canada deal took seven years and it hasn't yet come into force so we are living in cloud cuckoo land —— cloud cuckoo land if we think it will be done and dusted in a year and a half. there will be a transition period where nothing much changes, will that happen? certainly because there

won't be the answer is in place for so won't be the answer is in place for so many of the complex problems. what they were saying was there's frustration in europe that people feel because so much time has been wasted. this has been a difficult problem, the only land border between britain and the european union, but it's not in tactical —— intractable and after 14 months they have said they are still unable to come up with the he is suggesting he does. this is a story that has been rumbling on, mutiny at the national trust. volunteers have accused the national trust of trampling on their rights by making them were badges. they have been told they have to wear them to mark 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality. it seems bizarre you are told what to wear? the national trust i it seems bizarre you are told what to wear? the nationaltrust i think is the biggest membership

organisation in the country, it has five millionplus members. it seems a bit strange they are being forced to wear these badges. the majority of people are 40 quality. but it seems like a strange row to kick off. i can't quite know what to make of it all. the mail and the telegraph has this story this morning, they are trying to make it a thing about gay rights. it's almost a thing about the rights or the obligation of employers to say to their staff what they can and can't wear when they're doing theirjob and whether it would be supporting comic relief or wearing a poppy on remembrance day. iagree, i hate being told wearing a poppy on remembrance day. i agree, i hate being told what i have to wear and i would much rather, much as i support pride and all the rest of it, i would much rather the people at national trust properties were wearing the rainbow

flag because they wanted to rather than because they were told. couple of brexit stories, they are everywhere, this is in the daily express. the fury at michael gove's sell—out of the eu fishing, there is uncertainty about fishing, they are concerned they might be used as a bargaining chip in all of this. bargaining fish and chip! very good! . i should work for the tabloids. you should work for the sun! do you think this will happen? it adds to the whole sense of uncertainty and chaos. during the referendum debate goes said we will take back control of our waters, now he is saying eu countries can go into our waters —— both. to me it's notjust about policies, it's about the overall impression this gives of what's going on at the moment and it feels like we are in a state of flux and chaos and there's no real sense of certainty about what's going to

happen. what does it mean to say ta ke happen. what does it mean to say take back control? michael gove seems to be saying it wasn't 0k take back control? michael gove seems to be saying it wasn't ok for european fishermen to be in our waters because the eu says it's ok for them to be there but it is ok if we say it. all take back control means is the same things carry on happening but it is us that says it's all right rather than in agreement with our european partners. the same thing i think will happen on migration. i'm sure david davis will say it's all under control. these things will be negotiated in the coming months. let's look at the daily mail with oui’ let's look at the daily mail with our last couple of minutes, playing with people's lives, a review into betting machines, which is being abandoned because the treasury are worried about the tax they won't get in because of it but this is a problem for people addicted to gambling. these are described as the crack cocaine of gambling. there's been a huge campaign to stop them being in betting shops. it looks

like the government have done a u—turn or have taken the side of betting shops. they contribute £400 million to the extractor every year and they feel they can't do without that cash. but it is a massive source of contention. the labour party have ta ken source of contention. the labour party have taken it up as a big issue, saying that we are going to get on top of gambling and we have to crack down on it. the line is gamblers can waste £100 every 20 seconds on this machine so it's alarming. the death of foreign languages as schools drop french and german, did you do french and german? i did and all my worst grades were in languages. i still thought they were worth doing. 0ne of the reasons some kids don't want to do them is they say it is harder to do them is they say it is harder to be sure of getting a good grade in french and german than in some of the sciences and maths and other things and kids are now being driven to get the result to get into university and to be focused on how

they can use their education in their employment future. things like french and german are simply losing out. that's it. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website and you can see us again on online on the bbc news website and you can see us again on the iplayer. thanks to lance and giles. now a little later than usual, it is time for newsnight. commentator: he's a one-man world superpower, victory for mo farah! studio: a victory lap tonight for mo, but what of the sport he is leaving behind? as athletics fights to clean up its act, how confident is the head of the world anti—doping agency that he can keep drugs out? at the moment, without doubt, the toughest thing that i've ever tried to do in sport. also tonight, is kenya facing another bloody election? but if it happened by mistake... the government rigs election.

we, as supporters, will have to fight through the government. and this british man died battling is alongside kurdish fighters in syria. his motherjoins us to share her thoughts on his legacy. good evening. there were familiar scenes at london's olympic stadium tonight as sir mo farah won another 10,000m gold in the world athletics championships. it's been just five years since farah made his name as london, world athletics and british brilliance combined to create an olympic games that ranked among the most successful in history for both sport and spectacle. but since 2012, athletics has been mired in doping scandals which has seen the russian team excluded from international competitions

and a dark mood hang over proceedings. mo farah has never failed a drugs test. but his coach alberto salazar remains the subject of an investigation by us anti—doping chiefs, though of course he and sir mo deny any wrongdoing. some in the sport are critical of the speed at which the investigation that could clear them has been conducted. where does this leave athletics? and what will become of the sport once mo and its other big names like usain bolt depart after these games? chris cook has this. the women's 1500 the women's1500 metre final gets under way, two british athletes. the 2012 london olympics was a triumph in so many ways. but doping is casting an ever darker shadow over red. this race, the women's1500 metre final, has been dubbed the dirtiest race of all time. the

winner was previously banned for two yea rs winner was previously banned for two years from 2004 to 2006. she has been stripped of his gold and is now serving an eight—year ban fob dialogical passport violations. the silver—medallist is currently suspended the irregularities in her biological passport. in fourth place a russian athlete who were suspended prior to 2012 for fraudulent substitution of your own prior to a drug test. the fifth placed runner was later banned for drug use but had her suspension overturned. in seventh place in athlete banned for biological passport abnormalities. in nicely is, and athlete who will be banned in 2014 for two years, four use of a prohibitive substance 01’ four use of a prohibitive substance or method. the mail on sunday calculator that if 656 athletes of track and field athletes at london 2012, 87 had had doping violations. that story has been published it has ticked up to 88. a further 138 have doping

associations, either their coach or agent or doctor is associated or they have missed or failed a test. the world championships that started today was supposed to draw a line under the saga, medals are being awarded and russia is still not here because of its doping violations. the russian athletes who are here compete as independents. we can use some russian clothes with the russian flag colours, they are strict rules, so we can use any kind of signs on your body and in your hair, with a russian flag, something even close to this. so how confident should we be? it is possible to have a sport where the vast majority of people you are watching our clean and i think that is the case, it is harder for an athlete to cheat and you have got to take the federations usually, to ban a whole country in russia is a serious step to take.

people will be looking at the 2017 world championships in london with scepticism which is what athletics deserves given its track record, and there will be dozens of convicted dopers taking part in the championships, that's a matter of public record, people who have taken drugs and come back from bans. public trust matters. it is public funds that pay for the stadiums and even the athletes. all the athletes you watch running for great britain have been subsidised by the national lottery which has changed the face of athletics. if the public lose faith in athletics, it will be harder to justify lottery spending, and they have got to win medals, as well, and that will get harder without the likes of mo farah and jessica ennis—hill and rutherford not jumping. where will the medals come from in the future? athletics will face a challenge as usain bolt believes the sport, a paragon of clean sport.

the fastest 30 times in that event have been run entirely by dopers apart from the times clocked by usain bolt. the person who has single—handedly carried the sport, almost, he has transcended the sport, a global superstar but he won't be there after this year. that will be a very big void to fill. the passing of a great may show up the depth of the problems in track and field. chris cook reporting. sir craig reedie is a few months into his second term as president of wada, the world anti—doping agency, and as such the man ultimately responsible for cleaning up the sport. earlier this evening i button—holed him outside his hotel as he set off for the stadium. luckily, we also managed to borrow a couple of chairs

from the banqueting suite. i began by asking him how tarnished athletics is now compared to his career as a badminton player. athletics certainly suffered from the revelations in 2015, when the biggest country in the world was clearly involved in cheating, and secondly when the international federation were clearly involved themselves. this is the struggle. they are working on the struggle. i think they are making progress and i encourage them to do that, and we work closely with them as they do that. we have one of our finest athletes, mo farah, running in london under something of a cloud. his coach, alberto salazar, won't be here. there are reports, as you know, of suppression of investigations. so it isn'tjust the russians that leave a slightly sour taste. well, you can remember after the rio games, the discord and trouble caused by an organisation called the fancy bears, who reacted

to what they saw as treatment of russian athletes... these were russian hackers. they were, who immediately of course found people who had therapeutic use exemptions who happened to come from western medal—winning countries like the united states, and london. the salazar case... personally, i'm disappointed in that it has taken too long to complete the investigation. this has been going on for about three years now. i think the united states anti—doping agency would be well served if they reached a decision sooner rather than later. can the people lining up on the starting line at these games be more confident than they were in rio, more confident than they were in london, the clean athletes, can they be confident that they're not lining up against doped athletes? athletics here have pre—games tested any number of athletes. there have been something like 5,000 different urine and blood tests done.

there will be another 600 done in competition. so athletes know that, and it would be foolish for any athlete to try to cheat. in addition, they will keep samples from london for a period of up to ten years. so if you're so smart that you don't get caught now, the chances are that you will be caught at some date in the future. so i assure you that everything is being done, and you have to hope it will work. that said, i can't sit here and be complacent in any way. this is an argument that has to go on on a day—to—day basis. we have to be smarter and better. and it would also help if we had a bit more money to do it. for me, as a fan of athletics, it's the dope users who pass the tests that are the problem, not the ones who fail the tests, because the technology and the effort, the laboratories we read about, the supplements, the mysterious substances crossing borders in jiffy bags,

the effort that is put into not failing the dope tests is where the attention surely needs to be directed ? people need to understand that this is an ongoing and changing situation, every minute of every day. we have our own investigations department and our own whistle—blowing department. but to run both of these, you need to have large amounts of information. and how you collect that information is time—consuming and expensive, and when you analyse it, you act properly on it. when i say act properly, we are a sports organisation. we don't have criminal powers. sometimes it would help if we had law enforcement more rigorously on our side. but i refuse to sit here and say either that we have no problem, or even worse, from my point of view, "i'm sorry, i'm so depressed that i'm not prepared to carry on with this exercise". it's a bit sisyphean, isn't it? it's like that greek fella pushing

the rock up the hill and when he got to the top, it started rolling back down again. it is without doubt the toughest thing i have tried to do in sport. but i see signs... what does success look like? success looks like a much, much reduced number of athletes being caught cheating by testing positive. we have to be smart in our own research, in our own understanding, that we test for the correct substance in the correct athlete in the correct event, which we are now doing. i have a sense that the police, as in many areas of life, many areas of wrongdoing, the police, which is you, are playing catch up with the criminal. well, i would like to think we are closer to them than you might think, james. david walsh is chief sports writer for the sunday times and was responsible for exposing doping by the cyclist lance armstrong. he has also written extensively about athletics and he joins me from cambridge.

it is unfortunate that we have to discuss mo farah‘s swansong in the context of the continuing investigation, how much does this pollute his legacy potentially? it doesn't enhance his legacy, that he has worked with alberto salazar, a coach who has a lot of questions to answer at the very least. both adamant there has been no wrongdoing. yes, he is, but the united states anti—doping agency are still investigating alberto salazar and we have testimony from any athletes who worked with him who were unhappy about his methods. that isn't to say that mo farah dopes, but it would be much better for his credibility if he had no connection with alberto salazar. you heard craig reedie being interviewed, he talks a good game, do you think that wada is fit for purpose? it might be if it had sufficient funding.

craig reedie is in his second term and i have a sense of a man who is only now getting a grip on the problem that exists. he has had a very unimpressive first term. when this russian controversy broke, his initial reaction was to hope that it would pass without becoming a major controversy. of course it was going to become a major controversy because we had some outstanding whistle—blowers in russia. especially stepanov who told us what was going on in russia, and for the athletes who are competing in this world championship in london now, it is significant that there are not many russians here, the russian team is not there, and that is to athletics credit

that they have basically kicked out russia for the rio games and they are still out. chris cook's film earlier, that was astonishing, to see the women's race in which almost everyone was found to have been in some sort of contravention of the rules. are you confident that webby happening in london are you confident that nothing like that will be happening in london in the next few days? yes, iam. the iaaf was corrupt at that time and the people were aiding and abetting doping and some of them were profiting from doping so we have the most appalling situation. many british people will have great memories of london 2012 but much of what we watched was fraudulent and the legacy has been besmirched by that. i don't think the iaaf is corrupt today in the way it was then and i think there have been great improvements and the fact they have voted to sanction russia

in the way they have. that is to their credit. will there be any dopers involved in these games? of course. i don't think you can watch any major event in athletics and in some other sports and not have some dopers but there will be less. one thing we should all remember, the greatest controversy we have seen in terms of doping was enacted at the winter olympics in sochi where the russian state conspired to cheat their way to gold medals, what they did was substitute urine because that was the only way they could beat the tests for the not many countries could do that because that involve huge planning and the involvement of the state police and the former kgb. many of those agents were involved, and that isn't going to happen in many other places, but the reason russia did that is because the anti—doping

tests do work and to circumvent them they actually had to substitute urine. they could be far more effective than they are and the doping problem would be either would say significantly less if we put enough money into it. very briefly, with big stars heading off into the sunset like usain bolt, and mo farah, is the sport heading into the doldrums? athletics is losing its audience, no doubt, and losing mo farah and especially usain bolt won't help, but sport survives. golf is used to worry about what would happen when tiger woods went into decline, that happened, and golf is still there. athletics will live long after mo farah and usain bolt. thanks forjoining us. on tuesday, kenya goes to the polls. the incumbent, president uhuru kenyatta is up against his old rival raila 0dinga, who's trying for what will be his fourth —

and, at 72, possibly his last — attempt to become president. the polls suggest it's close, and given kenya's recent history, how the election is run, who wins and how the loser takes it, will decide whether the country descends into violence as it did a decade ago, or becomes a champion of african democracy. tensions are running high — not helped by the brutal abduction, torture and murder this week of the man in charge of the electronic voting system. this from the bbc‘s africa correspondent alastair leithead in nairobi. it's notjust politicians who bring rallies to the slums of nairobi. this is a peace march. if anyone gets upset about the election result, the violence will break out here, and so they're urging restraint, respect and unity. rachel mwikali is a feminist and an activist in mathare,

one of the biggest slums in the capital. the march is straddling two wards with different politics. if kenyans are told the election was free and fair, they won't go to violence. of that, i'm sure. even in the slums, as much as they are using words to criminalise us, telling us it's a hotspot, if they know the election is free and fair, they cannot disturb. rallies have been romping across the country for weeks. this is opposition orange, and green, and blue and white. the national super alliance, they're called, nasa, five opposition parties on one ticket. raila 0dinga is their presidential candidate, son of the country's first vice president. since then, the 0dingas have always been in opposition. it's his fourth attempt to get the top job, and at 72,