unrelated but democrats are making a lot of noise about their impeachment inquiries and their demand for documents and certainly they will wa nt to documents and certainly they will want to hear what this latest whistle—blower has had to say, they have already been speaking to the inspector general who acts the united nations is calling for an end to "senseless loss of life" in iraq — after days of anti government protests claimed more than 100 lives. iraqis have been demonstrating against corruption and high unemployment. security forces have been accused of using live ammunition against them. here's our middle east editor, jeremy bowen. it's mainly young men on the streets. at times the iraqi security forces have answered their protests with live bullets. that's why so many have been killed. deadly force can only increase the anger of the demonstrators. the clashes have prompted the un in iraq to demand an end to what it calls a senseless

loss of life. security forces have been deployed by the prime minister who has also appealed for calm. if the security situation worsens, he warns the risk is the destruction of the state. these protests haven't come out of nowhere. their roots lie in the terrible damage inflicted on iraq and its people by decades of warand iraq and its people by decades of war and the failure of politicians to unite and rebuild a fragile country. a big force driving them to demonstrate is unemployment. even those with jobs are struggling. almost a quarter of the population lives on less than $2 us per day according to the world bank. this man says he has a masters degree that the government wouldn't even hire him, he says, is a street sweeper. all these young people, he complained, are treated unfairly. frustration feeds their anger. iraq

has the world's fourth biggest oil reserves. it should be rich. but it is also one of the most corrupt countries in the world. another generation has grown up in a state that can't offer them much more than a very hard life. these demonstrations are born of desperation. a bbc radioi extra live music event in birmingham was cut short last night, after one of the performers was attacked backstage. the rapper krept, suffered a slash wound and was treated at the scene. this morning he tweeted a message thanking supporters and saying he is "good and will be back in no time." chi chi izundu reports. nearly 16,000 people had packed out birmingham arena to see some of the biggest artists on the bbc one extra playlist to perform at the annual event. i apologise on behalf of the bbc... the gig was abandoned midway after an artist was slashed backstage with an unknown weapon and police have made no arrests. the

artist in question is krept, real name cassio johnson, from artist in question is krept, real name cassiojohnson, from the rap duo krept and konan, they were not down to perform but are one of the biggest grime acts in music and was treated at the scene. 0n biggest grime acts in music and was treated at the scene. on his instagram page krept thanked his fa ns instagram page krept thanked his fans and said... it is understood there were security concerns ahead of last night's gig and asa concerns ahead of last night's gig and as a result, double the amount of security as usual was put in place. it is thought no one was given preferential treatment and the artists and their entourage went through the same airport style security checks that fans did. artists and their entourage should be subject to the same security as everybody else but there are occasions, depending on the artist and their entourage, that choose to enter through different doors for them again, personal security reasons 01’ reasons to keep them again, personal security reasons or reasons to keep out of the way of other people who are in that particular area. in a

statement, the bbc said it remains in close contact with the victim and will continue to offer its full support. chi chi izundu, bbc news. football, and in the premier league this afternoon, reigning champions manchester city have been beaten at home by wolves. the result leaves city eight points behind current leaders liverpool. it's only wolves' second league win of the season. the rock drummer ginger baker — a founder member of the band cream — has died at the age of 80. alongside eric clapton and jack bruce, cream sold millions of albums in the 1960s. ginger baker was known for his groundbreaking drumming technique, his showmanship — and his flaming red hair which sparked the nickname ginger. david sillito looks back on his life. drum solo it was in 1966 that ginger baker decided he wanted his own band. cream with eric clapton and jack bruce was described as a supergroup.

and his freewheeling jazz inspired improvisation is marked him out improvisations marked him out as one of the great rock drummers. i play to what i hear and it's all that's happening all the time, which is why it's never the same. born in lewisham in south london, he'd started out playing jazz. and there were many bands over the years because he was not always easy company. the director who made a documentary about his life ended up with a broken nose. nevertheless, his work with african artists at his lagos studio, his melding ofjazz and rock, he was a pioneer. it was a turbulent life of drugs, feuds and a love of polo. but behind the drums he was one of the greats.

ginger baker who has died at the age of 80. that's it from us. we're back with the late news at 10:00pm. now on bbc one it's time for the news where you are.

hello. this is bbc news. the parents of teenage boy harry dunn who was killed in a road accident have made an emotional appeal for an american woman to return to the uk to face justice. the woman, who's the wife of an american diplomat, was driving a car which collided with the 19—year—old's motorbike in august. she told police she would remain in the uk, then returned to the united states and is claiming diplomatic immunity. the police have said they want to arrest and question her over the incident. duncan kennedy has been speaking

to harry dunn's parents. the death of harry dunn has created a profound sense of parental loss. tim and charlotte say their pain is deep. we cannot grieve for him at the minute because of we are just unaware of where we are going. harry died here when his motorbike was hit by a car. the car was driven by the wife of an american diplomat. but she has now left the country, something harry's parents can't come to terms with. from mum to mum, knowing or believing that she is a mother, i wouldn't want to think that she put herself on that plane to go home to avoid what she's done. because i couldn't love myself. if you could meet her, what would you say to this woman, this mother? come back!

we are not out to get her put behind bars. if that is what the justice system ends up doing, then we can't stop that, but we are not out to do that. we are out to try and get some peace for ourselves. the family hope to meet the foreign secretary to see if the british government can pressure the americans to finally act for this family. duncan kennedy, bbc news. tens of thousands of demonstrators have been on the streets of hong kong, in a day of violent clashes that's led to scores of arrests. protestors defied a new law banning them from wearing face masks and aimed at ending the unrest that's gripped hong sincejune. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes reports. at what point does a protest movement become a rebellion? today in hong kong, it felt close to that

stage. it is now illegal here to cover your face stage. it is now illegal here to cover yourface in stage. it is now illegal here to cover your face in public, stage. it is now illegal here to cover yourface in public, but look at these people, determined they will not be stopped from protesting 01’ will not be stopped from protesting or wearing masks. if carrie lam and her government were hoping the new regulation banning the wearing of masks was going to stop people coming out on the streets, they have been proved wrong. even in this pouring rain, tens of thousands have come out again today. many of them are wearing masks. it is a sign of just how little credibility and authority carrie lam and her government now have here. many protesters are government now have here. many protesters a re now government now have here. many protesters are now scared. they fear what is coming, and say they cannot give up. look at them. they are very young, and they are fighting for us. it is really for the whole of hong kong. and i think we should really stand up and help, honestly. i know that maybe it is useless. after two

hours, the police decided this illegal show of defiance had gone on long enough. the police are behind this wall here inside the police station. they have started firing volleys of tear gas over the wall through these trees, and down into the streets. the tear gas barrage intensified, and the protesters fell backin intensified, and the protesters fell back ina intensified, and the protesters fell back in a chaotic retreat. the race is now on to get into the back streets before the police can catch them. but many are too slow, and the police overrun them. among those arrested are two young women. they look like teenagers. as the police finally withdraw, the crowd cheers in victory. for now at least, the streets again belonged to the people. ho—fung hung is professor of political economy atjohns hopkins university.

earlier, iasked him how far bejing would go to impose its communist will. these protests in hong kong are helping beijing to defend the nationalist idea among citizens in mainland china, thinking that hong kong's protests might be orchestrated by foreign powers and things like that. but i think beijing is still very restrained and reluctant to mobilise the pla and the like to crack down on hong kong because hong kong's financial centre status is still very much useful to beijing. but, at the same time, the escalation of confrontation is already leading a capitalflight from hong kong, and international companies' confidence and hong kong's financial centre status is on the line right now. are there any inroads towards dialogue? carrie lam, the chief executive of hong kong, tried to do a dialogue, town hall meeting type dialogue, but it was not well received because she is just reiterating the government's position

in a dialogue which was televised live a while ago. many people are against the use of emergency power and the facemask ban, but she does it anyway. so, people don't think she is sincere. there is a huge popular demand, including some established businessmen, for independent investigations of violence on the police and also on the other side over the summer. but it seems that carrie lam is still very adamantly against it. so, without that, i don't think people will see her efforts to dialogue as serious. hong kong has a strong tradition of protests going back in history, this is where the latest emergency legislation harks back to. will they ever be cowed by this? what could beijing possibly do to resolve it? it is a very difficult position for beijing right now. they know that if they crackdown

harder with direct intervention by the pla and the like, there will be international backlash and there will be huge financial costs, and money will move to singapore and london and things like that. but, besides that, they cannot let it go on forever. so, a relatively wise thing for it to do, definitely, is to make carrie lam leave and replace it with somebody else and start afresh. but i don't think it is on the table right now, but i think it would be a wise thing for them to do. us media is reporting that a second whistle—blower has emerged in the controversy about president trump's conversations with his ukranian counterpart. mr trump has already been accused of asking the ukranians to dig for dirt on his rivaljoe biden. there are also reports that us secretary of state mike pompeo has not yet come into compliance with a subpoena for documents in the impeachment investigation.

earlier our washington correspondent chris buckler said the second whistle—blower was also an intelligence official. what the us president said to his ukrainian counterpart is now the subject of two whistle—blower complaints, and it is claimed the latest intelligence official to come forward has first—hand knowledge of some of the matters linked to that controversial phone call back injuly. you might remember that in that phone call, mr trump did ask volodymyr zelensky to launch an investigation into his political rival and potential presidential candidate joe biden. and it was specifically about these suggestions, could there have been some wrongdoing involving joe biden and his son hunter, who had some business dealings in the country. of course, mr trump has made some unsubstantiated allegations, but there is no evidence of wrongdoing against either of the bidens.

one of the big questions is, what happened next? did mr trump put pressure on the ukrainian president? there have been these questions of potentially talk about suspending security assistance to the country. or was he dangling the possibility of a white house visit? all of those things are being investigated as part of impeachment enquiries. i suspect the democrats will want to know exactly what this new whistle—blower has said to the inspector general. he is the person who acts as watchdog for the intelligence community in the us, and we understand from this whistle—blower‘s lawyer that they have already given a deposition to that person. also news that us secretary of state mike pompeo is not complying, what with? just explain for us. there is an ongoing battle between the trump administration and democrats in congress. as part of their impeachment enquiries, they have been requesting, and in some cases demanding with subpoenas, lots of information that they want.

we saw a subpoena issued to the white house, and another issued through the state department to us secretary of state mike pompeo. as far as they are concerned, they have been stonewalled by the trump administration but they want to get information, and at this stage, they are not getting it. it gives you the sense that this could turn into a legal battle as well as a political one. as they try to get documents that they say could show potential wrongdoing, but of course that is very strongly denied by both the state department and the white house. the prime minister has urged the european union to, in his words, "grasp the opportunity" offered by his brexit proposals. talks are due to resume tomorrow, but the eu summit at which any deal would be approved is now only 11 days away. 0ur political correspondent iain watson reports. deal or no deal? this is a week when

that question may finally be answered? that question may finally be answered ? boris that question may finally be answered? boris johnson is that question may finally be answered? borisjohnson is pushing brussels to open serious negotiations on his latest proposals. and government ministers are warning time is short. we have set out very serious proposals, including a compromise on our side, and we now need to see creativity and we now need to see creativity and flexibility on the eu side in order to reach that steel. under boris johnson's plan, order to reach that steel. under borisjohnson's plan, after brexit, northern ireland assembly could decide whether to more in step with some eu rules to ease cross—border trade, or adopt any new uk rules instead. critics say this would give too much power to northern ireland's dup, the government seems open to a rethink. but i am told that will be no major modifications to be prime minister's plan. and in a phone call today, french president emmanuel macron told borisjohnson the eu would evaluate whether a deal was possible by the end of the week. the prime minister has a much better chance of getting a deal with

brussels if it can convince eu leaders that he can get it through parliament. but borisjohnson does not have a majority at westminster, so not have a majority at westminster, so he would need at least some help from labour mps. 0f so he would need at least some help from labour mps. of the party leadership demand that he makes much bigger compromises than he is currently contemplating if you want labour support. he has got to move, he has got to compromise in the national and international interest fee is going to get our support. but what happens if borisjohnson does not get a deal? ministers have already been discussing how to disrupt eu business. if he is forced into seeking a brexit extension that he does not want. however, some european leaders are insisting uk can still leave on good terms. european leaders are insisting uk can still leave on good termsm certainly is possible, but it depends upon one crucial element, but also mrjohnson as well as the eu are willing and ready to move on a compromise manner. if the offer from the uk turns out to be a sort

of ta ke from the uk turns out to be a sort of take it or leave it, it is going to be very difficult. the eu will tell boris johnson to be very difficult. the eu will tell borisjohnson within days whether a deal is possible, and whether a deal is possible, and whether he will have to fight with his opponents at westminster to leave without one. a murder investigation has been launched after three men were found dead at an address in colchester in essex. police were called to the property last night following concerns for the welfare of two men. officers found two people dead inside — the third was discovered in a car outside. a 32—year—old man has been arrested. a bus driver has been stabbed in sheffield. the incident happened near the crucible theatre at just after two o'clock this afternoon. the ao—year—old man was taken to hospital, but has since been released. a 17—year—old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. four people have been killed and five others wounded in a shooting at a bar in kansas city, officials have confirmed.

further details about the motive and whereabouts of the gunman are still unclear. it comes just weeks after two separate shootings in texas, which left 44 people dead. inside, we located four hispanic males — one of them is late 50s, one is mid—30s, and two are in their mid—20s — inside the bar, deceased. outside the bar, we had five other victims that all sustained gunshot wounds. they were all taken to area hospitals, all in stable condition. i believe some of them have already been released. inside the club right now, just collecting evidence, we have done all our scans, we are trying to talk to as many witnesses as we can from the bar. 0bviously being a bar at 1.30, stories varied a lot, even being inside the bar, so we are trying to find out the truth from the maybe exaggerated a little bit,

and kind of go on from there. we do not have any specific suspect information yet that we can release. heavy rain has hit the east of england, leading to flooding across the county. this was the scene on the a117 near honingham, west of norwich, a little earlier. rail operator greater anglia says trains are unable to run between norwich and lowestoft and norwich and great yarmouth due to flooding. an amber weather warning for the area has been lifted. roman catholic bishops have begun a three—week meeting at the vatican, which will include discussions on whether to allow married men to be ordained as priests. pope francis led mass this morning to open the meeting where a decision to allow married men to become priests would break centuries of tradition. john mcmanus reports.

this is the fourth synod that pope francis will open since he was elected pontiff. unlike the others, it's set to be controversial. as well as the expected focus on the social and environmental challenges in the amazon, such as deforestation and mining, the 264 participants will also discuss whether the church should set aside its own rules on priestly celibacy and ordain older, married men. that would boost the church's presence in rural regions, where a shortage of clerics means priests often visit some communities only a few times a year. another idea is how to acknowledge and perhaps promote the often central role that women play in maintaining catholicism. but there is serious opposition to the synod among some senior catholics who fear this will dilute or change long—held teachings. the us cardinal raymond burke, who's emerged as the de facto leader of those forces within the vatican opposed to pope francis, has called for fasting and prayer to combat what he termed theological errors and heresies. john mcmanus, bbc news.

we know flying is bad for the environment — making up 2% of annual global carbon emissions. but what about all the rubbish we produce when we're in the air? plastic cutlery, cups, wrappers on blankets, headphones, food — they all make up six trillion tons of waste each year. a new exhibition at london's design museum, is trying to find inventive ways to cut back on that, as katie prescott reports. this is a typical long—haul passenger's rubbish and one third of it is single—use plastic. it can't be recycled. we have the seaweed capsules here for items such as dressings or milk. 0ne design firm thinks there is another way to travel, starting with the economy meal tray. each of the elements has different properties. we have looked at how we can use by—products to create items that were otherwise plastic. the meal tray itself is actually created from coffee grounds.

we've looked at things such as the lid for the dessert dish, which is made out of the waffle cone that you would have an ice cream in. while at the moment this might be too elaborate for the average economy flight, airlines are taking more immediate steps to cut down on rubbish. but with 4 billion passengers a year worldwide, it is no easy task. when all that waste arrives at the airport, there is a limit to how much of it can be recycled because of international regulations. here at heathrow, 90% of cabin waste is incinerated or sent to landfill and the airport wants governments to take a far more measured approach to that. with lots of that waste, we can't recycle as much as we would like to because it might have some food or liquid that is contaminating it. what we are keen to do is say, look, where a flight might be coming from america where they have quite strict standards on food and plant health, we should be able to recycle more of that waste that comes off the plane. heathrow could be the next to trial a european union scheme that it

hopes will change this. it is currently under way in madrid with spain's largestairline, iberia. until any changes are made, it is also up to us passengers to change our habits while on the go. katie prescott, bbc news. more than 500 hot air balloons have taken to the skies of new mexico for the albuquerque international balloon fiesta. the beginning of this year's festival was delayed after thick fog caused event organisers to postpone the launch of hundreds of hot air balloons. thousands of people are expected to attend the event which is the second largest of its kind in the world. time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good evening. most of us have seen wet weather at one point or another this weekend, but for some, the rain has been relentless, and has caused some problems, especially in eastern

england. that was the scene for a weather watcher earlier on in norfolk. and you can see the way the rain piles of swaying across parts of norfolk and suffolk in particular. the rain will now start to fizzle away, and clear south—eastwards, soy a drier interlude to come through the rest of tonight. some clear spells overnight, possibly turning misty in places. but the drier interlude will not last long, because more rain pushes from the west. and increasingly strong winds. so fairly mild in the west, but turning cooler, some spots dropping to five 01’ cooler, some spots dropping to five or six celsius. into tomorrow, low pressure, a lot of white lines on the chart, really strong winds blowing across the north—east of uk. gusts of up to 70 mph, at least for a time. strong winds elsewhere as well, and this band of rain will

push eastwards. not quite as much rain as we saw in some places during today, but still, a further 20 or 30 millimetres on top of what we have already had could cause some problems. maybe some further localised flooding, certainly potential for travel problems. brighten up for scotland and northern ireland, a mix of sunshine and showers which are in the day as we go towards the end of the afternoon. tuesday, low pressure still in charge, show‘s heading our way, and a little weather features may cause the showers to join together to give longer spells of rain at times. hard to be too precise about the detail day by but certainly on tuesday, some showers which mightjoin together into a longer spells of rain. some sunny spells in between, a breezy day, highs of 13 to 17 celsius. and on wednesday, showers which perhaps focused across the western side of the country, further east maybe not as many showers. some spells of sunshine. those temperatures are still in the range of 13, 1a,

sunshine. those temperatures are still in the range of13,14,15 celsius. and heading throughout the week, it stays unsettled. heavy downpours, sunny spells, but it will often be windy.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: the parents of a teenager killed in a road accident involving an american diplomat‘s wife make an emotional appeal for her to return to the uk i wouldn't want to think that she put herself on a plane to go home to avoid what she has done. because i couldn't live with myself. violent clashes take place in hong kong as tens of thousands of people take part in the latest protests. us media report that a second whistleblower has come forward in the impeachment case against donald trump. a man is arrested and a murder

investigation is launched — after three men are found dead at a property in colchester in essex. borisjohnson urges the eu to show that it's willing to compromise with the uk on a brexit deal. and — ginger baker, groundbreaking rock drummer, has died at the age of 80. now on bbc news — it's time for sportsday. hello, and welcome to sportsday — i'm james pearce. beaten at home — the champions of england are undone by wolves. beaten away — the champions of scotland are shocked by livingstone. france dream of being champions — they hang on against tonga to reach

to world cup quarterfinals. also coming up in the programme: as more medals are dished out to british athletes — we'll assess the world championships on their closing day. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm james pearce. we haven't even reached the middle of october, so liverpool fans will not need reminding that there is still a long season ahead, but the premier league table makes very pleasant reading for them this evening. liverpool will take an eight—point lead into the international break after manchester city were beaten at home by wolves. the champions couldn't convert their possession into goals despite numerous chances, and wolves caught them on the counter attack twice late on — adama traore with both for the visitors. it was city's first defeat at home

in any competititon for 10 months. we were nervous. it was a bad day. we were not at our best. we tried and had chances to score but in general the game was not the way we want to play and it was a bad day so the teams in the premier league it is tough and we lost the game. it is so difficult to play against manchester city. but the chances come eventually. the organisation, the way the players went about their tasks, always pressing. very good. a bad day at the office for manchester city, but it's looking much more serious than that for their rivals on the other side of manchester. it goes from bad to worse for manchester united.

they have been beaten away — again. newcastle united winning by a goal to nil at stjames' park. matty longstaff scored it on his premier league debut. it's steve bruce's first win over manchester united as a manager at the 23rd attempt. chelsea are up to fifth in the table after an impressive win at southampton. they won 4—1, with tammy abraham amonst the scorers again — it was his eighth of the season. adam wild watched the match for us. there is a growing feeling that frank lampard's chelsea are finding their feet. their youngsters it seems beginning to discover their rhythm. none perhaps more so than tammy abraham, called up this week by club and country and carrying high hopes and lofty ambition. chelsea in front at southampton. frank lampard's faith in youth rewarded, as it was again moments later.

doubling the blues' lead. southampton struggling but things were about to get better. danny ings somehow pulling a goal back and offering optimism. that though misguided. soon re—routed, much like this effort from one of chelsea's older members, scoring the third before half—time. it took until the closing moments to make absolutely certain. proving that this is a chelsea side that has found its rhythm. the goals came at the right time to get ourselves in front and after that i felt pretty comfortable. we were a little bit sloppy for their goal but the way we saw the game out we were not under too much danger to many times and we got four goals away from home. we are scoring. a nice afternoon. arsenal are up to third. they beat bournemouth 1—0 at the emirates. david luiz scored the only goal

of the game in the ninth minute. arsenal missed chances to extend their lead, and came close to conceding an equaliser in injury time, but they held on and are now only one point behind second place manchester city. a big upset in scotland where livingston have beaten celtic for the first time in the club's history. the champions had a man sent off inside half an hour and ended up losing 2—0. it was celtic‘s first league defeat of the season. michael redford reports. having dropped points for the first time this season last weekend, celtic headed to livingston looking for a response. where better to get it than at the side who had lost four successive league games? but if celtic thought this would be easy, they should have thought again. an early warning sign. celtic‘s task was made harder later. ryan christie shown a straight red card. celtic having to play 70 minutes with ten men. the champions held on until half—time, but not for much longer.

scott robinson with his first goal of the season two minutes after the restart. livingston's second goal was much easier. this long ball and a clever lob from lyndon dykes. celtic in need of a quick response. they didn't get it.a first league defeat of the season for the champions, and the first time they have ever lost to livingston. and compounding the misery for celtic is the sight of the table, which shows that they have been knocked off top spot by rangers, who thumped hamilton 5—0 at home this afternoon. it's the last day at the world atheltics championships in doha with a number of gold medals upforgrabs. we've also had some british athletes collecting their medals from yesterday's relays. let's cross live to the khalifa stadium. 0ur sports correspondent, natalie pirks, is there. good evening, no men and women have

collected a silvers from the release from last night. there were all smiles on the podium, not least, dina asher—smith, he became the third british athlete in history to win three medals at the same what i was championships. there was a bit ofa was championships. there was a bit of a scare for the women just five minutes before that race, they had an injury and had to completely change who was running, and were, acce ntu re. change who was running, and were, accenture. for them to get so far it was an incredibly pleasing for them. the men ran a new european record, getting that silver. the americans had to run the second fastest relay time in history to be written. you can see that they are a little bit disappointed, first up this morning, they were very happy and looking forward to going out and getting a drink. we have decided the men's 1500 metre final, that was won by

kenya's athletes, barely beating since 2017, no surprise he won. it is the first time that britain had three men are not final, a scottish record set, the height place but you british athlete for a while. josh ca re british athlete for a while. josh care was six with a personal best. there is no denying that the performances on the track yet at the khalifa stadium have been absolutely outstanding, this is what sebastien coe, the president of the governing body had to say today about what has been going on inside the stadium. body had to say today about what has been going on inside the stadiumm is pretty clear to us that on athlete performance, this is the best world championships that we have ever had. i passionately believe that sport can shine a spotlight on so many issues about other areas of the world simply do not want to address, that is why i fundamentally believe that sport is the best, deft diplomat that we

have, and we will continue to use it. iam really have, and we will continue to use it. i am really happy that athletics has consistently been at the forefront of that change. sebastian coe very much focusing on the performance of the athletes, let's be honest, there have been empty seat behind you, one of the world's top coaches banned for four years for drug allegations. 0verall, top coaches banned for four years for drug allegations. overall, how do you think these world championships will be remembered? very difficult to say, i think it is absolutely right to say the performances on the track have been fantastic, that had been world records, most of the athletes i have spoken to have said that they have been incredibly happy with the conditions are down there, barely a breeze, it's been fast, they have enjoyed it. but, like you say, outside of the stadium, that have been issues. right from the start, people were unhappy with the

unscrupulous workers' rights here, the humidity. of course, the women's marathon was run out 70% humidity at midnight. a third of the women race did not actually finish. that have been issues with the crowd, i have to say, it is so much better over the last few days, they have really worked to get more people in, they have bussed workers in, and atmosphere has been created. 0n sunday last week, that was 7000 people in the stadium, most of them had led by the time that the nine asher smith was the hot lap of honour forgetting her silver medal. and alberto salazar, mo farah's former coach, now disgraced. if four—year ban. that has really left a cloud over the athletes here, i think. some of them having to answer questions about their coach afterwards, it did leave quite a

nasty taste in the mall for a lot of people here. i think they might be remembered for some of the wrong reasons, but what we have seen on the track has been fantastic. france have joined england in the quarter—finals of the rugby world cup. but onlyjust, edging out tonga by 23 points to 21 in kumamoto this morning. after france scored two early tries — alivereti raka with this one — they were looking comfortable // they were looking comfortable but with seconds left, tonga made them sweat when zane kapeli touched down in the corner and it was converted. but time ran out, and france will play england on saturday to decide who wins their pool. in one of the least surprising results of the tournament, new zealand swept aside namibia to all but guarantee their progress into the knockout stage. (00v)the all blacks ran in eleven tries. tj perenara with the try of the game — one of tries of the tournament so far — he started it and finished it.

71—9 it finished. new zealand's final group match is aganist italy next saturday. frankie dettori and enable missed out on a record third win in europe's richest race — the prix de l‘arc de triomphe. the hot favourite and winner for the last two year's was clear in the final stages at longchamp but was just pipped on the line by pierre—charles boudot riding waldgeist. that's a record eighth win in the arc for trainer andre fabre. spain's marc marquez has won the world motogp title for the sixth time, after an extremely narrow victory at the thai grand prix. the win was sealed on the final corner when he just managed to hold off the challenge of fabio ca rta ra ro. it was the perfect end to a tough week for marquez. he was taken to hospital after a crash in practice on friday and he crashed again in qualifying, but it all came right today and he takes the title for the fourth time in a row, with four races to spare. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout

the evening, but now on bbc news, it's tme for click. some call it fake news, some call it disinformation, online manipulation, or even information warfare. the tech giants call it coordinated inauthentic activity. false news articles on facebook, bots amplifying questionable opinions on twitter. what we now know is that nation states have and are weaponising these techniques to their own ends — russia to interfere with elections, china to spread disinformation.

but there is one place which hasn't been associated with deliberate disinformation recently. and that's wikipedia. it's the largest collection of human knowledge ever created, arguably the first digital wonder of the world, the font of all internet knowledge. it has nearly six million pages, with a staggering 18 billion page views every month, and it was created in the best spirit of the internet. transparent, nonprofit making, and open for everyone to read and edit. we may have been naive to believe everything that we read on facebook. but surely wikipedia's army of volunteer editors and fact checkers can keep disinformation under control. well, now click investigates evidence of a possible strategy by the chinese state to manipulate wikipedia for its own propaganda aims. here's carl miller.

edit wars stemming from genuine differences of opinion have been part and parcel of wikipedia since the very beginning. so is vandalism, which is why wikipedia has created ways to combat it, with a mixture of bots and editors with special powers patrolling the platform day and night. but what's to stop people or even worse, governments and regimes, from manipulating the site for their own ends? it's something that's bothered me instinctively for over a year now. what first got me on this track were these two documents. both initially written in chinese, but we had them translated into english. one is written by a chinese official. the other was written by a couple of academics. they present a playbook for how wikipedia operates — strategies to influence the platform and argue there are strong reasons for doing so. strategies such as creating teams to edit on the platform, and cultivating opinion leaders, and using different rhetoric to change and rebalance china's image.

both papers stress what a vital source of information wikipedia is for the people around the world who read it, but complain that it contains misleading and prejudiced content against china's national and governmental image. but this isn'tjust a problem to be confronted by volunteers, in the words of one of the papers, the chinese state should act proactively too. one of the places mentioned is taiwan, situated to the south east of mainland china. the island is regarded by china as a renegade province, but many in taiwan dispute this understanding. so if a war on wikipedia is going to be fought anywhere, it's going to be there. armed with this information, i went to meet some taiwanese wikipedians at a hackathon in the capital city, taipei. this is a very crazy year. yeah, a lot of taiwanese wikipedian's attacked and left. later on, they pointed me to some examples of the kind of manipulation

they say is happening on wikipedia on chinese—related issues. 0ne concerns the very nature of taiwan itself — is it an independent nation or, in fact, a province of china? they repeating editing power articles on the english and chinese wikipedia, and they wipe out the taiwan open and just keep the china repeating itself. taiwan is part of china, one of the provinces of china. it's not like outright vandalism it's just like pruning the language. shifting the language to kind of go from one thing to another. how long will it be have been going on for? years. and examples kept flowing, such as the senkaku islands, a disputed territory actually, but which for a while was china's inherent territory, at least in mandarin on the wiki data pages. although there are elected office holders with powers to take down or lock articles,

some of taiwan's wikipedia is fair that these elections for these positions have been targeted amidst a general rising atmosphere of intimidation. so taiwanese wikipedians or people that voice anti—chinese opinions on wikipedia, they get attacked and trolled and abused and doxxed on wikipedia? regularly attacked. what does wikimedia global think of all of this? is it because they're american and theyjust don't know? the hostile word. and lost in translations. heather ford has researched political edits on wikipedia. whenever you have a group of motivated and well resourced people who are taking a particular political line on wikipedia articles, that they can very easily overwhelm the volunteer efforts of wikipedia. our own investigation has managed

to find nearly 1,600 times where, across 20 topics or so, wikipedia was changed to broadly bring its content closer to the chinese government's line. i tracked down an expert on chinese social media and cybersecurity to give me a broader sense of how this all fitted in. telling the china story has become a really important concept and idea in the last couple of years in chinese politics. they think that the rest of the world has wrong views of them, misunderstands them, and in order to do good politics for them, they need to project a good image. looking at the articles on the recent protests in hong kong, the english and chinese versions are completely different from one another. this time, the edit war between a couple of editors saw 52 changes in the space of a single day, arguing over the goals

of the protesters, and small language tweaks constantly, such as whether they were protesters or, infact, rioters. academic shirley yu thinks that trying to tell your story is really the natural behaviour for any up and coming superpower. china feels like a hong kong issue is my issue. "i own the issue therefore i own the voices on the issue "and i should own the verdicts on the issues." everything that china is primarily interested in and concerned about is to defend its political positions. it's all about china. the anglo—saxon world primarily over the foreign debt over the past four decades has really framed the china story and the interpretation of china based on a western political economic framework. and i think today china does owe the world a china story told by itself and from a china's perspective. i think it's not only chinese privilege is really a responsibility. we really don't know how widespread all this is across the vast expanse

of wikipedia's multilingual entries. and it is impossible for us to verify whether the chinese government really is ultimately responsible for any of it. absolutely conceivable that you know like people from the diaspora, you know, patriotic chinese are editing these wikipedia entries. but to say that is also to ignore that larger structural coordinated strategy of the government has to manipulate these platforms. heather ford isn't surprised at all to see the states might be getting involved. i'm surprised it's taken this long actually. i mean when you consider the fact that wikipedia is not only the fifth most popular website in the world, when you ask siri or you ask google questions now using the knowledge engine is from wikipedia. so it is a prioritised source of knowledge and facts about the world. and if you can influence that, then you are influencing how people

are understanding and perceiving what the truth is. that is fascinating stuff. and carl's with me now in our underground bunker somewhere. carl, how sure can we be that these manipulations are being done under instruction from the chinese state? and also how sure can we be that it is really widespread? we know there were 1,500 tendentious edits in our own investigation across roughly 20 different wikipedia entries, and we know that all of them pointed in certain ways towards chinese geopolitical interests as far as we can tell. what we do not know is who was behind these edits. we don't know why in fact they were done, but most importantly we can not make a direct link between any of those edits and the chinese government themselves. so you've put this to the wikimedia foundation, which is the kind of overarching

body that oversees wikipedia. what's their reaction? broadly they're saying that whatever you're actually doing on the site if you're systematically doing it for political gain that really is against the very reason why wikipedia was really created. but the problem is that we've heard the same from facebook and other web 2.0 companies where they're basically saying, "well, it violates our terms and conditions." but people still do it. the ace in the hole for wikipedia would be that they're now passing these links that we've sent them and all the evidence that we have to their tens of thousands of community editors and volunteers. wikimedia, the foundation is not actually responsible for the content, that would be the volunteers themselves. which of course is a huge benefit for them. they can mobilise all these people around the world who will constantly patrol and protect the site. and in fact do return many edits that we saw at least back to their original state actually quite quickly. you know, you've got with wikipedia this kind of vision of the open internet,

open knowledge, open source, but then in stark contrast you have this another kind of newer perhaps but rising idea and that is the kind of increasing power of states online. you know, the idea that geo—political battles will now be fought online too, and that places like wikipedia may be becoming too important or too powerful for states to really ignore in their struggles over the truth and in defining what people believe. carl, how absolutely fascinating. thank you so much for the research. that is the short cut for click this week, the full version is on iplayer. we are also on wikipedia, if you want to look us up. thanks for watching, we will see you soon.

good evening. most of us have seen wet weather at one point or another this weekend, but for some, the rain has been relentless and has cut some problems, especially in eastern england. this is the real picture from earlier, you can see how the rangers piled its way and across parts of norfolk and suffolk in particular. that rain now starting to fiddle away and clear south—eastwards, we have a dry interlude to come through the rest of tonight, some clear spells overnight, it may turn misty in places. but dry interlude will not last long, more will push on from the west by the night, increasingly strong winds as well. with the cloud and rain and winds, it will be fairly mild in the west, you cold

further east, some spots may be dropping down to 5 or 6 celsius. low pressure tomorrow in charge of our weather. a really strong winds blowing across the north—west of the uk, the western isles could see gusts of 60—70 mph, at least for a time. this band of rain is going to push his way eastwards, there may not be quite as much rain as we saw in some places today, but still, a further 20 or 30 millimetres on top of what we have already had could cause some problems, may be some localised flooding, said, the potential for travel problems. a localised flooding, said, the potentialfor travel problems. a mix of sunshine and showers here as we go towards the end of the afternoon. low pressure is still an charge in tuesday, shall was heading our way. showers mayjoin together to give longer spells of rain at times. how to be precise about the detail, day

by day, but we will see some showers on tuesday which mightjoin together for longer spells of rain, sunning spells in between, a breezy day, highs of 17 celsius. wednesday will also see showers, perhaps focused on the western side of the country. some spells of sunshine, temperatures still in the range of 13 to 15 celsius. throughout the week, it steals is unsettled, heavy downpours, sunning spells, it will often be windy.

this is bbc news. i'm samantha simmonds. the headlines at 7.00 — the parents of a teenager killed in a road accident involving an american diplomat‘s wife make an emotional appeal for her to return to the uk. i wouldn't want to think that she put herself on that plane to go home to avoid what she has done. because i couldn't live with myself. violent clashes in hong kong, as tens of thousands of protestors defy emergency laws banning face masks. a call by borisjohnson for the eu to engage fully with his brexit proposals, with 11 days to go before a key summit. ginger baker — groundbreaking rock drummer — has died at the age of 80. and in sportsday in half an hour — champions manchester city