hello, i'm nuala mcgovern. this is outside source. in washington, hearings have begun in congress into the attack on the us capitol. they ripped off my badge, they grabbed and stripped me of my radio, they seized ammunition that was secured to my body. they began to beat me with their fists and with what felt like hard metal objects. i'm frustrated that six months after a deadly insurrection breached the united states capitol for several hours on live television, we still don't know exactly what happened, why. the events of january 6 are described as a co—ordinated effort to derail the peaceful transfer of power.

also in the programme: an explosion at a chemical plant in western germany kills at least one person. several others are missing. and simone biles withdraws from the team gymnastics at the tokyo olympics. the world's most watched athlete said she suffered "a little injury to her pride" after stumbling on landing. she comes in with pressure from so many directions. she comes in during the mantle of, you know, america's sweetheart, the big olympic star. —— bearing the mantle. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. onjanuary 6, hundreds of donald trump supporters launched an attack on the us capitol. seven months on, the first full congressional investigation into what exactly happened that day has now begun. the first witnesses to be called were four men who had been on duty that day.

two capitol hill and two washington, dc police officers gave evidence about the violence and hatred they experienced. here's what the very first witness had to say. sadly, as a result of that day, we lost some good officers, but we held our line to protect our democratic process, because the alternative would have been a disaster. we are not asking for medals or recognition. we simply wantjustice and accountability. another officer gave his account of being violently attacked and beaten by the mob. and a warning — you may find some of his descriptions distressing. i heard chanting from some in the crowd — "get his gun" and "kill him with his own gun". i was aware enough to recognise i was at risk of being stripped of and killed with my own firearm. i was electrocuted again and again

and again with a taser. the nine—person committee listening to the testimony has the stated goal of providing "a complete and authoritative account of the attack". its members were selected by the democrat house speaker nancy pelosi, and here's what she said ahead of the inquiry. my confidence is high. i do believe that the work of this committee, in order to retain the confidence of the american people, must act in a way that has no partisanship, is all about patriotism. and i'm very proud of the members of the committee, and i'm certain that they will accomplish that goal. you heard speaker pelosi refer to partisanship there and some of her decisions have been controversial. ahead of the inquiry, she rejected two of the five republicans put forward by house minority leader kevin mccarthy. so let's take a look. there are now only two republicans

on the committee compared with seven democrats. they are liz cheney and also adam kinzinger, both forceful critics of donald trump. and this imbalance gives republicans an avenue to criticise the committee as biased. i want to quickly recap the events which brought us here. onjanuary 6, thousands of donald trump supporters attended a so—called "save america" rally at the ellipse park in washington dc. they were calling for congress to rejectjoe biden�*s victory they were calling for congress to rejectjoe biden�*s victory in the presidential election. here's mr trump addressing the crowd that day. we will never give up, we will never concede. it doesn't happen. you don't concede when there's theft involved. cheering our country has had enough. we will not take it any more, and that's what this is all about. cheering and to use a favourite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal.

cheering well, after the speech, hundreds of supporters walked to the capitol. and atjust after 2pm in the afternoon, they managed to storm the capitol building. here's the moment they broke through a line of police guarding the stairwell. screaming and this was the result — the offices of congressmen and women ransacked, 140 police officers injured and five people dead. it's the exact circumstances surrounding what happened that day which the inquiry will hope to shed light on. earlier, i spoke to our correspondent nada tawfik and asked her why the inquiry has been called for. i think the answer really comes from what we've heard today. liz cheney, one of the republicans who you mentioned who is on this committee, said that what happened onjanuary 6 remains a cancer on the democracy of this country,

and that if they don't investigate what happened, there's a fear that this could happen every four years or so, when there's another peaceful transfer of power. you know, the officers who spoke acknowledged that even those who rioted that day, the mob who attacked them, still believe they were justified in what they were doing, and that's why they think it's so important for them to be able to speak in a hearing like this and for the committee to do its work, so that americans who have an opinion about what happened or a certain stance can get the full facts and can then make up their minds. certainly for them, they believe that this was a huge national security threat and one that is the job of congress to deal with. so this hearing, how divisive would you say it is? because i think our viewers will remember even when the riots were taking place, it was immediately politically divisive as well.

yes, this absolutely was. i mean, house republicans rushed before the hearing this morning to hold a press conference. they labelled the two republicans who had joined as "pelosi democrats", really viewing them as traitors. they believe that democrats are reallyjust motivated here by political considerations, to try to hurt their chances ahead of the house midterm elections in 2022. remember, republicans had wanted to really wait until those elections had passed to look further into the details of what happened that day. so this is very, very divisive. republicans have not only questioned the motives but also the makeup of this committee. but when you actually watched this hearing, i think all around, every single member on the panel as well as the officers, really tried to stress that this was not about partisan politics. and i think their testimony really hit home, the gravity

of what happened that day. an explosion has rocked an industrial park in the western german city of leverkusen. one person is dead and four are missing with several others injured. local residents have been advised to shut all windows and doors. the bbc�*s damien mcguinness is in berlin with this update. what appears to have happened this morning, there was an explosion — the reason or cause behind that is still unclear — but there was an explosion in a chemical refuse centre within that industrial complex. that explosion then caused a fire in a number of large chemical tanks where solvents were kept — presumably quite flammable liquids — this fire then caused a lot of the problems and presumably the injuries and fatalities.

the broader situation is also quite serious for the local people, because the city of leverkusen — quite a large city, with almost 150,000 people — that area has been told really, still, people should stay at home, they should close windows and doors, and that's because it's still not clear whether that huge plume of black smoke which we saw earlier today, how toxic that might be. officials say when they measured the air, it doesn't seem dangerous at the moment, but they're playing it safe, is how they put it. so they've closed playgrounds, they've told people to stay inside, even saying to people, "if you pick fruits and vegetables from your garden, make sure it's really well—washed." so they don't want these chemicals really to spread or cause any problems. let's turn to the olympics. and a shock for the us in the gymnastics. the russian olympic committee won the gold in the women's team event, an event the us won back to back

in london and rio. but the real shock came earlier in the final. simone biles — four—times gold medallist — pulled out of the us team gymnastics final after a rare mistake in her opening vault. initially, there was talk that she had an injured ankle. but following the event, she confirmed that she wasn't physically injured but that she had only suffered "a little injury to her pride." she said... she went on to say... well, for more, here's cindy boren, sports reporterfor the washington post. she comes in with pressure

from so many directions. she comes in bearing the mantle of, you know, america's sweetheart, the big olympic star, the star of the games. she comes in as the big hope for gymnastics. and she also comes in as someone who survived the usa gymnastics sexual abuse scandal by dr larry nasser, she was a victim. and she thought about retiring, she was ready to quit. then she said, "no, i'm the last survivor who is still actively competing, and i think it's important for me to be there." she also comes in as spokesperson who had stepped up and talk about social injustice and racial inequality. so she comes in with... you know, she's put herself out there in ways that aren't just athletic. and it became overwhelming. someone asked her today if she felt

the weight of the world on her shoulders, and she said, "that" expletive "is heavy." that's where she is right now, she's got six more events she's qualified in, and we'll see if she's able to compete when they start up again on thursday. they have an off day tomorrow. dr norman fried is a clinical psychologist and expert in sports counselling and mental health from columbia university. hejoined me earlier, and i asked what he made of simone biles' comments since withdrawing from the event. extremely proud of missed files for the honesty and the truth that she is expressing. first summoning people in this world that you're through similar experience of anxiety and emotional turmoil. —— miss biles. she is able to speak for us in a way that says, if you are not right, find out what is going on the inside of you, because if you persist, you met might actually get worse. my answer is, i'm proud of simone biles. it’s worse. my answer is, i'm proud of simone biles-_ worse. my answer is, i'm proud of simone eilee— simone biles. it's really quite something. — simone biles. it's really quite something. i— simone biles. it's really quite something, i have _ simone biles. it's really quite something, i have to - simone biles. it's really quite something, i have to say. - simone biles. it's really quite something, i have to say. we j

simone biles. it's really quite - something, i have to say. we were talking earlier, the us capitol hearing, that was compelling — this is also such a coupling story. there is also such a coupling story. there is more openness i think talking about mental health, but still the olympics, in a global pandemic, perhapsjust so olympics, in a global pandemic, perhaps just so overwhelming, the athlete simone biles, also naomi osaka, who had a shock defeat. how much can you teach resilience for events like this? it is much can you teach resilience for events like this?— events like this? it is very interesting, _ events like this? it is very interesting, isn't - events like this? it is very interesting, isn't it? - events like this? it is very| interesting, isn't it? every events like this? it is very - interesting, isn't it? every one of us as being capable of being traumatised by events in your lives, and as your previous person has said, simone biles struggled with larry nasser years ago and some memories of sex abuse than, and there are many of us that carry with us the traumas and the burdens of our past, and so the answer to your question is, first, when you have a hero, take a closer look... also we have to find a way to rise above those memories, those voices inside

of us that say, "you're not good enough, you're not capable," and there so many things we do in the field of psychology to help people recognise the greatness that lies within them, and if simone were to think about how the world was watching, she would crumble, but a few things about just what her message is, she will shine. my prayer is that on thursday, she will have had some time to thing about what it is she wants to say to the world in her sport and she will be able to everyone know, "i'm back able to let everyone know, "i'm back and i've overcome... thanks so much to professor fried. let's stay with the olympics. as i mentioned earlier, there was another major surprise on day four in the tennis. japanese tennis star naomi osaka also suffering a shock exit in her home olympics, as czech marketa vondrousova earned a straight—set win in tokyo. miss osaka had the honour

of lighting the olympic cauldron in last week's opening ceremony and had high hopes to try and win gold forjapan, but the world number two fell short. here's our correspondent mariko oi, who is north of tokyo in miyagi. a lot of shock and surprised reaction here injapan about naomi osaka — the world number two, of course, as you said, and world four—time major champion — losing that match. she was, of course, one of the favourites to win the tournament, but she's leaving her first olympics without a medal. she did express her disappointment, though she did say that she was glad to have participated in the olympics. but a lot of shock and surprise here injapan. thanks to mariko. stay with us on outside source. still to come: malcolm turnbull, the former prime minister of australia, says not ordering enough shots was a failure

for his country. the first person to be charged under hong kong's controversial national security law. here is danny vincent. there was an argument the prosecutors used, they claim the words used on his banner, the political slogan that was used, the words liberate and hong kong, that now has been deemed as essentially an act of terrorism. we don't know when his sentencing will be, we know they will be mitigation later this

week, but we do know he has been found guilty of these charges. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story: police officers testifying at a congressional hearing into the january 6 riots say they feared for their lives — with one describing it as like a "mediaeval siege." well, let's turn to the uk. an official inquiry has found that hundreds of children in the care of lambeth council in south london, were abused on a scale it says is "hard to comprehend," over many years, from the 1960s to the 1990s. more than 700 former residents complained about sexual abuse at five children's homes, butjust one senior member of staff was ever disciplined. mark easton has the story. a chance conversation between a music producer and a friend he knew from a south london children's home is what led to the worst child sexual abuse scandal in british history being uncovered.

this video features some of hundreds of survivors from care homes and fosterfamilies in lambeth — people who, according to today's enquiry report, suffered almost incomprehensible cruelty cruelty from dozens of abusers over four decades. i felt dirty, i felt ashamed. and ifelt like i had nobody to listen to me. i've got eight siblings, and all of us have been through the care system, through lambeth. each and every one of them has gone through horrific abuse. i can't forgive lambeth for what they have done to me or my family. and no amount of money that they've paid out is going to put right what they done wrong. today's report identifies a culture of cover—up. police failed to follow up evidence leads, in particular links between perpetrators. lambeth council gave known abusers unimpeded access to children, despite 33 council and police investigations into child abuse involving lambeth,

there have been only six convictions and only one senior council employee has ever been disciplined. the report says that children in the care of lambeth council were treated as worthless, pawns in a toxic power game that inspired a vicious culture that left sex offenders feeling untouchable and children as captive victims. there was such a culture of cover—up that you need to look at the whole environment to make sure that you really get to the heart of why this happened. and that is our role, to get to the heart of why this happened — and to do that, you need to poke in every corner, and every corner we poked in here, we found something wrong. this used to be a music production office. we turned it into an investigations room. it is a measure of the establishment's failure that it took the abuse survivors themselves to piece together the full scale and horror of what had happened. these are care records. we've got 1,600 care records... raymond stevenson, himself abused at a home,

turned his music production office into an incident room. an equal number of case files and references... the survivors association has helped hundreds of victims claim more than £75 million in compensation from lambeth council, and there are many more. this afternoon, dozens of survivors assembled to give their verdict on the enquiry report. this is a missed opportunity. the failure to identify the police involvement in this cover—up isjust horrendous and actually leaves the public exposed. the enquiry is calling on scotland yard to consider a criminal investigation into why allegations of sexual abuse made by a boy — laterfound dead at the shirley oaks care home — were not passed on to the coroner by lambeth. this afternoon, the council reiterated their apology for what had happened, an apology the enquiry suggested had come far too late.

the former australian prime minister malcolm turnbull has told the bbc that his country buying too few coronavirus vaccines was a "colossal failure". australia is dealing with increased numbers of infections despite enacting tough measures. in the next few hours, authorities are expected to announce four more weeks of lockdown for sydney and the state of new south wales. only about i6% of australians aged over 16 have so far been fully vaccinated, placing it fifth from bottom in the g20 of the world's richest countries. let's hear from malcolm turnbull on that. the big mistakes were made last year, when not enough vaccines were bought. the reality is that, apart from astrazeneca, we don't have a plentiful supply of any vaccines, and the astrazeneca vaccine was recommended only for people over 60. that recommendation has changed, in

sydney in particular, because of the delta variant spread here in this city, which is very strong, but nonetheless there is a lot of axing hesitancy about the az vaccine —— faxing hesitancy for so the problem is, we don't have the alternatives. the government last year, that's the federal government, chose not enough biles, modernity. they failed. it is the biggest failure of a public ministration i can recall. some stern criticism there for scott morrison, the man who succeeded malcolm turnbull as prime minister three years ago. the two men are from the same party, but there's perhaps no love lost between them. scott morrison was the winner in a power struggle that saw malcolm turnbull ejected by his own mps. more than half of australia's population have been in lockdown in recent weeks, although some states are now easing back.

victoria is lifting restrictions from wednesday after recording just ten new infections amongst people already in quarantine. south australia is doing the same after recording zero cases in the past 2a hours. all eyes are on new south wales, however, which is widely expected to extend its lockdown after recording 172 cases. the state premier had this to say ahead of the announcement. we've seen around the world that when you have too many people who have been infectious in the community and you open up too early — countries that have claimed to have done so well with covid which have much higher vaccination rates than ours have failed with delta because they opened up too quickly. we know we've put in a hard five weeks and we don't want to waste all the great work we've done by opening too early, and then having the virus spread again. australia had based its vaccination strategy on astrazeneca — but due to its association with extremely rare blood clots, the health authority advised under—60s to wait for the pfizer vaccine instead. it's now updated that advice for the sydney area, saying adults of all ages should

"strongly consider" taking "any available vaccine" — including astrazeneca. but there's resistance amongst some. here's one woman on the streets in sydney. i'm kind of opposed to getting astrazeneca due to the information that was provided earlier about the blood clots and everything. and now them saying that you should consult your gp, it's kind of something that i'm like, "well, it's not the information that was provided earlier," and not willing to get astrazeneca. 920 australians have now died from covid—19. but it's avoided the far higher death tolls seen in other countries in large part, partly by shutting its borders. let's hear what malcolm turnbull had to say when asked when would australia be able to open its doors again? i think they probably not before the first quarter of next year. that is the march quarter of 2022. and the reason is that we cannot come up

recently won't have enough of the mrna vaccines until october, november, to get a large percentage of the population vaccinated, to get to the same level that you have in the uk or in most parts of the usa or indeed in singapore, so the reason we are locked down, which is so frustrating, when so many other parts the road are opening up, is simply because our government failed to buy enough vaccines. it was a colossal failure —— so many other parts of the world for stub and the problem is you cannot wind the clock back and fix what should have been done last year. australia has now acted to secure more vaccines with 25 million doses of moderna due to arrive this year and next. mr morrison, meanwhile, has defended his government's record, saying more vaccines wouldn't stop tough restrictions being needed in sydney. he said there is not an alternative

to an alternative to this lockton to get this under control and there's no magic bullet. you've been watching outside source on the bbc. thanks for watching. hello. tuesday has brought us a day of some sunny spells, but also some really torrential showers and frequent thunderstorms, too. this was the picture in lincolnshire earlier on tuesday. and we will be keeping that theme of really heavy downpours over the next couple days, too, because this area of low pressure is driving our weather — and it is a slow—moving feature, just slowly drifting its way northwards through this evening and on into wednesday, as well. it's producing particularly heavy rainfall across parts of scotland. the met office issued an amber warning earlier on tuesday, for all those thunderstorms across central and northern parts of scotland. so, torrential downpours leading to potential flooding and some disruption, too. the showers across scotland will only gradually ease as we head through the evening hours into tonight, as well — whereas further south, this evening and through tonight,

most of those will tend to ease in intensity, as well. this is the story overnight — drier towards the south, still plenty of heavy showers for northwest england, parts of scotland in particular, too, where there could be some ongoing flooding issues, and temperatures overnight falling to between 13—15 celsius. during the day tomorrow, this area of low pressure is still with us, just drifting slowly northwards. got a bit more of a breeze developing in the south especially, tending to push the showers through a bit quicker. but again, across parts of scotland, they will be really slow—moving. so another amber warning from the met office, this time for heavy rainfall across parts of central and northern scotland, as well. so here, that rainfall will not only be heavy, but persistent through the course of the day — whereas further south, the showers and thunderstorms will move through a little bit quicker. a bit more of a breeze will be developing through the day. so hit—and—miss heavy showers and thunderstorms, as well, blustery close to parts of southern england in south wales, whereas further north, those lighter winds will be quite slow—moving in nature. temperature—wise, cooler than recent

days, highs of around 16—21 celsius during the day on wednesday. some sunshine in between some of these heavy downpours. and then, moving through wednesday night into thursday, low pressure starts to ease off towards the northeast, the winds rotating around the area of low pressure — so coming in and north or northwesterly direction. still some showers on thursday for parts of scotland, northern ireland, and northern england too, whereas further south it should be a dry day. so sunny spells, it's still an unsettled story, and temperatures a little bit cooler particularly in the north, around 15—21 celsius. bye— bye.

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the headlines: police on duty during january's storming of the us capitol building by donald trump supporters have told a congressional inquiry what happened was an attempted coup. one officer described being beaten, tasered and called a traitor, as rioters broke through windows and doors. the us gymnast simone biles is to be monitored daily by medics after pulling out of the final few events of the team gymnastics contest. biles won four gold medals in rio in 2016. one person has died and four others are missing after an explosion at an industrial park in the western german city of leverkusen. —— two people. juan carlos is being sued by his ex—lover. he alleges he put her under surveillance and hacked her phone. more burglars will have

to wear electronic tags on release from prison, under a government plan to cut crime