and its capitol, chengdu.g skyline, it hasn't lost its deep culinary roots and traditions. >> man: heart. >> anthony: and i figured if i'm going back to sichuan i should bring a friend. someone unused to the, how shall i say, level of heat commonly found in the food here. someone who's never been to china before and is unused to its ways. i'm talking, of course, about chef eric ripert, of such three-star michelin restaurants as new york's le bernardin. so, welcome to china, eric. >> eric: thank you. >> anthony: first time to the mainland? >> eric: yes, and i'm very surprised already about, uh, what i see in the city here. i was expecting, like, uh, kind of a gigantic chinatown that we have in new york. >> anthony: that's some racist shit right there, i'm telling you. >> eric: no, very surprising the streets, they're very clean, just, it almost looks like a european city. >> anthony: except for the air. the air quality, i mean, maybe you've noticed that haze -- >> eric: yeah, it's like a -- >> anthony: that's n

britain's dan evans is through to the last 16 of the chengdu open but kyle edmund is out though — and hilton. edmund's defeat this morning was his fourth in a row. he'll be assisted in the short term by colin beecher, who coached him when he was in his late teens. rugby league's international governing body have denied giving clearance for israel folau to return to the sport. folau was sacked by australian rugby union's ruling body after writing on social media "hell awaits" gay people. he said he was switching codes again to play for tonga at next month's oceania cup. and emily muskett has become britain's first medallist at a world weightlifting championship since 1994, with ‘clean and jerk‘ bronze in thailand. muskett works three jobs and has benefitted from uk sport‘s ‘aspiration fund‘, set up to help athletes in some unfunded sports qualify for tokyo 2020. cricket news now. after a busy summer, england are back in action again, in just over month‘s time — they‘ve named their squads for the upcoming tour of new zealand. the big name to miss out from the test side isjonny bairstow.

evidence of that there were some pandas in the area but in the breeding center in sichuan for example in chengdu. they've they've developed this incredible program for breeding for looking after young pandas so it's really it's something it's a national obsession in a way and it's also to just exporters and income many people who end up going to the center but it must also you i mean it is kind of diplomacy as it is called doesn't work. i think i think it does a lot i mean they are very cute creatures. i think it's done a lot to sort of soften china's image in a way you know particularly as china has opened up over the last say 4 decades obviously there's been it's been up and down over the period but i think the pound as have been have been sort of all the way through people love them people even ponder skeptics when you see a pound for him in the flesh it will warm your heart it's in softening up on his image but maybe not making it cute and cuddly yell exactly maybe that's a bit of a stretch clifford going on thanks very much for coming in. china's population is growing old at a faster rate t

britain‘s dan evans is through to the last 16 of the chengdu 0pen.en knocked out in the first round of three successive events. the decision to split from hilton was actually made last week, and he‘ll be assisted in the short term by colin beecher, who coached him when he was in his late teens. rugby league‘s international governing body have denied giving clearance for israel folau to return to the sport. folau was sacked by australian rugby union‘s ruling body after writing on social media "hell awaits" gay people. he said he was switching codes again to play for tonga at next month‘s 0ceania cup. and emily muskett has become britain‘s first medallist at a world weightlifting championship since 1994, with clean and jerk bronze in thailand. muskett said it was amazing considering she‘d been working three jobs and training when she could. she‘s benefitted from uk sport‘s aspiration fund, set up to help athletes in some unfunded sports qualify for tokyo 2020. two great stories from the cycling road world championships in harrow ship —— harrogate. russ

edmond has lost four matches in a row, most recently at the chengdu 0pen lost four matches in a row,s made last week and edmund will now be assisted in the short—term by colin beauchamp, who coached him when he was in his late teens. rugby‘s international governing body has denied giving clearance to israel folau out for his return to the sport. he had his contract terminated by rugby australia after writing on social media that hell awaits gay people, which breached a players' code of conduct. the tonga national rugby league said he had been cleared to play for the country at next months's 0ceana cup but the rl iss at next months's 0ceana cup but the rl 155 that at next months's 0ceana cup but the rl iss that is incorrect as the organisation has not been formally asked to consider the matter. that is all for now. more in sportsday at 6:30pm. we will see you then. thank you, gavin. more now on the labour party conference, where the party's stance on brexit is being debated. as we have just seen, a few minutes ago. the party leaderjeremy corbyn wants to go into the next general electi

number one kyle edmund lost in straight sets to chile's cristian garin in the first round of the chengduagainst the unseeded garin, who is only one place lower in the world rankings. edmund has now lost four successive matches and has suffered three consecutive first—round exits. essex have made a good start as they bid to seal cricket's county championship in the final match of the season. they need to avoid defeat against title—chasing rivals somerset at taunton. somerset batted after winning the toss but soon lost former india test star murali vijay to jamie porter. fellow opener steven davies was then trapped lbw by sam cook. spinner simon harmer then took two more quick wickets, and somerset were 75 for a when rain stopped play. with the world championships getting underway later this week, the iaaf president lord coe says that he'd like to see caster semenya return to athletics— but within the regulations. the 800m world champion won't be defending her title in doha, because she refuses to comply with the new rules governing testerone levels in female athletes. but speaking to the

should see a bit of a drawing up take place setting close much of the sichuan so dr day in store in chengdu then we had across towards india and this is where of course once the rains all still very very active there's still small warnings in place as well from the india met department is for the central regions pradesh in particular this is where there will be more heavy rain in the full cost as we go through sunday but it's very extensive once again on the west coast to the west and gets right down into carola and also you see more rain into the northeast and again the polls still seeing some rains and they're fairly widespread pushing down into bangladesh at the same time where we have seen some dry weather is up into new delhi same fight as we head through monday it should be another dry day but a very warm day with a high of a 36 celsius. in the heart of the amazon the libyan family is putting lives in peril to harvest brazil nuts. it's getting the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. that risky new tool to believe be asked. on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeer

and sure enough it was hosted in chengdu, china, under the name xiang li. i want to know what are we looking at? how big is this i wanted to make an undercover purchase. >> crack 99 offered a very unique insertion point for an undercover operation because it was a website that was open to the public. i called a colleague of mine from the defense criminal investigative service, dcis, who works as an undercover agent and could take on the undercover person that for this case. i knew that's where this was going to go. >> they work together to stop the trafficking of critical dod weapons systems and technology. we don't want bad guys getting our stuff. that would provide our enemies with an advantage having the same weapons we have. we don't want to have a level playing field. we want to have the upper hand. our mission is to protect the war fighter and in the end they protect us. when i first saw the website, it was like a bad 80s television commercial. it really was sloppy. it was like an amazon or ebay of pirating software, but this is technology that isn't

edmund has lost four matches in a row — most recently at the chengdu 0pen this morning — and he's beenh the world championships getting under way later this week, the iaaf president lord coe says that he'd like to see caster semenya return to athletics, but within the regulations. the 800m world chamopion won't be defending her title in doha, because she refuses to comply with the new rules governing testerone levels in female athletes, but speaking to the bbc‘s alex capstick, coe says that he hopes that she hasn't given up track and field forever. we have not said those regulations to exclude people. they are actually there to allow us to maintain the presence of those athletes with that condition at international level. you would like to see her back on 800 metres or 500 metres —— 5000 metres cosmic within those regulations, of course. that is all the sport for now. on the bbc sport website, including details of the england cricket squads for the t20 and test tours to new zealand. johnny burstow has been dropped from the test squad. we will have more in the test squad. we will have m