their next destination, greece's border with north macedonia. five years ago thousands took this route through a tiny border village, a gateway to western europe through the balkans. look at these fields now. this border is shut. but migrants are now showing up again, in smaller but growing numbers. these men were just pushed back by border guards in north macedonia. and we came across an afghan family waiting in the sunflowers, trying for a sixth time to sneak through. we try to go because the grece government say go from greece. so what do we make? we cannot go back in afghanistan. this is our problem. we try to go to another country. the welcome has gone cold in this little village. in southern greece, on scenic islands like samos, the mood is much the same. a camp built five years ago to house hundreds of migrants, now sprawls across the hills. thousands living in squalor, losing hope asylum cases will ever be settled. we weren't allowed to enter the camp, residents filmed for us. derayd shows us their food. bread, gone mouldy. he fled syria with his family. there are far fewer arrivals on greek shores now. look at how close turkey is, it's in touching distance of greece. and they share a land border too. so earlier this year, when tensions rose between turkey and europe, turkey sent more migrants towards greece. it could do it again but right now, it's greece's actions which are also causing concern. voices clamour. this video appears to show migrants being pushed by the greek coastguard, out of greek waters, towards turkey in breach of international law. we obtained this material from groups monitoring traffic in the aegean sea. the un says it's also documented multiple cases. we are out there, sending a signal that greece has border, the european union has borders, and illegal crossings are not being tolerated, but we do so in compliance with international law. life for migrants gets tougher under greece's conservative government. they insist greece won't be a gateway to europe again and knows much of europe thinks the same. lyse doucet, bbc news, samos. we're about to show you some astonising pictures of a little girl being pulled into the air by a giant kite. before we do, i can tell you that she only suffered minor cuts and bruises. it happened at a festival in taiwan. the three—year—old got tangled in the tail of the kite, and was then thrown a hundred feet into the air. she was eventually caught, and, it's worth saying again — she only suffered minor cuts and bruises. the incident is being investigated by the authorities in taiwan. the cost of single use carrier bags in england is to double from 5p to 10p from next april — and all shops will have to charge for them. the government says it's part of a renewed drive to be greener, and cut unnecessary waste. our chief environment correspondent justin rowlatt has the details. at the moment, the 5p levy only applies to single use carrier bags in large stores, those employing more than 250 people. but, from next april, the charge will double and will apply in all shops. the government says the initiative aims to protect sea creatures by reducing plastic pollution in the ocean. it claims that, since the charge was introduced in 2015, there has been a 95% reduction in plastic bag sales in major supermarkets. you know, it's not long ago that supermarkets were issuing around 7 billion carrier bags a year. that has now been reduced by 95%. now we want to extend this approach to other retailers as well, who between them probably issue at the moment over 3 billion bags a year. we think we can have a similar impact to reduce further the issuing of plastic bags and extend what has actually been a very successful policy, supported by the public. but environmental campaigners dispute that. they say we're just buying billions of thicker so—called "bags for life" instead. the environmental campaign group greenpeace says the government should go further and set targets for reducing all single—use plastics by supermarkets. this is just a small step when we should be taking big strides. we know the scale of our plastic pollution crisis. the government is well aware of the kind of action they need to take, including on things like bags for life, which contain more plastic. but ultimately, you know, if we're going to make people, customers, you or i, pay more, surely producers, the people who make the plastic in the first place, should be paying more as well, and that's what we want to see from the government as soon as possible. but the move has been welcomed by the association of convenience stores, which represents small retailers. it says the charge is an effective way of reducing plastic waste. justin rowlatt, bbc news. that's it for now, we're back at six o'clock. now on bbc one it's time for the news where you are. goodbye. good afternoon, it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news. tottenham have a trip to bulgaria next month in the second qualifying round of the europa league. the tie against lokomotiv plovdiv on september 17th is a straight knockout. lots of british clubs involved, rangers travel to gibraltar to face lincoln red imps. aberdeen are also away against norwegian‘s viking. motherwell have a short hop to face coleraine in northern ireland. linfield are at home to malta's floriana. welsh sides, the new saints, bala town and connah's quay are also involved. there's the spurs tie and what a game for ireland's shamrock rovers, ac milan at home. manchester united are very close to signing the ajax and netherlands midfielder donny van de beek. a fee of around £40 million has been agreed for the 23—year—old, on a five—year deal. he was a key figure in the ajax side that reached the champions league semi—finals last year. he's expected to be avaialble for united's first match of the season against crystal palace on 19th september. united getting an extra week off after their european exertions last season. england women's first match in over seven months will be away against germany on october 27th. it will be a friendly against the 2—time world champions behind closed doors in wiesbaden. the lionesses haven't played since the shebelieves cup in the united states in march. head coach phil neville will also have a week—long training camp at st george's park next month. england last played germany in november, a 2—1 defeat in front of a record crowd of almost 78,000 at wembley. there was an incredible finish to the bmw championship in chicago. a putting masterclass. the spaniard jon rahm was three shots off the pace heading into the final day but a round of six—under par 64 — the lowest round of the week saw him top the leaderboard. he looked set for the win but world number one dustin johnson pulled this out of the bag to force a play—off, but rahm sank an even longer putt at the first extra on the same green — 66 feet — to take the title. the stress of waiting for dj, him making the putt and me making the putt. it has been a roller—coaster. the best way i can explain it, it was a lot ofjoy on the golf course today for me, not only because i played really well. it's a difficult course. you have to play really good. people were playing well and i knew we could get some birdies and i had fun doing it. the us open starts later today, the grand slam has been hit with high—profile withdraweals because of concerns over the pandemic and the 17th seed benoit paire pulled out yeaterday benoit paire pulled out yesterday after testing positive for covid—i9. the frenchman, who had been in new york for almost a fortnight, had two negative tests when he first arrived. rafael nadal and ash barty among those not taking part because of fears over travelling to the us, which has had nearly 6 million cases of the virus. world no 3 dominic thiem says it was inevitable that a player would test positive at the event. there are so many people involved in this tournament and the possibility that somebody is going to be positive is pretty high, so ijust wish all the best to benoit paire. hopefully nobody else is positive, as well. that is the most important thing. of course, after he gets healthy very soon again, and that's it. british number one johanna konta plays her first match tomorrow against compatriot heather watson. and konta has risen two places to number 13 in the latest world rankings, thanks to her run to the semi—finals in the western and southern open at flushing meadows last week. she's seeded 9th at the us open. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. i will be back with an update in the next hour. now in a special interview on his last day in the job, lord hall reflects on his time as the bbc‘s director general, in conversation with our media editor, amol rajan. tony hall, thank you for talking to bbc news. in preparation for this interview, i have spoken to many present and former colleagues of yours, senior figures in tv and politics, and i should say in the spirit of transparency that the consensus among them is that of you were a highly effective dg someone who had probably the hardestjob ofany dg. but there was one common criticism that many made — i think you know what's coming — and it's about the deal that you struck with the government back in 2015 to take on the cost of tv licences for the over—75s, something which you now say the bbc cannot afford. it looked like a bad deal back then, why did you agree to it? let me take you back to 2015. against everyone‘s expectation, you had an incoming majority conservative government, so the lib dems and their break on the government in the past, the coalition had gone, the coalition had gone. you had a government which was full—on austerity, a feeling that the bbc needed reform. i think it was a really, really perilous time for the bbc. move forward to a monday morning where, not suspecting this was going to happen, the then secretary of state rings me and says — it was thenjohn whittingdale, who says, "i have tried over the weekend, but it hasn't worked, the treasury are insistent on this, they are going to impose on you the over—75s." you mean by that george osborne, just to be really clear? yes. at which point, i said that is nuclear, that means closing bbc two, bbc three, bbc four, local radio, some radio networks and probably some other things, as well. understand that is the scale of you are... did you threaten to resign over that? i thought about resigning but at that moment i thought you've got to get in there and try to stop this, or ameliorate what they are proposing to do. it was very clear very, very quickly that there was no possibility of stopping this. did you make clear to them that this is a welfare payment and that is what governments do, and not broadcasters? yes, all those arguments were kind of laid out, every single one of those arguments was very, very highly fought. it was one of the most difficult and tense set of negotiations or discussions i have ever had. i don't want to repeat it. we ended up after some more meetings with george osborne and the then chairman of the bbc trust, rona fairhead, running through the amelioration which we had won from them for the over—755. one was that we would have a licence fee that would go up with inflation for the first time in over a decade. secondly, some imposts that were on the bbc for broadband and other things would be removed, thirdly what was called a digital loophole, that those who were viewing online would have to pay the license fee. would have to pay the licence fee. and what the result of that was, as we worked it out, including some reform of the over—75s, which is that you had a cash flat settlement. now again, let me just take you back to that period. cash flat at last time was a settlement only achieved if i recall by the nhs, everyone else was taking a hard cut. so, you know, from the point of view of where we were at that time,