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Transcripts For BBCNEWS The 20240703

As 21 year old Peyton Stearns took wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova all the way as the czech player won in three sets in a match lasting over two hours. Another american is also out, Asjessica Pegula was beaten in straight sets by madison keys. Pegula left the court in tears, but she does still have a part to play later on in the womens doubles, while shes also a part of the mixed doubles, too. With less than four weeks to go until the ryder cup begins, we now know who will line up for team europe as they aim to win back the trophy from the usa. Captain luke donald has named his six wild card picks, and interestingly, he included swedens ludvig aberg. The 23 year old only turned professional injune, but did win the European Masters On Sunday and will now make his ryder cup debut alongside fellow wild card pickjustin rose, whos been impressed by abergs rise. He tends to have a couple of weapons that everybody does not have at their disposal so he has been fun to follow. Obviously his reign names that are being thrown around regarding the ryder cup and seems incredibly premature in a way but reputation is one thing but you have to sort of have some type of Profile Sadistically that is going to give you a chance to play some good golf in rome on a golf course thats going to suit a certain type of player. And i think his profile suits it probably better than most. So heres donalds team in full. Tommy fleetwood, sepp straka, justin rose, shane lowry and Nicolai Hojgaard were his five other wild card picks, joining rory mcilroy, jon rahm, viktor hovland, tyrrell hatton, Matt Fitzpatrick and robert macintyre, who had qualified automatically. The ryder cup begins on the 29th Of September in rome. Just four days to go until the start of the Rugby World Cup in france, and as the preparations for a Blockbuster Opening Match between the hosts and new zealand enter their final stages, the french team were joined by their president , emmanuel macron, at their training base. France are among the favourites to lift the Webb Ellis Cup alongside the all blacks, ireland and reigning champions south africa. But afterjust one win in six, england arent expected to win the tournament, but their head coach remains defiant. We have been through a pretty turbulent time. Weve been through a situation with injuries, and now it has made us stronger. I sense for us that there is even a renewed determination, and i certainly get the feeling from the players that they feel they have been written off a bit too early. I know that there has been a feeling that people have wrong time on these players. And i feel it might have been made a little bit too early. You can stay right up to date with all the latest four on the bbc sport website but that is it for me at the moment. Lets turn now to a worrying development as the world faces rapid increases in the Cost Of Living an increase in the number of children forced into commercial Sexual Exploitation or other harmful forms of work. The research has been carried out by the International Labour organisation, and according to their estimate, around 1. 7 million children are involved in the practises. The ilos Director General said the situation was getting worse, and often it was down to the way families felt they had to respond to global inflation. In some families, it really does make the difference between having one meal a day or not. And therefore, the temptation of bringing the young girl, for example, to the street or trying to entice them to go for the sex work increases. And therefore increases the risk of sexual abuse, Sexual Exploitation and therefore the worst form of child labour. Lets try to put that into context now. Commercial Sexual Exploitation is a murky issue, with many countries having no publicly available database for the illegal activity. Kenya is one such nation. It has been identified by the Us State Department as both a source, a Transit Country and a destination for the crime. One recent study estimated that more than 2 00 children between the ages of 13 17 were currently subject to Sexual Exploitation in two regions bordering the port city of mombasa. This week on bbc news, were bringing you a special series on the impact of the Cost Of Living crisis on children Around The World. Our first report comes from our state Department Correspondent Barbara Plett usher, and we should warn you, you may find some of the details distressing. In mombasa, life is hard for those on the margins, but tough Economic Times are making it even harder, forcing some parents to take painful decisions. This mother washes clothes a few times a week to support her three children. She doesnt want us to use her name. The money for school fees quickly runs out. Theres barely enough for food, so her daughter has to find work. Shes started selling her body. Shes 14 years old. Translation as a parent, its not easy to tell a child to do Something Like that. I would like her to go to school like other children, but because i dont have any means, shes forced to do thatjob. My heart is broken, and i dont want it to continue. Shes not the only one. Weve spoken with a woman who runs a brothel. She told us shes been getting more and more young girls. Music. At this shelter, a rare moment ofjoy celebrating a birthday party. These children were abused, abandoned or trafficked, some forced into the sex trade. Rescue centres are struggling to meet the growing needs. Everyone wants to survive. Theyve been giving away their children for exchange of money. And has it always been that way, or is it more so now . Now its more so because there is no money. There is no money. There is nojob. We are tired. Thats the chant at protests against rising prices and higher taxes. Theres anger and frustration across the country. Its the poorest kenyans whove been hit the hardest, and in mombasa, they can tap into a thriving business. Mombasa has long been a well known hub for child sex tourism, but covid and the increasingly harsh Cost Of Living have Helped Push The Sex Trade online and further underground, drawing even more children into the industry. Kenyan police are fighting back against the dark trade in child sex. They track down suspects using cyber tips from a database in the united states, then search phones and computer drives for explicit material about children. Up against an economy of depravity that feeds on desperation. This woman is in charge of the unit. She says theres no data on whether the recent Cost Of Living crisis has driven more children into the sex trade, but her team has begun monitoring it. Of course, of course,. It is a major contributor into child sex trafficking. So we would say that poverty, wed say that unemployment. | there are so many children that are dropping out of school, and then you find that theyre getting to this, especially in the coastal region. One girl who hasnt escaped the streets told me about the despair that shapes her young life. Were using her words, but not her voice. I am afraid, because i know that when youre sleeping with a man, you can get hiv or become pregnant. Sometimes i feel so hungry. And when i look at other children, they dont suffer. Sometimes i think that i have no reason to live. Barbara plett usher, bbc news, mombasa. Joining me now is tom ekesa, Executive Director of the Kenya Alliance for advancement of children. Thank you very much for coming on the programme. Thank you very much for coming on the programme thank you very much for coming on the programme. Thank you very much. Reau the programme. Thank you very much. Really difficult the programme. Thank you very much. Really difficult details the programme. Thank you very much. Really difficult details there the programme. Thank you very much. Really difficult details there to really difficult details there to listen to. How do you try and improve the situation there . The situation is improve the situation there . Tue situation is bad, improve the situation there . He situation is bad, a improve the situation there . Tt2 situation is bad, a crisis for children, especially child labour leading children into commercial Sexual Exploitation is a big problem. We want to say is that the organisation is working with children. We have been doing a lot of awareness and sensitisation, working with the ilo to address the situation. We know that when covid i9 happened, many families with children got them into that kind of labour. Of the government is doing a lot and the ngos are doing a lot. I know that we had a big study of research on sexual abuse act, and some of the issues that came up were secondary issues that are very big. And we have managed to get the government to come up with initial plan of actionjust government to come up with initial plan of action just to be able to reverse the issue of sexual exportation of children in kenya. T5 exportation of children in kenya. Is there a role here for the International Community more widely . The International Community has a very big role because one thing, the need to hold, especially the un, kenya is a member of the un, hold the state was possible for them of the state was possible for them of the policies they have passed, some of the conventions they have signed. The Ilo Conventions on child labour and minimum age of child labour, the International Community can hold kenny accountable to report on how we are doing to ensure we are in permitting some of the things we have signed and those laws. Secondly, the International Community can also be able to support some of the efforts, seeing governments and what they are doing to ensure they in the commercial Sexual Exploitation to of children. Yeah, they have a big role to play. On the scale of the problem, on the estimates of the beginning there, are the numbers those that ring true to un your experience . T are the numbers those that ring true to un your experience . Are the numbers those that ring true to un your experience . I want to say that, yeah. To un your experience . I want to say that, yeah. They to un your experience . I want to say that, yeah, they are to un your experience . I want to say that, yeah, they are and to un your experience . I want to say that, yeah, they are and they to un your experience . I want to say that, yeah, they are and they are that, yeah, they are and they are not. I want to say that when the violence in the study of 2010 was done, the government did another study after ten years and what we established that the numbers have gone down. I think a lot of our aim now is actually being able to let more people now know we are aware about it. More places that are used to using children for exportation now are signing codes of conduct and figures have changed. I think the country, we are changing, we are advancing what we need to put in more effort, with the police, the government, to update the children themselves because the children are getting into commercial Sexual Exploitation are more. Help prevent and use preventative strategies within waiting for mitigation. The cueue within waiting for mitigation. The aueue for within waiting for mitigation. The queue for coming on to the programme, thank you. Toa run to a run now and talk about hospice diplomacy. Iran is often used of hold people to use as Bargaining Chips effectively when particularly westerners visit iran. Before they leave, they are held in prison. There is apparently another new case. Johan floderus is from sweden and has apparently been held for 500 daysin and has apparently been held for 500 days in prison. This is the prison, a pretty notorious one there. Now we know all this because of the reporting of the New York Times. Matina stevis gridneff, Brussels Bureau chief, New York Times newspaper. Thank you very much for coming out of the programme. Thank you very much for coming out of the programme. Thanks for having me. What of the programme. Thanks for having me what do of the programme. Thanks for having me what do we of the programme. Thanks for having me. What do we know of the programme. Thanks for having me. What do we know about of the programme. Thanks for having me. What do we know about the me. What do we know about the details of this me. What do we know about the details of this man me. What do we know about the details of this man from me. What do we know about the details of this man from sweden who visited iran and is still being held . ~ , ~. , held . Well, the first thing we know is that we have held . Well, the first thing we know is that we have not held . Well, the first thing we know is that we have not know held . Well, the first thing we know is that we have not know much held . Well, the first thing we know. Is that we have not know much about him in a really long time. As you said in your introduction, he has been held for more than 500 days, since april 17, 2022, the information that had been available P Information that had been available up until now was a very laconic, very brief submitted by the Iranian Regime issued injuly last year saying that it had detained a Swedish National for espionage and that the person had previously visited iran. In the statement said that their behaviour had been nefarious. Thats all we knew until our story came out today. Our storys i think most important element apart from putting a face in a name to someone going through an ordeal in this infamous iranian prison is that he works as a European Union official. This is not another iranian dual national who was in a family visit. We have so many cases like that in of course reviewers might remember the tragic case of Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe, the british Iranian Charity Worker who was detained under horrible conditions for years. This is a person who had worked for the European Union and visited the country before unofficial eu business and on a private trip, a tourists trip when he was not on official business, he was arrested and detained. And this is breaking news, 500 days later. And and detained. And this is breaking news, 500 days later. And detained. And this is breaking news, 500 days later. And have we had any response news, 500 days later. And have we had any response from news, 500 days later. And have we had any response from swedish had any response from swedish authorities or iranian authorities . Not so much from the iranian authorities was of the swedish authorities was of the swedish authorities chose to be also very secretive and laconic in their statement said they could confirm that attention in iran for more than 500 days of a Swedish National, a man in his 30s. Their statement to me said but they said they chose not to provide more information because they felt secrecy would better aid them in handling this case. The family of the young man, however, did come forward with an on the record statement later in the day, a few hours after our story came out, acknowledging this was their loved one who was in prison and be very grateful for the support of the swedish authorities but also saying that every day away from him is an ordeal. , that every day away from him is an ordeal. ~ ,. , that every day away from him is an ordeal. , ~ ,. ,. That every day away from him is an ordeal. ,. ,. , ordeal. Thank you very much for cominu ordeal. Thank you very much for coming on ordeal. Thank you very much for coming on and ordeal. Thank you very much for coming on and talking ordeal. Thank you very much for coming on and talking us ordeal. Thank you very much forl coming on and talking us through your reporting, thank you. Coming on and talking us through your reporting, thank you. Thank you for havin your reporting, thank you. Thank you for having me Around The World and across the uk, this is bbc news. Bbc news, bringing you different stories from across the uk. Meet bill cooksey. Hes 102, and hes attempting to become the oldest person to ever complete the Great North Run. Hes no stranger to a challenge. When he turned 100, he walked 100 miles in ten days. And after his 101st birthday, he cycled 1000 miles on his tricycle. But given his age, the Great North Run organisers requested that he do the walk accompanied by two carers. He says, i fancy doing the Great North Run, will you help us . And he just really took off from there, so i couldnt say no, really. One thing i hope comes out of it is it encourages other people to try the same thing. Because very often you get to a certain age, and they say, well, thats it. Im not supposed to be able to do this. But ijust didnt hear that. Ijust carried on

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