bbc sports centre. stay. for sportsday. hello there. i m olly foster at the london stadium, this is world athletics sportsday, and this is what s coming up on the programme. it s going to be a farewell for farah. his last race for a global gold. will it the be a golden goodbye for bolt? it s the relay, then retirement. and, with six finals tonight, katarina johnson thompson gets a second chance to make it onto the podium. i m lizzie greenwood hughes. also coming up in the programme. the defeated champions chelsea are beaten by burnley in their opening game of the season. but it s terrific for the terriers. promoted huddersfield beat crystal palace 3 0. good evening. and what an evening gets going to be on the ninth day of these world athletics championships, on the penultimate evening. two figureheads of atheltics will be leaving the sport tonight. 29 world championship and olympic golds between them. we have about three hours before usian bolt bows out of the sport, and
of white supremacists some giving nazi salutes held a torch lit rally yesterday at the university of virginia to protest against a decision to remove a statue of the confederate civil war general, robert e lee. a local state of emergency has been declared in two districts. in the past hour, president trump spoke to the media about the events in cha rlottesville. we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and filers on many sides. and filers. it has been going on for a long time. it has no place in america. what is vital now isa place in america. what is vital now is a swift restoration of law and order and the protection of lives. on the line is the bbc‘s joel gunter, who s been at that rally today. things had calmed but we have had news of that horrific car ploughing into people and we understand one person has lost their life. what else do we know? that is about all we know. i was down at the scene earlierjust we know. i wa
condemned the violence. our north america correspondent, laura bicker, reports. hate has come to the streets of the southern american city. an explosion of violence sparked after a planned protest by white nationalists. the so called alt right, including figures from the ku klux klan and saluting neo nazi sympathisers. the day started in a tense stand off as the group was surrounded by anti racism activists. it then erupted into taunting, shoving and outright brawling. this has been declared an unlawful assembly. the rally was cancelled before it even began. as the turmoil subsided, police took back the streets. the crowd dispersed, then this. tyres screech. a car, at speed, ploughs through protesters. one person has died and at least six others are thought to have been injured. a state of emergency has now been declared in cha rlottesville. many fear what is known as the alt right have become emboldened by donald trump s ascent to the white house. today, the us president sai
welcome to bbc news. great britain have one gold in the relay in london. usain bolt pulled up relay in london. usain bolt pulled up in his race. and the third fastest winning time in history as the us takes silver and japan and france. japan bronze. sir mo farah has won silver in the final of the five thousand metres at the world athletics championships in london. in his final track title race, the four time olympic champion failed to add another gold to the ten thousand metres gold he won eight days ago. 34 year old farah was always in contention, but in the final lap he became boxed in by three ethiopian competitors, with muktar edris claiming gold. he plans to concentrate on marathon classic in the future. at a quarter past 11 we will have more sporting headlines. one person has died and at least 19 others have been injured after a car rammed a crowd of people opposing a far right rally in the us state of virginia. it happened in the city of charlottesville after violen
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