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The world's athletes sailed up the River Seine for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. The flotilla was peppered with performances of music and entertainment including Lady Gaga, dancers of the Moulin Rouge, and French-Malian singer Aya Nakamura, in a tribute to the French capital's cultural history. The Olympic flame was a cauldron shaped like a hot air balloon that rose high above the Parisian sky.
In the US, Kamala Harris is reaching the end of week one as the Democratic presumptive nominee in the Presidential election. We speak to a pollster about her chances of success.
And what must it be like to experience scuba diving without sight? A visually impaired diver describes the orchestra of ocean sounds she hears every time she plunges below.

Protestors in Manchester have gathered tonight outside the offices of the Mayor Andy Burnham, after a video was circulated on social media of a man being kicked and stamped on by a police officer at Manchester Airport. We get reaction from the city.
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President Biden is pushing for a Gaza ceasefire with Israel's Prime Minister.
What does the private sector make of the new GB Energy company intended to turn Britain into a "green energy superpower"?
And as the Paris Olympics kicks off tomorrow, there’s been an international outcry at one member of the Dutch team: a convicted rapist.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a landmark address before a joint session of the United States Congress in which he enjoined US politicians to continue supporting his country's war against Hamas in Gaza and its confrontation with Iran. "When we fight Iran, we're fighting the most radical and murderous enemy of the United States of America," Mr Netanyahu said. But protesters outside the Capitol building labelled him a "war criminal" and called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
A whistleblower who released a video of Olympian Charlotte Dujardin, appearing repeatedly to whip a horse she was training, says she did so in order to "save dressage". What impact could the video have on the equestrian sport?
And we spoke to the biographer of celebrated Canadian author Alice Munro, who passed away in May. Her daughter now says she was sexually abused by her stepfather, and accused her mother of turning a blind eye.

The head of US Secret Service has resigned following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump - hours after facing an extraordinary grilling in Congress. We have reaction from one of the Republican lawmakers on the committee that questioned her.
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Seven Labour MPs have had the whip suspended after voting against the government in favour of scrapping the two-child benefit cap. We have the latest from Westminster.
We hear from the husband of an American journalist who's been jailed for six and a half years in Russia for allegedly spreading "false information".
And as Team GB says it'll offer athletes military-style “decompression” counselling at the end of the Paris Olympics to help them deal with the “post-Games blues”, we speak to the swimmer Rebecca Adlington about sporting moodswings.

Nancy Pelosi has become the latest leading democrat to back Kamala Harris after Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race. We ask how she could fare with voters against Donald Trump.
As the US considers electing its first Black woman as president, we get an insight into what Kamala Harris could bring to the job from the former Mayor of San Francisco who dated her when she was a young prosecutor 30 years ago.
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The Conservatives have revealed their plans for electing the party's next leader - who won't be in post until November. We have the latest from Westminster.
And, fresh from opening the Proms, the acclaimed pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason on her call for the government to back music in schools.