Also coming up, most of the historic world war ii aircraft making up the battle of Britain Memorial flight have been grounded. One display has already been cancelled. And production was halted on the 6th of march Mission Impossible film, because its star tom cruise broke his ankle while performing a stunt while filming in london. This is bbc news and these are the top good morning. Its thursday 17th august. Im rebecca jones. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Thousands of teenagers across england, wales and Northern Ireland have received their a level results this morning. In england, the results marked a major reform to the exams introduced by the government, including a move away from coursework and modular exams in 13 subjects and a decision to separate as levels to form stand alone qualifications. There was a fall of 0. 2 in the overall pass rate which was down to 97. 9 . But there was an increase in the number of students awarded the top grades with 26. 3 of entries receiving either an
special forces operators and meeting with local officials when the gunman opened fire. it is not the only time that week that supposedly a friendly killed a number of u.s. troops in afghanistan and stay there. we will be live from the pentagon in a moment. and syrian rebels say they are fighting in new neighborhoods and new tactics in aleppo, and this is following what the rebels call a tactical stronghold by rebels, and they were forced by jets and helicopters and tanks. the opposition activists say that 115 people have been killed just today across the country. many of them in aleppo. the british government meanwhile is planning to increase nonlethal aid to the rebels. so now in the absence of diplomatic progress, the united kingdom will do much more. we will expand our support to the syrian people, and the syrian political opposition with an extra 5 million pounds of nonlethal practical assistance. this will help protect unarmed opposition groups, human rights activi