Nathan Ake will give Chelsea "options" according to manager Antonio Conte after he recalled the defender from his season-long loan spell at Bournemouth.

Dutchman Ake, 21, joined the Cherries on loan last June, and has scored three times in 12 games for them this season.
He has played 12 times for Chelsea since making his debut in 2012, but Conte said the club "is his home".
"He's showing he deserves to stay in a great team like Chelsea," added Conte. "He gives me important options".
Conte will be without central defender John Terry for Saturday's trip to Leicester after the club captain was sent off in their FA Cup third-round win over Peterborough.
Ake has been recalled with immediate effect and will also be eligible for Chelsea in the FA Cup as he did not feature in the competition for Bournemouth.
On Saturday, Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe said losing Ake would be "a huge blow".
"He's done so well. It is easier said than done to say we are going to go and recruit a player of a similar stature to Nathan," Howe added.
"With Simon Francis' suspension and Marc Pugh's injury and now Nathan going back, our defensive resources are certainly stretched."
Conte's side top the Premier League and currently have the second-best defence in the top-tier, conceding 15 goals this season, one more than Tottenham.
The Blues currently have 37 players out on loan.


UK retail sales increased in July as stronger spending on food offset a fall in the purchase of other goods, according to official figures.

The volume of sales grew by 0.3% compared with June, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
However, the figure for June's retail sales growth was revised down from 0.6% to 0.3%.
The latest data shows that the volume of food sales rose by 1.5% in July, having fallen by 1.1% in June.
The ONS said all other sectors saw a fall in volume sales apart from household goods.
Ole Black, ONS senior statistician, said that overall it was a "relatively subdued picture" in retail sales".
"Strong food sales have been responsible for the growth of 0.3% in July compared with June, as all other main sectors have shown a decrease. Whilst the overall growth is the same as in June, trends in growth in different sectors are proving quite volatile," he said.
However, Ruth Gregory, UK economist at Capital Economics, said the July figures were "fairly encouraging given the recent intensification of the squeeze on consumers' real incomes and suggest that talk of a sharp consumer slowdown has been overdone".
She said there had been few signs of a sharp slowdown in spending growth away from the high street.
"What's more, with annual retail sales values growth remaining at a still strong 4.1% in July, this suggests that consumers haven't been tightening their belts as a result of Brexit uncertainty," she said.
Ben Brettell, senior economist at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the figures showed the UK consumer was "extraordinarily resilient".
"Spending has defied expectations of a slowdown since the Brexit referendum, and currently seems to be holding up despite weak wage growth and above-target inflation," he added.
"This could bode well for economic growth - the UK economy is heavily reliant on the consumer, and economists had expected falling real incomes to eventually translate into weak retail sales."
However, the continuing difficulties for retailers was underlined on Thursday when Kingfisher reported a 1.9% fall in like-for-like sales for the three months to 31 July.
The group's operations include DIY chain B&Q, whose sales fell 4.7%.
PwC economic advisor, Andrew Sentance said the underlying picture on the High Street remained one of "subdued growth".
"Consumers may also be becoming more cautious about spending because of the political uncertainty following the General Election and surrounding the Brexit process.
"However, the main factor squeezing consumers is the weakness of the pound against other major currencies which is pushing up import prices and fuelling inflation," he added.
"UK consumers are watching and waiting - for inflation to subside and for the post-Brexit to become clearer. Until there is some relief on these two key issues, subdued growth of retail sales looks set to continue through this year and into 2018."


Captain Ross McCormack scored twice as Fulham thrashed QPR 4-0 in a one-sided west London derby at Craven Cottage.

Just 117 seconds had been played when French teenager Moussa Dembele rose to nod in James Husband's left-wing cross.
After Massimo Luongo wasted a good chance to equalise for QPR, Ben Pringle doubled Fulham's lead from 18 yards.
McCormack slotted home from inside the box to make it 3-0 after 31 minutes and scrambled in a fourth, while QPR lost top scorer Charlie Austin to injury.
The second-half departure of their talismanic striker, with what appeared to be a hamstring injury, merely capped an awful night for Rangers as they were well beaten by their local rivals.
QPR, who would have gone into the Championship's top four with a victory, took time to settle after Dembele's early goal.
They could have levelled when a superb move put Luongo clear, but the Australia international side-footed wide from 12 yards.
The hosts were 2-0 up within a minute of Luongo's miss, as winger Pringle shifted the ball onto his favoured left foot before firing in past Robert Green.
Whites captain McCormack made the most of the space afforded to him inside the box to collect Tom Cairney's pass and beat Green with an angled shot.
The Scotland international rounded off the scoring shortly after the hour, forcing the ball in after QPR centre-back Gabriele Angella had turned a Ryan Fredericks cross onto his own crossbar.
Fulham, who climb to 11th and within a point of QPR in the Championship table, were rarely troubled defensively as they kept their first clean sheet in the league this season.
Fulham manager Kit Symons: "It was the best performance since I've been here and the most pleasing one.
"I wanted to make sure we had the bragging rights come tomorrow morning and Fulham fans will be crowing after that one - and rightly so.
"I was waiting for everything to click and it did tonight. We will need to kick on from this and make sure this sort of performance becomes the norm and we start moving up the table."
QPR head coach Chris Ramsey: "Hopefully it's a bad day at the office. It was a poor performance all round. There were a lot of individual errors that caused us more problems than we needed right from the start.
"We suffered from making some very basic individual errors in defence and I don't know any team that can continually deal with that."
Ramsey on Austin's injury: "I think it's his hamstring but I am not 100%. We will find out later on tonight probably."
Match ends, Fulham 4, Queens Park Rangers 0.
Second Half ends, Fulham 4, Queens Park Rangers 0.
Corner,  Fulham. Conceded by James Perch.
Attempt blocked. Ben Pringle (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ross McCormack with a cross.
Cauley Woodrow (Fulham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nedum Onuoha (Queens Park Rangers).
Attempt missed. Kay Voser (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Ross McCormack.
Foul by Alejandro Faurlin (Queens Park Rangers).
Kay Voser (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Cauley Woodrow (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by James Husband with a cross.
James Perch (Queens Park Rangers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by James Perch (Queens Park Rangers).
James Husband (Fulham) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Tözsér (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Karl Henry.
Foul by Leroy Fer (Queens Park Rangers).
Richard Stearman (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Fulham. Kay Voser replaces Ryan Fredericks.
Substitution, Fulham. Cauley Woodrow replaces Moussa Dembele.
Corner,  Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Tim Ream.
Attempt saved. Ryan Tunnicliffe (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ben Pringle.
Nedum Onuoha (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Moussa Dembele (Fulham).
Foul by Leroy Fer (Queens Park Rangers).
Richard Stearman (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Fulham. Lasse Vigen Christensen replaces Jamie O'Hara.
Attempt missed. Ben Pringle (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Ryan Tunnicliffe.
Goal!  Fulham 4, Queens Park Rangers 0. Ross McCormack (Fulham) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner.
Foul by Matthew Phillips (Queens Park Rangers).
James Husband (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Daniel Tözsér replaces Charlie Austin because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Charlie Austin (Queens Park Rangers) because of an injury.
Corner,  Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Richard Stearman.
Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is blocked. Assisted by Massimo Luongo.
Attempt saved. Ross McCormack (Fulham) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jamie O'Hara.
Corner,  Fulham. Conceded by James Perch.
Attempt saved. Paul Konchesky (Queens Park Rangers) header from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Paul Konchesky (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Leroy Fer.
Massimo Luongo (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ryan Fredericks (Fulham).


Warwickshire wrapped up the 2012 County Championship title as they completed a derby win over Worcestershire at New Road to effectively relegate their Midland neighbours to Division Two.

Resuming on 100-2, the home side faced a thankless task, needing another 311 runs to make the visitors bat again.
But, despite 72 from ex-Warwickshire youngster Moeen Ali, the home side were bowled out just after lunch for 209.
That completed victory for the jubilant Bears by an innings and 202 runs.
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First-innings heroes Chris Wright and Keith Barker, who routed Worcestershire for just 60 on Tuesday morning, were again among the wickets as the Bears secured their seventh title and their first since 2004.
Barker weighed in with 3-39, getting the key wicket of home skipper Daryl Mitchell, who jabbed the ball into his stumps without adding to his overnight score of 42.
Wright took 4-65, the last three of them all clean bowled inside half an hour after lunch for a match, to finish with 9-89.
It also took the new-ball pair's combined haul to 112 wickets this summer.
Former Warwickshire fast bowler Alan Richardson, who played in their last Championship-winning team, was Wright's final victim, which meant there were two Bears old boys at the crease when the end came.
Warwickshire have won the County Championship six times before.
They lifted the trophy in 1911, 1951, 1972, 1994, 1995 and under Nick Knight in 2004 (pictured).
Warwickshire, who cruelly missed out on the title on the final day of the season to Lancashire a year ago, made no mistake this time round, their sixth Championship win of this rain-ruined summer earning them the title with one game to go - against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge next week.
Victory also meant that Ashley Giles has now won the Championship as both player and coach.
Worcestershire's young side, by contrast, have won just once in 15 games to stand on the brink of relegation for the fourth time since the County Championship became a two-tier system in 2000.
With seventh-placed Surrey and eighth-placed Lancashire playing each other at Aigburth next week, only a freakish set of circumstances in that match, coupled with a 24-point victory for Worcestershire at Taunton, can save them.
The Bears achieved their triumph despite being without the services for much of the season of England duo Ian Bell and Jonathan Trott, who played just six games between them. Fast bowlers Chris Woakes and Boyd Rankin also missed half their matches.
Warwickshire captain Jim Troughton, who also played a big part in the Bears' 2004 title triumph under Nick Knight, admitted that he was "proud" to lead his side to Championship glory.
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"It couldn't have gone any better for us on the final day," Troughton told BBC Sport. "It's been a great effort all season and deserved reward for all the work we've put in since last year.
"We said in the dressing room at Southampton a year ago 'let's use that disappointment to fuel us for next year to do it with a game to spare' and it's amazing the way it's worked out that way.
"It's a proud moment for me to get my hands on that trophy again. I probably took it for granted when we won it in 2004, when I was a youngster, but this win means the world to me.
"Every single man in that dressing room has contributed. We've got a big squad and everybody has put their hands up with bat and ball. It's not just not the ones wearing the whites."
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Worcestershire coach Steve Rhodes added: "You have to pay tribute to Warwickshire. They almost got there last season and to do it two seasons on the trot is testament to the way they've batted.
"You've seen the difference over the last three days between a side with as much confidence as they have and a team like ours, who have had a few of our frailties exposed.
"When you're down, things kick you in the teeth and we haven't had the rub of the green. But, although we've had limited resources this season, I still feel we could have done better."


Syria peace talks are due to get under way in Geneva amid confusion over whether opposition groups will attend.

Earlier some opposition leaders said representatives would not go unless action was taken to stop the bombing of civilians; but another senior figure later said they would be attending.
A delegation for the Syrian government is due to arrive in Geneva later.
In a video message to the Syrian people, UN envoy Staffan de Mistura said the talks "cannot fail".
More than 250,000 people have died in almost five years of war in Syria.
Eleven million others have been forced from their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other - as well as jihadist militants from so-called Islamic State (IS).
The last talks aimed at ending the conflict broke down in February 2014 after only two rounds, with the UN blaming the government for refusing to discuss an opposition demand for Mr Assad to step down.
Despite little sign of a change in that stance, the rise of IS prompted the US and Russia to step up their efforts to get the warring parties back to the negotiating table.
The so-called proximity talks are expected to last for six months, with delegations sitting in separate rooms and UN officials shuttling between them.
The immediate priorities are a broad ceasefire, humanitarian aid deliveries and halting the threat posed by IS. But the ultimate aim is a peace settlement that includes a transitional period ending with elections, in line with a UN Security Council resolution approved last month.
The opposition Saudi-backed High Negotiations Committee, which was formed after a conference of political and armed factions last month, declared on Thursday that its delegation would "certainly" not be there.
After a meeting in Riyadh, the committee complained that it had not received convincing answers to its demands for an end to air strikes and blockades by government forces.
The head of the committee, Riad Hijab, told al-Arabiya TV: "Tomorrow, we will not be in Geneva. We could go there but we will not enter the negotiating room if our demands are not met."
But another senior figure with the committee, Hassan Abdel Azim, said on Friday that members of the opposition were on their way to Geneva and others would follow.
He confirmed a small number of the opposition had refused to come because they were under pressure from a regional power, the BBC's Feras Kilani reports from Geneva.
In his video message, Mr de Mistura warned that these talks could be the country's last chance for peace.
"Now we need to hear your voice to everyone who is coming to this conference, and saying this conference must be an opportunity not to be missed," he said.


A coroner has said he does not think it will "ever be known" what caused the crash that killed the British group Viola Beach and their manager.

The four-member band, who were aged between 19 and 27, died on 13 February following a gig in Sweden.
Their car crashed into a raised section of a bridge and plummeted into a canal.
Addressing the deceased men's families, Cheshire Coroner Nicholas Rheinberg described the crash as "the most awful tragedy".
He ruled that manager Craig Tarry, 32, and band members River Reeves, Jack Dakin, Kris Leonard - all aged 19 - died due to head injuries.
Bass guitarist Tomas Lowe, 27, died due to drowning, the inquest in their Warrington hometown found.
Mr Rheinberg said: "It's not for me to speculate... I don't think it ever will be known what happened."
He added that "the evidence did not reveal the cause of sequence of events" that led to their deaths.
The inquest heard no alcohol or drugs was found in the blood of Mr Tarry, who was driving the band to the airport hotel where they were staying.
Post-mortem examinations also showed the four band members had not taken drugs and had only consumed small amounts of alcohol.
The group's agent Graham Bennett told Warrington Coroner's Court that the up-and-coming band were in Sweden for the Where's The Music? festival showcasing young artists.
Viola Beach had already played at the Reading and Leeds festivals last year and the event in NorrkÃ¶ping was their first gig outside the UK.
After the performance, they were travelling in a black Nissan Qashqai near the SÃ¶dertÃ¤lje Canal, about 18 miles from Stockholm, when a bridge was raised to let a boat pass underneath.
The inquest heard that the car was slightly over the speed limit as it was travelling at 108km/h (67mph) in a 100km/h zone.
Flashing lights signalled that the bridge was about to be raised with the middle section of the road lifted horizontally, the inquest heard.
Mr Tarry drove down a verge past stationary queuing traffic, clipping the wing mirror of a taxi, and through the first set of barriers - about 120m from the bridge - the court heard.
The car then travelled in a "controlled manner" at between 70 and 90km/h (43 and 55mph) down the centre of the road.
It continued through a second set of barriers - 30m from the drop into the canal - and hit the underside of the raised section of the bridge before plummeting 25m, hitting the water within 15 seconds.
The vehicle turned in flight - the back of the car hitting the water at 54mph before sinking eight metres to the bottom of the canal.
A tanker using the canal, which had requested the bridge to be lifted, then passed over the crash spot and "contact" with the car could not be ruled out, the court heard.
The crew of a passing boat saw the car fall but initially thought it was ice.
The alarm was raised when police were informed of car parts and damaged barriers on the road. They then realised a car had gone into the canal.
The court heard that the three band members who were sitting in the back of the car were not wearing seat-belts and were thrown from the car.
Mr Tarry and Mr Leonard, who were seat-belted in the front, had to be cut from the vehicle.
Technical examinations did not find any errors with the car, barrier system or the procedure for raising the bridge.
One warning light on the bridge was out of order but there were at least 10 warning lights and flashing signals, the inquest heard.
Although the road was wet, it was not frozen with ice.
Mr Rheinberg said there were "frustrating missing gaps" and that he was not able to demand information from Swedish authorities as he could from British organisations.
Supt Martin Cleworth, from Cheshire Police, said outside the Warrington court: "We don't know the final answer... in terms of what actually happened at those moments just prior to the final collision and tragic descent into the water."
"We have given a commitment to continue to work with the coroner and the families to try and seek to understand some other issues that came from the inquest.
"Those questions are unlikely to actually ever get to that fundamental fact as to what went on in the seconds leading to the tragic collision."
Speaking on behalf of the deceased men's families, he added: "The families of River, Tom, Jack, Kris and Craig wish to thank everybody for their kind support at this heartbreaking time and the support they have shown over the last 10 months."
The Swedish authorities have recommended improvements to the crossing, including LED signs and cameras on the bridge.
More than 20 relatives of the deceased men attended Wednesday's inquest.
In the wake of their deaths, the band's first single Swings & Waterslides reached number 11, while their song Boys That Sing was performed by Coldplay in a tribute at Glastonbury.
Posthumously, Viola Beach scored a number one album in August.
The self-titled debut was compiled by the band's families, using live sessions and studio recordings, many of which were originally bound for an EP.
After the crash, a statement from the families of the band said: "We are tremendously proud of everything the boys achieved in such a short space of time.
"Craig, Jack, Kris, River and Tom shared a huge passion, talent and dedication to music."


Veteran left-winger Jeremy Corbyn is throwing his hat into the ring to become the next Labour leader.

The 66-year-old MP for Islington North, a fervent anti-war campaigner, told the Islington Tribune he would stand on a "clear anti-austerity platform".
He joins Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham, Mary Creagh and Liz Kendall in the race to succeed Ed Miliband.
Candidates require support from at least 35 Labour MPs in order to make the final leadership ballot.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Corbyn said the "first hurdle" would be meeting the threshold, saying it was "unfortunate" the nominating process was restricted to MPs.
Mr Burnham, shadow health secretary, and shadow care minister Liz Kendall have received the required number of nominations.
Shadow home secretary Ms Cooper and shadow environment secretary Ms Creagh, a constituent of Mr Corbyn's, have yet to reach the target.
The winner of the contest will be announced before the party's annual conference, in September.
Announcing his candidacy, Mr Corbyn, a vocal campaigner against war and nuclear weapons, said: "This decision to stand is in response to an overwhelming call by Labour Party members who want to see a broader range of candidates and a thorough debate about the future of the party.
"I am standing to give Labour Party members a voice in this debate."
Mr Corbyn told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight he wished the leadership contest had been delayed "so we could have had a policy debate for quite some time to sort out the direction we want to go".
The MP said none of the other candidates in the leadership race had addressed the "essential problem" that austerity would have continued had Labour come to power.
"We have to be saying that the poorest in this country have suffered a great deal due to austerity, we have great inequality than ever before.
"It's up to Labour to restore that balance," he told the programme.
Labour MP John McDonnell said in a tweet that Mr Corbyn would be the "left candidate" in the contest.
"Everyone contact Labour MPs to put him on ballot paper," he added.
Mr Corbyn has represented Islington North in London since 1983.


The government should stop treating the NHS in England like a "failing business or bank", an influential journal says.

In recent weeks, ministers have announced a bailout for A&E, the introduction of a price comparison website and talked of cost-cutting.
An editorial in the Lancet journal said such language was a "cynical" attempt to abdicate responsibility for the NHS.
The government said it was trying to improve services.
The journal also took issue with this year's reorganisation of the NHS, saying responsibility had become too fragmented.
But its strongest comments were reserved for some of the more recent policy announcements.
It said: "One might be forgiven for thinking that the current Coalition Government views the NHS as a failing bank or business.
"This stance is one of the most cynical, and at the same time cunning, ways by which the government abdicates all responsibilities for running a health-care system that has patient care and safety at its heart.
"Rather it expects the system, and in it each trust for itself, to be efficient, cost saving, and financially successful or else it is deemed a failing enterprise.
"Doctors, nurses, and health workers are readily blamed for the quality of care they provide within these constraints."
Health Minister Anna Soubry said: "Creating an efficient NHS and one which puts patient care at its heart is in the best interests of patients and is a priority for this Government.
"That is why we are introducing a Chief Inspector of Hospitals who will ensure patient care is a priority throughout the NHS and are encouraging hospitals to become more efficient with their resources so more money can be spent on the frontline."


Mae Prif Swyddog Milfeddygol Cymru wedi cadarnhau bod achos o ffliw adar H5N8 wedi'i ddarganfod mewn haid o ieir a hwyaid mewn gardd gefn ym Mhontyberem, Sir Gaerfyrddin.

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Mae dofednod a chynnyrch dofednod, gan gynnwys wyau, o'u coginio'n drylwyr yn ddiogel i'w bwyta.
Dywedodd Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros yr Amgylchedd a Materion Gwledig, Lesley Griffiths: "Mae'r achos hwn o'r Ffliw Adar Pathogenig Iawn H5N8 mewn haid mewn gardd ym Mhontyberem yn Sir Gâr wedi'i ddarganfod ar ôl cael hyd i'r haint mewn adar gwyllt ac achos yn Sir Lincoln.
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Great Britain's men's wheelchair basketball team have reached the final of the European Championships, but the women's team lost in the semi-finals.

The men produced a dominant display, beating Netherlands 72-55 with Terence Bywater, 38, top scoring for Britain with 18 points.
They will face Turkey in the final on Friday, a team they lost to in the group stages,
However, the women's team suffered a 59-42 loss, also against a Dutch side.
They will play a bronze a medal match against France on Friday.
GB's men are looking for a fourth consecutive gold medal at the European Championships, having beaten Turkey in the 2015 and 2013 finals.


You can virtually hear the pain on Rue Nicolas Appert as the chilly wind rattles the wreaths fixed to the police barrier and ruffles the burning candles.

Quiet sobs escape among the whispers of the small but ever-changing crowd of people.
They are here paying tribute to the 12 victims of Wednesday's attack on Charlie Hebdo, which has its offices on this street.
People whisper or just stand in silence, reading the messages which plaster the walls or nestle among the candles and heaps of flowers.
Some who arrive stand very still, observing their own personal minute's silence, while police riflemen guard the street as if it houses an eternal flame.
There is so much grief for the slaughtered cartoonists, whose most outrageous caricatures dot the makeshift memorial, refusing to be erased.
As mourners walk away, some of them explain why they are there.
Because they have friends in Paris who are simply "inconsolable", says the genial man who arrived from Lille with his wife. Happy to be photographed, the couple nevertheless decline to give their names.
"And we will go to the demonstration as free men," he says. "Freedom and freedom of speech, which are essential to a democracy, have been put into question by this disaster."
Then he grins as he points out that someone has pasted a new name on the street sign for the alley where we stand at the end of Rue Nicolas Appert.
Passage Sainte-Anne Popincourt has become Freedom of Expression Square.
"These journalists were part of our lives from when we were children," says his wife. "We laughed a lot with them, we thought a lot with them and we are very sad to lose them."
"We are going to the demonstration to show that together we are strong," says the husband.
"We must all be able to live together whatever our convictions, be they Islamic, Jewish, Christian, agnostic or atheist."
Berthe Tereta makes clear he is a proud Muslim before forcefully stating his position that "no religion tolerates barbarity".
"The human being is sacred for Muslims so I have come to bear witness that no-one should surrender to fear before these barbarians," he says, standing alongside his wife Fatoumata.
"They say they are Muslims but they don't even know their own religion. I wouldn't even call them fanatics - they were gangsters pure and simple.
"Nobody should be afraid and nobody should tolerate gangsters.
"All I ask is that you try to know the religion you have chosen, be you Christian, Jew or Muslim. If you know your religion properly, you will not get up one morning and go off to kill your neighbour over a word or a cartoon."
Dominique Secher also came to the vigil to show his support for a magazine he grew up with.
"I didn't always buy it but I knew all the cartoons," he recalls.
Asked if France has changed since the attack, he says the one thing that has impressed him is the strength of the public's reaction, how people have come out to defend press freedom.
"There are other sick people, other idiots, still on the loose," he adds. "I hope the cops will get a move on to stop this happening again in France or anywhere else."
Laurent was in a nearby cafe with friends on the day of the shooting, and noticed how the street suddenly filled with police.
He came to the vigil to "reflect in silence in the night". The cartoonists, he says, can be regarded as heroes who "stood by freedom and press freedom to the end". People will now value their freedoms more, he suggests.
Rayan came with his friends to spare a "thought for the victims and not forget what happened".
Hearing the news at work on Wednesday had been a "shocking, surreal" experience.
He hopes the rally on Sunday will help people to draw something positive from the event.
For businessman Tino Duarte, the main lesson to be drawn is that if society creates "rejects", they can easily fall prey to criminals and fanatics.
"When children do not get a good education, when values are not handed down, when they are not equipped for life, when failure leaves them without prospects, disasters like this happen," he says.
"You need to take children in hand at an early age and stand by them. Without that, anyone can be manipulated and end up committing irreparable acts."


The eurozone, it is widely thought, is about to get a dose of a new economic medicine.

The European Central Bank is expected to announce this week that it's going to go into the financial markets to buy substantial amounts of government debt using newly created money - a policy known as quantitative easing, or QE.
There has been mounting speculation that the ECB is preparing to act along these lines, and there will be serious disappointment in financial markets if that does not happen.
The problem the ECB wants to tackle is inflation that is too low. Indeed last month it turned into deflation, or falling prices.
Deflation is partly a symptom of the eurozone's persistent economic weakness. But it could also aggravate it.
Deflation tends to be bad for debtors. The problem is that their incomes may fall, but their debt payments - if they debt involves fixed interest rates - may not.
With governments, falling prices and incomes will hit revenue from income tax and VAT.  Most of their debt payments are at fixed rates.
There have been warnings that deflation could reignite the eurozone's debt crisis.
The London economic consultancy Capital Economics has said: "There is a clear danger of a more sustained period of deflation, which would destroy peripheral countries' debt consolidation efforts, and could cause market concerns to once again spread from Greece."
Now it is true that the eurozone had a period of deflation back in 2009. It lasted five months. But Capital Economics reckons the recent fall in energy prices could keep the eurozone in deflation territory for a lot longer this time.
But if it's the result of cheaper energy, you might argue, then it's surely not a problem.
There is a lot in that view. The International Monetary Fund's chief economist Olivier Blanchard said in a BBC interview that the oil price fall is "what I hate to call a gift of God" for the eurozone.
He said it means there has been "a very large increase in real [that is inflation adjusted] incomes of people, and is therefore likely to lead to more spending."
The ECB President Mario Draghi has described the direct impact of cheaper oil as "unambiguously positive".
Even so, Mr Blanchard says that deflation is worrisome.
What bothers Mr Draghi is what he called "second round" effects, that falling prices might become "embedded in inflation expectations", and could affect wages as well as the prices of other types of goods.
In any event, it's worth noting that inflation excluding energy prices was 0.6% in December, a good deal lower than the ECB's target of below but close to 2%.
So that's what Mario Draghi and his colleagues in the ECB's policy-making committee are worried about.
Quantitative easing is on their agenda because the traditional ammunition for a central bank is spent.
The ECB's interest rate policy is just about zero. The main rate that it charges for lending money to the commercial banks is just 0.05%. And the rate it pays them for holding their surplus finds overnight is below zero - minus 0.2%.
In similar circumstances, central banks in the US, UK, and Japan, wanting to provide more stimulus have gone down the path of quantitative easing, QE.
Three major developed country central banks have carried out QE in recent years: the US, the UK and Japan.
In the US and UK it started in the aftermath of the financial crisis. The American move, worth a total of about $3.5tn (Â£2.3tn), has coincided with a recovery from a nasty recession.
In the UK the return of convincing growth came only a few years after the active asset purchases of Â£375bn came to an end, though to this day the Bank of England still holds them.
Japan started QE much earlier, back in 2001, and its cumulative scale is in the region of $1.7tn or so. It's an attempt to deal with prolonged economic weakness. Despite the effort, Japanese growth has never really decisively resumed.
The evidence from these experiments is inconclusive. Some say the US and UK would have recovered without QE. Others say Japan would have been in worse shape without it.
And that's what is widely expected from the ECB - that it will announce a plan to buy substantial volumes of government debt using newly created money.
The ECB has, over the course of the financial crisis, done things that have elements in common with this. It has bought the bonds, the debts of some governments, and it has also bought assets backed by loans to the private sector.
With much of this, though not all, the ECB took steps to offset the additional money creation involved in buying these assets. The technical term is sterilisation.
In addition, the asset buying undertaken by the ECB so far was aimed at improving conditions in specific parts of the eurozone financial system: the availability of credit to the private sector, and the periods of very high borrowing costs in some countries.
What we are expected to get this week is different in that it won't be quite so focussed - the aim will be to generate higher inflation across the eurozone. And the scale is likely to be bigger than we have seen before.
The figure often suggested that the ECB will spead on QE is 500bn euros ($591bn; Â£382bn). That's smaller than the programmes undertaken by central banks in the US or Japan, and the UK, in comparison with the size of the economy. But then all those QE programmes did take time to build up to their full scale.
So how would it work? Buying bonds in large quantities can raise their price, which lowers the return on them.
The return on bonds is in effect an interest rate, so the idea is that QE should exert downward pressure on interest rates throughout the economy, even when the central bank's own interest rate policy can no longer do that.
So the idea is that QE leads businesses to want to invest more and consumers to spend. The additional demand for goods and services would then push inflation up too, and reduce the risk of aggravating the eurozone's persistent debt problems.
In addition QE can weaken a currency on the foreign exchanges. The fact that the policy tends to drive down interest rates also makes investors less enthusiastic about investing in the currency. The weaker currency makes business more competitive against rivals outside the eurozone.
The IMF's Olivier Blanchard told the BBC that the recent depreciation of the euro is "largely due to anticipation of QE coming down the line".
Now there are plenty of critics of QE.  In the US a group of them wrote an open letter to the then Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, published in the Wall Street journal, warning of a risk of excessively high inflation.
Some in Europe, especially Germany, share that concern. There is history behind that, the hyperinflation of 1923 in Weimar Germany, which was followed in the next decade by the rise of the Nazis.
The Economist has called it "Germany's hyperinflation phobia" and as the paper points out there is a debate to be had about exactly what were the economic factors behind the disaster that followed in the 1930s.
Still, it is an issue in German politics and it has made it harder for the ECB to embark on a policy that can be characterised as "printing money".
There is also a concern that by buying government debt, the ECB would be relieving the pressure on countries that arguably need to do more to reduce their debts and reform their economies.  And if any of those governments were to default, the argument goes, it would be taxpayers across the eurozone that would have to foot the bill.
There have been reports that the ECB will address the latter concern by having national central banks in the 19 member countries of the eurozone buy the bonds and take responsibility for any losses there might be - which would almost certainly let the German taxpayer off the hook.
It has been a long wait. The eurozone is, probably, about to embark on something that the US, Japan and Britain started years ago.
And nobody seems to think it will fix all the eurozone's problems. The best that eurozone QE might achieve is to alleviate one factor that could make them worse.
As the BBC's Economics Editor Robert Peston put it - "painkillers to an economy that needs rather more radical structural treatment".


The new chairman of the first hospital in the NHS to be run by a private company has said he cannot rule out department closures.

Hinchingbrooke Hospital, in Cambridgeshire, has now returned to NHS management after Circle pulled out of its 10-year contract in January.
The hospital was placed in special measures after a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report.
Chairman Alan Burns said he would be looking at the "viability of services".
But he said his immediate priorities were to oversee "a smooth transition" from Circle back to NHS management and to get the hospital out of special measures.
Mr Burns, a retired NHS chief executive, was appointed to chair the new NHS board running Hinchingbrooke, by the NHS Trust Development Authority.
He said there was a "a very good sustainable future" for the hospital.
But he added: "It's not rocket science to know there are some things the population of Huntingdonshire only just makes viable.
"Doctors and nurses need a volume of cases to retain the quality of the work they do - there are only so many accident and emergency, orthopaedic and maternity cases in Huntingdonshire in any one year.
"So when that number is close to the guidelines for the viability of services, it's right that you look at it."
Circle took on Hinchingbrooke in early 2012, as it was facing closure.
Three years into its contract, the company announced the franchise was "no longer viable under current terms".
At the same time, the CQC rated Hinchingbrooke "inadequate", highlighting particular concerns over accident and emergency and medical care, although Circle disputed its findings.


TV cameras could be allowed to film sentencing in crown courts in England and Wales under government plans to expand the scheme.

Initially broadcasters will be able to film the Court of Appeal from October.
Justice Minister Damian Green said the government had "a view to extending this to sentencing decisions in the Crown court in due course."
Cameras have been allowed in Scottish courts since 1992 but only if all parties have given their consent.
Crown courts deal with serious criminal cases such as murder, rape or robbery, and trials are heard by a judge and a 12-person jury.
Proceedings in the Supreme Court - the final court of appeal - can already be filmed, and later this year lawyers' arguments and judges' rulings in appeal cases will also be allowed to be filmed.
Mr Green said: "We believe televising court proceedings will help improve transparency and bring greater public confidence and understanding of the criminal justice system.
"We are working with broadcasters to ensure that any costs from broadcasting are not met from the public purse.
"Subject to passage through Parliament we intend to allow broadcasting from the Court of Appeal from October 2013, with a view to extending this to sentencing decisions in the Crown court in due course."
In Scotland a review of the filming policy was announced late last year, as Scotland's most senior judge said technology had changed dramatically in the 20 years since broadcasters were first allowed to televise some proceedings.


UK ministers should do more to ensure people in Wales have a "bigger stake" in the Brexit process, Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies has said.

Writing on the Brexit Central website, he called for an urgent review of the Joint Ministerial Committee (JMC) of leaders from across the UK.
First Minister Carwyn Jones is amongst those to have expressed severe frustration with the JMC process.
Mr Davies said better ways were needed "to engage as a United Kingdom".
Since last year's referendum vote to leave the European Union, the JMC has been used as a way for ministers from the devolved administrations of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to discuss their views with their UK government counterparts.
Last October the JMC was convened for the first time since 2014, with Prime Minister Theresa May saying she wanted it to be "the start of a new grown-up relationship between the devolved administrations and the UK government".
On Thursday, Mr Davies said the views of the devolved administrations needed to be listened to, saying: "This is not the 1950s.
"We need to establish better ways to engage as a United Kingdom, the need for which will soon become clear once additional powers are returned to the UK from Brussels."
Earlier in June, Mr Jones called for the JMC to be replaced by a more powerful UK Council of Ministers to settle disputes as part of a plan to "reinvent and strengthen" the UK post-Brexit.
Mr Davies also warned that the vote to leave the EU was, partly, due to voters feeling distant from Brussels.
He said change was needed so that the UK government was not seen in the same way.
"With the very real prospect of new UK-wide frameworks for farming, regeneration and research, it is vital that we have the structures in place to ensure that people in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland have a bigger stake in the process," the Welsh Conservative leader said.
"That means a better voice for the devolved nations."
The UK government's Cabinet Office, which is responsible for how the JMC works, has been asked to comment.
Mr Davies's intervention comes at a time when he is at odds with UK ministers over any Tory-DUP deal in Westminster.
On Wednesday he said: "Any potential incentives considered for one nation in securing that majority must also be considered for Wales."
But Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns, the man who represents Wales at the cabinet table, told BBC Wales Mr Davies's calls were "simplistic".
Speaking on BBC TV's The Wales Report, he said: "Wales now gets Â£120 for every Â£100 spent in England. We've also introduced the funding floor.
"These issues don't exist in Northern Ireland as they are. And, certainly, the devolution settlement and the responsibilities are very difficult as well.
"So it's far too easy to try to make simplistic comparison when it's much more complicated than that."


The Scottish government has called for the inquiry into the activities of undercover Metropolitan Police officers to be extended to Scotland.

The Pitchford Inquiry is to look at how undercover officers infiltrated political campaigns over 40 years.
It has been claimed that some of the officers spied on activists ahead of the G8 summit at Gleneagles in 2005.
But the inquiry is only currently able to examine undercover operations in England and Wales.
Its remit states that the inquiry can "report on undercover police operations conducted by English and Welsh police forces in England and Wales since 1968".
But it "will not examine undercover or covert operations conducted by any body other than an English or Welsh police force".
Scotland's justice secretary Michael Matheson has now written to the Home Office asking that the inquiry be extended so that it covers the activities of undercover officers in Scotland as well as England and Wales.
However, the justice secretary said he had not received any "concrete evidence" that officers working for Scottish police forces had broken guidelines on the use of covert surveillance.
Undercover: The allegations made to date
He added: "I have written to the Home Secretary asking her to confirm that Lord Justice Pitchford's inquiry will be able to take evidence relating to undercover operations in Scotland authorised by and carried out by English and Welsh police forces as part of a national operation."
The move was welcomed by Scottish Labour MSP Neil Findlay, who has been among those calling for an inquiry into covert police operations in Scotland.
Mr Findlay said it was a "breakthrough in the campaign for an inquiry into undercover police spying on environmental, trade union and political activists".
The Home Office confirmed that the home secretary had received the letter and would respond in due course.
Last month, the Metropolitan Police made an "unreserved apology" and agreed financial compensation packages for seven women deceived into having sexual relationships with undercover officers who were spying on campaign groups.
One of the five officers involved fathered children.
The officers had been working undercover for the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), which was part of the Metropolitan Police until it was shut down in 2008, and the separate National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU).
Both teams deployed officers on long-term undercover operations to infiltrate radical political or social causes, such as environmental campaigns, anarchy and animal rights.
It has been claimed that undercover Met officers including Mark Kennedy, one of the five officers who is known to have had relationships with women, infiltrated environmental groups ahead of the Gleneagles G8 summit.
A former undercover police officer has also previously told the BBC that Scotland Yard kept intelligence files on MPs during the 1990s as part of efforts to infiltrate left-wing groups.


Prime minister David Cameron has vowed to put right the "complete mess" of Britain's human rights laws, on the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.

He told the Sun he was committed to replacing Labour's 1998 Human Rights Act with a British bill of rights.
And in a speech at the celebrations of Magna Carta, he said it was time to restore the reputation of human rights, which had been "devalued" in Britain.
Labour said his plans would diminish people's human rights.
Magna Carta paved the way for the introduction of basic human rights and established that the King was subject to the law rather than being above it.
An event marking the 800th anniversary of its sealing by King John of England in 1215 is being attended by the Queen and the prime minister.
More than 4,500 guests have been invited to take part in the celebrations, at Runnymede, Surrey.
Addressing the crowd, Mr Cameron said the document "takes on further relevance today".
"For centuries, it has been quoted to help promote human rights and alleviate suffering all around the world.
"But here in Britain, ironically the place where those ideas were first set out, the good name of human rights has sometimes become distorted and devalued."
He said it had fallen to this generation to "restore the reputation" of those rights and their "critical underpinning" to the British legal system.
"It is our duty to safeguard the legacy, the idea, the momentous achievement of those barons. And there couldn't be a better time to reaffirm that commitment than on an anniversary like this," Mr Cameron added.
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The Conservative government wants to replace the Human Rights Act, which enshrines in British law the European Convention on Human Rights, with a new British bill of rights.
It follows concerns about rulings by the European Court of Human Rights and their application to the UK.
A minority of Tories oppose the idea, as do the Labour Party and other opposition parties.
Mr Cameron told the Sun newspaper the current legislation, and some of the decisions taken by the Strasbourg court, had given human rights "a bad name".
He said he was frustrated that terrorists, criminals and prisoners could abuse the current rules.
But he pledged that a new bill would "restore common sense" to the British legal system by ensuring "the British Parliament is accountable to the British people and British judges make decisions in British courts".
Labour's shadow justice secretary Lord Falconer called on the government "immediately" to drop its plans to repeal the Human Rights Act.
He said: "David Cameron claims he is safeguarding the legacy of Magna Carta, but his own plans would scrap people's basic rights and threaten the UK's standing in the world.
"If the prime minister was serious about safeguarding the legacy of Magna Carta, he wouldn't be using its anniversary to attack fundamental rights."


Jamar Loza's double helped Maidstone inflict a seventh straight National League defeat on Southport.

The Sandgrounders flew into an early lead when Ben McKenna crept in to head home Neil Ashton's good ball.
However, Joe Pigott lofted in a pass for his strike partner Loza to control and convert.
The home side led at the break when Ryan Higgins tripped Loza in the box and he got up to score from the penalty spot.
In the second half, Jamie Allen briefly volleyed the visitors level, but Loza set up Pigott neatly to restore Maidstone's lead.
Kevin Lokko then added a fourth as Southport sunk to the bottom of the table.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Maidstone United 4, Southport 2.
Second Half ends, Maidstone United 4, Southport 2.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Yemi Odubade replaces Delano Sam-Yorke.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Bobby-Joe Taylor replaces Jamar Loza.
Jamar Loza (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Harry Phipps replaces Jake McCarthy.
Ashley Grimes (Southport) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Southport. Ashley Grimes replaces Jamie Allen.
Goal!  Maidstone United 4, Southport 2. Kevin Lokko (Maidstone United).
Substitution, Southport. Andrai Jones replaces Liam Nolan.
Substitution, Southport. Louis Almond replaces Ben McKenna.
Goal!  Maidstone United 3, Southport 2. Joe Pigott (Maidstone United).
Goal!  Maidstone United 2, Southport 2. Jamie Allen (Southport).
Second Half begins Maidstone United 2, Southport 1.
First Half ends, Maidstone United 2, Southport 1.
Goal!  Maidstone United 2, Southport 1. Jamar Loza (Maidstone United) converts the penalty with a.
Goal!  Maidstone United 1, Southport 1. Jamar Loza (Maidstone United).
Delano Sam-Yorke (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ryan Higgins (Southport) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal!  Maidstone United 0, Southport 1. Ben McKenna (Southport).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


The outcome of the Labour leadership election between Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith will be announced shortly.

The winner will be unveiled in Liverpool where the party is preparing to hold its annual conference.
Mr Smith's challenge to the current Labour leader, who was only elected a year ago, follows months of tension between Mr Corbyn and many Labour MPs.
The Labour leader has offered to "wipe the slate clean" and reach out to his opponents if he is re-elected.
There has been speculation that a number of Labour MPs who resigned from Mr Corbyn's shadow cabinet in June over his leadership could return in an attempt to heal the sharp divisions over the party's future direction.
The BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said he expected Mr Corbyn to win and to "win big" - with a potentially larger margin of victory than last year - when he beat three other candidates and secured 59.6% of the vote.
Turnout in this year's contest was 77.6%, with an estimated 496,000 party members, trade unionists and registered supporters having taken part.
The two-month campaign has aroused strong passions on both sides and led to legal disputes over the rules and who is entitled to vote.
Mr Corbyn, a veteran left-wing MP who went from rank outsider to Labour leader last year, has stressed his commitment to far-reaching economic and political change and insisted he wants to lead Labour back into power and is not content with opposition.
In a video posted on twitter on Friday night, Mr Corbyn said the party had "a duty to unite, cherish and build our movement" whatever the result of the leadership poll.
He described the campaign as "robust and at times difficult" but said it had been "overwhelmingly respectful in tone".
Mr Corbyn also said his campaign team had created new networks that would be a "pivotal part" of Labour's general election campaign, which he said would be the party's "biggest, best and most visible".
By Laura Kuenssberg, BBC political editor
Jeremy Corbyn's expected victory will come down to the passion of swathes of supporters he has won through his refusal to play politics as usual - ignoring calls to smooth his edges to fit into the standard mould.
It is also down to the sentiment among many members that having won a convincing mandate last year, Mr Corbyn deserves a second chance.
Last summer, the majority of Labour MPs miscalculated their party's mood and were astonished that Mr Corbyn won the top job.
His different style prompted a huge influx of new members who wanted to listen to him, not them.
Today they must grapple with a second miscalculation - that the leadership contest they hoped would weaken their leader will likely strengthen him instead.
Read more from Laura.
During the campaign Mr Corbyn has drawn huge crowds to his rallies and retains the support of prominent union leaders, including Unite boss Len McCluskey.
But Mr Smith claimed that his rival was unelectable and that Labour, which lost more than 80 seats at the 2015 election, risks being further "decimated" if Mr Corbyn is still in place by the time of the next election scheduled for 2020.
The former work and pensions spokesman, one of those who quit Mr Corbyn's top team after the vote to leave the EU, has said he will remain on the backbenches if he loses.
The contest came about after more than 170 MPs supported a motion of no confidence in their leader.
Prior to that, more than 20 MPs had resigned from the shadow cabinet and a further 30 from the frontbench team in protest at Mr Corbyn's leadership style and performance during the EU referendum campaign - in which his support for the EU was more lukewarm than that of the majority of his colleagues.
Among those who called at the time for Mr Corbyn to stand aside were his predecessors as Labour leader, Ed Miliband and Lord Kinnock, who has warned that he may not see another Labour government in his lifetime.
The prospect of a second Corbyn victory prompted talk earlier this summer of a possible split in the party.
But in recent weeks, there have been reports that some of Mr Corbyn's critics are willing to serve under him despite their differences in an effort to maintain unity and provide a more effective opposition to the new prime minister Theresa May.
Speaking on Wednesday, Mr Corbyn acknowledged the election would not repair all the fractures in the party but that "an awful lot" of MPs were keen to "play their part".
And shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald said there was a "real appetite" for MPs to rally round and serve on the opposition front bench.
While some of the criticism of Mr Corbyn had been "valid" and leadership had been a "huge learning curve", he suggested many MPs would give him a second chance.
"I think the majority of people want to say, 'We're done now... we move on and we present a united Labour Party," he said. "That is exactly what we have to do."
Labour MP Chuka Umunna said that although he would not be seeking a frontbench position, those who did had his "full support" and a split should be avoided at all costs.
The best way to bring the parliamentary party back together was to reinstate elections to the shadow cabinet, he suggested - a proposal discussed by party officials earlier this week but on which there is yet no agreement.
Shadow home secretary Andy Burnham told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that whatever the result, everybody within the Labour Party needs to "turn over a new leaf and start another chapter...  the war of attrition has got to stop".
But amid signs of the continuing tensions in the party, pressure group Campaign Against Anti-Semitism has made a formal complaint to the party about a video posted on Mr Corbyn's campaign website, while 200 members of the party, including three councillors in Bristol, have been suspended.


Pita Taufatofua, the taekwondo fighter who carried Tonga's flag at the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics, says he wants to compete at the 2018 Winter Olympics in cross-country skiing.

Having carried his country's flag while topless and covered in oil, Taufatofua, 33, lost in the first round in Brazil.
"I'm going to be taking my Olympic dream one step further," he said.
"First I have to qualify but my goal is to let people see that if I can do it, they can do it."
Tonga is a South Pacific country made up of more than 170 islands. Average year-round temperatures range from 24-29C.
Bruno Banani became the nation's first Winter Olympian when he finished 32nd out of 39 competitors in the luge at the 2014 Games in Sochi.
The next Winter Olympics will be held in the South Korean city of Pyeongchang from 9-25 February 2018.


Scarlets back Rhys Patchell has been called up to Wales' training squad as they wait to discover the extent of Phil Dollman's injury.

Dollman suffered a knee injury in Exeter's Premiership final win over Wasps and will have a scan on Tuesday.
Ospreys prop Rhodri Jones has also been called up to the training squad as cover for Scarlets' Samson Lee.
Scarlets prop Rob Evans has been ruled out of the summer tour and has been replaced by Ospreys' Gareth Thomas.
"We have to accept that injuries are part and parcel of rugby at the very top level," Wales head coach Robin McBryde said.
"We will wait medical opinion following scans to Samson and Phil on Tuesday before making any further decisions."
Exeter's uncapped 32-year-old full-back Dollman had been called up by Wales in midweek to replace injured Cardiff Blues teenager Rhun Williams.
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He scored Exeter's second try against Wasps but limped off the field early in the second half after suffering a knee injury.
Scarlets prop Lee hurt his knee in Saturday's Pro12 final and will have a scan this week.
Wales will be without Scarlets forwards Jake Ball and Evans for the Tests against Tonga and Samoa.
Lock Ball is out with a shoulder injury while prop Evans suffered a hand injury in the Pro12 final victory over Munster.
Wales are training in Colwyn Bay before facing Tonga in Auckland on 16 June and Samoa in Apia on 23 June.
They face WRU National Cup winners RGC 1404 in a warm-up match at Eirias Park on Friday, 2 June.
"We are looking forward to a good week's training together as a squad at the fantastic Parc Eirias facilities and Friday's match will be an important part of our preparation before facing Samoa and Tonga," McBryde added.


Ukraine's MPs have ended their session without a vote on the resignation of PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk, as intense talks over a new cabinet continue.

Mr Yatsenyuk on Sunday announced he was stepping down, with the government facing accusations of corruption and inability to implement reforms.
Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Groysman, an ally of President Petro Poroshenko, had been expected to be voted in as new prime minister on Tuesday.
A vote may now be held on Wednesday.
The fact that there was no vote on Tuesday means that the main political parties have been unable to agree on the forming of a new government under Mr Groysman, the BBC's Tom Burridge reports from the capital, Kiev.
So Mr Yatsenyuk remains, in name at least, as prime minister, our correspondent says.
Reports had emerged late on Monday that Mr Groysman would not take up the post amid disagreements over the line-up of the new cabinet.
The speaker then reportedly changed his mind but coalition partners have so far failed to resolve their differences and the negotiations continue, several lawmakers said on Tuesday.
Earlier, politicians in Mr Poroshenko's coalition said they now had enough members to back the new cabinet.
Oleksiy Honcharenko, a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc (BPP), told Interfax news agency there was a coalition of 226 out of the 450-member parliament.
Separately, the deputy speaker of parliament, Andriy Parubiy, told Reuters that four independent MPs had joined Mr Poroshenko's faction, enough to form a majority with Mr Yatseniuk's People's Front party.
If there is no progress towards the creation of a stable reform-minded government, there will be frustration in Berlin and Washington, and satisfaction in Moscow, our correspondent says.
The Western-backed reform programme of the government has stalled in recent weeks and several high-profile reformists have left the government.
Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius resigned more than two months ago after accusing the government of lacking commitment to end corruption.
Mr Yatsenyuk has been in office since former pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted during huge demonstrations in February 2014.
Announcing his resignation, Mr Yatsenyuk accused Ukraine's politicians of failing to enact "real changes".
His loss of parliamentary support led to him being asked by President Poroshenko to resign in February. Although he survived a vote of confidence, he remained unpopular in opinion polls.
The International Monetary Fund has threatened to withhold aid money if Ukraine does not carry out reforms.
The government in Kiev is signed up to an uneasy truce with pro-Russian rebels in two of Ukraine's eastern regions, with frequent ceasefire violations reported.
Russia annexed the southern region of Crimea two years ago after a referendum on self-determination - a move condemned by the US and Europe.
Ukraine's ambitions to join the EU also suffered a setback on 6 April when voters in the Netherlands roundly rejected a landmark EU trade deal with the former Soviet state in a referendum.
Although the referendum was not legally binding, the Dutch government has said the deal cannot now be ratified without further discussion.


A major renovation of Scotland's oldest working theatre has cost £200,000 more than originally forecast.

Extensive work on the Theatre Royal in Dumfries was originally priced at about £1.9m.
Dumfries and Galloway Council has been told that "unforeseen structural issues" have pushed spending up to £2.11m.
Councillors have now been asked to award an additional £50,000 to the project.
The grant would be in addition to £455,000 the local authority agreed to give to the scheme in May 2013.
The appeal for the additional contribution came from the Master of the Guild of Players of Dumfries - the group which has been the driving force behind the renovation.
In a report, councillors have been told that the interior walls and ceilings of the original auditorium deteriorated rapidly as the building began to dry out.
That significantly increased mechanical and engineering costs.
There was also an increase in water connection and disconnection charges.
The report added: "The Guild has taken steps to control costs, including substitution of the planned sound system with second-hand equipment, and removal of the planned goods lift from the basement.
"The Guild of Players has provided assurances that it considers there to be no further potential claims under their works contracts."
Council officers have recommended that additional funds are awarded to the Guild of Players.
Colin Smyth, chairman of the economy, environment and infrastructure committee, said the theatre's refurbishment was a "key part" of the regeneration of Dumfries town centre.
"It is a building of national cultural and historic significance which could so easily have been lost to the town had it not been for the refurbishment plans from the Guild of Players," he added.
"Having a first-class theatre venue in our town allows a vibrant programme of events to take place, attracting local people and visitors to our region."
The theatre reopened at the end of 2015, two years after planning permission was awarded for the upgrade work.


Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has agreed a settlement with the Sunday Times after it sued him for about £1m, the paper has announced.

Armstrong, 41, had been paid £300,000 to settle a libel case in 2004 after the newspaper alleged he had cheated.
After US officials last year found Armstrong had  the paper demanded the money back plus interest and costs.
The Sunday Times said it had reached a "mutually acceptable final resolution".
David Walsh, the chief sports writer of the Sunday Times, first raised questions about Armstrong in 1999, when he won the Tour de France for the first time.
In 2004, the newspaper published an article saying it was right for questions about Armstrong's performance to be both "posed and answered".
The American cyclist's lawyers issued a writ and sought damages from the paper, Mr Walsh and then-deputy sports editor Alan English.
It was later ruled that the meaning of the article was that Armstrong was "a fraud, a cheat and a liar".
The Sunday Times settled that claim in June 2006.
Last year, the United States Anti-Doping Agency called Armstrong a "serial" cheat who had led "the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen". He was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles.
The cyclist had always denied doping during his career, but finally confessed in an interview with chat show host Oprah Winfrey in January.
In December last year, the Sunday Times wrote to Armstrong's lawyers saying it was now clear that the earlier proceedings brought by the athlete had been "baseless and fraudulent".
"Your representations that you had never taken performance-enhancing drugs were deliberately false," the letter added.
In the latest edition of the Sunday Times, the newspaper announced that it, Mr Walsh and Mr English had "reached a mutually acceptable final resolution to all claims against Lance Armstrong related to the 2012 High Court proceedings".
The paper said it was "entirely happy with the agreed settlement, the terms of which remain confidential.


Belgium booked their place at Euro 2016 with a convincing 4-1 win in Andorra, which lifted them top of Group B.

Roma midfielder Radja Nainggolan fired in from 25 yards before Manchester City's record signing Kevin de Bruyne curled a free-kick in off the post.
Andorra captain Ildefons Lima scored a penalty but Chelsea's Eden Hazard then scored from the spot.
Debutant Laurent Depoitre tapped in Dries Mertens' cross before Hazard had a poor second penalty saved.
Belgium will win the group if they beat Israel on Tuesday - while Wales will hope to leapfrog them when they host Andorra.
Wales also secured qualification from Group B despite their defeat in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Match ends, Andorra 1, Belgium 4.
Second Half ends, Andorra 1, Belgium 4.
Hand ball by Zakaria Bakkali (Belgium).
Corner,  Belgium. Conceded by Marc Rebés.
Laurent Depoitre (Belgium) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Max Llovera (Andorra).
Attempt missed. Ildefonso Lima (Andorra) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Carlos Peppe with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Radja Nainggolan (Belgium).
Aaron Sanchez (Andorra) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Radja Nainggolan (Belgium) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Carlos Peppe (Andorra).
Substitution, Andorra. Carlos Peppe replaces Marcio Vieira.
Foul by Axel Witsel (Belgium).
Max Llovera (Andorra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Marc García (Andorra) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Radja Nainggolan (Belgium) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Marc García (Andorra).
Substitution, Belgium. Luis Pedro Cavanda replaces Thomas Meunier.
Substitution, Belgium. Zakaria Bakkali replaces Eden Hazard.
Penalty saved! Eden Hazard (Belgium) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  right footed shot saved  in the bottom left corner.
Gabriel Riera (Andorra) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty conceded by Gabriel Riera (Andorra) with a hand ball in the penalty area.
Attempt blocked. Jan Vertonghen (Belgium) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.
Corner,  Belgium. Conceded by Moisés San Nicolás.
Foul by Radja Nainggolan (Belgium).
Aaron Sanchez (Andorra) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Andorra. Gabriel Riera replaces Víctor Moreira.
Laurent Depoitre (Belgium) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Laurent Depoitre (Belgium).
Ildefonso Lima (Andorra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Belgium. Nacer Chadli replaces Dries Mertens.
Attempt blocked. Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium) right footed shot from long range on the left is blocked. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Attempt missed. Eden Hazard (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Axel Witsel.
Foul by Dries Mertens (Belgium).
Marc García (Andorra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal!  Andorra 1, Belgium 4. Laurent Depoitre (Belgium) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dries Mertens with a cross.
Attempt missed. Marc Rebés (Andorra) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Marc García with a cross.
Foul by Jordan Lukaku (Belgium).
Víctor Moreira (Andorra) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Andorra. Adrián Rodrigues replaces Oscar Sonejee.


The opening of a cancer support centre in Larbert could be delayed after a building firm collapsed.

The Dunne Group won the contract to build the Maggie's Centre at Forth Valley Hospital which was due to open later this year.
However the firm went into administration on Tuesday, with the immediate loss of more than 500 jobs.
A spokeswoman for Maggie's Centres said it was putting in place arrangements to "minimise any delay".
"Following the news last night that the Dunne Group has gone into administration, our thoughts go out to the staff who have lost their jobs," she added.
"We are in the process of planning other arrangements for the completion of Maggie's Forth Valley so as to minimise any delay to the completion of the centre."
The Dunne Group began work on the cancer support centre in March 2015 and it was expected to be completed this summer.
The contract for the Maggie's Centre was one a series of high profile projects with which the firm was involved.
It was also involved with the construction of the new Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, which is due to be completed in 2017.
However it is unclear whether Dunne Group's collapse will affect the project.
A spokesman for IHS Lothian, the consortium in charge of building the hospital, said it would not comment on the situation.
Administrators for the Bathgate-based Dunne Group said it had ceased trading with "immediate effect" as it faced "severe cashflow issues".
A spokesman said: "The joint administrators are assessing the position with regards to a small number of outstanding contracts across the UK."
Meanwhile West Lothian Council leader John McGinty said news of the company's collapse was "extremely disappointing news".
"Details are slowly coming out and, at this time, we are unsure how many people affected live in West Lothian," he said.
"However, I can assure all of them that the council is working with Scottish Development Scotland to ensure that the appointed administrators contact all employees as quickly as possible to provide them with all the help and support available, through the PACE (Partnership Action Continued Employment) pack."


Incoming England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Colin Graves has refused to rule out a return for Kevin Pietersen and says England must be more aggressive in one-day cricket.

He told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek that selectors and coaches would make any final decision on Pietersen.
"The first thing he's got to do if he wants to get back is play county cricket for somebody," said Graves.
Pietersen, 34, was sacked by England in 2014 and later released by Surrey.
The South Africa-born batsman later responded to Graves's comments, saying he was "pleasantly surprised" and now needed to "go away and make a few decisions".
Pietersen has not played a competitive game in a longer format than Twenty20 since the fifth Ashes Test in Sydney in January 2014 - his final game for England.
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Since then, he has appeared in domestic T20 cricket for Delhi Daredevils, Surrey, St Lucia Zouks and Melbourne Stars.
He left Surrey last autumn and is currently without a county contract.
ECB managing director Paul Downton appeared to end speculation over a possible Pietersen return as recently as December, saying "more bridges have been burnt" after Pietersen released an inflammatory autobiography in October, critical of many key ECB figures.
National selector James Whitaker said at the time there was "no way Kevin Pietersen will ever get back into an England team".
However, Graves - who takes up his new ECB post in May for a five-year term, replacing Giles Clarke - said he would not be involved in any final decision regarding Pietersen.
"It's down to the selectors, down to the coaches, of what they see, what is best for English cricket," he said. "They will make the decisions and I will support them when it comes to that decision."
Graves later told the Daily Telegraph that the selectors "can't ignore" Pietersen if he "scores a lot of runs" for a county side.
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"Forget personalities," said Graves. "Selectors pick the best players in form, taking wickets and scoring runs. That is their job."
Pietersen then responded, saying: "Do I want to play for England again? Yes, of course I do. My time with England was cut short and I have always said I want to play again.
"But I need to speak to Colin, speak to the people who have helped me make decisions in the past and then I will see what I can do."
He told Sky Sports: "I'm sure that if it is genuine, which I'm sure it is seeing as it's pretty public, then - goodness - I'd love to be given that opportunity again.
"This is not about money. This is about me playing cricket for England, doing something I love."
Graves, 67, speaking after England were beaten for the third time at the World Cup in Sunday's nine-wicket defeat by Sri Lanka, said there needs to be a discussion about England's strategy.
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The Yorkshire chairman has already appointed a new five-strong executive team at Lord's and plans to produce a strategy document to present to the counties later this year.
"If you look at the World Cup this year, it's very aggressive early on," he told Sportsweek. "Are our players as aggressive as the others? They don't appear to be. If that's the case why not? We need to talk about those things."
"In ODIs we have underperformed. In Tests we are on the up, we have some fantastic young players coming through and have got to have some faith in them.
"We have to have a strategy and in one-day internationals we have to improve."
Graves told BBC Sport last week that he wants to follow Australia and India's lead in Twenty20 and to "decongest" the county calendar with a similar 'English Premier League' format.


Shares in Moneysupermarket fell more than 6% after the comparison website warned that revenues so far this year were running below last year's levels.

The FTSE 250 company said this was due to customers switching less between savings and current accounts because of low interest rates.
The news overshadowed the 16% rise in annual profits to Â£73.5m that the company reported for 2016.
Another big faller in the FTSE 250 was transport group Go-Ahead.
Its shares dived nearly 14% after the company warned of lower-than-expected full-year profits, partly due to the disruption caused by strikes on Southern rail services.
Go-Ahead owns a 65% stake in Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), which runs the Southern rail contract.
Half-year profits at Go-Ahead fell 11.7% to Â£67m, and the company said its results had been "significantly impacted by a reduction in rail profitability due to losses from our GTR franchise, as a result of ongoing industrial action on Southern".
The benchmark FTSE 100 index gained ground during the afternoon after spending the morning in the doldrums. At the close, it was up 10.44 points at 7,263.44.
The biggest riser in the FTSE 100 was support services group Babcock, which rose 7.1% after issuing a positive trading update.
On the currency markets, the pound dipped 0.13% against the US dollar to $1.2427 and was 0.4% lower against the euro at 1.1707 euros.


England's Ben Stokes could earn "millions" when he enters the Indian Premier League auction, says India batsman Yuvraj Singh.

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The auction for the 20-over franchise competition is scheduled to be held in Bangalore, India in late February.
When asked how much Stokes was worth, Yuvraj, who went for a record £1.6m in 2015, said: "A couple of million.
"He's a quality hitter, fast bowler and fielder. He'll definitely get the big bucks. He brings a lot to the table."
Yuvraj, 35, has lined up against Stokes, 25, in the recent one-day and Twenty20 series between India and England, and has enjoyed watching England's talisman close up.
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"I always see Ben and Virat [Kohli] having a go at each other," Yuvraj told BBC Sport. "It's great for cricket to have passion.
"We always have banter with the English. My old battles were with Andrew Flintoff."
This year the IPL will run from 5 April to 21 May, with England's players available for much more of the tournament than usual because of the lack of a Test match in May.
This availability, coupled with eye-catching performances in limited-overs cricket, mean England's players could be highly sought.
Sam Billings and Jos Buttler are already signed to teams, but the likes of Stokes, Chris Woakes, Jason Roy, Chris Jordan, Tymal Mills and Alex Hales could attract interest.
"If these guys come and play the IPL, their skills will improve," Yuvraj added. "The more they play in different conditions, the better they will become."
Stokes could become the subject of a "bidding war", according to freelance T20 journalist Freddie Wilde.
Wilde believes Kolkata Knight Riders may target the Durham player now West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell is suspended following a doping code violation.
However, he might not be the only player to swell his bank balance.
"Jason Roy could be hot property at this auction too," said Wilde.
"Over the past year, Roy has established himself as one of the leading opening batsmen in the world and his form in the England-India ODI series, as well as the World T20 last year, proves he can do it in Indian conditions.
"Tymal Mills is the most likely of the England bowlers to be picked up. High pace is valuable in India, where the pitches generally offer little in the way of lateral movement to seamers.
"I also think Chris Woakes could prove to be a useful, perhaps under-valued, acquisition for somebody."
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The IPL had a television audience of 347 million in India last year, with more than a third of that believed to be female viewers.
"It's quite simply one of the biggest tournaments in the world - not just in cricket," said Isa Guha, a former England women's international who is now an IPL commentator and analyst for television.
"All eyes are on it right across the globe because it's where cricket meets entertainment.
"I liken it to a sitcom because families sit down and enjoy it when they get home from work. It's not just father and son. It's wife and daughters too.
"The Indian public buy into the heroes and villains. AB de Villiers, for example, is revered. They'd be excited to see Ben Stokes play in the IPL."
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The Duke of Cambridge has flown with crew from RAF Coningsby as part of commemorations to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.

William joined pilots, ground crew and families from 29 (Reserve) Squadron in Lincolnshire, which is also celebrating its 100th anniversary.
The squadron trains Typhoon jet pilots, and the base is home to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF).
Prince William took to the skies in a Chipmunk as part of the event.
He had been due to fly in a Dakota belonging to the BBMF, but the aircraft had a problem with one of its engines.
Sqn Ldr Martin Morris explained: "It is a very old aircraft and we couldn't get one of the engines up to its full operating speed - so he got to fly in a Chipmunk instead."
He said about operating the BBMF's historic aircraft: "Anything to do with aviation has got to be safety related. If there is any doubt, there is no doubt."
After his flight, piloted by Sqn Ldr Duncan Mason, Prince William joked: "For a beginner, he was alright."
The Chipmunk was joined in mid-air by a BBMF Spitfire.
Sqn Ldr Morris said about the royal visit: "With it being the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain - a very special year - in many respects this is the icing on the cake.
"It is the acknowledgment and recognition of what the veterans did, as part of 'the few', during the Battle of Britain."
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1,887
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3,000 aircrew served with RAF Fighter Command
20% were from the British Dominions and occupied European or neutral countries
544 RAF Fighter Command pilots were killed
2,500 Luftwaffe aircrew were killed
The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air superiority over the RAF.
Their ultimate failure was one of the turning points of the Second World War and prevented Germany from invading Britain.


Manchester United are the unluckiest team in the Premier League, says manager Jose Mourinho.

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United were denied victory over Arsenal at Old Trafford as substitute Olivier Giroud headed an 89th-minute equaliser after Juan Mata's opener.
They have now won just one of their past six Premier League games.
Mourinho said: "I have nothing to say against my players, but I feel sorry for them because we feel like a defeat and Arsenal is feeling like a victory."
He added: "If we just focus on [draws against] Burnley, Stoke and Arsenal - nine points easily. If we had those six points more we are top four and close to the top of the league."
"We all know inside that in this moment we are the unlucky team in the Premier League."
United remain sixth in the league table, five points behind fourth-placed Arsenal who are two points behind leaders Liverpool.
The draw means Mourinho remains unbeaten against Arsene Wenger in 12 meetings in the Premier League.
However, he has now faced Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal in the league this season and not recorded a win.
When leaving his post-match news conference, Mourinho added: "Finally I lost against Arsenal. That is the feeling I take home. Finally I lost against Arsenal."
Giroud's late goal, the visitors' first effort on target, saw Arsenal extend their unbeaten run to 17 games in all competitions, following an opening-day Premier League defeat by leaders Liverpool.
"I felt overall we had a serious defensive performance, offensively we have played better," said Gunners manager Wenger.
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"We had not our usual style to go forward. We were not sharp or fluent enough. Manchester United blocked us well as well, they were very organised.
"In the second half we came out in the first 20 minutes and we didn't play. Deservedly Manchester United led 1-0, but they dropped off and gave us the ball again. We were resilient and in the end I think we scored a great goal."


US Federal Reserve chair, Janet Yellen, has said it may be "appropriate" for the central bank to raise interest rates at one of its upcoming meetings.

The bank's next meeting on monetary policy is on March 14 and 15.
Speaking to Congress she said delaying rate hikes would be "unwise", and could leave the Fed having to move too fast later, risking causing a recession.
In December the Fed raised its benchmark interest rate by 0.25%, only the second increase in a decade.
It had kept its main lending rate near zero for seven years. before raising it in December 2015 and again last December.
Addressing Congress for the first time since Donald Trump became president, Ms Yellen again repeated that although the Fed expects to raise rates gradually, getting them back to normal levels was important.
She added: "Waiting too long to remove accommodation would be unwise, potentially requiring [the Fed] to eventually raise rates rapidly, which could risk disrupting financial markets and pushing the economy into recession.
"At our upcoming meetings [we] will evaluate whether employment and inflation are continuing to evolve in line with [the Fed's] expectations, in which case a further adjustment of the federal funds rate would likely be appropriate.''
She did not say whether the Fed expected three rate increases this year, as it had indicated in December.
Omer Esiner, chief market strategist at Commonwealth Foreign Exchange in Washington, said: "Yellen is trying to nudge the expectations for a rate hike in March higher."
He added: "This doesn't mean they will move in March, but the Fed wants to have the option to move."
After her comments the dollar was up 0.3% against the dollar and 0.5% against sterling.


UK house prices in July were up 10.2% from a year earlier - the biggest annual change since September 2007, according to the Halifax.

The lender said that property prices grew by 3.6% in the three months to the end of July compared with the previous quarter.
The monthly increase was 1.4% compared with June, making the average home worth Â£186,332.
The figures are at odds with other surveys which suggest a slowdown.
This is the first time since September 2007 that the annual change has gone above 10%, according to the Halifax. It accelerated from an 8.8% rise in June.
"While supply remains low, housing demand continues to be supported by a continuing economic recovery, growth in employment, improving consumer confidence and low mortgage rates," said Stephen Noakes, mortgages director at the Halifax.
The numbers, based on its own mortgage lending, counter the view put forward by rival lender Nationwide, which said prices had started to moderate.
The Nationwide's estimate of the annual house price rise slowed from 11.8% in June to 10.6% in July.
The year-on-year comparison is calculated slightly differently by the two lenders. The Halifax compares the previous three months with the same three months a year earlier to give a smoother comparison, rather than a direct comparison of the equivalent months as calculated by the Nationwide.
The Land Registry has also suggested that seven out of 10 regions of England and Wales showed a monthly fall in prices, although these short-term price changes are often volatile.
Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist for IHS Global Insight, said: "On balance, we take the view that house prices will keep on clearly rising over the coming months but there will be some moderation from the recent peak levels."
Halifax is part of Lloyds Banking Group, which recently announced that it was moving to reduce its share of mortgages under the government's Help to Buy scheme.
Borrowers are now able to raise a maximum of Â£150,000 through Help to Buy, down from Â£500,000.
Under the scheme, buyers are required to provide a deposit of of 5% of the home's value, with another 20% backed by the government if the buyer fails to keep up with repayments.
The Bank of England has also taken action to try to ensure mortgage lending does not reach unsustainable levels.
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A Dungannon woman has pleaded guilty to wasting police time by making false statements about DUP assembly member Jim Wells.

Dorothy Gardner, 48, of Killycanavan Road, had alleged Mr Wells made homophobic statements during an election hustings meeting in Downpatrick in April 2015.
Mr Wells resigned as health minister a short time afterwards.
Controversy surrounded remarks about same sex marriage attributed to him.
Ms Gardner made a formal complaint to police after the hustings which included a statement claiming she had been at the event and heard the remarks.
A police investigation later cleared Mr Wells and concluded Ms Gardner had not been present at the event.
The South Down MLA said he had been vindicated by the outcome of the case.
"My reputation and political career were destroyed by a series of totally false reports of what I said at that hustings meeting," he said.
"As a result of these I was for forced to resign as health minister and suffered months of online abuse.
"The full transcript and video of my speech and the notes of the five experienced reporters who covered the event clearly confirmed that I never made the alleged remarks."
Ms Gardner is to be sentenced on 25 August.