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the Doctor's long-standing enemy.", "Khalid El-Estal's wife and other family members were killed in the Palestinian territory.", "The BBC Radio 2 DJ ran 116 miles and has so far raised £4.1 million for the charity.", "Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor were all murdered by Stephen Port.", "A police officer \"immediately engaged and shot\" the suspect during the attack at the facility in Concord.", "The US comedian and actor said his \"beloved son\" Dex died from an accidental drug overdose.", "David McBride helped expose allegations of extrajudicial killings by Australian troops in Afghanistan.", "Hundreds of school children around the UK joined protests on Friday calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.", "A councillor calls for a scheme to help identify owners who don't clear up after their dog in the streets.", "Marines talk of progress on \"several bridgeheads\" but soldiers talk of fatigue at the front.", "The BBC goes inside the main hospital in Gaza City with the Israeli army.", "Everton receive an immediate 10-point deduction after being found to have breached the Premier League's profit and sustainability rules.", "ChatGPT-maker OpenAI says it \"no longer had confidence\" in his ability to lead.", "The writer had a long and successful career and won the Booker Prize for her 1990 novel Possession.", "Jozef Puska stabbed Ashling Murphy multiple times as she was jogging in the Republic of Ireland.", "Gavin Plumb is accused of soliciting to murder and incitement to kidnap the TV presenter.", "It is part of a plan to get people back to work, with more investment in career support also promised.", "Israel says it has entered Gaza's largest hospital in a \"targeted operation against Hamas\".", "The Prince of Wales was put on the spot when a boy asked him how much was in his bank account.", "Victoria Atkins says she has always been absolutely \"scrupulous\" in declaring her interests.", "They are now likely to say ill-health affects their job as the middle-aged did 10 years ago.", "The BBC has been told the chancellor is considering cutting some taxes in his Autumn Statement.", "The rap mogul is labelled a \"serial domestic abuser\" in a lawsuit, which his attorney called \"outrageous\".", "The husband of former US Speaker Nancy Pelosi suffered a fractured skull in the attack at his home.", "Shoppers bought less in October amid higher prices, rising living costs and poor weather.", "The first day of the much-vaunted Las Vegas Grand Prix descends into chaos as practice was hit by problems with the new street track.", "Palestinians wave white flags as hundreds leave al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, which Israeli forces have been searching.", "Israel defends blocking fuel deliveries, as the UN warns this could lead to a breakdown of civil order.", "The Al-Shifa director says people are \"screaming from thirst\", as Israel says its \"discreet\" search continues.", "BBC correspondent flies with the Icelandic Coast Guard over the Reykjanes Peninsula, where the volcanic activity has been concentrated.", "One campaigner describes the increase, from seven last year to 19 this year, as a 'massive concern'.", "Jozef Puska stabbed Ashling Murphy multiple times as she was jogging in the Republic of Ireland.", "Owen Midwinter says he should be looking forward to Christmas but is worried he'll lose his house.", "The Radio 2 presenter turned runner has raised more than £4.1m for Children in Need.", "\"Tinkering with a failed plan\" will not achieve the government's aims, the former home secretary says.", "The company said Hyundai dealers will be the first to offer cars for sale on its e-commerce site.", "The ex-president calls the actions of court officials in his New York fraud trial a \"disgrace\".", "The measure could leave any LGBT activist in the country vulnerable to criminal prosecution.", "Israeli officials say troops found 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss's body near Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.", "Dale Houghton is given a 12-week suspended jail term for mocking the young Sunderland fan's death.", "Find out how much has changed in the Gaza Strip since Israel began its military response to Hamas's attacks on 7 October.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 10 and 17 November.", "The decision came a day after owner Elon Musk endorsed an apparent antisemitic conspiracy theory.", "The PM says he will \"take on\" anyone who stands in the way of emergency laws to push through the scheme.", "After Russia's invasion, most Ukrainian men were banned from leaving, but many are escaping abroad.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suffered a rebellion over the party's stance on the Israel-Gaza conflict. 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But his return to cabinet comes with baggage.", "A report suggests almost half of unpaid carers in Northern Ireland experience symptoms of depression.", "Christian Concern says eight-month-old Indi Gregory has been moved to a hospice.", "The former cabinet minister was accused of stoking tensions ahead of pro-Palestinian protests at the weekend.", "A group accuses the government of \"double standards\" in its handling of Palestinians in the UK.", "Police made more than 100 arrests in London but pro-Palestinian events in Scotland passed off peacefully.", "Producers try to work out how an evicted housemate's problematic posts were not flagged before.", "An increasing number of holidaymakers are picking more environmentally-friendly trips.", "The stage invader says he \"came here for a climate demonstration, not a political view\".", "Mourners gathered to pay their respects as fans lined the streets to watch the funeral procession.", "The service members died in a helicopter crash in a region where the US has boosted operations.", "Police say they're keeping an open mind over the cause of the fire which killed five family members.", "The new foreign secretary says Rishi Sunak has a \"difficult job\" after his comeback in a reshuffle.", "First and second class postal targets were missed by a \"significant\" margin, the regulator says.", "Isaac Herzog told the BBC \"everything is operating\" at Al-Shifa, despite reports of no power.", "The beauty brand made famous by its door-to-door sales slogan \"Ding dong, Avon calling!\" is changing tack.", "The NI secretary and taoiseach were among those taking part in the Enniskillen commemoration.", "Nine officers were injured and 145 arrested, most of whom police said were right-wing counter-protesters.", "The fantasy RPG and the horror sequel square off at the \"gaming Oscars\" as nominations are revealed.", "Police were alerted and joined in the capture of the flightless bird in Loose, Kent.", "Communities want action on illegal motorbikes but police are cautious after high-profile deaths.", "Research shows two in five shop workers face verbal or physical attacks on a regular basis.", "Video shows the scale of the biggest UK pro-Palestinian rally since the start of the war.", "An eyewitness inside the hospital says they saw tanks and soldiers enter its main emergency department.", "The 82-year-old is still facing a trial in Montreal and extradition to the US.", "Pro-UK group says documents show the Scottish government failed to update figures they knew were false.", "Ciera Grimley, who died a week after the crash which killed her husband, was described as loving and caring.", "The General Medical Council says efforts to recruit more UK doctors will take years to take effect.", "She has lost her job as home secretary after accusing the Met Police of bias in the policing of protests.", "The world of football will celebrate the life of Sir Bobby Charlton at his funeral in Manchester.", "Chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman looked like he'd seen a ghost on BBC Breakfast.", "EastEnders' Natalie Cassidy is among those paying tribute to theatre school founder Anna Scher.", "Donald Trump's oldest son has testified for a second time in a $250m civil fraud trial in New York.", "Sgt Matt Ratana was killed after officers failed to find a gun hidden on arrested man Louis De Zoysa.", "The 1980s children's TV series could be set for a reboot after Welsh scriptwriter wins top accolade.", "It is thought more than 100 Israelis are still being held hostage in Gaza after the 7 October attacks.", "Indi Gregory's parents say they feel heartbroken and angry following the legal battle over her care.", "Thousands of people have been told to leave their homes over fears of a volcanic eruption.", "A red alert, the highest level, has been extended in the Republic, with amber and yellow alerts for NI.", "King Charles III lays the first wreath at London's Cenotaph to remember those who have died in conflict.", "The fourth named storm of the winter so far has brought strong winds and heavy rain to many areas.", "What is it like to know that at any moment you could be deployed to a warzone?", "Mrs Barry, who served as a federal judge in New Jersey, was the former president's eldest sister.", "The fourth named storm of the season led to road closures, flooding and high winds.", "Thousands are asked to evacuate from a town over fears magma has spread underground.", "Video shows the big cat wandering along a residential street before it is captured.", "Residents of a fishing port remain on edge as scientists say a volcanic eruption is still imminent.", "Changes are being \"seriously\" considered, as Home Secretary Suella Braverman's position is under continued pressure.", "Ahmed Sabra leaves Gaza four days after his wife and children left him behind at the Egypt crossing.", "Suella Braverman has been sacked as home secretary. Here's her record - in her own words.", "The ex-PM and new foreign secretary says he quit his business and charity roles to make a shock return to government.", "Work at DP World ports in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth were suspended on Friday due to a cyber-attack.", "A rundown of the people in Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's cabinet, with new faces, as well as those who have changed roles.", "His return to cabinet seven years after losing the Brexit vote has sent shockwaves through Westminster.", "The prime minister attends the celebrations at the Vedic Society Hindu Temple in Southampton.", "The ex-PM used the term while discussing easing lockdown rules in January 2021, the Covid Inquiry heard.", "The shared office giant, once seen as the future of the workplace, has been plagued by problems.", "Deputy political leader Moussa Abu Marzouk says Hamas will release hostages only if Israel stops fighting.", "The Hamas-run health ministry says at least 45 people died in what it says was an Israeli air strike.", "For the first time in 360 years, Post Office customers can use firms other than Royal Mail.", "Without A Fight wins the Melbourne Cup to give jockey Mark Zahra back-to-back wins in Australia's biggest horse race.", "Trials suggest anastrozole could reduce breast cancer cases by almost 50% in post-menopausal women.", "Video shows the moment a deputy responded to the emergency call - and what he taught the boy.", "Flights were suspended on Tuesday morning while the problem was resolved.", "The force says there is a risk of violence and disorder around demonstrations in London.", "A teenage boy has been arrested in connection with the incident outside a Leeds school, police say.", "The government outlines its plans ahead of the next general election in the King's Speech.", "Halifax says fewer homes for sale lifted prices, but they are expected to fall in the coming months.", "Matthew Rycroft \"abandoned\" his son Callum, who was hit by a car as they tried to cross the M62.", "Footage shows people running away as fireworks explode near crowd, including \"traumatised\" children.", "Prosecutors say the firm failed to collect a 21% tax from landlords on rental income.", "Partition may not top the list of concerns for younger voters in NI but it remains a rallying cry.", "The first minister says he cannot promise WhatsApps were not deleted by Welsh government officials.", "The King's Speech promises a crackdown on vaping aimed at children.", "Chancellor Olaf Scholz has pledged to \"examine\" whether asylum applications could be processed abroad.", "Google faces another anti-trust trial - this time about its Google Play store", "A route south was opened for five hours - but Hamas-run authorities say air strikes continue in all areas.", "Sport England announces \"one of the biggest shake-ups of funding in decades\" with £250m redirected towards areas with the worst levels of physical inactivity over the next five years.", "The academic who discovered the letters said reading them was \"very emotional\".", "Europe's Euclid telescope begins its quest to map the cosmos and reveal its missing components.", "Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she will defend Indi Gregory's life until the end.", "The judge urged the former president's lawyers to \"control him\" as he took the stand in a civil fraud trial.", "Asian women are being encouraged to push past cultural stigma and get checked for breast cancer.", "A London church thundered with applause as friends and colleagues remembered the BBC newsreader.", "Serena Williams is the first-ever athlete to win the Council of Fashion Designers of America award.", "Rhianon Bragg, who was held at gunpoint by an ex-partner, wants victims' rights in the King's Speech.", "A competition will be run to produce a space vehicle to carry cargo at first and later astronauts.", "Ex-England captain Rooney opens up to Rob Burrow in the former Leeds Rhinos star's new podcast.", "Previous chief constable Simon Byrne resigned in September following a series of crises.", "Public money has been lost on the project, which would have improved travel to major Cardiff events.", "The former PM suggested being injected with the virus on TV would calm public fears, an ex-adviser says.", "Over 30,000 bronze coins, possibly from a 4th Century shipwreck, have been found off the coast of Italy.", "As the war rages, the focus for many in Israel is ensuring the safe return of more than 200 hostages.", "No mention of legislation on e-scooters in the King's Speech but trials will be extended to 2026.", "Nathan Collings is jailed for two years and six months for a number of offences.", "Mohammed Farooq denies being motivated by Islamist extremism to bring a bomb to a Leeds hospital.", "Jim Henderson, 78, says he was punched and kicked during a pro-Palestinian rally at Waverley Station in Edinburgh.", "The US Secretary of State says such a step would allow Hamas to carry out further attacks.", "Consumer bodies say firms make misleading claims about plastic water bottles being \"100% recycled\".", "Ministers hope minimum service levels for trains, ambulances and border security will start by Christmas.", "Record low yields this year are due to bad weather in many of the world's biggest producers.", "Even for a country where crime levels are high, an armed attack on a cabinet member is rare.", "Inquiries are continuing after a group of youths threw fireworks and petrol bombs at officers in Niddrie.", "António Costa says he handed in his resignation during a meeting with the Portuguese president.", "Chelsea beat nine-man Tottenham in a frantic, chaotic Premier League match full of drama and controversy.", "Thousands are due to attend a march calling for a Gaza ceasefire in London on Armistice Day.", "For several hours, hundreds of people were on the move, some on carts pulled by donkeys but most on foot.", "About 100 people were injured when the Saga ship was caught in a storm in the Bay of Biscay.", "Maj Hennadiy Chastyakov was opening presents at home near Kyiv with his son at the time of the blast.", "Unauthorised spa set to be demolished within three months after Planning Inspectorate rejects appeal.", "The Hamas-run health ministry says 4,104 children have been killed in Gaza; Israel says its air strikes target Hamas sites.", "Figures show that on several occasions inmates were missing for years, raising fresh concerns.", "The special device stimulates nerves in Marc's spine, helping the 63-year-old walk again with confidence.", "Rishi Sunak says the speech lays out a vision for a \"better Britain\" - but Labour says it's \"more of the same\".", "The risk of dying from the disease has fallen in past 20 years thanks to new treatments, a study says.", "The centres will be able to process more than 30,000 asylum seekers a year, Italy's PM has said.", "Caster Semenya tells the BBC she is \"not going to be ashamed\" of being \"different\", and will \"fight for what is right\" amid her ongoing dispute with athletics authorities.", "Nottingham Panthers player Adam Johnson, 29, died after his neck was cut during a match.", "Gayle Redman's stoma supplies vest is banned from the New York Marathon, but allowed in Chicago.", "When David Tennant was away, one lookalike extra was in the right place, at the right time... lord!", "Hamas earlier released 14 Israeli hostages - including a four-year-old girl - and three foreign nationals.", "The auction will also include backstage photographs, lyric notes from Jim Morrison and guitars.", "Gerald Cotter was jailed in 2017 for causing a crash in London in which a young motorcyclist died.", "A combination of high tide and strong winds contribute to the partial collapse of a Norfolk road.", "A banner protesting at Everton's 10-point penalty was flown over Manchester City's Etihad Stadium on Saturday.", "The NHS is considering ending prescription of the cystic fibrosis drug Kaftrio after NICE guidance.", "Eighteen people were part of a gang targeting Devon and Cornwall seaside towns with drug runs.", "Hostages including young children and elderly women are freed from Gaza during a temporary ceasefire.", "The unexploded device is discovered after spring tides cause cliffs and part of a road to collapse.", "A tree is given to London every year as a token of thanks for support in the Second World War.", "The pause in fighting allows Gazans to gather supplies and assess the widespread damage.", "Relatives of those held hostage by Hamas hope Friday's deal paves the way for more to be released.", "After his Dutch election win. will the anti-Islam populist leader be able to effect any of his ideas?", "The decision by the Dutch VVD leader is a blow for Mr Wilders' bid to form a majority government.", "Leaflets at Saturday's pro-Palestinian march in London to detail language which might break the law.", "The French government has launched a campaign encouraging people not to buy new clothes during festive sales.", "One participant says he feels \"conned\" after receiving no official communication or refund offer.", "Kittiya Thuengsaeng feared her boyfriend was killed on 7 October - but now says he's been freed from Gaza.", "Thirteen Israeli citizens, 10 Thais and one Filipino are released as a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas holds.", "Thousands of homes are without power after Russia bombarded the capital over six hours.", "In his first full interview as foreign secretary, he says the government's stance is \"hard-headed\".", "The Met Police said 15 people were arrested, though the \"overwhelming majority\" protested lawfully.", "A cut in the Welsh screen sector's carbon emissions might attract more big entertainment names.", "Outrage is no substitute for answers when it comes to record UK immigration, says Laura Kuenssberg.", "If Israel decides to go south, a larger humanitarian disaster could be looming, writes Paul Adams.", "Some students at St Andrews University are calling for their newly-elected rector to apologise or resign.", "It comes following a review into procedures at the publicly-funded Welsh-language channel S4C.", "The mum of Harvey Owen, killed alongside his three friends, says she cannot accept she won't hold him again.", "The actor says he could relate to a book about a pilot who experiences electrical failure in mid air.", "The group of women and teenage boys are in exchange for a group of hostages held by Hamas.", "It is unclear why the vehicle rapidly accelerated before crashing at a US-Canada border crossing.", "Ireland's police chief blames riots in Dublin on a \"hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology\".", "Nine-year-old Ohad Munder, held by Hamas for seven weeks, ran towards his father on Friday.", "High tides and strong winds contribute to further erosion at a sandy cliff in a Norfolk village.", "The Paralympian has been serving a 13-year sentence for murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.", "Substitute Kai Havertz scores a late winner at Brentford to send Arsenal top of the Premier League in Mikel Arteta's 200th game in charge.", "Omid Scobie criticises media reports that use translations of extracts from his new book Endgame.", "Children of past students are favoured in admissions - now state legislators are calling for this to end.", "Labour says it plans to 'ramp up' investment in its green plan, but the policy has already been watered down.", "Huda Kattan, the influencer and owner of Huda Beauty, says the cosmetics industry objectifies women.", "The ex-police officer who murdered George Floyd in Minneapolis is reported to be in a stable condition.", "A law firm says it is representing contestants it claims \"suffered hypothermia and nerve damage\" injuries.", "The return of 39 women and teenagers is being seen by some as a symbolic victory over Israel.", "The Solent Sky Museum saved part of the BAC 1-11 from the scrapheap.", "A woman with a severe disability was failed by a health trust that altered her care, a watchdog finds.", "Four men are jailed for life for the murder of 28-year-old Ashley Dale in Liverpool.", "The new rate will apply to those aged 21 and over for the first time, the chancellor says.", "Some big websites have been given 30 days to make it easier for users to reject cookies.", "Melissa Barrera is sacked from the film sequel for posts the production company say were antisemitic.", "England's former deputy chief medical officer says police urged his family to temporarily move out of their home.", "Bodies of four teenagers from Shrewsbury were found in an upturned car following a police search.", "Changpeng Zhao will also step down as chief executive of the world's largest crypto-exchange.", "Ashley Dale shared her mounting fears with friends - those messages led police to her killers.", "The actor was described in court as \"an intelligent racist with an agenda\" as a libel trial began.", "The close-knit town of Shrewsbury is reeling over the deaths of four teenage friends in north Wales.", "Tom Cruise is among the stars to film in the UK, but some visual effects work has been \"driven away\".", "Reports say negotiations aimed at his possible reinstatement are ongoing, as pressure from staff grows.", "The house is now being refurbished thanks to local tradespeople who offered their services for free.", "Here's what you need to know about Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's tax and spending plans for the year ahead.", "Petroineos says it aims to turn the Grangemouth site into a fuels import terminal by spring 2025.", "Police say they located an overturned and partially submerged car and four bodies were recovered.", "But England's chief medical officer tells Covid inquiry government had no good options at the time.", "A policy allowing firms to deduct machinery and equipment costs from their tax bill has been made permanent.", "There was another bumper breeding season for the endangered curlew in Northern Ireland.", "Lionel Messi says there \"could have been a tragedy\" during clashes between fans and police before Argentina's World Cup qualifier in Brazil.", "The veteran politician says \"we will govern\" after his Freedom party doubles its seats in parliament.", "His speech at Buckingham Palace opened with words of welcome to the South Korean president and his wife.", "The parents of Ashley Dale describe the impact her murder has had on their family.", "It comes after classical texts quote the emperor saying \"call me not Lord, for I am a Lady\".", "A pause in fighting was expected to begin on Thursday, but an Israeli government source told the BBC it has also been delayed.", "The former presenter of the BBC car series says it's time for a new approach, after the show was \"rested\".", "The influencer is the talk of the jungle in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here.", "Nicolas Galy, 40, died after being struck by the aircraft he had jumped out of seconds before.", "Israel says it has entered Gaza's largest hospital in a \"targeted operation against Hamas\".", "The BBC has seen private messages with swearing and poo emojis shared by teachers in Aberdeenshire.", "The chancellor is expected to unveil cuts for millions of workers and tough new benefit sanctions.", "The economy will grow much more slowly than previously thought until 2025, the government's forecaster says.", "Studies suggest women are more affected by the issue than men.", "The Channel 4 comedy picked up the top prize in New York alongside Netflix special Vir Das: Landing.", "New evidence has cast doubt on the results of an inquest into the death of Stephen Sparkes - a patient of ex-neurologist Michael Watt.", "About 20 Russian soldiers were killed in the attack in the occupied Donetsk region, Ukraine says.", "Honouring the South Korean state visit, the military band surprised tourists by switching to K-pop.", "The chancellor says his steps on the economy are \"just a start\", but the budget watchdog warns the overall tax burden is still rising.", "The crackdown is part of a \"systematic effort\" to curb the practice of Islam, Human Rights Watch says.", "\"Alice\" speaks exclusively to the BBC after her successful lawsuit against Omegle forced it offline.", "The hit TV drama is reinvented as a game show as real players battle it out for a $4.56m prize.", "The King hails the global impact of South Korean popular culture during the state visit.", "The royal diplomatic courtship of South Korea continues with honours for K-pop superstars.", "Wales are held to a 1-1 draw by Turkey in Cardiff and now face a play-off semi-final in March after Croatia pip them to automatic Euro 2024 qualification.", "The in principle agreement involves a new board being installed, the tech company said.", "The last series was halted after Andrew \"Freddie\" Flintoff was hurt in an accident while filming.", "Las Vegas police say Jonathan Lewis Jr was beaten to death over a set of headphones stolen from him.", "A husband and wife died in a fireball as their vehicle hurtled into a checkpoint at Rainbow Bridge.", "It came as Labour backed an SNP ceasefire motion, despite Sir Keir Starmer arguing for humanitarian pauses.", "Authorities in Russia are aiming to limit abortion access in an effort to boost population growth.", "Two people were killed after a car accelerated before being engulfed in flames near Niagara Falls in New York.", "The chancellor said personal tax cuts were \"virtually impossible\", now the PM says it's time - what's changed?", "It is thought more than 100 Israelis are still being held hostage in Gaza after the 7 October attacks.", "Annabel Giles, TV presenter, model and actress, was diagnosed with a brain tumour in July.", "The head of the centre right, Dilan Yesilgöz, is tipped to become the Netherlands' first female PM.", "Downing Street has clearly decided that the time is right for a significant set of giveaways.", "A coroner says 10-year-old William Gray's death was a consequence of failures.", "Police say Kiesha Donaghy, 32, sustained head injuries in the fatal assault in Elgin.", "Peter Robinson says a deal over Windsor Framework is achievable, but talks aren't \"quite there\" yet.", "Barnsley are expelled from the FA Cup for fielding an ineligible player in their first-round replay win at non-league Horsham.", "Local MP Alex Cunningham alleges the swear word was used during Prime Minister's Questions.", "The Strictly judge says she was criticised after returning to dancing six weeks after giving birth.", "The former home secretary criticises Rishi Sunak's leadership ahead of a ruling on the government's Rwanda plan.", "Mr Pelosi says his attacker was searching for his wife Nancy Pelosi, whom he \"had to take out\".", "The ex-home secretary's open letter criticising the leadership of her old boss Rishi Sunak.", "Rishi Sunak could argue the ex-PM can unite the Tories. But his return to cabinet comes with baggage.", "The interior designer says leaving the Netflix makeover show was a \"necessary\" decision.", "The former cabinet minister was accused of stoking tensions ahead of pro-Palestinian protests at the weekend.", "A new report sets out recommendations for a \"sacred space\" to remember the 72 victims of the fire.", "Hospitals in England warn a lack of funds means they must scale back on extra beds and recruitment.", "A Google DeepMind tool predicted where one would hit three days ahead of existing methods.", "Emad Abuaassi, who left with his wife and four children, says it is the \"saddest moment\" of his life.", "A group accuses the government of \"double standards\" in its handling of Palestinians in the UK.", "BBC is reviewing issues raised after its former presenter was accused of sexual assaults, which he denies.", "A money trail emerges after the former Chelsea owner denied a financial relationship with Russian leader.", "Defence minister Andrew Murrison says the aerobatic team is being closely monitored.", "The Liverpool footballer cried as he hugged his father who was held by Colombian ELN rebels for 12 days.", "Mourners gathered to pay their respects as fans lined the streets to watch the funeral procession.", "One in 11 adults in Wales could be living with diabetes by 2035, new research shows.", "Roman Butchaski failed to return to his camping ground while on a solo fishing trip on Sunday.", "Police say they're keeping an open mind over the cause of the fire which killed five family members.", "The former home secretary isn't going quietly and isn't finished yet, says the BBC's political editor.", "The new foreign secretary says Rishi Sunak has a \"difficult job\" after his comeback in a reshuffle.", "The beauty brand made famous by its door-to-door sales slogan \"Ding dong, Avon calling!\" is changing tack.", "A scathing independent report finds aspects of the Welsh Rugby Union were sexist, misogynistic, racist and homophobic, with elements of bullying.", "Previously, getting rid of the app fully required deleting the associated Instagram account.", "Rishi Sunak says he has a \"strong and united team\", as he welcomes new and returning ministers to cabinet.", "An eyewitness inside the hospital says they saw tanks and soldiers enter its main emergency department.", "Judges have been criticised for failing to disclose gifts and holiday arrangements they received.", "A man is held in connection with the death of Nottingham Panthers player Adam Johnson.", "The chain's UK boss tells MPs more than 400 people have made complaints since a BBC investigation in July.", "Report concluded lies by man linked to killer’s family cleared officer in corruption probe, BBC reveals.", "The pop star says she is \"unwilling to stand by and watch while books are banned by schools\".", "Rishi Sunak wants to build a team more in his own image while trying to change the political dial.", "Correspondent Jessica Parker was evacuated from Grindavik alongside the town's residents.", "She has lost her job as home secretary after accusing the Met Police of bias in the policing of protests.", "Pro-UK group says documents show the Scottish government failed to update figures they knew were false.", "About 400 people living in a tower block are told to leave as a council declares a major incident.", "Dozens of the party's MPs could back a Commons motion urging a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.", "An ex-gynaecologist from Rwanda goes on trial accused of genocide and crimes against humanity.", "Courteney Cox says she is \"grateful for every moment\" in her tribute to her late Friends co-star.", "Sgt Matt Ratana was killed after officers failed to find a gun hidden on arrested man Louis De Zoysa.", "Lewis Moghul and Sammy Phillips died instantly when a red BMW hit trees in Bix, Oxfordshire.", "The all-female Takarazuka Revue apologised for \"loss of life\" but has not offered compensation.", "The King is making a food-poverty project the centrepiece of events marking his milestone birthday.", "The UK family of Rita Roberts saw her distinctive tattoo in a BBC News report and contacted police.", "\"Back in the 70s it would have killed a career,\" says the 80-year-old. \"The public was not ready\".", "The Suffolk MP tells the BBC how she was particularly ill while working in government.", "The fourth named storm of the winter so far has brought strong winds and heavy rain to many areas.", "Floral tributes are left near the scene where three children and two adults died in a house fire.", "Owners who wish to keep their pets after the ban must register them before 1 February.", "Mrs Barry, who served as a federal judge in New Jersey, was the former president's eldest sister.", "Chelsea boss Emma Hayes is named the new manager of the United States women's national team and will take charge when the Women's Super League season ends in May.", "TikTok is under scrutiny over concerns that data could be passed to the Chinese government.", "Residents of a fishing port remain on edge as scientists say a volcanic eruption is still imminent.", "Five men and three women were found guilty after the largest prosecution of its kind in Scotland.", "DJ Calvert needs help to get showered and dressed but his carer is withdrawn over a funding shortage.", "Latest as residents face uncertainty after the evacuation of a tower block in Barton Hill, Bristol.", "Suella Braverman has been sacked as home secretary. Here's her record - in her own words.", "Wages are increasing faster than prices, but there are signs the jobs market is starting to weaken.", "A rundown of the people in Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's cabinet, with new faces, as well as those who have changed roles.", "His return to cabinet seven years after losing the Brexit vote has sent shockwaves through Westminster.", "Michael Matheson says he will reimburse the cost of a data roaming bill he incurred while on holiday.", "John Hemingway, 104, has been shot four times, including twice in the World War Two aerial battle.", "The home secretary during the pandemic tells the Covid inquiry the flat penalty was not proportionate.", "Arabs and Jews living in the territory say the 7 October attacks have deepened distrust.", "The intervention comes after the home secretary's claims about \"bias\" in policing ahead of a pro-Palestinian march.", "A BBC investigation reveals confusion between officials as an inferno destroyed the town of Lahaina.", "Blasts have been reported at or near several hospitals in Gaza, with footage showing tanks operating outside a children's facility.", "A judge rules privacy claims against the Daily Mail publisher can go forward to a trial.", "King Charles is seen in a striking new black-and-white picture taken by famed photographer Rankin.", "Seth Burke, 14, who uses a wheelchair, meets the Paris-based team behind hit game Just Dance.", "Two women in Manipur give the BBC their first face-to-face interview since being stripped and assaulted.", "Michael Matheson was told to update his iPad sim card almost a year before he ran up the huge bill.", "The Met Commissioner says the law is on his side in allowing the Armistice Day march - here's why.", "Days after the PiS governing party is invited to try and form a coalition, the opposition says it is ready.", "The surgery did not restore vision in the grafted eye, but experts do not rule out the possibility.", "Chase Graham Robinson claims she was abused, underpaid and treated like De Niro's \"office wife\".", "The 73-year-old passed out at a business conference in Mexico City, according to reports.", "Lewis Bush will serve a minimum of 16 years for killing his vulnerable mum in a \"ferocious assault\".", "Measures are needed to tackle an ageing population crisis, Chief Medical Officer Prof Chris Whitty says.", "Swift has become the first songwriter to receive seven song of the year nominations.", "Claimant Jamie Scott suffered suffered severe brain injury after having the Covid jab in April 2021.", "Davide Renne, ex-head of women's wear at Gucci, joined Moschino as creative director just nine days ago.", "The Department of Education says it is facing \"unprecedented funding challenges and cuts\".", "The actor becomes the first person to legally scale the New York City landmark.", "Michael Gove and Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride are backing calls for more cash to help renters.", "Katie Tidmarsh was about to adopt Ruby Thompson when she killed her in 2012.", "The figure is based on there being no public service pay rises, says a Department of Finance official.", "The PM faces calls to sack the home secretary over accusations she is trying to \"end\" police independence.", "Tuvalu - a series of low-lying atolls - is one of the countries most at risk from climate change.", "The Strictly star completes her eighth and final round of chemotherapy to treat her breast cancer.", "Dame Alison Rose resigned after admitting to discussing details about Nigel Farage's bank account.", "As fighting continues between Israel and Hamas, social discord is emerging in Germany.", "Al-Arfat Hassan, known to drill-music fans as Official TS, bought chemicals for making explosives.", "Forecasters suggest that the economy is set to remain stagnant for several months yet.", "The often-repeated social media rumour made across the world claims pupils identify as cats.", "Two women in Manipur give the BBC their first face-to-face interview since being stripped and assaulted.", "Thomas Newsome had been charged with sharing military information but was cleared at an Old Bailey hearing.", "Sir David Attenborough \"delighted\" as mammal named after him is filmed for the first time.", "However Israel stressed the \"localised and pinpoint measures\" would \"not detract from the fighting\".", "The actor and singer rose to fame on X Factor Australia and had battled brain cancer for six years.", "From January, drivers in Edinburgh who park on the kerb face a £100 fine under plans by the council.", "Palestinian Islamic Jihad posts videos of two Gaza hostages, but Israel fears \"psychological terror\".", "Liz McColgan leads tributes to her husband John Nuttall after the former long-distance runner died aged 56 on Thursday.", "Chris Bryant calls for a review of the new default speed limit across Wales.", "The couple died after the next-door room was sprayed with pesticide to kill bedbugs, an inquest hears.", "In an exclusive BBC interview, the French president said a ceasefire would be in Israel's interest.", "The PSNI urge people to \"refrain from speculation\" as forensic officers examine the home.", "The firm has dealt with issues that emerged on the same day as it released a new Call of Duty game.", "More than 26,000 Gazans have been wounded since war erupted, many of them left with life-changing injuries.", "A team of more than 140 surgeons in New York successfully performed the procedure on Aaron James.", "Sir Paul McCartney says their final song Now and Then reaching the top spot has \"blown my socks off!\"", "Medication to treat cystic fibrosis may soon no longer be available through the health service.", "A black BMW convertible is brought to a stop by a number of police cars, and the driver is arrested.", "Reuters, AP, CNN and the New York Times have denied any prior knowledge of the 7 October attack.", "Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO, could sell the famous gold helmet he wore at auction for £1m.", "The home secretary's latest incendiary intervention puts pressure on Rishi Sunak to take action.", "Hundreds of thousands are due to take part in the march, while elsewhere commemorations take place for Armistice Day.", "Israel wants to destroy Hamas, but there are questions over whether that is achievable.", "His campaign says devices, believed to be two iPhones and an iPad, were taken by agents on Monday.", "The mum of a baby with cystic fibrosis says it is \"unthinkable\" she may not get the drugs she needs.", "Kerrie Aldridge says running a personal best at the New York City Marathon was \"incredible\".", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 3 November and 10 November.", "Police investigating Mr Henry's disappearance on 15 October have found a body in the boot of a car.", "Rachel Zegler was among the cast celebrating the launch of the blockbuster in London.", "It is thought more than 100 Israelis are still being held hostage in Gaza after the 7 October attacks.", "A head teacher said one of his pupils collapsed after using a vape containing the illegal drug spice.", "The South Eastern Trust has moved from paper-based files to an electronic system called encompass.", "The home secretary is facing questions about her future over her incendiary article about protests.", "Speaking to the BBC before Elianne's funeral, they said she will \"forever remain in our hearts\".", "There are few known quantities in the conflict but some things have become clear, says Jeremy Bowen.", "The US secretary of state holds talks in Jordan, while the UN says a school used as a shelter has been hit in Gaza.", "A Home Office memo concluded housing asylum seekers on RAF Scampton represented \"marginal\" value for money.", "The allegation came after Rangers travelled to Dens Park to play Dundee FC on Wednesday evening.", "The attack at a bowling alley and bar in Lewiston was the deadliest shooting in the state's history.", "England's World Cup defence is over as old rivals Australia add the final nail with a 33-run victory in Ahmedabad.", "The sheep was stranded beneath cliffs on a remote Scottish shoreline for at least two years.", "From surgeons to young children, these are some of the people known to have been killed in Gaza.", "Israel said it hit an ambulance it said was carrying Hamas operatives without specifying where.", "Ice hockey fans and mourners come together in memory of 29-year-old Adam Johnson.", "The new monarch's big moment will also be a chance for Rishi Sunak to try to revive his government.", "The suspect has shot a weapon twice and thrown burning bottles from the vehicle, police say.", "One of Russia's goals is to draw global attention away from the war in Europe, says Ukraine's president.", "Police believe a woman fell from the window of a flat where the attack began.", "A fund \"driven by his passion for making a difference\" is set up in the late Friends star's name.", "Bob Stewart told an activist to \"go back to Bahrain\" during a row outside the Foreign Office.", "One local man describes the damage to his home as 'catastrophic'.", "Israel's military confirmed that its jets carried out a strike on Jabalia in Gaza.", "A re-recorded version of Swift’s 2014 pop opus more than doubles the first-week sales of the original.", "The storm left around 150,000 homes without power, while hurricane-force gusts were recorded in Jersey.", "A private funeral was held in Los Angeles for the actor, attended by family and his Friends co-stars.", "The James Webb observatory records the giant jets and shocks created by a birthing star in Orion.", "The airport says cars parked inside the burnt-out multi-storey \"are not recoverable\".", "The US military said the drones, first spotted by journalists, were searching for hostages.", "In a first interview since becoming GCHQ's director, Anne Keast-Butler shares her AI concerns.", "David Berglas has been described as one of the most prominent magicians of the 20th Century.", "Five-year-old Joury and 18-month-old Julia reunite in hospital after a blast in southern Gaza.", "The former PM says only a vaccine or drugs - unavailable at the time - could have averted the curbs.", "Croatia's foreign minister has apologised saying the greeting was \"maybe an awkward moment\".", "The home secretary is proposing new laws, arguing that rough sleeping in tents is a \"lifestyle choice\".", "Rescuers are digging through the rubble for survivors after the quake in a remote part of Nepal.", "Thousands attend 5 November celebrations in the historic East Sussex town.", "The actor says the film industry should \"set a precedent\" on the use of artificial intelligence (AI).", "Natalie Mottram told a criminal friend how police had infiltrated the EncroChat messaging platform.", "The actor is accused of exposing himself and sexually assaulting an extra on set in a US lawsuit.", "Fiji international Api Ratuniyarawa, 37, is charged with sexually assaulting three women in Cardiff.", "Bob Stewart was found guilty of a racially aggravated offence after telling a man to \"go back to Bahrain\".", "Rishi Sunak says there is a risk war memorials such as the Cenotaph in London could be \"desecrated\".", "The family of Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf are among the UK citizens who have left Gaza.", "The Met Office extends a yellow warning for rain after Storm Ciarán brought flooding and damage to the region.", "James Watt won a civil case against Emili Ziem but his lawyers offered no evidence in a criminal trial.", "Protesters call for a \"ceasefire now\" and an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.", "Today's guests include the Greek prime minister, MPs Laura Trott and Darren Jones, and actress Catherine Tate.", "Terry Venables, who led England to the semi-finals of Euro 96, dies at the age of 80 after a long illness.", "Over 200 people backed the campaign to secure Lismore's closure-threatened store for the future.", "Hamas earlier released 14 Israeli hostages - including a four-year-old girl - and three foreign nationals.", "Some people are left without power or water after high tides and winds cause damage.", "From castles to sports stadiums and beaches to museums, much of Doctor Who was filmed in Wales.", "The auction will also include backstage photographs, lyric notes from Jim Morrison and guitars.", "Jannik Sinner beats Novak Djokovic to help Italy overcome Serbia to join Australia in the Davis Cup final.", "The unexploded device is discovered after spring tides cause cliffs and part of a road to collapse.", "Organisers say the event is the first of its kind since the Israel-Gaza war broke out.", "Ministers will save £41m by pushing back spending on the procurement of seven electric ferries.", "The pause in fighting allows Gazans to gather supplies and assess the widespread damage.", "The comedian and actor confesses she was not a Dr Who fan before becoming the Doctor's companion.", "President Julius Maada Bio says most of the leaders behind the attack are detained and calm restored.", "Thousands of homes are without power after Russia bombarded the capital over six hours.", "Avigail Idan, who turned four while she was held hostage by Hamas, was among nine children released.", "The phenomenon is caused by the refraction of moonlight from ice crystals.", "When a drifter moves in with an older rich woman they say they are in love - but a family is torn apart.", "The shipyard at the centre of Scotland's ferries saga has a longer story that is seldom told.", "Thirty-nine Palestinian prisoners were freed by Israel in exchange for hostages held in Gaza.", "The dystopian novel depicting an Ireland slipping into totalitarianism bags the prestigious award.", "Outrage is no substitute for answers when it comes to record UK immigration, says Laura Kuenssberg.", "After an acrimonious split with the company in 2014, the 45-year-old returns at an event in Chicago.", "The Met Police said 15 people were arrested, though the \"overwhelming majority\" protested lawfully.", "An officer was treated in hospital after being hit by a firework as trouble flared in Auchinleck, East Ayrshire.", "One farmer says support payments from Cardiff Bay will be cut by nearly half in 2024.", "The Israeli army says it was mounting a raid in the city of Jenin to capture a Palestinian suspect.", "Senior Conservative sources say he told them he had been approached by Reform UK.", "The EastEnders star says his mother's death from cervical cancer in 2009 \"changed my life completely\".", "Mohammad dar-Darwish, 17, was among 39 women and teenagers released on Saturday night after a nervous wait.", "The nine-year-old Irish-Israeli is one of 17 released on Saturday night under a Hamas-Israel deal.", "It is thought more than 100 Israelis are still being held hostage in Gaza after the 7 October attacks.", "The group of women and teenage boys are in exchange for a group of hostages held by Hamas.", "Nine-year-old Ohad Munder, held by Hamas for seven weeks, ran towards his father on Friday.", "The man crashed into three pedestrians and two cars outside Queen of the South's stadium in Dumfries.", "Relive England's stunning performance against the Netherlands at Wembley in Euro 96, with Alan Shearer and Teddy Sheringham both scoring twice.", "The alleged offences are said to have happened in 2013, the force says.", "Ireland's Katie Taylor dethrones England's Chantelle Cameron to avenge her only career defeat in an extraordinary fight in Dublin.", "The party says its proposals, including raising salary thresholds for foreign workers, would cut migration.", "Substitute Kai Havertz scores a late winner at Brentford to send Arsenal top of the Premier League in Mikel Arteta's 200th game in charge.", "Omid Scobie criticises media reports that use translations of extracts from his new book Endgame.", "Urgent diplomacy enables the release of 13 more Israelis and 39 Palestinian prisoners under the fragile Gaza truce deal.", "Two people are said to be involved in a fight at the Palace Theatre in Manchester on Friday night.", "Huda Kattan, the influencer and owner of Huda Beauty, says the cosmetics industry objectifies women.", "Owners may have \"nowhere else to turn\" if vets cannot cope with demand, rescue homes warn.", "The prime minister says foreign investors' plans to invest £29.5bn is a \"huge vote of confidence\".", "The ex-police officer who murdered George Floyd in Minneapolis is reported to be in a stable condition.", "The return of 39 women and teenagers is being seen by some as a symbolic victory over Israel.", "Evidence from top scientists suggests problems with the politics and science.", "Protesters walked from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, before demonstrating at the Israeli prime minister's residence.", "Jozef Puska stabbed Ashling Murphy multiple times as she was jogging in the Republic of Ireland.", "Rail firm TransPennine Express has since removed QR codes from all of its station car parks.", "The action follows a last-ditch attempt by the Department of Justice to avoid a strike.", "The US pop star says she is putting safety first as the Brazilian city experiences an extreme heatwave.", "Clemence Felix Mtenga was an agriculture intern in Israel at the time of the Hamas attack.", "Wales' hopes of automatic qualification for Euro 2024 suffered a devastating blow as they are held 1-1 by Armenia in Yerevan.", "Voters focus on candidates' plans to tackle rising prices as inflation soars past an annual 140%.", "World number one Novak Djokovic delivers a masterclass to beat second seed Carlos Alcaraz to reach the final at the ATP Finals.", "Anton Hull filmed himself at the wheel moments before hitting Sarah Baker in a \"needless tragedy\".", "Israel says it has entered Gaza's largest hospital in a \"targeted operation against Hamas\".", "Charles Leclerc takes pole position for the Las Vegas Grand Prix after Ferrari dominated qualifying in Formula 1's prestigious new race in Sin City.", "The pop star gave out water bottles to fans during the concert in Brazil, amid sweltering heat.", "Emma Gooding says she was \"heartbroken\" after her miscarriage and found the call \"insensitive\".", "A police officer \"immediately engaged and shot\" the suspect during the attack at the facility in Concord.", "A day after the singer sued the rap mogul, the pair said they wanted to \"resolve this matter amicably\".", "Dale Houghton is given a 12-week suspended jail term for mocking the young Sunderland fan's death.", "A new £150m fund will help poorer countries prepare for humanitarian disasters and access money faster.", "The Boeing 787 is the largest passenger plane ever to have landed on the continent.", "The rocket flew for about eight minutes before SpaceX lost contact and ended its live stream.", "Two people airlifted to hospital, two more have minor wounds, and 37 dogs and several cats seized.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 10 and 17 November.", "It has stirred an extraordinary level of criticism from within the president’s own administration.", "Hundreds of school children around the UK joined protests on Friday calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.", "Video shows Austria's president being bitten by the Moldovan leader's three-legged canine.", "The BBC has been told the chancellor is considering cutting some taxes in his Autumn Statement.", "Canberra says naval divers suffered injuries following a high-seas encounter with a Chinese warship.", "US firms, including Apple and Disney, are reportedly suspending ads on the Elon Musk-owned site.", "Mobile phone and internet connections have reportedly been partially restored after a fuel delivery.", "Rishi Sunak brought back an ex-PM and is defiant on Rwanda - but voters are focused on their wallets, says Laura Kuenssberg.", "Sam Altman, one of the biggest names in tech, was sacked from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI without warning.", "The UN health agency examines al-Shifa after last week's raid by Israeli troops looking for a Hamas bunker.", "Marines talk of progress on \"several bridgeheads\" but soldiers talk of fatigue at the front.", "France score seven goals in each half as they record their biggest ever win by thrashing 10-man Gibraltar 14-0 in Euro 2024 qualifying.", "Israel's PM says efforts to spare civilians \"not successful\", but says Hamas puts them in harm's way.", "A successful campaign to correct a road sign's punctuation has been reported around the world.", "A total of 32 fans are arrested and some claim police teased them about getting six-month sentences.", "Palestinians wave white flags as hundreds leave al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, which Israeli forces have been searching.", "It is thought more than 100 Israelis are still being held hostage in Gaza after the 7 October attacks.", "Elon Musk's company gets further than its first attempt in April but booster explodes and main rocket is lost.", "Controversies over antisemitism have engulfed the billionaire and his social network, X.", "Israel defends blocking fuel deliveries, as the UN warns this could lead to a breakdown of civil order.", "A week after a tunnel collapsed in northern India, officials try a new approach to save the workers.", "ChatGPT-maker OpenAI says it \"no longer had confidence\" in his ability to lead.", "Cousin marriage has dropped among the city's Pakistani community - with a few possible reasons.", "Casey McIntyre left a heart-wrenching goodbye on social media - and multi-million dollar gift.", "The clip sees Tennant crashing his Tardis at the \"genesis of the Daleks\" - the Doctor's long-standing enemy.", "The producer was criticised for saying Justin Timberlake should \"put a muzzle\" on his ex-girlfriend.", "Manchester United's faltering season suffers another blow as Marcus Rashford's red card contributes to a dramatic Champions League defeat by FC Copenhagen.", "There are few known quantities in the conflict but some things have become clear, says Jeremy Bowen.", "Shared Island Fund spending of €1bn by 2030 is not a Trojan horse for Irish unity, the tánaiste says.", "Passenger Alan Grisedale says the swell knocked his wife over and moved furniture in their cabin.", "Thousands are due to attend a march calling for a Gaza ceasefire in London on Armistice Day.", "Jon Boutcher speaks publicly for the first time since taking Northern Ireland's top job in policing.", "Partition may not top the list of concerns for younger voters in NI but it remains a rallying cry.", "Lloyd's of London says it will invest £40m in helping communities impacted by the slave trade.", "Mark Sedwill says he knew Covid was more serious than chickenpox and could see why the comments seemed \"heartless\".", "Nestle says it will no longer be making Caramac bars because sales have been falling.", "For several hours, hundreds of people were on the move, some on carts pulled by donkeys but most on foot.", "Both antisemitic and islamophobic abuse is rising at universities, experts tell the BBC.", "Previous chief constable Simon Byrne resigned in September following a series of crises.", "Daisy the dog \"went berserk\" and led her owner to where missing cat Mowgli was stranded.", "Kmart removed the festive-themed bag from sale after a Jewish group raised the likeness to Hamas.", "Republicans are looking into the family's business dealings in their impeachment probe.", "Facial recognition was also used to search for terrorists, a police and crime commissioner says.", "The King's Speech promises a crackdown on vaping aimed at children.", "At least one person is said to have been killed when a missile hit a ship entering the port of Odesa.", "Thousands of protesters are due to march through London calling for a ceasefire in Gaza on Armistice Day.", "The former PM suggested being injected with the virus on TV would calm public fears, an ex-adviser says.", "Workers will vote on a pay deal that could halt 18 months of disruptive strike action.", "Labour's Imran Hussain says his view on Gaza \"differs substantially\" from that of leader Sir Keir Starmer.", "A route south was opened for five hours - but Hamas-run authorities say air strikes continue in all areas.", "The 42-year-old's responses in a fraud trial against her father frustrate a lawyer questioning her.", "Figures show that on several occasions inmates were missing for years, raising fresh concerns.", "Tory MPs will remain concerned that the party is heading for electoral defeat, says our political editor.", "No mention of legislation on e-scooters in the King's Speech but trials will be extended to 2026.", "The retailer reported much better-than expected results on Wednesday but warned of challenges ahead.", "The Princess of Wales also met regimental mascot Emrys Jones, a Welsh Mountain Pony.", "Schools in the Indian capital have shut as air pollution there rises to alarming levels.", "Lord Sedwill told the Covid inquiry there had been a loss of confidence in the former health secretary.", "The EU's executive praises Kyiv's \"excellent progress\" and EU states will make a decision next month.", "The King visits \"Korea Town\" in New Malden, which claims to have Europe's biggest Korean population.", "Michael Matheson said he was using the device for constituency work while on holiday in Morocco.", "Donald Trump's eldest daughter has taken the stand in a $250m civil fraud trial in New York.", "The entertainment giant has been under pressure as its traditional movie and film businesses decline.", "Tributes are being left in memory of Alfie Lewis, who died after being stabbed in Leeds.", "About 100 people were injured when the Saga ship was caught in a storm in the Bay of Biscay.", "There was \"absolutely nothing we could do but sit back and watch\", the company who shared the video said.", "The track, called NostalgIA, has gone viral on TikTok where it has hundreds of thousands of views.", "Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black was accused of assaulting BBC Three presenter Teddy Edwardes.", "A teenage boy has been arrested in connection with the incident outside a Leeds school, police say.", "The government outlines its plans ahead of the next general election in the King's Speech.", "A London church thundered with applause as friends and colleagues remembered the BBC newsreader.", "Colin Deveraux has spent a month in an Australian hospital and admits he is lucky to be alive.", "Rebecca Kalam was stripped to her underwear and subjected to sexist language at West Midlands Police.", "Tributes are paid to Alfie Lewis, who was fatally stabbed in Leeds on Tuesday.", "A university researcher says he has identified the man on the cover of Led Zeppelin IV.", "A top officer apologises for the breach affecting police and employees in Northern Ireland.", "The robotic arm reportedly failed to distinguish between the man and the boxes it was handling.", "Members of a French coastal town are campaigning to reopen a road connecting it with Spain.", "There are few known quantities in the conflict but some things have become clear, says Jeremy Bowen.", "The US secretary of state holds talks in Jordan, while the UN says a school used as a shelter has been hit in Gaza.", "Projects will have to meet net zero targets, under the proposals to be outlined in the King's Speech.", "Race organisers say Gayle Redman cannot run wearing a vest carrying stoma supplies and water.", "The deadline means people with non-British family who need to apply for UK visas risk overstaying.", "Videos show thick plumes of smoke blocking the view with the stadium saying it is investigating.", "Businesses could be breaking the law by failing to make payment machines accessible.", "From surgeons to young children, these are some of the people known to have been killed in Gaza.", "The Hamas-run health ministry says 4,104 children have been killed in Gaza; Israel says its air strikes target Hamas sites.", "The sheep was stranded beneath cliffs on a remote Scottish shoreline for at least two years.", "The family of Scotland's first minister is reunited after his wife's parents spent weeks trapped in Gaza.", "Ice hockey fans and mourners come together in memory of 29-year-old Adam Johnson.", "The new monarch's big moment will also be a chance for Rishi Sunak to try to revive his government.", "Indi Gregory is currently receiving round-the-clock care for her condition, which the NHS says is incurable.", "The suspect has shot a weapon twice and thrown burning bottles from the vehicle, police say.", "One of Russia's goals is to draw global attention away from the war in Europe, says Ukraine's president.", "Rebecca Keatley is seeing her work in a new light as she prepares to become a parent this winter.", "The Hamas-run health ministry says at least 45 people died in what it says was an Israeli air strike.", "The Rafah crossing remains shut after a brief reopening to allow foreign nationals and injured out.", "Attiq Malik was recorded in 2021 ending a speech with the chant \"from the river to the sea\".", "One local man describes the damage to his home as 'catastrophic'.", "The family of Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf are among the UK citizens who have left Gaza.", "Israel's military confirmed that its jets carried out a strike on Jabalia in Gaza.", "A private funeral was held in Los Angeles for the actor, attended by family and his Friends co-stars.", "The US Secretary of State says such a step would allow Hamas to carry out further attacks.", "The AI tool, designed to have a cheeky tone to its writing, is not yet widely available.", "The company says it has been a \"distressing time\" and its thoughts are with the boy's family.", "Animal rights activists protest at a farm park which was planning to look after the rescued ewe.", "A quarter of a million mothers with children under four have left their jobs, the Fawcett Society says.", "Red Bull's Max Verstappen takes a controlled victory in the Sao Paulo Grand Prix to extend his record for wins in a season to 17.", "Colombian-born Liverpool footballer Luis Díaz begs for his father's kidnappers to free him immediately.", "It is thought more than 100 Israelis are still being held hostage in Gaza after the 7 October attacks.", "President Zelensky demands answers after Russia hits Ukrainian soldiers said to be at an award ceremony.", "The home secretary is proposing new laws, arguing that rough sleeping in tents is a \"lifestyle choice\".", "Rescuers are digging through the rubble for survivors after the quake in a remote part of Nepal.", "Thousands attend 5 November celebrations in the historic East Sussex town.", "Over three frantic days, Antony Blinken tried to find middle ground where none exists, for now.", "The actor says the film industry should \"set a precedent\" on the use of artificial intelligence (AI).", "The freed British Iranian national says the UK should call for the release of Jagtar Singh Johal from jail in India.", "The incident, which happened at around 05:30 local time, was broadcast live.", "About 50 young people threw firebombs and fireworks at riot police in Edinburgh.", "A man who drove through a barrier and parked under a plane with his daughter in the car has been arrested.", "It follows reports an ex-Conservative chairman wrote to police with concerns over handling of complaints.", "The rock legends announce they will play their only UK performance next summer at the event.", "An Australian firm which bought Britishvolt has not paid the firm's UK staff for the last four months.", "Protesters call for a \"ceasefire now\" and an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.", "Repeated requests to join meetings in early 2020 were refused, London and Greater Manchester mayors say.", "Terry Venables, who led England to the semi-finals of Euro 96, dies at the age of 80 after a long illness.", "Hamas earlier released 14 Israeli hostages - including a four-year-old girl - and three foreign nationals.", "The comic was suing the production company after private comments he made were leaked to the media.", "There was a mix of hope and fear this weekend for the families of hostages expected to remain in Gaza.", "A Northern Irish pub's take on Christmas adverts gets the John Lewis seal of approval.", "Prof Laura McAllister says \"closed list\" voting system could erode trust in politicians.", "PC Jonathan Broadhead faces gross misconduct proceedings over Tasering the child in January 2021.", "Israel says 10 of its citizens and two Thais are free - and it has released another 30 Palestinians.", "Zhongzhi Enterprise, one of China's biggest shadow banks, has lent billions to real estate firms.", "The English Defence League founder was asked by organisers not to attend the rally against antisemitism.", "Organisers say the event is the first of its kind since the Israel-Gaza war broke out.", "Mirza Shahzad Akbar said the chemical missed his eyes but caused injuries on his body.", "BAT wants sellers to be licensed, and sweet flavours banned.", "Andy Burnham says the first lockdown was lifted \"too early\" for Manchester, which kept cases higher for the rest of 2020.", "The suspects are accused of inciting the murder and pointing out the teacher to the killer.", "Health experts are appalled as the new government plans to repeal the policy to fund tax cuts.", "The pause in fighting allows Gazans to gather supplies and assess the widespread damage.", "The US entrepreneur was shown around a kibbutz in Israel that was attacked on 7 October.", "Has Alejandro Garnacho already wrapped up goal of the season - and how does his effort compare to some classic overhead kicks?", "The comedian and actor confesses she was not a Dr Who fan before becoming the Doctor's companion.", "Police say the shooter, who killed himself, was \"quite intoxicated at the time\".", "A charity says it is receiving \"small numbers\" of reports from schools but now is the time to act.", "Hurricane winds and heavy flooding batter southern Russia and Ukrainian regions seized by Moscow.", "The bill would make it easier and cheaper for homeowners to extend their lease or buy their freehold.", "Buyers say they have been left hanging as a company that provides IT to law firms sees its services hit.", "The library urges users to change their passwords after earlier saying only employee data was leaked.", "Laurence Fox tells the High Court his life has been \"destroyed\" after being called a racist.", "Avigail Idan, who turned four while she was held hostage by Hamas, was among nine children released.", "The phenomenon is caused by the refraction of moonlight from ice crystals.", "Protesters say the 30-hour blockade stopped over half a million tonnes of coal from leaving Australia.", "It comes after a four-day pause where hostages in Gaza and prisoners in Israel have been released.", "Nearly 93% of votes cast by shareholders backed the package which will raise extra funds.", "If Israel decides to go south, a larger humanitarian disaster could be looming, writes Paul Adams.", "The dystopian novel depicting an Ireland slipping into totalitarianism bags the prestigious award.", "Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who wants the Parthenon Sculptures returned, says he is \"deeply disappointed\".", "In a statement, ITV said the food critic had left the jungle, adding she had been a \"great campmate\".", "But sources close to the PM dispute the document the former home secretary refers to amounted to a deal.", "The Israeli army says it was mounting a raid in the city of Jenin to capture a Palestinian suspect.", "Abdurahman Al-Zaghal, who was shot in the head, is among the latest prisoners to be released.", "Thousands lined the streets near the Hatzerim military base in southern Israel to welcome the hostages freed from Gaza on Sunday.", "After an acrimonious split with the company in 2014, the 45-year-old returns at an event in Chicago.", "An officer was treated in hospital after being hit by a firework as trouble flared in Auchinleck, East Ayrshire.", "Senior Conservative sources say he told them he had been approached by Reform UK.", "The EastEnders star says his mother's death from cervical cancer in 2009 \"changed my life completely\".", "Mohammad dar-Darwish, 17, was among 39 women and teenagers released on Saturday night after a nervous wait.", "It is thought more than 100 Israelis are still being held hostage in Gaza after the 7 October attacks.", "The AA blames the increase in pothole-related problems on poor weather and recent storms.", "Patient had mild illness and is fully recovered from a strain of H1N2 normally seen in pigs.", "Caolan Gormley, 26, will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday after being convicted earlier.", "Forecasters say there could be snow in the south of the UK later this week as temperatures drop.", "Home secretary admits using \"inappropriate language\" to describe Labour MP - but not Stockton North.", "Urgent diplomacy enables the release of 13 more Israelis and 39 Palestinian prisoners under the fragile Gaza truce deal.", "Two people are said to be involved in a fight at the Palace Theatre in Manchester on Friday night.", "Three men of Palestinian descent were wounded in an attack in Burlington on Saturday.", "The prime minister says foreign investors' plans to invest £29.5bn is a \"huge vote of confidence\".", "The ex-police officer who murdered George Floyd in Minneapolis is reported to be in a stable condition.", "Brianna Ghey, 16, was stabbed 28 times in a \"sustained and violent assault\", a court hears.", "BBC Arabic and BBC Verify have pieced together how armed groups came together to train for the assault.", "The mum and dad of a two-day-old girl who died want a national inquiry into maternity services.", "Extra increase on top of 6% rise given this year will now be put to union members in England.", "The Grammy-winning rapper is accused of co-founding a violent street gang in Atlanta, Georgia.", "Palestinians abroad tell the BBC multiple generations of their families were killed in Gaza air strikes.", "Suella Braverman may yet be sacked but the PM's handling of her disobedience has dented his authority.", "Elianne Andam was fatally stabbed while on her way to school in Croydon on 27 September.", "WHO head says the \"situation is dire and perilous\" after re-establishing contact with those inside Al-Shifa.", "Tens of thousands of people are sheltering in hospitals in Gaza, which Israel says Hamas is using as shields.", "Thomas Newsome had been charged with sharing military information but was cleared at an Old Bailey hearing.", "The leather jacket went under the hammer alongside items previously owned by Amy Winehouse and George Michael.", "The US actors' union says its national board has voted to back the agreement with Hollywood studios.", "Police probe phoney content purporting to show the Mayor of London commenting on Remembrance events.", "Hundreds of thousands are due to take part in the march, while elsewhere commemorations take place for Armistice Day.", "Israel wants to destroy Hamas, but there are questions over whether that is achievable.", "The French leader tells the BBC's Katya Adler a Gaza ceasefire is urgently needed and rising antisemitism must be beaten.", "Away from the cameras Owain Wyn Evans and his husband are taking on their own home renovation.", "Davide Renne, ex-head of women's wear at Gucci, joined Moschino as creative director just nine days ago.", "His campaign says devices, believed to be two iPhones and an iPad, were taken by agents on Monday.", "", "From January, drivers in Edinburgh who park on the kerb face a £100 fine under plans by the council.", "Elsewhere, near the Black Sea port of Odesa, there were reports of at least two missile attacks.", "The car's owner told local news outlets that they heard a hissing sound from the vehicle before the fire.", "The Liverpool FC footballer's father spoke of his plight after being held by Colombian guerrillas.", "Huge crowds marched through central London amid a major policing operation in the capital.", "The nation falls silent to mark the end of World War One in 1918, and remember those lost in conflict.", "Suspicious letters have been reported at election offices in five states across the United States.", "A BBC investigation reveals confusion between officials as an inferno destroyed the town of Lahaina.", "Blasts have been reported at or near several hospitals in Gaza, with footage showing tanks operating outside a children's facility.", "The nation falls silent to mark the end of World War One in 1918, and remember those lost in conflict.", "King Charles is seen in a striking new black-and-white picture taken by famed photographer Rankin.", "In an exclusive BBC interview, the French president said a ceasefire would be in Israel's interest.", "Joseph Strickland is \"relieved\" from governance following a Vatican investigation.", "While decades of prosecutions weakened the US and Italian mafia, transatlantic relations remain strong.", "More than 26,000 Gazans have been wounded since war erupted, many of them left with life-changing injuries.", "Mary Lou McDonald tells the party conference she wants to see \"orange and green reconciled\".", "It is thought more than 100 Israelis are still being held hostage in Gaza after the 7 October attacks.", "The PM faces calls to sack the home secretary over accusations she is trying to \"end\" police independence.", "The Met Commissioner says the law is on his side in allowing the Armistice Day march - here's why.", "A head teacher said one of his pupils collapsed after using a vape containing the illegal drug spice.", "Thousands are asked to evacuate from a town over fears magma has spread underground.", "Sir Paul McCartney says their final song Now and Then reaching the top spot has \"blown my socks off!\"", "Video shows huge flames and plumes of grey smoke rising into the sky in Newark.", "Visitors have been flocking to the Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge to see the spectacle.", "Speaking to the BBC before Elianne's funeral, they said she will \"forever remain in our hearts\".", "As fighting continues between Israel and Hamas, social discord is emerging in Germany.", "Grand National-winning jockey Graham Lee is in intensive care after being unseated by Ben Macdui at Newcastle Racecourse.", "Nathaniel Veltman has pleaded not guilty to the murders, arguing he was in a \"dreamlike state\".", "The ex-home secretary's open letter criticising the leadership of her old boss Rishi Sunak.", "Rishi Sunak is grilled over his decision to bring the former prime minister back into his cabinet.", "A money trail emerges after the former Chelsea owner denied a financial relationship with Russian leader.", "Jurors are deliberating for a third day as they weigh whether Ms Taylor's civil rights were violated.", "People in Bury and Hendon are watching the party's position on the Israel-Gaza war closely.", "An eyewitness inside the hospital says they saw tanks and soldiers enter its main emergency department.", "Hundreds of people were forced to leave after the city council declared the building unsafe.", "Report concluded lies by man linked to killer’s family cleared officer in corruption probe, BBC reveals.", "The Labour leader seeks to quell tensions in his party, but insists time is not right for a ceasefire.", "A former employee tells an inquiry into abuse at a hospital that he was uneasy at lack of oversight.", "Doctors warn drugs from unregulated sources could contain potentially toxic ingredients.", "Jabs are to be offered in libraries and sports venues to improve access, the boss of NHS England will say.", "Poll suggests many Israelis back a deal with Hamas to free the hostages - but not a Gaza ceasefire.", "Many of Lancelot William Walker's 15 victims were elderly and vulnerable, a court hears.", "The schoolboys are questioned over the death of 19-year-old Shawn Seesahai in Wolverhampton.", "Staff taking to 48-hour picket lines include classroom assistants, cooks, cleaners and bus drivers.", "The actress and producer lost her voice before her first red carpet since the end of the actors' strike.", "The actor will portray Falstaff in a new play which blends Shakespeare's Henry IV, parts one and two", "The action comes amid a bitter labour fight between at the coffee giant.", "After a major defeat at the Supreme Court, Sunak says he'll pass a law to declare Rwanda a safe country.", "Ultra-marathon runner Joasia Zakrzewski is banned for 12 months by UK Athletics for using a car in a race.", "Isaac Herzog told the BBC \"everything is operating\" at Al-Shifa, despite reports of no power.", "While not formal weddings, the services will be able to include the wearing of rings, prayers and a blessing from a priest.", "Mexican authorities say they suspect Jesús Ociel Baena was killed by their partner, who also died.", "Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney were quick to act after hearing of the Wrexham business's plight.", "The pop star spoke to Stockton woman Wendy Clarke for a special BBC local radio programme.", "The IRA initially blamed the Army for shooting teenager Kathleen Feeney outside a shop.", "Conservative Christians showed their deep connections with Israel at a march in Washington DC.", "She has lost her job as home secretary after accusing the Met Police of bias in the policing of protests.", "The government pledged to halve inflation in 2023, from a figure of 10.7% at the end of 2022.", "The UN warns pregnant women risk dangerous deliveries as hospitals are overwhelmed, out of fuel and lacking medicines.", "Thousands of people are trapped in Gaza's few functioning hospitals as fighting draws ever closer.", "Kylie Minogue wins with Padam Padam at the Aria Awards, while Troye Sivan takes home four awards.", "Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow pay tribute to their beloved co-star.", "Republican Markwayne Mullin rose from his seat at a hearing to challenge a union leader to a fight.", "Joe Biden and Xi Jinping have agreed to restore a vital line in their San Francisco meeting.", "The former home secretary isn't going quietly and isn't finished yet, says the BBC's political editor.", "Economic woes put the Chinese leader in a more vulnerable negotiating position on this visit.", "More than a hundred million people are thought to have been affected by the extreme weather.", "The pūteketeke won after the US talk show host's self-described \"alarmingly aggressive\" campaign.", "Russia admits “small groups” of Ukrainian forces have seized a village east of the Dnipro river.", "Presiding Officer Elin Jones says she does not want staff to witness offensive comments.", "Chelsea boss Emma Hayes is named the new manager of the United States women's national team and will take charge when the Women's Super League season ends in May.", "Kettle Produce admitted health and safety failings after the accident at its facility in Fife.", "Suella Braverman has been sacked as home secretary. Here's her record - in her own words.", "The manufacturer says its factory in Derby has no confirmed work beyond the first quarter of 2024.", "The former home secretary criticises Rishi Sunak's leadership ahead of a ruling on the government's Rwanda plan.", "The future is bleak if the conflict doesn't force the Israelis and Palestinians to try again for peace.", "Mark Lang died two weeks after being hit by his own stolen van.", "Israeli officials say troops found 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss's body near Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.", "The new Speaker Mike Johnson passes his first major test, despite a revolt from his backbench.", "More than 50 Labour MPs defy Sir Keir to vote for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.", "Dylan Vallely, 16, was a passenger in a car which crashed near Camlough on 27 October.", "David DePape says he planned to wear a unicorn costume and interrogate ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.", "It follows a Supreme Court ruling that a policy to send illegal migrants to Rwanda was unlawful.", "A man is held in connection with the death of Nottingham Panthers player Adam Johnson.", "\"We have a horse problem\" - the jet was flying to Belgium when an equine passenger escaped its crate.", "Correspondent Jessica Parker was evacuated from Grindavik alongside the town's residents.", "About 400 people living in a tower block are told to leave as a council declares a major incident.", "Dozens of the party's MPs could back a Commons motion urging a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.", "The Swedish climate activist has appeared before magistrates in London after a protest last month.", "Courteney Cox says she is \"grateful for every moment\" in her tribute to her late Friends co-star.", "It is thought more than 100 Israelis are still being held hostage in Gaza after the 7 October attacks.", "The 29-year-old Nottingham Panthers player died in hospital following a game in Sheffield.", "Lewis Moghul and Sammy Phillips died instantly when a red BMW hit trees in Bix, Oxfordshire.", "It comes as Israel is under growing international pressure to protect civilians in hospitals.", "The Suffolk MP tells the BBC how she was particularly ill while working in government.", "Paul Mosley was jailed in 2013 for his part in the arson attack in Derby.", "Nuria Sajjad was taking a photo with her mum when she was killed by a car that crashed into her school.", "Allies are starting to change their tune as Israeli troops enter Gaza's largest hospital.", "Vivian Silver dedicated her life to helping Gazans, and ending the Arab-Israeli conflict.", "Allies of former Home Secretary Suella Braverman say the Supreme Court's decision is damning for the PM.", "Eryri National Park Authority will refer to its lakes in Welsh only to protect the area's heritage.", "Local MP Alex Cunningham alleges the swear word was used during Prime Minister's Questions.", "The boat, carrying 60 people, capsized two hours after leaving the French coast.", "Union says plan by Carnival UK, owner of P&O Cruises and Cunard, amounts to a wage cut for staff.", "A policy allowing firms to deduct machinery and equipment costs from their tax bill has been made permanent.", "The chancellor's plans have fuelled talk of an early poll, our political editor Chris Mason writes.", "A number of people including three children were stabbed in the centre of the Irish capital.", "The BBC has seen private messages with swearing and poo emojis shared by teachers in Aberdeenshire.", "Four men are jailed for life for the murder of 28-year-old Ashley Dale in Liverpool.", "With more wet weather expected for Queensland, some people believe the worst is yet to come.", "Videos from social media show the worker being lifted by a crane from the roof of a building.", "New figures show last year's net migration was far higher than previously thought, piling pressure on the PM.", "One resident says the leaning Christmas tree could make the town famous.", "Footage shared on social media shows a worker being rescued from a roof next to a burning building.", "Ex-home secretary says government must \"act now\", after last year's net migration was estimated at 745,000.", "The economy will grow much more slowly than previously thought until 2025, the government's forecaster says.", "YouTuber Nella Rose questions Nigel Farage's politics on jungle reality TV show I'm a Celebrity.", "The father of twins killed in the Hamas attack in Israel says he has been left broken by their deaths.", "Thirteen Israeli citizens, 10 Thais and one Filipino are released as a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas holds.", "Petroineos says it aims to turn the Grangemouth site into a fuels import terminal by spring 2025.", "A two-year-old taken from a children's home has been adopted by politician Sergei Mironov, BBC discovers.", "Stuart Seldowitz was filmed calling a halal cart vendor a terrorist in a clip New York's mayor called \"vile\".", "Novak Djokovic tells a group of British fans to \"shut up\" after Serbia knocked Great Britain out of the Davis Cup quarter-finals.", "Surveillance video shows the speeding vehicle go airborne before an explosion that killed two people.", "It is the first time the medicinal leech has been found in Dumfries and Galloway.", "James Cleverly says he used a swearword to refer to a Labour MP, not to describe Stockton North.", "Footage shows firefighters tackling the blaze on a residential street in Harehills, Leeds.", "Aberystwyth University's Enfys sensor will be on Europe's rover mission when it launches in 2028.", "Caoi Benicio says he acted on instinct to try to stop a knife attack on three children and a woman in Dublin.", "A woman tells Scotland's Covid inquiry her grandmother died during an outbreak of the virus at her care home.", "William Finlay admits stabbing Alyson Nelson in her home in Whitehead, having previously denied it.", "The Mobo Award winner was arrested at Heathrow Airport, Metropolitan Police say.", "Other video shared on social media showed people throwing fireworks at police and setting cars on fire.", "Officials say it might take another 12-15 hours to reach the workers as they cut through debris.", "A husband and wife died in a fireball as their vehicle hurtled into a checkpoint at Rainbow Bridge.", "The veteran politician says \"we will govern\" after his Freedom party doubles its seats in parliament.", "Two people were killed after a car accelerated before being engulfed in flames near Niagara Falls in New York.", "Officers seize vials thought to contain semaglutide - the main ingredient in weight loss drug Ozempic.", "The business secretary tells the Covid inquiry some minority groups did not trust the government.", "It is thought more than 100 Israelis are still being held hostage in Gaza after the 7 October attacks.", "There is a troubling shift in behaviour and attendance, Ofsted's annual report says.", "The long-running sci-fi series' Welsh rebirth transformed the country's TV production industry.", "Use our interactive calculator to find out how much more you'll be paying for energy each month.", "Beijing tells the WHO it found no \"unusual or novel pathogens\" in the cases involving children.", "The Oscar-winning actor is accused of groping a woman after agreeing to take a photo with her.", "Here's what you need to know about Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's tax and spending plans for the year ahead.", "Downing Street has clearly decided that the time is right for a significant set of giveaways.", "Amid the hurricane of numbers, our political editor Chris Mason looks at three key themes.", "A coroner says 10-year-old William Gray's death was a consequence of failures.", "About 150,000 tablets of a drug called Nitazene were found in a factory set up in north London.", "Operations have resumed after rescuers cut through a steel obstacle that delayed them for a few hours.", "In May, the net migration figure for 2022 was given as 606,000 - that was today revised up by 139,000.", "A pause in fighting was expected to begin on Thursday, but an Israeli government source told the BBC it has also been delayed.", "The close-knit town of Shrewsbury is reeling over the deaths of four teenage friends in north Wales.", "Wembley's arch will only be lit for football and entertainment under a new policy approved by the board of the Football Association.", "The actor was described in court as \"an intelligent racist with an agenda\" as a libel trial began.", "The investment is thought to be in the region of £1bn and will help preserve 6,000 jobs", "A year-long study finds the animals are back in the Seychelles where they were hunted in the 1960s.", "The thieves stole $12,000 (about £9,500) worth of merchandise.", "The business secretary says \"there was a lot of fear\" in some communities around Covid vaccinations.", "The tax cuts in the Autumn Statement will come at the expense of public services, think tanks say.", "The prize values lack of effort and bad puns, while \"too much effort\" can cause disqualification.", "Wheelbarrows are carted around in search of community centres and churches willing to share water.", "The Queen joined a traditional dance in Nairobi and stopped to feed orphaned elephants.", "About 400 people are crossing to Egypt but some UK nationals are still waiting at the border.", "Using footage from inside Hamas' tunnels, Gordon Corera explores how they could shape the war.", "Fireworks, drones and fancy dress as Londonderry's Halloween festival closes in spectacular fashion.", "AI is twice as good at grading the aggressiveness of tumours than lab analysis, a study suggests.", "Helen MacNamara also recalls the \"horrible\" moment she realised the UK was heading for \"total disaster\".", "King enters debate on AI as UK holds summit and announces global declaration on managing threats.", "Cheap motors made in China and exported to Europe are used on small boats, the agency's head has said.", "The 31-year-old was clocked driving at 78mph in a 30mph zone before the crash in Swindon.", "Former adviser Dominic Cummings says the ex-PM asked top scientists about a video making the claim.", "Five-year-old Joury and 18-month-old Julia reunite in hospital after a blast in southern Gaza.", "The bookie had denied breaching guidelines against adverts starring celebs who appeal to under-18s.", "Usage of the acronym for artificial intelligence has quadrupled this year, the publisher says.", "Governments must act to protect citizens from potential AI risks, prime minister tells the BBC.", "The 35-year-old speaks out after being acquitted of assaulting her former girlfriend last year.", "Former top official Helen MacNamara tells Covid inquiry women were sidelined in male-dominated No 10.", "A 32-year-old man is detained after live rodents were released into restaurants in Birmingham.", "The third storm of the season will bring more flooding and damaging winds.", "Jamie Arnold made racist gestures towards the ex-England defender during a Wolves game in May 2021.", "Bereaved families had asked internet providers to block the forum, following a BBC investigation.", "The former PM's handling of the virus comes under attack over six hours of testimony by aides.", "Three incidents see live rodents released into restaurants in Birmingham in apparent protests.", "The firm was once seen as the future of the office, but it has been plagued by problems in recent years.", "Despite the surprise rise prices are still down sharply on a year ago, the UK's biggest building society says.", "Donald Trump's son, a senior executive in the family business, testified in a $250m fraud trial in New York.", "Some 118 towns and villages were struck in 24 hours, the most this year, Kyiv's interior minister says.", "Amber warnings for wind are in place as the storm is expected to move in on Wednesday night.", "The father of Liverpool footballer Luis Díaz was kidnapped by armed men in his hometown in Colombia.", "Schools will close and severe travel disruption is expected as 95mph winds and flooding are forecast.", "The ex-president's eldest son cracks jokes and denies wrongdoing in the Manhattan court.", "Port Talbot will see more than £1bn in investment to ensure its future, but may see jobs cut.", "Chris Mason looks ahead to former top civil servant Helen MacNamara's testimony at the Covid inquiry.", "Spain head coach Montse Tome says a \"computer error\" prevented Irene Paredes from making her 100th international appearance on Tuesday.", "Women in the team were seen as \"property\", and a \"bystander culture\" meant this went unchallenged.", "The actor shouts \"shame on you\" across a courtroom during a civil trial against a former employee.", "Gail Bradbrook could be jailed after lengthy battle over criminal damage and right to protest.", "The UK's advertising regulator upheld complaints about five of the online shop's adverts.", "Video shows the man sitting on the plane's wing waiting for help, before helicopter arrives to airlift him to hospital.", "Cdr Julian Bennett is found guilty of gross misconduct for breaching the force's standards.", "Official figures show some jobs saw bigger pay rises than others with publicans and PR directors also earning more.", "Israel's military confirmed that its jets carried out a strike on Jabalia in Gaza.", "Five men abused two girls when they were aged 13 and 14 after giving them drugs and alcohol.", "Attacks on Jewish people make up 60% of religiously motivated hate crimes, director Christopher Wray says.", "The England and Manchester United legend was living at a care home for patients with dementia.", "About 1.7 million Afghan refugees have been told to leave Pakistan and now face an uncertain future.", "In a widely expected move, Disney says it will buy the remaining 33% stake from TV giant Comcast.", "Families are angry at the lack of action to shut it, despite multiple concerns from police and coroners.", "The IDF says the strike killed a senior Hamas commander. The Hamas-run health ministry says at least 50 people were killed.", "As inconsistencies were put to him, the former crypto boss tried to distance himself from some decisions.", "It comes as the UN said four schools-turned-shelters in Gaza had been damaged in the last 24 hours.", "King Charles acknowledged the \"wrongdoings\" of the colonial era during his state visit to Kenya.", "Council staff in four areas across Scotland walk out in pursuit of a better pay offer.", "County councils in England are demanding emergency funding to stave off financial collapse.", "Ealing Council says the library will reopen once measures have been taken to get rid of the insects.", "EFL Cup holders Manchester United suffer another damaging defeat at Old Trafford after Newcastle knock them out in the fourth round.", "The actor is suing the Guardian, which published stories about accusations of sexual misconduct.", "Two men are held as police continue to investigate the chopping down of the Northumberland landmark.", "Air Canada did not give Rodney Hodgins a wheelchair, or any help, as he disembarked, his wife says", "Portadown, Downpatrick, Templepatrick and Newry are among the areas worst affected.", "A French couple cry foul after receiving only €150 for a mask that later fetched €4.2m at auction.", "Two former key advisers to Boris Johnson discuss how Downing Street worked during the pandemic.", "Mandatory evacuations from the frontlines are swelling the ranks of Ukraine's displaced millions.", "Hosting a men's World Cup has long been an ambition for Saudi Arabia writes BBC sports editor Dan Roan, but questions and intense scrutiny will remain.", "Broadcaster Tara Mills reflects on the impact of the loss of her brother Richard to suicide in 2008.", "The BBC has analysed four strikes in south Gaza, where civilians were told to evacuate to.", "Police say suspected firearms and ammunition were found buried in a hedgerow earlier this week.", "Manchester United's faltering season suffers another blow as Marcus Rashford's red card contributes to a dramatic Champions League defeat by FC Copenhagen.", "John Hemingway, 104, has been shot four times, including twice in the World War Two aerial battle.", "The Roman Catholic Church says priests can baptise trans people so long as it does not cause \"scandal\".", "The home secretary during the pandemic tells the Covid inquiry the flat penalty was not proportionate.", "Police set up a cordon after activists occupied an area near the front entrance of Holyrood.", "Lord Sedwill told the Covid inquiry there had been a loss of confidence in the former health secretary.", "In a blistering attack, the former PM says Rishi Sunak is offering voters \"nothing to rally behind\".", "Blasts have been reported at or near several hospitals in Gaza, with footage showing tanks operating outside a children's facility.", "A £5m study will begin in January to see how feasible it is to offer these types of tests to patients.", "The first minister has been \"caught red-handed\", according to Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross.", "The Met Commissioner says the law is on his side in allowing the Armistice Day march - here's why.", "Seven goals, two penalties and a \"game-changing\" red card - VAR dominates again as Manchester United lose in Copenhagen.", "The home secretary comes under fire after saying the force often \"plays favourites\" when policing protests.", "The 73-year-old passed out at a business conference in Mexico City, according to reports.", "Trials suggest it can help people shed about 20% of body weight, but it is not recommended for NHS use yet.", "Washington is on alert for activity by Iran-backed groups in the region in the wake of the Israel-Gaza war.", "Every police force in England and Wales has reported domestic-abuse victims to Immigration Enforcement.", "Shared Island Fund spending of €1bn by 2030 is not a Trojan horse for Irish unity, the tánaiste says.", "Claimant Jamie Scott suffered suffered severe brain injury after having the Covid jab in April 2021.", "Jon Boutcher speaks publicly for the first time since taking Northern Ireland's top job in policing.", "A judge dismissed the assault case against Dustin Lance Black over inconsistencies in evidence.", "Kmart removed the festive-themed bag from sale after a Jewish group raised the likeness to Hamas.", "A route south was opened for five hours - but Hamas-run authorities say air strikes continue in all areas.", "Suggesting children as friends by default on social media platforms can enable grooming, warns Ofcom.", "Advertisers will have to make clear when they use AI in political ads on the social media platforms.", "The US chat show host's support of the pūteketeke is creating an international PR battle.", "The figure is based on there being no public service pay rises, says a Department of Finance official.", "The entertainment giant has been under pressure as its traditional movie and film businesses decline.", "Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black was accused of assaulting BBC Three presenter Teddy Edwardes.", "The Strictly star completes her eighth and final round of chemotherapy to treat her breast cancer.", "Speaking for the first time, Kar Hao Teoh's family tells how he was shot dead in South Africa.", "Two workers at a Pizza Hut franchise were sacked after speaking up about harassment, tribunal rules.", "A top officer apologises for the breach affecting police and employees in Northern Ireland.", "The founder of controversial firm Omegle said the site was no longer \"psychologically\" sustainable.", "Ivanka Trump repeated the phrase in her testimony to fraud trial. Experts say it was a smart approach.", "A 60-second clip previewing new music on the singer's Instagram account sends fans into a frenzy.", "Previous chief constable Simon Byrne resigned in September following a series of crises.", "Study shows that rising temperatures will boost lightning as the main source of fires in northern forests.", "Thousands of protesters are due to march through London calling for a ceasefire in Gaza on Armistice Day.", "The 42-year-old's responses in a fraud trial against her father frustrate a lawyer questioning her.", "The father of the Liverpool footballer was handed over to UN and Catholic Church officials.", "The energy company is taking action after activists boarded a vessel while it was in the Atlantic.", "The Princess of Wales also met regimental mascot Emrys Jones, a Welsh Mountain Pony.", "The former home secretary also says there was \"no technical capability\" in early 2020 to stop infections coming in from other countries.", "The beginnings of what might become an almighty row within the Conservative Party are brewing, Chris Mason writes.", "A team of more than 140 surgeons in New York successfully performed the procedure on Aaron James.", "Chris Harris says Andrew Flintoff had a \"serious\" crash while filming for the show last December.", "Dr Maisara Al Rayyes's family is searching for him under a building destroyed in an Israeli strike.", "Scale of problem revealed for first time in England with some waiting for as many as five treatments.", "Major films and TV shows will resume work after a four-month impasse that paralysed the industry.", "A black BMW convertible is brought to a stop by a number of police cars, and the driver is arrested.", "Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO, could sell the famous gold helmet he wore at auction for £1m.", "Alfie Lewis was stabbed near a primary school in Horsforth, Leeds, on Tuesday afternoon.", "Thousands are due to attend a march calling for a Gaza ceasefire in London on Armistice Day.", "The home secretary's latest incendiary intervention puts pressure on Rishi Sunak to take action.", "A pregnant woman and three children were among at least 27 people who died when a boat sank in 2021.", "Republicans are looking into the family's business dealings in their impeachment probe.", "At least one person is said to have been killed when a missile hit a ship entering the port of Odesa.", "Michael Matheson racked up an £11,000 roaming bill on his parliamentary iPad during a holiday to Morocco.", "Kerrie Aldridge says running a personal best at the New York City Marathon was \"incredible\".", "Katie Tidmarsh is found guilty of killing one-year-old Ruby Thompson, who died from head injuries.", "Michael Matheson said he was using the device for constituency work while on holiday in Morocco.", "Rachel Zegler was among the cast celebrating the launch of the blockbuster in London.", "It is thought more than 100 Israelis are still being held hostage in Gaza after the 7 October attacks.", "The South Eastern Trust has moved from paper-based files to an electronic system called encompass.", "The home secretary is facing questions about her future over her incendiary article about protests.", "Some said the ad, starring a Venus flytrap, was \"scary\", but others said it offered light relief.", "BBC Verify has been looking at video, listening to eyewitnesses and analysing satellite images.", "Protesters walked from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, before demonstrating at the Israeli prime minister's residence.", "An average of seven million viewers watched the show's return, according to overnight ratings.", "The US pop star says she is putting safety first as the Brazilian city experiences an extreme heatwave.", "The stage and screen actor appeared in films including White Mischief and 1989's Lethal Weapon 2.", "World number one Novak Djokovic delivers a masterclass to beat second seed Carlos Alcaraz to reach the final at the ATP Finals.", "Australia stun hosts India in Ahmedabad to win the men's Cricket World Cup for a sixth time.", "Sam Altman posts a selfie from the firm's US head office 48 hours after his shock firing from the company.", "A left-wing economy minister and a far-right libertarian are vying to become the next president.", "Peter McCormack was killed when two loyalist gunmen burst into a Kilcoo bar on this day 31 years ago.", "Multiplayer battler League of Legends reveals it will stage next year's grand final at the O2 Arena.", "The 31 babies are taken to southern Gaza, as Israeli troops control the territory's largest hospital.", "Israel says it has entered Gaza's largest hospital in a \"targeted operation against Hamas\".", "Anton Hull filmed himself at the wheel moments before hitting Sarah Baker in a \"needless tragedy\".", "Further \"complex and intrusive\" surveys are needed after Tuesday's mass evacuation of Barton House.", "Two people airlifted to hospital, two more have minor wounds, and 37 dogs and several cats seized.", "It has stirred an extraordinary level of criticism from within the president’s own administration.", "A \"lack of basic information\" from ministers is \"shocking and disappointing\", a report by MPs says.", "The rocket flew for about eight minutes before SpaceX lost contact and ended its live stream.", "The Boeing 787 is the largest passenger plane ever to have landed on the continent.", "Ex US President Donald Trump congratulates Javier Milei, saying he will \"Make Argentina Great Again\".", "The chancellor says he wants to lower taxes but only in a responsible way that does not cause inflation.", "In the fortified H2 area of Hebron, Palestinian residents are being forced off the street at gunpoint.", "Rishi Sunak brought back an ex-PM and is defiant on Rwanda - but voters are focused on their wallets, says Laura Kuenssberg.", "Limits on how many planes can take off have now been lifted, after a day of delays and cancellations.", "The UN health agency examines al-Shifa after last week's raid by Israeli troops looking for a Hamas bunker.", "Reaction and analysis as Travis Head's century leads Australia to a six-wicket win over India in Ahmedabad.", "Max Verstappen fought back from a five-second penalty with a damaged car to win a gripping Las Vegas Grand Prix.", "Those who missed out will now have to wait for re-sale dates for the world-famous festival.", "The area hosts hundreds of thousands of people who had sought safety there after fleeing northern Gaza.", "The BBC goes inside the main hospital in Gaza City with the Israeli army.", "France score seven goals in each half as they record their biggest ever win by thrashing 10-man Gibraltar 14-0 in Euro 2024 qualifying.", "The director says his response to criticism from historians about his film would \"have a bleep in it\".", "A successful campaign to correct a road sign's punctuation has been reported around the world.", "Israel says the video - which the BBC has not verified - shows captives were taken to al-Shifa on 7 October.", "It comes after Qatar's PM said \"very minor\" obstacles remained to a deal between Israel and Hamas.", "As the BBC drama Time explores how brief jail terms can affect lives, one former inmate tells her story.", "Bob Stewart was found guilty of a racially aggravated offence, telling a man to \"go back to Bahrain\".", "It is thought more than 100 Israelis are still being held hostage in Gaza after the 7 October attacks.", "The Carter Center says the wife of ex-President Jimmy Carter died peacefully with her family by her side.", "The shadow chancellor says protesting outside the homes and offices of MPs is \"intimidation\".", "The latest raids have revived fears Moscow is targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure as winter begins.", "The chancellor will unveil the plan, aimed at speeding up electricity upgrades, in his Autumn Statement.", "\"I tasted a tiny drop,\" says Sotheby's head of whisky as The Macallan 1926 exceeds its estimated price.", "Thousands of people are trapped in Gaza's few functioning hospitals as fighting draws ever closer.", "Excitement is high as India take on Australia in the final of the ICC Cricket World Cup in Ahmedabad city.", "A week after a tunnel collapsed in northern India, officials try a new approach to save the workers.", "The black bicorne felt hat was a trademark of the French emperor, and was sold above estimates.", "The US president replies \"I believe so\", when asked if an agreement could soon see hostages freed from Gaza.", "Comedian Russell Brand has been questioned by the Met Police over three allegations of historical sex offences", "Mohammed Abbkr targeted two elderly men after following them at the end of prayers in the mosques.", "About 10 to 12,000 people are still without water on Monday, according to a council leader.", "Projects will have to meet net zero targets, under the proposals to be outlined in the King's Speech.", "Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson donates £1,870 to the BMA strike fund to compensate for any upset.", "The ewe - rescued after being stranded - is settling in well at a farm park in southern Scotland.", "A top curator is accused of breaking a controversial law that restricts materials for under-18s.", "The rebel group holding the father of Luis Diaz hostage demand \"security guarantees\" before his release.", "The leader of Burnley Council and 10 other councillors have resigned from the party.", "Public money has been lost on the project, which would have improved travel to major Cardiff events.", "The ex-PM used the term while discussing easing lockdown rules in January 2021, the Covid Inquiry heard.", "The former president clashes with the judge in the New York trial that threatens his real estate empire.", "The family of Scotland's first minister is reunited after his wife's parents spent weeks trapped in Gaza.", "Deputy political leader Moussa Abu Marzouk says Hamas will release hostages only if Israel stops fighting.", "The Shalford treatment plant is back online after Storm Ciarán disruption causes major incident.", "The Prince of Wales was said to have “kept up really well” during a dragon boat training session.", "Jenni Hermoso says she \"received threats\" amid the controversy of Luis Rubiales kissing her on the lips during the World Cup trophy presentation.", "Billionaire Whitney Wolfe Herd, who created the firm in 2014, will be replaced by Slack's chief.", "Mohammed Farooq denies being motivated by Islamist extremism to bring a bomb to a Leeds hospital.", "The rare phenomenon illuminates skies across the north-east of England and parts of Scotland.", "Comedian Mark Watson was locked out of the Tobacco Factory where he was due to perform.", "Attiq Malik was recorded in 2021 ending a speech with the chant \"from the river to the sea\".", "The special device stimulates nerves in Marc's spine, helping the 63-year-old walk again with confidence.", "New driver Connor Davies got several incorrect dangerous driving alerts from his car's black box.", "Pictures and videos shared on social media capture the brightly coloured phenomenon.", "Narges Mohammadi is being denied medical care in jail for refusing to wear a hijab, her family says.", "Ministers hope minimum service levels for trains, ambulances and border security will start by Christmas.", "The AI tool, designed to have a cheeky tone to its writing, is not yet widely available.", "Thousands of health workers who were excluded from a bonus will now get the payment, ministers say.", "Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she will defend Indi Gregory's life until the end.", "Animal rights activists protest at a farm park which was planning to look after the rescued ewe.", "The force says there is a risk of violence and disorder around demonstrations in London.", "British Steel confirms a plan to close two blast furnaces at its Scunthorpe plant.", "Largest UK medical research project will be used to change the way diseases are tackled.", "Red Bull's Max Verstappen takes a controlled victory in the Sao Paulo Grand Prix to extend his record for wins in a season to 17.", "The judge urged the former president's lawyers to \"control him\" as he took the stand in a civil fraud trial.", "Members of the first minister's family have reunited in Scotland after his wife's parents escaped Gaza.", "The centres will be able to process more than 30,000 asylum seekers a year, Italy's PM has said.", "Michael Chadwell was in a WhatsApp group with other ex-officers, where racist messages were sent.", "Colombian-born Liverpool footballer Luis Díaz begs for his father's kidnappers to free him immediately.", "The game's publisher says 44.7 million players logged a total 102 million hours of play on Sunday", "President Zelensky demands answers after Russia hits Ukrainian soldiers said to be at an award ceremony.", "Chelsea beat nine-man Tottenham in a frantic, chaotic Premier League match full of drama and controversy.", "Their return, after bans for hate speech violations, has been criticised by campaigners.", "Over three frantic days, Antony Blinken tried to find middle ground where none exists, for now.", "The firm promised change in 2020, but the BBC has filmed staff squeezing suppliers after deals were agreed.", "The working, 18-carat gold toilet - called America - was stolen from the stately home in 2019.", "Meanwhile, about 100 protesters are arrested after slow marching in the road at Whitehall in London.", "About 50 young people threw firebombs and fireworks at riot police in Edinburgh.", "A man who drove through a barrier and parked under a plane with his daughter in the car has been arrested.", "Matthew Rycroft \"abandoned\" his son Callum, who was hit by a car as they tried to cross the M62.", "PM urges anyone with evidence to go to the police but defends Conservative Party complaint procedures as \"robust\".", "Union says plan by Carnival UK, owner of P&O Cruises and Cunard, amounts to a wage cut for staff.", "When David Tennant was away, one lookalike extra was in the right place, at the right time... lord!", "A combination of high tide and strong winds contribute to the partial collapse of a Norfolk road.", "A number of people including three children were stabbed in the centre of the Irish capital.", "A South Korean court has ordered Japan to compensate a group of women who were forced to work in wartime brothels.", "A long-anticipated four-day pause in hostilities has come into effect, with both sides saying the pause is temporary.", "Officers helped with staging the surprise proposal, pulling over the couple in Wisconsin.", "Videos from social media show the worker being lifted by a crane from the roof of a building.", "Scotland's top police officer was driven home to England after her train was cancelled during Storm Babet.", "One resident says the leaning Christmas tree could make the town famous.", "Footage shared on social media shows a worker being rescued from a roof next to a burning building.", "Ex-home secretary says government must \"act now\", after last year's net migration was estimated at 745,000.", "Children and young women played fans alongside Jacky Jhaj, who is on the sex offenders register.", "The decision by the Dutch VVD leader is a blow for Mr Wilders' bid to form a majority government.", "Leaflets at Saturday's pro-Palestinian march in London to detail language which might break the law.", "The immigration minister's ideas are not yet government policy, but are being discussed at No 10.", "The father of twins killed in the Hamas attack in Israel says he has been left broken by their deaths.", "The French government has launched a campaign encouraging people not to buy new clothes during festive sales.", "Kittiya Thuengsaeng feared her boyfriend was killed on 7 October - but now says he's been freed from Gaza.", "Thirteen Israeli citizens, 10 Thais and one Filipino are released as a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas holds.", "In his first full interview as foreign secretary, he says the government's stance is \"hard-headed\".", "Some categories will be changed after female and R&B artists failed to secure nominations in 2023.", "The former first minister is seeking significant damages over the mishandling of complaints.", "It will be the only time fans will get to see Fred Again, Lana Del Rey and Blink-182 play at a UK festival.", "The former Paralympian is serving over 13 years for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.", "Novak Djokovic tells a group of British fans to \"shut up\" after Serbia knocked Great Britain out of the Davis Cup quarter-finals.", "James Cleverly says he used a swearword to refer to a Labour MP, not to describe Stockton North.", "The Scottish sitcom moves to BBC One after steadily growing in popularity over the last decade.", "The crane worker lifted a man to safety from the fire as flames and smoke billowed around him.", "Caoi Benicio says he acted on instinct to try to stop a knife attack on three children and a woman in Dublin.", "North Korea calls its satellite launch a success - but South Korea says it is not known if it is working.", "A cut in the Welsh screen sector's carbon emissions might attract more big entertainment names.", "William Finlay admits stabbing Alyson Nelson in her home in Whitehead, having previously denied it.", "Other video shared on social media showed people throwing fireworks at police and setting cars on fire.", "The actor says he could relate to a book about a pilot who experiences electrical failure in mid air.", "The mum of Harvey Owen, killed alongside his three friends, says she cannot accept she won't hold him again.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 17 and 24 November.", "About 1,000 workers are on strike in Coventry on one of the biggest days of the year for online shopping.", "The group of women and teenage boys are in exchange for a group of hostages held by Hamas.", "The foreign secretary tells Israel it will never be secure unless there is \"security and stability\" for the Palestinian people.", "It is thought more than 100 Israelis are still being held hostage in Gaza after the 7 October attacks.", "A giant ice block more than twice the size of Greater London is on the move, years after its formation.", "The business secretary tells the Covid inquiry some minority groups did not trust the government.", "The long-running sci-fi series' Welsh rebirth transformed the country's TV production industry.", "The Japanese firm will build three EV models at the Sunderland factory, securing 6,000 jobs.", "The Paralympian has been serving a 13-year sentence for murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.", "The 23-year-old woman in South Korea was obsessed with crime shows and hunted for victims on a tutoring app.", "The man told officers he wanted to take his own life and had loaded guns, the force says.", "A law firm says it is representing contestants it claims \"suffered hypothermia and nerve damage\" injuries.", "The US rapper and music mogul is accused in a civil suit of assaulting a college student in 1991.", "The Home Secretary describes it as \"a failure of leadership from Labour's West Midlands PCC\".", "Bringing support services and emergency beds under one roof helps keep people in Milton Keynes off the streets.", "He distances himself from the home secretary's language, but says it is \"proper\" to debate the issue.", "Guests include defence secretary Grant Shapps and shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper.", "Deontay Wilder's team are \"hopeful\" a deal can be struck to fight on the same card as Anthony Joshua on 23 December.", "Suella Braverman may yet be sacked but the PM's handling of her disobedience has dented his authority.", "Many believe they are from shots fired during the city's historic Chartist Rising in 1839.", "Hundreds of thousands who fled bombs are now washing in polluted seawater and sleeping in packed tents.", "WHO head says the \"situation is dire and perilous\" after re-establishing contact with those inside Al-Shifa.", "Christian Concern says eight-month-old Indi Gregory has been moved to a hospice.", "Police probe phoney content purporting to show the Mayor of London commenting on Remembrance events.", "Israel wants to destroy Hamas, but there are questions over whether that is achievable.", "Police made more than 100 arrests in London but pro-Palestinian events in Scotland passed off peacefully.", "Two weeks of testimony from Donald Trump and his family has hurt his case, say lawyers watching.", "The new statues are installed at the Royal Albert Hall as part of its 150th anniversary.", "Yousef Wynne is the latest to be charged with murder after the attack on Andy Foster in Wrekenton.", "Producers try to work out how an evicted housemate's problematic posts were not flagged before.", "Concerns have been raised by optometrists that vulnerable people could miss out on basic healthcare.", "The stage invader says he \"came here for a climate demonstration, not a political view\".", "Far-right leader Marine Le Pen takes part, alongside major parties but the far left refuses.", "The service members died in a helicopter crash in a region where the US has boosted operations.", "Nine officers were injured and 145 arrested, most of whom police said were right-wing counter-protesters.", "Isaac Herzog told the BBC \"everything is operating\" at Al-Shifa, despite reports of no power.", "The NI secretary and taoiseach were among those taking part in the Enniskillen commemoration.", "The Liverpool FC footballer's father spoke of his plight after being held by Colombian guerrillas.", "Huge crowds marched through central London amid a major policing operation in the capital.", "Grand National-winning jockey Graham Lee is in intensive care after being unseated by Ben Macdui at Newcastle Racecourse.", "The nation falls silent to mark the end of World War One in 1918, and remember those lost in conflict.", "Video shows the scale of the biggest UK pro-Palestinian rally since the start of the war.", "It follows the deaths of four patients at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow.", "The 82-year-old is still facing a trial in Montreal and extradition to the US.", "The celebrity chef hints that \"whopper\" Jesse James would be his last child.", "Ciera Grimley, who died a week after the crash which killed her husband, was described as loving and caring.", "Israel agrees to help evacuate babies from Al-Shifa hospital after two die due to a lack of electricity.", "Footage shows an ice rescue instructor skating on a rare window of ice in Alaska's Alpine lakes.", "While decades of prosecutions weakened the US and Italian mafia, transatlantic relations remain strong.", "Seven people between the ages of 23 and 75 have been charged for offences including inciting racial hatred.", "It is thought more than 100 Israelis are still being held hostage in Gaza after the 7 October attacks.", "Mary Lou McDonald tells the party conference she wants to see \"orange and green reconciled\".", "Perseverance Ncube, 35, was stabbed in the chest in front of her two children, police say.", "Newcastle United defender Kieran Trippier says he told fans \"there's no need to panic\" when confronting them at full-time following their defeat at Bournemouth.", "A red alert, the highest level, has been extended in the Republic, with amber and yellow alerts for NI.", "King Charles III lays the first wreath at London's Cenotaph to remember those who have died in conflict.", "The fourth named storm of the winter so far has brought strong winds and heavy rain to many areas.", "Gareth Stobart says the council is charging over £800 per flat in a block of student accommodation.", "Video shows the big cat wandering along a residential street before it is captured.", "Thousands are asked to evacuate from a town over fears magma has spread underground.", "Video shows huge flames and plumes of grey smoke rising into the sky in Newark.", "Ghana striker Raphael Dwamena dies aged 28 after collapsing on the pitch during a league match in Albania.", "Visitors have been flocking to the Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge to see the spectacle.", "From place names to police badges and even a St Asaph church, Pennsylvania has strong Welsh links.", "Palestinians abroad tell the BBC multiple generations of their families were killed in Gaza air strikes.", "Prosecutors say Nathaniel Veltman wanted to send \"a brutal message\" to the world.", "The new foreign secretary is visiting Kyiv, as President Zelensky thanks the UK for its support.", "The BBC enters hospital with Israeli forces and views small cache of weapons and other items they say were found there.", "Jurors are deliberating for a third day as they weigh whether Ms Taylor's civil rights were violated.", "People in Bury and Hendon are watching the party's position on the Israel-Gaza war closely.", "Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk will contest the undisputed heavyweight title on 17 February in Saudi Arabia.", "Scotland's health secretary had previously insisted the device was only used for work purposes.", "The lawsuit against the world's second biggest food company is the latest in greenwashing cases against big firms.", "The government says it will look at new measures for police to stop protesters climbing war memorials.", "It is believed those responsible may have been doing 'extreme ironing' on the UK's highest peak.", "Only one in 20 public bodies pays what it really costs to employ care workers to deliver support at home.", "The Labour leader seeks to quell tensions in his party, but insists time is not right for a ceasefire.", "Angus Thirlwell and Peter Harris will each net £144m after selling firm to the confectionery giant.", "Poll suggests many Israelis back a deal with Hamas to free the hostages - but not a Gaza ceasefire.", "The Labour leader suffered his biggest parliamentary rebellion since he took charge in 2020.", "The Labour leader says there is \"absolute unity\" in his party on helping Gazans, despite the revolt.", "A range of new services will be available without the need to go to a GP, from December, in England.", "The health secretary incurred the big data bill during a holiday to Morocco last year.", "Khalid El-Estal's wife and other family members were killed in the Palestinian territory.", "\"My instinct is always to praise in public, to criticise in private,\" the home secretary tells police.", "The actress and producer lost her voice before her first red carpet since the end of the actors' strike.", "Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor were all murdered by Stephen Port.", "The action comes amid a bitter labour fight between at the coffee giant.", "Ultra-marathon runner Joasia Zakrzewski is banned for 12 months by UK Athletics for using a car in a race.", "Ukrainians in occupied territories are being forced to take Russian citizenship, a report finds.", "While not formal weddings, the services will be able to include the wearing of rings, prayers and a blessing from a priest.", "Formulae and equation sheets will be provided in maths, physics and combined science GCSEs exams.", "The body of a sixth person was found at the scene of the fire in Hounslow, the Met Police said.", "Deja Taylor reportedly wiped away tears as lawyers said she would feel remorse for the rest of her life.", "There's been a rise in the number of fatal crashes on both sides of the border compared to 2022.", "Sasha Skochilenko replaced supermarket labels with anti-invasion messages weeks after the war began.", "Ron Evans' latest offence comes after he committed murder and sex attacks in the 1960-70s.", "The royal drama that depicts the death of the Princess of Wales labelled a \"Diana-obsessed series\".", "Eruptions on the south-western Reykjanes Peninsula may mark a new cycle, warn Icelandic meteorologists.", "It is part of a plan to get people back to work, with more investment in career support also promised.", "Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow pay tribute to their beloved co-star.", "The fire broke out at a four-storey structure owned by a coal company in Shanxi province.", "Israel says it has entered Gaza's largest hospital in a \"targeted operation against Hamas\".", "The Prince of Wales was put on the spot when a boy asked him how much was in his bank account.", "The 16-year-old had been arrested and bailed in connection with the Sycamore Gap tree felling.", "Gracie Spinks, 23, was murdered after reporting her stalker Michael Sellers to Derbyshire Police.", "Joe Biden and Xi Jinping have agreed to restore a vital line in their San Francisco meeting.", "\"Inaction\" by the Qatari government and Fifa on workers' rights is \"tainting the legacy\" of the 2022 World Cup, according to Amnesty International.", "More than 100 patients are safe after clashes broke out near a clinic in the capital's largest slum.", "The rap mogul is labelled a \"serial domestic abuser\" in a lawsuit, which his attorney called \"outrageous\".", "Rescuers in Colorado said the Jack Russell terrier had lost half her body weight when they found her.", "The husband of former US Speaker Nancy Pelosi suffered a fractured skull in the attack at his home.", "County Down mum Nikki Girvan has lost more than 19kg and her cholesterol has returned to normal.", "Israel defends blocking fuel deliveries, as the UN warns this could lead to a breakdown of civil order.", "The Al-Shifa director says people are \"screaming from thirst\", as Israel says its \"discreet\" search continues.", "After weeks of haggling, the Socialist leader clinches a vote in parliament with a four-seat majority.", "BBC correspondent flies with the Icelandic Coast Guard over the Reykjanes Peninsula, where the volcanic activity has been concentrated.", "One campaigner describes the increase, from seven last year to 19 this year, as a 'massive concern'.", "\"Tinkering with a failed plan\" will not achieve the government's aims, the former home secretary says.", "The future is bleak if the conflict doesn't force the Israelis and Palestinians to try again for peace.", "The remains of Columba McVeigh have not been found after six searches of a bog in County Monaghan.", "Israeli officials say troops found 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss's body near Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.", "Find out how much has changed in the Gaza Strip since Israel began its military response to Hamas's attacks on 7 October.", "The two leaders hail progress in talks, despite President Biden saying he views Xi Jinping as a dictator.", "Rapper 50 Cent takes to social media to praise Mary Jane Farquarson.", "More than 50 Labour MPs defy Sir Keir to vote for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.", "The NHS watchdog says the findings are the worst in England since focused inspections began in 2018.", "It follows a Supreme Court ruling that a policy to send illegal migrants to Rwanda was unlawful.", "\"We have a horse problem\" - the jet was flying to Belgium when an equine passenger escaped its crate.", "His remarks come amid questions about the timeframe for the Rwanda plan, which has been ruled unlawful.", "Medical regulators approve a gene therapy that aims to cure sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suffered a rebellion over the party's stance on the Israel-Gaza conflict. See how your MP voted.", "It is thought more than 100 Israelis are still being held hostage in Gaza after the 7 October attacks.", "Gen Gwyn Jenkins was warned in 2011 that soldiers were claiming to have killed unarmed Afghans, BBC reveals.", "Shawn Seesahai, 19, died when he was fatally stabbed in Wolverhampton on Monday evening.", "The dancer is \"absolutely gutted\" as her hopes of a Strictly appearance are ended by the injury.", "Paul Mosley was jailed in 2013 for his part in the arson attack in Derby.", "Allies are starting to change their tune as Israeli troops enter Gaza's largest hospital.", "A coroner said Michael Sellers took his own life after stabbing Gracie Spinks to death.", "Neil Jones's team comes third in a European over-50s tournament, after he retired to practise full-time.", "An average of seven million viewers watched the show's return, according to overnight ratings.", "The stage and screen actor appeared in films including White Mischief and 1989's Lethal Weapon 2.", "A minister responds to a coroner over the death of Melissa Kerr, who died during surgery in Turkey.", "The Private Members' Bill has been presented to the House of Lords following a ballot of peers.", "The vehicle Hannes Strydom was travelling in collided with a minibus taxi, local media report.", "New plans would see the summer break start a week later with kids off for two weeks in October.", "Benjamin Mendy is taking former club Manchester City to an employment tribunal over millions of pounds he claims he is owed in unauthorised wage deductions.", "Nazim Asmal lured women into his car before driving them to remote locations and assaulting them.", "The BBC follows a mother battling to keep a dangerous sex offender away from her daughter.", "The focus of the Autumn Statement is expected to be on business taxes and growing the economy.", "Israel says it has entered Gaza's largest hospital in a \"targeted operation against Hamas\".", "Sam Altman posts a selfie from the firm's US head office 48 hours after his shock firing from the company.", "Peter McCormack was killed when two loyalist gunmen burst into a Kilcoo bar on this day 31 years ago.", "For some, a glass is enough to trigger headache due to the way their body metabolises the drink, scientists say.", "Everton's 10-point deduction by the Premier League will be taken to Parliament after Liverpool MP Ian Byrne calls the punishment \"grossly unfair\".", "The UK's chief scientific adviser during Covid recorded his thoughts most evenings in handwritten notes.", "A man whose father was shot dead at a church hall in Darkley 40 years ago says he does not harbour hate.", "The Home Office grants an Egyptian national leave to remain due to lack of treatment in his home country.", "The prime minister says taxes can be cut \"in a responsible way\" after the inflation rate halved.", "Further \"complex and intrusive\" surveys are needed after Tuesday's mass evacuation of Barton House.", "The first minister's mother-in-law says she left her heart in Gaza after being trapped there for four weeks.", "A man tells the BBC he saw a teenager carrying away a child on the day Cheryl Grimmer vanished in 1970.", "Ex US President Donald Trump congratulates Javier Milei, saying he will \"Make Argentina Great Again\".", "Soap star Sera Cracroft says she has now chosen to share her story in order to help others.", "The babies were moved from al-Shifa hospital to receive urgent care in a neonatal intensive care unit.", "The chancellor says he wants to lower taxes but only in a responsible way that does not cause inflation.", "Ex-chief scientist says only extracts of his evening notes should be released to the Covid inquiry.", "Ashley Dale was shot when a gunman opened fire in her Liverpool home, after a feud involving her boyfriend.", "Almost all of the company's 770 staff have signed a letter calling on board members to go.", "The lawsuit says four of the largest social media firms knowingly expose children to harmful products.", "The fund, run by former CNN boss Jeff Zucker, says it has the money it needs to rescue the newspaper.", "Sir Patrick Vallance tells of threats to him and his family, as he criticises a \"lack of leadership\".", "An unnamed Vanguard class submarine's depth gauge failed in an incident that happened more than a year ago.", "Israel says the video - which the BBC has not verified - shows captives were taken to al-Shifa on 7 October.", "Jamala, the song competition's 2016 winner, is critical of the Kremlin and its invasion of Ukraine.", "John McGinn and his Scotland team-mates are \"living the dream\" as they try to keep their minds off playing at a second consecutive European Championship next summer.", "Shakira, who has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, settled \"with the best interest of my kids at heart\".", "The Queen urges journalists to report on sexual violence in conflict zones.", "England manager Gareth Southgate believes \"he has learned a lot\" despite his side ending their European Championship qualifying campaign with a draw at North Macedonia.", "It comes after Qatar's PM said \"very minor\" obstacles remained to a deal between Israel and Hamas.", "It is thought more than 100 Israelis are still being held hostage in Gaza after the 7 October attacks.", "The Carter Center says the wife of ex-President Jimmy Carter died peacefully with her family by her side.", "Sir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser during the pandemic, says he was not consulted on Rishi Sunak's policy.", "Items including Princess Diana's \"revenge\" dress and a replica golden coach are to be auctioned.", "The US president pardoned 'Liberty' and 'Bell' ahead of Thanksgiving, and joked about his age.", "Thousands of people are trapped in Gaza's few functioning hospitals as fighting draws ever closer.", "Unlike other period products, at the moment customers must pay 20% VAT when they buy the underwear.", "Six trees forming part of the Dark Hedges, featured in Game of Thrones, will be removed for safety.", "Super Junior's Kyuhyun sustained a minor injury while trying to restrain a dressing room intruder.", "The rapper could face nine years in prison if convicted of opening fire in a feud with a childhood friend.", "The US president replies \"I believe so\", when asked if an agreement could soon see hostages freed from Gaza.", "The smoke flares and fire were part of an attempt to try and stop the chamber voting on the 2024 budget.", "Lee Woods faces trial after his arrest at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow in July.", "The three-year court case illustrated the mob's broad influence over society in southern Italy.", "A report says Ofsted is seen as \"toxic\" and inspectors should not have direct contact with schools.", "A penny was \"a lot of money\", as a labourer earned about one to two pennies a day, an expert says.", "Drone footage shows the hole which is about two metres (6.5ft) deep and one metre (3.2ft) wide.", "The National Trust says climate change-linked extreme weather is now the biggest threat to its sites.", "Comedian Russell Brand has been questioned by the Met Police over three allegations of historical sex offences", "The Queen joined a traditional dance in Nairobi and stopped to feed orphaned elephants.", "The prime minster says the technology can help rather than replace workers, as the UK's AI summit ends.", "Suspended Labour MP accuses Tory of defamatory statement about his speech at pro-Palestinian rally.", "Luis Manuel Díaz was seized by armed men at a petrol station on Saturday in his Colombian hometown.", "About 400 people are crossing to Egypt but some UK nationals are still waiting at the border.", "Tala Abu Nahleh and her family recount their harrowing experience as they desperately try to cross into Egypt.", "Researchers say younger generations use three main accents, including \"multicultural London English\".", "Former NHS boss Sir Simon Stevens tells the Covid inquiry the \"horrible dilemma never crystallised\".", "Dozens of areas in southern England are told to expect floods after strong winds and rain shut schools.", "The government's adviser on antisemitism says Jewish students hide their identity and live in fear.", "Ditza Heiman, 84, is being held in Gaza and her daughter wants Israel to find a diplomatic solution.", "Five-year-old Joury and 18-month-old Julia reunite in hospital after a blast in southern Gaza.", "M&S says sorry after a backlash claiming its advert depicted Palestinian flag colours in flames.", "Governments must act to protect citizens from potential AI risks, prime minister tells the BBC.", "Alexandra Gregory told her ex-partner she had given birth to a very ill daughter, the court hears.", "Cognitive skills, such as memory, waned - 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Hardly surprising when thousands of Israeli troops backed by drones, electronic eavesdropping devices and human informants, are all trying to discover his whereabouts.\n\nSinwar, who has striking snow-white hair and jet-black eyebrows, is the leader of Hamas's political wing in Gaza, and one of Israel's most wanted men.\n\nIt holds him responsible along with others for the 7 October raid into southern Israel, in which about 1,200 people were killed, and more than 200 others kidnapped.\n\n\"Yahya Sinwar is the commander… and he is a dead man,\" declared the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari in early October.\n\n\"This abominable attack was decided upon by Yahya Sinwar,\" said IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi. \"Therefore he and all those under him are dead men walking.\"\n\nThat includes Mohammed Deif, the elusive leader of Hamas's military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades.\n\nHugh Lovatt, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), believes Deif was the brains behind the planning of the 7 October attack because it was a military operation, but Sinwar \"would likely have been part of the group that planned and influenced it\".\n\nIsrael believes that Sinwar, who is effectively second-in-command after Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, is cornered below ground, hiding in tunnels somewhere beneath Gaza with his bodyguards, communicating with no-one for fear that his signal will be tracked and located.\n\nSinwar, 61, widely known as Abu Ibrahim, was born in the Khan Younis refugee camp at the southern end of the Gaza Strip. His parents were from Ashkelon but became refugees after what Palestinians call \"al-Naqba\" (the Catastrophe) - the mass displacement of Palestinians from their ancestral homes in Palestine in the war that followed Israel's founding in 1948.\n\nHe was educated at Khan Younis Secondary School for Boys and then graduated with a bachelor's degree in Arabic language from the Islamic University of Gaza.\n\nPortraits of Israeli children hostages displayed at a rally in Tel Aviv\n\nAt that time, Khan Younis was a \"bastion\" of support for the Muslim Brotherhood, says Ehud Yaari, a fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who interviewed Sinwar in prison four times.\n\nThe Islamist group \"was a massive movement for young people going to the mosques in the poverty of the refugee camp\", Yaari says, and it would later take on a similar importance for Hamas.\n\nSinwar was first arrested by Israel in 1982, aged 19, for \"Islamic activities\" and then arrested again in 1985. It was around this time that he won the confidence of Hamas's founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.\n\nThe two became \"very, very close\", says Kobi Michael, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. This relationship with the organisation's spiritual leader would later give Sinwar a \"halo effect\" within the movement, Michael adds.\n\nTwo years after Hamas was founded in 1987, he set up the group's feared internal security organisation, the al-Majd. He was still only 25.\n\nAl-Majd became infamous for punishing those accused of so-called morality offences - Michael says he targeted shops that stocked \"sex videos\" - as well as hunting down and killing anyone suspected of collaborating with Israel.\n\nYaari says he was responsible for numerous \"brutal killings\" of people suspected of co-operation with Israel. \"Some of them with his own hands and he was proud of that, talking about it to me and to others.\"\n\nAccording to Israeli officials, he later confessed to punishing a suspected informer by getting the man's brother to bury him alive, finishing the job using a spoon instead of a spade.\n\n\"He is the kind of man who can gather around him followers, fans - together with many who are simply afraid of him and don't want to pick any fights with him,\" Yaari says.\n\nIn 1988, Sinwar allegedly planned the abduction and killing of two Israeli soldiers. He was arrested the same year, convicted by Israel for the murder of 12 Palestinians and given four life sentences.\n\nSinwar has spent a large part of his adult life - over 22 years - in Israeli prisons, from 1988 to 2011. His time there, some of it in solitary confinement, appears to have radicalised him even further.\n\n\"He managed to impose his authority ruthlessly, using force,\" says Yaari. He positioned himself as a leader among the prisoners, negotiating on their behalf with prison authorities and enforcing discipline among the inmates.\n\nA gunman guards the stage as Sinwar addresses a rally in 2021\n\nAn Israeli government assessment of Sinwar during his time in prison described his character as \"cruel, authoritative, influential and with unusual abilities of endurance, cunning and manipulative, content with little... Keeps secrets even inside prison amongst other prisoners… Has the ability to carry crowds\".\n\nYaari's assessment of Sinwar, built up over the times they met, was that he is a psychopath. \"[But] to say about Sinwar, 'Sinwar is a psychopath, full stop,' would be a mistake\" he says, \"because then you will miss this strange, complex figure\".\n\nHe is, Yaari says, \"extremely cunning, shrewd - a guy who knows to switch on and off a type of personal charm\".\n\nWhen Sinwar would tell him Israel must be destroyed and insist there was no place for Jewish people in Palestine, \"he would joke, 'Maybe we'll make an exception of you'\".\n\nWhile incarcerated Sinwar had become fluent in Hebrew, reading Israeli newspapers. Yaari says Sinwar always preferred to speak Hebrew with him, even though Yaari was fluent in Arabic.\n\n\"He sought to improve his Hebrew,\" Yaari says. \"I think he wanted to benefit from somebody who spoke higher Hebrew than the prison wardens.\"\n\nSinwar was released in 2011 as part of a deal that saw 1,027 Palestinian and Israeli Arab prisoners released from jail in exchange for a single Israeli hostage, the IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.\n\nShalit had been held captive for five years after being kidnapped by - amongst others - Sinwar's brother, who is a senior Hamas military commander. Sinwar has since called for more kidnappings of Israeli soldiers.\n\nBy now, Israel had ended its occupation of the Gaza Strip and Hamas was in charge, having won an election and then eliminated its rivals, Yasser Arafat's Fatah party, by throwing many of its members off the tops of tall buildings.\n\nWhen Sinwar returned to Gaza, he was immediately accepted as a leader, Michael says. Much of this was to do with his prestige as a founding member of Hamas who had sacrificed so many years of his life in Israeli prisons.\n\nBut also, \"people just feared him - this is a person that murdered people with his hands\", Michael says. \"He was very brutal, aggressive and charismatic at the very same time.\"\n\n\"He's not an orator,\" says Yaari. \"When he speaks to the public, it's like somebody from the Mob.\"\n\nYaari adds that immediately after leaving prison, Sinwar also forged an alliance with the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades and chief of staff Marwan Issa.\n\nIn 2013, he was elected a member of Hamas's Political Bureau in the Gaza Strip, before becoming its head in 2017.\n\nSinwar's younger brother Mohammed also went on to play an active role in Hamas. He claimed to have survived several Israeli assassination attempts before being pronounced dead by Hamas in 2014. Media reports have since surfaced asserting he may still be alive, active in Hamas's military wing hiding in tunnels beneath Gaza and may even have played a part in the 7 October attacks.\n\nSinwar's reputation for ruthlessness and violence earned him the nickname of The Butcher of Khan Younis.\n\n\"He's a guy who imposes brutal discipline,\" says Yaari, \"People knew in Hamas and they still do - if you disobey Sinwar, you put your life on the line.\"\n\nHe is reputed to have been responsible for the 2015 detention, torture and murder of a Hamas commander named Mahmoud Ishtiwi who was accused of embezzlement and homosexuality.\n\nIn 2018, in a briefing to the international media, he signalled his support for thousands of Palestinians to break through the border fence separating the Gaza Strip from Israel as part of protests over the US moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.\n\nLater that year he claimed to have survived an assassination attempt by Palestinians loyal to the rival Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank.\n\nYet he has also shown periods of pragmatism, supporting temporary ceasefires with Israel, prisoner exchanges, and a reconciliation with the Palestinian Authority. He was even criticised by some opponents as too moderate, Michael says.\n\nMany in Israel's defence and security establishment believe it was a fatal mistake to have let Sinwar out of prison as part of the prisoner exchange.\n\nIsraelis feel they were lulled into a false sense of security in the mistaken belief that by offering Hamas economic incentives and more work permits, the movement would have lost its appetite for war. This, of course, turned out to be a disastrous miscalculation.\n\n\"He sees himself as the guy destined to liberate Palestine - he's not about improving the economic situation, social services for Gaza,\" says Yaari. \"It's not him.\"\n\nIn 2015, the US State Department officially categorised Sinwar as a \"Specially Designated Global Terrorist\". In May 2021 Israeli airstrikes targeted his home and office in the Gaza Strip. In April 2022, in a televised address, he encouraged people to attack Israel by any available means.\n\nAnalysts have identified him as a key figure linking Hamas's political bureau with its armed wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, which led the October 7th attacks in southern Israel.\n\nOn 14 October, an Israeli military spokesman, Lt Col Richard Hecht, called Sinwar \"the face of evil\". He added: \"That man and his whole team are in our sights. We will get to that man.\"\n\nSinwar is also close to Iran. A partnership between a Shia country and a Sunni Arab organisation is not an obvious one, but both share a goal to end the state of Israel and \"liberate\" Jerusalem from Israeli occupation.\n\nThey have come to work hand in hand. Iran funds, trains and arms Hamas, helping it to build up its military capabilities and amass an arsenal of thousands of rockets, which it uses to target Israeli towns.\n\nSinwar expressed his gratitude for the support in a speech in 2021. \"Had it not been for Iran, the resistance in Palestine would not have possessed its current capabilities.\"\n\nYet killing Sinwar would be more of a \"PR victory\" for Israel than it would actually impact the movement, Lovatt says.\n\nNon-state organisations tend to operate like a hydra's head - one operational commander or figurehead leader gets removed and they are quickly replaced by another. Their successor sometimes lacks the same experience or credibility but the organisation still manages to regenerate itself in some form.\n\n\"Clearly, he would be a loss,\" says Lovatt, \"but he would be replaced and there are structures in place to do that. It's not like killing Bin Laden. There are other senior political and military leaders within Hamas.\"\n\nPerhaps the bigger question remains this - what happens to Gaza when Israel ends its military campaign to eradicate Hamas, and who will ultimately be in charge?\n\nAnd can they prevent it from becoming once again a launchpad for attacks on Israel, triggering in return the kind of massive retribution and destruction we are seeing now.", "After her death, Melissa Kerr's family said it hoped others would avoid \"cosmetic tourism\"\n\nThe UK government said it would meet with officials in Turkey to discuss regulations around medical and cosmetic tourism, following several deaths.\n\nMelissa Kerr, 31, died at the private Medicana Haznedar Hospital in Istanbul in 2019 during buttock enlargement (Brazilian butt-lift) surgery.\n\nA coroner raised concerns she and others were not given enough information before travelling abroad.\n\nHealth minister Maria Caulfield said government took the issue \"seriously\".\n\nIn her response to a prevention of future deaths report written by Norfolk senior coroner Jacqueline Lake, Ms Caufield said officials from the Department of Health and Social Care would be \"visiting Turkey shortly to meet with their counterparts\".\n\nMelissa Kerr died during cosmetic surgery at a Turkish hospital in 2019\n\nIn September, an inquest heard Ms Kerr, from Gorleston, Norfolk, suffered a fatal clot that had travelled to her lungs during the Brazilian butt-lift surgery (BBL).\n\nThe inquest was told BBL operations carried the highest risk of all cosmetic surgery procedures.\n\nLast year, new guidelines were issued to members of a UK cosmetic surgery association following a four-year moratorium on carrying out such operations due to the dangers involved.\n\nMs Lake ruled that Ms Kerr had not been given enough information to make a safe decision and said \"the danger to citizens who continue to travel abroad for such procedures continues... and I'm of the view future deaths can be prevented by way of better information\".\n\nMs Kerr suffered a fatal clot at Medicana Haznedar Hospital during the surgery in Istanbul\n\nConservative Ms Caulfield, minister for mental health and women's health strategy, offered her \"heartfelt condolences\" to the Kerr family and said: \"It is vital that we take the learnings from what happened to her in order to prevent future deaths.\"\n\nShe said the government was aware checks made by some countries offering \"healthcare tourism... may not match UK regulatory standards\" but that \"such transparency and standardisation are important to reduce potential risks to patients\".\n\nA prevention of future deaths report was sent to the health secretary to try and warn others about travelling to Turkey for plastic surgery\n\n\"It is particularly important that those considering having the Brazilian butt-lift (BBL) procedure are made fully aware of the risks and have time to reflect fully on their decision ahead of surgery,\" said Ms Caulfield.\n\n\"The risk of death for BBL surgery is at least 10 times higher than many other cosmetic procedures.\"\n\nThe government was considering how to \"effectively communicate\" information about the risks of going abroad, she said.\n\nThe minister said while the UK government was looking globally at \"the consequences of international health tourism... we have a strong interest in Turkey given the number of UK nationals travelling to the country for medical treatments\".\n\nThe Ministry of Health in Turkey was contacted for comment.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. 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Watch: The rise is worth £1,800 for full-time workers, says the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Laura Trott\n\nThe minimum wage is to increase by more than a pound to £11.44 per hour from April next year.\n\nThe minimum wage, known officially as the National Living Wage, is currently £10.42 an hour for workers over 23.\n\nBut Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has decided the rate will also apply to 21 and 22-year-olds for the first time.\n\nIt means a full-time worker aged 23 on the wage would receive a rise worth £1,800 a year. A 21-year-old would see an effective £2,300 annual rise.\n\nThe policy change comes ahead of Mr Hunt's Autumn Statement, which will see the chancellor outline the government's latest tax and spending decisions.\n\nMr Hunt told the Conservative Party conference in October that the minimum wage was set to rise above £11 in April, but the confirmed rises represent a 9.8% increase for over-23s on last year, and a 12.4% jump for workers aged 22 and 21.\n\nThe current minimum wage for those aged 21-22 is £10.18 an hour.\n\nThe separate National Minimum Wage for 18-20-year-olds will also increase to £8.60 an hour from £7.49, meaning in total, the above-inflation wage hikes will benefit 2.7 million low-paid workers.\n\nApprentices will also get a rise, with an hourly pay increase of over 20%, going from £5.28 to £6.40 an hour.\n\nThe chancellor accepted the proposals in full from the Low Pay Commission, which advises the government on the minimum wage, saying that the Conservatives' target to \"end low pay\" by lifting the living wage to two-thirds of a measure of average earnings, had now been met.\n\n\"The National Living Wage has helped halve the number of people on low pay since 2010, making sure work always pays,\" Mr Hunt said.\n\nBryan Sanderson, chair of the Low Pay Commission, said the recommendation of increasing the minimum wage to £11.44 \"attempts to steer a path\" through a \"high degree of political and economic uncertainty\".\n\nThe move comes as the higher cost of living has led to household budgets being squeezed, with people on low incomes the hardest hit by higher energy and food bills.\n\nBut such pay rises have not been without concern from some in industry. Last year's similar rise led to retail and hospitality businesses voicing worries over higher wage bills.\n\nResponding to the announcement, Kate Nicholls, chief executive of the hospitality industry body UK Hospitality, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that the rise was \"a reminder that although government announces it, it is businesses who deliver it and why it is so vital other action is taken to reduce tax and costs, particularly [business] rates.\"\n• None What is the minimum wage and how much is it?", "Harold Browne's son David said his father was a Christian and an upright man\n\nA man whose father died in the Darkley killings 40 years ago has said he does not harbour bitterness, hate or resentment, but feels a raw injustice.\n\nHarold Browne was one of three men murdered when gunmen attacked worshippers at the Mountain Lodge Pentecostal Church in County Armagh.\n\nVictor Cunningham and David Wilson also lost their lives in the attack on 20 November 1983.\n\nThe attack was claimed by a group called the Catholic Reaction Force.\n\nThat was a cover name for the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDavid Browne said his father was a Christian and \"upright man\", who took his role as an elder at the church seriously.\n\n\"He was well respected throughout the Mountain Lodge community of people but much beyond this,\" he continued in a statement.\n\n\"Dad didn't stand a chance that fateful night, his instinct was to try and protect others from harm and injury but in doing so he, himself, paid with his life.\"\n\nMr Browne said 40 years is seen by some as a long period of time with \"lots of water under the bridge\".\n\nHowever, he added: \"For me, there remains stagnant water under the bridge which cannot flow.\n\n\"I do not harbour bitterness, hate or resentment for what happened, but I do have strong feelings of injustice. A wonderful man, my earthly father was taken away from us, and that was no-one's right.\"\n\nWitnesses reported multiple shots being fired along the outside of the hall\n\nMr Browne said the feelings were still raw.\n\n\"I remember a special man who lived life well, who lived to serve others but most importantly for him, he lived his life by the values set down by his Heavenly Father.\"\n\nKenny Donaldson, the director of the South East Fermanagh Foundation (SEFF), said the families continue to suffer but had shown tremendous fortitude.\n\nHis group works with a number of those bereaved, injured and otherwise impacted by the Darkley killings.\n\n\"Over the years the Darkley families have been particularly private in how they have dealt with the most horrific grief in the aftermath of November 1983,\" Mr Donaldson explained.\n\n\"I think everybody is a human being and we all have pain to endure. They have wrestled with that and kept tight counsel.\n\n\"They have obviously looked to a pastor in some situations and an immediate family around them to try and keep themselves. They maybe wouldn't trust so easily with external organisations, but they have been able to carry themselves through.\"\n\nKenny Donaldson said the Darkley families suffered horrific grief after the killings\n\nMr Donaldson said even the mention of a loved one's name \"can bring tears very quickly\".\n\n\"We would obviously have contact with a number of the families and things become very difficult when anniversaries are approaching, as it is for many,\" he continued.\n\nThe SEFF representative said some had suppressed and internalised their pain and grief, leaving a sense of \"unfinished business\".\n\n\"The overriding factor for them is that they do not want to create a circumstance where others ever lost their lives,\" he added.\n\n\"So their talk was always talk of restraint, talk of their faith, talk of Christian love. That was the determining factor through it all.\"\n\nDavid Wilson, Harold Browne and Victor Cunningham were killed in the attack\n\nA new larger church opened at the Mountain Lodge site in 1990.\n\nThe leadership of the church said it had taken a decision not to participate in interviews marking the 40th anniversary of the killings, but that everyone is welcome to attend services.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says taxes can only be cut when inflation is under control and \"that promise has now been met\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the government is now able to cut taxes, after the pace of price rises eased.\n\nMr Sunak said his target of halving inflation had been met so taxes would be reduced in \"a responsible way\".\n\nHe refused to comment on \"speculation\" about changes to individual taxes and said there would be more details in Wednesday's Autumn Statement.\n\nBut the PM said the government could now move to \"the next phase\" of its plan to grow the economy.\n\nLast week the government said it had met its pledge to halve inflation - the rate prices are rising - after the figure fell sharply to 4.6% in October.\n\nThe decrease was largely due to lower global energy prices, so there is a limit to how much credit ministers can take.\n\nHowever, Mr Sunak said the government had taken \"difficult decisions\", including avoiding inflationary pay rises in response to strikes, to deliver on its pledge.\n\n\"That's why we can now can move on to the next phase of our economic plan and turn our attention to cutting taxes,\" he said.\n\n\"We will do so seriously, we will do so responsibly, but that time is now here.\"\n\nTax levels in the UK are at their highest since records began 70 years ago, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank.\n\nWith the Conservatives trailing in the polls, the government has been under pressure from many of its own MPs to cut taxes ahead of a general election, which is expected next year.\n\nIn a speech at a London college, Mr Sunak acknowledged \"we can't do everything all at once\".\n\n\"It will take discipline and we need to prioritise,\" he said. \"But over time, we can and we will cut taxes.\"\n\nHis comments all but confirmed tax cuts are coming in Wednesday's Autumn Statement, when the chancellor sets out the government's tax and spending plans for the year ahead.\n\nThe prime minister would not confirm where exactly tax cuts would be made.\n\nHowever, Mr Sunak said he wanted to focus on \"rewarding hard work\", which would suggest national insurance as the likeliest candidate.\n\nHe also stressed the need to avoid doing anything which could fuel inflation.\n\nIn a reference to his predecessor Liz Truss, who beat him in the Conservative leadership election in the summer of 2022, he pledged not to make \"the same economic mistake as last year's mini-budget\" and warned against \"unfunded tax cuts\".\n\nOn benefits, he said he wanted to \"reform\" the welfare system so \"work always pays\".\n\nThis could mean increasing benefit payments by October's inflation figure of 4.6%, rather than September's higher figure of 6.7% as is convention.\n\nMr Sunak said he would not \"pre-empt\" any announcements on Wednesday, but added that the welfare system should be \"compassionate, fair and sustainable\".\n\nIn his speech, the prime minister promised to do more to help people into work, as well as to \"clamp down on welfare fraudsters\".\n\nThe government has already announced that claimants who are deemed fit to work and refuse to seek employment would lose access to their benefits for a period.\n\nWhile Chancellor Jeremy Hunt had considered cutting inheritance tax, sources said the focus of the Autumn Statement would be to promote growth - on which inheritance tax has minimal impact. Mr Hunt is likely to return to the issue for his Budget in the spring.\n\nThere is also expected to be a focus on business taxes as cutting them is seen as key to helping the economy to grow.\n\nOn support for businesses, the prime minister said he wanted to help companies to \"invest, innovate and grow through lower taxes and simpler regulation\".\n\nIn his speech Mr Sunak set out \"five long-term decisions\" for the economy - reducing debt, cutting tax, building sustainable energy, backing British businesses and delivering world-class education.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden said: \"The Tories have failed to deliver on so many pledges from the past. Why should people believe they will deliver on pledges for the future?\"\n\n\"After thirteen years of Conservative governments, working people have been left worse off and the Conservative economic record lies in tatters,\" he added.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats accused the government of \"de-prioritising the NHS\" and failing to understand \"the link between a better health service and a stronger economy\".\n\nThe party has argued higher-than-expected tax receipts should go towards a \"rescue package\" for the NHS.\n\nLess than two months ago, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt had warned tax cuts this autumn would be \"virtually impossible\".\n\nHowever, inflation has come down faster than some in government feared it might and tax receipts have also been higher than expected.\n\nThis is partly a result of many people being dragged into higher tax brackets as a result of inflation and the freeze on personal tax thresholds - and means the government could have as much as £25bn to use for tax cuts.\n\nGovernment sources expect those thresholds to remain frozen despite Conservative MPs' complaints about this \"fiscal drag\".", "Elizabeth El-Nakla and her daughter Nadia were interviewed for Sky News\n\nThe first minister's mother-in-law has described the \"living nightmare\" of being trapped in Gaza for four weeks during the Israel-Hamas war.\n\nElizabeth El-Nakla and her husband Maged were visiting family when Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October.\n\nShe admitted she felt she may die during their ordeal but that she had \"left my heart in Gaza\" when they were finally able to flee.\n\nThe couple's daughter Nadia is married to Humza Yousaf.\n\nIn an interview with Beth Rigby for Sky News, Ms El-Nakla said: \"I [wake] up in the middle of the night and I hear silence in the dark and then I remember I'm home and that I'm safe. And I feel very grateful for that.\n\n\"You really do think every day or every night you will die, and the family that are under your roof as well. And that's hard to comprehend and hard to get over.\"\n\nAfter two failed attempts, the couple - who live in Dundee - were eventually able to enter Egypt via the Rafah Border Crossing on 3 November.\n\nMs El-Nakla said that was the moment she knew she was safe, but it was then when exhaustion hit.\n\n\"I hadn't slept for nearly three weeks and you're just so relieved but you still don't believe it and you're so exhausted.\n\n\"And it is such a relief, you can't imagine, but again your heart is torn. I left my heart in Gaza. I didn't bring it home with me.\"\n\nHer daughter Nadia, who is a councillor in Dundee, said she had been \"holding onto hope\" but imagined that she may not see her parents again.\n\nWhen the conflict began on Saturday 7 October, Nadia messaged her parents and said: \"Your window is going to be small, you need to leave. It's going to become really, really a bad, dangerous situation for everyone in Gaza.\"\n\nElizabeth El-Nakla and Maged El-Nakla were visiting family in Gaza when the Hamas attacks happened\n\nDuring their first attempt to flee to safety on 14 October, the couple were driven to the border by a neighbour.\n\n\"This is 15 minutes in a fast drive, 22 minutes on Google it tells you it takes. But to me, it could have been 15,000 miles it felt so far away,\" she said.\n\nThey were told to turn back, and while on the phone to Nadia the line cut out following an explosion. Nadia said she \"fell to her knees\" and it took around 10 minutes for her to know her parents were still alive.\n\nNadia said that was her lowest point. \"We then had to travel to Aberdeen because the [SNP] conference was about to start. So, I was crying the whole journey to Aberdeen.\n\n\"That for me was the worst - worst day in terms of my own mental health and dealing with it.\"\n\nWhen the couple eventually crossed over into Egypt, Ms El-Nakla said she could see the \"desperation\" on the faces of those trying to flee.\n\nShe said: \"I wouldn't wish that situation on my worst enemy.\"\n\nMs El-Nakla said she was getting stronger every day, but added: \"Unfortunately, until our family and people that we know and love and everyone in Gaza are safe, I don't think we will get over it and I think my life has changed forever.\"\n\nThe family are calling for a full ceasefire and a two-state solution.", "Some of the UK's most visited websites could face fines unless they make it clearer that cookies are optional.\n\nCookies are small files websites store on your computer to collect analytic data, personalise online ads and monitor web browsing.\n\nThe Information Commissioner says some major sites are not giving users \"fair choices\" about their use.\n\nIt has given them 30 days to comply with the law which says it should be as easy to reject as accept all cookies.\n\nThe watchdog has not named the sites it has issued enforcement notices to.\n\nSome cookies help websites to function properly, but others can be used to track users and serve them with advertisements based on their browsing.\n\nCookies can be used to record various kinds of data about users including:\n\nFrom the point of view of many websites, cookies are a vital part of selling the advertising on which they depend.\n\nBut that advertising can feel intrusive. Many people will have the experience of visiting a website, or making a purchase and then having related ads appear on all the sites they visit.\n\nCookie pop-ups can be annoying but they are meant to be a way for users to control cookies. However, they are often unclear - for example, closing the box without making a selection will opt you in or out depending on the website.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has previously issued guidance that organisations must make it as easy for users to \"reject all\" advertising cookies as it is to \"accept all\".\n\nWebsites can still display adverts when users reject all tracking, but must not tailor these to the person's browsing.\n\nCurrently, the regulations governing cookies are split between the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).\n\nThe PECR has become known as the \"cookie law\" since its most visible effect was the implementation of cookie consent pop-ups.\n\nBut legislation currently working its way through Parliament aims to change the PECR to reduce the number of cookie pop-ups.\n\nThe data protection and digital information bill will allow websites to collect some types of information used for improving a service or for security without consent - something that has concerned some digital privacy groups.\n\nIt also gives ministers the power to add new exceptions to the cookie consent requirements.\n\nStephen Almond, the watchdog's executive director of regulatory risk, said their research signalled that many people were worried about companies using their personal information without their consent.\n\n\"Gambling addicts may be targeted with betting offers based on their browsing record, women may be targeted with distressing baby adverts shortly after miscarriage and someone exploring their sexuality may be presented with ads that disclose their sexual orientation,\" he said.\n\n\"Many of the biggest websites have got this right. We're giving companies who haven't managed that yet a clear choice: make the changes now, or face the consequences.\"\n\nThe ICO will provide an update on this work in January, including details of companies that have not addressed their concerns.\n\nThe action is part of its broader work to ensure that people's rights are upheld by the online advertising industry.", "Ashley Dale was not the intended target of the shooting\n\nFour men have been found guilty of murdering a woman who was shot when a gunman opened fire in her home after a feud involving her boyfriend.\n\nAshley Dale, 28, was killed when James Witham fired a Skorpion sub-machine gun in her house in Liverpool in the early hours of 21 August 2022.\n\nWitham, 41, Joseph Peers, 29, Niall Barry, 26, and Sean Zeisz, 28, were convicted at Liverpool Crown Court.\n\nThe trial heard Ms Dale's partner had been the intended target of the shooting due to a feud with Barry, which had reignited at Glastonbury festival.\n\nMs Dale, an environmental health officer, was killed when Witham, who admitted manslaughter but denied murder, forced open the door of her home in the Old Swan area of the city.\n\nHe fired 10 bullets in her dining room, one hitting Ms Dale in the abdomen as she stood by the back door, and five bullets into the wall of an upstairs bedroom.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ashley Dale's mum says Witham, who fired the fatal shot, \"destroyed our lives\"\n\nPeers was described in court as a \"foot soldier\" after he drove a Hyundai to the scene and earlier helped Witham to stab tyres on Ms Dale's car in an attempt to lure the couple out of the house.\n\nBarry and Zeisz were found to have helped organise and encourage the killing, which came after a feud with Ms Dale's boyfriend Lee Harrison.\n\nJames Witham, left, who fired the sub-machine gun and Joseph Peers, right, were found guilty of murder\n\nThe trial heard Ms Dale's own voice describing the falling out between her partner and Barry, as voice notes which she recorded and sent to friends in the two months before her murder were played to the jury.\n\nHer phone was found an arm's length from her and the court heard she had tried to call Mr Harrison, who was out with friends, in her final moments.\n\nThe jury was told Barry's feud with Mr Harrison started about three years before the shooting when Mr Harrison sided with the Hillside organised crime group after they allegedly stole drugs from Barry.\n\nThe feud was reignited when both attended Glastonbury festival in June 2022, the prosecution said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Witham gave police a false name when he was held by officers\n\nMr Fitzgibbon, who flew to Dubai after the shooting and was extradited from Spain in August, told the jury he had witnessed Barry threatening to stab Mr Harrison during the festival.\n\nMs Dale's family said the 28-year-old had fallen \"in love with the wrong boy\" as they expressed their anger towards the \"despicable\" boyfriend her murderers were targeting.\n\nJulie Dale, 46, said she was \"very, very angry\" towards Mr Harrison, who had been in a relationship with her daughter for about five years before her death.\n\nNiall Barry, left, and Sean Zeisz, right, were also convicted of murder\n\n\"Some days I feel like I'm more angry towards him than I am to the person who's actually killed Ashley because without Lee Harrison this wouldn't have happened,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"The way he's acted since this has happened has been absolutely despicable.\n\n\"We've had no remorse from him. We've had no support from him. We have no admittance that it's anything to do with him.\"\n\nDuring the trial, the court heard that since his girlfriend's death Mr Harrison had been \"totally unco-operative\" with police, and had been to Dubai on several occasions.\n\nMs Dale's stepfather Rob Jones said: \"The problem we keep coming back to is Ashley fell in love with the wrong boy.\n\n\"I'm not saying for one minute Ashley did not love him, I'm saying he doesn't love her, clearly, by actions.\"\n\nThe trial was previously shown picture of Ms Dale's front door, which was kicked in before she was shot\n\nHer mother added: \"The difficult thing is, most of the defendants, pretty much all of them, knew Ashley and have known her on a friendly basis.\n\n\"Never mind to do what they did, but then to get up and lie about it and talk about her.\n\n\"Hearing them mention her name just makes me so angry.\"\n\nAs the verdicts were read out, Ms Dale's mother and stepfather were hugged by relatives sitting behind them and they stood and embraced each other in tears once the proceedings had ended.\n\nFamily members of the convicted men were also in tears, with some relatives running out of the court room causing the judge to pause proceedings.\n\nWitham, Peers, Barry and Zeisz were also convicted of conspiracy to murder Mr Harrison and conspiracy to possess a prohibited weapon, a Skorpion sub-machine gun, and ammunition.\n\nFitzgibbon, of St Helens, was cleared of those charges.\n\nKallum Radford, 26, was acquitted of assisting an offender after being accused of helping to store the car used in the murder.\n\nSentencing for the four convicted men will take place on Wednesday at 11:00 GMT.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sunak looks set to be asked about advice sought for Eat Out to Help Out\n\nWhile we wait for the inquiry to resume, here's something that was brought up a little earlier in the House of Commons... Eat Out to Help Out was the scheme which offered us all a tenner towards a meal out. The idea, dreamt up by the Treasury, was to get the ailing hospitality industry going after the first lockdown. And it keeps coming up in this Inquiry. We've already heard senior civil servants in Downing Street didn't know about it before it was launched. This week we hear the government's two most senior scientific advisors at the time didn't either. On Monday Sir Patrick Vallance - the UK's chief scientific officer- said he didn't know about it until it was announced. He said, had he, \"our advice would have been very clear\". Today Prof Sir Chris Whitty had a similar view. But at Prime Minister's Questions earlier, Rishi Sunak insisted the government took advice from scientific advisers throughout the pandemic. Whether that's the same as the Treasury asking for advice on this specific scheme - he was the chancellor at the time - is almost certainly a question he'll be asked when he's up in front of the inquiry in the next few weeks.", "Ministers have been accused of kicking plans for protest buffer zones around abortion clinics \"into the long grass\", after it was announced they would not be implemented until next spring.\n\nA law to introduce buffer zones in England and Wales was passed in May.\n\nBut the government said it was launching a consultation on guidance before buffer zones could be enforced.\n\nThe British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) said it was \"disappointed but not surprised\" by the delay.\n\nThe charity is the leading provider of abortion advice and treatment in the UK, with more than 55 reproductive healthcare clinics across the country.\n\nRachael Clarke, chief of staff at BPAS, told the BBC: \"It seems like all they are doing is once again kicking it into the long grass. And in the meantime women are going to continue to suffer.\"\n\nBuffer zones would prevent demonstrations within 150 metres of an abortion clinic.\n\nMs Clarke said that since the law was passed more than six months ago, protests had continued \"unabated\", with at least 16 clinics targeted.\n\nBPAS said examples included a man protesting in a waiting room and refusing to leave and individuals standing outside a clinic with graphic signs showing foetuses.\n\nMs Clarke argued there was no need for guidance or a consultation as the law was closely worded with similar measures already implemented in Northern Ireland, which the Supreme Court ruled did not \"disproportionately interfere\" with protesters' rights.\n\nShe added that she was concerned guidance could weaken protections for women, for example by allowing \"peaceful prayer\" outside clinics, which she said caused \"the vast majority of distress, alarm and harassment\".\n\nOn Monday, Home Office minister Lord Sharpe told peers: \"The government will issue non-statutory guidance to ensure law enforcement agencies have a clear, consistent understanding around enforcement, and abortion service providers and protesters are clear as to what is expected under the new law.\"\n\nHe said a consultation on the guidance would be launched \"imminently\" to ensure the legislation could be implemented effectively from spring next year.\n\nLord Sharpe added: \"This is new legislation on an emotive topic and there are strong views on all sides of the debate, and determining the appropriate balance will not always be straightforward.\"\n\nHowever, Labour MP Stella Creasy, who first proposed the measures to introduce buffer zones, said launching a consultation was \"a stalling tactic\".\n\n\"A woman's right to access an abortion in peace without being harassed should be straightforward - Parliament voted for it,\" she said. \"And yet we can see the government putting up hurdles.\"\n\nShe said buffer zones had already undergone scrutiny before the law was passed and guidance was available on Public Spaces Protection Orders, which allow councils to prohibit specified activities within a defined area.\n\nSome councils have already used such orders to introduce local buffer zones around abortion clinics. But campaigners says this can take a significant amount of time and money to introduce and have called for a nation-wide solution.\n\nChristian Concern, which is involved in a legal challenge against a buffer zone around an abortion clinic in Bournemouth, said it welcomed the consultation.\n\nChief executive Andrea Williams said: \"Buffer zones set a dangerous precedent and are being weaponised to silence debate and prevent women accessing any alternatives to abortion.\"\n\nUnder section 9 of the Public Order Act, which was passed in May, harassing, obstructing or interfering with anyone attending an abortion clinic, within a 150 metre \"safe access zone\", was made a criminal offence carrying an unlimited fine.\n\nThe measure had cross-party support, although it was opposed by some senior politicians including Minister for Women and Equalities Kemi Badenoch and then-Home Secretary Suella Braverman.\n\nA similar bill has also been published in Scotland but it has not yet become law.", "A video posted online purportedly showed Israeli tanks about 240m north-east of the Indonesian Hospital\n\nIsraeli tanks have reportedly encircled Gaza's Indonesian Hospital, where the Hamas-run health ministry said 12 people were killed on Sunday night.\n\nThe hospital's director, Dr Marwan Al-Sultan, told the BBC that the post-operative care department was hit and troops were only about 20m (66ft) away.\n\nOn Monday evening, he said intermittent shooting could still be heard on site.\n\nThe Israeli military said its forces targeted \"terrorists\" who had opened fire at them from within the hospital.\n\nThe head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said he was \"appalled\".\n\n\"Health workers and civilians should never have to be exposed to such horror, and especially while inside a hospital,\" Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\nHealth ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra accused Israel of \"tightening its noose\" around the hospital in the north of the enclave, and later told AFP news agency 200 patients had been evacuated by bus to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.\n\nHe said the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was helping to coordinate the evacuation of the remaining 400 patients.\n\nMeanwhile, 28 premature Palestinian babies evacuated on Sunday from Gaza City's besieged Al-Shifa Hospital, which Israeli forces raided last week, have been transported to Egypt for treatment.\n\nIsrael launched a major military campaign in Gaza in response to a cross-border attack by hundreds of Hamas gunmen on 7 October, in which at least 1,200 people were killed and about 240 others taken hostage.\n\nGaza's health ministry says more than 14,000 people have been killed in the territory since Israel launched its retaliatory campaign against Hamas.\n\nThe UN Security Council has called for \"urgent and extended humanitarian pauses\" for \"a sufficient number of days\" to allow UN agencies to safely enter the sealed-off territory.\n\nBut five days on, the International Rescue Committee says the killing and suffering of Palestinians has increased, and has urged the Security Council and others to bring about a ceasefire \"without limits on its duration, to protect lives and allow aid to flow\".\n\nOn Monday morning, video footage verified by the BBC showed several tanks stationed on a road about 240m (800ft) north-east of the Indonesian Hospital, which is funded by Indonesia.\n\nThe official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, cited medical sources as saying that dozens of Israeli armoured vehicles were in the surrounding area and that snipers were on rooftops, preventing ambulances from reaching the hospital.\n\nThe health ministry said 12 wounded patients and people with them were killed and dozens more were wounded when an Israeli shell reportedly hit the second floor of the facility.\n\nDr Al-Sultan told the BBC that he heard gunfire all around the building overnight and that at least 10 people were killed.\n\nAl Jazeera posted a video that the Qatar-based network said showed journalist Anas al-Sharif walking through the hospital following the incident. The body of at least one person could be seen, as well as damage to ceilings and equipment in several rooms and corridors.\n\nSharif reported that \"victims are piling up on the floor\" and that there was \"an overwhelming state of panic among patients\".\n\nHospitals are specifically protected under international humanitarian law. Any military operation around hospitals must take steps to spare patients, medical staff and other civilians inside them.\n\nThis photo from last Thursday showed wounded Palestinians being treated on the floor of the Indonesian Hospital\n\nA spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said: \"Overnight, terrorists opened fire from within the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza toward IDF troops operating outside the hospital. In response, IDF troops directly targeted the specific source of enemy fire. No shells were fired toward the hospital.\"\n\n\"Despite the challenges the IDF faces in a war against a terrorist organisation which operates out of hospitals, the IDF is committed to international law and takes numerous measures to minimize harm to non-combatants.\"\n\nMeanwhile, US President Joe Biden said he believed a deal to free hostages in Gaza was close, as the ICRC said its president had travelled to Qatar to meet with Hamas and Qatari government representatives.\n\nUS national security spokesman John Kirby said he believed \"we're closer than we've ever been, so we're hopeful\".\n\nThe ICRC does not take part in negotiations leading to hostage releases but is there to facilitate any deal that is agreed.\n\nThat has been the process with the four hostages freed so far - Qatari negotiations with Hamas followed by the ICRC retrieving the hostages from agreed locations and bringing them back to Israel.\n\nQatar's prime minister has said a deal to free some of the hostages now hinges on \"minor\" practical issues.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: IDF releases CCTV which appears to show Hamas bringing hostages to hospital\n\nOn Sunday night, the IDF released new videos from Al-Shifa Hospital, where it has claimed there was a vast underground Hamas command centre.\n\nIt said one showed a tunnel leading to a blast-proof door and that two others taken from CCTV cameras showed two hostages - one of them wounded - being taken to the hospital on 7 October.\n\nThe IDF also said a pathologist's report and its intelligence had shown a female Israeli soldier whose body was recovered from a building near Al-Shifa last week had been injured in an Israeli air strike and then killed by a member of Hamas inside the hospital.\n\nHamas has denied using Al-Shifa and other hospitals as shields for its fighters.\n\nAt the same time, the WHO has said it was finalising its plans to complete the evacuation of between 250 to 260 seriously wounded or ill patients trapped at Al-Shifa.\n\n\"These include around 29 patients with spinal injuries, 22 patients with kidney failure requiring kidney dialysis,\" the WHO's Regional Emergency Director, Dr Richard Brennan, told the BBC.\n\n\"The vast majority of the remaining patients have complicated war injuries - terrible fractures and amputations, bad burns, head, abdominal, chest injuries, and many of which are complicated by severe wound infection.\"\n\nThirty-one premature babies were evacuated from Al-Shifa to the Emirates Hospital in southern Gaza on Sunday by the Palestinian Red Crescent and UN, with the assistance of the IDF. At least five other babies had previously died after being removed from their incubators due to a lack of power after the hospital ran out of fuel.\n\nOn Monday, 28 of the evacuated babies were taken to Egypt via the Rafah border crossing for treatment. Some are being admitted to the hospital in El-Arish while others in more serious conditions are being flown to Cairo.\n\nA senior WHO official said the babies evacuated from Al-Shifa had \"a long road ahead of them\" to recover\n\nDr Mohamed Salama, head of the neo-natal unit at al-Ahli Emirates hospital, told the BBC that the parents of two babies had refused to send them to Egypt \"due to personal circumstances\". A third baby was being kept in Gaza because his condition was stable and his parents were unknown, he said.\n\nDr Brennan described the evacuation as \"one of the few bits of good news we've had during this conflict\", but noted that the babies had \"a long road ahead of them\" to recover.\n\nIn a separate development, medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said its clinic in Gaza City came under fire on Monday morning.\n\n\"Our colleagues saw that a wall was torn down and part of the building was engulfed by fire as heavy fighting took place all around it. An Israeli tank was seen in the street,\" a statement said.\n\nAn MSF member of staff and 20 family members were in the clinic and in extreme danger, while 50 other people were in nearby buildings, it added.\n\nThere was no immediate comment from the IDF.\n\nBBC News International Editor Jeremy Bowen on what it's like reporting from inside Israel and Gaza (UK only).", "", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate believes \"he has learned a lot\" despite his side finishing their European Championship qualifying campaign unbeaten with a disappointing draw at North Macedonia.\n\nAlready-qualified England got the point they needed to secure a top seeding at Euro 2024 in Skopje, but were unable to improve on their underwhelming performance in Friday's 2-0 win over Malta.\n\n\"I think in both matches we've been able to look at different players as well as trying to win,\" Southgate told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"Normally you're waiting until March to do that. We've learned quite a bit from those two games which is an advantage for us.\"\n\nThe hosts were awarded a controversial penalty at the end of the first half when England debutant Rico Lewis caught striker Bojan Miovski with his hand as he jumped up for a header.\n\nNorth Macedonia captain Enis Bardhi put his side ahead from the rebound after his spot-kick was saved by England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford.\n\nEngland equalised in the 59th minute when Phil Foden's corner deflected in off Macedonian Jani Atanasov under pressure from Harry Kane.\n\nThe point sealed England's place in pot one for the draw for next summer's European Championship in Germany as one of the top five group winners, with 20 points from eight qualifying matches.\n• None Twenty teams through, but can Wales join them? Euro 2024 qualifying latest\n\nEngland were routinely frustrated in Skopje against a North Macedonia side who were hammered 7-0 by the Three Lions at Old Trafford in June.\n\nFormer England goalkeeper Rob Green dubbed their performance \"rushed, hurried\" and without \"quality\".\n\n\"In the end, two flat games to finish the campaign with,\" Green told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"They got the equaliser and then North Macedonia caused problems and England caused more of their own.\"\n\nSouthgate's team had made a promising start. Declan Rice hit the post with a driven shot from the edge of the box in the 14th minute before Ollie Watkins sent a free header wide seconds later.\n\nMidway through the first half Harry Maguire was fortunate not to concede a penalty when he nudged over Elif Elmas in the box. The penalty England did concede on the stroke of half-time though was harsh on the visitors.\n\nSlovakian referee Filip Glova had initially waved play on when Lewis caught Aberdeen striker Miovski, but awarded the hosts a spot-kick after consulting the pitch-side monitor.\n\nSeconds into the second half England had a goal ruled out for offside after Jack Grealish had timed his run too early before he bundled in Bukayo Saka's cross.\n\nTheir leveller eventually came just before the hour mark when substitute Kane did enough to panic defender Atanasov into deflecting Foden's corner into his own net.\n\nEngland looked the likelier to grab a late winner but, just as they did for most of the game, struggled to break down their opponent's low block.\n\n\"Of course we would have liked to have racked the goals up, but North Macedonia have been pretty good here,\" said Southgate. \"They drew with Italy, they make life tough.\"\n\nOne positive for Southgate was teenager Lewis who became England's 20th youngest player, making his debut a day before his 19th birthday.\n\nThe versatile Manchester City player made his club debut less than 12 months ago, but has also impressed for Pep Guardiola's side this campaign in defence and midfield.\n\nHe looked lively from left-back at Tose Proeski Arena, firing a shot over the bar inside the first three minutes.\n\nAfter conceding a penalty and collecting a yellow card for his foul, he forced Macedonian keeper Stole Dimitrievski into a fine diving save just before the break.\n\n\"I thought he was excellent,\" added Southgate. \"His ability to receive in tight areas was a standout. His bravery with the ball, but also the resilience to come back from a bit of a setback that was no fault of his own.\n\n\"He's a unique player because working out the specifics of the role and where that all fits is really interesting. His ability to keep possession and do that well under pressure is a fabulous asset to have.\"\n\nKyle Walker also became the 126th player to captain England, filling in for Kane until the Bayern Munich forward came on in the second half.\n\nEngland end their Euro 2024 qualifying campaign unbeaten and next face Brazil and Belgium in friendlies in March.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Kane (England) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Marcus Rashford (England) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt missed. Nikola Serafimov (North Macedonia) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Ezgjan Alioski with a cross following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A letter has been sent to the parents of pupils at St George's Junior School, where Jevon Hirst went, and Woodfield Infants school.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that we write to you about the tragic death of four Shrewsbury college students.\n\n\"Our thoughts, love and prayers are with all the families and their friends at this incredibly difficult and sad time. As two schools, knowing one of the boys as a formal pupil of ours, this has affected our schools and our community greatly.\n\n\"We know the impact this will have upon the whole community and therefore wanted to let you know we are here as both schools and will support in any way we can.\"", "The Binance chief executive, Changpeng Zhao, has resigned after pleading guilty to money laundering violations.\n\n\"I made mistakes, and I must take responsibility. This is best for our community, for Binance, and for myself\", he said in a post on X.\n\nThe Justice Department said it was requiring Binance, the largest crypto-exchange in the world, to pay $4.3bn (£3.4bn) in penalties and forfeitures.\n\nIt said Binance had helped users bypass sanctions across the world.\n\n\"Binance enabled nearly $900 million in transactions between US and Iranian users, and facilitated millions of dollars in transactions between US users and users in Syria, and in the Russian occupied Ukrainian regions of Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk\", a spokesperson said.\n\nBinance, which is registered in the Cayman Islands, is known as the world's largest platform for buying and selling cryptocurrencies and other digital assets.\n\nThe Justice Department also said the exchange had made it easy for criminals and terrorists to move money.\n\n\"Between August 2017 and April 2022, there were direct transfers of approximately $106 million in bitcoin to Binance.com wallets from Hydra. Hydra was a popular Russian darknet marketplace, frequently utilised by criminals, that facilitated the sale of illegal goods and services,\" the department said.\n\nBinance must now report suspicious activity to federal authorities.\n\n\"This will advance our criminal investigations into malicious cyber activity and terrorism fundraising, including the use of cryptocurrency exchanges to support groups such as Hamas,\" the Justice Department said.\n\nRichard Teng, the company's head of regional markets, has been named the new CEO.\n\nIn a post on X, Changpeng Zhao said it was \"not easy to let go emotionally.\"\n\nHe is one of the most influential figures in crypto.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CZ 🔶 Binance This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn March, US regulators sought to ban Binance, alleging that the firm had been operating in the country illegally.\n\nThe lawsuit from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said the firm cultivated US business while failing to register properly with authorities.\n\nIt accused Binance of breaking numerous US financial laws, including rules intended to thwart money laundering.\n\nAt the time, Binance defended its practices.\n\nIt said it had made \"significant investments\" to ensure that US users were not active on the platform, including blocking users identified as American citizens or residents, or who had a US mobile number.\n\nThe firm was also hit with another lawsuit in June.\n\nThe company was accused of a \"web of deception\" by The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The agency said the trading platform and Zhao, its founder, ignored the rules meant to protect investors, in order to keep operating in the US.\n\nAt the time, Binance said it would defend itself \"vigorously\".\n\nUS authorities had pledged to use existing laws to root out fraud and other issues in the crypto industry, especially after the dramatic collapse of Binance rival FTX last year.\n\nEarlier this month Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, was found guilty of fraud. ​\n• None Who is the new boss of Binance?", "Stephen Bear was jailed for 21 months in March after being convicted of voyeurism and disclosing private, sexual photographs and films\n\nJailed TV personality Stephen Bear has been back in court contesting the amount of money he made from a sex tape he uploaded without the consent of his ex-girlfriend.\n\nBear was jailed in March for uploading footage of himself and Love Island star Georgia Harrison to OnlyFans.\n\nA Proceeds of Crime Act hearing was told Bear, 33, from Loughton, Essex, earned £22,305 from the video.\n\nThe judge said he would make his ruling next year.\n\nBear appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court via video link from HMP Brixton in London, where he is serving a 21-month sentence.\n\nThe new hearing will determine how much money he has to pay back to the court for his crime.\n\nIn a separate case, he has already been ordered to pay Ms Harrison more than £200,000 in damages.\n\nHis criminal trial heard that although the sex was consensual, Ms Harrison was unaware the footage, shot in Bear's garden, was being shared more widely.\n\nThe jury found him guilty of voyeurism and disclosing private, sexual photographs and films.\n\nStephen Bear dressed up for his appearances at court in Chelmsford where a jury found him guilty\n\nJudge Christopher Morgan has now fixed a further hearing for January after Bear contested the amount of money he allegedly made from the video he uploaded.\n\nThe judge said he wanted to establish where £400,000 that Bear made from selling his house in Bryony Close, Loughton, went before he would make his judgement.\n\nAsked when he was expecting to be released, Bear, who appeared in Celebrity Big Brother, said: \"The 17th of January; I can't wait; it has been a long time.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Deliveroo cannot be legally compelled to engage with a union representing its riders for the purposes of collective bargaining, judges have ruled.\n\nThe decision is the latest in a long-running dispute, which began when a union tried to represent a group of riders over pay and conditions.\n\nThe case was previously dismissed by lower courts but an appeal was brought to the Supreme Court.\n\nHowever, judges at the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed the appeal.\n\nJudge Vivien Rose said Deliveroo riders did not have an \"employment relationship\" with the food courier company and were not entitled to compulsory collective bargaining.\n\nIn a judgement, Lady Rose, along with Lord Lloyd-Jones, said multiple factors, including riders being free to decline offers of work and to work for Deliveroo's competitors, were \"fundamentally inconsistent\" with such a relationship.\n\nCollective bargaining is an official process in which trade unions negotiate with employers on behalf of their members.\n\nThe Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB), which brought the case, said the ruling was a disappointment.\n\n\"As a union we cannot accept that thousands of riders should be working without key protections like the right to collective bargaining,\" it said in a statement, adding it would continue to explore legal avenues.\n\n\"Whether reflected in legislation or not, couriers are joining the union in ever bigger numbers and building our collective power to take action and hold companies like Deliveroo to account,\" it added.\n\nThe case follows a number of claims brought by workers in the so-called \"gig\" economy in recent years, demanding rights such as holiday pay, the minimum wage and pensions contributions.\n\nIn 2017, the IWGB was first refused permission to represent riders on the basis they were not classed as \"workers\" under UK labour law.\n\nIt put forward a legal case, but riders were ruled to be self-employed by labour law body the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC).\n\nThe union has since been mounting a number of appeals, reaching the Supreme Court.\n\nPart of the case, which was rejected on Tuesday, focused on whether the arrangement between the food courier and its riders fell under the scope of Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights - which covers the right to join trade unions.\n\nThe Supreme Court has said there is nothing in UK legislation to stop riders from forming or joining a union, and nothing to prevent Deliveroo engaging in collective bargaining with it.\n\nBut its ruling added: \"The issue is whether Article 11 requires the United Kingdom to go beyond that current position and to enact legislation conferring on Article 11 workers the right to require their reluctant employer to recognise and negotiate with the union of their choice.\"\n\nA Deliveroo spokesperson said that the UK had \"repeatedly and at every level\" confirmed that its riders are self-employed.\n\n\"This is a positive judgment for Deliveroo riders, who value the flexibility that self-employed work offers,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nHowever, the IWGB argued: \"Flexibility, including the option for account substitution, is no reason to strip workers of basic entitlements like fair pay and collective bargaining rights.\"\n\nDeliveroo said it had agreed a \"voluntary partnership agreement\" with the GMB Union in 2021 which gave the union collective bargaining rights on pay and consultation rights, on benefits and other issues, while still recognising riders as self-employed.", "Kevin Scott is also executive vice president of AI at Microsoft\n\nMicrosoft has offered to match the pay of any staff who join it from crisis-ridden OpenAI.\n\nSam Altman was controversially sacked as CEO on Friday, leading to a job offer at Microsoft to lead \"a new advanced AI research team\".\n\nAlmost every staff member at OpenAI has threatened to leave unless he and co-founder Greg Brockman are reinstated.\n\nIt is still unclear whether Mr Altman will ultimately join Microsoft, which is OpenAI's biggest investor by far.\n\nEvan Morikawa, an engineering manager at OpenAI, has claimed that 743 out of 770 employees at OpenAI have signed a letter calling on the board to resign - with staff themselves threatening to leave if their demands are not met.\n\nIn their letter they claim they had been offered jobs at Microsoft - something the company's chief technology officer Kevin Scott has now confirmed, telling staff that \"if needed\" they will be hired by Microsoft in a role that \"matches your compensation\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe uncertainty about people's futures extend to Mr Altman, with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella telling CNBC that he might not be joining, adding he was \"committed to OpenAI and Sam, irrespective of what configuration\".\n\n\"Obviously that depends on the people at OpenAI staying there or coming to Microsoft, so I'm open to both options,\" he said.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Nadella told CNBC \"something has to change\" at OpenAI - creator of the ChatGPT chatbot - but did not specify what that was, or rule out the tech giant getting a seat on the board.\n\nDespite its heavy investment in the firm, and using its technology extensively across its products, Microsoft's links to OpenAI do not currently extend to its boardroom.\n\n\"At this point, I think it's very, very clear that something has to change around the governance,\" said Mr Nadella.\n\n\"We'll have a good dialogue with their board on that.\"\n\nSatya Nadella has been chairman and CEO of Microsoft since 2014\n\nThe Microsoft chief executive's calm demeanour in a round of media interviews is in contrast to the tumult at OpenAI itself, where staff are in open revolt at Mr Altman's departure.\n\nThey have demanded he returns and the board is fired - but exactly what is happening with the company's former chief executive is still unclear.\n\nNathan Benaich, partner at Air Street Capital - a firm which has invested in many AI companies - praised Mr Nadella for his decisions in the aftermath of Mr Altman's sacking.\n\n\"This is fantastic deal-making,\" he said.\n\n\"Microsoft has emerged in an even more compelling position. It has the two leaders of OpenAI, it has the ability to attract talent, it has the balance sheet, and it's building an insane computing infrastructure to the tune of $50bn.\n\n\"This is larger than some of the most ambitious government-funded research projects.\"\n\nIn the middle of all of this is Emmett Shear, the former head of Twitch who has been named the new interim head of OpenAI after Mr Altman's unceremonious exit.\n\nThe pair crossed paths years ago when they were involved with start-up investment programme Y Combinator - with a viral photo of them as part of a group spreading on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Coogan This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe photo includes several others who went on to great careers in tech, including Aaron Swartz, a celebrated internet freedom activist and early developer of the website Reddit, who died in 2013.\n\nMr Shear co-founded the hit gaming site Twitch, and led it to become the dominant live-streaming website in the world, before selling the business to Amazon for an estimated $970m (£774m) in 2014.\n\nHe remained as CEO under Amazon, but left in March 2023 following the birth of his son.\n\nBut some of the tweets he has sent since leaving the firm have caused him to come under scrutiny online, including his public criticism of Microsoft.\n\nNeither Mr Shear nor OpenAI has responded to a request for comment.", "Janet Reynolds put out an appeal for help for her friend on social media\n\nA disabled pensioner who has lived in a mould-covered home for years is now being helped by her community.\n\nJanet Reynolds decided to get involved when she found out her friend was living in a mould and rat-infested bungalow in Swindon, Wiltshire.\n\nThe home is now being refurbished thanks to local tradespeople who offered their services for free.\n\n\"When I saw it, I thought I've got to do something, it's going to kill her,\" Ms Reynolds said.\n\nMs Reynolds said the woman had been too embarrassed to ask for help\n\nMs Reynolds had been helping the woman with her weekly shops, but she had not been inside her house since the pandemic, and so did not know how bad it had become.\n\nEventually, the woman decided to ask Ms Reynolds for help.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wiltshire, Ms Reynolds said, \"I think she was scared the house would be taken away from her, it had been in her family since she was little.\"\n\n\"She was too embarrassed and proud to ask for help.\"\n\nThe woman is blind in one eye and suffers from heart diseases, leaving her vulnerable.\n\nMs Reynolds asked charities to help her friend before making an appeal on social media as a last resort.\n\nThe house has been cleared out and will now be refurbished\n\nLocal tradespeople, including Emerald Damp Specialists, offered their help for free and the house has now been emptied and is being refurbished.\n\n\"All her stuff had to go. She came to me with nothing but the clothes on her back - she's staying with me now until she can go back,\" Ms Reynolds said.\n\nThe woman lives off her state pension and would not be able to afford the renovation on her own, Ms Reynolds said.\n\nThe project to clear and refurbish the house has been described as a \"team effort\"\n\n\"It's a team effort,\" she said. \"It's not just my doing. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't help.\"\n\nShe added: \"I took her shopping and she had a warm bath. She is safe now.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Four bodies were found in an overturned and partially submerged car following a search for four teenagers who had gone missing.\n\n\"The families of the missing men have been informed,\" North Wales Police Supt Owain Llewellyn said at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nHe said the force had received reports of four missing young males from the Shrewsbury area on Monday afternoon.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with them at this desperate time,\" he said.", "Prof Sir Chris Whitty told the inquiry that he would have banned mass gatherings earlier, in hindsight, in March 2020\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty has told the Covid inquiry that the first lockdown in March 2020 was imposed \"a bit too late\".\n\nBut he said the government had \"no good options\" at the time.\n\nPublic health issues - such as loneliness, depression and the risk of aggravating poverty - meant it was important to be cautious, he said.\n\nIt meant there was a risk of going too early as well as going too late.\n\nSir Chris also conceded he would do other things differently, in hindsight, as the coronavirus was just beginning to spread in early March.\n\nIt came after former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said on Monday that he and Sir Chris did not always see eye-to-eye.\n\nBoth men have pointed out debate was helpful - and Sir Chris said, as he had responsibility for public health, it was essential he considered the indirect costs of imposing restrictions on the population.\n\nSir Chris said differences between them were actually \"extremely small\".\n\nHe added: \"My view is, with the benefit of hindsight, we went a bit too late on the first wave.\n\n\"I was probably further towards, 'let's think through the disadvantages here before we act' and also in making sure that in giving my advice, that ministers were aware of both sides of the equation.\n\n\"The biggest impacts of those would be areas of deprivation and those in difficulties, and those living alone and so on,\" Sir Chris said.\n\n\"So, I was very aware that we essentially had two different things we were trying to balance - the risk of going too early, in which case you get all the damages from this with actually fairly minimal impact on the epidemic, and the risk of going too late, in which case you get all the problems of the pandemic running away.\"\n\nAnd he said: \"Even at the height of the pandemic, more people died of causes not Covid than died of Covid.\"\n\n\"Every one of those deaths is tragic on both of those sides.\"\n\nSir Chris also went on to defend not raising the alarm across government in mid-January 2020, despite his deputy, Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, warning that a pandemic was imminent.\n\nIn extracts from his witness statement read to the inquiry, Sir Jonathan said he became \"seriously concerned\" about Covid on 16 January 2020.\n\nThe former deputy chief medical officer said it was clear human-to-human transmission was occurring and \"my view was that this would be a significant pandemic\".\n\nSir Chris told the inquiry that Sir Jonathan was being instinctive - and it would have been quite a \"narrow basis on which to make quite big decisions\".\n\n\"If you consistently go to all of government and say, 'I have no data on this, and I'm a bit worried, but my gut feeling is this is going bad', you don't get very much traction,\" Sir Chris told the inquiry.\n\nBoris Johnson shook hands with England rugby union captain Owen Farrell at a match against Wales at Twickenham, attended by thousands, just two weeks before the first UK lockdown\n\nSir Chris also said the claims by government that they were \"following the science\" became a \"millstone around our necks\".\n\nHe said he never told ministers what to do over things like lockdown timings. Instead, his role and that of others was to advise ministers of the consequences of taking or not taking certain decisions.\n\nHe said ministers had many different things to balance and it was right that democratically-elected politicians took those decisions as there were \"no good choices\".\n\nIn other evidence, Sir Chris was asked if Boris Johnson had a difficulty in reaching clear, consistent positions.\n\nSir Chris replied: \"I think that the way that Mr Johnson took decisions was unique to him.\n\n\"He has quite a distinct style but I think lots of other people have got quite distinct styles.\"\n\nHe said the then-prime minister tended to be most focussed in small groups and came to positions through informal conversations, giving the examples of conversations he had with Mr Johnson ahead of TV press conferences.\n\n\"It allowed him to test out ideas, not in public, which I think he valued and I think helped the decision-making process,\" Sir Chris said.\n\nMass gatherings such as the Cheltenham Festival continued throughout the first three weeks of March 2020\n\nAsked about the first cases of Covid emerging in Wuhan in January 2020, he said that the UK didn't \"consider enough\" the possibility of mandatory quarantine for all travellers arriving from China.\n\nHe suggested closing borders or stopping flights might have been a step too far politically.\n\nBut telling arrivals, even those without symptoms, they would have to isolate at home for 10 or 14 days could have been considered.\n\nAs it was, the UK did not introduce quarantine for travellers from Wuhan until 25 February 2020.\n\nSir Chris said, in reality, this measure would not have made much difference at the time.\n\nGenetic testing showed the vast majority of Covid infections were spread not by Chinese travellers, but by British tourists coming back from half-term holidays in mainland Europe in mid-February.\n\nBut he also said tougher quarantine measures should be an option for the authorities to consider in any future outbreak.\n\nOn banning mass gatherings, Sir Chris said the reasoning for not doing that in February and early March 2020 was there was \"no good evidence\" it would have a material effect on the spread of the virus.\n\nIf you stop people attending football matches, they could just swamp pubs, he indicated.\n\nBut he said in hindsight he would recommend doing things differently because of the message of normality it sent to the public.\n\nDid you lose someone close to you during the pandemic? Have you been following the inquiry? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Elon Musk's social media platform X has sued a left-leaning pressure group that accused the site of allowing antisemitic posts next to advertising.\n\nX's lawsuit alleges that Media Matters for America \"manipulated\" data in an attempt to \"destroy\" the platform formerly known as Twitter.\n\nFirms including Apple, Disney, IBM and Comcast have paused adverts on X since the watchdog released its analysis.\n\nAfter Mr Musk threatened the lawsuit, Media Matters called him a bully.\n\nThe advocacy group said last week that ads had appeared on X alongside posts supporting Nazism, such as Hitler quotes and Holocaust denial.\n\nSeparately, Mr Musk himself last week was accused of amplifying an antisemitic trope on the platform.\n\nThe lawsuit, filed in Texas on Monday, argues: \"Media Matters knowingly and maliciously manufactured side-by-side images depicting advertisers' posts on X Corp's social media platform beside Neo-Nazi and white-nationalist fringe content and then portrayed these manufactured images as if they were what typical X users experience on the platform.\n\n\"Media Matters designed both these images and its resulting media strategy to drive advertisers from the platform and destroy X Corp.\"\n\nX said in the lawsuit that ads for Comcast, Oracle and IBM had only appeared alongside hateful content for Media Matters, and no other viewer.\n\nLinda Yaccarino, chief executive of X, posted on Monday: \"Here's the truth. Not a single authentic user on X saw IBM's, Comcast's, or Oracle's ads next to the content in Media Matters' article.\"\n\nIn the wake of the Media Matters allegations, the European Commission, Warner Bros Discovery, Paramount and Lionsgate have also pulled ad dollars from X.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Musk vowed to file a \"thermonuclear\" lawsuit against Media Matters, and anyone \"who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company\".\n\nIn response, Media Matters president Angelo Carusone said they would win any legal action.\n\n\"Far from the free speech advocate he claims to be, Musk is a bully who threatens meritless lawsuits in an attempt to silence reporting that he even confirmed is accurate,\" Mr Carusone said in a statement.\n\nFounded in 2004, Media Matters is known for its criticism of conservative commentators and media outlets.\n\nIt describes itself as a non-profit \"progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the US media\".\n\nLast Wednesday, Mr Musk came under fire after he replied to a post sharing a conspiracy theory accusing Jewish communities of pushing hatred against white people, calling it \"actual truth\".\n\nThe billionaire Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur later denied antisemitism, saying his comments referred not to all Jewish people, but to groups like the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish anti-hate monitor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: In August X took down flashing sign after complaints\n\nMeanwhile, Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Monday that he had opened an investigation into Media Matters \"for potential fraudulent activity\" over its allegations about X.\n\nMr Paxton also vowed to ensure that \"the public has not been deceived by the schemes of radical left-wing organizations who would like nothing more than to limit freedom by reducing participation in the public square\".\n\nAlso on Monday the White House announced President Joe Biden would join Threads - the Meta-owned rival to X.\n\nThreads accounts have also been created for the president, first lady, vice-president and second gentleman.", "Lawyers for the Duke of Sussex have demanded the Daily Mail's publisher voluntarily hand over its records of payments to private investigators.\n\nThey cannot currently be used in the duke's claim against Associated Newspapers because they were given confidentially to the Leveson Inquiry.\n\nThe prince and six others are suing the publisher for breaches of privacy.\n\nAssociated Newspapers has refused to hand over the records, saying the seven were acting \"tactically and cynically\".\n\nA judge ruled earlier this month that the records should remain confidential, but agreed the privacy case should continue.\n\nThe seven claimants are Prince Harry, Sir Elton John, his husband David Furnish, Baroness Lawrence, the actor Sadie Frost, the former model Elizabeth Hurley and Sir Simon Hughes, a former Liberal Democrat MP.\n\nThe confidential records detail hundreds of payments signed off by journalists at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday to private investigators, some of whom, it is alleged, were linked to unlawful information gathering.\n\nIn 2011 they were disclosed confidentially to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards, which was examining alleged malpractice by the press.\n\nA restriction order made by the inquiry prevents them being made public.\n\nHowever, they were leaked to journalists who wrote stories about the payments, and then passed to the legal advisers for the seven claimants.\n\nThe judge made clear that he did not find that there had been any breach of undertakings given to the Leveson Inquiry by any of those involved in the claim against Associated Newspapers.\n\nAnticipating that Associated Newspapers will refuse to disclose the payment records, crucial to the case, the seven claimants plan to ask a minister to remove the restriction, on the basis that the Leveson Inquiry was called by the government.\n\nThey allege more than 70 journalists wrote stories based on information illicitly obtained by private investigators during the 1990s and 2000s.\n\nThey claim the investigators bugged cars and phones, illegally accessed mobile phone voicemails, paid police officials, and obtained private medical and financial records.\n\nAssociated Newspapers has strongly rejected the claims. It succeeded in persuading the judge in the High Court civil proceedings to prevent the seven being able to use the payment records.\n\nIn a court document disclosed on Monday, Associated said the \"claimants should not be permitted to exploit their illegitimate use of information drawn from the Ledgers.\"\n\nThe publisher has agreed to wait to see if a minister agrees to lift the Leveson restriction order.\n\nHowever, in a court hearing on Monday, Mr Justice Nicklin, overseeing the case, said his \"assumed factual scenario\" was that the government will refuse.\n\nDoreen Lawrence, who was at the High Court on Tuesday, is one of the seven claimants\n\nAssociated Newspapers said that without being able to rely on the payment records, its opponents would have to \"strike out\" many of the claims they are making.\n\nMr Justice Nicklin rejected an attempt by Associated to stop the case on the basis that the claimants had run out of time to take legal action, given that the allegations go back decades.\n\nThe court case is set to continue throughout 2024.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Youssef Mikhaiel said he would like to start a career and build a family in Scotland\n\nAn Egyptian man with a rare genetic disorder facing deportation has won the right to stay in the UK until 2026.\n\nYoussef Mikhaiel was due to be deported in June, within days, but that was postponed after a ruling at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.\n\nThe 28-year-old has Fabry disease, which damages the heart, kidneys and nervous system. He cannot access treatment in his home country.\n\nThe Home Office has now granted him leave to remain for two years.\n\nIn a letter seen by BBC Scotland News, it told the graduate engineer it would exercise discretion due to his \"exceptional circumstances\".\n\nIt comes after Mr Mikhaiel had been held at Dungavel House detention centre in Lanarkshire for two weeks in May and June.\n\nHe described the relief he felt following the decision.\n\nSpeaking of his initial detention, he said: \"Until this moment, I wasn't able to process it.\n\n\"You are being treated as a criminal and I didn't have access to the proper medical treatment. You fight for years for treatment and then all of a sudden, you could be deported.\"\n\nHe added: \"I can take a breath now. I have skills and would like to invest more in myself.\n\n\"And now I can start my treatment. In the beginning, it had stopped until we knew whether I was going to stay or be deported.\"\n\nFabry disease in an inherited condition in which enzymes cannot break down fatty materials known as lipids, allowing them to build up in the body.\n\nIt is believed to affect one in every 40,000 men, though estimates vary.\n\nSymptoms include chronic pain, high temperatures and an inability to sweat and can shorten a person's lifespan.\n\nMr Mikhaiel's case hinged on a letter sent by officials at Misr International Hospital in Egypt.\n\nIt confirmed that the country's drug authority did not provide a medicine called migalastat, which is used in Scotland to treat the disease.\n\nAn annual course of migalastat treatment can cost £210,000, according to the Scottish Medicines Consortium.\n\nIt added: \"Undoubtedly, the absence of his required treatment for his rare disorder in Egypt would cause intense suffering or death.\"\n\nYoussef Mikhaiel is greeted by his partner Sarah outside Dungavel immigration centre in June\n\nMr Mikhaiel said: \"The treatment is not available at all and you don't even have access to proper diagnosis for Fabry disease.\n\n\"First of all, this is my life. It affects my lifespan - the maximum is 50 years old for males and I am 28.\n\n\"I would like to have career, have a future and build a family.\n\n\"So this was critical for my life.\"\n\nMr Mikhaiel arrived in Scotland on a student visa in 2016 and graduated in aeronautical engineering at Glasgow University in 2019.\n\nHis visa expired the same year and he applied for leave to remain after he was diagnosed with Fabry disease.\n\nHis initial application was rejected over a failure to provide evidence of his illness in 2021.\n\nWhen the Home Office then ordered that he should be removed from the UK, he applied for leave to remain on medical grounds.\n\nHowever, he was detained and held at Dungavel in May this year - just a day after his lawyer obtained evidence from Egypt.\n\nMr Mikhaiel was detained at Dungavel earlier this year\n\nA petition for judicial review into the decision to detain him was accepted by the Court of Session in June and Mr Mikhaiel was released from detention.\n\nThe Home Office has now written to him, confirming it has granted leave to remain until 26 April 2026.\n\nIt stated: \"Although you do not qualify for leave to remain in the United Kingdom under the immigration rules, it has nonetheless been decided that discretion should be exercised in your favour.\n\n\"You have therefore been granted limited leave to remain in the United Kingdom in accordance with the principles set out in the Home Office policy instruction on discretionary leave.\"\n\nIt added that it made the decision \"on the basis of [his] exceptional circumstances\".\n\nMr Mikhaiel's solicitor Usman Aslam said his client should have been released as soon as he provided evidence on treatment in Egypt.\n\n\"I think there are a lot of questions that still need to be answered,\" he said. \"He should not have been detained or spent that amount of time in detention.\n\n\"What should have happened is that the Home Office should have contacted me.\n\n\"We had the evidence from the Egyptian hospital, including the Egyptian drug authority, confirming that he could not have access to that treatment and that it would shorten his life.\"\n\nAfter his leave to remain expires, Mr Mikhaiel - who is now studying cybersecurity - will need to apply to extend his stay but he said that access to better treatment had given him \"hope\".\n\n\"It will reduce my symptoms and lessen the pain,\" he said.\n\n\"I will have a longer life, build a career, have a family and hopefully have a happy life.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it did not comment on individual cases.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"All applications for leave to remain are carefully considered on their individual merits, on the basis of the evidence provided and in accordance with the immigration rules.\n\n\"We only return those with no legal right to remain in the UK and will not return anyone to countries where they have been found to be at risk of persecution or serious harm.\"", "Doctors must be on high alert for measles as vaccine rates among young children have dipped to a 10-year low, leaving some unprotected and risking outbreaks of the highly infectious and dangerous virus, experts say.\n\nIt is the first time in decades the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has issued national guidance such as this.\n\nAt least 95% of children should be double vaccinated by the age of five.\n\nBut the UK is well below that target.\n\nLatest figures show only 84.5% had received a second shot of the protective measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jab - the lowest level since 2010-11.\n\nMeasles can make children very sick. The main symptoms are a fever and a rash but it can cause serious complications including meningitis. For some, it is fatal.\n\nThe RCPCH is worried the UK is now seeing a \"devastating resurgence\" of virtually eliminated life-threatening diseases such as measles, because of low vaccine uptake.\n\nBetween 1 January and 30 September, there were 149 laboratory-confirmed measles cases in England - compared with 54 in the whole of 2022.\n\nMany were in London, Wales and Leicester.\n\nRCPCH president Dr Camilla Kingdon, said: \"Having to consider measles in our national guidance for the first time in decades is a disappointing but necessary move.\n\n\"Many paediatricians I know live in fear of potential measles outbreaks this winter.\"\n\nThe RCPCH is urging doctors to use \"every opportunity\" to check a child's vaccination status and offer the MMR jab to those who have not had two doses.\n\nThe RCPCH is also calling for the government to publish its \"overdue\" national vaccination strategy and focus attention on ensuring equal access to immunisations across all regions and socio-economic groups.\n\nDr Kingdon said: \"Of course, vaccine hesitancy is an issue but there are real problems with accessibility that are also at play. We know that there are significant inequalities in vaccine uptake by ethnicity, deprivation and geography. This has to be addressed.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sera Cracroft is sharing her story of being sexually assaulted as a child publicly for the first time\n\nAn actress in Welsh-language TV soap Pobol y Cwm has said she was sexually assaulted as a young child.\n\nSera Cracroft, who plays Eileen Probert in the S4C drama, said she was sharing her story to help others.\n\nThe 57-year-old mother-of-three added she has suffered with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) since the incident and considered taking her own life.\n\nPolice investigated the allegations, but nobody was ever convicted.\n\nIn an interview with Elin Fflur on S4C's Sgwrs Dan y Lloer, she said: \"I was sexually abused when I was a small child at a friend's house.\n\n\"While the attack was happening, I remember feeling like I was suffocating.\n\n\"I bit his hand and screamed for my mam.\"\n\nSera, who lives in Cardiff, said she never mentioned the assault to anyone and suffered with serious mental health problems as a result.\n\n\"I hadn't realised how much of an effect it had on me until I was older,\" she revealed.\n\n\"Whenever I was under pressure or was busy the flashbacks became worse.\n\n\"I decided one day that I just couldn't live in my skin and I decided that I wanted to kill myself.\"\n\nSera received extensive specialist help in hospital, where she remembers people were \"terribly nice\" to her.\n\nSera Cracroft has played Eileen Probert in Pobol y Cwm since 1989\n\nSera said sharing her story with others for the first time \"was the start of getting better\".\n\nShe also described Cerian, the policewoman who asked her to make an initial statement when she reported the assault as an adult, as \"an angel\".\n\nSera added she was \"so, so disappointed\" to learn there wasn't enough evidence for the police to investigate the allegation further.\n\nShe demanded the police question the man.\n\n\"I wanted him to feel a percentage of the fear that I had suffered,\" she said.\n\nBut when quizzed by the police he denied ever meeting Sera.\n\nAs a result nobody has ever been prosecuted.\n\nSera said thanks to a lot of counselling and help she was in a \"good place\".\n\nThe actress said former Welsh footballer and mental health campaigner Neville Southall has also become a good friend and has helped empower her.\n\n\"I can't change the past,\" she added.\n\n\"The only thing I can change now is how I respond to that.\"\n\nIf you've been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, information and support is available on BBC Action Line.", "The K-pop group's four members - from left to right Rosé, Jisoo, Lisa, and Jennie - have been silent about their contract status\n\nK-pop girl band Blackpink are in the final stages of negotiating a new group contract, Yonhap news agency reports.\n\nBut quoting anonymous sources, Yonhap said the renewal of their individual management contracts \"remains unclear\".\n\nFans have been anxiously awaiting news and speculating about what the stars will do since Blackpink's contract with YG Entertainment expired in August.\n\nThe band's four members - Jisoo, Lisa, Jennie and Rosé - have been silent about their contract status.\n\nFresh reports on Korean media regarding the contract negotiations have fuelled a guessing game for weeks, with fans worried the singers could split up.\n\nThe Munhwa Ilbo newspaper reported on Monday that Blackpink members had agreed to carry on their group activities under YG Entertainment. However, the report also added that the group would not renew their exclusive contracts.\n\nIf confirmed, this means the four would be free to pursue solo endeavours and reunite as Blackpink only when their schedules allow, the report said.\n\nYG Entertainment, which has managed Blackpink since the group was formed in 2016, has said an announcement will be made once negotiations are finished.\n\nOn social media, fans pleaded with their idols to stay together.\n\n\"I'm very sad... because Blackpink will disband,\" another fan commented under the most recent post on the group's official Instagram page.\n\nBlackpink has grown to be the biggest K-pop girl group on the planet and its individual members are celebrities in their own right.\n\nTheir contract expired as their male counterparts, BTS, are taking a break as some members are on mandatory military service.", "Thirty-one premature babies have been moved from al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City to a maternity hospital in southern Gaza.\n\nThe babies had to be \"wrapped in foil to maintain their body temperatures [while] on the move - but their \"health condition is good\", a spokesperson for the Palestinian Red Crescent told the BBC.\n\nMany of the 31 babies evacuated to the Emirati Hospital in Rafah on Sunday have \"lost their parents in bombardments\" by Israel, Nebal Farsakh said.\n\nShe said the surviving parents had been ordered to leave Gaza City - where al-Shifa hospital is located - before the babies' evacuation, and their current whereabouts are unknown.\n\nHundreds of people have left Gaza's largest hospital in the days since the Israeli military entered the complex to carry out what it called \"a precise and targeted operation against Hamas\".\n\nThe World Health Organisation estimates that almost 300 critically ill patients remain stranded at al-Shifa.", "Areej Jabari holds her video camera on her rooftop in H2. \"The goal is to divide us, to pressure us to leave,\" she said.\n\nFawaz Qafisha cracked his front door open a few inches, stuck his head through the gap and squinted against the sun. The street outside was almost completely dead, save for an Israeli soldier who was sitting on a garden chair placed opposite Qafisha's house, facing the front door.\n\nBefore Qafisha had even adjusted his eyes to the light and spotted us coming down the road towards him, the Israeli soldier had sprung to his feet, raised his rifle halfway and ordered Qafisha back inside.\n\nThe falafel cook, aged 52, gestured for us to hurry.\n\n\"This is how it is any time we try to open the door now,\" he said, as we entered.\n\n\"We are not even allowed to stand at our windows.\"\n\nQafisha, who was born and raised in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, is a resident of H2, a dense and heavily fortified district that is home to 39,000 Palestinians and roughly 900 Israeli settlers considered some of the most extreme in the occupied territory. The Palestinians and Israelis of H2 are separated in some places here by just a few feet, and surrounded by cameras, cages, checkpoints, concrete blast walls and rolls of razor wire.\n\nFor more than 40 days now, since the Hamas attack on Israel, 11 Palestinian neighbourhoods within H2 - comprising about 750 families - have been under one of the harshest lockdowns imposed on the area for more than 20 years. H2's population is almost entirely Palestinian, but the district is under the total control of the Israeli military, which has for the past few weeks been forcing Palestinian residents back inside their homes at gunpoint.\n\nQafisha and his family of nine had barely left the house, he said. He did not want to take any risks. \"You saw what happened when you arrived,\" he said. \"We have a door we cannot open and windows we cannot look out from. We do not have any freedom. We are living in fear.\"\n\nIsraeli soldiers walk past Fawaz Qafisha's house. The Palestinian residents are not allowed on the street.\n\nQafisha's house sat just off Shuhada Street, once one of the busiest Palestinian market streets in Hebron. In 1994, a massacre of 29 Muslims by a Jewish extremist at a nearby mosque led to riots, which in turn prompted a crackdown by the Israeli army. The army forcibly closed Palestinian businesses and then welded shut the front doors of the Palestinian residents, on the Shuhada Street side.\n\nSince then, the Palestinians of the area around Shuhada Street have lived through shifting restrictions on where they can go, when, and how. Flare-ups in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have often led to some form of lockdown, but several residents told the BBC that this was the harshest they had ever experienced.\n\nA few hundred feet up the road from Qafisha's house, Zleekhah Mohtaseb, a 61-year-old former tour guide and translator, was staring down from her rooftop, watching a young Israeli settler shouting to himself as he meandered slowly down Shuhada Street.\n\nMohtaseb had had spent all her six decades within a stone's throw of where she stood now, she said. Directly across Shuhada street, no more than 20 feet away, was Hebron Cemetery, where 10 generations of her family were buried. Once upon a time, she could walk straight across the street and into the cemetery. Now it took her an hour by car.\n\n\"The settlers,\" she said, shaking her head, as the young Israeli walked past her welded-shut front door. \"They can do what they want. They are the chosen people.\"\n\nZleekhah Mohtaseb on a typical Palestinian balcony on Shuhada Street, caged in to protect against stones.\n\nMohtaseb had seen a lot in her lifetime in Hebron, but the past 40 days had been among the most tense, she said. Hours after Hamas attacked Israel, in a murderous rampage that left an estimated 1,200 Israelis dead, Palestinian residents of H2 received messages from the Israeli military telling them that they were no longer allowed to leave their homes. Israeli soldiers began forcing people off the streets at gunpoint, including Mohtaseb. \"Those first two weeks were hell,\" she said.\n\nTwo weeks after it began, the curfew in H2 relented slightly, allowing the Palestinians to leave their homes for certain hours on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Then this past Thursday, as Mohtaseb was preparing to meet us, three Palestinian militants from Hebron attacked an Israeli checkpoint dividing the West Bank from Jerusalem, killing one soldier and wounding five. Immediately, she knew that the attack would prolong and intensify the crackdown in H2.\n\n\"Everyone says that Israel has the right to defend herself. Fine. We are not against it. But what about us, the Palestinians?\" she said.\n\n\"Many times we were attacked, many times we were killed, many times we were forced from our homes. Where was this right to defend when the Palestinians were attacked?\"\n\nPalestinian boys play football, in front of a checkpoint, just outside H2. Israel restricts movement in and out of the area.\n\nH2 began life in 1997 when Hebron was divided into two sectors, under an agreement between the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Israel. H1, populated entirely by Palestinians and controlled by the Palestinian Authority, accounts for roughly 80% of the city. H2, which accounts for just 20% of the city, is populated almost entirely by Palestinians but controlled by the Israeli military. Within H2, the area around Shuhada Street and the Ibrahimi Mosque is the most fortified by checkpoints and guard posts. It has seen decades of tension, violence, and terror attacks from both sides.\n\n\"This is the closed place inside the closed place,\" said Muhammad Mohtaseb, a 30-year-old hospital security guard, sitting on the roof of his house opposite the mosque.\n\n\"We are completely surrounded by checkpoints,\" he said. \"Even on a good day, I cannot drive a car, no car can come in with Palestinian number plates. If I want to bring something to my house, I have to carry it half a kilometre from the checkpoint. When I got married, I bought all new furniture for my bedroom, but I had to take it all apart into pieces on the other side of the checkpoint to get it through the turnstiles, then rebuild it on this side.\"\n\nThat was a good day. Since 7 October, the freedom even to move around in the street was gone. When we arrived at Mohtaseb's home, just like at the home of Fawaz Qafisha, a soldier sprang towards the door and ordered Mohtaseb back inside.\n\nMohammad Mohtaseb on his rooftop in H2. \"This is the closed place inside the closed place,\" he said.\n\nUp on the roof, Mohtaseb rolled a cigarette and looked out over the empty streets. With three of his four children out of school - the H2 schools have all been closed - Mohtaseb had been at home and away from work for 40 days. Fortunately for him, his employer had been understanding and was still paying him.\n\nThis was not the case for everyone. Qafisha, the falafel cook, had been unable to fulfil his work responsibilities since the lockdown began, because he could only go out three days a week, and on those three days the allotted hours did not match the hours he would need to travel for work anyway. And unlike Mohtaseb's employer, his had not been understanding. \"In these jobs, if you work you eat,\" he said. \"And if you don't work you don't eat.\"\n\nQafisha had borrowed money several times from friends, to buy food for the family, but he was running out of options. \"Anything that you spend you cannot replace,\" he said, sitting in his living room, away from the window. \"So we are sinking.\"\n\nH2 is dotted with more than 100 Israeli checkpoints, guard posts or other security obstacles.\n\nThe following morning, there was another armed attack on Israeli soldiers by a Palestinian militant, this one in Hebron itself. This time it resulted in only the attacker's death. But a few hours later, another message was sent out via WhatsApp from the Israeli military to the Palestinian residents of Shuhada Street.\n\n\"A notification for the residents of Shuhada Street,\" it said. \"You are forbidden to be in the streets for one week.\" And if they left H2, it said, they would not be allowed to re-enter until the week had passed.\n\nThe lockdown in H2 was a \"blatant example of how Israel is implementing collective punishment in the West Bank\", said Dror Sadot, a spokeswoman for the Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem.\n\n\"The Palestinians in Hebron are paying a price for something they didn't do,\" she said. \"People cannot go to work, children cannot go to school, they are having trouble getting water and food. It is collective punishment, and it is illegal under international law.\"\n\nThe Israeli military told the BBC in a statement that its forces operate in the West Bank \"in accordance with the situational assessment in order to provide security to all residents of the area.\"\n\n\"Accordingly, there are dynamic checkpoints and efforts to monitor movement in different areas in Hebron,\" it said.\n\nA heavily fortified checkpoint at one entrance to H2. Residents say they are sometimes harassed at the checkpoints. (Tanya Habjouqa/Noor)\n\nAmong the Israeli settlers living in H2, in the hardline Kiryat Arba settlement, is Israel's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir. On Thursday, Ben Gvir, who has personally overseen the distribution of thousands of new rifles to West Bank settlers since October 7th, said that Israel should take the same approach to the occupied territory that it was taking in Gaza, where more than 11,000 Palestinians have now been killed. \"Containment will blow up in our faces,\" Ben Gvir said, of the West Bank. \"Just like it did in Gaza.\"\n\nAccording to the Palestinian Health Ministry, more than 200 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since 7 October, by settlers or in clashes with the military.\n\nOn Wednesday, just a few hundred metres from Ben Gvir's house, Areej Jabari had gathered a small group of women into a knitting circle in her home in H2, in defiance of the Israeli orders not to move in the streets that day. This was only the second successful gathering since the lockdown began, and there were only eight women present, down from around 50 who usually gather once a week at the mosque. The knitters had got there by sleight. \"We sneak through the side roads and between the buildings,\" said Huda Jabari, Areej's younger cousin, with a grin.\n\nThe women have learned, this long into the lockdown, to observe the Israeli soldiers and move when they are not looking. They use one another's houses to avoid checkpoints within H2, entering the front door in one sector and emerging from the back door into another. \"In normal times, 50 families pass through my house to get around,\" said Areej's mother Sameera, whose own house sat in the shadow of Ben Gvir's.\n\nAreej Jabari, a resident of H2, looks out of her window onto the street, which she can no longer use freely.\n\nAreej took us up to her roof to show us her view, over an Israeli military base and guard post close to her house. Below us, Israeli settlers passed by along her street, which she was no longer allowed to use.\n\nSince 7 October, Areej had been coming up here to the roof with her video camera to gather footage of the soldiers and send it to B'Tselem, the human rights organisation. In return, the Israeli military arrived at her house last Saturday and forced their way in, she said. \"They broke my press card and warned me not to take any more video or post anything on social media.\"\n\nThey also forbade her to go up onto her roof, she said, or look out of her windows on Fridays or Saturdays, when the Israeli settlers use her road to walk from the settlement to the Jewish holy site near Shuhada Street.\n\nThe IDF told the BBC that it was aware of the incident Areej described and was following up with the specific soldiers involved to examine what happened. \"We are taking this incident very seriously,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nTo Areej, it did not feel particularly out of the ordinary. \"Any time something happens they put more restrictions on us,\" she said. \"The goal is to divide us, to split the area into small pieces and to pressure us to leave.\"\n\nShe was standing up against the railing around the roof of her home, looking out over H2. \"I call this area the fortress of steadfastness,\" she said. She opened her video camera and pointed it in the direction of the Israeli guard post down the road.\n\nMuath al-Khatib contributed to this report. Photographs by Joel Gunter", "Without intervention, the curlew was precited to be extinct in Northern Ireland within a decade\n\nConservationists say there is now \"a flicker of hope\" for one of Northern Ireland's most endangered birds.\n\nIt comes after another bumper breeding season for the curlew.\n\nOnce a common sight in Northern Ireland, the curlew has declined by 82% since 1987.\n\nIn the Antrim Hills, measures including placing electric fencing around the ground-level nesting sites resulted in 55 chicks fledging successfully.\n\nAnd in County Fermanagh, 43 breeding pairs were recorded across the RSPB's Lower Lough Erne nature reserve and other supported lands around the Lough.\n\nThe fall in numbers is due to habitat loss, low breeding productivity and predation.\n\nThere are thought to be just 150 breeding pairs of the bird left in Northern Ireland.\n\nWithout intervention, the species was predicted to be extinct within the decade.\n\nThe RSPB has been working with farmers and landowners as part of the EU-funded four-year-long \"Curlews in Crisis\" project.\n\nEight thousand hectares of land were monitored across the Antrim Hills.\n\nAlmost 40 pairs of curlew were detected with 30 nests built.\n\nThe RSPB's reserve at Lower Lough Erne is now home to the highest density of breeding curlew in Ireland\n\nWith 27 protective electrified fences in place, the birds achieved a 96% hatching success rate - something RSPB NI's Conservation Officer Katie Gibb said she was \"thrilled\" about.\n\n\"With 55 chicks fledging this year and the return of juvenile birds from previous years, there is a flicker of hope for species recovery for Curlew in Northern Ireland,\" she said.\n\n\"Within the first three years of the project, in conjunction with DAERA's Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) group option which supports farmers to help curlew on their land, we have managed to get a total of 152 chicks fledged.\"\n\nThe charity's reserve at Lower Lough Erne is now home to the highest density of breeding curlew in Ireland, with 43 pairs recorded across 200 hectares of lowland wet grassland.\n\nEstate manager Amy Burns said it was \"an amazing achievement\" and a \"big increase\" from the 36 pairs recorded last year.", "OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman was fired as chief executive on Friday\n\nStaff at OpenAI have called on the board of the artificial intelligence company to resign after the shock dismissal of former boss Sam Altman.\n\nIn a letter, they question the board's competence, and accuse it of undermining the firm's work.\n\nBut Mr Altman now has a job at Microsoft and seems to want to stay. He and Microsoft boss Satya Nadella see OpenAI's success as vital, he added.\n\n\"Satya and my top priority remains to ensure OpenAI continues to thrive,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"We are committed to fully providing continuity of operations to our partners and customers. The OpenAI/Microsoft partnership makes this very doable.\"\n\nThe sacking on Friday of a man who is one of the leading figures in artificial intelligence (AI) shocked the tech world.\n\nThe letter's hundreds of signatories, who include senior staff, say they may themselves resign if their demands are not met.\n\nThey also state that Microsoft, the biggest investor in OpenAI, has assured them that there are jobs for all OpenAI staff if they want to join the company.\n\nIn an interview with CNBC, Mr Nadella said he was open to working with OpenAI or working with the OpenAI employees who come to Microsoft.\n\n\"At this point… it's very, very clear that something has to change around the governance [at OpenAI],\" he added, saying the firms would be in dialogue about this.\n\nEvan Morikawa, an engineering manager at OpenAI, posted on X - formerly Twitter - that 743 of the company's 770 workers had put their names to the letter.\n\nOne of the notable people to sign the letter is OpenAI's chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever - despite being a member of the board which now finds itself under fire.\n\nWriting on X, he said that he had made a mistake.\n\n\"Now I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company\", he posted.\n\nIn a fast moving and chaotic series of events over the weekend it seemed briefly that Mr Altman might get his job back, only for it to be announced he was joining Microsoft, which has invested billions in OpenAI in exchange for a 49% stake.\n\nMicrosoft chief executive Satya Nadella wrote on X, that Mr Altman would be leading \"a new advanced AI research team\".\n\nResponding to the post confirming his new job, but before the letter was published, Mr Altman wrote \"the mission continues\".\n\nHe later added: \"We are all going to work together some way or other, and i'm so excited. one team, one mission.\"\n\nMeanwhile, ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear will become OpenAI's new interim boss.\n\nWriting on X, he called the job a \"once-in-a-lifetime opportunity\".\n\nBut he added the way Mr Altman had been sacked was \"handled very badly\" and \"seriously damaged our trust\".\n\nMr Altman, 38, helped launch the firm - best known for creating the popular ChatGPT bot - and has become one of the most influential figures in the fast-growing generative artificial intelligence (AI) space.\n\nThe sacking of such a high profile figure surprised industry watchers, and angered many in the company he'd led - culminating in them demanding the board members resign.\n\nDan Ives of investment firm Wedbush Securities says Microsoft has ended up being strengthened - but the episode reflected badly on OpenAI.\n\nThey were \"at the kid's poker table and thought they won until Nadella and Microsoft took this all over in a World Series of Poker move for the ages\", he wrote.\n\n\"The embarrassing circus show over the weekend at OpenAI was finally taken over by the adults in the room.\"\n\nEmmett Shear was the former boss of video-sharing platform Twitch\n\nOpenAI's new boss Emmett Shear is the former head and co-founder of video streaming service Twitch. A memo to OpenAI's staff said he had a \"unique mix of skills, expertise and relationships that will drive OpenAI forward\".\n\nIn spite of now being at the helm of one of the world's most powerful AI companies - and being a self-described \"techno-optimist\" - Mr Shear has expressed concerns about what he sees as the potential existential threat posed by the technology.\n\n\"It's like someone invented a way to make 10x [ten times] more powerful fusion bombs out of sand and bleach, that anyone could do at home\", he told the Logan Bartlett Show podcast in June.\n\nThe exact reasons for Mr Altman's sacking by the board remain unclear.\n\nOn Friday, when OpenAI announced it was firing Mr Altman, it accused him of not being \"consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities\" - but did not specify what he is alleged to have not been candid about.\n\nMr Shear has addressed some of the speculation on the subject.\n\n\"The board did *not* remove Sam over any specific disagreement on safety, their reasoning was completely different from that. I'm not crazy enough to take this job without board support for commercializing our awesome models\", he wrote on X.\n\nThe mention of safety could suggest that this was not a disagreement about the management of the risks AI may pose, though the words are open to interpretation.\n\nBut Mr Shear committed to hiring an independent investigator \"to dig into the entire process\".", "One of the last Wakhi shepherdesses, Afroze-Numa has taken care of goats, yaks and sheep for almost three decades. Having learnt the trade from her mother and grandmothers, she is part of a centuries-old tradition that is now dying out in Pakistan's Shimshal valley. Every year, these shepherdesses take their flocks to pastures 4,800m (16,000ft) above sea level, where they prepare dairy products to barter, while their animals feed. Their income has brought the village prosperity and allowed them to provide an education for their children. Afroze-Numa still fondly remembers being the first woman in the valley to own a pair of shoes.\n\nWhen the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, Hosai Ahmadzai was one of very few female news anchors to carry on broadcasting in the country. She continues her work at Shamshad TV despite safety concerns and societal resistance against women in the media. She has since interviewed numerous Taliban officials, but she is constrained in what she can ask them and is unable to question their conduct. Ahmadzai has a background in law and political science and has been working in the media for seven years. She focuses on girls' education, which has been severely restricted by the Taliban.\n\nA native of Fuveme, a Ghanaian village washed away by the sea, Esi Buobasa has experienced first-hand the impact of climate change. With her husband and five children, she was forced to migrate as sea levels rose, making her land uninhabitable. A leading fishmonger in her village, Buobasa and her colleagues set up an association aimed at helping fisherwomen in the region, as their source of income is threatened by coastal erosion. The alliance, which now has about 100 members, meets weekly to discuss issues affecting women in the business and makes monetary contributions to support families in need. We despair every time the tidal waves come. Death comes for us and the next generation.\n\nWorking across a range of arts including printmaking, drawing, painting, installation and film, Chila Kumari Burman uses her work to discuss issues such as representation, gender and cultural identity. This year, the artist has seen her work feature at the Blackpool Illuminations, a lights festival that has been running in the UK since 1879. Lollies in Love With Light is a technicolour installation with an ice cream van at its centre, inspired by the ice cream business her parents ran. In 2020, Burman made the installation Remembering a Brave New World adorning Tate Britain's façade with references to Indian mythology, popular culture and female empowerment. Last year she was awarded an MBE.\n\nWith her 1990s debut, Ballad of Love in the Wind, Paulina Chiziane became the first woman to publish a novel in Mozambique. Growing up on the outskirts of Mozambique's capital, Maputo, Chiziane learnt Portuguese at a Catholic school. She studied languages at Eduardo Mondlane University, but did not graduate. Her work has been translated into various languages, including English, German and Spanish. With the book The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy, she won the local José Craveirinha Award. More recently she won the Camões Prize, considered the most prestigious writing award in Portuguese.\n\nOne of the few climate scientists in the travel and tourism sector, Susanne Etti is passionate about leading the industry towards a more sustainable future. Her work as the global environmental impact manager at Intrepid Travel, a small-group adventure travel business, has led the company to become the first tour operator with verified science-based carbon reduction targets. Etti has authored an open-source guide for travel businesses wanting to decarbonise and is a key part of Tourism Declares, a voluntary community of 400 travel organisations, companies and professionals who have declared a climate emergency. Today we are seeing more businesses recognising the importance of climate action by setting ambitious goals to reduce environmental impact, investing in renewable energy and committing to long-term emission reduction targets.\n\nHaving survived an accident that burnt 60% of her body, Jannatul Ferdous has gone on to become a film-maker, writer and disability campaigner. She is the founder of Voice & Views, a human rights organisation that fights for the rights of women who have survived burns. Known as Ivy to her friends and family, she has made five short films and published three novels, using her storytelling to raise awareness around people living with disabilities. Ferdous has studied extensively and her academic achievements include an MA in English Literature and a degree in Development Studies.\n\nNot many 93-year-olds can say they have more than 235,000 followers on Instagram, but for Italy's oldest body positivity influencer, that's just the beginning. Licia Fertz lived through World War Two, endured the death of her 28-year-old daughter and saw her husband die. But when her grandson opened an Instagram profile for her to cheer her up, her colourful outfits and radiant smile made her an instant social media star. She has written an autobiography and modelled nude for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine at the age of 89. She is an anti-ageism, feminism and LGBTQ+ activist, promoting body positivity and reshaping how we perceive ageing bodies and the elderly.\n\nWomen living in remote parts of Tajikistan often struggle to access energy sources such as electricity or firewood. Environmental charity project co-ordinator Natalia Idrisova seeks practical environmental solutions to this energy crisis and educates women about natural resources and energy-efficient technologies and materials. Besides training, her organisation offers energy-saving equipment, solar kitchens and pressure cookers, freeing up time for the women and supporting gender equality in the home in a climate-friendly way. Now Idrisova is training communities on how climate change specifically affects people with disabilities and finding ways to ensure these voices are heard in political discussions. Extreme events around the world give us the last warning that people are inseparable from nature. We cannot negligently exploit nature without serious consequences.\n\nFrom juggling her studies with a part-time job at McDonald's to gaining degrees from Oxford and Harvard universities, Vee (Varaidzo) Kativhu's academic journey has become an inspiration to thousands across the world. While at university, she set up a YouTube channel to share her experiences as a student from a lower socio-economic background, and provided study tips and resources to others like her. Since then, Kativhu has launched Empowered by Vee, a platform through which she seeks to make higher education more accessible for unsupported or under-represented students around the world. She has written a practical self-help book for young people and is currently pursuing a PhD in Education Leadership.\n\nBorn in the US to Iraqi immigrants, Huda Kattan grew up in Oklahoma and shunned a traditional corporate career to pursue her lifelong passion in beauty. After enrolling in a prestigious make-up training school in Los Angeles, she built up a clientele of A-list celebrities including several royal families across the Middle East. She has since become the most-followed beauty brand on Instagram with more than 50 million followers. Kattan founded her cosmetics brand, Huda Beauty, in 2013 by launching a line of false eyelashes. Today, her billion-dollar business encompasses over 140 beauty products, sold in more than 1,500 stores worldwide.\n\nAfter speaking to relatives in Iran, social entrepreneur Sophia Kianni realised that there was relatively little reliable information about climate change in their language, so she began translating materials into Farsi. This soon expanded into a wider project when she founded Climate Cardinals, an international youth-led non-profit group that aims to translate climate information into every single language and make it more accessible to those who don't speak English. It now has 10,000 student volunteers across 80 countries. They have translated one million words of climate material into more than 100 languages. Kianni's aim is to help break down language barriers to the global transfer of scientific knowledge. Young activists have built and nurtured global climate action networks, mobilised millions to protest, driven thousands of petitions against fossil fuel development, and raised millions of dollars to fund climate initiatives. The world's challenges are too great for us to silo ourselves based on age or experience.\n\nWorking across South Asia, independent photographer, writer and National Geographic Explorer Arati Kumar-Rao documents the changing landscape caused by climate change. She chronicles how drastically depleting groundwater, habitat destruction and land acquisition for industry devastate biodiversity and shrink common lands, displacing millions and pushing species towards extinction. Kumar-Rao has crisscrossed the Indian subcontinent for over a decade, and her hard-hitting stories reveal how environmental destruction impacts livelihoods and biodiversity. Her book, Marginlands: India's Landscapes on the Brink, encapsulates the experiences of those living in India's most hostile environments. At the root of the climate crisis is the lamentable loss of our elemental connection with land, water and air. It is imperative that we reclaim this connection.\n\nAfter surviving two strokes when she was in high school, Marijeta Mojasevic's life changed dramatically. Having experienced physical and psychological effects, many of which she still lives with today, Mojasevic now works as a youth adviser and disability rights activist. She uses her voice to challenge attitudes and behaviours towards people with neurological disorders. She designed workshops called Life With Disability, where she draws upon her own experiences to help challenge prejudice. She is an ambassador for OneNeurology, an initiative which aims to make neurological conditions a global public health priority.\n\nComing of age in the US state of Florida in the aftermath of 9/11, middle school teacher Sarah Ott says she was vulnerable to misinformation. Despite being educated in the sciences, for some time she doubted that climate change was really happening. Admitting that she was wrong was the first step in her search for the truth. Her journey has led her to become the climate change ambassador with the National Center for Science Education. Now based in the state of Georgia, she uses climate change to teach physical science concepts to her students and raises awareness of environmental issues in her community. Even though climate change is an \"all hands on deck\" situation, we just can't do it all by ourselves. Activism is like a garden. It is seasonal. It rests. Respect the season you are in.\n\nBorn in England in the 1940s, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo adopted Buddhism when she was a teenager. At the age of 20 she travelled to India and became one the first Westerners to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monastic. To promote the status of female practitioners, Tenzin Palmo founded the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in Himachal Pradesh, India, which is home to more than 120 nuns. She is best known for spending 12 years living in a remote cave in the Himalayas, three of those in strict meditation retreat. In 2008, she was conferred the rare title of Jetsunma, which means Venerable Master.\n\nWomen Who Were Not On a (Magazine) Cover is artist Lala Pasquinelli's brainchild, founded in 2015 to question beauty stereotypes and the representation of women in the media and popular culture. The project is behind viral campaigns that invite women to reassess the narrative around their bodies, including issues such as ageing and dieting. Their recent call to action #HermanaSoltaLaPanza (Sister, stop sucking in your tummy) highlighted real stories of people of all shapes and sizes. A lawyer, poet, lesbian and feminist activist, Pasquinelli works to dismantle homogenous feminine beauty ideals that she says are \"classist, sexist and racist\" and further fuel gender inequality.\n\nClimate Café is a community-led space where people come together to drink, chat and act on climate change. The first one was founded by Jess Pepper in 2015, in the Scottish village of Birnam, Perthshire. She now supports other communities to start their own spaces, linked together in a global network. Attendees say these are safe spaces where they can share their ideas and concerns about the climate crisis. Pepper holds a number of leadership roles within the climate sphere, is an honorary fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Climate action and positive change is happening in communities, often led by women and children. Seeing how connections are inspiring and informing change, building resilience whilst creating opportunity and political space for further change, gives me hope.\n\nLiving in Thailand on the border with Myanmar, an area which has experienced the effects of both climate change and conflict, Matcha Phorn-in has focused her work on the rights of minorities. She founded the Sangsan Anakot Yawachon Development Project, an organisation that aims to educate and empower thousands of stateless and landless indigenous women, girls, and young members of the LGBTQ+ community. As an ethnic minority/indigenous lesbian feminist, Matcha Phorn-in has a leading role in the movement to stop gender-based violence in the region, while also advocating for land rights and climate justice for displaced and disenfranchised people. There can't be sustainable climate solutions without the meaningful participation and voices from indigenous communities, LGBTQIA+, women and girls.\n\nWhen she was finally diagnosed with autism in her late 20s, Carolina Díaz Pimentel baked herself a cake to celebrate the fact that she now knew she was neurodivergent. Now in her 30s and \"proudly autistic\", she works as a journalist specialising in neurodivergence and mental health coverage. Díaz also works to end the stigma that people with psychosocial disabilities often face. She is the founder of several projects or non-profits that raise awareness of neurodiversity: Mas Que Bipolar (More than bipolar), the Peruvian Neurodivergent Coalition and Proyecto Atípico (Project Atypical). She is a Pulitzer Center grantee, and a Rosalynn Carter scholar.\n\nAfter undergoing three years of intensive treatment for stage four cancer and struggling to pay for her drugs, Shairbu Sagynbaeva is now in remission. Together with four other cancer patients in remission, she set up the For Life sewing shop, where they make and sell bags using national ornaments, donating all profits to support cancer treatment. So far, they have raised more than $33,000 (£26,500) for 34 women in need of financial support to cover their medical costs. Sagynbaeva also recognised there was a need to support patients living far from the treatment centre so she helped to establish a nearby not-for-profit hostel where they could stay.\n\nWriter and political activist Daria Serenko is one of many co-ordinators of the Feminist Anti-War resistance - a movement against Russia's invasion of Ukraine. For the past nine years she has been writing about gender violence in Russia, and has written two books of feminist and anti-war prose. Serenko is also the creator of the Quiet Pickett art initiative, in which she wears placards inscribed with messages to engage people on particular issues. Two weeks before Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Serenko was detained by the authorities, accused of spreading \"extremist\" messages. Soon after she immigrated to Georgia and is now designated a \"foreign agent\" by the Russian authorities.\n\nA Kāi Tahu indigenous and disabled climate expert, Kera Sherwood-O'Regan is from Te Waipounamu, the South Island of New Zealand. She is the co-founder of Activate, a social impact agency specialising in climate justice and social change. Her practice is grounded in Māori approaches to land and ancestors, which until recently were ignored by the mainstream climate conversation. Sherwood-O'Regan has built relationships with ministers, officials and broader civil society to highlight the effects of climate change on her communities, while advocating for greater recognition of the rights of indigenous people and people with disabilities in the climate negotiations. We are rejecting the extractivist model, we are taking up space, we are leading with community - and it is working. I think many people now recognise that the realisation of indigenous sovereignty is the solution to the climate crisis.\n\nTeenager Sagarika Sriram is fighting to make climate education mandatory in schools. Using her coding skills, she set up the online platform Kids4abetterworld, designed to help educate children around the world and support them in sustainability projects in their communities. She backs this up with online and offline environmental workshops, teaching children how they can have a positive impact on climate change. Alongside studying for her A-levels in Dubai, Sriram is part of the children's advisory team of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, where she champions environmental rights. It is not time for alarm but for action, so each child is educated to live sustainably and drive the systemic changes we need to see in our world.\n\nTruck driver Clara Elizabeth Fragoso Ugarte has dedicated 17 years of her life to a notoriously male-dominated industry, travelling the length of Mexico along some of the country's most dangerous roads. Originally from Durango, Fragoso Ugarte got married at the age of 17 and is mother to four children and grandmother to seven. As a \"trailera\", as women truckers are called, she spends her life on the road delivering goods across Mexico and the US. She also helps train young drivers and aims to inspire other women to join the industry in order to achieve gender equity in the heavy-load trucking business.\n\nIn 2016, Typhoon Nock-Ten rampaged through parts of Camarines Sur, Philippines, decimating 80% of agricultural land. Louise Mabulo defied the devastation by founding The Cacao Project during the aftermath. The organisation aims to revolutionise local food systems through sustainable agroforestry. Mabulo empowers farmers, dismantles destructive food systems, and champions a rural-led green economy, putting control back in the hands of those who cultivate the land. She advises international climate policy, where she amplifies rural stories and knowledge. She was recognised by the United Nations Environment Programme as a Young Champion of the Earth. I find hope in knowing that movements around the world are being built by people just like me, stewarding a future with green landscapes, that connect communities, where our food is sustainable and accessible, where our economies are circular, and are driven by just, equitable principles.\n\nThe author of more than 20 works, including fiction, poetry and non-fiction, Oksana Zabuzhko is considered one of Ukraine's major writers and intellectuals. Internationally, she is known for works such as Field Work in Ukrainian Sex, and The Museum of Abandoned Secrets. She graduated from the department of Philosophy of Kyiv's Shevchenko University and has a doctorate in the Philosophy of Arts. Her books have been translated into 20 languages, and won her many national and international awards, including the Angelus Central European Literary Prize, Ukraine's Shevchenko National Prize and the French National Order of the Legion of Honour.\n\nBorn in Catalonia, midfielder Aitana Bonmatí won both the Spanish league and Champions League with her club Barcelona this year. But it was during the World Cup that she became a global superstar: she was integral to Spain's victory, scoring three goals and named player of the tournament. Aged 25, she won the prestigious Ballon d'Or and was crowned Uefa player of the year. Unafraid to use her voice on and off the field, Bonmatí speaks out for equality in football for women. As her country's World Cup win was overshadowed by the fallout from Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales kissing a player, Jenni Hermoso, on the lips, Bonmatí used her Uefa acceptance speech to show support for her team-mate and for other women facing similar challenges.\n\nWhen Antinisca Cenci started equestrian vaulting in her 30s, she did not anticipate that 10 years later she would be touring with a team practising the gymnastics-on-horseback. From La Fenice, in northern Italy, she has not had an easy life. Her mother was told Cenci would not \"survive the first cold\" after she experienced complications at birth. Cenci started vaulting as part of a programme initiated by the local ANFFAS centre (Italy's National Association for Families and People with Disabilities) and La Fenice vaulting team. She now trains with world champion vaulter Anna Cavallaro and trainer Nelson Vidoni.\n\nSeeking to bring the experience of attending a comic book convention to people living in poorer neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Andreza Delgado helped launch PerifaCon. The free event focuses on comic authors, artists and other contributors from the Brazilian favelas, who are usually overlooked as cultural consumers or creators. With comic books, videogames, concerts and other \"geek culture\" features, the third PerifaCon took place in 2023, with more than 15,000 people in attendance. Using her platforms as a YouTuber and podcaster, Delgado has been vocal about democratising access to culture in Brazil, focusing particularly on the work of black artists.\n\nWhile at elementary school in Bali, Desak Made Rita Kusuma Dewi was invited to a climbing wall, and soon fell in love with speed climbing. She experienced early success in youth competitions, but the \"queen of Indonesian rock climbing\" has really scaled the heights this year, winning gold in the women's speed event at the 2023 IFSC Climbing World Championships with a record time of 6.49 seconds. This feat earned her a ticket to the Paris 2024 Olympics, where speed climbing will feature as a separate event for the first time. The climber could make Olympic history for Indonesia, which so far has medals only in badminton, weightlifting and archery.\n\nAn instantly recognisable face from the world of entertainment, award-winning actress, director and producer America Ferrera is known for various major roles - including in the recent record-breaking film Barbie, Real Women Have Curves and hit series Ugly Betty. She became the youngest person to win an Emmy in the lead actress category for her role in Ugly Betty - and the first Latina. A long-time activist, Ferrera is a prolific speaker about women's rights and the need to have more representation on screen. The daughter of Honduran immigrants, she campaigns to improve the lives of Latinas in the US through her non-profit, Poderistas.\n\nThe Greenwashing Comedy Club is a stand-up collective that addresses environmental issues as well as feminism, poverty, disability and LGBTQ+ rights. It was founded by stand-up comedian Anne Grall, who believes that through punchlines, it is possible to sow the seeds of change in people's minds and even influence their habits. In a society driven by entertainment, where concise concepts and short messages prevail, Grall believes that humour, often reliant on exaggeration and punchlines, can be an excellent medium to share ideas around climate change. The success of the Greenwashing Comedy Club is quite heartening because it indicates that today many people are concerned about climate change, and they want to come together, laugh, and leave the show feeling ready to continue the fight!\n\nAfter Georgia Harrison became a victim of image-based sexual abuse, she decided to use her story to help tackle violence against women and change the way the UK views consent. The TV personality, known for her appearances on shows such as Love Island and The Only Way is Essex, led a campaign to bring an amendment to the UK's online safety bill to make intimate image abuse crimes, also referred to as \"revenge porn\", easier to prosecute. Harrison is now calling for online platforms to face tougher consequences for hosting images or footage taken or shared without consent.\n\nThis year, Harmanpreet Kaur became the first Indian woman to be named as one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year. The captain of the India women's national cricket team is a prolific scorer both at home and abroad. Last year she led her team to a silver-medal finish at the Commonwealth Games. In domestic cricket, she led Mumbai Indians to win the inaugural Women's Premier League in March. One of her career highlights came in 2017, when she scored 171 runs off 115 balls for India in their Women's World Cup semi-final match against Australia, helping to propel her team into the final.\n\nThrough Kpop4Planet, Dayeon Lee is rallying K-pop fans all around the world to confront the climate crisis. Since its launch in 2021, the campaign group has asked influential people at South Korea's biggest entertainment labels and streaming services to take climate action, and transition to renewable energy. The group has highlighted the environmental implications of physical album waste, which prompted iconic figures in K-pop to pivot to digital albums. Dayeon Lee is now moving beyond music, to challenge the climate pledges of luxury fashion brands, which often feature K-pop celebrities as their public face. When standing for social justice, we never give up until we make a change. We have proved this time and again, and will continue to do so, fighting against the climate crisis.\n\nAt February's Super Bowl LVII, one of the most-watched sporting events in the world, Justina Miles made history. The performer, who is deaf, went viral when she stole some of pop icon Rihanna's thunder by signing the mega-star's lyrics, in an energetic and charismatic act. This made her the first deaf woman to perform American Sign Language (ASL) at the Super Bowl's prestigious half-time show. Her earlier ASL rendition of Lift Every Voice and Sing - known as the Black National Anthem - was also a first at the event. Miles wants to show the world more authentic representations of deaf people and she hopes to open her own practice to train more deaf nurses.\n\nNot only has actress Dia Mirza won awards for her roles in Indian cinema, but she is also involved in numerous environmental and humanitarian projects. As a goodwill ambassador of the United Nations Environment Programme, Mirza spreads the message on issues such as climate change, clean air and wildlife protection. She is the founder of One India Stories, a production house that aims to tell impactful stories that, in her own words, \"make you pause and think\". She is also an ambassador for Save the Children, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and a board member of the Sanctuary Nature Foundation.\n\nAs South Africa's first black female freediving instructor, Zandile Ndhlovu wants to make access to the ocean more diverse. She founded The Black Mermaid Foundation, which exposes young people and local communities to the ocean, in the hope of helping new groups to use these spaces recreationally, professionally and in sport. Ndhlovu is an ocean explorer, storyteller and film-maker. She uses these skills to help shape a new generation of Ocean Guardians - people who learn about ocean pollution and rising sea levels and become involved in the protection of their environment. Thinking about the number of young voices, rising up to create change in society gives me hope when considering the climate crisis.\n\nAn award-winning author, illustrator and screenwriter, Alice Oseman is the creator of a bestselling graphic novel for young adults, Heartstopper. She has also turned the LGBTQ+ coming-of-age story into an Emmy award-winning television adaptation for Netflix. Oseman has written every episode and been involved at every stage, from casting to music. She is the author of several other novels for young adults, including Radio Silence, Loveless and Solitaire, which was published when she was only 19. Her books have won, been shortlisted or nominated for a number of awards, including the YA Book Prize, the Inky Awards, the Carnegie Medal, and the Goodreads Choice Awards.\n\nLong before protests erupted in Iran last year, DJ Paramida had been defying cultural restrictions for women of Iranian descent. Now based in Berlin, Paramida discovered her passion for music and dance culture while living between Frankfurt and Tehran in her teenage years. Inspired by iconic dance music history, her record label Love On The Rocks promotes euphoric and outsider dance culture today. As a resident of Berghain's Panorama Bar in Berlin, she has become a globally sought-after DJ and an accomplished music producer. She uses this space to challenge gender norms in the male-dominated music and nightlife industry.\n\nAlthough her speciality is heptathlon, it was competing in the 100m hurdles that got Camila Pirelli into the Tokyo Olympics. Known by her nickname the Guarani Panther, the track and field athlete holds a number of national athletics records, and is a sports coach and English teacher. Pirelli grew up in an environmentally conscious family in a small town in Paraguay, where she has seen the impacts of climate change up close. She's now an EcoAthlete Champion, which means she is committed to using her sports platform to encourage people to talk about climate change and take action to reduce carbon emissions. I grew up in a town where seeing wild animals was a daily occurrence. Knowing those animals are suffering now due to climate change worries me and makes me want to help.\n\nCelebrated as \"the fastest Lebanese woman in history\" after breaking the country's 100m record, Aziza Sbaity recently made headlines again as the first black athlete from her country to clinch gold at the West Asian and Arab championships this year. Born to a Liberian mother and Lebanese father, she moved to Lebanon aged 11, where she was confronted with racism and colour-based classism. Athletics became her avenue to self-discovery and empowerment and fuelled a commitment to advocacy. She uses her position to talk about racism in the country and champion inclusivity and equality, and she collaborates with schools and universities to inspire Lebanon's youth.\n\nStarting out as an actress in Myanmar nearly 25 years ago, Khine Hnin Wai became popular for her role as the lead in the film San Ye. She went on to become one of the most successful actresses in Burmese cinema. However, she is now better known for her charitable activities. In 2014, she founded the Khine Hnin Wai Foundation, a charity that supports various causes, including looking after orphans and abandoned children. Through her work, she currently takes care of nearly 100 children whose parents are unable to support them for various reasons. Hnin Wai also serves as an ambassador for the prevention of child trafficking.\n\nA European and Commonwealth 4x100m gold medallist, Bianca Williams was the Great Britain and Northern Ireland captain for the 2023 European Team Championships. In July, she finished second in the 200m at the UK Athletics Championships to secure her place on the British team for the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. She and her partner, fellow athlete Ricardo Dos Santos, were stopped and searched by police officers in London in July 2020. Williams and Dos Santos made an official complaint, accusing the police of racial profiling. Two officers were found guilty of gross misconduct and were sacked as a result.\n\nDanish-Bahraini human rights campaigner Maryam Al-Khawaja is a leading voice for political reform in Bahrain and the Gulf region. Her work aims to shed light on human rights abuses, particularly advocating the release of her father, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, through the #FreeAlKhawaja campaign. He is a prominent activist and prisoner of conscience who is serving a life sentence after taking part in Bahrain's pro-democracy protests in 2011. Al-Khawaja has served on several boards including Civicus and the International Service for Human Rights and has been involved in young feminist organisation FRIDA and Physicians for Human Rights.\n\nDriven by her determination to end female genital mutilation (FGM), Shamsa Araweelo educates and raises awareness through her powerful and direct online videos. Araweelo, who was born in Somalia but currently lives in the UK, was subjected at the age of six to female genital cutting, a procedure in which a woman's genitals are partially or totally removed for non-medical reasons. With more than 70 million views on TikTok, she wants to ensure that no-one remains uninformed. She now assists British citizens trapped abroad who face so-called honour-based violence. She also provides advice on FGM to London's Metropolitan Police and has launched her own charity, Garden of Peace.\n\nDedicated to advancing gender equality, Yasmina Benslimane founded Politics4Her, which promotes the participation of young women and girls in political and decision-making processes. When a devastating earthquake struck her home country of Morocco in September, Benslimane and her organisation called for a gender-sensitive relief response. She published a manifesto identifying challenges specific to women and girls that would be exacerbated by the disaster, such as period poverty and forced marriages. As a mentor, adviser and board member for several non-profit organisations, she helps young women develop their leadership skills. Her work has earned her a UN Women peacebuilder award.\n\nAs a co-director at Women Wage Peace (WWP), Yael Braudo-Bahat brings her background in law to an Israeli grassroots peace movement which has more than 50,000 members. Established in 2014, WWP seeks a negotiated political resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, emphasising the role of women in the peace process. For the past two years, WWP has collaborated with a Palestinian sister movement, Women of the Sun. Braudo-Bahat says she owes much to her mentor, the prominent peace activist and WWP co-founder, Vivian Silver, who dedicated decades of her life to fostering understanding and equality between Israelis and Palestinians. Silver was killed in the attack by Hamas on 7 October 2023.\n\nAs a key figure in the fight to protect Ecuador's Amazonian rainforest, Alicia Cahuiya had a big win this year. In a historic referendum in August, Ecuadorians voted to halt all new oil wells in the Yasuní National Park – a decision that will mean the state oil company ends its operations in one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet, which is home to uncontacted indigenous populations. Cahuiya, who was born in Yasuní and is a leader of the Waorani nation (NAWE), had been campaigning for a referendum for over a decade. She is currently the head of the women's division at Ecuador's Confederation of Indigenous People. Climate change has made things very different for us, causing floods that destroy our crops. When the Sun is too hot and there is a drought, a large part of our food is lost, which brings us great sadness, as all the efforts put into the crops go to waste.\n\nAmal Clooney is an award-winning human rights lawyer who has spent the past two decades defending victims of injustice. She has led high-profile cases involving crimes against humanity in Armenia and Ukraine, as well as sexual violence against women in Malawi and Kenya. Recent successes include representing victims of an Islamic State fighter and of a Darfur warlord. She has helped to secure the freedom of journalists and other political prisoners targeted by oppressive regimes. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School and co-founder of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, which provides free legal support to victims of human rights abuses in more than 40 countries.\n\nIn 2019, Dehenna Davison became the first Conservative MP for Bishop Auckland since the constituency's creation in 1885. She became minister for levelling up in 2022, focusing on social mobility and regeneration. She resigned as a minister in September 2023, speaking openly about her diagnosis of chronic migraine. When Davison was 13, her father was killed by a single punch, catalysing her journey into politics. She founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group on One Punch Assaults and campaigns with One Punch UK for justice and sentencing reform. She is also focused on improving treatment pathways for chronic migraine, and campaigning for more research funding into invasive lobular cancer.\n\nWhen talks stalled at the 2009 UN climate summit in Copenhagen, Christiana Figueres was brought in to solve a problem. Appointed executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Figueres spent the next six years developing a plan to ensure nations agreed on a shared climate strategy. Thanks in part to her work, almost 200 parties signed the landmark 2015 Paris agreement - an international treaty that sets the commitment to keep the rise in mean global temperature to \"well below\" 2.0C above pre-industrial levels. Figueres is the co-founder of Global Optimism, an organisation that works with businesses to adopt practical climate solutions. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by grief and become paralysed by my emotions, unable to act. Other times I feel anger and get hijacked by my emotions, wanting to strike out in react mode. But in the best of days, I use my pain and anger to anchor myself into the root of my emotions, transforming them into a deep commitment to act out of strength, love and expectant joy, co-creating the better world we all want for our children and their descendants.\n\nA fearless campaigner, Bella Galhos has been instrumental in transforming East Timor - also known as Timor-Leste - both before and after the country gained independence from Indonesia in 2002. During years in exile, she travelled the world advocating the self-determination of her people. Returning to East Timor after its liberation, Galhos has been involved in rebuilding the country after decades of conflict left half the population in extreme poverty. In 2015 she opened the Leublora Green School, which promotes sustainable development and inspires children to be agents of change. Galhos is currently serving as adviser to East Timor's president, focusing on the economic empowerment of women and is a prominent voice for the LGBTQ+ community.\n\nWomen soldiers helped 11-year-old Rina Gonoi during the evacuation in the aftermath of the deadly 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and after, dreamt of serving in Japan's Self-Defense Forces. She became an officer, but her childhood dreams were shattered as she experienced sexual harassment \"on a daily basis\". Gonoi left the military in 2022 and launched a public campaign calling for accountability, a tough task in a male-dominated society where sexual abuse survivors face a fierce backlash if they speak out. Her case pushed the military to conduct an internal investigation, which led to more than 100 other complaints of harassment. The defense ministry later issued an apology to Gonoi.\n\nA prominent figure in Brazil's burgeoning indigenous rights movement, in 2023 Sonia Guajajara became her country's first minister for native peoples, hailed as a historic appointment by newly elected President Lula da Silva. She vowed to make the battle against environmental crimes one of her top priorities. Guajajara was born to illiterate parents in Araribóia, in the Amazon region, where she had a front-row seat to the devastation climate change can wreak on an ecosystem. She left to study literature, work as a nurse and a teacher, and begin a career in activism. In 2022 she became the first indigenous congresswoman for the state of São Paulo. We have to think about how to promote climate justice and fight environmental racism, because the people who can best protect the environment are the first and most affected by its destruction. We, the indigenous people, are the true guardians of biodiversity and life.\n\nA resident of Miami's Little Haiti neighbourhood, Madame Renita Holmes is the founding director of OUR Homes, a business and property consulting practice in the US state of Florida. She campaigns for housing rights for marginalised communities, including those affected by climate gentrification as rising sea levels push up property prices in areas further from the coast. Raised by a single mother of 11 children, Holmes is a senior living with disabilities. She is a fellow of the Cleo Institute's Empowering Resilient Women programme, which seeks to spark climate action through science-based education. She assists local housing agencies on issues related to African-American and inner-city women. There is hope in recognising our bond as women with Mother Earth. We are resilient, strong, made to nurture; we take action and we take care.\n\nSince fighting broke out in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, Nataša Kandić has documented wartime atrocities including rape, torture, murder and forced disappearances. She has represented the families of victims of different ethnicities before the War Crimes Court in Belgrade and was part of a group which critically examined the policy of the government of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic towards Kosovo. Kandić is the founder of the Humanitarian Law Center, often praised for its impartial investigations into war crimes. She helped organise the RECOM Reconciliation Network, which seeks to establish the facts about the Balkan wars, in which an estimated 130,000 people died.\n\nA member of Nepal's indigenous Newa nation, transgender human rights activist Rukshana Kapali struggled with a lack of information around her identity when she was growing up. She embarked on her own path of self-education around the diversity of gender and sexuality. She came out as a teenager and has been vocal on social media on issues around queer rights. She is currently a third-year law student and is actively involved in the advancement of legal and constitutional rights for LGBTQ+ people in Nepal. Kapali comes from a historically marginalised caste within the Newa ethnicity, the Jugi, and fights against forced evictions of Jugi people from their traditional homes.\n\nOriginally an opera singing teacher, Sofia Kosacheva found another calling when she met a group of firefighters in 2010. She became a firefighter herself and created a community to train volunteers to help tackle wildfires in Russia. This led to the development of more than 25 volunteer groups across the country. She has helped to extinguish several hundred fires across Russia and collaborated with Greenpeace, until the NGO was officially labelled an \"undesirable organisation\" and its Russian branch was shut down. Kosacheva has also created a website for volunteer forest firefighters which is considered the most complete online database in Russian with information on preventing and controlling wildfires. No matter how pervasive the climate crisis is, every big achievement starts with small ones. It may seem that we are too small to change something globally, but we must start with the changes we can make around ourselves.\n\nThis year marks 25 years since Northern Ireland's Good Friday Agreement was signed. Monica McWilliams played a crucial role as a lead negotiator during the multi-party peace talks that led to the agreement. She co-founded the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition, a political party that crossed the sectarian divide, which introduced critical provisions to the peace treaty. She was elected to the first Northern Ireland Legislative Assembly and as chief commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, she drafted the advice on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland. McWilliams currently serves as a commissioner for the disbandment of armed groups and has published widely on violence against women.\n\nFounder of the Almasar Library Centre, Najla Mohamed-Lamin wants to educate women and children on health and the environment in Saharawi refugee camps in south-west Algeria. Her family are originally from Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony, annexed by Morocco in 1975 and the subject of a long-running territorial dispute. They were forced into exile after fleeing violence. Born and raised in the camps, Mohamed-Lamin learnt English as a teenager, translated for foreign delegations and was able to study abroad after she crowdfunded her tuition fees. After graduating in sustainable development and women's studies, she returned to the camps to help more than 200,000 Saharawi refugees deal with water and food insecurity made worse by climate change. We must confront the growing impact of climate change in a desert region, which sees our homes regularly destroyed by floods and sandstorms, and our people suffer under extreme temperatures. All this, when our people have contributed virtually nothing to the climate crisis.\n\nUlanda Mtamba grew up in a community in Lilongwe, Malawi, which gave very little support towards women's education, with many girls pressured into dropping out of school to marry before the age of 18. Mtamba challenged the community's status quo and not only graduated from university but also obtained a master's degree. She advocates for enforcing existing laws that protect girls from early marriage, as well as for increased investment to address health risks associated with early pregnancy. She currently works as Malawi's country director for AGE Africa, an organisation that seeks equal access to secondary school for all girls on the continent.\n\nTV personality Tamar Museridze - also known as Tamuna - had been a well-known face on Georgia's public broadcasting network from the age of 18 but her life changed drastically when, aged 31, she discovered she was adopted. She gave up everything to search for her biological parents and during her research found evidence that large-scale black-market adoption had been going on in Georgia since the 1970s. She set up the Facebook group \"I'm searching\" sparking a national conversation around illegal adoption, mostly of babies taken from maternity hospitals. Museridze's organisation has helped reunite hundreds of families, but she is still searching for her own.\n\nThe network Hero Women Rising, or Mama Shuja, aims to improve living conditions for women and teenage girls in the DR Congo. Disability rights activist Neema Namadamu founded the grassroots organisation, which uses education and technology to amplify women's voices and teach them to advocate for their rights. Born in a remote area of eastern DR Congo, Namadamu contracted polio at the age of two. She was the first woman with a disability from her ethnic group to graduate from university. She became a member of parliament and has been an adviser to the country's minister of gender and family.\n\nFormer First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama is the founder of the Girls Opportunity Alliance, which supports global grassroots organisations working to ensure girls get the education they deserve. This builds on Let Girls Learn, an initiative Obama launched as first lady which employed a whole-of-government approach to help adolescent girls around the world access quality education. As first lady, she championed three other major initiatives: Let's Move! sought to help parents raise healthier kids; Joining Forces supported US service personnel, veterans, and their families; and Reach Higher - which she still works on today - encourages young people to pursue higher education.\n\nSepideh Rashnu became known in Iran for her vocal opposition to compulsory hijab rules. Following an altercation on a bus with a woman who was enforcing the use of head coverings, she was arrested. While still in custody, she appeared on state TV with a bruised face, \"apologising\" for her behaviour. This was in July 2022, just weeks before 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died while in the custody of Iran's morality police. Earlier this year, Rashnu was arraigned after sharing online photos of herself without a headscarf. She says she has been suspended from university for her activism. She is currently out of prison and continues to defy the compulsory hijab rules.\n\nFollowing the disappearance of her sister in 2008, Bernadette Smith searched tirelessly for answers. She became a leading advocate for families of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls throughout Canada and set up a coalition to help co-ordinate action and find answers. She also co-founded Drag the Red, an initiative that searches Winnipeg's Red River for bodies or evidence of missing persons. Smith was recently elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for a third term and made history as the first of two First Nation women appointed as cabinet ministers in the province. She currently serves as minister of housing, addictions and homelessness.\n\nA leading expert on climate policies, Iryna Stavchuk has recently joined the European Climate Foundation as Ukraine programme manager, with the main goal of designing green and climate-proof solutions for the post-war recovery of her country. Before taking on this role, she worked for the Ukrainian government as deputy environment minister from 2019 to 2022 and was responsible for climate change policies, European integration, international relations and biodiversity. Stavchuk is also co-founder of two prominent environmental NGOs - Ecoaction and Kyiv Cyclists' Association (U-Cycle) - and has co-ordinated regional networks of civil society groups working on climate change issues. Our task is to do our best in the place and situation we are in. I adhere to the words of Saint Francis of Assisi: \"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.\"\n\nAs a leader of the global feminist movement since the 1970s, Gloria Steinem's contribution to feminism has been recognised around the world for generations. Steinem has worked on issues of equality as an activist, journalist, writer, lecturer and media spokeswoman. She also co-founded Ms. magazine, first circulated in 1971 and still in publication today, considered the first periodical in the US to bring the issues of the women's rights movement into the mainstream. At the age of 89, Steinem continues her work towards a more just world through her support of seasoned organisations such as the Women's Media Center, the ERA Coalition and Equality Now.\n\nThe Dosti Network is an organisation dedicated to providing crucial resources and information to Afghans - both in Afghanistan and those living as refugees - launched in response to the Taliban takeover in 2021. As an Afghan refugee herself, founder Summia Tora understands the challenges faced by displaced individuals. Her work focuses on refugee resettlement and access to education for students affected by conflict. Recognising the transformative power of education, Tora has worked with organisations such as the UN and World Bank, the Malala Fund, and Schmidt Futures. Through these partnerships, she champions access to education with a specific focus on refugees and women and girls in emergency contexts.\n\nIn 2018, she sought to freeze her eggs at a public hospital in Beijing. But Xu Zaozao, a single woman, was told the procedure was only available to married couples in China. She took the hospital to court in the first legal challenge on the rights of unmarried women in China to freeze their eggs. This pioneering legal battle, which began in December 2019, has made headlines amid concerns around the country's low birth-rate. The final verdict is still pending, but Xu's case has been studied by scholars in the fields of law, medicine and ethics. Today, she remains a prominent advocate for single women's reproductive rights and bodily autonomy.\n\nIn 2014, when the so-called Islamic State group took over huge parts of her home country, Iraq, Basima Abdulrahman was studying at university in the US. Many Iraqi towns were destroyed as a result of fighting, but when Abdulrahman returned home after her masters in structural engineering, she saw a way of helping. She founded KESK, Iraq's first initiative dedicated to green building. She found that creating greener structures meant combining the latest energy-efficient technologies and materials with Iraq's traditional building methods. She is committed to ensuring that today's building practices do not compromise the well-being of future generations. I am often anxious about the climate crisis. I can't help but wonder how anyone can find peace without being part of the solution to mitigate its risks.\n\nAs Syria's civil war escalated in 2017, Amina Al-Bish decided to become one of the first female volunteers of Syria Civil Defence, a volunteer organisation also known as the White Helmets, hoping to save lives and provide first aid to injured civilians. Amina later volunteered to rescue victims of the earthquakes that hit Syria and Turkey in February 2023, which devastated neighbourhoods and trapped her own family members under the rubble. Now Al-Bish works to improve the lives of other women in her community in northern Syria, where fighting continues. She is pursuing a degree in Business Administration and says her dream is to participate in building a peaceful Syria.\n\nThe first certified Palestinian female surgeon in Gaza, Dr Sara Al-Saqqa works in its largest hospital, Al-Shifa. She has been using her Instagram account to document the experience of treating people in the middle of a war. Al-Shifa hospital has been badly damaged as Israel presses its offensive against Hamas. Al-Saqqa has been posting about the lack of electricity, fuel, water and food, which has prevented the hospital from treating its patients. She had to leave Al-Shifa shortly before Israeli soldiers raided the hospital, in what the Israel Defense Forces described as a targeted operation against Hamas. Al-Saqqa studied medicine in the Islamic University of Gaza and surgery at London's Queen Mary University. She is no longer the only female surgeon in Gaza, with others following in her footsteps.\n\nSince 2018, Bayang has been keeping an eco-diary, monitoring local species and changes to water sources, recording the weather and observing plants. She lives in China's Qinghai Province, which is situated mostly on the Tibetan Plateau and is already experiencing the effects of climate change such as higher temperatures, melting glaciers and desertification. Bayang is part of the Sanjiangyuan Women Environmentalists Network, and advocates health and sustainability in her community. She has acquired skills in crafting eco-friendly products - including lip balm, soap and bags - to protect local water sources and inspire others to join the environmental cause.\n\nNow a director at the World Resources Institute (WRI), Susan Chomba says her experience of childhood poverty in Kirinyaga county in central Kenya motivates her to help improve the lives of others. She primarily concerns herself with protecting forests, restoring landscapes and transforming Africa's food systems. From the tropical forests of the Congo Basin to the dry West African Sahel, as well as eastern Africa, Chomba spends time working with smallholder farmers, particularly women and young people, to help them make the most of their land. She shares her expertise with governments and researchers to build more resilient communities in the face of intensifying climate change. I'm more affected by the inaction of world leaders, especially from the major emitters, who also have the economic power to change course but are held back by money, power and politics. To manage those feelings, I bury myself in actions on the ground, working with women and youth across Africa on nature protection and restoration, transforming our food systems and changing policies.\n\nSeagrass is known for its ability to store carbon and provide nurseries for fish, but some underwater habitats have been devastated. Leanne Cullen-Unsworth is one of the founders and current CEO of Project Seagrass, the UK's first seagrass restoration scheme at a meaningful scale. The project makes the process easier by using a remote-control robot to plant seeds, and could create a blueprint to help other countries restore their underwater meadows. An interdisciplinary scientist with more than 20 years of experience in marine research, Cullen-Unsworth is devoted to science-based conservation and restoration. There is too much to do for anyone to achieve things alone, but people are working together and sharing knowledge. For my own small part, I know we can revive a vital habitat, protect it and restore it for all of the benefits it provides our planet and society.\n\nAn associate professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Media Lab in the US, Canan Dagdeviren has recently invented a wearable ultrasound patch for early breast cancer detection. She drew inspiration from her aunt who was diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer at age 49, despite having regular cancer screening, and died six months later. At her aunt's bedside, Dagdeviren drew up a rough plan of a diagnostic device that could be incorporated into a bra and would allow for more frequent screening of individuals at high risk of breast cancer. The technology could potentially save millions of lives.\n\nTape recorder in hand, Izabela Dłużyk sets out to capture the extraordinary sounds of Białoweiza, one of Europe's oldest and best preserved forests, in Poland. The field recordist is unusual not just because she is a young woman in a profession dominated by men, but because she has been blind since birth. Dłużyk has developed a special sensitivity to birdsong ever since her family gave her a tape recorder at the age of 12 and can identify species just using sound. She believes it's a privilege to share \"all the good, beauty and solace\" which nature sounds have to offer, \"regardless of any differences we might perceive among each other\".\n\nGlaciers provide an essential source of freshwater for local communities, but in Colombia they are rapidly disappearing. Founder Marcela Fernández and her colleagues at the NGO Cumbres Blancas (White Peaks) raise awareness of the issue, highlighting that of the 14 glaciers that once existed, only six are left and these are at risk. Through scientific expeditions and by assembling a team of mountaineers, photographers, scientists, and artists, Fernández monitors changes and develops creative ways to prevent glacier loss. With her adjacent project, \"Pazabordo\" (Peace on board), she also travels to areas affected by violence during Colombia's 50-year internal armed conflict. Glaciers have taught me to deal with grief, with absence. When you hear them you know that their loss is a damage we can't undo, but we can still contribute and leave a mark.\n\nA highly influential artificial-intelligence computer scientist, Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR), set up as \"a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech's pervasive influence\". She has criticised racial bias in facial recognition technologies, and co-founded a non-profit that works to improve the inclusion of black people in AI. The Ethiopian-born computer scientist is on the board of AddisCoder, which teaches programming to Ethiopian students. While working as co-lead of Google's ethical AI team in 2020, she co-authored an academic paper that raised issues in AI language models, including structural bias against minorities and marginalised people and places. The report led to her departure from the company - at the time, the company responded that the paper ignored relevant research and said Gebru had resigned. However, Gebru says she was fired for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace.\n\nAn American economic historian and labour economist, Claudia Goldin was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in economics for her work on women's employment and the causes of the gender pay gap. She is only the third woman to receive the prize, and the first not to share the award with male colleagues. Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and researches topics such as income inequality, education and immigration. Some of her most influential papers look at the history of women's quest for career and family, and the impact of the contraceptive pill on women's career and marriage decisions.\n\nIn 2012, Trần Gấm started introducing more climate-friendly energy sources to farms in Vietnam. The mother-of-two saw a gap in the market and started a business installing and managing biogas plants in Hanoi, later expanding the operation to three neighbouring provinces. Her project helps farmers cut costs by turning cow and pig manure, water hyacinth and other waste into biogas - considered a far more sustainable energy source than natural gas - which can then be used as energy for cooking and running a household. Businesses like Trần's engage local communities and drive the political support needed for climate change mitigation. We must live, and must live well, so I have tried to cope and protect loved ones by enhancing our health through physical exercise, eating a balanced diet, and maintaining sleep patterns. I also encourage people to live an organic lifestyle, growing their own fruits and vegetables, and advocating against using chemical pesticides on our vegetables.\n\nAs a sustainable mobility enthusiast, Anna Huttunen pushed for greener, cleaner, more efficient mobility in the Finnish city of Lahti, named the European Green Capital 2021. She led the city's ground-breaking personal carbon trading model - the world's first app to allow citizens to earn credits by using environmentally friendly transportation such as cycling or public transport. She works as climate neutral cities adviser for NetZeroCities, an organisation which helps European cities attempt to reach climate neutrality by 2030. Huttunen aims to make others excited about sustainable mobility and is a keen advocate for cycling, which she considers the future of transport in cities. Municipalities around the world are full of amazing people working towards enabling a more sustainable life for their citizens. Do your part, get engaged and be part of the transformation!\n\nAs an award-winning Ugandan vet and conservationist, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka works to save the country's endangered mountain gorillas, whose habitat is being eroded by climate change. She is founder and CEO of Conservation Through Public Health, an NGO that promotes biodiversity conservation by enabling people, gorillas and other wildlife to co-exist, while improving their health and habitat. After three decades, she has helped increase the number of mountain gorillas from 300 to about 500, which was enough to downgrade them from critically endangered to endangered. Kalema-Zikusoka was named a Champion of the Earth in 2021 by the United Nations Environment Programme. What gives me hope in the climate crisis is the increasing acknowledgement that it needs to be addressed urgently. There are innovative methods to mitigate and adapt to this crisis.\n\nThis year has seen wildfires ravage some of the world's biggest forests. With firefighters often struggling to keep up with the scale and spread of the blazes, Sonia Kastner founded an organisation to help detect them earlier. Pano AI uses artificial intelligence technology to prepare a faster response before fires spread by scanning the landscape for signs of ignition and alerting responders, instead of relying on members of the public to call emergency services. Kastner previously spent more than 10 years working in a variety of tech start-ups. What gives me hope is the incredible power of human innovation. I have witnessed first hand the potential of technology and data-driven solutions to help address the worst impacts of the climate crisis.\n\nFor decades, cars have been manufactured using crash-test dummies based on the average male – even though statistics show that women are more at risk of injury or death in the event of a frontal collision. Engineer Astrid Linder has worked to change that, leading the project to create the world's first average-sized female crash test dummy, which takes into account the morphology of women's bodies. A professor of Traffic Safety at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) and adjunct professor at Chalmers University, Linder is an expert in biomechanics and road injury prevention.\n\nWhen devastating floods hit Pakistan last year, midwife Neha Mankani travelled to affected areas to offer her skills. Through her charity, Mama Baby Fund, Mankani and her team provided life-saving birthing kits and midwifery care to more than 15,000 flood-affected families. Her typical practice focuses on low-resourced settings, emergency response and climate-affected communities. Mama Baby Fund has now raised enough money to launch a boat ambulance that will transport pregnant women living in coastal communities to nearby hospitals and clinics for urgent treatment. The work of midwives in communities facing climate-related disasters is vital. We are both first responders and climate activists, who make sure women can continue to receive the reproductive, pregnancy, and postpartum care they need, even when the situation around them is deteriorating.\n\nAn inspiring leader for an entire continent, Wanjira Mathai has more than 20 years of experience advocating for social and environmental change. She led the Green Belt Movement, an indigenous grassroots organisation in Kenya that empowered women through the planting of trees, established by Wanjira's mother and winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, Wangari Maathai. Mathai is now the managing director for Africa and Global Partnerships at the World Resources Institute, and the chair of the Wangari Maathai Foundation. She currently serves as Africa adviser to the Bezos Earth Fund, as well as to the Clean Cooking Alliance and the European Climate Foundation. Action is \"local\". We need to support local initiatives like tree-based entrepreneurs and community-led work around restoration, renewable energy and the circular economy. Bottom-up efforts like these give me hope as they show us what is possible.\n\nIsabel Farías Meyer never suspected that her irregular menstrual cycles were a symptom of anything suspicious, but just before she turned 18 she was diagnosed with early menopause or premature ovarian failure. This condition occurs when ovaries stop working properly and affects an estimated 1% of women under the age of 40. Women experience similar symptoms to those of the menopause, but at a very early age. Farías has spoken frankly about how the diagnosis has affected her life, including living with osteoporosis. The 30-year-old journalist has launched the first regional network for early menopause in Latin America to share information, combat myths and create safe spaces for people living with the diagnosis.\n\nMalta has some of the strictest rules on abortion in Europe and Natalie Psaila helps women who need information and advice. She co-founded Doctors for Choice Malta, and advocates decriminalisation and legalisation of abortion and better access to contraception. Psaila says the near total ban in Malta, where terminations are only allowed if a woman's life is at risk, means women take pills without medical supervision. She has established a helpline that gives support to women before, during and after abortion. She has also published a sex education book aimed at 10 to 13-year-olds called My Body's Fantastic Journey, to help improve knowledge of reproductive health in the country.\n\nHelping Ukrainian children process war trauma is Olena Rozvadovska's mission. She is the co-founder of Voices of Children, a charity that provides psychological support. The organisation started as a grassroots initiative in 2019, four years after Rozvadovska volunteered near the frontline in Donbas as Russian-backed separatists started fighting against Ukraine. The foundation now has more than 100 psychologists working in 14 centres, as well as a free hotline. It has helped tens of thousands of children and parents. Rozvadovska took part in the Oscar-nominated documentary A House Made of Splinters, and with her team published a book, War Through the Voices of Children.\n\nWomen and Girls, You Are Part of the Climate Solution is the title of Omani scientist Rumaitha Al Busaidi's 2021 TED Talk, which has garnered more than a million views and reflects her championing of Arab women's rights. Al Busaidi's expertise has led to her position on the Arab Youth Council for Climate Change and the Environment Society of Oman. She has also advised the Biden administration on delivering climate-informed foreign aid, and the government of Greenland on sustainable tourism. She is the youngest Omani woman to reach the South Pole and the founder of WomeX, a platform to help Arab women develop business negotiation skills. The number one solution to overcome climate change is to empower women and girls. The multiplier effect they have across their communities will change perceptions and actions and protect this place we call home.\n\nIn Indonesia's conservative Aceh province it is unusual for women to be leaders. When Sumini realised a major cause of floods in her village was deforestation, which also contributes towards climate change, she decided to take action and work with other women in the community. Her group received a permit from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry allowing the community of Damaran Baru village to manage the area, all 251 hectares of forest, for 35 years She now leads a Village Forest Management Unit (LPHK), to discourage illegal logging and hunters threatening Sumatran tigers, pangolins and other at-risk wildlife. With rampant deforestation and wildlife poaching these days, forests should get more and more attention when it comes to how we collectively tackle the climate crisis. Keep the forest, keep the life.\n\nWhen social psychologist Fabiola Trejo started her academic journey, almost two decades ago, there wasn't any research in Mexico focusing on women's sexual pleasure as an issue of social justice. Trejo paved the way with her work, which looks at social inequity, gender-based violence and the political power of sexual pleasure, and seeks to promote sexual justice for women. She argues that some inequalities make women more sexually vulnerable. Through speaking engagements, scientific research and practical workshops, she helps people explore pleasure, orgasms and masturbation in ways that overcome these issues. Her work resonates in Latin America and Spanish-speaking communities, where issues around female health and sexuality remain taboo.\n\nThe ambition of youth-led organisation SustyVibes, founded by Jennifer Uchendu, is to make sustainability actionable, relatable and cool. Uchendu's recent work has focused on exploring the impacts of the climate crisis on the mental health of Africans, especially young people. In 2022, she set up The Eco-Anxiety Africa project (TEAP) to focus on validating and safeguarding climate emotions in Africans through research, advocacy and climate-aware psychotherapy. Her goal is to work with people and organisations interested in shifting mindsets and doing the hard and often uncomfortable work of learning about climate emotions. I experience a range of emotions when it comes to the climate crisis. I am slowly making peace with the fact that I will never be able to do enough but that I can, instead, do my best. Showing up in solidarity with others to act, rest and just be, helps me safeguard my climate-induced feelings.\n\nA researcher on particle physics, Prof Anamaría Font Villarroel focuses on superstring theory, which seeks to explain all particles and fundamental forces in nature by modelling them as tiny, vibrating strands of energy. Font's research has deepened the understanding of the consequences of the theory when it comes to the structure of matter and quantum gravity, which are also relevant to the description of black holes and the first moments after the Big Bang. She has previously received the Fundación Polar award in Venezuela and this year was chosen as a laureate for the Unesco Women in Science award.\n\nAs an environmentalist and content creator, Qiyun Woo uses social media to share ideas about climate change. Her online platform, The Weird and the Wild, is dedicated to making climate science more accessible and less scary. It focuses on content to advocate, educate and engage communities on climate change action. She co-hosts an environmental podcast focused on South East Asia called Climate Cheesecake, which aims to break down complex climate topics into more manageable slices. She is also a National Geographic Young Explorer. The climate crisis is complex, overwhelming and scary. We can approach it with fierce but gentle curiosity - instead of fear - so that we can keep our heart soft to care for the world, while sharpening our tools to dismantle what doesn't work and build what does.\n\nA human rights lawyer who is blind, Elham Youssefian is a fervent advocate for the inclusion of people with disabilities when addressing climate change, particularly in relation to emergency response to climate incidents. Born and raised in Iran, Youssefian emigrated to the US in 2016. Today, she plays an instrumental role in the International Disability Alliance, a global network of more than 1,100 organisations representing people with disabilities. Her mission is to educate decision-makers on their obligations when it comes to the impact of climate change on people with disabilities. She also champions the immense potential of individuals with disabilities in the fight against the climate crisis. We, as individuals with disabilities, have proven time and again our ability to surmount intricate challenges and find solutions even when none seem to exist. People with disabilities can and should stand at the forefront of the battle against climate change.", "Michael Sheen, born in Newport and raised in Port Talbot, is to play Prince Andrew\n\nMichael Sheen is to star as the Duke of York in a series based on the Newsnight interview that wrecked his reputation.\n\nLuther actress Ruth Wilson will play journalist Emily Maitlis, who grilled the prince over his relationship with dead billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in November 2019.\n\nThe three-part series, A Very Royal Scandal, will follow Maitlis up to her face off with Prince Andrew.\n\nThe Amazon Studios show is in production in the UK.\n\nMaitlis, who left Newsnight to host The News Agents podcast with former BBC journalists Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall, is an executive producer on the show.\n\nThe 53-year-old wrote on X, formerly Twitter: \"Blimey. First time I've seen this in print. What an exceptional cast.\"\n\nThe series is written by The Last King Of Scotland writer Jeremy Brock and directed by Becoming Jane's Julian Jarrold.\n\nAmong the cast are Joanna Scanlan as Andrew's ex-private secretary Amanda Thirsk, Alex Jennings as the late Queen's private secretary Sir Edward Young, and Eanna Hardwicke as Newsnight editor Stewart Maclean.\n\nLuther actress Ruth Wilson will play Emily Maitlis in the Amazon series\n\nA Netflix film about the interview, called Scoop, is in the works.\n\nIn that version, Maitlis is played by The X-Files star Gillian Anderson while The Man In The High Castle actor Rufus Sewell appears as Andrew.", "Matt is hoping Wales can make Euro 2024 - and that he's well enough to see them there\n\nA Wales fan with terminal cancer is hoping he can travel to see his nation play in one more tournament ahead of their crucial Euro qualifier.\n\nMatt Collins, 35, was diagnosed with glioblastoma in October and given between 12 and 18 months to live.\n\nHe said he had been \"overwhelmed\" by the support from the football community.\n\n\"I felt like the Red Wall was united, and they didn't want to lose me, this key brick in the wall,\" he said.\n\nWales' qualification hopes for Euro 2024 in Germany hang in the balance ahead of their final Group D qualifier against Turkey, which Mr Collins is hoping to be well enough to attend.\n\nA draw with Armenia on Saturday means Wales must beat Turkey and hope Croatia slip up. If not they will face a tough play-off campaign.\n\nMr Collins, from Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, has been fundraising for a treatment which can help prolong his life and keep him well enough to potentially follow his team to Germany next summer.\n\nComedian and podcaster Elis James has helped, saying his story resonated with him.\n\n\"When I realised he was from south Wales, and supported Wales, loved the Manics, I just instantly felt like I knew him,\" Mr James said.\n\n\"I just couldn't imagine the stress he was under, being ill and having to cope with the day-to-day difficulties of undergoing cancer treatment, and then having to raise money.\n\n\"I couldn't stop thinking about it and I found it unbearable,\" he said.\n\nMatt Collins (right) says he was not able to go out to France for the Euros or the World Cup in Qatar\n\nAccording to Cancer Research UK, they are the most common type of cancerous brain tumour in adults, and remain the biggest cancer killer of children and adults under the age of 40.\n\nMr Collins said a vaccine, DCVax-L, was not a cure, but could give him time.\n\nIt is the same treatment 23-year-old Laura Nuttal's family raised money for - a treatment in which a personalised vaccine is made from each patient's own dendritic cells.\n\nThey are convinced this helped to prolong her life.\n\nMr Collins said: \"On average it extends peoples lives by three months, and although it costs £250,000, I can't put a price on the time that this allows me to have with my family and friends.\n\n\"So whether it's three months or three years, I don't know, but time is so precious to me now.\"\n\nMr Collins had an operation to remove the tumour and is currently undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy\n\nJade Passey from the Brain Tumour Charity said there was no cure for glioblastoma, but the vaccine offered people more time.\n\n\"There is a poor prognosis anyway for people with this type of cancer, on average it's 12 to18 months, so to add three months, this is quite significant,\" she said.\n\n\"It gives people more options other than chemotherapy and surgery.\"\n\nMr Collins (right) says Wales fans are very special\n\nMatt said he was devastated when he first got the diagnosis, but he also felt \"blessed\".\n\n\"I wrote a letter to my friends and family, stuff that I would have never said to them, and I was conscious I may not get a chance to say it, so it really focused my mind on what I want to do with the time I have and who I want to spend time with, he said.\n\n\"Because now, I have to fit my life in a very short timeframe, and living by six-month plans, and if I get past six months, then I'll plan for the next.\"\n\nMatt added seeing the football community, particularly the Red Wall, support him was \"unbelievable\".", "Tax on period pants will be abolished in the Autumn Statement, the BBC has been told.\n\nOn Wednesday, the chancellor is expected to announce that the underwear - which is absorbent, washable and reusable - will be \"zero-rated\" and no longer subject to Value Added Tax (VAT) from January.\n\nOther period products such as pads and tampons have been exempt since 2021.\n\nIt follows a campaign by retailers, women's groups and environmentalists.\n\nPeriod pants have grown in popularity as customers look for sustainable alternatives to single-use products. However, campaigners say removing VAT from the underwear would make it more affordable.\n\nIn 2021, the government removed the so-called \"tampon tax\" on period products including sanitary pads and menstrual cups. But period pants were classed as \"garments\" and therefore not covered by the change in the law.\n\nVAT is currently paid at 20% on most products, with the exception of some items such as most food, books and children's clothing.\n\nRetailers including Marks & Spencer and the brand Wuka were among around 50 signatories of a letter to the Treasury in August, which urged the government to remove VAT on period pants.\n\nIn the letter, they pledged to pass on any tax cut straight to customers, \"so they feel the benefit of the cost saving immediately\".\n\nThe letter added that period pants \"have the power to reduce plastic pollution and waste\", and could save people money in the long term, but added that \"one of the main barriers to switching to period pants is cost\".\n\nMarks & Spencer has estimated that the cost of the VAT exemption would be 55p a year for a UK household with an average income - about the price of a pint of milk.\n\nFormer sports minister Tracey Crouch said \"nobody should be taxed no matter what period product they choose\".\n\nSNP home affairs spokesperson Alison Thewliss said: \"The chancellor has already accepted the logic of removing VAT on sanitary products, so it's only right that he extends that VAT cut to period pants. They are essential for many women and girls.\"\n\nOver the past 20 years, period underwear has become more widespread, with major high street brands including Tesco, Sainsbury's, Primark and Next now selling it.\n\nThe pants contain a highly absorbent lining and can be used in place of sanitary pads or tampons. They can be washed and reused many times, just like ordinary pants.\n\nThe move is expected to be confirmed in Wednesday's Autumn Statement, when the government sets out its tax and spending plans for the year ahead.", "Debate over whether Roman emperor Elagabalus was transgender has split academics\n\nA museum is to relabel its display about a Roman emperor after concluding that he was in fact a trans woman.\n\nNorth Hertfordshire Museum will now refer to emperor Elagabalus with the female pronouns of she and her.\n\nIt comes after classical texts claim the emperor once said \"call me not Lord, for I am a Lady\".\n\nA museum spokesperson said it was \"only polite and respectful to be sensitive to identifying pronouns for people in the past\".\n\nThe museum has one coin of Elagabalus, which is often displayed amongst other LGBTQ+ items in its collection.\n\nIt said it consulted LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall to ensure \"displays, publicity and talks are as up-to-date and inclusive as possible\".\n\nMarcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known as Elagabalus, ruled the Roman empire for just four years from 218AD to his assassination, aged 18, in 222AD.\n\nHe became an increasingly controversial figure over his short reign, developing a reputation for sexual promiscuity.\n\nCassius Dio, a senator and contemporary of Elagabalus, writes in his historical chronicles that the emperor was married five times - four times to women, and once to Hiercoles, a former slave and chariot driver.\n\nIn this final marriage, Dio writes that the emperor \"was bestowed in marriage and was termed wife, mistress and queen\".\n\nNorth Hertfordshire Museum has a coin of Elagabalus in its LGBTQ+ collection\n\nThe debate over Elagabalus's gender identity is long-standing and often splits academics.\n\nDr Shushma Malik, a Cambridge university classics professor, told the BBC: \"The historians we use to try and understand the life of Elagabalus are extremely hostile towards him, and therefore cannot be taken at face value. We don't have any direct evidence from Elagabalus himself of his own words.\n\n\"There are many examples in Roman literature of times where effeminate language and words were used as a way of criticising or weakening a political figure.\n\n\"References to Elagabalus wearing makeup, wigs and removing body hair may have been written in order to undermine the unpopular emperor.\"\n\nDr Malik added that whilst Romans were aware of gender fluidity, and there are examples of pronouns being changed in literature, it \"was usually used in reference to myth and religion, rather than to describe living people\".\n\nHowever, councillor Keith Hoskins, executive member for Enterprise and Arts at North Herts Council, said texts such as Dio's provide evidence \"that Elagabalus most definitely preferred the 'she' pronoun and as such this is something we reflect when discussing her in contemporary times, as we believe is standard practice elsewhere\".\n\n\"We know that Elagabalus identified as a woman and was explicit about which pronouns to use, which shows that pronouns are not a new thing,\" he added.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Hostage deal: A hotly anticipated hostage deal between Hamas and Israel - which includes a four-day pause to fighting - has been left up in the air. Hamas had announced there'd be a four-day pause beginning at 10am on Thursday - but an Israeli source has since told the BBC there's been a setback.\n\nIt came after a security adviser to the Israeli government said there'd be no Israeli hostages released by Hamas before Friday.\n\nCriticism of pause time: Families of those being held in Gaza have said every captive \"needs to come home\", but the UN's Palestinian refugee agency Unrwa said a four-day pause - in which more aid would be allowed to go into the enclave - is simply not enough.\n\nAid crisis: Lorries carrying aid are now queuing up at the Rafah crossing from Egypt into Gaza in anticipation of the pause in hostilities. Earlier, the executive director of Unicef - the UN's agency for children - said Gaza now faces a crisis of \"child wasting\" - a term used to describe the most life-threatening form of malnutrition.\n\nFighting continues: On the ground, Israel has continued its ground and air operation in Gaza - and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to win \"absolute victory\" over Hamas. Meanwhile, Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said Israel is \"slowly but surely\" dismantling the military framework of Hamas.\n\nWhat happens now? Our colleagues on the ground are continuing to gather information about the hostage deal and what its potential delay means.", "The Israeli government is facing criticism for how it is handling the hostage situation\n\nA deal to release hostages taken from Israel during Hamas's attacks last month is \"closer than ever before\", according to a senior US official.\n\n\"We're hopeful... but there's still work to be done,\" National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said.\n\nAt a separate event, US President Joe Biden also said he believed an agreement was nearing.\n\nAn estimated 240 people were kidnapped in the 7 October Hamas attacks, during which 1,200 Israelis were killed.\n\nSince then, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza has said 13,000 people in Gaza have been killed in the territory in Israel's retaliatory campaign.\n\nHints that a deal to secure the release of hostages may be nearing have been increasing in recent days - including from Qatar, which was instrumental in securing the release of four hostages last month.\n\nNow the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)'s president has travelled to Qatar - where hostage negotiations are being mediated and where the political leadership of Hamas is based.\n\nIn a statement, the ICRC said its president, Mirjana Spoljaric, had travelled there in order to \"advance humanitarian issues\" related to the conflict.\n\nWhile the ICRC has stressed that it does not take part in direct negotiations leading to the release of hostages, it does help to facilitate releases once they have been agreed. So far, the group has facilitated the release of four hostages released by Hamas - a mother and daughter - who are US nationals - and two elderly Israeli women.\n\n\"As a neutral humanitarian intermediary, we remain ready to facilitate any future release that the parties to the conflict agree to,\" the ICRC said.\n\nOn Sunday, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said that only \"very minor\" practical and logistical obstacles remain in the way of securing a deal.\n\nThe Israeli ambassador to the US - Michael Herzog - had also waded in, saying he was hopeful a deal for the release of a significant number of hostages would be reached \"in the coming days\".\n\nFrom talking to a figure familiar with the talks recently, the BBC understands that Israel and Hamas may be looking at some kind of phased release. This could include a small number of hostages being freed initially, alongside a ceasefire.\n\nIf this holds, more people could be let go.\n\nElsewhere, it has been suggested that part of the package could be the release of some Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, possibly women and minors.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far ruled out a halt to Israel's retaliatory attacks in Gaza, saying previously he would only consider a ceasefire when all hostages were released.\n\nIts operation, which involves air and artillery strikes as well as ground troops, aims to eliminate Hamas. More than 13,000 are thought to have died so far, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry.\n\nLast week Israel's military said it had found the bodies of two hostages - 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss and 19-year-old soldier Noa Marciano - in the Gaza Strip.\n\nOn Monday there were fraught interactions between the families of hostages and Israeli politicians.\n\nIn one incident, several relatives of those held hostage in Gaza walked out of a meeting with the country's Prime Minister Netanyahu and other senior politicians after reportedly being told that securing the release was not the main priority.\n\nUdi Goren, whose cousin is among those who were kidnapped, told Israeli news organisation Channel 12 that relatives were now being told that the goal of freeing hostages was on par with destroying Hamas.\n\n\"It's a huge disappointment,\" he said.\n\nIn another, which saw highly-charged scenes in the Knesset (Israel's parliament), relatives pleaded with far-right members of Israel's governing coalition not to introduce legislation to allow the use of the death penalty against Hamas, saying it could endanger hostages.\n\nUltra-nationalist members of the knesset accused them of siding with Hamas by attempting to slow down the controversial bill.\n\nGil Dickmann, whose aunt was killed by Hamas and whose two cousins are among the hostages, was among the relatives who took part in the confrontation.\n\nHe told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme he thought the politicians had \"crossed a line\" with the allegation and accused far-right leader and government minister Itamar Ben-Gvir of \"doing whatever to spark more and more violence, more and more hate\".\n\n\"Our trust in the government was lost on 7 October,\" Mr Dickman said.\n\n\"And I think you can understand why. Our families or relatives were all hurt in a way that we couldn't imagine before.\n\n\"But I think that the bringing back of the kidnapped and abductees is the one thing that can bring back trust and bring back our belief in ourselves.\"\n\nBBC News International Editor Jeremy Bowen on what it's like reporting from inside Israel and Gaza (UK only).", "Nicola Bulley's body was found in the River Wyre three weeks after she disappeared\n\nThe release of \"highly sensitive\" personal information by police investigating Nicola Bulley's disappearance was \"avoidable and unnecessary\", a review has concluded.\n\nMs Bulley went missing in Lancashire, prompting a huge search before her body was eventually found in the River Wyre.\n\nLancashire Police was criticised for revealing she had been struggling with the menopause and alcohol issues.\n\nThe role of underwater search expert Peter Faulding was also criticised.\n\nLancashire's police and crime commissioner Andrew Snowden commissioned the College of Policing to review the case - and the force said it had accepted the findings.\n\nThe report also said not declaring the investigation a critical incident created \"significant challenges\" for officers.\n\nIt made several conclusions and recommendations for Lancashire Police and wider policing in general.\n\nMs Bulley's disappearance attracted amateur detectives and social media users to the area\n\nWhile the report said none of the findings would have materially affected the outcome of the search, it found that the force's media handling and communication led to \"a breakdown of public confidence\".\n\nThe search for the 45-year-old in January drew huge national attention, even attracting amateur detectives and social media users to the area. Mr Snowden said \"the media narrative\" had been lost by the force at an early stage.\n\nSpeaking at the time, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was \"concerned that private information was put into the public domain\".\n\nDespite being lawful, the release of personal details about Ms Bulley was \"avoidable and unnecessary\", the report said.\n\nThe report also said forces could use legally enforceable NDAs (non-disclosure agreements) when engaging experts, advisors or other contractors after issues with Mr Faulding, of specialist diving firm Specialist Group International.\n\nPolice had shared concerns with the review that Mr Faulding, who was called in by Ms Bulley's family to help with the search, \"caused challenges to the investigation\" by discussing the case with the media and \"behaved insensitively\" to the family at an \"extraordinarily difficult time\".\n\n\"Mr Faulding made several statements to the media that were later found to be at odds with the inquest findings,\" the report said.\n\nHe had pulled his team out after searching the river and at one stage said Ms Bulley was \"categorically not\" in the water.\n\nIn a seven-page response to the findings, Mr Faulding said there were several statements in the report which did not reflect the actual events.\n\n\"If at any time I was asked to stop updating the media, I would have immediately, but no request was ever made,\" he said in the statement.\n\nHe denied he had signed any NDAs, adding: \"The only instructions I was given was to use discretion and keep operational information confidential. I was never given any operational information and never disclosed any.\"\n\nNicola Bulley disappeared while out walking her dog on 27 January\n\nThe report did praise the police investigation and search itself, describing it as \"very well conducted and resourced\".\n\nMr Snowden said: \"This review offers best practice in how high-profile cases can be best investigated and communicated under such spotlight and scrutiny.\n\n\"Whilst the investigation into Nicola's disappearance was found to be well handled and resourced, the media narrative was lost at an early stage, which had a detrimental impact on Nicola's family and friends, and also the confidence of the wider community.\n\n\"Opportunities for non-reportable media briefings on her medical history and vulnerabilities, or sharing her status as a high-risk missing person were not taken.\"\n\nMr Snowden said he would now \"hold the chief constable to account for producing an action plan against the recommendations\" and will stage an \"extraordinary accountability board\" in January with the force.\n\nHe added while the handling of the case \"obviously did do significant damage to the reputation of the constabulary at the time\", he had \"full confidence\" in his chief constable Chris Rowley.\n\nAndy Marsh, chief executive of the College of Policing, left, and police and crime commissioner for Lancashire Andrew Snowden at a press conference in Preston earlier\n\nAndy Marsh, chief executive of the College of Policing, said not calling the investigation a critical incident \"set the tone within the constabulary and led to several challenges\".\n\n\"The most notable of these was the way the constabulary released personal information about Nicola which was avoidable and unnecessary,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he praised the force for its \"exemplary investigation\" and \"well conducted search\".\n\nLancashire Police's Deputy Chief Constable Sacha Hatchett said the \"incredibly tragic case\" attracted a huge media and social media interest which was \"at times overwhelming\".\n\n\"With the benefit of hindsight, there are undoubtedly things we would do differently in the future. Indeed, we have already started to do so,\" she said.\n\nOn the release of personal information, she said: \"We worked proactively with the Information Commissioner's Office immediately after the disclosure was made and they concluded that no action was required against the force.\n\n\"The release of the information was lawful, but that doesn't mean that we don't recognise the impact that this had.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is incumbent on me to stress that the decision making process was thorough, considered and based on the substantial risk posed at that time in the investigation.\"\n\nInformation Commissioner John Edwards said lessons should be learned following the review.\n\n\"What should be clear from this report, which we contributed to, is that there are stringent laws protecting how personal information is used and shared in the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"Police must demonstrate that sharing personal information is proportionate and necessary to protect the public and investigate crime.\"\n\nNational Police Chiefs' Council chairman Gavin Stephens said he welcomed the findings, adding: \"Police chiefs will now work closely with the College of Policing to address the recommendations and ensure that the improvements needed are made across policing.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Keeley Hawes last appeared on the stage in 2013's Barking In Essex\n\nBodyguard and Line of Duty star Keeley Hawes is to return to the stage for the first time in a decade with a new play at London's Donmar Warehouse.\n\nShe will appear in the world premiere of Lucy Kirkwood's new romantic drama The Human Body alongside The Morning Show star Jack Davenport.\n\nHawes told BBC News she was \"so thrilled to be returning to the stage\".\n\nThe production is part of the final season for the Donmar's artistic director Michael Longhurst.\n\nSet in 1948, The Human Body will see Hawes play Iris Elcock, a GP and Labour Party councillor working to implement Nye Bevan's National Health Service Act and its promise of free health care for all.\n\nBut the life she shares with her husband in Shropshire is disrupted by a chance encounter with George Blythe (played by Davenport), a local boy who has made it to Hollywood.\n\nThe production, directed by Longhurst and Ann Yee, will play at the Donmar from 16 February until 13 April 2024.\n\nHawes said: \"Lucy Kirkwood has created a brilliant, complicated, inspiring role in Iris, and the play tells a wonderfully tender and human story against the backdrop of a significant moment in our country's history.\n\n\"I'm so thrilled to be returning to the stage, and especially to the Donmar for Michael Longhurst's swansong as artistic director.\"\n\nDavenport's last theatre role was in a production of Enemies in 2006, while Hawes last appeared in stage in 2013 with the comedy Barking In Essex.\n\nHowever, she left the production about two weeks before it was due to close following reports she had clashed with her co-star Sheila Hancock. Hawes was replaced by understudy Rachel Marwood for the remaining shows.\n\nSherwood star Adeel Akhtar, who won a Bafta earlier this year, will appear in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard\n\nA new version of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard will also form part of Longhurst's final season after five years at the helm.\n\nThe in-the-round production, due to open on 26 April, will star Sherwood actor Adeel Akhtar and Homeland's Nina Hoss.\n\nBenedict Andrews will direct the production of Chekhov's final play, which tells the story of a Russian landowner who is forced to sell her aristocratic family's estate to pay off debts.\n\nCompleting the season is the European premiere of Eboni Booth's Primary Trust, directed by Matthew Xia, following its off-Broadway run earlier this year.\n\nThe show follows Kenneth, a man in his late 30s who works in a small bookstore in upstate New York. But when the shop shuts down, Kenneth is forced out of his comfort zone to face a world he has long avoided.\n\nDuring its US run, the Wrap described Kenneth as \"one of the most heartbreaking characters to appear on the New York stage in recent memory\", while the Daily Beast said it was \"one of New York's best new plays\".\n\nAhead of his final season, Longhurst said: \"It has been an unalloyed privilege to helm the Donmar Warehouse for the last five years. There is nowhere more special to me than its auditorium, the moment before the house opens.\n\n\"It vibrates with possibility, awaiting a fresh wall of eyes and hearts to embrace it. A tiny breath of quiet on what has been an exhilarating journey through a tumultuous time for our industry.\n\n\"As I share this final new season, which echoes with revolution, celebrates change and the power of community - and which draws together an incredible collection of international artists and stories - I want to say thank you to all the audiences, staff and artists who have shared this journey with me and animated our space. I truly hope you enjoy the shows.\"\n\nEarlier this year, it was announced David Tennant will star in a new production of Macbeth to mark the Donmar's 30th birthday. It will open next month.\n\nTim Sheader, who currently runs Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, will take over from Longhurst in March.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. At the scene as a car has been found in search for four missing teenagers.\n\nA car has been found during a police search for four teenagers who have been missing since Sunday morning.\n\nJevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Fitchett and Hugo Morris, from Shrewsbury, are thought to have been travelling in the Harlech and Porthmadog areas of north Wales.\n\nIt is believed they had gone camping in Eryri National Park.\n\nThey were last seen in a silver Ford Fiesta, registration HY14 GVO, police said.\n\nAmbulance crews responded to reports of an incident near the A4085 between Nantmor and Tan-Lan on Tuesday morning.\n\nNorth Wales Police said the vehicle was found following information from a member of the public.\n\n\"Police officers and colleagues from other emergency services are currently at the location and the families of those involved have been kept updated,\" the force said.\n\nA police cordon has been set up near the village of Garreg on the A4085, some three miles from Penrhyndeudraeth.\n\nAn air ambulance was seen leaving the area after midday on Tuesday.\n\nJevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Fitchett and Hugo Morris have been missing since 19 November\n\nCrystal Owen, the mother of Harvey, earlier told the BBC she was on her way to north Wales to be closer to the search operation.\n\nMs Owen said she was unaware her son was going on a camping trip and believed he was going to stay at friend's grandfather's house.\n\nHarvey, 17, has three siblings and is a student at Shrewsbury College doing A-levels.\n\nJevon, Wilf and Hugo are also studying A-levels at the college.\n\nShe said she believes the last time the group used their phones was about noon on Sunday from Porthmadog and her son had not logged onto his WhatsApp which she said was unusual.\n\n\"I am frantically worried, we haven't slept a wink, we are desperate to chase any lead we can,\" she said.\n\nHarvey's mum Crystal says she is \"frantically worried\" because none of the boys appear to have used their phones since midday on Sunday\n\n\"If I'd have known [where he was going] I wouldn't have let him due to the winter weather conditions.\n\n\"They are all sensitive, intelligent lads and we are just hoping they parked up, got lost and are OK.\"\n\nAnother family member wrote on social media: \"Please keep sharing... if anyone knows anything or can think of anything that may help find the boys please contact the police. We are desperate for any news.\"\n\nEmyr Owen, who lives near the search area, said: \"It was atrocious weather on Sunday. I don't know what happened to four young men in the car, hopefully nothing bad.\"\n\nIn a statement, Shrewsbury College said: \"The college's immediate thoughts are with the family and friends of the teenagers missing in north Wales.\n\n\"This is a very worrying time, and we all want them to be found safe and well.\"\n\nMeole Brace School in Shrewsbury, which the four teenagers previously attended, said in a statement that all four boys were well-thought of and well-known by the school community.\n\n\"We are fully supportive of the police and emergency services as they work to bring the boys home,\" headteacher Alan Doust said.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with them and their families for their safe return,\" he added.\n\nWeather conditions in the area on Monday were cloudy, with showers and strong northerly winds causing significant chill, particularly on higher and more exposed routes, according to the Met Office mountains forecast.\n\nA coastguard helicopter from Caernarfon searched the area north east of Porthmadog, at 04:30 GMT on Tuesday but has since returned to its base.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said it was called to reports of an incident near the A4085 between Nantmor and Tan-Lan at 10:08 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nIt said it sent two emergency ambulances, two High Acuity Response Units and was supported by two Wales Air Ambulance charity helicopters.\n\nChris Lloyd, chairman of the Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team, said: \"We were called out by North Wales Police early yesterday afternoon.\n\n\"Our first job was to look for any indication they were on the mountain.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC news reporter Matthew Richards is at the scene of the incident in Gwynedd\n\nHM Coastguard said it responded to a request for help from North Wales Police shortly before 03:00 on Tuesday.\n\n\"The coastguard helicopter from Caernarfon was sent and completed an extensive search of an area, before returning to base with nothing found,\" it said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do parents think about proposals to cut school summer holidays?\n\nSchool summer holidays in Wales will be cut by a week with the possibility of moving to a four-week break in future under new Welsh government plans.\n\nThe changes would see the week-long October half term break extended to a fortnight.\n\nIt is claimed the change would benefit disadvantaged pupils and boost the wellbeing of students and staff.\n\nBut a union said there was no evidence the changes would help children's education.\n\nA decision will be made in spring and, if given the go-ahead, the proposed changes would take effect in the 2025-26 school year with a five-week break starting later in July 2026.\n\nThe government said research suggested teachers and pupils found the long autumn term tiring and a fortnight half term would provide more of a rest.\n\nOverall the number of school holidays across the year will not change.\n\nMother-of-two and teacher Katie, who was collecting her five-year-old daughter from an after-school club in Caerphilly, said: \"When you've got a seven and eight-week term, that can be quite an onslaught.\n\n\"I don't find it so bad in the spring and the summer term but sometimes that winter term can be quite a slog.\"\n\nKatie says the long winter term can be hard-going\n\nAnd while six weeks over the summer \"is quite a long stretch\", as a teacher she said \"we also need it, frankly, by the time we get to that point\".\n\nFaisal Abbasi, whose child attends Lakeside Primary in Cardiff, said the government should focus on other matters.\n\n\"I think they should leave it the same. Everybody is used to the schedule and people who are working have holidays pre-booked,\" he said.\n\nFaisal Abbasi says there is no need to change the current arrangement\n\nFourteen-year-old schoolboy Dylan and his mother, who is from Thailand, said they use the long break to spend the summer with family there without affecting his studies.\n\n\"The summer term is an opportunity for us to visit them and catch up with them,\" he said.\n\nLucy Purcell, headteacher at Caerleon Comprehensive, said looking at the school year is a \"positive thing\".\n\nShe added: \"I think the long summer holiday is not good, particularly for disadvantaged young people, so I think it's very positive to have a shorter summer holiday and a break in the autumn term.\"\n\nEducation Minister Jeremy Miles said he was concerned about the impact of the long summer break on pupils' learning when they get back to school.\n\nBut education unions have previously argued against the reforms, saying that there are \"many more pressing issues\" and questioning the appetite for change.\n\nLaura Doel from the National Association of Headteachers Cymru said: \"When school staff are being made redundant to balance the books, when schools should be prioritising delivering quality education to learners, and when we are deeply concerned about the recruitment and retention crisis, this should not be a priority for government.\"\n\nSome are also worried that a shorter summer holiday could damage teacher recruitment.\n\nThe Welsh government consultation will also ask for views on the summer holiday being reduced to four weeks in future, adding a week to the May half term to spread breaks out more evenly across the year.\n\nChanging GCSE and A-level results days to the same week rather than dates a week apart in August is also being considered.\n\nMr Miles said: \"Families struggle to find childcare over the six weeks, and others struggle with the additional costs long summers bring.\n\nEducation Minister Jeremy Miles discussed the proposed changes with the school council at Caerleon Comprehensive\n\n\"We also know our most disadvantaged learners suffer the most 'learning loss' from a long summer.\"\n\nThe pledge to look at the pattern of the school year is part of the cooperation agreement between the Labour Welsh government and Plaid Cymru.\n\nLaura Anne Jones, Welsh Conservatives' education spokesperson, said: \"There are many issues with Labour's plans to reform the school year, with the biggest impact potentially being felt by pupils, teachers and parents. As well as an already struggling tourism sector.\"\n\nOther local authorities in England and Scotland already have two-week breaks in October, including the Isle of Wight and Falkirk.\n\nWhat do you think of the plans? Would you like to see shorter school summer holidays and a longer half term break? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Israeli military has raided Gaza's main hospital in what it describes as a \"targeted operation against Hamas\".\n\nAn eyewitness at Al-Shifa hospital told the BBC that troops moved in overnight and were interrogating people.\n\nOn Wednesday, Israel said it found Hamas' \"operational centre\" at the hospital, sharing images of what it said were Hamas weapons and equipment.\n\nHamas denies operating there and the BBC cannot independently verify claims by either side.\n\nUN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said he was \"appalled\" by the Israeli raid, while the World Health Organization (WHO) said it was \"extremely worried\" for patients and staff, with whom it had lost contact.\n\nThe BBC has been speaking to a journalist and a doctor inside the hospital to find out what is happening there, while the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has also been providing updates.\n\nKhader, a journalist inside Al-Shifa, told the BBC's Rushdi Abualouf that Israeli troops were in \"complete control\" of the hospital and no shooting was taking place.\n\nHe said six tanks and about 100 commandos entered the complex during the night. The Israeli forces then went room to room, questioning staff and patients.\n\nThe IDF reportedly asked all men aged 16-40 to leave the hospital buildings, except the surgical and emergency departments, and go to the hospital courtyard.\n\nSoldiers fired into the air to force those remaining inside to come out, Khader said.\n\nHowever Muhammad Zaqout, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry's director of hospitals, told Al Jazeera that \"not a single bullet\" had been fired - because \"there are no resistors or detainees\" inside.\n\nEarly on Wednesday, the IDF said its forces were in the midst of a \"precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area\" in the hospital.\n\nIt said the raid was \"based on intelligence information and an operational necessity\", calling for the surrender of \"all Hamas terrorists\" present there.\n\nAs the soldiers entered the hospital complex, they engaged with a number Hamas members and killed them, the IDF said.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the IDF said troops found \"an operational command centre, weapons, and technological assets\" belonging to Hamas inside the MRI building.\n\nIt said it was \"continuing to operate in the hospital complex\", sharing images and videos showing what it said were Hamas weapons.\n\nIn a seven-minute video, IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus pointed to security cameras that he said had been covered over, and weapons that he said were AK47 rifles hidden behind MRI scanners.\n\nThe BBC has not yet been able to verify the video or its location.\n\nBut unless Israel has more to reveal, the military's controversial operation inside the hospital did not net a major arsenal of weapons, reports the BBC's Orla Guerin in Jerusalem.\n\nHamas knew Israel was coming, and therefore, if they were operating beneath the hospital, they would have had weeks to clear out through Gaza's extensive tunnel network, our correspondent adds.\n\nIsrael's Army Radio reported that troops had not yet found any sign of any of the 240 hostages taken by Hamas during the 7 October attack on Israel, when 1,200 other people were killed.\n\nThe raid on Al-Shifa came shortly after the US publicly backed Israeli claims that Hamas had infrastructure underneath the hospital.\n\nHowever Dr Ahmed Mokhallalati, a plastic surgeon at Al-Shifa, told the BBC there were only civilians in the hospital.\n\nHe said there were tunnels under every building in Gaza, including Al-Shifa hospital.\n\nAccording to international humanitarian law, hospitals are specially protected facilities.\n\nThis means that parties to conflicts cannot attack hospitals, or prevent them performing their medical functions. They can lose their protection if they are used by a party to the conflict to commit an \"act harmful to the enemy\".\n\nThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says this could be something like a hospital being used as a base from which to launch an attack, as a shelter for able-bodied fighters, or to shield a military objective from attack.\n\nThe IDF said it had repeatedly warned Hamas its \"continued military use of Al-Shifa jeopardises its protected status\", calling for the evacuation of the hospital before the raid.\n\nThe WHO had warned that evacuating patients would be a \"death sentence\", given that the medical system was collapsing.\n\nDr Mokhallalati told the BBC on Wednesday the hospital was without power, oxygen and water. On Tuesday, surgeries had been carried out without proper anaesthesia, with patients \"screaming in pain\". Doctors were unable to help one patient with burns, and had to just \"let him die\".\n\nBabies trapped inside Al-Shifa hospital, in an image issued by medical staff\n\nDr Mokhallalati said six premature babies had died in recent days.\n\n\"Why can't they be evacuated,\" he said. \"In Afghanistan, they evacuated the cats and dogs.\"\n\nThe IDF said it was providing incubators, baby food and medical supplies.", "Jeremy Hunt will say his Autumn Statement \"rejects\" high spending and high tax\n\nThe chancellor is expected to announce a cut in National Insurance for millions of workers in his Autumn Statement later on Wednesday.\n\nJeremy Hunt's statement will also feature a cut to business taxes and tough new benefit sanctions.\n\nHe will also unveil measures to boost business investment by £20bn a year in moves to \"get Britain growing\".\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says UK tax levels are at their highest since records began 70 years ago.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said nothing Mr Hunt says could change the Conservatives' \"appalling record\" on the economy.\n\nMany Conservative MPs are desperate to see the tax burden eased.\n\nFormer home secretary Dame Priti Patel told the BBC: \"This is a really pivotal moment.\n\n\"Successive Conservative governments are known for targeted tax cuts that basically put more money into people's pockets.\"\n\nAnd yet Dame Priti and hundreds of her colleagues know people's taxes have shot up and plenty think public services haven't improved to match.\n\nThe cost of Covid and the amount paid in interest on the national debt - the highest for decades - is seen by many economists as a key reason for this.\n\nAnd so the Autumn Statement is Rishi Sunak's latest attempt to seize the political agenda and improve the Conservatives' standing in the opinion polls.\n\nMr Hunt's team at the Treasury have done little to dampen speculation about potential tax cuts\n\nSome details of the Autumn Statement have already been revealed, including a 9.8% increase to the minimum wage to £11.44 per hour. The new rate, which comes into force in April, will also be expanded to 21 and 22-year-olds from the first time.\n\nMr Hunt will also set out details of a £2.5bn overhaul of benefits for people with long-term health conditions or disabilities, or those facing long-term unemployment.\n\nThe government has announced plans to make benefit claimants who fail to find work for more than 18 months undertake work experience placement or face losing access to government support.\n\nStricter penalties will also apply to long-term unemployed people who the government decide are not adequately looking for jobs.\n\nDame Clare Moriarty, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said there were people who want to work, but face \"significant barriers in finding work that's right for them\".\n\n\"If you listen to the announcements and the trails we have heard over the last few days, there's been much more emphasis on the stick than the carrot,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"It's much easier to take payments away from people than it is, really, to build that supporting infrastructure that enables people to get into work.\"\n\nFor businesses, it is understood the chancellor is set to extend the tax break knows as \"full expensing\" for businesses through to 2028-29.\n\nThe \"full capital expensing\" policy allows companies to deduct spending on investment from profits, meaning they have to pay lower amounts of corporation tax.\n\nThe tax break was due to expire in 2026.\n\nIt is not currently clear whether Mr Hunt intends to cut the level or the thresholds of National Insurance (NI).\n\nNI is a fixed percentage of the money you earn which is deducted from your wages. NI payments, which were introduced in 1911, contribute to the cost of benefits, the NHS and the state pension.\n\nThe move will make no difference for employees under pension age who earn less than £12,570 a year, as they pay no NI. People over the state pension age, even if they are still working, do not pay NI.\n\nFor employees on between £12,570 and £50,268, the current NI rate is 12% on earnings and 2% on profits above that.\n\nIn April 2022, the NI rate went up to 13.25% to help fund the NHS and social care, but the increase was reversed in November 2022.\n\nMr Hunt will say: \"Conservatives know that a dynamic economy depends less on the decisions and diktats of ministers than on the energy and enterprise of the British people.\n\n\"The Conservatives will reject big government, high spending and high tax because we know that leads to less growth, not more.\"\n\nHe will claim the government \"will back British business with 110 growth measures\" including \"removing planning red tape\", boosting foreign investment and cutting business taxes.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the statement, Labour's Rachel Reeves said: \"The Conservatives have become the party of high tax because they are the party of low growth.\n\n\"After 13 years of economic failure under the Conservatives, working people are worse off.\n\n\"Prices are still rising in the shops, energy bills are up and mortgage payments are higher after the Conservatives crashed the economy.\"\n\nWith a general election expected next year, the dance in advance of the speech has included the usual nods and winks, briefings and interviews - with no shortage of speculation about a huge range of potential tax cuts, which the Treasury has done little to dampen down.\n\nUntil last week, Mr Hunt has downplayed the chances of tax cuts, claiming they were \"virtually impossible\" until inflation was under control.\n\nMinisters now say tax cuts will happen but claim they will be done in a \"responsible\" way.\n\nIn a speech on Monday, the prime minister made repeated references to tax cuts and claimed last Wednesday's drop in inflation appears to have signalled a turning point for the UK's flatlining economy\n\nMr Sunak said the government was now able to cut taxes, after the pace of price rises eased.\n\nHe said his target of halving inflation this year had been met.\n\nBut the new focus - given next-to-no economic growth - is to try to get the economy growing.\n\nHow will the Autumn Statement affect you? What questions would you like answered? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "According to the World Bank there are an estimated 500 million people suffering from period poverty - that's women and girls who can’t get access to basic products and facilities to deal with menstruation.\n\nBut one young woman from the UK decided to do something about it.\n\nWhat started at home during lockdown has now turned into a global charity funded by donations, which helps thousands of women.\n\nWe went inside part of her operation in Lebanon, to see how the project is making a difference.\n\nFor more on this story listen to the People Fixing the World Podcast.", "Three of the world's most influential women have told BBC News they want to end child marriage within a generation.\n\nMichelle Obama, Amal Clooney and Melinda French Gates announced last year a collaboration between their foundations to combat the problem.\n\nAt the current rate of progress, the UN has warned it will not be eradicated for 300 years.\n\nBut former First Lady Mrs Obama told BBC News: \"It is an issue that can be solved tomorrow.\"\n\nThe three women spoke exclusively to BBC 100 Women during a visit to Malawi and South Africa.\n\n\"I'm sorry,\" said 26-year-old Lucy, as she choked back tears. \"I feel emotional.\"\n\nLucy was in the library of Ludzi Girls secondary school in the central region of Malawi. US secret service agents stood outside, under the red flame trees of the school grounds. She had just been speaking about the importance of girls staying in school, and spared the fate of marriage to much older men, before emotion suddenly overcame her.\n\nAround the table, three of the world's most influential humanitarians - Melinda French Gates, Amal Clooney and Michelle Obama - had quietly listened to her story.\n\nAccording to the NGO, Girls Not Brides, Malawi has one of the highest child marriage rates in Eastern and Southern Africa, with 42% of girls already married by the age of 18. In Mchinji District, where Ludzi Girls school is located, 33% of girls are reported to fall pregnant before they reach 18, and leave education.\n\nLucy could have been one of those girls. Her father had wanted her out of school when she was 14, but she resisted, and later became the first girl in her village to go to university. Now, with a degree in education, she is a district leader for AGE Africa, an organisation that provides scholarships for vulnerable girls in Malawi, a country where secondary education is not free. Lucy was once a student in the programme, and now she helps girls like herself.\n\nMichelle Obama: \"I see myself in the girls that we are fighting for\"\n\nHer mother is overjoyed at her achievement, Lucy said, although her father is less so. She said he is still coming to terms with an independent daughter. Sharing all this left her overwhelmed.\n\nThe former First Lady of the US, sitting to Lucy's left, spoke up. \"Will you send your father a message for me? Next time you see him, tell him that Michelle and Barack Obama are so proud of you, and the woman you have become.\"\n\nLucy looked up, smiling. On Lucy's right sat international human rights barrister Mrs Clooney. \"And tell him you have a lawyer too now,\" she added.\n\nAfter announcing their collaboration to combat child marriage last year, Michelle Obama, Amal Clooney and Melinda French Gates visited Malawi and South Africa together to amplify the work of grassroots organisations focusing on the issue, and to meet girls and women whose lives have been affected.\n\nMrs Obama's education-focused organisation, Girls Opportunity Alliance, had already identified that girls around the world were leaving school due to pregnancy and teenage marriage. Mrs Clooney was working to make sure girls in rural communities were aware of their rights, and many of Ms French Gates's projects had focussed on improving healthcare - including treatment for girls who experience complications after giving birth at a young age.\n\nAll are passionate about defending the rights of women and girls, so a coalition seemed like a natural fit.\n\n\"It's been a really lovely and very organic partnership, and friendship, between the three of us,\" international human rights lawyer Mrs Clooney told BBC 100 Women.\n\n\"In an early conversation with the Gates Foundation, I said: 'You're working on gender justice at a massive scale, but mostly you're not using law as a tool. You're looking at economics, and you're looking at health. Maybe we can form a partnership?'\"\n\nMs French Gates, who got a spontaneous cheer from the Ludzi schoolgirls when she said it was her fifth visit to Malawi, said working together was a strategic decision, and that their overlapping areas of expertise would make them more effective.\n\n\"Women, I think, naturally work in collectives,\" she told the BBC. \"I've talked to a number of women who are older than me who made it as CEO, or CFO, in their company. And there's some regret that they didn't do it in concert with other women. They didn't pull other women up and along with them. The generation that we've been part of - Michelle and I are essentially the same age - we've wanted to pull everybody up with us.\"\n\nAccording to Unicef, 650 million girls and women are alive today who married under the age of 18, and currently more than 12 million girls a year marry in legal and traditional ceremonies around the world. South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa have the highest rates globally, but this is not just an issue in the global south. Five states in the US have no minimum age of marriage as long as parents consent.\n\nSome countries, such as Malawi, have progressive laws that outlaw marriage under the age of 18, although these often come up against longstanding cultural barriers. On Monday, following the visit of the three campaigners, President Lazarus Chakwera announced further funding for a national strategy to end child marriage. Until now there have been very few prosecutions.\n\nMrs Clooney thinks outreach is a solution. Her Waging Justice for Women programme funds the Women Lawyers Association of Malawi, which arranges for specialists to travel to rural communities to seek out women looking for help. More than 85% of Malawi's population lives in villages, set in expanses of land governed by chiefs, living in huts under baobab trees, miles from roads and electricity.\n\n\"We formed a network of mobile legal aid clinics, which means literally, there's a van that goes out with lawyers, and we go out in a community and say to girls, 'These are your rights. If you need a lawyer - for free - to protect you, we are here.\n\n\"We wage justice, and we say 'waging' because you can't assume it's going to happen,\" Mrs Clooney said. \"You have to form alliances and fight against these kinds of injustices with the determination that it takes to win a war.\"\n\nAmal Clooney took part in a legal clinic with Malawian human rights lawyer Chikondi Chijozi\n\nThe BBC visited a legal clinic under a makeshift tent in a village in Mchinji district - it had more than 1,000 attendees, mostly women. Some were pregnant teenagers, asking what they could do to stay in school after giving birth.\n\n\"I see myself in the girls that we're fighting for,\" Mrs Obama told the BBC. \"I see my daughters in those girls.\"\n\nThere is, however, concern this issue has no solution, at least in the short term. In a report earlier this year, Unicef said child marriages now made up 19% of all marriages, down from 23% 10 years ago. But it added that eliminating child marriage could still take about 300 years.\n\n\"This is an urgent issue,\" said Mrs Obama. \"We can't afford to ignore it and assume that we can make headway on all the other big stuff that we're trying to deal with - poverty, climate change, war, and the rest - unless we're doing right by 50% of our population.\n\n\"It is an issue that can be solved tomorrow. If all the world leaders got together and made it a priority, it wouldn't take 300 years. It could happen in less than a generation.\"\n\nMichelle Obama, Amal Clooney and Melinda French Gates chose to visit Malawi because each of their programmes was already supporting projects in the country. What form their long-term collaboration will take is still being worked out, but for now the women say they will back in-country organisations that have been working with communities for years.\n\n\"Large scale international organisations that are supposed to be dealing with this, like the UN Security Council, like powerful governments, are not delivering,\" said Mrs Clooney. \"So I think philanthropy and individuals have to play a larger role.\"\n\nBBC 100 Women names 100 inspiring and influential women around the world every year. Follow BBC 100 Women on Instagram and Facebook. Join the conversation using #BBC100Women.", "Sir Chris Whitty, the government's most senior medical adviser in the pandemic, will give evidence to the Covid inquiry this morning.\n\nIt comes a day after former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said the pair had differing views over when to lock down.\n\nBoth men became household names after frequently appearing beside the prime minister at Downing Street's daily televised Covid briefings.\n\nOn Monday, Sir Patrick told the inquiry he had wanted to introduce restrictions more quickly than Sir Chris in March 2020, before the first lockdown, and in September 2020, before the second.\n\nHe said Sir Chris had \"legitimate\" concerns about the broader consequences of restrictions on people's health, given his public health remit.\n\n\"He was concerned ... that there will be indirect causes of death due to effects on the NHS, that there would be indirect harms due to people isolating, mental health, loneliness .... and that there will be indirect, long-term consequences due to the economic impact creating poverty, which is a major driver of health.\"\n\nSir Patrick said he \"didn't have exactly the same worry\", and pushed for an earlier lockdown, but it was \"useful and helpful\" to debate these points.\n\nSir Chris was appointed England's chief medical officer and the UK government's chief medical adviser three months before the pandemic hit. He was soon at the centre of handling the biggest public health crisis the UK had faced in decades.\n\nThe infectious disease epidemiologist, who still works frontline medical shifts at a London hospital, has already given evidence to the inquiry when it was considering how well prepared the UK was for a pandemic.\n\nAppearing in June, Sir Chris told the inquiry lockdowns were a \"big new idea\". The prospect of legally compelling people to stay at home had not been thought about before 2020. It was, he said, a \"very radical thing to do\".\n\nSir Chris Whitty often appeared beside Boris Johnson and Sir Patrick Vallance at televised Covid briefings\n\nSir Chris said it would have been \"very surprising\" if any official committee of scientists had considered such a measure without being asked to do so by ministers.\n\nIt was an \"extraordinarily major social intervention with huge economic and social ramifications\", he said.\n\nElsewhere, Sir Chris also defended the government's scientific advisory group Sage, which he co-chaired during the pandemic.\n\nHe said it would have been too \"unwieldy\" if lots of experts were added to it, and that the group should only focus on science. The economic and societal consequences of responding to a pandemic, he argued, should be looked at separately.\n\nSir Chris said one of the UK's key weaknesses was the inability to scale up testing quickly. He said the UK could learn from countries such as South Korean and Canada, which had invested heavily in public health after outbreaks of other viruses, such as Mers and Sars.\n\nBut he said he wouldn't have expected any pandemic planning to have foreseen a virus like Covid. A flu pandemic had been thought much more likely.\n\nOne of the key messages was that the UK needed to plan for a strengthened health response to a range of potential infections.\n\nThe current stage of the inquiry is examining the UK government's response during the first wave of the virus.\n\nSir Chris will appear at the Covid inquiry at 10:00 GMT. We'll have live coverage on the BBC News website.\n\nDid you lose someone close to you during the pandemic? Have you been following the inquiry? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A woman in her 70s has died in hospital after a fall at a Robbie Williams concert in Sydney last Thursday.\n\nShe fell down six rows of seats during the show at Allianz Stadium and suffered serious head injuries.\n\nThe woman was taken to a nearby hospital where she was placed in an induced coma. Medical authorities confirmed on Tuesday she had died.\n\nThe British singer has not commented on the incident, which happened on the first night of his Australian XXV tour.\n\nThe accident took place after the show had ended, as thousands of show-goers were filing out, said a stadium spokesman.\n\n\"Rather than use stairs, the woman attempted to step over seating rows. She lost her footing and fell,\" said the spokesman according to the Sydney Morning Herald's report.\n\n\"This is a terribly sad incident and our thoughts and wishes are with the patron and their family during this time.\"\n\nAbout 40,000 fans attended the show on 16 November. The British pop star - who is the subject of a newly released four-part Netflix documentary - is next due to play in Melbourne on Wednesday.\n\nLast Friday, a 23-year-old fan died at a Taylor Swift concert in Rio de Janeiro after collapsing in the heat. Ana Clara Benevides Machado died of a cardiac arrest in hospital.\n\nHer family has said they are seeking answers after reports that concert organisers banned patrons from bringing in water to the show despite the heatwave conditions.\n\nSwift paid tribute to the fan, saying she was \"devastated\" and \"shattered\" by the death. She wrote on Instagram: \"She was so incredibly beautiful and far too young.\"\n\nVideos on social media also showed Swift handing out bottles of water to her fans during the show and directing security to give water to fans.", "Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee and executive producer Liz Lewin pose with the Best Comedy award\n\nThe third and final series of Derry Girls has won a coveted International Emmy award for comedy.\n\nWinners were announced at a gala ceremony in New York City on Monday night.\n\nThe Channel 4 comedy series won the International Emmy for Comedy alongside Netflix special Vir Das: Landing, which first aired in 2022.\n\nIt follows success at the Royal Television Society Awards, Irish Film and Television Awards and the Baftas.\n\nDerry Girls was first broadcast in 2018 and ran for three seasons before finishing in 2022.\n\nDerry Girls centres on teenager Erin Quinn (centre) and her friends growing up in the city\n\nFollowing the win and referencing the show's previous awards, Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee posted to X saying: \"Collection complete\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Out of Orbit This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Out of Orbit\n\nBased around Derry Girls Erin, Michelle, Clare and Orla, plus \"the wee English fella\" James, the show is about the everyday life of a group of teenagers set against the backdrop of the Troubles.\n\nIt ran for 19 episodes across three seasons. Its final episode aired on 18 May and focused on Northern Ireland preparing to vote on the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.\n\nThe third season saw an average of three million UK viewers tuning in for its seven-episode run.\n\nLisa McGee was awarded the freedom of Derry City and Strabane at a ceremony in December last year for showcasing the city and district in the series.\n\nShe was the first ever female recipient of the council's highest honour.\n\nMayor of Derry Sandra Duffy said the Derry Girls writer has 'boosted civic pride'\n\nFollowing the success of the series for Channel 4, the broadcaster has commissioned a new eight-part TV series from McGee set in Belfast.\n\nThe comedy-thriller How To Get To Heaven From Belfast, according to Channel 4 publicity, will follow three women from Belfast who meet up at the wake of an old friend.", "Stephen Sparkes died in 2006 at the age of 32\n\nFresh evidence has cast doubt on the findings of an inquest into the death of a former patient of discredited neurologist Michael Watt.\n\nStephen Sparkes died in 2006 at the age of 32. In 2010, an inquest found an epilepsy drug he was taking was \"complicit\" in his death.\n\nA coroner said the drug was \"properly prescribed\" but a review last year found Stephen was misdiagnosed.\n\nIt said Stephen should have been taken off the medication before he died.\n\nMichael Watt did not respond to BBC Spotlight questions about the treatment, with a representative citing serious ongoing mental health concerns.\n\nThe former consultant neurologist was struck off the medical register earlier this month following a misconduct tribunal.\n\nThe Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service considered his fitness to practise as \"impaired\".\n\nMichael Watt was removed from the medical register earlier this month\n\nIt said Michael Watt's removal from the register was the only available option to protect the public.\n\nSpotlight has spoken to Stephen Sparkes' parents Norma and Brian Sparkes about the care their son received before his death.\n\nNorma Sparkes said \"no words can describe\" how she felt on finding out her son didn't need a drug which was found to be have been complicit in his death.\n\n\"I feel I have let him down and I felt it for a long time that I wasn't quick enough on the ball to realise what was going on, and if I had have done it sooner, Stephen might have been alive today,\" she said.\n\nStephen Sparkes' medical records were examined by the Royal College of Physicians as part of a review on behalf of the health watchdog, the RQIA.\n\nThe review found brain surgery carried out on Stephen Sparkes at Michael Watt's recommendation was unnecessary.\n\nIt said more tests should have been conducted before the surgery was ordered.\n\nNorma and Brian Sparkes believe the surgery was the beginning of their son's downward spiral.\n\n\"He became a bit more forgetful and he would ring me up and then he wouldn't realise he had already rang me up,\" Norma said.\n\nBrian and Norma Sparkes believe the surgery was the beginning of their son's downward spiral\n\n\"I think the awful thing was there was more medication added, stronger medication, medication that was supposed to help him but in actual fact I think the medication was making him worse.\"\n\nMichael Watt's performance at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital was at the centre of the largest ever patient recall in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Belfast Trust said it recognises the ongoing grief and suffering of Stephen Sparkes' parents.\n\n\"The Belfast Trust has engaged and will continue to engage with any investigations relating to any neurology patient of the Belfast Trust affected by the medical care and treatment provided by Michael Watt,\" it said.\n\nRetired leading neurologist and academic, Prof David Chadwick, who is based in Manchester, has read the case against Michael Watt put forward at the tribunal.\n\nProf Chadwick said: \"It was extremely worrying and if one wanted to look at like a spectrum of practice, it was right off one extreme end.\n\n\"He did represent an ongoing danger to patients he was seeing.\"\n\nBBC Spotlight's Rogue doctor: Patients who died is on BBC One Northern Ireland on Tuesday at 22.40 GMT and is now on the BBC iPlayer.", "Scientists were not aware of Rishi Sunak's Eat Out to Help Out scheme until it was announced, Sir Patrick Vallance has said.\n\nSir Patrick - then the government's chief scientific adviser - was giving evidence to the Covid inquiry about major decisions taken in the pandemic.\n\nHe said it would have been \"obvious\" the hospitality scheme would cause an increase in transmission risk.\n\nHe also said the then-PM Boris Johnson had been \"bamboozled\" by some science.\n\nHe said the first lockdown at the start of the pandemic was imposed about a \"week too late\".\n\nAnd he criticised the \"lack of leadership\" in the run-up to the second national lockdown in autumn 2020.\n\nIn a witness statement released on Monday evening, he said there were times that he considered resigning.\n\n\"Like many others I received abuse and threats and I was concerned for the wellbeing and safety of my family,\" he said.\n\n\"At times those factors did lead me to question whether I should continue.\n\n\"I also found people breaking the lockdown rules very difficult and considered what I should do in response, but decided that I would help most by continuing with my job.\"\n\nHe also said Dominic Raab led more effectively than Mr Johnson when he was briefly put in charge of the pandemic response while the prime minister was in hospital with Covid.\n\nSir Patrick was questioned for about five hours on Monday about decisions taken in and around Downing Street during the pandemic, and excerpts of his diary were read out.\n\nHis close colleague Sir Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer and the UK government's top medical adviser at the time the pandemic struck, is due to give evidence later on Tuesday.\n\nSir Patrick was asked about the Eat Out to Help Out scheme - a scheme devised by the then chancellor Mr Sunak to boost the hospitality sector in the post-lockdown summer of 2020 by offering diners a discount in cafes and restaurants.\n\nA section of Mr Sunak's witness statement was read out in which he had said no-one had raised concerns with him about the scheme in the summer of 2020.\n\nBut Sir Patrick said: \"We didn't see it before it was announced and I think others in the Cabinet Office also said they didn't see it before it was formulated as policy. So we weren't involved in the run-up to it.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think it would have been very obvious to anyone that this inevitably would cause an increase in transmission risk, and I think that would have been known by ministers.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Sunak's understanding of the risks, Sir Patrick said: \"If he was in the meetings, I can't recall which meetings he was in.\n\n\"But I'd be very surprised if any minister didn't understand that these openings carried risk.\"\n\nBecky Kummar, a spokesperson for Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK, said the evidence presented was \"horrific\", accusing Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak of making \"catastrophic decisions that led to the unnecessary loss of countless lives, crippled the NHS and plunged the country into even longer lockdowns\".\n\n\"Our loved ones should have been able to trust that their government was prioritising saving life, and that's why so many people believed that Eat Out to Help Out was safe. Instead masses of people almost certainly died because of Rishi Sunak's callous and reckless attitude.\"\n\nSir Patrick also criticised some of the Treasury's input into pandemic decision-making.\n\nIn a diary entry from October 2021, he described some economic predictions as being based on \"no evidence, no transparency, pure dogma and wrong throughout\".\n\nWhen questioned on the remarks, he said they were probably made late at night in \"frustration\", but he believes there was an \"imbalance\" between the transparency of economic and scientific advice during the pandemic.\n\nHe added that the advice was often \"not beloved\" and advisers sometimes had to \"work doubly hard to make sure that the science evidence and advice was being properly heard\".\n\nA diary entry mentioned that at one economics-based meeting Mr Sunak had said \"it's all about handling the scientists, not handling the virus\", without realising that Sir Chris Whitty was in the room.\n\nHis diaries showed he was particularly critical of political decision-making in the run-up to the second national lockdown in the autumn of 2020.\n\nHe wrote in his diary that by mid-October, Mr Johnson had become frustrated by talk of a second lockdown.\n\nHe reports him as saying it was time to let it rip - as \"most people who died have reached their time anyway\".\n\nThe diary excerpts say that by late October, Mr Johnson had appeared to swing behind the idea of more restrictions, saying the numbers were \"terrible\".\n\n\"He is so inconsistent,\" Sir Patrick writes, on 28 October. \"We have a weak, indecisive PM.\"\n\nMr Johnson's special adviser, Dominic Cummings, had said: \"[Then Chancellor] Rishi [Sunak] thinks just let people die and that's OK\", according to Sir Patrick's diary.\n\nSir Patrick wrote at the time: \"This all feels like a complete lack of leadership.\"\n\nCommenting on it now, Sir Patrick said he had been recording what must have been \"quite a shambolic day\".\n\nThe then-Chancellor Rishi Sunak was pictured promoting the Eat Out to Help Out scheme in late July 2020\n\nIn an entry written at the start of the pandemic, in May 2020, he wrote that Mr Johnson was \"clearly bamboozled\" by some of the science.\n\nHe said it was hard work to make sure that the then-prime minister \"had understood what a graph of a piece of data was saying\".\n\nBut he adds that Mr Johnson wasn't alone among world leaders in struggling to understand \"complicated\" data.\n\nSir Patrick also revealed he had sometimes disagreed with the UK's chief medical adviser, Prof Sir Chris Whitty, about whether to introduce restrictions, and that \"sometimes [Sir Chris] was right\".\n\nHowever, he said his belief that the March 2020 lockdown came too late - which Sir Chris has disagreed with - had been vindicated.\n\n\"This was an occasion when I think it's clear that we should have gone earlier,\" he said, meaning that the measures should have started a week sooner.\n\nSir Chris's remit included public health, so he had been more focused on the consequences to people's health of restrictions, Sir Patrick said. And it had been \"useful and helpful\" to debate these with him inside government.\n\nTurning to events later in the year, Sir Patrick said more mistakes were made when some areas like Leicester and Liverpool were put into enhanced measures.\n\n\"The temptation is always to make [the restrictions] as limited as possible - and then that fails because the surrounding areas immediately got overwhelmed,\" he said.\n\nThis had been seen very clearly in October 2020 under the tier system of regional restrictions, where \"every MP\" had argued their area should not be placed in a higher tier, with tougher rules on meeting up and opening businesses, Sir Patrick said.\n\nSir Patrick also said of former health secretary Matt Hancock: \"I think he had a habit of saying things which he didn't have a basis for and he would say them too enthusiastically, too early, without the evidence to back them up, and then have to backtrack from them days later.\n\n\"I don't know to what extent that was sort of over-enthusiasm versus deliberate - I think a lot of it was over-enthusiasm. He definitely said things which surprised me because I knew that the evidence base wasn't there.\"\n\nWhen asked if this meant he \"said things that weren't true\", Sir Patrick answered \"yes\".\n\nDid you lose someone close to you during the pandemic? Have you been following the inquiry? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Russia complained that Jamala's Eurovision-winning song should have been ruled out for being too political\n\nRussia has added Ukrainian Eurovision song contest winner Jamala to its wanted list, according to state media.\n\nThe singer, whose real name is Susana Jamaladinova, has reportedly been accused of spreading fake information about the Russian armed forces.\n\nThe Kremlin often levels such charges against those who share details of Russia's invasion of Ukraine that conflicts with its official line.\n\nJamala has been openly critical of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nShe was placed on the wanted list last month, according to the independent Russian human rights website Mediazona. Details of the listing were only picked up on Monday.\n\nRussian breaking news Telegram channel Shot claimed Jamala was on the list for posting \"fakes\" about atrocities in the Ukrainian town of Bucha in 2022.\n\nThe Kremlin has denied responsibility for the massacre that occurred there while Russian troops occupied the Kyiv suburb, despite there being evidence that it was Russian forces' doing.\n\nJamala, who is currently in Australia, responded to the news of her being placed on the list by posting a photo of herself in front of the Sydney Opera House with a link to an article about it and a facepalm emoji.\n\nThe 40-year-old fled Ukraine with her family after Russia's invasion in February last year.\n\nJamala won Eurovision in 2016 with the song entitled 1944, which was inspired by the forced deportation of her people - the Crimean Tatars - by Russia during that year.\n\nIt caused controversy, with allegations the lyrics broke the competition's rule against overtly political songs. However, the organisers allowed it and it eventually upset the odds by pipping Russia to the title.\n\nMany saw a clear message in the song about Russia's illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC earlier this year about the release of her new folk album, Qirim, Jamala said it was her attempt \"to give strong voice to my homeland, to Crimea\".\n\n\"The centuries of the Russian Empire, then Soviet Union, now Russia - they did a lot of propaganda to shut us up. Then they told the whole world we did not exist.\n\n\"But we know the truth. I know the truth. And so that's why for me, it's really important to show this truth through the stories behind each of the songs in this album.\"", "Scientists chose to study a jellyfish species that is 'representative' of many creatures that live in deep water\n\nAn experiment to test how seabed mining could affect deep sea life has revealed unexpected impacts on common jellyfish.\n\nThere is increasing interest in extracting precious minerals from what are called metallic \"nodules\" that naturally occur on the seabed.\n\nBut marine scientists are concerned about the harm that could be caused.\n\nThese researchers studied helmet jellyfish, using special tanks on a research vessel to simulate conditions created by mining activity.\n\nThey found that the gelatinous animals were \"highly sensitive\" to plumes of sediment - a condition created to mimic how mining would stir up seabed deposits.\n\nThe scientists used rotating tanks to simulate sediment circulating in the water\n\nThe findings were published in the journal Nature Communications.\n\nDeep-sea mining has been proposed - and opposed - for decades. Mining companies and other supporters say mineral deposits on the seabed can be collected in less environmentally damaging ways than mining on land - and that it could help meet demand for materials for green technologies.\n\nBut many marine scientists point out that there will be consequences for marine life that we do not yet appreciate. Much of the deep ocean is unexplored, so seabed mining opponents also point out that mining activity could cause irreparable damage to ecosystems that are under-explored or even undiscovered.\n\nSo far, there has been little research into how it would affect the creatures that spend their lives moving and floating through the water column, the vast area between the surface and the seabed. One of the lead researchers on this study, Dr Helena Hauss from the Norwegian Research Centre NORCE told BBC News that this was the impetus behind the new experiment.\n\n\"The idea was to get hold of an organism that's globally distributed, and that would be exposed to these conditions in the real world,\" she explained.\n\nBecause the jellyfish the team studied are so sensitive to light, the scientists worked at night. They captured about 60 animals and put them in temperature-controlled tanks, in a dark lab aboard their research ship.\n\nMarine scientist Vanessa Stenvers, from the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, explained that the conditions in the tanks simulated the debris that would be disturbed and released by underwater vehicles extracting minerals from the sea floor. \"These are rotating tanks,\" she said. \"Essentially re-creating a situation where sediment is disturbed and doesn't settle - it's circulating through the water.\"\n\nThe experiment, which was part of the European iAtlantic project, revealed some unusual effects on the jellyfish: When their bodies became coated in sediment, they produced excessive amounts of a protective mucus. Doing that, the scientists explained, is \"energetically expensive\", so the animals used energy they would otherwise be expending on feeding or movement.\n\nSamples taken from the animals also showed signs of what the researchers called \"acute stress\" including activation of genes associated with wound healing.\n\nHelmet jellyfish live throughout the world's oceans - down to depths of several thousand metres.\n\nHelmet jellyfish - photographed here in the deep water of Lurefjord in Norway - are found around the world\n\nThey have fragile, gelatinous bodies. \"That's not true just for jellyfish, but for worms, molluscs and lots of other animals that live in the water column,\" explained Ms Stenvers.\n\n\"You can afford to be fragile, because you'll be safe in the in the mid water.\"\n\nThese animals also live in a world of relatively transparent water. One of the dominant forms of communication in the deep sea is bioluminescence, which, the scientists point out, only works in clear water.\n\nDeep-sea mining activity, Ms Stenvers explained, is likely to change the conditions that these animals have evolved in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs Hollywood returns to work following the recent writers' and actors' strikes, industry figures are calling for health and safety to be made a priority to avoid any more lives being put at risk.\n\nA series of high-profile accidents has raised questions about the hazards involved for actors and crew members while shooting films and TV shows.\n\nCinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed by a live bullet fired from a prop gun being used by actor Alec Baldwin on the set of the film Rust in 2021.\n\nIn the UK, filming on BBC motoring series Top Gear was suspended following a crash which injured presenter Freddie Flintoff.\n\nThe UK's Health and Safety Executive, the national safety regulator, looked into the accident and said it would not be investigating further. Flintoff and the BBC reached a settlement last month.\n\nBBC News has found widespread concern about poor safety practices in the UK's film and TV industry.\n\nHollywood star Rory Kinnear's father, actor Roy Kinnear, died after being thrown from a horse while filming The Return of the Musketeers in 1988. Rory was just 10 years old when it happened.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"Thirty years later, things simply haven't changed.\n\n\"You've got a lot of young people wanting to enter an industry that they know is perilous, both financially and in terms of work, but not necessarily aware of how perilous the practices on set are as well.\n\n\"Now is the time for this opportunity to be taken in terms of understanding that we don't need to exclude excitement or creativity or invention for safety, that the two can and must work together.\"\n\nThe president of the British Society of Cinematographers, Christopher Ross, says the dangers that come with the production of increasingly ambitious projects need to be addressed.\n\n\"At its very simplest, you're just filming some people in a room and there is no health and safety requirement,\" he told BBC News, adding: \"We need to act.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alice Milsome: 'I wish my Dad hadn't died on a film set'\n\nHe said: \"Film sets nowadays are starting to look more and more like construction sites - all the rigging, towers, cranes... every minute of every day you're on a film set you will encounter dangers that you may not have been educated about and the film industry needs to take proper responsibility for that.\"\n\nFor Andra Milsome, none of Ross's concerns come as a surprise. She's been campaigning to change health and safety regulation and training within the industry since her husband Mark was killed while filming.\n\nDuring the inquest the coroner said: \"The risk of Mr Milsome being harmed or fatally injured was not effectively recognised, assessed, communicated or managed.\"\n\nThe coroner went on to say that he would be requesting further evidence on protocols around ensuring safety in coordinating stunts and would be writing to a number of organisations. Mrs Milsome said that \"ultimately nothing came of it and that nothing has changed\".\n\nWhat happened to the Milsome family resonated with Kinnear. \"There was a new family having to live the similar tragedy to the one that me and my family had experienced, and again, something that was easily avoidable and just shouldn't have happened,\" he said. \"On-set safety practices that could have been changed.\"\n\nThe actor added: \"We need to do something so that these things never happen again. Fundamentally, I don't think anyone has ever gone to the cinema and seen a shot and thought, that's worth somebody dying for.\"\n\nCameraman Mark Milsome was killed while filming in 2017 when a stunt went wrong\n\nThe industry uses large numbers of independent companies and freelancers and it is sometimes difficult to decide who the employer is.\n\nIn the majority of cases, the employer will be the producer or production company. There is a duty upon them to provide a safe working environment for their workers, but experiences are varied.\n\nThe HSE has guidance for production companies but there are calls for more standardised training and regulation so that everyone is doing the same thing.\n\nThey say they can only investigate when they're notified about an incident and that any change to the current regulations would require a change in the law.\n\nA spokesperson for the regulator said: \"Accidents that are reportable must be reported, in order for us to build a bigger picture to ensure working environments are safe.\"\n\nA questionnaire sent to members of Bectu - the broadcasting, entertainment, communications and theatre union - saw 730 people respond to questions about safety at work.\n\nWhen it asked members if they had ever felt their safety or that of a colleague had ever been compromised at work, more than 700 people said yes.\n\nAsked if there should be more formal safety protocols and standards in the industry, 498 of those who responded said there should.\n\nBecause the majority of people who work in this area in the UK are freelance, many feel reluctant to question decisions made on set for fear of being blacklisted.\n\nCinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed on the set of the film Rust in 2021\n\nA grip (a technician who sets up camera equipment), who wanted to remain anonymous, told the BBC: \"I've been on several shoots where risk assessments haven't been done until after filming is complete. Time pressure schedules always override health and safety.\"\n\nTime pressure and falling behind on schedules is something that Samantha Wainstein, chair of the Mark Milsome Foundation, attributes to mistakes being made and decisions being rushed through.\n\n\"There's no requirement in this country for somebody to prove that they've been health and safety trained, and when something happens, the buck is passed around,\" she said.\n\nMany believe the time to change the industry's approach to health and safety is now. The pause during the Covid pandemic and the recent strikes has given people the chance to reassess.\n\nAnd with the surge of new film and sound studios being built to respond to demand, experts such as Ross warn it could also result in a potential skills shortage due to more people working having not had proper health and safety training.\n\nSo when it comes to health and safety on set, Bectu, Ross and the Milsome Foundation suggest money is set aside to train people properly.\n\nHutchins' death highlighted concern about poor safety practices in the film and TV industry\n\nThe solution being suggested by the Mark Milsome Foundation and industry training body ScreenSkills, comes in the form of a health and safety \"passport\" where there are different levels of training that are job and role specific.\n\nThe qualification can then be digitally uploaded to a CV on successful completion, which employers would be able to check.\n\nRoss says: \"I would love for there not to be another death on a film set. That would be a great legacy - if everybody can combine so that no-one else dies on a film set unnecessarily and no-one else is injured in a life-changing way on a film set.\n\n\"All of the corporate bodies and all of the government bodies need to act in order to make this change. And if that requires a high level change of law - if that's what it takes, that's what it takes.\"", "Nicola Bulley disappeared while out walking her dog on 27 January\n\nBroadcasting regulator Ofcom has said it was \"extremely concerned\" to hear complaints made about ITV and Sky News by the family of Nicola Bulley.\n\nOfcom said it had written to both \"to ask them to explain their actions\".\n\nThe family said the broadcasters contacted them despite their appeal for privacy on Sunday when a body - later confirmed to be that of the 45-year-old mother-of-two - was found in a river.\n\nITV said it will cooperate fully with Ofcom. Sky News has yet to comment.\n\nMs Bulley's family criticised parts of the media and some members of the public for their \"absolutely appalling\" conduct since she disappeared while walking her dog along the River Wyre in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, on 27 January.\n\nIt is understood Sky News has received Ofcom's letter and will work closely with the watchdog to answer its questions.\n\nITV said: \"As a responsible broadcaster, we will cooperate fully and respond in detail to Ofcom's request for information.\n\n\"We express sincere condolences to the family at this difficult time and we will not be commenting further.\"\n\nITV News had believed Ms Bulley's family were willing to engage with the media, it is understood, but withdrew when a family member declined to speak to them and have not made contact since.\n\nFormer Sunday Telegraph editor Baroness Wheatcroft also responded to Ms Bulley's family condemnation of some media organisations, including for allegedly not respecting their privacy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe crossbench peer said there was \"every reason for people to be deeply upset\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Baroness Wheatcroft said the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) must \"demonstrate it really has teeth\" and examine how Ms Bulley's disappearance was reported.\n\n\"I absolutely agree that the editors in this case do not seem to have behaved as they should and I think it's the opportunity for IPSO to demonstrate that it means business,\" she said.\n\n\"As a former newspaper editor I'd always hope that my reporters respected the people they're dealing with and in any situation like the Nicola Bulley case if the family said 'lay off' they would have absolutely run a mile.\"\n\nPeople had been behaving \"very badly, not least members of the public and social media\", she added.\n\n\"It's become the most extraordinary feeding frenzy.\"\n\nEvan Harris, former director of campaign group Hacked Off, said: \"There's one big difference between the people on social media, who I condemn, and newspapers.\n\n\"That's the editor. These purport to be an edited, curated product, therefore they can be regulated and they should be regulated. It's hard to regulate a bloke in his basement.\"\n\nNicola Bulley's family said broadcasters contacted them despite their appeal for privacy\n\nAt a meeting of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, SNP MP John Nicholson referred to a news report which he said told of people \"literally hunting for clues as tourists in the village\", and included references to people taking selfies on the bench near to where Ms Bulley disappeared.\n\nMr Nicholson suggested such people were \"enjoying the attention and feeling that they're at the centre of a drama\" which was \"deeply distressing for the family\".\n\nAreeq Chowdhury, head of policy, data and digital technologies at the Royal Society - a fellowship of some of the world's most eminent scientists - told the committee the media frenzy in Ms Bulley's case was \"disgusting\".\n\nHe said people taking selfies at the site where she went missing could have been seeking a sense of \"personal validation\" or hoping to make money from online clicks.\n\nIn a statement issued after police confirmed Ms Bulley's death on Monday, her family said her partner Paul Ansell had been falsely accused of wrongdoing and her friends and family \"misquoted and vilified\".\n\nThey said: \"We tried [on Sunday] to take in what we had been told in the day, only to have Sky News and ITV making contact with us directly when we expressly asked for privacy.\n\n\"They again have taken it upon themselves to run stories about us to sell papers and increase their own profiles.\n\n\"It is shameful they have acted in this way. Leave us alone now.\n\n\"Do the press and other media channels and so-called professionals not know when to stop? These are our lives and our children's lives.\"\n\nThe family said it was \"absolutely appalling and can't happen to another family\".\n\nFormer ITN editor-in-chief Stewart Purvis, who has also worked as a senior Ofcom executive, said: \"I think the whole issue of how you approach the families of those who have suffered, who are suffering from the disappearance and possibly the death of a loved one, is a continuing issue in the media.\"\n\nHe said the lack of a public response from ITV or Sky News suggested they were \"uncomfortable with the position they are in\".\n\n\"I'm sure they don't want to get into a public row with the family, but if they had a proper defence of this situation, I think we would have heard it from them by now, and I'm sure they're clustered in a group at the moment trying to work out what to say,\" he added.\n\nDominic Ponsford, editor-in-chief of media trade website Press Gazette, told BBC Radio 5 Live there had been research into media approaches to families following the death of a loved one.\n\n\"Families have said it's much worse if a terrible case like this ignored by the media,\" he said.\n\n\"Sometimes unexplained or abrupt deaths are ignored by the media for whatever reason and that can be very hard for a family.\n\n\"And also what can be very hard is when journalists don't approach them and try and get information from social media and get things wrong, which can be very, very hard as well on families.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Downing Street said it expected Lancashire Police to be \"transparent\" about its internal investigation into how it handled the case.\n\nThe force was criticised for revealing some aspects of her private life during the investigation.\n\nZoe Billingham, formerly Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary, said people may be \"more fearful of stepping forward to report loved ones missing\" after the \"gross invasion of privacy\" suffered by Ms Bulley and her family.\n\nMs Billingham, who independently assessed police forces in her former role, said: \"It's definitely not my job to judge Lancashire Police, but what I would say is what we've seen over the last few days is a gross invasion of privacy.\n\n\"And my message to women out there would be that if your loved one, if your mum or your sister went missing, what we've seen over the last few days is not OK; it's not what we would ordinarily see in a missing persons investigation.\"\n\nAsked whether Rishi Sunak believed an independent, external review would be necessary, the Prime Minister's official spokesman said: \"Our position is to allow the existing process to report back.\n\n\"We would expect them to detail their findings and then obviously we will consider the next steps as appropriate.\"\n\nThe investigation into Ms Bulley's disappearance has attracted widespread speculation, with internet conspiracy theories rife.\n\nMembers of the public even visited St Michael's on Wyre to conduct their own searches, some of which were posted on social media sites including TikTok.\n\nMr Ansell became the focus for criticism, with some falsely accusing him of involvement in her disappearance.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Thousands of birds have been captured on camera swooping above a nature reserve near Preston.\n\nThe phenomenon, known as a murmuration, is when huge groups of starlings come together to swoop and swirl across the sky.\n\nThis display was spotted over Brockholes Nature Reserve and is believed to be one of the largest of the year so far.\n\nExperts believe murmurations offer protection from predators as it is not easy to single out a single starling from a whirling group of thousands.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The Bank is worried about the \"potential persistence of inflation\", Andrew Bailey said\n\nUK inflation might not fall as quickly as some are hoping, the governor of the Bank of England has warned.\n\nAndrew Bailey told MPs that Bank policymakers were more worried about the pace of price rises remaining high than financial markets appear to be.\n\nSpeaking to the Treasury Committee he said the Bank was concerned over the \"potential persistence\" of inflation.\n\nInflation fell to 4.6% in October from 6.7% in September, according to official figures.\n\nThat drop - measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) - prompted the government to claim it had met its inflation target early, having pledged to bring down the level to below 5.4% by the end of the year.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the Autumn Statement on Wednesday, and as speculation mounts about possible tax cuts, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said: \"We met our pledge to halve inflation, but we must keep on supporting the Bank of England to drive inflation down to 2%. That means being responsible with the nation's finances.\"\n\nMr Bailey told the Treasury Committee that the rapid fall in inflation was good news, but that it could take some time before the Bank's target of 2% was hit.\n\n\"We are concerned about the potential persistence of inflation as we go through the remainder of the journey down to 2%, and I think the market is underestimating that,\" he said.\n\nUp until September, the Bank had raised rates 14 times in a row to tame soaring inflation, which has been squeezing household budgets.\n\nBut it has now left rates on hold - at 5.25% - in its past two meetings.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Bailey had said it was \"far too early to be thinking about rate cuts\".\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, official figures showed government borrowing - the difference between spending and tax income - in October was a higher-than-expected £14.9bn, largely pushed up by higher benefit payments.\n\nBut the data, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), also showed a smaller-than-expected deficit across the first half of the financial year, helped by higher tax receipts reflecting higher wages and inflation.\n\nThe ONS said the government had borrowed £98.3bn in total since the start of the financial year. That is £21.9bn more than a year earlier, but less than the £115.2bn that was forecast by the UK's independent fiscal watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), in March.\n\nThe figures on the health of the public finances are mixed news for the chancellor as he puts the finishing touches to Wednesday's Autumn Statement, and a reminder that he may opt not to give households large tax cuts yet.\n\nSome economists think the chancellor will now meet his self-imposed rules on borrowing with around £20bn to spare, which has raised speculation of tax cuts.\n\nRuth Gregory at Capital Economics said: \"With the election drawing nearer, the chancellor may not be able to resist the temptation to unveil a pre-election splash.\"\n\nHowever, any pre-election splash in 2024 \"will almost certainly be followed by hefty tax rises in 2025 after the election,\" she added.\n\nSir John Gieve, a former deputy governor for fiscal stability at the Bank of England, said the government's finances had been improved by higher wages and higher inflation, which had increased receipts from income tax and VAT .\n\n\"He hasn't increased tax thresholds [on income tax]. The question is: should he give a little of this back?\" he asked.\n\nBut others expect the focus of Wednesday's statement will be on helping business, with households perhaps having to wait until next spring for announcements on substantial giveaways.\n\nResponding to the ONS data, Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the latest figures provided \"a timely reminder that the task of restoring the public finances to a sustainable footing is far from complete\".\n\nHe also predicted that the majority of any tax cuts announced in the Autumn Statement are not likely to come into effect until after the next general election.", "Nicola Bulley's body was found in the River Wyre about a mile away from where she was last seen\n\nThe force which investigated Nicola Bulley's disappearance will not face action for sharing her personal information, a watchdog has said.\n\nThe 45-year-old mother-of-two's body was found 23 days after she disappeared from St Michael's on Wyre in January.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it would not take action over disclosures Lancashire Police made during a \"fast-paced\" investigation.\n\nThe force thanked the ICO for its \"careful consideration of this matter\".\n\nMs Bulley disappeared while walking her dog by the River Wyre after dropping off her daughters at school on 27 January.\n\nHer dog was found shortly after, along with her phone, which was still connected to a work conference call and placed on a bench by the steep riverbank.\n\nThe police mounted a large-scale operation, which included searches of the surrounding area and public appeals, but it was not until 19 February that her body was found in the river about a mile from where she was last seen.\n\nMPs and campaign groups voiced their disapproval after officers put elements of her private life into the public domain, including her struggles with alcohol and perimenopause.\n\nMs Bulley's phone was found on a bench close to River Wyre and was still connected to a work conference call\n\nAnnouncing its conclusions, ICO's deputy commissioner of regulatory policy Emily Keaney said it had sought to \"reassure the public that there are rules in place to protect how personal information is used and shared\".\n\n\"We wanted to be clear that while police can disclose information to protect the public and investigate crime, they would need to be able to demonstrate such disclosure was necessary and proportionate,\" she said.\n\nShe said the ICO had \"spoken with Lancashire Police to better understand the steps they took before releasing information\" and had heard about \"the challenging nature of considering whether and how to share personal information during fast-paced, important cases\".\n\n\"Based on our conversations... we don't consider this case requires enforcement action,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the ICO would \"provide further details around this decision following the inquest into Nicola Bulley's death\", which is due to be held in June.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct said it had also concluded its investigation into an officer's contact with Ms Bulley prior to her disappearance, which had \"identified two areas of learning\" related to recording information and activating body-worn video.\n\nIt said it had focused on the actions and decisions of a police officer who attended Ms Bulley's address as part of a multi-agency team due to a concern for her wellbeing.\n\nIt added that after a \"careful review and analysis of all the evidence\", it had recommended that the force update its guidance for \"multi-agency vehicles, to ensure all police officers working in this role understand what is expected of them\".\n\nLancashire Police's Assistant Chief Constable Sam Mackenzie said the force wanted to thank the ICO \"for their careful consideration of this matter and we welcome their decision\".\n\nHe said it was \"important to stress\" that the \"completely\" separate IOPC investigation related solely to contact with Ms Bulley on 10 January and had found no misconduct or wrongdoing.\n\n\"Whilst we do have some procedural learning, it is important to note that our attendance was in support of an ambulance deployment and that the officer dealt with Nicola with compassion and empathy, putting her care at the forefront of his decision-making on that day,\" he added.\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner, Andrew Snowden, said an independent review by the College of Policing into the force's handling of the case was under way - with findings and recommendations due to be published in the autumn.\n\nHe said it would have three areas of focus: the operational response to the high-risk missing person investigation, press engagement and decision-making surrounding disclosure of sensitive personal information.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "A premature baby being prepared for evacuation from Gaza's al-Shifa hospital Image caption: A premature baby being prepared for evacuation from Gaza's al-Shifa hospital\n\nIt's just gone 02:30 in Israel and Gaza - and 00:30 London time. Here's a look at some of the latest headlines:\n\nUS President Joe Biden says a deal that would see Hamas releasing hostages could be close. Asked by a reporter whether a rumoured agreement was near, he said: \"I believe so\".\n\nThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - a humanitarian organisation which facilitated previous hostage releases - says its boss has travelled to Qatar to meet with Hamas. The development has further raised hopes that an agreement could be imminent.\n\nOur Jerusalem correspondent Tom Bateman says any deal could be staggered - with groups of hostages freed at a time, in return for a sustained ceasefire.\n\nTwenty-eight out of 31 premature babies who were evacuated from the besieged al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Sunday have now been taken into Egypt.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) says 12 of them have been flown to Cairo for further treatment - all of whom are fighting \"serious infections and other conditions\".\n\nThe director of Gaza's Indonesian Hospital has told the BBC there is still “intermittent shooting” being heard at the site.\n\nThe World Health Organization has labelled an earlier attack on the building - which Hamas said killed 12 people - as \"appalling\".\n\nThe hospital director said he believed the strike came from Israeli forces. The Israeli military said it had come under fire \"from within\" the hospital and retaliated, but insisted it did not fire shells toward the hospital.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza now says 13,300 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's offensive. Of that figure, at least 5,600 of the dead are children.\n\nIsrael began its operation following an attack by Hamas on 7 October that killed 1,200 people.", "Sir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser when the pandemic started in 2020, has been giving evidence at the public inquiry into Covid on Monday.\n\nSir Patrick recorded his thoughts most evenings as handwritten notes, saying they were a \"form of release\" which helped him focus on the next day's challenges.\n\nWhen he appeared in the inquiry's first phase he described them as a \"brain dump\" and argued that they should not be made public in full as they were never intended for public consumption.\n\nThose notes have been handed over in full to the inquiry's legal team, and about 25 short extracts have already been read in open court when other witnesses were being questioned.\n\nThe first entry from his diaries we know about so far comes from May 2020, and focuses on the debate around how to release lockdown restrictions.\n\nSir Patrick was responsible for chairing the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), a committee of scientists, mainly from academia, responsible for advising ministers on Covid.\n\nBut his diary reveals he is concerned about the \"following the science\" mantra coming from the government.\n\nIn another entry he worries that scientists are being used as \"human shields\".\n\nHe writes: \"Ministers try to make the science give the answers rather than them making decisions.\n\n\"I am [worried] that a 'Sage is trouble' vibe is appearing in No 10.\n\n\"Some person has completely rewritten the science advice as though it is the definitive version. They have just cherry picked. Quite extraordinary...\"\n\nBoris Johnson's special adviser Dominic Cummings (DC) is giving his press conference in the Downing Street Rose garden after the Mirror and Guardian newspapers reveal he has travelled to Barnard Castle, near Durham, during lockdown.\n\nSir Patrick writes: \"PM seems very bullish and wants to have everything released sooner and more extremely than we would.\n\n\"Wants to divert from the DC fiasco (caught have gone [sic] to Durham - clearly against the rules).\n\n\"All very worrying. Cabinet all upbeat and 'breezy confidence' - incredibly alarming.\n\n\"It was another rambling opening to Cabinet. Quite extraordinary.\"\n\nOn the same day, Sir Patrick's diaries reveal that he and Prof Sir Chris Whitty do not like the idea of taking part in a daily news conference, as they know they will be asked about Mr Cummings.\n\nSir Patrick says communications chiefs Lee Cain and James Slack plus civil servant Martin Reynolds tried to convince them, but they managed to avoid doing it in the end.\n\n\"Chris and I not at all keen to do the press conference.\n\n\"All highly political and dwarfed by DC.\n\n\"We tried to get out of it by suggesting that it was not the right day to announce new measures and that this would undermine our credibility.\"\n\nSir Patrick makes diary notes on the decision to move to step 4 of the roadmap for releasing lockdown restrictions, which removed all legal limits on socialising and life events as the school year ended (announced on 12 July).\n\nHe is getting frustrated around this time with the inconsistency in Mr Johnson's decision-making.\n\nHe writes: \"PM cancelled the big announcement and has gone more cautious (for now).\n\n\"Simon Case taking one day at a time. PM is simply not consistent (as he wasn't at the beginning).\"\n\nSir Patrick Vallance's diary indicates frustration with the prime minister after Mr Johnson recovers from being seriously ill with Covid\n\nSir Patrick notes that Mr Johnson is increasingly convinced the economy needs to be kept open, because it is mainly older people who are being affected by Covid.\n\nHe writes: \"PM WhatsApp group kicks off because PM has read in FT that the IFR [infection fatality rate] is 0.04%.\n\n\"Age-related IFR explained and that overall looks more like 0.4 to 1%.\n\n\"He is obsessed with older people accepting their fate and letting the young get on with life and the economy going.\n\nBy this point, Sage's scientific advisers have been pressing for tougher restrictions as Covid cases start to rise sharply.\n\nNew measures (rule of six, then tiers) are brought in, but there is no full lockdown until 5 November.\n\nHe writes: \"Very bad meeting in No.10...\n\n\"PM talks of Medieval measures than ones being suggested.\n\n\"Perhaps we should look at another approach and apply different values.\n\n\"Surely this just sweeps through in waves like other natural phenomena and there is nothing we can do.\n\n\"As Simon Ridley said final slide, PM said, 'Whisky and a revolver.' He was all over the place.\"\n\nSir Patrick writes: \"PM meeting - begins to argue for letting it all rip. Saying yes there will be more casualties but so be it - 'they have had a good innings'.\n\n\"Not persuaded by Edmonds, Ferguson, Farrar [scientists on emergency advisory group].\n\n\"PM saying 'the population just has to behave doesn't it!'.\n\n\"PM getting very frustrated - throwing papers down. PM back on to 'Most people who die have reached their time anyway'.\"\n\nWe do not know the context around Sir Patrick's first entry on this day.\n\n\"The right-wing press are culpable & we have a weak indecisive PM.\"\n\nThe following month is a chaotic time in Downing Street as Mr Cain and then Mr Cummings leave their roles amid rumours of clashes with Mr Johnson's then-fiancee Carrie Symonds.\n\nSir Patrick did not always agree with England's chief medical officer (CMO) Sir Chris on how strict social restrictions should be to manage rising case numbers.\n\nWhile the CMO thought the public would rebel against rules, Sir Patrick was keen to introduce them earlier.\n\nIn this day's diary entry, he writes: \"CMO again talks about going 'too early' and losing people. Is he really right about this? I think we need to go sooner and harder.\"\n\nIt would be a mistake to think all of the diary entries paint Mr Johnson as resisting tougher Covid rules.\n\nHere, in mid-November, he is, apparently, the one pushing for harder action.\n\n\"PM is the only rational voice in the political side [ ... ]\n\n\"PM - arguing for going harder and says, 'More jobs will go if this thing takes off again'.\"\n\nBy now the UK has a vaccine against Covid-19. In this entry, the first line refers to a plan to vaccinate 15 million people by 15 February.\n\nHe writes: \"PM says 15M Vx Feb 15, 20M March 1st, April 30M & by then we must do something.\n\n\"Says he wants Tier 3 March 1, Tier 2 April 1, & Tier 1 May 1st & nothing by September ... ends by saying the team must bring in the 'pro death squad' from HMT.\"\n\nMention of the \"pro death squad\" at the Treasury is a reference to the fact they are the ones pushing for opening up quickly. Mr Johnson wanted complete unlocking with no remaining restrictions by September.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKing Charles used the grandeur of a Buckingham Palace state banquet to throw in some unexpected references to Korean popular culture.\n\nK-pop stars Blackpink and BTS were name-checked by the King as he welcomed South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on the first day of his state visit.\n\nAlthough he admitted he hadn't much of \"what might be called Gangnam Style\".\n\nBut there was no repeat of President Yoon's karaoke-style skills when he visited US President Joe Biden, when the South Korean leader had sung \"American Pie\".\n\nInstead the president said that in his youth he and his friends \"were all fans of the Beatles, Queen and Elton John\". With the assumption that this was a reference to the pop group rather than the monarchy.\n\nState visits are a \"soft power\" mix of pageantry and practical politics and the red-carpet welcome rolled out for South Korea was a sign of respect to an increasingly important ally and trade partner, in a region with growing tensions with China.\n\nPrince William and Catherine were among the royals greeting the South Korean guests\n\nThere was a full turn-out at the state banquet in the Buckingham Palace ballroom, with the South Korean guests greeted by the King, Queen, Prince and Princess of Wales and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nSouth Korea's most famous son, Son Heung-min, the Spurs footballer, wasn't there, but K-pop girl band Blackpink were among the guests.\n\nLord Cameron, returning to front-line politics as foreign secretary, was sitting a couple of places from Princess Anne.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer and Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey were among the guests, facing elaborate table settings with six different wine glasses and a line-up of silver-gilt cutlery.\n\nThe menu, written in French, included poached eggs, pheasant and a mango ice cream bombe.\n\nK-pop girl band Blackpink were guests at the state banquet in Buckingham Palace\n\nThese are opulent occasions, with diplomacy fuelled by fine dining, using a 19th-Century dinner service with more than 4,000 pieces.\n\nThe table settings are as precise and symmetrical as the military parade that greeted the president - each guest getting a place setting of 46cm.\n\nEach guest had a nameplate on their place, which probably got smuggled out in a few pockets later as souvenirs, even with the Archbishop of Canterbury in the room.\n\nBut for some there were just their titles, like for the prime minister and foreign secretary.\n\nAs the King is a big fan of recycling, at least if the people keep changing the cardboard nameplates can stay the same.\n\nEarlier in the day the South Korean delegation had been given a ceremonial welcome at Horse Guards Parade, before the president and his wife took part in a carriage procession along the Mall.\n\nMore than 1,000 soldiers were on parade, with gun salutes in the autumn leaves in Green Park.\n\nThe Princess of Wales had been wearing a dramatic shade of front-page red.\n\nThe \"soft power\" of a state visit saw an important ally given a red carpet welcome in London\n\nBut alongside the ceremonial events, such state visits have a serious diplomatic and economic purpose.\n\nThe King's banquet speech spoke of South Korea's strategic role as a \"bastion of democracy, human rights and freedom\", but warned that \"these values are challenged, sadly, as rarely before in our lifetimes\".\n\nThe jingle of the cavalry harnesses on the Mall is also inextricably linked to the jingle of cash tills, with trade deals to be negotiated.\n\nA \"Downing Street Accord\" is to be signed at a meeting between the South Korean president and Rishi Sunak on Wednesday, which is intended to boost trade and support \"global stability\".\n\nHigh technology and green energy will be among the areas of business co-operation.\n\nThere are plans for a stronger approach to enforcing sanctions against North Korea, and preventing its \"illegal weapons programme\", with joint sea patrols between the South Korean navy and the Royal Navy.\n\n\"Long term, global partnerships are vital to our prosperity and security,\" said Mr Sunak, who added that \"close ties have already propelled £21bn of investment between our countries\".\n\nYou can see more royal stories in the free BBC Royal Watch newsletter emailed each week - sign up here from within the UK. or here, from outside the UK.", "Last updated on .From the section European Championship\n\nWales will have to navigate the play-offs in March to reach Euro 2024 after missing out on automatic qualification following a fiery draw at home to Turkey.\n\nWales needed to beat Group D winners Turkey and hope Croatia dropped points at home to Armenia and, for much of Tuesday night, it seemed like Robert Page's side would fulfil their part of that equation as Neco Williams fired them in front in the seventh minute.\n\nBut Croatia's victory over Armenia meant even a Welsh win would not have been enough and, to make matters worse, Turkey equalised midway through the second half thanks to a controversial penalty scored by Yusuf Yazici.\n\nReferee Matej Jug's decision to award the spot-kick was harsh on Wales captain Ben Davies, who barely touched Kenan Yildiz, and the hosts' sense of injustice was particularly intense because of the referee's rejection of three Welsh appeals for penalties in the first half.\n• None The night's action and reaction from Cardiff City Stadium\n\nThat anger was replaced by a deflating feeling of anti-climax at the final whistle but, as disappointing as this evening was for Wales, the greatest regret of this campaign for Page and his players will be the two matches against Armenia.\n\nMost damaging was June's capitulation in Cardiff, a 4-2 defeat which left Wales' hopes of qualifying automatically in ruins. Although they revived those hopes by brilliantly beating Croatia in October to leave their destiny in their own hands, Wales threw away that opportunity by drawing 1-1 in Yerevan last Saturday.\n\nThat left them needing a favour from Armenia on Tuesday but, with Croatia in no mood to be charitable in Zagreb, any notion of a dramatic turnaround in Wales' favour disappeared.\n\nAs much as those results against Armenia may eat away at Wales, they can at least console themselves with the knowledge that they have a second shot at qualification.\n\nOn 21 March, Wales will host either Ukraine, Finland or Iceland in a one-legged play-off semi-final. If they are successful, they will face Poland or Estonia - with home advantage to be decided via a draw this Thursday - in another one-off tie five days later, with the winner securing their place at next summer's tournament in Germany.\n\nWelsh football has enjoyed some special nights at Cardiff City Stadium in recent years, with a fervent crowd helping its team over the line in several decisive matches.\n\nAnd while this group of players could draw inspiration from previous triumphs - Belgium in 2015, Hungary in 2019, Austria and Ukraine in 2022 and Croatia just last month - the difference this time was that Wales were not in sole control of their own fate.\n\nWhereas those landmark victories were all that Wales needed at those precise moments in time, a win on this occasion would only be half the battle.\n\nPage's men needed to overcome already-qualified Turkey - in itself no mean feat - while also requiring Croatia, World Cup semi-finalists less than a year ago and runners-up in 2018, to drop points at home to Armenia, 85 places below them in the world rankings.\n\nPut simply, for Wales this was a long shot. In fact, you could have argued they needed a miracle.\n\nThey made the perfect start to their onerous task, with Harry Wilson spreading the play out to the left wing, where Williams cut inside on to his right foot and stroked a calm finish into the bottom far corner.\n\nThe celebrations among Wales' players, staff on the touchline and fans in the stands were proof that they believed they could pull this off, however improbable the odds.\n\nWales kept attacking too, streaming forward and silencing the boisterous travelling Turkish fans.\n\nThe hosts had three penalty appeals rejected, one as Wilson fell under a challenge from Abdulkerim Bardakci and two in quick succession as Brennan Johnson was brought down by Samet Akaydin.\n\nThe last of those was Wales' strongest shout, with Akaydin barging into Johnson's back at a corner, but Slovenian referee Jug somewhat bafflingly chose not to point to the spot.\n\nHaving weathered that pressure, Turkey had a decent spell of their own as Kerem Akturkoglu shot over from close range - but Wales were still the better side.\n\nAs well as things were going in Cardiff, however, Wales still needed a favour in Zagreb. Armenia kept their side of the bargain until the 43rd minute when they fell behind to a goal by Croatia's Ante Budimir.\n\nIf Wales had allowed themselves to dream, Budimir's goal was a brutal reality check.\n\nTurkey then twisted the knife when they were given the softest of penalties, as Wales captain Davies brushed against Yildiz, who threw himself to the ground.\n\nYazici calmly sent Danny Ward the wrong way with his low penalty and, buoyed by their equaliser, Turkey were close to taking the lead when Yusuf Sari's long-range shot brushed the bar.\n\nRoared on by their furious supporters, Wales rallied and put Turkey under pressure late on, gamely pushing for a winner even though Croatia's 1-0 win over Armenia ultimately meant their efforts were in vain.\n\nThis was a frustrating end to the campaign for Wales but they will be back at Cardiff City Stadium in March, knowing that they will be two wins away from qualifying for Euro 2024.\n• None Attempt missed. Jordan James (Wales) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Daniel James with a cross.\n• None Offside, Wales. David Brooks tries a through ball, but Brennan Johnson is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Investigating the case of a Welsh murder stranger than fiction", "Liam Gallagher will play Oasis album Definitely Maybe in full at TRNSMT\n\nLiam Gallagher, Calvin Harris and Gerry Cinnamon are to headline next year's TRNSMT music festival in Glasgow.\n\nThe festival, which is the biggest in Scotland, will return to Glasgow Green on the weekend of 12-14 July.\n\nOther acts signed up include 1980s chart star Rick Astley, veteran rock band Garbage and Sugababes.\n\nFormer Oasis frontman Gallagher will play the band's classic debut album Definitely Maybe in full for his headline set.\n\nCalvin Harris will be back playing in front of a home Scottish crowd\n\nHotly-tipped art rock band the Last Dinner Party and indie veterans the Courteeners are among other acts booked for the festival.\n\nGallagher, who will play two nights at Glasgow's OVO Hydro a month before TRNSMT, said: \"Can't wait to return to Glasgow Green next summer to headline TRNSMT.\n\n\"I'll be playing songs from \"Definitely Maybe\" as well as some solo stuff. See you there.\"\n\nCinnamon, the singer-songwriter from Castlemilk who is one of the country's most popular musicians, will be playing his first Scottish shows since two sold-out gigs at Hampden Park in 2022.\n\nHe said: \"Get hounded on the daily to do TRNSMT again, well hound no more. On Saturday 13 July there's going to be a big lovely summer sing song.\"\n\nGerry Cinnamon will headline the second night of TRNSMT.\n\nEvent organisers DF Concerts said the bill would be the biggest in the festival's seven-year history.\n\nGeoff Ellis, the festival director, said: \"We've created the dream line-up for a lot of our TRNSMT fans and there are plenty more acts to be announced - but we couldn't wait to reveal festival favourites Liam Gallagher, Gerry Cinnamon and Calvin Harris.\"\n\nLast year's event was headlined by Pulp, Sam Fender and The 1975.\n\nTickets for the 2024 festival go on sale on Friday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC's flagship car show Top Gear will not return \"for the foreseeable future\" after presenter Andrew \"Freddie\" Flintoff was hurt in a crash while filming last year.\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said it has \"decided to rest the UK show\".\n\nThe presenter was injured in December at Top Gear's test track at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey.\n\nThe 34th series was subsequently halted and the BBC apologised to the former England cricketer.\n\nThe BBC added it \"remains committed to Freddie, Chris and Paddy who have been at the heart of the show's renaissance since 2019, and we're excited about new projects being developed with each of them. We will have more to say in the near future on this.\n\n\"We know resting the show will be disappointing news for fans, but it is the right thing to do.\n\n\"All other Top Gear activity remains unaffected by this hiatus including international formats, digital, magazines and licensing.\"\n\nFlintoff recently reached a settlement with the BBC, reportedly worth £9m. The payout will not be funded by the TV licence fee, as BBC Studios is a commercial arm of the broadcaster.\n\nLast month, his legal team told the Sun newspaper that the former cricketer was still recovering from \"life-altering significant\" injuries.\n\nAndrew \"Freddie\" Flintoff was pictured in public for the first time since his accident when he led fielding drills with the England cricket team last month\n\nThe BBC apologised to Flintoff in March over his injuries, as it announced a health and safety review of the show. It was expected to be undertaken by an independent third party.\n\nIt reiterated that apology last month when the compensation to Flintoff was announced.\n\nBBC Studios said the external investigation report \"was concluded in March of this year and is not being published, which we have always made clear\".\n\nIn a statement on a separate health and safety review, which did not cover Flintoff's accident, BBC Studios said: \"The independent Health and Safety production review of Top Gear, which looked at previous seasons, found that while BBC Studios had complied with the required BBC policies and industry best practice in making the show, there were important learnings which would need to be rigorously applied to future Top Gear UK productions.\"\n\n\"The report includes a number of recommendations to improve approaches to safety as Top Gear is a complex programme-making environment routinely navigating tight filming schedules and ambitious editorial expectations - challenges often experienced by long-running shows with an established on and off screen team.\n\n\"Learnings included a detailed action plan involving changes in the ways of working, such as increased clarity on roles and responsibilities and better communication between teams for any future Top Gear production.\"\n\nFlintoff was pictured for the first time since the accident in September, as he led fielding drills with England players in Cardiff ahead of the team's one-day international with New Zealand. Scars were visible on his face and he had tape on his nose.\n\nThe 45-year-old former England captain retired from cricket in 2009 having played 79 Tests, 141 one-day internationals and seven T20s.\n\nHe joined BBC One's Top Gear as a host in 2019 alongside Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris. Their most recent series attracted an average audience of 4.5 million viewers.", "The Falkland Islands are a British overseas territory in the south-west Atlantic Ocean\n\nRishi Sunak's spokesman has said there is \"no doubt\" the Falkland Islands are British after Argentina's new president said it was time to \"get them back\".\n\nJavier Milei, elected as Argentina's president on Sunday, said Buenos Aires had \"non-negotiable sovereignty\" over the islands.\n\nAnd he vowed to get the islands back through \"diplomatic channels\".\n\nBut the UK prime minister's spokesman said the issue of sovereignty \"was settled decisively some time ago\".\n\nArgentina has long claimed sovereignty over the islands, a British overseas territory in the south-west Atlantic Ocean. The two countries fought a war over the issue, after Argentine forces invaded the islands in 1982.\n\nThe Falklands, known in Argentina as the Malvinas, are about 8,000 miles from the UK and about 300 miles from mainland Argentina.\n\nIn a 2013 referendum, the people of the Falkland Islands voted 99.8% in favour of remaining a UK overseas territory.\n\nRishi Sunak's official spokesman said on Tuesday that the British government would continue to \"proactively defend the Falkland Islanders right to self-determination\".\n\nEarlier this year, Argentina pulled out of a co-operation deal signed in 2016 and has been pushing for talks on sovereignty.\n\nIn the agreement, Argentina and the UK pledged to \"improve co-operation on South Atlantic issues of mutual interests\".\n\nMr Milei said during a TV election debate: \"What do I propose? Argentina's sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands is non-negotiable. The Malvinas are Argentine.\n\n\"Now we have to see how we are going to get them back. It is clear that the war option is not a solution.\n\n\"We had a war - that we lost - and now we have to make every effort to recover the islands through diplomatic channels.\"\n\nIn a newspaper interview with La Nacion, a daily newspaper in Argentina, he proposed that the UK hand over the Falklands to his South American country in a similar way to how Hong Kong was given back over to Chinese rule in 1997.\n\nThe populist politician, who has described himself as an anarcho-capitalist and is said to have lauded Margaret Thatcher - the British prime minister during the Falklands conflict - said the views of those living on the islands \"cannot be ignored\".\n\nDefence Secretary Grant Shapps said it is \"non-negotiable and undeniable\" that the Falkland Islands are British.\n\nIn a social media post he said: \"99.8% of islanders voted to remain British and we will always defend their right to self-determination and the UK's sovereignty.\"\n\nIn his tweets, Mr Shapps rejected any negotiation on the future of the Falklands, pointing out that the Royal Navy had redeployed HMS Forth to \"protect the islands\" in the southern hemisphere.\n\nIt follows a nine-month stint by HMS Medway patrolling the islands waters.", "A social media post about Northern Ireland which used an Irish tricolour has been removed by 10 Downing Street.\n\nAn edited version of the Instagram post has now been uploaded without the flag.\n\nThe post was about an event in Downing Street on Monday featuring Northern Ireland businesses.\n\nThe Irish tricolour is the national flag of the Republic of Ireland and has no official status in Northern Ireland, although it is used by many Irish nationalists.\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie said the post showed Westminster did not \"understand us or know us\", and used the incident to reiterate his support for a return to power-sharing in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We are better served with devolved government,\" he said.\n\n\"There are people out there who want to hand all the devolved power we have back to Westminster and here is what Westminster is doing,\" he told the Nolan Show.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a devolved government at Stormont since February 2022 when the Democratic Unionist Party walked out in protest against post-Brexit trade barriers between the region and Great Britain.\n\nHowever he added that the post was a simple mistake and added: \"I don't get all wound up about flags.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Tuesday morning, Northern Ireland Office Minister Steve Baker posted on X, formerly Twitter, saying \"good morning from Northern Ireland\" preceded by a union flag emoji.\n\nThe tweet featured a picture of his jacket with a lapel pin of the union flag and the Ulster banner.\n\nThe Ulster banner was the flag of the former Northern Ireland Parliament - which was abolished in 1973 - and also has no official status in Northern Ireland, although it is used by some sports teams.\n\nA Labour source told BBC News NI that the incident was a \"grave disservice to the people of Northern Ireland\" and showed \"people at the heart of our government understand so little about these kinds of issues\".\n\nDowning Street has been contacted for comment.", "The BBC's flagship motoring show Top Gear will not return \"for the foreseeable future\" after presenter Andrew \"Freddie\" Flintoff was seriously injured in a crash while filming last year.\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said it had \"decided to rest the UK show\".\n\nLaunched in 2002, Top Gear was a revival of the original series of the same name, which ran from 1977 until 2001 and was hosted by many household names.\n\nIt went on to become one of the corporation's biggest earners, exported all around the word. But it also repeatedly caused controversy, and some of its presenters have been involved in serious crashes.\n\nHere are some of the key moments from the motoring show over the years.", "An Abu Dhabi-backed investment fund is poised to take control of the Telegraph newspaper and Spectator magazine.\n\nRedBird IMI said it had agreed to provide loans to repay debts owed by the publication's previous owners, the Barclay family, that would bring the titles out of receivership.\n\nIf the deal is approved then Redbird IMI's chief executive, former CNN boss Jeff Zucker, would run the business.\n\nHowever, any deal is likely to face close regulatory scrutiny.\n\nIt comes five months after the Telegraph and Spectator were taken over by Lloyds bank as it sought to recover debts owed by the Barclay brothers.\n\nLloyds launched a sales process of the business to recover more than £1bn that was outstanding.\n\nHowever, on Monday the investment fund, which is a joint venture between US firm RedBird Capital and International Media Investments (IMI) of Abu Dhabi, confirmed it had reached a deal with the Barclays.\n\nThis would see the debts owed to Lloyds repaid, and the news titles taken out of receivership.\n\nRedBird IMI will lend the Barclays £600m, secured against the publications, with IMI also providing a similar sized loan against other Barclay-owned assets.\n\nUnder the terms of the deal Redbird has the right to turn the loan secured against the Telegraph and Spectator into equity, which would hand it control of the titles.\n\nA spokesman said it planned to \"exercise this option at an early opportunity\".\n\nOther bidders interested in the publications are seeking clarity on whether the auction process will still go ahead. They are also exploring legal options to ensure RedBird IMI's Gulf backers are subject to the same levels of regulatory scrutiny their bids would have been subject to.\n\nThe BBC understands the Culture and Media Secretary, Lucy Frazer, has held discussions with other interested parties on this issue today.\n\nOn Sunday, six Conservative MPs wrote to Deputy PM Oliver Dowden and the business and culture secretaries to raise concerns about how RedBird IMI's offer could affect national security and press freedom.\n\nThey said International Media Investments was owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the Emirati royal family and the deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates.\n\nThe MPs wrote: \"Material influence over a quality national newspaper being passed to a foreign ruler at any time should raise concerns, but given the current geopolitical context, such a deal must be investigated.\"\n\nIn its statement, Redbird IMI said that following the transfer of ownership, RedBird Capital alone would take over the management of the titles. It added that International Media Investments \"will be a passive investor only\".\n\nIt added: \"RedBird IMI are entirely committed to maintaining the existing editorial team of the Telegraph and Spectator publications and believe that editorial independence for these titles is essential to protecting their reputation and credibility.\"\n\nOther names have been linked to the Telegraph and Spectator since they were put up for sale including GB News investor Sir Paul Marshall, Daily Mail publisher DMGT and German publisher Axel Springer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA lost BBC interview with street artist Banksy has been unearthed in which the mysterious artist appears to reveal what his first name is.\n\nIn the 2003 recording, BBC reporter Nigel Wrench asks him if he is called \"Robert Banks\", and the artist replies: \"It's Robbie.\"\n\nThis has long been the subject of speculation online, with variations of Robin, Robert and Robbie suggested.\n\nThe full interview can be heard on BBC Sounds as Radio 4's The Banksy Story.\n\nA bonus episode of the podcast was specially recorded after the recording was discovered.\n\nIt also includes Banksy comparing his approach to art - which involves producing graffiti undercover at speed - to microwaving meals.\n\n\"It's quick,\" the Bristol artist said, adding: \"I want to get it done and dusted.\"\n\nIt is one of the earliest known radio interviews with the artist, who is often described as \"mysterious\" and \"secretive\" by the press.\n\nBanksy's real identity has never been revealed, but the interview gives his fans, which include many A-list celebrities, a rare chance to hear his voice.\n\nThe artist - at the time in his 20s - was interviewed by Mr Wrench, a former BBC arts correspondent, in the summer of 2003 to mark the opening of Banksy's Turf War show in east London.\n\nAn edited version was aired that July on the BBC's PM programme. However, not all of the material was used.\n\nMany years later, Mr Wrench was listening to The Banksy Story podcast, and this prompted him to recover the full interview on a minidisc in his house.\n\nBanksy mural Sweeping It Under the Carpet appeared in Camden in 2006\n\nThe never-heard-before material includes Banksy's defence of vandalism as art.\n\n\"I'm not here to apologise for it,\" he told Mr Wrench. \"It's a quicker way of making your point, right?\n\n\"In the same way my mother used to cook Sunday roast every Sunday and says every Sunday, 'it takes hours to make it, minutes to eat'.\"\n\n\"And these days she eats microwave meals for one and seems a lot happier. I'm kind of taking that approach to art really. I want to get it done and dusted.\"\n\nWhen pushed on whether graffiti is vandalism and illegal, Banksy had this advice for people:\n\n\"Go out! Trash things! Have fun!\", he said, adding that others, in turn, could paint over your work.\n\n\"Other people, they can change it. They can get rid of it,\" he said.\n\nBanksy rose to prominence through a series of graffiti pieces that appeared on buildings across the country, marked by their satirical themes.\n\nHe's one of the world's most famous artists, but despite this he chooses to keep his identity, officially at least, unknown.\n\nIn 2018, he stunned the art world when his Girl With Balloon painting \"self-destructed\" in London, immediately after it had been sold at auction.\n\nGirl With Balloon was originally stencilled on a wall in east London and has been endlessly reproduced, becoming one of Banksy's best-known images.", "Scotland's first minister has urged the UK government to recognise a Palestinian state.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Humza Yousaf said the move would help to end the \"political impasse\" in the Middle East.\n\nIt came as MSPs backed his motion to the Scottish Parliament by 90 votes to 28 to call for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict.\n\nThe motion won the support of all parties except the Conservatives.\n\nThey called for \"humanitarian pauses\" instead. That is the position taken by the UK government and the UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer - though Scottish Labour want a ceasefire.\n\nAhead of the debate, Mr Yousaf wrote a letter to Mr Sunak urging him to recognise a Palestinian state within the borders set out in 1967.\n\nA similar letter was also sent to Sir Keir, urging him to back the calls.\n\nThe first minister said the move would help to end the \"political impasse that has condemned Israelis and the Palestinians to successive cycles of violence\".\n\nMr Yousaf, whose parents-in-law recently escaped Gaza, told MSPs: \"It's only with full recognition of Palestine as a state in its own right that we can truly move forward towards a two-state solution.\"\n\nThe UK government previously said it would only recognise a Palestinian state at the \"right time\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"As the prime minister has said, we continue to support a just solution to the conflict for both sides and remain committed to a two-state solution that protects the peace and security of both Israelis and Palestinians, with the West Bank and Gaza part of a viable and sovereign Palestinian state.\"\n\nWhile 138 UN members, including nine in the EU, recognise a Palestinian state, the United States and most large European countries do not.\n\nHowever, Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez said last week that his government would seek to recognise Palestinian statehood.\n\nGaza authorities say 13,300 people, including more than 5,000 children, have been killed since a cross-border Hamas attack on October 7\n\nThe SNP motion said the parliament condemned the\"barbaric and unjustifiable terrorist attacks\" by Hamas on 7 October and the killing of civilians, including women and children, in Israel's siege of Gaza.\n\nIt called for hostages to be released, humanitarian aid to be increased, international law to be upheld and for a two-state peace solution.\n\nThe motion also expressed \"solidarity with Scotland's Jewish, Muslim and Palestinian communities and condemns antisemitism, Islamophobia or any other form of hatred\".\n\nThe first minister said that while Israel had the right to defend itself, it must respect international law.\n\nMr Yousaf said that doctors in Gaza, including his brother in law, were being forced to carry out \"medieval\" procedures without proper supplies of anaesthetics.\n\n\"In the face of such destruction, death and inhumanity, an immediate ceasefire, agreed by all sides, is needed to ensure the protection of innocent civilians and the delivery of essential supplies,\" the first minister said.\n\nHe insisted \"humanitarian pauses\" were not sufficient.\n\n\"Simply a pause in the killing of innocent men, women and children only, what, to resume a few hours later? Surely we must and can strive for better than that,\" Mr Yousaf added.\n\n\"For the sake of the people of Gaza who are living in a nightmare of unimaginable terror and for the Israeli hostages who remain captive, this parliament and the international community must unite and call for an immediate ceasefire.\"\n\nSince the Holyrood motion was passed, Israel and Hamas have agreed a deal to release 50 hostages being held in Gaza during a four-day pause in fighting. However, Hamas has reportedly vowed to carry out further attacks like that of 7 October.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country would not stop fighting until all the hostages were brought home.\n\nIsrael began attacking Gaza after Hamas fighters crossed the border on 7 October, killing 1,200 people and taking more than 200 others hostage.\n\nGaza's Hamas-run health ministry has said 13,300 people, including more than 5,000 children, have been killed in Israel's campaign.\n\nA Scottish Labour amendment, tabled by Anas Sarwar and backed by the SNP, stated it would require \"all sides to comply\" with a ceasefire and called on the International Criminal Court to investigate both sides of the conflict. It was passed by MSPs.\n\nThe call for a ceasefire put Scottish Labour at odds with Sir Keir, who has instead called for \"humanitarian pauses\".\n\nMr Sarwar told MSPs: \"For a ceasefire to work, all sides must be willing to comply.\n\n\"And secondly we must recognise that Hamas has made clear that it intends to repeat the October 7 massacre, intends to continue rocket fire, and tragically, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made clear that he is not willing to even consider a ceasefire.\n\n\"That's why the full force of international diplomacy must be used to create the conditions to make an immediate ceasefire a reality.\"\n\nUK Labour leader Sir Keir has argued that a ceasefire would not be appropriate because it would freeze the conflict and embolden Hamas.\n\nHe saw 56 of his MPs rebel last week as they backed an SNP motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in the House of Commons. Both Scottish Labour MPs - Ian Murray and Michael Shanks - abstained.\n\nThe Scottish Greens and Scottish Liberal Democrats supported the ceasefire demand, while the Tories instead backed \"humanitarian pauses to deliver aid to Gaza safely and in a sustained way\". The party's amendment was rejected by MSPs.\n\nCompared with a formal ceasefire, such pauses tend to last for short periods of time, sometimes just a few hours.\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Donald Cameron told the chamber that a ceasefire was opposed by the US government, as well as the UK leadership of the Conservative and Labour parties.\n\n\"A ceasefire requires both of the two opposing sides to support it and regrettably it has been clear for some time now that Hamas will not respect a ceasefire,\" he said.\n\n\"Hamas does not even respect the right of Israel to exist, let alone work towards peace.\"", "It looks like the Autumn Statement will now include at least one crowd-pleasing personal tax cut - so why the change of message and which tax could be cut?\n\nWhen I spoke to Jeremy Hunt 10 days ago, just after it was confirmed that the UK economy was not growing, I suggested to him that personal tax cuts might help.\n\nHe said there were \"no shortcuts\" and clearly signalled that his focus was on growth-enhancing business tax cuts.\n\nA week on, I spoke to the chancellor again, at a hydrogen energy facility in Sheffield. The caution on such cuts had gone. And the prime minster has now suggested the time has come to cut tax.\n\nFor Rishi Sunak, last Wednesday's drop in inflation was a clear turning point in Britain's recent economic story.\n\nDuring his time as chancellor and as prime minister - most of the past four years - the UK and most of the world have been hit by an unprecedented series of geopolitical crises that have led to big spending and rolling inflationary shocks.\n\nThe pandemic led to an inflationary supply chain crisis pushing prices up, and then the Russia-Ukraine conflict saw the double whammy of the world's biggest energy exporter invading one of the world's biggest food exporters.\n\nAt this precise time, the size of Britain's workforce was hit. In part, this was due to the aftermath of the pandemic, and in some key sectors, by more restrictive post-Brexit worker visas. It was a potent cocktail for inflation.\n\nThe government's argument therefore, is that last week's confirmation that inflation has more than halved since its peak is a turning point for inflation.\n\nThe UK is on a glidepath to normal inflation levels, and therefore, they argue, there is little risk of a personal tax cut adding to price pressures.\n\nBut the PM's argument goes further. He says that the 4.6% inflation figure also represents a turning point of a rolling series of economic crises since 2020. The time to put four years of higher public spending, borrowing, and taxation behind us.\n\nHe is taking aim at Labour's calls for a \"new\" post-pandemic world of more resilient local supply chains, and more borrowing-funded public spending especially on green infrastructure.\n\nUS President Joe Biden may be able to do this because the US has the privilege of printing the world's reserve currency, and is insulated from fears about its debts. The UK, especially after last year's mini budget, cannot do this, Mr Sunak argued.\n\nThis will be the dividing line of the next year with a Labour Party that aims to spend £28bn a year more on public investment by the end of the coming Parliament.\n\nSo the tax cuts will be part of a general message that, having seen inflation halve, now the focus is on growth.\n\nThe overwhelming focus of the cuts will be aimed at helping businesses to invest. But, a tax cut that helps \"make work pay\" and so improves the supply of workers, helping relieve a key constraint on growth, will also be delivered.\n\nNational Insurance seems to fit the bill, because it directly helps employers or workers keep more from wage packets. Another option is ironing out some of the inconsistencies in the tax system that see some universal credit recipients, working parents and higher earners facing effective tax rates so high that it makes little sense to work more hours.\n\nFormer pensions minister Steve Webb has also spotted his old department seeming to prepare an unusual announcement on benefit uprating on an obscure part of the Department for Work and Pensions website.\n\nWhen setting how much benefits go up next April, the government could decide to use October's lower inflation figure instead of the usual September figure. That could squeeze between £2bn and £3bn from the welfare bill every year.\n\nBoth the PM and chancellor make the argument that the level of benefits may exacerbate worker shortage problems.\n\nIn Westminster, others point out that the loss of the Supreme Court case on a plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, on the same day as the inflation figure, may also help explain the search for a headline personal tax cut to assuage his backbenchers. The speech the PM gave on Monday, when he said the government was now able to cut taxes, was due to be given last Wednesday, before the Supreme Court's ruling.\n\nSo the contours of the argument this week will be the government arguing that an economic turnaround has created space for a tax cut, and the opposition will instead say the PM is jumping the gun at the behest of backbenchers and in any case only reversing one of two dozen tax rises.\n\nIn making a turnaround argument, it is worth waiting for what the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) says in its forecasts for the economy.\n\nThis month's Bank of England forecasts for quarterly growth next year are 0.01%, -0.04%, 0.01% and 0.02%. Over 2024, it adds up to zero.\n\nThe economy did avoid the recession predicted for this year, but how seriously can Downing Street proclaim a turnaround if the OBR predicts little or no growth over the next year?\n\nIt is also worth watching on what basis the government claims the PM's target on growth will be met.\n\nSo underneath a big call made on tax cuts at the Autumn Statement, there is a much wider, immediate political argument, and the outline of choice for the general election. But watch out for whether the OBR supports this \"turnaround\" picture.\n\nWhat help would you like from the Autumn Statement? Do you have any questions you want answering? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "TV presenter and actress Annabel Giles has died after being diagnosed with a brain tumour in July.\n\nShe starred in children's show Razzmatazz, the 1993 film Riders and was a model for cosmetics brand Max Factor.\n\nConfirming the death of their \"incredible mother\", her children said she had undergone brain surgery and radiotherapy treatment.\n\nDaughter Molly and son Tedd said on X she was \"one of a kind\".\n\nGiles, 64, was also known for her 2013 stint in the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! camp and ITV's Posh Frocks And New Trousers with Sarah Greene.\n\nShe was born in Griffithstown, near Pontypool.\n\nIn their social media tribute, her children said their mother died at Martlets Hospice in Hove after four months of \"remarkable resilience and strength\".\n\n\"Mum was truly one of a kind, an enigma to those privileged to share her life. True to her nature, she kept spirits high and maintained her quick wit until the very end.\n\n\"Her humour and laughter will leave us inspired to live life to the fullest, just as she always did.\"\n\nThey said she had been diagnosed with a stage 4 glioblastoma, and said that in her final weeks she had been passionate about raising awareness of this type of tumour, \"embodying her lifelong commitment to helping others\".\n\nGiles later retrained as a counsellor before becoming the resident agony aunt on BBC Wales's Eleri Sion radio show. The radio presenter paid tribute on X, saying Giles was \"warm, wise, wicked and witty\" and said she recalled her trying to \"learn Welsh live\" on the radio.\n\nChannel 4 presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy worked alongside Giles on ITV's Posh Frocks And New Trousers and said he was \"in awe\" of one of his \"first TV partners in crime\".\n\nBroadcaster and writer Sue Perkins called her a \"beautiful human\" and comedian Jenny Eclair said she had \"the fondest\" memories of \"beautiful, funny and clever\" Annabel.\n\nGiles was married in the 1980s to Midge Ure - lead singer of Ultravox and founder of Band Aid and Live Aid.", "Amiram Cooper, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Tsachi Idan are being held in Gaza\n\nIsrael says 132 people remain unaccounted for after they were abducted and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attacks by Hamas.\n\nAn estimated 240 people were taken prisoner, but 105 were later released by Hamas during a six-day ceasefire at the end of November.\n\nThe Israeli military said it mistakenly killed three hostages in northern Gaza who had escaped from their captors and expressed \"deep remorse\" over the incident.\n\nOf the 132 still unaccounted for, Israel says that 20 of them are believed to be dead.\n\nThese are the stories of those hostages who are still being held, which have either been confirmed by the BBC or credibly reported.\n\nThis list is regularly updated and names may change, as some people feared kidnapped are confirmed to have been killed or released.\n\nLast updated on 19 December 2023 at 10:33 GMT\n\nYagev Kirsht, 34, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim, alongside his wife, Rimon Buchstab Kirsht. She has now been released.\n\nAlexander Trupanov, was taken hostage with his mother Lena Trupanov, 50, his partner Sapir Cohen, 29, and his grandmother Irina Tati, 73. All were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz as they spent the Sabbath together, according to a statement by Canada's Raoul Wallenburg Center for Human Rights. Irina and Lena were released on Wednesday 29 November and Sapir was freed the next day.\n\nAriel Cunio, his girlfriend Arbel Yahud and her brother Dolev are also thought to have been abducted in the same attack on Nir Oz. Eitan Cunio, Ariel's brother who escaped Hamas, told the Jewish Chronicle that his last message from Ariel said: \"We are in a horror movie.\"\n\nDavid Cunio, 33, another of Ariel's brothers, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, family say. David's wife Sharon Aloni Cunio and their three-year-old twin daughters Ema and Yuly were released on 27 November. Sharon's sister Daniele Aloni, and her six-year-old daughter Emilia were both released on 24 November.\n\nDoron Steinbrecher, 30, a veterinary nurse, was in her apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas attacked, the Times of Israel reported. At 10:30 on 7 October, the newspaper said, she sent a voice message to friends: \"They've arrived, they have me.\"\n\nItzhak Gelerenter, 53, was taken from the Supernova festival. His family said the IDF found his phone was located in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported. His daughter Pivko told the paper: \"I'm trying to think good thoughts, I have a powerful, smart, resourceful father.\"\n\nDoron Steinbrecher sent a voice message to friends during Hamas' attack\n\nNaama Levy, 19, was filmed being bundled into a jeep, her hands tied behind her back. The footage was released by Hamas and circulated widely on social media. According to her mother, the teenager had just begun her military service.\n\nYousef Zyadna, a 53-year-old Bedouin dairy farmer, was abducted from Kibbutz Holit and taken to Gaza along with his sons Hamza, 22, and Bilal, 18, and his daughter, Aisha, 16. Aisha and Bilal were released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nElad Katzir, 47, was abducted from Nir Oz with his mother Hanna. Hanna has now been released.\n\nOhad Ben Ami, 55, was kidnapped from Be'eri with his wife, Raz. She was released by Hamas on 29 November.\n\nTwin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 26, were taken from Kfar Aza. Ziv was messaging a friend as the attack happened. Their family said the IDF has told them the brothers are being held in Gaza. Their brother Liran told CBN news the pair had \"twin power\" and were the centre of attention wherever they went.\n\nIraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 85, was taken captive from Kibbutz Kissufim, where he lived and worked as a chicken coop manager. His wife, Mazal, managed to escape.\n\nMichel Nisenbaum, 59, is a dual Brazilian-Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel for 45 years and works as a computer technician, his family told Brazilian media. They also say he is diabetic and has Crohn's disease. On 7 October, they say, someone claiming to be from Hamas answered his phone when they tried to call him.\n\nDaniela Gilboa, 19, sent messages saying that Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she was staying, was under attack and asked her mother to pray for her. Her boyfriend, Roy Dadon, told the Economist 1843 magazine that he believes he saw a glimpse of her in a video showing three girls being driven away in the back of an SUV.\n\nItay Chen, 19, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF solider, was on active duty with a tank unit on 7 October, according to the Times of Israel. The paper reported that his family was notified by the IDF that he is officially considered missing in action and probably being held hostage. Another soldier in his unit, Matan Angrest, 21, is also presumed to be in Gaza.\n\nYosi Sharabi, 51, was taken from Be'eri with his brother, Eli Sharabi, 55. Eli's wife and two daughters were murdered in the attack. Ofir Engel, the boyfriend of Yosi's daughter, Yuval, was also taken, but released on 29 November.\n\nAgam Berger, 19, was kidnapped from Nahal Oz. She was seen being taken away in videos released by Hamas.\n\nEdan Alexander, 19, is an Israeli-US citizen who volunteered to join the Israeli army. He was serving near the Gaza border at the time of Hamas's attack. Edan's family said they had been told by Israeli officials that he had been taken to Gaza as a hostage.\n\nKaid Farhan Elkadi, 53, lives with his family south of Rahat and worked as a security guard, according to Israeli media. Reports said his family believes he was kidnapped and taken to Gaza, based on images shared by Hamas.\n\nIlana Gritzewsky and Matan Zanguaker were captured near the Gaza border, family say\n\nMatan Zanguaker, 24, was taken with his partner Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, from Nir Oz, according to Ilana's father. Ilana, a Mexican national, was released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nThe family of Eitan and Yair Horn believe they were taken from Nir Oz kibbutz\n\nEitan Horn, 37, and his brother Yair, 45, both Argentinian citizens, were also in Nir Oz at the time of the attack. Their father Itzik said he believes they were kidnapped. Yair is a construction worker while Eitan works in education.\n\nItai Svirsky, 38, is thought to have been abducted when his elderly parents were killed in Be'eri. He had been visiting them for the holiday of Simhat Torah.\n\nKeith Seigel, 64, and his wife Adrienne - often known as Aviva - Seigel, 62, were taken from their home in Kfar Aza, Keith's brother Lee Seigel told the BBC. Adrienne was released on 26 November.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, lived in Nahal Oz with his wife and two daughters. Omri was led away by Hamas with his hands tied, his wife Lishay told the Guardian newspaper. She told him not to be a hero, urging: \"Do whatever they want because I want you back.\"\n\nBipin Joshi, 23, a Nepalese student, is believed to have been taken from Kibbutz Alumim. Nepalese newspaper Setopati says he was one of 49 university students studying agriculture in Israel. It says 10 students were killed in the attack.\n\nIlan Weiss, 58, went missing from Kibbutz Be'eri after he was last seen leaving the house to defend the community. On 25 November, his wife Shiri Weiss, 53, and their daughter, Noga, 18, were freed from captivity in a hostage deal.\n\nAmiram Cooper, 85, and his wife Nurit, 80, were taken from their home in Nir Oz, their daughter-in-law Noa told the BBC. The family last spoke to the couple during the Hamas attack, Noa said, when the couple were in their safe room. The family later traced Amiram's phone to Gaza. On Monday 23 October, Nurit was one of two women to be released.\n\nAmiram and Nurit Cooper, pictured with their granddaughter, Gali\n\nOded Lifshitz, 83, and his wife Yocheved, 85 were taken hostage from Nir Oz. On Monday 23 October, Yocheved was one of two elderly women to be freed. After hearing the news of her mother's release, their daughter Sharone - a London-based artist - said: \"While I cannot put into words the relief that she is now safe, I will remain focused on securing the release of my father and all those - some 200 innocent people - who remain hostages in Gaza.\"\n\nHaim Peri, 79, was taken from his home in Nir Oz, reports the Times of Israel, and freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz said she saw that he was alive and well. His son Lior Peri told Talk TV that Haim had locked his wife inside the safe room before giving himself up to kidnappers.\n\nAvraham Munder, 78, was kidnapped from Nir Oz, Israeli officials say. His wife Ruthi, daughter and grandson have since been released.\n\nOmer Neutra, a 22-year-old Israeli-American and grandson of Holocaust survivors, put off plans to go to college in the US to study in Israel, and eventually joined the IDF. He was serving as a tank commander near Gaza when Hamas attacked. Omer's parents say they were told by the Israeli embassy that he had been kidnapped.\n\nRon Benjamin's vehicle was found empty following the attacks\n\nRon Benjamin, 53, had been taking part in a group cycle ride near the Gaza border when the Hamas attack began and he decided to drive home, his family told Israeli media. Days later, his vehicle was found empty and his family believe he was kidnapped.\n\nLouis Har, 70, is believed to have been taken from Nir Yitzhak. His partner Clara Marman was released on 28 November along with her sister Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela's daughter Mia Leimberg,17. Clara and Gabriela's brother Fernando Simon Marman, 60, also remains in captivity.\n\nJudith Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 73, also went missing from Nir Oz after the Hamas attack. Ten days later, the Israeli military confirmed to the family they had been taken hostage, CTV News in Canada reported.\n\nAlex Danzig, 75, a scholar and historian of the Holocaust, was at his home in Nir Oz, when it was attacked by Hamas. \"We know for sure he was kidnapped,\" his son Mati told the BBC. Alex - whose older sister Edith is a Holocaust survivor - has spent the last 30 years working for Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust remembrance centre. His disappearance has triggered a campaign for his release, both in Israel and in Poland, the country of his birth.\n\nAlex Danzig has spent decades educating people about the Holocaust\n\nItzhk Elgarat, 68, was kidnapped at the same time as Alex Danzig, his brother Danny Elgert told Israel's Kan 11 TV station, adding that he had tracked his brother's phone to the border with Gaza.\n\nGadi Moses, 79, was also abducted during the same attack on Nir Oz, according to relatives and the Israeli aid agency where he worked as an agricultural expert. Efrat Katz, his partner, was initially thought to have been captured as well, but she was later found dead, the Times of Israel reported. Efrat was the mother of Doron Asher, who was taken hostage and later released with her two daughters. Ravid Katz, 51, Doron Asher's brother, was originally thought to have been taken hostage from Nir Oz, but on 28 November his family confirmed that he had been killed on 7 October.\n\nYair Yaakov, 59, is listed among the hostages. His partner Meirav Tal, 53, was released on 28 November. Yair's children Yagil, 13, and Or, 16, were released on 27 November.\n\nYair Yaakov was pictured being held captive by a gunman in a video shared online\n\nNimrod Cohen, 19, had studied software engineering in high school, according to reports. After he was kidnapped, his father was invited to meet Pope Francis in Rome along with other hostages' families.\n\nTsachi Idan, 51, was last seen by his wife, Gali, as he was taken away by Hamas gunmen. Their family had been ambushed in their safe room in Nahal Oz. Their ordeal was live-streamed by Hamas. Their eldest child, Maayan - who had just turned 18 - was shot dead, Gali told the BBC.\n\nTsachi Idan was ambushed with his wife and children and then led away\n\nYarden Bibas, 34, was abducted from Nir Oz. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were also taken hostage, but on 29 November, Hamas claimed they had been killed in an Israeli air strike while in captivity. The Israeli government has said it is checking the claim.\n\nRonen Engel, 54, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife, Karina Engelbert, 51, and their two daughters, Mika, 18 and Yuval, 11. On 1 December, the organisation representing the families said he had been murdered. Karina, Mika and Yuval were released on 27 November.\n\nKarina Ariev, a 19-year-old soldier, was serving at an army base near Gaza when she was kidnapped. Her sister Alexandra told the BBC she heard shooting as Karina called her during the attack, and later saw a video showing Karina being taken away in a vehicle.\n\nKarina Ariev was at the Nahal Oz military base, which was among the first to be attacked\n\nOfer Kalderon, 53, was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz. On 27 November his two children, Erez, 12, and Sahar, 16, were released. Two other relatives, 80-year-old Carmela Dan and her granddaughter, Noya, 12, were also believed to have been taken, but Israeli authorities later announced they had been found dead.\n\nYoram Metzger, 80, was a resident of Nir Oz. He has diabetes and broke his hip six months ago, his daughter-in-law said. Yoram's wife Tamar was released on 28 November.\n\nNadav Popplewell, 51, and his mother Channah were taken hostage by Hamas, said Channah's daughter Ayelet Svatitzky, who was speaking to them on the phone when the gunmen burst in. She said the captors sent pictures of her two relatives, who both have diabetes, with armed men in the background. Channah has now been released.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, was abducted after his family opened the door to their secure shelter to an Israeli child, who said he would be killed otherwise. Omri's wife, Lishay Lavi, said she saw him being taken away in handcuffs with three other hostages from Nahal Oz.\n\nLiri Elbag, 18, had just started military training as an Army lookout near the Gaza border when Hamas attacked, her father Eli told the Associated Press. Eli said he saw her in a video circulated later by Hamas, crowded with others on the back of a military truck which had been seized by the gunmen.\n\nLior Rudaeff, 61, was taken from Nir Yitzhak during the attack. His family have heard nothing from him since then.\n\nA number of people are believed to have been abducted from the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Among them:\n\nShlomi Ziv, 40, was part of the security detail at the festival and was initially in contact with his sisters as the attack unfolded, according to an interview with The Times of Israel. A few weeks later the family learned he was officially considered to be a hostage, the report says.\n\nAlexander Lobanov, 32, is a Russian-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped at the festival.\n\nOri Danino, 25, is reported to have got away from the festival in his car, but it's believed he was captured after turning back in an attempt to save some people he had met there.\n\nAlmog Sarusi, 26, was kidnapped from the music festival and his partner Shahar Gindi was killed, according to Israeli media. Almog's father, Yigal, was among the relatives of hostages who met with Israel's prime minister in October.\n\nOmer Shem Tov, 21, called his parents as he was running away from gunfire and managed to get into a friend's car. His parents, Shelly and Malki Shem Tov, told Israeli media they lost contact with their son and the live location on his phone showed he was beyond the border in Gaza.\n\nIdan Shtivi, 28, an environmental sciences student, was attending the festival to take pictures at music and yoga workshops being held by friends. He escaped the site in his car but was attacked by Hamas along the route. The bodies of two of his passengers were found, and his family told the Jerusalem Post they suspect he was kidnapped.\n\nYosef Ohana, 24, had been at the festival with a friend, who told his mother he and Yosef had remained to help people escape the gunfire before running themselves. Yosef was last seen hiding under a car, and Israeli authorities have visited his mother to say he was kidnapped.\n\nAndrei Kozlov, 27, a Russian who moved to Israel in 2022, is missing from the Supernova festival, where he was working as a security guard. His mother told the De Taly publication the family was told by the IDF on October 26 that he was being held hostage.\n\nElyakim Libman, 23, was working as a security guard at the festival. In a Facebook post his father Eliyahu Libman said another guard told him his son had helped rescue others before trying to escape. He was last seen trying to help two badly-injured women.\n\nNoa Argamani, a Chinese-born Israeli citizen, was also kidnapped from the festival. Video footage - verified by her father Yaakov Argamani to Israel's Channel 12 - shows the 25-year-old being taken away on the back of a motorbike screaming, \"Don't kill me!\" Her boyfriend Avinatan Or, 30, also appears in the video being marched away from her by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nEden Yerushalmi's family say they were told she had been taken hostage\n\nEden Yerushalmi, 24, called her family during Hamas's attack on the festival, her sister May told CBS News. The family say they were subsequently informed by the IDF that Eden had been abducted.\n\nChanan Yablonka, 42, is a father-of-two from Tel Aviv. According to reports, he attended the festival with friends and was due to celebrate his birthday a few days after the attacks.\n\nJonathan Samerano, 21, has been missing since 7am on the morning of the festival. His family have been told to presume he is being held in Gaza, Israeli media reported.\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal was filmed in captivity in Gaza, his family say\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, attended the festival with his brother. Guy appears in a hostage video that his family say confirms he is in Gaza.\n\nUriel Baruch, 35, was injured during the attack on the festival, his wife said on Facebook. Reports in Israeli media say his mother, Naomi, has heard from the IDF that he is a hostage.\n\nMaxim Kharkin's mother described speaking to him on the morning of 7 October\n\nMaxim Kharkin is aged 35 and a Russian speaker, his mother told Russian media. She added that he had called her at 07:00 on the morning of the attack.\n\nElkana Bohbot was seen in a video posted by Hamas\n\nElkana Bohbot, 34, had gone to the party with friends and, before losing contact, he spoke to his wife and mother telling them he was helping to evacuate the wounded, the Times of Israel reported. Hours later, his family found a video of him posted online by Hamas, which has been seen by BBC Verify.\n\nRom Braslavski, 19, was working on security for the festival. According to an account published by Hostages and Missing Families Forum, he was trying to rescue an injured person in the attack when he was caught in a volley of fire. He has not been heard from since.\n\nOmer Wenkert, 22, a restaurant manager, sent a message to his family to say he was going to a safe shelter but then lost contact, his father Shai Wenkert told the BBC's Today Programme. Shai Wenkert said he had seen footage of his son in captivity, including a photo of him handcuffed and wearing only underwear.\n\nEvyatar David's family say they were sent a video of him in captivity\n\nEvyatar David, 23, was at the festival and on the morning of the attacks, described fleeing from gunfire before losing contact with the outside world, his brother says. Later, his family say, Evyatar's sister posted on Instagram appealing for information about his whereabouts. She then received a text from an unknown number, which contained video footage of Evyatar handcuffed on the floor of a dark room. According to Israel's foreign ministry he is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nEitan Mor, 23, lives in Jerusalem, and was working as a security guard at the festival, the Times of Israel said. He reportedly texted his uncle after Hamas arrived and was last seen with a friend bringing others to safety.\n\nAlon Ohel, 22, a Serbian citizen, took refuge in a shelter after the festival came under attack, his family say. They have seen footage of him being dragged away after a grenade attack.\n\nAlmog Meir Jan, 21, tried to flee the festival. He and a friend made it to the friend's car but only managed to drive a short distance before being forced to stop. Almog's family say they have seen a hostage video in which he appears.\n\nInbar Heiman, a student aged 21, was seen by two young Israeli men being taken away from the festival on a motorcycle. Hamas have released a video in which she is seen very briefly.\n\nHersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual US-Israeli citizen, was badly injured in the attack, his family told the BBC. Eyewitness accounts say he was seen being forced onto a white pick-up truck - the last-known signal from his phone came from just inside Gaza.\n\nSegev Kalfon, 26, was running away from the festival, across the highway, when he was captured by Hamas, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.\n\nOrión Hernández Radoux, 30, from Mexico, attended the festival with his girlfriend, Shani Louk. He has not been seen since. The Sun newspaper says it has seen threatening messages written in Arabic sent from his phone. Shani, a tourist from Germany, was initially thought to be among those seized. But on 30 October, her mother Ricarda told German media that the family had been informed by Israeli military of her death following DNA identification.\n\nRomi Lesham Gonen, 23, was on the phone to her mother as she tried to escape from the Supernova festival. Merav Leshem Gonan has recounted a conversation in which her daughter begged for help after being shot. ABC News reports that Romi's phone is now in Gaza.\n\nBar Kuperstein, 21, last spoke to his family early on the morning of 7 October, as the attack unfolded. Later the same day, his family say they identified him in a video of Israeli prisoners, posted by Hamas. Since then, they say they have had no further information.\n\nEliya Cohen, 26, was hiding with his girlfriend Ziv from the attack, when Ziv felt him being pulled up and driven away by the gunmen, Eliya's mother has told the video initiative #BringThemHomeNow. The family then found a photo of Eliya in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nAmit Buskila, 28, from Ashdod, was last heard of making a call to her uncle, Shimon, as Hamas overran the festival. Her family say they have now been told by the government that she is being held in Gaza.\n\nCarmel Gat, 39, is Jordan's sister-in-law, and also was seen by her father being taken by gunmen from Kibbutz Be'eri, Haaretz newspaper reported. She has not been heard from since.\n\nOhad Yahalomi, 49, was abducted from Nir Oz, along with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the November ceasefire.\n\nDror Or, 48, was seen by a neighbour being dragged out of his home in Be'eri, according to their nephew Emmanuel Besorai, along with his son and daughter. On Saturday 25 November Dror's son Noam, 17, and daughter Alma, 13, were released from captivity. The body of Yonat, 50 - Dror's wife and the children's mother - was identified among the 120 people murdered at the kibbutz, Yonat's brother told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nTal Shoham, 38, was taken from Kibbutz Be'eri. His wife Adi, also 38, her mother Dr Shoshan Haran, 67, were released by Hamas on 25 November, along with the couple's children Nave, eight, and Yahel, three. Dr Haran's husband, Avshalom - an economist and dual German/Israeli citizen - was killed on 7 October.\n\nTamir Adar, 38, who defended Nir Oz as part of the kibbutz's emergency squad, was taken to Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen, 35, an American-Israeli citizen, has been missing since Hamas's attack on Nir Oz, his father Jonathan told the BBC. He said his son was not found among the dead and the \"only reasonable explanation\" is that he was taken to Gaza.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen's father has not heard from him since Hamas attacked the kibbutz where he lived\n\nThailand's ambassador to Israel says 26 of its citizens were taken hostage, 23 of whom have now been released.\n\nThose still being held are believed to include Watchara Sriuan, 32. His mother, Viewwaew, told the Thaiger news site that the family had been informed he was being held captive.\n\nKiattisak \"Top\" Patee and a Mr Pongtorn (no first name given) have also been named by the Thai foreign ministry as hostages.\n\nA number of other people thought to have been held hostage are now confirmed to have died, either during the 7 October attack or while in captivity.\n\nAs well as Ron Scherman and Nik Beizer, four bodies were identified this week. They were Tal Chaimi, an Israeli-Romanian citizen aged 41, and Joshua Mollel, a 19-year-old Tanzanian student. Also, 27-year-old Eden Zecharya, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and 36-year-old Ziv Dado, who had already been declared dead by the Israeli military.\n\nOthers known to have died include Dror Kaplun, 68, Aviv Atzili, 49, Arye Zalmanovich, 85, Ronen Engel, 54, Maya Goren, 56, Guy Iluz, 26, Ofir Tzarfati, 27, Ofra Keider, 70, and Eliyahu Margalit, 75.\n\nThe bodies of 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, and 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss were found by Israeli troops in buildings close to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.\n\nOn Saturday 9 December Kibbutz Bari announced that Sahar Baruch, 25, had been killed in Gaza.\n\nOther hostages whose death has been reported, but not confirmed include Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The US president pardoned 'Liberty' and 'Bell' ahead of Thanksgiving, joking that their luck was like getting tickets to a Taylor Swift concert... though he got the singer's name wrong.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: This is what America's busiest travel days look like\n\nThe US will see its busiest travel day of the Thanksgiving holiday on Wednesday, officials say, but the wintry weather is not expected to cause widespread disruption.\n\nA storm that hit much of the eastern US earlier this week raised fears of travel chaos for millions of Americans.\n\nBut the rain and wind is forecast to ease by Wednesday afternoon and is unlikely to disrupt plans for most.\n\nAlmost 50,000 flights are scheduled to depart on Wednesday.\n\nThe Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) advised travellers to arrive at the airport early given it is the busiest day of the week. It urged passengers to check their flight status in advance because lingering rain and wind could still cause some delays and cancellations.\n\nThe FAA also said that low cloud and rain could affect some airports in the east; namely in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and around Washington DC.\n\nBut as of 11:00 local time (16:00 GMT) most flights at those airports were departing, or were scheduled to depart, on time.\n\nOn the roads, rain has caused some flooding in eastern states.\n\nThere were some delays on the I-95 route from Virginia to Massachusetts on Wednesday due to flooding, but those conditions are expected to clear by the afternoon.\n\nDrivers elsewhere have been told to expect trips to take longer than usual due to congestion.\n\n\"The day before Thanksgiving is notoriously one of the most congested days on our roadways,\" Bob Pishue, an analyst at INRIX, which provides transportation data, said in a statement.\n\n\"Travellers should be prepared for long delays, especially in and around major metros.\"\n\nThe American Automobile Association (AAA) predicted just shy of 50 million people will drive 50 miles (80km) or more during this year's holiday period.\n\nThis would be the third-highest travel numbers since AAA began tracking holiday travel in 2000 - marking an enthusiastic return to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nWith the weather expected to improve from Wednesday afternoon, forecasters say most can expect a pleasant Thanksgiving Day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 2022: The giant balloons taking over New York City for Thanksgiving\n\nIt also means the winds are unlikely to be strong enough to ground the balloons at the Macy's Thanksgiving parade in New York, so Americans and tourists alike can look forward to witnessing the colourful tradition.\n\nMarc Chenard, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said the rain and wind would clear by Thursday.\n\nFrom there, some snowfall is predicted for parts of northern New England and portions of Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.\n\nOtherwise, the weather this week is expected to be \"quiet\", Mr Chenard said, with temperatures hovering around typical seasonal levels.\n\n\"It should be a pretty nice Thanksgiving for most people,\" he said.", "Kiesha Donaghy was said to be popular and loved\n\nA 32-year-old mother murdered in Elgin was the victim of a violent attack, police have said.\n\nKiesha Donaghy was found dead at a property in Anderson Drive at about 19:20 last Thursday.\n\nDet Supt Lorna Ferguson, of Police Scotland, said Ms Donaghy had sustained head injuries in the fatal assault.\n\nBut she said that, at this stage, it was impossible to tell whether the mother-of-two knew her killer or whether a weapon had been used.\n\nAsked what message she had for the killer, the detective said: \"I would say that somebody somewhere knows who you are. I have absolutely no doubt that we will catch them.\"\n\nDept Supt Ferguson said Ms Donaghy was last seen on Wednesday, and her family and friends were \"devastated\" by her death.\n\n\"Keisha's a popular girl, loved by her friends and family,\" she added. \"We need to look at Kiesha's lifestyle and build up a picture.\"\n\nThe officer said she did not have a suspect but had no information to suggest anyone else was at risk.\n\nPolice are maintaining a visible presence in Elgin as part of the murder investigation, and to reassure the community.\n\n\"I can't go into all the injuries but I can tell you it was quite a violent attack,\" Dept Supt Ferguson added.\n\n\"There's obviously real concerns and I can understand that. Elgin is a small tight-knit community.\n\n\"It is an unusual incident, I have no information to suggest anybody else is a risk.\"\n\nShe appealed for information and said a dedicated team of officers was working to find out what happened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The King and South Korean president had a carriage procession along the Mall\n\nThe ceremonial splendour of a state visit was deployed to welcome the South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.\n\nKing Charles and Queen Camilla greeted the president and his wife at Horse Guards Parade in London.\n\nThe royal couple and their guests had a carriage procession along the Mall, lined with South Korean flags, before going inside Buckingham Palace.\n\nAlso meeting the South Korean leaders were PM Rishi Sunak and Lord Cameron, now returned as foreign secretary.\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales were part of the ceremonial greeting for the South Korean president\n\nMore than 1,000 soldiers were on parade, with gun salutes in the autumn leaves in Green Park, as the South Korean president was given a ceremonial welcome, with Prince William and Catherine part of the procession.\n\nState visits are a \"soft power\" mix of pageantry and practical politics - and this was a sign of respect to an increasingly important ally and trade partner, in a region with growing tensions with China.\n\nThe jingle of the cavalry harnesses on the Mall is linked to the jingle of cash tills, with trade deals to be negotiated.\n\nMr Yoon is having a state banquet in the Buckingham Palace ballroom, along with 170 guests, who will hear speeches from the King and the president.\n\nThe 'soft power' of a state visit saw an important ally given a red carpet welcome in London\n\nThese are opulent occasions, with diplomacy fuelled by fine dining, using a 19th Century dinner service with more than 4,000 pieces.\n\nThe table settings are as precise and symmetrical as the military parade - each guest getting a place setting of 46cms.\n\nAlthough there might not be a repeat of Mr Yoon's karaoke-style performance when he visited US President Joe Biden in April, and sang American Pie.\n\nPrince William and Catherine were part of the welcoming party for the South Korean visit\n\nEarlier this month, the King had a taste of Korean culture and K-pop, when he visited New Malden, in south-west London, which is known as \"Korea Town\", for having the biggest concentration of South Koreans in Europe.\n\nWhile in London, the president is launching plans for a new trade deal, including technology and green energy, and closer military ties.\n\nA \"Downing Street Accord\" is being signed at a meeting between the president and Rishi Sunak, which is intended to boost trade and support \"global stability\".\n\nThere are plans for a stronger approach to enforcing sanctions against North Korea, and preventing its \"illegal weapons programme\", with joint sea patrols between the South Korean navy and the Royal Navy.\n\n\"Long term, global partnerships are vital to our prosperity and security,\" said Mr Sunak, who added that \"close ties have already propelled £21bn of investment between our countries\".\n\nYou can see more royal stories in the free BBC Royal Watch newsletter emailed each week - sign up here from within the UK. or here, from outside the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRapper A$AP Rocky will stand trial on charges that he fired a pistol in a feud with a former childhood friend, a Los Angeles judge has ruled.\n\nThe decision came on Monday during the second day of a preliminary hearing, which was attended by A$AP Rocky, real name Rakim Mayers.\n\nProsecutors say Mr Mayers, 35, pointed and fired a handgun at Terell Ephron two years ago, causing minor injuries.\n\nMr Mayers, who has two children with singer Rihanna, has pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe Grammy-nominated Mr Mayers, who has had two US number one albums, is facing two felony counts of assault with a firearm.\n\nHe could receive up to nine years in prison if found guilty.\n\nMr Ephron, who was part of the A$AP Mob hip-hop collective and has known him since their time together at a New York high school, alleges separately in a lawsuit that he is the victim of assault and battery, negligence and emotional distress.\n\nMr Ephron, known as A$AP Relli, says Mr Mayers \"lured\" him to an obscure location outside the W Hotel in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on 6 November 2021 to discuss a disagreement.\n\nCCTV footage of the alleged assault that was played in court shows Mr Mayers brandishing and firing a gun, an LA detective testified earlier this month.\n\nMr Mayers's lawyers deny that it is their client who is seen in the video.\n\nSuperior Court Judge ML Villar only had to decide whether there was sufficient evidence for the case to go forward, not whether a crime had been committed. The burden of proof is significantly lower for preliminary hearings like these.\n\nMr Ephron is also suing Mr Mayers, claiming that after a verbal altercation Mr Mayers \"pulled out a handgun and purposefully pointed it in the direction of [Mr Ephron] and fired multiple shots\".\n\nMr Ephron was \"struck by bullet projectile/fragments\" in his left hand and required medical attention, according to the court papers. He is seeking at least $25,000 (£20,000) in damages.\n\nAt a court hearing in August 2022, the judge ordered Mr Mayers to stay 100 yards (300ft) away from Mr Ephron at all times.\n\nMr Mayers was previously given a two-year suspended sentence for his role in a brawl in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 2019.\n\nHe is being represented in the Los Angeles case by lawyer Joe Tacopina, who is also representing former President Donald Trump in his New York civil fraud trial.\n\nAs A$AP Rocky, he was one of the biggest breakout stars of the 2010s, earning eight platinum singles in the US, including Wild For The Night, Everyday, LSD and A$AP Forever.\n\nHe rose to fame after being championed by Drake, and has worked with artists including Alicia Keys, Lana Del Rey, Skepta, Selena Gomez and Kendrick Lamar.", "Peter Robinson says a deal is achievable, but negotiations aren't \"quite there\" yet\n\nUnionists need to recognise the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) will not get everything it wants in negotiations with the government, ex-first minister Peter Robinson has said.\n\nBut he said the government could do more and that things were \"not quite there\" yet on a deal.\n\nThe DUP has been boycotting devolution since last February, in protest at post-Brexit trade arrangements.\n\nThe party said Mr Robinson was giving his own views and analysis.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme, he said a moment was approaching where unionists may have to realise \"we have really pushed this one\".\n\nFor months, the DUP has been engaged with Number 10 in talks aimed at securing extra changes to the Windsor Framework.\n\nThe framework is the deal agreed by the UK and EU which sought to reduce the level of checks on goods crossing the Irish Sea from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nThe government has said talks with the DUP are in the final stages, but the DUP has repeatedly said gaps are outstanding.\n\nMr Robinson, who led the party from 2008 until 2016, said he supported the strategy taken by current DUP leader, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson.\n\nBut he warned that negotiations could not drift beyond the end of this year.\n\n\"I don't think you can go beyond the turn of the year without the government having to look at some other way of governing Northern Ireland,\" he added.\n\nMr Robinson added that constitutionally it would mean a move back to direct rule, with \"greater involvement\" from Dublin.\n\nBut the former first minister said he hoped a deal could be reached in the coming weeks to avoid that scenario.\n\n\"There's a stage where unionists have to recognise that we really have pushed this one, we have got a good deal - not everything that we wanted but the rest that we do want... we're in position to argue for it and to achieve it using the assembly as our base for doing it,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't believe at this moment in time we are quite there, but there are further steps that the government can take and I hope they do.\"\n\nResponding to Mr Robinson's comments, DUP MP Sammy Wilson said \"you have to see the nature of the deal, to decide if it's a good deal or not\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster he did not get the impression that \"we are close\" to a deal.\n\nIn a statement, the DUP said Mr Robinson was not speaking on behalf of the party.\n\n\"His own views and analysis are shared by him on the basis of years of experience,\" it added.\n\n\"This is a time for cool heads. We will judge any outcome against our clearly declared objectives of restoring our place in the union and our ability to trade within the UK.\"\n\nDoug Beattie said he thought Peter Robinson was being pragmatic\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie agreed that Stormont was where many of the issues that unionists face in relation to Brexit could be resolved.\n\n\"He [Peter Robinson] is literally saying what I have been saying for the last two years,\" he added.\n\nMr Beattie said he thought Mr Robinson's comments added \"a bit of weight\" to DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson trying to get Stormont \"back up and running again\".\n\nOrange Order grand secretary Mervyn Gibson told BBC News NI that he thought Mr Robinson was sending a message to the government.\n\n\"I think he is actually saying to the British government, there's not a lot to do here, but if you can get it across the line, then the party will go back in supported by the people,\" he added.\n\n\"Everybody knows they are not going to get 100%. The bottom line in all of this is it has to be a fair deal.\"\n\nSpeaking to Times Radio on Monday, Mr Robinson also referenced dual market access for businesses in NI as part of the Windsor Framework, saying they could have \"the best of both worlds\".\n\nHe added: \"Waiting until you get things right could serve the country very well and we could have virtually the best of both worlds with having access in a seamless way, both to the UK market and the European market.\"\n\nPeter Robinson clearly got the memo. In fact he may have helped to write it.\n\nHis message to fellow unionists was almost identical to the one delivered by Sir Jeffrey Donaldson in his party conference speech last month.\n\nA restored Stormont is the only way to protect the union, he said, while warning that direct rule would place Northern Ireland at the mercy of those who betrayed unionists at every turn.\n\nLike Sir Jeffrey, he also warned the DUP may not get all they demand and compromise may be needed to secure the union.\n\nBut Peter Robinson went further than the current DUP leader in preparing the ground for a deal.\n\nHe signalled that any deal may not be the complete package and may need to be worked on through a restored Assembly.\n\nHe also used a phrase which has been banished in DUP circles, when he suggested Northern Ireland could benefit from the \"best of both worlds\" with \"seamless\" access to both the UK and EU markets.\n\nIt is an eye catching intervention at a critical moment, but will it be enough to head off any internal party dissent?\n\nMr Robinson said unionists try to \"clear the snooker table in one visit\" in negotiations but this is not always possible\n\nMr Robinson also reflected on his view of how nationalists and republicans operate in political negotiations, compared to unionists.\n\n\"Each step they take, they look to see does that take us closer to our objective.\n\n\"Unionists and loyalists think they should clear the table in one visit, to use a snooker analogy, but that's not always possible. What you want to do is make sure you have a sufficient score to enable you to clear the table when next you go to it.\"\n\nYou can hear the full interview with William Crawley on BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme from 12:00 GMT and afterwards on BBC Sounds.", "A 28-year-old man was charged with impersonating a nurse in Scotland's biggest hospital earlier this year, it has been revealed.\n\nLee Woods will face a trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court after his arrest at the city's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) on 18 July.\n\nIt is alleged he was impersonating a member of nursing staff at the time.\n\nThe QEUH campus in south Glasgow includes the Royal Hospital for Children, the Queen Elizabeth Maternity Unit and two Accident and Emergency departments - one for adults and one for children.\n\nBBC Scotland News has seen a memo sent to staff in another health board area - NHS Lanarkshire - to alert them to be on their guard.\n\nIt said the man was accused of wearing an NHS uniform with a lanyard and falsified identification badge claiming he had the position of a charge nurse.\n\nThe memo also said a review revealed the man had \"accessed the hospital in this way on at least four occasions between March and the date of his arrest\".\n\nIt reminded staff to wear their ID badge at work, remain vigilant and report suspicious activity.\n\nGordon Young, head of NHS National Services Scotland Counter Fraud Services, said it had issued \"an internal alert notice to counter fraud liaison officers within health boards regarding a security breach at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital\".\n\nHe added: \"Police Scotland have taken forward the full investigation.\"\n\nA statement from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said staff had supported the \"relevant authorities\" responding to the incident.\n\nIt added: \"We would like to reassure members of the public that our onsite security teams work very hard to ensure the safety and security of our facilities for all those who need to use them.\"\n\nMr Woods appeared in court charged with breach of the peace on 19 July and a trial has been set for 31 January 2024.", "Elizabeth El-Nakla and Maged El-Nakla were visiting family in Gaza when the Hamas attacks happened\n\nHumza Yousaf said his family was \"highly relieved\" that his in-laws have left Gaza after being trapped in the territory for more than three weeks.\n\nThe first minister's parents-in-law had been unable to leave following the deadly attacks on Israel by Hamas.\n\nElizabeth El-Nakla and her husband Maged - the parents of Mr Yousaf's wife Nadia - had been visiting relatives.\n\nMs El-Nakla said they were \"completely exhausted\" after entering Egypt through the Rafah crossing.\n\nThey were among a number of British nationals who have begun to leave the Gaza Strip, after Palestinian authorities listed nearly 100 as being eligible.\n\nMr Yousaf said his family shed tears when they heard the news on Friday.\n\nHe also recalled the special moment he phoned his 14-year-old daughter on her school break to tell her: \"Granny and Grandad are coming home\".\n\nBut the first minister admitted the experience of being trapped in a warzone had left the couple \"severely traumatised\" and warned it would take them some time to recover.\n\nMr Yousaf said his wife was \"so happy\" to hear that her parents had crossed over the border.\n\nHe said: \"You can imagine how many tears have been shed by us just this morning, let alone over the last four weeks.\n\n\"But her worry immediately transfers from her mother and father to now her brother, to her granny, to her step mum, to her nephews and niece, and to all those innocent men, women and children who are suffering not a natural disaster but a man-made conflict.\"\n\nThe first minister said his thoughts were with all those affected by the war and renewed his calls for a ceasefire.\n\nMs El-Nakla's mother, Elizabeth, with her twin grandsons, who turned nine last month\n\nMr and Mrs El-Nakla, from Dundee, had spent the past two weeks in a house where 100 people were sheltering, including a child of two months old.\n\nThey had travelled to the border on three previous occasions without success.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News from a coach bound for Cairo, Ms El-Nakla said: \"We are completely exhausted as we haven't slept properly for the past 27 days.\n\n\"The past few days have been particularly traumatic.\n\n\"We don't really know what's been going on in the outside world as there's been no internet, electricity, clean water and food has been difficult to get.\"\n\nThe couple travelled to Gaza early last month to visit Mr El-Naka's mother, who had a stroke in March but has now recovered.\n\nThey were planning on staying for five weeks but just four days into their trip Hamas launched a deadly assault on Israel.\n\nMs El-Nakla said that leaving her relatives behind had been \"incredibly hard\".\n\nMr Yousaf's wife's brother - a doctor in a Gaza hospital - and his family all remain in Gaza, as do her stepmother and grandmother. They are not UK passport holders and were therefore unable to leave.\n\nThe Rafah crossing, which offers the only way in and out of Gaza, was opened by Egypt on Wednesday.\n\nA list published overnight by the Palestinian Border Authority said those named must be \"present at 07:00 in the outdoor halls of the crossing to facilitate their travel\".\n\nInjured Palestinians and 335 foreign passport holders, including some British nationals, were the first to be allowed to cross.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said the last month had been \"traumatic\" for his family\n\nA statement from Mr Yousaf and Ms El-Nakla confirmed the couple had made it safely through the crossing on Friday morning.\n\nThey expressed gratitude to everyone who had assisted the couple, including the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office crisis team.\n\nThe statement added: \"These last four weeks have been a living nightmare for our family, we are so thankful for all of the messages of comfort and prayers that we have received from across the world, and indeed from across the political spectrum in Scotland and the UK.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"This is great news for Humza Yousaf and his wife Nadia. I'm delighted that their family are safe after weeks of anguish and uncertainty. \"\n\nThe El-Naklas were among about 200 British nationals believed to have been trapped in Gaza.\n\nRoutes in and out of the region were closed after Hamas - which is proscribed as a terrorist group in the UK - attacked Israel on 7 October, killing more than 1,400 people and taking at least 239 hostage.\n\nSince then, the Israeli military has launched a massive bombing campaign on Gaza, placed the strip under a \"complete siege\" and launched a ground assault on the north of the territory.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 9,000 people have been killed.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Yousaf said he did not know whether his family was alive or dead in Gaza, as it was under a communications blackout.\n\nMs El-Nakla said her parents had been without clean drinking water and faced \"rapidly diminishing supplies\".\n\nMr Yousaf spoke to the BBC of his feelings of \"helplessness and distress\" at not being able to do more to get his family home and shared a video of his mother-in-law describing the conditions they were living under in Gaza.", "Cardinal Ó Fiaich, pictured outside the Vatican in 1982, is being honoured by the Ulster History Circle\n\nA blue plaque in tribute to Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich - a former leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland - has been unveiled in County Armagh.\n\nCardinal Ó Fiaich served as the Catholic Primate of All Ireland from 1977 until his death in 1990.\n\nHe was also a noted academic and linguist who lectured in modern history and was renowned for his passion for the Irish language and Irish folklore.\n\nThe plaque at his former family home marked the centenary of his birth.\n\nThe honour was bestowed by the Ulster History Circle, following lobbying by members of the Creggan History Society.\n\n\"Tomás, Cardinal Ó Fiaich is renowned for his dedication to the church, to Celtic history and to Irish language and he is remembered as an inspiring leader and champion,\" Ulster History Circle chairman Chris Spurr said.\n\nCardinal Ó Fiaich was an outspoken and sometimes controversial public figure during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe strongly opposed the use of violence on all sides of the conflict and worked with Protestant church leaders to appeal for peace and reconciliation between the nationalist and unionist communities.\n\nCardinal Ó Fiaich (right) with his Protestant counterpart, the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh in 1982\n\nHe consistently condemned IRA murders, preaching that \"the political problems of our country cannot be solved by methods contrary to God's law\".\n\nBut he also publicly criticised UK government policy in Northern Ireland, including the treatment of IRA prisoners, and once snubbed a meeting with the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.\n\nSpeaking at Friday's event, the current Catholic Primate of All Ireland, Archbishop Eamon Martin, said Cardinal Ó Fiaich was often \"misunderstood by some who would have unfairly labelled him as a partisan\".\n\nHe added: \"The blue circle we unveil today is a fitting tribute to a man whose circle of friendship went far and wide to embrace people of every nation, language and creed.\"\n\nArchbishop Eamon Martin unveils the plaque on Friday, along with Bishop Michael Router and Cardinal Ó Fiaich's nephew and his family\n\nHe was the second son of two schoolteachers and grew up in the townland of Anamar, halfway between the villages of Cullyhanna and Crossmaglen.\n\nHis mother died while he was a young boy and so his aunt helped to raise him and his older brother.\n\nThe young Thomas Fee studied Irish at the Donegal Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking area) as a child and as a young man he began to use the Irish version of his name exclusively.\n\nHe was educated at St Patrick's College in Armagh city and then in his late teens he entered Ireland's biggest seminary, St Patrick's College in Maynooth in County Kildare.\n\n\"Father Tom\", as he was fondly known by friends throughout his life, was ordained as a priest in 1948.\n\nArchbishop of Armagh Tomás Ó Fiaich (centre) outside Armagh Cathedral in 1977\n\nBut he still continued his academic career and took a job as a lecturer in modern history at Maynooth.\n\nHe had a particular interest in early Irish Christianity and authored several books on the subject.\n\nHe was later appointed president of the college in 1974.\n\nWhen the Catholic Primate William Conway died in 1977 after a short illness, the then Monsignor Ó Fiaich was something of an unexpected choice as his replacement in the top job.\n\nThe academic had never even held the post of bishop before his appointment as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland.\n\nTomás Ó Fiaich was installed as Archbishop of Armagh in 1977\n\nBut he proved a popular choice and within two years he had been elevated to the role of cardinal.\n\nHe also welcomed Pope John Paul II to Ireland in 1979 for the first ever papal visit to the country.\n\nHowever, as an avowed republican born and bred in a part of south Armagh nicknamed \"bandit country\" during the Troubles, some viewed Cardinal Ó Fiaich with suspicion.\n\nHe spoke from the pulpit about the \"unnatural division of our country\" and once enraged unionists by saying British soldiers should be withdrawn from Northern Ireland and replaced by United Nations peacekeepers.\n\nDuring the 1981 IRA hunger strike he declined to attend a meeting with Mrs Thatcher due to prior church business, in a move widely viewed as a snub to the then prime minister.\n\nSome sections of the press accused him of being the IRA's chaplain because of his prison welfare work, while the Sunday Express caricatured him as a recruiting sergeant for republican paramilitaries.\n\nWhen he refused to support calls for Catholics to join the police in 1987, he was condemned as an \"evil prelate\" in the House of Lords by unionist peer Lord Brookeborough.\n\nThat remark caused outrage and was later withdrawn but Cardinal Ó Fiaich too was sometimes guilty of making offensive comments.\n\nIn 1985 he caused widespread hurt by claiming: \"I think 90% of religious bigotry is to be found among Protestants. Whereas the bigotry one finds among Catholics is mainly political.\"\n\nBut he managed to patch up his sometimes strained relations with Protestant church leaders and promote ecumenism.\n\nCardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich (left) at Stormont with the leaders of the main Protestant churches in 1982\n\nHe continued to work with them to meet politicians and campaign for an end to violence.\n\nIn May 1990, Cardinal Ó Fiaich died suddenly after suffering a suspected heart attack while on a pilgrimage to Lourdes in France.\n\nHis death aged 66 was considered a great loss to the Irish language movement and to his many friends and supporters.\n\nMemorials to him include the Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Library in Armagh city and the Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich cultural centre in west Belfast.\n\nThe village square in Crossmaglen is also named in his honour.\n\nIn 1987 Cardinal Ó Fiaich and Church of Ireland Primate Robin Eames helped carry a cross from Dublin to Belfast\n\nThe campaign for a blue plaque was led by Creggan History Society, based in the cardinal's native parish of Lower Creggan.\n\n\"He was a man of the people,\" society member Gearóid Trimble told BBC News NI.\n\n\"Despite holding high office within the Church he was very much rooted in his community and family.\"\n\nThe plaque was unveiled at Cardinal Ó Fiaich's home on Kiltybane Road at 12:00 GMT on Friday.", "Sam Bankman-Fried has been convicted of stealing billions of dollars from customers of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX. It's a spectacular downfall for Silicon Valley's dishevelled wunderkind, who rubbed elbows with celebrities like Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady.\n\nOn 7 November 2022, as his empire began its dizzying, irrevocable collapse, Bankman-Fried did what he always did: he weighed the odds.\n\nEarlier that day, a rival executive had expressed concerns on social media about the finances of Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange, spooking customers into a multi-billion dollar bank run.\n\nIn an online chat, Bankman-Fried consulted two of his top deputies. \"To be clear you think the tweet is net bad?\" he asked them.\n\nThey considered their options. Was it possible that his rival would walk back the criticism? Was it probable that that would stem the bleeding? \"Fairly unlikely,\" Bankman-Fried wrote.\n\nIt was the kind of calculus Bankman-Fried had been making for years, the quick equations friends said he used in nearly every situation - mulling a break-up, assessing a risky trade.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What happens to crypto after Sam Bankman-Fried?\n\nFor a while, that approach seemed to work. As the boy-wonder of crypto, Bankman-Fried got rich faster than almost anyone in history, amassing an estimated $26bn in personal wealth, countless magazine covers and sweeping political influence. The flameout was even faster.\n\nThe tweet was, as discussed, net bad. Billions gushed out of the platform in less than five days. When it was all over, more than $8bn in customer funds were missing and the company was bankrupt. Five weeks after that, prosecutors in Manhattan charged Bankman-Fried, who had already resigned, with several financial offences including wire fraud, securities fraud, commodities fraud and money laundering.\n\nOver four weeks of trial, two contradictory stories emerged. In one, the former mogul was a brilliant but hapless savant, whose mistakes as CEO allowed for massive fraud to be carried out under his nose. In the other, supported by former members of his inner circle, Bankman-Fried syphoned billions of dollars of customer money, banking on the odds he'd never be caught.\n\nBoth tellings reveal how tightly the fortunes of FTX were tied to the image of its founder, whose oddball magnetism drew former presidents, celebrities, and corporate titans into his orbit and his multi-billion dollar gamble.\n\n\"Mostly I sleep on a beanbag,\" Mr Bankman-Fried once told his Twitter followers\n\nBankman-Fried wasn't shy about it: he wanted to get rich. But, to hear him tell it, he wanted to make all those billions just to give them away.\n\nAn overachieving child born to two overachieving parents, Bankman-Fried and his younger brother were taught at an early age about utilitarianism, a doctrine holding that the most ethical choice is the one that does the most good for the most people.\n\nAs a student at MIT, Bankman-Fried went to a talk by Will MacAskill, a 25-year-old doctoral student at Oxford and founder of effective altruism, a utilitarian-tinged philosophy that uses maths to figure out how individuals can maximise their philanthropic impact.\n\nTo do the most good, Mr MacAskill told him, Bankman-Fried could take his considerable intellect to lucrative Wall Street, and donate most of his salary to important causes.\n\nBankman-Fried was sold. In 2014, he took his degree straight to Jane Street, a high-frequency trading firm, and reportedly gave away about half of his income to worthy causes.\n\nThree years later, Bankman-Fried found an industry that could make him even richer than typical trading: crypto.\n\nAt the age of 25, he founded Alameda Research, a crypto investment firm, after noticing that prices of Bitcoin varied considerably in different countries. The arbitrage trading earned Alameda a reported $20m in just three weeks.\n\nIn 2019, he founded FTX, then a Hong Kong-based crypto exchange for international investors. Like Elizabeth Holmes - another Silicon Valley billionaire whose star came crashing down - he was able to convince big name investors to lend the company not only cash, but credibility.\n\nWithin months, daily trading volume on FTX had reached $300m. By 2021, he had debuted on the Forbes 400, the magazine's annual list of the richest Americans, with a fortune of $22.5bn.\n\nSome have attributed his remarkable success to an unusually high tolerance for risk, a willingness to chance devastating consequences for a big reward.\n\n\"He would be happy to flip a coin, if it came up tails and the world was destroyed,\" his ex-girlfriend and former CEO of Alameda Research Caroline Ellison said at trial. \"As long as if it came up heads the world would be more than twice as good.\"\n\nBankman Fried once appeared on stage at a conference with former UK leader Tony Blair and former US President Bill Clinton\n\nAnd with supermodel Gisele Bündchen, right, and the pair appeared in an ad in Vogue together for his company FTX\n\nAccording to internal accounts, life at FTX could sometimes resemble a grown-up maths camp, filled with a selection of brilliant misfits and led by the perpetually rumpled Bankman-Fried.\n\n\"He was super disorganised, he was always in cargo shorts, he was always sloppy,\" a former FTX employee told the BBC. \"He would walk around the office in bare feet.\"\n\nThose at the top were a tight-knit group who sometimes blindly listened to Sam, the employee said. \"It could be cult-like.\"\n\nNatalie Tien, who handled public relations and Bankman-Fried's schedule at FTX for more than two years, said he was charismatic to the point that the company sometimes felt \"toxic\".\n\n\"We just trusted him 100%,\" she told the BBC. \"To a degree that we kind of worried [about] speaking up for ourselves.\"\n\nIt wasn't only people inside the company that were enthralled.\n\nAppearing side-by-side with Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Gisele Bundchen and Katy Perry in shorts and ill-fitting T-shirts, he became an ambassador of sorts for the crypto industry as whole, just as it began to reach new heights.\n\nPart of the mystique was that Bankman-Fried seemed to eschew the level of luxury his earnings could have afforded. He didn't own a yacht, his defence attorneys said at trial. He drove a beat-up Toyota Corolla. Meanwhile, he testified before Congress arguing for more regulation of the crypto market, setting him apart from many of his peers.\n\n\"In a weird way, he seemed kind of like the grown-up in the crypto world,\" said Zeke Faux, an investigative journalist and author of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall.\n\nAnd, of course, there was his stated ultimate objective: Bankman-Fried was going to give it all away.\n\n\"It was a great story, everybody loved it,\" said Mr Faux. \"People loved it in Congress, the VCs loved it, the bankers loved it.\"\n\n\"The problem with his story is that it was not true,\" he said.\n\nIn September of 2022, the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital ran a breathless profile of Bankman-Fried in its magazine. At the time, FTX was valued at $32bn.\n\nIn the since-deleted piece entitled FTX's SBF Has a Savior Complex, and Maybe You Should Too, author Adam Fisher described Bankman-Fried's efforts to maximise his wealth in order to maximise his impact on the world. It involved a risk, Fisher wrote. \"But the math couldn't be clearer.\"\n\n\"To do the most good for the world,\" he said, \"SBF needed to find a path on which he'd be a coin toss away from going totally bust.\"\n\nA month-and-a-half later, industry news site CoinDesk published a bombshell report alleging that Alameda had over half its $15bn portfolio in FTT - the crypto token printed by FTX. The disclosure raised questions about the actual value of Alameda's holdings, and the apparent conflict of interest between Alameda and FTX - ostensibly independent companies.\n\nThen came that announcement on 6 November from industry rival, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ, who said he would dump his own sizable stores of FTT.\n\nOn 11 November, the implosion of FTX was complete, the story of crypto's prodigy gone with it.\n\nFor some observers of the crypto boom, and Bankman-Fried's meteoric rise to power, the fall was not unexpected.\n\nIn a now deleted post Sequoia Capital said Sam Bankman-Fried's 'intellect is as awesome as it is intimidating'.\n\nAs FTX rose to prominence, the actor Ben McKenzie, best known for his role on the television show the OC, emerged as one of the country's most vocal crypto sceptics.\n\nIn July 2022, Bankman-Fried agreed to sit down for an interview with Mr McKenzie for a book the actor was writing, titled Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud.\n\nIn a cramped Manhattan hotel room, in an encounter that Mr McKenzie described as \"probably the strangest hour of my life\", Bankman-Fried tried to pitch the actor on crypto - and Sam Bankman-Fried - as a force for good in the world.\n\n\"I think he marketed himself to me as a version of his public persona, which at the time was the California wunderkind, billionaire philanthropist,\" Mr McKenzie said.\n\nIt was an image that even Mr McKenzie had bought into, to an extent, he said. Until they began talking, that is. \"He had trouble just giving me straight answers to basic questions, one of which was, what does crypto currency do?\" the actor said.\n\nOver four weeks of trial in Manhattan, Bankman-Fried's attorneys painted their client as a math nerd who was overwhelmed by his expanding empire.\n\nOn the stand, now in a suit, with his hair cut short, Bankman-Fried directed some of the blame at Ms Ellison, who had pleaded guilty to fraud, for failing to \"hedge\" bets to better protect Alameda from a downturn in the market, as he had instructed her to do.\n\nThe prosecution, in turn, painted Bankman-Fried as someone whose boundless aspiration went hand-in-hand with a hubris that led Bankman-Fried to play the odds with his company.\n\n\"The defendant was gambling with customer money,\" prosecutor Nicolas Roos argued.\n\nBankman-Fried's courtroom downfall was aided by former members of his inner circle, including Ms Ellison, who acted as chief executive of Alameda, as well as college roommates Adam Yedida and Gary Wang, and Nishad Singh, a childhood friend of Bankman-Fried's younger brother.\n\nHis ex-girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, was a key witness for the prosecution\n\nThey testified that while promising to safeguard customer funds and clean up the industry, Bankman-Fried was directing them to commit fraud, opening up a back door between Alameda and FTX so he could use FTX as a personal piggybank. The money fuelled his rise, as he splashed out on property, billions in investments and some $100m in political donations - not to mention helping to cover billions in debts owed by Alameda.\n\nHis physical appearance, too, was contrived, Ms Ellison testified - his messy hair and cheap car deemed \"better for his image\", because it made him look more authentic than a typical trader. But that down-to-earth image belied his intense ambition, she said.\n\n\"He thought there was a 5% chance he would become president someday,\" Ms Ellison said at trial. \"Of the United States.\"\n\nWhile many have watched the trial as a sort of comeuppance, former FTX employee Natalie Tien has looked to it for closure, and is one of the few former employees to attend the trial regularly.\n\nOn the one hand, it was a relief to realise that her own doubts and questions about some things - like extravagant spending on celebrity sponsorships - had been justified. The last time she communicated with her former boss, in December 2022, he had just been released on bail and sent her a music video of Eminem, rapping \"Without Me\" to celebrate.\n\nBut the 33-year-old also felt some parts of the story - especially around his schedule and his use of private jets - were being taken \"out of context\".\n\n\"He did lie and he took the money, yes, but I don't think it's because he was greedy,\" she said. \"Because I actually saw him every day wearing crappy old T-shirts with no shoes and driving a shitty car.\"\n\n\"It was not an act,\" she said.\n\nBankman-Fried now faces up to 110 years in prison, and an indelible reputation as one of the greatest fraudsters in US history. Lawyers working on the bankruptcy case have said they have recovered more than $7bn in missing money.\n\n\"I think it says more about us than it does about him,\" Mr McKenzie said.\n\n\"He got so far, I think, in many ways because of his lineage, because he is the son of Stanford professors, because he did go to MIT, because he worked on Wall Street. The myth of Sam Bankman-Fried grew in relation to the myth of crypto itself, right?\"", "Some people were allowed through the Rafah crossing on Wednesday - but the wait goes on for others\n\nBritish nationals have left Gaza for the first time since war with Israel broke out last month.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office confirmed an unspecified number of UK passport holders had been able to leave via the Rafah crossing into Egypt on Wednesday.\n\nIt said the route was being opened for \"controlled and time-limited periods\" to allow some foreign nationals and injured Palestinians to leave.\n\nAbout 200 British nationals are believed to be in Gaza.\n\nIt emerged on Wednesday that some 500 people a day would be allowed through the crossing, which is controlled by Egyptian authorities.\n\nThousands gathered at the border this morning hoping to leave, but it emerged that only those whose names appeared on a limited list agreed by the Egyptian and Israeli governments would be permitted to cross.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said it had handed over the names of people who wished to leave Gaza.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, it confirmed some Britons were among a group of around 400 foreign nationals and injured Palestinians who had crossed, but did not say who or how many.\n\nEarlier, the BBC spoke to British-Palestinian doctor Abdelkader Hammad, who was told he was in the first group allowed to leave.\n\nBut when he arrived at the crossing point, he found the route was closed and described frustration and confusion at the border.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's PM programme at around 16:00 GMT (18:00 in Gaza) from the crossing point, Dr Hammad said: \"It's a little frustrating. We don't know what's going on...we don't know when the next group will go - if it will be tonight or tomorrow.\n\n\"It's dark - I'm not sure it will happen tonight, we'll see what happens tomorrow.\"\n\nSpeaking from the Rafah crossing at around 13:00 GMT, BBC News reporter Rushdi Abualouf said thousands of people were already at the border when it emerged only those on the list would be allowed through.\n\nWith no passport control or electronic ID system in place, the process is slowed by the need for an official to manually check the identities of every person leaving, he reported.\n\nHe also saw between 20 and 30 ambulances passing through the crossing carrying injured people into Egypt for medical treatment.\n\nRoutes in and out of Gaza have been closed since Hamas - which is proscribed as a terrorist group in the UK - attacked Israel on 7 October, killing more than 1,400 people and taking at least 239 hostage.\n\nBBC News understands that 14 British nationals were among those killed. Three more are missing.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 8,700 people have been killed since Israel launched air strikes as part of a military response to the attacks.\n\nSelected foreign nationals, and some injured Palestinians, left Gaza on Wednesday\n\nThe partial opening of the Rafah crossing follows international diplomatic efforts to convince Egypt to allow people to leave and aid to be transported into the enclave.Rishi Sunak held a further call with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Wednesday evening.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC at the AI summit in London earlier on Wednesday, Mr Sunak said the government was committed to getting humanitarian supplies into Gaza, and helping UK passport holders leave.\n\nHe continued: \"We're playing an active role in getting aid into Gaza to help those people who need it, but also diplomatically working with everyone in the region to find ways to move our British nationals out of Gaza and hopefully bring them home.\"\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverley called the first departures from Gaza a \"hugely important first step\". He earlier said British officials are on the ground in Egypt \"ready to assist British nationals as soon as they are able to leave\".\n\nWestern officials told the BBC a team had been deployed to Arish, a city some 25 miles (41km) away from Rafah, to \"ensure we can provide the necessary medical, consular and administrative support needed\" for British nationals.\n\nAmong the British nationals in Gaza are Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf's in-laws. He welcomed the opening of the border but said his wife's parents remained trapped without clean drinking water and rapidly diminishing supplies.\n\nBoth Mr Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer have called for humanitarian \"pauses\" in fighting to allow the movement of aid.\n\nHumanitarian pauses tend to last for shorter periods of time than formal ceasefires, sometimes just a few hours.\n\nThey are typically implemented purely with the aim of providing humanitarian support, as opposed to achieving long-term political solutions, according to the United Nations.", "A Palestine TV news anchor and a reporter broke down on air after learning their colleague was killed in an explosion in Gaza.\n\nMohammad Abu Hatab, a reporter for Palestine TV, died with members of his family in an Israeli strike on his home in Khan Younis, the broadcaster said.\n\nColleague Salman Al-Bashir learned about the killing while reporting live from outside Nasser Hospital.\n\n\"These shields and these helmets will not protect us, they are just slogans that we wear,\" he said, removing his protective gear.\n\nAt least 27 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza, according to the Palestinian journalists' union, since the Israel-Gaza war began.\n\nWhen questioned about Mohammad Abu Hatab's death, Israel's military said it does not target journalists.", "October ended with devastating flooding in Newry and the torrential rain has continued into November\n\nOctober 2023 was the wettest month on record in County Armagh, breaking the previous record set in 1870, according to an observatory.\n\nLast month also had the warmest October day for 97 years.\n\nArmagh Observatory, one of dozens of weather stations around Northern Ireland has recorded daily rainfall at its meteorological station since 1838.\n\nIt recorded a total of 195.4mm rainfall in October, exceeding the 193.8mm observed 153 years ago.\n\nCounty Armagh was affected by severe flooding in some areas at the end of October and start of November.\n\nThe Met Office has also said county Down had its wettest October ever.\n\nAs well as being the warmest October day for almost a century, the temperature of 21.7C is the third highest October temperature ever recorded at the observatory.\n\nIts director Prof Michael Burton said the data sent a clear signal.\n\n\"There's no doubt in the pattern we're all seeing - these are all evidence of the world's changing climate,\" he said.\n\n\"Essentially the extreme will become more often and so you get more hot days, more wet days, you even get cold days as well.\n\n\"But it's the extreme - it's no longer an oddity, it's a regular event that these things are happening and they're happening everywhere.\"\n\nIt comes as communities in counties Down, Armagh and Antrim start to assess the damage after flooding this week.\n\nRecent rainfall has made for difficult driving conditions in many parts of Northern Ireland\n\nWhile Professor Burton said no single measurement should have too much read into it, he explained that a warmer atmosphere does hold more water and that means we are likely to experience more warmer, wetter winters.\n\nWhen it comes to discerning climate change in action, the more evidence you can gather, the better.\n\nAnd more than 200 years' worth of consistent records make for a lot of evidence.\n\nIt allows patterns and changes to be clearly detected.\n\nThe records at Armagh Observatory show definitively that climate change is affecting our lives here and now.\n\nAs well as more rainfall as the result of a warming atmosphere, the increasing temperature can also be seen in the data and these all present challenges for us to adapt to.\n\nBut they are also a signal that time to mitigate the impact of climate change is running out.", "NHS England is rolling out a national early-warning system to help medics spot and treat a deteriorating child patient quickly - and act on parents' concerns.\n\nParents and carers are \"at the heart of the new system\", NHS chiefs say.\n\nScores for signs such as blood pressure, heart rate and oxygen levels will be tracked on a chart.\n\nBut if a parent is worried their child is sicker than the chart suggests, care will be rapidly escalated.\n\nWhile similar systems already exist in many hospitals, NHS national medical director, Prof Sir Stephen Powis, said staff and patients alike would welcome the introduction of a standardised system across hospitals.\n\n\"We know that nobody can spot the signs of a child getting sicker better than their parents, which is why we have ensured that the concerns of families and carers are right at the heart of this new system, with immediate escalation in a child's care if they raise concerns and plans to incorporate the right to a second opinion as the system develops further,\" he said.\n\nThe rollout follows the patient safety commissioner, Dr Henrietta Hughes, recommending that Martha's rule is delivered across England's hospitals, giving patients and families the right to an urgent second opinion and rapid review from a critical care team if they are worried about a patient's condition.\n\nMartha Mills, 13, died in 2021, after failures in treating her sepsis.\n\nWith better care, she could have survived, an inquest found.\n\nHer parents have campaigned for the right to a rapid second opinion if families feel their concerns are not being acted on.\n\nMerope Mills, an editor at the Guardian, has quest Merope Mills is calling for additional patient rights, following her daughter Martha's death in an NHS hospital\n\nHealth Minister Maria Caulfield said the new Paediatric Early Warning System - developed over three years with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and Royal College of Nursing - would \"save lives\".\n\n\"We know from the tragic case of Martha Mills that it's vital to give parents a voice when it comes to the care of their child - and so it will be reassuring to families that as part of this system, parents will be heard,\" she added.\n\nStandardised paediatric warning systems already exist in Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A partially submerged car is seen in a car park in Leatherhead, as flooding continues in the aftermath of Storm Ciaran Image caption: A partially submerged car is seen in a car park in Leatherhead, as flooding continues in the aftermath of Storm Ciaran\n\nAs we've heard, Storm Ciarán has eased but more heavy rain and winds will continue to affect the UK this weekend. And the threat of flooding remains high.\n\nAs well as the more than 50 flood warnings in place across the south of England, a further 190 flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible - stretch up through the country.\n\nFloods Minister Rebecca Pow warned of high river levels, large waves at the coast and saturated ground.\n\nIn England, you can check for flood warnings in your area on the Environment Agency website .\n\nIn Scotland, there are six flood alerts, with more information from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency .\n\nNatural Resources Wales is currently issuing one severe warning for flooding on the River Ritec at Tenby.\n\nAnd you can find out more about the flood risks in Northern Ireland here after it has been dealing with flooding from one of its wettest months on record.", "Taylor Swift is re-recording all of her first six albums\n\nIn a year of record-breaking achievements, Taylor Swift has done it again.\n\nA re-recording of her crossover pop album 1989 has become the UK's fastest-selling record of 2023.\n\n1989 (Taylor's Version) shifted 184,000 copies last week, more than double the opening-week sales of the 2014 original.\n\nIt is the only album released this year to go gold in a single week, and is Swift's 11th UK number one overall.\n\nAmong female artists, only Madonna has more chart toppers - and Swift is now within touching distance of her record of 12.\n\n1989 (Taylor's Version) was also the week's biggest-selling record on vinyl, with almost 62,000 copies sold.\n\nAnd three of the album's songs have debuted in the top 10 in the singles chart.\n\nAll three are extra, previously-unreleased \"from the vault\" tracks, with Is It Over Now? claiming the number one position, followed by Now That We Don't Talk at number two, and the provocatively-titled Slut! at five.\n\nSwift has seen similar success in the US, where 1989 (Taylor's Version) has sold 1.1 million copies since its release last Friday.\n\nOf that sum, 580,000 were on vinyl - the largest week for a single album in that format since modern sales tracking began in 1991.\n\nFurthermore, 1989 (Taylor's Version) instantly became the year's biggest-selling album in the US, surpassing Swift's own 2022 release Midnights.\n\nThe star now has the top three-selling albums of the year in her home country, with her re-recorded version of 2010's Speak Now in third position.\n\nThe achievement justifies Swift's decision to re-record all of her first six albums.\n\nShe started the project in 2021 after her old record label, Big Machine, sold her master tapes to music mogul Scooter Braun. He later sold them to an investment company.\n\nRather than lose control of her recordings, the star decided to recreate them - and also refuses to licence the originals for use in TV and film shows, denying the new owners a lucrative revenue stream.\n\nSwift has also scored the biggest tour of 2023, with her Eras stadium shows bringing in $300m (£242m) at the box office.\n\nLast week, the star was declared a billionaire by business publication Bloomberg, which estimated her net worth to be $1.1bn (£907m).\n\nOnly three other musicians have achieved billionaire status - Rihanna, Beyoncé and Jay-Z. However, Swift is the first to reach the milestone based on music alone, as her rivals' fortunes incorporate business ventures in fashion, beauty products and hi-fi equipment.\n\nSwift's UK chart dominance could be briefly interrupted next week by the return of four musicians from Liverpool.\n\nThe Beatles' \"last ever\" song, Now And Then, instantly became the UK's most-played song after its release on Thursday.\n\nOn Spotify, the ballad racked up 386,752 streams on Spotify - overtaking Swift's Is It Over Now?, which was played 383,000 times.\n\nIf the Fab Four can maintain that momentum over the next week, they could score their first UK number one single since The Ballad Of John And Yoko in 1969.", "Former health secretary Matt Hancock wanted to decide \"who should live and die\" if the NHS was overwhelmed, the Covid inquiry has heard.\n\nThe revelation came to light in evidence presented by Sir Simon Stevens, the former NHS England chief.\n\nIn his witness statement, he said Mr Hancock thought he, not doctors or the public, should decide who to prioritise if hospitals became overwhelmed.\n\nSir Simon said: \"Fortunately this horrible dilemma never crystallised.\"\n\nHe told the inquiry: \"The secretary of state for health and social care took the position that in this situation he - rather than, say, the medical profession or the public - should ultimately decide who should live and who should die.\"\n\nHe added: \"I certainly wanted to discourage the idea that an individual secretary of state, other than in the most exceptional circumstances, should be deciding how care would be provided.\n\n\"I felt we were well-served by the medical profession, in consultation with patients to the greatest extent possible, in making those decisions.\"\n\nSir Simon stepped down as NHS England chief executive in summer 2021\n\nSir Simon also rejected suggestions by then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson, made in his witness statement which has already been handed to the inquiry, that it was \"very frustrating\" to be forced into lockdown because the NHS and social care had failed to get to grip with the decades-old problem of delayed discharges.\n\nThis is where patients have to remain in hospital despite being ready to leave because of the lack of support in the community.\n\nMr Johnson said that about 30% of beds were occupied by such patients.\n\nSir Simon said that would equate to about 30,000 beds, but there could have been 200,000, perhaps even 800,000 patients in the reasonable worst-case scenario, needing a bed.\n\n\"Even if all of those 30,000 beds were freed up - for every one coronavirus patient who was then admitted, there would be another five who need that care and were not able to get it.\n\n\"So no, I don't think that is a fair statement in describing the decision calculus for the first wave.\"", "Anne Keast-Butler says international collaboration on artificial intelligence is vital\n\nThe risks from artificial intelligence (AI) are unknown even to GCHQ, its director has told the BBC.\n\nIn her first interview since taking over the UK's largest intelligence agency, Anne Keast-Butler said AI could amplify existing threats and create new risks.\n\nShe said the uncertain nature of the risks made international collaboration vital.\n\nMs Keast-Butler was speaking after attending the UK's first AI summit.\n\nThe two-day gathering on artificial intelligence safety was held at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, home to Britain's code-breakers during World War II.\n\nWhile war-time Bletchley's work was secret, its modern-day successor, GCHQ, now operates at least partly in the public eye with the intelligence agency's new director mingling with tech heads and foreign officials, including from China, at this week's summit.\n\nAnd AI brought two main concerns, Anne Keast-Butler told the BBC in an exclusive interview. One was the way it will amplify existing problems.\n\n\"Bad people will always want to use the latest technology,\" she said, pointing to the way in which AI is already being used to generate images of child-abuse and make it easier to carry out cyber-attacks and steal data.\n\nBut the other concern was uncertainty.\n\n\"There are lots of different views out there on artificial intelligence and whether it is going to end the world or be the best opportunity ever. And the truth is none of us really know,\" she told the BBC.\n\nEven with all the insight and technology available to GCHQ, she said it was impossible to be sure of the outcomes. \"My experience is when you don't know, you should plan for the worst. That way the outcomes are only better.\"\n\nShe said that meant ensuring the next generation of AI was built with safety and security in mind - including clear guardrails and testing before products were unleashed into the wild.\n\nEnsuring this was done by countries and companies working together was crucial, she said. \"There was real common consensus on doing that and doing it together,\" she added of the discussions at the summit.\n\nAnne Keast-Butler spoke with the BBC's Gordon Corera after an AI summit at Bletchley Park\n\nOverall though, she said she remains positive about artificial intelligence.\n\n\"I'm an AI optimist. As the head of GCHQ, I see how technology has really helped us get better and better at our job,\" she said.\n\nGCHQ collects and analyses global communications. Much of this is digital, as opposed to the radio signals from Bletchley days.\n\nIt has long used forms of what is now called AI for the translation of intercepted communications. But GCHQ is also now trying to use AI to analyse the emotion and meaning of the vast amounts of material it collects, in order to help human analysts and linguists zero in on the material of greatest interest.\n\nKeast-Butler, who spent most of her career in MI5, took over as 17th director of GCHQ in May 2023 and as the first woman in the role.\n\n\"It's a bit surprising to be in 2023 and discover that you can be the first woman to do anything,\" she said, adding that back in wartime Bletchley, 75% of the work-force were women.\n\nBut she added that in the years between, there had been a problem with the lack of women working in technology.\n\nWartime Bletchley, she said, was about bringing together technology and people in order to crack what seemed like insolvable problems - and that remained the priority today even in a very different world.", "Henry Moreton is struggling with the impact of flooding at his farm in Lincolnshire\n\nFlood-hit farmers who have lost thousands of pounds worth of crops do not need new targeted mental health support, says the government.\n\nA committee of MPs had raised concerns over a lack of health services helping those hit by such \"shock events\".\n\nBut the government said on Friday that extra emergency funding to support crisis-hit farmers was not needed.\n\nFarmers say the floods have taken a huge toll on their mental health and they have received little support.\n\nLincolnshire grower Henry Moreton currently has 155 acres (0.6 sq km) of land under water at his 500-acre (2 sq km) farm near Woodhall Spa.\n\nThe 50-year-old sixth-generation farmer estimates he has lost between £55,000 and £65,000 worth of oil seed rape, winter wheat and barley to flooding after Storm Babet hit last week.\n\nFarms across the UK were left under water following storm Babet\n\nThe father-of-one told the BBC: \"I'm a very glass-half-full chap all the time. I'm always optimistic, my wife says, but when I went up our farm road towards the river on Saturday morning I got as far as the pond and I just stopped and cried because I didn't know what to do. What do you do?\n\n\"I've never had the wind taken out of my sails like it.\n\n\"My wife was that worried she hid the shotgun cabinet keys. She only told me that yesterday. She said she had never seen me look like that.\"\n\nIn May, the UK Parliament's Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) committee published a report into rural mental health.\n\nIt found that extreme weather events and animal health crises - including mass culls to control diseases like bird flu - left farmers, their workers and their vets dealing with mental health trauma with little support.\n\nIt called on the government to provide dedicated emergency funding to \"enable local areas to quickly access more resources to respond to rural communities' mental health needs during and, crucially, after crisis events\".\n\nBut, in a response published on Friday, the government said it would not allocate specific funding and that current levels of support were sufficient.\n\nIt said guidance on the impact of flooding on mental health was provided on its website and that it worked with charities and organisations, such as the National Flood Forum, to support people at risk of flooding.\n\nA Defra spokesperson said the government was \"acutely aware of the impacts flooding and climate events can have on farmers, including on their mental health\".\n\nIt added that Environment Agency teams were \"working hard on the ground to help people recover from Storm Babet and the current impacts being felt by Storm Ciarán\".\n\nIt said it was also providing support through its rural business support scheme, the future farming resilience fund, to link up farmers with mental health service providers.\n\nBut Sir Robert Goodwill, the Efra committee chair, said he was \"disappointed\" by the government's \"rejection of measures to support the specific and identifiable mental health needs of those who live in rural areas\".\n\n\"This was an opportunity to make significant changes which could greatly impact our rural communities. With this response the government demonstrates a worrying degree of complacency,\" he added.\n\nMr Moreton said that with long waits at his local GP's surgery, he had few options for mental health support in the immediate aftermath of the flooding.\n\nInstead, he has depended on family and friends, already helping him after his father - \"my best friend and my work mate since I was nine\" - died from cancer 18 months ago.\n\n\"When he died I knew what to do, I just kept going. But when something happens like this (flooding) it's out of your control. I never felt like I ran into a brick wall like that before and there's no-one out here to talk to, apart from friends,\" Mr Moreton said.\n\nHe said he felt the government \"did not really care about farmers\" but acknowledged more needed to reach out for help, saying: \"Farmers are our own worst enemy. We never want to admit we are weak and we are very good at saying we are absolutely fine when we're not.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any issues raised in this article, help and support can be found at BBC Action Line\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Two Palestinian sisters have been reunited in Rafah, in southern Gaza.\n\nJulia, an 18-month-old toddler, was pulled from the rubble of a destroyed building and rushed to El-Najar Hospital.\n\nHer sister, five-year-old Joury, was also rescued from the rubble and was already there, being treated for her injuries.\n\n\"My sister, my beloved,\" Joury cried the moment she realised her sister had survived.\n\nThe two were with their family eating lunch when the building next to theirs was bombed, destroying the house they were in, the girls' uncle said.\n\nThe girls were treated for head injuries and were left scared and traumatised, their uncle added. They later left the hospital with their family.", "At least 32 people have been killed in a fire that tore through a drug rehabilitation centre in northern Iran, authorities have said.\n\nThe blaze erupted early on Friday in Langarud, a city in the Caspian Sea province of Gilan north of Tehran.\n\nEsmail Sadeghi, a provincial chief justice, told local media that 16 others were taken to hospital.\n\nIran imposes a death penalty on repeat drug smugglers and dealers but runs a series of rehab programmes for addicts.\n\nAn initial investigation showed that a heater was the cause of the fire, which then spread to the rest of the centre, the province's deputy governor was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars news agency.\n\n\"The manager and other possible culprits have been arrested so that the cause of the incident is more accurately determined,\" the Tasnim news site said.\n\nThe centre accommodated up to 40 people.\n\nHowever, the province's deputy governor Mohammad Jalai said that it was overcrowded, which contributed \"to the high number of casualties\".\n\nIsna, a semi-official Iranian news agency, shared footage of the fire which lit up the sky and sent huge plumes of smoke into the air.\n\nOther footage showed firefighters and ambulances gathered outside the site in the aftermath. The centre's roof had been destroyed, its windows shattered and its walls blackened by smoke.\n\nIran has one of the world's highest rates of opiate use and sits on a major smuggling route for opium from Afghanistan - a major producer of illicit drugs.\n\nA UN world drug report this year said that Iran made up 47% of the global heroin and morphine seizures originating from Afghanistan during 2020.\n\nIranian authorities frequently try to clamp down on drug abuse and trafficking and they regularly announce large-scale seizures of opioids originating from Afghanistan.\n\nAmnesty International said in a June report that Iran had executed at least 173 people convicted of drug-related offences this year after \"systematically unfair trials\".\n\nThe figure was nearly three times more than this time last year, the rights group added.", "A police employee who tipped off a criminal friend about a covert investigation has been jailed.\n\n\"Corrupt\" Natalie Mottram admitted misconduct in public office, perverting the course of justice and unauthorised access to computer material.\n\nThe 25-year-old was caught when the National Crime Agency (NCA) suspected she was responsible for a leak and put her under surveillance.\n\nMottram was jailed for three years and nine months at Liverpool Crown Court.\n\nThe court heard she was employed by Cheshire Police but was on secondment and working as an intelligence analyst at the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit when she was arrested on 12 June 2020.\n\nShe was held as part of Operation Venetic, a nationwide investigation tackling communication devices used by criminals.\n\nMottram, of Vermont Close, Great Sankey, Warrington, told Jonathan Kay, 38, about a covert investigation and that officers had intelligence on him.\n\nOn 24 April 2020, a friend of Kay's messaged another user to say he had learned that day about law enforcement infiltrating the EncroChat messaging platform.\n\nAnd he messaged a second contact: \"I no [sic] a lady who works for the police. This is not hearsay. Direct to me. They can access Encro software. And are using to intercept forearms [sic] only at the moment. There [sic] software runs 48 hours behind real time. So have ur burns one day max. And try to avoid giving postcodes over it.\"\n\n\"Burns\" refers to the delete-time on messages.\n\nHe added: \"Her words was are you on Encro, I said no why, I only sell a bit of bud. She said cool just giving you a heads up. Because NCA now have access. But she wouldn't lie.\"\n\nBy 12 June 2020, NCA investigators suspected Mottram was responsible for the leak.\n\nOn that day, her bosses asked her to analyse an intelligence log referring to Kay, who was the partner of Mottram's close friend, Leah Bennett, 38.\n\nBut the log was bogus and Mottram was under surveillance.\n\nMottram left work that afternoon and drove to Kay and Bennett's house on Newark Drive in Great Sankey.\n\nAt 17:15, Kay - who has convictions for driving offences and being drunk and disorderly - arrived home in his car with Bennett arriving seven minutes later in hers.\n\nThe prosecution say this is when Mottram corruptly informed Kay and Bennett about the intelligence log concerning him.\n\nMottram, Kay, Bennett and another man were all arrested later that day and £200,000 in cash was recovered from Kay and Bennett's house.\n\nKay, who admitted perverting the course of justice at an earlier hearing, was sentenced to two years and six months in jail.\n\nA charge of perverting the course of justice against Bennett was dropped by prosecutors.\n\nJohn McKeon, head of the NCA's anti-corruption unit, said: \"Natalie Mottram betrayed her job, her colleagues and the public she was paid to protect.\n\n\"Her corrupt actions had the potential to hugely damage the overarching investigation by alerting offenders of the need to abandon EncroChat and cover their tracks.\n\n\"Her actions were disgraceful. The evidence against her was overwhelming.\n\n\"She was left with no option but to finally plead guilty.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Moment cars swept away by floodwaters as Storm Ciarán hits Italy\n\nLarge areas of Tuscany have been hit by flooding, leaving six people dead and several others missing, after heavy winds and rain buffeted central Italy.\n\nCars were swept away as the River Bisenzio flooded and people climbed on roofs to escape the deluge.\n\nHospitals were flooded, people in cars were trapped in underpasses and the west coast was lashed by high waves.\n\nThe extreme conditions are directly linked to Storm Ciarán which has caused more than 13 deaths in Western Europe.\n\nWinds of 207km/h (129 mph) were recorded earlier on the north-west coast of France, as the storm also lashed southern England, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, as well as the Atlantic coast of Spain and Portugal.\n\nPower lines went down and transport was severely disrupted. A five-year-old child was one of two people killed in Belgium by falling trees. Residents had to be evacuated from their homes on the Channel Island of Jersey.\n\nA cold front of severe weather reached Tuscany on Thursday night, as winds reached 140km/h.\n\nRegional governor Eugenio Giani described the heavy rain as \"unprecedented in the past 100 years and, after a cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni declared a state of emergency for the worst-hit areas of Tuscany.\n\nThis was the scene over Campi Bisenzio and Prato after the River Bisenzio burst its banks\n\nLivorno and Marina di Pisa on the coast and towns around Florence were among the worst affected areas, with the streets of Prato looking more like canals and nearby Seano resembling an island.\n\nIn Montemurlo, officials said on Friday that 200mm (7.8in) of rain had fallen since Thursday afternoon and the Bisenzio river burst its banks in two places.\n\nAn 85-year-old man was found dead on the ground floor of his flooded home. Rescuers believe he had been unable to climb the stairs to safety.\n\nThe governor of Tuscany shared a video showing cars being swept away by floodwater and appealed for people to go to upper floors.\n\nClose to the river, in Campi Bisenzio, people climbed on to their roofs to get to safety and about 100 staff and customers sought refuge in a shopping centre.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Moment cars swept away by floodwaters as Storm Ciarán hits Italy\n\nA man and his wife were found dead after his car overturned in floodwater in Vinci, to the west of Florence. There had been fears that the River Arno would flood in Florence but the emergency appeared to have subsided by mid-morning.\n\nThe mayor of Prato, Matteo Biffoni, described overnight events as a \"blow to the stomach\". Floods left entire areas submerged and the ground floor of the town's Santo Stefano hospital was partially flooded.\n\nThe west coast was lashed by waves reaching 3.5m (11ft 5in), and Milan was hit by flooding for a second time this week, three days after the River Seveso burst its banks.\n\nThe storm also caused damage in the north-eastern region of Veneto, where one person was missing and Governor Luca Zaia said 160mm of rain had fallen in 24 hours.\n\nFurther east, there were red weather alerts in Slovenia and Croatia. Forecasters warned of high winds, hail and thunderstorms and authorities in Slovenia warned of one of the strongest cyclones in the past 10 years.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Donald Trump's two sons may have dressed the same for their day in court, testifying in the business fraud case that threatens their family's business empire. But their demeanour on the stand could not have been more different.\n\nEven Donald Jr and Eric Trump's ties, both a pale blue, seemed co-ordinated.\n\nThe two brothers' testimonies, however, were a study in contrasts. Their public personas are inextricably linked with their father's business and political ventures, but their temperaments and reputations could not have evolved more distinctly.\n\nDonald Trump Jr, the eldest, attempted to carry over some of the bravado and humour he displayed on Wednesday into his second day on the stand.\n\nHe continued to deny knowledge or involvement in the accounting practices that had run afoul of the New York state attorney general - despite running the company and being a trustee of his father's revocable trust.\n\n\"Rinse and repeat,\" he replied after a repetitive series of questions from state's attorney Colleen Faherty.\n\nHe even appeared to flirt with the courtroom artists during a morning recess.\n\n\"Make me look sexy,\" he joked to one of them.\n\nOver the last few years, Donald Trump Jr has moulded himself into a younger, slightly more polished version of his father, the former US president. He is best known as a top campaign surrogate, occasionally mimicking his father's cadences.\n\nHis statements outside the Manhattan court were a more refined version of Donald Trump Sr's \"witch hunt\" defence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why Trump’s kids are taking the stand... in 90 seconds\n\n\"Unfortunately, the attorney general has brought forth a case that is purely a political persecution,\" he told reporters.\n\nEric Trump, on the other hand, was more circumspect when he began giving evidence late on Thursday morning.\n\nWhile his brother dominates the political realm, Eric Trump has become primarily associated with the family business.\n\nThere were no quips from the witness stand while Eric Trump occupied it. His questioning was far more tense than his brother's.\n\nAfter initially denying he had knowledge of or involvement with the statements of financial condition - the balance sheets that the attorney general alleged were fraudulently inflated - Eric Trump found himself confronted with emails he had been sent that mentioned such documents.\n\nThe attorney general's office showed a 2013 email that an employee had sent to Eric Trump, writing that he needed information for statements of financial condition.\n\nDuring one especially heated exchange, Andrew Amer, an attorney for the attorney general's office, grilled Eric Trump about his knowledge of his father's financial statements.\n\nGrowing agitated, Eric responded: \"We're a major organisation, a massive real estate organisation - yes, I'm fairly sure I understand that we have financial statements. Absolutely.\"\n\nHe later added: \"I had no involvement and never worked on my father's statement of financial condition.\"\n\nUnlike his brother, Eric Trump did not schmooze with court staff during the breaks. Instead, he stood in front of the defence table, shifting his weight back and forth as he waited for the judge to return.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump Jr on Wednesday: 'I should have worn make-up'\n\nDespite their differences, the brothers' fates are intertwined.\n\nThey run their father's business empire together as executive vice-presidents of the Trump Organization.\n\nBoth are now named in the New York attorney general's lawsuit that claimed the business engaged in widespread fraud.\n\nAnd both could potentially lose their ability to do business in New York if a judge rules against them.\n\nThe man they allegedly did this all for - Donald Trump - was absent from court on Thursday, despite several earlier appearances.\n\nHe did, however, post a message of support on his Truth Social account.\n\n\"So sad,\" he wrote, \"to see my sons being PERSECUTED.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Alexandra Gregory posed with what the court heard was a pretend baby bump\n\nA children's cancer nurse who faked having her ex-partner's baby during lockdown has been given a suspended prison sentence.\n\nAlexandra Gregory, 25, from Redditch, sent Daniel Smith fake pregnancy scans and photos of a baby in intensive care.\n\nShe pleaded guilty to sending malicious communications between August 2020 and February 2021.\n\nChairman of the bench Kevin Lloyd-Wright said Gregory had committed a \"prolonged campaign against Mr Smith\".\n\n\"It was planned, sustained and relentless,\" he said during sentencing at Worcester Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nThe court heard the pair had had a short relationship between February and July 2020, which ended amicably.\n\nHowever, a month later Mr Smith received a photo of a positive pregnancy test, which was followed by a photo of her with a small bump.\n\nThe pair met up to discuss the situation where they agreed Gregory would have an abortion.\n\nBut in October, she sent him a message saying she had changed her mind.\n\nAfter that, Gregory bombarded Mr Smith with messages, including faked baby scans and photos of her in her Birmingham's Women's and Children's Hospital nurse's uniform seemingly with a pregnancy bump.\n\nPolice said Gregory had since gone on to have a baby with another partner, and had refused to answer questions during interviews\n\nShe also sent child maintenance forms and told him that she had been bleeding heavily.\n\nThe court was told Mr Smith had questioned the legitimacy of the scans, and at one point requested a DNA test, but felt too guilty to confront her.\n\nOn 2 January 2021 alone, she sent more than 300 messages to him.\n\nThat month she told Mr Smith she had given birth to a girl called Aria, but added she was \"born blue\" and sent him photos of a baby in a hospital unit.\n\n\"Our daughter is in intensive care,\" she told him.\n\nThe court heard that the truth finally came to light a month later, when Gregory's father told Mr Smith's aunt that there was no baby.\n\nWest Mercia Police said Gregory had since gone on to have a baby with another partner and had refused to answer questions during interviews.\n\nProsecuting, Tom Wickstead told the court that the experience had left Mr Smith feeling \"like a shadow of himself\" while the judge later acknowledged he had suffered \"continuous anxiety\".\n\nGregory's defence team said she had indeed become pregnant, but the court was told she had suffered a miscarriage at some point before she messaged Mr Smith in October.\n\nHer solicitor said she had become distressed with the situation as well as her work as a paediatric nurse during lockdown.\n\nHe added that the defendant \"fully accepted\" that she had lied about having Mr Smith's baby and that there was \"no sensible explanation for what she did\".\n\n\"She doesn't understand why she did it,\" he told the court and added that she had been off work in January 2021 due to her mental health.\n\nGregory was sentenced to a four-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, as well as a 12-month mental health treatment plan and 20 days of community service.\n\nShe was also ordered to pay £500 in compensation to Mr Smith and was given a three-year restraining order against him and his mother.\n\nMr Smith's family said his life had not been the same since and they were glad the truth was finally out.\n\nA spokesperson for Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust said Gregory had been suspended pending the police investigation and that it would now \"conclude its own internal investigation\".\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Up to 2,000 asylum seekers could be housed at the site in Lincolnshire, the government has said\n\nThe cost of housing asylum seekers in a former RAF base in Lincolnshire could reach £260m by 2026, a leaked government document shows.\n\nMinisters have argued placing asylum seekers on sites like RAF Scampton would be cheaper than using hotels.\n\nBut a Home Office memo written just days before plans were announced found the change only represented \"marginal\" value for money over three years.\n\nThe Home Office said the plan \"cuts the burden on the taxpayer\".\n\nA leaked note, written for a senior official on 24 March, estimates total costs of asylum accommodation at Scampton this financial year to be £108.9m, then £97.1m in 2024/5 and £51.9m in 2025/6.\n\nThe memo, described as \"final\" advice to the Home Office's accounting officer, acknowledges the estimates were subject to change and based on various assumptions, including 150 beds being available from May 2023, an 85% occupancy rate over the contract period.\n\nSo far, no overall cost figures attached to the project have been made public.\n\nThe document goes on to say that the planned two-year holding period of the site \"does not represent value for money\" as it is not long enough to recoup the initial set-up costs through savings on hotels.\n\nIt suggests the Scampton proposal would be £2m more expensive over two years but could come to represent \"marginal\" value for money over three years. This depended on projected hotel usage over the period and whether planned modular units on the site could be connected to mains utilities, something described as a \"critical risk\".\n\nFive days after the note was sent, the Home Office announced plans to house asylum seekers on multiple former military bases including RAF Scampton and MDP Wethersfield.\n\nThe plan has been fiercely opposed by the local authority, West Lindsey District Council, which says it will also lose out on a £300m investment to redevelop the base, the former home of the Red Arrows and the World War Two squadron.\n\nThe council's legal challenge to the proposals was heard in the High Court this week.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Gainsborough, Sir Edward Leigh said the figures showed a \"staggering waste of public money\" and described the plans in his constituency as a \"political gimmick\".\n\nThe site is not yet operational, but the Home Office eventually intends to use the Scampton site to house up to 2,000 men.\n\nWest Lindsey Council argues the plans are unlawful, claiming the government has misused Class Q emergency planning permission to begin development.\n\nThe judicial review is also being brought by Braintree District Council and a local resident over similar plans for a military site in Wethersfield, Essex.\n\nIt emerged ahead of the court hearing this week that the Home Office intends to apply for permission to use the sites for a further three years.\n\n\"Frankly, I was lied to repeatedly,\" Sir Edward told the BBC earlier this week.\n\n\"First of all I was told it was going to be two years, and then it was going to be three years, and then it was going to save money. There's no value for money. Their whole case, I believe, is shot to pieces.\"\n\nOne government source close to the project acknowledged there had been high costs associated with developing Scampton, including the legal challenge and also the removal of asbestos.\n\nThe source argued this development showed assets on the site were being improved.\n\nBut the source insisted using larger sites to house asylum seekers was a better alternative to hotels.\n\n\"Hotels are fundamentally a bad form of accommodation - they are economically damaging to communities, they take away a really important resource,\" the source said.\n\n\"They are inappropriate and add to a perception of the UK as a soft touch - other governments in Europe don't use hotels for asylum seekers.\"\n\nLatest figures from the Home Office annual accounts published in September showed the daily cost of accommodating asylum seekers in hotels had risen to £8m a day.\n\nImmigration Minister Robert Jenrick recently announced 50 hotels would be closed over the next three months.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"Delivering accommodation on surplus military sites provides more orderly, suitable accommodation for those arriving in small boats whilst helping to reduce the use of hotels.\n\n\"This also cuts the burden on the taxpayer and ensures that every pound of their money is spent in the most effective way.\n\n\"We are confident in our project, which will house asylum seekers in safe and secure accommodation, while continuing to work closely with local councils to address local community concerns.\"", "Terri Harris was pregnant when Damien Bendall murdered her\n\nA grieving mum has described the man who murdered her pregnant daughter and grandchildren as a \"psychopath\" and \"master manipulator\".\n\nDamien Bendall killed Terri Harris, her children John Bennett, 13, and Lacey Bennett, 11, with a claw hammer at their home in Derbyshire in 2021.\n\nMs Harris' mother, Angie Smith, said \"a light has gone out in our lives\" after their deaths.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Ms Smith, 57, said Bendall initially seemed \"charming\" when he and Ms Harris started a relationship, but that her daughter's behaviour began to change.\n\n\"He was always with her,\" she said. \"There wasn't a time he wasn't with her. It was just constant. She started to change the way she dressed. She was quieter.\n\n\"She's always been a tomboy. Always. But when she started going with him it was always tight shorts and low-cut tops. Her hair became bright red.\n\n\"It was as if he was parading her round.\"\n\nMs Harris (bottom left) and her children John Bennett (top left) and Lacey Bennett (bottom right) were found dead along with Lacey's friend Connie Gent (top right)\n\nBendall, from Swindon, who had a history of serious and violent offences dating back to 2004, went on to kill Ms Harris, 35, and the children at the family's home in Killamarsh. He also raped Lacey.\n\nHe was convicted of the four murders in December 2022 and was given a whole-life order, meaning he will never be released from prison.\n\nWeeks before the murders, he was given a suspended sentence for arson, which included a curfew requirement at Ms Harris' home after being deemed a low risk to partners and children.\n\nAn inquest, held last month, heard Bendall had previously said he would kill them if his relationship with Ms Harris \"went bad\".\n\nDamien Bendall admitted four murders and the rape of 11-year-old Lacey\n\nThe probation service accepted 51 separate failings at the inquests, held at Chesterfield Coroner's Court, and accepted a catalogue of missed opportunities and lack of scrutiny concerning Bendall's supervision going back several years.\n\nMs Smith said hearing of those failings felt \"just like being punched in the stomach\".\n\n\"We know he was a psychopath. We know he was a master manipulator,\" she said.\n\n\"Going through the inquest, it was like no-one talks to each other and no-one listens. That's pretty scary.\n\n\"They say they will make changes now, but in a year or so you'll go back and look again and they won't be made.\"\n\nMs Smith said her suspicions about Bendall had prompted her to consider using the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme - known as Clare's Law - named after Clare Wood, who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in 2009.\n\nThe scheme is a means of letting people find out from police if their partner has a history of domestic violence.\n\nHowever, she changed her mind because she was worried the police would send their response to her daughter and Bendall might find out.\n\n\"I realised the information would probably go to my daughter and he's there all the time,\" Ms Smith said.\n\n\"I thought 'I can't do that'. Would I put her in more danger? Would I put the kids in more danger? So I didn't do it.\"\n\nShe and one of Ms Harris' other relatives, Jade Donovan, are now trying to get Clare's Law changed, so the police can send a response to a close relative.\n\nThey also want to make Clare's Law application forms simpler and easier to find on police force websites.\n\nThey said they had meetings with ministers and Home Office officials about their campaign.\n\nMs Donovan said: \"The [meetings] with the ministers were not that good. They basically told us Clare's Law does work and that was it.\n\n\"The Home Office said the form was going to change and it would be consistent to all police forces.\n\n\"But that is still not happening and this form is still not being sent to different forces.\n\n\"Clare's Law does work to a certain part but it's not fit for purpose and there is still work to be done.\"\n\nMs Donovan added: \"Terri was just an amazing human. Everything about her was just for her children. She did everything for her kids.\"\n\nThe Home Office did not respond to a request for a comment.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article you can visit the BBC Action Line for help.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Dominic Raab says he won't rule out force being used to get convicts into court\n\nConvicted criminals could be forced to appear in court for sentencing, the justice secretary has told Zara Aleena's family.\n\nDominic Raab is examining whether judges should be able to impose longer terms on those who refuse to appear.\n\nMs Aleena's killer Jordan McSweeney refused to attend his sentencing, something her family described as \"a slap in the face\".\n\nMr Raab told the BBC convicts attending was the \"least the victims deserve\".\n\nThe plans were revealed during a meeting with Ms Aleena's aunt, Farah Naz.\n\nZara Aleena, 35, was attacked by Jordan McSweeney near her home in Ilford in June 2022\n\nAfter the meeting, Ms Naz told the BBC it had been \"a slap in the face\" that McSweeney had the right not to attend the hearing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Murderer not attending sentencing was a 'slap in the face'\n\n\"He needed to look at our faces and see how he hadn't just killed Zara, he had killed a whole family,\" she said.\n\nMs Aleena, 35, was killed in an attack near her home in Ilford, east London, in June last year.\n\nMcSweeney, who was jailed for 38 years for her murder, was condemned as \"spineless\" by Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb for failing to appear in court.\n\nJordan McSweeney had only recently been released from prison when he murdered Ms Aleena\n\nConvicted criminals in other serious cases have also refused to appear.\n\nIt means they do not hear victim personal statements which are read out in court before sentencing.\n\nMr Raab is having discussions with officials about how to bring about the changes.\n\nHe added officials were looking at how the move could be enforced because \"you could be in a situation where you're physically having to manhandle somebody out of the cell\".\n\n\"I wouldn't rule that out, but fundamentally, if a perpetrator is not willing to come and face the judge... then I think we should be looking at increasing the sentence as an aggravating factor,\" he said.\n\nHe told the BBC making convicts appear at sentencing hearings was \"the very least the victims deserve and... a basic principle of British justice\".\n\nHe said he therefore wanted to \"make sure courts have the power to compel someone who's been convicted of a serious crime to come and face the sentence that they hand down\".\n\nPrimary school teacher Sabina Nessa was murdered in 2021 by Koci Selamaj\n\nThe family of Sabina Nessa, who was killed in a random attack in Kidbrooke, south-east London, in 2021, were also unable to face her murderer who refused to appear at his sentencing.\n\nHer sister, Jebina Islam, said it was \"outrageous\" that \"my sister's killer was able to decide whether or not to come to court\" and had \"refused to listen to our family impact via link\".\n\nShe has been campaigning to make convicts appear in court.\n\n\"Me and my family will never know why he murdered my sister and this will haunt us for the rest of our lives,\" she added.\n\n\"No one will understand the pain we are going through each day without our amazing bright Sabina and still not knowing why he killed her.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The graffiti was painted on the windows of a Sinn Féin office in Dungiven\n\nSinn Féin has described a graffiti attack accusing the party of being pro-Israeli as \"despicable\".\n\nThe graffiti was painted on the front windows of an office in Dungiven, County Londonderry, used by party MLA Caoimhe Archibald.\n\nThe slogans accused the party of being a \"Zionist lackey\" alongside a \"Free Gaza\" message.\n\nAn image of the office daubed with paint appeared on social media on Thursday but was later removed.\n\nSinn Fein has been criticised for failing to back a number of council motions calling for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador to Ireland.\n\nParty councillors abstained in votes in Belfast and Derry city and Strabane district councils.\n\nA Sinn Féin spokesperson said: \"This is a despicable attack that is designed to create division at a time when people from all political persuasions and none should be united in support of the besieged people of Gaza who are being bombarded by the Israeli military.\n\nHe added: \"All efforts must focus on ceasefires, dialogue and a negotiations process that can deliver a just and lasting peace in the Middle East based upon the creation of a viable Palestinian state.\"\n\nZionism refers to the movement to create a Jewish state in the Middle East, roughly corresponding to the historical land of Israel, and thus support for the modern state of Israel.\n\nGaza's Hamas-run health ministry said more than 9,000 people had been killed in Israeli attacks since 7 October, two-thirds of them women and children.\n\nThe Israeli military said more than 1,400 people had been killed by Hamas on 7 October, with police estimating that more than 1,033 were civilians.", "The Glastonbury Festival ticket sale has been delayed by two weeks \"out of fairness\" to customers who did not realise their registration had expired.\n\nSome older profiles were deleted last month - and several fans claimed they had not been made aware of the issue.\n\nCustomers must register their identities in advance to buy tickets as part of a system to prevent touting.\n\nThe festival's announcement came four hours before tickets with coach travel were due to go on sale.\n\nThese tickets will now be released 16 November at 18:00 GMT, and general admission tickets will go on sale on 19 November at 09:00.\n\nRegistration will reopen on Monday 6 November at 12:00 and close the following Monday at 17:00.\n\nCustomers were alerted by email that registrations created before 2020 would be deleted on 2 October, with the chance to re-register before the 30 October deadline.\n\nOrganisers said some people had only discovered they were no longer registered after this deadline, and that sales were being delayed \"out of fairness to those individuals\".\n\nTickets for 2024 cost £355 (plus a £5 booking fee), up from £335 for this year's event.\n\nThe 2023 festival saw a bigger price hike of £55, which organiser Emily Eavis said was the result of \"incredibly challenging times\" following the pandemic, and \"enormous rises\" in costs.\n\nNext year will be the third time the festival has taken place after the pandemic, during which the 2020 and 2021 events were postponed.\n\nThe world-famous music event will take place at Worthy Farm in Somerset from 26-30 June 2024, with the line-up not yet confirmed.\n\nLast week, Eavis told the BBC's Sidetracked podcast that she had recently been offered a \"really big American artist\" for one of the headline slots.\n\n\"I was like, 'Oh my God, this is incredible',\" she said. \"Thank God we held the slot.'\"\n\nLast year, Elton John headlined the festival as the final show on his farewell tour. Other acts to perform on the Pyramid Stage included headliners Arctic Monkeys and Guns N' Roses, as well as Lizzo.", "We started the day with 25 minutes of arguing about the judge’s clerk before Eric Trump even took the stand.\n\nAnd we ended the day with Trump’s legal team once again feuding with Judge Engoron about his clerk.\n\nIt was the clear theme of the day and overshadowed Eric Trump’s own testimony.\n\nWe asked legal analysts what the motive might be for this, which you can read in this post from earlier.\n\nOverall, the mood in the courtroom seemed tense.\n\nAnd former President Donald Trump hasn’t even taken the stand yet. That happens on Monday.\n\nOur team today has been Chloe Kim and Madeline Halpert in court, and Kayla Epstein and myself reporting from New York.\n\nIf you want some more analysis on the trial and a summary of what's happened so far, you can read click here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Video provided by activist Sayed Alwadaei shows his confrontation with Bob Stewart\n\nA Conservative MP who told an activist to \"go back to Bahrain\" has been found guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence and fined £600.\n\nBob Stewart, MP for Beckenham in south-east London, got into a row with Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei outside the Foreign Office's Lancaster House in Westminster on 14 December.\n\nHe told Mr Alwadaei: \"You're taking money off my country, go away.\"\n\nLabour and the Liberal Democrats have called for him to lose the Tory whip.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court heard the 74-year-old had been attending an event hosted by the Bahraini Embassy when Mr Alwadaei, the director of advocacy at the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, shouted: \"Bob Stewart, for how much did you sell yourself to the Bahraini regime?\"\n\nStewart replied: \"Go away, I hate you. You make a lot of fuss. Go back to Bahrain.\"\n\nMr Alwadaei challenged Stewart on his connections with the country, asking repeatedly whether he had accepted any money from the Bahraini government.\n\nThe MP, who was stationed in Bahrain as an Army officer in the 1960s, told the campaigner to \"get stuffed\" and added: \"Bahrain's a great place. End of.\"\n\nIn a post on X, formerly Twitter, Mr Alwadaei said: \"No-one should think twice about holding an MP or members of the government to account because of their skin colour.\n\n\"When I reported Mr Stewart to the Conservative Party, they didn't take action against him and when he was charged, they refused to suspend him.\n\n\"Given today's verdict, I expect them to take immediate action.\"\n\nPaul Jarvis, prosecuting, told the court: \"Mr Alwadaei felt upset and humiliated by what had taken place.\"\n\nHe added: \"He (Stewart) demonstrated racial hostility towards Mr Alwadaei by way of his comments.\"\n\nHowever, the prosecutor said Stewart \"was not motivated by racial hostility\".\n\nStewart's defence, Paul Cavin KC, had argued: \"There is no right to confront an MP in public and expect answers in a measured House of Commons way.\"\n\nHe added: \"Any hostility was based on the complainant's behaviour, conduct and speech towards the defendant.\"\n\nBaroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, 90, giving character evidence, said \"kind\" and \"thoughtful\" Stewart has a \"flippant\" manner, adding: \"He is given to saying things that are unwise but his heart is absolutely in the right place.\"\n\nAsked for his thoughts on the allegations of racial hostility, Stewart said: \"That's absurd, it's totally unfair. My life has been, I don't want to say destroyed, but I am deeply hurt at having to appear in a court like this.\n\n\"I am not a racist. He was saying that I was corrupt and that I had taken money.\n\n\"My honour was at stake in front of a large number of ambassadors.\"\n\nStewart has been an MP since 2010\n\nSpeaking after the guilty verdict, opposition parties, called for the Conservative whip to be removed from Mr Stewart, meaning he would need to sit as an independent MP.\n\nLabour chairwoman Anneliese Dodds said it was \"yet another serious Conservative scandal\".\n\n\"This behaviour is totally unacceptable for a sitting MP. Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party need to immediately take action, and remove the Conservative whip,\" she said.\n\nLiberal Democrat chief whip Wendy Chamberlain said: \"It's time Sunak finally acted with integrity. This should start with immediately removing the whip from Bob Stewart.\n\n\"Failing to remove the whip sends a dangerous message that behaviour like this is acceptable.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party said it was not commenting at the moment.\n\nParliamentary records show Stewart registered flights, accommodation and meals worth £5,349 during a four-day trip to Bahrain last November paid for by its ministry of foreign affairs.\n\nA separate entry covered by the Bahraini government shows another trip, worth £1,245.56, to visit an air show and meet its foreign minister.\n\nMr Alwadaei alleged the country is \"corrupt\" and a \"human rights violator\".\n\nClaire Walsh, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor of the CPS, said: \"His claim that his words were misinterpreted was rejected by the court in light of evidence presented by the CPS, including footage filmed by a witness and the victim's testimony.\n\n\"Hatred of any kind has no place in society and wherever our legal test is met, the CPS will not hesitate to prosecute those who perpetrate hate crimes.\"\n\nThe MP was also ordered to pay legal costs of £835.\n\nHis £600 fine would have been £400 had it not been for the seriousness of the hate crime he committed, the CPS said.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Sainsbury's has said customers are starting to switch back from discounters Aldi and Lidl.\n\nThe UK's second biggest supermarket chain has been trying to regain ground after shoppers turned to cheaper rivals as the cost of living has soared.\n\nIt said customers who used to shop only at the discounters were now buying items in Sainsbury's too.\n\nGrocery sales at Sainsbury's were up 10% in the six months to 16 September, compared with a year earlier.\n\nSainsbury's said the sales hike was driven not just by price rises, but by the fact that shoppers were also buying more items.\n\nHowever, the supermarket's profit before tax dropped by 27% to £275m.\n\nClothing sales, in particular, were hit by a cooler summer and warm early autumn, reducing demand for seasonal items, the company said.\n\nHousehold budgets have been hit hard by inflation, the rate at which prices rises.\n\nAs cost of living pressures squeeze shoppers, they have been turning to Aldi and Lidl as they hunt for bargains.\n\nBoth supermarket chains have been opening stores as they battle for shoppers with the more established players in the UK: Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons.\n\nSainsbury's said it had not gained more of an overall share of the market, but it did claim that it was the only big supermarket to be winning back customers and gaining spend from Aldi and Lidl.\n\nIts chief executive Simon Roberts said: \"We know people are still finding things tough and we're working harder than ever to reduce our costs, putting the money back into our customers' pockets through lower prices on the products they buy most often.\"\n\nHe added: \"Food inflation is coming down and we are passing savings on to customers.\"\n\nSainsbury's has been running an \"Aldi price match\" campaign as part of its battle.\n\nHowever, Aldi said: \"Shoppers know that the only place to get Aldi prices is at Aldi.\n\n\"That's why we've been confirmed as the UK's cheapest supermarket for 16 consecutive months, growing our market share and attracting around one million new customers.\"\n\nLidl said it did not comment on competitor activity.\n\nEarlier this year, supermarkets were investigated by the Competition and Markets Authority after concerns that customers were overpaying for food and fuel.\n\nThe watchdog found that higher food costs had not been passed on in full to consumers and that people were shopping around to get the best deals.\n\nBut it said that customers had been overpaying for fuel.\n\nMr Roberts said on Thursday that the group's food price inflation was running at half the level reported by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), with price cuts in some areas such as fresh food.\n\nThe ONS said in October that food price inflation remained high at 12.2% on an annual basis, but had been easing.", "Lisa Marie read the script several months before she died in January at the age of 54\n\nLisa Marie Presley complained to director Sofia Coppola that a new film's script made her father Elvis out to be \"a predator and manipulative\", according to Hollywood outlet Variety.\n\nLisa Marie wrote to the film-maker to raise concerns four months before her death in January, Variety reported.\n\nThe film tells the story of her mother Priscilla, who met Elvis at the age of 14. Priscilla has supported the movie.\n\nHe is depicted with \"sensitivity and complexity\", Coppola told Lisa Marie.\n\nThe film, titled Priscilla, is based on Priscilla's 1985 memoir Elvis and Me.\n\nIn one email, Lisa Marie reportedly wrote: \"My father only comes across as a predator and manipulative.\n\n\"As his daughter, I don't read this and see any of my father in this character. I don't read this and see my mother's perspective of my father. I read this and see your shockingly vengeful and contemptuous perspective and I don't understand why?\"\n\nPriscilla is credited as an executive producer on the film, but Lisa Marie threatened to speak out publicly against it and her mother's support for it.\n\n\"I am worried that my mother isn't seeing the nuance here or realizing the way in which Elvis will be perceived when this movie comes out,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I feel protective over my mother who has spent her whole life elevating my father's legacy. I am worried she doesn't understand the intentions behind this film or the outcome it will have.\"\n\nPriscilla and Elvis got married in 1967, when she was 21\n\nAs well as supplying the source material and being an executive producer, Priscilla has given a number of interviews to support the film.\n\nShe told Piers Morgan's TalkTV show on Thursday that it was an accurate depiction of her and her relationship with the King of Rock 'n' Roll.\n\nCoppola, who won an Oscar in 2004 for the screenplay for Lost in Translation, \"did some homework\", Priscilla said. \"She and I, we talked about it.\"\n\nReferring to the start of their relationship in 1959 when she was just 14 and he was 24 and serving in the US Army in Germany, Priscilla told Morgan it was \"a different time\".\n\nElvis was \"unique\", she said. \"I don't know about grooming me. I didn't take it at that. I'd never heard the word. Obviously it's all new now, but he loved to take me to beautiful stores to buy me an outfit. I didn't have any money. He would take me to the movies every night.\"\n\nPriscilla Presley joined Sofia Coppola at the film's premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September\n\nShe said she understood why people today would think it was inappropriate.\n\n\"But I was 14 in Germany, and there was always people around,\" she said. \"Our talks were private, but he never ever, ever, ever was aggressive, nor did he ever make love to me [until they got married when she was 21]. I was someone he trusted to talk to and pour his heart out [to].\"\n\nCoppola's representative gave Variety the message she sent to Lisa Marie in reply to her emails.\n\n\"I hope that when you see the final film you will feel differently, and understand I'm taking great care in honouring your mother, while also presenting your father with sensitivity and complexity,\" she wrote.\n\nCritics have questioned how modern viewers will feel about watching Priscilla and Elvis's early relationship.\n\n\"Even considering the time period, it's a creepy sight for 2023 eyes,\"wrote USA Today's Brian Truitt.\n\n\"Some audiences no doubt will bristle at a 14-year-old girl in a sexually adjacent situation,\"wrote The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney. \"But Coppola handles that aspect nonjudgmentally.\"\n\nRolling Stone's Marlow Stern said: \"Elvis is depicted in the film as being gentlemanly toward his teen paramour, as off-putting as their courtship looks through 21st-Century eyes.\"\n\nIn the New York Times, Ben Kenigsberg saidthe power dynamic is \"appalling from a contemporary standpoint\".\n\nHe added: \"Die-hard Elvis fans will no doubt call some of the characterization in Priscilla slander, but part of the achievement here is that Elvis is not simply a monster.\"\n\nThe film was released widely in the US on Friday and stars Cailee Spaeny in the title role, with Jacob Elordi playing Elvis. It will reach cinemas in the UK in January.\n\nIt comes a year after the film Elvis, in which Austin Butler played the singer and Tom Hanks was his manager Colonel Tom Parker.\n\nLisa Marie died at the age of 54 after a cardiac arrest caused by a \"small bowel obstruction\" that arose following weight-loss surgery she'd had several years earlier.", "Donald Trump Jr has denied any wrongdoing or involvement in the Trump Organization's financial statements\n\nDonald Trump's two eldest sons took the stand in a New York court, testifying in a civil fraud trial that threatens to engulf the family's property empire.\n\nProsecutors say Eric and Donald Trump Jr played key roles in the Trump Organization's efforts to exaggerate its wealth and falsify records.\n\nIn court, the brothers denied wrongdoing and sought to shift the blame onto the company's accountants.\n\nTheir sister Ivanka is also expected to testify later in November.\n\nThe judge in the case, Arthur Engoron, has already ruled that the Trump Organization committed massive fraud.\n\nThe trial will ultimately determine what civil penalty should be imposed. New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking a fine of $250m (£204m) and a ban on the former president and his adult sons doing business in the state.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why Trump’s kids are taking the stand... in 90 seconds\n\nIn his testimony on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, Mr Trump Jr frequently denied having worked on the financial statements at the centre of the case or having knowledge of how the statements and other important business documents were prepared.\n\nThe graduate of The Wharton School, an Ivy League business college, is executive vice-president at the Trump Organization, along with Eric.\n\nHe frequently stated that the documents were the responsibility of the company's accountants, the Mazars firm, and other employees.\n\n\"They have as much, if not more, information and details than I ever would have had,\" he said.\n\nAsked whether he ever took any steps to ensure the documents he was signing off on were accurate, Mr Trump Jr replied: \"I can't recall\".\n\nAt one point, Judge Arthur Engoron attempted to cut to the heart of the matter, asking Mr Trump Jr directly whether he had anything to do with the documents.\n\n\"No I did not, your honour,\" he said.\n\nWhile his older brother projected confidence and made jokes in court, Eric was far more subdued and had several tense interactions with prosecutors during questioning.\n\nThe 39-year-old often refused to provide \"yes\" or \"no\" answers to prosecutors' questions, to their great frustration.\n\nEric Trump testified after his brother Donald Trump Jr., and also sought to distance himself from the Trump organization's financial statements.\n\nLike his brother, Eric attempted to distance himself from financial documents pertaining to his father and the wider Trump Organization, particularly statements of financial condition.\n\nAndrew Amer, a senior lawyer with the New York attorney general's office, grilled him for several hours, displaying emails in which the Trump son appeared to contradict statements that he did not have \"anything\" to do with his father's financial statements.\n\nIn the emails, Eric Trump agreed to assist Trump Organization controller Jeff McConney with information about a property in Westchester, New York, for a financial statement.\n\nStill, Eric Trump said he was not directly involved in preparing the document and did not pay particular attention to how the information was used.\n\n\"I didn't work on the statement of financial condition,\" he said. \"I've been very, very clear about that.\"\n\nTensions flared toward the end of the day over another matter: Judge Engoron's law clerk.\n\nThe judge threatened to expand a gag order he had imposed on former President Donald Trump over a social media post about the clerk to include the family's attorneys.\n\nTrump attorney Christopher Kise had made a reference to the female law clerk during an objection.\n\nJudge Engoron, who has been protective of staff members involved in the high-profile case, ventured the reference \"might be misogyny\".\n\nThe admonishment and threat of expanded gag order did not sit well with the Trumps' lawyers, including Mr Kise, who said he felt the New York judge was biased against him.\n\n\"I do often feel like…I'm fighting two adversaries,\" Mr Kise said. \"I'm not a misogynist. I'm very happily married and I have a 17-year-old daughter.\"\n\nThe Trumps' female attorney, Alina Habba, told the judge she did not believe Mr Kise to be misogynistic and said prosecutors needed to \"move on\" from their line of questioning.\n\n\"We've been here all day and have gotten, frankly, not very far,\" she said.\n\nFormer President Trump is expected to testify in the case early next week. He has previously appeared in court to watch the testimony of his former attorney, Michael Cohen.\n\nHe, like his sons, has denied any wrongdoing and earlier this week called Judge Engoron \"a disgrace to the legal profession\".\n\nHis daughter, Ivanka Trump - who is no longer listed as a co-defendant in the case - is expected to testify on 8 November.\n\nOn Wednesday, however, she appealed against the order to testify. Her attorney has argued that she has not lived or worked in New York since 2017.", "Boris Johnson has said it is \"very unlikely\" the first Covid lockdown could have been avoided by earlier action to stop the virus spreading.\n\nIn an extract from his statement to the Covid Inquiry, the former PM conceded it may have been \"possible\" to avert the nationwide restrictions.\n\nBut he wrote he couldn't think of interventions that would have enabled this, apart from drugs or a vaccine.\n\nThese were not available at the time the virus first struck, he added.\n\nIn hearings at the inquiry this week, Mr Johnson has faced criticism for not taking action sooner to stop the virus spreading in the early months of 2020.\n\nMr Johnson himself is due to give oral evidence later in the autumn, when his witness statement will be published in full.\n\nThe latest extract, written by Mr Johnson in August, seems to have been published because it was referred to in other testimony earlier this week.\n\nReflecting on the March 2020 lockdown, Mr Johnson writes: \"I am asked whether earlier interventions could have avoided the need for a national lockdown\".\n\n\"I suppose it is possible, but I cannot think what they might have been (short of a vaccine or drugs, which we did not have) and I think it highly unlikely\".\n\nElsewhere in his statement, he also defended first exploring alternative policies to lockdown, adding this was \"the duty of any pragmatic and responsible leader\".\n\nHe claimed that he had \"reflected\" many times on whether the lockdown did more harm than good, but argued: \"We were between a rock and a hard place, the devil and the deep blue sea\".\n\n\"We simply had no good choices, and it was necessary at all times to weigh up the harms that any choice would cause.\"\n\nHe added that he was worried about whether the economic impact might do more harm to the country than the virus, but he always attached \"the highest priority\" to human health.\n\nEarlier this week, the inquiry was shown a note that suggested the former prime minister agreed with some Tory MPs who thought Covid was \"nature's way of dealing with old people\".\n\nThe allegation comes from a diary entry written by Sir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser during the pandemic.\n\nOther figures, including Jeremy Hunt, the current chancellor, have argued the first set of restrictions could have been prevented.\n\nIn his own evidence in June, Mr Hunt - who was not in government when Covid struck - argued quarantining people sooner \"might have avoided\" the lockdown.\n\nHe claimed that the UK had not learned lessons from countries such as South Korea, which avoided a full national lockdown.\n\nHe told the inquiry that East Asian nations had adapted their pandemic strategies after viral outbreaks in the early 2000s, to favour mass quarantining and testing.\n\nBut he argued advisers in the UK, along with other Western countries, did not take a similar approach until it was too late to avoid lockdown completely.", "Allan Bryant disappeared on a night out with friends in his hometown of Glenrothes in Fife in 2013.\n\nThe 23-year-old was last seen on CCTV leaving the Styx nightclub, less than a mile from his house. No trace of him has ever been found since.\n\nWhile he is still classed as a missing person, Allan's family believe he has come to harm. A decade since his disappearance, they continue the fight to keep his name in the public eye.\n\nThis is their story.", "Holly Willoughby left her role at This Morning in October, after 14 years as a presenter\n\nA man accused of soliciting to murder and incitement to kidnap the TV presenter Holly Willoughby has pleaded not guilty to both charges.\n\nGavin Plumb, 36, of Potters Field in Harlow, Essex, appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court.\n\nThe charges relate to an alleged plot between 2 and 5 October involving the former presenter of This Morning.\n\nWearing a grey T-shirt, the shopping centre security guard spoke only to confirm his details and enter his plea.\n\nThe defendant is accused of planning to assemble a \"kidnap and restraint kit\" and encouraging a third party to travel to the UK to carry out the alleged offences.\n\nJudge Mary Loram KC set a trial date of 24 June and remanded Mr Plumb in custody.\n\nThe trial is expected to last two weeks.\n\nGavin Plumb, pictured in 2014, was remanded in custody\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830", "The aftermath of a strike on Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp earlier this week\n\nOne of the first things to understand about the reportage, analysis and commentary that has poured out since the Hamas attacks of 7 October is that no-one has the full story. Not only is it, as ever, hard to penetrate the fog of war to work out what is happening on the battlefield. The new shape of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has not yet emerged.\n\nEvents are still moving fast. Fears that the war could spread are very real. New realities in the Middle East are out there somewhere, but their shape and the way that they will work depend on the way this war goes for the rest of the year, and probably beyond.\n\nHere are a few things that we know, and a few that we do not. The list is not exhaustive. Some people mocked Donald Rumsfeld, US defence secretary at the time of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, when he talked of \"unknown unknowns\". But in this part of the world as much as any other, they exist - and when they emerge, they can make a big difference.\n\nOne certainty is that Israelis support the military campaign to break the power in Gaza of Hamas and its junior partner, Islamic Jihad. Their anger is driven by the shock of the Hamas attacks, the killing of more than 1,400 people and the fact that around 240 hostages are still being held in Gaza.\n\nThe Hamas attack on Israel killed 1,400 people, many of them residents of kibbutzes near Gaza\n\nI met Noam Tibon, a retired general in the Israeli army, to hear about how he drove down with his wife to Nahal Oz, a kibbutz on the border with Gaza, after Hamas attacked on 7 October. His mission, which was successful, was to rescue his son, his daughter in law and their two young daughters who were in their safe room, hearing Hamas gunmen roaming around outside.\n\nTibon may be retired but he is a very fit-looking 62-year-old. He ended up armed with an assault rifle and a helmet he had taken from a dead Israeli soldier, leading a group of soldiers he had assembled in the chaos of that day, clearing the kibbutz and saving the lives of his family and many others.\n\nThe general was an old-school, straight-talking Israeli officer.\n\n\"Gaza is going to suffer… no nation will agree that your neighbour will slaughter babies, women or people. Just like you (Britons) crushed your enemy during World War Two. This is what we need to do in Gaza. No mercy.\"\n\nWhat, I asked, about innocent Palestinian civilians who are getting killed?\n\n\"Unfortunately, it's happening. We live in a tough neighbourhood, and we need to survive… we have to be tough. We have no choice.\"\n\nA lot of Israelis are echoing his sentiment that Palestinian civilian deaths are unfortunate, but they are being killed because of the actions of Hamas.\n\nIt is also clear that Israel's assault on Hamas is causing terrible bloodshed. The latest figure for Palestinian deaths from Gaza's health ministry, run by Hamas, has exceeded 9,000 - of whom around 65% are children and women.\n\nIt is not clear how many of the men who have been killed were civilians or fighting for Hamas or Islamic Jihad. US President Joe Biden and the Israelis do not trust the ministry figures. But in past conflicts, Palestinian casualty statistics have been considered accurate by international organisations.\n\nOne grim milestone is fast approaching. The United Nations (UN) says around 9,700 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since the full-scale Russian invasion 21 months ago.\n\nSome of the Palestinian dead would have been part of Hamas. But even if that proportion is as high as 10%, which is unlikely, it means that Israel is on course to have killed as many Palestinian civilians in just over a month as Russia has killed in Ukraine since February 2022. (The UN says its data for Ukraine is incomplete and the true number of civilians killed is likely higher, while in Gaza the number of dead is also likely to be higher as many Palestinians are believed to be buried under rubble).\n\nThe UN has suggested Israeli strikes on Gaza could constitute war crimes\n\nThe UN human rights office has said that so many civilians have been killed and wounded in Israeli air strikes that it has serious concerns that the attacks are disproportionate and could be war crimes.\n\nFrom the first days after the Hamas attacks, President Biden has supported Israel's decision to use military force to remove Hamas from power. But he has also added the qualification that it needed to be done \"the right way\". He meant that Israel should observe the laws of war that protect civilians.\n\nThe US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Tel Aviv. Before he took off, he said: \"When I see a Palestinian child - a boy, a girl - pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building, that hits me in the gut as much as seeing a child from Israel or anywhere else.\"\n\nI have reported on all of Israel's wars in the last 30 years. I do not remember a US administration stating so publicly that Israel needs to observe the laws of war. Blinken's visit suggests that he believes Israel is not following Biden's advice.\n\nSomething else we know for certain is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under great pressure.\n\nUnlike Israel's security and military chiefs, he has not accepted any personal responsibility for the catastrophic series of failures that left Israeli border communities virtually undefended on 7 October.\n\nLast Sunday, 29 October, he caused uproar when he sent out a tweet blaming the intelligence agencies. Mr Netanyahu deleted the message and apologised.\n\nThe Israeli PM has taken the blame from some quarters for the events of 7 October\n\nThree Israelis, a former peace negotiator, the ex-head of the Shin Bet (Israel's internal intelligence agency) and a tech entrepreneur, wrote an article in the journal Foreign Affairs saying that Mr Netanyahu should not have any part of the war and whatever follows. The Israeli PM has loyal supporters, but he has lost the confidence of prominent figures in Israel's military and security establishment.\n\nNoam Tibon, the retired general who fought his way into kibbutz Nahal Oz to rescue his family, compares Mr Netanyahu to Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister who was forced to resign in 1940, and replaced by Winston Churchill.\n\nTibon told me: \"This is the biggest failure in the history of the state of Israel. It was a military failure. It was an intelligence failure. And it was the failure of the government… the one really in charge - and all the blame is on him - is the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu… He is in charge of the biggest failure in the history of Israel.\"\n\nIt is also clear that the old status quo has been smashed. It was unpleasant and dangerous, but it seemed to have a certain grimly-familiar stability. Since the end of the last Palestinian uprising around 2005 a pattern has emerged that Mr Netanyahu believed could be sustained indefinitely. That was a dangerous illusion, for all concerned - Palestinians as well as Israelis.\n\nThe argument went that the Palestinians were no longer a threat to Israel. Instead, they were a problem to be managed. The tools available include sticks, carrots and the ancient tactic of \"divide and rule\".\n\nMr Netanyahu, who has been prime minister for most of the time since 2009 - after an earlier spell between 1996 and 1999 - has argued consistently that Israel does not have a partner for peace.\n\nPotentially, it did. The Palestinian Authority (PA), which is the main rival to Hamas, is a deeply flawed organisation, and many who support it believe its aged President Mahmoud Abbas needs to step aside. But it accepted the idea of establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel back in the 1990s.\n\nMr Netanyahu has tried to drive a wedge between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas (pictured right, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken)\n\n\"Divide and rule\" for Mr Netanyahu meant allowing Hamas to build its power in Gaza at the expense of the PA.\n\nWhile Israel's longest-serving prime minister is always careful about what he says in public, his actions over many years show that he does not want to allow the Palestinians to have an independent state. That would involve giving up land in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which the Israeli right wing believes belongs to the Jews.\n\nFrom time to time, Mr Netanyahu's pronouncements would leak. In 2019, a number of Israeli sources say that he told a group of his Likud members of parliament that if they opposed a Palestinian state they should support schemes to pump money - mostly provided by Qatar - into Gaza. He told them that deepening the division between Hamas in Gaza and the PA in the West Bank would make it impossible to establish a state.\n\nIt is also clear that Israel, backed by the Americans, will not tolerate a deal that allows Hamas to stay in power. That guarantees a lot more bloodshed. It also raises big questions about what or who replaces them, which so far have not been answered.\n\nThe conflict between Arabs and Jews for control of the land between the river Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea has lasted for more than 100 years. One lesson of its long and bloody history is that there will never be a military solution.\n\nIn the 1990s, the Oslo peace process was established to try to end the conflict by establishing a Palestinian state with a capital in East Jerusalem alongside Israel. The last attempt to revive it, after years of on-off negotiations, happened during the Obama administration. It failed a decade ago, and since then the conflict has been allowed to fester.\n\nMore than 20 Israeli soldiers have been killed since Israel began a ground operation in Gaza\n\nAs President Biden and many others have said, the only possible chance for avoiding more wars is to establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel. That will not be possible with the current leaders on either side. Extremists, both Israeli and Palestinian, would do all they could to scupper the idea, as they have done since the 1990s. Some of them believe they are following the will of God, which makes it impossible to persuade them to accept a secular compromise.\n\nBut if this war does not deliver enough of a shock to break deeply-held prejudices and to make the idea of two states viable, nothing will. And without a mutually-acceptable way of ending the conflict, more generations of Palestinians and Israelis will be sentenced to more wars.", "A gardener who \"terrified\" women in a Somerset village has been banned from writhing on the floor in an all-black bodysuit in public.\n\nJoshua Hunt, 32, was found guilty last week of causing intentional harassment, alarm or distress to his victims.\n\nHe has now been handed a sexual harm risk order, which prevents him from wearing any type of mask unless for medical reasons.\n\nThe order will be in place for five years.\n\nLast week's trial heard how Hunt, from Claverham, had scared two female motorists in May, while dressed in an all-black \"gimp suit\" in the village of Bleadon.\n\nOne victim said she initially thought she could be abducted, and was left \"terrified\" by the incident.\n\nThe sexual harm risk order is in place for five years\n\nImposing the sexual harm risk order at Bristol Magistrates' Court earlier, District Judge Joanna Dickens said: \"[The incidents] are clearly acts of a sexual nature with a sexual element to them.\"\n\n\"A sexual risk order is quite a serious order, and it has a lot of obligations of you and if you breach this order you can go to prison.\n\n\"I only make an order if I think it is necessary to protect the public from you and I do think it is necessary,\" she continued.\n\nAmong the restrictions imposed, Hunt is now banned from:\n\nRestrictions have also been placed upon Hunt's computer use and access of the internet.\n\nFace masks with neon white paint drawn on were found in Hunt's van\n\nPeter Richardson, defending, said Hunt had taken a \"pragmatic and practical approach\" to the application for the sexual risk order.\n\n\"We are not contesting the application but that is not the same as agreeing with everything that is set out,\" he said.\n\nHunt will be on the sex offenders' register while his sexual harm risk order is in place.\n\nAfter his conviction, Hunt was fined £100 and ordered to pay £200 compensation to each of his victims and £620 prosecution costs.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Zara Aleena was injured 46 times in the attack\n\nJordan McSweeney, who stalked and murdered Zara Aleena, has won a Court of Appeal challenge to have his minimum tariff of 38 years reduced.\n\nIn a ruling on Friday, three judges found the sentencing judge had imposed too high an \"uplift\" to McSweeney's minimum term, and cut it to 33 years.\n\nMcSweeney had been released from prison on licence nine days before the murder.\n\nMs Aleena's family described the Court of Appeal's decision as a \"shallow triumph\" for McSweeney.\n\nHe had admitted murder and sexual assault but refused to attend his sentencing hearing last December, when the original tariff and a mandatory life sentence were imposed.\n\nLast month, McSweeney, 30, left a Court of Appeal hearing after about 45 minutes.\n\nThe sexual predator targeted at least five women before he attacked 35-year-old Ms Aleena as she walked home from a night out in Ilford, east London on 26 June 2022.\n\nThe attack on Cranbrook Road lasted nine minutes and resulted in 46 separate injuries to the law graduate.\n\nIn a statement Ms Aleena's family said: \"Today's decision, a decision to reduce the minimum sentence for that repugnant man, aligns with an established legal sentencing framework, a framework we comprehend.\n\n\"Yet, the message it conveys to women is disheartening, suggesting that a 'life sentence' may not truly mean a lifetime behind bars. It is, in all honesty, a shallow triumph for him,\" they said.\n\n\"Despite his sentencing to a minimum of 33 years, his time in incarceration has been marred by abhorrent conduct, marked by a lack of remorse and a callous attitude toward others.\n\n\"The prospect of his release after 33 years remains slim, but, naturally, we hope he remains imprisoned for life.\"\n\nJordan McSweeney's murder of Ms Aleena was the \"culmination of hours of planning\", the Court of Appeal heard\n\nMcSweeney's barrister George Carter-Stephenson KC had argued that the sentencing judge, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb, had wrongly factored in the \"aggravating features\" in the case.\n\nMr Carter-Stephenson said it was accepted there was a sexual motive to the crime, but argued the murder itself was not premeditated.\n\nHe added: \"The attack was an opportunistic act rather than anything that was planned in advance, though there was clearly a sexual encounter in mind.\n\n\"He planned to look for a sexual encounter, with or without consent.\"\n\nHowever Oliver Glasgow KC, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said the suggestion McSweeney had not intended to kill Ms Aleena was \"unsustainable\".\n\nMr Glasgow said: \"The submission that the intention to murder Ms Aleena was formed 'on the spur of the moment' flies in the face of the applicant's behaviour preceding the violence.\n\n\"The sexual assault of Ms Aleena was the culmination of hours of planning and premeditation.\"\n\nMcSweeney stalked Ms Aleena along Cranbrook Road before grabbing her from behind and dragging her into a driveway.\n\nThe attack lasted nine minutes, during which the trainee solicitor was stamped on. She was found struggling to breathe and later died in hospital.\n\nLondon's victims' commissioner Claire Waxman said: \"My thoughts are with Zara Aleena's family today, following the distressing news that Zara's murderer has won his appeal and had his sentenced reduced by five years.\n\n\"This family has endured so much since Zara was brutally taken from them. \"Having refused to attend his original sentencing hearing, and then storming out of his own appeal, this reduction in his sentence will no doubt impact the family's sense of justice.\n\n\"This case has made it all the more crucial that government moves forwards with its proposals to compel offenders to attend their sentencing, or face up to an additional two years if they refuse to do so.\"\n\nZara Aleena was killed walking back from a night out by a sexual predator, only recently released from prison, labelled a \"danger to any woman\".\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A warning in Spanish about Hippos in Colombia\n\nColombia is to cull some of the 166 hippos descended from a herd owned by drug lord Pablo Escobar in the 1980s.\n\nEnvironment Minister Susana Muhamad said that 20 would be sterilised, others would be transferred abroad - and \"some\" would be euthanised.\n\nExperts have for years tried to control the hippo numbers.\n\nEscobar imported the animals for his private zoo at Hacienda Nápoles. They were left to roam after he was killed in a shootout with police in 1993.\n\nAuthorities have tried various approaches to curb the population explosion in Colombia's main river, the Magdalena, including sterilisation and transferring individuals to zoos abroad.\n\nEfforts failed to contain the herd's growth, however, with a lack of predators and the fertile and swampy Antioquia region providing perfect conditions for the native African animal to thrive.\n\nTheir fate was sealed when hippos were declared an invasive species last year, opening the door to a cull.\n\n\"We are working on the protocol for the export of the animals,\" Ms Muhamad was quoted as saying by local media.\n\n\"We are not going to export a single animal if there is no authorisation from the environmental authority of the other country.\"\n\nShe said the ministry was creating a protocol for euthanasia as a last resort.\n\nColombian experts have long warned that the hippos' uncontrolled reproduction poses a threat to humans and native wildlife.\n\nEstimates suggest that the population could reach 1,000 by 2035 if nothing is done, but animal activists say sterilization entails suffering for the animals - and great danger for the vets doing it.\n\nThe hippo is one of the largest land animals, with adult males weighing up to three tonnes. They are also among the most dangerous, killing around 500 people a year.\n\nFishing communities along the Magdalena River have come under attack and some hippos invaded a school yard, although no one has been killed.\n\nEscobar was the head of the Medellín cartel and dubbed the \"cocaine king\" who amassed an estimated $30bn (£25bn) fortune smuggling drugs into Miami and the southern United States.\n\nHis reign of terror spanned more than a decade and involved kidnappings, hundreds of murders, bribery, bombings and turf wars with rival drug barons - as well as a brief sojourn as an elected politician.\n\nAs one of the most-wanted men on the planet, he gave himself up to Colombian authorities in 1991 on agreement that he would spend five years in a prison he had built, known as La Catedral.\n\nEscobar went on the run a year later amid government attempts to move him to a more secure jail.\n\nWith a $2m US bounty on his head, he met his end in his home town of Rionegro - he was shot dead on a rooftop on 2 December 1993 as he tried to evade police.\n\nHe left a legacy of violence but also the 5,500-acre Hacienda Nápoles, private citadel in Antioquia containing, among other things, a menagerie of four hippos, plus giraffes, camels and zebras.\n\nThe hacienda was given over to poor locals by the government after Escobar's death, and the hippos were left to roam free as they were deemed too difficult to seize.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The university issued a statement on Friday in response to comments made by the government's independent adviser on antisemitism, Lord Mann\n\nQueen's University Belfast has said claims of swastikas being sent to a Jewish student \"did not happen\" at the university or anywhere on its campus.\n\nThe university issued a statement on Friday in response to comments made by the government's independent adviser on antisemitism, Lord Mann.\n\nThe peer visited Belfast on Wednesday to meet members of the Jewish community and political parties.\n\nSpeaking after the visit, he said a Jewish student had been sent swastikas.\n\nLord Mann said the incident happened after the student wore a Jewish religious symbol around their neck.\n\nHe described the swastika, which is associated with Nazism, being sent to the individual as \"not normal behaviour\" and said \"it is extremist behaviour and it is dangerous\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI on Friday evening, Lord Mann questioned the university's statement, which was posted on social media.\n\n\"How do they know where this hasn't happened? The simple answer is that they do not know,\" Lord Mann said.\n\nHe said the student may not have reported the incident yet or may choose not to do so and questioned how the university can be in any position to rule out locations of where this incident took place.\n\nWhen asked by BBC News NI, Lord Mann reiterated that he did not want to end up identifying the person by specifying any further details surrounding the incident.\n\nLord Mann said the incident was \"not normal behaviour, it is extremist behaviour\"\n\nSpeaking previously to Good Morning Ulster, Lord Mann said the conflict between Israel and Hamas had led to religious attacks in the UK.\n\n\"Why are they picking on vulnerable, literally isolated Jewish students to vent this hatred?\" he asked.\n\n\"Where's the hatred coming from and what are the systems for dealing with this?\"\n\nLord Mann said young Jewish people were \"keeping their heads down\" and are \"masking their identity\" in terms of wearing religious symbols.\n\nIn their statement on Friday, the university said: \"Queen's University Belfast has looked into yesterday's media reports of an anti-Semitic incident and can confirm it did not happen at Queen's or anywhere on our campus.\"\n\nIt continued: \"We are continuing to engage with student representatives and are offering support to anyone who has been affected in any way during these distressing and difficult times.\n\n\"We are also encouraging anyone else aware of or affected by any anti-Semitic behaviour to engage with us and the PSNI directly.\"\n\nThe recent conflict between Israel and Hamas started on 7 October when Hamas killed more than 1,400 people in Israel and kidnapped more than 200 others.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said more than 9,000 people had been killed there since Israel began bombing the territory.", "The death toll in Gaza is rising as Israel presses on with its war against Hamas, following the attacks on 7 October in which 1,400 people were killed in Israel.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 9,000 people have been killed since the war began.\n\nBecause of safety concerns, there are relatively few journalists in Gaza to document the human cost of the fighting.\n\nBut the BBC has been speaking to a number of families and eyewitnesses who have told us stories of loved ones who have been killed in recent days.\n\nWith serious power supply issues in the Gaza Strip, Yusof and his two older siblings - sister Jury, 13, and nine-year-old brother Hamed - felt quite lucky.\n\nTheir father, Mohamed Abu Musa, a radiographer at the Nasser hospital in the city of Khan Younis, had installed solar panels at their house, so the children could watch their favourite cartoons on TV.\n\nThey were settling down in front of the television on 15 October when, their father says, their home was hit by an Israeli air strike.\n\nJury and Hamed somehow survived, but Yusof was killed when the roof of their house collapsed.\n\nMohamed was working a 24-hour shift at the hospital when his wife, Rawan, entered, screaming in search for their youngest son.\n\nShe had been able to find Hamed, while rescue teams helped pull Jury out of the rubble. Jury had suffered head injuries but her parents say she is \"improving\".\n\nA video showing Rawan asking at the hospital for her \"handsome and curly-haired son\" circulated widely on social media. But Mohamed would later find his son's body in the hospital morgue.\n\n\"The last time I saw Yusof alive was when he ran to hug me on the doorstep of our home, just before I left for work,\" Mohamed recalls.\n\n\"He kissed me and said goodbye after I had given him some biscuits and bananas. He wanted to be a doctor, maybe because he always saw me going to hospital for work.\"\n\nOn the evening of 15 October, Dr Saidam needed a rest. The 47-year-old surgeon had not left the al-Shifa hospital, in Gaza City for more than week.\n\nHe told his colleagues he was going home for the night. But a few hours later he was killed in a strike at his home.\n\n\"This calm, funny and kind-hearted man came back to the hospital the next morning, but as a lifeless body,\" his colleague Dr Adnan Albursh explained.\n\nDr Albursh, who had known the surgeon for more than 20 years, added that his late colleague had been nicknamed \"the relentless surgeon\" by his peers for his dedication to the job.\n\nA veteran of the operating room, Dr Saidam was also known as a great mentor to younger doctors.\n\n\"If any of the doctors faced any difficulties, they knew Dr Saidam was the one who would sort it out,\" agreed Dr Ahmed El Mokhallalati, the head of the plastic surgery department at al-Shifa Hospital.\n\n\"His death is a huge loss not only to this hospital but also to the medical profession,\" he added.\n\nSeventeen-year-old student Nour was killed on 11 October when an Israeli air strike hit her family home in the town of Deir al-Balah, 14km south of Gaza City, according to her uncle.\n\nMohammed al-Kharma said his niece wanted to relocate because of the bombing and stay with relatives elsewhere.\n\n\"Her father asked her to stay in her house, which was bombed the very next morning. It was her fate,\" he said.\n\nNour was killed alongside her nephew Yazan. The pair had been playing in the living room. Her elder sisters, Ola, and Huda, who were preparing breakfast with their mother, Jamalat, survived.\n\nNour was in her last year of high school and always wanted to be a doctor. Her uncle said his family pulled her school bag from under the rubble. It contained books and a diary, and in one of the pages she had written: \"I want to make my family proud of me and I will get high grades by the will of Allah.\"\n\nIn her last communication with her fiance Khaled al-Masry, Lurin said she was exhausted from moving from place to place in search of safety from the war. The 30-year-old had just arrived at the Nusairat refugee camp, in the centre of the Gaza Strip, to stay with her aunt.\n\nLurin had survived two strikes, including one on 16 October that flattened the building where she lived with her parents in Gaza City.\n\n\"She told me she was going to have a shower, pray and rest,\" Khaled recalls.\n\nAccording to her fiance, who lives and works in Cyprus, she was praying in a room when the house she was in was hit.\n\n\"She was killed while she was praying,\" he says.\n\nLurin and Khaled had postponed their wedding a couple of times due to the unstable situation in Gaza.\n\nThey were planning finally to get married in December and move to Cyprus.\n\nA devastated Khaled said: \"She is now resting forever. She used to wear a white dress, but now is wearing a white shroud.\"\n\nPeople in Gaza City's Radwan district who needed women's formal clothing would head straight to Fekriya Hassan Abdul A'al's place.\n\n\"I remember when we used to have our house full of brides-to-be and bridesmaids who would come to my mother's place to have a fitting. She was exceptionally talented,\" Fekriya's daughter Nevine says.\n\nThe 65-year-old tailor was killed along with two of her siblings, two of her children and two of her grandchildren, after the house they were sheltering in was hit by an air strike on 23 October.\n\nNevine, who was taking cover at a friend's house, says that Fekriya was devoted to her family and would host large weekly gatherings. But Nevine says her mood had been severely affected by the escalation in the conflict: \"She told me in our last phone call: 'I'm very depressed and exhausted from what seems to be an endless war'.\"\n\nBrothers Mazen, 17 and Ahmed, 13 were among those killed by the explosion at the al-Ahli Hospital on 17 October.\n\nPalestinian officials say the blast was caused by an Israeli air strike. But the Israeli military say it was the result of a failed rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic Jihad - an accusation the group rejected.\n\nArafat Abu Massi, the father of Mazen and Ahmed, said the two brothers were \"very close to each other\" but had very different personalities.\n\nArafat and his wife had undergone IVF therapy for eight years to have Mazen, who was at high school and wanted to become a dentist. \"He was the brightest of all my children,\" he says. While Ahmed was described by his father as \"the strongest and bravest in the family\" - and the entrepreneurial one.\n\n\"He used to sell toys and school supplies in a small booth near our house,\" Arafat said.\n\nHis only remaining child now is three-year-old Faraj, who, according to Arafat, keeps crying and asking where his siblings are. \"I told him that God has chosen them to stay in heaven. That is a better place for my two young smart gentlemen.\"\n\nSalam Mema, a 32-year-old Palestinian journalist, was killed on 10 October when her house in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, was hit by an Israeli air strike, her friend told the BBC.\n\nHer husband, their two-year-old daughter Sham, their seven-year-old son Hadi, and other members of the family, were also killed, leaving their five-year-old son Ali as the sole survivor.\n\nAs of 31 October, Salam was one of 31 journalists confirmed killed on both sides, since the Israel-Hamas conflict began.\n\nThe 26-year-old pharmacist was killed in an air strike in the southern city of Rafah, on 17 October.\n\nShe was sleeping beside her three-month-old baby girl Elyana, and her husband.\n\nSafaa's uncle and a retired medical doctor based in the UK, Omar Hassouna, said her parents managed to survive the strike but are in shock and devastated by her death.\n\nOmar said the last time he saw his niece was in January, during his holiday in Gaza. \"Safaa was polite, helpful, and loved by everyone.\n\n\"I have lost a lovely niece. Her death is unfair, as all the deaths of all of the civilians in Gaza have been.\"\n\n\"I would prefer to be in Gaza with them right now, I feel so hopeless here.\"", "A woman has filed a sexual assault lawsuit against Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler, alleging she was assaulted twice in 1975 when she was 17.\n\nThe legal case has been filed at New York's Supreme Court by Jeanne Bellino, who says she suffered \"severe and permanent emotional distress\".\n\nIt follows a separate case filed by another woman, Julia Misley, last year.\n\nTyler has denied all allegations in that lawsuit and has not yet commented on the claims from Ms Bellino.\n\nShe was working as a model in Manhattan when a friend arranged for them to meet the rock band after a fashion show, her legal documents say.\n\nThe singer allegedly forced Ms Bellino into a phone booth as they walked through the city with several other people.\n\nThe documents state Tyler was \"mauling and groping\" her and that she \"fought back and struggled to be free but Tyler restrained her\".\n\nHis bandmates and members of the entourage \"watched, laughed and did nothing to intercede\", she claims.\n\nSteven Tyler performed with Aerosmith in New York in September\n\nLater at a hotel bar, Ms Bellion alleges that Tyler pinned her against a wall and started simulating sex. She \"resisted and pulled his hair\", was left \"sobbing and afraid\", and left after he called for her to go to his room, she claimed.\n\nThe case said Ms Bellino \"has suffered and will continue to suffer, great pain of mind and body, severe and permanent emotional distress, physical manifestations of emotional distress, embarrassment, humiliation, physical, personal and psychological injuries\".\n\nThe BBC has asked Tyler's representatives for comment.\n\nIn September, the Grammy-winning Boston band postponed six of their North America farewell tour shows due to Tyler, 75, having sustained damage to his vocal cords.\n\nThey had been been set to perform in Toronto on Tuesday, but it was pushed back until February 2024.\n\nIn 2001 they were were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, the same year that they performed at the Super Bowl halftime show.", "Waves crash on to the beach and cliffs in West Bay, Dorset\n\nStorm Ciarán has hit the UK, Channel Islands and parts of Europe, bringing strong winds, heavy rain and flooding.\n\nThe Met Office issued a yellow warning for wind and rain along the south coast of England.\n\nMore than 300 schools are shut across the region, while major incidents have been declared in Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and Jersey.\n\nFire and rescue officers search for people in need help at Freshwater Beach Holiday Park in Dorset\n\nSome people were rescued from their holiday chalets which had been cut off by flooding\n\nCouncil workers survey the damage and debris in West Bay\n\nA person and their dog watch the waves break on the front in West Bay\n\nDozens of people in Jersey were evacuated to hotels overnight as wind gusts of up to 102mph uprooted trees and damaged homes.\n\nThe Grand Hotel in St Helier was damaged, with the side rendering ripped away after winds tore through the island in the early hours of the morning.\n\nUprooted trees lie on the road after winds reaching 100mph hit St Helier\n\nThe storm is causing severe disruption in the south of England with strong winds and rain affecting many transport routes.\n\nThe Environment Agency says flooding is expected in 82 areas, most of which are on the south coast.\n\nA weather warning sign alerts drivers travelling through water spray and winds on the M5 motorway\n\nThe Portland Beach Road is closed in Weymouth, Dorset\n\nWorkers clear the water over the flooded railway in Romsey, southern England\n\nThe Port of Dover suspended all sailings earlier, sparking long lorry queues - it has since reopened for shipping, but passenger ferries are cancelled.\n\nSome vehicles were brought to a standstill on the A20 near Dover\n\nA bus makes its way through heavy rain in Kent\n\nCoastal regions of north-west France have been battered by gale-force winds of 128mph (207km/h), as Storm Ciarán reached Brittany and Normandy.\n\nPower provider Enedis says 1.2 million people are without electricity, after falling trees brought down power lines and pylons.\n\nAn Enedis employee works to repair damaged power cables in Lanildut, western France\n\nWaves crash against the breakwater of the port at Goury near Cherbourg, Normandy\n\nA woman is splashed by the waves on the Quai du Lazaret near the Port des Minimes in La Rochelle, centre-western France\n\nSome of the worst damage has been reported in Finistère, in the far north-west, where gusts of 128mph were recorded at Pointe-du-Raz.\n\nThe local prefect has barred all traffic from the roads apart from emergency services and other essential transport.\n\nWaves crashing on the Phare du Four (Four's lighthouse) in Porspoder, western France\n\nWarnings were activated throughout Spain, except for the Canary Islands, because of heavy rain, gusts of wind of up to 68mph, with a greater incidence in the Galicia region, which is on the red alert.\n\nCars have been damaged by fallen trees in downtown Madrid\n\nFire services have been dealing with the damage and debris\n\nPeople battle with umbrellas during heavy gusts of wind in the Spanish capital", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Cars were washed into the sea and roofs were blown off\n\nCommunities across the British Isles are reeling after Storm Ciarán battered homes and businesses.\n\nThere is widespread flooding and damage around the UK, with thousands of homes left without power, hundreds of schools closed and major travel disruption.\n\nSouthern England and the Channel Islands have been worst-hit by Ciarán, with 80 flood warnings still in place across England.\n\nNo UK deaths have so far been linked to the rain and 100mph (161km/h) gusts.\n\nBut countless homes around the country have been severely damaged - with some residents even believing they have been hit by tornadoes - and many still assessing the full scale of the destruction. It follows a series of other flooding incidents in recent weeks.\n\nOne yellow weather warning for rain remains in place until Friday evening in eastern Scotland, with the rest of the country no longer covered by any other weather warnings.\n\nMore than 200 flood alerts have been issued for England, alongside the 86 flood warnings where flooding is expected, but there are currently no severe flood warnings - the highest category - in place.\n\nDozens of people in Jersey were evacuated to hotels overnight on Wednesday after gusts of up to 102mph (164km/h) were recorded. Locals were also hit by huge hailstones \"bigger than golf balls\".\n\nIn St Clement, Sharon Mackie Marquer filmed video showing the destruction around her home, with roof tiles littering her garden and the fence knocked over. Cars smashed up by debris and overturned tables can also be seen.\n\nA clip from the same Jersey parish showed Jessica O'Reilly sleeping in bed alongside her baby when the sound of the 'weather bomb' woke her - seconds before the window was blown inwards.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Woman wakes up to window being blown in\n\nShe described the moment her \"motherly instinct\" kicked in, telling the BBC: \"We went up to bed and could hear the wind getting stronger and stronger, closer and closer.\n\n\"Something didn't seem right, then the windows just smashed in, I grabbed [my daughter] and got out the room.\n\n\"I think I just thought 'my baby's in danger, I need to get out' and ran down the stairs.\"\n\nShe added that her house is not habitable as there is still glass everywhere, and they are having to stay in a hotel - but despite the shock, there was \"not a scratch\" on mother or baby.\n\nSt Helier-based Carl Walker, the chairman of Jersey's Consumer Council, said his family were woken by hailstones at midnight, which he said had stuck together to create \"golf ball-sized lumps of ice\".\n\nHe explained: \"We camped out in our living room downstairs with our children because it was just simply too noisy and too frightening to be upstairs in the bedrooms - tiles were lifting, debris was hitting the roof, windows were flexing.\n\n\"The noise of the wind was just incredible and quite frightening. It was like a scene from a disaster movie.\"\n\nMags Balston, who is in her 80s and has lived in her house in Jersey for 21 years, told the BBC that she is still in shock after spending the night in her kitchen after the windows blew in.\n\nShe recalls \"a sudden explosion like a bomb had gone off\" but wants to stay in her home as she does not want to move the cat.\n\nMags Balston in the wreckage of her home in Jersey\n\nA fallen tree on the road in Dover, Kent\n\nHuge waves crash onto the beach near Brighton pier\n\nLong queues near the Port of Dover\n\nFallen trees have blocked roads amid travel chaos around the UK\n\nElsewhere across the British Isles, roofs have been blown off, some train lines have completely ground to a halt and there were long queues around the Port of Dover, which shut earlier amid rough seas.\n\nSome train companies had asked commuters to work from home ahead of major disruption to lines in southern England and Scotland.\n\nSouth Western Railway was among the rail providers impacted and said services across the whole network may be cancelled, delayed or revised - with disruptions expected until the end of Thursday.\n\nThe storm caused chaos for drivers too, and the AA, which had a large number of callouts in southern England, said it had rescued 84 customers stuck in floods so far on Thursday. One driver caught in flood water was being treated for hypothermia, it added.\n\nThere was also significant disruption at airports, with all flights from Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney cancelled on Thursday.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, which is experiencing flooding following heavy rain and weather warnings earlier this week, one assembly member branded the scenes in County Down \"apocalyptic\", with flood waters \"decimating\" local businesses.\n\nIn France, where 1.2 million people were reported to be without electricity, a lorry driver was killed after being struck by a falling tree. Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands have also been badly hit.\n\nAround 9,000 homes across Devon and Cornwall, Sussex, Surrey and the Channel Islands were left without power earlier today.\n\nEmergency services said earlier an unoccupied vehicle which washed off a promenade in Devon on Wednesday night will remain on a beach until it is safe to recover it.\n\nIn Falmouth, student Kate Marsh told the BBC she was woken at 05:30 GMT when the roof of her bedroom entirely blew off and collapsed onto her.\n\nAaron Waterer had a similar experience in his motorhome in Broadstairs, Kent.\n\nFishing trawlers rock in the sea as waves crash against the harbour wall in Folkestone, Kent\n\nThe sharp branch ended up centimetres above his mattress\n\nTwo lorries on the A20 in Kent\n\nA large tree branch was ripped off in strong winds and pierced the roof - ending up just centimetres above his mattress.\n\nBut 47-year-old Mr Waterer was out of bed getting a drink of water at the time of the incident, around 02:00 GMT.\n\n\"My nerves were all shot\", he said.\n\n\"I just didn't know what to do, it was just shock. I still don't think it has sunk in that much, it's just bizarre.\"\n\nIn south Wales, a caravan park was evacuated following a risk to life warning, with \"the majority\" of the Kiln Park site underwater. One man was pictured kayaking through the area.\n\nIn Dorset, firefighters evacuated 70 people from 198 caravans at Freshwater Holiday Park in Burton Bradstock, near Bridport, with some being taken to dry land by boat.\n\nMany children remained at home across the country, as more than 300 schools closed in southern England, mainly in Devon.\n\nAlbourne School in Hassocks, West Sussex, closed after it was struck by lightning, lost power and was flooded.\n\nThe Government of Jersey said schools will close for a second day on Friday, as they aim to get pupils back in classrooms on Monday.\n\nElizabeth Rizzini, from BBC Weather, said many coastal areas had been exposed to dangerously large waves.\n\nVehicles are driven through a flooded road in Yapton, West Sussex\n\nFlood water covers a field after the River Clyst overflowed in Clyst Saint Mary, near Exeter.\n\n\"The wind gusts have now peaked... winds will ease as we head through the rest of (Thursday) as the storm pulls out into the North Sea\", she explained.\n\nBut Ms Rizzini warned some gusts of 60-65mph (97-105km/h) could still be expected along the coast, particularly in eastern areas.\n\nShe added: \"We are going to see more heavy rain, another 40 to 60mm perhaps over the higher ground of the Pennines.\"\n\nStrong winds and rain are expected overnight in north-east England and northern Scotland, but Friday is forecast to be calmer.\n\nStorm Ciarán is the third named storm of the year, after Babet caused significant flooding to thousands of homes a fortnight ago, and Agnes struck in late September.\n\nBBC Weather's Matt Taylor confirmed that Ciarán has been classified as a weather bomb, or 'explosive cyclogenesis'.\n\nHe explained that meteorologists use the term for a storm \"that appears to intensify rapidly, with its central air pressure dropping by at least 24 millibars (mb) in 24 hours.\"\n\nExperts say a warming atmosphere increases the chance of intense rainfall and storms.\n\nHowever, many factors contribute to extreme weather and it takes time for scientists to calculate how much impact climate change has had on particular events - if any.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.", "Israel's military has confirmed that its jets carried out an attack on Jabalia in Gaza.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry and a hospital director said at least 50 people were killed in the attack. Meanwhile, the Israeli military said the strike killed a senior Hamas commander and caused the collapse of Hamas's underground infrastructure.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Cars were washed into the sea and roofs were blown off\n\nAround 40 flood warnings remain in place across the UK in the aftermath of Storm Ciarán.\n\nNearly 150,000 homes were left without power after the severe weather caused widespread flooding and damage.\n\nJersey recorded hurricane-force gusts of more than 100mph (161km/h).\n\nWhile the worst of the weather is now over, rain and \"violent\" winds are forecast for some parts of the UK this weekend, though a \"risk to life\" warning has been downgraded in Wales.\n\nA yellow rain warning expired for north-eastern Scotland at 17:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nA separate warning for the entire south coast of England will come into effect from 05:00 until the end of the day on Saturday, with 30-40mm of rainfall possible in coastal areas.\n\nNo deaths have so far been linked to the storm in the UK, but there have been at least 13 fatalities in mainland Europe.\n\nIn Wales, a severe flood warning around the Kiln Park caravan site in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, was downgraded at 16:46 to a flood warning, after previously cautioning that there was a \"significant risk to life and disruption to the community is expected\".\n\nHowever, there are fears that the next high tide, just after 21:30 on Friday, could raise the near-record level of the River Ritec further, bringing additional disruption. The caravan site has been already been evacuated.\n\nTwo separate flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible - are in place in Wales, with stwo more in Scotland.\n\nSome 38 English flood warnings - meaning flooding is expected - remain in force, largely across the south of the country, with a further 167 flood alerts stretching northwards, up to near Scarborough.\n\nBy Friday afternoon, Ciarán was moving away from the UK.\n\nBBC Weather meteorologist Helen Willetts said the remains of the storm, in the North Sea, is now much weaker.\n\nShe explained that it would will bring heavy, blustery showers but added that drier, sunnier spells can be expected in between.\n\nMs Willetts continued: \"However, in eastern and north-east Scotland, the rain will be persistent and occasionally heavy. Then overnight and through tomorrow (Saturday), more rain will push across England and Wales, and possibly eastern Northern Ireland as the wind picks up in the south.\n\n\"So again, it's the rain that is likely to cause more flooding and disruption as the ground is already saturated from the record breaking rainfall we have already seen in parts this October.\"\n\nFlooded fields and farmland at Alfriston, East Sussex, after the River Cuckmere burst its banks\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Jersey, where winds reached up to 100mph (161km/h) overnight\n\nSchools in Jersey - which saw some of Thursday's worst weather - remained closed for a second day on Friday and aim to reopen on Monday.\n\nSchools on the neighbouring islands of Guernsey and Alderney reopened on Friday, with the exception of the College of Further Education.\n\nJersey's airport was expected to remain closed to commercial flights until at least early on Friday afternoon due to storm damage.\n\nDozens of people on the island were evacuated to hotels overnight on Wednesday and locals were also hit by huge hailstones \"bigger than golf balls\".\n\nThe Met Office described the Channel Islands as having endured \"supercell thunderstorms\".\n\nLocals also faced hurricane-force winds, Jersey Met confirmed. Forecaster Matt Winter told BBC Radio Jersey that eastern parts of the island were \"briefly\" affected by a tornado.\n\nA clip from St Clement in Jersey showed Jessica O'Reilly sleeping in bed alongside her baby when the sound of the \"weather bomb\" woke her - seconds before the window was blown inwards.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Woman wakes up to window being blown in\n\nShe described the moment her \"motherly instinct\" kicked in, telling the BBC: \"We went up to bed and could hear the wind getting stronger and stronger, closer and closer.\n\n\"Something didn't seem right, then the windows just smashed in, I grabbed [my daughter] and got out the room.\n\n\"I think I just thought 'my baby's in danger, I need to get out' and ran down the stairs.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: At the scene where a 'tornado' struck Jersey\n\nStudent Kate Marsh told the BBC she was woken at 05:30 when the roof of her bedroom in Falmouth, Cornwall, entirely blew off and collapsed onto her.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a flooding recovery operation is under way in Newry and Newcastle following heavy rain earlier this week, while an emergency response continues in Downpatrick, Co Down.\n\nThe Department for Infrastructure said it did not expect to be able to work to reduce the floodwater in Downpatrick until Friday, when river levels have dropped. A spokesperson for the department said rivers in some areas had reached record levels and remained very high. The damage caused by flooding in Downpatrick has \"ripped the heart out of the town\", a local businessman told the BBC.\n\nThe flooding in Downpatrick has reached record high levels following several days of heavy rain\n\nLeatherhead Football Club, in southern England, has been badly flooded\n\nElsewhere across the British Isles, roofs were blown off homes, some train lines completely ground to a halt and there were long queues around the Port of Dover, which shut earlier amid rough seas.\n\nRoughly 146,000 homes - mostly in the south of England - were left without power, and by 08:00 on Friday around 600 properties still had no electricity.\n\nA spokesperson for the Energy Networks Association (ENA) said: \"While difficult conditions remain, with violent winds forecast until the end of the day, teams from across the country are working together to continue to reconnect customers where it is safe to do so.\"\n\nSome rail services remain disrupted, with LNER - the main train operator on the East Coast Main Line between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley - advising passengers not to travel until Saturday, amid a significant number of expected delays and cancellations.\n\nSeveral other train operators, notably in Devon and Cornwall, also warned of disruption on Friday while debris from Storm Ciarán was cleared from the tracks, but normal service has resumed elsewhere.\n\nMeanwhile, a section of West Bay cliff in Dorset collapsed onto a beach after it was hit by huge waves.\n\nAnd in Leatherhead, Surrey, a local football club has been swamped by flood water, putting a home game on Saturday afternoon in major doubt.\n\nWestern Europe has also been battered, with at least 13 deaths linked to the storm. France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Croatia and Slovenia were all hit, while in Belgium a five-year-old boy was killed by a falling branch in the town of Ghent.\n\nIn the Italian region of Tuscany, six people lost their lives as a result of the severe conditions, with several others missing and a number of hospitals flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpecialists in flooding have suggested the UK needs to be more proactive when making plans to avert the impact of storms.\n\nProf Hannah Cloke, who specialises in hydrology at the University of Reading, says building resilience to storms requires action when the \"going is good, and that can seem expensive and unnecessary to many people when the sun is shining\".\n\nTrevor Hoey, a professor of river science at Brunel University and director of the Centre for Flood Risk and Resilience, added that there is risk of being reactive and waiting \"until there has been a flood event and then we try to stop that event from occurring again in the same place in the future\".\n\nExperts say a warming atmosphere increases the chance of intense rainfall and storms.\n\nHowever, many factors contribute to extreme weather and it takes time for scientists to calculate how much impact climate change has had on particular events - if any.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nHow are you affected by Storm Ciarán? Share your pictures and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "School strikes are to be suspended while a union consults its members on a new pay offer.\n\nCouncil leaders had earlier agreed on a modified offer, with the promise that it would be backdated to April for all staff rather than just some.\n\nCosla said this was due to additional \"one-off funding\" of £17.2m from the Scottish government and urged Unison to call off strike action.\n\nUnison will now put it to a vote.\n\nIts members in schools and nurseries - including janitors and catering staff - have been involved in industrial action since September.\n\nThey are now being recommended to accept the offer, with Unison saying it has secured an additional £100m for local government workers.\n\nThe Unite and GMB trade unions had already voted to accept the previous pay offer, while Unison had argued that a better deal was possible.\n\nThe modified offer would still mean that the lowest paid staff would get a rise of about £2,000 while others get a rise worth at least 5.5%.\n\nCouncil leaders have also agreed to raise the wages of the lowest paid to £15 an hour by 2026, if they can.\n\nBBC Scotland News understands some within Unison see the extension of back pay and a clearer commitment to a living wage as significant improvements.\n\nUnison Scotland's head of local government, Johanna Baxter, said: \"The improvements put forward today help address low pay and support those in the squeezed middle.\n\n\"The commitment to delivering a minimum rate of pay of £15 per hour for all local government workers by April 2026 will go a long way to tackling low pay across the sector.\n\n\"Backdating the full offer to April this year will see an improvement for four in 10 local government workers.\"\n\nThe union's members took part in a three-day strike in September which saw hundreds of schools close in 24 of the country's 32 council areas.\n\nOn Wednesday, a one-day walk-out caused disruption for pupils in Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire and Inverclyde.\n\nFurther action had been planned for 8 November in South Lanarkshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Edinburgh and Fife.\n\nNon-teaching staff such as learning support and janitorial workers have been striking\n\nAnd Unison staff in Dundee City, Stirling, Clackmannanshire, Angus and Perth and Kinross are set to walk out on 15 November.\n\nEarlier this week Unison said \"imposing\" the pay offer its members rejected would intensify the dispute.\n\nHowever, its said the modified offer was a significant improvement.\n\nStaff should have received their annual pay rise in April, but it was delayed because no agreement was reached.\n\nIt is understood that councils will start the necessary processes to make sure staff get the extra money by Christmas, assuming Unison members now accept the deal.\n\nBoth the GMB and Unite said their members wanted to get their money quickly.\n\nThe GMB's senior organiser in public services, Keir Greenaway, said: \"Our members accepted an offer that prioritised the lowest paid and should not have to wait any longer to receive their money. It must be with them before Christmas.\n\n\"We also welcome a renewed commitment to deliver a minimum wage of £15 an hour, but ambitions and aspirations don't pay bills.\n\n\"There is no reason to celebrate until our members get that wage instead of being promised it.\"\n\nStriking schools staff gathered outside Castlehead High School in Paisley on Wednesday\n\nCosla said it was in a position to backdate the offer due to Scottish government funding which would \"meet the extra demands of Unison\".\n\nA statement said: \"Leaders recognise the importance of getting money into the pockets of our workforce as early as possible and today's decisions will hopefully make that possible.\n\n\"Given that an extremely strong offer was made to our trade unions back in April and then revised in September, it is disappointing that reaching agreement has taken so long.\n\n\"But the priority of leaders today is ensuring that nobody is left out of pocket ahead of the winter period, especially given the ongoing pressures of the cost of living crisis.\"\n\nCosla added it was fully committed to \"working in partnership\" with all the unions.\n\nThis dispute was over pay for the vast majority of council staff in many different jobs - including refuse collectors, administrative workers and others.\n\nHowever, only school support workers were called out on strike.\n\nThe basics of this year's pay offer haven't changed. The lowest paid will get a rise of around £2,000 and others will get at least 5.5% But there are two significant changes.\n\nThe rise will be backdated to April for all staff rather than some.\n\nMeanwhile, councils have given a clearer commitment to a big rise in the wages for the lowest paid - an aspiration that everyone will earn at least £15 an hour by 2026.\n\nThis is the second council pay strike in just over a year and the second strike within a year to cause widespread school closures.\n\nSome staff and union officials will regret the fact that it took industrial action to secure improvements to the pay offer and would argue the money could have been found far earlier.", "Lebanese civilians say their homes have been hit by Israel as it responds to Hezbollah rockets\n\nHassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Shia Islamist group Hezbollah, is addressing his followers in his first public comments since the Israel-Hamas war broke out.\n\nThe speech is likely to indicate the group's next moves, as its fighters and the Israeli army are engaged in intense attacks on the Lebanon-Israel border.\n\nThis has raised fears the area could become another front in the conflict.\n\nSo far, however, the violence has largely been contained.\n\nSince Hamas carried out the 7 October attacks on Israel, killing more than 1,400 people, Lebanon has been on edge, closely watching Hezbollah.\n\nThe group has intensified its attacks on Israel, which is retaliating. But both sides have apparently taken steps to avoid a dangerous escalation, and most strikes have been limited to the border area.\n\nThis, however, could change.\n\nIsrael is pushing ahead with its ground invasion of Gaza, with the goal of eliminating Hamas, while the number of Palestinians killed in the territory has passed 9,000, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.\n\nHamas, meanwhile, has repeatedly urged its allies to join the fight, and many wonder whether Hezbollah will answer those calls.\n\nHezbollah - which, like Hamas, is considered a terrorist organisation by the UK, the US and others - is the largest political and military force in Lebanon. This means the group's decisions reverberate far beyond its support base, and many here and elsewhere are anxiously waiting for Nasrallah's speech - followers and foes.\n\nHis address will be broadcast in public screenings organised by the group across the country, and is being framed by Hezbollah as a significant moment. They took the unusual step of announcing it five days in advance and, earlier this week, released dramatic short videos featuring Nasrallah, fuelling the expectation of a major announcement.\n\nMany in Lebanon still remember the devastating month-long war Hezbollah fought against Israel in 2006, and worry that the group may drag the country into another conflict.\n\nOne of Hezbollah's aims is the destruction of Israel, which sees the group as a more formidable enemy than Hamas. Hezbollah has a vast arsenal of weapons that includes precision-guided missiles that can strike deep into Israeli territory, and tens of thousands of well-trained, battle-hardened fighters.\n\nThe Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has promised a response of \"unimaginable\" magnitude if Hezbollah opens a second front in the conflict. And the US, which reportedly urged Israel to not launch a large-scale attack on the group, has sent two aircraft carriers to the eastern Mediterranean to prevent the spread of the conflict.\n\nA full-scale war would be disastrous for Lebanon, and there is little public support for it outside Hezbollah's followers. The country is suffering from years of economic crisis, and political impasse has left it without a properly functioning government.\n\nNasrallah's speeches are screened around the country with thousands of supporters watching\n\nAnother scenario - perhaps the most likely, some observers say - is an increase of the group's attacks, signalling a response to Hamas's calls, while keeping the fighting limited to northern Israel.\n\nThe Biden administration is also, in public and through back-channels, warning Iran against escalating the situation. Iran supports the so-called Axis of Resistance, an alliance that includes Hezbollah - its most important force - as well as militias in Iraq, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, the Houthis in Yemen, and Hamas.\n\nIt is not clear how much direct influence Tehran has over the groups, but it is unlikely that they take any major decisions without Iran's blessing.\n\nOn Sunday, the Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, said Israel's \"crimes had crossed the red lines, which may force everyone to take action\". Washington, he added, \"asks us to not do anything, but they keep giving widespread support to Israel\".\n\nA source close to Hezbollah told me, on condition of anonymity, last week, that Nasrallah - who is known for his angry anti-Israeli and anti-American speeches - was closely monitoring the situation and remained in constant contact with the group's military leadership, despite his public silence.\n\n\"Hezbollah is following all details,\" the source said. \"They make calculations all the time.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The BBC first publicly identified Matthew White, pictured here in 1993, as a suspect in the Stephen Lawrence murder\n\nThe sixth suspect in the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence tried to stab a black security guard while saying he had killed before, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThe victim said Matthew White told him in the 2015 attack there had been no consequences for killing \"Stephen\".\n\nWhite was jailed for four months but did not face charges for attempting to harm the guard or racially abusing him.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says it apologises \"if this was not investigated as it should have been\".\n\nThe BBC has also spoken to an ex-prisoner who spent time with White in jail after the 2015 incident. This man said White told him that police \"failed to properly investigate him\" and that he admitted being part of the attack on Stephen.\n\nWhite - a heroin user who was shoplifting from Lidl in Eltham, south-east London - attempted to stab his victim with the needle of a used syringe, while using racial slurs. The former security guard said White told him: \"I will kill you, I've done it before, nothing will happen.\"\n\nAt the time, the Met was still actively investigating the 1993 stabbing of Stephen Lawrence. Two of the killers had been jailed in 2012, but police had consistently said there were six attackers. Despite the ongoing inquiries, the security guard was never contacted by officers on the murder case.\n\nIn June, a BBC investigation publicly named White for the first time as a suspect in the murder of Stephen and exposed a series of police failings relating to him. White died in 2021, aged 50.\n\nStephen was stabbed to death aged 18 by a gang of young white men as he waited for a bus in Eltham. It is the UK's most notorious racist killing.\n\nThe disastrous initial Met Police investigation failed to bring anyone to justice and a landmark public inquiry concluded the force was institutionally racist.\n\nThe BBC investigation into Matthew White revealed that independent witnesses said he admitted being present during the attack on Stephen, and that in 1993 White looked like the unidentified fair-haired lead attacker described by eyewitnesses.\n\nTraced by the BBC, the victim of White's 2015 assault, named Bethel Ikpeze, said he did not know about his attacker's link to the Stephen Lawrence case. But Mr Ikpeze's account further implicates White in the murder.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Former security guard Bethel Ikpeze says White repeatedly said he and others had killed someone before\n\nMr Ikpeze was working as a security officer in Lidl when he spotted White stuff meat into a bag and try to leave without paying.\n\nThe former security guard said he challenged him and White responded with swearing and a stream of racist slurs, including the N-word.\n\nMr Ikpeze said that he pulled White behind him into the store and then, out of instinct, glanced around to see White's raised hand, holding a visibly bloody needle.\n\nWhite was about to stab him in the back of his head and neck, Mr Ikpeze said. He said he grabbed White's arm and forced him to the ground, with White still attempting to twist the syringe into him.\n\nIf he had not reacted immediately, \"I would have been maybe a dead man or a man with serious body injuries because the needle was very close\", the former security guard said.\n\nHe said White clearly \"knows his target\" because he was aiming at a vulnerable part of the body.\n\nWhite was restrained until police arrived. During this time, Mr Ikpeze said White continued to abuse him with extreme racist language.\n\n\"I asked him, 'Do you want to kill me? Do you want to stab me?' He said, 'Yes, I will kill you.'\"\n\nThe attack on the security guard took place at Lidl in Eltham, about a mile from where Stephen Lawrence was killed\n\nMr Ikpeze said he told White that, if he did so, he would be imprisoned. The former security guard said White replied that he and others had \"done it before and nothing happened\".\n\nHe said White made multiple references to having killed before, saying \"I've done it before\" and \"we have done it before\".\n\nThe former security guard said White told him that \"they've done it in the bus stop there to a fellow like me in the past\".\n\n\"I said OK, if you have done it before, I don't know who you did it to.\" Mr Ikpeze said that was when White made several references to \"Stephen\".\n\nHe said White was \"referring to me as the same kind of human being they've dealt with before\".\n\nMr Ikpeze, who was born in Nigeria, said he made no connection to Stephen Lawrence. He had heard of the case but was unfamiliar with it.\n\nThe former security guard said he gave a full account to the uniformed Met officers who came to the supermarket.\n\n\"I've done my job and I wanted the police to arrest him and hear what he's telling me,\" he said.\n\n\"I told them that he even said that they've killed before. He mentioned a name of Stephen.\"\n\nHe recalled officers saying they would \"run a check\" and, when he asked if White was a murderer, being told \"that [the information] is not there\".\n\nMr Ikpeze said he also gave police a description of someone outside the shop who had been with White, but the officers seemed uninterested. That person also shouted racist abuse after Mr Ikpeze first stopped White, but then made off.\n\nWhen interviewed by police, White denied using the syringe aggressively. He pleaded not guilty to possessing it at his first court hearing.\n\nAt a later hearing White changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to four months in prison, but only after his legal team were given CCTV of the whole incident. The BBC obtained a transcript of the hearing at Woolwich Crown Court.\n\nDuring the hearing, the prosecutor said White \"carried out a stabbing motion\" with the syringe. White's barrister described telling his client it was a \"good idea\" to change his plea in relation to the syringe \"because the CCTV clearly puts you there holding this up and it is not, you know, in a jovial manner or trying to warn them not to get too close\".\n\nWhite was not charged with trying to harm Mr Ikpeze, but simply with having the syringe in a \"public place\". The other charges he admitted were stealing meat and using threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour towards Mr Ikpeze.\n\nNew evidence about the murder of Stephen Lawrence, uncovered by BBC investigative reporter, Daniel De Simone.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the Met Police said it understood that Mr Ikpeze had told local officers \"that White had shouted racial abuse and made threats to kill\" in 2015.\n\n\"We aim to take all reports of racial abuse seriously and we apologise if this was not investigated as it should have been.\"\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service told us the attack on Mr Ikpeze had been \"a horrible crime\" but there had been \"no mention of racial abuse\" based on the evidence provided by the police.\n\nMr Ikpeze was not told White had been charged in relation to the incident, or that he admitted charges in court.\n\nHe only heard about the details from the BBC recently - more than eight years later. He was shocked to learn that White had not been charged with attempting to stab him with the syringe, and that the racism had not been reflected in the charges.\n\nIn June, the BBC revealed that White had attacked another black shop worker in Eltham in 2020, saying he would be \"Stephen Lawrenced\". Again, this victim first heard that White had been convicted from the BBC.\n\nFive suspects gave evidence to the 1998 Stephen Lawrence Inquiry - Jamie and Neil Acourt (front), David Norris and Gary Dobson and Luke Knight\n\nMr Ikpeze said White's repeated racist abuse made him \"feel less human\" and was \"so damaging\".\n\nThe BBC traced Mr Ikpeze after new sources came forward with information when the investigation into White was published in June.\n\nOne man said he was in prison with White during his sentence for the 2015 supermarket incident, and that White admitted during a jail cell conversation to being part of the attack on Stephen Lawrence. The man, who asked to remain anonymous, said White was in prison for aggravated shoplifting.\n\nThe BBC corroborated key information from the man's account that was not in the public domain. It included White's changed appearance by 2015, that White was in the relevant prison at that time, and that he had been jailed for three offences stemming from a shoplifting incident, including using threatening words to a named victim - Mr Ikpeze.\n\nThe ex-prisoner said he spent several weeks talking with White in prison, who described his life of drug use and crime. White eventually discussed his connection to the Stephen Lawrence case, the man said.\n\n\"What he said was that if I could see the papers about the whole case, if I ever did, that he's referred to quite a lot in the paperwork, that he was the blond-haired figure that is referred to throughout the paperwork, and that he was involved in the incident,\" the ex-prisoner said.\n\nAn artist's impression of an attacker bears a striking resemblance to Matthew White\n\n\"He went as far as to say that he'd been at the initial part of the incident where there was a fracas.\"\n\nThe ex-prisoner said that White \"distanced himself from the actual stabbing, but he did openly say that he was at the incident, and that he was referred to as 'the blonde figure'\".\n\nThis is likely to have been a reference to eyewitness descriptions of a \"fair-haired attacker\", also known as the \"blonde attacker\", which the BBC revealed White resembled at the time of the murder.\n\nHe said that White described the prelude to the attack as involving \"words exchanged across the road\".\n\nStephen's friend Duwayne Brooks, who was with him when the attack happened, has always said he and Stephen were calling to one another about buses when the fair-haired member of the attacking group shouted a racist slur - the N-word - back across the road, as if in response.\n\nThe man who knew White in prison said: \"I'm pretty sure he said [Stephen Lawrence] had it coming or something like that, that he was mouthing off and he deserved to be attacked, and that Matt had been one of the attackers in the initial incident.\"\n\nSpeaking on condition of anonymity, an ex-prisoner told the BBC Matthew White admitted he was part of the attack on Stephen Lawrence\n\nAlthough it is not true that Stephen provoked the attackers, the claim that he in some way deserved what happened is a consistent theme of accounts from people who spoke to White about the case.\n\nThe ex-prisoner said White had denied being present when Stephen was stabbed.\n\nThis claim is not consistent with eyewitness accounts of the attack, which was too brief for one of the attackers to have fled the scene by the time Stephen was stabbed.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward told the BBC the Met remained \"satisfied that all relevant enquiries related to Matthew White were fully considered by the investigation team prior to his death in August 2021\".\n\nBut the ex-prisoner said White belittled the Met investigation into Stephen's murder: \"He said that, yeah, they'd completely mishandled it.\"\n\nHe told us how White thought \"they hadn't really spoken to him in any sort of significant depth\".\n\nHe said White believed the Met Police \"had not done their jobs properly\".\n\nIf you have information about that you would like to share with BBC News' Stephen Lawrence investigation please get in touch. Email SLInvestigation@bbc.co.uk.\n\nYou can also get in touch using SecureDrop, a highly anonymous and secure way of whistleblowing to the BBC which uses the TOR network.\n\nOr by using the Signal messaging app, an end-to-end encrypted message service designed to protect your data.\n\nPlease note that the SecureDrop link will only work in a Tor browser. For information on keeping secure and anonymous, here's some advice on how to use SecureDrop.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Met commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said 3,500 community police officers were deployed to London pro-Palestinian protests in October\n\nRishi Sunak has said that planned protests on Armistice Day would be \"provocative and disrespectful\".\n\nThere is a risk war memorials such as the Cenotaph in London could be \"desecrated\", the prime minister added.\n\nOrganisers of next week's march have insisted they have no plans to be near the Cenotaph on 11 November.\n\nChief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis said the line between protesters supporting innocent Palestinians and backing Hamas have become \"badly blurred\".\n\nWriting in the Times, he said: \"Those lines have remained blurred in the subsequent demonstrations, in which a minority have proudly displayed their extremism on their banners and in their chants, while the majority stand alongside them\".\n\nThe Met Police is planning a \"significant\" operation and has been in contact with organisers, who said they were \"willing to avoid the Whitehall area\", where the war memorial is located.\n\nPro-Palestinian protests have been held in London, and other cities globally, each Saturday since the Israel-Gaza war began.\n\nMr Sunak said on Friday: \"To plan protests on Armistice Day is provocative and disrespectful, and there is a clear and present risk that the Cenotaph and other war memorials could be desecrated, something that would be an affront to the British public and the values we stand for.\"\n\nHe has also written a letter to Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley, saying the force has the government's \"full support in making robust use of all your powers to protect Remembrance activity\".\n\nHe added he was \"deeply concerned that a number of protests are currently planned to disrupt\" acts of remembrance.\n\nSir Mark responded by saying police \"recognise the profound importance of remembrance events\" and are committed to ensuring they \"take place without disruption\".\n\nMr Sunak has asked Home Secretary Suella Braverman to support the police in \"doing everything necessary to protect the sanctity of Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday\".\n\nMs Braverman said there was an \"obvious risk of serious public disorder, violence and damage\" if the protest on 11 November went ahead, describing it as a \"hate march through London\".\n\nSeveral events to mark the end of World War One are typically held across the UK on Armistice Day, which is always on 11 November.\n\nThis year these include a two-minute silence commemorating the war dead, and the daytime and evening Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, with the latter performance usually attended by members of the Royal Family.\n\nOn Remembrance Sunday, which this year falls on 12 November, thousands of servicemen and women usually march past the Cenotaph war memorial in central London, where military veterans are joined by senior politicians and members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe 11 November protest is expected to call for a ceasefire on the Gaza Strip.\n\nOrganisers said they were aware of the importance of the date, and their previous demonstrations had been peaceful and orderly.\n\nBen Jamal, director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said it had \"made clear that we have no intention of marching anywhere near Whitehall out of respect for events taking place at the Cenotaph\".\n\nHe added the march will begin almost two hours after the silence of commemoration for the war dead.\n\n\"Each of the protests we have called have been peaceful, orderly, and attended by hundreds of thousands of demonstrators from a diverse cross section of British society,\" he said, adding that \"to suggest that undertaking protests well away from Whitehall is a disrespect for the war dead is an insult to those marching for peace\".\n\nResponding to Mr Sunak's comment about \"disrespectful\" protests, Yasmine Ahmed, UK director of the international campaign group Human Rights Watch, called them \"cynical, culture-war politics and an attack on our democratic freedoms\".\n\nThe Met said a \"significant policing and security operation\" would be conducted on 11 and 12 November, and that it was \"absolutely committed to ensuring the safety and security of anyone attending commemorative events\".\n\n\"We will use all the powers available to us to ensure anyone intent on disrupting it will not succeed,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThey added that the police were aware of a \"significant demonstration\" planned for 11 November, but not Remembrance Sunday, and that organisers were \"engaging with our officers and have said they are willing to avoid the Whitehall area, recognising the sensitivities around the date\".\n\nOn Friday, five people were arrested during a pro-Palestinian sit-in at London's King's Cross station after the demonstration was banned. Transport Secretary Mark Harper said he had given an order to allow police to stop the protest.\n\nIsrael has been bombarding Gaza with prolonged air strikes following the 7 October attacks on southern Israel by Hamas, in which they killed 1,400 people and took more than 200 hostage.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says Israeli air strikes have killed more than 9,000 people.\n\nHamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK.\n\nProtests in London have been largely peaceful, although there have been 99 arrests of people who attended the three massive weekly marches in London.\n\nBBC reporters who have witnessed the demonstrations have seen a wide range of people from different backgrounds attending, including lots of families with children.\n\nOn Friday, two women were charged with a terror offence after allegedly carrying \"an image displaying a paraglider\" at a pro-Palestinian protest in London, and police are still looking for a third woman.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said it was \"incredibly important\" that demonstrators understood the importance of Remembrance events, telling PA News: \"I'd encourage the organisers to work with the police to stay away from the Cenotaph.\"\n\nIt comes as Met commissioner Sir Mark told the London Assembly that he was \"deeply concerned\" about the impact on community policing after 3,500 officers were redeployed to central London protests in the past three weeks.\n\nThe Campaign Against Antisemitism has also written an open letter to Sir Mark, after he said hate crime laws \"probably need redrawing\" as he faced questions about the policing of pro-Palestinian marches.\n\nThe letter, signed by lawyers, said it is \"quite clearly the case that there are existing laws that are simply not being applied or enforced with sufficient rigour\" by the Met.\n\nAhead of planned protests this coming weekend, the Met said there would be a \"sharper focus\" on potential criminal behaviour, and would be using facial recognition technology to identify known suspects, including potential terrorists.\n\nScotland Yard also said that since 1 October it has received 554 crime reports of antisemitic incidents - in the same period last year the police investigated 44 such reports.\n\nThe number of reported Islamophobic hate crimes for the same period has reached 220 - up from 70 during the same period last year.\n\nSo far 133 people have been arrested. Of those, 26 have so far been charged - 14 in relation to alleged antisemitism and six for alleged Islamophobia.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Around one in four pregnant women in the UK has a Caesarean birth\n\nFour women giving birth by Caesarean have had surgery to cut their risk of ovarian cancer at the same time, in what doctors say is a documented first.\n\nThe pioneering two-in-one operations, at a London hospital, all went well\n\nExperts say it is not a decision to be taken lightly, as removing the ovaries puts a woman into early menopause.\n\nDoing the surgery at the time of Caesarean delivery also risks greater blood loss, due to the physical changes that occur during pregnancy.\n\nHowever, it can avoid an anxious wait for the standard cancer risk-reducing operation to remove the fallopian tubes and ovaries, which is usually a standalone procedure.\n\nProf Adam Rosenthal, who performed the procedure at University College London Hospital, said this type of simultaneous surgery has not previously been reported in a medical journal. The results are published in the latest edition of Obstetrics and Gynecology journal.\n\nClaire Rodrigues Lee has a gene that puts her at higher risk of developing certain cancers\n\nClaire Rodrigues Lee, 45, from London, was one of the four women to have the pioneering dual procedure, which took surgeons about an hour to complete.\n\nShe was awake for the entire operation, but had a spinal anaesthetic, meaning she felt no pain.\n\nHer operation in 2019, when she had just turned 41, was at the same time as the birth of her son - her second child.\n\nShe told BBC News: \"They handed him to me, so I had a cuddle with him - I think it was before they started on the next procedure. Then I passed him to my husband and they started the second part.\"\n\nExplaining what the procedure entails, Prof Rosenthal said: \"We lift the top of the uterus out of the abdomen to bring the tubes and ovaries out of the abdominal incision so they are easily accessible.\n\n\"The only real issue is that the blood vessels get much bigger in pregnancy so extra care has to be taken to avoid damaging them. We ligate or cauterise them very carefully.\"\n\nClaire says she knew she was at higher risk of ovarian cancer due to a gene she had inherited, and wanted to have the risk-reducing surgery as soon as possible after giving birth for the second time, knowing she had had all the children she wanted.\n\n\"I was looking up online how quickly I could have the surgery after giving birth, and I came across the combined surgery as the first case had just been done. So I wanted to know if it would be possible for me.\"\n\nShe says she has no regrets about the surgery. \"It saved me having to go into surgery twice...and the worry - this cloud of fear that I would get ovarian cancer.\"\n\nShe had her daughter by Caesarean too, and says the recovery and experience with her son was \"no different really\".\n\n\"It's probably the best decision I've made, simply because I didn't have to take out more time away from my children to go in for another procedure.\n\n\"Why would I put myself through two surgeries when I could have everything done all at once and then I heal?\"\n\nA woman who inherits a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene variant has an increased risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer during her lifetime.\n\nIt is not inevitable that she will get cancer, but her odds are higher than average.\n\nThere is a one-in-two, or 50-50, chance she will pass the variant to each of her children.\n\nClaire says she discovered that she had the BRCA2 variant when she was 36.\n\n\"I had just got married. I started to look at what my options were.\n\n\"It was quite scary. You sail through life thinking everything is fine... then all of a sudden this thing hits you in the face. You've got this gene and it means you are at a higher risk for cancer.\"\n\nClaire has also had a double mastectomy to reduce her risk of getting breast cancer.\n\nShe says when her children grow up they will be able to chose whether or not to get tested for the gene. \"With all the luck in the world hopefully neither of them have it, but if they do, then they have choices.\"\n\nAthena Lamnisos, from The Eve Appeal charity which works to raise awareness about women's cancers, said: \"These case studies tell a powerful story about what preventative surgery can deliver for women at high risk of ovarian cancer.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Two singles from Jung Kook's album have already gone into the UK top 10\n\nBTS star Jung Kook's first solo album has been met with praise by critics, with one calling him \"a new pop king\" and another calling it \"pop bliss\".\n\nThe South Korean singer, 26, is performing alone while some of the older band members do military service.\n\nHis album Golden is sung in English and includes collaborations with Ed Sheeran, Latto and Shawn Mendes.\n\nUSA Today's Jennifer McClellan showered praise on Golden, saying he's \"punched his ticket to pop superstardom\".\n\nShe wrote: \"Sure, as a member of BTS he had already reached pinnacles of fame most could only imagine. Yet he was one of seven in a group that, however talented, ruled within the realm of K-pop.\n\nAs the youngest member of BTS, Jung Kook has been a star since the age of 15\n\nNME's Rhian Daly declared that Golden \"more than secures him the throne\" as this decade's pop king.\n\n\"So far, the 2020s have been lacking one huge male solo star that reigns over the pop world but, with Golden, BTS's Jungkook proves he's more than up to the task,\" she said.\n\n\"For the most part, Golden works and achieves exactly what its mission seemingly is - capture Jungkook's multifaceted artistry, charismatic vocals and irresistible pop appeal in 10 easily palatable songs primed for commercial success.\"\n\nThe Associated Press's Maria Sherman also praised the album, saying: \"The heavily Anglophonic Golden, a reference to his nickname of 'the golden maknae,' (golden youngest in Korean), is one of the strongest pop debuts of the year, a direct reflection of his love of retro-pop sounds...\n\n\"Across this release, Jung Kook demonstrates a deep understanding of pop performance - and how, in the modern era, that requires innovative collaborations, heavily featured throughout his solo album,\" she added.\n\nThe i newspaper's Ed Power said the \"BTS heartthrob is part Ronan Keating, part Craig David - and it's a triumph\".\n\nBTS are the most successful group to emerge from South Korea\n\n\"The biggest surprise is mega-hit Seven,\" Power continued.\n\n\"It has smashed records by overtaking Miley Cyrus's Flowers to become the fastest release in history to clock up one billion Spotify plays. Popularity aside, its most striking quality, however, is the extent to which it worships at the altar of Craig David's 7 Days.\n\n\"Then, when you think he's going to croon, 'we chill on Sunday', he swerves into a chorus so rude, sensitive listeners will require a lie-down.\"\n\nThe Standard's David Smyth commented that \"as the baby of the group, vastly famous since the age of 15, he's in a great position for further success.\" Justin Timberlake, Harry Styles and Robbie Williams were also the youngest members of their boy bands, he noted.\n\nThere are \"a lot of boxes are ticked for pop lovers\", he added. \"What elevates it is his fluid, expressive voice, which consistently raises chart-friendly material to a higher plane.\"\n\nThe Guardian's Alexis Petridis was more lukewarm, saying Jung Kook \"follows a well-worn path from boyband member to solo star, plunging into competent pop-R&B\".\n\n\"It's well-made, hooky - but nevertheless, Golden is an album bound to leave more agnostic listeners pondering what the fuss is about. If you detach the music from the pop world that spawned it... it just sounds like decent mainstream pop,\" he wrote.\n\nBTS have become a global sensation since their debut 10 years ago, and are credited with helping to boost the profile of Korean culture worldwide.\n\nThey were the first Korean act to score a chart-topping album in the UK, and were previously named the world's best-selling artists, beating the likes of Taylor Swift and Adele.\n\nTheir management have said BTS members expect to reform \"around 2025\" after fulfilling their military service duties.", "The signed top is expected to fetch up to £80,000\n\nThe shirt worn by Sir Bobby Charlton in the 1966 World Cup semi-final is set to go under the hammer.\n\nThe signed top was worn by the football icon as he scored both goals in England's 2-1 win over Portugal on 26 July 1966.\n\nSir Bobby died on 21 October, aged 86, prompting tributes from across the sporting world.\n\nThe shirt is being sold by Derbyshire-based Hansons Auctioneers with a guide price of £50,000 to £80,000.\n\nSir Bobby Charlton scored both goals in England's 2-1 win over Portugal on 26 July 1966\n\nSir Bobby is considered one of the greatest footballers of all time, winning the World Cup, the European Cup - now the Champions League - the First Division, FA Cup and the Ballon d'Or.\n\nHe died last month after a fall at a Cheshire care home, an inquest heard.\n\nDavid Wilson-Turner, head of sports memorabilia at Etwall-based Hansons, said: \"It marks a magical moment in sporting history, the one and only time England have won the World Cup.\n\n\"The shirt was originally donated by Sir Bobby to a charity auction after the 1966 World Cup.\n\n\"He autographed it, personally dedicated it to the successful bidder and confirmed he wore the shirt in the game against Portugal.\"\n\nThe shirt was later purchased by a West Midlands man who won the Littlewoods Pools in the early 1990s, Hansons said.\n\nIt was bought for £9,200 - equivalent to about £20,000 today - at a London auction in 2000, where it had an estimate of between £10,000 and £15,000.\n\nThe auction is due to take place on 14 November.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "We've just heard from our correspondent Anthony Zurcher in Ireland, where the US secretary of state's plane is refuelling on the way to Israel.\n\nHis arrival come just hours after the country's president, Michael D Higgins, made a vocal intervention warning against the \"collective punishment\" of people living in Gaza.\n\nHiggins called on the European Union and the broader international community to put an end to the conflict, saying they have a responsibility of upholding and vindicating international law.\n\n\"The ongoing horrific loss of civilian life in Gaza and Israel has to be addressed,\" Higgins said in a statement. \"When it comes to the protection of children, no other issues should stand in the way for even a minute.\"\n\nHis statement criticised the targeting of hospitals in particular, saying it is \"simply unacceptable that hospitals and those being cared for within them are threatened by the basic lack of resources, damaged or indeed threatened with destruction\".\n\nHe concluded that if the world is to move past this conflict, a consistent, diverse body of proposals on the region's future should be put forward.\n\nThe proposals, he says, are \"ones that can deliver a reasonable security to citizens of Israel, and at the same time achieve the delivery of the long-neglected rights of the Palestinian people\".", "The UN warns that its facilities housing displaced Gazans are becoming overcrowded Image caption: The UN warns that its facilities housing displaced Gazans are becoming overcrowded\n\nWe're pausing our live coverage for the next few hours, so until then here's where things stand in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.\n\nThe US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to Turkey on Sunday, as he continues his diplomatic push.\n\nHe's been working with leaders in the region on a so-called humanitarian pause in the fighting, and we heard from President Joe Biden on Saturday who suggested there had been some progress on the issues.\n\nArab countries have been demanding an immediate ceasefire, but the US is worried that this would allow Hamas to regroup.\n\nMeanwhile, Israeli forces are pushing deeper and deeper into Gaza City. Israel said the main road south from Gaza City would be open for three hours on Saturday to let anyone wanting to leave. But the army accused Hamas of trying to stop people from leaving .\n\nWe've had an update from the UN on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. It says there are nearly 1.5 million displaced in the territory, with more than 700,000 sheltering in UN facilities. It warns that these are becoming overcrowded - adding to health risks for the population – and its sites in the south of the territory are now over capacity\n\nThere have been problems at the Rafah crossing into Egypt - the only way out of Gaza - with reports saying that foreign nationals were not being allowed to leave the territory. Hamas was reportedly asking for more wounded people to leave before more foreigners could leave.", "Perry turned his home into Perry House, a men's sober living facility, in 2012\n\nA foundation has been set up in the name of late actor Matthew Perry to help those struggling with addiction.\n\nPerry, who was best known for playing Chandler in TV sitcom Friends, died last weekend at the age of 54.\n\nThe star battled addictions to alcohol and drugs for much of his adult life.\n\nA statement from the Matthew Perry Foundation said it was \"the realisation of Matthew's enduring commitment to helping others struggling with the disease of addiction\".\n\nIt added: \"In the spirit of Matthew Perry's enduring commitment to helping others struggling with the disease of addiction, we embark on a journey to honour his legacy by establishing the Matthew Perry Foundation, guided by his own words and experiences, and driven by his passion for making a difference in as many lives as possible.\"\n\nThe foundation's website also features one of Perry's quotes, which has been widely circulated since his death.\n\n\"When I die, I don't want Friends to be the first thing that's mentioned,\" he said last year. \"I want helping others to be the first thing that's mentioned. And I'm going to live the rest of my life proving that.\"\n\nIt also has another quote from his 2022 memoir: \"Addiction is far too powerful for anyone to defeat alone. But together, one day at a time, we can beat it down.\"\n\nA spokesman for the National Philanthropic Trust, which helps not-for-profit organisations raise money, confirmed it was managing the new fund.\n\nPerry's funeral is understood to have taken place in Los Angeles on Friday with US reports saying his Friends co-stars David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow were all in attendance.\n\nFriends co-creator Marta Kauffman said helping other addicts \"gave him purpose\"\n\nPerry was found dead in a hot tub in his Los Angeles home on 28 October. A post mortem examination was inconclusive and officials are awaiting the results of toxicology tests.\n\nFriends co-creator Marta Kauffman said she spoke to him two weeks ago and he was \"in a really good place, which is why this seems so unfair\".\n\nShe told NBC's Today show: \"He wanted to help other addicts and it gave him purpose.\"\n\nFriends co-creator David Crane agreed that helping other addicts \"absolutely became his purpose, his reason for being\".\n\nPerry turned his $10m Malibu beach compound into Perry House, a men's sober living facility, in 2012, and the project received an award from the White House the following year.\n\nHe sold it two years later but said he was still committed to providing services for recovering addicts.\n\nDavid Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow said they were \"utterly devastated\"\n\nOthers paying tribute in recent days have included fellow actor Hank Azaria, who said Perry had been like a \"brother\" and helped him stop drinking.\n\nIn a video posted on Instagram, he said: \"The night I went into AA [Alcoholics Anonymous], Matthew brought me in.\n\n\"The whole first year I was sober, we went to meetings together and he was such a great... I got to tell him this. As a sober person he was so caring and giving and wise and he totally helped me get sober.\"\n\nIn a joint statement released on Monday, Perry's five Friends co-stars said they were \"all so utterly devastated\" by the news of his death.", "Tech billionaire Elon Musk has predicted that artificial intelligence will eventually mean that no one will have to work.\n\nHe was speaking to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during an unusual \"in conversation\" event at the end of this week's summit on AI.\n\nThe 50-minute interview included a prediction by Mr Musk that the tech will make paid work redundant.\n\nHe also warned of humanoid robots that \"can chase you anywhere\".\n\nThe pair talked about how London was a leading hub for the AI industry and how the technology could transform learning.\n\nBut the chat took some darker turns too, with Mr Sunak recognising the \"anxiety\" people have about jobs being replaced, and the pair agreeing on the need for a \"referee\" to keep an eye on the super-computers of the future.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Billionaire Elon Musk tells the British prime minister that AI will be smarter than the smartest human\n\nTech investor and inventor Mr Musk has put money into AI firms and has employed the technology in his driverless Tesla cars - but he's also on the record about his fears it could threaten society and human existence itself.\n\n\"There is a safety concern, especially with humanoid robots - at least a car can't chase you into a building or up a tree,\" he told the audience.\n\nMr Sunak - who is keen to see investment in the UK's growing tech industry - replied: \"You're not selling this.\"\n\nIt's not every day you see the prime minister of a country interviewing a businessman like this, but Mr Sunak seemed happy to play host to his famous guest.\n\nAnd if he seemed like he was enjoying it, it should be no surprise - he previously lived in California, home to Silicon Valley, and his love of all things tech is well-documented.\n\nIn a hall that size, Mr Musk was difficult to hear and mumbled through his elaborate musings about the future, but refrained from any off-the-cuff remarks that might have caused Downing Street embarrassment.\n\nThe event was held in front of invited guests from the tech industry in a lavish hall in central London's Lancaster House.\n\nUnusually for an event involving the prime minister, TV cameras were not allowed inside, with Downing Street instead releasing their own footage.\n\nSome reporters were allowed to observe - but told they could not ask questions.\n\nThe pair discussed the potential benefits of AI, with Mr Musk saying: \"One of my sons has trouble making friends and an AI friend would be great for him.\"\n\nThere was also agreement on the possibilities AI presents for young people's learning, with Mr Musk saying it could be \"the best and most patient tutor\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ‘Like having a very smart friend’: Musk on impact of AI\n\nBut there was a stark warning on the potentially ruinous impact it could have on traditional jobs.\n\n\"We are seeing the most disruptive force in history here,\" Mr Musk said, before speculating: \"There will come a point where no job is needed - you can have a job if you want one for personal satisfaction but AI will do everything.\n\n\"It's both good and bad - one of the challenges in the future will be how do we find meaning in life.\"\n\nAmid all the philosophising, there was little in the way of new announcements about how the technology will be employed and regulated in the UK - aside from the prime minister's promise that AI could be used to improve the government's own website.\n\nMr Musk was one of the star guests at this week's summit - but it briefly looked like the event with Mr Sunak might be a little overshadowed.\n\nHours before it was due to begin, Mr Musk took to his own website X, formerly known as Twitter, to take a swipe at the summit.\n\nAs Mr Sunak was on his feet giving his final press conference at Bletchley Park, Mr Musk shared a cartoon parodying an \"AI Safety Summit\".\n\nIt depicted caricatures representing the UK, European Union, China and the US with speech bubbles reading \"We declare that AI posses a potentially catastrophic risk to humankind\" - while their thought bubbles read \"And I cannot wait to develop it first\".\n\nBut in the end, the pair appeared at ease together, and Mr Sunak in particular looked in his element - perhaps even slightly bowled over by the controversial billionaire, who he called a \"brilliant innovator and technologist\".\n\nFrom the cheap seats behind the dignitaries of the tech world, it was hard to put your finger on who was really the powerful one out of this pair.\n\nWas it Mr Sunak as he asked the celeb tech billionaire questions? Or was it Mr Musk, who did much of the talking?\n\nEither way, both men hope to have a say in whatever our AI future has in store for us.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nand get BBC News in your inbox.", "Erin Patterson has been charged with three counts of murder and five of attempted murder\n\nAn Australian woman charged with murdering three people in a suspected mushroom poisoning case is also accused of trying to murder her ex-partner on four occasions, court documents say.\n\nErin Patterson, 49, was charged with three counts of murder and five of attempted murder on Thursday.\n\nThe murder charges relate to a family lunch she hosted in July at her home in the town of Leongatha, Victoria.\n\nShe appeared briefly in court on Friday, where her case was adjourned until 3 May to give prosecutors time to analyse computer equipment seized from her home during a police search. She did not apply for bail.\n\nAbout half a dozen TV crews were lined up outside the hearing in the small town of Morwell, about 60km (37 miles) from Leongatha.\n\nBut for the cameras and curious locals there was no glimpse of Ms Patterson, who was moved from her overnight police cell into the court building via a connecting tunnel.\n\nIn court documents released to local media on Friday, police allege Ms Patterson attempted to kill her estranged husband Simon Patterson three times between November 2021 and September 2022.\n\nThe alleged fourth attempt was on the day she served a beef Wellington lunch to his parents Gail and Don Patterson, aunt Heather Wilkinson and her husband Ian Wilkinson. Simon Patterson did not attend the meal.\n\nErin Patterson has said she made the dish using a mixture of button mushrooms bought from a supermarket, and dried mushrooms purchased at an Asian grocery months earlier.\n\nAll four of her guests were later taken to hospital reporting violent illness, police say.\n\nWithin days the Patterson couple, both 70, and Ms Wilkinson, 66, had died. Mr Wilkinson, 68, was taken to hospital in a critical condition but later recovered.\n\nPolice say they believe the four ate death cap mushrooms - which are highly lethal if ingested.\n\nMs Patterson was named as a suspect after she and her two children appeared unharmed after the lunch.\n\nBut she maintains she never intended to poison her guests and says that she herself was taken to hospital after the meal and given medication to guard against liver damage.\n\n\"I am now devastated to think that these mushrooms may have contributed to the illness suffered by my loved ones,\" she wrote in a statement in August.\n\nPolice have stressed the complexity of the case, describing it as a tragedy that may \"reverberate for years to come\".\n\n\"I cannot think of another investigation that has generated this level of media and public interest, not only here in Victoria, but also nationally and internationally,\" Homicide squad Inspector Dean Thomas said on Thursday.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "An artist's impression of the \"fair-haired attacker\", Matthew White and a police e-fit\n\nThe most notorious racist murder in British history has never been fully solved, but everyone thinks they know who attacked Stephen Lawrence.\n\nDavid Norris and Gary Dobson were convicted of murder a decade ago. Luke Knight and brothers Neil and Jamie Acourt have been suspects for 30 years. All three have denied being involved. Neil Acourt and Knight were acquitted of murder in 1996.\n\nDuwayne Brooks, who was with Stephen on the night of 22 April 1993, said there were six attackers. His descriptions of the man who led the attack and first struck Stephen - along with other eyewitness accounts - do not match the appearances of the five main suspects.\n\nWho was the mystery figure?\n\nAfter the Met stopped looking into Stephen's murder three years ago, I decided to investigate myself.\n\nThe BBC can now name a sixth suspect - Matthew White.\n\nI traced witnesses, saw police documents, and uncovered new evidence that shows how officers mishandled investigations relating to White.\n\nThe BBC has found that witnesses told detectives White had said he was present during the attack, and has uncovered evidence that shows his alibi was false. For the first time, police surveillance photos from 1993 are published, in which White is depicted bearing a striking resemblance to eyewitness descriptions of the unidentified attacker.\n\nBut at key moments the police failed to pull together all these pieces of evidence on White.\n\nResponding to the BBC's revelations, Baroness Doreen Lawrence, Stephen's mother, said it was \"infuriating\" that the man said to have led the attack on her son had evaded justice due to police failings, but not a single officer had faced consequences.\n\nShe said: \"The failure to properly investigate a main suspect in a murder case is so grave that it should be met by serious sanctions. Only when police officers lose their jobs can the public have confidence that failure and incompetence will not be tolerated and that change will happen.\"\n\nLike the five original five prime suspects, Matthew White has been in the case since the start. For years he was a witness, not a suspect, and known publicly as Witness K.\n\nAfter the murder, detectives heard White had been in the local area on the night of murder, and had interacted with various people. They were also told he had been at the home of two of the suspects that night, and less than two weeks into their inquiries, officers spoke to him.\n\nIn his witness statement, he said he had visited the home of Neil and Jamie Acourt about an hour after the murder, briefly seeing the brothers and Gary Dobson at the front door.\n\nWhat became the accepted narrative was that White, after hearing about the stabbing from someone who had passed by in the aftermath, brought news of the incident to the suspects and others.\n\nHe stated he had been on Well Hall Road and \"saw a lot of police around\" before going to the Acourts' house.\n\n\"Jamie, Neil and Gary Dobson came to the door and I said, 'Someone's been killed, stabbed up Well Hall', and they said, 'It weren't us'.\"\n\nIn 1999, the five men were interviewed separately on an ITV programme. Dobson and the Acourts gave inconsistent accounts of how they had first heard about the attack.\n\nGary Dobson said he had found out by a conversation at the door that involved a visitor - meaning White - saying a boy had been murdered. Neil Acourt said he had heard about a stabbing, not a murder, from the same visitor.\n\nJamie Acourt said he had first heard \"on the news\" the next day.\n\nBut in 1993, it should have been clear that White had a bigger role in the case than first thought. The Met was later warned about this by another police force.\n\nThe five suspects gave evidence to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry in 1998 - pictured Jamie and Neil Acourt (front), David Norris and Gary Dobson\n\nIn 1997, an independent investigation by Kent Police identified 11 lines of inquiry the Met had failed to follow. The BBC has discovered one of them was Matthew White.\n\nOfficers from the Kent Police operation, conducted on behalf of the police watchdog, asked senior Met detectives if they had checked whether White was there during the murder. Kent Police formally recommended that his role be fully investigated.\n\nBut the BBC has discovered that the recommendation was not properly followed.\n\nThe police failures regarding Matthew White started from the beginning.\n\nThe BBC can reveal that in 1993, a crucial lead was buried, and only discovered 20 years later.\n\nIn 2006 Det Ch Insp Clive Driscoll took over the murder investigation. After a forensic breakthrough, his team secured the convictions of Dobson and Norris in 2012.\n\nGary Dobson (left) and David Norris were jailed in 2012 for the murder of Stephen Lawrence\n\nDriscoll told the BBC that the day after the convictions, his superior officer Cressida Dick suggested he shouldn't bother going after the other suspects, even though the trial judge had urged police to pursue them.\n\nCressida Dick did not respond to the BBC request for comment.\n\n\"There is no doubt that there wasn't the enthusiasm to carry on,\" said Driscoll. The \"Sword of Damocles\" was hanging over the team, he added.\n\nOfficers began systematically reviewing information from the 1993 investigation, looking for new leads.\n\nThey rented a room in a pub, sitting together as they read through early internal police messages and actions, checking to see what had been done about each one.\n\nOne message from 1993 stated that White's stepfather had said his stepson may not have told police all he knew.\n\nThe BBC obtained the message, which corroborates what Driscoll remembers.\n\nThe source of the information was identified in the message as a Met detective, who was said to know the stepfather \"well\". Names were given for both of them. The detective was not part of the murder investigation.\n\nThe lead, however, seemed to have gone cold.\n\nSo, in 2013, officers from Driscoll's team visited the same man. He denied having spoken to an officer about White.\n\nBut Driscoll was not satisfied, so he visited the man himself, and quickly established the person in question was a different stepfather, a man called Jack Severs.\n\nMatthew White's mother had re-married twice after her relationship with White's father had ended.\n\nThe 1993 message had named the second stepfather, meaning later investigation teams were sent in the wrong direction.\n\nThe wrong stepfather's name did not come from the detective who contacted the murder investigation team. Instead, it came from the team itself. The fact that wrong information was entered into the system meant an important lead was buried.\n\nDriscoll located Jack Severs in 2013 and knocked on his door. Severs expressed surprise that it had taken two decades to be visited.\n\n\"You're rushing this job,\" Driscoll recalls him saying.\n\nWhat Severs disclosed was significant. He died in 2020 and to verify what he said, I gained access to a copy of his statement and interview.\n\nHe said that days after the murder, he saw White in the street in Eltham. White admitted being present during the attack and said Stephen deserved it. Severs said White had shown no emotion and had behaved like it was an \"everyday occurrence\".\n\nHe said White knew those involved but did not say their names. Severs had inferred from White that it was the prime suspects.\n\nHe told detectives he had not fallen out with White, whom he regarded as his son, and had no reason to lie about him.\n\nAccording to his statement, Severs said that in 1993 he had spoken to a Met detective he knew through the freemasons. It was the same detective named in the message I've seen.\n\nSevers said that as far as he was aware, the detective had been in touch with the Lawrence investigation team at the time.\n\nI located that detective, who has now retired.\n\nNew evidence about the murder of Stephen Lawrence, uncovered by BBC investigative reporter, Daniel De Simone.\n\nHe confirmed Jack Severs approached him 30 years ago saying he had a relative with information about the murder, and that the relative had been there that night. The officer said he had passed information on to the homicide investigation.\n\nI have discovered that Det Supt Brian Weeden, who was leading the murder investigation at the time, knew about the lead. He was the senior investigating officer (SIO).\n\nHis own notebook, which the BBC has seen, proves it.\n\nWhen Weeden wrote down lists of leads, his habit was to include the name of the responsible officer at the start of each one. When he wrote down the one involving White's stepfather, he wrote \"SIO\" - a reference to himself.\n\nWeeden's notebook suggests a meeting was planned with White and his stepfather, but that never happened. It was two decades before the lead was followed up.\n\nIn response to our investigation, the Met accepted a \"significant and regrettable error\" had taken place in responding to White's stepfather.\n\nLord Sentamu, the former Archbishop of York who advised the 1998 Macpherson public inquiry into Stephen's murder, says the inquiry was \"misled\" as a result of Met's failure to provide accurate information about the lead on White.\n\nHe said the \"murder would have been resolved\" at the time had the Met done its job.\n\nIn 2013 Driscoll arrested White, who refused to answer questions. The detective was unable to complete the investigation as he was asked to retire weeks later.\n\nJack Severs' wasn't the only witness to have told officers that White had admitted being present during the attack. During a vast re-investigation into Stephen's murder, which began in 1999, there was an opportunity to put together two independent accounts describing admissions by White.\n\nI've seen documents showing one of the investigation's core goals was to pursue lines of inquiry identified in 1997 by Kent Police as having been missed or ignored by the Met. One of them was Matthew White.\n\nI have also seen statements from the time given by a man we are calling Witness Purple. He gave police detailed accounts of White confessing to having been at the scene of the murder and having taken part in the violence.\n\nHe said White had named the others involved as Norris, Dobson, Knight, and the Acourt brothers.\n\nBoth Neil (left) and Jamie Acourt have served time in prison for drug offences\n\nWitness Purple said he had spoken to White soon after the murder and that White had told him, \"We've done some black kids up the road\".\n\nWitness Purple said: \"Matty had shouted something out to them, they'd shouted something back and that Matty run over to give them a dig or something and everyone else run over there and piled in.\n\n\"Matty went to put the boot in and then the others done him up like a kipper.\"\n\nWhite was quoted by Witness Purple saying that Norris and Neil Acourt had \"started getting silly with a knife, stabbing and cutting him [Stephen Lawrence]\".\n\nWitness Purple said White had visited the Acourts' house later that night to warn them Stephen died, after walking back to the scene and seeing the emergency service response.\n\nWitness Purple's description of what White told him tallies with the first account by Duwayne Brooks of the lead attacker, most notably that he had shouted at them, ran ahead of the other attackers, and struck Stephen first.\n\nBrooks said that he and Stephen waited some time for a bus, and then moved away from the bus stop, to see if they could spot a bus coming in the distance.\n\nThey were slightly apart and calling to one another, when a group of young white men emerged on the opposite side of the road. As if in response to those calls, Duwayne Brooks said he heard someone shout \"what, what\" followed by a racial slur. He thought the man who shouted was the one who then led the group across the road.\n\nHe said the man appeared to be holding a long-ish item - such as an iron bar or rounders bat.\n\nWitness Purple said White later described himself as \"the lucky one\" because he started the attack and his name was never mentioned.\n\nThe witness also said White admitted disposing of evidence.\n\nAs Witness Purple was giving his statements, White would be arrested and brought in for questioning. Officers had told White the name of the person who was saying things about him, and they simply read out Witness Purple's statements to him. This happened a number of times, and on each occasion White said nothing beyond denying involvement and was released.\n\nOther witnesses who heard White speak that night did not tell police the same things as Witness Purple. However, their accounts were inconsistent, and one told officers in 1993 that he feared White and the Acourt brothers.\n\nClive Driscoll told the BBC: \"People often said to me, there was a wall of silence. There was never a wall of silence. There was a wall of fear, though. And so if you were going to alert everybody, that this bloke has talked to the old bill, you are effectively, alerting the bad guys… and that cannot be good police work.\"\n\nHad officers interrogated information on White in their own database, they could have been led back to his stepfather - a credible witness who would also have said White admitted to being at the murder scene.\n\nThe BBC investigation has found that, at the time of the murder, White looked similar to the unidentified suspect known as the \"fair-haired attacker\".\n\nNone of the five prime suspects matched the description of that person.\n\nThe artist's impression of the \"fair-haired attacker\" bears a striking resemblance to Matthew White\n\nThe BBC has seen surveillance photographs, taken within a fortnight of the murder, which snapped White coming out of a house that was being watched. With his bushy brown hair, he looks strikingly like the person described by Duwayne Brooks.\n\nThe first account by Stephen's friend - given within 80 minutes of the attack - was recorded in a police officer's notebook. Brooks said he could only really describe one of the six attackers - the person who struck Stephen first, after leading the others across the road. This person had hair that was \"bushy light brown\" and \"stuck out\".\n\nSoon afterwards, Brooks spoke to the first SIO on the case, Det Supt Ian Crampton, who later recalled him having described the attacker's hair as \"bushy\" and \"brown\".\n\nIn Brooks' full statement later that night, it stated that the attacker's hair was \"long, over his ears and it was frizzy and stuck out at the sides\". Brooks said the man was aged 18 to 22.\n\nThe Met failed to include the light brown hair colour in that statement.\n\nThe colour description was not shared with the full team, and it was years before the first notebook description was even known to some senior officers.\n\nWhen Brooks later compiled a digital image of the man, he described the hair as \"very light brown, fairly long, covered ears\". Despite this, the Met created a digital image with peroxide blonde hair.\n\nDuwayne Brooks (L) with Stephen Lawrence's father Neville outside the High Court in London in 2015\n\nOther eyewitnesses to the attack also spoke about the lead attacker's hair.\n\nOne of those at the bus stop said in a statement: \"The white boys who came across the road were running together in a group. Of this group there was a man with fairish hair to the front of the group.\"\n\nAnother eyewitness, also at the bus stop, described one of the attackers as having \"medium length fair hair which was frizzy\".\n\nThe day after the murder, officers involved in house-to-house inquiries appear to have received a briefing that included Brooks' description - as one of them made a note saying \"brown bushy hair\" alongside other relevant information.\n\nWhen Det Supt Brian Weeden took over the case four days after the murder, he received a briefing from the man who had led the investigation until then.\n\nA note by Weeden of the briefing said only the following in relation to planned surveillance on the prime suspects: \"Photos, is there a guy with frizzy hair?\" This was a reference to the lead attacker described by Brooks and others.\n\nBut the description was not shared with the full team.\n\nIn the same week the surveillance images of Matthew White were taken, artists' impressions and e-fits were created bearing a resemblance to him.\n\nAn e-fit image, based on witness descriptions, looks similar to Matthew White photographed a fortnight after the murder\n\nOfficers also came face-to-face with White. He spoke to them as a witness. In a section of White's witness statement, one officer even recorded White's hair as being \"blonde/fair\".\n\nThe 1999 Macpherson inquiry report noted: \"None of the five suspects appear to have had fair or light brown hair.\"\n\nIt concluded: \"There was no co-ordination or analysis of the various descriptions given. The fact that one of the attackers was fair-haired should have been reflected in decisions made as to the elimination of suspects.\"\n\nWhite gave witness statements in 1993 and 1999. He lied in both and - based on my own investigation - it seems the Met have not looked into his alibi for many years.\n\nIn 1993, White told Det Sgt John Davidson that, on the night of the murder, he was with friends in Eltham \"when I was told there had been a stabbing up Well Hall\". That was untrue, as White told those people about the attack.\n\nIn his statement six years later, White told police he had been with a friend that night.\n\nI contacted the friend named on the statement - an alibi witness for White - by phone. He refused to answer, but briefly engaged with me by text. He said that one, Neil Acourt, was his \"childhood friend and family\". He then went quiet.\n\nBut White's account was contradicted by other witnesses who saw him alone minutes after the murder - and close to the scene. It meant the friend, whom he would later say he had been with, could not have been with him all night.\n\nOne witness - referred to by police as Witness B - told officers he spoke to White shortly before 23:00, after getting off a bus. White, he said, was already aware of an incident nearby. The attack took place around 22:40.\n\nAnd then, there were the Kavanagh sisters - Kelly and Louise.\n\nPublic narratives of the Lawrence case have included a version of events stating that White - referred to as Witness K - heard about the stabbing from Louise Kavanagh outside her family home.\n\nLouise was said to have passed the early aftermath of Stephen's murder while driving home with sister Kelly. White was then said to have walked past the Kavanagh home just as the sisters arrived - where Louise had told him about what had happened on Well Hall Road. This was Louise's story when she spoke to the police.\n\nThis brief meeting supposedly was the moment when White learned of the attack for the first time - and how he was then able to spread the word himself.\n\nLouise Kavanagh died in 2016, but I tracked down Kelly to check her version of events. She told me that the public version of the story was untrue.\n\nLouise, she said, had not been in the car with her that night.\n\nKelly told me that, instead, it had been White who told Louise about the stabbing - a few yards down the road from where Witness B had seen him, and at roughly the same time. White had stopped to talk to Louise - and had been moving away from the direction of the attack.\n\nWhen Kelly had pulled up in the car, White - she said - had then moved off leaving Louise to explain how a \"black boy\" had been stabbed up the road. Kelly says that when she asked Louise how she knew, her sister said that White had told her.\n\nAt that point in time, White could only have known it was a stabbing if he had been present or spoken to one of those responsible within minutes of the late night attack. At that time, the fact it was a stabbing was not even known to Duwayne Brooks and the officer who had got there first.\n\nKelly told me she had not previously told the correct version of events in order to protect her sister.\n\nOne of the major controversies at the Macpherson Inquiry in 1998 was the Met's early handling of a key informant in the case.\n\nThat informant's source was Matthew White, whom he was friends with.\n\nI have re-investigated the issue in light of the new evidence about White.\n\nThe day after the murder, a man walked into a south-east London police station and provided significant information about the crime. Police gave him an alias - James Grant.\n\nHe seemed to know much about what had happened on Well Hall Road.\n\nThe bus stop where Stephen Lawrence and Duwayne Brooks waited on 22 April 1993 (photo from 2012)\n\nThe information Grant told police in 1993 implicated the Acourt brothers, Norris and Dobson. One officer, Det Sgt Davidson, recorded Grant as saying that Norris and Neil Acourt had stabbed Stephen - and even gave details about the location of the wounds.\n\nGrant was also recorded saying a \"fifth blonde unknown kid\" had been involved. Was this the fair-haired attacker?\n\nDet Sgt Davidson said he registered Grant as a police informant with a senior officer. That officer later denied this ever happened.\n\nAll records relating to Grant - except for three brief internal messages - vanished without explanation.\n\nDuring the Macpherson inquiry, Davidson and other officers denied knowing the identity of James Grant's original source. Davidson said Grant had refused to reveal it, and the inquiry concluded he had not been told.\n\nBut Grant told other police teams that his source was Matthew White.\n\nIn 1995, officers from the Met's second Lawrence investigation ran into James Grant and Matthew White together.\n\nWhen the officers visited Grant alone, he was recorded saying the source of \"all he knew about the murder\" was White, but he did not place White at the scene.\n\nBut in 1997, the Kent Police investigation also spoke to Grant. He told Kent officers he had revealed to Det Sgt Davidson the identity of his source at an early stage.\n\nKent Police asked senior members of the original murder team - including SIO Brian Weeden - what they had done to \"reassure\" themselves that White had not been present during the murder.\n\nWeeden's deputy replied: \"I can't really answer that. I didn't think after those lines.\"\n\nIt was those interviews with senior officers, and the lack of answers, that prompted Kent Police to formally recommend the Met investigate White.\n\nThe Macpherson inquiry's final report said that Grant's information \"might have provided the key to the solution of the case in quick time. This was because James Grant's source was close to the suspects, if he was not involved with them himself.\"\n\nI have established that in 1993 James Grant had a reason to dislike the Acourts and Norris, details of which cannot be disclosed, but he had no such animus against Matthew White.\n\nWhen I located Grant and asked him about White, he became agitated, denied knowing him, and walked away.\n\nMatthew White, who could have helped solve the case, died in 2021.\n\nHe was a drug user at the time of Stephen's murder in 1993 and later became a heroin addict. Over the years, White had brief periods of employment as a scaffolder and gardener. He also had a history of theft and spent time in prison.\n\nWhite threatened to \"Stephen Lawrence\" a black shop worker during an assault in 2020, on Well Hall Road in Eltham\n\nI found his last criminal conviction was an assault in summer 2020 in a shop on Well Hall Road, Eltham - the same street where Stephen Lawrence was murdered.\n\nI located the victim, a black man who had not previously known about White's connection to the Lawrence case.\n\nHe described challenging White - a shoplifter - after he entered the premises, leading to a confrontation.\n\nWhite then assaulted the victim, made threatening and knowing references to Stephen Lawrence, and referred to his associations with other violent people.\n\nWhite threatened him, saying, \"Remember you're in Eltham, remember where you are, remember what happened to Stephen Lawrence. I can call my boys, they can come down and they can deal with you.\"\n\nHe says White mentioned Stephen Lawrence \"in almost in every threat\" - at least eight or nine times - and referenced that it happened at the nearby bus stop.\n\nWhite said the victim would be \"Stephen Lawrenced\" and then attacked him.\n\nPolice were called and White was arrested. He pleaded guilty in court to assault. The victim first heard about the conviction from me.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the Met apologised for not informing the victim that charges had been brought.\n\nA month after the assault, Scotland Yard stopped investigating Stephen's murder, with the Commissioner Cressida Dick saying there were no viable lines of inquiry.\n\nHis inquest heard his body was not found for several days and the cause of death could not be established. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances. White had been suicidal, overdosed by accident in the recent past, and had health problems linked to his drug use.\n\nA statement about his life was read by the coroner. It was written by a relative of White.\n\nDuring the inquest there was no overt mention of White's status in the Stephen Lawrence investigation, but the relative's statement included a cryptic one-sentence summary of his life: \"Matthew was a lovely lad that happened to go to the wrong place at the wrong time\".\n\nThe BBC put its evidence to the Met Police. In response, the force has taken the almost unprecedented step of naming Matthew White as a suspect, and setting out details about its investigations into him.\n\nThe force said White was arrested and interviewed in 2000 and 2013, with files submitted to prosecutors in 2005 and 2014.\n\nOn both occasions the Crown Prosecution Service advised there was no realistic prospect of conviction of White for any offence, the Met said.\n\nThe force said Matthew White was seen again in 2020, but there was insufficient witness or forensic evidence to progress further.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward said: \"Unfortunately, too many mistakes were made in the initial investigation and the impact of them continues to be seen.\n\n\"On the 30th anniversary of Stephen's murder, Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley apologised for our failings and I repeat that apology today.\"\n\nIf you have information about this story that you would like to share with BBC News' Stephen Lawrence investigation please get in touch. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The airport confirmed that cars on the inner levels cannot be recovered\n\nThe car park that caught fire at Luton Airport will have to be \"fully demolished\", the airport confirmed.\n\nThe fire broke out on level three of Terminal Car Park 2 on 10 October and was thought to have started in a diesel car before spreading rapidly.\n\nThe airport said any cars parked on levels ground to three \"are not recoverable\".\n\nHowever a process is still \"ongoing\" to remove around 100 vehicles from the top deck.\n\nNeil Thompson, operations director at the airport, said: \"Regrettably, I can now confirm that, due to the extent of the structural damage, the car park will need to be fully demolished.\"\n\nCars from the top level are being removed to make the car park more stable\n\nThe decision was confirmed by a \"full structural report\".\n\nMr Thompson said removal of around 100 vehicles from the top deck was still under way \"to stabilise the structure\".\n\n\"This has been a painstaking task and has taken longer than expected, not least because we have been hampered by periods of bad weather and strong winds,\" he said.\n\nHe advised anybody who believed their car was on the top deck to contact their insurance companies, which were working to retrieve those vehicles.\n\nThe fire broke out at about 20:45 BST on 10 October at the Terminal Car Park 2 which is right next to the main terminal\n\n\"It is reassuring to note that the vast majority of insurance claims have been settled,\" Mr Thompson added.\n\n\"Customers who have yet to receive a final settlement are advised to contact their insurance company as soon as possible.\n\n\"On behalf of everyone at London Luton Airport, I would like to thank all affected customers for their patience and understanding as we have worked through this unprecedented situation.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US has confirmed for the first time that it has been flying unarmed surveillance drones over Gaza.\n\nPentagon spokesman Brig Gen Pat Ryder said the drones were operating in \"support of hostage recovery efforts\".\n\n\"These UAV flights began after the Oct 7 attack by Hamas on Israel,\" he said in a brief statement.\n\nThe acknowledgement comes after reporters spotted unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) on flight-tracking websites.\n\n\"The US is conducting unarmed UAV flights over Gaza, as well as providing advice and assistance to support our Israeli partner as they work on their hostage recovery efforts,\" the Pentagon's statement on Friday said.\n\nThe confirmation comes after reporters spotted MQ-9 Reapers, usually operated by American special forces, circling Gaza on Flightradar24, a publicly available flight-tracking website.\n\nReaper drones have previously been deployed to conduct airstrikes in Afghanistan, but are primarily used as surveillance aircraft because of their ability to \"loiter\" above an area for more than 20 hours at a time.\n\nUnnamed US military officials told the New York Times that the drones were not helping co-ordinate Israeli military action in and around Gaza. Officials told the newspaper that information related to hostage recovery was being passed on to the Israelis.\n\nThese are not the only remote-controlled American military vehicles operating in the region.\n\nOn Thursday, the US Navy announced that it had fired lethal munitions from an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) - a speed boat - in the international waters of the Arabian Sea.\n\nIn a statement, the Navy noted that the test on 23 October was the first time combat munitions had been fired from a USV in the Middle East.\n\nThe US Navy said the development brings American military capabilities in the region to the \"next level\".\n\nLast month, the US Navy said it had shot down multiple drones and rockets fired from Yemen that were appearing to head towards Israel.\n\nThe US has also sent two aircraft carriers to the eastern Mediterranean, saying that they are there to prevent the war between Hamas and Israel from spreading.\n\nIn a fiery speech on Friday, the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah warned the US against using the ships to attack the militant group.\n\n\"Your fleets in the Mediterranean do not scare us and will never scare us,\" said Hassan Nasrallah.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The storm caused damage to homes in St Clement, Jersey\n\nFamilies forced from their homes in Jersey during Storm Ciarán have been put up in hotels, as winds of more than 100mph left fallen trees, flooded roads and ripped roofs from homes.\n\nA tornado and strong winds battered the island overnight, with 40 people evacuated from their homes.\n\nHigh tide swells surged on Victoria Avenue amid road closures, shut schools and cancelled flights and ferries.\n\nThe government has assured residents medical supplies will remain available.\n\nThere had been some concerns supplies could start to run out with the island effectively cut off.\n\nCarl Walker, chairman of Jersey's Consumer Council, said Storm Ciarán hitting the island was like a \"scene from a disaster movie\".\n\nHe described \"marble-sized\" hailstones coming together to create \"golf ball sized lumps of ice\".\n\n\"We camped out in our living room downstairs with our children because it was just simply too noisy and too frightening to be upstairs in the bedrooms - tiles were lifting, debris was hitting the roof, windows were flexing,\" he added.\n\nThe Government of Jersey closed all its schools and colleges as the Met Office confirmed overnight wind speeds had hit 103mph (164km/h). They will remain closed on Friday as well.\n\nPolice in Jersey, meanwhile, said officers had received 107 emergency 999 calls and 270 non-emergency calls by 06:00 GMT.\n\nEmergency services and staff from Infrastructure and Environment worked through the night \"to answer hundreds of calls from islanders, with the vast majority related to storm damage\".\n\nCentenier Paul Davies, of the Honorary Police, said: \"It's very very busy, there's lots of roads closed off, trees down and we're trying to divert the traffic as best we can.\"\n\nAt 08:00, as the \"worst part of the storm\" hit the island, police urged people to stay in their homes as winds of 90mph (145km/h) wreaked havoc outside.\n\nConfirming about 600 islanders had lost power, Jersey Electricity said its teams were working to restore connections \"as soon as possible\", while Condor Ferries cancelled all its sailings for the day.\n\nResidents at FB Cottages in St Clement said about 12 homes had been damaged overnight, forcing them to seek shelter in their lounges.\n\nFlooding on the edge of St Helier\n\nPolice said there were \"lots of trees down island-wide\", including one that blocked Le Mont Fallu in St Peter, while the west coast was also battered.\n\nIslander Megan Williams said the \"swell was insane\" at Greve de Lecq, while another resident described Pier Road as \"wild and loud\" at about 08:30.\n\nThe government said the morning high tide had been 11.5m (37ft 7in), or 1.1m (3ft 6in) higher than had been predicted.\n\nWhile the coasts were battered by the sea the high winds caused inland\n\nResidents reported tiles being blown off, fences taken down and greenhouses smashed, while Mark Bailey-Walker, sergeant commander for Jersey Fire and Rescue Service, confirmed \"a lot of structural damage\" across the island.\n\nAt St Clements and FB Fields the roof of a padel court was blown off and goal posts pushed across FB Fields.\n\nTrees were down across the island\n\nBy lunchtime, winds had slowed to 50mph (80km/h), although a yellow warning for rain and wind remained in place until 17:00 GMT.\n\nFollow BBC Jersey on Twitter and Facebook. Send your story ideas to channel.islands@bbc.co.uk.", "Zara Aleena was injured 46 times in the attack\n\nA sexual predator who stalked and murdered Zara Aleena is set to challenge his sentence at the Court of Appeal.\n\nJordan McSweeney targeted at least five women before he attacked 35-year-old Ms Aleena as she walked home from a night out in east London on 26 June 2022.\n\nMcSweeney had been released from prison on licence nine days before the murder.\n\nHe was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 38 years after admitting murder and sexual assault.\n\nThe attack on Cranbrook Road in Ilford lasted nine minutes and resulted in 46 separate injuries to the law graduate.\n\nMcSweeney is set to challenge this sentence as \"manifestly excessive\" at the Court of Appeal on Friday morning.\n\nJordan McSweeney killed Ms Aleena nine days after being released from prison on licence\n\nThe Old Bailey heard that McSweeney failed to attend any meetings with probation workers after his release on 17 June last year, and his licence had been revoked.\n\nFollowing Ms Aleena's murder, chief inspector of probation Justin Russell highlighted errors in the Probation Service's handling of McSweeney's case, which meant he was not treated as a high-risk offender.\n\nHe described McSweeney as a \"career criminal\" who had been in and out of jail since the age of 16 and said that he \"should have been considered a high-risk-of-serious-harm offender\".\n\n\"If he had, more urgent action would have been taken to recall him to prison after he missed his supervision appointments on release from custody,\" Mr Russell said.\n\n\"The Probation Service failed to do so and he was free to commit this most heinous crime on an innocent young woman.\"\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents in Portadown return to see the damage to their homes\n\nWork has started to clear floodwater from Downpatrick after homes and businesses were damaged by heavy rain.\n\nThe Department for Infrastructure (DfI) said it needed water levels to drop in the River Quoile before pumps could be used to clear the water from the town centre.\n\nA number of towns in counties Down, Armagh and Antrim have been impacted by the downpours this week.\n\nHe added about 25 businesses around Market Street had been \"decimated\".\n\nEarlier, DfI said it understood how difficult the situation was for residents and businesses and \"we appreciate their patience as we work with partners to manage the situation\".\n\nThe department also said conditions in Portadown are expected to improve as the level of the River Bann falls.\n\nFirefighters and other agencies are attempting to clear extensive flooding in Downpatrick\n\nReporting from Downpatrick on Friday, BBC News NI south-east reporter Cormac Campbell said business owners were waiting \"to see what has become of their livelihoods\".\n\nIn Newry, he added: \"The floodwaters have receded from the Sugar Island area and the big clean up has begun, with the smell of spilled oil prevalent\".\n\nThe director of Downpatrick and County Down railway museum said the flood had been an \"absolute disaster\", which had left his site inaccessible to volunteers.\n\n\"In the 40 years we have been there, we have never seen anything remotely like this,\" Jonathan King told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme.\n\n\"The entire site is under water, between about one foot and five feet plus.\"\n\nMr King said he hoped there would be tailored financial support for charities as well as businesses.\n\n\"There's not much that anyone can do at the moment, I went up to the site this morning and I wasn't able to get anywhere near it at all.\"\n\nKaren Sherwin, whose family has had a florist business in Newry for 60 years, described it as a \"disaster zone\".\n\n\"We are on our hands and knees, the place is not even safe,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"There are electrics, there is oil, there is sludge, it is terrible. Every day I am closed, it is just heartbreaking.\"\n\nMs Sherwin said stock she ordered from the Netherlands for the shop in Sugar Island had to be sent back, following the flooding.\n\n\"It is a week old, it is no good to me, it is fresh produce, it is flowers, I just can't get over it.\"\n\nEamonn Connolly, Newry Business Improvement District Manager, told BBC News NI's Evening Extra programme he believed the damage caused to businesses from the flooding could run into millions of pounds.\n\nNewry Courthouse is set to reopen from Monday, according to the Department of Justice.\n\nIt was closed as a temporary measure due to severe flooding in the area.\n\nOctober 2023 was the wettest month ever in Armagh since records began in 1838, according to Armagh Observatory.\n\nThe grounds of Downpatrick Cricket Club were affected by the heavy rainfall\n\nA number of homes in the Portadown area of County Armagh have been damaged by flooding in recent days, with roads closed and transport services affected.\n\nBrendan McCann told BBC News NI his house had been left in \"a mess\".\n\nAmanda Best showed BBC News NI the damage caused to her house in Portadown as water was cleared out\n\n\"I don't know whether I'll ever be able to do anything with it or not or whether I'll be able to come back to it again or not,\" he said.\n\nAmanda Best, who has lived in her home for 30 years, said: \"You just come in and it's devastating\".\n\n\"I've never faced the like of this in my life,\" she explained.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Executive Office said on Friday a recovery sub-group has been established bringing together civil service departments and local government.\n\nIt said this would engage with businesses affected by the severe weather and keep political representatives informed.\n\n\"Departments are also exploring what financial support they could collectively provide as part of the overall response,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"An approach will be made to HM Government, through NIO (Northern Ireland Office), for financial assistance for impacted businesses.\"\n\nThe Department for Communities is providing emergency £1,000 payments for domestic properties which have been flooded.\n\nA Northern Ireland Office spokesperson said the UK government has been \"in close contact\" with the civil service and would continue to work with it closely \"in the days ahead\".", "Apple sales have continued to fall, despite strong demand for its iPhones and services like streaming platform Apple TV+.\n\nThe tech giant says revenues dipped 1% to $89.5bn (£73.3bn) in the three months to 30 September when compared with the same period last year.\n\nSales of its Mac computers and iPads struggled after a post-lockdown surge in interest.\n\nIt marks the fourth quarter in a row where sales have fallen year on year.\n\nIn an update to investors, the firm said that profits had reached $23bn, helped by a new record for iPhone sales in the three-month period.\n\nThe amount it took from services such as iCloud and Apple Music also hit a high, bringing in $22.3bn for the California-based firm, up 16% from a year before.\n\nBut it cited concerns over potential supply chain issues hampering deliveries of its new iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max devices.\n\nApple chief executive Tim Cook said it was \"working hard to manufacture more\".\n\n\"We do believe that later this quarter, we'll reach a supply-demand balance,\" he said.\n\nMr Cook said he felt the firm had its \"strongest line-up of products ever\" heading into the key Christmas trading period.\n\nThe latest update suggested, however, that other Apple items had been failing to capture the customer's imagination more recently.\n\nIts Mac computers, for example, saw sales drop to $7.6bn for the quarter, down from $11.6bn the year before.\n\nThe company revealed its latest iPhone line-up in September at a highly anticipated conference.\n\nIt announced that the iPhone 15 would not feature its proprietary lightning charging port, after the European Union forced the change. Instead, it uses a USB-C cable as the \"universally-accepted standard\".\n\nIt has also faced challenges elsewhere, with economic uncertainty weighing on consumers in the Chinese market.\n\nOn Thursday, the company said that sales in China had dipped by 2.5%, although Mr Cook said that after accounting for foreign exchange rates its business there had grown year on year.\n\nThe executive made a surprise visit to China last month, meeting gamers in the city of Chengdu.\n\nIt marked his second visit to China - a key market for Apple - this year, as the firm's operations in the country have been complicated by Covid restrictions and US-China tensions.\n\nIn March, Mr Cook said he felt Apple had a \"symbiotic\" relationship with China, a key manufacturing base.", "People have been waiting at Rafah to get into Egypt, the only crossing in and out of Gaza currently open\n\nMore British citizens have begun to leave the Gaza Strip, after Palestinian authorities listed nearly 100 as being eligible to cross to Egypt on Friday.\n\nThe UK section of the Palestinian border authority list names more than 90 people as British nationals.\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly said \"a number\" of Britons were leaving Gaza, a development he described as \"positive news\".\n\nMr Cleverly did not provide a figure for how many have left.\n\nHe added the UK \"will continue to work with\" authorities in the region to ensure as many Britons \"as possible\" can leave Gaza.\n\nThe BBC is aware of at least 19 people named on the list who are unable to leave via the Rafah crossing.\n\nThree family groups have said they are located in the north of Gaza but it is too dangerous to travel to the south where the crossing is located.\n\nThe parents-in-law of Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf, trapped in Gaza since 7 October, have left, but said they were \"severely traumatised\".\n\nAmong the first to arrive back in the UK was Dr Abdelkader Hammad, a surgeon in Liverpool, who said it was a \"big, big relief\" to walk through the doors at Heathrow on Friday evening and see his family.\n\n\"It has been four weeks waiting for this moment really to happen, and, I mean at some stage I wasn't sure this would happen really,\" he said,\"but thanks god I am here.\"\n\nHe said whole neighbourhoods in Gaza had been levelled and said you could \"smell death\", with many bodies still under the rubble.\n\nBorder crossings in and out of Gaza have been closed since 7 October, when Hamas, which is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK, attacked Israel, killing more than 1,400 people and taking more than 240 hostage.\n\nSince then, the Israeli military has launched a massive bombing campaign on Gaza, placed the strip under a \"complete siege\" and recently launched a ground assault on the north of Gaza. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 9,000 people have been killed.\n\nMr Cleverly said his office had not been informed of any British nationals killed in Gaza, but that the flow of information was often interrupted, delayed, or contradictory information was received.\n\nAbout 200 British nationals were believed to be in Gaza before war broke out.\n\nA small number have already left Gaza after some foreign nationals and injured Palestinian people began to be allowed to go through the crossing into Egypt for the first time from Wednesday.\n\nIbrahim Assalia, a British national who travelled to Gaza with his wife and children three months ago after his father was diagnosed with cancer, was on Friday's list but could not get to Rafah.\n\nHe said his family is unable to get to the border, as Israeli tanks have cut off the routes to the Rafah crossing and are \"shelling every civilian car that passes through\".\n\nMr Assalia told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme a family of 10 people was killed on Thursday trying to get to the border, adding: \"We don't sleep, the kids cry. We hate every minute.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office has said it does not comment on individual cases, but added it is working at \"every level of government to ensure British nationals can leave\".\n\nThe Israeli military is yet to respond to the BBC on claims civilians are being fired upon, but has previously said it does not target civilians.\n\nElizabeth and Maged El-Nakla, the parents of Humza Yousaf's wife Nadia, were visiting family in Gaza when the borders closed\n\nThe UK section of the list published by Palestinian authorities contains 127 names, with 92 listed as being British nationals. But it is not clear if the others, the vast majority of whom are described as Palestinian, also hold dual citizenship.\n\nHumza Yousaf's parents-in-law Elizabeth and Maged El-Nakla, who live in Dundee, have made it to Egypt after becoming trapped in Gaza while visiting relatives before the borders closed.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, the first minister and his wife Nadia confirmed her parents had left and expressed gratitude to people who have helped them, including the Foreign Office crisis team.\n\n\"These last four weeks have been a living nightmare for our family, we are so thankful for all of the messages of comfort and prayers that we have received from across the world, and indeed from across the political spectrum in Scotland and the UK,\" they said.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, security minister Tom Tugendhat said the British government was being \"very cautious\" about giving an exact number of people who will be able to get out because \"we neither control the border, nor do we control what's going on inside Gaza\".\n\n\"So what we don't want to do is give false hope or false belief to individuals that they'll be able to cross today,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nThe UK has deployed a Border Force team in Cairo, as well as consular officials in Arish, near Rafah, to provide support for UK nationals after leaving Gaza.\n\nSurgeon Abdelkadar Hammad, who lives in Liverpool, was among those who were able to exit via the Rafah crossing into Egypt on Thursday, his family have said.\n\nDowning Street previously confirmed that two UK aid workers were among those to make it through Rafah, which is the only Gazan border crossing not controlled by Israel.\n\nOn Thursday, the Foreign Office said more British nationals had managed to pass through the Gaza-Egypt border, but did not confirm how many.\n\nA dual UK-US citizen who left Gaza on Thursday with her family has told the BBC an exception was made for her British-Palestinian husband at the border as he was with family on the list of US citizens eligible to leave.\n\nDr Emilee Rauschenberger, an academic who lives in Salford, described the situation at Rafah as chaotic, with many people struggling to make it to the far-south of Gaza without cars or access to other transport.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday there was no system to divide people who were eligible to leave and those not on a list but hoping to cross, creating a stressful situation.\n\nAfter waiting many hours on the Gazan side of the border crossing, the family made it through to Egypt where they were given food and water and seen by medical staff.\n\nDr Rauschenberger said British embassy staff in Egypt told her about 10 British citizens, who she believes work for aid agencies or other international organisations, also crossed on Thursday.\n\nThe UK government has given both the Israeli and Egyptian authorities a list of British citizens and their dependants, prioritised by their medical vulnerability.\n\nDr Ahmed Abou Foul, who is based in Birmingham, has told the BBC that 16 members of his family who are trying to leave Gaza are on the list, including eight children.\n\nHe says he has mixed feelings about the news because two young children and their mothers, his sisters-in-law, will not be be able to leave as their names are not on the list.\n\nDr Abou Foul told BBC Breakfast on Friday the family do not know why they have been excluded, as he said they had been given assurances from the Foreign Office.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None A doctor, a tailor and a young child: Stories of those killed in Gaza", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC team's access to Al-Shifa hospital was limited by the Israel Defense Forces and they were not able to speak to doctors or patients\n\nWe clamber into the Al-Shifa hospital complex in darkness over a caved-in wall in the perimeter - knocked through with an armoured bulldozer on Tuesday to allow safer access for Israeli forces.\n\nThe BBC and one other television crew were the first journalists invited by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to view what Israel says it has found at the site.\n\nAny extra light here is risky so we grope our way through the compound, following the heavily armed troops sent to escort us - stepping around makeshift tents, debris and sleeping people.\n\nDoctors at the hospital say they have been working without power, food or water for days now - and that critically ill patients have died as a result, including newborn babies. People displaced by the fighting in Gaza have been sheltering in the hospital complex.\n\nThe BBC team was shown around part of Al-Shifa hospital by IDF spokesperson Lt Col Jonathan Conricus\n\nBut Israel says Hamas also runs a network of underground tunnels, including under Al-Shifa hospital.\n\nThe masked special forces leading us into the building over debris and broken glass are a sign of how tense the situation still is here. Our presence, just a day after Israel took control of the hospital, speaks volumes about Israel's motivation to show the world why they are here.\n\nIn the brightly lit corridors of the MRI unit, Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus shows us three small stashes of Kalashnikovs, ammunition and bullet-proof vests - he says they have found around 15 guns in all, along with some grenades.\n\nLt Col Conricus also shows us some military booklets and pamphlets, and a map that he says is marked with potential entry and exit routes from the hospital.\n\nIDF soldiers said they found Kalashnikov rifles stashed behind an MRI scanner inside Al-Shifa hospital\n\nA pamphlet entitled \"Military Ordnance\" and another published by Hamas's military wing that IDF soldiers said they found\n\nWhat it tells us, he says, is that Hamas uses hospitals for military purposes.\n\n\"[And] we uncovered a lot of computers and other equipment which could really shed light on the current situation, hopefully regarding hostages as well.\"\n\nThe laptops, he says, contain photos and videos of hostages, taken after their kidnap to Gaza. There is also recently released footage, shared by Israeli police, of their interrogations of Hamas fighters arrested after the October attacks. The BBC was not shown what was on the laptops.\n\nThis, Lt Col Conricus said, suggested Hamas were here \"within the last few days\".\n\n\"At the end of the day, this is just the tip of the iceberg,\" he said. \"Hamas aren't here because they saw we were coming. This is probably what they were forced to leave behind. Our assessment is that there's much more.\"\n\nThe IDF says its forces are continuing their search of Al-Shifa hospital\n\nIsrael's army has spent weeks fighting its way to the gates of the hospital. The streets around have seen some of the fiercest fighting in Gaza in the past few days.\n\nOur visit was tightly controlled; we had very limited time on the ground and were not able to speak to doctors or patients there.\n\nOur journey in to Gaza, in an armoured personnel carrier sealed tight from the darkness outside, traced the path of Israel's first major ground incursions into Gaza weeks ago.\n\nOn the screens inside the military vehicle, the agricultural land morphed slowly into distorted streets strewn with large pieces of debris, and the blurred outlines of shattered buildings.\n\nJust south of Gaza City, we stopped to change vehicles, clambering out on to undulating mounds of twisted metal and large chunks of rubble and concrete.\n\nSmall groups of soldiers crouched over tiny campfires, cooking a makeshift dinner beside the rows of tanks. \"It's a secret recipe,\" one winked.\n\nAbove them, buildings had collapsed in strange shapes. The rolling metal door of a shopfront hung cramped, halfway open.\n\nA Star of David was scrawled on a wall in red spray-paint; inside it someone had written \"IDF\", and above it, the words: \"Never Again\".\n\nA Star of David spray-painted on a wall south of Gaza City, with the word \"IDF\" written inside it, and above it, the words: \"Never Again\"\n\nThe attacks of 7 October changed the calculation for Israel in its conflict with Hamas. It has vowed to end years of uneasy standoff, by destroying both the military and political power of Hamas, designated a terrorist organisation by the UK, US and others.\n\nThat means going into the heart of Gaza City, including inside Al-Shifa.\n\nIsraeli forces are still searching for the tunnels beneath the hospital that they believe Hamas fighters may have withdrawn to, perhaps with some of the hostages.\n\nThis building has become a central focus of Israel's war, described as a key command centre, even potentially the \"beating heart\" of Hamas operations.\n\nAnd in the brutal information war that tails this conflict, this is Israel's moment of truth.\n\nAfter almost 24 hours securing and searching the hospital, Israel says it has found weapons and other equipment that could help provide information on both Hamas fighters and the hostages. But it has its hands on neither.\n\nWe leave the hospital, and rumble down the wide avenue that leads to Gaza's coastal road. Gaza City is now ruled by tanks. The ghostly avenues look in places like an earthquake zone, the destruction is so severe.\n\nIt is clear what it took for Israel to get control of these streets.", "Awaab Ishak died aged two following exposure to mould, an inquest found\n\nThe father of a toddler who died from a respiratory condition caused by mould has said he wants those responsible \"to get the punishment they deserve\".\n\nAwaab Ishak, aged two, died after being exposed to mould at his Rochdale home in December 2020.\n\nAwaab's father, Faisal Abdullah, repeatedly raised the issue with Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) but no action was taken.\n\nRBH said it was \"truly sorry\" for Awaab's death.\n\nIts new chief executive, Amanda Newton, who arrived in post eight weeks ago, said the organisation would \"never forget that a little boy died in one of our homes, it absolutely shouldn't have happened\".\n\nMr Abdullah, 31, told BBC North West Tonight that he was now exploring the possibility of civil action against RBH.\n\n\"I want those people who are responsible to get the punishment that they deserve,\" he said.\n\nRBH, which has about 12,500 properties in the borough, was widely criticised following the conclusion of the inquest into Awaab's death.\n\nFaisal and his wife Aisha Amin continue to demand justice for Awaab\n\nAn investigation by the Housing Ombudsman said the housing association had been \"dismissive\" and \"unsympathetic\" with residents.\n\nIt was consequently stripped of £1m in funds for new housing by the government, with Housing Secretary Michael Gove saying it had \"failed its tenants\".\n\nMr Abdullah said the mould in his home at that time \"was in the kitchen, it was in the living room, it was in the bathroom\".\n\nHe said asking RBH to fix the issues was \"like begging, but nothing got done\".\n\n\"The way I felt RBH conveyed the message to me is that, I come from Sudan so I should be grateful to be housed and that's it, get on with it,\" he said.\n\n\"I think they treated me that way because they were racist towards me.\n\n\"I feel actually that they have not considered me to be a human being.\"\n\nAwaab died just eight days after celebrating his second birthday\n\nMr Abdullah said the loss of his son was a \"feeling that I cannot describe,\" adding: \"He was a very lively boy and he was full of joy.\"\n\nAsked how he felt towards RBH, he said: \"I want to avoid anything that has got to do with RBH.\n\n\"I've got friends in Rochdale who are still living in the area and I really don't want to go to because it brings back memories.\n\n\"I don't even want to see RBH vehicles on the road, in case it reminds me of what they have done to me.\"\n\nFollowing his son's death, Mr Abdullah campaigned for a change in the law to compel landlords to quickly investigate and repair damp and mould.\n\nIn July the Social Housing Act came into force and as part of that the government committed to consult on Awaab's Law.\n\nThe law would set out new requirements for landlords to address hazards such as damp and mould in social homes.\n\nThe BBC understands that after that consultation, Awaab's Law could be implemented in April next year.\n\nMr Abdullah said he hoped the law would \"protect other people who might be in the same situation\".\n\nResponding to Mr Abdullah's comments, Ms Newton said: \"We absolutely lost our way as a provider of social housing. We were too focused on development, we got it completely wrong.\n\n\"This organisation and I are truly sorry. I am full of remorse on behalf of the organisation and myself.\"\n\nShe said after Awaab's inquest, RBH \"made a promise that we would do all that we could to ensure that no other family ever suffered such a loss\".\n\nMs Newton said she wanted to \"build a culture where listening to our customers and acting really quickly is hardwired in\".\n\n\"We have made huge progress on that over the last 12 months, there's lots more to do so I don't want to give the impression that we are where we need to be, but it's the start of a journey,\" she said.\n\nA year on from Awaab's inquest, RBH said more than 70% of its properties had been inspected and it expected to have completed all the inspections by early next year.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Hopes have risen that the era of green and blue message bubbles on iPhones might eventually come to an end.\n\nCurrently only iMessages from iPhones have blue bubbles.\n\nApple says it will support a new messaging standard that will make it easier to send texts between phones.\n\nBut messages from Android phones will still appear as green bubbles, suggesting those who want the bubble divide to burst may have a long wait.\n\nThe company said it will introduce support for a new messaging standard - Rich Communication Services (RCS) - on iPhones and iOS devices from 2024.\n\nRCS is a standard designed to make it easier for phones on different operating systems to exchange messages.\n\nThe move, first reported by 9to5Mac, has been viewed as a sea-change for Apple.\n\nApple plans to introduce support for the messaging standard in a software release later next year.\n\nAn Apple spokesperson told the tech publication that RCS would be better for users seeking to message users of rival phones compared to SMS or MMS.\n\n\"This will work alongside iMessage, which will continue to be the best and most secure messaging experience for Apple users\" the spokesperson said.\n\nGoogle, which develops the Android phone operating system, has been the biggest competitor calling on Apple to enable RCS.\n\nIts \"get the message\" campaign has emphasised that besides frustration for some users met with green-coloured messages on iPhones or iOS devices, SMS and MMS messages are not protected by end-to-end encryption.\n\nRecent EU rules for digital platforms may have also encouraged Apple's adoption of RCS.\n\nThe bloc's Digital Markets Act (DMA) requires providers of major digital services - so called core services - to introduce ways for users of their platforms to easily interact with rival platforms - including sending messages between rival systems.\n\nThe Financial Times reported in early November that Google and other firms had written to the European Commission, urging it to declare Apple's iMessage a core service that should be interoperable with rivals like WhatsApp.\n\nApple has argued iMessage shouldn't be subject to these rules, but the European Commission had said in September it was investigating whether Apple's iMessage should be deemed a core service.\n\nEarlier this year Apple was forced to ditch its signature lightning port on new iPhones to meet EU requirements for a common charging cable.\n\nApple's announcement comes days after phone manufacturer Nothing launched a way for owners of its latest smartphone to send iMessages to iPhone users.\n\nThe company said its app Nothing Chats would offer a bridge between iPhone and Android handsets and let users connect via blue bubble messages.\n\nResponding to the news of Apple adopting RCS the company posted on X (formerly Twitter), \"looks like they got the message\".\n• None New EU law could open up messaging and app buying", "Charissa Thompson now works primarily as a host for both Fox Sports and Amazon\n\nAn NFL broadcaster has apologised after she admitted making up reports while working as a sideline reporter early in her career.\n\n\"I haven't been fired for saying it... I would make up the report sometimes,\" Charissa Thompson said on a podcast released earlier this week.\n\nHer comments triggered an angry backlash from some fans as well as others who work in sports coverage.\n\nOn Friday, the host said she had chosen \"the wrong words\" and \"never lied\".\n\n\"I understand how important words are and I chose the wrong words to describe the situation,\" she wrote in a statement posted to Instagram. \"I'm sorry. I have never lied about anything or been unethical during my time as a sports broadcaster.\"\n\n\"In the absence of a coach providing any information that could further my report I would use information that I learned and saw during the first half,\" she said.\n\nSideline reporters play a key role in American football broadcasts by giving live updates from on or near the field. They often share details coaches tell them during the course of the game.\n\nMs Thompson, 41, now works primarily as a host for both Fox Sports and Amazon.\n\nSpeaking to Barstool Sports' Pardon My Take podcast on Tuesday, Ms Thompson said sometimes \"the coach wouldn't come out at halftime, or it was too late and I didn't want to screw up the report. So I was like, I'm just going to make this up\".\n\nShe added that she would often rely on clichés in those moments.\n\n\"No coach is going to get mad if I say, 'Hey, we need to stop hurting ourselves... and do a better job of getting off the field,\" she said. \"They're not going to correct me on that.\"\n\nLaura Okmin, a Fox Sports colleague and the third-longest-tenured sideline reporter in league history, criticised Ms Thompson in a post on X, formerly Twitter.\n\n\"The privilege of a sideline role is being the one person in the entire world who has the opportunity to ask coaches what's happening in that moment,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I can't express the amount of time it takes to build that trust,\" she added.\n\nMolly McGrath, a Sports Emmy nominated ESPN college football reporter, warned young journalists such behaviour was \"not normal or ethical\".\n\n\"Coaches and players trust us with sensitive information, and if they know that you're dishonest and don't take your role seriously, you've lost all trust and credibility,\" she said.\n\nMorgan Uber, of ESPN, said Ms Thompson's comments undermined other women \"in a profession that is already stereotyped as just being eye candy\".\n\n\"Good sideline reporters do their homework, talk to players and coaches throughout the week and on game day and most definitely don't make up reports,\" she said.\n\nRepresentatives for Fox Sports and Amazon Prime did not respond to the BBC's request for comment.", "Footage shows the Moldovan president's dog biting the hand of Austria's President Alexander Van der Bellen.\n\nPresident Maia Sandu had been walking with Mr Van der Bellen in the grounds of the presidential residence in the capital Chisinau, when he tried to pet her dog and the etiquette faux-pas occurred.\n\nThe dog, a rescue called Codrut, had been frightened by the number of people nearby, President Sandu said.\n\nPresident Van der Bellen was later seen with a bandaged hand and posted a video on X, formerly Twitter, saying that he was a dog lover.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Matheson said the roaming charges were caused by his sons watching football.\n\nHealth Secretary Michael Matheson has admitted an £11,000 data roaming charge on his iPad was caused by his sons watching football.\n\nThe bill was incurred during a family trip to Morocco last year.\n\nThe expense was initially picked up by the Scottish Parliament, which was told by Mr Matheson that the iPad was only used for work.\n\nHe has since paid the money back and said he had referred himself to the parliament for further investigation.\n\nMr Matheson - who was visibly emotional during a statement to parliament - told MSPs he was not aware that other family members had used the device until last Thursday, after the first media reports about the charges emerged.\n\nHe said the iPad itself had not been used by his children but had been used as a hotspot to allow internet access for other devices.\n\nThe health secretary said he did not mention this in his statement on Friday, in which he announced he would pay the bill himself, because he wanted to protect his children.\n\nHe apologised unreservedly to the parliament and said the responsibility for the data usage and iPad was his.\n\nMr Matheson went on holiday with his wife and two sons shortly after Christmas last year.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf has previously said there was no reason for Mr Matheson to pay the £11,000 bill himself\n\n\"As a parent, I wanted to protect them from being part of the political and media scrutiny associated with this, something I believe any parent would want to do,\" he told MSPs.\n\nHe said he was \"a father first and foremost\", adding that it was wrong not to reference his sons using the iPad data.\n\n\"That was a mistake and I am sorry,\" he continued.\n\n\"I can see now that it just isn't possible to explain the data usage without explaining their role.\"\n\nHe added: \"The simple truth is they watched football matches.\"\n\nMr Matheson said he did not watch the football, nor did he know it was being watched by his sons.\n\nHe told MSPs he had been advised that he could use the iPad as a mobile hotspot and that his son helped to set it up.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament confirmed that Mr Matheson had contacted officials on 28 December about his phone not working in Morocco, but said its records did not \"show any discussion of his iPad\".\n\nOn Monday, the health secretary denied that there had been any personal use of his iPad.\n\nIn his statement to MSPs on Thursday, he said he would refer himself for investigation to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, but would not stand down as health secretary.\n\nThe minister said when he was initially informed about the bill in January, he could not understand why it was so high.\n\nIn the absence of a \"clear explanation\", he said he thought it was appropriate when he agreed in March that he would contribute £3,000 from his office expenses, with the rest to be paid by parliament.\n\nThe data charges, including more than £7,000 on 2 January - when Celtic were playing Rangers - were incurred for using more than 6GB of data on the parliamentary device between 28 December 2022 and 3 January 2023.\n\nA Sim card in the device should have been changed after parliament officials switched a mobile contract from EE to Vodafone in December 2021.\n\nBut Mr Matheson failed to replace the Sim despite being told to do so almost a year before his holiday.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have called for the health secretary to be sacked, and are expected to call a motion of no confidence. The government would be expected to defeat it due to an SNP-Green majority in parliament.\n\nTory leader Douglas Ross said parliament had been misled by Mr Matheson, who initially told Holyrood officials that his expense claim for the iPad data usage was for legitimate parliamentary work.\n\nMr Ross told BBC Scotland News: \"So if it was a legitimate expense, yet he was also saying he didn't know how that data had been accrued, then he misled parliament.\"\n\nHe added: \"If Michael Matheson is a man of integrity, as he says he is, he will resign.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said parents of teenagers would understand the scenario, but \"what people will not understand is the cover-up\".\n\nShe said Mr Matheson had been \"wholly negligent\" not to replace his device's Sim card, and not to keep it secure from being used by others.\n\n\"It is simply unfathomable that Michael Matheson thinks he can keep his job after deceiving the public and parliament over his actions,\" she added.\n\nIt was an emotional statement from Michael Matheson revealing that his sons were using his iPad as a hotspot to stream football.\n\nThat explains how he was able to run up £11,000 in data roaming charges on his family holiday to Morocco over New Year.\n\nIt does not explain the security arrangements for his Holyrood iPad.\n\nNor does it explain how he convinced himself he could have done that volume of constituency work in order to claim it as a legitimate parliamentary expense.\n\nMr Matheson has told us his family only fessed up last Thursday which is why he offered to pay back the full amount the following day.\n\nHowever, he was still denying there had been \"personal\" use of the iPad to reporters on Monday.\n\nMr Matheson has made clear he was trying to protect his family - an instinct many of his MSP colleagues will understand.\n\nThe problem is he has now admitted concealing the truth because he thought that was justified and that could undermine trust in a politician who is supposed to lead the NHS through a difficult winter.\n\nAt First Minister's Questions earlier on Thursday, Humza Yousaf said he had \"absolute confidence\" in Mr Matheson, who he described as a man of \"honesty and integrity\".\n\nMr Yousaf had initially described the £11,000 iPad bill as a \"legitimate parliamentary expense\" and said Mr Matheson should not have to pay it out of his own pocket.\n\nThe health secretary cancelled a planned visit to a Glasgow health centre after parliament published a breakdown of the data usage. A spokesperson said it would be rescheduled for a future date.\n\nTory MSPs had pointed out that the day Mr Matheson was billed £7,346 - on 2 January for using 3.18GB - coincided with an Old Firm football match.\n\nA further £1,320 charge was listed as a separate entry for 2 January. It is not yet known if the fee could relate to a previous day due to a lag effect in the billing system but there is no figure listed for 1 January.\n\nThe next largest fee was on 28 December 2022, when the minster was charged £2,249 for using 1.26GB. A match between Hibernian and Celtic was played that day.\n\nAccording to Netflix, 6GB of data can be used to watch about 36 hours of streaming while on a data-saving mode.\n\nOn the highest possible streaming quality, 6GB would only provide about 120 minutes of streaming, depending on the device and network speed.\n\nThe parliament said that after the bill was received earlier in the year, IT officials checked the iPad to see if it was working. They also examined the mobile data usage, but were only presented with a cumulative total and did not see the browsing history.\n\nThe presiding officer confirmed parliament had ordered a review into its data roaming and mobile devices rules to \"ensure the present situation cannot happen again\".", "Israel says it will allow two fuel trucks a day to enter the Gaza Strip, after pressure to do so from the US.\n\nA US State Department official says around 140,000 litres of fuel will be allowed in every two days.\n\nMost of that is intended for trucks delivering aid, as well as supporting the UN in providing water and sanitation, the official said.\n\nThe rest is for mobile phone and internet services, which had been cut off due to a lack of fuel.\n\nOn Friday, the company which provides Gaza's communications said that its services were returning after receiving some fuel via Unrwa, the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees.\n\nThe US official said Washington exerted considerable pressure on Israel to push this fuel agreement through.\n\nThe deal had been agreed in principle weeks ago, the official added, but was delayed by Israel for two reasons. Israeli officials told the US that fuel had not actually run out in southern Gaza, and they also wanted to wait and see if they could negotiate a hostage deal first.\n\nThe head of Unrwa warned on Thursday that the agency may have to suspend all of its activities due to the lack of fuel.\n\nIn its latest situation report, the agency said it required \"160,000 litres of fuel every day for basic humanitarian operations\" - more than double what has been agreed.\n\nEarlier, an Israeli official said the new fuel allowance would be brought in through the Rafah crossing to the civilian population in the southern Gaza Strip via the UN, provided that it does not reach Hamas.\n\nThe Israeli official said the fuel would give \"minimal\" support to water, sewage and sanitation systems, in order to prevent the outbreak of epidemics that could spread in the area.\n\nInternational organisations have repeatedly expressed grave concerns over the humanitarian situation unfolding in the Gaza Strip.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has previously warned of \"worrying trends\" in the spread of disease in Gaza, where the lack of fuel and Israeli bombardment have severely disrupted the healthcare system and sanitation facilities.\n\nOn Friday, Richard Peeperkorn, the WHO's representative in the Palestinian Territories, said that more than 70,000 cases of acute respiratory infections and over 44,000 cases of diarrhoea had been recorded, according to Reuters - figures significantly higher than expected.\n\nFuel is needed in Gaza to run the enclave's desalination plant, to provide electricity to homes and hospitals, and for sanitation, transport, and communications infrastructure.\n\nIt is also crucial for the delivery of aid around the territory.\n\nIsrael has been blocking fuel from entering Gaza, arguing that it could be stolen by Hamas and used for military purposes.\n\nBefore the latest war Israel provided the majority of Gaza's electricity, and some was produced by the enclave's sole power plant which is no longer functioning.\n\nOn Saturday in Gaza's south, the director of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said it had received the bodies of 26 people, and 23 others with serious injuries, after an air strike on a residential building in Hamad city.\n\nThe Israeli military has not yet commented on the report.\n\nMeanwhile, the Red Crescent said at least five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike on a building in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus.\n\nThe Israeli army said it was checking on the reports.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told Israel to take \"urgent\" action to \"de-escalate tensions in the West Bank, including by confronting rising levels of settler extremist violence\".\n\nThe strike happened a day after Israeli military said it killed at least seven militants in two separate confrontations in the West Bank.\n\nIsrael's latest siege and military operation began following Hamas's brutal 7 October attack, when the group - which is banned as a terrorist organisation by the UK, US and other powers - killed around 1,200 people and took more than 230 people hostage, according to Israeli authorities.\n\nAt least 12,000 people have been killed in the territory since Israel began its retaliatory strikes, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in the Palestinian enclave.", "The IDF says Yehudit Weiss was kidnapped by Hamas from her home in southern Israel on 7 October\n\nIsrael's military says its soldiers have found the body of an Israeli hostage taken into Gaza by Hamas in its attack last month.\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss was discovered in a house near Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.\n\nIt said that her family had been informed, and her body would be returned to Israel.\n\nMs Weiss was kidnapped from her home in Be'eri near the Gaza border.\n\nShe had been recovering from breast cancer when Hamas launched its deadly attack on 7 October, but was without her medication when she was taken, according to the Bring Them Home Now group.\n\nMs Weiss worked in her kibbutz's kindergartens, managed the dining room and specialised in nursing before she retired, the group said.\n\nShe was a \"loving full-time grandmother\", it said, adding she had a love for culture, sports, travelling and baking.\n\nHer husband, Shmulik, a rabbi, was killed in the Hamas assault.\n\nIn a statement, the IDF said that Kalashnikov rifles and rocket-propelled grenades were among the weapons discovered where her body was located.\n\n\"Unfortunately, Yehudit was murdered by terrorists in Gaza and we did not get to her in time,\" IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said in a news briefing on Thursday evening.\n\nHe did not give further details on how she was killed.\n\nSo far only four of the 240 hostages who were abducted by Hamas last month have been freed.\n\nIsraeli officials say that at least 1,200 people were killed in Hamas's cross-border attack on 7 October by hundreds of gunmen.\n\nSince Israel started its counter-attack, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry has said 11,400 people have been killed in the territory.\n\nAl-Shifa, Gaza City's largest hospital, became the focus of fighting at the start of the week, and was raided by the Israeli military on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe IDF says Hamas has been using the hospital as a command centre, and has spent two days searching the complex for evidence of this. Hamas denies operating there and the BBC cannot independently verify claims by either side.\n\nCurrently more than 650 patients, 500 medical staff and over 5,000 displaced people are taking shelter in the hospital.\n\nIts director Muhammad Abu Salmiya said conditions were \"tragic\" at the site, and the hospital has run out of oxygen and water.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has set out how £8.3bn of promised funding will be used to tackle what he called the \"scourge of potholes\".\n\nThe PM announced the money last month as part of plans to scrap part of the HS2 high-speed rail line and spend the savings on other projects.\n\nThe funding will go to England's local councils over the next 11 years for road maintenance.\n\nCouncils said the cost of repairing local roads was closer to £14bn.\n\nThe Local Government Association (LGA), which represents councils in England and Wales, said the money was \"a significant boost\" but it had consistently called for longer term funding to tackle the repair backlog.\n\nIts spokesman, Darren Rodwell, said: \"Longer-term, the government should award council highways departments with five yearly funding allocations to give more certainty, bringing councils on a par with National Highways so they can develop resurfacing programmes and other highways improvements, tackling the scourge of potholes.\"\n\nThe AA said call-outs to pothole-related breakdowns were at near-record levels, with more than 450,000 so far this year.\n\nAA president Edmund King said the plan could make a \"considerable difference in bringing our roads back to the standards which road users expect, especially if councils use the cash efficiently\".\n\nSimon Williams, head of policy at motoring organisation the RAC, said: \"This should in time go a considerable way to bringing our roads back to a fit-for-purpose state and saving drivers hundreds of pounds in the process from not having to fork out for frustrating repairs to their vehicles.\"\n\nIn England, the North West, North East and Yorkshire and Humber will receive £3.3bn, with £2.2bn going to the West and East Midlands, and £2.8bn to the East, South East, South West and London.\n\nTransport Secretary Mark Harper said it was up to local authorities how to spend their allocation, but part of the reason for the \"significant increase\" was so they could \"improve the quality of road surfaces in the future\" rather than just focusing on fixing existing potholes.\n\nMr Harper told BBC Breakfast that the cash would be used for \"local road maintenance\", which he said meant councils could use it to fill in specific potholes, but could also resurface areas with more defects.\n\n\"One things that actually often annoys drivers which is where they see one defect fixed and there are some other surrounding problems that are not fixed,\" he said.\n\n\"What this will actually enable councils to do is to have enough money that they can actually think about having a proper resurfacing programme, so if they have a road with a number of issues with it, rather than just fill say, a pothole, they can actually plan to resurface that area of road.\"\n\nThe Department for Transport said local authorities in England would get an extra £150m for road repairs this year, and the same amount for 2024 and 2025. The rest of the funding will be allocated over the next decade.\n\nThe department said the funding was on top of £5.5bn for local roads maintenance announced before plans to scrap HS2.\n\nLocal politicians, businesses and some senior Conservatives criticised the decision to scrap the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the high-speed line, arguing it would damage the economy.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"For too long politicians have shied away from taking the right long-term decisions to make life easier for hardworking families - tackling the scourge of potholes being a prime example.\n\n\"This unprecedented £8.3bn investment will pave the road for better and safer journeys for millions of people across the country and put an end to the blight of nuisance potholes.\"\n\nData from the RAC suggests drivers are paying an average of £440 if their car needs fixing after hitting a pothole. The figure was for any damage more serious than a puncture.\n\nHave you got issues with potholes on your road? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The co-founders of Hotel Chocolat will each get £144m after agreeing to sell the British business to Mars.\n\nThe US confectionery giant will pay £534m for the firm that Angus Thirlwell and Peter Harris set up in 1993.\n\nHotel Chocolat said the deal would allow the brand to \"grow further and faster\", including overseas.\n\nThe company has had mixed success with expanding internationally and last year had to shut down its five shops in the US.\n\n\"We know our brand resonates with consumers overseas, but operational supply chain challenges have held us back,\" said chief executive Mr Thirlwell.\n\nThe company is mostly based in the UK with around 124 shops, but has some overseas.\n\nMr Thirlwell said: \"By partnering with Mars, we can grow our international presence much more quickly using their skills, expertise and capabilities.\"\n\nMr Thirlwell and Mr Harris each have a 27% stake in Hotel Chocolat. Mr Thirlwell, who will stay on as chief executive, said that he would invest 80% of the £144m he will make back into the company.\n\nHe added that Mr Harris, who will retire, would also invest some of his windfall in Hotel Chocolat under Mars' ownership but did not say how much.\n\nAngus Thirlwell will stay on as chief executive after Mars buys Hotel Chocolat\n\nHotel Chocolat started by selling its upmarket confectionery online and opened its first shop, in north London, in 2004.\n\nCommenting on whether Mars intended to change Hotel Chocolat's recipes following the takeover, Andrew Clarke, global president of Mars snacking, said there were \"absolutely no plans\" to do that.\n\n\"We've got a real track record here of nurturing, protecting and accelerating brands and actually keeping that entrepreneurial nature at what that brand stands for,\" he said.\n\nThere are also no plans to start selling Mars confectionery in Hotel Chocolat shops.\n\nHotel Chocolat's overseas expansion has been costly and problematic.\n\nIn September last year, it announced the closure of its five shops in the US at a cost of £3.5m, but it continues to sell online, focusing on its Velvetiser hot chocolate-maker.\n\nEarlier this year, it announced a joint venture in Japan with Tokyo's Eat Creator Corporation to set up 21 Hotel Chocolat shops after its first deal fell apart.\n\nIt previously had a partnership with Chris Horobin, the former boss of QVC Japan, to open stores in the country. However, that deal ended and resulted in Hotel Chocolat writing off nearly £22m.\n\nThe company now holds a 20% stake in the joint venture with Eat Creator and will receive royalties from the deal.\n\nCommenting on its past difficulties with expanding internationally, Mr Thirlwell said: \"Building a brand overseas is not a short-term fix.\"\n\nHe said there was \"huge appeal\" for Hotel Chocolat and its products overseas.\n\nBut he went on: \"What we found more difficult and what was going to require more capital and more work was the operational elements of the business, so that includes manufacturing in country, distribution and the behind-the-scenes element that customers don't really see.\n\n\"This tie-up with Mars is actually all about solving that for Hotel Chocolat.\"\n\nThe company also owns an estate in St Lucia, which has a 140-acre farm that produces organic cacao and is where the company operates the Rabot Hotel.\n\nIn its most recent results, Hotel Chocolat disclosed impairment charges on the estate because of \"continued Covid-19 disruption where visitor numbers to the island have not recovered to pre-pandemic levels\".\n\nThe company also has shops in Ireland and Gibraltar.", "The White House has accused Elon Musk of repeating a \"hideous lie\" about Jewish people, after the X owner appeared to respond approvingly to an antisemitic post on the platform.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Musk replied to a post sharing an antisemitic conspiracy theory, calling it \"actual truth\".\n\nMr Musk has denied that the post was antisemitic.\n\nBut a White House spokesman said his endorsement of the post, which drew anger online, was \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"We condemn this abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate in the strongest terms,\" said White House spokesperson Andrew Bates.\n\nHe noted that the post Mr Musk was responding to referred to a conspiracy theory that motivated the man who killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018.\n\n\"It is unacceptable to repeat the hideous lie behind the most fatal act of antisemitism in American history at any time, let alone one month after the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust,\" Mr Bates said, referring to the 7 October Hamas assault against Israel.\n\nX Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino wrote in an earlier tweet that the company has been \"extremely clear about our efforts to combat antisemitism and discrimination. There's no place for it anywhere in the world - it's ugly and wrong\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Musk responded with his \"truth\" comment to a post that accused Jewish communities of pushing \"hatred against whites\" and which included anti-immigrant sentiments.\n\nIt appeared to be an endorsement of a racist and antisemitic conspiracy theory known as \"white genocide,\" which argues that Jewish people systematically plot to encourage immigration of \"non-white\" people to Western countries in order to \"eliminate\" the white race.\n\nThe original post that Mr Musk responded to \"is using specific language that has been used in the past to justify violent attacks on synagogues,\" Zahed Amanullah, senior fellow at the London-based Institute of Strategic Dialogue, told the BBC.\n\nThe conspiracy theory motivated a mass murderer who entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018 and shot dead 11 worshippers.\n\nThe Tree of Life shooting was the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history\n\nMr Musk denies he is antisemitic and later said his comments referred not to all Jewish people but to groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other unspecified \"Jewish communities\".\n\nADL Chief Executive Jonathan Greenblatt posted: \"At a time when antisemitism is exploding in America and surging around the world, it is indisputably dangerous to use one's influence to validate and promote antisemitic theories.\"\n\nThe controversy over antisemitism comes as some organisations have stopped buying ads on X, formerly known as Twitter, citing extremist content on the social network.\n\nIBM stopped its ad spending after a report from a left-wing media watchdog said its content was placed next to posts praising Adolf Hitler and Nazism. Apple later said it too would halt ad buys on the platform, Axios reported.\n\nX told the BBC on Thursday that ads are not deliberately placed next to extremist content, that the Nazi-promoting accounts will not earn money from advertising and that specific posts will be labelled \"sensitive media\".\n\nSeparately, the European Commission has asked its departments to stop buying ads on X because of concerns over misinformation in relation to the Israel-Hamas war, according to a report by Politico.\n\nOn the platform on Friday, Mr Musk did not directly address his own statements but criticised Media Matters and responded in support of other posts critical of IBM and \"media\".\n\nThe billionaire has on several occasions repeated conspiracy theories and has also lashed out at social media watchdogs - including the ADL and other groups - for criticising his content moderation changes at X.\n\nX claims that it has stronger brand safety controls than other social networks and that hate speech and extremism has fallen on the platform despite large cuts to the company's safety team. Several outside groups disagree with the company's assessment and say that extremism and hate speech have increased under Mr Musk's leadership.\n\nEarlier this year Mr Musk threatened to sue the ADL, claiming it was \"trying to kill this platform by falsely accusing it & me of being anti-Semitic\". He blames pressure groups, rather than misinformation and extremist posts, for a sharp drop in advertising revenue since his takeover.\n\nWhile he has not carried through with his threat against the ADL, the company has sued another research and campaign group, the Center for Countering Digital Hate.\n\nOn Thursday, CCDH filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit under California's anti-SLAPP - \"Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation\" - law, calling the X suit \"an attempt to censor, intimidate, and silence\".", "The sight of wild swans flying in for the winter is becoming less common in the face of climate change.\n\nScientists say Bewick's swans are changing their behaviour in a warming world, with fewer making it back to the UK and those that do arriving late.\n\nA bonded pair of swans named Maisie and Maifield touched down on Thursday at Slimbridge, in Gloucestershire.\n\nThey are the latest arrivals since 1965, when naturalists started monitoring the returning flocks.\n\nAnd their numbers have dwindled, from an annual flock of 700 to little more than 100.\n\nEvery year, the majestic waterbirds leave their frozen Arctic breeding grounds for warmer climes. They arrive in late autumn, returning north again in the spring.\n\nMaisie, seen here - her partner, Maifield, and their two cygnets arrived on Thursday\n\nKane Brides, senior research officer at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust reserve, said the \"saddest fact\" was one day the swans may never return to Britain.\n\n\"This is happening right in front of our eyes,\" he said. \"Climate change is playing its part here.\"\n\nThe smallest of the UK's wild swans, Bewick's have more black on their yellow bills than Britain's other long-distance migrant, the whooper.\n\nIndividual Bewick's can be identified by these unique markings.\n\nScientists in the Netherlands are tracking the migrations of Bewick's swans\n\nAnd monitoring studies using global-positioning-system (GPS) trackers showed they were changing their behaviour, Hans Linssen of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, said.\n\n\"Winters used to be colder, so when they came down from Russia they travelled all the way to Britain to be at a comfortable temperature,\" Mr Linssen told BBC News.\n\n\"But these days, winters are warmer, so when they come down, they arrive in Germany and the Netherlands and they think, 'It's good here. I'll stay. I'll not bother to travel all the way to England.'\n\n\"And northern Germany now seems to be the main area for them to stop and spend the winter.\"\n\nNumbers are falling because of a host of pressures, including climate change\n\nBut the global population is also declining fast, with threats from:\n\nThis year has broken many temperature records, with the unseasonably hot weather making its mark on the natural world, from jellyfish to birds.\n\nThe fate of swans returning to Slimbridge is one of the longest-running studies of a single species in the world.\n\nSince Sir Peter Scott's first observations 60 years ago, more than 10,000 swans have been recorded.", "Jo Stevens's constituency office on Albany Road, Roath, was covered in red paint and banners on Thursday night\n\nPolice have launched an investigation after a Labour MP who abstained on the Gaza vote had her office vandalised.\n\nShadow Welsh secretary Jo Stevens's Cardiff office was daubed in red paint and covered in posters which accused her of having \"blood\" on her hands.\n\nShe called the incident \"intimidating\" and \"threatening\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer's stance on the Israel-Gaza war caused a major rebellion with 56 of his MPs voting for an immediate ceasefire.\n\nBeth Winter was the only Welsh Labour MP to back the ceasefire.\n\nThe red paint and banners appeared on Ms Stevens's office in Albany Road, Roath, on Thursday night, with some accusing the Cardiff Central MP of supporting the deaths of babies in Gaza.\n\nAnother poster said the Labour MP had \"blood on your hands\".\n\nMs Stevens told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast she was shocked by the damage, which occurred during an event she said was described as a \"vigil\".\n\n\"I absolutely support the right to protest, but what was done last night has gone way beyond that,\" she said.\n\n\"If you have someone write murder across your door, it is intimidating.\"\n\nAdam Johannes from the Cardiff Central Anti War group said about 200 people gathered outside the office.\n\n\"We don't feel our MP is representing the majority opinion in our constituency,\" he said.\n\n\"We had a march down Albany Road, returned back and dispersed.\"\n\nMr Johannes said organisers asked people to protest \"peacefully and respectfully\", but added: \"I think we have to look at the bigger picture. After the vote... many people said they felt a sense of powerlessness.\n\n\"We're seeing very catastrophic realities, emotions are running high.\"\n\nHe said the group would like Ms Stevens to arrange a forum in which the situation in Gaza could be openly debated with constituents.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it was investigating criminal damage and that \"a number of items have been seized for examination\".\n\nOne of the posters accused Ms Stevens of having blood on her hands\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has echoed the stance taken by Sir Keir, who called for longer \"humanitarian pauses\" to allow aid to reach civilians in Gaza.\n\nThe issue has divided Labour, with ten of Ms Stevens's fellow frontbenchers stepping down from their jobs over the vote, including eight shadow ministers.\n\nMs Stevens said she \"found it particularly surprising\" that a former Member of Senedd had been present at the protest.\n\n\"I would have thought at the very least, that this individual would have had some understanding of the effect that this will have on my team,\" she added.\n\n\"This is a workplace and my staff team and I, as well as my constituents who come to my office every day for help, should be able to do so in safety.\"\n\nFormer Plaid Cymru MS Bethan Sayed said she had taken part in the protest \"peacefully\", and accused Ms Stevens of failing to \"hear and respect\" the views of her constituents who support a ceasefire.\n\n\"I took part peacefully,\" Ms Sayed said in a statement. \"I'd urge Jo Stevens MP to consider her actions as opposed to focusing on me.\"\n\nGaza's Hamas-run health ministry says thousands of children have been killed since the start of the war\n\nPlaid Cymru's three MPs voted for the ceasefire but their parliamentary leader, Liz Saville Roberts, criticised the damage caused to the office.\n\n\"Jo and I voted differently this week and I strongly disagree with Labour's stance,\" she said.\n\n\"But attempts to intimidate elected representatives through vandalism and harassment are unacceptable and counterproductive.\"\n\nIsrael launched a major military campaign in the Gaza Strip to destroy Hamas, which it considers a terrorist group, in retaliation for the 7 October cross-border attack by hundreds of gunmen.\n\nAt least 1,200 people were killed in Hamas's assault on Israel and about 240 others were taken hostage.\n\nSince Israel started its counter-attack, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry has said 11,500 people have been killed in the territory and the United Nations has warned of a \"humanitarian disaster\".", "Shawn Seesahai, 19, died of his injuries at the scene on Laburnum Road\n\nTwo 12-year-old boys have been remanded into youth custody after being charged with the murder of a 19-year-old man in Wolverhampton.\n\nShawn Seesahai was stabbed on playing fields near a school in East Park shortly before 20:30 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe boys, who appeared at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Friday and cannot be named due to their age, are also charged with possession of a machete.\n\nThey have been ordered to appear at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Monday.\n\nEach dressed in a casual zip-up jumper and a hoodie, the boys appeared in the dock flanked by security guards during a 10-minute hearing before District Judge Graham Wilkinson.\n\nThey spoke only to confirm their names, ages and addresses.\n\nDuring their appearance, the boys' lawyers confirmed that they would both deny the charges against them.\n\nAs the boys were led down the steps of the dock after the hearing, they both briefly waved to relatives sitting in the public gallery.\n\nNo relatives of Mr Seesahai, who is believed to have come to the UK in April this year, were present for the hearing.\n\nMr Seesahai's mother paid tribute to her son on Thursday, saying he was a \"courageous, compassionate and confident young soul\".\n\n\"He was looking forward to accomplish many future plans and ambitions. He cared dearly about his family and friends and he absolutely loved to help people,\" she said in a statement released by West Midlands Police.\n\n\"He was a generous person and had a good personality. We will always have him in our hearts.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Tennant returned as Doctor Who for a special Children in Need clip\n\nDavid Tennant has returned as Doctor Who for a Children in Need sketch.\n\nThe clip saw Tennant once again as the Time Lord accidentally crashing his Tardis at the \"genesis of the Daleks\" - the long-standing enemy of the Doctor.\n\nScottish actor Tennant, who first stepped into the Tardis as the 10th Doctor in 2005, is starring as the 14th Doctor for three anniversary specials later this year.\n\nChildren in Need aired on BBC One on Friday and this year raised £33.5m.\n\nTennant revived his role as Doctor at the conclusion of the show's BBC centenary special last year, bringing an end to Jodie Whittaker's reign as the time-travelling hero.\n\nDuring a new short clip played midway through the televised appeal on Friday, actor Mawaan Rizwan is seen brainstorming a name for the newly-created Dalek before Tennant crashes into and breaks it with his Tardis.\n\nTennant said: \"Hello, just passing by because I got a bit lost - it's funny, 60 minutes ago I was this really brilliant woman and now I've got this old face back again. I mean, why?\n\n\"Oh, I'm sorry, I am so, so sorry, I think I broke this multi-clawed adaptable ... oh, that's a Dalek.\"\n\nRizwan responds: \"Good word, Dalek. Yes, that's it.\"\n\n\"I'm lucky, I wasn't exterminated\" Tennant said. \"Wait, do you mean this is the genesis of the Daleks?\"\n\nAfter breaking the Dalek, the Doctor hands a plunger from his Tardis which marks the \"origins of the iconic Dalek arm\", the Doctor Who official Twitter page said.\n\nThe final total raised was more than £33m, the presenters announced\n\nThe clip was created by Russell T Davies, who relaunched the TV series in 2005 following a 16-year hiatus.\n\nTennant is reuniting with Catherine Tate for a trio of 60th anniversary Doctor Who specials this year, before Ncuti Gatwa takes over the role as the 15th Doctor.\n\nMuch like James Bond, the Doctor Who role is passed on from actor to actor, thus continuing the franchise. At the end of an actor's tenure as the Doctor, the character \"regenerates\" with somebody else then taking on the extra-terrestrial role.\n\nThis year's televised Children in Need appeal opened with a message from Catherine, Princess of Wales.\n\nThe princess said nurturing every child was \"vital\" when describing why projects supported by Children in Need \"are so important.\"\n\n\"They help the very youngest, most vulnerable members of our society feel safe, secure and loved in these important, formative years, so that they can enjoy their childhoods now, and grow to reach their potential and thrive in the world in later life,\" she said.\n\nThe princess kicked off this year's Children in Need TV appeal\n\nThe live show also featured an appearance from BBC Radio 2 presenter Vernon Kay, who this week completed an 116-mile ultra-marathon.\n\nHe was left speechless after it was announced he had raised more than £5m for the charity.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Vernon fought back tears as he crossed the finish line in Bolton\n\nThere has also been a performance from Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock and a visit to Graham Norton's notorious Big Red Chair.\n\nThe programme was hosted by Ade Adepitan, Mel Giedroyc, Jason Manford, Chris Ramsey, Alex Scott and Lenny Rush - who at the age of 14 became the first-ever child presenter of the live show.\n\nChildren in Need, which helps improve the lives of disadvantaged children and young people around the UK, has raised more than £1bn for charities and projects since its first major appeal in 1980.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'You cannot imagine how I felt when I heard my children were leaving Gaza'\n\nA Belfast-born man whose wife and other family members were killed in Gaza has told BBC News NI of his happiness after learning that his children will leave the Palestinian territory.\n\nKhalid El-Estal, 30, had appealed for help reuniting with his children after the loss of his family members.\n\nHis four-year-old son Ali and one-year-old daughter Sara are now included on an evacuation list to leave Gaza.\n\nThey are due to enter Egypt via the Rafah crossing in the next day.\n\nThe children are currently situated at the crossing and will travel to Ireland with his brother-in-law, he added.\n\n\"You can't imagine how I felt, I was very happy and excited about that... I was thinking 'what should I bring for the kids?'\n\n\"I hope they will make it, if not today then please tomorrow,\" he said. \"They have a good chance [in Ireland].\"\n\nMr El-Estal was born in Belfast and attended primary school in the Botanic area while his father worked as a lecturer at Queen's University.\n\nWhen he was aged eight, the family relocated to Gaza, where he met his wife, Ashwak Jendia, at university.\n\nHe told BBC News NI it was a \"very long love story\" with his \"beautiful, talented\" wife.\n\nIsrael began striking Gaza after Hamas's 7 October attacks, in which 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 hostages were taken.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 11,500 people have been killed in the territory since 7 October - of whom more than 4,500 were children.\n\nMr El-Estal was working in Saudi Arabia when his wife was killed along with his mother, brother, uncle and two cousins.\n\n\"Everything was going in the right path, we were expecting to come [to Ireland] together,\" he said of his wife. \"Years of love, happiness... all of it is gone.\"\n\nMr El Estal said he is now worried for his father and brothers who remain in the Gaza Strip.\n\n\"My brothers are Irish citizens, they didn't want to come to Ireland because they [didn't] want to leave my father and mother, but now it's different.\n\n\"I'm really hoping they can figure something for my father, because he's not Irish, to join me here... I can't imagine leaving my father alone.\n\n\"How can he face all of this, and I am his eldest son? I should be with him.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Micheál Martin said 23 Irish citizens had crossed into Egypt from Gaza.\n\nHe said it was \"very welcome news\" that some families with children had successfully crossed the Rafah checkpoint.\n\nSpeaking to Irish broadcaster RTÉ, Mr Martin said there is another group of about 40 Irish citizens and dependents due to leave the war zone.\n\nOn Thursday, the tánaiste travelled to southern Israel, following a visit to Egypt on Wednesday.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, Mr Martin said three more Irish citizens have managed to cross into Egypt today, which is a lower number than hoped for, due to \"processing delays\".\n\nHe also said the Israeli foreign minister, Eli Cohen, has assured him that the majority of Irish citizens remaining in Gaza will be able to exit within the next three days.\n\nForeign passport holders are exiting Gaza via the Rafah crossing\n\nOn Wednesday evening, a motion which called for the expulsion of Israel's ambassador to Ireland was rejected in the the Dáil (Irish lower house of parliament).\n\nMeanwhile, in the UK Parliament, MPs voted to reject a call for an immediate ceasefire.\n\nAmong the Northern Ireland's MPs, the SDLP and Alliance voted in favour and four DUP MPs who were present in the chamber voted against the move.\n\nThe DUP also voted against a separate Labour amendment which stopped short of calling for a ceasefire.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Vernon fought back tears as he crossed the finish line in Bolton\n\nBBC Radio 2 presenter Vernon Kay has raised more than £5m for Children in Need after completing his ultra-marathon.\n\nThe DJ ran from Leicester to Bolton - a distance of 116 miles - over four days.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 2 breakfast host Zoe Ball as he reached the finish line, Kay described it as \"one of the most painful and joyous experiences I've ever had\".\n\nBBC Children in Need's televised appeal is under way on BBC One.\n\nKay crossed the finish line just before 10:15 GMT on Friday\n\nKay was interviewed by Radio 2 breakfast host Zoe Ball after he completed the ultra marathon\n\nKay has regularly been appearing live on Radio 2 to update listeners on his progress since he started the marathon on Tuesday.\n\n\"I'm absolutely exhausted, absolutely spent, physically, mentally,\" Kay said as he crossed the finish line just before 10:15 GMT.\n\nHe added jokingly: \"Is there anyone here who can replace a knee?\"\n\nThe Children in Need TV audience chanted his name as he came out on stage and learned the latest total raised for his efforts.\n\nThe challenge saw him stop off at some local landmarks in his hometown of Bolton, including his old school, before reaching the finish line.\n\n\"I'm so glad I went to St Joseph's first because that was a real boost,\" Kay said. \"It just really elevates you... that's the pick-me-up I needed.\"\n\nHe told Ball: \"It's been one of the most painful and joyous experiences I've ever had. People we've met along away. We've met some brilliant people who've donated all they can.\n\n\"It was just one foot in front of the other, that's what it was, and we've had a great team who've been absolutely brilliant, pushing me along and motivating me.\"\n\nKay, pictured as he set off on Tuesday, has raised £4.1m for Children in Need so far\n\nKay joined the station as the new mid-morning host in May, following the departure of Ken Bruce.\n\nEarlier on Friday, Kay joked that the rain had started just as he was heading for the finish line.\n\n\"We get to God's country, the beautiful sun is rising as I turn to my left and the rain is falling at a constant pace, I can't believe it. Can you believe it? We've done all them miles and we get eight miles away from Bolton and it starts chucking it down,\" he said.\n\nChildren in Need, the BBC charity which helps improve the lives of disadvantaged children and young people around the UK, will see actor Lenny Rush, 14, become its first-ever child presenter when the fundraiser airs on Friday.\n\nThe Bafta-winning actor will be joined by Ade Adepitan, Mel Giedroyc, Jason Manford, Chris Ramsey and Alex Scott for the three-hour live show.\n\nChild star Lenny Rush is among the presenters of Children in Need this year\n\nIt has raised more than £1bn for charities and projects since its first major appeal in 1980.\n\nRush, from Essex, who won a Bafta for best male comedy performance for his role as Ollie in the BBC series Am I Being Unreasonable?, appeared in a sketch show for Children in Need last year.\n\nHe told the BBC he was nervous, but added that \"'the excitedness outweighs the nervousness'\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriday's televised event will also include an exclusive behind the scenes look at the latest episode of Doctor Who.\n\nThere has also been a performance from Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock and a visit to Graham Norton's notorious Big Red Chair.", "Stephen Port met young men online where he presented a very different version of himself\n\nEight former and current Met Police officers are being investigated for gross misconduct regarding failings in the case of serial killer Stephen Port.\n\nAnthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor were all murdered between 2014 and 2015.\n\nThey were drugged with overdoses of GHB by Port, who dumped their bodies near his flat in Barking, east London.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) will examine alleged breaches of professional standards.\n\nPort, who met his victims online, is serving a whole-life prison term after being convicted in 2016 at an Old Bailey trial.\n\nAfter Port was jailed, the police watchdog took years to decide no officers should be disciplined.\n\nBut that conclusion was upended by inquests into the deaths in 2021, which laid bare multiple Met failures that a jury found contributed to three of the deaths.\n\nBasic errors by a string of detectives left Port free to carry out the three murders, as well as to drug and sexually assault more than a dozen other men.\n\nThe watchdog was forced to reopen its inquiry and, two years on, has announced a new stage of its investigation.\n\nThe inquiry relates to equality and diversity, duties and responsibilities, authority, respect and courtesy, and honesty and integrity.\n\nFive of the eight people under investigation are serving officers.\n\nSisters of Jack Taylor, Donna and Jenny, said in a statement: \"The news today made us feel grateful that someone is finally taking this serious and that our Jack and also Anthony, Gabriel, Daniel and the living victims are now finally being treated as human beings instead of just numbers. Which should have happened from the start.\n\n\"We sat through eight weeks of the trial and eight weeks of the inquest, every single day and we listened to every piece of evidence.\n\n\"We know that Jack should still be here if the officers had done their jobs properly. We live this nightmare every day and we will do for the rest of our lives.\n\n\"Whilst we have been told that this may have amounted to gross misconduct, this does not necessarily mean disciplinary actions will take place.\n\n\"We hope this is the case and people are held accountable for letting people lose their lives.\"\n\nIOPC regional director Steve Noonan said: \"We recognise it has taken some time to reach this stage, but these are complex matters, involving multiple officers and four investigations into unexplained deaths and then the subsequent murder investigation into Port.\n\n\"Though we have found an indication that the behaviour of these eight individuals may have amounted to gross misconduct, this does not necessarily mean disciplinary proceedings will automatically follow.\n\n\"Based on the evidence, at the conclusion of our investigation we will decide whether any officers should face disciplinary proceedings.\"\n\nCdr Jon Savell from the Met Police reiterated the force's \"heartfelt\" apologies for its mistakes in the case.\n\nFamilies of three of Port's victims received compensation from the Met after settling civil claims.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the families of the four men, solicitor Neil Hudgell said they were \"cautiously encouraged\", adding that the latest development was testament to their \"determination and perseverance\".\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An armed suspect opened fire in the lobby of a psychiatric hospital in New Hampshire, killing a security guard, before an officer returned fire, killing the attacker, police say.\n\nOfficials said the suspect was \"immediately engaged and shot\" dead by an officer assigned to the hospital. The police officer was not hurt.\n\nPolice have not identified the attacker or a motive.\n\nThe victim was identified as Bradley Haas, 63, a security officer who was working at the front entrance.\n\nCPR was performed on the law enforcement veteran, but he later died at Concord Hospital.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Friday evening, police spokesman Colonel Mark Hall said the suspect had entered the lobby of the hospital and shot an unnamed individual.\n\nA state trooper quickly engaged and killed the suspect. Col Hall said the situation was \"contained to the front lobby\".\n\nHe declined to identify the deceased victim, and said officers were working to \"determine the identity of the shooter\".\n\nOfficials said a suspicious box truck near the scene was searched and found to pose no risk.\n\nNew Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Lori Weaver, also speaking at the conference, said that all patients and staff at the hospital were safe and that operations at the facility were continuing as normal.\n\nOn its website, the hospital, which has about 185 beds, describes itself as the state's \"premier, acute psychiatric hospital\".", "Dana Carvey said his son, Dex, made \"everything fun\"\n\nWayne's World star Dana Carvey has announced his \"beloved son\" Dex, 32, died from an accidental drug overdose.\n\nIn a statement on Instagram, the US comedian and actor, 68, said the \"terrible tragedy\" had happened on Wednesday night, adding: \"We will miss him forever.\"\n\nHe later posted a picture of himself and Dex working together, saying it had been \"a joy\".\n\nThe two had starred in several TV series together.\n\n\"Dex packed a lot into those 32 years,\" Carvey wrote, in a joint statement with his wife Paula Zwagerman.\n\n\"He was extremely talented at so many things - music, art, film making, comedy - and pursued all of them passionately.\"\n\nDex Carvey \"packed a lot into 32 years\", his father said\n\nThe couple also have another son, Thomas, aged 30.\n\nCarvey said that his eldest son \"loved life\" and that when you were with him, \"you loved life too\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by thedanacarvey This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"He made everything fun,\" he wrote. \"But most of all, he loved his family, his friends and his girlfriend, Kaylee.\n\n\"Dex was a beautiful person. His handmade birthday cards are a treasure. We will miss him forever.\"\n\nCarvey ended by saying to anyone struggling with addiction, or who loved someone struggling with addiction, \"you are in our hearts and prayers\".\n\nFans reacted to the news on social media, with one saying her \"heart aches\" for the family as they come to terms with their loss.\n\nAnother wrote: \"Love the focus you are putting on telling us about Dex. Such a lovely tribute to your boy.\"\n\nDex starred alongside his father in a range of shows, including The Funster and Beyond the Comics.\n\nHe also opened Carvey's TV comedy special titled Straight White Male, 60, in 2016.\n\nCarvey is best known for his work on the US sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, which earned him an Emmy award for outstanding individual performance in 1993.", "A whistleblower who helped expose allegations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan has pleaded guilty to leaking classified information.\n\nDavid McBride was due to face trial next week, but changed his plea after a legal ruling scuppered his defence.\n\nMcBride - an ex-military lawyer - said he felt a moral duty to speak up after his internal complaints were ignored.\n\nA landmark inquiry later found evidence that Australian forces had unlawfully killed 39 Afghans during the war.\n\nMcBride admits he gave troves of documents to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), because he was concerned about what he then thought was the \"over-investigation\" of troops, the court heard.\n\nHe pleaded guilty on Friday to three charges of stealing and unlawfully sharing secret military information.\n\nThe information he provided underpinned a series of reports in 2017 called The Afghan Files, which gave unprecedented insight into the operations of Australia's elite special forces in Afghanistan, and contained allegations of war crimes.\n\nMonths after McBride's arrest in 2019, the ABC was raided by federal police, who were also building a case against the journalist, Dan Oakes, who wrote the reports. Prosecutors declined to charge Mr Oakes however, saying it was not in the public interest.\n\nMcBride - who initially faced five charges - had intended to argue his disclosure was protected by whistleblower safeguards in Australia. But his legal team say they were forced to withdraw that defence after much of their arguments were ruled to endanger national security.\n\nAfter failed attempts to convince Attorney General Mark Dreyfus to intervene and drop the prosecution - as Mr Dreyfus did in the case of fellow whistleblower Bernard Collaery last year - McBride then tried to argue that he had a duty to leak the documents, because doing so was in the public interest.\n\nAfter several days of pre-trial argument, a judge rejected the argument and ruled that they could not be put to a jury.\n\nHis defence lawyer Mark Davis said this would have dealt his defence a \"fatal blow\", with McBride eventually entering a guilty plea.\n\nAdvocates say his case showed that Australia's whistleblower protections were not strong enough.\n\n\"This is a dark day for democracy in Australia,\" said Rex Patrick, a former Senator and founder of the Whistleblower Justice Fund.\n\n\"There is no public interest in prosecuting whistleblowers, and certainly no public interest in sending them to jail,\" added Kieran Pender, from the Human Rights Law Centre, who called for McBride to be pardoned.\n\nA spokesperson for the Attorney General said it would be inappropriate to comment while the proceedings are still before the court.\n\nMcBride will be sentenced early next year.", "Protesters in Glasgow on Friday were demanding a ceasefire\n\nThe education secretary has said she is \"deeply concerned\" about children skipping lessons to attend protests calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.\n\nPupils were among hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at events around the UK on Friday, amid a row over whether they should miss class.\n\nThe number of youngsters on strike is unclear but turnout appears fairly low.\n\nDemonstrations took place in various cities, with some signs reading \"stop killing children\".\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan posted on X, previously Twitter, on Friday afternoon: \"I'm deeply concerned that some children are attending political protests during the school day.\"\n\nShe added that \"missing school for activism is unacceptable.\"\n\nProtests listed by the Stop the War coalition included events on Friday in Harrow and Redbridge in London, Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol and Burton, Staffordshire.\n\nMany children, ranging in ages from the very young through to sixth formers, attended with their parents.\n\nSchoolchildren in Bristol handed in a petition calling for a ceasefire in Gaza to Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer (centre, in green scarf)\n\nBristolian school pupils handed in a petition calling for a ceasefire to representatives at the city council on Friday morning.\n\nThe Green Party's co-leader, Carla Denyer, who is also a local councillor, collected the petition during the event and told the crowd: \"[Hamas'] atrocities do not in any way justify the level of bombardment of civilians, including many Gazan children, that has shocked the world.\"\n\nHamas gunmen launched an unprecedented assault on Israel from the Gaza Strip on 7 October, killing about 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostages.\n\nIsrael responded with air strikes on Gaza and has launched a ground offensive. More than 12,000 people have been killed, including more than 4,500 children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.\n\nA pro-Israel demonstration last month in central London called for the safe return of hostages from Gaza, with protesters in Trafalgar Square holding up photographs of those missing.\n\nAmong the pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Burton Upon Trent on Friday were Zubia and her son Yahya.\n\nThe 10-year-old said: \"I'm here because innocent people are dying. Most of them are children and we need to support them to raise awareness.\"\n\nStop the War said it was \"providing support\" to school students and parents, who it said were \"self-organising\" the strikes with help from the School Strike For Palestine organisation.\n\nVideos have shown demonstrators in Luton, while students gathered in Tower Hamlets, London, on Thursday in an event Stop the War claims attracted around 400 school children and another 100 adults.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson told the BBC: \"Children should be in school.\n\n\"While we recognise these young people should be able to peacefully express their views, we do not condone them missing out on their education.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police was unable to say how many people attended demonstrations in London on Friday.\n\nBut a spokeswoman told the BBC: \"Strikes and protests by pupils are primarily a matter for school staff, but where they take place it is likely that local officers will be sent to ensure the safety and security of those involved.\n\n\"Their priority in these situations is safety but in the event that any offences occur they will respond appropriately.\"\n\nSchool strikes are rare - but four years ago, they regularly took place around the UK and the globe to highlight concerns about global warming. Those protests, partly inspired by Greta Thunberg, have continued but often in lower numbers, after millions of children took part in one event in September 2019.", "An Edinburgh councillor is calling for a \"dog DNA database\" to be set up to tackle dog fouling across the capital.\n\nThe scheme would see dog owners having to register their pets with the council, allowing it to test samples of dog mess left in the street and issue fines accordingly.\n\nIt is estimated there are 13,000 dogs living in the city.\n\nCouncillor Christopher Cowdy said efforts made so far by the authority to address the issue had not worked.\n\nThe Conservative councillor tabled a motion on the problem at the Transport and Environment Committee on Thursday.\n\nIt calls for a report on \"the practicalities of establishing a dog DNA register for the city, how it could be enforced, likely costs to set up and run, and how much might be funded through issuance of fines\".\n\nCouncillor Cowdy admitted it \"might take a couple of years\" to get up and running but said Edinburgh could be the \"vanguard for combating the national problem\".\n\nA council report states, however, that the number of dog fouling complaints raised by the public is low and mostly reflects apathy with lack of enforcement rather than concern about the problem.\n\nEdinburgh Dog and Cat Home suggests approximately 24% of the population own dogs with the number living in Edinburgh estimated at around 13,000 dogs.\n\nIn the three years to December 2022, there were on average 1,288 street cleansing requests a year relating to dog fouling in the city.\n\nThe council already has the powers to issue fixed penalty notices of £80 to offenders but only four were handed by the authority in 2021.\n\nThe councillor said there had been issues with prosecuting \"under the current regime\".\n\nHe said: \"I suppose I thought about a dog DNA test as being the only real way you can make out for definite whose dog did what.\n\n\"The general idea I'm thinking of is there would be an Edinburgh by-law that would require dog owners to register their dogs with the city council who would hold a database.\n\n\"You would be obliged to bring your dog, a DNA swab would be picked up from the dog and recorded on the database, and then if there could be a team of wardens searching for dog foul they would pick it up, take a test from it and hopefully track it down.\"\n\nCouncillor Cowdy said officials confirmed to him the idea was \"practically feasible\".\n\nHe said: \"There are obviously issues that most responsible dog owners pick up after their dog anyway, and irresponsible dog owners might not be inclined to register their dog in the first place.\"\n\nBut he added it was a \"big problem\" that had to be addressed.\n\nThe council is preparing a report looking into the practicalities of the proposal as well as how it might be funded and how much it would raise.\n\nA spokesman for the City of Edinburgh council said the DNA database was just one of a range of measures being considered to tackle dog fouling.\n\nCouncillor Scott Arthur, Transport and Environment Convener, said: \"Tackling the issue of dog fouling is a priority for us - it's unacceptable that a small minority of owners should leave dog's dirt anywhere in the capital.\n\n\"So I look forward to a report coming to a future committee exploring different ways of reducing this, on top of the work already being carried out by our Waste and Cleansing teams.\"", "Ukraine's president posted pictures of Ukrainian marines, saying they were moving forward on the left bank of the Dnipro\n\nUkrainian forces say they have secured several positions on the Russian-occupied eastern bank of the Dnipro river, and their leaders have been keen to talk up their progress.\n\nThe marines have spoken of gaining a foothold on \"several bridgeheads\" on the left bank, as they try to push the Russians back in a bid to protect civilians on the opposite side of the river from constant Russian shelling.\n\n\"Thank you for your strength, for moving forward,\" President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on social media on Friday, alongside pictures of marines arriving in small boats.\n\nThe few hundred soldiers are outnumbered and surrounded in three directions, yet have managed to dig in for the best part of a month. This isn't the thousands needed to potentially liberate swathes of territory which Kyiv so desperately wants to do.\n\nThe front line has barely moved for a year and Ukraine finds itself in a tricky cycle. It needs Western help to deliver battlefield progress, but it also needs battlefield progress to convince western helpers.\n\nGeneral Valery Zaluzhny, the head of Ukraine's armed forces, has described the situation as a stalemate and says a number of innovations are needed to break it.\n\nPresident Zelensky has dismissed his view, and believes Ukraine can still be victorious.\n\nTheir argument has fuelled political fatigue among some of Ukraine's Western allies.\n\nThe south is one area where the mood is high.\n\nA year ago, the southern Kherson region was seen as the least likely place for Ukraine to mount its counter-offensive.\n\nFor the Russians, there is no better defensive line than a huge body of water like the Dnipro river. It separates the third of the region liberated last year from the two-thirds still under occupation.\n\nUkrainian armoured vehicles have advanced 4km (2.5 miles) and Kyiv is framing these inroads as the start of something bigger.\n\n\"We are motivated by our families and we get decent financial support,\" one special forces fighter told the BBC.\n\nThe reality is there are simply not enough boots on the ground yet to justify Kyiv's hopes for a breakthrough there.\n\nIn the south-east, Ukrainian troops have thrown everything at trying to retake territory there, but have only liberated a handful of villages.\n\n\"Fatigue is the main thing, and it kills any motivation,\" explains a soldier with a mortar crew in the Zaporizhzhia region.\n\nHe's fighting with the 46th brigade in an area where Russian defences are at their strongest.\n\n\"We've killed many Russians, but lost no fewer,\" says the soldier. \"Anyone who complained was removed from their position.\"\n\nDuring the summer, this part of the front line was seen as the best place for Ukraine to try to break the land corridor Russia occupies in two.\n\nNow, Western officials think neither side can mount a land offensive \"in the near future\". As far as they're concerned, it's a stalemate.\n\nThe soldier in the 46th Brigade believes next year will be difficult, but decisive: \"It is impossible to fight forever. Hatred is soon replaced by apathy.\"\n\nA Ukrainian soldier watches over a position on the Dnipro river, where raids by Kyiv's forces have been intensifying in recent weeks\n\nIt is on the eastern axis that Russian forces have been pushing hardest, and it is the city of Avdiivka that best reflects the state of this war.\n\nIt was briefly occupied in 2014 before being liberated, and the Russians have been trying to get it back since.\n\nUkraine has recently been repelling wave after wave of attacks, partly helped by the heavy fortifications it has built over the past nine years.\n\nWestern officials say Russia is suffering 500-1,000 casualties a day there.\n\n\"Our commanders and fighters have studied every hill and every road,\" says Ivan from Ukraine's 110 Brigade. He's been serving there since March 2022.\n\nAvdiivka's strategic value is questionable, but clearly Kyiv thinks it's inflicting a significant enough number of losses compared to its own.\n\nThe mood can be described as \"fatigue, rage and desire to expel evil\", explains Ivan. \"It's tiredness from the constant threat to your life, not from the front line not moving.\n\nIvan from 110 Brigade speaks of a mood of fatigue from the constant threat from Russian forces\n\nIn the north-east, more than 250km (155 miles) to the north, the city of Kupiansk was occupied for most of last year until Ukraine's counter-offensive last autumn.\n\nAs an important railway hub, Kupiansk has strategic value and during this war both sides have used it to supply the front lines.\n\nCivilians were urged to leave in August because of constant shelling as Russia tried to take it back.\n\nDenys is at the very sharpest edge of the fighting and after months on the front line he has had enough, complaining that his commanders do not listen to advice.\n\n\"They emphasise aviation and artillery, but we need the latest technologies, like drones,\" he says.\n\nHe believes Nato, which Ukraine desperately wants to join, needs to learn lessons from this very modern war.\n\nMines are one of the biggest challenges for Ukrainian troops across the frontline.\n\n\"The Russians have machines that can mine an area of tens of kilometres per day,\" explains Denys. \"They use anti-personnel mines, anti-tank mines, they lay three mines, one under the other.\"\n\nAnother hurdle has been the quality of Russian defences, which Denys describes as \"underground cities\".\n\nFrom his position, as a rank-and-file soldier on the front line, Denys has seen a horrifying human cost on his own side of the incremental breakthroughs in recapturing territory. \"The commander throws anyone - cooks or drivers - into the furnace. They simply die there in their hundreds.\"\n\n\"Those commanders will have to be arrested and tried after the war,\" he says.\n\nThese soldiers on Ukraine's front lines reflect the war of attrition this invasion has become. With its size and resources, that suits Russia.\n\nWhat Kyiv is also having to grapple with, is sharing the spotlight with another conflict: the Israel-Hamas war.\n\nPresident Zelensky has admitted it makes Ukraine's fight all the more difficult, with the risk of Western attention and aid being diluted.", "What is in it and does it go far enough?", "Last updated on .From the section Everton\n\nEverton have received an immediate 10-point deduction after being found to have breached the Premier League's financial rules.\n\nEnglish top-flight clubs are permitted to lose £105m over three years, and an independent commission found Everton's losses to 2021-22 amounted to £124.5m.\n\nThe punishment is the biggest sporting sanction in the competition's history and leaves Everton 19th in the table.\n\nThe club said they were \"both shocked and disappointed\" and would appeal.\n\nThe Premier League referred Everton to an independent commission in March but did not reveal the specifics of the club's alleged breach.\n\nThat month, Everton posted financial losses for the fifth successive year after reporting a £44.7m deficit in 2021-22.\n\nThey admitted to being in breach of the profit and sustainability rules (PSR) for the period ending 2021-22, and the commission found in favour of the Premier League following a five-day hearing in October.\n\nIn a statement, Everton said: \"The club does not recognise the finding that it failed to act with the utmost good faith and it does not understand this to have been an allegation made by the Premier League during the course of proceedings.\n\n\"Both the harshness and severity of the sanction imposed by the commission are neither a fair nor a reasonable reflection of the evidence submitted.\n\n\"The club will also monitor with great interest the decisions made in any other cases concerning the Premier League's profit and sustainability rules.\"\n\nThe points deduction comes at a time of significant uncertainty at Everton.\n\nIn September, owner Farhad Moshiri agreed to sell his 94% stake in the club to American investment fund 777 Partners. The takeover is going through the regulatory processes and, before this ruling, sources said it was on course to be completed by next month.\n\nThe club are in the process of building a new stadium on the banks of the River Mersey at Bramley-Moore Dock, which is due to open in late 2024.\n• None 'Dogs of War reborn' - Everton gear up for another challenge\n• None What other big points deductions have there been?\n• None Everton: The inside story of a turbulent 2022-23 season for the Toffees\n\nWhy was the points deduction so high?\n\nExplaining why Everton's points deduction was so high, the commission said in its written reasons that the cause of the club's issues was because of overspending - largely on new players - along with an inability to sell players, and a lower than projected league finish.\n\nThe Premier League had argued for a 12-point sanction for the club.\n\nThe club's 16th-place finish in 2021-22 caused a loss of expected income of around £21m, the reasons state.\n\nThe commission added: \"Everton's understandable desire to improve its on-pitch performance (to replace the non-existent midfield, as Mr Moshiri put it in evidence) led it to take chances with its PSR position.\n\n\"Those chances resulted in it exceeding the £105m threshold by £19.5m.\n\n\"The position that Everton finds itself in is of its own making. The excess over the threshold is significant. The consequence is that Everton's culpability is great.\n\n\"We take into account the fact that Everton's PSR trend over the relevant four years is positive, but cannot ignore the fact that the failure to comply with the PSR regime was the result of Everton irresponsibly taking a chance that things would turn out positively.\"\n\nThe commission ultimately found Everton's failure to comply with the Premier League's \"generous threshold\" was down to their own \"mismanagement\".\n\nThe chair of the commission, David Phillips KC, also referenced applications for financial compensation from current Premier League clubs Burnley and Nottingham Forest and last season's relegated sides, Leicester City, Leeds United and Southampton.\n\nPhillips said he was \"satisfied that the applicant clubs have potential claims for compensation\" - but noted the commission holds no \"inherent jurisdiction\" and it is instead \"the role of the Premier League to bring and prosecute complaints\".\n\nWhat was Everton's defence - six 'mitigating' factors\n\nEverton advanced six mitigating factors in their defence. Among them, the club said they lost money on 'Player X' - who was released after being arrested.\n\nThe commission dismissed this argument as an event that can \"occur in the management of football clubs\", adding Everton's £10m valuation of the player was \"speculative\".\n\nFurther mitigating factors submitted by Everton surrounded the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.\n\nThe Toffees said they had planned player sales exceeding £80m in the pandemic-impacted 2020 summer transfer window but the commission sided with the Premier League's assertion that Everton's inability to raise that money was \"largely attributable\" to market forces - namely the prices Everton were asking for.\n\nFurther, it stated the club should be expected to \"plan for untoward eventualities\", while it was also considered that Everton had benefitted from the Premier League's Covid-related concessions totalling £70.2m.\n\nSimilarly, the commission found that both the loss of a naming rights agreement with Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov's company USM Services Limited and a rise in stadium-related costs following Russia's invasion of Ukraine could be considered \"the type of event that businesses experience\".\n\nThe commission also dismissed Everton's claim that interest incurred in relation to the stadium development could have been capitalised after planning permission had been obtained as being \"based on a false premise\", adding Everton had been \"less than frank\" over the issue.\n\nEverton also asked for their cooperation during the process to be considered in the ruling. In response, the commission said it did not find any aspect of the club's dealings to be of an \"exceptional nature\".\n\nBut the club's argument that the improving losses trend, as shown in the PSR calculation, was viewed more favourably and had gone a \"limited way to diminish Everton's culpability\", the commission said.\n\nBiggest sanction in Premier League history - but can Everton survive?\n\nIn Premier League history only two other clubs have received a points deduction.\n\nMiddlesbrough were deducted three points for failing to fulfil a fixture against Blackburn during the 1996-97 season, while in 2010 Portsmouth were deducted nine points after going into administration.\n\nNeither club was able to avoid relegation following those sanctions.\n\nThe deduction leaves the Toffees level with bottom club Burnley on four points after 12 matches - and two points adrift of safety.\n\nSean Dyche's side, who ended last season two points above the relegation places, had been 14th in the standings - and eight points clear of the bottom three.\n\nOn the three previous occasions when a Premier League club has had as few as four points after 12 games, Everton in 1994-95 were the only side to stay up.\n\nOpta's data analysis gives them a 34.1% chance of going down - up from just 3.4% before the sanction, but still less than Burnley (80.6%), Sheffield United (78%) and Luton (70%).\n\nAnd it is the first Premier League season where as many as three clubs - those newly promoted sides - failed to win at least seven points from their opening 12 games.\n\nManchester City are the only other club to have been charged by the Premier League for financial breaches, when they were referred to an independent commission over more than 100 alleged rule breaches between 2009 and 2018.\n\nTreble winners City were charged in February - before Everton - and that case is still ongoing.\n\nBBC Sport's Simon Stone said: \"The verdict immediately raised questions from some Everton fans about how their club's case has been heard but Manchester City's awaits a hearing, even though the Premier League champions were charged before the Merseysiders.\n\n\"Firstly, Everton were defending themselves against a single charge relating to their spending. Manchester City have 115 to deal with, many of which are complex, and all of which they deny. It stands to reason the legalities of both sides in that case will take longer to get into shape.\n\n\"What today's decision has done is raise the bar in terms of punishment. Ten points is a big punishment for Everton, albeit, it seems certain, not as damaging in terms of their top-flight status as it would have been if the case had been dealt with last season, as the Premier League wanted.\n\n\"But City's charge sheet is such that if they are found guilty, the punishment, by definition, will have to be far heavier given they have effectively been accused of deception on a huge scale, albeit around issues from many years ago.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Chelsea could face further scrutiny from football's authorities over reports of payments connected to the club's former owner Roman Abramovich.\n\nChelsea were fined £8.6m by European football governing body Uefa in July for \"submitting incomplete financial information\" between 2012 and 2019 as part of a settlement for breaking Financial Fair Play rules.\n\nReacting on X (formerly Twitter), former Liverpool and England defender Jamie Carragher said: \"The 10-point deduction for Everton is excessive and not right, considering they have been working with the Premier League about this for the last couple of years. Would it have been better to be evasive and try to drag it out like other clubs?\"\n\nCarragher added: \"No doubt relegated clubs will have put big pressure on the Premier League to deal with Everton, but when you consider six clubs tried to leave the league and there was no sanction at all it doesn't feel right.\n\n\"Until other clubs are sanctioned Everton will feel they are being used to show there is no need for an independent regulator, and they are right.\"\n\nBBC Match of the Day host Gary Lineker said: \"With Everton being docked 10 points it will be very interesting to see if other clubs are sanctioned.\"\n\nLiverpool mayor Steve Rotheram described the punishment as \"excessive and grossly unfair\" and added he would support Everton in the club's appeal.\n• None Our coverage of Everton is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Everton - go straight to all the best content", "Sam Altman has been ousted as the head of artificial intelligence firm OpenAI by the company's board, which said it had lost confidence in his ability to lead the company.\n\nThe board said Mr Altman had not been \"consistently candid with his communications\", hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.\n\nThe 38-year-old helped launch OpenAI, which is behind the ChatGPT bot.\n\nMr Altman had become one of the most high-profile figures in the industry.\n\nIn a statement the board said it was grateful for Mr Altman's contributions but that members believed new leadership was necessary.\n\n\"The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI,\" the company said, citing \"a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities\".\n\nIt is not clear what he is alleged to not have been candid about.\n\nOn social media, Mr Altman wrote that he had loved his time at the company.\n\n\"It was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. Most of all I loved working with such talented people,\" he wrote.\n\nAccording to OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, it all took place over hastily-organised Google Meet video conference calls.\n\nMr Brockman - who was himself dismissed from the board a few minutes later and then resigned from the company - said both men were \"shocked and saddened\" by the news.\n\nHe said they were \"still trying to figure out exactly what happened\" but claimed in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the whole drama unfolded in a matter of hours.\n\nThey sat on the company's relatively small board of just six executives. It is unusual for such a tight team to take such a dramatic decision so quickly, which begs the question: was it personal?\n\nOpenAI is widely seen to be a company at its peak, with lucrative investment pouring in, and ChatGPT - which was launched almost exactly one year ago - is used by millions.\n\nMr Altman has been the face of the firm's rise. More than that, he is seen by many as the face of the industry more widely.\n\nHe testified before a US Congress hearing to discuss the opportunities and risks created by the new technology, and also at the world's first AI Safety Summit, held in the UK at the beginning of November.\n\nThe outpouring of support from Silicon Valley bosses shows that he enjoyed the support of the tech industry.\n\nOn social media, former Google boss Eric Schmidt called Mr Altman \"a hero of mine\" and said that he had \"changed our collective world forever\".\n\n\"I can't wait to see what he does next. I, and billions of people, will benefit from his future work- it's going to be simply incredible,\" he wrote.\n\nThere will be a lot of interest in whatever that next move is - and many will be waiting to see if Mr Altman is angry enough to talk about being dumped by the company he helped create.\n\nHe has promised he will have \"more to say about what's next later\".\n\nBut it doesn't appear he's poised to lift the lid on his departure just yet, even writing on X to advise OpenAI's remaining board members to \"go after me for the full value of my shares\" if he gets into a public row with them.\n\nMr Brockman announced he had quit his role at the company following Mr Altman's ousting.\n\nIn a statement posted X, Mr Brockman said: \"I'm super proud of what we've all built together since starting in my apartment eight years ago.\n\n\"We've been through tough and great times together, accomplishing so much despite all the reasons it should have been impossible. But based on today's news, I quit.\"\n\nHe said he would continue to \"believe in the mission of creating safe AGI that benefits all of humanity\".\n\nOpenAI started in 2015 as a non-profit. It restructured in 2019 and is now backed by Microsoft, which has invested billions.\n\nJust weeks ago, OpenAI was reportedly in talks to sell shares in the company to investors at a price that would value it at more than $80bn (£64bn).\n\nThe company said its board members -who include an OpenAI chief scientist, the head of popular question and answer app Quora, and an AI researcher affiliated with Georgetown University - did not have shares in the firm and that their fundamental governance responsibility was to \"advance OpenAI's mission and preserve the principles of its Charter\".\n\nThe company said chief technology officer, Mira Murati, would take over as interim chief, effective immediately, while the board searches for a permanent replacement.\n\nChatGPT is known for its ability to respond to prompts from users with human-like text.\n\nHundreds of millions of people have tried it out, and many are now regularly using it to help them do their jobs and study - to consternation in some cases, like teachers facing essays written by the bot and people worried for their jobs.\n\nThe company has also faced legal action from writers who say the bot developed its abilities by harvesting their work, in violation of copyright law.\n\nBillionaire Elon Musk, who with Mr Altman was one of the founding co-chairs of OpenAI, has also criticised it for straying from its non-profit roots.", "AS Byatt, pictured in 2011, won the Booker Prize for her 1990 novel Possession\n\nNovelist, critic and poet Dame AS Byatt has died at the age of 87, her publisher has announced.\n\nThe renowned writer, whose full name was Antonia Susan Byatt, won the Booker Prize for her 1990 novel Possession.\n\nIn a statement, Penguin Random House said they were \"deeply saddened\" to announce her death.\n\nThey described her as \"one of the most significant writers and critics of our time\".\n\nThe author was appointed CBE 1990 and was made a dame nine years later.\n\nIn 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award. Dame Antonia's work was translated into 38 languages.\n\nPenguin said: \"She died peacefully at home surrounded by close family. A girl from Sheffield with a strong European sensibility, Antonia had a remarkable mind which produced a unique creative vision.\"\n\nDame Antonia, pictured at home in 1991, saw her work translated into 38 languages\n\nDame Antonia was also known for writing 2009's the Children's Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.\n\nHer most recent publication was a collection of short stories - 2021's Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories (2021).\n\n\"Antonia's Quaker schooling encouraged a clear independence of thought, and throughout her career she had an unerring ability to ask direct and searching questions,\" Penguin said in their statement.\n\n\"Her novels showed a profound engagement with history and historical consciousness - and an understanding of the traditions in which she wrote - whether folktale or novel.\n\n\"And if her fiction offered an imaginative realm of ideas, it was also warm and engaging, and filled with unforgettable characters.\"\n\nTime-jumping story Possession tells the story of the love between two Victorian poets that is uncovered by scholars in the modern age.\n\nThe book was adapted for a 2002 romance mystery movie of the same name starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Toby Stephens and Tom Hollander.\n\nPublisher Penguin described Dame Antonia as \"one of the most significant writers and critics of our time\"\n\nLast year, her 1995 short story The Djinn In The Nightingale's Eye inspired a fantasy drama film directed and co-written by Mad Max creator George Miller.\n\nIdris Elba and Tilda Swinton starred opposite each other in 2022's Three Thousand Years Of Longing, which features a conversation between a genie and an academic in a hotel room in Istanbul.\n\nThe writer was also known for works such as Angels and Insects and The Frederica Quartet, which consisted of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman.\n\nDame Antonia was born in 1936 and grew up in Sheffield and York. She studied English at Newnham College, Cambridge, Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia and at Oxford.\n\nShe began teaching at University College London in 1962, and published her first novel, Shadows of a Sun, two years later.\n\nHer younger sister is the novelist and biographer Dame Margaret Drabble.\n\nThe pair's relationship reportedly came under strain due to autobiographical elements in each of their books, and Dame Antonia often declined to discuss their relationship with interviewers.\n\nDame Antonia has three daughters. Her only son died in 1972 in a car accident aged 11.\n\nA poem she later wrote, Dead Boys, described how a child is perpetually present after their death, at every age, to their mother.\n\nTracy Chevalier, author of books including Girl With a Pearl Earring, was among those paying tribute, writing on social media: \"RIP AS Byatt, your books have given us all such pleasure.\"\n\nFellow author Catriona Ward added:\"So sad to hear of AS Byatt's death. what a richness of work she left us.\"", "Ashling Murphy's murder caused widespread shock and prompted vigils across Ireland and the UK\n\nThe man convicted of murdering Irish schoolteacher Ashling Murphy has been handed a life sentence.\n\nJozef Puska, 33, of Lynally Grove in Mucklagh, County Offaly, was found guilty at a court in Dublin last week.\n\nPuska stabbed the 23-year-old 11 times in the neck as she jogged on the banks of the Grand Canal near Tullamore, County Offaly, on 12 January 2022.\n\nMs Murphy's death caused widespread shock, prompting vigils across Ireland and the UK.\n\nJudge Tony Hunt said he could not hand down a whole life sentence but if he could it would be \"richly deserved\".\n\nDressed in a grey suit with a white shirt and no tie, Puska made no comment or reaction when the sentence was handed down to him through a translator.\n\nThe court heard Puska and Ms Murphy, a talented folk musician, were not known to each other and had never met before the attack.\n\nPuska, who is a Slovak national, had pleaded not guilty to her murder.\n\nHe has no criminal record here or in Slovakia and had never come to the attention of gardaí (Irish police) before the killing.\n\nHe claimed he was trying to help Ms Murphy after she had been attacked by another man, who went on to stab him too.\n\nAshling's family and boyfriend gave emotional victim impact statements to the courts, with Ashling's mum's read by a police officer who occasionally became emotional.\n\nKathleen Murphy told the court how she had asked Ashling to jog near their home the day she was murdered.\n\nAshling refused, saying she was an adult of 23, and told her mother she loved her.\n\nAshling's boyfriend Ryan Casey told how the pair had met an architect just weeks before Ashling's death, with the aim of building a house together to live in, and that they planned to marry and have children together.\n\n\"I'd smile to myself thinking, I can't wait to marry that girl. I would've married her a long time ago and I wish I did but we didn't get a chance to reach that part,\" he said.\n\n\"Ireland has officially lost its innocence that a crime of this magnitude can be done in daylight.\n\n\"Our country is heading down a very dangerous path and we will not be the the last family.\"\n\nBefore his arrest, Puska confessed to the killing after being admitted to St James' Hospital in Dublin for treatment to stab wounds the day after Ms Murphy was killed, the court heard.\n\nHe initially told staff in the hospital he had been stabbed in a separate incident in Blanchardstown on the outskirts of Dublin\n\nThe judge said in the hours before his surgery, Puska was initially composed enough \"to spin a detailed yarn\" to healthcare staff.\n\nGardaí attended the hospital to investigate but were immediately suspicious and made a connection to Ms Murphy's murder.\n\n\"Something was a bit off\" with Puska, the judge said.\n\nAfter his surgery, police officers from Tullamore attended the hospital and spoke with Puska about executing a warrant.\n\nPuska then confessed to a Garda officer, claiming he did not mean to hurt Ms Murphy and killing her was the result of \"panic\".\n\nGardaí said the confession took them by surprise as they had not attended the hospital to interview Puska.\n\nAshling's boyfriend told Josef Puska in court that he was the \"lowest of the low\" and had shown \"zero remorse\"\n\nHe repeated his confession after being cautioned by the officers, but the interaction was not recorded.\n\nHowever, a few days later Puska said he had no recollection of the incident.\n\nHis defence counsel said this was due to pain medication he was taking ,a claim that was later disputed by a pain specialist during the trial.\n\nDuring sentencing, Judge Hunt said the minor level of medication would \"not cause amnesia for major events\".\n\nThe judge said Puska gave his confession \"lucidly\" and was \"perfectly coherent\" that afternoon.\n\nHe praised the Slovak translator who heard the confession, highlighting his \"clarity and independence\" when giving evidence and said it was fortunate he was present.\n\nThe court also heard that DNA evidence belonging to Puska was found under Ms Murphy's fingernails.\n\nOne eyewitness said they had seen Mr Puska on top of Ms Murphy in a hedgerow with her legs kicking out underneath him.\n\nWhen Puska saw the witness he shouted at her to go away, the court heard.\n\nPuska, currently separated from other inmates at Cloverhill Prison for his own safety, will now be moved to Dublin's Mountjoy prison.\n\nHe is undergoing psychiatric supervision after attempting to take his own life during the trial.\n\nMs Murphy's death sparked a new conversation about violence against women in Ireland and renewed pressure on the Irish government to tackle the issue.", "Holly Willoughby left her role at This Morning in October, after 14 years as a presenter\n\nA man accused of soliciting to murder and incitement to kidnap the TV presenter Holly Willoughby has been refused bail.\n\nGavin Plumb, of Harlow, Essex, denies charges relating to an alleged plot between 2 and 5 October involving the former presenter of This Morning.\n\nMr Plumb was not present when his application for bail was denied at Chelmsford Crown Court.\n\nThe 36-year-old was returned to custody ahead of trial in June.\n\nHe is accused of planning to assemble a \"kidnap and restraint kit\" and encouraging a third party to travel to the UK to carry out the alleged offences.\n\nGavin Plumb, pictured in 2014, was remanded in custody\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Benefit claimants who fail to find work for more than 18 months will have to undertake work experience placements, under rules planned for late next year.\n\nIf they refuse they will lose access to their benefits for a period, the government says.\n\nBut the charity Mind said the use of sanctions would worsen peoples' mental health.\n\nIt is part of new plans to get people back to work, which will also see an extra £2.5bn spent on career support.\n\nUnder a plan that would need parliamentary approval, those solely eligible for the standard Universal Credit allowance who refuse to engage with job centre staff or accept work offered to them after six months will have their claims closed.\n\nThat means they will have to go through the application process again if they want to keep receiving benefits and lose access to extras such as free prescriptions and legal aid during that time.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour pledged to invest an extra £1.1bn to cut NHS waiting lists to help get people back to work.\n\nAccording to the Treasury, the number of people not seeking work has risen sharply since the pandemic, hurting the economy.\n\nIt said there were 300,000 people who had been registered as unemployed for over a year in the three months to July.\n\nBut Vicki Nash from mental health charity Mind said: \"The increase in the use of sanctions is deeply worrying. Evidence has repeatedly shown they don't work and make people's mental health worse\".\n\nShe added that changes to sick notes will also make it tougher to be signed off from work and could mean people don't get the time they need to recover.\n\n\"Poverty and mental health problems form a vicious cycle that need to be tackled by every part of government working together. Today's announcements look like they have come from departments working on different planets,\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile, the number \"inactive\" due to long-term sickness or disability had risen by almost half a million since the pandemic to a record 2.6 million.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt said that many of these people wanted to work and that \"with almost a million vacancies in the jobs market the opportunities are there\".\n\n\"These changes mean there's help and support for everyone [to find work] - but for those who refuse it, there are consequences too,\" he added.\n\n\"Anyone choosing to coast on the hard work of taxpayers will lose their benefits.\"\n\nUnder its Back to Work plan - which is part of next week's Autumn Statement - the government says it will expand and reform existing career help schemes for people with disabilities, health conditions or the long-term unemployed, as well as launch new ones.\n\nIt will also put additional staff in job centres to help claimants struggling to find work.\n\nHowever, it said there would be stricter sanctions for \"people who should be looking for work but are not\".\n\nUnder the current sanctions regime, such claimants only have a deduction applied to their benefits until they re-comply with their requirement to meet with a work coach and establish a personalised job-seeking plan.\n\nMinisters said the new rules would not apply to additional payments for child, housing or disability support.\n\nFrom late 2024 mandatory work placement trials will also be rolled out for people unemployed longer than 18 months, and benefits will be removed from those who refuse to take part.\n\nDigital tools will also be used to \"track\" attendance at job fairs and interviews under the tougher sanctions regime.\n\nThe Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Mel Stride, said: \"Our message is clear: if you are fit, if you refuse to work, if you are taking taxpayers for a ride - we will take your benefits away.\"\n\nBut Liberal Democrat's Treasurer Sarah Olney said the government seemed more interested in \"penalising people than helping them get back into work.\"\n\nSeparately, Labour has unveiled its own back to work plan with a focus on cutting NHS waiting lists. Since January waiting lists have risen by 500,000 to a record 7.8 million, it says.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told the BBC: \"Labour have committed to getting rid of the non-dom status. If you make your home in Britain you should pay your taxes here and under Labour you will.\n\n\"We will put that money into creating every year an additional two million appointments, scans and operations in our National Health Service so that we can get those waiting lists down, get people the treatment they need, and get them in many cases back into work.\"", "The Israeli military has raided Gaza's main hospital in what it describes as a \"targeted operation against Hamas\".\n\nAn eyewitness at Al-Shifa hospital told the BBC that troops moved in overnight and were interrogating people.\n\nOn Wednesday, Israel said it found Hamas' \"operational centre\" at the hospital, sharing images of what it said were Hamas weapons and equipment.\n\nHamas denies operating there and the BBC cannot independently verify claims by either side.\n\nUN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said he was \"appalled\" by the Israeli raid, while the World Health Organization (WHO) said it was \"extremely worried\" for patients and staff, with whom it had lost contact.\n\nThe BBC has been speaking to a journalist and a doctor inside the hospital to find out what is happening there, while the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has also been providing updates.\n\nKhader, a journalist inside Al-Shifa, told the BBC's Rushdi Abualouf that Israeli troops were in \"complete control\" of the hospital and no shooting was taking place.\n\nHe said six tanks and about 100 commandos entered the complex during the night. The Israeli forces then went room to room, questioning staff and patients.\n\nThe IDF reportedly asked all men aged 16-40 to leave the hospital buildings, except the surgical and emergency departments, and go to the hospital courtyard.\n\nSoldiers fired into the air to force those remaining inside to come out, Khader said.\n\nHowever Muhammad Zaqout, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry's director of hospitals, told Al Jazeera that \"not a single bullet\" had been fired - because \"there are no resistors or detainees\" inside.\n\nEarly on Wednesday, the IDF said its forces were in the midst of a \"precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area\" in the hospital.\n\nIt said the raid was \"based on intelligence information and an operational necessity\", calling for the surrender of \"all Hamas terrorists\" present there.\n\nAs the soldiers entered the hospital complex, they engaged with a number Hamas members and killed them, the IDF said.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the IDF said troops found \"an operational command centre, weapons, and technological assets\" belonging to Hamas inside the MRI building.\n\nIt said it was \"continuing to operate in the hospital complex\", sharing images and videos showing what it said were Hamas weapons.\n\nIn a seven-minute video, IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus pointed to security cameras that he said had been covered over, and weapons that he said were AK47 rifles hidden behind MRI scanners.\n\nThe BBC has not yet been able to verify the video or its location.\n\nBut unless Israel has more to reveal, the military's controversial operation inside the hospital did not net a major arsenal of weapons, reports the BBC's Orla Guerin in Jerusalem.\n\nHamas knew Israel was coming, and therefore, if they were operating beneath the hospital, they would have had weeks to clear out through Gaza's extensive tunnel network, our correspondent adds.\n\nIsrael's Army Radio reported that troops had not yet found any sign of any of the 240 hostages taken by Hamas during the 7 October attack on Israel, when 1,200 other people were killed.\n\nThe raid on Al-Shifa came shortly after the US publicly backed Israeli claims that Hamas had infrastructure underneath the hospital.\n\nHowever Dr Ahmed Mokhallalati, a plastic surgeon at Al-Shifa, told the BBC there were only civilians in the hospital.\n\nHe said there were tunnels under every building in Gaza, including Al-Shifa hospital.\n\nAccording to international humanitarian law, hospitals are specially protected facilities.\n\nThis means that parties to conflicts cannot attack hospitals, or prevent them performing their medical functions. They can lose their protection if they are used by a party to the conflict to commit an \"act harmful to the enemy\".\n\nThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says this could be something like a hospital being used as a base from which to launch an attack, as a shelter for able-bodied fighters, or to shield a military objective from attack.\n\nThe IDF said it had repeatedly warned Hamas its \"continued military use of Al-Shifa jeopardises its protected status\", calling for the evacuation of the hospital before the raid.\n\nThe WHO had warned that evacuating patients would be a \"death sentence\", given that the medical system was collapsing.\n\nDr Mokhallalati told the BBC on Wednesday the hospital was without power, oxygen and water. On Tuesday, surgeries had been carried out without proper anaesthesia, with patients \"screaming in pain\". Doctors were unable to help one patient with burns, and had to just \"let him die\".\n\nBabies trapped inside Al-Shifa hospital, in an image issued by medical staff\n\nDr Mokhallalati said six premature babies had died in recent days.\n\n\"Why can't they be evacuated,\" he said. \"In Afghanistan, they evacuated the cats and dogs.\"\n\nThe IDF said it was providing incubators, baby food and medical supplies.", "The Prince of Wales has been put on the spot when visiting a youth project in a city when a boy asked him how much was in his bank account.\n\nPrince William was in Manchester's Moss Side to learn about how the Manchester Peace Together Alliance is trying to tackle youth violence.\n\nAmir Hassan, 11, made the prince laugh with his financial inquiry during the visit to the Hideaway Youth Project.\n\nThe boy said afterwards the future king had quipped he did not know the answer.\n\nThe prince was joined by Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham after the prince's Royal Foundation and the politician's office donated £50,000 each to bolster the work of the Manchester Peace Together Alliance.\n\nThe funding will be used to create an employment, skills and training programme for young people at risk of violence.\n\nThe prince met volunteers and young people benefitting from the youth projects\n\nPrince William met some mothers who had lost children to violence, including Audrey Preston, 57, whose 21-year-old son was killed three years ago.\n\nShe said: \"I think it's important he came into Moss Side to listen to our stories. When I was told he was coming I thought 'wow, why would he want to come and listen to me?'.\n\n\"Lots of kids get murdered in this area and nobody cares really about the families, we're just left to our own devices, so it's good he came, good for the community.\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales looks at Jessie's Wall, a memorial built in tribute of Jessie James who was shot dead\n\nThe Hideaway Youth Project is a lead partner in the Manchester Peace Together Alliance\n\nThe prince also visited Jessie's Wall, a memorial built in tribute of Jessie James, a teenager who was shot dead in 2006 in a park in Moss Side.\n\nLater, he visited the Moss Side Millennium Powerhouse, a community hub with sports facilities and a library.\n\nThe Prince of Wales receives a t-shirt during his visit to the Moss Side Millennium Powerhouse\n\nHe brought with him his own donation to the food bank, a basket of food of cultural importance to Jamaicans, but sometimes hard to buy in the UK, including okra, yams and dragon fruit.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Victoria Atkins was appointed to her new role on Monday\n\nThe new health secretary has insisted there is no conflict of interest with her husband's senior role in the British sugar industry.\n\nVictoria Atkins, who is the Louth and Horncastle MP, is married to British Sugar managing director Paul Kenward.\n\nMs Atkins said she would recuse herself from some government business if necessary.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said Ms Atkins had declared all her outside interests.\n\n\"Anyone who knows me knows that I am very, very independently minded,\" Ms Atkins said.\n\n\"I voted enthusiastically for the sugar tax when that came before Parliament.\"\n\nBefore becoming health secretary in the Prime Minister's reshuffle on Monday, Ms Atkins had previously been financial secretary to the Treasury.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not the first time Ms Atkins has been challenged over her husband's business interests.\n\nIn 2018, when she was a drugs minister she was accused of \"hypocrisy\" over British Sugar's licence to produce a non-psychoactive variant of the cannabis plant.\n\nThe Home Office stated the MP had declared the interest and had recused herself voluntarily from \"policy or decisions relating to cannabis, including licensing\".\n\nMs Atkins said: \"I have always been scrupulous in ensuring that those interests are declared and that I recuse myself from any such decisions.\n\n\"Not because I think I am at risk of being in any way influenced but I am very conscious of the perception of that.\"\n\nThe secretary of state said she had a \"complicated relationship\" with sugar as a type 1 diabetic.\n\n\"I am focused on ensuring the health of our country,\" she said.\n\n\"I want to work with our healthcare professionals both in the NHS and in social care and that is how we are going to tackle some of these very big public health issues.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Millions of workers in the UK are struggling with ill-health that is affecting their ability at work.\n\nThe Health Foundation analysis found 12% of people in work - 3.7 million - had a \"work-limiting\" condition.\n\nThat is up from 8.5% a decade ago - a rise of 1.4 million.\n\nWorking young people have experienced a particularly sharp rise - and are now as likely to report ill-health affecting their work as a middle-aged person a decade ago.\n\nMore than 10% of those aged 16 to 34 in work cited poor health as an issue.\n\nOne of those is health and safety specialist Shaney Wright, who is 33 and struggles with long-Covid.\n\nBefore the pandemic he managed a team of six, but has had to step back from management duties and even spent a period working part-time as he battled a range of symptoms, including fatigue, dizziness, allergies and eyesight difficulties.\n\n\"It has been really debilitating and my health has completely affected my career aspirations,\" he said.\n\n\"My employer has been wonderful, but I would not feel confident putting myself forward for some of the roles I used to dream about.\"\n\nThe most common causes of ill-health were chronic illnesses like heart disease, mental health conditions and joint and bone problems.\n\nThe Health Foundation - a charity which says it aims to bring about better health and care - said the analysis showed how big a problem the UK was facing with ill-health - and it is now setting up a commission of experts to investigate the issue further.\n\nIt said while much of the focus had been on those unable to work because of poor health, this report showed there were as many people with work-limiting illnesses in employment as there were out of work.\n\nThe think tank said it showed workers needed more support from the government and employers to improve their health.\n\nThose with work-limiting conditions were more likely to be women and people living in deprived areas.\n\nOn average, they earned 15% less than other workers.\n\nHealth Foundation chief executive Dr Jennifer Dixon said: \"The impact of poor health on individuals and their families, whether they are in work or not, is considerable.\n\n\"For the country, poor health in the working-age population will drag down productivity, the economy and add a huge avoidable burden on public services and employers.\"\n\nIt is unclear exactly what has caused the rise - some may be down to better reporting of conditions like mental ill-health, but other factors include the rising number of people waiting for treatment and the health impact of the pandemic.\n\nThe findings are based on the Labour Force Survey, which has recently been stopped by the Office for National Statistics because the numbers taking part had fallen.\n\nHowever, the Health Foundation believes the data it has used is still accurate enough for its analysis.\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Work and Pensions said a newly-announced £2.5bn Back to Work plan was helping people with health problems look for and stay in work by heralding a \"huge expansion of employment and health support\".\n\nAre you affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The chancellor is considering cutting inheritance and business taxes in next week's Autumn Statement, the BBC has been told.\n\nIt is thought Jeremy Hunt's decision will depend on the latest predictions from the UK's main economic forecaster.\n\nA Treasury source said no final decisions had been made, but Mr Hunt refused to rule it out in a BBC interview.\n\nIt comes as he announced a £4.5bn pot to boost British manufacturing.\n\nBusinesses in the automotive, aerospace, life sciences and clean energy sectors will be among firms in line to receive government funds where \"the UK is or could be world-leading\", Mr Hunt said.\n\nThe chancellor was expected to receive the latest economic forecast from the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) - a body which assesses the health of the UK's finances and is independent of the government - on Friday.\n\nWhile it is understood Mr Hunt will consider tax cuts over the weekend, as first reported by the Financial Times, a Treasury source told the BBC it is possible such policy decisions are delayed until the spring.\n\nMr Hunt has previously said tax cuts are \"virtually impossible\" and instead warned of \"frankly very difficult decisions\" in the Autumn Statement on Wednesday, which is when he will outline the government's latest tax and spending decisions.\n\nDespite playing down expectations of tax cuts, economists have estimated the chancellor could have more than £10bn to spend on such measures.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Mr Hunt refused to rule out a cut to inheritance tax, saying: \"The best way that we can reduce the tax burden for everyone is to grow the economy.\"\n\nTax levels in the UK are currently at their highest since records began 70 years ago, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank. The government's single biggest source of revenue is through taxes on people's earnings, known as income tax, but there has been no speculation of cuts to that.\n\nHowever, the BBC has been told Mr Hunt is considering cutting inheritance tax, which is a 40% tax on the value of the estate - the property, money and possessions - of someone who has died.\n\nThe tax is charged on the part of an estate that's above the threshold, but only applies to about 4% of estates and no tax is paid if the estate is valued at less than £325,000, or if anything above this threshold is left to a husband or wife, civil partner, charity, or a community amateur sports club.\n\nIf a home is part of the estate and a person's children and grandchildren stand to inherit it, then the threshold can go up to £500,000.\n\nThe tax sparks considerable debate, partly owing to the fact many people are concerned about it and find it difficult to understand.\n\nThere have also been reports that the government is considering using October's inflation figure of 4.6%, rather than September's inflation figure which is 6.7%, to uprate benefits, which would cut working-age benefits spending by about £3bn. The government usually uses September's inflation date to set the increase.\n\nThe chancellor did not deny such a move, but said the government would be \"compassionate\" and the the welfare system needed to be reformed \"because we believe that making work pay is a vital part of our economic success\".\n\nIt is not clear what business taxes the chancellor might cut, but there are expectations that a tax break which allows firms to offset 100% of the money they spend on new machinery and equipment against their profits, will be extended or possibly be made permanent.\n\nThis policy - known as \"full expensing\" - is due to expire at the end of the 2025 tax year.\n\nThe amount of cash the government deems it has available to spend - and introduce tax cuts - is subject to its own, self-imposed spending and taxation - or fiscal - rules. Whether and how the government meets its rules, depends on its policy choices.\n\nMost governments of wealthy countries follow fiscal rules in an attempt to maintain credibility with financial markets, which help to fund their plans.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he would wait to see what was in the Autumn Statement before commenting.\n\nThe chancellor's boost for manufacturers comes amid sluggish economic growth in recent times and fears the UK could lose out on investment opportunities to other countries in industries creating future jobs.\n\nMr Hunt told the BBC he had spoken to Elon Musk, the owner of the electric car firm Tesla, about investing in the UK.\n\n\"I would love to have a Tesla factory in the UK anytime. Let's be clear, that is a fantastic company,\" he said, adding that £2bn of the pot was earmarked for the automotive industry to develop zero-emission vehicles.\n\n\"I spoke to Elon Musk about this and he said it's not about the support. It's about the environment. And he loves London because there's so much tech going on and Tesla is essentially a tech company, so let's see what happens,\" he added.\n\nIn an interview with Saturday's Daily Telegraph newspaper, Mr Hunt again did not explicitly confirm whether tax cuts would be announced - but said he will use the Autumn Statement to \"show the country there is a path\" to a lower tax economy.", "Ms Ventura says she met the rapper in 2005\n\nRap mogul Sean \"Diddy\" Combs has been accused of rape and sex trafficking by R&B artist Casandra \"Cassie\" Ventura.\n\nIn a lawsuit seen by the BBC, Ms Ventura said she was trapped for a decade by Mr Combs, her-ex-boyfriend, in a cycle of abuse and violence.\n\nThe rapper and record executive - who also goes by the stage name Puff Daddy - denies the allegations, accusing the singer of trying to extort him.\n\nHis lawyer said the claims were \"offensive and outrageous\".\n\nMs Ventura alleges that the rap producer raped and beat her over 10 years starting when she was 19 and he was 37.\n\n\"After years in silence and darkness, I am finally ready to tell my story,\" she said in a statement on Thursday.\n\nThe lawsuit includes multiple graphic descriptions of the violent abuse that she says occurred beginning after she met the rapper in 2005.\n\nAccording to the complaint, Mr Combs signed her to his record label, Bad Boy, and \"plied the vulnerable Ms Ventura with drugs and alcohol, causing her to fall into dangerous addictions that controlled her life\".\n\nDiddy's lawyer said the lawsuit was outrageous lies\n\nThe lawsuit labels the musician a \"serial domestic abuser, who would regularly beat and kick Ms Ventura, leaving black eyes, bruises, and blood\".\n\nIn her statement, Ms Ventura said she was ready \"to speak up on behalf of myself and for the benefit of other women who face violence and abuse in their relationships\".\n\nIn a statement to BBC News, Mr Combs' lawyer said Ms Ventura had demanded $30m (£24m) \"under the threat of writing a damaging book about their relationship\".\n\nHis lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said the alleged demand \"was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail\".\n\nSean Combs and Cassie at a 2006 music awards in Copenhagen, Denmark\n\n\"Ms Ventura has now resorted to filing a lawsuit riddled with baseless and outrageous lies, aiming to tarnish Mr Combs' reputation, and seeking a pay day,\" he added.\n\nIn response to Mr Brafman, Ms Ventura's lawyer, Doug Wigdor, said Mr Combs had offered her a payment of \"eight figures to silence her and prevent the filing of this lawsuit\".\n\n\"She rejected his efforts and decided to give a voice to all woman who suffer in silence,\" he said.\n\nHer lawsuit also alleges that the music mogul told her he planned to \"blow up\" a car owned by rapper Kid Cudi. Mr Combs had become jealous that Ms Ventura was in a relationship with the rapper, according to the legal action.\n\nShe says he told her of his plan during Paris Fashion Week in 2012.\n\n\"Mr Combs told Ms Ventura that he was going to blow up Kid Cudi's car,\" the complaint says, \"and that he wanted to ensure that Kid Cudi was home with his friends when it happened. Around that time, Kid Cudi's car exploded in his driveway.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Kid Cudi told the New York Times that Ms Ventura's account was true.\n\nBut New York police said in a statement on Friday that no investigation had yet been opened into any of the allegations.\n\nMs Ventura released several hits in the 2000s, including songs that featured Diddy.\n\nHer most famous tracks include Me & U, Long Way to Go and Official Girl, featuring Lil Wayne.", "Paul Pelosi was seriously injured in the attack\n\nA man who attacked the husband of former US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been found guilty by a jury in San Francisco.\n\nDavid DePape was convicted of assault and attempted kidnapping of a federal official.\n\nThe attack left Paul Pelosi, 83, in hospital for six days with a fractured skull and other injuries.\n\nDePape, who tearfully apologised for the attack in testimony on Tuesday, now faces up to 50 years in prison.\n\nHe was convicted on Thursday after a week-long trial at the Phillip Burton Federal Courthouse in central San Francisco.\n\nAs the unanimous verdict was read, he kept his eyes down, fidgeting with his fingers.\n\nVideo evidence shows the attacker, a Canadian citizen who has lived in the US for 20 years, breaking into the Pelosi home in San Francisco with a hammer on 28 October last year.\n\nOnce inside, he asked for Mrs Pelosi, who was not home at the time.\n\nDavid DePape, seen here in a 2013 file photo\n\nOfficers responding to a 911 call from Mr Pelosi found both men gripping a hammer.\n\nWhen asked to drop the weapon, DePape abruptly swung the weapon at Mr Pelosi before being subdued by officers.\n\nThe entire encounter was caught on body camera footage, which was played in court.\n\nOne of the witnesses, an FBI special agent, testified that the video showed the attacker striking Mr Pelosi three times.\n\nIn his own testimony, Mr Pelosi told the court that during the attack, DePape said his intention was to \"take out\" Mrs Pelosi, referring to her as \"the leader of the pack\".\n\nIn addition to a fractured skull, Mr Pelosi suffered injuries to his arm and hand.\n\nDePape's court-appointed lawyer Jodi Linker argued that, while her client did attack Mr Pelosi, he did so because he believed in right-wing conspiracy theories with \"every ounce of his being\".\n\nMs Linker said DePape blamed what he saw as America's demise on corrupt elites using their status to spread lies, including facilitating the sexual abuse of children.\n\nShe argued that DePape was motivated by these conspiracies instead of Mrs Pelosi's government position.\n\nProsecutors, however, argued that DePape was looking for Mrs Pelosi as part of a \"plan of violence\".\n\nWhen he was arrested, he had zip ties and duct tape in his possession.\n\nHe also told investigators after the incident that he had a \"target list\" and planned to hold Mrs Pelosi captive and break \"her kneecaps\" if she did not reveal \"the truth\".\n\nOn Monday, Mr Pelosi recalled waking up to find DePape \"standing in the doorway\".\n\n\"It was a tremendous shock, looking at him, looking at the hammer and the ties,\" he added. \"I recognised I was in serious danger. I tried to stay as calm as possible.\"\n\nAt the time of the attack, Mrs Pelosi was House Speaker, a role second in line to the US presidency.\n\nDePape now faces up to 20 years in prison for the attempted kidnapping charge, as well as an additional 30 years for assault on a federal official's family member.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe is also facing separate state charges stemming from the incident, including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and residential burglary.\n\nHe could face life in prison if convicted of the more serious state charges. He has pleaded not guilty.\n\nA statement from Mrs Pelosi's office following Thursday's verdict said her husband had \"demonstrated extraordinary composure and courage on the night of the attack a year ago and in the courtroom this week\".\n\nMr Pelosi \"continues to make progress in his recovery\", the statement said, adding that no further comment would be made given the ongoing state proceedings.", "Shoppers bought less fuel and food in October as they were hit by rising living costs and poor weather, according to official figures.\n\nThe volume of products sold last month fell by 0.3% to the lowest level since February 2021 when large parts of the UK were in Covid lockdowns.\n\nRetail sales had widely been forecast to grow in October.\n\nThe worse-than-expected data emerged as recent figures showed the UK economy was failing to grow.\n\nGross domestic product - the amount of the goods and services produced by the UK - flatlined between July and September and the Bank of England expects only subdued growth until 2025.\n\nNext week, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will make his Autumn Statement when he will set out the government's tax and spending plans and his strategy to grow the economy.\n\nCommenting on the latest data, the Office for National Statistics said petrol and diesel sales may have been \"affected by increasing fuel prices\".\n\nDemand for other goods was also lower, said the ONS.\n\n\"It was another poor month for household goods and clothes stores with these retailers reporting that cost of living pressures, reduced footfall and poor weather hit them hard,\" said Heather Bovill, deputy director for survey and economic indicators at the ONS.\n\nDuring October, Storm Babet hit much of the UK resulting in \"exceptional rainfall\", according to the Met Office.\n\nFuel sales fell by 2% between September and Octobers with retailers reporting that \"consumers were spending their money more cautiously, alongside the impact of bad weather\".\n\nSupermarkets said shoppers were buying more food, but specialist stores, such as butchers and bakers, recorded a decline. Sales of alcohol and tobacco also dropped, down 4.2% and 10.4%, respectively.\n\nRetailers said shoppers \"were buying cheaper products and prioritising important items\".\n\nThe retail sector is heading into its most important trading period which includes Christmas.\n\nLisa Hooker, leader of industry for consumer markets at PwC, said: \"We know from earlier in the year that in tough times consumers prioritise special events and family occasions, so retailers will be hoping that consumers are keeping their powder dry for a last minute Christmas spending surge come December.\"\n\nCompared to last October, retail sales volumes were 2.7% lower.\n\nThe ONS also revised down its reading of retail sales in September to a drop of 1.1% after initially estimating a decline of 0.9%.\n\nRecent figures showed that inflation - which measures the rate at which prices are rising - fell sharply to 4.6% in the year to October from 6.7%.It follows a long succession of interest rate rises by the Bank of England.\n\nWhile raising rates can reduce inflation, it also affects economic growth by making it more expensive for consumers and businesses to borrow money.\n\nAled Patchett, head of retail and consumer goods at Lloyds Bank, said: \"Another dip in sales suggests rising household costs remain at the forefront of consumers' minds, despite headline inflation easing in recent months.\n\n\"The rising cost of living remains a drag on consumers' discretionary incomes. Households continue to prioritise essential spending, particularly as falling winter temperatures push energy use up.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nThe first day of the much-vaunted Las Vegas Grand Prix descended into chaos as practice was hit by problems with the new street track.\n\nThe first session was called off after just nine minutes of running when Carlos Sainz's Ferrari hit a loose manhole cover, badly damaging his car.\n\nFerrari team principal Frederic Vasseur said the situation was \"unacceptable\".\n\nThe second session started two and a half hours late in front of almost empty stands after fan areas closed.\n• None In pictures: Bright lights and black holes at Las Vegas GP\n• None Recap on a chaotic first day at the Las Vegas Grand Prix\n\nF1 said the decision, made at 01:30 local time, was caused by \"logistical considerations for our fans and staff\".\n\nThere was no mention of whether fans would receive refunds.\n\nOne difficulty for F1 is that most tickets sold were three-day packages so any single-day refunds would require a calculation as to how to split the value of each day.\n\nEsteban Ocon's Alpine was also damaged - like Sainz's Ferrari, losing a chassis - after he hit the same manhole as Sainz on his return to the pits after the red flag.\n\nWhen track running finally finished, Charles Leclerc led Sainz by 0.517 seconds in a Ferrari one-two ahead of Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso and Red Bull's Sergio Perez.\n\nWorld champion Max Verstappen was sixth fastest, Lewis Hamilton ninth and George Russell 12th for Mercedes and Lando Norris in 11th for McLaren.\n\nIt's the first Las Vegas F1 race in the city since 1982\n\nAmid the confusion between the cancelled first session and restarted second one, Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff swore at a journalist in a news conference when he suggested the situation was bad for F1's image at such a high-profile event.\n\n\"It's completely ridiculous,\" Wolff said. \"How can you even dare trying to talk bad about an event that sets the new standards to everything?\n\n\"And then you're speaking about a [expletive deleted] drain cover that's been undone. That has happened before. That's nothing.\n\n\"Give credit to the people that have set up this grand prix, that have made this sport much bigger than it ever was.\n\n\"[F1's owners] Liberty has done an awesome job and just because in FP1 a drain cover has become undone we shouldn't be moaning.\n\n\"The car is broken, that's really a shame. For Carlos it could have been dangerous, so between the FIA and the track everybody needs to analyse how we can make sure that this is not happening again.\n\n\"But talking here about a black eye for the sport on a Thursday evening? Nobody watches that in European time anyway. Come on.\"\n\nF1, which unusually is acting as the promoter for this grand prix, has spent more than £500m on preparations for the race. This includes a buying plot of land in Las Vegas, on which it has built the largest pit building on the F1 calendar and prepared the track.\n\nThe pit building will become a permanent presence for F1 in the Nevada city.\n\nHosting a grand prix in Las Vegas is the culmination of 40 years of on-and-off effort and has succeeded because of buy-in from the casinos, who expect to make millions of dollars and see the race as part of Las Vegas' bid to become a global centre for sport.\n\nHowever, although F1 built the track, the responsibility to check it for safety was that of governing body the FIA, which did so before practice started.\n• None How to follow the Las Vegas Grand Prix on the BBC\n\nWhat happened with the manhole cover?\n\nSainz hit a manhole cover on the headline part of the track - the long straight that runs along the famous Strip, home of all the famous casino hotels in Las Vegas.\n\nTo add insult to injury, Sainz has also received a 10-place grid penalty because the new battery needed to replace the one damaged in his crash was outside his permitted allocation.\n\nFerrari pleaded for mitigation on the basis that it was unusual circumstances but the stewards rejected their appeal.\n\nVasseur said the damage to the car would \"cost a fortune\".\n\nThe Frenchman took a different view from Wolff on the problems that hit the organisation of the race.\n\n\"I am very happy with what [F1 owners] Liberty [Media] did around the race but we have to separate the show and the sporting side,\" Vasseur said.\n\n\"The opening ceremony [on Wednesday] was something mega in F1 but it is not because you are doing this that you don't have to do the job on the sporting side. You can do the show and do a good job on the sporting side.\"\n\nMcLaren Racing chief executive officer Zak Brown said: \"I don't think it was because corners were cut. They have spared no expense on the event. We just have to work out what happened and fix it. I think they just got it wrong.\"\n\nAlpine were also forced to replace the chassis on Ocon's car following his incident. Like Sainz's, it was repaired in time to take part in second practice.\n\nThe team received no warning from race control about debris or problems on track before Ocon hit the manhole.\n\nAlfa Romeo's Zhou Guanyu had a narrow escape. The Chinese was the first driver along after Sainz's incident and had to take avoiding action to miss the detached drain cover.\n\nIt is not the first time a drain cover has caused problems on an F1 track.\n\nAt the 2019 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, first practice was cancelled when Russell's Williams hit a drain cover and was badly damaged.\n\nSimilar incidents have also happened in Monaco, another street race.\n\nWhat did the drivers say?\n\nThe session finished at 04:00 local time and many drivers said they were struggling with adjusting to the timings of the race.\n\nRussell said he had had a total of four naps during the day, adding: \"I don't know what time it is but I'm definitely looking forward to getting some sleep.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was good to finally get going after quite a long day. A very fast circuit, highest top speeds of the year probably. I think it is going to be an interesting race weekend.\n\nHamilton said the circuit was \"incredibly fast and a lot of fun\" and \"massively challenging\".\n\n\"Even though they have the long straights, there are not a lot of places to overtake because the grip is so low. And the tow is not huge... a bit like Monza when you're behind people because you have the small wing and there is not a lot of grip.\"\n\nVerstappen disagreed, saying he \"had had better tracks in my life - I already said that yesterday; there is nothing new I discovered\".", "Video caption: People leave al-Shifa hospital and flee Gaza City with tanks on street People leave al-Shifa hospital and flee Gaza City with tanks on street\n\nConfusion over al-Shifa evacuation: The director of Gaza City's largest hospital, al-Shifa, said earlier that the Israeli military had ordered an evacuation there. Israel denied this, saying it had agreed to an evacuation request from the director himself.\n\nPeople leave hospital complex: Hundreds left al-Shifa throughout Saturday, following days of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) searching the facility for an apparent command centre that it says lies underneath. (It has shown pictures of an alleged tunnel shaft and weapons as evidence so far.)\n\nBlast reported at UN school-turned-shelter: The IDF said earlier that it was investigating unconfirmed reports of deaths at a UN-run school-turned-shelter in Jabalia, northern Gaza. Footage, which BBC Verify has analysed, shows many people - including women and children - with severe injuries or lying motionless on the floor.\n\nWounded children reach UAE: The first flight carrying around 15 injured Palestinian children and their families landed in Abu Dhabi earlier. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) says it's planning to bring 1,000 women and children from the Palestinian enclave for treatment in its hospitals over the next few days and weeks.\n\nMarch to Jerusalem: The families and supporters of the more than 200 hostages being held by Hamas marched today from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. They carried flags and placards, some bearing images of the people who've been taken. One man - the brother of a hostage - told the BBC he believed more could be done to secure their return.", "A BBC correspondent said the blackout would make it difficult to get information about what was happening in the war\n\nMobile phone and internet services have gone down across the Gaza Strip due to a lack of fuel for back-up generators, Palestinian telecoms companies say.\n\nTelecom firms Paltel and Jawwal said all energy sources sustaining their networks were depleted, and an internet monitor confirmed a major outage.\n\nIsrael has blocked all but one delivery of fuel to Gaza since the start of its war with Hamas five weeks ago.\n\nThe UN said a blackout could jeopardise civil order and undermine aid efforts.\n\n\"We regret to announce that all telecom services in Gaza Strip have gone out of service as all energy sources sustaining the network have been depleted, and fuel was not allowed in,\" Paltel said in a statement on Thursday afternoon.\n\nAt the same time, internet observatory NetBlocks said live metrics showed Gaza was \"in the midst of a major internet outage\", with telecom services likely to be unavailable to most residents.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NetBlocks This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIsrael launched a major military campaign in the Gaza Strip to destroy Hamas, which it considers a terrorist group, in retaliation for the 7 October cross-border attack by hundreds of gunmen. At least 1,200 people were killed in Hamas's assault on Israel and about 240 others were taken hostage.\n\nSince Israel started its counterattack, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry has said 11,400 people have been killed in the territory and the United Nations has warned of a \"humanitarian disaster\".\n\nThe Israeli government has defended blocking fuel deliveries during its campaign, saying it is concerned that Hamas could steal fuel and use it for military purposes.\n\nOne tanker carrying 23,000 litres of diesel crossed from Egypt on Wednesday, but Israel restricted its use only for the refuelling of UN aid lorries.\n\nOther key services have already had to shut down because of similar issues. This includes hospitals, water pumps, desalination plants, sewage treatment facilities and bakeries.\n\nThe BBC's Rushdi Abu Alouf, who is in the southern city of Khan Younis, confirmed that all communications were down across Gaza on Thursday night.\n\nHe said it would now be extremely difficult to get any information about what was happening on the ground elsewhere, particularly in places like Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where Israeli forces were carrying out an operation for a second consecutive day.\n\nBefore the start of the blackout, a journalist trapped inside the complex had told him by phone that troops were storming all of the hospital's departments and \"shooting in all directions\". Our correspondent has been unable to re-establish contact since then.\n\nThe head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa - which runs the largest humanitarian operation in Gaza - said he feared the blackout could cause a further breakdown of civil order.\n\n\"These are signs of a situation when you have a blackout and you cannot communicate with anyone anymore... that triggers and fuels even more the anxiety and the panic,\" Philippe Lazzarini, the UN leader, told a news conference in Geneva.\n\n\"This can provoke or accelerate the last remaining civil order that we have in the Gaza Strip. And if this completely breaks down, we will have difficulties to operate in an environment where you do not have a minimum of order.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC team's access to Al-Shifa hospital was limited by the Israel Defense Forces and they were not able to speak to doctors or patients\n\nHuman Rights Watch said on Wednesday that a prolonged communications blackout could \"provide cover for atrocities and breed impunity while further undermining humanitarian efforts and putting lives at risk\".\n\nMr Lazzarini also said that he believed there was a \"deliberate attempt to strangle\" Unrwa's work in Gaza, warning that the agency might have to entirely suspend its operations if its fuel supplies ran out.\n\nUnrwa, which is hosting 813,000 displaced people in its facilities, says it needs at least 160,000 litres of fuel every day to maintain its basic operations.\n\n\"If the fuel does not come in, people will start to die because of the lack of fuel,\" Mr Lazzarini warned.\n\n\"Exactly as from when, I don't know. But it will be sooner rather than later.\"\n\nThe head of the UN World Food Programme meanwhile said that supplies of food and water were \"practically non-existent\" and that \"only a fraction of what is needed is arriving through the borders\".\n\n\"With winter fast approaching, unsafe and overcrowded shelters, and the lack of clean water, civilians are facing the immediate possibility of starvation,\" Cindy McCain warned.\n\nAn estimated 1.5 million Palestinians have been displaced by the conflict\n\nBut a spokesman for the Israeli defence ministry body overseeing policy for the Palestinian territories, Cogat, told the BBC: \"As far as I know, there is no lack of food and no lack of water in Gaza.\"\n\nCol Moshe Tetro said Israel was fulfilling its obligations to facilitate the delivery of aid and that the number of lorries crossing from Egypt was increasing every day. The UN says 1,139 aid lorries have entered since 21 October, compared to about 500 each day on average before the war.\n\nCol Tetro also stressed that Israel was doing everything it could to reduce civilian casualties, including by telling residents in the north of Gaza to flee southwards for their own safety as it focuses its air and ground assault on what it sees as Hamas's stronghold.\n\nMany of the 1.5 million displaced people have fled to Khan Younis, where the pre-war population of 300,000 has tripled.\n\nOn Thursday, there were reports that Israeli forces had dropped leaflets urging people to evacuate four towns east of the city - Bani Shuhaila, Khuzaa, Abasan and Qarara - where tens of thousands of people have been sheltering.\n\nAn Unrwa spokeswoman said the south had \"not been safe at all\", and an expansion of Israel's ground assault into the region would be bad news.", "Israeli soldiers entered Al-Shifa Hospital in the early hours of Wednesday\n\nThe director of the Gaza Strip's main hospital raided by Israeli soldiers says the facility has now run out of oxygen and water, and patients \"are screaming from thirst\".\n\nMuhammad Abu Salmiya said the conditions were \"tragic\" in Al-Shifa, where there were more than 650 patients, 500 medical staff and 5,000 displaced people.\n\nIsraeli tanks were surrounding the hospital in Gaza City, he said, with drones buzzing overhead and Israeli soldiers still moving around inside, as their search of the complex lasted a second day.\n\nIsrael's army said its operation against Hamas was proceeding in a \"discreet, methodical and thorough manner\". However a journalist trapped inside the hospital, Khader, told the BBC's Rushdi Abu Alouf by phone that Israeli troops were \"everywhere, shooting in all directions\".\n\nThe BBC has not been able to independently verify either of the reports.\n\nSince the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched their raid on Al-Shifa early on Wednesday, they have released several photos and videos of what they say are Hamas weapons and equipment.\n\nOn Thursday they said they had found an \"operational tunnel shaft and a vehicle containing a large number of weapons\".\n\nMr Abu Salmiya said Israeli troops had blown up Al-Shifa's main water line.\n\n\"Sniping operations continue, no-one can move from one building to another, and we have lost communication with our colleagues,\" he said.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Khader told the BBC that Israeli troops had \"stormed all departments\", destroying the southern part of the building's wall and dozens of cars.\n\nBefore Khader's phone line cut off, he also said that armoured bulldozers had been brought in.\n\nGaza's Hamas-controlled health ministry reports that Israeli bulldozers \"destroyed parts of the southern entrance\" of the medical complex.\n\nIsrael launched a major military campaign in the Gaza Strip to destroy Hamas in retaliation for the 7 October cross-border attack by hundreds of gunmen. Israel considers Hamas a terrorist group, as does the UK, US and European Union.\n\nAt least 1,200 people were killed in Hamas's assault on Israel and about 240 others were taken hostage.\n\nSince Israel started its counter-attack, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry has said at least 11,400 people have been killed in the territory and the UN has warned of a \"humanitarian disaster\".\n\nOn Thursday evening, the IDF announced that the body of one of the hostages had been found near Al-Shifa.\n\nThe IDF identified the victim as Yehudit Weiss, saying she had been kidnapped from her home in Be'eri - a kibbutz in southern Israel.\n\nYehudit Weiss was recovering from breast cancer when she was kidnapped, campaigners said\n\nAt the same time, there have been reports of a major phone and internet outage in Gaza believed to have been caused by telecom companies running out of fuel supplies.\n\nThe IDF said their soldiers were continuing their \"complex\" operation against Hamas at the hospital.\n\n\"Soldiers are proceeding one building at a time, searching each floor, all while hundreds of patients and medical staff remain in the complex,\" an official said in an update on Thursday evening.\n\nThe official reiterated the IDF's claim that there was a \"well-hidden terrorist infrastructure in the complex\".\n\nHamas has repeatedly denied that its fighters have been operating inside the hospital.\n\nOn Thursday, Osama Hamdan, the most senior Hamas leader in Lebanon, ridiculed the Israeli weapons claims, saying that all the arms had been brought in and planted in the hospital by Israelis.\n\nAsked by the BBC why progress on talks to release hostages had failed, he said that on three occasions they had been close to a deal but each time it had been stopped by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.\n\nThe Israeli government has not commented on Mr Hamdan's allegation.\n\nIn a separate development, Israel has dropped dropped leaflets in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza, warning people in four towns to evacuate their homes and head to shelters.\n\nIf that is an indication of an upcoming military operation around the southern city of Khan Younis, it could be a real concern to the hundreds of thousands now sheltering there.\n\nBefore the war, Khan Younis was home to about 300,000 people - a number that has now grown to one million after Israel urged civilians to move south for their safety.", "BBC correspondent Jessica Parker has flown on a mission with the Icelandic Coast Guard over the Reykjanes Peninsula, where recent volcanic activity has been concentrated.\n\nScientists say the area could face decades of increased volcanic instability.\n\nFears of an impending eruption led to the evacuation of the town of Grindavik, which has partially sunk by more than a metre.\n\nIt is thought that magma is running underneath a previous, centuries-old, visible fissure seen in aerial photographs.\n\nIceland's biggest bulldozer is heading to the small fishing town to build defences to stop lava from a volcano destroying key buildings.\n\nOne of the country's most famous tourist attractions, the nearby Blue Lagoon, will remain closed until the end of this month.\n\nRead more on this story here", "The PSNI said there were 19 victims of paramilitary style shootings over the past year\n\nParamilitary-style shootings are on the rise in Northern Ireland, according to statistics released by the police.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) have said 19 people were victims of these shootings between 1 November 2022 and 31 October 2023.\n\nIn the previous 12 months there were only seven victims.\n\nMegan Phair from the pressure group Stop Attacks described the increase as a \"massive concern\".\n\nParamilitary style shootings usually result in the injured party being shot in the knees, elbows, feet, ankles or thighs, police say, and the motive is supposedly to punish the person for antisocial activities.\n\nThese paramilitary style shootings are generally conducted by loyalist or republican paramilitary groups on members of their own community.\n\nPrevious figures show there were up to 22 casualties of paramilitary-style shootings per year since 2017, with incidences broadly declining over time:\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Talkback programme Ms Phair pointed to funding cuts to the likes of youth services as a possible explanation for the rise in shootings.\n\n\"If you look across the board at the funding cuts that the youth service in particular have faced and multiple other services have faced, you can see the trends of the increase in violence because of a lack of space and place for so many vulnerable people,\" she said.\n\n\"Young people are groomed, radicalised, coerced, exploited and criminalised by these gangs.\"\n\nMs Phair said that \"we have young people who maybe were targeted by paramilitary groups in the past who were shot or beaten are now members of the same groups\".\n\nShe described this as \"grooming at its core\".\n\nThe PSNI have said that in September alone of 2023 there were five casualties of paramilitary-style attacks.\n\nDet Ch Supt Andy Hill said the PSNI \"remain 100% committed to tackling the cruel issue of paramilitary-style attacks\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Andy Hill, Head of the PSNI's Organised Crime Branch, said there has been an overall fall in all types of paramilitary attacks compared to 2018 and said that \"while there has been progress, we are not complacent\".\n\n\"We remain concerned about the continuing existence of paramilitary structures and groups, and their actions. And we, along with our partners, will relentlessly continue to target those groups and individuals who continue to exploit the most vulnerable in our communities,\" he said.\n\nDet Ch Supt Hill said that the PSNI \"remain 100% committed to tackling the cruel issue of paramilitary-style attacks\".\n\nHowever, he added that the \"budgetary situation facing policing remains hugely difficult\".", "Ashling Murphy's murder caused widespread shock and prompted vigils across Ireland and the UK\n\nThe man convicted of murdering Irish schoolteacher Ashling Murphy has been handed a life sentence.\n\nJozef Puska, 33, from Lynally Grove in Mucklagh, County Offaly, was found guilty at a court in Dublin last week.\n\nPuska stabbed the 23-year-old 11 times in the neck as she jogged on the banks of the Grand Canal near Tullamore, County Offaly, on 12 January 2022.\n\nMs Murphy's death caused widespread shock, prompting vigils across Ireland and the UK.\n\nJudge Tony Hunt said he could not hand down a whole life sentence but if he could it would be \"richly deserved\".\n\nDressed in a grey suit with a white shirt and no tie, Puska made no comment or reaction when the sentence was handed down to him through a translator.\n\nThe court heard Puska and Ms Murphy, a talented folk musician, were not known to each other and had never met before the attack.\n\nPuska, who is a Slovak national, had pleaded not guilty to her murder.\n\nHe has no criminal record here or in Slovakia and had never come to the attention of gardaí (Irish police) before the killing.\n\nHe claimed he was trying to help Ms Murphy after she had been attacked by another man, who went on to stab him too.\n\nBefore his arrest, Puska confessed to the killing after being admitted to St James' Hospital in Dublin for treatment to stab wounds the day after Ms Murphy was killed, the court heard.\n\nHe initially told staff in the hospital he had been stabbed in a separate incident in Blanchardstown on the outskirts of Dublin\n\nThe judge said in the hours before his surgery, Puska was initially composed enough \"to spin a detailed yarn\" to healthcare staff.\n\nGardaí attended the hospital to investigate but were immediately suspicious and made a connection to Ms Murphy's murder.\n\n\"Something was a bit off\" with Puska, the judge said.\n\nAfter his surgery, police officers from Tullamore attended the hospital and spoke with Puska about executing a warrant.\n\nPuska then confessed to a Garda officer, claiming he did not mean to hurt Ms Murphy and killing her was the result of \"panic\".\n\nGardaí said the confession took them by surprise as they had not attended the hospital to interview Puska.\n\nHe repeated his confession after being cautioned by the officers, but the interaction was not recorded.\n\nHowever, a few days later Puska said he had no recollection of the incident.\n\nHis defence counsel said this was due to pain medication he was taking, along with a language barrier was later disputed by a pain specialist during the trial.\n\nDuring sentencing, Judge Hunt said the minor level of medication would \"not cause amnesia for major events\".\n\nThe judge said Puska gave his confession \"lucidly\" and was \"perfectly coherent\" that afternoon.\n\nHe praised the Slovak translator who heard the confession, highlighting his \"clarity and independence\" when giving evidence and said it was fortunate he was present.\n\nThe court also heard that DNA evidence belonging to Puska was found under Ms Murphy's fingernails.\n\nOne eyewitness said they had seen Mr Puska on top of Ms Murphy in a hedgerow with her legs kicking out underneath him.\n\nWhen Puska saw the witness he shouted at her to go away, the court heard.\n\nAshling's boyfriend Ryan Casey read a victim impact statement in court, taking long pauses to compose himself.\n\nHe described how he and Ashling had met an architect weeks before she died as they were planning to build a house together and get married. They also planned to spend sometime in Dubai before returning home and starting a family.\n\n\"I'd smile to myself thinking, I cant wait to marry that girl. I would've married her a long time ago and I wish I did but we didn't get a chance to reach that part.\"\n\n\"Every single plan I had for life is gone and cannot be brought back.\n\n\"I've lost everything; the pain of losing someone so important is indescribable,\" he said.\n\nAshling Murphy's brother Cathal Murphy (left) and boyfriend Ryan Casey (right) outside court last week\n\nHe said that Puska was \"insignificant, the lowest of the low, waste of life\" who had no idea what he had done to the Murphy family.\n\nMr Casey said he had nightmares, he has become short tempered, and does not like looking at or eating with knives.\n\n\"I find myself hating myself for small moments of happiness, feeling guilty for feeling happy. Feeling lost in life with no direction and with no light at the end of the tunnel.\"\n\nHe said the last time he saw Ashling they could not touch as he had been infected with Covid 19. He regrets that every day, he told the court.\n\nFacing Puska, Mr Casey said: \"May you be in hell a whole half hour before God even knows you're dead.\"\n\nAshling Murphy's mother Kathleen, father Raymond and sister Amy comforted each other at a candle-lit vigil days after her murder\n\nAshling's mother Kathleen wrote a victim impact statement that was read by a police officer in court.\n\nShe wrote: \"My heart broke when I heard Ashing was murdered. My memory, motivation and drive for life is gone forever.\n\n\"I cant bear it. I am no longer able for big crowds or small talk.\"\n\nShe told the court how she had asked Ashling to jog near their home the day she was murdered. Ashling refused saying she was an adult of 23 and told her mother she loved her.\n\nAmy Murphy, Ashling's older sister said the family still set the table for five people and that the house is \"eerily quiet\" without their youngest sister.\n\nSpeaking directly to Puska, Ms Murphy said: \"Ashling's last ten minutes on this earth must have felt like the longest ten minutes of her life.\n\n\"You stole her life, took her voice and robbed us of our family of five.\"\n\nPuska, currently separated from other inmates at Cloverhill Prison for his own safety, will now be moved to Dublin's Mountjoy prison.\n\nHe is undergoing psychiatric supervision after attempting to take his own life during the trial.\n\nMs Murphy's death sparked a new conversation about violence against women in Ireland and renewed pressure on the Irish government to tackle the issue.", "Owen Midwinter, 23, works at Port Talbot steelworks with his father Jason\n\nA steelworker is worried he may not be able to afford his mortgage as thousands of Tata employees remain in the dark about their futures.\n\nTata Steel plans to decarbonise its Port Talbot works which could result in about 3,000 jobs being scrapped.\n\nOwen Midwinter, 23, said he and his partner would struggle to pay the bills if he had a period without work.\n\nAfter meeting Tata in London on Friday, unions said it went \"exceptionally well\" and the company was \"listening\".\n\n\"We're in the dark without any real answers... with Christmas coming I'd just like to know where my future lies,\" said Owen, who works at the site with his father Jason, speaking before the meeting.\n\n\"The current situation is quite worrying... all there seems to be at the moment is rumours.\"\n\nHe said he hoped to return to work as a road marker if he were to lose his job in the site's blast furnace control room, but feared this could take him out of the area.\n\nThe UK government has promised Tata £500m to keep the Port Talbot site open and to decarbonise its operations there\n\nIn order to decarbonise its steel making processes, Tata wants to close Port Talbot's two blast furnaces, which use coal, and replace them with an electric arc furnace.\n\nIf it gets the relevant regulatory and planning approvals, Tata said the new furnaces could be operational within three years.\n\nAbout 4,000 steelworkers are employed at the plant on the south Wales coast, however the proposed changes would require far fewer workers.\n\nSteelworker unions have used an independent consultancy firm to draw up an alternative plan for the Port Talbot site in a bid to save jobs.\n\nHe has worked in the steelworks for the past 15 years after a period in the Royal Navy.\n\n\"I'm worried for the young steelworkers in particular. I can relate to what they're facing because when I was first employed there, jobs were under threat then as well,\" he said.\n\nJason Midwinter says the atmosphere at the steelworks is \"sullen\"\n\n\"We should be looking forward to Christmas with family and friends but the not knowing is worse than anything,\" he said.\n\n\"You're in the works and it's sullen, there's a lot of depression, a lot of down faces. We try to pick ourselves up... we've got to.\"\n\nLike a number of other steelworkers, Jason is a cast member of Taibach rugby club's pantomime - a popular fixture of the town's Christmas offering.\n\nSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the performance that is hoped will provide a form of escapism for the hundreds of people expected to watch the panto in December.\n\nSeveral steelworkers are performing in Taibach rugby club's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs panto\n\nSteve Lloyd and Martin Mahoney, who started their apprenticeship at the steelworks on the same day 34 years ago, are also among the cast.\n\nDuring that period they have experienced a lot of change and job cuts at the Port Talbot site, but said the current threat to jobs was the worst they had known.\n\n\"You're going into work every day and you're thinking is there going to be a new rumour. There's a lot of unease and I think people are just looking for clarity,\" said Steve.\n\n\"This seems to be the most imminent threat of job losses and the potential magnitude of it came as a shock to everybody.\"\n\nSteve Lloyd and Martin Mahoney, both 52, started their apprenticeship at the steelworks on the same day 34 years ago\n\nMartin added: \"When we started, we learnt that Ebbw Vale was going to close and we thought what's going to happen to us? That was a hard hitter, especially for the people of Ebbw Vale.\n\n\"This is the worst I've known it.\"\n\nBoth men said performing in the pantomime was a way to let off steam and forget work worries.\n\nDeborah Glave, 56, whose husband has been a steelworker for many years, said this was the first time he had ever been scared for his livelihood.\n\n\"He is scared because it's something different happening now where he believes there is going to be job losses and one of them could be his,\" she said.\n\nDeborah Glave says her husband is scared for his livelihood for the first time\n\nShe said while her husband is nearing retirement age, the job losses would be especially damaging for young workers who have children and a mortgage.\n\n\"It will have a massive impact on their lifestyles and it'll have a massive impact on the community.\"\n\nIn a statement, Tata said: \"Tata Steel, its employee representatives and the UK and Welsh governments are all committed to transitioning to greener steelmaking in the UK.\n\n\"While we recognise the understandable concerns of our many stakeholders, we are confident that we can build a sustainable, low carbon business that continues to support steel communities, and will be at the heart of a future green UK economy.\"", "BBC Radio 2 presenter Vernon Kay has completed his ultra-marathon for Children in Need, having raised £4.1m for the charity.\n\nThe DJ ran from Leicester to Bolton - a distance of 116 miles - over four days.\n\nKay spoke to Radio 2 breakfast host Zoe Ball as he reached the finish line and gave his mum Gladys a hug.\n\nRead more: Vernon Kay completes Children in Need marathon", "The PM's current Rwanda plan will mean no asylum seekers are flown there before the next election, sacked home secretary Suella Braverman has said.\n\nWriting in the Telegraph, she said \"tinkering with a failed plan\" would not achieve the government's aims.\n\nShe said ministers should ignore human rights laws and obligations in their \"entirety\" to push it through.\n\nBut ex-cabinet minister Damian Green called this the \"most unconservative proposal I've ever heard\".\n\nA former First Secretary of State under Theresa May, Mr Green told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that overriding legal constraints was the behaviour of \"dictators\" like Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nIn a ruling on the government's scheme to fly some asylum seekers to Rwanda, the Supreme Court said there were \"substantial grounds\" to believe that some of those deported to the country could be sent back to places where they would be unsafe.\n\nAfter the judgement, Rishi Sunak announced he would bring in emergency legislation to certify that Rwanda was a \"safe\" country, despite the court's decision.\n\nThe prime minister also said he would sign a new treaty with Rwanda, so that the first flights could begin in the spring.\n\nBut Mrs Braverman said a new treaty was \"magical thinking,\" repeating the language of her scathing letter to Mr Sunak after he sacked her.\n\nThe proposed treaty would not solve \"the fundamental issue\", that the UK's highest court had found Rwanda unsafe for deporting asylum seekers, she argued.\n\nMrs Braverman, who was sacked as home secretary on Monday, said that unless the prime minister went further than his current proposals, she could not see how the government could deliver on its pledge before running out of Parliamentary time.\n\nA general election is expected to be held next year and one must take place by January 2025.\n\n\"Any new treaty would still require going back through the courts, a process that would likely take at least another year,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the process \"could culminate in yet another defeat\".\n\n\"That is why the plan outlined by the PM will not yield flights to Rwanda before an election if Plan B is simply a tweaked version of the failed Plan A,\" she said.\n\nMrs Braverman said the PM's proposed legislation should ignore \"the entirety\" of the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), as well as other relevant international obligations including the Refugee Convention.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rishi Sunak tells the BBC's Chris Mason that flights to Rwanda will happen by spring\n\nMrs Braverman's arguments have been supported by some of her colleagues.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Sir Simon Clarke said parliament was \"entitled in extremis to say certain sections of the law are disapplied\".\n\nHe argued it was wrong that \"our human rights framework\" was blocking the government's ability to police the UK's borders.\n\nThe Rwanda policy is central to Mr Sunak's plan to stop asylum seekers crossing the English Channel in small boats - one of his key pledges - as it is designed to deter people from making the dangerous journey.\n\nTransport Secretary Mark Harper told BBC Breakfast that the government was \"committed\" to getting the Rwanda policy working by the spring.\n\nAny new legislation is expected to face strong opposition in the House of Lords, which contains several former Supreme Court judges. It would also be likely to face legal challenges in the courts.\n\nSir David Normington, former Home Office permanent secretary, told Today that Mrs Braverman was \"right in one way\" - that getting a working Rwanda policy \"would be very difficult\".\n\n\"We could pull out of all conventions, but that would be a very bad idea,\" he said, adding that it would always come down to a British court deciding whether Rwanda was safe.\n\n\"The courts say it is not a safe country. You can't say black is white.\"\n\nAsked if international law was \"outdated\", Sir David said that \"at the core\" international agreements were written to protect the vulnerable.\n\n\"What is true is that the rights of people to not be tortured never goes out of date.\"\n\nIt's not immediately clear how Mrs Braverman's plan would legally work quickly.\n\nThe UK and other countries that are signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights can put to one side only some of its protections in times of war or some other emergency. The key protection at the heart of the Rwanda case - that nobody should be subjected to torture or to inhuman treatment - is not one of the rights that can be swept away in what's known as \"derogation\".\n\nThe UK has only derogated from the ECHR eight times in 70 years. Seven of those situations were related to detaining paramilitaries during the conflict in Northern Ireland. The most recent in 2001 concerned holding al-Qaeda suspects without charge - a move that the courts later said was illegal.\n\nDuring Boris Johnson's time as prime minister, the government proposed limiting and replacing some human rights protections in a highly-criticised replacement bill which Rishi Sunak then scrapped.\n\nLeaving the ECHR entirely would separately breach the 25-year-old Good Friday Agreement at the heart of Northern Ireland's power-sharing peace deal - and enrage the UK's partners on the other side of the English Channel - potentially making co-operation on stopping boats harder.", "Amazon said car dealers would be able to sell on its site starting next year\n\nAmazon, which launched with an ambition to become the \"everything store\", is adding another product to its online shopping site: cars.\n\nBuyers in the US will be able to browse and purchase vehicles from dealers on Amazon starting next year, according to an announcement from the company.\n\nThe head of Amazon said the move was aimed at \"changing the ease with which customers can buy vehicles online\".\n\nThe selection will be limited to the Hyundai brand to start, it said.\n\nOnline car sales remain a tiny fraction of the car market, but a big surge in such transactions during the pandemic shattered the assumption that customers would avoid making such a big purchase online.\n\nForecasters are expecting such sales to become a bigger part of the business in the years ahead.\n\n\"There is certainly a segment of the population, which I believe is growing, which has huge trust in Amazon and other online retailers and they may prefer to never interact with another human being when purchasing a vehicle,\" said Alan Haig, president of Haig Partnership, a Florida-based firm that advises on car dealer mergers and acquisitions.\n\nInvolving Amazon - already a huge brand and player in online shopping - get involved is what makes this announcement \"transcendent,\" he added.\n\n\"It's no longer a new app that somebody would have to load ... it's sitting on their phone already,\" he said.\n\nSince starting as an online bookseller in 1994, Amazon has moved aggressively into other areas, such as cloud computing, financial and medical services.\n\nIt made a foray into online car buying more than two decades ago, when it invested in an online site.\n\nSeveral years ago it launched an \"online showroom\" with Hyundai that allowed people to browse for cars. Until now, the final sale has happened off the site, at a dealer.\n\nHyundai Motor Co president Jaehoon (Jay) Chang said working with Amazon would help the firm \"grow our sales network, transition to electrification and realize the future of smart mobility.\"\n\nAs part of the deal, Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa will be integrated into new cars starting in 2025. Hyundai also signed a multi-year deal for Amazon's cloud services.\n\nAmazon did not provide details about how many dealers have agreed to participate or further information about how the relationship with dealers would be structured. It said it expected shopping to begin in the \"latter part of 2024\".\n\n\"Customers will be able to search on Amazon for available vehicles in their area based on a range of preferences, including model, trim, colour, and features, choose their preferred car, and then check out online with their chosen payment and financing options,\" it said in its announcement.\n\n\"This new shopping experience will create another way for dealers to build awareness of their selection and offer convenience to their customers.\"\n\nMr Haig said some dealers may be wary, worried about how much of a cut Amazon might demand of their business and the distance using the platform will introduce between their firm and the customer.\n\nBut they also stand to benefit, if using Amazon makes sales easier, and thus more frequent, or allows dealers to save on advertising,\n\n\"There's going to have to be a balance established where all parties would benefit,\" he said.\n\nShares in car sellers known for their online presence dropped following the announcement, with Carvana ending the day down more than 5%.", "Donald Trump has assailed a judge and clerk handling his New York fraud trial as a gag order banning him from criticising court personnel was paused.\n\nThe ex-president sued the judge in the civil case, Arthur Engoron, after he barred him and his attorneys from speaking about judicial staff.\n\nMr Trump's lawyers had argued the gag order was unconstitutional.\n\nA state intermediate appeals court has granted what is known as an interim stay.\n\nJudge David Friedman cited the \"constitutional and statutory rights at issue\" in Thursday's ruling.\n\nIt means that, for now, Mr Trump and his lawyers can once again make public comments about the court officials.\n\nThe former president wasted little time in reopening attacks on Judge Engoron, calling his actions \"Radical and Unprecedented\".\n\n\"His Ridiculous and Unconstitutional Gag Order, not allowing me to defend myself against him and his politically biased and out of control, Trump Hating Clerk, who is sinking him and his Court to new levels of LOW, is a disgrace,\" the 77-year-old wrote in a lengthy post on social media.\n\nMr Trump's lawyer Christopher Kise also welcomed the ruling, which he said would restore his client's right \"to talk about bias in his own trial\".\n\nNew York Attorney General Letitia James has sued Mr Trump, his sons, the Trump Organization and its top executives for alleged business fraud. Should they lose, the Trumps face $250m (£201m) in fines and the possible dissolution of their New York real estate empire.\n\nThe civil trial began last month in Lower Manhattan. Early on, Judge Engoron placed Mr Trump under a limited gag order, after his clerk was attacked by the former president on social media.\n\nThe judge has fined Mr Trump $15,000 for two violations of the order.\n\nOn 25 October, Judge Engoron unexpectedly forced Mr Trump to take the stand, after he publicly criticised \"a person who is very partisan sitting alongside\" the judge.\n\nJudge Engoron perceived that comment to refer to his clerk, who sits to his right.\n\nMr Trump stated under oath that he was talking about that day's witness, Michael Cohen, but the judge said he did not find this credible and imposed a fine.\n\nMr Trump's lawyers have repeatedly told Judge Engoron they believe his clerk is displaying bias, and claim that she is passing notes or rolling her eyes.\n\nIn the New York Supreme Court system, clerks play a role in the proceedings and often quietly confer with the judge.\n\nMr Trump's lawyers filed for a mistrial this week, arguing Judge Engoron is biased.\n\nSeparately, Mr Trump's gag order in a criminal case in Washington DC has also been temporarily lifted.\n\nThat case, brought by the US Department of Justice, focuses on his alleged attempts to subvert the 2020 election results.", "A rainbow banner reading \"stop propaganda of violence\" at a 2017 pride event in St Petersburg\n\nRussia's justice ministry has filed a motion with the country's Supreme Court to ban the activities of what it calls the \"international LGBT public movement\" as extremist.\n\nIt is unclear whether the ministry's statement refers to the LGBT community as a whole or specific organisations.\n\nIt said the movement had shown signs of \"extremist activity\", including inciting \"social and religious strife\".\n\nThe ban could leave any LGBT activist vulnerable to criminal prosecution.\n\nThe extremist label has been used in the past by Russian authorities against rights organisations and opposition groups such as Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation.\n\nThe top court will examine the motion on 30 November.\n\nThe ban would make it impossible for LGBT organisations to operate and put activists and employees at risk of criminal prosecution, the Moscow Times quoted one of the few LGBT activists still inside Russia as saying.\n\n\"Essentially, it would entail criminal prosecution based solely on one's orientation or identity.\"\n\nAnalysts suggest the move is a populist measure designed to win votes ahead of next year's presidential election.\n\nVladimir Putin is widely expected to stand for a fifth term as president, though he has not yet openly declared his candidacy.\n\nRussia under Mr Putin has cracked down on LGBT activism, which he sees as part of an attack by the West on \"traditional Russian values\".\n\nThis campaign was accelerated following the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nLegislation passed last December banned \"propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations\" among all age groups. This was an expansion of a 2013 law aimed at minors.\n\nThe law categorises any positive depictions of same-sex relationships in mass media or advertising under the same umbrella as distributing pornography, the promotion of violence, or stoking racial, ethnic and religious tensions.\n\nThis year saw a crackdown on transgender rights, with legislation in July banning gender reassignment surgery.\n\nOfficials insist that \"non-traditional sexual relations\" are not banned in Russia.\n\nDeputy Justice Minister Andrey Loginov said on Monday at a UN review of Russia's human rights record that LGBT rights were enshrined in law, and that discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity was banned.\n\nBut the latest move is likely to cause deep concern in an already threatened community.\n\n\"Activists face pressure from the state, as well as from homophobic and transphobic groups, often enduring physical attacks,\" the unnamed campaigner added.\n\nLGBT charity boss Dilya Gafurova, who has left Russia, told AFP news agency that authorities were not just trying to \"erase us from the public field: they want to ban us as a social group\".\n\n\"We'll continue our fight,\" she said.", "It's coming up to 03:00 in Gaza and Israel, and 01:00 in London. On a live video feed being transmitted from Israel we can hear occasional, distant explosions from the direction of the Gaza Strip tonight. Let's look back at Thursday's key developments:\n\nThe body of 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss, who was abducted by Hamas during its attacks on 7 October, has been found by Israeli forces in a structure close to Gaza's largest hospital.\n\nYehudit Weiss was recovering from breast cancer when she was taken from kibbutz Be’eri, according to campaigners. Her husband, Shmuel, was killed by Hamas gunmen.\n\nIsrael is continuing its operation at Gaza's largest hospital, and this evening the military said it had found a tunnel shaft and a \"booby-trapped vehicle\" on the grounds of the site.\n\nEarlier, the BBC heard from a journalist at the hospital who said:\" Soldiers are everywhere, shooting in all directions.\" Before his phone line cut out, he told us armoured bulldozers had been brought in.\n\nIsrael has repeatedly accused Hamas of housing a command-and-control centre in a tunnel network underneath the hospital. Hamas denies this.\n\nThe hospital's director warned of \"tragic\" conditions inside. He said the facility had run out of oxygen and water, with patients \"screaming from thirst\". Read more on this here.\n\nIn Gaza’s south, leaflets were dropped by Israeli forces over Khan Younis, warning people in four towns to evacuate their homes and head to shelters.\n\nFor most of the day mobile phone and internet services were down across the Gaza Strip because of a lack of fuel, according to Palestinian telecoms companies. We've written up the story here.\n\nFuel shortages are also causing significant problems for the delivery of aid throughout the Strip. The UN's Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) has said that, from Friday, it will be unable to send trucks to pick up supplies for Gazans from the border with Egypt.\n\nIsrael said its security forces had killed three gunmen who opened fire at a checkpoint on a road leading into Jerusalem from the West Bank.\n\nIsrael says one of its soldiers was killed and others were wounded. Hamas's armed wing said it carried out the attack.\n\nThere are also reports of an Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Jenin tonight. We will bring you more on that as it comes in.", "Dale Houghton has been given a 12-week prison sentence suspended for 18 months\n\nA Sheffield Wednesday supporter who taunted rival fans by mocking the death of Bradley Lowery has been given a 12-week suspended prison sentence.\n\nDale Houghton, 32, from Rotherham, was seen laughing as he held up an image of the six-year-old at a match against Sunderland - the team Bradley supported before he died of cancer in 2017.\n\nHoughton, who admitted a public order offence, was also banned from attending any football match for five years.\n\nHoughton had previously pleaded guilty to one count of intentionally causing harassment, alarm or distress at Sheffield Magistrates' Court on 2 October.\n\nHe was charged after pictures of him brandishing Bradley's photograph during the match at Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium on 29 September were circulated on X, formerly Twitter.\n\nHoughton later described his behaviour to police as \"enjoyable banter\" and said he had \"found it funny\".\n\nBradley Lowery, who was supported by former England striker Jermaine Defoe during his illness, died of cancer in 2017\n\nAt Sheffield Magistrates' Court on Friday he was ordered to undertake 200 hours' unpaid work, as well as being given the 12-week sentence, by District Judge Marcus Waite.\n\nMr Waite said Houghton's \"reckless and foolish\" actions had \"inflicted more trauma on an already grieving family\".\n\nSuspending the sentence for 18 months, Mr Waite said: \"Your actions that day were utterly appalling, your behaviour disgraceful.\n\n\"You showed callous disrespect to a brave young man who was rightly held in the highest esteem by football fans everywhere.\"\n\nHe said while there was no element of \"long-term planning\" he believed Houghton had taken some time to search for the picture.\n\n\"I bear in mind [that] however much time you spent doing that, at no point did you think to yourself 'what the hell am I doing?',\" he told the defendant.\n\n\"The offence was targeted towards Sunderland fans and I don't think you were thinking about the family - not that that makes it any better.\"\n\nMr Waite, who accepted that Houghton showed \"genuine remorse\", also imposed a £154 victim surcharge and ordered him to pay £85 towards the cost of the prosecution.\n\nBradley, from Blackhall Colliery, County Durham, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma - a rare type of cancer - when he was 18 months old.\n\nHe went on to be Sunderland's mascot and became \"best mates\" with his hero, striker Jermain Defoe.\n\nIn a statement read out in court, his mother Gemma Lowery said Houghton's actions had \"brought on many emotions\".\n\nShe said his behaviour was \"not just disrespectful to Bradley and us all, but caused emotional turmoil to other children\" and said it had left her feeling \"very upset\".\n\nConstance Coombs, for Houghton, said her client \"fully accepts that his behaviour was outrageous and deplorable\" and that he would regret it for the rest of his life.\n\nShe said he recognised he was \"entirely in the wrong\" and \"deserves to be punished\", adding that he wished to express his \"deep remorse\" to Bradley's family and the general public.\n\nShe told the court Houghton had lost his job as a window fitter as a result of his actions and had also lost a second job at Next after his employers found out about the incident.\n\nMs Coombs said her client's relationship with his partner had also suffered and he had chosen to stay away from his family home for \"fear of reprisals\".\n\nThousands of people lined the streets of Blackhall Colliery for Bradley's funeral\n\nThe court heard Houghton had been a Sheffield Wednesday season ticket holder for 25 years.\n\nA spokesperson for the club said there was no place for such \"deplorable actions\" at Hillsborough.\n\nThey said: \"We will not in any way tolerate this kind of behaviour and our thoughts remain with Bradley's family and friends.\"\n\nSheffield Wednesday supporters have raised nearly £30,000 for the Bradley Lowery Foundation over the last few weeks, \"underlining the true community values of the club\", the spokesperson added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Almost two million people in Gaza - more than 85% of the population - are reported to have fled their homes in the two months since Israel began its military operation in response to Hamas's deadly attacks of 7 October.\n\nThe Strip has been under the control of Hamas since 2007 and Israel says it is trying to destroy the military and governing capabilities of the Islamist group, which is committed to the destruction of Israel.\n\nThe situation for ordinary people in Gaza - a densely populated enclave 41km (25 miles) long and 10km wide, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on one side and fenced off from Israel and Egypt at its borders - is \"getting worse by the hour\", according to United Nations aid agencies.\n\nIsrael warned civilians to evacuate the area of Gaza north of the Wadi Gaza riverbed, ahead of its invasion.\n\nThe evacuation area included Gaza City - which was the most densely populated area of the Gaza Strip. The Erez border crossing into Israel in the north is closed, so those living in the evacuation zone had no choice but to head towards the southern districts.\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are now focusing its operations on southern Gaza and have told Palestinians that even Khan Younis - the largest urban area in the south - is not safe and they should move south, or further west to a so-called \"safe area\" at al-Mawasi, a thin strip of mainly agricultural land along the Mediterranean coast, close to the Egyptian border.\n\nFighting in Khan Younis has pushed tens of thousands of people to flee to the southern district of Rafah in recent days, the UN said.\n\nAccording to the UN, just over 75% of Gaza's population - some 1.7 million people - were already registered refugees before Israel warned Palestinians to leave northern Gaza.\n\nPalestinian refugees are defined by the UN as people whose \"place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 War\". The children of Palestinian refugees are also able to apply for refugee status.\n\nMore than 500,000 of those refugees were already in eight crowded camps located across the Strip.\n\nFollowing Israel's warnings, the number of displaced people has risen rapidly and 1.9 million have fled their homes since 7 October, the UN says.\n\nOn average, before the conflict, there were more than 5,700 people per sq km in Gaza - very similar to the average density in London - but that figure was more than 9,000 in Gaza City, the most heavily populated area.\n\nThe UN warns that overcrowding has become a major concern in its emergency shelters in central and southern Gaza, with some housing at four times its capacity.\n\nMany of these emergency shelters are schools and in some there are dozens of people living in a single classroom. Other families are living in tents or makeshift shelters in compounds or on waste ground in open spaces.\n\nIsrael has already launched hundreds of airstrikes across Gaza and says it has used more than 10,000 bombs and missiles, causing extensive damage to buildings and infrastructure.\n\nGazan officials say more than 50% of housing units in Gaza have been destroyed, left uninhabitable or damaged since the start of the conflict.\n\nThe map below - using analysis of satellite data by Corey Scher of CUNY Graduate Center and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University - shows which urban areas have sustained concentrated damage since the start of the conflict.\n\nThey say over 100,000 buildings across the whole Gaza Strip have suffered damage. North Gaza and Gaza City have borne the brunt of this, with around half the buildings in the two northern regions believed to have been damaged, but their analysis now suggests up to 20% of buildings in Khan Younis have also been damaged.\n\nEven healthcare facilities have been left unable to function as a result of bomb damage or lack of fuel.\n\nThe UN says hospital capacity in the enclave has more than halved from 3,500 beds before 7 October to about 1,500 now - and \"hardly any\" in the north.\n\nMore than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed during the Hamas attacks on 7 October. More than 18,000 Palestinians - including about 7,700 children - have been killed in Israeli airstrikes and operations since then, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry.\n\nIt is difficult for the BBC to verify exact numbers, but the UN's World Health Organization (WHO) has said it has no reason to believe the figures are inaccurate.\n\nThe airstrikes were accompanied by a \"complete siege\" of Gaza by Israel, with electricity, food and fuel supplies cut, followed by military action on the ground.\n\nThe IDF began its ground operations by moving into Gaza from the north west along the coast and into the north east near Beit Hanoun. A few days later Israeli forces cut across the middle of the territory to the south of Gaza City.\n\nArmoured bulldozers created routes for tanks and troops, as the Israeli forces tried to clear the area of Hamas fighters based in northern Gaza.\n\nHaving cut Gaza in two, the Israelis pushed further into Gaza City, where they faced some resistance from Hamas.\n\nThe image below, released by the IDF, shows tanks and armoured bulldozers on the beach near Gaza City.\n\nA photo of the same beach from last summer shows people making the most of a hot day in Gaza, families splashing in the sea or sitting on fanning out along the beach.\n\nEven before the current conflict, about 80% of the population of Gaza was in need of humanitarian aid, and although Israel has been allowing some aid in from Egypt, aid agencies said it was nowhere near enough.\n\nA seven-day ceasefire at the end of November allowed agencies to deliver an average of 170 trucks and 110,000 litres of fuel a day but that has since fallen to about 100 trucks and 70,000 litres of fuel, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says.\n\n\"It's too little, it's way too little,\" the WHO's Dr Rick Peeperkorn said.\n\nMeanwhile, the WHO has warned that renewed fighting is making the distribution of aid in most of Gaza \"almost impossible\" and will \"only intensify the catastrophic hunger crisis\" that already threatens to overwhelm civilians.\"\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Please ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).", "IBM has suspended advertising on X, formerly known as Twitter, after a report said its ads were placed next to posts praising Adolf Hitler and Nazism.\n\nThe company said it was \"completely unacceptable\" that its content appeared in such threads on the platform.\n\nX said it does not intentionally place brands \"next to this kind of content\".\n\nIt comes as X owner Elon Musk was criticised after calling an antisemitic conspiracy theory \"actual truth\" when replying to a post on the platform.\n\nThe left-leaning watchdog Media Matters for America said it found ads bought by IBM and other companies next to posts including Hitler quotes, praise of Nazis and Holocaust denial.\n\nOne pro-Nazi post that was shown next to an IBM ad was seen about 8,000 times, X said in a statement to the BBC.\n\nThe other firms listed include Apple, Oracle, television network Bravo and telecoms company Xfinity. The BBC has approached the companies for comment.\n\n\"IBM has zero tolerance for hate speech and discrimination and we have immediately suspended all advertising on X while we investigate this entirely unacceptable situation,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nX told the BBC that ads are not deliberately placed next to extremist content, that the Nazi-promoting accounts will not earn money from advertising and that specific posts will be labelled \"sensitive media\".\n\n\"X's point of view has always been very clear that discrimination by everyone should STOP across the board - I think that's something we can and should all agree on,\" Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino posted on Thursday.\n\n\"X has also been extremely clear about our efforts to combat antisemitism and discrimination,\" she added. \"There's no place for it anywhere in the world - it's ugly and wrong.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Wednesday, Mr Musk responded affirmatively to a tweet that accused Jewish communities of pushing \"hatred against whites\" and which included anti-immigrant sentiments.\n\nMedia Matters said Mr Musk's tweet, which was seen by more than five million people, according to the site's statistics, amounted to an endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory known as \"white genocide\". It argues that Jewish people systematically plot to encourage immigration of \"non-white\" people to Western countries in order to create demographic change and \"eliminate\" the white race.\n\nThe X owner denies he is antisemitic and later said his comments referred not to all Jewish people but to groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other unspecified \"Jewish communities\".\n\nIn response to Musk's tweet, ADL Chief Executive Jonathan Greenblatt posted: \"At a time when antisemitism is exploding in America and surging around the world, it is indisputably dangerous to use one's influence to validate and promote antisemitic theories.\"\n\nMr Musk has on several occasions repeated conspiracy theories and has also criticised social media watchdogs - including the ADL and other groups - for criticising his content moderation changes at X.\n\nThe company says that it has stronger brand safety controls than other social networks and that hate speech and extremism has fallen on the platform despite large cuts to the company's safety team. Several outside groups disagree with the company's own assessment.\n\nEarlier this year Mr Musk threatened to sue the ADL, claiming it was \"trying to kill this platform by falsely accusing it & me of being anti-Semitic\". He blames pressure groups for a sharp drop in advertising revenue since his takeover.\n\nWhile he has not carried through with his threat against the ADL, the company has sued another research and campaign group, the Center for Countering Digital Hate.\n\nMr Musk was scheduled to speak at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco on Thursday but cancelled, citing a schedule change.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says boat crossings across the English Channel are down by a third thanks to government actions.\n\nRishi Sunak has denied \"tinkering\" with the government's Rwanda plan after his sacked former home secretary accused him of failing to take the radical action needed to implement the policy.\n\nThe PM defended his plan to introduce emergency laws and a new treaty with Rwanda to save the plan after the Supreme Court ruled it was unlawful.\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"take on\" anyone who stood in the way of the new laws.\n\nEarlier Suella Braverman described his approach as \"magical thinking\".\n\nWriting in the Telegraph, Ms Braverman said \"tinkering with a failed plan\" would not achieve the government's aims.\n\nIn its ruling on the government's scheme to fly some asylum seekers to Rwanda, the Supreme Court said there were \"substantial grounds\" to believe that some of those deported to the country could be sent back to places where they would be unsafe.\n\nAfter the judgement, Mr Sunak announced he would bring in emergency legislation to certify that Rwanda was a \"safe\" country, despite the court's decision.\n\nThe prime minister also said he would sign a new treaty with Rwanda, so that the first flights could begin in the spring.\n\nSpeaking to broadcasters during a visit to a school in Bolsover in Derbyshire, Mr Sunak insisted he would \"work night and day\" to ensure domestic courts could not \"systemically\" block flights to the east African nation.\n\nAsked whether his rescue plan amounted to \"tinkering\" he said: \"No.\n\n\"We can pass these laws in Parliament that will give us the powers and the tools we need.\n\n\"Then we can get the flights off, and whether it's the House of Lords or the Labour Party standing in our way, I will take them on because I want to get this thing done and I want to stop the boats.\"\n\nSpeaking in Aberdeenshire, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called on the prime minister to \"stop pursuing expensive gimmicks\".\n\nHe said a \"serious solution\" was needed to a \"very serious problem\", adding that Labour would work with the UK's international partners on \"smashing the criminal gangs... getting people across the Channel\".\n\nMrs Braverman, who was sacked as home secretary on Monday, argued that Mr Sunak's plan would not solve \"the fundamental issue\", that the UK's highest court had found Rwanda unsafe for deporting asylum seekers.\n\n\"Any new treaty would still require going back through the courts, a process that would likely take at least another year\" and \"could culminate in yet another defeat\", she said, meaning that no asylum seekers were flown to Rwanda before the next general election.\n\nAn election is expected to be held next year and one must take place by January 2025.\n\nInstead, Ms Braverman called for ministers to ignore human rights laws and other international obligations in their \"entirety\" on this issue, and to prevent those being sent to Rwanda being able to mount legal challenges.\n\nFormer senior cabinet minister Damian Green called Mrs Braverman's suggestion the \"most unconservative proposal I've ever heard\".\n\nA former First Secretary of State under Theresa May, Mr Green told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that overriding legal constraints was the behaviour of \"dictators\" like Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nBut another former cabinet minister, Sir Simon Clarke, said Parliament was \"entitled in extremis to say certain sections of the law are disapplied\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Migrants in Dunkirk say they are determined to reach the UK despite government attempts to stop them.\n\nThe Rwanda policy is central to Mr Sunak's plan to stop asylum seekers crossing the English Channel in small boats - one of his key pledges - as it is designed to deter people from making the dangerous journey.\n\nAny new legislation is expected to face strong opposition in the House of Lords, which contains several current and former Supreme Court judges. It would also be likely to face legal challenges in the courts.\n\nSir David Normington, former Home Office permanent secretary, told Today that Mrs Braverman was \"right in one way\" - that getting a working Rwanda policy \"would be very difficult\".\n\n\"We could pull out of all conventions, but that would be a very bad idea,\" he said, adding that it would always come down to a British court deciding whether Rwanda was safe.\n\n\"The courts say it is not a safe country. You can't say black is white.\"\n\nAsked if international law was \"outdated\", Sir David said that \"at the core\" international agreements were written to protect the vulnerable.\n\n\"What is true is that the rights of people to not be tortured never goes out of date.\"", "Erik, a 26-year-old musician, says he swam a river to escape into Moldova\n\nNearly 20,000 men have fled Ukraine since the beginning of the war to avoid being drafted, the BBC has discovered.\n\nSome have swum dangerous rivers to leave the country. Others have simply walked out under cover of darkness.\n\nAnother 21,113 men attempted to flee but were caught by the Ukrainian authorities, Kyiv confirmed.\n\nAfter Russia's invasion, most men aged 18-60 were banned from leaving. But data obtained by the BBC reveals dozens have made it out daily.\n\nWe have spoken to several men who have escaped in order to join family abroad, study, or simply make a living.\n\n\"What am I supposed to do [in Ukraine]?\" one man, Yevgeny, said. \"Not everyone is a warrior… you don't need to keep the whole country locked up. You can't lump everyone together like they did in the Soviet Union.\"\n\nThe BBC has established - by requesting data of illegal border crossings from neighbouring Romania, Moldova, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia - that 19,740 men illegally crossed into these countries between February 2022 and 31 August 2023.\n\nWhile we do not know how those men escaped, we do know what methods were used by the other 21,113 who were caught trying. The majority - 14,313 - were attempting to walk or swim across the border, and the remaining 6,800 relied on fraudulently obtained official paperwork stating fake exemptions such as fabricated illnesses, the Ukrainian authorities said.\n\nThose who are excluded from conscription include men with medical issues, those with caring responsibilities, and fathers to three or more children.\n\nIn August, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called out the \"corrupt decisions\" made by the country's medical military commissions, which he said had resulted in a ten-fold increase in exemptions since February 2022. He announced that all regional officials in charge of military conscription had been removed, and more than 30 people faced criminal charges.\n\nThe president's parliamentary representative, Fedir Venislavskyi, acknowledged to the BBC that the problem was serious.\n\n\"The government realises that this phenomenon is not isolated and that it is widespread. But unfortunately, I would emphasise that corruption is very resilient,\" he said - adding that Ukraine was doing \"everything possible to keep the number of corruption cases to a minimum\".\n\nMr Venislavskyi said the number of men who had left or had tried to leave was having no impact on the war effort.\n\n\"I am convinced that the resilience and readiness of Ukrainians to defend their independence, sovereignty and freedom is 95-99%,\" Mr Venislavskyi told the BBC.\n\n\"Those who try to avoid mobilisation are about 1-5%. They are definitely not critical to the defence of Ukraine.\" He said there were no plans to radically increase the number of those eligible for mobilisation.\n\nMany have died trying to flee Ukraine by swimming the unpredictable Tisa River\n\nThe 40,000-plus number of men who have fled, or tried to flee, could represent a significant proportion of the men Ukraine needs to replenish its army. In August, US officials estimated the Ukrainian military death toll to be up to 70,000 - although Kyiv won't give a figure.\n\nThe country also does not release official figures on the size of its army. But the new Defence Minister, Rustem Umerov, told the Yalta European Strategy forum in September that there are more than 800,000 in the Ukrainian armed forces.\n\nSome of the escapes have been dramatic.\n\nOne video shows a man swimming across the Dniester River towards Moldova, with Moldovan border guards urging him across to safety. Another shows the potentially fatal consequences - bodies of men being pulled ashore, having drowned trying to cross the Tisa River between Ukraine and Romania.\n\nBut Yevgeny, a construction worker from Kyiv who we met in a Moldovan immigration centre, said he simply walked across that country's border - the most popular route out, our figures suggest. It is then relatively straightforward for escapees of the war to claim asylum.\n\nYevgeny had felt trapped in Ukraine he told us - younger men and those with military experience had been called up for conscription first.\n\nIt had been difficult for him in the meantime to find a well-paying job, \"because everything is geared towards the war\" and yet \"electricity, fuel - everything's become more expensive\".\n\nAfter being processed by the Moldovan police, he applied for asylum - something that must be done within 24 hours of entering the country to avoid a criminal record.\n\nThousands of Ukrainian men have joined the call to fight for their country since Russia's invasion in February last year. But what of those who decided military service was not for them?\n\nWatch now on BBC iPlayer (UK Only) or YouTube\n\nIt was at the same asylum and immigration centre that we met Erik, a 26-year-old musician from Kharkiv, who says he crossed over to Moldova by walking across the plains of Moldova's breakaway Transnistria region and then swimming across a river.\n\nWhile fake exemptions may be possible to get hold of, Erik's experience suggests genuine paperwork may prove more difficult to get.\n\nFollowing complex abdominal surgery for peritonitis when he was younger, Erik says he needs to follow a special diet which precludes him from serving in the army. But he says when war broke out it proved impossible to get a medical exemption certificate.\n\n\"They pass the responsibility from one department to another: 'Go here, go there.' I spent half a year trying to get a certificate [to prove] that I was unfit, despite having all the tests in my hands. Eventually my patience ran out.\"\n\nErik eventually made it to the US, where he was reunited with his wife and their four-year-old daughter.\n\nAnother man, who we are calling Vlad, did manage to get hold of a valid exemption - but says he could then not get the border guards to take it seriously.\n\nHe says he was excited to have been accepted on a foreign university course, and had been granted a student permit to leave Ukraine, but soon realised that this was not going to suffice.\n\n\"I thought it didn't work out because I got a tricky checkpoint. I went to another one, and another one. They laughed at me and sent me home. I realised that this piece of paper - this 'permission' - is pointless for a border officer, they don't care at all.\"\n\nInstead Vlad left the country by swimming across the Tisa River into Romania.\n\nYevgeny says he had no viable employment in Ukraine\n\nVlad reached the Ukrainian side of the border with the help of a friend, but another man, who we are calling Danilo, says he used the services of someone via Telegram who was organising a crossing of the Tisa.\n\nThe messaging app is a popular platform for smugglers to advertise their services, the BBC has established. An undercover reporter working for our investigation, who we are calling Andrey, spent a month corresponding with smugglers, posing as a Ukrainian keen to leave the country.\n\nHe discovered at least six Telegram groups - with membership ranging from 100 to several thousand people. He says they offered a range of services, from adding pretend children to his family, to the most expensive option - the medical exemption certificate, known as the \"white ticket\" which would allow him to leave and return to Ukraine whenever he liked.\n\nHe was told it would take up to a week to make, and would cost him about $4,300 (£3,472) - the price included a bribe to the official making the ticket.\n\nParliamentary representative Mr Venislavskyi told us that the threat posed by fake documentation - and the difficulties in some cases of obtaining real paperwork that is taken seriously by border guards - should be eradicated within the next year or two by a new digitised system.\n\nAll those we spoke to had been successful in their attempts to leave the country, but those who are caught by the Ukrainian authorities risk a fine of $92-230, and a prison sentence of up to eight years.\n\nIt isn't clear whether those who flee and choose to return to Ukraine in the future might also face retrospective punishment, but Mr Venislavskyi said he didn't believe that would be in the national interest.\n\nDanilo argued that Ukrainians should be allowed to make their own decisions.\n\n\"Because I still believe that each person chooses their life's purpose. For some, the meaning is in defending their territories, for others, it's about protecting themselves and their families. Some want to create, build businesses, contribute to the state's economy.\n\n\"I believe that no matter what, my role isn't on the battlefield.\n\nHe said he hoped that the Ukrainian authorities would encourage those who have left to return when the war ends, rather than punish them.\n\n\"Without people - moreover without smart people who earn good money and pay good money to the treasury - it is harder for the state to exist.\"\n\nWith no end in sight to the war with Russia, it is not clear when that issue will become relevant. In the meantime, as this turns into a war of attrition, Ukraine needs all the soldiers it can get.", "MPs gather to hear the result of the vote on the Gaza motion\n\nSir Keir Starmer has suffered a major rebellion over his stance on the Israel-Gaza war, with 56 Labour MPs voting for an immediate ceasefire.\n\nThe Labour leader had ordered the party's MPs to abstain in a vote on a motion tabled by the SNP on Wednesday.\n\nBut 10 frontbenchers including Jess Phillips, Afzal Khan and Yasmin Qureshi left their roles to back the motion, which was defeated by 125 votes to 294.\n\nFind out how your MP voted using the search box below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did my MP vote For or Against calling for a ceasefire in Gaza? Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nThe motion, one of several proposed amendments to the King's Speech, condemned Hamas's \"horrific\" killings and hostage-taking, but urged the government to press all sides for \"an immediate ceasefire\".\n\nLabour's official position, like that of the government, is to call for \"humanitarian pauses\" in the fighting to allow more aid through. Sir Keir set this out in a separate amendment which was also defeated, but was backed by 160 Labour MPs.\n\nEight shadow ministers either resigned or were sacked after voting for the ceasefire motion. They were:\n\nTwo others, Dan Carden and Mary Foy, left their posts as parliamentary aides.", "Amiram Cooper, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Tsachi Idan are being held in Gaza\n\nIsrael says 132 people remain unaccounted for after they were abducted and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attacks by Hamas.\n\nAn estimated 240 people were taken prisoner, but 105 were later released by Hamas during a six-day ceasefire at the end of November.\n\nThe Israeli military said it mistakenly killed three hostages in northern Gaza who had escaped from their captors and expressed \"deep remorse\" over the incident.\n\nOf the 132 still unaccounted for, Israel says that 20 of them are believed to be dead.\n\nThese are the stories of those hostages who are still being held, which have either been confirmed by the BBC or credibly reported.\n\nThis list is regularly updated and names may change, as some people feared kidnapped are confirmed to have been killed or released.\n\nLast updated on 19 December 2023 at 10:33 GMT\n\nYagev Kirsht, 34, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim, alongside his wife, Rimon Buchstab Kirsht. She has now been released.\n\nAlexander Trupanov, was taken hostage with his mother Lena Trupanov, 50, his partner Sapir Cohen, 29, and his grandmother Irina Tati, 73. All were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz as they spent the Sabbath together, according to a statement by Canada's Raoul Wallenburg Center for Human Rights. Irina and Lena were released on Wednesday 29 November and Sapir was freed the next day.\n\nAriel Cunio, his girlfriend Arbel Yahud and her brother Dolev are also thought to have been abducted in the same attack on Nir Oz. Eitan Cunio, Ariel's brother who escaped Hamas, told the Jewish Chronicle that his last message from Ariel said: \"We are in a horror movie.\"\n\nDavid Cunio, 33, another of Ariel's brothers, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, family say. David's wife Sharon Aloni Cunio and their three-year-old twin daughters Ema and Yuly were released on 27 November. Sharon's sister Daniele Aloni, and her six-year-old daughter Emilia were both released on 24 November.\n\nDoron Steinbrecher, 30, a veterinary nurse, was in her apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas attacked, the Times of Israel reported. At 10:30 on 7 October, the newspaper said, she sent a voice message to friends: \"They've arrived, they have me.\"\n\nItzhak Gelerenter, 53, was taken from the Supernova festival. His family said the IDF found his phone was located in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported. His daughter Pivko told the paper: \"I'm trying to think good thoughts, I have a powerful, smart, resourceful father.\"\n\nDoron Steinbrecher sent a voice message to friends during Hamas' attack\n\nNaama Levy, 19, was filmed being bundled into a jeep, her hands tied behind her back. The footage was released by Hamas and circulated widely on social media. According to her mother, the teenager had just begun her military service.\n\nYousef Zyadna, a 53-year-old Bedouin dairy farmer, was abducted from Kibbutz Holit and taken to Gaza along with his sons Hamza, 22, and Bilal, 18, and his daughter, Aisha, 16. Aisha and Bilal were released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nElad Katzir, 47, was abducted from Nir Oz with his mother Hanna. Hanna has now been released.\n\nOhad Ben Ami, 55, was kidnapped from Be'eri with his wife, Raz. She was released by Hamas on 29 November.\n\nTwin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 26, were taken from Kfar Aza. Ziv was messaging a friend as the attack happened. Their family said the IDF has told them the brothers are being held in Gaza. Their brother Liran told CBN news the pair had \"twin power\" and were the centre of attention wherever they went.\n\nIraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 85, was taken captive from Kibbutz Kissufim, where he lived and worked as a chicken coop manager. His wife, Mazal, managed to escape.\n\nMichel Nisenbaum, 59, is a dual Brazilian-Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel for 45 years and works as a computer technician, his family told Brazilian media. They also say he is diabetic and has Crohn's disease. On 7 October, they say, someone claiming to be from Hamas answered his phone when they tried to call him.\n\nDaniela Gilboa, 19, sent messages saying that Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she was staying, was under attack and asked her mother to pray for her. Her boyfriend, Roy Dadon, told the Economist 1843 magazine that he believes he saw a glimpse of her in a video showing three girls being driven away in the back of an SUV.\n\nItay Chen, 19, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF solider, was on active duty with a tank unit on 7 October, according to the Times of Israel. The paper reported that his family was notified by the IDF that he is officially considered missing in action and probably being held hostage. Another soldier in his unit, Matan Angrest, 21, is also presumed to be in Gaza.\n\nYosi Sharabi, 51, was taken from Be'eri with his brother, Eli Sharabi, 55. Eli's wife and two daughters were murdered in the attack. Ofir Engel, the boyfriend of Yosi's daughter, Yuval, was also taken, but released on 29 November.\n\nAgam Berger, 19, was kidnapped from Nahal Oz. She was seen being taken away in videos released by Hamas.\n\nEdan Alexander, 19, is an Israeli-US citizen who volunteered to join the Israeli army. He was serving near the Gaza border at the time of Hamas's attack. Edan's family said they had been told by Israeli officials that he had been taken to Gaza as a hostage.\n\nKaid Farhan Elkadi, 53, lives with his family south of Rahat and worked as a security guard, according to Israeli media. Reports said his family believes he was kidnapped and taken to Gaza, based on images shared by Hamas.\n\nIlana Gritzewsky and Matan Zanguaker were captured near the Gaza border, family say\n\nMatan Zanguaker, 24, was taken with his partner Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, from Nir Oz, according to Ilana's father. Ilana, a Mexican national, was released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nThe family of Eitan and Yair Horn believe they were taken from Nir Oz kibbutz\n\nEitan Horn, 37, and his brother Yair, 45, both Argentinian citizens, were also in Nir Oz at the time of the attack. Their father Itzik said he believes they were kidnapped. Yair is a construction worker while Eitan works in education.\n\nItai Svirsky, 38, is thought to have been abducted when his elderly parents were killed in Be'eri. He had been visiting them for the holiday of Simhat Torah.\n\nKeith Seigel, 64, and his wife Adrienne - often known as Aviva - Seigel, 62, were taken from their home in Kfar Aza, Keith's brother Lee Seigel told the BBC. Adrienne was released on 26 November.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, lived in Nahal Oz with his wife and two daughters. Omri was led away by Hamas with his hands tied, his wife Lishay told the Guardian newspaper. She told him not to be a hero, urging: \"Do whatever they want because I want you back.\"\n\nBipin Joshi, 23, a Nepalese student, is believed to have been taken from Kibbutz Alumim. Nepalese newspaper Setopati says he was one of 49 university students studying agriculture in Israel. It says 10 students were killed in the attack.\n\nIlan Weiss, 58, went missing from Kibbutz Be'eri after he was last seen leaving the house to defend the community. On 25 November, his wife Shiri Weiss, 53, and their daughter, Noga, 18, were freed from captivity in a hostage deal.\n\nAmiram Cooper, 85, and his wife Nurit, 80, were taken from their home in Nir Oz, their daughter-in-law Noa told the BBC. The family last spoke to the couple during the Hamas attack, Noa said, when the couple were in their safe room. The family later traced Amiram's phone to Gaza. On Monday 23 October, Nurit was one of two women to be released.\n\nAmiram and Nurit Cooper, pictured with their granddaughter, Gali\n\nOded Lifshitz, 83, and his wife Yocheved, 85 were taken hostage from Nir Oz. On Monday 23 October, Yocheved was one of two elderly women to be freed. After hearing the news of her mother's release, their daughter Sharone - a London-based artist - said: \"While I cannot put into words the relief that she is now safe, I will remain focused on securing the release of my father and all those - some 200 innocent people - who remain hostages in Gaza.\"\n\nHaim Peri, 79, was taken from his home in Nir Oz, reports the Times of Israel, and freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz said she saw that he was alive and well. His son Lior Peri told Talk TV that Haim had locked his wife inside the safe room before giving himself up to kidnappers.\n\nAvraham Munder, 78, was kidnapped from Nir Oz, Israeli officials say. His wife Ruthi, daughter and grandson have since been released.\n\nOmer Neutra, a 22-year-old Israeli-American and grandson of Holocaust survivors, put off plans to go to college in the US to study in Israel, and eventually joined the IDF. He was serving as a tank commander near Gaza when Hamas attacked. Omer's parents say they were told by the Israeli embassy that he had been kidnapped.\n\nRon Benjamin's vehicle was found empty following the attacks\n\nRon Benjamin, 53, had been taking part in a group cycle ride near the Gaza border when the Hamas attack began and he decided to drive home, his family told Israeli media. Days later, his vehicle was found empty and his family believe he was kidnapped.\n\nLouis Har, 70, is believed to have been taken from Nir Yitzhak. His partner Clara Marman was released on 28 November along with her sister Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela's daughter Mia Leimberg,17. Clara and Gabriela's brother Fernando Simon Marman, 60, also remains in captivity.\n\nJudith Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 73, also went missing from Nir Oz after the Hamas attack. Ten days later, the Israeli military confirmed to the family they had been taken hostage, CTV News in Canada reported.\n\nAlex Danzig, 75, a scholar and historian of the Holocaust, was at his home in Nir Oz, when it was attacked by Hamas. \"We know for sure he was kidnapped,\" his son Mati told the BBC. Alex - whose older sister Edith is a Holocaust survivor - has spent the last 30 years working for Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust remembrance centre. His disappearance has triggered a campaign for his release, both in Israel and in Poland, the country of his birth.\n\nAlex Danzig has spent decades educating people about the Holocaust\n\nItzhk Elgarat, 68, was kidnapped at the same time as Alex Danzig, his brother Danny Elgert told Israel's Kan 11 TV station, adding that he had tracked his brother's phone to the border with Gaza.\n\nGadi Moses, 79, was also abducted during the same attack on Nir Oz, according to relatives and the Israeli aid agency where he worked as an agricultural expert. Efrat Katz, his partner, was initially thought to have been captured as well, but she was later found dead, the Times of Israel reported. Efrat was the mother of Doron Asher, who was taken hostage and later released with her two daughters. Ravid Katz, 51, Doron Asher's brother, was originally thought to have been taken hostage from Nir Oz, but on 28 November his family confirmed that he had been killed on 7 October.\n\nYair Yaakov, 59, is listed among the hostages. His partner Meirav Tal, 53, was released on 28 November. Yair's children Yagil, 13, and Or, 16, were released on 27 November.\n\nYair Yaakov was pictured being held captive by a gunman in a video shared online\n\nNimrod Cohen, 19, had studied software engineering in high school, according to reports. After he was kidnapped, his father was invited to meet Pope Francis in Rome along with other hostages' families.\n\nTsachi Idan, 51, was last seen by his wife, Gali, as he was taken away by Hamas gunmen. Their family had been ambushed in their safe room in Nahal Oz. Their ordeal was live-streamed by Hamas. Their eldest child, Maayan - who had just turned 18 - was shot dead, Gali told the BBC.\n\nTsachi Idan was ambushed with his wife and children and then led away\n\nYarden Bibas, 34, was abducted from Nir Oz. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were also taken hostage, but on 29 November, Hamas claimed they had been killed in an Israeli air strike while in captivity. The Israeli government has said it is checking the claim.\n\nRonen Engel, 54, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife, Karina Engelbert, 51, and their two daughters, Mika, 18 and Yuval, 11. On 1 December, the organisation representing the families said he had been murdered. Karina, Mika and Yuval were released on 27 November.\n\nKarina Ariev, a 19-year-old soldier, was serving at an army base near Gaza when she was kidnapped. Her sister Alexandra told the BBC she heard shooting as Karina called her during the attack, and later saw a video showing Karina being taken away in a vehicle.\n\nKarina Ariev was at the Nahal Oz military base, which was among the first to be attacked\n\nOfer Kalderon, 53, was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz. On 27 November his two children, Erez, 12, and Sahar, 16, were released. Two other relatives, 80-year-old Carmela Dan and her granddaughter, Noya, 12, were also believed to have been taken, but Israeli authorities later announced they had been found dead.\n\nYoram Metzger, 80, was a resident of Nir Oz. He has diabetes and broke his hip six months ago, his daughter-in-law said. Yoram's wife Tamar was released on 28 November.\n\nNadav Popplewell, 51, and his mother Channah were taken hostage by Hamas, said Channah's daughter Ayelet Svatitzky, who was speaking to them on the phone when the gunmen burst in. She said the captors sent pictures of her two relatives, who both have diabetes, with armed men in the background. Channah has now been released.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, was abducted after his family opened the door to their secure shelter to an Israeli child, who said he would be killed otherwise. Omri's wife, Lishay Lavi, said she saw him being taken away in handcuffs with three other hostages from Nahal Oz.\n\nLiri Elbag, 18, had just started military training as an Army lookout near the Gaza border when Hamas attacked, her father Eli told the Associated Press. Eli said he saw her in a video circulated later by Hamas, crowded with others on the back of a military truck which had been seized by the gunmen.\n\nLior Rudaeff, 61, was taken from Nir Yitzhak during the attack. His family have heard nothing from him since then.\n\nA number of people are believed to have been abducted from the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Among them:\n\nShlomi Ziv, 40, was part of the security detail at the festival and was initially in contact with his sisters as the attack unfolded, according to an interview with The Times of Israel. A few weeks later the family learned he was officially considered to be a hostage, the report says.\n\nAlexander Lobanov, 32, is a Russian-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped at the festival.\n\nOri Danino, 25, is reported to have got away from the festival in his car, but it's believed he was captured after turning back in an attempt to save some people he had met there.\n\nAlmog Sarusi, 26, was kidnapped from the music festival and his partner Shahar Gindi was killed, according to Israeli media. Almog's father, Yigal, was among the relatives of hostages who met with Israel's prime minister in October.\n\nOmer Shem Tov, 21, called his parents as he was running away from gunfire and managed to get into a friend's car. His parents, Shelly and Malki Shem Tov, told Israeli media they lost contact with their son and the live location on his phone showed he was beyond the border in Gaza.\n\nIdan Shtivi, 28, an environmental sciences student, was attending the festival to take pictures at music and yoga workshops being held by friends. He escaped the site in his car but was attacked by Hamas along the route. The bodies of two of his passengers were found, and his family told the Jerusalem Post they suspect he was kidnapped.\n\nYosef Ohana, 24, had been at the festival with a friend, who told his mother he and Yosef had remained to help people escape the gunfire before running themselves. Yosef was last seen hiding under a car, and Israeli authorities have visited his mother to say he was kidnapped.\n\nAndrei Kozlov, 27, a Russian who moved to Israel in 2022, is missing from the Supernova festival, where he was working as a security guard. His mother told the De Taly publication the family was told by the IDF on October 26 that he was being held hostage.\n\nElyakim Libman, 23, was working as a security guard at the festival. In a Facebook post his father Eliyahu Libman said another guard told him his son had helped rescue others before trying to escape. He was last seen trying to help two badly-injured women.\n\nNoa Argamani, a Chinese-born Israeli citizen, was also kidnapped from the festival. Video footage - verified by her father Yaakov Argamani to Israel's Channel 12 - shows the 25-year-old being taken away on the back of a motorbike screaming, \"Don't kill me!\" Her boyfriend Avinatan Or, 30, also appears in the video being marched away from her by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nEden Yerushalmi's family say they were told she had been taken hostage\n\nEden Yerushalmi, 24, called her family during Hamas's attack on the festival, her sister May told CBS News. The family say they were subsequently informed by the IDF that Eden had been abducted.\n\nChanan Yablonka, 42, is a father-of-two from Tel Aviv. According to reports, he attended the festival with friends and was due to celebrate his birthday a few days after the attacks.\n\nJonathan Samerano, 21, has been missing since 7am on the morning of the festival. His family have been told to presume he is being held in Gaza, Israeli media reported.\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal was filmed in captivity in Gaza, his family say\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, attended the festival with his brother. Guy appears in a hostage video that his family say confirms he is in Gaza.\n\nUriel Baruch, 35, was injured during the attack on the festival, his wife said on Facebook. Reports in Israeli media say his mother, Naomi, has heard from the IDF that he is a hostage.\n\nMaxim Kharkin's mother described speaking to him on the morning of 7 October\n\nMaxim Kharkin is aged 35 and a Russian speaker, his mother told Russian media. She added that he had called her at 07:00 on the morning of the attack.\n\nElkana Bohbot was seen in a video posted by Hamas\n\nElkana Bohbot, 34, had gone to the party with friends and, before losing contact, he spoke to his wife and mother telling them he was helping to evacuate the wounded, the Times of Israel reported. Hours later, his family found a video of him posted online by Hamas, which has been seen by BBC Verify.\n\nRom Braslavski, 19, was working on security for the festival. According to an account published by Hostages and Missing Families Forum, he was trying to rescue an injured person in the attack when he was caught in a volley of fire. He has not been heard from since.\n\nOmer Wenkert, 22, a restaurant manager, sent a message to his family to say he was going to a safe shelter but then lost contact, his father Shai Wenkert told the BBC's Today Programme. Shai Wenkert said he had seen footage of his son in captivity, including a photo of him handcuffed and wearing only underwear.\n\nEvyatar David's family say they were sent a video of him in captivity\n\nEvyatar David, 23, was at the festival and on the morning of the attacks, described fleeing from gunfire before losing contact with the outside world, his brother says. Later, his family say, Evyatar's sister posted on Instagram appealing for information about his whereabouts. She then received a text from an unknown number, which contained video footage of Evyatar handcuffed on the floor of a dark room. According to Israel's foreign ministry he is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nEitan Mor, 23, lives in Jerusalem, and was working as a security guard at the festival, the Times of Israel said. He reportedly texted his uncle after Hamas arrived and was last seen with a friend bringing others to safety.\n\nAlon Ohel, 22, a Serbian citizen, took refuge in a shelter after the festival came under attack, his family say. They have seen footage of him being dragged away after a grenade attack.\n\nAlmog Meir Jan, 21, tried to flee the festival. He and a friend made it to the friend's car but only managed to drive a short distance before being forced to stop. Almog's family say they have seen a hostage video in which he appears.\n\nInbar Heiman, a student aged 21, was seen by two young Israeli men being taken away from the festival on a motorcycle. Hamas have released a video in which she is seen very briefly.\n\nHersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual US-Israeli citizen, was badly injured in the attack, his family told the BBC. Eyewitness accounts say he was seen being forced onto a white pick-up truck - the last-known signal from his phone came from just inside Gaza.\n\nSegev Kalfon, 26, was running away from the festival, across the highway, when he was captured by Hamas, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.\n\nOrión Hernández Radoux, 30, from Mexico, attended the festival with his girlfriend, Shani Louk. He has not been seen since. The Sun newspaper says it has seen threatening messages written in Arabic sent from his phone. Shani, a tourist from Germany, was initially thought to be among those seized. But on 30 October, her mother Ricarda told German media that the family had been informed by Israeli military of her death following DNA identification.\n\nRomi Lesham Gonen, 23, was on the phone to her mother as she tried to escape from the Supernova festival. Merav Leshem Gonan has recounted a conversation in which her daughter begged for help after being shot. ABC News reports that Romi's phone is now in Gaza.\n\nBar Kuperstein, 21, last spoke to his family early on the morning of 7 October, as the attack unfolded. Later the same day, his family say they identified him in a video of Israeli prisoners, posted by Hamas. Since then, they say they have had no further information.\n\nEliya Cohen, 26, was hiding with his girlfriend Ziv from the attack, when Ziv felt him being pulled up and driven away by the gunmen, Eliya's mother has told the video initiative #BringThemHomeNow. The family then found a photo of Eliya in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nAmit Buskila, 28, from Ashdod, was last heard of making a call to her uncle, Shimon, as Hamas overran the festival. Her family say they have now been told by the government that she is being held in Gaza.\n\nCarmel Gat, 39, is Jordan's sister-in-law, and also was seen by her father being taken by gunmen from Kibbutz Be'eri, Haaretz newspaper reported. She has not been heard from since.\n\nOhad Yahalomi, 49, was abducted from Nir Oz, along with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the November ceasefire.\n\nDror Or, 48, was seen by a neighbour being dragged out of his home in Be'eri, according to their nephew Emmanuel Besorai, along with his son and daughter. On Saturday 25 November Dror's son Noam, 17, and daughter Alma, 13, were released from captivity. The body of Yonat, 50 - Dror's wife and the children's mother - was identified among the 120 people murdered at the kibbutz, Yonat's brother told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nTal Shoham, 38, was taken from Kibbutz Be'eri. His wife Adi, also 38, her mother Dr Shoshan Haran, 67, were released by Hamas on 25 November, along with the couple's children Nave, eight, and Yahel, three. Dr Haran's husband, Avshalom - an economist and dual German/Israeli citizen - was killed on 7 October.\n\nTamir Adar, 38, who defended Nir Oz as part of the kibbutz's emergency squad, was taken to Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen, 35, an American-Israeli citizen, has been missing since Hamas's attack on Nir Oz, his father Jonathan told the BBC. He said his son was not found among the dead and the \"only reasonable explanation\" is that he was taken to Gaza.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen's father has not heard from him since Hamas attacked the kibbutz where he lived\n\nThailand's ambassador to Israel says 26 of its citizens were taken hostage, 23 of whom have now been released.\n\nThose still being held are believed to include Watchara Sriuan, 32. His mother, Viewwaew, told the Thaiger news site that the family had been informed he was being held captive.\n\nKiattisak \"Top\" Patee and a Mr Pongtorn (no first name given) have also been named by the Thai foreign ministry as hostages.\n\nA number of other people thought to have been held hostage are now confirmed to have died, either during the 7 October attack or while in captivity.\n\nAs well as Ron Scherman and Nik Beizer, four bodies were identified this week. They were Tal Chaimi, an Israeli-Romanian citizen aged 41, and Joshua Mollel, a 19-year-old Tanzanian student. Also, 27-year-old Eden Zecharya, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and 36-year-old Ziv Dado, who had already been declared dead by the Israeli military.\n\nOthers known to have died include Dror Kaplun, 68, Aviv Atzili, 49, Arye Zalmanovich, 85, Ronen Engel, 54, Maya Goren, 56, Guy Iluz, 26, Ofir Tzarfati, 27, Ofra Keider, 70, and Eliyahu Margalit, 75.\n\nThe bodies of 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, and 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss were found by Israeli troops in buildings close to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.\n\nOn Saturday 9 December Kibbutz Bari announced that Sahar Baruch, 25, had been killed in Gaza.\n\nOther hostages whose death has been reported, but not confirmed include Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Shawn Seesahai was described by his mother as a \"courageous, compassionate and confident young soul\"\n\nTwo boys aged 12 have been charged with murdering a 19-year-old man.\n\nShawn Seesahai died when he was fatally stabbed in Wolverhampton on Monday evening. The boys were arrested a day later.\n\nThe pair, who cannot be named due to their age, are set to appear before Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nMr Seesahai's mother has described her son as a \"courageous, compassionate and confident young soul\".\n\nThe boys have also been charged with possession of a bladed article.\n\nWest Midlands Police said the incident happened on open land off Laburnum Road shortly before 20:30 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe force added patrols in the area were continuing to offer reassurance to the public.\n\nIn a tribute issued through the police earlier on Thursday, Mr Seesahai's mother, who was not named, said her son was a \"generous person\" who had a \"good personality\".\n\n\"He was looking forward to accomplish many future plans and ambitions,\" she said.\n\n\"We will always have him in our hearts.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"Not the week I was hoping for since finishing chemo,\" says Amy Dowden after breaking her foot\n\nStrictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden's hopes of returning to the show this year have been dashed by a broken foot.\n\nThe dancer posted a snap on Instagram of herself pointing at the large plastic boot she now has to wear.\n\nThe 33-year-old from Caerphilly, who has been undergoing cancer treatment, last week celebrated her final round of chemotherapy.\n\nAmy said she was heartbroken by the injury, adding: \"2023 is certainly not my year. Roll on 2024 I say!\"\n\n\"Not the week I was hoping for since finishing chemo,\" she wrote on Instagram, after she \"unfortunately gained a boot for a fractured foot\".\n\n\"Absolutely gutted and heartbroken, as this means the plans for me to dance in the Strictly ballroom this year are no longer possible,\" she said.\n\n\"This is what has kept me going the past few months.\"\n\nAmy discovered a lump in her breast in April, a day before she was due to fly on her honeymoon to the Maldives with her husband Ben.\n\nShe has been spreading awareness of breast cancer throughout her treatment explaining how she was prompted to check herself ahead of a trek with the breast cancer charity Coppafeel!", "Aoife Marken, Thomas Thibodeau and Taryn Graham are among the criminal barristers on strike over delays in their payments\n\nLawyers in Northern Ireland are taking part in a one-day strike over delays in legal aid payments which are taking up to six months.\n\nThe action is disrupting courts and comes despite an attempt by the Department of Justice (DoJ) to avert action.\n\nIt has announced an £11m package to improve payment times over the next few months.\n\nBut barristers dismissed it as \"a temporary sticking plaster\".\n\nThe strike follows a ballot by the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) and involved more than 200 barristers.\n\nIt said the \"intolerable\" late payment of fees is made worse by legal aid rates having been eroded significantly by inflation since 2005.\n\nCriminal barrister Taryn Graham says young, female lawyers like her are being hit hard\n\nTaryn Graham is one of the criminal barristers on strike.\n\n\"As independent, self-employed practitioners these payment delays place us in a wholly unprecedented position,\" she said.\n\n\"The financial challenges being faced are hitting younger and female lawyers the hardest.\n\n\"Today's initial strike action has not been taken lightly. It is a regrettable but necessary measure to preserve the viability of legal aid as a vital demand-led public service that embodies the core of access to justice.\"\n\nOn Thursday, solicitors said they would join the walk-out.\n\nThe Solicitors Criminal Bar Association (SCBA), which represents more than 100 firms, said the delays \"cannot be allowed to continue\".\n\nIt pointed out that cases can also take years to conclude before payment can be requested. Sums involved can run into several thousands.\n\nTalks between the CBA and DoJ have been taking place over the issue.\n\nOn the eve of the strike, the DoJ revealed that an additional £11m has been found for this financial year.\n\nPermanent Secretary Richard Pengelly said: \"This money will greatly assist in improving payment times to the end of the current financial year.\n\n\"Given this additional funding and the ongoing engagement, the action being taken by the Bar is premature.\n\n\"I am sympathetic to the frustration of the profession,\" Mr Pengelly continued.\n\nRichard Pengelly warned the strike would impact those who need legal representation\n\n\"It is no secret that the current budget provision is insufficient.\n\n\"However, this action risks adversely impacting those who need legal representation at a time when the department cannot resolve the matter.\"\n\nThe CBA described the move as \"a partial, short-term measure\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Although welcome, it serves only as a temporary sticking plaster.\n\n\"It does not achieve the necessary change in departmental policy and does not fix the structural problems associated with long overdue payments.\"\n\nIt said Friday's action meant criminal barristers would not attend any court, or do related work, \"except for emergency matters\".\n\nSome court business will take place, according to the Lady Chief Justice's Office.\n\nIt said: \"The judiciary had prior notice of the planned day of action.\n\n\"This provided an opportunity for judges to plan their courts accordingly and matters will be progressed where it is possible to do so.\"", "Existing recipients of the benefit payment would eventually be brought into the new system\n\nMinisters have drawn up large benefit changes for people who are unable to work due to health conditions, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe changes, affecting hundreds of thousands of people from 2025, would save £4bn from the welfare budget.\n\nThe proposals would see many more people forced to find work despite suffering from a range of physical and mental health conditions.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions said reform would be gradual.\n\nThe proposals follow the announcement in March that the government wants to scrap the controversial Work Capability Assessment, which is used to determine if people can receive additional benefits payments due to a health condition.\n\nEligible claimants currently receive £390 a month on top of their universal credit payment.\n\nIf the proposals are enacted, people who, for instance, are in severe pain while awaiting an operation or have some mental health conditions, such as depression and anxiety, may not receive the additional payment but would be expected to look for work.\n\nThe BBC understands the changes would initially affect new claimants. Existing recipients of the benefit payment would eventually be brought into the new system, towards the end of the decade, but would be given transitional protection if their benefits were to be cut.\n\nBoth Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Mel Stride, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, have spoken in recent months of their desire to get more people off benefits and into work.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons in September, Mr Stride said more than 2.5 million people were on benefits and inactive due to a long-term health condition.\n\nThe proportion of claimants assessed as too unwell to work had risen from 21% in 2011 to 65% in 2022, according to the secretary of state.\n\nThose who currently receive the additional money are placed in one of two categories of people deemed unfit to work:\n\nUnder the new proposals, these categories would be scrapped, the additional benefit would not be paid, and work coaches in Job Centres would determine how much effort a person had to make to find a job.\n\nThose considered not to be trying hard enough could be threatened with having their benefits sanctioned. There would be some exceptions, such as for people being treated for cancer and those with a terminal illness.\n\nThe proposals are expected to save around £4bn over four years but officials - some of whom fear the changes are being rushed - are pushing for some of the savings to be re-invested.\n\nThey want a package of intensive support for those people who'll have to look for work as they fear many of them simply won't be able to find a job, resulting in financial and psychological distress.\n\nThe plans foresee the health element of universal credit being more closely aligned with the main disability benefit, Personal Independence Payment.\n\nIn future those who qualify for PIP would receive the health element too.\n\nFigures released by the DWP in July showed that in November 2022, 516,000 people who were in receipt of a sickness benefit did not quality for PIP, 29% of all recipients.\n\nCharities have been urging ministers not to merge the two tests, with the group Z2K calling PIP a \"deeply flawed assessment process\".\n\nThe proposals to give work coaches discretion over how much effort a claimant should make to find work has also been criticised by Z2K as a \"lottery for sanctions\".\n\nOne official told the BBC another problem was that the DWP didn't have enough work coaches to help claimants find work as they were \"leaving in droves, we can't recruit enough, quickly enough, and they aren't properly trained before being placed in front of very hard to help customers\".\n\nA Department for Work and Pensions spokesperson said the BBC's story was \"purely speculation\".\n\n\"The structural reforms set out in the Health and Disability White Paper, which will improve the experience of the benefits system for disabled people, will be rolled out gradually from 2026 and transitional protection will ensure nobody experiences a financial loss as a result of moving onto the new system,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nWould changes to benefits affect you? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Writing in the Times, Suella Braverman accused the Met Police of applying a \"double standard\" to its policing of protests\n\nGrant Shapps is the latest cabinet minister to distance himself from the home secretary's choice of words, after she criticised police ahead of Saturday's pro-Palestinian rally.\n\nIn a Times article, Suella Braverman called protesters \"hate marchers\" and accused police of a \"double standard\".\n\nMr Shapps said it was \"proper\" for the home secretary to debate the issue, but he \"wouldn't use that set of words\".\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper said she \"shouldn't carry on in her job\".\n\nShe also suggested Ms Braverman's remarks had made disorder during Saturday's demonstrations worse.\n\nOn Sunday, the home secretary thanked police for \"their professionalism in the face of violence and aggression from protesters and counter-protesters\".\n\nShe criticised chants and placards from the march, saying: \"This can't go on. Week by week, the streets of London are being polluted by hate, violence, and antisemitism... Jewish people in particular feel threatened - further action is necessary.\"\n\nHer earlier claims that police were \"biased\" prompted widespread criticism and calls for the prime minister to sack her.\n\nPressure has increased on the home secretary after the Metropolitan Police made more than 100 arrests on Saturday and said officers faced \"aggression\" from counter-protesters.\n\nOn Saturday, Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the march had taken place against a backdrop of conflict in the Middle East, remembrance events and a \"week of intense debate\" about protest and policing, which \"all combined to increase community tensions\".\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, the defence secretary refused to say whether Ms Braverman would still be in her role in a week's time.\n\n\"A week is a long time in politics,\" Mr Shapps told Sky News's Trevor Phillips adding the make-up of the cabinet is \"entirely a matter for the prime minister\".\n\nDowning Street is currently investigating how the article was published without edits they had wanted to be made - for now Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has backed his home secretary.\n\nIn her article in the Times, Ms Braverman claimed aggressive right-wing protesters were \"rightly met with a stern response\", while \"pro-Palestinian mobs\" were \"largely ignored\".\n\nShe went on to say police were applying \"double standards\" and \"played favourites when it comes to demonstrators\".\n\nOn Friday, while Downing Street gave its backing to Ms Braverman, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said her comments were \"not words that I myself would have used\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Shapps told BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg he also would not endorse Mrs Braverman's choice of language.\n\nHe added: \"I think there have been concerns sometimes that people have felt at liberty, perhaps because they haven't seen swift enough action to carry on going out carrying these banners, singing these chants and breaking laws which were in place to prevent racial hatred.\n\n\"On the other hand, I wouldn't put it in those particular set of words, because I recognise the police have a very difficult job to do in managing marches which contain large numbers of people - a lot of that work has to be done afterwards.\"\n\nThe Met Police made over 100 arrests during Saturday's demonstrations - the \"vast majority\" were counter-protesters, the force said\n\nScotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf has called for the home secretary to resign, as has the Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford, who said Ms Braverman's comments \"put other people in harms way\".\n\nDowning Street had, in effect, hit pause on deciding the home secretary's political future on Thursday as it turned its focus to the weekend's events.\n\nWith Remembrance commemorations passed and a clearer picture of what happened at protests and counter protests on Saturday, pressure will resume on Rishi Sunak to send a clear message on his home secretary.\n\nHe could, as the opposition are calling for, sack her.\n\nThat would almost certainly mean carrying out a bigger reshuffle, which has been rumoured to be on the cards for months.\n\nThe downside would be that it would anger her supporters, who are predominantly on the right of the party.\n\nThat could trigger letters of no confidence and other public displays of division.\n\nOne Tory MP told the BBC efforts were already under way to lobby to keep her in the job.\n\nMrs Braverman has also never hidden her ambitions to one day be the party leader and sacked ministers have been known to be a thorn in the side of their former bosses.\n\nOn the other hand, Rishi Sunak could decide keeping her on outweighs the controversies and he could choose to back her.\n\nIn order to avoid claims of weakness though, he'd have to find a convincing reason for why she went ahead and published a newspaper opinion piece that hadn't been cleared by Downing Street.\n\nHe would also frustrate those Tory MPs who have tired of her knack for attracting controversy and are starting to use phrases like \"unhelpful\" and \"brand damage\" in relation to the home secretary.\n\nHer continued presence in the Cabinet would also provide an ongoing target for Labour.\n\nNow, of course, Mrs Braverman has one big option of her own: she could choose to resign.\n\nThat would free her from the constraints of having to stick to the government line.\n\nBut it would also mean leaving a job that carries huge influence and gives her a platform to push her particular agenda on issues such as immigration.\n\nJust to complicate matters, this all comes days before the Supreme Court gives a ruling on the government's Rwanda plan, with which Mrs Braverman has become closely associated.", "James Cleverly arrived at the Home Office pledging to run the department in his own style.\n\nThe role of home secretary is one of the biggest jobs in government, with responsibility for the police, immigration, and national security.\n\nAsked if he wanted to distance himself from the rhetoric of his predecessor, Suella Braverman, he said: \"I intend to do this job in the way that I feel best protects the British people and our interests.\"\n\nThe new home secretary has a bulging in-tray.\n\nTop of the pile will be the legacy of the row over pro-Palestinian protests. Downing Street is understood to want him immediately to review police powers to make it easier to ban marches and prosecute those glorifying terrorism.\n\nBut this won't be straightforward. Lowering the bar to ban protests would almost certainly lead to a legal challenge that such a change breaches the right to freedom of assembly and association as set out in the European Convention of Human Rights, and enshrined in UK law.\n\nProhibiting a protest march is only lawful \"in the interests of national security\" or to prevent \"serious public disorder\". Senior officers policing major protests would argue that the decision on when and where to arrest individuals is an operational matter.\n\nThere is the risk that using snatch squads to arrest marchers for hate crimes could make public disorder more likely.\n\nLess than two days into the job, Mr Cleverly will have to deal with whatever decision the Supreme Court makes on the lawfulness of the government's Rwanda policy.\n\nThat judgement will be issued on Wednesday morning and were the Home Office to lose, the new home secretary would face an immediate crisis.\n\nEven if the government win, the policy is likely to see further legal challenges from individual asylum seekers attempting to avoid being sent to Rwanda.\n\nMr Cleverly has said the prime minister had made it clear to him that \"he wants to deliver on promises, to stop the boats, to protect the British people, make sure everyone feels secure in their lives.\"\n\nMore than 26,000 migrants have crossed the Channel so far this year, significantly lower than at this point last year, but the government believes the threat of being sent to East Africa is the best way to stop the smuggling gangs.\n\nThe new home secretary also inherits an asylum system in meltdown with 175,000 people waiting for an initial decision on their claim and tens of thousands still in hotels, costing around £8m a day.\n\nOne immediate dilemma for him is that the Home Office plan to move people out of hotels and into other accommodation includes a proposal to house 1,700 single male migrants at a former RAF base at Wethersfield near Braintree in Essex.\n\nThat is in Mr Cleverly's constituency and he has previously expressed opposition to using the site.\n\nJames Cleverly's style is very different to Suella Braverman. At the Foreign Office he came across as measured and diplomatic. It was a job he loved. When it was suggested he might become defence secretary in a previous reshuffle, he said that if removed, \"you will see nail marks on the parquet floor in my office\".\n\nHe will need a different approach to reflect the government's determination to look tough on crime and punishment in the run up to the next election.", "Former Prime Minister David Cameron has been appointed foreign secretary as Rishi Sunak reshuffles his cabinet.\n\nMr Cameron replaces James Cleverly, who has in turn been made the new home secretary.\n\nThis reshuffle was triggered by the sacking of Suella Braverman, days after she wrote a controversial article in The Times newspaper, criticising the Met Police.\n\nMrs Braverman said serving as home secretary was \"the greatest privilege\" of her life.\n\nFollow the latest updates on the reshuffle here.", "Thousands of those displaced from the north have been packed into schools like this one in Deir al-Balah\n\nWashing in polluted seawater, sleeping in packed tents, eating what little bread they can find, or on some days none at all. In southern Gaza, hundreds of thousands of refugees are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis that is deepening by the hour and pushing every possible safety net to the brink.\n\nThe refugees are coming from Gaza's north, fleeing Israel's bombing campaign. They stream down the Salah al-Din road, which connects north to south, many thousands on foot, some with a few possessions but most bearing only their children and the clothes on their backs.\n\nA young girl holds an improvised white flag as her family, heading south, stops to rest on the Salah al-Din road\n\nTens of thousands have stopped in Deir al-Balah, a central Gazan city in the supposed safe zone which has been plunged into crisis by the influx. The refugees in Deir al-Balah are crammed into school buildings hastily repurposed as UN shelters, up to 70 people in a single classroom, surrounded by food waste and swarmed by flies.\n\n\"If you want to speak about space, we sleep on our sides because there is not even enough room to lie on our backs,\" said Hassan Abu Rashed, a 29-year-old blacksmith who fled with his family from Jabalia in Gaza City.\n\n\"If you want to speak about food, we hope we will find a few slices of bread per day to eat. If you want to speak about health, the sewage system in the school is broken. If you want to speak about diseases, there is chickenpox, scabies, and lice here. If you want to speak about our condition, we are desperate.\"\n\nHundreds of thousands have streamed down the Salah al-Did road on foot, fleeing the bombing further north\n\nAt the gate of one school in Deir al-Balah, Khaled Filfel, a 42-year-old father, was alone and stressed over a very specific need. \"My 21-year-old daughter is disabled and I cannot get any nappies for her,\" he said. On top of that, he said, the pair had not been able to find drinking water or food so far that day.\n\nThere were two saving graces for Filfel, though. The first was that his wife and six other children happened to be out of Gaza when Hamas attacked Israel. The second was that someone had seen his daughter at the school that morning and offered them a room in a family home nearby. \"Because of my daughter's condition they offered us shelter,\" Filfel said. \"Some people here are looking out for each other.\"\n\nBefore the beginning of this war, the UN's refugee agency, Unwra, had contingency planning in place to house 1,500 displaced people in each school, the agency's Gaza director, Thomas White, told the BBC. The average school-turned-shelter is now housing 6,000 people - a total of 670,000 people across 94 shelters in the south.\n\nWith no room left inside, many refugees are living in makeshift lean-tos\n\n\"We have been overwhelmed by the numbers,\" White said. \"There are people everywhere. The sanitation is overwhelmed, we're averaging about 125 people per toilet, about 700 per shower unit. You can feel the humidity of so many people crammed into these schools, you can smell the mass of humanity.\"\n\nTo escape the teeming classrooms and courtyards at the school in Deir al-Balah, some of its new residents take the short walk down to the beach front and spend the daylight hours there.\n\nOn Saturday morning, a young family was washing themselves and their clothes in the sea, trying to avoid the rubbish floating on the water and strewn on the sand. When they were done, they hung their clothes up under the sun. They had been in Deir al-Balah for three weeks.\n\n\"You could say that we have gone back to the dark ages,\" said the father, Mahmoud al-Motawag, 30. \"We use the sea for everything,\" he said. \"To wash ourselves, to wash our clothes, to clean our kitchen utensils, and now to drink when we cannot find clean water. We eat just one meal each per day, and we beg the fishermen to give us one or two fishes for the children.\"\n\nMahmoud al-Motawag and his wife Duaa and their children, waiting for their clothes to dry on the beach in Deir al-Balah\n\nMahmoud, a farm worker from Jabalia, said his family had fled the bombing. He was sitting next to his two children, a boy and girl aged four and two, and his wife Duaa. The family spent all day at the beach, Mahmoud said, partly to wait for their clothes to dry but mostly to avoid for as long as they could returning to the baking hot tent on the school grounds that had become their temporary home along with 50 others.\n\nAs he spoke, Duaa, aged just 20, rested a hand on her large baby bump. She was due to give birth in a month, she said. With the local hospital already on its knees, she wondered if she might be forced to deliver at the dirty, overcrowded school.\n\n\"I am afraid,\" Duaa said. \"I am afraid that the birth will take a long time, I am afraid for my baby, I am afraid that there will be no clothes or blankets. Everything was planned for the birth, and then everything changed.\"\n\nDuaa Filfel, who is eight months pregnant, with her son. \"I am afraid for my baby,\" she said\n\nFor now, there was the daily strain of simply being a refugee while eight months pregnant. \"I have this physical and mental fatigue,\" Duaa said. \"My children are small and we have to stand in a queue for the toilets for 15 to 30 minutes. I have pain from washing and sitting for a long time by the sea. It doesn't go away.\"\n\nEven if Duaa could reach the hospital in Deir al-Balah, it would not be a guarantee of a safe and comfortable birth. The Al-Aqsa hospital, like others across the Gaza Strip, is on its knees. As the refugees move south, so has the Israeli bombing, levelling buildings in residential areas of Deir al-Balah and sending dozens of badly wounded there.\n\nKhalil al-Duqran, a 55-year-old emergency doctor who has worked at the Al-Aqsa for 20 years, was on the phone to the BBC when the wounded from a strike on Salah al-Din road started to arrive.\n\n\"They are coming now, hundreds of injured people, dozens have injuries in the head and limbs,\" he shouted, over sounds of chaos in the background. \"This is a massacre of our people.\"\n\nDr Khalil al-Duqran attends to a boy with two badly wounded arms at Al-Aqsa hospital on Saturday\n\nAl-Duqran apologised and hung up. Later, when the chaos had died down, he called back, sounding shattered. \"This is the hardest war that I have seen in my 20 years,\" he said. \"Every day the wounded and the dead arrive by the dozens or hundreds. Children come with amputated limbs, upper and lower. They have severe head wounds.\"\n\nLike other hospitals across Gaza, the Al-Aqsa was running low on almost everything it needed to function. \"We are making beds from wooden pallets, we are missing nearly 90% of medicines,\" Al-Duqran said. \"Everything from operation room trays to fraction fixing devices have run out, and in the ICU we will lose patients soon because we can simply no longer keep them alive.\"\n\nA mother fleeing with her child on the Salah al-Din road, which was bombed on Friday\n\nAs Israel's air and land attack on northern Gaza intensifies, people continue to flow down the Salah al-Din road into Deir al-Balah and all cities of central and southern Gaza.\n\nBut at many of the school shelters, there is no longer room. So refugees are building ramshackle lean-tos against the sides of the buildings, keen to be positioned as close as possible to a UN flag in the hope of protection from an air strike, but open to the elements as the weather worsens.\n\n\"People are living increasingly out in the open,\" said Thomas White, the Unrwa Gaza director. \"Right now its remarkably warm for November, but by Wednesday we are expecting the cold weather to come through,\" he said. \"People are going to be seriously exposed.\"\n\nA young boy stares out from a shelter in a school in Khan Younis, southern Gaza\n\nEvery shop that was providing food to Gazans under a World Food Programme assistance scheme ran out of basic supplies on Friday, WFP spokeswoman Alia Zaki told the BBC. Bakeries have no gas to make bread, she said, and there was a potential wave of malnutrition in the making in Deir al-Balah and across Gaza.\n\n\"People are not eating enough to be healthy so their immune systems are weakened,\" Zaki said. \"They are queuing for five or six hours for bread and coming back empty handed.\"\n\nAt the beach in Deir al-Balah on Saturday, this was the unwelcome prospect facing Mahmoud and Duaa. They were preparing mentally to leave the relative haven of the waterfront to go in search of bread.\n\n\"We could be waiting many hours, only to find the bakeries are closed again and we will have nothing again for our children,\" Mahmoud said.\n\n\"Our ancestors' lives were war and our lives have been war,\" he said, wearily. \"And now the war has caught up with our children, too.\"", "We'll be pausing our live coverage of the Israel-Gaza War for the next few hours, so here's a quick round-up of all the latest developments.\n\nThe World Health Organization has warned of a \"dire and perilous\" situation at Gaza's main medical facility, Al-Shifa Hospital, which is experiencing a near-complete power outage and shortages of food and water.\n\nWHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said \"constant gunfire and bombings\" in the area around the hospital have \"exacerbated the already critical circumstances\" and that Al-Shifa \"is not functioning as a hospital anymore\".\n\nThe Israeli military has reiterated it is \"ready to help\" evacuate the dozens of vulnerable newborn babies being cared for at the site to another hospital.\n\nAl-Shifa's head of surgery, Dr Marwan Abu Saada, has told the BBC that a third premature newborn baby has died because of a lack of power.\n\nBabies that were previously in incubators have been moved to beds in a surgical ward, after a lack of electricity forced the neonatal unit to shut down Image caption: Babies that were previously in incubators have been moved to beds in a surgical ward, after a lack of electricity forced the neonatal unit to shut down\n\nDozens of other newborns are currently not receiving the care they need and the surgeon said he is \"afraid we are going to lose the lives of all [the] babies\".\n\nAlso speaking to the BBC earlier, Israeli president Isaac Herzog repeated an allegation that Hamas has its headquarters underneath Al-Shifa. Hamas denies using the hospital for military purposes.\n\nDr Abu Saada also described Israel's allegation as a \"big lie\" and issued an \"open invitation\" to its nearby forces to come and inspect the building.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Cameron is the biggest upgrade in modern political history.\"\n\nSo texts a former cabinet minister, delighted to see the return of the now Lord Cameron as foreign secretary.\n\nYes, you read that sentence right: Lord Cameron, foreign secretary.\n\nThe accidental instigator of the biggest single moment in British foreign policy in a generation - Brexit - is now the face of British foreign policy, under a Brexit-supporting prime minister.\n\nAccidental, you'll recall, because he called the EU referendum hopeful his argument for Remain would triumph. It didn't, and he was a goner. Or at least he was until today.\n\nThis appointment allows the prime minister to argue he is bringing the Conservative family back together.\n\nDavid Cameron alluded to this, writing on X that he wants to \"be part of the strongest possible team that serves the United Kingdom and that can be presented to the country when the general election is held.\"\n\nThe young, ambitious, then-unknown backbencher who came out for Brexit and defied the then-prime minister is now the prime minister himself, and appoints David Cameron to his cabinet.\n\nLord Cameron, as we will become used to calling him, is well-connected on the international stage, which comes in handy when you're an incoming foreign secretary.\n\nAnd he'll have useful words of advice about winning general elections too.\n\nBut he comes with baggage: what he has been up to since leaving politics. Here's an article I wrote two and a half years ago about the Greensill affair, for a start.\n\nAnd what do those post-Brexit referendum Conservatives - many elected in 2019 - make of David Cameron's return?\n\nFor a good number, not a lot. The Remain-campaigning, austerity-delivering former premier is a rather different Conservative from many of them.\n\n\"Just because something is a marmalade dropper, doesn't make it a good idea,\" says one figure on today's big surprise.\n\nThey argue it is a \"big strategic blunder to kill off the change message they were trying to land by bringing back the Tory PM who started 13 years of failure.\"\n\nAnd yes, just a month or so ago, Rishi Sunak was portraying himself as the change candidate - and in so doing defining himself against people like….David Cameron.\n\nAnd here's a question: what next for Suella Braverman, the now former home secretary?\n\nThere are those loyal to her who say this is far from the last we will hear from her.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Supreme Court will announce whether the government's Rwanda migration plan can happen - sending some people who've arrived in the UK to east Africa.\n\nIf, as many in government expect, ministers lose and the Supreme Court says no, expect to see Mrs Braverman argue that the UK should leave the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\n\"It'll be like Brexit 2.0\" is how one senior figure described it to me - with the same capacity to divide the Conservative Party.\n\nMrs Braverman would love to lead the Tories one day.\n\nOh, and allies of the former home secretary are gathering for a meeting in Parliament this afternoon.\n\nRemember, this is a reshuffle still under way. All the indications are that it has breadth as well as depth - with changes at every rank within government.", "Freda Carson is the primary carer for her 83-year-old husband\n\nAn elderly woman has said she is in a \"deep, dark hole\" with her mental health due to a lack of respite support for unpaid carers.\n\nFreda Carson, who is the primary carer for her 83-year-old husband, said she had not had a break in almost a year.\n\nA new report from Carers NI suggested 48% of unpaid carers experienced symptoms of depression, while 79% said they often felt lonely.\n\nThe Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has apologised to anyone who had not been able to access respite care.\n\nMore than 220,000 people provide unpaid care for a sick or disabled family member or friend in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe census showed that about 2,600 of these were under 18.\n\nCaring for people at home reduces pressure on the health and social care system including reducing the number of people in residential care and hospital.\n\nShe has been his primary carer for almost five years but said it was taking its toll on her own health.\n\n\"At first I was able to cope but this past year I have found it very difficult,\" she said.\n\nMore than 220,000 people provide unpaid care for a sick or disabled family member or friend in Northern Ireland\n\n\"You have no freedom, you're isolated and you think nobody cares. It drags you down no matter how much you love that person. I'm exhausted.\n\n\"I have requested respite in the past but I'm told there is no support available.\n\n\"I feel like I am in a deep, dark hole with my mental health and no-one is listening.\"\n\nAmong the key findings of the survey were:\n\nCraig Harrison from Carers NI said the \"unrelenting pressure\" of providing round-the-clock care was leading to \"devastating levels of mental ill health\" among carers.\n\n\"Depression, stress, anxiety and feelings of hopelessness are everyday realities for many local carers, and too often they're met with impenetrable barriers to accessing help when they need it,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to see action to cut long waiting lists for mental health services, improve awareness of the help available and deliver priority access to support for carers.\n\n\"Without these steps more and more people will get lost in the spiral of caring and mental ill-health, with terrible consequences for their wellbeing and quality of life.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Belfast Trust said it aimed to provide respite care in a range of settings, but that it was aware of the difficulties providing short breaks.\n\nIt said this was due to \"challenges in accessing a care home placement because of limited bed capacity, particularly within the independent care home sector\".\n\n\"Belfast Trust would like to sincerely apologise to everyone who has been unable to get timely access to respite services and we fully appreciate the anxiety this causes,\" the spokesperson added.\n\n\"We continue to work with our service users and their carers in an effort to find solutions to meet their needs.\"", "Indi has mitochondrial disease which prevents cells in the body producing energy\n\nSpecialists have withdrawn life-support treatment from a critically ill baby girl who has been at the centre of a legal battle.\n\nStaff at the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) in Nottingham said they could do no more for Indi Gregory, who has mitochondrial disease.\n\nChristian Concern, which has been supporting her parents, said the eight-month-old had been moved to a hospice.\n\nIt comes after the Derbyshire family's appeal to take her home was rejected.\n\nIn a statement issued through the group, Indi's father said she was \"fighting hard\".\n\nDean Gregory and Claire Staniforth, from Ilkeston, wanted specialists to keep treating their daughter but the couple lost fights in both the High Court and Court of Appeal.\n\nA spokesman for Christian Concern said Indi's life support had now been withdrawn and she had been moved to a hospice.\n\nIndi, photographed here with mother Claire Staniforth, was born on 24 February\n\nHigh Court judge Mr Justice Peel ruled limiting treatment would be lawful, and doing so would be in Indi's best interests.\n\nHer parents failed to persuade Court of Appeal judges and judges at the European Court of Human Rights, to overturn the decision.\n\nThe couple also failed in a bid to transfer Indi to a hospital in Rome.\n\nIt was ruled a move to Italy would not be in Indi's best interests and Court of Appeal judges backed the decision.\n\nIndi was being cared for at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre\n\nSpecialists said she was dying and the treatment she was receiving caused pain and was futile but her parents disagreed.\n\nMr Justice Peel considered evidence at private hearings in the Family Division of the High Court in London.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Suella Braverman told reporters she \"will have more to say in due course\" over her sacking\n\nSuella Braverman has been sacked as home secretary, after she defied No 10 over an article accusing the Metropolitan Police of bias in the policing of protests.\n\nMrs Braverman was accused of stoking tension ahead of protests in London.\n\nJames Cleverly is her replacement at the Home Office, with former prime minister David Cameron unexpectedly replacing him as foreign secretary.\n\nShe said serving as home secretary was \"the greatest privilege of my life\".\n\nMrs Braverman's sacking kickstarted a major cabinet reshuffle by Rishi Sunak, as he reshapes his top team ahead of next week's Autumn Statement.\n\nSteve Barclay has replaced Therese Coffey as environment secretary, with Treasury minister Victoria Atkins promoted to replace him as health secretary.\n\nMeanwhile, former transport minister Richard Holden has been appointed Tory party chairman, and Laura Trott becomes chief secretary to the Treasury, replacing John Glen.\n\nDavid Cameron has been out of Parliament since he stood down as prime minister in 2016 and has been given a seat in the House of Lords to enable him to take up his new position.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are calling for his peerage to be blocked, referring to his lobbying for collapsed finance company Greensill Capital.\n\nSenior Labour MP Pat McFadden said the former PM's appointment \"puts to bed the prime minister's laughable claim to offer change from 13 years of Tory failure\".\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has said he has asked parliamentary officials for advice on how MPs can hold Lord Cameron to account, adding this is particularly important amid current international crises.\n\nDavid Cameron stood down as prime minster after losing the 2016 Brexit referendum\n\nLord Cameron said he wanted to be \"part of the strongest possible team that serves the United Kingdom\" ahead of the general election.\n\n\"Though I may have disagreed with some individual decisions, it is clear to me that Rishi Sunak is a strong and capable prime minister, who is showing exemplary leadership at a difficult time,\" he said.\n\nIn July, Mr Cleverly said he would have to be dragged out of his foreign secretary job \"with nail marks down the parquet flooring\".\n\nBut on Monday, Mr Cleverly said it has been a \"huge privilege\" to serve as foreign secretary, and that being home secretary was a \"fantastic job\".\n\nHe refused to be drawn on whether he would distance himself from Mrs Braverman's time in the Home Office. \"I intend to do this job in the way that I feel best protects the British people and our interests,\" he said.\n\nMr Cleverly inherits some major challenges from his predecessor.\n\nTop of the pile is the still raging row over pro-Palestinian protests in London. Downing Street is understood to want him immediately to review police powers to make it easier to ban marches and prosecute those glorifying terrorism.\n\nLess than two days into the job, Mr Cleverly will have to deal with a Supreme Court decision on the lawfulness of the government's Rwanda policy.\n\nEven if the government wins, the policy is likely to see further legal challenges from individual asylum seekers attempting to avoid being sent to Rwanda.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSince her elevation to home secretary by former PM Liz Truss, Mrs Braverman has been seen as a standard bearer for the right in the Conservative Party.\n\nIn a statement, Mrs Braverman said: \"I will have more to say in due course\", leading to speculation she may cause trouble for the leadership.\n\nShe lost her job following days of a political firestorm sparked when she wrote an article for the Times newspaper, accusing the police of applying a \"double standard\", by taking a tougher stance with right-wing demonstrations.\n\nIt later emerged Mrs Braverman had defied a Downing Street request to tone the article down.\n\nLabour, the Liberal Democrats and some Tory MPs had called for Mrs Braverman to be sacked.\n\nShadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said Mrs Braverman's actions were \"highly irresponsible\" and inflamed tensions, making the job of the police harder.\n\nShe said the \"buck stops\" with Mr Sunak, who should \"never have reappointed\" Mrs Braverman.\n\nThis is the second time Mrs Braverman has been removed as home secretary. She was forced to resign as Mrs Truss home secretary after it was revealed she had shared confidential cabinet papers with long-time ally Tory MP Sir John Hayes.\n\nMrs Braverman's return as home secretary for Rishi Sunak was a political surprise. Under his leadership, she carved out a reputation as a right-wing outrider in Mr Sunak's government often grabbing headlines with her comments.\n\nSir Jacob Rees-Mogg called Mrs Braverman's sacking \"a mistake\" that will hit the Conservatives' chances of winning the next general election.\n\n\"Suella understands what the country thinks about migration,\" Sir Jacob told GB News and she was \"determined to get it down\".\n\nThere were suggestions she was a \"politically useful pressure valve\" for Mr Sunak - allowing him to indirectly signal approval for right-wing populist policies without having to make those statements himself.\n\nBut that appears to be at an end, with the return of Lord Cameron - who headed a coalition government with the Lib Dems - shoring up the Conservatives' liberal wing.", "The letter also urges Rishi Sunak to call for a ceasefire\n\nA British-Palestinian group has written to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, asking for an \"urgent meeting\" about Gaza.\n\nThe letter also urges the UK government to \"use its influence\" to call for a ceasefire.\n\nIt was sent, earlier on Monday, by the UK-based International Centre of Justice for Palestinians.\n\nThe ICJP said it was speaking \"on behalf of members of the Palestinian community in the UK with families and loved ones living in Gaza\".\n\nThe group said it wanted a meeting \"to express our concerns, similar to the meetings you have had with other British communities who have families in the region who have experienced distress similar to ours\".\n\nCalls for humanitarian pauses were \"inadequate\", it said. And the government's failure to call for a ceasefire \"is putting our loved ones in danger and is contributing to an unprecedented humanitarian crisis\".\n\n\"It also ignores our voices as British citizens with friends and family under attack in Gaza,\" the ICJP said.\n\nA spokesperson for the UK government told the BBC that it had \"helped more than 150 British nationals and dependents to leave Gaza so far\".\n\n\"We must see humanitarian pauses that allow enough time for hostages to be released, as well as aid to go in,\" it said.\n\nIt said the Foreign Office was in regular contact with those who remained in Gaza, \"and our teams are working around the clock with the Israeli and Egyptian authorities to ensure they can leave as quickly as possible\".\n\nSix British-Palestinians told a press conference dozens of their family members had been killed in Gaza.\n\nLubaba Khalid, who stepped down from chairing the Young BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) Labour network last month, over comments made by Labour leader Keir Starmer, said she had found out on social media her relatives had been killed.\n\n\"Due to the lack of electricity and networks, we have found it very difficult keep in touch with family members just to check if they're alive,\" she said.\n\n\"As a result, I found out my great uncle's house was bombed, on the social-media platform X [formerly known as Twitter] before I could get any confirmation from my own family.\"\n\nSix members of her family had been killed in that bombing, she said, five of them children.\n\nAccountant Omar Mofeed accused the UK government of \"double standards\" in its treatment of those evacuating Gaza.\n\nNon-British family members of British nationals who have fled Gaza and are now in Cairo currently need to apply for British family visas from Egypt.\n\nAnd Mr Mofeed pointed to the visa schemes available to those fleeing war in Ukraine, including the Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme - also known as Homes for Ukraine - and the Ukraine Family Scheme, both of which are free for those applying.\n\nThe Foreign Office has previously told BBC News it is working with the Home Office to process visas for non-British family members of British nationals who have left Gaza.", "Humza Yousaf's in-laws arrived back in Scotland last weekend after being trapped for four weeks in Gaza\n\nScotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf has called for the home secretary to resign after counter protesters clashed with police in London.\n\nSuella Braverman previously branded pro-Palestinian demonstrators \"hate marchers\" and claimed the police were biased against right-wing marches.\n\nMr Yousaf accused her of \"fanning the flames of division\" and said her position was now \"untenable\".\n\nBut the prime minister said he still had \"full confidence\" in Ms Braverman.\n\nThe home secretary's claims that police were biased for letting the march go ahead prompted widespread criticism and calls for the prime minister to sack her.\n\nDowning Street told BBC Scotland News its position had not changed since it commented on the row on Friday.\n\nBut pressure mounted on Ms Braverman as the Metropolitan Police said officers had faced \"aggression\" from counter-protesters ahead of Saturday's two-minute silence in Whitehall.\n\nThe force later confirmed it had made more than 100 arrests \"to prevent a breach of the peace\".\n\nProtesters participated in a Pro-Palestine march at Waverley Bridge in Edinburgh\n\nA group of protestors prevented shoppers from entering the Marks and Spencer shop on Glasgow's Argyle Street\n\nMeanwhile, largely peaceful pro-Palestinian marches took place across Scotland in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Forres and Dumfries.\n\nIn Glasgow, the crowd listened to speeches from SNP and Green politicians as well as a representative of the Stop the War Coalition and an eight-year-old girl whose parents moved to Scotland from Gaza.\n\nSeveral hundred demonstrators protested outside the main branch of Marks and Spencer in Argyle Street.\n\nShoppers were unable to get into the shop for around 15 minutes but police protected one door to allow customers to leave.\n\nPolice officers scuffle with counter protesters in London's Chinatown ahead of a pro-Palestinian protest march in London\n\nThe trouble in London began shortly after 10:00 when a large crowd of people bearing St George flags was seen walking along Embankment and shouting \"England 'til I die\".\n\nSkirmishes broke out as police attempted to stop them from reaching the Cenotaph war memorial but the group pushed through, with some shouting \"let's have them\" as officers hit out with batons.\n\nThe Met posted on social media: \"While the two minutes' silence was marked respectfully and without incident on Whitehall, officers have faced aggression from counter-protesters who are in the area in significant numbers.\"\n\nThe force added that it would use \"all the powers and tactics available to us\" to prevent the counter-protesters from confronting the main march.\n\nMs Braverman is responsible for the government department overseeing law and order\n\nMr Yousaf later took to X, formerly Twitter, and said Mrs Braverman had encouraged the far-right protestors with her rhetoric.\n\nHe posted: \"The far right has been emboldened by the Home Secretary. She has spent her week fanning the flames of division. They are now attacking the police on Armistice Day.\n\n\"The Home Secretary's position is untenable. She must resign.\"\n\nThe Scottish Green Party's justice spokeswoman Maggie Chapman said: \"The shameful scenes and disruption we have seen today are a direct result of the smears and misinformation that has been amplified and spread by the home secretary and her colleagues. It is a disgrace of their own making.\n\n\"If the home secretary had any dignity she would resign, and if the prime minister wasn't so weak he would sack her.\"", "Big Brother producers are investigating how offensive and controversial social posts by housemate Trish Balusa were not flagged before she joined the show.\n\nMost of the tweets in question - which fans have criticised for using racist and homophobic language - were posted more than 10 years ago.\n\nIn a statement on X, formerly Twitter, she apologised, saying she was \"deeply disappointed, embarrassed and ashamed\".\n\nThe 33-year-old from Luton was evicted from the ITV2 show on Friday.\n\nIt was only after she left that the old posts came to light. It looks like her former account has been deleted, with the apology posted from a new account in her name.\n\nBBC News is choosing not to repeat the language contained in some of the historical posts.\n\nA spokesperson for the production company behind Big Brother, Initial TV, said: \"This weekend we have been made aware of concerning historical tweets.\n\n\"We are currently looking into why they were not identified by the independent supplier we engage to review the digital footprint of potential housemates as part of our pre-checks.\"\n\nA planned appearance by Trish on spin-off Big Brother: Late & Live, hosted by AJ Ododu and Will Best, will not go ahead, a production source said. Contestants who have been evicted usually appear on the lively evening debate show.\n\nTrish is said to be being supported as part of the programme's welfare measures for contestants.\n\nThe new Big Brother series - the first for five years - is hosted by AJ Odudu and Will Best\n\nIn her apology, Trish wrote: \"I would like to sincerely apologise for the harmful stereotypes I perpetuated and the pain I have caused to the marginalised communities and groups of people mentioned.\n\n\"I have come a very long way since by educating myself and being educated by others on the impact and harm these views cause.\"\n\nShe asked fans to give her grace and \"believe that people can change\".\n\nThere has been a focus on the duty of care for reality contestants in recent years, especially after the deaths of former Love Island contestants Sophie Gradon and Mike Thalassitis after they appeared on the ITV dating show.\n\nITV's welfare package, published last month, says there is a social media blackout for all Big Brother contestants while they are on the programme, with their family and friends asked not to post on their behalf.\n\nIt also says checks of their social media are made by an \"independent, specialised service\". After a housemate leaves the show, they have a mandatory session with a mental health professional, with more sessions put in place if needed, according to ITV.\n\nDr Paul Litchfield, who independently reviews ITV's duty of care guidelines, said previously: \"The measures applied to safeguard the mental health of contributors to reality TV shows have evolved considerably over the past five years.\"\n\nBig Brother returned to UK TV on 8 October. The format first appeared on British screens on Channel 4 in 2000, fronted by Davina McCall and spawning a celebrity version, before moving to Channel 5, hosted by Emma Willis. It was scrapped in 2018.\n\nMore than 2.5 million people watched the launch show across ITV and ITV2 last month, when the 16 contestants were seen entering the latest Big Brother house in a north London warehouse for the first time.\n\nITV has confirmed a celebrity version will air once again, next year.", "Silvia Ombellini, pictured here with Simone Riccardi, says there is growing global demand for more sustainable tourism\n\nIt was while visiting an Italian city for work that Silvia Ombellini and her husband Simone Riccardi dreamt up the idea to set up a website dedicated to sustainable tourism.\n\nMr Riccardi was working for an Italian university at the time, 10 years ago, and had to go to the city of Potenza in the south of the country for a conference.\n\nThe couple say they wanted to book a hotel with good environmental credentials, but that they really struggled to find one. \"We were looking for sustainable accommodation, but it was not so easy to find online and book,\" says Ms Ombellini.\n\nSo it sparked the idea for a business - a website called Ecobnb, where people can search for environmentally-friendly hotels, home rentals, B&Bs, and other forms of accommodation.\n\n\"We wanted to create a meeting point between eco travellers and accommodation owners investing in a better future,\" adds Ms Ombellini.\n\nToday Ecobnb, based in Trento, in northern Italy, lists more than 3,000 properties worldwide, from a vegan and organic farmhouse in Tuscany, to an eco mountain lodge in Costa Rica.\n\nTo feature on the site, accommodation providers must meet at least five of 10 standards. These are - use 100% renewable energy, serve organic or locally sourced food, collect and reuse rain water, have low consumption lightbulbs, use solar power to heat water, see that more than 80% of waste is recycled, use eco-friendly cleaning products, have water flow reducers fitted, include environmentally-friendly architecture, and be accessible without a car.\n\nHowever, travellers can filter their search to find specific interests such as plant-based food, and electric vehicle charging stations powered by renewable energy.\n\nMore people are said to be holidaying by electric car and want hotels to have charging facilities\n\nMs Ombellini says some accommodation providers offer discounts for guests arriving by bicycle, or those not using a car during the trip.\n\nWhen someone finds a place that they would like to book, Ecobnb does not take the payment. Rather it contacts the property, which then emails the person directly. Ecobnb makes its money by charging the venues a monthly subscription to list on its website.\n\nMs Ombellini says that 2.8 million travellers now use Ecobnb per year, up from 780,000 in 2018.\n\n\"Holidaymakers are rethinking their relationship with planet Earth,\" she says. \"There is a new awareness, especially in young people, about our responsibility for our future and for the planet.\"\n\nStatistics appear to back this up. A study this year found that 69% of travellers were now \"actively seeking sustainable travel options\".\n\nIn the Netherlands, Conscious Hotels is a chain of seven eco hotels whose environmental features include only using renewable energy and only buying sustainably sourced furniture, and solely serving vegetarian food, of which 90% of comes from a 90km (56 mile) radius.\n\n\"On the planet side, we have a lifecycle assessment approach to sustainability,\" says Conscious Hotels chief executive Marco Lemmers.\n\n\"We don't only focus on climate change, it's also important to look at the impact on biodiversity, land use and toxins. We take each and every aspect of our hotel business and make every choice sustainable.\n\n\"More travellers are putting sustainability into the equation and choosing sustainable options, because they believe that they should do something to preserve the planet.\"\n\nAccommodation listed on Ecobnb's website range from hotels to tents\n\nFounded in 2020, flight-free travel company Byway Travel has seen demand for its services grow from 173 bookings in 2021, to 2,200 for this year.\n\nThe company, which organises individual trips for people, is also focused on combating over-tourism. For example, it chooses the Italian port city of Trieste for people wanting waterside café culture rather than Venice, which gets far more tourists.\n\n\"Our trips are more sustainable because they are flight free,\" says Byway Travel founder Cat Jones.\n\n\"But also because we aim to reduce the climate impact of over tourism, boost the local economies of all the wonderful places in between, and increase the proportion of spend on sustainable products and services, by prioritising partnerships with local and sustainable businesses.\"\n\nMarina Novelli, a professor of tourism and international development, says that more in the travel industry are introducing sustainability measures such as solar energy, cold water storage, recycling, and repurposing.\n\nHowever she says sustainability also should cover employment practices, fair pay, and equality policies.\n\nAnd, like many other industries, Prof Novelli warns there's plenty of greenwashing - hotels and other accommodations that like to portray their green credentials, but actually come up short.\n\nTo overcome this, she says responsibility lies with the traveller. \"I'm pushing back to the consumer responsibility, because if we keep asking those question providers will be pushed to actually do the right thing,\" she says.\n\nNew Tech Economy is a series exploring how technological innovation is set to shape the new emerging economic landscape.\n\n\"People need to pay attention… and really research before booking.\"\n\nAlthough Ecobnb is focused on sustainability, how sustainable is it when many people might be flying to arrive at the accommodations it lists?\n\n\"The impact of the travel of the flights is very big,\" agrees Ms Ombellini. \"We are pushing the staycation model a lot, and we are trying to invite people to discover their own countries and to avoid the flights when it's possible.\"\n\nHow optimistic is she about the future of green travel?\n\n\"More people are interested in green lifestyles every day,\" she says. \"And now they are looking for the same green choices also during their holidays.\n\n\"These little choices can come together, and we can change things and make something different. We can be the change we want to see in the world.\"", "A speech by Greta Thunberg at a large climate protest in Amsterdam was interrupted by a stage invader on Sunday.\n\nThe man said he \"came here for a climate demonstration, not a political view\", while trying to pull the microphone from Ms Thunberg's hands.\n\nShortly before the incident, chants of \"Palestine will be free\" could be heard from the crowd.\n\nEarlier during the rally, an activist had her speech cut short by organisers after using the phrase \"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free\", according to Reuters news agency.\n\nMany Jewish groups say the slogan, used at demonstrations around the world, is a call for the destruction of Israel. Pro-Palestinian activists argue that most people using it are calling for an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and blockade of Gaza, not the elimination of Israel itself.\n\nAfter the man had been removed from the stage, Ms Thunberg joined the crowd in chanting \"no climate justice on occupied land\".\n\nLast month, the Swedish climate activist came under fire after sharing pro-Palestinian messages on social media, with some accusing her of not showing support for Israeli victims of the Hamas attacks.", "The funeral procession arrived outside Old Trafford to huge crowds earlier\n\nFamily, fans and footballers have bid a final farewell to Manchester United and England legend Sir Bobby Charlton.\n\nAbout 1,000 mourners paid their respects to one of the game's all-time greats at his funeral earlier.\n\nCrowds lined the streets as the cortège arrived at Old Trafford to rounds of applause before it travelled on to Manchester Cathedral.\n\nThe Red Devils icon, who made 758 appearances for the club, died at the age of 86 on 21 October.\n\nThe Charlton family and friends were joined by leading figures from across football for the funeral service.\n\nFormer Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, and ex-players Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Roy Keane, Steve Bruce, Paddy Crerand and Andy Cole were among those paying their respects.\n\nCurrent players including Harry Maguire and Luke Shaw were also in attendance along with former manager and player Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and England manager Gareth Southgate.\n\nThe Prince of Wales, who is president of the Football Association, also travelled to Manchester for the private service at the cathedral in the centre of the city.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrince William arrived for the service to bid a final farewell to the football legend\n\nNicky Butt and Roy Keane were also in attendance to pay their respects\n\nThe funeral cortège drove past the stadium's East Stand and the United Trinity statue, which features Charlton, George Best and Denis Law.\n\nRepresentatives of the club's under-18 and under-21 teams formed a guard of honour flanking the statue.\n\nBlack and white photographs depicting Charlton's career as a player and then a director at the club were on display outside the football ground.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fans pay tribute to footballing legend Sir Bobby Charlton ahead of his funeral\n\nThe funeral procession then travelled to the city centre, arriving at the cathedral shortly after 14:00 GMT where mourners had gathered inside.\n\nFormer Manchester United chief executive David Gill, who read the first eulogy, described Charlton as a \"legend, an icon and a very dear and loyal, much-loved colleague and friend\".\n\n\"Football is a tribal sport but Bobby was universally admired,\" Gill said.\n\n\"Bobby's name is synonymous with all that is good about the English game.\"\n\nHis grandson William Balderston read the last of the tributes and recalled a \"creative, fantastic storyteller\" who would make up what he called \"jelly and custard\" tales to entertain and enthral his younger relatives.\n\nHe spoke of his \"depth of gratitude\" to Charlton and his wife Norma, adding: \"They have shown me what devotion really is.\"\n\nThe ceremony was led by Canon Nigel Ashworth and hymns included Abide with Me by Henry Francis Lyte, Brother James' Air by James Leith Macbeth Bain, and Jerusalem by William Blake.\n\nThere was also a musical tribute from opera singer Russell Watson with How Great Thou Art.\n\nFormer Manchester United player Alex Stepney said Charlton was a \"humble guy\"\n\nFans applauded as the cortège passed by Old Trafford\n\nThe private service was held at Manchester Cathedral\n\nThe coffin is carried by pallbearers into the cathedral ahead of the service\n\nWidely hailed as one of England's greatest ever players, Charlton was a key figure in the Three Lions' 1966 World Cup victory.\n\nDuring a 17-year first team career with United he won three league titles, a European Cup and an FA Cup.\n\nFrom 1958 to 1970 he played for England, and achieved 106 caps, a record-breaking 49 goals, the famous 1966 World Cup win, and a Ballon d'Or.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the service, former United player, Bryan Robson, said Charlton was the first to welcome him to the club when he signed for a record fee in 1981.\n\n\"Sir Bob was the first one after I signed the contract to come and say it's a great club, enjoy yourself here,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"It's a sad day for the family, for Manchester United but also for football because he was a fantastic player.\n\n\"But he wasn't just a great player, he was a great person, he had time for everyone and wanted to help everyone.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFans lined the route from Old Trafford to Manchester Cathedral\n\nCharlton's teammate Alex Stepney described him as a \"great family man\", adding his success \"never went to his head\".\n\n\"My memory was meeting him for the first time when I got signed [at United],\" Stepney told the BBC.\n\n\"I knew straight away what a great guy he was, a humble guy.\n\n\"Nothing was over his head or anything like that, it was all about playing for Manchester United.\n\n\"Even on international duty it was about winning and that was what Bobby Charlton was all about.\"\n\nSir Bobby Charlton: The First Gentleman of Football\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier is one of two sent to the eastern Mediterranean (file photo)\n\nFive American service members have died in a helicopter crash in the eastern Mediterranean, the US military says.\n\nIt says the aircraft suffered a mishap while refuelling as part of a routine training exercise.\n\nThe US has increased its operations in the region since the outbreak of the conflict between Israel and Hamas.\n\nPresident Joe Biden paid tribute to the victims, saying service members were putting \"their lives on the line for our country every day\".\n\n\"We pray for the families of all our fallen warriors today and every day,\" he added.\n\nThe military statement did not specify where the aircraft was flying from or where the crash happened.\n\nOn Monday, the military named the victims as:\n\nBut the US has moved two aircraft carriers, as well as ships and jets, to the eastern Mediterranean over the past month.\n\nThe deployment reflects American concerns that the conflict between Israel and Hamas could draw in other parts of the region.\n\nIn particular, the US is eager to prevent Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah movement from joining the conflict.\n\nIt is backed by Iran, which also funds and arms Hamas.\n• None US moves warships closer to Israel after Hamas attack", "Five people have been killed in a fire in Channel Close, Hounslow\n\nThree children are among five members of the same family to have died in a house fire in west London.\n\nOne person remains unaccounted for and one man is in hospital after the blaze in Channel Close, Hounslow, on Sunday.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade and the Met Police said they were keeping an \"open mind\" over the cause.\n\nCh Supt Sean Wilson said it was \"truly a terrible incident\" and the loss of lives was causing \"unimaginable stress and pain\".\n\nThe bodies of the five family members were found on the first floor of a terraced property by London Fire Brigade (LFB) crews.\n\nCh Supt Sean Wilson said the cause of the fire was not yet known\n\nThe adults who lived at the home have been named locally as Aroen Kishen and his wife Seema.\n\n\"This is truly a terrible incident the loss of so many lives will cause unimaginable stress and pain to all the families involved,\" Ch Supt Wilson said.\n\n\"Everyone will want to know why this has happened and we will be working tirelessly with London Fire Brigade to find those answers.\"\n\nHe added that his officers would be there to support those in the community enduring \"overwhelming sadness and shock of the tragic loss\".\n\nThe Met also added that no arrests have been made.\n\nDeputy fire commissioner Jonathan Smith said it was too early to know whether fireworks or candles for recent Diwali celebrations were a factor.\n\nHe said firefighters faced a \"significant blaze\" on the ground and first floor when they arrived.\n\nLabour MP for Feltham and Heston, Seema Malhotra said she would be visiting the street later on Monday.\n\nShe said: \"It is utterly devastating. I know that so many have been in touch with me are just… shocked and hugely saddened by this tragic incident in Heston last night.\n\n\"At the moment I have heard nothing about what might have caused this.\n\n\"There hasn't been any suggestion at the moment of what caused the scale of this fire and for it to go through the property so quickly.\"\n\nShe urged everyone to \"keep an open mind\" to what the cause of the fire was, as investigations were under way.\n\nResidents in the area said they saw a lot of smoke at the time, but many fireworks were also being let off for Diwali.\n\nNick Marbrow, who lives on Sutton Road, said: \"When I went to bed last night, I could see a lot of smoke.\n\n\"I could see an unusual amount of smoke, but then it is Diwali, there were fireworks going off.\"\n\nThe cause of the fire is under investigation and no arrests have been made\n\nAshish Sosniah, who was passing the street on his way to temple, said he saw fireworks going off \"for an hour\" between 20:00 GMT and 21:00.\n\nMr Sosniah said that when he next passed at around 23:30 there were emergency services at the scene.\n\nThe mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: \"My thoughts are with the victims, their loved ones and the wider community following this terrible fire in Hounslow in which five people tragically lost their lives including three children.\"\n\nLondon Fire commissioner Andy Roe said: \"This is a terribly sad incident and the thoughts of all of us at London Fire Brigade are with the family, friends and all those affected at this difficult time.\n\n\"Staff will be in the local community today to offer support and advice where needed.\n\n\"The welfare of our staff is very important and all those involved will be offered support from our counselling and trauma service.\"\n\nThe burnt-out house with a collapsed roof can be seen on the left\n\nEmergency services were called at 22:30 and the fire was under control by 01:25.\n\nA total of 10 fire engines and around 70 firefighters were called to the blaze.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former PM David Cameron explains his surprise comeback to front-line politics on being appointed foreign secretary\n\nDavid Cameron has said he wants to support Prime Minister Rishi Sunak \"at a hard time\", after making a dramatic comeback to government in a major cabinet reshuffle.\n\nThe former prime minister has been appointed foreign secretary and accepted a peerage to take the post.\n\nHe replaced James Cleverly, who became home secretary after Mr Sunak sacked Suella Braverman.\n\nLord Cameron admitted it was \"not usual\" for a former PM \"to come back\".\n\nBut he said at a time when the country faced \"daunting challenges\" in the Middle East and Ukraine, he hoped his experience would be helpful to Mr Sunak's government.\n\n\"I've decided to join this team because I believe Rishi Sunak is a good prime minister doing a difficult job at a hard time,\" Lord Cameron said. \"I want to support him.\"\n\nLater the Foreign Office said Mr Cameron had spoken to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday evening, and they discussed \"the conflict in the Middle East, Israel's right to self defence and the need for humanitarian pauses to allow the safe passage of aid into Gaza\" - as well as their continued support for Ukraine and the strength and depth of the relationship between the UK and the US.\n\nMrs Braverman's sacking kickstarted Monday's cabinet reshuffle by Mr Sunak, whose party is lagging far behind Labour in opinion polls, after more than 13 years in power.\n\nMr Sunak's decision to sack Mrs Braverman came after the former home secretary accused the Metropolitan Police of bias in its handling of protests.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesperson stressed the importance of having a \"united team\" and acknowledged there had been \"differences of style\" between Mrs Braverman and Mr Sunak.\n\nIn a speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet in London, Mr Sunak said the world faced \"deeply challenging times\" and \"it falls to us to do everything we can to shape these events\".\n\nHe said the UK government had \"delivered one of the most significant years for British foreign policy in recent times\" and praised Mr Cleverly for his work on Ukraine as foreign secretary.\n\n\"I'm pleased to have appointed a new foreign secretary who will build on everything we have achieved in the last year,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\nBy bringing back Lord Cameron and firing Mrs Braverman, who is popular on the right of the Conservative Party, the prime minister has risked deepening divisions among his MPs.\n\nConservative former Cabinet minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said the Conservatives were \"in danger of losing votes to the Reform party\".\n\nReform leader Richard Tice was \"as happy as can be\" when he saw him earlier, he told BBC Newsnight, adding: \"The Champagne will be flowing in the Reform party headquarters tonight after what's been done today.\"\n\nIn key changes, Steve Barclay took Therese Coffey's job as environment secretary, and Victoria Atkins became health secretary.\n\nFormer transport minister Richard Holden became Tory party chairman, taking over from Greg Hands.\n\nOther senior cabinet members remained in post, including Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps and Education Secretary Gillian Keegan.\n\nIt was Lord Cameron's appointment that stunned Westminster and made him the first former prime minister to re-enter government since the 1970s.\n\nDavid Cameron is the first former prime minister to return to government since the 1970s\n\nThe surprise move marked an unexpected return to frontline politics - seven years on from Lord Cameron's resignation as prime minister after the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016.\n\nLord Cameron, who had campaigned to remain in the EU, has kept a fairly low profile since leaving politics, but lamented \"my political career ending so fast\" in his 2019 memoir.\n\nThe former prime minister has been critical of Mr Sunak's government, notably his decision to scrap the northern leg of the HS2 rail link and cutting the UK's aid budget.\n\nAnd in his speech to the Tory conference, Mr Sunak sought to distance himself from his predecessors and sold himself as a \"change\" prime minister.\n\nLord Cameron said although he had \"disagreed with some individual decisions\" by Mr Sunak's government, \"politics is a team enterprise\".\n\n\"I'm a member of the team and I accept the cabinet collective responsibility that comes with that,\" Lord Cameron said.\n\nThe return of Lord Cameron has been welcomed by centrist Tory MPs, but derided by Brexit backers on the right of the party.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are calling for Lord Cameron's peerage to be blocked, referring to his lobbying for collapsed finance company Greensill Capital.\n\nSenior Labour MP Pat McFadden said Lord Cameron's appointment \"puts to bed the prime minister's laughable claim to offer change from 13 years of Tory failure\".\n\nLord Cameron said he had resigned from the various business and charitable roles - including president of Alzheimer's Research UK - he had held since quitting as prime minister.\n\n\"I have one job - to be foreign secretary and work with the prime minister for the UK to be as secure and prosperous as possible in a difficult and dangerous world,\" he said.\n\nThe foreign secretary insisted the Greensill affair was \"in the past\" and had been \"dealt with\".\n\nThe ministerial reshuffle followed growing criticism of Mrs Braverman over her remarks about policing ahead of a pro-Palestinian march in London over the weekend.\n\nMrs Braverman defied the PM last week in an unauthorised article accusing police of \"double standards\" at protests, claiming right-wing protesters were \"rightly met with a stern response\", while \"pro-Palestinian mobs\" were \"largely ignored\".\n\nLabour and other opposition parties accused Mrs Braverman of inflaming tensions between the pro-Palestinian march and far-right counter protesters on Saturday, when nearly 150 people were arrested.\n\nTransport minister Huw Merriman said the party had had \"a difficult week in terms of some of the comments\", arguing Mr Sunak's refreshed cabinet would \"appeal\" to the country.\n\nBut the former Tory treasurer Lord Cruddas criticised Mr Sunak's reset, branding it a \"coup\" by those who advocated remaining in the EU.\n\nThe reshuffle means that for the first time since the Conservatives won the 2010 election, there are no women holding any of the four of the most senior positions in cabinet.", "Royal Mail has been fined £5.6m for failing to meet its first and second class delivery targets in what the regulator has called a \"wake-up call\" for the postal service.\n\nOfcom said that Royal Mail had breached its obligations by missing targets \"by a significant and unexplained margin\".\n\nThis caused \"considerable harm\" to customers, and Royal Mail did not take sufficient action to prevent it.\n\nRoyal Mail said it was \"very disappointed\" with its performance.\n\nIt said last year had been \"uniquely challenging\", with its services hit by the long-running industrial dispute which led to 18 days of strike action.\n\nUnder Ofcom's rules, Royal Mail has to deliver 93% of first class mail within one working day and 98.5% of second class mail within three working days.\n\nBut in 2022-23, only 73.7% of first class mail was delivered on time and 90.7% of second class mail was on time.\n\nRoyal Mail is obliged to publish its delivery performance every year, and this is scrutinised by the regulator.\n\nIn May, Ofcom said it would consider whether any \"exceptional events\" explained why the company had fallen short.\n\nRoyal Mail was hit last year by a long-running row over pay and conditions, which led to thousands of workers going on strike and postal delays across the UK. The dispute was only settled in July this year.\n\nHowever, the regulator found that even when the impact of the strike action, extreme weather and the runway closure at Stansted airport was taken into account, Royal Mail still didn't meet its targets.\n\n\"Clearly, the pandemic had a significant impact on Royal Mail's operations in previous years. But we warned the company it could no longer use that as an excuse, and it just hasn't got things back on track since,\" said Ian Strawhorne, Ofcom director of enforcement.\n\n\"The company's let consumers down, and today's fine should act as a wake-up call - it must take its responsibilities more seriously. We'll continue to hold Royal Mail to account to make sure it improves service levels.\"\n\nOfcom said the fine included a 30% reduction after Royal Mail admitted liability and agreed to settle the case. The money will be paid to the Treasury within two months.\n\nThis is not the first time that Royal Mail has been penalised for poor service. In July 2020, Ofcom fined it £1.5m for failing to meet its first class delivery target in 2018-19.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesperson said: \"We are very disappointed with our quality of service performance.\n\n\"We take our commitment to delivering a high level of service seriously and are taking action to introduce measures to restore quality of service to the level our customers expect.\"\n\nOfcom also said it had looked into whether Royal Mail was prioritising the delivery of parcels over letters, following complaints that it had been doing so.\n\nThe regulator said it found no suggestion that Royal Mail's senior management had prioritised parcels over letters, apart from in recognised contingency plans covering the pandemic or last year's strike action.\n\nHowever, it added that it was concerned that the company \"appears to have insufficient control, visibility and oversight over local decision-making at certain delivery offices where high absence and vacancies may have led to customer operations managers... making 'on the day' decisions about what to deliver\".\n\nOfcom said Royal Mail needed to ensure these managers had sufficient training to make such decisions.\n\n\"We will be keeping a close eye on the company's performance this year, and the steps it is taking to return delivery offices to pre-Covid practices,\" Ofcom said.\n\nDo you run a business or have you personally been affected by Royal Mail delivery delays? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Israeli president challenged on airstrikes and says Mein Kampf found on Hamas fighter\n\nIsraeli President Isaac Herzog has denied that Israel is striking the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip.\n\nThe UN has said the situation at Al-Shifa Hospital is dire, with constant gunfire and bombings in the area.\n\nDoctors there have said newborn babies have died after power for incubators was cut off due to a lack of fuel.\n\nWhen challenged by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg about those reports, Mr Herzog rejected them as \"spin by Hamas\" and insisted there was electricity.\n\nThe president also showed what he said was a copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was found on the body of a Hamas fighter in Gaza.\n\nHe said a copy translated into Arabic was found \"just a few days ago\" in a children's room that had been \"turned into a military operation base of Hamas\".\n\nThe Nazi leader's antisemitic manifesto was first printed in 1925.\n\nFinding a copy of it in northern Gaza, Mr Herzog said, showed that some in Hamas \"learned again and again Adolf Hitler's ideology of hating the Jews\".\n\nOn Sunday morning, the World Health Organization (WHO) said it had lost communication with its contacts at Al-Shifa, with staff and patients trapped by fighting outside.\n\nIt warned that the hospital had been reportedly attacked multiple times over the previous two days, leaving several people dead and many others wounded. The intensive care unit had suffered damage, as had areas where displaced people were sheltering, it added.\n\nIt also said there were reports that some people who fled the hospital were shot at.\n\nWHO chief Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus later said that contact has been restored but warned of \"dire\" conditions inside. He repeated calls for a ceasefire and said the hospital has been without electricity and water for three days.\n\nDoctors and the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza have said a lack of fuel for Al-Shifa's generators there means patients cannot be operated on and incubators for premature babies cannot run. But the president disputed this.\n\n\"We deny this at all, there is a lot of spin by Hamas... but there's electricity in Shifa, everything is operating,\" Mr Herzog told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme.\n\nIsrael has said that Hamas has a base underneath the hospital building - a claim denied by Hamas.\n\nAsked whether Israel has gone too far in its response to Hamas's 7 October attack, in which 1,200 people in Israel were killed and some 240 taken hostage back to Gaza, Mr Herzog said: \"We work exactly according to the rules of international humanitarian law. We alert each and every civilian, because their homes have become terror bases\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, there are tragedies. We don't shy away from them. But truly many of the tragedies are done by Hamas, like they bombed [Al-]Shifa hospital yesterday, not Israel.\"\n\nSurgeon Marwan Abu Saada told the BBC on Saturday that the hospital had run out of water, food and electricity.\n\nHe said the sounds of shooting and bombardments echoed through the hospital \"every second\".\n\nIsraeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Israel would help evacuate babies from Al-Shifa following a request from the hospital administration. Dr Abu Saada said on Sunday night that three newborn babies had already died.\n\nThe Israeli military also released a video of soldiers leaving 15 jerry cans of fuel on the side of a street for the hospital on Sunday but claimed Hamas stopped them being picked up.\n\nHowever, doctors said the amount would not bring enough power for an hour, while any evacuation of the babies needed specialised mobile incubators.\n\nAsked whether it was time to listen to calls from Israel's allies, including from France's President Macron, for a ceasefire and measures to reduce civilian casualties, Mr Herzog asserted Israel's right to defend itself after the October attacks.\n\n\"We of course listen to our allies, but first and foremost, we defend ourselves,\" he said.\n\nHe acknowledged that there had been civilian deaths in Gaza but blamed Hamas for many of the tragedies.\n\nMr Herzog said his country's operations in Gaza were carried out \"according to the rules of international humanitarian law\", with Israel alerting civilians with phone calls and text messages, and urging them to evacuate from northern Gaza and \"go down [to southern Gaza]\".\n\n\"We give them humanitarian pauses so that they can go down [south],\" Mr Herzog said.\n\nHe accused Hamas of stopping civilians from fleeing northern Gaza when asked about the pictures from Gaza showing many still sheltering in the area and reports that they were unable to leave.\n\nMore than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. More than 1.5m people are also displaced, according to the United Nations' agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa).\n\nFighting has been fierce in the northern part of the 41km (25 miles) long and 10km wide enclave, but blasts have also hit the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Younis.", "Avon already has a string of shops in Turkey\n\nThe cosmetics brand famous for its doorstep slogan \"Ding dong, Avon calling!\" is about to open physical stores in the UK for the first time.\n\nWomen wanted to \"touch and experience\" the products they were buying, Avon said.\n\nFor many years the global beauty giant relied on an army of door-to-door sales reps, who could demonstrate their wares first-hand.\n\nBut recently the Covid pandemic accelerated a shift to online sales.\n\nNow, in a change of direction, the 137-year-old retailer is adding physical stores to its arsenal of sales tactics.\n\nAs well as the UK, it will launch outlets in Brazil and South Africa. It already has 63 stores in Turkey.\n\nThe company is looking for ways to follow women \"wherever they spend their time\", said global chief executive Angela Cretu, describing the move as an \"exciting new chapter\".\n\nThe UK stores, expected to open over the next two months, would be based in \"neighbourhood communities\" rather than on traditional High Streets, Ms Cretu said, and would be \"mini beauty boutiques\" showcasing a selection from Avon's range.\n\nAvon has yet to confirm the number and locations of the new shops.\n\nAvon was established in the US in 1884, but eventually shifted its headquarters to the UK in 2016.\n\nThe much-quoted \"Ding dong, Avon calling!\" advertisement has not been used since 1967. Yet the brand remains closely associated with doorstep sales and with an era of stay-at-home mothers, twinsets and Tupperware parties.\n\nRetail analyst Natalie Berg said, despite its moves on to social media, the Avon brand remained \"a little dated\".\n\nBut Ms Berg said opening stores could be beneficial for the company.\n\n\"You can't overestimate the power of human touch and the community you get in a physical store environment,\" she said, adding that this was particularly true for beauty products, which are still mostly sold in shops.\n\nMs Berg said Avon would need to get its in-store technology right in order to compete with brands that have invested heavily in virtual and augmented reality, and personalised services supported by digital technology.\n\nBut local stores could have a \"halo effect\", she said, meaning they may play a role in helping customers choose products that they later continue to buy from sales reps and online.\n\nAvon's experience in Turkey suggested that physical stores could boost business for local door-to-door sales reps, who would be offered training to run the new outlets as franchises, the company said.\n\n\"We want to give women the opportunity to open a business, especially in areas where it is not so easy for them to launch a start-up,\" said Ms Cretu.\n\nThe company is also expanding its presence in Superdrug stores, following a tie-up in September which saw Avon products sold in selected branches of the pharmacy chain.", "Services have been held across Northern Ireland to mark Remembrance Sunday.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris and the Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar attended the commemoration in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.\n\nThey were joined by victims and relatives of the 1987 IRA bomb attack at the town's war memorial which killed 12 people.\n\nIn Belfast, wreaths were laid at the cenotaph at City Hall, while other cities and towns held ceremonies following a silence observed at 11:00 GMT.\n\nThe events commemorate servicemen and women who died during both world wars and in later conflicts.\n\nThe head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, Jayne Brady, was among the guests at the Enniskillen commemoration.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable Jon Boutcher also laid a wreath.\n\nThe ecumenical service in Saint Macartin's Cathedral was attended by senior clergy from the four main churches in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe town's war memorial is the site of what became known as the Poppy Day bomb.\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson took part in the commemoration in London\n\nThe IRA explosion took place on 8 November 1987, when a crowd had gathered for that year's ceremony.\n\nEleven people were killed and a 12th victim, Ronnie Hill, slipped into a coma two days after he was injured by the blast and died 13 years later.\n\nA visit to Enniskillen on Remembrance Sunday has become a regular fixture in the diary of Irish leaders in recent years.\n\nThe tradition began in 2012, when the then-taoiseach, Enda Kenny, became the first Irish prime minister to attend the event during the year that the town marked the 25th anniversary of the bomb.\n\nMr Varadkar followed in his predecessors' footsteps by laying a green laurel wreath at the town's war memorial on behalf of the Irish government.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris said the Irish government's presence at the event was \"really important\".\n\n\"People like to see the British government and the Irish government work together, remember together and that can only be good for our mutual futures,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nElsewhere, Democratic Unionist Party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson attended the national commemoration in London, while Ulster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie was at the service in Portadown.\n\nA service has been held at Belfast City Hall to mark Remembrance Sunday.\n\nThe deputy lord mayor, Cllr Áine Groogan of the Green Party, laid a wreath at the cenotaph in the Garden of Remembrance on behalf of the citizens of Belfast.\n\nSpeaking after the event, Cllr Groogan said it was \"true honour and a privilege\" to represent the city at the event.\n\n\"Now more than ever, we really need to remember the horror of war, remember those who have lost their lives in conflicts, and work extra hard towards peace,\" she added.\n\nOther wreathes were also placed at the cenotaph during the service.\n\nAmong the attendees were Northern Ireland Office Minister Steve Baker and Irish Sport Minister Thomas Byrne.\n\nOn the stroke of 11 o'clock the crowd of several hundred people fell silent to remember those who have died in wars around the world.\n\nIn Ballynahinch, County Down, a parade and service took place at town's new war memorial on Sunday afternoon.\n\nEvent organiser Margaret Armstrong said the names of 49 local men who served in both world wars have been added to the memorial in recent years.\n\nMargaret Armstrong says names of 44 World War One veterans and five World War Two veterans have been added to the Ballynahinch war memorial in recent years\n\nA total of 168 names are now inscribed on the monument - 144 of those being men who served during World War One, 24 in World War Two.\n\n\"I think it was difficult for the people at the time of the first memorial that research wasn't just as easy,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"But by the time the second memorial was going up a lot more research had been done, so we put on two additional plaques to the new memorial.\"\n\nA commemoration was also held in Ballyclare, County Antrim, on Sunday morning\n\nArmistice Day commemorations also took place in towns and cities across Northern Ireland on Saturday.\n\nBelfast's Lord Mayor Ryan Murphy, of Sinn Féin, took part in the remembrance ceremony at the Cenotaph in the grounds of the city hall on Saturday morning.\n\nHe said his participation was a \"genuine attempt at reaching out the hand of friendship to all of those people who think Armistice Day is a significant event\".\n\nIn Carrickfergus, County Antrim, a 97-year-old D-Day veteran was among those who attended the town's Armistice Day ceremony on Saturday.\n\nWorld War Two soldier George Horner was in his late teens when he landed on Sword Beach, Normandy, on D-Day\n\nFormer Royal Ulster Rifles soldier George Horner said it was \"very, very important\" to pay tribute to his fallen comrades.\n\n\"It's a day of remembrance. You remember all your friends - departed friends, the ones you lost,\" he said.\n\nOn Friday, crowds gathered at The Fountain in Londonderry to remember local people killed during World War One.\n\nPrimary school pupils and members of the community collaborated with the Building Cultural Networks project to create 100 white crosses with poppies.", "Seven men have been charged over disorder on Armistice Day for offences including inciting racial hatred.\n\nThe Met Police said 145 people were arrested - the \"vast majority\" of whom were counter-protesters - and nine officers were injured on Saturday.\n\nIt condemned violence from right-wing counter-protesters who it says set out to confront the pro-Palestinian march.\n\nInvestigations into other offences - including antisemitic hate crimes - continue, police said.\n\nThe pro-Palestinian demonstration - which coincided with Armistice Day - saw some 300,000 people march through central London calling for a Gaza ceasefire.\n\nIt was the biggest UK rally since the war between Israel and Hamas began on 7 October.\n\nPolice added while the march itself did not see such physical violence, other serious offences were being investigated.\n\nThe seven men, aged between 23 and 75, have been charged over offences including possession of weapons, public order, possession of drugs and assault on an emergency worker.\n\nTwo of those charged live in London, with the others coming from across the UK, including Norfolk, Flintshire, Kent, Manchester and West Lothian.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said those involved in crimes must face the full force of the law, with the \"despicable actions of a minority of people\" undermining \"those who have chosen to express their views peacefully\".\n\nHe added that \"EDL [English Defence League] thugs attacking police and trespassing on the Cenotaph\" war memorial had disrespected the honour of the UK's armed forces.\n\nOn Saturday, the Met's Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the violence directed towards officers was \"extraordinary and deeply concerning\", with nine injured after counter-protesters clashed with police.\n\n\"They arrived early, stating they were there to protect monuments, but some were already intoxicated, aggressive and clearly looking for confrontation,\" he said.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said on Sunday it was \"an outrage\" that several officers had been injured, thanking them for \"their professionalism in the face of violence and aggression from protesters and counter-protesters\".\n\nShe is currently under pressure after criticising police ahead of the march and there have been calls for her to be sacked, with some ministers distancing themselves from her comments.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Twist said the pro-Palestinian march \"did not see the sort of physical violence carried out by the right wing\", but \"a number of serious offences identified in relation to hate crime and possible support for proscribed organisations\" during the protest were being investigated.\n\nPolice issued five photos of six individuals suspected of hate crimes.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, who led Saturday's policing operation, said: \"We urge anyone who has information about the identity of suspects, or who has footage or photos of further potential offences, to get in touch so we can take the appropriate action.\"\n\nThe force has issued an appeal for information regarding videos filmed in Waterloo and Victoria stations showing \"unacceptable abuse including antisemitic language, as well as threatening behaviour\".\n\nFootage shared on social media showed Michael Gove ushered through London's Victoria Station by police officers, as crowds waving Palestinian flags shouted: \"Shame on you.\"\n\nOn Sunday, the Levelling Up Secretary addressed the incident on X, formerly Twitter, thanking police for their \"exemplary work in getting me home safely yesterday\".\n\nOn the pro-Palestinian march, chants of \"free Palestine\" and \"ceasefire now\" could be heard as crowds began marching from London's Hyde Park.\n\nAt one point the march, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, extended from the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane to the US Embassy in Nine Elms - a distance of roughly 2.5 miles.\n\nThe Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph, led by the King, passed without incident.", "Wizards of the Coast and Larian Studios Baldur's Gate 3 was already a big winner at the UK's Golden Joystick awards\n\nThe contenders for this year's Game Awards have been announced, with Baldur's Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2 picking up the most nominations.\n\nDubbed the \"Oscars of gaming\" by some and the \"industry's longest commercial\" by others, the show is a major event.\n\nIn a year stuffed with critically acclaimed releases, competition for the top awards is likely to be fierce at the ceremony on 7 December.\n\nBoth frontrunners got eight nominations each, including Game of the Year.\n\nSurvival horror Alan Wake 2 and fantasy RPG Baldur's Gate 3 will also face off in the Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Music and Best Performance categories.\n\nThey're joined in the Game of the Year race by PS5 exclusive Spider-Man 2, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Super Mario Bros Wonder and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.\n\nXbox exclusive Starfield was notably absent from most of the main categories but did get a nomination in the Best RPG category.\n\nIn Best Performance, British actor Ben Starr's turn in Final Fantasy XVI is up against Idris Elba's appearance in Cyberpunk 2077 expansion Phantom Liberty.\n\nAs for independent games, puzzle adventure Cocoon and fishing-meets-HP Lovecraft adventure Dredge are both nominated for best debut and best indie overall.\n\nThe Game Awards is held in front of a live audience but also streamed worldwide\n\nSet up by journalist Geoff Keighley in 2014, The Game Awards have grown into a major event and organisers estimate that 103 million livestream viewers tuned in worldwide last year.\n\nThe ceremony is a mixture of awards show and preview event, with many fans watching for new trailers and announcements of forthcoming titles.\n\nA common criticism of the show is that it spends more time showing trailers and ads than it does on handing out prizes, but there are usually major announcements.\n\nLast year's reveals included new glimpses of the Super Mario Bros Movie and Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding sequel, plus release dates for Final Fantasy XVI and Diablo IV.\n\nBut there are still 31 awards in total across a wide range of categories including audio design, best independent game and accessibility and innovation.\n\nWinners are decided by a panel of industry experts and a fan vote which counts for 10% of the final score.\n\nSay hello to my little friend: God of War voice actor Christopher Judge received his 2022 best performance award from Al Pacino\n\nLast year God of War Ragnarök won the night and took home six awards, including Best Performance for Kratos voice actor Christopher Judge.\n\nHis whopping eight-minute acceptance speech was one of the most memorable moments of the night, second only to \"flute guy\" - the orchestra member who stole the show with his energetic performance.\n\nA full list of 2023's nominees can be found on The Game Awards website.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An escaped emu has been caught on camera on the front doorstep of a house in a suburban street.\n\nThe flightless bird was captured on doorbell footage at a property in Loose, Kent, on Saturday.\n\nOfficers from Kent Police were alerted and joined in the capture of the emu which a spokesman said had escaped from a residential property.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The high-speed vehicles have been causing anti-social issues in communities\n\nElectric motorbikes may be an increasingly popular way to get around but have been blamed for terrorising neighbourhoods with anti-social and dangerous riding.\n\nThey have also been involved in two high-profile incidents in Cardiff and Salford in which young people have died.\n\nThe BBC has been out on patrol with police officers in Bristol to see how they are tackling the rise in illegal use.\n\n\"They're going about 80 miles an hour, doing wheelies and shouting abuse at people while they're doing it.\n\n\"I'm too scared to take my own babies out because of it, in case they get hit or something.\n\n\"It's been the same now for two years and I can't stick it anymore, I want to leave.\"\n\nBobby, a mum of three young children, is totally fed up with electric motorbikes and sees them as a scourge upon Hartcliffe in Bristol, where she lives.\n\nShe says high-speed electric motorbikes tear through the community at dangerous speeds, making her worried for her children's safety.\n\nBobby says she is worried for her children's safety as well as the safety of the riders, many of whom don't wear helmets\n\nBut it is not only residents who are frustrated - the very nature of the bikes and how they are being used is proving a challenge to police.\n\nElectric motorbikes are more powerful than regular e-bikes, which have their speed limited.\n\nPCSO Hannah Cheney said problems with electric motorbikes are a daily occurrence on her beat\n\nThey're only road legal if they are registered, taxed, insured and ridden wearing a helmet. Those on the streets of Hartcliffe mostly aren't.\n\n\"The best way to describe it is relentless.\"\n\nMany of the riders have no helmets on, and are travelling at high speed, able to escape down alleyways and paths if pursued.\n\n\"They're literally asking us to chase them,\" says Police Community Support Officer Mark Thomas who is in the passenger seat as we go out on patrol.\n\nAnother bike crosses the path of driver Sgt Rich Higbey's patrol car and races almost silently up the hill.\n\nHe stands little chance of keeping up or catching the shadowy figure zooming off into the distance.\n\nThis un-named rider told the BBC he was used to being chased by and escaping police\n\n\"He's goaded us to go that way, we've followed him and then he's just pulled up and hidden away,\" says PCSO Thomas.\n\n\"It's a game\" he says, exasperated.\n\n\"They're getting us to chase our tails\".\n\nIt's a tricky area of policing that's become highly controversial.\n\nYoung people have died after being followed by police but there have also been deaths when the police weren't involved.\n\nIn Cardiff, a riot broke out in May after two teenagers died riding an electric motorbike - a Sur-Ron.\n\nHarvey Evans, 15, and Kyrees Sullivan, 16, had been followed by a police van shortly before they crashed.\n\nTwo South Wales Police officers are still under investigation.\n\nFifteen-year-old Saul Cookson died in Salford in June after being followed by police.\n\nAgain, the Independent Office for Police Conduct is investigating.\n\nCommunities want action but officers are cautious and aware of the risks.\n\nSgt Rich Higbey said that officers in pursuit need to consider the safety and often inexperience of the riders\n\nThere is a sense that the law and police pursuit guidance are being left behind by rapidly developing technology.\n\n\"It's a total loss,\" declares Sgt Rich Higbey over the radio, giving up another chase in frustration.\n\nThat's police speak for another bike which has got away, another hooded teenager vanishing into the maze of Bristol's Hartcliffe estate.\n\n\"I fully appreciate the public perception isn't great,\" Sgt Higbey said.\n\n\"People see these offences happen, they see these bikes blasting past popping wheelies - you name it, they're doing it.\n\n\"There's a lot of Sur-Ron bikes driving anti-socially and just antagonising people.\n\n\"But people have to understand we can't always pursue them.\"\n\nThe reasons are made clear at the briefing ahead of the shift.\n\nOperation Broad brings together Avon and Somerset Police traffic officers, neighbourhood teams, and specialist equipment like drone cameras and officers riding off-road motorbikes - all to clamp down on illegal and anti-social use of electric bikes and scooters.\n\n\"You'll all be aware of the incidents that took place in Cardiff and Salford,\" Sgt Higbey reminds his colleagues.\n\n\"Two cases have ended with tragic consequences for everyone involved, with a suggestion officers had been following these vehicles.\"\n\nThe estate in Hartcliffe is not unique - far from it.\n\nAs electric motorbikes surge in popularity, they're being used to tear through more communities across the country.\n\nResidents in Hartcliffe and other housing estates have been alarmed by the speed and attitude of some of the riders\n\nIn Hartcliffe, we managed to get one of the young riders to stop and talk.\n\n\"It's fun for me, I like the thrill of it,\" he says, speaking with a heavy Bristol accent from behind a balaclava.\n\nHe acknowledges his electric motorbike isn't legal on the road and says he's had four bikes seized by the police.\n\n\"It's your choice if you want to get one, if you want to take the risk.\n\n\"That's what I'm doing, I'm taking the risk. I know it could get taken (by the police) like that,\" he says, clicking his fingers.\n\nHe tells me he's used to being chased by the police. Then I ask what the key is to getting away: \"Lanes, little lanes. Little alleyways\".\n\nPowerful drone cameras are harder to escape from and Avon and Somerset's own police Sur-Ron bike is now part of the armoury, helping officers keep up the chase.\n\nBut still, many want clearer guidance and more action.\n\n\"We have to bear in mind, they're young riders, they might not be experienced on that bike,\" Sgt Higbey tells me.\n\nOfficers use their own Sur-Ron motorbike in pursuit of the riders\n\n\"Therefore, if a police vehicle was to get behind them, they might come off.\n\n\"We have to be proportionate and realistic in how we're dealing with it and if that means letting them go and identifying them later, then so be it - we'll have to do that.\"\n\nOften the bikes are illegally modified to reach speeds of 60-70 miles an hour - faster than the manufacturers' intended capability.\n\nNichola, who was out shopping on the estate, sums up the situation: \"I think the police's hands are tied because if they chase them and anything happens to the kids, they're in the wrong.\n\n\"But if they don't chase them or do something, they're also in the wrong. So I don't think the police can win.\"\n\nSgt Higbey tells me: \"It does need to change, we need to get the results a little bit clearer.\n\n\"We need to start prosecuting people, we need the results from the courts, we need something to start showing that we mean business and we're not going to take it anymore.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by electric motorbikes in your area? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Jo Crumplin says abusive behaviour towards retail workers is on the rise\n\nJo Crumplin, a team leader at a convenience store in Northumberland, says she and her staff experience threatening, abusive behaviour from customers week in, week out.\n\n\"I've been told, 'I hope you get cancer and die,'\" she says.\n\nSome two in five retail workers face abuse from customers on a regular basis, new research suggests.\n\nThe Retail Trust, the charity behind the research, said that staff were being shouted at, spat on or hit.\n\nThe charity's report comes as retail giants including Sainsbury's, Boots, M&S and Aldi are urging police forces across the UK to offer staff more protection.\n\nThe Home Office said that retail crime would \"not be tolerated\".\n\nMs Crumplin has worked in retail for 11 years and says she thinks the threatening behaviour is increasing.\n\n\"We go into work to do a job... to serve customers, stack shelves. We don't go into work to be abused,\" she says.\n\nShe blames a rise in shoplifting. Challenging shoplifters is often the cause for a confrontation, she says, something which the report also found.\n\nUK retailers have been dealing with a big rise in shoplifting driven in part by the cost-of-living crisis, which has coincided with an increase in threats against staff.\n\nFirms such as Tesco and Aldi have begun to roll out body-worn cameras across their stores, but some retail bosses say the police need to take the problem more seriously.\n\nThe Retail Trust spoke to more than 1,600 shop workers from 200 companies such as Tesco, H&M and the Co-op. It found that almost half feel unsafe at work, while a quarter did not report incidents of abuse, partly because of a poor response from police in the past.\n\nThe police recently committed to attend more crime scenes and use facial recognition to target offenders.\n\nJane, a check-out supervisor from Mold in north Wales, told BBC Breakfast that she felt retail abuse was \"more common now than it ever has been\".\n\nShe described a \"massive increase\" during Covid lockdowns when staff had to introduce changes to the way customers were shopping like one-way systems or social distancing measures.\n\nShe said one shopper had stood \"nose-to-nose\" with her and threatened her verbally, which was \"particularly threatening\" at the height of the pandemic.\n\nShop worker Jane said she felt retail abuse was \"more common now than it ever has been\"\n\nSince then, the increased cost of living has meant shoppers might be more frustrated when they get to the tills, particularly if they are asked for photo ID when buying restricted items, she said.\n\n\"Shopping isn't as fun as it used to be. Everything's gone up in price for whatever reason and customers don't like it and the staff generally get the brunt of it.\"\n\nIn an open letter organised by the Institute of Customer Service, more than 50 businesses including John Lewis and the Post Office, as well as several MPs, urged the government to ensure assaults on shop workers were better recorded.\n\nThis would include recording such crimes separately in police statistics, they said.\n\nSeparately, the Co-op said on Monday that it had recorded 300,000 incidents so far this year of shoplifting, abuse, violence and anti-social behaviour in its chain of shops.\n\nIt marks a 40% increase compared with the same period in 2022. In the majority of the 3,000 most serious cases, it said the police had failed to attend when requested.\n\nPaul Gerrard, director of public affairs at the Co-op, told the BBC's Today programme that rather than individuals stealing a loaf of bread or a pint of milk to feed themselves, the chain was now seeing \"prolific offenders\".\n\nHe said workers were \"seeing individuals and organised gangs coming in to take out the entire meat section, the entire spirit section, the entire household cleaning section, and those kind of individuals will stop at nothing\".\n\nA number of retailers have announced that they are investing in additional security or body-worn cameras for staff to combat violent behaviour.\n\nLidl, for example, announced last week that staff across its 960 UK stores would wear body cameras, although they will not be required for all workers.\n\nIts boss said that the additional safety measures would cost £2m and that \"retail crime is something that is impacting the whole industry\".\n\nAccording to the latest figures from the British Retail Consortium, incidents of violence and abuse had almost doubled on pre-pandemic levels to 867 incidents every day in 2021-22.\n\nA spokesperson for the Home Office said: \"It is completely unacceptable to threaten or assault shop workers. We have recently put aggravated sentences for assaults on shop workers into law, showing that these crimes will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThey said that the policing minister was clear that police should take a zero tolerance approach to crime, especially where violence is used, adding that the recent Retail Crime Action Plan would see police attending more crime scenes and patrolling badly affected areas.\n\nAre you affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Some 300,000 protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza marched through central London on Saturday, according to a police estimate.\n\nWatch aerial and ground footage of the biggest pro-Palestinian rally in the UK since the Israel-Gaza war began.", "We've been reporting on Israel's claims - now backed up by the US - that Hamas has a base under Al-Shifa hospital. But as well as Al-Shifa, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have also made allegations about another Gaza City medical facility - Rantisi children's hospital.\n\nOn Monday night it released a six-minute video purporting to show evidence that Hamas had used the now-evacuated hospital building to detain hostages and store weapons.\n\nThe video has a large number of edits. It begins in the vicinity of the hospital where IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari stands outside a building which he says is the home of a senior Hamas figure. He then shows an underground shaft, which he says is a tunnel entrance.\n\nIn the video, Hagari does not enter the tunnel – saying the doors inside are bullet and explosive proof.\n\nHe is then shown at the “back side of the hospital”, outside a damaged building with the same distinctive colour scheme of Rantisi. There is no continuous take showing Hagari entering the hospital itself.\n\nDaniel Hagari point to what the IDF says is a tunnel shaft Image caption: Daniel Hagari point to what the IDF says is a tunnel shaft\n\nThe video then shows Hagari inside rooms said to be in the basement of the hospital. World Health Organization branding is pictured on a wall-mounted control unit.\n\nHagari points out various pieces of “evidence” - including a cache of weapons laid out on the floor - that he says shows that the area was used by Hamas fighters to store weapons and hold hostages.\n\nA key item is a document on the wall which he says shows a schedule for fighters guarding hostages. The top of this document mentions the “al-Aqsa flood” – Hamas’ codename for the 7 October attacks.\n\nHagari calls it a “guardian list, where every terrorist writes his name [and] has his own shift”. However, the Arabic words actually translate to the days of the week, not names.\n\nHe also points out a curtain hanging over a white-tiled wall, which he says could be used as a backdrop for hostage videos. Of the hostage videos released by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad which we have seen so far, none have shown a matching pattern in the background.\n\nBBC News has not visited the site and is not able to independently verify any of the allegations made by the IDF.\n\nHamas denies hiding under the cover of hospitals - a longstanding Israeli allegation. Its health ministry called the video \"a theatrical farce\".", "Peter Nygard seen in a police vehicle in Toronto after the guilty verdict\n\nA Canadian jury has found the former fashion mogul Peter Nygard guilty of sexual assault after a six-week trial.\n\nProsecutors told a Toronto court that Nygard, 82, used his \"status\" to assault five women in a series of incidents from the late 1980s to 2005.\n\nNygard denied the charges, and his defence team accused the victims of \"gold-digging\" for financial gain.\n\nHe was found not guilty on a fifth count of sexual assault and one count of forcible confinement.\n\nNygard appeared to show no emotion as the verdict was handed down on the jurors' fifth day of deliberations.\n\nAccording to prosecutors, Nygard lured the women - aged 16 to 28 at the time - to a private luxury bedroom in his firm's Toronto headquarters.\n\nOne prosecutor described the room as having \"a giant bed...and a bar and doors, doors with no handles and automatic locks controlled by Peter Nygard\".\n\nProsecutors alleged that Nygard would assault the women once they were trapped in the room.\n\nAfter Nygard's conviction, his son Kai Zen Bickle told reporters outside the Toronto court that the jury's ruling was \"a victory\" for all those \"who came forward and were denied justice\".\n\n\"One more child won't be affected, one more woman won't be affected, \" Mr Bickle said. \"(Nygard) has to actually sit down and think about all of these things.\"\n\nMr Bickle has become an outspoken supporter of his father's alleged victims and described the moment Nygard was found guilty on Sunday as \"emotional\".\n\n\"There are so many survivors out there, this is their day,\" he said.\n\nPeter Nygard's son Kai Zen Bickle said: \"It's not good brand association to be the son of a monster.\"\n\nNygard's lawyer Brian Greenspan said \"we will consider the options\" when asked by reporters whether Nygard would seek an appeal.\n\nA sentencing hearing will be set on 21 November.\n\nDuring closing arguments earlier this week, Crown prosecutors and Nygard's defence team painted dramatically different pictures of the man who once hobnobbed with celebrities and stood at the helm of a lucrative global apparel empire.\n\nMr Greenspan told jurors that the state's case rested on \"revisionist history\" built on \"contradictions and innuendo\", Canadian media reported.\n\nHe also claimed that four of the five women - who are also part of a US class action lawsuit - were motivated by financial gain.\n\nOver five days of tense testimony and cross-examination earlier in the trial, Nygard said he could never have acted \"in that kind of manner\" and that he did not recall four of the five women, according to CBC.\n\nProsecutors relied heavily on the evidence of the women in court.\n\nCrown Attorney Neville Golwalla addressed the media on Sunday after the verdict and thanked the women who had come forward.\n\n\"This is a crime that typically happens in private and profoundly impacts human dignity,\" Ms Golwalla said.\n\n\"To stand up and recount those indignities in a public forum such as a courtroom is never easy and takes great courage.\"\n\nNygard - who was once estimated to be worth at least $700m (£570m) - is still facing another trial in Montreal next year and assault and confinement charges in Winnipeg.\n\nOnce his criminal cases in Canada are completed, he is set to be extradited to the US, where authorities claim he engaged in a \"decades-long pattern of criminal conduct\" involving at least a dozen victims across the globe. He is currently fighting that extradition.\n\nThe guilty verdicts on Sunday cap a stunning fall from grace for Nygard.\n\nIn February 2020, he stepped down as chairman of his firm, Nygard International, shortly before it filed for bankruptcy after US authorities raided its New York headquarters.\n\nHe has been jailed since his arrest in December the same year.", "The Scottish government has been accused of a lack of transparency over the country's renewable offshore power potential.\n\nMinisters used a letter to a Holyrood committee to downgrade Scotland's projected share of Europe's offshore energy capacity.\n\nFor years, ministers said Scotland had 25% of that capacity but new figures suggest it is around 9%.\n\nThe Scottish Tories said ministers showed a \"contempt for transparency\".\n\nEnergy Secretary Neil Gray denied a lack of transparency and said he hoped the statistical update would \"put that debate to rest\".\n\nThe Scottish government said the previous figure was \"understood to be accurate\" at the time, but a new analysis had since been carried out.\n\nThe new calculation is a comparison with only EU countries, rather than Europe as a whole.\n\nThe 25% figure had been used since 2010, and was highlighted in the Scottish government's 2014 white paper which made the case for independence.\n\nBut ministers conceded last year that this statistic was not accurate and the new calculation was given to a Holyrood committee last month.\n\nIt was published in the annex of a letter Mr Gray sent to the energy committee on 21 September.\n\nEnergy Secretary Neil Gray denied the government had not been transparent\n\nDocuments obtained by pro-union campaign group These Islands, and shared with BBC Scotland News, show that officials advised against issuing \"proactive communications\" to highlight the revised figure.\n\nMr Gray said his update was \"there in full daylight for everyone to see\", adding that it had \"hardly been a secret\".\n\n\"This is a good news story,\" he told BBC Scotland News. \"It shows that Scotland has a substantial amount of Europe's renewable energy potential.\"\n\nMr Gray said the statistics went through \"a rigorous process\" to ensure accuracy before being published.\n\n\"The figure has now been clarified, which I hope will now put that debate to rest and ensure that we are able to focus now on delivering that massive potential,\" he added.\n\nSea ports such as Montrose could benefit from construction and supply jobs for the offshore renewables industry\n\nIn Mr Gray's letter to the convener of Holyrood's energy committee, he said that Scotland's ambition for 11GW of offshore wind by 2030 would represent \"approximately 10% of the EU ambition\".\n\nBut the country's share of its target, combined with the EU target, would mean a figure of closer to 9% for Scotland.\n\nIn discussions about the new figures, obtained by under Freedom of Information, officials advised the energy secretary on 15 September to write to parliament's energy committee \"to advise parliament on the updated suite of metrics\".\n\nThey go on to say \"no proactive communications are recommended\" but that officials will prepare \"reactive lines\" if there are media queries regarding the new statistics.\n\nAn official in Mr Gray's office wrote on 19 September that the minister was \"not sure we need to draw further attention to the issue with a letter to committee unless we committed to publicise our update\".\n\nAnother official then clarified that ministers had committed to updating MSPs.\n\nFor over a decade Scottish government ministers were fond of deploying the statistic that Scotland had 25% of Europe's offshore energy potential.\n\nBut around a year ago that ministers conceded that figure was \"out of date.\" There were pledges to come up with a new number. That now appears to have happened.\n\nThough it would have been easy to miss. In fact, it appears to have gone unnoticed for weeks. It was deep within a tranche of statistics sent to a Holyrood Committee.\n\nThis does indeed qualify as updating parliament, which is what ministers had promised to do. Though many MSPs will think it would have been more appropriate to clearly publicise the new figure.\n\nScotland may well still have a very bright future when it comes to offshore energy. But, given how quietly ministers have provided this update, it suggests they're not over the moon about this downgrade.\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Liam Kerr said: \"Ministers must be open and honest about giving accurate figures - secrecy and cover-up does the renewables sector no favours.\n\n\"This is yet another example of a government that thinks it can get away with anything.\n\n\"It has shown time and again a contempt for transparency and accountability, and this sorry saga sums that up perfectly.\"\n\nThe Scottish government also pledged to update other bodies once a new figure was arrived at.\n\nIn March, Michael Matheson - who was Scotland's energy secretary at the time - told Westminster's Scottish Affairs Committee that he would provide them with an updated figure \"upon completion of our work\".\n\nMr Matheson also appeared to have committed to updating Holyrood's presiding officer when a new figure had been calculated.\n\nNeither has been updated with the new statistics, though the Scottish government plans to do so in due course.\n\nThe government said it had completed work to provide new metrics on renewable energy potential, fulfilling a previous undertaking to Holyrood.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"These figures make clear Scotland has more than doubled its renewable electricity generation over the last decade, including possessing approximately 7% of Europe's installed offshore wind capacity.\n\n\"On 15 November last year Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity Minister Lorna Slater informed parliament that although Scottish ministers understood the previous statistic to be accurate, it had come to their attention that it was not and she undertook to update Parliament when new analysis was complete, which has been done.\n\n\"The Energy Secretary will write to update the presiding officer and the Scottish Affairs Committee in due course.\"", "Ciera Grimley died a week after the crash which killed her husband Patrick\n\nA woman who has died days after a crash which also killed her husband has been described as loving and caring.\n\nCiera Grimley, a mother-of-three, died on Saturday, a week after the four-vehicle collision near Markethill, County Armagh, last weekend.\n\nHer husband Patrick died at the scene.\n\nThe couple, from Madden in County Armagh, had been returning home from Patrick's 40th birthday party when the crash happened.\n\nAnother victim, Ciara McElvanna, was buried on Saturday morning. A number of other people suffered injuries after the crash on the Gosford Road at 01:20 GMT on 4 November.\n\nNine emergency ambulance crews were deployed to the scene and the injured were taken to Craigavon Area Hospital and the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.\n\nDet Sgt McIvor of the Police Service of Northern Ireland's Collision Investigation Unit said: \"A full investigation into the circumstances surrounding the collision is ongoing and officers are asking anyone who witnessed it to get in touch.\"\n\nSt Patrick's Primary School in Armagh, where Mrs Grimley previously worked as a classroom assistant, said \"her kind nature and caring instincts were on show each and every day\".\n\nThe school added she had a strong bond with the pupils and she left a \"lasting impression on those who worked closest with her\".\n\nWriting on social media, Paddy Woods from Madden Raparees GAA club, where Patrick Grimley was the secretary, described Ciera as a \"loving, caring and supportive wife to Patrick\".\n\n\"Ciera, along with Patrick, spent many evenings supporting their children in their many hobbies and activities,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Grimley was a married father of three from Madden and was heavily involved in the Gaelic Athletic Association\n\n\"Their passion for the GAA has seen them follow club and county throughout Ireland, creating precious memories in the process.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with all those within our community recovering at this time,\" he continued.\n\n\"Also, for all those impacted by recent events, can we ask you to continue to keep them in your thoughts and prayers in the days, weeks and months ahead.\n\nMr Grimley, a former GAA player, has previously been his club's public relations officer.\n\nSpeaking at the time of his death, Mr Woods told BBC News NI the Grimley family were \"steeped in GAA\" and his loss would be felt throughout the Madden area.\n\nCiara McElvanna 44, was from the Armagh area.\n\nHer funeral mass was held at St Joseph's Church in Madden on Saturday morning.", "Nearly two-thirds of new doctors in the UK in 2022 qualified abroad\n\nAttracting skilled overseas-trained doctors to the UK will remain \"crucial\", despite plans to train more healthcare staff here, the doctors' regulator has said.\n\nThe General Medical Council (GMC) found that nearly two-thirds (63%) of new doctors in 2022 qualified abroad.\n\nThe government launched a major plan in June to train and recruit more healthcare workers in England.\n\nBut it will take many years for this to take effect, the GMC says.\n\nNHS England says it currently has 10,855 full-time doctor vacancies - a rate of 7.2%.\n\nUnder NHS England's Long Term Workforce Plan, it hopes to recruit and retain \"hundreds of thousands\" more healthcare staff over the next 15 years. The plan includes spending £2.4bn on additional training places for healthcare workers, with the number of medical school places for student doctors set to double to 15,000 a year.\n\nTrainee doctors must study for five years before they qualify and must then undertake further training.\n\nThe health services in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland also have recruitment and retention programmes in place. Doctors in each UK nation must be registered with the GMC before they can practise.\n\nCharlie Massey, the GMC's chief executive, said the drive to boost the workforce was \"brilliant\", but said \"it takes a long time to make a doctor\".\n\n\"We're not going to see the impact of that coming on stream for probably the best part of a decade. And that means we're going to need to rely on doctors who have trained overseas coming to the UK in much greater numbers than in recent years to maintain the workforce that we need to meet the needs of the population.\"\n\nThe GMC runs 'Welcome the UK\" events for overseas-trained doctors\n\nAccording to the GMC's new report, it predicts that in 14 years' time, the proportion of overseas-trained doctors working in the UK will be similar to the current level (39 %).\n\nThe regulator said it was also concerned about the retention of NHS doctors, and said there were \"worrying signs\" a growing number plan to leave the profession because of \"high levels of dissatisfaction and high risk of burnout\".\n\nIn 2022, about 2,000 UK doctors left to practise abroad - 15% of the total number leaving the UK profession.\n\nNHS England said its plans include a major drive on retention, including more flexible-working options and career development opportunities.\n\nMr Massey said it was important \"we make sure we are good at embracing and supporting those doctors\" when they arrive in the UK.\n\nThe regulator runs workshops to help doctors new to the UK adapt to the working culture which overseas recruits are encouraged to attend.\n\n\"The more we and our health services can collectively do to support doctors arriving in the UK, the better the chance of retaining their services for longer,\" said Mr Massey.\n\nOyku Tural, a doctor from Cyprus, said she thought she would need support to make the transition to working in England\n\nOyku Tural, a doctor who qualified in Cyprus, recently attended a \"Welcome to the UK\" event at the GMC.\n\n\"I know I would need support to adapt to the new system,\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe added that she thought overseas-trained doctors could be an asset to the NHS.\n\n\"I feel like we can help better sometimes. I feel like I am a friendly and compassionate person and that's something I can offer.\"\n\nDr Sarah Clarke, president of the Royal College of Physicians, said: \"Doctors trained overseas have a vital role to play in the medical workforce and without them the NHS would be significantly more stretched than it is now.\"\n\nAn NHS England spokesperson said its long-term workforce plan aims to recruit more doctors, retain those already in the NHS and reform education and training to make it more flexible and deliver the future workforce that patients need.\n\n\"The plan, a once in a generation opportunity to put staffing on a sustainable footing, obviously recognises the vital role doctors from overseas have and will continue to have in the NHS,\" an official said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSuella Braverman has been forced out as home secretary after challenging the prime minister one too many times.\n\nShe was sacked from the role on Monday morning.\n\nIn an article for the Times newspaper, she accused the Metropolitan Police of bias in the policing of protests.\n\nMrs Braverman was accused of undermining the police with her claim that aggressive right-wing protesters were \"rightly met with a stern response\", while \"pro-Palestinian mobs\" were \"largely ignored\", ahead of pro-Palestinian marches in central London.\n\nThe row is just the latest in a long line of controversies in Mrs Braverman's political career.\n\nBut it has not stopped her emerging as a leading figure on the right of the Conservative Party and someone with ambitions to lead it.\n\nThe now former home secretary's political leanings were evident at an early age. In 1997, the year of Labour's landslide victory, she won a mock election as the Conservative candidate at her independent all-girls school in Harrow.\n\nA classmate at the time said she had turned the school \"in completely the opposite direction\" during the election, using her \"personality, joviality and optimism\".\n\nMrs Braverman was born Sue-Ellen Fernandes, in April 1980 - named after Sue-Ellen Ewing, the matriarch of the American TV show Dallas, one of her mother's favourite shows.\n\nTeachers shortened it to Suella at school, where she was a high-flying student - crowning her time there as head girl.\n\nHer parents were both of Indian origin, and met in London, after her father fled Kenya and mother emigrated from Mauritius to become a nurse.\n\nShe has spoken about how her parents' journey and emphasis on hard work and integration deeply influenced her.\n\nThis drive took her to study law at University of Cambridge, where she chaired the university's Conservative Association - a post held by Tory grandees (and former home secretaries) Ken Clarke and Michael Howard.\n\nAfter Cambridge, she studied for two years in Paris, gaining a postgraduate degree in European and French law at Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and developing a love for the works of Marcel Proust and songs of Belgian singer Jacques Brel.\n\nMrs Braverman's legal career took her from the UK to the US, passing the bar exam in both London and New York. She was also set on politics, gaining work as a lawyer for the government and unsuccessfully standing as the Conservative candidate in the solid Labour seat of Leicester East in 2005.\n\nShe was selected as the Conservative candidate for the safe seat of Fareham, a role she secured by doing the most \"homework\" according to a member of her selection panel.\n\nIn the 2015 election she was duly elected as an MP, and quickly made a name for herself for her views on the EU, immigration, and law and order.\n\nA fervent supporter of Brexit, she chaired the Eurosceptic European Research Group (ERG) of Tory MPs, after the UK left the EU.\n\nIt was in the melee following the 2016 referendum that she headed to her ministerial office - getting a job as a junior minister at the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU).\n\nShe resigned from the role 10 months later, alongside her boss at DExEU Dominic Raab, in protest at Theresa May's Brexit deal, which she called \"a betrayal\".\n\nShe changed her name to Suella Braverman, having married South African business executive Rael Braverman in 2019.\n\nSir John Hayes, one of Mrs Braverman's oldest allies in politics, said Rael \"reinforced\" his wife's conservatism.\n\nMrs Braverman made a return to government when she was appointed attorney general by Boris Johnson, but maintained an independent streak.\n\nAs the chief legal adviser to the government, she was criticised by lawyers for backing the Internal Market Bill - setting post-Brexit customs and trade rules - which broke international law in a \"specific and limited way\".\n\nShe also made history in 2021 as the first cabinet minister to take maternity leave, following the passage of a new law.\n\nFollowing Mr Johnson's resignation as prime minister, Mrs Braverman was the first to announce she was running to replace him.\n\nShe was installed as home secretary by eventual winner Liz Truss, but was forced to resign within the space of a few weeks.\n\nMrs Braverman stood down after admitting to sharing confidential documents.\n\nIn a political twist, Mrs Braverman was reinstated as home secretary by Rishi Sunak - and under him, she has carved out a reputation for her headline-grabbing comments.\n\nNot long after returning to office, it emerged she had been caught speeding while attorney general. Mr Sunak decided her request for advice from officials on arranging a private course \"did not amount to a breach of the ministerial code\" without the need for an investigation.\n\nMrs Braverman's comments have often proved a thorn in Mr Sunak's side, with the prime minister repeatedly distancing himself from her language on immigration and homeless people.\n\nUntil recently, Mr Sunak appeared unwilling to rein in his home secretary. There had been suggestions Mrs Braverman acted as a \"politically useful pressure valve\" for Mr Sunak - allowing him to indirectly signal approval for right-wing populist policies without having to make those statements himself.\n\nNow her departure marks the end of a tumultuous period in government, but is unlikely to end her leadership ambitions.\n\nListen to Suella Braverman's interview on Political Thinking with Nick Robinson.", "That's all for our live coverage of Sir Bobby Charlton's funeral - thanks for joining us.\n\nYou can read a recap of how the day unfolded here, as thousands paid tribute to the football great.\n\nThere will also be more updates and commentary into the evening over at BBC Sport.", "The BBC's chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman looked like he had seen a ghost after witnessing former Prime Minister David Cameron walk into Downing Street.\n\n\"I'm a bit tired, but I don't think I've had a funny turn... David Cameron has just walked up the street and gone into 10 Downing Street,\" Henry Zeffman told BBC Breakfast viewers.\n\nShortly after this clip, it was then announced that Mr Cameron was made foreign secretary as Rishi Sunak reshuffles his cabinet.\n\nThe ex-PM's shock return comes after Home Secretary Suella Braverman was sacked following days of speculation over her future.\n\nMr Cameron, the former Conservative prime minister, was in office between 2010 and 2016.\n\nFollow live updates on the cabinet reshuffle here.", "Anna Scher who was made an MBE in 2013, championed young, working-class actors\n\nEastEnders' Natalie Cassidy is among stars paying tribute to drama school founder Anna Scher, who has died at 78, having taught names including Daniel Kaluuya, Kathy Burke and Gary Kemp.\n\nScher was widely known for championing young, working-class actors, and founded her school in London in 1968.\n\n\"She was amazing, I wouldn't be where I am now if it wasn't for Anna,\" Cassidy told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.\n\nIt has also seen the likes of Naomie Harris, Adam Deacon and Joe Swash go through its doors.\n\nNatalie Cassidy: \"I learned more from Anna than any school teacher that I ever had\"\n\nTalent agency Nic Night Management confirmed Scher's death, calling her \"the best and kindest drama teacher in the UK for the last 50 years\", adding she was \"joining her husband, Charles, in a better place to rest\".\n\n\"She will be missed but never forgotten.\"\n\nCassidy, who was taught by Scher and has roles including Sonia Fowler in BBC One soap EastEnders, called it a \"sad day\".\n\n\"I feel very, very proud to have been one of Anna's people,\" she said. \"I started at the theatre. I went along with my best friend when I was nine, you wandered up the road. You paid £1.50 and got two hours of the best teaching you could ever have.\n\nScher is pictured outside her school with pupils in 1977\n\n\"And Anna's was not just about the drama side of it. I learned more from Anna than any school teacher that I ever had.\n\n\"I learned about diversity, equality. I learned about words. I found my love for poetry, there was improvisation. It was about respect, and it was about being individual.\"\n\nCassidy added that one of her favourite memories was \"a wonderful saying Anna used to say to us, which was. 'Keep your eye on the ball - I am the ball'.\"\n\nA host of stars said Scher had changed the course of their lives, and how much they valued her teaching and guidance.\n\nActor and director Burke, whose films include Tinker Tailor Solder Spy and Elizabeth, tweeted: \"We thank you and love you.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kath 🇺🇦💙🙀🇪🇺✊🏾 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKaluuya, who won an Oscar for Judas and the Black Messiah in 2021 and whose films include Black Panther and Get Out , paid tribute to Scher in his Bafta Rising Star award speech in 2018 speech. The Guardian reported at the time that \"her mention was greeted with a whoop and a round of applause\".\n\nFormer EastEnders actor Jake Wood also said how proud he was to have had his start in drama with her.\n\n\"To this amazing irrepressible shining light Anna Scher, thank you will never be enough. I will always be proud to have been one of 'Annas'. So so lucky to have met you,\" he said.\n\nSpandau Ballet musician and actor Gary Kemp said Scher's theatre \"changed my life\".\n\n\"She gave so many local Islington kids an opportunity not just to act in TV, film and theatre, but to discover what was great about themselves.\n\n\"Her method was praise framed by good ethics, professionalism and punctuality. Children bereft of compliments and self-belief were changed, lifted by her belief in the poetry of the arts and the power of goodwill.\n\n\"Her improvisational classes not only taught us to be quick on our feet creatively but were a kind of therapy for all of us.\n\n\"What did I do with the money I initially made from child acting? I bought my first electric guitar and amp of course! Thank you Anna. You're forever in my heart.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Martin Kemp This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis brother, fellow Spandau Ballet member, former EastEnders star and Gogglebox regular Martin Kemp, added: \"Thank you so much for showing me how much fun we could get out of life.\"\n\nActress and anti-knife crime campaigner Brooke Kinsella said: \"No one believed in us working class children more. She changed the course of so many lives.\n\n\"More scared of her than my mum and dad combined, I owe everything to her. What a remarkable woman.\"\n\nKidulthood and Adulthood star and rapper Adam Deacon added: \"She helped me and so many other working class kids coming from a bad start to not only get a chance to have a shot in the acting industry and change our lives, but also grounded us and gave us the skills and the tools we needed to get by in life.\n\n\"Thank you for everything Anna. For all the wisdom and resilience you installed in us. You always had the warmest heart and the strongest of morals.\n\n\"You were never judgmental and would always go out of your way to help anyone. You're a legend and will always be remembered.\"\n\nPalmer, who played Bianca Jackson in EastEnders, said Scher's death was \"a big one for me\".\n\nIn a long post on Instagram, she called her teacher \"extraordinary\", saying: \"Most of us kids would've never had the opportunity to be actors or writers or had a career in entertainment. She gave us that, but with real hardcore training in so many thing, it wasn't just the acting, it was the discipline, the patience, the dealing with rejection.\n\nAnna Scher, pictured with Kathy Burke, won at The Sky Women In Film & Television Awards in 2011\n\n\"She had no place for racism or homophobia and if the kids expressed any of this you were out, no chances and believe me after waiting two years on a waiting list it taught even the naughtiest kids (there were plenty until they got there).\n\n\"Her approach was gentle but firm, kind but quirky.\"\n\nScher was born in Cork, Ireland and moved to London as a teenager with her family. She trained as an English and drama teacher and founded a lunchtime drama club at the school where she worked in Islington.\n\nShe told Islington Faces in 2016 that two of the children who tuned up were Quirke and Robson, who went on to star in BBC comedy series Birds of a Feather.\n\nScher was inspired to found her theatre school, and by 1975 she had 1,000 pupils and 5,000 on the waiting list.\n\nIts other alumni include Phil Daniels, Dexter Fletcher, James Alexandrou, Gillian Taylforth, Reggie Yates, Susan Tully and Dizzie Rascal.", "Don Jr cracked jokes with the judge, boasted about Trump properties and spent much of his time on the stand walking the court through what was essentially a PowerPoint presentation.\n\nHe was the first witness called by the defence, and today's testimony gives us an insight into the strategy we might see from Trump’s legal team over the next few weeks.\n\nWe can expect a series of witnesses who will tell the judge how valuable and impressive Trump properties are.\n\nFormer president Donald Trump is also likely to return as a defence witness, and so is his son Eric.\n\nFor a full recap of what happened today in court, you can read this article.\n\nAnd to find out why an expert called this trial a legal \"disaster\" for Trump, check out this analysis.\n\nOur court reporters today were Natalie Sherman and Chloe Kim. This page was edited by Brajesh Upadhyay and myself.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "Matt Ratana, who was head coach at East Grinstead Rugby Club, was shot at a Metropolitan Police custody suite in Croydon\n\nThe partner of a police sergeant killed in a custody cell has said he was let down by the \"shoddy and inadequate\" performance of the Metropolitan Police.\n\nSgt Matiu Ratana, known as Matt, was murdered in September 2020 after officers failed to find a gun concealed on arrested man Louis De Zoysa.\n\nSu Bushby, speaking after an inquest verdict of unlawful killing, said police failures left her \"devastated\".\n\n\"If people had done their job properly, Matt would still be alive today\".\n\nSu Bushby said: \"Matt gave so much to the Met and its failures to protect him on that night are now clear for all to see\"\n\nThe New Zealand-born officer, 54, who had served in the Met Police for almost 30 years and was three months from retirement, was hit in the chest by the first of three shots discharged in three seconds by De Zoysa.\n\nHe had been arrested and searched but managed to hide an antique revolver in an underarm holster.\n\nIn recording her verdict at the conclusion of the inquest at Croydon Town Hall on Monday, senior coroner Sarah Ormond-Walshe said there was a \"failure to carry out a safe, thorough and systematic search\".\n\nThe court had heard how on arriving at Croydon's Windmill Road custody centre, De Zoysa managed to move his handcuffed arms from behind his back to fire at Sgt Ratana.\n\nThe court heard PC Richard Davey, who was still working his probation period, carried out a search while his more experienced colleague, PC Samantha Still, assisted.\n\nPC Davey admitted he \"abandoned his training\" and should have discovered the weapon during the arrest in London Road, Norbury.\n\nIn the custody van, De Zoysa was seen in footage wriggling and jerking, which according to expert evidence was him repositioning the firearm to his hands.\n\nLouis De Zoysa, pictured in the custody van, is serving a whole-life prison sentence for murder\n\nMs Bushby said: \"The shoddy and inadequate search undertaken by the police officers was a neglect of their duty and left Matt vulnerable to murder.\n\n\"The number of failures, the gravity of them and the impact of both the search failures and failures in the transportation of De Zoysa to the police station that have come out during the evidence in this inquest has left me devastated.\n\n\"It is my view that Matt has been let down by the Metropolitan Police.\n\n\"Matt gave so much to the Metropolitan Police and its failures to protect him on that night are now clear for all to see.\n\n\"The search should have been thorough, safe and systematic for it to be effective - it was none of those things.\n\n\"If it was an effective search, the gun would have been found on De Zoysa and Matt would be alive now.\"\n\nMs Bushby said there \"must be\" improvements to searches of suspects and security arrangements in police stations, adding: \"I do not want Matt's death to be in vain.\"\n\nShe went on: \"Not once, during the past three years, has anyone from the Metropolitan Police informed me that there was any issue with the search on that fateful night.\n\n\"I have not been informed by anyone during this time that the actions of the Metropolitan Police may have contributed towards Matt's death.\n\n\"If the Metropolitan Police had been more open and transparent with me about their failings, it would have gone a long way to making the last few weeks of this inquest easier.\"\n\nDe Zoysa is serving a whole-life jail term for Sgt Ratana's murder after a trial earlier this year, during which his legal team said he was suffering an autistic meltdown at the time of the shooting.\n\nMet Police deputy assistant commissioner Stuart Cundy, said: \"The arresting officers recognised that their search and observations of De Zoysa could have been more systematic, and should have found the firearm.\n\n\"Later at the police station these same officers showed great courage in disarming De Zoysa whilst he continued to fire the gun. I admire their bravery and that of everyone who was in the custody centre that night.\n\n\"Matt Ratana's murder was a stark and terrible reminder of the risks and challenges police officers and staff undertake every time they turn up for work.\n\n\"We will never forget Matt and will continue to honour his legacy, which will live on through his family, his many friends and colleagues in the Met, in his rugby foundation and beyond.\"\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "First, Paddington Bear steamed into the box office. Then Peter Rabbit scurried his way onto the big screen - and soon it could be grandma's turn.\n\nSuper Gran, the 1980s series about a super-powered OAP, may be the latest British children's TV show to get a feature-length reboot.\n\nKeri Collins, the movie's Welsh writer, even won a recent prestigious accolade for its unproduced screenplay.\n\nNow he hopes his script will go on to emulate those previous blockbusters.\n\n\"What Paddington did so brilliantly is appeal to both parents and kids,\" said Keri, a father of two from Portskewett, near Chepstow in Monmouthshire.\n\n\"While parents remember the original, their kids just love the new version and think it's fun, making it appeal to both generations.\n\n\"So when thinking of a new project I looked back at iconic shows of my childhood such as SuperTed, Banana Man and Super Gran,\" added the 45-year-old.\n\nThe Emmy-winning Super Gran TV series ran between 1985 and 1987 on Children's ITV and went on to be broadcast in more than 60 countries.\n\nIt was so popular it attracted many eclectic guest stars like comedian Spike Milligan, darts champ Eric Bristow, strongman Geoff Capes and football great George Best.\n\nSuper Gran attracted many guest stars like former Manchester United football star George Best\n\nInitially a series of books written by Forrest Wilson, the fictional series was about Granny Smith, who gets superpowers after accidentally being hit by a magic ray - powers she then uses to protect the residents of Chiselton from a series of villains.\n\nScriptwriter Keri - a former Welsh Bafta Breakthrough director once mentored by film royalty Kenneth Branagh - bought the option to it about five years ago in a bid to take Super Gran to the big screen.\n\n\"Sometimes film and TV commissioners want ideas based on existing things as there's a built-in audience,\" he said.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by cymrokezza This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It can be deemed as less of a risk because they know people already like the original book or TV series.\n\n\"Super Gran was the one that got me really excited as this was the one show I always watched on TV and loved.\n\n\"It has sold hundreds of thousands of books and was a very popular TV show, so I know there's a huge nostalgic audience there made up of people like me.\n\n\"And if my two (children) are anything to go by, they love a fun action-packed story.\n\n\"Plus, I want grandparents to be involved as the film explores the unique relationship a child has with their gran and granddad.\"\n\nFormer world's strongest man Geoff Capes appeared in the Super Gran TV series\n\nKeri's family comedy-adventure version surrounds a 12-year-old London schoolboy with dyslexia called Willard who, fed up of people calling him names, reluctantly goes to stay with his Scottish grandmother for Christmas.\n\nThe story, which has been developed with award-winning producer Sarah Brocklehurst, develops as Willard discovers his nan has superpowers and a secret spy base beneath Loch Ness.\n\nThey then do battle to bring down a tech-obsessed nemesis who wants to bring about instant climate change for profit - the boy soon realising his dyslexia could help them overcome the villain.\n\n\"It's a story of hope and finding our own superpowers, because we've all got insecurities which may hold us back,\" said Keri.\n\n\"So it's all about reframing those in a positive way.\"\n\nSuper Gran was broadcast in more than 60 countries and comedian Billy Connolly sang the theme tune\n\n\"The big theme though is climate change, inspired by my youngest son who, when he was seven, called me out while shopping for choosing a bunch of bananas with plastic wrapping on.\n\n\"He said 'choose the bunch without packaging, dad, so we can help save the planet'.\n\n\"And he was right - it's amazing how kids are so aware and can even teach the grown-ups a few things sometimes.\"\n\nKeri hopes to use tips gained from former mentor Branagh - the Oscar-winning director, writer and actor - should a film studio commission a production of Super Gran.\n\n\"I was matched with Ken while on a mentoring scheme because I was a writer and director like him,\" he recalled.\n\nKeri was helped by top actor and director Kenneth Branagh through a scheme called Guiding Lights\n\n\"At the time, he was directing Thor, a massive budget, action-adventure, superhero movie, and Super Gran is a similar superhero adventure story.\"\n\nBranagh shared career advice and guidance on scripts and invited Keri to the filming of Thor in Los Angeles - where he got some of his \"best advice\" from another Hollywood A-lister, the actress Rene Russo.\n\n\"It was my last day on set and Rene's birthday,\" Keri recalled.\n\n\"She came over to me and said, 'Whatever you do, never give it up, keep trying - it's a hard business but you've got to keep going'.\"\n\nKeri says he'll never forget his career pep-talk from former Lethal Weapon and The Thomas Crown Affair star Rene Russo\n\n\"She didn't really need to do that as we hadn't really spoken before, so to give me that little pep talk was incredible and so generous.\n\n\"Maybe if Super Gran does get made, it should be her that plays Super Gran.\"\n\nSome 22 judges on the Brit List - made up of top industry executives and designed to showcase emerging screenwriting talent - recently recommended Super Gran, resulting in it topping 2023's pick of unproduced scripts.\n\nKeri's debut feature Convenience was shot in a petrol station in south Wales and is now on Netflix\n\nOscar winners The King's Speech, The Favourite and Academy Award-nominated Lion and The Danish Girl are among the 82 scripts that have gone on to be produced after Brit List nominations since its inception in 2007 - as well as box office sensation Paddington.\n\n\"The list draws projects to the attention of the wider industry and many of those who pay attention to it are actually in America,\" added Keri.\n\n\"They look at the list as they search for new writers, projects and scripts, so this accolade gives the project lots of kudos and momentum.\n\n\"Hopefully it will get seen more widely because I know there are people reading it right now who wouldn't have heard of it before.\"", "Amiram Cooper, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Tsachi Idan are being held in Gaza\n\nIsrael says 132 people remain unaccounted for after they were abducted and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attacks by Hamas.\n\nAn estimated 240 people were taken prisoner, but 105 were later released by Hamas during a six-day ceasefire at the end of November.\n\nThe Israeli military said it mistakenly killed three hostages in northern Gaza who had escaped from their captors and expressed \"deep remorse\" over the incident.\n\nOf the 132 still unaccounted for, Israel says that 20 of them are believed to be dead.\n\nThese are the stories of those hostages who are still being held, which have either been confirmed by the BBC or credibly reported.\n\nThis list is regularly updated and names may change, as some people feared kidnapped are confirmed to have been killed or released.\n\nLast updated on 19 December 2023 at 10:33 GMT\n\nYagev Kirsht, 34, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim, alongside his wife, Rimon Buchstab Kirsht. She has now been released.\n\nAlexander Trupanov, was taken hostage with his mother Lena Trupanov, 50, his partner Sapir Cohen, 29, and his grandmother Irina Tati, 73. All were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz as they spent the Sabbath together, according to a statement by Canada's Raoul Wallenburg Center for Human Rights. Irina and Lena were released on Wednesday 29 November and Sapir was freed the next day.\n\nAriel Cunio, his girlfriend Arbel Yahud and her brother Dolev are also thought to have been abducted in the same attack on Nir Oz. Eitan Cunio, Ariel's brother who escaped Hamas, told the Jewish Chronicle that his last message from Ariel said: \"We are in a horror movie.\"\n\nDavid Cunio, 33, another of Ariel's brothers, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, family say. David's wife Sharon Aloni Cunio and their three-year-old twin daughters Ema and Yuly were released on 27 November. Sharon's sister Daniele Aloni, and her six-year-old daughter Emilia were both released on 24 November.\n\nDoron Steinbrecher, 30, a veterinary nurse, was in her apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas attacked, the Times of Israel reported. At 10:30 on 7 October, the newspaper said, she sent a voice message to friends: \"They've arrived, they have me.\"\n\nItzhak Gelerenter, 53, was taken from the Supernova festival. His family said the IDF found his phone was located in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported. His daughter Pivko told the paper: \"I'm trying to think good thoughts, I have a powerful, smart, resourceful father.\"\n\nDoron Steinbrecher sent a voice message to friends during Hamas' attack\n\nNaama Levy, 19, was filmed being bundled into a jeep, her hands tied behind her back. The footage was released by Hamas and circulated widely on social media. According to her mother, the teenager had just begun her military service.\n\nYousef Zyadna, a 53-year-old Bedouin dairy farmer, was abducted from Kibbutz Holit and taken to Gaza along with his sons Hamza, 22, and Bilal, 18, and his daughter, Aisha, 16. Aisha and Bilal were released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nElad Katzir, 47, was abducted from Nir Oz with his mother Hanna. Hanna has now been released.\n\nOhad Ben Ami, 55, was kidnapped from Be'eri with his wife, Raz. She was released by Hamas on 29 November.\n\nTwin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 26, were taken from Kfar Aza. Ziv was messaging a friend as the attack happened. Their family said the IDF has told them the brothers are being held in Gaza. Their brother Liran told CBN news the pair had \"twin power\" and were the centre of attention wherever they went.\n\nIraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 85, was taken captive from Kibbutz Kissufim, where he lived and worked as a chicken coop manager. His wife, Mazal, managed to escape.\n\nMichel Nisenbaum, 59, is a dual Brazilian-Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel for 45 years and works as a computer technician, his family told Brazilian media. They also say he is diabetic and has Crohn's disease. On 7 October, they say, someone claiming to be from Hamas answered his phone when they tried to call him.\n\nDaniela Gilboa, 19, sent messages saying that Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she was staying, was under attack and asked her mother to pray for her. Her boyfriend, Roy Dadon, told the Economist 1843 magazine that he believes he saw a glimpse of her in a video showing three girls being driven away in the back of an SUV.\n\nItay Chen, 19, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF solider, was on active duty with a tank unit on 7 October, according to the Times of Israel. The paper reported that his family was notified by the IDF that he is officially considered missing in action and probably being held hostage. Another soldier in his unit, Matan Angrest, 21, is also presumed to be in Gaza.\n\nYosi Sharabi, 51, was taken from Be'eri with his brother, Eli Sharabi, 55. Eli's wife and two daughters were murdered in the attack. Ofir Engel, the boyfriend of Yosi's daughter, Yuval, was also taken, but released on 29 November.\n\nAgam Berger, 19, was kidnapped from Nahal Oz. She was seen being taken away in videos released by Hamas.\n\nEdan Alexander, 19, is an Israeli-US citizen who volunteered to join the Israeli army. He was serving near the Gaza border at the time of Hamas's attack. Edan's family said they had been told by Israeli officials that he had been taken to Gaza as a hostage.\n\nKaid Farhan Elkadi, 53, lives with his family south of Rahat and worked as a security guard, according to Israeli media. Reports said his family believes he was kidnapped and taken to Gaza, based on images shared by Hamas.\n\nIlana Gritzewsky and Matan Zanguaker were captured near the Gaza border, family say\n\nMatan Zanguaker, 24, was taken with his partner Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, from Nir Oz, according to Ilana's father. Ilana, a Mexican national, was released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nThe family of Eitan and Yair Horn believe they were taken from Nir Oz kibbutz\n\nEitan Horn, 37, and his brother Yair, 45, both Argentinian citizens, were also in Nir Oz at the time of the attack. Their father Itzik said he believes they were kidnapped. Yair is a construction worker while Eitan works in education.\n\nItai Svirsky, 38, is thought to have been abducted when his elderly parents were killed in Be'eri. He had been visiting them for the holiday of Simhat Torah.\n\nKeith Seigel, 64, and his wife Adrienne - often known as Aviva - Seigel, 62, were taken from their home in Kfar Aza, Keith's brother Lee Seigel told the BBC. Adrienne was released on 26 November.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, lived in Nahal Oz with his wife and two daughters. Omri was led away by Hamas with his hands tied, his wife Lishay told the Guardian newspaper. She told him not to be a hero, urging: \"Do whatever they want because I want you back.\"\n\nBipin Joshi, 23, a Nepalese student, is believed to have been taken from Kibbutz Alumim. Nepalese newspaper Setopati says he was one of 49 university students studying agriculture in Israel. It says 10 students were killed in the attack.\n\nIlan Weiss, 58, went missing from Kibbutz Be'eri after he was last seen leaving the house to defend the community. On 25 November, his wife Shiri Weiss, 53, and their daughter, Noga, 18, were freed from captivity in a hostage deal.\n\nAmiram Cooper, 85, and his wife Nurit, 80, were taken from their home in Nir Oz, their daughter-in-law Noa told the BBC. The family last spoke to the couple during the Hamas attack, Noa said, when the couple were in their safe room. The family later traced Amiram's phone to Gaza. On Monday 23 October, Nurit was one of two women to be released.\n\nAmiram and Nurit Cooper, pictured with their granddaughter, Gali\n\nOded Lifshitz, 83, and his wife Yocheved, 85 were taken hostage from Nir Oz. On Monday 23 October, Yocheved was one of two elderly women to be freed. After hearing the news of her mother's release, their daughter Sharone - a London-based artist - said: \"While I cannot put into words the relief that she is now safe, I will remain focused on securing the release of my father and all those - some 200 innocent people - who remain hostages in Gaza.\"\n\nHaim Peri, 79, was taken from his home in Nir Oz, reports the Times of Israel, and freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz said she saw that he was alive and well. His son Lior Peri told Talk TV that Haim had locked his wife inside the safe room before giving himself up to kidnappers.\n\nAvraham Munder, 78, was kidnapped from Nir Oz, Israeli officials say. His wife Ruthi, daughter and grandson have since been released.\n\nOmer Neutra, a 22-year-old Israeli-American and grandson of Holocaust survivors, put off plans to go to college in the US to study in Israel, and eventually joined the IDF. He was serving as a tank commander near Gaza when Hamas attacked. Omer's parents say they were told by the Israeli embassy that he had been kidnapped.\n\nRon Benjamin's vehicle was found empty following the attacks\n\nRon Benjamin, 53, had been taking part in a group cycle ride near the Gaza border when the Hamas attack began and he decided to drive home, his family told Israeli media. Days later, his vehicle was found empty and his family believe he was kidnapped.\n\nLouis Har, 70, is believed to have been taken from Nir Yitzhak. His partner Clara Marman was released on 28 November along with her sister Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela's daughter Mia Leimberg,17. Clara and Gabriela's brother Fernando Simon Marman, 60, also remains in captivity.\n\nJudith Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 73, also went missing from Nir Oz after the Hamas attack. Ten days later, the Israeli military confirmed to the family they had been taken hostage, CTV News in Canada reported.\n\nAlex Danzig, 75, a scholar and historian of the Holocaust, was at his home in Nir Oz, when it was attacked by Hamas. \"We know for sure he was kidnapped,\" his son Mati told the BBC. Alex - whose older sister Edith is a Holocaust survivor - has spent the last 30 years working for Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust remembrance centre. His disappearance has triggered a campaign for his release, both in Israel and in Poland, the country of his birth.\n\nAlex Danzig has spent decades educating people about the Holocaust\n\nItzhk Elgarat, 68, was kidnapped at the same time as Alex Danzig, his brother Danny Elgert told Israel's Kan 11 TV station, adding that he had tracked his brother's phone to the border with Gaza.\n\nGadi Moses, 79, was also abducted during the same attack on Nir Oz, according to relatives and the Israeli aid agency where he worked as an agricultural expert. Efrat Katz, his partner, was initially thought to have been captured as well, but she was later found dead, the Times of Israel reported. Efrat was the mother of Doron Asher, who was taken hostage and later released with her two daughters. Ravid Katz, 51, Doron Asher's brother, was originally thought to have been taken hostage from Nir Oz, but on 28 November his family confirmed that he had been killed on 7 October.\n\nYair Yaakov, 59, is listed among the hostages. His partner Meirav Tal, 53, was released on 28 November. Yair's children Yagil, 13, and Or, 16, were released on 27 November.\n\nYair Yaakov was pictured being held captive by a gunman in a video shared online\n\nNimrod Cohen, 19, had studied software engineering in high school, according to reports. After he was kidnapped, his father was invited to meet Pope Francis in Rome along with other hostages' families.\n\nTsachi Idan, 51, was last seen by his wife, Gali, as he was taken away by Hamas gunmen. Their family had been ambushed in their safe room in Nahal Oz. Their ordeal was live-streamed by Hamas. Their eldest child, Maayan - who had just turned 18 - was shot dead, Gali told the BBC.\n\nTsachi Idan was ambushed with his wife and children and then led away\n\nYarden Bibas, 34, was abducted from Nir Oz. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were also taken hostage, but on 29 November, Hamas claimed they had been killed in an Israeli air strike while in captivity. The Israeli government has said it is checking the claim.\n\nRonen Engel, 54, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife, Karina Engelbert, 51, and their two daughters, Mika, 18 and Yuval, 11. On 1 December, the organisation representing the families said he had been murdered. Karina, Mika and Yuval were released on 27 November.\n\nKarina Ariev, a 19-year-old soldier, was serving at an army base near Gaza when she was kidnapped. Her sister Alexandra told the BBC she heard shooting as Karina called her during the attack, and later saw a video showing Karina being taken away in a vehicle.\n\nKarina Ariev was at the Nahal Oz military base, which was among the first to be attacked\n\nOfer Kalderon, 53, was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz. On 27 November his two children, Erez, 12, and Sahar, 16, were released. Two other relatives, 80-year-old Carmela Dan and her granddaughter, Noya, 12, were also believed to have been taken, but Israeli authorities later announced they had been found dead.\n\nYoram Metzger, 80, was a resident of Nir Oz. He has diabetes and broke his hip six months ago, his daughter-in-law said. Yoram's wife Tamar was released on 28 November.\n\nNadav Popplewell, 51, and his mother Channah were taken hostage by Hamas, said Channah's daughter Ayelet Svatitzky, who was speaking to them on the phone when the gunmen burst in. She said the captors sent pictures of her two relatives, who both have diabetes, with armed men in the background. Channah has now been released.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, was abducted after his family opened the door to their secure shelter to an Israeli child, who said he would be killed otherwise. Omri's wife, Lishay Lavi, said she saw him being taken away in handcuffs with three other hostages from Nahal Oz.\n\nLiri Elbag, 18, had just started military training as an Army lookout near the Gaza border when Hamas attacked, her father Eli told the Associated Press. Eli said he saw her in a video circulated later by Hamas, crowded with others on the back of a military truck which had been seized by the gunmen.\n\nLior Rudaeff, 61, was taken from Nir Yitzhak during the attack. His family have heard nothing from him since then.\n\nA number of people are believed to have been abducted from the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Among them:\n\nShlomi Ziv, 40, was part of the security detail at the festival and was initially in contact with his sisters as the attack unfolded, according to an interview with The Times of Israel. A few weeks later the family learned he was officially considered to be a hostage, the report says.\n\nAlexander Lobanov, 32, is a Russian-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped at the festival.\n\nOri Danino, 25, is reported to have got away from the festival in his car, but it's believed he was captured after turning back in an attempt to save some people he had met there.\n\nAlmog Sarusi, 26, was kidnapped from the music festival and his partner Shahar Gindi was killed, according to Israeli media. Almog's father, Yigal, was among the relatives of hostages who met with Israel's prime minister in October.\n\nOmer Shem Tov, 21, called his parents as he was running away from gunfire and managed to get into a friend's car. His parents, Shelly and Malki Shem Tov, told Israeli media they lost contact with their son and the live location on his phone showed he was beyond the border in Gaza.\n\nIdan Shtivi, 28, an environmental sciences student, was attending the festival to take pictures at music and yoga workshops being held by friends. He escaped the site in his car but was attacked by Hamas along the route. The bodies of two of his passengers were found, and his family told the Jerusalem Post they suspect he was kidnapped.\n\nYosef Ohana, 24, had been at the festival with a friend, who told his mother he and Yosef had remained to help people escape the gunfire before running themselves. Yosef was last seen hiding under a car, and Israeli authorities have visited his mother to say he was kidnapped.\n\nAndrei Kozlov, 27, a Russian who moved to Israel in 2022, is missing from the Supernova festival, where he was working as a security guard. His mother told the De Taly publication the family was told by the IDF on October 26 that he was being held hostage.\n\nElyakim Libman, 23, was working as a security guard at the festival. In a Facebook post his father Eliyahu Libman said another guard told him his son had helped rescue others before trying to escape. He was last seen trying to help two badly-injured women.\n\nNoa Argamani, a Chinese-born Israeli citizen, was also kidnapped from the festival. Video footage - verified by her father Yaakov Argamani to Israel's Channel 12 - shows the 25-year-old being taken away on the back of a motorbike screaming, \"Don't kill me!\" Her boyfriend Avinatan Or, 30, also appears in the video being marched away from her by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nEden Yerushalmi's family say they were told she had been taken hostage\n\nEden Yerushalmi, 24, called her family during Hamas's attack on the festival, her sister May told CBS News. The family say they were subsequently informed by the IDF that Eden had been abducted.\n\nChanan Yablonka, 42, is a father-of-two from Tel Aviv. According to reports, he attended the festival with friends and was due to celebrate his birthday a few days after the attacks.\n\nJonathan Samerano, 21, has been missing since 7am on the morning of the festival. His family have been told to presume he is being held in Gaza, Israeli media reported.\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal was filmed in captivity in Gaza, his family say\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, attended the festival with his brother. Guy appears in a hostage video that his family say confirms he is in Gaza.\n\nUriel Baruch, 35, was injured during the attack on the festival, his wife said on Facebook. Reports in Israeli media say his mother, Naomi, has heard from the IDF that he is a hostage.\n\nMaxim Kharkin's mother described speaking to him on the morning of 7 October\n\nMaxim Kharkin is aged 35 and a Russian speaker, his mother told Russian media. She added that he had called her at 07:00 on the morning of the attack.\n\nElkana Bohbot was seen in a video posted by Hamas\n\nElkana Bohbot, 34, had gone to the party with friends and, before losing contact, he spoke to his wife and mother telling them he was helping to evacuate the wounded, the Times of Israel reported. Hours later, his family found a video of him posted online by Hamas, which has been seen by BBC Verify.\n\nRom Braslavski, 19, was working on security for the festival. According to an account published by Hostages and Missing Families Forum, he was trying to rescue an injured person in the attack when he was caught in a volley of fire. He has not been heard from since.\n\nOmer Wenkert, 22, a restaurant manager, sent a message to his family to say he was going to a safe shelter but then lost contact, his father Shai Wenkert told the BBC's Today Programme. Shai Wenkert said he had seen footage of his son in captivity, including a photo of him handcuffed and wearing only underwear.\n\nEvyatar David's family say they were sent a video of him in captivity\n\nEvyatar David, 23, was at the festival and on the morning of the attacks, described fleeing from gunfire before losing contact with the outside world, his brother says. Later, his family say, Evyatar's sister posted on Instagram appealing for information about his whereabouts. She then received a text from an unknown number, which contained video footage of Evyatar handcuffed on the floor of a dark room. According to Israel's foreign ministry he is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nEitan Mor, 23, lives in Jerusalem, and was working as a security guard at the festival, the Times of Israel said. He reportedly texted his uncle after Hamas arrived and was last seen with a friend bringing others to safety.\n\nAlon Ohel, 22, a Serbian citizen, took refuge in a shelter after the festival came under attack, his family say. They have seen footage of him being dragged away after a grenade attack.\n\nAlmog Meir Jan, 21, tried to flee the festival. He and a friend made it to the friend's car but only managed to drive a short distance before being forced to stop. Almog's family say they have seen a hostage video in which he appears.\n\nInbar Heiman, a student aged 21, was seen by two young Israeli men being taken away from the festival on a motorcycle. Hamas have released a video in which she is seen very briefly.\n\nHersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual US-Israeli citizen, was badly injured in the attack, his family told the BBC. Eyewitness accounts say he was seen being forced onto a white pick-up truck - the last-known signal from his phone came from just inside Gaza.\n\nSegev Kalfon, 26, was running away from the festival, across the highway, when he was captured by Hamas, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.\n\nOrión Hernández Radoux, 30, from Mexico, attended the festival with his girlfriend, Shani Louk. He has not been seen since. The Sun newspaper says it has seen threatening messages written in Arabic sent from his phone. Shani, a tourist from Germany, was initially thought to be among those seized. But on 30 October, her mother Ricarda told German media that the family had been informed by Israeli military of her death following DNA identification.\n\nRomi Lesham Gonen, 23, was on the phone to her mother as she tried to escape from the Supernova festival. Merav Leshem Gonan has recounted a conversation in which her daughter begged for help after being shot. ABC News reports that Romi's phone is now in Gaza.\n\nBar Kuperstein, 21, last spoke to his family early on the morning of 7 October, as the attack unfolded. Later the same day, his family say they identified him in a video of Israeli prisoners, posted by Hamas. Since then, they say they have had no further information.\n\nEliya Cohen, 26, was hiding with his girlfriend Ziv from the attack, when Ziv felt him being pulled up and driven away by the gunmen, Eliya's mother has told the video initiative #BringThemHomeNow. The family then found a photo of Eliya in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nAmit Buskila, 28, from Ashdod, was last heard of making a call to her uncle, Shimon, as Hamas overran the festival. Her family say they have now been told by the government that she is being held in Gaza.\n\nCarmel Gat, 39, is Jordan's sister-in-law, and also was seen by her father being taken by gunmen from Kibbutz Be'eri, Haaretz newspaper reported. She has not been heard from since.\n\nOhad Yahalomi, 49, was abducted from Nir Oz, along with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the November ceasefire.\n\nDror Or, 48, was seen by a neighbour being dragged out of his home in Be'eri, according to their nephew Emmanuel Besorai, along with his son and daughter. On Saturday 25 November Dror's son Noam, 17, and daughter Alma, 13, were released from captivity. The body of Yonat, 50 - Dror's wife and the children's mother - was identified among the 120 people murdered at the kibbutz, Yonat's brother told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nTal Shoham, 38, was taken from Kibbutz Be'eri. His wife Adi, also 38, her mother Dr Shoshan Haran, 67, were released by Hamas on 25 November, along with the couple's children Nave, eight, and Yahel, three. Dr Haran's husband, Avshalom - an economist and dual German/Israeli citizen - was killed on 7 October.\n\nTamir Adar, 38, who defended Nir Oz as part of the kibbutz's emergency squad, was taken to Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen, 35, an American-Israeli citizen, has been missing since Hamas's attack on Nir Oz, his father Jonathan told the BBC. He said his son was not found among the dead and the \"only reasonable explanation\" is that he was taken to Gaza.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen's father has not heard from him since Hamas attacked the kibbutz where he lived\n\nThailand's ambassador to Israel says 26 of its citizens were taken hostage, 23 of whom have now been released.\n\nThose still being held are believed to include Watchara Sriuan, 32. His mother, Viewwaew, told the Thaiger news site that the family had been informed he was being held captive.\n\nKiattisak \"Top\" Patee and a Mr Pongtorn (no first name given) have also been named by the Thai foreign ministry as hostages.\n\nA number of other people thought to have been held hostage are now confirmed to have died, either during the 7 October attack or while in captivity.\n\nAs well as Ron Scherman and Nik Beizer, four bodies were identified this week. They were Tal Chaimi, an Israeli-Romanian citizen aged 41, and Joshua Mollel, a 19-year-old Tanzanian student. Also, 27-year-old Eden Zecharya, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and 36-year-old Ziv Dado, who had already been declared dead by the Israeli military.\n\nOthers known to have died include Dror Kaplun, 68, Aviv Atzili, 49, Arye Zalmanovich, 85, Ronen Engel, 54, Maya Goren, 56, Guy Iluz, 26, Ofir Tzarfati, 27, Ofra Keider, 70, and Eliyahu Margalit, 75.\n\nThe bodies of 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, and 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss were found by Israeli troops in buildings close to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.\n\nOn Saturday 9 December Kibbutz Bari announced that Sahar Baruch, 25, had been killed in Gaza.\n\nOther hostages whose death has been reported, but not confirmed include Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Indi Gregory had mitochondrial disease, which prevents cells in the body producing energy\n\nA critically ill baby at the centre of a legal battle has died after her life support was turned off.\n\nStaff at the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) in Nottingham said they could do no more for Indi Gregory, who had mitochondrial disease.\n\nHer dad, Dean Gregory, said the eight-month-old baby died at 01:45 GMT on Monday after she was taken to a hospice.\n\nHe said her mum, Claire Staniforth, \"held her for her final breaths\".\n\nThe hospice transfer followed a ruling made by Court of Appeal judges on Friday that her life support could not be removed at her home.\n\n\"Indi's life ended at 01:45. Claire and I are angry, heartbroken and ashamed,\" Mr Gregory said.\n\n\"The NHS and the courts not only took away her chance to live a longer life, but they also took away Indi's dignity to pass away in the family home where she belonged.\"\n\nIndi was being cared for at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre\n\nChristian Concern, which has been supporting the family, said they understood that Indi was transferred to a hospice on Saturday by ambulance with a security escort.\n\nThey said she was relaxed and slept during the journey.\n\nHer life support was removed at the hospice and she was provided with further ventilation.\n\nMr Gregory said he knew Indi \"was special from the day she was born\".\n\nA spokesperson for Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust, which runs the QMC, said: \"We are all deeply saddened by the death of Indi and wish to express our heartfelt condolences to her family at this terribly difficult time.\n\n\"This has been a very long and challenging journey for Indi, her parents and everyone involved and we will all be holding them in our thoughts.\"\n\nOver the past several months, Indi's parents, from Ilkeston, Derbyshire, have launched a number of legal challenges in a bid to prolong their daughter's life.\n\nIndi had mitochondrial disease, which prevents cells in the body producing energy and the NHS says the condition is incurable.\n\nSupported by the Christian Legal Centre - an organisation linked to Christian Concern - the family has tried to convince High Court, Court of Appeal and European Court of Human Rights judges that she should continue to receive care.\n\nSpecialists said she was dying and the treatment she was receiving caused pain and was futile, but her parents disagreed.\n\nThe couple also failed in a bid to transfer Indi to a hospital in Rome.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Caitlin McLean, from Scotland, was visiting her boyfriend Gisli Gunnarsson when they were forced to flee to his mother's home in Reykjavik on Friday, over fears of a volcanic eruption.\n\nMr Gunnarsson told the PA news agency he feared he might never see his home again.\n\nAuthorities have ordered thousands of people living in the southwestern town to leave as a precaution.\n\nIceland declared a state of emergency after a series of earthquakes, and experts say the chance of a volcanic eruption in Iceland is rising.", "Forecasters have warned of a 'severe weather' event on Monday\n\nNI Police have urged people not to make unnecessary journeys on Monday amid severe weather alerts across Ireland.\n\nStorm Debi is forecast to bring intense rain and high winds, and authorities north and south have warned of danger to life.\n\nMet Éireann has extended a red wind alert - the most severe warning level - to 14 counties. Schools have been asked to delay opening in affected areas.\n\nAn amber wind warning has been issued for parts of counties Down and Armagh.\n\n\"Please stay at home where possible and do not make unnecessary journeys. If you must travel, please bear the prevailing conditions in mind,\" the Police Service of Northern Ireland said in a statement on Sunday night.\n\n\"Consider the potential risks before you leave. Do not place yourself or others in unnecessary danger.\"\n\nThe Met Office said a spell of very strong winds is expected to develop during the morning across counties Down and Armagh, with inland gusts of 60-65mph likely in places and coastal gusts of up to 75mph.\n\nTh amber warning will be in place in these areas from 06:00 GMT until 12:00, as Storm Debi moves north.\n\nA yellow alert for rain and wind has been issued for all Northern Ireland counties from 03:00 GMT to 14:00.\n\nSome places could get up to 40mm of rainfall within a six-hour period.\n\nThe warnings come as many towns and cities still recovering from recent flooding face the potential impact of this latest weather event.\n\nThe Met Office warns that Northern Ireland homes and businesses could be further affected by Monday's rain.\n\nDrivers are urged to anticipate difficult conditions before a transition to drier weather from the south later in the afternoon.\n\nClothing worth thousands of pounds was destroyed in a menswear shop as a result of the recent flood in Newry\n\nFlying debris and damage to buildings could also occur because of the strong winds.\n\nLarge waves around the coast could cause injuries and pose a danger to life.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the government's National Emergency Co-ordination Group (NECG) met on Sunday to discuss Storm Debi.\n\nThe head forecaster at Irish meteorological agency Met Éireann has described the storm as a \"severe weather event\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We can expect some disruption with travel, some infrastructural issues such as power cables coming down,\" Eoin Sherlock told reporters after the meeting.\n\nThe red alert for wind means people should take action to protect themselves and their property.\n\nThe rare most severe weather warning is in place for counties Clare, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, Galway and Roscommon from 02:00 local time until 05:00 on Monday.\n\nA red warning is also in place for counties Dublin, Kildare, Laois, Louth, Meath, Wicklow, Offaly and Westmeath from 05:00 until 08:00.\n\nMr Sherlock said those living in affected areas can expect winds of up to 130km (80 miles) per hour.\n\nHe has described the weather system as \"very chaotic\" and difficult to predict.\n\nThe national director for fire and emergency management, Keith Leonard, said Storm Debi is a \"serious winter storm with some dangerous features\".\n\nHe has advised people to stay away from coastal areas as conditions will be \"extremely hazardous\" and has warned of \"very hazardous and difficult conditions\" on roads with a substantial number of downed trees.\n\n\"A very important message in relation to keeping your phone charged. There's going to be extensive electricity outages tomorrow and your mobile phone is your link to the emergency services,\" Mr Leonard added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Met Éireann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA status orange wind alert - the second highest level - has been issued for County Cork, from 01:00 until 04:00, with warnings of dangerous travelling conditions, damage to power lines and exposed structures, and disruption to services.\n\nAn orange alert for 19 other counties is in place from 02:00 until 10:00.\n\nDisruption is also expected at Ireland's airports and ports. Irish Rail has warned passengers to expect delays as speed restrictions will apply across the Republic's entire rail network for safety reasons due to the storm.\n\nThe NECG has advised schools and pre-schools in all counties affected to remain closed until 10.00 and for those that can work from home to do so.\n\nYellow warnings have also been issued for rest of the Republic.\n\nStorm Debi is the fourth named storm of the season which began on 1 September.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFor one day a year the hustle and bustle of London's Whitehall - gawking tourists, chanting protestors and hooting taxis - is swept away and in its place a very different slice of Britain descends.\n\nOn Sunday came military veterans, lots of them, in blazers and berets, well-shined shoes and crisply-creased trousers, with nods to old comrades and regimental rivals.\n\nHere were families making sure their loved ones were remembered and here were people who had come to see the spectacle, but also to pay their respects.\n\nThe crowd that lines Whitehall on these Remembrance Sundays does not all dress up for the occasion. But this is a Britain with Sunday-best manners, polite and orderly, this is a day of unity in divided times.\n\nQueen Camilla and the Princess of Wales watch on as the Remembrance Sunday service takes place on Whitehall\n\nThe hinge of this day is the eleventh hour - that time on 11 November 1918 when four terrible years of slaughter came to end.\n\nThe two minutes' silence that falls after Big Ben sounds sees faces long with memory and grief, none more so than the King, a single poppy blazing out from the blue-grey lapel of his greatcoat.\n\nKing Charles III led the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in central London\n\nMassed Bands and Pipers assembled and played in the rain at the Cenotaph as members of the armed forces laid their wreaths\n\nA command is barked into the thick cold air: \"Stand at ease, stand easy.\" The troops settle a little.\n\nAnd then begins the beating heart of the day, the parade of veterans, in berets and bowler hats, sometimes in wheelchairs and sometimes led by guide dogs.\n\nTheir march not quite as steady as it once was, but their pride shining out like the medals across their chests.\n\nA two-minute silence was held at the service\n\nAs they pass the Cenotaph - Whitehall's 103-year-old war memorial - heads swing left in unison, some give a sharp salute.\n\nAnd, as they pass, they yield up their ring of poppies, which is taken to the base of the Cenotaph and laid gently down, the ring of red around the simple monument gradually becoming a long carpet of remembrance.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "Waves crash over the promenade in Folkestone, Kent.\n\nStorm Debi has brought heavy rain and strong winds to several regions after wild weather hit large parts of the UK.\n\nA yellow warning for thunderstorms was in place for south-east England, parts of the south coast and London until 15:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nIt follows stormy conditions across northern England and Scotland, with gusts of more than 70mph (112.7km/h) recorded in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nDebi is the fourth named storm of this winter so far.\n\nThe rain and wind first hit Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, then Wales, before moving eastwards and into the North Sea on Monday evening.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the storm caused road closures and some disruption to the public transport network. NIE Networks said about 3,000 customers were without power, mainly around Craigavon, Newry and Downpatrick.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, the Environment Agency had 15 flood warnings in place - meaning flooding is expected - and 102 lesser flood alerts.\n\nGusts of up to 77mph battered parts of the Welsh coast after a yellow weather warning across north, mid and west Wales, while winds of 74mph were recorded at Killowen, Northern Ireland, and 68mph on the Isle of Man.\n\nA Met Office amber wind warning - meaning a potential risk to life and property - was in place for parts of south-west Northern Ireland in the morning and remained in place until Monday afternoon in parts of north-west England, including Cumbria, Lancashire and Merseyside.\n\nYellow weather warnings for wind were also in place for much of northern England and Wales until 18:00. This was extended until 21:00 for much of the north of England, including Lincoln, Sheffield and Manchester up to Carlisle and Newcastle.\n\nStorm Debi developed in the Republic of Ireland, where red weather warnings were in place earlier. About 100,000 homes and businesses had lost power as of Monday morning.\n\nA woman was taken to hospital after being hit by flying debris in Limerick and some schools were forced to close.\n\nElsewhere, a plane flying into Dublin Airport had to abort its landing due to Storm Debi.\n\nA car on a flooded road in County Tyrone. Storm Debi caused power cuts in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nBBC Weather's Simon King said Storm Debi could lead to some localised flooding, especially in Northern Ireland and eastern Scotland.\n\nHe said the stormy conditions will be especially felt around Irish Sea coasts and there may be branches or trees down and potentially damage to buildings.\n\nThe Met Office said severe weather could lead to the flooding of homes and businesses - with possible fast-flowing or deep floodwater causing a danger to life.\n\nSpray and flooding could also lead to difficult travel conditions, with some road and bridge closures, and disruption to rail, air and ferry services.\n\nThe Met Office said mobile phone coverage could also be affected and injuries and danger to life could occur from large waves and beach material being thrown onto sea fronts, coastal and road properties.\n\nBritish Airways said it had to \"make a small number of cancellations\" due to the bad weather, which has reduced the number of flights air traffic controllers will allow to land per hour.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Marco Petagna said Storm Debi would bring \"heavy and potentially thundery showers\" moving eastwards across the south of England on Tuesday.\n\nHe urged people to \"take extra care and be prepared to see thundery showers\".\n\nThe latest storm comes after Storm Ciarán caused flooding and disruption across the Channel Islands and southern England, while another recent storm, Babet, flooded nearly 600 properties in Lincolnshire.\n\nExperts say a warming atmosphere increases the chance of intense rainfall and storms.\n\nHowever, many factors contribute to extreme weather and it takes time for scientists to calculate how much impact climate change has had on particular events - if any.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nHow have you been affected by Storm Debi? You can share with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFind out the weather forecast for your area, with an hourly breakdown and a 14-day lookahead, by downloading the BBC Weather app: Apple - Android - Amazon\n\nThe BBC Weather app is only available to download in the UK.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Prof Nick Maynard taught students how to treat a trauma victim (here played by an actor) at the Islamic University of Gaza, which has since been bombed\n\nWith each passing day, groups of volunteer medics in different parts of the world remain on standby to go to Gaza to care for the thousands of injured and sick people who fill hospitals stretched to the extreme. Professor Nick Maynard is one of them.\n\nNick is a consultant surgeon, based in Oxford, who's been travelling to the Gaza Strip and West Bank for more than a decade.\n\nSince 2010 he has been to Gaza almost every year, usually leading a group of medics who teach students and junior doctors.\n\nIn May, he witnessed the conflict first-hand when at least 15 Palestinians, including three commanders of the militant group Islamic Jihad, were killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip.\n\nGaza locked down, and after four days of \"non-stop\" bombing Nick was evacuated by the UN.\n\nDespite seeing rockets fly, Nick says he felt safe in May as he was staying in a designated safe hotel known to the Israel Defense Forces\n\nHe is now on standby to go and work in operating theatres with the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians, as soon as it becomes safe to do so amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas.\n\n\"A huge sense of duty\" is motivating him to want to go and do what he can, and he says he is not alone.\n\n\"I think there is fear, apprehension, not knowing what one would find, but I think the other motives for doing so… are so powerful that they outweigh everything else,\" he says.\n\n\"I consider it a huge privilege to be in a position to help these people who need help more than most of us can possibly understand.\n\n\"It just feels the right thing to do...I've got many friends over there who I'm very close to. I've got Gazan friends staying with us [now].\"\n\nHe shares the story of Enas, a young Gazan doctor he trained who he and his wife have become an \"adoptive parent\" to.\n\nShe left Gaza eight years ago after securing a scholarship to study in England but has never been able to return.\n\nAs part of Israel's blockade of Gaza, Palestinians are prohibited from entering and leaving except in extremely rare cases, including if people need care for life-threatening conditions or if they are on a limited list of merchants.\n\nWhen Enas got married, Nick walked her down the aisle because her family were denied permission to leave Gaza.\n\nShe has had little contact with them in recent weeks due to communications blackouts, and goes days without knowing if they are alive or dead.\n\n\"They think they'll die,\" Nick says. \"They've all written their names in indelible ink on their arms and their legs so that if they get killed, they'll be identified.\"\n\nPalestinians search for bodies and survivors among the rubble following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp.\n\nThe Islamic University of Gaza and Al-Azhar University, where Nick teaches, both sustained \"serious damage\" in October during bombing, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, which forms part of the Palestinian Authority.\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces claimed the Islamic University of Gaza \"serves as a central training centre for Hamas engineers\" and a \"training institution for the development and production of weapons\", claims Nick is sceptical of.\n\n\"I've visited these buildings on many, many occasions and, more importantly, people I've known for many years and trust implicitly have spent decades in these buildings and [they] do not believe that happens,\" he says.\n\n\"It's inconceivable to me that they could be used as Hamas headquarters without the knowledge of people who work there day in, day out.\"\n\nBooks and papers litter the street outside the bombed buildings of the Islamic University in Gaza City.\n\nCountries including Turkey, Jordan, and Egypt have been calling for a ceasefire, as well as the United Nations and the leaders of all of its major agencies.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said there would be no ceasefire without the release of Israeli hostages, but that humanitarian pauses might be possible to let aid into the enclave and hostages out.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken has also resisted calls for one, saying it would allow Hamas to \"regroup and repeat\" its 7 October attacks, in which it killed 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped more than 200 others.\n\nNick insists that in order for Gazan patients to be helped there needs to be a complete ceasefire, \"not a temporary pause of 48 hours\", as well as the creation of multiple corridors of aid - including from Israel.\n\n\"There's no way it can all come in through Rafah,\" he says, referring to the only crossing point for humanitarian aid on Gaza's southern border with Egypt.\n\n\"The main road up and down Gaza has been destroyed... so to transport patients from the north down to Rafah will, I think, be well nigh impossible.\n\n\"And many of those patients - if there is still power in the hospitals, which is disappearing - may be on ventilators.\"\n\nNick specialises in upper gastrointestinal surgery and has carried out operations in the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis\n\nMore than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza according to the Hamas-run health ministry, including more than 4,500 children - but Nick believes those numbers could be just the tip of the iceberg.\n\n\"As a result of the bombings there will be large numbers of deaths due to untreated cancers, untreated diabetes,\" he says.\n\n\"Until insulin was invented, diabetes killed everyone. Now, if they haven't got any insulin... diabetes will start killing people.\n\n\"If they've got no power, they can't give dialysis, so all patients in kidney failure will die, so that the amount of excess deaths will be huge in the next few months absolutely is a really important point.\"\n\nThe World Health Organization has said a \"public health catastrophe\" was imminent in Gaza, due to mass displacement, overcrowding, and damage to water and sanitation infrastructure.\n\nThese conditions are perfect for the rapid spread of infectious diseases like cholera, Nick adds.\n\n\"They're drinking dirty, non-sterile water at the moment. The big danger is that infectious diseases just take control and run through the population...and that will lead to many, many thousands of deaths.\"", "Maryanne Trump Barry, the eldest sister of ex-President Donald Trump, has died at the age of 86, US media reports.\n\nShe was found dead at about 04:00 EST (09:00 GMT) on Monday morning in her New York City apartment, according to ABC News. Her cause of death has not yet been revealed.\n\nMrs Barry served as a federal judge in New Jersey from 1983 until her retirement in 2019.\n\nShe is the third of Mr Trump's four siblings to have passed away.\n\nA spokesman for the former president did not immediately respond to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nSources told ABC that emergency crews had responded to a call of a person in cardiac arrest. There were no signs of trauma or foul play, the outlet added.\n\nA medical examiner will later determine cause of death.\n\nMrs Barry, who eschewed the family's real estate business, served as one of only two female prosecutors in the US Attorney's Office in New Jersey from 1974 to 1983.\n\nWith the help of her brother's infamous lawyer and fixer Roy Cohn, Mrs Barry was nominated by President Ronald Reagan as a federal district judge in 1983.\n\nIn \"Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man\", a 2020 memoir written by her niece Mary, Mrs Barry said it was \"the only favour I ever asked for in my whole life\".\n\nIt was a favour, though, that she claimed Mr Trump never let her forget.\n\n\"Where would you be without me?\" she quoted him as saying.\n\nIn 1999, Mrs Barry was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which encompasses portions of New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania.\n\nMaryanne Trump Barry testifies at the confirmation hearing for US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito\n\nBy 2019, a New York Times investigation of the Trump family's tax affairs had led to a judicial misconduct inquiry into Mrs Barry. She retired that February and the inquiry was closed without conclusion.\n\nMrs Barry married twice - first to David Desmond, with whom she had one son, also named David; and then to John Joseph Barry, who died in 2000.\n\nShe was a close confidante of her younger brother, who - while first running for president in 2015 - said she would be a \"phenomenal\" choice if ever considered for the US Supreme Court.\n\nBut in 2016, he acknowledged in a radio interview that the pair \"have different views a little bit\".\n\nA Republican like Mr Trump, Mrs Barry shunned the limelight and never spoke publicly about him.\n\nBut their relationship is said to have taken a turn following the release of Mary Trump's book, which drew in part from conversations between Mrs Barry and her niece.\n\nAs she promoted the book, Ms Trump, an outspoken critic of her uncle, released audio excerpts from these exchanges that she had secretly taped.\n\n\"All he wants to do is appeal to his base,\" Mrs Barry is heard saying in one recording shared by the Washington Post. \"He has no principles. None.\"\n\nMrs Barry is also heard telling her niece that she \"did [Mr Trump's homework for him\" and that when \"he got into University of Pennsylvania he had somebody take the exams\".\n\nBut the siblings were beginning to mend fences together and had been seen together this summer at the former president's club in Bedminster, New Jersey, according to ABC.\n\nMr Trump, who is the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, lost his brothers Fred and Robert in 1981 and 2020 respectively. He also lost his first wife, Ivana Trump, last year.\n\nHis only surviving sister, Elizabeth Trump Grau, 81, is a former banker.", "As the worst of Storm Debi passes, we'll say goodbye for now.\n\nThe storm has caused major disruption across areas of Northern Ireland, from landslides to fallen trees to flooding, making driving conditions difficult.\n\nThere were road closures and disruption to public transport in parts of the region.\n\nAn earlier amber warning has now been lifted by the Met Office.\n\nA yellow alert for heavy rain and wind for all of Northern Ireland will end at 14:00 GMT.\n\nYou can, of course, stay up to date with all the latest news on the BBC News NI website.\n\nFrom all of us, stay safe.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe chance of a volcanic eruption in Iceland is rising, posing a threat to a now-evacuated town, experts say.\n\nIceland has declared a state of emergency after a series of earthquakes.\n\nAuthorities have ordered thousands of people living in the southwestern town of Grindavík to leave as a precaution.\n\nThe Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) said there was a considerable risk of an eruption.\n\nThe probability of an eruption on or just off the Reykjanes peninsula has increased since the morning, IMO says.\n\nAn eruption could start at any time in the next few days, according to the statement.\n\nThor Thordason, professor of volcanology at the University of Iceland, said a 15km-long (nine mile) river of magma running under the peninsula was still active.\n\n\"That's why we're talking about an imminent eruption unfortunately. The most likely eruption side appears to be within the boundary of the town of Grindavík,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThousands of tremors have been recorded around the nearby Fagradalsfjall volcano in recent weeks.\n\nThey have been concentrated in Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, which had remained dormant to volcanic activity for 800 years before a 2021 eruption.\n\nEarth tremors have caused the ground to slip at this golf course and elsewhere in Grindavik\n\nIn a statement on Saturday the agency said a tunnel of magma, or molten rock, that extends northeast across Grindavík and some 10km further inland, was estimated at a depth of less than 800 metres, compared with 1,500 metres earlier in the day.\n\nOn Thursday, the increased seismic activity in the area prompted the closure of the nearby Blue Lagoon landmark.\n\nMore than 20,000 tremors have been recorded in southwest Iceland since late October.\n\nIceland's Civil Protection Agency said the decision to evacuate came after the IMO could not rule out a \"magma tunnel that is currently forming could reach Grindavík\".\n\nAnd on Friday, the agency said people must leave the town, but also emphasised it was not an \"emergency evacuation\" - calling on them to \"remain calm, because we have a good amount of time to react\".\n\n\"There is no immediate danger imminent, the evacuation is primarily preventive with the safety of all Grindavík residents as the principal aim,\" it added.\n\nAll roads into the town of around 4,000 people are closed other than for emergencies, to ensure traffic can get in and out.\n\nAlda Sigmundsdottir, a journalist in Reykjavik, said that people were going back into the town \"to get their absolute bare necessities\" and pets.\n\n\"We are just currently waiting for the eruption to start,\" she told the BBC's Newshour.\n\nCracks from the volcanic activity have damaged roads in Grindavik\n\nIceland is one of the most geologically active regions in the world, with around 30 active volcanic sites.\n\nVolcanic eruptions occur when magma, which is lighter than the solid rock around it, rises to the earth's surface from deep below it.\n\nIn July, Litli-Hrutur, or Little Ram, erupted in the Fagradalsfjall area, drawing tourists to the site of the \"world's newest baby volcano\".\n\nThe site was dormant for eight centuries until eruptions in 2021, 2022 and 2023.", "A lion that was spotted walking through Ladispoli, west of Rome, has been captured and returned to the circus it escaped from.\n\nVideos posted on social media show locals shocked at seeing the big cat roaming the streets of the seaside town.\n\nKimba, the lion, was caught more than five hours after the initial alert was raised.\n\nCircus owner Rony Vassallo said the lion was doing fine, and that investigations were under way to find out how he escaped.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nResidents of an Icelandic town struck by hundreds of earthquakes have briefly been allowed back to their homes to collect belongings.\n\nMore than 500 quakes hit the south-western Reykjanes Peninsula on Monday.\n\nA volcanic eruption is still expected, scientists say, despite the quakes being weaker in recent days.\n\nThousands of people have been evacuated from the town of Grindavik, under which most of the tremors have taken place.\n\nPedrag, a native Serb who has lived in Iceland for many years, was one of those who fled the town with his wife on Friday - the day a state of emergency was declared.\n\nAn evacuation order for Grindavik was given in the early hours of Saturday.\n\n\"If you talk to Icelandic people who have lived there all their lives, they say they have never felt something like that,\" he told the BBC, referring to the large quakes that rocked the fishing port for several hours.\n\nPedrag and his partner have been staying at an emergency shelter ever since but were among those let back into Grindavik on Monday to retrieve some of their belongings.\n\nHe said that while he had not seen any damage in the area he lives in, he had seen images of the town centre, which had been affected. There were also reports that the road had sunk as much as a metre in some parts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother man who was forced to abandon Grindavik, Gisli Gunnarsson, said he feared he might never see his home again.\n\nThe 29-year-old music composer, who was born and raised in the town, told PA news agency the situation was \"grim\".\n\nOther locals said they were particularly upset as eruptions in Iceland normally happened in unpopulated areas.\n\n\"This is one of the biggest evacuations we've ever had. It's a huge incident. It has a great effect on all Icelanders,\" Aslaug Yngvadottir Tulinius of the Icelandic Red Cross told the BBC.\n\nOfficials said on Monday afternoon that Grindavik would remain evacuated overnight, as the situation continues to be monitored on a \"minute by minute\" basis.\n\nAccording to volcanologists, the latest updates could indicate a smaller impending eruption than was previously thought.\n\nIt may still put the town in real danger, however, because of the possibility of lava flows. Experts have stressed that a 15km-long (9 mile) river of magma running under the Reykjanes Peninsula is still active.\n\nThe area had remained dormant to volcanic activity for 800 years before a 2021 eruption.\n\nThor Thordason, professor of volcanology at the University of Iceland, told the BBC that magma was now less than 800m below the surface and that an eruption appeared imminent.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the most likely eruption side appears to be within the boundary of the town of Grindavik,\" he added.\n\nThe town is just 15km south of Keflavik International Airport, but flights are still arriving and departing as normal.\n\nAn ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano eruption in 2010 led to the cancellation of tens of thousands of flights, but experts believe a repeat of that disruption is unlikely.", "The government is looking to strengthen police powers to deal with protesters, following demonstrations in London.\n\nRight-wing protesters clashed with officers on Saturday and some members of the huge pro-Palestinian march were accused of using antisemitic slogans.\n\nSuella Braverman is under continued pressure after criticising the police ahead of the Armistice Day march.\n\nMinisters are thought to be considering changes, such as lowering the threshold for when police could apply for a ban.\n\nAnd more conditions could also be imposed on demonstrators for public safety.\n\nThe Sun has reported these could include stopping people climbing on statues, bus stops and scaffolding during protests, tightening the laws around smoke bombs and flares and against glorifying terrorists.\n\nThe new measures are reportedly being \"seriously\" examined by the government.\n\nAny change would require new laws but could be included in criminal justice legislation already making its way through the Commons. It is likely to result in more intense political debate as it worked its way through Parliament.\n\nDowning Street hit pause on deciding Mrs Braverman's political future on Thursday while it focussed on the weekend's events but with Remembrance commemorations passed and a clearer picture of what happened on Saturday, pressure will resume on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to send a clear message on his home secretary.\n\nSome opposition MPs have called for her to be sacked, and a number of ministers have distanced themselves from her comments.\n\nMrs Braverman wrote an article in the Times last week criticising the police, which was published without the changes No 10 had asked for.\n\nShe has since faced accusations that the piece - which claimed the police \"largely ignore... pro-Palestinian mobs\" - had emboldened the counter-protesters.\n\nLabour say she she stoked tensions on Saturday by accusing the police of bias.\n\nOn Sunday, Mrs Braverman broke a silence of almost 48 hours to thank police officers who were faced with violence and aggression from \"protesters and counter-protesters\". But she stood firm on her position on the pro-Palestinian marches saying that \"week by week, the streets of London were being polluted by hate, violence and antisemitism\".\n\nMr Sunak said those involved in crimes at the demonstrations on Saturday must face the full force of the law, with the \"despicable actions of a minority of people\" undermining \"those who have chosen to express their views peacefully\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said 145 people were arrested - the \"vast majority\" of whom were counter-protesters near the Cenotaph war memorial - and nine officers were injured.\n\nThe force condemned violence from the counter-protesters, who it says set out to confront the pro-Palestinian march.\n\nSeven men have been charged over disorder for offences including inciting racial hatred.\n\nThe pro-Palestinian demonstration saw an estimated 300,000 people march through central London calling for a Gaza ceasefire. It was the biggest UK rally since the war between Israel and Hamas began on 7 October.\n\nPolice added while the march itself did not see such physical violence, other serious offences were being investigated, including antisemitic hate crimes.\n\nA reshuffle of Mr Sunak's top team has been rumoured to be on the cards for months.\n\nThe downside for the prime minister of sacking Mrs Braverman would be that it would anger her supporters, who are predominantly on the right of the party. One Tory MP said efforts were already under way to lobby to keep her in the job.\n\nMrs Braverman has also never hidden her ambitions to one day be the party leader and sacked ministers have been known to be a thorn in the side of their former bosses.\n\nOn the other hand, Mr Sunak could decide keeping her on outweighs the controversies and he could choose to back her. In order to avoid claims of weakness though, he'd have to find a convincing reason for why she went ahead and published a newspaper opinion piece that hadn't been cleared by Downing Street.\n\nHe would also frustrate those Tory MPs who have tired of her knack for attracting controversy and are starting to use phrases like \"unhelpful\" and \"brand damage\" about her.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None Seven charged as police hunt others after protests", "Ahmed Sabra has accused British Embassy staff of failing to follow the \"clear process\" to allow him to leave Gaza\n\nA UK doctor who was stuck in war-torn Gaza when his name was left off a list of British nationals has finally reached Egypt.\n\nAhmed Sabra, a UK citizen who holds a British passport, was visiting family in Gaza with his wife and three children at the start of the war.\n\nHis wife and children were allowed to cross into Egypt on Thursday, but Dr Sabra was turned away.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was working to get all British nationals home.\n\nDr Sabra, a consultant cardiologist at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield, West Yorkshire who was a cardiology registrar at Morriston Hospital, Swansea, said he had made it through the Rafah crossing on Monday and was waiting to get his passport stamped.\n\nFormer colleague and friend Sara Gretton, who worked with him in Swansea, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that he had messaged her overnight to say his name was now on the list of British nationals eligible for evacuation and he was heading to the border.\n\nThousands of foreign nationals have been making the same trip to the only open crossing out of Gaza, but only those named on a list, published daily by the Gaza Border Authority, are allowed to cross.\n\nThose on the list must be cleared by both Egyptian and Israeli authorities.\n\nMs Gretton and Dr Sabra's supporters asked why he was not on the list last week.\n\nPalestinian border guards had allowed Dr Sabra to travel to the Rafah border with his family, only for him to be turned away\n\n\"It seems so simple you know - the Foreign Office informs the agencies that he is a British national, his name should be added to the list, it should be published and he should be evacuated.\"\n\n\"I just don't know what has gone wrong since last Thursday, and that hasn't been done.\"\n\nHamas's attacks on Israel on 7 October sparked the war. Hamas gunmen killed about 1,200 people and took 240 others hostage in its unprecedented cross-border assault it launched that day.\n\nAfter a month of Israeli bombardment and nearly two weeks after Israel launched a major ground offensive into the territory, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said on Friday that 11,078 people had been killed, while 1.5 million had fled their homes.\n\nAbout 80 people, including former colleagues, attended a rally at Morriston Hospital\n\nDr Sabra's former colleagues at Morriston Hospital held a rally on Monday in support of his safe return home.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was working \"round the clock to ensure all British nationals in Gaza who want to leave are able to\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Suella Braverman has been sacked as home secretary - leaving one of the most important jobs in government for a second time in just over a year.\n\nShe has been no stranger to controversy in her time in office. Mrs Braverman resigned from the same job while Liz Truss was prime minister before being brought back into government a week later by Rishi Sunak.\n\nHere are eight things she said that made headlines - and caused controversy.\n\n\"I would love to have a front page of the Telegraph with a plane taking off to Rwanda, that's my dream, it's my obsession.\"\n\nThis was said at a fringe event at last year's Conservative Party conference, shortly after she had been appointed as home secretary by Liz Truss. She was referring to the government's asylum plan, to take asylum seekers who have crossed the Channel to the UK on a one-way ticket to Rwanda where they could claim asylum instead.\n\nMrs Braverman faced criticism from refugee groups and others for trivialising the plight of people in need. The most important point about the quote is not whether you agree with its tone, but that the new home secretary was making clear her single priority would be controlling migration.\n\nOne of Suella Braverman's first tasks as home secretary was to pilot through Parliament a plan to restrict the right to protest in order to stop highly disruptive stunts by groups, including Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil - such as motorway occupations.\n\nShe accused the opposition of being in league with eco-protesters because a previous version of the measures had failed to win enough support.\n\n\"I am afraid that it is the Labour Party, the Lib Dems, the coalition of chaos, the Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati and, dare I say, the anti-growth coalition that we have to thank for the disruption we are seeing on our roads today.\"\n\nThe very next day Mrs Braverman sensationally quit as home secretary, after confessing to a serious blunder.\n\nShe had sent a confidential and sensitive government email to her own Gmail account and then forwarded it to her confidante and Tory backbencher, John Hayes.\n\nHowever, the real story here was the timing. The incident had happened some time earlier - and her resignation came as Liz Truss was on the precipice and her government in turmoil.\n\nIn her resignation letter, Mrs Braverman accused the embattled PM of breaking key pledges. The next day, Liz Truss resigned as prime minister. Less than a week later, Mrs Braverman's serious ministerial error was forgiven by the new prime minister, Rishi Sunak - and she was back in the same job.\n\n\"The British people deserve to know which party is serious about stopping the invasion on our southern coast.\"\n\nThere had been months of rising political tension over small boat crossings - and at the end of October 2022, a man firebombed the government's arrivals centre for the migrants in Dover's docks. Separately, independent inspectors warned conditions were \"wretched\" at a migrant reception camp.\n\nMrs Braverman came out fighting in the Commons, but days later, she was confronted in her constituency by 83-year-old Holocaust survivor Joan Salter.\n\n\"When I hear you using words against refugees like 'swarms' and an 'invasion',\" she said, \"I am reminded of the language used to dehumanise and justify the murder of my family and millions of others.\"\n\n\"There are 100 million people around the world who could qualify for protection under our current laws. Let us be clear - they are coming here.\"\n\nFor the second time in two years, the government launched a new immigration plan.\n\nParliament eventually voted to place a legal duty on the home secretary to not only detain anyone crossing the English Channel, but also remove them to another country, such as Rwanda.\n\nIn the Commons, Mrs Braverman stuck to her guns and made the 100 million claim. The next day, she doubled-down, telling the Daily Mail there was \"likely billions\" eager to come to the UK.\n\nShe returned to analysing migrant trends at the Conservative Party conference, last month, declaring: \"The wind of change that carried my own parents across the globe in the 20th Century was a mere gust compared with the hurricane that is coming.\"\n\nExperts have disputed her projections, saying the UK receives far fewer asylum seekers than other countries, and that recent record numbers of arrivals of workers and students will likely level off.\n\n\"Multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate. It has failed.\"\n\nThe daughter of immigrants from Mauritius and Kenya, Mrs Braverman told an American think tank that migrants end up living \"parallel lives\" - a phrase first used 20 years ago in relation to complex riots in northern England.\n\nOpponents said she had given up fixing the UK's broken asylum system and was trying to set out her stall for the Tory leadership.\n\n\"We cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice.\"\n\nThat social media post came amid government backroom wrangling over what would make it into this year's King's Speech. Mrs Braverman reportedly wanted to impose fines on charities who give tents to rough sleepers.\n\nHer push to get the police included triggered an internal row with colleagues. The idea was not included in the speech.\n\n\"There's only one way to describe those marches: they are hate marches.\"\n\nSpeaking after a government emergency meeting over the crisis in Gaza, Mrs Braverman laid into the pro-Palestinian demonstrators amid rows over whether their chants amounted to antisemitic attacks.\n\nAnd it's the row that has ultimately led to her downfall.\n\nOn 8 November, the Times newspaper published a column by the Mrs Braverman where she repeated the phrase - and also accused the police of bias, saying they were \"playing favourites\" with some demonstrations and using stronger tactics against some and not others.\n\nThis triggered accusations of political interference in independent policing - an absolute red line that ministers cannot cross under British laws.\n\nHer comments were condemned by former police officers, MPs and Labour, who accused her of \"deliberately creating division\". Four days later - and following clashes between protesters, counter-protesters and police in London on Armistice Day - she was sacked.", "The government the UK woke up with this morning isn't the same as the one that's in place tonight. Feeling a bit frazzled by today's events? Let's have a recap of what happened:\n\nShortly after 08:00, it was announced that Suella Braverman was dismissed as home secretary.\n\nWhile some had predicted this would happen owing to rising tensions over controversial declarations by Braverman, few expected that her replacement would be former UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who was seen entering Downing Street around 09:00.\n\nAs part of the move, Cameron - who is no longer an MP - was made a life peer meaning he could sit in Parliament's House of Lords as Lord Cameron.\n\nA flurry of changes followed:\n• James Cleverly was moved to the Home Office replacing Braverman\n• Victoria Atkins became the new health secretary, replacing Steve Barclay, who in turn took over from Therese Coffey who was sacked as environment secretary\n• Laura Trott became Chief Secretary to the Treasury\n• Housing minister Rachel Maclean was replaced by Lee Rowley. Maclean's departure caused some grumbling from colleagues Kemi Badenoch and Michael Gove\n• Meanwhile, others - including science minister George Freeman and paymaster general Jeremy Quin - decided to leave government on their own terms\n\nSome Tories - particularly on the right of the party - will be disappointed by the decision to sack Braverman - but the PM seems satisfied with his appointments.\n\nThis evening, he posted on X, formerly Twitter, saying that Monday's moves have resulted in \"a united team ready to deliver the changes this country needs for the long term\".\n\nQuote Message: This this is a team that will be bold in making the right decisions for our great country, not the easy ones.\" This this is a team that will be bold in making the right decisions for our great country, not the easy ones.\"\n\nThe PM's new ministers will need to hit the ground running - our diplomatic editor looks at David Cameron's foreign policy baggage, while our home editor saysJames Cleverly's in-tray is packed with issues from asylum to protests.\n\nAnd, if you'd like a look at what Sunak's cabinet looks like now, check out our handy guide here.", "Operations at DP World sites in Australia had been disrupted\n\nOne of Australia's major port operators is back online after a cyber-attack crippled its facilities.\n\nOperations at DP World Australia container terminals in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth were disrupted from Friday to Monday morning.\n\nThe firm manages around 40% of goods entering and leaving the country.\n\nThe outage has not affected the supply of goods to major Australian supermarkets, the BBC understands.\n\nDP World Australia, a unit of the Dubai state-owned DP World, said its ports resumed operations at 09:00 local time \"following successful tests of key systems overnight\".\n\nIt added: \"The company expects that approximately 5,000 containers will move out of the four Australian terminals today.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Darren Goldie, the government's cyber-security co-ordinator, said the operator was making \"good progress\" at bringing its sites back online.\n\nHe added that the government had not yet identified the perpetrators of the cyber-attack, which caused the firm to disconnect its ports from the internet.\n\nDP World said it halted internet connectivity at its ports on Friday to prevent \"any ongoing unauthorised access\" to its network.\n\nGoing offline meant trucks had been unable to transport containers in and out of the affected sites.\n\nThe resumption of service on Monday is the first step towards tackling the attack on its network. DP World said it was still in the process of investigating the disruption and guarding its systems against cyber-attacks.\n\n\"The resumption of port operations does not mean that this incident has concluded. DP World Australia's investigation and ongoing remediation work are likely to continue for some time,\" the company added.\n\nDP World has also been affected by industrial action, which has caused a delay in customer deliveries.\n\nSince it began in October, workers have engaged in 24-hour strikes and refused to unload trucks.\n\nThe Maritime Union of Australia, which is negotiating pay increases for workers, announced last week that the industrial action would be extended to 20 November.\n\nThe cyber-attack added to fears that the supply of everything from medical equipment to Christmas toys could be disrupted.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson from supermarket chain Woolworths said it was monitoring the situation and does not \"anticipate any immediate impacts at this time\".\n\nThe BBC understands that Woolworths' range of Christmas products has already arrived in Australia.\n\nThe disruption is also not expected to affect rival chain Coles, which is similarly monitoring developments at DP World.\n\nAustralia has seen a rise in cyber-attacks since late-2022.\n\nEarlier this year, the Albanese government announced plans to overhaul its cyber-security laws, and set up an agency to co-ordinate responses to intrusions.\n\nThe government is expected to release details on its proposed rules next week, which will likely tighten reporting requirements for companies.", "Rishi Sunak is the UK's first British Asian prime minister.\n\nHe won the leadership contest which followed the resignation of Liz Truss, receiving nominations from more than half of his party's MPs.\n\nHe was chancellor during the coronavirus pandemic, and introduced the furlough scheme, spending huge amounts to keep the economy afloat.\n\nHis reputation was dented by a controversy over his wife's tax affairs and a fine for breaching lockdown rules.\n\nIn July 2022, he was one of the first to quit Boris Johnson's cabinet, paving the way for the stream of resignations.\n\nHe became an MP in 2015 - for the North Yorkshire constituency of Richmond.", "When David Cameron quit Downing Street in the wake of the Brexit referendum in 2016, he quipped that he had been the future once.\n\nIt was an ironic reference to a joke he himself had made about then-PM Tony Blair in 2005, shortly after taking over as Conservative leader.\n\nBut now the former prime minister is indeed back - making a surprise return to government as Rishi Sunak's new foreign secretary, replacing James Cleverly.\n\nThe move has sent shockwaves through Westminster, and left many scratching their heads as to what it will mean for British politics.\n\nPutting the man who blew up his own premiership by calling - and then losing - the Brexit vote in charge of the Foreign Office looks like a big throw of the dice from Mr Sunak.\n\nIt is also a strange move from a prime minister who only weeks ago was seeking to define himself against every government since the early 1990s.\n\nThere were reports that Lord Cameron - as he will now be known, as he heads to the House of Lords in order to take up his cabinet role - was unhappy with that remark.\n\nHe also recently spoke out against Mr Sunak's decision to axe the northern leg of the HS2 rail project.\n\nHe has now said, in a statement upon his appointment, that although he disagreed with \"some individual decisions\" made by Mr Sunak, he is a \"strong and capable prime minister\".\n\nHis ambition, he added, is to be part of the \"the strongest possible team\" as the Tories head into a general election expected next year heavily trailing Labour in the polls.\n\nHis six years at the top of government will undoubtedly be an asset to Mr Sunak, at a time when the government is consumed by foreign crises in the Middle East and Ukraine.\n\nBut with long-serving figures like Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove already in the cabinet, it could make it even harder for the prime minister to present himself to voters as a force for change.\n\nThere could also be some unease among Tory circles about the \"golden age\" of relations with China that was a key feature of Lord Cameron's own foreign policy when he was the occupant of No 10.\n\nDavid Cameron has returned to government only hours after taking part in Remembrance Sunday as a former PM\n\nSince standing down as prime minister seven years ago, Lord Cameron has kept a relatively low public profile. He released a memoir in 2019, and has campaigned for more research into Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe was thrust into the spotlight in 2021, however, when it emerged that he had taken a lucrative job lobbying for now-collapsed finance company Greensill Capital.\n\nHe faced a storm of criticism for repeatedly texting ministers on behalf of the company during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe later said he had acted in good faith but admitted there were \"lessons to be learnt\" from the scandal, and he should have contacted ministers in a more formal way.\n\nA committee of MPs, however, accused him of a \"significant lack of judgement\".\n\nAfter failing to win a majority at the 2010 election, Lord Cameron took the Conservative Party into a coalition with Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats, bucking the UK's norm for single-party government.\n\nDefying initial expectations, their government functioned better than expected.\n\nIt completed a full five-year term and introduced sweeping changes in areas including the education system, the NHS, the benefits system, and pensions.\n\nTensions emerged, however, as the Lib Dems haemorrhaged support over unpopular coalition policies such as huge cuts to public spending aimed at reducing the deficit, and increasing university tuition fees.\n\nBut it was the relationship with the increasingly vocal and rebellious right-wing of his own party that would prove even harder to manage, and eventually lead to his downfall.\n\nIn many respects, his premiership represented a tale of two referendums.\n\nHe found himself on the winning side in 2014, when Scots voted against independence.\n\nBut it was his decision in 2013 to call a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union that would prove to be his undoing.\n\nThe decision was made at a time when the Conservatives were losing support to the Eurosceptic UK Independence Party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cameron's first PMQs: 'He was the future once'\n\nEurope was not the issue it might have been at the 2015 general election had he not promised a referendum. In the end, UKIP only managed to win one seat.\n\nBut the referendum the following year saw voters defy Lord Cameron's government and take the historic decision to vote for Brexit.\n\nHe had put himself front and centre in the official Remain campaign, which majored on the economic risks of voting to leave but was accused by critics of being negative and uninspiring.\n\nAnd although he had promised during the campaign to stay on as prime minister whatever the result, he decided to fall on his sword and announced his resignation outside Number 10 the morning of the referendum result.\n\nThen after a \"period of reflection\" over the summer, he announced he would be standing down as an MP and leaving frontline politics for good.\n\nNow he will once again stride the corridors of power under the Brexit-voting Mr Sunak, as his career enters a new chapter.", "Rishi Sunak with members of the Vedic Society in Southampton\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has joined Diwali celebrations in his home city of Southampton.\n\nHe visited the Vedic Society Hindu Temple on Radcliffe Road in the city on Sunday evening for the ceremony of Aarti, joined by his family.\n\nThe prime minister was born and grew up in Southampton, where his father was a GP and his mother ran her own pharmacy.\n\nMr Sunak - the first British-Indian to become prime minister - attended the same Hindu temple as a youngster.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Sunak and his family joined in the ceremony at Southampton's Hindu temple\n\nThe prime minister, his wife Akshata Murty, their two daughters and his parents joined worshippers during the ceremony of Aarti, lighting candles and offering prayers.\n\nAddressing the crowd, Mr Sunak said it was \"wonderful to be back home in Southampton\".\n\n\"I have so many happy memories of my time here as a kid,\" he said. \"This was the place the values my parents raised me with were reinforced - the importance of family, faith and service, education and hard work.\n\n\"Looking around, I'm inspired there is a whole new generation raised with those same values.\"\n\nWith few temples in the south of England, the event in Southampton attracted Hindus from other areas including Dorset and the Isle of Wight.\n\nSarika Chandarana, one of those who attended the celebrations, said: \"He was part of our Sunday classes of children coming up learning about Hindu culture and all the different gods and prayers.\n\n\"For us, he's like our family and we're really excited to see him today.\"\n\nMr Sunak and his family joined in the ceremony at Southampton's Hindu temple\n\nEarlier, the Sunaks had marked Diwali by lighting diya candles on the doorstep of Downing Street.\n\nThe five days of Diwali are known as the festival of lights, celebrating the triumph of light over darkness and the start of new beginnings for millions of people of the Hindu, Sikh and Jain faiths.\n\nCandlelight from Diyas illuminates homes, while fireworks are let off to deter evil spirits.\n\nDiwali is also celebrated by making creative displays known as rangoli, using petals and sand.\n\nMr Sunak was born in Southampton in 1980 to Indian parents who had emigrated from East Africa.\n\nRishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty with their daughters marking Diwali by lighting candles\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, X, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Boris Johnson referred to the Treasury as the \"pro-death squad\" during a meeting to discuss lifting lockdown restrictions in January 2021, the Covid Inquiry has heard.\n\nThe phrase appears in a diary entry written by then chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nGiving evidence on Monday, senior civil servant Stuart Glassborow said he did not remember hearing the term.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to appear before the inquiry next month.\n\nStrict lockdown restrictions were re-imposed in late 2020 as the UK tackled a spike in infections and the emergence of a new variant of the virus.\n\nDermot Keating, counsel to the inquiry, read from the private diaries of Sir Patrick Vallance, extracts of which have been released before he gives evidence later this month.\n\nBy the end of January 2021, officials were debating how quickly to ease lockdown rules and move regions of England out of a series of staggered tiers - each with lighter restrictions.\n\n\"There is an entry... at a meeting on 25 January 2021, the PM is recorded saying he wants Tier 3 [by] 1 March, Tier 2 [by] 1 April, Tier 1 [by] 1 May and nothing by September,\" said Mr Keating.\n\n\"And he ends it by saying the team must bring in the pro-death squad from [HM Treasury]\".\n\nSir Patrick's diaries have been described as a \"brain dump\" by his legal counsel and a way to process the events of the day and protect his mental health.\n\nAsked about Sir Patrick's description of the meeting, Mr Glassborow - the PM's deputy principal private secretary at the time - said: \"I would not dispute what he's recorded, but I don't recall the phrase at all.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, the inquiry was also shown a briefing paper sent by Treasury officials to then Chancellor Rishi Sunak in September 2020 in which he was advised to \"push back strongly on the circuit-breaker proposal\".\n\nAround that time, the government's Sage group of scientific advisers was recommending tightening restrictions including the \"consideration\" of a short circuit-breaker lockdown.\n\nThe note - written ahead of a key meeting of officials to discuss the spread of the virus - said further measures to strengthen the rules were \"likely to be catastrophic\" for the economy.\n\nMr Sunak has previously said he had opposed stricter measures at the time but that the final decision lay with the prime minister.\n\nBen Warner, centre, next to Boris Johnson on 14 March, 2020\n\nThe inquiry was later shown a series of WhatsApp messages sent in September and October 2020 between then Downing Street director of communications Lee Cain and Ben Warner - a data scientist hired by Dominic Cummings after working on the 2016 Vote Leave campaign.\n\n\"Why are we not acting in London and urban areas now? Same errors as March,\" Mr Cain wrote to Mr Warner on 12 October.\n\nMr Warner replied: \"Agreed. Feel like we are where we knew we would be three/four weeks ago.\"\n\nOn 30 October, Mr Warner sent another message: \"I feel like I have accidentally invented a time machine\".\n\nCain replied: \"Oh mate. I can't take this insanity.\"\n\nAsked about the exchange, Mr Warner said he believed infections would continue to rise until more stringent restrictions were put in place and that other measures, such as the test and trace system, were not able to control the virus.\n\n\"We [were] seeing that infections keep rising until you do something,\" he said.\n\nMr Warner also told the inquiry he was \"continually concerned\" by the lack of scientific understanding across government departments outside of the Sage group.\n\n\"Throughout the pandemic, I thought that there was a lack of scientific capability within the different teams and groups that I was working with,\" he added.", "The co-working firm was once seen as the future of the office\n\nWeWork, the shared office firm that was once valued at $47bn (£38bn), has been forced to file for bankruptcy in the US.\n\nThe decision follows the meteoric rise - and fall - of a company which was once seen as the future of the workplace.\n\nWeWork's filing will give it protection from its creditors and landlords as it restructures its vast debts.\n\nBased on its latest share price, WeWork is now worth less than $50m.\n\nThe bankruptcy will affect the company's business in the US and Canada. The firm said its co-working spaces remained open and operational, including in the UK.\n\nIn an email to tenants in London seen by the BBC, the firm said it remained \"fully committed\" to providing its services and planned to remain \"in the vast majority of our buildings\".\n\n\"We are committed to communicating with members first and early should we foresee potential changes,\" it added.\n\nThe BBC recently reported that WeWork was shuttering at least one office on the capital's South Bank as it grapples with its finances.\n\nOn Tuesday, one tenant in the UK told the BBC it was \"certainly considering our options and looking at other co-working spaces\".\n\nPaul Frampton-Calero, global president at consulting business Control v Exposed, said the firm's 30 staff spread across multiple cities enjoy the flexibility, larger meeting rooms and events at WeWork.\n\nHowever, he said if WeWork starts cutting back on members' perks and events to save money, it risks losing its tenants to competitors.\n\n\"The challenge for WeWork is that there are now a multitude of alternatives so the early differentiation they relied on is no longer a strength,\" said Mr Frampton-Calero.\n\n\"Even if they continue trading for a period, I'm sure many businesses are already weighing up their options so I'd expect them to see an increase in churn.\"\n\nAs of the end of June, the company had more than 700 sites around the world and about 730,000 members.\n\nWeWork, which is loss-making, has billions of dollars in liabilities. In a statement late on Monday, it said that bankruptcy protection would allow it to \"further rationalise its commercial office lease portfolio\" while trying to ensure continuity for its users.\n\nDavid Tolley, WeWork's chief executive, said he was \"deeply grateful for the support of our financial stakeholders as we work together to strengthen our capital structure and expedite this process through the restructuring support agreement\".\n\nWeWork, which was founded in 2010 and was led by the colourful Adam Neumann, leases office spaces where individuals and companies can rent and share space on a short-term basis. It became known for offering free-flowing alcohol in its offices as well as bright and relaxed decor.\n\nDemand for the firm's shared office spaces was hit after a disastrous 2019 effort to raise money in a public listing that hurt its reputation and led to the ousting of Mr Neumann.\n\nThat was swiftly followed by the pandemic which led to many office closures around the world, with people having to work from home.\n\nIn the first half of this year, WeWork lost more than $1bn, weighed down by the expense of operating its offices, as well as other costs.\n\nDealing with the hangover of acting like a big tech business, the company has been scrambling to sell off parts of its business and pushing to shut locations or renegotiate the terms of long-term leases and debts.\n\nWeWork co-founder and boss Adam Neumann was ousted from the firm\n\nThe company's massive losses and insider dealings have been well-covered by the media - including in the Apple TV Series WeCrashed, starring Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto as Rebekah and Adam Neumann.\n\nIt featured several scenes depicting the hard-partying habits of its charismatic co-founder as he built the symbol of \"office cool\" out from one property in New York City.\n\nPotential investors also questioned the links between Mr Neumann's personal finances and WeWork, as well as his decision to expand WeWork into areas of personal interest, like a surf park business.\n\nLast month, as discussions with landlords and financiers intensified, WeWork told investors it was not making payments on its loans.\n\nMajor shareholder SoftBank, a Japanese technology conglomerate, has pumped tens of billions of dollars into WeWork as it continued to lose money.\n\nAs anticipation of a bankruptcy filing emerged, Mr Neumann said the fall of WeWork was \"disappointing\".\n\n\"It has been challenging for me to watch from the sidelines since 2019 as WeWork has failed to take advantage of a product that is more relevant today than ever before,\" Mr Neumann said.\n\n\"I believe that, with the right strategy and team, a reorganisation will enable WeWork to emerge successfully,\" he added.\n\nDo you use WeWork? Are you worried how this will affect you? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Moussa Abu Marzouk said Hamas's armed wing \"don't have to consult with the political leadership\"\n\nA senior Hamas leader has refused to acknowledge that his group killed civilians in Israel, claiming only conscripts were targeted.\n\nMoussa Abu Marzouk told the BBC that \"women, children and civilians were exempt\" from Hamas's attacks.\n\nHis claims are in stark contrast to the wealth of evidence of Hamas men shooting unarmed adults and children.\n\nThe proof includes video from Hamas body cameras and first-hand testimony given to international news networks.\n\nIsrael says more than 1,400 people were killed by Hamas in the 7 October attacks, most of them civilians.\n\nMr Marzouk, the group's deputy political leader, who is subject to an asset freeze in the UK under counter-terrorism regulations, was interviewed on Saturday in the Gulf. He is the most senior member to speak to the BBC since the 7 October atrocities.\n\nThe BBC pressed Mr Marzouk on the war on Gaza, specifically on the scores of hostages being held inside the territory.\n\nHe responded that they were not able to be freed while Israel was bombing Gaza. The Hamas-run health ministry says 10,000 people have been killed since Israel started operations last month.\n\n\"We will release them. But we need to stop the fighting,\" he said.\n\nMr Marzouk recently travelled to Moscow to discuss eight Russian-Israeli dual citizens snatched on 7 October by Hamas, a proscribed terror organisation in many countries including the UK and US.\n\nHe said Hamas members in Gaza had \"looked for and found two female hostages\" from Russia but were unable to release them because of the conflict.\n\nThey could only realistically release hostages, he said, if \"the Israelis stop the fighting so we can hand them over to the Red Cross\".\n\nChallenged by the BBC about the attack of 7 October, Mr Marzouk claimed that Mohamed el-Deif, the leader of Hamas's Qassam Brigades military wing, had ordered his men to spare civilians.\n\n\"El-Deif clearly told his fighters 'don't kill a woman, don't kill a child and don't kill an old man',\" he said.\n\nReservist soldiers were, he said, \"targeted\". He maintained that only \"conscripts [...] or soldiers\" were killed.\n\nBut women, children and civilians were \"exempt\", he said.\n\nYet a huge body of evidence has been gathered which documents the range of bloody acts committed by Hamas in Israel on 7 October.\n\nBBC journalists went to the scene of the attacks in their immediate aftermath and saw the bodies of civilians who had been killed.\n\nWe have also verified CCTV footage which captured shootings by Hamas. Separately, footage from Hamas body cameras has been shown to the BBC and other journalists by the Israeli government.\n\nOther international news organisations have also pieced together, and verified, evidence of what happened on the day.\n\nThe BBC challenged Mr Marzouk on this, but the leader, whose polished, measured manner during the interview sometimes slipped into irritation, did not answer the question directly.\n\nWhen asked if Hamas's political wing had known of preparations for the attack, the deputy leader said that the armed wing \"don't have to consult with the political leadership. There is no need.\"\n\nThe political wing, based in Qatar, often presents itself as being remote from the military forces in Gaza.\n\nThe UK government sees no distinction - it proscribed the Hamas political wing as a terrorist organisation in 2021, saying that \"the approach of distinguishing between the various parts of Hamas is artificial. Hamas is a complex but single terrorist organisation\".\n\nMr Marzouk is also listed as a specially designated global terrorist by the US Treasury Department, and is indicted on several charges of co-ordinating and financing Hamas activities.\n\nThe interview on Saturday came after Israel had refused US requests for a \"humanitarian pause\" in Gaza to let aid in and help get out some of the 240 hostages taken by Hamas on 7 October.\n\nThe Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Friday all hostages must be released before any temporary truce could be agreed.\n\nMr Marzouk claimed that Hamas did not possess a list of all those he referred to as \"guests\", nor did he know where many were, because they were being held by \"different factions\".\n\nThere are several groups inside Gaza including Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which work closely with Hamas but are ostensibly independent.\n\nHe said a ceasefire was needed to compile the information - there were other priorities while the territory was under bombardment.\n\nMr Marzouk will play a key role in how the conflict with Israel plays out, and is likely to be central in negotiations over the hostages.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Rushdi Abualouf on the scene of the damage at the al-Maghazi refugee camp\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says at least 45 people have been killed in what it said was an Israeli air strike at the Al-Maghazi refugee camp.\n\nIsrael's military says it is looking into whether it was operating in the area at the time.\n\nThe small camp has been experiencing overcrowding because of people fleeing bombardments further north.\n\nEfforts are under way to find those still missing. It is thought more than 100 people were there at the time.\n\nThe head of Gaza's Al-Aqsa hospital said 52 people were killed in the blast on Saturday night, slightly more than the number given by the health ministry.\n\nResidents have been trying to dig with their hands through layers of cement in an attempt to extract those trapped under the rubble.\n\nPhotojournalist Muhammad Al-Alul lost his wife and four of his five children. He had been reporting elsewhere when the blast happened.\n\n\"It did not occur to me that my children might be buried under the rubble,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I wish I had been with them and been killed with them.\"\n\nThe BBC has asked Israel's military to comment on the incident. While there has been no official response yet, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman told the BBC he was unable to confirm whether the camp was hit by an Israeli air strike.\n\nSpeaking to BBC World Service's Newshour, Lt Col Peter Lerner added that any strikes taking place in southern Gaza were \"specific intelligence-based strikes, specifically against terrorist elements\".\n\nMr Lerner said that this did not mean that \"there can't unfortunately be deaths\".\n\nThe Al-Maghazi camp is in the area where Israel advised people in the north of Gaza to evacuate to for safety as they continue their campaign to destroy Hamas in retaliation for its 7 October attacks on Israel.\n\nHowever, air strikes in the south have not stopped.\n\n\"There is no safe place in Gaza,\" Muhammad, a civil defence officer who rushed to the scene of Saturday's strike to help, told the BBC.\n\n\"They ask the Palestinians to go to the south, but kill them everywhere - on the roads, in schools where people are sheltering, and even in hospitals.\"\n\nThe death toll in Gaza since 7 October is now more than 9,700, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.\n\nMore than 1,400 people were killed in the attacks by Hamas on Israel and more than 200 people were taken hostage.", "Post Office customers will soon be able to send parcels over the counter using DPD and Evri delivery services.\n\nIt is the first time in the Post Office's 360-year history that people can choose to use companies other than Royal Mail.\n\nThe new service will begin in selected stores in time for the peak Christmas delivery season, said the Post Office.\n\nBut shops in smaller, more rural areas of the UK may not benefit immediately from the new agreement.\n\nPost Office chief executive, Nick Read, denied that offering deliveries with more carriers was a slap in the face for Royal Mail.\n\nIt was, he told the BBC's Today programme, a \"natural evolution\" for postal services.\n\nRoyal Mail has faced difficulties in past years. It blamed 18 days of strike action and high levels of staff absence for failing to meet its delivery targets, after industry watchdog Ofcom launched an investigation into the firm earlier this year.\n\nMr Read said that offering DPD and Evri services at post offices had nothing to do with Royal Mail's performance. \"Consumers have told us they do want choice, they do want convenience, but they also want the expertise of coming into a branch,\" he said.\n\nThe Post Office said its partnership with Royal Mail remained \"of utmost significance\".\n\nEvri's chief executive Martijn De Lange said that the service would launch at 2,000 post offices - less than a fifth of the 11,500 around the UK - and include \"the bigger ones, the ones that people send a load of parcels in\".\n\nHe added he expected that number to \"probably double next year\". Evri's international services will be available at selected branches.\n\nEvri, which used to be known as Hermes, has faced its own performance issues. Evri apologised in January after customers across the country said they still were not receiving packages on time - or at all.\n\nThe firm also finished bottom of a league table complied by Citizens Advice ranking parcel delivery companies, for two years in a row.\n\nMr De Lange admitted that as the biggest parcel company in the UK - it says it delivers more than 730 million packages a year - \"there were always going to be a couple wrong\" but the company had just launched a new customer service function.\n\nMr De Lange also said that last year had been \"challenging\" with worker shortages, but that it had recruited an extra 6,500 staff.\n\nHe added that Evri delivered to \"every single home in rural Scotland\" and said Evri would \"absolutely use Post Offices in smaller towns and villages\".\n\nRoyal Mail said in the past that delivering letters was no longer profitable and that it was focusing on parcels because of the increasing popularity of online shopping.\n\nBut it also faces fierce competition from other couriers and in February it claimed it was losing about £1m a day.\n\nRoyal Mail is legally required to deliver parcels five days a week to every address in the UK, at \"affordable prices that are uniform throughout the UK\", as part of the Universal Postal Service.\n\nAny changes to the law can only be made by the UK Government.\n\nMr Read said Royal Mail's obligations means it could be \"potentially\" undercut on price by Evri and DPD.\n\nRoyal Mail said it has a \"long history of working with the Post Office\". It said that as customer preferences evolved \"we have also opened up a variety of new ways for customers to access our services\".\n\nDPD parcels can already be collected from Post Office branches, while those using Evri are able to send and receive via the PUDO and Parcels Online services using a website or smartphone app.\n\nSince these services began, the Post Office said it had seen a broader demographic coming through its doors.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Read confirmed Post Office was still paying Japanese firm Fujitsu \"tens of millions of pounds\" for it's Horizon system.\n\nMore than 700 Post Office branch managers were convicted when the faulty accounting software made it look as though money had gone missing.\n\nSo far, 86 convictions have been overturned, with the scandal the subject of a public inquiry likely to conclude next year.\n\nMr Read said: \"It is our desire to upgrade and move away from Horizon. It is a 25 year-old system, it needs to clearly be upgraded and we're looking at developing a new system so we can get off Horizon.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nIt is the first win, however, for Australian father-son training duo Anthony and Sam Freedman.\n\nSecond in the two-mile contest was Soulcombe and third was Sheraz, both trained by Australian Chris Waller.\n\nWithout A Fight is the first horse in over two decades to win the Melbourne Cup and Caulfield Cup in the same year.\n\nZahra rode Gold Trip to victory at Flemington Racecourse last year, but switched horses for this year's race.\n\nSpeaking after his win on Tuesday, Zahra said it had been a tough decision to swap runners but the \"stars aligned\" for him.\n\n\"A good friend and someone I rate as one of the best judges in Australia, I spoke to him, and he said there's not much in it [between Gold Trip and Without A Fight], but if you can get him to settle he will run it,\" he told local broadcaster Channel 10.\n\n\"He's got an electric turn of foot and he pulled me all the way to the line.\"\n\nGold Trip finished 17th on Tuesday, with other favourites like Vauban and former winner Vow and Declare finishing 14th and 9th respectively.\n\nTrainer Sam Freedman praised Without A Fight - 13th in the race last year when trained in Britain by Simon and Ed Crisford.\n\n\"This horse just genuinely loves his work,\" he told local media.\n\nTens of thousands of people were trackside at Flemington for the event, graced by warm spring weather.\n\nThe Melbourne Cup is worth A$8m (£4.5m) and is often called \"the race that stops a nation\".\n\nBut in recent years it has attracted demonstrations over the welfare of animals and its links to gambling.", "Mammograms are used to detect breast cancers.\n\nTens of thousands of women in England could benefit from a drug that helps prevent breast cancer.\n\nAnastrozole, used for many years to treat the disease, has now been licensed as a preventative option.\n\nRecent trials show the drug can reduce the incidence of breast cancer by almost 50% in post-menopausal women at moderate or high risk of the disease.\n\nCharities said it was \"a major step forward\" for women with a significant family history of the cancer.\n\nAn estimated 289,000 women could be eligible for the drug.\n\nAnd if one in four of these come forward, it could help prevent 2,000 cases of breast cancer in England, NHS England says, which could save the health service £15m in treatment costs.\n\nAny woman worried about having a higher than normal risk of breast cancer can contact their GP, who can refer them to a specialist for a full risk assessment taking into account family history.\n\nAnastrozole is off-patent, which means more than one company can make it and the drug can be distributed fairly cheaply - around 4p per day per user.\n\nFirst recommended as a preventative option by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, in 2017, its use in this way has now been licensed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency as part of NHS England's medicines-repurposing programme.\n\nLesley-Ann Woodhams, 61, has just completed a five-year course of one tablet a day.\n\nTaking it was \"an easy decision, as I'd watched my mum battle breast cancer\", she says.\n\nLesley-Ann has recently completed the full five-year preventative course of Anastrozole\n\n\"I could live a life without constantly worrying or giving a thought to what could be if I'd developed breast cancer,\" Lesley-Ann says.\n\n\"It really was a gift - it gave my family and myself peace of mind and, more importantly, a continued future to look forward to.\"\n\nProf Peter Johnson, NHS England's national clinical director for cancer, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the drug was a \"very attractive\" prospect for those at high risk of breast cancer.\n\nHe said research indicated it was more effective at protecting against the disease and had fewer side effects than tamoxifen, which is already available as a preventative treatment.\n\n\"People have been particularly concerned about blood clots and also in some cases the development of endometrial cancer [when taking tamoxifen]. Anastrozole doesn't seem to do that so it's a more attractive idea,\" he said.\n\nBut there is still the risk of some side effects from the drug, which can resemble symptoms of the menopause. The most common include:\n\nPatients suffering from side effects should speak to their doctor or pharmacist.\n\nAnastrozole works by blocking an enzyme called aromatase to reduce the hormone oestrogen.\n\nThe treatment is taken as a 1mg tablet, once a day for five years. The protective effect lasts for years after a woman has stopped taking the drug, officials said.\n\nBaroness Delyth Morgan, chief executive at Breast Cancer Now, said: \"The extension of anastrozole's license to cover it being used as a risk-reducing treatment is a major step forward that will enable more eligible women with a significant family history of breast cancer, to reduce their chance of developing the disease.\"\n\nThe preventative treatment means taking one 1mg tablet a day for five years\n\nBreast cancer is the most common cancer in England, with more than 47,000 people diagnosed each year.\n\nEight out of 10 of those cases are diagnosed in women aged over 50.\n\nWomen with a mutation in one of the BRCA genes are at risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.\n\nMost women in the UK have a 15% chance of developing breast cancer in their lifetime, but that significantly increases if you have the mutation.\n\nOut of every 100 women who have a BRCA1 gene mutation:\n\nOut of every 100 women who have a BRCA2 gene mutation:\n\nWomen with BRCA mutations are also more likely to develop breast cancer at a younger age.\n\nIf you have a family history of cancer, you can have a genetic test to find out if you have inherited these genes.\n\nHealth Minister Will Quince said he was \"delighted\" the drug had now been approved to \"help prevent this cruel disease\".\n\n\"We've already seen the positive effect anastrozole can have in treating the disease when it has been detected in post-menopausal women and now we can use it to stop it developing at all in some women,\" he added.\n\nNHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard says she hopes that licensing anastrozole \"represents the first step to ensuring the risk-reducing option can be accessed by all who could benefit from it\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Anastrozole is already being prescribed in Wales in line with its pre-existing and the new licensed uses, in accordance with NICE's guidance on managing risk in people with a family history of breast cancer.\"\n\nHealth officials in Scotland said they would be looking at the effectiveness of giving the drug to more people to help prevent cancer.\n\nAre you eligible for the new treatment? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Video shows the moment a deputy responded to a 911 call from a young boy who wanted a hug. The officer gave the boy a hug but also took a moment to teach him the importance of the emergency line.", "Flights were suspended due to a problem with the airfield lighting equipment\n\nA runway at Bristol Airport has reopened following an earlier technical issue.\n\nA spokesperson from the airport posted on X, formerly Twitter, that the problem with airfield lighting equipment has been fixed.\n\nFlights are delayed as a result of the earlier suspension.\n\nCustomers flying from Bristol on Tuesday have been advised to contact their airline for the latest flight information.\n\nAt about 05:40 GMT a spokesperson from the airport said: \"Due to technical problems with the airfield lighting equipment, flight operations have been suspended until 08:00 this morning.\"\n\nA live departure board on the airport's website showed that 14 flights were impacted by the issue.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Metropolitan Police has urged the organisers of pro-Palestinian demonstrations to postpone events due to take place on Armistice weekend.\n\nThousands are expected to take part in a march in London on 11 November, the same day some Remembrance events are planned in the capital.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman welcomed the Met's statement, which warned of potential disorder.\n\nOrganisers criticised the force and refused to cancel the march.\n\nThe Met warned of a \"growing\" risk of violence and disorder fuelled by breakaway groups linked to the protests.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Ade Adelekan said: \"This is of concern ahead of a significant and busy weekend in the capital.\n\n\"Our message to organisers is clear: Please, we ask you to urgently reconsider. It is not appropriate to hold any protests in London this weekend.\"\n\nA statement from the Met said it had spoken with organisers on Monday from several groups, and that they had \"declined to postpone\" any demonstrations - but this account was disputed by organisers.\n\nThey said it was \"categorically untrue that the police told us that it was not appropriate\" to go ahead with the march, adding that they are \"deeply concerned\" by the statement.\n\nOrganisers confirmed they won't postpone the march, and accused the government and \"right wing political groups\" of putting pressure on the police to intervene.\n\nThe route of the pro-Palestinian march on Saturday runs from Hyde Park to the US Embassy in south London. It does not pass through Whitehall.\n\nNo large demonstration is planned for Remembrance Sunday.\n\nOrganisers have previously pointed out the Saturday march is due to begin almost two hours after the national two minutes' silence of commemoration.\n\nIn the statement released on Monday night, signed by six organising groups including the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, they added: \"The idea that it is acceptable for Israel to keep bombing and killing Palestinians in Gaza including over 4,000 children, but not for people to protest peacefully against these crimes is grotesque.\"\n\nThe Met has so far stopped short of invoking a public order law whereby it can ask the Home Secretary Suella Braverman to ban a demonstration from taking place.\n\nResponding to the Met's statement, Ms Braverman said: \"I welcome this statement from the Met Police. The hate marchers need to understand that decent British people have had enough of these displays of thuggish intimidation and extremism.\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday: \"To plan protests on Armistice Day is provocative and disrespectful, and there is a clear and present risk that the Cenotaph and other war memorials could be desecrated, something that would be an affront to the British public and the values we stand for.\"\n\nHe added that the police had the government's \"full support in making robust use of all your powers to protect Remembrance activity\", in a letter to Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley.\n\nMs Braverman has previously described pro-Palestinian protests as \"hate marches\".\n\nCivil liberties group Liberty said police \"should not be able to pick and choose what people can speak out about on any given day\", adding \"shutting down\" protests would be a \"wildly disproportionate response\".\n\nIsraeli President Isaac Herzog described the planned march as \"atrocious\". He told TalkTV: \"I call upon all decent human beings to object to the march and ban it, because the symbol of that day is a symbol of victory.\"\n• None UN says Gaza becoming a 'graveyard for children', as Israeli strikes intensify", "A 15-year-old boy died after he was assaulted near a school\n\nA murder investigation has been launched after a 15-year-old boy was stabbed near a school in north west Leeds.\n\nEmergency services were called to Town Street in Horsforth, near St Margaret's Primary School, just before 15:00 GMT on Tuesday, West Yorkshire Police said.\n\nThe boy, a former student at nearby Horsforth School, later died in hospital.\n\nOne teenage boy has been arrested in connection with the incident.\n\nInitial reports suggested there had been two arrests.\n\nDet Ch Insp Stacey Atkinson, said: \"Our investigation is at an early stage and we are carrying out extensive enquiries to establish exactly what led to this needless loss of a young man's life.\n\n\"We understand the immense impact and huge shock a tragic incident of this nature will have on the community locally.\"\n\nA number of police vans remain at the scene\n\nAbout 50 young people gathered at a candlelight vigil on Tuesday evening in Broadgate Lane, about half a mile from the police cordon.\n\nPeople were hugging each other, with some wiping away tears, as they clustered around a bench covered in floral tributes.\n\nA parent at the school, who did not wish to be named, said: \"It's horrible. It's shocking because it's a nice area.\n\n\"You read about these things happening in London and you think it's dangerous to be a teenager there, but you don't think it would happen here.\n\n\"He probably went out this morning and they were expecting him to come home, and he's not there.\"\n\nPolice officers were speaking to parents outside the school in Horsforth\n\nPudsey, Horsforth and Aireborough MP Stuart Andrew said: \"The terrible news in Horsforth today is deeply shocking and distressing and my heartfelt sympathy goes to the family of the victim.\n\n\"I cannot imagine how they will be feeling and my thoughts and prayers are with them at this dreadful time.\"\n\nMr Andrew said he was also thinking about the pupils, teachers and staff at Horsforth school who he said would be \"devastated\".\n\n\"The whole community will be stunned by this as the school is such a proud part of the town which is a peaceful and welcoming place,\" he added.\n\nEarlier, in a message to parents, Paul Bell, head of Horsforth School, said: \"You will be aware of a distressing incident in the community today, involving a former student of Horsforth School who was stabbed on St Margaret's Avenue.\"\n\nDr Bell said the school was aware of the distress and upset the incident had caused to students and staff and said the school would offer all the support it could to them.\n\nThe police cordon remained in place on Wednesday morning, with several bus routes diverted.\n\nCouncillor John Garvani, who represents the Horsforth ward on Leeds City Council, said: \"It's a rare occurrence across the country, but when it happens on your own doorstep it's a real shock to the community.\n\n\"I've offered any help that I can - or ward colleagues can - give to the school.\"\n\nThe police cordon in Horsforth remained in place on Tuesday morning\n\nThe Labour councillor said counselling would be offered to affected pupils and staff.\n\nHe continued: \"It must be a horrific incident to witness, it must be difficult to understand how they are feeling and I think there will be quite a few people in shock.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has put law and order at the centre of the King's Speech as he sets out his priorities ahead of the next general election.\n\nTougher sentences for the most serious criminals and measures to force offenders to appear in the dock are among those to feature in the government's plans for the year.\n\nLabour said the government had just repackaged previously announced ideas.\n\nAnd some past pledges made by the Conservatives were notably absent.\n\nIt was the first King's Speech in more than 70 years, following the death of the Queen last year, and King Charles's first as monarch, although he stood in for his mother in May 2022.\n\nIt was also Mr Sunak's first as prime minister - and could be his last before the next general election, which is expected next year and must happen by the end of January 2025.\n\nWith the Conservatives lagging behind Labour in the polls, Mr Sunak is hoping to showcase key policies and draw dividing lines with the opposition to win over voters.\n\nAlthough the speech is written by the government, it is delivered by the monarch in a neutral tone, to avoid any appearance of political support.\n\nA phased ban on smoking, reform of the leasehold system and a bill to ensure licences for oil and gas projects in the North Sea are awarded annually were also among measures outlined.\n\nBut supporters of a ban on so-called conversion therapy to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity - which has been promised since 2018 - will be disappointed it is not included.\n\nThere is also no mention of a bill to ban the import of hunting trophies into Great Britain - a Conservative manifesto commitment at the last election.\n\nMeanwhile, campaigners have criticised a delay to new laws on e-scooters, with the government only promising to consult on possible regulations.\n\nThe prime minister traditionally walks alongside the leader of the opposition as MPs file into the chamber for the King's Speech\n\nA key focus of the speech was keeping the public safe and improving justice for victims.\n\nPlans include a bill, covering England and Wales, to implement past promises to ensure offenders who commit murders with sexual or sadistic motives will spend the rest of their lives in prison.\n\nThere would also be tougher sentences for grooming gang members and those who murder their partner at the end of a relationship.\n\nBut with many prisons overcrowded, there are plans for most sentences of less than 12 months to be suspended.\n\nThis would mean for less serious crimes, offenders can stay out of prison if they comply with requirements set by the court.\n\nThe Criminal Justice Bill will include measures to make clear \"reasonable force\" can be used to make criminals appear in the dock, with offenders who refuse given two extra years in prison.\n\nMinisters announced plans for such a law earlier this year, following high-profile cases of offenders refusing to appear for their sentencing such as the baby killer Lucy Letby and Jordan McSweeney - who was convicted of murdering Zara Aleena.\n\nThe bill will also give police the power to enter a building without a warrant to seize stolen goods if they have reasonable proof that the item is inside the property - for example, by a stolen mobile phone which is broadcasting its position.\n\nOther measures set out in the speech include:\n\nThe King and Queen are seated on their thrones in the House of Lords for the state opening\n\nThe prime minister said the speech was about \"taking long-term decisions to build a brighter future for our country\".\n\nMr Sunak is seeking to present himself as a clear change from his predecessors, despite 13 years of a Conservative government, by highlighting measures including plans to phase out the sale of cigarettes in England.\n\nHowever, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the speech offered only \"sticking plasters\" and was \"a plan for more of the same\".\n\nHe added that it offered \"no change\" on public services or the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nThere were also attempts to set political traps for Labour.\n\nFor example, a new bill would force ministers to run an oil and gas licensing round every year - something which normally happens anyway.\n\nReading the speech, the King, who has previously championed environmental issues, said the measure would help the country transition to net zero by 2050 \"without adding undue burdens on households\".\n\nLabour has said it would honour existing licenses for projects granted before the next general election, but would not allow any new ones if it won power.\n\nAny vote on the bill could be tricky for Labour, which has seen internal divisions over the issue.\n\nWith little time to pass new legislation ahead of the next general election, around a third of the 20 or so bills have been carried over from last year's parliamentary session or previously published in some form.\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey accused the government of being \"out of touch and out of ideas\", saying the speech failed to address issues including the cost of living, the NHS and sewage pollution.\n\nSNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn said the government had not taken steps which he said could increase economic growth, including more migration.\n\nSome previous pledges have also been watered down.\n\nThe speech included a promise to make it cheaper and easier for leaseholders to purchase their freehold and to tackle the \"exploitation of millions of homeowners through punitive service charges\".\n\nBut the bill would only ban leaseholds in England and Wales for new houses, not flats - which make up around 70% of leasehold homes.\n\nHousing Secretary Michael Gove had previously promised to scrap the leasehold system, which means some homeowners must pay expensive maintenance charges and ground rent.\n\nMeanwhile, the Renters Reform Bill, which includes a long-promised ban on \"no-fault evictions\" in England will continue its journey through Parliament.\n\nHowever, the government has said the ban will only come into force after the court system is reformed.\n\nA proposal from Home Secretary Suella Braverman to restrict the use of tents by rough sleepers in England and Wales was not included in the speech.\n\nHowever, a source close to Mrs Braverman insisted it had not been dropped, despite a backlash from homelessness charities, opposition parties and some Tories.", "House prices rose in October for the first time in six months, according to the Halifax, but it expects values to fall over the next year.\n\nThe UK's largest mortgage lender said prices rose 1.1% last month, taking the average property value to £281,974.\n\nBut the Halifax said the rise was due to a lack of homes for sale, and demand from buyers remained weak.\n\nIt expects prices to fall until 2025, with buyers facing higher interest rates and cost of living pressures.\n\nHouse prices in October were down 3.2% from the same point last year, according to the Halifax's data.\n\n\"Prospective sellers appear to be taking a cautious attitude, leading to a low supply of homes for sale,\" said Kim Kinnaird, director of Halifax Mortgages.\n\n\"This is likely to have strengthened prices in the short term, rather than prices being driven by buyer demand, which remains weak overall.\"\n\nUp until recently, the Bank of England had been increasing interest rates steadily in an attempt to tame soaring inflation. The rise has led to higher mortgage rates for homeowners.\n\nWhile the Bank has now left rates unchanged at 5.25% at its past two meetings, it is not expected to cut them anytime soon.\n\nGiven that outlook, the Halifax said it expected \"house prices to fall further overall - with a return to growth from 2025\".\n\nHowever, it added that the price falls in recent months have come after a long run of gains, and it noted that average house prices are still around £40,000 above pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe Halifax said that house prices in all UK nations and regions were down from a year earlier. The biggest fall was in south-east England, where prices dropped by 6%, while Scotland saw the smallest decline, down just 0.2% over the year.\n\nIt also said that despite overall demand for housing being weak, the first-time buyer market had \"held up relatively well\". It said buying a first home remained an attractive option, \"especially against the backdrop of rental prices increasing\".\n\nThe price increase in October echoed the findings of rival lender the Nationwide, which said last week that values rose 0.9% last month.\n\nHowever, the Nationwide said prices were still lower than a year earlier, and that activity in the housing market remained \"extremely weak\" with buyers struggling in the face of higher mortgage rates.\n\nBoth the Halifax and Nationwide base their survey data on their own mortgage lending, so the figures do not include those who purchase homes with cash or buy-to-let deals.\n\nAccording to the latest available official data, cash buyers currently account for more than a third of housing sales.\n\nSarah Coles, head of personal finance at Hargreaves Lansdown, said buyers were still \"horribly thin on the ground\", with little sign of any change in the immediate future.\n\nShe added that recent Bank of England figures showing a \"miserable\" number of mortgages were approved in September was an indication the market will remain subdued.\n\n\"It may take a significant shift in mortgage rates before more enthusiasm returns to the market,\" she said.\n\nBut the head of online estate agent Purplebricks, Sam Mitchell, told the BBC's Today programme there were signs that mortgage lenders were starting to compete for customers.\n\n\"Yesterday we saw both Halifax and Virgin drop their rates, which I think is super encouraging going into what's typically a quieter time of year, [and] bodes very, very well for 2024,\" he said.\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Callum Rycroft was hit by a car as he tried to cross the M62 with his father\n\nA drink driver who \"abandoned\" his son on a motorway moments before the boy was hit and killed by a car has been jailed for 10 years.\n\nCallum Rycroft, 12, died as he and his father Matthew Rycroft crossed the M62 in West Yorkshire after the 37-year-old crashed their car on 5 August.\n\nRycroft admitted manslaughter and was jailed at Leeds Crown Court on Monday.\n\nJudge Guy Kearl KC told Rycroft: \"You were responsible for him and you are responsible for his death.\"\n\nJudge Kearl said Rycroft had put Callum in \"danger of extreme harm\" and had \"abandoned him\".\n\nThe court heard Rycroft, of Nowell View, Leeds, had drunk lager and shots at the Paddock Cricket Club in Huddersfield after taking Callum, who was autistic, to visit his grandfather.\n\nRycroft's father urged him not to drive back to Leeds but he insisted on driving back with Callum.\n\nThe pair left the club at about 21:05 BST in a silver Audi Q5 courtesy car, which Rycroft was driving while his vehicle was being repaired.\n\nThey were seen travelling eastbound on the motorway by another driver, who described the car as swerving between lanes before it hit a barrier on the left-hand side.\n\nThe car flipped over on the slip road at Hartshead Moor services.\n\nMatthew Rycroft was jailed for 10 years for manslaughter\n\nThe court then saw CCTV footage that showed Rycroft and Callum walking along the hard shoulder of the M62, with Callum walking on the side closest to the traffic.\n\nThey walked for about 15 minutes, covering about 1.12 km (0.7 miles).\n\nRycroft was seen crossing to the central reservation and Callum followed.\n\nWhen the pair tried to cross back, Rycroft reached the hard shoulder and carried on walking eastbound without looking back for his son, who had been struck by a car.\n\nThe court heard Rycroft was later found hiding in bushes by the fire service and did not mention Callum or ask where he was.\n\nHe was taken to Leeds General Infirmary, where he \"did not mention Callum at all\" and swore at staff, according to prosecution barrister Michael Smith.\n\nThe court heard that when he was told his son had died, Rycroft became upset.\n\nCallum, 12, was described as having \"such an impact\" on everyone who met him\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Callum's mother Claire Bancroft said: \"Callum was with someone who he trusted the most. Someone who should have kept him safe and brought him home.\"\n\nShe said Callum had \"worshipped the ground\" his father walked on and that her son's death had had \"such an impact on everyone who had met him\".\n\nBarrister Matthew Harding, defending Rycroft, said: \"He will have to live with the utterly tragic consequences of that night for the rest of his life.\n\n\"It is a punishment well in excess of any that your lordship must and will impose.\"\n\nJudge Kearl told Rycroft he had had several opportunities to \"wait for help\" but said: \"You continued to attempt to flee the scene, despite knowing that Callum was not with you.\n\n\"You didn't even turn around to search for your son.\"\n\nRycroft was also disqualified from driving for nine years and seven months.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A fireworks display left spectators running for safety after an explosion near a primary school\n\nA spectator at a school fireworks display that went wrong said \"shrapnel was flying everywhere\" and hit \"traumatised\" children.\n\nPeople were left screaming and running for safety after the explosions at Derwendeg Primary School in Hengoed, Caerphilly county, on Monday evening.\n\nGwent Police said it was called to the scene, but no injuries or damage were reported.\n\nWitness Shaun O'Connor said fireworks flying into the crowd was \"outrageous\".\n\nHe added: \"They had to stop the display because the shrapnel was flying everywhere.\"\n\nHe said one firework went into a house, another into a car and another into the spectators.\n\n\"It was traumatising for the children,\" he said.\n\n\"It was terrible, there was people grabbing their children, running away from the display.\"\n\nDan Morris was at the event with his children and said there were \"several hundred\" people watching.\n\nHe said: \"When the firework came over the fence there was utter panic. There were children crying - adults tried to usher them out of the way - my partner dived for cover behind a car with the baby.\"\n\nHead teacher Lynsey Wangiel said the school was \"incredibly upset\" but added that the display had been run the same way for 20 years with a trained professional.\n\nCaerphilly council said it was aware of the incident and a health and safety investigation would take place.", "An Italian judge has ordered the seizure of €779.5m ($835.5m; £676.8m) from short-term rental giant Airbnb, over alleged tax evasion.\n\nProsecutors say the firm failed to collect a tax from landlords on around €3.7bn of rental income.\n\nLandlords in Italy are required to pay a 21% tax on their earnings.\n\nAirbnb told the BBC that it was \"surprised and disappointed at the action announced by the Italian public prosecutor\".\n\nAirbnb spokesperson Christopher Nutly said the firm's European headquarters had been working to resolve the matter with the Italian tax agency since June.\n\nMr Nutly added \"We are confident that we have acted in full compliance with the law and intend to exercise our rights with respect to this issue.\"\n\nThree people who held managerial roles at Airbnb from 2017 to 2021 were also under investigation, Milan Tribunal prosecutors said in a statement.\n\nIn 2022, Airbnb challenged the Italian law requiring the company and other short-term rental providers to withhold 21% of the rental income from landlords and pay it to tax authorities.\n\nThe firm argued that Italy's requirements on taxation contravened the European Union's principle of freedom to provide services across the 27-country bloc.\n\nThe EU's top court later ruled that Airbnb should abide by the requirements.\n\nIn recent years, Italian authorities have increased scrutiny of the tax practices of major companies like Airbnb, which has been operating in the country since 2008.\n\nItalian prosecutors have launched tax-related inquiries against Netflix and Meta, according to media reports.\n\nLast month, Italian politicians said they planned to crackdown on landlords who did not pay taxes on short-term rentals through platforms like Airbnb.\n\nThe co-ruling Forza Italia party said the country would move to introduce a national identification code for short-term rentals.\n\n\"That code will bring out the revenue of those who rent flats without declaring them,\" Forza Italia leader and Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani told reporters.\n\nPoliticians estimate that the move could boost Italy's fiscal revenue by €1bn.", "Amy Reid said she cared more about socialism than the constitutional question\n\nSinn Féin's electoral growth on both sides of the border has been fuelled by appealing to younger voters who care about more than a united Ireland.\n\nPolicies about housing, welfare and human rights have been at the centre of how the party has sold itself.\n\nBut the issue of the constitutional divide on the island continues to be used as a rallying cry.\n\nYoung republicans still wave and wear the colours of the Irish tricolour, a practice evident at a recent appearance by the Irish language hip-hop group Kneecap in Belfast.\n\nThe band has embraced controversy and attracted a lot of attention with its use of images associated with the Troubles.\n\nCartoon imagery of petrol bombs, balaclavas and barbed wire feature on the band's merchandise, which is selling well at an event to unveil a mural.\n\nBut many of their fans insist they want to talk about poverty not paramilitaries.\n\n\"Obviously I care about traditional green and orange issues, but what I care about more is getting our kids fed, getting our people educated, getting our NHS up and running,\" said Amy Reid, who has a masters degree in peace studies.\n\n\"I care more about socialist issues than I care about the border to be brutally honest.\"\n\nKneecap also prefer to talk about present problems rather than past conflicts.\n\nThey say their music highlights current concerns for people on both sides of Belfast's peace walls.\n\n\"What's important is anti-austerity and what's important is the working class,\" said Móglaí Bap, a member of the hip-hop trio.\n\n\"Both sides of the community are suffering because of the Tory government.\n\n\"We can talk about images all day long but when we go to either side of the community that's all they care about - is old people, young people, disabled people and that's all that's important to us.\"\n\nKneecap have used imagery from the Troubles as part of their publicity\n\nThe images on Kneecap's T-shirts and head-scarves are undoubtedly tongue-in-cheek and their young fans treat them with a strange kind of nostalgia.\n\nBut they do refer to years of violence in which thousands of people were killed.\n\nAnd as Móglaí Bap stood up to unveil Kneecap's latest mural, a man in the crowd shouted a pro-IRA slogan.\n\nMóglaí Bap was quick to point out in response: \"I didn't start that BBC.\"\n\nHowever, some in the crowd were prepared to defend the cry of 'Ooh, ahh, up the Ra'.\n\nKneecap unveiled a mural which read England get out of Ireland\n\n\"The difference between the old IRA and the new IRA - is a large gap,\" argued Izzy Ó Tighearnán, who was visiting Belfast from Galway to see Kneecap.\n\nIzzy Ó Tighearnán was visiting Belfast from Galway to see Kneecap\n\n\"We still have to remember that the group that we are shouting about aren't the people who are active at the moment. They're not the terrorist group that we support.\"\n\nDuring the Troubles, support for violence was seen as the issue that divided republicans and nationalists.\n\nSinn Féin had an historical link with the Provisional IRA while the SDLP said all conflict was wrong.\n\n\"The IRA were responsible for the most deaths of Catholic civilians here - more than anybody else,\" said Karl Duncan.\n\n\"I would say that's definitely not a movement that I would want to glorify.\"\n\nKarl Duncan said most nationalists did not support the IRA\n\nAt the age of 21, Karl was recently appointed chairperson of the SDLP's Foyle constituency branch. His mother is from a republican background in Londonderry, while his father grew up within a unionist family in Bangor.\n\n\"There is a bit of revisionism, for example, with the IRA in that a lot of people, especially my generation, seem to think they were some popular movement,\" Karl said.\n\n\"The IRA were never endorsed by the majority of nationalists in this place.\"\n\nThat dividing line between nationalism and republicanism has become more blurred, however, as a result of the success of the peace process.\n\n\"I would be very happy to identify myself as a nationalist but I wouldn't be as comfortable to say that I'm a republican but I'm not sure why,\" said Sophie McCormick, who BBC News NI met at the Kneecap event.\n\n\"I don't know if it's the connotations that come from saying you are a republican in relation to the Troubles.\n\n\"I actually can't put my finger on why it is.\"\n\nThe polls would suggest that it is a concern that is shrinking.\n\nMany of Sinn Féin's younger voters simply do not remember the Troubles.\n\nIn a time of relative peace, inequality has become their focus, even if Northern Ireland continues to struggle with political instability and its past.", "WhatsApp messages between UK officials and ministers have been a key part of recent evidence heard by the Covid inquiry\n\nSome messages sent by people working in the Welsh government during the pandemic may have been deleted, the first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he himself did not use WhatsApp, and would not know how to automatically delete texts.\n\nBut he could not promise that messages were not lost before the government was aware of what the Covid inquiry wanted.\n\nOpposition parties said the comments were deeply concerning and alarming.\n\nThe comments follow a row in Scotland over the deletion of messages.\n\nWhatsApp messages between UK officials and ministers have been a key part of recent evidence heard by the Covid inquiry.\n\nThe Scottish government has been criticised for not handing over all relevant data and former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has refused to say whether or not she had erased any messages.\n\nA submodule of the Covid inquiry looking at the response in Wales is expected to begin public hearings in February 2024.\n\nIn the Senedd's First Ministers Questions on Tuesday Mr Drakeford said the Welsh government had made an \"early decision\" to \"disclose all material requested by the UK Covid inquiry including WhatsApp messages\".\n\nWelsh Conservative Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies asked if Mr Drakeford was \"confident that deletion mechanisms or apps were not used by government ministers... or officials\".\n\nMr Drakeford said the Welsh government did not rely on \"informal means of communication in order to make decisions during the Covid period\".\n\nHe said that as soon as his government was aware that the inquiry would wish to have material disclosed to it \"no instruction of any sort was issued in the Welsh government that material should be deleted\".\n\n\"So as soon as we knew that the inquiry wanted something, there's no deletion beyond that point.\"\n\nFormer UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the inquiry in May 2021, and it formally commenced in June 2022.\n\nMr Drakeford added: \"During the Covid period itself, many colleagues working for the Welsh government would have had devices with deletion instructions already on them.\n\n\"And those things may have remained on their phones, because at that point absolutely nobody was focused on whether those messages might be required at some future distant point\".\n\nThe first minister's official spokesman later added that \"staff were regularly reminded of the need to maintain and retain robust records relating to decisions taken throughout the pandemic\".\n\nPressed further by Mr Davies, Mr Drakeford added: \"I think the fair way of putting it is, deletion may have taken place.\n\n\"I've never had any deletion arrangements on the phone because I would have no idea how to make it happen itself. I don't use WhatsApp, either.\"\n\nAfter First Minister's Questions, Mr Davies wrote to the first minister challenging his assertion that he does not use WhatsApp.\n\nThe Conservative MS asked Mr Drakeford to correct the record after he said he was \"provided with a screenshot which demonstrates that you have a WhatsApp account\".\n\n\"Your statement that you do not use WhatsApp therefore gave the wrong impression,\" Mr Davies said.\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said the first minister would respond to the letter \"in due course\".\n\nPlaid Cymru health spokesman, Mabon ap Gwynfor, said: \"It is deeply alarming that some WhatsApp messages exchanged among Welsh government officials during the pandemic may have been lost.\n\n\"This is why we need a comprehensive Welsh public inquiry into our government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nIn an earlier statement, Mr Davies said: \"To learn the lessons of the pandemic, all messages sent and received by ministers, special advisers and civil servants should have been retained.\n\n\"It's deeply concerning the first minister was unable to provide assurances that this is the case.\"", "Fruit flavours may be banned and extra taxes applied to e-cigarettes, in a crackdown on vaping aimed at children.\n\nLegislation to allow tighter restrictions was promised in the King's Speech, earlier on Tuesday.\n\nThe move, which could apply to the whole of the UK, could also see vapes having to be hidden from view in shops and plain packaging introduced.\n\nAnd, as promised last month, ministers will also be looking to raise the age of sale for smoking.\n\nThe idea is to raise the age at which tobacco products can be bought by a year every year from 2027.\n\nIt would mean those currently aged under 15 could never buy cigarettes or tobacco legally.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the policy a month ago - but he has promised MPs a free vote on the issue.\n\nThe proportion of 11- to 17-year-olds who vape has doubled in the past two years, to 7.6%.\n\nAnd the government is currently consulting on measures to tackle the rise in youth vaping.\n\nBut the King's Speech, setting out the government's priorities for the next year, revealed legislation would be brought forward to push through a tightening of the rules once the consultation had finished.\n\nIntroducing a new tax on e-cigarettes is also proposed - value added tax (VAT) is already applied - to make vapes more expensive.\n\nIt is currently three times cheaper to vape than smoke - although, the consultation has urged careful consideration as vapes are also an important tool to help smokers quit, as they carry a fraction of the risk.\n\nHazel Cheeseman, from the Action on Smoking and Health campaign group, welcomed the move.\n\n\"Vapes have been a valuable aid to help smokers quit - but vaping has been growing among teens,\" she said.\n\n\"Further regulations are needed to ensure products are not promoted or sold to teens.\"\n\nMs Cheeseman also backed the idea of an extra tax on vapes, to reduce their affordability for teenagers, but added it was important they remained \"cheaper than lethal tobacco products\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The agreement emerged after a late-night meeting with regional leaders\n\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz has pledged to \"examine\" whether asylum applications could be processed abroad.\n\nIt marks a further hardening of the government's position on illegal migration, as parties seek to counter electoral gains by the far right.\n\nThe idea sounds reminiscent of the UK's deal with Rwanda, where migrants in Britain may be sent to claim asylum.\n\nBut the chancellor is openly sceptical having only agreed to the proposal after a late-night meeting.\n\nIt was at nearly 03:00 (2:00 GMT) on Tuesday that Olaf Scholz emerged from the marathon session with regional leaders.\n\nIn the agreement cut with the leaders of Germany's 16 states, there is a short passage on third-country deals that appears almost begrudgingly inserted into the 17-page document.\n\n\"The Federal Government will examine whether the protection status of refugees can also be determined in transit or third countries in the future, in compliance with the Geneva Convention on Refugees and the European Convention on Human Rights.\"\n\nIt's vague and non-committal, as was Chancellor Scholz during the press conference. \"There are also a whole series of legal questions,\" he cautioned.\n\nThere are many practical questions about how such a scheme would be put into effect, but the prospect of processing asylum claims abroad is now being more openly discussed in Germany.\n\nHendrik Wüst, the Christian Democratic (CDU) premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, warned against dismissing Rwanda-style schemes as \"sinister neo-colonialism.\"\n\n\"If you do that, we will not meet the challenges of a global migration crisis,\" he said.\n\nProposals have also emerged from within the ranks of the governing Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Free Democratic Party (FDP).\n\nThey range from reviving the 2016 EU-Turkey deal, which stemmed the influx of migrants into Greece, to setting up new agreements with Senegal, Morocco or Rwanda.\n\nIt is unclear whether successful applicants could then proceed to Germany or would have to stay in the third country in which their claim was processed.\n\nThe UK's Rwanda deal, which is being contested in the courts, would see some asylum seekers sent to the East African state where they may be granted the right to remain.\n\nNo asylum seekers have been sent from the UK to Rwanda since the deal was agreed in 2022.\n\nIn Germany, government and opposition parties are striking an increasingly tough tone on migration.\n\nThe harder line is widely seen as a response to the increasing popularity of the far-right, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD).\n\nAfter his meeting with regional leaders, Mr Scholz also promised to provide extra cash for local authorities and cut benefits for asylum seekers.\n\nHe described the migration agreement as a \"historic moment\".\n\nIn the first nine months of this year, 230,000 people requested asylum in Germany - more than in the whole of 2022.\n\nAcross Europe, leaders are trying to show their electorates they are getting a grip on irregular migration.\n\nOn Monday, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced plans to host illegal migrants in two centres in Albania.\n\nThe nationalist leader is at home delivering a fiery, anti-immigration message.\n\nFor Germany's centre-left chancellor, this conversation is far less comfortable. Many within his own party and his Green coalition partners are highly critical of any move to outsource asylum claims.", "The maker of the popular video game Fortnite has begun its legal battle with Google in a San Francisco court.\n\nThe firm accused Google of acting as a monopoly - charging 30% commission on in-app purchases on Google Play store.\n\nEpic Games accused Google of turning its back on its \"Don't be Evil\" motto, which the company coined when it was founded in 1998.\n\nGoogle however argued that there were plenty of other ways to download apps on Android phones.\n\nThe company has long said that it competes with Apple - and rejects the idea Google Play is monopolistic.\n\nThe trial opens up another anti-trust front against Google. The company is also defending itself in a court in Washington - where the US justice department has accused the company of holding an illegal monopoly over search.\n\nIf Epic's arguments sound familiar, they are. Epic took Apple to court in 2021 with a very similar case.\n\nIn 2020, Fortnite was pulled from Google Play and the App Store, for using its own payments system.\n\nThe judge in that case rejected the idea that Apple was a monopoly, however did allow apps to steer users away from Apple's in-app charges.\n\nEpic argues that Google has \"eliminated competition in the distribution of Android apps using myriad contractual and technical barriers.\"\n\nHowever Google argues there is more competition when it comes to apps than on any other operating system.\n\n\"Android is the only major mobile platform that gives developers multiple ways to distribute apps\" the company says.", "We're pausing our live coverage for the next few hours, so until then, here's a quick recap on where things stand in the war between Israel and Hamas.\n\nPalestinians have continued to flee Gaza City as Israel steps up its ground offensive.\n\nThe Israeli military said 50,000 Palestinians have fled the city today, as its forces once again opened a safe passage on the main north-south road for several hours.\n\nYesterday, Israel said it had surrounded Gaza City and cut the strip in half – today it said Hamas had “lost control” of northern Gaza.\n\nHamas-run authorities in Gaza reported several airstrikes in both the north and south of the territory, with the number of people killed since the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October rising by more than 200 to 10,569 in the last 24 hours.\n\nStrong words from the UN continued, with both Israel and Hamas accused of committing war crimes by the UN commissioner for human rights.\n\nAnd UN Secretary-General Anontio Guterres said the number of civilians killed in Gaza showed something was \"clearly wrong\" with Israeli military operations, but also said Hamas was using people as human shields.\n\nMeanwhile, as families of some 239 people taken hostage in Gaza during the Hamas attacks continue to push for their release, the BBC heard from a source close to talks about the captives.\n\nDiscussions are taking place over a possible release of 12 hostages, half of them Americans, in exchange for a three-day humanitarian pause in fighting, the source said, adding that disagreement remained over the length of the pause and the situation in the north of Gaza.\n\nBut Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed \"false rumours\" and said there would be no ceasefire \"without the release of our hostages\".\n\nThe BBC's International editor, Jeremy Bowen, has travelled with Israeli forces into Gaza - he didn't see a single building that wasn't badly damaged and was shown a building containing both a family apartment and what the military said were weapons-making workshops.\n\nWe continued to hear about the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, with people there struggling to find enough food and water.\n\nHowever, a convoy carrying medical supplies reached Gaza City’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa - where medical conditions are “disastrous” - Unrwa and the World Health Organization said. It was just the second delivery to the hospital during the month-long conflict.", "Sport England has announced \"one of the biggest shake-ups of funding in decades\" with £250m redirected towards deprived areas with the worst levels of physical inactivity over the next five years.\n\nThe agency said the investment - which comes from existing budgets - would target between 80-100 local communities to overcome \"manifestly unfair\" inequalities preventing people from playing sport.\n\nIt has also revealed new research showing that the most active place in England has almost double the activity levels (81%) of the poorest areas (43%).\n\nIt also shows that a person's lifespan can vary by up to nine years depending on where you live.\n\nA quarter of adults in England are currently deemed to be inactive, with more than 11m doing less than 30 minutes of activity in total a week.\n\nAnd statistics indicate that 53% of children and young people are not meeting the guidance of taking part in at least 60 minutes of activity a day.\n\nSport England have been trialling 'Local Delivery Pilots' in 12 of the country's most disadvantaged and least active communities.\n\n\"Access to sport and physical activity in England is still not close to being a level playing field\" said Tim Hollingsworth, chief executive of Sport England.\n\n\"Too often, people in low-income communities don't have access to the same facilities or opportunities as wealthier areas.\n\n\"This is manifestly unfair - and must be addressed as a real priority. That is why our expanded Place Partnership programme will unashamedly see us target our resources and efforts on communities that need the greatest levels of support and experience the greatest levels of inequality.\"\n\nThree months ago, the government launched a new initiative with the target of getting an additional 3.5m people physically active by 2030, including one million children.\n\n\"This £250m investment from Sport England will help make that a reality,\" said Sports Minister Stuart Andrew MP.\n\n\"This targeted place-based funding gives greater access to quality activities and clubs for people of all ages in areas of the country that need it most.\"\n\nHowever, with concerns over the state of leisure facilities, a drop in the amount of sport and physical education in schools over the past decade, and the impact of the cost of living crisis on people's ability to exercise, many believe a radical overhaul is needed, along with more investment into the sector.\n\n\"80 to 100 places is fantastic, but it is only 80 to 100 places,\" Andy Taylor, chief executive of Active Partnerships, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We need to take that further and wider and we need to get organisations and departments working together with that common goal. Investment is important but we need to be efficient as a system. We need that vision from national government to have that healthy nation. There's too much of 'We've got NHS waiting lists - how do we reduce them?'…Well actually, we need to look earlier - it needs to be a long-term plan.\"\n\nNew research from charity Sported shows that among its 3,000 community groups across the UK, more than 90% claimed they are concerned about the impacts of the current economic pressures on their group.\n\nSixty percent of group leaders said they have seen young people who cannot afford activities, and more than half have seen reductions in participation in, or disengagement from, sport and physical activity.\n\nThe House of Lords Sport and Recreation Committee has recommended that responsibility for sports policy should move from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with a new minister for sport, health and wellbeing as part of a \"radical\" shake-up of sports policy.\n\nIt also said PE should become a core national curriculum subject in schools, and called for a new statutory requirement for local councils to provide and maintain facilities for physical activity.", "British Admiralty officials deemed the letters had no military significance.\n\nLetters confiscated by Britain's Royal Navy before they reached French sailors during the Seven Years' War have been opened for the first time.\n\nWritten in 1757-8, they were sent by loved ones for crew onboard a French warship, but never reached them.\n\nProf Renaud Morieux, who discovered the letters, said they were about \"universal human experiences\".\n\nThe Seven Years' War was a battle mainly between Britain and France about control of North America and India.\n\nIt ended with the Treaty of Paris, which gave the UK considerable gains.\n\nProf Morieux, a University of Cambridge academic, unearthed the collection of 104 letters from the National Archives in Kew, and said it was \"agonising how close they got\" to reaching their intended recipients onboard the Galatee.\n\nThe French postal administration took them to multiple ports in France to attempt delivery, but were unsuccessful.\n\nThe Galatee was captured by the British on its way from Bordeaux to Quebec in 1758.\n\nUpon learning the ship was in British hands, French authorities forwarded the letters to England, where they were handed to the navy and ended up in storage.\n\nBritish Admiralty officials deemed the letters had no military significance.\n\nProf Morieux said he only asked to look at the box in the archives \"out of curiosity\" before discovering them.\n\n\"I realised I was the first person to read these very personal messages since they were written,\" he said.\n\n\"Their intended recipients didn't get that chance. It was very emotional,\" said Prof Morieux, whose findings were published in the journal \"Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales\".\n\nProf Morieux identified every member of the Galatee's 181-strong crew, with letters addressed to a quarter of them - he also carried out genealogical research into the men and their correspondents.\n\nThey include a letter from Marie Dubosc to her husband, the ship's first lieutenant, Louis Chambrelan.\n\nShe wrote: \"I could spend the night writing to you... I am your forever faithful wife.\n\n\"Good night, my dear friend. It is midnight. I think it is time for me to rest.\"\n\nResearchers say she did not know where her husband was or that his ship had been captured by the British.\n\nHe did not receive her letter and they did not meet again, with Dubosc dying the next year in northern France.\n\nChambrelan returned to France and remarried in 1761.\n\nIn another letter, Anne Le Cerf told her husband Jean Topsent, a non-commissioned officer: \"I cannot wait to possess you.\"\n\n\"These letters are about universal human experiences, they're not unique to France or the 18th century,\" Prof Morieux said.\n\n\"They reveal how we all cope with major life challenges.\"\n\n\"When we are separated from loved ones by events beyond our control, like the pandemic or wars, we have to work out how to stay in touch, how to reassure, care for people and keep the passion alive.\n\n\"Today we have Zoom and WhatsApp. In the 18th century, people only had letters but what they wrote about feels very familiar.\"", "Spiral galaxy IC 342 (The \"Hidden Galaxy\") is difficult to see because it's located on the far side of the Milky Way\n\nEurope's Euclid telescope is ready to begin its quest to understand the greatest mysteries in the Universe.\n\nExquisite imagery from the space observatory shows its capabilities to be exceptional.\n\nOver the next six years, Euclid will survey a third of the heavens to get some clues about the nature of so-called dark matter and dark energy.\n\nThese unknown \"influencers\" appear to control the shape and expansion of everything that's out there.\n\nResearchers concede, however, they know virtually nothing about them, even though they probably account for 95% of the contents of the cosmos.\n\nNeither dark matter nor dark energy are directly detectable. Our only hope of gaining some understanding is to trace their subtle signals in the things we can see.\n\nThis will be Euclid's job: to observe the contours, distances and motions of billions of galaxies, some of whose light has taken almost the entire age of the Universe to reach us.\n\nSomewhere in the statistics of this 3D cosmic map - the largest ever made - scientists expect to find answers.\n\nThe Horsehead is a great cloud of gas and dust where stars are being born. It's relatively close, just 1,300 light-years from Earth. Many telescopes have imaged this scene but none have done so with the combined width and sharpness that Euclid can achieve.\n\nEuclid's survey will be the most fundamental of inquires, argued Prof Carole Mundell, the director of science at the European Space Agency (Esa).\n\n\"We are human, we want to understand everything around us; whether that was as ancient people looking at the night sky and drawing constellations on our caves, or trying to understand whether the Sun would come back after the winter - we seek that knowledge and insight,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"We don't currently understand 95% of the Universe, a universe that is 13.8 billion years old. We're sentient beings who've been around for a tiny fraction of that time, but we could be the species that gets to figure it all out.\"\n\nDark matter and dark energy are among the biggest puzzles in modern astrophysics.\n\nThe former could be some as-yet-undetected particle. Astronomers infer its presence from the gravitational pull it exerts on the matter we can see. Galaxies would fly apart if it wasn't there.\n\nThe latter represents a very different problem. It could be some kind of energy in the vacuum of space. Whatever it is, it appears to be working against gravity to push galaxies apart at an ever-accelerating rate.\n\nThe Perseus Cluster is one of the most massive structures in the Universe. This image contains 1,000 galaxies from this group, but beyond are tens of thousands more galaxies, some of whose light has taken 10 billion years to reach us.\n\nThe €1.4bn (£1.2bn) Euclid telescope went into space in July. Since then, engineers have been fine-tuning it.\n\nThere were some early worries. Initially, Euclid's optics couldn't lock on to stars to take a steady image. This required new software for the telescope's fine guidance sensor.\n\nEngineers also found some stray light was polluting pictures when the observatory was pointed in a certain way. But with these issues all now resolved, Euclid is good to go - as evidenced by the release of five sample images on Tuesday.\n\n\"They are fantastic,\" said Prof Isobel Hook, who worked on one the teams in the 1990s that first discovered the Universe was expanding at a faster and faster pace.\n\n\"I finally saw the images at full resolution on Monday, and they really blew me away. We were expecting Euclid to perform very well and it really has met all our expectations. It's a big relief and really wonderful to see,\" the Lancaster University astronomer enthused.\n\nLocated a mere 7,800 light-years from Earth, NGC 6397 is what's termed a globular cluster. It's an ancient grouping of stars, some of which are almost as old as the Universe itself. They are cosmic fossils that tell us about the history of galaxies such as our own Milky Way.\n\nNo previous space telescope has been able to combine the breadth, depth and sharpness of vision that Euclid can.\n\nThe astonishing James Webb telescope, for example, has much higher resolution, but it can't cover the amount of sky that Euclid does in one shot.\n\n\"This giant camera with hundreds of millions of pixels is now ready to go and survey the distant Universe and objects over a vast range of the sky - a vast volume of the sky in space and in time,\" said Prof Mark McCaughrean.\n\n\"It's only by looking at huge numbers of galaxies that we'll be able to tease out those subtle signals for dark energy and dark matter, which is what Euclid is all about,\" Esa's senior scientific advisor told BBC News.\n\nEvolved galaxies like our own Milky Way and IC 342 display beautiful spiral arms. But NGC 6822 is an example of an irregular galaxy. It doesn't have that defined shape. Many galaxies in the early Universe look like NGC 6822, although it's relatively close, just 1.6 million light-years from Earth.\n\nNo, this isn't some bizarre galaxy discovered by Euclid. The telescope had a problem locking on to a \"guide star\" during early testing. Until engineers could upload new software to its fine guidance sensor, the observatory was swivelling all over the sky.\n\nArtwork: Euclid has been given six years to assemble its 3D map of one-third of the sky. The telescope is special because it combines breadth, depth and sharpness of vision. It needs these qualities to be able to probe a large volume of the sky within a practical timeframe.", "Indi Gregory's treatment causes her pain and is futile, medics have said\n\nA critically ill eight-month-old baby has been granted Italian citizenship as her parents fight to prevent doctors ending her life support.\n\nMedics in Nottingham have been told by the High Court they can withdraw treatment for Indi Gregory, who has mitochondrial disease.\n\nIndi's parents oppose the move and an Italian hospital has agreed to continue treating her.\n\nNow the Italian government has made Indi a citizen to support the move.\n\nItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said she will defend Indi's life until the end.\n\nIn a post on X, formerly Twitter, she said: \"They say there isn't much hope for little Indi, but I will do everything in my power to defend her life until the end.\n\n\"And to defend her mother and father's right to do everything they can for her.\"\n\nItaly's cabinet met on Monday to grant the child citizenship, citing \"pre-eminent humanitarian values\".\n\nIndi's parents, Claire Staniforth and Dean Gregory, had previously said they had \"given up\" their legal battle\n\nChristian Concern, which has been supporting Indi's parents, from Ilkeston in Derbyshire, said an urgent High Court hearing would take place on Tuesday to consider her life-support removal.\n\nIndi has mitochondrial disease and medics at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) have said they can do no more for her.\n\nThey said she was dying and told a previous High Court hearing her treatment was futile and causes pain.\n\nHowever parents Claire Staniforth and Dean Gregory have been fighting the move and Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital in Rome has agreed to provide treatment.\n\nThe family's latest challenge to the High Court was dismissed on Saturday.\n\nA protest against the ruling was held outside the QMC on Sunday.\n\nAn Italian government source told the Reuters news agency the family would be able to appeal to the Italian consulate in Britain to ask that Indi be airlifted to Italy, but there was no obligation for Britain to grant the request.\n\nThe news agency reported Galeazzo Bignami, a junior minister, said the government's move would allow the baby's transfer to the Bambino Gesu paediatric hospital, and that without it her life support would have been turned off on Monday.\n\nIn response to the latest development, Mr Gregory said: \"My heart fills up with joy that the Italians have given Claire and I hope and faith back in humanity.\"\n\nDr Keith Girling, medical director at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, said: \"Cases like this are incredibly difficult for everyone and our thoughts are with Indi's parents at this very difficult time.\n\n\"A hearing to decide whether Indi can be extubated at home or at hospital is now due to be held on Tuesday 7 November.\n\n\"Until a decision is made we will continue to provide specialised care for Indi.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Trump testifies in his fraud trial... in 85 seconds\n\nDonald Trump clashed repeatedly with a judge and defended his family's business as he testified in a civil fraud trial in New York.\n\nDuring almost four hours on the witness stand, the former president disputed claims that he deceived banks and aired grievances with the case.\n\nThe judge has already ruled the Trump Organization committed fraud and this trial will determine the penalties.\n\nDuring his highly anticipated appearance at a Manhattan federal courthouse on Monday, Mr Trump, 77, was asked about the value of various properties including his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago, Trump Tower in New York and a golf course in Scotland.\n\nThese properties are among several that prosecutors say were intentionally overvalued in company statements in order to secure better loans and insurance policies.\n\nIn his testimony, Mr Trump, who is the current frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, stood by the valuations as prosecutors quizzed him on how they were reached and the financial statements at the centre of the trial.\n\n\"I'm worth billions of dollars more than the financial statements,\" Mr Trump said, before describing the property valuations as \"very conservative.\"\n\nHe said the valuations were bolstered by his personal brand, something he said carried him to the White House and was never factored into financial statements.\n\n\"I can look at buildings and tell you what they're worth,\" he said in another testy exchange.\n\nThe lawsuit was brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who accuses Mr Trump, along with his sons Eric and Donald Jr and other Trump Organization executives, of deliberately inflating company assets for years. All deny wrongdoing.\n\nMs James, who was in the courtroom and stared directly at Mr Trump during his testimony, later told reporters: \"He rambled. He hurled insults. But we expected that.\"\n\n\"The numbers don't lie,\" she said. \"Justice will prevail.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe former president's time on the stand was marked by heated exchanges and lengthy, sometimes meandering, responses. These prompted several rebukes from Judge Arthur Engoron who appeared exasperated at times.\n\n\"Please just answer the questions, no speeches,\" the judge said.\n\nAfter another lengthy answer, Judge Engoron said to one of Mr Trump's lawyers: \"Can you control your client? This is not a political rally, this is a courtroom.\"\n\n\"I beseech you to control him,\" he added. \"If you can't, I will.\"\n\nJudge Engoron will ultimately decide the outcome of the trial and, as well as a multi-million dollar fine, could strip the defendants of the ability to do business in New York.\n\n\"I'm sure the judge will rule against me because he always rules against me,\" Mr Trump said at one point in court.\n\nJudge Engoron fired back: \"You can attack me in whichever way you want, but please answer the questions.\" He later referred to Mr Trump as a \"broken record\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLike his two sons in their testimony last week, the former president said it was the Trump Organization accountants who bore responsibility for the financial reports.\n\n\"All I did was authorise and give people whatever was necessary for the accountants to do the statement,\" Mr Trump said.\n\nAs he left court, he again referred to the case as a \"fraud\" and said he believed his testimony \"went very well\".\n\nSome legal and political analysts have suggested Mr Trump's combative approach on the stand was a considered strategy, while others have said he used the much anticipated moment as an opportunity to campaign.\n\nRenato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, told the BBC that Mr Trump's responses indicate his legal team believes \"they've already lost\".\n\n\"They're trying to spin or add some colour to a very bad result,\" Mr Mariotti said.\n\n\"I think he is trying to goad the judge into doing something [Trump] can argue on appeal that shows prejudice on his part,\" Kevin McMunigal, another former federal prosecutor, said. \"Maybe he makes a comment they can use to support a bias case later.\"\n\nThe judge has already fined Mr Trump $15,000 for comments made outside of court last month.\n\nMr Trump's daughter, Ivanka, is expected to give evidence on Wednesday.\n\nThe civil case in New York is one of several legal battles in which Mr Trump is embroiled.\n\nHe also faces four criminal indictments - two relating to his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, one on his handling of classified documents and another alleging false accounting involving hush money.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Sonia was diagnosed with grade three breast cancer when she was 27\n\n\"Even though I watched my mum battle from a young age, I never used to check my breasts. We didn't even talk about it.\"\n\nWhen Sonia Bhandal was 14, her mum passed away from breast cancer, six years after being diagnosed. Then, when she was 27, Sonia found out she had the same cancer.\n\nCancer can be a tricky issue to discuss in the Asian community - and when it comes to breast cancer there is added stigma.\n\nSonia feels Asian women face added pressures when they have a long-term illness because their marriage or fertility prospects are often questioned.\n\n\"I was dating during my treatment and remember being super-ill, fresh out of hospital and an aunt saying 'will his parents accept you?',\" she tells BBC Asian Network.\n\n\"I was already just trying to survive day by day and to have questions about my future, my marriage and fertility from people close to you, it's heartbreaking.\n\n\"And that's why people don't want to talk about it, because they don't want their aunt or anyone else to give these opinions.\"\n\nResearch by Breast Cancer Now suggests there is a lower uptake of breast screening among south Asians, which means they are often diagnosed at a later stage and have reduced survival rates than white women.\n\nIt suggested cultural and language barriers could play a part in this.\n\n\"There are barriers around talking about breasts in the community and checking breasts is often seen as a sexual thing,\" says Manveet Basra, the charity's associate director of public health.\n\n\"There's fear around cancer generally and a feeling of fatalism.\n\n\"So some cultural or religious beliefs that a cancer diagnosis is off the back of a sin from a past life and karma.\"\n\nSonia was 14 years old when her mum died of breast cancer\n\nSonia says she was \"getting a lot of pain in my breast\" before she discovered she had inherited an altered gene called BRCA that increased her risk of developing breast cancer.\n\nBoth her mum and aunt had previously died from the disease.\n\n\"I rolled over in bed and my arm scraped my breast and it felt like a stone,\" she says.\n\n\"I just burst into tears, my gut just knew what it was.\"\n\nHaving that particular gene also means there is a higher than average chance of the cancer returning, and put Sonia at increased risk of ovarian cancer too.\n\nSo she opted to have a double mastectomy - having both breasts removed - because she \"didn't want to risk having to go through chemo again\".\n\nSania uses her role as a doctor in the community to encourage better health care\n\nSania Ahmed is a doctor trying to use her platform to raise awareness of how breast cancer is perceived in the south Asian community.\n\n\"I was 24 years old when I was diagnosed and it felt like I was labelled with a life sentence,\" she says.\n\n\"Women in our culture don't prioritise their health. And because the breast is seen as a private area, breast examination [often] doesn't exist.\n\n\"I've grown up in a loving Muslim family but women are still seen as fulfilling the role of a wife and having kids.\"\n\nSania says she tries to use her role in the community to encourage better healthcare.\n\n\"As a doctor, I'm always encouraging my patients to check their breasts,\" she says.\n\n\"If something feels odd then just get it looked at.\"\n\nFor Dipika Saggi, breast cancer wasn't something she had dealt with in her immediate family.\n\nShe had a \"shooting pain\" during the Covid pandemic and her GP referred her for a biopsy straight away.\n\nDipika, who was 35 at the time, was then told she was already \"quite far along\", with the tumour being at 8cm.\n\n\"It was a rapid emotional rollercoaster of confusion, pain and acceptance,\" she says.\n\n\"You don't think you can get cancer when you're young. Maybe that's why I got help a lot later.\"\n\nDipika says some comments from people around her also made things harder, including references to karma or \"God's will\".\n\n\"I often heard from elders 'everything happens for a reason' or 'God only challenges his strongest' and I would think 'so you think God thinks I deserve to have cancer?'\" she says.\n\nManveet feels younger members of the community like Sonia, Dipika and Sania can help to change mindsets.\n\n\"Being breast aware, knowing the signs and symptoms can potentially help you and others in your family,\" she says.\n\nIf you are affected by issues raised in this article, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line You can get more information on breast cancer screening here.\n\nListen to Ankur Desai's show on BBC Asian Network live from 15:00-18:00 Monday to Thursday - or listen back here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Over three decades, George Alagiah was a familiar and much-loved presence on British screens\n\nHundreds of people attended a memorial service for BBC News presenter George Alagiah, who died in July. Colleagues and family members alike paid tribute to one of British television's best-loved figures.\n\nOn 7 July 2023, three weeks before he died, George Alagiah dictated to his wife Frances the words he wanted to be read aloud at his memorial.\n\n\"It is a painful yet exclusive luxury to be living with cancer because for the most part it is a story of a death foretold,\" he began. \"Many of us cancer patients know that our time is running out so there is time for reflection. It is not the brutality of a car crash.\"\n\nNearly four months later, 800 of George's friends, colleagues and family members listened as Sophie Raworth, his former BBC Six O'Clock News co-presenter, shared his final thoughts with the world.\n\nIt was, for everyone present at St Martin-in-the-Fields church, near London's Trafalgar Square, a deeply emotional moment. The congregation had gathered to remember one the BBC's longest-serving and most highly respected journalists - an award-winning foreign correspondent and a fixture on BBC News for three decades.\n\nBut everyone in the church knew George Alagiah was much more besides - a devoted husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend. And during the service of celebration, colleagues and loved ones alike spoke of his most human qualities - his empathy, compassion and kindness.\n\nBBC special correspondent Allan Little, who worked with George at the BBC's Bureau in Johannesburg and was a close friend, described a ground-breaking reporter who was instrumental in bringing diverse perspectives to the BBC's newsroom.\n\n\"In his reporting there was always the outstretched hand of a shared humanity,\" Little said. \"George wasn't just a good reporter, he was also a good man.\"\n\nThe service began with the London African Gospel Choir performing Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika\n\nThe service began with the London African Gospel Choir performing Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika - a song which, when George began covering South Africa in the 1980s, risked a jail sentence for anyone who sang it. Today it is part of the national anthem. Such was the enormity of the events to which George had faithfully borne witness, said the vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, The Rev Dr Sam Wells.\n\nGeorge Maxwell Alagiah was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka - then called Ceylon - on 22 November 1955, before his family moved to Ghana in the wake of ethnic unrest. He and his siblings were later educated in England.\n\nHis sisters, Mari Martin, Rachel Stojan, Chris Dennington and Jenny Johnson, spoke of the profound impact of these migrations on their childhoods. \"Our parents must have instilled in us a sense of adventure,\" Mari said, \"because we never felt fear or trepidation.\"\n\nBut this did not come without hardship for George. The congregation heard how he later wrote about the racist bullying he received at his boarding school in Portsmouth, as well as the dawning of his belief that the UK was a country where \"class trumps race every time\".\n\nThe service heard stories, too, of George's days at Durham University, where he met Frances and made lifelong friendships. George's sons, Adam Alagiah-Glomseth and Matthew Alagiah, read passages from their father's books.\n\nOn a screen, a montage of photographs showed George at work around the world and at home with his family. It was accompanied by Steve Rosenberg, the BBC's Russia editor, on piano. Later, Natasha Kaplinsky - also once George's Six O'Clock News co-presenter - read Maya Angelou's When Great Trees Fall.\n\n\"To a whole generation of audiences, he was the very best of us,\" BBC director general Tim Davie told all those present.\n\nAt the very end of the order of service, the following item was scheduled: \"A final round of applause for George; exactly one minute; cheering allowed.\"\n\nAllan Little implored congregants to do as suggested and make as much noise as possible. \"For precisely 60 seconds, take the roof off St Martin-in-the-Fields,\" he said.\n\nThey obliged. For somewhat longer than a minute, the church thundered with the sound of applause.\n\nAnd as the congregation left the building, they carried with them George Alagiah's own words, as read by Sophie Raworth.\n\nHe had left them all the following instructions:\n\n\"If you haven't already told the people you love that you love them, tell them;\n\n\"If you haven't already told them how vulnerable you sometimes feel, tell them;\n\n\"If you want to tell them that you'd like to be with them until the front hall stairs feel like Everest, tell them.\n\n\"You never know what is coming around the corner.\n\n\"And if, lucky you, there is nothing around the corner, then at least you got your defence in first.\"", "Serena Williams outside of the 2023 CFDA Awards in New York on 6 November\n\nTennis legend Serena Williams has been named a fashion icon by the Council of Fashion Designers of America.\n\nThe organisation awarded Williams the title on Monday night at a ceremony in New York.\n\n\"I explored fashion and style as a way to distinguish myself,\" Williams told the crowd. \"In many ways for me, the tennis courts became my runway.\"\n\nWilliams is the first athlete to win the award. Previous award recipients include Beyoncé, Zendaya and Rihanna.\n\nThe 23-time Grand Slam singles champion rocked the red carpet at the American Museum of Natural History, wearing a bespoke black sequin dress designed by CFDA Chairman Thom Browne.\n\nOn the fashion industry's equivalent of Oscar night, Williams was presented the 2023 CFDA fashion icon award by fashion mogul and television star Kim Kardashian.\n\nOthers in the audience included actors Anne Hathaway, Gwyneth Paltrow and Demi Moore and singers Mary J Blige and Vanessa Hudgens.\n\nIn her acceptance speech, Williams spoke of her love for fashion and its role on the tennis court.\n\n\"I designed skirts out of denim and I wore purple tutus and bodysuits and put beads in my hair, and braids,\" she said. \"It was really just a fun time for me.\"\n\nWilliams studied fashion during her playing career - attending fashion school between Grand Slams - and in 2018, launched her S by Serena clothing line.\n\nIn 2019, Williams told Essence magazine that her clothes \"represent women everywhere - indomitable mothers, daughters and sisters; resilient businesswomen and entrepreneurs; outsiders and underdogs; little girls with crazy dreams and unflinching women of colour\".\n\nWilliams, 42, ended her 27-year professional career in 2022 in New York at the US Open, though she has said \"I am not retired\", and \"the chances (of a return) are very high\".\n\nShe referred to her career's end in a Vogue magazine article as \"evolving away from tennis\".\n\nAt the awards ceremony, Williams thanked several people but saved the last one for her mother.\n\n\"Watching her sew created this creativity in me that I still have to this day,\" Williams said.", "Rhianon Bragg wants help for victims to guide them through the justice system\n\nA domestic abuse and anti-stalking campaigner wants the King's Speech to be used to strengthen victims' rights.\n\nIn 2020, Rhianon Bragg's ex-partner Gareth Wyn Jones was jailed after holding her hostage at gunpoint at her home near Caernarfon, Gwynedd.\n\nShe wants trained advocates for victims to guide them through the \"confusing minefield\" of the justice system.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) apologised for causing \"profound distress\" in its handling of the case.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said a draft law to transform victims' experiences had been carried over to Parliament's next session.\n\nIn August, the CPS apologised to Ms Bragg for deciding not to charge Jones with harassment which she had reported to the police prior to him taking her hostage.\n\n\"I was never told at the time about the victims' right to review. So that opportunity to question the decision wasn't given to me,\" said Ms Bragg.\n\nThe consequences of the CPS's decision were devastating, she said.\n\n\"Our [family's] perpetrator went on to, for five months more, stalk us, to abuse us, and the final incident was to hold me at gunpoint overnight threatening to kill me.\"\n\nRhianon Bragg say her ex-partner Gareth Wyn Jones was controlling and abusive during their five-year relationship\n\nAn already \"horrific time\", she said, was \"made worse by the criminal justice system\".\n\n\"You're expected as a victim who's experienced trauma to cope with scenarios, language and processes which are completely foreign to you.\"\n\nThe King's Speech provides the government with an opportunity to highlight its priorities for the months ahead.\n\nThe Victims and Prisoners Bill was introduced to Parliament in March but was not passed before the session ended. MPs agreed to allow it to be reintroduced and given more time to become law.\n\nMs Bragg welcomed the expected measures on improving support for victims of crime, but said the government needed to go further and \"make it about protecting victims and giving victims the security that they need\".\n\nMs Bragg called the UK government's decision to add provisions on prisoners and parole to the bill \"insulting\".\n\nInstead she called for additional measures for victims to be included, such as a provision for all victims to be given an advocate to \"guide victims through the process... in language that can be understood\".\n\nShe also said support services must be allocated \"sustainable funding\", as well as changes on sentences relating to domestic abuse and stalking.\n\n\"It's horrific what the perpetrators - quite frankly - can get away with,\" she said.\n\n\"I realise we've got a squeeze on prison places at the moment, but I think it's something that needs to be looked at because for many victims the only time they're truly safe is when the perpetrator isn't physically there.\"\n\nIn too many cases \"the sentences do not reflect the crimes that have been committed, the devastation on the lives of the victims and their families\".\n\nMs Bragg's case has been raised in the House of Commons by Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville-Roberts, whose party wants a victims' commissioner to be created for Wales as part of its alternative King's Speech.\n\nIt is an idea welcomed by Ms Bragg, who said that while there was a victims' commissioner covering England and Wales, there was a period when the post was vacant and she contacted London's victims' commissioner.\n\nMs Bragg said that while she was grateful to Claire Waxman for her support \"there should have been someone else\" with Wales' sizeable rural population presenting \"additional challenges on many fronts for victims\".\n\nThe MoJ said: \"Our Victims and Prisoners Bill has been carried over to Parliament's next session. It will place the foundations of the Victims' Code on a statutory footing and put victims' voices at the heart of the justice system, improving their experience at every stage.\"\n\nIt added that funding for victim and witness support services had increased and the number of independent sexual and domestic abuse advisors was now more than 1,000.\n\nThe CPS said: \"The decision in May 2019 not to charge Gareth Wyn Jones with harassment was wrong and we've apologised to the victim for the profound distress this has caused.\n\n\"We later charged Jones with stalking, possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life, false imprisonment, and making a threat to kill, to which he pled guilty, and we included evidence of his earlier harassment of the victim as part of our case.\"", "Artwork: European companies already have concepts that could feature in the capsule competition\n\nA robotic capsule to carry cargo to and from the International Space Station is to be developed under a competition run by the European Space Agency.\n\nIt's anticipated the vehicle will make its maiden voyage in 2028.\n\nThe initiative marks a big shift in the way Esa has traditionally run its projects.\n\nThe competition's winner will receive some funding and technical support from the agency, but it must operate the capsule on a commercial basis.\n\nIt will have to part-fund the development and then \"sell\" the re-supply \"service\" to Esa, who will become the \"anchor customer\".\n\nIf the endeavour is successful, the company behind the new capsule may be asked to upgrade it so it can also carry Esa astronauts into orbit, again on the basis of a commercially contracted service.\n\n\"We will conceive [the capsule] in a way that it's not a dead end, meaning that it's open and can evolve in the future to a crew vehicle, if member states decide to do so,\" said Esa director-general Josef Aschbacher.\n\n\"Eventually, it could also evolve [to go to] other destinations, possibly to the Moon,\" he told reporters.\n\nA tiger team was being set up inside the agency with an initial budget of €75m (£65m) to get the competition under way, the DG added.\n\nThe idea was enthusiastically backed by Esa member states at a summit in Seville, Spain, on Monday.\n\nNasa now purchases its transportation needs from SpaceX\n\nThe competitive procurement model is one that has worked extremely well for the American space agency.\n\nNasa used to own and operate all its space vehicles. But when the famous space shuttles were retired, it opted instead to start seeding new providers, offering them fixed-price contracts and encouraging progress with milestone payments.\n\nThis is how entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company emerged. His Californian firm has since become the dominant supplier to Nasa of space transportation services. The US agency purchases seats in SpaceX capsules to get its astronauts to and from the ISS, and contracts SpaceX rockets to send science missions far beyond Earth.\n\nThe Esa competition will try to replicate this model which, in the arena of transportation, has given Nasa access to faster, more innovative and lower-cost space technologies.\n\nAnna Christmann, a Green politician leading aerospace policy in the German government and chair of the Seville summit, said Esa was going through a paradigm shift.\n\n\"Public money is needed to start these kinds of competitions, but then that attracts investors to put money in through private companies,\" she commented.\n\n\"When we compare space budgets, Europe is not so different from others on the public side. The bigger difference is on the private side of investment, and that's what we want to change.\"\n\nPotential capsule contenders already exist in Europe. Start-ups such as The Exploration Company and Rocket Factory Augsburg have concepts they may wish to enter.\n\nThe Ariane 6 is still many months away from making a debut\n\nEsa member states also committed in Seville to use the approach for procuring rockets in the long term.\n\nToday, Europe's launchers are in crisis. The new heavy-lift Ariane-6 vehicle is years behind schedule and the medium-lift Vega-C rocket is out of action because of recent failures.\n\nEsa member states have taken measures, at considerable cost, to try to put these projects back on track, but there is a recognition that the current malaise must not be repeated in the decades ahead.\n\nTo that end, European industry will also be challenged to provide next-generation rockets on the service model, limiting the liability of European taxpayers, who've been asked to dig deep to subsidise current hardware.\n\nAriane-6, for instance, will be receiving up to €340m (£295m) a year in support payments during the early phase of its exploitation.\n\n\"All 22 member states of Esa have agreed that we have to change how we procure the launchers of the future,\" Dr Aschbacher said.\n\nThe Seville meeting also took decisions that will see satellites play a greater role in helping European nations achieve their net-zero goals. A good example is using space data to route planes more efficiently so they contribute fewer greenhouse gases.\n\nIn addition, Esa opened its Zero Debris Charter to signatories. This encourages everyone operating in space to leave behind no hardware that might collide with operational missions.\n\nThe UK, one of the big four nations in Esa, will be introducing a new regulatory framework early next year that aims to promote good behaviour and foster a market for services that remove trash from orbit.\n\n\"We want to reward compliant operators,\" said UK science minister George Freeman.\n\n\"If you're bringing back what you put up, if you're doing in-flight servicing and not contributing to space debris - we're going to give you faster licensing, better insurance and quicker access to finance,\" he told BBC News.\n\nArtwork: The Exploration Company in Munich/Bordeaux is working on a capsule design it calls Nyx", "Lindsey and Rob Burrow interview seven sporting greats in their new podcast\n\nEx-England captain Wayne Rooney has opened up to Rob Burrow about his toxic relationship with alcohol in the early days of his footballing career.\n\nSpeaking on the ex-rugby league star and Motor Neurone Disease campaigner's new podcast, Rooney said drinking was a \"release\" from the pressures of fame.\n\nRooney made his Premier League debut at 16 for Everton and rapidly went on to become a household name.\n\n\"There were people for me to speak to, but I chose not to do that\", he said.\n\nRooney, now 38, is the first guest on the new series of the BBC’s The Total Sport podcast.\n\nCalled Seven: Rob Burrow, the podcast sees the Leeds Rhinos rugby league legend and his wife Lindsey interviewing seven sporting greats and asking seven questions.\n\nMotor Neurone Disease (MND) Association patron Burrow, who uses AI technology and recordings of his voice to communicate, was helped by the charity with eye-gaze technology to make the series.\n\nWayne Rooney, now 38, told Rob Burrow that alcohol was his \"release\" during his early 20s\n\nWhen asked by Burrow about overcoming challenges in his career, Rooney, who scored 53 times for England and is Manchester United's all-time leading goal-scorer, brought up the issue of alcohol as one of the most difficult.\n\nHe told Burrow: \"My release was alcohol when I was in my early 20s. I'd drink almost until I'd pass out.\n\n\"I didn't want to be around people, because sometimes you feel embarrassed.\n\n\"You feel like you've let people down and ultimately I didn't know how else to deal with it.\"\n\nRooney, now Birmingham City manager, continued: \"When you don't take the help and guidance of others, you can be really in a low place, and I was for a few years with that.\n\n\"Thankfully, now I'm not afraid to go and speak to people about issues.\"\n\nRooney said Burrow's spirit had been an inspiration to him and others.\n\nHe said: \"I know first-hand the impact this [illness] can have on yourself and people around you.\n\n\"Everyone must change the way of living and I had that with my sister-in-law, who suffered not the same illness but something as severe.\n\n\"But your energy and positivity helps everyone else around you, I can see the money you have raised for charity and to help others, it's really inspiring.\"\n\nUpcoming guests on the podcast include England rugby union world cup winner Jonny Wilkinson, double-Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes and seven-time Paralympic gold medallist Hannah Cockroft.\n\nUpcoming guests on the podcast, hosted by Rob and Lindsey Burrow, include rugby union world cup winner Jonny Wilkinson\n\nOther topics Rooney was quizzed about by the Burrows included the footballer's favourite and worst team-mates and his life-long love of Rob's rugby league side Leeds Rhinos.\n\n\"I remember thinking there was no way I was going to support St Helens, Warrington or Wigan, because they are all fake Scousers,\" Rooney shared.\n\n\"It was a Friday night and I was watching the Rhinos play. I was gripped.\"\n\nBurrow said he had \"loved\" working on the podcast, which will see new episodes available each Wednesday and speaking to sporting greats.\n\n\"Having this disease doesn't mean I don't have a voice. I live life to the full every day and refuse to give in.\n\n\"I've really enjoyed being able to showcase my personality in my podcast and have a laugh.\"\n\nTanya Curry, CEO of the MND Association said: \"By using his communication aid to converse with guests, Rob is continuing to push boundaries of what is possible when living with MND and raising awareness that around 80% of people living with MND will experience changes to their speech after being diagnosed with the disease.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jon Boutcher is a former chief constable of Bedfordshire Police\n\nJon Boutcher has been appointed as the new chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\nMr Boutcher is already interim chief constable of the PSNI and is a former head of of Bedfordshire Police.\n\nHe said he was \"very honoured,\" adding that he was looking forward to \"leading the dedicated officers and staff of this exceptional organisation\".\n\nThe previous chief constable Simon Byrne resigned in September following a series of crises under his leadership.\n\nMr Boutcher's appointment was made by the Policing Board and approved by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.\n\nHe was one of two candidates shortlisted for the role, alongside Bobby Singleton, an assistant chief constable with the PSNI.\n\nThe position carries a salary of £220,000 and is considered one of the most demanding jobs in UK policing.\n\nThe PSNI has a staff of more than 9,000 and a budget of about £800m.\n\n\"This position carries great responsibility and is a huge privilege,\" the new chief constable said.\n\n\"There is much to do and I am fully committed to delivering an outstanding policing service to address the issues which matter most to our communities.\n\n\"The officers and staff of the police service do an extraordinary job and will have my full support.\"\n\nPolicing Board chairwoman Deirdre Toner was one of the panellists who chose Mr Boutcher as the next PSNI chief\n\nConfirming the appointment, Policing Board chair Deirdre Toner said Mr Boutcher was \"clearly committed to the challenges ahead\".\n\n\"There are also significant pieces of work to be progressed to manage and mitigate the serious financial pressures currently facing policing and deal with confidence and other issues arising from recent events,\" she added.\n\nLiam Kelly, chair of police representative body the Police Federation for Northern Ireland, congratulated Mr Boutcher on his appointment.\n\nHowever, he urged him to prioritise \"direct and urgent\" government intervention to tackle what he described as \"chronic and deep-rooted issues holding back the [police] service\".\n\nHe offered the federation's full support \"for a campaign to get minsters to realise what is urgently required\".\n\n\"The list of what must be fixed is long and can only be addressed by a meaningful and realistic funding package from government,\" Mr Kelly said.\n\nSinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill wished Mr Boutcher well but said there was a \"huge job of work ahead to rebuild trust and confidence in the police with public, and PSNI officers\".\n\nShe added that the focus \"must be on delivering an efficient and effective policing service that works and is representative of everyone in society\".\n\nThe leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Sir Jeffrey Donaldson wished Mr Boutcher \"every success\" but said his appointment \"must not be a false dawn\".\n\nSir Jeffery said the DUP would engage with him to \"hear his plans to restore confidence and improve relations with the unionist community\".\n\nHe also thanked Mr Singleton \"for putting his name forward for consideration\" and wished him continued success with his career in policing.\n\nUlster Unionist Party (UUP) Policing Board member Mike Nesbitt welcomed the appointment and said Mr Boutcher had made a \"strong start\" as interim chief constable, improving morale and dealing with \"a number of challenging issues\".\n\n\"I feel we will see more of the same under his leadership and look forward to working with him through my position on the Policing Board,\" he said.\n\nJon Boutcher will seek to move the PSNI on quickly from what has been a damaging three months for policing.\n\nThe job of rebuilding morale internally is already under way.\n\nFixing the harm done to public confidence is the second part of the challenge.\n\nThe PSNI's financial situation probably overshadows all else.\n\nIt is £50m short of what it needs to balance the books for 2023-24 and mid-term the prognosis looks grim.\n\nUnless money is found, the force will continue to shrink in size.\n\nThere's been a warning of less neighbourhood patrolling and fewer detectives.\n\nExpect Mr Boutcher to use his appointment to make a fresh pitch for help from the Department of Justice and the NIO.\n\nMr Boutcher has spent the past five years overseeing an independent investigation into the activities of the Army's top spy within the IRA during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nHis Operation Kenova report into the agent, who was known as Stakeknife, is due to be published in the coming months.\n\nHe had previously applied to lead the Metropolitan Police after the resignation of Cressida Dick last year but he was unsuccessful in that process.\n\nHe was also unsuccessful in his bid to become PSNI chief constable in 2019, when the job eventually went to Mr Byrne.\n\nSimon Byrne quit as PSNI chief constable after a series of crises within the force\n\nThe PSNI has been without a chief constable for several weeks after Mr Byrne's resignation.\n\nHe quit after a series of controversies, including a court ruling that two junior officers were unlawfully disciplined and a number of data breaches within the force.\n\nMr Boutcher's contract is for five years but it can be extended thereafter.\n\nThe interview panel consisted of Ms Toner and independent Policing Board member Mukesh Sharma as well as board members Joanne Bunting of the DUP, Gerry Kelly of Sinn Féin and Alliance Party representative Nuala McAllister.", "Queues of people can be seen waiting outside Cardiff Central Station after major events and shows\n\nA railway line aimed at improving travel after major events in Cardiff has been cancelled.\n\nThe Welsh government pulled the plug on the plan, saying it no longer offered value for money.\n\nTransport for Wales (TfW) says it cannot get back £10m spent on preparing to build the track at a steelworks near Newport.\n\nBut Senedd opposition parties said public money had been lost on the project.\n\nUnder the plans, extra trains could have waited on the 1.6km-long line near the Llanwern steelworks when big crowds of fans were expected at venues such as the Principality Stadium.\n\nIt would have provided additional capacity, making transport run more smoothly.\n\nIn its latest annual report, TfW said the £10.54m spent on the project, known as the Major Event Stabling Line (MESL), since 2018 was \"now considered irrecoverable\".\n\nThe company said other plans to open new commuter stations around Newport and Cardiff, including at Llanwern, will go ahead.\n\nThere have been difficulties with transport to and from events in Cardiff in the past, including when Ed Sheeran played at the Principality in 2022.\n\nBeyonce kicked off the UK leg of her Renaissance tour in Cardiff and more major events are planned for the city next year\n\nMore big-name acts are lined up there next year, including Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nCardiff has also been announced as a host city for the 2028 Euros.\n\nSarah Hemsley-Cole, who runs a Cardiff-based event production company, said the city had \"really fragile transport infrastructure\".\n\n\"There's always a great push on sustainability and I don't think we really have the solutions here in Wales to deliver a robust transport network to support the events that we have,\" she said.\n\nFootball fan Evan Powell, 20, of Cefn Hengoed, Caerphilly county, said that while delays on match days were inevitable, overcrowding was the biggest issue.\n\n\"The amount of times that a two-carriage train has turned up at a platform with hundreds of people waiting on… you're either getting refused to travel back or you're stuck in the most uncomfortable train ride that could be potentially dangerous,\" he said.\n\nFootball fan Evan Powell says overcrowded trains on match days are \"potentially dangerous\"\n\nChris Medlicott, 45, from Aberdare, took his son Owen, five, to his first Wales rugby match at the Principality on Saturday and said train passengers were \"irate\" due to how packed it was.\n\n\"I'm dreading going back,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't know why they don't put extra carriages on when it's going to be busy.\"\n\nChris Medlicott says he was dreading taking the train home after taking his five-year-old son to his first rugby match\n\nAlso attending the Wales v Barbarians match, Shelli Docherty, 44, said her 15-minute train journey from Pontyclun with son Marcus and husband Doc was \"absolutely packed\".\n\n\"The carriage was completely full. There was kissable distance,\" she said.\n\n\"Leaving a couple of hours before kick-off time, I think we've left it a bit late to be honest.\"\n\nShelli Docherty said fellow passengers were \"kissable distance\" in the packed pre-match trains\n\nWarren Beck said his son and grandson stood all the way from Gowerton to Cardiff because of the \"absolute chaos\" of only three carriages.\n\nThe Welsh government said a review had concluded the line \"would not provide value for money\".\n\n\"TfW is introducing brand new trains to their fleet to help improve resilience and meet increased demand across the network on major event days,\" it said.\n\nWarren Beck (left) says travelling to big games by train is \"absolute chaos\"\n\nMinisters recently announced a big cash injection of more than £125m for TfW.\n\nThis year it emerged the cost of the South Wales Metro had risen more than £260m to £1bn.\n\nRail expert Andrew Potter, of Cardiff University, said there was a \"fixed pot\" of money and rising construction and energy costs had hit the industry.\n\n\"If there's something that's only going to be used occasionally and potentially you can work around with other fixes it seems pointless to invest in that when there are bigger priorities,\" he said.\n\nTfW said the Welsh government had initially asked it to develop the scheme in 2017, and to look at a new station.\n\n\"However, following detailed development work, including feasibility, design and enabling works, it became clear the costs associated with the project would be significantly more than initial estimates,\" said TfW.\n\nColdplay's Chris Martin travelled by train when the band played Cardiff's Principality Stadium on their last world tour\n\n\"The business case for the scheme was challenged in light of the changes in post-covid demand and wider pressures on budgets.\n\nMoney spent will result in \"other benefits which have been transferred as part of the wider work which was developed,\" including the plan for the new Llanwern station.\n\nWelsh Conservative shadow transport minister Natasha Asghar said to \"essentially write off\" more than £10m was \"completely irresponsible\".\n\n\"I worry the shambolic trains here will be an embarrassment for Wales on the world stage when we host the Euros in 2028,\" she said.\n\nDelyth Jewell of Plaid Cymru said public transport should be the first choice for fans but that was \"nowhere near the case\".\n\n\"It's disappointing, therefore, to see that this plan to increase the capacity has been shelved and so much money lost,\" she said.", "Boris Johnson \"wanted to be injected with Covid-19 on television\" to calm public fears, an ex-aide has said.\n\nThe claim - by Lord Lister - came in a witness statement to the Covid inquiry.\n\nHe said Mr Johnson \"suggested to senior civil servants and advisers that he wanted to be injected with Covid-19 on television to demonstrate to the public that it did not pose a threat\".\n\nIt was \"at a time when Covid was not seen as being the serious disease it subsequently became\", he added.\n\nHe said it was an \"unfortunate comment\" that had been \"made in the heat of the moment\".\n\nHe also confirmed his former boss had said letting \"the bodies pile high\" was preferable to another lockdown.\n\nThe remark was made in September 2020 but first reported in April 2021,\n\nAt the time, Mr Johnson dismissed the report, calling it \"total rubbish\".\n\nLord Edward Udny-Lister said the comment was made at a time when the government was \"trying to avoid a further lockdown given the already severe impact on the economy and education\".\n\nOn Tuesday, the Covid inquiry was also shown messages in which the head of the civil service Simon Case said of his Downing Street colleagues: \"These people are so mad... they are just so madly self-defeating. I've never seen a bunch of people less well-equipped to run the country.\"\n\nAnd entries from the 2020 diaries of Sir Patrick Vallance revealed that the then-chief scientific advisor felt Mr Johnson was \"all over the place\" on the issue of implementing a second lockdown.\n\nLord Lister is a long-time ally of Mr Johnson, having worked with him during his time as mayor of London and prime minister.\n\nIn his evidence session to the Covid inquiry, which lasted over two hours, Lord Lister was asked about the atmosphere in the Downing Street operation.\n\nLast week, Helen MacNamara, a senior civil servant during the Covid pandemic, said there had been a \"macho\" culture and that a \"toxic\" environment had affected decision-making.\n\nLord Lister said: \"I think there was a lot of tension that was taking place\" adding that Dominic Cummings, another senior adviser in Downing Street, was \"not an easy man to deal with\".\n\nLater in the session, Lord Lister was asked about the UK government's relationship with the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales during the pandemic.\n\nHe said there had been \"a great deal of mistrust and frustration\" towards the Scottish government.\n\n\"It seemed to us in Downing Street, it didn't matter what the decision was, Scotland would want to do things slightly differently.\"\n\nAsked if he felt the Scottish government was being \"opportunistic\", Lord Lister said \"I think that is a good word\".\n\nHe later added that Mr Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon, who was Scotland's first minister during the pandemic, \"generally didn't like each other very much\".\n\nQuestioned on the second lockdown, introduced in November 2020, Lord Lister suggested it could have been avoided if the tier system had been given more time to work.\n\nUnder the tier system, areas where subject to different restrictions depending on the prevalence of the disease. It was essentially made redundant around a month after being introduced, when Mr Johnson implemented a second national lockdown.\n\nLord Lister said the tier system was \"messy but the right thing to do\" adding: \"If we kept going I believe it would have worked.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, the Covid inquiry had seen further extracts from a diary written in October 2020 by the government's then chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nThe note says Mr Johnson and Rishi Sunak, who was chancellor at the time, were both \"clutching at straws\" while trying to argue against a second lockdown in October 2020.\n\nSir Patrick describes a meeting on 8 October as, \"very bad\".\n\nAfter being shown the final slide in a presentation by the Covid-19 Taskforce, Sir Patrick wrote that Mr Johnson responded, \"Whisky and revolver.\"\n\n\"He was all over the place\", Sir Patrick says, adding that Mr Sunak was using \"increasingly specific and spurious arguments against closing hospitality\".\n\nIn another diary entry from 25 October, Sir Patrick says Mr Johnson \"owns the reality for a day and then is buffeted by a discussion with [the chancellor].\"\n\nSimon Ridley, former Head of the Cabinet Office Covid taskforce also gave evidence to the inquiry on Tuesday.\n\nHe admitted the taskforce was not asked about the Eat Out To Help Out scheme introduced by Mr Sunak in summer 2020.\n\nThe scheme gave diners up to 50% of their bill off and was aimed at bolstering the hospitality industry, however some scientists have argued it helped the virus spread.\n\nAsked whether his team had been \"completely blindsided by the Treasury\", Mr. Ridley responded, \"correct.\"\n\nThe inquiry is taking witness evidence in London until Christmas, before moving to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Wednesday, it will hear from Sir Mark Sedwill who headed the civil service from April 2018 to September 2020.", "Over 30,000 bronze coins, possibly from a 4th Century shipwreck, have been found off the coast of Sardinia.\n\nItaly’s Ministry of Culture said in a statement that the pieces were “in an exceptional and rare state of preservation”.\n\nThe discovery comes after an amateur diver spotted something metallic in the shallow waters and alerted local authorities.", "Hadas Kalderon's mother and niece were killed, while her two children and ex-husband were taken hostage by Hamas on 7 October\n\nIt was a day that shattered Israel's sense of its own invincibility and military might, undermining the security felt by every one of its citizens.\n\nBut it did not seem so extraordinary at the start.\n\nWhen I saw the early morning \"red alerts\" on my phone warning of incoming rocket fire from Gaza, we had no idea of the scale of the assault. I messaged my colleagues - some of whom were away for the end of the Jewish holidays - to say that I would head to the office.\n\nSoon I was struggling to absorb the impact of what I was saying on-air, even as the words left my mouth.\n\nThe intense missile fire which had me running in and out of the office air raid shelter turned out to be a cover for an unprecedented, complex, long-planned series of attacks.\n\nWe saw shocking images of Hamas fighters riding motorbikes through holes cut in Gaza's perimeter fence, paragliding into southern Israel, storming heavily fortified military bases and filming themselves in the gardens of overrun kibbutzim.\n\nOver painful hours, partygoers called into Israeli TV stations describing massacres as they hid from gunmen at the now notorious Nova Music Festival. Terrified residents shared videos of armed Palestinian squads on the streets of Sderot.\n\nIt was to prove to be the deadliest day in Israel's 75-year history with people murdered systematically and ruthlessly. From some of the kibbutzim close to Gaza, footage later emerged showing the cold-blooded massacre of entire families. Ultimately, some 1,400 are estimated to have been killed.\n\nThe significance of the timing was not lost - as this onslaught came almost exactly 50 years after a surprise attack by Egypt and Syria on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, sparked a major regional war.\n\nThe raw pain and shock for ordinary Israelis, still evident now, was on full display when I went to Ashkelon on 8 October.\n\nAs Israeli security forces continued to battle heavily armed men literally along the road from us, and rocket sirens continued to blare, at the hospital, parents searched tearfully and collapsed in anguish searching for their missing children.\n\nEarly on in the war, there was a thirst for revenge and an urgent desire to restore Israel's deterrence in front of its enemies. However, polls suggest this has since been complicated by growing fears about the impact that intense bombardment and a full-scale ground invasion could have on hostages snatched by Hamas.\n\nSome 240 people are thought to be held: Israelis and foreigners, soldiers and civilians and old and young. Demonstrations and pleas to bring them home are becoming more urgent.\n\nAfter surviving the nightmare of the Hamas attacks in Nir Oz, the life of Hadas Kalderon is now transformed into desperately campaigning to bring home her two children, Erez, who turned 12 as a hostage in Gaza, Sahar, 16, and Hadas's ex-husband, Ofer. Her mother, Carmela Dan, and her niece, Noya, who were also abducted, have been found dead.\n\n\"I don't even have time to grieve [for] my mother and my niece because I have to fight for my children and their father that's still alive,\" Hadas recently told the BBC. She calls for Israel to stop its military activity until the hostages are safe.\n\nIsrael has rejected calls for a ceasefire without the release of all the hostages, and has continued bombarding Gaza from the air.\n\nOn Monday, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said that more than 10,000 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory since Israel started bombing it last month.\n\nMore than 4,000 of those killed were children, the ministry added.\n\nWhat compounded the shock of 7 October was the realisation that Israel's military, the strongest in the Middle East, and its renowned intelligence forces had failed to detect the attacks. Many long-time assumptions they had held, together with political leaders, also turned out to be seriously flawed.\n\nAfter Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, and Hamas took full control of the territory in 2007, Israeli authorities had tried to limit the threat it posed along with Islamic Jihad, its smaller ally, also designated as a terrorist group.\n\nIt had become common to hear defence experts refer to Israel's strategy in Gaza as \"mowing the lawn\". The suggestion was that the capabilities of the armed factions could simply be cut back every now and then by Israeli forces - with all that meant in terms of casualties.\n\nThere were frequent major conflicts as recently as 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2021.\n\nHowever, in two previous short rounds of violence in August last year and May this year, which targeted Islamic Jihad, Israel's military took false comfort that Hamas did not join in. The conventional wisdom was that it did not want an escalation.\n\nIsrael was thought to have bought relative quiet by giving work permits to some 18,000 Gazans and by allowing Qatar to give aid and pay Hamas civil servants' salaries.\n\nThat assessment proved to be dangerously erroneous. It now seems clear that Hamas was actually biding its time while gaining better weapons, including longer-range rockets and drones, and improving its underground tunnel network.\n\nThe idea that Israeli technology had also contained the threat from Hamas - particularly with the costly barrier that was built around Gaza complete with cameras, sensors and a deep concrete base to guard against tunnels - was also shown to be wrong. Last month, thousands of fighters are said to have penetrated the fence in about 30 places.\n\nWith war still raging, it is still too soon to give a full list of the mistakes made which led to 7 October.\n\nIsrael remains in a state of mourning with the bodies of some of the dead - burnt or mutilated - still unidentified and more soldiers being killed on the battlefield inside Gaza.\n\nHowever, a wide-ranging, post-war inquiry eventually seems likely. After a turbulent year in Israeli politics, questions may well be asked about the role of the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.\n\nMuch still depends on how effectively Israel can achieve its new war goals - to dismantle Hamas in Gaza and release the hostages - and deal with the growing threats posed by Iran and its proxies in the region.\n\nOne month on from those bloody events in southern Israel, the news remains relentless.", "A delay to new laws on e-scooters has been criticised by firms and campaigners who accuse the government of missing an opportunity to tighten up safety rules.\n\nE-scooters are widely sold and seen, but are currently only legal on private land or from trial hire schemes.\n\nThere was no mention of new laws in the King's Speech meaning legislation would be delayed.\n\nThe government has instead promised to extend existing trials till May 2026.\n\nIt told the BBC this was \"to gather further evidence as the technology develops to ensure any future legislation balances safety, user accountability and market growth\".\n\nIt also promised to consult later this year on possible regulations including minimum rider ages and maximum speed.\n\nNew laws on e-scooters were announced in the Queen's Speech in May 2022.\n\nAt present e-scooters may only be ridden on the roads legally through rental trial schemes that have been set up in dozens of towns and cities.\n\nE-scooters in these trials are limited to 15.5mph and have automatic lights as safety features.\n\nBut there was no mention of e-scooters in Tuesday's King's Speech, alarming campaigners and companies.\n\nThe national shared transport charity Collaborative Mobility UK (CoMoUK), which is supportive of e-scooter use and whose members include firms involved in trials, warned the UK is falling behind the rest of the world with its \"lack of action\" on e-scooters.\n\nNew laws would ensure e-scooters, whether rented or privately owned, are subject to high safety standards, CoMoUK said.\n\nIt estimates there are 750,000 privately owned, unregulated e-scooters currently in use in the UK.\n\nDott, a firm offering rental e-scooters in London, warned the delay in policy meant the UK was missing out on the benefits of e-scooters. \"By further delaying certainty around the future of e-scooters, it is difficult to justify long-term investments in the UK\".\n\nThe safety of e-scooters has been a subject of much debate. But for those who represent vulnerable pedestrians, new laws might be an opportunity to address concerns.\n\nThe charity Guide Dogs said it was \"disappointed\" by the delay to laws to \"address the problems caused by anti-social e-scooter use\".\n\nIt urged the government to introduce laws as soon as possible.\n\nPreviously the charity has said anti-social e-scooter use was especially hazardous for people with sight loss due to their weight, speed, silence and because they are often ridden on pavements.\n\nThe trial rental e-scooter schemes in towns and cities in England have also presented challenges, with rental e-scooters abandoned on pavements, it argued.\n\nGuide Dogs would like to see mandatory docked-parking for rental e-scooters, strict controls on their weight, power and speed, and enforcement when they are misused.\n• None Where does London stand on e-scooters?", "A police officer who used a pet camera to spy on women has been jailed for \"revenge porn\" images.\n\nPC Nathan Collings was \"driven by misogyny\" and stopped victims from spending time with their loved ones.\n\nHe admitted stalking, two counts of threatening to disclose private sexual photographs or films and three counts of controlling and coercive behaviour.\n\nCollings, 34, of Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, was jailed for two years and six months at Swansea Crown Court.\n\nThe court heard he monitored victims' phones with tracking apps and even used a pet camera to spy on two of them.\n\nIn one case, he followed a woman home, took her keys and let himself inside without her permission.\n\nHe also monitored her social media account and watched her home while he parked up outside.\n\nCollings was dismissed without notice by Gwent Police after an accelerated misconduct hearing found there was an \"element of sexual gratification and gain\".\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Rachel Williams called Collings' crimes \"appalling and shocking\" and urged any other victims to come forward.\n\nShe said the public expected officers to \"act within the law and display the highest standards of behaviour\".\n\nCollings has been banned from being a police officer, which Ms Williams said was \"reassuring\".", "Mohammed Farooq had planned to detonate an IED at St James's Hospital in Leeds, a court heard\n\nA former patient talked a man out of detonating a bomb in a Leeds hospital after spotting him looking upset, a jury has heard.\n\nMohammed Farooq, 28, who is accused of planning a terror attack at St James's Hospital, was \"agitated\" when Nathan Newby said he tried to \"cheer him up\".\n\nFarooq told Mr Newby he wanted revenge on the hospital and planned on setting off a pressure cooker bomb.\n\nFarooq, of Roundhay, is also accused of planning a terror attack at the US base at RAF Menwith Hill, near Harrogate.\n\nIn an interview played in court, Mr Newby told police officers how he spotted the defendant as he was walking back into St James's in the early hours of 20 January.\n\nHe said: \"He just looked upset, as though he'd had some really bad news.\n\n\"I thought I'd go over and see if he's all right. I thought, if he was down, I'd try and cheer him up.\"\n\nA video has been released showing the arrest of Mohammed Farooq at St James's Hospital.\n\nThe video, shown to the jury at Sheffield Crown Court last week but released on Monday, shows Farooq telling armed police a patient had talked him out of exploding a bomb.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Newby said the defendant described how he was either a student or had worked at the hospital for two years but now \"he's lost everything and just wanted to get them back for what they'd done\".\n\nWhen he asked Farooq what he was carrying in his bag, Farooq told him it was a bomb and that he was planning on walking into the hospital canteen.\n\nMr Newby said that he tried to keep Farooq calm and get him away from the hospital entrance so he led him to a bench where they talked for \"so many hours\".\n\nMr Newby said Farooq eventually said he wanted to hand himself in and passed him his phone to call 999.\n\nIt was during the emergency call that Farooq produced a handgun, which later turned out to be an imitation.\n\nProsecutors have told the jury that the pressure cooker bomb Farooq had with him was a viable device, modelled on one used in the 2013 Boston Marathon attacks.\n\nThough Farooq denies preparing acts of terrorism, he has admitted a number of other offences including possessing a pressure cooker bomb \"with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury to property\".\n\nThe jury has also been told that Farooq had a grievance against several of his former colleagues at St James's Hospital, and \"had been conducting a poison pen campaign against them\".\n\nDefence barrister Gul Nawaz Hussain KC has told the court his client was \"ready and willing\" to detonate the home-made bomb at the hospital because of a \"sense of anger and grievance\" towards work colleagues but was not motivated by Islamist extremism and not radicalised.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mr Henderson said he was punched as he tried to pack up\n\nPolice are investigating an alleged attack on a 78-year-old poppy seller who was caught up in a pro-Palestinian rally.\n\nArmy veteran Jim Henderson said he was punched and kicked as he tried to pack up his stall at Waverley Station in Edinburgh on Saturday.\n\nHundreds of people had occupied the station concourse to protest against the Israel-Gaza war.\n\nBTP Assistant Chief Constable Sean O'Callaghan said: \"We are working with ScotRail regarding the investigation.\"\n\nPoppyscotland confirmed Mr Henderson had been volunteering for the group at the time.\n\nMr Henderson told the Daily Mail he was punched in the back as he bent down to collect his things.\n\n\"And then I got another punch in my side\" he said.\n\nMr Henderson said he managed to get up and was helped from the station by three women in railway workers' uniforms.\n\n\"I've never known anything like it,\" he added.\n\nThe veteran told he paper he had served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles with the the Royal Corps of Signals, 32 Signal Regiment.\n\nA spokesperson for Poppyscotland said: \"While we respect the rights of people to protest within the law, the safety and welfare of our volunteers is of paramount importance.\n\n\"One of our volunteers was infringed upon when trying to clear his stall to depart at the usual time of 15:30 at Waverley Station on Saturday November 4th.\n\n\"Our volunteer is safe and well, and we thank those that took the time to escort him out of the station.\"\n\nHundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators also occupied Glasgow Central station during a day of protests on Saturday.\n\nMarches have been taking place across the UK to urge an end to Israeli attacks in Gaza.\n\nThe retaliatory strikes came after Hamas gunmen killed more than 1,400 people in Israel on 7 October.\n\nSince then the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 10,000 people have been killed there.", "Antony Blinken says been calling for humanitarian pauses in the war but has stopped short of calling for a ceasefire\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said an Israeli ceasefire in Gaza would allow Hamas to regroup and carry out further attacks.\n\nBut he added that Israel had to take \"every possible measure\" to prevent civilian casualties in the enclave.\n\nMr Blinken made the comments on Saturday in Jordan after holding talks with Arab leaders, who want an immediate halt to the fighting.\n\nThey have accused Israel of committing war crimes.\n\n\"We don't accept that it is a self-defence,\" Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said at a news conference with Mr Blinken following the talks, which also involved Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt.\n\nThe US continues to support Israel's right to defend itself against Hamas.\n\nMr Safadi described the conflict as a \"raging war that is killing civilians, destroying their homes, their hospitals, their schools, their mosques and their churches.\"\n\n\"It cannot be justified under any pretext and it will not bring Israel security, it will not bring the region peace.\"\n\nThere have been concerns that the war could draw in other regional actors and lead to the destabilisation of the Middle East.\n\nMr Blinken, who has been calling for humanitarian pauses in the fighting instead of a ceasefire, said that while the US disagreed with Arab leaders on some of the means to achieve a lasting peace in the region, their goal was the same.\n\n\"We all understand that we not only have an interest, but a responsibility to do everything we can to chart a better path forward together,\" he said.\n\nIsrael began bombing Gaza after Hamas killed more than 1,400 people in Israel in surprise attacks on 7 October. More than 200 people were kidnapped and the majority are still thought to be being held as hostages.\n\nAt least 9,488 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.\n\nMr Blinken's trip to Jordan comes a day after he visited Israel to speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said there would be no humanitarian pause until all Israeli hostages are released.\n\nThe Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) has been focusing its offensive in the northern part of Gaza, following repeated warnings for civilians to leave.\n\nAs many as 400,000 civilians are still in the area, according to the US special envoy for Middle East humanitarian issues, David Satterfield.\n\nThe IDF has also been carrying out strikes in the south and the United Nations has warned no part of Gaza is safe.\n\nMr Blinken spoke on Saturday of the need to dramatically increase the amount of aid that was getting into the enclave through Egypt's Rafah crossing.\n\nOnly limited deliveries are currently making their way into Gaza, weeks after Israel announced a siege - cutting off supplies of power, food and water.\n\nThe US Secretary of State has also met Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, to discuss the violence along Lebanon's southern border with Israel, where there has been frequent fighting between members of the Shia Islamist group Hezbollah and the Israeli military.\n\nThe leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, has so far refrained from calling for an escalation of attacks against Israel, but has left the door open for further action.\n\nMr Blinken will travel to Turkey on Sunday for two days to speak with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the conflict.\n\nThe visit comes after Ankara recalled its ambassador to Israel and broke contact with Mr Netanyahu in protest against the bloodshed.", "Coca-Cola, Danone and Nestle have been accused of making misleading claims about their plastic water bottles being \"100% recycled\".\n\nA consumer body and two environmental groups have issued a legal complaint to the European Commission over the alleged greenwashing.\n\nThey argue that the bottles are never made wholly of recycled materials.\n\nCoca-Cola said its packaging claims can be substantiated, Nestlé said it was cutting use of plastic packaging.\n\nDanone said it was continuing to invest in recycling infrastructure.\n\nCompanies are accused of greenwashing when they brand something as more eco-friendly, green or sustainable than it really is. It can mislead consumers who hope to help the planet by choosing those products.\n\nThe complaint to the European Commission focuses on claims by the companies that the single-use plastic water bottles they supply are either 100% recycled, or 100% recyclable.\n\nThe European Consumer Organisation, backed by the environmental groups Client Earth and ECOS, said this is misleading, particularly when accompanied by green imagery or branding.\n\nThey insist the bottles are never made wholly of recycled materials, and the ability to recycle them depends on a number of factors, including the available infrastructure.\n\n\"The evidence is clear - plastic water bottles are simply not recycled again and again to become new bottles in Europe,\" said Rosa Pritchard, plastics lawyer at ClientEarth.\n\n\"A '100%' recycling rate for bottles is technically not possible and, just because bottles are made with recycled plastic, does not mean they don't harm people and planet.\" \"It is important companies don't portray recycling as a silver bullet to the plastic crisis - instead they need to focus efforts on reducing plastic at source.\"\n\nIn response, Coca-Cola said it was \"working to reduce the amount of plastic packaging we use, and we're investing to collect and recycle the equivalent of the packaging we use\".\n\n\"We only communicate messages on our packaging that can be substantiated, with any relevant qualifications clearly displayed to enable consumers to make informed choices,\" it said.\n\n\"Some of our packaging carries messages to drive recycling awareness, including whether our packages are recyclable and if they are made from recycled content.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Nestlé said: \"We work hard to reduce the amount of plastic packaging we use; to lead investments and support packaging circularity alongside partners, and to communicate clearly with consumers who want to make informed choices.\n\n\"Nestle has reduced its amount of virgin plastic packaging by 10.5% since 2018, and we are on track to get to one-third less virgin plastic by the end of 2025.\"\n\nIn a statement, Danone said: \"We strongly believe in the circularity of packaging - and will continue to invest and lead the campaign for better collection and recycling infrastructure alongside our partners.\"\n\nIf the European Commission agrees with the complaint, it can organise a co-ordinated response among national consumer authorities, who can then take action.\n\nThis could involve asking the companies to rectify the situation, or imposing fines within their own borders. The commission does not have the power to impose penalties of its own.\n• None Greenwashing tricks: Seven ways not to be fooled", "Rail workers have walked out regularly over the past 18 months\n\nAbout 40% of rail services will run during strikes under planned minimum service rules for train operators in Great Britain, the government has said.\n\nMinisters are hoping the legislation will come into effect before Christmas.\n\nIt will also specify minimum service levels for ambulance workers in England and border security staff in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nThe government said the measures were \"proportionate\" but unions have criticised them as unworkable.\n\nThe country has been facing a wave of strike action across the public sector, after wages failed to keep up with soaring prices.\n\nMany of these disputes have now been resolved, but others are continuing.\n\nThere are no further rail strikes scheduled currently, but there is an ongoing dispute between rail companies, train drivers' union Aslef and the RMT union, which represents other rail workers.\n\nUnion members have regularly walked out during the past 18 months over pay and conditions, including last Christmas, and there is the potential for more strike action in the coming months.\n\nUnder a law passed by Parliament earlier this year, ministers can set minimum service levels for health, fire and education services, as well as border security and nuclear decommissioning.\n\nSome employees would be required to work during industrial action and could be sacked if they refuse, while unions which fail to comply could face damages claims from employers of up to a million pounds.\n\nThe government has completed consultations on the service levels required for ambulance and rail workers, with other sectors to follow.\n\nUnder the rules for train operators, the government said the equivalent of 40% of normal timetables should operate during strike action, allowing priority routes to stay open.\n\nFor ambulance workers in England, the legislation has been designed to ensure emergency services will continue throughout any strike action and all life-threatening calls will be responded to.\n\nThe legislation will also apply to Border Force employees and some Passport Office staff in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nThe government said it would ensure all ports and airports remain open on strike days and that the level of service provided by border security will be as effective as if no industrial action was taking place.\n\nThe legislation will be laid in Parliament on Tuesday, with ministers hoping it will come into effect by Christmas, subject to parliamentary approval.\n\nThe government said the measures would ensure public services could continue during walkouts, while balancing the ability to take industrial action.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said: \"We are doing everything in our power to stop unions derailing Christmas for millions of people.\n\n\"This legislation will ensure more people will be able to travel to see their friends and family, and get the emergency care they need.\"\n\nUnder the legislation, employers can issue work notices to unions, identifying who is required to work during industrial action.\n\nThere would be no automatic protection from unfair dismissal for an employee who is told to work through a notice but chooses to strike.\n\nThe TSSA transport union said the legislation would not work and would only \"inflame industrial tensions\".\n\n\"Moreover, it's undemocratic and a direct attack on the right to strike which is at the heart of British democracy,\" the union's head Maryam Eslamdoust said.\n\nMick Lynch, general secretary of the RMT union, said: \"We believe employers have the discretion not to issue minimum service work notices and, as such, we are calling on them not to issue them.\n\n\"Any employer that seeks to issue a work notice will find themselves in a further dispute with my union.\"\n\nGMB, Unison and Unite also criticised the measures, arguing they would not solve the problems in the NHS.\n\nLabour, which has said it would repeal the legislation, said the government was \"getting their excuses in early for Christmas\".\n\nThe party's deputy leader Angela Rayner said: \"Rishi Sunak is offering another sticking plaster to distract from the Conservatives' track record of failure.\n\n\"We all want minimum standards of service and staffing, but it's Tory ministers who are consistently failing to provide them.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care is currently consulting on extending minimum service levels to cover other emergency services, which could include nurses and doctors.\n\nHealth unions already provide \"life and limb\" cover during strikes, because under existing laws it is illegal to take industrial action that would endanger human life.\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan has committed to introducing minimum service levels in schools on a voluntary basis, if an agreement can be reached with unions. The department also plans to consult on introducing minimum service levels in universities.", "This year's record low yields of wine are due to bad weather in many of the world's biggest producers\n\nPoor weather around the world is likely to cause global wine production to drop to a six-decade low this year.\n\nThe International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) says that wine production around the world is likely to be about 7% lower in 2023 than last year.\n\nSuch a yield would be the worst since 1961.\n\nThe OIV attributes the low levels of production to bad weather, including frost, heavy rainfall and drought.\n\n\"A perfect storm in the north and south hemispheres has created this catastrophic situation,\" the OIV's head of statistics, Giorgio Delgrosso, told the BBC.\n\nThe analysis is based on information from countries representing 94% of the global production of the ancient beverage.\n\nWine production was down in almost every country of the European Union, which produces over 60% of the world's total. According to the OIV, lower yields are due to rains and storms in some countries and droughts in others.\n\nYields were down 14% in Spain and 12% in Italy, where dry weather reduced this year's harvest of grapes.\n\nBut it remained perfectly even in France, meaning the country is now the world's largest producer, overtaking Italy.\n\nThe picture was grim in other parts of the world too, with southern hemisphere nations especially affected.\n\nProducers faced a shock in Chile, the largest producer of wine in the southern hemisphere, where yields fell by 20% as a result of droughts and wildfires. The harvest was similarly bleak in Australia, where production was down by a quarter on last year.\n\nThe situation was rosier in the US, however, where production was up 12% on 2022.\n\nThere may be some good news for wine lovers.\n\nThough poor global production is bad for the industry overall, the OIV notes that falling global demand could mean the overall market remains relatively balanced - avoiding a drop in prices.\n\n\"As economic growth in China has slowed since 2018, we've seen consumption and imports of wine drop significantly,\" Mr Delgrosso said.\n\n\"Low production is not good news, but lower consumption levels might help balance out prices.\"\n\nIn August, the French government announced that it would allocate some €200m (£171.6m) to destroy surplus wine stocks as the industry struggled to adapt to falling demand.", "Sindisiwe Chikunga said she was traumatised but said \"God had mercy on us\"\n\nSouth Africa's transport minister has described how she was robbed at gun-point after her vehicle stopped on a highway to change a burst tyre.\n\nSindisiwe Chikunga told a parliamentary committee that one of the masked attackers pointed a gun at her head during the ordeal early on Monday.\n\nThey stole some laptops, a phone and her bodyguards' weapons, she said.\n\nBut it is very unusual for a government minister travelling with armed bodyguards to be robbed in their vehicle.\n\n\"I'm in one piece, but the whole experience was very traumatising,\" Ms Chikunga told MPs.\n\nShe said that at 03:30 local time on Monday her bodyguards - or \"protectors\" - had got out of the car, which had been travelling on a main road south of Johannesburg, to replace a burst tyre.\n\nThat was when the robbers approached, forcing the bodyguards onto the floor and then opening the car door.\n\nThey \"pointed a gun at my head and ordered me to come out\", Ms Chikunga said.\n\nThey demanded money, but she explained that she did not have any cash on her. They then searched through the vehicle taking what they could find.\n\nStill threatening her with their guns, the robbers also tried to take the minister's ring but she told them: \"This was the only thing that I have between my late husband and myself, I value it so much.\"\n\nAt one point the minister started praying but was told to keep quiet.\n\n\"We are fine, we are healthy, we are alive. It was a horrible experience... but God had mercy on us,\" Ms Chikunga told parliamentarians as she wrapped up her account of what happened.\n\nThe police have confirmed that the robbery took place and \"a manhunt has since been launched following this unprecedented incident\", the AFP news agency reports quoting police spokesperson Brig Athlenda Mathe.\n\nReferring to a common method that criminals use, the ministry of transport said that the tyres of the car \"were punctured by spikes [placed on the road], bringing the car to a stop enabling the criminals to rob the occupants of valuables\".\n\nThe two bodyguards have been placed on leave \"until [they are] fit and proper to return to their posts\", Brig Mathe is quoted by News24 as saying.\n\n\"Steps are under way to determine what transpired as far as VIP protection protocols are concerned,\" she added.\n\nIn the latest annual survey nearly 1.3 million people said they had been victims of property crime, which amounts to almost 3% of the population.\n\nThe proliferation of small arms is also a big issue in South Africa. Guns were used in more than 66,000 of the recorded home robberies.", "Footage showed a stand-off between youths and police in Niddrie\n\nAt least three arrests have been made over Bonfire Night disorder in Scotland.\n\nA group of 50 youths threw fireworks and petrol bombs at riot police in the Niddrie area of Edinburgh.\n\nEight police officers suffered minor injuries in Edinburgh and Glasgow on Sunday, and incidents were reported in other parts of Scotland.\n\nCommunity Safety Minister Siobhan Brown told MSPs that more arrests were expected in the coming days.\n\nPolice Scotland said a 20-year old man had been charged with a fireworks offence in Edinburgh and a 30-year old man was charged with abusive behaviour in Glasgow.\n\nIn addition, a 39-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with a large scale disturbance - which saw fireworks being aimed at police - in the Craigshill area of Livingston.\n\nJustice Secretary Angela Constance has said she is \"open to discussion\" about a ban on fireworks.\n\nShe said ministers lacked the powers for a ban but that she was \"open-minded\" about the idea.\n\nMs Constance was speaking after City of Edinburgh Council leader Cammy Day said he would look at bringing in powers designed to create firework control zones.\n\nHe also said he supported a ban on the sale of fireworks to the general public.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, the justice secretary praised Police Scotland and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service for their efforts and addressed calls for an outright ban on the sale of fireworks to individuals.\n\n\"I'm open minded about it. Open to discussion. It's not within our powers for an outright ban but open to discussion,\" Ms Constance said.\n\nThe Scottish government brought in a new law last year which heavily restricts the sale of fireworks and made it an offence to buy them for young people.\n\nAngela Constance said she was \"open-minded\" about the idea of a ban\n\nBut Ms Constance disputed claims by both the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and the former children's commissioner for Scotland that cuts in education, outreach and preventative services contributed to violence against the emergency services.\n\nShe told the programme: \"This government continues to invest in preventative services, whether that's through the cash back programme that supports over 33,000 young people, whether it's the violence reduction framework, where there's investment of £2m.\n\n\"There is that emergency response to incidents of serious disorder and it's important that the law is enforced.\"\n\nSpeaking on Monday, Mr Day called for action to prevent a repeat of the violence.\n\nHe said: \"The public sale of fireworks needs to be reconsidered. Because if we don't do something that's quite drastic I would hate to think what happens the next time.\n\nThe council leader has asked for a briefing on Sunday's events, which saw 50 youths threw fireworks and petrol bombs at riot police in the Hay Avenue area of Niddrie.\n\nCouncil workers spent Monday cleaning up after the clashes in Niddrie\n\nElsewhere, two police vehicles were damaged after being struck with bricks in the Beauly Square area of Dundee and a street fight involving about 20 youths took place in Glasgow's Barmulloch.\n\nFour people, including a police officer, were taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary for treatment.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Tim Mairs said the actions of adults caught on camera directing children to commit crimes was tantamount to \"child abuse\".\n\nAnd First Minister Humza Yousaf condemned the \"thuggish and reckless behaviour\" in parts of Scotland, particularly in Niddrie.\n\nHe said those involved in the disturbances should \"feel the full force of the law\".\n\nPolice Scotland has appealed for anyone with information on Sunday's events to contact them.", "Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa resigned after investigators searched his official residence in an inquiry into alleged corruption.\n\nHe said he had not been named as a suspect but believed the inquiry was incompatible with staying in office.\n\nProsecutors said on Tuesday they were investigating concessions awarded for lithium mines and hydrogen production.\n\nThey said detention warrants were issued for five people including Mr Costa's chief of staff, Vítor Escária.\n\nPúblico newspaper reported that Mr Escária had been detained.\n\nInfrastructure Minister João Galamba has meanwhile been indicted as part of the inquiry into energy deals.\n\n\"The dignity of the functions of prime minister is not compatible with any suspicion about his integrity, his good conduct and even less with the suspicion of the practice of any criminal act,\" the prime minister said in a televised address on Tuesday.\n\nMr Costa said he was caught by surprise by the corruption investigation but promised to collaborate with it.\n\n\"There is no illicit act that weighs on my conscience, or even any censurable act,\" he added.\n\nPresident Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said he had accepted the prime minister's resignation and summoned political parties for consultations on Wednesday.\n\nThe political crisis unfolded after prosecutors published a statement detailing searches in more than 40 different premises as part of the inquiry.\n\nProsecutors are investigating alleged corruption and influence peddling in lithium mining concessions in northern Portugal, as well as a hydrogen production project and the planned construction of a data centre in the deep-water port of Sines, south of Lisbon.\n\nAbout 140 detectives searched 17 residential properties and 25 other premises, including the office of the prime minister's chief of staff and two government ministries.\n\nThey also searched municipal offices in Sines.\n\nPortugal's main PSI 20 share index was down almost 3% as the political crisis unfolded.\n\nThe European Union is keen to reduce its dependence on mines in China, Africa and South America for lithium and other raw materials needed for the green energy transition.\n\nPortugal's lithium reserves are considered central to Europe's increasing demand for electric cars, but exploration projects have faced opposition by some locals.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nCristian Romero has been sent off four times for Tottenham since joining just over a year ago Mauricio Pochettino made a winning return to Tottenham with Chelsea as his former club were reduced to nine men on a night of chaos and controversy. The Argentine's comeback was reduced to a minor sub-plot by an epic game which brought five goals, a further five which were disallowed, two red cards, and a slew of VAR decisions in one of the Premier League's most frenetic ever encounters. Spurs started brilliantly and deservedly went ahead when Dejan Kulusevski's sixth minute shot deflected in off Chelsea defender Levi Colwill, before Son Heung-min had an effort narrowly ruled out for offside as the home side looked to capitalise on their early dominance. In a fevered atmosphere Chelsea had two goals of their own disallowed, one each from Raheem Sterling and Moises Caicedo ruled out for handball and offside respectively. The latter situation still led to a Chelsea goal as a penalty was awarded for a crude challenge by Romero on compatriot Enzo Fernandez, and the Spurs defender was deservedly sent off in the aftermath. Chelsea's summer signing Cole Palmer scored the resulting spot-kick to level the match before Spurs were also handicapped by what looked like a serious hamstring injury for key defender Micky van de Ven and an ankle problem for James Maddison as both players were substituted before the interval. Spurs were battling an even greater disadvantage when Destiny Udogie was sent off ten minutes after the break for an inexplicably reckless tackle on Sterling which brought a second yellow card from referee Michael Oliver. Ange Postecoglou, who also received a yellow card on the Spurs bench amid the mayhem, gambled on keeping a high line even with nine men but Chelsea finally broke their resistance with 15 minutes left, Raheem Sterling breaking clear to set up Nicolas Jackson for a simple finish. The game was far from finished, though, and Spurs came close to securing a stunning draw as Eric Dier had a superb finish ruled out for a narrow offside and Rodrigo Bentancur headed just wide after beating Chelsea's defensive line at a late free-kick. Jackson then scored twice more in stoppage time to secure a late hat-trick and render the scoreline far more comfortable than the evening had been for the visitors, who faced stern resistance from Spurs, who finally went down to their first Premier League defeat under Postecoglou.\n• None 'One of the most mind-boggling Premier League games ever'\n• None Unpacking nine VAR checks in chaotic half of football\n• None Tottenham v Chelsea as it happened, plus reaction and analysis Lack of discipline costs Spurs on night which promised so much Tottenham 1-4 Chelsea: Nine-man Spurs could not have given any more - Postecoglou Spurs fans were in buoyant mood before the game as they pondered the possibility of returning to the top of the Premier League, only to see their hopes extinguished in a spectacular, incident-packed game. It all started so well with Kulusevski's goal but Spurs paid a heavy price for the reckless indiscipline of Romero, who was fortunate not to see red earlier than he did for kicking out at Colwill, but there was no escape when he followed through needlessly on Fernandez. Udogie was also lucky not to be sent off before his eventual dismissal for a wild challenge on Sterling, and the Italy international left the over-worked Oliver with no option when he dived in on the same player early in the second half. Postecoglou gambled on continuing with the high line and goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario hero acting as an emergency sweeper on several occasions, but just as Chelsea started to look frustrated, Spurs were broken and Jackson cashed in with his hat-trick. Aside from the short-term pain of this defeat, Spurs now face long-term consequences from the chaos, not just with suspensions for Romero and Udogie but those injuries to Van de Ven and Maddison. Spurs supporters gave their players a rousing reception for their efforts at the final whistle but this was a painful night which could be very costly in the long run.\n• None Get Tottenham news, analysis, fan views and more sent straight to you\n• None Go to our dedicated Spurs page for all the best content Chelsea took their time to break down nine-man Spurs but eventually unlocked the defence, with Senegalese striker Nicolas Jackson the beneficiary. Pochettino's men were already edging their way into the game even before Romero demonstrated his irresponsibility, but once he and Udogie were off Chelsea knew anything other than victory would have been unthinkable. The home side made it to within 15 minutes of pulling off a remarkable draw before Sterling and Jackson finally cracked the code and this could be a landmark night for the 22-year-old striker, who has looked very much a work in progress since his summer move to Stamford Bridge. He finish off three chances comfortably and marched off with the match ball, beaming in front of Chelsea's elated fans. Pochettino will know this was not a victory earned in normal circumstances, but he will also aim to use it as a springboard after a middling start to the campaign.\n• None Go straight to all the best Blues content BBC Sport app: Download to follow all the latest on your Premier League team\n• None Attempt missed. Nicolas Jackson (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Mykhailo Mudryk.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1, Chelsea 4. Nicolas Jackson (Chelsea) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Cole Palmer with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Rodrigo Bentancur tries a through ball, but Eric Dier is caught offside.\n• None Lesley Ugochukwu (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1, Chelsea 3. Nicolas Jackson (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Conor Gallagher.\n• None Attempt saved. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Oliver Skipp.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Guglielmo Vicario (Tottenham Hotspur).\n• None Mykhailo Mudryk (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "A pro-Palestinian march due to take place on Armistice Day would only be banned as a \"last resort\", the Metropolitan Police Commissioner said.\n\nSir Mark Rowley vowed officers would do all they could to protect remembrance activities and Jewish communities.\n\nWhile he said police could not ban static protests under UK law, they can request the power to stop a march if a threat of serious disorder emerges.\n\nBut he said the \"very high\" threshold had not yet been reached.\n\nSir Mark added that use of the power was \"incredibly rare\" and there must be no other way for police to manage the event.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak will meet the Met chief later on Wednesday. Mr Sunak said he would be asking for information on how the police can ensure the public are kept safe over remembrance weekend.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on Tuesday, Sir Mark said: \"At the moment, the organisers are still putting the final stages to their plans - which, to be fair to them, are some way away from the ceremonial footprint in Whitehall.\n\n\"They're putting the final touches to those, we're looking alongside that at what conditions we might need to do to reinforce the protection of critical events and of Jewish communities and the like.\n\n\"If over the next few days the intelligence evolves further and we get to such a high threshold - and it's only been done once in a decade where we need to say to the home secretary 'we think we need to ban the march element' - then of course we will do.\"\n\n\"But that's a last resort that we haven't reached yet. People should be very reassured that we are going to keep this all away from the remembrance and Armistice events.\"\n\nHe added: \"There will be a protest this weekend - the law provides no mechanism to ban a gathering, a static protest, a rally, anything like that... if the organisers want that, then it will happen.\"\n\nOn Monday, the force publicly urged organisers to postpone the event, which is due to take place in central London, saying it would not be \"appropriate\".\n\nBoth Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman have criticised the timing of the march on 11 November, which thousands are expected to attend.\n\nA Remembrance event is due to take place at the Royal Albert Hall the same day, as well as a national two minute's silence.\n\nBut organisers have refused to postpone despite public pressure from police and politicians, pointing out the planned route does not go past the Cenotaph war memorial and the march is due to start after the two minute's silence.\n\nConservative MP Tobias Ellwood, the former defence minister, told BBC Radio 4 Today's programme on Wednesday it would be \"highly inappropriate\" for demonstrations to overshadow a weekend of reflection.\n\n\"It will put a strain on public order policing, but more importantly, with thousands due to show up, can the organisers guarantee it will be peaceful? They cannot vouch for everyone \" he said.\n\nHe appealed to organisers to \"think again\" and hold the rally on another day, adding: \"I'm not saying ban it, I'm simply saying postpone and respect the weekend we have for Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day.\"\n\nChris Nineham from the Stop the War Coalition said he felt vindicated by Sir Mark's comments that there was no public order case for banning the demonstration.\n\n\"We do everything we can as stewards to make sure there is nothing antisemitic or calling for violence in our demonstrations for us this isn't about religion, it isn't about race,\" he told Today.\n\nWhile there have been arrests on previous protests - including for serious offences - the Met chief told the BBC he would not class the scale as \"major disorder\".\n\nBut Sir Mark said he was concerned about the escalating risk of disorder caused by splinter groups breaking off from the main demonstration, saying the threat posed by them would be monitored this week.\n\nHe said the force was \"never afraid to use the law to its full effect\" but suggested banning the march at a late stage could create problems for police.\n\nHe continued: \"If you've got tens of thousands of people coming from across the country, and they know their absolute right to protest means the gathering itself can't be banned, the chaos that comes into this because of last-minute changes in plans and those issues can make it more difficult.\"\n\nHe said if the Met \"comes to the view that our existing tactics and control measures\" aren't sufficient, then the force \"will go to the Home Secretary, but not before that point\".\n\nSuella Braverman has been highly critical of the large pro-Palestinian protests which have taken place in London in the last month.\n\nSir Mark declined to criticise her for dubbing them \"hate marches\", but added: \"I wouldn't use one phrase to characterise 100,000 people\".\n\nVeterans Minister Johnny Mercer said he fully recognised \"the tensions at play\" but urged people to come to London for remembrance events.\n\n\"I know that elderly veterans will be coming to London and measures will all be in place to make sure that people can go about remembrance in the way they want to unmolested by any of the other events taking place this weekend,\" Mr Mercer said.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The Israeli military advance into Gaza City has triggered a fresh exodus of civilians, heeding Israeli warnings to leave their homes and head south.\n\nThe Israeli military said it opened an evacuation route south on Tuesday.\n\nFor several hours, hundreds of people were on the move, some on carts pulled by donkeys but most on foot.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPassengers on the Spirit of Discovery have described a state of fear on board the cruise ship after it was hit by a storm in the Bay of Biscay.\n\nAbout 100 people were injured when the ship veered dramatically during a safety manoeuvre on Saturday.\n\nMost of the injuries were described as minor by cruise company Saga, but five people were taken to hospital when the ship docked in Portsmouth on Monday.\n\nOne passenger said some of those on board \"feared for their lives\".\n\n\"People were writing texts to their loved ones in case we capsized,\" the passenger told BBC News.\n\n\"The tone of voice in our captain... he was physically scared. We had crew crying. We had many passengers in awful states of fear.\n\n\"To say 'minor injuries' is an insult to the many horrific broken bones, pelvises, lacerations, stitches etc. that were caused [to] a very old passenger clientele.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A passenger told the BBC \"tables were flying\" and the waves were \"throwing people around all up and down the place\"\n\nThe ship departed for a 14-day cruise around the Canary Islands on 24 October with about 1,000 people on board.\n\nA decision was made to return to the UK early due to worsening weather, but on Saturday the vessel encountered a storm in the Bay of Biscay - where boats often encounter notoriously rough seas.\n\nIt was here that the ship's safety system kicked in, causing the vessel to veer suddenly to the left and effectively stop. A Saga spokesperson said most of the injuries occurred during this sudden movement.\n\nThe ship was subsequently held in position until weather conditions improved.\n\nJan Bendall said she and her husband were \"holding on for dear life\" as the ship moved\n\nJan Bendall, 75, who was on the cruise with her husband, said they were in their cabin when the captain's voice came over the speaker system and told them to \"remain seated or lie down\".\n\nShe said after the ship halted, it was stationary for about 15 hours whilst \"caught in the middle of the storm\", during which she and her husband were \"holding on for dear life\".\n\n\"It was quite frightening,\" she said. \"I'm not somebody who frightens easily... it was quite dramatic.\"\n\nShe went on: \"We were lucky - we're quite able-bodied, but I think some of the older people and people in their own cabins were quite worried.\"\n\nOne passenger said the ship was stationary for about 15 hours whilst \"caught in the middle of the storm\"\n\nPassenger Alan Grisedale, who filmed the huge waves, said the swell knocked his wife over and moved furniture in their cabin.\n\nAnother passenger told the BBC \"tables were flying\" and the waves were \"throwing people around all up and down the place\".\n\nMrs Bendall said part of the dining room was converted into \"a makeshift medical area\" and passengers were told to stay in their cabins for the rest of Saturday and all of Sunday.\n\nDespite the ordeal, she said the staff were \"absolutely fantastic\".\n\nShe said the crew and captain gave regular updates and repeatedly reassured passengers \"the ship is safe\".\n\nShe and her husband disembarked at about 09:00 GMT on Tuesday and described seeing workers replacing glass doors, windows and partitions that had been smashed in the storm.\n\nSaga confirmed there had been \"very limited\" damage to some fixtures inside the ship but it \"remained safe at all times\".\n\n\"While the weather is clearly beyond our control, we want to offer our sincere apologies to all those affected who are now safely on their way home in calmer seas,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nWere you on board the Spirit of Discovery cruise ship? Share your experiences, email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, X, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Similar grenades were later found during the search of an army colleague's office\n\nA grenade given as a birthday present has blown up and killed a close aide of the head of Ukraine's armed forces Valery Zaluzhny.\n\nMaj Hennadiy Chastyakov, 39, had returned to his flat with presents from his colleagues and was opening them with his son when the grenade exploded.\n\nMaj Chastyakov was killed and his 13-year-old son left seriously wounded.\n\nInterior Minister Ihor Klymenko said the boy had started turning the ring on the grenade.\n\n\"Then, the serviceman took the grenade from the child and pulled the ring, causing a tragic explosion.\"\n\nProsecutors clarified later that he had accidentally set off the grenade while trying to take it away from his son.\n\nThe blast has been described as a \"tragic accident\" and the minister appealed to the public to await the outcome of an official investigation. Police said the explosion in the family flat at Chaiky in the western outskirts of Kyiv had been \"as a result of careless handling of ammunition\".\n\nBut it soon emerged that another five grenades had been found in the flat. Mr Klymenko said that they had been a gift from a colleague in the army.\n\nTwo similar grenades were later found in a search of the colleague, described as a colonel in the army.\n\nPictures from the scene showed other grenades on the floor of the flat, along with other gift bags. Maj Chastyakov had apparently brought the grenades home in a bag with a bottle of whisky.\n\nA source told Ukrainska Pravda that the bottle had been in a gift bag with grenade-shaped glasses and the explosion happened when he opened the bag. Other reports said that his colleague had handed over the bottle saying: \"It's hard to surprise you: That's why I'm giving you combat grenades and a bottle of good whisky.\"\n\nGen Zaluzhny spoke of the unspeakable pain and heavy loss to the Ukrainian military and to him personally, describing Maj Chastyakov as a \"reliable shoulder\" since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.\n\nHis death is the latest setback for the Ukrainian military, after a missile strike killed 19 soldiers in a Russian attack on an awards ceremony close to the front line in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia. There was widespread criticism that the ceremony had been allowed to go ahead in a dangerous area.\n\nPro-presidential MP Maryana Bezulha said Maj Chastyakov's death was down to negligence: \"I would never have thought Hennadiy would die as a result of carelessness on his own birthday. Grenades are issued, not given as presents.\"\n\nHowever, the official cause of the explosion has been questioned by Ukrainian commentators, some of whom have speculated whether it was an attack targeting Gen Zaluzhny himself, on the assumption that he might have attended his aide's birthday celebrations.\n\nLast week the commander in chief gave a blunt assessment of the situation on Ukraine's front lines against Russia's invasion forces.\n\n\"Just like in World War One, we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate,\" he told the Economist. \"There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough.\"\n\nBoth the Kremlin and President President Volodymr Zelensky denied the war had reached deadlock. \"Today people are tired, everyone is tired, and there are different opinions. That is clear, but there is no stalemate,\" Mr Zelensky said at the weekend.\n\nIn his regular nightly address on Monday night he appealed to Ukrainians to \"pull ourselves together, avoid unwinding and splitting up into disputes or other priorities\".\n\nHe also announced that \"now is not the right time\" for presidential elections due to take place next spring, because Ukraine was at war and under martial law. He was elected in 2019.", "Capt Sir Tom Moore became famous for his fundraising efforts during the first coronavirus lockdown\n\nThe family of Capt Sir Tom Moore have lost a planning application appeal against the demolition of an unauthorised home spa in their garden.\n\nThe celebrated fundraiser's daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, and her husband had appealed against the order by Central Bedfordshire Council.\n\nThey used the Captain Tom Foundation name on the first plans, before a revised application was turned down.\n\nThe family have three months to comply with an existing demolition order.\n\nThe Planning Inspectorate dismissed their appeal after a hearing last month.\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Ms Ingram-Moore.\n\nIn a letter announcing the decision, planning inspector Diane Fleming said the \"scale and massing\" of the partially-built building had \"resulted in harm\" to The Old Rectory, the family home and a Grade II-listed building in Marston Moretaine.\n\nCapt Sir Tom walked 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden at the start of the first coronavirus lockdown in 2020, raising more than £38m for NHS Charities Together.\n\nHe was knighted by the late Queen Elizabeth II during a unique open-air ceremony at Windsor Castle in the summer of that year.\n\nThe army veteran, who was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, died in February 2021 aged 100.\n\nAfter he became a national figure, his family set up a separate charity in honour of Capt Sir Tom which is currently under investigation by the Charity Commission, amid concerns his family may have profited from using his name.\n\nThe spa (the C-shaped building to the right of the pond) was constructed in the grounds of the home where Capt Sir Tom Moore had lived\n\nDuring the Planning Inspectorate hearing, family lawyer Scott Stemp said the foundation was \"unlikely to exist\" in the future.\n\nMr Stemp said: \"It's not news to anybody that the foundation, it seems, is to be closed down following an investigation by the Charity Commission.\"\n\nThe building, on the grounds of the family home where he completed his charity walk, was originally approved for the use of the occupiers and the Captain Tom Foundation, and was granted planning permission in August 2021.\n\nThe council told the hearing it had been impressed upon them that the building was urgently needed for foundation activities and primarily to house memorabilia.\n\nIt had been partially constructed when a revised application was submitted to Central Bedfordshire Council in February 2022, which included a spa pool, toilets and a kitchen \"for private use\".\n\nThe revised plans, for what was called the Captain Tom Building, were turned down by the council in November 2022.\n\nA charity foundation set up by the veteran's family after his death is being investigated by the Charity Commission\n\nDuring the hearing, representatives for the family said the building would enable the public to enjoy the army veteran's work and the spa pool would offer \"rehabilitation sessions\".\n\nThe rest of the building would be used for coffee mornings and charity meetings to combat elderly loneliness, the hearing was told.\n\nHowever, Ms Fleming said, while the appellant's intentions were \"laudable\", there was no detailed evidence of how this would work in practice.\n\n\"In the absence of any substantiated information, I find the suggested public benefit would therefore not outweigh the great weight to be given to the harm to the heritage asset,\" she stated, in her decision.\n\nHowever, Ms Fleming did state the building had not caused \"unacceptable harm\" to the character and appearance of the area, or local residents.\n\nHannah Ingram-Moore attended the hearing alongside her husband and son\n\nMs Fleming, in her decision, removed the requirement for the family to restore the land to its previous condition.\n\nThe family argued this was unreasonable as it would mean reinstating tennis courts, which would then be demolished to allow for an L-shaped building, which had already been approved.\n\nNeighbour Jill Bozdogan, 70, had objected to the building - close to the fence with her garden - and said she was \"really pleased\" it would be demolished.\n\nShe said: \"I think it's a load off everyone's mind and, to be honest, I think now people can start to move forward.\"\n\nNeighbour Jill Bozdogan said she was pleased the Planning Inspectorate had refused the appeal\n\nMs Bozdogan said she and her mother had avoided coming into the garden because of the building, which she said did \"nothing for the surrounding area\" and did not \"blend in\" with the other buildings.\n\nMs Ingram-Moore and her husband had asked for 12 months to comply with the demolition notice, to \"allow for sufficient time to source appropriate contractors and for the site to be left in a fit condition, ready to implement the L-shaped building planning permission.\"\n\nThe request was refused by the Planning Inspectorate, which has given them three months to demolish it.\n\n\"An extension of time has not been justified in any detail and it is therefore considered that the period for compliance is reasonable. As such, I see no cause to vary it,\" Ms Fleming concluded.\n\nThe family can apply for a judicial review at the High Court within six weeks of the Inspectorate decision if they believe there has been an error in law.\n\nMary Walsh, Central Bedfordshire Council's cabinet member for planning and development, said: \"Naturally, we are pleased that the Planning Inspector has dismissed this appeal and upheld the council's requirement that the building is demolished.\n\n\"We will always take robust enforcement action when it is appropriate to do so.\"\n\nShe added: \"Our next steps are to monitor compliance with the enforcement notice and expect the building to be demolished within three months, as set out in the Inspector's decision.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gaza is \"fast becoming a graveyard for children\", the secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) has warned.\n\nSpeaking on Monday, António Guterres warned that the situation in the enclave \"more than a humanitarian crisis, it is a crisis of humanity\".\n\n\"Hundreds of girls and boys are reportedly being killed or injured every day,\" Guterres told a news conference, on the eve of the first full month since Hamas launched its attack on Israel, and the Israeli military responded with retaliatory strikes.\n\nGuterres again called for an immediate ceasefire.\n\nHis remarks were criticised by Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, who wrote \"shame on you\" on X - formerly known as Twitter - tagging the UN boss in the post.\n\n\"More than 30 minors - among them a 9 month-old baby as well as toddlers and children who witnessed their parents being murdered in cold blood - are being held against their will in the Gaza Strip,\" he said, adding:\n\nQuote Message: Hamas is the problem in Gaza, not Israel's actions to eliminate this terrorist organisation.\" Hamas is the problem in Gaza, not Israel's actions to eliminate this terrorist organisation.\"\n\nAs the fighting enters its fifth week, it shows no sign of easing, with the latest figures from Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry suggesting 10,022 people have now been killed in the enclave - including 4,104 children - since Israel's campaign began. Israel began bombing Gaza after Hamas killed more than 1,400 people in Israel and kidnapped more than 200 others.\n\nOur colleagues at BBC Verify have been looking at how the figures are collated, which you can read right here.", "There are three prisons sites in Northern Ireland at Maghaberry, Magilligan and Hydebank Wood College and Female Prison\n\nInmates have gone missing from Northern Ireland's prisons almost 250 times during the last decade.\n\nMost of the cases relate to inmates who were unlawfully at large from Maghaberry Prison, near Lisburn.\n\nOn more than 100 occasions prisoners were taken back to custody within the same month of going missing.\n\nBut on several occasions inmates were missing for years and a prison watchdog has raised fresh concerns.\n\nThe chief inspector of criminal justice in Northern Ireland said when prisoners fail to return to custody it can \"impact community confidence and raise public safety concerns\".\n\nThe Northern Ireland Prison Service (NIPS) said pre-release testing is a vital part of rehabilitation and resettlement for inmates.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"After being fully risk assessed, they begin graduated release into the community.\n\n\"Firstly under supervision, then progressing to short periods of unaccompanied release where they work in the community.\n\n\"The reality is that some will fail this test and will be returned to prison, while others will progress back into the community.\"\n\nOn five occasions prisoners were missing for more than a year\n\nAs of November 2023 there were seven prisoners still unlawfully at large in Northern Ireland.\n\nPrisoners can be temporarily released for a number of reasons including compassionate leave or as part of rehabilitation and release planning under a range of schemes including home leave.\n\nEarlier this year there was a UK-wide manhunt for terror suspect Daniel Khalife after he escaped from Wandsworth Prison in September.\n\nHe absconded from a prison kitchen by strapping himself to the underside of a delivery van.\n\nHe was re-arrested four days later.\n\nThere have also been a number of high-profile cases of prisoners going missing in Northern Ireland in recent months.\n\nThomas McCabe was given a life sentence after killing a teenager in London in 1990\n\nConvicted murderer Thomas McCabe went on the run for the second time after failing to return to prison from day release in August.\n\nHe was previously at large for more than two years before being arrested by gardaí (Irish police) in 2020.\n\nFigures obtained by BBC News NI from the Northern Ireland Prison Service show that of the 244 instances of prisoners going missing in Northern Ireland during the last decade, most were apprehended again within a month.\n\nOn 85 occasions, prisoners released by the courts on compassionate bail did not return to prison on time.\n\nA spokesperson of the Lady Chief Justice's Office said: \"The courts are required to apply the law governing bail as laid down in this jurisdiction and will hear all the arguments for and against admission to bail/variation of bail taking account of all relevant factors before arriving at a considered decision.\"\n• None 14compensation payments to inmates who were overheld\n\nOn five occasions prisoners were missing for more than a year and the longest an inmate was unlawfully at large was four years and one month.\n\nDuring the last decade the prison service also made 14 compensation payments in relation to inmates who were accidentally held beyond their sentence.\n\nThe prison service did not provide a detailed breakdown of these figures, confirming only that half of the inmates were paid up to £1,000 and the remaining inmates were paid more than £1,000.\n\nA spokesperson confirmed 11 prisoners were overheld between one to five days and the remaining inmates were overheld by more than five days.\n\nThere are three prisons sites in Northern Ireland at Maghaberry, Magilligan and Hydebank Wood College and Female Prison.\n\nIn 2019, Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland (CJI) published a report looking at pre-release testing arrangements.\n\nConcerns were raised with the then-justice minister, and public confidence in the process was challenged, after a prisoner absconded and others were photographed during an escorted activity outing.\n\nAt that time, CJI made a number of recommendations to improve the system.\n\nThe chief inspector of criminal justice in Northern Ireland, Jacqui Durkan, said it was important that risk assessments are robust\n\nThe most recent inspection of Maghaberry Prison published in June 2023 noted that pre-release planning at the prison was \"well co-ordinated\".\n\nThe chief inspector of criminal justice in Northern Ireland said it was important that risk assessments are robust to support all decisions to release a prisoner temporarily.\n\nJacqui Durkin said: \"The temporary release of prisoners is an important part of a prisoner's rehabilitative journey that can inform decision-making in assessing a prisoner's suitability for release back into the community.\n\n\"While it will never be risk free, conditions of release are an important part of the process for maintaining public safety and those who know the prisoner best and have been working with them are well placed to inform appropriate decisions and conditions.\"\n\nShe added that pre-release schemes will remain a focus for CJI in future prison inspections.\n\nIn a statement, the Northern Ireland Prison Service said: \"Pre-release testing is an essential part of rehabilitation, not just for the individual but also for the wider community in Northern Ireland.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch how Marc walks with the stimulator working versus how he walks without its help\n\nA man with advanced Parkinson's disease has been helped to walk again with a special implant that stimulates nerves in his spine.\n\nMarc Gauthier, 63, from Bordeaux, France, the first person to try out the device, says it has given him a second chance in life.\n\nHe can now walk for miles, when previously he was often housebound and had several falls a day.\n\nThe medical team treating him describe the advance in Nature Medicine journal.\n\nBefore the implant, navigating steps or going into a lift posed extra problems for Marc.\n\nThe treatment appears to have stopped the shuffling and \"freezing\" or sudden stopping Marc and many Parkinson's patients struggle with - and now, when the device is switched on, his gait looks almost normal.\n\nMarc can now walk for miles\n\nMarc said: \"Getting into an elevator... sounds simple. For me, before, it was impossible.\n\n\"I turn on the stimulation in the morning and I turn off in the evening. This allows me to walk better and to stabilise. Right now, I'm not even afraid of the stairs anymore. Every Sunday, I go to the lake, and I walk around 6km [four miles]. It's incredible.\"\n\nMarc feels \"a little tingling sensation\", when the device is on, but is not bothered by it.\n\nThe stimulator sits on the lumbar region of the spinal cord, which sends messages to the leg muscles.\n\nMarc is still in control - his brain gives the instructions - but the epidural implant adds electrical signals for a smoother end result.\n\nIt is wired to a small impulse generator with its own power supply, implanted under the skin of Marc's abdomen.\n\nAfter surgery to fit the device, Marc had weeks of rehabilitation to programme it, using feedback sensors on his legs and shoes.\n\nNeurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch, who fitted Marc's device, almost two years ago, said the technology and procedure was similar to that which had helped some spinal-injury patients for many years - but it was a first for Parkinson's disease, although other teams are exploring different techniques.\n\nShe said: \"It is impressive to see how by electrically stimulating the spinal cord in a targeted manner, in the same way as we have done with paraplegic patients, we can correct walking disorders caused by Parkinson's disease.\"\n\nEduardo Martin Moraud, an expert from NeuroRestore, which made the implant initially tested in animals, said Marc was a pioneer:\n\n\"He was very courageous to be the first one,\" Mr Moraud said. \"We were extremely happy to see how it could bring so many benefits to someone.\"\n\nThe work is a collaboration between the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, the city's hospital and university, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research and the University of Bordeaux.\n\nOne of the team, Prof Grégoire Courtine, said more work was needed to see whether it could help other Parkinson's patients.\n\n\"This is only one participant and we don't know whether all the individuals with Parkinson's disease will respond to the therapy,\" he said.\n\nThe team will now try the device in six more Parkinson's patients, using funding from the Michael J Fox Foundation.\n\nFor some, a brain implant - deep brain stimulation - might be able to do the job instead. But the medical team told a press briefing that had not been not an option for Marc, who already had an older brain implant that would have been hard to replace.\n\nThe treatment is not a cure - Parkinson's is a progressive condition that worsens over time.\n\nThose with the disease have too little of the chemical dopamine in their brain because some of the nerve cells that make it have stopped working.\n\nParkinson's UK research director David Dexter said: \"This is quite an invasive procedure but could be a game-changing technology to help restore movement in people with advanced Parkinson's, where the drugs are no longer working well.\n\n\"The research is still at a very early stage and requires much more development and testing before it can be made available to people with Parkinson's. However, this is a significant and exciting step forward and we hope to see this research progress quickly.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "What's going on with North Sea oil and gas projects?\n\nEarlier this year, the government issued 100 new licences for companies to explore for more oil and gas in the North Sea - and it is now clear this is not a one off. Today's speech shows the government is committed to promoting the UK's homegrown fossil fuels sector to provide a more reliable and cheaper source of energy. But this assumption, that drilling for more oil will produce lower bills, is a contested one. Any fuel taken out of the North Sea is not guaranteed to be used domestically. First off, some 80% is exported to international refineries as we do not have capacity here, and it will all be traded on global markets as our oil and gas fields are not publicly owned - so we will have to pay like everyone else. Another point of contention is whether opening new oil and gas fields will still mean that the UK is in line with its climate targets. The government's advisers, the UK Committee on Climate Change, as well as the International Energy Agency, have both recognised that fossil fuels will continue to play a role in our economies for decades. But the UKCCC have said this did not \"in itself justify the development of new North Sea fields\".", "Most women with early breast cancer now beat the disease thanks to huge improvements in treatments in recent years, a BMJ analysis has found.\n\nTheir risk of dying within five years of diagnosis is estimated to be around 5% - down from 14% in the 1990s.\n\nCancer Research UK says this offers \"reassurance\" to many women but warns more highly-trained staff are needed to meet rising demand.\n\nA plan for NHS staffing in England has been repeatedly delayed.\n\nGovernment ministers say this workforce strategy is due shortly.\n\nMairead MacKenzie, 69, from Surrey, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, after finding a swelling under one arm.\n\nShe remembers feeling \"very scared\" because she had no idea of her chances of surviving.\n\n\"But I knew it had to be bad,\" she says.\n\nMairead started chemotherapy treatment, which uses drugs to kill off cancer cells, within days of seeing her GP.\n\nThis was followed by a mastectomy (removal of one breast), breast reconstruction and radiotherapy treatment before seven years on the drug tamoxifen to reduce the chances of the cancer coming back.\n\n\"It felt like they were throwing the book at me,\" she says.\n\nMairead is now involved in a patient-advocate group that helps scientists understand patients' experiences.\n\nShe is grateful for the care she received - and the gardening, walking and travelling she has been able to do in the intervening years.\n\n\"Good, clear communication about prognosis can make a vast difference to a patient's quality of life, and how they can cope with things,\" Mairead says.\n\nBreast screening looks for cancers that are too small to see or feel - it's offered only to age groups most at risk\n\nThe BMJ analysis tracked more than half a million women with early, invasive breast cancer - mostly stage one and two - diagnosed in the 1990s, 2000s and between 2010 and 2015.\n\nIt found the prognosis for nearly all women \"has improved substantially since the 1990s\", with most becoming long-term cancer survivors.\n\nAnd based on those trends, the researchers behind the Oxford University-led study say women diagnosed today also have a much lower risk.\n\n\"That's good news - and reassuring for clinicians and patients,\" oncologist and lead researcher Prof Carolyn Taylor says.\n\nFor two-thirds of women diagnosed recently, their five-year risk of death from breast cancer was less than 3%, but for one in 20 women it was 20% or higher.\n\nPrognosis depends on someone's age, type of breast cancer and underlying health, among other factors.\n\nSurgery cures most breast cancers - but if some disease remains, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and endocrine therapy can reduce the long-term risk of dying.\n\nProf Taylor says more women are being screened for the cancer than 20 years ago and there is greater awareness of the symptoms.\n\nIn time, research will look at the survival rates of patients diagnosed during the Covid pandemic - but there is no data on this yet.\n\nCancer Research UK evidence and implementation director Naser Turabi says Covid was \"very disruptive\" but accepts \"we were already on a worsening trend before the pandemic\".\n\nThe difference now is \"we are seeing diagnostic and treatment delays\" and \"highly fragile services\".\n\n\"We need more highly trained staff, such as radiologists and oncologists, to cope with increased demand and an ageing population,\" Mr Turabi adds.\n\nIt is a view recently echoed by radiologists who say the NHS is struggling to provide safe and effective care for all cancer patients.\n\nIn England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, cancer treatment should start within 62 days of an urgent referral by a GP.\n\nBut only 61% of patients in England are currently starting treatment in that time - against a target of 85% - and in Northern Ireland, just 37%.\n\nThe charity Breast Cancer Now says significant progress has been made on breast cancer research over the decades but it is \"not a done deal\".\n\nChief executive Baroness Morgan says: \"11,500 people a year in the UK die from the disease - and despite the tireless work of NHS staff, we know many women are waiting far too long for a diagnosis and are experiencing anxious delays to their treatment.\n\n\"Without urgent action from governments across the UK to get breast cancer services back on track, we risk seeing these decades of progress unravelling.\"\n\nIn rare cases, men can also be diagnosed with breast cancer but this study did not look at male trends.\n• None Breast cancer- Woman who got diagnosis at 23 encourages checks - BBC News", "Albania's Edi Rama and Italy's Giorgia Meloni announced the plans at a press conference in Rome\n\nItaly will build two centres in Albania to host tens of thousands of illegal migrants, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said.\n\nShe announced the plan at a news conference with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in Rome.\n\nMs Meloni said the centres - due to open next spring - will be able to process up to 36,000 people a year.\n\nThe plan will apply to migrants rescued at sea by Italian boats, and not to those who arrive on Italian shores.\n\nThe migrants will stay in the centres while Italy examines their asylum requests, Ms Meloni said, adding that the plan would not apply to pregnant women, children and vulnerable people.\n\nShe said the structures - which will be built at Italy's expense - would be able to accommodate 3,000 people each month \"for the time necessary to quickly process asylum applications and, if necessary, for repatriation\".\n\nThe centres will be built at the port of Shengjin and the Gjader area in north-west Albania. Security personnel and police officers will be provided by Albania.\n\nMs Meloni said that, although Albania is not an EU member state, \"it is already behaving like one\". She added that she believes \"Albania is, for all intents and purposes, a European country\" and stated her support for Albania's entry into the EU.\n\nSpeaking in Italian, Mr Rama used warm words to describe his country's relationship with Italy, saying that Italy's citizens and institutions had helped Albanians in the 1990s after the fall of the Communist regime.\n\n\"This debt cannot be repaid,\" Mr Rama said. \"But if Italy calls, Albania responds.\"\n\nMr Rama added: \"Everyone can see this is a difficult situation for Italy. Geography has become a curse for Italy, because if you arrive in Italy, you arrive in the EU. But when it comes to managing these arrivals as the EU, we know how things go.\"\n\n\"We might not have the capacity to be the sole solution, but we have the duty to... help Italy,\" he added.\n\nMr Rama said he and Ms Meloni discussed the migrants centre agreement while the Italian PM was on holiday in Albania over the summer.\n\nA day after the plans were announced, a European Commission spokesperson told the BBC that the Commission is aware of the \"operational arrangement\" between the Italian and Albanian authorities but said it had not yet received detailed information about it.\n\nHowever, it pointed out that the agreement still needs to be translated into law by Italy and added: \"It is important that any such arrangement is in full respect of EU and international law.\"\n\nThe Commission is likely to hold off from giving a verdict on the plan until it is approved by the Italian Parliament.\n\nOpposition politicians in both Italy and Albania have criticised the agreement.\n\nRiccardo Magi, the leader of Italian liberal party +Europa (More Europe), said the plan was \"frightening\" and that the centres would be like \"a sort of Italian Guantanamo\".\n\nWriting on X, formerly known as Twitter, Mr Magi said: \"It's also an illegitimate agreement: Italy can't ship people rescued at sea to a country outside of the EU, as if they were parcels or goods.\"\n\nBelind Kellici of Albania's Democratic Party criticised the the \"lack of transparency\" surrounding the deal.\n\n\"This is treason against Albania and it is the biggest disloyalty that Rama could do to our country,\" Mr Kellici wrote on X.\n\n\"The biggest anti-Albanian today is called Edi Rama, who every year expels hundreds of thousands of young people from the country to replace them with illegal immigrants.\"\n\nAndrea Costa, president of Rome-based migrant aid association Baobab Experience, told the BBC that the announcement \"caught everyone by surprise\" and showed that the Italian government's immigration policies were \"heading in the wrong direction\".\n\nMr Costa said the centres risked becoming \"like a Lampedusa in the Albanian hinterland,\" referring to the Italian island that is one of the main arrival ports for people wanting to reach Europe.\n\nHe also made a reference to the British government's attempt to send thousands of asylum seekers to Rwanda, saying: \"We don't know if the centres in Albania will be a sort of Guantanamo, a Lampedusa, a Rwanda - or a bit of all three.\"\n\nMs Meloni, who heads the right-wing, nationalist Brothers of Italy party, is known for her staunch anti-immigration views. Since becoming PM, she has announced a string of interventions to end illegal immigration, including the detention of irregular migrants.\n\nHowever, more than 145,000 migrants have entered Italy this year - 52,000 more than the same period in 2021.\n\nIn April, Italian ministers called a six-month state of emergency in response to a rise in migrant numbers crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa.", "Two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya says she is \"not going to be ashamed\" of being \"different\", and will \"fight for what is right\" amid her ongoing dispute with athletics authorities.\n\nSemenya, 32, was born with differences of sexual development (DSD) which mean she has an elevated level of testosterone - a hormone that increases muscle mass and strength.\n\nThe South African cannot compete in female track events without taking testosterone-reducing drugs.\n\nSemenya said recently she was turning her attention to \"winning battles against the authorities\" rather than collecting medals, with competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics no longer a goal.\n\nShe said it was about \"fighting for the upcoming generation because there are a lot of kids affected by the same ruling\".\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with BBC Breakfast's Sally Nugent, Semenya says:\n• None She felt she was \"different\" from the age of five but \"embraces\" her differences\n• None She will not conform \"to be accepted\"\n• None She wants to empower women to \"have a voice\"\n• None \"Leaders\" in sport are \"turning women against women\"\n\nUnder regulations introduced in 2018, athletes with DSD were only allowed to compete in female track events between 400m and the mile if they reduced their testosterone levels.\n\nIn March, World Athletics ruled that DSD athletes must now have hormone-suppressing treatment for six months before being eligible to compete in all female events.\n\n\"For me I believe if you are a woman, you are a woman,\" said Semenya, who won Olympic 800m gold in 2012 and 2016 and is a three-time world champion over the same distance.\n\n\"No matter the differences you have. I have realised I want to live my life and fight for what I think and I believe in myself.\n\n\"I know I am a woman and anything that comes along with it just accept it.\"\n\nSemenya ran in the 5,000m at last year's World Championships in Oregon but failed to qualify for the final.\n\nIn July, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in her favour in a case related to testosterone levels in female athletes.\n\n\"At the end of the day, I know I am different. I don't care about the medical terms or what they tell me. Being born without a uterus or with internal testicles. Those don't make me less of a woman,\" added Semenya.\n\n\"Those are the differences I was born with and I will embrace them. I am not going to be ashamed because I am different. I am different and special and I feel great about it.\n\n\"It comes with why we fight for women's sport. The importance of women's sport is not being taken seriously and we need to take charge of our own bodies. Decide what is right for us. Not another gender deciding what we should look like.\n\n\"If we are woman enough or not, it is up to us. We know and believe in what is right, then why must we stop.\"\n\nThe case at the ECHR was not against sporting bodies or DSD rules - but specifically against the government of Switzerland for not protecting Semenya's rights and dates back to a Swiss Supreme Court ruling three years ago.\n\nThe ECHR found the Swiss government did not protect Semenya from being discriminated against when its Supreme Court refused to overturn a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas), which upheld the World Athletics rules.\n\nThe case has now been referred to the Grand Chamber of the ECHR for a final ruling following a referral request from the Swiss government.\n• None Caster Semenya Q&A: Who is she; what is DSD; why is her case important? (2019)\n• None What Caster Semenya case means for women and sport (2019)\n\n'I am not going to be somebody I am not'\n\nSemenya has argued that taking testosterone-reducing medication could endanger her health and that the ruling denied her and other athletes with DSD the right to rely on their natural abilities.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast that she knew she was \"different\" from the age of five but, in her autobiography The Race To Be Myself, revealed she found out she \"did not have a uterus or fallopian tubes\" at the same time as \"the rest of the world\" after a gender test in 2009.\n\nShe says she has \"nothing to hide\", adding: \"I am a woman and have a vagina just like any other woman.\n\n\"I am living a different life and I will continue living that, as that is what makes me feel good. I am not going to be somebody I am not, as I have to fit in to be accepted.\"\n\nLast week, Semenya said she had achieved all she ever wanted on the track, and now wants to \"pave the way and make sure each and every young girl is treated well\".\n\n\"My future is to fight injustice, fight for inclusivity and diversity,\" she said.\n\n\"For me, I'm not going to allow leaders who come for the selfish means into our business to destroy it. I'm about empowering women and making sure they have a voice.\n\n\"At the moment, I don't see a lot of women voicing out if they have problems or something to say. Each and every woman out there should fight for their own. I'll always fight for what is right, I know what is right, I know how things are supposed to be done. Let's wake up as women and fight for what is right.\"\n\nShe added: \"[Sporting leaders] are turning women against women. If you say you're acting in the best interests of athletes, then do that. It's not up to you to decide what gender should look like, what sex should look like. Govern, make money, promote sport. Very clear message and very loud - do the job, promote the sport and let us sports people entertain.\"\n\nLast week, World Athletics said in a statement to Reuters: \"World Athletics has only ever been interested in protecting the female category. If we don't, then women and young girls will not choose sport. That is, and has always been, the federation's sole motivation.\"\n\nA spokesperson told the BBC: \"World Athletics has 15 years of data, observations and information directly from DSD athletes in our own sport that show high testosterone levels do provide an unfair advantage in the female category - and that our guidelines on testosterone thresholds are necessary, reasonable, and proportionate in our aim to protect the integrity of the female category.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Semenya also spoke to BBC Woman's Hour and was asked about having an unfair advantage over women not born with DSD, with the 2016 Rio Olympics women's 800m final referenced.\n\nIn that race, the three medallists - Semenya, Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi and Kenya's Margaret Nyairera Wambui - were all born with DSD. None were eligible for the delayed Tokyo Olympics in 2021.\n\nSemenya responded that she felt there was \"never any unfair advantage\" and that \"sports have never been fair because of genetics\".\n\nSemenya was questioned further on the World Athletics statement and research on high testosterone levels giving \"biological advantages\" such as \"greater lean body mass, larger hearts and higher cardiac output\". Semenya replied: \"What they're saying is nonsense. Lean body mass comes though training. All the hard work comes from altitude. We're not doing anything extraordinary that a women cannot do on the track.\"\n\nShe added: \"There's nothing that I feel in my body that's different, that makes me feel like I'm a man. All women train to perform. If it gives me advantage, why am I not running any times close to men?\"", "Nottingham Panthers forward Adam Johnson was playing at the Utilita Arena in Sheffield when he was fatally injured\n\nA coroner has called for neck guards in ice hockey to be compulsory following the death of a player whose neck was cut during a match.\n\nNottingham Panthers player Adam Johnson suffered the injury from a skate worn by Sheffield Steelers player Matt Petgrave on 28 October.\n\nThe Sheffield coroner said she was concerned deaths may occur in the future if neck guards were not worn.\n\nThe incident has been described as a \"freak accident\" by the Panthers.\n\nThe UK's top ice hockey division - the Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) - announced last week it would not make the use of neck guards mandatory but would \"strongly encourage\" players and officials to wear them after Johnson's death.\n\nWhile governing body the English Ice Hockey Association previously said neck guards would be mandatory from 2024 onwards, that decision does not impact the EIHL, which is not under its control.\n\nIn the prevention of future deaths report, she said: \"In my opinion there is a risk that future deaths will occur unless action is taken. In the circumstances it is my statutory duty to report to you.\"\n\nHundreds of people have gathered to pay tribute to Adam Johnson\n\nShe said she was concerned that the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) recommended neck guards or protectors to be worn, but there was no requirement for ice hockey players over the age of 18 to wear equipment designed to protect the neck.\n\nThe coroner added: \"In due course the inquest will consider whether the use of a neck guard or protector could have prevented Mr Johnson's death.\n\n\"At this stage in my investigation however, I am sufficiently concerned that deaths may occur in the future if neck guards or protectors are not worn.\n\n\"In my opinion action should be taken to prevent future deaths and I believe you have the power to take such action.\"\n\nThe report has been sent to Ice Hockey UK and English Ice Hockey Association Limited, which have 56 days to respond.\n\nThe inquest was opened and adjourned on Friday.\n\nOn Saturday, fans and mourners came together at the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham to pay tribute to Johnson.\n\nEvery Panthers games since Johnson died has been postponed, and the club has announced two games this weekend - on 11 and 12 November - will also be rescheduled.\n\nThe EIHL and the Nottingham Panthers said in a joint statement: \"The players and staff of the Nottingham Panthers are still coming to terms with what happened just over a week ago.\"\n\nThe Panthers added the club \"would like to thank fans for their support at such a difficult time\".\n\nJohnson was described as \"always humble, always polite, always grateful\" at a memorial event in his home town\n\nOn Monday, a celebration of life event took place in his home town of Hibbing, Minnesota.\n\nOmar Pacha, chief executive of The Panthers, spoke at the event and described Johnson as the \"ultimate professional\".\n\nHe said: \"I'd often bump into Adam at the rink or at a game and every time I'd see him I would check 'How's everything Adam'.\n\n\"The response was always the same, 'All good Omar. Great group of guys and I'm really enjoying it here' and a big smile.\n\n\"And I will never, ever forget two words he would always finish every conversation with everyone at the area - 'Thank you'.\n\n\"Always humble, always polite, always grateful, that was our number 47.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Gayle Redman has competed in races all over the world\n\nA runner with a stoma who had to pull out of the New York City Marathon is hoping to compete in another race in the United States.\n\nGayle Redman, a GP from Flint, was told by New York Road Runners that her supplies vest did not adhere to rules set by police.\n\nBut organisers of the Chicago Marathon have said her stoma and water supplies were allowed if she secured a place.\n\nGayle said it was \"fantastic\" news, but called for accessibility at all races.\n\nFollowing surgeries for endometriosis Gayle has a stoma and needs to self-catheterise six times a day.\n\nA stoma connects to the digestive or urinary system and allows waste to be diverted from the body and into a bag.\n\nAfter competing in numerous events over the past decade, Gayle said it was time organisers were more accommodating, particularly as \"everybody's stoma is totally different\".\n\n\"Accessibility shouldn't be this difficult anymore. We should at least be able to have conversations about it,\" she said.\n\n\"There are so many other races around the world that just don't have bans on race vests and hydration bladders.\n\n\"Add in the ecological side of it, encouraging people to us reusable kit, and then the fact that it's actually so easy to do security checks. It's flabbergasting. Where is the issue?\n\n\"Security is absolutely important, but there needs to be a process in place.\"\n\nGayle sent pictures of the vest, water bag and medical supplies kit to the race organisers in New York\n\nSix weeks after emailing the Chicago Marathon organisers, she was delighted to be told that, if she gets a place, her kit would be checked then labelled as excluded so she could run with it.\n\n\"I'm so pleased. Just that reassurance that I know for certain there's not going to be an issue,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm going to be able to sort this out and just go and do my training and turn up on the day and run. It's just fantastic.\"\n\nShe is concerned other runners might take risks with their health and safety if they were not allowed their supply vests as they may not want to lose their place in a race.\n\nThe Bank of America Chicago Marathon said participants go through a security check before reaching the race's starting point in Grant Park.\n\n\"We recognize unique instances where, due to medical requirements, participants need to bring items that would otherwise be deemed prohibited,\" a spokeswoman said, explaining how those items can then be marked for further checks \"if necessary\".\n\nIf Ms Redman enters and wins a place in the 2024 event, the organisers said they would work with her.\n\n\"Each request is reviewed, and exceptions are made on a case-by-case basis,\" they added.", "Oh my time lord! Colum Sanson-Regan (l) as the doctor's clone, and David as the doctor\n\nSaving Kylie Minogue from a bridge was not in Colum Sanson-Regan's plans when he turned up as a Doctor Who extra.\n\nBut David Tennant was not around, so someone had to do it, and producers thought Colum looked like the doctor.\n\n\"I've saved Kylie, flown the Tardis, held the screwdriver and had Billie Piper look deep into my eyes and tell me how much she loved me,\" joked Colum.\n\n\"I asked the producer 'Why am I putting on the doctor's suit? They replied 'Well, David Tennant isn't in'.\n\nNow a father of two, Colum was earning some extra cash before his first child was born.\n\n\"I didn't know what was going on,\" recalled Colum of when he arrived on the set but was ushered past the \"cold bus\" where the extras usually hang around and was shown to a posh trailer.\n\nI should be so lucky: Colum's unexpected starring role was with Kylie Minogue as Astrid Peth in Doctor Who\n\nThe 10th Doctor had to leave the set for the 2007 Christmas special Voyage of the Damned, and producers needed a Tennant-alike for some extra shots showing his back.\n\nSo they improvised and Colum, then 31, stepped in to the suit synonymous with the Doctor since the world's longest running sci-fi TV show rebooted on the BBC in 2005.\n\nColum, now 46, had been asked by producers to be on set early but he had no inkling that his time (lord) had come.\n\n\"All of a sudden I was standing with the suit there, and I was handed a script and told 'You're gonna need this',\" recalled Colum. \"I was thinking pinch me, what's going on?\n\nColum couldn't believe it when he was unexpectedly asked to put on the iconic doctor's suit\n\n\"Then I went for a haircut and a little Australian lady passed me dressed in a French maid outfit and said hello. I did a double take and realised I was there with Kylie Minogue.\"\n\nThe Australian singer and actor was a Doctor Who superfan and had asked for a part, which was humanoid waitress Astrid Peth, a one-off companion of the doctor.\n\n\"I was a bit star struck, for sure,\" he admitted.\n\nHis first work in Voyage of the Damned - where a starship replica of the Titanic is on collision course with Earth - was an action-packed scene where killer robot angels launched a deadly attack.\n\n\"There was a bridge, and the killer robot angels were trying to shoot, so I had to stop Kylie from falling over,\" recalled Colum.\n\nSnap: Colum Sanson-Regan with a dressing room selfie in the doctor's suit before his starring role in 2007\n\n\"I had to hang on to her and pull her back from a precipice. That was the first thing I had to do in the morning.\"\n\nThe author and musician had a gig with his band that weekend in Leicester. As Kylie almost sang, he couldn't get it out of his head that he had worked with her - and we should all be so lucky.\n\n\"We got in the car and I said to my bandmates, guess who I've been working with this week?\" said Colum, who lives near Cardiff.\n\n\"We'd been driving for almost two hours and had nearly hit Birmingham and they still hadn't guessed. I had to tell them! They're like 'absolutely no way'. It was so bizarre.\"\n\nCompanion Billie Piper with 10th Doctor David Tennant before Colum slipped into his suit\n\nTo Colum's pleasant surprise, producers were so happy with his work and lookalike skills, they asked him to play the Doctor again in the 2008 episode Journey's End - this time as his clone in the final episode of the fourth series.\n\nThat meant he had to be in the same scenes with Tennant, Billie Piper, John Barrowman and Catherine Tate, making her final appearance as a regular.\n\n\"I got to fly the Tardis in Journey's End,\" recalled Colum, who is originally from the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"Everybody was gathered around the central console of the Tardis. We all had to have our hands on the machine and flying controls. Everybody was on that episode. There was a real buzz.\n\n\"I got to hold the screwdriver - they were very protective and kept taking it off me.\"\n\nColum was then involved in an emotional scene where Rose Tyler, played by Piper, had to say her final goodbyes to the doctor.\n\n\"It was an amazing and surreal experience.\n\nCatherine Tate and David Tennant return for a 60th anniversary special but Colum will this year be watching on his sofa\n\n\"The nicest thing I have to take away was getting to work near David Tennant. I loved it. He was a thoroughly lovely, lovely guy and so professional. I think that was my favourite thing about the whole crazy time.\"\n\nThis weekend sees Tennant and Tate back together for Doctor Who, reprising their roles as the Doctor and Donna Noble in The Star Beast on BBC One on Saturday evening - but Colum will be back on his sofa with his family at home.\n\nHusband to Kerry, singer and guitarist of band Goose, a creative writing lecturer and author of books like The Fly Guy, The Tall Owl and Other Stories, Colum has limited time for more extra work - especially after having his own trailer as the doctor's double.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to the show on Saturday with the return of some fantastic actors,\" added Colum.\n\n\"As a fan, working on the show was incredible and it's only strengthened my love for Doctor Who.\"", "We're pausing our live coverage for the next hour or so, so here's a quick recap on where things stand in the Israel-Gaza war.\n\nFourteen Israeli and three foreign nationals were released from Gaza today.\n\nAmong them was Abigail Idan, a four-year-old girl with joint Israeli and US citizenship. Both her parents were killed in the 7 October attack by Hamas on Israel that triggered the war.\n\nPresident Biden welcomed her release, saying she had been through terrible trauma.\n\nIsrael freed 39 Palestinian prisoners in return. Crowds gathered in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank to welcome them home.\n\nThe exchange comes on the third day of a fragile four-day pause in fighting. Gazans have been using the opportunity to get in much-needed supplies of fuel food and medicine.\n\nThe BBC's Lucy Williamson says that both sides appear to be edging towards an extension to the current pause.\n\nHamas has said it is seeking to extend the truce and increase the number of hostages released – 24-hours before the current deal expires.\n\nAnd a senior Palestinian official has told the BBC that Hamas told negotiators it was ready to extend the pause by up to four days.\n\nIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has talked about his \"framework\", under which the release of 10 extra hostages could lead to another day of pause in the fighting.\n\nBut he also said that after the framework ends Israel will return to its goals, which include the elimination of Hamas.\n\nYou can continue to follow our coverage of the conflict with these key stories:\n• For many hostage familes the wait goes on\n• What is Hamas and why is it fighting Israel in Gaza?", "The lyrics to Suffragette City are among the memorabilia to be sold\n\nDavid Bowie's handwritten lyric sheet for two of his songs could fetch up to £100,000 when it is sold at auction.\n\nThey contain the late singer's corrections, drafts and notes when creating his tracks Rock n Roll Suicide and Suffragette City.\n\nBoth feature on his 1972 classic The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.\n\nThe auction house previously sold a page of Bowie's handwritten lyrics for his hit Starman for £165,000.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA letter accompanying the page states it was given to the original owner by Bowie at Trident Studio alongside some other pages of original lyrics, including some which did not survive.\n\nThe page was loaned to the V&A museum and remained with the exhibition for five years as it toured the world between 2013 and 2018.\n\nThe sale also includes a lyric book previously owned by Oasis' Noel Gallagher which features lyrics to She's Electric, Going Nowhere, Step Out Tonight, Rockin' Chair and Champagne Supernova.\n\nA page containing handwritten lyrics by The Doors frontman Jim Morrison is also up for sale, along with guitars, amps and musical scores from various musicians.\n\nThe Bowie lyric sheet, which has an estimated price tag of £50,000 to £100,000, will be among Omega Auctions sale on Tuesday.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gerald Cotter, a former bus driver, is wanted by the Met's road and transport command\n\nA man who killed a young motorcycle display team instructor in a crash near the Olympic Park in 2016 is wanted for recall to prison.\n\nGerald Cotter had taken cocaine and was doing almost double the 30mph (50km/h) speed limit when he caused the collision that killed Kieron Fevrier, 23, in Leyton, east London, in 2016.\n\nCotter, 56, admitted causing death by dangerous driving and was sentenced in March 2017 to seven years in jail.\n\nHe has links with the Hackney area.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police force said Cotter was being sought after breaching a condition of his release from prison.\n\nIt added that anyone spotting Cotter should not approach him, but call 999 immediately.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police have cordoned off part of the road after it collapsed at Hemsby on Friday afternoon\n\nA road along an erosion-hit coastline in Norfolk has partially collapsed after the area was battered by strong winds combined with the high tide.\n\nSeveral feet of dunes in Hemsby were washed away overnight into Friday, undermining another part of The Marrams where several houses have already been demolished.\n\nAmanda Goffin, a volunteer at Hemsby Lifeboat, said the road then \"went in before our eyes\" during the afternoon.\n\nPolice were contacted to cordon it off.\n\nDan Hurd, the Hemsby Lifeboat coxswain, said: \"It's not looking promising for Hemsby - north and south of the Gap's been hit.\n\n\"Late last night we lost probably about 20ft (6m) to the north of the Gap and the south's now been compromised.\"\n\nMs Goffin, who had been out to The Marrams earlier, said: \"One second the road was there, and then there was an almighty crack and the entire lot went all in one go and just slid away before our eyes.\"\n\nThis was the scene earlier on Friday after storms battered parts of the Marrams again at Hemsby\n\nShe said a number of cars were parked on one side of the road that is now inaccessible, but she said she hoped most people were notified in time to remove them.\n\n\"I hope we've got most of them off but if we haven't, unfortunately, they are now stranded.\n\n\"We're working alongside the emergency services - there is foot access but as for fire engines etc, nothing is getting along that road now, so we'd like to hope that perhaps residents will be moved if they're at high risk.\n\n\"Some of them are holiday homes, but some are still residential and they live there full-time and it's just very, very sad.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Manchester City v Liverpool: Everton points-protest banner one of two flown over Etihad Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nThe banner - organised by Everton fans - was flown over the stadium early in the second half A banner protesting against Everton's 10-point penalty for breaching financial rules was flown over Etihad Stadium during Manchester City's Premier League match with Liverpool. The banner - which read \"Premier League = corrupt\" - was organised by Everton fans' group The 1878s. It flew over during the second half of Saturday's lunchtime fixture. Earlier, a banner requesting the release of a prominent activist in the United Arab Emirates was flown over. The match between the Premier League's top two teams finished 1-1. What's the background to the Everton banner? Everton have been given the biggest sanction in Premier League history, dropping them from 14th in the table to 19th. English top-flight clubs are permitted to lose £105m over three years, and an independent commission found Everton's losses to 2021-22 amounted to £124.5m. The club intend to appeal, and Everton boss Sean Dyche said on Friday they felt \"aggrieved\" by the \"disproportionate\" punishment. Supporters are planning further protests at their Premier League fixture against Manchester United at Goodison Park on Sunday (16:30 GMT). In February, City were charged with more than 100 breaches of the league's financial rules following a four-year investigation. That case is ongoing, and City have denied any wrongdoing. City boss Pep Guardiola said the 115 charges they face represented a \"completely different\" case to Everton's and could not be compared. BBC Sport has approached the Premier League for comment. What's the background to the Ahmed Mansoor banner? In the first half of Saturday's match, a banner reading \"UAE: Free Ahmed Mansoor\" had been flown over the stadium. It was organised by human rights group Amnesty International. Mansoor was jailed for 10 years in 2018 for \"defaming\" the country. City owner Sheikh Mansour is the UAE's vice-president, deputy prime minister and part of the Emirati royal family. In 2011, Mansoor was one of five activists arrested after calling for political or economic reforms. All were later pardoned by authorities. The banner flown over the Etihad Stadium by a light aircraft said: 'UAE: Free Ahmed Mansoor' Four years later, Mansoor received the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders for what was cited as his work in raising concerns about arbitrary detention, torture and degrading treatment in the UAE, in the face of repeated intimidation and harassment. He was seized by security agents in 2017 and a year later imprisoned for reportedly using social media sites to \"publish false information that damages the country's reputation\" and to \"spread hatred and sectarianism\". Earlier this month, five human rights organisations wrote a joint letter to Manchester City Council leader Bev Craig to urge the authority to \"publicly call\" on the UAE government to release Mansoor. Amnesty International UK's chief executive Sacha Deshmukh said: \"We're calling on City fans to join us in this campaign to free Ahmed. \"Today's plane stunt is a way of saying: 'Look up from the pitch and see the bigger picture - a huge injustice has occurred, and the owners of Manchester City are the ones who can right this wrong.'\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Bertie is due to receive the cystic fibrosis drug Kaftrio when he is two years old\n\nA Hereford toddler with cystic fibrosis may be denied a life-changing drug because of his age.\n\nBertie was just three weeks old when he was diagnosed with the condition, and is currently on a number of drugs to control it.\n\nHe would normally be entitled to the drug Kaftrio when he is two years old.\n\nBut the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has said it is too expensive.\n\nIt has issued draft guidance saying it should no longer be offered on the NHS to new patients.\n\nBertie's mother, Kate, said his condition has had a huge impact on his life and he needs multiple drugs, gets regular coughs and is tired easily.\n\nThe family also needs to be careful who he comes in to contact with, in case he picks up infections.\n\nHe has been receiving treatment in Hereford and Cardiff.\n\nMore than 10,000 people in the UK have cystic fibrosis, an inherited condition that causes sticky mucus to build up in the lungs and digestive system.\n\nKaftrio significantly improves lung function, helping people with cystic fibrosis to breathe more easily and enhancing their overall quality of life.\n\nBut it costs the NHS around £150,000 a year for each patient.\n\nEarlier this month NICE published a draft evaluation of the medication and two others - Orkambi and Symkevi and a consultation will decide whether it should still be prescribed.\n\nBertie will be two years old in March and Kate said: \"If we can get Bertie on it in March what we are hoping is that if he gets on it they can't withdraw it.\"\n\n\"Then hopefully Bertie will live a long healthy life and a better quality of life as well,\" she added.\n\nIf they are unsuccessful in getting Kaftrio on the the NHS she said it would be \"unrealistic financially\" for them to pay for it themselves.\n\nShe said she found that upsetting, and pointed to the amount of money the NHS spends on cancer treatments.\n\n\"No-one talks about withdrawing that,\" she said, but added: \"If they don't have that medication that would severely impact their quality of life and their life expectancy, the same effects would happen to Bertie if he doesn't have his medication.\"\n\nThe public consultation on the issue is due to finish on Friday, with a decision expected in March.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Georgie Keating, Benjamin Burns, Christy Keating, and Thomas Keating were all jailed for 10 years or more\n\nEighteen members of a drug gang that used a motorhome to target seaside towns in Devon and Cornwall have been handed a range of jail sentences of up to 12 years.\n\nExeter Crown Court heard the gang supplied Class A drugs with an estimated street value of £1.38m.\n\nThere were more than 30 drug county lines runs from Liverpool to the south west over 15 months to September 2022.\n\nJudge Anna Richardson said drugs had a \"devastating impact\" on society.\n\nShe said the gang had exploited addicts in Devon and Cornwall, recruiting them through offering free drugs or pressure to pay off debts.\n\nThe gang used a motorhome to tour the south west as they built up networks\n\nThe dealers used the motorhome to tour the south west as they built up networks in Exmouth, Dawlish, Teignmouth, Torbay, Ilfracombe, Penzance, Camborne and Hayle, the trial heard.\n\nThe conspiracy was based in Liverpool, and recruited couriers who made almost weekly trips to the west country.\n\nThe trial heard they set up the first network in Exmouth in 2021, before moving on to Torbay and Cornwall.\n\nThe operation was so successful its leaders were spending half their time in Ibiza by the time police closed it down in the autumn of 2022, the court heard.\n\nThe 20-month plot involved 21 men and women and 33 courier trips, which brought an estimated 8.8kg of heroin and 6.6kg of cocaine with a total value of £1.38m.\n\nAs well as the drugs, police seized about £30,000 in cash and were able to trace tens of thousands of pounds passing through the gang leaders' bank accounts\n\nDealers stayed at Airbnbs, leisure parks and holiday camp sites, including one on the Lizard, the court was told.\n\nThe leader of the conspiracy was 25-year-old Benjamin Burns, who made 15 trips to the south west, including several with his girlfriend.\n\nHe bought a specially-adapted phone, which hid its true number and was intended to stop police identifying him.\n\nThe next three most important gang members, the court heard, were Thomas Keating, his son Christy Keating and his cousin Georgie Keating, who all made frequent trips to Devon and Cornwall.\n\nPolice involved in the sting, codenamed Operation Harbinger Two, traced more than 20,000 messages sent to users in which drugs were offered, the court heard.\n\nLawyers representing all the defendants said they were drawn into dealing by their youth, naivety, drug addiction, debt, or difficult personal circumstances.\n\nAn estimated 8.8kg of heroin was brought into the region during a 20-month period\n\nOver the course of the two-day sentencing hearing, 13 people were handed sentences who had previously admitted or were convicted by jurors of conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine.\n\nAlso sentenced was Lee Paton, 34, of Liverpool, who pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply amphetamine and heroin. He was sentenced to three years and 10 months.\n\nMaggie Burns, 21, of Prescot, and Dannielle Marshall, 27, of Orpington, both pleaded guilty to money laundering and assisting an organised criminal gang.\n\nBurns was sentenced to 12 months suspended for two years, with 20 rehabilitation days and 12 mental health treatment sessions.\n\nMarshall was sentenced to 18 months suspended for 24 months, with a curfew for four months between 19:00 and 07:00, and 20 rehabilitation days - including help with mental health.\n\nJoanna Buchanan, 49, of Shaldon, pleaded guilty to production of cannabis and assisting an OCG. Buchanan was sentenced to one year, suspended for 24 months, 100 hours of unpaid work at rate of one day a week, and 20 days of rehabilitation activity.\n\nBenjamin Hopkins, 46, of Shaldon, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply heroin, production and possession with intent to supply cannabis and possession of cocaine. He was sentenced to two years, suspended for 24 months, 300 hours of unpaid work, and a two-month curfew between 19:00 and 07:00.\n\nThe final three members of the gang are set to be sentenced on Monday.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFamilies of 13 Israeli hostages released by Hamas have spoken of their relief at their return.\n\nThe group, which includes young children and elderly women, are now back in Israel after being brought by the Red Cross from Gaza into Egypt.\n\nSoon after, 39 Palestinian detainees were released across the Beitunia checkpoint in the West Bank.\n\nTen Thai nationals and one Filipino were also released by Hamas, in a deal separate to the one mediated by Qatar.\n\nUnder the terms of the Qatar deal, a total of 50 Israeli hostages and 150 Palestinian detainees are meant to be released over four days during a temporary pause in the fighting.\n\nThe hostages released by Hamas on Friday were taken to an Egyptian hospital for medical assessments before being taken back to Israel.\n\nThe Israelis include four children - aged two, four, six and nine - as well as an 85-year-old woman.\n\n\"We have now completed the return of the first of our hostages. Children, their mothers and other women. Each and every one of them is a entire world,\" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.\n\n\"But I emphasise to you - the families, and to you - the citizens of Israel: We are committed to the return of all our hostages.\"\n\nYoni Asher's wife, Doron Katz Asher, 34, and their two daughters Raz, four, and Aviv, two, have been released.\n\n\"I am determined to bring about the resurrection of my family from the trauma and the terrible bereavement we went through,\" Mr Asher told the BBC.\n\n\"I don't celebrate, I won't celebrate until the last of the kidnapped returns,\" he said.\n\n\"The families of the kidnapped are not posters, they are not slogans, they are real people, and the families of the kidnapped are from today my new family, and I will make sure and do everything that the last of the kidnapped comes home.\"\n\nMargalit Moses, 78, was also among those released by Hamas. A cancer survivor, she was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz by Hamas on 7 October.\n\nDaniele Aloni and her six-year-old daughter Emilia have also been released as part of the deal. They were kidnapped on 7 October during a visit to stay with family in Kibbutz Nir Oz.\n\nDuring the attacks, the last message Daniele sent to her family said that \"there were terrorists in their house\" and she was afraid that they would not survive.\n\nItay Ravi, whose 78-year-old uncle Avraham remains in captivity, says \"this is one step towards being happy\" after three of his family members were released.\n\nHis aunt, Ruthi Munder, 78, his cousin Keren Munder, 54, and her son, Ohad Munder-Zichri, nine, were kidnapped from Nir Oz.\n\n\"They're making their way now to Israeli hospitals, to family, and this is very exciting. However, we cannot be completely happy,\" he told BBC Newsnight.\n\n\"It's still a very, very horrific reality that we're in,\" Mr Ravi added.\n\nOhad turned nine while being held in Gaza.\n\n\"The only celebration that we're going to have soon is [for] Ohad's ninth birthday,\" Mr Ravi said.\n\n\"Now we're going to have a big celebration for him, with all the friends and family, after he gets into the new reality. We'll see how he's back…I don't know how a nine-year-old comes back after 50 days in the hands of a terrorist organisation. I hope he does well.\"\n\nDaniele Aloni and her five-year-old daughter Emilia were released as part of the deal\n\nThere was also huge relief among families of the Thai nationals and Filipino released by Hamas.\n\nKittiya Thuengsaeng, the girlfriend of 28-year-old Thai hostage Wichai Kalapat, described the emotional rollercoaster she went through since he disappeared.\n\nShe was told by local Thai officials that her boyfriend of three years had died in the 7 October attacks. But when Thai authorities announced all of the names of the deceased, Wichai's name was not on there.\n\nFive days ago, she was told he was on the list of Thai hostages.\n\nUrai Chantachart confirmed her brother Boonthom Pankhong, 39, and his girlfriend Natthawaree Mulakan were among the Thai hostages released by Hamas on Friday.\n\nUrai told BBC Thai that the family was \"overjoyed\" and that they had never lost faith that Boonthom was still alive.\n\nLooking at a photo released by the foreign affairs ministry, she said she thought her brother looked \"better than expected\", although he seemed to have lost weight. He and his girlfriend are now receiving receiving treatment at Shamir Medical Center in Israel, she added.\n\nGelienor (Jimmy) Pacheco, 33, from the Philippines, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7. Jimmy was a carer for fellow kibbutz resident Amitai Ben Zvi who was killed in the Hamas raid.\n\nThe releases of Wichai, Jimmy, Boonthom and Natthawaree were confirmed on Saturday morning.\n\nA released Palestinian detainee speaks to media as he leaves the Israeli military prison, Ofer\n\nA total of 39 Palestinian detainees have been released from Israeli prisons as part of the exchange.\n\nThey are accused of a range of offences, from throwing stones to attempted murder. Some had been convicted of crimes while others were awaiting trial.\n\nThe group of 24 women and 15 teenage boys was released across the Beituniya checkpoint in the occupied West Bank and greeted by large crowds chanting.\n\nOne Palestinian detainee released was Marah Bakeer. She was arrested in 2015, when she was 16 years old, and sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in jail for a knife attack on a border police officer.\n\nBakeer told waiting journalists: \"This deal comes following the death of many people and this makes us unhappy and uncomfortable.\"\n\nShe said she was kept in solitary confinement and had \"no idea what was happening outside, no idea about the situation in Gaza\".\n\n\"The news of the deal was a surprise,\" she said.\n\nThe detainees were chosen from a list of 300 women and minors compiled by Israel.\n\nLess than a quarter of those on the list have been convicted - the vast majority are being held on remand while awaiting trial. Most of those listed are teenage boys - 40% of them under the age of 18. There is also one teenage girl and 32 women.\n\nHamas took more than 200 hostages during a cross-border attack on southern Israel on 7 October in which 1,200 people were killed.\n\nHuman rights organisations say the number of Palestinians held without charge in Israeli jails has shot up since the 7 October attacks.\n\nAt least 60 aid lorries have entered Gaza since the pause in fighting - Israel says eight of the lorries are bringing in fuel, part of 130,000 litres to be delivered each day of the truce.\n\nAlthough the four-day ceasefire agreement suggests all areas should be accessible to aid agencies, Israel has told Palestinians now displaced in the south not to try to return home, saying the north is a war zone - although many thousands of civilians are believed to remain there.", "Leon Crossman found the unexploded device on the beach at Pakefield, Suffolk\n\nThe unexpected collapse of a cliff edge and a road has forced the evacuation of a caravan park as well as revealing a suspected unexploded bomb.\n\nHigh tides and wind caused a road to collapse at Pakefield Holiday Park in Lowestoft, Suffolk, leaving caravans \"dangerously close to the edge\".\n\nLater a suspected unexploded device was found at the base of a cliff a few hundred metres away.\n\nA controlled explosion has now been carried out on the device.\n\nLeon Crossman, 34, spotted the suspected bomb on the beach close to a second holiday park, Pontin's, and said he alerted coastguards, who arrived in 10 minutes.\n\n\"You couldn't miss it,\" he said.\n\nA bomb disposal team arrived at Pakefield after the device was discovered\n\nHM Coastguard confirmed it sent teams to assist East Suffolk Council and Suffolk Police with a report of suspected ordnance at Pakefield at about 12:20 GMT following a cliff fall on Friday.\n\nPrior to the controlled explosion, it said an exclusion zone of 100m had been established around the site.\n\nMembers of the public have also been urged to keep away from part of the beach at Arbor Lane after erosion caused part of the road to collapse.\n\n\"The beach there is now a dangerous place to be,\" HM Coastguard said.\n\n\"The beach at the bottom of the steps at Arbor Lane has now mostly washed away. There is now a drop on to what's left of the beach.\"\n\nThe bomb disposal team is now leaving the site at the holiday park where they have carried out a controlled explosion after a World War Two device was found on the beach, uncovered by the surge tide.\n\nAll focus had been on the erosion and the damage that was being caused to the caravans, but it very swiftly moved to this device.\n\nWe understand it could have been used in minesweeping, but the Army took no chances and carried out the controlled explosion.\n\nFurther along the coast in Norfolk, the spring tide also led to the collapse of a road at the erosion-hit village of Hemsby,\n\nA high tide is due at 20:00 GMT and HM Coastguard Lowestoft said in a Facebook post that it would continue to monitor the cliffs in Pakefield over the weekend.\n\nA road at Pakefield Holiday Park has been lost to the sea, while steps down to the beach have also been cordoned off\n\nA spokesman for East Suffolk Council said: \"The relevant authorities are addressing the impacts, and affected areas have been cordoned off as the extent of any damage is assessed.\n\n\"Known damage which affects ordinary access includes the steps down to the beach at Arbor Lane.\n\n\"Therefore, people are asked to avoid the area and stay away from locations which may still be vulnerable. There may be debris and the possibility of further collapse and public safety is a priority.\"\n\nPakefield Holiday Park, run by Park Holidays, has dozens of static caravans on its site\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lord Mayor of Westminster Patricia McAllister and Mayor of Oslo Anne Lindboe helped to cut down the spruce\n\nLondon's traditional Christmas gift has been felled in Norway ahead of its trip to Trafalgar Square.\n\nIt grew in Nordmarka, the forests just north of Oslo, and will be loaded onto a ship bound for the capital.\n\nStanding at 62 ft (19 metres) tall, the tree will arrive in central London at the start of next month ahead of an official lights ceremony on 7 December.\n\nThe Norwegian spruce is sent each year a token of thanks for Britain's support during World War Two.\n\nA specialist rigging team will erect the spruce in Trafalgar Square using a hydraulic crane.\n\nThe tree is loaded onto a ship avoiding any contact with salt water, which could damage it and sets sail for the UK\n\nThe tree will be decorated in traditional Norwegian fashion with vertical strings of energy-efficient lights, Westminster Council said.\n\nThe Lord Mayor of Westminster Patricia McAllister joined the British Ambassador Jan Thompson for the official tree felling ceremony in Norway.\n\nIt was hosted by the Mayor of Oslo, Anne Lindboe, and was also attended by local primary school children, officials who are involved with the maintenance of the forest and members of the public.\n\nThis year marks the 76th anniversary since King Haakon VII sent the first spruce to London.\n\nWhen Norway was invaded in 1940, the King of Norway sought refuge in Britain and the Norwegian government-in-exile was established in London.\n\nTo most Norwegians, London represented the spirit of freedom during these difficult war years.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "People have been waiting in long queues for fuel and aid in the Gaza Strip, as the four-day truce between Israel and Hamas appears to hold for a second day.\n\nGazans are trying to make the most of the pause in fighting to gather much-needed supplies, search for loved ones and even take a walk by the sea.\n\nSome have visited their homes - or what is left of them - to see damage and recover what they can find.\n\nThe truce has also seen more supplies allowed into the Palestinian territory.\n\nIsrael imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip as it launched its retaliatory operation aimed at eliminating Hamas, following its 7 October attack in which militants killed at least 1,200 people in southern Israel and took more than 240 hostages.\n\nSince then, more than 14,500 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.\n\nThe four-day truce, mediated by Qatar, is meant to result in the release of 50 hostages and 150 Palestinian prisoners and detainees held in Israeli jails.\n\nOn the first day of the truce on Friday, around 150 trucks carried supplies into the Gaza Strip from Egypt.\n\nWhile it was the biggest amount of aid to enter Gaza since the first convoy crossed the border on 21 October, the UN says more is still needed.\n\nCommunications are largely down across Gaza, however pictures emerging from the Strip show long queues for fuel and other supplies in Rafah, in the south of the territory.\n\nPeople have been queuing for fuel as four trucks carrying cooking gas and for containing fuel entered Gaza on Saturday\n\nTrucks have been waiting on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing early on Saturday morning, ready to carry in food, water, fuel and medical supplies.\n\nThe Israeli military confirmed that four tankers containing fuel and another four carrying cooking gas entered Gaza on Saturday morning.\n\nIt is a slow process to get over the border with every vehicle checked by the Israeli military before making the crossing.\n\nThe Palestinian Red Crescent said 61 aid trucks carrying food supplies, drinking water and medicines had set off from Rafah towards the north of Gaza.\n\nIt said this would be the largest aid convoy to reach the north since the beginning of the fighting.\n\nThe Israeli government said it was expecting 226 aid trucks to enter through the Nitzana crossing in southern Israel.\n\n\"This will include 113 trucks containing food, seven containing medical supplies, 27 containing water, 43 containing various supplies for shelter, 25 trucks containing hygiene supplies,\" spokesman Eytan Schwartz said.\n\nAn additional 11 Egyptian trucks are carrying medical supplies to the Emirati hospital, he said.\n\nA woman collects a bag of flour at the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir Al Balah, Gaza\n\nDespite joy for many at the cessation of fighting, it has been mixed with sadness after many returned to their destroyed homes to save what remained and retrieve the bodies of their loved ones from under the rubble.\n\nTahani al-Najjar used the calm of the truce to return to the ruins of her Khan Younis home on Saturday, Reuters news agency reported.\n\nThe 58-year-old pulled several intact cups from the rubble of her home, which she said had been destroyed by an Israeli air strike which also killed seven members of her family.\n\nIn the southern city some people are living in makeshift tents outside the Nasser Hospital as they wait to decide whether to return to the north of the Strip.\n\nCrates of tomatoes, lemons, aubergines, peppers, onions and oranges could be seen at a street market in the city.\n\nJuliette Touma, spokesperson for the UN Relief and Works Agency, Unrwa, told the BBC the situation on the ground was \"absolutely terrible\" and, while the aid which had reached Gaza was welcome, the organisation was ready to receive much more.\n\nShe said there was a need for basic hygiene items as well as more medical equipment, fuel and food.\n\nPeople have described having to flee with only the clothes on their backs and most have been unable to wash properly.\n\nMany public shelters are extremely overcrowded, Unrwa said, with its schools and other facilities housing more than a million displaced people.", "Dror Kaplun, believed to be held hostage by Hamas, with his wife Marchelle, who was killed in the attacks\n\nMaayan Kaplun Keidar believes her father, Dror Kaplun, is one of those held hostage by Hamas on the Gaza Strip since 7 October - although she does not know for sure.\n\nShe did not expect him to be among those released in Friday's Israel-Hamas deal, but hopes the agreement paves the way for him, and all those being held hostage, to be freed at a later date.\n\nDror lived with his wife on kibbutz Be'eri, a few kilometres from the border with Gaza, and one of the communities worst hit in the Hamas attacks.\n\nFor the first few hours, Ms Kaplun Keidar said he was sending \"horrifying\" messages on the family Whatsapp group - including that Hamas fighters had entered the community and started burning houses - but communications eventually went quiet.\n\n\"I was praying there was a network problem,\" she told BBC News.\n\nShe has not heard from him since, but shortly after the attacks she saw a video online of him being marched through the streets by Hamas gunmen.\n\nDror's wife, Marcelle Frailich Kaplun, can also been seen in the video, as can their neighbours, Ms Kaplun Keidar said.\n\nA few days later she received news that Marcelle's body had been found, as had those of the neighbours - she has received no such news about her father's body, leading her to believe he was taken back to Gaza.\n\n\"Even if there's a 5% chance he's alive, I need to fight for him,\" she said.\n\nA still from a video apparently showing Dror Kaplun being led away by Hamas gunmen on 7 October\n\nOn Friday, Hamas released 24 hostages - including 13 Israelis - in a deal brokered by Qatar, the largest round of releases since the attacks.\n\nMark Regev, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, described the release as \"bittersweet\", because most hostages were still in Gaza.\n\nUnder the terms of the deal, 50 Israeli hostages - as well as 150 Palestinian detainees, 39 of which were released on Friday - are meant to be freed over four days during a temporary pause in fighting in the Gaza Strip.\n\nIt had previously been reported that only women and children would be released, and Ms Kaplun Keidar was not expecting her father to be among the group - but she was watching developments closely.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC shortly before the release was confirmed, she said she wanted to see it happen before celebrating - \"you never know what might happen,\" she said.\n\n\"But I'm very happy they are supposed to be released. I'm very happy for those families that will meet their loved ones, even if I'm not one of them,\" she said.\n\nMs Kaplun Keidar added that she hoped this deal would mean more hostages would be released in the future.\n\n\"Hopefully this will be the start of the release of everyone,\" she said, although she acknowledged that \"anything could happen\".\n\nPeople in Tel Aviv react to news of a deal being struck between Hamas and Israel\n\nSharone Lifschitz is in a similar position. Her 83-year-old father, Oded, is missing, presumed to be held captive.\n\nHer mother Yocheved, 85, was one of only four people released by Hamas before Friday. An Israeli soldier was also freed in ground operations.\n\nMs Lifschitz said dozens of people from her community, Nir Oz, were taken hostage.\n\n\"So you can understand that these people we lived with all our lives,\" she told the BBC before the release was confirmed. \"We know them, so there's a huge amount of anticipation.\"\n\n\"But each person that will come back is a great joy, and obviously we also fear that our loved ones will not be on this list [of those released],\" she said.\n\nMs Lifschitz's father was also not expected to be released on Friday, and she said he would \"fighting to be at the back of the queue\".\n\n\"He will be saying, 'No you go first'.\"\n\nWhile she said that each person released is a \"ray of light\", and that she was looking forward to seeing them, she added that the damage caused by the 7 October attacks is ongoing.\n\nShe said that some of those released will be informed for the first time that their relatives or friends were killed.\n\n\"The trauma is not going to end - this is a long and horrendous story,\" she said.", "Geert Wilders faces an uphill task in forming a government but promises to be prime minister for everyone\n\nFor decades Geert Wilders has been one of the most divisive characters in Dutch society.\n\nA hero of the hard right, who made his name preaching religious intolerance, is trying to rebrand.\n\nDutch society is polarised over what impact the rise of the peroxide blonde populist will have on their lives.\n\nIn Schilderswijk, one of the most ethnically and religiously diverse areas of the Netherlands, Dutch Muslims say they're afraid their religious freedoms may be curtailed.\n\n\"My mother and my wife wear headscarves,\" says Sahil Achahboun, a sociologist who was born in Schilderswijk.\n\nHe now worries his families' movements may be restricted.\n\n\"Wilders wants to stop them from going into government buildings wearing the scarf or pay a tax. I'm afraid for them, and for my children.\"\n\nSociologist Sahil Achahboun fears a Wilders-led government will limit the movement of his wife and mother\n\nMr Wilders said he could be a prime minister for everyone. No-one in this neighbourhood can see how a party that has anti-Islamic beliefs ingrained in its DNA can represent them.\n\nMr Achahboun laughs as though it's a ludicrous idea: \"Wilders has been saying we have to ban everything that is from Muslims, of Muslims, by Muslims.\n\n\"People have been brainwashed. I hope one day he'll be a true leader but for the last 20 years I've seen the opposite.\"\n\nGeert Wilders' manifesto promotes a ban on all Islamic schools, Qurans and mosques, and would forbid anyone wearing the hijab from entering government buildings.\n\nGambling machines and Christmas lights flashed in a traditional Dutch bar, shoppers were counting out change and calculating the cost of their groceries.\n\nThe tight-knit seaside suburb of Duindorp is Wilders heartland. Life is tough, people here tell me, and too expensive.\n\nOutside the supermarket I met Janette, who didn't give her surname, picking up some vegetables for dinner.\n\nHer sons can't afford to buy a home, she complains, and rent is making them broke: \"But we give homes and benefits to people from elsewhere, we are happy to help them but we need to help our own people first. Old people are freezing at home because they can't afford to turn on the heating.\"\n\nThis is a message Geert Wilders has been pumping out for decades, but the cost of living crisis has resonated with a growing population of newly poorer people who want someone to acknowledge their insecurity of existence, and find someone to blame.\n\nJanette tells me it's a good day for democracy, and that \"Geert\", as she fondly refers to him, wants to put the Dutch people first and stop giving money to people in other countries when \"we can't look after our own\".\n\nPacking her plastic bags on to a scooter, another shopper called Anje said she did not think the Freedom party leader would fix her community. But she seemed satisfied that he would at least put pressure on other parties to do something about her problems.\n\nA decade ago the firebrand leader was found guilty of insulting Moroccans.\n\nIn 2009 he was blocked from entering the UK over his plan to show a video that criticised the Quran as a \"fascist book\", which made him a threat to national security.\n\nI have been reporting on Geert Wilders for more than a decade, and witnessed a softening, less shouty style.\n\nHe has toned down provocative social media posts. This week he explained to the BBC with a smile: \"I have become a positive person.\"\n\nBut as Leonie de Jonge, professor of European Politics at Groningen University, points out, his party programme is anything but moderate.\n\n\"The PVV is an archetypical populist radical right party, characterised by nativism, authoritarianism and populism,\" she said.\n\nMr Wilders wants to cancel the overseas aid budget, cut EU funding and reduce the number of foreign students coming in.\n\nHe promises to have 14 year-olds treated the same as adults in criminal cases, cut taxes, provide 10,000 more police officers, and show zero tolerance for \"street scum\" - not to mention the controversy over bringing back Zwarte Piet.\n\nHis manifesto ends with a promise of a government that will \"put the Dutch back at number one!\"\n\nThere is an irony attached to the fact that the pre-election favourite for prime minister may have been key to his party's electoral success.\n\nDilan Yesilgöz, who came from Turkey as a child refugee and now leads the conservative-liberal VVD, has been accused of funnelling voters towards someone whose policies would not have allowed her family to enter the country.\n\nUnlike her predecessor Mark Rutte, she said she would be open to working with Geert Wilders, making the Freedom party or PVV seem like a palatable, plausible partner.\n\nLiberal party leader Rob Jetten described the Wilders party surge as the \"Dilan Yesilgöz effect\".\n\n\"I did not open the door to Geert Wilders,\" she told the BBC defiantly.\n\nDilan Yesilgöz's party has refused to be part of a Wilders coalition, but would be prepared to prop up a minority government\n\nInstead she blamed \"the leftist parties who refused to see the issues we have here, with immigration, with migration, with integration, who refuse to work with us on solutions, they have opened the door\".\n\nBut according to Sarah de Lange, professor of political science at the University of Amsterdam, it was a significant factor: \"It made it more attractive for voters to support Wilders' party because influence on government policy was finally in sight.\"\n\nAnd Leonie de Jonge interpreted this as one of the main explanations for the landslide following a campaign in which immigration featured prominently.\n\nProf de Jonge believes the PVV has \"issue ownership\" over immigration, and voters then prefer the \"original\" over the \"copy\". In that sense she says Dilan Yesilgöz's party \"tilled the field for the populist radical right\".\n\nMs Yesilgöz was the first to declare that her centre-right conservatives would not join a Wilders-led coalition, but was prepared to tolerate one.\n\nWill any of his more far-right policies actually come through in any government he forms?\n\nMuch of what he wants to do about immigration cannot be done under existing laws.\n\nHis manifesto includes a plan to end free movement of labour within the EU, though some groups would be entitled to working visas.\n\nMr Wilders knows there is little appetite for leaving the EU, or \"Nexit\", but his manifesto pledges to hold a referendum on the issue..\n\nSome of the policy propositions, such as closing mosques or banning the Quran, clearly run against the principles of liberal democracy, most notably the protection of minority rights.\n\nHis PVV wants to stop granting asylum for refugees, withdraw from the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention and reinstate border controls.\n\nHe could take a page from recent US and UK playbooks and just forge ahead then blame judges for blocking it.\n\nIs this the Netherlands' Brexit or Donald Trump moment? It is too premature to predict.\n\nGeert Wilders' pathway to power is paved with unknowns and will be constrained by consensus politics.", "Dilan Yesilgöz, leader of the conservative-liberal VVD, said her party would support a centre-right government\n\nThe biggest party in the former Dutch government has ruled out a role in the next Dutch cabinet, after anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders' dramatic election victory.\n\nIn a blow to Mr Wilders' hopes of a majority, centre-right VVD leader Dilan Yesilgöz said her party needed a different role, after losing 10 seats.\n\nPolitical leaders met to consider their next steps in forming a coalition.\n\nA scout from Mr Wilders' Freedom party will now assess who could take part.\n\nThe far-right PVV won 37 seats in Tuesday's election, far more than any other party, more than doubling its representation in the 150-seat parliament.\n\nThe scale of his victory has put pressure on centre and centre-right parties to help form a Wilders-led government.\n\nThe Dutch coalition process tends to take several months, and the first step in the process began on Friday with the appointment of Freedom party senator Gom van Strien as the scout who will hold initial talks with all the relevant parties.\n\nMr van Strien said he was aware it would not be a straightforward task, but that \"in politics and society there is a great sense of urgency\".\n\nAnd as party leaders assembled for exploratory talks in the parliament building, Ms Yesilgöz, whose VVD party came third in Wednesday's vote, announced she would not take part in the next administration because Dutch voters had given a \"clear signal\".\n\n\"The big winners of these elections are the PVV and [new centrist party] NSC,\" she told Dutch TV. \"But we will make a centre-right cabinet possible - so we will support that and won't block it.\"\n\nWithout the liberals, Mr Wilders will struggle to make up the 76 seats needed to form a majority. The only other major potential partners are the newly formed centrist New Social Contract and the centre-right Farmer Citizens Movement.\n\nHowever, Ms Yesilgöz emphasised that her party would be prepared to play a constructive role as a tacit partner in supporting a minority government in parliament. The VVD's 24 seats could in effect hand him a working majority.\n\nGeert Wilders said the VVD's decision did not make forming a coalition any easier\n\nMr Wilders said he was very disappointed by the VVD's decision, which he complained had been taken \"without taking part in negotiations for a minute... and this isn't what VVD-voters want either, I think\".\n\nHe complained that forming a cabinet could now take months and Ms Yesilgöz had not made it any easier.\n\nCommentators were quick to point out that Geert Wilders had himself propped up Mark Rutte's first VVD-led government as a tacit partner in 2010, but he triggered its collapse little more than a year and a half later when he refused to back austerity measures.\n\nMr Wilders badly needs the support of New Social Contract, formed only in August by whistleblower MP Pieter Omtzigt, and the BBB Farmer Citizens Movement, which has a strong representation in the upper house, the senate.\n\nBy deciding not to be part of the cabinet, Ms Yesilgöz has also increased pressure on Mr Omtzigt to join a coalition, because with 20 seats he is the only other top-four party still available.\n\nMr Omtzigt said the timing of her announcement was odd and made the whole process more complicated.\n\nBBB leader Caroline van der Plas complained that it was the centre-right liberals under previous leader Mark Rutte who had led to the cabinet's collapse in July in the first place, in a row over capping asylum numbers. Now again, she said, it was about playing party politics, \"and not about what citizens want\".\n\nHer newly elected MPs were brought to the parliament building by seven tractors, one for each MP.\n\nDuring the election campaign, Geert Wilders announced that his anti-Islam manifesto policies were being put on hold, as he presented a milder image to voters. But he did not hold back on his vow to stop what he called an \"asylum tsunami\", as well as deport illegal immigrants and demand work permits for EU nationals.\n\nIn a post on social media, Caroline van der Plas said that deportations or banning mosques or the Koran would require changing the constitution, which itself involved several steps to be endorsed by the parliament and the king.\n\n\"In short it's just not possible; stop scaring the children,\" she wrote.\n\nMeanwhile, in a letter to the Freedom party leader, Muslim, Christian and Jewish organisations appealed to Mr Wilders to meet them soon to spell out his \"promise to be there for every Dutch citizen, regardless of religion, sex or colour\".", "The Met Police are to clarify what type of language might break the law when chanted or displayed at pro-Palestinian marches.\n\nThe force will hand out leaflets at Saturday's march in central London warning against using words or images \"likely to land you in jail\".\n\nIt is the first time the Met has tried to give clarity on what language is unacceptable.\n\nOrganisers say at least 100,000 people could turn out for the protest.\n\nThe Met has previously been criticised over its handling of the pro-Palestinian protests - which have been held weekly since 14 October - with ministers calling for the force to take a tougher line on those deemed to be expressing extremist views.\n\nThe force is also planning to position Arabic-speaking officers on the march, backed up in its central control room with lawyers to advise on whether specific phrases break the law.\n\nSome 1,500 officers will be on the streets on Saturday with instructions to protect war memorials following criticism that police have not stopped protesters climbing on them.\n\nThe leaflets warn protesters not to use words or images:\n\nProtesters will be told to \"bin any placard or sign that might break these rules\".\n\nThe leaflets also warn against damaging statues, using threatening words or behaviour and fireworks, which have been a problem on Pro-Palestinian protests to date.\n\nIn a briefing to reporters, the Met's Assistant Commissioner Ade Adelekan stressed the force's new approach of directly telling protesters about the limits to what they can say or write on placards.\n\n\"We will not tolerate anyone who celebrates acts of terrorism such as the killing or kidnap of innocent people,\" he said.\n\nHe said police would act \"decisively and quickly\" and \"intervene immediately\" if there were chants of \"jihad\", though he also said context was important.\n\nDamage to poppy wreaths would not be tolerated, and police will specifically protect the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner after criticism that protesters who climbed on it last week were not arrested.\n\nMr Adelekan said there were potential offences of criminal damage and disorderly behaviour for people who climbed statues but the power of arrest lay with individual officers.\n\nThe Met is also under pressure to stop breakaway protests, especially attempts to sit in at railway stations after the main protests have finished.\n\nLast week, a sit-in protest was held at London's Waterloo station.\n\nPro-Palestinian demonstrations have been held each week in London and other parts of the UK since 14 October, a week after Hamas's unprecedented cross-border attacks in Israel killed 1,200 people and saw about 240 taken hostage.\n\nGaza's Hamas-run health ministry says more than 14,000 people have been killed in Israel's retaliatory campaign, and the UN has warned of a worsening humanitarian crisis in the territory.\n\nMeanwhile, the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir has given the police notice of a separate protest at the Egyptian embassy.\n\nHizb ut-Tahrir's status has been a subject of political controversy for decades.\n\nFormer prime ministers Tony Blair and David Cameron both promised to ban the group, whose stated aim is the re-establishment of an Islamic caliphate, before abandoning the proposals,\n\nMr Adelekan said the Hizb ut-Tahrir protest would be subject to strict requirements that it should begin at 13:00 GMT and disperse at 15:30.\n\nThe main pro-Palestinian march in London on 21 October attracted up to 100,000 people\n\nHe dismissed suggestions from Jewish people that it was not safe to enter central London during pro-Palestinian protests, saying that the 1,500 officers were being deployed to ensure safety.\n\nOn Sunday the first major march against antisemitism will take place with 45,000 expected by the organisers, the Campaign Against Antisemitism.\n\nThe Met has intelligence that right-wing activist Tommy Robinson is due to attend as a \"reporter\". Protest organisers have made clear he is not welcome.\n\n\"Mutual aid\" officers from other police forces will again support operations in London this weekend. \"Our officers just need a break\", Mr Adelekan said.\n\nCorrection: A previous version incorrectly identified the location of a potential protest. Police have been notified of a protest at the Egyptian embassy.", "The French government has launched a campaign encouraging people not to buy new clothes in Black Friday sales.\n\nThe advert shows a man asking for advice in a shop before an assistant tells him not to buy anything, to help the planet and his finances.\n\nThe minister for ecological transition - responsible for promoting sustainability - Christophe Béchu, is behind the campaign.\n\nBut the message has been criticised by other government departments.\n\nFinance minister Bruno Le Maire called it \"ill-conceived\" and said it would harm \"honest businesses\".\n\nLe Maire's department been trying to tackle the rise in unemployment and the cost of living crisis - and seasonal sales are thought to put more money back into the economy.\n\nBlack Friday, when retailers offer significant discounts and promotions, is one of the biggest shopping days of the year in many European countries.\n\nOn Thursday Béchu admitted that the message may have targeted the wrong businesses, he told France Inter: \"We should have targeted online sales platforms rather than physical businesses with the same message.\"\n\nBut he said the adverts would not be pulled.\n\nThe campaign is one of a number of initiatives from Mr Béchu, who previously launched a \"repair bonus\" to encourage people to repair their existing clothes instead of buying new ones.\n\nFrom October the government has subsidised clothing and shoe repairs by giving people between €6 (£5) and €25 (£21) off the cost. The government has committed to contributing €154m to the repair bonus fund over the next five years.\n\nBérangère Couillard, the junior ecology minister, said the government was committed to tackling fast fashion.\n\nMore criticism came from the Commerce Alliance, the Union of Textile Industries and the French Union of Fashion and Clothing Industries which issued a joint statement.\n\n\"We ask for its immediate withdrawal, failing which we will consider legal action for commercial denigration.\n\n\"We ask ADEME [the French Environment and Energy Management Agency] and the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territories to immediately remove this video and to work together to develop positive communication on the transformation of the fashion and commerce sector.\"", "Ruth Heavyside was looking forward to this year's Buff Trail 10K race before hearing about the company's closure on social media\n\nRunners have been left feeling \"conned\" after a sports events company announced its closure.\n\nRun Afan Forest, set up following the liquidation of sister company Tough Runner UK, has cancelled several of its sporting events at short notice.\n\nIt was accused of not offering refunds to those signed up for races including a 10K and half marathon.\n\nDirector of the Swansea-based firm Adam Newton called accusations \"inaccurate and unfounded\".\n\nHe said all those affected have been offered race credits, adding: \"Nobody should feel let down.\"\n\nRuth Heavyside, from Cardiff, booked the Buff Epic Trail 10K, which was due to take place at Afan Forest country park, near Port Talbot, on 2 December.\n\nThe 39-year-old graphic designer did the same event last year and thought it was an \"amazing atmosphere\".\n\n\"I absolutely loved it but I was disappointed with my performance. I'd had a rough couple of weeks of poor mental health, I'd been really stressed and really struggling, and as much as I did my best to power up those hills I was disappointed,\" she said.\n\nSince last year's event, she had heard running friends say they had been \"messed about\" by Run Afan Forest.\n\nOne said their event date was changed, and another found no water at a half marathon she attended.\n\nOn Wednesday, Run Afan Forest announced on its website that it was closing.\n\nIts director Mr Newton said he had \"deep concern regarding the current state of governance within our sport\" and that \"failure\" of national governing bodies to \"provide effective support\" had \"directly contributed to the downfall of our business\".\n\nMs Heavyside said: \"No email confirmation from them, no cancellation, no apology. Just social media to point me in the direction of their website and let me know that my event is cancelled.\"\n\nMs Heavyside entered during a bank holiday sale in May and it cost her £22, which was due to include a free water bottle or running cap which she did not receive.\n\nHaving not heard anything about refunds, she now hopes to recoup the money via her bank.\n\n\"It's just not fair for people who pay however much money for a race event, just for it to be cancelled. It's just not acceptable.\n\n\"You might think it's not the biggest amount of money, but for a family with small children with Christmas coming up… we're working as hard as we can, there's the cost of living,\" she said.\n\nGareth Rees, 54, from Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, spent £75 on two places at Run Afan Forest's Pembrokeshire Trail Half Marathon scheduled for May 2024.\n\nHe booked the event, to be held at Canaston Woods, Narberth, when it was launched about three weeks ago, as a surprise for his wife, Tara.\n\nGareth Rees from Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, bought two places for Run Afan Forest's new trail 10K in May as a surprise for his wife\n\nBut red flags were raised when members of his triathlon club, Tenby Aces, posted on social media about not hearing anything from the company ahead of events this weekend.\n\n\"The more you read into it, the more it was obvious [my event] wasn't going to happen,\" he said.\n\nHe added the event was still being advertised by the company as late as last week.\n\n\"People were entering even though the rumblings were already there,\" he said.\n\n\"I saw all the media about the event and because it was on the doorstep, I went straight in. I was promoting that event with club members to try and have a group of us together.\n\nLast week, Welsh Triathlon, Triathlon England and Triathlon Scotland said in a joint statement Run Afan Forest would no longer receive event permits.\n\n\"The decision follows the failure of the event organiser to meet the terms and conditions required to issue event permits,\" it said.\n\nOn Tuesday, governing body Welsh Athletics said the company was \"suspended from delivering Welsh Athletics licensed events\", adding: \"The decision will allow Welsh Athletics to undertake a review into the competition provider.\"\n\nAdam Newton (centre) says no one should feel let down following his company's closure\n\nOne of the firm's planned events, the Pembrey MT 10, was due to happen on Sunday, but was cancelled earlier this week.\n\nHowever, Carmarthenshire council, which runs Pembrey Country Park, where it was due to take place, said no agreement was in place for the event to happen.\n\nCouncillor Hazel Evans, cabinet member for regeneration, leisure and tourism, said: \"Whilst the county council has had dialogue with Run Afan regarding the MT10, the council can confirm that no agreement was made for this event to go ahead and this was clearly communicated to Run Afan in September 2023.\"\n\nDespite this, Mr Newton said organisers were considering \"all avenues of how we could still deliver the event\".\n\nIts races were booked by participants through a platform called Let's Do This.\n\nMr Newton said his company was working with the platform to offer affected customers a credit that can be used for any event listed on their website.\n\n\"This way, you can still make the most out of your booking and find an alternative event that suits your preferences,\" he said.\n\nLet's Do This has been contacted for comment.", "Kittiya Thuengsaeng recognised Wichai Kalapat among TV images of Thai hostages being released\n\nA woman who believed her boyfriend was killed in the 7 October attack on Israel has spoken of her joy at realising they would soon be reunited.\n\nKittiya Thuengsaeng told the BBC she recognised Wichai Kalapat in TV images of the 10 Thai hostages released from Gaza on Friday.\n\nIt was feared Wichai was among Thai citizens killed in the Hamas raid.\n\nShe said confirmation her boyfriend was among the foreign nationals being held only came five days ago.\n\nTwo days after the 7 October attack, Kittiya was given the devastating news her boyfriend of three years was believed to be among a group of at least 30 Thai nationals killed.\n\nShe posted messages on social media mourning the man she planned to marry next year when he returned from Israel, where he had travelled for work.\n\nHowever, when an official list of the dead was published, Wichai's name was not on it.\n\nAfter an agonising wait for information, Kittiya discovered last week that he was among 32 Thai citizens being held hostage inside Gaza.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after seeing him alive in a car carrying hostages from the border to an Israeli hospital, she said: \"I'm so happy because I feared he wouldn't be among those released.\n\n\"I want him to heal from any mental condition he may have first, then he can return to Thailand.\n\n\"Right now, I can wait for him. I've been waiting for so long, I can wait a little longer.\"\n\nThai nationals were disproportionately impacted as around 30,000 have travelled to Israel for work, primarily in the agriculture sector.\n\nKittiya told the BBC she thought her boyfriend was among the dead\n\nAmong them were Thai nationals Boonthom Pankhong, 39, and his girlfriend, Natthawaree Mulakan, who were also released by Hamas on Friday.\n\nBoonthom's family told BBC Thai that he had been working in Israel for five years when he was kidnapped, and that he was the family's main breadwinner, sending money home to Thailand regularly.\n\nHis sister Urai Chantachart told BBC Thai the family were told about the release by Boonthom's nephew, who still works on a farm in Israel, and that they were \"overjoyed\".\n\n\"Our family has been suffering for over a month, but we never thought he was dead. We strongly believed that he [was] still alive,\" she said.\n\nLooking at a photo released by the foreign affairs ministry, she said she thought her brother looked \"better than expected\", although he seemed to have lost weight.\n\nUrai was not sure whether he and his girlfriend would return home or stay in Israel. They are both receiving treatment at Shamir Medical Center in Israel, she added.\n\nOther families are nervously awaiting news to find out if their loved one is among those whose release was secured on Friday.\n\nThongkoon Onkaew, the mother of Natthaporn Onkaew, a 26-year-old Thai farmer, said the last time she spoke to her son was on the morning of 7 October, when he was planning to play football with friends.\n\nShe said: \"I wish my son is one of the first being released. It has been a painful month with no good news.\n\n\"I wish my son and other Thai hostages are safe, I thank all the authorities for the effort negotiating the release of Thai nationals.\"\n\nWanida Maarsa, the wife of Anucha Angkaew, 28, said: \"I need to call the local representative to check the news. I am now bombarded with messages.\n\n\"If my husband is one of them, I would be so happy.\"\n\nThailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin initially said 12 people were released, but an official from the Qatari government - which has mediated between Israel and Hamas - later said the number was 10.\n\nThe release of Thai nationals is separate to an agreement which is expected see 50 Israeli hostages freed from Gaza during a temporary four-day pause in fighting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThirteen Israeli citizens - all women and children - and a Filipino national were among the first group of hostages to be freed.\n\nIsrael has released 39 Palestinian detainees as part of the agreement.\n\nThailand's foreign ministry said its freed citizens would be placed under medical supervision without access to relatives for 48 hours after being transferred to an Israeli hospital.\n\nA statement issued by the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it sent its heartfelt congratulations to the released Thai nationals and their families, and would do all possible to get them home to Thailand quickly.", "Today marked a major milestone in almost two months of intense fighting between Israel and Hamas.\n\nThe first Israeli hostages were released hours after the war began its four-day truce this morning.\n\nA total of 24 hostages were returned to Israel - 13 Israelis, 10 Thais and one Filipino - which in turn released 39 Palestinian prisoners to the West Bank as part of a deal during a temporary ceasefire.\n\nThere were rare scenes of celebration as crowds gathered to watch a helicopter carrying eight freed Israeli hostages arrive at a children's hospital in Petah Tikva, after they spent almost seven weeks being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nAround 137 aid lorries carrying much-needed medical supplies, fuel and food entered Gaza from Egypt. It's the biggest delivery of supplies since the start of the conflict but Oxfam pointed out it would not be \"nearly enough\".\n\nDespite the ceasefire, videos circulated on social media that appear to show Palestinians being shot at as they tried to head from the south of Gaza to the north of the Strip. The Israeli military had advised people against heading north, saying \"the humanitarian pause is temporary, and the northern region of Gaza is a war zone\".\n\nMeanwhile the \"catastrophic\" situation at Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital continues, according to a surgeon there. Israeli troops had moved in last week claiming Hamas operates out of the hospital - which it denies. An estimated 100 patients and staff are thought to still be at the biggest medical facility in Gaza but it is no longer operational.\n\nSo what could tomorrow bring? US President Joe Biden described today's hostage releases as \"the start of a process\", and Israeli media reported Hamas has sent a list of 13 more hostages expected to be released tomorrow to Israel.\n\nAs fighting pauses for now, a reminder of how we got here - on 7 October Hamas launched an attack on Israel in which 1,200 people were killed and 240 taken hostage.\n\nIsrael launched a retaliatory campaign, in which Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says more than 14,500 people have been killed.", "A kindergarten was heavily damaged by the latest Russian drone strike on Kyiv\n\nRussia has launched its biggest drone attack on Kyiv since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine began last year, the city's mayor has said.\n\nResidents were woken by explosions before dawn on Saturday, and for more than six hours, the booms of Kyiv's air defences echoed through the city.\n\nThere was wave after wave of attacks from the north and east.\n\nOfficials said more than 75 Iranian-made Shahed drones were fired at the capital - all but one were shot down.\n\nWith Russia's dwindling missile stocks, Shahed drones are seen as a cheap alternative. They are slower than ballistic missiles and have a distinctive wingspan.\n\nIt was a night where the whines of their engines blended with the booms of the city's air defences.\n\nAs ever, even if a missile or drone is intercepted, the falling debris can be lethal too.\n\nThere have been no reported deaths from this attack, but at least five people were injured, including an 11-year-old child, Kyiv's mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said.\n\nA kindergarten was among the buildings damaged.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFor several quiet weeks, Moscow had been suspected of stockpiling missiles. That abruptly ended this morning.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the strikes an act of \"wilful terror\" and said that his country will \"continue to work to unite the world in defence against Russian terror\".\n\nHe is trying to secure continued Western support as well as negotiate Ukraine's path to being a possible member of the European Union.\n\nPresident Zelensky also noted that the attack came on the same day that Ukraine commemorates the 1932-1933 Holodomor famine - brought on by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin - which killed several million Ukrainians.\n\nAs winter continues to bite, it had been feared that Russia would resume its tactic of targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure. With 16,000 homes being left without power in the central Kyiv region, this appears to be the case.\n\nHowever, if the aim of Moscow's strategy last year was to deprive Ukrainians of much-needed power and water, it ultimately failed as authorities learnt to quickly repair damaged pipes and powerlines.\n\nThat's not to say strikes like this are not felt.\n\nThey still kill, destroy homes, spread fear and disrupt lives.", "David Cameron says his six years as prime minister \"was a good apprenticeship\" for being foreign secretary\n\nLord Cameron has defended his pro-China policy as prime minister, insisting that it is still right to \"engage\" with Beijing.\n\nIn his first full interview since becoming foreign secretary, Lord Cameron said China is key to solving big issues like climate change.\n\nThe comments risk angering Tory MPs, some of whom China has sanctioned.\n\nBut he told the BBC he supported the government's current \"realistic, hard-headed policy\" towards China.\n\nIn a wide-ranging conversation, Lord Cameron also denied he had become foreign secretary because he was bored.\n\n\"Being prime minister for six years was a good apprenticeship for being foreign secretary,\" he said.\n\nLord Cameron has been criticised for his close involvement with Chinese investment in recent years.\n\nHe has given speeches praising a port development in Sri Lanka owned ultimately by a Chinese state company.\n\nHe tried to set up a £1bn China-Investment fund. And he met senior Chinese figures on visits to Beijing.\n\nThis has raised fears among some MPs that Lord Cameron could seek to soften the government's attitude towards China.\n\nBut he told the BBC the world had changed since he was prime minister.\n\n\"China has become much more aggressive, much more assertive, over the Uighurs, over Hong Kong, the 'wolf warrior' diplomacy,\" he said.\n\n\"And so that's why security and protection is such an important part of our policy.\n\n\"We also need to align more carefully with our allies to make sure we can counter any malign threats coming from China. So, it is a realistic hard headed policy.\"\n\nBut he defended his previous policy in Downing Street that sought a new \"golden era\" in Sino-UK relations.\n\nHe said: \"When I became prime minister, the greatest need was for Britain to grow again, trade again, with exports to help our businesses around the world.\n\n\"I loaded up planes, I took them to India, I took them to China, I took them to Africa to get the economy moving again.\"\n\nAnd the government, he said, should still deal with Beijing today.\n\n\"Engaging China is one part of the approach we need to take,\" he said.\n\n\"Not least, because China is a fifth of humanity. We're not going to solve challenges like climate change, unless we engage.\n\n\"And hopefully I can be a part of that.\"\n\nDavid Cameron took Chinese President Xi Jinping to a pub near Chequers as part of his push for a 2golden era\" of Chinese relations.\n\nLord Cameron also risked angering pro-Brexit Tory MPs by saying Britain should engage more closely with the European Union on foreign, defence and security policy.\n\nHe said Britain had decided not to be a member of the EU but had to be \"a friend, a neighbour and the best possible partner\" and the UK had to make that work.\n\n\"When you look at the engagement in Ukraine, that probably is the best example of how it's worked,\" he said.\n\n\"There's no doubt that Britain is the leading European power in helping Ukraine.\n\n\"I heard that over and over again from the president downwards. But we're doing that in partnership with our European colleagues.\n\n\"So, I think we can make friend, neighbour and partner work. And I'm determined to do so.\"\n\nEven in his first few days back in office, Lord Cameron has been a strong advocate for boosting Britain's international development policy.\n\nBut he suggested he would not push for a return to the target of spending 0.7% of national income on foreign aid.\n\n\"I took this job accepting collective Cabinet responsibility,\" he said.\n\nLord Cameron gave his \"100% support\" to the government's Rwanda migration policy, saying \"we have to do what it takes to break the model of the people smugglers\".\n\nHe said: \"What I'm absolutely ready to do is to support the government's policy and 100% because we have got to stop the boats.\n\n\"And I don't say this glibly. I know that there's nothing more destructive to a country's immigration system and immigration policy than large scale, very visible illegal migration.\n\n\"And that is what we have. That's what we got to stop.\n\n\"Now the number of small boat crossings is down by a third. But we have to do whatever it takes to break the model of the people's workers.\"\n\nAsked if he was willing to countenance pulling Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights, he ignored the question and said: \"I'm very happy to say I 100% support the government policy and whatever it takes.\"", "Organisers of the protest estimated that some 300,000 people attended\n\nTens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators have marched through central London calling for a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.\n\nIt was the first London march since Armistice Day, when more than 100 counter-protesters were arrested.\n\nPolice said 15 people had been arrested at the march, though the \"overwhelming majority\" protested lawfully.\n\nThe protest coincided with a four-day pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says more than 14,500 people have been killed in Gaza - and more than a third of them children - since Israel began its retaliatory operation in response to Hamas's 7 October attacks. Hamas killed 1,200 people and took more than 240 hostages during its unprecedented cross-border incursion.\n\nThe Qatar-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas has so far led to the release of 26 Israeli hostages and 39 Palestinians from Israeli prisons.\n\nThe march in central London came as a delay to the release of more Israeli hostages was resolved on the second day of the temporary truce.\n\nOrganisers of the protest, which marched from Park Lane to Whitehall, estimated that some 300,000 people attended. The Metropolitan Police did not give a number.\n\nThe force said the arrests included offences of inciting racial hatred, distributing material likely to stir up racial hatred, supporting a proscribed organisation, refusing directions to disperse, possessing an offensive weapon and assaulting an emergency worker.\n\nThe Met has been under pressure for weeks over its handling of the now-regular demonstrations, with pressure from senior politicians for officers to come down harder on alleged displays of antisemitism.\n\nSome 1,500 officers were deployed to the protest and leaflets were given to protesters warning people about words or images that could break the law.\n\nThe Met also said it was planning to position Arabic-speaking officers on the march, backed up in its central control room with lawyers to advise on whether specific phrases break the law.\n\nThe protest was held on the second day of a four-day pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas\n\nBen Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said the leaflets given out by police at the march \"reassert what everybody knows\"\n\nSome 1,500 officers were on the streets on Saturday, the Met Police said\n\nOfficers were told to protect war memorials following criticism that police had not stopped protesters climbing on them\n\nThe protest in central London was the first since Armistice Day\n\nMarches were also been held in Glasgow (pictured) and Cardiff\n\nProtesters carrying Palestinian flags were seen with placards demanding a permanent ceasefire in the conflict, while some referenced the slogan \"from the river to the sea\".\n\nThe language is interpreted by Israel and most Jewish groups as an expression of a desire to see Israel erased from the world, though pro-Palestinian activists contest this, saying it refers to \"the right of all Palestinians to freedom, equality and justice\".\n\nSo far, the temporary truce is still holding and follows weeks of fighting and Israeli bombardments of Gaza, with the conflict sparked by Hamas's unprecedented cross-border attack in southern Israel that saw 1,200 people killed.\n\nSpeaking at London's march, a pro-Palestinian protester played down the long-term significance of the temporary ceasefire.\n\nShaun, 33, from north London, said: \"I don't know what's going to come from it, I don't know if it's positive, but I know full well that once this truce and temporary ceasefire are done they (Israel) are going to continue bombing and we're going to be right back where we were, so I'm not holding my breath.\"\n\nMarches were also held in Glasgow and Cardiff.\n\nAsked about the Met's leaflets, march organiser Ben Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said police had been placed under \"considerable pressure\" by politicians to be more aggressive in their policing of the demonstration.\n\n\"The leaflets reassert what everybody knows, which is that there are laws against hate speech, there are laws for showing support for proscribed hate organisations - so I'm not sure what the leaflets add,\" he said.\n\nSeparately, a different protest was held by the Islamist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir outside the Egyptian embassy. The Met said two people at that march were arrested for racially-aggravated public order offences.\n\nIt was the first by the group since 21 October, when video emerged showing a man chanting \"jihad\", prompting an outcry from politicians. The Met found no offences were identified from the clip.", "The aim is to cut the amount of waste that gets left at the end of a typical shoot\n\nAway from the bright lights and the big star names, Tilly Ashton spends her days on film sets doing less glitzy but no less important work.\n\nWhile the cameras roll, she is busy washing dirty waste packaging and sorting it for recycling.\n\nA veteran of big productions for Netflix and ITV, her mission is to cut carbon and reduce waste.\n\nThat's because Wales' screen sector has been chosen to pilot major changes to meet net zero targets.\n\nAccording to industry experts, filmmakers both in Wales and abroad are more likely to be drawn to places where making carbon neutral films is easier.\n\nIt is something that resonated with Tilly from her first time on the set of a major production.\n\nShe noticed straight away the sense of shame among crew members regarding the amount of waste that gets left at the end of an average shoot.\n\nIt presented a clear opportunity to try to find a way of reducing waste and cutting the large carbon footprint created within that world.\n\n\"It's a massive challenge, like trying to turn a super tanker,\" said Tilly, a film and television sustainability coordinator.\n\n\"People who have been in the industry for a long time have ways of working under pressure and know what suits them best - they don't have time to think of other ways of doing things.\n\n\"So what I've focused on initially are the easy wins.\"\n\nMost recently having worked on an upcoming Martin Clunes drama for ITV, part of Tilly's time is spent cleaning used packaging and separating it into different recycling bins.\n\nHer work also focuses on encouraging crew members to think more about sustainable options - for example, asking the catering department to provide meals with a smaller carbon footprint.\n\n\"It's a massive challenge, like trying to turn a super tanker,\" says Tilly Ashton of her unglamorous but vital work\n\nBut while Dragon Studios in Bridgend, which hosted the Clunes production, runs entirely on green energy, filming in rural and remote parts of Wales can often require carbon-heavy transport and energy use - diesel-powered generators, for example.\n\n\"As a result, I suggest how we look at cleaner types of fuel,\" said Tilly.\n\n\"We have an option such as HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oil), which is 90% lower on carbon emissions and much cleaner burning, so better in terms of air quality but it's more expensive.\n\n\"However, persuading a production to go for HVO it can be difficult if budgets are really tight.\n\n\"What we really need are dedicated environmental budgets that I can then prioritise which will benefit our carbon footprint.\"\n\nTilly is now employed by Severn Screen in Cardiff and her first on-set experience was during the filming of its upcoming Netflix thriller Havoc, starring Tom Hardy.\n\n\"We're not going to solve the sustainability challenge overnight, we have to keep learning,\" says Mathew Talfan of Severn Screen\n\nMathew Talfan, head of strategy and operations at Severn Screen, said: \"Actually having someone whose sole responsibility is sustainability has been transformational for us.\n\n\"It's meant that voice is there as we're planning production from the very early stages. We're not going to solve the sustainability challenge overnight, we have to keep learning.\"\n\nWales is the first UK nation to participate in Screen New Deal, a landmark initiative which offers support to reach zero-carbon and zero-waste targets.\n\nBafta albert, an environmental organisation which upholds sustainability standards within the screen industry, has said it hopes its plan for Wales will provide a blueprint for the rest of the UK.\n\nAverage CO2 emissions from TV and film produced in the UK in 2022 far exceeded the levels of the previous five years.\n\nBafta albert said this was reflective of industry engagement to disclose information and an improvement in data recording.\n\nWelsh productions were more reliant on diesel in 2022 compared to the UK average, according to new figures.\n\nThe reliance on road travel on Welsh productions was almost double the UK average - although air travel accounted for 14% of emissions for transport, which was much lower than the UK average.\n\nOther elements which have been measured to calculate the overall carbon footprint of productions include food, in particular meat consumption, what materials are used to build sets and whether they've been recycled or stored for reuse.\n\nBafta albert's pilot project in Wales will focus on a number of key areas, including a shift to renewable energy on location, establishing carbon budgets for productions and creating a circular approach so that costumes and kit is reused.\n\nIts head of industry sustainability, April Sotomayer, said: \"Climate change is impacting our world in immediate and sustained ways, and the film and high-end television industries have a key role to play in showing the ways to address it.\n\n\"It is a very exciting step for the production community in Wales to pilot the Screen New Deal, and we're committed to working with stakeholders on the ground to support programme-makers in adopting these recommendations.\"\n\nWales' Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism Dawn Bowden said the screen industry in Wales is of huge value.\n\n\"The benefits and potential of the industry are huge for us, but we must also be focused on ensuring we are all working together to minimise the impact on our environment,\" she said.", "It's a \"betrayal\". It's a \"slap in the face\". The numbers are \"shockingly high\" and it's simply \"unsustainable\".\n\nPoliticians all seem very cross about the numbers of people from around the world making the UK their home. And they nearly all seem to agree that old chestnut, that \"something must be done\".\n\nJust wait until they look in the mirror and realise who came up with the new immigration system under which the levels have risen so much (and witness the former prime minister, Boris Johnson, raging in his newspaper column at the folly of the system that he himself introduced).\n\nBut the outrage in the last few days, real or not, is no substitute for answers to a set of questions that politicians must confront if they really want change - and many of them are difficult to answer.\n\nIs immigration too high? With net migration adding the equivalent of the population of Glasgow or Leeds to the country each year, it's not politically fashionable to say that it shows the UK is an attractive destination, and the more the merrier. The stock answer for most politicians is yes, it's too high. We have a broad consensus - so far, so easy.\n\nBut this conversation gets tricky, fast. If the level is wrong, what is the right one? The Tories have bad memories of setting a limit and then failing over, and over, and over again to hit it. It was our now Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron who, in 2010 as prime minister, promised to get net immigration under 100,000. Back then it was around a quarter of a million, which seemed sky high, it's more than double that now.\n\nThere were plenty of people inside what was then David Cameron's party who argued the vow was crass because we were in the European Union, without the powers to limit the number of EU citizens who moved to the UK. The target was impossible to guarantee. But the political appeal was clear, so he ploughed on - and failed.\n\nThen under Theresa May, there were plenty of Cabinet ministers who believed the promised cap should be junked, even when we were tortuously out of the EU and could manage the numbers ourselves. Her view, however, was that the target should stay - after all, what message would it send if she ditched it? She failed too.\n\nFast forward to 2023 and the argument for a cap is back, being pushed by the former home secretary, Suella Braverman, among others. But there doesn't seem much appetite to pick a number either inside No 10 or at the top of the Labour Party, who would be giving themselves a potential test that would be hard to pass if they won power.\n\nIf they won't say how high, will they say who?\n\nThis is where it gets emotive. First, understand the irony: we left the EU on a promise that immigration would get under control because the UK could say exactly who got their passport stamped at our borders. No longer would people from any of 23 European countries be able to arrive and set up home without limit - for good or ill. But since we left, the numbers of people from outside the EU has gone up and up and up.\n\nIt's fascinating to crunch those numbers. Nearly a million people from outside the EU came to live in the UK last year (the overall net migration number is lower because that's the difference between those who arrive and those who depart). There were about a quarter of a million Indians, the next biggest group were Nigerian, then Chinese, Pakistani, then Ukrainian, according to the ONS.\n\nThe most common reason was to come to study at our universities and colleges (nearly four in 10), but around a third came to work, with a particularly staggering increase in the numbers coming to work in health and social care. The OBR reported this week the numbers of visas granted in that sector had risen 150% in the last year.\n\nIf politicians want fewer people to come to the UK, who do they want to say no to? Who would not welcome Ukrainians after the Russian invasion? Who would argue the UK should turn its back on Hong Kongers? Who wants to say that the world's best and brightest students who come to study in the UK should take their talents elsewhere? Who will tell the public the NHS and social care system can't have the staff it needs? Not many people in Westminster have much stomach for picking and choosing.\n\nBut this brings us to the fundamental question - if you turn off the immigration taps who will do the jobs that are filled right now by hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world? It is argued that for the government's sums to add up - indeed for the Conservatives to be able to afford the tax cuts they are so eager to offer - the economy needs immigration.\n\nThe Migration Advisory Committee, an independent group, was meant to take some of the politics out of this, recommending who could come depending on the gaps in the economy. But trying to take politics out of immigration is like trying to take eggs out of an omelette.\n\nSo what decisions could politicians take? The committee itself has already suggested scrapping the list of \"shortage occupations\" it publishes, which determines the sectors that can bring in extra foreign workers. Labour, and it seems the immigration minister, Robert Jenrick, also wants to end the practice where employers can pay immigrants 20% less than the going rate if their jobs are on the list.\n\nLabour has cited examples such as civil engineers, for whom the official government \"going rate\" is £34,000 a year, but can instead be recruited from abroad at just £28,000 a year - a tasty incentive for employers to hire from abroad rather than spend the cash training up less experienced staff at home.\n\nMinisters are cutting the number of family members some migrants can bring to the UK when they move. Some Conservatives argue for a cap on the number of social care workers who can come in. Labour argues for a crackdown on exploitation in that industry.\n\nWhen it comes to the huge numbers of students coming in, some Tories reckon it's time to cut way back, arguing the need to cut immigration should come ahead of the balance sheets of our higher education institutions.\n\nConservative calls for extra steps are more like screams now. Perhaps the measures they come up with will start to make a difference - but they may seem like nips and tucks in the face of the sheer numbers.\n\nThere are plenty of politicians in both parties who'd agree privately that the only way to make a big change in the migration numbers is a massive effort to get the UK workforce into shape.\n\nThat is not an overnight fix - for the two decades I have covered politics I have heard politicians talk about the need to skill up the workforce, to improve education and training, to invest in British workers.\n\nWe heard it in Gordon Brown's ill fated \"British jobs for British workers\", David Cameron's apprenticeship levy, Theresa May's T-levels, Boris Johnson's Lifetime Skills Guarantee, and Rishi Sunak's planned reforms of the benefits system to get people back into work, the list goes on.\n\nLooking at the numbers of workers firms are bringing in from other countries might lead you to conclude those ambitions didn't get very far.\n\nThe political risks from inaction are obvious. Not just because of the ructions in the increasingly restless Conservative Party, but because of what has gone before. Vote Leave insiders identify the day the migration figures were published during the EU referendum campaign as the moment they grabbed the momentum. Boris Johnson, who had previously been reluctant to take a harder line on migration, piled in. You don't need me to tell you what happened next.\n\nThe Conservative Party has seen the threat from parties willing to take a brasher line than them - from UKIP and now from Reform UK. Nigel Farage might currently be in the celebrity jungle, but his political arguments have not been banished.\n\nLabour, meanwhile, has learnt painful lessons from failing to take public concern about immigration seriously - just ask Rochdale voter Gillian Duffy about Gordon Brown's infamous \"bigoted woman\" comment.\n\nThe noisy conversation over Channel crossings has been at the forefront of the political imagination for the last year, emblazoned on government lecterns. But that is dwarfed by the numbers of people making the UK their home perfectly legally.\n\nQuestions about immigration are not easy for politicians to respond to, and it's daft to suggest they are. But the pressure is on for them to come up with more credible answers. Saying it's too high again and again doesn't make the problem go away. When voters ask the important question of whether they can trust politicians' promises, the answer might be all too clear.\n\nWhat questions would you like to ask Laura's guests on Sunday?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Israel's military campaign in Gaza City is probably in its final stages.\n\nThe truce, brokered to allow for the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, will delay the IDF by anywhere from four to nine days, depending on how many hostages Hamas decides to release.\n\nWhen that ends, Israeli experts expect the battle for control of Gaza City to resume and last another week to 10 days.\n\nBut what happens when the Israeli military turns its attention to the southern Gaza Strip, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has strongly indicated?\n\nIsrael has vowed to destroy Hamas wherever it exists. It assumes that the group's most important leaders, Yayha Sinwar and Mohammed Deif, are somewhere in the south, along with thousands of fighters and, probably, a significant number of Israeli hostages.\n\nIf Israel decides to do to the south what it's already done to the north, will Western - especially American - goodwill start to run out?\n\nWith the bulk of the Gaza Strip's estimated 2.2 million people now crammed into the southern two thirds of the Strip, many of them homeless and traumatised, is a larger humanitarian disaster looming?\n\nOne of the last straws might be the sight of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, huddled in tents, amid the sandy fields of a place called al-Mawasi.\n\nAccording to the UN relief agency for Palestinians (Unrwa), almost 1.7 million people have been displaced across the Gaza Strip since 7 October. Most of them are in the south, living in overcrowded shelters.\n\nUN officials speak of already desperate conditions, with tens of thousands of people sheltering in schools, hospitals and, in some cases, tents.\n\nEarly winter rains have already caused flooding, adding to the misery.\n\nFor several weeks, Israeli officials have been talking about a solution - a so-called \"safe area\" at al-Mawasi, a thin strip of mainly agricultural land along the Mediterranean coast, close to the Egyptian border.\n\nLast week, leaflets dropped over the nearby city of Khan Yunis warned of impending airstrikes and told people to move west, towards the sea.\n\nIn a post on social media on Thursday, Avichay Adraee, the IDF's spokesman for the Arabic media, told Gazans al-Mawasi would provide \"the appropriate conditions to protect your loved ones.\"\n\nBut how realistic is it to expect more than two million people to shelter there while the war rages nearby? And just how \"appropriate\" are conditions at al-Mawasi?\n\nThe map shows a patchwork of fields, greenhouses and scattered houses. Although it is hard to be certain, the area defined by Israel is about 2.5km (1.6 miles) wide, at its widest, and just over 4km (2.5 miles) long.\n\nDr Michael Milshtein, a former adviser on Palestinian affairs to Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), calls it \"a beautiful and fruitful place, but quite small\".\n\n\"It's a tiny piece of land,\" Juliette Touma, director of communications for Unrwa, says. \"There's nothing there. It's just sand dunes and palm trees.\"\n\nAny attempt to accommodate hundreds of thousands of displaced people, in an area seemingly lacking in essential infrastructure - there are no hospitals - will present the UN with a mammoth humanitarian challenge, including the setting up of emergency shelter, most likely tents.\n\nIt is also a moral challenge with deep historical resonance - much of Gaza's population is descended from refugees who lived in tents after their expulsion from Israel in 1948.\n\nThe Gaza Strip is already home to eight refugee camps, which have evolved over the decades into bustling, overcrowded towns. The UN doesn't want to be responsible for setting up yet another camp.\n\nIsraeli officials say it will be up to aid agencies to make sure help reaches al-Mawasi from the Rafah crossing, more than 10km away. They haven't said how this will work in practice.\n\nUS officials are said to be trying to negotiate with Israel over additional safe areas, possibly including one at Dahaniya, at the far southern tip of the Gaza Strip.\n\nUnder the terms of the hostage release agreement, which came into effect on Friday, Israel should also allow 200 trucks of aid into Gaza each day, much more than in recent weeks.\n\nBut on 16 November, a statement by the heads of 18 UN agencies and NGOs involved in providing assistance to Palestinian civilians appeared to reject Israel's plans outright.\n\n\"We will not participate in the establishment of any 'safe zone' in Gaza that is set up without the agreement of all the parties,\" it said.\n\nUN officials say the parties include Israel, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, based in the West Bank.\n\nWithout mentioning al-Mawasi by name, the 16 November statement warned that Israel's unilateral proposals could put many lives at risk.\n\nOne of the signatories, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organisation, called the plans \"a recipe for disaster\".\n\n\"Attempting to cram so many people into such a small area with such little infrastructure or services,\" he said, \"will significantly increase risks to health for people who are already on the brink.\"\n\nIsraeli officials say Hamas is to blame and seem unfazed by the dangers. Al-Mawasi, they say, is the one area Israeli forces have undertaken not to attack.\n\n\"It's going to be dire. But they'll live,\" says Lt Col Richard Hecht, an IDF spokesman.\n\nFor Israel, it's a matter of military necessity. Just as Hamas was embedded in Gaza City, it says, so the group's fighters and infrastructure exist in Khan Yunis and Rafah. Removing the civilian population ahead of an assault, Israelis argue, is the humane way to approach the job of defeating Hamas.\n\n\"People in Israel don't like the situation where people in Gaza are somewhere in al-Mawasi, under the rain of winter, which is coming,\" says retired Maj Gen Yaacov Amidror, a former Israeli national security adviser. \"But what is the alternative? If someone has an idea how to destroy Hamas without it, please tell us.\"\n\nThe prospect of further months of suffering, compounded by extreme overcrowding and harsh winter conditions, is bound to add to mounting international disquiet over the conduct of Israel's military campaign in Gaza.\n\n\"Conducting a new major ground operation in that area risks casualties and displacement of civilians on a scale which will threaten to undermine international sympathy for Israel,\" a Western official told me, speaking on strict condition of anonymity.\n\n'It's a question of how long Western patience will last.\"\n\nThe Netanyahu government knows that it can count on unprecedentedly deep reserves of Western goodwill, following the unspeakable horrors perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October.\n\nBut Israeli officials also know those reserves are not endless and that international calls for restraint are likely to become louder when the hostage truce comes to an end and Israel resumes its military campaign.\n\n\"My hope is that international pressure after the truce is ended will not prevent that,\" says Dr Eyal Hulata, who led Israel's National Security Council from 2021 to 2023.\n\n\"My hope is that the government of Prime Minister Netanyahu will not cave to pressure with this. This is what the citizens of Israel expect of their leaders.\"\n\nWith winter looming, Israel gearing up for the decisive next phase of its campaign, and no agreement on how to deal with the civilian population, Gaza's long agony looks set to continue. Perhaps even to get worse.", "Stella Maris has denied her comments were antisemitic\n\nThe newly-elected rector of St Andrews University is facing calls to apologise over an email accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.\n\nStella Maris said Palestinians had suffered \"apartheid, siege, illegal occupation and collective punishment\" during the Israel-Gaza war.\n\nHundreds of students have demanded that she retract her remarks or resign just a month after taking up the role.\n\nSt Andrews University said it was \"dismayed\" by the rector's comments.\n\nThe row came as hundreds of people attended demonstrations in Scotland on Saturday calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.\n\nIn Glasgow, people gathered at the Buchanan Street steps on Saturday holding signs and banners which said \"ceasefire now\".\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar took part in the Scottish Trades Union Congress's (STUC) annual St Andrew's Day protest which saw marchers gather at Glasgow Green.\n\nAsked about the St Andrews rector's comments he said: \"There are communities - Jewish communities, Muslim communities - who are feeling vulnerable and all of us have a responsibility to make sure we are simmering down any of those tensions as opposed to inflaming them.\n\n\"We can do that while very passionately arguing that what's happening in Gaza is unacceptable.\"\n\nHundreds of people marched in Glasgow on Saturday calling for a permanent ceasefire\n\nIn a message to students sent on Tuesday, Ms Maris described how a vigil at the university was held earlier this month \"following weeks of genocidal attacks by the Israeli government against Gaza\".\n\nShe said: \"We must continue to recognize and condemn acts that are internationally regarded as humanitarian and war crimes.\n\n\"It is also crucial to acknowledge and denounce the actions by Hamas that qualify as war crimes, notably the taking of hostages and deliberately targeting civilians, which I have and continue to do.\"\n\nThe email also included a link to a website which carried a story headlined: \"The evidence Israel killed its own citizens on Oct 7.\"\n\nThe role of rector, elected by students, is to provide pastoral support and represent the student community at the university's governing body where the rector serves as president.\n\nMs Maris has rejected accusations that the message to students was antisemitic and argued her use of the terms genocide and apartheid were \"supported by numerous human rights organizations\".\n\nShe told BBC Scotland News she would not be resigning and insisted she had done the right thing.\n\nMs Maris sad: \"I have received a lot of backlash and it's quite disappointing.\n\n\"I really tried to write a statement that would make everyone happy, but realised I wasn't being true to my beliefs.\n\n\"I'm glad I did it and it was the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe rector added: \"I've had racist comments as a result and have been accused of antisemitism, which I reject.\n\n\"I don't intend on retracting my statement or resigning.\n\n\"I denounce antisemitism in the strongest form. Reject the weaponising of antisemitism.\"\n\nHowever, a large group of students at the university, which was founded in 1413 and is one of the oldest in the UK, insisted Ms Maris's comments \"will only bring division and hatred\".\n\nThey are now calling for her to apologise or step down.\n\nMs Maris was elected as rector of the 610-year-old university in October\n\nIn a letter to the rector, they say: \"We are concerned that your letter does not demonstrate equal care for Palestinian and Israeli lives.\n\n\"What is truly unacceptable is that you do not care to mention, let alone demonstrate regard for, the two St Andrews students who were recently attacked because of their religion.\n\n\"Moreover, your letter does not show any appreciation for how your inflammatory and unfounded accusations of 'genocide,' 'apartheid,' and 'occupation' concerning the Jewish State will further embolden attacks and hatred against the Jewish students whom you were elected to care for.\n\n\"It is unacceptable for the rector to be selective in their responsibility to represent all students.\"\n\nMs Maris is a former English and philosophy graduate at the university and has since filled a series of student representation roles.\n\nShe was elected rector on 10 October.\n\nResponding to Ms Maris's remarks, St Andrews University principal and vice-chancellor, Prof Dame Sally Mapstone, said the university was committed to free speech but that there was \"no place for antisemitism, Islamophobia, or racism of any kind\".\n\nShe added: \"We are utterly dismayed that the rector, on this occasion, put her right to freedom of expression ahead of her duty to represent all students, and to be concerned for their welfare.\n\n\"We know that while some may have welcomed the message, others have been deeply offended and concerned by it.\n\n\"While every one of us shares a desire for peace and an end to hostilities in Israel and Gaza, we regret that her message, the language it used, and some of the sources it cited have caused alarm, division, and harm in our community, and more widely.\"\n\nThe temporary truce is still holding and follows weeks of fighting and Israeli bombardments of Gaza, with the conflict sparked by Hamas's unprecedented cross-border attack in southern Israel that saw 1,200 people killed.\n\nHamas earlier announced a delay in the release of further Israeli hostages, claiming Israel had broken the terms of the truce deal over aid deliveries to northern Gaza. Israel denied this, and the releases were due to resume following mediation.\n\nOn the first day of the four-day ceasefire on Friday, Hamas released 24 of the about 240 hostages taken during its attack on Israel and Israel freed 39 Palestinians from prison.\n\nThe Israeli offensive has killed more than 14,500 Palestinians, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza government.", "The chief executive of S4C Sian Doyle has been sacked after a review into procedures at the publicly-funded Welsh-language channel.\n\nIt follows claims of \"bullying and a toxic culture\" within the organisation.\n\n\"For us to begin to make improvements we need to make some changes immediately,\" said the S4C Authority - which oversees the management of the station - in a statement.\n\nMs Doyle has since released a statement strongly criticising her dismissal.\n\nShe described her dismissal by chairman of S4C, Rhodri Williams, as \"an unprecedented lack of governance for a public body\".\n\n\"I was dismissed by letter, without notice, without a meeting, without seeing a copy of the Capital Law report or any evidence, without a right of appeal, and without proper grounds,\" she said.\n\nCapital Law is a legal firm that was appointed to carry out an independent investigation into concerns raised.\n\nMs Doyle claimed she has faced \"unfair treatment, and wider bullying\" from chairman Mr Williams.\n\nAnd she went on to say that \"being a woman has been a significant factor\" in the way she believed she had been treated.\n\n\"The job of a female CEO in this organisation has proved difficult at best and downright demoralising at worst, and I have been prevented from delivering the necessary programme of transformation,\" she said.\n\nMs Doyle said she was \"enormously sad\" her work at the channel had been cut short, where she was on a salary of £162,000 a year.\n\nShe was educated at Ysgol Glan Clwyd in St Asaph and graduated in History and Politics from Cardiff University.\n\nShe took up the post of S4C's chief executive and accounting officer in January 2022 having previously been managing director of telecommunications company TalkTalk.\n\nThe claims of bullying first surfaced in an email that was sent anonymously in April.\n\nThe letter written by the Bectu union described a \"culture of fear\" within the organisation, with staff being undermined by senior executives and \"often left in tears\".\n\nThe letter also claimed that management had acted disrespectfully towards staff, and behaved \"in an aggressive and confrontational\" manner, when questions and concerns had been raised.\n\nUnion officials also said that Ms Doyle had acknowledged the concerns of staff, but had also suggested that the term \"bullying\" was too often used in situations like these.\n\nFollowing the publication of the letter, law firm Capital Law was appointed by S4C chairman Mr Williams to undertake an independent investigation into concerns raised.\n\nThe findings of the investigation are yet to be published, but on Friday the channel confirmed that they had made the \"difficult but unanimous decision\" to remove Ms Doyle from her role.\n\n\"Members of the S4C Authority have considered the evidence provided as part of the fact-finding exercise undertaken by Capital Law into the working environment at S4C,\" said the statement.\n\nIt added: \"The nature and weight of the evidence provided was deeply troubling. It has undoubtedly been a challenging time for many individuals.\n\n\"As members of the authority, we would like to apologise for the stress and anguish caused by behaviours experienced in the workplace.\n\n\"It is clear from the evidence received that action needs to be taken to secure change within S4C, and there is still much work to do to deal with all the issues arising from the information received.\n\n\"The S4C Authority is committed to ensuring that S4C is a place where our staff are happy and safe - a place where they feel able to perform at their best and thrive.\n\n\"We recognise that we need to restore confidence and trust in the organisation - not only amongst our staff but with our partners in the creative sector, audiences in Wales and beyond.\"\n\nS4C added that it would begin the process to appoint a new chief executive in due course, as well as \"publish a report that explains further the nature of the evidence received during the fact-finding process\".\n\nIt said Mr Williams would not be responding to the allegations in Ms Doyle's statement.\n\nPlaid Cymru's culture spokeswoman, Heledd Fychan, said it was important staff and viewers had confidence in S4C's leadership.\n\n\"Restoring that confidence to a channel that is one of the cornerstones of Welsh culture is a priority,\" she said.\n\nWelsh Conservative spokesman for culture, tourism and sport, Tom Giffard, said: \"I hope that following this long-awaited review and the decisive action taken, that S4C can start to heal, begin to move on and a line can be drawn under the issue.\"", "Harvey Owen, 17, from Shrewsbury, was a \"unique\" and \"special person\", his mum has said\n\nThe mum of one of four teenagers killed in a car crash in north Wales has described him as the \"most precious soul\".\n\nPaying tribute, Harvey's mum, Crystal, said the 17-year-old was a \"unique\" and \"special\" person.\n\n\"I can't accept that I won't be able to hold him again or tell him I love him again,\" she said.\n\nIn a statement issued through North Wales Police, she said her son had touched \"many people along the way\".\n\n\"There are absolutely no words to describe the pain we are feeling,\" she said.\n\nThe boys were found on Tuesday in a silver Ford Fiesta which appeared to have come off the road on the A4085 in Garreg, near Tremadog, Gwynedd.\n\nThe car was found upside down, partially submerged in water.\n\nA major search had been launched after the boys went missing following a camping trip.\n\nJevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Fitchett and Hugo Morris were found in an overturned, partially submerged car in Gwynedd\n\nHarvey's mum described her son as \"laid back, charismatic, cheeky\" and \"a boy not of his time\".\n\n\"He was the most gentle soul, always feeling empathy for people and seeing the good in everyone\" she said.\n\n\"He was always passionate about his latest craze, whether that be his pets, BMX, his skateboarding or more recently his passion for playing guitar, jazz music, poetry and art.\n\n\"Lately he had developed a passion for working with bread and dreamed of one day having his own bread shop and cafe.\"\n\nMs Owen said \"everyone had a funny story to tell about Harvey\".\n\n\"Harvey was perfect when he came into the world and he will go out that way,\" she said.\n\n\"He never caused ill will, he did no harm, he wronged nobody, he was and will forever be a son we can be proud of.\"\n\nHarvey Owen was described as \"quirky\", a \"trendsetter,\" and \"loving, pure and hilarious,\" by his mum\n\n\"The fact that Harvey will always be 17 is unbearable to think of and even harder to accept,\" Ms Owens said.\n\n\"Please hold your loved ones tight, all the minor things we worry about are irrelevant, life is so short and can be so cruel.\"\n\nSupt Owain Llewellyn of North Wales Police said on Wednesday the crash had appeared to have been \"a tragic accident\".\n\nPolice said some of the family had visited the scene of the crash on Thursday, before local residents held a vigil in Llanfrothen.\n\nIn Shropshire, Shrewsbury Abbey and other churches have opened their doors to those who wanted to pay their respects.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "John Travolta stars in the short film adapted from Frederick Forsyth's novella The Shepherd\n\nThe London screening of a new Disney+ movie is already running late - but it isn't John Travolta's fault.\n\nThe star of the short film in question, The Shepherd, is sitting in the audience, patiently waiting to see the story on a big screen for the first time, 30 years after he first dreamed of adapting it.\n\nWhen it becomes clear that there are more people entering the screening room than there are seats, he happily gives up his chair and perches at the end of the row.\n\nDespite taking place on Christmas Eve and being called The Shepherd, the story is not what you might expect. Set in 1957, it follows a young Royal Air Force pilot returning home for Christmas who runs into trouble when his plane suffers electrical failure.\n\nWith navigational systems down and his radio not working, he accepts his fate. But through the darkness and fog, the pilot suddenly spots another plane, flown by a man who offers to help guide him to safety.\n\nThe story is an adaptation of the 1975 novella by Frederick Forsyth - one of the other famous faces in the audience at the screening. By the time Travolta came across the book, he had coincidentally just had a near-death experience of his own when piloting a plane.\n\n\"The kismet of the project is, I actually experienced a total electrical failure, not in a Vampire but a corporate jet, over Washington DC, prior to my discovering the book,\" he tells journalists after the screening.\n\nTravolta, pictured in 2005, has been a qualified pilot for several decades\n\n\"So when I read the book, it resonated more because of this experience I'd personally had.\n\n\"I knew what it felt like to absolutely think you're going to die. Because I had two good jet engines but I had no instruments, no electric, nothing.\n\n\"And I thought it was over, just like this boy, portrayed so beautifully [by actor Ben Radcliffe]. He captured that despair when you think you're actually going to die.\"\n\nThe Grease actor recalls: \"I had my family on board and I said, 'This is it, I can't believe I'm going to die in this plane.'\n\n\"And then, as if by a miracle, we descended to a lower altitude, I saw the Washington DC Monument and identified that Washington National Airport was right next to it and I made a landing just like [character Freddie] does in the film. So I'm reading this book saying, I've lived this.\"\n\nTravolta did not discover Forsyth's book until a few years after his own brush with death.\n\n\"I had just purchased a Vampire jet just like the one in the film. I had flown it for two years and I'm doing a film in Canada and I'm at a book store, and I see a small novella with a Vampire jet on the front of it, and I said, I have to read this.\"\n\nWhen he read the novel, Travolta says he was struck by the feeling he had experienced the events in real life.\n\n\"I instantly fell in love with this book. And it was my dream to one day make it into a film. So a couple of years later I purchased the rights to this book, but because it was right after Pulp Fiction, I was doing one movie after another.\n\n\"So after 10 years, I let it go and decided I was never going to get to do it. Then this hero [director Iain Softley] came along who had also fallen in love with it, and brought me back into the group.\"\n\nTravolta, pictured in London on Thursday, is best known for starring in 1978 musical Grease\n\nWhen Travolta first had the idea of starring in the film more than three decades ago, he envisaged himself portraying the young pilot who runs into difficulty.\n\nInstead, the film sees him play the older man who helps him. \"I was young enough then that I could've played that part,\" he jokes. \"But I had to wait 30 years to play the shepherd.\"\n\nThe film was shot largely in the UK, which explains why Travolta was spotted in Wetherspoons and Morrisons in Norfolk last April, taking selfies with fans.\n\nThursday's screening - overcrowded because some are here for the second showing an hour later - is the first chance for an audience to see the story come to fruition on the silver screen.\n\nMost viewers will watch it on Disney+ when it is released on the streaming platform in December, and at 38 minutes it is the kind of snackable, family-friendly tale that could make easy viewing over the holidays.\n\nDirector Iain Softley (left) and Travolta were interviewed by film critic Mark Kermode at the screening\n\nThe film also stars Millie Kent, Simon Wilson and Steven Mackintosh, while Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón, who directed Gravity and Roma, serves as producer.\n\nThe Shepherd has previously been adapted for the stage and radio, including by the BBC. In Canada, the story has been read on radio network CBC almost every Christmas since 1979.\n\n\"One of the reasons I think it is so enduring is the genius of the story,\" says Softley. \"It makes you question and examine what home means and what is important.\n\n\"And it goes beyond that. It's about the kind of sacred nature in a lot of religions of bringing people home and looking after the lost traveller.\n\n\"And it's self-sacrifice,\" he adds. \"I think also at Christmas, you don't only think about your loved ones, it's a time when you think about other people who are less fortunate.\n\n\"I think it encapsulates all of that, and I think that's why people find it moving and resonant.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "A van carrying Palestinian detainees arrives at the Israeli military prison, Ofer, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank\n\nA total of 39 Palestinian detainees have been released from Israeli prisons in exchange for a group of hostages held by Hamas.\n\nThe deal - mediated by Qatar - includes a four-day pause in the fighting.\n\nThey are accused of a range of offences, from throwing stones to attempted murder. Some were convicted while others were awaiting trial.\n\nThe group of 24 women and 15 teenage boys was released across the Beituniya checkpoint in the occupied West Bank.\n\nThey will then be allowed to return home, according to Israel's prison service.\n\nThe detainees were chosen from a list of 300 women and minors compiled by Israel.\n\nLess than a quarter of those on the list have been convicted - the vast majority are being held on remand while awaiting trial. Most of those listed are teenage boys - 40% of them under the age of 18. There is also one teenage girl and 32 women.\n\nEarlier, the road by Beituniya checkpoint, near Ramallah, was sharp with the smell of tear gas. Groups of Palestinian men and boys faced the Israeli army lining up on the road ahead.\n\nThe army fired rubber bullets and tear gas towards the crowd, to push them back.\n\nSome of the young people gathered threw stones and tear gas canisters back towards the troops.\n\n\"It's a sign of hope for Palestinians and Israelis that the ceasefire will continue and the killing will stop,\" Mohammed Khatib, who was in the crowd, told the BBC.\n\nUpon the prisoners' release, the bus that transported them inched its way through a sea of jubilant Palestinian supporters.\n\nThrough the windows, some of the prisoners could be seen dancing, one wrapped in a Palestinian flag. Outside, mobile phones were raised to the glass amid ululations and shouts of welcome and \"God is great\".\n\nPalestinians were pictured waving flags in the street after their release from Ofeh prison\n\nA few in the crowd waved Hamas flags, but others spoke of Palestinian unity, a small moment of victory in the midst of a gruelling war.\n\nFor Israel, the released prisoners are a security threat; for the Palestinians gathered here to greet them, they are victims of Israel's occupation - and their release is a symbol.\n\nThirteen Israeli hostages were released by Hamas under the truce deal. It was confirmed on Friday that they had arrived back in Israel.\n\nThe Thai prime minister says that a group of Thai nationals held hostage by Hamas in Gaza were also released - separate from the Qatar-mediated truce deal.\n\nIsrael and Hamas reached a deal earlier this week to release 50 of the hostages held in Gaza during four-day pause in fighting.\n\nThe agreement should see a total of 150 Palestinians held in Israeli jails released and a significant increase in humanitarian aid allowed into Gaza. Some 60 lorries carrying medical supplies, fuel and food entered from Egypt on Friday.\n\nHamas took more than 200 hostages during a cross-border attack on southern Israel on 7 October in which 1,200 people were killed.\n\nHuman rights organisations say the number of Palestinians held without charge in Israeli jails has shot up since the 7 October attacks.\n\nThere are now thought to be more than 6,000 Palestinians held by Israel on security grounds - many still awaiting trial.\n\nAlmost every Palestinian family in the West Bank is thought to have had a relative detained by Israel at some point in the past - often in jails inside Israel, making it difficult or impossible for their relatives to visit.\n• None What we know about Israel-Hamas hostage deal", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice have identified the victims of a deadly car blast at a border crossing between the US and Canada.\n\nKurt Villani and his wife Monica Villani, both 53, died when their car became airborne and crashed on the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls.\n\nThey lived 10 miles (16km) south of the crash site in Grand Island, New York.\n\nA US border agent was also injured in the incident on Wednesday, which prompted a large emergency response and the closure of four border crossings.\n\nThe security scare came on the eve of American Thanksgiving, one of the busiest travel days of the year.\n\nNew York Governor Kathy Hochul later ruled out terrorism.\n\nThe couple's family owns a chain of hardware and lumber stores in New York State.\n\nIn a statement released to CBC, the family said they were grateful for the \"prayers, condolences and well wishes\" they had received.\n\nIt is still unclear what caused the couple's vehicle to rapidly accelerate before it flew through the air and burst into flames.\n\nThe mayor of Niagara Falls in New York, Robert Restaino, told the New York Times on Thursday that the couple had been driving an older Bentley vehicle and were on their way to a concert in Canada, thought to be a Kiss show that was later cancelled due to illness in the band.\n\nHe added that police are investigating several possibilities behind the crash, including whether the car suffered a mechanical failure that caused it to accelerate.\n\nThe incident happened at around 11:30 local time (16:30 GMT) on Wednesday.\n\nGov Hochul said the car travelled at a \"very high rate of speed\", hurtling over an 8ft (2.4m) fence on the New York side of the border near a checkpoint.\n\nThe vehicle was \"incinerated\", she said, with nothing left but the engine. A registration plate was not even recovered.\n\nThe incident caused major traffic disruption on one of the busiest travel days of the year\n\nThe Rainbow Bridge, which connects motorists and pedestrians between Niagara Falls, New York and Niagara Falls, Canada, was closed for two days following the incident.\n\nOther bridges connecting the US and Canada nearby, the Peace, Queenston-Lewiston and Whirlpool Rapids Bridges, were temporarily closed but reopened on Wednesday evening.\n\nThe FBI took over the initial investigation, and later said it found \"no explosive materials, and no terrorism nexus\".\n\nThe case was then handed over to the Niagara Falls Police Department in New York State which is handling it as a traffic investigation.\n\nOn Friday, police said that investigation was ongoing and gave no additional details.", "Violence broke out hours after a separate stabbing incident outside a primary school in the city centre\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's police chief has blamed rioting in Dublin city centre on Thursday on a \"lunatic, hooligan faction driven by a far-right ideology\".\n\nDisorder broke out hours after three children and a school care assistant were stabbed outside a nearby primary school.\n\nIreland prides itself on its hospitality and the céad míle fáilte - a hundred thousand welcomes - so what is driving this far-right movement?\n\nWhile the answer to that is complicated, the best place to start is almost two centuries ago when people started to leave Ireland, with hopes of better opportunities elsewhere.\n\nMigration has featured prominently in the story of Ireland.\n\nPeople have left the island in their millions; the majority fleeing poverty and famine, others for their own reasons.\n\nThe Irish were among the \"huddled masses\" who glimpsed the Statue of Liberty on their way to Ellis Island in New York and the start of a new American life.\n\nThey also emigrated to other countries in huge numbers, particularly Great Britain and Australia.\n\nEmigration was, until relatively recently, just a fact of Irish life.\n\nBut in the last 20 years or so, that has changed massively, beginning with EU enlargement and more recently immigration from India, Brazil, the Philippines, Nigeria and other countries around the world.\n\nRioters clashed with police in Dublin on Thursday night\n\nThe latest Central Statistics Office (CSO) figures for 2022 show that one fifth of the population in the 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland was born abroad.\n\nThe CSO says that \"80% of the usually resident population was born in Ireland\", a decrease of 3% since 2016.\n\nThe arrival of over 90,000 Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war with Russia accounts for some of that decrease.\n\nThe writer and Irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole recently wrote that the number of foreign-born residents is much higher in Ireland now than \"in the great age of immigration in the US\".\n\nIt is also a lot higher than recent immigration to the UK.\n\nDespite that fact migration has barely featured as an issue in Irish party political discourse - even after the 2010 European Union-International Monetary Fund bail-out that briefly saw a big increase in unemployment and a return of emigration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt's important to note that Ireland doesn't have a Marine Le Pen, Giorgia Meloni or Geert Wilders type of mainstream political figure.\n\nThat can partly be explained by Irish folk's memory of emigration and a desire to be kind to newcomers.\n\nMany still speak of the racist signs in boarding houses in London: \"No blacks, no Irish, no dogs.\"\n\nBut, in recent times, senior politicians and police have begun talking of the threat posed by far-right activists seeking to capitalise on a housing shortage, a cost of living crisis and fears about growing numbers of asylum seekers.\n\n\"Ireland is full\" and \"Ireland for the Irish\" are frequently heard mantras.\n\nThursday night's violence wasn't the first time there have been concerns about public order and the far-right.\n\nIn September, politicians had to be escorted out of parliament buildings by police officers after protesters blocked entrances and displayed mock gallows.\n\nProtesters gathered outside Leinster House in September as the Dail (Irish parliament) resumed after summer\n\nThere are also increasing numbers of localised protests about new residences for asylum seekers as some seek political advantage ahead of next year's local and European elections.\n\nAt the moment - in contrast with most of the democratic world - no politician here has been elected to any office - either at local council or national level - on a far-right platform.\n\nThere is also no single person or party around whom the extremists have gathered.\n\nAll see themselves as anti-establishment and have, to varying degrees, different concerns.\n\nFor most, it is anti-immigration but others are fighting what they call \"woke culture\", including LGBTQ rights and nearly all opposed the Covid-19 lockdowns.\n\nSocial media has helped to create a new movement.\n\nNot all far-right activists would have supported Thursday night's violence and not all the thrashing of, particularly sports, shops was carried out by political extremists.\n\nSome were opportunistically taking advantage of the chaos to rob and get their hands on the latest gear.\n\nMeanwhile, politicians here have accused the far-right of opportunistically trying to capitalise on a stabbing incident that allegedly involved a foreign-born Irish citizen.\n\nBut there has been much praise for a Brazilian-born Deliveroo driver who helped stop the stabbings by hitting the attacker with his helmet.\n\n\"You see a man with a knife with a little girl - there is nothing else to do,\" said delivery driver Caio Benicio\n\nThe media seems to be keen that a racist narrative does not develop around what happened.\n\nBut it's likely that the riot will have both a policing and a political impact.\n\nThe police, while respecting the right to protest, are likely to adopt a tougher approach to far-right activists.\n\nAnd, even before the violence, the Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar was saying that Ireland \"must slow the flow\" of refugees from Ukraine and elsewhere.\n\nBut most people here are likely to want to keep a common sense perspective.\n\nThe issues associated with very recent immigration pale into insignificance compared to the problems posed by almost two centuries of emigration.\n\nFew would appear to disagree with the proposition that migration has to be properly managed.\n\nBut surely many say it's far better to offer a céad míle fáilte than to see your \"huddled masses\" depart for foreign lands.", "There was joy and relief as Israeli hostages freed by Hamas were reunited with their families on Friday.\n\nNine-year-old Ohad Munder ran down the hallway of Schneider Children's Medical Center in Petah Tikv to his father.\n\nThe video released by the hospital also show his mother Keren and grandmother Ruthi reunited with their family, after being held by Hamas for seven weeks.", "People are being warned not to visit the cliff, dunes and beach at Hemsby due to a \"significant amount of damage\"\n\nPeople are being warned to stay away from a beach after the collapse of a cliff-top road brought power lines down.\n\nHigh tides and wind caused \"significant damage\" at Hemsby in Norfolk with several feet of cliff and dunes washed away on Friday.\n\nHemsby Lifeboat posted on Facebook to say a 200-metre stretch of road had fallen on to the beach.\n\nDaniel Hurd, lifeboat coxswain said: \"Stay away - it's just too dangerous.\"\n\nFurther down the coast in Suffolk, a road has collapsed on to the beach at the Pakefield Holiday Park in Lowestoft, leading to similar warnings to people to stay away from the beach, which the coastguard has described as \"a dangerous place to be\".\n\nIn Hemsby, Mr Hurd said erosion due to the spring tide had led to fallen power lines, cars had been left stranded on The Marrams, which runs parallel to the cliff, and one disabled resident was unable to move from his home.\n\n\"People are unable to get to their properties; there's no water supply; it's an absolute joke,\" he said.\n\nOvernight 200 metres of road had fallen into the sea, leaving some cars stranded\n\nSeveral bungalows fell from the clifftop in The Marrams in 2018\n\nThe lifeboat crew, which is independent and not part of the RNLI, was helping residents while Norfolk Police who had closed off some roads.\n\nIts lifeboat station is set slightly back from The Gap - an area of dunes at a lower point between higher sandy cliffs.\n\nHemsby Lifeboat added on its social media post: \"The road along The Marrams to the south has also fallen into the sea, restricting access and creating very dangerous conditions.\n\n\"This has left the Gap area and dunes in a very unstable condition, and we are asking anyone visiting the beach this weekend to be extra vigilant.\n\n\"If you are in the area of the Gap, please stay away from the edge and the base of the dunes, as there is a high risk of further collapse.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Use your mouse, or tap and drag, to explore this interactive 360° video tour along the Hemsby coastline, filmed in March 2023\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The athlete nicknamed 'Blade Runner' was jailed in 2016\n\nFormer Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius is to be freed from jail on parole, nearly 11 years after murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.\n\nHe shot her multiple times through a bathroom door on Valentine's Day in 2013, later claiming he mistook her for a burglar at their Pretoria home.\n\nPistorius, now 37, was sentenced by a South African court in 2016 to serve 13 years and five months in prison.\n\nThe parole board has set his release for 5 January 2024.\n\nOnce released, Pistorius will be monitored by the authorities until his sentence officially expires \"just like all other parolees\", the Department of Correctional Services said on Friday. If he wants to move house or get a job during that time he will have to notify his parole officer.\n\nPistorius will also have to attend therapy sessions, according to the Steenkamp family's spokesman.\n\nIn a letter read out to the parole board during Friday's hearing, Ms Steenkamp's mother said she did not oppose his release but wondered whether Pistorius's \"huge anger issues\" were truly dealt with in prison. She added that she would be \"concerned for the safety of any woman\" who now comes into contact with him.\n\nJune Steenkamp chose not to attend the parole hearing at Atteridgeville prison, near the capital, Pretoria, saying: \"I simply cannot muster the energy to face him again at this stage.\"\n\nHer husband and Reeva's father, Barry, died earlier this year and she said the strain on them both had been immense.\n\n\"My dear Barry left this world utterly devastated by the thought that he had failed to protect his daughter... I've no doubt that he died of a broken heart,\" Mrs Steenkamp's statement read.\n\nBarry Steenkamp had met Oscar Pistorius face-to-face last year as part of the rehabilitation process.\n\nMrs Steemkamp says that while she does not believe her daughter's killer has shown remorse, she had nonetheless decided to forgive him \"long ago, as I knew most certainly that I would not be able to survive if I had to cling to my anger\".\n\nThis was Pistorius's second parole hearing in under a year.\n\nHis first parole bid collapsed in March because he had not completed the minimum detention period. That was later ruled a mistake by South Africa's Constitutional Court, leading to the new parole hearing.\n\nUnder South African law, all offenders are entitled to be considered for parole once they have served half their total sentence.\n\nFriends say Reeva Steenkamp was kind-hearted and ambitious\n\nReeva Steenkamp, who was 29 when she died, was a law graduate and successful model who also worked as a TV presenter and appeared in a reality show called Tropika Island of Treasure.\n\n\"She was more than just a pretty face, she had a beautiful heart and ambition,\" her friend Kerry Smith told the BBC.\n\nThe two women met at university and had planned to start a law firm to help abused women after graduating.\n\n\"She wanted to save everyone, wanted to protect everyone,\" her friend recalls.\n\nSteenkamp was three months into her relationship with Pistorius when he fired four shots with a pistol through the door of a toilet cubicle at his house in Pretoria in the early hours of 14 February 2013.\n\nHe was convicted of murder in 2015 at the Supreme Court of Appeal having initially been convicted of the lesser offence of culpable homicide.\n\nPistorius's lower legs were amputated when he was less than a year old. He subsequently relied on prosthetics and became a world-renowned athlete known as the \"blade runner\".\n\nHe won multiple gold medals at the Paralympics. He also competed against non-disabled athletes at the London 2012 Olympics.\n\nThe murder of Reeva Steenkamp just six months later, and the subsequent trials, dominated headlines around the world.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nSubstitute Kai Havertz's late header took Arsenal to the top of the Premier League with a dramatic win at Brentford.\n\nIn Mikel Arteta's 200th game in charge of the Gunners, Havertz's 89th-minute goal rescued a largely forgettable display in west London.\n\nAfter Manchester City and Liverpool drew earlier on Saturday, this win moves the Gunners one point clear at the summit.\n\nArsenal's Leandro Trossard had a goal ruled out in the first half by the video assistant referee (VAR) but defeat was harsh on Brentford who were only denied goals of their own by exceptional clearances off the line from Declan Rice and Oleksandr Zinchenko.\n\nArteta has won more matches in his first 200 in charge than any of the other nine Arsenal managers to reach that milestone - and his bold team selection here showed he was determined to take three points.\n\nHowever, the return of Martin Odegaard and Gabriel Jesus from injury did not really bear fruit in a mostly ponderous display.\n\nThey upped the tempo in the second half but waves of attacks were repelled by Thomas Frank's well-drilled defence.\n\nThat was the case until a moment of magic from Bukayo Saka finally unlocked the door and Havertz produced his most significant contribution in an Arsenal shirt to head home at the back post.\n\nBrentford stay 11th in the table after their second successive defeat.\n\nIt has been an inauspicious start to life in north London for £65m signing Havertz, with just one goal and one assist before Saturday since his arrival from Chelsea.\n\nWhile Arteta has continued to back him publicly, he was left out to accommodate the return of Odegaard and had to watch as his team-mates failed to fire for much of the game.\n\nSummoned from the bench with 12 minutes to go, he had the defining say when he squeezed his header over the line from a tight angle.\n\nIt could be a huge moment in the context of his Arsenal career.\n\nBefore Havertz's arrival, the only real sub-plot was whether Aaron Ramsdale could make the most of his first Premier League start since September, given on-loan keeper David Raya was ineligible against his parent club.\n\nThe home fans revelled in a shaky first half from the England man, who was indebted to Rice for a brilliant block on the line.\n\nHowever, as he composed himself, the game drifted into dull stalemate between two sides who usually do not lose London derbies.\n\nWhen the Gunners finally found a spark, Trossard's close-range header after Mark Flekken saved from Jesus was ruled out after a VAR review.\n\nIn truth, Jesus should have buried the header himself from eight yards out before the offside decision.\n\nIf Havertz can now find his goalscoring touch, that might ease the burden on the Brazil striker who looked leggy after playing in South America during the international break.\n• None Goal! Brentford 0, Arsenal 1. Kai Havertz (Arsenal) header from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Bukayo Saka with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takehiro Tomiyasu (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Eddie Nketiah (Arsenal) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Bukayo Saka.\n• None Attempt missed. William Saliba (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Declan Rice (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Leandro Trossard.\n• None Declan Rice (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Neal Maupay (Brentford) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Vitaly Janelt. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The author of a forthcoming book about the Royal Family has urged people to wait until it comes out, saying media reports were using \"bad translations and snippets without context\".\n\nOmid Scobie, a royal commentator, will see his book Endgame - which describes a \"fight for survival\" within the Royal Household - published on Tuesday.\n\nExtracts from the book have been published in US and French media.\n\nBut Scobie said not all the reported passages were accurate.\n\n\"Whether you like my work or loathe it, all I ask is that if you are reading coverage about what's supposedly inside Endgame, please also read the book itself,\" Scobie, a former Yahoo! News UK royal editor, wrote on X, formerly Twitter.\n\nHis comments came as several UK newspapers reported what were said to be extracts from the book published this week in Paris Match, a French magazine.\n\n\"It has been hugely frustrating watching news sites run stories based on contextless and poorly translated snippets from a French serialisation of Endgame,\" Scobie told BBC News.\n\nHe expressed disappointment at media reports that he said left readers \"to believe that this is how the material - much of which is almost unrecognisable from the original English manuscript - appears in the book\".\n\nIn the UK newspaper reports said to be based on the extracts published in Paris Match, claims relate to supposed details of conversations between the Duke of Sussex and his father, the King, earlier this year, and the relationship between Prince Harry and his brother, Prince William.\n\nSeparately, the Sun reports claims about the content of letters exchanged between the King, who was then the Prince of Wales, and the Duchess of Sussex in the wake of her 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey.\n\nIt also claims the duchess named two members of the Royal Household who are alleged to have referred to the race of her then-unborn child, Archie, in the letters.\n\nBBC News has contacted the duke and duchess for comment. Buckingham Palace declined to comment.\n\nSpeculation following the publication of Scobie's previous royal book, Finding Freedom - which chronicled the Sussexes' stepping back as working royals - led the royal couple to deny they had contributed to it.\n\nThe 42-year-old journalist has consistently denied the duke and duchess were direct sources for his work, adding recently that he was not Meghan's friend and that \"the Sussexes have nothing to do with\" his latest book.\n\nThe Royal Family continues to provide inspiration for authors, book editors and television commissioners. Prince Harry's own memoir Spare has retained its standing as Amazon's best-selling book of 2023 after its release in January.\n\nThat success prompted media speculation that Meghan would publish her own tell-all memoirs, but sources close to the Sussexes poured cold water on the rumours, telling the BBC's Sean Coughlan there was no basis for the speculation.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex made a rare red carpet appearance in Los Angeles last week\n\nThe Sussexes are also budding producers in their own right. Meghan spoke on the red carpet at Variety's Power of Women gala in Los Angeles last week, telling reporters her production company, Archewell, had \"so many exciting things on the slate\".\n\n\"I can't wait until we can announce them, but I'm just really proud of what we're creating,\" she said. \"My husband is loving it, too. It's really fun.\"\n\nNetflix's royal drama series The Crown ends its seven-year run next month with the release of the final six episodes. Two competing films, from Netflix and Amazon, based on BBC Newsnight's 2019 interview with the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, are currently in production.", "Harvard University is facing a crisis after a landmark court case exposed how it gives the relatives of alumni a leg-up. Its so-called legacy admissions policy is now in the crosshairs of lawmakers who say it perpetuates inequality.\n\nFor centuries, the streets of Harvard's red-bricked campus have borne the heels of America's future leaders, from Teddy Roosevelt to Mark Zuckerberg. The ability of the oldest university in the US to propel students into the upper echelons of politics, business and tech has made admission highly coveted. But the way it chooses who gets the golden ticket is being closely scrutinised.\n\nEarlier this year, a landmark Supreme Court decision dismantled affirmative action, making it illegal for Harvard and other universities to give admission preference to under-represented minorities.\n\nHarvard said the change would make it harder for it to recruit a diverse student body. But the court proceedings also blew open what many had long suspected - that the school gives preference to the children of alumni.\n\nThe policy, known as legacy admissions, is practised by dozens of elite American universities, including the eight schools in the Ivy League, as well as many other private and elite public universities. It means if a close relative attended that university then you might be preferred to an applicant of similar strength whose parents did not.\n\nWhile most class privileges in US society are bestowed with a wink and a nod - it's all about who you know, what you wear, how you sound - the court case laid bare how institutions use legacy status to let some applicants skip the queue. And that has led many, from state legislators to Harvard students themselves, to call for the policy to end.\n\nAllison Hunter says she is concerned about the ongoing role of legacy admissions\n\nWhen Allison Hunter first found out she got into Harvard University, she didn't quite believe it.\n\n\"I never would have thought it would have been something that in my lifetime, I would have been able to accomplish,\" she said.\n\nBut a mentor convinced her to apply, and now she is the first person from her Atlanta high school to attend the hallowed institution.\n\n\"You have to think of yourself as capable,\" she reflected.\n\nFor years, the school had greatly amped up its efforts at inclusion. In 2023, the school charged $54,269 a year in tuition, but it is free to students whose families earn below $65,000, and families earning up to $150,000 pay no more than 10% of their income each year. The school has also increased the non-white and Hispanic students from 17% to over 50% of the student body over the past four decades.\n\nDonyae Jenkins, another Harvard student, said that after the Supreme Court ruling, \"a lot of black and brown students may feel that this is somewhere they don't deserve to be\".\n\nBoth Allison and Donyae disagree with affirmative action being struck down, especially when legacy admissions live on because the policy tends to favour students who are well off and white. Documents filed in the Supreme Court case revealed that Harvard gives points to \"ALDC\" candidates, who are legacy applicants, athletes, relatives of donors, and children of faculty or staff. While only 5% of applications come from ALDC students, they make up about a third of acceptances. About 70% of those applicants were white.\n\n\"They [the children of alumni] are also getting what some may call special admission into the college,\" Donyae said.\n\nThat special advantage, data shows, is a rocketship into the stratosphere of America's elite.\n\nA recent paper published by Opportunity Insights, a research group based out of Harvard University and Brown University, found that legacy applicants were four-times as likely as non-legacy applicants with the same test scores to be admitted.\n\nThe study looked at 15 years of admissions data at 12 private \"Ivy-Plus\" colleges (the eight colleges in the Ivy League, plus the University of Chicago, Duke, MIT, and Stanford).\n\nWhen these same legacy students applied to other top universities where they did not have legacy status, that advantage disappeared, the study found.\n\nStudents who attended \"Ivy Plus\" colleges were 60% more likely to earn in the top 1% and three times more likely to work at prestigious employers in medicine, research, law, finance, and other fields compared with students who attended what they called \"flagship\" public universities.\n\n\"Students on these campuses today will be the leaders across a wide range of fields in society tomorrow,\" said John Friedman, a professor at Brown University (also part of the Ivy) who co-authored the research.\n\n\"If we want children from all backgrounds to feel like they have a shot at a trajectory to get to those leadership positions, we need these universities to be admitting students in a way that supports broader equality of opportunity.\"\n\nTheir findings are backed up by others. A 2019 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that 75% of white students who were recruited to Harvard as ALDCs \"would have been rejected\" if they had been treated as white students without those connections.\n\nMany scholars have traced the roots of legacy admissions to the beginning of the 20th Century when universities wanted to keep their institutions beyond the reach of the country's growing immigrant population. While times have changed, and Harvard has made a commitment to greater diversity and equity, legacy admissions remain.\n\nIn defending the practice, the school said it \"helps to cement strong bonds between the university and its alumni\" that last a lifetime.\n\nIt also noted the \"generous support\" that alumni provide which helps make financial aid possible to increase diversity and excellence, the school wrote in a report released in 2018.\n\n\"Although alumni support Harvard for many reasons, the committee is concerned that eliminating any consideration of whether an applicant's parent attended Harvard or Radcliffe would diminish this vital sense of engagement and support.\"\n\nThat money is no small change. With an endowment of $50bn, Harvard has the largest university endowment in the world. Oxford and Cambridge, which do not practice legacy admissions, have endowments of about $7bn, respectively.\n\nHarvard's deep pockets have helped it crown the country's elite, but some accuse it of using this power not to create a better society, but to maintain the status quo. And they say legacy admissions have got to go.\n\nMassachusetts's state legislature is considering a bill that would levy a fee against the school and other schools that grant legacy admissions benefits.\n\n\"One of the things that binds Americans together, whether you're from Maine, Massachusetts, California, or Texas, is this idea of meritocracy,\" says the bill's co-sponsor, state Senator Pavel Payano, who was born in the Dominican Republic.\n\n\"These elite universities are essentially focused on having individuals that don't look like me, individuals that are not working-class people attend their school, and I don't think that's right.\"\n\nState Senator Pavel Payano is among members of the Massachusetts state legislature pushing to tackle legacy admissions\n\nHarvard is also now the subject of a civil-rights probe by the US Department of Education, after a lawsuit alleged the school gave overwhelming preference to white, wealthy students by prioritising legacy and donor applicants.\n\nMichael Kippins, a litigation fellow at the legal non-profit Lawyers for Civil Rights that filed the lawsuit, told the BBC he thinks that the admissions policy is unjustified.\n\n\"They discriminate against applicants of colour, and there's a disproportionate impact on applicants of colour, that unjustly harms their chances of being admitted to Harvard,\" he said.\n\nThere are signs of a sea change. Wesleyan University and Amherst College, two elite private institutions, have both ended legacy admissions.\n\nHarvard University President Claudine Gay has said that in light of the Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action, \"everything was on the table\".\n\n\"I can't, nor do I think it is actually productive to try to predict where that conversation is going to go,\" she told the Harvard Crimson, the student paper. \"But I think it's a real signal of what a watershed moment we're facing in higher ed, that we're thinking and having conversations at this level of expansiveness.\"\n\nThe school did not respond to the BBC's repeated requests for comment.\n\nOn a recent visit to the campus, some students said the blowback against legacy admissions was overdone.\n\n\"I just think that they (legacy students) deserve a spot on this campus just as much as the rest of us,\" said Kennith Taukalo, who did not himself have legacy status.\n\nBut others did wonder if there was a better way.\n\n\"Other places in the world are still able to create that academic environment of excellence without this legacy admission,\" said Phd student Louise Rossetti, from the UK.\n\n\"I'm sure there's other ways in which funding could be brought to the university without creating shared disadvantage to students.\"", "Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves previously said she would invest in \"good jobs in the green industries of the future\"\n\nLabour has denied claims it could further water down its flagship green prosperity plan.\n\nA senior source had suggested to the BBC that the level of investment previously promised - of £28bn a year - might never be reached.\n\nBut a party spokesman said, if elected, Labour would \"ramp up investment in jobs and energy independence\" to a \"total of £28bn a year as planned\" in the second half of their Parliamentary term.\n\nIt originally promised to spend £28bn a year until 2030 on the flagship green project, funded by borrowing.\n\nHowever, in June shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves watered the pledge down, saying the party would invest over time from a 2024 election win, reaching £28bn a year after 2027.\n\nA senior source in the Labour leader's office said that was because of the state of the public finances. They stressed that Labour's fiscal rules were more important than any policy.\n\nThe Conservatives have previously warned of the alleged dangers of the policy - claiming extra borrowing could increase interest rates and mortgage costs.\n\nDuring the Labour party conference in Brighton two years ago, Ms Reeves announced her ambition to be the UK's first \"green\" chancellor.\n\nShe unveiled Labour's Green Prosperity Plan, explaining money would go on offshore wind farms, planting trees and developing batteries. She added it would be funded by borrowing.\n\nBut in June Ms Reeves said she took the decision to scale back the Green Prosperity Plan as a result of the poor state of the economy.\n\n\"No plan can be built that is not a rock of economic and fiscal responsibility,\" Ms Reeves told BBC Radio 4's Today programme at the time.\n\nShe added: \"I will never play fast and loose with the public finances.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking in June, Rachel Reeves says Labour will now \"ramp up\" its plan to spend £28bn a year on green industries\n\nThe party's fiscal rules - which include a promise to get debt falling within five years - are viewed as the \"North Star\"; more important than any policy, according to the senior Labour source who spoke to the BBC.\n\nLabour sources also denied a report in the Daily Telegraph, that Sir Keir Starmer had asked for the funding pledge to be watered down.\n\nLabour is determined to paint itself as the party of economic credibility - even if it means tempering one of the central planks of its programme for government.\n\nHannah Martin, co-director of campaign group Green New Deal Rising, said a Labour u-turn on the Green Prosperity Plan would be \"a disaster\".\n\nShe said Labour \"should be going much further\" and commit to a range of measures including guaranteeing millions of green jobs, a wealth tax and a home insulation programme.\n\n\"Failing to commit even to the basics of investing in our planet and economy would be a huge betrayal - and our generation won't let them forget it,\" she said.\n\nA Conservative Party spokesman said Labour's policy \"presents a major risk\" to the British economy at a time when the cost of borrowing is \"so high\"", "Huda Kattan is one of the people on this year's BBC 100 Women list\n\nWhen Huda Kattan appears in public she's greeted by the kind of adoring fans you might usually associate with A-list Hollywood stars.\n\nAs part of the celebrations for the 10th anniversary of her cosmetics brand, Huda Beauty, she has taken over a Paris building not far from the Eiffel Tower, and turned almost everything inside hot pink.\n\nThere are make-up stations loaded with her products, neon signs and glamorous people everywhere.\n\nFans waiting on the street scream when she arrives. Inside, the invited influencers and make-up professionals chant her name as she climbs the stairs: \"Hu-da, Hu-da, Hu-da.\"\n\nPeople queue to take a selfie with her - some even burst into tears when she hugs them.\n\nThroughout it all, Kattan's smile never falters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKattan is one of the people on this year's BBC 100 Women list, which celebrates 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world.\n\nShe has a cosmetics business worth more than $1bn, which is the biggest make-up brand on Instagram, with more than 50 million followers.\n\nBut she sharply criticises both the beauty industry and social media.\n\n\"I think the beauty industry is sexist,\" she says. \"It objectifies women a lot of times. It really can boil women down to just their appearance.\"\n\nShe says that as a woman \"who likes to glam\", she knows how frustrating it is to be judged by her appearance.\n\nBut she accepts that judging others too quickly is a common failing - and that it is something she herself needs to work on.\n\nWhen she first became a businesswoman, she found that some in the industry would not take her seriously.\n\n\"I struggled so bad,\" she says.\n\n\"Oftentimes we'd be in a meeting and instead of making eye contact with me they would make eye contact with my husband and completely ignore me.\"\n\n\"Don't talk to me, talk to her,\" her husband would say - but they would just continue addressing him, says Kattan.\n\nHuda Kattan grew up the daughter of immigrants from Iraq to Tennessee\n\nShe fumes about the slow progress of the beauty industry where inclusivity and representation is concerned.\n\nKattan grew up the daughter of immigrants who moved from Iraq to Tennessee and says she was always made to feel that she was unattractive.\n\nShe says it's a priority for her to sell products in deeper shades, and foundations that match a wide range of skin tones.\n\nBut while she accepts the industry as a whole may be moving in the right direction, she says it's going at \"snail's pace\".\n\n\"I've been in the labs with the manufacturers and I've said to them, 'I need a richer skin tone product'. And I've seen them literally put black pigment in, [but] people's skins are made of many different tones.\n\n\"I think there is still a lack of understanding. And it really comes down fundamentally to the manufacturer, even some brands.\"\n\nKattan's success is due in a large part to her presence on social media, where she shares make-up tutorials and reviews, as well as moments with her family and friends in Dubai, which is now her home.\n\nHer curated lifestyle is a natural evolution from her early days as a beauty blogger. And to begin with, she loved social media.\n\n\"I thought it was just the best thing,\" she says. \"You know, it democratised voices. It gave everybody the opportunity to speak up. It was supposed to be a place where people connected.\"\n\nInstead, she says, it has become \"a dopamine-hacking algorithm to keep people's eyes glued into a screen\".\n\nShe is deeply cynical now about what it has to offer.\n\n\"Do I agree with social media now? No, I don't. Do I think it's good for the future? No, I don't. I don't any more.\"\n\nOne of the problems she points to is the pressure it places on women to be perfect.\n\n\"I think society has always been hard on women, but now, with social media, the expectations are just unfair,\" says Kattan.\n\n\"When I go on social media, sometimes I feel I can never be good-looking enough. I can never have achieved enough.\"\n\nShe accepts \"absolutely, 100%\" that in this respect she is part of the problem - but says she is also a victim of it.\n\n\"When you're somebody who's known for a look, you sometimes become almost a prisoner to your appearance.\"\n\nPeople expect her nails to be done, and her hair, and her complexion to be perfect, which is \"not reality\" she says.\n\n\"I definitely for a long time felt that I was a prisoner to my Instagram handle. I felt, 'Here I am going out to the public, I am Huda Beauty'. Sometimes I feel like Huda Ugly.\"\n\nHuda Kattan hopes to give inspiration to women of colour\n\nGiven the huge reach of her social media platforms, anything Kattan says online attracts attention.\n\n\"As our voice became bigger, became more of a platform, I started to feel the need to speak up about certain things,\" she says.\n\n\"I am passionate about things that affect women, but also things affecting my community as well.\"\n\nThis interview took place before the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on 7 October - which saw 1,200 people killed and about 240 others taken hostage - and the subsequent strikes on Gaza.\n\nGaza's Hamas-run government says more than 14,500 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory since Israeli air and ground strikes began. The United Nations has warned of a humanitarian crisis.\n\nAs the conflict escalated, Kattan used her social media accounts to post in support of Palestinians, attracting positive comments as well as criticism.\n\n\"I've been outspoken about some political things. I don't pretend to be a political expert,\" she told BBC 100 Women in July. \"But if I see something and I know some of the information I definitely want to post about it.\"\n\nEven before the current situation in Israel and Gaza developed, Kattan had been raising awareness about issues in the Middle East, saying political issues in the region weren't talked about enough.\n\n\"I get really upset sometimes when I see things happening. Sometimes I'm also like, 'Do I have the right information? Can I post about this? Am I only seeing one side?'. But I always want to post whatever I can.\"\n\nWhen people message her asking questions like \"How is your life so perfect?\", she answers honestly that it isn't.\n\nShe says she would like the social media space \"to be more vulnerable\".\n\n\"I don't know where that space exists. I don't think it exists on Instagram but we have to create it,\" Kattan says.\n\nShe adds that she frequently has to disconnect or limit her own screen time, and doesn't allow her 12-year-old daughter on to social media at all.\n\n\"She does go on it behind my back sometimes, but I can see a difference in her anxiety levels when she's not online versus when she is.\"\n\nDespite living much of her life in public, there are things that she keeps private, such as her Muslim faith.\n\nShe says she wasn't very religious as she grew up, but this changed as she became older. Now, she sees prayer as \"one of the most beautiful experiences\".\n\n\"I don't speak about it because I'm always afraid of the criticism - because I don't cover,\" she says. \"People might say, 'Oh you're not allowed to do those things.'\"\n\nHuda Beauty is now 10 years old, and Kattan says she hopes she has given inspiration to some women of colour.\n\n\"I think back sometimes to that little Middle Eastern brown girl in Tennessee - there's still a lot of them out there in the world - and maybe seeing someone like me, they can feel a little bit represented.\"\n\nVideo filmed by Maher Nakhla and edited by Rebecca Thorn.\n\nBBC 100 Women names 100 inspiring and influential women around the world every year. Follow BBC 100 Women on Instagram and Facebook. Join the conversation using #BBC100Women.", "Former police officer Derek Chauvin is serving concurrent prison sentences over the death of George Floyd\n\nMinneapolis ex-police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted in the murder of George Floyd, is reported to be in a stable condition after he was stabbed at an Arizona prison.\n\nThe city's police chief and Minnesota's attorney general confirmed the news.\n\nChauvin, who is white, is serving multiple sentences for the black man's death, which triggered huge protests against police brutality and racism.\n\nA source told AP the 47-year-old was seriously injured by another inmate.\n\nThe Bureau of Prisons confirmed in a statement that an inmate at a federal prison in the city of Tucson was stabbed at 12:30 local time (19:30 GMT) on Friday.\n\nThe agency said employees contained the incident and \"life-saving measures\" were performed on the inmate, who was then taken to hospital. The name of the prisoner was not given.\n\nNobody else is thought to have been injured.\n\nMinnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, quoted by CNN, confirmed that Chauvin had been stabbed and said he was in a stable condition.\n\n\"I am sad to hear that Derek Chauvin was the target of violence,\" Mr Ellison told CNN, in a statement from his office. \"He was duly convicted of his crimes and, like any incarcerated individual, he should be able to serve his sentence without fear of retaliation or violence.\" The state attorney general's office had prosecuted Chauvin in the George Floyd case.\n\nNews of Chauvin's condition was confirmed by Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara, who told local TV station KSTP-TV that he received the update from \"federal law enforcement partners\".\n\n\"We're thankful that he's in a stable condition,\" he said, adding \"anyone who's assaulted like this, regardless of what they've been accused of, deserve to be safe and that's certainly not cause for any celebration.\"\n\nThe news comes days after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Chauvin, in which it was argued that he had not received a fair trial for the killing of Mr Floyd - who died after the former officer knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes in 2020.\n\nThe killing in Minneapolis - captured on a bystander's phone camera - sparked global outrage and a wave of demonstrations against racial injustice and police use of force.\n\nChauvin was later found guilty of Mr Floyd's murder and sentenced to 22 years in prison. He was given a further 20-year sentence in July 2022 for violating Mr Floyd's civil rights.", "Players had to cross a line while the singing doll faced the wall, but were eliminated if caught moving when doll turned its head to face them\n\nContestants on Netflix's Squid Game: The Challenge are seeking compensation for injuries they allegedly suffered on the show, their lawyers said.\n\nExpress Solicitors is representing two players who it says \"suffered injuries such as hypothermia and nerve damage\".\n\nPlayers competed for a $4.56m (£3.63m) prize on the spin-off show, based on the hit South Korean drama Squid Game.\n\nA show spokesperson said in a statement: \"We take the welfare of our contestants extremely seriously.\"\n\nStudio Lambert, the company who co-produced the show for Netflix, has been contacted for comment.\n\nExpress Solicitors claimed the unnamed contestants suffered the injuries when \"they had to stay motionless for hours in cold temperatures while filming\".\n\nDaniel Slade, CEO of the UK firm, said: \"Contestants thought they were taking part in something fun and those injured did not expect to suffer as they did.\n\n\"Now they have been left with injuries after spending time being stuck in painful stress positions in cold temperatures.\n\n\"We have a case where someone complains of hypothermia. One had his hands turn purple from the cold.\"\n\nThe law firm said it has sent letters of claim to Studio Lambert outlining their clients alleged injuries it says were \"a result of poor health and safety standards on set\".\n\nA letter of claim is a step before legal action - putting a person or organisation on notice court proceedings may be brought against them.\n\nContestants who could not remain still were thrown out by a team of adjudicators watching video footage\n\nThe Green Light, Red Light game sees players run to a line while a 13.7ft (4.2m) doll sings and faces the wall. But players must stand still once the doll rotates its neck to face players.\n\nThose caught moving were eliminated using an automated video system with several adjudicators picking out players that moved.\n\nStephen Lambert, CEO of Studio Lambert, previously said players who got across the line quickly took two hours to finish the game, but slower players took four or five hours.\n\n\"Everybody had been told it was going to be arduous,\" he said in press materials for the show.\n\nContestant Lorenzo Nobilio told BBC News last week it took him seven hours to finish the game.\n\nIn January Netflix said three people received medical treatment during filming, but \"claims of serious injury are untrue\". Other contestants complained about the cold conditions in a report by Hollywood trade publication Variety.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) confirmed it contacted the programme's producers after concerns were raised with them, but said it decided to take no further action and stressed to them the importance of \"planning properly for any risks in future filming\".\n\nA spokesperson for Squid Game: The Challenge said: \"No lawsuit has been filed by any of the Squid Game contestants. We take the welfare of our contestants extremely seriously.\"\n\nThe game was filmed at Cardington Studios in Bedford.\n\nLast week Mr Lambert told BBC News it took player welfare \"terribly seriously\".\n\nHe said: \"Everybody was warned that it was going to be cold, we took all the necessary steps to prepare them for that.\n\n\"Yes, a few anonymous people were unhappy about the fact they had been eliminated and it had been a cold, quite long experience.\n\n\"But it was no worse than many unscripted shows... when you're giving away a huge prize it is always going to be to clear to us it was going to be a tough show to take part in.\"", "Fatima Amarneh was among the Palestinian prisoners released by Israel\n\nBy nightfall, the road in front of the Beitunia checkpoint had the feel of a restive festival, the sting of politics and tear gas mingling in the air.\n\nSmall campfires flickered in front of a handful of green Hamas flags; there were many more Palestinian ones.\n\nThe return of 39 Palestinians from Israeli prisons to their homes in the occupied West Bank was never just going to be a family affair.\n\nIsrael's jailing of large numbers of people on security grounds is widely seen by Palestinians as a tool of the occupation.\n\nCharges range from murder and violent attacks on Israelis to stone-throwing. Many Palestinians say Israel is criminalising acts of resistance by an occupied people - the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) told the BBC all prisoners are detained \"according to and under the provisions of the law\".\n\nA quarter of the population of the West Bank has spent time in an Israeli jail; it is a shared experience.\n\nAnd more than 3,000 people have been arrested since the 7 October attacks - including almost 900 children - according to the Palestinian Prisoners' Club president, Abdallah Zughary. Many of these detainees have been placed in administrative detention without charge, he says.\n\n\"Most of them are civilians, not affiliated with any kind of political party or militant group,\" Mr Zughary told me.\n\n\"Since 7 October, there have been no visits by families or lawyers to prisoners. And six prisoners have died.\" He accuses Israel of using the justice system as a \"revenge policy\".\n\nA spokesperson for the IPS told the BBC that over the past few weeks, \"four national security prisoners died\" in different circumstances and on different days. \"We have no knowledge of the causes of death,\" they added.They refused to comment on the suggestion that families and lawyers had not been allowed to visit prisoners.\n\nThere is little faith here in Israel's military courts, which are responsible for policing an occupied population, and which human rights groups have accused of handing down guilty verdicts to Palestinians 99% of the time.\n\nThe release of 39 women and teenagers is a tiny drop in the ocean of prisoners, but a massive symbol for Palestinians of their ability to - occasionally - force Israel's hand.\n\nMustafa Barghouti, a senior Palestinian politician, told me that prisoners were a key part of the deal agreed between Israel and Hamas, and a key part of why that deal was good for Palestinians.\n\nIt should also be taken as a sign, he said, that a permanent ceasefire was possible, despite Israel's insistence on resuming the war after the hostage deal has run its course.\n\n\"Israel has said many things before,\" Dr Barghouti told me. \"They said they would kill Hamas. Now they are negotiating with them.\"\n\nIsrael has said its goals of eliminating Hamas and getting the hostages back are not in conflict, but some in its army worry that the deal could allow their enemy to regroup.\n\nIt has also strengthened the political standing of Hamas here in the West Bank - many of those gathered to wait for the returning prisoners at Beitunia checkpoint credited the group, though others stressed that this moment belonged to all Palestinians.\n\n\"We would like that this happened without the hostages taken by Hamas,\" human rights lawyer Mohammed Khatib said. \"But Israel doesn't want [to do] this without paying the price. Without the Hamas hostages, Israel would not allow these people out.\"\n\nBut, he said, it was also a \"window of hope\" for both Palestinians and Israelis.\n\n\"The end [goal] is that they must accept us as people, they must accept our right to exist.\n\n\"We are humans: we have names, families, lives. I see all of this in the eye of a child released from prison today.\"\n\nThe return of prisoners here has been paved by a brutal attack, a devastating war and a hostage crisis.\n\n\"There's a joy in this release but it is incomplete joy,\" Abdallah Zughary told me, \"because there's a big price Palestinians have paid over past 45 days.\"\n\nEman Barghouti, welcoming home her sister-in-law Hanan today, told me her family would not celebrate the release publicly, out of respect for Palestinians killed, injured and displaced by Israel's bombardment of Gaza.\n\nShe said all the families she knew were doing the same.\n\nJubilant crowds gathered in Beitunia to welcome released Palestinian prisoners\n\nBut the crowds swarming around the prisoners' bus as it crossed into Beitunia had no such reserve; a moment of happiness for prisoners' families is also a moment of victory for Palestinians across the West Bank.\n\nBehind the darkened windows, some of the prisoners could be seen dancing - one wrapped in a Palestinian flag.\n\nTo Israel the prisoners it released today are a security threat.\n\nTo the Palestinians gathered to greet them, they are victims of Israel's occupation - and their release is symbolic of a wider goal.", "An aircraft has been pulled from the scrapheap and taken to a museum - through a city's streets.\n\nThe BAC 1-11, built in Christchurch, Dorset, in the 1960s, was to be scrapped before Southampton's Solent Sky Museum acquired it.\n\nThe front of the plane was all the museum could save due to the size of the craft.\n\nIt was seen coming around the bend in Canute Road, Southampton, on Saturday morning before arriving - and parallel parking - at the aviation museum.\n\nThe aircraft went out of service in 2000 and had been stored in Cornwall.\n\nThe museum hope to turn it into a cafe.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, X, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Cerulli died one year after her long-term care package changed\n\nA young woman with a severe disability was failed by a health trust before she died, a watchdog has said.\n\nSofia Cerulli, who died in 2020, had a life-limiting condition and complex needs, which required 24-hour care.\n\nHer long-term care package was changed by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust when she turned 18 in 2019.\n\nSofia's mother Vittoria said the change resulted in a significant fall in the standard of care, a complaint upheld by the Public Services Ombudsman.\n\nThe ombudsman Margaret Kelly said there was \"a failure to put Sofia, a young woman with a life-limiting condition who was tube fed, on oxygen and needed suctioning, at the centre of this process\".\n\nThe Belfast Trust has apologised to Sofia's family and offered \"heartfelt condolences on her passing\".\n\nSofia's mother Vittoria says she spent the last year of her daughter's life \"worried about keeping her safe\"\n\nVittoria said her family trusted the children's care team who understood her daughter's needs but that changed after the move to adult services.\n\n\"All that we worked on together for 15 years, and was working well, was taken away for lack of planning and for sheer bureaucracy. There was no need to do that,\" she said.\n\n\"The last year or so of Sofia's life, instead of enjoying her… we were both worried about keeping her safe.\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman (Nipso) said she was \"surprised\" the trust dismantled a care package that had been in place for several years and had been working effectively.\n\nShe also said she was concerned that the adult team did not contact the children's team for their advice or any training in order to provide Sofia with an ongoing standard of care.\n\n\"One of the failures we found was that their staff couldn't actually suction Sofia, something she needed several times a day to ensure her health and wellbeing.\"\n\nA Belfast Trust spokesperson said: \"We fully accept and acknowledge the findings in the Nipso report and have been working to ensure our processes for transition from child to adult care are more robust.\"\n\nVittoria said the ombudsman's findings \"showed that Sofia and our family were failed in more ways than we initially realised\".\n\nMargaret Kelly found care that plans were incomplete at the start of the new adult package\n\nThe ombudsman found the change to the care package caused \"the injustice of lost opportunity, distress and anxiety\" for Sofia and her family before she died.\n\n\"Sadly due to the subsequent death of the service user, those disruptive and anxious months were among the last that the family had with their precious daughter and sister,\" said Ms Kelly.\n\nShe also said: \"The trust failed to engage in the process of transition as early as it should have done.\"\n\nThe earliest record the trust provided of Adult Services' involvement was one month before Sofia's 18th birthday.\n\nMs Kelly noted that \"opportunities were lost for decision makers to build relationships with the service user and her family\".\n\nShe also found \"care plans were incomplete and insufficient at the commencement of the new care package\" and that there were gaps in documentation.\n\nIt was recommended that the chief executive of the Belfast Trust apologise to Sofia's mother and that it develops policy and procedures to govern the transition between child and adult services.\n\nThe ombudsman said there was a \"significant and unacceptable gap and one which requires to be remedied urgently\".\n\n\"There are probably around 80 young people at any given time across trusts in Northern Ireland who are moving from children's to adult services with a life-limiting condition.\n\n\"The policy should have been there and the trust should have known how to provide this care.\"\n\nChanges to care policy for children with complex needs be Sofia's legacy, says her mum\n\nVittoria said the recommended changes would make a difference for the families of children with complex needs.\n\n\"It's too late for Sofia but that will be her legacy to those children,\" she added.\n\nThe Belfast Trust said it had been working on the implementation of a new policy on transition between child and adult disability services.\n\n\"We have also appointed a specialist nurse who will work with children from the age of 14 who are moving to adult services,\" it added.\n\n\"We fully accept that transitioning from children's services to adult services can create a great deal of anxiety for our young patients and their families, and we are determined to ensure that proper processes are followed at all times.\n\n\"Patients with complex needs are properly assessed and their families are also guided through the process.\"", "Ashley Dale was not the intended target of the shooting\n\nThe mother of a 28-year-old woman shot with a machine gun in her home faced her daughter's killers in court and called them \"monsters\" as they were jailed for her murder.\n\nAshley Dale was hit when James Witham burst into her Liverpool home and began firing after a feud with her boyfriend.\n\nFour men have each received minimum jail sentences of more than 41 years.\n\nMs Dale's mother Julie addressed the killers directly in an emotional statement from the witness box.\n\nShe said: \"I hope you all understand that I will never ever forgive you for the life sentence you have given to me and my family.\n\n\"Although I can now rest knowing that you monsters are going to pay for what you have done to me and my family and that you too have ruined your own lives and your families' lives.\n\n\"I hope my words haunt you all forever and you, James Witham. I hope when you go to sleep at night you too see my baby girl's face as I do every single night.\"\n\nWitham, who had his head in his hands, left the dock for a short period after she finished speaking.\n\nThe prosecution described the killing as \"an execution\".\n\nMs Dale's father Steven Dunne said he had been \"confined to a nightmare\" and \"history was repeating itself\" as his teenage son was also shot dead seven years ago.\n\nHe said: \"I am now sitting with my one remaining child, having been put through the trauma of yet another trial, listening to those verdicts being read out in relation to Ashley's murder.\n\n\"I have lost another child. A victim of big egos running around the city with powerful guns, involved in petty feuds and killing innocent people.\"\n\nAshley Dale's mother told of the damage the killing had done to the family\n\nWitham, 41, who used a Skorpion sub-machine gun in the killing, was ordered to serve a minimum term of 43 years.\n\nHis accomplices Niall Barry, 26, Sean Zeisz, 28, and Joseph Peers, 29, must serve prison sentences of at least 47, 42 and 41 years respectively.\n\nThe trial at Liverpool Crown Court heard how two of the men - Zeisz and Barry - were named as potential suspects in the shooting of schoolgirl Olivia Pratt-Korbel.\n\nThe court heard how Ms Dale's partner, Lee Harrison, who was not in the house at the time, had been the intended target of the shooting in August 2022.\n\nA feud with Barry over the theft of drugs had been reignited at Glastonbury festival in June that year.\n\nDuring the festival, Barry was heard threatening to stab Mr Harrison and Zeisz was assaulted by a group said to include Jordan Thompson - a friend of Mr Harrison's and member of the Hillside organised crime group with which he was associated.\n\nMs Dale, an environmental health officer, was killed when Witham, of Ashbury Road, Huyton, forced open the door of her home in the Old Swan area and began firing a Skorpion submachine gun.\n\nBarry, of Moscow Drive, Tuebrook, was described by the prosecution as a \"malign presence\" behind the killing.\n\nZeisz, of Longreach Road, Huyton, was found to have organised and encouraged the attack with Barry.\n\nPeers, of Woodlands Road, Roby, was described in court as a \"foot soldier\" who drove Witham to the scene and earlier helped Witham to stab tyres on Ms Dale's car in an attempt to lure the couple out of the house.\n\nThe court heard how in the final months of her life Ms Dale had voiced her mounting fears and anxieties in voice notes to her friends.\n\nThese messages proved instrumental in convicting those responsible, with some of the voice notes sent just 30 minutes before she was shot dead.\n\nNiall Barry, left, was described as a \"malign presence\" while Sean Zeisz encouraged the killing\n\nThe court heard Mr Harrison had been \"totally uncooperative\" with police ever since his girlfriend's murder.\n\nMrs Dale described to the court how \"time had stood still\" since her daughter's death.\n\n\"That day I not only lost my daughter, but my best friend. The night we got that dreaded knock that no parent or family should ever have to get,\" she said.\n\n\"Ashley's two younger sisters were sleeping peacefully in their beds upstairs. Then the reality set in, that I was going to have to tell them, their big sister they so adored was no longer here.\n\n\"No act or person deserves to die - but this I will never ever begin to understand or accept how this could have happened to my perfect beautiful girl, who had her whole life ahead of her.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Witham gave police a false name when he was held by officers\n\nKnowsley Council said she was a \"very popular\" member of staff and had recently been promoted.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"She was eager to learn and develop, and genuinely enjoyed helping people. She had her whole life ahead of her. Our thoughts remain with her family, friends and colleagues.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDet Ch Insp Cath Cummings, of Merseyside Police, described Ms Dale's murder as \"brutal and senseless\" in the \"safest place she thought she would be, her home\".\n\n\"As James Witham stormed into Ashley's home that night, wearing a balaclava, firing from a Skorpion sub-machine gun, he took away Ashley, an ambitious, bubbly, charismatic, young woman. The community rocked, her family and friends left devastated.\"\n\nAshley Dale's father Steven Dunne said he had been \"confined to a nightmare\"\n\nShe praised Ms Dale's family for their \"immense courage and composure\" while Mr Justice Julian Goose also commended them.\n\nHe said: \"I have been struck by the dignity you have shown and your personal statements - they were truly remarkable.\"\n\nThe judge told the men: \"Each of you is a dangerous offender.\n\n\"Ashley Dale was in the prime of her life and she was gunned down in her own home where she should have been safe.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The rise is worth £1,800 for full-time workers, says the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Laura Trott\n\nThe minimum wage is to increase by more than a pound to £11.44 per hour from April next year.\n\nThe minimum wage, known officially as the National Living Wage, is currently £10.42 an hour for workers over 23.\n\nBut Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has decided the rate will also apply to 21 and 22-year-olds for the first time.\n\nIt means a full-time worker aged 23 on the wage would receive a rise worth £1,800 a year. A 21-year-old would see an effective £2,300 annual rise.\n\nThe policy change comes ahead of Mr Hunt's Autumn Statement, which will see the chancellor outline the government's latest tax and spending decisions.\n\nMr Hunt told the Conservative Party conference in October that the minimum wage was set to rise above £11 in April, but the confirmed rises represent a 9.8% increase for over-23s on last year, and a 12.4% jump for workers aged 22 and 21.\n\nThe current minimum wage for those aged 21-22 is £10.18 an hour.\n\nThe separate National Minimum Wage for 18-20-year-olds will also increase to £8.60 an hour from £7.49, meaning in total, the above-inflation wage hikes will benefit 2.7 million low-paid workers.\n\nApprentices will also get a rise, with an hourly pay increase of over 20%, going from £5.28 to £6.40 an hour.\n\nThe chancellor accepted the proposals in full from the Low Pay Commission, which advises the government on the minimum wage, saying that the Conservatives' target to \"end low pay\" by lifting the living wage to two-thirds of a measure of average earnings, had now been met.\n\n\"The National Living Wage has helped halve the number of people on low pay since 2010, making sure work always pays,\" Mr Hunt said.\n\nBryan Sanderson, chair of the Low Pay Commission, said the recommendation of increasing the minimum wage to £11.44 \"attempts to steer a path\" through a \"high degree of political and economic uncertainty\".\n\nThe move comes as the higher cost of living has led to household budgets being squeezed, with people on low incomes the hardest hit by higher energy and food bills.\n\nBut such pay rises have not been without concern from some in industry. Last year's similar rise led to retail and hospitality businesses voicing worries over higher wage bills.\n\nResponding to the announcement, Kate Nicholls, chief executive of the hospitality industry body UK Hospitality, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that the rise was \"a reminder that although government announces it, it is businesses who deliver it and why it is so vital other action is taken to reduce tax and costs, particularly [business] rates.\"\n• None What is the minimum wage and how much is it?", "Some of the UK's most visited websites could face fines unless they make it clearer that cookies are optional.\n\nCookies are small files websites store on your computer to collect analytic data, personalise online ads and monitor web browsing.\n\nThe Information Commissioner says some major sites are not giving users \"fair choices\" about their use.\n\nIt has given them 30 days to comply with the law which says it should be as easy to reject as accept all cookies.\n\nThe watchdog has not named the sites it has issued enforcement notices to.\n\nSome cookies help websites to function properly, but others can be used to track users and serve them with advertisements based on their browsing.\n\nCookies can be used to record various kinds of data about users including:\n\nFrom the point of view of many websites, cookies are a vital part of selling the advertising on which they depend.\n\nBut that advertising can feel intrusive. Many people will have the experience of visiting a website, or making a purchase and then having related ads appear on all the sites they visit.\n\nCookie pop-ups can be annoying but they are meant to be a way for users to control cookies. However, they are often unclear - for example, closing the box without making a selection will opt you in or out depending on the website.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has previously issued guidance that organisations must make it as easy for users to \"reject all\" advertising cookies as it is to \"accept all\".\n\nWebsites can still display adverts when users reject all tracking, but must not tailor these to the person's browsing.\n\nCurrently, the regulations governing cookies are split between the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).\n\nThe PECR has become known as the \"cookie law\" since its most visible effect was the implementation of cookie consent pop-ups.\n\nBut legislation currently working its way through Parliament aims to change the PECR to reduce the number of cookie pop-ups.\n\nThe data protection and digital information bill will allow websites to collect some types of information used for improving a service or for security without consent - something that has concerned some digital privacy groups.\n\nIt also gives ministers the power to add new exceptions to the cookie consent requirements.\n\nStephen Almond, the watchdog's executive director of regulatory risk, said their research signalled that many people were worried about companies using their personal information without their consent.\n\n\"Gambling addicts may be targeted with betting offers based on their browsing record, women may be targeted with distressing baby adverts shortly after miscarriage and someone exploring their sexuality may be presented with ads that disclose their sexual orientation,\" he said.\n\n\"Many of the biggest websites have got this right. We're giving companies who haven't managed that yet a clear choice: make the changes now, or face the consequences.\"\n\nThe ICO will provide an update on this work in January, including details of companies that have not addressed their concerns.\n\nThe action is part of its broader work to ensure that people's rights are upheld by the online advertising industry.", "Melissa Barrera starred in musical In The Heights and has appeared in the two most recent Scream films\n\nActress Melissa Barrera has been fired from the next Scream film sequel after its makers said her pro-Palestinian social media posts were antisemitic.\n\nThe star has posted regularly about the Israel-Gaza conflict, including resharing one post that accused Israel of \"genocide and ethnic cleansing\".\n\nProduction company Spyglass said it had \"zero tolerance for antisemitism\".\n\nMeanwhile, Susan Sarandon has been dropped by her Hollywood agency after speaking at a pro-Palestinian rally.\n\nSarandon, who starred in Thelma & Louise, has not commented on her situation.\n\nPosting on Instagram she wrote: \"I believe a group of people are not their leadership and that no governing body should be above criticism.\n\n\"I pray day and night for no more deaths, for no more violence and for peaceful co-existence. I will continue to speak out for those that need it most and continue to advocate for peace and safety, for human rights and freedom.\n\n\"Silence is not an option for me.\"\n\nBefore her departure was announced, Barrera reshared a quote from another account on her Instagram story which read: \"At the end of the day, I'd rather be excluded for who I include, than be included for who I exclude.\"\n\nThat post has been interpreted by some of her followers as a reference to her being sacked from the film.\n\nBarrera has led the previous two Scream movies and has also starred in the recent screen version of Carmen and the 2021 adaptation of stage musical In The Heights.\n\nL-R: Devyn Nekoda, Liana Liberato, Barrera, Jenna Ortega and Courteney Cox at the Scream VI premiere in March\n\nOther posts shared by Barrera in recent weeks have included one about distorting the Holocaust \"to boost the Israeli arms industry\" and another saying Gaza was \"currently being treated like a concentration camp\".\n\nIn a statement released to Variety, a spokesman for Scream 7 production company Spyglass said its stance was \"unequivocally clear\".\n\nIt said: \"We have zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion or anything that flagrantly crosses the line into hate speech.\"\n\nChristopher Landon, who is expected to direct Scream 7, stylised as Scream VII, appeared to reference the situation on social media.\n\nIn a since-deleted post on X, he said: \"Everything sucks. Stop yelling. This was not my decision to make.\"\n\nSusan Sarandon was dropped by Hollywood talent agency UTA after attending a pro-Palestinian rally\n\nThe Scream franchise was rebooted in 2022, with the fifth film taking $137m (£109m) at the box office and the sixth earning $169m (£135m).\n\nBarrera played Sam Carpenter in the films, the older sister of Tara, played by Jenna Ortega.\n\nThe rebooted films also starred Courteney Cox, David Arquette and Neve Campbell, reprising their original roles.\n\nDeadline reports that Ortega will not be returning for Scream 7 due to a scheduling conflict.\n\nBarrera's firing followed news that actress Sarandon has been dropped by talent agency UTA.\n\nShe has been criticised for telling the rally last week: \"There are a lot of people that are afraid of being Jewish at this time, and are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country, so often subjected to violence.\"\n\nShe also said people were \"educating themselves, people are stepping away from brainwashing that started when they were kids\".\n\nSarandon encouraged attendees to \"be strong, be patient, be clear and stand with anybody who has the courage to speak out\".\n\nTom Cruise reportedly showed support for a senior figure at his agency who had posted about the conflict\n\nA senior figure at another Hollywood agency, Maha Dakhil of CAA, has also had backlash for Instagram posts about the conflict, one of which said: \"What's more heartbreaking than witnessing genocide? Witnessing the denial that genocide is happening.\"\n\nAs a result, Ms Dakhil was relieved of her duties as co-chief the motion pictures department, although she was allowed to remain an agent.\n\nAccording to Variety and other trade publications, one of her most famous clients, Tom Cruise, made it known to CAA that he was backing Ms Dakhil.\n\nCruise reportedly met her at the agency's office last week to show his support for Ms Dakhil in person.\n\nThe conflict began when Gaza-based gunmen from Hamas attacked southern Israel on 7 October, killing about 1,200 people and taking about 240 others hostage.\n\nIsrael launched a military operation to destroy Hamas in response. More than 14,000 people in Gaza have been killed, according to the Hamas-run government.\n\nIsrael and Hamas have now agreed a deal to release 50 hostages being held in Gaza during a four-day pause in fighting.\n• None Netanyahu vows 'absolute victory' over Hamas ahead of expected pause in fighting", "Sunak looks set to be asked about advice sought for Eat Out to Help Out\n\nWhile we wait for the inquiry to resume, here's something that was brought up a little earlier in the House of Commons... Eat Out to Help Out was the scheme which offered us all a tenner towards a meal out. The idea, dreamt up by the Treasury, was to get the ailing hospitality industry going after the first lockdown. And it keeps coming up in this Inquiry. We've already heard senior civil servants in Downing Street didn't know about it before it was launched. This week we hear the government's two most senior scientific advisors at the time didn't either. On Monday Sir Patrick Vallance - the UK's chief scientific officer- said he didn't know about it until it was announced. He said, had he, \"our advice would have been very clear\". Today Prof Sir Chris Whitty had a similar view. But at Prime Minister's Questions earlier, Rishi Sunak insisted the government took advice from scientific advisers throughout the pandemic. Whether that's the same as the Treasury asking for advice on this specific scheme - he was the chancellor at the time - is almost certainly a question he'll be asked when he's up in front of the inquiry in the next few weeks.", "A letter has been sent to the parents of pupils at St George's Junior School, where Jevon Hirst went, and Woodfield Infants school.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that we write to you about the tragic death of four Shrewsbury college students.\n\n\"Our thoughts, love and prayers are with all the families and their friends at this incredibly difficult and sad time. As two schools, knowing one of the boys as a formal pupil of ours, this has affected our schools and our community greatly.\n\n\"We know the impact this will have upon the whole community and therefore wanted to let you know we are here as both schools and will support in any way we can.\"", "The Binance chief executive, Changpeng Zhao, has resigned after pleading guilty to money laundering violations.\n\n\"I made mistakes, and I must take responsibility. This is best for our community, for Binance, and for myself\", he said in a post on X.\n\nThe Justice Department said it was requiring Binance, the largest crypto-exchange in the world, to pay $4.3bn (£3.4bn) in penalties and forfeitures.\n\nIt said Binance had helped users bypass sanctions across the world.\n\n\"Binance enabled nearly $900 million in transactions between US and Iranian users, and facilitated millions of dollars in transactions between US users and users in Syria, and in the Russian occupied Ukrainian regions of Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk\", a spokesperson said.\n\nBinance, which is registered in the Cayman Islands, is known as the world's largest platform for buying and selling cryptocurrencies and other digital assets.\n\nThe Justice Department also said the exchange had made it easy for criminals and terrorists to move money.\n\n\"Between August 2017 and April 2022, there were direct transfers of approximately $106 million in bitcoin to Binance.com wallets from Hydra. Hydra was a popular Russian darknet marketplace, frequently utilised by criminals, that facilitated the sale of illegal goods and services,\" the department said.\n\nBinance must now report suspicious activity to federal authorities.\n\n\"This will advance our criminal investigations into malicious cyber activity and terrorism fundraising, including the use of cryptocurrency exchanges to support groups such as Hamas,\" the Justice Department said.\n\nRichard Teng, the company's head of regional markets, has been named the new CEO.\n\nIn a post on X, Changpeng Zhao said it was \"not easy to let go emotionally.\"\n\nHe is one of the most influential figures in crypto.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CZ 🔶 Binance This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn March, US regulators sought to ban Binance, alleging that the firm had been operating in the country illegally.\n\nThe lawsuit from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said the firm cultivated US business while failing to register properly with authorities.\n\nIt accused Binance of breaking numerous US financial laws, including rules intended to thwart money laundering.\n\nAt the time, Binance defended its practices.\n\nIt said it had made \"significant investments\" to ensure that US users were not active on the platform, including blocking users identified as American citizens or residents, or who had a US mobile number.\n\nThe firm was also hit with another lawsuit in June.\n\nThe company was accused of a \"web of deception\" by The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The agency said the trading platform and Zhao, its founder, ignored the rules meant to protect investors, in order to keep operating in the US.\n\nAt the time, Binance said it would defend itself \"vigorously\".\n\nUS authorities had pledged to use existing laws to root out fraud and other issues in the crypto industry, especially after the dramatic collapse of Binance rival FTX last year.\n\nEarlier this month Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, was found guilty of fraud. ​\n• None Who is the new boss of Binance?", "Ashley Dale was \"narrating her own story and events that led up to her death\" through voice notes\n\nIn the final months of her life, 28-year-old Ashley Dale voiced her mounting fears and anxieties in voice notes to her friends.\n\nThese messages would prove instrumental in convicting those responsible for her cold-blooded murder - some of these voice notes were sent just 30 minutes before she was shot dead.\n\n\"It's the first time I have ever seen the evidence of the murder victim play such a crucial role in a court case,\" said Det Ch Insp Cath Cummings, who was the senior investigating officer.\n\n\"Ashley was narrating her own story and events that led up to her death.\"\n\nMs Dale, who was not the intended target of the attack, was shot in her home in the Old Swan area of Liverpool.\n\nA gunman armed with a Skorpion machine pistol kicked down the door and fired indiscriminately in the early hours of 21 August 2022.\n\nFour men have been convicted of her murder following a trial at Liverpool Crown Court.\n\nDet Ch Insp Cummings said Ms Dale's mobile phone, found just an \"arm's length away from her\", had been \"significant\", in helping detectives piece together what had happened and why.\n\n\"I have never in my experience heard a victim's voice telling you what is happening, what is going on in their life that's paralleling what you are obtaining and looking at evidentially,\" she said.\n\n\"You've actually got a victim telling you.\"\n\nThe gunman kicked down the door of Ms Dale's home before opening fire\n\nThe trial heard how Ms Dale's partner, Lee Harrison, who was not in the house at the time, had been the intended target of the shooting due to a long-standing feud, which had been reignited at Glastonbury.\n\nDet Ch Insp Cummings said Ms Dale's voice notes meant she was \"able to narrate all the way back to June and what happened in Glastonbury and events that ultimately led all the way up to the moment that she was killed\".\n\nAs tensions began growing between the two groups involved in the feud, Ms Dale shared her fears with her friends, \"providing a running record of her concerns\".\n\nIn messages to a friend on 1 August, she said: \"I don't want to have to go to Lee's funeral next and I just have a bad, bad feeling about everything.\n\n\"Me nerves are gone, when am out in the car with Lee just feeling like I'm looking over me shoulder all the time.\"\n\nIn more voice notes played to the court, Ms Dale told another friend she had asked Mr Harrison to be \"honest about everything\" so she could prepare for \"the worst\".\n\nShe added: \"I don't normally want to know but I need to know what's going to happen.\"\n\nA total of 3,360 exhibits were seized, of which 139 were digital devices but it was the voice notes which proved to be the most telling.\n\nOlivia Travis, the senior crown prosecutor on the case, said: \"In my experience of criminal prosecutions, it has been unprecedented for a victim to foretell her own death, which is effectively what she has done through the voice notes.\n\n\"These voice notes were harrowing to listen to and chilling when played to the jury.\"\n\nMs Dale was found fatally injured in the back garden of her home on Leinster Road\n\nMs Dale's step-father Robert Jones, who has known her since the age of 12, described listening to the messages as \"harrowing, really distressing and upsetting but also absolutely necessary\".\n\n\"It's something that we knew early doors from the police who informed us about how integral it was to the investigation,\" he said.\n\n\"It's hard to really put yourself in that position and sit there listening to it.\n\n\"But Ashley's voice notes have been the only aspect of truth that have been spoken throughout the duration of this trial.\"\n\nHer mother Julie Dale described the past year and her daughter's death as \"utterly senseless\".\n\n\"There's no words to describe how her life has been ended in such a brutal way,\" she said.\n\n\"She'd just been promoted. She was happy. We celebrated it two weeks before. We toasted to a new job.\n\n\"There's a massive void now where nothing's going to replace Ashley ever.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Laurence Fox has been described as \"an intelligent racist with an agenda\" on the opening day of a libel trial with two people he called paedophiles.\n\nThe actor-turned-politician is being sued by ex-Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and drag artist Crystal over an online row in October 2020.\n\nMr Fox called Mr Blake and the ex-contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race - real name Colin Seymour - \"paedophiles\".\n\nHe denies being a racist and claims he lost his acting agent over the row.\n\nThe dispute followed a decision by Sainsbury's to celebrate Black History Month and provide a safe space for black employees.\n\nAfter Mr Fox called for a boycott of the supermarket, he was described as \"a racist\" by Mr Blake and Mr Seymour, and by actress Nicola Thorp, in their own posts on Twitter, now known as X.\n\nMr Fox is counter-suing these three people over their tweets, claiming they damaged his reputation.\n\nLorna Skinner KC, representing Mr Blake, Mr Seymour and Ms Thorp, said the three \"honestly believed, and continue honestly to believe, that Mr Fox is a racist\".\n\nIn written submissions, the barrister said the 45-year-old \"has made a number of highly controversial statements about race\".\n\nShe added: \"If and to the extent that Mr Fox has been harmed in his reputation, it is his own conduct and not the claimants' comments on it that caused that harm.\"\n\nMs Skinner highlighted several of Mr Fox's social media posts, including a June 2022 tweet of four pride flags arranged in the shape of a swastika.\n\n\"Such a disgusting post could only be made by a complete ignoramus or an intelligent racist with an agenda. Mr Fox is the latter,\" she said.\n\nPatrick Green KC, for Mr Fox, said in his written submissions that neither Mr Blake or Mr Seymour \"has suffered any actual, real-world consequences\" due to the actor's tweets.\n\nInstead, Mr Green said readers would have understood that Mr Fox's posts were a \"retort to an allegation of racism\" rather than a factual allegation.\n\nHe said it was accepted that abuse had been sent to Mr Blake and Mr Seymour on the X platform, but that it had been from \"trolls, a well-recognised species of Twitter user who have, at best, a ribald sense of humour and, at worst, deep personality disorders\".\n\nHowever, Mr Green said there was \"little doubt that Mr Fox's reputation has actually suffered very considerably\" since October 2020, particularly in the mind of his former agent.\n\nHe continued: \"The allegation of being 'a racist' will have been looked upon very seriously by many of Mr Fox's actual and potential colleagues... He is not a racist, he is a colour-blind liberal who dislikes racism, 'progressive' and identitarian politics.\"\n\nThe trial before Mrs Justice Collins Rice continues and is due to conclude next week with a decision expected at a later date.", "Friends left photographs, letters and flowers in tribute to the boys\n\nShrewsbury is in mourning after four teenage friends were killed in a crash in north Wales. People in the town told the BBC it would be a long time before they would make sense of the tragedy.\n\nThe stage was set in The Square for the Christmas lights switch-on, an event that draws thousands for music, merriment and a night of festive shopping.\n\nInstead, the only crowds gathering in Shrewsbury are those of students - solemn and silent, consumed with shock and grief over the deaths of their friends.\n\nThe switch-on is cancelled, the start of late-night shopping delayed for a week. Celebrating Christmas is the last thing on anyone's mind here.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James and Alfie light candles at Shrewsbury Abbey in memory of their four friends who died in the crash in north Wales\n\nWilf Fitchett, Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen and Hugo Morris were students at Shrewsbury College. As news of their deaths filtered through yesterday, the college was closed for a teacher training day.\n\nArriving back today, students laid flowers at the English Bridge campus. Messages of \"love you\" and \"rest in peace\" have been written on the stone stairs.\n\nMolly Clarkson said she knew all the boys, meeting Jevon first at primary school.\n\n\"Wilf sits in my English class and today the teacher was crying,\" she said.\n\n\"There is an undisputed sadness. They were all best friends.\"\n\nJevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Fitchett and Hugo Morris were all best friends, a fellow student said\n\nAt Shrewsbury Abbey, dozens of students have been going to light candles in the church.\n\nSteve Swinden, church administrator, watched as nine boys stood in silence at the altar after laying flowers.\n\n\"What they are experiencing is hard to contemplate. It doesn't matter if you have a faith, it is about humanity,\" he said.\n\n\"We are here for everybody. Shrewsbury is a strong community.\"\n\nFriends of the boys bowed their heads in silence at the abbey\n\nThe market town is \"one of those places where everyone knows everybody\", said Reverend Charlotte Gompertz, the vicar of Shelton and Oxon.\n\nThe news of the boys' deaths is \"utterly devastating\", she said.\n\n\"It's impacting everyone, this is a tight-knit community where many of the young people have been at school together since they were four years old.\n\n\"It is going to take a long time for us to get our heads even vaguely around this tragedy.\"\n\nMessages to the four boys have been written on to the steps at the front of one of the college buildings\n\nIn a statement, Shrewsbury Colleges Group called it \"truly heartbreaking\" and \"tragic\" and said \"our thoughts go out to those affected\".\n\nThe group said it would be working directly with affected students and staff and had \"put in place a range of support measures for all our community\".\n\nTragically, the deaths of the four boys comes just weeks after two other college students died.\n\nAlfie McCormick, 18, took his own life in October and Ben Worrall, 17, was killed in a road accident two days later. Principal James Staniforth described the news as \"devastating\" at the time.\n\nMeole Brace School in Shrewsbury, which the four teenagers previously attended, said in a statement earlier on Tuesday that all four boys were well-thought of and well-known by the school community.\n\nLots of people knew Harvey because he worked in the kitchen of popular local pizza restaurant Dough and Oil, his friends said.\n\nIt has closed for the day as a mark of respect.\n\n\"Harvey, our boy,\" the restaurant team wrote on its Instagram page, alongside a picture of him in his work uniform, a bowl of pasta in his hand, taken just two weeks ago.\n\n\"Easy going, funny, gentle, bright, hard-working and humble - we all had a soft spot for Harvey,\" it went on.\n\nDough and Oil, where Harvey worked, was closed in respect\n\nHe had started working there two years ago on the pot wash, and had dreams of opening his own bakery.\n\n\"Our love, thoughts and condolences go out to Harvey's family and to those of his friends, their lives so full of promise cut so tragically short,\" the post added.\n\nShrewsbury's town clerk, Helen Ball, described the mood in the town as very subdued as she explained the reasoning behind cancelling Wednesday evening's events.\n\nThe town's lights will be \"quietly\" switched on over the next few days instead, she said.\n\nWhen the time is right, the town council will help the college commemorate the lives of the four friends, Ms Ball added.\n\nUp the road from Dough and Oil, Shane Swannick has put four candles in the window of Shropshire Cycle Hub.\n\nFour candles for four boys have been lit at Shropshire Cycle Hub\n\n\"As a parent of teenagers, I really feel it,\" he said.\n\n\"My son, he's 19 now and he goes to Snowdonia with his mates mountain-biking all the time.\n\n\"I used to - as lads you go with your mates, that's what you do.\n\n\"But it can end, just like that.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "The UK is a popular place to film major Hollywood films, like the latest Mission: Impossible film - which was shot in Yorkshire and elsewhere\n\nFilms and TV shows will get more support to create their visual effects in the UK, the government has promised.\n\nThe UK has become a popular destination to shoot Hollywood blockbusters, but there have been warnings that the current system of tax breaks leads some films to do visual effects elsewhere.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt pledged more tax relief in his Autumn Statement.\n\nThe UK Screen Alliance, which represents visual effects (VFX) industry, welcomed the announcement.\n\nIn recent evidence to a House of Commons committee, the body said the existing tax structure, \"rather than attracting VFX work to the UK, very often drives it away\".\n\nA consultation document published by the government on Wednesday said: \"There have been reports of visual effects activity moving overseas, with some UK-based companies reportedly focussing their expansion overseas.\"\n\nAccording to the UK Screen Alliance, VFX is \"the digital manipulation of images to enhance, augment or entirely replace elements of live-action shots in films, TV programmes or commercials\".\n\nMuch of the Barbie movie was shot and created in the UK\n\nAfter the chancellor's announcement, the alliance's chief executive Neil Hatton said the new measures \"should aim to position the UK as the first choice destination for VFX production for international film and TV\".\n\nThe organisation added: \"The UK has world-class award-winning talent in this sector, but investment in the UK has stagnated, while other territories have increased the attractiveness of their incentive programmes.\"\n\nDame Caroline Dinenage, chair of the Commons culture committee, also welcomed the move, which she said \"should provide this valuable part of the industry with a much-needed competitive edge\".\n\nVFX in The Crown's first series, created by UK company One of Us, helped recreate period settings like Westminster Abbey\n\nThe government said it would aim to implement additional tax relief for visual effects from April 2025, and called for input from the industry about how the new measures should work.\n\nAs part of the Autumn Statement, the government said it expected a rise in employment as creative industries embrace new technologies.\n\n\"To maximise the benefits of this, the government will further boost the international competitiveness of tax incentives for the UK's world-leading visual effects sector,\" it said.\n\nHowever, other industry bodies said the government had not done enough to help different parts of the film industry.\n\nPact, which represents production companies, said it had made ministers aware that the independent film sector was \"now at the point of market failure\".\n\n\"The Autumn Statement is a missed opportunity for ministers to remedy a clear market failure within the independent film sector,\" it said on Wednesday.\n\n\"Investment into indie films has been in consistent decline and producers are finding it increasingly difficult to secure financing in a challenging market.\"", "After the shock dismissal of Sam Altman, OpenAI directors are reportedly in talks for a possible reinstatement.\n\nDiscussions are taking place between the former CEO and at least one board member, according to reports citing people familiar with the matter.\n\nAlmost every staff member at OpenAI has threatened to leave unless Mr Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman are reinstated.\n\nMicrosoft, the biggest investor in OpenAI, has since offered him a job.\n\nAccording to reports by Bloomberg and the Financial Times, the artificial intelligence company is exploring various options, including bringing Mr Altman back in his former position or as a board director.\n\nIt is still unclear whether Mr Altman will join Microsoft which has also offered to match the pay of any staff who join it from OpenAI.\n\nMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella has said he was \"committed to OpenAI and Sam, irrespective of what configuration\".\n\n\"Obviously that depends on the people at OpenAI staying there or coming to Microsoft, so I'm open to both options,\" he told news site CNBC.\n\nEmmett Shear, the former head of Twitch who has been named the new interim head of OpenAI, is also reportedly part of negotiations.\n\nLast week, the board decided to remove Mr Altman which led to Mr Brockman's resignation, sending the star AI company into chaos.\n\nThe decision was made by the three non-employees board members, Adam D'Angelo, Tasha McCauley and Helen Toner, and a third co-founder and the firm's chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.\n\nMr Sutskever has since apologised on X, formerly known as Twitter, and signed the letter calling on the board to reverse course.\n\nUnusually for a company that is reportedly valued at $80bn (£63.8bn), the company's board comprised of just six people as of last week.\n\nEvan Morikawa, an engineering manager at OpenAI, has said that 743 out of 770 employees at OpenAI have signed a letter calling on the board to resign - with staff themselves threatening to leave if their demands are not met.\n\nThe BBC has reached out to OpenAI for comment.", "Janet Reynolds put out an appeal for help for her friend on social media\n\nA disabled pensioner who has lived in a mould-covered home for years is now being helped by her community.\n\nJanet Reynolds decided to get involved when she found out her friend was living in a mould and rat-infested bungalow in Swindon, Wiltshire.\n\nThe home is now being refurbished thanks to local tradespeople who offered their services for free.\n\n\"When I saw it, I thought I've got to do something, it's going to kill her,\" Ms Reynolds said.\n\nMs Reynolds said the woman had been too embarrassed to ask for help\n\nMs Reynolds had been helping the woman with her weekly shops, but she had not been inside her house since the pandemic, and so did not know how bad it had become.\n\nEventually, the woman decided to ask Ms Reynolds for help.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wiltshire, Ms Reynolds said, \"I think she was scared the house would be taken away from her, it had been in her family since she was little.\"\n\n\"She was too embarrassed and proud to ask for help.\"\n\nThe woman is blind in one eye and suffers from heart diseases, leaving her vulnerable.\n\nMs Reynolds asked charities to help her friend before making an appeal on social media as a last resort.\n\nThe house has been cleared out and will now be refurbished\n\nLocal tradespeople, including Emerald Damp Specialists, offered their help for free and the house has now been emptied and is being refurbished.\n\n\"All her stuff had to go. She came to me with nothing but the clothes on her back - she's staying with me now until she can go back,\" Ms Reynolds said.\n\nThe woman lives off her state pension and would not be able to afford the renovation on her own, Ms Reynolds said.\n\nThe project to clear and refurbish the house has been described as a \"team effort\"\n\n\"It's a team effort,\" she said. \"It's not just my doing. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't help.\"\n\nShe added: \"I took her shopping and she had a warm bath. She is safe now.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has unveiled the contents of his Autumn Statement in the House of Commons.\n\nIt sets out the government's tax and spending plans for the year ahead, affecting the take-home pay and household budgets of millions of people, as well as the funding for key public services.\n\nHere is a summary of the main measures.\n\nAre you a small business owner or self-employed with a young family? How will the Autumn Statement affect you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None What the Autumn Statement means for you", "Scotland's only oil refinery could cease operations as soon as 2025 under plans announced by owners Petroineos.\n\nThe company said Grangemouth had been facing significant challenges because of global market pressures.\n\nPetroineos intends to turn the site into a fuels import terminal which would result in the loss of at least 400 jobs.\n\nWork to transform the site is expected to take 18 months.\n\nThe refining business at Grangemouth is owned by Petroineos which is a joint venture between Chinese state-owned PetroChina and London-based Ineos.\n\nAbout 2,000 people are directly employed at Grangemouth including 500 at the refinery, 450 on the Forties pipeline from the North Sea and a further 1,000 in the Ineos petrochemicals business.\n\nSome 100 staff would be needed for the planned import terminal.\n\nPetroineos said the timescale for the transition had \"not yet been determined\", but the work was expected to take about 18 months, so refinery operations were expected to continue until Spring 2025.\n\nThe firm said its new terminal would be able to import petrol, diesel, aviation fuel and kerosene into Scotland.\n\nPetroineos said it was working closely on the project with a \"range of interested parties\", including the Scottish and UK governments, and said it would provide more information in due course.\n\nClimate protesters took action at Grangemouth in July\n\nFranck Demay, chief executive officer at Petroineos Refining, said it was \"business-as-usual\" for the time being.\n\nHe said: \"As the energy transition gathers pace, this is a necessary step in adapting our business to reflect the decline in demand for the type of fuels we produce.\n\n\"As a prudent operator, we must plan accordingly, but the precise timeline for implementing any change has yet to be determined.\n\n\"This is the start of a journey to transform our operation from one that manufactures fuel products, into a business that imports finished fuel products for onward distribution to customers.\"\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said the scale of the job losses could be \"quite significant\" and the Scottish government was ready to work with the business and trade unions.\n\n\"This will be a very worrying time for the workers that are impacted by this,\" he said.\n\nAsked if his government bore some responsibility for the situation, he said oil and gas licensing decisions are made by the UK government.\n\nBut he stressed the importance of a \"just transition\" and \"taking the workers with us on the journey towards a sustainable future\".\n\nMr Yousaf added: \"We're at very early stages. We've just heard the announcement of what could potentially happen in the future.\n\n\"The job of government now is to work closely with the owners, with trade unions, to ensure a sustainable future for our country.\"\n\nOil operations at Grangemouth can be traced back to 1919. The refinery, established in 1924, was one of the first crude oil refineries in the UK.\n\nGrangemouth was run by Innovene until 2005. Ineos - owned by one of Britain's richest men Jim Ratcliffe - bought Innovene in a £5bn takeover.\n\nIn 2019 plans were announced to build a £350m energy plant at the site, as part of a £1bn investments in the UK oil and chemical industries.\n\nTrade union Unite has said it would \"leave no stone unturned\" in its fight to save jobs at Grangemouth.\n\nSharon Graham, the union's general secretary, said: \"This proposal clearly raises concerns for the livelihoods of our members but also poses major questions over energy supply and security going forward.\"\n\nDerek Thomson, the union's Scottish secretary, added: \"Every option must be on the table in order to secure the hundreds of highly skilled jobs based at the Grangemouth complex for the long-term.\"\n\nThe refinery is a primary supplier of aviation fuel for Scotland's airports, and a major supplier of petrol and diesel in central Scotland.\n\nThe 1,700-acre site supplies 70% of the fuel to Scotland's filling stations as well as Northern Ireland and the north of England.\n\nIt also provides power to the Forties oil pipeline, which brings oil and gas ashore from the North Sea.\n\nAccording to Petroineos, the refinery is responsible for 4% of Scotland's GDP and approximately 8% of its manufacturing base.\n\nHowever, economists at the Fraser of Allander Institute dispute this, suggesting a lower GDP figure of around 0.25% to 0.3%.\n\nIn July, climate protestors blocked the entrance to the refinery and climbed on equipment within the site. Police had to use a crane to remove them. 20 people were arrested during the incident.\n\nLast August, Grangemouth staff were among thousands at energy sites across the UK who voted in favour of strike action over pay. And in October 2022 an unofficial walkout was also held by contractors.\n\nThe Grangemouth complex has dominated the night skyline of central Scotland for decades.\n\nWith the ability to handle 150,000 barrels of oil per day, the facility on the Firth of Forth is one of only six refineries remaining in the UK.\n\nIt imports crude oil via the Finnart terminal which opened at Loch Long on the Firth of Clyde in 1951 and also handles North Sea crude transported via the Forties pipeline.\n\nPetroineos itself says Grangemouth is of \"strategic importance\" to Scotland's energy supply and economic development.", "Four bodies were found in an overturned and partially submerged car following a search for four teenagers who had gone missing.\n\n\"The families of the missing men have been informed,\" North Wales Police Supt Owain Llewellyn said at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nHe said the force had received reports of four missing young males from the Shrewsbury area on Monday afternoon.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with them at this desperate time,\" he said.", "Prof Sir Chris Whitty told the inquiry that he would have banned mass gatherings earlier, in hindsight, in March 2020\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty has told the Covid inquiry that the first lockdown in March 2020 was imposed \"a bit too late\".\n\nBut he said the government had \"no good options\" at the time.\n\nPublic health issues - such as loneliness, depression and the risk of aggravating poverty - meant it was important to be cautious, he said.\n\nIt meant there was a risk of going too early as well as going too late.\n\nSir Chris also conceded he would do other things differently, in hindsight, as the coronavirus was just beginning to spread in early March.\n\nIt came after former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said on Monday that he and Sir Chris did not always see eye-to-eye.\n\nBoth men have pointed out debate was helpful - and Sir Chris said, as he had responsibility for public health, it was essential he considered the indirect costs of imposing restrictions on the population.\n\nSir Chris said differences between them were actually \"extremely small\".\n\nHe added: \"My view is, with the benefit of hindsight, we went a bit too late on the first wave.\n\n\"I was probably further towards, 'let's think through the disadvantages here before we act' and also in making sure that in giving my advice, that ministers were aware of both sides of the equation.\n\n\"The biggest impacts of those would be areas of deprivation and those in difficulties, and those living alone and so on,\" Sir Chris said.\n\n\"So, I was very aware that we essentially had two different things we were trying to balance - the risk of going too early, in which case you get all the damages from this with actually fairly minimal impact on the epidemic, and the risk of going too late, in which case you get all the problems of the pandemic running away.\"\n\nAnd he said: \"Even at the height of the pandemic, more people died of causes not Covid than died of Covid.\"\n\n\"Every one of those deaths is tragic on both of those sides.\"\n\nSir Chris also went on to defend not raising the alarm across government in mid-January 2020, despite his deputy, Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, warning that a pandemic was imminent.\n\nIn extracts from his witness statement read to the inquiry, Sir Jonathan said he became \"seriously concerned\" about Covid on 16 January 2020.\n\nThe former deputy chief medical officer said it was clear human-to-human transmission was occurring and \"my view was that this would be a significant pandemic\".\n\nSir Chris told the inquiry that Sir Jonathan was being instinctive - and it would have been quite a \"narrow basis on which to make quite big decisions\".\n\n\"If you consistently go to all of government and say, 'I have no data on this, and I'm a bit worried, but my gut feeling is this is going bad', you don't get very much traction,\" Sir Chris told the inquiry.\n\nBoris Johnson shook hands with England rugby union captain Owen Farrell at a match against Wales at Twickenham, attended by thousands, just two weeks before the first UK lockdown\n\nSir Chris also said the claims by government that they were \"following the science\" became a \"millstone around our necks\".\n\nHe said he never told ministers what to do over things like lockdown timings. Instead, his role and that of others was to advise ministers of the consequences of taking or not taking certain decisions.\n\nHe said ministers had many different things to balance and it was right that democratically-elected politicians took those decisions as there were \"no good choices\".\n\nIn other evidence, Sir Chris was asked if Boris Johnson had a difficulty in reaching clear, consistent positions.\n\nSir Chris replied: \"I think that the way that Mr Johnson took decisions was unique to him.\n\n\"He has quite a distinct style but I think lots of other people have got quite distinct styles.\"\n\nHe said the then-prime minister tended to be most focussed in small groups and came to positions through informal conversations, giving the examples of conversations he had with Mr Johnson ahead of TV press conferences.\n\n\"It allowed him to test out ideas, not in public, which I think he valued and I think helped the decision-making process,\" Sir Chris said.\n\nMass gatherings such as the Cheltenham Festival continued throughout the first three weeks of March 2020\n\nAsked about the first cases of Covid emerging in Wuhan in January 2020, he said that the UK didn't \"consider enough\" the possibility of mandatory quarantine for all travellers arriving from China.\n\nHe suggested closing borders or stopping flights might have been a step too far politically.\n\nBut telling arrivals, even those without symptoms, they would have to isolate at home for 10 or 14 days could have been considered.\n\nAs it was, the UK did not introduce quarantine for travellers from Wuhan until 25 February 2020.\n\nSir Chris said, in reality, this measure would not have made much difference at the time.\n\nGenetic testing showed the vast majority of Covid infections were spread not by Chinese travellers, but by British tourists coming back from half-term holidays in mainland Europe in mid-February.\n\nBut he also said tougher quarantine measures should be an option for the authorities to consider in any future outbreak.\n\nOn banning mass gatherings, Sir Chris said the reasoning for not doing that in February and early March 2020 was there was \"no good evidence\" it would have a material effect on the spread of the virus.\n\nIf you stop people attending football matches, they could just swamp pubs, he indicated.\n\nBut he said in hindsight he would recommend doing things differently because of the message of normality it sent to the public.\n\nDid you lose someone close to you during the pandemic? Have you been following the inquiry? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The manufacturing industry called for the policy to be made permanent\n\nA tax break which allows businesses to deduct the full cost of investing in machinery and equipment from their tax bill has been made permanent.\n\nIn his Autumn Statement, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt called it the \"largest business tax cut in modern British history\", but this was disputed by an economics think tank.\n\nBig business groups praised the policy, which had been due to end in 2026.\n\nIt is hoped it will encourage firms to invest and lead to economic growth.\n\nMr Hunt said the policy - known as \"full expensing\" - would mean that for every £1m a company invests, it would get £250,000 off their tax bill in the same year.\n\nUnder full expensing, companies can deduct the costs of various equipment from their tax bills, including machines from computers to lathes, office equipment such as desks and chairs, as well as vans, tractors, large construction equipment and tools.\n\nMr Hunt said the move - which has been supported by Labour - would cost £11bn per year.\n\nAccording to research by the British Chambers of Commerce, the policy has benefited 34% of businesses since it was temporarily put in place in April.\n\nHowever, the UK's official economic watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), has forecast that business investment could fall in the short term due to firms no longer having to ensure investments were made before the previous 2026 deadline. Ultimately, the OBR estimates the policy will drive business investment up by £3bn a year.\n\nThe OBR has forecast the UK's economy will grow more slowly than previously thought over the next two years due to inflation - the rate prices are increasing - taking longer to fall.\n\nBusinesses are currently having to pay a higher rate of corporation tax, after it rose from 19% to 25% in April. Corporation tax is charged on a company's profits - the amount of money firms make, minus their costs - and is paid to the government by UK businesses with profits over £250,000 and foreign companies with UK offices.\n\nBig profitable construction, engineering and manufacturing businesses will be happy tonight.\n\nThe ability to offset 100% of new equipment and machinery permanently against profits - Labour also says it backs the move - will give the UK one of the most competitive investment environments in the developed world.\n\nPerversely, as the OBR notes, we may actually see business investment go down as there is no incentive to pull investment forward before the current scheme's old expiry date in March 2026. But the OBR says over the next five years, business investment will be £3bn a year higher.\n\nIf you are a small business or a hospitality business you will be grateful of the extra year of business rate discounts and the freeze on alcohol duty till next autumn. It will help sooth the very real concerns they had over the 10% rise in the living wage - more for younger workers.\n\nBut the engine room of the economy is services and here there is less to cheer. Businesses that invest in people and ideas rather than machines and widgets won't benefit from the biggest single tax giveaway in today's statement.\n\nRain Newton-Smith, chief executive of the CBI business lobby group, said the tax break would help firms to \"unleash pent-up investment\", which she argued was \"critical to getting momentum into the economy\".\n\nNeil Carberry, chief executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation industry body, said making full expensing permanent was good news, but only for businesses \"in the sectors that can really benefit from it\".\n\nHe said services firms which make up \"the bulk of the economy - benefit far less\" compared with companies in the manufacturing and construction sectors.\n\nBut Robert Forrester, boss of one of Britain's biggest car dealerships, Vertu Motors, said he did not think making the move was a \"massive thing for most businesses\".\n\n\"For many British businesses, they're just trying to keep going,\" he told the BBC's Today programme prior to the chancellor's speech.\n\n\"They're not investing heavily in plants and machinery, but they're still very valid businesses that employ people and serve customers.\"\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank said there were \"serious trade-offs\" with making full expensing permanent, including creating \"a bias towards investing in qualifying plant and machinery rather than other assets\".\n\n\"The chancellor described the change as 'the biggest business tax cut in modern British history'. It is not,\" said Isaac Delestre, a research economist at the IFS.\n\nOther policy measures affecting business announced by the chancellor included:\n\nTina McKenzie, policy chair at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), said business rates were \"one of the absolute worst taxes faced by small firms\", adding that the chancellor was right to have concentrated on \"helping the smallest firms at the heart of so many communities\".\n\nBut Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium which represents retailers, said the announcements would \"not do enough to support shops, shoppers, and industry that employs over three million people\".\n\nShe said Mr Hunt had \"poured fuel on the fire spreading across our high streets with a tax hike on shops and other businesses\", due to his decision to allow business rates to rise in line with inflation.\n\n\"The country needs wholesale reform of our broken business rates system,\" Ms Dickinson added.\n\nAre you a small business owner or self-employed with a young family? How will the Autumn Statement affect you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:", "Without intervention, the curlew was precited to be extinct in Northern Ireland within a decade\n\nConservationists say there is now \"a flicker of hope\" for one of Northern Ireland's most endangered birds.\n\nIt comes after another bumper breeding season for the curlew.\n\nOnce a common sight in Northern Ireland, the curlew has declined by 82% since 1987.\n\nIn the Antrim Hills, measures including placing electric fencing around the ground-level nesting sites resulted in 55 chicks fledging successfully.\n\nAnd in County Fermanagh, 43 breeding pairs were recorded across the RSPB's Lower Lough Erne nature reserve and other supported lands around the Lough.\n\nThe fall in numbers is due to habitat loss, low breeding productivity and predation.\n\nThere are thought to be just 150 breeding pairs of the bird left in Northern Ireland.\n\nWithout intervention, the species was predicted to be extinct within the decade.\n\nThe RSPB has been working with farmers and landowners as part of the EU-funded four-year-long \"Curlews in Crisis\" project.\n\nEight thousand hectares of land were monitored across the Antrim Hills.\n\nAlmost 40 pairs of curlew were detected with 30 nests built.\n\nThe RSPB's reserve at Lower Lough Erne is now home to the highest density of breeding curlew in Ireland\n\nWith 27 protective electrified fences in place, the birds achieved a 96% hatching success rate - something RSPB NI's Conservation Officer Katie Gibb said she was \"thrilled\" about.\n\n\"With 55 chicks fledging this year and the return of juvenile birds from previous years, there is a flicker of hope for species recovery for Curlew in Northern Ireland,\" she said.\n\n\"Within the first three years of the project, in conjunction with DAERA's Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) group option which supports farmers to help curlew on their land, we have managed to get a total of 152 chicks fledged.\"\n\nThe charity's reserve at Lower Lough Erne is now home to the highest density of breeding curlew in Ireland, with 43 pairs recorded across 200 hectares of lowland wet grassland.\n\nEstate manager Amy Burns said it was \"an amazing achievement\" and a \"big increase\" from the 36 pairs recorded last year.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLionel Messi believes there \"could have been a tragedy\" during the crowd trouble that delayed Argentina's World Cup qualifier against Brazil.\n\nPolice charged at away fans following scuffles before kick-off in a section of the Maracana Stadium that Messi says contained players' friends and family.\n\nArgentina captain Messi and his players went over to try and calm the situation before returning to the dressing room.\n\n\"It was bad because we saw how they were beating people,\" said Messi, 36.\n\n\"The police, as happened in the Libertadores final, were once again repressing the people with night sticks.\n\n\"We went to the locker room because it was the best way to calm everything down, it could have ended in tragedy.\n\n\"You think about the families, the people who are there, who don't know what's going on and we were more concerned about that than playing a match that, at that point, was of secondary importance.\"\n\nThe trouble began when rival fans clashed in a stand behind one of the goals at the stadium in Rio de Janeiro during the national anthems, prompting police to charge at Argentina's supporters, some using batons.\n\nSome supporters ripped out seats and threw them at police in response, while others spilled out onto the pitch to escape the trouble.\n\nThe Argentina players and some members of the Brazil team walked over to try to calm the situation, with Aston Villa's Emiliano Martinez trying to grab a baton out of a police officer's hand.\n\nThe players eventually left the field before returning after police had gathered the Argentina fans into a separate section of the stand and the game was able to begin after 30-minute delay.\n• None Scaloni says he may resign as Argentina manager\n\nThe trouble unfolded a fortnight after scuffles between fans of Brazilian side Fluminense and Argentine club Boca Juniors before the Copa Libertadores final - the South American equivalent of the Champions League final - which was also staged at the Maracana.\n\nBrazil captain Marquinhos, who joined the Argentina players on the pitch calling for calm in the stands, added: \"We were worried about the families, women and children that we were seeing in panic up there in the stands.\n\n\"Down on the pitch it was hard for us to understand what was going on, it was a very scary situation.\"\n\nWorld champions Argentina won 1-0 thanks to a goal from former Manchester City defender Nicolas Otamendi.\n\nNewcastle United midfielder Joelinton was sent off for Brazil, who lost a home World Cup qualifier for the first time.\n\nThe five-time World Cup winners have now lost three successive qualifiers to sit sixth in the South American qualifying table, eight points behind leaders Argentina and in the last spot that guarantees a place at the 2026 finals.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVeteran anti-Islam populist leader Geert Wilders has won a dramatic victory in the Dutch general election, with almost all votes counted.\n\nAfter 25 years in parliament, his Freedom party (PVV) is set to win 37 seats, well ahead of his nearest rival, a left-wing alliance.\n\n\"The PVV can no longer be ignored,\" he said. \"We will govern.\"\n\nHis win has shaken Dutch politics and it will send a shock across Europe too.\n\nBut to fulfil his pledge to be \"prime minister for everyone\", he will have to persuade other parties to join him in a coalition. His target is 76 seats in the 150-seat parliament.\n\nAt a party meeting on Thursday, Mr Wilders, 60, was cheered and toasted by party members in a room crammed with TV cameras.\n\nHe told the BBC that \"of course\" he was willing to negotiate and compromise with other parties to become prime minister.\n\nThe PVV leader won after harnessing widespread frustration about migration, promising \"borders closed\" and putting on hold his promise to ban the Koran.\n\nHe was in combative mood in his victory speech: \"We want to govern and... we will govern. [The seat numbers are] an enormous compliment but an enormous responsibility too.\"\n\nBefore the vote, the three other big parties ruled out taking part in a Wilders-led government because of his far-right policies. But that might change because of the scale of his victory.\n\nThe left-wing alliance under ex-EU commissioner Frans Timmermans has come a distant second with 25 seats, according to a forecast based on 94% of the vote.\n\nHe made clear he would have nothing to do with a Wilders-led government, promising to defend Dutch democracy and rule of law. \"We won't let anyone in the Netherlands go. In the Netherlands everyone is equal,\" he told supporters.\n\nThat leaves third-placed centre-right liberal VVD under new leader Dilan Yesilgöz, and a brand new party formed by whistleblower MP Pieter Omtzigt in fourth - both have congratulated him on the result.\n\nAlthough Ms Yesilgöz doubts Mr Wilders will be able to find the numbers he needs, she says it is up to her party colleagues to decide how to respond. Before the election she insisted she would not serve in a Wilders-led cabinet, but did not rule out working with him if she won.\n\nMr Omtzigt said initially his New Social Contract party would not work with Mr Wilders, but now says they are \"available to turn this trust [of voters] into action\".\n\nDilan Yesilgöz had been tipped as a possible prime minister, but failed to match her poll ratings\n\nA Wilders victory will send shockwaves around Europe, as the Netherlands is one of the founding members of what became the European Union.\n\nNationalist and far-right leaders around Europe praised his achievement. In France, Marine Le Pen said it \"confirms the growing attachment to the defence of national identities\".\n\nMr Wilders wants to hold a \"Nexit\" referendum to leave the EU, although he recognises there is no national mood to do so. He will have a hard time convincing any major prospective coalition partner to sign up to that.\n\nHe tempered his anti-Islam rhetoric in the run-up to the vote, saying there were more pressing issues at the moment and he was prepared to \"put in the fridge\" his policies on banning mosques and Islamic schools.\n\nThe strategy was a success, more than doubling his PVV party's numbers in parliament.\n\nDuring the campaign Mr Wilders took advantage of widespread dissatisfaction with the previous government, which collapsed in a disagreement over asylum rules.\n\nFor political scientist Martin Rosema from the University of Twente, it was one of several gifts that had been handed to Mr Wilders on a plate in a matter of months. Another was that the centre-right liberal leader had opened the door to working with him in coalition.\n\n\"We know, also from international precedent, that radical right-wing parties fare worse when they're excluded,\" he said.\n\nMigration became one of the main themes, and Mr Wilders made clear on Wednesday he intended to tackle a \"tsunami of asylum and immigration\".\n\nLast year net migration into the Netherlands more than doubled beyond 220,000, partly because of refugees fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But the issue has been aggravated by a shortage of some 390,000 homes.\n\nAt the Hague headquarters of Ms Yesilgöz's VVD, supporters had been preparing to raise their glasses at the prospect of the Netherlands' first female prime minister.\n\nVVD supporters had hoped for victory but it was the Freedom party that won\n\nBut there was a collective gasp of disbelief when the exit polls flashed up on the screens and they huddled over their phones trying to understand what went wrong.\n\nMs Yesilgöz took over as centre-right leader when the country's longest-serving prime minister, Mark Rutte, bowed out of politics in July. She came to the Netherlands as a seven-year-old refugee from Turkey but has adopted a hard line on immigration.\n\nSome politicians and Muslim figures have accused her of opening the door to the far right by refusing to rule out working with Geert Wilders.\n\nMs Yesilgöz, 46, had tried to distance herself from the Rutte government in which she was justice minister, but ultimately she was unable to live up to the opinion polls.\n\nRight up to the eve of the election, almost half of the electorate were being described as floating voters. Many of those may well have decided not to back her.\n\nA measure of Mr Wilders' success in winning over voters came from one Muslim voter in The Hague who said: \"If he wasn't so opposed to Muslims, I'd be interested in him.\"\n\nHours before the vote, Mr Wilders was buoyant about his chances, telling the BBC. \"I think it's the first time ever in Holland that in one week we gained 10 seats in the polls.\"\n\nHe was realistic about the uphill task he faced in forming a government led by him, but he said he was a positive person and victory would make it \"difficult for the other parties to ignore us\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "King Charles and Queen Camilla have been hosting the South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife, Kim Keon Hee, at a state banquet in Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe King opened his speech to the assembled 170 guests with some welcoming words in the Korean language.\n\nRead the report from Buckingham Palace how: King Charles deployed K-pop at state banquet", "The parents of Ashley Dale, who was murdered by a gunman who burst into her home and began firing over a feud with her partner, have told a court about the impact her death has had on them.\n\nThe following words are their statements in full.\n\nWarning: Some readers might find the following accounts distressing\n\n03:45 on the 21st August 2022. The day I not only lost my daughter, but my best friend. The night we got that dreaded knock that no parent or family should ever have to get.\n\nTwo police officers stood at my door, an image that will haunt me forever. I remember walking down the stairs, saying to Bobby \"I'm scared\", I know what this means. \"Can we come in?\", they said. Never did I think they would say these words.\n\n\"She's passed away,\" they said.\n\nMy life might as well have ended there too. Those three little words had just turned my lights out forever; time has since stood still.\n\nHow? Why? What's happened? Are you sure it's Ashley? All those questions running round my mind. Our lives had just been turned upside down in the blink of an eye. She can't be, we only spoke a few hours ago and she was fine.\n\nThere's been an incident at Ashley's home. \"She has been shot\" they said. Shaking, I fell to the floor.\n\nMyself and Bobby in total shock and disbelief. Ashley's two younger sisters were sleeping peacefully in their beds upstairs. Then the reality set in, that I was going to have to tell them, their big sister they so adored was no longer here.\n\nThose poor innocent girls, exposed to this horrific act. How can I tell them some evil person has done this to their defenceless sister who was home alone in her place of safety? A place where they regularly spent nights staying over.\n\nSleeping in the bedroom where five shots had been fired, above the bed where they had slept only one week before. The horrific thought came to my mind, that we could have been here dealing with multiple murders. My whole family could have been killed that night. No thought given to who could have been in the house, one intention only: to kill.\n\nAnother sound no mother should hear - the screams of my baby girls when I told them something awful had happened to their big sister, and she had passed away. The inconsolable cries of a seven and 12-year-old, whose lights had also just been switched off.\n\nTerrified something terrible will happen to them, we all spent the next week sleeping in the same bed. The months of sleepless nights, crying out in their sleep, shouting for their sister \"Why? Why? Why?\" or \"Mummy, help me\".\n\nThe ongoing months of therapy needed, to help my now nine-year-old process how or why this has happened. My 12-year-old forced to change school, as she felt unable to return to her old one. In fear of everyone knowing what had happened, not wanting to feel like she was in a 'fish bowl' with all eyes on her. Never to spend another night staying over at their big sister's house being spoilt, or never getting to become aunties, a role that they both so looked forward too.\n\nThat night I had to do the unthinkable. Again something no mum should ever have to do. I identified my beautiful, sweet baby girl in a mortuary, lying there lifeless behind a glass screen. Unable to touch, hold or smell her. My beautiful perfect girl was now a piece of evidence.\n\nThe weeks went by and the unthinkable things continued. Choosing a coffin for my 28-year-old daughter, brochures left behind like I was choosing a piece of furniture, or shopping for an outfit for her to wear, whilst she lay dead alone in a funeral home.\n\nPlanning her funeral, the most unnatural thing a parent should ever have to do. What should have been a private event broadcast on TV for the world to see. Our once private life, now in the public eye for all to see and comment.\n\nHow has this happened? Two weeks before we toasted her promotion over Sunday lunch. Ashley was so excited to start her new role and we were all so so proud of her achievements, seeing her graduate was one of the proudest moments of my life. But now the plans she had for life had been robbed from her, for an utterly senseless crime.\n\nAt 45, I'd lost my daughter, my life has changed forever. I've been forced to leave my job as a midwife, which I have done for the past 20 years. A career I'd worked so hard for, to better mine and Ashley's lives, defeating the odds by going to university and getting a degree after being written off as a young mum. The sense of loss after not being unemployed since the age of 16, and the financial hardship and worry this has brought.\n\nI hate that I won't see her get married, have children and deliver her babies, become Nanny \"Julie\" or grow old together like we always joked about. Often being mistaken for sisters as we were only 16 years apart. Trying to fill that void, as we spoke every day sharing everything. Getting into my car and calling her, even if she never answered, that I will never get used to.\n\nWe don't get to spend another Christmas with her, harassing me to put her tree up. Walking in on Christmas day looking like a supermodel, asking \"When's dinner ready?\" and I look like I've been dragged through a hedge sweating over the stove.\n\nWe should be celebrating her 30th birthday this year, a milestone we all so looked forward to celebrating, and have that trip to New York, like we did for her 18th.\n\nI don't like leaving the house any more, socialising with friends, having my photo taken, going the gym and doing all the things we once enjoyed doing as a family - I am a different mum, friend and partner now.\n\nI don't feel safe in my own home, fearful something terrible will happen to me or my family. My once rational mind is very irrational now. I am scared when a car drives past, or an unexpected visitor knocks at the door. I can't sleep and when I do I wake and the reality of this nightmare hits me and Ashley dies over and over again. I take medication I never imagined myself needing just to get me through the day. Months of counselling to help process this, but what can anyone say or do to make me feel better?\n\nThis past year has been unbearable, the countless visits from police, court visits, meeting with barristers and CPS, thrust into an unknown criminal arena. I have spent the last 15 months, anticipating how or if I would cope during my daughter's murder trial. Having to sit through endless weeks, seeing and hearing the most horrific details of how my perfect girl was left terrified asking for help, dying alone in a cold wet back yard.\n\nHearing how you all made attempts to cover this up with lies to save yourselves, showing no remorse or compassion to me or my family. Some of you even claiming to be heartbroken and devastated, yet still you could not do the right thing. Making a mockery with the answers given as to how and why this act was carried out.\n\nNo act or person deserves to die - but this I will never ever begin to understand or accept how this could have happened to my perfect beautiful girl, who had her whole life ahead of her.\n\nI hope you all understand, that I will never ever forgive you, for the life sentence you have given to me and my family.\n\nPeople speak about justice for Ashley. But in my eyes there will never be justice, the only justice is that this would never have happened. Although I can now rest knowing that you monsters are going to pay for what you have done to me and my family. And that you too have ruined your own lives and your family's lives. I hope my words haunt you all forever and you, James Witham; I hope when you go to sleep at night, you too see my baby girl's face as I do every single night.\n\nFor my Ash, my baby girl, forever 28. I love you. I miss you. Until we meet again, Mum.\n\nOn Saturday 20th August 2022, I went to bed as normal. I didn't realise that when I woke up, my life would never be the same again. In the early hours of the morning on Sunday 21st August 2022, I was awoken by an officer from Merseyside Police who, on confirming who I was, told me my daughter, Ashley Dale, was dead.\n\nI can't even begin to describe how I felt. I'd instantly been confined to a living nightmare. He then proceeded to tell me that Ashley had been shot. I remember shouting \"No\" for a long time at the top of my voice; I couldn't believe it - history had repeated itself.\n\nMy son, Lewis Dunne, had been shot dead seven years previous at only 16 years of age. He was shot at close range in the back with a shotgun in a case of mistaken identity; an innocent victim caught in the middle of a gang feud. It had been a long seven years of pulling myself out of some very dark - and at times, lonely - places, trying to put my life back together.\n\nIn 2022, I was expecting the arrival of my first grandson, and life seemed to be pretty positive again. It had taken a lot to get to where I was after the murder of my son, and I'd instantly been put back to day one by the actions of another. Ashley is the oldest of my three children, Lewis the youngest - both are now deceased.\n\nI want to take this opportunity to talk about Ashley.\n\nI couldn't be any prouder of Ashley. She was a beautiful, intelligent, charismatic, career-driven, and family-orientated young woman. She had been through a lot with the death of her brother, but still managed throughout that ordeal and the subsequent murder trial to concentrate on her studies, graduating with a degree in environmental health. This is a testament to her strength, dedication, and intelligence. She knew what she wanted in life and worked hard to achieve it; she always did.\n\nShe loved her food and when we'd go out for family meals, it was nearly always Ashley's choice, but we were in good hands; Ashley had good taste. Ashley had a very active social life; she was liked by everyone, so getting a timeslot on Ashley's busy schedule could usually be guaranteed by an offer of some nice tapas, or by cooking her a nice meal.\n\nHer favourite was steak, roast potatoes, broccoli, peas, and mushrooms; that was what she would most often ask me to cook, and we would sit, talk, and catch up for hours. I cherished every second that I spent with her.\n\nBecause of the callous and cruel actions of those responsible, I will never be able to have a family meal with Ashley again. Despite this, as we saw on CCTV during the trial, Mr Witham considered it acceptable to take Ashley's life away - take all that from her, me, and all of her family - before spending time dining with his own young son, just two days after murdering her.\n\nAshley loved going to festivals but had started recently speaking to me about wanting to start a family. She knew her current relationship was not one that she wanted to bring a child into, but she just couldn't bring herself to make that permanent break. Ashley never got the chance to be a mum, and her family have been robbed of the chance of meeting Ashley's children, my grandchildren.\n\nAshley had recently been promoted to a higher position in work, which is characteristic of her ambition and dedication; but she never got the chance to take up that position and enjoy the rewards of her hard work.\n\nThe 15th November 2023 marked the eight-year anniversary of Lewis' death; the 16th November 2023 was the seven-year anniversary of the three men responsible being found guilty of his murder. I was sitting in the very same court with my daughters' - Ashley and Yazmin - when those verdicts were read out.\n\nAshley sobbed uncontrollably when the foreman delivered those verdicts; she had to live through the trauma caused not only by Lewis' murder, but by the subsequent trial which those responsible forced upon us all by failing to admit responsibility for what they had done.\n\nI am now sitting with my one remaining child, having been put through the trauma of yet another trial, listening to those verdicts being read out in relation to Ashley's murder. I have lost another child; a victim of big egos running around the city with powerful guns, involved in petty feuds and killing innocent people.\n\nChristmas 2022 should have been a happy time; the first Christmas I would get to share with my first grandson. Instead, it was the darkest place I have ever been to in my life.\n\nI went away for a week before Christmas by myself, just to get away from everything, to try to prepare myself mentally for what I knew would be a difficult time; the first Christmas without not one, but two of my kids. I will never get it out of my head; the fear that Ashley must have felt that night, which would undoubtedly have been exacerbated by the post-traumatic stress disorder that Ashley had suffered since the death of her brother, and the pain she must have gone through after this brutal, savage act was committed against her.\n\nThese thoughts affected me most around Christmas time, when I should have been spending quality time with my children. Instead, from the 23rd to 27th December 2022 I wasn't able to leave my house. I sat in with the curtains and blinds shut, listening to songs Ashley enjoyed; grieving, crying, and contemplating dark thoughts of whether I can live this life anymore; whether I would have the strength to go through the coming years, knowing that I'd have to do so without two of my children. My own post-traumatic stress disorder is a debilitating, lonely, and unbearable mental illness, and it's going to take years of hard work to try to overcome this - again.\n\nIt was the first time in my life that I experienced what it actually felt like when someone can't go on, but I knew I had to for my daughter, my grandson, and my family; I also knew I had to see justice done for Ashley.\n\nFrom day one of the trial, I have not seen one single shred of remorse from any of the defendants; in fact, quite the opposite - I have felt that, throughout the trial, often during breaks in the court procedure, they have all individually behaved very disrespectfully towards myself and other members of Ashley's family.\n\nOn that night in August, these individuals targeted Ashley's car; they targeted Ashley's house; they targeted Ashley - an innocent girl home along on a Saturday night, cuddled up to her beloved dog, Darla - a place where she should have been safe and happy.\n\nThis is as senseless and ruthless as it comes, and I would ask that consideration be given to imposing the maximum sentence possible on these men. Throughout the course of the trial, they have not acknowledged our pain, apologised, or shown any understanding of the impact of what they have done; they are only sorry that they have been caught. From what I've observed throughout the course of this trial, I don't believe this will change any time soon, if ever.\n\nBy failing to admit responsibility, they have forced us to sit through the harrowing ordeal of yet another trial; they have consistently lied to try and avoid being punished for their actions.\n\nThese are clearly dangerous individuals, able and willing to deploy the most dangerous of automatic weapons to settle petty disputes, without any concern at all for those caught up in the crossfire. No family should ever have to go through what we have gone through; these men cannot be allowed to do this to anyone else.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Debate over whether Roman emperor Elagabalus was transgender has split academics\n\nA museum is to relabel its display about a Roman emperor after concluding that he was in fact a trans woman.\n\nNorth Hertfordshire Museum will now refer to emperor Elagabalus with the female pronouns of she and her.\n\nIt comes after classical texts claim the emperor once said \"call me not Lord, for I am a Lady\".\n\nA museum spokesperson said it was \"only polite and respectful to be sensitive to identifying pronouns for people in the past\".\n\nThe museum has one coin of Elagabalus, which is often displayed amongst other LGBTQ+ items in its collection.\n\nIt said it consulted LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall to ensure \"displays, publicity and talks are as up-to-date and inclusive as possible\".\n\nMarcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known as Elagabalus, ruled the Roman empire for just four years from 218AD to his assassination, aged 18, in 222AD.\n\nHe became an increasingly controversial figure over his short reign, developing a reputation for sexual promiscuity.\n\nCassius Dio, a senator and contemporary of Elagabalus, writes in his historical chronicles that the emperor was married five times - four times to women, and once to Hiercoles, a former slave and chariot driver.\n\nIn this final marriage, Dio writes that the emperor \"was bestowed in marriage and was termed wife, mistress and queen\".\n\nNorth Hertfordshire Museum has a coin of Elagabalus in its LGBTQ+ collection\n\nThe debate over Elagabalus's gender identity is long-standing and often splits academics.\n\nDr Shushma Malik, a Cambridge university classics professor, told the BBC: \"The historians we use to try and understand the life of Elagabalus are extremely hostile towards him, and therefore cannot be taken at face value. We don't have any direct evidence from Elagabalus himself of his own words.\n\n\"There are many examples in Roman literature of times where effeminate language and words were used as a way of criticising or weakening a political figure.\n\n\"References to Elagabalus wearing makeup, wigs and removing body hair may have been written in order to undermine the unpopular emperor.\"\n\nDr Malik added that whilst Romans were aware of gender fluidity, and there are examples of pronouns being changed in literature, it \"was usually used in reference to myth and religion, rather than to describe living people\".\n\nHowever, councillor Keith Hoskins, executive member for Enterprise and Arts at North Herts Council, said texts such as Dio's provide evidence \"that Elagabalus most definitely preferred the 'she' pronoun and as such this is something we reflect when discussing her in contemporary times, as we believe is standard practice elsewhere\".\n\n\"We know that Elagabalus identified as a woman and was explicit about which pronouns to use, which shows that pronouns are not a new thing,\" he added.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Hostage deal: A hotly anticipated hostage deal between Hamas and Israel - which includes a four-day pause to fighting - has been left up in the air. Hamas had announced there'd be a four-day pause beginning at 10am on Thursday - but an Israeli source has since told the BBC there's been a setback.\n\nIt came after a security adviser to the Israeli government said there'd be no Israeli hostages released by Hamas before Friday.\n\nCriticism of pause time: Families of those being held in Gaza have said every captive \"needs to come home\", but the UN's Palestinian refugee agency Unrwa said a four-day pause - in which more aid would be allowed to go into the enclave - is simply not enough.\n\nAid crisis: Lorries carrying aid are now queuing up at the Rafah crossing from Egypt into Gaza in anticipation of the pause in hostilities. Earlier, the executive director of Unicef - the UN's agency for children - said Gaza now faces a crisis of \"child wasting\" - a term used to describe the most life-threatening form of malnutrition.\n\nFighting continues: On the ground, Israel has continued its ground and air operation in Gaza - and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to win \"absolute victory\" over Hamas. Meanwhile, Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said Israel is \"slowly but surely\" dismantling the military framework of Hamas.\n\nWhat happens now? Our colleagues on the ground are continuing to gather information about the hostage deal and what its potential delay means.", "May left Top Gear in 2015 after his co-host Jeremy Clarkson punched a producer\n\nFormer Top Gear presenter James May has said the show's format \"needs a rethink\" following the BBC's decision to rest the series.\n\nProduction was paused after host Andrew Flintoff was badly injured in an accident while filming last year.\n\nMay, who hosted the show alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, said a new approach was needed.\n\nMay told the Today Podcast: \"My honest view is - I can say this now - it does need a bit of a rethink.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 4 Today This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It's time for a new format and a new approach to the subject because the subject has not been this interesting, I suspect, since the car has been invented.\"\n\nThe interview aired on Radio 4's Today programme on Wednesday. It will also feature on the Today podcast when it's released on Thursday.\n\nAfter Clarkson was fired from the series for punching a producer in 2015, May and Hammond also left and the trio were immediately hired for a new motoring series, The Grand Tour, on Amazon Prime Video.\n\nSince then, May said Top Gear \"has followed a very similar format and framework to the way we left it\".\n\n\"But, I mean, we're getting quite old and we already do that,\" he continued. \"There's another way. I'm not saying I know what it is, but there must be one. There must be another way of doing a show about cars.\n\n\"I'd be really surprised if it is gone forever... It or something like it.\"\n\nMay, Hammond and Clarkson developed the Top Gear format that lasted for two decades. It relied on the chemistry between its three presenters and saw car reviews combined with celebrity guests and other features.\n\nFreddie Flintoff (right) has presented Top Gear alongside Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris since 2019\n\nSpeaking about Flintoff, May said: \"I've only met Freddie once or twice but it's obviously more serious than we all thought.\"\n\nMay added that he was irritated by suggestions that he, Hammond and Clarkson could return to the series.\n\n\"It did annoy me a bit because there were a lot of people saying, 'They've done that wrong and now you can come back and rescue it'.\n\n\"The bloke's hurt himself very badly in a life-changing way, obviously. And you could perhaps not use it as an opportunity to be partisan. You could perhaps just say, 'Rotten bit of luck, hope you get well soon'.\"\n\nFlintoff recently reached a settlement with the BBC, reportedly worth £9m. The payout will not be funded by the TV licence fee, as BBC Studios is a commercial arm of the broadcaster.\n\nLast month, Flintoff's legal team told the Sun newspaper the former cricketer was still recovering from \"life-altering significant\" injuries.\n\nOn Tuesday the BBC said it had \"decided to rest the UK show\", adding: \"We know resting the show will be disappointing news for fans, but it is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe corporation added it \"remains committed to Freddie, Chris and Paddy who have been at the heart of the show's renaissance since 2019, and we're excited about new projects being developed with each of them\".\n\nSince leaving Top Gear, May has hosted his own travel and cookery programmes for Amazon in addition to The Grand Tour.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Nella has a big following on social media Nella started posting beauty reviews, debates and vlogs to YouTube when she was an 18-year-old sociology student at the University of Leicester. After finding lots of fans she now focuses on Instagram and TikTok and has one million followers on each platform. She was awarded best media personality at the Mobo Awards 2022.\n\nShe was the second person eliminated from the show Nella was the second contestant to be booted off the show after receiving the fewest public votes. She spent 17 days in the jungle.\n\nLast year, Nella was announced as a new host of MTV's Catfish UK. She's also presented from the Brit Awards red carpet and co-hosted BBC Radio 1Xtra podcast Pressed with Mariam Musa and Adeola Patronne before leaving for \"personal reasons\".\n\nShe was born in Belgium Nella, real name Ornella Rose Hollela, moved from Belgium to the UK as a child and grew up in London. Talking about her African heritage, she tweeted: \"I'm so proud to be Congolese.\"\n\nShe has apologised for 'terrible' tweets The influencer said sorry for \"unacceptable\" tweets she posted as a teenager, including posts about black girls and Somali people. \"I used to hate black girls because I used to hate myself,\" she explained in an apology video after the tweets resurfaced in 2020. \"Those tweets were terrible especially to Somalian people.\"\n\nShe lost both her parents She said seeing her dad suffer before he died in 2020 was \"the hardest thing I've ever done in my life\". Nella's said her mum's death in 2016, aged 46, was \"something you don't expect, it just happened. She literally died in my arms\". She said she was later evicted from her mother's council house.\n\nSocial media was divided over her argument with Fred Nella's parents' death came up in the jungle, when First Dates star Fred Sirieix told Nella: \"I'm 51. I'm not 26 anymore am I? I could be your dad\". They had been discussing his bad eyesight, but Nella said the comment made her feel \"disrespected\" and she no longer wanted to talk to him. Viewers took to social media in support of Fred, but others were angry at online abuse directed at Nella.\n\nNella has screamed her way through creepy-crawly and snake-infested bushtucker trials. So far, she has stuck her head in a box with snakes, eaten pizza topped with scorpions and cow anus, and faced electric shocks while crawling through a tunnel. Before coming into the jungle, she said: \"I am scared of everything from red ants, tarantulas to rats or ostriches.\"", "A French pilot has been banned from flying after he decapitated a skydiver with the wing of a plane.\n\nNicolas Galy, 40, was struck in the air moments after jumping from the aircraft in July 2018.\n\nThe pilot, who has not been named, was found guilty on Tuesday of involuntary manslaughter and given a suspended sentence by Montauban criminal court.\n\nThe Midi-Pyrénées Skydiving School Association, which employed the pilot, has been fined €20,000 (£17,400).\n\nHalf of that amount, €10,000 (£8,700), has been suspended, French media report.\n\nAccording to Le Parisien, immediately after the drop, the pilot of the aircraft began its descent towards the aerodrome tarmac.\n\nBefore the skydiver jumped out of the aircraft, there was no consultation on the trajectory the plane would take, the paper said.\n\nCiting a hearing on 19 September, the lawyer for the victim's relatives, Emmanuelle Franck, deplored \"a lot of recklessness or negligence\".\n\nThe president of the court in south-west France also pointed out a lack of communication between the victim and the pilot.\n\nSince the incident, security measures have been strengthened and briefings have become obligatory, the report in Le Parisien added.", "The Israeli military has raided Gaza's main hospital in what it describes as a \"targeted operation against Hamas\".\n\nAn eyewitness at Al-Shifa hospital told the BBC that troops moved in overnight and were interrogating people.\n\nOn Wednesday, Israel said it found Hamas' \"operational centre\" at the hospital, sharing images of what it said were Hamas weapons and equipment.\n\nHamas denies operating there and the BBC cannot independently verify claims by either side.\n\nUN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said he was \"appalled\" by the Israeli raid, while the World Health Organization (WHO) said it was \"extremely worried\" for patients and staff, with whom it had lost contact.\n\nThe BBC has been speaking to a journalist and a doctor inside the hospital to find out what is happening there, while the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has also been providing updates.\n\nKhader, a journalist inside Al-Shifa, told the BBC's Rushdi Abualouf that Israeli troops were in \"complete control\" of the hospital and no shooting was taking place.\n\nHe said six tanks and about 100 commandos entered the complex during the night. The Israeli forces then went room to room, questioning staff and patients.\n\nThe IDF reportedly asked all men aged 16-40 to leave the hospital buildings, except the surgical and emergency departments, and go to the hospital courtyard.\n\nSoldiers fired into the air to force those remaining inside to come out, Khader said.\n\nHowever Muhammad Zaqout, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry's director of hospitals, told Al Jazeera that \"not a single bullet\" had been fired - because \"there are no resistors or detainees\" inside.\n\nEarly on Wednesday, the IDF said its forces were in the midst of a \"precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area\" in the hospital.\n\nIt said the raid was \"based on intelligence information and an operational necessity\", calling for the surrender of \"all Hamas terrorists\" present there.\n\nAs the soldiers entered the hospital complex, they engaged with a number Hamas members and killed them, the IDF said.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the IDF said troops found \"an operational command centre, weapons, and technological assets\" belonging to Hamas inside the MRI building.\n\nIt said it was \"continuing to operate in the hospital complex\", sharing images and videos showing what it said were Hamas weapons.\n\nIn a seven-minute video, IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus pointed to security cameras that he said had been covered over, and weapons that he said were AK47 rifles hidden behind MRI scanners.\n\nThe BBC has not yet been able to verify the video or its location.\n\nBut unless Israel has more to reveal, the military's controversial operation inside the hospital did not net a major arsenal of weapons, reports the BBC's Orla Guerin in Jerusalem.\n\nHamas knew Israel was coming, and therefore, if they were operating beneath the hospital, they would have had weeks to clear out through Gaza's extensive tunnel network, our correspondent adds.\n\nIsrael's Army Radio reported that troops had not yet found any sign of any of the 240 hostages taken by Hamas during the 7 October attack on Israel, when 1,200 other people were killed.\n\nThe raid on Al-Shifa came shortly after the US publicly backed Israeli claims that Hamas had infrastructure underneath the hospital.\n\nHowever Dr Ahmed Mokhallalati, a plastic surgeon at Al-Shifa, told the BBC there were only civilians in the hospital.\n\nHe said there were tunnels under every building in Gaza, including Al-Shifa hospital.\n\nAccording to international humanitarian law, hospitals are specially protected facilities.\n\nThis means that parties to conflicts cannot attack hospitals, or prevent them performing their medical functions. They can lose their protection if they are used by a party to the conflict to commit an \"act harmful to the enemy\".\n\nThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says this could be something like a hospital being used as a base from which to launch an attack, as a shelter for able-bodied fighters, or to shield a military objective from attack.\n\nThe IDF said it had repeatedly warned Hamas its \"continued military use of Al-Shifa jeopardises its protected status\", calling for the evacuation of the hospital before the raid.\n\nThe WHO had warned that evacuating patients would be a \"death sentence\", given that the medical system was collapsing.\n\nDr Mokhallalati told the BBC on Wednesday the hospital was without power, oxygen and water. On Tuesday, surgeries had been carried out without proper anaesthesia, with patients \"screaming in pain\". Doctors were unable to help one patient with burns, and had to just \"let him die\".\n\nBabies trapped inside Al-Shifa hospital, in an image issued by medical staff\n\nDr Mokhallalati said six premature babies had died in recent days.\n\n\"Why can't they be evacuated,\" he said. \"In Afghanistan, they evacuated the cats and dogs.\"\n\nThe IDF said it was providing incubators, baby food and medical supplies.", "Teachers used swearing and poo emojis to criticise vulnerable primary school pupils in a WhatsApp group chat, BBC Scotland News can reveal.\n\nThe existence of the chat between staff at Aberdeenshire schools was first revealed last year but the affected pupils' parents were not informed.\n\nThe messages have now been obtained by the BBC and show derogatory exchanges about pupils and parents.\n\nAberdeenshire Council said nobody was put at risk from the messages.\n\nThe local authority has apologised for the situation and said the incident was dealt with through the council's disciplinary procedure.\n\nAn independent review last year ruled some of the messages were \"disparaging\" but did not put the children at harm and the council was right not to tell parents about them.\n\nBut Nick Hobbs, head of advice and investigations at the Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland, said the council got it wrong.\n\nHe said: \"We repeatedly made clear to the council that the children's rights issues engaged went beyond simply child protection.\n\n\"Of particular concern was the failure to tell the children and their families about the WhatsApp messages, either at the time or subsequently.\n\n\"This decision denied their right to complain, to seek redress, and to receive an apology from the council.\"\n\nIt is understood the independent reviewer into Aberdeenshire Council's handling of the situation did not speak to the commissioner's office during her investigation.\n\nThe WhatsApp messages, some of which date back to 2018, include comments about individual children and their behaviour in the classroom.\n\nIn one exchange about a pupil with additional support needs, a teacher refers to them as a \"complete little\" and then uses a four-letter swear word.\n\nThe teachers then go on to share their concerns about teaching the pupil again.\n\nElsewhere the pupils' parents also come in for criticism from the teachers.\n\nThere is a discussion about individuals' parenting decisions and then exchanges about pupil behaviour and the role of parents in this.\n\nIn a letter to Aberdeenshire Council in 2021, Scotland's children commissioner said the WhatsApp messages contained \"unprofessional, abusive and degrading\" references to children with additional support needs who attended schools in the area.\n\nAt the time of the first complaint about the messages, Aberdeenshire Council decided, after an internal investigation, not to tell the parents as they ruled the exchanges did not give any child protection concerns.\n\nThe council commissioned Mhairi Grant, chairwoman of a child protection committee in a different local authority area, to review its actions last year.\n\nShe concluded: \"The messages at the centre of this review were indiscreet and at some parts disparaging and certainly not what is expected from a professional working with children.\n\n\"However, I do not find that the messages themselves or any commentary therein gave cause for concern that a particular child or children in general had been harmed or were at risk of harm.\"\n\nLaurence Findlay, director of education and children's services at Aberdeenshire Council, said he was sorry the incident happened and that it was both \"unprofessional and unfortunate\".\n\nHe said: \"As soon as the incident came to light, it was dealt with through the council's disciplinary procedure.\n\n\"To parents of pupils at Aberdeenshire schools, it is important you know that the safety of your young people is our top priority.\n\n\"No young people were at placed at risk as a result of these messages being sent. This matter was dealt with appropriately and proportionately.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None Parents will not see teachers' 'disparaging' texts", "Jeremy Hunt will say his Autumn Statement \"rejects\" high spending and high tax\n\nThe chancellor is expected to announce a cut in National Insurance for millions of workers in his Autumn Statement later on Wednesday.\n\nJeremy Hunt's statement will also feature a cut to business taxes and tough new benefit sanctions.\n\nHe will also unveil measures to boost business investment by £20bn a year in moves to \"get Britain growing\".\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says UK tax levels are at their highest since records began 70 years ago.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said nothing Mr Hunt says could change the Conservatives' \"appalling record\" on the economy.\n\nMany Conservative MPs are desperate to see the tax burden eased.\n\nFormer home secretary Dame Priti Patel told the BBC: \"This is a really pivotal moment.\n\n\"Successive Conservative governments are known for targeted tax cuts that basically put more money into people's pockets.\"\n\nAnd yet Dame Priti and hundreds of her colleagues know people's taxes have shot up and plenty think public services haven't improved to match.\n\nThe cost of Covid and the amount paid in interest on the national debt - the highest for decades - is seen by many economists as a key reason for this.\n\nAnd so the Autumn Statement is Rishi Sunak's latest attempt to seize the political agenda and improve the Conservatives' standing in the opinion polls.\n\nMr Hunt's team at the Treasury have done little to dampen speculation about potential tax cuts\n\nSome details of the Autumn Statement have already been revealed, including a 9.8% increase to the minimum wage to £11.44 per hour. The new rate, which comes into force in April, will also be expanded to 21 and 22-year-olds from the first time.\n\nMr Hunt will also set out details of a £2.5bn overhaul of benefits for people with long-term health conditions or disabilities, or those facing long-term unemployment.\n\nThe government has announced plans to make benefit claimants who fail to find work for more than 18 months undertake work experience placement or face losing access to government support.\n\nStricter penalties will also apply to long-term unemployed people who the government decide are not adequately looking for jobs.\n\nDame Clare Moriarty, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said there were people who want to work, but face \"significant barriers in finding work that's right for them\".\n\n\"If you listen to the announcements and the trails we have heard over the last few days, there's been much more emphasis on the stick than the carrot,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"It's much easier to take payments away from people than it is, really, to build that supporting infrastructure that enables people to get into work.\"\n\nFor businesses, it is understood the chancellor is set to extend the tax break knows as \"full expensing\" for businesses through to 2028-29.\n\nThe \"full capital expensing\" policy allows companies to deduct spending on investment from profits, meaning they have to pay lower amounts of corporation tax.\n\nThe tax break was due to expire in 2026.\n\nIt is not currently clear whether Mr Hunt intends to cut the level or the thresholds of National Insurance (NI).\n\nNI is a fixed percentage of the money you earn which is deducted from your wages. NI payments, which were introduced in 1911, contribute to the cost of benefits, the NHS and the state pension.\n\nThe move will make no difference for employees under pension age who earn less than £12,570 a year, as they pay no NI. People over the state pension age, even if they are still working, do not pay NI.\n\nFor employees on between £12,570 and £50,268, the current NI rate is 12% on earnings and 2% on profits above that.\n\nIn April 2022, the NI rate went up to 13.25% to help fund the NHS and social care, but the increase was reversed in November 2022.\n\nMr Hunt will say: \"Conservatives know that a dynamic economy depends less on the decisions and diktats of ministers than on the energy and enterprise of the British people.\n\n\"The Conservatives will reject big government, high spending and high tax because we know that leads to less growth, not more.\"\n\nHe will claim the government \"will back British business with 110 growth measures\" including \"removing planning red tape\", boosting foreign investment and cutting business taxes.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the statement, Labour's Rachel Reeves said: \"The Conservatives have become the party of high tax because they are the party of low growth.\n\n\"After 13 years of economic failure under the Conservatives, working people are worse off.\n\n\"Prices are still rising in the shops, energy bills are up and mortgage payments are higher after the Conservatives crashed the economy.\"\n\nWith a general election expected next year, the dance in advance of the speech has included the usual nods and winks, briefings and interviews - with no shortage of speculation about a huge range of potential tax cuts, which the Treasury has done little to dampen down.\n\nUntil last week, Mr Hunt has downplayed the chances of tax cuts, claiming they were \"virtually impossible\" until inflation was under control.\n\nMinisters now say tax cuts will happen but claim they will be done in a \"responsible\" way.\n\nIn a speech on Monday, the prime minister made repeated references to tax cuts and claimed last Wednesday's drop in inflation appears to have signalled a turning point for the UK's flatlining economy\n\nMr Sunak said the government was now able to cut taxes, after the pace of price rises eased.\n\nHe said his target of halving inflation this year had been met.\n\nBut the new focus - given next-to-no economic growth - is to try to get the economy growing.\n\nHow will the Autumn Statement affect you? What questions would you like answered? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The UK economy will grow much more slowly than expected in the next two years as inflation takes longer to fall, the government's forecaster says.\n\nLiving standards are also not expected to return to pre-pandemic levels until 2027-28, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said.\n\nIt comes as the chancellor announced tax cuts and a rise in benefits in his Autumn Statement.\n\nLabour said people were still paying for \"Tory economic recklessness\".\n\nThe OBR, which is independent from government, publishes two sets of economic forecasts a year, which are used to predict what will happen to government finances.\n\nThese are based on its best guess about what will happen, and are subject to change.\n\nAccording to the watchdog, the UK will grow by 0.6% this year - considerably better than what it expected last autumn, when it predicted the economy would fall into recession and shrink.\n\nHowever, it slashed its growth outlook to 0.7% in 2024 and 1.4% in 2025 - down from a previous forecast of 1.8% and 2.5%.\n\n\"The economy has proved more resilient to the shocks of the pandemic and energy crisis than we anticipated. But inflation has also been more persistent and interest rates higher than [forecast] in March,\" it said.\n\nThe OBR warned that inflation - currently 4.6% - will only fall to 2.8% by the end of 2024, before reaching the Bank of England's 2% target in 2025.\n\nPreviously it forecast inflation would easily beat the target next year.\n\nAnd it said that UK living standards, as measured by households' real disposable income, were expected to be 3.5% lower in 2024-25 than their pre-pandemic level, before returning to normal several years later.\n\nThis drop would be less sharp than previously expected, but still represent \"the largest reduction in real living standards since Office for National Statistics records began in the 1950s\".\n\nThe economy has been struggling with a combination of high inflation, rising interest rates and flagging consumer demand, which is weighing on growth.\n\nIn slightly more pessimistic forecasts put out earlier this month by the Bank of England, the central bank said it expected the UK to see almost no growth at all in 2024 and 2025.\n\nThe Bank has put up interest rates 14 times since December 2021 to tackle soaring price rises, leaving them at 5.25% - a 15-year high - at its last two meetings.\n\nThe idea is this makes borrowing money more expensive, dampening demand and slowing price rises. But higher interest rates also tend to make businesses less likely to invest which can drag on the economy.\n\nAnd while rates for savers have risen, so have mortgage rates, putting pressure on households.\n\nThis has hit property prices, which the OBR said would fall by around 4.7% in 2024.\n\nDelivering his Autumn Statement, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said the UK was growing faster than the eurozone but that productivity needed to improve.\n\nHe said the private sector was more productive in the US, Germany and France because they invested more, but added that his new proposals such as removing planning red tape, helping entrepreneurs raise capital and cutting business taxes would \"help close that gap\".\n\nMr Hunt added that government borrowing and debt - which have risen sharply as interest rates have gone up - would be lower than the OBR previously forecast in both 2024 and 2025.\n\n\"Some of this improvement is from higher tax receipts from a stronger economy, but we also maintain a disciplined approach to public spending,\" he said.", "Climate anxiety is a term that describes distress at the impact of climate change on the planet and human existence\n\nOnline search queries related to \"climate anxiety\" have risen, according to data gathered by Google and shared exclusively with BBC 100 Women.\n\nStudies also suggests that women are more affected by climate anxiety than men.\n\nThe rise of wildfires, floods and droughts around the world are just some of the highly visible signs of climate change.\n\nWhat is reported less is the impact of climate change on human minds.\n\nClimate anxiety - defined as feelings of distress about the impacts of climate change - has been reported globally, particularly among children and young people.\n\nData from Google Trends shows that search queries related to \"climate anxiety\" have increased dramatically.\n\nSearch queries in English around \"climate anxiety\" in the first 10 months of 2023 are 27 times higher than the same period in 2017.\n\nThis year's COP28 in Dubai will also feature several discussions about mental health\n\nThere have been surges related to climate anxiety in other world languages over the same period.\n\nThese are not the languages with the most commonly searched queries around climate anxiety but are just some of the world languages the BBC asked Google to look at.\n\nSearches may be higher among speakers of languages with greater awareness of climate anxiety, or among those who use Google most often and do not necessarily suggest that people in countries with bigger shares of search queries are more prone to experiencing climate anxiety.\n\nThe Google Trends data combines search queries for \"climate anxiety\" and \"eco-anxiety\", terms which are often used in the same way but which have slightly different meanings.\n\nMany of the worst years for Californian wildfires on record have occurred in the last decade\n\nClimate anxiety is anxiety specifically associated with awareness of climate change. Eco-anxiety is a more general anxiety associated with awareness of threats to environmental health, including pollution and loss of biodiversity.\n\nGoogle Trends does not simply measure the total volume of searches but looks at a sample of searches to identify trends around the world. It uses a measure called \"search interest\", to look at the relative popularity of search queries over time.\n\nNordic countries had the biggest share of global search queries related to climate anxiety over the past five years.\n\nIn fact, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway accounted for more than 40% of search queries related to \"climate anxiety\".\n\nGoogle says that its data is adjusted to account for differences in overall search volume, which allows it to compare countries of various population sizes. That's why smaller countries may top the ranking instead of more populated ones.\n\nCountries in the Global South - such as Chile, the Philippines and South Africa - represented smaller shares of search queries. Countries with low search volumes have been excluded from the analysis.\n\nGoogle says it has also noted a global increase in search queries about the future of the planet together with queries about the environment in the last 12 months.\n\n\"When you look at the kind of queries people are searching for, it's evident that they are seeking understanding, but also wanting to take action,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"For example, 'how to solve climate change' was one of the trending queries about climate change worldwide in the last two years.\"\n\nGoogle data shows a rise in queries about the future together with climate change (up 120%), adaptation (up 120%), sustainability (up 40%) and greenhouse gas emissions (up 120%) in the last 12 months.\n\nTrending queries worldwide about climate change include Spanish language searches such as \"cuales son los riesgos del cambio climático?\" or \"what are the risks of climate change?\" (up 150%).\n\nFinland, where these climate demonstrations took place, came top for Google search queries around climate anxiety\n\nGoogle did not release data on the gender of people searching for queries related to \"climate anxiety\" but research has indicated that women are more predisposed to climate anxiety than men.\n\nFindings from a 2023 study published in the academic journal Sustainability, for example, showed that female respondents around the world reported \"greater levels of concern and negative emotions\" about climate change. Male respondents, on the other hand, were \"more optimistic and expressed greater faith in government\".\n\nThe study was based on an online survey of 10,000 people aged 16 to 25 across 10 countries carried out in 2021.\n\nAnalysis of more than 44,000 respondents from the European Social Survey in 2019 also concluded that women registered greater concern about climate change than men.\n\nProfessor Susan Clayton, who co-authored the Sustainability study, has some possible explanations for this. She says that one reason women consistently report higher levels of concern is that they are more open to discussing emotions.\n\n\"Women are in general more willing, and may be able to acknowledge their own emotional response [to climate change]. So they seem to think about their emotions, and they are more willing to talk about them, compared to men in general,\" she says.\n\nBut she also says that some women may worry more about climate change because they are at greater risk than men of experiencing some of the real-life impacts.\n\n\"After an extreme weather event you frequently find increased levels of domestic violence, and when people are involuntarily displaced, due to climate change, that opens women to the threat of sexual violence or trafficking,\" she says.\n\n\"Also, women are often physiologically vulnerable to climate change. So high temperatures and air pollution can have an impact during pregnancy and the ways pregnancy affects a woman's body may make it more difficult for her to escape extreme climate conditions.\"\n\nThere is some research which suggests women are more likely than men to die in climate change-related disasters.\n\nCyclone Sidr in Bangladesh in 2007 caused thousands deaths and left millions homeless\n\nFor example, a study looking at cyclones in Bangladesh between 1983 and 2009 suggested that women had an increased mortality risk compared to the general adult population.\n\nThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says it's likely that humans have contributed to the increased intensity of some cyclones.\n\nProfessor Clayton says that gender-based inequalities mean that some women in poorer countries may lack access to information following a climate change event.\n\nThey are less likely to be able to travel to a place of safety, and may have caring responsibilities that mean they prioritise the safety of others over themselves.\n\nIndirect and longer-term impacts of climate change can also be detrimental to the wellbeing of women and girls.\n\n\"Some studies have shown that girls are married earlier when the family is facing economic pressures associated with the changing conditions of climate change.\n\n\"For example, maybe agriculture is threatened by droughts or floods and so because of their economic constraints families want to marry off their daughters, so they don't have to feed the daughters themselves,\" Professor Clayton adds.\n\nIn 2022, the IPCC reported on the mental health impacts of climate change for the first time. This year's COP28 in Dubai will also feature several discussions about mental health.\n\nJust as the physical impacts of climate change are on the rise, so too is the attention paid to its impacts on the mind.\n\nIn 2023, BBC 100 Women is highlighting women from across the world who have been working to help their communities tackle climate change and mitigate its effects.\n\nWe broadcast from the UN's COP28 in Dubai and from Nairobi, bringing together some of our grassroots pioneers to provide a space to share their thoughts and deeply personal experiences of living life right on the forefront of the climate crisis, amidst a growing sense of climate anxiety.\n\nBBC 100 Women names 100 inspiring and influential women around the world every year. Follow BBC 100 Women on Instagram and Facebook. Join the conversation using #BBC100Women.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee and executive producer Liz Lewin pose with the Best Comedy award\n\nThe third and final series of Derry Girls has won a coveted International Emmy award for comedy.\n\nWinners were announced at a gala ceremony in New York City on Monday night.\n\nThe Channel 4 comedy series won the International Emmy for Comedy alongside Netflix special Vir Das: Landing, which first aired in 2022.\n\nIt follows success at the Royal Television Society Awards, Irish Film and Television Awards and the Baftas.\n\nDerry Girls was first broadcast in 2018 and ran for three seasons before finishing in 2022.\n\nDerry Girls centres on teenager Erin Quinn (centre) and her friends growing up in the city\n\nFollowing the win and referencing the show's previous awards, Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee posted to X saying: \"Collection complete\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Out of Orbit This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Out of Orbit\n\nBased around Derry Girls Erin, Michelle, Clare and Orla, plus \"the wee English fella\" James, the show is about the everyday life of a group of teenagers set against the backdrop of the Troubles.\n\nIt ran for 19 episodes across three seasons. Its final episode aired on 18 May and focused on Northern Ireland preparing to vote on the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.\n\nThe third season saw an average of three million UK viewers tuning in for its seven-episode run.\n\nLisa McGee was awarded the freedom of Derry City and Strabane at a ceremony in December last year for showcasing the city and district in the series.\n\nShe was the first ever female recipient of the council's highest honour.\n\nMayor of Derry Sandra Duffy said the Derry Girls writer has 'boosted civic pride'\n\nFollowing the success of the series for Channel 4, the broadcaster has commissioned a new eight-part TV series from McGee set in Belfast.\n\nThe comedy-thriller How To Get To Heaven From Belfast, according to Channel 4 publicity, will follow three women from Belfast who meet up at the wake of an old friend.", "Stephen Sparkes died in 2006 at the age of 32\n\nFresh evidence has cast doubt on the findings of an inquest into the death of a former patient of discredited neurologist Michael Watt.\n\nStephen Sparkes died in 2006 at the age of 32. In 2010, an inquest found an epilepsy drug he was taking was \"complicit\" in his death.\n\nA coroner said the drug was \"properly prescribed\" but a review last year found Stephen was misdiagnosed.\n\nIt said Stephen should have been taken off the medication before he died.\n\nMichael Watt did not respond to BBC Spotlight questions about the treatment, with a representative citing serious ongoing mental health concerns.\n\nThe former consultant neurologist was struck off the medical register earlier this month following a misconduct tribunal.\n\nThe Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service considered his fitness to practise as \"impaired\".\n\nMichael Watt was removed from the medical register earlier this month\n\nIt said Michael Watt's removal from the register was the only available option to protect the public.\n\nSpotlight has spoken to Stephen Sparkes' parents Norma and Brian Sparkes about the care their son received before his death.\n\nNorma Sparkes said \"no words can describe\" how she felt on finding out her son didn't need a drug which was found to be have been complicit in his death.\n\n\"I feel I have let him down and I felt it for a long time that I wasn't quick enough on the ball to realise what was going on, and if I had have done it sooner, Stephen might have been alive today,\" she said.\n\nStephen Sparkes' medical records were examined by the Royal College of Physicians as part of a review on behalf of the health watchdog, the RQIA.\n\nThe review found brain surgery carried out on Stephen Sparkes at Michael Watt's recommendation was unnecessary.\n\nIt said more tests should have been conducted before the surgery was ordered.\n\nNorma and Brian Sparkes believe the surgery was the beginning of their son's downward spiral.\n\n\"He became a bit more forgetful and he would ring me up and then he wouldn't realise he had already rang me up,\" Norma said.\n\nBrian and Norma Sparkes believe the surgery was the beginning of their son's downward spiral\n\n\"I think the awful thing was there was more medication added, stronger medication, medication that was supposed to help him but in actual fact I think the medication was making him worse.\"\n\nMichael Watt's performance at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital was at the centre of the largest ever patient recall in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Belfast Trust said it recognises the ongoing grief and suffering of Stephen Sparkes' parents.\n\n\"The Belfast Trust has engaged and will continue to engage with any investigations relating to any neurology patient of the Belfast Trust affected by the medical care and treatment provided by Michael Watt,\" it said.\n\nRetired leading neurologist and academic, Prof David Chadwick, who is based in Manchester, has read the case against Michael Watt put forward at the tribunal.\n\nProf Chadwick said: \"It was extremely worrying and if one wanted to look at like a spectrum of practice, it was right off one extreme end.\n\n\"He did represent an ongoing danger to patients he was seeing.\"\n\nBBC Spotlight's Rogue doctor: Patients who died is on BBC One Northern Ireland on Tuesday at 22.40 GMT and is now on the BBC iPlayer.", "Polina Menshikh was giving a performance in a dance hall in occupied Ukraine, according to local reports\n\nRussia has confirmed a Ukrainian strike on a military entertainment event killed a performer - without commenting on reports of troop casualties.\n\nRussian actress Polina Menshikh was performing to troops at a dance hall in an occupied part of Ukraine when it was hit by shelling on Sunday.\n\nUkraine said about 20 Russian soldiers were killed in the strike.\n\nReports in Kyiv said the strike was retaliation for a Russian attack on a Ukrainian military awards ceremony.\n\nThat strike - near the front lines in the southern Zaporizhzhia region - killed 19 soldiers earlier this month.\n\nThe strike on the Russian troop performance was on the village of Kumatove in Donetsk region, in the area of eastern Ukraine occupied by Russia since 2014. Kumachove is about 60km (37 miles) from the front line.\n\nLocal reports said the entertainment event for troops was taking place in a dance hall with seating for about 150 people.\n\nRussian pro-war bloggers criticised the organisation of the show. A performance concentrating dozens of soldiers in one place made it an obvious target for a Ukrainian strike, they wrote.\n\nA video purporting to show the moment of the strike was uploaded to social media. A woman, apparently Ms Menshikh, is seen on stage singing and playing guitar, before an explosion is heard and the hall's lights go out.\n\nMs Menshikh died in hospital of her injuries. Portal, a theatre studio based in St Petersburg associated with Ms Menshikh said an upcoming performance of a play she had previously directed would be dedicated to her memory.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Ukrainian service, a Ukrainian army spokesperson confirmed media reporting of the strike.\n\nOther areas in the Donetsk region have been hotspots of vicious fighting in recent months, particularly the cities of Avdiika and Bakhmut.", "The changing of the guard outside Buckingham Palace had an unexpected change of style on Wednesday - when the military band switched to K-pop.\n\nHonouring the South Korean state visit, the band surprised tourists with a rendition of Gangnam Style by Psy and Ddu-Du, Ddu-Du by Blackpink.\n\nThe K-pop medley was part of the red carpet being rolled out for the South Korean president.\n\nIt follows the state banquet on Tuesday night, when King Charles name-checked K-pop stars such as Blackpink and BTS.", "Video caption: Jeremy Hunt opens Autumn Statement 2023 promising 'work to be done' Jeremy Hunt opens Autumn Statement 2023 promising 'work to be done'\n\nWe're wrapping up our coverage of the Autumn Statement shortly, so here's a summary of today's key developments:\n\nThe chancellor stood up in the House of Commons, announcing a host of measures in what he called an \"Autumn Statement for growth\". The biggest surprise was a cut in the main rate of employee National Insurance from 12% down to 10%, from January.\n\nHe announced that a tax break for businesses - known as \"full expensing\" - would be made permanent, confirmed the minimum wage would rise to £11.44, and froze alcohol duty to August next year.\n\nUniversal credit and other working-age benefits will rise by 6.7% and pensions by 8.5% - both more generous than had been suggested in the run-up to the statement. But there will also be changes to the benefits system bringing tougher sanctions for claimants judged to be not doing enough to find a job.\n\nBut alongside his statement, came the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)'s assessment of his plans - and the wider state of the economy.\n\nIt said the amount of tax being raised is on track to reach its highest level in 70 years by 2028, as well as forecasting that the economy will grow - and inflation will fall - more slowly in the next couple of years than it had previously anticipated.\n\nWhat has the response been?\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Hunt acknowledged people were \"feeling bruised\" by the UK's financial troubles and said the government promised to reduce the tax burden on families when it could.\n\nLabour criticised the plans, saying a 2% national insurance cut would \"not remotely compensate\" for tax rises already put in place by the government, that economic growth had \"hit a dead end\" and that the announcements left working people \"worse off\".\n\nThe Lib Dems said the UK was “suffering from the biggest reduction in living standards since the 1950s” and the Autumn Statement was \"a big deception\".\n\nCharities welcomed the increase in benefits, but raised concerns about the impact of sanctions on the sick and disabled.", "Beijing has removed minarets and domes from some mosques, replacing them with Chinese-style elements\n\nChina is closing, destroying and repurposing mosques, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged in a new report.\n\nThe crackdown is part of a \"systematic effort\" to curb the practice of Islam in China, HRW said.\n\nThere are about 20 million Muslims in China, which is officially atheist but says it allows religious freedom.\n\nObservers, however, say there has been an increased crackdown on organised religion in recent years - with Beijing seeking greater control.\n\nThe BBC contacted China's foreign ministry and ethnic affairs commission for comment in advance of publication of the HRW report.\n\n\"The Chinese government's closure, destruction and repurposing of mosques is part of a systemic effort to curb the practice of Islam in China,\" said Maya Wang, acting China director at Human Rights Watch.\n\nThe report follows mounting evidence of systematic human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in China's north-western Xinjiang region. Beijing denies the accusations of abuse.\n\nMost of China's Muslims live in the country's north-west, which includes Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu and Ningxia.\n\nIn the Muslim-majority village of Liaoqiao in the autonomous region of Ningxia, three of six mosques have been stripped of their domes and minarets, according to HRW. The rest have had their main prayer halls destroyed, it said.\n\nSatellite footage obtained by HRW showed a round dome at a mosque in Liaoqiao village being replaced by a Chinese-style pagoda sometime between October 2018 and January 2020.\n\nAbout 1,300 mosques in Ningxia have been closed or converted since 2020, Hannah Theaker, a scholar on Chinese Muslims, told the BBC. That number represents a third of the total mosques in the region.\n\nUnder China's leader Xi Jinping the Communist Party has sought to align religion with its political ideology and Chinese culture.\n\nIn 2018, the Chinese Communist Party's central committee published a document that referred to the control and consolidation of mosques. It urged state governments to \"demolish more and build fewer, and make efforts to compress the overall number\" of such structures.\n\nThe construction, layout and funding of mosques must be \"strictly monitored\", according to the document.\n\nPeople walk in front of a disused mosque in Xinjiang\n\nSuch repression has been most longstanding and severe in Tibet and Xinjiang, but it has also extended to other areas.\n\nThere are two major Muslim ethnic groups in China. The Huis are descended from Muslims who arrived in China in the 8th Century during the Tang Dynasty. The second group is the Uyghurs, mostly residing in Xinjiang. About two-thirds of the mosques in Xinjiang have been damaged or destroyed since 2017, according to a report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, an independent think-tank.\n\n\"Generally speaking, Ningxia has been a pilot site for implementation of the 'Sinicisation' policy, and hence, both renovations and mergers appear to have begun in Ningxia ahead of other provinces,\" says Dr Theaker, who is co-writing a report on Hui Muslims with David Stroup, an academic specialising in Chinese politics. Dr Theaker lectures at the University of Plymouth while Dr Stroup is with the University of Manchester.\n\n\"Sinicisation\" refers to Mr Xi's efforts to transform religious beliefs to reflect Chinese culture and society.\n\nThe Chinese government claims the consolidation of mosques - which often happens when villagers are relocated or combined - helps reduce the economic burden on Muslims, but some Hui Muslims believe it is part of efforts to redirect their loyalty towards the Party.\n\nSome residents have publicly opposed these \"Sinicisation\" policies, but their resistance has so far been futile. Over the years, many have been jailed or detained after clashing with authorities over the closure or demolition of mosques.\n\nAfter removing external elements from mosques, local governments would then remove facilities essential for religious activities such as ablution halls and preacher's podiums, according to US-based Hui activist Ma Ju.\n\n\"When people stop going [to the mosques, the authorities] would then use that as an excuse to close the mosques,\" he is quoted as saying in the Human Rights Watch report.\n\nAnother video verified by HRW showed an ablution hall in Liujiaguo mosque in southern Ningxia being demolished shortly after the removal of its two minarets and a dome.\n\nThe Party is intervening more in religious matters under Xi Jinping's heavily centralised rule\n\nIn Gansu province, which shares a border with Ningxia, officials have made periodic announcements of mosques being closed down, consolidated and altered.\n\nIn 2018, authorities banned minors under 16 from participating in religious activities or study in Linxia, a city in the province previously known as China's \"Little Mecca\". A 2019 report by a local television station said authorities converted several mosques into \"workspaces\" and \"cultural centres\" after \"painstaking ideological education and guidance work\".\n\nBefore the \"Sinicisation\" campaigns, Hui Muslims have in many ways been receiving support and encouragement from the state, said Dr Theaker.\n\n\"The campaign has radically narrowed the space in which it is possible to be Muslim in China, and thrown the weight of the state behind a very particular vision of patriotism and religious observance.\n\n\"It reflects the profoundly Islamophobic orientation of the state, in that it requires Muslims to demonstrate patriotism above all, and views any sign of 'foreign' influence as a threat,\" she said.\n\nArab and Muslim leaders across the world should be \"asking questions and raising concerns\", said Elaine Pearson, Human Rights Watch's Asia director.\n\nOther ethnic and religious minorities have also been affected by the government's campaign.\n\nFor instance, Beijing has in recent months replaced the use of \"Tibet\" with \"Xizang\" - the region's name in Mandarin - on official diplomatic documents. The authorities have also removed crosses from churches, arrested pastors and pulled Bibles from online stores.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "\"Alice\" was 11 when she was paired with a paedophile on Omegle\n\nWarning: this story contains disturbing details of abuse\n\n\"I feel personal pride that no more children will be added to Omegle's body count,\" says the woman who successfully forced the infamous chat site to shut down.\n\nSpeaking for the first time since the platform was taken offline, \"Alice\" or \"A.M.\" as she's known in court documents, tells the BBC she demanded the website's closure as part of an out-of-court settlement.\n\nAlice (not her real name) says she feels \"validated\" by the \"outpouring of gratitude\", as people have been sharing disturbing stories about the site. She has spent years fighting to get compensation, after being randomly paired with a paedophile who made her his digital sex slave.\n\nAlice launched her ground-breaking lawsuit in 2021 around the time her abuser - a father-of-two called Ryan Fordyce - was sentenced to eight years in prison in Canada.\n\nFordyce had collected 220 images and videos of Alice from the age of 11, carrying out sexual acts under his duress over three years of abuse. He had done the same to five other girls, meeting and grooming three of them on Omegle.\n\n\"He was able to manipulate me immediately, and very quickly I was being forced to do things that a child should not have to do,\" she said during an interview in New York last year for a BBC documentary about Omegle.\n\nThroughout her legal fight, Alice said that she wanted to take the lawsuit to a jury trial where she hoped to get $22m (£15.6m) in compensation. But she now says settling out of court for an undisclosed sum earlier this month was better for her and others.\n\n\"Getting the site shut down was something I couldn't have achieved in court, so I got to tailor the outcome,\" she says.\n\n\"Accomplishing everything we were able to in court and then obtaining this result now - probably years earlier than we could have reached a jury verdict - is something I'll never stop being proud of.\"\n\nOmegle was launched in 2009 by then 18-year-old Leif Brooks. His site gave users a chance to \"talk to strangers\" by pairing people for video chats.\n\nThe platform had around 73 million visitors a month, according to analysts at website watchers Semrush, with most visitors coming from India, the US, the UK, Mexico and Australia.\n\nThere was no age verification and little moderation, so Omegle gained a reputation for being a place for wild and sometimes sexual encounters online.\n\nAfter years of disturbing cases, Mr Brooks added a warning to the homepage that \"predators use this site\" - but no other noticeable changes were made.\n\nOmegle's popularity rose during the pandemic lockdowns in 2020, and was the subject of a BBC investigation which revealed that prepubescent boys were found to be explicitly touching themselves in front of strangers. Further BBC reporting showed users were recorded carrying out sexual acts, with predators using the footage to coerce others into activity.\n\nIn the last two years, the site has been mentioned in more than 50 cases against paedophiles, and calls from child protection charities like the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and the United Nations were ignored.\n\nLeif Brooks created Omegle when he was 18 and was in the Forbes Under-30 list in 2018\n\nOn Friday, a week after Leif Brooks closed his chat service with a lengthy statement, he added a sentence at the bottom: \"I thank A.M. for opening my eyes to the human cost of Omegle.\"\n\nThe acknowledgment with a link to the lawsuit was also part of his settlement agreement with Alice.\n\nDespite the victory, Alice says she will never be able to return to normal life, but she is grateful that \"Omegle doesn't have to be on my mind from sunrise to sunset\".\n\nCyber Correspondent Joe Tidy speaks exclusively with child abuse survivor \"Alice\" and her legal team, as they prepare a case that could have major consequences for social media companies. Then he tracks down Omegle's elusive creator, Leif Brooks.\n\nShe adds: \"I am forever proud to have accomplished what I have.\"\n\nOmegle's legal team tried and failed several times to get the case dismissed. In his statement, Mr Brooks says the shutting down of his chat site is an attack on internet freedom: \"The battle for Omegle has been lost, but the war against the Internet rages on.\"\n\nAlice's case is a legal landmark, as most social media lawsuits in the US are dismissed under a catch-all protection law called Section 230, which exempts companies from being sued for things that users do on their platforms.\n\nAlice's attorneys used a novel angle of attack called a Product Liability lawsuit, arguing that the site was defective in its design.\n\n\"This was the first case where the platform could be held liable for the harm from one user to another and that's largely because of our argument that the product design made the type of harm so foreseeable,\" says attorney Carrie Goldberg, who led the case with co-counsels Naomi Leeds and Barb Long.\n\nProduct Liability cases are a growing trend, with dozens of similar suits launched in the last year against platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat.\n\n\"We're holding Omegle liable for their own product operations,\" says Carrie Goldberg, who led Alice's lawsuit\n\nNo Product Liability case related to a social network has ever made it to a trial, but A.M. versus Omegle came very close, before a settlement was reached.\n\nAlice's case also sets a new precedent in US law, by holding a social platform liable for an incident of child trafficking.\n\n\"As a trafficking venture, we argued, we should not have to prove that Omegle knew ahead of time about this specific predator. Instead, it should be enough that they know and financially benefit from the ubiquity of predation on its platform. The court agreed with our argument,\" Ms Goldberg says.\n\nIn February, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) - which removes child sex abuse content from the internet - told the BBC its analysts deal with around 20 Omegle videos a week. It says it welcomes the end of what it calls a \"dangerous website\".\n\n\"Predators used Omegle to contact children to abuse and we saw offenders discussing the use of the site among themselves, viewing it as a hunting ground. Despite our efforts to reach out to them, Omegle did not take the opportunity to work with us to address these issues,\" says Susie Hargreaves, chief executive of the IWF.\n\nThe BBC has asked Omegle's owner and founder Leif Brooks for a recorded interview many times since 2021, but he has refused.\n\nHe hasn't spoken publicly since around 2016, when he stopped posting on social media.\n\nAs part of the investigation into his website, the BBC visited Mr Brooks at his lakeside home in Florida, from where he ran the website with no other registered staff. He refused to answer any questions, but insisted later in email exchanges that he did pay a third-party company to safeguard his site.\n\nIn his closing statement on the Omegle homepage, he said there was \"a great deal of moderation behind the scenes, including state-of-the-art AI operating in concert with a wonderful team of human moderators\".\n\nPreviously Mr Brooks had said that he has worked with child protection groups and handed over information about predators, leading to successful convictions of child abusers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alice: \"I was consistently being forced to do things that a child should not have to do\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Players try to run for the line without being caught moving by the swivelling doll\n\nMysterious masked guards in pink boiler suits, a singing giant doll and a life-changing sum of money... it can only mean the return of Squid Game.\n\nThe Netflix hit has come back to our screens, but this time with a reality game show spin-off seeing 456 real players battle it out for a $4.56m (£3.66m) prize fund - one of the biggest cash prizes in TV history.\n\nThe gigantic set is the first thing that hits you about Squid Game: The Challenge, before the show kicks off with hundreds of hopefuls in green tracksuits trying to cross a line without being seen to move by a 13.7ft (4.2m) doll furiously swivelling her neck.\n\n\"It felt like it was real - it didn't feel like you were in a fictional place,\" contestant Lorenzo Nobilio, 26, told BBC News.\n\nOnly this time it was radio-controlled exploding dye taking out stumbling players in Red Light, Green Light, and not a fatal bullet on the spot.\n\nDescribing it as the physically hardest game on the show, the London-based Italian said: \"I made it past the line in seven hours, that was a very long time, but it's called Squid Game: The Challenge, it's not an all-inclusive holiday in the Canary Islands.\"\n\nSeven hours? Yes, you heard right. With the stakes high, a team of adjudicators - trained lawyers - had been examining footage frame by frame to spot who needed to be kicked out.\n\nContestant Lorenzo Nobilio, right, said the show felt real\n\nThe show made headlines earlier this year, when people received medical treatment during filming and contestants complained about the cold conditions amid freezing UK weather.\n\n\"It was no worse than many unscripted shows, if you look at Survivor or SAS: Who Dares Wins,\" claimed executive producer Stephen Lambert of Studio Lambert, the production company also behind hit game show The Traitors.\n\n\"When you are giving away a huge prize, it was always clear it was going to be a tough show to take part in.\"\n\nThat huge prize attracted applications from 81,000 people from around the globe, before they were whittled down to 456 seemingly normal people - unlike fellow Netflix reality competition show Physical: 100, which gathered a hundred South Korean competitors at peak fitness, including national athletes and bodybuilders.\n\nSquid Game: The Challenge players - mostly American - ranged from a mother and son duo to the oldest at the age of 69. The ones highlighted in the very long series with interviews are mostly people you can warm to, that's if they're not being suddenly eliminated from the show.\n\n\"We were interested in the games as a test of human nature, so we wanted the widest possible variety of people,\" explained one of the show's other executive producers, John Hay from production company The Garden.\n\nWhen not playing original games from the series like intricately cutting out umbrella-shaped honeycomb wafers with a needle and new games like battleships, contestants were fully immersed in the Squid Game universe.\n\nNo phones, confined to a prison-style dormitory, sleeping on five-bed-high bunk beds, and surviving on rationed food served by those menacing guards.\n\n\"My strategy was if I keep well fed [by hiding second helpings under his duvet], I'll actually be stronger than the others and maybe win,\" Nobilio said, who worked in private equity before joining the show.\n\nThe Big Brother-like living space also provided ample time for alliances to form. And in a new addition, players are also given chances to eliminate others, as part of the producers' aim to create drama and reveal players' characters between games.\n\nBetween games, players were confined to a windowless dormitory, where they slept in bunk beds\n\nBut what about the criticism from some Squid Game fans - who are mostly waiting for the second season of the drama confirmed last year - that a real life version flies in the face of show's message? The drama's creator Hwang Dong-hyuk had previously said the story \"was an allegory or fable about modern capitalist society\".\n\nIn the original drama, Netflix's most watched series, debt-ridden South Korean contestants compete in a series of children's games for a huge cash prize won only by the last surviving player.\n\nExecutive producer Hay points out that this show is flipped so it's driven by opportunity rather than need.\n\n\"We are giving them the most enormous opportunity and it turns out that's as strong as a motivation and story.\"\n\nA point lost on critics, who all flagged the contradiction, but have mostly given the show the thumbs up.\n\nThe Guardian called it the most gripping reality TV since The Traitors, giving it a four-star review. Also giving it four stars, the Radio Times concluded that it was \"more intense than the hit show\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Evening Standard preferred to call it a \"shoddy knock-off\", awarding it just two stars. The i giving it one star called it a \"cynical attempt to regenerate the viewing figures Squid Game earned\".\n\nProducers are waiting to see if it indeed does win over audiences.\n\n\"It's amazing to make something which comes off the back of a show as popular as Squid Game,\" Hay adds. \"That's the ultimate in head starts.\"\n\nSquid Game: The Challenge is available on Netflix from Wednesday 22 November.\n\nThe Dalgona Candy from the original makes a return in Squid Game: The Challenge", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKing Charles used the grandeur of a Buckingham Palace state banquet to throw in some unexpected references to Korean popular culture.\n\nK-pop stars Blackpink and BTS were name-checked by the King as he welcomed South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on the first day of his state visit.\n\nAlthough he admitted he hadn't much of \"what might be called Gangnam Style\".\n\nBut there was no repeat of President Yoon's karaoke-style skills when he visited US President Joe Biden, when the South Korean leader had sung \"American Pie\".\n\nInstead the president said that in his youth he and his friends \"were all fans of the Beatles, Queen and Elton John\". With the assumption that this was a reference to the pop group rather than the monarchy.\n\nState visits are a \"soft power\" mix of pageantry and practical politics and the red-carpet welcome rolled out for South Korea was a sign of respect to an increasingly important ally and trade partner, in a region with growing tensions with China.\n\nPrince William and Catherine were among the royals greeting the South Korean guests\n\nThere was a full turn-out at the state banquet in the Buckingham Palace ballroom, with the South Korean guests greeted by the King, Queen, Prince and Princess of Wales and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nSouth Korea's most famous son, Son Heung-min, the Spurs footballer, wasn't there, but K-pop girl band Blackpink were among the guests.\n\nLord Cameron, returning to front-line politics as foreign secretary, was sitting a couple of places from Princess Anne.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer and Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey were among the guests, facing elaborate table settings with six different wine glasses and a line-up of silver-gilt cutlery.\n\nThe menu, written in French, included poached eggs, pheasant and a mango ice cream bombe.\n\nK-pop girl band Blackpink were guests at the state banquet in Buckingham Palace\n\nThese are opulent occasions, with diplomacy fuelled by fine dining, using a 19th-Century dinner service with more than 4,000 pieces.\n\nThe table settings are as precise and symmetrical as the military parade that greeted the president - each guest getting a place setting of 46cm.\n\nEach guest had a nameplate on their place, which probably got smuggled out in a few pockets later as souvenirs, even with the Archbishop of Canterbury in the room.\n\nBut for some there were just their titles, like for the prime minister and foreign secretary.\n\nAs the King is a big fan of recycling, at least if the people keep changing the cardboard nameplates can stay the same.\n\nEarlier in the day the South Korean delegation had been given a ceremonial welcome at Horse Guards Parade, before the president and his wife took part in a carriage procession along the Mall.\n\nMore than 1,000 soldiers were on parade, with gun salutes in the autumn leaves in Green Park.\n\nThe Princess of Wales had been wearing a dramatic shade of front-page red.\n\nThe \"soft power\" of a state visit saw an important ally given a red carpet welcome in London\n\nBut alongside the ceremonial events, such state visits have a serious diplomatic and economic purpose.\n\nThe King's banquet speech spoke of South Korea's strategic role as a \"bastion of democracy, human rights and freedom\", but warned that \"these values are challenged, sadly, as rarely before in our lifetimes\".\n\nThe jingle of the cavalry harnesses on the Mall is also inextricably linked to the jingle of cash tills, with trade deals to be negotiated.\n\nA \"Downing Street Accord\" is to be signed at a meeting between the South Korean president and Rishi Sunak on Wednesday, which is intended to boost trade and support \"global stability\".\n\nHigh technology and green energy will be among the areas of business co-operation.\n\nThere are plans for a stronger approach to enforcing sanctions against North Korea, and preventing its \"illegal weapons programme\", with joint sea patrols between the South Korean navy and the Royal Navy.\n\n\"Long term, global partnerships are vital to our prosperity and security,\" said Mr Sunak, who added that \"close ties have already propelled £21bn of investment between our countries\".\n\nYou can see more royal stories in the free BBC Royal Watch newsletter emailed each week - sign up here from within the UK. or here, from outside the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn another sign of the King's K-pop diplomacy, members of South Korean girl group Blackpink have been presented with honorary MBEs.\n\nIt comes during the state visit by South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol, in which the King had praised the global reach of Korean pop culture.\n\nBlackpink were name-checked by the King for supporting environmental causes.\n\n\"I can only admire how they can prioritise these vital issues, as well as being global superstars,\" he said.\n\nThe members of Blackpink were presented with MBEs at Buckingham Palace\n\nThe MBEs recognised how the girl group acted as ambassadors for the COP climate change summit and have been advocates for the UN's sustainable development goals, helping to bring the environmental message to \"millions of young people\".\n\nThere was a special investiture this morning in the 1844 room in Buckingham Palace, often used for the most distinguished guests.\n\nIt was another reflection of the red carpet being rolled out during this South Korean state visit, with the diplomatic courtship reflecting the increasing importance of this strategic ally and economic partner.\n\nThe members of Blackpink - Roseanne Park, Jennie Kim, Jisoo Kim and Lalisa Manoban - are now honorary members of the Order of the British Empire and were guests at the state banquet in Buckingham Palace on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe 'soft power' of a state visit saw an important ally given a red carpet welcome in London\n\nThe King's speech had highlighted the global reach of South Korean popular culture and its \"remarkable ability to captivate imaginations\".\n\nWhile the King admitted to a personal lack of \"what might be called Gangnam Style\", the military band for the changing of the guard put that right on Wednesday morning, by playing the song in a surprise change of musical direction.\n\nTourists gathered outside Buckingham Palace to watch the changing of the guard had heard an unexpected medley of K-pop songs, rather than marching tunes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The music switched to 'Gangnam Style' for the changing of the guard outside Buckingham Palace\n\nThere had been a full ceremonial welcome for South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday - greeted by the King, Queen Camilla and the Prince and Princess of Wales, before taking part in a carriage procession along the Mall.\n\nThe president was given the grand spectacle of a state banquet, held in the Buckingham Palace ballroom, with 170 guests including the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron as well as the Royal Family and South Korean dignitaries.\n\nState visits are a \"soft power\" mix of serious diplomacy as well as pageantry - and the focus of the South Korean visit has been on boosting trade links and military partnerships.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, South Korea's President Yoon met Mr Sunak to sign a \"Downing Street Accord\", with plans for a trade deal and co-operation in science, technology and green energy.\n\nA defence agreement would build a stronger approach to enforcing sanctions against North Korea and preventing its \"illegal weapons programme\", with joint sea patrols between the South Korean Navy and the UK's Royal Navy.\n\nIn the evening President Yoon will attend a banquet in the Guildhall in the City of London, which will emphasise growing business links, with £21bn of investments by South Korean firms in the UK.\n\nThe Lord Mayor of the City of London, Michael Mainelli, is expected to speak of the increasing importance of South Korean technology firms operating in the UK.\n\nHe will also reference Korean popular culture to show the economic impact. \"Like a K-pop single, Korea is climbing up the charts,\" the mayor will say.\n\nYou can see more royal stories in the free BBC Royal Watch newsletter emailed each week - sign up here from within the UK. or here, from outside the UK.", "Last updated on .From the section European Championship\n\nWales will have to navigate the play-offs in March to reach Euro 2024 after missing out on automatic qualification following a fiery draw at home to Turkey.\n\nWales needed to beat Group D winners Turkey and hope Croatia dropped points at home to Armenia and, for much of Tuesday night, it seemed like Robert Page's side would fulfil their part of that equation as Neco Williams fired them in front in the seventh minute.\n\nBut Croatia's victory over Armenia meant even a Welsh win would not have been enough and, to make matters worse, Turkey equalised midway through the second half thanks to a controversial penalty scored by Yusuf Yazici.\n\nReferee Matej Jug's decision to award the spot-kick was harsh on Wales captain Ben Davies, who barely touched Kenan Yildiz, and the hosts' sense of injustice was particularly intense because of the referee's rejection of three Welsh appeals for penalties in the first half.\n• None The night's action and reaction from Cardiff City Stadium\n\nThat anger was replaced by a deflating feeling of anti-climax at the final whistle but, as disappointing as this evening was for Wales, the greatest regret of this campaign for Page and his players will be the two matches against Armenia.\n\nMost damaging was June's capitulation in Cardiff, a 4-2 defeat which left Wales' hopes of qualifying automatically in ruins. Although they revived those hopes by brilliantly beating Croatia in October to leave their destiny in their own hands, Wales threw away that opportunity by drawing 1-1 in Yerevan last Saturday.\n\nThat left them needing a favour from Armenia on Tuesday but, with Croatia in no mood to be charitable in Zagreb, any notion of a dramatic turnaround in Wales' favour disappeared.\n\nAs much as those results against Armenia may eat away at Wales, they can at least console themselves with the knowledge that they have a second shot at qualification.\n\nOn 21 March, Wales will host either Ukraine, Finland or Iceland in a one-legged play-off semi-final. If they are successful, they will face Poland or Estonia - with home advantage to be decided via a draw this Thursday - in another one-off tie five days later, with the winner securing their place at next summer's tournament in Germany.\n\nWelsh football has enjoyed some special nights at Cardiff City Stadium in recent years, with a fervent crowd helping its team over the line in several decisive matches.\n\nAnd while this group of players could draw inspiration from previous triumphs - Belgium in 2015, Hungary in 2019, Austria and Ukraine in 2022 and Croatia just last month - the difference this time was that Wales were not in sole control of their own fate.\n\nWhereas those landmark victories were all that Wales needed at those precise moments in time, a win on this occasion would only be half the battle.\n\nPage's men needed to overcome already-qualified Turkey - in itself no mean feat - while also requiring Croatia, World Cup semi-finalists less than a year ago and runners-up in 2018, to drop points at home to Armenia, 85 places below them in the world rankings.\n\nPut simply, for Wales this was a long shot. In fact, you could have argued they needed a miracle.\n\nThey made the perfect start to their onerous task, with Harry Wilson spreading the play out to the left wing, where Williams cut inside on to his right foot and stroked a calm finish into the bottom far corner.\n\nThe celebrations among Wales' players, staff on the touchline and fans in the stands were proof that they believed they could pull this off, however improbable the odds.\n\nWales kept attacking too, streaming forward and silencing the boisterous travelling Turkish fans.\n\nThe hosts had three penalty appeals rejected, one as Wilson fell under a challenge from Abdulkerim Bardakci and two in quick succession as Brennan Johnson was brought down by Samet Akaydin.\n\nThe last of those was Wales' strongest shout, with Akaydin barging into Johnson's back at a corner, but Slovenian referee Jug somewhat bafflingly chose not to point to the spot.\n\nHaving weathered that pressure, Turkey had a decent spell of their own as Kerem Akturkoglu shot over from close range - but Wales were still the better side.\n\nAs well as things were going in Cardiff, however, Wales still needed a favour in Zagreb. Armenia kept their side of the bargain until the 43rd minute when they fell behind to a goal by Croatia's Ante Budimir.\n\nIf Wales had allowed themselves to dream, Budimir's goal was a brutal reality check.\n\nTurkey then twisted the knife when they were given the softest of penalties, as Wales captain Davies brushed against Yildiz, who threw himself to the ground.\n\nYazici calmly sent Danny Ward the wrong way with his low penalty and, buoyed by their equaliser, Turkey were close to taking the lead when Yusuf Sari's long-range shot brushed the bar.\n\nRoared on by their furious supporters, Wales rallied and put Turkey under pressure late on, gamely pushing for a winner even though Croatia's 1-0 win over Armenia ultimately meant their efforts were in vain.\n\nThis was a frustrating end to the campaign for Wales but they will be back at Cardiff City Stadium in March, knowing that they will be two wins away from qualifying for Euro 2024.\n• None Attempt missed. Jordan James (Wales) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Daniel James with a cross.\n• None Offside, Wales. David Brooks tries a through ball, but Brennan Johnson is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Investigating the case of a Welsh murder stranger than fiction", "OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman will return as boss just days after he was fired by the board, the firm has said.\n\nThe agreement \"in principle\" involves new board members being appointed, the tech company added.\n\nMr Altman's sacking on Friday astonished industry watchers and led to staff threatening mass resignations unless he was reinstated.\n\n\"I am looking forward to returning to OpenAI,\" Mr Altman said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.\n\nHe added: \"I love OpenAI, and everything I've done over the past few days has been in service of keeping this team and its mission together.\n\nLast week, the board decided to remove Mr Altman, which led to co-founder Greg Brockman's resignation, sending the star artificial intelligence (AI) company into chaos.\n\nThe decision was made by the three non-employee board members, Adam D'Angelo, Tasha McCauley and Helen Toner, and a third co-founder and the firm's chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.\n\nBut on Monday Mr Sutskever apologised on X, and signed the staff letter calling on the board to reverse course.\n\nMicrosoft, which uses OpenAI technology in many of its products - and is its biggest investor - then offered Mr Altman a job leading \"a new advanced AI research team\" at the tech giant.\n\nThen on Wednesday, OpenAI said it had agreed Mr Altman's return to the tech company in principle, and that it would partly reconstitute the board of directors that had dismissed him.\n\nFormer Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and former US treasury secretary Larry Summers will join current director Adam D'Angelo, OpenAI said.\n\nIn a post on X, Mr Brockman also said he would be returning to the firm.\n\nEmmett Shear, who had been appointed OpenAI's interim chief executive, said he was \"deeply pleased\" by Mr Altman's return after about \"72 very intense hours of work\".\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said the firm was \"encouraged by the changes to the OpenAI board\".\n\n\"We believe this is a first essential step on a path to more stable, well-informed, and effective governance.\"\n\nMany staff, posting online, have been enthusiastic about the development: \"We're back - and we'll be better than ever\", wrote employee Cory Decareaux on Linkedin.\n\n\"This has been the craziest past few days - crazier than I ever could've imagined. This is an example of what a united company culture looks like.\"\n\nOthers, though, suggest the episode has been damaging to OpenAI which - by creating the chatbot ChatGPT - became arguably the most important AI firm in the world.\n\n\"OpenAI can't be the same company it was up until Friday night. That has implications not only for potential investors but also for recruitment\", Nick Patience of S&P Global Market Intelligence told the BBC.\n\nMany businesses and projects now rely on OpenAI's technology.\n\nOne project, Be My Eyes, worked with the firm to develop an AI-powered assistant for blind and partially-sighted people.\n\nIts chief executive Michael Buckley wrote on LinkedIn that he had been \"bombarded by sales calls from rival [AI] companies seeking some opportunistic business wins\" but he said they would be sticking with OpenAI because,\"they prioritized accessibility\" even though it was \"close to meaningless for them from a revenue perspective\".\n\nThe battle at the top of OpenAI began when the then board announced it was firing Mr Altman, saying it had \"lost confidence\" in his leadership.\n\nIt accused him of not being \"consistently candid in his communications\" - and, even after the many twists and turns since Friday, it remains unclear what they felt he was not being candid about.\n\nWhatever the explanation, it was clear that OpenAI staff were deeply unhappy - more-than-700 of them signed an open letter threatening to leave unless the board resigned.\n\nThe letter stated that Microsoft had assured them that there were jobs for all OpenAI staff if they wanted to join the company, with Microsoft later confirming it would match their existing pay.\n\nThat threat now appears to have been seen off by Mr Altman's dramatic return.\n\nBut the upheaval of the past few days has raised questions about how a group of just four people could make decisions that have rocked a multi-billion dollar technology business.\n\nIn part this is because of OpenAI's unusual structure and purpose.\n\nIt began life in 2015 as a non-profit - many charities have that status - with the mission to create \"safe artificial general intelligence that benefits all of humanity\". Its objectives did not include looking after the interests of shareholders or maximising revenue.\n\nIn 2019 it added a for-profit subsidiary but its purpose remained unchanged and the not-for-profit's board remained in charge.\n\nIt's not clear whether tensions over the future direction of OpenAI contributed to this crisis or what commitments - if any - Mr Altman made to secure his return.\n\nBut many observers have called for greater clarity, with Tesla boss Elon Musk among those who have urged the board members to \"say something\".\n\nBut that has yet to happen. Reacting on X to the news of the reinstatement and new board, Ms Toner said no more than \"and now, we all get some sleep\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC's flagship car show Top Gear will not return \"for the foreseeable future\" after presenter Andrew \"Freddie\" Flintoff was hurt in a crash while filming last year.\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said it has \"decided to rest the UK show\".\n\nThe presenter was injured in December at Top Gear's test track at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey.\n\nThe 34th series was subsequently halted and the BBC apologised to the former England cricketer.\n\nThe BBC added it \"remains committed to Freddie, Chris and Paddy who have been at the heart of the show's renaissance since 2019, and we're excited about new projects being developed with each of them. We will have more to say in the near future on this.\n\n\"We know resting the show will be disappointing news for fans, but it is the right thing to do.\n\n\"All other Top Gear activity remains unaffected by this hiatus including international formats, digital, magazines and licensing.\"\n\nFlintoff recently reached a settlement with the BBC, reportedly worth £9m. The payout will not be funded by the TV licence fee, as BBC Studios is a commercial arm of the broadcaster.\n\nLast month, his legal team told the Sun newspaper that the former cricketer was still recovering from \"life-altering significant\" injuries.\n\nAndrew \"Freddie\" Flintoff was pictured in public for the first time since his accident when he led fielding drills with the England cricket team last month\n\nThe BBC apologised to Flintoff in March over his injuries, as it announced a health and safety review of the show. It was expected to be undertaken by an independent third party.\n\nIt reiterated that apology last month when the compensation to Flintoff was announced.\n\nBBC Studios said the external investigation report \"was concluded in March of this year and is not being published, which we have always made clear\".\n\nIn a statement on a separate health and safety review, which did not cover Flintoff's accident, BBC Studios said: \"The independent Health and Safety production review of Top Gear, which looked at previous seasons, found that while BBC Studios had complied with the required BBC policies and industry best practice in making the show, there were important learnings which would need to be rigorously applied to future Top Gear UK productions.\"\n\n\"The report includes a number of recommendations to improve approaches to safety as Top Gear is a complex programme-making environment routinely navigating tight filming schedules and ambitious editorial expectations - challenges often experienced by long-running shows with an established on and off screen team.\n\n\"Learnings included a detailed action plan involving changes in the ways of working, such as increased clarity on roles and responsibilities and better communication between teams for any future Top Gear production.\"\n\nFlintoff was pictured for the first time since the accident in September, as he led fielding drills with England players in Cardiff ahead of the team's one-day international with New Zealand. Scars were visible on his face and he had tape on his nose.\n\nThe 45-year-old former England captain retired from cricket in 2009 having played 79 Tests, 141 one-day internationals and seven T20s.\n\nHe joined BBC One's Top Gear as a host in 2019 alongside Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris. Their most recent series attracted an average audience of 4.5 million viewers.", "Four high school students accused of beating a classmate to death in Las Vegas have been formally charged with second-degree murder.\n\nJonathan Lewis Jr, 17, died after a fight in an alleyway near his school, where as many as 10 of his classmates swarmed him.\n\nPolice said nine students in total have been arrested so far.\n\nThe first four to be charged are under 18 but will be tried as adults under Nevada law.\n\nDontral Beaver, 16, Damien Hernandez, 17, Treavion Randolph, 16, and Gianni Robinson, 17, appeared in court on Tuesday where the charges were read.\n\nAll are being held in jail.\n\nThe fight, which was caught on a video shared to social media, took place near Rancho High School on 1 November. Police said the brawl broke out over a set of headphones and a vape pen that was stolen from the victim or his friends.\n\nLas Vegas Metropolitan Police's homicide lieutenant Jason Johansson declined to show the video to the press, saying it was \"very graphic\" and \"devoid of humanity\".\n\nHe said the video showed Jonathan taking off his shirt to prepare for the fight before he was immediately swarmed by 10 students.\n\nMr Johnson said the video shows the teens \"kicking, punching and stomping\" on the victim after he is pulled to the ground.\n\nThe victim was left unconscious and was found by a member of the public who brought him back to school. He was later taken to hospital after school staff attempted CPR on him.\n\nThe teenager died six days later after suffering \"non-survivable head trauma\", police said. A post-mortem examination determined his death a homicide by blunt-force trauma.\n\nPolice said they have arrested nine students, who are aged 13 to 17, and are still working to identify all those who were involved.\n\nThose who have not yet been charged are awaiting separate court hearings because they are all under the age of 16.\n\nClark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson told reporters on Tuesday that his office chose to charge the teens with second-degree murder instead of first-degree murder because the evidence indicated the beating was not premeditated.\n\nRobert Draskovich, a lawyer for one of the students charged, said he believed the videos of the fight were \"incomplete\".\n\n\"I'll be going through all the videos with my investigator to see what really happened,\" Mr Draskovich told reporters.\n\nUnder Nevada law, the accused face 10 years to life in jail.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA speeding car crashed and exploded in a deadly fireball on a US-Canada border bridge, triggering a major security scare on the eve of Thanksgiving.\n\nTwo people in the vehicle died, and a US border agent was injured, but New York's governor ruled out terrorism.\n\nThe car was being driven from the New York side of the border to Rainbow Bridge when it crashed at a checkpoint.\n\nThe incident near Niagara Falls saw the closure of four bridges on the world's longest international border.\n\nThe explosion happened at around 11:30 local time (16:30 GMT) on Wednesday, causing serious disruption on one of the busiest travel days of the year, the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday in the US.\n\nTrain services between New York and Canada were temporarily halted and officers at Buffalo and Niagara Falls airports went into a heightened state of alert screening cars for explosives.\n\nThe incident stoked fears of a possible terror attack, and baseless speculation swirled online about a supposed threat to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.\n\nBoth US President Joe Biden, who is in Massachusetts for Thanksgiving, and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau were quickly briefed on the incident.\n\nMr Trudeau excused himself from Question Period in the House of Commons, and said his government was taking the incident \"extraordinarily seriously\".\n\nAs a precaution, officials used trucks to block the Canadian entrance to Rainbow Bridge, which links Ontario with New York and the US city of Niagara Falls with Niagara Falls, Canada.\n\nSeveral hours after the blast, there was relief when New York Governor Kathy Hochul told reporters: \"Based on what we know at this moment, there is no sign of terrorist activity with respect to this crash.\"\n\nShe added that one of the people who died was a \"local\" from the western New York region.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe two who died were a married couple - the husband was driving and his wife was the passenger, US law enforcement officials said.\n\nAccording to CNN, the motorist was driving a 2022 Bentley and had just been to a US casino after a concert by hard rock band Kiss that he was initially going to attend in Canada had been cancelled.\n\nThe car travelled at a \"very high rate of speed\", the governor said, hurtling over an 8ft (2.4m) fence, though it was unclear if the crash was deliberate.\n\nThe vehicle had been \"incinerated\" and nothing was left but the engine, she said. Not even a registration plate was recovered.\n\nGovernor Hochul said video of the crash was \"surreal\" and looked almost like it \"was generated by AI\".\n\nThe person who sustained non-life threatening injuries in the crash is a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer, she added.\n\nThe governor noted it was fortunate that more people were not hurt at the busy crossing \"when you look at the scale of the scene, how far the pieces of this vehicle exploded and scattered\".\n\nRainbow Bridge remained closed on Wednesday night, but three other US-Canada crossings - the Peace Bridge, Lewiston-Queenston Bridge and Whirlpool Bridge - had reopened to the public.\n\nToronto resident and eyewitness Dor Tamang told BBC News he was on the second floor of a CBP building when the blast occurred.\n\nMr Tamang said he felt the ground shake inside the building.\n\nAnother eyewitness told the BBC: \"We just saw this car going up in flames.\" He said the blast felt like a \"mini-earthquake\".\n\nAaron Beatty, from Cleveland, Ohio, said he crossed into Canada to see Niagara Falls on Wednesday morning.\n\n\"I said, 'oh, I'll just cross over to the Canadian side for a quick hour to see the other side and walk back,\" Mr Beatty told the BBC.\n\nBut as he was heading back into the US, a border agent told him to go back to Canada.\n\n\"That one hour turned into almost eight hours now,\" Mr Beatty said.", "Scotland's first minister has urged the UK government to recognise a Palestinian state.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Humza Yousaf said the move would help to end the \"political impasse\" in the Middle East.\n\nIt came as MSPs backed his motion to the Scottish Parliament by 90 votes to 28 to call for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict.\n\nThe motion won the support of all parties except the Conservatives.\n\nThey called for \"humanitarian pauses\" instead. That is the position taken by the UK government and the UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer - though Scottish Labour want a ceasefire.\n\nAhead of the debate, Mr Yousaf wrote a letter to Mr Sunak urging him to recognise a Palestinian state within the borders set out in 1967.\n\nA similar letter was also sent to Sir Keir, urging him to back the calls.\n\nThe first minister said the move would help to end the \"political impasse that has condemned Israelis and the Palestinians to successive cycles of violence\".\n\nMr Yousaf, whose parents-in-law recently escaped Gaza, told MSPs: \"It's only with full recognition of Palestine as a state in its own right that we can truly move forward towards a two-state solution.\"\n\nThe UK government previously said it would only recognise a Palestinian state at the \"right time\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"As the prime minister has said, we continue to support a just solution to the conflict for both sides and remain committed to a two-state solution that protects the peace and security of both Israelis and Palestinians, with the West Bank and Gaza part of a viable and sovereign Palestinian state.\"\n\nWhile 138 UN members, including nine in the EU, recognise a Palestinian state, the United States and most large European countries do not.\n\nHowever, Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez said last week that his government would seek to recognise Palestinian statehood.\n\nGaza authorities say 13,300 people, including more than 5,000 children, have been killed since a cross-border Hamas attack on October 7\n\nThe SNP motion said the parliament condemned the\"barbaric and unjustifiable terrorist attacks\" by Hamas on 7 October and the killing of civilians, including women and children, in Israel's siege of Gaza.\n\nIt called for hostages to be released, humanitarian aid to be increased, international law to be upheld and for a two-state peace solution.\n\nThe motion also expressed \"solidarity with Scotland's Jewish, Muslim and Palestinian communities and condemns antisemitism, Islamophobia or any other form of hatred\".\n\nThe first minister said that while Israel had the right to defend itself, it must respect international law.\n\nMr Yousaf said that doctors in Gaza, including his brother in law, were being forced to carry out \"medieval\" procedures without proper supplies of anaesthetics.\n\n\"In the face of such destruction, death and inhumanity, an immediate ceasefire, agreed by all sides, is needed to ensure the protection of innocent civilians and the delivery of essential supplies,\" the first minister said.\n\nHe insisted \"humanitarian pauses\" were not sufficient.\n\n\"Simply a pause in the killing of innocent men, women and children only, what, to resume a few hours later? Surely we must and can strive for better than that,\" Mr Yousaf added.\n\n\"For the sake of the people of Gaza who are living in a nightmare of unimaginable terror and for the Israeli hostages who remain captive, this parliament and the international community must unite and call for an immediate ceasefire.\"\n\nSince the Holyrood motion was passed, Israel and Hamas have agreed a deal to release 50 hostages being held in Gaza during a four-day pause in fighting. However, Hamas has reportedly vowed to carry out further attacks like that of 7 October.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country would not stop fighting until all the hostages were brought home.\n\nIsrael began attacking Gaza after Hamas fighters crossed the border on 7 October, killing 1,200 people and taking more than 200 others hostage.\n\nGaza's Hamas-run health ministry has said 13,300 people, including more than 5,000 children, have been killed in Israel's campaign.\n\nA Scottish Labour amendment, tabled by Anas Sarwar and backed by the SNP, stated it would require \"all sides to comply\" with a ceasefire and called on the International Criminal Court to investigate both sides of the conflict. It was passed by MSPs.\n\nThe call for a ceasefire put Scottish Labour at odds with Sir Keir, who has instead called for \"humanitarian pauses\".\n\nMr Sarwar told MSPs: \"For a ceasefire to work, all sides must be willing to comply.\n\n\"And secondly we must recognise that Hamas has made clear that it intends to repeat the October 7 massacre, intends to continue rocket fire, and tragically, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made clear that he is not willing to even consider a ceasefire.\n\n\"That's why the full force of international diplomacy must be used to create the conditions to make an immediate ceasefire a reality.\"\n\nUK Labour leader Sir Keir has argued that a ceasefire would not be appropriate because it would freeze the conflict and embolden Hamas.\n\nHe saw 56 of his MPs rebel last week as they backed an SNP motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in the House of Commons. Both Scottish Labour MPs - Ian Murray and Michael Shanks - abstained.\n\nThe Scottish Greens and Scottish Liberal Democrats supported the ceasefire demand, while the Tories instead backed \"humanitarian pauses to deliver aid to Gaza safely and in a sustained way\". The party's amendment was rejected by MSPs.\n\nCompared with a formal ceasefire, such pauses tend to last for short periods of time, sometimes just a few hours.\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Donald Cameron told the chamber that a ceasefire was opposed by the US government, as well as the UK leadership of the Conservative and Labour parties.\n\n\"A ceasefire requires both of the two opposing sides to support it and regrettably it has been clear for some time now that Hamas will not respect a ceasefire,\" he said.\n\n\"Hamas does not even respect the right of Israel to exist, let alone work towards peace.\"", "Members of the Warriors of Life movement during a 2022 procession in favour of a ban on abortion\n\nRussian authorities are limiting access to abortions in an attempt to confront the country's longstanding demographic crisis.\n\nMeasures include making it an offence trying to persuade a woman to have an abortion and pressuring private clinics to stop carrying out the procedure.\n\nFeminist groups say the campaign is putting the lives of women at risk.\n\nThe Russian Orthodox Church, which has close ties to the Kremlin, is playing a key role in the anti-abortion campaign.\n\n\"As a member of the clergy, I testify that an abortion is a disaster and a tragedy for the woman those close to her,\" Patriarch Kirill, the Kremlin-backed head of the church, said in January 2023.\n\nA protest by the Urals Feminist Movement in favour of abortion, August 2023\n\n\"Officials, ultra-right politicians and the church are actively forcing women and girls to give birth to unwanted children,\" said the Urals Feminist Movement group, which has organised small-scale protests in favour of abortion rights.\n\n\"These initiatives will only lead to a dramatic increase in the number of illegal abortions and a huge number of maimed and killed Russian women.\"\n\nRussia's population is virtually the same size as it was over 20 years ago. According to official figures, there are now 144 million people in Russia - 2 million fewer than in 2001, when President Vladimir Putin first came to power.\n\nReligious authorities say a key factor for the demographic crisis is the high number of abortions. Almost a third of Russian women say they have had one.\n\nIn 2022, more than 500,000 pregnancies were terminated, compared to 1.3 million children born in Russia. Mr Putin called it \"an acute problem\".\n\n\"The population can be increased as if by waving a magic wand: if we solve this problem and learn how to dissuade women from having abortions, statistics will go up immediately,\" according to Patriarch Kirill.\n\nAuthorities are concerned that the decreasing number of young people, particularly men, will make it more difficult for the Russian military to recruit soldiers. There are also worries about the effects of a stagnant population on the economy.\n\nA demographic crisis may make it more difficult to recruit soldiers for the Russian military\n\nRussian feminists say women's rights are being curtailed to benefit the military and economy. \"They need new taxpayers, they need new soldiers,\" Maria Mueller, of the Russian feminist association Ona, told the BBC.\n\nThe authorities are increasingly seeking to informally limit abortions, though the country's laws remain on paper some of the most liberal in the world.\n\nThe Health Ministry has drawn up guidelines telling medics how best to dissuade women from having an abortion. Doctors are encouraged to tell pregnant women who are younger than 18 that young parents bond better with their children \"because they are practically from the same generation\".\n\nIf a pregnant woman is single, doctors are meant to tell her that \"having a child is no obstacle to finding a life partner\".\n\nIn parallel, the authorities are restricting the sale of medication used to end pregnancies, sales of which increased by over 50% last year. From September 2024, pharmacies will be required to register the sale of such pills in special databases.\n\nThe government is also offering financial incentives to pregnant women and those who give birth, including payments of up to 524,500 roubles (£4,680, $5,830) which can be used to purchase property or pay for schooling.\n\nA fifth of abortions in Russia are carried out in private clinics, which have come under pressure from religious authorities to stop offering the service.\n\n\"As a member of the clergy, I testify that an abortion is a disaster and a tragedy for the woman and those close to her,\" Patriarch Kirill said.\n\nPatriarch Kirill (L) has spoken out against abortion\n\nAccordingly, governors in 10 Russian regions are making efforts to stop private clinics from performing abortions.\n\nThe annexed Ukrainian region of Crimea was the first territory where private clinics stopped performing abortions in early November. Days later, it was followed by the Kursk region, where four out of five private clinics no longer offer the service.\n\nRestricting access to abortions in private clinics will harm women's health, World Health Organisation expert Lyubov Yerofeyeva told BBC Russian.\n\nThe Kursk region deputy governor, Andrei Belostotsky, called this \"a significant event\" because almost all women wishing to terminate their pregnancy will have to go to state hospitals, where the authorities will \"actively work with them\" trying to make them change their mind.\n\nAnother initiative proposed by Patriarch Kirill and already implemented in parts of Russia is a ban on \"incitement to abortion\".\n\n\"We need more people. It's an obvious fact recognised by everyone, both politicians and sociologists alike,\" he told an Orthodox Church meeting. \"But for this to happen you need to make real efforts,\" he added.\n\nAs an example, the patriarch pointed to the western region of Mordovia, which has introduced fines of up to 200,000 roubles ($2,250; £1,800) for trying to persuade a pregnant woman to have an abortion. He said such bans should be introduced across the country.\n\nExperts fear that the anti-abortion campaign will harm women's health by discouraging safer medical abortions.\n\n\"This will be a blow against medical abortions because this was the method promoted by the vast majority of private clinics. More than 80% of their procedures were medical abortions, while state hospitals mostly perform surgical ones,\" the WHO's Ms Yerofeyeva said.\n\n\"Surgical abortions carry higher risks of complications, side effects and injuries. That's why the whole world is moving away from them.\"\n\nMs Yerofeyeva also fears that the clampdown on legal abortions will trigger a spike in dangerous illegal procedures.", "When a car exploded after flying into a US customs and border structure on the eve of the major Thanksgiving holiday, tensions were high.\n\nThe FBI started an investigation and border routes between the US and Canada were blocked off.\n\nNew York Governor Kathy Hochul has since told media that at this stage, it appears to have no relation to terrorism.\n\nTwo people died, but their identities have not yet been confirmed. What caused the high-speed crash and explosion to happen is still uncertain.\n\nMost of the border crossings have since re-opened. But the investigation into what took place could take some time. Governor Hochul said barely anything was left from the car.\n\nOur writers today have been Bernd Debusmann Jr, Holly Honderich and Chloe Kim. And Nadine Yousif was reporting from Niagara Falls.\n\nYou can read more about the Niagara incident at the Rainbow Bridge in this article.\n\nThanks for following along with our live updates.", "It looks like the Autumn Statement will now include at least one crowd-pleasing personal tax cut - so why the change of message and which tax could be cut?\n\nWhen I spoke to Jeremy Hunt 10 days ago, just after it was confirmed that the UK economy was not growing, I suggested to him that personal tax cuts might help.\n\nHe said there were \"no shortcuts\" and clearly signalled that his focus was on growth-enhancing business tax cuts.\n\nA week on, I spoke to the chancellor again, at a hydrogen energy facility in Sheffield. The caution on such cuts had gone. And the prime minster has now suggested the time has come to cut tax.\n\nFor Rishi Sunak, last Wednesday's drop in inflation was a clear turning point in Britain's recent economic story.\n\nDuring his time as chancellor and as prime minister - most of the past four years - the UK and most of the world have been hit by an unprecedented series of geopolitical crises that have led to big spending and rolling inflationary shocks.\n\nThe pandemic led to an inflationary supply chain crisis pushing prices up, and then the Russia-Ukraine conflict saw the double whammy of the world's biggest energy exporter invading one of the world's biggest food exporters.\n\nAt this precise time, the size of Britain's workforce was hit. In part, this was due to the aftermath of the pandemic, and in some key sectors, by more restrictive post-Brexit worker visas. It was a potent cocktail for inflation.\n\nThe government's argument therefore, is that last week's confirmation that inflation has more than halved since its peak is a turning point for inflation.\n\nThe UK is on a glidepath to normal inflation levels, and therefore, they argue, there is little risk of a personal tax cut adding to price pressures.\n\nBut the PM's argument goes further. He says that the 4.6% inflation figure also represents a turning point of a rolling series of economic crises since 2020. The time to put four years of higher public spending, borrowing, and taxation behind us.\n\nHe is taking aim at Labour's calls for a \"new\" post-pandemic world of more resilient local supply chains, and more borrowing-funded public spending especially on green infrastructure.\n\nUS President Joe Biden may be able to do this because the US has the privilege of printing the world's reserve currency, and is insulated from fears about its debts. The UK, especially after last year's mini budget, cannot do this, Mr Sunak argued.\n\nThis will be the dividing line of the next year with a Labour Party that aims to spend £28bn a year more on public investment by the end of the coming Parliament.\n\nSo the tax cuts will be part of a general message that, having seen inflation halve, now the focus is on growth.\n\nThe overwhelming focus of the cuts will be aimed at helping businesses to invest. But, a tax cut that helps \"make work pay\" and so improves the supply of workers, helping relieve a key constraint on growth, will also be delivered.\n\nNational Insurance seems to fit the bill, because it directly helps employers or workers keep more from wage packets. Another option is ironing out some of the inconsistencies in the tax system that see some universal credit recipients, working parents and higher earners facing effective tax rates so high that it makes little sense to work more hours.\n\nFormer pensions minister Steve Webb has also spotted his old department seeming to prepare an unusual announcement on benefit uprating on an obscure part of the Department for Work and Pensions website.\n\nWhen setting how much benefits go up next April, the government could decide to use October's lower inflation figure instead of the usual September figure. That could squeeze between £2bn and £3bn from the welfare bill every year.\n\nBoth the PM and chancellor make the argument that the level of benefits may exacerbate worker shortage problems.\n\nIn Westminster, others point out that the loss of the Supreme Court case on a plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, on the same day as the inflation figure, may also help explain the search for a headline personal tax cut to assuage his backbenchers. The speech the PM gave on Monday, when he said the government was now able to cut taxes, was due to be given last Wednesday, before the Supreme Court's ruling.\n\nSo the contours of the argument this week will be the government arguing that an economic turnaround has created space for a tax cut, and the opposition will instead say the PM is jumping the gun at the behest of backbenchers and in any case only reversing one of two dozen tax rises.\n\nIn making a turnaround argument, it is worth waiting for what the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) says in its forecasts for the economy.\n\nThis month's Bank of England forecasts for quarterly growth next year are 0.01%, -0.04%, 0.01% and 0.02%. Over 2024, it adds up to zero.\n\nThe economy did avoid the recession predicted for this year, but how seriously can Downing Street proclaim a turnaround if the OBR predicts little or no growth over the next year?\n\nIt is also worth watching on what basis the government claims the PM's target on growth will be met.\n\nSo underneath a big call made on tax cuts at the Autumn Statement, there is a much wider, immediate political argument, and the outline of choice for the general election. But watch out for whether the OBR supports this \"turnaround\" picture.\n\nWhat help would you like from the Autumn Statement? Do you have any questions you want answering? Get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Amiram Cooper, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Tsachi Idan are being held in Gaza\n\nIsrael says 132 people remain unaccounted for after they were abducted and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attacks by Hamas.\n\nAn estimated 240 people were taken prisoner, but 105 were later released by Hamas during a six-day ceasefire at the end of November.\n\nThe Israeli military said it mistakenly killed three hostages in northern Gaza who had escaped from their captors and expressed \"deep remorse\" over the incident.\n\nOf the 132 still unaccounted for, Israel says that 20 of them are believed to be dead.\n\nThese are the stories of those hostages who are still being held, which have either been confirmed by the BBC or credibly reported.\n\nThis list is regularly updated and names may change, as some people feared kidnapped are confirmed to have been killed or released.\n\nLast updated on 19 December 2023 at 10:33 GMT\n\nYagev Kirsht, 34, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim, alongside his wife, Rimon Buchstab Kirsht. She has now been released.\n\nAlexander Trupanov, was taken hostage with his mother Lena Trupanov, 50, his partner Sapir Cohen, 29, and his grandmother Irina Tati, 73. All were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz as they spent the Sabbath together, according to a statement by Canada's Raoul Wallenburg Center for Human Rights. Irina and Lena were released on Wednesday 29 November and Sapir was freed the next day.\n\nAriel Cunio, his girlfriend Arbel Yahud and her brother Dolev are also thought to have been abducted in the same attack on Nir Oz. Eitan Cunio, Ariel's brother who escaped Hamas, told the Jewish Chronicle that his last message from Ariel said: \"We are in a horror movie.\"\n\nDavid Cunio, 33, another of Ariel's brothers, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, family say. David's wife Sharon Aloni Cunio and their three-year-old twin daughters Ema and Yuly were released on 27 November. Sharon's sister Daniele Aloni, and her six-year-old daughter Emilia were both released on 24 November.\n\nDoron Steinbrecher, 30, a veterinary nurse, was in her apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas attacked, the Times of Israel reported. At 10:30 on 7 October, the newspaper said, she sent a voice message to friends: \"They've arrived, they have me.\"\n\nItzhak Gelerenter, 53, was taken from the Supernova festival. His family said the IDF found his phone was located in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported. His daughter Pivko told the paper: \"I'm trying to think good thoughts, I have a powerful, smart, resourceful father.\"\n\nDoron Steinbrecher sent a voice message to friends during Hamas' attack\n\nNaama Levy, 19, was filmed being bundled into a jeep, her hands tied behind her back. The footage was released by Hamas and circulated widely on social media. According to her mother, the teenager had just begun her military service.\n\nYousef Zyadna, a 53-year-old Bedouin dairy farmer, was abducted from Kibbutz Holit and taken to Gaza along with his sons Hamza, 22, and Bilal, 18, and his daughter, Aisha, 16. Aisha and Bilal were released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nElad Katzir, 47, was abducted from Nir Oz with his mother Hanna. Hanna has now been released.\n\nOhad Ben Ami, 55, was kidnapped from Be'eri with his wife, Raz. She was released by Hamas on 29 November.\n\nTwin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 26, were taken from Kfar Aza. Ziv was messaging a friend as the attack happened. Their family said the IDF has told them the brothers are being held in Gaza. Their brother Liran told CBN news the pair had \"twin power\" and were the centre of attention wherever they went.\n\nIraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 85, was taken captive from Kibbutz Kissufim, where he lived and worked as a chicken coop manager. His wife, Mazal, managed to escape.\n\nMichel Nisenbaum, 59, is a dual Brazilian-Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel for 45 years and works as a computer technician, his family told Brazilian media. They also say he is diabetic and has Crohn's disease. On 7 October, they say, someone claiming to be from Hamas answered his phone when they tried to call him.\n\nDaniela Gilboa, 19, sent messages saying that Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she was staying, was under attack and asked her mother to pray for her. Her boyfriend, Roy Dadon, told the Economist 1843 magazine that he believes he saw a glimpse of her in a video showing three girls being driven away in the back of an SUV.\n\nItay Chen, 19, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF solider, was on active duty with a tank unit on 7 October, according to the Times of Israel. The paper reported that his family was notified by the IDF that he is officially considered missing in action and probably being held hostage. Another soldier in his unit, Matan Angrest, 21, is also presumed to be in Gaza.\n\nYosi Sharabi, 51, was taken from Be'eri with his brother, Eli Sharabi, 55. Eli's wife and two daughters were murdered in the attack. Ofir Engel, the boyfriend of Yosi's daughter, Yuval, was also taken, but released on 29 November.\n\nAgam Berger, 19, was kidnapped from Nahal Oz. She was seen being taken away in videos released by Hamas.\n\nEdan Alexander, 19, is an Israeli-US citizen who volunteered to join the Israeli army. He was serving near the Gaza border at the time of Hamas's attack. Edan's family said they had been told by Israeli officials that he had been taken to Gaza as a hostage.\n\nKaid Farhan Elkadi, 53, lives with his family south of Rahat and worked as a security guard, according to Israeli media. Reports said his family believes he was kidnapped and taken to Gaza, based on images shared by Hamas.\n\nIlana Gritzewsky and Matan Zanguaker were captured near the Gaza border, family say\n\nMatan Zanguaker, 24, was taken with his partner Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, from Nir Oz, according to Ilana's father. Ilana, a Mexican national, was released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nThe family of Eitan and Yair Horn believe they were taken from Nir Oz kibbutz\n\nEitan Horn, 37, and his brother Yair, 45, both Argentinian citizens, were also in Nir Oz at the time of the attack. Their father Itzik said he believes they were kidnapped. Yair is a construction worker while Eitan works in education.\n\nItai Svirsky, 38, is thought to have been abducted when his elderly parents were killed in Be'eri. He had been visiting them for the holiday of Simhat Torah.\n\nKeith Seigel, 64, and his wife Adrienne - often known as Aviva - Seigel, 62, were taken from their home in Kfar Aza, Keith's brother Lee Seigel told the BBC. Adrienne was released on 26 November.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, lived in Nahal Oz with his wife and two daughters. Omri was led away by Hamas with his hands tied, his wife Lishay told the Guardian newspaper. She told him not to be a hero, urging: \"Do whatever they want because I want you back.\"\n\nBipin Joshi, 23, a Nepalese student, is believed to have been taken from Kibbutz Alumim. Nepalese newspaper Setopati says he was one of 49 university students studying agriculture in Israel. It says 10 students were killed in the attack.\n\nIlan Weiss, 58, went missing from Kibbutz Be'eri after he was last seen leaving the house to defend the community. On 25 November, his wife Shiri Weiss, 53, and their daughter, Noga, 18, were freed from captivity in a hostage deal.\n\nAmiram Cooper, 85, and his wife Nurit, 80, were taken from their home in Nir Oz, their daughter-in-law Noa told the BBC. The family last spoke to the couple during the Hamas attack, Noa said, when the couple were in their safe room. The family later traced Amiram's phone to Gaza. On Monday 23 October, Nurit was one of two women to be released.\n\nAmiram and Nurit Cooper, pictured with their granddaughter, Gali\n\nOded Lifshitz, 83, and his wife Yocheved, 85 were taken hostage from Nir Oz. On Monday 23 October, Yocheved was one of two elderly women to be freed. After hearing the news of her mother's release, their daughter Sharone - a London-based artist - said: \"While I cannot put into words the relief that she is now safe, I will remain focused on securing the release of my father and all those - some 200 innocent people - who remain hostages in Gaza.\"\n\nHaim Peri, 79, was taken from his home in Nir Oz, reports the Times of Israel, and freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz said she saw that he was alive and well. His son Lior Peri told Talk TV that Haim had locked his wife inside the safe room before giving himself up to kidnappers.\n\nAvraham Munder, 78, was kidnapped from Nir Oz, Israeli officials say. His wife Ruthi, daughter and grandson have since been released.\n\nOmer Neutra, a 22-year-old Israeli-American and grandson of Holocaust survivors, put off plans to go to college in the US to study in Israel, and eventually joined the IDF. He was serving as a tank commander near Gaza when Hamas attacked. Omer's parents say they were told by the Israeli embassy that he had been kidnapped.\n\nRon Benjamin's vehicle was found empty following the attacks\n\nRon Benjamin, 53, had been taking part in a group cycle ride near the Gaza border when the Hamas attack began and he decided to drive home, his family told Israeli media. Days later, his vehicle was found empty and his family believe he was kidnapped.\n\nLouis Har, 70, is believed to have been taken from Nir Yitzhak. His partner Clara Marman was released on 28 November along with her sister Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela's daughter Mia Leimberg,17. Clara and Gabriela's brother Fernando Simon Marman, 60, also remains in captivity.\n\nJudith Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 73, also went missing from Nir Oz after the Hamas attack. Ten days later, the Israeli military confirmed to the family they had been taken hostage, CTV News in Canada reported.\n\nAlex Danzig, 75, a scholar and historian of the Holocaust, was at his home in Nir Oz, when it was attacked by Hamas. \"We know for sure he was kidnapped,\" his son Mati told the BBC. Alex - whose older sister Edith is a Holocaust survivor - has spent the last 30 years working for Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust remembrance centre. His disappearance has triggered a campaign for his release, both in Israel and in Poland, the country of his birth.\n\nAlex Danzig has spent decades educating people about the Holocaust\n\nItzhk Elgarat, 68, was kidnapped at the same time as Alex Danzig, his brother Danny Elgert told Israel's Kan 11 TV station, adding that he had tracked his brother's phone to the border with Gaza.\n\nGadi Moses, 79, was also abducted during the same attack on Nir Oz, according to relatives and the Israeli aid agency where he worked as an agricultural expert. Efrat Katz, his partner, was initially thought to have been captured as well, but she was later found dead, the Times of Israel reported. Efrat was the mother of Doron Asher, who was taken hostage and later released with her two daughters. Ravid Katz, 51, Doron Asher's brother, was originally thought to have been taken hostage from Nir Oz, but on 28 November his family confirmed that he had been killed on 7 October.\n\nYair Yaakov, 59, is listed among the hostages. His partner Meirav Tal, 53, was released on 28 November. Yair's children Yagil, 13, and Or, 16, were released on 27 November.\n\nYair Yaakov was pictured being held captive by a gunman in a video shared online\n\nNimrod Cohen, 19, had studied software engineering in high school, according to reports. After he was kidnapped, his father was invited to meet Pope Francis in Rome along with other hostages' families.\n\nTsachi Idan, 51, was last seen by his wife, Gali, as he was taken away by Hamas gunmen. Their family had been ambushed in their safe room in Nahal Oz. Their ordeal was live-streamed by Hamas. Their eldest child, Maayan - who had just turned 18 - was shot dead, Gali told the BBC.\n\nTsachi Idan was ambushed with his wife and children and then led away\n\nYarden Bibas, 34, was abducted from Nir Oz. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were also taken hostage, but on 29 November, Hamas claimed they had been killed in an Israeli air strike while in captivity. The Israeli government has said it is checking the claim.\n\nRonen Engel, 54, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife, Karina Engelbert, 51, and their two daughters, Mika, 18 and Yuval, 11. On 1 December, the organisation representing the families said he had been murdered. Karina, Mika and Yuval were released on 27 November.\n\nKarina Ariev, a 19-year-old soldier, was serving at an army base near Gaza when she was kidnapped. Her sister Alexandra told the BBC she heard shooting as Karina called her during the attack, and later saw a video showing Karina being taken away in a vehicle.\n\nKarina Ariev was at the Nahal Oz military base, which was among the first to be attacked\n\nOfer Kalderon, 53, was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz. On 27 November his two children, Erez, 12, and Sahar, 16, were released. Two other relatives, 80-year-old Carmela Dan and her granddaughter, Noya, 12, were also believed to have been taken, but Israeli authorities later announced they had been found dead.\n\nYoram Metzger, 80, was a resident of Nir Oz. He has diabetes and broke his hip six months ago, his daughter-in-law said. Yoram's wife Tamar was released on 28 November.\n\nNadav Popplewell, 51, and his mother Channah were taken hostage by Hamas, said Channah's daughter Ayelet Svatitzky, who was speaking to them on the phone when the gunmen burst in. She said the captors sent pictures of her two relatives, who both have diabetes, with armed men in the background. Channah has now been released.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, was abducted after his family opened the door to their secure shelter to an Israeli child, who said he would be killed otherwise. Omri's wife, Lishay Lavi, said she saw him being taken away in handcuffs with three other hostages from Nahal Oz.\n\nLiri Elbag, 18, had just started military training as an Army lookout near the Gaza border when Hamas attacked, her father Eli told the Associated Press. Eli said he saw her in a video circulated later by Hamas, crowded with others on the back of a military truck which had been seized by the gunmen.\n\nLior Rudaeff, 61, was taken from Nir Yitzhak during the attack. His family have heard nothing from him since then.\n\nA number of people are believed to have been abducted from the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Among them:\n\nShlomi Ziv, 40, was part of the security detail at the festival and was initially in contact with his sisters as the attack unfolded, according to an interview with The Times of Israel. A few weeks later the family learned he was officially considered to be a hostage, the report says.\n\nAlexander Lobanov, 32, is a Russian-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped at the festival.\n\nOri Danino, 25, is reported to have got away from the festival in his car, but it's believed he was captured after turning back in an attempt to save some people he had met there.\n\nAlmog Sarusi, 26, was kidnapped from the music festival and his partner Shahar Gindi was killed, according to Israeli media. Almog's father, Yigal, was among the relatives of hostages who met with Israel's prime minister in October.\n\nOmer Shem Tov, 21, called his parents as he was running away from gunfire and managed to get into a friend's car. His parents, Shelly and Malki Shem Tov, told Israeli media they lost contact with their son and the live location on his phone showed he was beyond the border in Gaza.\n\nIdan Shtivi, 28, an environmental sciences student, was attending the festival to take pictures at music and yoga workshops being held by friends. He escaped the site in his car but was attacked by Hamas along the route. The bodies of two of his passengers were found, and his family told the Jerusalem Post they suspect he was kidnapped.\n\nYosef Ohana, 24, had been at the festival with a friend, who told his mother he and Yosef had remained to help people escape the gunfire before running themselves. Yosef was last seen hiding under a car, and Israeli authorities have visited his mother to say he was kidnapped.\n\nAndrei Kozlov, 27, a Russian who moved to Israel in 2022, is missing from the Supernova festival, where he was working as a security guard. His mother told the De Taly publication the family was told by the IDF on October 26 that he was being held hostage.\n\nElyakim Libman, 23, was working as a security guard at the festival. In a Facebook post his father Eliyahu Libman said another guard told him his son had helped rescue others before trying to escape. He was last seen trying to help two badly-injured women.\n\nNoa Argamani, a Chinese-born Israeli citizen, was also kidnapped from the festival. Video footage - verified by her father Yaakov Argamani to Israel's Channel 12 - shows the 25-year-old being taken away on the back of a motorbike screaming, \"Don't kill me!\" Her boyfriend Avinatan Or, 30, also appears in the video being marched away from her by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nEden Yerushalmi's family say they were told she had been taken hostage\n\nEden Yerushalmi, 24, called her family during Hamas's attack on the festival, her sister May told CBS News. The family say they were subsequently informed by the IDF that Eden had been abducted.\n\nChanan Yablonka, 42, is a father-of-two from Tel Aviv. According to reports, he attended the festival with friends and was due to celebrate his birthday a few days after the attacks.\n\nJonathan Samerano, 21, has been missing since 7am on the morning of the festival. His family have been told to presume he is being held in Gaza, Israeli media reported.\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal was filmed in captivity in Gaza, his family say\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, attended the festival with his brother. Guy appears in a hostage video that his family say confirms he is in Gaza.\n\nUriel Baruch, 35, was injured during the attack on the festival, his wife said on Facebook. Reports in Israeli media say his mother, Naomi, has heard from the IDF that he is a hostage.\n\nMaxim Kharkin's mother described speaking to him on the morning of 7 October\n\nMaxim Kharkin is aged 35 and a Russian speaker, his mother told Russian media. She added that he had called her at 07:00 on the morning of the attack.\n\nElkana Bohbot was seen in a video posted by Hamas\n\nElkana Bohbot, 34, had gone to the party with friends and, before losing contact, he spoke to his wife and mother telling them he was helping to evacuate the wounded, the Times of Israel reported. Hours later, his family found a video of him posted online by Hamas, which has been seen by BBC Verify.\n\nRom Braslavski, 19, was working on security for the festival. According to an account published by Hostages and Missing Families Forum, he was trying to rescue an injured person in the attack when he was caught in a volley of fire. He has not been heard from since.\n\nOmer Wenkert, 22, a restaurant manager, sent a message to his family to say he was going to a safe shelter but then lost contact, his father Shai Wenkert told the BBC's Today Programme. Shai Wenkert said he had seen footage of his son in captivity, including a photo of him handcuffed and wearing only underwear.\n\nEvyatar David's family say they were sent a video of him in captivity\n\nEvyatar David, 23, was at the festival and on the morning of the attacks, described fleeing from gunfire before losing contact with the outside world, his brother says. Later, his family say, Evyatar's sister posted on Instagram appealing for information about his whereabouts. She then received a text from an unknown number, which contained video footage of Evyatar handcuffed on the floor of a dark room. According to Israel's foreign ministry he is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nEitan Mor, 23, lives in Jerusalem, and was working as a security guard at the festival, the Times of Israel said. He reportedly texted his uncle after Hamas arrived and was last seen with a friend bringing others to safety.\n\nAlon Ohel, 22, a Serbian citizen, took refuge in a shelter after the festival came under attack, his family say. They have seen footage of him being dragged away after a grenade attack.\n\nAlmog Meir Jan, 21, tried to flee the festival. He and a friend made it to the friend's car but only managed to drive a short distance before being forced to stop. Almog's family say they have seen a hostage video in which he appears.\n\nInbar Heiman, a student aged 21, was seen by two young Israeli men being taken away from the festival on a motorcycle. Hamas have released a video in which she is seen very briefly.\n\nHersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual US-Israeli citizen, was badly injured in the attack, his family told the BBC. Eyewitness accounts say he was seen being forced onto a white pick-up truck - the last-known signal from his phone came from just inside Gaza.\n\nSegev Kalfon, 26, was running away from the festival, across the highway, when he was captured by Hamas, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.\n\nOrión Hernández Radoux, 30, from Mexico, attended the festival with his girlfriend, Shani Louk. He has not been seen since. The Sun newspaper says it has seen threatening messages written in Arabic sent from his phone. Shani, a tourist from Germany, was initially thought to be among those seized. But on 30 October, her mother Ricarda told German media that the family had been informed by Israeli military of her death following DNA identification.\n\nRomi Lesham Gonen, 23, was on the phone to her mother as she tried to escape from the Supernova festival. Merav Leshem Gonan has recounted a conversation in which her daughter begged for help after being shot. ABC News reports that Romi's phone is now in Gaza.\n\nBar Kuperstein, 21, last spoke to his family early on the morning of 7 October, as the attack unfolded. Later the same day, his family say they identified him in a video of Israeli prisoners, posted by Hamas. Since then, they say they have had no further information.\n\nEliya Cohen, 26, was hiding with his girlfriend Ziv from the attack, when Ziv felt him being pulled up and driven away by the gunmen, Eliya's mother has told the video initiative #BringThemHomeNow. The family then found a photo of Eliya in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nAmit Buskila, 28, from Ashdod, was last heard of making a call to her uncle, Shimon, as Hamas overran the festival. Her family say they have now been told by the government that she is being held in Gaza.\n\nCarmel Gat, 39, is Jordan's sister-in-law, and also was seen by her father being taken by gunmen from Kibbutz Be'eri, Haaretz newspaper reported. She has not been heard from since.\n\nOhad Yahalomi, 49, was abducted from Nir Oz, along with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the November ceasefire.\n\nDror Or, 48, was seen by a neighbour being dragged out of his home in Be'eri, according to their nephew Emmanuel Besorai, along with his son and daughter. On Saturday 25 November Dror's son Noam, 17, and daughter Alma, 13, were released from captivity. The body of Yonat, 50 - Dror's wife and the children's mother - was identified among the 120 people murdered at the kibbutz, Yonat's brother told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nTal Shoham, 38, was taken from Kibbutz Be'eri. His wife Adi, also 38, her mother Dr Shoshan Haran, 67, were released by Hamas on 25 November, along with the couple's children Nave, eight, and Yahel, three. Dr Haran's husband, Avshalom - an economist and dual German/Israeli citizen - was killed on 7 October.\n\nTamir Adar, 38, who defended Nir Oz as part of the kibbutz's emergency squad, was taken to Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen, 35, an American-Israeli citizen, has been missing since Hamas's attack on Nir Oz, his father Jonathan told the BBC. He said his son was not found among the dead and the \"only reasonable explanation\" is that he was taken to Gaza.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen's father has not heard from him since Hamas attacked the kibbutz where he lived\n\nThailand's ambassador to Israel says 26 of its citizens were taken hostage, 23 of whom have now been released.\n\nThose still being held are believed to include Watchara Sriuan, 32. His mother, Viewwaew, told the Thaiger news site that the family had been informed he was being held captive.\n\nKiattisak \"Top\" Patee and a Mr Pongtorn (no first name given) have also been named by the Thai foreign ministry as hostages.\n\nA number of other people thought to have been held hostage are now confirmed to have died, either during the 7 October attack or while in captivity.\n\nAs well as Ron Scherman and Nik Beizer, four bodies were identified this week. They were Tal Chaimi, an Israeli-Romanian citizen aged 41, and Joshua Mollel, a 19-year-old Tanzanian student. Also, 27-year-old Eden Zecharya, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and 36-year-old Ziv Dado, who had already been declared dead by the Israeli military.\n\nOthers known to have died include Dror Kaplun, 68, Aviv Atzili, 49, Arye Zalmanovich, 85, Ronen Engel, 54, Maya Goren, 56, Guy Iluz, 26, Ofir Tzarfati, 27, Ofra Keider, 70, and Eliyahu Margalit, 75.\n\nThe bodies of 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, and 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss were found by Israeli troops in buildings close to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.\n\nOn Saturday 9 December Kibbutz Bari announced that Sahar Baruch, 25, had been killed in Gaza.\n\nOther hostages whose death has been reported, but not confirmed include Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "TV presenter and actress Annabel Giles has died after being diagnosed with a brain tumour in July.\n\nShe starred in children's show Razzmatazz, the 1993 film Riders and was a model for cosmetics brand Max Factor.\n\nConfirming the death of their \"incredible mother\", her children said she had undergone brain surgery and radiotherapy treatment.\n\nDaughter Molly and son Tedd said on X she was \"one of a kind\".\n\nGiles, 64, was also known for her 2013 stint in the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! camp and ITV's Posh Frocks And New Trousers with Sarah Greene.\n\nShe was born in Griffithstown, near Pontypool.\n\nIn their social media tribute, her children said their mother died at Martlets Hospice in Hove after four months of \"remarkable resilience and strength\".\n\n\"Mum was truly one of a kind, an enigma to those privileged to share her life. True to her nature, she kept spirits high and maintained her quick wit until the very end.\n\n\"Her humour and laughter will leave us inspired to live life to the fullest, just as she always did.\"\n\nThey said she had been diagnosed with a stage 4 glioblastoma, and said that in her final weeks she had been passionate about raising awareness of this type of tumour, \"embodying her lifelong commitment to helping others\".\n\nGiles later retrained as a counsellor before becoming the resident agony aunt on BBC Wales's Eleri Sion radio show. The radio presenter paid tribute on X, saying Giles was \"warm, wise, wicked and witty\" and said she recalled her trying to \"learn Welsh live\" on the radio.\n\nChannel 4 presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy worked alongside Giles on ITV's Posh Frocks And New Trousers and said he was \"in awe\" of one of his \"first TV partners in crime\".\n\nBroadcaster and writer Sue Perkins called her a \"beautiful human\" and comedian Jenny Eclair said she had \"the fondest\" memories of \"beautiful, funny and clever\" Annabel.\n\nGiles was married in the 1980s to Midge Ure - lead singer of Ultravox and founder of Band Aid and Live Aid.", "Dilan Yesilgöz heads the centre-right liberals, who are among the favourites in the election\n\nFour parties have emerged as front-runners as Dutch voters are deciding who will lead their country into a new political era.\n\nThe polls suggest a neck-and-neck race and voting ends at 21:00 (20:00GMT).\n\nCentre-right liberal leader Dilan Yesilgöz is tipped to win and become the first female Dutch prime minister.\n\nHer closest rivals are anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders and a left-alliance led by former top-ranking EU commissioner Frans Timmermans.\n\nMore than 13 million Dutch voters have a choice of 26 parties in Wednesday's vote, and as many as 17 could win seats.\n\nEuropean eyes are watching this election closely, after 13 years of governments under Mark Rutte. The biggest party could end up with less than 20% of the national vote and fewer than 30 seats in the 150-seat parliament, unprecedented in Dutch politics.\n\nTrust in the government is at a low ebb after a political scandal left thousands of parents wrongly labelled as welfare fraudsters. A politician who championed their rights set up a centrist party only three months ago and already he is being cast as kingmaker.\n\nPieter Omtzigt's New Social Contract is likely to be central to forming the next coalition government. He has shown little interest in running the country, but whoever does win will need his support.\n\nPieter Omtzigt, who voted with his wife in the eastern city of Enschede, heads a brand new party\n\n\"I know what I'm capable of for the Dutch people,\" said Dilan Yesilgöz, who came to the Netherlands as the daughter of Turkish refugees and has made lowering migration levels as much a priority as tackling the high cost of living.\n\nUnlike her rivals, she has not ruled out working with Mr Wilders' Freedom Party. But if he wins, she will keep her conservative-liberal VVD party well clear of a Wilders government.\n\nWhen he announced in Tuesday night's final TV debate that he would be a prime minister for all Dutch people, she said that could only happen if he tore up all his policies, such as banning Islam and leaving the EU, dubbed \"Nexit\".\n\nMr Wilders, who has been an MP for 25 years, has offered to put his anti-Islam policies on hold, and said he understands that Dutch voters are not yet ready to leave the EU.\n\n\"We have no Nexit in our programme, we have a referendum about Nexit and that's something different,\" he told the BBC.\n\nGeert Wilders has enjoyed what he calls a \"10-seat surge\" in the polls ahead of the vote\n\nHis rhetoric in this election has been mild, says political scientist Martin Rosema, who believes some of the parties could find a way of working with him in government.\n\n\"There could be an option that [the Freedom Party] supports the coalition with or without ministers. You usually either a have a majority or a minority [government], but in this case there could be something in-between.\"\n\nAfter casting her vote in The Hague, Nurten Demir said that even though Mr Wilders had some good ideas, she could never vote for him: \"If he wasn't so opposed to Muslims, I'd be interested in him. But he's not a democrat.\"\n\nNurten Demir (L) voted with her husband in The Hague\n\nDespite the extraordinary amount of choice on offer, many voters are apathetic and almost half were said to be undecided even the night before. Turnout with just over three hours of voting remaining was put at 50%, five points down on the 2017 election, according to Ipsos which is conducting the night's big exit polls.\n\nOutside another polling station, Renee said 13 years of Rutte-led governments had left too many problems unresolved such as student debt and the climate crisis, and believed one of the smaller parties offered the best alternative.\n\nNo party is perfect so you just pick the party that fits\n\nMeanwhile, in one of Rotterdam's poorest neighbourhoods Crooswijk, Drago complained that higher taxes were making life impossible.\n\nLike many he believes migration has exacerbated an already difficult housing crisis, which has left the Netherlands with a shortage of 390,000 homes: \"Normal people can't survive. They're waiting 10 years before they can buy a flat.\"\n\nAt a nearby launderette, three female students also voiced concerns about migration but said they would probably vote for the Labour-GreenLeft (PvdA/GL) alliance.\n\nAlliance leader Frans Timmermans is confident he has a strong chance of putting together a coalition if he comes first.\n\n\"This country can never function without a coalition, it's our history,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"The left has never been able to govern this country on its own, we always need partners in the centre of politics.\"\n\nLast year net migration into the Netherlands more than doubled beyond 220,000, partly because of refugees fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThat's why even Pieter Omtzigt's centrist NSC wants a ceiling of 50,000 on migration, and it is one of the reasons why Geert Wilders has been surging in the polls.\n\nFar-right rival Thierry Baudet has not enjoyed the same success with the voters. He has fallen behind in the polls and twice came under attack on the campaign trail, ending up in hospital on Monday night after being hit over the head with a beer bottle.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This Autumn Statement is a significant tax cut both for businesses and for workers, but overall the tax burden remains at a post-war high.\n\nThat's largely because tax thresholds are still frozen until 2028. That means any kind of pay rise could drag people into a higher tax bracket, or see a greater proportion of their income taxed, therefore bringing in more tax revenue to the Treasury.\n\nIn fact the government's independent economic forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), confirmed that by 2028, a truly astonishing £46bn will be raised by the freezes in just one year.\n\nHigher tax receipts due to frozen thresholds, and fuelled by inflation, have led to a £27bn improvement in the public finances - what the OBR refers to as a \"windfall\".\n\nThis was spent on a bigger-than-expected £9bn National Insurance cut and an £11bn tax cut for business investment.\n\nThis was a choice. And the chancellor's view is that all of this will help the economy grow eventually.\n\nBut that growth takes time - years to really show through.\n\nThat is why growth in the next couple of years has been downgraded from the March forecast.\n\nNot only is growth lower, but inflation is higher. Having previously predicted inflation to fall to 0.9% next year, the OBR now expects it to drop to only 2.8% by the end of 2024.\n\nThe picture painted by the OBR forecast is difficult to declare a definitive \"turning point\" in the economy.\n\nIt is, however, a change of gear on the economic policy. Downing Street has clearly decided that the unexpected buoyancy of tax revenues should be returned to businesses and to workers. The latter is nicely timed for the election, especially as it will be delivered in January.\n\nThey are calculating that the shadow cast by last year's mini-Budget is over, and that having built up market credibility, some money can now be spent with a significant set of giveaway decisions.\n\nOther choices were available.\n\nPublic spending and investment remains squeezed, after accounting for inflation, at a time when the public has begun to notice severe strains in some health, education and council services.\n\nIndeed, the OBR concludes that had public services been given funding in line with its higher inflation forecasts, there would have been no space for the chancellor's jumbo tax cuts.\n\nThe question is whether the public will see this notable National Insurance cut as light at the end of the tunnel, or instead, a partial refund of the significant tax rise seen over the past two years.", "Christine Hui said her son's asthma was not taken seriously in the months before his death\n\nA 10-year-old boy died from an asthma attack as a \"consequence of failures by healthcare professionals\", a coroner has concluded.\n\nWilliam Gray died at Southend University Hospital in Essex in May 2021.\n\nHis mother claimed his asthma was not taken seriously in the months beforehand.\n\nFollowing a two-week inquest, area coroner Sonia Hayes concluded that \"neglect\" contributed to his death.\n\n\"There were multiple failures to escalate and treat William's very poorly controlled asthma by healthcare professionals that would and should have saved William's life,\" said Ms Hayes.\n\nWilliam's asthma was generally well-controlled in the years leading up to a severe attack in October 2020\n\nThe inquest, which took place at the Essex coroner's court in Chelmsford, heard how William's asthma was generally well-controlled and he had not been admitted to hospital for any attacks in the three years before October 2020.\n\nBut his mother Christine Hui was forced to give CPR on 27 October that year when he was struggling to breathe and he was admitted to hospital.\n\nThe incident was recorded as a \"severe asthma attack\", rather than a respiratory attack, the inquest was told.\n\nIn spring 2021, William's asthma worsened and Ms Hui spoke to his GP, the asthma nurse and the GP practice nurse a few weeks before he died.\n\nHis medication was not changed and he was not referred for further care, the coroner was told.\n\nMs Hui slept in the same bed as her son up until 29 May 2021, when he suffered another attack and died in the early hours of the morning.\n\nThe inquest lasted two weeks at the coroner's court in Chelmsford\n\nMs Hayes's full conclusion noted: \"William Gray died as a consequence of failures by healthcare professionals to recognise the severity and frequency of his asthma symptomatology and the consequential risk to his life that was obvious.\n\n\"William's death was contributed to by neglect. William's death was avoidable.\"\n\nMs Hayes said there should have been more \"medical curiosity\" in his case and added: \"Record keeping was minimal, contact was minimal and William's voice was nowhere to be heard, and he was old enough to be involved.\"\n\nWilliam Gray's voice was \"nowhere to be heard\", the coroner said\n\nMs Hui said in a statement, at the start of the inquest, that her son was a \"cheeky\" and \"clever boy\" who dreamt of being a doctor.\n\nHe died from a cardio respiratory arrest due to acute and severe asthma.\n\nThe Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT), which runs the local children's asthma and allergy service, said its \"heartfelt sympathies\" remained with William's family.\n\nAn EPUT spokesperson said: \"We continue to work with our partners across the health and care system to ensure children with complex needs and their families receive the best possible care and support.\n\n\"We will be reviewing and acting on the coroner's findings.\"\n\nThe Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Southend hospital, said it was \"committed to learning from this terrible loss\".\n\nDiane Sarkar, the chief nursing and quality officer at the trust, said: \"Since his death in 2021 we have brought in numerous changes to improve patient care.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kiesha Donaghy was said to be popular and loved\n\nA 32-year-old mother murdered in Elgin was the victim of a violent attack, police have said.\n\nKiesha Donaghy was found dead at a property in Anderson Drive at about 19:20 last Thursday.\n\nDet Supt Lorna Ferguson, of Police Scotland, said Ms Donaghy had sustained head injuries in the fatal assault.\n\nBut she said that, at this stage, it was impossible to tell whether the mother-of-two knew her killer or whether a weapon had been used.\n\nAsked what message she had for the killer, the detective said: \"I would say that somebody somewhere knows who you are. I have absolutely no doubt that we will catch them.\"\n\nDept Supt Ferguson said Ms Donaghy was last seen on Wednesday, and her family and friends were \"devastated\" by her death.\n\n\"Keisha's a popular girl, loved by her friends and family,\" she added. \"We need to look at Kiesha's lifestyle and build up a picture.\"\n\nThe officer said she did not have a suspect but had no information to suggest anyone else was at risk.\n\nPolice are maintaining a visible presence in Elgin as part of the murder investigation, and to reassure the community.\n\n\"I can't go into all the injuries but I can tell you it was quite a violent attack,\" Dept Supt Ferguson added.\n\n\"There's obviously real concerns and I can understand that. Elgin is a small tight-knit community.\n\n\"It is an unusual incident, I have no information to suggest anybody else is a risk.\"\n\nShe appealed for information and said a dedicated team of officers was working to find out what happened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Peter Robinson says a deal is achievable, but negotiations aren't \"quite there\" yet\n\nUnionists need to recognise the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) will not get everything it wants in negotiations with the government, ex-first minister Peter Robinson has said.\n\nBut he said the government could do more and that things were \"not quite there\" yet on a deal.\n\nThe DUP has been boycotting devolution since last February, in protest at post-Brexit trade arrangements.\n\nThe party said Mr Robinson was giving his own views and analysis.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme, he said a moment was approaching where unionists may have to realise \"we have really pushed this one\".\n\nFor months, the DUP has been engaged with Number 10 in talks aimed at securing extra changes to the Windsor Framework.\n\nThe framework is the deal agreed by the UK and EU which sought to reduce the level of checks on goods crossing the Irish Sea from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nThe government has said talks with the DUP are in the final stages, but the DUP has repeatedly said gaps are outstanding.\n\nMr Robinson, who led the party from 2008 until 2016, said he supported the strategy taken by current DUP leader, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson.\n\nBut he warned that negotiations could not drift beyond the end of this year.\n\n\"I don't think you can go beyond the turn of the year without the government having to look at some other way of governing Northern Ireland,\" he added.\n\nMr Robinson added that constitutionally it would mean a move back to direct rule, with \"greater involvement\" from Dublin.\n\nBut the former first minister said he hoped a deal could be reached in the coming weeks to avoid that scenario.\n\n\"There's a stage where unionists have to recognise that we really have pushed this one, we have got a good deal - not everything that we wanted but the rest that we do want... we're in position to argue for it and to achieve it using the assembly as our base for doing it,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't believe at this moment in time we are quite there, but there are further steps that the government can take and I hope they do.\"\n\nResponding to Mr Robinson's comments, DUP MP Sammy Wilson said \"you have to see the nature of the deal, to decide if it's a good deal or not\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster he did not get the impression that \"we are close\" to a deal.\n\nIn a statement, the DUP said Mr Robinson was not speaking on behalf of the party.\n\n\"His own views and analysis are shared by him on the basis of years of experience,\" it added.\n\n\"This is a time for cool heads. We will judge any outcome against our clearly declared objectives of restoring our place in the union and our ability to trade within the UK.\"\n\nDoug Beattie said he thought Peter Robinson was being pragmatic\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie agreed that Stormont was where many of the issues that unionists face in relation to Brexit could be resolved.\n\n\"He [Peter Robinson] is literally saying what I have been saying for the last two years,\" he added.\n\nMr Beattie said he thought Mr Robinson's comments added \"a bit of weight\" to DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson trying to get Stormont \"back up and running again\".\n\nOrange Order grand secretary Mervyn Gibson told BBC News NI that he thought Mr Robinson was sending a message to the government.\n\n\"I think he is actually saying to the British government, there's not a lot to do here, but if you can get it across the line, then the party will go back in supported by the people,\" he added.\n\n\"Everybody knows they are not going to get 100%. The bottom line in all of this is it has to be a fair deal.\"\n\nSpeaking to Times Radio on Monday, Mr Robinson also referenced dual market access for businesses in NI as part of the Windsor Framework, saying they could have \"the best of both worlds\".\n\nHe added: \"Waiting until you get things right could serve the country very well and we could have virtually the best of both worlds with having access in a seamless way, both to the UK market and the European market.\"\n\nPeter Robinson clearly got the memo. In fact he may have helped to write it.\n\nHis message to fellow unionists was almost identical to the one delivered by Sir Jeffrey Donaldson in his party conference speech last month.\n\nA restored Stormont is the only way to protect the union, he said, while warning that direct rule would place Northern Ireland at the mercy of those who betrayed unionists at every turn.\n\nLike Sir Jeffrey, he also warned the DUP may not get all they demand and compromise may be needed to secure the union.\n\nBut Peter Robinson went further than the current DUP leader in preparing the ground for a deal.\n\nHe signalled that any deal may not be the complete package and may need to be worked on through a restored Assembly.\n\nHe also used a phrase which has been banished in DUP circles, when he suggested Northern Ireland could benefit from the \"best of both worlds\" with \"seamless\" access to both the UK and EU markets.\n\nIt is an eye catching intervention at a critical moment, but will it be enough to head off any internal party dissent?\n\nMr Robinson said unionists try to \"clear the snooker table in one visit\" in negotiations but this is not always possible\n\nMr Robinson also reflected on his view of how nationalists and republicans operate in political negotiations, compared to unionists.\n\n\"Each step they take, they look to see does that take us closer to our objective.\n\n\"Unionists and loyalists think they should clear the table in one visit, to use a snooker analogy, but that's not always possible. What you want to do is make sure you have a sufficient score to enable you to clear the table when next you go to it.\"\n\nYou can hear the full interview with William Crawley on BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme from 12:00 GMT and afterwards on BBC Sounds.", "Barnsley have been kicked out of the FA Cup for fielding an ineligible player in their first-round replay win at non-league Horsham.\n\nThe seventh-tier side will now play League Two Sutton United in round two.\n\nThe League One Tykes had won the replay 3-0 last week after drawing 3-3 in the initial tie at Oakwell.\n\n\"We would like to apologise to our fans, players and staff for this regrettable error,\" they said in a statement on the club website.\n\nAlthough Barnsley have not named the player, Football Association rules state only players who are eligible for the initial FA Cup tie can feature in a replay.\n\nForward Aiden Marsh was on loan at National League side York City when the first game took place on 3 November, before being recalled three days later. The 20-year-old then started in the replay in West Sussex on 14 November.\n\n\"This mistake - although unintentional - falls way below the high standards we set at this club and is simply not what you deserve,\" Barnsley's statement added.\n\n\"We have already conducted a full internal investigation and have subsequently put safeguards in place to ensure this will never happen again.\"\n\nBarnsley can appeal, but the Tykes said they had accepted the decision.\n\nThe ruling means Isthmian League Premier Division side Horsham will now play in the second round of the FA Cup for only the second time in their history.\n\nHorsham chairman Kevin Borrett told BBC Radio Surrey: \"I'm really pleased for our club - also real sympathy for Barnsley as well. Their supporters will be distraught and I do wish them well.\n\n\"The Barnsley chair and I had a number of conversations over the weekend in the course of their preparation of the response to the FA charge.\n\n\"As clubs I think we have got on tremendously well across both ties and the supporters have got together on a couple of things and there is a real rapport between them as well.\"\n\nHe added: \"Lets take nothing away from Sutton, they are a strong team, they are a league team so we will go there as underdogs but we will go with an attitude that it is there to be won.\n\n\"I don't think Sutton will be taking this game for granted at all.\"\n\nBury were the last club expelled from the competition at the first-round stage or beyond in 2006, when the then League Two side fielded Hartlepool loanee Stephen Turnbull without the proper authorisation in a second-round replay victory over Chester.\n\nChester were reinstated and went on to lose to Ipswich after a third-round replay.\n\nDroylsden, in 2010-11, and Bradford City, in 2012-13, were also removed, but were both allowed back in after an appeal.\n\n'Perplexing' how error can have happened\n\nWhilst admin errors like this are not unique in football it's still strangely perplexing why they happen at all, and the anger and embarrassment felt by the fans - particularly those that went to Horsham for the replay, and no doubt some of the club officials, including the guilty party - is understandable.\n\nBut to be fair to Barnsley they co-operated with the FA's investigation, owned up, and resolved to avoid such a mistakes again. There's not a great deal else you can do. At least it's all happened quickly.\n\nGood luck to Horsham at Sutton, no doubt the winner will land a plum tie in the third round of the FA Cup which will lead to more flack for the Reds.", "Home Secretary James Cleverly denies using a swear word to describe the constituency Stockton North\n\nHome Secretary James Cleverly has denied an allegation that he described Stockton North using an offensive term.\n\nLabour MP Alex Cunningham alleged the swear word was used during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday.\n\nMr Cunningham said it happened after he challenged the prime minister about child poverty in the constituency.\n\nMr Cleverly's spokesman said: \"He did not say that, and would not. He's disappointed people would accuse him of doing so.\"\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Cunningham had asked: \"Why are 34% of children in my constituency living in poverty?\"\n\nMaking a point of order in the Commons later on Wednesday, Mr Cunningham said: \"Before the prime minister answered, the home secretary chose to add in his pennyworth.\n\n\"He was seen and heard to say 'because it's a shithole'.\n\n\"Yes, I have contacted his office advising him I planned to name him, but sadly he has chosen not to be in the chamber.\n\n\"I know he is denying being the culprit, but the audio is clear and has been checked, and checked, and checked again.\n\n\"There is no doubt that these comments shame the home secretary, this rotten government, and the Tory Party. He is clearly unfit for his high office.\"\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle \"did not hear any remark\", said Commons Deputy Speaker Dame Eleanor Laing\n\nIn footage of the exchange in the Commons, it was unclear where the remarks came from as there was no shot of Mr Cleverly mouthing the words.\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow Commons leader Lucy Powell called for the home secretary to apologise.\n\nDuring business questions, she asked Commons leader Penny Mordaunt: \"Does she agree with me that besmirching another honourable member's constituency goes against all the courtesies of this place and it is utterly disrespectful to their constituents?\"\n\nShe added: \"This sort of foul language may be accurate when describing government policy, but it is not for the great town of Stockton.\"\n\nIn response, Ms Mordaunt said Mr Cleverly denies making the comment \"and I believe him\".\n\nThe Conservative Party chairman and Durham North West MP Richard Holden said he was \"sure it wasn't said by any Conservative MP\".\n\nHe said Mr Cleverly had been to his constituency and had \"real respect for the North of England\".\n\nAsked if the person who used the word should apologise, Mr Holden said: \"As far as I'm concerned nobody did say it. I certainly didn't hear anything like that.\"\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Mr Cunningham asked how he could secure an apology from the home secretary for the \"appalling insult and foul language\" about his seat in the north-east of England.\n\nCommons Deputy Speaker Dame Eleanor Laing said it was her understanding that Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle \"didn't hear any remark of the kind from the chair at the time when the honourable gentleman was asking his question\".\n\nShe said: \"I understand that the alleged words were not actually used, though I appreciate what [Mr Cunningham] says.\n\n\"But I think we all know that it's very difficult in the noisy atmosphere of Prime Minister's Questions to discern exactly what someone says.\n\n\"So I can make no judgment here from the chair as to what was or wasn't said.\"\n\nThe prime minister was challenged by Mr Cunningham about levels of child poverty in his constituency\n\nResponding at the despatch box to Mr Cunningham's initial question about poverty, Rishi Sunak said: \"It's this government that has ensured that across our country 1.7 million fewer people are living in... poverty as a result of the actions of this government.\"\n\nMr Cunningham could then be heard calling out \"it's not true\" to the prime minister.\n\nMr Sunak went on: \"Yes that is true. Not only that, hundreds of thousands fewer children are living in poverty, and income inequality is at a lower level than we inherited from the party opposite.\"\n\nChris McDonald, Labour's new candidate for Stockton North, addressed the alleged derogatory comment in a statement saying: \"This is a disgrace, but it lays bare what the Tories' view of Teesside is.\"\n\nThe Local Democracy Reporting Service said Mr McDonald had called on Conservative councillor for Stockton North, Niall Innes, to \"condemn the remarks made\".\n\nMr Cunningham has chosen not to stand at the next general election, so Mr McDonald will represent Labour in the constituency.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Strictly Come Dancing's Shirley Ballas has revealed she was told her stretch marks were \"revolting\" by a dance judge, six weeks after giving birth.\n\n\"It wasn't like it is today where everybody's got to walk on an eggshell to tell you something,\" the 63-year-old told the Radio Times podcast.\n\n\"I went back to dancing six weeks after having my baby.\n\n\"I was told: 'I marked you third as I refuse to look at the stretch marks on your back. I find it revolting.'\"\n\nShe added: \"I just accepted it, moved on and did what I needed to do - for me, it was character building.\"\n\nBallas, who is Strictly's head judge, said her experiences as a young dancer had meant she had to learn how to be less harsh when giving criticism herself.\n\n\"I had so many walls up from working in the industry for years. When we critique someone there's a frown and you're very direct.\"\n\nShe said her son told her that wouldn't work on British TV so gave her some tips about being constructive and smiling.\n\n\"'Maybe that way' rather than 'Your footwork sucks.' I think I do a pretty good job!\"\n\nAmy Dowden made her surprise appearance to read out Strictly's terms and conditions, last month\n\nBallas recently applauded professional dancer Amy Dowden for not wearing a wig in her first appearance on the show since starting cancer treatment.\n\nThe judge said Dowden showed courage by appearing with a shaved head.\n\n\"She's just an amazing young lady,\" she said.\n\n\"I applaud her for not wearing a wig because she wanted to shine light on cancer [for] young people.\n\n\"It took courage because she did have her wig there.\"\n\nNicknamed the Queen of Latin, Ballas took over the Strictly role from her former teacher Len Goodman in 2017.\n\nShe has spoken about online abuse since taking up the high profile position on one of the UK's most popular shows.\n\nLast month she told Channel 5 that she had taken on a PA to filter her messages so she wouldn't have to see the most offensive ones.", "Suella Braverman has launched a full-scale attack on her old boss Rishi Sunak, a day after he sacked her as home secretary.\n\nIn a blistering letter to the prime minister, she said he had repeatedly failed on key policies and broken pledges over immigration.\n\nMr Sunak had adopted \"wishful thinking\" to \"avoid having to make hard choices\", she wrote.\n\nHer broadside comes on the eve of a key ruling on the government's Rwanda plan.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, the UK Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on the lawfulness of the postponed scheme to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda to claim asylum there.\n\nThe ruling on the flagship policy will be a key moment for Mr Sunak's government, and could reignite divisions among Tory MPs over the ECHR human rights treaty.\n\nMrs Braverman, a leading figure on the right of the party, has previously described delivering the Rwanda plan as her \"dream\" and \"obsession\".\n\nIn her letter, the former home secretary claimed she struck a secret deal to serve in Mr Sunak's cabinet in exchange for a series of commitments in key areas, after Liz Truss's premiership imploded last year.\n\nHer support, she added, had been a \"pivotal factor\" in allowing Mr Sunak to win the support of Tory MPs and enter No 10.\n\nShe added that she had argued within government for curbs on human rights law to ensure the Rwanda policy was not derailed by legal challenges.\n\nBut compromises from Mr Sunak during the passage of the Illegal Migration Act, she wrote, had left the policy \"vulnerable\" to legal challenges under the European Convention of Human Rights, even if the Supreme Court declares it lawful.\n\nIf the ruling goes against the government, she added, he would have \"wasted a year\" on the flagship law to stop small boat crossings, \"only to arrive back at square one\".\n\n\"Worse than this, your magical thinking - believing that you can will your way through this without upsetting polite opinion - has meant you have failed to prepare any sort of credible Plan B,\" she wrote.\n\nA No 10 spokesman thanked Mrs Braverman for her service, but added: \"The prime minister was proud to appoint a strong, united team yesterday focused on delivering for the British people.\"\n\nHe said the government had \"brought forward the toughest legislation to tackle illegal migration this country has seen and has subsequently reduced the number of boat crossings by a third this year\".\n\nAnd whatever the outcome of the Supreme Court tomorrow, the prime minister \"will continue that work,\" he said.\n\nIn her letter, the former home secretary told Mr Sunak he had \"manifestly and repeatedly\" failed to deliver on policy priorities.\n\n\"Either your distinctive style of government means you are incapable of doing so,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Or, as I must surely conclude now, you never had any intention of keeping your promises.\"\n\nShe added: \"Someone needs to be honest: your plan is not working, we have endured record election defeats, your resets have failed and we are running out of time. You need to change course urgently.\"\n\nMrs Braverman was sacked from her role on Monday, after opponents accused her of stoking tensions ahead of pro-Palestinian marches in London.\n\nShe lost her job days after she claimed police had applied a \"double standard\" to protesters, in an article for the Times newspaper.\n\nMrs Braverman said Mr Sunak had failed \"to rise to the challenge posed by the increasingly vicious antisemitism and extremism displayed on our streets\".\n\n\"I have become hoarse urging you to consider legislation to ban the hate marches and help stem the rising tide of racism, intimidation and terrorist glorification threatening community cohesion,\" she added, accusing the PM of putting off \"tough decisions in order to minimise political risk to yourself\".\n\nIn her letter, Mrs Braverman said the conditions under which she agreed to become home secretary in October 2022 were set out in a \"document with clear terms\".\n\nSources close to Mrs Braverman claim Mr Sunak read and agreed the document the letter refers to, which had been drawn up by Mrs Braverman.\n\nThey say he took a copy and there were witnesses.\n\nMrs Braverman said the agreement included \"firm assurances\" on cutting legal migration, inserting measures to override the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into legislation to stop small boat crossings, delivering key Brexit legislation and issuing \"unequivocal\" guidance to schools on protecting biological sex and safeguarding single-sex spaces.\n\nShe accused Mr Sunak of \"a betrayal of our agreement\" and \"a betrayal of your promise to the nation that you would do 'whatever it takes' to stop the boats\".\n\nLabour shadow minister Lisa Nandy said the letter was \"just the latest instalment in a Tory psychodrama that's been playing out over the last 13 years, holding the rest of the country to ransom while the Tories fight among themselves\".\n\nFollowing Mrs Braverman's sacking on Monday, Conservative MP Dame Andrea Jenkyns published a letter of no confidence in Mr Sunak.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said the party would not win the election with Mr Sunak as prime minister and that it was time to \"bite the bullet\" and replace him.\n\nFormer Conservative leader Lord Michael Howard said her suggestion was \"some distance from reality\".\n\nOn Mrs Braverman's letter, he said that if the she had disagreed with the government's policies she could have resigned earlier but it was \"only since she was sacked that she came out with this tirade of abuse\".", "Paul Pelosi, husband of former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has testified against a man accused of attacking him in his San Francisco home last year.\n\nThe alleged assailant, David DePape, faces two charges including attempted kidnapping of a federal official. He has pleaded not guilty.\n\nMr DePape was motivated by conspiracies about Mrs Pelosi, his lawyer has said.\n\nMr Pelosi said Mr DePape had been looking for his wife, whom he said he \"had to take out\" during the attack.\n\n\"He said, she was the leader of the pack, he had to take her out, he was going to wait for her,\" Mr Pelosi told the court. \"He was going to tie me up and wait for her.\"\n\nThe 83-year-old also recalled waking up to find Mr DePape \"standing in the doorway\".\n\n\"It was a tremendous shock, looking at him, looking at the hammer and the ties,\" he added. \"I recognised I was in serious danger. I tried to stay as calm as possible.\"\n\nMr DePape is facing up to 20 years in prison for the attempted kidnapping charge, as well as an additional 30 years for assault on a federal official's family member.\n\nAfter the incident, Mr Pelosi spent six days in hospital. In addition to a fractured skull, he also suffered injuries to his arm and hand.\n\nAccording to court documents, Mr DePape broke into the Pelosi home with a hammer on 28 October last year. Once inside, he asked for Mrs Pelosi, who was not home at the time.\n\nOfficers responding to a 911 call from Mr Pelosi found both men gripping a hammer.\n\nWhen asked to drop the weapon, Mr DePape abruptly swung the hammer at Mr Pelosi before being subdued by officers. The entire encounter was caught on body camera footage played in court on Monday.\n\nMr Pelosi told the court that he had attempted to put the incident out of his mind ever since.\n\n\"I have not discussed this incident with anybody. And I have encouraged my family not to either,\" he said. \"I have tried to put it out of my mind. It wasn't until [the prosecutor's] meeting with you and your associates that I talked about this. I've made the best effort that I possibly can to not relive this.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, jurors heard from several police officers who saw footage of the incident or collected the electronics Mr DePape was carrying. One of the witnesses, an FBI special agent, testified that the footage showed Mr DePape striking Mr Pelosi three times.\n\nIn court last week, Mr DePape's public defender, Jodi Linker, told jurors that his client believed conspiracy theories with \"every ounce of his being\" but had not been motivated by Mrs Pelosi's political status.\n\nProsecutors, however, have alleged that Mr DePape was looking for Mrs Pelosi as part of a \"plan of violence\". When he was arrested, he had zip ties and duct tape in his possession.\n\nFollowing the incident, Mr DePape allegedly told investigators that he had a \"target list\" and planned to hold Mrs Pelosi captive and break \"her kneecaps\" if she did not reveal \"the truth\". He referred to her as the \"leader of the pack of lies\".\n\nMr DePape is also facing separate state charges stemming from the incident, including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and residential burglary.\n\nHe could face life in prison if convicted of the more serious charges. He has pleaded not guilty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Suella Braverman, who was sacked as home secretary by Rishi Sunak after she defied No 10 over an article accusing the Metropolitan Police of bias in the policing of protests, has sent a scathing open letter to her old boss.\n\nThank you for your phone call yesterday morning in which you asked me to leave government. While disappointing, this is for the best.\n\nIt has been my privilege to serve as home secretary and deliver on what the British people have sent us to Westminster to do.\n\nI want to thank all of those civil servants, police, Border Force officers and security professionals with whom I have worked and whose dedication to public safety is exemplary.\n\nI am proud of what we achieved together: delivering on our manifesto pledge to recruit 20,000 new police officers and enacting new laws such as the Public Order Act 2023 and the National Security Act 2023.\n\nI also led a programme of reform: on anti-social behaviour, police dismissals and standards, reasonable lines of enquiry, grooming gangs, knife crime, non-crime hate incidents and rape and serious sexual offences.\n\nAnd I am proud of the strategic changes that I was delivering to Prevent, Contest, serious organised crime and fraud. I am sure that this work will continue with the new ministerial team.\n\nAs you know, I accepted your offer to serve as home secretary in October 2022 on certain conditions.\n\nDespite you having been rejected by a majority of party members during the summer leadership contest and thus having no personal mandate to be prime minister, I agreed to support you because of the firm assurances you gave me on key policy priorities. These were, among other things:\n\nThis was a document with clear terms to which you agreed in October 2022 during your second leadership campaign. I trusted you. It is generally agreed that my support was a pivotal factor in winning the leadership contest and thus enabling you to become prime minister.\n\nFor a year, as home secretary I have sent numerous letters to you on the key subjects contained in our agreement, made requests to discuss them with you and your team, and put forward proposals on how we might deliver these goals.\n\nI worked up the legal advice, policy detail and action to take on these issues. This was often met with equivocation, disregard and a lack of interest.\n\nYou have manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver on every single one of these key policies. Either your distinctive style of government means you are incapable of doing so. Or, as I must surely conclude now, you never had any intention of keeping your promises.\n\nThese are not just pet interests of mine. They are what we promised the British people in our 2019 manifesto which led to a landslide victory. They are what people voted for in the 2016 Brexit Referendum.\n\nOur deal was no mere promise over dinner, to be discarded when convenient and denied when challenged.\n\nI was clear from day one that if you did not wish to leave the ECHR, the way to securely and swiftly deliver our Rwanda partnership would be to block off the ECHR, the HRA and any other obligations which inhibit our ability to remove those with no right to be in the UK. Our deal expressly referenced \"notwithstanding clauses\" to that effect.\n\nYour rejection of this path was not merely a betrayal of our agreement, but a betrayal of your promise to the nation that you would do \"whatever it takes\" to stop the boats.\n\nAt every stage of litigation I cautioned you and your team against assuming we would win. I repeatedly urged you to take legislative measures that would better secure us against the possibility of defeat. You ignored these arguments. You opted instead for wishful thinking as a comfort blanket to avoid having to make hard choices. This irresponsibility has wasted time and left the country in an impossible position.\n\nIf we lose in the Supreme Court, an outcome that I have consistently argued we must be prepared for, you will have wasted a year and an Act of Parliament, only to arrive back at square one.\n\nWorse than this, your magical thinking - believing that you can will your way through this without upsetting polite opinion - has meant you have failed to prepare any sort of credible Plan B.\n\nI wrote to you on multiple occasions setting out what a credible Plan B would entail, and making clear that unless you pursue these proposals, in the event of defeat, there is no hope of flights this side of an election. I received no reply from you.\n\nI can only surmise that this is because you have no appetite for doing what is necessary, and therefore no real intention of fulfilling your pledge to the British people.\n\nIf, on the other hand, we win in the Supreme Court, because of the compromises that you insisted on in the Illegal Migration Act, the government will struggle to deliver our Rwanda partnership in the way that the public expects.\n\nThe Act is far from secure against legal challenge. People will not be removed as swiftly as I originally proposed. The average claimant will be entitled to months of process, challenge, and appeal. Your insistence that Rule 39 indications are binding in international law - against the views of leading lawyers, as set out in the House of Lords - will leave us vulnerable to being thwarted yet again by the Strasbourg Court.\n\nAnother cause for disappointment - and the context for my recent article in The Times - has been your failure to rise to the challenge posed by the increasingly vicious antisemitism and extremism displayed on our streets since Hamas's terrorist atrocities of 7 October.\n\nI have become hoarse urging you to consider legislation to ban the hate marches and help stem the rising tide of racism, intimidation and terrorist glorification threatening community cohesion.\n\nBritain is at a turning point in our history and faces a threat of radicalisation and extremism in a way not seen for 20 years.\n\nI regret to say that your response has been uncertain, weak, and lacking in the qualities of leadership that this country needs. Rather than fully acknowledge the severity of this threat, your team disagreed with me for weeks that the law needed changing.\n\nAs on so many other issues, you sought to put off tough decisions in order to minimise political risk to yourself. In doing so, you have increased the very real risk these marches present to everyone else.\n\nIn October of last year you were given an opportunity to lead our country. It is a privilege to serve and one we should not take for granted. Service requires bravery and thinking of the common good.\n\nIt is not about occupying the office as an end in itself.\n\nSomeone needs to be honest: your plan is not working, we have endured record election defeats, your resets have failed and we are running out of time. You need to change course urgently.\n\nI may not have always found the right words, but I have always striven to give voice to the quiet majority that supported us in 2019. I have endeavoured to be honest and true to the people who put us in these privileged positions.\n\nI will, of course, continue to support the government in pursuit of policies which align with an authentic conservative agenda.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Cameron is the biggest upgrade in modern political history.\"\n\nSo texts a former cabinet minister, delighted to see the return of the now Lord Cameron as foreign secretary.\n\nYes, you read that sentence right: Lord Cameron, foreign secretary.\n\nThe accidental instigator of the biggest single moment in British foreign policy in a generation - Brexit - is now the face of British foreign policy, under a Brexit-supporting prime minister.\n\nAccidental, you'll recall, because he called the EU referendum hopeful his argument for Remain would triumph. It didn't, and he was a goner. Or at least he was until today.\n\nThis appointment allows the prime minister to argue he is bringing the Conservative family back together.\n\nDavid Cameron alluded to this, writing on X that he wants to \"be part of the strongest possible team that serves the United Kingdom and that can be presented to the country when the general election is held.\"\n\nThe young, ambitious, then-unknown backbencher who came out for Brexit and defied the then-prime minister is now the prime minister himself, and appoints David Cameron to his cabinet.\n\nLord Cameron, as we will become used to calling him, is well-connected on the international stage, which comes in handy when you're an incoming foreign secretary.\n\nAnd he'll have useful words of advice about winning general elections too.\n\nBut he comes with baggage: what he has been up to since leaving politics. Here's an article I wrote two and a half years ago about the Greensill affair, for a start.\n\nAnd what do those post-Brexit referendum Conservatives - many elected in 2019 - make of David Cameron's return?\n\nFor a good number, not a lot. The Remain-campaigning, austerity-delivering former premier is a rather different Conservative from many of them.\n\n\"Just because something is a marmalade dropper, doesn't make it a good idea,\" says one figure on today's big surprise.\n\nThey argue it is a \"big strategic blunder to kill off the change message they were trying to land by bringing back the Tory PM who started 13 years of failure.\"\n\nAnd yes, just a month or so ago, Rishi Sunak was portraying himself as the change candidate - and in so doing defining himself against people like….David Cameron.\n\nAnd here's a question: what next for Suella Braverman, the now former home secretary?\n\nThere are those loyal to her who say this is far from the last we will hear from her.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Supreme Court will announce whether the government's Rwanda migration plan can happen - sending some people who've arrived in the UK to east Africa.\n\nIf, as many in government expect, ministers lose and the Supreme Court says no, expect to see Mrs Braverman argue that the UK should leave the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\n\"It'll be like Brexit 2.0\" is how one senior figure described it to me - with the same capacity to divide the Conservative Party.\n\nMrs Braverman would love to lead the Tories one day.\n\nOh, and allies of the former home secretary are gathering for a meeting in Parliament this afternoon.\n\nRemember, this is a reshuffle still under way. All the indications are that it has breadth as well as depth - with changes at every rank within government.", "Queer Eye's resident interior designer Bobby Berk said season eight would be his last show\n\nQueer Eye co-host Bobby Berk has announced he is leaving the Netflix show with a \"heavy heart\".\n\nIn a post on Instagram, the interior design expert said the upcoming eighth season of the makeover show would be his last.\n\nHe explained it had \"not been an easy decision\" but a \"necessary one\". The 42-year-old has been on the show since its reboot on Netflix in 2018.\n\nThe Queer Eye cast said Bobby would \"forever\" be part of the Fab Five.\n\nReacting to the announcement, fellow Queer Eye presenter Jonathan Van Ness said: \"One of a kind and such a star. Love you Bobby.\"\n\nSpeaking of Bobby, the show's food and wine expert Antoni Porowski said: \"#Foreverthefab5 indeed, and don't forget it.\"\n\n\"I'm about to be at Netflix's door and e-mails telling them you can't leave! Who is coming with me? I love you!\" said co-host Karamo Brown.\n\nAnnouncing his departure from the Emmy Award-winning showon social media on Monday, Bobby said: \"Although my journey with Queer Eye is over, my journey with you is not. You will be seeing more of me very soon.\"\n\nThanking the show's fans, he added they had \"embraced me and accepted me for who I am\".\n\nFans on social media have reacted with surprise to the announcement.\n\n\"Woken up to find out that Bobby Berk is leaving Queer Eye. What is this?!\", tweeted one fan.\n\n\"I am officially in a state of mourning pls don't contact me for the next 7-10 working days,\" said another.\n\n\"So do they just like replace Bobby with someone new on Queer Eye,\" asked one fan.\n\nNetflix has not provided information on whether there will be a replacement for Bobby in the ninth season of the show.\n\nBobby has not given an explicit reason for his decision to leave.\n\nHis announcement comes three months after he announced his father's death in August.\n\nHe has previously spoken about how, at the age of 15, he left home because he did not feel able to come out as gay in his religious family and community in Missouri.\n\nHe ended up living in his car and with friends, before later becoming the creative director of a furnishing company and then launching his own interior design business.\n\nQueer Eye has appeared on Netflix since 2018", "Suella Braverman told reporters she \"will have more to say in due course\" over her sacking\n\nSuella Braverman has been sacked as home secretary, after she defied No 10 over an article accusing the Metropolitan Police of bias in the policing of protests.\n\nMrs Braverman was accused of stoking tension ahead of protests in London.\n\nJames Cleverly is her replacement at the Home Office, with former prime minister David Cameron unexpectedly replacing him as foreign secretary.\n\nShe said serving as home secretary was \"the greatest privilege of my life\".\n\nMrs Braverman's sacking kickstarted a major cabinet reshuffle by Rishi Sunak, as he reshapes his top team ahead of next week's Autumn Statement.\n\nSteve Barclay has replaced Therese Coffey as environment secretary, with Treasury minister Victoria Atkins promoted to replace him as health secretary.\n\nMeanwhile, former transport minister Richard Holden has been appointed Tory party chairman, and Laura Trott becomes chief secretary to the Treasury, replacing John Glen.\n\nDavid Cameron has been out of Parliament since he stood down as prime minister in 2016 and has been given a seat in the House of Lords to enable him to take up his new position.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are calling for his peerage to be blocked, referring to his lobbying for collapsed finance company Greensill Capital.\n\nSenior Labour MP Pat McFadden said the former PM's appointment \"puts to bed the prime minister's laughable claim to offer change from 13 years of Tory failure\".\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has said he has asked parliamentary officials for advice on how MPs can hold Lord Cameron to account, adding this is particularly important amid current international crises.\n\nDavid Cameron stood down as prime minster after losing the 2016 Brexit referendum\n\nLord Cameron said he wanted to be \"part of the strongest possible team that serves the United Kingdom\" ahead of the general election.\n\n\"Though I may have disagreed with some individual decisions, it is clear to me that Rishi Sunak is a strong and capable prime minister, who is showing exemplary leadership at a difficult time,\" he said.\n\nIn July, Mr Cleverly said he would have to be dragged out of his foreign secretary job \"with nail marks down the parquet flooring\".\n\nBut on Monday, Mr Cleverly said it has been a \"huge privilege\" to serve as foreign secretary, and that being home secretary was a \"fantastic job\".\n\nHe refused to be drawn on whether he would distance himself from Mrs Braverman's time in the Home Office. \"I intend to do this job in the way that I feel best protects the British people and our interests,\" he said.\n\nMr Cleverly inherits some major challenges from his predecessor.\n\nTop of the pile is the still raging row over pro-Palestinian protests in London. Downing Street is understood to want him immediately to review police powers to make it easier to ban marches and prosecute those glorifying terrorism.\n\nLess than two days into the job, Mr Cleverly will have to deal with a Supreme Court decision on the lawfulness of the government's Rwanda policy.\n\nEven if the government wins, the policy is likely to see further legal challenges from individual asylum seekers attempting to avoid being sent to Rwanda.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSince her elevation to home secretary by former PM Liz Truss, Mrs Braverman has been seen as a standard bearer for the right in the Conservative Party.\n\nIn a statement, Mrs Braverman said: \"I will have more to say in due course\", leading to speculation she may cause trouble for the leadership.\n\nShe lost her job following days of a political firestorm sparked when she wrote an article for the Times newspaper, accusing the police of applying a \"double standard\", by taking a tougher stance with right-wing demonstrations.\n\nIt later emerged Mrs Braverman had defied a Downing Street request to tone the article down.\n\nLabour, the Liberal Democrats and some Tory MPs had called for Mrs Braverman to be sacked.\n\nShadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said Mrs Braverman's actions were \"highly irresponsible\" and inflamed tensions, making the job of the police harder.\n\nShe said the \"buck stops\" with Mr Sunak, who should \"never have reappointed\" Mrs Braverman.\n\nThis is the second time Mrs Braverman has been removed as home secretary. She was forced to resign as Mrs Truss home secretary after it was revealed she had shared confidential cabinet papers with long-time ally Tory MP Sir John Hayes.\n\nMrs Braverman's return as home secretary for Rishi Sunak was a political surprise. Under his leadership, she carved out a reputation as a right-wing outrider in Mr Sunak's government often grabbing headlines with her comments.\n\nSir Jacob Rees-Mogg called Mrs Braverman's sacking \"a mistake\" that will hit the Conservatives' chances of winning the next general election.\n\n\"Suella understands what the country thinks about migration,\" Sir Jacob told GB News and she was \"determined to get it down\".\n\nThere were suggestions she was a \"politically useful pressure valve\" for Mr Sunak - allowing him to indirectly signal approval for right-wing populist policies without having to make those statements himself.\n\nBut that appears to be at an end, with the return of Lord Cameron - who headed a coalition government with the Lib Dems - shoring up the Conservatives' liberal wing.", "The government is yet to decide on the future of the tower itself\n\nConstruction of a permanent memorial to those affected by the Grenfell fire could begin in 2026, according to a new report.\n\nThe Grenfell Tower Memorial Commission said the location, on the current site of the tower, should include a garden, monument and space for grieving.\n\nIt has called on the government to honour a commitment to fund the building and its long-term maintenance.\n\nThe government said it was \"committed\" to supporting the Grenfell community.\n\nSeventy-two people died in the fire in west London in June 2017.\n\nThe commission, made up of representatives of the bereaved, survivors, local residents as well as two independent co-chairs, was set up to ensure the community was at the heart of decisions on the long-term future of the site.\n\nIts latest report sets out a series of recommendations for a \"sacred space\" designed to be a \"peaceful place for remembering and reflecting\".\n\nViews on using parts of the tower itself in any lasting memorial were mixed, the commission said, with some people saying it should be used, while \"others do not agree\".\n\nIt said it would \"work through how we can respect the sensitivities on all sides\".\n\nThe commission also stated that any parts of the tower not used for a memorial should be \"respectfully laid to rest at a second site\".\n\nThe tower in North Kensington, is currently covered in a protective wrap, adorned with a green heart and the words \"forever in our hearts\".\n\nIn conducting their research, the commission looked at memorials to other tragedies around the world including the Aberfan memorial in Wales, 7/7 in London and the 9/11 memorial in the US.\n\nOther memorials were looked at by the commission including one in Hyde Park to honour victims of the 7/7 terror attacks\n\nPotential suggestions included using light to depict the height of Grenfell Tower, similar to the 9/11 memorial, or columns lit up with green hearts.\n\nWhile an exact timeline is not certain, the group said the memorial design could start in 2025 and the build could begin from late 2026, depending on a government decision about the future of the tower.\n\nThe commission said: \"Everyone agrees that if Grenfell Tower comes down, it should be dismantled with care and respect, and in a way that honours our loved ones who were taken from us.\"\n\nResponding to the report, Housing Secretary Michael Gove said: \"My department will continue to work with the commission to take forward their recommendations for a lasting and fitting memorial.\"\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hospital bosses in England are warning a lack of funds means they are having to scale back on plans to open extra beds to cope with winter.\n\nThe warning, from NHS Providers, which represents managers, came after the Treasury rejected pleas for an extra £1bn to cover the cost of strikes.\n\nRecruitment to plug gaps in the workforce was also having to be put on hold, NHS Providers said.\n\nBut the government said winter planning was on track.\n\nIt pointed out the goal to open 10,000 \"virtual\" hospitals beds had been met. This is where doctors remotely monitor patients with conditions such as respiratory and heart problems who would otherwise have to be in hospital.\n\nProgress was also being made on opening 5,000 new permanent hospital beds - a 5% increase in numbers, the government said.\n\n\"We recognise the challenges the NHS faces over the coming months, which is why we started preparing for winter earlier than ever,\" a Department of Health and Social Care spokesman added.\n\nBut NHS Providers said the steps being taken may be insufficient.\n\nEvery winter, to cope with surges in demand, hospitals open extra escalation beds for short periods.\n\nBut this year, hospital bosses say, these beds are at risk. And so is staff recruitment - currently one in 10 posts is vacant.\n\nIndustrial action is estimated to have cost the health service £1bn this year.\n\nBut last week, it was confirmed the Treasury would be giving the NHS only an extra £100m to cover the cost of strikes.\n\nThe NHS has been told to find the remaining £900m through savings in others areas such as information technology (IT) and maintenance as well as using £200m of winter money.\n\nBosses at just over half of trusts responded to an NHS Providers' survey.\n\nThree-quarters said they were facing a worse financial situation than last year, putting patients' safety at risk.\n\nThere was \"palpable frustration\" at the Treasury's unwillingness to provide extra funding, NHS Providers Chief Executive Sir Julian Hartley said. And it would be \"really difficult\" to reduce the number of people waiting for treatment, which the government has made a key priority.\n\nFigures published last week showed a record 7.8 million people on the waiting list.\n\nThere was a \"sense of dread\" doctors would call further strikes as winter hit, Sir Julian said, with last year having seen record waits for ambulances and in accident-and-emergency departments.\n\nPreliminary talks between the British Medical Association and Steve Barclay had begun, before he was replaced as health secretary, by Victoria Atkins, on Monday.\n\nAre you affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Artificial Intelligence could save lives by warning where a hurricane will hit land much sooner than traditional forecasting systems, researchers say.\n\nA new AI tool from Google DeepMind predicted where September's hurricane Lee would make landfall in Canada three days ahead of existing methods.\n\nWeather forecasts have become much more accurate over the decades.\n\nBut AI's speed and ability to analyse past events to make predictions make it a game-changer, say scientists.\n\nAn accurate weather forecast is useful to tell you what to wear when you go out in the morning but - much more importantly - can forewarn us of extreme weather like storms, floods and heatwaves, giving communities crucial time to prepare.\n\nHowever, traditional weather forecasts take vast amounts of computing power.\n\nThey involve creating estimates of hundreds of factors including air pressure, temperature, wind speeds and humidity at different levels of the atmosphere around the globe.\n\nA new AI tool called GraphCast created by Google DeepMind outperforms the European Medium Range Weather Forecasting model - one the best in the world - on more than 90% of those factors, according to a peer-reviewed paper published by DeepMind in the journal Science.\n\nGraphCast produces its forecasts in less than a minute, using a fraction of the computing power of traditional forecasting methods because it takes a very different approach.\n\nWeather forecasts prepare us for a rainy day out, but they also warn of potentially deadly weather events\n\nTraditional weather forecasting involves taking measurements of what is happening in the atmosphere right now.\n\nThe best models take in hundreds of millions of readings from around the world every day.\n\nThese come from a huge range of sources including weather stations, satellites, balloons sent up in the atmosphere, buoys in the ocean - even readings taken by sensors on the noses of commercial jet planes.\n\n\"We then use our model to select which are going to be the most important,\" explains Matthew Chantry, of the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ECMRWF) who says about 10 million of the measurements will be used for one of its forecasts.\n\nThis ocean of data is fed into a supercomputer to be processed by programmes which can do quadrillions (a thousand trillion) of calculations every second. These use complex equations to simulate what happens in the Earth's atmosphere to predict how the weather will change and evolve over time.\n\nThis method has been extraordinarily successful. As the models have improved and the computers have got more powerful over the decades, weather forecasts have got significantly more accurate.\n\nBut these numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, as they are known, take vast amounts of computer resources, using some of the biggest supercomputers in the world and typically take hours to produce their forecasts.\n\nAI shortcuts much of this effort. It does not try to model how the world works.\n\nInstead, GraphCast uses machine learning to digest vast quantities of historical data - including the output of the ECMRWF model - to learn how weather patterns evolve.\n\nIt uses this knowledge to predict how the weather now is likely to change in the future.\n\nAnd it is proving very effective.\n\n\"The main advantage of this AI approach is that it's extremely accurate,\" said Remy Lam of Google DeepMind, who helped create the weather tool.\n\n\"It learns from decades of data and is able to be more accurate than the industry gold standard,\" he says.\n\nAnd, because it does not try to solve complex equations, it can make its forecasts very quickly and using much less computing power.\n\nGraphCast's forecasts are not as detailed as those produced by the ECMRWF but it is better at predicting severe events like extreme temperatures and at tracking the path of big storms.\n\nIt accurately predicted where Hurricane Lee, a storm that hit the Atlantic coast of the US and Canada in September, would make landfall, for example.\n\nDeep Mind's AI tool predicted its path nine days ahead, the ECMRWF only managed six days ahead.\n\nBut the success of GraphCast does not mean we can shut down the supercomputers and rely on AI instead.\n\nEven Remy Lam from Google DeepMind says that will not happen.\n\n\"We are standing on the shoulders of giants to build those models\", he says.\n\nRather than replacing traditional weather forecasts AI models will complement them, he believes.\n\n\"AI models are trained from data and that data is generated by traditional approaches, so we still need the traditional approach to gather data to train the model,\" says Mr Lam.\n\nGraphCast is open source which means Google DeepMind is sharing the details of the design so anyone can use the technology.\n\nMany technology companies and weather and climate organisations around the world are designing their own AI weather prediction tools.\n\nThe Met Office, the UK's national weather service, is working with the Turing Institute, the country's data science centre to explore the potential for AI to improve weather forecasting, for example.\n\n\"Weather forecasts derived from artificial intelligence and machine learning are taking huge leaps forward,\" acknowledges Prof Simon Vosper, the Met Office's Director of Science.\n\nBut he warns climate change will limit the predictive power of AI based tools.\n\n\"We are seeing new climate-related weather extremes, such as last year's 40C temperatures in the UK that would haven't been realised in former times\", says Prof Vosper.\n\nHurricane Otis became a category five storm in just 24 hours\n\nThe way extreme weather systems evolve may also be changing.\n\nHurricane Otis rapidly intensified from a tropical storm into the strongest category 5 hurricane over just 24 hours in October before making devastating landfall on the coast of southern Mexico.\n\nClimate scientists warn rising ocean temperatures are likely to make this process of rapid intensification of storms more common.\n\n\"So it is fair to question whether AI-based systems are able to pick up new extremes if these systems have only been 'trained' on previous weather conditions,\" suggests Prof Vosper.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emad Abuaassi says he and his family had to leave their flat in the middle of the night\n\nA British family who fled Gaza with only a small suitcase between six of them have said they do not know what the future now holds and they fear for the lives of those left behind.\n\nEmad Abuaassi and his wife Stephanie moved to Gaza from Blackpool a year ago, to be closer to his family.\n\nAfter the conflict began they left their flat in the middle of the night.\n\nThey crossed the border into Egypt on 3 November and flew back to the UK but do not have anywhere permanent to live.\n\nEmad Abuassi said their family home in northern Gaza had been completely destroyed and he was worried for the safety of his mother, brothers and sisters in southern Gaza.\n\n\"This is the saddest moment I have been across in my whole life,\" he said.\n\n\"When I left the border I was looking behind me like just measuring who's going to be alive and who's going to have died after all this.\n\n\"Everybody's life there is in danger.\n\n\"Could be my mom passed away tomorrow, my brother, my cousin, my neighbour my friend.\"\n\nStephanie Abuaassi has been without medication\n\nHe and his wife and four children have been housed in emergency hotel accommodation in Cardiff and are waiting to hear about temporary housing.\n\nThey are anxious for the children to resume schooling, after their education came to an abrupt end on 7 October.\n\nThey also need medical aid, as Mrs Abuaassi has also been without the medication she needs for 15 days.\n\nThe couple's 14-year-old son said he was also worried about his relatives in Gaza who were all staying together in one house, but that he was happy to be back in the UK in emergency hotel accommodation.\n\n\"It's better than being in a flat with 50 people,\" he said.\n\n\"I mean it's nice having a bed to sleep on instead of sleeping on the mattress on the floor.\"\n\nHe and his two brothers and younger sister are sharing two hotel rooms with their parents as they wait to find out if they can be housed.\n\nHe said he missed studying and wanted to return to education.\n\n\"As soon as we get settled, we can start to get into school and that was kind of the most important thing right now to get into school,\" he said.\n\n\"So yeah, we need to get a house.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The letter also urges Rishi Sunak to call for a ceasefire\n\nA British-Palestinian group has written to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, asking for an \"urgent meeting\" about Gaza.\n\nThe letter also urges the UK government to \"use its influence\" to call for a ceasefire.\n\nIt was sent, earlier on Monday, by the UK-based International Centre of Justice for Palestinians.\n\nThe ICJP said it was speaking \"on behalf of members of the Palestinian community in the UK with families and loved ones living in Gaza\".\n\nThe group said it wanted a meeting \"to express our concerns, similar to the meetings you have had with other British communities who have families in the region who have experienced distress similar to ours\".\n\nCalls for humanitarian pauses were \"inadequate\", it said. And the government's failure to call for a ceasefire \"is putting our loved ones in danger and is contributing to an unprecedented humanitarian crisis\".\n\n\"It also ignores our voices as British citizens with friends and family under attack in Gaza,\" the ICJP said.\n\nA spokesperson for the UK government told the BBC that it had \"helped more than 150 British nationals and dependents to leave Gaza so far\".\n\n\"We must see humanitarian pauses that allow enough time for hostages to be released, as well as aid to go in,\" it said.\n\nIt said the Foreign Office was in regular contact with those who remained in Gaza, \"and our teams are working around the clock with the Israeli and Egyptian authorities to ensure they can leave as quickly as possible\".\n\nSix British-Palestinians told a press conference dozens of their family members had been killed in Gaza.\n\nLubaba Khalid, who stepped down from chairing the Young BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) Labour network last month, over comments made by Labour leader Keir Starmer, said she had found out on social media her relatives had been killed.\n\n\"Due to the lack of electricity and networks, we have found it very difficult keep in touch with family members just to check if they're alive,\" she said.\n\n\"As a result, I found out my great uncle's house was bombed, on the social-media platform X [formerly known as Twitter] before I could get any confirmation from my own family.\"\n\nSix members of her family had been killed in that bombing, she said, five of them children.\n\nAccountant Omar Mofeed accused the UK government of \"double standards\" in its treatment of those evacuating Gaza.\n\nNon-British family members of British nationals who have fled Gaza and are now in Cairo currently need to apply for British family visas from Egypt.\n\nAnd Mr Mofeed pointed to the visa schemes available to those fleeing war in Ukraine, including the Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme - also known as Homes for Ukraine - and the Ukraine Family Scheme, both of which are free for those applying.\n\nThe Foreign Office has previously told BBC News it is working with the Home Office to process visas for non-British family members of British nationals who have left Gaza.", "Russell Brand worked as a presenter on Radio 2 and 6 Music between 2006 and 2008\n\nThe BBC has said a total of five complaints were made about Russell Brand's behaviour while he hosted radio shows between 2006 and 2008.\n\nTwo of these complaints were made in the last two months, since a review of his time at the BBC was launched.\n\nThose two complaints are understood to relate to his workplace conduct, and are not of a serious sexual nature.\n\nThe other three were made before he was publicly accused in September of rape and sexual assault, which he denies.\n\nOne was first made in 2019 and relates to a previously reported allegation of misconduct while on BBC premises in Los Angeles in 2008.\n\nTwo complaints were made during Brand's time working as a presenter for BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music.\n\nThe BBC's director of editorial complaints and reviews, Peter Johnston, is conducting the review into Brand's behaviour at the time, whether managers knew about any allegations, and what action they took.\n\nEarlier this year, the comedian and actor was accused of rape and sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013 as part of an investigation by the Sunday Times, Times and Channel 4's Dispatches.\n\nBrand strongly denied the allegations and said his relationships were \"always consensual\".\n\nThe investigation also included claims about his wider behaviour towards women and his workplace conduct over the same period.\n\nThe BBC announced in September that it was \"urgently looking into the issues raised\" by the allegations.\n\nOne claim was that Brand had teenage girls driven to his home via BBC cars. However, the interim update from Mr Johnston said: \"Due to the passage of time the BBC's records of car bookings are no longer available.\n\n\"This means that we have not been able to identify the precise details of this or any records or details of specific journeys or bookings made for Russell Brand.\" He added investigations would continue.\n\nMore recently, Brand has been carving out a career on social media\n\nIn his update, Johnston said the review of Brand's behaviour was \"not a straightforward task\".\n\n\"For example,\" he continued, \"the BBC did not maintain a centralised record of staff complaints regarding bullying and harassment (including sexual harassment) at the time.\"\n\nHe added: \"Although my work is in no way complete and therefore I cannot yet reach any conclusions, it would appear that no disciplinary action was taken against Russell Brand during his engagement with the BBC in 2006- 2008 prior to his departure from the BBC.\"\n\nIn addition to the complaints made against Brand, Johnston said: \"It is also clear from audience feedback that there was a wider concern about the tone and content of some of Russell Brand's shows.\"\n\nJohnston said audience concerns related to the \"general tone, topics and language\" of Brand's radio programmes, adding that although these are outside the review's remit, he would consider whether they should have \"raised alarms within the BBC\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police and Thames Valley Police are investigating Brand in the wake of the allegations against him.\n\nThe star has denied \"very serious criminal allegations\" and \"extremely egregious and aggressive attacks\", which he said he \"absolutely refutes\".\n\nAlthough the alleged assaults are not said to have taken place on BBC premises, the claims raised questions for the broadcaster and the wider industry.\n\nChannel 4, where Brand also worked as a presenter, is conducting its own internal investigation. There is also no suggestion that any alleged assaults took place on the channel's premises.\n\nAnother company, Banijay UK, has also commissioned its own investigation. Endemol, the production company behind shows Brand appeared on in the mid-noughties such as Big Brother's Big Mouth, was bought by Banijay in 2020.\n\nHe has also been accused of sexually assaulting an extra on a film set in a civil lawsuit filed in the US. Brand has yet to respond to the legal action.\n\nJohnston encouraged anyone with relevant information to come forward, and said he hoped to provide substantive outcomes from his research in the New Year.", "Leaked documents reveal a money trail linking oligarch Roman Abramovich to two men dubbed \"wallets\" of President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe former Chelsea Football Club owner has been sanctioned by the UK and EU but has previously denied any financial relationship with the Russian leader.\n\nNow, leaked documents from Cyprus reveal new evidence linking him to a secret $40m (£26m) deal in 2010.\n\nMr Abramovich has not responded to requests for comment from the BBC.\n\nThe secret deal transferred shares in a highly profitable Russian advertising company, Video International - for less than they appeared to be worth - from companies ultimately owned by a trust connected with Mr Abramovich, to two members of Putin's inner circle. They in turn received millions of dollars in dividends.\n\nConfidential records reveal that one of the men involved in the secret deal was Sergei Roldugin, a close friend of the Russian president.\n\nA cellist, Mr Roldugin is the artistic director of the St Petersburg Music House. He has known Vladimir Putin since they were young men in St Petersburg, and is reported to have introduced him to Lyudmila Shkrebneva, whom the future president married in 1983 (they are now divorced). Mr Roldugin is the godfather of their first daughter, Maria.\n\nSergei Roldugin is an accomplished cellist and close friend of Vladimir Putin\n\nThe second man is another close associate of President Putin - Alexander Plekhov, a biochemist-turned-businessman, also from St Petersburg.\n\nMr Roldugin and Mr Plekhov have both been accused of being \"wallets\" for President Putin - secretly holding money and assets on his behalf.\n\nEarlier this year, Swiss prosecutors alleged they were \"straw men\", and not the real owners of assets in bank accounts set up in connection with the Video International deal.\n\nThe court did not identify anyone as the true ultimate beneficial owner of the accounts.\n\nPresident Putin's stated salary in 2021 was just over $100,000 (£72,700). However, there are rumours his fortune could be worth anywhere between $125bn (£102bn) and $200bn (£164bn), hidden away in a network of shell companies and the accounts of friends.\n\nMr Plekhov has been sanctioned by the UK government, and Mr Roldugin has also been sanctioned by the UK, the EU and the US, which described him as a \"custodian of President Putin's offshore wealth\".\n\nAlexander Plekhov has been sanctioned by the UK government\n\nThe Cyprus Confidential investigation is based on 3.6 million confidential corporate records from companies providing offshore services in Cyprus, and has focused on its close financial relationship with Russia and now-sanctioned oligarchs, many of whom have used the island to manage their secret offshore holdings.\n\nThey include documents from a corporate service provider in Cyprus called MeritServus, originally obtained by the whistleblowing group Distributed Denial of Secrets. MeritServus was itself sanctioned by the UK earlier this year, after internal documents revealed it had breached sanctions on behalf of one of its Russian clients.\n\nCypriot company MeritServus was sanctioned earlier this year over dealings with a Russian client\n\nMeritServus also worked with Mr Abramovich's companies in Cyprus. The oligarch's wealth totals more than $9bn (£7.3bn) and he has made numerous public investments in sports, arts and high-value properties. He became one of the best-known and influential Russian oligarchs in the UK after buying Chelsea FC in London in 2003.\n\nHe has downplayed his relationship with President Putin, and challenged suggestions of a close financial relationship or that he has acted on behalf of the Russian leader.\n\nIn 2010, a spokesperson for Mr Abramovich said he had \"no financial relationship of any kind with [then] Prime Minister Putin\".\n\nAnd in 2021 he sued journalist Catherine Belton over a passage in her book, Putin's People, referring to evidence alleging that he had purchased Chelsea FC in 2003 at President Putin's behest. The case was settled out of court with an agreement by the publisher \"to record the position more accurately\" and add \"a more detailed explanation of Mr Abramovich's motivations\".\n\nRoman Abramovich at a Chelsea game in 2017, when he was still owner of the west London club\n\nThe UK and EU placed Mr Abramovich under sanctions in March 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe EU said: \"He has had privileged access to the president, and has maintained very good relations with him. This connection with the Russian leader helped him to maintain his considerable wealth.\"\n\nMr Abramovich challenged the EU sanctions in court earlier this year. His lawyer claimed the restrictions were prompted by the Russian businessman's \"celebrity\" rather than \"based on evidence\".\n\nBut the secret deal with Mr Roldugin and Mr Plekhov suggests a close financial relationship between Mr Abramovich and President Putin.\n\n\"This case obviously puts more information onto the table and further endorses the alleged connection between Putin and Abramovich in a way that becomes increasingly difficult to deflect,\" says Tom Keatinge, director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at the defence think tank RUSI.\n\nA complex web of companies in Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands, and a trust, concealed the football tycoon's involvement in the transaction - until now.\n\nLeaked documents reveal the former Chelsea boss's relationship with two companies that bought a combined 25% stake in Video International in 2003.\n\nThe two companies - Finoto Holdings and Grosora Holdings - were created in early 2003. Both were ultimately owned, through a series of shell companies, by the Sara Trust Settlement - a trust of which Mr Abramovich was an ultimate beneficiary.\n\nEach company bought a 12.5% stake in the Russian advertising giant in September 2003 for the same price - about $130,000 (£80,000) each.\n\nThe price paid was \"ridiculous\", says Vladimir Milov, a former energy minister in President Putin's first term and now a vocal opposition leader. \"That stake was clearly worth much more, by many orders of magnitude.\"\n\nAt the time of the purchase, Video International enjoyed a dominant position in the domestic TV advertising market, taking a cut of any advertising airtime purchased on Russian channels.\n\nThe company was \"half a step away from the Kremlin administration\", according to Mr Milov.\n\nMr Abramovich had a stake in Video International for the next seven years. At one point, the company declared a turnover of \"more than $2bn [£1.29bn]\". Dividends of $30m (£19.3m) were paid out to Finoto and Grosora over that period.\n\nVideo International reported revenues of $3bn (£1.9bn) in 2010. However, Finoto and Grosora each sold their investment that year for just $20m (£19.5m), a price that appears to be below its fair market value.\n\nFinoto Holdings sold its stake to Med Media Network, a company nominally owned by Sergei Roldugin.\n\nOn the same day as the Finoto Holdings sale, the other Abramovich-linked company, Grosora Holdings, sold its 12.5% stake to Namiral Trading Ltd, a company later linked to Aleksandr Plekhov.\n\nFinancial links between President Putin and Mr Roldugin were uncovered in 2016 as part of the Panama Papers, which involved the leak of millions of confidential documents from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca.\n\nMr Roldugin, along with Mr Plekhov, was at the centre of a suspected money-laundering scheme run by Bank Rossiya and some of President Putin's closest associates. Bank Rossiya was sanctioned by the US government in 2014, which described it as \"the personal bank for senior officials of the Russian Federation\".\n\nMr Roldugin told the New York Times at that time that he was not a businessman and did not \"have millions\". However, at least on paper, he appeared to have an offshore fortune of over $100m (£61m).\n\n\"Rodulgin clearly serves… as a cover-up for Putin's personal beneficial ownership,\" says Vladimir Milov. \"This guy is absolutely clearly 100% a nominal figure because he does not understand anything about business, finance, international transactions and so on.\"\n\nRevelations in the Panama Papers about bank accounts held by Mr Roldugin in Switzerland, led to an investigation and the trial of four Gazprombank employees earlier this year. The bankers were accused by Swiss prosecutors of failing to properly check accounts opened in the name of Roldugin.\n\nThey were also said to have failed to identify the Russian president's friend as politically exposed - someone whose position or relationships mean that they may be more exposed to risks of corruption, and require more checks under international finance regulations.\n\nAccording to the indictment, accounts with Gazprombank had been simultaneously established for both Med Media Network and Namiral Trading Ltd with an identical \"purpose and structure\" to \"hold shares and receive dividends\" from Video International.\n\nThe prosecutors said the arrangement represented a direct extension of \"assets managed... for the Russian political establishment\".\n\nMr Roldugin and Mr Plekhov were \"straw men\", and not the real beneficiaries of the accounts, the prosecutors alleged.\n\nAll four bankers were convicted, but are reported to be appealing.\n\nThe BBC wrote to Mr Plekhov, Mr Roldugin, Bank Rossiya and President Putin for comment but have received no response.\n\nMany wealthy Russians have used Cyprus, an EU member state, as part of their network of offshore investments. Through these economic relations, Russia is \"worth tens of billions of dollars to the Cyprus economy each year\", says Fergus Shiel of the ICIJ.\n\nThe Cyprus Confidential investigation raises \"grave issues\" for European institutions and EU member states, he continues. \"What we can see in these documents is a European member being a conduit for the secret financial operations of the Kremlin, of Vladimir Putin and his cronies.\"\n\nHowever, there are signs that Cyprus may be cleaning up its act.\n\nFollowing the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many Russians considered close to the financial assets of President Putin were sanctioned by the EU. This has had direct consequences for those with Cypriot investments.\n\n\"The sanctions brought home that Cyprus cannot be used by oligarchs to support the dirty orders of Putin,\" says Alexandra Attalides, an independent Cypriot MP.\n\nMeanwhile, reports suggest Mr Abramovich now spends his time between the Russian resort of Sochi, Istanbul and Tel Aviv. He has Russian, Israeli and also Portuguese passports.\n\nThe oligarch remains the subject of sanctions in the UK and EU, but not in the US, where he is understood to still hold considerable assets.\n\nYou can see more on this story on Newsnight on BBC Two on Tuesday 14 November at 22:30 GMT or on BBC iPlayer", "The inquiry revealed a \"broad range of unacceptable behaviours\" among the 130-strong squadron, based at RAF Waddington\n\nThe Red Arrows display team is in \"special measures\" after a report found predatory behaviour towards women was \"widespread and normalised\".\n\nA recent investigation described a \"toxic culture\" where women suffered sexual harassment and bullying.\n\nDefence minister Andrew Murrison said there had been changes in leadership and the team, based at RAF Waddington, was being closely monitored.\n\nThe Chief of the Air Staff previously said he was appalled by the findings.\n\nSpeaking at a Commons Defence Select Committee, Mr Murrison said no part of defence could expect special treatment over \"unacceptable behaviours\".\n\nThe findings of the investigation, published earlier this month, found behaviour included unwanted physical contact, sexual texts, invitations to engage in sexual activity, and women being seen as \"property\".\n\nA \"bystander culture\" meant such behaviour went unchallenged, it found.\n\nThe investigation was launched in 2021 after three women went to the then-head of the RAF about complaints they had made which had not been addressed by their chain of command. The inquiry covered a period dating back to 2017.\n\nThe defence minister was not specific about the term \"special measures\". But he spoke of a change of leadership and how the squadron was now being monitored very closely.\n\nThe term \"special measures\" is often applied to a failing hospital or school, which has been taken over by outside management.\n\nMr Murrison's comments were very different from those of the Chief of the Air Staff, Sir Richard Knighton. He said he was appalled when he read the investigation into the Red Arrows, but insisted that there were no plans to disband the air display team.\n\nResponding to the report, the RAF admitted part of the problem may have been a view that members of the display team were \"special\".\n\nThe aerobatic display team performs routines on distinctive Hawk fast-jets and, by the beginning of 2023, had performed almost 5,000 displays in 57 countries.\n\nThe RAF said the \"high profile of the team, their regular exposure to VIPs, celebrities and an admiring public… promotes the view among some personnel that they are special and that normal rules and behaviours do not apply to them\".\n\nAir Chief Marshal Knighton offered his \"unreserved apologies\" to anyone who experienced unacceptable behaviour.\n\nHe admitted the reputation of the Red Arrows had been damaged as a result by a \"minority\", but said few of its leadership, air and ground crews from that time were still serving on the squadron.\n\nHe said there were no plans to disband the elite flying display team and that a change of culture, leadership and safeguards had been implemented to address the widespread and normalised \"unacceptable behaviours\" uncovered.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liverpool's Diaz emotional as he reunites with father\n\nColombian football star Luis Díaz has been reunited with his father Luis Manuel Díaz who was released by rebels after holding him hostage for 12 days.\n\nThe Liverpool striker and his father cried as they hugged each other for the first time after the kidnapping ordeal.\n\nLuis Manuel Díaz's abduction by the National Liberation Army (ELN) caused outrage in Colombia and abroad.\n\nThe ELN said it had kidnapped the 58-year-old and his wife for ransom.\n\nThe group quickly released his wife, Cilenis Marulanda, as police closed in but led the amateur football coach into the nearby mountains at gunpoint.\n\nThe ELN leader described the abduction of the popular coach as a \"mistake\" but has insisted that kidnappings for ransom are not a breach of the ceasefire it signed earlier this year.\n\nThe guerrilla group released Luis Manuel Díaz last Thursday to United Nations and Catholic Church officials.\n\nLater that day he was reunited with his wife and other family members, but it was not until now that he was able to embrace his footballer star son.\n\nLuis Díaz has flown to Colombia to train with the national team ahead of its World Cup qualifier against Brazil on Thursday evening in Colombia.\n\nThe player missed two of Liverpool's matches while his father was being held by the rebels but came off the bench during the English Premier League game against Luton on 5 November.\n\nAfter scoring a goal in stoppage time, he pulled up his Liverpool shirt to show a T-shirt underneath bearing the message \"freedom for papa\".\n\nLuis Díaz lifted his shirt to reveal the message \"freedom for papa\"", "The funeral procession arrived outside Old Trafford to huge crowds earlier\n\nFamily, fans and footballers have bid a final farewell to Manchester United and England legend Sir Bobby Charlton.\n\nAbout 1,000 mourners paid their respects to one of the game's all-time greats at his funeral earlier.\n\nCrowds lined the streets as the cortège arrived at Old Trafford to rounds of applause before it travelled on to Manchester Cathedral.\n\nThe Red Devils icon, who made 758 appearances for the club, died at the age of 86 on 21 October.\n\nThe Charlton family and friends were joined by leading figures from across football for the funeral service.\n\nFormer Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, and ex-players Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Roy Keane, Steve Bruce, Paddy Crerand and Andy Cole were among those paying their respects.\n\nCurrent players including Harry Maguire and Luke Shaw were also in attendance along with former manager and player Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and England manager Gareth Southgate.\n\nThe Prince of Wales, who is president of the Football Association, also travelled to Manchester for the private service at the cathedral in the centre of the city.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrince William arrived for the service to bid a final farewell to the football legend\n\nNicky Butt and Roy Keane were also in attendance to pay their respects\n\nThe funeral cortège drove past the stadium's East Stand and the United Trinity statue, which features Charlton, George Best and Denis Law.\n\nRepresentatives of the club's under-18 and under-21 teams formed a guard of honour flanking the statue.\n\nBlack and white photographs depicting Charlton's career as a player and then a director at the club were on display outside the football ground.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fans pay tribute to footballing legend Sir Bobby Charlton ahead of his funeral\n\nThe funeral procession then travelled to the city centre, arriving at the cathedral shortly after 14:00 GMT where mourners had gathered inside.\n\nFormer Manchester United chief executive David Gill, who read the first eulogy, described Charlton as a \"legend, an icon and a very dear and loyal, much-loved colleague and friend\".\n\n\"Football is a tribal sport but Bobby was universally admired,\" Gill said.\n\n\"Bobby's name is synonymous with all that is good about the English game.\"\n\nHis grandson William Balderston read the last of the tributes and recalled a \"creative, fantastic storyteller\" who would make up what he called \"jelly and custard\" tales to entertain and enthral his younger relatives.\n\nHe spoke of his \"depth of gratitude\" to Charlton and his wife Norma, adding: \"They have shown me what devotion really is.\"\n\nThe ceremony was led by Canon Nigel Ashworth and hymns included Abide with Me by Henry Francis Lyte, Brother James' Air by James Leith Macbeth Bain, and Jerusalem by William Blake.\n\nThere was also a musical tribute from opera singer Russell Watson with How Great Thou Art.\n\nFormer Manchester United player Alex Stepney said Charlton was a \"humble guy\"\n\nFans applauded as the cortège passed by Old Trafford\n\nThe private service was held at Manchester Cathedral\n\nThe coffin is carried by pallbearers into the cathedral ahead of the service\n\nWidely hailed as one of England's greatest ever players, Charlton was a key figure in the Three Lions' 1966 World Cup victory.\n\nDuring a 17-year first team career with United he won three league titles, a European Cup and an FA Cup.\n\nFrom 1958 to 1970 he played for England, and achieved 106 caps, a record-breaking 49 goals, the famous 1966 World Cup win, and a Ballon d'Or.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the service, former United player, Bryan Robson, said Charlton was the first to welcome him to the club when he signed for a record fee in 1981.\n\n\"Sir Bob was the first one after I signed the contract to come and say it's a great club, enjoy yourself here,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"It's a sad day for the family, for Manchester United but also for football because he was a fantastic player.\n\n\"But he wasn't just a great player, he was a great person, he had time for everyone and wanted to help everyone.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dan Roan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFans lined the route from Old Trafford to Manchester Cathedral\n\nCharlton's teammate Alex Stepney described him as a \"great family man\", adding his success \"never went to his head\".\n\n\"My memory was meeting him for the first time when I got signed [at United],\" Stepney told the BBC.\n\n\"I knew straight away what a great guy he was, a humble guy.\n\n\"Nothing was over his head or anything like that, it was all about playing for Manchester United.\n\n\"Even on international duty it was about winning and that was what Bobby Charlton was all about.\"\n\nSir Bobby Charlton: The First Gentleman of Football\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Darren was told he was pre-diabetic and needed to change his lifestyle\n\nA routine eye appointment led Darren Rix to discover he was at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes.\n\nHis optometrist found \"a wiggly vein\" in the back of the eye which led to a blood test and pre-diabetes diagnosis.\n\nMr Rix, from Pontardawe, Swansea, then joined a diabetes prevention programme, which is available in parts of Wales.\n\nIt comes as public health experts warn that the number of people in Wales developing diabetes could rise sharply over the next decade.\n\nThere are already 212,716 people with the condition, but that could rise by 22% by 2035 if current trends continue.\n\nIt was once perceived as something that only affected older people, but cases of diabetes in Wales have already risen by 40% in the past 10 years.\n\nType 2 accounts for 90% of cases of diabetes in the UK, and is where the body does not produce enough insulin, or the body's cells do not react to insulin properly.\n\nThis can be prevented through healthy eating, regular exercise and a healthy body weight, and can also be reversed with weight loss.\n\n\"The nurse did say 'it's a lifestyle change you're going to have to make, and if you don't you'll be heading up the scale to full diabetes and taking tablets every day',\" Mr Rix said.\n\nThe warning was enough to prompt the 50-year-old shift worker to reassess his routine.\n\n\"We went through my eating habits, which was embarrassing,\" he said.\n\nHe cut down his sugar intake, but exercising more and re-establishing his love of swimming, which he had not done for about 35 years, has been the biggest change to his lifestyle.\n\n\"My skills of swimming are still there, it's just the physicality and stamina is not there - my brain thinks I'm still young but my body says differently so I have to step back a bit and go slowly at it,\" he said.\n\nDespite that, he has persevered and can now swim a mile in his hour swimming sessions, which he does three times a week.\n\n\"I've been monitoring my weight and I did start off at 14 stone 8lb (92kg), today I'm down to 12 stone 8 (79kg), \" Mr Rix added.\n\n\"I went for my annual blood test and that showed I am out of the pre-diabetic zone, I'm in the normal zone.\"\n\nHe has been advised, however, that he needs to continue living more healthily.\n\nPublic health consultant Dr Amrita Jesurasa said 20 years ago, type 2 diabetes would have been perceived as a condition that affected just older people.\n\n\"But that's the shift we are seeing - not only are there lots more people, but there are lots more people who are younger as well,\" she said.\n\n\"Clinicians report seeing people who are in their 30s and 40s with type 2 diabetes, and that's not an uncommon occurrence, and even younger.\n\n\"That is really concerning, especially as it's preventable and there's something we can do about it.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it was funding the pilot All Wales Diabetes Prevention Programme and was considering the next steps in its long term strategy to prevent and reduce obesity.\n\nPublic Health Wales has put a price on the cost of diabetes, with a medicines bill last year alone of £105m, and related hospital spells costing on average £4,518 per patient.\n\nAmrita Jesurasa is concerned by the rise\n\nThat does not include stays involving amputations, which the condition can lead to.\n\nIn 2021-22, more than 560 people had such surgery in Wales.\n\n\"Diabetes accounts for around 10% of the NHS budget, so it's a really significant financial pressure on the NHS, as well as being really significant for the health and wellbeing of the people of Wales,\" Dr Jesurasa said.\n\nA prevention programme in parts of Wales identifies those at higher risk, and refers them to a healthcare worker to help make lifestyle changes.\n\nSince its launch in June last year, it has helped more than 3,000 people.\n\nDr Jesurasa said many patients on the prevention programme were unaware they were at risk.\n\nCharity Diabetes Cymru said the NHS \"is under a lot of strain\", adding: \"What we're seeing is that people living with diabetes aren't necessarily getting all the checks they need at the right time.\n\n\"And this means their potential for going on to develop some of the awful complications that can come with diabetes, such as amputations, sight loss, heart attack and stroke is more likely, because they aren't getting those routine checks that they need to identify complications in the early stages.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said: \"The Welsh Unified GMS Contract, which sets out what services GP practices must provide, includes that GP practices 'will manage chronic disease in accordance with national guidance and best practice.'\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crocodiles are plentiful in Australia's tropical north, but attacks are relatively uncommon\n\nA search is under way in northern Australia after a former radio host went missing while on a solo fishing trip in crocodile-infested waters.\n\nThe alarm was raised when Roman Butchaski failed to return to his camping ground on Sunday.\n\nSome of his belongings have since been found near a river on Queensland's remote Cape York Peninsula.\n\nMr Butchaski, known as Butch, is an avid angler and a former host of Sydney radio station 2GB's fishing show.\n\nHis former co-host Gavin Pitchford told 2GB that his friend - though a Sydney local - regularly visited the spot on the Olive River, about 600km (370 miles) north of Cairns.\n\n\"I'm devastated. Butchy walks the banks up there regularly. He's been fishing there forever,\" a statement read out on air said.\n\nMr Pitchford also said he feared Mr Butchaski, who is in his 60s and has diabetes, may have suffered a medical episode.\n\nOn Tuesday, police announced more officers would travel to the area to assist the search.\n\nRescue helicopters and crews on the ground have been combing the region since they were alerted on Sunday night.\n\nPolice say the car Mr Butchaski had was found at the river. Local media report some fishing gear was discovered as well.\n\nQueensland Police Senior Sgt Duane Amos told reporters the region is a well-known crocodile habitat, but added that Mr Butchaski is familiar with the area.\n\n\"He was well-prepared for a normal expedition that he has undertaken before,\" the policeman said on Monday.\n\nCrocodiles are plentiful in Australia's tropical north, and while crocodile attacks in the country are uncommon, there have been several this year.\n\nIn February, rangers shot a 4.2m crocodile that attacked a man and ate his dog at a remote boat ramp north of Cairns.\n\nAnd in May, the remains of 65-year-old fisherman Kevin Darmody were found inside a 4.1m crocodile on the nearby Kennedy River - the 13th fatal attack in Queensland since record-keeping began in 1985.", "Five people have been killed in a fire in Channel Close, Hounslow\n\nThree children are among five members of the same family to have died in a house fire in west London.\n\nOne person remains unaccounted for and one man is in hospital after the blaze in Channel Close, Hounslow, on Sunday.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade and the Met Police said they were keeping an \"open mind\" over the cause.\n\nCh Supt Sean Wilson said it was \"truly a terrible incident\" and the loss of lives was causing \"unimaginable stress and pain\".\n\nThe bodies of the five family members were found on the first floor of a terraced property by London Fire Brigade (LFB) crews.\n\nCh Supt Sean Wilson said the cause of the fire was not yet known\n\nThe adults who lived at the home have been named locally as Aroen Kishen and his wife Seema.\n\n\"This is truly a terrible incident the loss of so many lives will cause unimaginable stress and pain to all the families involved,\" Ch Supt Wilson said.\n\n\"Everyone will want to know why this has happened and we will be working tirelessly with London Fire Brigade to find those answers.\"\n\nHe added that his officers would be there to support those in the community enduring \"overwhelming sadness and shock of the tragic loss\".\n\nThe Met also added that no arrests have been made.\n\nDeputy fire commissioner Jonathan Smith said it was too early to know whether fireworks or candles for recent Diwali celebrations were a factor.\n\nHe said firefighters faced a \"significant blaze\" on the ground and first floor when they arrived.\n\nLabour MP for Feltham and Heston, Seema Malhotra said she would be visiting the street later on Monday.\n\nShe said: \"It is utterly devastating. I know that so many have been in touch with me are just… shocked and hugely saddened by this tragic incident in Heston last night.\n\n\"At the moment I have heard nothing about what might have caused this.\n\n\"There hasn't been any suggestion at the moment of what caused the scale of this fire and for it to go through the property so quickly.\"\n\nShe urged everyone to \"keep an open mind\" to what the cause of the fire was, as investigations were under way.\n\nResidents in the area said they saw a lot of smoke at the time, but many fireworks were also being let off for Diwali.\n\nNick Marbrow, who lives on Sutton Road, said: \"When I went to bed last night, I could see a lot of smoke.\n\n\"I could see an unusual amount of smoke, but then it is Diwali, there were fireworks going off.\"\n\nThe cause of the fire is under investigation and no arrests have been made\n\nAshish Sosniah, who was passing the street on his way to temple, said he saw fireworks going off \"for an hour\" between 20:00 GMT and 21:00.\n\nMr Sosniah said that when he next passed at around 23:30 there were emergency services at the scene.\n\nThe mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: \"My thoughts are with the victims, their loved ones and the wider community following this terrible fire in Hounslow in which five people tragically lost their lives including three children.\"\n\nLondon Fire commissioner Andy Roe said: \"This is a terribly sad incident and the thoughts of all of us at London Fire Brigade are with the family, friends and all those affected at this difficult time.\n\n\"Staff will be in the local community today to offer support and advice where needed.\n\n\"The welfare of our staff is very important and all those involved will be offered support from our counselling and trauma service.\"\n\nThe burnt-out house with a collapsed roof can be seen on the left\n\nEmergency services were called at 22:30 and the fire was under control by 01:25.\n\nA total of 10 fire engines and around 70 firefighters were called to the blaze.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Incendiary because it is a direct, unflinching assault not just on the prime minister's political capabilities - or lack of them, as she claims - but on his integrity.\n\nShe claims to have presented Rishi Sunak with a document outlining her conditions for serving as his home secretary.\n\nThose close to Suella Braverman claim Mr Sunak read and agreed the document the letter refers to, say he took a copy and there were witnesses.\n\nTonight, I have asked to see that document and was told it was \"not for today\".\n\nThat suggests she intends to drip feed her pungent critique - in an attempt to maximise the damage it might cause the government.\n\nDowning Street's response to Mrs Braverman's letter hints at a frostiness, to put it gently - \"the Prime Minister believes in actions not words\", a spokesman noted acidly.\n\nIt is to those actions, or lack of them, that attention turns here tomorrow, with the Supreme Court's decision on the government's plan to send some migrants to Rwanda.\n\nExpect to hear more from Mrs Braverman after we've heard from the judges.\n\nThe former home secretary isn't going quietly and she isn't finished yet.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former PM David Cameron explains his surprise comeback to front-line politics on being appointed foreign secretary\n\nDavid Cameron has said he wants to support Prime Minister Rishi Sunak \"at a hard time\", after making a dramatic comeback to government in a major cabinet reshuffle.\n\nThe former prime minister has been appointed foreign secretary and accepted a peerage to take the post.\n\nHe replaced James Cleverly, who became home secretary after Mr Sunak sacked Suella Braverman.\n\nLord Cameron admitted it was \"not usual\" for a former PM \"to come back\".\n\nBut he said at a time when the country faced \"daunting challenges\" in the Middle East and Ukraine, he hoped his experience would be helpful to Mr Sunak's government.\n\n\"I've decided to join this team because I believe Rishi Sunak is a good prime minister doing a difficult job at a hard time,\" Lord Cameron said. \"I want to support him.\"\n\nLater the Foreign Office said Mr Cameron had spoken to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday evening, and they discussed \"the conflict in the Middle East, Israel's right to self defence and the need for humanitarian pauses to allow the safe passage of aid into Gaza\" - as well as their continued support for Ukraine and the strength and depth of the relationship between the UK and the US.\n\nMrs Braverman's sacking kickstarted Monday's cabinet reshuffle by Mr Sunak, whose party is lagging far behind Labour in opinion polls, after more than 13 years in power.\n\nMr Sunak's decision to sack Mrs Braverman came after the former home secretary accused the Metropolitan Police of bias in its handling of protests.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesperson stressed the importance of having a \"united team\" and acknowledged there had been \"differences of style\" between Mrs Braverman and Mr Sunak.\n\nIn a speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet in London, Mr Sunak said the world faced \"deeply challenging times\" and \"it falls to us to do everything we can to shape these events\".\n\nHe said the UK government had \"delivered one of the most significant years for British foreign policy in recent times\" and praised Mr Cleverly for his work on Ukraine as foreign secretary.\n\n\"I'm pleased to have appointed a new foreign secretary who will build on everything we have achieved in the last year,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\nBy bringing back Lord Cameron and firing Mrs Braverman, who is popular on the right of the Conservative Party, the prime minister has risked deepening divisions among his MPs.\n\nConservative former Cabinet minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said the Conservatives were \"in danger of losing votes to the Reform party\".\n\nReform leader Richard Tice was \"as happy as can be\" when he saw him earlier, he told BBC Newsnight, adding: \"The Champagne will be flowing in the Reform party headquarters tonight after what's been done today.\"\n\nIn key changes, Steve Barclay took Therese Coffey's job as environment secretary, and Victoria Atkins became health secretary.\n\nFormer transport minister Richard Holden became Tory party chairman, taking over from Greg Hands.\n\nOther senior cabinet members remained in post, including Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps and Education Secretary Gillian Keegan.\n\nIt was Lord Cameron's appointment that stunned Westminster and made him the first former prime minister to re-enter government since the 1970s.\n\nDavid Cameron is the first former prime minister to return to government since the 1970s\n\nThe surprise move marked an unexpected return to frontline politics - seven years on from Lord Cameron's resignation as prime minister after the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016.\n\nLord Cameron, who had campaigned to remain in the EU, has kept a fairly low profile since leaving politics, but lamented \"my political career ending so fast\" in his 2019 memoir.\n\nThe former prime minister has been critical of Mr Sunak's government, notably his decision to scrap the northern leg of the HS2 rail link and cutting the UK's aid budget.\n\nAnd in his speech to the Tory conference, Mr Sunak sought to distance himself from his predecessors and sold himself as a \"change\" prime minister.\n\nLord Cameron said although he had \"disagreed with some individual decisions\" by Mr Sunak's government, \"politics is a team enterprise\".\n\n\"I'm a member of the team and I accept the cabinet collective responsibility that comes with that,\" Lord Cameron said.\n\nThe return of Lord Cameron has been welcomed by centrist Tory MPs, but derided by Brexit backers on the right of the party.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are calling for Lord Cameron's peerage to be blocked, referring to his lobbying for collapsed finance company Greensill Capital.\n\nSenior Labour MP Pat McFadden said Lord Cameron's appointment \"puts to bed the prime minister's laughable claim to offer change from 13 years of Tory failure\".\n\nLord Cameron said he had resigned from the various business and charitable roles - including president of Alzheimer's Research UK - he had held since quitting as prime minister.\n\n\"I have one job - to be foreign secretary and work with the prime minister for the UK to be as secure and prosperous as possible in a difficult and dangerous world,\" he said.\n\nThe foreign secretary insisted the Greensill affair was \"in the past\" and had been \"dealt with\".\n\nThe ministerial reshuffle followed growing criticism of Mrs Braverman over her remarks about policing ahead of a pro-Palestinian march in London over the weekend.\n\nMrs Braverman defied the PM last week in an unauthorised article accusing police of \"double standards\" at protests, claiming right-wing protesters were \"rightly met with a stern response\", while \"pro-Palestinian mobs\" were \"largely ignored\".\n\nLabour and other opposition parties accused Mrs Braverman of inflaming tensions between the pro-Palestinian march and far-right counter protesters on Saturday, when nearly 150 people were arrested.\n\nTransport minister Huw Merriman said the party had had \"a difficult week in terms of some of the comments\", arguing Mr Sunak's refreshed cabinet would \"appeal\" to the country.\n\nBut the former Tory treasurer Lord Cruddas criticised Mr Sunak's reset, branding it a \"coup\" by those who advocated remaining in the EU.\n\nThe reshuffle means that for the first time since the Conservatives won the 2010 election, there are no women holding any of the four of the most senior positions in cabinet.", "Avon already has a string of shops in Turkey\n\nThe cosmetics brand famous for its doorstep slogan \"Ding dong, Avon calling!\" is about to open physical stores in the UK for the first time.\n\nWomen wanted to \"touch and experience\" the products they were buying, Avon said.\n\nFor many years the global beauty giant relied on an army of door-to-door sales reps, who could demonstrate their wares first-hand.\n\nBut recently the Covid pandemic accelerated a shift to online sales.\n\nNow, in a change of direction, the 137-year-old retailer is adding physical stores to its arsenal of sales tactics.\n\nAs well as the UK, it will launch outlets in Brazil and South Africa. It already has 63 stores in Turkey.\n\nThe company is looking for ways to follow women \"wherever they spend their time\", said global chief executive Angela Cretu, describing the move as an \"exciting new chapter\".\n\nThe UK stores, expected to open over the next two months, would be based in \"neighbourhood communities\" rather than on traditional High Streets, Ms Cretu said, and would be \"mini beauty boutiques\" showcasing a selection from Avon's range.\n\nAvon has yet to confirm the number and locations of the new shops.\n\nAvon was established in the US in 1884, but eventually shifted its headquarters to the UK in 2016.\n\nThe much-quoted \"Ding dong, Avon calling!\" advertisement has not been used since 1967. Yet the brand remains closely associated with doorstep sales and with an era of stay-at-home mothers, twinsets and Tupperware parties.\n\nRetail analyst Natalie Berg said, despite its moves on to social media, the Avon brand remained \"a little dated\".\n\nBut Ms Berg said opening stores could be beneficial for the company.\n\n\"You can't overestimate the power of human touch and the community you get in a physical store environment,\" she said, adding that this was particularly true for beauty products, which are still mostly sold in shops.\n\nMs Berg said Avon would need to get its in-store technology right in order to compete with brands that have invested heavily in virtual and augmented reality, and personalised services supported by digital technology.\n\nBut local stores could have a \"halo effect\", she said, meaning they may play a role in helping customers choose products that they later continue to buy from sales reps and online.\n\nAvon's experience in Turkey suggested that physical stores could boost business for local door-to-door sales reps, who would be offered training to run the new outlets as franchises, the company said.\n\n\"We want to give women the opportunity to open a business, especially in areas where it is not so easy for them to launch a start-up,\" said Ms Cretu.\n\nThe company is also expanding its presence in Superdrug stores, following a tie-up in September which saw Avon products sold in selected branches of the pharmacy chain.", "An independent review has found aspects of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) culture were sexist, misogynistic, racist and homophobic and not properly challenged.\n\nThe WRU environment also had elements of bullying and discrimination, and was described as toxic by some employees.\n\nThe governance was found to have not been been fit for purpose.\n\nThe WRU board was also described as dysfunctional, ill-equipped and unable to address the serious institutional and culture problems it faced.\n\nThe damning report found concerns from the majority interviewed that the WRU can be an unforgiving place, even vindictive, with an unusual amount of people concerned about their identity being revealed with a culture of fear existing for some.\n\nThe report also highlighted the WRU's reliance on non-disclosure agreements (NDA) to silence employees.\n\nIt was commissioned by the WRU in February 2023 after a BBC Wales investigation raised serious allegations within the organisation.\n\nThe report makes 36 recommendations which included appointing an external oversight group to monitor the organisation, continued board reform by dropping members from 12 to 10 with a fit and proper test for individuals, and higher investment in the women's and girls' game.\n\nThe WRU says it will accept all of the recommendations, with new chair Richard Collier-Keywood apologising for the conduct of the organisation and stating the report was a \"difficult read\".\n\nThe BBC Wales Investigates programme aired in January 2023 and uncovered allegations of sexism and misogyny at the WRU.\n\nWelsh women's rugby former manager Charlotte Wathan told the programme a male colleague said in front of others in an office that he wanted to \"rape\" her.\n\nWathan and another former female colleague said they considered suicide due to what they described as a \"toxic culture\" of sexism at the WRU.\n\nOther accusations of bullying and racism were also made against the WRU. The independent report found inappropriate sexist and homophobic language used towards female employees, which included the term \"sugar tits\" and a sexist attitude from the men's performance staff towards the Wales women's team who were described as a \"sore on the arse.\"\n\nThe BBC programme also questioned why a critical report into the women's performance game in 2021 had not been published, with the WRU saying it did not have the permission of the authors or participants to publish the review.\n\nA week after the programme was shown, former WRU chief executive Steve Phillips resigned with a pay-off of £480,000, with Nigel Walker taking over the interim position.\n\nFormer Professional Rugby Board (PRB) chair Amanda Blanc has previously spoken about the misogyny she endured at the WRU and her resignation letter and speech was included in the report.\n\nIn November 2021, Blanc stood down from the WRU board and PRB role she had held for less than two years. The Aviva Group CEO says she was not listened to at the WRU.\n\nIn her letter, Ms Blanc said she was deeply saddened at the approach taken towards the women's game review and conversations regarding women she had experienced.\n\nThree weeks later Blanc pulled no punches in her leaving speech where she described the women's review as \"beyond disappointing and verging on insulting towards women\".\n\nShe also revealed she had been questioned by the board whether she had sufficient business experience to be the chairwoman of the WRU's professional board.\n\nBlanc was in charge of a FTSE 100 company and on the 2021 Forbes most influential women in the world list.\n\nShe also recounted an example where the board were discussing reducing the sanctions for a WRU district council member who had made a misogynist comment along the lines of \"women should know their place in the kitchen and stick to the ironing, men are the master race\".\n\nBlanc said that listening to members of the board saying it would be unfair to take away too many Six Nations tickets was insulting.\n\nThe independent investigation was launched in January 2023 with the panel led by former High Court judge Dame Anne Rafferty.\n\nIt included former England international and World Cup winner Maggie Alphonsi and mediator Quentin Smith, who was a former chair of Sale Sharks and current chair of the Football Association's Exceptions Panel.\n\nThe taskforce was asked to consider behaviour at all levels of the sporting organisation.\n\nThese included how comfortable staff feel raising concerns or challenging inappropriate and discriminatory language and behaviour, the effectiveness of the WRU's whistleblowing policies, and procedures and action taken by the WRU in response to the concerns raised in the BBC investigation.\n\nThe report took seven months and more than 50 witnesses or groups of witnesses were interviewed, including current and former staff, players and directors.\n\nThe report was split into four main areas surrounding governance, management of rugby for women and girls, equality, diversity and inclusion, and the WRU's relationship with external stakeholders.\n\nThe governance was found to have not been been fit for purpose before change in March 2023 and the WRU board was described as dysfunctional, ill-equipped and unable to address the serious institutional and culture problems it faced.\n\nWhat actions have WRU already taken?\n\nMajor changes have already been implemented. Walker will move to an executive director of rugby position in January 2024, with Abi Tierney becoming the first female WRU chief executive.\n\nAn extraordinary general meeting (EGM) was called in March 2023, with the clubs voting for major governance change to the WRU board to provide greater diversity and expertise within the organisation.\n\nThe WRU was aiming to redress the gender imbalance, with an ambition that at least five of the 12 board members are women, including one of the top two jobs - the chief executive or chair.\n\nThe clubs voted for an appointed independent chair rather than somebody elected by the clubs. This resulted in former Wales captain Ieuan Evans stepping aside after only officially being appointed in October 2022, with Richard Collier-Keywood then appointed in June 2023.\n\nThe number of independent members was doubled from three to six, while elected national or district members was halved from eight to four.\n\nWhat the WRU says\n\nChair Richard Collier-Keywood: \"We are truly sorry to those who have been impacted by the systems, structures and conduct described in the report which are simply not acceptable.\n\n\"We have to do better and we will. This report covers our governance, our culture, our approach to women's and girls' rugby and behaviours of leadership. For anyone who cares about rugby in Wales it is a very difficult read and it is a particularly difficult read if you work at the WRU.\n\n\"It is clear there were many opportunities to avert the serious problems described which were simply not taken.\n\n\"We have a lot of work to do to win back the trust of our colleagues, our players, the volunteers who are the heart of our community game, and the supporters that buy tickets week in week out.\n\n\"This report is helpful in providing a path for some of what we need to do to earn back that trust.\n\n\"We have already committed to listen, learn and change. Nigel Walker, Ieuan Evans, Abi Tierney, I and the whole board have all committed to accept the findings on behalf of the WRU. We have also committed to implementing the recommendations and we intend to do that at pace.\"\n\n\"Significant change is never easy. We are committed to operating transparently and building trust across and beyond the game of rugby in Wales. We look forward to developing a new strategy re-establishing our values across the WRU.\n\n\"It has been a very difficult time for our players and many of our colleagues who work at the WRU and I want to say thank you to all of them. Despite these troubled times, they have continued to deliver an elite, professional and community rugby programme for men and women, girls and boys that is such an important part of Welsh society.\"\n\nIncoming chief executive Abi Tierney: \"The review's report is incredibly humbling and describes issues, actions and attitudes that are hugely regrettable. They should not exist in our, nor any, workplace.\n\n\"Of course, as leaders of the organisation, we will all wholeheartedly condemn the attitudes and issues described, but we are equally aware that our response needs to be greater than this.\n\n\"We will implement all of the recommendations the independent review panel has made. My colleagues have committed to doing this and I commit to doing this too.\n\n\"But we will also go deeper than this. We will take what the review has found to heart and not only fix the issues identified but also to build a culture and values that we can all be proud of. We will do this together.\"\n• None 'Believe it ... that loving yourself is the answer': Actor and talk show host Jada Pinkett Smith on the advice she would give her younger self", "Changes are being rolled out to the Threads app that will enable users to delete their account while keeping the linked Instagram account.\n\nAn Instagram account is required to sign up to the Twitter-like app, but users were frustrated that it was impossible to delete Threads alone.\n\nInstagram boss Adam Mosseri revealed the change in a post on Threads.\n\nIn October Mark Zuckerberg, the head of parent-company Meta, revealed that three months on from its July launch the app was attracting around 100 million monthly users - down by more than a half.\n\nWhen Threads was first revealed it was seen as a direct challenge to the Elon Musk-owned X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\nBut it went live without a number of features, such as search and direct messages, that are found on rival platforms.\n\nThe inability to fully delete an account without deleting the associated Instagram account was heavily criticised.\n\nUsers were only able to deactivate - not delete - their Threads account if they wanted to keep their linked Instagram profile going.\n\nThe new feature will be accessible from the settings menu in a \"Delete or Deactivate Profile\" section, Mr Mosseri posted on Threads.\n\nThe failure to have such a system had drawn the attention of regulators.\n\nWhen Meta first announced that the change would be coming in September, the UK's privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) wrote: \"We have been clear with Meta since the Threads service was launched that people should be able to delete their Threads profiles and account information, without that having an impact on their Instagram account.\"\n\nIt said it was glad \"discussions\" had resulted in change, adding \"people should not have to sacrifice their usage of one service in order to be removed from another\".\n\nIt was also announced that Threads users will soon be able to opt out of automatic sharing of posts to either or both Instagram and Facebook.\n\nWhile this feature directly allowed Meta to raise awareness of Threads among the billions who use these platforms, experts say it was unpopular with many users.\n\nThe platform said it had \"heard feedback that you want more control over the experience\", Mr Mosseri wrote.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former PM David Cameron explains his surprise comeback to front-line politics on being appointed foreign secretary\n\nDavid Cameron has returned to the cabinet table for the first time in more than seven years on Tuesday after his recall to government.\n\nRishi Sunak met his new cabinet after a dramatic overhaul on Monday saw the former prime minister return to front-line politics.\n\nHe replaces James Cleverly, who was moved to be home secretary to take over from Suella Braverman.\n\nMrs Braverman was sacked following her criticism of the Metropolitan Police.\n\nGreeting his new set of ministers, the prime minister said: \"A warm welcome to those for whom it's their first cabinet and also a welcome to those for whom it may not be their first time.\"\n\nHe added that it would be \"an important week\" ahead with new inflation figures and the court's decision on the government's Rwanda policy expected on Wednesday.\n\nLord Cameron, as he is now known as of his appointment to the House of Lords on Monday, had been out of Parliament since he stood down as prime minister in 2016.\n\nHis return to politics came out of the blue, with Downing Street managing to prevent any rumours of the appointment from leaking, despite the fact the job offer was made last week.\n\nDavid Cameron at his first cabinet meeting for seven years\n\nIn one fell swoop, No 10 revealed not only was the former prime minister entering the House of Lords, he would also be taking up one of the most senior jobs in government.\n\nWhile the news was still being digested in Westminster, Lord Cameron was carrying out official duties, including holding a call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.\n\nThe pair \"reiterated the strength and depth of the relationship between the UK and the US\", the Foreign Office said, and spoke about the war in Ukraine.\n\nIn a statement, the Foreign Office said: \"They discussed the conflict in the Middle East, Israel's right to self defence and the need for humanitarian pauses to allow the safe passage of aid into Gaza.\"\n\nIn a speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet in London on Monday night, Mr Sunak said he was \"pleased to have appointed a new foreign secretary\" and said the new cabinet is \"a united team\".\n\nRichard Holden, the newly-appointed Conservative Party chair, told BBC Breakfast that Lord Cameron had returned \"out of a sense of duty\" and would bring experience to the role.\n\nBut not everyone in the Conservative Party is pleased about the return of Lord Cameron and the new-look cabinet.\n\nOne backbencher, Dame Andrea Jenkyns, has already submitted a letter of no confidence in the prime minister, citing the sacking of Mrs Braverman. There would need to be 53 before his leadership is threatened.\n\nAnd Conservative former cabinet minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said the Tories were \"in danger of losing votes to the Reform party\".\n\nReform leader Richard Tice was \"as happy as can be\" when he saw him earlier, he told BBC Newsnight, adding: \"The champagne will be flowing in the Reform party headquarters tonight after what's been done today.\"\n\nOpposition parties have been quick to ask whether bringing back a prime minister who left office seven years ago is really the fresh start Mr Sunak claims to offer.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said voters would be \"wondering how David Cameron coming back into government will help them pay for their weekly shop\".\n\nShe added that the Conservatives were \"out of ideas\" and could not offer \"the change our country is crying out for\".\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said it \"sounds like desperation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ex-PM Cameron was seen walking into No 10 on Monday\n\nThe Lib Dems are also calling for Lord Cameron's peerage to be blocked, referring to his lobbying for collapsed finance company Greensill Capital.\n\nLord Cameron said he had resigned from the various business and charitable roles - including president of the Alzheimer's Research UK - he had held since quitting as prime minister.\n\n\"I have one job - to be foreign secretary and work with the prime minister for the UK to be as secure and prosperous as possible in a difficult and dangerous world,\" he said.\n\nHe insisted the Greensill affair was \"in the past\" and had been \"dealt with\".\n\nOpposition parties and Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle have raised concerns about how MPs will be able to hold Lord Cameron to account, since he will sit as a peer rather than in the Commons.\n\nForeign Office Minister Andrew Mitchell, who will deputise for Lord Cameron in the Commons, said the new foreign secretary believed it was \"essential\" the department's work could be properly scrutinised.\n\nHe added that Lord Cameron would appear before the House of Lords and relevant committees regularly.\n\nLord Cameron is not the only familiar face returning to the government after Monday's reshuffle.\n\nFormer Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom has taken on a junior role in the Department for Health and Social Care, while Damian Hinds has become a minister in the Department for Education, which he used to run.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey returns to government as a Cabinet Office minister.", "We've been reporting on Israel's claims - now backed up by the US - that Hamas has a base under Al-Shifa hospital. But as well as Al-Shifa, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have also made allegations about another Gaza City medical facility - Rantisi children's hospital.\n\nOn Monday night it released a six-minute video purporting to show evidence that Hamas had used the now-evacuated hospital building to detain hostages and store weapons.\n\nThe video has a large number of edits. It begins in the vicinity of the hospital where IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari stands outside a building which he says is the home of a senior Hamas figure. He then shows an underground shaft, which he says is a tunnel entrance.\n\nIn the video, Hagari does not enter the tunnel – saying the doors inside are bullet and explosive proof.\n\nHe is then shown at the “back side of the hospital”, outside a damaged building with the same distinctive colour scheme of Rantisi. There is no continuous take showing Hagari entering the hospital itself.\n\nDaniel Hagari point to what the IDF says is a tunnel shaft Image caption: Daniel Hagari point to what the IDF says is a tunnel shaft\n\nThe video then shows Hagari inside rooms said to be in the basement of the hospital. World Health Organization branding is pictured on a wall-mounted control unit.\n\nHagari points out various pieces of “evidence” - including a cache of weapons laid out on the floor - that he says shows that the area was used by Hamas fighters to store weapons and hold hostages.\n\nA key item is a document on the wall which he says shows a schedule for fighters guarding hostages. The top of this document mentions the “al-Aqsa flood” – Hamas’ codename for the 7 October attacks.\n\nHagari calls it a “guardian list, where every terrorist writes his name [and] has his own shift”. However, the Arabic words actually translate to the days of the week, not names.\n\nHe also points out a curtain hanging over a white-tiled wall, which he says could be used as a backdrop for hostage videos. Of the hostage videos released by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad which we have seen so far, none have shown a matching pattern in the background.\n\nBBC News has not visited the site and is not able to independently verify any of the allegations made by the IDF.\n\nHamas denies hiding under the cover of hospitals - a longstanding Israeli allegation. Its health ministry called the video \"a theatrical farce\".", "Supreme Court justices have been under scrutiny over gifts from benefactors\n\nThe US Supreme Court on Monday released its first ever set of ethics rules governing its nine justices.\n\nThe nine-page \"code of conduct\" comes as the most powerful legal body in America is under increasing scrutiny following recent news reports of gifts and holiday arrangements lavished on several of its jurists.\n\nWhile federal judges on lower courts have been governed by an ethical code since 1973, this marks the first time the country's highest court has set out its own rules.\n\nThe court had released a \"statement on ethics principles and practices\" earlier this year, but Monday's release provides significantly more detail.\n\nIn a paragraph introducing the guidance, the justices said that they had long abided by unwritten ethical rules derived from a variety of sources, including the lower-court code.\n\nThey said the absence of explicit rules, however, led to the \"misunderstanding\" that justices viewed themselves as unrestricted by any ethical guidelines.\n\nThe code contains no enforcement mechanism. Justices will have to choose to abide by its \"rules and principles\".\n\n\"It's only a half-measure, at best,\" says Steve Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law, who has written extensively about the US Supreme Court.\n\n\"Even the most rigorous ethics rules don't mean much without some means of ensuring that they're followed.\"\n\nHe notes, however, that the new rules do show that the justices are aware that their ethics are a matter of significant public concern - and that they had to do something to respond to recent critiques.\n\nThe rules are divided into four main sections outlining how justices should behave, perform their duties, and conduct themselves in non-judicial and financial activities\n\nJustices are advised to consider whether speaking at an outside event \"would create an appearance of impropriety in the minds of reasonable members of the public\".\n\nThe guidance goes on to note that most academic, legal, religious or cultural associations would not present such a problem, while events affiliated with political parties or campaigns would.\n\nThe court also set out circumstances under which justices should disqualify themselves from participation in a case. Those include when a justice has a bias or prejudices concerning a party to the case or has a financial or other interest that could be \"affected substantially\" by the outcome of the proceedings.\n\nEarlier this year, the media organisation ProPublica published an investigative report on the relationship between Justice Clarence Thomas and wealthy conservative activist Harlan Crow.\n\nMr Thomas did not disclose annual expensive holidays and private jet transport that he received from the influential Texas Republican. Nor did he report that Mr Crow had paid for the private schooling of a relative who lived with Mr Thomas or purchased a house where Mr Thomas's mother lived.\n\nJustice Clarence Thomas has come under scrutiny for his links to wealthy conservative activist Harlan Crow\n\nProPublica's reporting, followed by revelations involving other justices - including liberal justice Sonia Sotomayor using her Supreme Court staff to push sales of her books at public events - prompted calls for Congress to pass legislation creating a binding set of ethical guidelines for the court.\n\nLast week, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee considered issuing subpoenas for Mr Crowe and another conservative judicial activist, Leonard Leo, for a list of all benefits they provided to Supreme Court justices and their relatives.\n\nThe court's action on Monday is unlikely to quell the criticism directed at it, particularly from liberal groups that have condemned the recent conservative tilt of its rulings.\n\n\"This code of conduct is mere window dressing that does nothing to fix the court's rampant ethics problems,\" Devon Ombres, senior director for courts and legal policy at the Center for American Progress, said in a statement.\n\n\"It uses the word 'should' to address the justices' conduct 51 times, but the words 'shall', 'must' or 'may not' don't appear in the text of the code itself.\"\n\nIn commentary accompanying its code, the court said that it would consider seeking further guidance on whether to expand or amend the rules on financial disclosure and recusal from cases.\n\nRecent opinion surveys have found that public trust in the Supreme Court - which last year issued a controversial decision that the right to abortion is not protected by the US Constitution - is near an all-time low.", "A man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over the death of ice hockey player Adam Johnson, whose neck was cut during a match.\n\nThe Nottingham Panthers player was hit in the neck by a skate during a match against the Sheffield Steelers on 28 October.\n\nThe 29-year-old was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.\n\nA post-mortem examination confirmed he died as a result of a fatal neck injury, South Yorkshire Police said.\n\nThe force said detectives arrested the suspect on Tuesday, adding that he remained in custody.\n\nHundreds gathered to pay tribute to Johnson in Nottingham earlier this month\n\nDet Ch Supt Becs Horsfall, from South Yorkshire Police, said: \"We have been carrying out extensive inquiries to piece together the events which led to the loss of Adam in these unprecedented circumstances.\n\n\"We have been speaking to highly specialised experts in their field to assist in our inquiries and continue to work closely with the health and safety department at Sheffield City Council, which is supporting our ongoing investigation.\n\n\"Adam's death has sent shockwaves through many communities, from our local residents here in Sheffield to ice hockey fans across the world.\"\n\nShe urged members of the public to refrain from \"comment and speculation which could hinder\" the investigation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe death of Johnson, who was from Minnesota in the US, sparked an outpouring of grief across the world.\n\nTalking to KSTP-TV, a local news station based in Minnesota, the player's aunt Kari Johnson said her nephew was planning to propose to his partner, Ryan Wolfe.\n\n\"We were all really excited because we were really looking forward to their future and he didn't get a chance to ask her, and then this happened,\" she said.\n\nHe made the move to the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) for the 2020-21 season, before spells with the Ontario Reign and the Lehigh Valley Phantoms in the American Hockey League.\n\nJohnson played for Augsburger Panther in Germany before switching to the Nottingham Panthers in August.\n\nJohnson's inquest was opened and adjourned earlier this month.\n\nIn a prevention of future deaths report, coroner Tanyka Rawden called for compulsory use of neck guards in ice hockey.\n\nThe sport's top division in the UK - the Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) - announced it would not enforce the use of neck guards but would \"strongly encourage\" players and officials to wear them.\n\nThe English Ice Hockey Association - which oversees all levels of ice hockey in England below the Elite League - previously said neck guards would be mandatory from 2024 onwards.\n\nThe incident has been described as a \"freak accident\" by the Panthers.\n\nThe Anaheim Ducks and the Pittsburgh Penguins held a moment of silence for Johnson\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "McDonald's UK boss has admitted the fast-food chain is receiving between one or two sexual harassment claims a week following a BBC investigation.\n\nAlistair Macrow told MPs it had received more than 400 complaints from workers since July, when the BBC uncovered hundreds of allegations.\n\nHe said 18 people had since been sacked but he did not know how many complaints had been referred to the police.\n\nThe BBC found that workers as young as 17 were being groped and harassed.\n\nThey said they experienced a toxic workplace culture at McDonald's where claims of sexual assault, racism and bullying were not taken seriously.\n\nMr Macrow told the Business and Trade Select Committee on Tuesday that McDonald's UK had received 407 employee complaints of a varying nature since July.\n\nFollowing the BBC's initial report in the summer, Mr Macrow set up an investigation handling unit to deal with complaints.\n\nOf the 157 complaints that have been investigated, Mr Macrow said 17 complaints were about sexual harassment and had led to disciplinary action. He added that nine related to bullying and one was about racial harassment.\n\nIn relation to the outstanding cases yet to be probed, 27 complaints are about sexual harassment, he added.\n\nMr Macrow said: \"To give you a picture of what we see on an ongoing basis, we typically would see between 20 to 25 contacts per week, of which one or two would be sexual harassment.\"\n\nThe fast-food chain is one of the biggest private sector employers in the UK, employing more than 170,000 people.\n\nIt has one of the UK's youngest workforces, with three quarters of staff aged 16 to 25 and, for many, it is their first job.\n\nIn total, it has 1,450 restaurants. According to Mr Macrow, 89% of its branches in the UK are operated by franchisees. But he admitted that no franchisees had yet lost their contracts due to claims of harassment and abuse.\n\nLiam Byrne, chair of the Business and Trade Committee, asked the McDonald's boss if \"profit was more important than protecting workers\".\n\nMr Macrow said it was \"absolutely not the case\".\n\n\"The most important thing in our business is our people. We do everything we can to look after our people,\" he added.\n\nMore than 200 current and former McDonald's workers spoke to the BBC about their experience of working at the fast-food chain, with a number claiming they were subject to sexual abuse and harassment by colleagues and superiors.\n\nAmong those was Ed and Emily, who both attended the committee hearing on Tuesday. They both said they did not feel reassured by what Mr Macrow said.\n\nEd and Emily, who were both harassed when they worked at McDonald's, said they did not feel reassured by UK boss Alistair Macrow\n\nEmily was 17 when she got her first post-college job at a McDonald's in north west England. She was groped and hit on the bottom by her manager. She reported him on the company's staff support service but never received a reply.\n\nShe believes that Mr Macrow and McDonald's does put profit before people.\n\n\"When I was working at McDonald's it was very clear to me that I was easily replaceable,\" she told the BBC. \"I think that it's definitely true that he has put profit before the people because as soon as I brought forth an allegation, I was fired.\n\n\"So it's easier for them to just fire me than actually look into these allegations.\"\n\nMr Macrow said the testimony from workers had been \"truly horrific\" and \"very difficult to hear\".\n\nHe admitted that some of the complaints reported to McDonald's independent handling unit \"stretch back as far as the 1980s\", adding: \"Clearly those more recent we were able to investigate more fully.\"\n\nEd was 16 when he started working in McDonald's at the beginning of this year. He said a senior manager made sexual innuendos and repeatedly asked him for sex. He raised it with a senior manager, but nothing was done.\n\nEventually, after months of harassment, he quit in April.\n\nHe said that hearing that more than 400 complaints had made to McDonald's in the past four months \"was quite shocking and upsetting and I think is damning evidence against McDonald's that they need to change\".\n\nBut he added: \"What you should be thinking about is how many people have been unable to make those complaints, who've been scared to complain, particularly to managers who will be controlling their hours.\n\n\"Who else is currently being harassed or going through something and is unable to come forward?\"\n\nIan Hodson, national president at the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union, also appeared before MPs and said some stories that it had been told by McDonald's employees were \"absolutely horrific\".\n\n\"And it shouldn't happen,\" he said. \"In the 21st century, in the UK, it shouldn't happen.\"\n\nMr Hodson added: \"When a global corporation, [one of the] biggest employers in the world that makes billions and billions of pounds, can't protect its workforce it's awful. It should be leading and be an example for others - but they're not.\"\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A secret report says Ray Adams, pictured in 2012, was cleared in an earlier corruption investigation after \"fictitious\" testimony from a police informant\n\nA senior officer involved in the Stephen Lawrence murder case was corrupt, according to a secret Met Police report uncovered by the BBC.\n\nIt said Ray Adams was cleared by a corruption probe which relied on false testimony from a man linked to the family of one of Stephen's killers.\n\nThe revelation contradicts years of police denial about the role of corrupt officers in the case.\n\nMr Adams says he has asked the Met to investigate the allegations.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police did not answer the BBC's questions about the report's conclusions regarding Mr Adams.\n\nThe force said it will review material before deciding whether any further action is required.\n\nImran Khan, solicitor for Stephen's mother Baroness Lawrence, said the report about Mr Adams - a former commander, who was once head of criminal intelligence for the entire Met - was \"dramatic, disturbing and shocking\".\n\nSir William Macpherson's landmark 1998 public inquiry into the murder did not hear about this link between Mr Adams and the informant.\n\nFourteen years later, the Met said there was no suggestion of any relationship between the two.\n\nStephen, aged 18, was murdered in April 1993 in a racist attack by a gang of young white men in Eltham, south-east London. The failure to bring the killers to justice prompted a national outcry. Two men were eventually convicted in 2012. Other suspects have never been convicted.\n\nThe initial police investigation, perhaps the most controversial of the past 30 years, has long been a focus of corruption allegations, both at the 1998 public inquiry and in an official review 16 years later.\n\nImran Khan said he wants the Met to \"apologise for not telling Baroness Lawrence and her family about what they knew, and I want them to apologise to Sir William Macpherson's inquiry and to admit that they misled that inquiry\".\n\nRay Adams, who retired from the force in August 1993, was one of those under scrutiny. In the late 1980s, he had been investigated and cleared by a major internal corruption inquiry.\n\nMr Adams went on to be a senior officer in the south London area of the Met responsible for the Lawrence investigation and was directly involved in the case for a short time.\n\nThe Macpherson inquiry said it had seen nothing to suggest he was corruptly involved in trying to hold back the murder investigation. The secret report also said there was no evidence that Mr Adams influenced the investigative team in the Lawrence murder inquiry.\n\nNow 81, Mr Adams has always denied being corrupt, citing the fact he never faced either disciplinary or criminal proceedings.\n\nBut the secret Scotland Yard report, now uncovered by the BBC, concluded he was corrupt and detailed how the 1980s investigation against him was manipulated.\n\nThe report sets out an extraordinary tale involving a crooked antiques dealer, clandestine police operations and one of Britain's most notorious criminals.\n\nMarked as secret and prepared in 2000 for the Met's anti-corruption unit, the report was about officers connected to the Lawrence case.\n\nIt concluded Mr Adams was cleared by the 1980s corruption probe after it received a \"totally fictitious\" account by a police informant who was connected to the family of David Norris - one of the two men who were convicted of the murder in 2012.\n\nThe report says the informant must have been \"coached\" by Mr Adams or another officer, with the informant's lying account discrediting a witness against Mr Adams. This amounted to \"flagrant acts of attempting to pervert the course of justice\".\n\nThe informant, also called David Norris, was killed by a hitman in 1991. He was known as \"David Norris (deceased)\" in the public inquiry into the Lawrence case, to distinguish him from the David Norris who would later be found guilty of killing Stephen.\n\nThe informant David Norris gave false testimony during a corruption investigation into Ray Adams, the secret report says\n\nDavid Norris, Stephen's killer, was from a south London criminal family headed by his gangster father Clifford.\n\nThe informant was known to have associated with the Norris crime family.\n\nIn 1989, police stopped the informant David Norris leaving a meeting with a high-ranking drug dealer who was a relative of the Norris family. The informant told officers he was a cousin of Clifford Norris, although an actual familial relationship has never been confirmed.\n\nDavid Norris (right) and Gary Dobson were jailed in 2012 for killing Stephen\n\nThe story of how this informant became involved in a major Scotland Yard corruption investigation and the later Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry, reads more like fiction than fact.\n\nIt all began in July 1988 after a handler of stolen goods was arrested in Tooting, south London, by detectives from Surrey Police.\n\nThe arrested man, James \"Piggy\" Malone, was an antiques dealer who lived in leafy Dorking, but he also ran a network of burglars who stole to order, breaking into houses throughout southern England.\n\nSurrey detectives had set up an operation to target Malone.\n\nThe secret Scotland Yard report says that, on being arrested, Malone uttered a stream of profanities relating to Ray Adams, whom he referred to as \"Ken Noye's mate\" - meaning the notorious gangster Kenneth Noye.\n\nBy then, Noye had already stabbed a Met Police officer to death and been involved in the selling the gold from the 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery, a £26m heist that was later dramatised in the BBC TV series The Gold.\n\nMalone expressed willingness to make a statement on Mr Adams, but he subsequently refused to co-operate, the report says.\n\nThe BBC has traced people familiar with the Surrey investigation. They corroborated some details in the Met's secret report, but also added additional information.\n\nThe Surrey team briefed the Met on their investigation because it regularly strayed into London and they needed to ask for assistance. But after they did, the operation started to go badly, and it appeared Malone and his burglars suddenly had knowledge of what was happening.\n\nAntiques dealer James Malone sparked the corruption investigation into Ray Adams, the secret report says\n\nAfter the operation began to go wrong, the Surrey team decided on an extraordinary ploy: they announced the investigation had been shut down, but then reopened it in secret - and withheld this information from Scotland Yard.\n\nThe new operation resulted in the arrest of Malone, who was visibly shocked and blurted out words which the officers took to mean he had paid Mr Adams, according to the report and people familiar with the investigation.\n\nThe whole matter was therefore referred to the Met's anti-corruption unit.\n\nAfter Malone's arrest, a senior Surrey officer recalled one of their informants had previously stated that \"Malone had a high-ranked police officer by the name of Ron or Ray in his pocket\", according to the 2000 Met report.\n\nBut the report says the allegation made by the Surrey informant was \"never fully progressed\" by the Met.\n\nThe secret Met document also reveals the information about Ray Adams relying on evidence from the informant David Norris.\n\nIt says a detective submitted a report \"vaguely dated\" October 1988, detailing information apparently supplied by an informant he handled, with the alias \"John Tracy\".\n\nIn reality, the secret document from 2000 reveals that Tracy was David Norris.\n\nTracy was said to have told the Met detective that Malone was a close associate and had been openly stating that Malone's claims about Mr Adams were \"totally malicious and false\".\n\nRay Adams had recently transferred to the same branch of the Met which generated the informant Tracy's report.\n\nThe informant's account had been provided to Mr Adams \"for his information\" and to share with the Met's anti-corruption unit at the time, \"if indeed the matter is being investigated by them\".\n\nWhen quoting these words in the 2000 secret report, the author added an exclamation mark afterwards, to indicate astonishment.\n\nMr Adams did not provide the information to anti-corruption officers until the end of January 1989, which the secret report says was an \"incredible\" delay.\n\nThe secret report says Mr Adams or another officer must have \"coached\" the informant in the 1980s corruption probe\n\nWhen the informant Tracy was interviewed, he is said to have given a \"faultless performance\", which reinforced the Met team's misgivings about Malone.\n\nThe 1980s investigation in effect exonerated Adams and portrayed Malone unfavourably. A file was sent to the Crown Prosecution Service, which said there was no case to answer.\n\nThe investigation concluded that Malone had been referring to an earlier case during which he had been investigated by Ray Adams. The case cost him money and had led to him taking the Met to court.\n\nBut the secret document from 2000 concludes the 1988-89 report based on testimony from David Norris - aka John Tracy was \"totally fictitious\" and written to \"discredit Malone and prevent his use as a witness against Adams\".\n\nIt says Norris must have been \"coached\" by Mr Adams or a handler prior to his interview and the story was \"accepted with alarming ease\" by anti-corruption detectives.\n\nThe secret report says there was no link between the informant David Norris and Malone. In his testimony, Norris named another man as a close associate of Malone who had heard the antiques dealer making false claims about Ray Adams. The BBC located this man, who said he had known the informant David Norris but he had never seen or met Malone - and the Met had never asked him about the informant's account.\n\nFour years later, when Stephen Lawrence was murdered, Ray Adams was a commander in the section of the force responsible for the homicide investigation.\n\nHis known involvement in the case was limited to signing a letter to the Lawrence family solicitor, Imran Khan. Mr Adams also appeared in a decision log relating to family liaison.\n\nHe went off sick in May 1993 and did not return to work prior to his retirement in August that year.\n\nImran Khan said the Lawrence family have always regarded his appearance in the case as \"suspicious\" and that \"we now know\" a Met report concluded he was corrupt prior to his involvement in the Lawrence murder.\n\nThe bus stop where Stephen Lawrence was waiting before he was killed (photo from 2012)\n\nHe said they now needed to know whether Mr Adams's activities affected in any way the outcome of the murder investigation.\n\nThe first lead investigator on the case had to leave the role after a few days because he was involved in the trial of those who had murdered the informant David Norris in 1991.\n\nIt meant Norris's name featured in the public inquiry into Stephen's death, but the inquiry did not hear the extent of the link between him and Ray Adams.\n\nAt the inquiry, the Lawrence family formally raised suspicions that Mr Adams's role in the case masked his real aim of influencing the investigation to prevent the suspects being arrested quickly. The family argued this was possibly because of his previous contact with Kenneth Noye, who in turn had links to Clifford Norris - the father of one of the suspects.\n\nWhen questioned during an appearance at the inquiry, Mr Adams denied even knowing who Clifford Norris was at the time Stephen Lawrence was murdered. Mr Adams said the suspicions about him were a \"Merlin's broth of magic and mirrors and innuendo and nudges\".\n\nHe said: \"I defy anybody to produce one ounce of evidence.\"\n\nImran Khan, Baroness Lawrence's solicitor, said the family now need to know if Mr Adams' activities affected the investigation\n\nDuring the inquiry hearing, Mr Adams expressed discomfort at questions relating to the deceased David Norris, saying \"protocol\" meant he never answered questions about informants. This was despite it being publicly known the dead man had been an informant, and the inquiry chairman saying the subject could be publicly discussed.\n\nThe Met itself gave a misleading account of Mr Adams and the deceased David Norris's relationship in a review published in 2012, which said the police commander would have only had \"distant oversight\" of the informant.\n\n\"There is no suggestion of any personal relationship between the two,\" it said.\n\nThe secret report from 2000, now seen by the BBC, shows the Met knew there was a significant connection between them.\n\nNew information about the relationship between the Brink's-Mat gangster Kenneth Noye and Ray Adams is also revealed in the Met's secret report.\n\nThe report states it was \"strongly suspected Adams had a long-standing corrupt relationship with Noye\" but that further investigation would be needed. No such investigation took place.\n\nIn 1985, Noye had stabbed to death Det Con John Fordham, a Met surveillance officer, in the garden of his Kent home. He was acquitted of murder at trial after claiming self-defence. Noye went on to carry out the M25 road rage murder of Stephen Cameron in 1996.\n\nAccording to an account in the secret report, gangster Kenneth Noye said of Mr Adams: \"We go back a long way.\"\n\nAccording to the report, the Met held a photocopy of a pocketbook entry from the 1980s by an officer who escorted Noye to court. The officer had been investigating Noye's role in the conspiracy surrounding the robbery of the Brink's-Mat gold.\n\nThe pocketbook recorded that, while Noye was in a cell at court one day in 1985, he requested that the officer ask Ray Adams to visit. Noye stated: \"We go back a long way and I know I can trust him.\"\n\nThe report says: \"Noye was adamant that he wanted no-one to know that Adams was going to visit him and suggested that he visit under the guise of Noye's accountant.\"\n\nA later statement by a deputy assistant commissioner said he agreed to meetings between Ray Adams and Noye, who intimated he had been an informant for the detective.\n\nUsing an exclamation mark to express the author's astonishment, the 2000 Met report said: \"Adams met Noye on two occasions, however nothing useful was reported from those meetings!\"\n\nThe 2000 report also considered Mr Adams's alleged links with another criminal family and said \"the inescapable conclusion is that there was an unhealthy, corrupt relationship\".\n\nEven though seven years had passed since his retirement, the report warned Mr Adams continued to pose a threat to the Met Police. It said his \"extensive networking\" meant he still had access to serving officers \"who can continue to provide sensitive intelligence which he can then broker to criminals\".\n\nBut the report said further investigation was needed to assess the risk.\n\nMr Adams told the BBC these were \"very serious allegations\" against him. \"All such allegations are a matter for the police the investigate,\" he said.\n\nHe said he had referred the allegations to the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of the Met Police and said he had asked them to appoint a senior officer or officers to investigate.\n\nThere have been investigations into whether corruption affected the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation, including by the police watchdog.\n\nThey have not found corruption affected the case, and no officers have been disciplined or charged.\n\nUpdate, November 15: A paragraph describing how the BBC checked details of the informant David Norris' testimony has been added to this story.\n\nIf you have information about that you would like to share with BBC News' Stephen Lawrence investigation please get in touch. 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For information on keeping secure and anonymous, here's some advice on how to use SecureDrop.", "Pink said she was \"unwilling to stand by and watch while books are banned by schools\"\n\nSinger Pink will give away 2,000 free copies of books that have been \"banned\" by some schools in Florida to fans at her concerts in Miami this week.\n\nThe star has waded into the row over some libraries and classrooms removing books with sexual content or themes of sexuality, gender identity and race.\n\n\"It's confusing, it's infuriating, it is censorship,\" she said.\n\nFlorida authorities say they want to restrict inappropriate and harmful material but that they don't ban books.\n\nPink has joined forces with Pen America, a campaign group that says it defends freedom of expression for authors.\n\nIt says Florida has had more books banned than any other US state, accounting for more than 40% of all documented examples.\n\n\"Books have held a special joy for me from the time I was a child, and that's why I am unwilling to stand by and watch while books are banned by schools,\" Pink said in a statement released by the group.\n\n\"It's especially hateful to see authorities take aim at books about race and racism and against LGBTQ authors and those of colour.\n\n\"We have made so many strides toward equality in this country and no-one should want to see this progress reversed.\"\n\nCopies of four books, which Pen America says have appeared in its Index of Banned Books, will be handed out at her shows in Miami on Tuesday and nearby Sunrise on Wednesday. They are:\n\nAlmost half of school districts in Florida have had \"instances of book bans\", according to Pen America. Across the US, school book removals were up by one third in the past year, it said.\n\nFlorida's Department of Education has said it \"does not ban books\", while governor Ron DeSantis has called the idea of banning a \"hoax\". He has said he wants an education system that is \"free from sexualization and harmful materials that are not age appropriate\".\n\nHe said earlier this year: \"Exposing the 'book ban' hoax is important because it reveals that some are attempting to use our schools for indoctrination.\n\n\"In Florida, pornographic and inappropriate materials that have been snuck into our classrooms and libraries to sexualize our students violate our state education standards.\"\n\nIn March, Florida's Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz Jr tweeted: \"Students should be spending their time in school learning core academic subjects, not being force-fed radical gender and sexual ideology.\"\n\nSchool districts that have removed books have cited recent state laws including one dubbed the Don't Say Gay bill, which says children should not be taught about sexual orientation or gender identity.\n\nLast year, another law was introduced saying school books should be age-appropriate, free from pornography and \"suited to student needs\". They must be approved by a specialist who has had training by the Department of Education, with parents given more power to request a removal.\n\nAnother law introduced in 2022 does not allow the \"far-left woke agenda\" to \"take over our schools and workplaces\" when teaching issues related to race, Mr DeSantis said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former PM David Cameron explains his surprise comeback to frontline politics\n\nRishi Sunak's new cabinet meets for the first time this morning, as his new look government takes shape.\n\nAt 23:00, the announcements were still coming, and it's not just David Cameron doing a less senior job than their previous role.\n\nDame Andrea Leadsom used to be a cabinet minister as business secretary - she once ran for Conservative leader and prime minister - now she's back as a junior health minister.\n\nDamian Hinds used to be education secretary. Now he's number two in the department as minister of state.\n\nBut let's take a step back. What is this reshuffle all about?\n\nFrom Rishi Sunak's perspective, it is about building a team more in his own image, and shaking off at least some of the folk he inherited from Liz Truss.\n\nIt is also about trying to change the political dial.\n\nI'm told Rishi Sunak and David Cameron have spoken every now and again since Mr Sunak became prime minister.\n\nIt was about a week ago when Lord Cameron, as he now is, was asked if he would become foreign secretary.\n\nThis suggests - given the sideways move for James Cleverly from foreign secretary to home secretary - that Suella Braverman may have been done for even without the drama of late last week.\n\nBut Mrs Braverman's remarks did, it appears, shuffle forward the reshuffle.\n\nLord Cameron's return has prompted genuine delight from some Conservatives.\n\nI've seen texts flying around talking excitedly about \"DC\" - his initials were often used as shorthand when he was prime minister.\n\nBut others in the party see him as a Conservative from a different era: the Remain-loving author of what some see as the austerity years. For some Conservative MPs they are two things they would run a mile from.\n\nGovernments will often appoint blasts from the past to senior roles, via the House of Lords, when they've either run out of better ideas or really do need to give the impression they're patching up very public differences.\n\nThink Lord Mandelson as the unlikely number two to Gordon Brown in the final years of Labour's last stint in government.\n\nAs for Suella Braverman, No10 got rid of her because they were tired of her.\n\nOn plenty of policy issues she and the prime minister agreed. But her language and the attention it attracted irritated them, as did that article she wrote for The Times that wasn't properly signed off by No10.\n\nA former minister, Dame Andrea Jenkyns, has published her letter of no confidence in Rishi Sunak.\n\nSome of Suella Braverman's supporters claim - without evidence - a dozen or so letters have been sent in private. Who knows.\n\nThe numbers of the disillusioned MPs tempted by political insurrection don't seem big, at least not yet.\n\nBut make no mistake, No10 is aware of them.\n\nSuella Braverman was removed as part of the reshuffle\n\nMrs Braverman hasn't yet properly had her say after her early morning sacking by phone.\n\nSome think she may wait until after the decision on Wednesday from the Supreme Court about the Rwanda migrant plan.\n\nIf the government loses, Suella Braverman isn't likely to stay quiet for long.\n\nAnd senior folk in government think losing on Rwanda in court is more likely than winning.\n\nBut a qualified loss (or indeed qualified win) is possible, where some elements of the scheme are approved and others aren't.\n\nThe question is how much attention can Suella Braverman attract, how much appetite does the Tory party still have for stirring things up before an election - as opposed to making a case for its priorities afterwards? Let's see.\n\nWhat is noticeable - and the return of David Cameron personifies - is what seems like a tilt away from the right.\n\nThe re-appointment of Esther McVey is a nod to those who might be concerned about this, charged as she is with keeping a sceptical eye on what some label political correctness or \"wokery\".\n\nBut the broader shift looks unmistakable to some in the party, and they don't like it.\n\nOthers hope it can shore up Conservative support in the south of England, where the electoral threat to the Tories by the Liberal Democrats is at its keenest.\n\nOthers, not least in the Labour Party, ask whether all this amounts to a coherent strategy at all, given it is only weeks ago that Rishi Sunak was seeking to define himself against recent governments and prime ministers.\n\nAnd now he's appointed one as his foreign secretary.\n\nOh and one final thought, which in the end is all that really matters with all this.\n\nWill it change how we are governed, and the popularity, or lack of it, of the government?\n\nThere is a chance given its scale, and the eye-catching return of David Cameron, that people might notice it.\n\nInternal Conservative critics reckoned the prime minister's conference speech and last week's King's Speech didn't change the political dial.\n\nIt is far from certain this personnel reboot will either, but it might.\n\nIf you are Rishi Sunak and you are staring at what looks right now like likely general election defeat, it is worth a try.", "BBC correspondent Jessica Parker was reporting from the Icelandic town of Grindavik when authorities ordered an immediate evacuation for anyone in the area.\n\nResidents were being allowed back into the town in small numbers to quickly retrieve belongings when the evacuation order came.\n\nAuthorities later said the area around Grindavik was evacuated after sulphur dioxide was detected, sparking fears of a nearby opening in the ground.\n\nThe wider Reykjanes peninsula was struck by hundreds of earthquakes on Monday and according to scientists a volcanic eruption is expected.\n\nThere's been an increase in earthquake activity the region surrounding the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik, since late October.\n\nThat's due to a underground river of magma - hot liquid or semi-liquid rock - about 15km (10 miles) in length moving upwards below the earth's surface.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSuella Braverman has been forced out as home secretary after challenging the prime minister one too many times.\n\nShe was sacked from the role on Monday morning.\n\nIn an article for the Times newspaper, she accused the Metropolitan Police of bias in the policing of protests.\n\nMrs Braverman was accused of undermining the police with her claim that aggressive right-wing protesters were \"rightly met with a stern response\", while \"pro-Palestinian mobs\" were \"largely ignored\", ahead of pro-Palestinian marches in central London.\n\nThe row is just the latest in a long line of controversies in Mrs Braverman's political career.\n\nBut it has not stopped her emerging as a leading figure on the right of the Conservative Party and someone with ambitions to lead it.\n\nThe now former home secretary's political leanings were evident at an early age. In 1997, the year of Labour's landslide victory, she won a mock election as the Conservative candidate at her independent all-girls school in Harrow.\n\nA classmate at the time said she had turned the school \"in completely the opposite direction\" during the election, using her \"personality, joviality and optimism\".\n\nMrs Braverman was born Sue-Ellen Fernandes, in April 1980 - named after Sue-Ellen Ewing, the matriarch of the American TV show Dallas, one of her mother's favourite shows.\n\nTeachers shortened it to Suella at school, where she was a high-flying student - crowning her time there as head girl.\n\nHer parents were both of Indian origin, and met in London, after her father fled Kenya and mother emigrated from Mauritius to become a nurse.\n\nShe has spoken about how her parents' journey and emphasis on hard work and integration deeply influenced her.\n\nThis drive took her to study law at University of Cambridge, where she chaired the university's Conservative Association - a post held by Tory grandees (and former home secretaries) Ken Clarke and Michael Howard.\n\nAfter Cambridge, she studied for two years in Paris, gaining a postgraduate degree in European and French law at Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and developing a love for the works of Marcel Proust and songs of Belgian singer Jacques Brel.\n\nMrs Braverman's legal career took her from the UK to the US, passing the bar exam in both London and New York. She was also set on politics, gaining work as a lawyer for the government and unsuccessfully standing as the Conservative candidate in the solid Labour seat of Leicester East in 2005.\n\nShe was selected as the Conservative candidate for the safe seat of Fareham, a role she secured by doing the most \"homework\" according to a member of her selection panel.\n\nIn the 2015 election she was duly elected as an MP, and quickly made a name for herself for her views on the EU, immigration, and law and order.\n\nA fervent supporter of Brexit, she chaired the Eurosceptic European Research Group (ERG) of Tory MPs, after the UK left the EU.\n\nIt was in the melee following the 2016 referendum that she headed to her ministerial office - getting a job as a junior minister at the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU).\n\nShe resigned from the role 10 months later, alongside her boss at DExEU Dominic Raab, in protest at Theresa May's Brexit deal, which she called \"a betrayal\".\n\nShe changed her name to Suella Braverman, having married South African business executive Rael Braverman in 2019.\n\nSir John Hayes, one of Mrs Braverman's oldest allies in politics, said Rael \"reinforced\" his wife's conservatism.\n\nMrs Braverman made a return to government when she was appointed attorney general by Boris Johnson, but maintained an independent streak.\n\nAs the chief legal adviser to the government, she was criticised by lawyers for backing the Internal Market Bill - setting post-Brexit customs and trade rules - which broke international law in a \"specific and limited way\".\n\nShe also made history in 2021 as the first cabinet minister to take maternity leave, following the passage of a new law.\n\nFollowing Mr Johnson's resignation as prime minister, Mrs Braverman was the first to announce she was running to replace him.\n\nShe was installed as home secretary by eventual winner Liz Truss, but was forced to resign within the space of a few weeks.\n\nMrs Braverman stood down after admitting to sharing confidential documents.\n\nIn a political twist, Mrs Braverman was reinstated as home secretary by Rishi Sunak - and under him, she has carved out a reputation for her headline-grabbing comments.\n\nNot long after returning to office, it emerged she had been caught speeding while attorney general. Mr Sunak decided her request for advice from officials on arranging a private course \"did not amount to a breach of the ministerial code\" without the need for an investigation.\n\nMrs Braverman's comments have often proved a thorn in Mr Sunak's side, with the prime minister repeatedly distancing himself from her language on immigration and homeless people.\n\nUntil recently, Mr Sunak appeared unwilling to rein in his home secretary. There had been suggestions Mrs Braverman acted as a \"politically useful pressure valve\" for Mr Sunak - allowing him to indirectly signal approval for right-wing populist policies without having to make those statements himself.\n\nNow her departure marks the end of a tumultuous period in government, but is unlikely to end her leadership ambitions.\n\nListen to Suella Braverman's interview on Political Thinking with Nick Robinson.", "The Scottish government has been accused of a lack of transparency over the country's renewable offshore power potential.\n\nMinisters used a letter to a Holyrood committee to downgrade Scotland's projected share of Europe's offshore energy capacity.\n\nFor years, ministers said Scotland had 25% of that capacity but new figures suggest it is around 9%.\n\nThe Scottish Tories said ministers showed a \"contempt for transparency\".\n\nEnergy Secretary Neil Gray denied a lack of transparency and said he hoped the statistical update would \"put that debate to rest\".\n\nThe Scottish government said the previous figure was \"understood to be accurate\" at the time, but a new analysis had since been carried out.\n\nThe new calculation is a comparison with only EU countries, rather than Europe as a whole.\n\nThe 25% figure had been used since 2010, and was highlighted in the Scottish government's 2014 white paper which made the case for independence.\n\nBut ministers conceded last year that this statistic was not accurate and the new calculation was given to a Holyrood committee last month.\n\nIt was published in the annex of a letter Mr Gray sent to the energy committee on 21 September.\n\nEnergy Secretary Neil Gray denied the government had not been transparent\n\nDocuments obtained by pro-union campaign group These Islands, and shared with BBC Scotland News, show that officials advised against issuing \"proactive communications\" to highlight the revised figure.\n\nMr Gray said his update was \"there in full daylight for everyone to see\", adding that it had \"hardly been a secret\".\n\n\"This is a good news story,\" he told BBC Scotland News. \"It shows that Scotland has a substantial amount of Europe's renewable energy potential.\"\n\nMr Gray said the statistics went through \"a rigorous process\" to ensure accuracy before being published.\n\n\"The figure has now been clarified, which I hope will now put that debate to rest and ensure that we are able to focus now on delivering that massive potential,\" he added.\n\nSea ports such as Montrose could benefit from construction and supply jobs for the offshore renewables industry\n\nIn Mr Gray's letter to the convener of Holyrood's energy committee, he said that Scotland's ambition for 11GW of offshore wind by 2030 would represent \"approximately 10% of the EU ambition\".\n\nBut the country's share of its target, combined with the EU target, would mean a figure of closer to 9% for Scotland.\n\nIn discussions about the new figures, obtained by under Freedom of Information, officials advised the energy secretary on 15 September to write to parliament's energy committee \"to advise parliament on the updated suite of metrics\".\n\nThey go on to say \"no proactive communications are recommended\" but that officials will prepare \"reactive lines\" if there are media queries regarding the new statistics.\n\nAn official in Mr Gray's office wrote on 19 September that the minister was \"not sure we need to draw further attention to the issue with a letter to committee unless we committed to publicise our update\".\n\nAnother official then clarified that ministers had committed to updating MSPs.\n\nFor over a decade Scottish government ministers were fond of deploying the statistic that Scotland had 25% of Europe's offshore energy potential.\n\nBut around a year ago that ministers conceded that figure was \"out of date.\" There were pledges to come up with a new number. That now appears to have happened.\n\nThough it would have been easy to miss. In fact, it appears to have gone unnoticed for weeks. It was deep within a tranche of statistics sent to a Holyrood Committee.\n\nThis does indeed qualify as updating parliament, which is what ministers had promised to do. Though many MSPs will think it would have been more appropriate to clearly publicise the new figure.\n\nScotland may well still have a very bright future when it comes to offshore energy. But, given how quietly ministers have provided this update, it suggests they're not over the moon about this downgrade.\n\nScottish Conservative MSP Liam Kerr said: \"Ministers must be open and honest about giving accurate figures - secrecy and cover-up does the renewables sector no favours.\n\n\"This is yet another example of a government that thinks it can get away with anything.\n\n\"It has shown time and again a contempt for transparency and accountability, and this sorry saga sums that up perfectly.\"\n\nThe Scottish government also pledged to update other bodies once a new figure was arrived at.\n\nIn March, Michael Matheson - who was Scotland's energy secretary at the time - told Westminster's Scottish Affairs Committee that he would provide them with an updated figure \"upon completion of our work\".\n\nMr Matheson also appeared to have committed to updating Holyrood's presiding officer when a new figure had been calculated.\n\nNeither has been updated with the new statistics, though the Scottish government plans to do so in due course.\n\nThe government said it had completed work to provide new metrics on renewable energy potential, fulfilling a previous undertaking to Holyrood.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"These figures make clear Scotland has more than doubled its renewable electricity generation over the last decade, including possessing approximately 7% of Europe's installed offshore wind capacity.\n\n\"On 15 November last year Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity Minister Lorna Slater informed parliament that although Scottish ministers understood the previous statistic to be accurate, it had come to their attention that it was not and she undertook to update Parliament when new analysis was complete, which has been done.\n\n\"The Energy Secretary will write to update the presiding officer and the Scottish Affairs Committee in due course.\"", "Dozens of residents were waiting outside the tower block as the evening progressed\n\nHundreds of people living in a tower block were told to leave their homes immediately after \"major structural faults\" were discovered.\n\nBristol City Council declared a major incident after building surveys showed Barton House would be unsafe in the event of a fire or explosion.\n\nPeople were told to pack enough clothes for \"a day or two\" and stay with friends and family, or go to rest centres, the council said.\n\nAbout 400 people live in the building.\n\nCouncil employees knocked on doors, sent texts and made contact \"with everyone in the block\" in a bid to empty the 15-storey building \"as soon as possible\", the authority added.\n\nNuh Sharif, who has lived in Barton House since 2012, said he was \"panicking\" about what he and his family would do.\n\nA tearful Mr Sharif, who has two children, said his partner had been told the building \"might collapse\".\n\n\"We need to go somewhere quiet because they [his children] panic and can't sleep.\n\n\"I am worried where they are going to stay. How am I going to get them to school tomorrow?\"\n\nBarton House resident Nuh Sharif said he had \"nowhere to go\"\n\nYousif Ahmed, who lives in Barton House with his wife and three children, aged two, four and six, said the council \"should have warned people earlier\".\n\n\"They have just suddenly come knocking on the door saying you have to leave.\"\n\nMr Ahmed was packing some belongings in his car when he spoke to the BBC, and said he did not know where he would go.\n\nThe council said it had been carrying out building surveys on tower block in Redfield, which dates from 1958 and is the oldest in its estate, as it decided on the structure's long-term future.\n\nDuring the surveys, experts discovered the structure could be \"compromised\" in the event of a fire, explosion or large impact.\n\nYousif Ahmed said he was not sure where he and his family would go\n\nFurther surveys are planned but in the meantime, the authority said it was going door-to-door telling residents to leave.\n\nDeclaring a major incident allows the council, which has confirmed the issue is not related to RAAC concrete, to seek help from outside organisations.\n\nAvon Fire and Rescue Service said it has been liaising with the council since it undertook the survey on the tower block.\n\n\"As a precautionary measure and to allow for further, more in-depth surveys, residents in the block are being asked to leave immediately,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"The approach the council are taking as responsible owners of the building is appropriate and proportional, we are in support of this to ensure that residents are kept safe.\"\n\nLocal GP surgery Wellspring Settlement said on X (formerly Twitter) it was likely to be an information point.\n\nThe emergency services have been put on standby as a precaution, Bristol City Council said.\n\nBuses have been arriving to take residents away from Barton House\n\nAnother resident of Barton House said he found out about the evacuation from Facebook and a friend.\n\nHe said the tower block \"should have been condemned years ago\".\n\n\"My flat is terrible. It's full of damp and mould.\n\n\"Half my ceiling has collapsed literally into my bathroom.\"\n\nSheila Barrett said she was moving out and would and stay with her grandson.\n\n\"I am really, really shocked,\" she said.\n\n\"I have lived here for 50 years. I thought it was something to do with cladding, but have been told it is structural.\n\n\"I have been told it was something to do with a fire-brigade survey and we have to move out. It's a shock.\"\n\nSheila Barrett said she had lived in Barton House for 50 years\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer is set for a showdown with Labour MPs later over the party's position on the Israel-Hamas war.\n\nDozens could back a Commons motion from the SNP calling for an immediate ceasefire in the conflict, in contrast to the Labour leader.\n\nLabour has ordered its MPs to abstain on the SNP's motion, meaning frontbenchers must resign or face the sack to support it.\n\nBut three frontbenchers have already indicated they will defy their leader.\n\nShadow Home Office minister Naz Shah, shadow education minister Helen Hayes and shadow trade minister Afzal Khan all told MPs they wanted to support an immediate ceasefire.\n\nThe party has tabled its motion urging longer pauses in the fighting to deliver aid, which, along with the SNP motion, will be voted on after 19.00 GMT.\n\nNineteen frontbenchers have expressed an opinion on the conflict at odds with their leader. One, shadow minister Imran Hussain, quit his position last week in order to campaign for an immediate ceasefire.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the vote, he said humanitarian pauses - as advocated by Labour's leader - do not \"go far enough,\" adding that a ceasefire would \"create space for meaningful negotiations\".\n\nNearly 70 Labour MPs have defied their leader to call for a ceasefire now, and nearly 50 councillors have resigned from the party over the leadership's position on the war.\n\nSir Keir has argued that a ceasefire would not be appropriate, because it would freeze the conflict and embolden Hamas.\n\nInstead, Labour, like the Conservative government, the United States and the European Union, is calling for \"humanitarian pauses\" to help aid reach Gaza.\n\nCompared with a formal ceasefire, these pauses tend to last for short periods of time, sometimes just a few hours.\n\nThey are implemented with the aim of providing humanitarian support only, as opposed to achieving long-term political solutions.\n\nLast week, the US said Israel would begin to implement daily four-hour military pauses in areas of northern Gaza.\n\nThe competing motions on the conflict come in the form of amendments to the King's Speech, the government's legislative programme for the year ahead unveiled last week.\n\nLabour's motion would support Israel's right to self-defence after Hamas's \"horrific terrorist attack\" on 7 October, in which 1,200 people were killed, and call for the release of more than 200 people taken hostage.\n\nBut it also says there has been \"too much suffering, including far too many deaths of innocent civilians and children\" since Israel began striking Gaza in response.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says more than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza since then - of whom more than 4,500 were children.\n\nThe amendment calls on Israel to \"protect hospitals and lift the siege conditions\" on the territory, and urges longer humanitarian pauses to allow aid \"on a scale that begins to meet the desperate needs of the people of Gaza\".\n\nIt says this is a \"necessary step to an enduring cessation of fighting as soon as possible and a credible, diplomatic and political process to deliver the lasting peace of a two-state solution\".\n\nLabour has confirmed that its MPs will be under a three-line whip - the strictest instruction - to back the party's motion, and abstain on the competing SNP motion calling on \"all parties to agree to an immediate ceasefire\".\n\n\"This is a whipped vote and every MP knows what the consequence of that means,\" a spokesman added.\n\nSupporters of Sir Keir's position hope the gambit of tabling its own motion could mean most resignations are avoided.\n\nHowever, they concede that the question of backing a ceasefire has become the central issue for some of the MPs.", "A former doctor from Rwanda has gone on trial in France on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.\n\nSosthene Munyemana was a 29-year-old gynaecologist living in the south of Rwanda at the time of the 1994 genocide in which 800,000 people were killed.\n\nHe has lived in France for 29 years and is accused of organising torture and killings.\n\nIn 1995, a year after the Rwandan genocide, a complaint was filed against Mr Munyemana in the city of Bordeaux.\n\nIt took French prosecutors 28 years to bring the case to trial.\n\nThe key to an office in a place called Tumba will strongly feature during his trial in Paris.\n\nMr Munyemana, who admits he had the key, said people from the Tutsi population sought refuge in the office, with his defence lawyer arguing he worked to prevent the genocide.\n\nBut prosecutors say he locked them inside in inhumane conditions before they were taken away to be killed.\n\nOne thing that both sides in the case agree on is that it is unacceptable it has taken so many years for it to come to court.\n\nMr Munyemana, who denies the charges, faces life in prison if convicted.\n\nThe genocide was sparked by the death of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana when his plane was shot down above Kigali airport on 6 April.\n\nMr Habyarimana was from Rwanda's Hutu ethnic majority, and while exactly who killed the president has not been established, the presidential guard in Rwanda's capital Kigali immediately initiated a campaign of retribution.\n\nLeaders of the political opposition were murdered, and almost immediately, the slaughter of Tutsis and moderate Hutus began.\n\nWithin hours, recruits were dispatched all over the country to carry out a wave of slaughter.\n\nBetween April and June 1994 an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days.", "Courteney Cox revealed that her character's marriage to Chandler was not the writers' original plan\n\nFriends stars Courteney Cox and Matt Le Blanc have both paid their first individual tributes to co-star Mathew Perry, following his death last month.\n\nCox, who played his on-screen wife Monica, shared a clip of her with Perry's character Chandler on Instagram and said she was \"so grateful for every moment\" they worked together.\n\nMatt Le Blanc, who played room-mate Joey, posted his first tribute earlier.\n\n\"It was an honour to call you my friend,\" he wrote.\n\nLe Blanc, 56, said: \"It is with a heavy heart I say goodbye. I'll never forget you.\"\n\nPerry was found dead at his Los Angeles home last month at the age of 54, sparking an outpouring of grief from fans across the world.\n\nIn a joint statement last month, Cox and Le Blanc were joined by their fellow cast members Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow and David Schwimmer in describing Perry's death as an \"unfathomable loss\".\n\n\"We are all so utterly devastated by the loss of Matthew,\" the statement said. \"We will always cherish the joy, the light, the blinding intelligence he brought to every moment - not just to his work, but in life as well.\n\n\"He was always the funniest person in the room. More than that, he was the sweetest, with a giving and selfless heart.\"\n\nMatt LeBlanc said he would never forget Matthew Perry\n\nLeBlanc became the first to post an individual tribute, sharing pictures of him on set with Perry, as he said on Instagram: \"The times we had together are honestly among the favourite times of my life.\n\n\"It was an honour to share the stage with you and to call you my friend.\n\n\"I will always smile when I think of you and I'll never forget you. Never.\n\nWithin hours, Cox added her tribute on Instagram, writing alongside her chosen clip: \"When you work with someone as closely as I did with Matthew, there are thousands of moments I wish I could share. For now here's one of my favourites.\"\n\nShe also revealed a behind-the-scenes story as she said: \"Chandler and Monica were supposed to have a one-night fling in London. But because of the audience's reaction, it became the beginning of their love story.\n\n\"In this scene, before we started rolling, he whispered a funny line for me to say. He often did things like that. He was funny and he was kind.\"\n\nA new foundation has been set up in his name promising to continue his commitment to \"helping others struggling with the disease of addiction\" following his public battles with alcohol and drugs.", "Matt Ratana, who was head coach at East Grinstead Rugby Club, was shot at a Metropolitan Police custody suite in Croydon\n\nThe partner of a police sergeant killed in a custody cell has said he was let down by the \"shoddy and inadequate\" performance of the Metropolitan Police.\n\nSgt Matiu Ratana, known as Matt, was murdered in September 2020 after officers failed to find a gun concealed on arrested man Louis De Zoysa.\n\nSu Bushby, speaking after an inquest verdict of unlawful killing, said police failures left her \"devastated\".\n\n\"If people had done their job properly, Matt would still be alive today\".\n\nSu Bushby said: \"Matt gave so much to the Met and its failures to protect him on that night are now clear for all to see\"\n\nThe New Zealand-born officer, 54, who had served in the Met Police for almost 30 years and was three months from retirement, was hit in the chest by the first of three shots discharged in three seconds by De Zoysa.\n\nHe had been arrested and searched but managed to hide an antique revolver in an underarm holster.\n\nIn recording her verdict at the conclusion of the inquest at Croydon Town Hall on Monday, senior coroner Sarah Ormond-Walshe said there was a \"failure to carry out a safe, thorough and systematic search\".\n\nThe court had heard how on arriving at Croydon's Windmill Road custody centre, De Zoysa managed to move his handcuffed arms from behind his back to fire at Sgt Ratana.\n\nThe court heard PC Richard Davey, who was still working his probation period, carried out a search while his more experienced colleague, PC Samantha Still, assisted.\n\nPC Davey admitted he \"abandoned his training\" and should have discovered the weapon during the arrest in London Road, Norbury.\n\nIn the custody van, De Zoysa was seen in footage wriggling and jerking, which according to expert evidence was him repositioning the firearm to his hands.\n\nLouis De Zoysa, pictured in the custody van, is serving a whole-life prison sentence for murder\n\nMs Bushby said: \"The shoddy and inadequate search undertaken by the police officers was a neglect of their duty and left Matt vulnerable to murder.\n\n\"The number of failures, the gravity of them and the impact of both the search failures and failures in the transportation of De Zoysa to the police station that have come out during the evidence in this inquest has left me devastated.\n\n\"It is my view that Matt has been let down by the Metropolitan Police.\n\n\"Matt gave so much to the Metropolitan Police and its failures to protect him on that night are now clear for all to see.\n\n\"The search should have been thorough, safe and systematic for it to be effective - it was none of those things.\n\n\"If it was an effective search, the gun would have been found on De Zoysa and Matt would be alive now.\"\n\nMs Bushby said there \"must be\" improvements to searches of suspects and security arrangements in police stations, adding: \"I do not want Matt's death to be in vain.\"\n\nShe went on: \"Not once, during the past three years, has anyone from the Metropolitan Police informed me that there was any issue with the search on that fateful night.\n\n\"I have not been informed by anyone during this time that the actions of the Metropolitan Police may have contributed towards Matt's death.\n\n\"If the Metropolitan Police had been more open and transparent with me about their failings, it would have gone a long way to making the last few weeks of this inquest easier.\"\n\nDe Zoysa is serving a whole-life jail term for Sgt Ratana's murder after a trial earlier this year, during which his legal team said he was suffering an autistic meltdown at the time of the shooting.\n\nMet Police deputy assistant commissioner Stuart Cundy, said: \"The arresting officers recognised that their search and observations of De Zoysa could have been more systematic, and should have found the firearm.\n\n\"Later at the police station these same officers showed great courage in disarming De Zoysa whilst he continued to fire the gun. I admire their bravery and that of everyone who was in the custody centre that night.\n\n\"Matt Ratana's murder was a stark and terrible reminder of the risks and challenges police officers and staff undertake every time they turn up for work.\n\n\"We will never forget Matt and will continue to honour his legacy, which will live on through his family, his many friends and colleagues in the Met, in his rugby foundation and beyond.\"\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two men died in a road crash which saw a car driven at \"insane\" speeds, an inquest has heard.\n\nLewis Moghul, 22, from Whitchurch Hill, and Sammy Phillips, 19, from Henley-on-Thames, died instantly when the BMW they were in hit trees in Bix, Oxfordshire, on 3 February.\n\nThe inquest heard Mr Moghul, the driver, was more than three times over the legal alcohol limit for driving.\n\nDrink-driving and excess speed caused the crash, the coroner concluded.\n\nThe inquest was told a witness described the speed of the vehicle was \"insane\".\n\nThames Valley Police said they believed the pair were travelling between 70mph and 100mph (113km/h and 160km/h).\n\nSenior coroner Darren Salter concluded Mr Moghul \"failed to stay on his side of the road\" while negotiating a slight bend.\n\nA \"swerve to the left\" caused his \"loss of control\", as well as a decision to \"drive at high speed while intoxicated\", he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sammy Phillips' mother Justine Morris said she was \"utterly heartbroken\" by her son's death\n\nDuring the inquest, Justine Morris, Mr Phillips' mother, read a statement to Oxford Coroner's Court.\n\nShe said: \"Boys like Sammy die on our roads every single day of the year, and the ingredients are too often the same: young men, fast cars and alcohol.\"\n\nShe added: \"As a family, we can only hope that the death of both boys will serve as a reminder to all their young friends, to all those who knew them; you are not invincible.\n\n\"While we would support a zero-tolerance drink-drive limit so that it becomes socially unacceptable to have even one drink when driving, we recognise that no change in the law can eradicate the exuberance of youth. We were all young once.\n\n\"So to all young men, I would simply say this: 'Think of your mum'.\n\n\"Before you put your foot down, before you have a drink and think it's OK to get behind the wheel, think of your mum standing where I am now, and imagine how utterly heartbroken she'd be.\"\n\nThe men died instantly when a red BMW crashed in Bix, Oxfordshire, on 3 February\n\nSgt James Surman, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"I can only hope this serves as a reminder to all young drivers of the risks involved in drink driving. It significantly impairs people's driving ability.\n\n\"That, coupled with the speed that was involved in this case, needs to serve as a warning.\n\n\"Both Lewis and Sammy have lost their lives far too young.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, X, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Takarazuka Revue draws huge audiences and is sought after by aspiring young stars\n\nA prestigious Japanese all-female theatre company has admitted it feels responsible for the death of a young actress whose suspected suicide was reportedly caused by overwork.\n\nExecutives from Takarazuka Revue apologised for \"loss of life\" but did not announce a compensation package for the 25-year-old's family.\n\nChairman Kenshi Koba also said he was stepping down.\n\nThere's fierce competition to join the company, one of Japan's most popular.\n\nFormed in 1913, it has achieved cult status in Japan for its glitzy interpretations of romantic musicals.\n\nThe troupe is highly sought after by aspiring young female singers and dancers, who operate in a rigid hierarchy. Often playing male roles, the female performers draw huge audiences.\n\n\"It is undeniable that a strong psychological burden was placed on [the woman], and we did not sufficiently fulfil our duty of care for her safety,\" Mr Koba told a news conference at the revue's base in the western city of Takarazuka.\n\nAddressing relatives, he said: \"We deeply apologise for not being able to protect a precious member of your family.\"\n\nRegarding the family's request for compensation, Mr Koba said: \"I want to make sure we apologise and compensate them.\n\n\"Unfortunately, we have not had the opportunity yet,\" public broadcaster NHK reported him saying.\n\nThe chairman and two other executives promised new measures to ensure nothing similar happened in future. It plans to reduce the number of weekly performances from nine to eight.\n\nBut they said they were not aware of young artists' struggles at the musical troupe. In a statement, they said they had received no complaints and were not aware of any staff shortages.\n\nThe actress, who had been with the company for six years, is not being named. Her family have chosen to remain anonymous because of the stigma still attached to suicide in Japan.\n\nShe was found dead in her condominium in Takarazuka on 30 September. Police said she died of suspected suicide.\n\nAn independent team comprised mainly of lawyers was commissioned by the company to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death. It did not confirm any incidences of bullying or harassment at the news conference.\n\nBut it found that it was \"undeniable that the combination of long hours of activities and pressure from senior members may have placed a psychological burden\" on the woman.\n\nHer family are suing the company for compensation. The actress took her own life because the overworking and bullying by her seniors \"compromised her mental and physical health\", her family's lawyer said last week.\n\nThe lawyer said she was under an outsourcing contract with the company and that her overtime exceeded 277 hours a month, which was above the government's criteria for worker compensation. Takarazuka Revue has put the figure at 118 hours a month.\n\nThe woman's family have also claimed she suffered burns two years ago when a senior member pressed a hair iron against her forehead, an allegation the company denied when it was reported in a weekly magazine this February.\n\nThe company \"turned a blind eye while subjecting [the actress] to abnormal, excessively long working hours, leaving her extremely fatigued,\" her family said in a statement, demanding that the company, along with those it alleges abused their daughter, acknowledge their responsibility and apologise.\n\nInvestigators reported \"we could not confirm (that it was intentional)\" that a senior member of the troupe had burned the 25-year-old's forehead with a hair iron, The Asahi Shimbun reported.\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and support can be found at this BBC Action Line.\n\nIf you are in Japan, the Japanese Health Ministry has information and support, or call Yorisoi Hotline at 0120279338.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch King Charles cut his birthday cake at celebrations on Monday\n\nKing Charles has celebrated his 75th birthday with a business-as-usual approach and the launch of a project to help people facing food poverty.\n\nAnd it is understood that he will be getting a birthday greeting by transatlantic phone call from his younger son, Prince Harry.\n\nThe King's birthday plans also saw him hosting a reception for NHS nurses and midwives.\n\nCeremonial gun salutes have been fired, including at the Tower of London.\n\nPublic service, rather than glitzy partying, has been emphasised in the King's birthday engagements, although it is expected that there will be a private dinner for close family and friends.\n\nPrince Harry will not be there, but well-placed sources say that the US-based Duke of Sussex will be putting in a birthday phone call to his father.\n\nThe plans for a phone message might be seen as an olive branch, after claims that there had been no contact with Prince Harry about the birthday plans\n\nKing Charles III buys a copy of the Big Issue from seller Kelvin along with Lord John Bird, founder of the magazine\n\nThe King's birthday has also seen the official launch of his Coronation Food Project, with the King and Queen visiting a surplus-food distribution centre in Didcot in Oxfordshire.\n\nThe project is designed to tackle the twin problem of the increasing numbers of people unable to afford food, while millions of tonnes of surplus food is being thrown away.\n\nHighlighting the campaign in an article in the Big Issue magazine, which supports the homeless, the King said: \"Food need is as real and urgent a problem as food waste.\"\n\nThe bright lights of Piccadilly Circus included a birthday message to the King\n\nThe King told the magazine that \"cost-of-living pressures\" were resulting in \"too many families and individuals missing out on nutritious meals\".\n\nAt the launch, the King paid £10 to a Big Issue seller for a copy of the magazine, which has a cover price of £4.\n\nThe magazine seller, called Kelvin, said the King asked him about whether he was in accommodation and the seller joked afterwards: \"He gave me cash. That does prove something - he does carry money.\"\n\nKing Charles invited others who were 75 this year to a party at Highgrove\n\nThe Coronation Food Project aims to create distribution hubs to connect surplus food with food banks and charities providing food parcels.\n\n\"There are one in five people in this country that are suffering what charities call 'food insecurity' - to me, they're 'hungry',\" said Baroness Casey, who co-chairs of the project.\n\n\"People are going without meals,\" she said.\n\nAn animation promoting the Coronation Food Project will be shown on Tuesday evening on the digital advertising hoardings at Piccadilly Circus in London.\n\nThere is a circularity to the King's launch of a food-sharing project on his birthday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen the then-Prince Charles was born on 14 November 1948, there was still food rationing in post-war Britain.\n\nTo mark the birth of the then-Princess Elizabeth's first child, there was a scheme to provide a gift food parcel to every family who had had a child on the same day.\n\nAccording to National Archives records, more than 2,600 gift parcels were distributed in this era of austerity, with items including soap, butter, dried egg, honey, marmalade, bacon and beef.\n\nKing Charles has shared the celebrations for his 75th birthday with other people of the same age, who were invited to a party at his house at Highgrove in Gloucestershire on Monday.\n\nKing Charles and Queen Camilla at the official launch of The Coronation Food Project\n\nHe is also marking the 75th anniversary of organisations of the same vintage, including the NHS, with 400 nurses and midwives attending a reception at Buckingham Palace. It was also attended by the new Health Secretary, Victoria Atkins, following Monday's cabinet reshuffle.\n\nThe King thanked the nurses for their work and was also given a birthday card on behalf of a six-year-old girl with whom he shares a birthday, and stopped to practise his Swahili with a Kenyan nurse.\n\n\"We talked about Kenya,\" said Bernice Boore, who said she asked him about his recent state visit to the country.\n\nKing Charles spoke with nurses and midwives at an event at Buckingham Palace\n\nThe King last week rebranded his charities as the King's Trust and King's Foundation, rather than Prince's Trust and Prince's Foundation, which will send another message of keeping working rather than slowing down or handing over the reins to the next generation.\n\nHe will be travelling to speak at the COP28 climate change summit in Dubai at the end of this month.\n\nAt the age of 75, King Charles is now the sixth-oldest British monarch in history, behind Elizabeth II, Victoria, George III, Edward VIII and George II.\n\nYou can see more royal stories in the free BBC Royal Watch newsletter emailed each week - sign up here from within the UK. or here, from outside the UK.", "Rita Roberts was identified by her flower tattoo\n\nA British woman has been identified more than 30 years after her murder in Belgium, following the launch of a landmark police campaign.\n\nRita Roberts' family spotted her distinctive tattoo in a BBC report, according to policing agency Interpol.\n\nThe last contact the 31-year-old had with her family was via a postcard in May 1992. Her body was found the following month.\n\nHer family said the news was \"shocking and heartbreaking\".\n\n\"Our passionate, loving and free-spirited sister was cruelly taken away,\" they said in a statement, shared by Interpol. \"Whilst the news has been difficult to process, we are incredibly grateful to have uncovered what happened to Rita.\"\n\nMs Roberts was one of 22 murdered women who police in Europe were seeking to identify through a campaign launched earlier this year, called Operation Identify Me.\n\nThe campaign marked the first time Interpol had gone public with a list of so-called black notices, seeking information about unidentified bodies. Such notices are normally only circulated internally among Interpol's network of police forces throughout the world.\n\nMost of the victims were aged between 15 and 30. The full list - available on Interpol's website - includes details about the women, photographs of possible identifying items, and, in some cases, new facial reconstructions and information about the cases.\n\nMs Roberts had travelled from her home in Cardiff to the Belgian city of Antwerp in February 1992. Her body was found lying against a grate in a river four months later, after she had been violently killed.\n\nHer family said she was \"a beautiful person who adored travelling\" and loved her family, adding: \"She had the ability to light up a room, and wherever she went, she was the life and soul of the party. We hope that wherever she is now, she is at peace.\"\n\nInterpol's head of police services, Stephen Kavanagh, said a family member identified her after spotting her tattoo - a black flower with green leaves and \"R'Nick\" written underneath - in a BBC News article, published in May this year.\n\n\"A member of Rita's family [saw] the Identify Me appeal through the BBC and suddenly realised there may be an opportunity that a lost member of their family had actually come to harm,\" he said.\n\nAfter recognising the tattoo, the family met with investigators in Belgium and formally identified her.\n\n\"There's a terrible contradiction here - we're proud that we've been able to work with member countries, we're proud that we've been able to identify this poor woman, Rita, but we're also devastated for the family because they've lost a loved one through brutal circumstances,\" Mr Kavanagh said.\n\nBelgian authorities are now calling on the public to come forward with any information they have about Ms Roberts or the circumstances surrounding her death.\n\nSince Operation Identify Me was launched in May, police say they have received about 1,250 tips relating to the 22 women whose bodies were discovered in The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.\n\nInformation has included possible names of victims and potential leads about clothing and jewellery the women were wearing.\n\nMr Kavanagh said police were still pursuing leads on the other 21 cases and were hopeful that Ms Roberts' identification was \"just the beginning\".\n\nThe campaign was initiated by Dutch police, who were struggling to identify a woman whose body was discovered in a wheelie bin floating in a river on the outskirts of Amsterdam, in 1999.\n\nOther cases include a woman's body found wrapped in a carpet and bound with string at a sailing club in Germany, in 2002.\n\n\"Each of these women were individuals, with families, with friends, with partners, with ambitions. And they've all come to harm in brutal circumstances,\" Mr Kavanagh said.\n\n\"We as global law enforcement have got an opportunity now to try and identify them... and bring closure.\"", "Barry Manilow has sold more than 85 million albums over the course of his career\n\nSinger-songwriter Barry Manilow says he did not discuss his sexuality for years because it could have ended his career.\n\nThe star, who came out publicly in 2017, told CNN's Chris Wallace that \"the public was not ready for anybody to come out\" as gay in the 1970s.\n\n\"Now being gay is no big deal,\" he added. \"Back in the 70s it would have killed a career.\"\n\nThe Brooklyn-born singer has been in a relationship with his manager Garry Kief for 39 years.\n\nAsked by Wallace if he had felt pressured to hide who he was, Manilow said he \"never thought about it\".\n\nHe described his decision to come out in People magazine six years ago as \"a non-event\".\n\n\"I think everybody knew that Garry and I were a couple all those years,\" he said.\n\nAt the time, he said his fans' response to the announcement had made it a \"beautiful experience\".\n\n\"I didn't know what was going to happen,\" he told Reuters, \"but I should have known better because my fans, and frankly the public, they care about my happiness and I have always known that.\"\n\nManilow, whose real name is Barry Pincus, is one of the biggest-selling musicians of all time, thanks to slick, orchestrated hits like Mandy, Looks Like We Made It and Copacabana.\n\nA born showman, he is still hard at work in his eighth decade, opening a new Broadway musical and starring in a recently-announced Christmas TV special.\n\nHe is currently in the 14th year of a Las Vegas residency and has concert dates scheduled until December 2024.\n\nHis star began to rise in the middle of the 1970s - and Manilow credited Kief with saving his life during those whirlwind years.\n\n\"As my career exploded, it was just crazy. And, you know, going back to an empty hotel room, you can get into a lot of trouble if you, you know, you're alone night after night after night,\" he explained.\n\n\"But I met Garry right around when it was exploding. And I didn't have to go back to those empty hotel rooms. I had somebody to cry with or to celebrate with.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was pretty lonely until I met Garry. And then it was fun.\"\n\nPrior to his relationship with Kief, Manilow had married his childhood sweetheart, Susan Deixler, in 1964.\n\nThe couple stayed together for one year, and the marriage was annulled in 1966.\n\nReflecting on the relationship, he said he \"really did love\" his wife, but admitted \"the gay thing was pretty, pretty strong\".\n\nHowever, he said the marriage ended because of a lack of commitment, rather than his sexuality.\n\n\"We had a very nice marriage, it was great, but I was away every night making music, as a young musician would be... and it wasn't good for me and it wasn't good for her.\n\n\"I couldn't be the proper husband. I was just away making music with a band. I wrote an off-Broadway musical called the Drunkard. And I was having a ball. I just couldn't be a husband.\"\n\nBarry Manilow recording a performance for the BBC's Top Of The Pops in the 1970s\n\nElsewhere in the career-spanning interview, Manilow said his background in writing jingles had helped him in his musical career.\n\n\"You've got to get a hook in 15 seconds that people will remember for a commercial, and the same goes for a pop song,\" he said.\n\nHe also revealed that he came up with the concept for Copacabana while recovering from his \"first nervous breakdown\" at the Copacabana Hotel in Rio de Janeiro in 1970.\n\nWhen Wallace pressed him for details, Manilow said he was \"just kidding\" about the breakdown, but admitted that fame had affected his mental health.\n\n\"Before Mandy and all the big records, I was a happy guy being the background.\n\n\"I was having a great time until I had to get up there and perform. I wouldn't say nervous breakdown, but it was definitely a problem for me.\"", "Therese Coffey revealed the stress of the ministerial workload had made her ill\n\nFormer Environment Secretary Therese Coffey said she \"nearly died\" because of the stress of being a government minister.\n\nMs Coffey, the Conservative MP for Suffolk Coastal, revealed how tough she found being a minister in a BBC radio interview.\n\nThe MP resigned from her job as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reshuffled his cabinet.\n\nShe said: \"Nearly five years ago I got so ill, I nearly, dare I say it, died.\"\n\nMs Coffey, who said she was proud to have served under five Conservative leaders, resigned as environment secretary as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reshuffled his ministers.\n\nHer previous cabinet roles included two months as both secretary of state for health and social care and deputy prime minister under Liz Truss.\n\nDuring a frank interview, Ms Coffey told BBC Radio Suffolk: \"I was in hospital for a month with some of the stresses that happen with ministerial life.\n\n\"A few years ago I certainly worked myself into the ground somewhat, but I learned a lot from that incident and that's why I've always had a joy about life.\"\n\nThe Save the Deben campaign aims to make the river cleaner\n\nMeanwhile, the founder of a group trying to clean up Suffolk's River Deben said she was \"delighted\" Ms Coffey was no longer environment secretary and hoped she would spend more time supporting the river campaign.\n\nRuth Leach, from Save the Deben, said she hoped the resignation would end conflicts between her constituency and ministerial duties.\n\nRuth Leach, of the Save the Deben group, hopes Ms Coffey will now devote more time to local issues\n\nRachel Smith-Lyte, East Suffolk Council's cabinet member for the environment, a member of the Green Party, added: \"I'm amazed she's been around as long as she has, both in terms of being environment minister, which is laughable, and as an MP for this area.\"\n\nMs Coffey told BBC Radio Suffolk she was proud of her record as environment secretary.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 183", "Waves crash over the promenade in Folkestone, Kent.\n\nStorm Debi has brought heavy rain and strong winds to several regions after wild weather hit large parts of the UK.\n\nA yellow warning for thunderstorms was in place for south-east England, parts of the south coast and London until 15:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nIt follows stormy conditions across northern England and Scotland, with gusts of more than 70mph (112.7km/h) recorded in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nDebi is the fourth named storm of this winter so far.\n\nThe rain and wind first hit Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, then Wales, before moving eastwards and into the North Sea on Monday evening.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the storm caused road closures and some disruption to the public transport network. NIE Networks said about 3,000 customers were without power, mainly around Craigavon, Newry and Downpatrick.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, the Environment Agency had 15 flood warnings in place - meaning flooding is expected - and 102 lesser flood alerts.\n\nGusts of up to 77mph battered parts of the Welsh coast after a yellow weather warning across north, mid and west Wales, while winds of 74mph were recorded at Killowen, Northern Ireland, and 68mph on the Isle of Man.\n\nA Met Office amber wind warning - meaning a potential risk to life and property - was in place for parts of south-west Northern Ireland in the morning and remained in place until Monday afternoon in parts of north-west England, including Cumbria, Lancashire and Merseyside.\n\nYellow weather warnings for wind were also in place for much of northern England and Wales until 18:00. This was extended until 21:00 for much of the north of England, including Lincoln, Sheffield and Manchester up to Carlisle and Newcastle.\n\nStorm Debi developed in the Republic of Ireland, where red weather warnings were in place earlier. About 100,000 homes and businesses had lost power as of Monday morning.\n\nA woman was taken to hospital after being hit by flying debris in Limerick and some schools were forced to close.\n\nElsewhere, a plane flying into Dublin Airport had to abort its landing due to Storm Debi.\n\nA car on a flooded road in County Tyrone. Storm Debi caused power cuts in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nBBC Weather's Simon King said Storm Debi could lead to some localised flooding, especially in Northern Ireland and eastern Scotland.\n\nHe said the stormy conditions will be especially felt around Irish Sea coasts and there may be branches or trees down and potentially damage to buildings.\n\nThe Met Office said severe weather could lead to the flooding of homes and businesses - with possible fast-flowing or deep floodwater causing a danger to life.\n\nSpray and flooding could also lead to difficult travel conditions, with some road and bridge closures, and disruption to rail, air and ferry services.\n\nThe Met Office said mobile phone coverage could also be affected and injuries and danger to life could occur from large waves and beach material being thrown onto sea fronts, coastal and road properties.\n\nBritish Airways said it had to \"make a small number of cancellations\" due to the bad weather, which has reduced the number of flights air traffic controllers will allow to land per hour.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Marco Petagna said Storm Debi would bring \"heavy and potentially thundery showers\" moving eastwards across the south of England on Tuesday.\n\nHe urged people to \"take extra care and be prepared to see thundery showers\".\n\nThe latest storm comes after Storm Ciarán caused flooding and disruption across the Channel Islands and southern England, while another recent storm, Babet, flooded nearly 600 properties in Lincolnshire.\n\nExperts say a warming atmosphere increases the chance of intense rainfall and storms.\n\nHowever, many factors contribute to extreme weather and it takes time for scientists to calculate how much impact climate change has had on particular events - if any.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nHow have you been affected by Storm Debi? You can share with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFind out the weather forecast for your area, with an hourly breakdown and a 14-day lookahead, by downloading the BBC Weather app: Apple - Android - Amazon\n\nThe BBC Weather app is only available to download in the UK.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Aroen Kishen and his wife Seema lived in the property on Channel Close with their children\n\nThree children killed in a house fire in London have been called \"beautiful souls\" in tributes from the community.\n\nAroen Kishen and his wife Seema lived in the house in Hounslow with their three children, neighbours said.\n\nIt is believed Mr Kishen is in hospital but his wife and children, Riyan, Shanaya and Arohi, died in the blaze.\n\nAnother adult died and a sixth person remains missing. An investigation into the cause of the fire is under way.\n\nThe BBC understands that two unnamed adults were visiting the family for Diwali, a festival marked by observants of the Hindu, Sikh and Jain faiths.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade's (LFB) deputy commissioner Jonathan Smith told City Hall on Tuesday that it was \"a human tragedy\" and \"one of the most significant fires the LFB has faced in terms of the numbers of people who were trapped\".\n\nFlowers and messages were laid near the scene, naming the children\n\nHe added that crews remained in the area to answer any concerns and questions the community had.\n\nA letter sent to parents from Westbrook Primary School said that formal identification of the bodies had not yet taken place.\n\nIt added that pupils were being cared for and supported by the school.\n\nThe letter ended with a tribute stating: \"Our hearts and thoughts go out to the family. Forever in our hearts, from all who knew and loved you.\"\n\nBunches of flowers have been placed near the house, including one with a note from classmates saying they were \"all crying today and missing you\".\n\nA tribute from a Mrs Sheldon said: \"Words cannot even begin to express our sorrow at hearing the loss of three beautiful souls.\n\n\"Forever in our hearts! Good night and God bless.\"\n\nAnother tribute left at the scene from \"Year 6\" read: \"I am so sorry that this has happened to you.\n\n\"You are still part of our family.\n\n\"We will never forget you, and you will always be in our hearts. May God grant you eternal life in heaven.\"\n\nForensic teams and fire investigators were seen on Tuesday investigating the scene of the fire\n\nHounslow Council's leader Shantanu Rajawat said nearby properties were evacuated as a precaution and residents \"were moved into hotels and the council is working with them very, very closely\".\n\n\"It will take some time to get into the property, make sure it's safe to be able to work in it, so the investigations can happen,\" Mr Rajawat told BBC Radio London.\n\nHe added it would be important for fire and police investigations to progress, and \"to make sure the neighbouring properties are safe for habitation, before we let people in\".\n\nInvestigators are keeping an \"open mind\" on the cause of the fire, the LFB has said\n\nEmergency services were called at 22:30 GMT on Sunday and roughly 70 firefighters and 10 fire engines attended. The fire was under control by 01:25.\n\nThe bodies of the five family members were found on the first floor of the terraced house by fire crews.\n\nOn Monday, LFB and the Met said they were keeping an \"open mind\" over the cause. The Met is leading the investigation and no arrests have been made.\n\nMr Smith said it was too early to know whether fireworks or candles for recent Diwali celebrations were a factor.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Three children among five house fire victims\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "American bullies have been involved in several high-profile attacks\n\nOwners of American bully XLs can apply to register their dogs for an exemption before the breed is banned next year.\n\nIt will be illegal to own a bully XL in England and Wales from 1 February.\n\nOwners who wish to keep their dogs must apply to the exemption scheme or they can choose to have their dog euthanised and apply for compensation.\n\nIt follows a number of attacks involving the breed, although owners insist the dogs, despite their appearance, make lovable pets.\n\nFrom 31 December 2023 it will be against the law to sell, abandon, breed from or give away an American bully XL, or have one in public without a lead or muzzle.\n\nDogs on the exempt list will also have to be neutered and microchipped.\n\nThose more than a year old on 31 January must be neutered by 30 June, while those under 12 months old must be neutered by 31 December 2024.\n\nThere is a £92.40 application fee, to cover administration costs, for owners to register their pet on the Index of Exempted Dogs.\n\nOwners without a certificate of exemption will face an unlimited fine if they are found to be in possession of a bully XL after the ban comes into force and their dog could be seized.\n\nChristine Middlemiss, the UK's chief veterinary officer, said: \"The transition period for XL bully dogs has now started. It is important that XL bully owners read the guidance and take all the necessary steps.\n\n\"This includes applying for a certificate of exemption if you want to keep your dog and ensuring they are muzzle trained by the end of the year, as your dog will need to be muzzled and on a lead in public after 31 December 2023.\n\n\"XL breeders should have also now stopped breeding their dogs and I would advise all owners to make an appointment with your vet to get your XL bully neutered as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe guidance is similar to that issued for the four breeds which were banned under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991: pit bull terriers, Japanese Tosas, Dogo Argentinos and Fila Brasileiros.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has published details defining an American Bully XL, which is not a breed recognised by the Kennel Club in the UK.\n\nAccording to this, the dogs are a \"large dog with a muscular body and blocky head, suggesting great strength and power for its size. Powerfully built individual\".\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the breed would be banned following a series of incidents.\n\nThese included the death of a man after a suspected attack by an American bully XL in Walsall on 14 September. Days earlier, an 11-year-old girl, along with two men, were attacked by an American bully XL in Bordesley Green, Birmingham.\n\nIn 2021, 10-year-old Jack Lis died from severe neck and head injuries after he was attacked by an American bully XL in Caerphilly. His mother, Emma Whitfield, has been calling for the dogs to be banned.\n\nThe new guidance does not apply to Northern Ireland or Scotland.\n\nBoth currently ban the pit bull terrier, Japanese tosa, Dogo Argentino and Fila Braziliero.\n\nIf Scottish ministers agree, then the ban will be applied in Scotland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland a ban on an American bully XL would require a separate change to legislation, either by a sitting Assembly and Executive or through an intervention by the Northern Ireland secretary.\n\nThe current exemption scheme for banned breeds allows for an exemption if a court is satisfied that the dogs do not pose a danger to the public and their owners are deemed to be fit and proper people to own a dog of that type.\n\nThere are almost 3,500 banned dogs living legally at home with their owners in England, Scotland and Wales under the scheme, according to data released from the government to the BBC.\n\nThe Dog Control Coalition - which includes Battersea, Blue Cross, the Dogs Trust, BVA, the Scottish SPCA, the Kennel Club and Hope Rescue - told the BBC that breed-specific bans had been proven to be ineffective.\n\nIt says the problem lies with owners.", "Maryanne Trump Barry, the eldest sister of ex-President Donald Trump, has died at the age of 86, US media reports.\n\nShe was found dead at about 04:00 EST (09:00 GMT) on Monday morning in her New York City apartment, according to ABC News. Her cause of death has not yet been revealed.\n\nMrs Barry served as a federal judge in New Jersey from 1983 until her retirement in 2019.\n\nShe is the third of Mr Trump's four siblings to have passed away.\n\nA spokesman for the former president did not immediately respond to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nSources told ABC that emergency crews had responded to a call of a person in cardiac arrest. There were no signs of trauma or foul play, the outlet added.\n\nA medical examiner will later determine cause of death.\n\nMrs Barry, who eschewed the family's real estate business, served as one of only two female prosecutors in the US Attorney's Office in New Jersey from 1974 to 1983.\n\nWith the help of her brother's infamous lawyer and fixer Roy Cohn, Mrs Barry was nominated by President Ronald Reagan as a federal district judge in 1983.\n\nIn \"Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man\", a 2020 memoir written by her niece Mary, Mrs Barry said it was \"the only favour I ever asked for in my whole life\".\n\nIt was a favour, though, that she claimed Mr Trump never let her forget.\n\n\"Where would you be without me?\" she quoted him as saying.\n\nIn 1999, Mrs Barry was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which encompasses portions of New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania.\n\nMaryanne Trump Barry testifies at the confirmation hearing for US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito\n\nBy 2019, a New York Times investigation of the Trump family's tax affairs had led to a judicial misconduct inquiry into Mrs Barry. She retired that February and the inquiry was closed without conclusion.\n\nMrs Barry married twice - first to David Desmond, with whom she had one son, also named David; and then to John Joseph Barry, who died in 2000.\n\nShe was a close confidante of her younger brother, who - while first running for president in 2015 - said she would be a \"phenomenal\" choice if ever considered for the US Supreme Court.\n\nBut in 2016, he acknowledged in a radio interview that the pair \"have different views a little bit\".\n\nA Republican like Mr Trump, Mrs Barry shunned the limelight and never spoke publicly about him.\n\nBut their relationship is said to have taken a turn following the release of Mary Trump's book, which drew in part from conversations between Mrs Barry and her niece.\n\nAs she promoted the book, Ms Trump, an outspoken critic of her uncle, released audio excerpts from these exchanges that she had secretly taped.\n\n\"All he wants to do is appeal to his base,\" Mrs Barry is heard saying in one recording shared by the Washington Post. \"He has no principles. None.\"\n\nMrs Barry is also heard telling her niece that she \"did [Mr Trump's homework for him\" and that when \"he got into University of Pennsylvania he had somebody take the exams\".\n\nBut the siblings were beginning to mend fences together and had been seen together this summer at the former president's club in Bedminster, New Jersey, according to ABC.\n\nMr Trump, who is the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, lost his brothers Fred and Robert in 1981 and 2020 respectively. He also lost his first wife, Ivana Trump, last year.\n\nHis only surviving sister, Elizabeth Trump Grau, 81, is a former banker.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nChelsea boss Emma Hayes has been named the new manager of the United States women's national team and will take charge when the Women's Super League season ends in May.\n\nThe Blues announced on Saturday that Hayes would pursue \"a new opportunity outside the WSL and club football\".\n\nHayes, 47, who started her managerial career in the USA, has won 13 major trophies since joining the WSL in 2012.\n\nShe said her feelings for the US team and the country \"run deep\".\n• None Hayes says leading Chelsea to Champions League glory would be 'fairytale'\n\n\"This is a huge honour to be given the opportunity to coach the most incredible team in world football history,\" Hayes added.\n\n\"I've dreamed about coaching the USA for a long time so to get this opportunity is a dream come true.\n\n\"I know there is work to do to achieve our goals of winning consistently at the highest levels.\n\n\"To get there, it will require dedication, devotion and collaboration from the players, staff and everyone at the US Soccer Federation.\"\n\nHayes will be highest-paid women's football coach in world.\n\nUS Soccer president Cindy Parlow called Hayes a \"fantastic leader\" and a \"world class coach who sets high standards for herself and for everyone around her\".\n\n\"She has tremendous energy and an insatiable will to win,\" said Parlow.\n\n\"Her experience in the USA, her understanding of our soccer landscape and her appreciation of what it means to coach this team makes her a natural fit for this role and we could not be more pleased to have her leading our Women's National Team forward.\"\n\nHayes will take over when she finishes with Chelsea, with the WSL season ending on 18 May 2024, while the Women's Champions League final takes place on 25 May.\n\nShe will then join up with the national side two months before the start of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, which begin on 26 July 2024.\n\nInterim head coach Twila Kilgore will continue in her role and then join Hayes' staff full-time as an assistant coach.\n\nHayes has won six WSL titles with Chelsea, including the past four in a row, while she has also won five FA Cups and the League Cup twice.\n\nShe was inducted into the WSL Hall of Fame in 2021.\n\nThe USA are looking to rebuild after suffering their earliest exit at a World Cup - going out of the 2023 edition in the last 16.\n\nThey won back-to-back tournaments in 2015 and 2019 under head coach Jill Ellis, but Vlatko Andonovski was unable to continue the USA's dominance and subsequently resigned after the tournament in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nHayes' first managerial post came between 2001 and 2003 with Long Island Lady Riders in the United States, before a spell with Iona College.\n\nArsenal came calling in 2006 when Hayes took up the post of assistant manager to Vik Akers, before she returned to America in 2008 to manage Chicago Red Stars.\n\n\"I understand how important this team is to the people and culture of the United States, not just the soccer community,\" said Hayes.\n\n\"I fully understand the place this team has in US society. I've lived it.\"\n• None 'Believe it ... that loving yourself is the answer': Actor and talk show host Jada Pinkett Smith on the advice she would give her younger self", "Nepal has banned the Chinese-owned app TikTok because its content \"was detrimental to social harmony.\"\n\nThe decision comes days after the country introduced a new rule requiring social media firms to set up liaison offices in the country.\n\nTikTok, which has around a billion monthly users, has been banned by several countries including India.\n\nMinister for Communications and Information Technology Rekha Sharma has told the BBC Nepali that the platform spread malicious content.\n\nShe added that \"the ban would come into effect immediately and telecom authorities have been directed to implement the decision\".\n\nBut Gagan Thapa, a senior leader of Nepali Congress, which is part of the coalition government, has questioned the government's decision to impose a ban on TikTok.\n\nHe said it was an attempt to curb the freedom of expression and officials should focus on regulating the platform.\n\nTikTok has come under scrutiny from authorities around the world over concerns that data could be passed to the Chinese government.\n\nIts parent company, ByteDance, has previously rejected the allegation. TikTok did not respond to the BBC's request for comment on the latest ban by the government in Nepal.\n\nAlthough TikTok lags behind the likes of Facebook and Instagram, its growth among young people far outstrips its competitors.\n\nMore than 1,600 TikTok-related cyber crime cases have been registered over the last four years in Nepal, according to local media reports.\n\nAccording to the BBC Media Action report on the media usage in Nepal, TikTok is the third most used platform nationally.\n\nWhile YouTube and Facebook are popular among internet users of all age groups, TikTok is highly popular with younger age groups with more than 80% of social media users aged between 16 and 24 using the platform.\n\nPakistan has temporarily banned the app at least four times since October 2020 while its online shopping service was shut in Indonesia last month.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nResidents of an Icelandic town struck by hundreds of earthquakes have briefly been allowed back to their homes to collect belongings.\n\nMore than 500 quakes hit the south-western Reykjanes Peninsula on Monday.\n\nA volcanic eruption is still expected, scientists say, despite the quakes being weaker in recent days.\n\nThousands of people have been evacuated from the town of Grindavik, under which most of the tremors have taken place.\n\nPedrag, a native Serb who has lived in Iceland for many years, was one of those who fled the town with his wife on Friday - the day a state of emergency was declared.\n\nAn evacuation order for Grindavik was given in the early hours of Saturday.\n\n\"If you talk to Icelandic people who have lived there all their lives, they say they have never felt something like that,\" he told the BBC, referring to the large quakes that rocked the fishing port for several hours.\n\nPedrag and his partner have been staying at an emergency shelter ever since but were among those let back into Grindavik on Monday to retrieve some of their belongings.\n\nHe said that while he had not seen any damage in the area he lives in, he had seen images of the town centre, which had been affected. There were also reports that the road had sunk as much as a metre in some parts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother man who was forced to abandon Grindavik, Gisli Gunnarsson, said he feared he might never see his home again.\n\nThe 29-year-old music composer, who was born and raised in the town, told PA news agency the situation was \"grim\".\n\nOther locals said they were particularly upset as eruptions in Iceland normally happened in unpopulated areas.\n\n\"This is one of the biggest evacuations we've ever had. It's a huge incident. It has a great effect on all Icelanders,\" Aslaug Yngvadottir Tulinius of the Icelandic Red Cross told the BBC.\n\nOfficials said on Monday afternoon that Grindavik would remain evacuated overnight, as the situation continues to be monitored on a \"minute by minute\" basis.\n\nAccording to volcanologists, the latest updates could indicate a smaller impending eruption than was previously thought.\n\nIt may still put the town in real danger, however, because of the possibility of lava flows. Experts have stressed that a 15km-long (9 mile) river of magma running under the Reykjanes Peninsula is still active.\n\nThe area had remained dormant to volcanic activity for 800 years before a 2021 eruption.\n\nThor Thordason, professor of volcanology at the University of Iceland, told the BBC that magma was now less than 800m below the surface and that an eruption appeared imminent.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the most likely eruption side appears to be within the boundary of the town of Grindavik,\" he added.\n\nThe town is just 15km south of Keflavik International Airport, but flights are still arriving and departing as normal.\n\nAn ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano eruption in 2010 led to the cancellation of tens of thousands of flights, but experts believe a repeat of that disruption is unlikely.", "Top row, left to right: Paul Brannan, John Clark, Scott Forbes, Barry Watson. Bottom row, from left: Iain Owens, Lesley Williams, Elaine Lannery, Marianne Gallagher\n\nFive men and three women have been found guilty of abusing children after a trial that is believed to have been the largest prosecution of a child abuse ring in Scotland.\n\nThe court heard that four children, all under the age of 13, were introduced to a world of drugs where they were exposed to sexual abuse and violence.\n\nThe offences included rape, and attempted murder and assault.\n\nPolice said the victims had suffered \"a horrific ordeal\".\n\nA further three people - two men and a woman - were acquitted.\n\nAfter the trial at the High Court in Glasgow, seven of the accused were convicted of sexual abuse, including rape, and four of them were found guilty of attempting to murder a young girl by trapping her in various places including a cupboard.\n\nIain Owens, 45, Elaine Lannery, 39, Lesley Williams, 41, Paul Brannan, 41, Scott Forbes, 50, Barry Watson, 47, and John Clark, 47, had denied all of the allegations against them but were found guilty of sexually abusing children.\n\nThe court heard two girls and a boy were violently and sexually assaulted on multiple occasions between 2012 and 2019, and members of the group used Class A drugs in front of the children and caused them to consume alcohol and drugs.\n\nOwens, Lannery, Brannan and Williams were found guilty of attempted murder.\n\nMarianne Gallagher, 38, was convicted of one count of assault to injury but was cleared of all other charges.\n\nCharges related to causing the children to take part in seances and witchcraft were dropped during the two-month trial.\n\nJudge Lord Beckett remanded the seven guilty of the most serious offences in custody. They will be sentenced in January alongside Gallagher, who was bailed.\n\nMark Carr, 50, Richard Gachagan, 45, and Leona Laing, 51, were acquitted of all the charges against them.\n\nThe trial took place at the High Court in Glasgow\n\nThe trial heard that the children first came into contact with social work in Glasgow in August 2017 and were deemed to be at risk in July 2018.\n\nThe allegations of violence and sexual abuse did not come to light until 2020.\n\nThe court heard that police were alerted by a man who had got to know the children.\n\nOne of the victims became hysterical when she mistakenly thought she had been shut in a room. The man and his wife then documented details of what the children recalled happening at the hands of the gang.\n\nThere were said to have been \"rape nights\" and \"dance and sex nights\" in a Glasgow drugs den.\n\nOne child described it as the \"dark and scary beastie house\".\n\nFollowing the verdict, Det Supt Nicola Kilbane said it had been \"a horrific ordeal\" for the victims, who suffered years of \"unimaginable abuse\".\n\n\"The levels of depravity shown in this case are extremely rare in Scotland and the courage of the victims was essential in securing this conviction,\" she said.\n\nColin Anderson, the independent chair of Glasgow's Child Protection Committee, said it had been a \"highly complex case\" and the circumstances of the children involved would be subject to a multiple agency review.\n\nHe said: \"It is therefore inappropriate to comment further at this time.\"", "DJ Calvert is scared that he might have to \"fight and fight and fight\" for care for the rest of his life\n\nA man born without hands or legs has been told he will soon no longer get a daily visit from a care worker to help him shower and get dressed.\n\nDJ Calvert told BBC News NI: \"I've been let down - and I'm not the only one.\"\n\nIt was proof that Northern Ireland's health and social care system had \"crashed\", said the 49-year-old.\n\nHis care is provided by an independent firm on behalf of the Northern Health Trust. The trust said it was committed to providing an alternative package.\n\nIt added that it understood \"the worry it is causing\", and would \"seek an alternative provider\" that would \"support him to continue living independently in his own home\".\n\nThe care provider said it was \"increasingly stretched\" and that more funding was needed for the sector.\n\nAlthough he lives alone, Mr Calvert, from Portstewart in County Londonderry, relies on a daily visit from a care worker to help him with basic hygiene and personal care.\n\nFor most of his life that help was provided by his mother but since March this year she has no longer been able to do what she once did.\n\nA seven-day-a-week care package was then put in place after only one company agreed to provide it.\n\nBut last week Mr Calvert was contacted by his social worker to say it would end in three weeks.\n\n\"I thought somebody was winding me up,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'The thought of going into a care home scares me'\n\nHis care is provided by Connected Health but that is due to end on 1 December.\n\nThe told BBC News NI that it would comment on the care provided to individuals but that \"like other care providers, were being increasingly stretched in ever more demanding circumstances\".\n\nEddy Kerr from Connected Health told the BBC's Evening Extra programme the sector was \"struggling\" in terms of staffing, resources and funding.\n\n\"There's a lot of unmet need out there and certainly, as a provider, we are under pressure to meet that need,\" he added.\n\nMr Kerr said the pressure is coming \"from a lack of funding\".\n\n\"Decisions have to be made weekly, daily, hourly, with regards the care we are able to provide,\" he added.\n\nIn a statement, Connected Health said: \"We will continue to lobby hard for the necessary resources to care for the thousands of vulnerable adults waiting for a package of care in Northern Ireland today.\"\n\nMr Calvert's friend Vicky has been making additional visits to help four days a week but now that looks to be the only assistance he will get.\n\nIt means he could be on his own every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and whenever Vicky is not available.\n\nHe said the only alternative he had been offered was to go into a care home, which he finds frightening.\n\n\"I asked the social worker: 'What is the worst case scenario if I can't get help?' and she told me: 'We'll have to get you a bed in a care home,'\" he said.\n\n\"My anxiety is getting worse. I panic and wake up in the middle of the night because I'm dreaming about being in a care home.\n\n\"The system has failed [people] who need care and help. The system has crashed. There's not enough funding.\"\n\nMr Calvert described his home as his \"sanctuary\".\n\nHe said he believed nobody wanted to join the care profession because staff are not getting the money they deserve.\n\n\"I believe we should get Stormont back up and running, get the heads together and inject money into the care system and allow care workers to earn a bit more money,\" he said.\n\n\"You could earn more working in a supermarket than you can in the care profession.\n\nAsked what he planned to do, he said: \"I don't know - and that's what scares me.\n\n\"I'm going to need care for the rest of my life and what frightens me is that I will have to fight and fight and fight. I want stability\".\n\nMr Calvert's mother, Heather, said she \"just couldn't believe it\" when she heard that her son was losing his care package.\n\n\"I was under the impression that this was permanent,\" she said.\n\nShe told Evening Extra that over the past seven months the situation surrounding DJ's care has been \"a rollercoaster\".\n\n\"You just don't know where you are all the time and what's going to happen to him and that is a very big worry.\"\n\nShe said \"your child is always your child\" and that while currently she sometimes has to fill in to provide DJ with care \"that's not going to last forever\".\n\nMs Calvert said the care system in Northern Ireland was currently set up in a way whereby \"they expect the family to step in\".", "Resident decides to stay in flat, despite advice\n\nA woman has said she and some other residents chose to stay in the tower block because they had \"nowhere else to go\". Speaking to BBC Radio Bristol's Chris Arnold, the woman said she \"did not see this coming\" and has had a sleepless night. \"There was no forewarning, we were just told to get out that night and if we stayed in the building it was at our own risk. \"Some of us did stay because we've got pets and everything there and we have got nowhere else to go,\" she said. \"I haven't slept properly all night, it's just the uncertainty of not knowing what to do, I don't know where to stay, the anxiety is really bad. \"I just feel drained and numb, I just don't know what to do,\" she continued. She said some people had spent the night in hotels, others with friends and family, and some had stayed at the local school.", "Suella Braverman has been sacked as home secretary - leaving one of the most important jobs in government for a second time in just over a year.\n\nShe has been no stranger to controversy in her time in office. Mrs Braverman resigned from the same job while Liz Truss was prime minister before being brought back into government a week later by Rishi Sunak.\n\nHere are eight things she said that made headlines - and caused controversy.\n\n\"I would love to have a front page of the Telegraph with a plane taking off to Rwanda, that's my dream, it's my obsession.\"\n\nThis was said at a fringe event at last year's Conservative Party conference, shortly after she had been appointed as home secretary by Liz Truss. She was referring to the government's asylum plan, to take asylum seekers who have crossed the Channel to the UK on a one-way ticket to Rwanda where they could claim asylum instead.\n\nMrs Braverman faced criticism from refugee groups and others for trivialising the plight of people in need. The most important point about the quote is not whether you agree with its tone, but that the new home secretary was making clear her single priority would be controlling migration.\n\nOne of Suella Braverman's first tasks as home secretary was to pilot through Parliament a plan to restrict the right to protest in order to stop highly disruptive stunts by groups, including Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil - such as motorway occupations.\n\nShe accused the opposition of being in league with eco-protesters because a previous version of the measures had failed to win enough support.\n\n\"I am afraid that it is the Labour Party, the Lib Dems, the coalition of chaos, the Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati and, dare I say, the anti-growth coalition that we have to thank for the disruption we are seeing on our roads today.\"\n\nThe very next day Mrs Braverman sensationally quit as home secretary, after confessing to a serious blunder.\n\nShe had sent a confidential and sensitive government email to her own Gmail account and then forwarded it to her confidante and Tory backbencher, John Hayes.\n\nHowever, the real story here was the timing. The incident had happened some time earlier - and her resignation came as Liz Truss was on the precipice and her government in turmoil.\n\nIn her resignation letter, Mrs Braverman accused the embattled PM of breaking key pledges. The next day, Liz Truss resigned as prime minister. Less than a week later, Mrs Braverman's serious ministerial error was forgiven by the new prime minister, Rishi Sunak - and she was back in the same job.\n\n\"The British people deserve to know which party is serious about stopping the invasion on our southern coast.\"\n\nThere had been months of rising political tension over small boat crossings - and at the end of October 2022, a man firebombed the government's arrivals centre for the migrants in Dover's docks. Separately, independent inspectors warned conditions were \"wretched\" at a migrant reception camp.\n\nMrs Braverman came out fighting in the Commons, but days later, she was confronted in her constituency by 83-year-old Holocaust survivor Joan Salter.\n\n\"When I hear you using words against refugees like 'swarms' and an 'invasion',\" she said, \"I am reminded of the language used to dehumanise and justify the murder of my family and millions of others.\"\n\n\"There are 100 million people around the world who could qualify for protection under our current laws. Let us be clear - they are coming here.\"\n\nFor the second time in two years, the government launched a new immigration plan.\n\nParliament eventually voted to place a legal duty on the home secretary to not only detain anyone crossing the English Channel, but also remove them to another country, such as Rwanda.\n\nIn the Commons, Mrs Braverman stuck to her guns and made the 100 million claim. The next day, she doubled-down, telling the Daily Mail there was \"likely billions\" eager to come to the UK.\n\nShe returned to analysing migrant trends at the Conservative Party conference, last month, declaring: \"The wind of change that carried my own parents across the globe in the 20th Century was a mere gust compared with the hurricane that is coming.\"\n\nExperts have disputed her projections, saying the UK receives far fewer asylum seekers than other countries, and that recent record numbers of arrivals of workers and students will likely level off.\n\n\"Multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate. It has failed.\"\n\nThe daughter of immigrants from Mauritius and Kenya, Mrs Braverman told an American think tank that migrants end up living \"parallel lives\" - a phrase first used 20 years ago in relation to complex riots in northern England.\n\nOpponents said she had given up fixing the UK's broken asylum system and was trying to set out her stall for the Tory leadership.\n\n\"We cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice.\"\n\nThat social media post came amid government backroom wrangling over what would make it into this year's King's Speech. Mrs Braverman reportedly wanted to impose fines on charities who give tents to rough sleepers.\n\nHer push to get the police included triggered an internal row with colleagues. The idea was not included in the speech.\n\n\"There's only one way to describe those marches: they are hate marches.\"\n\nSpeaking after a government emergency meeting over the crisis in Gaza, Mrs Braverman laid into the pro-Palestinian demonstrators amid rows over whether their chants amounted to antisemitic attacks.\n\nAnd it's the row that has ultimately led to her downfall.\n\nOn 8 November, the Times newspaper published a column by the Mrs Braverman where she repeated the phrase - and also accused the police of bias, saying they were \"playing favourites\" with some demonstrations and using stronger tactics against some and not others.\n\nThis triggered accusations of political interference in independent policing - an absolute red line that ministers cannot cross under British laws.\n\nHer comments were condemned by former police officers, MPs and Labour, who accused her of \"deliberately creating division\". Four days later - and following clashes between protesters, counter-protesters and police in London on Armistice Day - she was sacked.", "Wages have risen faster than inflation by the most for two years, but there are signs the jobs market is starting to weaken.\n\nRegular pay rose at an annual rate of 7.7% between July and September, faster than price rises over the same period.\n\nHowever, official figures showed that wage rises are starting to slow in some industries.\n\nAnd while the UK's unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.2%, the number of job vacancies has continued to fall.\n\nBetween August and October, the estimated number of vacancies in the UK fell by 58,000 to 957,000, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nThat was the 16th month in row it had fallen, although the total number of vacancies remains well above pre-pandemic levels.\n\nFor nearly two years, prices of goods such as food and energy have been rising much faster than wages, putting pressure on household finances.\n\nInflation has now started to ease, although consumers are increasingly being squeezed by higher interest rates which have driven up the cost of mortgages and other loans.\n\nThe latest figures show that regular pay - which excludes bonuses - rose by 1% in the three months to September after taking inflation into account.\n\nThat was the largest increase since the three months to September 2021, the ONS said.\n\nAverage weekly earnings were estimated to be £621 for regular pay in September, and £673 for total pay (which includes bonuses).\n\nWhile there may be relief for many as the gap between pay rises and inflation widens, it is largely due to slowing price rises rather than big jumps in pay.\n\nWage growth is actually dwindling in some areas - such as construction and manufacturing - as expectations of future price rises diminish and the jobs market starts to weaken.\n\nMoreover, the average pay rise awarded in September was the smallest for six months, and in the private sector the typical rise was the least generous since January.\n\nThe Bank of England has warned that higher interest rates are likely to hit companies' hiring plans next year, driving up unemployment to 5%.\n\nThis would result in more than 150,000 job losses and mean that wage growth is likely to slow further.\n\nJake Finney, an economist at PwC UK, said the latest indications were that the labour market is \"gradually cooling, not collapsing\".\n\nHe said he expected the Bank of England to keep interest rates unchanged at its next meeting in December, as it waits to see the impact of higher interest rates on the labour market and the economy more generally.\n\nCurrently, financial markets are not expecting the Bank to push interest rates higher than the current level of 5.25%, and some analysts believe rates could be cut at some point next year.\n\nAgainst this backdrop the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, will reveal how much the National Living Wage will rise by next spring at next week's Autumn Statement.\n\nHe has pledged it will be at least £11 per hour for the main rate, an increase of over 5%, or £1,000 per year for a full-time worker.\n\nWhile this will be hugely welcome for the two million workers paid this wage, some employers are already fretting about the impact on costs as business feels the squeeze.\n\nPub and hotel owner Marc Bridgen has had to put prices up to cover rising costs\n\nMarc Bridgen is the owner of The Dog at Wingham, a gastropub and boutique hotel in Kent. While he supports the forthcoming rise in the National Living Wage, he says he may need to increase his prices to pay for it.\n\n\"We've been absorbing [cost rises] for a long time, and we recently had to increase our prices. If we get to April and our cost base goes up by, say, 10% on the wages, it's more than £1,000 a week, which is a lot of food and drink to sell.\"\n\nResponding to the latest labour market figures, the chancellor said: \"It's heartening to see inflation falling and real wages growing, keeping more money in people's pockets.\n\n\"Building on the labour market reforms in spring, the Autumn Statement will set out my plans to get people back into work and deliver growth for the UK.\"\n\nLabour's shadow work and pensions secretary, Liz Kendall, said the figures showed \"the Tories' failure on the economy\".\n\n\"Our employment rate still hasn't got back to pre-pandemic levels, unlike every other G7 country, and a record number of people remain locked out of work due to long-term sickness.\"\n\nHave you had a recent pay rise? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rishi Sunak is the UK's first British Asian prime minister.\n\nHe won the leadership contest which followed the resignation of Liz Truss, receiving nominations from more than half of his party's MPs.\n\nHe was chancellor during the coronavirus pandemic, and introduced the furlough scheme, spending huge amounts to keep the economy afloat.\n\nHis reputation was dented by a controversy over his wife's tax affairs and a fine for breaching lockdown rules.\n\nIn July 2022, he was one of the first to quit Boris Johnson's cabinet, paving the way for the stream of resignations.\n\nHe became an MP in 2015 - for the North Yorkshire constituency of Richmond.", "When David Cameron quit Downing Street in the wake of the Brexit referendum in 2016, he quipped that he had been the future once.\n\nIt was an ironic reference to a joke he himself had made about then-PM Tony Blair in 2005, shortly after taking over as Conservative leader.\n\nBut now the former prime minister is indeed back - making a surprise return to government as Rishi Sunak's new foreign secretary, replacing James Cleverly.\n\nThe move has sent shockwaves through Westminster, and left many scratching their heads as to what it will mean for British politics.\n\nPutting the man who blew up his own premiership by calling - and then losing - the Brexit vote in charge of the Foreign Office looks like a big throw of the dice from Mr Sunak.\n\nIt is also a strange move from a prime minister who only weeks ago was seeking to define himself against every government since the early 1990s.\n\nThere were reports that Lord Cameron - as he will now be known, as he heads to the House of Lords in order to take up his cabinet role - was unhappy with that remark.\n\nHe also recently spoke out against Mr Sunak's decision to axe the northern leg of the HS2 rail project.\n\nHe has now said, in a statement upon his appointment, that although he disagreed with \"some individual decisions\" made by Mr Sunak, he is a \"strong and capable prime minister\".\n\nHis ambition, he added, is to be part of the \"the strongest possible team\" as the Tories head into a general election expected next year heavily trailing Labour in the polls.\n\nHis six years at the top of government will undoubtedly be an asset to Mr Sunak, at a time when the government is consumed by foreign crises in the Middle East and Ukraine.\n\nBut with long-serving figures like Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove already in the cabinet, it could make it even harder for the prime minister to present himself to voters as a force for change.\n\nThere could also be some unease among Tory circles about the \"golden age\" of relations with China that was a key feature of Lord Cameron's own foreign policy when he was the occupant of No 10.\n\nDavid Cameron has returned to government only hours after taking part in Remembrance Sunday as a former PM\n\nSince standing down as prime minister seven years ago, Lord Cameron has kept a relatively low public profile. He released a memoir in 2019, and has campaigned for more research into Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe was thrust into the spotlight in 2021, however, when it emerged that he had taken a lucrative job lobbying for now-collapsed finance company Greensill Capital.\n\nHe faced a storm of criticism for repeatedly texting ministers on behalf of the company during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe later said he had acted in good faith but admitted there were \"lessons to be learnt\" from the scandal, and he should have contacted ministers in a more formal way.\n\nA committee of MPs, however, accused him of a \"significant lack of judgement\".\n\nAfter failing to win a majority at the 2010 election, Lord Cameron took the Conservative Party into a coalition with Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats, bucking the UK's norm for single-party government.\n\nDefying initial expectations, their government functioned better than expected.\n\nIt completed a full five-year term and introduced sweeping changes in areas including the education system, the NHS, the benefits system, and pensions.\n\nTensions emerged, however, as the Lib Dems haemorrhaged support over unpopular coalition policies such as huge cuts to public spending aimed at reducing the deficit, and increasing university tuition fees.\n\nBut it was the relationship with the increasingly vocal and rebellious right-wing of his own party that would prove even harder to manage, and eventually lead to his downfall.\n\nIn many respects, his premiership represented a tale of two referendums.\n\nHe found himself on the winning side in 2014, when Scots voted against independence.\n\nBut it was his decision in 2013 to call a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union that would prove to be his undoing.\n\nThe decision was made at a time when the Conservatives were losing support to the Eurosceptic UK Independence Party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cameron's first PMQs: 'He was the future once'\n\nEurope was not the issue it might have been at the 2015 general election had he not promised a referendum. In the end, UKIP only managed to win one seat.\n\nBut the referendum the following year saw voters defy Lord Cameron's government and take the historic decision to vote for Brexit.\n\nHe had put himself front and centre in the official Remain campaign, which majored on the economic risks of voting to leave but was accused by critics of being negative and uninspiring.\n\nAnd although he had promised during the campaign to stay on as prime minister whatever the result, he decided to fall on his sword and announced his resignation outside Number 10 the morning of the referendum result.\n\nThen after a \"period of reflection\" over the summer, he announced he would be standing down as an MP and leaving frontline politics for good.\n\nNow he will once again stride the corridors of power under the Brexit-voting Mr Sunak, as his career enters a new chapter.", "Scotland's Health Secretary Michael Matheson has said he will pay back the full cost of an £11,000 data roaming bill he incurred while using a parliamentary iPad on holiday.\n\nHe said he ran up the charges during a trip to Morocco while completing constituency work.\n\nThe charges were said to be due to an outdated sim card.\n\nMr Matheson said the decision to pay back the money was \"the right one in all circumstances\".\n\nIn a statement released on Friday, he said: \"I have contacted the Scottish Parliament authorities this afternoon to make arrangements to reimburse the full cost of the £10,935.74 incurred in roaming charges on my parliament iPad.\n\n\"While the parliament agreed to pay the bulk of this sum as a legitimate expense, with the rest being met from my office allowance, I have reflected long and hard and accept that the sim card on this device should have been replaced at an earlier stage.\"\n\nMr Matheson, who as the cabinet secretary for health and social care receives receives a yearly salary of £118,511, had already paid £3,000 towards the bill from his expenses budget.\n\nOpposition MSPs had called on the minister to cover the costs himself.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf had said Mr Matheson did not need to pay back the sum as it was a \"legitimate expense\".\n\nThis was really the only way this was ever going to end.\n\nAfter it emerged Mr Matheson had been warned by IT officials about the need to change his sim card almost a year in advance, questions were mounting.\n\nHe may have concluded that it is considerably cheaper for him to pay out £11,000 now, rather than risk losing his ministerial salary in a deepening expenses row.\n\nThe MSP will also have been acutely aware that as the health secretary, heading into a typically challenging winter period, the last thing he needed was being dogged by reporters about something else.\n\nAnd there is the question of personal integrity. Mr Matheson has been at Holyrood since 1999, and is widely regarded as a fairly straight shooter.\n\nHe has concluded that this is the right thing to do. That may well be the case not just personally, but politically too.\n\nThe bill grew to £11,000 due to an outdated sim card still being used in the device. Mr Matheson had said he was not aware that it needed updated.\n\nThe parliament's previous mobile contract with EE came to an end in December 2021, and members were told to switch their devices across to the new contract with Vodafone.\n\nMr Matheson was emailed by officials in February 2022, and it is thought highly likely that he would have also been spoken to by IT staff when he had the sim card in his mobile phone changed later that year.\n\nRoaming charges are incurred when a mobile device connects to a local network outside of the UK rather than to wifi.\n\nScottish Conservative chairman Craig Hoy said there were still unanswered questions surrounding the \"scandal\".\n\nHe said: \"We still need to hear a personal statement from the health secretary in parliament and I call on him to publish the original roaming charges statement from the network provider.\n\n\"This also calls into question the judgment of Humza Yousaf who, just 24 hours ago, claimed that this was a legitimate expenses claim and that his health secretary shouldn't repay a penny.\"\n\nA Scottish Parliament spokesman previously said that, following an investigation, senior officials had accepted assurances that all costs incurred were for parliamentary purposes.\n\nThe spokesperson said the incident had led to a review mobile data usage and a new mobile phone contract is set to be awarded to \"ensure there is no repeat of these substantial data charges\".\n\nThe £11,000 bill is more than the total of all MSPs' mobile phone, business line, tablet and staff phone bill expenses claimed in 2022/23 combined. The total for all phone-related expenses last year was £9,507.", "John Hemingway is the last fighter pilot alive who fought in the Battle of Britain\n\nSo says the Irishman who is the last known surviving member of the group Sir Winston Churchill famously described as \"the few\".\n\nGroup Captain John Hemingway, now 104, was a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain.\n\nHe now lives back in the city he was brought up in - Dublin - and credits \"Irish luck\" with helping him survive being shot down four times.\n\nHe joined the RAF as a teenager before World War Two.\n\nWhen he was 21 he was a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain, a three-month period when air force personnel defended the skies against a large-scale assault by the German air force, the Luftwaffe.\n\nChurchill said of the pilots: \"Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.\"\n\nThe battle in 1940 was a turning point in the conflict but Gp Capt Hemingway has never looked for accolades or fame for his part.\n\n\"I don't think we ever assumed greatness of any form,\" he tells the BBC.\n\n\"We were just fighting a war which we were trained to fight.\"\n\nGp Capt Hemingway's recollections and reflections on the war are focused on his role as a professional pilot.\n\nHe says: \"We were doing a job we were employed to do. We just went up and did the best we could.\"\n\nHe explains the approach airmen took during one-on-one aerial combat - known as \"dogfights\" - which were often over in just a few seconds.\n\n\"There were two of you. One of you was going to be dead at the end.\n\n\"You thought: 'Make sure that person was not you.'\"\n\n\"Every day, off you went.\n\n\"When you took off you knew some of you would come back - and some of you wouldn't.\"\n\nKing George VI awarded Gp Capt Hemingway the Distinguished Flying Cross, pictured on the left of this row of medals\n\nGp Capt Hemingway was shot down four times during the war.\n\nTwo of those occasions happened in the space of eight days - during the Battle of Britain.\n\nHe recorded in his logbook that on 18 August 1940 he bailed out of his Hurricane near the Thames Estuary after it was hit by a German aircraft.\n\n\"If you didn't bail out you knew you would be dead,\" he says.\n\nHe parachuted into the North Sea and was eventually rescued by a lifeboat.\n\nHe says the thought of being in the ocean, and not knowing whether he would drown or live, was \"dreadful\".\n\n\"You felt all the time you were part of something which would save you.\n\n\"But if it ever came to the point where you were just alone that would have been quite horrible.\"\n\nHe was back in a plane two days later.\n\nOn 26 August he was shot down in combat off the coast of Kent and landed in Pitsea Marshes.\n\nThe wreckage of his Hurricane was recovered in 2019 with the control column and the gun-button frozen in time, still set to \"fire\".\n\nJohn spent most of the war with 85 Squadron.\n\nOne of his most prominent memories is of Flt Lt Richard \"Dickie\" Lee.\n\n\"Dickie Lee could do anything - fly across an airfield, upside down, firing at a target and hitting the target.\"\n\n\"Dickie\" Lee was one of more than 500 of John's fellow pilots who were killed during the Battle of Britain.\n\nJohn's Squadron leader was Peter Townsend, later the fiancé of Princess Margaret.\n\n\"He was a very nice person and a very good leader,\" says John.\n\n\"He always went in first.\"\n\nPeter Townsend is standing with John and eight other men in uniform in front of a Hurricane in one of John's photographs.\n\nGp Capt Hemingway, second from left in this photograph, served alongside Peter Townsend (centre, holding a cane)\n\nWhen asked what his thoughts are about the picture, he says: \"They were first-class pilots.\n\n\"There are lots of aces in this photograph.\"\n\nBut he points to himself and chuckles: \"That's not one of them!\"\n\nAnother photograph of John featured on the cover of the American magazine Life.\n\nIt shows him looking up to the sky.\n\nGp Capt Hemingway says this was the photograph that allowed his family to see what he did at work\n\n\"This was the most important photograph ever taken of me,\" says John.\n\n\"It made me into a fighter pilot in the eyes of others.\n\n\"It meant my family were able to see me at work.\"\n\nThe image is now captured in a sculpture of John by the artist Stephen Melton at the Kent Battle of Britain Museum.\n\nJohn was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and mentioned in dispatches at 1941.\n\nIn all he was shot down four times during the war.\n\nThe last incident was in 1945 when he was flying a Spitfire behind enemy lines in Italy.\n\nLocal people helped to put him in the hands of the Italian resistance and he was taken back to Allied troops.\n\nAt one point a young girl, who he thinks was only about seven years old, led him by the hand past scores of German soldiers.\n\nJohn thinks of all those who came to his aid during the war with \"huge gratitude\".\n\n\"They were brilliant people - they risked their lives.\"\n\nHe modestly puts his long life down to \"luck\".\n\n\"It must be to do with something like that because here I am, an Irishman, talking to you.\n\n\"I was shot down many times but I'm still here.\n\n\"So many others were shot down first time and that was the end of them.\n\n\"I was lucky. And I'm still lucky.\"", "On-the-spot fines of £10,000 for breaching Covid laws on large gatherings were too high, the home secretary during the pandemic has said.\n\nDame Priti Patel told the Covid inquiry the penalty - introduced ahead of the August bank holiday in 2020 - was not proportionate.\n\nShe added that, along with her officials at the Home Office, she had pushed back against it at the time.\n\nHundreds of such fines were issued by police during the pandemic.\n\nAt the time, the government said the penalty - for hosting unlawful gatherings of more than 30 people - would act as a \"new deterrent\" against rule breaches.\n\nIt was subsequently criticised in a report by MPs in September 2021, who argued fines of such size should only be imposed by a court.\n\nHowever, evidence heard by the Covid inquiry showed the extent to which the fines were part of the government's strategy for encouraging compliance.\n\nA handwritten note from former PM Boris Johnson suggested he wanted them emphasised when restrictions were eased in the summer of 2020.\n\n\"I agree with the openings, but the OVERRIDING MESSAGE should be about tougher enforcement and BIGGER FINES,\" it read.\n\nThe lawyer for the inquiry noted the \"crushing irony\" of the memo. Mr Johnson was himself handed a £50 fine for breaking different Covid-era restrictions in April last year.\n\nAccording National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) data from June 2021, 366 fines of £10,000 were issued by police forces in England and Wales.\n\nIn its 2021 report, MPs on the Commons justice committee said the government should not rely on large spot fines to enforce public health laws, adding police could not take people's financial circumstances into account.\n\nThe inquiry was shown this August 2020 note from then-prime minister Boris Johnson\n\nElsewhere in her testimony, Dame Priti said she felt the policing of the 2021 vigil to remember murder victim Sarah Everard was \"totally inappropriate\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police was criticised for its handling of the unofficial event, which saw hundreds of people gather on Clapham Common, south London, after a planned event was cancelled.\n\nThe force was later found to have breached the rights of the organisers - and subsequently apologised and paid damages to two women arrested at the event.\n\nA WhatsApp message shown at the inquiry from Lord Frost, then a Cabinet Office minister, suggested there was concern about the regulations within government at the time.\n\n\"Truth is the rules on outside gatherings are close to unenforceable and are evidently being widely ignored in all kinds of contexts now,\" his message read.\n\nDame Priti also accepted that the Covid regulations had proved confusing for both the public and police - but said drafting the legislation was \"solely the domain\" of Matt Hancock's health department.\n\nGiving evidence ahead of Dame Priti, former police leader Martin Hewitt said forces had struggled to keep on top of the many rule changes.\n\nMr Hewitt, who was boss of the national police chiefs' council throughout the pandemic, also said officers should have been consulted more often when rules were drafted.\n\nHe added in one case officers had to delay enforcement of a new Covid regulation, having received only 16 minutes' notice before it legally came into effect.\n\nHe also said ministers had created \"confusion\" among the public about the requirements by conflating laws and guidance during media interviews.", "On a hillside overlooking Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, three young Palestinian men are engaged in a scene that could be from biblical times. Working with practised speed, they strip olives from a laden tree. The ripe fruit falls to the ground in glistening piles.\n\nBut, this is new work for Ahmed. Before 7 October he worked on Israeli construction sites, making around 400 shekels (£85; $105) a day. After the attacks of 7 October, almost all Arab access to Israel from the West Bank was banned.\n\nAhmed, like many others, lost his livelihood.\n\n\"There's no [decent] work now,\" he tells me as he strips the branches clean.\n\n\"I work one day here, one day there - in the fields, picking olives. I need to feed my family. What can I do?\"\n\nIsrael's intense security crackdown in the West Bank has not only affected Ahmed economically. Checkpoints, already a source of huge resentment, have imposed even greater restrictions on his freedom of movement.\n\n\"They have closed roads. I can only walk around my home now. These checkpoints are suffocating us.\"\n\nThe same increased security that Ahmed criticises has made people like Danny Chesterman feel safer. A cheerful man who used to run bike tours, he lives in the settlement of Efrat. He moved to Israel decades ago, but has retained his London accent.\n\n\"We're being portrayed as illegal settlers stealing Arab lands,\" he replies, when I ask him about the way his community is seen from the outside.\n\n\"In general, we have not stolen anyone's land.\"\n\n\"We are people that go to work in the morning. We run businesses. We have professors at university. We are people of the book and not of the sword.\"\n\nThere was international controversy at the start of the year, when the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu legalised nine settlements in the West Bank.\n\nThe UN and many countries say all settlements are illegal under international law. It is something many Israelis, especially those living in the settlements, vehemently dispute.\n\nOne thing few people would disagree on is that the events of 7 October, as well as Israel's military response, have soured relations between Jewish settlers and their Arab neighbours.\n\n\"I hope and I believe that the relations with our immediate neighbours here in the Arab villages will continue to be good,\" Danny tells me.\n\n\"Having said that, obviously there are security concerns.\"\n\nOn the morning of 7 October, Hamas - proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK and many others - launched an unprecedented assault on Israel. Around 1,400 people died and around 240 others were taken hostage.\n\nIn response Israel launched air strikes on Gaza, and its troops have since entered the enclave. Israel says it will not rest until Hamas is destroyed. So far, the military campaign is thought to have left more than 10,800 people dead, including 4,400 children.\n\nBethlehem as seen from Efrat\n\nDanny tells me he has heard the Hamas attackers had help from Gazans who worked with Israelis. He says it has fundamentally altered the way people here seem to think about their Arab neighbours.\n\n\"There were instances near the Gaza Strip of kibbutzim (rural communities) where they had a fantastic relationship with Arabs working there and later discovered maps describing the village with the names of the families,\" he claims.\n\n\"Really terrible things that they discovered from people who they believe they had excellent relationships with.\"\n\nIt is a sentiment echoed by Oded Rivivi. He has been mayor of Efrat for more than a decade, and insists that while relations between his settlement and most of the nearby Arab villages had always been good, they have fundamentally changed, for now at least.\n\n\"How long will it take to overcome it? Only time will tell. But as long as you don't hear Arab leaders going out and condemning (Hamas)... it's definitely making it take longer for that trust to be rebuilt,\" he says.\n\nIn Arab villages back across the valley, there are very different catalysts for mistrust - Israel's security crackdown has not only involved extra checkpoints. In the last month, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have arrested more than 1,400 Palestinians. They claim most were connected to Hamas.\n\nJust on the day we are filming, the Palestinian Authority says 18 people were killed in the West Bank, taking the total to 170 in just over a month.\n\nIt has been met with Palestinian protest, both violent and peaceful. In Bethlehem, for example, shopkeepers held a general strike. While much of the anger has come as a consequence of what is happening in Gaza, the West Bank was already a tinderbox before 7 October.\n\nSettler violence has been a particular source of rage. Young Israeli men, often well-armed, are accused of forcing Palestinian families from their homes. One video showed a Palestinian man being shot in the leg by a settler armed with an assault rifle.\n\nBack in Efrat, I challenge Mayor Oded over those concerns.\n\n\"There is a small group of extremists that do act violently,\" he tells me, \"and those people need to be dealt with by the police… [but] the vast majority of people, Jewish people who live here, deserve security, deserve to be treated like human beings… because that's the nature of these communities\".\n\nHe insists action will be taken.\n\n\"Last night we had a meeting with the prime minister, all of the mayors. There was a consensus calling for the government to make sure that these extremists get arrested, get stopped, and the quicker it happens, the less damage it will do.\"\n\nIn the end, all these conflicts come down to land. Two groups of people both firmly believe in their right to possibly the most contested piece of land on earth. For decades, the international call has been for a \"Two-State Solution\", with the West Bank and Gaza making up an independent Palestinian nation, with East Jerusalem as its capital.\n\nOver recent years it has seemed an ever less likely prospect. The coalition government of Prime Minister Netanyahu, propped up by far right settler parties, made compromise look all but impossible. Events of 7 October are seen by many as the final nail in the coffin of the two state dream.\n\n\"I think every day that passes we are going further away from that,\" Mayor Oded says. \"Israel actually evacuated all its citizens, all its civilian presence, all its military presence from the Gaza Strip under pressure from the international community. And what we got was a military army of Hamas.\"\n\nOf course, that suggestion will be met with fury, not to mention resistance, by many Palestinians. For them, as well as much of the international community, the Two State solution is the only one that is acceptable. They say anything else is predicated on the basis of the continued denial of rights and freedoms for millions of ordinary Palestinians.\n\nBack at the olive grove, just as the sun is dipping below the Church of the Nativity, I ask Ahmed what he is looking for in his future.\n\n\"Peace and security,\" comes his response. \"To come and go with our cars, to see our children, to live in our country without problems… We're not looking for problems. We're looking to be able to feed our children, that's all.\"", "Police chiefs must be able to operate without political interference, one of the UK's most senior officers has said.\n\nGavin Stephens, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) chair, suggested policing could be undermined if \"public debate\" influences decision making.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman has accused the police of bias in their handling of pro-Palestinian protests.\n\nThe move left her facing calls from some within her own party to be sacked by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has faced calls to stop a march set to take place amid remembrance commemorations on Saturday.\n\nCommissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said the demonstration can only be stopped if there is a threat of serious disorder, and that the \"very high threshold\" has not been reached.\n\nMr Sunak has vowed to hold Sir Mark \"accountable\" if there is unrest at the event on Armistice Day, although Downing Street has distanced itself from Ms Braverman's comments.\n\nThe NPCC brings together leaders from forces across the country to coordinate their work on the most significant issues in policing.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, Mr Stephens said that, \"in policing, we need the space to make difficult operational decisions in an independent manner\".\n\n\"The decisions that we take are not easy ones, but we do so impartially, without fear or favour, and in line with both the law and our authorised professional practice,\" he said.\n\nMr Stephens added it was \"really important that the public debate doesn't feature\" in decision making because it could \"fundamentally undermine\" the way policing works in the UK.\n\nHe argued that language should be used carefully and said he took his responsibility to help defuse tensions \"very seriously\".\n\n\"In everything that we do... how we choose to describe that activity in the public arena can set the context in which we police,\" Mr Stephens continued.\n\n\"So I consider that as one of my civic responsibilities, that I do what I can to give that reassurance to keep temperatures low, when we are in times of such awful, tragic international conflict that is affecting so many families across across the world.\"\n\nIn an article published in the Times on Thursday, Ms Braverman called those who have taken part in the pro-Palestinian protests of recent weeks \"hate marchers\" and claimed there was \"a perception that senior officers play favourites\" in how they police different demonstrations.\n\n\"Right-wing and nationalist protesters who engage in aggression are rightly met with a stern response yet pro-Palestinian mobs displaying almost identical behaviour are largely ignored, even when clearly breaking the law,\" she wrote.\n\nThe article led to widespread criticism, including from fellow Conservatives, and calls from opposition parties for Ms Braverman to be sacked as home secretary.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper described it as a \"dangerous attempt to undermine respect for police\", while London mayor Sadiq Khan said it was \"irresponsible\".\n\nOne senior Conservative MP told the BBC \"the home secretary's awfulness is now a reflection on the prime minister\" and that \"keeping her in post is damaging him\".\n\nDowning Street said it had not cleared the article before publication and that suggested changes to the text were not made.\n\nDefending Ms Braverman, Conservative Party deputy chair Lee Anderson said that \"anyone who thinks her comments are outrageous need to get out more\", while policing minister Chris Philp said it was \"reasonable\" for politicians to raise concerns about how policing is conducted.", "At least 99 people died when an inferno destroyed the town of Lahaina in the deadliest wildfire in modern US history.\n\nThrough first-hand accounts, as well as police bodycam footage and recordings, a BBC investigation reveals why it was so hard to escape - and uncovers mistakes from authorities.\n\nBy the time she saw the smoke, it was almost too late.\n\nThe first thing U'i Kahue noticed was the wind battering her neighbourhood, ripping off roofs and felling trees. Then she saw the smoke, rolling in like a black cloud. In no time, the fire had become an inferno.\n\nShe grabbed a hose, trying to stop her house from going up in flames.\n\n\"That's ridiculous now that I say it out loud, but I'm trying to water the roof.\"\n\nA kumu - or teacher - of Hawaiian traditional crafts, U'i has a deep connection to Hawaii, where her family has lived for five generations, and in particular, the town of Lahaina. Located on the northwest coast of Maui, it had once been the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom before the island chain became a US State in 1959.\n\nAnd now it was burning to the ground.\n\nBy the time the fire was put out, at least 99 people had died - some of them trapped in their cars trying to flee. With just two major roads providing an exit out - the Lahaina Bypass and the Honoapiʻilani Highway - there were few options for people to evacuate in the case of an emergency.\n\nWhen the fire reached the shoreline, some abandoned their cars, choosing to run to the only place the flames couldn't reach - the sea.\n\nBurnt-out buildings and cars on Front Street after a wildfire ripped through Lahaina\n\nBut U'i didn't know any of what was to come that afternoon when the fire started in her neighbourhood. She just knew she had to get out.\n\nAs she raced to her red minivan, three of her neighbours flagged her down: they couldn't find their car keys.\n\nU'i wanted to leave by the main highway out of town, taking the Lahainaluna Road. But when she eventually reached the intersection with the highway, the road was closed.\n\nInstead, police were directing cars to Front Street, which runs parallel to the shoreline and had become a \"parking lot\" of backed-up cars. With flames on either side of them, and black smoke swallowing the trail of headlights behind, she had little choice but to drive forward, one inch at a time.\n\n\"I thought, 'Oh my god, we're not moving fast enough',\" she recalled.\n\nThere were many reasons why roads were unnavigable that day. Strong winds meant debris had made some smaller roads impassable.\n\nThe town is supposed to have an emergency siren - but it was never activated. Many people decided to self-evacuate at around the same time - when they could see the smoke billowing from roofs nearby. That meant that traffic was bumper-to-bumper.\n\nBut Maui Police also blocked many roads, adding to the congestion. They say they did this for two reasons: to stop people driving into the path of the fire, and to prevent people from driving near downed power lines.\n\n\"If there was a downed power line, that was live, we want to make sure you don't go over a downed power line,\" Chief of Police Pelletier said in August.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Maui Mayor Richard Bissen confirmed that had influenced the response by local authorities. \"We were telling everyone throughout the day to treat the power lines as if they were energised,\" he added.\n\nMany have since blamed these closed roads for adding to the confusion that day, and, ultimately, the number of fatalities.\n\nTravis Miller, a photographer and surfer who's lived in Maui for nearly five years, filmed the highway closed for hours due to a police roadblock at Keawe Street.\n\n\"As soon as I saw them close the road, I knew it was insane,\" he said. \"There were two lanes of open traffic, southbound, that could have been used for people to go north.\"\n\nPolice said they were simply trying to stop people from getting electrocuted. But was the power even on?\n\nNot according to Hawaiian Electric. The local electricity company has told the BBC that the power was switched off that morning at 6:40 local time (16:40 GMT) when a brush fire was first reported. Authorities said the fire was totally contained by about 10:00 local time, hours before the afternoon blaze that would engulf the town.\n\n\"The control room advised the Maui Police Department on multiple occasions during the day, starting in the morning and extending into the late afternoon, that the company's lines in Lahaina were not energised,\" Hawaiian Electric told the BBC.\n\nHawaiian Electric said the police called its \"trouble centre\" 18 times on the day of the fire. It has given a recording of one of these conversations to the BBC. In the recording, which occurred at 16:11 local time during the height of the evacuation, police asked whether the power around the road of Lahainaluna was switched off.\n\n\"It's off right now,\" a Hawaiian Electric employee said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The call between Maui police and Hawaiian Electric\n\nHawaiian Electric said this recording was proof they communicated to police the status of the power lines, but did not provide the BBC with any additional recordings.\n\nMaui police see things very differently though.\n\n\"Without clear and definitive confirmation that its downed power lines were not energised, Maui's police officers took reasonable precautions to avoid sending evacuees into potentially electrified lines,\" Maui's police said.\n\nWithout additional recordings, the BBC is unable to verify whether police received enough information to make a different decision. But police bodycam footage obtained by the BBC, and interviews with multiple witnesses, have helped to shed light on the confusing and chaotic situation on the ground.\n\nThe fire was spreading more quickly than anyone could have expected, and people were running out of time. But with the intersection between Lahainaluna Road and the main highway out of town blocked off, many found themselves cut off from escape.\n\nPolice bodycam footage - obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request - shows stationary traffic down Lahainaluna Road as people tried to flee the flames. In addition to the bodycam footage, three separate witnesses told the BBC that when they reached this particular intersection, traffic was blocked in both directions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"Why are the cars not moving?\" Bodycam video shows frustrated Maui police\n\nIn nearly 20 hours of police bodycam footage released to the BBC, police officers on the ground frantically tried to rescue as many people as possible, while others tried to open up escape routes.\n\nBut some were also clearly baffled as to why roads had been blocked.\n\n\"We've got to move these cars! Why are the cars not moving?\" said one police officer who was on Lahainaluna Road.\n\nIn a recent statement to the BBC, Maui police said the intersection was closed north because of downed power lines.\n\n\"Vehicles were not being sent north on Honoapiilani Highway ... .due to utility poles snapped at the base and leaning over the highway.\"\n\nBut at the time, when the officers were told the highway had been blocked by their colleagues, some expressed concern.\n\n\"We need to go down there, because they don't know what the [expletive] they're doing,\" one of them said. \"They don't understand,\" another officer said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Noah filmed his family's escape from the fire - and their six-hour wait in the ocean\n\nNoah Tomkinson, 19, was fleeing with his mother and 13-year-old brother, Milo, when they reached this crossroads.\n\nThey thought they had made it to safety, and would be out of town within a couple of minutes.\n\n\"Thank God,\" he said, he said, in footage of the escape captured on his phone's camera.\n\nThen his mother saw police cars. \"The road's closed\" you can hear her say in surprise.\n\nPolice directed them towards town, where they were stuck for nearly two hours in a traffic jam. Noah filmed the chaos around him as his mother frantically tried to find a safe way out.\n\nEventually they made the decision to climb into the sea to escape the flames, where they met others who had done the same. One man held a stranger's baby above the waves for hours as the parents held their other two children.\n\nThey laughed together in disbelief, trying not to cry as they watched their homes, cars and town burn. Noah and Milo hugged their mother to keep her warm as one hour stretched into six before they were finally rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"It was terrifying,\" Noah said.\n\nKekoa Lansford was able to find a way to safety\n\nWhen the fires finally died down, survivors were left to pick up the pieces, and count the bodies.\n\n\"There's dead people in their cars, there's dead people on the ground. People look like Pompeii - if the wind blows on them, they're gone,\" said Kekoa Lansford, who sold coconuts on Front Street. Once the fire started, he said he drove around, trying to help people escape.\n\nHe did not know it at the time, but he had passed by his grandmother's elderly brother, Joseph Lara, who did not survive.\n\nLike many, Kekoa feels officials contributed to the casualties by closing some roads.\n\n\"He was a good guy, who got trapped in a traffic jam, tried to go around it and got stuck in a fire. Died,\" he said.\n\n\"What should have happened is the roads should have been open.\"\n\nMaui Mayor Bissen accepts that the town was not prepared for the fire. When asked by the BBC what lesson could be learnt from the tragedy, he said: \"Better preparation. That's what everybody is pointing to. Better response.\"\n\nAnd who should take responsibility for that lack of preparation?\n\n\"We all should take responsibility. All of us.\"\n\nThe day after the wildfire, rescuers found a hellish scene on Lahaina's waterfront\n\nU'i, with her passengers in tow, did manage to get out of town, saving not only her own life, but the lives of the neighbours she took in her car. Others were not so lucky, a fact that weighs on her even now.\n\n\"Every other house has somebody lost,\" she said. \"I'm not a hero, did you know how many people I passed evidently?\"\n\nLiving in a hotel since her house burned down, U'i teaches children traditional crafts to take her mind off what happened, and the uncertainty of her future.\n\nShe agrees that road closures led to deaths, but she thinks that officials didn't understand the gravity of the situation when they decided to shut them down.\n\n\"I don't think people purposely blocked the road so that people could burn in their cars,\" she said.\n\n\"I just think that somebody on the other side of the fence or on the other side of the wall, was trying to do what they thought would be the best thing.\"\n\n\"Unfortunately, it may have been a mistake and a very costly one\".", "We're pausing our live coverage for the next few hours, so here's a quick recap on where things stand in the Israel-Gaza war.\n\nOn Friday, eyewitnesses told the BBC that Israeli forces were close to key Gaza hospitals - Al-Shifa, Al-Quds, Al-Rantisi and the Indonesian Hospital - and there were reports of explosions inside or near them throughout the day.\n\nIsrael has repeatedly accused Hamas of operating from tunnels underneath Al-Shifa, which Hamas denies.\n\nA video verified by the BBC showed a woman filming herself at the Al-Rantisi Hospital in Gaza City, where she claimed that the children’s hospital was being “besieged” by tanks and full of people told to evacuate.\n\nAnd the International Committee of the Red Cross warned that hospitals in northern Gaza have \"reached a point of no return\", risking the lives of thousands of people.\n\nIn an exclusive interview with the BBC this evening, French President Emmanuel Macron said Israel must stop killing babies and women in Gaza, but Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu responded that world leaders should be condeming Hamas, not Israel.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says 11,078 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war and more than 27,000 others are injured.\n\nAway from Gaza, in the West Bank, dozens of people attended the funerals of 11 Palestinians killed in a reported Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp.\n\nIt all comes after Israel launched a retaliatory offensive in Gaza as a response to Hamas's deadly 7 October attacks, which killed around 1,200 people while more than 240 others were taken hostage.\n\nIsrael revised the death toll down from 1,400 on Friday because, according to Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat, many poeple killed were not immediately identified after the attack, and \"now we think those belong to terrorists... not Israeli casualties\".", "The Duke of Sussex can go ahead with claims against Associated Newspapers of unlawfully obtaining information, as a court ruling opens the way for a trial.\n\nThe Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday publishers wanted to stop the case, arguing claims of getting \"information by deception\" were out of time.\n\nBut a judge has decided the case, involving Prince Harry and six other high-profile claimants, can proceed.\n\nAssociated Newspapers strongly denied the allegations as \"preposterous\".\n\nIn a High Court ruling on Friday, Mr Justice Nicklin said Associated Newspapers had \"not been able to deliver a 'knockout blow' to the claims of any of these claimants\".\n\nAs well as Prince Harry, the newspaper group faces multiple claims of \"gross breaches of privacy\" from Sir Elton John, David Furnish, Elizabeth Hurley, Sadie Frost, Sir Simon Hughes and Baroness Doreen Lawrence.\n\nSir Elton John was among the claimants welcoming the judge's ruling\n\nThis includes allegations of bugging devices in cars, listening into phone calls and dishonestly obtaining medical and financial information.\n\n\"We are delighted with today's decision which allows our claims over serious criminal activity and gross breaches of privacy by the Mail titles to proceed to trial,\" said a joint statement from the claimants.\n\nBut a statement from Associated Newspapers said: \"As we have always made unequivocally clear, the lurid claims made by Prince Harry and others of phone-hacking, landline-tapping, burglary and sticky-window microphones are simply preposterous and we look forward to establishing this in court in due course.\"\n\nThe newspaper group also welcomed as a \"significant victory\" the ruling that unpublished information given on \"strict grounds of confidentiality\" to the Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking could not be used as evidence in this case.\n\nPrince Harry had made a surprise court appearance when the case was initially heard in March\n\nPrince Harry, in this latest battle with the UK's tabloid press, made a surprise appearance at an earlier hearing of the the case against Associated Newspapers, at the High Court in London in March.\n\nThe Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday publishers had categorically denied the allegations and said the claims had \"no real prospects of succeeding\".\n\nBut their lawyers had also argued that in any event the allegations were outside the requirement to bring claims within six years.\n\nSome of the allegations are from decades ago, but lawyers for Prince Harry and the claimants successfully argued that new evidence had come to light and they were unaware at the time of how information was being covertly acquired.\n\nMr Justice Nicklin's ruling accepted that the claimants might not have known about such \"concealed\" gathering of information about them.\n\n\"In my judgment, the claimants have a real prospect of demonstrating not only that the unlawful acts themselves were concealed, but also, in many instances, further devices were employed in the published articles to throw the subject 'off the scent',\" said the judge's ruling.\n\n\"Several claimants complain that they believed that their confidences were being betrayed by people close to them.\"\n\nBaroness Doreen Lawrence also attended an earlier court hearing about her allegations\n\nThe judge's decision was welcomed by actor Hugh Grant, the director of the Hacked Off group, which campaigns for press reforms.\n\n\"This ruling is a significant blow to the Daily Mail and great news for anyone who wants the truth about allegations of illegal press practices to come out,\" he said.\n\nPrivacy lawyer Philippa Dempster, of the law firm Freeths, said the ruling that the claims can go ahead despite the passage of time would \"send a shockwave across the press industry\".\n\nThe ruling could also mean another in-person court appearance from Prince Harry, who earlier this year stepped into the witness box to give evidence in a hacking claim against another newspaper publisher, Mirror Group Newspapers.\n\nHe became the first senior royal in modern times to make such a court appearance, facing questions over two days, with the outcome of that case still to be decided.\n\nYou can see more royal stories in the free BBC Royal Watch newsletter emailed each week - sign up here from within the UK. or here, from outside the UK.", "The photographer Rankin took the picture of the King for next week's Big Issue\n\nKing Charles is going to be the cover star of the Big Issue magazine, which helps the homeless, to mark his 75th birthday next week.\n\nThe King will highlight his Coronation Food Project, to be officially launched on his birthday on 14 November.\n\nIt aims to help those in need of food, while at the same time reducing surplus food being thrown away.\n\n\"Food need is as real and urgent a problem as food waste,\" King Charles will say in the Big Issue.\n\nEmphasising the idea of a public service monarchy, the food project will be a big theme of the King's birthday celebrations.\n\nIt wants to address the growing problem of those who cannot afford food, at the same time as tackling the widespread waste of perfectly good food.\n\n\"If a way could be found to bridge the gap between them, then it would address two problems in one,\" the King tells the Big Issue, in an edition to be published on Monday.\n\n\"It is my great hope that this Coronation Food Project will find practical ways to do just that - rescuing more surplus food, and distributing it to those who need it most.\"\n\nThe project says there are 14 million people in the UK facing food insecurity, with food banks warning of rising demand.\n\nThe Trussell Trust charity said this week that 1.5 million emergency food parcels were given to people by its food banks between April and September 2023, a 16% increase on last year. Almost two-thirds of these were for families with children.\n\nBut alongside this growing need, millions of tonnes of food are thrown away unused, so the project aims to bring together supermarkets, farmers and distributors to save more of the food that otherwise might be discarded.\n\nThere are already 8,500 local charities trying to share surplus food, and the Coronation Food Project wants to set up regional distribution hubs to make this a more effective network.\n\nFood banks have reported rising demand for help\n\nBaroness Louise Casey, co-chair of the project, says: \"Too many people in the UK are living in poverty and going hungry. At the same time, we are wasting too much food on farms, in manufacturing and across the food industry.\"\n\nThe King will be 75 years old next Tuesday, and on Monday he will share a party in Highgrove in Gloucestershire with other people or organisations who are 75 this year.\n\nOn the day of his birthday, the King is hosting a reception for nurses and midwives as part of the NHS 75th anniversary celebrations.\n\nThe Royal Mint has produced a commemorative coin to mark the birthday, which for the first time uses silver recycled from medical and industrial X-ray film.\n\nWith the King now into the second year of his reign, the names of his charities are also changing - such as the Prince's Trust becoming the King's Trust and the Prince's Foundation becoming the King's Foundation.\n\nYou can see more royal stories in the free BBC Royal Watch newsletter emailed each week - sign up here from within the UK. or here, from outside the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The 2023 version of Just Dance includes a routine suitable for people in wheelchairs\n\nMore than 135 million people have played Just Dance - but how accessible is it for everyone?\n\nUbisoft's video game has 500 unique choreographies that users from around the world follow.\n\nSeth, 14, from Vale of Glamorgan, was invited to the company's Paris studio to test out the latest version.\n\nHe spoke to designers and choreographers and gave his input on a new routine for people in wheelchairs.\n\nSeth, who has a rare muscle wasting condition called Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, is a member of the Welsh Youth Parliament.\n\nLike most teenagers, I love gaming with my friends and brothers, but using a wheelchair means I'm not always able to join in with every video game.\n\nI have a disability that affects my muscles. If I play a game that involves me moving a lot, I'm not always very good at it and my arms ache easily.\n\nGaming is important to me, so I wanted to know how tech companies are creating new games to suit people with disabilities.\n\nI was invited, with Children in Need, to meet the Paris-based team behind the hit game Just Dance.\n\nThe latest version of the game features, for the first time, a routine performed by a dancer in a wheelchair.\n\nPlayers are invited to sit and follow the arm movements whilst holding their phone or console.\n\n\"Everyone can get joy from dance,\" Stacey Jenkins, one of Ubisoft's accessibility design specialists told me.\n\nStacey Jenkins from Ubisoft believes anyone can get joy from dancing\n\n\"Game development is a really long process but if you start to think about accessibility right at the beginning, we can make things accessible by design.\n\n\"If you're a developer and you're interested in accessibility, you just need to listen to disabled people.\"\n\nBut is it possible to make all games accessible to all people?\n\n\"I think it's really difficult to make games completely 100% accessible to absolutely everybody at the same time,\" says Stacey.\n\nSeth learnt a lot about work being done to make games more accessible to all people\n\n\"Every game that we release, if it's more accessible than the last, then we're making good progress.\"\n\nAfter chatting to Stacey, I tested Just Dance in the studio with Florent Devlesaver, a Belgian dancer, in a wheelchair, who features in the game.\n\nHe told me how he had to adapt the dance moves to work for him, as well as making sure they still worked in a video game.\n\nI loved meeting Florent and having a go at the dance routine in the studio. It was really enjoyable.\n\nSeth learnt about the different stages of the process\n\nIt was nice to see that even though you have a disability, it doesn't define you and you can do whatever you want with your life.\n\nI think people are making a huge effort to develop more accessible games, but it's going to take some time.\n\n\"We've seen some really amazing progress being made,\" Stacey tells me.\n\n\"I think we've still got a long way to go.\"\n\nI think gaming companies need to figure out what works for people with disabilities but I definitely think things are changing. I have confidence.\n\nGame On! For BBC Children in Need, BBC Three and iPlayer, 10 Nov, 19:00 to 21:00 GMT", "Glory's village was attacked and her father and brother were pulled away by the mob\n\nSix months after they were stripped, paraded naked and allegedly gang raped by a mob in north-east India, two women, whose ordeal was made public in a viral video, talk to the BBC in their first face-to-face interview. They speak about living in hiding, their fight for justice and their call for a separate administration for their community.\n\nAt first, all I see is their lowered eyes.\n\nBig black masks hide Glory and Mercy's faces and scarves cover their foreheads.\n\nThe two Kuki-Zomi women do not want to be seen. But they want to be heard.\n\nTheir ordeal was filmed and shared online. It is a disturbing watch. Less than a minute long, it shows a mob of men from the majority Meitei community in Manipur state walking around two naked women, pushing, groping them, and then dragging them into a field where they say they were gang raped.\n\n\"I was treated like an animal,\" says Glory, breaking down. \"It was hard enough to live with that trauma, but then two months later when the video of the attack went viral, I almost lost all hope to continue living,\" she adds.\n\n\"You know how Indian society is, how they look at women after such an incident,\" says Mercy. \"I find it hard to face other people, even in my own community. My pride is gone. I will never be the same again.\"\n\nThe video amplified their suffering but it also became evidence of injustice because it brought attention to the ethnic clashes between the Meitei and Kuki communities that broke out in Manipur in May. But while the video sparked outrage and spurred action, the spotlight made the women retreat further.\n\nBefore they were attacked, Glory was a student and Mercy filled her days taking care of her two young children, helping them with homework and going to church. But after the attack both women had to flee to a different town where they are now living in hiding.\n\nGlory and Mercy say they will never go back to their village\n\nThey stay indoors now. Restricted to the walls of her temporary home, Mercy no longer goes to church or takes her children to school herself.\n\n\"I don't think I will ever be able to live like I lived before,\" she says. \"I find it hard to step out of the house, I feel scared and ashamed of meeting people.\"\n\nGlory feels the same and tells me she is still \"in a lot of trauma\", scared to meet people and afraid of crowds.\n\nCounselling has helped them but the anger and hate have seeped in deep.\n\nSix months ago, Glory was studying in a mixed class of Meitei and Kuki students in college where she had lots of friends, but now she says she never wants to see another Meitei person again.\n\n\"I will never go back to my village. I grew up there, it was my home, but living there would mean interacting with neighbouring Meiteis and I never ever want to meet them again,\" she says. Mercy clenches her hands and she thumps the table as she agrees.\n\nWhen their village was attacked and everyone ran for their life, Glory's father and younger brother were pulled away by the mob and killed.\n\n\"I saw them die in front of my eyes,\" she says softly. She describes how she had to leave their bodies in the field as she tried to defend herself.\n\nShe tells me she can't go to look for them even now. Since the violence erupted, there is no crossover between the Meitei and Kuki-Zomi communities in Manipur. People are divided by a de facto border, lined with checkpoints manned by the police, army and volunteers from the two communities.\n\n\"I don't even know which morgue their bodies have been kept in and I can't go and check,\" she says. \"The government should hand them over to us.\"\n\nMercy's husband describes how houses and the village church were set on fire in the attack.\n\n\"I called the local police, but they said we cannot help, our police station is also under attack,\" he says. \"I saw a police van on the road, but they didn't do anything either.\n\n\"I feel sad and angry at my inability to do anything. I could neither save my wife nor the villagers. That breaks my heart,\" he says. \"Sometimes I get very upset thinking about everything that has happened, engulfed by grief and anger, I feel like killing someone.\"\n\nTwo weeks after the attack in May, he filed a complaint with the police, but no action was taken until the video surfaced in July. Police sources have told the BBC that they have now suspended the officer in charge and four others pending an inquiry.\n\nThe widespread outrage that followed the release of the video compelled Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make his first statement on the violence. That was followed by the arrest of seven men who have now been charged with gang rape and murder.\n\nGlory, Mercy and her husband tell me they derive strength from the messages of support that have poured in since the video of the attack started circulating online.\n\n\"Without the video, no-one would have believed the truth, understood our pain,\" says Mercy's husband.\n\nGlory says she saw her father and brother killed in front of her eyes\n\nMercy still gets nightmares and is terrified of thinking about the future, especially for her children. \"It weighs me down so much, the thought that we have nothing to pass on to them, everything is gone,\" she says.\n\nThey have decided to speak up to try to make sure no other woman is ever treated like this again.\n\nGlory explains that they want a separate administration for their community. \"That is the only way to live safely and peacefully,\" she says.\n\nThe Kuki people have made this controversial demand many times but it is opposed by the Meitei community. The state's chief minister has repeatedly called for a unified Manipur.\n\nGlory and Mercy have little faith in the state government and accuse it of being biased against their community.\n\nChief Minister N Biren Singh did not respond when the BBC put the allegations to him, but in a recent interview with the Indian Express newspaper he said: \"There's no bias in my heart or my work.\"\n\nThe video also became the moment that the Supreme Court took note of the ethnic clashes and recommended that all cases of violence be handed to independent federal investigative agencies, such as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The top court has asked the state government to identify the bodies of people who have been killed and return them to their next of kin.\n\nLooking to the future, Glory hopes to resume her studies at a different college so she can pursue her dream of becoming an army or police officer. \"My resolve has strengthened to work for everyone in an unbiased manner,\" she tells me. \"And I want justice, at all costs… It's also why I am speaking up, so no woman is harmed again the way I was.\"\n\nMercy tells me that \"as tribal women we are strong, we do not give up\" and as we get up to leave, she says she has a message.\n\n\"I want to tell all mothers of all communities to teach their children, no matter what happens, never disrespect women.\"\n\nThe names of the two women have been changed for this article.", "Michael Matheson ran up £11,000 in roaming charges on his parliament-issued iPad while in Morocco\n\nA Scottish government minister who ran up an £11,000 data roaming bill on his iPad in Morocco had been warned almost a year earlier to update his device.\n\nMichael Matheson ran up \"huge\" charges while on holiday last Christmas because his parliament-issued tablet had not been switched to a new data provider.\n\nBBC News understands Mr Matheson was told via email to swap out the sim card in the device in February 2022.\n\nOpposition MSPs have urged the health secretary to cover the bill himself.\n\nThe cost has been met from the public purse, with £3,000 coming from Mr Matheson's expense budget and the rest being paid by the parliament.\n\nThe health secretary has insisted he was using the tablet for official parliament and constituency business, and has been backed by the first minister.\n\nRoaming charges are an expense incurred when using mobile devices abroad.\n\nThe parliament's previous mobile contract with EE came to an end in December 2021, and members were told to switch their devices across to the new contract with Vodafone.\n\nMr Matheson was emailed by officials in February 2022, and it is thought highly likely he would have also been spoken to by IT staff when he had the sim card in his mobile phone changed later that year.\n\nThe parliament has also said Mr Matheson did not notify its IT office that he was travelling to Africa - despite the fact members are told each recess that they should inform officials if they are taking devices abroad.\n\nAn investigation was held by senior IT staff, which studied the billing history and found that a very large volume of data had been used.\n\nHowever it is understood they stopped short of checking the browsing history on the device.\n\nMr Matheson assured officials that he had been using the iPad for parliament and constituency business, and on that basis it was decided the cost would be covered by the parliament.\n\nThe story of Michael Matheson's roaming bill has caught the imagination, with everyone trying to work out exactly how such a huge bill could have been accrued.\n\nOpposition MSPs have suggested he was \"streaming Netflix by the pool\", or perhaps using the device as a mobile hotspot.\n\nHowever unless the health secretary decides to volunteer the information - he has offered only that it was used legitimately for official business - we may never know.\n\nIt's understood a huge volume of data was used, but officials didn't go to the extent of examining the browsing history on the device.\n\nChecking the receipts is one thing, but to actually carry out some kind of forensic audit of the iPad would have suggested that the parliament wasn't happy with Mr Matheson's explanation.\n\nThey do have to take it on trust that members are being straight with them.\n\nThe opposition do not feel such constraints, though. They are determined to see the Falkirk West MSP cover the bill himself - at the very least.\n\nThe health secretary spoke briefly to reporters at the Scottish Parliament on Thursday, and said he was unaware that the sim card needed to be swapped out.\n\nMr Matheson added: \"As the parliament has also stated very clearly, the network provider didn't provide information around the costs that were being incurred as well.\n\n\"So it was something that was unknown to me, and as the parliament have also confirmed, the parliamentary equipment was used for constituency and parliamentary purposes.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Matheson blamed an outdated SIM card for the £11,000 roaming charges on his iPad\n\nFirst minister Humza Yousaf also defended the MSP, saying the bill was for a \"legitimate parliamentary expense\".\n\nHowever opposition politicians have called for him to pay back the bill out of his own pocket.\n\nThe Conservatives have asked the Presiding Officer to launch an investigation into why the \"eye-watering\" cost was being covered from the public purse.\n\nThe party has published an all-staff email from 2018 where the parliament's IT helpdesk had said roaming costs would only be covered up to £200.\n\nAnd Labour have said \"the time has come for Michael Matheson to do the right thing and pay up himself\".\n\nThe parliament is examining a new mobile data policy in light of the incident, which would see MSPs be personally liable for such bills if they have not acted in full accordance with IT office requests.\n\nA spokesman said a new mobile contract will also be awarded that will \"enhance technical controls to ensure there is no repeat of these substantial data charges\".", "As things stand, there is going to be a potentially huge pro-Palestinian march in London, on Armistice Day - and there is nothing Home Secretary Suella Braverman alone can do to stop it.\n\nThe reason for that is simple: the law does not tell the Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley to take into account the views of ministers. It tells him to assess the risks to the public - and make a plan accordingly.\n\nSince the Gaza conflict began, the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has organised three national protests in London on successive Saturdays that have grown larger week-on-week.\n\nIt has negotiated with the police over the route and duration of each and abided by conditions.\n\nThe police have a delicate balancing act to perform in protecting free speech and assembly - and also protecting the rights of others not to be intimidated.\n\nThe Met says where protesters have supported terrorist groups, broken racial-hatred laws, or committed other offences, they have made arrests. So far, more than 200 have been arrested - each serious in its own terms, including some allegations of support for Hamas - which is a proscribed terrorist group in the UK.\n\nBut put those numbers in the wider context of public order policing in London.\n\nOn Monday alone, police arrested 219 Just Stop Oil demonstrators who tried to stop traffic near Parliament. The Extinction Rebellion \"sit-ins\" of more than two years ago saw officers cart away a staggering 4,118 demonstrators.\n\nOpponents of the PSC say marchers are chanting deeply antisemitic slogans and providing a cover for extremists. But while individuals can be arrested for hate crime offences, the legal test for banning an event is more complex.\n\nThe Public Order Act 1986 gives Sir Mark Rowley and other police chiefs the power to apply conditions to marches where they reasonably believe there could be:\n\nThe PSC has agreed to conditions under that law. Its supporters say they will gather an hour after the two-minute silence on Armistice Day and more than a mile away from the Cenotaph. Their march, ending with a rally at the US Embassy, is planned to go nowhere near the memorial.\n\nRishi Sunak has described holding a march on Armistice Day as disrespectful and a risk to the Cenotaph or other memorials.\n\nBut given the PSC has repeatedly abided by conditions imposed on its previous marches, the only conclusion the police can reach - unless they get intelligence to the contrary - is that a risk to the Cenotaph won't come from protesters on the march route.\n\nAnd that's why the force has concluded there is no legal justification to ask the home secretary to ban the march.\n\nThat power can only be used if a police chief believes they cannot prevent \"serious public disorder\". That basically means violent crowds potentially bent on running amok. The police haven't seen that in previous weeks.\n\nSo if police commanders asked the home secretary to ban the march, the organisers could go to court - and judges would need to see evidence and intelligence proving the serious risk.\n\nDo you plan to attend a protest? Get in touch.\n\nThe last time these powers were used was in 2011 and 2012. The then-home secretary, on the recommendation of the Met, banned the far-right English Defence League (EDL) from marching through Muslim communities. The EDL was considered to be a thuggish mob and marchers would regularly chant racist or Islamophobic slogans.\n\nThe Campaign Against Antisemitism says the \"River to the Sea\" chant, that will almost certainly be heard on Saturday's march, is deeply offensive and threatening - but the PSC event is not going through Jewish communities - and the Met says that its legal advice is that the slogan can be legitimate free speech in such circumstances.\n\nWhat would happen if the march were banned? The Met believes people would still come to London and stand in the street and peacefully have their say. The police cannot stop them. The last time they tried, it was a fiasco.\n\nIn March 2021, the organisers of a vigil for murdered Londoner Sarah Everard cancelled the event. They feared they would individually face enormous fines under the then Covid lockdown rules, if they were seen to encourage the gathering.\n\nThe unofficial Sarah Everard vigil led to some women being physically restrained by police\n\nBut there was such confusion over whether there was still a right to protest, regardless of the risk of transmitting the virus, that people turned out anyway. They felt so strongly about the horrific murder they wanted to be heard. The Met ended up paying compensation to women who were arrested.\n\nSo the huge risk is that, even if Suella Braverman got her way, people would not only come out, but they would march independently. That would be twice as hard for police because there would be no organisers on the ground directing events and calling on people to abide by a route and curfew.\n\nAnd then there is the risk of counter-demonstrations.\n\nFormer Met commander Dal Babu says Ms Braverman's attack on the forthcoming march has emboldened the extreme far right.\n\nStephen Yaxley-Lennon, founder of the largely defunct English Defence League under the alias Tommy Robinson, is calling on followers to join him near the Cenotaph. Other less well known figures are doing the same.\n\n\"I've never known an occasion for the home secretary to get involved in operational policing at this level,\" says Mr Babu. \"She doesn't understand the law. She doesn't understand the legislation.\"\n\nSo is there anything the home secretary could do to force the Met to ban the march?\n\nIf Ms Braverman is satisfied that the Met is \"failing to discharge any of its functions in an effective manner\" she can direct the Mayor of London to intervene.\n\nBut that is a power designed to be used in exceptional circumstances. And she is not allowed to use that power until she has first consulted the inspectorate of police forces, the expert body on how chief constables are performing.\n\nSir Tom Winsor, former HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Ms Braverman had \"crossed the line\".\n\n\"The operational independence of the police is not a debatable matter,\" he said. \"The policing protocol order made by this home secretary in June 2023... stresses the operational independence of the police.\n\n\"It is the will of Parliament and the government that the police shall not be open to improper political interference that the police must act with impartiality, including political impartiality.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Donald Tusk (2nd from R) announced the deal with his prospective coalition colleagues\n\nPoland's opposition has agreed a coalition deal paving the way for them to form a new government following last month's parliamentary elections.\n\nLeaders from Donald Tusk's centrist Civic Coalition signed the agreement in parliament with two other groups.\n\nThe pro-EU opposition won a comfortable majority in October's vote but will have to wait to form a government.\n\nThe ruling right-wing nationalist Law and Justice party (PiS) has been given the first crack at forming a coalition.\n\nEarlier this week President Andrzej Duda handed the task to incumbent Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, as PiS won the 15 October vote as the largest party.\n\nMr Morawiecki has practically no chance of succeeding as all the other parties have ruled out working with Law and Justice.\n\nAlthough PiS won 194 out of the 460 seats in Poland's parliament, the Sejm, the opposition secured a majority with 248.\n\nCivic Coalition (KO) signed the deal in the Sejm on Friday with the agrarian conservative Third Way party and the New Left, ahead of parliament's first sitting on 13 November.\n\nThey said they would nominate KO leader and former European Council chief Donald Tusk as candidate for prime minister.\n\n\"We are ready to take responsibility for Poland in the coming years,\" Mr Tusk told reporters.\n\nThe coalition deal set out broad policy goals, including strengthening Poland's position in the EU and Nato, with security a priority in the face of Russia's war in Ukraine.\n\nThey also pledged to remove political pressure on Poland's courts, overturn a 2020 ruling that almost completely outlawed all abortions, separate Church and State and depoliticise state media, military and special services.\n\n\"In our agreement, we found a common denominator for the issues we want to implement,\" said Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, leader of the centre-right Polish Peasants' Party (PSL).\n\nDespite the show of unity, part of the pro-Tusk bloc has said it will not officially take part in the coalition. The Together party, which ran as part of the New Left in the election, said it could not sign up because it did not go far enough in liberalising abortion and other parts of the deal such as increased spending on healthcare and education.\n\nThe party won nine seats and without them the Tusk coalition would still have a majority with 239 seats.\n\nPoland's opposition wanted to sign a coalition deal ahead of the first sitting of the new parliament on 13 November to emphasise to President Duda they are ready to govern and have the numbers to do so.\n\nThey were quick to point out to the president, who is a PiS ally, that the right-wing nationalists were well short of the 231 seats needed.\n\nBut Mr Duda is a former PiS member and it is in PiS's interests to delay the process as much as possible in the hope that cracks appear within the opposition.\n\nOn Monday, MPs and parliamentary speakers will be sworn in and Mr Morawiecki and his government will resign, staying on as a caretaker government until a new government has been formed.\n\nBut it could take another month before that happens, or even longer.\n\nFrom Monday, the president has 14 days to nominate a prime minister, and he has already made his choice clear. Mr Morawiecki then gets an additional 14 days to choose a team of ministers, draft a policy speech and win a vote of confidence.\n\nAssuming he fails, parliament itself then has the right to designate a prime minister, which, given the make-up of the chamber, would likely appoint Donald Tusk as prime minister of a coalition government and give it a vote of confidence. Mr Duda has said he would appoint Mr Tusk if he is selected by MPs.\n\nIf Mr Morawiecki abandons trying to form a government due to lack of support, a new government could be formed this month. But not if he uses his speech to score political points.\n\nWhatever happens, a Tusk government made up of members ranging from agrarian conservatives to the left would face significant challenges.\n\nThey are all pro-EU and in favour of restoring the independence of the courts and public media but differ on significant issues such as how far to liberalise Poland's stringent abortion law.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSurgeons in New York say they have performed the world's first complete eye transplant on a man, although it is not certain he will regain vision.\n\nAaron James, who survived a high-voltage electrical accident, underwent 21 hours of surgery that replaced half of his face.\n\nSurgeons have been able to transplant corneas successfully for years.\n\nExperts have called the breakthrough a pivotal moment in the quest to restore sight to millions of people.\n\nMr James, a high-voltage utility line worker from Arkansas, lost most of his face when it accidentally touched a 7,200-volt live wire in 2021.\n\nOn 27 May this year, he underwent a rare partial face transplant in addition to the eye transplant - which involved more than 140 healthcare professionals.\n\nSurgeons at NYU Langone Health, who performed the complicated surgery, said on Thursday that Mr James, 46, was recovering well from the dual transplant and the donated eye looked remarkably healthy. His right eye still works.\n\n\"The mere fact that we've accomplished the first successful whole-eye transplant with a face is a tremendous feat many have long thought was not possible,\" said Dr Eduardo Rodriguez, one of the leading surgeons on the team. \"We've made one major step forward and have paved the way for the next chapter to restore vision.\"\n\nDoctors say James' surgery offers scientists an unprecedented window into how the human eye tries to heal.\n\n\"We're not claiming that we are going to restore sight,\" Dr Rodriguez told ABC News. \"But there's no doubt in my mind we are one step closer.\"\n\nDr Eduardo Rodriguez was one of the surgeons who led the transplant surgery on Aaron James (left)\n\nDoctors said there was direct blood flow to the retina - the part of the eye that sends images to the brain. While there is no certainty Mr James will regain vision in his new eye, doctors do not rule out the possibility either.\n\n\"If I can see out of it, that's great,\" Mr James said in an interview. \"But if it'll kick-start the next path in the medical field, then I'm all for it.\"\n\nMr James, a military veteran, will continue to be monitored by doctors, but the progress they have seen with the eye is \"exceptional\" says Bruce E. Gelb, MD, a transplant surgeon at New York University.\n\nThe donated face and eye came from a single male donor in his 30s. During the surgery, doctors injected adult stem cells from the donor's bone marrow into the optic nerve to encourage its repair.\n\nAaron James looks at his new face in the mirror\n\nMr James is only the 19th person in the US to undergo a face transplant.\n\nHis wife of 20 years, Meagan James, told CNN seeing him after the surgery \"was a crazy, great, weird, strange, ecstatic, happy feeling\".\n\n\"I was just happy he made it through, and everything was good in the moment.\"\n\nAfter the accident, Mr James had to have his left eye removed because of the pain and has undergone numerous surgeries, including one for a prosthetic arm.\n\nHe has called the eye transplant \"life changing\" and says he is \"grateful beyond words\" to the donor and their family for making the surgery possible.\n\n\"I just look like a normal person walking down the street,\" he told NBC News.", "Robert De Niro screamed 'shame on you' across the courtroom at his former assistant at one point in the trial\n\nRobert De Niro's company must pay a former employee $1.2m (£982,000) over claims of gender discrimination and retaliation.\n\nThe jury decision ends a years-long legal battle between the actor and Graham Chase Robinson that began after her resignation from Canal Productions.\n\nMs Robinson had sued for $12m, alleging she was abused, demeaned, underpaid and treated like De Niro's \"office wife\".\n\nBut jurors did not find the actor personally liable in the civil trial.\n\nMs Robinson was on De Niro's payroll for 11 years. Hired as his personal assistant in 2008, she was later promoted to vice-president of production and finance at the company.\n\nBut after quitting in 2019, she sued for \"emotional distress and reputational harm\", claiming he often made \"vulgar, inappropriate and gendered comments\" and assigned her \"stereotypically female\" tasks.\n\nHe insisted that he was never abusive, and while he admitted he was at times bad-tempered, denied Ms Robinson's allegations.\n\nCanal countersued for $6m, accusing her of misusing office funds, stealing company property and transferring more than $450,000 in airline miles to her personal account.\n\nBut, after eight days of testimony and five hours of deliberation over the duelling claims, the jury did not find Ms Robinson liable for any of Canal's financial misconduct claims.\n\nDe Niro was not in the courtroom when the verdict was read aloud on Thursday.\n\nMs Robinson was seen smiling as the decision was handed down and hugging her lawyers after jurors left the room, the Associated Press reported.\n\nGraham Chase Robinson said the actor treated her like his 'office wife'\n\nHer lawyer told the BBC he was \"delighted that the jury saw what we saw\".\n\n\"Not only did Ms Robinson win her case against Canal but the jury completely vindicated Ms Robinson by finding De Niro's claims against her to be without merit,\" David Sanford said in his statement.\n\nIn two days on the witness stand, De Niro conceded he had occasionally berated her and raised his voice in her presence, but said that he \"was never abusive, ever\".\n\nBut in a dramatic outburst, he looked directly at her and shouted \"shame on you\" across the courtroom.\n\nDe Niro further admitted that he had asked her to scratch his back on at least two occasions, but dismissed a question about it by saying: \"Ok, twice? You got me!\"\n\nHe said that she had made escalating demands to remain in the job, prompting him to boost her salary and title even though her responsibilities remained largely the same.\n\nIn her turn on the stand, Ms Robinson said that De Niro required her to be reachable by phone at all hours, including on holidays, and yelled at her.\n\nShe claimed she quit after an \"emotional and mental breakdown\" that made her feel like she had hit \"rock bottom\", and that she has suffered anxiety and depression.\n\n\"I don't have a social life,\" she said. \"I lost my life. Lost my career. Lost my financial independence. I lost everything.\"", "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is on his way home after suffering a minor stroke, according to US media reports.\n\nMr Wozniak told ABC News a MRI scan confirmed he had a stroke whilst attending the World Business Forum in Mexico City.\n\nThe 73-year-old was taken to hospital after passing out at the conference, according to the CNN news website.\n\nThe BBC has contacted representatives of Mr Wozniak for comment.\n\nBetter known in the tech world as Woz, Mr Wozniak is a Silicon Valley veteran who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976 and invented the first Apple computer.\n\nApple went on to become the most valuable company in the world.\n\nThe computing pioneer signed a letter in March alongside Elon Musk calling for a pause in the development of the most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models.\n\nHe called for the regulation of AI when he spoke to the BBC in May 2023, fearing the technology would be harnessed by \"bad actors\".\n\nHe said: \"AI is so intelligent it's open to the bad players, the ones that want to trick you about who they are.\"\n\nBut he sounded a note of scepticism that regulators would get it right: \"I think the forces that drive for money usually win out, which is sort of sad.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Lewis Bush will serve a minimum of 16 years for killing his mother\n\nA murderer who killed his mother in a \"frenzied attack\" has been jailed for life.\n\nLewis Bush, 26, of Moorland Park, Newport, killed Kelly Pitt, 44 in a \"ferocious and sustained assault\" at her home and \"fled the scene\".\n\nMs Pitt was found by police at Sandalwood Court at about 11:30 on 12 May.\n\nJudge Daniel Williams said Bush must serve at least 16 years before he could be considered for parole.\n\nBush previously denied murder but changed his plea ahead of his scheduled trial in October.\n\nNewport Crown Court heard how paramedics were called to Sandalwood Court following a 999 call by a neighbour.\n\nChris Rees KC, prosecuting, said the flat door was open and \"it looked as if Kelly Pitt had been battered\".\n\nShe was found on a blood-soaked bed, covered in a duvet, and was declared dead at the scene.\n\nA post-mortem examination by Dr Edwards Williams found \"severe blunt-force trauma to the head, neck and trunk\".\n\nMs Pitt suffered internal bleeding and 41 rib fractures and mirror glass and clumps of hair were found around her body.\n\nMr Rees described her as a \"vulnerable woman with alcohol issues\" who was 5ft 5in and \"in no position to fight off the attack\".\n\nBlood on the pyjama trousers worn by Ms Pitt matched that of Bush and Mr Rees said the victim \"would have suffered considerable physical pain before her death\".\n\nKelly Pitt, 44, was a \"funny, bubbly\" woman who cared for everyone, her daughter said\n\nOn 10 May, the mother-of-three - whose daughter Lauren had previously died - made a call to her daughter Jordan on which Bush could be heard verbally assaulting her.\n\nHer last words to her daughter were a plea that she call the police, but she never made that call.\n\nThroughout that evening and the following morning of 11 May, Jordan Bush sent messages to her mother asking her if she was OK.\n\nWhen they stopped being delivered, she called her but each time her brother answered and said their mum was unwell in bed and was \"in no fit state\" to see her.\n\nMr Rees said he \"left her there for dead\" and CCTV footage showed Bush at a nearby cash point and buying a bottle of lager on 12 May.\n\nWhen Jordan Bush's partner, Kieran Saunders, went to check on Ms Pitt, he found her body and shouted to a neighbour to call for help.\n\nAt the time of the murder, Bush was subject to bail conditions for assaulting his mum in February and was banned from contacting her or entering Sandalwood Court but she had repeatedly reported him coming to her house and acting aggressively.\n\nHe also had multiple previous convictions, including for battery against his mother and sister and Mr Rees said Ms Pitt was \"subjected to domestic violence... for many years,\" by Bush.\n\nHe was circulated as wanted by police before being arrested outside a police station.\n\nOn being told of his mother's death he replied: \"What? My mum is dead? Seriously? You're joking me?\"\n\nHe was interviewed by police nine times and gave no comment.\n\nPolice attended the scene in Sandalwood Court, Newport, on 12 May where Kelly Pitt had been declared dead\n\nReading a victim impact statement, Jordan Bush said her mother was \"caring, loving, funny and bubbly\" and described her as a \"warm welcoming lady who made sure everyone was well looked after\".\n\nShe said she did not call the police when asked because she thought things would be sorted by the next day, as they had been previously.\n\n\"I have to live with that guilt every day,\" she said.\n\nAddressing her brother in the dock, she added: \"Our mother will never get to see her granddaughter grow up because of what you did.\n\n\"I am now alone without a mum, sister or brother because you are no brother of mine.\"\n\nCaroline Rees KC, defending, said the murder was not premeditated and her client pleaded guilty before trial.\n\nJudge Daniel Williams told Bush: \"That Kelly's life should end as it did is a wrong that no sentence will right.\"", "The UK faces an ageing crisis and healthcare must step in, England's chief medical officer, Prof Sir Chris Whitty, warns in his annual report.\n\nPeople are living longer but some spend many of their later years in bad health - and that has to change, he said.\n\nBased on projections, the elderly boom will be in rural, largely coastal, areas and these places are often poor cousins when it comes to provision.\n\nWhile young people flock to wealthy cities, areas such as Scarborough, North Norfolk or the south coast of England are going to age \"rapidly and predictably\", says the report - Sir Chris's fourth in the role.\n\nHe told me: \"We've really got to get serious about the areas of the country where ageing is happening very fast, and we've got to do it now.\n\n\"It's possible to compress the period of time that people spend in ill health...because otherwise we will end up with large numbers of people leading much more dependent lives.\"\n\nProviding services and environments suitable for older adults in these areas is an absolute priority, the report says.\n\nMuch of the NHS's work is already caring for an ageing population, and that is set to increase.\n\nThe fact that people are living longer compared to a century ago is \"a triumph of medicine and public health\".\n\nBut the emphasis needs to be on quality, not quantity, says the report.\n\nIt says major action in two areas could help turn things around:\n\nSir Chris explained: \"Houses are built for young families...and if you project forward to the middle of the century, a quarter of the population will be over 65, yet we still have a housing stock not designed for that age group.\"\n\nHe said people should adopt \"old-fashioned\" methods to stay healthy.\n\n\"Having lots of exercise, having mental stimulation and a social network, eating a reasonably balanced diet... these are things which are old-fashioned, but they still work.\"\n\nPeople should also make choices about what care they do and don't want, and doctors should refrain from over-treating.\n\nImproving quality of life in older age sometimes means less medicine, not more, says the report.\n\nSir Chris said: \"That might be, 'I want to go to hospital but I don't want to go to intensive care'. It might be, 'I want to have treatment but I don't want to have an operation'. Or it might be 'I don't want any more treatment at all'. The conversation needs to be had.\"\n\nProf Dame Carol Black, from the Centre for Ageing Better, said: \"Many people are facing enormous challenges and hardship in their later years, as this report makes clear.\n\n\"We don't all have an equal opportunity to age well. Wealth, work, housing, discrimination; all play a significant role in the huge gap in healthy life expectancy between the richest and poorest areas of the country.\"\n\nPaul Farmer, chief executive at Age UK, called for a cross-government ageing strategy, and a minister for older people to help drive forward change.\n\n\"We can already see how the failure to invest in delivering the right services and support is leading to worse outcomes for older people and entirely avoidable problems,\" he said.\n\n\"Older people are isolated at home if the design of our communities means they can't safely go out. People end up falling, and in the back of an ambulance if our built environment is full of trip hazards.\n\n\"Our hospitals are over capacity at least in part, due to the failure to provide adequate social care and community services to enable people to stay safe and well at home. None of this is inevitable. Getting it right would have immeasurable benefits.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Swift's nomination for Anti-Hero means she overtakes Sir Paul McCartney and Lionel Ritchie\n\nTaylor Swift has broken a Grammys record with her latest nomination for song of the year.\n\nThe shortlisting of her hit Anti-Hero makes Swift the first songwriter to score seven nominations in the category - overtaking Sir Paul McCartney and Lionel Richie, who have six each.\n\nShe is also nominated in the album and record of the year categories alongside Olivia Rodrigo, Miley Cyrus and SZA.\n\nLana Del Rey and Dua Lipa are among the other nominees for song of the year.\n\nBillie Eilish, Jon Batiste and SZA have also been recognised in the category.\n\nSwift's album of the year nod for Midnights is her sixth nomination in this category - and ties her with Barbra Streisand for the most nominations for a female artist.\n\nIf she wins, she will become the first artist to win album of the year four times.\n\nMore on the nominated artists:\n\nIt was harder for artists to make the Grammys shortlist this year due to new rules.\n\nOrganisers have cut the number of nominations available in each category from 10 to eight.\n\nThis year's Grammy Awards take place on 4 February in Los Angeles, with hosts yet to be announced.\n\nUS singer-songwriter SZA leads this year's Grammy nominations with nine in total\n\nBritish dance and electronic producer Fred Again is among the nominees for best new artist.\n\nHe is joined in the category by Gracie Abrams, Ice Spice, Jelly Roll, Coco Jones, Noah Kahan, Victoria Monet and War and Treaty.\n\nUS rapper and singer Jelly Roll might have been around since 2005 - but he scored a breakout single earlier this year with Need A Favor.\n\nIf the 38-year-old wins the award he will become the oldest person to be named best new artist - Sheryl Crow currently holds the record after picking it up aged 33.\n\nCyrus, Rodrigo, Swift, SZA, Batiste, Boygenius, Eilish and Monet are recognised on the record of the year shortlist.\n\nSong of the year is different to record of the year - the former recognises songwriters and achievement in composition while the latter is concerned with the technical recording process - taking into account production, engineering and performance.\n\nMany of the same artists are nominated for album of the year, with Swift, SZA, Rodrigo, Batiste, Boygenius and Cyrus all recognised alongside Janelle Monae and Lana Del Rey.\n\nMiley Cyrus has received nominations in three of the top categories\n\nNominations were announced on Friday, with singer-songwriter SZA leading the pack with nine in total.\n\nShe was recognised in the best progressive R&B album and best R&B performance categories.\n\nSZA's collaboration with Phoebe Bridgers with Ghost in the Machine was nominated for best pop duo/group performance.\n\nBridgers' indie supergroup Boygenius was recognised in six categories too - including record of the year for Not Strong Enough and album of the year for The Record.\n\nBoygenius, made up of Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus and Bridgers, first got together to debut a self-titled EP in 2018 and returned with new music earlier this year.\n\nMonet has also had a strong showing - along with best new artist and record of the year for On My Mama she is also nominated for best R&B album for Jaguar II and best R&B performance for Hollywood.\n\nBatiste was a surprise winner at last year's ceremony and features in the major categories once again, with his album World Music Radio and song Worship up for the top prizes.\n\nOlivia Rodrigo is among this year's nominees\n\nCyrus' nomination for Flowers in the song and record of the year categories and Endless Summer Vacation's album of the year nomination mark her first appearance in one of the major categories.\n\nShe previously had only received one nomination, for best pop album in 2015 for Bangerz.\n\nLana Del Rey has never won a Grammy before - but is recognised in five categories this year, including best alternative music album and best alternative music performance.\n\nRodrigo joins Eilish in achieving the feat of being nominated for best album, song and record for her first two studio albums.\n\nLana Del Rey could win her first Grammy at the 2024 ceremony\n\nThe 20-year-old former Disney star's received chart success this year with song Vampire and album Guts.\n\nEilish has also featured heavily in this year's Grammy nominations - the song she made for the Barbie movie, What Was I Made For?, has made it onto the song and record of the year list.\n\nThe music from Barbie is well-represented across the nominations receiving 12 nods. Dua Lipa's Dance the Night, which is up for song of the year, features on the film's soundtrack.\n\nMeanwhile Barbie World by Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice, and Ryan Gosling's I'm Just Ken, are up for best song written for visual media.\n\nMorgan Wallen topped the US charts, but not the Grammys nominations list\n\nCountry star Morgan Wallen only received one nod in the best country song category but didn't break through into any of the major ones.\n\nHis single Last Night topped the US charts for 16 weeks, with the track achieving the feat of the first country song by a male solo artist to reach number one in 42 years.\n\nWallen, who was criticised over the use of a racial slur in 2022, also had chart success with his album One Thing At A Time earlier this year.\n\nDoja Cat was expected to scoop up a few nominations.\n\nDoja Cat also didn't make it into any of the big categories - receiving nods for her song Attention in the best melodic rap performance and best rap song lists.\n\nPaint the Town Red, which samples Dionne Warwick's Walk On By, was expected to make it onto the record of the year list but only managed the best pop performance category.\n\nEarlier this year, Beyoncé became the most decorated artist in Grammys history, winning four awards at the 65th ceremony - bringing her total haul to 32.\n\nBBC Sounds: Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw delve into the Grammy nominations on Sidetracked.", "AstraZeneca is facing legal action over its Covid vaccine, by a man who suffered severe brain injury after having the jab in April 2021.\n\nFather-of-two Jamie Scott suffered a blood clot that left him with brain damage and unable to keep working.\n\nThe action, taken under the Consumer Protection Act, alleges the vaccine was \"defective\" as it was less safe than individuals were entitled to expect.\n\nIn June 2022, the World Health Organization said the AstraZeneca vaccine was \"safe and effective for individuals aged 18 and above\".\n\nThe legal action is at least a year away from a full court hearing.\n\nA further claim from about 80 people who say they were injured by the AstraZeneca vaccine is also due to be launched later this year but Mr Scott's case is expected to be heard first.\n\nAstraZeneca said: \"Patient safety is our highest priority and regulatory authorities have clear and stringent standards to ensure the safe use of all medicines, including vaccines.\n\n\"Our sympathy goes out to anyone who has lost loved ones or reported health problems.\n\n\"From the body of evidence in clinical trials and real-world data, Vaxzevria [the vaccine against Covid] has continuously been shown to have an acceptable safety profile and regulators around the world consistently state that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks of extremely rare potential side effects.\"\n\nMany of the claimants have received one-off fixed tax-free payments of £120,000 under the government's Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS), which provides compensation for those injured or to bereaved next of kin.\n\nOfficial figures obtained under a Freedom of Information request showed at least 144 out of 148 VDPS payments had gone to recipients of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the Daily Telegraph reported. And an attempt to have the VDPS overhauled is at the heart of these legal actions.\n\nClaimants have to show the vaccine caused serious disability of at least 60%. And the families say the level of compensation is wholly insufficient and has not been adjusted for inflation since 2007.\n\nOn 7 April 2021, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation advised adults aged under 30 be offered an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine, \"following reports of extremely rare blood clots in a very small number of people\".\n\nOn 7 May 2021, the guidance was amended to apply to adults aged under 40.\n\nMr Scott was aged 44 when he received the AstraZeneca vaccine, on 23 April 2021.\n\nKate Scott, Jamie's wife, told the BBC: \"Jamie has had over 250 rehabilitation sessions from specialists, he had to learn to walk again, to swallow, to talk. [He has had] memory problems.\n\n\"Although he has done very well with them we are at the point now where this new version of Jamie… is the version that will go forward. He has cognition problems…he has aphasia..severe headaches, blindness.\"\n\nShe added: \"We need the government to reform the vaccine damage payment scheme. It is inefficient and unfair…and then fair compensation.\"\n\nOn 4 January 2021, Brian Pinker, 82, became the first person to receive the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine outside of a clinical trial.\n\nHe was given the jab in Oxford, just a few hundred metres away from the Jenner Institute, where the vaccine had been developed. The government called it a pivotal moment in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe immunisation came just weeks after the rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nBy September 2022, some 53 million people in the UK had received at least one dose of Covid vaccine.\n\nAstraZeneca manufactured the Oxford vaccine on a not-for-profit basis. And the vaccine had saved more than six million lives in its first year of use, more than any other Covid jab, an independent study by disease-forecasting company Airfinity, published last year, estimated.\n\nBut within a few months of the AstraZeneca vaccine rollout, cases began emerging of a potential side effect from blood clots. And a condition known as vaccine-induced immune thrombosis and thrombocytopenia (VITT) was eventually identified.\n\nThe cases were so rare they had not been identified in the global trials of the vaccine.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Davide Renne, the former head of women's wear at Gucci, died just days after starting his new job as Moschino's creative director\n\nItalian fashion designer Davide Renne has died nine days after becoming the creative director of Moschino, aged 46.\n\nThe cause of death is not known, but Moschino's parent company Aeffe referred to \"a sudden illness\" and said that he died in Milan on Friday.\n\nRenne had previously been head of women's wear at Gucci, where he worked for nearly 20 years.\n\nAeffe's chairman said: \"There are no words to describe the pain we are experiencing at this dramatic time.\"\n\n\"Even though he was only with us for a very short time, Davide was able to immediately make himself loved and respected. Today we are left with the responsibility of carrying on what his imagination and creativity had only envisioned,\" said Massimo Ferretti in a statement posted on Instagram.\n\nRenne was born in Follonica, Tuscany in July 1977.\n\nHe studied at both the University of Florence and Polimoda fashion school, and began his career working with Italian fashion designer and mentor Alessandro Dell'Acqua, before heading to Gucci in 2004.\n\nRenne's appointment as Moschino's creative director was announced in October, and he was due to debut his first collection for Moschino at Milan Fashion Week in February.\n\nAt the time of his appointment, Renne said: \"Franco Moschino had a nickname for his design studio - la sala giochi, the playroom.\n\n\"This resonates deeply with me: what fashion - Italian fashion especially, and the house of Moschino most of all - can achieve with its enormous power should be accomplished with a sense of play, of joy. A sense of discovery, and experimentation.\"\n\nSeveral influential figures in the fashion industry have taken to social media to pay their respects, with many leaving comments on Renne's Instagram posts.\n\nHarris Reed, the creative director of Nina Ricci, described Renne as \"a true true angel\", while model and singer Karen Elson wrote: \"My heart breaks. Sweet Davide rest in peace.\"\n\nRenne's mentor, Dell'Acqua, posted on Instagram: \"Farewell Davide!! You will always be in my heart.\"", "The amount of funding for special educational needs (SEN) in Northern Ireland is £65m - or about 14% - less than what is needed this year.\n\nThat is according to the Department of Education's impact report on its 2023-24 budget.\n\nThe department said that overall it was facing \"unprecedented funding challenges and cuts\".\n\nIt said it needed more than £2.9bn to run the education system in 2023-24 but had received under £2.6bn.\n\nThe education budget was cut by about £70m compared to 2022-23, but given the rate of inflation the real terms reduction is much larger.\n\nThe department also said that without any additional funding it was likely to overspend its budget.\n\nOverall, Stormont departments are on course for an overspend of £450m this year, according to the senior official in the Department of Finance.\n\nHowever, that figure is based on the assumption that there are no pay rises across public services, including in education.\n\nTeachers in Northern Ireland have not had a pay increase for nearly three years.\n\nA number of unions representing non-teaching staff in education are also taking strike action over pay reform on Thursday, 16 November.\n\nThe Department of Education has already scrapped a number of schemes including counselling for primary school pupils and so-called \"holiday hunger\" grants to save money.\n\nThe overall budget to schools for yearly running costs, including staff pay, has also fallen.\n\nSeparately, the Education Authority (EA) estimates that the total budget deficits faced by schools will rise to a total of about £160m in 2023-24.\n\nThe department's impact assessment said that many of the cuts would have \"major negative impacts\" especially on pupils with special educational needs, newcomer pupils, young carers and children in Irish-medium education.\n\nThe document said that department was \"facing the most unpalatable decisions to seek to manage its spending\".\n\nIt has also stopped funding a range of education organisations like Young Enterprise Northern Ireland, the Sentinus charity which promotes science in schools and the Northern Ireland centre for language teaching.\n\nIt also ended its funding for free books for babies among other cuts.\n\nWhile the impact assessment points out that \"the majority of SEN expenditure is statutory and will not therefore be subject to any cuts,\" it also said it expected to spend £65m less on SEN this year than is needed.\n\nThe funding spent on SEN includes things like specialist therapies for pupils, classroom assistants, transport and the running costs for special schools.\n\nAccording to its impact assessment, the Department of Education estimates it needs to spend £506m on SEN, but has only £440m in funding for it in 2023-24.\n\nUnlike other schools in Northern Ireland, special schools have still not been provided with an annual budget for their running costs for 2023-24.\n\nThe funding for dedicated school staff to support pupils with SEN has also been cut in half.\n\nSome parents have also said that they meet \"brick wall after brick wall\" when seeking support for their children.\n\nA number of respondents to the department's budget consultation raised concerns about reductions in support for children with SEN.\n\nOther organisations expressed a range of concerns about cuts to early years provision, mental health support for pupils and the fact that the money \"received by schools for each pupil has not risen in line with inflation, despite a dramatic increase in operational cost\".\n\n\"The short-term savings which are made by cutting programmes to tackle educational disadvantage are likely to be dwarfed by the costs which will be generated in the long run,\" one respondent said.", "Leto said it was a \"nice surprise\" to see his mother through the window when he reached the 80th floor\n\nHe's known for going to great lengths to win an Oscar - and now Jared Leto is going to great heights to promote his band's next tour.\n\nThe actor and musician has become the first person to legally scale the 102-storey Empire State Building.\n\nLeto, 51, climbed the outside of the New York landmark in a bright orange jumpsuit and using a rope and harness.\n\nHe took on the challenge to promote the forthcoming world tour for his band Thirty Seconds To Mars.\n\nLeto told NBC's Today show: \"I was more excited than nervous to tell you the truth. But I have to be honest, it was very, very hard. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be.\n\n\"Just the endurance that it took, the stamina that it took, and it was very sharp.\"\n\nThe actor won an Oscar for his performance in Dallas Buyers Club and has also appeared in Morbius, House of Gucci and Suicide Squad.\n\nThirty Seconds to Mars, known for hits such as Kings and Queens, are set to begin their first headline tour in five years in Buenos Aires in March 2024.\n\n\"To watch the sun rise overlooking the city that's meant so much to me,\" Leto said. \"Ever since I was a kid, New York stood for the place that you went to make your dreams come true.\"\n\nHe concluded: \"I made it to the top, and I saw my mother in the window of the 80th floor, and that was a nice surprise.\"\n\nOnce the world's tallest building, the Empire State stands 380m (1,250ft) high. It measures 443m (1,454ft) when its antenna is taken into account.\n\nHere are more pictures from Leto's climb:", "Rishi Sunak is under pressure from ministers to increase housing benefit amid record numbers of people in temporary housing, the BBC has learned.\n\nHousing Secretary Michael Gove and Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride have written to the prime minister and the chancellor demanding an increase in Local Housing Allowance rates.\n\nBut the Treasury instead prefers higher universal credit for those in work.\n\nA final announcement is likely in the Autumn Statement later in November.\n\nThe number of people in England living in temporary accommodation is at record levels as the cost of living crisis puts market rents out of reach for many households.\n\nThe latest government figures, for the three months to June, show 104,510 households were in temporary accommodation, including 131,370 children.\n\nExperts say a major contributory factor is that while rents have soared in recent years, local housing allowance rates, which determine housing benefit levels, have been frozen since 2020.\n\nIn June, analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank found just 5% of new private rental properties advertised on Zoopla were covered by local housing allowance rates, the lowest level on record. Official figures show almost two in five private sector tenants receive housing benefit.\n\nMore than 150 councils in England wrote to the government last month urging ministers to increase Local Housing Allowance rates to cover at least 30% of local market rates.\n\nHastings Borough Council fears bankruptcy because of the cost of housing people in temporary accommodation.\n\nThe BBC understands, however, that the Treasury is resistant to these calls and is instead examining increasing universal credit levels for people in work.\n\nOfficials have drafted proposals to cut the \"taper rate\" - the proportion of earnings people can keep before their benefit payment is cut. The taper rate is currently 55%, meaning that for every pound someone earns above their personal work allowance, their universal credit payment is reduced by 55p.\n\nChanges at the edges of universal credit would not help families who are homeless and do not work, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) anti-poverty group.\n\n\"Reducing the universal credit taper rate is no substitute for addressing a lack of adequacy in the benefits system as a whole,\" said JRF Chief Economist Alfie Stirling.\n\n\"All benefits must increase in line with the higher costs people are facing if the government is serious about helping the worst off,\" Mr Stirling added.\n\nIn a statement, a Treasury official said: \"We do not comment on speculation.\n\n\"We've maintained our boost of nearly £1bn to Local Housing Allowance, while our Discretionary Housing payments provide a safety net for anyone struggling to meet their rent or housing costs.\"", "Katie Tidmarsh was found guilty after a trial at Leicester Crown Court\n\nA woman who murdered a baby she was about to adopt has been jailed for at least 17 years.\n\nKatie Tidmarsh inflicted catastrophic head injuries to one-year-old Ruby Thompson at home in Leicester in 2012.\n\nThe 39-year-old tried to cover it up by delaying treatment for Ruby, Leicester Crown Court heard.\n\nJudge Mr Justice Mark Wall handed Tidmarsh a life sentence for the \"murderous attack\" on a \"defenceless young child\".\n\nThe trial heard emergency services were called to Pickwell Close, Glenfield, on 11 August and Ruby was taken to hospital, where she died two days later.\n\nJurors were told the baby had suffered a complex skull fracture, spinal damage and bleeding on the brain and eyes.\n\nTidmarsh claimed Ruby had been behaving in a \"normal manner\" before her eyes rolled into the back of her head, and attributed the injuries to her collapse.\n\nBut the judge said experts dismissed this and said her injuries were comparable to a \"fall from a two or more storey building\" and a \"road traffic accident of more than 60mph\".\n\nEmergency services were called to an address in Pickwell Close in Leicester\n\nWhile in hospital, an X-ray examination found Ruby had sustained a broken bone in her arm about two weeks before.\n\nRuby had been taken to hospital at the time, but Tidmarsh claimed the baby had been knocked over by one of her dogs while standing against a sofa.\n\nBut the court heard Tidmarsh did not seek medical attention for Ruby's broken arm straight away and was only taken to hospital after the defendant's mother noticed she was \"in discomfort and not using her arm properly\".\n\nThe judge told Tidmarsh she was \"ill-equipped\" to raise a child due to her mental health conditions.\n\nThe court heard she had not told social workers on an adoption panel about her anxiety and depression when Ruby was placed in her care.\n\n\"You also tried to cover up what you had done by delaying medical treatment for Ruby,\" the judge said.\n\n\"You have steadfastly maintained that nothing happened to Ruby on the morning of her collapse, bar her eyes rolling into the back of her head and her falling backwards on to the rug.\n\n\"You abused her that morning and then have lied to cover up what you did.\"\n\nTidmarsh, now of Station Road, Littlethorpe, was found guilty of murder by majority verdict and guilty of one count of inflicting grievous bodily harm, also by majority verdict, on Thursday.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said police had gathered evidence and submitted a file in December 2013 for prosecutors to consider a charge of murder.\n\nIn February 2014, it was decided by the CPS not to charge anyone in connection with Ruby's death.\n\nAn inquest was held into Ruby's death, which concluded she died from a head injury, the cause of which could not be established.\n\nThree years later, the CPS said Tidmarsh became subject to separate court proceedings - and additional medical experts were instructed for the hearing surrounding Ruby's case.\n\nA judge ruled Tidmarsh had inflicted the injuries that resulted in Ruby's collapse and death.\n\nThis led to \"further consultation\" between officers and the CPS, and following additional medical expert evidence obtained by police, Tidmarsh was arrested and charged with murder in July 2022.\n\nTidmarsh appeared at Leicester Crown Court for sentencing on Friday\n\nThe court heard Tidmarsh \"did not fear prosecution\" until her arrest.\n\nAddressing her, the judge said: \"The evidence is that you were able to get on with your life, confident that your past would not catch up with you.\n\n\"This delay has allowed you to carry on with your life while relatively young for 10 years or more when you ought to have been in prison.\"\n\nLeicestershire County Council - the authority that placed Ruby into Tidmarsh's care - told the BBC an independent review found the \"right steps and assessments were carried out\" based on information provided.\n\nA serious case review into Ruby's death, published in 2016, found she \"experienced some accidents and injuries\" under Tidmarsh's care.\n\nThe report said these were \"evidenced as accidental\", but there was no record on how it impacted the child.\n\nWhen she suffered a shoulder injury and was taken to hospital, \"no professional visited her at home to see how she was\", the report added.\n\nSenior investigating officer Det Ch Insp Mark Sinski, from Leicestershire Police, said: \"Tidmarsh has evaded justice since 2012 and will now be facing a lengthy sentence for her actions in taking the life of a young child, a child who was placed in her care to give her what was believed to be a better life.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stormont is on course for an overspend of £450m this year, the senior official in the Department of Finance has warned.\n\nThat figure is based on the assumption that there are no pay rises across public services.\n\nPay awards matching those in the rest of the UK would see the deficit balloon to around £1bn.\n\nStormont overspent by £300m last year, money to be paid back from additional Treasury funds awarded.\n\nNeil Gibson, the permanent secretary at the Department of Finance, said that savings of £980m have been made this year.\n\nMr Gibson said public servants deserve a fair pay award and has previously spoken of his regret at the below inflation pay awards for civil servants this year.\n\nHowever it is unclear what sort of pay awards will be on offer in the current financial climate.\n\nEarlier this year, the head of Northern Ireland's civil service said Stormont officials were at the limit of what they could legally cut in the absence of ministers.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has also ordered Stormont departments to consult on possible revenue raising measures.\n\nThe first consultation, launched this week, would see rates reliefs removed which would increase rates bills for some households and businesses.\n\nHowever, it is highly unlikely that any of those measures could be in place in this financial year.\n\nNorthern Ireland politicians have been lobbying the government to ask for a change to the funding system which would see a greater 'needs-based' focus.\n\nNeil Gibson said savings of £980m had been made this year\n\nThe executive's spending on public services is largely financed by a core block grant from Westminster, which evolves according to the Barnett Formula.\n\nThis ensures that when the government increases spending in the rest of the UK, the block grant rises by broadly the same amount in pounds per head in Northern Ireland.\n\nFor historic reasons, Northern Ireland has higher government spending per head than other parts of the UK.\n\nHowever, that premium is falling and is set to continue falling in the coming decades.\n\nThat is happening for a combination of technical reasons and the end of temporary additional funding Northern Ireland received as the result of various political deals.\n\nSpending per head is set to fall from 38% above equivalent UK spending in 2017-18 to 25% above in 2024-25 and about 20% by the end of the decade.\n\nSome politicians suggest Northern Ireland could seek a similar agreement with the UK government to that reached by the Welsh government in 2016.\n\nIt set a floor under the block grant premium at an agreed estimate of relative need and an additional uplift to Barnett Formula increases to slow the rate at which the premium approaches the floor.\n\nMr Gibson suggested that if Northern Ireland currently had the Welsh funding model it would go a long way to tackling the crisis in Stormont's finances.\n• None Stormont budget to fall by £2.3bn in real terms", "Ms Braverman is responsible for the government department overseeing law and order\n\nThe prime minister has backed Suella Braverman in the face of calls to sack her over an article she wrote accusing the police of bias.\n\nA former senior officer has accused the home secretary of trying to \"end\" police independence in her unauthorised article in the Times on Wednesday.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt said Mrs Braverman's comments \"are not words that I myself would have used\".\n\nBut Downing Street said Rishi Sunak still had \"full confidence\" in her.\n\nA decision on the home secretary's future is unlikely to be made ahead of the pro-Palestinian protest march and Armistice Day on Saturday.\n\nIn her article, Mrs Braverman, who declined to talk to reporters earlier as she left her home, claimed aggressive right-wing protesters were \"rightly met with a stern response\", while \"pro-Palestinian mobs\" were \"largely ignored\".\n\nShe went on to say police were applying \"double standards\" and \"played favourites when it comes to demonstrators\".\n\nA source close to the home secretary said she had met with Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley this afternoon \"to discuss the policing of demonstrations to be held tomorrow, on Armistice Day\".\n\n\"The home secretary emphasised her full backing for the police in what will be a complex and challenging situation and expressed confidence that any criminality will be dealt with robustly,\" the source added.\n\nOn Thursday, it emerged that she had defied a Downing Street request to tone the article down.\n\nDowning Street said it had launched an informal investigation into how Mrs Braverman's article came to be published without the changes they had requested.\n\nBut the prime minister's spokeswoman said the government's \"collective focus\" was on making sure the weekend's events would go ahead without disruption.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Hunt on Suella Braverman comments: \"Not words I would have used\"\n\nNeil Basu, the former head of the UK's counter-terrorism police, said Mrs Braverman's comments were \"tantamount to effectively trying to direct the police\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Today Podcast, Mr Basu said the UK was \"in danger of turning the police into an arm of the state directed by politicians\".\n\nHe said he would describe what is happening \"as potentially the end of operational independence of policing unless people start to speak out\".\n\nGavin Stephens, the head of the National Police Chiefs' Council, told the BBC policing could be undermined if \"public debate\" influences decision making.\n\nFormer permanent secretary at the Home Office, Sir David Normington has Mrs Braverman comments showed she is \"unsuitable\" to be home secretary,\n\n\"I worked for five Home Secretaries - none of them would have done anything like this,\" Sir David told Radio 4's PM programme.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, the SNP and some Conservative MPs have called for Mrs Braverman's removal from office over the article. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused Mrs Braverman of undermining the police and said Rishi Sunak was \"too weak to do anything about it\".\n\nBut Mrs Braverman's allies on the right of the Conservative Party have rallied behind her, with the deputy party chairman, Lee Anderson, tweeting to say the home secretary was \"guilty of saying what most of us are thinking\".\n\nTory MP Miriam Cates called the home secretary's view very \"mainstream in the rest of the UK,\" and argued she \"should be allowed to get on with her job in the way she chooses to do it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Suella Braverman is \"out of control\" - Sir Keir Starmer\n\nThe Times said changes to Mrs Braverman's article requested by 10 Downing Street included removing a warning to the police not to take a \"soft touch\" approach at the Armistice Day protest, along with claims there was \"ample evidence\" senior police officers were biased.\n\nThe paper reported further requested changes, including suggestions that she remove a comparison to marches in Northern Ireland, were rejected by Mrs Braverman.\n\nThe political row comes just days before Mrs Braverman finds out whether the government's flagship Rwanda plan for migrants can go ahead.\n\nOn Wednesday the Supreme Court will decide whether to back the Court of Appeal's ruling in June that the policy is unlawful.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has said it expects a large rally on Saturday, sparking fears of violent clashes with counter-protesters.\n\nSaturday is also Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of World War One, which has prompted calls from the prime minister and others for the pro-Palestine march to be cancelled, on the grounds that it is \"disrespectful\".\n\nMet Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said protests may only be stopped if there is a threat of serious disorder, and that the \"very high threshold\" has not been reached.\n\nSuella Braverman suggested in The Times that during the Covid-19 pandemic, \"lockdown objectors\" were treated more harshly by police than Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters.\n\nOne way to compare how police respond to protests is to look at the number of arrests. Data released by the Metropolitan Police to the London Assembly shows that there were more arrests of anti-lockdown protesters than arrests of BLM protesters.\n\nThe Met did not collect information on how many people were at each protest, but press reports indicated that many more people attended anti-lockdown marches. Also, the number of BLM arrests took place over just one month between May and June 2020 but anti-lockdown arrests took place over six months.\n\nBoth of these factors could explain why there were more arrests of anti-lockdown protestors.", "Anthony Albanese and Kausea Natano announced the pact at the Pacific Islands Forum\n\nAustralia has offered refuge to citizens of Tuvalu because of the catastrophic impacts of climate change, in a landmark new pact.\n\nTuvalu - a series of low-lying atolls in the Pacific - is among the nations most at risk from rising seas.\n\nIt is home to 11,200 people and has repeatedly called for greater action to combat climate change.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described it as a \"ground-breaking\" agreement.\n\nTuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano called it \"a beacon of hope\" and \"not just a milestone but a giant leap forward in our joint mission to ensure regional stability, sustainability and prosperity\".\n\nUp to 280 people per year will be granted the new visas, which will allow them to live, work and study in Australia.\n\nIt is the first time Australia has offered residency to foreign nationals because of the threat of climate change, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.\n\n\"It will be regarded as a significant day in which Australia acknowledged that we are part of the Pacific family, and with that comes the responsibility to act,\" Mr Albanese told reporters on Friday.\n\nThe new treaty - known as the Falepili Union - is the \"most significant\" agreement between Australia and a Pacific country ever, he added.\n\nIt also promises Australian assistance to the nation on climate action and security.\n\nUnder the agreement, Australia has committed to defending the Pacific nation from military aggression, and Tuvalu has agreed it will not enter defence pacts with any other countries without Australia's approval.\n\nNew Zealand and the US have similar pacts with a handful of other Pacific nations such as Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Cook Islands.\n\nAustralia has also pledged funding to help Tuvalu adapt to climate change, including A$16.9m (£8.8m; $10.7) to expand the landmass of its main island by 6%.\n\nTuvalu has long been grappling with how to protect itself from rising seas.\n\nIn September it changed its constitution to say its statehood would remain in perpetuity, even if the impacts of climate change - or anything else - result in the loss of its physical territory.\n\nAnd in January it vowed to build a digital version of itself in the metaverse to preserve its history and culture.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amy Dowden rang the bell after completing her eighth and final round of chemotherapy\n\nStrictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden has proudly rung the bell to signify the end of her cancer treatment.\n\nThe dancer from Caerphilly had her eighth and final round of chemotherapy at Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham on Thursday.\n\nThe 33-year-old was joined by two fellow breast cancer patients as they rang the celebratory bell.\n\n\"Cancer doesn't discriminate! Our wish to you all is to remember to monthly check,\" she wrote on Instagram.\n\nAmy discovered the lump in her breast in April, a day before she was due to fly on her honeymoon to the Maldives with husband Ben.\n\nShe has been spreading awareness of breast cancer throughout the treatment explaining how she was prompted to check herself ahead of a trek with the breast cancer charity Coppafeel!\n\nIn September, she shared an emotional video of her with loved ones taking turns to cut a lock of her hair, before she inspired many by returning to Strictly without a wig.\n\nAmy's milestone in her cancer journey comes just two weeks after comedian Rhod Gilbert tearfully rang the bell to mark the end of his cancer treatment - a moment that went viral online, prompting many to relive their own experiences.", "The ex-boss of NatWest, Dame Alison Rose, will lose out on £7.6m after she admitted to discussing the closure of Nigel Farage's bank account.\n\nDame Alison will receive her £2.4m fixed pay package, but will not benefit from share awards and bonuses she had previously been entitled to.\n\nDame Alison resigned in July after she spoke about Mr Farage's bank account with Coutts, which is owned by NatWest.\n\nThe former chief executive said she accepted the bank's decision.\n\n\"I am pleased that NatWest Group has confirmed that no findings of misconduct have been made against me,\" Dame Alison said in a statement, adding that the settlement had brought \"the matter to a close\".\n\nIn its announcement of her pay deal, however, NatWest said Dame Alison had not been given \"good leaver\" status.\n\nIf she had, Dame Alison would have been entitled to receive the entire amount which, after including her yearly salary, would have exceeded £10m.\n\nMr Farage said the decision by the bank, which is 39%-owned by the government, was \"correct and right\".\n\n\"She will still walk away though with about two and a half million pounds, so please don't feel too sorry for her,\" he added in a video posted on X, formerly Twitter.\n\nBut Mr Farage said this was \"not the end of the NatWest saga\" and that he had instructed lawyers to take action against the bank \"for what they have done\" and aimed to turn this into a class action.\n\nLast month, NatWest admitted to \"serious failings\" in its treatment of former UKIP leader, Mr Farage, after an independent report found it failed to communicate its decision properly when it decided to shut his Coutts account.\n\nMr Farage, a prominent Brexiteer, said earlier this year that he had been told Coutts, the prestigious private bank for the wealthy, was closing his account but he had not been given a reason.\n\nThe BBC reported that his account was being closed because he no longer met the wealth threshold for Coutts, citing a source familiar with the matter.\n\nMr Farage later obtained a report from the bank which indicated his political views were also considered.\n\nIn the aftermath, Dame Alison, who was then the most powerful woman in UK banking, resigned after admitting she had made a mistake in speaking about Mr Farage's relationship with the bank.\n\nThe fallout also sparked a public debate over people having their bank accounts shut due to their views.\n\nAn independent review into the closure of Mr Farage's account found that it was lawful and based mainly on commercial reasons.\n\nBut it found other factors were considered including Coutts' reputation with customers, staff and investors due to Mr Farage's public statements on issues such as the environment, race, gender and migration.\n\nMr Farage branded the review a \"whitewash\" and accused Travers Smith, the law firm conducting it, of taking \"mealy-mouthed\" approach to the investigation.\n\nEarlier this week, the UK data watchdog apologised to Dame Alison for suggesting she had breached privacy laws following its own probe into the closure of Mr Farage's bank account.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office said its comments in October suggested it had been investigating Dame Alison when, in fact, its probe was into NatWest's actions as a data controller.\n\nDespite quitting, Dame Alison was always in line to receive her £2.4m pay package for 2023 under the terms of her contract, but NatWest previously said it could claw back her bonus and share awards.\n\nThe bank confirmed on Friday that Dame Alison would continue to receive the rest of her salary, worth £1.75m, over the remainder of her 12-month notice period as well as some shares worth £800,000.\n\nBut NatWest said its former boss would not receive share awards worth £4.7m and that she would forgo her bonus and variable remuneration for 2023, which would have been £2.9m.\n\nNatWest added that it would pay a maximum of £395,000 plus tax towards Dame Alison's legal fees under the settlement.", "Some Jewish people in Germany say they have to hide their identity due to fears over their safety\n\nChancellor Olaf Scholz says he's \"ashamed and outraged\" at recent antisemitic attacks in Germany.\n\nHe was speaking at an event to mark the anniversary of the November pogroms of 1938, sometimes known as \"Kristallnacht.\"\n\nBerlin's staunch diplomatic support for Israel is often described as a matter of historic responsibility.\n\nBut, as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas, social discord is emerging in Germany.\n\nI meet a woman called Noa at a Berlin synagogue where she tells me how she has family who survived the Holocaust by hiding in Poland.\n\nSome Jewish people in today's Germany, she says, are now hiding their identity.\n\n\"It's scary. Why should I live and be afraid of who I am?\"\n\nIt’s scary. Why should I live and be afraid of who I am?\n\nAaron doesn't feel comfortable showing items traditionally worn by Jewish men in public, either his kippah or his tzitzit, the tassels of his prayer shawl.\n\nHaving fled the war in Ukraine, he believes Berlin is unsafe because \"a lot of people support terrorist organisations\".\n\nFears about a rise in antisemitism, since the outbreak of hostilities between Hamas and Israel, are widespread across Europe.\n\nFor Germany, incidents such as two petrol bombs being thrown towards a Berlin synagogue in October spark acute anxiety due to the nation's Nazi past.\n\nCases of antisemitism were, according to preliminary police figures, already on the rise this year before the Hamas attacks - the majority committed by the far right.\n\nCases of antisemitism were already on the rise before the Hamas attacks\n\nSince 7 October, senior politicians have urged people, particularly from parts of the political left and Muslim backgrounds, to distance themselves from the actions of Hamas.\n\nIsrael's security is a fundamental cornerstone of German foreign policy with the former chancellor, Angela Merkel, declaring it to be a Staatsräson - reason of state - in 2008.\n\nOn a recent visit to Israel, Olaf Scholz said: \"In such difficult times there is only one place we can be: at Israel's side.\"\n\nBut Germany's state doctrine is being visibly challenged on the streets of cities like Berlin.\n\n\"Your staatsräson sucks!\" read one placard at a recent pro-Palestinian demonstration.\n\nBerlin's support for Israel is drawing criticism from some in Germany\n\nThis march was permitted to take place whereas many have been banned.\n\nNadim Jarrar, who attended the 9,000-strong demo, tells me he's frustrated by the \"one-sided\" narrative.\n\nHalf-German, half-Palestinian - he thinks Germany must be more prepared to talk about the actions of Israel.\n\n\"It's a healthy process for every nation to get criticised and to have a discussion about what's going on.\"\n\nAny German discomfort with that debate, he believes, cannot lead to shutting it down.\n\nIt’s a healthy process for every nation to get criticised and to have a discussion about what’s going on\n\nSami, who has family in the West Bank and lives in Stuttgart, says people must be able \"to show we are in pain about what's happening in Gaza\".\n\n\"What's been done to the Palestinians since 1948... We've all seen the videos of what they're doing to our children.\"\n\nIn a widely viewed video message, Germany's vice-chancellor, Robert Habeck, said that criticism of Israel is \"of course allowed\" but its right to exist must not be \"relativised\".\n\n\"Israel's security is our obligation,\" he said.\n\nSome demonstrations have led to violent clashes between police and protesters.\n\nThe authorities are investigating reports that black and white banners, which are used by jihadist groups and feature the Islamic statement of faith, were flown at a march in the city of Essen.\n\nThere was outrage when one group, subsequently disbanded by government, appeared to be celebrating the Hamas atrocities of 7 October on the streets of Berlin.\n\nFelix Klein, the government's Commissioner for Jewish life in Germany, says it has become apparent that there is a big problem in Germany's integration policy.\n\n\"It is problematic when it turns into antisemitic and anti-Israel hate where people shout 'From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free' - which would deny Israel's right to exist.\"\n\nIn Germany, there are growing demonstrations in support of Palestinians\n\nHowever, there has been criticism that the messages coming from the government have veered towards stoking anti-Muslim sentiment.\n\nDebate about the German government's foreign and domestic positioning is likely to persist for as long as the conflict between Israel and Hamas lasts.\n\n\"Every time there's a war in Israel,\" says Noa, \"it just hits us again and again that we are not a full part of the society\".\n\n\"We will always be different. We will always be the ones that are not fully German.\"\n\nThere is real anguish in Germany, rooted in its past, that Jewish people don't feel safe. But there is also an anger, bubbling in some communities, about a perceived reluctance by the political classes to break a German taboo and criticise Israel.", "Official TS in the video of a track called Habibti\n\nA drill rapper has pleaded guilty to possessing chemicals for terrorist purposes.\n\nAl-Arfat Hassan bought the chemicals which can be used to make explosives, two knives and a sword and posed with them in a video, talking about looking good for his \"final moments\".\n\nThe 20-year-old was caught when police stopped him at Heathrow Airport.\n\nA 17-year-old boy from Leeds who Hassan had never met in person admitted possessing a bomb-making video.\n\nHassan, from Enfield, north London, is known to drill-music fans as Official TS. His early songs were about violent street life - but in 2021, they changed.\n\n\"I don't care about the fame, girls, money and guns,\" he sang in a track called Noor.\n\n\"Rely on Allah when things get tough. No more drugs and guns in the palm. I promise you I'll leave the haram.\"\n\nSome of his ideas were drawn more from Islamic State (IS) group ideology than any religious texts.\n\nIn 2022 he released a track called Habibti, which included the lyrics: \"I don't do love - I'm a full-time mujahid.\n\n\"Married to the gun and the sword, I'm charging.\n\n\"If I chop them multiple times with a axe, they'll fall on their... knees.\"\n\nThe lyrics to another song, Bengali, Boss were even more graphic: \"Had a smile on my face when that kafir dropped.\n\n\"Should have seen my eyes when his heartbeat stopped.\n\n\"Kafir\" is one spelling of an Arabic word commonly used for \"unbeliever\".\n\nBut Hassan did more than sing about religiously inspired violence.\n\nAfter officers seized two iPhones at the airport, on 27 February, he returned home, instead of flying to Bangladesh with his father and uncle, to quickly dispose of the chemicals and most of the weapons.\n\nBut detectives, working with the specialist Counter-Terrorism Policing National Digital Exploitation Service (NDES), found a \"wealth of incriminating material\" on the phones.\n\nA trial last year at Leeds Crown Court heard the material on the phones included an IS video demonstrating, on a real prisoner, how to kill with a knife.\n\nDownloaded on 12 January 2022, it also shows how to make a bomb from easily obtainable chemicals - the ones Hassan had bought - and a bulb.\n\nAmong the people who followed Hassan's music was a 15-year-old from Leeds who went from fan to online friend.\n\nHassan and the teenager, who is now 17, exchanged thousands of messages and calls over several months\n\nThe jury was told they had used code words, including \"cupcakes\" for explosives, and \"marketplace\" for the attack itself.\n\nIn one video, Hassan posed with a machete, a knife and the chemicals he had bought.\n\n\"I need to go out looking nice, though - final moments and that,\" he said.\n\nThe 15-year-old, meanwhile, took pictures of himself with a hunting knife, in front of an IS flag, and messaged family members: \"I just want martyrdom as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe jury was unable to decide if Hassan was guilty of preparing a terrorist act; a second trial in Sheffield collapsed after suggestions the jurors were falling asleep. That has led to the guilty plea at the Old Bailey on Friday on the lesser charge of possessing chemicals for terrorist purposes.\n\nHasan will be sentenced on 2 February.\n\nAn image of a hunting knife on a Koran, taken by the 15-year-old\n\nCdr Richard Smith, former head of Counter Terrorism Command, said the pair \"bonded over their extremist beliefs\".\n\nHe described \"enormous pressure on the investigating team to make sure they didn't act too late\".\n\n\"The level of concern that we had was such that we acted very, very quickly in this case,\" Cdr Smith said.\n\nIn police interviews and at the trials, Hassan said he was a \"digital content creator\" working in a provocative genre - not a terrorist - and the knives and chemicals were props for his drill rap videos.\n\nWhen Hassan was arrested, the 15-year-old smashed up one of his phones.\n\nDuring his own arrest, nine days later, he told officers: \"I am a 15-year-old. I live at home. I'm chilling. Why would I prepare a terrorist attack? Do I look like that kind of person?\"\n\nLater, at the police station, he admitted: \"I got taken in by the hype. I would never intentionally harm anyone.\"\n\nThere is deep concern among counter-terrorism detectives about the young age of many of those investigated.\n\nOne theory is Covid-19 lockdowns meant vulnerable teenagers spent more time online, without teachers or social workers spotting their changing attitudes.", "The UK economy failed to grow between July and September, figures show, after a succession of interest rate rises.\n\nThe chancellor said higher rates were hitting growth, but added that the economy had performed better than expected this year.\n\nForecasters suggest the economy is set to be stagnant for several months yet.\n\nLast week, the Bank of England said the UK was likely to see zero growth until 2025, although it is expected to avoid a recession.\n\nUp until September, the Bank of England had raised interest rates 14 times in a row to try to tame soaring price rises.\n\nHowever, while raising rates can reduce inflation - the pace at which prices rise - it also affects economic growth by making it more expensive for consumers and businesses to borrow money.\n\nInterest rates are at a 15-year high of 5.25%, and are expected to remain high for some time. Bank governor Andrew Bailey said last week it was \"much too early\" to be considering rate cuts.\n\nPaul Dales, the chief UK economist at Capital Economics, said the latest data suggested \"the drag from higher interest rates is growing\", but he does not expect the Bank to start cutting rates until late next year.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the latest growth figures showed a subdued picture across all sectors of the economy.\n\nThe services sector saw a small decline over the three-month period, while manufacturing and the construction sector recorded marginal growth.\n\nThe Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, told the BBC: \"Naturally interest rates do have an impact and the judgement of the Treasury is that the main reason growth has slowed is because of that.\n\n\"What is perhaps a surprise to many people is that the economy has been much stronger than people thought,\" he said.\n\n\"Most people thought it was going to contract this year. It's actually grown, and that gives us an excellent foundation for the future.\"\n\nAsked if he would be looking to reduce taxes in the Autumn Statement on 22 November, Mr Hunt said he wanted to bring the tax burden down, but that business tax cuts would take priority over personal taxes. \"I've always been clear that low taxes are part of a dynamic, successful, entrepreneurial economy, but what I've said is my priority is growth, so cutting business taxes is the most important thing at this stage,\" he said.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the latest figures were \"further evidence that the economy is not working\", while Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Sarah Olney said the Conservatives had \"delivered a hammer blow to our economy leading us down a no-growth path\".\n\nAlthough the rate rises from the Bank are flattening growth, the government may feel a small amount of relief that the risk of a formal technical recession - defined as two consecutive three-month periods of the economy shrinking - has been lowered.\n\nBut Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's vow to \"grow the economy\" is very much in the balance. Even between July and September, there was a tiny contraction in the economy, though it rounded down to 0.0%.\n\nThe growth forecast for the final three months of the year is between 0% and 0.1%, in line with other major European countries, which are also weighed down by rising rates.\n\nThe Bank of England may feel that it has started to engineer a softish landing from last year's excessive inflation.\n\nThe government too will point to next week's likely significant fall in the headline rate of inflation, when the figure is forecast to slow from 6.7% to around 4.8% for October.\n\nIt may declare victory on that target on Wednesday, even as its growth target is now under question.\n\nThis may change the backdrop to the Autumn Statement later this month and, if it continues, for the general election too as it challenges the clear desire of Downing Street to paint a \"turnaround\" picture.\n\nAs the inflation problem eases, the growth problem could become more prominent.\n\nFizz Creations' Dominic Boon says customers have less money to spend\n\nDominic Boon, finance director of gift supplier Fizz Creations in Lancing, West Sussex, says it has been a particularly tough year.\n\nThe company is coming into the key Christmas period where it makes the most of its money, and Mr Boon has noticed consumer confidence dropping.\n\n\"People are struggling with interest rates on their mortgages, on their cars, the cost of living, heating, gas, electricity. Everything is costing more - they have less money in their pockets.\"\n\nDown the road is Lucy Lago, who runs her cafe inside Lancing Business Park. \"I see people have definitely stopped eating breakfast,\" she says, \"and their spend per head is obviously going slightly lower. People are being very careful what they buy.\"\n\nGross Domestic Product (GDP) figures show the health of the UK economy. It is a measure - or an attempt to measure - all the activity of companies, governments and individuals in a country.\n\nIf the figure is increasing, it means the economy is growing and people are doing more work and usually getting a little bit richer, on average. But if GDP is falling then the economy is shrinking, which can be bad news for businesses.\n\nThe zero growth in GDP in the July-to-September period follows 0.2% expansion in the previous three months.\n\nThe ONS data also showed the economy grew by 0.2% in September alone compared with the previous month, which was stronger than expected.\n\nDarren Morgan of the ONS told the BBC's Today programme that while the latest data showed a \"very flat picture\" overall, there were signs of improvement.\n\n\"For example, more than half of businesses were not considering raising their prices in November 2023 - that's the highest proportion of businesses to tell us this since we first introduced that question in April 2022,\" he said.\n\n1. Search beyond a 40-mile radius - Remote, hybrid and flexible working open up opportunities further away.\n\n2. Use key words in your searches - Online algorithms will pick up on daily searches and send you more of the same.\n\n3.Don't wait for a job to be advertised - Contact a manager at a business that you like the look of as you never know what opportunities might be coming up.\n\n4. Sell your skills - Use social media sites like Linkedin which showcase your skills and experience. Other platforms like Twitter and Instagram can prove useful when touting yourself out to potential employers as well.\n\n5. Get learning - While you're on the hunt for a job see if there are way to fill gaps in your CV with free courses, volunteering or shadowing.\n\n6. Celebrate the small wins - set personal targets, like a tracker of the number of jobs to apply for in a week or a certain number of cold emails and acknowledge the little wins along the way to keep your spirits up.\n\nYou can read tips from careers experts in full here.", "A school has been forced to deny online rumours that it was providing litter trays for pupils who identify as cats.\n\nWest Monmouth School in Pontypool, Torfaen, wrote to parents this week saying there would be no special treatment for \"pupils who might identify as an animal of any kind\".\n\nThe rumour followed a hoax in the United States about students who \"identify as cats\" or \"furries\".\n\nBaffled parents received the letter which confirmed the school would not provide litter trays for any pupils\n\nThe rumour has spread to the UK from the US, after Spotify podcast host Joe Rogan was among those who admitted they had spread misinformation.\n\nIn her letter to parents, deputy headteacher Claire Hughes wrote: \"It has come to our attention that there appears to be a number of queries and concerns raised within the community regarding the use of litter trays at West Monmouth School.\n\n\"I would like to take this opportunity to assure you that we do not and will not be planning on providing any litter trays at the school.\n\n\"Whilst we are an inclusive and welcoming school, we do not make any provision for any pupils who might identify as an animal of any kind.\n\n\"This kind of behaviour is not acceptable at school and as such, no provision is in place at school, such as litter trays.\"\n\nTorfaen Council said the letter was sent out after \"rumours and misinformation\" were spreading online.\n\nJason O'Brien, strategic director for children and family services at the council, said: \"Torfaen Council is focused on pupil attainment and wellbeing.\n\n\"It's disappointing when schools are distracted from these priorities by having to quash damaging rumours and misinformation circulating on social media.\"", "Glory's village was attacked and her father and brother were pulled away by the mob\n\nSix months after they were stripped, paraded naked and allegedly gang raped by a mob in north-east India, two women, whose ordeal was made public in a viral video, talk to the BBC in their first face-to-face interview. They speak about living in hiding, their fight for justice and their call for a separate administration for their community.\n\nAt first, all I see is their lowered eyes.\n\nBig black masks hide Glory and Mercy's faces and scarves cover their foreheads.\n\nThe two Kuki-Zomi women do not want to be seen. But they want to be heard.\n\nTheir ordeal was filmed and shared online. It is a disturbing watch. Less than a minute long, it shows a mob of men from the majority Meitei community in Manipur state walking around two naked women, pushing, groping them, and then dragging them into a field where they say they were gang raped.\n\n\"I was treated like an animal,\" says Glory, breaking down. \"It was hard enough to live with that trauma, but then two months later when the video of the attack went viral, I almost lost all hope to continue living,\" she adds.\n\n\"You know how Indian society is, how they look at women after such an incident,\" says Mercy. \"I find it hard to face other people, even in my own community. My pride is gone. I will never be the same again.\"\n\nThe video amplified their suffering but it also became evidence of injustice because it brought attention to the ethnic clashes between the Meitei and Kuki communities that broke out in Manipur in May. But while the video sparked outrage and spurred action, the spotlight made the women retreat further.\n\nBefore they were attacked, Glory was a student and Mercy filled her days taking care of her two young children, helping them with homework and going to church. But after the attack both women had to flee to a different town where they are now living in hiding.\n\nGlory and Mercy say they will never go back to their village\n\nThey stay indoors now. Restricted to the walls of her temporary home, Mercy no longer goes to church or takes her children to school herself.\n\n\"I don't think I will ever be able to live like I lived before,\" she says. \"I find it hard to step out of the house, I feel scared and ashamed of meeting people.\"\n\nGlory feels the same and tells me she is still \"in a lot of trauma\", scared to meet people and afraid of crowds.\n\nCounselling has helped them but the anger and hate have seeped in deep.\n\nSix months ago, Glory was studying in a mixed class of Meitei and Kuki students in college where she had lots of friends, but now she says she never wants to see another Meitei person again.\n\n\"I will never go back to my village. I grew up there, it was my home, but living there would mean interacting with neighbouring Meiteis and I never ever want to meet them again,\" she says. Mercy clenches her hands and she thumps the table as she agrees.\n\nWhen their village was attacked and everyone ran for their life, Glory's father and younger brother were pulled away by the mob and killed.\n\n\"I saw them die in front of my eyes,\" she says softly. She describes how she had to leave their bodies in the field as she tried to defend herself.\n\nShe tells me she can't go to look for them even now. Since the violence erupted, there is no crossover between the Meitei and Kuki-Zomi communities in Manipur. People are divided by a de facto border, lined with checkpoints manned by the police, army and volunteers from the two communities.\n\n\"I don't even know which morgue their bodies have been kept in and I can't go and check,\" she says. \"The government should hand them over to us.\"\n\nMercy's husband describes how houses and the village church were set on fire in the attack.\n\n\"I called the local police, but they said we cannot help, our police station is also under attack,\" he says. \"I saw a police van on the road, but they didn't do anything either.\n\n\"I feel sad and angry at my inability to do anything. I could neither save my wife nor the villagers. That breaks my heart,\" he says. \"Sometimes I get very upset thinking about everything that has happened, engulfed by grief and anger, I feel like killing someone.\"\n\nTwo weeks after the attack in May, he filed a complaint with the police, but no action was taken until the video surfaced in July. Police sources have told the BBC that they have now suspended the officer in charge and four others pending an inquiry.\n\nThe widespread outrage that followed the release of the video compelled Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make his first statement on the violence. That was followed by the arrest of seven men who have now been charged with gang rape and murder.\n\nGlory, Mercy and her husband tell me they derive strength from the messages of support that have poured in since the video of the attack started circulating online.\n\n\"Without the video, no-one would have believed the truth, understood our pain,\" says Mercy's husband.\n\nGlory says she saw her father and brother killed in front of her eyes\n\nMercy still gets nightmares and is terrified of thinking about the future, especially for her children. \"It weighs me down so much, the thought that we have nothing to pass on to them, everything is gone,\" she says.\n\nThey have decided to speak up to try to make sure no other woman is ever treated like this again.\n\nGlory explains that they want a separate administration for their community. \"That is the only way to live safely and peacefully,\" she says.\n\nThe Kuki people have made this controversial demand many times but it is opposed by the Meitei community. The state's chief minister has repeatedly called for a unified Manipur.\n\nGlory and Mercy have little faith in the state government and accuse it of being biased against their community.\n\nChief Minister N Biren Singh did not respond when the BBC put the allegations to him, but in a recent interview with the Indian Express newspaper he said: \"There's no bias in my heart or my work.\"\n\nThe video also became the moment that the Supreme Court took note of the ethnic clashes and recommended that all cases of violence be handed to independent federal investigative agencies, such as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The top court has asked the state government to identify the bodies of people who have been killed and return them to their next of kin.\n\nLooking to the future, Glory hopes to resume her studies at a different college so she can pursue her dream of becoming an army or police officer. \"My resolve has strengthened to work for everyone in an unbiased manner,\" she tells me. \"And I want justice, at all costs… It's also why I am speaking up, so no woman is harmed again the way I was.\"\n\nMercy tells me that \"as tribal women we are strong, we do not give up\" and as we get up to leave, she says she has a message.\n\n\"I want to tell all mothers of all communities to teach their children, no matter what happens, never disrespect women.\"\n\nThe names of the two women have been changed for this article.", "The case against a member of the armed forces accused of sharing \"highly sensitive military information\" has been dropped.\n\nThomas Newsome, 37, was charged over an alleged breach of the Official Secrets Act and was due to face trial in 2024.\n\nBut prosecutors dropped the case in light of a report about the defendant's mental health and the length of time he had already spent in custody.\n\nIt means Mr Newsome - who denied wrongdoing - has been formally cleared.\n\nThe latest hearing in his case took place at the Old Bailey on Friday, but the prosecution offered no evidence against the defendant.\n\nProsecutor Tom Little KC said Mr Newsome had been suffering from a mental health condition which was linked to the reasons for his prosecution.\n\nMr Newsome's alleged offence arose from \"grievances\" with his employer, the court heard.\n\nAn earlier hearing heard claimed Mr Newsome, who is from Poole in Dorset, shared a 10-page document after returning to the UK from an unspecified overseas deployment on 17 April.\n\nInformation about his unit and posting cannot be disclosed for legal reasons.\n\nMr Newsome was accused of making the \"damaging disclosure of information relating to defence\" to two senior officers and a civilian living outside the UK.\n\nA second allegation related to possession of a USB stick said to have contained \"highly sensitive material\".\n\nMr Newsome had been due to face a trial at Kingston Crown Court on 8 April next year.\n\nHe had appeared at the Old Bailey by video link from his home for the brief hearing and pleaded not guilty before the prosecution signalled they would not pursue the case.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The footage that proved the Attenborough long-beaked echidna was not extinct\n\nScientists have filmed an ancient egg-laying mammal named after Sir David Attenborough for the first time, proving it isn't extinct as was feared.\n\nAn expedition to Indonesia led by Oxford University researchers recorded four three-second clips of Attenborough's long-beaked echidna.\n\nSpiky, furry and with a beak, echidnas have been called \"living fossils\".\n\nThey are thought to have emerged about 200 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.\n\nUntil now, the only evidence that this particular species Zaglossus attenboroughi existed was a decades-old museum specimen of a dead animal.\n\n\"I was euphoric, the whole team was euphoric,\" Dr James Kempton told BBC News of the moment he spotted the Attenborough echidna in camera trap footage.\n\n\"I'm not joking when I say it came down to the very last SD card that we looked at, from the very last camera that we collected, on the very last day of our expedition.\"\n\nDr Kempton said he had been in letter correspondence with Sir David about the rediscovery and that he was \"absolutely delighted\".\n\nDr Kempton, a biologist from Oxford University, headed a multi-national team on the month-long expedition traversing previously unexplored stretches of the Cyclops Mountains, a rugged rainforest habitat 2,000m (6,561ft) above sea level.\n\nIn addition to finding Attenborough's \"lost echidna\" the expedition discovered new species of insects and frogs, and observed healthy populations of tree kangaroo and birds of paradise.\n\nAside from the duck-billed platypus, the echidna is the only mammal that lays eggs. Of the four echidna species three have long beaks, with the Attenborough echidna, and the western echidna considered critically endangered.\n\nPrevious expeditions to the Cyclops Mountains had uncovered signs, such as 'nose pokes' in the ground, that the Attenborough echidna was still living there.\n\nBut they were unable to access the remotest reaches of the mountains and provide definitive proof of their existence.\n\nThat has meant that for the last 62 years the only evidence that Attenborough echidna ever existed has been a specimen kept under high security in the Treasure Room of Naturalis, the natural history museum of the Netherlands.\n\nPepijn Kamminga holds up the 62 year-old specimen of the Attenborough echidna\n\n\"It's rather flat,\" Pepijn Kamminga, the collection manager at Naturalis, says as he holds it for us to see.\n\nTo an untrained eye it's not dissimilar to a squashed hedgehog because when it was first gathered by Dutch botanist Pieter van Royen it wasn't stuffed.\n\nThe importance of the specimen only became clear in 1998 when X-rays revealed it was not a juvenile of another echidna species but in fact fully grown and distinct. It was then that the species was named after Sir David Attenborough.\n\n\"When that was discovered, people thought, well, maybe it's extinct already because it's the only one,\" Mr Kamminga explains. \"So this [the rediscovery] is incredible news.\"\n\nDr James Kempton led the expedition to the Cyclops Mountains\n\nThe Cyclops Mountains are precipitously steep and dangerous to explore. To reach the highest elevations, where the echidna are found, the scientists had to climb narrow ridges of moss and tree roots - often under rainy conditions - with sheer cliffs on either side. Twice during their ascent the mountains were hit by earthquakes.\n\n\"You're slipping all over the place. You're being scratched and cut. There are venomous animals around you, deadly snakes like the death adder,\" Dr Kempton explains.\n\n\"There are leeches literally everywhere. The leeches are not only on the floor, but these leeches climb trees, they hang off the trees and then drop on you to suck your blood.\"\n\nDr Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou says they have found several dozen new species\n\nOnce the scientists reached the higher parts of the Cyclops it became clear the mountains were full of species that were new to science.\n\n\"My colleagues and I were chuckling all the time,\" Dr Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou, a Greek insect specialist, said.\n\n\"We were so excited because we were always saying, 'this is new, nobody has seen this' or 'Oh my God, I can't believe that I'm seeing this.' It was a truly monumental expedition.\"\n\nDr Davranoglou broke his arm in the first week of the expedition but remained in the mountains collecting samples. He says they have already confirmed \"several dozen\" new insect species and are expecting there to be many more. They also found an entirely new type of tree-dwelling shrimp and a previously unknown cave system.\n\nGison Morib, a conservationist with Yappenda, a local non-profit that partnered with Oxford University on the expedition, said: \"The top of the Cyclops are really unique. I want to see them protected.\n\n\"We have to protect these sacred mountains. There are so many endemic species we don't know.\"\n\nA new species of terrestrial shrimp, found in the soil and the trees of the Cyclops Mountains\n\nPrevious expeditions had struggled to reach the parts of the Cyclops Mountains where the echidnas live because of the belief of local Papuans that they are sacred.\n\n\"The mountains are referred to as the landlady,\" Madeleine Foote from Oxford University says. \"And you do not want to upset the landlady by not taking good care of her property.\"\n\nThis team worked closely with local villages and on a practical level that meant accepting that there were some places they couldn't go to, and others where they passed through silently.\n\nThe Attenborough echidna's elusiveness has, according to local tradition, played a part in conflict resolution.\n\nWhen disputes between two community members arose one was instructed to find an echidna and the other a marlin (a fish).\n\n\"That can sometimes take decades,\" Ms Foote explains. \"Meaning it closes the conflict for the community and symbolises peace.\"\n\nThe expedition team spent four weeks living in the damp forest\n\nDr Kempton says he hopes that rediscovery of the echidna and the other new species will help build the case for conservation in the Cyclops Mountains. Despite being critically endangered, Attenborough's long-beaked echidna is not currently a protected species in Indonesia. The scientists don't know how big the population is, or if it is sustainable.\n\n\"Given so much of that rainforest hasn't been explored, what else is out there that we haven't yet discovered? The Attenborough long-beaked echidna is a symbol of what we need to protect - to ensure we can discover it.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: John Kirby tells BBC US wants ‘more, longer pauses' in Israeli strikes\n\nIsrael will begin to implement daily four-hour military pauses in areas of northern Gaza, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said.\n\nHowever Israel's defence minister stressed they were only \"localised and pinpoint measures\" that would \"not detract from the war fighting\".\n\nPresident Biden said there would be two \"humanitarian passages\" allowing people to leave areas of fighting.\n\nOn Thursday heavy fighting was reported around two big hospitals in Gaza City.\n\nMeanwhile, pictures once again showed thousands of Palestinians fleeing south from the city and other northern areas.\n\nMr Biden also said the US was trying to increase humanitarian supplies and assistance to Gaza. He said he was aiming for 150 trucks of aid per day to enter the territory.\n\nHowever the UN said the amount of aid entering Gaza was only meeting \"a fraction\" of people's needs and the humanitarian situation was \"intolerable\". A conference in Paris earlier heard repeated appeals for a ceasefire in Gaza.\n\nIsrael has been bombarding Gaza for over a month and began a major ground offensive almost two weeks ago with the objective of destroying Hamas, which it, the US and other Western powers consider a terrorist organisation.\n\nThe war began after an unprecedented cross-border assault on southern Israel by Hamas gunmen on 7 October, in which 1,400 people were killed and 240 others taken hostage.\n\nGaza's Hamas-run health ministry says 10,800 people have been killed in the territory since then, while 1.5 million have fled their homes.\n\nMr Biden said Israel was \"fighting an enemy embedded in the civilian population, which places innocent Palestinian people at risk\" but that Israel had \"an obligation to distinguish between terrorists and civilians and fully comply with international law\".\n\nPeople displaced by the fighting in Gaza City are sheltering alongside patients at Al-Shifa and other hospitals\n\nOn Thursday the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had raided Hamas's \"military quarter\" near Al-Shifa Hospital and killed 50 \"terrorists\".\n\nA witness said he had also seen tanks opening fire near Al-Quds Hospital.\n\nAbout 2,000 patients and 50,000 displaced people are said to be inside Al-Shifa Hospital, which is located in Gaza City's northern Rimal neighbourhood and is the largest medical complex in Gaza.\n\nIts director, Mohammed Abu Selmia, told the Associated Press that Israeli troops were about 3km (2 miles) away and that conditions there were \"disastrous in every sense of the word\".\n\nIn footage filmed inside the hospital on Thursday, a man who was accompanied by two children tells a journalist that they had been walking on a street, trying to flee south, when an Israeli tank opened fire at them.\n\n\"The remains of seven or eight martyrs were left at the scene,\" he says.\n\nAn unverified video posted on social media overnight also purportedly showed a number of people being helped after being hit by shrapnel from a shell on a street close to Al-Shifa.\n\nThe IDF has previously alleged that Hamas is also operating underground command centres beneath Al-Shifa itself. Hamas and hospital staff have denied the accusation.\n\nFierce battles were also reported on Thursday around Al-Quds hospital, which is 2.3km (1.4 miles) to the south-west in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood.\n\nHamouda Musa, 34, told the BBC he and his neighbour had escaped from a building opposite the hospital after he saw four tanks and a bulldozer advancing from the coast, 1km away to the north.\n\n\"They were firing intensely towards a nearby residential building,\" he said. \"We fled under a barrage of bullets via a back street. We miraculously came back from the dead.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said that areas in close proximity were struck, injuring patients and displaced people, and damaging buildings.\n\nThe hospital also said on Wednesday that its main generator had been shut down because of a shortage of fuel, forcing it to close its surgical ward, oxygen generation plant and MRI ward.\n\nThe clashes and strikes in the north, as well as the struggle to secure enough drinking water and food to survive, has prompted some of the several hundred thousands of civilians staying there to flee southwards in recent days.\n\nPictures from drones showed a stream of people walking along Salah al-Din Road and crossing the Wadi Gaza river, after the IDF opened the route for a sixth consecutive day.\n\nAn estimated 50,000 people fled the north on Wednesday, which was 10 times more than on Monday.\n\nAlthough the IDF has ordered civilians to move south of Wadi Gaza for their own safety, it has continued to carry out strikes on what it says are Hamas targets in areas where hundreds of thousands have sought refuge.\n\nThe Hamas-run interior ministry in Gaza said 12 people had been killed and many more injured in an Israeli air strike on a house in the central town of Deir al-Balah on Thursday. There was no immediate comment from the IDF.\n\nWhile visiting Egypt's Rafah Crossing with Gaza on Wednesday, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said both sides in the conflict had committed war crimes.\n\n\"The atrocities perpetrated by Palestinian armed groups on 7 October were heinous, they were war crimes - as is the continued holding of hostages.\"\n\n\"The collective punishment by Israel of Palestinian civilians amounts also to a war crime, as does the unlawful forcible evacuation of civilians. The massive bombardments by Israel have killed, maimed and injured in particular women and children,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We walked into a wasteland' - BBC enters Gaza with Israeli forces\n\nIsrael has insisted it has been acting in complete compliance with international law and that it has done everything possible to minimise civilian casualties.\n\nIt has also rejected the UN's warnings of a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, arguing that there is sufficient food, water and fuel despite the \"complete siege\" it imposed in response to Hamas's attack, and has rejected its calls for a ceasefire unless the hostages are released.\n\nThe head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), Philippe Lazzarini, told the Paris conference on Gaza that there had to be a ceasefire so that more aid could be delivered.\n\nHe called the volume currently coming through Rafah \"blatantly inadequate\".\n\nA total of 756 lorries have crossed from Egypt since 21 October. Before the war, an average of 500 lorry loads entered Gaza every working day from Egypt and Israel.", "Australian television star and singer Johnny Ruffo has died aged 35, after a battle with brain cancer.\n\nRuffo rose to fame on reality show X Factor Australia, before turning to acting in soap Home and Away.\n\nAfter his diagnosis in 2017, he contributed to efforts to raise funding and awareness about brain cancer in Australia.\n\nHe died on Friday, surrounded by loved ones, his family said in a statement on his Instagram page.\n\n\"He battled all the way to the end and fought as hard as he could,\" it read.\n\n\"Such a beautiful soul with so much more to give.\"\n\nHe would be remembered as a \"talented, charming and sometimes cheeky boy\", they added.\n\nFormer X Factor host and Spice Girl Mel B was among those who sent condolences to his family.\n\nDannii Minogue wrote on Instagram: \"The cheekiest chap. His voice, smile and dancing feet will be missed by so many.\"\n\nRuffo was born in Perth in Western Australia and worked as a concreter before catching his break on the third season of X Factor in 2011.\n\nHe went on to release several singles, win a season of Dancing with the Stars, and starred as Chris Harrington on Home and Away for three years.\n\nRuffo put his career on hold after his diagnosis in 2017. After two years of treatment, he entered remission, but his cancer returned in 2020.\n\nIn an interview last year Ruffo revealed his prognosis had become terminal.\n\n\"Looking up my diagnosis and my tumour and... the average life expectancy was three years. For me its now been five years, so I'm already winning,\" he told Channel 10.\n\n\"At some point it is going to get me... My goal now is to try and help as many people as I can.\"\n\nHe is survived by his partner Tahnee Sims.", "Car owners in Edinburgh could face a £100 fine under new regulations planned for the capital\n\nEdinburgh is set to become the first city in Scotland to completely ban cars from parking on the pavement.\n\nUnder plans drawn up by the city council, drivers who mount the kerb will face a £100 fine.\n\nDouble parking and parking at dropped kerbs will also be banned - although there will be an exemption for delivery drivers.\n\nNational regulations will come into force on 11 December, with Edinburgh's enforcement to start in January 2024.\n\nIn England, parking on pavements is permitted unless it has been specifically prohibited by a local authority - such as in Greater London.\n\nThe Scottish government passed a law in 2021 that gives local authorities the power to stop pavement parking. The legislation will receive ministerial approval in December - meaning all councils are free to enforce the ban.\n\nCity of Edinburgh Council said pavement parking was a \"persistent issue\" on more than 500 streets across the city.\n\nThe authority carried out a survey which suggested 68% of residents support the proposals.\n\nCars and vans can cause particular challenges for disabled people and parents with pushchairs.\n\nNiall Foley, lead external affairs manager at Guide Dogs Scotland, said: \"Parking on pavements is a nuisance for everyone, but potentially dangerous if you are a wheelchair user forced onto the road, pushing a buggy, or have sight loss and can't see traffic coming towards you.\n\n\"When cars block the way, it undermines the confidence of people with a vision impairment to get out and about independently.\"\n\nStuart Hay, director of Living Streets Scotland, a charity which promotes everyday walking, also backed the plans.\n\nHe said: \"Edinburgh is taking the right approach to the enforcement of pavement parking, recognising that footways are for people, not parking spaces for cars.\"\n\nDespite the scale of the problem, no additional parking staff are being recruited to enforce the ban and the council said there were currently enough legal parking spaces in the city.\n\nCouncillors are due to debate the plan next week with implementation expected some time in the new year.\n\nOther local authorities could be set to follow Edinburgh's lead in implementing the ban.\n\nIn South Lanarkshire, councillors this week showed support for the ban but have not yet committed to implementing it.\n\nCouncillors said levels of car ownership were higher than the amount of parking available in some residential areas.\n\nIf it goes ahead, the council said it would adopt a low key \"soft approach\" to ensure that any enforcement action considers the impact on drivers.\n\nScottish Borders Council has also held a consultation to identify areas where pavement parking currently happens.\n\nIt said information gathered would be used to implement a \"case-by-case basis\" on where to implement the ban.", "Hanna Katsir, 77, was abducted from kibbutz Nir Oz on 7 October\n\nThe armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group has posted videos of two Israeli hostages held in Gaza.\n\nThe group said it was prepared to release a 77-year-old woman and a 13-year-old boy for humanitarian and medical reasons, but only if \"appropriate measures\" were met.\n\nIsrael described the videos as an important sign of life, but declined to say whether they would be released.\n\nThat would play into the captors' \"psychological terror\", it said.\n\nIn the video, the two hostages are seen addressing the camera.\n\nThe woman, Hanna Katsir, a woman in her 70s, is seen sitting in a wheelchair. She was abducted from kibbutz Nir Oz on 7 October, when Hamas attacked Israel.\n\nThe second is a teenage boy from the same community.\n\nBoth hostages sharply criticise Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. It is unclear whether they are reading from a script.\n\nThe BBC will not be broadcasting the clip itself, which is more than three minutes long. Prisoners of war and hostages are protected under international humanitarian law, and the BBC does not broadcast material which may have been filmed under duress.\n\nEarlier, the Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, dismissed reports that a deal to free some of the hostages held in Gaza might be imminent.\n\nThe Israeli military says that 242 people are being held hostage in Gaza. Four hostages have been released and another was freed by Israeli forces.\n\nHamas says it has hidden the hostages it holds in \"safe places and tunnels\" within Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have previously said the hostages include 20 children and between 10 and 20 over-60s.\n\nMr Herzog said on Thursday he had not seen any substantial information on the subject of possible releases.\n\nHe spoke as the Qatari prime minister hosted a meeting in Doha with the heads of the CIA and Mossad, during which they reportedly discussed the possible terms of a deal for more hostages to be freed.\n\nMeanwhile two senior Hamas officials, Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Meshaal, arrived in Cairo, where reports suggested they met the head of Egyptian intelligence Abbas Kamel.\n\nQatari and Egyptian networks have both said that the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, is expected to visit Cairo tomorrow.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nTributes have been paid to former British Olympic long-distance runner and coach John Nuttall who has died aged 56 after a heart attack.\n\nHis wife Liz McColgan, the 1991 10,000m world champion, said Nuttall died on Thursday and he was a \"much loved dad, son, brother and husband\".\n\nA 5000m Commonwealth bronze medallist in 1994, Nuttall competed for Great Britain at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.\n\n\"For those that loved John our hearts are breaking,\" McColgan wrote.\n\nHis daughter Hannah Nuttall, a British middle-distance athlete, posted: \"I cannot believe that this day has came so soon and unexpected and that you are no longer with us, my heart is completely broken.\n\nShe said her father's ability to \"help others and provide guidance was like no other\".\n\nNuttall's stepdaughter Eilish McColgan who is the 10,000m British women's record holder, wrote on Instagram: \"It's hard to find the words right now. Our family suffered a huge loss yesterday with the sudden passing of my stepfather John.\n\n\"We've spent the last six weeks here in Doha, with my mum and John, and so his passing has been a huge shock. We are still trying to process it.\n\n\"There is such a huge outpouring of love from both Doha and everyone back home in the UK. It just reinforces how many people thought so highly of him. He will be missed by us all.\"\n\nNuttall represented Great Britain at the World Championships in 1993 and 1995, and World Cross Country Championships on five occasions.\n\nFollowing his retirement, he worked as an endurance coach at UK Athletics before joining the Aspire Academy in Qatar in 2013, working alongside Liz, who was an Olympic silver medallist in 1988.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, UK Athletics said: \"Everyone at UKA is deeply saddened by the sudden passing of our former colleague John Nuttall.\n\n\"His loss is felt deeply by friends and colleagues here at UKA who worked alongside and knew John. Our thoughts are very much with his family and close friends at this time.\"\n• None Greg Foot gets queasy in the name of science to find out\n• None What was it like onboard the hijacked Nigerian Airways flight?", "Chris Bryant said it was \"really difficult\" for bus drivers and carers to navigate the new systen on Wales' roads\n\nA senior Welsh Labour MP has called for a full review into Wales' 20mph speed limit.\n\nChris Bryant said in some areas the policy, implemented by his party colleagues in the Welsh government was \"frankly bonkers\".\n\nThe Rhondda MP told the BBC's Question Time, broadcast from Llandudno on Thursday night, that it was \"really difficult\" for buses and care workers.\n\nThe Welsh government has said the policy will cut crashes and save lives.\n\nMr Bryant re-iterated the Welsh government's criticism of the description of the scheme as blanket, saying \"60% of the roads in Wales are 40mph or faster, exactly the same as it was before the rule was changed\".\n\nBut, he added: \"There are some areas where it's just a bit, frankly, bonkers. You go from 20 to 30 back to 20.\"\n\nOn 17 September, Wales became the first UK nation to make its default speed limit 20mph (30km/h)rather than 30mph (50km/h).\n\nIt applies on all restricted roads, which are defined as roads with lampposts placed not more than 200 yards (about 180m) apart.\n\nThey are typically located in residential and built-up areas of high pedestrian activity.\n\nMr Bryant said Welsh transport minister Lee Waters had already said the guidance for councils on the policy was going to be reviewed, adding that he felt there should be \"a full review\".\n\n\"I think it should be, so that local authorities can make better, more common sense decisions on the particular roads in their areas,\" he added.\n\n\"Everybody believes that outside a school and a hospital, and a clinic, and a chemist and in some residential areas it should be 20mph.\n\n\"The thing is, that's nearly every road in the Rhondda.\"\n\nThe Welsh government has pledged to \"continuously review the impact\" of its new default 20mph speed limit.", "John and Susan Cooper died while staying at the Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel in Hurghada\n\nA British couple died in Egypt from carbon monoxide poisoning after the next-door hotel room was sprayed with pesticide to kill bedbugs, an inquest has ruled.\n\nJohn Cooper and Susan Cooper, from Lancashire, fell ill while on a family holiday in Hurghada on 21 August 2018.\n\nAn inquest heard the next-door room had been fumigated following a report of a bedbug infestation.\n\nJames Adeley, senior coroner said the couple were poisoned overnight.\n\nMr Cooper, 69, and his wife, 63, had been enjoying a \"brilliant\" holiday while staying at the Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel, Preston Coroner's Court heard.\n\nBut around lunch time on the eighth day into their holiday the room next to theirs, which had an adjoining locked door between them, was fumigated with pesticide, known as Lambda, for a bedbug infestation.\n\nThe room was then sealed with masking tape around the door.\n\nKelly Ormerod, pictured with her mother, said her parents had enjoyed a brilliant holiday\n\nHours later the couple returned to their room for the night but were found seriously ill the next day by their daughter, Kelly Ormerod.\n\nMr Cooper, a builder, was declared dead in the room and Mrs Cooper, a cashier in a Thomas Cook bureau de change, hours later in hospital.\n\nThe inquest heard in some countries the pesticide Lambda is sometimes diluted with another substance, dichloromethane, which causes the body to metabolise or ingest carbon monoxide.\n\nFollowing a three-day inquest hearing, Dr James Adeley, senior coroner for Lancashire, ruled the deaths, on 21 August 2018, were caused by carbon monoxide poisoning as a result of inhaling the vapour from spraying the pesticide which contained dichloromethane.\n\nAt the time of their deaths, Thomas Cook removed all of its customers from the hotel.\n\nThe inquest, five years on, also heard of multiple, repeated attempts to obtain more documents and information from the authorities in Egypt despite numerous requests from the Foreign Office.\n\nDr Adeley said Mr Cooper's illness and death was rapid, but described the medical treatment provided for Mrs Cooper as \"utterly insufficient\" after she was taken to a clinic in the hotel before an ambulance was called, creating a delay of four hours before she got to hospital.\n\nThe family had travelled to the Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel\n\nMs Ormerod said \"after more than five years of waiting, we've finally been given some closure around the deaths of mum and dad\".\n\n\"Our family still struggle to comprehend what we went through that day and feel like it should never have happened,\" she said.\n\n\"The last few years have been the most traumatic time for all of us.\n\n\"Having to relive everything at the inquest has been harrowing but it was something we had to do for mum and dad.\n\n\"We'd do anything to have them back in our lives but we take some small comfort from at least having the answers we deserve.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIsrael must stop killing babies and women in Gaza, French President Emmanuel Macron has told the BBC.\n\nIn an exclusive interview at the Élysée Palace, he said there was \"no justification\" for the bombing, saying a ceasefire would benefit Israel.\n\nWhile recognising Israel's right to protect itself, \"we do urge them to stop this bombing\" in Gaza, he said.\n\nBut he also stressed that France \"clearly condemns\" the \"terrorist\" actions of Hamas.\n\nFrance - like Israel, the US, the UK, and other Western nations - considers Hamas a terrorist organisation.\n\nWhen asked if he wanted other leaders - including in the US and the UK - to join his calls for a ceasefire, he replied: \"I hope they will.\"\n\nAfter a month of Israeli bombardment and nearly two weeks after Israel launched a major ground offensive into the territory, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said on Friday that 11,078 people had been killed, while 1.5 million had fled their homes.\n\nIsrael says it attacks military targets in line with international law and takes steps to reduce civilian casualties, like issuing warnings ahead of strikes and calling on people to evacuate.\n\nSpeaking the day after a humanitarian aid conference in Paris about the war in Gaza, Mr Macron said the \"clear conclusion\" of all governments and agencies present at that summit was \"that there is no other solution than first a humanitarian pause, going to a ceasefire, which will allow [us] to protect... all civilians having nothing to do with terrorists\".\n\n\"De facto - today, civilians are bombed - de facto. These babies, these ladies, these old people are bombed and killed. So there is no reason for that and no legitimacy. So we do urge Israel to stop.\"\n\nHe said it was not his role to judge whether international law had been broken.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded quickly to Mr Macron's comments, saying nations should condemn Hamas, not Israel.\n\n\"The crimes that Hamas [is] committing today in Gaza will be committed tomorrow in Paris, New York and anywhere in the world,\" a statement from Mr Netanyahu's office read.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview at the end of the first day of an annual Paris Peace Forum, President Macron also discussed:\n\nStarting by discussing Gaza, Mr Macron said France \"clearly condemns\" Hamas's attacks on Israel on 7 October which sparked the war. Hamas gunmen killed about 1,200 people and took 240 others hostage in its unprecedented cross-border assault it launched that day.\n\n\"We do share [Israel's] pain. And we do share their willingness to get rid of terrorism. We know what terrorism means in France.\" But he said there was \"no justification\" for the ongoing bombing of civilians in Gaza.\n\n\"It's extremely important for all of us because of our principles, because we are democracies. It's important for the mid-to-long run as well for the security of Israel itself, to recognise that all lives matter.\"\n\nThe French president gave the interview after the first day of the Paris Peace Forum, an annual summit in the French capital\n\nWhen asked, he refused to say that Israel had broken international law in Gaza. \"I'm not a judge. I'm a head of state,\" he said, adding it would not be right to criticise Israel in this way - \"a partner and a friend\" - just a month after it was attacked.\n\nBut Mr Macron said he disagreed that the best way for Israel to \"protect [itself] is having a large bombing of Gaza\", saying it was creating \"resentment and bad feelings\" in the region that would prolong the conflict.\n\nIsrael has said it will start daily four-hour military pauses in parts of northern Gaza as it continues its offensive. Its defence minister however stressed the pauses would be \"localised\" and would \"not detract from the war fighting\".\n\nAhead of a march against antisemitism on Sunday which a large section of France's political class will attend, President Macron called on all French citizens to condemn antisemitic acts \"without ambiguity\".\n\nHe said France had probably Europe's biggest Muslim community and a big Jewish community too, and with France and the rest of Europe seeing a big rise in antisemitism, all French citizens had to be united against antisemitism, and had to \"share the pain or the compassion of Palestinians\".\n\nMr Macron gave the exclusive interview to the BBC at the Élysée Palace\n\nMr Macron then moved on to other global issues, including Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHe said if Russia were allowed to win its war, \"you will have a new imperial power\" in Europe, that could threaten other former Soviet states like Georgia and Kazakhstan, as well as the whole continent.\n\n\"Because, definitely, it's imperialism and colonialism that Russia is doing [in Ukraine],\" he said.\n\nThe French president said it was the \"duty\" of his country and all countries to support Ukraine in its defence. But he also said the next month would be critical, as it struggles to retake lost land in counteroffensive operations.\n\nHe said it was \"not yet\" time for Ukraine to come to the table, and stressed the decision to negotiate was Kyiv's alone. But he added there may come a time to \"have fair and good negotiations, and to come back to the table and find a solution with Russia\".\n\nMr Macron also discussed online extremism - a key topic at the Paris Peace Forum. He singled out Facebook's parent company Meta and Google, saying the companies \"simply don't deliver\" on promises they made to moderate hate speech on their platforms.\n\nHe said many online platforms lacked sufficient moderators for French language content, calling it a \"shame\", and promising to \"push them\" on the issue - although he said TikTok had improved the number of moderators for its French language content.\n\nAnd he said that climate change was causing terrorism in parts of the world, specifically mentioning the effects of global warming in lower water levels at Lake Chad in West Africa.\n\n\"As a consequence of climate change, a lot of families living as fishermen [suffered]... A lot of species just disappeared. And it created politics [that] pushed a lot of people to terrorism.\"\n\nBut when asked if he ever felt depressed by the sheer number of issues facing the world, Mr Macron said he saw it as \"a chance and an honour to have responsibilities [as head of state]\".\n\n\"We need international cooperation [to tackle global issues]... This is a unique chance.\"", "Police are investigating the sudden death of a child at a house in Larne, County Antrim, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has confirmed.\n\nIt said the child was taken to hospital on Thursday after a report of a medical emergency and subsequently died.\n\nForensic officers were examining the home on Loran Avenue on Thursday afternoon and into the evening.\n\nThe PSNI added that a post-mortem examination will be carried out to determine the cause of death.\n\nIt urged people to \"refrain from speculation in relation to this death\" until the post-mortem examination has been carried out.\n\nA DUP councillor from the area, Andrew Clarke, told BBC News NI that \"to have a child full of life and happiness die is just traumatic for the community\".\n\n\"Yesterday around lunchtime ambulance and Air Ambulance were tasked to this area. News started to filter out that sadly a young girl lost her life.\n\n\"The impact has been devastating,\" he said\n\n\"There is a sense of shock and disbelief that this could happen in this area.\"", "Microsoft has said problems with accessing its Teams messaging app and XBox gaming platform across the UK and Europe have now been resolved.\n\nMore than 1,500 people in the UK reported issues with Teams, according to outage tracker Downdetector.\n\nA similar number also said there were problems with Xbox Live.\n\nIt left some who have bought the latest game in the Call of Duty series, released on Friday, unable to pay it but Microsoft said this is now fixed.\n\nOn X, formerly Twitter, Microsoft said the services were impacted by \"an artificial increase in synthetic network traffic\".\n\n\"We've made configuration changes to remediate impact and after monitoring the service, we've confirmed the issue is now resolved,\" it said.\n\nThe company previously said it had \"identified some anomalies within our network infrastructure\".\n\nThe problem was unique to customers in the UK and Germany, Microsoft had said earlier on Friday, but on social media, people in Sweden and Poland said they had been unable to access services.\n\nThere were reports from both of these countries on DownDetector, as well as other European countries including Finland and Switzerland.\n\nMicrosoft last faced outages in January when tens of thousands of customers reported problems.\n\nThe problem emerged at a bad time for Microsoft, which on launched the latest game in its Call of Duty series on Friday.\n\nGamers play the new Call of Duty game in London\n\nIt means some people who paid £69.99 for a digital copy of Modern Warfare 3 struggled to sign in to download the game.\n\nMicrosoft paid $69bn (£56bn) in October to purchase Call of Duty maker-Activision Blizzard in the gaming industry's biggest ever deal.\n\nReports on DownDetector highlighted issues with login details and server connections as potential problems affecting the platform.\n\n\"Can't access any games. Being told 'the person who bought this needs to sign in' and nothing is working,\" one UK user complained to Xbox's support account on X, shortly before 10am on Friday.\n\nGoogle Trends data indicated that other users had been receiving this message on their accounts.\n\nThe BBC has approached Microsoft for comment.", "Two-year-old Fatima lost both her legs after being trapped under the rubble\n\nNehad Abu Jazar sings softly as she tries to comfort her two-year-old girl Fatima. But it is hard to imagine what will soothe her child when the reality of what has happened is so devastating.\n\n\"On 17 October we were awakened by the sound of bombing and found ourselves trapped under rubble. Fatima had been in my lap but she managed to get out of it. When I got up to help her, I saw that both her legs had been crushed,\" she says in an interview filmed for the BBC by freelance journalists in Gaza.\n\nFatima's legs had to be amputated from below the knees.\n\nSitting in her mother's lap in the European Hospital in southern Gaza, Fatima's face is streaked with tears, her legs are wrapped in white bandages, and she cries as if she's in pain.\n\nNehad and her husband had tried for 14 years to have a baby. And then Fatima was born.\n\n\"I'm truly grateful that she survived. But what is her fault? What has she done wrong? I want her to have a normal life like other children,\" Nehad says.\n\n\"Right now we are constantly giving her painkillers. When the effect of one wears off, we give her another. Her life revolves around painkillers. And every other day she undergoes surgery.\"\n\nA month of intense bombardment on Gaza - Israel's retaliation for a devastating attack by Hamas that killed about 1,200 people - has taken a terrible toll on its residents.\n\nAt least 10,800 people have been killed, including more than 4,400 children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza. Israel disputes the accuracy of the numbers, but the World Health Organization believes the figures are trustworthy.\n\nMore than 26,000 people have been hurt, many of them, like Fatima, left with life-changing injuries.\n\nDespite relocating south for safety, Amira was injured in an air stike on Rafah\n\nIn a room next door lies 13-year-old Amira Al-Badawi. She has striking light brown eyes and dark hair.\n\n\"I was sleeping when we were bombed. I woke up not able to breathe. I could hear people's sounds. There were rocks above and under me,\" she says.\n\nAmira has suffered severe injuries to her spine and it's not clear if she will be able to walk again.\n\nThe strike killed her mother and seven of her brothers.\n\nHer father, Iyad al-Badawi, says they had fled their home in Al-Zaytoun after warnings from the Israeli military, and moved to Rafah in southern Gaza. That's where, he says, they were bombed.\n\nIsrael has been telling Gazans to move south for their own safety, but it has also continued to bomb central and southern areas of Gaza. It says it will hit Hamas targets wherever they are.\n\n\"I was taken to hospital, and there one after another I heard about my children and wife being killed. We raised them, educated them, some were married. And now we've ended up losing them,\" Iyad says.\n\nHe says he is thankful that his 18-month-old son and three of his daughters had survived.\n\n\"I ask for peace and security,\" Amira says. \"I want to be treated for my injuries and go back to my normal life, to my home. I want to feel safe again.\"\n\nBut there's no home to go back to. And nowhere in Gaza is safe.\n\nThe hospitals fill up with the dead and wounded, a large number of whom are children.\n\n11-year-old Assef Abu Mazen says he dreamed of becoming a professional football player\n\nAssef Abu Mazen lived by the beach in Al-Nuseirat. The 11-year-old played football at the neighbourhood club. He started off as a defender but then was made his team's goalkeeper.\n\nAssef says he was playing football with his friends when an air strike destroyed his home and permanently changed his life.\n\nHis right leg had to be amputated below the knee. It's still heavily bandaged.\n\n\"I'm only 11 years old. I haven't harmed anyone. What's my fault?\" Assef says.\n\nHe had wanted to become a professional footballer but that dream is over.\n\n\"I was quite good at it, if you want to check you can ask my coach,\" he says.\n\nOne Friday morning an opponent hit the ball fiercely at an angle, he recalls: \"I made a leap and managed to deflect it back.\"\n\nThe family shares a photograph of Assef in his football kit - a light blue jersey, dark blue shorts, green and black shoes.\n\n\"My kit is buried under the rubble of our home. My socks are gone, my shoes, and the football I owned. They've all turned to dust,\" Assef says.\n\nHe is taken around the hospital complex in a wheelchair by volunteers.\n\nThe complex is full of makeshift tents, temporary shelters for people fleeing fighting in the north.\n\nAssef jokes with the volunteers. Laughter might seem out of place, but it's one way of coping with the fear and grief many Gazans are going through.\n\nHis mother says that behind the brave face he's putting on is a little boy scared for his future.\n\n\"He asks me if his classmates will call him the boy with a severed leg and if they'll make fun of him,\" she says.\n\n\"At night, I often find him crying while looking at old pictures of him running or playing football.\"", "Aaron James lost his nose, mouth and left eye in a work-related accident. Surgeons in New York successfully performed the reconstruction that included a whole-eye implant. His vision was not restored, but the first-of-its-kind procedure may help advance transplant medicine.\n\n“If some form of vision restoration occurred, it would be wonderful, but... the goal was for us to perform the technical operation,” said the chief surgeon, Dr Eduardo Rodriguez.", "The Beatles are the British act with the most number one singles in UK charts history\n\nThe Beatles have topped the charts with their single, Now and Then, making them the act with the longest gap between their first and last number ones.\n\nSixty years after From Me to You topped the charts, Sir Paul McCartney said: \"It's blown my socks off!\"\n\nNow and Then is also this century's fastest-selling vinyl single, according to the Official Charts Company.\n\nIts first bars were written by John Lennon in 1978, and it was finally completed last year.\n\nSir Paul said: \"It's mind boggling. It's blown my socks off. It's also a very emotional moment for me. I love it!\"\n\nThe Beatles last topped the charts with The Ballad of John and Yoko in 1969, and have overtaken Kate Bush's 44 years between Wuthering Heights (1978) and Running Up That Hill (2022).\n\nThey are also the oldest band ever to hit number one - Sir Paul McCartney is 82 and Sir Ringo Starr is 83.\n\nThey are also the second and third-oldest chart-topping artists, after Sir Captain Tom Moore, aged 99, whose cover of You'll Never Walk Alone was number one in 2020 with Michael Ball.\n\nNow and Then debuted in the charts at number 42 after its release on 2 November, based on just 10 hours' worth of sales.\n\nThe band are seen here in 1964, the year after their first number one hit\n\nSince then it has jumped 41 places up the charts and is the 18th number one single for Sir Paul, Sir Ringo Starr and the late John Lennon and George Harrison.\n\nThe song has 78,200 combined UK chart units across sales and streaming, and the biggest one-week physical sales in almost a decade, with 38,000 - the most since X Factor 2014 winner Ben Haenow sold 47,000 copies of Something I Need.\n\nThe Beatles are the British act with the most number one singles in UK charts history - only US singer Elvis Presley has more, with 21 chart-topping singles.\n\nBack in 1963, when From Me To You topped the charts, Harold Macmillan was the Conservative prime minister.\n\nThe single knocked Gerry & The Pacemakers' How Do You Do It? from the top spot, where it stayed for seven consecutive weeks.\n\nThe Beatles previously cleaned up John Lennon demos to create the \"new\" songs Free As A Bird and Real Love\n\nAll four Beatles feature on Now and Then, the last credited to Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr. It was issued as a double A-side single with Love Me Do - their 1962 debut.\n\nLennon wrote Now and Then after the Beatles split up in 1970, and the song had circulated as a bootleg for years.\n\nAn apologetic love song, it is addressed to an old friend (or lover), to whom Lennon declares: \"Now and then, I miss you / Now and then, I want you to return to me.\"\n\nSir Paul had wanted to complete the song ever since - and advancements in audio technology finally made that possible.\n\nMartin Talbot, head of the Official Charts Company, said: \"The return of John, Paul, George and Ringo with the last ever Beatles single has cemented their legend by breaking a catalogue of records - and in doing so underlined the extraordinary scope of their enduring appeal, across all the generations, with huge numbers of streams, downloads and vinyl singles.\"\n\nJung Kook of BTS has hit the top 10 for the fourth time with his new single\n\nTaylor Swift is re-recording all of her first six albums\n\nElsewhere in the charts, BTS member Jung Kook managed to get his fourth solo top 10 single with Standing Next to You, while Casso, Raye and D-Block Europe's Prada rose one place to number two.\n\nLast week's number one, Is It Over Now (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift, fell to number three, while Olivia Rodrigo's Can't Catch Me Now, from the soundtrack for the film The Hunger Games: The Ballads of Songbirds and Snakes, was at number 18.\n\nIn the album chart, Taylor Swift's new version of 1989 (Taylor's Version) topped the charts, beating new releases from Oasis, with The Masterplan, and Golden by Jung Kook.\n\nHackney Diamonds by The Rolling Stones was at number four, with Sir Cliff Richard at number five with Strings - My Kinda Life.", "George Colvin's mum Alice believed Kaftrio would make a difference to his condition\n\nParents of Northern Ireland children with cystic fibrosis (CF) say they are worried by a recommendation to remove access to three drugs to treat it.\n\nDraft guidance from the UK's healthcare advice body says that Orkambi, Symkevi and Kaftrio are too expensive to be recommended for use on the NHS.\n\nAlice Colvin, whose son George, two, has CF, hoped Kaftrio would help him.\n\n\"You think your child is going to get this amazing drug and then it's snatched away from you,\" she said.\n\n\"We've always heard about this Kaftrio and held on hope. It's brought us right back to the diagnosis, through those emotions.\"\n\nThe draft guidance was provided by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), which said it was \"evaluating the cost-effectiveness\" of the drugs \"to ensure that taxpayers continue to get value for money\".\n\nA final decision on the treatments will be made after a four-week consultation.\n\nAny change would not affect those who already take Kaftrio or Symkevi, which are currently recommended for patients aged six and over, or Orkambi, which can be used at age one and over.\n\nLaura McGlone, whose four-year-old son Shea has CF, described the potential change as \"gut-wrenching\".\n\nThe family went on holiday to Spain this year and were worried Shea would pick up an infection from the swimming pool.\n\n\"My husband said: 'Next year he'll be on Kaftrio and we can let him in the pool then,'\" said Ms McGlone.\n\n\"That's the hope we had to make his life as normal as possible. It's heart-breaking to tell him: 'No.'\"\n\nTerri-Leigh Watson, whose son Jace has CF, said that removing access to the drugs because it is too expensive would be \"putting a cost on our child's life\".\n\nTerri-Leigh Watson says that the drugs could be the difference between her son Jace outliving her and not\n\nShe hoped that her son, who is five and half, would be starting on Kaftrio as soon as he turns six, but said that is now in doubt depending on the recommendations from Nice.\n\n\"This shouldn't be like a death sentence hanging over him like it was before,\" she said.\n\nMs Watson said Kaftrio is a \"wonder drug\" that is \"changing people's lives\".\n\n\"For the first time ever they believe that cystic fibrosis patients are going to outlive their parents, and that's crazy, that's all I want is for my child to outgrow me,\" she added.\n\nCystic fibrosis is an inherited condition that causes sticky mucus to build up in the lungs and digestive system.\n\nIt can cause lung infections and problems with digesting food.\n\nSymptoms usually start in early childhood and vary for each individual but the condition gradually gets worse over time, with the lungs and digestive system becoming increasingly damaged.\n\nThere is no cure for the condition but a range of treatments can help control symptoms and reduce complications.\n\nCurrently, about half of people with cystic fibrosis will live past the age of 40. Children born with the condition nowadays are likely to live longer than this.\n\nNorth Antrim MP Ian Paisley raised the issue in the House of Commons on Thursday.\n\nHe said that \"such a decision robs suffering children and their parents of the hope to life\" and he asked if the four-week consultation period was adequate.\n\nCommons Leader Penny Mordaunt acknowledged that the evaluation \"will be a concern to everyone who has this condition or their carers and families\".\n\nShe said: \"There is a very clear process to go through to ensure that drugs that are available and are approved by Nice are cost effective as well as clinically effective\".\n\nMs Mordaunt added that even if a drug is not Nice-approved \"patients under certain circumstances can still have access to it if it can be shown it would disproportionately benefit that individual\".\n\nAccording to Ms Colvin, CF affects George's bowel, which has made toilet training difficult, but she had hoped Kaftrio would make a difference.\n\nWhen George gets viruses he has to increase his use of nebulizers, go on antibiotics, steroids or inhalers and increase the amount of physiotherapy he does.\n\nMs Colvin said the family was more mindful of the \"cleanliness of the house\" and potential bacteria in \"leaves and muddy puddles\".\n\nMs McGlone said her son Shea was \"very well\" but they work hard to achieve that through physiotherapy and medication.\n\n\"In the winter when it's colder he has an increase in nebulizer treatment and physio so it's a rigorous routine,\" she said.\n\nA final decision on the treatments will be reached after a four-week consultation\n\nHe emphasised the need \"to find a solution to make these treatments available for all those who could potentially benefit\".\n\n\"We must never return to a situation where people with CF die far too young, knowing there's a treatment that could change that,\" he added.\n\nStormont's Department of Health emphasised that \"the draft guidance is not Nice's final guidance\".\n\n\"Comments received during this consultation will be considered by Nice at a further appraisal meeting before the next draft guidance is issued,\" it said.\n\nHealth service patients were given access to the drugs Orkambi and Symkevi in 2019 and Kaftrio in 2020.\n\nThe Nice appraisal process started at the end of 2022, with the draft guidance open for consultation until 24 November.", "A man has been arrested on suspicion of a number of driving and drug offences after a high-speed chase on the M6 motorway in Cheshire.\n\nOfficers tried to stop the vehicle on the A49 near Stretton, Warrington, and gave chase when the driver took off and drove his car into oncoming traffic.\n\nThe 34-year-old man from Manchester was arrested on a number of offences, including suspicion of dangerous driving, failing to stop for police, using a cloned number plate, and driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol.", "A number of news outlets have strongly rejected Israeli accusations that four freelance photographers they worked with in Gaza had prior knowledge of the Hamas attacks on 7 October.\n\nIsraeli minister Shlomo Karhi said \"certain individuals\" who had worked for Reuters, AP, CNN and the New York Times \"had prior knowledge\".\n\nAll four outlets have denied the claims, which have since been debunked.\n\nThe NYT said the \"outrageous\" accusations endangered freelancers.\n\nHamas launched devastating and unprecedented attacks on southern Israel on 7 October, killing more than 1,400 Israeli civilians and soldiers, and kidnapping more than 240.\n\nMr Karhi's comments followed a report on the pro-Israel website Honest Reporting, which suggested - without supporting evidence - that the photographers' presence may have been \"part of the plan\".\n\nIt said that the presence of the photographers on October 7 in the early hours of the attacks \"raised ethical questions\".\n\nHowever, Gil Hoffman, Honest Reporting's executive director, has since confirmed the lack of evidence. AP quoted him on Friday as saying he was satisfied by explanations given by some of the journalists that they had no prior knowledge.\n\nBut he maintained that the site's questions were \"legitimate\", adding that \"we don't claim to be a news organisation\".\n\nImages filed by the photographers included a burning Israeli tank, Palestinians breaching a fence at the Kfar Aza kibbutz and scenes from the attack itself.\n\nIn a statement made on X, formerly known as Twitter, the Israeli government's press office said the website's \"disturbing findings\" showed the photographers had crossed \"every professional and moral red line\".\n\nReuters, AP, CNN and the New York Times all issued statements saying there had been no arrangements in advance with any of the journalists to provide photos.\n\nThe New York Times described the accusations as \"reckless\".\n\n\"The Times has extensively covered the Oct. 7 attacks and the war with fairness, impartiality, and an abiding understanding of the complexities of the conflict,\" it said.\n\nIt also defended the work of freelance photojournalists in conflict areas, adding their jobs \"often require them to rush into danger to provide first-hand witness accounts and to document important news.\n\n\"This is the essential role of a free press in wartime.\"\n\nIt said one of the photographers, Yousef Massoud, had not been working with the paper on that day but had \"since done important work for us\".\n\nAssociated Press said: \"No AP staff were at the border at the time of the attacks, nor did any AP staffer cross the border at any time.\"\n\n\"When we accept freelance photos, we take great steps to verify the authenticity of the images and that they show what is purported,\" it added.\n\nThe agency said it was no longer working with one of the journalists, Hassan Eslaiah, who was found to have been pictured with Hamas Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar.\n\nCNN said it had no prior knowledge of the attacks, but said it also would suspend its ties with Eslaiah.\n\nReuters also denied that it had prior knowledge of the attack or had \"embedded journalists with Hamas\" on 7 October.\n\nOn Thursday, Honest Reporting said they \"did not accuse Reuters of collusion\" but was rather raising \"serious ethical issues regarding news outlets' association with these freelancers\".\n\nAfter the website's initial report, Benny Gantz, a member of Israel's war cabinet, said the photojournalists should be treated as terrorists if it was proven they knew in advance of the 7 October attacks.\n\nAn MP for the ruling Likud party, Danny Danon, also said the journalists would be added to a list of people marked for assassination because of their participation in the attacks.\n\nJournalists are protected under international law which says they must be treated as civilians and protected as such during conflicts.\n\nThe Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says at least 39 journalists and media workers have been killed since the current war began, including 34 Palestinians, four Israelis and one Lebanese.\n\n\"Journalists in Gaza face particularly high risks as they try to cover the conflict in the face of an Israeli ground assault on Gaza City, devastating Israeli airstrikes, disrupted communications, and extensive power outages,\" it said.", "Anthony Daniels is selling a C-3PO head used on screen in the original Star Wars movie, A New Hope\n\nThe actor who played C-3PO in Star Wars said \"it feels like it is time\" to sell the costumes, props and scripts he kept from the iconic films.\n\nAnthony Daniels, 77, is parting company with items from his personal collection via Hertfordshire-based auctioneer Propstore from Thursday.\n\nThe famous gold helmet he wore for his character in the first film from 1977 is estimated to sell for up to £1m.\n\nDaniels said he was excited for his collection to \"find a good home\".\n\n\"I realised I had these items and they're not unloved but they are unlooked at - we don't have them crowding the sitting room,\" he said, explaining why he has chosen to sell the items now.\n\n\"Will I feel sad to part with them? No. I will enjoy the fact people will cherish and display them.\"\n\nOther items in the auction include a cereal box with C-3PO on the cover, character themed ties and a Star Wars Christmas album where Anthony Daniels provides lead vocals\n\nHe has put nearly 200 items up for sale at the auction including part of his C-3PO costume, scripts he used during production and even parts of legendary spaceship the Millennium Falcon.\n\n\"I did rescue those pieces of the Millennium Falcon from a bonfire at the back of Elstree Studios after production finished on Return of the Jedi,\" he recalled.\n\nIt is estimated those various scraps of Han Solo's beloved ship could sell for a total of £9,000.\n\nHis hand-annotated dubbing scripts for The Empire Strikes Back could sell for more than £1,000.\n\nHe said: \"Those are so real, it takes me back to standing in front of the dubbing screen.\"\n\nAnthony Daniels is the only Star Wars actor to appear in every Star Wars film\n\nThe actor does still have some Star Wars memorabilia on display in his home.\n\nHe has a small Lego brick statue of his character he was given after working on a Star Wars Lego film.\n\nHe also has a C-3PO statuette, designed to look like an Oscar, which he kept from production company Lucasfilm.\n\nThe Wiltshire-born thespian said he has no plans to auction those, \"I'll take those to the grave\" he said, firmly.\n\nDaniels revealed while working on the final film of the saga, 2019's Rise of Skywalker, he was told he could take items off the set if he wanted, \"but I've got enough,\" he added.\n\nAnthony Daniels said he has given away a lot of memorabilia over the years, especially Star Wars toys\n\nPropstore will start auctioning various items from film and TV, including the C-3PO head, on Thursday at BAFTA's Piccadilly base in London.\n\nThe actor, who will be attending the auction, said he feels \"very good about it and very excited\" about the event.\n\nThe auction will last until Sunday with most items from the Daniels' collection expected to go under the hammer on Saturday.\n\n\"Propstore have beautifully and carefully curated the collection.\n\n\"In a curious way it means more to them than it does to me, because I have the real memories - I was there,\" he said.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "For as long as Suella Braverman has been Rishi Sunak's home secretary, she has had a licence to say the unsayable.\n\nSay stuff in public some of her colleagues would only ever dare say in private.\n\nSay stuff in public some of her colleagues wouldn't even say in private.\n\nHow do we know she has this licence?\n\nBecause the lack of it would mean being sacked.\n\nSo is she going to keep her job?\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman has said No 10 did not sign off her article in The Times.\n\nI am told there was a back and forth yesterday between the Home Office and No 10. Some changes requested by Downing Street were made, others were not.\n\nThe spokesman said Downing Street is \"looking into what happened\".\n\nIgnore the guff about the prime minister having \"full confidence\" in the home secretary. That is always true of every minister, until it isn't - when they're out.\n\nSo it is strictly true, but it tells us nothing.\n\nThe home secretary has defied the prime minister, and Downing Street have publicly said that is the case.\n\nOne of Labour's favourite lines of criticism of Rishi Sunak is he is weak.\n\nSo can Mr Sunak let Suella Braverman get away with this? Or would sacking her make things worse for him?\n\nThere aren't many good options for the prime minister here.\n\nSome loyal to Mr Sunak are pointing to the Ministerial Code, and pondering that the home secretary may have broken it.\n\nConvention says that is a sackable offence. But then again Rishi Sunak appointed her as home secretary about a week after she'd lost the job for breaking the Ministerial Code.\n\nConvention has had a rough couple of years at Westminster.\n\nAnd what is Mrs Braverman up to?\n\nMany instantly leap to ascribe a motive to the home secretary's interventions: her ambitions to lead the Conservative Party one day.\n\nBut Mrs Braverman's primary motivation is she wants to articulate her authentic view - and high office won't stop her doing that.\n\nOr at least it won't for as long as she holds it.\n\nFor any public figure to question the integrity of the police would be incendiary.\n\nFor the home secretary to do it is astonishing.\n\nThat is not to say she is necessarily wrong: I regularly hear, in private, concerns from some Conservatives about the policing of demonstrations.\n\nPerceived double standards. Some protesters treated apparently more leniently than others.\n\nPlenty, including those in policing, would acknowledge it is perfectly legitimate for politicians to scrutinise the work of any vital, publicly funded organisations.\n\nBut: public demonstrations are \"the brain surgery of policing,\" counters Tom Winsor, the former Chief Inspector of Constabulary.\n\nIn other words, not easy.\n\nThere are a blizzard of complicating factors the police have to juggle, not least the scale of what confronts them.\n\nAnd they are dynamic, potentially dangerous, rapidly evolving events.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home secretary Suella Braverman is \"out of control\" - Sir Keir Starmer\n\nWhere does all this leave the prime minister, the home secretary, the government and the Conservative Party?\n\nA year ago, she talked about an \"invasion\" of migrants.\n\nA month ago, Mrs Braverman talked of a \"hurricane\" of migrants coming to the UK - and suggested too many were too squeamish about immigration.\n\nAgain, it was her colleagues left publicly squeamish when asked if they agreed with her language.\n\nA week or so ago, another intervention.\n\nAnd now her article in the Times.\n\n\"These latest comments are unhinged,\" one senior Conservative tells me.\n\nA senior Conservative MP adds: \"The home secretary's awfulness is now a reflection on the prime minister. Keeping her in post is damaging him.\"\n\nA third source, a senior Tory, claims her remarks about Northern Ireland are \"wholly offensive and ignorant.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Harper asked four times if he has confidence in Suella Braverman over her protest march questions.\n\nSo what does the prime minister make of this?\n\nIncendiary remarks from the home secretary punctuated by a period of months of less attention-grabbing were arguably a politically useful pressure valve for Rishi Sunak.\n\nA senior government figure willing to articulate views easily found on the Conservative backbenches.\n\nThe question for him now is whether the ratcheting frequency of her interventions - and her insubordination - lead No10 to conclude it is unsustainable for her to stay.\n\nOr lead her to conclude, given the at best tepid public support of her colleagues, that she has outstayed her welcome.\n\nThings do feel like they are coming to a head: where either she leaves or she considerably dials down the frequency of her explosive interventions.\n\nOh and here's another curve ball for the prime minister: we'll find out next Wednesday whether the Supreme Court deems the government's Rwanda plan for migrants lawful or not.\n\nA flagship policy, led by Suella Braverman falls or flies next week.\n\nDoes the prime minister want her in post for that moment, or not? If the plan is on and she's in post, her position would be hugely strengthened.\n\nSuella Braverman is making news. Not for the first time. And not for the last.", "Police officers take their positions by the Cenotaph in Whitehall on Saturday morning\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says it is facing a challenging situation in London, as a large pro-Palestinian demonstration coincides with Armistice Day.\n\nHundreds of thousands of protesters are expected to take part in the march, to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.\n\nPolice say there is a risk of clashes with far-right groups, and have set up an exclusion zone around the Cenotaph.\n\nThe PM has called the timing of the pro-Palestinian march disrespectful.\n\nRishi Sunak also urged those taking part to do so calmly and with regard for those attending services to commemorate the end of World War One.\n\n\"It is because of those who fought for this country and for the freedom we cherish that those who wish to protest can do so, but they must do so respectfully and peacefully,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\n\"Remembrance weekend is sacred for us all and should be a moment of unity, of our shared British values and of solemn reflection.\"\n\nThe Met said officers faced some \"aggression from counter-protesters who are in the area in significant numbers\", ahead of a service at the Cenotaph war memorial where a two-minute silence was held.\n\nThe force said the two minutes' silence there was observed \"respectfully\". Officers are now tracking \"different groups\" moving away from Whitehall towards other parts of central London, the Met said.\n\nLater, the King and Queen along with members of the Royal Family will attend the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall - ahead of the main service on Remembrance Sunday.\n\nHundreds of people gathered at London's Cenotaph to observe two minutes of silence at 11:00, commemorating the UK's war dead\n\nThe Met expects Saturday's pro-Palestinian demonstration to be the largest since weekly marches began in early October, and it is deploying nearly 2,000 officers across central London.\n\nPolice have warned the use of force is \"likely\", amid concerns around counter-marches by far-right groups.\n\nThe Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which has organised the march, has repeatedly stressed their route does not go past the Cenotaph, and has rejected appeals by the Met and politicians to postpone.\n\nDemonstrators gathered at Hyde Park around noon, with the protest due to move from there to the US embassy in Vauxhall, and ending at 16:00 GMT.\n\nThe officer in charge of policing Saturday's protest, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, said the Met's job was to police \"without fear or favour\", balancing the rights of all.\n\nHe added it would be a \"very difficult weekend\" but the focus of officers was \"to ensure that people are kept safe\".\n\nOther security measures announced by the Met include an exclusion zone using metal barriers around Whitehall and Parliament, and the US and Israeli embassies, as well as a 24-hour police guard at the Cenotaph.\n\nA dispersal zone covers Trafalgar Square, and much of Soho and north Westminster to prevent impromptu gatherings. Police have also banned demonstrations at Waterloo, Charing Cross and Victoria train stations.\n\nAnd there are plans to prevent a \"convoy of cars\" carrying pro-Palestinian protesters, which is expected to arrive from elsewhere in the UK, reaching Jewish communities.\n\nNo major protest is scheduled to take place on Remembrance Sunday, although the policing operation will continue with some 1,375 officers deployed amid commemoration events in the capital.\n\nMet Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said earlier this week the legal threshold which would allow him to ask the Home Office for permission to ban the march had not been met. He also stressed there are no powers in UK law to ban a static demonstration.\n\nThe Met said it had made 188 hate crime arrests since the conflict between Hamas and Israel erupted on 7 October.\n\nA majority of the arrests were for suspected antisemitic offences.\n\nA political row over Home Secretary Suella Braverman's comments about the Met in the Times newspaper has dominated the week.\n\nShe claimed aggressive right-wing protesters were \"rightly met with a stern response\", while \"pro-Palestinian mobs\" were \"largely ignored\" - accusing the force of applying \"double standards\".\n\nIt later emerged she had defied a Downing Street request to tone the article down, including - according to the Times - a comparison between pro-Palestinian demonstrations and marches in Northern Ireland.\n\nCritics of Mrs Braverman say she has undermined the police and potentially broken the ministerial code by not agreeing her remarks with No 10.\n\nA source close to the home secretary said she had met with the Met commissioner on Friday, where she \"emphasised her full backing for the police in what will be a complex and challenging situation and expressed confidence that any criminality will be dealt with robustly\".\n\nSteve Hartson, national chair of the Police Federation which represents rank and file officers, said it was \"unacceptable\" for a home secretary to \"publicly attempt to tamper with the operational independence of policing\".\n\nDowning Street said the PM continued to have confidence in the home secretary, and was \"still looking in to what happened with [Mrs Braverman's] op-ed\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Armistice Day should serve as a reminder \"that peace is possible\", even against a backdrop of bloodshed in Israel and Gaza.\n\nHave you been affected by any issues raised here? You can share with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "It's nearly two weeks since Israel launched its ground offensive into Gaza and more than a month since it began intensive air strikes against Hamas, all in response to the brutal attacks in Israel in which about 1,200 people were killed.\n\nIsrael's stated military objective from the outset has been to destroy Hamas, militarily and politically. How much closer is it to achieving that goal, and is it achievable?\n\nAs far as Israel is concerned, these are still early days - it has repeatedly said that this operation will be long and difficult. One senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) official who spoke to the BBC used the analogy of a boxing match: \"This is just round four of 15.\"\n\nNo-one in Israel is saying exactly how long the war will last. Some point to the fact that it took nine months for Western-backed Iraqi forces to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State (IS)group in 2017. Israel may want to carry on fighting for several more months, though it may not control the timetable, as international pressure for pauses in the fighting or even a ceasefire are growing.\n\nSo far, Israel says it has carried out more than 14,000 strikes and killed dozens of high-value targets, including senior Hamas commanders. Each of those strikes will have involved multiple weapons. Yaakov Katz, a military expert and former editor of the Jerusalem Post newspaper, says Israel has already fired more than 23,000 munitions.\n\nAs a comparison, at the height of the battle for Mosul, Western allies dropped around 500 bombs a week on IS targets.\n\nMore than 10,800 people in Gaza have been killed since the start of the war, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, including more than 4,400 children.\n\nThe military says its ground forces have successfully divided the Gaza Strip between north and south, and that its troops have surrounded Gaza City. It claims they are now \"deep in the heart of the city\", though that is still far from claiming control. Hamas has denied that Israeli forces have made any significant gains or pushed deep into Gaza City.\n\nThis initial phase of Israel's ground offensive appears to be going according to plan with its aim of isolating Hamas, and the cost to Hamas is likely to have been high. Estimates at the start of the war suggested that the group had between 30,000-40,000 fighters.\n\nOne senior Israeli defence source told the BBC that about 10% of that total - 4,000 fighters - have been killed. Such estimates are impossible to verify and should be treated with caution, but the sheer scale of Israel's bombing campaign will have already degraded Hamas's ability to fight.\n\nIn contrast, Israeli military losses appear to have been relatively low. Israel says 34 of its soldiers have been killed since ground operations began. Yossi Kuperwasser, an Israeli intelligence and security expert, says the military is conducting its ground operations \"more carefully and cautiously\" to avoid heavy casualties among its troops.\n\nIt's still not clear how much of Hamas remains in the north, how many fighters may still be hiding in tunnels, or how many might have melted into the local population who have fled south.\n\nThe tunnels still present a significant challenge to Israel. Its forces are trying to blow up what tunnels it finds, rather than engage in fighting underground.\n\nMore obvious is Israel's significant advantage in terms of intelligence and military capabilities. It can intercept communications and even turn off Gaza's mobile phone and internet networks. It has complete air superiority with Israeli jets and drones able to monitor every movement on the ground, but not below the surface.\n\nOne senior Israeli defence source told the BBC that they were still identifying more than 100 new targets each day, although that list is likely to diminish the longer this war goes on. The longer it lasts, the more it will have to rely on troops on the ground to identify and eliminate resistance.\n\nThe Gaza Strip has suffered an intense bombing campaign\n\nJustin Crump, a former British Army officer who now runs Sibylline, a risk intelligence company, says Israel appears to be making reasonable progress given the density of the terrain, but \"they're now going to encounter the more heavily defended urban areas of the city\".\n\nIsraeli troops are better equipped and well-trained, but urban warfare can still prove difficult for the most advanced militaries.\n\nSo far, close-quarters fighting on the ground appears to have been limited, and is certainly nothing on the scale of the urban warfare that's been taking place between Russia and Ukraine in cities like Bakhmut. Much of the videos released by the IDF show that it is instead relying on tanks and armour.\n\nNeither has Israel committed all its forces. Some estimate that it may have as few as 30,000 troops inside Gaza so far. That's a relatively small proportion of Israel's total - 160,000 active military personnel plus 360,000 reservists.\n\nJustin Crump says the question is how many of its infantry is it willing to commit to clearing every building and the warren of Hamas tunnels?\n\nIsrael could instead chose to target Hamas strongholds. He believes Israel will try to avoid block-by-block fighting, not least because it could lead to very heavy casualties. It would also certainly jeopardise the lives of more than 200 hostages.\n\nWhich raises the question as to whether Israel's stated war aim - destroying Hamas - is really achievable. Even senior Israeli officials recognise that destroying an ideology with bombs and bullets is impossible.\n\nSome of the group's leadership isn't even in Gaza. Mr Katz says that if elements of Hamas can survive this war, then they could still claim \"because we're still here, we've actually won\".\n\nFor that reason, Mr Crump believes Israel's war aims could shift from destroying Hamas to punishing it, to make sure it there is no repeat of the 7 October attacks.\n\nIsrael is also under increasing pressure to explain what happens next, especially from the US.\n\nOne Israeli defence source said Winston Churchill wasn't thinking about a Marshall plan to rebuild Germany, when he helped launched the allies invasion on D-Day in the Second World War.\n\nBut wars are rarely won without a plan post-invasion - something that's been completely absent in Israel's military operation so far.", "Eric Adams, 63, is the Democratic mayor of New York City and was elected in 2021\n\nThe FBI has seized the phones of New York City Mayor Eric Adams in an apparent escalation of an investigation into campaign financing.\n\nHis campaign said electronic devices, believed to be two iPhones and an iPad, were taken by agents on Monday night.\n\nThe search was first reported by the New York Times, which said the probe centred on whether the campaign had conspired with the Turkish government to receive illegal foreign donations.\n\nOn Friday, Boyd Johnson, a lawyer for the mayor's campaign organisation, said Mr Adams had been approached by the FBI after an event.\n\n\"[He] immediately complied with the FBI's request and provided them with electronic devices,\" he told the BBC's US partner CBS. \"The mayor has not been accused of any wrongdoing and continues to co-operate with the investigation.\"\n\nIn his own statement, Mr Adams, a Democrat and former police captain, said: \"As a former member of law enforcement, I expect all members of my staff to follow the law and fully co-operate with any sort of investigation, and I will continue to do exactly that.\"\n\n\"I have nothing to hide,\" he added.\n\nThe probe became known last week after an early morning raid at the home of Mr Adams' top campaign fundraiser.\n\nThe FBI searched the Brooklyn residence of Brianna Suggs, 25, a lobbyist and former Adams aide. Agents are said to have seized two laptops, three iPhones and a folder labelled \"Eric Adams\".\n\nTeams of agents also searched other homes and businesses in New York.\n\nThe FBI conducted an early morning raid of Brianna Suggs' home in Brooklyn on 2 November\n\nBut the seizure of Mr Adams' electronics on Monday night appears to be the first time the investigation has involved him directly.\n\nA search warrant reviewed by the New York Times reportedly indicates prosecutors are looking into whether the Adams campaign conspired with Turkey's government or individuals with ties to Turkey to violate campaign finance law.\n\nInvestigators also want to know if the Adams campaign kicked back any benefits to the country or these individuals in exchange for donations.\n\nForeign nationals are barred from making contributions to US election campaigns.\n\nLaw enforcement officials familiar with the matter told CNN that the alleged scheme being investigated by the FBI would have allowed money coming from foreign entities to be masked as donations from American citizens.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Delilah was born with cystic fibrosis but may not get access to \"life-changing\" drugs when she turns six\n\nA mum has said she will be forced to watch her baby daughter die if certain cystic fibrosis medicines are axed.\n\nThree drugs could no longer be available for new patients after draft guidance from The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).\n\nCharlotte Perkins, 38, whose 17-month-old daughter Delilah has had CF since birth, said she was \"devastated\".\n\nNICE said it is evaluating the \"cost effectiveness\" of the medicines so that \"taxpayers continue to get value\".\n\n\"We are being forced into a situation where we are going to have to watch our daughter deteriorate year on year until she dies at a very young age. I just can't do that,\" said Charlotte, from Laleston, Bridgend.\n\nCystic Fibrosis is an inherited condition that leads to problems with breathing and digestion, and affects about one in every 2,500 babies born in the UK.\n\nThe lungs of those with the condition become damaged over a number of years and may eventually stop working.\n\nNICE's draft guidance, which is open for consultation until 24 November, said it would not recommend the use of Kaftrio, Symkevi and Orkambi for new cystic fibrosis patients.\n\nHowever, existing patients will continue to receive the drugs.\n\nCharlotte says she was told Delilah would have access to the \"life-changing\" drugs when she was six - which is now in doubt\n\nDelilah's six-year-old sister has even written to NICE to encourage them to keep her baby sibling's life-saving medicine available.\n\nShe wrote that \"even though she is still small, she should still get the medicine that bigger kids and grown ups can have\".\n\nShe added that it was her writing the letter as \"Delilah can't write or talk properly yet, so it's my job to be her big sister and stand up for her\".\n\nDelilah's six-year-old sister urged NICE to \"do the right thing for my baby sister\"\n\nCharlotte said: \"It's just unthinkable that they can take these children's lives away from them, when there is a drug that can stop it, give them a full and healthy life.\n\n\"Our children deserve their lives, they didn't ask to be born with this condition… she's an innocent baby.\"\n\nCharlotte said she was told that Delilah would have access to Kaftrio when she turned six, which would \"change her life\".\n\n\"We were told to ignore the life expectancies that we were reading online, we were told that children weren't going to die of this disease anymore,\" she added.\n\nCharlotte said the family \"fell apart\" when they heard about NICE's new guidance\n\nShe said when she first heard the news of the possible withdrawal of the medication she \"couldn't do anything for two days\".\n\n\"I tried to do some things, but we just absolutely fell apart as a family,\" she said.\n\nCatherine Mayor, 37, whose five-year-old daughter Charli was due to begin receiving the medication for her CF before Christmas, has now been told that may not happen.\n\nFive-year-old Charli was due to start before christmas, prior to NICE's new guidance\n\n\"Knowing that this drug is out there, ready for her, but we can't have it potentially because of the cost. It's absolutely, it's just disgusting. It's mind blowing,\" said Catherine, who lives in Porthcawl, Bridgend county.\n\n\"It's absolutely devastating, to be told that everything's going to be okay, your daughter will have a long, healthy life... now to be told, 'oh actually, these drugs are really, really expensive, and we may not be able to afford them'.\n\n\"The drugs can add on potentially 30 plus years to the lives of children born now with cystic fibrosis, and they can massively change the quality of life.\n\n\"It's absolutely essential for these children to have a chance at life.\"\n\nNHS nurse Catherine said the only comparison was a child being turned away at a hospital to save money\n\nCatherine, who is an NHS nurse herself, said she \"cannot describe\" the feeling of being told the reason the medication for her daughter may be withdrawn is due to cost.\n\n\"The only thing I can compare it to is taking your child to the hospital and the treatment is there, it's been developed, it's for her age, but the hospital can't give it to you because of the cost.\"\n\nCharity Cystic Fibrosis Trust said it is important to remember that the draft guidance from NICE is \"not a final decision\" and does not affect anyone currently taking the medication.\n\nA spokesperson for the charity said: \"We are hopeful that this uncertainty will get resolved in the coming weeks and we have written to the secretary of state and are urging Vertex, NICE, and the NHS to swiftly work together to find a solution.\n\n\"We want to urge that the best thing people can do right now is to submit evidence to the NICE consultation before 17:00 on 24 November, and encourage others to do so as well.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said it relies \"on the advice of independent appraisal bodies including NICE to determine how NHS resources are best utilised\".\n\nHelen Knight, director of medicines evaluation at NICE said: \"We are evaluating the cost-effectiveness of these cystic fibrosis medicines to ensure that taxpayers continue to get value for money.\n\n\"The committee want to hear from stakeholders through consultation on important aspects of its draft conclusions.\n\n\"Existing patients and new patients who are started on treatment while the NICE evaluation is ongoing will continue to have access to the treatments.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kerrie Aldridge says finishing the New York Marathon is a \"dream come true\"\n\nA woman who was mocked as she finished last in the London Marathon has described the \"incredible\" moment she completed her bucket list event.\n\nKerrie Aldridge finished Sunday's New York City Marathon in seven hours and 29 minutes - a personal best time.\n\nIn 2019, the Cardiff runner said stewards \"sniggered\" during her \"brutal\" nine-hour run in London.\n\nLondon Marathon apologised at the time and made changes following an investigation.\n\nKerrie said she felt event organisers had \"listened to the experiences of those at the back\".\n\nKerrie Aldridge says the atmosphere in NYC was \"amazing\" on marathon day\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales' Breakfast, she added that in the 2019 race, clean-up trucks had come on to the course early and she was forced to finish without mile-markers or aid stations.\n\n\"It was probably one of the hardest days of my life and I was the official last finisher at the time,\" she said.\n\nBut Kerrie continued running, with coaching from a personal trainer, and secured a spot in the 52nd annual New York event, which took place on Sunday.\n\n\"It was my bucket list. It was something I really wanted to do, so I made it happen and it was the most incredible day,\" she said.\n\nKerrie Aldridge says she worked hard with a personal trainer to prepare for the New York Marathon\n\nShe described the \"amazing\" atmosphere of the starting area, stood among 50,000 fellow participants, and the \"goose bumps\" she felt as the American national anthem was played at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, followed by Frank Sinatra's New York, New York.\n\n\"Then I was off and I was running… I absolutely loved it from start to finish.\n\n\"New York knows how to party.\"\n\nKerrie said she was delighted that all her hard work paid off and she ran her fastest marathon to date.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 3 November and 10 November.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nPot of gold-en plovers: Nick Card captured this lovely birds and rainbow image at Brodgar, Orkney.\n\nA time for reflection: \"Beautiful sunrise at the Eden estuary at Guardbridge, Fife,\" says Kim Bennett.\n\nRise and shine: \"Autumn early morning fog on walk to work,\" says Torquil Macleod in Tain.\n\nEarly riser: \"I was out walking my dog just after sunrise and saw two deer running in a field next to the road where we were,\" says Marc Charron of his fantastic image of one of them, outside Coylton.\n\nA high standard: \"Falls of Acharn next to Loch Tay,\" says Sam Hayles of this drone shot. \"Amazing display of autumnal colours.\"\n\nMist opportunity: \"The mighty Forth Bridge disappearing,\" says Erin Harper.\n\nPassing glance: \"Going through Bealach na Bàd pass on the way to Applecross, pulled over when I saw a group of deer,\" says Matt O'Sullivan of this majestic shot.\n\nThe king and eye: \"A brief moment of contact with a River Don kingfisher before it flew off in search of a more private perch,\" says Steven Neish.\n\nPerch perfect: \"This kestrel stayed for five minutes, allowing me to get some great shots,\" says George Kelsey in Edinburgh. \"I couldn’t believe my luck.\"\n\nStudy leaves: The University of Glasgow was looking very autumnal, as seen by Stewart Kerr.\n\nCastles in the sky: \"Beautiful Edinburgh Castle in the autumn,\" says Alison Stewart, taken during a lunchtime walk in the sunshine.\n\nTreemendous colours: \"This is the view which greets you as you drive into Aden Country Park,\" says Stewart Paul. \"It is a glorious sight and you know that you are going to enjoy your visit and see lots of colourful scenes as you walk around.\"\n\nHeads or tails: Henri having fun in the autumn leaves, photographed by Shona Wilson.\n\nIf you go down to the woods today: \"This is taken at the Formakin Estate in Bishopton showing the autumn colours,\" says Scott Redford.\n\nSome red, red roses: \"On a walk in the Birks of Aberfeldy I passed by this chap looking at the trees, and holding some roses,\" says Brian Colston of this Rabbie Burns shot. \"I'm only guessing but he might have been in search of some poetic inspiration.\"\n\nScone but not forgotten: \"Taken when out on the lunchtime dog walk through Den of Scone,\" says Barry McAulay. \"Just thought I'd send in this picture in the hope you put it on your website as I often look at the Scotland photos, but first time I've submitted one.\"\n\nIsland hopping: \"Taken on Inchconnachan, we kayaked over and went looking for wallabies,\" says Yvonne Carroll. \"We got lucky enough to see one of these elusive, beautiful creatures. Photo taken by my husband Paul.\"\n\nOne for the road: Pop goes the weasel, as spotted by Tom Kelly in Edinburgh. \"A rare sight in the city, as this weasel popped up in front of me, just yards from the morning rush hour traffic,\" he said. \"Thankfully it made a dash for safety, across a quieter road.\"\n\nLeap year: \"Late in the season an Atlantic salmon battles the Falls of Shin heading up river to the place of its birth,\" says Rob Ware.\n\nPap-arazzi shot: \"A brief window in the rain to climb the Pap of Glencoe, giving stunning views west over Loch Leven to the hills of Ardgour,\" says Kathleen Humphris.\n\nProfile picture: Robin at Firkin Point on Loch Lomond, as seen by Graham Christie.\n\nBorder patrol: \"Cuilean, my six-year-old Border Collie, sitting majestically on top of Slioch with Scotland's great wilderness behind,\" says Matt McCabe.\n\nSwell time: Taken at Macduff harbour, the sea was dramatically washing up around the armouring on the west slipway, says Ray McGinlay.\n\nYacht of gold: \"I was fortunate to be at Stonehaven Harbour when this beautiful rainbow appeared for about five minutes, before a few spots of rain, then it disappeared just as quickly,\" says Jim Smith.\n\nUniversity clearing: \"An angular snap taken of the crew cleaning the Learning and Teaching building at the University of Strathclyde,\" says Micky Anderson, describing it as a \"glass act\".\n\nCoo for the price of one: This Highland pair were spotted at Pollok Park in Glasgow by Clare Bridgestock.\n\nBright Spark: Stephen Morgan sent this image of the Vital Spark berthed at Inverary on a \"tranquil\" Loch Fyne\n\nSun lounger: \"I wanted to share with you a picture of this fox I found at the mouth of the River Almond,\" says Marcus Tyler.\n\nGo with the flow: \"The Black Linn waterfall at The Hermitage near Dunkeld,\" says Mark Stolarek. \"The autumnal colours are magnificent at this time of year.\"\n\nWax work: \"It's been a bumper year for waxwings, with hundreds making the trip from Scandinavia to north east Scotland in the last couple of weeks,\" says Nick Collins. \"This pair were part of a large flock in Aberdeen.\"\n\nLeaf encounter: \"A soggy Pickle,\" says Maggie Power in a \"very wet and windy\" St Cyrus.\n\nSkeleton service: \"Saw this on the way to Irvine,\" says Susan Miller. \"It’s obviously a very busy, reliable bus service!\"\n\nAutumn son: The colours at the Birks of Aberfeldy were admired by Eilidh Adams and her young boy.\n\nReach for the Skye: \"Took this photo after walking home from school with my daughter Skye,\" says Stephen Porteous in Milngavie. \"She was keen to try and reach the end of the rainbow to see if there was a pot of gold.\"\n\n\"Glass Women's Institute in Aberdeenshire decorated the local War Memorial with a cape of knitted poppies,\" says .John Sellar.\n\nNight Skye: \"Looking down Glen Sligachan,\" says Gavin Major. \"I was lucky enough that the light was beautiful and the clouds compliant.\"\n\nPicture Callander worthy: \"I took this photo with my drone over Callander Golf Club,\" says Iain Carrie. \"The colours in the trees were amazing and the sunset over Ben Gullipen really emphasised the reds and browns. Ben Ledi can be seen in the background (right).\"\n\nLight entertainment: \"The aurora taken from my garden, I thought it would be a nice touch with the firework too,\" says Lorraine Sharkey in Collieston.\n\nPretty in pink: \"The colourful firework display from North Lanarkshire's Strathclyde Country Park in Motherwell,\" says Christopher Tollan.\n\nFairy nights: \"This is an image of the best decorated boat that took part in the Flotilla of Light on the Union Canal in Edinburgh,\" says Kieran Dunning. \"People gathered on the bridges and paths to watch the boats go by.\"\n\nPurple patch: \"I was in Glasgow and spotted this beautiful sunset, reflecting on the river, outside the Glasgow Science Centre,\" says Nathan Young.\n\nThe light sky: \"My attempt to capture the aurora with star trails from our back garden,\" says Loreena Price in Mintlaw.\n\nGreen screen: \"The Northern Lights at Bow Fiddle Rock in Portknockie\", says Simon Bliaul.\n\nPeek-a-coo: \"Through from Glasgow visiting my mum in Newport-on-Tay I went for a wee wander before dinner and found these fellas,\" says Lynn Honeyman. \"I never tire of the views of the Silvery Tay with the backdrop of the Dundee lights. It was the first anniversary of losing my dad. This photo would have made him smile.\"\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Justin Henry was last seen in Croydon on 15 October\n\nPolice investigating the disappearance of a man from south London have found a body in the boot of a car.\n\nJustin Henry, 34, was last seen about 21:50 BST on 15 October at a McDonald's drive-through in Croydon.\n\nHis car - a silver Mercedes E Class - was recorded later that evening on CCTV near Crystal Palace, when it is thought another person was driving it.\n\nThree people have been charged in connection with Mr Henry's disappearance.\n\nPolice said they found a red Nissan Almera near Nicholas Court in Dale Road, Purley, on the evening of 6 November.\n\nThe body was found in the boot the following day.\n\nA post-mortem examination was carried out on Thursday but no formal cause of death was established, with further tests due to be carried out.\n\nDet Ch Insp Matt Webb said: \"Due to the need to preserve forensic evidence, officers conducted a careful and methodical examination of the scene.\n\n\"We confirmed a body was in the car and spoke to Justin's family later that day. We are waiting to formally confirm the identity of the body.\n\n\"My heart goes out to his family, who have suffered weeks of anxiously waiting for news.\"\n\nMr Henry was recorded on CCTV at a McDonald's drive-thru in Croydon about 21:50 BST on 15 October, before driving his silver Mercedes E Class car to Waddon New Road.\n\nThe car was found in Crystal Palace the following day, although it is thought someone else drove it there.\n\nLouis Benjamin, 29 and from Croydon, has been charged with one count of murder.\n\nA 27-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, and bailed until January.\n\nA 28-year-old man has also been charged in connection with Mr Henry's disappearance.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.u\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stars hit the red carpet for new Hunger Games film\n\nStars of Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes have hit the red carpet for its world premiere.\n\nActress Rachel Zegler greeted screaming fans as the cast celebrated the upcoming film's release in London.\n\nThe latest instalment of the billion-dollar film franchise comes after an eight-year gap.\n\nZegler was joined on the red carpet by co-stars Tom Blyth, Hunter Schafer and Josh Andres Rivera, actors who grew up watching the previous films.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News about making the film, Zegler said: \"I just wanted to do a good service to me and my 12-year-old self that loved the films. And it was just such a joy to get to do that.\"\n\n\"It's unbelievable,\" said Schafer, a trans actress who found fame starring in HBO's Euphoria. \"I don't think 13-year-old me could have comprehended what I'm feeling now.\"\n\nThe fifth instalment of the movies, based on Suzanne Collins' best-selling books, is set 64 years before the first Hunger Games movie starring Jennifer Lawrence.\n\nIt sees British actor Blyth play the young Coriolanus Snow, who goes on to become the tyrannical president of dystopian nation Panem.\n\nWest Side Story actress Zegler stars as the Lucy Gray Baird, the tribute during the 10th Hunger Games - a gladiatorial contest that pits the oppressed against each other, while the elite of the wealthy Capitol watch on.\n\n\"I got to do my own stunts. I got to hold live animals, sing, dance, cry, run for my life. It's amazing,\" she told Reuters news agency.\n\nThe cast had been given a waiver to attend the blockbuster's premiere during the Hollywood actors' strike, before on Wednesday union SAG-AFTRA ended the four-month walkout which prevented movie stars from promoting their films.\n\nCommenting on the strike ending Rivera, who plays Snow's friend, Sejanus Plinth said: \"I know a lot of people who are ready to get back to work. I'm ready to get back to work.\"\n\nAfter waiting since the early hours Hunger Games superfan Cyrille Herman got to meet Rachel Zegler\n\nThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is the fifth Hunger Games film\n\nYoung fans queued and braved the rain and cold to get a chance to meet the actors on the red carpet lined with buckets catching dripping water, as influencers, former Love Island contestants and drag queens turned up for the screening.\n\nJenifer Bawden, who made costumes inspired by the film for the occasion, told BBC News: \"We got here at 05:20 in the morning, it was a lot. We're from Bournemouth.\n\n\"The films are so well translated from the book to the film, so I'm very excited to see how they do it this time.\"\n\nDescribing the new film estimated to have cost $100m (£82m), director Francis Lawrence said: \"It's a very different kind of movie, very much a Hunger Games movie, but a different kind of story and different characters.\"\n\nThe film is scheduled to be released in cinemas worldwide on 17 November.\n\nDirector Francis Lawrence said he and producers will get talking about another Hunger Games movie", "Amiram Cooper, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Tsachi Idan are being held in Gaza\n\nIsrael says 132 people remain unaccounted for after they were abducted and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attacks by Hamas.\n\nAn estimated 240 people were taken prisoner, but 105 were later released by Hamas during a six-day ceasefire at the end of November.\n\nThe Israeli military said it mistakenly killed three hostages in northern Gaza who had escaped from their captors and expressed \"deep remorse\" over the incident.\n\nOf the 132 still unaccounted for, Israel says that 20 of them are believed to be dead.\n\nThese are the stories of those hostages who are still being held, which have either been confirmed by the BBC or credibly reported.\n\nThis list is regularly updated and names may change, as some people feared kidnapped are confirmed to have been killed or released.\n\nLast updated on 19 December 2023 at 10:33 GMT\n\nYagev Kirsht, 34, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim, alongside his wife, Rimon Buchstab Kirsht. She has now been released.\n\nAlexander Trupanov, was taken hostage with his mother Lena Trupanov, 50, his partner Sapir Cohen, 29, and his grandmother Irina Tati, 73. All were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz as they spent the Sabbath together, according to a statement by Canada's Raoul Wallenburg Center for Human Rights. Irina and Lena were released on Wednesday 29 November and Sapir was freed the next day.\n\nAriel Cunio, his girlfriend Arbel Yahud and her brother Dolev are also thought to have been abducted in the same attack on Nir Oz. Eitan Cunio, Ariel's brother who escaped Hamas, told the Jewish Chronicle that his last message from Ariel said: \"We are in a horror movie.\"\n\nDavid Cunio, 33, another of Ariel's brothers, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, family say. David's wife Sharon Aloni Cunio and their three-year-old twin daughters Ema and Yuly were released on 27 November. Sharon's sister Daniele Aloni, and her six-year-old daughter Emilia were both released on 24 November.\n\nDoron Steinbrecher, 30, a veterinary nurse, was in her apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas attacked, the Times of Israel reported. At 10:30 on 7 October, the newspaper said, she sent a voice message to friends: \"They've arrived, they have me.\"\n\nItzhak Gelerenter, 53, was taken from the Supernova festival. His family said the IDF found his phone was located in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported. His daughter Pivko told the paper: \"I'm trying to think good thoughts, I have a powerful, smart, resourceful father.\"\n\nDoron Steinbrecher sent a voice message to friends during Hamas' attack\n\nNaama Levy, 19, was filmed being bundled into a jeep, her hands tied behind her back. The footage was released by Hamas and circulated widely on social media. According to her mother, the teenager had just begun her military service.\n\nYousef Zyadna, a 53-year-old Bedouin dairy farmer, was abducted from Kibbutz Holit and taken to Gaza along with his sons Hamza, 22, and Bilal, 18, and his daughter, Aisha, 16. Aisha and Bilal were released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nElad Katzir, 47, was abducted from Nir Oz with his mother Hanna. Hanna has now been released.\n\nOhad Ben Ami, 55, was kidnapped from Be'eri with his wife, Raz. She was released by Hamas on 29 November.\n\nTwin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 26, were taken from Kfar Aza. Ziv was messaging a friend as the attack happened. Their family said the IDF has told them the brothers are being held in Gaza. Their brother Liran told CBN news the pair had \"twin power\" and were the centre of attention wherever they went.\n\nIraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 85, was taken captive from Kibbutz Kissufim, where he lived and worked as a chicken coop manager. His wife, Mazal, managed to escape.\n\nMichel Nisenbaum, 59, is a dual Brazilian-Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel for 45 years and works as a computer technician, his family told Brazilian media. They also say he is diabetic and has Crohn's disease. On 7 October, they say, someone claiming to be from Hamas answered his phone when they tried to call him.\n\nDaniela Gilboa, 19, sent messages saying that Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she was staying, was under attack and asked her mother to pray for her. Her boyfriend, Roy Dadon, told the Economist 1843 magazine that he believes he saw a glimpse of her in a video showing three girls being driven away in the back of an SUV.\n\nItay Chen, 19, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF solider, was on active duty with a tank unit on 7 October, according to the Times of Israel. The paper reported that his family was notified by the IDF that he is officially considered missing in action and probably being held hostage. Another soldier in his unit, Matan Angrest, 21, is also presumed to be in Gaza.\n\nYosi Sharabi, 51, was taken from Be'eri with his brother, Eli Sharabi, 55. Eli's wife and two daughters were murdered in the attack. Ofir Engel, the boyfriend of Yosi's daughter, Yuval, was also taken, but released on 29 November.\n\nAgam Berger, 19, was kidnapped from Nahal Oz. She was seen being taken away in videos released by Hamas.\n\nEdan Alexander, 19, is an Israeli-US citizen who volunteered to join the Israeli army. He was serving near the Gaza border at the time of Hamas's attack. Edan's family said they had been told by Israeli officials that he had been taken to Gaza as a hostage.\n\nKaid Farhan Elkadi, 53, lives with his family south of Rahat and worked as a security guard, according to Israeli media. Reports said his family believes he was kidnapped and taken to Gaza, based on images shared by Hamas.\n\nIlana Gritzewsky and Matan Zanguaker were captured near the Gaza border, family say\n\nMatan Zanguaker, 24, was taken with his partner Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, from Nir Oz, according to Ilana's father. Ilana, a Mexican national, was released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nThe family of Eitan and Yair Horn believe they were taken from Nir Oz kibbutz\n\nEitan Horn, 37, and his brother Yair, 45, both Argentinian citizens, were also in Nir Oz at the time of the attack. Their father Itzik said he believes they were kidnapped. Yair is a construction worker while Eitan works in education.\n\nItai Svirsky, 38, is thought to have been abducted when his elderly parents were killed in Be'eri. He had been visiting them for the holiday of Simhat Torah.\n\nKeith Seigel, 64, and his wife Adrienne - often known as Aviva - Seigel, 62, were taken from their home in Kfar Aza, Keith's brother Lee Seigel told the BBC. Adrienne was released on 26 November.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, lived in Nahal Oz with his wife and two daughters. Omri was led away by Hamas with his hands tied, his wife Lishay told the Guardian newspaper. She told him not to be a hero, urging: \"Do whatever they want because I want you back.\"\n\nBipin Joshi, 23, a Nepalese student, is believed to have been taken from Kibbutz Alumim. Nepalese newspaper Setopati says he was one of 49 university students studying agriculture in Israel. It says 10 students were killed in the attack.\n\nIlan Weiss, 58, went missing from Kibbutz Be'eri after he was last seen leaving the house to defend the community. On 25 November, his wife Shiri Weiss, 53, and their daughter, Noga, 18, were freed from captivity in a hostage deal.\n\nAmiram Cooper, 85, and his wife Nurit, 80, were taken from their home in Nir Oz, their daughter-in-law Noa told the BBC. The family last spoke to the couple during the Hamas attack, Noa said, when the couple were in their safe room. The family later traced Amiram's phone to Gaza. On Monday 23 October, Nurit was one of two women to be released.\n\nAmiram and Nurit Cooper, pictured with their granddaughter, Gali\n\nOded Lifshitz, 83, and his wife Yocheved, 85 were taken hostage from Nir Oz. On Monday 23 October, Yocheved was one of two elderly women to be freed. After hearing the news of her mother's release, their daughter Sharone - a London-based artist - said: \"While I cannot put into words the relief that she is now safe, I will remain focused on securing the release of my father and all those - some 200 innocent people - who remain hostages in Gaza.\"\n\nHaim Peri, 79, was taken from his home in Nir Oz, reports the Times of Israel, and freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz said she saw that he was alive and well. His son Lior Peri told Talk TV that Haim had locked his wife inside the safe room before giving himself up to kidnappers.\n\nAvraham Munder, 78, was kidnapped from Nir Oz, Israeli officials say. His wife Ruthi, daughter and grandson have since been released.\n\nOmer Neutra, a 22-year-old Israeli-American and grandson of Holocaust survivors, put off plans to go to college in the US to study in Israel, and eventually joined the IDF. He was serving as a tank commander near Gaza when Hamas attacked. Omer's parents say they were told by the Israeli embassy that he had been kidnapped.\n\nRon Benjamin's vehicle was found empty following the attacks\n\nRon Benjamin, 53, had been taking part in a group cycle ride near the Gaza border when the Hamas attack began and he decided to drive home, his family told Israeli media. Days later, his vehicle was found empty and his family believe he was kidnapped.\n\nLouis Har, 70, is believed to have been taken from Nir Yitzhak. His partner Clara Marman was released on 28 November along with her sister Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela's daughter Mia Leimberg,17. Clara and Gabriela's brother Fernando Simon Marman, 60, also remains in captivity.\n\nJudith Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 73, also went missing from Nir Oz after the Hamas attack. Ten days later, the Israeli military confirmed to the family they had been taken hostage, CTV News in Canada reported.\n\nAlex Danzig, 75, a scholar and historian of the Holocaust, was at his home in Nir Oz, when it was attacked by Hamas. \"We know for sure he was kidnapped,\" his son Mati told the BBC. Alex - whose older sister Edith is a Holocaust survivor - has spent the last 30 years working for Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust remembrance centre. His disappearance has triggered a campaign for his release, both in Israel and in Poland, the country of his birth.\n\nAlex Danzig has spent decades educating people about the Holocaust\n\nItzhk Elgarat, 68, was kidnapped at the same time as Alex Danzig, his brother Danny Elgert told Israel's Kan 11 TV station, adding that he had tracked his brother's phone to the border with Gaza.\n\nGadi Moses, 79, was also abducted during the same attack on Nir Oz, according to relatives and the Israeli aid agency where he worked as an agricultural expert. Efrat Katz, his partner, was initially thought to have been captured as well, but she was later found dead, the Times of Israel reported. Efrat was the mother of Doron Asher, who was taken hostage and later released with her two daughters. Ravid Katz, 51, Doron Asher's brother, was originally thought to have been taken hostage from Nir Oz, but on 28 November his family confirmed that he had been killed on 7 October.\n\nYair Yaakov, 59, is listed among the hostages. His partner Meirav Tal, 53, was released on 28 November. Yair's children Yagil, 13, and Or, 16, were released on 27 November.\n\nYair Yaakov was pictured being held captive by a gunman in a video shared online\n\nNimrod Cohen, 19, had studied software engineering in high school, according to reports. After he was kidnapped, his father was invited to meet Pope Francis in Rome along with other hostages' families.\n\nTsachi Idan, 51, was last seen by his wife, Gali, as he was taken away by Hamas gunmen. Their family had been ambushed in their safe room in Nahal Oz. Their ordeal was live-streamed by Hamas. Their eldest child, Maayan - who had just turned 18 - was shot dead, Gali told the BBC.\n\nTsachi Idan was ambushed with his wife and children and then led away\n\nYarden Bibas, 34, was abducted from Nir Oz. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were also taken hostage, but on 29 November, Hamas claimed they had been killed in an Israeli air strike while in captivity. The Israeli government has said it is checking the claim.\n\nRonen Engel, 54, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife, Karina Engelbert, 51, and their two daughters, Mika, 18 and Yuval, 11. On 1 December, the organisation representing the families said he had been murdered. Karina, Mika and Yuval were released on 27 November.\n\nKarina Ariev, a 19-year-old soldier, was serving at an army base near Gaza when she was kidnapped. Her sister Alexandra told the BBC she heard shooting as Karina called her during the attack, and later saw a video showing Karina being taken away in a vehicle.\n\nKarina Ariev was at the Nahal Oz military base, which was among the first to be attacked\n\nOfer Kalderon, 53, was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz. On 27 November his two children, Erez, 12, and Sahar, 16, were released. Two other relatives, 80-year-old Carmela Dan and her granddaughter, Noya, 12, were also believed to have been taken, but Israeli authorities later announced they had been found dead.\n\nYoram Metzger, 80, was a resident of Nir Oz. He has diabetes and broke his hip six months ago, his daughter-in-law said. Yoram's wife Tamar was released on 28 November.\n\nNadav Popplewell, 51, and his mother Channah were taken hostage by Hamas, said Channah's daughter Ayelet Svatitzky, who was speaking to them on the phone when the gunmen burst in. She said the captors sent pictures of her two relatives, who both have diabetes, with armed men in the background. Channah has now been released.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, was abducted after his family opened the door to their secure shelter to an Israeli child, who said he would be killed otherwise. Omri's wife, Lishay Lavi, said she saw him being taken away in handcuffs with three other hostages from Nahal Oz.\n\nLiri Elbag, 18, had just started military training as an Army lookout near the Gaza border when Hamas attacked, her father Eli told the Associated Press. Eli said he saw her in a video circulated later by Hamas, crowded with others on the back of a military truck which had been seized by the gunmen.\n\nLior Rudaeff, 61, was taken from Nir Yitzhak during the attack. His family have heard nothing from him since then.\n\nA number of people are believed to have been abducted from the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Among them:\n\nShlomi Ziv, 40, was part of the security detail at the festival and was initially in contact with his sisters as the attack unfolded, according to an interview with The Times of Israel. A few weeks later the family learned he was officially considered to be a hostage, the report says.\n\nAlexander Lobanov, 32, is a Russian-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped at the festival.\n\nOri Danino, 25, is reported to have got away from the festival in his car, but it's believed he was captured after turning back in an attempt to save some people he had met there.\n\nAlmog Sarusi, 26, was kidnapped from the music festival and his partner Shahar Gindi was killed, according to Israeli media. Almog's father, Yigal, was among the relatives of hostages who met with Israel's prime minister in October.\n\nOmer Shem Tov, 21, called his parents as he was running away from gunfire and managed to get into a friend's car. His parents, Shelly and Malki Shem Tov, told Israeli media they lost contact with their son and the live location on his phone showed he was beyond the border in Gaza.\n\nIdan Shtivi, 28, an environmental sciences student, was attending the festival to take pictures at music and yoga workshops being held by friends. He escaped the site in his car but was attacked by Hamas along the route. The bodies of two of his passengers were found, and his family told the Jerusalem Post they suspect he was kidnapped.\n\nYosef Ohana, 24, had been at the festival with a friend, who told his mother he and Yosef had remained to help people escape the gunfire before running themselves. Yosef was last seen hiding under a car, and Israeli authorities have visited his mother to say he was kidnapped.\n\nAndrei Kozlov, 27, a Russian who moved to Israel in 2022, is missing from the Supernova festival, where he was working as a security guard. His mother told the De Taly publication the family was told by the IDF on October 26 that he was being held hostage.\n\nElyakim Libman, 23, was working as a security guard at the festival. In a Facebook post his father Eliyahu Libman said another guard told him his son had helped rescue others before trying to escape. He was last seen trying to help two badly-injured women.\n\nNoa Argamani, a Chinese-born Israeli citizen, was also kidnapped from the festival. Video footage - verified by her father Yaakov Argamani to Israel's Channel 12 - shows the 25-year-old being taken away on the back of a motorbike screaming, \"Don't kill me!\" Her boyfriend Avinatan Or, 30, also appears in the video being marched away from her by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nEden Yerushalmi's family say they were told she had been taken hostage\n\nEden Yerushalmi, 24, called her family during Hamas's attack on the festival, her sister May told CBS News. The family say they were subsequently informed by the IDF that Eden had been abducted.\n\nChanan Yablonka, 42, is a father-of-two from Tel Aviv. According to reports, he attended the festival with friends and was due to celebrate his birthday a few days after the attacks.\n\nJonathan Samerano, 21, has been missing since 7am on the morning of the festival. His family have been told to presume he is being held in Gaza, Israeli media reported.\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal was filmed in captivity in Gaza, his family say\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, attended the festival with his brother. Guy appears in a hostage video that his family say confirms he is in Gaza.\n\nUriel Baruch, 35, was injured during the attack on the festival, his wife said on Facebook. Reports in Israeli media say his mother, Naomi, has heard from the IDF that he is a hostage.\n\nMaxim Kharkin's mother described speaking to him on the morning of 7 October\n\nMaxim Kharkin is aged 35 and a Russian speaker, his mother told Russian media. She added that he had called her at 07:00 on the morning of the attack.\n\nElkana Bohbot was seen in a video posted by Hamas\n\nElkana Bohbot, 34, had gone to the party with friends and, before losing contact, he spoke to his wife and mother telling them he was helping to evacuate the wounded, the Times of Israel reported. Hours later, his family found a video of him posted online by Hamas, which has been seen by BBC Verify.\n\nRom Braslavski, 19, was working on security for the festival. According to an account published by Hostages and Missing Families Forum, he was trying to rescue an injured person in the attack when he was caught in a volley of fire. He has not been heard from since.\n\nOmer Wenkert, 22, a restaurant manager, sent a message to his family to say he was going to a safe shelter but then lost contact, his father Shai Wenkert told the BBC's Today Programme. Shai Wenkert said he had seen footage of his son in captivity, including a photo of him handcuffed and wearing only underwear.\n\nEvyatar David's family say they were sent a video of him in captivity\n\nEvyatar David, 23, was at the festival and on the morning of the attacks, described fleeing from gunfire before losing contact with the outside world, his brother says. Later, his family say, Evyatar's sister posted on Instagram appealing for information about his whereabouts. She then received a text from an unknown number, which contained video footage of Evyatar handcuffed on the floor of a dark room. According to Israel's foreign ministry he is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nEitan Mor, 23, lives in Jerusalem, and was working as a security guard at the festival, the Times of Israel said. He reportedly texted his uncle after Hamas arrived and was last seen with a friend bringing others to safety.\n\nAlon Ohel, 22, a Serbian citizen, took refuge in a shelter after the festival came under attack, his family say. They have seen footage of him being dragged away after a grenade attack.\n\nAlmog Meir Jan, 21, tried to flee the festival. He and a friend made it to the friend's car but only managed to drive a short distance before being forced to stop. Almog's family say they have seen a hostage video in which he appears.\n\nInbar Heiman, a student aged 21, was seen by two young Israeli men being taken away from the festival on a motorcycle. Hamas have released a video in which she is seen very briefly.\n\nHersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual US-Israeli citizen, was badly injured in the attack, his family told the BBC. Eyewitness accounts say he was seen being forced onto a white pick-up truck - the last-known signal from his phone came from just inside Gaza.\n\nSegev Kalfon, 26, was running away from the festival, across the highway, when he was captured by Hamas, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.\n\nOrión Hernández Radoux, 30, from Mexico, attended the festival with his girlfriend, Shani Louk. He has not been seen since. The Sun newspaper says it has seen threatening messages written in Arabic sent from his phone. Shani, a tourist from Germany, was initially thought to be among those seized. But on 30 October, her mother Ricarda told German media that the family had been informed by Israeli military of her death following DNA identification.\n\nRomi Lesham Gonen, 23, was on the phone to her mother as she tried to escape from the Supernova festival. Merav Leshem Gonan has recounted a conversation in which her daughter begged for help after being shot. ABC News reports that Romi's phone is now in Gaza.\n\nBar Kuperstein, 21, last spoke to his family early on the morning of 7 October, as the attack unfolded. Later the same day, his family say they identified him in a video of Israeli prisoners, posted by Hamas. Since then, they say they have had no further information.\n\nEliya Cohen, 26, was hiding with his girlfriend Ziv from the attack, when Ziv felt him being pulled up and driven away by the gunmen, Eliya's mother has told the video initiative #BringThemHomeNow. The family then found a photo of Eliya in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nAmit Buskila, 28, from Ashdod, was last heard of making a call to her uncle, Shimon, as Hamas overran the festival. Her family say they have now been told by the government that she is being held in Gaza.\n\nCarmel Gat, 39, is Jordan's sister-in-law, and also was seen by her father being taken by gunmen from Kibbutz Be'eri, Haaretz newspaper reported. She has not been heard from since.\n\nOhad Yahalomi, 49, was abducted from Nir Oz, along with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the November ceasefire.\n\nDror Or, 48, was seen by a neighbour being dragged out of his home in Be'eri, according to their nephew Emmanuel Besorai, along with his son and daughter. On Saturday 25 November Dror's son Noam, 17, and daughter Alma, 13, were released from captivity. The body of Yonat, 50 - Dror's wife and the children's mother - was identified among the 120 people murdered at the kibbutz, Yonat's brother told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nTal Shoham, 38, was taken from Kibbutz Be'eri. His wife Adi, also 38, her mother Dr Shoshan Haran, 67, were released by Hamas on 25 November, along with the couple's children Nave, eight, and Yahel, three. Dr Haran's husband, Avshalom - an economist and dual German/Israeli citizen - was killed on 7 October.\n\nTamir Adar, 38, who defended Nir Oz as part of the kibbutz's emergency squad, was taken to Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen, 35, an American-Israeli citizen, has been missing since Hamas's attack on Nir Oz, his father Jonathan told the BBC. He said his son was not found among the dead and the \"only reasonable explanation\" is that he was taken to Gaza.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen's father has not heard from him since Hamas attacked the kibbutz where he lived\n\nThailand's ambassador to Israel says 26 of its citizens were taken hostage, 23 of whom have now been released.\n\nThose still being held are believed to include Watchara Sriuan, 32. His mother, Viewwaew, told the Thaiger news site that the family had been informed he was being held captive.\n\nKiattisak \"Top\" Patee and a Mr Pongtorn (no first name given) have also been named by the Thai foreign ministry as hostages.\n\nA number of other people thought to have been held hostage are now confirmed to have died, either during the 7 October attack or while in captivity.\n\nAs well as Ron Scherman and Nik Beizer, four bodies were identified this week. They were Tal Chaimi, an Israeli-Romanian citizen aged 41, and Joshua Mollel, a 19-year-old Tanzanian student. Also, 27-year-old Eden Zecharya, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and 36-year-old Ziv Dado, who had already been declared dead by the Israeli military.\n\nOthers known to have died include Dror Kaplun, 68, Aviv Atzili, 49, Arye Zalmanovich, 85, Ronen Engel, 54, Maya Goren, 56, Guy Iluz, 26, Ofir Tzarfati, 27, Ofra Keider, 70, and Eliyahu Margalit, 75.\n\nThe bodies of 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, and 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss were found by Israeli troops in buildings close to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.\n\nOn Saturday 9 December Kibbutz Bari announced that Sahar Baruch, 25, had been killed in Gaza.\n\nOther hostages whose death has been reported, but not confirmed include Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Cannabinoids such as spice and THC have been found in vapes in the Oldham area on four occasions recently\n\nA head teacher is warning that illegal vaping could kill a child, after the collapse of a 12-year-old pupil who had used a vape containing spice - an illegal synthetic drug.\n\nGlyn Potts, from Oldham, told the BBC he feared it would take a tragedy to prompt action to stop children vaping.\n\nHigh levels of psychoactive cannabis oil and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) have also been found in vapes in the area.\n\nThe government said it is planning new laws to prevent under-age vaping.\n\nDame Rachel de Souza, Children's Commissioner for England, said it was \"deeply shocking to hear of children collapsing from spice contained in vapes\", adding that she has previously called for the ban of disposable vapes.\n\nShe said: \"We need to be moving faster on this issue, or we risk it spiralling out of control.\n\n\"We urgently need tighter restrictions on advertising and flavours of vapes that appeal to children as well as stricter licensing for retailers selling vapes.\"\n\n\"I pray that we don't have a fatality in these kinds of instances, but I do fear that is likely to happen if we don't address these matters,\" said Mr Potts, head of Saint John Henry Newman Catholic College in Oldham, a secondary school for pupils aged from 11 to 16.\n\nIt is illegal to sell e-cigarettes to people aged under 18, but a recent survey found one in five teenagers in England had tried vaping, an increase of a third on the previous year.\n\nGlyn Potts said he had \"nightmares\" about his pupils collapsing in the street after using dangerous vapes\n\nThe popularity of vaping among youngsters comes amid concern about the emergence of illegal vapes containing excess nicotine content above the legal limit, and metals such as lead and nickel.\n\nMore recently, some vapes have been found to contain cannabinoids such as tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and spice, which can be more potent than cannabis.\n\nIn July, a pupil at Mr Potts' school collapsed and had to be admitted to hospital after inhaling a vape containing spice, a laboratory-made drug known for its widespread illegal use in prisons.\n\n\"He took one very large inhalation of this vape pen and by the time he got off the bus on the school grounds felt very unwell. By the time he arrived at the school gates he had collapsed on the floor,\" said Mr Potts.\n\nThe pupil has now recovered.\n\nA scientist, who later tested a number of refillable and single-use vapes taken from the school, said it was \"very concerning\" a child had inhaled spice, because it was known to cause \"zombie-like paralysis\" in users, particularly children.\n\nMr Potts said he was confident children could not vape in school but he was worried about incidents away from the premises.\n\n\"If they are collapsing in the street or in areas where they are not necessarily going to be found quickly, that gives me nightmares.\"\n\nThese vapes tested by chemical scientists in Manchester were found to contain spice and THC\n\nHe also said he had been told young people were using the tram network to obtain illicit vapes such as these from dealers in other parts of Greater Manchester.\n\nIn total, there have been four incidents this year in the Oldham area involving vapes found to have contained spice or THC.\n\nA pupil at another school in the area collapsed in September after inhaling a vape containing butane hash oil with a 90% concentration of THC. The testing laboratory, the Manchester Drug Analysis and Knowledge Exchange (Mandrake), said it had never seen such high-strength THC in a vape. The team was set up in 2016 to help Greater Manchester Police tackle an \"epidemic\" of new types of psychoactive substances being found in the city.\n\nMandrake director Dr Oliver Sutcliffe told the BBC the discovery of 90% THC rang alarm bells for the team.\n\n\"The fact that this product is present seems to imply that there may be a shift in the market. And the fact that we are starting to see this on our radar means that we need to be prepared for more of these types of products, with high purity and high potency THC becoming more commonplace.\"\n\nMr Potts said he believes children are using the Manchester tram system to travel to buy drug-filled vapes\n\nSgt Joseph Dunne, who works in Oldham Prevention Hub for Greater Manchester Police, said the emergence of these illegal vapes was \"very concerning\".\n\n\"What we find is that some vapes have been tampered with or are being used specifically to house THC or spice. We are finding quite a lot of these children are getting vapes from other countries, where they will have a higher percentage of nicotine which isn't authorised in the UK, and that can make these children who aren't used to smoking very ill very quickly.\n\n\"Children taking these illegal vapes has become the main priority of our schools-based officers,\" he added.\n\n\"What we have found is that these vapes are being used communally in schools. The schools will find them in lockers and on top of lockers in drawers.\"\n\nDr Oliver Sutcliffe's team said the discovery of a vape containing 90% HTC signified a possible \"shift in the market\"\n\nGreater Manchester Police, Oldham Council, and Trading Standards are working closely together, but Mr Potts says a national strategy is needed urgently to stop children vaping.\n\n\"I think we've got to accept that without the strategy to tackle this, more young people will be at risk.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said it is consulting on measures to crack down on under-age vaping, banning disposable vapes and and restricting flavouring and types of packaging. Health officials say vaping remains an option for adult smokers wishing to quit their habit, but it is not a safe choice for children.\n\nHowever, Mr Potts believes a major, co-ordinated effort is needed to cut off the supply of vapes to youngsters.\n\n\"The issues around vapes are as significant and of prime concern for us because of the ease of access and the sheer numbers of people who come into contact with these devices.\"", "Chantelle Jolley with her daughter Nylah, the first baby born in NI without any paper records\n\nThe first baby has been born in Northern Ireland without any paper records.\n\nIt follows a move by the South Eastern Trust to move from paper-based files to an electronic system.\n\nIt is the first time health and social care records have been digitised in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Trust said the system, called encompass, will be safer, more efficient and effective.\n\nIt will be rolled out to other Trusts on a phased basis over the next 18 to 24 months.\n\nBaby Nylah, born to her mother Chantelle Jolley at the Ulster Hospital on Thursday at 01:25 GMT, was the first person born in Northern Ireland to have a digital-only record.\n\nDan West, chief digital Information officer at the Department of Health said the move would allow care workers to see the right information at the right time.\n\nIt is also hoped it will reduce the duplication of tests.\n\n\"It makes managing medicines easier for our pharmacists, and provides better quality data for improvement of our services in the future,\" added Mr West.\n\n\"It is more than just an IT system - it is a clinical and operational change that will help our most precious resources, our staff, to deliver the best services they can to people in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nIn time, everyone in Northern Ireland will be able to access their own patient records using a mobile app called 'MyCare'.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. History was made at the Ulster Hospital on Thursday morning when the first babies were born with full digital patient records.\n\nThe South Eastern Trust said it will be \"revolutionary\" but has asked the public to be patient as staff adjust to the new system.\n\nIn February, the Department of Health said £113.8m had been spent on the programme with a further £163.9m planned spend over the next five years.\n\nThe encompass system has been built by a company called Epic which currently provides electronic records for over 300m people within the UK and across the globe.\n\nBBC News NI has been made aware of some staff concerns about technical problems with the initial system roll out.\n\nThe South Eastern Trust has been approached for a response.\n\nSpeaking earlier, Dr David Wilson, a consultant involved in implementing encompass, said: \"Staff certainly have been nervous but there is also a good bit of excitement out there.\n\n\"Of course it is going to take some time to get to grips with the new system, there are going to be teething issues, we're going to be a little slower initially and there may be disruption and technical issues.\n\n\"That is to be expected but over the next few weeks we will get back up to speed as staff get used to the new system.\"", "Home Secretary Suella Braverman is facing questions about her future after defying Downing Street over an article accusing the police of bias.\n\nShe claimed aggressive right-wing protesters were \"rightly met with a stern response\", while \"pro-Palestinian mobs\" were \"largely ignored\".\n\nThe article was not cleared by Downing Street and suggested changes to the text were not followed, No 10 said.\n\nSome Tories have called for the home secretary to be sacked.\n\nIt comes ahead of a Pro-Palestinian march for a ceasefire in Gaza, which is due to take place in central London on Saturday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused Mrs Braverman of undermining the police and said Prime Minster Rishi Sunak was \"too weak to do anything about it\".\n\nFormer Conservative minister Sir Bob Neill became the first Tory to publicly call for her to resign over the article.\n\nSir Bob, a frequent critic of Mrs Braverman, told LBC that her position was \"untenable\" after she had \"gone over the line\" with her comments.\n\nBut Conservative MP Danny Kruger - an ally of Mrs Braverman - denied the home secretary was interfering, and said she was entitled to comment on the \"broader culture of police\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: Suella Braverman has worked \"incredibly hard and also incredibly constructively\" with the police\n\nThe prime minister's spokesperson said Downing Street was \"looking into what happened\" over the article - but they added Mr Sunak had full confidence in the home secretary.\n\nThe ministerial code says all major interviews and media appearances, both print and broadcast, should \"be agreed with the No 10 Press Office\".\n\nThe prime minister can punish a minister who is deemed to have breached the code. Options can range from demanding a public apology to sacking them.\n\nMrs Braverman, who is popular on the right of her party and seen as a possible future Conservative leader, often takes a harder line than many of her colleagues on issues such as crime and immigration.\n\nShe has recently been criticised for calling pro-Palestinian rallies in London \"hate marches\" and has described being homeless as a \"lifestyle\" choice.\n\nThis latest row comes before the Supreme Court is due to give next week its decision on whether government plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda are lawful.\n\nMrs Braverman has been a vocal backer of the Rwanda scheme, which is part of Mr Sunak's plans to curb the number of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Suella Braverman is \"out of control\" - Sir Keir Starmer\n\nPolice have said they expect a large rally on Saturday, prompting fears of violent clashes with counter-protesters.\n\nSaturday is also Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of World War One, which has prompted calls from the prime minister and others for the Pro-Palestine march to be cancelled, on the grounds that it is \"disrespectful\".\n\nThe Met Police has faced calls to ban the march - but commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said protests may only be stopped if there is a threat of serious disorder, and that the \"very high threshold\" has not been reached.\n\nIn her Times article, Mrs Braverman claimed that there was \"a perception that senior officers play favourites when it comes to protesters\".\n\n\"Right-wing and nationalist protesters who engage in aggression are rightly met with a stern response yet pro-Palestinian mobs displaying almost identical behaviour are largely ignored, even when clearly breaking the law,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Minister Mark Harper asked four times if he has confidence in Suella Braverman\n\nThere have been regular protests in London after Hamas gunmen launched an unprecedented assault on Israel from the Gaza Strip on 7 October, killing more than 1,400 people and taking more than 200 hostages.\n\nIsrael has been carrying out strikes on Gaza since then in response, and has now also launched a ground offensive. More than 10,500 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.", "Elianne's aunt Ruby Paintsil (left) said: \"If we could change the clock I wish we would not have to go through this\"\n\nThe family of Elianne Andam say they are \"broken\" and \"are not the same\" since the day she was killed.\n\nThe 15-year-old girl was stabbed at about 08:30 BST on her way to school in Croydon, south London, on 27 September.\n\nA 17-year-old boy is charged with murder and is due to appear in court on 19 December.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC the day before Elianne's funeral, they said it will be \"a celebration of her life\" and she will \"forever remain in our hearts\".\n\nShortly before a community event at Croydon Voluntary Action on Friday, Elianne's aunts Regina Boafo and Ruby Paintsil spoke of their \"amazing\" niece's dreams to be a lawyer and to \"defend... the voiceless\".\n\n\"She doesn't like injustice; she likes justice for people. Every time she'd get in trouble [it was] fighting for someone else,\" Ms Paintsil said.\n\nElianne's aunt Regina Boafo said her niece was a \"good girl\" and \"she would never get into any fight with anyone\"\n\nThey said although the teenager was \"very quiet\" she loved dancing and singing and was always \"smiling a lot\".\n\nMs Paintsil said Elianne was respectful of her family and enjoyed spending time with them, adding: \"She doesn't like really a lot of arguments; she would never argue with her auntie or uncle.\"\n\nThe aunts said they never expected such a tragedy would happen to them, or that moments after Elianne said goodbye and set off for school she would be dead.\n\n\"That is the bit I cannot get out of my head,\" Ms Boafo said.\n\n\"She is very calm, she was the last person I would ever think someone would harm her with a knife,\" Ms Paintsil said.\n\nShe stressed Elianne didn't mix with \"the wrong people\" and the aunts said she would keep in touch with family if she went out to the cinema or a restaurant.\n\nSpeaking about the day Elianne was killed, Ms Boafo said after waking she saw her phone had been called \"many times\" and when she found out her niece had died she was \"really destroyed, broken\".\n\nSince her niece's death, Ms Boafo said she hasn't been able to work and rarely leaves the house. She has moved in with her sister - Elianne's mother - to help support her.\n\n\"Up to now, I'm still not the same woman... I can't do anything. I get up and I don't even feel like dressing up, but you have to put clothes on because people are coming to sympathise with you,\" she explained.\n\n\"I wish nobody would ever go through this pain,\" Elianne's aunt Ruby Paintsil said\n\n\"If I can't even do things, just imagine how my sister feels - my sister who was trying to be strong and go to work, she can't.\"\n\n\"She is broken a lot... we have to keep comforting her. She hasn't been herself, every day broken into pieces,\" Ms Paintsil said.\n\n\"If we could change the clock I wish we would not have to go through this.\n\n\"You ask questions - why? Why does that have to happen?\" she added. \"I wish nobody would ever go through this pain.\"\n\nDespite their grief, both women said they have been amazed at support from the community along with thousands of cards and messages sent from around the world - all of which has \"really helped\" their family.\n\nThousands of people attended a vigil in Croydon to remember Elianne\n\n\"We really appreciate everything the nation and everyone is doing... thank you,\" Ms Boafo said.\n\nElianne's funeral will be held in Croydon on Saturday.\n\nMs Paintsil said after her burial there will be a celebration of her life because \"she's a girl that liked to bring joy to people's lives\".\n\n\"If Elianne was here she'd say 'go on, have fun, don't break down', and things like that.\"\n\nMs Boafo added: \"It will be nice to celebrate it and for us, she will forever remain in our hearts - she can never be gone.\n\n\"Even though she is gone, we know that her memory will forever be with us.\"\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "The aftermath of a strike on Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp earlier this week\n\nOne of the first things to understand about the reportage, analysis and commentary that has poured out since the Hamas attacks of 7 October is that no-one has the full story. Not only is it, as ever, hard to penetrate the fog of war to work out what is happening on the battlefield. The new shape of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has not yet emerged.\n\nEvents are still moving fast. Fears that the war could spread are very real. New realities in the Middle East are out there somewhere, but their shape and the way that they will work depend on the way this war goes for the rest of the year, and probably beyond.\n\nHere are a few things that we know, and a few that we do not. The list is not exhaustive. Some people mocked Donald Rumsfeld, US defence secretary at the time of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, when he talked of \"unknown unknowns\". But in this part of the world as much as any other, they exist - and when they emerge, they can make a big difference.\n\nOne certainty is that Israelis support the military campaign to break the power in Gaza of Hamas and its junior partner, Islamic Jihad. Their anger is driven by the shock of the Hamas attacks, the killing of more than 1,400 people and the fact that around 240 hostages are still being held in Gaza.\n\nThe Hamas attack on Israel killed 1,400 people, many of them residents of kibbutzes near Gaza\n\nI met Noam Tibon, a retired general in the Israeli army, to hear about how he drove down with his wife to Nahal Oz, a kibbutz on the border with Gaza, after Hamas attacked on 7 October. His mission, which was successful, was to rescue his son, his daughter in law and their two young daughters who were in their safe room, hearing Hamas gunmen roaming around outside.\n\nTibon may be retired but he is a very fit-looking 62-year-old. He ended up armed with an assault rifle and a helmet he had taken from a dead Israeli soldier, leading a group of soldiers he had assembled in the chaos of that day, clearing the kibbutz and saving the lives of his family and many others.\n\nThe general was an old-school, straight-talking Israeli officer.\n\n\"Gaza is going to suffer… no nation will agree that your neighbour will slaughter babies, women or people. Just like you (Britons) crushed your enemy during World War Two. This is what we need to do in Gaza. No mercy.\"\n\nWhat, I asked, about innocent Palestinian civilians who are getting killed?\n\n\"Unfortunately, it's happening. We live in a tough neighbourhood, and we need to survive… we have to be tough. We have no choice.\"\n\nA lot of Israelis are echoing his sentiment that Palestinian civilian deaths are unfortunate, but they are being killed because of the actions of Hamas.\n\nIt is also clear that Israel's assault on Hamas is causing terrible bloodshed. The latest figure for Palestinian deaths from Gaza's health ministry, run by Hamas, has exceeded 9,000 - of whom around 65% are children and women.\n\nIt is not clear how many of the men who have been killed were civilians or fighting for Hamas or Islamic Jihad. US President Joe Biden and the Israelis do not trust the ministry figures. But in past conflicts, Palestinian casualty statistics have been considered accurate by international organisations.\n\nOne grim milestone is fast approaching. The United Nations (UN) says around 9,700 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since the full-scale Russian invasion 21 months ago.\n\nSome of the Palestinian dead would have been part of Hamas. But even if that proportion is as high as 10%, which is unlikely, it means that Israel is on course to have killed as many Palestinian civilians in just over a month as Russia has killed in Ukraine since February 2022. (The UN says its data for Ukraine is incomplete and the true number of civilians killed is likely higher, while in Gaza the number of dead is also likely to be higher as many Palestinians are believed to be buried under rubble).\n\nThe UN has suggested Israeli strikes on Gaza could constitute war crimes\n\nThe UN human rights office has said that so many civilians have been killed and wounded in Israeli air strikes that it has serious concerns that the attacks are disproportionate and could be war crimes.\n\nFrom the first days after the Hamas attacks, President Biden has supported Israel's decision to use military force to remove Hamas from power. But he has also added the qualification that it needed to be done \"the right way\". He meant that Israel should observe the laws of war that protect civilians.\n\nThe US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Tel Aviv. Before he took off, he said: \"When I see a Palestinian child - a boy, a girl - pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building, that hits me in the gut as much as seeing a child from Israel or anywhere else.\"\n\nI have reported on all of Israel's wars in the last 30 years. I do not remember a US administration stating so publicly that Israel needs to observe the laws of war. Blinken's visit suggests that he believes Israel is not following Biden's advice.\n\nSomething else we know for certain is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under great pressure.\n\nUnlike Israel's security and military chiefs, he has not accepted any personal responsibility for the catastrophic series of failures that left Israeli border communities virtually undefended on 7 October.\n\nLast Sunday, 29 October, he caused uproar when he sent out a tweet blaming the intelligence agencies. Mr Netanyahu deleted the message and apologised.\n\nThe Israeli PM has taken the blame from some quarters for the events of 7 October\n\nThree Israelis, a former peace negotiator, the ex-head of the Shin Bet (Israel's internal intelligence agency) and a tech entrepreneur, wrote an article in the journal Foreign Affairs saying that Mr Netanyahu should not have any part of the war and whatever follows. The Israeli PM has loyal supporters, but he has lost the confidence of prominent figures in Israel's military and security establishment.\n\nNoam Tibon, the retired general who fought his way into kibbutz Nahal Oz to rescue his family, compares Mr Netanyahu to Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister who was forced to resign in 1940, and replaced by Winston Churchill.\n\nTibon told me: \"This is the biggest failure in the history of the state of Israel. It was a military failure. It was an intelligence failure. And it was the failure of the government… the one really in charge - and all the blame is on him - is the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu… He is in charge of the biggest failure in the history of Israel.\"\n\nIt is also clear that the old status quo has been smashed. It was unpleasant and dangerous, but it seemed to have a certain grimly-familiar stability. Since the end of the last Palestinian uprising around 2005 a pattern has emerged that Mr Netanyahu believed could be sustained indefinitely. That was a dangerous illusion, for all concerned - Palestinians as well as Israelis.\n\nThe argument went that the Palestinians were no longer a threat to Israel. Instead, they were a problem to be managed. The tools available include sticks, carrots and the ancient tactic of \"divide and rule\".\n\nMr Netanyahu, who has been prime minister for most of the time since 2009 - after an earlier spell between 1996 and 1999 - has argued consistently that Israel does not have a partner for peace.\n\nPotentially, it did. The Palestinian Authority (PA), which is the main rival to Hamas, is a deeply flawed organisation, and many who support it believe its aged President Mahmoud Abbas needs to step aside. But it accepted the idea of establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel back in the 1990s.\n\nMr Netanyahu has tried to drive a wedge between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas (pictured right, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken)\n\n\"Divide and rule\" for Mr Netanyahu meant allowing Hamas to build its power in Gaza at the expense of the PA.\n\nWhile Israel's longest-serving prime minister is always careful about what he says in public, his actions over many years show that he does not want to allow the Palestinians to have an independent state. That would involve giving up land in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which the Israeli right wing believes belongs to the Jews.\n\nFrom time to time, Mr Netanyahu's pronouncements would leak. In 2019, a number of Israeli sources say that he told a group of his Likud members of parliament that if they opposed a Palestinian state they should support schemes to pump money - mostly provided by Qatar - into Gaza. He told them that deepening the division between Hamas in Gaza and the PA in the West Bank would make it impossible to establish a state.\n\nIt is also clear that Israel, backed by the Americans, will not tolerate a deal that allows Hamas to stay in power. That guarantees a lot more bloodshed. It also raises big questions about what or who replaces them, which so far have not been answered.\n\nThe conflict between Arabs and Jews for control of the land between the river Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea has lasted for more than 100 years. One lesson of its long and bloody history is that there will never be a military solution.\n\nIn the 1990s, the Oslo peace process was established to try to end the conflict by establishing a Palestinian state with a capital in East Jerusalem alongside Israel. The last attempt to revive it, after years of on-off negotiations, happened during the Obama administration. It failed a decade ago, and since then the conflict has been allowed to fester.\n\nMore than 20 Israeli soldiers have been killed since Israel began a ground operation in Gaza\n\nAs President Biden and many others have said, the only possible chance for avoiding more wars is to establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel. That will not be possible with the current leaders on either side. Extremists, both Israeli and Palestinian, would do all they could to scupper the idea, as they have done since the 1990s. Some of them believe they are following the will of God, which makes it impossible to persuade them to accept a secular compromise.\n\nBut if this war does not deliver enough of a shock to break deeply-held prejudices and to make the idea of two states viable, nothing will. And without a mutually-acceptable way of ending the conflict, more generations of Palestinians and Israelis will be sentenced to more wars.", "The UN warns that its facilities housing displaced Gazans are becoming overcrowded Image caption: The UN warns that its facilities housing displaced Gazans are becoming overcrowded\n\nWe're pausing our live coverage for the next few hours, so until then here's where things stand in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.\n\nThe US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to Turkey on Sunday, as he continues his diplomatic push.\n\nHe's been working with leaders in the region on a so-called humanitarian pause in the fighting, and we heard from President Joe Biden on Saturday who suggested there had been some progress on the issues.\n\nArab countries have been demanding an immediate ceasefire, but the US is worried that this would allow Hamas to regroup.\n\nMeanwhile, Israeli forces are pushing deeper and deeper into Gaza City. Israel said the main road south from Gaza City would be open for three hours on Saturday to let anyone wanting to leave. But the army accused Hamas of trying to stop people from leaving .\n\nWe've had an update from the UN on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. It says there are nearly 1.5 million displaced in the territory, with more than 700,000 sheltering in UN facilities. It warns that these are becoming overcrowded - adding to health risks for the population – and its sites in the south of the territory are now over capacity\n\nThere have been problems at the Rafah crossing into Egypt - the only way out of Gaza - with reports saying that foreign nationals were not being allowed to leave the territory. Hamas was reportedly asking for more wounded people to leave before more foreigners could leave.", "Up to 2,000 asylum seekers could be housed at the site in Lincolnshire, the government has said\n\nThe cost of housing asylum seekers in a former RAF base in Lincolnshire could reach £260m by 2026, a leaked government document shows.\n\nMinisters have argued placing asylum seekers on sites like RAF Scampton would be cheaper than using hotels.\n\nBut a Home Office memo written just days before plans were announced found the change only represented \"marginal\" value for money over three years.\n\nThe Home Office said the plan \"cuts the burden on the taxpayer\".\n\nA leaked note, written for a senior official on 24 March, estimates total costs of asylum accommodation at Scampton this financial year to be £108.9m, then £97.1m in 2024/5 and £51.9m in 2025/6.\n\nThe memo, described as \"final\" advice to the Home Office's accounting officer, acknowledges the estimates were subject to change and based on various assumptions, including 150 beds being available from May 2023, an 85% occupancy rate over the contract period.\n\nSo far, no overall cost figures attached to the project have been made public.\n\nThe document goes on to say that the planned two-year holding period of the site \"does not represent value for money\" as it is not long enough to recoup the initial set-up costs through savings on hotels.\n\nIt suggests the Scampton proposal would be £2m more expensive over two years but could come to represent \"marginal\" value for money over three years. This depended on projected hotel usage over the period and whether planned modular units on the site could be connected to mains utilities, something described as a \"critical risk\".\n\nFive days after the note was sent, the Home Office announced plans to house asylum seekers on multiple former military bases including RAF Scampton and MDP Wethersfield.\n\nThe plan has been fiercely opposed by the local authority, West Lindsey District Council, which says it will also lose out on a £300m investment to redevelop the base, the former home of the Red Arrows and the World War Two squadron.\n\nThe council's legal challenge to the proposals was heard in the High Court this week.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Gainsborough, Sir Edward Leigh said the figures showed a \"staggering waste of public money\" and described the plans in his constituency as a \"political gimmick\".\n\nThe site is not yet operational, but the Home Office eventually intends to use the Scampton site to house up to 2,000 men.\n\nWest Lindsey Council argues the plans are unlawful, claiming the government has misused Class Q emergency planning permission to begin development.\n\nThe judicial review is also being brought by Braintree District Council and a local resident over similar plans for a military site in Wethersfield, Essex.\n\nIt emerged ahead of the court hearing this week that the Home Office intends to apply for permission to use the sites for a further three years.\n\n\"Frankly, I was lied to repeatedly,\" Sir Edward told the BBC earlier this week.\n\n\"First of all I was told it was going to be two years, and then it was going to be three years, and then it was going to save money. There's no value for money. Their whole case, I believe, is shot to pieces.\"\n\nOne government source close to the project acknowledged there had been high costs associated with developing Scampton, including the legal challenge and also the removal of asbestos.\n\nThe source argued this development showed assets on the site were being improved.\n\nBut the source insisted using larger sites to house asylum seekers was a better alternative to hotels.\n\n\"Hotels are fundamentally a bad form of accommodation - they are economically damaging to communities, they take away a really important resource,\" the source said.\n\n\"They are inappropriate and add to a perception of the UK as a soft touch - other governments in Europe don't use hotels for asylum seekers.\"\n\nLatest figures from the Home Office annual accounts published in September showed the daily cost of accommodating asylum seekers in hotels had risen to £8m a day.\n\nImmigration Minister Robert Jenrick recently announced 50 hotels would be closed over the next three months.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said: \"Delivering accommodation on surplus military sites provides more orderly, suitable accommodation for those arriving in small boats whilst helping to reduce the use of hotels.\n\n\"This also cuts the burden on the taxpayer and ensures that every pound of their money is spent in the most effective way.\n\n\"We are confident in our project, which will house asylum seekers in safe and secure accommodation, while continuing to work closely with local councils to address local community concerns.\"", "Smoke could be seen billowing out of the Bob Shankly stand at Dens Park\n\nPolice are investigating reports that a 13-year-old girl was sexually assaulted during a Scottish Premier League football match on Wednesday.\n\nThe incident allegedly took place during the Dundee vs Rangers game at Dens Park within the Bob Shankly stand, where away fans sit.\n\nThe match was suspended for 18 minutes after Rangers fans let off a large number of flares.\n\nPolice confirmed they were carrying out inquiries into the alleged sex attack .\n\nOfficials from Dundee FC said they were supporting police with their investigation.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Dundee Football Club can confirm we are aware of an incident which took place in the Bob Shankly stand during Wednesday's match against Rangers.\n\n\"The club are fully supporting the police investigation and the club's child welfare and protection officer is supporting the situation.\n\n\"As this is an ongoing police investigation the club will be making no further comment.\"\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"We are carrying out enquiries following an allegation of sexual assault involving a 13-year-old girl, which happened at Dens Park in Dundee on Wednesday, 1 November, 2023.\"\n\nThe game has already attracted attention because it had to be paused after Rangers fans let off a large number of flares in the stands.\n\nDens Park was engulfed in smoke, setting off a fire alarm and forcing the players off the pitch.\n\nManagers of both clubs have condemned those involved.\n\nPolice Scotland said no arrests were made at Wednesday night's game in connection with the pyrotechnics but added they were working with both clubs to identify those responsible.\n\nThe game resumed when the smoke cleared, with Rangers winning 5-0.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Joe Biden has visited Maine to meet community members personally affected by a mass shooting that left 18 people dead.\n\nThe attack at a bowling alley and bar in the town of Lewiston on 25 October also left 13 people injured.\n\nStanding outside the bowling alley, Mr Biden repeated his calls for a ban on assault-style rifles.\n\nBut he could not pass such a sweeping measure even when his fellow Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress.\n\n\"As we mourn today in Maine, this tragedy opens painful, painful wounds all across the country,\" Mr Biden said.\n\nHe argued the attack should galvanise Congress into taking action to pass new gun laws.\n\n\"Regardless of our politics,\" he said, \"this is about protecting our freedom to go to a bowling alley, a restaurant, a school, a church without being shot and killed.\"\n\nThe shooting, carried out by a 40-year-old US Army reservist, spawned a three-day manhunt.\n\nThe attack began at Just-In-Time Recreation, which hosts bowling leagues, before the gunman went to the nearby Schemengees Bar & Grille, where a cornhole tournament was under way.\n\nA grandfather, a talented young bowler and four members of a deaf cornhole team were among the dead.\n\nSean Gosselin, a local resident, told the BBC that while the experience has been \"difficult, the town is slowly returning to a sense of normalcy and coping as best it can\".\n\nOn Thursday, for example, Mr Gosselin said that many townspeople gathered to watch the local high school's football team - the Lewiston Blue Devils - play their rivals from the nearby town of Auburn.\n\n\"It's symbolic of resilience,\" he said, \"of persevering and moving on, but without a lack of recognition for victims of this horrible crime.\"\n\nThe Lewiston shooting was the worst in the US so far this year and worst ever in Maine's history.\n\nThe perpetrator, Robert Card, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound days after the murders.\n\nMr Biden has also called on Republican lawmakers to allow gun manufacturers to be held legally responsible for shootings.\n\nOn Friday, pro-gun activists on social media criticised the president's latest plea for firearms control.\n\nThe Truth About Guns shared a post from a conservative commentator questioning why Mr Biden did not deliver his remarks in Chicago, a Democratic stronghold that has seen more than 2,000 shootings this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Families in Lewiston work to return to 'normal' in the wake of mass shooting\n\nOfficials in Maine have struggled to explain how the Lewiston gunman was able to legally obtain weapons despite warnings from his Army Reserve unit that he was facing mental health issues.\n\nMaine's Democratic Governor, Janet Mills, said she was thankful for Mr Biden's \"unwavering support\" for the state in the aftermath of the shooting.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland's World Cup defence is over after old rivals Australia added the final nail with a 33-run victory in Ahmedabad.\n\nEngland were already all-but out, but a fifth miserable defeat in succession and sixth in total ended any hope of a freak turnaround.\n\nThey did well to bowl out Australia for 286 and showed some fight with the bat, but were still dismissed for 253.\n\nJonny Bairstow was caught down the leg side off the first ball of the chase and Joe Root followed for 13, leaving Ben Stokes to play a lone hand as he hinted at another special knock.\n\nBut, just as he began to move through the gears, Australia's greatest tormentor in recent years was tamely caught off leg-spinner Adam Zampa for 64 from 90 balls.\n• None 'More misery heaped on prickly and subdued England'\n\nChris Woakes threatened the unlikely late on but his 32 only delayed the inevitable as England were dismissed in the penultimate over.\n\nDefeat leaves England bottom of the table with two matches still to play - first against the Netherlands on Wednesday, before their tournament concludes against Pakistan on Saturday.\n\nTheir attention now turns to attempting to avoid the embarrassment of failing to qualify for the 2025 Champions Trophy by finishing outside the top eight in India.\n\nMeanwhile, Australia are on the brink of securing their semi-final place and move on buoyed having ended the reign of their Ashes foes.\n• None England knocked out of World Cup - as it happened\n• None Who needs what to reach World Cup semi-finals?\n\nEngland's defence officially ending with defeat by Australia only adds further misery to a torrid four weeks.\n\nIt also ends where it began - at the world's largest cricket stadium where English optimism was shattered by a thrashing from New Zealand in the tournament opener.\n\nThe bowling performance gave them hope - Woakes impressed with 4-54 - but from the moment of Bairstow's tame dismissal, Australia were favourites.\n\nRoot was dropped on seven and nicked wide of slip before a thin edge through to the wicketkeeper was shown on review, leaving Stokes to rebuild with Dawid Malan.\n\nFrom 19-2 they put on a careful stand of 84 from 108 balls until Malan hoisted a catch to deep square leg on 50. Captain Jos Buttler's miserable run continued as he holed out off Zampa having struggled for seven balls for one run.\n\nWhile Stokes was there, memories of his Headingley Ashes epic were not far away, with the required rate never too challenging.\n\nHe struck two sixes in bringing up his half-century, only to flick a Zampa long-hop straight into the hands of short fine leg.\n\nZampa finished with superb figures of 3-21, took a fine sprawling catch in the deep to dismiss David Willey and added an important 29 at number 10 with the bat.\n\nEngland may have fought back to draw the Ashes this summer but it is Australia who strike the final blow of 2023.\n\nEngland's bowlers could take little blame for defeat by India last week and again they did a decent job to restrict and eventually dismiss Australia.\n\nUntil Zampa frustrated by helping add 38 for the ninth wicket with Mitchell Starc, they had done little wrong.\n\nWoakes was dropped after a miserable first three games of this tournament but he summed up England's belated improvement with two impressive spells.\n\nHe struck in the second over to have Travis Head caught at slip - breaking the opening partnership with David Warner that put on 175 in Australia's previous game - and then had Warner caught off a top edge with a slower ball.\n\nAfterwards Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne, two thorns in England's side from Ashes series past, attempted a rebuild with a stand of 75 from 96 balls but England conceded only six boundaries in that time to prevent the score running away.\n\nAdil Rashid bowled superbly through the middle and was rewarded when Smith cut a wide ball to short third. Wicketkeeper Josh Inglis then hit a reverse sweep to the same fielder.\n\nMark Wood was more expensive, his 10 overs cost 70 runs, but one of his two wickets was that of Labuschagne - trapped in front by a ball that would have hit the top of leg stump flush.\n\nStill, Australia scrapped, something which England have struggled to do throughout this tournament, to seal a fifth straight win.\n\nEngland captain Jos Buttler: \"I feel like we are having the same chat after every game at the minute. There were improvements again today. We got back to more like how we can play but still short of it to lose by 30 odd.\n\n\"It certainly feels like a low point. I've had a few but definitely as a captain. To be stood in this position having arrived in India with high hopes is incredibly tough and disappointing.\n\nAustralia captain Pat Cummins: \"It's been great. The boys have played brilliantly. Every game we've found a way to win.\n\n\"I feel like every game we've improved a little bit. I still don't think we've played the complete game but we've had different match-winners.\"\n• None Five million pieces of Lego lost at sea near Cornwall: 26 years after being washed off a cargo ship, the tiny toys are still coming ashore...\n• None From the football pitch to the rainforest...: David Beckham and three friends embark on a Brazilian adventure", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The team filmed the sheep's rescue from a remote shoreline in the Scottish Highlands\n\nA ewe that was dubbed Britain's loneliest sheep has been rescued from a remote shore in the Scottish Highlands.\n\nThe sheep, now named Fiona, had been stranded at the foot of cliffs on the Cromarty Firth for at least two years.\n\nAn animal welfare charity had said any attempts to rescue her would be \"incredibly complex\".\n\nBut a group of five farmers have now managed to haul her up a steep slope. They plan to shear her overgrown fleece and hand her over to a farm park.\n\nThe rescue mission was organised by Cammy Wilson, a sheep shearer from Ayrshire, after seeing media coverage of the ewe's plight.\n\nMr Wilson, who is a presenter on the BBC's Landward programme, organised the rescue in a personal capacity along with four others.\n\nSpeaking in a video posted on Facebook, he said: \"We've come up here with some heavy equipment and we've got this sheep up an incredibly steep slope.\n\n\"She's in incredible condition. She is about a condition score of about 4.5, she is overfat - it was some job lifting her up that slope.\n\n\"She is going to a very special place that a lot of you know very well, where you'll be able to see her virtually every day.\"\n\nFiona is now due for a much-needed shearing after her rescue\n\nMr Wilson later told BBC News he became determined to rescue the sheep after reading unfair comments about the farmer whose flock she came from.\n\nHe said the farmer had made previous attempts to retrieve her but was unable to do so without putting himself or his employees in danger.\n\nHe said: \"I just hated seeing the misinformation online, the comments from people not in the know about 'farmers don't care.'\n\n\"People were starting to show up on his land and it wasn't fair.\"\n\nHe said he anticipated some people would criticise his rescue mission as foolhardy, and he accepted it was risky.\n\n\"The only difference between us being heroes and idiots is a slip of the foot,\" he said.\n\n\"I would do it again, maybe not tomorrow though because I'm knackered.\"\n\nHe was joined in the rescue by fellow farmers Graeme Parker, Als Couzens, Ally Williamson and James Parker.\n\nTwo of them stayed at the top to operate a winch while three others were lowered 250m (820ft) down the cliff to reach Fiona.\n\nThey found her in a cave.\n\nThe sheep's plight became headline news after she was pictured stranded on a shore in the Highlands.\n\nThe Scottish SPCA said it had been aware of the ewe being stranded at the bottom of the cliff for some time but was unable to find a safe way to rescue her.\n\nA spokesperson for the charity said: \"This morning the Scottish SPCA were in attendance at the hillside after they were made aware that a group of individuals with climbing expertise were attempting to rescue the stranded sheep by descending down to where she was trapped.\n\n\"The team brought the ewe up successfully and our inspector examined her.\n\n\"Thankfully the sheep is in good bodily condition, aside from needing to be sheared. She will now be taken to a specialist home within Scotland to rest and recover.\"\n\nMr Wilson said Fiona would receive a much-needed groom in the coming days.\n\nThe sheep made national headlines after a kayaker took a photograph and shared concerns about her welfare.\n\nJill Turner, from Brora, told the Northern Times she first came across the ewe while kayaking in 2021.\n\nShe was shocked to discover she was still there two years later, and pleaded for someone to rescue her.\n\nA petition calling for a rescue operation has gathered more than 52,000 signatures.\n\nThe full story of the rescue will be told on the BBC's Landward programme, due to broadcast on the BBC Scotland channel on 16 November and BBC One Scotland the following day.", "The death toll in Gaza is rising as Israel presses on with its war against Hamas, following the attacks on 7 October in which 1,400 people were killed in Israel.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 9,000 people have been killed since the war began.\n\nBecause of safety concerns, there are relatively few journalists in Gaza to document the human cost of the fighting.\n\nBut the BBC has been speaking to a number of families and eyewitnesses who have told us stories of loved ones who have been killed in recent days.\n\nWith serious power supply issues in the Gaza Strip, Yusof and his two older siblings - sister Jury, 13, and nine-year-old brother Hamed - felt quite lucky.\n\nTheir father, Mohamed Abu Musa, a radiographer at the Nasser hospital in the city of Khan Younis, had installed solar panels at their house, so the children could watch their favourite cartoons on TV.\n\nThey were settling down in front of the television on 15 October when, their father says, their home was hit by an Israeli air strike.\n\nJury and Hamed somehow survived, but Yusof was killed when the roof of their house collapsed.\n\nMohamed was working a 24-hour shift at the hospital when his wife, Rawan, entered, screaming in search for their youngest son.\n\nShe had been able to find Hamed, while rescue teams helped pull Jury out of the rubble. Jury had suffered head injuries but her parents say she is \"improving\".\n\nA video showing Rawan asking at the hospital for her \"handsome and curly-haired son\" circulated widely on social media. But Mohamed would later find his son's body in the hospital morgue.\n\n\"The last time I saw Yusof alive was when he ran to hug me on the doorstep of our home, just before I left for work,\" Mohamed recalls.\n\n\"He kissed me and said goodbye after I had given him some biscuits and bananas. He wanted to be a doctor, maybe because he always saw me going to hospital for work.\"\n\nOn the evening of 15 October, Dr Saidam needed a rest. The 47-year-old surgeon had not left the al-Shifa hospital, in Gaza City for more than week.\n\nHe told his colleagues he was going home for the night. But a few hours later he was killed in a strike at his home.\n\n\"This calm, funny and kind-hearted man came back to the hospital the next morning, but as a lifeless body,\" his colleague Dr Adnan Albursh explained.\n\nDr Albursh, who had known the surgeon for more than 20 years, added that his late colleague had been nicknamed \"the relentless surgeon\" by his peers for his dedication to the job.\n\nA veteran of the operating room, Dr Saidam was also known as a great mentor to younger doctors.\n\n\"If any of the doctors faced any difficulties, they knew Dr Saidam was the one who would sort it out,\" agreed Dr Ahmed El Mokhallalati, the head of the plastic surgery department at al-Shifa Hospital.\n\n\"His death is a huge loss not only to this hospital but also to the medical profession,\" he added.\n\nSeventeen-year-old student Nour was killed on 11 October when an Israeli air strike hit her family home in the town of Deir al-Balah, 14km south of Gaza City, according to her uncle.\n\nMohammed al-Kharma said his niece wanted to relocate because of the bombing and stay with relatives elsewhere.\n\n\"Her father asked her to stay in her house, which was bombed the very next morning. It was her fate,\" he said.\n\nNour was killed alongside her nephew Yazan. The pair had been playing in the living room. Her elder sisters, Ola, and Huda, who were preparing breakfast with their mother, Jamalat, survived.\n\nNour was in her last year of high school and always wanted to be a doctor. Her uncle said his family pulled her school bag from under the rubble. It contained books and a diary, and in one of the pages she had written: \"I want to make my family proud of me and I will get high grades by the will of Allah.\"\n\nIn her last communication with her fiance Khaled al-Masry, Lurin said she was exhausted from moving from place to place in search of safety from the war. The 30-year-old had just arrived at the Nusairat refugee camp, in the centre of the Gaza Strip, to stay with her aunt.\n\nLurin had survived two strikes, including one on 16 October that flattened the building where she lived with her parents in Gaza City.\n\n\"She told me she was going to have a shower, pray and rest,\" Khaled recalls.\n\nAccording to her fiance, who lives and works in Cyprus, she was praying in a room when the house she was in was hit.\n\n\"She was killed while she was praying,\" he says.\n\nLurin and Khaled had postponed their wedding a couple of times due to the unstable situation in Gaza.\n\nThey were planning finally to get married in December and move to Cyprus.\n\nA devastated Khaled said: \"She is now resting forever. She used to wear a white dress, but now is wearing a white shroud.\"\n\nPeople in Gaza City's Radwan district who needed women's formal clothing would head straight to Fekriya Hassan Abdul A'al's place.\n\n\"I remember when we used to have our house full of brides-to-be and bridesmaids who would come to my mother's place to have a fitting. She was exceptionally talented,\" Fekriya's daughter Nevine says.\n\nThe 65-year-old tailor was killed along with two of her siblings, two of her children and two of her grandchildren, after the house they were sheltering in was hit by an air strike on 23 October.\n\nNevine, who was taking cover at a friend's house, says that Fekriya was devoted to her family and would host large weekly gatherings. But Nevine says her mood had been severely affected by the escalation in the conflict: \"She told me in our last phone call: 'I'm very depressed and exhausted from what seems to be an endless war'.\"\n\nBrothers Mazen, 17 and Ahmed, 13 were among those killed by the explosion at the al-Ahli Hospital on 17 October.\n\nPalestinian officials say the blast was caused by an Israeli air strike. But the Israeli military say it was the result of a failed rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic Jihad - an accusation the group rejected.\n\nArafat Abu Massi, the father of Mazen and Ahmed, said the two brothers were \"very close to each other\" but had very different personalities.\n\nArafat and his wife had undergone IVF therapy for eight years to have Mazen, who was at high school and wanted to become a dentist. \"He was the brightest of all my children,\" he says. While Ahmed was described by his father as \"the strongest and bravest in the family\" - and the entrepreneurial one.\n\n\"He used to sell toys and school supplies in a small booth near our house,\" Arafat said.\n\nHis only remaining child now is three-year-old Faraj, who, according to Arafat, keeps crying and asking where his siblings are. \"I told him that God has chosen them to stay in heaven. That is a better place for my two young smart gentlemen.\"\n\nSalam Mema, a 32-year-old Palestinian journalist, was killed on 10 October when her house in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, was hit by an Israeli air strike, her friend told the BBC.\n\nHer husband, their two-year-old daughter Sham, their seven-year-old son Hadi, and other members of the family, were also killed, leaving their five-year-old son Ali as the sole survivor.\n\nAs of 31 October, Salam was one of 31 journalists confirmed killed on both sides, since the Israel-Hamas conflict began.\n\nThe 26-year-old pharmacist was killed in an air strike in the southern city of Rafah, on 17 October.\n\nShe was sleeping beside her three-month-old baby girl Elyana, and her husband.\n\nSafaa's uncle and a retired medical doctor based in the UK, Omar Hassouna, said her parents managed to survive the strike but are in shock and devastated by her death.\n\nOmar said the last time he saw his niece was in January, during his holiday in Gaza. \"Safaa was polite, helpful, and loved by everyone.\n\n\"I have lost a lovely niece. Her death is unfair, as all the deaths of all of the civilians in Gaza have been.\"\n\n\"I would prefer to be in Gaza with them right now, I feel so hopeless here.\"", "The World Health Organization chief said he was \"utterly shocked\" by the explosion at Al-Shifa\n\nThe Palestinian Red Crescent says at least 15 people have been killed in an Israeli strike on an ambulance outside Gaza City's biggest hospital.\n\nBBC Verify has verified graphic videos showing badly injured and possibly dead people lying outside the Al-Shifa hospital.\n\nThe Israeli military has confirmed it struck an ambulance that it says was being used by Hamas operatives.\n\nIt did not say where the air strike took place.\n\n\"An IDF aircraft struck an ambulance that was identified by forces as being used by a Hamas terrorist cell in close proximity to their position in the battle zone,\" it said in a statement.\n\nIt said a number of Hamas fighters had been killed and accused Hamas of transferring militants and weapons in ambulances, but has not yet supplied evidence of this.\n\n\"We emphasise that this area is a battle zone. Civilians in the area are repeatedly called upon to evacuate southwards for their own safety,\" it added.\n\nEarlier, the Hamas-run health ministry said 13 people were killed in a blast outside Al-Shifa.\n\nIn a statement posted on X (formerly Twitter), the Palestinian Red Crescent said \"the deliberate targeting of medical teams constitutes a grave violation of the Geneva Conventions, a war crime\".\n\nBBC Verify studied three videos - one of which is very graphic - and established that they were filmed outside the hospital and were uploaded on Friday afternoon.\n\nIn one video, people were filmed lying in pools of blood in the road next to vehicles - some were severely injured and some were not moving.\n\nThere is no crater visible in the footage we've seen so far, and no debris or shrapnel visible. There's damage to the front of an ambulance and some cars on the road have smashed windows.\n\nIn its statement, the Palestinian Red Crescent said the convoy was struck twice on its way to the Al-Shifa hospital - once 1km (0.62 miles) away and a second time outside the hospital gate, where it said it had arrived to unload patients.\n\nA Hamas government statement said Israeli forces targeted \"a convoy of ambulances which was transporting the wounded\" from Al-Shifa hospital Gaza City towards Rafah in the south.\n\nEgypt's health ministry said just 17 wounded Palestinians were evacuated for treatment in Egyptian hospitals on Friday instead of the 28 originally planned because of the \"events\" at Al-Shifa.\n\nThe head of the World Health Organization said he was \"utterly shocked\" by the explosion at Al-Shifa.\n\n\"We reiterate: patients, health workers, facilities and ambulances must be protected at all times. Always,\" Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus posted on X.\n\nBisan Owda, a Palestinian filmmaker, was nearby when the attack happened.\n\n\"Some people lost their legs, lost their hands, people were trying to carry injuries,\" she told the BBC. \"People were crying, trying to find each other.\"\n\nIn addition to the patients at Al-Shifa, thousands more people are sheltering from Israeli air strikes there.\n\nMs Owda said many were unable to find space inside the hospital and were sleeping in nearby streets,.\n\nThe Israeli military says there is a major Hamas headquarters situated underneath the hospital.\n\nIn a separate incident in Gaza City on Friday, Gaza health officials said several people were killed and wounded in an Israeli strike on a school where hundreds were taking shelter. Israel has not yet commented.\n\nIsrael began bombing Gaza after Hamas killed more than 1,400 people in Israel and kidnapped more than 240 others.\n\nIt has also launched a ground operation and on Thursday said its forces had encircled Gaza City.\n\nIsrael has warned people to move to the south of the Gaza Strip and hundreds of thousands have left Gaza City and northern areas. But many thousands remain in northern Gaza.\n\nContinued Israeli air strikes in the southern Gaza Strip, where Israel had told Gazans to go, as well as overcrowded conditions there have prompted some Palestinians to return to their homes in northern Gaza,\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 9,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since 7 October.", "Flowers were laid outside the Motorpoint Arena\n\nCrowds of people have gathered in memory of an ice hockey player who died after his neck was cut during a match.\n\nNottingham Panthers player Adam Johnson suffered the injury from a skate worn by Sheffield Steelers player Matt Petgrave on 28 October.\n\nThe 29-year-old was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.\n\nFans and mourners came together at the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham to pay tribute to Johnson.\n\nThe incident has been described as a \"freak accident\" by the Panthers.\n\nNottingham Panthers forward Adam Johnson was playing at the Utilita Arena in Sheffield when he was fatally injured\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A two-minute silence was held at the arena\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, Panthers players and staff spent time reflecting on their memories of Johnson while signing the books of condolence.\n\nFans were invited on to the ice, which was carpeted, to sign the books.\n\nThe club said local mental health charities would be at the foyer of the arena \"for those that want to have a conversation\".\n\nFan Michelle Hallam described her experience of the incident, adding she was there with her son and his friends - along with 40 pupils from their school - for their first Panthers game.\n\n\"At first I don't think they realised the seriousness of what had happened,\" she told BBC Radio Nottingham.\n\n\"I'd made sure that they put their heads down and they weren't actually watching everything that was then unfolding on the ice.\"\n\nMs Hallam said she returned to the arena on Monday to lay flowers, and then again with her son \"because he wanted to see all the tributes\".\n\n\"He was on edge a bit just walking near the arena,\" she said.\n\nShe added hopefully in time, they will watch another ice hockey game with her son's friends and family.\n\nInside the stadium, fans queued to sign books of condolence\n\nRonnie Woolley, a Sheffield Steelers fan who was also at the match, said it had been a \"really hard week\".\n\n\"Everybody's in shock because it was an absolute tragedy,\" he said.\n\nMr Woolley said he returned to the arena on Monday and again for the gathering on Saturday with his partner to \"pay our respects\", along with other Steelers fans.\n\n\"It's the least we can do and say goodbye to Adam,\" he said. \"Obviously, he wasn't a Steeler, he was a Panther, but that doesn't matter.\n\n\"Everybody's coming together because ice hockey fans are like one big family.\"\n\nSheffield Steelers supporter Ronnie Woolley (right) said ice hockey fans were \"like one big family\"\n\nSpeaking on KSTP-TV - a local news station based in Minnesota in the US - Johnson's aunt Kari Johnson said he was planning to propose to his partner Ryan Wolfe.\n\nAn inquest into Johnson's death opened and adjourned on Friday, which heard he was formally identified by Ms Wolfe.\n\nAn official fundraising page, launched by the club \"with the permission of Adam's family\", has so far raised more than £45,000.\n\nThe fund will support local charitable activities in his home town of Hibbing, Minnesota.\n\nJohnson's funeral will take place in the US on Sunday, according to an obituary posted on the website of Dougherty Funeral Home in Hibbing.\n\nThe obituary said: \"Adam had a quiet confidence about him and was never boastful.\n\n\"He was never looking to be the centre of attention, but rather he preferred to listen to others and do what he could to make them feel important.\"\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police has launched an investigation into the incident, which they say \"is likely to take some time\".\n\nHundreds of people have gathered to pay tribute to Adam Johnson\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Grab your trumpet! Polish the golden carriage! Dust down the throne! It's nearly time. Time for Charles III to make history, giving the first King's Speech in 70 years.\n\nTime for one of the country's finest ceremonial occasions, when a good chunk of all the King's horses and all the King's men trot from the Palace to Parliament before the monarch makes a speech to MPs, members of the House of Lords and all of us.\n\nTuesday's speech will be one of those bizarrely British mashups of arcane tradition (10 points if you know what the Cap of Maintenance is) and modern politics.\n\nIt's a big moment for a new monarch. And it's the last chance for a government in trouble to introduce a programme of new laws in the hope of shaking them out of the doldrums and grabbing your attention.\n\nNew laws take a long time to go through Parliament. So while Prime Minister Rishi Sunak still has at least a year to try to turn things around before he must call an election, the speech is, insiders admit privately, more or less the last chance for the Conservatives to transform ideas into reality - if they want to get them on the statute book before we all go to the polls.\n\nBut all the fancy regal fanfares in the world on Tuesday might be drowned out by bigger realities.\n\nKing Charles - as Prince of Wales - delivered the Queen's Speech in May 2022 on behalf of his mother for the first time\n\nTop of the list, the conflict in the Middle East. Whether it is the fraught practicalities of helping Brits get out of Gaza, or the diplomatic efforts to coax Israel to pause hostilities there, the conflict is naturally gobbling up political time and energy - and dominating the headlines. Although it is Labour leader Keir Starmer, not Rishi Sunak, who is facing more political pressure on the matter from many within his own ranks.\n\nNext, days of evidence at the Covid inquiry are confirming, in ever-more gruesome detail, just how grim the atmosphere was at the top of government during the pandemic.\n\nAnd much more important than Dominic Cummings' habit of inventing ever more vile swear words, evidence this week suggested that in a moment of profound national emergency, our government just could not cope.\n\nMemories of those agonising months have been stirred. We have seen in black and white, from messages between senior officials, that the notion of spreading the virus - \"herd immunity\" like chicken pox - was indeed part of the initial approach that was subsequently denied. And the civil service boss of the Department for Health said, on the record, that the first lockdown was a week too late. Remember just how bitter the political arguments were about the timing of the lockdown, and whether herd immunity had ever been the plan.\n\nThe Covid evidence this week is important for the simple reason that the inquiry is trying to build a complete record of what happened during those months of emergency. But the daily drip of claims hampers Rishi Sunak's ability to move on.\n\nHe was the second most senior minister in the government that struggled so badly, described by one of its most senior civil servants as a \"terrible, tragic, joke\". His \"Eat Out to Help Out\" scheme, it has already emerged, was branded \"Eat out to help the virus\" by government medics.\n\nThe prime minister consistently tries to present himself to the public as a clean break from several years of chaos. But the inquiry's reminders of the problems of the pandemic, and the political failures, dredge up memories of all that.\n\nEven without those two huge blocks in his political path, is Mr Sunak planning to seize Tuesday as a day of radical action anyway?\n\nInsiders caution against expecting any shiny new ideas or revolutionary plans. You can read a primer on what might be coming up here.\n\nSome cabinet ministers worry it is all a bit \"managerial\", all a bit \"tinkering\", not really talking to the problems millions of voters are facing right now.\n\nPM Rishi Sunak in conversation with Elon Musk, in London on 2 November\n\nThe AI summit, and Rishi Sunak's encounter with tech billionaire Elon Musk, complete with dropped consonants and a mid-Atlantic twang, showed that No 10 can generate attention - it can make things happen.\n\nBut whether that is translated into an energetic and packed actual programme to get things done on Tuesday? Don't be so sure.\n\nWhile a senior source says the King's Speech is a \"chance to reset the dynamic\", don't expect big surprises to make that happen.\n\nYou will see laws coming to bring in changes on sentencing that were announced at party conference last month.\n\nYou will also likely see a new law on oil and gas licences that will try to set a trap for Labour. It is one of those strange things in politics where sometimes a government will introduce a law that isn't necessarily needed, but will just make life awkward for their opponents. There are divisions in the Labour Party over whether or not new licences should be granted for fossil fuel exploration. If the Tories make them vote on it, that could be politically tricky for Keir Starmer.\n\nSo on Tuesday, the biggest fanfare may be from the real trumpets that will sound in Parliament, not political excitement.\n\nAfter delivering the Queen's Speech in May 2022, Charles and Camilla processed out behind the Imperial State Crown\n\nThe ongoing conflict in the Middle East, and last week's revelations from the Covid inquiry, both make it harder for the government to be heard.\n\nBut this coming week, a coming reminder of perhaps Rishi Sunak's biggest obstacle. Like any prime minister, he has to deal with \"events\" beyond his control that can knock any leader off course. The real nightmare though, is how to escape from under the weight of what has gone wrong under Conservative PMs who have gone before.\n\nAs King, Tuesday will be Charles's first outing in that grandest of ceremonies in Parliament. Without a dramatic turn for Rishi Sunak, this King's Speech could be this PM's last.\n\nPS: The \"Cap of Maintenance\" is a red velvet hat, lined with ermine, that is one of the Royal Family's insignia. It's normally carried by the leader of the House of Lords on these big days as part of the procession.\n\nIf you got that right, 10 points and your prize, along with everyone else, is to watch the Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden in the studio with me tomorrow morning at 09:00 on BBC One, along with our other guests and a special interview with the Succession star, Sarah Snook.", "Hamburg Airport is closed as negotiations with the suspect continue\n\nPolice in Germany are dealing with a hostage situation at Hamburg Airport after an armed man drove through a security barrier and onto the tarmac.\n\nIt is understood that the man, 35, and a child, 4, remain in the vehicle which is parked under a plane.\n\nOfficers are in contact with the driver, who entered the airport on Saturday evening at about 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT).\n\nThe airport has been closed and all flights indefinitely suspended.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Hamburg police on Sunday described the ongoing situation as \"tense\" but said the fact that the suspect was still communicating with them was a good sign.\n\n\"We have to consider that he has a gun with him and we also have to consider that he possibly has some explosive devices with him,\" Sandra Levgruen told German broadcaster ZDF, adding that the child is thought to be unharmed.\n\nThe situation began when the man drove his car to the airport's apron, the area where aircraft are usually parked. According to local media, he parked under a Turkish Airlines plane.\n\nPolice said the man shot his weapon twice in the air and threw burning bottles from the vehicle.\n\nThe authorities believe that the situation involves a \"custody dispute\". The child's mother is reported to have alerted emergency services that the four-year-old had been taken.\n\nMs Levgruen said the man did not agree with some decisions made by the authorities in relation to the custody arrangement and wanted to travel to Turkey with the child.\n\n\"He speaks about his life being a heap of shards,\" she said.\n\nLocal media have also reported that the negotiations with him are being conducted in Turkish through a translator but it is unclear what his connection to the country is.\n\nPsychologists as well as officers specialised in negotiations are on site, police said, along with special forces.\n\nAround half of the departures and arrivals planned for Sunday have been cancelled, with some flights diverted, according to Hamburg Airport. They have warned there will be further delays and cancellations throughout the day.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "President Zelensky rejected suggestions that fighting in Ukraine had reached a stalemate\n\nThe Israel-Gaza war is \"taking away the focus\" from the conflict in Ukraine, the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted.\n\nHe said this was \"one of the goals\" of Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nAnd he denied that fighting in Ukraine had reached a stalemate, despite a recent assessment to this effect by the country's top military general.\n\nUkraine's counter-offensive in the south has so far made little headway.\n\nThis has prompted fears of war fatigue among Kyiv's Western allies, with suggestions of growing reluctance in some capitals to continue giving Ukraine advanced weapons and funds.\n\nIn a separate development on Saturday, Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov confirmed that Ukrainian soldiers from 128th Mountain Assault Brigade \"Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia)\" were killed, ordering a \"full investigation in what he described as a \"tragedy\".\n\nHe did not say how many soldiers died in what Ukraine's military said was a Russian missile strike in the southern Zaporizhzhia region on Friday.\n\nReports in Ukrainian media and among Russian military bloggers earlier said more than 20 Ukrainian service personnel were killed during an award ceremony in a village close to the front lines.\n\nUkraine's military also said that on Saturday it successfully hit \"sea and port infrastructure\" of a shipbuilding plant in Crimea - Ukraine's southern peninsula illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.\n\nRussia's defence ministry was later quoted by the country's state-run news agencies as saying that 13 out of 15 Ukrainian missiles fired on the plant in the city of Kerch, eastern Crimea, were shot down, but a Russian ship was damaged.\n\nSpeaking at Saturday's briefing in Kyiv with visiting European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Mr Zelensky said: \"It's clear that the war in the Middle East is taking away the focus\" from Ukraine.\n\nHe said Russia wanted this focus to be \"weakened\", but stressed that \"everything is in our powers\".\n\nMr Zelensky was also asked to comment on this week's assessment by Ukraine's chief military commander Valery Zaluzhny that the war was now moving to a \"positional\" or static stage, and this would benefit Moscow by \"allowing it to rebuild its military power\".\n\n\"Everyone is getting tired and there are different opinions,\" Mr Zelensky replied, adding: \"But this is not a stalemate.\"\n\nHe admitted that Russia was \"controlling the skies\" and that Ukraine urgently needed US-made F-16 warplanes and advanced anti-aircraft defences to change the situation.\n\nThe Ukrainian leader recalled that last year, there had also been a lot of talk about a stalemate on the vast battlefield in Ukraine - but he pointed to Kyiv's subsequent major military victories in the north-eastern Kharkiv region and Kherson in the south.\n\nRussia has in recent weeks been trying to advance in eastern Ukraine, with heavy shelling of the key town of Avdiivka\n\nMr Zelensky also rejected media reports that he was coming under growing pressure to consider negotiations with Russia.\n\n\"Today, no-one among EU, US leaders and others - our partners - is putting pressure for us to now sit down to negotiate with Russia, and give away something to it. This will not happen.\"\n\nMoscow on Thursday also commented on Mr Zaluzhny's assessment, with Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman saying the current battlefield situation was not a \"stalemate\".\n\n\"All the [war] goals that were set must be achieved,\" Dmitry Peskov said, adding that Ukraine must realise that \"even talking about any prospects for the Kyiv regime's victory on the battlefield is absurd\".\n\nPresident Putin has repeatedly claimed that Ukraine's counter-offensive had failed, while his Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said this week that Kyiv was losing the war despite supplies of new weapons from Nato allies.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK defence intelligence said in its latest report on Saturday that Russia \"has likely lost around 200 armoured vehicles during its assaults on the Donbas town of Avdiivka\" in eastern Ukraine.\n\n\"It is plausible that Russia has suffered several thousand personnel casualties around the town since the start of October 2023.\n\n\"Russia's leadership continues to demonstrate a willingness to accept heavy personnel losses for marginal territorial gains,\" the report said.\n\nMoscow has in recent weeks been trying to advance in eastern and north-eastern Ukraine - but Ukraine's military says all the attacks have been rebuffed.\n\nThe claims by the two warring sides have not been independently verified.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Police were called to reports a large dog had attacked people and was on the loose in Hickling Court\n\nA man and woman have been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a suspected American bully XL attack.\n\nNottinghamshire Police was called to the Hickling Court area of Mansfield shortly after 23:00 GMT on Friday, following reports a large dog had attacked people and was on the loose.\n\nPolice believe the woman fell from the window of a flat where the attack began.\n\nA 38-year-old man and 24-year-old woman have been arrested, officers added.\n\nThe pair have been held on suspicion of allowing a dog to be dangerously out of control.\n\nThe dog, thought to be a bully XL type, was seized from a nearby property and taken to secure kennels.\n\nPolice said the injuries sustained were not thought to be life-threatening, adding an investigation is ongoing to establish the full circumstances.\n\nThe American bully XL is being added to the list of banned dogs in England and Wales.\n\nFrom 1 February next year, it will be illegal to own one, unless the owner has successfully applied for it to be exempt.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Perry turned his home into Perry House, a men's sober living facility, in 2012\n\nA foundation has been set up in the name of late actor Matthew Perry to help those struggling with addiction.\n\nPerry, who was best known for playing Chandler in TV sitcom Friends, died last weekend at the age of 54.\n\nThe star battled addictions to alcohol and drugs for much of his adult life.\n\nA statement from the Matthew Perry Foundation said it was \"the realisation of Matthew's enduring commitment to helping others struggling with the disease of addiction\".\n\nIt added: \"In the spirit of Matthew Perry's enduring commitment to helping others struggling with the disease of addiction, we embark on a journey to honour his legacy by establishing the Matthew Perry Foundation, guided by his own words and experiences, and driven by his passion for making a difference in as many lives as possible.\"\n\nThe foundation's website also features one of Perry's quotes, which has been widely circulated since his death.\n\n\"When I die, I don't want Friends to be the first thing that's mentioned,\" he said last year. \"I want helping others to be the first thing that's mentioned. And I'm going to live the rest of my life proving that.\"\n\nIt also has another quote from his 2022 memoir: \"Addiction is far too powerful for anyone to defeat alone. But together, one day at a time, we can beat it down.\"\n\nA spokesman for the National Philanthropic Trust, which helps not-for-profit organisations raise money, confirmed it was managing the new fund.\n\nPerry's funeral is understood to have taken place in Los Angeles on Friday with US reports saying his Friends co-stars David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow were all in attendance.\n\nFriends co-creator Marta Kauffman said helping other addicts \"gave him purpose\"\n\nPerry was found dead in a hot tub in his Los Angeles home on 28 October. A post mortem examination was inconclusive and officials are awaiting the results of toxicology tests.\n\nFriends co-creator Marta Kauffman said she spoke to him two weeks ago and he was \"in a really good place, which is why this seems so unfair\".\n\nShe told NBC's Today show: \"He wanted to help other addicts and it gave him purpose.\"\n\nFriends co-creator David Crane agreed that helping other addicts \"absolutely became his purpose, his reason for being\".\n\nPerry turned his $10m Malibu beach compound into Perry House, a men's sober living facility, in 2012, and the project received an award from the White House the following year.\n\nHe sold it two years later but said he was still committed to providing services for recovering addicts.\n\nDavid Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow said they were \"utterly devastated\"\n\nOthers paying tribute in recent days have included fellow actor Hank Azaria, who said Perry had been like a \"brother\" and helped him stop drinking.\n\nIn a video posted on Instagram, he said: \"The night I went into AA [Alcoholics Anonymous], Matthew brought me in.\n\n\"The whole first year I was sober, we went to meetings together and he was such a great... I got to tell him this. As a sober person he was so caring and giving and wise and he totally helped me get sober.\"\n\nIn a joint statement released on Monday, Perry's five Friends co-stars said they were \"all so utterly devastated\" by the news of his death.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Video provided by activist Sayed Alwadaei shows his confrontation with Bob Stewart\n\nA Conservative MP who told an activist to \"go back to Bahrain\" has been found guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence and fined £600.\n\nBob Stewart, MP for Beckenham in south-east London, got into a row with Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei outside the Foreign Office's Lancaster House in Westminster on 14 December.\n\nHe told Mr Alwadaei: \"You're taking money off my country, go away.\"\n\nLabour and the Liberal Democrats have called for him to lose the Tory whip.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court heard the 74-year-old had been attending an event hosted by the Bahraini Embassy when Mr Alwadaei, the director of advocacy at the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, shouted: \"Bob Stewart, for how much did you sell yourself to the Bahraini regime?\"\n\nStewart replied: \"Go away, I hate you. You make a lot of fuss. Go back to Bahrain.\"\n\nMr Alwadaei challenged Stewart on his connections with the country, asking repeatedly whether he had accepted any money from the Bahraini government.\n\nThe MP, who was stationed in Bahrain as an Army officer in the 1960s, told the campaigner to \"get stuffed\" and added: \"Bahrain's a great place. End of.\"\n\nIn a post on X, formerly Twitter, Mr Alwadaei said: \"No-one should think twice about holding an MP or members of the government to account because of their skin colour.\n\n\"When I reported Mr Stewart to the Conservative Party, they didn't take action against him and when he was charged, they refused to suspend him.\n\n\"Given today's verdict, I expect them to take immediate action.\"\n\nPaul Jarvis, prosecuting, told the court: \"Mr Alwadaei felt upset and humiliated by what had taken place.\"\n\nHe added: \"He (Stewart) demonstrated racial hostility towards Mr Alwadaei by way of his comments.\"\n\nHowever, the prosecutor said Stewart \"was not motivated by racial hostility\".\n\nStewart's defence, Paul Cavin KC, had argued: \"There is no right to confront an MP in public and expect answers in a measured House of Commons way.\"\n\nHe added: \"Any hostility was based on the complainant's behaviour, conduct and speech towards the defendant.\"\n\nBaroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, 90, giving character evidence, said \"kind\" and \"thoughtful\" Stewart has a \"flippant\" manner, adding: \"He is given to saying things that are unwise but his heart is absolutely in the right place.\"\n\nAsked for his thoughts on the allegations of racial hostility, Stewart said: \"That's absurd, it's totally unfair. My life has been, I don't want to say destroyed, but I am deeply hurt at having to appear in a court like this.\n\n\"I am not a racist. He was saying that I was corrupt and that I had taken money.\n\n\"My honour was at stake in front of a large number of ambassadors.\"\n\nStewart has been an MP since 2010\n\nSpeaking after the guilty verdict, opposition parties, called for the Conservative whip to be removed from Mr Stewart, meaning he would need to sit as an independent MP.\n\nLabour chairwoman Anneliese Dodds said it was \"yet another serious Conservative scandal\".\n\n\"This behaviour is totally unacceptable for a sitting MP. Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party need to immediately take action, and remove the Conservative whip,\" she said.\n\nLiberal Democrat chief whip Wendy Chamberlain said: \"It's time Sunak finally acted with integrity. This should start with immediately removing the whip from Bob Stewart.\n\n\"Failing to remove the whip sends a dangerous message that behaviour like this is acceptable.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party said it was not commenting at the moment.\n\nParliamentary records show Stewart registered flights, accommodation and meals worth £5,349 during a four-day trip to Bahrain last November paid for by its ministry of foreign affairs.\n\nA separate entry covered by the Bahraini government shows another trip, worth £1,245.56, to visit an air show and meet its foreign minister.\n\nMr Alwadaei alleged the country is \"corrupt\" and a \"human rights violator\".\n\nClaire Walsh, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor of the CPS, said: \"His claim that his words were misinterpreted was rejected by the court in light of evidence presented by the CPS, including footage filmed by a witness and the victim's testimony.\n\n\"Hatred of any kind has no place in society and wherever our legal test is met, the CPS will not hesitate to prosecute those who perpetrate hate crimes.\"\n\nThe MP was also ordered to pay legal costs of £835.\n\nHis £600 fine would have been £400 had it not been for the seriousness of the hate crime he committed, the CPS said.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for heavy rain has been issued for parts of southern and south eastern England, where many communities have already been deluged following Storm Ciarán.\n\nThe BBC's Duncan Kennedy visited Bognor Regis, where homes have been breached by the flood waters.", "Israel's military has confirmed that its jets carried out an attack on Jabalia in Gaza.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry and a hospital director said at least 50 people were killed in the attack. Meanwhile, the Israeli military said the strike killed a senior Hamas commander and caused the collapse of Hamas's underground infrastructure.", "Taylor Swift is re-recording all of her first six albums\n\nIn a year of record-breaking achievements, Taylor Swift has done it again.\n\nA re-recording of her crossover pop album 1989 has become the UK's fastest-selling record of 2023.\n\n1989 (Taylor's Version) shifted 184,000 copies last week, more than double the opening-week sales of the 2014 original.\n\nIt is the only album released this year to go gold in a single week, and is Swift's 11th UK number one overall.\n\nAmong female artists, only Madonna has more chart toppers - and Swift is now within touching distance of her record of 12.\n\n1989 (Taylor's Version) was also the week's biggest-selling record on vinyl, with almost 62,000 copies sold.\n\nAnd three of the album's songs have debuted in the top 10 in the singles chart.\n\nAll three are extra, previously-unreleased \"from the vault\" tracks, with Is It Over Now? claiming the number one position, followed by Now That We Don't Talk at number two, and the provocatively-titled Slut! at five.\n\nSwift has seen similar success in the US, where 1989 (Taylor's Version) has sold 1.1 million copies since its release last Friday.\n\nOf that sum, 580,000 were on vinyl - the largest week for a single album in that format since modern sales tracking began in 1991.\n\nFurthermore, 1989 (Taylor's Version) instantly became the year's biggest-selling album in the US, surpassing Swift's own 2022 release Midnights.\n\nThe star now has the top three-selling albums of the year in her home country, with her re-recorded version of 2010's Speak Now in third position.\n\nThe achievement justifies Swift's decision to re-record all of her first six albums.\n\nShe started the project in 2021 after her old record label, Big Machine, sold her master tapes to music mogul Scooter Braun. He later sold them to an investment company.\n\nRather than lose control of her recordings, the star decided to recreate them - and also refuses to licence the originals for use in TV and film shows, denying the new owners a lucrative revenue stream.\n\nSwift has also scored the biggest tour of 2023, with her Eras stadium shows bringing in $300m (£242m) at the box office.\n\nLast week, the star was declared a billionaire by business publication Bloomberg, which estimated her net worth to be $1.1bn (£907m).\n\nOnly three other musicians have achieved billionaire status - Rihanna, Beyoncé and Jay-Z. However, Swift is the first to reach the milestone based on music alone, as her rivals' fortunes incorporate business ventures in fashion, beauty products and hi-fi equipment.\n\nSwift's UK chart dominance could be briefly interrupted next week by the return of four musicians from Liverpool.\n\nThe Beatles' \"last ever\" song, Now And Then, instantly became the UK's most-played song after its release on Thursday.\n\nOn Spotify, the ballad racked up 386,752 streams on Spotify - overtaking Swift's Is It Over Now?, which was played 383,000 times.\n\nIf the Fab Four can maintain that momentum over the next week, they could score their first UK number one single since The Ballad Of John And Yoko in 1969.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Cars were washed into the sea and roofs were blown off\n\nAround 40 flood warnings remain in place across the UK in the aftermath of Storm Ciarán.\n\nNearly 150,000 homes were left without power after the severe weather caused widespread flooding and damage.\n\nJersey recorded hurricane-force gusts of more than 100mph (161km/h).\n\nWhile the worst of the weather is now over, rain and \"violent\" winds are forecast for some parts of the UK this weekend, though a \"risk to life\" warning has been downgraded in Wales.\n\nA yellow rain warning expired for north-eastern Scotland at 17:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nA separate warning for the entire south coast of England will come into effect from 05:00 until the end of the day on Saturday, with 30-40mm of rainfall possible in coastal areas.\n\nNo deaths have so far been linked to the storm in the UK, but there have been at least 13 fatalities in mainland Europe.\n\nIn Wales, a severe flood warning around the Kiln Park caravan site in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, was downgraded at 16:46 to a flood warning, after previously cautioning that there was a \"significant risk to life and disruption to the community is expected\".\n\nHowever, there are fears that the next high tide, just after 21:30 on Friday, could raise the near-record level of the River Ritec further, bringing additional disruption. The caravan site has been already been evacuated.\n\nTwo separate flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible - are in place in Wales, with stwo more in Scotland.\n\nSome 38 English flood warnings - meaning flooding is expected - remain in force, largely across the south of the country, with a further 167 flood alerts stretching northwards, up to near Scarborough.\n\nBy Friday afternoon, Ciarán was moving away from the UK.\n\nBBC Weather meteorologist Helen Willetts said the remains of the storm, in the North Sea, is now much weaker.\n\nShe explained that it would will bring heavy, blustery showers but added that drier, sunnier spells can be expected in between.\n\nMs Willetts continued: \"However, in eastern and north-east Scotland, the rain will be persistent and occasionally heavy. Then overnight and through tomorrow (Saturday), more rain will push across England and Wales, and possibly eastern Northern Ireland as the wind picks up in the south.\n\n\"So again, it's the rain that is likely to cause more flooding and disruption as the ground is already saturated from the record breaking rainfall we have already seen in parts this October.\"\n\nFlooded fields and farmland at Alfriston, East Sussex, after the River Cuckmere burst its banks\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Jersey, where winds reached up to 100mph (161km/h) overnight\n\nSchools in Jersey - which saw some of Thursday's worst weather - remained closed for a second day on Friday and aim to reopen on Monday.\n\nSchools on the neighbouring islands of Guernsey and Alderney reopened on Friday, with the exception of the College of Further Education.\n\nJersey's airport was expected to remain closed to commercial flights until at least early on Friday afternoon due to storm damage.\n\nDozens of people on the island were evacuated to hotels overnight on Wednesday and locals were also hit by huge hailstones \"bigger than golf balls\".\n\nThe Met Office described the Channel Islands as having endured \"supercell thunderstorms\".\n\nLocals also faced hurricane-force winds, Jersey Met confirmed. Forecaster Matt Winter told BBC Radio Jersey that eastern parts of the island were \"briefly\" affected by a tornado.\n\nA clip from St Clement in Jersey showed Jessica O'Reilly sleeping in bed alongside her baby when the sound of the \"weather bomb\" woke her - seconds before the window was blown inwards.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Woman wakes up to window being blown in\n\nShe described the moment her \"motherly instinct\" kicked in, telling the BBC: \"We went up to bed and could hear the wind getting stronger and stronger, closer and closer.\n\n\"Something didn't seem right, then the windows just smashed in, I grabbed [my daughter] and got out the room.\n\n\"I think I just thought 'my baby's in danger, I need to get out' and ran down the stairs.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: At the scene where a 'tornado' struck Jersey\n\nStudent Kate Marsh told the BBC she was woken at 05:30 when the roof of her bedroom in Falmouth, Cornwall, entirely blew off and collapsed onto her.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a flooding recovery operation is under way in Newry and Newcastle following heavy rain earlier this week, while an emergency response continues in Downpatrick, Co Down.\n\nThe Department for Infrastructure said it did not expect to be able to work to reduce the floodwater in Downpatrick until Friday, when river levels have dropped. A spokesperson for the department said rivers in some areas had reached record levels and remained very high. The damage caused by flooding in Downpatrick has \"ripped the heart out of the town\", a local businessman told the BBC.\n\nThe flooding in Downpatrick has reached record high levels following several days of heavy rain\n\nLeatherhead Football Club, in southern England, has been badly flooded\n\nElsewhere across the British Isles, roofs were blown off homes, some train lines completely ground to a halt and there were long queues around the Port of Dover, which shut earlier amid rough seas.\n\nRoughly 146,000 homes - mostly in the south of England - were left without power, and by 08:00 on Friday around 600 properties still had no electricity.\n\nA spokesperson for the Energy Networks Association (ENA) said: \"While difficult conditions remain, with violent winds forecast until the end of the day, teams from across the country are working together to continue to reconnect customers where it is safe to do so.\"\n\nSome rail services remain disrupted, with LNER - the main train operator on the East Coast Main Line between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley - advising passengers not to travel until Saturday, amid a significant number of expected delays and cancellations.\n\nSeveral other train operators, notably in Devon and Cornwall, also warned of disruption on Friday while debris from Storm Ciarán was cleared from the tracks, but normal service has resumed elsewhere.\n\nMeanwhile, a section of West Bay cliff in Dorset collapsed onto a beach after it was hit by huge waves.\n\nAnd in Leatherhead, Surrey, a local football club has been swamped by flood water, putting a home game on Saturday afternoon in major doubt.\n\nWestern Europe has also been battered, with at least 13 deaths linked to the storm. France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Croatia and Slovenia were all hit, while in Belgium a five-year-old boy was killed by a falling branch in the town of Ghent.\n\nIn the Italian region of Tuscany, six people lost their lives as a result of the severe conditions, with several others missing and a number of hospitals flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpecialists in flooding have suggested the UK needs to be more proactive when making plans to avert the impact of storms.\n\nProf Hannah Cloke, who specialises in hydrology at the University of Reading, says building resilience to storms requires action when the \"going is good, and that can seem expensive and unnecessary to many people when the sun is shining\".\n\nTrevor Hoey, a professor of river science at Brunel University and director of the Centre for Flood Risk and Resilience, added that there is risk of being reactive and waiting \"until there has been a flood event and then we try to stop that event from occurring again in the same place in the future\".\n\nExperts say a warming atmosphere increases the chance of intense rainfall and storms.\n\nHowever, many factors contribute to extreme weather and it takes time for scientists to calculate how much impact climate change has had on particular events - if any.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nHow are you affected by Storm Ciarán? Share your pictures and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Actor Matthew Perry has been laid to rest at a Los Angeles cemetery following a private funeral on Friday, according to US media reports.\n\nAll five of his co-stars from hit sitcom Friends attended the service alongside Perry's family, it was reported.\n\nThe funeral service at the Forest Lawn cemetery, near Warner Bros Studios, is said to have lasted two hours.\n\nPerry was found dead at his LA home last weekend at the age of 54.\n\nHis cause of death has not been confirmed. A post-mortem examination was inconclusive and officials are awaiting the results of toxicology tests.\n\nThe star played wise-cracking Chandler Bing on Friends from 1994 to 2004, with his death generating an outpouring of grief from fans and fellow celebrities.\n\nForest Lawn Memorial Park is the resting place of numerous Hollywood stars including Carrie Fisher, Paul Walker and Stan Laurel.\n\nUS media shared long-distance and aerial photographs from outside the service, where Perry's Friends co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer could be seen.\n\nHis mother, father, and stepfather were also there. About 20 people dressed in black attended in total, according to TMZ.\n\nPerry's co-stars were said to have attended the service\n\nPerry's death came one year after the publication of memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, which chronicled his decades-long struggle with addiction to prescription painkillers and alcohol.\n\nOn the same day as his funeral, a new foundation was launched in Perry's name to help those struggling with addiction.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Friends fans on why Matthew Perry was the perfect Chandler\n\nThe website for the Matthew Perry Foundation leads with a quote from Perry that says: \"When I die, I don't want Friends to be the first thing that's mentioned - I want helping others to be the first thing that's mentioned.\"\n\nFriends co-creator Marta Kauffman said she spoke to Perry two weeks ago, telling NBC's Today programme he was \"happy and chipper\" and seemed \"in a really good place\".", "The HH212 structure is 1.6 light-years in length\n\nImagine you could go back in time 4.6 billion years and take a picture of our Sun just as it was being born. What would it look like?\n\nWell, you can get a clue from this glorious new image acquired by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).\n\nTowards the centre of this object, called HH212, is a star coming into existence that is probably no more than 50,000 years old.\n\nThe scene would have looked much the same when our Sun was a similar age.\n\nYou can't actually see the glow from the protostar itself because it's hidden within a dense, spinning disc of gas and dust.\n\nAll you get are the pinky-red jets that it's shooting out in polar opposite directions.\n\nHH212 is sited in Orion, close to the three brilliant stars that make up the \"belt\" of the mythical hunter that gives the constellation its name. The distance from Earth is about 1,300 light-years.\n\nPhysics suggests those dramatic outflows of gas are the means by which the nascent star regulates its birthing.\n\n\"As the blobby ball of gas at the centre compacts down, it rotates. But if it rotates too fast, it will fly apart, so something has to get rid of the angular momentum,\" explained Prof Mark McCaughrean.\n\n\"We think it's jets and outflows. We think that as all the material shrinks down, magnetic fields are pulled together and then some of the material coming in through the disc gets captured on magnetic fields and is thrown out through the poles. That's why we call these structures bi-polar,\" the European Space Agency senior scientific advisor told BBC News.\n\nThe pinky-red colour denotes the presence of molecular hydrogen. That's two hydrogen atoms bonded together (rather like the \"HH\" in the protostar's name). Shockwaves are moving through the outflows, energising them and making them glow brightly in this Webb picture, which was captured predominantly at the infrared wavelength of 2.12 microns (that's the second part of the protostar's name!).\n\nThe image of HH212 was acquired by JWST's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam). You can't see the protostar itself because it's obscured by a dense, infalling disc of gas and dust. There are a few mature stars in the field of view, but most of the points of light are far-distant galaxies.\n\nIn the annotated picture above, look closely at the left and right jets, and trace the knots of brightness in each of them. Count the bowshocks - where faster material has crashed into slower material just ahead of it.\n\nThe structures are remarkably symmetric... except there appears to be an additional, albeit very messy bowshock on the right.\n\nIn fact, there's probably a complementary bowshock on the other side. There are certainly pinky hints of it in a wider version of this Webb image. It's just that the density of gas and dust in space in that direction is thinner and so there's less material to excite and so the shock structure appears much more diffuse.\n\nAstronomers have been studying HH212 for 30 years, taking pictures every now and then to see how it's changed. As you might expect from the Webb super telescope, its new view is 10 times sharper than anything we've had before and will enable scientists to delve deeper into the processes that drive star formation.\n\nA nice feature is to run together the entire image history to make a movie, to see how elements in the jet structures change over time. Repeat observations mean you can also gauge the speed at which those elements are moving - at 100km per second and more.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: See how the structure of HH212 has changed since being viewed in 2000\n\nI've kind of suggested the HH stands for molecular hydrogen, and it's a neat fit. But it really stands for Herbig-Haro, after George Herbig and Guillermo Haro, who did the pioneering work on this type of object in the 1940s and 50s.\n\nThey would no doubt be amazed by the capabilities of JWST. It's not just the sharpness of image that Webb can achieve with its 6.5m primary mirror, it's also the breadth of colour its instruments can now detect that makes the telescope so special.\n\n\"As we said, the main wavelength for looking at these things - for looking at shocked molecular hydrogen - is 2.12 microns, or roughly four times longer than the mid-visible. But for the first time, we now have a good colour image of this particular object because we're able to observe it at other wavelengths that you just couldn't see from ground telescopes. And that will help us get into what's really happening in the jets,\" said Prof McCaughrean.\n\nWebb was intended to be transformative in many fields of astronomy, and the study of Herbig-Haro objects has definitely benefitted.\n\nLook below and you can marvel at HH212's cousin, called HH211. This object, located in the Perseus constellation, is even younger, again measured in mere thousands of years. To think our Sun started out like this.\n\nHH211 is younger. Like its cousin, the jets are expanding at a rate of roughly 100km/s\n\nJWST is a joint venture between the US, European and Canadian space agencies.", "The airport confirmed that cars on the inner levels cannot be recovered\n\nThe car park that caught fire at Luton Airport will have to be \"fully demolished\", the airport confirmed.\n\nThe fire broke out on level three of Terminal Car Park 2 on 10 October and was thought to have started in a diesel car before spreading rapidly.\n\nThe airport said any cars parked on levels ground to three \"are not recoverable\".\n\nHowever a process is still \"ongoing\" to remove around 100 vehicles from the top deck.\n\nNeil Thompson, operations director at the airport, said: \"Regrettably, I can now confirm that, due to the extent of the structural damage, the car park will need to be fully demolished.\"\n\nCars from the top level are being removed to make the car park more stable\n\nThe decision was confirmed by a \"full structural report\".\n\nMr Thompson said removal of around 100 vehicles from the top deck was still under way \"to stabilise the structure\".\n\n\"This has been a painstaking task and has taken longer than expected, not least because we have been hampered by periods of bad weather and strong winds,\" he said.\n\nHe advised anybody who believed their car was on the top deck to contact their insurance companies, which were working to retrieve those vehicles.\n\nThe fire broke out at about 20:45 BST on 10 October at the Terminal Car Park 2 which is right next to the main terminal\n\n\"It is reassuring to note that the vast majority of insurance claims have been settled,\" Mr Thompson added.\n\n\"Customers who have yet to receive a final settlement are advised to contact their insurance company as soon as possible.\n\n\"On behalf of everyone at London Luton Airport, I would like to thank all affected customers for their patience and understanding as we have worked through this unprecedented situation.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US has confirmed for the first time that it has been flying unarmed surveillance drones over Gaza.\n\nPentagon spokesman Brig Gen Pat Ryder said the drones were operating in \"support of hostage recovery efforts\".\n\n\"These UAV flights began after the Oct 7 attack by Hamas on Israel,\" he said in a brief statement.\n\nThe acknowledgement comes after reporters spotted unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) on flight-tracking websites.\n\n\"The US is conducting unarmed UAV flights over Gaza, as well as providing advice and assistance to support our Israeli partner as they work on their hostage recovery efforts,\" the Pentagon's statement on Friday said.\n\nThe confirmation comes after reporters spotted MQ-9 Reapers, usually operated by American special forces, circling Gaza on Flightradar24, a publicly available flight-tracking website.\n\nReaper drones have previously been deployed to conduct airstrikes in Afghanistan, but are primarily used as surveillance aircraft because of their ability to \"loiter\" above an area for more than 20 hours at a time.\n\nUnnamed US military officials told the New York Times that the drones were not helping co-ordinate Israeli military action in and around Gaza. Officials told the newspaper that information related to hostage recovery was being passed on to the Israelis.\n\nThese are not the only remote-controlled American military vehicles operating in the region.\n\nOn Thursday, the US Navy announced that it had fired lethal munitions from an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) - a speed boat - in the international waters of the Arabian Sea.\n\nIn a statement, the Navy noted that the test on 23 October was the first time combat munitions had been fired from a USV in the Middle East.\n\nThe US Navy said the development brings American military capabilities in the region to the \"next level\".\n\nLast month, the US Navy said it had shot down multiple drones and rockets fired from Yemen that were appearing to head towards Israel.\n\nThe US has also sent two aircraft carriers to the eastern Mediterranean, saying that they are there to prevent the war between Hamas and Israel from spreading.\n\nIn a fiery speech on Friday, the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah warned the US against using the ships to attack the militant group.\n\n\"Your fleets in the Mediterranean do not scare us and will never scare us,\" said Hassan Nasrallah.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Anne Keast-Butler says international collaboration on artificial intelligence is vital\n\nThe risks from artificial intelligence (AI) are unknown even to GCHQ, its director has told the BBC.\n\nIn her first interview since taking over the UK's largest intelligence agency, Anne Keast-Butler said AI could amplify existing threats and create new risks.\n\nShe said the uncertain nature of the risks made international collaboration vital.\n\nMs Keast-Butler was speaking after attending the UK's first AI summit.\n\nThe two-day gathering on artificial intelligence safety was held at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, home to Britain's code-breakers during World War II.\n\nWhile war-time Bletchley's work was secret, its modern-day successor, GCHQ, now operates at least partly in the public eye with the intelligence agency's new director mingling with tech heads and foreign officials, including from China, at this week's summit.\n\nAnd AI brought two main concerns, Anne Keast-Butler told the BBC in an exclusive interview. One was the way it will amplify existing problems.\n\n\"Bad people will always want to use the latest technology,\" she said, pointing to the way in which AI is already being used to generate images of child-abuse and make it easier to carry out cyber-attacks and steal data.\n\nBut the other concern was uncertainty.\n\n\"There are lots of different views out there on artificial intelligence and whether it is going to end the world or be the best opportunity ever. And the truth is none of us really know,\" she told the BBC.\n\nEven with all the insight and technology available to GCHQ, she said it was impossible to be sure of the outcomes. \"My experience is when you don't know, you should plan for the worst. That way the outcomes are only better.\"\n\nShe said that meant ensuring the next generation of AI was built with safety and security in mind - including clear guardrails and testing before products were unleashed into the wild.\n\nEnsuring this was done by countries and companies working together was crucial, she said. \"There was real common consensus on doing that and doing it together,\" she added of the discussions at the summit.\n\nAnne Keast-Butler spoke with the BBC's Gordon Corera after an AI summit at Bletchley Park\n\nOverall though, she said she remains positive about artificial intelligence.\n\n\"I'm an AI optimist. As the head of GCHQ, I see how technology has really helped us get better and better at our job,\" she said.\n\nGCHQ collects and analyses global communications. Much of this is digital, as opposed to the radio signals from Bletchley days.\n\nIt has long used forms of what is now called AI for the translation of intercepted communications. But GCHQ is also now trying to use AI to analyse the emotion and meaning of the vast amounts of material it collects, in order to help human analysts and linguists zero in on the material of greatest interest.\n\nKeast-Butler, who spent most of her career in MI5, took over as 17th director of GCHQ in May 2023 and as the first woman in the role.\n\n\"It's a bit surprising to be in 2023 and discover that you can be the first woman to do anything,\" she said, adding that back in wartime Bletchley, 75% of the work-force were women.\n\nBut she added that in the years between, there had been a problem with the lack of women working in technology.\n\nWartime Bletchley, she said, was about bringing together technology and people in order to crack what seemed like insolvable problems - and that remained the priority today even in a very different world.", "David Berglas, one of the most influential magicians and mentalists of the 20th Century, has died aged 97.\n\nThe Magic Circle, seen as the most famous magic society in the world, confirmed Berglas died in London on Friday night.\n\nAlso known as the International Man of Mystery, he was the first magician to have his own programme on British TV, Meet David Berglas, in 1954.\n\nHis son Marvin said he was a \"giant in the magic fraternity\".\n\nIn the 1980s Berglas had a second television series - called The Mind of David Berglas - where he entertained celebrities, including Omar Sharif, Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland.\n\nThroughout the decades, he appeared frequently on British TV and radio and became a household name for his stunts, one of which included driving a car around London while blindfolded.\n\nBerglas was renowned for a trick called the Berglas Effect, with which he could find a spectator's chosen card at any number in a deck of cards.\n\nIt is regarded as the holy grail of magic effects, the secret of which he took to the grave.\n\nDavid Berglas with young contestants in the Southern Regional Finals of the Daily Express's spoon-bending contest in London in 1975\n\nThe magician was born to Jewish-German parents who fled the country when the Nazis took power in the 1930s.\n\nAfter the war, when he was involved with US military intelligence, he ended up in Bradford where he studied textiles, according to the Jewish Bradford heritage group.\n\nMr Berglas was appointed MBE in 2018 for his services to magic and psychology.\n\nHe said at the time: \"I am delighted to accept this honour but even more pleased that the art of magic has at last been recognised.\n\n\"I have spent over 60 years entertaining people in person, on radio and television - 'reading their minds' - but I certainly didn't see this one coming.\"\n\nHis son Marvin said: \"My father was a giant in the magic fraternity, known for his originality, creativity and showmanship.\n\n\"His mysteries have not only baffled audiences but also his peers. However, to us, his family, he will always be best remembered as a loving husband, father and grandfather.\"\n\nIllusionist Derren Brown hailed Berglas as \"one of our greatest living magical performers\" when Berglas was awarded his MBE.\n\n\"Generations of magicians owe him a debt of gratitude,\" Brown said.\n\n\"Each of my shows is indebted to his artistry and astonishing body of work. I thank him for his constant inspiration.\"\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Two Palestinian sisters have been reunited in Rafah, in southern Gaza.\n\nJulia, an 18-month-old toddler, was pulled from the rubble of a destroyed building and rushed to El-Najar Hospital.\n\nHer sister, five-year-old Joury, was also rescued from the rubble and was already there, being treated for her injuries.\n\n\"My sister, my beloved,\" Joury cried the moment she realised her sister had survived.\n\nThe two were with their family eating lunch when the building next to theirs was bombed, destroying the house they were in, the girls' uncle said.\n\nThe girls were treated for head injuries and were left scared and traumatised, their uncle added. They later left the hospital with their family.", "Boris Johnson has said it is \"very unlikely\" the first Covid lockdown could have been avoided by earlier action to stop the virus spreading.\n\nIn an extract from his statement to the Covid Inquiry, the former PM conceded it may have been \"possible\" to avert the nationwide restrictions.\n\nBut he wrote he couldn't think of interventions that would have enabled this, apart from drugs or a vaccine.\n\nThese were not available at the time the virus first struck, he added.\n\nIn hearings at the inquiry this week, Mr Johnson has faced criticism for not taking action sooner to stop the virus spreading in the early months of 2020.\n\nMr Johnson himself is due to give oral evidence later in the autumn, when his witness statement will be published in full.\n\nThe latest extract, written by Mr Johnson in August, seems to have been published because it was referred to in other testimony earlier this week.\n\nReflecting on the March 2020 lockdown, Mr Johnson writes: \"I am asked whether earlier interventions could have avoided the need for a national lockdown\".\n\n\"I suppose it is possible, but I cannot think what they might have been (short of a vaccine or drugs, which we did not have) and I think it highly unlikely\".\n\nElsewhere in his statement, he also defended first exploring alternative policies to lockdown, adding this was \"the duty of any pragmatic and responsible leader\".\n\nHe claimed that he had \"reflected\" many times on whether the lockdown did more harm than good, but argued: \"We were between a rock and a hard place, the devil and the deep blue sea\".\n\n\"We simply had no good choices, and it was necessary at all times to weigh up the harms that any choice would cause.\"\n\nHe added that he was worried about whether the economic impact might do more harm to the country than the virus, but he always attached \"the highest priority\" to human health.\n\nEarlier this week, the inquiry was shown a note that suggested the former prime minister agreed with some Tory MPs who thought Covid was \"nature's way of dealing with old people\".\n\nThe allegation comes from a diary entry written by Sir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser during the pandemic.\n\nOther figures, including Jeremy Hunt, the current chancellor, have argued the first set of restrictions could have been prevented.\n\nIn his own evidence in June, Mr Hunt - who was not in government when Covid struck - argued quarantining people sooner \"might have avoided\" the lockdown.\n\nHe claimed that the UK had not learned lessons from countries such as South Korea, which avoided a full national lockdown.\n\nHe told the inquiry that East Asian nations had adapted their pandemic strategies after viral outbreaks in the early 2000s, to favour mass quarantining and testing.\n\nBut he argued advisers in the UK, along with other Western countries, did not take a similar approach until it was too late to avoid lockdown completely.", "Croatia's foreign minister sparked controversy by greeting his German counterpart with a kiss, at an EU ministers meeting in Berlin on Thursday.\n\nGordan Grlić-Radman shook hands with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, then leaned forward to kiss her.\n\nHe has been criticised in some Croatian media reports, with women's rights activist Rada Boric describing the incident as \"highly inappropriate\".\n\nMr Grlić-Radman defended the moment as a \"warm, human approach to a colleague\". He said it was \"maybe an awkward moment\" and apologised \"to whoever took it that way.\"\n\nMs Baerbock has not commented so far.", "The home secretary is proposing new laws to restrict the use of tents by homeless people, arguing that many of them see it as a \"lifestyle choice\".\n\nSuella Braverman's plan would introduce new penalties in England and Wales for homeless people who authorities believe have rejected offers of help.\n\nThe plan was to stop \"those who cause nuisance... by pitching tents in public spaces,\" she said.\n\nHousing charity Shelter said: \"Nobody should be punished for being homeless\".\n\nThe plan is expected to be included in the King's speech on Tuesday, which sets out the government's legislative agenda and is expected to focus heavily on law and order.\n\nWriting on X, formerly known as Twitter, Ms Braverman said: \"Nobody in Britain should be living in a tent on our streets. There are options for people who don't want to be sleeping rough.\"\n\nShe said the government would always support those who are genuinely homeless, but added: \"We cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice.\"\n\nShe added: \"What I want to stop, and what the law-abiding majority wants us to stop, is those who cause nuisance and distress to other people by pitching tents in public spaces, aggressively begging, stealing, taking drugs, littering and blighting our communities.\"\n\nUnless action is taken, she said, \"British cities will go the way of places in the US like San Francisco and Los Angeles, where weak policies have led to an explosion of crime, drug taking and squalor.\"\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, the proposals are designed to replace elements of the 1824 Vagrancy Act.\n\nThe paper reported that sources had said the plans being considered were for two clauses to be inserted in the new criminal justice bill, which applies to England and Wales. This would target tents that cause a nuisance - such as by obstructing shop doorways.\n\nAccording to the report, the proposals include creating a civil offence whereby charities could be fined for handing out tents if they were deemed to have caused a nuisance.\n\nPolly Neate, chief executive of Shelter said: \"Living on the streets is not a lifestyle choice.\"\n\nShe added: \"Homelessness happens when housing policy fails and boils down to people not being able to afford to live anywhere.\n\n\"Private rents are at an all-time high, evictions are rising and the cost of living crisis continues.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner added that the government should take responsibility for the housing crisis, rather than blame homeless people.\n\n\"A toxic mix of rising rents and a failure to end no-fault evictions are hitting vulnerable people, yet after years of delay the Tories still haven't kept their promises to act,\" she said.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' home affairs spokesman, Alistair Carmichael, said it was \"grim politics\" to \"criminalise homeless charities for simply trying to keep vulnerable people warm and dry in winter\".\n\nHe added: \"This policy will do nothing to stop rough sleeping and will leave vulnerable people to face the harsh weather conditions without any shelter whatsoever.\"\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan described the proposal as \"deeply depressing\".\n\n\"The government should be investing more in social housing, uplifting housing benefit rates and banning no-fault evictions,\" he wrote on X.", "Some survivors are having to sleep in tents after their homes were destroyed\n\nMore than 150 people have been killed after an earthquake struck remote western Nepal on Friday.\n\nSecurity forces have been deployed to help rescue efforts in the rugged districts of Jajarkot and West Rukum, 500km (310 miles) west of Kathmandu.\n\nStrong tremors were felt far away in the Nepalese capital and in cities in neighbouring India, including Delhi.\n\nThe government said about 375 people had been injured. Jajarkot's hospital is packed with the wounded.\n\nSome people have had to be airlifted as far as Kathmandu, but officials are worried about getting others out after nightfall.\n\nOne survivor, Geethakumari Bista, told the BBC that rescuers saved her elder daughter, but she lost her younger daughter.\n\n\"We three were in the same room on the top floor. Everything happened so suddenly. We couldn't understand what was happening,\" she recalled.\n\nAfter their house collapsed, they were buried in the rubble.\n\n\"People shouted around. The armed police came and I shouted: 'I am alive, too'... First, they rescued my elder daughter by carrying her out and taking her downstairs. Unfortunately, they couldn't save my younger one. She was 14 years old.\"\n\nThree more tremors were felt within an hour of the quake. Local authorities urged people to stay outside for at least 24 hours as minor aftershocks are being reported in the areas.\n\nVideo footage on local media showed crumbled facades of multi-storied brick houses. People were pictured digging through rubble in the dark to pull survivors from the remains of collapsed buildings in posts on social media.\n\nUnicef Nepal said that they were assessing the damage and the toll of the disaster on children and families.\n\nNepal's Prime Minister, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, arrived in the affected region on Saturday, after expressing his \"deep sorrow\" at the loss of life and property wrought by the quake, on social media platform X. He said he had ordered security agencies to immediately launch rescue and relief operations.\n\nA cabinet meeting on Sunday is expected to decide whether to accept foreign assistance for relief and rescue. Officials said many countries, including Nepal's neighbours China and India, had offered humanitarian help.\n\nSearch and rescue operations are being hampered by roads becoming blocked by landslides that were triggered by the quake.\n\n\"Houses have collapsed. People rushed out of their homes. I am out in the crowd of terrified residents,\" said a police official from the region, Santosh Rokka, who spoke to Reuters immediately after the earthquake.\n\n\"We were sleeping. We felt like dying,\" says Laxman Pun, an earthquake survivor. Their house has been damaged and they could survive \"with much difficulty\", he told BBC Nepali. \"We don't know where we will be able to stay. We will probably need tents.\"\n\n\"Our house shook back and forth like a swing. As we rushed outside, there were houses falling and dust everywhere. We couldn't see anything and so we again moved inside. We came out after the tremors stopped,\" said Siddha Bohora, a bank manager from Jajarkot.\n\nIn Athaviskot municipality, one of the areas worst affected by the earthquake, three people who had critical injuries were sent to hospitals in Surkhet by an army helicopter for further treatment.\n\nMunicipality chief Ravi KC warned that because of the cold weather, the victims who lost their houses will \"suffer more\". The municipality has a population of about 35,000 and hundreds of houses were completely damaged, according to KC.\n\nLocal government officials, police and army have been deployed for rescue operations, as there are still bodies left to be recovered from the rubble.\n\nThe earthquake was recorded at 23:47 local time (18:02 GMT), according to Nepal's Monitoring and Research Centre.\n\nThe US Geological Survey measured the earthquake at a magnitude of 5.6 and said it was a shallow earthquake, meaning it happened closer to the earth's surface.\n\nNepal is situated along the Himalayas, where there is a lot of seismic activity.\n\nLast month, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake was registered in the western district of Bajhang, resulting in injuries.\n\nIn 2015, the country suffered two devastating earthquakes in which 9,000 people were killed and 22,309 injured.\n\nThe first, on 25 April 2015, was a 7.8-magnitude quake which caused most of the damage and loss of life. A large number of aftershocks followed, including one that measured 7.3 in May of that year.\n\nThe quakes destroyed or damaged more than 800,000 houses mainly in the western and central districts, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).\n\nGovernment buildings, some stretches of roads and Kathmandu Valley's famous historic monuments - Unesco world heritage sites - were destroyed or damaged, with many villages north of Kathmandu flattened.\n• None One year on from Nepal earthquake", "The effigy depicts prime minister Rishi Sunak coming out of a train with the face of RMT union boss Mick Lynch\n\nAn effigy of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been revealed at bonfire celebrations in Lewes, East Sussex, attended by thousands of people.\n\nThe effigy, known as a tableau, was met with boos from the crowd.\n\nThe historic town is famous for its lively Bonfire Night celebration, which fell on 4 November this year.\n\nThe crowds were not deterred by a yellow weather warning and travel disruption caused by the recent Storm Ciarán.\n\nThey showed up to the event despite rain, road closures, transportation issues, and a plea for people to attend local bonfires.\n\nSeven bonfire societies each produces an effigy, which typically reflect current affairs, and are later burned in fields outside Lewes - along with a traditional Guy Fawkes.\n\nPast effigies have included prime ministers Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Tony Blair, Russia President Vladimir Putin and broadcaster Katie Hopkins.\n\nCrosses are paraded through Lewes each year to mark the burning of 17 Protestant martyrs\n\nThe societies, many of which date to the 19th Century, organise the parade every year.\n\nThe societies marched through the town with drummers, fireworks and burning crosses.\n\nMembers of Commercial Square bonfire society march through the cobbled streets\n\nThe societies often keep their effigies a surprise until the day.\n\nAnother tableau this year shows Chancellor Jeremy Hunt driving a train with HS2 on the side. Some commentators have suggested Treasury cuts have resulted in part of the rail project being cancelled.\n\nA sign within the tableau featuring the chancellor reads \"HS2 Last stop London\" - with \"The North\" crossed out\n\nAnother effigy of Suella Braverman is dragged through the streets of Lewes\n\nThe event does not only commemorate the failed Gunpowder Plot led by Guy Fawkes in 1605.\n\nThe burning crosses are also paraded through Lewes each year to mark the burning of 17 Protestant martyrs during the reign of Mary I, often known as \"Bloody Mary\".\n\nThe procession always includes an effigy of Guy Fawkes\n\nThis effigy reads: \"We stand and don't deliver\" on the front\n\nAuthorities previously urged visitors not to travel to the event due to overcrowding concerns.\n\nAttendees bear torches as they parade through the town\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on X, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor Sarah Snook says the film industry should \"set a precedent\" on the use of artificial intelligence (AI).\n\nSnook, best known for her role as Shiv in the TV show Succession, said the use of AI is an \"uncharted landscape\".\n\nShe spoke to Laura Kuenssberg ahead of her role in a London stage adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray. She wasn't able to talk about her time on Succession because of the Hollywood actors' strike.\n\nMany Hollywood screen actors are on strike, demanding better safeguards against the use of AI in TV and movie productions. Striking actors can't promote their screen work, though they can talk about their stage work.\n\nYou can watch the full interview on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg from 09:00 GMT on BBC One and iPlayer.", "A police employee who tipped off a criminal friend about a covert investigation has been jailed.\n\n\"Corrupt\" Natalie Mottram admitted misconduct in public office, perverting the course of justice and unauthorised access to computer material.\n\nThe 25-year-old was caught when the National Crime Agency (NCA) suspected she was responsible for a leak and put her under surveillance.\n\nMottram was jailed for three years and nine months at Liverpool Crown Court.\n\nThe court heard she was employed by Cheshire Police but was on secondment and working as an intelligence analyst at the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit when she was arrested on 12 June 2020.\n\nShe was held as part of Operation Venetic, a nationwide investigation tackling communication devices used by criminals.\n\nMottram, of Vermont Close, Great Sankey, Warrington, told Jonathan Kay, 38, about a covert investigation and that officers had intelligence on him.\n\nOn 24 April 2020, a friend of Kay's messaged another user to say he had learned that day about law enforcement infiltrating the EncroChat messaging platform.\n\nAnd he messaged a second contact: \"I no [sic] a lady who works for the police. This is not hearsay. Direct to me. They can access Encro software. And are using to intercept forearms [sic] only at the moment. There [sic] software runs 48 hours behind real time. So have ur burns one day max. And try to avoid giving postcodes over it.\"\n\n\"Burns\" refers to the delete-time on messages.\n\nHe added: \"Her words was are you on Encro, I said no why, I only sell a bit of bud. She said cool just giving you a heads up. Because NCA now have access. But she wouldn't lie.\"\n\nBy 12 June 2020, NCA investigators suspected Mottram was responsible for the leak.\n\nOn that day, her bosses asked her to analyse an intelligence log referring to Kay, who was the partner of Mottram's close friend, Leah Bennett, 38.\n\nBut the log was bogus and Mottram was under surveillance.\n\nMottram left work that afternoon and drove to Kay and Bennett's house on Newark Drive in Great Sankey.\n\nAt 17:15, Kay - who has convictions for driving offences and being drunk and disorderly - arrived home in his car with Bennett arriving seven minutes later in hers.\n\nThe prosecution say this is when Mottram corruptly informed Kay and Bennett about the intelligence log concerning him.\n\nMottram, Kay, Bennett and another man were all arrested later that day and £200,000 in cash was recovered from Kay and Bennett's house.\n\nKay, who admitted perverting the course of justice at an earlier hearing, was sentenced to two years and six months in jail.\n\nA charge of perverting the course of justice against Bennett was dropped by prosecutors.\n\nJohn McKeon, head of the NCA's anti-corruption unit, said: \"Natalie Mottram betrayed her job, her colleagues and the public she was paid to protect.\n\n\"Her corrupt actions had the potential to hugely damage the overarching investigation by alerting offenders of the need to abandon EncroChat and cover their tracks.\n\n\"Her actions were disgraceful. The evidence against her was overwhelming.\n\n\"She was left with no option but to finally plead guilty.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russell Brand has been accused of sexually assaulting an extra on a film set in a civil lawsuit filed in the US.\n\nDuring filming for the rom-com Arthur in July 2010 the comedian is alleged to have exposed himself to the anonymous woman before following her into a bathroom and sexually assaulting her.\n\nBrand is facing accusations of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse after reports in the British media.\n\nHe denies the allegations and says his relationships were \"always consensual\".\n\nBrand has yet to respond to the lawsuit.\n\nBritish police have said they are investigating a number of claims made against Brand, but the case, filed with New York State Supreme Court on Friday, marks the first time any such accusations have been made in a lawsuit.\n\nIn an affidavit, the woman - referred to as Jane Doe - claims the actor had \"appeared intoxicated, smelled of alcohol, and was carrying a bottle of vodka on set\" before the assault on 7 July 2010.\n\nHe then exposed himself to his accuser in full view of the cast and crew, the papers say.\n\nLater the same day the plaintiff says Brand entered the bathroom after her and assaulted her as \"a member of production crew guarded the door from outside\".\n\nFilm studio Warner Bros Pictures and other companies involved in the production are also named as defendants.\n\nThe woman says as a result of the alleged abuse she suffers from extreme embarrassment, shame and fear as well as finding it difficult to trust others.\n\nShe says she has professional concerns about being named in association with the case as she still works as an actor and fears she could be \"blacklisted in the industry\".\n\nShe is reported to be seeking unspecified damages from the British actor.\n\nThe document says she was initially booked for three days but after the assault was not brought back for the following days and paid only for one.\n\nShe also fears harassment from his followers should her identity be revealed, the papers say.\n\nThe case has been filed under the Adult Survivor's Act, New York legislation which allows alleged victims of sexual offences for which the statute of limitations has passed to file civil suits for a one-year period between 24 November 2022 and 24 November 2023.\n\nAllegations from four women towards Brand were first made in a joint investigation by the Sunday Times, Times and Channel 4's Dispatches.\n\nThey claimed the actor had sexually assaulted them in the UK and Los Angeles during a seven-year period, between 2006 and 2013, when he held high-profile jobs at BBC Radio 2, Channel 4 and as a Hollywood actor.\n\nSince then the Metropolitan Police said it was investigating allegations of sexual offences made following media reports about Brand, while Thames Valley Police is also looking into reports of harassment and stalking.\n\nA day before the media investigation into Brand was published online, the comedian shared a video on social media where he denied the allegations.\n\nIn it, he denied \"serious criminal allegations\" he said were to be made against him, and said his relationships \"were absolutely, always consensual\".", "Api Ratuniyarawa was named in the Barbarians' squad for Saturday's game with Wales\n\nA Barbarians rugby player has been charged with sexual assault.\n\nApi Ratuniyarawa, 37, appeared before Cardiff magistrates on Saturday charged with sexual assault by penetration and sexual assault by touching.\n\nThe court was told he denied sexually assaulting three women at Revolution bar in the city's Castle Street between October 31 and November 1.\n\nHe had been named in the Barbarians' squad prior to Saturday's game against Wales in Cardiff.\n\nThe Fiji international, from West Northamptonshire, spoke only to confirm his name during the hearing.\n\nProsecutor Michael Evans told the court: \"The three incidents happened independently of each other, with the women not known to each other or to the defendant before that night.\"\n\nMagistrate Peter Hamley subjected the London Irish forward to \"stringent bail\" conditions, including an electronic curfew between the hours of 19:00 and 07:00.\n\nHe is also unable to enter Wales apart from for court proceedings, not allowed to contact any witnesses in the case and not allowed to enter any licensed premises.\n\nThe case is expected to go before Cardiff Crown Court on 4 December.\n\nIn a statement, Barbarian FC said: \"As soon as we were contacted by South Wales Police we cooperated fully, assisting them with their enquiries.\n\n\"On their advice we can't comment any further as the investigation is ongoing.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Video provided by activist Sayed Alwadaei shows his confrontation with Tory MP Bob Stewart\n\nBob Stewart has surrendered the Conservative whip while he considers appealing against his conviction for a racially aggravated public order offence, the BBC understands.\n\nThe MP for Beckenham, south-east London, was fined £600 after telling an activist to \"go back to Bahrain\".\n\nThe judge heard he got into a row with Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei in Westminster last December.\n\nLabour and the Liberal Democrats had called for Stewart to lose the whip.\n\nThe 74-year-old is understood to have told the Chief Whip Simon Hart he wishes to surrender the whip until any future appeal is resolved.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court heard on Friday that he had been attending an event hosted by the Bahraini Embassy when Mr Alwadaei shouted: \"Bob Stewart, for how much did you sell yourself to the Bahraini regime?\"\n\nThe MP, who was stationed in Bahrain as an Army officer in the 1960s, told the campaigner to \"get stuffed\" and added: \"Bahrain's a great place. End of.\"\n\nMr Alwadaei - the director of advocacy at the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy - challenged Stewart on his connections with the country, asking whether he had accepted any money from the Bahraini government.\n\nStewart replied: \"Go away, I hate you. You make a lot of fuss. Go back to Bahrain.\"\n\nThe incident took place outside the Foreign Office's Lancaster House in Westminster.\n\nMr Alwadaei is director of advocacy at the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy\n\nIn a post on X, after Stewart was found guilty, Mr Alwadaei said: \"No-one should think twice about holding an MP or members of the government to account because of their skin colour.\n\n\"When I reported Mr Stewart to the Conservative Party, they didn't take action against him and when he was charged, they refused to suspend him.\n\n\"Given today's verdict, I expect them to take immediate action.\"\n\nChief Magistrate Paul Goldspring spoke of Stewart's \"immense positive character\" at the conclusion of Friday's trial, adding: \"I accept he is not racist per se, but that is not the case against him.\n\nThe MP was ordered to pay legal costs of £835, on top of his fine.", "Met commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said 3,500 community police officers were deployed to London pro-Palestinian protests in October\n\nRishi Sunak has said that planned protests on Armistice Day would be \"provocative and disrespectful\".\n\nThere is a risk war memorials such as the Cenotaph in London could be \"desecrated\", the prime minister added.\n\nOrganisers of next week's march have insisted they have no plans to be near the Cenotaph on 11 November.\n\nChief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis said the line between protesters supporting innocent Palestinians and backing Hamas have become \"badly blurred\".\n\nWriting in the Times, he said: \"Those lines have remained blurred in the subsequent demonstrations, in which a minority have proudly displayed their extremism on their banners and in their chants, while the majority stand alongside them\".\n\nThe Met Police is planning a \"significant\" operation and has been in contact with organisers, who said they were \"willing to avoid the Whitehall area\", where the war memorial is located.\n\nPro-Palestinian protests have been held in London, and other cities globally, each Saturday since the Israel-Gaza war began.\n\nMr Sunak said on Friday: \"To plan protests on Armistice Day is provocative and disrespectful, and there is a clear and present risk that the Cenotaph and other war memorials could be desecrated, something that would be an affront to the British public and the values we stand for.\"\n\nHe has also written a letter to Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley, saying the force has the government's \"full support in making robust use of all your powers to protect Remembrance activity\".\n\nHe added he was \"deeply concerned that a number of protests are currently planned to disrupt\" acts of remembrance.\n\nSir Mark responded by saying police \"recognise the profound importance of remembrance events\" and are committed to ensuring they \"take place without disruption\".\n\nMr Sunak has asked Home Secretary Suella Braverman to support the police in \"doing everything necessary to protect the sanctity of Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday\".\n\nMs Braverman said there was an \"obvious risk of serious public disorder, violence and damage\" if the protest on 11 November went ahead, describing it as a \"hate march through London\".\n\nSeveral events to mark the end of World War One are typically held across the UK on Armistice Day, which is always on 11 November.\n\nThis year these include a two-minute silence commemorating the war dead, and the daytime and evening Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, with the latter performance usually attended by members of the Royal Family.\n\nOn Remembrance Sunday, which this year falls on 12 November, thousands of servicemen and women usually march past the Cenotaph war memorial in central London, where military veterans are joined by senior politicians and members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe 11 November protest is expected to call for a ceasefire on the Gaza Strip.\n\nOrganisers said they were aware of the importance of the date, and their previous demonstrations had been peaceful and orderly.\n\nBen Jamal, director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said it had \"made clear that we have no intention of marching anywhere near Whitehall out of respect for events taking place at the Cenotaph\".\n\nHe added the march will begin almost two hours after the silence of commemoration for the war dead.\n\n\"Each of the protests we have called have been peaceful, orderly, and attended by hundreds of thousands of demonstrators from a diverse cross section of British society,\" he said, adding that \"to suggest that undertaking protests well away from Whitehall is a disrespect for the war dead is an insult to those marching for peace\".\n\nResponding to Mr Sunak's comment about \"disrespectful\" protests, Yasmine Ahmed, UK director of the international campaign group Human Rights Watch, called them \"cynical, culture-war politics and an attack on our democratic freedoms\".\n\nThe Met said a \"significant policing and security operation\" would be conducted on 11 and 12 November, and that it was \"absolutely committed to ensuring the safety and security of anyone attending commemorative events\".\n\n\"We will use all the powers available to us to ensure anyone intent on disrupting it will not succeed,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThey added that the police were aware of a \"significant demonstration\" planned for 11 November, but not Remembrance Sunday, and that organisers were \"engaging with our officers and have said they are willing to avoid the Whitehall area, recognising the sensitivities around the date\".\n\nOn Friday, five people were arrested during a pro-Palestinian sit-in at London's King's Cross station after the demonstration was banned. Transport Secretary Mark Harper said he had given an order to allow police to stop the protest.\n\nIsrael has been bombarding Gaza with prolonged air strikes following the 7 October attacks on southern Israel by Hamas, in which they killed 1,400 people and took more than 200 hostage.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says Israeli air strikes have killed more than 9,000 people.\n\nHamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK.\n\nProtests in London have been largely peaceful, although there have been 99 arrests of people who attended the three massive weekly marches in London.\n\nBBC reporters who have witnessed the demonstrations have seen a wide range of people from different backgrounds attending, including lots of families with children.\n\nOn Friday, two women were charged with a terror offence after allegedly carrying \"an image displaying a paraglider\" at a pro-Palestinian protest in London, and police are still looking for a third woman.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said it was \"incredibly important\" that demonstrators understood the importance of Remembrance events, telling PA News: \"I'd encourage the organisers to work with the police to stay away from the Cenotaph.\"\n\nIt comes as Met commissioner Sir Mark told the London Assembly that he was \"deeply concerned\" about the impact on community policing after 3,500 officers were redeployed to central London protests in the past three weeks.\n\nThe Campaign Against Antisemitism has also written an open letter to Sir Mark, after he said hate crime laws \"probably need redrawing\" as he faced questions about the policing of pro-Palestinian marches.\n\nThe letter, signed by lawyers, said it is \"quite clearly the case that there are existing laws that are simply not being applied or enforced with sufficient rigour\" by the Met.\n\nAhead of planned protests this coming weekend, the Met said there would be a \"sharper focus\" on potential criminal behaviour, and would be using facial recognition technology to identify known suspects, including potential terrorists.\n\nScotland Yard also said that since 1 October it has received 554 crime reports of antisemitic incidents - in the same period last year the police investigated 44 such reports.\n\nThe number of reported Islamophobic hate crimes for the same period has reached 220 - up from 70 during the same period last year.\n\nSo far 133 people have been arrested. Of those, 26 have so far been charged - 14 in relation to alleged antisemitism and six for alleged Islamophobia.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "People have been waiting at Rafah to get into Egypt, the only crossing in and out of Gaza currently open\n\nMore British citizens have begun to leave the Gaza Strip, after Palestinian authorities listed nearly 100 as being eligible to cross to Egypt on Friday.\n\nThe UK section of the Palestinian border authority list names more than 90 people as British nationals.\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly said \"a number\" of Britons were leaving Gaza, a development he described as \"positive news\".\n\nMr Cleverly did not provide a figure for how many have left.\n\nHe added the UK \"will continue to work with\" authorities in the region to ensure as many Britons \"as possible\" can leave Gaza.\n\nThe BBC is aware of at least 19 people named on the list who are unable to leave via the Rafah crossing.\n\nThree family groups have said they are located in the north of Gaza but it is too dangerous to travel to the south where the crossing is located.\n\nThe parents-in-law of Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf, trapped in Gaza since 7 October, have left, but said they were \"severely traumatised\".\n\nAmong the first to arrive back in the UK was Dr Abdelkader Hammad, a surgeon in Liverpool, who said it was a \"big, big relief\" to walk through the doors at Heathrow on Friday evening and see his family.\n\n\"It has been four weeks waiting for this moment really to happen, and, I mean at some stage I wasn't sure this would happen really,\" he said,\"but thanks god I am here.\"\n\nHe said whole neighbourhoods in Gaza had been levelled and said you could \"smell death\", with many bodies still under the rubble.\n\nBorder crossings in and out of Gaza have been closed since 7 October, when Hamas, which is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK, attacked Israel, killing more than 1,400 people and taking more than 240 hostage.\n\nSince then, the Israeli military has launched a massive bombing campaign on Gaza, placed the strip under a \"complete siege\" and recently launched a ground assault on the north of Gaza. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 9,000 people have been killed.\n\nMr Cleverly said his office had not been informed of any British nationals killed in Gaza, but that the flow of information was often interrupted, delayed, or contradictory information was received.\n\nAbout 200 British nationals were believed to be in Gaza before war broke out.\n\nA small number have already left Gaza after some foreign nationals and injured Palestinian people began to be allowed to go through the crossing into Egypt for the first time from Wednesday.\n\nIbrahim Assalia, a British national who travelled to Gaza with his wife and children three months ago after his father was diagnosed with cancer, was on Friday's list but could not get to Rafah.\n\nHe said his family is unable to get to the border, as Israeli tanks have cut off the routes to the Rafah crossing and are \"shelling every civilian car that passes through\".\n\nMr Assalia told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme a family of 10 people was killed on Thursday trying to get to the border, adding: \"We don't sleep, the kids cry. We hate every minute.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office has said it does not comment on individual cases, but added it is working at \"every level of government to ensure British nationals can leave\".\n\nThe Israeli military is yet to respond to the BBC on claims civilians are being fired upon, but has previously said it does not target civilians.\n\nElizabeth and Maged El-Nakla, the parents of Humza Yousaf's wife Nadia, were visiting family in Gaza when the borders closed\n\nThe UK section of the list published by Palestinian authorities contains 127 names, with 92 listed as being British nationals. But it is not clear if the others, the vast majority of whom are described as Palestinian, also hold dual citizenship.\n\nHumza Yousaf's parents-in-law Elizabeth and Maged El-Nakla, who live in Dundee, have made it to Egypt after becoming trapped in Gaza while visiting relatives before the borders closed.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, the first minister and his wife Nadia confirmed her parents had left and expressed gratitude to people who have helped them, including the Foreign Office crisis team.\n\n\"These last four weeks have been a living nightmare for our family, we are so thankful for all of the messages of comfort and prayers that we have received from across the world, and indeed from across the political spectrum in Scotland and the UK,\" they said.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, security minister Tom Tugendhat said the British government was being \"very cautious\" about giving an exact number of people who will be able to get out because \"we neither control the border, nor do we control what's going on inside Gaza\".\n\n\"So what we don't want to do is give false hope or false belief to individuals that they'll be able to cross today,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nThe UK has deployed a Border Force team in Cairo, as well as consular officials in Arish, near Rafah, to provide support for UK nationals after leaving Gaza.\n\nSurgeon Abdelkadar Hammad, who lives in Liverpool, was among those who were able to exit via the Rafah crossing into Egypt on Thursday, his family have said.\n\nDowning Street previously confirmed that two UK aid workers were among those to make it through Rafah, which is the only Gazan border crossing not controlled by Israel.\n\nOn Thursday, the Foreign Office said more British nationals had managed to pass through the Gaza-Egypt border, but did not confirm how many.\n\nA dual UK-US citizen who left Gaza on Thursday with her family has told the BBC an exception was made for her British-Palestinian husband at the border as he was with family on the list of US citizens eligible to leave.\n\nDr Emilee Rauschenberger, an academic who lives in Salford, described the situation at Rafah as chaotic, with many people struggling to make it to the far-south of Gaza without cars or access to other transport.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday there was no system to divide people who were eligible to leave and those not on a list but hoping to cross, creating a stressful situation.\n\nAfter waiting many hours on the Gazan side of the border crossing, the family made it through to Egypt where they were given food and water and seen by medical staff.\n\nDr Rauschenberger said British embassy staff in Egypt told her about 10 British citizens, who she believes work for aid agencies or other international organisations, also crossed on Thursday.\n\nThe UK government has given both the Israeli and Egyptian authorities a list of British citizens and their dependants, prioritised by their medical vulnerability.\n\nDr Ahmed Abou Foul, who is based in Birmingham, has told the BBC that 16 members of his family who are trying to leave Gaza are on the list, including eight children.\n\nHe says he has mixed feelings about the news because two young children and their mothers, his sisters-in-law, will not be be able to leave as their names are not on the list.\n\nDr Abou Foul told BBC Breakfast on Friday the family do not know why they have been excluded, as he said they had been given assurances from the Foreign Office.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None A doctor, a tailor and a young child: Stories of those killed in Gaza", "Storm Ciarán brought flooding and damage to the region\n\nHeavy rain is forecast in Devon, Cornwall and much of the south of England - raising fears of more flooding over the weekend.\n\nThe Met Office has extended a yellow warning for rain after Storm Ciarán brought flooding and damage.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) said rivers would rise \"really quickly\" as the ground was already saturated by rain.\n\nIt urged people to sign up to the EA's flood warning service and check their area.\n\nForecasters say some parts of the region have already seen almost a third of the average November rainfall\n\nThe Met Office warned: \"Flooding of a few homes and businesses is possible.\n\n\"Large waves may lead to dangerous conditions across some English Channel coastlines.\"\n\nClarissa Newell, from the Environment Agency in the South West, said: \"When the catchments are full of water like this it's really important to know that it will rise very quickly.\n\n\"You can think you're having a bit of rain then suddenly it's coming in through your door.\"\n\nIn this situation, she warned people turning off electricity and gas, and moving to safety, and \"bringing important documents with you\", was key.\n\nCornwall Council said all fallen trees, like this one on Castle Drive in Falmouth, had now been cleared\n\nBee Tucker, BBCSW broadcast meteorologist, said: \"Some places have had close to 50mm (2ins) of rain since the start of the month, almost a third of the average rainfall for November.\n\n\"Some of the heaviest showers could give 20mm (0.8in) of rain and some places could get all their monthly average rainfall by the end of play on Sunday.\"\n\nAcross the British Isles, the clean-up after Storm Ciarán continued on Saturday, after roofs were blown off homes and some train lines completely ground to a halt.\n\nIn Hampshire, families in more than 18,000 homes headed into the weekend without water or experiencing low pressure after the storm led to a supply works being shut down.\n\nNational Grid said on Saturday morning that all storm-related power cuts in Devon and Cornwall had been resolved, while Energy Networks Association (ENA) said nationally there were no outstanding outages.\n\nMost railway services had also resumed on Saturday but the GWR line between Liskeard and Looe is expected to remain closed throughout the day, the operator said, as a result of \"heavy rain and winds over the last 24 hours\".\n\nA bus replacement is operating and tickets for travel on Saturday can be used on Sunday.\n\nA trampoline blew on to the tracks near St Austell\n\nMeanwhile, Cornwall Council said work on the clean-up after Storm Ciarán would continue into the weekend, after its highway team responded to more than 400 incidents, with all fallen trees now cleared.\n\nPondhu Primary School in St Austell, Cornwall, remained shut on Friday due to extensive flooding, with the school saying it needed time to \"dry and clean the building so the children can return safely\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Cars were washed into the sea and roofs were blown off\n\nCouncillor Martyn Alvey, who responsible for the environment at Cornwall Council, said: \"Our next concern is surface water flooding that is possible as a result of the rain on saturated ground.\n\n\"I would say that every community that knows they have a vulnerability to flooding should be on alert.\n\n\"We are not going to have the same issue we had last weekend with spring tides locking in those coastal villages but some of them will still have trouble from the river that feeds through the village and into the sea.\n\n\"We are ready to respond as required.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the nature of weather as it hits Cornwall is you can never know exactly which community is going to be hit so it's a case of deploying resources as the incidents come in.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emeli Ziem was convicted of fraud in a civil case but acquitted of criminal charges\n\nA criminal fraud prosecution brought by the boss of BrewDog has ended with a woman being acquitted of all charges.\n\nJames Watt, who co-founded the beer giant, brought a private prosecution against former girlfriend Emili Ziem for fraud and malicious communications.\n\nIt followed a civil court ruling last year that she fraudulently induced him into paying her £100,000 in Bitcoin.\n\nMs Ziem has now been cleared of criminal fraud after lawyers for Mr Watt offered no evidence.\n\nThey said their case against her was \"overwhelming\" but was being withdrawn due to the earlier fraud finding in the civil case in Scotland, her recent bankruptcy and personal factors.\n\nIn a statement James Watt said he had already won his case in the highest court in Scotland and no longer felt it was necessary to pursue it in a criminal court in England.\n\nHe said it was \"time to move on\" and focus on his business and family.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Ziem said the outcome was \"just\" because Mr Watt's accusations were \"fictitious.\"\n\nShe added: \"I don't think anyone involved was surprised by the result.\"\n\nLast year Mr Watt, who co-founded Aberdeenshire-based Brewdog, was accused of inappropriate behaviour and abuse of power in the workplace by former staff. He has denied those allegations.\n\nMr Watt later claimed that Ms Ziem had conned him into paying her £100,000 in Bitcoin by pretending to help him investigate an alleged online conspiracy against him.\n\nJames Watt won a civil action against Ms Ziem after claiming he had been \"harassed, defrauded and defamed\".\n\nInstead, he said she had been at the centre of the scheme herself, and had used online personas to spread lies about him.\n\nMs Ziem denied this but failed to respond to a civil court claim and, in her absence, a judge at the Court of Session found in Mr Watt's favour.\n\nShe was ordered to pay the £100,000 back and pay £600,000 in damages. She has since been declared bankrupt but says she hopes to overturn that.\n\nMr Watt subsequently pursued a rare private prosecution against Ms Ziem, which is when a criminal case is launched by a private individual, as opposed to a prosecuting authority.\n\nShe was charged with fraud, and malicious communications in a case that had been due to go to trial in January.\n\nA statement from Ms Ziem's lawyers, Bark and Co, said that Ms Ziem had denied all the allegations and had been \"determined to prove her innocence at trial.\"\n\nThe firm added: \"A defence statement setting out the flaws in the case against her and her response to that case was prepared and served.\n\n\"Following a review of all of the available material, lawyers on behalf of Mr Watt offered no evidence and Ms Ziem was acquitted of all allegations.\"\n\nBrewdog has expanded from a small operation in Fraserburgh to an international business with breweries around the world\n\nMs Ziem claims that during the process Mr Watt's lawyers offered a plea bargain to her in return for dropping the charges.\n\nShe said: \"During this whole ordeal I was continuously offered that if I revealed information on those involved in making allegations against him public, to confirm a conspiracy against him, all proceedings against me would be ceased. I refused every time.\"\n\nMs Ziem said she has now instructed lawyers to challenge the ruling against her at the Court of Session, which she said was \"given in my absence\".\n\nShe said: \"James created an imaginary win narrative and went on a false victory lap whilst I lived abroad.\"\n\nJames Watt said in a statement that having won the \"landmark case\" in the highest court in Scotland, he had decided not to pursue the criminal action against Ms Ziem in England.\n\nHe said: \"I took this decision for a number of reasons. First, this matter has already been before the Scottish courts twice and I won.\n\n\"The Court of Session in Edinburgh found Ms Ziem committed a serious fraud against me involving lies & malicious communications last year and awarded me over £700,000.\n\n\"Then a few weeks ago, at Falkirk Sheriff Court Ms Ziem was made bankrupt despite challenging the Court of Session's decision. Second, given this, I know I will never receive a penny of that award, which I've always said would have gone to charity in full.\n\n\"On that basis, I no longer think pursuing a criminal trial is in anyone's interests, despite the overwhelming evidence. It's time to move forward, not back. I'm going to focus on those things that are most important in my life - my children and my business, rather than on further costly litigation.\"\n\nChris Daw KC, counsel for the private prosecutor, said: \"I led the prosecution against Ms Ziem and made clear in court that the evidence against her was overwhelming and that the case was only being withdrawn due to the finding of fraud on the same facts in a Scottish court, her recent bankruptcy and personal factors.\n\n\"Any suggestion that Ms Ziem was declared 'innocent' is entirely false.\"", "Demonstrators in central London protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza\n\nTens of thousands of protesters have joined rallies and sit-ins in dozens of towns and cities across the UK to call for an end to Israeli attacks in Gaza.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police estimate there were 30,000 in central London alone.\n\nAt Edinburgh and Glasgow rail stations, and at London's Charing Cross, people sat on the floor stopping travellers from catching trains, police said.\n\nIn London, 29 people were arrested for offences including inciting racial hatred.\n\nTwo people were arrested on suspicion of breaching the Terrorism Act in connection with the wording on a banner.\n\nOne man was arrested on suspicion of making antisemitic comments during a speech after he was identified on social media.\n\nOne person was arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred and three people were arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer.\n\nNine people were arrested for public order offences, including two that were racially aggravated.\n\nTen people were arrested for breaching a dispersal order while other arrests were for possession of an offensive weapon, violent disorder, affray and possession of cannabis.\n\nPro-Palestinian protests have been held in London, and other cities globally, each Saturday since war began last month.\n\nOne of the protest organisers, Stop the War coalition, said this weekend would see a series of local protests organised in neighbourhoods, town and cities across the UK, rather than a mass rally.\n\nIn London, local protests took place before many thousands of demonstrators packed into Trafalgar Square for a rally, led by the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign.\n\nProtesters brought traffic to a temporary standstill in London's Oxford Street with a sit-in.\n\nLater the Met reported fireworks were fired into crowds and towards police in Trafalgar Square, leaving four officers injured. Police needed a dispersal order to clear the area.\n\nEarlier in the northern city, the North West Friends of Israel group held a vigil for the hostages taken in the Hamas attacks on 7 October.\n\nRed heart-shaped balloons were attached to each of the hostages' names and photos in Manchester's Exchange Square.\n\nOther pro-Palestinian rallies also took place in Belfast, Cardiff, Liverpool and Leeds, with a focus on calling for an immediate ceasefire.\n\nHeart-shaped balloons were set up for Israeli hostages in Manchester's Exchange Square\n\nIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday there would be no temporary ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza until all Israeli hostages were released.\n\nIn contrast to this weekend's smaller-scale protests, there are plans for a mass rally next Saturday on Armistice Day which have been criticised by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as \"provocative and disrespectful\".\n\nHe pointed to a risk that war memorials, including the Cenotaph in central London, could be \"desecrated\".\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said on X, formerly Twitter, that it was \"entirely unacceptable to desecrate Armistice Day with a hate march through London\".\n\nOn Remembrance Sunday, which this year falls on 12 November, thousands of servicemen and women usually march past the Cenotaph as senior politicians and royals lay poppy wreaths to remember the fallen.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police said it was planning a \"significant\" policing and security operation for next weekend.\n\nBoth the Met and the march's organisers say the demonstrators have no intention of going near Whitehall, where the Cenotaph is located.\n\nBen Jamal, director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said all of their protests had been peaceful and orderly, and to suggest that another one - well away from Whitehall - \"was a disrespect to the war dead was an insult to those marching for peace\".\n\nCrowds packed into Trafalgar Square in central London for a rally\n\nIn Belfast, pro-Palestinian activists marched from Queen's University to the US consulate building in the south of the city\n\nIsrael has been bombarding Gaza with prolonged air strikes following the 7 October attacks on southern Israel by Hamas, in which they killed 1,400 people and took more than 200 hostage.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says Israeli air strikes have killed more than 9,000 people. Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK.\n\nProtests in London have been largely peaceful, although 99 people were arrested at the three previous massive weekly marches in London.\n\nBBC reporters, who witnessed the demonstrations, said a wide range of people from different backgrounds, including lots of families with children, have attended the marches.\n\nWriting in the Times however, Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis said the line between protesters supporting innocent Palestinians and backing Hamas have become \"badly blurred\".\n\n\"Those lines have remained blurred in the subsequent demonstrations, in which a minority have proudly displayed their extremism on their banners and in their chants, while the majority stand alongside them,\" he wrote.\n\nOn Friday, five people were arrested during a pro-Palestinian sit-in at London's King's Cross station after the demonstration was banned.\n\nTransport Secretary Mark Harper said he had given an order to allow police to stop the protest.", "Laura Kuenssberg talks to prime minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis, chief secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott MP, and shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones MP.\n\nAlso on the show this week, actress and comedian Catherine Tate.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer England manager Terry Venables has died at the age of 80 after a long illness.\n\nVenables managed England from 1994 to 1996, most notably leading them to the semi-finals of Euro 96 on home soil.\n\nA former England player, he also managed Barcelona and Tottenham.\n\n\"We are totally devastated by the loss of a wonderful husband and father who passed away peacefully yesterday after a long illness,\" read a family statement.\n\n\"We would ask that privacy be given at this incredibly sad time to allow us to mourn the loss of this lovely man who we were so lucky to have had in our lives.\"\n\nVenables won La Liga and reached the European Cup final with Barcelona, and lifted the FA Cup with Tottenham.\n\nAs a player, he won two England caps and made more than 500 club appearances between 1960 and 1975, largely for Chelsea, Queens Park Rangers and Tottenham.\n• None 'The best English coach we've had' - Venables tributes\n\n'The best, most innovative coach'\n\nFormer England captain Gary Lineker, whom Venables signed for Barcelona and Spurs, told the BBC: \"He was not a coach or just a manager but a friend. He was charming, charismatic, witty but he was also tough - and that's what you needed to be.\n\n\"He understood football - he had an incredible football brain.\"\n\nEx-England skipper Alan Shearer, a member of the Euro 96 side, said: \"Extremely sad news. The great Terry Venables has passed away. RIP Boss. I owe you so much. You were amazing.\"\n\nCurrent England manager Gareth Southgate, whose penalty in the semi-final shootout defeat by Germany was saved, described Venables as \"a brilliant man who made people feel special\".\n\nHe said: \"Any player will have great affinity with the manager that gave them their opportunity, but it was quickly evident playing for Terry Venables that he was an outstanding coach and manager.\n\n\"Tactically excellent, he had a wonderful manner, capable of handling everyone from the youngest player to the biggest star.\n\n\"He was open-minded, forward-thinking, enjoyed life to the full and created a brilliant environment with England that allowed his players to flourish and have one of the most memorable tournaments in England history.\"\n\nPaul Gascoigne, who played under Venables for England and Tottenham, said: \"Such a sad day, cheers boss.\"\n\nTottenham held a minute's applause before Sunday's home Premier League match against Aston Villa and both sets of players wore black armbands.\n\nSpurs said they were \"extremely saddened to learn of the passing of our former player and manager\".\n\nCurrent manager Ange Postecoglou told Sky Sports: \"If you are asking about a person who embodies everything this football club has always wanted to be, it is Terry. It wasn't just about the way he managed or coached; it was the person he was.\n\n\"He influenced Australia as well. He was the manager for the national team and almost got us to the World Cup, but the biggest testament is that anyone who I have ever come across that has worked with him will say he is by far the best coach, manager and tactician they have come across.\"\n\nFormer England defender Gary Neville said Venables was \"without doubt the most technically gifted British coach we've ever produced\".\n\n\"A man who gave me a chance to play for my country and became without a shadow of doubt my number one England coach in my whole career,\" said Neville.\n\n\"England certainly needed more like him and it was a real sadness when he left at the end of Euro 96. I felt it never got as good again for England as it was under him.\"\n\nBarcelona said they \"deeply regret the passing of Terry Venables, who managed Barca from 1984 to 1987\".\n\nFrom Chelsea apprentice to England boss - the career of 'El Tel'\n\nMidfielder Venables joined Chelsea in 1958 as a 15-year-old and made his debut against West Ham in 1960.\n\nHe went on to play 202 league games for Chelsea, including winning the League Cup, before spells at Tottenham, QPR and Crystal Palace.\n\nVenables moved into coaching alongside Malcolm Allison at Third Division Palace after retiring as a player during the 1974-75 season.\n\nHe succeeded Allison in 1976 and, after winning promotion to the Second Division in 1977, took them into the top flight as champions in 1979.\n\nA four-year stint with QPR - and another promotion to the First Division - followed between 1980 and 1984 before Venables was appointed Barcelona manager on the recommendation of England boss Bobby Robson.\n\nNicknamed 'El Tel', Venables led Barca to La Liga title in 1985 - their first since 1974 - and the following season's European Cup final, where they lost to Steaua Bucharest on penalties.\n\nHe was sacked by Barcelona in 1987 and returned to English football to manage Tottenham, winning the FA Cup in 1991.\n\nBut Venables was sacked in 1993 after his relationship with chairman Alan Sugar broke down.\n\nLater that year, the BBC's Panorama programme alleged misdealings connected with Venables' businesses, which he responded to by threatening libel action.\n\nVenables had been overlooked as England manager when Graham Taylor took the job in 1990, but was appointed in 1994.\n\nEngland qualified as hosts for the 1996 European Championship, where they claimed memorable wins over the Netherlands and Scotland.\n\nVenables stood down after their semi-final defeat at Wembley.\n\nHe went on to manage Australia, Palace again, Middlesbrough and Leeds United.\n\nHe returned to the England set-up as assistant to Steve McClaren in 2006, but left after they failed to qualify for Euro 2008.", "The Lismore Community Trust raised over £80,000 to take over the shop\n\nAn island community has saved its only shop and post office after funding a buyout.\n\nThe Lismore store had been threatened with closure earlier this year when the schoolteacher running it returned to the classroom.\n\nA share issue campaign by the Lismore Community Trust (LCT) attracted over 230 backers and raised £80,000.\n\nThey now plan to create a central hub for the Inner Hebrides island's 160 permanent residents.\n\nThe trust had initially set out to raise £70,000 in order to purchase initial stock, carry out necessary refurbishments and keep the business operating for about five years.\n\nHowever, contributions from holiday home owners and regular visitors alongside those of neighbours pushed the final total over £82,000 and growing.\n\nLCT chair Andy Hough said the store's survival was key to maintaining the island's ability to provide for local residents without them having to make a three-hour round trip to Oban.\n\nHe said: \"If the store had closed, it would have been devastating for quite a number of services.\n\nThe island's only post office will be open in time for Christmas\n\n\"We have a fragile population anyway and it would have added to that feeling of isolation. It could have been the beginning of depopulation.\n\n\"But it was heartening to see people from all walks of life, be that permanent residents or second homeowners coming together to engender that community spirit.\n\n\"Now people have access to groceries on their doorstep, it is saving them leaving the island on a ferry.\"\n\nNearly half the population of the island, which lies north-east of Mull off Scotland's west coast, turned out for the ribbon-cutting ceremony this week.\n\nThe store will be staffed by full-time workers, but supported on the business side by volunteers.\n\nThe Trust hopes fully-stocked shelves will lessen the need for islanders to travel for supplies\n\nMr Hough, 66, who retired to Lismore from the Isle of Wight in 2018, said he was keen for the store to become a draw for the local community, including installing WiFi provision.\n\nBut he added the Trust wanted to keep the business \"profitable\".\n\n\"It is not just somewhere where people buy groceries, it is somewhere people can come, chat, find the craic,\" he said.\n\n\"We have employed a manager who has two young children. We pay them through the shop, they spend in the shop.\n\n\"It is as much a service as anything else, but we do want to make sure it does not make a loss.\"", "We're pausing our live coverage for the next hour or so, so here's a quick recap on where things stand in the Israel-Gaza war.\n\nFourteen Israeli and three foreign nationals were released from Gaza today.\n\nAmong them was Abigail Idan, a four-year-old girl with joint Israeli and US citizenship. Both her parents were killed in the 7 October attack by Hamas on Israel that triggered the war.\n\nPresident Biden welcomed her release, saying she had been through terrible trauma.\n\nIsrael freed 39 Palestinian prisoners in return. Crowds gathered in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank to welcome them home.\n\nThe exchange comes on the third day of a fragile four-day pause in fighting. Gazans have been using the opportunity to get in much-needed supplies of fuel food and medicine.\n\nThe BBC's Lucy Williamson says that both sides appear to be edging towards an extension to the current pause.\n\nHamas has said it is seeking to extend the truce and increase the number of hostages released – 24-hours before the current deal expires.\n\nAnd a senior Palestinian official has told the BBC that Hamas told negotiators it was ready to extend the pause by up to four days.\n\nIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has talked about his \"framework\", under which the release of 10 extra hostages could lead to another day of pause in the fighting.\n\nBut he also said that after the framework ends Israel will return to its goals, which include the elimination of Hamas.\n\nYou can continue to follow our coverage of the conflict with these key stories:\n• For many hostage familes the wait goes on\n• What is Hamas and why is it fighting Israel in Gaza?", "A stretch of road has fallen into the sea at Hemsby, leaving some cars stranded\n\nCoastal residents said they were in \"complete shock\" after high tide and winds caused part of a clifftop road to collapse and brought down power lines.\n\nA section of cliff and dune at Hemsby, Norfolk, partially collapsed and was washed away on Friday.\n\nSome residents were left without power and water and had to leave their vehicles after roads were cordoned off.\n\nSimon Measures, chair of Save Hemsby Coastline, said: \"It was an utter shock.\"\n\nHe said: \"Within minutes people were saying that there was a crack in there [the road] and then instantly it's collapsed, it's gone - the road's disappeared.\"\n\nMr Measures said had been no yellow storm warning and that many residents had not thought this could happen so quickly.\n\nResidents are in shock at the damage the storm caused\n\nThe crew of the independent Hemsby Lifeboat helped residents while Norfolk Police closed off some roads.\n\nHemsby Lifeboat posted on Facebook to say a 200m (220yd) stretch of road had fallen on to the beach.\n\nIt warned people to stay away, saying: \"It's just too dangerous\".\n\nIt said the erosion was due to the spring tide that had led to fallen power lines, and left cars stranded on The Marrams, which runs parallel to the cliff.\n\nLocal resident Jordan said he was \"devastated\".\n\n\"Now it's all gone and outside my place, which is the end of the road, has fallen into the sea,\" he said.\n\nMichael Szawlytko had to go through his garden to get back to his property\n\nPascal Rose, who was forced to leave her Mini car, said: \"We've got so many vulnerable people here that are stuck.\n\n\"Now we've got no road; we've got nothing. We are completely cut off.\"\n\nPeople are being warned not to visit the cliff, dunes and beach at Hemsby due to the damage\n\nMichael Szawlytko, who has lived in Hemsby for 10 years, said: \"I walked up here last night, thought this road would be all right but it disappeared overnight.\"\n\nHe is among residents who have had to cut through their gardens to gain access to their homes.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Journalist Catriona Aitken takes a whistle-stop tour around some Doctor Who backdrops in Wales\n\nCalling all Whovians - this month marks the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who.\n\nThe series has seen 14 different time lords travel across time and space, encountering various fictional monsters and saving the world one Tardis trip at a time.\n\nMuch of the series was filmed in Wales, with famous places spotted in various guises by eagle-eyed viewers.\n\nSo, to mark six decades of the much-loved show, here's a look at just a few of its iconic locations.\n\nThe iconic Cardiff Bay building has appeared in multiple episodes of Doctor Who dressed up for many different uses, including a hospital.\n\nIf you take a tour here, you may get a glimpse into its role in the show.\n\nThe wider Roald Dahl Plaza area will also be very recognisable to fans of spin-off show Torchwood, which is set in Cardiff.\n\nThe Daleks made their comeback at the Principality Stadium in the 2005 episode Dalek\n\nBut next time you're attending a rugby match, keep an eye out for the Daleks.\n\nThe robotic warrior race made their comeback at the stadium, in the appropriately named episode Dalek.\n\nThe site's car park was also used as Stormcage, the facility where River Song - the third incarnation of companion Amy Pond's daughter Melody Pond - was held.\n\nThe Principality Stadium was used in several guises, including as the facility Stormcage, where River Song was held\n\nThe National Museum of Wales has been a stand-in for various art galleries and venues featured in Doctor Who, including the Musée D'Orsay in Paris and the International Gallery.\n\nIt featured in the show's 50th anniversary special The Day of the Doctor, which was shot in 3D and took five weeks to film.\n\nThe museum transports visitors back in time to various periods of Wales' history, so it made the perfect location for wartime episodes of Doctor Who.\n\nIt was the backdrop to David Tennant's adventure back to the eve of World War Two which aired in late 2006.\n\nMany fans will have a favourite Doctor Who companion, but only one was established on the show at the iconic castle in the heart of Wales' capital.\n\nJenna-Louise Coleman made her series debut in September 2012, but was officially introduced as a companion Clara Oswald in the Christmas special The Snowmen.\n\nFurthermore, when the Tardis toured the country to mark 50 years since the show began, it landed on Cardiff Castle's south-east turret and made quite the impression on locals and tourists alike.\n\nJenna-Louise Coleman, as Clara Oswald, made her series debut in September 2012, and was officially established as a companion in the Christmas special of that year\n\nSoutherndown Beach near Bridgend has featured in several episodes, but every Doctor Who fan will remember it for one of the series' most heartbreaking scenes.\n\nIn Doomsday, David Tennant's Doctor Who said a final farewell to Rose, played by Billie Piper.\n\nThe heartbreaking Doomsday episode will be forever remembered by Whovians\n\nOther prominent south Wales sites which feature in the series include: Caerphilly Castle; Margam Country Park near Port Talbot; Tredegar House in Newport; Cardiff's Dyffryn Gardens; and St Donat's Castle.\n• None How Doctor Who's first writer became lost in time", "The lyrics to Suffragette City are among the memorabilia to be sold\n\nDavid Bowie's handwritten lyric sheet for two of his songs could fetch up to £100,000 when it is sold at auction.\n\nThey contain the late singer's corrections, drafts and notes when creating his tracks Rock n Roll Suicide and Suffragette City.\n\nBoth feature on his 1972 classic The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.\n\nThe auction house previously sold a page of Bowie's handwritten lyrics for his hit Starman for £165,000.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA letter accompanying the page states it was given to the original owner by Bowie at Trident Studio alongside some other pages of original lyrics, including some which did not survive.\n\nThe page was loaned to the V&A museum and remained with the exhibition for five years as it toured the world between 2013 and 2018.\n\nThe sale also includes a lyric book previously owned by Oasis' Noel Gallagher which features lyrics to She's Electric, Going Nowhere, Step Out Tonight, Rockin' Chair and Champagne Supernova.\n\nA page containing handwritten lyrics by The Doors frontman Jim Morrison is also up for sale, along with guitars, amps and musical scores from various musicians.\n\nThe Bowie lyric sheet, which has an estimated price tag of £50,000 to £100,000, will be among Omega Auctions sale on Tuesday.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nJannik Sinner stunned Novak Djokovic as Italy beat Serbia to set up a Davis Cup final against Australia on Sunday.\n\nSerbia took the lead in the semi-final when Miomir Kecmanovic beat Lorenzo Musetti 6-7 (7-9) 6-2 6-1 in the first singles rubber.\n\nBut Sinner showed his class to beat world number one Djokovic 6-2 2-6 7-5 and level the tie.\n\nSinner and Lorenzo Sonego then defeated Djokovic and Kecmanovic 6-3 6-4 in the doubles to secure a thrilling victory.\n\nSunday's final will be broadcast live on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website from 15:00 GMT.\n\nAn enthralling day in Malaga began with an entertaining first set between Kecmanovic and Musetti, which the swashbuckling Italian took on a tie-break.\n\nBut as the match went on, it became clear Musetti was beginning to struggle physically, and the consistent Kecmanovic took the second set comfortably before cruising through the third to put Serbia in front.\n\nIn a high-quality second singles match, world number four Sinner saved three match points to inflict a first Davis Cup defeat on Djokovic since a retirement against Juan Martin del Potro 12 years - and 21 matches - ago.\n\nThis was Djokovic and Sinner's third meeting in 12 days after they played twice - winning one apiece - at last week's ATP Finals in Turin.\n\nSinner was unplayable in the opening set as the 24-time Grand Slam champion looked uncharacteristically lost on court, but Djokovic hit back to level the match as his opponent's level dropped.\n\nThe deciding set was filled with quality, grit and drama in a raucous atmosphere and Sinner saved three match points from 5-4 and 40-0 down, then broke Djokovic before serving out the match.\n\nThat took the tie into the doubles, and Italy looked comfortable in taking the opening set.\n\nAt one point, the crowd booed Djokovic - who had told a group of British fans to \"shut up\" earlier in the week - and he reacted by gesturing like a conductor.\n\nHe had no response to Sinner's blistering groundstrokes, though, and an inspired Sonego helped take Italy to their first Davis Cup final in 25 years.\n\n\"I just tried to push in every single point and the 0-40 game helped the confidence and also after I broke him,\" said Sinner. \"It's all part of tennis.\"\n\nSome of the most gripping Davis Cup history has been provided by players not used to competing for major titles, but it does the competition no harm when two of the world's top four clash on the semi-final stage.\n\nJannik Sinner will one day be able to tell his grandchildren he beat Novak Djokovic three times in 11 days.\n\nSaving three match points in the singles was remarkable, as was the victory that followed two games later as Djokovic had not lost a singles tie for his country since the semi-final of 2011.\n\nThis was a fabulous effort from both men, who contested the final of the ATP Finals in Turin just six days ago.\n\nFour hours on court will put Sinner at a disadvantage in Sunday's final, but how Djokovic wishes he was in that position.\n\nHis disappointment will be acute - but what a season he has had. Even with two defeats to Sinner in the past fortnight he won 36 out of 39 singles matches from the start of the French Open - at 36 years of age.\n• None Five friends trying to find their voice and fame: The Grime Kids are awestruck by the music scene of East London in 2001...", "Leon Crossman found the unexploded device on the beach at Pakefield, Suffolk\n\nThe unexpected collapse of a cliff edge and a road has forced the evacuation of a caravan park as well as revealing a suspected unexploded bomb.\n\nHigh tides and wind caused a road to collapse at Pakefield Holiday Park in Lowestoft, Suffolk, leaving caravans \"dangerously close to the edge\".\n\nLater a suspected unexploded device was found at the base of a cliff a few hundred metres away.\n\nA controlled explosion has now been carried out on the device.\n\nLeon Crossman, 34, spotted the suspected bomb on the beach close to a second holiday park, Pontin's, and said he alerted coastguards, who arrived in 10 minutes.\n\n\"You couldn't miss it,\" he said.\n\nA bomb disposal team arrived at Pakefield after the device was discovered\n\nHM Coastguard confirmed it sent teams to assist East Suffolk Council and Suffolk Police with a report of suspected ordnance at Pakefield at about 12:20 GMT following a cliff fall on Friday.\n\nPrior to the controlled explosion, it said an exclusion zone of 100m had been established around the site.\n\nMembers of the public have also been urged to keep away from part of the beach at Arbor Lane after erosion caused part of the road to collapse.\n\n\"The beach there is now a dangerous place to be,\" HM Coastguard said.\n\n\"The beach at the bottom of the steps at Arbor Lane has now mostly washed away. There is now a drop on to what's left of the beach.\"\n\nThe bomb disposal team is now leaving the site at the holiday park where they have carried out a controlled explosion after a World War Two device was found on the beach, uncovered by the surge tide.\n\nAll focus had been on the erosion and the damage that was being caused to the caravans, but it very swiftly moved to this device.\n\nWe understand it could have been used in minesweeping, but the Army took no chances and carried out the controlled explosion.\n\nFurther along the coast in Norfolk, the spring tide also led to the collapse of a road at the erosion-hit village of Hemsby,\n\nA high tide is due at 20:00 GMT and HM Coastguard Lowestoft said in a Facebook post that it would continue to monitor the cliffs in Pakefield over the weekend.\n\nA road at Pakefield Holiday Park has been lost to the sea, while steps down to the beach have also been cordoned off\n\nA spokesman for East Suffolk Council said: \"The relevant authorities are addressing the impacts, and affected areas have been cordoned off as the extent of any damage is assessed.\n\n\"Known damage which affects ordinary access includes the steps down to the beach at Arbor Lane.\n\n\"Therefore, people are asked to avoid the area and stay away from locations which may still be vulnerable. There may be debris and the possibility of further collapse and public safety is a priority.\"\n\nPakefield Holiday Park, run by Park Holidays, has dozens of static caravans on its site\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTens of thousands of people have marched through central London at a demonstration against antisemitism.\n\nOrganisers estimated 100,000 took part in the first march of its kind since the Israel-Gaza war began, including former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nThe rally comes amid a steep rise in hate crime, especially against the capital's Jewish community.\n\nEnglish Defence League founder Tommy Robinson - who was asked not to attend by organisers - was arrested by police.\n\nThere had been concern that he might disrupt the demonstration.\n\nThe Met Police later said in total two people had been arrested. As well as Mr Robinson, 40, who was detained at the start of the march, police arrested a man for making antisemitic comments when crowds were leaving Whitehall.\n\nThe large crowd gathered outside the Royal Courts of Justice and made its way along Whitehall to Parliament Square, where a rally was held.\n\nPlacards bearing slogans like \"Shoulder to shoulder with British Jews\" and \"Never again is now\" were seen being carried by those taking part.\n\nChief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis told the crowd at Parliament Square British Jews \"will not be intimidated\" by antisemitism.\n\nHe said: \"We call for a strengthening of community cohesion and we will forever be proud to champion the finest of British values.\"\n\nThe Campaign Against Antisemitism estimate Sunday's march to be the largest gathering of its kind since the Battle of Cable Street in 1936, when British Union of Fascists supporters were stopped from marching through east London, an area with a high Jewish population at the time.\n\nTracey-Ann Oberman, Eddie Marsan, Rachel Riley and Maureen Lipman were seen at the march\n\nTommy Robinson was led away by police officers - organisers had made clear he was not welcome\n\nSeveral recognisable faces were spotted in the crowd, including TV personalities Vanessa Feltz and Robert Rinder, and actors Tracy-Ann Oberman, Elliot Levey and Maureen Lipman.\n\nCountdown host Rachel Riley told the crowd: \"We've learned from history the sharp price to be paid when good people stay silent and I'm grateful to each and every one of you here today for refusing to be bystanders.\"\n\nActor Eddie Marsan gave a speech urging \"moderate people in this country to stand up and face down extremism and bigotry and antisemitism and Islamophobia and all forms of racism\".\n\nComedian David Baddiel, who attended the march, described the day as \"emotional, bonding, well-attended and shambolic\".\n\nHe joked: \"No-one had any idea where we were going or who was speaking. It was indicative, as ever, of how Jews really don't run the world.\"\n\nAs well as Boris Johnson, security minister Tom Tugenhadt, immigration minister Robert Jenrick and Labour's shadow science minister Peter Kyle were among political figures in attendance.\n\nCrimes against Jewish people motivated by racism have increased dramatically since the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza conflict.\n\nThere were 554 reports of antisemitic offences in London between 1 October and 1 November in London, compared with 44 in the same period last year.\n\nIslamophobic hate crime is also on the rise, with 220 offences in the same period, compared to 78 last year.\n\nSunday's rally against antisemitism comes after the latest large pro-Palestinian demonstration to be held in London since renewed fighting broke out in the Middle East.\n\nThe Met Police said 18 people had been arrested \"during a significant policing operation\" that was put in place around the pro-Palestinian march on Saturday, though the \"overwhelming majority\" protested lawfully, a statement said.\n\nThe force has come under pressure over its policing of pro-Palestinian demonstrations, and has pledged to crack down on placards and chanting which are judged to constitute a hate crime.", "Ferguson Marine is hoping to win an order to build a new fleet of small vessels for CalMac. Concept design image supplied by CMAL.\n\nSpending plans to replace CalMac's ageing fleet of small ferries have been pushed back, saving £41m.\n\nFinance Secretary Shona Robison advised MSPs the small vessels replacement plan had been \"reprofiled\" as had harbour improvements at Ardrossan and Gourock.\n\nMs Robison told the BBC it meant spending would now fall in the next financial year.\n\nThe ageing small vessels fleet includes a ferry which is now 47 years old.\n\nThe small vessels replacement programme (SVRP) would involve replacing seven ferries with all-electric boats in the first phase, with three more to follow in phase two.\n\nThe boss of nationalised shipyard Ferguson Marine in Port Glasgow is hopeful the yard will win the contract, securing the yard a future once it completes the overdue ferries Glen Sannox and Glen Rosa.\n\nEarlier this month, the vessels director at ferries procurement agency CMAL told a meeting the procurement was due to start within weeks, with the first vessel to be delivered in the autumn of 2026.\n\nBut in a letter to Holyrood's finance committee last week, first reported by Scotland on Sunday, Ms Robison outlined a series of changes to spending plans for this financial year.\n\nShe said the small vessels plans had been \"reprofiled, allowing time to fully consider the business case work, vessels design criteria, and help ensure alignment of the related shore power and port improvement works\".\n\nAsked on BBC Scotland's the Sunday Show if that meant a delay, she said: \"CMAL have said the plans remain on track - the issue here is the profiling of the resources\n\n\"So instead of the resources being spent in 23/24 they will now be spent in 24/25 - so there's no change to the programme. The programme remains on track.\"\n\nCalMac's small vessels include MV Isle of Cumbrae which was launched in 1976\n\nA CMAL spokesperson said: \"The SVRP programme is on track and the concept design phase is now complete. Payments will only become due when a shipbuilding contract is signed, which will be during financial year 2024/25.\"\n\nIn her letter, the minister also revealed £34m of \"reprofiled\" savings on port works, including reviews of plans to redevelop Ardrossan and Gourock.\n\nArdrossan requires major redevelopment, including the installation of LNG refuelling facilities, if the two new ferries Glen Sannox and Glen Rosa are to be able to use the harbour. Glen Sannox, which is due for delivery next spring, will start operations from Troon.\n\nCalMac's smaller vessels include the oldest ferry in the fleet, MV Isle of Cumbrae, which was built by the Ailsa shipyard in Troon in 1976. It is currently deployed on the Tarbert Portavadie route.\n\nFerguson Marine chief executive David Tydeman believes the contract for the replacement vessels is important for the yard's future, potentially securing a pipeline of work that is well within the capability of the small Inverclyde shipyard.\n\nEarlier this month, the Scottish government turned down his request for £25m for investment in new equipment and software which would raise productivity and help it compete in the open market.\n\nScottish Conservative transport spokesman Graham Simpson said the Scottish government was trying to \"claw back\" spending in what would be a \"hammer blow for islanders\".\n\n\"And it's ominous news for CMAL and Ferguson Marine, who said getting the small vessels replacement contracts sorted by the end of this year was a priority,\" he added.\n\n\"The SNP have already seen the dire consequences of their neglect, with constant breakdowns in an ageing fleet. Getting that sorted isn't just urgent. It's long overdue, and the fact they are kicking it down the road shows utter contempt for those who depend on these vital lifelines.\"", "People have been waiting in long queues for fuel and aid in the Gaza Strip, as the four-day truce between Israel and Hamas appears to hold for a second day.\n\nGazans are trying to make the most of the pause in fighting to gather much-needed supplies, search for loved ones and even take a walk by the sea.\n\nSome have visited their homes - or what is left of them - to see damage and recover what they can find.\n\nThe truce has also seen more supplies allowed into the Palestinian territory.\n\nIsrael imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip as it launched its retaliatory operation aimed at eliminating Hamas, following its 7 October attack in which militants killed at least 1,200 people in southern Israel and took more than 240 hostages.\n\nSince then, more than 14,500 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.\n\nThe four-day truce, mediated by Qatar, is meant to result in the release of 50 hostages and 150 Palestinian prisoners and detainees held in Israeli jails.\n\nOn the first day of the truce on Friday, around 150 trucks carried supplies into the Gaza Strip from Egypt.\n\nWhile it was the biggest amount of aid to enter Gaza since the first convoy crossed the border on 21 October, the UN says more is still needed.\n\nCommunications are largely down across Gaza, however pictures emerging from the Strip show long queues for fuel and other supplies in Rafah, in the south of the territory.\n\nPeople have been queuing for fuel as four trucks carrying cooking gas and for containing fuel entered Gaza on Saturday\n\nTrucks have been waiting on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing early on Saturday morning, ready to carry in food, water, fuel and medical supplies.\n\nThe Israeli military confirmed that four tankers containing fuel and another four carrying cooking gas entered Gaza on Saturday morning.\n\nIt is a slow process to get over the border with every vehicle checked by the Israeli military before making the crossing.\n\nThe Palestinian Red Crescent said 61 aid trucks carrying food supplies, drinking water and medicines had set off from Rafah towards the north of Gaza.\n\nIt said this would be the largest aid convoy to reach the north since the beginning of the fighting.\n\nThe Israeli government said it was expecting 226 aid trucks to enter through the Nitzana crossing in southern Israel.\n\n\"This will include 113 trucks containing food, seven containing medical supplies, 27 containing water, 43 containing various supplies for shelter, 25 trucks containing hygiene supplies,\" spokesman Eytan Schwartz said.\n\nAn additional 11 Egyptian trucks are carrying medical supplies to the Emirati hospital, he said.\n\nA woman collects a bag of flour at the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir Al Balah, Gaza\n\nDespite joy for many at the cessation of fighting, it has been mixed with sadness after many returned to their destroyed homes to save what remained and retrieve the bodies of their loved ones from under the rubble.\n\nTahani al-Najjar used the calm of the truce to return to the ruins of her Khan Younis home on Saturday, Reuters news agency reported.\n\nThe 58-year-old pulled several intact cups from the rubble of her home, which she said had been destroyed by an Israeli air strike which also killed seven members of her family.\n\nIn the southern city some people are living in makeshift tents outside the Nasser Hospital as they wait to decide whether to return to the north of the Strip.\n\nCrates of tomatoes, lemons, aubergines, peppers, onions and oranges could be seen at a street market in the city.\n\nJuliette Touma, spokesperson for the UN Relief and Works Agency, Unrwa, told the BBC the situation on the ground was \"absolutely terrible\" and, while the aid which had reached Gaza was welcome, the organisation was ready to receive much more.\n\nShe said there was a need for basic hygiene items as well as more medical equipment, fuel and food.\n\nPeople have described having to flee with only the clothes on their backs and most have been unable to wash properly.\n\nMany public shelters are extremely overcrowded, Unrwa said, with its schools and other facilities housing more than a million displaced people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"Doctor Who is best job I've ever had\" says Catherine Tate\n\nCatherine Tate says starring in Doctor Who is the \"best job\" she has ever had as she reprises her role to celebrate the show's 60th anniversary.\n\nThe first of three specials aired on Saturday to positive reviews, with Tate starring alongside David Tennant.\n\nThe actress and comedian played Donna Noble, the Doctor's mouthy companion in the popular sci-fi franchise.\n\nShe told Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday she had not been a mega fan, or \"whovian\", before stepping into the role.\n\n\"I didn't used to watch it, I do remember Tom Baker [the fourth Doctor] with his long scarf - but I didn't used to watch it,\" she said.\n\n\"I have to say it's amazing to me that I'm part of this massive conglomerate, and amazing collection of experiences and that the character I play staked her claim in this story,\" Tate said.\n\nReferring to the programme's showrunner and writer Russell T Davies, she said: \"Still to this day I don't know why Russell thought it was good idea to put me in it, but I'm delighted.\n\n\"David [Tennant] and I have said it's 100% the best job I've ever had, and to get another bite of the cherry - extraordinary\".\n\nTennant, who played the Doctor from 2005 to 2010, has also returned for the specials.\n\nThe first special, The Star Beast, reunites Tennant and Tate before Ncuti Gatwa, of Sex Education fame, claims the keys to the Tardis in December.\n\nIn their last episode together, which aired in 2008, Donna saved the world by absorbing the Doctor's knowledge and wisdom, and would have died if the Doctor had not erased all the memories she had of him and their adventures.\n\nSince then Donna has lived an ordinary life, is married and has a trans daughter Rose, played by Yasmin Finney, but is plagued by the sense that something is missing.\n\nShe and the Doctor are reunited in a chance encounter as a space ship - carrying an alien voiced by Miriam Margolyes - crashes in London.\n\nThe episode has been met with positive reviews, receiving four stars from the Independent, the Guardian, the i and the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe Guardian's Jack Seale describing the \"comic chemistry\" between Tennant and Tate as \"absolutely faultless\" and the Times' Ben Dowell calling it \"fabulously realised\" and \"defiantly progressive\".\n\nThe second anniversary special, Wild Blue Yonder, airs at 18:30 on Saturday 2 December on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, with the third special, The Giggle- which will introduce Gatwa as the Doctor - airing on 9 December.", "Streets in Freetown were largely deserted on Sunday after a curfew was declared\n\nSierra Leone's night-time curfew imposed after armed men freed prison inmates has been lifted for now.\n\nDetainees from a number of \"major\" facilities were released on Sunday morning, said the West African nation's information minister.\n\nPresident Julius Maada Bio later said most of the leaders behind the attack had been arrested.\n\nIn a televised address, he described the events as a \"breach of security\" and an attack on democracy.\n\nHe carefully avoided calling them an attempted coup.\n\nHe said calm had been restored but gave no details about who the perpetrators were or what they wanted.\n\nThere will be a new nine-hour night-time curfew beginning at 21:00 local time (21:00 GMT) on Monday, the information ministry says.\n\nThe political situation in Sierra Leone has remained tense since June, when President Bio was re-elected - narrowly missing out on the need to have a run-off.\n\nInternational observers have condemned inconsistencies and a lack of transparency in the count, as well as acts of violence and intimidation.\n\nAfter the attack, the Ministry of Information declared an immediate curfew, which was due to be lifted at 06:00 (GMT) on Monday. Residents across the country were \"strongly\" recommended to stay indoors and flights to and from the nation's only international airport have been cancelled.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the BBC witnessed soldiers in Freetown carrying heavy weaponry in a seized police vehicle and saw others chanting that they planned to \"clean Sierra Leone\".\n\nIt is unclear exactly how many prisoners were released but videos shared on social media show several people fleeing from the area of Freetown's Central Pademba Road prison.\n\nOne video appeared to show popular rapper Boss LAJ, who was imprisoned last year on robbery charges, running free.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to authenticate these videos.\n\nIn August, a number of soldiers were arrested and accused of plotting a coup against the president.\n\nEight countries in West and Central Africa are under military rule after a series of coups, including in neighbouring Guinea.\n\nThe US, European Union, UK and regional block Ecowas have released statements strongly condemning Sunday's violence.\n\nMilitary police set up roadblocks following the attack", "A kindergarten was heavily damaged by the latest Russian drone strike on Kyiv\n\nRussia has launched its biggest drone attack on Kyiv since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine began last year, the city's mayor has said.\n\nResidents were woken by explosions before dawn on Saturday, and for more than six hours, the booms of Kyiv's air defences echoed through the city.\n\nThere was wave after wave of attacks from the north and east.\n\nOfficials said more than 75 Iranian-made Shahed drones were fired at the capital - all but one were shot down.\n\nWith Russia's dwindling missile stocks, Shahed drones are seen as a cheap alternative. They are slower than ballistic missiles and have a distinctive wingspan.\n\nIt was a night where the whines of their engines blended with the booms of the city's air defences.\n\nAs ever, even if a missile or drone is intercepted, the falling debris can be lethal too.\n\nThere have been no reported deaths from this attack, but at least five people were injured, including an 11-year-old child, Kyiv's mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said.\n\nA kindergarten was among the buildings damaged.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFor several quiet weeks, Moscow had been suspected of stockpiling missiles. That abruptly ended this morning.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the strikes an act of \"wilful terror\" and said that his country will \"continue to work to unite the world in defence against Russian terror\".\n\nHe is trying to secure continued Western support as well as negotiate Ukraine's path to being a possible member of the European Union.\n\nPresident Zelensky also noted that the attack came on the same day that Ukraine commemorates the 1932-1933 Holodomor famine - brought on by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin - which killed several million Ukrainians.\n\nAs winter continues to bite, it had been feared that Russia would resume its tactic of targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure. With 16,000 homes being left without power in the central Kyiv region, this appears to be the case.\n\nHowever, if the aim of Moscow's strategy last year was to deprive Ukrainians of much-needed power and water, it ultimately failed as authorities learnt to quickly repair damaged pipes and powerlines.\n\nThat's not to say strikes like this are not felt.\n\nThey still kill, destroy homes, spread fear and disrupt lives.", "Avigail Idan turned four while she was a hostage\n\nA four-year-old Israeli-American girl who was kidnapped by Hamas during its 7 October attack in southern Israel was among the 17 hostages released by the group on Sunday.\n\nAvigail Idan was just three at the time she was taken hostage from her home, where her parents were attacked and killed by Hamas gunmen.\n\nShe turned four while she was held hostage by Hamas.\n\nAvigail's family said: \"We hoped and prayed today would come.\"\n\n\"There are no words to express our relief and gratitude that Avigail is safe and coming home,\" said Liz Hirsh Naftali, Avigail's great aunt, and Noa Naftali, her cousin, in a statement.\n\nThey also thanked US president Joe Biden, the Qatari government and others who were involved in securing Avigail's release and called for the remaining hostages to be released.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ella Mor says her released four-year-old niece Avigail \"has family and we're taking care of her\"\n\n\"We have to keep pushing. We will continue to stand with the families of all the hostages still held captive, and we remain committed as ever to securing their safe and swift return.\"\n\nEarlier, President Biden said Avigail had been through a \"terrible trauma\", adding what she \"endured is unthinkable\".\n\nSpeaking to reporters, he said those around Avigail will be surrounding her with \"love and care.\"\n\n\"Today she's free, and Jilly [first lady of the US Jill Biden] and I, together with so many Americans, are praying for the fact that she is going to be alright,\" he said.\n\nPresident Biden said Sunday's hostage releases were the result of \"intensive US diplomacy\", adding he was hopeful that more American hostages will be released in the coming days.\n\n\"We continue to press and expect that additional Americans will be released as well,\" he said, adding \"we will not stop working until every hostage is returned to their loved ones\".\n\nFourteen of the 17 hostages were Israeli and three of them were Thai nationals. Nine of the Israelis were children.\n\nAvigail was with her family in the Kfar Aza kibbutz on 7 October. Her parents were killed during the attack, while her two siblings hid and were later rescued. Her mother's cousin told Sky News that Avigail's father had been holding her when he was shot.\n\nShe survived and walked to the home of her neighbours, the Brodutch family, but was later abducted along with the family by Hamas.\n\nOfri, Yuval, Hagar and Oria Brodutch were among those released by Hamas on Sunday\n\nSome members of the Brodutch family were among the hostages released on Sunday, including four-year-old Oria, his eight-year-old brother Yuval and their 10-year-old sister Ofri.\n\nTheir mother, 40-year-old Hagar Brodutch was also released.\n\nHagar's father-in-law, Shmuel Brodutch, told Israel's Channel 13 News: \"The moment I heard they were in the hands of the Red Cross, I was relieved.\"\n\nHe added: \"I hope I can invest the same effort until the last captive returns. I am very happy, but I feel a great commitment to the other families until the last captive returns, including IDF soldiers.\"\n\nThe other released hostages include Chen Almog-Goldstein, 48, and her children Tal, eight, Gal, 11, and Agam, 17, who were abducted from their homes in Kfar Aza on the day of the attack. Chen's husband, Nadav, and their 20-year-old daughter, Yam, were killed by Hamas.\n\nAlso released were sisters Dafna and Ela Elyakim, aged 15 and eight respectively. They were taken from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on the day of the attack, and were part of a family group whose capture was live-streamed by the attackers themselves.\n\nTheir mother, Maayan Zin, said in a statement that she was happy her daughters had returned, adding that it was \"a joy mixed with sadness\".\n\nMaayan Zin with her daughters Dafna and Ela Elyakim\n\nDafna and her sister Ela Elyakim were among those released by Hamas on Sunday\n\n\"Joy for my daughters who are here and sadness for those who have not yet returned. My heart will not be whole again until everyone returns home safely.\"\n\nShe said that since the girls were kidnapped, she had been living \"between despair and hope, between pain and optimism\".\n\n\"The girls are returning to a new and complex situation, and now we have a period of recovery that will take time,\" she said.\n\nThe other hostages released were 25-year-old Roni Krivoi - a dual Israeli-Russian national, working as a sound engineer at the Supernova music festival, 62-year-old Adrienne Aviva Seigel who was taken from her home in Kfar Aza along with her 64-year-old husband Keith.\n\nIDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari confirmed that 84-year-old Elma Avraham was airlifted to Soroka hospital in Beersheba in a serious condition.\n\nIsrael's prison service meanwhile has confirmed the release of 39 Palestinian prisoners as part of the four-day truce between Hamas and Israel.\n\nHamas' attack on 7 October killed 1,200 people, and about 240 were taken hostage. Since then, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says more than 14,500 people have been killed in Israel's retaliatory campaign in the territory.\n\nSunday marks the third day of a four-day pause in fighting in Gaza during which some of those being held hostage by Hamas are being freed in return for the release of Palestinian prisoners.\n\nThe total number of hostages released during the window now stands at 54 and the number of prisoners freed is 117.", "The halo around the Moon was seen over the Isle of Wight, among other places, on Saturday evening\n\nA \"lunar halo\" has been spotted in the night skies.\n\nThe ring around the Moon was seen over the skies on Saturday evening in Staffordshire, the West Midlands, Surrey, Berkshire, Dorset, Yorkshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire and the Isle of Wight.\n\nThe phenomenon is caused by the refraction of moonlight from ice crystals in the upper atmosphere.\n\nAccording to the Met Office, the halo can mean rainfall might be approaching.\n\nThe halo is seen in Ashbourne in Derbyshire\n\nThe halo as seen over Poole's Old Town in Dorset\n\nThe phenomenon is caused by light refracting through ice crystals, as spotted in Cheadle, Staffordshire\n\nThe halo, a sign that rain might be coming, was also seen in Kirklees, West Yorkshire\n\nIt added: \"The halo is caused by ice crystals formed in high clouds.\n\n\"These ice crystals then refract the light from the Moon or Sun.\n\n\"As the ice crystals travel lower, precipitation becomes more likely. In summer months particularly, the Halo can be a sign of approaching storms.\"\n\nThe halo was seen over the skies in Surrey on Saturday night\n\nAnd over Shirley in the West Midlands\n\nThe lunar halo was also seen over Wokingham in Berkshire\n\nGeographer Simon Collins said he was \"delighted\" to catch a glimpse of the moment.\n\n\"I'm a keen weather observer [and] run a local weather station so am always delighted to see lovely weather phenomena as so many others did last night as well,\" the 57-year-old, who took a photo in Reigate, Surrey on Saturday night, said.\n\nSome described witnessing the occurrence as \"amazing\", with others described it as \"very weird\" and \"like a night time rainbow\".\n\nThe halo as seen over Sevenoaks\n\nThe halo was also captured over Sutton Coldfield\n\nIt was also seen over Endon in Staffordshire\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A homeless man moves in with a much older wealthy woman - is it a genuine love story, or something much darker?\n\nCarolyn Holland was a wealthy widow aged 80, living in the idyllic Californian beachside resort of Cayucos, when she met David Foute, a man 23 years her junior.\n\nHe came to do some odd jobs for her. Within weeks, they were a couple, declaring their undying love.\n\nCarolyn said she'd never expected to fall so deeply in love with a stranger or to be having a romantic, sexual relationship at her age: \"He's given me something special, because of his caring spirit. We share a lot. I love his personality, and I hate it when he's gone.\"\n\n\"I'm going to take care of her as best I can unless I can't,\" Dave told me. \"All the guys know that Carolyn's my girl and I don't mess about. I don't stay out late because I have someone to go home to. I'm going to remain until the wheels fall off.\"\n\nHowever, her daughters saw things in a different light.\n\nThey believed that Dave was out to con and fleece their mother and would break her heart.\n\nI learned about Dave and Carolyn's story because I live on their street. The pace of life is slow in Cayucos, and people take time to sit together and chat.\n\nThere's a pier that stretches out nearly a thousand feet into the ocean and in the evening as the light fades, you can see the surfers outlined against the setting sun. It's the perfect setting for a love story and I wanted to believe in Dave - but like Carolyn's family, I was also suspicious.\n\nWas Carolyn about to fall victim to financial abuse, which affects around one in five of the over-60's?\n\nSue Mitchell tells a true story, recorded in real time, about how homelessness and wealth collide when a millionaire widow falls for her handyman.\n\n\"The age difference really bothered me - that was a red light,\" Carolyn's niece, Kim, told me. \"Why would someone that age act like he's in love with her, except to have a place to stay?\"\n\nI was in a unique position to watch the story unfold. Everyone involved wanted to talk - Carolyn's daughters welcomed a chance to give voice to their worries. Dave and Carolyn thought they were being wrongly judged and wanted to tell their story.\n\nWhen I first met Dave, I really warmed to him. He'd been recommended to do some renovation work for me by a neighbour, through the local church where he was a regular in the congregation. Dave charmed all the other workmen on the job. He played the harmonica and guitar, he was funny and seemed very open about his past.\n\nThe more I heard, however, the more I understood why Carolyn's family were alarmed. Dave had arrived in Cayucos homeless and was living rough, sleeping out by the pier, when he first showed up at Carolyn's house to do some work.\n\nHe readily admitted he'd been a crystal meth addict. It had led him to drug dealing and eventually made him so paranoid that he was jailed for making pipe bombs that police believed were linked to a possible attack on Walmart. Dave was - and still is - convinced that the supermarket chain was intending to microchip us all.\n\nDave claimed to have given up drugs, but I noticed he drank quite a bit, and smoked a lot of marijuana too.\n\nCarolyn's daughters, Susan and Sally, were horrified by the change in their mother's personality after she met Dave. \"It's like a fantasy world, it's so bizarre,\" Sally said. \"She was like a teenager when he came along. She was doing all this weird giggling and laughing.\"\n\nThe daughters didn't believe for a moment that what they were witnessing was love. What they saw was a lonely old woman in need of a companion, and a cunning outsider on the make.\n\nThere was also the question of inheritance. With her late husband, Joe, Carolyn had built up a property portfolio worth a few million dollars.\n\nCarolyn pictured on a cruise holiday in 2014 with her late husband, Joe\n\n\"It's our family's money, my parents worked hard for that money. Should we be okay, just giving it to some loser?\" she asked me.\n\nCarolyn's daughters believed she was already losing mental capacity when she met Dave. They tried to have her declared mentally unfit to manage her own affairs.\n\n\"They think I have Alzheimer's,\" Carolyn told me. \"Yes, I forget a lot of things, but I have too much stress. I can make my own decisions.\"\n\nHer relationship with Dave was pushing Carolyn apart from her daughters, but she felt she had every right to have the partner of her choice. Carolyn said they had not given her the support she needed after their father's death: \"They never came to see me before Dave, honestly they did not.\"\n\nHer daughters disputed this version of events. Susan, who lives five hours away, said she wished she could have been around more, but both she and Sally were bringing up children and working full-time. \"We tried to include her in everything,\" she said, adding that her mother was reluctant to get involved.\n\nBefore Dave came along, Sally - who lived closer - had helped her mother with her accounts and tax returns. However, the rift prompted Carolyn to take back control of her finances.\n\nNot long after, Carolyn co-signed a credit agreement with Dave, allowing him to buy a $40,000 van. I asked her what would happen if Dave disappeared, leaving her to cover the full cost of the loan. She said she didn't mind, and she didn't care what her daughters thought.\n\n\"Yes, they think they're protecting me from David, but David is the best thing that happened to me.\"\n\nWhat was the truth about Dave? I saw him coming back to Carolyn after a day's work, cooking her dinner and reminding her to take her meds. It was moments like this that made me believe he genuinely loved and cared for her.\n\nBut I also witnessed him in town, boasting to his friends that soon he would never have to work again.\n\nI decided to investigate his past. What I found was a dark history of domestic violence and child neglect.\n\nOne relationship had ended when he suspected his partner was unfaithful, and he beat her up. In an earlier marriage, there was a baby daughter who'd nearly died from neglect. This child had been sold by Dave to a couple who eventually legally adopted her.\n\nWhen I spoke to him, Dave would say this was all in the past - he was a churchgoer now, and he'd made a pact with God to lead a better life. He had come to Cayucos with nothing, and saw his relationship with Carolyn as a sign that their relationship was meant to be.\n\n\"Look what Jesus blessed me with,\" he said. \"I couldn't leave her, because I'm supposed to be here with her.\"\n\nDave said that Jesus meant him to be with Carolyn\n\nBut their story was soon to reach a tense and bitter climax.\n\nOne of Carolyn's properties was a single plot with two homes on it in a nearby town. Dave persuaded her to put the houses on the market, even though one of them was rented out to her own grandson and his family.\n\nCarolyn's daughters were furious, believing that he was taking advantage of their mother's mental fragility. They showed me footage from a security camera, of their mother looking bewildered as Dave showed estate agents around.\n\nCarolyn had promised to give some of the $600,000 (£480,000) from the property sale to Dave, to provide for his future.\n\nThe sale quickly went through and a cheque made out to Carolyn was waiting to be collected from the agents handling the sale. But at that very moment, she was admitted to hospital with Covid.\n\nCarolyn had refused to be vaccinated on Dave's advice - he'd convinced her that the vaccination programme was a process of government control.\n\nBy the time she was sent home, Caroline's poor physical and mental state had allowed her daughters to gain power-of-attorney status, giving them control over her financial affairs.\n\nCarolyn died soon after. \"The Covid was not what killed her,\" says Susan, \"but it definitely didn't help because she was already declining.\"\n\nThe daughters didn't allow Dave to visit Carolyn during her last days, and they didn't call to tell him she'd died. There was no funeral either, because the daughters were upset at the lack of support they thought the local church had given them.\n\nSusan and Sally still feel that their mother was taken advantage of, and that nobody - doctors, police or care services - helped them. \"Everybody's hands were tied,\" she says. \"They were not seeing what we were seeing.\"\n\nThere are a million people in the UK with dementia, a third of them undiagnosed. It makes them extremely vulnerable. After hearing Susan and Sally express these concerns about their mother, I spoke to two expert geriatricians about what they had said, and the issue of financial abuse, which is an increasing problem in both the UK and the US.\n\nAccording to Dr Mark Lachs, of Weill Cornell Medicine and his colleague, Dr Jason Karlawish, from the Penn Memory Centre, financial capacity can be one of the first things to decline when the brain is damaged through disease or age.\n\nThey want this process to be identified as a condition they call Age Associated Financial Vulnerability - a pattern of risky behaviour that is inconsistent with choices that would previously have been made.\n\nDr Karlawish says: \"Financial decision-making is very challenging cognitively. Even with mild cognitive impairment, you can make mistakes with finances, even though you're otherwise doing generally OK in your daily life.\" The doctors tell me that half of the patients who come into their memory clinic in New York have been conned.\n\nVeronica Gray is the director of policy at the UK charity Hourglass, which operates a telephone helpline for older people who have been abused. She says that £19.5m was reported to Hourglass as stolen, defrauded or coerced from older victims in 2022 - a 50% increase on the period from 2017-2019.\n\nIn 70% of these cases, an adult son or daughter is involved. The rest are acquaintances, carers, new lovers and even grandchildren. Most cases are never reported to the police and the victims have to live with the devastating impact of this financial abuse.\n\nMs Gray calls it a hidden crime: \"Many lose large sums of money, they lose property they have lived in for years and incur large debts.\"\n\nFor families like Carolyn's, there's a dangerous grey area surrounding mental capacity and the right to self-determination in later life. It's not an unusual tale either - the geriatricians say that they hear similar stories all the time.\n\nDave is living by Cayucos pier once more\n\nBack in Cayucos, Dave is homeless again, although he has the van that Carolyn helped him buy. He's parked in the same spot he was in when he first arrived in town, trying to make a living selling jewellery and artworks made from recycled items.\n\nThe last time I saw him, he was in a kind of trance, flicking a lighter on and off and telling himself over and over that he loved Carolyn: \"When she called I came, I miss Carolyn, I loved Carolyn,\" he told me. \"I was on my little mission trying to make her proud.\"\n\nSue Mitchell is on X, formerly Twitter", "Mention the Ferguson shipyard and two ships usually spring to mind.\n\nGlen Sannox and Glen Rosa, the overbudget and long overdue CalMac ferries, have understandably attracted plenty of attention.\n\nBut the small Inverclyde shipyard at the centre of Scotland's ferries saga has a much longer story, one which is seldom told.\n\nIt was in January 1903 that the four Ferguson brothers - Peter, Daniel, Louis and Robert - leased the derelict Newark yard, surprisingly located next door to a 15th Century castle, in Port Glasgow.\n\nThe site itself was no stranger to shipbuilding - the first recorded launch there took place in 1790 - and neither were the Ferguson brothers who had worked at their father's business, Fleming & Ferguson, in Paisley. .\n\nTen months later the first Ferguson Brothers vessel, Flying Swift, left the building berth - a steel-hulled tug built for the Clyde Shipping Company.\n\nThe occasion was celebrated with a \"wine and cake banquet\" according to the Greenock Telegraph which recently reprinted extracts from its original 1903 report.\n\nBy December (the same month the Wright Brothers made their famous 12-second flight in their new-fangled flying machine) Flying Swift was finished, and work was well-advanced on a second tug.\n\nThat first boat outlived the Ferguson family's connection with the yard which ended in 1954 with the death of Bobby Ferguson, son of one of founding brothers Robert. Flying Swift finally went to the breakers in 1957.\n\nBut for longevity it is surpassed by another Ferguson vessel.\n\nThe steam tug Canterbury, built in 1907 for £14,126 and 10 shillings, was soon making a 69-day journey via the Suez Canal to Lyttelton, New Zealand, to serve as the port's tug, pilot boat and fireboat. On arrival it was declared \"the finest tug in the colony\".\n\nIts first high profile job came on New Year's Day 1908 when it escorted Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Nimrod out of the harbour at the start of the Antarctic expedition that made him a national hero in Britain.\n\nIn 1908 the tug escorted Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Nimrod out of harbour\n\nThe tug still has the brass Ferguson Brothers builder's plate\n\nSoon renamed after the town it served, the tug is still there, lovingly cared for by the volunteers of the Tug Lyttelton Preservation Society.\n\nUntil recently it carried passengers but it is currently out of action while funds are raised to re-tube its \"Scotch boiler\".\n\nThose first Ferguson vessels were all tugs, dredgers or barges but in 1908 the yard built its first ferry.\n\nVehicular Ferryboat No.3 carried horses and carts across the Clyde at Finnieston\n\nVehicular Ferryboat No. 3 (as it was unimaginatively named by the Clyde Navigation Trust) was better known to Glaswegians as the Finnieston \"horse ferry\" because of the horse-drawn carts it carried across the river near where the Finnieston crane stands today.\n\nThe strange-looking vessel had a deck that could be raised or lowered by winches to the level of the quays depending on the height of the tide.\n\nIn the 1950s and 60's Vehicular Ferryboat No.4 carried a different type of vehicle\n\nA second of these horse ferries, Vehicular Ferryboat No. 4, was built for the Govan crossing in 1938. They were still ferrying vehicles across the river into the mid-1960s when the new Clyde Tunnel made them redundant.\n\nAs World War One engulfed Europe, demand for ships swelled the order book. The yard was building hospital ships and minesweepers in 1917 when King George V became the first of many royal visitors over the years.\n\nHis visit to Ferguson's and the Colville steelworks in Motherwell is said to have been aimed at bolstering patriotic feelings among Clydesiders amid concern about growing Communist sympathies.\n\nWhile the larger shipyards up river like John Brown's or Fairfield's were building giant liners and warships, the Ferguson yard carved out a solid reputation for smaller specialist vessels.\n\nThe most illustrious was RRS Discovery II, completed in 1929 for the Discovery Committee of the Colonial Office, to research whales and their habitats in Antarctica.\n\nNamed after Robert Falcon Scott's famous wooden ship that is now a visitor attraction in Dundee, it was equipped with laboratories and built from steel, cross-braced with timber, to withstand the ice floes it would encounter.\n\nIn January 1932 its strength was tested when it was caught in heavy pack ice in the Weddell Sea, not far from the spot where Shackleton's ship Endurance was crushed and sank 16 years earlier.\n\nAt one point the rivets started breaking, making a sound like a machine gun, but Discovery II escaped with a few leaks and a twisted rudder stock.\n\nThe crew had already shown their appreciation of the shipyard when they surveyed a small inlet on Thule Island in 1931 and named it Ferguson Bay.\n\nThe east and west edges of the bay were named Hewison Point and Herd Point, after the shipyard's manager and company secretary.\n\nA small bay in Antarctica is named after the Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow\n\nWhen in late 1935 the American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth and his British pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon went missing while trying to fly across Antarctica, Discovery II was sent to search for them.\n\nThe story ended happily - the pair had run out of fuel and ditched their plane but a broken radio meant they spent weeks sheltering at a deserted exploration hut before the crew found them in January the following year.\n\nFinally broken up after 33 years of service, the research ship has been celebrated on two postage stamps (in the Falkland Islands and Australia) and had a book written about its adventures.\n\nMost people waiting at the bus stop outside the old Port Glasgow Town Hall building are probably puzzled by a series of curves marked out in the pavement. They are the hull lines of Discovery II - from the architect's drawings for what was until recently the most famous Ferguson ship.\n\nWorld War Two was a busy time for the small Port Glasgow shipyard, building no fewer than 32 vessels for the Ministry of Transport or the Admiralty, including nine small warships to protect the convoys.\n\nHMS Burnet was one of nine corvettes built at the yard during World War Two\n\nIn September 1940 when the heavy cruiser HMS Sussex was hit by a 250lb German bomb while undergoing repairs at Yorkhill Quay, the Ferguson-built Ferryboat No.4 helped put out the flames.\n\nThe majority of vessels that have left the Ferguson slipway have had more mundane duties - but every ship has a story.\n\nSludge boats were designed to take the strain from Britain's overburdened Victorian sewage system. The solid waste was picked up from treatment plants and dumped out at sea.\n\nIn 1976, Ferguson's built one such vessel for Lothian Regional Council named Gardyloo - after the traditional warning cry given by the Edinburgh residents before they emptied their chamber pots out of tenement windows.\n\nAfter a brief spell on the Clyde, the ship took up duties in Edinburgh in 1978, helping to end the practice of pouring the city's waste directly into the Forth.\n\nDespite their filthy cargo, the sludge boats were kept spotlessly clean and often took daytrippers. Gardyloo soon became an unlikely visitor attraction.\n\nThe ship's route took it past thriving bird colonies at Bell Rock or St Abbs, making the trips popular with birdwatchers and pensioners, who travelled for free.\n\nRefreshments were available. Guests often enjoyed a coffee and a roll during the seven-hour cruise as the ship gently relieved itself of its toxic cargo. By the time an EU directive abruptly ended sewage dumping at sea in 1998, Gardyloo had carried more than 6,000 passengers.\n\nFinding a new role for a ship with such a pedigree was a challenge - but it was eventually sold to a shipping company in Azerbaijan where it operates as a drinking water carrier, renamed Shollar after a mountain spring.\n\nMV Isle of Lewis, seen here just after its launch in 1995, was at the time the largest ship in the CalMac fleet. On the slipway the tug Tystie is under construction, destined for Shetland.\n\nMV Isle of Arran is still serving CalMac routes 40 years after it was launched.\n\nFerries and Ferguson's are two words that nowadays seem to hang together naturally but the many successful builds before Glen Sannox and Glen Rosa are rarely mentioned.\n\nWest coast ferry operator CalMac has 10 major vessels longer than 80 metres. Half of them were built at Ferguson's.\n\nAmong them is the oldest large ship in the fleet, MV Isle of Arran, launched in December 1983. It was followed by MV Isle of Mull (1987), MV Lord of the Isles (1989), MV Isle of Lewis (1995) and MV Hebrides (2000) which was launched by the late Queen.\n\nMV Hebrides was launched by the late Queen in 2000\n\nThe \"flower girl\" presents a bouquet to the Queen\n\nTwo fisheries research ships MV Scotia (1998) and Cefas Endeavour (2002) showed the yard could still build technologically-advanced ships. They required exceptionally low noise levels so that they could sneak up on the fish shoals. Some joked that they might actually be spy ships.\n\nBut by now Ferguson's was the last surviving commercial shipbuilder on the Clyde, struggling to match the prices of overseas competitors, particularly in eastern Europe.\n\nFrom 2012 onwards it was kept afloat with orders for small CalMac ferries - pioneering diesel/battery-powered hybrids.\n\nMV Hallaig was the first of three pioneering diesel/battery hybrid ferries built by the yard\n\nThe second small hybrid, MV Lochinvar, was launched in 2013.\n\nTwo had been built when the yard went bust in 2014, by which time the workforce had dwindled to just 70. A third was constructed, on time and on budget, after the firm was rescued by businessman Jim McColl\n\nThe story of the latest ships, Glen Sannox and Glen Rosa, is long and complicated, a product of a unique set of circumstances. Delays and cost over-runs have left the workforce embarrassed by events beyond their control, but many in the local community remain fiercely loyal to the yard.\n\nFerguson's has no more ship orders beyond those ferries. The shipyard is pinning its hopes on an order for seven small CalMac vessels, similar to the three it delivered successfully before Scotland's ferries saga began.\n\nWhen Glen Rosa finally enters the Clyde next March, it will be the 363rd vessel launched under the Ferguson name. In Port Glasgow and across Scotland there are many who hope it won't be the last.", "Thirty-nine Palestinian prisoners have been released from Israeli prisons as part of the hostage deal with Hamas.\n\nCrowds came out to celebrate in the West Bank town of Beitunia as a bus carrying some prisoners drove through the streets. Some in the crowd were carrying the green flags of Hamas.\n\nOn the second day of the hostage deal, 13 Israeli hostages and four Thai nationals were also released.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe 2023 Booker Prize has been awarded to Prophet Song, a dystopian vision of Ireland in the grips of totalitarianism.\n\nIt was written by Ireland's Paul Lynch, 46, marking the first time he has won the prestigious fiction writing prize.\n\nSet in Dublin, it tells the story of a family grappling with a terrifying new world in which the democratic norms they are used to begin to disappear.\n\nLynch said Prophet Song was inspired by the Syrian war and refugee crisis.\n\nReacting to his win on stage at the award ceremony in Old Billingsgate, London, Lynch said it was with \"immense pleasure\" that he was taking the Booker back to Ireland.\n\nThe author, who was born in Limerick and now lives in Dublin, added that the novel was \"not an easy book to write\".\n\nAsked about the recent rioting and violence in Dublin earlier this week, Lynch said he was \"astonished\" by what happened and said \"we should see it as a warning\".\n\nBut he said he was not a \"political novelist\" and his book was finished 18 months ago.\n\nHe said he was going to spend some of his £50,000 prize money on his mortgage.\n\nThe book is Lynch's fifth and he spent four years working on it. He started writing it just before his son was born and, by the time he finished, his boy was able to ride a bike.\n\nHead judge Esi Edugyan said the panel \"sought a winning novel that might speak to the immediate moment while also possessing the possibility of outlasting it\".\n\nShe added: \"In these troubled times, we sought a novel with a guiding vision - a book to remind us that we are more than ourselves, to remind us of all that is worth saving.\"\n\nBefore the winner was announced Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe spoke about how much reading helped her while she was detained in Iran.\n\nShe said being able to read novels from the prison's secret library \"transformed\" her life and the books took her \"to another world\".\n\nThe Booker Prize is one of the leading literary awards in the English speaking world.\n\nSunday's event was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Front Row and was announced on the Booker Prize live stream on YouTube.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "It's a \"betrayal\". It's a \"slap in the face\". The numbers are \"shockingly high\" and it's simply \"unsustainable\".\n\nPoliticians all seem very cross about the numbers of people from around the world making the UK their home. And they nearly all seem to agree that old chestnut, that \"something must be done\".\n\nJust wait until they look in the mirror and realise who came up with the new immigration system under which the levels have risen so much (and witness the former prime minister, Boris Johnson, raging in his newspaper column at the folly of the system that he himself introduced).\n\nBut the outrage in the last few days, real or not, is no substitute for answers to a set of questions that politicians must confront if they really want change - and many of them are difficult to answer.\n\nIs immigration too high? With net migration adding the equivalent of the population of Glasgow or Leeds to the country each year, it's not politically fashionable to say that it shows the UK is an attractive destination, and the more the merrier. The stock answer for most politicians is yes, it's too high. We have a broad consensus - so far, so easy.\n\nBut this conversation gets tricky, fast. If the level is wrong, what is the right one? The Tories have bad memories of setting a limit and then failing over, and over, and over again to hit it. It was our now Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron who, in 2010 as prime minister, promised to get net immigration under 100,000. Back then it was around a quarter of a million, which seemed sky high, it's more than double that now.\n\nThere were plenty of people inside what was then David Cameron's party who argued the vow was crass because we were in the European Union, without the powers to limit the number of EU citizens who moved to the UK. The target was impossible to guarantee. But the political appeal was clear, so he ploughed on - and failed.\n\nThen under Theresa May, there were plenty of Cabinet ministers who believed the promised cap should be junked, even when we were tortuously out of the EU and could manage the numbers ourselves. Her view, however, was that the target should stay - after all, what message would it send if she ditched it? She failed too.\n\nFast forward to 2023 and the argument for a cap is back, being pushed by the former home secretary, Suella Braverman, among others. But there doesn't seem much appetite to pick a number either inside No 10 or at the top of the Labour Party, who would be giving themselves a potential test that would be hard to pass if they won power.\n\nIf they won't say how high, will they say who?\n\nThis is where it gets emotive. First, understand the irony: we left the EU on a promise that immigration would get under control because the UK could say exactly who got their passport stamped at our borders. No longer would people from any of 23 European countries be able to arrive and set up home without limit - for good or ill. But since we left, the numbers of people from outside the EU has gone up and up and up.\n\nIt's fascinating to crunch those numbers. Nearly a million people from outside the EU came to live in the UK last year (the overall net migration number is lower because that's the difference between those who arrive and those who depart). There were about a quarter of a million Indians, the next biggest group were Nigerian, then Chinese, Pakistani, then Ukrainian, according to the ONS.\n\nThe most common reason was to come to study at our universities and colleges (nearly four in 10), but around a third came to work, with a particularly staggering increase in the numbers coming to work in health and social care. The OBR reported this week the numbers of visas granted in that sector had risen 150% in the last year.\n\nIf politicians want fewer people to come to the UK, who do they want to say no to? Who would not welcome Ukrainians after the Russian invasion? Who would argue the UK should turn its back on Hong Kongers? Who wants to say that the world's best and brightest students who come to study in the UK should take their talents elsewhere? Who will tell the public the NHS and social care system can't have the staff it needs? Not many people in Westminster have much stomach for picking and choosing.\n\nBut this brings us to the fundamental question - if you turn off the immigration taps who will do the jobs that are filled right now by hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world? It is argued that for the government's sums to add up - indeed for the Conservatives to be able to afford the tax cuts they are so eager to offer - the economy needs immigration.\n\nThe Migration Advisory Committee, an independent group, was meant to take some of the politics out of this, recommending who could come depending on the gaps in the economy. But trying to take politics out of immigration is like trying to take eggs out of an omelette.\n\nSo what decisions could politicians take? The committee itself has already suggested scrapping the list of \"shortage occupations\" it publishes, which determines the sectors that can bring in extra foreign workers. Labour, and it seems the immigration minister, Robert Jenrick, also wants to end the practice where employers can pay immigrants 20% less than the going rate if their jobs are on the list.\n\nLabour has cited examples such as civil engineers, for whom the official government \"going rate\" is £34,000 a year, but can instead be recruited from abroad at just £28,000 a year - a tasty incentive for employers to hire from abroad rather than spend the cash training up less experienced staff at home.\n\nMinisters are cutting the number of family members some migrants can bring to the UK when they move. Some Conservatives argue for a cap on the number of social care workers who can come in. Labour argues for a crackdown on exploitation in that industry.\n\nWhen it comes to the huge numbers of students coming in, some Tories reckon it's time to cut way back, arguing the need to cut immigration should come ahead of the balance sheets of our higher education institutions.\n\nConservative calls for extra steps are more like screams now. Perhaps the measures they come up with will start to make a difference - but they may seem like nips and tucks in the face of the sheer numbers.\n\nThere are plenty of politicians in both parties who'd agree privately that the only way to make a big change in the migration numbers is a massive effort to get the UK workforce into shape.\n\nThat is not an overnight fix - for the two decades I have covered politics I have heard politicians talk about the need to skill up the workforce, to improve education and training, to invest in British workers.\n\nWe heard it in Gordon Brown's ill fated \"British jobs for British workers\", David Cameron's apprenticeship levy, Theresa May's T-levels, Boris Johnson's Lifetime Skills Guarantee, and Rishi Sunak's planned reforms of the benefits system to get people back into work, the list goes on.\n\nLooking at the numbers of workers firms are bringing in from other countries might lead you to conclude those ambitions didn't get very far.\n\nThe political risks from inaction are obvious. Not just because of the ructions in the increasingly restless Conservative Party, but because of what has gone before. Vote Leave insiders identify the day the migration figures were published during the EU referendum campaign as the moment they grabbed the momentum. Boris Johnson, who had previously been reluctant to take a harder line on migration, piled in. You don't need me to tell you what happened next.\n\nThe Conservative Party has seen the threat from parties willing to take a brasher line than them - from UKIP and now from Reform UK. Nigel Farage might currently be in the celebrity jungle, but his political arguments have not been banished.\n\nLabour, meanwhile, has learnt painful lessons from failing to take public concern about immigration seriously - just ask Rochdale voter Gillian Duffy about Gordon Brown's infamous \"bigoted woman\" comment.\n\nThe noisy conversation over Channel crossings has been at the forefront of the political imagination for the last year, emblazoned on government lecterns. But that is dwarfed by the numbers of people making the UK their home perfectly legally.\n\nQuestions about immigration are not easy for politicians to respond to, and it's daft to suggest they are. But the pressure is on for them to come up with more credible answers. Saying it's too high again and again doesn't make the problem go away. When voters ask the important question of whether they can trust politicians' promises, the answer might be all too clear.\n\nWhat questions would you like to ask Laura's guests on Sunday?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Guess who's back... CM Punk hinted he wouldn't return when he left WWE in 2014\n\nCM Punk has made a dramatic return to WWE after nearly a decade away.\n\nFans roared after hearing his theme music at the Survivor Series event in the United States on Saturday night.\n\nHe initially left WWE in 2014 and has often spoken about his frustrations over creative storylines and a lack of medical care towards him.\n\nThere had been speculation the 45-year-old would come back after he recently left rival wrestling company All Elite Wrestling (AEW).\n\nBut WWE's chief content officer Triple H said CM Punk's return at the show in his hometown Chicago was all a bit last minute.\n\n\"This was one of those lightning in a bottle moments that came together very quickly, but we are incredibly excited about it,\" he said in a press conference after the show.\n\n\"It didn't start to come to fruition until everybody stopped thinking it was going to happen, and then all of a sudden it was happening.\"\n\nTriple H also referenced the fact CM Punk has often hinted he would not return to WWE since he left a decade ago.\n\n\"If you are the same person you were 10 years ago 10 years later, you've messed up,\" Triple H said.\n\n\"Everybody grows, everybody changes. And I'm a different person, he's a different person, this is a different company and we're all on the same even starting ground.\"\n\nFans were loving CM Punk's return in his hometown Chicago\n\nAfter leaving WWE in 2014, CM Punk - real name Phil Brooks - had a short stint in mixed martial arts with UFC.\n\nHe then joined AEW in 2021, before leaving the company earlier this year after the All In pay-per-view event at Wembley Stadium.\n\nCM Punk didn't have a wrestling match at his shock WWE return and didn't even get into the ring, but his appearance was enough to send fans into a frenzy.\n\nMost reacted with shock on social media, with one fan writing it was the \"biggest pop in history of wrestling\".\n\nJoe Clarkson told BBC Newsbeat CM Punk's return came as \"a complete and utter shock\".\n\nHe was at the wrestler's last match for AEW and thought he would never see him in the industry again.\n\n\"I've never been so glad to be proven wrong,\" the 22-year-old said.\n\n\"There are plenty of people in wrestling who cannot stand him, but there are so many who love him.\n\n\"He's always a conversation starter, a star of the calibre of CM Punk doesn't come around very often.\"\n\nJoe says he's happy to see CM Punk back because he's always been a fan\n\nWWE fan Sabrina Nicole also told Newsbeat CM Punk's return means it's \"an exciting time to be a wrestling fan\".\n\nShe was watching Survivor Series and said \"hearing his music gave me chills\".\n\n\"I was definitely surprised to hear it, right at the end of the show.\"\n\nShe's looking forward to seeing what happens next with him, possibly \"a feud with Seth Rollins\", who was pictured looking unhappy at his return.\n\n\"It's quite surreal to be honest to see CM Punk back. I've always been a fan despite the ups and downs.\"\n\nRandy Orton, who made his own return at Survivor Series after more than a year out with injury, was in the ring when CM Punk returned, with the pair sharing a smile while Punk was stood at the top of the ramp.\n\nWWE star Cody Rhodes added: \"If he can help with where we're going and what we're doing, absolutely welcome aboard.\n\n\"I have a feeling the CM Punk we're getting is hungry, and that's the best.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Organisers of the protest estimated that some 300,000 people attended\n\nTens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators have marched through central London calling for a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.\n\nIt was the first London march since Armistice Day, when more than 100 counter-protesters were arrested.\n\nPolice said 15 people had been arrested at the march, though the \"overwhelming majority\" protested lawfully.\n\nThe protest coincided with a four-day pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says more than 14,500 people have been killed in Gaza - and more than a third of them children - since Israel began its retaliatory operation in response to Hamas's 7 October attacks. Hamas killed 1,200 people and took more than 240 hostages during its unprecedented cross-border incursion.\n\nThe Qatar-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas has so far led to the release of 26 Israeli hostages and 39 Palestinians from Israeli prisons.\n\nThe march in central London came as a delay to the release of more Israeli hostages was resolved on the second day of the temporary truce.\n\nOrganisers of the protest, which marched from Park Lane to Whitehall, estimated that some 300,000 people attended. The Metropolitan Police did not give a number.\n\nThe force said the arrests included offences of inciting racial hatred, distributing material likely to stir up racial hatred, supporting a proscribed organisation, refusing directions to disperse, possessing an offensive weapon and assaulting an emergency worker.\n\nThe Met has been under pressure for weeks over its handling of the now-regular demonstrations, with pressure from senior politicians for officers to come down harder on alleged displays of antisemitism.\n\nSome 1,500 officers were deployed to the protest and leaflets were given to protesters warning people about words or images that could break the law.\n\nThe Met also said it was planning to position Arabic-speaking officers on the march, backed up in its central control room with lawyers to advise on whether specific phrases break the law.\n\nThe protest was held on the second day of a four-day pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas\n\nBen Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said the leaflets given out by police at the march \"reassert what everybody knows\"\n\nSome 1,500 officers were on the streets on Saturday, the Met Police said\n\nOfficers were told to protect war memorials following criticism that police had not stopped protesters climbing on them\n\nThe protest in central London was the first since Armistice Day\n\nMarches were also been held in Glasgow (pictured) and Cardiff\n\nProtesters carrying Palestinian flags were seen with placards demanding a permanent ceasefire in the conflict, while some referenced the slogan \"from the river to the sea\".\n\nThe language is interpreted by Israel and most Jewish groups as an expression of a desire to see Israel erased from the world, though pro-Palestinian activists contest this, saying it refers to \"the right of all Palestinians to freedom, equality and justice\".\n\nSo far, the temporary truce is still holding and follows weeks of fighting and Israeli bombardments of Gaza, with the conflict sparked by Hamas's unprecedented cross-border attack in southern Israel that saw 1,200 people killed.\n\nSpeaking at London's march, a pro-Palestinian protester played down the long-term significance of the temporary ceasefire.\n\nShaun, 33, from north London, said: \"I don't know what's going to come from it, I don't know if it's positive, but I know full well that once this truce and temporary ceasefire are done they (Israel) are going to continue bombing and we're going to be right back where we were, so I'm not holding my breath.\"\n\nMarches were also held in Glasgow and Cardiff.\n\nAsked about the Met's leaflets, march organiser Ben Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said police had been placed under \"considerable pressure\" by politicians to be more aggressive in their policing of the demonstration.\n\n\"The leaflets reassert what everybody knows, which is that there are laws against hate speech, there are laws for showing support for proscribed hate organisations - so I'm not sure what the leaflets add,\" he said.\n\nSeparately, a different protest was held by the Islamist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir outside the Egyptian embassy. The Met said two people at that march were arrested for racially-aggravated public order offences.\n\nIt was the first by the group since 21 October, when video emerged showing a man chanting \"jihad\", prompting an outcry from politicians. The Met found no offences were identified from the clip.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Officers were called out to the Old Avenue area of Auchinleck on Saturday evening\n\nRiot police officers came under attack from a \"hostile\" crowd during large-scale disorder in an East Ayrshire village.\n\nOne officer had to be taken to hospital for treatment after being hit by a firework as trouble flared in Auchinleck on Saturday evening.\n\nFootage on social media showed officers in helmets and carrying riot shields as they tried to break up the crowd.\n\nTwo homes were also badly damaged in apparent fire-raising attacks.\n\nA fire-damaged house in Heathfield Road, near where the disturbances started\n\nPolice Scotland described the attacks on officers as \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nDet Insp Louise White of Ayrshire Division said: \"An investigation is under way following an incident of large-scale disorder in Auchinleck on Saturday, 25 November. Officers were called to reports of a crowd gathered in Old Avenue.\n\n\"The crowd moved to other addresses in the area and public order officers attended to assist when the crowd refused to disperse when requested.\n\n\"Unfortunately during the incident some of those gathered became extremely hostile towards the police and one officer was struck by a firework and taken to hospital for treatment.\"\n\nDet Insp White said officers had a duty to ensure the safety of everyone involved in such incidents and added: \"This kind of behaviour is completely unacceptable\".\n\nShe said: \"Although the crowd later dispersed, our investigation is ongoing to trace those responsible and ensure they are dealt with appropriately.\n\n\"This will include reviewing any available video footage.\"\n\nPolice were initially called after a group gathered on Old Avenue\n\nLocal councillors Claire Leitch and William Lennox issued a joint statement condemning the night of attacks - particularly those aimed at police officers.\n\n\"The community does not deserve the displays of violence and disorder that we saw last night and we will provide support to residents in any way we can,\" they said.\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Farmers in Wales are waiting for Welsh ministers to announce rural affairs spending plans\n\n\"We really are worried about how we're going to be sustainable going forward.\"\n\nKatie-Rose Davies says rising costs and reduced Welsh government funding threaten the future of her farm on Bwlch Mountain in Bridgend county, which has kept her family in work for generations.\n\nFarming union NFU Cymru said ministers must protect funding for rural affairs.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was \"absolutely committed to supporting farmers and rural communities\".\n\nIn the government's final budget for 2023-24, Rural Affairs was given £482m - about 2% of the total budget.\n\nBut last month, after Welsh ministers spent the summer looking for savings, the pot was cut by £37m.\n\nFarming unions have also warned that the Habitat Wales scheme, which will come into force on 1 January to replace the Glastir programme, will lead to a significant reduction in income for many farmers.\n\nMs Davies said her payments would be cut by nearly half.\n\nThe mum of three said she worries \"if we can carry on doing what we're doing\".\n\nFarmer Katie-Rose Davies says news of impending cuts to her payments came \"like a bombshell\"\n\n\"It's just happened overnight really - there was no warning, there was no stepping down of payments. It's like a bombshell,\" she said.\n\nThe comments come on the eve of the Royal Welsh Winter Fair in Llanelwedd, Builth Wells, which begins on Monday.\n\nMinisters will set out their spending plans for next year on 19 December.\n\nNFU Cymru deputy president Abi Reader told the Politics Wales programme that if the Welsh government \"values\" what farmers do it would protect funding for the sector.\n\n\"Having come off the back of a cut already we watch with baited breath now to see what Welsh government is going to do,\" she said.\n\nAbi Reader from NFU Cymru says funding for rural affairs doesn't need to be higher\n\n\"We're not asking for any more,\" she added. \"We just want to protect what's there and make sure that farmers throughout Wales can continue to deliver everything that we promise.\"\n\nMs Reader said the Habitat Wales scheme, which is due to last 12 months, was a \"really good example\" of where there had been \"quite a bad communication breakdown\" between the government and the farming industry.\n\n\"It's not a very good omen for going forward,\" she added.\n\nOpposition politicians say payments to farmers should not be cut\n\nPlaid Cymru's rural affairs spokesman Llyr Gruffydd said the government's budget would be a \"litmus test\" of Welsh ministers' commitment to farmers.\n\n\"If they don't come up with the goods this time then I think people will be justified in questioning whether actually they are treating different parts of Wales differently.\"\n\nSam Kurtz, who speaks for the Welsh Conservatives on rural matters, said: \"This is not the time to further cut a budget which is already small.\n\n\"This is a time to invest in rural communities, invest in our agriculture community and give them support so that they can continue to be not only custodians of our land in Wales but also the excellent food producers that we know they are.\"\n\nAlexander Phillips of environmental group WWF Cymru said: \"A lot of farmers that are currently pursuing nature-friendly practices for the last 15 to 20 years are currently looking at their balance sheets and going 'I'm not sure this is going to work anymore'.\n\n\"That's deeply concerning for us because that will see an overall reduction in the level of environmentally-friendly practices that are taking place in Wales.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We have been very clear we are facing an extremely challenging financial situation, the toughest since devolution.\n\n\"We know there are difficult decisions to be made across Welsh government.\n\n\"Despite these challenges, we remain absolutely committed to supporting farmers and rural communities throughout Wales.\"\n\nOn changes to the environmental scheme for farmers, the government added that ministers had been \"engaging regularly with the unions and others in this challenging financial context\".\n\nPolitics Wales, BBC One Wales at 10:00 GMT on 26 November and on iPlayer", "A funeral ceremony was held for the Palestinians who were killed in raids by Israeli forces in Jenin\n\nEight Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian health ministry.\n\nThe most serious incident was an Israeli raid overnight in the city of Jenin, in which five were killed.\n\nThe Israeli army said it was mounting a raid to capture a Palestinian who was suspected of involvement in an ambush that killed two Israelis in August.\n\nPalestinian factions have called for a strike in Jenin to mourn those killed.\n\nThe West Bank has seen almost daily clashes for more than a year and a half, after Israel suffered a wave of deadly violence by Palestinian militants.\n\nIsraeli forces have gone into West Bank towns and cities in search of those suspected of being involved in shootings and stabbings or planning such attacks.\n\nJenin has been a flashpoint, and hundreds of Palestinians - both fighters and civilians - have been killed.\n\nBack in July, Israeli forces launched an incursion into the city's refugee camp, which is regarded as a hotbed of militants.\n\nThirteen Palestinians were killed in the fiercest confrontation in the West Bank for 20 years.\n\nIn addition, Israeli settlers have responded to killings carried out by Palestinian gunmen with rampages in Palestinian towns and villages.\n\nSo, the area was already at boiling point before the Hamas assault on Israel on 7 October.\n\nIn the weeks since then, the UN says some 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli troops or settlers in a new escalation of the conflict. Four Israelis have been killed by Palestinians.\n\nEven as Israel has been fighting a war with Hamas in Gaza, it has tightened its controls on the West Bank in a bid to prevent a spill-over of the conflict.\n\nBut this appears only to have further undermined the Palestinian Authority and boosted the rise of militant groups in Jenin and beyond.", "Lee Anderson is the Conservative MP for Ashfield, in Nottinghamshire\n\nConservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson claims he was offered a financial incentive to defect to another party.\n\nMr Anderson alleges he was offered a job worth the equivalent of five years of an MP's salary in the event he switched but failed to win re-election.\n\nSenior Conservative sources say Mr Anderson told them he had been approached by Reform UK.\n\nIts leader Richard Tice has denied he offered any MP any money.\n\nMr Anderson issued a statement addressing the claims after they were first reported by the Sunday Times.\n\nThe newspaper acquired a leaked recording of Mr Anderson saying at an event: \"There is a political party that begins with an R that offered me a lot of money to join them. I say a lot of money, I mean a lot of money.\"\n\nIt said the comment was made by the Tory MP for Ashfield at a South Cambridgeshire Conservative Association event last month.\n\nMr Tice was asked about the Sunday Times report on Sunday with Laura Kuenssburg, and said he has had \"numerous discussions with Tory MPs\" but denied offering any money.\n\nHe then accused Mr Anderson of using \"the threat of defecting to Reform to negotiate\" his role as deputy chairman of the Tory party.\n\nMr Anderson said the allegations over how he got the senior party job made by Mr Tice are \"simply ridiculous\".\n\nIn a statement issued to GB News - which he is also employed by - on Sunday evening, Mr Anderson clarified the nature of the offer he was allegedly made to defect.\n\nHe said: \"From time to time politicians do meet other politicians from different political parties.\n\n\"At one such meeting I was offered the chance to join another party for the following deal - I join within a few months and stand for this Party at the next election.\n\n\"If I lost my seat I would be guaranteed a job with the party for five years on the same salary as an MP. To falsely claim that I used this as leverage to get the position of deputy chairman is an insult to me and my party.\"\n\nBBC News has approached Mr Tice for further comment in light of Mr Anderson's intervention.\n\nAn MP's salary from April 2023 is £86,584.\n\nBusinessman Richard Tice is the leader of Reform UK\n\nMr Anderson did not specifically name the party involved in his lengthy statement, but did criticise Mr Tice for his leadership of Reform UK.\n\nThe BBC has been told Mr Anderson contacted Tory Party officials with the allegation in February and they contacted the party's chief whip.\n\nA parliamentary official said: \"The party should now pass any evidence it might have to the police which is the appropriate authority to deal with it.\"\n\nReform UK was founded with support from ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage in 2018 and has only taken a small proportion of the vote in recent by-elections.\n\nHowever, some Tories are worried the party could capitalise on concern over record levels of migration, as well as the number of people crossing the Channel in small boats.", "Bobby Brazier said the dance was \"something I'll never forget\"\n\nBobby Brazier has paid tribute to his mother Jade Goody by dedicating his Strictly Come Dancing routine to her.\n\nThe EastEnders actor received a standing ovation on Saturday's show for his dance to This Woman's Work by Maxwell with partner Dianne Buswell.\n\nThe 20-year-old said his mother's death in 2009 \"changed my life completely\" in a clip before he performed.\n\nReality star Jade Goody died at the age of 27 after being diagnosed with cervical cancer.\n\n\"I'd love to spend the day with her, just to see where I get my smile from,\" he said in the clip, as he talked about losing his mother when he was just four years old.\n\nHe added his earliest childhood memory was thinking \"she is a superhero\".\n\nHis father TV presenter Jeff Brazier also appeared in the clip and talked about how \"loss makes you grow closer\" as a family.\n\nThe presenter then choked up as he added he was \"the lucky one, I'm the one who gets to bring the boys up, I'm the one who gets to watch them on Strictly, it brings to my joy to my life.\"\n\nJust before his performance, Brazier said: \"This dance isn't just for my family, this dance is a tribute to my mum.\"\n\nJade Goody's death in 2009 led to a 12% spike in women getting NHS smear tests at the time\n\nWhen the couple's dance was over, Brazier looked emotional as Buswell quickly embraced him, while his father had tears in his eyes as he clapped in the audience.\n\nJudges Shirley Ballas and Motsi Mabuse gave him standing ovations, with Ballas saying the dance had the \"most beautiful true movements through the body as you danced it through your heart\".\n\n\"The message that you both put on the floor was absolutely beautiful,\" Mabuse added.\n\nWhile he was waiting for his score, Brazier said the dance to This Woman's Work, which was originally written and performed by Kate Bush, was \"something I'll never forget\".\n\nEarlier in the week, the actor appeared on ITV's Loose Women, where he said he wanted to perform to the song because the lyrics were \"profound and very impactful for me\".\n\n\"When I was a little bit younger and I was angry and resentful and I feared the world and just couldn't cry or express myself, it was hearing those lyrics that would just made me cry because it felt so true,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThirty-nine Palestinian teenagers and women were freed from Israeli prisons on Saturday after the ceasefire deal looked to be in peril.\n\nThey were released as part of an agreement which has seen 26 Israeli hostages taken on 7 October returned.\n\nIt takes the total number of Palestinians released since the start of the temporary ceasefire to 78.\n\nOne of those released, Mohammad dar-Darwish, 17, said he was \"dizzy with happiness\" to return home.\n\nThe exchange was delayed after Hamas accused Israel of changing the agreed list of prisoners it would release.\n\nHamas also said that not enough aid shipments that had been guaranteed access to Gaza as part of the deal had made it through. But the handover went ahead after last-minute mediation involving Qatar and Egypt.\n\nIsrael denied breaking the terms of the agreement, which entered its third day on Sunday.\n\nOn Saturday night, a crowd of people - including some waving the green flag of Hamas - greeted a coach carrying released Palestinians as it made its way through the West Bank, where detainees are being returned to initially.\n\nSix of them were women, while all the others were under the age of 18.\n\nAmong them was Mohammad dar-Darwish, who was held in an Israeli jail for seven months accused of throwing a petrol bomb at soldiers. He denies the charge.\n\nMohammad dar-Darwish was awaiting trial for a charge he denies\n\nHe said he was \"dizzy with happiness\" when he returned home and found his father and brother in the crowd waiting to greet the detainees.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he claimed Palestinian prisoners were mistreated after the 7 October attack. Israel's prison service says it treats prisoners lawfully.\n\nIsrael has compiled a list of 300 Palestinian prisoners, mainly teenage boys, who are eligible for release under the deal struck with Hamas.\n\nMost are in prison awaiting trial, with less than a quarter of those on the list having been convicted.\n\nAmong the adult women released was Israa Jaabis, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2015 when her car burst into flames 1.5km (0.9 miles) from a checkpoint in the West Bank.\n\nIsraa Jaabis was among the second group of Palestinian detainees released by Israel\n\nIsrael said it was an attempted car bombing and she was convicted, but Israa Jaabis - now 38 - denied the charge, and her family has previously claimed the fire started because of an engine fault.\n\nShe suffered serious facial burns after the car's engine caught fire, but had requests for surgery turned down by Israel's prison authorities.\n\nAfter being released eight years into her sentence, she was pictured hugging her son Mua'tassim, 15, who was eight years old at the time of his mother's arrest.\n\nSome of those released under the ceasefire deal are prisoners who were still children when they were arrested.\n\nMarah Bakeer was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years for a knife attack on a border police officer when she was 16.\n\nAfter returning to her family in East Jerusalem, she said \"I'm emotional, it's a very good feeling\", and said she only found out about her release hours before it happened.\n\nNourhan Awad, 23, served eight years of her 10 year sentence before being released on Saturday.\n\nShe was convicted over a stabbing in Jerusalem, and was shot by police during her arrest. Her cousin was shot and killed during the arrest.\n\nShe was filmed running to her family in Qalandia, West Bank, after her release, and said she would visit the grave of her cousin before returning home.\n\nA second group of Israeli hostages - all women and children - were released from Gaza on Saturday evening.\n\nMore detainees and hostages are set to be released on Sunday as part of the agreement.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Moment nine-year-old Irish-Israeli hostage is reunited with her father\n\nA nine-year-old Irish-Israeli girl is among the latest hostages to be freed by Hamas in the Israel-Gaza conflict.\n\nThe Irish Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed Emily Hand is one of 17 people handed over late on Saturday.\n\nThe Israel Prison Service said 41 Palestinians had been freed under the hostage agreement.\n\nEmily's father Tom Hand said the family could not \"find the words to describe our emotions after 50 challenging and complicated days\".\n\n\"We are happy to hug Emily again, but at the same time, we remember Raya Rotem and all of the hostages who have yet to come back. We will continue to do everything in our power to bring them back home,\" he said.\n\nHe said thanked everyone who \"helped and hugged us\" while Emily was held.\n\nTánaiste (Irish deputy PM) Micheál Martin said \"a bright and beautiful girl\" had been released.\n\nHe said it was \"a precious and deeply moving moment for the Hand family\".\n\n\"The people of Ireland have been touched by Emily's story, innocence and the quiet dignity and determination of her father Tom,\" Mr Martin said.\n\nHe said he had met Mr Hand and had been \"struck by the strength and resilience with which he advocated for his daughter's release\".\n\n\"This is a message that I and my colleagues in government sought to amplify as we engaged internationally though political, diplomatic and security channels in a bid to secure Emily's safe return,\" he added.\n\nFour Thai nationals who had been held hostage in Gaza were also freed on Saturday night.\n\nIn a statement the Israeli prime minister's office said: \"The Israeli government embraces the 17 abductees who returned to Israel, 13 of our citizens and four Thai citizens who returned to Israel today.\"\n\nAn earlier delay to a release of hostages was resolved following mediation with Egypt and Qatar.\n\nMr Martin said he wanted to acknowledge the role played by the \"US, Qatar, Egypt and others that have been involved\" in securing Emily's release.\n\nHowever, he added that he was aware \"many more hostages remain in the hands of Hamas,\" and called for all of them to be released.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said \"prayers had been answered\".\n\n\"This is a day of enormous joy and relief for Emily Hand and her family,\" he said.\n\n\"An innocent child who was lost has now been found and returned, and we breathe a massive sigh of relief.\"\n\nHowever, his post has been criticised by Israel Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, who accused him of losing his moral compass.\n\n\"Emily Hand was not 'lost', she was kidnapped by a terror organisation worse than ISIS that murdered her stepmother,\" he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.\n\nHe later wrote that he had \"summoned the Irish ambassador to Israel for a reprimand\" following Mr Varadkar's \"outrageous\" comments.\n\nIt is unclear when the ambassador, Sonya McGuinness, will be summoned or what action will be taken.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by אלי כהן | Eli Cohen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald also welcomed the news of Emily Hand's release.\n\n\"The trauma and heartbreak that little Emily and her family have been subjected to over the last number of weeks is unimaginable,\" she said.\n\n\"I commend the mediators' efforts, including the government of Qatar and all other neighbouring states, for the constructive role that they have played in securing the release of Emily and the other hostages, as well as Palestinian women and children who were imprisoned under administrative detention, who are finally reuniting with their loved ones today.\"\n\nShe called for all hostages be released urgently and for an immediate full ceasefire to be in place.\n\nThe released hostages arrived in Israel on Saturday night, the country's military said.\n\nIsrael Defence Forces said the hostages had undergone an initial medical assessment before being taken to hospitals and reunited with their families.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Micheál Martin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmily had been held without any of her family with her.\n\nHer father spoke at a press conference in London on Monday, crying as he said he was sure his daughter would be asking every day: \"Where's my daddy, why didn't he come to save me?\"\n\nMr Hand has been campaigning around the world for his daughter's release.\n\nHe had originally been told she had been killed.\n\nShe turned nine while being held by Hamas. He said he realised it would take a long time to fix the mental trauma his little girl will have suffered.\n\nThomas Hand has been waiting for news of his daughter\n\nIsrael's military began attacking Gaza after Hamas fighters crossed the border on 7 October, killing 1,200 Israelis and taking more than 200 hostages.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says more than 14,500 people have been killed in Gaza - more than a third of them children - since Israel began its retaliatory action.\n\nUnder the terms of the Israel-Hamas temporary truce, a total of 50 hostages will be released during a four-day pause in fighting which began on 24 November at 07:00 (05:00 GMT).\n\nHamas said 150 Palestinian women and teenagers will be released from Israeli jails under the deal, and hundreds of lorries of humanitarian aid, medical supplies and fuel will be allowed into Gaza.", "Amiram Cooper, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Tsachi Idan are being held in Gaza\n\nIsrael says 132 people remain unaccounted for after they were abducted and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attacks by Hamas.\n\nAn estimated 240 people were taken prisoner, but 105 were later released by Hamas during a six-day ceasefire at the end of November.\n\nThe Israeli military said it mistakenly killed three hostages in northern Gaza who had escaped from their captors and expressed \"deep remorse\" over the incident.\n\nOf the 132 still unaccounted for, Israel says that 20 of them are believed to be dead.\n\nThese are the stories of those hostages who are still being held, which have either been confirmed by the BBC or credibly reported.\n\nThis list is regularly updated and names may change, as some people feared kidnapped are confirmed to have been killed or released.\n\nLast updated on 19 December 2023 at 10:33 GMT\n\nYagev Kirsht, 34, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim, alongside his wife, Rimon Buchstab Kirsht. She has now been released.\n\nAlexander Trupanov, was taken hostage with his mother Lena Trupanov, 50, his partner Sapir Cohen, 29, and his grandmother Irina Tati, 73. All were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz as they spent the Sabbath together, according to a statement by Canada's Raoul Wallenburg Center for Human Rights. Irina and Lena were released on Wednesday 29 November and Sapir was freed the next day.\n\nAriel Cunio, his girlfriend Arbel Yahud and her brother Dolev are also thought to have been abducted in the same attack on Nir Oz. Eitan Cunio, Ariel's brother who escaped Hamas, told the Jewish Chronicle that his last message from Ariel said: \"We are in a horror movie.\"\n\nDavid Cunio, 33, another of Ariel's brothers, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, family say. David's wife Sharon Aloni Cunio and their three-year-old twin daughters Ema and Yuly were released on 27 November. Sharon's sister Daniele Aloni, and her six-year-old daughter Emilia were both released on 24 November.\n\nDoron Steinbrecher, 30, a veterinary nurse, was in her apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas attacked, the Times of Israel reported. At 10:30 on 7 October, the newspaper said, she sent a voice message to friends: \"They've arrived, they have me.\"\n\nItzhak Gelerenter, 53, was taken from the Supernova festival. His family said the IDF found his phone was located in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported. His daughter Pivko told the paper: \"I'm trying to think good thoughts, I have a powerful, smart, resourceful father.\"\n\nDoron Steinbrecher sent a voice message to friends during Hamas' attack\n\nNaama Levy, 19, was filmed being bundled into a jeep, her hands tied behind her back. The footage was released by Hamas and circulated widely on social media. According to her mother, the teenager had just begun her military service.\n\nYousef Zyadna, a 53-year-old Bedouin dairy farmer, was abducted from Kibbutz Holit and taken to Gaza along with his sons Hamza, 22, and Bilal, 18, and his daughter, Aisha, 16. Aisha and Bilal were released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nElad Katzir, 47, was abducted from Nir Oz with his mother Hanna. Hanna has now been released.\n\nOhad Ben Ami, 55, was kidnapped from Be'eri with his wife, Raz. She was released by Hamas on 29 November.\n\nTwin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 26, were taken from Kfar Aza. Ziv was messaging a friend as the attack happened. Their family said the IDF has told them the brothers are being held in Gaza. Their brother Liran told CBN news the pair had \"twin power\" and were the centre of attention wherever they went.\n\nIraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 85, was taken captive from Kibbutz Kissufim, where he lived and worked as a chicken coop manager. His wife, Mazal, managed to escape.\n\nMichel Nisenbaum, 59, is a dual Brazilian-Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel for 45 years and works as a computer technician, his family told Brazilian media. They also say he is diabetic and has Crohn's disease. On 7 October, they say, someone claiming to be from Hamas answered his phone when they tried to call him.\n\nDaniela Gilboa, 19, sent messages saying that Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she was staying, was under attack and asked her mother to pray for her. Her boyfriend, Roy Dadon, told the Economist 1843 magazine that he believes he saw a glimpse of her in a video showing three girls being driven away in the back of an SUV.\n\nItay Chen, 19, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF solider, was on active duty with a tank unit on 7 October, according to the Times of Israel. The paper reported that his family was notified by the IDF that he is officially considered missing in action and probably being held hostage. Another soldier in his unit, Matan Angrest, 21, is also presumed to be in Gaza.\n\nYosi Sharabi, 51, was taken from Be'eri with his brother, Eli Sharabi, 55. Eli's wife and two daughters were murdered in the attack. Ofir Engel, the boyfriend of Yosi's daughter, Yuval, was also taken, but released on 29 November.\n\nAgam Berger, 19, was kidnapped from Nahal Oz. She was seen being taken away in videos released by Hamas.\n\nEdan Alexander, 19, is an Israeli-US citizen who volunteered to join the Israeli army. He was serving near the Gaza border at the time of Hamas's attack. Edan's family said they had been told by Israeli officials that he had been taken to Gaza as a hostage.\n\nKaid Farhan Elkadi, 53, lives with his family south of Rahat and worked as a security guard, according to Israeli media. Reports said his family believes he was kidnapped and taken to Gaza, based on images shared by Hamas.\n\nIlana Gritzewsky and Matan Zanguaker were captured near the Gaza border, family say\n\nMatan Zanguaker, 24, was taken with his partner Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, from Nir Oz, according to Ilana's father. Ilana, a Mexican national, was released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nThe family of Eitan and Yair Horn believe they were taken from Nir Oz kibbutz\n\nEitan Horn, 37, and his brother Yair, 45, both Argentinian citizens, were also in Nir Oz at the time of the attack. Their father Itzik said he believes they were kidnapped. Yair is a construction worker while Eitan works in education.\n\nItai Svirsky, 38, is thought to have been abducted when his elderly parents were killed in Be'eri. He had been visiting them for the holiday of Simhat Torah.\n\nKeith Seigel, 64, and his wife Adrienne - often known as Aviva - Seigel, 62, were taken from their home in Kfar Aza, Keith's brother Lee Seigel told the BBC. Adrienne was released on 26 November.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, lived in Nahal Oz with his wife and two daughters. Omri was led away by Hamas with his hands tied, his wife Lishay told the Guardian newspaper. She told him not to be a hero, urging: \"Do whatever they want because I want you back.\"\n\nBipin Joshi, 23, a Nepalese student, is believed to have been taken from Kibbutz Alumim. Nepalese newspaper Setopati says he was one of 49 university students studying agriculture in Israel. It says 10 students were killed in the attack.\n\nIlan Weiss, 58, went missing from Kibbutz Be'eri after he was last seen leaving the house to defend the community. On 25 November, his wife Shiri Weiss, 53, and their daughter, Noga, 18, were freed from captivity in a hostage deal.\n\nAmiram Cooper, 85, and his wife Nurit, 80, were taken from their home in Nir Oz, their daughter-in-law Noa told the BBC. The family last spoke to the couple during the Hamas attack, Noa said, when the couple were in their safe room. The family later traced Amiram's phone to Gaza. On Monday 23 October, Nurit was one of two women to be released.\n\nAmiram and Nurit Cooper, pictured with their granddaughter, Gali\n\nOded Lifshitz, 83, and his wife Yocheved, 85 were taken hostage from Nir Oz. On Monday 23 October, Yocheved was one of two elderly women to be freed. After hearing the news of her mother's release, their daughter Sharone - a London-based artist - said: \"While I cannot put into words the relief that she is now safe, I will remain focused on securing the release of my father and all those - some 200 innocent people - who remain hostages in Gaza.\"\n\nHaim Peri, 79, was taken from his home in Nir Oz, reports the Times of Israel, and freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz said she saw that he was alive and well. His son Lior Peri told Talk TV that Haim had locked his wife inside the safe room before giving himself up to kidnappers.\n\nAvraham Munder, 78, was kidnapped from Nir Oz, Israeli officials say. His wife Ruthi, daughter and grandson have since been released.\n\nOmer Neutra, a 22-year-old Israeli-American and grandson of Holocaust survivors, put off plans to go to college in the US to study in Israel, and eventually joined the IDF. He was serving as a tank commander near Gaza when Hamas attacked. Omer's parents say they were told by the Israeli embassy that he had been kidnapped.\n\nRon Benjamin's vehicle was found empty following the attacks\n\nRon Benjamin, 53, had been taking part in a group cycle ride near the Gaza border when the Hamas attack began and he decided to drive home, his family told Israeli media. Days later, his vehicle was found empty and his family believe he was kidnapped.\n\nLouis Har, 70, is believed to have been taken from Nir Yitzhak. His partner Clara Marman was released on 28 November along with her sister Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela's daughter Mia Leimberg,17. Clara and Gabriela's brother Fernando Simon Marman, 60, also remains in captivity.\n\nJudith Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 73, also went missing from Nir Oz after the Hamas attack. Ten days later, the Israeli military confirmed to the family they had been taken hostage, CTV News in Canada reported.\n\nAlex Danzig, 75, a scholar and historian of the Holocaust, was at his home in Nir Oz, when it was attacked by Hamas. \"We know for sure he was kidnapped,\" his son Mati told the BBC. Alex - whose older sister Edith is a Holocaust survivor - has spent the last 30 years working for Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust remembrance centre. His disappearance has triggered a campaign for his release, both in Israel and in Poland, the country of his birth.\n\nAlex Danzig has spent decades educating people about the Holocaust\n\nItzhk Elgarat, 68, was kidnapped at the same time as Alex Danzig, his brother Danny Elgert told Israel's Kan 11 TV station, adding that he had tracked his brother's phone to the border with Gaza.\n\nGadi Moses, 79, was also abducted during the same attack on Nir Oz, according to relatives and the Israeli aid agency where he worked as an agricultural expert. Efrat Katz, his partner, was initially thought to have been captured as well, but she was later found dead, the Times of Israel reported. Efrat was the mother of Doron Asher, who was taken hostage and later released with her two daughters. Ravid Katz, 51, Doron Asher's brother, was originally thought to have been taken hostage from Nir Oz, but on 28 November his family confirmed that he had been killed on 7 October.\n\nYair Yaakov, 59, is listed among the hostages. His partner Meirav Tal, 53, was released on 28 November. Yair's children Yagil, 13, and Or, 16, were released on 27 November.\n\nYair Yaakov was pictured being held captive by a gunman in a video shared online\n\nNimrod Cohen, 19, had studied software engineering in high school, according to reports. After he was kidnapped, his father was invited to meet Pope Francis in Rome along with other hostages' families.\n\nTsachi Idan, 51, was last seen by his wife, Gali, as he was taken away by Hamas gunmen. Their family had been ambushed in their safe room in Nahal Oz. Their ordeal was live-streamed by Hamas. Their eldest child, Maayan - who had just turned 18 - was shot dead, Gali told the BBC.\n\nTsachi Idan was ambushed with his wife and children and then led away\n\nYarden Bibas, 34, was abducted from Nir Oz. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were also taken hostage, but on 29 November, Hamas claimed they had been killed in an Israeli air strike while in captivity. The Israeli government has said it is checking the claim.\n\nRonen Engel, 54, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife, Karina Engelbert, 51, and their two daughters, Mika, 18 and Yuval, 11. On 1 December, the organisation representing the families said he had been murdered. Karina, Mika and Yuval were released on 27 November.\n\nKarina Ariev, a 19-year-old soldier, was serving at an army base near Gaza when she was kidnapped. Her sister Alexandra told the BBC she heard shooting as Karina called her during the attack, and later saw a video showing Karina being taken away in a vehicle.\n\nKarina Ariev was at the Nahal Oz military base, which was among the first to be attacked\n\nOfer Kalderon, 53, was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz. On 27 November his two children, Erez, 12, and Sahar, 16, were released. Two other relatives, 80-year-old Carmela Dan and her granddaughter, Noya, 12, were also believed to have been taken, but Israeli authorities later announced they had been found dead.\n\nYoram Metzger, 80, was a resident of Nir Oz. He has diabetes and broke his hip six months ago, his daughter-in-law said. Yoram's wife Tamar was released on 28 November.\n\nNadav Popplewell, 51, and his mother Channah were taken hostage by Hamas, said Channah's daughter Ayelet Svatitzky, who was speaking to them on the phone when the gunmen burst in. She said the captors sent pictures of her two relatives, who both have diabetes, with armed men in the background. Channah has now been released.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, was abducted after his family opened the door to their secure shelter to an Israeli child, who said he would be killed otherwise. Omri's wife, Lishay Lavi, said she saw him being taken away in handcuffs with three other hostages from Nahal Oz.\n\nLiri Elbag, 18, had just started military training as an Army lookout near the Gaza border when Hamas attacked, her father Eli told the Associated Press. Eli said he saw her in a video circulated later by Hamas, crowded with others on the back of a military truck which had been seized by the gunmen.\n\nLior Rudaeff, 61, was taken from Nir Yitzhak during the attack. His family have heard nothing from him since then.\n\nA number of people are believed to have been abducted from the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Among them:\n\nShlomi Ziv, 40, was part of the security detail at the festival and was initially in contact with his sisters as the attack unfolded, according to an interview with The Times of Israel. A few weeks later the family learned he was officially considered to be a hostage, the report says.\n\nAlexander Lobanov, 32, is a Russian-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped at the festival.\n\nOri Danino, 25, is reported to have got away from the festival in his car, but it's believed he was captured after turning back in an attempt to save some people he had met there.\n\nAlmog Sarusi, 26, was kidnapped from the music festival and his partner Shahar Gindi was killed, according to Israeli media. Almog's father, Yigal, was among the relatives of hostages who met with Israel's prime minister in October.\n\nOmer Shem Tov, 21, called his parents as he was running away from gunfire and managed to get into a friend's car. His parents, Shelly and Malki Shem Tov, told Israeli media they lost contact with their son and the live location on his phone showed he was beyond the border in Gaza.\n\nIdan Shtivi, 28, an environmental sciences student, was attending the festival to take pictures at music and yoga workshops being held by friends. He escaped the site in his car but was attacked by Hamas along the route. The bodies of two of his passengers were found, and his family told the Jerusalem Post they suspect he was kidnapped.\n\nYosef Ohana, 24, had been at the festival with a friend, who told his mother he and Yosef had remained to help people escape the gunfire before running themselves. Yosef was last seen hiding under a car, and Israeli authorities have visited his mother to say he was kidnapped.\n\nAndrei Kozlov, 27, a Russian who moved to Israel in 2022, is missing from the Supernova festival, where he was working as a security guard. His mother told the De Taly publication the family was told by the IDF on October 26 that he was being held hostage.\n\nElyakim Libman, 23, was working as a security guard at the festival. In a Facebook post his father Eliyahu Libman said another guard told him his son had helped rescue others before trying to escape. He was last seen trying to help two badly-injured women.\n\nNoa Argamani, a Chinese-born Israeli citizen, was also kidnapped from the festival. Video footage - verified by her father Yaakov Argamani to Israel's Channel 12 - shows the 25-year-old being taken away on the back of a motorbike screaming, \"Don't kill me!\" Her boyfriend Avinatan Or, 30, also appears in the video being marched away from her by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nEden Yerushalmi's family say they were told she had been taken hostage\n\nEden Yerushalmi, 24, called her family during Hamas's attack on the festival, her sister May told CBS News. The family say they were subsequently informed by the IDF that Eden had been abducted.\n\nChanan Yablonka, 42, is a father-of-two from Tel Aviv. According to reports, he attended the festival with friends and was due to celebrate his birthday a few days after the attacks.\n\nJonathan Samerano, 21, has been missing since 7am on the morning of the festival. His family have been told to presume he is being held in Gaza, Israeli media reported.\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal was filmed in captivity in Gaza, his family say\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, attended the festival with his brother. Guy appears in a hostage video that his family say confirms he is in Gaza.\n\nUriel Baruch, 35, was injured during the attack on the festival, his wife said on Facebook. Reports in Israeli media say his mother, Naomi, has heard from the IDF that he is a hostage.\n\nMaxim Kharkin's mother described speaking to him on the morning of 7 October\n\nMaxim Kharkin is aged 35 and a Russian speaker, his mother told Russian media. She added that he had called her at 07:00 on the morning of the attack.\n\nElkana Bohbot was seen in a video posted by Hamas\n\nElkana Bohbot, 34, had gone to the party with friends and, before losing contact, he spoke to his wife and mother telling them he was helping to evacuate the wounded, the Times of Israel reported. Hours later, his family found a video of him posted online by Hamas, which has been seen by BBC Verify.\n\nRom Braslavski, 19, was working on security for the festival. According to an account published by Hostages and Missing Families Forum, he was trying to rescue an injured person in the attack when he was caught in a volley of fire. He has not been heard from since.\n\nOmer Wenkert, 22, a restaurant manager, sent a message to his family to say he was going to a safe shelter but then lost contact, his father Shai Wenkert told the BBC's Today Programme. Shai Wenkert said he had seen footage of his son in captivity, including a photo of him handcuffed and wearing only underwear.\n\nEvyatar David's family say they were sent a video of him in captivity\n\nEvyatar David, 23, was at the festival and on the morning of the attacks, described fleeing from gunfire before losing contact with the outside world, his brother says. Later, his family say, Evyatar's sister posted on Instagram appealing for information about his whereabouts. She then received a text from an unknown number, which contained video footage of Evyatar handcuffed on the floor of a dark room. According to Israel's foreign ministry he is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nEitan Mor, 23, lives in Jerusalem, and was working as a security guard at the festival, the Times of Israel said. He reportedly texted his uncle after Hamas arrived and was last seen with a friend bringing others to safety.\n\nAlon Ohel, 22, a Serbian citizen, took refuge in a shelter after the festival came under attack, his family say. They have seen footage of him being dragged away after a grenade attack.\n\nAlmog Meir Jan, 21, tried to flee the festival. He and a friend made it to the friend's car but only managed to drive a short distance before being forced to stop. Almog's family say they have seen a hostage video in which he appears.\n\nInbar Heiman, a student aged 21, was seen by two young Israeli men being taken away from the festival on a motorcycle. Hamas have released a video in which she is seen very briefly.\n\nHersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual US-Israeli citizen, was badly injured in the attack, his family told the BBC. Eyewitness accounts say he was seen being forced onto a white pick-up truck - the last-known signal from his phone came from just inside Gaza.\n\nSegev Kalfon, 26, was running away from the festival, across the highway, when he was captured by Hamas, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.\n\nOrión Hernández Radoux, 30, from Mexico, attended the festival with his girlfriend, Shani Louk. He has not been seen since. The Sun newspaper says it has seen threatening messages written in Arabic sent from his phone. Shani, a tourist from Germany, was initially thought to be among those seized. But on 30 October, her mother Ricarda told German media that the family had been informed by Israeli military of her death following DNA identification.\n\nRomi Lesham Gonen, 23, was on the phone to her mother as she tried to escape from the Supernova festival. Merav Leshem Gonan has recounted a conversation in which her daughter begged for help after being shot. ABC News reports that Romi's phone is now in Gaza.\n\nBar Kuperstein, 21, last spoke to his family early on the morning of 7 October, as the attack unfolded. Later the same day, his family say they identified him in a video of Israeli prisoners, posted by Hamas. Since then, they say they have had no further information.\n\nEliya Cohen, 26, was hiding with his girlfriend Ziv from the attack, when Ziv felt him being pulled up and driven away by the gunmen, Eliya's mother has told the video initiative #BringThemHomeNow. The family then found a photo of Eliya in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nAmit Buskila, 28, from Ashdod, was last heard of making a call to her uncle, Shimon, as Hamas overran the festival. Her family say they have now been told by the government that she is being held in Gaza.\n\nCarmel Gat, 39, is Jordan's sister-in-law, and also was seen by her father being taken by gunmen from Kibbutz Be'eri, Haaretz newspaper reported. She has not been heard from since.\n\nOhad Yahalomi, 49, was abducted from Nir Oz, along with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the November ceasefire.\n\nDror Or, 48, was seen by a neighbour being dragged out of his home in Be'eri, according to their nephew Emmanuel Besorai, along with his son and daughter. On Saturday 25 November Dror's son Noam, 17, and daughter Alma, 13, were released from captivity. The body of Yonat, 50 - Dror's wife and the children's mother - was identified among the 120 people murdered at the kibbutz, Yonat's brother told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nTal Shoham, 38, was taken from Kibbutz Be'eri. His wife Adi, also 38, her mother Dr Shoshan Haran, 67, were released by Hamas on 25 November, along with the couple's children Nave, eight, and Yahel, three. Dr Haran's husband, Avshalom - an economist and dual German/Israeli citizen - was killed on 7 October.\n\nTamir Adar, 38, who defended Nir Oz as part of the kibbutz's emergency squad, was taken to Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen, 35, an American-Israeli citizen, has been missing since Hamas's attack on Nir Oz, his father Jonathan told the BBC. He said his son was not found among the dead and the \"only reasonable explanation\" is that he was taken to Gaza.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen's father has not heard from him since Hamas attacked the kibbutz where he lived\n\nThailand's ambassador to Israel says 26 of its citizens were taken hostage, 23 of whom have now been released.\n\nThose still being held are believed to include Watchara Sriuan, 32. His mother, Viewwaew, told the Thaiger news site that the family had been informed he was being held captive.\n\nKiattisak \"Top\" Patee and a Mr Pongtorn (no first name given) have also been named by the Thai foreign ministry as hostages.\n\nA number of other people thought to have been held hostage are now confirmed to have died, either during the 7 October attack or while in captivity.\n\nAs well as Ron Scherman and Nik Beizer, four bodies were identified this week. They were Tal Chaimi, an Israeli-Romanian citizen aged 41, and Joshua Mollel, a 19-year-old Tanzanian student. Also, 27-year-old Eden Zecharya, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and 36-year-old Ziv Dado, who had already been declared dead by the Israeli military.\n\nOthers known to have died include Dror Kaplun, 68, Aviv Atzili, 49, Arye Zalmanovich, 85, Ronen Engel, 54, Maya Goren, 56, Guy Iluz, 26, Ofir Tzarfati, 27, Ofra Keider, 70, and Eliyahu Margalit, 75.\n\nThe bodies of 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, and 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss were found by Israeli troops in buildings close to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.\n\nOn Saturday 9 December Kibbutz Bari announced that Sahar Baruch, 25, had been killed in Gaza.\n\nOther hostages whose death has been reported, but not confirmed include Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A van carrying Palestinian detainees arrives at the Israeli military prison, Ofer, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank\n\nA total of 39 Palestinian detainees have been released from Israeli prisons in exchange for a group of hostages held by Hamas.\n\nThe deal - mediated by Qatar - includes a four-day pause in the fighting.\n\nThey are accused of a range of offences, from throwing stones to attempted murder. Some were convicted while others were awaiting trial.\n\nThe group of 24 women and 15 teenage boys was released across the Beituniya checkpoint in the occupied West Bank.\n\nThey will then be allowed to return home, according to Israel's prison service.\n\nThe detainees were chosen from a list of 300 women and minors compiled by Israel.\n\nLess than a quarter of those on the list have been convicted - the vast majority are being held on remand while awaiting trial. Most of those listed are teenage boys - 40% of them under the age of 18. There is also one teenage girl and 32 women.\n\nEarlier, the road by Beituniya checkpoint, near Ramallah, was sharp with the smell of tear gas. Groups of Palestinian men and boys faced the Israeli army lining up on the road ahead.\n\nThe army fired rubber bullets and tear gas towards the crowd, to push them back.\n\nSome of the young people gathered threw stones and tear gas canisters back towards the troops.\n\n\"It's a sign of hope for Palestinians and Israelis that the ceasefire will continue and the killing will stop,\" Mohammed Khatib, who was in the crowd, told the BBC.\n\nUpon the prisoners' release, the bus that transported them inched its way through a sea of jubilant Palestinian supporters.\n\nThrough the windows, some of the prisoners could be seen dancing, one wrapped in a Palestinian flag. Outside, mobile phones were raised to the glass amid ululations and shouts of welcome and \"God is great\".\n\nPalestinians were pictured waving flags in the street after their release from Ofeh prison\n\nA few in the crowd waved Hamas flags, but others spoke of Palestinian unity, a small moment of victory in the midst of a gruelling war.\n\nFor Israel, the released prisoners are a security threat; for the Palestinians gathered here to greet them, they are victims of Israel's occupation - and their release is a symbol.\n\nThirteen Israeli hostages were released by Hamas under the truce deal. It was confirmed on Friday that they had arrived back in Israel.\n\nThe Thai prime minister says that a group of Thai nationals held hostage by Hamas in Gaza were also released - separate from the Qatar-mediated truce deal.\n\nIsrael and Hamas reached a deal earlier this week to release 50 of the hostages held in Gaza during four-day pause in fighting.\n\nThe agreement should see a total of 150 Palestinians held in Israeli jails released and a significant increase in humanitarian aid allowed into Gaza. Some 60 lorries carrying medical supplies, fuel and food entered from Egypt on Friday.\n\nHamas took more than 200 hostages during a cross-border attack on southern Israel on 7 October in which 1,200 people were killed.\n\nHuman rights organisations say the number of Palestinians held without charge in Israeli jails has shot up since the 7 October attacks.\n\nThere are now thought to be more than 6,000 Palestinians held by Israel on security grounds - many still awaiting trial.\n\nAlmost every Palestinian family in the West Bank is thought to have had a relative detained by Israel at some point in the past - often in jails inside Israel, making it difficult or impossible for their relatives to visit.\n• None What we know about Israel-Hamas hostage deal", "There was joy and relief as Israeli hostages freed by Hamas were reunited with their families on Friday.\n\nNine-year-old Ohad Munder ran down the hallway of Schneider Children's Medical Center in Petah Tikv to his father.\n\nThe video released by the hospital also show his mother Keren and grandmother Ruthi reunited with their family, after being held by Hamas for seven weeks.", "A 76-year-old man has died after his car crashed into three pedestrians and two other vehicles in the car park outside the Queen of the South football stadium.\n\nThe accident happened on Lochfield Road in Dumfries following Saturday's Scottish Cup tie against Dundee United.\n\nThe driver of a Vauxhall Crossland car was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe pedestrians - a man aged 46 and two boys both aged 12 - were treated at Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary.\n\nPolice Scotland said their injuries were non-life threatening. A spokesperson said: \"Officers wish to thank all members of the public for their assistance at the incident.\"\n\nThey added that a report would be submitted to the procurator fiscal in due course.\n\nFollowing Saturday evening's accident, Queen of the South issued a statement saying: \"Everyone at the club is devastated with respect to the incident that took place in the Arena car park immediately following the end of today's match with Dundee United.\n\n\"Our thoughts are very much with those involved.\n\n\"We would like to thank everyone who helped, including the emergency services, stewards, personnel from both clubs and those supporters who stepped up to help. Thank you all.\n\n\"Situations like this certainly put football into perspective.\"\n\nA Dundee United statement said: \"The thoughts of everyone at Dundee United are with those involved in an incident following this afternoon's Scottish Cup tie.\n\n\"Alongside Queen of the South, we would like to thank the emergency services and our club doctor Stephen Galbraith for their prompt response.\"\n\nQueen of the South had won the third round Scottish Cup tie on penalties after the game ended in a 2-2 draw in normal time.", "Relive England's stunning performance against the Netherlands at Wembley in Euro 96, with Alan Shearer and Teddy Sheringham both scoring twice.", "The alleged offences were said to have taken place when Elliot Butler was a special constable in the Met\n\nA Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with an attempted rape which was allegedly committed 10 years ago, the force said.\n\nSgt Elliot Butler has also been charged with causing a male to engage in sexual activity.\n\nThe alleged offences were said to have taken place in 2013, when he was a Metropolitan Police special constable.\n\nSgt Butler had been suspended from duty and was due at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday, the force said.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nKatie Taylor edged past Briton Chantelle Cameron via majority decision in a thrilling light-welterweight title fight in Dublin.\n\nIreland's Taylor avenged the only loss of her career in an extraordinary bout at 3Arena on Saturday to become a two-weight undisputed champion.\n\nTaylor almost hit the deck in the final seconds, but stayed on her feet in a crucial moment for the scorecards.\n\nOne judge scored it a draw, while the other two were 98-92, 96-94 for Taylor.\n\n\"Whoever wrote me off obviously doesn't know me very well,\" she said. \"Let's get the trilogy at Croke Park.\"\n\nFighting as the underdog for the first time in her career, Taylor joins Claressa Shields and Terence Crawford as the only two fighters to win undisputed championships in two different weights in the four-belt era.\n\nCameron fell to a first defeat of her 19-fight pro career, relinquishing her IBF, WBA, WBO and WBC light-welterweight titles in the process.\n\nTaylor dubbed the bout her \"real homecoming\" and sent an already elated crowd into overdrive when she called for a deciding fight at the 80,000-seater Croke Park, the Gaelic games stadium which is also in the Irish capital.\n\nThe 37-year-old retreated in fight week after heartbreak six months ago but produced one of the best performances of her career to seal what will surely go down as her greatest victory.\n• None As it happened: Taylor beats Cameron in epic\n\nJust like their first fight in May, the 3Arena was almost full more than two hours before the main event.\n\nWins for Irishmen Thomas Carty, Paddy Donovan and Gary Cully built towards the crescendo that was Taylor's ringwalk.\n\nEarlier this year, Taylor's entrance lasted an age as she soaked in her first experience on home soil as a professional.\n\nThis time she walked first - a new experience in her 18th consecutive world title bout - and was already on her way to the ring before the traditional pre-fight taster 'Sweet Caroline' had stopped playing.\n\nThere was no lingering for Taylor this time around as she was straight down the ramp and through the ropes.\n\nStanding in the corner Cameron did in their first encounter, Taylor waited for the champion who did a bit of shadow boxing on the ramp before entering the ring to a chorus of boos.\n\nWhile Taylor showed little emotion, the partisan crowd showed their colours as they greeted the Bray native like a queen and relentlessly booed Cameron.\n\nTaylor opened aggressively in the first round, pushing forward in a stark change of tactic from the first meeting. Cameron stood her ground as the Irish crowd roared behind every punch of Taylor's.\n\nThe home fighter suddenly hit the canvas, but it was ruled a slip. A frantic final 10 seconds saw Taylor land heavily on Cameron.\n\nThe Briton did not step back under the pressure as she looked to respond, but Taylor was able to duck away from danger - much to the delight of the arena.\n\nTaylor's gameplan emerged in the chaos of the exchanges - she would wait for Cameron to come in and fire off counters in volume.\n\nA cut appeared on Cameron's forehead in the third round from a clash of heads as the two women exchanged hooks on the ropes.\n\nTaylor was in the ascendancy and her coach Ross Enamait urged her forward in the final seconds of the fourth round as the cut on Cameron's forehead widened.\n\nThe doctor was called to look at the gash but was quickly dismissed. Cameron might have been bleeding but refused to take a backwards step and began the fifth round strongly.\n\nTaylor tried to push her back, but the champion kept pouring forward and clipped a moving Taylor with a lovely right hand.\n\nThe Northampton fighter tried to repeat her dominance in the sixth, but Taylor changed her approach and drew Cameron into short-range exchanges.\n\nCameron appeared to land heavily at stages and complained to the referee when Taylor would grapple as the half-way point arrived.\n\nThe two women came together again in the seventh round, each standing their ground as the incredible action refused to let up.\n\nThe crowd roared as Taylor returned to her corner at the end of seventh and booed when the referee warned the Irishwoman about holding moments later.\n\nA rogue shoulder from Cameron struck Taylor in the eighth round and Cameron landed a beautiful uppercut seconds later.\n\nThe shot wobbled Taylor as she staggered backwards but the bell arrived just in time.\n\n\"Katie\" rung out in the ninth round as Taylor was forced to walk through a Cameron storm of incredible pressure.\n\nThe Briton appeared to be somehow not feeling the pace, while Taylor started to wilt.\n\nThere was swelling on one of Taylor's cheeks as she was peppered with shots, but the challenger stayed on her feet.\n\nThe final round saw a moment of recognition between the two women as they touched gloves before the action resumed.\n\nTaylor could not afford a knockdown and almost hit the deck in the final moments after some big shots from Cameron.\n\nA 10-8 knockdown round for Cameron could have swung at least one of the scorecards, but Taylor was able to survive, sparking wild celebrations from her corner and in the stands.\n\nThere had been a nervous energy surrounding the fight all week and it reached its peak as the scores were read out.\n\nThe first scorecard was a 95-95 draw, heightening the tension further.\n\nBut the final two scorecards in Taylor's favour prompted elation in the crowd and the Irishwoman finally allowed herself to roar with them as her greatest victory was confirmed.\n• None How did Take That become the biggest pop band in the world?: Gary, Howard and Mark join Dermot to look back at their remarkable career\n• None How pop star Rihanna became the richest person from Barbados", "Labour's Darren Jones had suggested \"a couple of hundred thousand a year\" would be a normal level for net migration\n\nLabour has said it will not set an \"arbitrary target\" on cutting net migration.\n\nIt comes after a shadow minister told the BBC the party hoped figures would reach a \"normal level\" of \"a couple of hundred thousand a year\" if it wins the next election.\n\nDarren Jones said the numbers would depend on the needs of the economy.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said it expected its proposals would lead to a fall in net migration.\n\n\"Labour's position hasn't changed. As we have set out we will scrap the 20% wage discount, review the skilled worker salary threshold and reform the Migration Advisory Committee to link it to the bodies setting out industrial and skills strategy,\" the spokesperson said after Mr Jones' BBC interview earlier.\n\n\"As a result of these measures we expect net migration will go down, but we won't set an arbitrary target unlike the Tories - who have never come close to meeting it.\"\n\nThe Conservatives are under pressure to cut migration after new figures showed it reached record levels last year.\n\nNet migration - the difference between the number of people coming to live in the UK and those leaving - was 745,000 last year, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics, published earlier this week.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has described the figure as \"shockingly high\", while Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has also said immigration levels are too high and need to come down \"to sustainable levels\".\n\nLabour has said it would increase the salary requirements for foreign workers to come to the UK, based on recommendations from the independent Migration Advisory Committee.\n\nCurrently the annual salary threshold for a skilled worker visa is set at £26,200 but roles on the shortage occupation list can be offered at £20,960. Labour has said it would scrap this 20% discount if it wins power.\n\nBack in 2010, Lord David Cameron, the former Tory prime minister who was appointed foreign secretary in the recent reshuffle, pledged to get net migration below 100,000 - but the commitment has never been met.\n\nThe Conservative Party's 2019 manifesto also promised to bring overall numbers down, without setting a specific target, after the introduction of post-Brexit border controls.\n\nAsked on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg what a reasonable level of net migration would be, Mr Jones said: \"The normal level is a couple of hundred thousand a year but it depends on the needs in the economy.\"\n\nPressed on whether this would be something Labour would hope to achieve in its first term in government, if the party wins power, Mr Jones said: \"I think we probably would hope to do that, yes, but we've talked about a decade of national renewal.\"\n\nHowever, he added that the Conservatives had left \"deep structural problems\" which would \"take time to fix\".\n\nMr Jones suggested the \"abnormally high number of work visas\", particularly for health and social care, reflected issues with the way the NHS was being run by the government.\n\nHe called for \"a proper NHS workforce plan\" and improvements in productivity so the UK was not so reliant on workers from overseas.\n\nThe vast majority of those arriving in the UK in the year ending June 2023 were from outside the European Union.\n\nStudents accounted for the largest group of non-EU migrants, followed by those coming for work. The ONS said this could largely be attributed to people on health and care visas, with the sector facing chronic staff shortages.\n\nHowever, it said provisional figures suggested the rate of net migration could now be slowing, with the estimated number falling back to 672,000 in the year to June.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott said this was \"positive news\" but that the government was taking further steps to cut migration.\n\nFor example, earlier this year it announced new restrictions on students bringing family members with them to the UK, which come into effect from January.\n\nMs Trott told the BBC the government's long-term plan for the NHS workforce would also mean more people would be trained for jobs in health and social care.\n\nTory MPs on the right of the party, including former Home Secretary Suella Braverman, have been calling for tougher measures to cut migration.\n\nImmigration Minister Robert Jenrick has drawn up his own set of proposals, which are not yet government policy but are being discussed internally.\n\nThese include increasing the minimum salary required for a work visa and introducing a cap on health and social care visas.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nSubstitute Kai Havertz's late header took Arsenal to the top of the Premier League with a dramatic win at Brentford.\n\nIn Mikel Arteta's 200th game in charge of the Gunners, Havertz's 89th-minute goal rescued a largely forgettable display in west London.\n\nAfter Manchester City and Liverpool drew earlier on Saturday, this win moves the Gunners one point clear at the summit.\n\nArsenal's Leandro Trossard had a goal ruled out in the first half by the video assistant referee (VAR) but defeat was harsh on Brentford who were only denied goals of their own by exceptional clearances off the line from Declan Rice and Oleksandr Zinchenko.\n\nArteta has won more matches in his first 200 in charge than any of the other nine Arsenal managers to reach that milestone - and his bold team selection here showed he was determined to take three points.\n\nHowever, the return of Martin Odegaard and Gabriel Jesus from injury did not really bear fruit in a mostly ponderous display.\n\nThey upped the tempo in the second half but waves of attacks were repelled by Thomas Frank's well-drilled defence.\n\nThat was the case until a moment of magic from Bukayo Saka finally unlocked the door and Havertz produced his most significant contribution in an Arsenal shirt to head home at the back post.\n\nBrentford stay 11th in the table after their second successive defeat.\n\nIt has been an inauspicious start to life in north London for £65m signing Havertz, with just one goal and one assist before Saturday since his arrival from Chelsea.\n\nWhile Arteta has continued to back him publicly, he was left out to accommodate the return of Odegaard and had to watch as his team-mates failed to fire for much of the game.\n\nSummoned from the bench with 12 minutes to go, he had the defining say when he squeezed his header over the line from a tight angle.\n\nIt could be a huge moment in the context of his Arsenal career.\n\nBefore Havertz's arrival, the only real sub-plot was whether Aaron Ramsdale could make the most of his first Premier League start since September, given on-loan keeper David Raya was ineligible against his parent club.\n\nThe home fans revelled in a shaky first half from the England man, who was indebted to Rice for a brilliant block on the line.\n\nHowever, as he composed himself, the game drifted into dull stalemate between two sides who usually do not lose London derbies.\n\nWhen the Gunners finally found a spark, Trossard's close-range header after Mark Flekken saved from Jesus was ruled out after a VAR review.\n\nIn truth, Jesus should have buried the header himself from eight yards out before the offside decision.\n\nIf Havertz can now find his goalscoring touch, that might ease the burden on the Brazil striker who looked leggy after playing in South America during the international break.\n• None Goal! Brentford 0, Arsenal 1. Kai Havertz (Arsenal) header from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Bukayo Saka with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takehiro Tomiyasu (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Eddie Nketiah (Arsenal) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Bukayo Saka.\n• None Attempt missed. William Saliba (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Declan Rice (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Leandro Trossard.\n• None Declan Rice (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Neal Maupay (Brentford) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Vitaly Janelt. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The author of a forthcoming book about the Royal Family has urged people to wait until it comes out, saying media reports were using \"bad translations and snippets without context\".\n\nOmid Scobie, a royal commentator, will see his book Endgame - which describes a \"fight for survival\" within the Royal Household - published on Tuesday.\n\nExtracts from the book have been published in US and French media.\n\nBut Scobie said not all the reported passages were accurate.\n\n\"Whether you like my work or loathe it, all I ask is that if you are reading coverage about what's supposedly inside Endgame, please also read the book itself,\" Scobie, a former Yahoo! News UK royal editor, wrote on X, formerly Twitter.\n\nHis comments came as several UK newspapers reported what were said to be extracts from the book published this week in Paris Match, a French magazine.\n\n\"It has been hugely frustrating watching news sites run stories based on contextless and poorly translated snippets from a French serialisation of Endgame,\" Scobie told BBC News.\n\nHe expressed disappointment at media reports that he said left readers \"to believe that this is how the material - much of which is almost unrecognisable from the original English manuscript - appears in the book\".\n\nIn the UK newspaper reports said to be based on the extracts published in Paris Match, claims relate to supposed details of conversations between the Duke of Sussex and his father, the King, earlier this year, and the relationship between Prince Harry and his brother, Prince William.\n\nSeparately, the Sun reports claims about the content of letters exchanged between the King, who was then the Prince of Wales, and the Duchess of Sussex in the wake of her 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey.\n\nIt also claims the duchess named two members of the Royal Household who are alleged to have referred to the race of her then-unborn child, Archie, in the letters.\n\nBBC News has contacted the duke and duchess for comment. Buckingham Palace declined to comment.\n\nSpeculation following the publication of Scobie's previous royal book, Finding Freedom - which chronicled the Sussexes' stepping back as working royals - led the royal couple to deny they had contributed to it.\n\nThe 42-year-old journalist has consistently denied the duke and duchess were direct sources for his work, adding recently that he was not Meghan's friend and that \"the Sussexes have nothing to do with\" his latest book.\n\nThe Royal Family continues to provide inspiration for authors, book editors and television commissioners. Prince Harry's own memoir Spare has retained its standing as Amazon's best-selling book of 2023 after its release in January.\n\nThat success prompted media speculation that Meghan would publish her own tell-all memoirs, but sources close to the Sussexes poured cold water on the rumours, telling the BBC's Sean Coughlan there was no basis for the speculation.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex made a rare red carpet appearance in Los Angeles last week\n\nThe Sussexes are also budding producers in their own right. Meghan spoke on the red carpet at Variety's Power of Women gala in Los Angeles last week, telling reporters her production company, Archewell, had \"so many exciting things on the slate\".\n\n\"I can't wait until we can announce them, but I'm just really proud of what we're creating,\" she said. \"My husband is loving it, too. It's really fun.\"\n\nNetflix's royal drama series The Crown ends its seven-year run next month with the release of the final six episodes. Two competing films, from Netflix and Amazon, based on BBC Newsnight's 2019 interview with the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, are currently in production.", "Emily Hand, 9, Noam Or, 17, and Sharon Avigdori, 52, were among the Israeli hostages released late on Saturday night\n\nA second group of Israeli hostages left Hamas captivity on Saturday, after hours of delay had increased the anxiety of desperate families.\n\nThe Israeli military said 13 Israelis were released in Gaza and in exchange 39 more Palestinian prisoners were released by Israel in the West Bank. Hamas also released four Thai hostages.\n\nThe first releases took place smoothly on Friday, under a temporary four-day truce deal brokered by Qatar.\n\nThe Israelis had been expected to be handed over to the Red Cross on Gaza's border with Egypt at 16:00 (14:00 GMT).\n\nThe Hamas armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said there were issues over the delivery of aid to northern Gaza and the selection criteria for Palestinian prisoners being exchanged for captives held by Hamas. Israel denied violating the terms of the deal.\n\nHamas spokesman Osama Hamdan said a total of 340 aid trucks had gone into Gaza since Friday, but only 65 had reached northern Gaza - which he said was less than half of what Israel had agreed on. Israel describes the north as a war zone and says the UN is responsible for delivering the aid.\n\nLater a senior Palestinian official close to the talks confirmed Qatar's statement that the dispute had been resolved.\n\nAnd Hamas voiced \"appreciation towards Egypt and Qatar for ensuring the continuation of their temporary truce with Israel\".\n\nUnder the deal, 50 Israeli hostages - women and children - are to be freed by Hamas over four days, in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners.\n\nThe Israeli government says the truce could be extended if at least 10 Israelis are released daily - but it has also vowed to wipe out Hamas and insists the deal is only temporary.\n\nHamas kidnapped about 240 people when it raided southern Israel on 7 October, and killed 1,200, most of them civilians, Israel says.\n\nThe Iran-backed Islamist group is categorised as a terrorist organisation by Israel, the UK, the US and the European Union.\n\nIn retaliation for the 7 October attack Israel has bombed Gaza relentlessly, wrecking its infrastructure.\n\nHamas says nearly 15,000 people have died, including many children. Large supplies of aid - notably food, water and hygiene kits - are desperately needed.\n\nOn Saturday evening some 50,000 people rallied in central Tel Aviv with the slogan \"Bring them back home\" on posters and t-shirts, hoping that the fragile truce would hold.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Moment nine-year-old Irish-Israeli hostage is reunited with her father\n\nTwo of the Israeli hostages who were released late on Saturday were siblings Noam and Alma Or, 17 and 13 respectively. In the 7 October attacks, they were seen by a neighbour being dragged out of their home in Kibbutz Be'eri, along with their father, according to their nephew. Their father has not been released.\n\nTheir mother was killed in the attack, but the teenagers did not know this, their uncle, Ahal Besorai, told the BBC.\n\n\"We had to bring the sad news to them,\" he said.\n\nDr Shoshan Haran, 67, was also kidnapped from Be'eri and released on Saturday. She is the founder of a not-for-profit organisation to help feed those in poverty and has a PhD in agronomy. She was freed along with her daughter Adi Shoham, 38, and her children, Nave, eight, and Yahel, three.\n\nAlso released were Sharon Avigdori, 52, a drama therapist, and her daughter Noam, 12, who are relatives of Dr Haran and were kidnapped from Be'eri at the same time.\n\nAnother child who was released yesterday is Emily Hand, who turned nine while in captivity. The Irish-Israeli girl had been held hostage without any of her family with her.\n\nEmily's father, Tom Hand, who was originally told Emily had been killed, told the BBC that he was determined to keep doing everything he could to help bring the other hostages home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMost of the 39 Palestinians released by Israel on Friday - 24 women and 15 teenage boys - were in pre-trial detention.\n\nOne of them, Sarah al-Suwaisa, said the Israelis had fired teargas and cut off the prisoners' electricity before the release. She called it \"humiliating, psychological torture\" and said \"only Hamas helped us\".\n\nA crowd gathered again in Beitunia on Saturday to receive more released Palestinians - women and teenagers who were held at Ofer prison. Many green Hamas flags were displayed there, the BBC's Lucy Williamson reports.\n\nAmong those freed was Nourhan Awad, 23, who was arrested in 2015 on suspicion of being involved in a stabbing operation in Jerusalem. She served eight of the 10 years she was sentenced to.\n\nIsraa Jaabis had also been in prison since 2015 after her car broke down on a highway 1.5km (0.9 miles) from a checkpoint in the West Bank. Israel said at the time that it was an attempted car bombing but this has been disputed.\n\nMeanwhile, Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said that the four Thai nationals released on Saturday were doing well.\n\n\"Everybody is safe, on the whole in good mental health and are able to speak normally,\" he wrote on social media.", "Police are investigating an alleged assault in the audience as they watched Hamilton\n\nPolice are investigating a fight which broke out between theatregoers at a performance of the hit musical Hamilton.\n\nA man and a woman in the audience were thought to have been involved in the fight at Palace Theatre, Manchester, on Friday.\n\nPolice said no arrests had been made.\n\nIn April officers were called to the same theatre after rowdy audience members halted a performance of The Bodyguard.\n\nA Greater Manchester Police (GMP) spokesman said officers were called following a \"report of an assault\".\n\nHe added: \"An investigation is ongoing at this time with no arrests made.\n\n\"Thankfully, injuries sustained are not believed to be life-threatening.\"\n\nThe award-winning musical is on a UK-wide tour for the first time.\n\nHamilton is the story of Alexander Hamilton, a man of Scots descent who became an American founding father.\n\nThe UK tour opened in Manchester where it will run for 15 weeks from 11 November to 24 February.\n\nIt will then move to Edinburgh's Festival Theatre for two months before continuing around the UK.\n\nThe Cameron Mackintosh and Jeffrey Seller production has been playing on London's West End since 2017 and continues to play to sell-out houses at the Victoria Palace Theatre.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Huda Kattan is one of the people on this year's BBC 100 Women list\n\nWhen Huda Kattan appears in public she's greeted by the kind of adoring fans you might usually associate with A-list Hollywood stars.\n\nAs part of the celebrations for the 10th anniversary of her cosmetics brand, Huda Beauty, she has taken over a Paris building not far from the Eiffel Tower, and turned almost everything inside hot pink.\n\nThere are make-up stations loaded with her products, neon signs and glamorous people everywhere.\n\nFans waiting on the street scream when she arrives. Inside, the invited influencers and make-up professionals chant her name as she climbs the stairs: \"Hu-da, Hu-da, Hu-da.\"\n\nPeople queue to take a selfie with her - some even burst into tears when she hugs them.\n\nThroughout it all, Kattan's smile never falters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKattan is one of the people on this year's BBC 100 Women list, which celebrates 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world.\n\nShe has a cosmetics business worth more than $1bn, which is the biggest make-up brand on Instagram, with more than 50 million followers.\n\nBut she sharply criticises both the beauty industry and social media.\n\n\"I think the beauty industry is sexist,\" she says. \"It objectifies women a lot of times. It really can boil women down to just their appearance.\"\n\nShe says that as a woman \"who likes to glam\", she knows how frustrating it is to be judged by her appearance.\n\nBut she accepts that judging others too quickly is a common failing - and that it is something she herself needs to work on.\n\nWhen she first became a businesswoman, she found that some in the industry would not take her seriously.\n\n\"I struggled so bad,\" she says.\n\n\"Oftentimes we'd be in a meeting and instead of making eye contact with me they would make eye contact with my husband and completely ignore me.\"\n\n\"Don't talk to me, talk to her,\" her husband would say - but they would just continue addressing him, says Kattan.\n\nHuda Kattan grew up the daughter of immigrants from Iraq to Tennessee\n\nShe fumes about the slow progress of the beauty industry where inclusivity and representation is concerned.\n\nKattan grew up the daughter of immigrants who moved from Iraq to Tennessee and says she was always made to feel that she was unattractive.\n\nShe says it's a priority for her to sell products in deeper shades, and foundations that match a wide range of skin tones.\n\nBut while she accepts the industry as a whole may be moving in the right direction, she says it's going at \"snail's pace\".\n\n\"I've been in the labs with the manufacturers and I've said to them, 'I need a richer skin tone product'. And I've seen them literally put black pigment in, [but] people's skins are made of many different tones.\n\n\"I think there is still a lack of understanding. And it really comes down fundamentally to the manufacturer, even some brands.\"\n\nKattan's success is due in a large part to her presence on social media, where she shares make-up tutorials and reviews, as well as moments with her family and friends in Dubai, which is now her home.\n\nHer curated lifestyle is a natural evolution from her early days as a beauty blogger. And to begin with, she loved social media.\n\n\"I thought it was just the best thing,\" she says. \"You know, it democratised voices. It gave everybody the opportunity to speak up. It was supposed to be a place where people connected.\"\n\nInstead, she says, it has become \"a dopamine-hacking algorithm to keep people's eyes glued into a screen\".\n\nShe is deeply cynical now about what it has to offer.\n\n\"Do I agree with social media now? No, I don't. Do I think it's good for the future? No, I don't. I don't any more.\"\n\nOne of the problems she points to is the pressure it places on women to be perfect.\n\n\"I think society has always been hard on women, but now, with social media, the expectations are just unfair,\" says Kattan.\n\n\"When I go on social media, sometimes I feel I can never be good-looking enough. I can never have achieved enough.\"\n\nShe accepts \"absolutely, 100%\" that in this respect she is part of the problem - but says she is also a victim of it.\n\n\"When you're somebody who's known for a look, you sometimes become almost a prisoner to your appearance.\"\n\nPeople expect her nails to be done, and her hair, and her complexion to be perfect, which is \"not reality\" she says.\n\n\"I definitely for a long time felt that I was a prisoner to my Instagram handle. I felt, 'Here I am going out to the public, I am Huda Beauty'. Sometimes I feel like Huda Ugly.\"\n\nHuda Kattan hopes to give inspiration to women of colour\n\nGiven the huge reach of her social media platforms, anything Kattan says online attracts attention.\n\n\"As our voice became bigger, became more of a platform, I started to feel the need to speak up about certain things,\" she says.\n\n\"I am passionate about things that affect women, but also things affecting my community as well.\"\n\nThis interview took place before the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on 7 October - which saw 1,200 people killed and about 240 others taken hostage - and the subsequent strikes on Gaza.\n\nGaza's Hamas-run government says more than 14,500 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory since Israeli air and ground strikes began. The United Nations has warned of a humanitarian crisis.\n\nAs the conflict escalated, Kattan used her social media accounts to post in support of Palestinians, attracting positive comments as well as criticism.\n\n\"I've been outspoken about some political things. I don't pretend to be a political expert,\" she told BBC 100 Women in July. \"But if I see something and I know some of the information I definitely want to post about it.\"\n\nEven before the current situation in Israel and Gaza developed, Kattan had been raising awareness about issues in the Middle East, saying political issues in the region weren't talked about enough.\n\n\"I get really upset sometimes when I see things happening. Sometimes I'm also like, 'Do I have the right information? Can I post about this? Am I only seeing one side?'. But I always want to post whatever I can.\"\n\nWhen people message her asking questions like \"How is your life so perfect?\", she answers honestly that it isn't.\n\nShe says she would like the social media space \"to be more vulnerable\".\n\n\"I don't know where that space exists. I don't think it exists on Instagram but we have to create it,\" Kattan says.\n\nShe adds that she frequently has to disconnect or limit her own screen time, and doesn't allow her 12-year-old daughter on to social media at all.\n\n\"She does go on it behind my back sometimes, but I can see a difference in her anxiety levels when she's not online versus when she is.\"\n\nDespite living much of her life in public, there are things that she keeps private, such as her Muslim faith.\n\nShe says she wasn't very religious as she grew up, but this changed as she became older. Now, she sees prayer as \"one of the most beautiful experiences\".\n\n\"I don't speak about it because I'm always afraid of the criticism - because I don't cover,\" she says. \"People might say, 'Oh you're not allowed to do those things.'\"\n\nHuda Beauty is now 10 years old, and Kattan says she hopes she has given inspiration to some women of colour.\n\n\"I think back sometimes to that little Middle Eastern brown girl in Tennessee - there's still a lot of them out there in the world - and maybe seeing someone like me, they can feel a little bit represented.\"\n\nVideo filmed by Maher Nakhla and edited by Rebecca Thorn.\n\nBBC 100 Women names 100 inspiring and influential women around the world every year. Follow BBC 100 Women on Instagram and Facebook. Join the conversation using #BBC100Women.", "A suspected American bully XL was found abandoned and shivering in a suitcase in a field in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, on Monday\n\nDog rescue centres fear numbers of abandoned bully XL dogs will rise if vets cannot cope with the demands of a ban coming into effect next month.\n\nOwners of the breed will have to have dogs neutered, microchipped, and exempted, or have them euthanised.\n\nIf vets do not have the capacity to help, owners may have \"nowhere else to turn\", the Association of Dogs and Cats Homes (ADCH) has warned.\n\nThe government said it took \"quick and decisive action\" to protect the public.\n\nIt comes after the founder of a pet rescue centre told the BBC the government's ban on American bully XLs had led to dogs being abandoned and \"killed en masse\".\n\nThe government decided to ban the breed under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 following a rise in fatal attacks.\n\nOwners wishing to keep their dogs have until the end of January 2024 to microchip and then register them on the Index of Exempted Dogs, and will eventually need to get them neutered.\n\nIf the dog is less than a year old on 31 January, it must be neutered by the end of the year, but if it is older than a year, it must be neutered by 30 June.\n\nOwners who choose not to keep their dog must take it to be euthanised by a vet by the end of January and can claim £200 towards the cost.\n\nThe ADCH, which is a representative charity for dog and cat rehoming organisations across the UK, said it had many concerns on how the ban would work, \"particularly around veterinary capacity for euthanasia and neutering\", as well as vets who refused to euthanise healthy dogs on ethical grounds.\n\n\"We fear that these factors will result in a postcode lottery on helping owners euthanise or neuter their bully XLs, and could increase abandonment rates for owners that have nowhere else to turn,\" the charity said.\n\nRebecca Taylor says it doesn't seem \"practical\" for bully XL owners to meet the requirements of the ban in the \"short space of time\" before it comes into effect\n\nRebecca Taylor, a locum vet in Dorset, said she would not be putting down \"healthy\" bully XLs.\n\n\"I use the term healthy - that covers their behaviour and mental health as well as their physical health,\" she said.\n\n\"To me and a lot of other vets, a dog with significant behavioural problems is not a healthy dog.\n\n\"But for me - my ethics and morals - I didn't become a vet to put down healthy animals… And for me I can't justify that.\"\n\nThe Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons' Code of Professional Conduct says \"no veterinary surgeon is obliged to kill a healthy animal unless required to do so under statutory powers as part of their conditions of employment\".\n\nMs Taylor said she also had concerns it would be difficult for vets to cope with euthanasia and neutering requests in areas where there were more bully XLs.\n\n\"When I was working nearer to London, there's more there. If I work up in Middlesbrough, there's more up there,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm just in a rural pocket at the moment where there's not.\n\n\"It's not that straightforward to just have dogs traveling across the country to get neutered and then [it] has to be travelling a long way post-surgery, and then if there's any complications after the operation, they'd still need to go to their local vet.\"\n\nAnimal welfare advisor David Martin spoke to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee in October before the ban was announced.\n\nIn October, David Martin, an animal welfare advisor for leading veterinary group IVC Evidensia, told a government committee that in a survey of 200 of new employees, 94% said they would not euthanise a healthy bully XL with no behavioural problems.\n\nHe said if the government asked them \"to neuter 40,000 Jack Russells in a six-month period\" vets would have enough kennel space to house them for the day, but for \"40,000 very large dogs\" space would be a \"limiting factor\".\n\n\"We would only probably be able to do one or two in a surgery per day, just simply because we haven't got the kennel space to house them while they wake up from their anaesthetics,\" he added.\n\nFrom 31 December it will be against the law to sell, abandon, give away, or breed a bully XL, or have one in public without a lead and muzzle.\n\nFrom 1 February 2024, owning a bully XL dog in England and Wales without an exemption certificate will be a criminal offence, resulting in an unlimited fine and seizure of the dog.\n\nAmerican bully XLs in rescue centres will either be \"stuck\" there for life or put down after the December deadline, Ms Taylor says, as rehoming them will be illegal.\n\nAmerican bullies have been involved in several high-profile attacks\n\nOwners wanting to exempt a bully XL will need to pay for a number of things including the application which costs £92.40, third-party public liability insurance and neutering.\n\nTheir pets must also be microchipped, which applies to all dogs - regardless of their breeds - by the time they are eight weeks old.\n\nThis \"chunk of money\" that owners weren't anticipating to spend could be a struggle for some, Ms Taylor said.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs advised bully XL owners whose vet had refused to euthanise their dog to ask a different vet, or to discuss with them alternative veterinary practices that they could recommend.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We have taken quick and decisive action to protect the public from tragic dog attacks, with the XL Bully type added to the list of dogs prohibited under the Dangerous Dogs Act.\n\n\"Up until 31 January 2024, owners of XL Bully type dogs have the options of applying for a Certificate of Exemption or taking their dog to be euthanised by a vet.\n\n\"We are working closely with the police, canine and veterinary experts, and animal welfare groups as we take forward these important measures.\"", "The prime minister is hosting a group of leading business figures at Hampton Court to highlight foreign firms' plans to invest in the UK.\n\nRishi Sunak said £29.5bn of new investment had been promised, which he described as a \"huge vote of confidence\" in the UK economy.\n\nLast week's Autumn Statement included some measures to encourage more business investment.\n\nBut it came against a backdrop of lower growth forecasts.\n\nThe Autumn Statement measures were largely designed to persuade domestic firms to invest more.\n\nThe government said the UK's track record on attracting foreign investment remained strong.\n\nLast week, Nissan announced that it would build three electric car models at its Sunderland factory as part of a £2bn investment plan which could secure up to 6,000 UK jobs.\n\nHowever, Mr Sunak recently announced that the HS2 high-speed rail line from the West Midlands to Manchester would be scrapped.\n\nEarlier this month, the government was also forced to restructure a deal to entice energy firms to invest in offshore wind farms after an auction last September failed to attract any bidders.\n\nLabour said the government's policies had been a \"total failure\" when it came to growth and business investment.\n\n\"The past 13 years of Conservative government has been marked by a complete lack of stability, consistency and ambition which has turned potential investors away from Britain,\" said Jonathan Reynolds, shadow trade and business secretary.\n\nDeanne Stewart, chief executive of Australia's biggest pension fund Aware Super, is attending the summit on Monday and is opening the firm's first overseas office in London to invest in infrastructure, property and private equity.\n\nCommenting on the recent announcements on HS2 and green energy, she told the BBC's Today programme: \"Certainly as we have spent time with the government, our understanding is there is a healthy pipeline.\n\n\"But in the UK, like in most countries, there is a degree of risk.\"\n\nMs Stewart said that Aware Super plans to invest £5bn in the UK, adding: \"We would not participate in [projects] if they did not have that really strong certainty and really strong policies around them.\"\n\nAs well as Ms Stewart, 200 other business and investment leaders will attend the summit including Stephen Schwarzman, chief executive of investment giant Blackstone and David Solomon from investment bank Goldman Sachs.\n\nMr Sunak pointed to the UK's \"culture of innovation and thriving universities\" and highlighted \"clean energy, life sciences and advanced technology\" as key areas where he said inward investment was already creating jobs and driving growth.\n\nAt the last summit, which was held in 2021, companies promised to invest nearly £10bn in the UK.\n\nHowever, at last week's Autumn Statement, the UK's economic growth forecasts were downgraded by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the independent fiscal watchdog.\n\nIt now expects the economy to grow by 0.7% next year, down from a previous forecast of 1.8%, while in 2025 it predicts growth of 1.4% compared to an earlier estimate of 2.5%.\n\nBusiness and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch said the UK economy was \"doing well despite significant headwinds\".\n\n\"We are dealing with the same problems that many other countries around the world are dealing with,\" she told Sky News.\n\n\"Investors who I hosted at a reception yesterday were telling me about the concerns they have in the US, in France and so on.\"\n\nFigures from the OECD show that foreign direct investment into the UK rose in 2022 to $14bn (£11bn) compared to a $71bn drop in the previous year.\n\nFrance was the only other G7 country to show an increase, rising to $36.3bn last year from $30.8bn. Other countries such as Germany saw a sharp fall, down 76% to $11bn.\n\nBut as a percentage of GDP, foreign direct investment in the UK is the second lowest in the G7.\n\nAccording to accountancy firm EY, France reported the largest number of foreign direct investment projects in 2022, totalling 1,259, ahead of the UK's 929 projects.\n\nThat was followed by Germany which had 832 foreign direct investment projects last year.\n\nDuring the Autumn Statement, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced that tax breaks for firms who invest in their business would be made permanent. It means that companies who spend on equipment, plants and IT can claim back 25p for every £1 they invest.\n\nBut many businesses are paying a higher rate of corporation tax after it rose from 19% to 25% earlier this year.\n\nJamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive of JP Morgan, who is attending the summit, said: \"I think you're doing all the right things to try and grow the economy which helps all of the citizens.\n\nHe said the UK government wanted \"innovation, they want growth, they want reform, they want foreign direct investment, they want all the things that help grow an economy\".\n\nLabour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves also met business leaders on Monday morning.\n\nLabour said businesses discussed what they needed for the UK to attract investment, including \"the need for stability and certainty\" as well as planning reform to speed up the delivery of infrastructure projects and \"access to talent with the skills businesses in the UK need\".\n\nProjects to be confirmed on Monday are expected to include a £10bn investment from Australia's IFM Investors into infrastructure and energy projects and a commitment to build a new lab in Cambridge from BioNTech, the firm which pioneered the mRNA Covid vaccine.\n\nSome of the sums on the list of projects that are being announced at the summit are ones that investors had previously disclosed, and which are now ready to attach a specific investment figure to.\n\nOthers, such as IFM's investments, have already begun, and future investment sums are now being clarified. Other firms are adding new investments to existing portfolios.\n\nAmong the projects being highlighted are a £7bn boost to the amount Spain's Iberdrola is investing in UK electricity transmission and distribution and £2.5bn from Microsoft in AI infrastructure.", "Former police officer Derek Chauvin is serving concurrent prison sentences over the death of George Floyd\n\nMinneapolis ex-police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted in the murder of George Floyd, is reported to be in a stable condition after he was stabbed at an Arizona prison.\n\nThe city's police chief and Minnesota's attorney general confirmed the news.\n\nChauvin, who is white, is serving multiple sentences for the black man's death, which triggered huge protests against police brutality and racism.\n\nA source told AP the 47-year-old was seriously injured by another inmate.\n\nThe Bureau of Prisons confirmed in a statement that an inmate at a federal prison in the city of Tucson was stabbed at 12:30 local time (19:30 GMT) on Friday.\n\nThe agency said employees contained the incident and \"life-saving measures\" were performed on the inmate, who was then taken to hospital. The name of the prisoner was not given.\n\nNobody else is thought to have been injured.\n\nMinnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, quoted by CNN, confirmed that Chauvin had been stabbed and said he was in a stable condition.\n\n\"I am sad to hear that Derek Chauvin was the target of violence,\" Mr Ellison told CNN, in a statement from his office. \"He was duly convicted of his crimes and, like any incarcerated individual, he should be able to serve his sentence without fear of retaliation or violence.\" The state attorney general's office had prosecuted Chauvin in the George Floyd case.\n\nNews of Chauvin's condition was confirmed by Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara, who told local TV station KSTP-TV that he received the update from \"federal law enforcement partners\".\n\n\"We're thankful that he's in a stable condition,\" he said, adding \"anyone who's assaulted like this, regardless of what they've been accused of, deserve to be safe and that's certainly not cause for any celebration.\"\n\nThe news comes days after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Chauvin, in which it was argued that he had not received a fair trial for the killing of Mr Floyd - who died after the former officer knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes in 2020.\n\nThe killing in Minneapolis - captured on a bystander's phone camera - sparked global outrage and a wave of demonstrations against racial injustice and police use of force.\n\nChauvin was later found guilty of Mr Floyd's murder and sentenced to 22 years in prison. He was given a further 20-year sentence in July 2022 for violating Mr Floyd's civil rights.", "Fatima Amarneh was among the Palestinian prisoners released by Israel\n\nBy nightfall, the road in front of the Beitunia checkpoint had the feel of a restive festival, the sting of politics and tear gas mingling in the air.\n\nSmall campfires flickered in front of a handful of green Hamas flags; there were many more Palestinian ones.\n\nThe return of 39 Palestinians from Israeli prisons to their homes in the occupied West Bank was never just going to be a family affair.\n\nIsrael's jailing of large numbers of people on security grounds is widely seen by Palestinians as a tool of the occupation.\n\nCharges range from murder and violent attacks on Israelis to stone-throwing. Many Palestinians say Israel is criminalising acts of resistance by an occupied people - the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) told the BBC all prisoners are detained \"according to and under the provisions of the law\".\n\nA quarter of the population of the West Bank has spent time in an Israeli jail; it is a shared experience.\n\nAnd more than 3,000 people have been arrested since the 7 October attacks - including almost 900 children - according to the Palestinian Prisoners' Club president, Abdallah Zughary. Many of these detainees have been placed in administrative detention without charge, he says.\n\n\"Most of them are civilians, not affiliated with any kind of political party or militant group,\" Mr Zughary told me.\n\n\"Since 7 October, there have been no visits by families or lawyers to prisoners. And six prisoners have died.\" He accuses Israel of using the justice system as a \"revenge policy\".\n\nA spokesperson for the IPS told the BBC that over the past few weeks, \"four national security prisoners died\" in different circumstances and on different days. \"We have no knowledge of the causes of death,\" they added.They refused to comment on the suggestion that families and lawyers had not been allowed to visit prisoners.\n\nThere is little faith here in Israel's military courts, which are responsible for policing an occupied population, and which human rights groups have accused of handing down guilty verdicts to Palestinians 99% of the time.\n\nThe release of 39 women and teenagers is a tiny drop in the ocean of prisoners, but a massive symbol for Palestinians of their ability to - occasionally - force Israel's hand.\n\nMustafa Barghouti, a senior Palestinian politician, told me that prisoners were a key part of the deal agreed between Israel and Hamas, and a key part of why that deal was good for Palestinians.\n\nIt should also be taken as a sign, he said, that a permanent ceasefire was possible, despite Israel's insistence on resuming the war after the hostage deal has run its course.\n\n\"Israel has said many things before,\" Dr Barghouti told me. \"They said they would kill Hamas. Now they are negotiating with them.\"\n\nIsrael has said its goals of eliminating Hamas and getting the hostages back are not in conflict, but some in its army worry that the deal could allow their enemy to regroup.\n\nIt has also strengthened the political standing of Hamas here in the West Bank - many of those gathered to wait for the returning prisoners at Beitunia checkpoint credited the group, though others stressed that this moment belonged to all Palestinians.\n\n\"We would like that this happened without the hostages taken by Hamas,\" human rights lawyer Mohammed Khatib said. \"But Israel doesn't want [to do] this without paying the price. Without the Hamas hostages, Israel would not allow these people out.\"\n\nBut, he said, it was also a \"window of hope\" for both Palestinians and Israelis.\n\n\"The end [goal] is that they must accept us as people, they must accept our right to exist.\n\n\"We are humans: we have names, families, lives. I see all of this in the eye of a child released from prison today.\"\n\nThe return of prisoners here has been paved by a brutal attack, a devastating war and a hostage crisis.\n\n\"There's a joy in this release but it is incomplete joy,\" Abdallah Zughary told me, \"because there's a big price Palestinians have paid over past 45 days.\"\n\nEman Barghouti, welcoming home her sister-in-law Hanan today, told me her family would not celebrate the release publicly, out of respect for Palestinians killed, injured and displaced by Israel's bombardment of Gaza.\n\nShe said all the families she knew were doing the same.\n\nJubilant crowds gathered in Beitunia to welcome released Palestinian prisoners\n\nBut the crowds swarming around the prisoners' bus as it crossed into Beitunia had no such reserve; a moment of happiness for prisoners' families is also a moment of victory for Palestinians across the West Bank.\n\nBehind the darkened windows, some of the prisoners could be seen dancing - one wrapped in a Palestinian flag.\n\nTo Israel the prisoners it released today are a security threat.\n\nTo the Palestinians gathered to greet them, they are victims of Israel's occupation - and their release is symbolic of a wider goal.", "Boris Johnson, Sir Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance talk to journalists at Downing St during the pandemic\n\nWith each passing week of the Covid inquiry, it is clear there were deep flaws in the way decisions were made and information provided during the pandemic.\n\nAnd it was both politicians and scientists making mistakes.\n\nThis much was clear from the evidence given by four of the government's top Covid scientists this week.\n\nExperts advising government had underestimated how fast the virus was spreading and overestimated the extent to which it could be controlled.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, who was the government's chief scientific adviser in the pandemic, admitted as much when he appeared before the inquiry on Monday.\n\nHe said the scientists had been \"wrong\" to think they could apply measures such as restrictions on socialising short of a lockdown with precision to produce a manageable wave of Covid over the summer - as was the plan up to mid March.\n\nMore on Covid and the Covid Inquiry\n\nThis came to a head on the weekend of 14 and 15 March 2020 when new data suggested the NHS was at risk of \"imminent\" collapse.\n\nThat kick-started a series of warnings to the public that ultimately led a week later to the full lockdown, but by that point the virus had seeded so far across the UK that many of the 40,000-plus deaths seen in the first wave were already baked in.\n\nBut it was not just that misstep at the start, the breadth of expertise advising ministers also appears questionable.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Sir Chris Whitty told the inquiry he was more cautious about imposing restrictions than others on Sage, the government's scientific advisory body, because of the indirect harms they cause to mental health, deprivation, education and wellbeing (although he agreed once the experts had realised how far Covid had spread there was little other option than to lockdown).\n\nSir Patrick also recognised this difference in view, pointing out it was natural as Sir Chris had responsibility for the wider health of the population in his remit.\n\nBut the rest of Sage was dominated by infectious disease experts who were focussed on what the virus was doing. It means there was little formal attempt to measure or quantify the knock-on effects of what was a completely unprecedented policy.\n\nOutside of Sage this also seems to be the case. There was no equality impact assessment, for example, which is one of the ways government can consider the costs and benefits of a decision.\n\nOthers have questioned this approach. Last month Prof Mark Woolhouse, an infectious disease expert at the University of Edinburgh, who sat on one of the government's Covid committees providing advice into Sage, said he was not aware of anyone looking at the wider harms. It is difficult to see how \"balanced judgements\" could be made without that work being done, he added.\n\nAnd three years on, those harms are all too clear. Rising rates of mental health problems in the young, record-high hospital waiting lists and continued attendance problems at school.\n\nBut what about later on? Prof Dame Angela McLean, who is now the overall chief scientific adviser but held the Ministry of Defence department post in the pandemic, told the inquiry that a \"cross-government commission\" should have been set up in summer 2020 to \"pause and think\" about the wider picture.\n\n\"It was a missed opportunity\", she said, before adding that was with the benefit of hindsight as she had never asked for it.\n\nA consequence of this was that Sage came to define the debate. Its meeting papers were pored over by the media and commentators when they were published and used to suggest scientists were calling for action when in reality Sage was only providing information for ministers to make decisions.\n\nBut because they focused solely on the consequences of doing something or not, there was no counter narrative of what those options would mean for the economy, education or wider wellbeing.\n\nIf ministers decided not to act, and as 2020 progressed the devolved nations started to make different choices, they were accused of not \"following the science\".\n\nSir Chris told the inquiry that phrase ended up becoming a \"millstone around our necks\".\n\nThere were \"no good choices\", he said, and so it was always the job of democratically-elected politicians to weigh up the options.\n\n\"I was - and Sir Patrick was - very careful not to say 'I think you must…'\", he added.\n\nThe flipside of this is that other parts of government came to resent the scientists. Rishi Sunak, diary entries from Sir Patrick suggest, remarked in one meeting it was about \"handling the scientists, not the virus\".\n\nThe Treasury ended up doing its own thing. Nowhere is that clearer than in the decision by Mr Sunak, who was then the chancellor, to introduce the Eat Out to Help Out campaign in August 2020, offering diners discounts to try to boost the UK hospitality industry following lockdown.\n\nSir Chris, Sir Patrick, Dame Angela and also Prof Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, who was Sir Chris's deputy during the pandemic and gave evidence on Wednesday, told the inquiry they had not been consulted on the scheme despite the inherent risks it carried.\n\nSir Jonathan said he first heard about it from a TV report and went on to say the scheme \"didn't feel very sensible to me\".\n\nThe scientists were also left frustrated by the lack of strategic direction from ministers. Sir Patrick said he was never entirely clear on what the actual aim of government was beyond stopping the NHS getting overwhelmed.\n\nNever, despite repeated attempts, he said, would ministers define what was acceptable in terms of the number of deaths or what exactly stopping the NHS being overwhelmed meant.\n\nDame Angela made a similar point, saying: \"If you are not told what is the objective, it makes it very difficult...\"\n\nIn the end, she said, the scientists came up with their own objective focused on where the country was in terms of the peak in hospital admissions from the first wave.\n\nThe lack of joined-up thinking was unhelpful - and in the autumn of 2020 it led to the country \"bunny hopping\" around, in the words of Sir Chris, between opening up and slamming on the brakes.\n\nFinding a more coherent approach to decision-making in a pandemic - balancing all the trade-offs - is at the heart of what this inquiry needs to do.", "During their march protesters stopped to release yellow helium balloons\n\nThousands of Israelis have joined the families of hostages held in Gaza to call on the government to prioritise securing their release.\n\nProtesters walked from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem before holding a demonstration outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence.\n\nHe has been criticised for not doing more to free those held by Hamas.\n\nIt comes as US President Joe Biden reiterated calls for a two-state solution.\n\nOf the estimated 240 people taken hostage by Hamas during their deadly 7 October attacks, only four have been freed so far and another, a soldier, was rescued in an Israeli operation.\n\nThis week Israel's military said it had found the bodies of two hostages - 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss and 19-year-old soldier Noa Marciano - in the Gaza Strip.\n\nThe protest calling for the hostages' release started in Tel Aviv on Tuesday before heading to Jerusalem. Near the end of their march protesters stopped briefly to release hundreds of yellow helium balloons.\n\n\"We want answers,\" said Ari Levi, who had two family members - including his 12-year-old son - taken by Hamas from kibbutz Nir Oz on 7 October.\n\n\"It's not normal to have children kidnapped for 43 days. We don't know what the government is doing, we don't have any information,\" Mr Levi told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"I want the government to bring them home to us,\" said Dvora Cohen, 43, whose brother-in-law and 12-year-old nephew are both believed to be held by Hamas.\n\nIn a press conference on Saturday night Mr Netanyahu said that \"until now there has not been a hostage release deal\", adding that \"when we have something to say, we will update you\".\n\nHe said that the first goal of the war is to destroy Hamas, the second is to return the hostages and the third is to eliminate the threat from Gaza.\n\nOn Saturday, about 400 people protested in Caesarea, north of Tel Aviv, calling on Mr Netanyahu to resign, according to local media reports.\n\nOne sign read: \"He who blames only the army does not deserve to command it.\"\n\nLast month Mr Netanyahu swiftly deleted a social media post blaming military and security chiefs for allowing the Hamas attacks to take place. He later apologised.\n\nSeparately, in an article published in the Washington Post on Saturday, Mr Biden said the two-state solution is \"the only way to ensure the long-term security of both the Israeli and Palestinian people\".\n\nThe president was referring to a final settlement that would see the creation of an independent state of Palestine living peacefully alongside Israel.\n\n\"A two-state solution - two peoples living side-by-side with equal measures of freedom, opportunity and dignity - is where the road to peace must lead,\" Mr Biden wrote, adding that achieving it would require \"commitments from Israelis and Palestinians\".\n\nThe article - which also accused Hamas of having an \"ideology of destruction\" - appeared to be aimed at Mr Netanyahu, who has opposed the two-state solution throughout his political career.\n\nHis survival as prime minister depends in part on support from Israeli hardliners who believe the entire territory between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea was given to the Jewish people by God.\n\nMr Netanyahu has previously said that Israel must maintain \"overall military responsibility\" in Gaza \"for the foreseeable future\".\n\nMr Biden also said the Palestinian Authority should govern the Gaza Strip and the West Bank after the Israel-Hamas war, adding that his government is prepared to issue visa bans against \"extremists\" attacking civilians in the occupied West Bank.", "Ashling Murphy's murder caused widespread shock and prompted vigils across Ireland and the UK\n\nThe man convicted of murdering Irish schoolteacher Ashling Murphy has been handed a life sentence.\n\nJozef Puska, 33, from Lynally Grove in Mucklagh, County Offaly, was found guilty at a court in Dublin last week.\n\nPuska stabbed the 23-year-old 11 times in the neck as she jogged on the banks of the Grand Canal near Tullamore, County Offaly, on 12 January 2022.\n\nMs Murphy's death caused widespread shock, prompting vigils across Ireland and the UK.\n\nJudge Tony Hunt said he could not hand down a whole life sentence but if he could it would be \"richly deserved\".\n\nDressed in a grey suit with a white shirt and no tie, Puska made no comment or reaction when the sentence was handed down to him through a translator.\n\nThe court heard Puska and Ms Murphy, a talented folk musician, were not known to each other and had never met before the attack.\n\nPuska, who is a Slovak national, had pleaded not guilty to her murder.\n\nHe has no criminal record here or in Slovakia and had never come to the attention of gardaí (Irish police) before the killing.\n\nHe claimed he was trying to help Ms Murphy after she had been attacked by another man, who went on to stab him too.\n\nBefore his arrest, Puska confessed to the killing after being admitted to St James' Hospital in Dublin for treatment to stab wounds the day after Ms Murphy was killed, the court heard.\n\nHe initially told staff in the hospital he had been stabbed in a separate incident in Blanchardstown on the outskirts of Dublin\n\nThe judge said in the hours before his surgery, Puska was initially composed enough \"to spin a detailed yarn\" to healthcare staff.\n\nGardaí attended the hospital to investigate but were immediately suspicious and made a connection to Ms Murphy's murder.\n\n\"Something was a bit off\" with Puska, the judge said.\n\nAfter his surgery, police officers from Tullamore attended the hospital and spoke with Puska about executing a warrant.\n\nPuska then confessed to a Garda officer, claiming he did not mean to hurt Ms Murphy and killing her was the result of \"panic\".\n\nGardaí said the confession took them by surprise as they had not attended the hospital to interview Puska.\n\nHe repeated his confession after being cautioned by the officers, but the interaction was not recorded.\n\nHowever, a few days later Puska said he had no recollection of the incident.\n\nHis defence counsel said this was due to pain medication he was taking, along with a language barrier was later disputed by a pain specialist during the trial.\n\nDuring sentencing, Judge Hunt said the minor level of medication would \"not cause amnesia for major events\".\n\nThe judge said Puska gave his confession \"lucidly\" and was \"perfectly coherent\" that afternoon.\n\nHe praised the Slovak translator who heard the confession, highlighting his \"clarity and independence\" when giving evidence and said it was fortunate he was present.\n\nThe court also heard that DNA evidence belonging to Puska was found under Ms Murphy's fingernails.\n\nOne eyewitness said they had seen Mr Puska on top of Ms Murphy in a hedgerow with her legs kicking out underneath him.\n\nWhen Puska saw the witness he shouted at her to go away, the court heard.\n\nAshling's boyfriend Ryan Casey read a victim impact statement in court, taking long pauses to compose himself.\n\nHe described how he and Ashling had met an architect weeks before she died as they were planning to build a house together and get married. They also planned to spend sometime in Dubai before returning home and starting a family.\n\n\"I'd smile to myself thinking, I cant wait to marry that girl. I would've married her a long time ago and I wish I did but we didn't get a chance to reach that part.\"\n\n\"Every single plan I had for life is gone and cannot be brought back.\n\n\"I've lost everything; the pain of losing someone so important is indescribable,\" he said.\n\nAshling Murphy's brother Cathal Murphy (left) and boyfriend Ryan Casey (right) outside court last week\n\nHe said that Puska was \"insignificant, the lowest of the low, waste of life\" who had no idea what he had done to the Murphy family.\n\nMr Casey said he had nightmares, he has become short tempered, and does not like looking at or eating with knives.\n\n\"I find myself hating myself for small moments of happiness, feeling guilty for feeling happy. Feeling lost in life with no direction and with no light at the end of the tunnel.\"\n\nHe said the last time he saw Ashling they could not touch as he had been infected with Covid 19. He regrets that every day, he told the court.\n\nFacing Puska, Mr Casey said: \"May you be in hell a whole half hour before God even knows you're dead.\"\n\nAshling Murphy's mother Kathleen, father Raymond and sister Amy comforted each other at a candle-lit vigil days after her murder\n\nAshling's mother Kathleen wrote a victim impact statement that was read by a police officer in court.\n\nShe wrote: \"My heart broke when I heard Ashing was murdered. My memory, motivation and drive for life is gone forever.\n\n\"I cant bear it. I am no longer able for big crowds or small talk.\"\n\nShe told the court how she had asked Ashling to jog near their home the day she was murdered. Ashling refused saying she was an adult of 23 and told her mother she loved her.\n\nAmy Murphy, Ashling's older sister said the family still set the table for five people and that the house is \"eerily quiet\" without their youngest sister.\n\nSpeaking directly to Puska, Ms Murphy said: \"Ashling's last ten minutes on this earth must have felt like the longest ten minutes of her life.\n\n\"You stole her life, took her voice and robbed us of our family of five.\"\n\nPuska, currently separated from other inmates at Cloverhill Prison for his own safety, will now be moved to Dublin's Mountjoy prison.\n\nHe is undergoing psychiatric supervision after attempting to take his own life during the trial.\n\nMs Murphy's death sparked a new conversation about violence against women in Ireland and renewed pressure on the Irish government to tackle the issue.", "Action Fraud was asked to investigate reports of a scam at Thornaby Station\n\nFraudsters are thought to have covered a genuine code with one of their own in Thornaby Station's car park.\n\nThat sent her to a fake website allowing them to redirect payments and card information, resulting in the victim, 71, losing thousands of pounds.\n\nRail firm TransPennine Express removed all QR codes from its station car parks in September following reports of similar scams across the country.\n\nThe incident in Thornaby, north-east England, is one of about 1,200 QR scams investigated by the UK's national fraud reporting centre in just over three years.\n\nIn August the victim, who wishes to stay anonymous, used the code and, after a string of fraudulent payments were blocked by her bank, the fraudsters called her posing as bank staff.\n\nReferencing genuine transactions, they convinced her they were legitimate and obtained enough information to run up debts of thousands in her name, including a loan of £7,500 they took out in minutes.\n\nThe signs at Thornaby Station no longer have a QR code\n\nThey also set up online banking and changed her address before asking for new cards to be sent out.\n\nAfter months of a \"logistical nightmare\", the victim is still waiting for her credit card to be unfrozen.\n\n\"It was the first time I'd ever used a QR code and I won't be using one again,\" she said.\n\n\"When the scammer called, he was so convincing and gave me a sense of security by mentioning transactions from my account that I recognised.\n\n\"But even while I was on the phone, he was logging into my accounts as me and took out a loan in 20 minutes.\"\n\nThe woman has struggled to trust anyone since.\n\n\"I can't believe I fell for it,\" she said. \"I've had so many sleepless nights and spent hours and hours speaking to my bank and credit card company trying to sort it all.\n\n\"I was locked out of my accounts. Luckily I had another credit card to survive on, but without that and help from my son, I don't know how I would have coped.\"\n\nVirginMoney told the BBC the loan had been written off and all fraudulent transactions refunded.\n\nA spokeswoman said the scammers had managed to get away with £4,700 but their other transactions had been blocked.\n\nShe said the company had taken steps to protect the woman in the future, including placing enhanced security controls on her accounts.\n\nAccording to figures exclusively obtained by the BBC, Action Fraud receives hundreds of crime reports every year linked to QR codes.\n\nAction Fraud said more than 400 such offences were logged in the first nine months of 2023, compared with 112 in 2020.\n\nQR codes are increasingly used to access information via digital devices\n\nQR stands for \"quick response\". The black and white squares work like a two dimensional barcode and can be scanned by a phone or tablet.\n\nBusinesses often use them to direct people to things such as app downloads, payment platforms, social media accounts, menus and events listings.\n\nThe woman reported the scam to police and station staff. A spokeswoman for Cleveland Police said they referred her to Action Fraud.\n\nTransPennine Express, which manages Thornaby station, said it has since removed QR codes from payment signs at all of its 14 car parks, covering 1,300 car-parking spaces.\n\nUrging customers to avoid using any QR codes in their car parks, managing director Chris Jackson said: \"We acted quickly and thoroughly inspected all our car-park signs.\n\n\"No evidence of fraudulent stickers was found and we had not received any reports in our customer relations system or social media contact.\"\n\nFollow BBC Tees on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Aoife Marken, Thomas Thibodeau and Taryn Graham are among the criminal barristers on strike over delays in their payments\n\nLawyers in Northern Ireland are taking part in a one-day strike over delays in legal aid payments which are taking up to six months.\n\nThe action is disrupting courts and comes despite an attempt by the Department of Justice (DoJ) to avert action.\n\nIt has announced an £11m package to improve payment times over the next few months.\n\nBut barristers dismissed it as \"a temporary sticking plaster\".\n\nThe strike follows a ballot by the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) and involved more than 200 barristers.\n\nIt said the \"intolerable\" late payment of fees is made worse by legal aid rates having been eroded significantly by inflation since 2005.\n\nCriminal barrister Taryn Graham says young, female lawyers like her are being hit hard\n\nTaryn Graham is one of the criminal barristers on strike.\n\n\"As independent, self-employed practitioners these payment delays place us in a wholly unprecedented position,\" she said.\n\n\"The financial challenges being faced are hitting younger and female lawyers the hardest.\n\n\"Today's initial strike action has not been taken lightly. It is a regrettable but necessary measure to preserve the viability of legal aid as a vital demand-led public service that embodies the core of access to justice.\"\n\nOn Thursday, solicitors said they would join the walk-out.\n\nThe Solicitors Criminal Bar Association (SCBA), which represents more than 100 firms, said the delays \"cannot be allowed to continue\".\n\nIt pointed out that cases can also take years to conclude before payment can be requested. Sums involved can run into several thousands.\n\nTalks between the CBA and DoJ have been taking place over the issue.\n\nOn the eve of the strike, the DoJ revealed that an additional £11m has been found for this financial year.\n\nPermanent Secretary Richard Pengelly said: \"This money will greatly assist in improving payment times to the end of the current financial year.\n\n\"Given this additional funding and the ongoing engagement, the action being taken by the Bar is premature.\n\n\"I am sympathetic to the frustration of the profession,\" Mr Pengelly continued.\n\nRichard Pengelly warned the strike would impact those who need legal representation\n\n\"It is no secret that the current budget provision is insufficient.\n\n\"However, this action risks adversely impacting those who need legal representation at a time when the department cannot resolve the matter.\"\n\nThe CBA described the move as \"a partial, short-term measure\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Although welcome, it serves only as a temporary sticking plaster.\n\n\"It does not achieve the necessary change in departmental policy and does not fix the structural problems associated with long overdue payments.\"\n\nIt said Friday's action meant criminal barristers would not attend any court, or do related work, \"except for emergency matters\".\n\nSome court business will take place, according to the Lady Chief Justice's Office.\n\nIt said: \"The judiciary had prior notice of the planned day of action.\n\n\"This provided an opportunity for judges to plan their courts accordingly and matters will be progressed where it is possible to do so.\"", "Fans sheltered from the heat ahead of Swift's now postponed Saturday concert\n\nTaylor Swift has postponed a concert she was due to perform in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, after a fan died while attending her show on Friday.\n\nThe decision came as thousands of people were already at the stadium as part of her record-breaking Eras tour.\n\nPosting on Instagram, Swift said: \"The safety and well-being of my fans, fellow performers and crew has to and always will come first.\"\n\nAuthorities warned of the danger to life as it recorded a heat index, which combines temperature with humidity, of 59.3C (138.7F) on Friday followed by 59.7C (139.5) on Saturday.\n\nThe US pop star's show on Monday will still go ahead.\n\nIn a statement on Instagram, the pop star said she was \"devastated\" over the death of a fan and that her heart was \"shattered\", adding: \"She was so incredibly beautiful and far too young.\"\n\n\"I can't believe I'm writing these words but it is with a shattered heart that I say we lost a fan earlier tonight before my show,\" Swift wrote.\n\n\"I can't even tell you how devastated I am by this.\"\n\nAccording to the organisers, 23-year-old Ana Clara Benevides Machado had sought help at the stadium after feeling unwell. She was transferred to hospital but died one hour later.\n\nAccording to Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, the cause of death was given as cardiorespiratory arrest.\n\nTaylor Swift, 33, said she would not be able to speak about the incident from the stage because she felt \"overwhelmed by grief\" whenever she tried to talk about it.\n\n\"I want to say now I feel this loss deeply and my broken heart goes out to her family and friends.\"\n\nShe added that this was \"the last thing\" she thought would happen when she brought the tour to Brazil.\n\nSwift said she had little other information about the death.\n\nIn videos and pictures circulated on social media, Swift was later seen urging staff at the stadium to give water to fans during the concert.\n\nAt one point, while singing All Too Well, she was seen throwing a water bottle into the crowd.\n\nRio Mayor Eduardo Paes posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) that what happened was unacceptable and he had asked the show's producers for several changes including extra water distribution points and more emergency services on standby.\n\nBrazil's Justice Minister Flávio Dino also posted on X that fans must be allowed to bring in water bottles to the venues.\n\nHe ordered the company organising the Eras Tour in Brazil, T4F Entertainment, to provide fans with free and easily accessible drinking water.\n\nThe minister's statement came after concert-goers were banned from bringing in their own water bottles.\n\nSwift arrived in Brazil earlier this week for her record-breaking tour, with Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue illuminated to welcome her to the country.\n\nTaylor Swift addressed the death in an Instagram post\n\nThe pop star is due to play two more shows in Rio before heading to Sao Paulo.\n\nSwift had to cancel previously scheduled performances in the country because of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nShe is coming to the UK in June 2024, where she will play Edinburgh, London, Liverpool and Cardiff.\n\nThe BBC has approached T4F Entertainment, for a response.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAdditional reporting by Katy Watson in Sao Paulo and Emily McGarvey in London", "Clemence Felix Mtenga was studying agriculture in Israel at the time of the 7 October attack\n\nThe Tanzanian government has confirmed the death of a student taken hostage in the Hamas attack on Israel.\n\nClemence Felix Mtenga, 22, was one of two Tanzanians taken by the group on 7 October. It is unclear how he died.\n\nThe country's foreign ministry said it was in touch with Israel over the other Tanzanian hostage, Joshua Mollel.\n\nMore than 230 hostages were taken in the assault by Hamas, and at least 1,200 people killed.\n\nIsrael says the hostages - which were taken from Israel to the Gaza Strip - come from 25 countries, including one South African who is yet to be identified.\n\nApproximately 260 Tanzanians study agriculture in Israel, and both Mr Mtenga and Mr Mollel had been in the country as part of an agricultural internship programme, Israel's foreign ministry said on X.\n\nThe pair had only landed in Israel in September, and were due to study there for 11 months.\n\nMr Mtenga had been living on Kibbutz Nir Oz and working at a dairy farm in the afternoons, a friend and fellow student told the BBC.\n\nWhen news of his kidnapping broke last month, his sister said his whole family were worried about him, but remained hopeful he would be rescued.\n\nShe said: \"He should be courageous where he is, know that we love him and that we pray for him day and night, hoping that he will be back soon.\"\n\nTanzania's foreign ministry said Mr Mtenga's family had been informed, and that officials were liaising with the Israeli government to send his body home.\n\nBefore it was confirmed that he had been taken hostage, his father told the BBC he could not eat or sleep because he was desperate to know what had happened to him.\n\nThe last words he said to his son before he disappeared were: \"Be on your best behaviour because you're somewhere new, and make the most of the internship you're there to do.\"\n\nA total of four hostages have been released so far, with another freed by Israeli forces.\n\nHamas - considered a terrorist organisation by the UK, the US and some other countries - says it has hidden the hostages in \"safe places and tunnels\" within Gaza.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWales' hopes of qualifying automatically for Euro 2024 suffered a potentially devastating blow with a lacklustre draw with Armenia in Yerevan.\n\nArmenia, who inflicted a humiliating defeat on Wales in Cardiff in June, took the lead after just five minutes when Lucas Zelarayan - who scored twice in that 4-2 summer triumph - seized on slack defending to strike powerfully from the edge of the penalty area.\n\nWales were panicked and frantic but still created chances and equalised shortly before half-time as Armenia's Nair Tiknizyan headed into his own net from a Connor Roberts throw-in.\n\nWith both sides needing a win to maintain any realistic chance of automatic qualification, they each attacked desperately after the break, with Armenia's Vahan Bichakchyan hitting the crossbar and Jordan James having a shot saved for Wales.\n\nIn truth, the visitors did not deserve to win and, as a result, they are no longer in control of their fate.\n\nWales must now beat Group D leaders Turkey in Cardiff on Tuesday and hope that Croatia, who beat Latvia 2-0 later on Saturday, drop points against against Armenia on Tuesday.\n\nIf Wales fail to finish among the group's top two, they will almost certainly have the back-up option of the play-offs in March thanks to the Uefa Nations League.\n\nThere is no doubt, though, that this result is damaging for Robert Page and his players, who had their destiny in their own hands before this visit to Yerevan.\n\nBut they threw away the opportunity with a wretched performance.\n\nWales' chances of qualifying appeared in tatters previously during this campaign when they suffered back-to-back defeats against Armenia and Turkey in June.\n\nLosing 4-2 at home to Armenia was particularly damaging, with Page later saying he was \"haunted\" by his side's capitulation against a team then ranked 71 places below them in the world standings.\n\nIf that was the nadir of Page's tenure, the manager rated last month's momentous win over Croatia as the best performance of his time in charge.\n\nCoupled with victory in Latvia in September, the victory against the Croatians had reignited Wales' qualifying hopes and put them in a position where victories against Armenia and Turkey would have guaranteed their place in Germany next summer.\n\nSuch was the chastening nature of that previous defeat against Armenia, however, there was still some residual wariness for Wales coming into this game.\n\nArmenia's line-up in Yerevan featured nine of the players who started in Cardiff and Zelarayan, whose majestic volley had lit the fuse for that memorable victory, proved to be a thorn in Wales' side once more.\n\nThe home side started positively and, after Wales failed to deal with a corner in the fifth minute, Zelarayan controlled the ball on the edge of the area, evaded two defenders and fired a low shot in off the post.\n\nThat goal was fuel to the fire of the atmosphere in Yerevan, with flares lit in the stands and the home crowd fervently getting behind their team, who also still had a chance of qualifying for Euro 2024.\n\nThe action on the pitch was every bit as frenetic as Wales sought a swift reply, with David Brooks shooting narrowly over before Neco Williams had a shot deflected wide.\n\nWales were creating chances but playing with none of the poise or control they had demonstrated against Croatia.\n\nMatters worsened when Chris Mepham received a first-half yellow card which means he will be suspended for Tuesday's game against Turkey, and there was another fright when Kieffer Moore went down clutching his ankle before getting back to his feet to continue.\n\nDespite their mounting problems, Wales equalised just before the half-time whistle. It was unclear at first who had scored as Joe Rodon appeared to have connected with Robert's throw, but replays showed the Wales centre-back's flick-on had hit Tiknizyan, who headed into his own net.\n\nWith both sides needing to win to have a realistic chance of qualifying automatically for Euro 2024, there was a desperation to their play in the second half.\n\nTempers flared with yellow cards shown to players on both teams and, just as Wales seemed to be settling and quietening the crowd a little, Bichakchyan rattled the crossbar to swing the momentum back in Armenia's direction.\n\nWales brought on Brennan Johnson and Daniel James in the hope that their pace and direct running could help conjure the winning goal, but they were still lacking in the final third.\n\nArmenia goalkeeper Ognjen Cancarevic was comfortable in saving from James, Moore and Ethan Ampadu, and Wales brought on another attacker in Nathan Broadhead as Page went all out for victory.\n\nBut they could not find a way through. Instead, it was Armenia who came closest to a winner as substitute Edgar Sevikyan forced Danny Ward into a stoppage-time save.\n\nAs the draw also did nothing to help Armenia's bid to qualify for Euro 2024, an underwhelming silence momentarily befell the Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium at the final whistle.\n\nThere was frustration among the home crowd, but nothing quite like the despair felt by Wales, who will likely need to take the long road if they are to make it to a fourth major tournament in eight years.\n• None Attempt missed. Eduard Spertsyan (Armenia) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Nair Tiknizyan.\n• None Attempt blocked. Eduard Spertsyan (Armenia) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucas Zelarayán.\n• None Attempt missed. Edgar Sevikyan (Armenia) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Lucas Zelarayán.\n• None Attempt missed. Varazdat Haroyan (Armenia) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Eduard Spertsyan with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Edgar Sevikyan (Armenia) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Lucas Zelarayán.\n• None Attempt blocked. Brennan Johnson (Wales) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Neco Williams with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Joe Rodon (Wales) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Daniel James with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Nair Tiknizyan (Armenia) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high.\n• None Attempt saved. Ethan Ampadu (Wales) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Chris Mepham with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Lucas Zelarayán (Armenia) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Nair Tiknizyan. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "There is everything to play for in this weekend's presidential run-off. Few Argentines saw radical candidate Javier Milei coming until he won the primaries in August.\n\nHe may have been pipped to the post by left-wing Economy Minister Sergio Massa in last month's first round but now polls put the two candidates neck-and-neck ahead of the decisive run-off vote.\n\nOne thing that is certain is that the economy will be the key factor in this election, which comes at a time of deep economic crisis for Argentina.\n\nWith inflation now topping an annual 140%, fixing the country's finances is top of the agenda for voters and candidates alike.\n\n\"I personally have a little notebook with names of people who can't make ends meet and I give them items on credit,\" says Lourdes Monjes, who runs a corner shop in the poor Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Isla Maciel.\n\nShe has seen things get harder, especially in the past few years. \"My clients pay me back and then they end up owing again, so it's a vicious cycle they can't get out of,\" she says.\n\nLourdes says things have got harder for many of her customers\n\nIsla Maciel sits in the shadow of Argentina's largest port, its houses made of wood and corrugated iron.\n\nOn the walls there are murals of Juan Perón, after whom the populist political movement Peronism is named and whose wife Evita was hailed as a champion of the poor.\n\nWith 40% of Argentines now living in poverty, many are desperately looking for another saviour.\n\nSergio Massa, the economy minister in the outgoing Peronist government, is promising to move mountains to improve Argentina's finances.\n\nHis critics point out that it was under his leadership that the economy slumped to its current depths and that he therefore cannot be trusted with its recovery.\n\nBut his supporters say he is a seasoned politician who can accomplish much if given a chance to steer things his way.\n\nThe other choice is Javier Milei - a political outsider who has proposed drastic changes like abolishing the central bank and replacing the peso with the dollar. He also wants to liberalise gun laws and restrict abortion rights.\n\nWith increasing hardship among Argentina's population, there is also a growing appetite for radical change - and that is why far-right Javier Milei's profile has soared.\n\nIn the final TV debate between the two candidates last weekend, he made the case for shaking up the status quo. \"Ask yourself if you prefer inflation over stability, if you prefer this decline in production and employment or if you prefer economic growth,\" he said.\n\nJavier Milei (left) faces Sergio Massa in the run-off vote to be Argentina's next president\n\nThe other option, he said, was \"supporting this corrupt, parasitic and useless political caste, that just destroys our wealth generation and sinks us deeper and deeper\".\n\nHe describes himself as an \"anarcho-capitalist\" and at one campaign event he wielded a chainsaw to symbolise his plan to slash government spending.\n\nHe has been compared to former US President Donald Trump - and closer to home - to Brazil's former leader, Jair Bolsonaro.\n\n\"From an economic point of view, they are very similar because they have this idea that the markets solve everything and the state is not necessary,\" says economist Paulo Feldman from the University of São Paulo of the parallels between Mr Bolsonaro and Mr Milei.\n\n\"You don't need to plan, you don't need to have government, you don't need rules,\" Mr Feldman says of Mr Milei's proposals.\n\nBut the academic says that that is not a viable programme: \"We know that this is not true. There is no country, no developed country that [carries out] this stupidity.\"\n\nMr Feldman's views are shared by many other economists. Earlier this month, more than 100 wrote an open letter warning that voting in Mr Milei would spell economic disaster for Argentina.\n\nNervousness around Mr Milei's brash campaign and lack of experience is something Sergio Massa is trying to use to his advantage. \"I know there are some who are voting for me not because they are convinced but just as a way to avoid choosing a path of violence, hatred and harm,\" Mr Massa said in Sunday's debate. \"I will ensure they feel that their vote wasn't wasted.\"\n\nWhoever wins, the next president will have a challenge on his hands.\n\n\"Whatever comes next is going to be tough,\" says political analyst Ana Iparraguire of the difficulties of lifting Argentina out of its economic hole. \"It's going to require adjustments, budget cuts, reducing state expenses and that is going to come at a high cost, so we are going to have to wait and see how far each of them are going to go.\"\n\nThese children are growing up in Isla Maciel, near the port\n\nBack at the port, a group of young boys are kicking around a ball in the street. In the distance are stacks of shipping containers.\n\nThese youngsters live in the shadow of one of Argentina's economic engines - yet their lives are far removed from any of its benefits.\n\nSeveral of the young footballers are wearing T-shirts with Lionel Messi's name emblazoned on the back. Argentina is not short of sporting heroes - but people here say what they need is political heroes to pull the country out of this deep crisis.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNovak Djokovic delivered a masterclass to beat Carlos Alcaraz in the latest instalment of their burgeoning rivalry to reach the ATP Finals showpiece.\n\nThe Serb will aim for a record seventh title on Sunday after a 6-3 6-2 win put him through to face Italian Jannik Sinner in Turin.\n\nSinner became the first Italian to make the season-ending final with a 6-3 6-7 (4-7) 6-1 win over Daniil Medvedev.\n\nIn doubles, Britain's Joe Salisbury and American Rajeev Ram reached the final.\n\nThe defending champions beat French-Mexican pair Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Santiago Gonzalez 7-6 (7-5) 3-6 10-7, and will face Argentina's Horacio Zeballos and Marcel Granollers of Spain for the title on Sunday.\n\nDjokovic at his best against Alcaraz\n\nIn a blockbuster encounter between the two players who have dominated the tour this season, Djokovic, 36, was at his ruthless and relentless best against his 20-year-old opponent.\n\nHe faced just two break points in the first set, in his opening service game, and delivered stunning back-to-back volleys at the net followed by a smash to hold a seven-minute game for 3-2 - but those were the only real times he faced pressure in the opener.\n\nA loose service game from Alcaraz handed Djokovic a break for 5-3 and the Serb served emphatically out to love.\n\nDjokovic broke early in the second set to tighten his grip on the match but was then in danger of losing the advantage when the Spaniard had two break points in an enthralling sixth game that featured the best tennis of the match.\n\nBut the 24-time Grand Slam champion saved them both, including one by delivering a brilliant passing shot at the end of a 23-shot rally, and then went a double break up in the next game.\n\nHe then raced to 40-0 when serving for the match before the rare blemish of a double fault, before sealing victory with a smash.\n\nDjokovic has won three of the season's Grand Slams, beating Alcaraz in the French Open semi-finals, while Alcaraz won the other major by overcoming the Serb in the Wimbledon final.\n\nThe pair traded the world number one ranking through the season but Djokovic sealed the year-end top spot earlier this month for a record eighth time, and his performance on Saturday underlined why he remains the player to beat.\n\nBut on Sunday he faces a player who has beaten him very recently, Sinner having ended Djokovic's 19-match winning streak on Wednesday with a three-set victory in the round-robin phase.\n\nIf Djokovic plays at anywhere near this level on Sunday, though, the Italian may need to find another gear if he is to repeat that feat.\n\n\"This year I wasn't maybe as sharp in the second and third group matches, particularly, but I think tonight from the very beginning I felt the ball well,\" Djokovic was quoted as saying on the ATP Finals website.\n\n\"I approached the match with the right attitude, the right mentality, and I knew from the very first point it was going to be greatly intense.\"\n\nYou can follow live text coverage of Sunday's final (which will not start before 17:00 GMT) on the BBC Sport website and app.\n• None Djokovic will end the year as world number one\n\nWorld number four Sinner's victory was his third straight success against Medvedev, having lost the previous six encounters between the pair.\n\nHe has been backed by strong home support all week at the prestigious event and will be hoping for more of the same in the final.\n\n\"It is a privilege to have this kind of pressure. The crowd has given me so much energy,\" the 22-year-old said.\n\nSinner held a crucial service game early in the first set to make it 1-1, before backing that up with a break and going on to clinch the set.\n\nThe second set was much tighter as Sinner saved the only break point opportunity, only to lose out in the tie-break when he overhit a forehand.\n\nMedvedev handed Sinner the upper hand in the decider, losing his serve with a double fault, and the Italian never looked back.\n\nSinner produced a superb backhand winner to give himself three match points against the world number three, closing the match out at the first attempt.\n\n\"I felt that he was playing more aggressively, especially in the first set. Somehow I made the break and from that point I felt better,\" added Sinner, who has never been beyond the semi-final of a Grand Slam.\n\n\"The second set was really tight, but then he played a very good tie-break. In the third set I just tried to stay a bit more aggressive, mixing up my game a little bit.\n\n\"It is an incredible feeling because it was a really tough match. I am happy to be in the final.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA drink-driver who filmed himself at the wheel saying he was \"smashed\" moments before a fatal crash has been jailed.\n\nAnton Hull had been drinking rum and lager before he hit Sarah Baker, who was driving to Somerset for a weekend away.\n\nMs Baker, 29, had just finished her masters degree and put in an offer on her first home.\n\nHull, who was jailed for six years, was called \"utterly selfish\" by her family.\n\nHull, 21, hit Ms Baker's Volkswagen near Wincanton, Somerset, at about 23:00 BST on 18 August 2022.\n\nPeople who called 999 at the crash scene said he \"stank of booze\".\n\nSarah Baker had spent the last four weeks of her life supporting her sister with her newborn baby\n\nPub staff told police they had refused to serve him at about 22:30 because of his \"level of intoxication\", and other people had told him to leave his Ford Transit van in the car park.\n\nThe family of Ms Baker, who was originally from Kent but lived in London, said: \"The loss of Sarah has left a gaping hole in our hearts. Over a year has passed and every single day, we have struggled to know how to carry on without her.\n\n\"Sarah was 29 years old, she had just finished a masters degree and, in her last days, put in an offer to buy her first home.\n\n\"Sarah had spent the last four weeks of her life supporting her sister with her newborn baby and was simply driving to Somerset to have a weekend away.\n\n\"She was the most caring, loyal and generous daughter, sister, niece, cousin, friend and most recently aunty anyone could hope to have in their lives.\n\n\"The immeasurable pain we feel is so unnecessary when Sarah's death was entirely preventable. The utterly selfish act of one individual has ended her life and ruined those lives around her.\"\n\nA blood test showed Hull, of Long Street, Galhampton, was approximately one-and-a-half to two times over the legal drink-drive limit.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said he had refused to provide officers with the passcode for his mobile phone but experts were able to gain access and find videos he had filmed at the wheel.\n\n\"I don't know about you, but I'm smashed,\" he could be heard saying in one.\n\nHull admitted causing death by dangerous driving at a hearing in October.\n\nHe was jailed for six years and given a nine-year driving ban on Friday.\n\nJudge Edward Burgess said: \"Your dangerous driving killed Sarah Baker, having made a selfish decision to drive despite warnings, knowing full well you were too drunk to do so.\n\n\"Your driving was significantly impaired, and you used your phone to record yourself driving in an intoxicated state.\n\n\"Words cannot do justice to the enormity and needless tragedy of this incident.\"\n\nDai Nicholas, who led the police investigation, said Ms Baker's life had been \"cruelly snatched away\" and Hull had made a \"catastrophic conscious decision to drive home\".\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Israeli military has raided Gaza's main hospital in what it describes as a \"targeted operation against Hamas\".\n\nAn eyewitness at Al-Shifa hospital told the BBC that troops moved in overnight and were interrogating people.\n\nOn Wednesday, Israel said it found Hamas' \"operational centre\" at the hospital, sharing images of what it said were Hamas weapons and equipment.\n\nHamas denies operating there and the BBC cannot independently verify claims by either side.\n\nUN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said he was \"appalled\" by the Israeli raid, while the World Health Organization (WHO) said it was \"extremely worried\" for patients and staff, with whom it had lost contact.\n\nThe BBC has been speaking to a journalist and a doctor inside the hospital to find out what is happening there, while the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has also been providing updates.\n\nKhader, a journalist inside Al-Shifa, told the BBC's Rushdi Abualouf that Israeli troops were in \"complete control\" of the hospital and no shooting was taking place.\n\nHe said six tanks and about 100 commandos entered the complex during the night. The Israeli forces then went room to room, questioning staff and patients.\n\nThe IDF reportedly asked all men aged 16-40 to leave the hospital buildings, except the surgical and emergency departments, and go to the hospital courtyard.\n\nSoldiers fired into the air to force those remaining inside to come out, Khader said.\n\nHowever Muhammad Zaqout, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry's director of hospitals, told Al Jazeera that \"not a single bullet\" had been fired - because \"there are no resistors or detainees\" inside.\n\nEarly on Wednesday, the IDF said its forces were in the midst of a \"precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area\" in the hospital.\n\nIt said the raid was \"based on intelligence information and an operational necessity\", calling for the surrender of \"all Hamas terrorists\" present there.\n\nAs the soldiers entered the hospital complex, they engaged with a number Hamas members and killed them, the IDF said.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the IDF said troops found \"an operational command centre, weapons, and technological assets\" belonging to Hamas inside the MRI building.\n\nIt said it was \"continuing to operate in the hospital complex\", sharing images and videos showing what it said were Hamas weapons.\n\nIn a seven-minute video, IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus pointed to security cameras that he said had been covered over, and weapons that he said were AK47 rifles hidden behind MRI scanners.\n\nThe BBC has not yet been able to verify the video or its location.\n\nBut unless Israel has more to reveal, the military's controversial operation inside the hospital did not net a major arsenal of weapons, reports the BBC's Orla Guerin in Jerusalem.\n\nHamas knew Israel was coming, and therefore, if they were operating beneath the hospital, they would have had weeks to clear out through Gaza's extensive tunnel network, our correspondent adds.\n\nIsrael's Army Radio reported that troops had not yet found any sign of any of the 240 hostages taken by Hamas during the 7 October attack on Israel, when 1,200 other people were killed.\n\nThe raid on Al-Shifa came shortly after the US publicly backed Israeli claims that Hamas had infrastructure underneath the hospital.\n\nHowever Dr Ahmed Mokhallalati, a plastic surgeon at Al-Shifa, told the BBC there were only civilians in the hospital.\n\nHe said there were tunnels under every building in Gaza, including Al-Shifa hospital.\n\nAccording to international humanitarian law, hospitals are specially protected facilities.\n\nThis means that parties to conflicts cannot attack hospitals, or prevent them performing their medical functions. They can lose their protection if they are used by a party to the conflict to commit an \"act harmful to the enemy\".\n\nThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says this could be something like a hospital being used as a base from which to launch an attack, as a shelter for able-bodied fighters, or to shield a military objective from attack.\n\nThe IDF said it had repeatedly warned Hamas its \"continued military use of Al-Shifa jeopardises its protected status\", calling for the evacuation of the hospital before the raid.\n\nThe WHO had warned that evacuating patients would be a \"death sentence\", given that the medical system was collapsing.\n\nDr Mokhallalati told the BBC on Wednesday the hospital was without power, oxygen and water. On Tuesday, surgeries had been carried out without proper anaesthesia, with patients \"screaming in pain\". Doctors were unable to help one patient with burns, and had to just \"let him die\".\n\nBabies trapped inside Al-Shifa hospital, in an image issued by medical staff\n\nDr Mokhallalati said six premature babies had died in recent days.\n\n\"Why can't they be evacuated,\" he said. \"In Afghanistan, they evacuated the cats and dogs.\"\n\nThe IDF said it was providing incubators, baby food and medical supplies.", "Charles Leclerc took pole position for the Las Vegas Grand Prix after Ferrari dominated qualifying in Formula 1's prestigious new race in Sin City.\n\nLeclerc was quicker by just 0.044 seconds than team-mate Carlos Sainz, who has a 10-place grid penalty and will start 12th.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen - who was third fastest, 0.378secs off top spot - will therefore start alongside Leclerc.\n\nIn a frantic final few seconds of the session, Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso plummeted from being fourth after the first runs to 10th.\n\nStruggling on the straights in the Aston Martin, Alonso was pipped by a clutch of drivers more used to being towards the back but who did only one run in the final session, with Williams drivers Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant sixth and seventh, Alfa Romeo's Valtteri Bottas eighth and Haas' Kevin Magnussen ninth.\n\nAs drivers arrived the whole paddock knew this race weekend would be different\n• None In pictures: Bright lights and black holes at Las Vegas GP\n\nLewis Hamilton could manage only 11th in his Mercedes, and the second Red Bull driver Sergio Perez joined him in being knocked out in the second session in 12th place after Red Bull miscalculated and brought him in to the pits with more than two minutes still remaining in the session, resulting in him dropping down from sixth.\n\nBoth will move up a place as a result of Sainz's penalty.\n\nLeclerc, who has looked a favourite for pole since taking to the track on Thursday evening, had a smaller margin in the end than might have been expected - he was more than 0.5secs quicker than Sainz in the second session - and admitted he had not optimised his performance in the final part of qualifying.\n\n\"I am of course happy,\" Leclerc said. \"For first [race] in Las Vegas, it is an incredible event and to be starting from pole is great.\n\n\"But I am a bit disappointed with my laps in Q3. I didn't do a good enough job but it was enough to do the pole.\n\n\"Now we have to see how we do in the race, normally that's where we struggle.\"\n\nSainz's grid penalty is for using too many engine parts - and that is a consequence of an unfortunate incident early in the first session.\n\nHe hit a drain that had become dislodged, which caused substantial damage to his Ferrari - he needed a new chassis, engine and battery.\n\nFerrari applied to the stewards for mitigation, asking them to take into account that it had not been their fault. But Mercedes, who are fighting with Ferrari for second in the constructors' championship, were preparing a protest if they were let off and the stewards decided against it.\n\nSainz said: \"We did the maximum we could today. I am very disappointed about yesterday. I am still in a very bad mood after that, but I am trying not to show it too much.\"\n\nVerstappen started the weekend saying the Las Vegas race was \"99% show and 1% sporting event\" and after the first practice day said he had not enjoyed the track.\n\nBut following qualifying he said he \"did enjoy it out there\", admitting that he had been struggling for one lap pace so far but expected as usual to be strong in the race.\n\n\"I am not a big fan of street circuits,\" he said. \"But out there when you are pushing on the limit it is exciting. It is very low grip, a bit like Baku. I just don't really enjoy that. You are always limited with the sliding. But it is very exciting what they have built, it looks incredible.\"\n\nIt was a dramatic session under the lights of Las Vegas and with the city's famous casino hotels providing the eye-catching backdrop F1 had hoped for when they finally succeeded after 40 years of on-and-off effort to secure a race on a track that included the famous Strip.\n\nThe lap times kept tumbling throughout and the final seconds of the session saw a series of usually unfancied drivers jump up the order.\n\nFor Sargeant, it marked a career high in a rookie season that has had its difficult moments but in which he has begun to string together some strong performances in recent races, with his seat next year on the line.\n\nThe American was just 0.190secs behind team-mate Albon, who kept up his 100% record in their qualifying head-to-head, despite crashing in final practice when he lost control in Turn Four - the only driver-error crash of the weekend so far.\n\nMcLaren struggled, their car not suited to the circuit and both Norris and Oscar Piastri were knocked out in the first session.\n\nNorris said: \"I would say it's not a surprise just because it's very close and just when things aren't quite going and just when you're not quite comfortable, one or two tenths off where you want to be and it makes a big difference.\"\n• None How to follow the Las Vegas Grand Prix on the BBC", "Taylor Swift has said she is \"devastated\" after a fan died before her concert in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Friday night.\n\nIn a statement on Instagram, the pop star said her heart was \"shattered\", adding: \"She was so incredibly beautiful and far too young.\"\n\nIt came as temperatures reached 39C in the city, which is the latest stop on Swift's record-breaking Eras Tour.\n\nBrazil has been experiencing an unprecedented heatwave during recent days with red alerts, warning of serious danger to health, issued across the country.\n\nThe star was seen handing out water bottles to fans during the concert.\n\n\"I can't believe I'm writing these words but it is with a shattered heart that I say we lost a fan earlier tonight before my show,\" Swift wrote.\n\n\"I can't even tell you how devastated I am by this.\"\n\nSwift said she would not be able to speak about the incident from the stage because she felt \"overwhelmed by grief\" whenever she tried to talk about it.\n\n\"I want to say now I feel this loss deeply and my broken heart goes out to her family and friends.\"\n\nShe added that this was \"the last thing\" she thought would happen when she brought the tour to Brazil.\n\nSwift said she had little other information about the death.\n\nHowever, according to Brazilian newspaper Fohla De Sao Paolo, the fan fainted at the stadium and later died, with the cause of death being given as cardiorespiratory arrest.\n\nTaylor Swift addressed the death in an Instagram post\n\nIn videos and pictures circulated on social media, Swift was later seen urging staff at the stadium to give water to fans during the concert.\n\nAt one point, while singing All Too Well, she was seen throwing a water bottle into the crowd.\n\nSwift's Instagram story, commenting on the death of the fan, was posted after the show.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBrazil's Justice Minister Flávio Dino posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) that fans must be allowed to bring in water bottles to the venues.\n\nHe ordered the company organising the Eras Tour in Brazil, T4F Entertainment, to provide fans with free and easily accessible drinking water.\n\nThe minister's statement came after concert-goers were banned from bringing in their own water bottles.\n\nThe global pop sensation arrived in Brazil earlier this week for her record-breaking tour.\n\nRio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue was illuminated to welcome her to the country.\n\nThe pop star is due to play two more shows in Rio de Janeiro, before heading to Sao Paulo.\n\nSwift had to cancel previously scheduled performances in the country because of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe is coming to the UK in June 2024, where she will play Edinburgh, London, Liverpool and Cardiff.\n\nThe BBC has approached T4F Entertainment, for a response.", "Emma Gooding says the \"careless\" administrative error was \"insensitive and difficult to deal with\"\n\nA woman says receiving a phone call to remind her of an upcoming pregnancy scan days after having a miscarriage \"rubbed salt in the wound\" at an extremely difficult time.\n\nEmma Gooding said she was \"heartbroken\" after her miscarriage and found the \"insensitive\" call \"difficult\".\n\n\"I'm not critical of the staff, I'm critical of the fact that there's careless administrative errors,\" said Emma.\n\nRecalling the recent phone call, Emma said: \"They said, 'hi, it's the gynae unit to remind you of your upcoming six-week scan'.\n\n\"I said, 'I won't be coming to the six-week scan because I've had a miscarriage' and then the member of staff was very apologetic and compassionate.\n\n\"She said she was really sorry, and asked if I was okay and I said 'yes'.\"\n\nEmma, 36, from Chepstow, Monmouthshire, also felt uncomfortable for the staff member making the phone call.\n\n\"It's not their fault that they're having to ring me for a scan reminder because the system hasn't flagged that I've had a miscarriage,\" she said.\n\nShe shared what happened on X, formerly known as Twitter, and quickly realised many other women from across the UK had had similar experiences.\n\nOne X user said she had received a letter from her GP practice asking her to book a six-week check-up after her baby was stillborn.\n\nAnother said when her niece was at the funeral of her stillborn baby, she received two phone calls from an NHS clinic to see how the baby was doing.\n\nOthers recalled the trauma of recovering from a miscarriage on a maternity ward.\n\n\"It didn't surprise me that a lot of people have been through that but it surprised me a lot of people were willing to share their experiences on that thread,\" said Emma.\n\nEmma, who has a four-year-old son, believes the phone call was one example of a wider issue of a \"lack of compassionate care\" for women experiencing loss in pregnancy.\n\nEight months before her miscarriage, Emma had an ectopic pregnancy, which is when a fertilised egg implants itself outside of the womb.\n\nIt is not possible for an ectopic pregnancy to be saved.\n\nEmma said while she was on the gynaecological ward at the Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran, Torfaen, following treatment, she heard a woman screaming while giving birth.\n\n\"There's no easy fix to this but it's very difficult to be going through baby loss and be around the corner from the birthing unit,\" she said.\n\nEmma has had a miscarriage and an ectopic pregnancy this year\n\n\"I understand that those two places probably have to exist in close proximity to each other, but it's really difficult to be in the same waiting room as pregnant women who are nearly full term or people bringing in new-born babies.\"\n\nAround the due date of her ectopic pregnancy, she also received a letter from a company she had been using to track her pregnancy to congratulate her on her baby's birth and offer her a free session at a photography studio - despite the fact that she had ceased using the app and deleted it.\n\nShe has since received another promotional letter from a nappies company, also congratulating her on the birth of her baby.\n\nEmma thinks this kind of experience could be particularly hard for someone facing infertility or pregnancy loss when they do not already have a child.\n\n\"I appreciate my experience is different in that I do have a child and there's some women experiencing what I'm experiencing who are yet to have a child, and I appreciate that that's uniquely painful in a way that I might not understand,\" she said.\n\nEmma said her ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage had taken a \"huge mental toll\".\n\n\"You're on edge and very sensitive so a call like that can basically ruin your day but more importantly it can be really detrimental to your mental health,\" she said.\n\n\"It's really insensitive and really difficult to deal with.\"\n\nEmma works as a policy and communications manager for the charity Samaritans Cymru.\n\nShe is currently working on a parental mental health project and feels well-versed in how to access support.\n\nBut she said if she were to receive any further correspondence that assumed she was still pregnant or had given birth, she would find that difficult to deal with.\n\n\"This is the second time I've been through baby loss this year. I think my emotions are switching to anger so personally, I will be really upset,\" she said.\n\nAneurin Bevan University Health Board, which has responsibility for Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen in south Wales, said: \"The loss of a baby during pregnancy is devastating and our thoughts are with Emma at this very difficult time.\n\n\"We sincerely apologise for the upset our call caused to Emma, and we have contacted her to follow up on her experience.\"\n\nIt added it was committed to improving the bereavement and baby loss services to avoid the situation occurring in future.", "An armed suspect opened fire in the lobby of a psychiatric hospital in New Hampshire, killing a security guard, before an officer returned fire, killing the attacker, police say.\n\nOfficials said the suspect was \"immediately engaged and shot\" dead by an officer assigned to the hospital. The police officer was not hurt.\n\nPolice have not identified the attacker or a motive.\n\nThe victim was identified as Bradley Haas, 63, a security officer who was working at the front entrance.\n\nCPR was performed on the law enforcement veteran, but he later died at Concord Hospital.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Friday evening, police spokesman Colonel Mark Hall said the suspect had entered the lobby of the hospital and shot an unnamed individual.\n\nA state trooper quickly engaged and killed the suspect. Col Hall said the situation was \"contained to the front lobby\".\n\nHe declined to identify the deceased victim, and said officers were working to \"determine the identity of the shooter\".\n\nOfficials said a suspicious box truck near the scene was searched and found to pose no risk.\n\nNew Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Lori Weaver, also speaking at the conference, said that all patients and staff at the hospital were safe and that operations at the facility were continuing as normal.\n\nOn its website, the hospital, which has about 185 beds, describes itself as the state's \"premier, acute psychiatric hospital\".", "Sean Combs and Cassie at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala in 2015\n\nRap mogul Sean \"Diddy\" Combs and R&B artist Casandra \"Cassie\" Ventura have settled a legal case one day after she accused him of rape and sex trafficking.\n\nThe pair said they reached an agreement on Friday, without disclosing details.\n\nIn a joint statement with Mr Combs, Ms Ventura said that she \"decided to resolve this matter amicably on terms that I have some level of control.\n\n\"I want to thank my family, fans and lawyers for their unwavering support.\"\n\nMr Combs wrote: \"We have decided to resolve this matter amicably. I wish Cassie and her family all the best. Love.\"\n\nMs Ventura filed the lawsuit on Thursday, in which she said she was trapped for a decade by Mr Combs, her-ex-boyfriend, in a cycle of abuse and violence.\n\nThe rapper and record executive - who also goes by the stage name Puff Daddy - denied the allegations, and accused the singer of trying to extort him.\n\nHis lawyer said the claims were \"offensive and outrageous\".\n\nConfirming the settlement, Ms Ventura's lawyer Douglas Wigdor said: \"I am very proud of Ms Ventura for having the strength to go public with her lawsuit. She ought to be commended for doing so.\"\n\nMs Ventura had alleged that the rap producer raped and beat her over 10 years starting when she was 19 and he was 37.\n\n\"After years in silence and darkness, I am finally ready to tell my story,\" she said in a statement on Thursday.\n\nThe lawsuit included multiple graphic descriptions of the violent abuse that she says began after she met the rapper in 2005.\n\nAccording to the complaint, Mr Combs signed her to his record label, Bad Boy, and \"plied the vulnerable Ms Ventura with drugs and alcohol, causing her to fall into dangerous addictions that controlled her life\".\n\nFollowing the settlement, Mr Combs' lawyer Benjamin Brafman said: \"Just so we're clear, a decision to settle a lawsuit, especially in 2023, is in no way an admission of wrongdoing.\n\n\"Mr Combs' decision to settle the lawsuit does not in any way undermine his flat-out denial of the claims. He is happy they got to a mutual settlement and wishes Ms Ventura the best.\"\n\nMr Combs' lawyer said the claims were \"offensive and outrageous\"\n\nThe lawsuit labelled the musician a \"serial domestic abuser, who would regularly beat and kick Ms Ventura, leaving black eyes, bruises, and blood\".\n\nIn a statement to BBC News in response to the lawsuit and before the settlement was announced, Mr Combs' lawyer said Ms Ventura had demanded $30m (£24m) \"under the threat of writing a damaging book about their relationship\".\n\nMr Brafman said the lawsuit was \"riddled with baseless and outrageous lies\" and the alleged demand \"was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail\".\n\nSean Combs and Cassie at a 2006 music awards in Copenhagen, Denmark\n\nIn response to Mr Brafman, Ms Ventura's lawyer - also speaking before the settlement - said Mr Combs had offered her a payment of \"eight figures to silence her and prevent the filing of this lawsuit\".\n\n\"She rejected his efforts and decided to give a voice to all woman who suffer in silence,\" the lawyer, Doug Wigdor, said.\n\nMs Ventura released several hits in the 2000s, including songs that featured Diddy.\n\nHer most famous tracks include Me & U, Long Way to Go and Official Girl, featuring Lil Wayne.", "Dale Houghton has been given a 12-week prison sentence suspended for 18 months\n\nA Sheffield Wednesday supporter who taunted rival fans by mocking the death of Bradley Lowery has been given a 12-week suspended prison sentence.\n\nDale Houghton, 32, from Rotherham, was seen laughing as he held up an image of the six-year-old at a match against Sunderland - the team Bradley supported before he died of cancer in 2017.\n\nHoughton, who admitted a public order offence, was also banned from attending any football match for five years.\n\nHoughton had previously pleaded guilty to one count of intentionally causing harassment, alarm or distress at Sheffield Magistrates' Court on 2 October.\n\nHe was charged after pictures of him brandishing Bradley's photograph during the match at Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium on 29 September were circulated on X, formerly Twitter.\n\nHoughton later described his behaviour to police as \"enjoyable banter\" and said he had \"found it funny\".\n\nBradley Lowery, who was supported by former England striker Jermaine Defoe during his illness, died of cancer in 2017\n\nAt Sheffield Magistrates' Court on Friday he was ordered to undertake 200 hours' unpaid work, as well as being given the 12-week sentence, by District Judge Marcus Waite.\n\nMr Waite said Houghton's \"reckless and foolish\" actions had \"inflicted more trauma on an already grieving family\".\n\nSuspending the sentence for 18 months, Mr Waite said: \"Your actions that day were utterly appalling, your behaviour disgraceful.\n\n\"You showed callous disrespect to a brave young man who was rightly held in the highest esteem by football fans everywhere.\"\n\nHe said while there was no element of \"long-term planning\" he believed Houghton had taken some time to search for the picture.\n\n\"I bear in mind [that] however much time you spent doing that, at no point did you think to yourself 'what the hell am I doing?',\" he told the defendant.\n\n\"The offence was targeted towards Sunderland fans and I don't think you were thinking about the family - not that that makes it any better.\"\n\nMr Waite, who accepted that Houghton showed \"genuine remorse\", also imposed a £154 victim surcharge and ordered him to pay £85 towards the cost of the prosecution.\n\nBradley, from Blackhall Colliery, County Durham, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma - a rare type of cancer - when he was 18 months old.\n\nHe went on to be Sunderland's mascot and became \"best mates\" with his hero, striker Jermain Defoe.\n\nIn a statement read out in court, his mother Gemma Lowery said Houghton's actions had \"brought on many emotions\".\n\nShe said his behaviour was \"not just disrespectful to Bradley and us all, but caused emotional turmoil to other children\" and said it had left her feeling \"very upset\".\n\nConstance Coombs, for Houghton, said her client \"fully accepts that his behaviour was outrageous and deplorable\" and that he would regret it for the rest of his life.\n\nShe said he recognised he was \"entirely in the wrong\" and \"deserves to be punished\", adding that he wished to express his \"deep remorse\" to Bradley's family and the general public.\n\nShe told the court Houghton had lost his job as a window fitter as a result of his actions and had also lost a second job at Next after his employers found out about the incident.\n\nMs Coombs said her client's relationship with his partner had also suffered and he had chosen to stay away from his family home for \"fear of reprisals\".\n\nThousands of people lined the streets of Blackhall Colliery for Bradley's funeral\n\nThe court heard Houghton had been a Sheffield Wednesday season ticket holder for 25 years.\n\nA spokesperson for the club said there was no place for such \"deplorable actions\" at Hillsborough.\n\nThey said: \"We will not in any way tolerate this kind of behaviour and our thoughts remain with Bradley's family and friends.\"\n\nSheffield Wednesday supporters have raised nearly £30,000 for the Bradley Lowery Foundation over the last few weeks, \"underlining the true community values of the club\", the spokesperson added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Somalia has been hit by extreme rainfall in recent weeks - and is considered one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change\n\nThe UK government is to spend millions of pounds helping countries prepare for future humanitarian disasters in a radical shake-up of its development policy, the BBC has learned.\n\nA new £150m fund will help poorer countries get access to money faster in emergencies and reduce the impact of future climate crises.\n\nThe change is expected to be part of a new White Paper designed to make Britain's foreign aid spending go further while also finding new sources of international finance.\n\nMinisters hope the 140-page policy document - published on Monday - can help restore Britain's reputation as a development superpower after years of aid cuts.\n\nIt is understood the paper has been endorsed by world leaders, global philanthropists and international finance chiefs.\n\nMinisters are also hoping to win cross-party support in Parliament so the seven-year plans survive beyond the next election regardless of the outcome.\n\nThe central idea of the White Paper is that conflict, climate and Covid have changed and blighted the world so much that countries must think differently about development.\n\nIt will argue that instead of wealthier states just handing out money, they should form new partnerships with developing countries - based on mutual respect - within an international system that finances new ways of tackling extreme poverty.\n\nThe government's plans will not involve spending more taxpayers' money - the UK will continue to allocate 0.5% of its national income on foreign aid each year, which in 2022 was about £12bn.\n\nBut the document will set out how to make the cash go further. The government currently plans to spend about £1bn on humanitarian aid in 2024. The new \"resilience and adaption fund\" will automatically take 15% of that money, which will be used to help countries prepare for future humanitarian and climate disasters.\n\nSo a drought-stricken country would not just get emergency food and water in the short term, but also investment in wells and reservoirs to help reduce the impact and cost of future emergencies.\n\nThere are also plans for special insurance schemes and pre-agreed contingency funds to ensure countries can get access to humanitarian cash the moment disaster strikes, instead of having to wait for donor countries to raise the money which can take some time.\n\nDeveloping countries may also automatically be able to stop paying back international debts in times of crisis.\n\nThe White Paper is expected to set out plans to unlock more private finance to help the world meet the United Nations sustainable development goals, known as SDGs.\n\nThese plans - to cut poverty, hunger and inequality and boost education, health and climate action - were agreed in 2015. But the targets are considered widely off track and unlikely to be met by their 2030 end date.\n\nThe idea is to use the balance sheets of international financial institutions, such as the World Bank and the IMF, to guarantee greater investment in development from private capital such as pension funds.\n\nThe government also plans to reduce the costs incurred by workers in richer countries when they send money to families back home in developing countries.\n\nThe global value of so-called \"remittances\" is huge, about £520bn each year, which is three times as much as all overseas development assistance given by governments.\n\nBut up to 35% of the value of \"remittances\" can be lost in currency and transaction fees, which could be reduced through sharing more technology and regulatory expertise.\n\nThe government's development and Africa minister, Andrew Mitchell, said Monday's White Paper should be seen as a restatement of the value of aid and a glimmer of hope in dark times.\n\n\"Our world is troubled and fragmented,\" he said. \"Do we give up on it? Or do we act?\n\n\"The White Paper is our plan to make the world a better and safer place with solutions that are in the UK's gift to deliver. We have the will and the way to make a difference.\"", "A Boeing 787 made an icy landing at the Troll Airfield in Queen Maud Land, Antarctic.\n\nOn board were 45 researchers and 12 tonnes of research equipment, sent to the area as part of the Norwegian Polar Institute's operations in the area.\n\nIt's the largest passenger plane to have ever landed on the continent, the Institute said.", "US entrepreneur Elon Musk has launched his Starship rocket from its launch site in Texas, for a second time.\n\nThe rocket flew for about eight minutes before SpaceX said it had lost contact, and ended its live stream.\n\nThe top part of the rocket successfully separated from the booster, which then exploded.\n\nBBC correspondent Jonathan Amos says any debris would have come down over the ocean.\n\nAt the first launch in April, the huge rocket broke apart and exploded after four minutes.\n\nRead more: Elon Musk's Starship rocket goes further and higher", "Emergency services attended the scene where two people were airlifted to hospital\n\nFour people have been injured, two badly, following a dog attack.\n\nNorth Wales Police went to an address on the Llŷn peninsula in Gwynedd on Friday morning, after reports of a dangerous dog.\n\nTwo people were airlifted to hospital with serious injuries, and another two had minor injuries.\n\nThe dog involved was destroyed, and is yet to be examined to establish the breed. A total of 37 dogs and a number of cats were seized from the address.\n\nOne person was taken by air ambulance to Royal Stoke University Hospital, while the other was taken to Aintree University Hospital, Liverpool.\n\nCouncillor Gareth Williams said the attack was in Rhydlios: \"As a community, there's a sense of shock and concern at the news.\n\n\"My biggest concern is the fact that there is a public footpath not far from the house, and also families that live in close proximity.\"\n\nHe said that \"our thoughts are with everyone concerned\" and hoped that they all make a quick recovery.\n\nPolice remained in the area on Saturday while inquiries continue.\n\nCh Supt Sian Beck said: \" We understand this was a concerning incident in the local area, and wish to reassure the community that there is no further risk to the wider public.\n\n\"We have launched a joint investigation with the RSPCA.\"\n\nThe force is appealing to anyone with any information to get in touch.", "Please ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How Biden's message to Israel has evolved\n\nUS President Joe Biden is under growing pressure to rein in Israel's military campaign against Hamas in Gaza.\n\nThe thousands of civilian casualties and desperate humanitarian conditions have alarmed Arab allies, but also stirred an extraordinary level of criticism from within his own administration.\n\n\"I'm stunned by the intensity,\" said Aaron David Miller, who worked as an adviser on Arab-Israeli relations during a 25 year tenure at the US State Department.\n\n\"I've never seen anything quite like this.\"\n\nSeveral internal memos have been sent to Secretary of State Antony Blinken through a channel, established after the Vietnam war, which allows employees to register disapproval of policy.\n\nAn open letter is also said to be circulating at the Agency for International Development (USAID). Another has been dispatched to the White House by political appointees and staff members representing dozens of government agencies. Another to members of Congress by staffers on Capitol Hill.\n\nMuch of this dissent is private, and the signatures are often anonymous out of concerns the protest might affect jobs, so the full scale of it is not clear. But according to leaks cited by multiple reports, hundreds of people have signed on to the wave of opposition.\n\nAn administration official has told the BBC that these concerns are very real and there are active discussions about them.\n\nAt a minimum, the letters are asking that President Biden demand an immediate ceasefire, and push Israel much harder to allow for more humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.\n\nIn some cases, the language is stronger, echoing the rhetoric of young political activists and apparently reflecting to some degree a generational divide that is more critical of Israel and sympathetic to Palestinians.\n\nThe letters condemn the atrocities carried out by Hamas during its surprise 7 October attack that killed around 1,200 people, mostly Israeli civilians.\n\nMore than 12,000 have been killed in Gaza by Israel since that attack, according to the latest figure from the territory's Hamas-run health ministry. Israel has said it is trying to minimise civilian casualties in the war in Gaza but has not been successful, blaming this on Hamas.\n\nThe high number of Palestinian deaths is a \"font of the dismay\" in the administration, according to Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, a former US diplomat who is now president of the Middle East Policy Council.\n\nThe administration's support for the Israeli military operation appears for many \"far too much of a one-sided position for the US government\", she said.\n\nMs Abercrombie-Winstanley signed dissent cables during her career and has been consulted by current employees about whether they should do so now. These memos feel like they have a \"broader reach\" than others, she said, drawing in people who are not necessarily working on the specific issue at hand.\n\nMs Abercrombie-Winstanley believes the chorus of dismay has contributed to significant shifts in US language and approach, since the days immediately after the Hamas attack when President Biden pledged unwavering support for Israel in an emotional address.\n\nPropelled by the destruction in Gaza and growing anger in the Arab world, the administration's rhetoric on protecting civilians has become more insistent. \"Far too many Palestinians have been killed\" in Gaza, Mr Blinken said recently.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Joe Biden has a reply for all your jokes about his age\n\nHe and other senior officials are now treating humanitarian assistance as not only a moral imperative, but a strategic one too.\n\nThis is something Mr Blinken highlights when meeting frustrated employees in listening sessions, according to State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller. He makes clear that \"it is the United States of America, not any other country, that was able to secure an agreement to get humanitarian assistance into Gaza\" and \"to get humanitarian pauses\".\n\nThe secretary of state is aware of the disquiet simmering in his building and has made a point of addressing it.\n\n\"We're listening,\" he wrote after returning from his recent trip to the Middle East, in an email obtained by the BBC. \"What you share is informing our policy and our messages.\"\n\nBut it has not changed core policy approaches, nor appeared to have had significant influence on Israel's military campaign.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Israel \"not successful\" at minimising casualties but Hamas to blame - Netanyahu\n\nThe Biden administration has become more open about airing its growing divergences with Israel. Mr Blinken has deliberately set out principles of Palestinian governance and statehood for the \"day after\" in Gaza, that Israel's right-wing government rejects.\n\nThe president is frequently on the phone to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and senior officials keep up a steady drumbeat of visits to the region, pressing Israel to follow the laws of war.\n\nBut there's no suggestion the Biden administration is considering using its main leverage, putting conditions on its massive military assistance to Israel, which was ramped up even further after the Hamas attack.\n\nAnd Biden signalled this week that the US had not given Israel a deadline for its military campaign to end.\n\nIt will end when Hamas \"no longer maintains the capacity to murder, abuse and just do horrific things\" to Israel, the president said.\n\nThe bottom line is that the US and Israel have the same goal, according to Mr Miller, the former adviser at the State Department. Both want to destroy Hamas's capacity as a military organisation so it can never mount a 7 October-style attack again.\n\nWith that aim in mind, he said, a full ceasefire that ends hostilities in pursuit of peace does not make operational or political sense.\n\nIt only delays war, Mr Miller said, \"because you're not going to get a negotiated ending to this... The tactics may differ, but the objective remains the same\".\n\nSo what exactly would force President Biden to change course?\n\nMost likely not his internal opposition. For all its ferment, the dissent in the administration is not yet a revolt. Only one State Department official has publicly resigned.\n\nMr Miller suggests it would more likely take an external event, such as the unconditional release of all the hostages held by Hamas, or a single Israeli operation that results in mass Palestinian casualties, although the bar has been set quite high.\n\nThere are also political risks for Mr Biden. His solidarity with Israel is shared by Republicans and centrist Democrats, but concerns within the younger and more left-wing elements of the Democratic Party are growing.\n\nHis former election campaign staffers have sent their own letter to the president calling for a ceasefire.\n\nGwen Schroeder, who worked on Mr Biden's digital team during the 2020 election, was one of the signatories.\n\nShe said Israel's \"disproportionate response\" in Gaza showed that Palestinian lives \"mean less than those of our Israeli allies\".\n\n\"I'm not ashamed of getting Biden elected,\" she said, but added: \"I grapple with this every day, you know, is this the administration that I fought so hard for?\"\n\nIt is too early to say how these sentiments might affect Mr Biden's bid for re-election next year, but it does underline the tightrope that he is walking.\n\nHe has been telling Israeli leaders that the way they fight this war will determine what is possible after it ends. How much he is able to influence that is important, because he will be linked with whatever the outcome.", "Protesters in Glasgow on Friday were demanding a ceasefire\n\nThe education secretary has said she is \"deeply concerned\" about children skipping lessons to attend protests calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.\n\nPupils were among hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at events around the UK on Friday, amid a row over whether they should miss class.\n\nThe number of youngsters on strike is unclear but turnout appears fairly low.\n\nDemonstrations took place in various cities, with some signs reading \"stop killing children\".\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan posted on X, previously Twitter, on Friday afternoon: \"I'm deeply concerned that some children are attending political protests during the school day.\"\n\nShe added that \"missing school for activism is unacceptable.\"\n\nProtests listed by the Stop the War coalition included events on Friday in Harrow and Redbridge in London, Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol and Burton, Staffordshire.\n\nMany children, ranging in ages from the very young through to sixth formers, attended with their parents.\n\nSchoolchildren in Bristol handed in a petition calling for a ceasefire in Gaza to Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer (centre, in green scarf)\n\nBristolian school pupils handed in a petition calling for a ceasefire to representatives at the city council on Friday morning.\n\nThe Green Party's co-leader, Carla Denyer, who is also a local councillor, collected the petition during the event and told the crowd: \"[Hamas'] atrocities do not in any way justify the level of bombardment of civilians, including many Gazan children, that has shocked the world.\"\n\nHamas gunmen launched an unprecedented assault on Israel from the Gaza Strip on 7 October, killing about 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostages.\n\nIsrael responded with air strikes on Gaza and has launched a ground offensive. More than 12,000 people have been killed, including more than 4,500 children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.\n\nA pro-Israel demonstration last month in central London called for the safe return of hostages from Gaza, with protesters in Trafalgar Square holding up photographs of those missing.\n\nAmong the pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Burton Upon Trent on Friday were Zubia and her son Yahya.\n\nThe 10-year-old said: \"I'm here because innocent people are dying. Most of them are children and we need to support them to raise awareness.\"\n\nStop the War said it was \"providing support\" to school students and parents, who it said were \"self-organising\" the strikes with help from the School Strike For Palestine organisation.\n\nVideos have shown demonstrators in Luton, while students gathered in Tower Hamlets, London, on Thursday in an event Stop the War claims attracted around 400 school children and another 100 adults.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson told the BBC: \"Children should be in school.\n\n\"While we recognise these young people should be able to peacefully express their views, we do not condone them missing out on their education.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police was unable to say how many people attended demonstrations in London on Friday.\n\nBut a spokeswoman told the BBC: \"Strikes and protests by pupils are primarily a matter for school staff, but where they take place it is likely that local officers will be sent to ensure the safety and security of those involved.\n\n\"Their priority in these situations is safety but in the event that any offences occur they will respond appropriately.\"\n\nSchool strikes are rare - but four years ago, they regularly took place around the UK and the globe to highlight concerns about global warming. Those protests, partly inspired by Greta Thunberg, have continued but often in lower numbers, after millions of children took part in one event in September 2019.", "Footage shows the Moldovan president's dog biting the hand of Austria's President Alexander Van der Bellen.\n\nPresident Maia Sandu had been walking with Mr Van der Bellen in the grounds of the presidential residence in the capital Chisinau, when he tried to pet her dog and the etiquette faux-pas occurred.\n\nThe dog, a rescue called Codrut, had been frightened by the number of people nearby, President Sandu said.\n\nPresident Van der Bellen was later seen with a bandaged hand and posted a video on X, formerly Twitter, saying that he was a dog lover.", "The chancellor is considering cutting inheritance and business taxes in next week's Autumn Statement, the BBC has been told.\n\nIt is thought Jeremy Hunt's decision will depend on the latest predictions from the UK's main economic forecaster.\n\nA Treasury source said no final decisions had been made, but Mr Hunt refused to rule it out in a BBC interview.\n\nIt comes as he announced a £4.5bn pot to boost British manufacturing.\n\nBusinesses in the automotive, aerospace, life sciences and clean energy sectors will be among firms in line to receive government funds where \"the UK is or could be world-leading\", Mr Hunt said.\n\nThe chancellor was expected to receive the latest economic forecast from the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) - a body which assesses the health of the UK's finances and is independent of the government - on Friday.\n\nWhile it is understood Mr Hunt will consider tax cuts over the weekend, as first reported by the Financial Times, a Treasury source told the BBC it is possible such policy decisions are delayed until the spring.\n\nMr Hunt has previously said tax cuts are \"virtually impossible\" and instead warned of \"frankly very difficult decisions\" in the Autumn Statement on Wednesday, which is when he will outline the government's latest tax and spending decisions.\n\nDespite playing down expectations of tax cuts, economists have estimated the chancellor could have more than £10bn to spend on such measures.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Mr Hunt refused to rule out a cut to inheritance tax, saying: \"The best way that we can reduce the tax burden for everyone is to grow the economy.\"\n\nTax levels in the UK are currently at their highest since records began 70 years ago, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank. The government's single biggest source of revenue is through taxes on people's earnings, known as income tax, but there has been no speculation of cuts to that.\n\nHowever, the BBC has been told Mr Hunt is considering cutting inheritance tax, which is a 40% tax on the value of the estate - the property, money and possessions - of someone who has died.\n\nThe tax is charged on the part of an estate that's above the threshold, but only applies to about 4% of estates and no tax is paid if the estate is valued at less than £325,000, or if anything above this threshold is left to a husband or wife, civil partner, charity, or a community amateur sports club.\n\nIf a home is part of the estate and a person's children and grandchildren stand to inherit it, then the threshold can go up to £500,000.\n\nThe tax sparks considerable debate, partly owing to the fact many people are concerned about it and find it difficult to understand.\n\nThere have also been reports that the government is considering using October's inflation figure of 4.6%, rather than September's inflation figure which is 6.7%, to uprate benefits, which would cut working-age benefits spending by about £3bn. The government usually uses September's inflation date to set the increase.\n\nThe chancellor did not deny such a move, but said the government would be \"compassionate\" and the the welfare system needed to be reformed \"because we believe that making work pay is a vital part of our economic success\".\n\nIt is not clear what business taxes the chancellor might cut, but there are expectations that a tax break which allows firms to offset 100% of the money they spend on new machinery and equipment against their profits, will be extended or possibly be made permanent.\n\nThis policy - known as \"full expensing\" - is due to expire at the end of the 2025 tax year.\n\nThe amount of cash the government deems it has available to spend - and introduce tax cuts - is subject to its own, self-imposed spending and taxation - or fiscal - rules. Whether and how the government meets its rules, depends on its policy choices.\n\nMost governments of wealthy countries follow fiscal rules in an attempt to maintain credibility with financial markets, which help to fund their plans.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he would wait to see what was in the Autumn Statement before commenting.\n\nThe chancellor's boost for manufacturers comes amid sluggish economic growth in recent times and fears the UK could lose out on investment opportunities to other countries in industries creating future jobs.\n\nMr Hunt told the BBC he had spoken to Elon Musk, the owner of the electric car firm Tesla, about investing in the UK.\n\n\"I would love to have a Tesla factory in the UK anytime. Let's be clear, that is a fantastic company,\" he said, adding that £2bn of the pot was earmarked for the automotive industry to develop zero-emission vehicles.\n\n\"I spoke to Elon Musk about this and he said it's not about the support. It's about the environment. And he loves London because there's so much tech going on and Tesla is essentially a tech company, so let's see what happens,\" he added.\n\nIn an interview with Saturday's Daily Telegraph newspaper, Mr Hunt again did not explicitly confirm whether tax cuts would be announced - but said he will use the Autumn Statement to \"show the country there is a path\" to a lower tax economy.", "China has been building up its military in recent years (file photo)\n\nAustralia has accused China's navy of using sonar pulses in an incident in international waters that resulted in Australian divers suffering injuries.\n\nThe Australian defence minister said a Chinese warship had resorted to \"unsafe and unprofessional\" actions during the encounter off Japan earlier this week.\n\nThe warship approached an Australian frigate as divers were clearing fishing nets from its propellers, he said.\n\nThe Chinese ship then emitted dangerous sonar pulses, the minister added.\n\nThis had posed \"a risk to the safety of the Australian divers, who were forced to exit the water\", Defence Minister Richard Marles said in a statement on Saturday.\n\nThe divers suffered minor injuries that were likely caused by the sonar, Mr Marles said.\n\n\"Australia expects all countries, including China, to operate their militaries in a professional and safe manner,\" he said.\n\nThe Australian long-range frigate HMAS Toowoomba had communicated its intention to conduct diving operations on normal maritime channels, and using internationally recognised signals, the statement said.\n\nThere has been no comment from the Chinese government.\n\nAccording to the Diving Medical Advisory Committee, a London-based body, high levels of underwater sound can cause \"dizziness, hearing damage or other injuries\" to divers.\n\nThe reported incident occurred on Tuesday in Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone. HMAS Toowoomba was conducting operations in support of UN sanctions enforcement, Mr Marles said, without giving details.\n\nEarlier this month Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made a breakthrough trip to China, and hailed \"significant progress\" in relations between the Pacific powers.\n\nHowever tensions remain, notably over security. Australian has expressed concern over China's growing assertiveness in the Asia-Pacific region.\n\nCanberra has recently deepened military ties with the US and overhauled its defence posture in a bid to counter potential threats from China.\n\nMr Albanese (left) - seen with Xi in the Great Hall of the People - was the first Australian leader to visit China since 2016", "Firms including Apple, Disney and IBM have paused advertising on X amid an antisemitism storm on the site.\n\nIt comes after X owner Elon Musk amplified an antisemitic trope on the platform formerly known as Twitter.\n\nThe boycott has also been picking up steam in the wake of an investigation by a US group which flagged ads appearing next to pro-Nazi posts on X.\n\nMr Musk has denied his post was antisemitic and has threatened to sue over the advertising investigation.\n\nLeft-leaning pressure group Media Matters for America said it had identified ads bought by high-profile firms next to posts including Hitler quotes, praise of Nazis and Holocaust denial.\n\nA spokesperson for X told the BBC that the company does not intentionally place brands \"next to this kind of content\" and the platform is dedicated to combatting antisemitism.\n\nMr Musk said on Saturday that X would file a \"thermonuclear lawsuit\" against Media Matters \"the split second court opens on Monday\".\n\nHe said the group's report had \"misrepresented the real user experience of X\" in order to \"undermine freedom of speech and mislead advertisers\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Musk replied to a post sharing a conspiracy theory which accused Jewish communities of pushing hatred against white people, calling it \"actual truth\".\n\nThe billionaire Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur later said his comments referred not to all Jewish people but to groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other unspecified groups.\n\nThe White House denounced Mr Musk's endorsement of the post.\n\n\"We condemn this abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate in the strongest terms,\" said spokesperson Andrew Bates.\n\nOn Thursday, IBM became the first company to pull its advertising from the site following the Media Matters investigation, saying the juxtaposition of its ads with Nazi content was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nThe European Commission, Comcast, TV network Paramount and movie studio Lionsgate have also pulled ad dollars from X.\n\nOn Friday, as controversy over the pro-Nazi posts mounted, Mr Musk announced new steps to combat what he described as \"calls for extreme violence\" against Israel.\n\nIn a post on X, he said anyone using such phrases as \"from the river to the sea\" - which the ADL considers to be a coded call for Israel's destruction - would be suspended from the platform.\n\nThe ADL, one of the most vocal critics of how X moderates incendiary content, offered rare praise for Mr Musk. Its chief executive Jonathan Greenblatt said the announcement was \"an important and welcome move\".\n\nX chief executive Linda Yaccarino posted on Friday evening that the platform had been \"extremely clear about our efforts to combat antisemitism and discrimination. There's absolutely no place for it anywhere in the world\".\n\nMr Musk hired X chief executive Linda Yaccarino to help build relationships with advertisers\n\nThe platform argues it has stronger brand safety controls than other social networks and that hate speech and extremism have fallen on the platform despite large cuts to the company's safety team.\n\nSeveral outside groups disagree with that assessment and say that such content has increased under Mr Musk's leadership.\n\nIt is unclear how much of X's revenue currently comes from ads, because it's now a private company and no longer publishes quarterly reports.\n\nBut before Mr Musk took over the firm, advertising made up about 90% of Twitter revenue.\n\nMr Musk has attempted to change its reliance on ad dollars by trying to create a paid-membership tier.\n\nIf you pay a monthly fee, you can have a blue tick by your name and your content will be boosted. Yet that still makes up a tiny fraction of revenue.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC in April, Mr Musk said \"almost all of them [advertisers] have either come back or they're going to come back\".\n\nThree months later he acknowledged in a post on X that ad revenue had fallen by 50%.\n\nHis appointment of Ms Yaccarino, a former ad executive, was widely seen as an attempt to smooth relations with advertisers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: In August X took down flashing sign after complaints\n\nBut building those kinds of relationships is difficult when the company's owner himself is the one making the controversial posts.\n\nIt is also hard to square advertisers' fears that the platform does not moderate content enough with Mr Musk's commitment to free speech.\n\nThe BBC interviewed Twitter investor Ross Gerber last month and he said advertisers were worried about Nazi content not being removed.\n\n\"I do not want my ads anywhere near Nazis and I would say that 99% of brands would agree with that,\" he said.\n\n\"To lose advertisers over Nazi voices is the dumbest policy you could imagine.\"\n\nAlthough Mr Musk is the world's richest man, he borrowed billions to buy Twitter and has to pay interest on those loans.\n\nUnless he is able to staunch the flow of ad dollars from the platform, it could become an increasing financial burden.", "Israel says it will allow two fuel trucks a day to enter the Gaza Strip, after pressure to do so from the US.\n\nA US State Department official says around 140,000 litres of fuel will be allowed in every two days.\n\nMost of that is intended for trucks delivering aid, as well as supporting the UN in providing water and sanitation, the official said.\n\nThe rest is for mobile phone and internet services, which had been cut off due to a lack of fuel.\n\nOn Friday, the company which provides Gaza's communications said that its services were returning after receiving some fuel via Unrwa, the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees.\n\nThe US official said Washington exerted considerable pressure on Israel to push this fuel agreement through.\n\nThe deal had been agreed in principle weeks ago, the official added, but was delayed by Israel for two reasons. Israeli officials told the US that fuel had not actually run out in southern Gaza, and they also wanted to wait and see if they could negotiate a hostage deal first.\n\nThe head of Unrwa warned on Thursday that the agency may have to suspend all of its activities due to the lack of fuel.\n\nIn its latest situation report, the agency said it required \"160,000 litres of fuel every day for basic humanitarian operations\" - more than double what has been agreed.\n\nEarlier, an Israeli official said the new fuel allowance would be brought in through the Rafah crossing to the civilian population in the southern Gaza Strip via the UN, provided that it does not reach Hamas.\n\nThe Israeli official said the fuel would give \"minimal\" support to water, sewage and sanitation systems, in order to prevent the outbreak of epidemics that could spread in the area.\n\nInternational organisations have repeatedly expressed grave concerns over the humanitarian situation unfolding in the Gaza Strip.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has previously warned of \"worrying trends\" in the spread of disease in Gaza, where the lack of fuel and Israeli bombardment have severely disrupted the healthcare system and sanitation facilities.\n\nOn Friday, Richard Peeperkorn, the WHO's representative in the Palestinian Territories, said that more than 70,000 cases of acute respiratory infections and over 44,000 cases of diarrhoea had been recorded, according to Reuters - figures significantly higher than expected.\n\nFuel is needed in Gaza to run the enclave's desalination plant, to provide electricity to homes and hospitals, and for sanitation, transport, and communications infrastructure.\n\nIt is also crucial for the delivery of aid around the territory.\n\nIsrael has been blocking fuel from entering Gaza, arguing that it could be stolen by Hamas and used for military purposes.\n\nBefore the latest war Israel provided the majority of Gaza's electricity, and some was produced by the enclave's sole power plant which is no longer functioning.\n\nOn Saturday in Gaza's south, the director of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said it had received the bodies of 26 people, and 23 others with serious injuries, after an air strike on a residential building in Hamad city.\n\nThe Israeli military has not yet commented on the report.\n\nMeanwhile, the Red Crescent said at least five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike on a building in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus.\n\nThe Israeli army said it was checking on the reports.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told Israel to take \"urgent\" action to \"de-escalate tensions in the West Bank, including by confronting rising levels of settler extremist violence\".\n\nThe strike happened a day after Israeli military said it killed at least seven militants in two separate confrontations in the West Bank.\n\nIsrael's latest siege and military operation began following Hamas's brutal 7 October attack, when the group - which is banned as a terrorist organisation by the UK, US and other powers - killed around 1,200 people and took more than 230 people hostage, according to Israeli authorities.\n\nAt least 12,000 people have been killed in the territory since Israel began its retaliatory strikes, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in the Palestinian enclave.", "Crash, bang, wallop! An adrenaline hit of headlines. A massive bust-up. A big surprise. And a clash in the courts.\n\nWestminster's gorged itself this week on some of its favourite pastimes: obsessing over who is slithering up or down in the game of political snakes and ladders; pondering the edges of our stretchy, unwritten constitution as the courts and government do battle; and, of course, frantically trying to predict what is next.\n\nFully paid-up political nerds, myself included, have been glued to the spectacle of the last seven days.\n\nBitter sackings, vitriolic public letters, the prime minister vowing to take on the courts, even talk of letters calling for his resignation going in. (\"You'd just look like idiots,\" one senior MP tells me he told his more excitable colleagues.)\n\nBut for the ultimate boss, the voter, all the drama might have fallen on confused, or even deaf, ears.\n\nThe signals from government have been mixed, to put it diplomatically. In all the soap opera, has the prime minister been moving to the left or to the right?\n\nGetting rid of Suella Braverman at the start of the week, gave the impression No 10 wanted to take a softer tack.\n\nBut when the Supreme Court ruled against the government's plan to send migrants to Rwanda, up popped Rishi Sunak with seemingly tough language, claiming he won't let \"foreign courts\", stand in his way.\n\nIn fact, the ruling was based on both international and UK law, so the notion the problem has been created just by meddling courts in a faraway land is misleading. Whatever your view of the plans, the court referred to British laws that say refugees must not be put at a real risk of harm.\n\nAnd the PM promised \"emergency\" new laws - political speak for plans that need to sound bold and important.\n\nYes, that's the party that sees itself as the bastion of law and order, saying when it doesn't like the long-predicted verdict of our highest court, it will just change the rules instead, with the prime minister vowing to do \"whatever it takes\" to make it happen.\n\nThat's not entirely true, because No 10 does not seem willing to follow the much more drastic steps sketched out, entirely predictably, by the departing home secretary to get planes in the sky.\n\nIt's worth saying whatever Downing Street comes up with (and watch this space), the chances of keeping the right of the Tory party happy appear vanishingly small. Members of the public would be absolutely entitled this weekend to be scratching their heads and wondering if the controversial plan the prime minister has committed to time and again, the \"stop the boats\" slogan that screeches from government lecterns, is ever really going to happen.\n\nResearch carried out by the polling group, More in Common, helps explore the real world reaction. And a flavour of voters' views from focus groups about Mrs Braverman suggests there is real division - the most common words chosen to describe her include, \"brave\" and \"outspoken\", but \"racist\" features there too.\n\nThen a former PM was brought back into the fold.\n\n\"Cameron??\" to quote one of the messages that blew up on my phone when the news broke.\n\nIt was job done for No 10 if they wanted to create headlines out of their reshuffle that would distract from the Suella show.\n\nThere were MPs on his former wing of the much-changed Conservative Party who were delighted that someone with his experience is back in town. That was reflected by voters too, with comments in focus groups such as: \"Old knowledge in a team is always good\", while another said: \"He's probably been brought back to give the party some sort of stability because at the moment it just seems to be a lot of just infighting.\"\n\nThe word voters chose more than any other to describe the now Lord Cameron was \"experienced\". Tick!\n\nBut words like \"Brexit\" and \"past\" and \"idiot\" feature pretty heavily too.\n\nHere are the words voters used:\n\nYou wouldn't be alone if you felt a bit puzzled.\n\nThat's not just because you might have to squint to imagine how the leader of the failed Remain campaign can become the architect of UK foreign policy after Brexit. As one voter said: \"I'm really angry about it if I'm honest. I think he really divided the country down to families being one side of the argument or the other.\"\n\nBut it also risks highlighting the government's dreadful polling position, as well as the experience gap between the current and former prime minister, as if the much younger Rishi Sunak has got in trouble, lost his bus fare and has had to phone his dad to come and pick him up.\n\nOne senior party figure asked: \"Who is the prime minister here? Sunak is the prefect and Cameron's the headmaster.\"\n\nThat point is picked up by some voters, one remarking: \"It kind of smacks of desperation a bit, because they've had to resort to that in order to get any kind of stability in the party.\"\n\nThere's another point of confusion. Rishi Sunak's last big swing was at the Conservative Party conference when he styled himself as the candidate of change, hammering the point by criticising what he called the 30-year consensus and the status quo.\n\nThis was no small move, but a considered big strategic decision to pitch the prime minister like this, when other tacks had failed.\n\nNow, in blunt terms, how can you convincingly be the change guy, if you are bringing back the old guy?\n\nInevitably this changing tack has been noticed by the backbenches. One senior figure says: \"We have all been trying to read the tea leaves, but not able to drink the tea\" because \"No 10 keeps changing its mind all the time.\"\n\nWhether on small boats or David Cameron sauntering back into government, all the hullabaloo in Westminster this week hasn't been on the stresses and strains most relevant to most voters' lives.\n\nJeremy Hunt has a chance to show the Tories are listening to people's concerns with the Autumn Statement\n\nResearch shared with us this week from More in Common, consistent with polling for months and months, shows that making ends meet is by miles at the top of the list - 71% of those asked put it as their highest concern.\n\nWorries about the NHS was the next priority, but some distance behind at 40%.\n\nOnly 17% named asylum seekers crossing the channel as their biggest worry, behind climate change at 23%.\n\nIt's foolish to read too much into any one snapshot, and one week of polling is, of course, just that. But as the prime minister wriggles uncomfortably over his chosen small boats priority, as the Tory party wrangles over the direction No 10 really wants to take, it is a reminder that neither of those issues are the public's most common concern.\n\nOne senior Tory MP admits: \"Most people just want to be able to pay their bills and get a doctor's appointment.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the Chancellor has a chance to help people do just that with the Autumn Statement.\n\nThe pressure is on Jeremy Hunt to act on those very real concerns. Number 10 was cock-a-hoop, at least for half an hour or so, when this week's inflation numbers showed price rises slowing down, mainly due to falling energy prices. But remember, slowing inflation doesn't remove high prices, it just means costs aren't going up so fast.\n\nAs that polling suggests, making ends meet is a challenge for millions of families.\n\nFrom the splurge of early briefings it is not clear what Jeremy Hunt will actually propose to do to help. There's also the potential political contradiction of dangling a tax cut for a tiny number of families affected by inheritance tax, while taking much more from millions in income tax.\n\nThat is not because the Chancellor has actually put income tax up, but because more and more people are getting dragged into paying higher rates. (This has one of the least attractive names in Treasury jargon, fiscal drag, but is one of the most significant and little talked about changes to how the government makes its sums add up.)\n\nIt is also, at the risk of sounding prim, worth noting how unusual it is for the Treasury to be teasing quite so much around tax cuts just before a big statement like this.\n\nOne former Treasury minister told me it's \"extraordinary\" they have been so open. Is it - as they archly note - \"just to chuck red meat to the Suella brigade\" after a bumpy week?\n\nThe overall economic picture is not pretty. Growth has stalled. The government is spending an absolute fortune paying interest on its huge debts. Taxes and government spending are both at historic levels, a nightmare for Conservative purists who, after all, hope their party stands for leaner government and lower tax.\n\nIt is a challenge to those in the Conservative Party, and, of course, the opposition, who want more resources for public services. Overall the former Treasury minister notes brutally, \"we are in a really bad spot - do I see a coherent strategy? No!\"\n\nThe overwhelming concern for the chancellor and the prime minister to respond to is to help families and firms feel consistently better off. The drama that's consumed Westminster these last seven days isn't likely to make much difference to that.\n\nJeremy Hunt has a chance to change that on Wednesday. But it's just not clear that the neighbours in No 10 and 11 can make the sums, and the politics, add up.\n\nWhat questions would you like to ask the chancellor and the shadow chancellor?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The tech world is in shock.\n\nOn Friday, Sam Altman - one of the brightest stars of the booming artificial intelligence industry, a man who for many had become the go-to spokesperson for AI - was unceremoniously dumped from the company he co-founded, a firm that introduced many people directly to the concept for the first time.\n\nYes, AI has been in our lives for ages - curating our social media feeds, recommending movies on video streaming platforms, playing a hand in calculating our insurance premiums.\n\nBut until the arrival of the AI chatbot ChatGPT, most people had never actually spoken to it before - or had it talk back.\n\nArtificial intelligence is an incredibly powerful technology. It sounds like a bad movie plot but plenty of experts seriously say it could either save the world or destroy it.\n\nThey are high stakes - and Mr Altman is one of relatively few people with that future in his hands.\n\nHis dismissal from OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT bot, was as sudden as it was dramatic. It's fair to say my phone blew up when the news broke, as the tech community and journalists scrambled to make sense of it all.\n\nIn a statement, his board of directors said they believed he had not been \"consistently candid in communications\" with them, and as a result they had \"lost confidence\" in his leadership.\n\nReading between the lines, this suggests there was something he either had or had not told them - and somehow he's been caught out. The wording is so powerful, it almost sounds personal.\n\nThere are swirling rumours but, so far, no further facts.\n\nIt's not unknown in tech firms for a toxic working culture to lead to the boss's downfall - but there has been no grumblings about that in the case of OpenAI.\n\nIn October it was set to be valued at $80bn (£64bn) - so there's no apparent cash problem.\n\nIs there a problem with the tech itself? A few days ago Mr Altman wrote about ChatGPT struggling to meet a \"surge in demand\" and having to pause sign-ups for its top-level subscription service. Is that enough to face the sack over though?\n\nJust a few weeks ago, Sam Altman attended an AI summit alongside world leaders and other tech industry leaders - but now he's been ousted by OpenAI\n\nHis co-founder Greg Brockman, who was dismissed from the board a few minutes after Mr Altman, said both men were shocked by how suddenly it had happened.\n\nThere were only six people on that board, including Mr Brockman and Mr Altman. If they were indeed blindsided, that means this decision was taken by just four. What happened to make this small group act so decisively and so quickly?\n\nMr Altman, now the former CEO of OpenAI, had addressed world leaders in discussions about the risks and benefits posed by the powerful tech he was pioneering.\n\nHe memorably said that AI was \"a tool and not a creature\" and seemed honest about his fears that it could one day become out of control.\n\nJust two weeks ago he was in the UK at the world's first AI safety summit as one of only around 100 global delegates. He gave a speech last week about the future of his company and its tech.\n\nI think it's safe to assume he genuinely had no idea what was coming.\n\nSilicon Valley's big guns have so far rallied behind Mr Altman, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who described him as a \"hero of mine\".\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said he had \"confidence\" in the firm. Well, he needs to - Microsoft has invested billions in it, and the tech which underpins ChatGPT is now embedded in Microsoft's office apps.\n\nOne character who has been uncharacteristically quiet so far is Elon Musk. He and Mr Altman set up OpenAI together, along with others, but are said to have fallen out over a decision to move it away from being non-profit. There are rumours that it is this very issue which has once again divided opinion within the firm now.\n\nMr Musk's company X, formerly Twitter, has released a new chatbot called Grok. Perhaps he's not unhappy about OpenAI being a bit distracted by a drama of its own making for a while.\n\nIn the meantime it falls to chief technology officer Mira Murati to take over as interim CEO. The tech world is a small one - she previously worked at Musk's car firm Tesla.\n\nCan she now steady this suddenly lurching ship?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Al-Shifa evacuees flee amid gunfire, with IDF tanks on the move\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has described al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City as a \"death zone\".\n\nA joint UN team led by the WHO assessed the hospital for one hour following its occupation by the Israeli military and as some patients and those seeking shelter there began to evacuate it.\n\nThe team said they saw evidence of shelling and gunfire and observed a mass grave at the hospital's entrance.\n\nThey were told it held the remains of 80 people.\n\nFollowing an evacuation which the hospital director said was ordered by the Israeli army but which the army said was requested by the director, 300 critically ill patients remain in al-Shifa - formerly the largest and most advanced hospital in Gaza.\n\nThe WHO said it was trying to arrange the urgent evacuation of remaining patients and staff to other facilities in Gaza, and repeated calls for a ceasefire.\n\nMeanwhile, the White House has responded to a report in the Washington Post which said Israel, Hamas and the US were on the verge of a deal that would see the release of women and children seized by Hamas on 7 October in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting.\n\nA White House spokesperson said no such deal had yet been reached but it was working hard to get one agreed.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has ruled out a full ceasefire with Hamas and said he will consider only a temporary truce in exchange for the return of hostages kidnapped by the group.\n\nIsraeli troops looked on as Palestinians left northern Gaza on Saturday\n\nHundreds of people, including some patients, left al-Shifa on Saturday.\n\nA journalist at al-Shifa hospital told the BBC that only \"patients who could not move and a very small number of doctors\" remained behind.\n\n\"We raised our hands and carried white flags,\" Khader, a journalist who had been at al-Shifa, told the BBC.\n\nThe IDF denied ordering the evacuation of al-Shifa and said it had agreed to a request from the hospital's director for those wanting to leave to evacuate through a \"secure route\".\n\n\"At no point did the IDF order the evacuation of patients or medical teams and in fact proposed that any request for medical evacuation will be facilitated by the IDF,\" a statement said.\n\nDr Ramez Radwan, a doctor who said he was ordered to leave al-Shifa by Israeli authorities, described the situation at the hospital as \"miserable\", saying there were no painkillers or antibiotics and some patients had \"worms coming out of the wounds\".\n\nIsrael's military has raided the hospital in recent days, as part of what it describes as a \"targeted operation against Hamas\", but is yet to provide substantial evidence that the group conducted a major operation in tunnels underneath the medical complex.\n\nThe Israeli military says its troops found weapons including Kalashnikov rifles when they raised the al-Shifa site last week\n\nSeparately, Hamas health officials said two explosions in Jabalia in northern Gaza together killed 80 people.\n\nIsrael told the BBC it could not confirm it struck a UN school-turned-shelter but was investigating.\n\nBBC Verify has geolocated footage to al-Fakhoura school in Jabalia that shows many people - including women and children - with severe injuries or lying motionless on the floor in different parts of the building.\n\nThere are more than 20 such casualties visible in the footage, and around half of these are seen in one particular room on the ground floor, which also shows signs of considerable damage.\n\nThe head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said he had seen \"horrifying images and footage of scores of people killed and injured\" in one of his agency's schools \"sheltering thousands of displaced\".\n\n\"These attacks cannot become commonplace, they must stop,\" he said.\n\nElsewhere, the Hamas-run health ministry said more than 30 people from the same family had been killed elsewhere in Jabalia, in what it also said was an Israeli strike.\n\nThe IDF had no immediate comment on the report but said it was expanding operations in Gaza, including in Jabalia, to target Hamas.\n\nIt has told Palestinians in northern Gaza to leave for their own safety and has now begun telling people in the southern city of Khan Younis, where many thousands of people who have fled northern Gaza are, that they must now also leave.\n\nIsrael says the aim is to wipe out Hamas, following its attack on Israel on 7 October in which 1,200 people were killed and more than 240 taken hostage.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says the death toll in Gaza has reached 12,300. More than 2,000 more are feared to be buried under rubble.", "Ukraine's president posted pictures of Ukrainian marines, saying they were moving forward on the left bank of the Dnipro\n\nUkrainian forces say they have secured several positions on the Russian-occupied eastern bank of the Dnipro river, and their leaders have been keen to talk up their progress.\n\nThe marines have spoken of gaining a foothold on \"several bridgeheads\" on the left bank, as they try to push the Russians back in a bid to protect civilians on the opposite side of the river from constant Russian shelling.\n\n\"Thank you for your strength, for moving forward,\" President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on social media on Friday, alongside pictures of marines arriving in small boats.\n\nThe few hundred soldiers are outnumbered and surrounded in three directions, yet have managed to dig in for the best part of a month. This isn't the thousands needed to potentially liberate swathes of territory which Kyiv so desperately wants to do.\n\nThe front line has barely moved for a year and Ukraine finds itself in a tricky cycle. It needs Western help to deliver battlefield progress, but it also needs battlefield progress to convince western helpers.\n\nGeneral Valery Zaluzhny, the head of Ukraine's armed forces, has described the situation as a stalemate and says a number of innovations are needed to break it.\n\nPresident Zelensky has dismissed his view, and believes Ukraine can still be victorious.\n\nTheir argument has fuelled political fatigue among some of Ukraine's Western allies.\n\nThe south is one area where the mood is high.\n\nA year ago, the southern Kherson region was seen as the least likely place for Ukraine to mount its counter-offensive.\n\nFor the Russians, there is no better defensive line than a huge body of water like the Dnipro river. It separates the third of the region liberated last year from the two-thirds still under occupation.\n\nUkrainian armoured vehicles have advanced 4km (2.5 miles) and Kyiv is framing these inroads as the start of something bigger.\n\n\"We are motivated by our families and we get decent financial support,\" one special forces fighter told the BBC.\n\nThe reality is there are simply not enough boots on the ground yet to justify Kyiv's hopes for a breakthrough there.\n\nIn the south-east, Ukrainian troops have thrown everything at trying to retake territory there, but have only liberated a handful of villages.\n\n\"Fatigue is the main thing, and it kills any motivation,\" explains a soldier with a mortar crew in the Zaporizhzhia region.\n\nHe's fighting with the 46th brigade in an area where Russian defences are at their strongest.\n\n\"We've killed many Russians, but lost no fewer,\" says the soldier. \"Anyone who complained was removed from their position.\"\n\nDuring the summer, this part of the front line was seen as the best place for Ukraine to try to break the land corridor Russia occupies in two.\n\nNow, Western officials think neither side can mount a land offensive \"in the near future\". As far as they're concerned, it's a stalemate.\n\nThe soldier in the 46th Brigade believes next year will be difficult, but decisive: \"It is impossible to fight forever. Hatred is soon replaced by apathy.\"\n\nA Ukrainian soldier watches over a position on the Dnipro river, where raids by Kyiv's forces have been intensifying in recent weeks\n\nIt is on the eastern axis that Russian forces have been pushing hardest, and it is the city of Avdiivka that best reflects the state of this war.\n\nIt was briefly occupied in 2014 before being liberated, and the Russians have been trying to get it back since.\n\nUkraine has recently been repelling wave after wave of attacks, partly helped by the heavy fortifications it has built over the past nine years.\n\nWestern officials say Russia is suffering 500-1,000 casualties a day there.\n\n\"Our commanders and fighters have studied every hill and every road,\" says Ivan from Ukraine's 110 Brigade. He's been serving there since March 2022.\n\nAvdiivka's strategic value is questionable, but clearly Kyiv thinks it's inflicting a significant enough number of losses compared to its own.\n\nThe mood can be described as \"fatigue, rage and desire to expel evil\", explains Ivan. \"It's tiredness from the constant threat to your life, not from the front line not moving.\n\nIvan from 110 Brigade speaks of a mood of fatigue from the constant threat from Russian forces\n\nIn the north-east, more than 250km (155 miles) to the north, the city of Kupiansk was occupied for most of last year until Ukraine's counter-offensive last autumn.\n\nAs an important railway hub, Kupiansk has strategic value and during this war both sides have used it to supply the front lines.\n\nCivilians were urged to leave in August because of constant shelling as Russia tried to take it back.\n\nDenys is at the very sharpest edge of the fighting and after months on the front line he has had enough, complaining that his commanders do not listen to advice.\n\n\"They emphasise aviation and artillery, but we need the latest technologies, like drones,\" he says.\n\nHe believes Nato, which Ukraine desperately wants to join, needs to learn lessons from this very modern war.\n\nMines are one of the biggest challenges for Ukrainian troops across the frontline.\n\n\"The Russians have machines that can mine an area of tens of kilometres per day,\" explains Denys. \"They use anti-personnel mines, anti-tank mines, they lay three mines, one under the other.\"\n\nAnother hurdle has been the quality of Russian defences, which Denys describes as \"underground cities\".\n\nFrom his position, as a rank-and-file soldier on the front line, Denys has seen a horrifying human cost on his own side of the incremental breakthroughs in recapturing territory. \"The commander throws anyone - cooks or drivers - into the furnace. They simply die there in their hundreds.\"\n\n\"Those commanders will have to be arrested and tried after the war,\" he says.\n\nThese soldiers on Ukraine's front lines reflect the war of attrition this invasion has become. With its size and resources, that suits Russia.\n\nWhat Kyiv is also having to grapple with, is sharing the spotlight with another conflict: the Israel-Hamas war.\n\nPresident Zelensky has admitted it makes Ukraine's fight all the more difficult, with the risk of Western attention and aid being diluted.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFrance scored seven goals in each half as they recorded their biggest ever win by thrashing 10-man Gibraltar 14-0 in Euro 2024 qualifying.\n\nThe hosts are already through to the Germany tournament but did not take things easy as Kylian Mbappe hit a hat-trick that included a 40-yard strike.\n\nTeenager Warren Zaire-Emery was one of seven different first-half scorers.\n\nAt 17 years, eight months and 11 days, he became France's youngest player since 1914.\n\nHe marked his debut with a goal to make it 3-0 before going off injured.\n\nEthan Santos turned Jonathan Clauss' cross into his own net after just three minutes before Marcus Thuram made it 2-0 minutes later.\n\nThen came Zaire-Emery's goal before the unfortunate Santos was shown a red card in the 18th minute.\n\nMbappe made it 4-0 from the penalty spot before further strikes from Clauss, Kingsley Coman and Youssouf Fofana made it 7-0 at the break.\n\nFrance appeared to take their foot off the pedal for a while as it took until the 63rd minute for them to add an eighth, Adrien Rabiot drilling home.\n\nBut then the goals started flowing again as Coman and Ousmane Dembele scored before Mbappe grabbed two more - including a stunning 40-yard finish after the striker spotted goalkeeper Dayle Coleing off his line.\n\nOlivier Giroud rounded off the huge win by helping himself to two goals in quick succession shortly before the final whistle.\n\nFrance finished the game with 39 shots on goal, compared to none for Gibraltar.\n• None Goal! France 14, Gibraltar 0. Olivier Giroud (France) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Théo Hernández (France) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kylian Mbappé.\n• None Goal! France 13, Gibraltar 0. Olivier Giroud (France) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Dayle Coleing (Gibraltar).\n• None Goal! France 12, Gibraltar 0. Kylian Mbappé (France) right footed shot from more than 35 yards to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Youssouf Fofana.\n• None GOAL OVERTURNED BY VAR: Olivier Giroud (France) scores but the goal is ruled out after a VAR review.\n• None Offside, France. Kylian Mbappé tries a through ball, but Olivier Giroud is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. 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Israel \"not successful\" at minimising casualties but Hamas to blame - Netanyahu\n\nIsrael's prime minister has said it is trying to minimise civilian casualties in the war in Gaza but has been \"not successful\", blaming this on Hamas.\n\nIn an interview with CBS News, Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas was firing at Palestinians trying to get safety.\n\nHamas \"don't give a hoot about the Palestinians\", he said.\n\nMore than 11,500 people have been killed in Gaza, Hamas's health ministry says, since Israel went to war after Hamas's deadly attack on 7 October.\n\nSome 1,200 people were killed and about 240 were taken back to Gaza as hostages when Hamas gunmen burst through the border and attacked Israeli communities and military bases.\n\nSeveral of the missing people have since been confirmed dead, with Hamas blaming Israeli air strikes, although the claim cannot be independently verified.\n\nMr Netanyahu told the BBC's US partner CBS that Israel would \"try to finish the job\" of wiping out Hamas in Gaza with minimal civilian casualties.\n\nHe said: \"That's what we're trying to do: minimal civilian casualties. But unfortunately, we're not successful.\"\n\nMr Netanyahu said the Israeli military dropped leaflets urging people to leave certain areas and called civilians on their mobile phones warning them to leave but claimed Hamas was preventing this \"at gun point\".\n\n\"Any civilian death is a tragedy. And we shouldn't have any because we're doing everything we can to get the civilians out of harm's way, while Hamas is doing everything to keep them in harm's way,\" he said.\n\nHe added Hamas had \"fired at the safe corridors that we provided for the Palestinians\".\n\nAddressing Israel's military raids on Al-Shifa hospital - the biggest medical facility in Gaza - Mr Netanyahu said there were \"strong indications\" that Israeli hostages were being held there and this was \"one of the reasons we entered\".\n\nHe said there were no hostages at the hospital when forces entered the hospital on Wednesday, claiming: \"If there were [hostages], they were taken out.\"\n\nIsrael said it has further intelligence about those being held, but Mr Netanyahu said \"the less I say about it, the better\".\n\nIsrael has repeatedly accused Hamas of housing a major base underneath Al-Shifa - something which Hamas and hospital authorities have always denied.\n\nMr Netanyahu did not elaborate on what information Israel had to suggest that hostages had been held at Al-Shifa.\n\nBut he said Israel had \"concrete evidence\" that there were \"terrorist chieftains and terrorists\" in the hospital who he said had fled as Israel's forces entered.\n\n\"Hamas was using the patients in that hospital as a human shield,\" he said.\n\nMr Netanyahu said Israel had warned the hospital authorities it was going to enter the facility and to move patients out of the way, adding they were \"doing this very gingerly\" because they were trying to \"do the moral thing\".\n\nIsrael's military said its soldiers had found the bodies of two hostages - 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss and 19-year-old soldier Noa Marciano - in the vicinity of the hospital.", "Villagers are \"extremely pleased\" that a missing piece of punctuation has returned to a village road sign after a year-long wait, a councillor has said.\n\nA resident protested after noticing no apostrophe on a replacement sign for St Mary's Terrace in Twyford, Hampshire.\n\nWinchester City Council found the old sign and reinstalled it more than a year later.\n\nCouncillor Susan Cook said it was \"a small thing but important to people\".\n\nThe issue was first raised with the council by Twyford resident Oliver Gray in September 2022.\n\nNews of his successful campaign has been carried by newspapers and broadcasters around the world.\n\nCouncillor Cook, who represents Twyford, said she collected the old sign from the council's maintenance department and had it remounted.\n\nShe said: \"Oliver is a former teacher and he knows his grammar. If you want to change a sign, do it right.\n\n\"If it has an apostrophe, it's supposed to have an apostrophe, then it will have an apostrophe.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, X, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wales fans after they were arrested in the Armenian capital, Yerevan\n\nMore than 30 Wales football fans have been arrested in Armenia ahead of the European Championships qualifying game.\n\nAbout 1,200 supporters are in the capital Yerevan for Saturday's match.\n\nThe Football Association of Wales (FAW) confirmed that 32 fans had been arrested, while the Foreign Office is involved.\n\nSouth Wales Police officers in Yerevan said no action had been taken against the arrested fans and they were trying to find out what happened.\n\nSupporter Lefi Gruffudd described his anger, saying it was a total shock after he was arrested with a group of friends following an enjoyable night in the city.\n\nAnother fan suggested about 25 of them were put against a wall and teased about getting six-month sentences.\n\n\"The three of us were walking back towards the hotel last night quite late and police cars came straight up to us, took us into their cars, arrested us, kept us in custody until 3.30 this afternoon [Saturday],\" Mr Gruffudd said.\n\nSome fans said Armenian police teased them about being sentenced to six months\n\n\"They treated us insultingly, no water, no cell, nothing through the night.\n\n\"No explanation why we were arrested and we have been asking questions all the time but no answers. We haven't slept at all and we're angry.\"\n\nHe said: \"It's a shock, we didn't expect this, we loved the place.\n\n\"We were very happy with the people in the bars last night, there was a very good atmosphere but this was a big shock for us all.\"\n\nLefi Gruffudd said he was enjoying his time in the city and all had been friendly until the arrest\n\nHe added: \"I found out that they claim that there was a fight between the Welsh fans but we know nothing about that obviously, and I doubt if that happened but that's the reason they give us.\"\n\nMany are believed to have been arrested on Friday, with some released by 15:00 local time (11:00 GMT) on Saturday, ahead of the 18:00 kick-off time.\n\n\"I have to be honest with you. I'm still a bit miffed as to what happened,\" said another fan, Gerallt Dafydd.\n\nHe had been for a few drinks in a bar with a group of friends.\n\nAs they waited for a taxi, he described police coming \"from absolutely nowhere\", adding: \"They were very aggressive and handcuffed us all.\n\n\"They chucked us into the back of a police car essentially and then even in the police car were quite violent in terms of striking myself in the face, in the back seats when I when I was talking, so it was a bit of a traumatic experience.\"\n\nGerallt Dafydd said he was unsure what the reason for the arrests was\n\nHe described about 25 fans being put against a wall with police \"taking photos and laughing and that was a common theme throughout\".\n\nMr Dafydd described fans getting emotional as he believed officers were teasing them saying they would get sentences of six weeks or six months.\n\nHe was adamant that fans did nothing wrong, adding: \"They basically gave us a statement in there to say 'OK, you've done nothing wrong. Sign here'.\"\n\nIn a statement, the FAW said: \"We are aware of the situation and we are in regular discussions with the travelling police and FSA Cymru (Football Supporters' Association) monitoring the situation.\n\n\"FSA Cymru are the fan embassy who have contact with the local authorities as well as South Wales Police who are here to liaise with local law enforcement.\"\n\nSupt Steve Rees of South Wales Police, who is in Armenia, said: \"We are aware of an incident during the early hours of Saturday in Yerevan which resulted in 32 Welsh fans being arrested.\n\n\"We are working with the fan embassy and local law enforcement to find out exactly what has happened.\n\n\"Welsh fans have a good reputation when travelling abroad so this is very much out of the ordinary.\n\nThe FAW said it was monitoring the situation after the fans were arrested\n\n\"A delegation of Welsh police officers will continue to be visible to the travelling fans during this away fixture, providing advice and helping to keep them safe.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said: \"We are supporting the families of a number of Welsh football fans in Armenia and are in contact with the local authorities.\"\n\nThe incident follows a warning from a female fan on Friday about a distressing taxi journey where the driver allegedly got in the back with her and asked for \"sexual favours\" instead of payment.\n\nA victory against Armenia could see Wales qualify for Euro 2024 in Germany, if Croatia lose to Latvia.\n\nHowever, victory on Saturday, and against Turkey on Tuesday, would seal the team's passage to the tournament regardless of other results.", "Video caption: People leave al-Shifa hospital and flee Gaza City with tanks on street People leave al-Shifa hospital and flee Gaza City with tanks on street\n\nConfusion over al-Shifa evacuation: The director of Gaza City's largest hospital, al-Shifa, said earlier that the Israeli military had ordered an evacuation there. Israel denied this, saying it had agreed to an evacuation request from the director himself.\n\nPeople leave hospital complex: Hundreds left al-Shifa throughout Saturday, following days of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) searching the facility for an apparent command centre that it says lies underneath. (It has shown pictures of an alleged tunnel shaft and weapons as evidence so far.)\n\nBlast reported at UN school-turned-shelter: The IDF said earlier that it was investigating unconfirmed reports of deaths at a UN-run school-turned-shelter in Jabalia, northern Gaza. Footage, which BBC Verify has analysed, shows many people - including women and children - with severe injuries or lying motionless on the floor.\n\nWounded children reach UAE: The first flight carrying around 15 injured Palestinian children and their families landed in Abu Dhabi earlier. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) says it's planning to bring 1,000 women and children from the Palestinian enclave for treatment in its hospitals over the next few days and weeks.\n\nMarch to Jerusalem: The families and supporters of the more than 200 hostages being held by Hamas marched today from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. They carried flags and placards, some bearing images of the people who've been taken. One man - the brother of a hostage - told the BBC he believed more could be done to secure their return.", "Amiram Cooper, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Tsachi Idan are being held in Gaza\n\nIsrael says 132 people remain unaccounted for after they were abducted and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attacks by Hamas.\n\nAn estimated 240 people were taken prisoner, but 105 were later released by Hamas during a six-day ceasefire at the end of November.\n\nThe Israeli military said it mistakenly killed three hostages in northern Gaza who had escaped from their captors and expressed \"deep remorse\" over the incident.\n\nOf the 132 still unaccounted for, Israel says that 20 of them are believed to be dead.\n\nThese are the stories of those hostages who are still being held, which have either been confirmed by the BBC or credibly reported.\n\nThis list is regularly updated and names may change, as some people feared kidnapped are confirmed to have been killed or released.\n\nLast updated on 19 December 2023 at 10:33 GMT\n\nYagev Kirsht, 34, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim, alongside his wife, Rimon Buchstab Kirsht. She has now been released.\n\nAlexander Trupanov, was taken hostage with his mother Lena Trupanov, 50, his partner Sapir Cohen, 29, and his grandmother Irina Tati, 73. All were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz as they spent the Sabbath together, according to a statement by Canada's Raoul Wallenburg Center for Human Rights. Irina and Lena were released on Wednesday 29 November and Sapir was freed the next day.\n\nAriel Cunio, his girlfriend Arbel Yahud and her brother Dolev are also thought to have been abducted in the same attack on Nir Oz. Eitan Cunio, Ariel's brother who escaped Hamas, told the Jewish Chronicle that his last message from Ariel said: \"We are in a horror movie.\"\n\nDavid Cunio, 33, another of Ariel's brothers, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, family say. David's wife Sharon Aloni Cunio and their three-year-old twin daughters Ema and Yuly were released on 27 November. Sharon's sister Daniele Aloni, and her six-year-old daughter Emilia were both released on 24 November.\n\nDoron Steinbrecher, 30, a veterinary nurse, was in her apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas attacked, the Times of Israel reported. At 10:30 on 7 October, the newspaper said, she sent a voice message to friends: \"They've arrived, they have me.\"\n\nItzhak Gelerenter, 53, was taken from the Supernova festival. His family said the IDF found his phone was located in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported. His daughter Pivko told the paper: \"I'm trying to think good thoughts, I have a powerful, smart, resourceful father.\"\n\nDoron Steinbrecher sent a voice message to friends during Hamas' attack\n\nNaama Levy, 19, was filmed being bundled into a jeep, her hands tied behind her back. The footage was released by Hamas and circulated widely on social media. According to her mother, the teenager had just begun her military service.\n\nYousef Zyadna, a 53-year-old Bedouin dairy farmer, was abducted from Kibbutz Holit and taken to Gaza along with his sons Hamza, 22, and Bilal, 18, and his daughter, Aisha, 16. Aisha and Bilal were released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nElad Katzir, 47, was abducted from Nir Oz with his mother Hanna. Hanna has now been released.\n\nOhad Ben Ami, 55, was kidnapped from Be'eri with his wife, Raz. She was released by Hamas on 29 November.\n\nTwin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 26, were taken from Kfar Aza. Ziv was messaging a friend as the attack happened. Their family said the IDF has told them the brothers are being held in Gaza. Their brother Liran told CBN news the pair had \"twin power\" and were the centre of attention wherever they went.\n\nIraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 85, was taken captive from Kibbutz Kissufim, where he lived and worked as a chicken coop manager. His wife, Mazal, managed to escape.\n\nMichel Nisenbaum, 59, is a dual Brazilian-Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel for 45 years and works as a computer technician, his family told Brazilian media. They also say he is diabetic and has Crohn's disease. On 7 October, they say, someone claiming to be from Hamas answered his phone when they tried to call him.\n\nDaniela Gilboa, 19, sent messages saying that Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she was staying, was under attack and asked her mother to pray for her. Her boyfriend, Roy Dadon, told the Economist 1843 magazine that he believes he saw a glimpse of her in a video showing three girls being driven away in the back of an SUV.\n\nItay Chen, 19, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF solider, was on active duty with a tank unit on 7 October, according to the Times of Israel. The paper reported that his family was notified by the IDF that he is officially considered missing in action and probably being held hostage. Another soldier in his unit, Matan Angrest, 21, is also presumed to be in Gaza.\n\nYosi Sharabi, 51, was taken from Be'eri with his brother, Eli Sharabi, 55. Eli's wife and two daughters were murdered in the attack. Ofir Engel, the boyfriend of Yosi's daughter, Yuval, was also taken, but released on 29 November.\n\nAgam Berger, 19, was kidnapped from Nahal Oz. She was seen being taken away in videos released by Hamas.\n\nEdan Alexander, 19, is an Israeli-US citizen who volunteered to join the Israeli army. He was serving near the Gaza border at the time of Hamas's attack. Edan's family said they had been told by Israeli officials that he had been taken to Gaza as a hostage.\n\nKaid Farhan Elkadi, 53, lives with his family south of Rahat and worked as a security guard, according to Israeli media. Reports said his family believes he was kidnapped and taken to Gaza, based on images shared by Hamas.\n\nIlana Gritzewsky and Matan Zanguaker were captured near the Gaza border, family say\n\nMatan Zanguaker, 24, was taken with his partner Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, from Nir Oz, according to Ilana's father. Ilana, a Mexican national, was released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nThe family of Eitan and Yair Horn believe they were taken from Nir Oz kibbutz\n\nEitan Horn, 37, and his brother Yair, 45, both Argentinian citizens, were also in Nir Oz at the time of the attack. Their father Itzik said he believes they were kidnapped. Yair is a construction worker while Eitan works in education.\n\nItai Svirsky, 38, is thought to have been abducted when his elderly parents were killed in Be'eri. He had been visiting them for the holiday of Simhat Torah.\n\nKeith Seigel, 64, and his wife Adrienne - often known as Aviva - Seigel, 62, were taken from their home in Kfar Aza, Keith's brother Lee Seigel told the BBC. Adrienne was released on 26 November.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, lived in Nahal Oz with his wife and two daughters. Omri was led away by Hamas with his hands tied, his wife Lishay told the Guardian newspaper. She told him not to be a hero, urging: \"Do whatever they want because I want you back.\"\n\nBipin Joshi, 23, a Nepalese student, is believed to have been taken from Kibbutz Alumim. Nepalese newspaper Setopati says he was one of 49 university students studying agriculture in Israel. It says 10 students were killed in the attack.\n\nIlan Weiss, 58, went missing from Kibbutz Be'eri after he was last seen leaving the house to defend the community. On 25 November, his wife Shiri Weiss, 53, and their daughter, Noga, 18, were freed from captivity in a hostage deal.\n\nAmiram Cooper, 85, and his wife Nurit, 80, were taken from their home in Nir Oz, their daughter-in-law Noa told the BBC. The family last spoke to the couple during the Hamas attack, Noa said, when the couple were in their safe room. The family later traced Amiram's phone to Gaza. On Monday 23 October, Nurit was one of two women to be released.\n\nAmiram and Nurit Cooper, pictured with their granddaughter, Gali\n\nOded Lifshitz, 83, and his wife Yocheved, 85 were taken hostage from Nir Oz. On Monday 23 October, Yocheved was one of two elderly women to be freed. After hearing the news of her mother's release, their daughter Sharone - a London-based artist - said: \"While I cannot put into words the relief that she is now safe, I will remain focused on securing the release of my father and all those - some 200 innocent people - who remain hostages in Gaza.\"\n\nHaim Peri, 79, was taken from his home in Nir Oz, reports the Times of Israel, and freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz said she saw that he was alive and well. His son Lior Peri told Talk TV that Haim had locked his wife inside the safe room before giving himself up to kidnappers.\n\nAvraham Munder, 78, was kidnapped from Nir Oz, Israeli officials say. His wife Ruthi, daughter and grandson have since been released.\n\nOmer Neutra, a 22-year-old Israeli-American and grandson of Holocaust survivors, put off plans to go to college in the US to study in Israel, and eventually joined the IDF. He was serving as a tank commander near Gaza when Hamas attacked. Omer's parents say they were told by the Israeli embassy that he had been kidnapped.\n\nRon Benjamin's vehicle was found empty following the attacks\n\nRon Benjamin, 53, had been taking part in a group cycle ride near the Gaza border when the Hamas attack began and he decided to drive home, his family told Israeli media. Days later, his vehicle was found empty and his family believe he was kidnapped.\n\nLouis Har, 70, is believed to have been taken from Nir Yitzhak. His partner Clara Marman was released on 28 November along with her sister Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela's daughter Mia Leimberg,17. Clara and Gabriela's brother Fernando Simon Marman, 60, also remains in captivity.\n\nJudith Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 73, also went missing from Nir Oz after the Hamas attack. Ten days later, the Israeli military confirmed to the family they had been taken hostage, CTV News in Canada reported.\n\nAlex Danzig, 75, a scholar and historian of the Holocaust, was at his home in Nir Oz, when it was attacked by Hamas. \"We know for sure he was kidnapped,\" his son Mati told the BBC. Alex - whose older sister Edith is a Holocaust survivor - has spent the last 30 years working for Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust remembrance centre. His disappearance has triggered a campaign for his release, both in Israel and in Poland, the country of his birth.\n\nAlex Danzig has spent decades educating people about the Holocaust\n\nItzhk Elgarat, 68, was kidnapped at the same time as Alex Danzig, his brother Danny Elgert told Israel's Kan 11 TV station, adding that he had tracked his brother's phone to the border with Gaza.\n\nGadi Moses, 79, was also abducted during the same attack on Nir Oz, according to relatives and the Israeli aid agency where he worked as an agricultural expert. Efrat Katz, his partner, was initially thought to have been captured as well, but she was later found dead, the Times of Israel reported. Efrat was the mother of Doron Asher, who was taken hostage and later released with her two daughters. Ravid Katz, 51, Doron Asher's brother, was originally thought to have been taken hostage from Nir Oz, but on 28 November his family confirmed that he had been killed on 7 October.\n\nYair Yaakov, 59, is listed among the hostages. His partner Meirav Tal, 53, was released on 28 November. Yair's children Yagil, 13, and Or, 16, were released on 27 November.\n\nYair Yaakov was pictured being held captive by a gunman in a video shared online\n\nNimrod Cohen, 19, had studied software engineering in high school, according to reports. After he was kidnapped, his father was invited to meet Pope Francis in Rome along with other hostages' families.\n\nTsachi Idan, 51, was last seen by his wife, Gali, as he was taken away by Hamas gunmen. Their family had been ambushed in their safe room in Nahal Oz. Their ordeal was live-streamed by Hamas. Their eldest child, Maayan - who had just turned 18 - was shot dead, Gali told the BBC.\n\nTsachi Idan was ambushed with his wife and children and then led away\n\nYarden Bibas, 34, was abducted from Nir Oz. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were also taken hostage, but on 29 November, Hamas claimed they had been killed in an Israeli air strike while in captivity. The Israeli government has said it is checking the claim.\n\nRonen Engel, 54, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife, Karina Engelbert, 51, and their two daughters, Mika, 18 and Yuval, 11. On 1 December, the organisation representing the families said he had been murdered. Karina, Mika and Yuval were released on 27 November.\n\nKarina Ariev, a 19-year-old soldier, was serving at an army base near Gaza when she was kidnapped. Her sister Alexandra told the BBC she heard shooting as Karina called her during the attack, and later saw a video showing Karina being taken away in a vehicle.\n\nKarina Ariev was at the Nahal Oz military base, which was among the first to be attacked\n\nOfer Kalderon, 53, was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz. On 27 November his two children, Erez, 12, and Sahar, 16, were released. Two other relatives, 80-year-old Carmela Dan and her granddaughter, Noya, 12, were also believed to have been taken, but Israeli authorities later announced they had been found dead.\n\nYoram Metzger, 80, was a resident of Nir Oz. He has diabetes and broke his hip six months ago, his daughter-in-law said. Yoram's wife Tamar was released on 28 November.\n\nNadav Popplewell, 51, and his mother Channah were taken hostage by Hamas, said Channah's daughter Ayelet Svatitzky, who was speaking to them on the phone when the gunmen burst in. She said the captors sent pictures of her two relatives, who both have diabetes, with armed men in the background. Channah has now been released.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, was abducted after his family opened the door to their secure shelter to an Israeli child, who said he would be killed otherwise. Omri's wife, Lishay Lavi, said she saw him being taken away in handcuffs with three other hostages from Nahal Oz.\n\nLiri Elbag, 18, had just started military training as an Army lookout near the Gaza border when Hamas attacked, her father Eli told the Associated Press. Eli said he saw her in a video circulated later by Hamas, crowded with others on the back of a military truck which had been seized by the gunmen.\n\nLior Rudaeff, 61, was taken from Nir Yitzhak during the attack. His family have heard nothing from him since then.\n\nA number of people are believed to have been abducted from the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Among them:\n\nShlomi Ziv, 40, was part of the security detail at the festival and was initially in contact with his sisters as the attack unfolded, according to an interview with The Times of Israel. A few weeks later the family learned he was officially considered to be a hostage, the report says.\n\nAlexander Lobanov, 32, is a Russian-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped at the festival.\n\nOri Danino, 25, is reported to have got away from the festival in his car, but it's believed he was captured after turning back in an attempt to save some people he had met there.\n\nAlmog Sarusi, 26, was kidnapped from the music festival and his partner Shahar Gindi was killed, according to Israeli media. Almog's father, Yigal, was among the relatives of hostages who met with Israel's prime minister in October.\n\nOmer Shem Tov, 21, called his parents as he was running away from gunfire and managed to get into a friend's car. His parents, Shelly and Malki Shem Tov, told Israeli media they lost contact with their son and the live location on his phone showed he was beyond the border in Gaza.\n\nIdan Shtivi, 28, an environmental sciences student, was attending the festival to take pictures at music and yoga workshops being held by friends. He escaped the site in his car but was attacked by Hamas along the route. The bodies of two of his passengers were found, and his family told the Jerusalem Post they suspect he was kidnapped.\n\nYosef Ohana, 24, had been at the festival with a friend, who told his mother he and Yosef had remained to help people escape the gunfire before running themselves. Yosef was last seen hiding under a car, and Israeli authorities have visited his mother to say he was kidnapped.\n\nAndrei Kozlov, 27, a Russian who moved to Israel in 2022, is missing from the Supernova festival, where he was working as a security guard. His mother told the De Taly publication the family was told by the IDF on October 26 that he was being held hostage.\n\nElyakim Libman, 23, was working as a security guard at the festival. In a Facebook post his father Eliyahu Libman said another guard told him his son had helped rescue others before trying to escape. He was last seen trying to help two badly-injured women.\n\nNoa Argamani, a Chinese-born Israeli citizen, was also kidnapped from the festival. Video footage - verified by her father Yaakov Argamani to Israel's Channel 12 - shows the 25-year-old being taken away on the back of a motorbike screaming, \"Don't kill me!\" Her boyfriend Avinatan Or, 30, also appears in the video being marched away from her by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nEden Yerushalmi's family say they were told she had been taken hostage\n\nEden Yerushalmi, 24, called her family during Hamas's attack on the festival, her sister May told CBS News. The family say they were subsequently informed by the IDF that Eden had been abducted.\n\nChanan Yablonka, 42, is a father-of-two from Tel Aviv. According to reports, he attended the festival with friends and was due to celebrate his birthday a few days after the attacks.\n\nJonathan Samerano, 21, has been missing since 7am on the morning of the festival. His family have been told to presume he is being held in Gaza, Israeli media reported.\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal was filmed in captivity in Gaza, his family say\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, attended the festival with his brother. Guy appears in a hostage video that his family say confirms he is in Gaza.\n\nUriel Baruch, 35, was injured during the attack on the festival, his wife said on Facebook. Reports in Israeli media say his mother, Naomi, has heard from the IDF that he is a hostage.\n\nMaxim Kharkin's mother described speaking to him on the morning of 7 October\n\nMaxim Kharkin is aged 35 and a Russian speaker, his mother told Russian media. She added that he had called her at 07:00 on the morning of the attack.\n\nElkana Bohbot was seen in a video posted by Hamas\n\nElkana Bohbot, 34, had gone to the party with friends and, before losing contact, he spoke to his wife and mother telling them he was helping to evacuate the wounded, the Times of Israel reported. Hours later, his family found a video of him posted online by Hamas, which has been seen by BBC Verify.\n\nRom Braslavski, 19, was working on security for the festival. According to an account published by Hostages and Missing Families Forum, he was trying to rescue an injured person in the attack when he was caught in a volley of fire. He has not been heard from since.\n\nOmer Wenkert, 22, a restaurant manager, sent a message to his family to say he was going to a safe shelter but then lost contact, his father Shai Wenkert told the BBC's Today Programme. Shai Wenkert said he had seen footage of his son in captivity, including a photo of him handcuffed and wearing only underwear.\n\nEvyatar David's family say they were sent a video of him in captivity\n\nEvyatar David, 23, was at the festival and on the morning of the attacks, described fleeing from gunfire before losing contact with the outside world, his brother says. Later, his family say, Evyatar's sister posted on Instagram appealing for information about his whereabouts. She then received a text from an unknown number, which contained video footage of Evyatar handcuffed on the floor of a dark room. According to Israel's foreign ministry he is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nEitan Mor, 23, lives in Jerusalem, and was working as a security guard at the festival, the Times of Israel said. He reportedly texted his uncle after Hamas arrived and was last seen with a friend bringing others to safety.\n\nAlon Ohel, 22, a Serbian citizen, took refuge in a shelter after the festival came under attack, his family say. They have seen footage of him being dragged away after a grenade attack.\n\nAlmog Meir Jan, 21, tried to flee the festival. He and a friend made it to the friend's car but only managed to drive a short distance before being forced to stop. Almog's family say they have seen a hostage video in which he appears.\n\nInbar Heiman, a student aged 21, was seen by two young Israeli men being taken away from the festival on a motorcycle. Hamas have released a video in which she is seen very briefly.\n\nHersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual US-Israeli citizen, was badly injured in the attack, his family told the BBC. Eyewitness accounts say he was seen being forced onto a white pick-up truck - the last-known signal from his phone came from just inside Gaza.\n\nSegev Kalfon, 26, was running away from the festival, across the highway, when he was captured by Hamas, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.\n\nOrión Hernández Radoux, 30, from Mexico, attended the festival with his girlfriend, Shani Louk. He has not been seen since. The Sun newspaper says it has seen threatening messages written in Arabic sent from his phone. Shani, a tourist from Germany, was initially thought to be among those seized. But on 30 October, her mother Ricarda told German media that the family had been informed by Israeli military of her death following DNA identification.\n\nRomi Lesham Gonen, 23, was on the phone to her mother as she tried to escape from the Supernova festival. Merav Leshem Gonan has recounted a conversation in which her daughter begged for help after being shot. ABC News reports that Romi's phone is now in Gaza.\n\nBar Kuperstein, 21, last spoke to his family early on the morning of 7 October, as the attack unfolded. Later the same day, his family say they identified him in a video of Israeli prisoners, posted by Hamas. Since then, they say they have had no further information.\n\nEliya Cohen, 26, was hiding with his girlfriend Ziv from the attack, when Ziv felt him being pulled up and driven away by the gunmen, Eliya's mother has told the video initiative #BringThemHomeNow. The family then found a photo of Eliya in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nAmit Buskila, 28, from Ashdod, was last heard of making a call to her uncle, Shimon, as Hamas overran the festival. Her family say they have now been told by the government that she is being held in Gaza.\n\nCarmel Gat, 39, is Jordan's sister-in-law, and also was seen by her father being taken by gunmen from Kibbutz Be'eri, Haaretz newspaper reported. She has not been heard from since.\n\nOhad Yahalomi, 49, was abducted from Nir Oz, along with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the November ceasefire.\n\nDror Or, 48, was seen by a neighbour being dragged out of his home in Be'eri, according to their nephew Emmanuel Besorai, along with his son and daughter. On Saturday 25 November Dror's son Noam, 17, and daughter Alma, 13, were released from captivity. The body of Yonat, 50 - Dror's wife and the children's mother - was identified among the 120 people murdered at the kibbutz, Yonat's brother told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nTal Shoham, 38, was taken from Kibbutz Be'eri. His wife Adi, also 38, her mother Dr Shoshan Haran, 67, were released by Hamas on 25 November, along with the couple's children Nave, eight, and Yahel, three. Dr Haran's husband, Avshalom - an economist and dual German/Israeli citizen - was killed on 7 October.\n\nTamir Adar, 38, who defended Nir Oz as part of the kibbutz's emergency squad, was taken to Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen, 35, an American-Israeli citizen, has been missing since Hamas's attack on Nir Oz, his father Jonathan told the BBC. He said his son was not found among the dead and the \"only reasonable explanation\" is that he was taken to Gaza.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen's father has not heard from him since Hamas attacked the kibbutz where he lived\n\nThailand's ambassador to Israel says 26 of its citizens were taken hostage, 23 of whom have now been released.\n\nThose still being held are believed to include Watchara Sriuan, 32. His mother, Viewwaew, told the Thaiger news site that the family had been informed he was being held captive.\n\nKiattisak \"Top\" Patee and a Mr Pongtorn (no first name given) have also been named by the Thai foreign ministry as hostages.\n\nA number of other people thought to have been held hostage are now confirmed to have died, either during the 7 October attack or while in captivity.\n\nAs well as Ron Scherman and Nik Beizer, four bodies were identified this week. They were Tal Chaimi, an Israeli-Romanian citizen aged 41, and Joshua Mollel, a 19-year-old Tanzanian student. Also, 27-year-old Eden Zecharya, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and 36-year-old Ziv Dado, who had already been declared dead by the Israeli military.\n\nOthers known to have died include Dror Kaplun, 68, Aviv Atzili, 49, Arye Zalmanovich, 85, Ronen Engel, 54, Maya Goren, 56, Guy Iluz, 26, Ofir Tzarfati, 27, Ofra Keider, 70, and Eliyahu Margalit, 75.\n\nThe bodies of 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, and 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss were found by Israeli troops in buildings close to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.\n\nOn Saturday 9 December Kibbutz Bari announced that Sahar Baruch, 25, had been killed in Gaza.\n\nOther hostages whose death has been reported, but not confirmed include Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Mission control at Starbase will likely be still coming back down to Earth after what SpaceX hailed as an exciting launch of its uncrewed spacecraft Starship.\n\nThe company hopes Starship will transform the economics of space, with the eventual goal to build a spacecraft that can take people and cargo back to the Moon later this decade - and ultimately to Mars.\n\nThat dream is still alive for owner Elon Musk.\n\nThis second test flight went further and higher than the maiden launch in April, but with some technical problems persisting, including the booster exploding and contact being lost with the upper-stage Ship eight minutes in.\n\n\"If SpaceX engineers can make Starship work as designed, it will be revolutionary,\" our science correspondent says, and engineers will use today's test to continue working towards SpaceX's \"multiplanetary\" goal.\n\nToday's coverage was brought to you by our colleagues in the Science team Jonathan Amos and Rebecca Morelle, as well as Sam Hancock and myself.\n\nWant to learn more? You can read or watch how today's launch unfolded, as well as delving deeper into everything you need to know about Starship. Thanks for joining us.", "The White House has accused Elon Musk of repeating a \"hideous lie\" about Jewish people, after the X owner appeared to respond approvingly to an antisemitic post on the platform.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Musk replied to a post sharing an antisemitic conspiracy theory, calling it \"actual truth\".\n\nMr Musk has denied that the post was antisemitic.\n\nBut a White House spokesman said his endorsement of the post, which drew anger online, was \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"We condemn this abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate in the strongest terms,\" said White House spokesperson Andrew Bates.\n\nHe noted that the post Mr Musk was responding to referred to a conspiracy theory that motivated the man who killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018.\n\n\"It is unacceptable to repeat the hideous lie behind the most fatal act of antisemitism in American history at any time, let alone one month after the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust,\" Mr Bates said, referring to the 7 October Hamas assault against Israel.\n\nX Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino wrote in an earlier tweet that the company has been \"extremely clear about our efforts to combat antisemitism and discrimination. There's no place for it anywhere in the world - it's ugly and wrong\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Musk responded with his \"truth\" comment to a post that accused Jewish communities of pushing \"hatred against whites\" and which included anti-immigrant sentiments.\n\nIt appeared to be an endorsement of a racist and antisemitic conspiracy theory known as \"white genocide,\" which argues that Jewish people systematically plot to encourage immigration of \"non-white\" people to Western countries in order to \"eliminate\" the white race.\n\nThe original post that Mr Musk responded to \"is using specific language that has been used in the past to justify violent attacks on synagogues,\" Zahed Amanullah, senior fellow at the London-based Institute of Strategic Dialogue, told the BBC.\n\nThe conspiracy theory motivated a mass murderer who entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018 and shot dead 11 worshippers.\n\nThe Tree of Life shooting was the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history\n\nMr Musk denies he is antisemitic and later said his comments referred not to all Jewish people but to groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other unspecified \"Jewish communities\".\n\nADL Chief Executive Jonathan Greenblatt posted: \"At a time when antisemitism is exploding in America and surging around the world, it is indisputably dangerous to use one's influence to validate and promote antisemitic theories.\"\n\nThe controversy over antisemitism comes as some organisations have stopped buying ads on X, formerly known as Twitter, citing extremist content on the social network.\n\nIBM stopped its ad spending after a report from a left-wing media watchdog said its content was placed next to posts praising Adolf Hitler and Nazism. Apple later said it too would halt ad buys on the platform, Axios reported.\n\nX told the BBC on Thursday that ads are not deliberately placed next to extremist content, that the Nazi-promoting accounts will not earn money from advertising and that specific posts will be labelled \"sensitive media\".\n\nSeparately, the European Commission has asked its departments to stop buying ads on X because of concerns over misinformation in relation to the Israel-Hamas war, according to a report by Politico.\n\nOn the platform on Friday, Mr Musk did not directly address his own statements but criticised Media Matters and responded in support of other posts critical of IBM and \"media\".\n\nThe billionaire has on several occasions repeated conspiracy theories and has also lashed out at social media watchdogs - including the ADL and other groups - for criticising his content moderation changes at X.\n\nX claims that it has stronger brand safety controls than other social networks and that hate speech and extremism has fallen on the platform despite large cuts to the company's safety team. Several outside groups disagree with the company's assessment and say that extremism and hate speech have increased under Mr Musk's leadership.\n\nEarlier this year Mr Musk threatened to sue the ADL, claiming it was \"trying to kill this platform by falsely accusing it & me of being anti-Semitic\". He blames pressure groups, rather than misinformation and extremist posts, for a sharp drop in advertising revenue since his takeover.\n\nWhile he has not carried through with his threat against the ADL, the company has sued another research and campaign group, the Center for Countering Digital Hate.\n\nOn Thursday, CCDH filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit under California's anti-SLAPP - \"Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation\" - law, calling the X suit \"an attempt to censor, intimidate, and silence\".", "A BBC correspondent said the blackout would make it difficult to get information about what was happening in the war\n\nMobile phone and internet services have gone down across the Gaza Strip due to a lack of fuel for back-up generators, Palestinian telecoms companies say.\n\nTelecom firms Paltel and Jawwal said all energy sources sustaining their networks were depleted, and an internet monitor confirmed a major outage.\n\nIsrael has blocked all but one delivery of fuel to Gaza since the start of its war with Hamas five weeks ago.\n\nThe UN said a blackout could jeopardise civil order and undermine aid efforts.\n\n\"We regret to announce that all telecom services in Gaza Strip have gone out of service as all energy sources sustaining the network have been depleted, and fuel was not allowed in,\" Paltel said in a statement on Thursday afternoon.\n\nAt the same time, internet observatory NetBlocks said live metrics showed Gaza was \"in the midst of a major internet outage\", with telecom services likely to be unavailable to most residents.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NetBlocks This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIsrael launched a major military campaign in the Gaza Strip to destroy Hamas, which it considers a terrorist group, in retaliation for the 7 October cross-border attack by hundreds of gunmen. At least 1,200 people were killed in Hamas's assault on Israel and about 240 others were taken hostage.\n\nSince Israel started its counterattack, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry has said 11,400 people have been killed in the territory and the United Nations has warned of a \"humanitarian disaster\".\n\nThe Israeli government has defended blocking fuel deliveries during its campaign, saying it is concerned that Hamas could steal fuel and use it for military purposes.\n\nOne tanker carrying 23,000 litres of diesel crossed from Egypt on Wednesday, but Israel restricted its use only for the refuelling of UN aid lorries.\n\nOther key services have already had to shut down because of similar issues. This includes hospitals, water pumps, desalination plants, sewage treatment facilities and bakeries.\n\nThe BBC's Rushdi Abu Alouf, who is in the southern city of Khan Younis, confirmed that all communications were down across Gaza on Thursday night.\n\nHe said it would now be extremely difficult to get any information about what was happening on the ground elsewhere, particularly in places like Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where Israeli forces were carrying out an operation for a second consecutive day.\n\nBefore the start of the blackout, a journalist trapped inside the complex had told him by phone that troops were storming all of the hospital's departments and \"shooting in all directions\". Our correspondent has been unable to re-establish contact since then.\n\nThe head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa - which runs the largest humanitarian operation in Gaza - said he feared the blackout could cause a further breakdown of civil order.\n\n\"These are signs of a situation when you have a blackout and you cannot communicate with anyone anymore... that triggers and fuels even more the anxiety and the panic,\" Philippe Lazzarini, the UN leader, told a news conference in Geneva.\n\n\"This can provoke or accelerate the last remaining civil order that we have in the Gaza Strip. And if this completely breaks down, we will have difficulties to operate in an environment where you do not have a minimum of order.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC team's access to Al-Shifa hospital was limited by the Israel Defense Forces and they were not able to speak to doctors or patients\n\nHuman Rights Watch said on Wednesday that a prolonged communications blackout could \"provide cover for atrocities and breed impunity while further undermining humanitarian efforts and putting lives at risk\".\n\nMr Lazzarini also said that he believed there was a \"deliberate attempt to strangle\" Unrwa's work in Gaza, warning that the agency might have to entirely suspend its operations if its fuel supplies ran out.\n\nUnrwa, which is hosting 813,000 displaced people in its facilities, says it needs at least 160,000 litres of fuel every day to maintain its basic operations.\n\n\"If the fuel does not come in, people will start to die because of the lack of fuel,\" Mr Lazzarini warned.\n\n\"Exactly as from when, I don't know. But it will be sooner rather than later.\"\n\nThe head of the UN World Food Programme meanwhile said that supplies of food and water were \"practically non-existent\" and that \"only a fraction of what is needed is arriving through the borders\".\n\n\"With winter fast approaching, unsafe and overcrowded shelters, and the lack of clean water, civilians are facing the immediate possibility of starvation,\" Cindy McCain warned.\n\nAn estimated 1.5 million Palestinians have been displaced by the conflict\n\nBut a spokesman for the Israeli defence ministry body overseeing policy for the Palestinian territories, Cogat, told the BBC: \"As far as I know, there is no lack of food and no lack of water in Gaza.\"\n\nCol Moshe Tetro said Israel was fulfilling its obligations to facilitate the delivery of aid and that the number of lorries crossing from Egypt was increasing every day. The UN says 1,139 aid lorries have entered since 21 October, compared to about 500 each day on average before the war.\n\nCol Tetro also stressed that Israel was doing everything it could to reduce civilian casualties, including by telling residents in the north of Gaza to flee southwards for their own safety as it focuses its air and ground assault on what it sees as Hamas's stronghold.\n\nMany of the 1.5 million displaced people have fled to Khan Younis, where the pre-war population of 300,000 has tripled.\n\nOn Thursday, there were reports that Israeli forces had dropped leaflets urging people to evacuate four towns east of the city - Bani Shuhaila, Khuzaa, Abasan and Qarara - where tens of thousands of people have been sheltering.\n\nAn Unrwa spokeswoman said the south had \"not been safe at all\", and an expansion of Israel's ground assault into the region would be bad news.", "Efforts to clear debris from the mouth of the tunnel have failed so far\n\nEfforts to rescue 40 workers trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in northern India have been expanded to include drilling down from the mountain top.\n\nA platform is being prepared to place the drilling machine at the site in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.\n\nAnother bid to reach the workers will also be made from the mouth of the tunnel. Three attempts to drill through the debris there have failed so far.\n\nPart of the tunnel under construction caved in after a landslide last Sunday.\n\nContact with the men has been established and they are being provided oxygen and food.\n\nExplaining the latest rescue attempt on Saturday, Uttarkashi's District Forest Officer DP Baluni said: \"A spot right above the tunnel has been identified and marked. A hole will be drilled from there.\"\n\nA digger has been brought to build a flat surface for the drilling machinery.\n\nThe commander leading federal rescue teams, Maj Naman Narula, said he hoped to have the platform built by Sunday. The depth of the hole is expected to be between 300 and 350 feet (90-105m), he added.\n\nNew heavy drilling equipment is being brought to the site\n\nOfficials say that if everything goes to plan, the rescue could another take four or five days.\n\nAlso on Saturday. there was an angry confrontation between rescue officials and colleagues and friends of the trapped workers.\n\nTensions ran high as officials were challenged about the lack of progress. One man cried out: \"It's been seven days and my brother is trapped in there.\"\n\nRescuers responded by saying they were spending sleepless nights to reach the workers. One official said the boys in the tunnel were like his own children: \"I go to my bunk at night and cry as well. I can't cry in front of you otherwise you will lose hope.\"\n\nThe Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi district is part of the federal government's ambitious highway project to improve links with famous pilgrimage spots in Uttarakhand.\n\nThe mountainous state, where several Himalayan peaks and glaciers are located, is home to some of the holiest sites for Hindus.\n\nA nearby landslide caused heavy debris to fall on the tunnel, leading to the collapse of a section about 200m from the entrance.\n\nA water pipeline set up for construction work is now being used to supply oxygen, food and water to those still inside.", "Sam Altman has been ousted as the head of artificial intelligence firm OpenAI by the company's board, which said it had lost confidence in his ability to lead the company.\n\nThe board said Mr Altman had not been \"consistently candid with his communications\", hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.\n\nThe 38-year-old helped launch OpenAI, which is behind the ChatGPT bot.\n\nMr Altman had become one of the most high-profile figures in the industry.\n\nIn a statement the board said it was grateful for Mr Altman's contributions but that members believed new leadership was necessary.\n\n\"The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI,\" the company said, citing \"a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities\".\n\nIt is not clear what he is alleged to not have been candid about.\n\nOn social media, Mr Altman wrote that he had loved his time at the company.\n\n\"It was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. Most of all I loved working with such talented people,\" he wrote.\n\nAccording to OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, it all took place over hastily-organised Google Meet video conference calls.\n\nMr Brockman - who was himself dismissed from the board a few minutes later and then resigned from the company - said both men were \"shocked and saddened\" by the news.\n\nHe said they were \"still trying to figure out exactly what happened\" but claimed in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the whole drama unfolded in a matter of hours.\n\nThey sat on the company's relatively small board of just six executives. It is unusual for such a tight team to take such a dramatic decision so quickly, which begs the question: was it personal?\n\nOpenAI is widely seen to be a company at its peak, with lucrative investment pouring in, and ChatGPT - which was launched almost exactly one year ago - is used by millions.\n\nMr Altman has been the face of the firm's rise. More than that, he is seen by many as the face of the industry more widely.\n\nHe testified before a US Congress hearing to discuss the opportunities and risks created by the new technology, and also at the world's first AI Safety Summit, held in the UK at the beginning of November.\n\nThe outpouring of support from Silicon Valley bosses shows that he enjoyed the support of the tech industry.\n\nOn social media, former Google boss Eric Schmidt called Mr Altman \"a hero of mine\" and said that he had \"changed our collective world forever\".\n\n\"I can't wait to see what he does next. I, and billions of people, will benefit from his future work- it's going to be simply incredible,\" he wrote.\n\nThere will be a lot of interest in whatever that next move is - and many will be waiting to see if Mr Altman is angry enough to talk about being dumped by the company he helped create.\n\nHe has promised he will have \"more to say about what's next later\".\n\nBut it doesn't appear he's poised to lift the lid on his departure just yet, even writing on X to advise OpenAI's remaining board members to \"go after me for the full value of my shares\" if he gets into a public row with them.\n\nMr Brockman announced he had quit his role at the company following Mr Altman's ousting.\n\nIn a statement posted X, Mr Brockman said: \"I'm super proud of what we've all built together since starting in my apartment eight years ago.\n\n\"We've been through tough and great times together, accomplishing so much despite all the reasons it should have been impossible. But based on today's news, I quit.\"\n\nHe said he would continue to \"believe in the mission of creating safe AGI that benefits all of humanity\".\n\nOpenAI started in 2015 as a non-profit. It restructured in 2019 and is now backed by Microsoft, which has invested billions.\n\nJust weeks ago, OpenAI was reportedly in talks to sell shares in the company to investors at a price that would value it at more than $80bn (£64bn).\n\nThe company said its board members -who include an OpenAI chief scientist, the head of popular question and answer app Quora, and an AI researcher affiliated with Georgetown University - did not have shares in the firm and that their fundamental governance responsibility was to \"advance OpenAI's mission and preserve the principles of its Charter\".\n\nThe company said chief technology officer, Mira Murati, would take over as interim chief, effective immediately, while the board searches for a permanent replacement.\n\nChatGPT is known for its ability to respond to prompts from users with human-like text.\n\nHundreds of millions of people have tried it out, and many are now regularly using it to help them do their jobs and study - to consternation in some cases, like teachers facing essays written by the bot and people worried for their jobs.\n\nThe company has also faced legal action from writers who say the bot developed its abilities by harvesting their work, in violation of copyright law.\n\nBillionaire Elon Musk, who with Mr Altman was one of the founding co-chairs of OpenAI, has also criticised it for straying from its non-profit roots.", "Academics say there are a range of reasons for the fall in first-cousin marriage\n\nThe number of people in Bradford's Pakistani community who have married a cousin has fallen sharply in the past 10 years, a study suggests. Higher educational attainment, new family dynamics and changes in immigration rules are thought to be possible reasons.\n\nJuwayriya Ahmed married her cousin in 1988. The 52-year-old teacher says her children once asked her how she and their father met.\n\n\"I was laughing at them. I said I didn't really meet him. My parents took me to Pakistan and my dad said you're going to marry this person. And I sort of knew who he was, but the first time I met him properly was at the wedding,\" she says.\n\n\"My kids said that was disgusting. And then they told me, 'Don't you dare make us do anything like this.'\"\n\nTen years ago researchers studying the health of more than 30,000 people in Bradford found that about 60% of babies in the Pakistani community had parents who were first or second cousins, but a new follow-up study of mothers in three inner-city wards finds the figure has dropped to 46%.\n\nThe original research also demonstrated that cousin marriage roughly doubled the risk of birth defects, though they remained rare, affecting 6% of children born to cousins.\n\n\"In just under a decade we've had a significant shift from cousin marriage being, in a sense, a majority activity to now being just about a minority activity,\" said Dr John Wright, chief investigator of the Born in Bradford research project.\n\n\"The effect will be fewer children with congenital anomalies.\"\n\nAbout 25% of Bradford's population is Pakistani in origin, according to the 2021 census\n\nCousin marriage is widespread in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, where many Bradford families originate.\n\nSometimes a young person in Bradford is married to a cousin in Pakistan, who then comes to live in the UK. But members of the community say there have been inter-generational tensions over this tradition, with some young people firmly rejecting the idea of arranged marriage - and cousin marriage in particular.\n\n\"Our generation really fought for it,\" says one young woman.\n\n\"Ten years ago my mum was adamant we would all have cousin marriages but now she doesn't focus on that. I think families realised they couldn't control it. They knew that being in Britain, and being exposed to so many different viewpoints, it is going to change.\"\n\nThe Born in Bradford study originally recruited 12,453 pregnant women without regard to ethnicity between 2007 and 2010, whose children all joined the project when they were born. Their health has been tracked ever since.\n\nAnother 2,378 mothers from three inner-city wards were then recruited for a follow-up study between 2016 and 2019. The new research compares them with the 2,317 participants from the same wards in the original cohort.\n\nIn both cases, mothers of Pakistani heritage made up between 60% and 65% of the total, and while 62% of these women in the original group were married to a first or second cousin, the figure fell to 46% in the later group.\n\nThe fall was even steeper in the fast-growing sub-group of mothers who were born in the UK - from 60% to 36%.\n\nFor those educated beyond A-level, the proportion who married a cousin was already lower than average in the first study, at 46%, and has now fallen to 38%.\n\nAlthough the women included in the latest study are all from less affluent inner-city wards, the researchers say they are still representative of Pakistani-heritage mothers in Bradford as a whole.\n\nProfessor of health research, Neil Small, who has been involved with Born in Bradford from the start, says a number of possible explanations for the rapid fall in cousin marriage are now being explored in consultation with the community:\n\nOne person affected by new immigration rules was Bradford-born Ayesha, who married her first cousin in Pakistan eight years ago and gave birth to their first child the following year.\n\nHer husband was unable to move to the UK until the baby was two. Meanwhile Ayesha had to work long hours as a home care worker to reach a salary threshold introduced in 2012 for anyone wanting to bring a spouse from outside Europe to live in the country.\n\nShe thinks cousin marriage is a valuable tradition though, and regrets that it appears to be in decline.\n\n\"I don't think my children will marry cousins. They will lose that connection with Pakistan and I feel sad about that,\" she says.\n\nIn fact, two of Ayesha's younger sisters, both in their 20s, have rejected the idea of cousin marriage. One, Salina, recently married a man of her own choice, with her parents' consent.\n\n\"I'm outgoing and I want to work and do things with my life. Someone from Pakistan wouldn't accept this at all,\" she says. \"They would never let me live like this. We wouldn't agree on how to raise kids and how to teach them values.\"\n\nThe other sister, Malika, is also planning one day to choose her own husband.\n\n\"Before, even if you had an education, you wouldn't be expected to carry on with it, you would have been thinking of marriage,\" she says. \"Now that's changed and the mindset is so different.\"\n\nShe adds that young people today have more opportunities to meet potential partners than their parents ever did, and that social media has helped provide \"contact with people outside our parents' eyes\".\n\nThe Born in Bradford team has made efforts to explain to the community how congenital anomalies come about.\n\nThey occur when both parents carry a particular defective gene, which may happen when the parents are unrelated, but is more likely when they are cousins. Anomalies can affect the heart, the nervous system, limbs, the skin or other parts of the body. They are sometimes untreatable and can be fatal.\n\nDr Aamra Darr, a medical sociologist with the University of Bradford's Faculty of Health Studies, says cousin marriage is a risk factor, but not a cause of congenital anomalies.\n\nShe points out that the 2013 Born in Bradford study showed that the risk of married cousins having a baby with a congenital anomaly was similar to that of a white British woman aged 35 or over having a baby with an anomaly, including Down's Syndrome.\n\nHowever, she says health workers have sometimes told parents of a sick child in the Pakistani community: \"It's because you married your cousin.\"\n\n\"It's culture blaming,\" she says. \"You're talking about the politics of race and health - the minority being judged by the majority population.\"\n\nListen to Born in Bradford on BBC Sounds\n\nShe says that cousin marriage was once common among the white British population too, citing the case of Charles Darwin, who married his first cousin Emma Wedgwood.\n\nAccording to Prof Small, about one billion of the world's eight billion people live in societies where cousin marriage is commonplace.\n\nHowever, it is now rare in the UK.\n\nIn the Born in Bradford study of 4,384 white British respondents, only two people were first cousins of their partner, and three were more distantly related.\n\nIf a group of teenagers interviewed for BBC Radio 4's Born in Bradford programme is anything to go by, the next generation in the city may be even less open to marrying a cousin.\n\nOne 18-year-old said they didn't see it as a \"very normal thing\" and were \"grossed out by it\". \"I don't think I'd be willing to marry a cousin from back home,\" they added.\n\nOne female school pupil, aged 18, says that circumstances have changed. \"It's easier to meet new people nowadays. Say you were from a village in Pakistan, it was easier to meet someone there. But now in Bradford you can meet so many different people, and you can still marry your people, but not someone you're related to.\"\n\nA male pupil, aged 17, says more people are now aware of the increased risk of congenital anomalies and it makes them less likely to want to marry a relative.\n\n\"It's more of a person's preference,\" he says - adding that he thinks cousin marriage cases have gone down as there is \"no longer a cultural reason\" for them, such as conserving land ownership within a family.\n\nA 17-year-old female pupil says different things are accepted in different cultures. \"However, we don't see cousin marriages happening that often in the UK anymore.\n\n\"I think I'd let [my parents] find me someone - but not a cousin,\" she says.\n\n\"[They] know me and they know my type, so they would find me someone nice!\"\n\nUpdate 19 December: Names of school pupils quoted in this article have been anonymised for the safeguarding of those individuals, but all quotes remain unchanged.\n\nListen to Born in Bradford on BBC Sounds\n\nSue Mitchell is on X, formerly Twitter", "Casey McIntyre wrote: \"if you're reading this I have passed away\"\n\nA New York City woman who died of ovarian cancer has raised enough money to pay off millions of dollars in other people's medical debts.\n\nIn a social media post she arranged to be posted after her death, Casey McIntyre, 38, asked followers to consider donating to her cause.\n\nShe said she planned to pay off other people's medical debt as a way of celebrating her life.\n\nShe wrote on social media: \"if you're reading this I have passed away.\"\n\n\"I loved each and every one of you with my whole heart and I promise you, I knew how deeply I was loved... to celebrate my life, I've arranged to buy up others' medical debt and then destroy the debt.\"\n\nShe added that she was lucky to have access to high-quality medical care while battling stage four ovarian cancer and wanted others to have the same.\n\nAs of Saturday, McIntyre and her family had raised over $170,000 (£136,000) for her campaign with non-profit RIP Medical Debt. The organisation pays off a dollar of medical debt for every penny that is donated, meaning McIntyre's campaign has helped erase up to $17m in unpaid medical bills.\n\nThe organisation says it buys medical debt \"in bundled portfolios, millions of dollars at a time at a fraction of the original cost\".\n\n\"On average, whatever you donate has 100x the impact,\" it says on its website.\n\nAs many as 100 million Americans struggle with medical debt, according to estimates from health research non-profit KFF.\n\nIn the social media post announcing her own death, McIntyre's family included a note that they would have a memorial service and \"debt jubilee\" in New York City's Prospect Park in December, where they would celebrate her life by anonymously purchasing and forgiving other's medical debt.\n\nMcIntyre, a book publisher, started treatment for ovarian cancer in 2019 and passed away on Sunday. She is survived by her husband and 18-month-old daughter.\n\nAccording to her post, she spent the last five months of her life in hospice care with friends and family in Virginia, Rhode Island and New York, moments she called \"magical\".\n\nIn a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, her husband Andrew Rose Gregory said: \"Casey. We love you, we miss you, you are gone, you are with us, we will be looking for you everywhere <3\".", "David Tennant returned as Doctor Who for a special Children in Need clip\n\nDavid Tennant has returned as Doctor Who for a Children in Need sketch.\n\nThe clip saw Tennant once again as the Time Lord accidentally crashing his Tardis at the \"genesis of the Daleks\" - the long-standing enemy of the Doctor.\n\nScottish actor Tennant, who first stepped into the Tardis as the 10th Doctor in 2005, is starring as the 14th Doctor for three anniversary specials later this year.\n\nChildren in Need aired on BBC One on Friday and this year raised £33.5m.\n\nTennant revived his role as Doctor at the conclusion of the show's BBC centenary special last year, bringing an end to Jodie Whittaker's reign as the time-travelling hero.\n\nDuring a new short clip played midway through the televised appeal on Friday, actor Mawaan Rizwan is seen brainstorming a name for the newly-created Dalek before Tennant crashes into and breaks it with his Tardis.\n\nTennant said: \"Hello, just passing by because I got a bit lost - it's funny, 60 minutes ago I was this really brilliant woman and now I've got this old face back again. I mean, why?\n\n\"Oh, I'm sorry, I am so, so sorry, I think I broke this multi-clawed adaptable ... oh, that's a Dalek.\"\n\nRizwan responds: \"Good word, Dalek. Yes, that's it.\"\n\n\"I'm lucky, I wasn't exterminated\" Tennant said. \"Wait, do you mean this is the genesis of the Daleks?\"\n\nAfter breaking the Dalek, the Doctor hands a plunger from his Tardis which marks the \"origins of the iconic Dalek arm\", the Doctor Who official Twitter page said.\n\nThe final total raised was more than £33m, the presenters announced\n\nThe clip was created by Russell T Davies, who relaunched the TV series in 2005 following a 16-year hiatus.\n\nTennant is reuniting with Catherine Tate for a trio of 60th anniversary Doctor Who specials this year, before Ncuti Gatwa takes over the role as the 15th Doctor.\n\nMuch like James Bond, the Doctor Who role is passed on from actor to actor, thus continuing the franchise. At the end of an actor's tenure as the Doctor, the character \"regenerates\" with somebody else then taking on the extra-terrestrial role.\n\nThis year's televised Children in Need appeal opened with a message from Catherine, Princess of Wales.\n\nThe princess said nurturing every child was \"vital\" when describing why projects supported by Children in Need \"are so important.\"\n\n\"They help the very youngest, most vulnerable members of our society feel safe, secure and loved in these important, formative years, so that they can enjoy their childhoods now, and grow to reach their potential and thrive in the world in later life,\" she said.\n\nThe princess kicked off this year's Children in Need TV appeal\n\nThe live show also featured an appearance from BBC Radio 2 presenter Vernon Kay, who this week completed an 116-mile ultra-marathon.\n\nHe was left speechless after it was announced he had raised more than £5m for the charity.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Vernon fought back tears as he crossed the finish line in Bolton\n\nThere has also been a performance from Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock and a visit to Graham Norton's notorious Big Red Chair.\n\nThe programme was hosted by Ade Adepitan, Mel Giedroyc, Jason Manford, Chris Ramsey, Alex Scott and Lenny Rush - who at the age of 14 became the first-ever child presenter of the live show.\n\nChildren in Need, which helps improve the lives of disadvantaged children and young people around the UK, has raised more than £1bn for charities and projects since its first major appeal in 1980.", "Timbaland has produced hits for Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado, Missy Elliott and Aaliyah\n\nProducer and rapper Timbaland has apologised after being criticised for suggesting Justin Timberlake should \"put a muzzle\" on Britney Spears.\n\nIn her recent memoir, Spears revealed details about her relationship with Timberlake between 1999 and 2002.\n\nEarlier this week, Timbaland said: \"I wanted to call and say, 'JT you've got to put a muzzle on that girl, man'.\"\n\nHowever, after significant social media backlash, he said: \"I apologise to the Britney fans and her.\"\n\nTimbaland made the original comments in front of an audience during an interview at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.\n\nOne attendee asked Timbaland about the renewed interest in Timberlake's 2002 hit Cry Me A River, a song Timbaland co-wrote and produced, and which was inspired by the former 'NSync star's break-up from Spears.\n\nIn her autobiography, titled the Woman In Me, Spears said she had an abortion while in the relationship with Timberlake.\n\nSpears also wrote that she and Timberlake had cheated on each other, and that Cry Me A River and its video - which features a Britney look-a-like going off with another man - made her out to be a \"harlot who'd broken the heart of America's golden boy\".\n\nTimbaland has worked with Timberlake several times including producing the singer's hit Cry Me A River\n\nAt the event in October, Timbaland replied to the question by saying: \"She's going crazy, right?\" before making the comment about muzzling Spears.\n\nFans strongly criticised him on social media. One said: \"Imagine in 2023 saying a woman should have a muzzle put on her for speaking her truth, especially after 13 years of abuse and silence.\"\n\nSpears was subject to a conservatorship, a legal arrangement that controlled many aspects of her life, until 2021.\n\nOther fans suggested Timbaland's comments were partly influenced by reports that Spears had refused to work with him in the mid-2000s.\n\nTimbaland is one of the most prolific producers in R&B and hip-hop, and has worked with Nelly Furtado, Missy Elliott, Aaliyah, Jay-Z, Tweet and Lil Kim as well as Timberlake.\n\nHe also scored chart hits as an artist in his own right with songs including The Way I Are, Give It To Me, Apologize and Morning After Dark.\n• None Britney Spears says in memoir she had abortion", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester United's faltering season suffered another significant blow as Marcus Rashford's red card contributed to a dramatic, qualification-damaging Champions League defeat by FC Copenhagen.\n\nIn a wild and wonderful contest in the Danish capital, United showed guile and grit for periods and twice looked to have claimed a crucial win before succumbing late on to a goal from 17-year-old substitute Roony Bardghji.\n\nThey were cruising midway through the first half thanks to Rasmus Hojlund's double against his hometown club - both close-range finishes from a striker knowing exactly where he needed to be and when.\n\nBut the game turned in the 42nd minute when referee Donatas Rumsas was called to the pitchside monitor to review a late tackle by Rashford on the ankle of Elias Jelert, and responded by showing the forward a straight red card.\n\nWith 13 minutes added, largely as a result of an injury to United defender Jonny Evans and a medical emergency in the crowd, the home side took advantage through Mohamed Elyounoussi's finish and Diogo Goncalves' penalty - awarded for a handball by Harry Maguire.\n\nUnited defied their numerical disadvantage to hold the home side at bay, before again claiming the lead through Bruno Fernandes' penalty - awarded via VAR for a handball by Lukas Lerager.\n\nBut the home side were not to be denied. Lerager made amends and drew them level with a back-post effort, before Bardghji hammered home after United failed to clear.\n\nWhile United are down, they are not yet out, although they do sit bottom of Group A and face a trip to Galatasaray - where they have never won - before hosting the already-qualified Bayern Munich.\n• None VAR 'out of control' in Man Utd's Copenhagen defeat\n\nManchester United seem determined to put themselves and their supporters through an emotional wringer this season.\n\nYou would forgive most for believing their worst start to a campaign in six decades, culminating with back-to-back 3-0 home losses to Manchester City and Newcastle, would be the nadir.\n\nThat seemed to be the case when Hojlund gave them the 2-0 lead their purposeful and precise display merited. At that stage, the Red Devils were eyeing a second successive win, following Saturday's snatched victory at Fulham, and a much-strengthened shot at making the last 16 of Europe's elite club competition.\n\nLittle did we know of the drama to come.\n\nRashford sparked it when his misplanted foot - clumsy at best - found the ankle of Jelert and gave the officials a decision to make, which they did to United's detriment. It sparked an implosion when this still-fragile team could least afford one.\n\nUnited's composure gave way to chaos, with Copenhagen drawing strength from a raucous and re-energised Parken Stadium to draw level. United were wobbling, the whistle for half-time timely.\n\nRestructured and refocused by manager Erik ten Hag, the visitors were excellent for 25 minutes. Their resilience at the back was complemented by hints of counter-attacking intent that kept Copenhagen cautious, even with the extra man. It was at the end of this that they won the penalty, from which Fernandes restored their lead.\n\nWhen the dust settles, it will be this period and the matching one in the first half Ten Hag will likely draw on to show his battered and bruised side are indeed making progress, albeit slowly.\n\nUltimately though, with such little wiggle room following their early-season travails, results are key for United now, and again one eluded them here.\n\nThe instinct to retreat to their own box was understandable in the circumstances, but the defending when they got there for Copenhagen's leveller and winning goal left a lot to be desired.\n\nIn contrast to United's 1-0 win at Old Trafford two weeks ago, it was the Danes dancing deliriously after a late show of strength.\n\nThey are now second in the group, leaving United with it all to do to keep their Champions League hopes alive.\n• None Attempt saved. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Alejandro Garnacho.\n• None Goal! FC Copenhagen 4, Manchester United 3. Roony Bardghji (FC Copenhagen) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Viktor Claesson (FC Copenhagen) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.\n• None Goal! FC Copenhagen 3, Manchester United 3. Lukas Lerager (FC Copenhagen) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Rasmus Falk with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Lukas Lerager (FC Copenhagen) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kevin Diks following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The aftermath of a strike on Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp earlier this week\n\nOne of the first things to understand about the reportage, analysis and commentary that has poured out since the Hamas attacks of 7 October is that no-one has the full story. Not only is it, as ever, hard to penetrate the fog of war to work out what is happening on the battlefield. The new shape of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has not yet emerged.\n\nEvents are still moving fast. Fears that the war could spread are very real. New realities in the Middle East are out there somewhere, but their shape and the way that they will work depend on the way this war goes for the rest of the year, and probably beyond.\n\nHere are a few things that we know, and a few that we do not. The list is not exhaustive. Some people mocked Donald Rumsfeld, US defence secretary at the time of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, when he talked of \"unknown unknowns\". But in this part of the world as much as any other, they exist - and when they emerge, they can make a big difference.\n\nOne certainty is that Israelis support the military campaign to break the power in Gaza of Hamas and its junior partner, Islamic Jihad. Their anger is driven by the shock of the Hamas attacks, the killing of more than 1,400 people and the fact that around 240 hostages are still being held in Gaza.\n\nThe Hamas attack on Israel killed 1,400 people, many of them residents of kibbutzes near Gaza\n\nI met Noam Tibon, a retired general in the Israeli army, to hear about how he drove down with his wife to Nahal Oz, a kibbutz on the border with Gaza, after Hamas attacked on 7 October. His mission, which was successful, was to rescue his son, his daughter in law and their two young daughters who were in their safe room, hearing Hamas gunmen roaming around outside.\n\nTibon may be retired but he is a very fit-looking 62-year-old. He ended up armed with an assault rifle and a helmet he had taken from a dead Israeli soldier, leading a group of soldiers he had assembled in the chaos of that day, clearing the kibbutz and saving the lives of his family and many others.\n\nThe general was an old-school, straight-talking Israeli officer.\n\n\"Gaza is going to suffer… no nation will agree that your neighbour will slaughter babies, women or people. Just like you (Britons) crushed your enemy during World War Two. This is what we need to do in Gaza. No mercy.\"\n\nWhat, I asked, about innocent Palestinian civilians who are getting killed?\n\n\"Unfortunately, it's happening. We live in a tough neighbourhood, and we need to survive… we have to be tough. We have no choice.\"\n\nA lot of Israelis are echoing his sentiment that Palestinian civilian deaths are unfortunate, but they are being killed because of the actions of Hamas.\n\nIt is also clear that Israel's assault on Hamas is causing terrible bloodshed. The latest figure for Palestinian deaths from Gaza's health ministry, run by Hamas, has exceeded 9,000 - of whom around 65% are children and women.\n\nIt is not clear how many of the men who have been killed were civilians or fighting for Hamas or Islamic Jihad. US President Joe Biden and the Israelis do not trust the ministry figures. But in past conflicts, Palestinian casualty statistics have been considered accurate by international organisations.\n\nOne grim milestone is fast approaching. The United Nations (UN) says around 9,700 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since the full-scale Russian invasion 21 months ago.\n\nSome of the Palestinian dead would have been part of Hamas. But even if that proportion is as high as 10%, which is unlikely, it means that Israel is on course to have killed as many Palestinian civilians in just over a month as Russia has killed in Ukraine since February 2022. (The UN says its data for Ukraine is incomplete and the true number of civilians killed is likely higher, while in Gaza the number of dead is also likely to be higher as many Palestinians are believed to be buried under rubble).\n\nThe UN has suggested Israeli strikes on Gaza could constitute war crimes\n\nThe UN human rights office has said that so many civilians have been killed and wounded in Israeli air strikes that it has serious concerns that the attacks are disproportionate and could be war crimes.\n\nFrom the first days after the Hamas attacks, President Biden has supported Israel's decision to use military force to remove Hamas from power. But he has also added the qualification that it needed to be done \"the right way\". He meant that Israel should observe the laws of war that protect civilians.\n\nThe US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Tel Aviv. Before he took off, he said: \"When I see a Palestinian child - a boy, a girl - pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building, that hits me in the gut as much as seeing a child from Israel or anywhere else.\"\n\nI have reported on all of Israel's wars in the last 30 years. I do not remember a US administration stating so publicly that Israel needs to observe the laws of war. Blinken's visit suggests that he believes Israel is not following Biden's advice.\n\nSomething else we know for certain is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under great pressure.\n\nUnlike Israel's security and military chiefs, he has not accepted any personal responsibility for the catastrophic series of failures that left Israeli border communities virtually undefended on 7 October.\n\nLast Sunday, 29 October, he caused uproar when he sent out a tweet blaming the intelligence agencies. Mr Netanyahu deleted the message and apologised.\n\nThe Israeli PM has taken the blame from some quarters for the events of 7 October\n\nThree Israelis, a former peace negotiator, the ex-head of the Shin Bet (Israel's internal intelligence agency) and a tech entrepreneur, wrote an article in the journal Foreign Affairs saying that Mr Netanyahu should not have any part of the war and whatever follows. The Israeli PM has loyal supporters, but he has lost the confidence of prominent figures in Israel's military and security establishment.\n\nNoam Tibon, the retired general who fought his way into kibbutz Nahal Oz to rescue his family, compares Mr Netanyahu to Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister who was forced to resign in 1940, and replaced by Winston Churchill.\n\nTibon told me: \"This is the biggest failure in the history of the state of Israel. It was a military failure. It was an intelligence failure. And it was the failure of the government… the one really in charge - and all the blame is on him - is the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu… He is in charge of the biggest failure in the history of Israel.\"\n\nIt is also clear that the old status quo has been smashed. It was unpleasant and dangerous, but it seemed to have a certain grimly-familiar stability. Since the end of the last Palestinian uprising around 2005 a pattern has emerged that Mr Netanyahu believed could be sustained indefinitely. That was a dangerous illusion, for all concerned - Palestinians as well as Israelis.\n\nThe argument went that the Palestinians were no longer a threat to Israel. Instead, they were a problem to be managed. The tools available include sticks, carrots and the ancient tactic of \"divide and rule\".\n\nMr Netanyahu, who has been prime minister for most of the time since 2009 - after an earlier spell between 1996 and 1999 - has argued consistently that Israel does not have a partner for peace.\n\nPotentially, it did. The Palestinian Authority (PA), which is the main rival to Hamas, is a deeply flawed organisation, and many who support it believe its aged President Mahmoud Abbas needs to step aside. But it accepted the idea of establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel back in the 1990s.\n\nMr Netanyahu has tried to drive a wedge between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas (pictured right, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken)\n\n\"Divide and rule\" for Mr Netanyahu meant allowing Hamas to build its power in Gaza at the expense of the PA.\n\nWhile Israel's longest-serving prime minister is always careful about what he says in public, his actions over many years show that he does not want to allow the Palestinians to have an independent state. That would involve giving up land in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which the Israeli right wing believes belongs to the Jews.\n\nFrom time to time, Mr Netanyahu's pronouncements would leak. In 2019, a number of Israeli sources say that he told a group of his Likud members of parliament that if they opposed a Palestinian state they should support schemes to pump money - mostly provided by Qatar - into Gaza. He told them that deepening the division between Hamas in Gaza and the PA in the West Bank would make it impossible to establish a state.\n\nIt is also clear that Israel, backed by the Americans, will not tolerate a deal that allows Hamas to stay in power. That guarantees a lot more bloodshed. It also raises big questions about what or who replaces them, which so far have not been answered.\n\nThe conflict between Arabs and Jews for control of the land between the river Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea has lasted for more than 100 years. One lesson of its long and bloody history is that there will never be a military solution.\n\nIn the 1990s, the Oslo peace process was established to try to end the conflict by establishing a Palestinian state with a capital in East Jerusalem alongside Israel. The last attempt to revive it, after years of on-off negotiations, happened during the Obama administration. It failed a decade ago, and since then the conflict has been allowed to fester.\n\nMore than 20 Israeli soldiers have been killed since Israel began a ground operation in Gaza\n\nAs President Biden and many others have said, the only possible chance for avoiding more wars is to establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel. That will not be possible with the current leaders on either side. Extremists, both Israeli and Palestinian, would do all they could to scupper the idea, as they have done since the 1990s. Some of them believe they are following the will of God, which makes it impossible to persuade them to accept a secular compromise.\n\nBut if this war does not deliver enough of a shock to break deeply-held prejudices and to make the idea of two states viable, nothing will. And without a mutually-acceptable way of ending the conflict, more generations of Palestinians and Israelis will be sentenced to more wars.", "Micheál Martin said the investment represented ways to connect people\n\nIrish government spending in Northern Ireland is not being used as a Trojan horse to win support for a united Ireland, the tánaiste (deputy prime minister) has said.\n\nMicheál Martin said the Shared Island fund is focused on improving the economy across the island and does not have any wider political motive.\n\nThe Dublin government has committed to spending €1bn (£868m) by 2030 on initiatives with cross-border benefits.\n\nAmong the most significant investments is a promise of tens of millions of euro to help improve facilities and boost student numbers at Ulster University's campus in Londonderry.\n\n\"It's not a Trojan horse; many of these projects were committed to by both (the Irish and British) governments 10, 15, 25 years ago,\" Mr Martin told BBC News NI.\n\n\"The Ulster Canal - we said we would complete that. The Narrow Water Bridge was committed to,\" he continued.\n\n\"It's back to doing sensible, practical things to connect people.\"\n\nWhile much of the focus has been on those larger-scale projects, significant amounts of funding have been given out as smaller grants.\n\nCash is being used, for example, to organise trips for men's shed groups between Northern Ireland and the Republic.\n\nSheds is the name given for community workshops where groups of men can get together to share interests and make friendships.\n\nBrian Carr said the mental health benefits of men's shed projects meant they were money well spent\n\n\"We know men do not really talk or communicate but when they come into a men's shed setting they all just let go,\" said Brian Carr, the coordinator of the Donegal Local Development Company's Donegal Men's Shed network.\n\nBrian helped to organise a recent visit by men from the north of the border to his shed on the outskirts of Donegal town.\n\n\"They all have something in common, should it be Armagh or Down or Donegal or anywhere else in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIt's also improving and building relationships which many think is at the centre of the Irish government's thinking.\n\nEamonn Murphy believes the Irish government spending is because \"they see the lie of the land\"\n\nEamonn Murphy is a former republican prisoner and a member of the Barcroft Community Garden shed in Newry.\n\nHe was on the trip to Donegal and believes, despite what the tánaiste says, that Dublin is looking at the longer term and a need to have stronger ties should the Irish border ever be removed.\n\n\"I think the Irish government is being forced to reach out because they see the lie of the land,\" added Eamonn.\n\n\"They actually see what is coming.\"\n\nRaymond Flynn told BBC News NI his men's shed includes people of different traditions\n\nBut do members of other sheds on this visit share the view that a united Ireland is Dublin's aim for spending this cash?\n\n\"It could well be, but to say that with some members of our shed who may be of the Protestant faith, that's certainly not something I would be saying,\" insisted Raymond Flynn of the Derramore Men's Shed in Newry.\n\nThe funding reflects that what connects people across the island is not always related to constitutional issues.\n\nAn LGBT group in Londonderry was also recently awarded cash - the Rainbow Project said that was a recognition that what is important to people is not limited to orange and green.\n\n\"Queer rights are always hard fought here on this island - but they're fought across the entire island,\" said Eimear Willis, a health and wellbeing officer with the group.\n\nEimear Willis said rights issues mattered across the island\n\n\"In 2015 equal marriage was an all-Ireland fight,\" she explained. \"We were crossing the border and knocking on doors.\n\n\"And whenever the bill was coming in about a conscience clause. people were coming over the border to support us in our fight.\"\n\nThe key question about cash though is how much the Irish government is prepared to spend to improve cross-border connections.\n\nThe draft report of an All-Island Strategic Rail Review set out an ambitious £30bn (£26bn) plan to improve train links.\n\nSteve Bradley said a railway plan for the north-west of Ireland would be transformational\n\nIt suggested that Northern Ireland would pay a quarter of the cost if Belfast and Dublin agreed to go ahead with the proposals.\n\nWithout an executive the report can't even be formally published but some have also questioned whether any of it would be affordable given Stormont's financial problems.\n\n\"One frustration I would have with the Shared Island Fund is, so far, it's tended to be relatively small projects,\" said Steve Bradley who is part of the railway lobby group Into the West.\n\n\"I can't see anything else that would be as transformational on this island as closing the gap in the rail map in the north-west corner.\"", "A cruise passenger has filmed huge waves which buffeted the Spirit of Discovery ship in the Bay of Biscay.\n\nAlan Grisedale said the swell knocked his wife over and moved furniture in their cabin.\n\nAbout 100 people were injured when the boat veered dramatically during a safety manoeuvre on Saturday.\n\nMost of the injuries were described as minor by cruise company Saga, but five people were taken to hospital when the ship docked in Portsmouth on Monday.", "A pro-Palestinian march due to take place on Armistice Day would only be banned as a \"last resort\", the Metropolitan Police Commissioner said.\n\nSir Mark Rowley vowed officers would do all they could to protect remembrance activities and Jewish communities.\n\nWhile he said police could not ban static protests under UK law, they can request the power to stop a march if a threat of serious disorder emerges.\n\nBut he said the \"very high\" threshold had not yet been reached.\n\nSir Mark added that use of the power was \"incredibly rare\" and there must be no other way for police to manage the event.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak will meet the Met chief later on Wednesday. Mr Sunak said he would be asking for information on how the police can ensure the public are kept safe over remembrance weekend.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on Tuesday, Sir Mark said: \"At the moment, the organisers are still putting the final stages to their plans - which, to be fair to them, are some way away from the ceremonial footprint in Whitehall.\n\n\"They're putting the final touches to those, we're looking alongside that at what conditions we might need to do to reinforce the protection of critical events and of Jewish communities and the like.\n\n\"If over the next few days the intelligence evolves further and we get to such a high threshold - and it's only been done once in a decade where we need to say to the home secretary 'we think we need to ban the march element' - then of course we will do.\"\n\n\"But that's a last resort that we haven't reached yet. People should be very reassured that we are going to keep this all away from the remembrance and Armistice events.\"\n\nHe added: \"There will be a protest this weekend - the law provides no mechanism to ban a gathering, a static protest, a rally, anything like that... if the organisers want that, then it will happen.\"\n\nOn Monday, the force publicly urged organisers to postpone the event, which is due to take place in central London, saying it would not be \"appropriate\".\n\nBoth Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman have criticised the timing of the march on 11 November, which thousands are expected to attend.\n\nA Remembrance event is due to take place at the Royal Albert Hall the same day, as well as a national two minute's silence.\n\nBut organisers have refused to postpone despite public pressure from police and politicians, pointing out the planned route does not go past the Cenotaph war memorial and the march is due to start after the two minute's silence.\n\nConservative MP Tobias Ellwood, the former defence minister, told BBC Radio 4 Today's programme on Wednesday it would be \"highly inappropriate\" for demonstrations to overshadow a weekend of reflection.\n\n\"It will put a strain on public order policing, but more importantly, with thousands due to show up, can the organisers guarantee it will be peaceful? They cannot vouch for everyone \" he said.\n\nHe appealed to organisers to \"think again\" and hold the rally on another day, adding: \"I'm not saying ban it, I'm simply saying postpone and respect the weekend we have for Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day.\"\n\nChris Nineham from the Stop the War Coalition said he felt vindicated by Sir Mark's comments that there was no public order case for banning the demonstration.\n\n\"We do everything we can as stewards to make sure there is nothing antisemitic or calling for violence in our demonstrations for us this isn't about religion, it isn't about race,\" he told Today.\n\nWhile there have been arrests on previous protests - including for serious offences - the Met chief told the BBC he would not class the scale as \"major disorder\".\n\nBut Sir Mark said he was concerned about the escalating risk of disorder caused by splinter groups breaking off from the main demonstration, saying the threat posed by them would be monitored this week.\n\nHe said the force was \"never afraid to use the law to its full effect\" but suggested banning the march at a late stage could create problems for police.\n\nHe continued: \"If you've got tens of thousands of people coming from across the country, and they know their absolute right to protest means the gathering itself can't be banned, the chaos that comes into this because of last-minute changes in plans and those issues can make it more difficult.\"\n\nHe said if the Met \"comes to the view that our existing tactics and control measures\" aren't sufficient, then the force \"will go to the Home Secretary, but not before that point\".\n\nSuella Braverman has been highly critical of the large pro-Palestinian protests which have taken place in London in the last month.\n\nSir Mark declined to criticise her for dubbing them \"hate marches\", but added: \"I wouldn't use one phrase to characterise 100,000 people\".\n\nVeterans Minister Johnny Mercer said he fully recognised \"the tensions at play\" but urged people to come to London for remembrance events.\n\n\"I know that elderly veterans will be coming to London and measures will all be in place to make sure that people can go about remembrance in the way they want to unmolested by any of the other events taking place this weekend,\" Mr Mercer said.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Jon Boutcher will seek to move the PSNI on quickly from what has been a damaging three months for policing.\n\nThe job of rebuilding morale internally is already under way.\n\nFixing the harm done to public confidence is the second part of the challenge.\n\nThe PSNI's financial situation probably overshadows all else.\n\nIt is £50m short of what it needs to balance the books for 2023-24 and mid-term the prognosis looks grim.\n\nUnless money is found, the force will continue to shrink in size.", "Amy Reid said she cared more about socialism than the constitutional question\n\nSinn Féin's electoral growth on both sides of the border has been fuelled by appealing to younger voters who care about more than a united Ireland.\n\nPolicies about housing, welfare and human rights have been at the centre of how the party has sold itself.\n\nBut the issue of the constitutional divide on the island continues to be used as a rallying cry.\n\nYoung republicans still wave and wear the colours of the Irish tricolour, a practice evident at a recent appearance by the Irish language hip-hop group Kneecap in Belfast.\n\nThe band has embraced controversy and attracted a lot of attention with its use of images associated with the Troubles.\n\nCartoon imagery of petrol bombs, balaclavas and barbed wire feature on the band's merchandise, which is selling well at an event to unveil a mural.\n\nBut many of their fans insist they want to talk about poverty not paramilitaries.\n\n\"Obviously I care about traditional green and orange issues, but what I care about more is getting our kids fed, getting our people educated, getting our NHS up and running,\" said Amy Reid, who has a masters degree in peace studies.\n\n\"I care more about socialist issues than I care about the border to be brutally honest.\"\n\nKneecap also prefer to talk about present problems rather than past conflicts.\n\nThey say their music highlights current concerns for people on both sides of Belfast's peace walls.\n\n\"What's important is anti-austerity and what's important is the working class,\" said Móglaí Bap, a member of the hip-hop trio.\n\n\"Both sides of the community are suffering because of the Tory government.\n\n\"We can talk about images all day long but when we go to either side of the community that's all they care about - is old people, young people, disabled people and that's all that's important to us.\"\n\nKneecap have used imagery from the Troubles as part of their publicity\n\nThe images on Kneecap's T-shirts and head-scarves are undoubtedly tongue-in-cheek and their young fans treat them with a strange kind of nostalgia.\n\nBut they do refer to years of violence in which thousands of people were killed.\n\nAnd as Móglaí Bap stood up to unveil Kneecap's latest mural, a man in the crowd shouted a pro-IRA slogan.\n\nMóglaí Bap was quick to point out in response: \"I didn't start that BBC.\"\n\nHowever, some in the crowd were prepared to defend the cry of 'Ooh, ahh, up the Ra'.\n\nKneecap unveiled a mural which read England get out of Ireland\n\n\"The difference between the old IRA and the new IRA - is a large gap,\" argued Izzy Ó Tighearnán, who was visiting Belfast from Galway to see Kneecap.\n\nIzzy Ó Tighearnán was visiting Belfast from Galway to see Kneecap\n\n\"We still have to remember that the group that we are shouting about aren't the people who are active at the moment. They're not the terrorist group that we support.\"\n\nDuring the Troubles, support for violence was seen as the issue that divided republicans and nationalists.\n\nSinn Féin had an historical link with the Provisional IRA while the SDLP said all conflict was wrong.\n\n\"The IRA were responsible for the most deaths of Catholic civilians here - more than anybody else,\" said Karl Duncan.\n\n\"I would say that's definitely not a movement that I would want to glorify.\"\n\nKarl Duncan said most nationalists did not support the IRA\n\nAt the age of 21, Karl was recently appointed chairperson of the SDLP's Foyle constituency branch. His mother is from a republican background in Londonderry, while his father grew up within a unionist family in Bangor.\n\n\"There is a bit of revisionism, for example, with the IRA in that a lot of people, especially my generation, seem to think they were some popular movement,\" Karl said.\n\n\"The IRA were never endorsed by the majority of nationalists in this place.\"\n\nThat dividing line between nationalism and republicanism has become more blurred, however, as a result of the success of the peace process.\n\n\"I would be very happy to identify myself as a nationalist but I wouldn't be as comfortable to say that I'm a republican but I'm not sure why,\" said Sophie McCormick, who BBC News NI met at the Kneecap event.\n\n\"I don't know if it's the connotations that come from saying you are a republican in relation to the Troubles.\n\n\"I actually can't put my finger on why it is.\"\n\nThe polls would suggest that it is a concern that is shrinking.\n\nMany of Sinn Féin's younger voters simply do not remember the Troubles.\n\nIn a time of relative peace, inequality has become their focus, even if Northern Ireland continues to struggle with political instability and its past.", "In 2020, demonstrators gathered outside Lloyd's of London to protest against institutions that profited from the slave trade\n\nCity firm Lloyd's of London has said it is \"deeply sorry\" for its links to the slave trade.\n\nAn independent report found the 335-year-old insurance market had played a \"significant role\" in enabling the transatlantic trade.\n\nLloyd's said it was committed to tackling inequality and will invest £40m in helping impacted communities.\n\nBut campaign groups accused Lloyds of \"reparations washing\" and said it needed to do more.\n\nAfter protests swept across the world in 2020 following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in police custody in the US, pressure mounted on companies to address links to slavery and tackle racial inequality.\n\nAt the time, Lloyd's apologised for its historical links to the slave trade and commissioned the independent report.\n\nIt said it had no editorial control over the review, which was conducted by academics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and independently funded by the Mellon Foundation.\n\nAlexandre White, one of professors behind the study, examined material from the Lloyd's archive, including ledgers for insurance for ships leaving Liverpool as part of the slave trade.\n\nHe said it made clear that Lloyd's formed part of \"a sophisticated network of financial interests and activities\" which made the transatlantic slave trade possible.\n\nBut he said the material offered very little about the people who were \"captured and enslaved under the practices facilitated by the Lloyd's market\".\n\n\"While the activities of insurers in the city of London may seem far removed from the plantations, ships and the violent spaces of imprisonment along the coast of Africa, the financial architectures developed at Lloyd's helped maintain the institution of slavery,\" he explained in a video posted online.\n\nThe transatlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history. Between 1500 and 1800, around 12-15 million people were taken by force from Africa to be used as enslaved labour in the Caribbean, North, Central and South America.\n\nIt is estimated that over two million Africans died on the journey to the Americas.\n\n\"The insurance of ships, cargo and captured enslaved persons facilitated the growth of the transatlantic slave trade,\" said Mr White, concluding that customers of to Lloyd's, as well as members of its governing body, had \"significant connections to the transatlantic slave trade\".\n\nLloyd's of London, which was founded in 1688, is often lauded as the world's leading insurance market, focusing on specialist areas such as marine, energy and political risk.\n\nResponding to the review, chairman Bruce Carnegie-Brown said: \"We're deeply sorry for this period of our history and the enormous suffering caused to individuals and communities both then and today\".\n\n\"We're resolved to take action by addressing the inequalities still seen and experienced by black and ethnically diverse individuals.\"\n\nThe firm has promised a \"comprehensive programme of initiatives\" to help people from diverse ethnic backgrounds \"participate and progress from the classroom to the boardroom\".\n\nIt also said it would spend around £12m on boosting BAME recruitment and career progression in the commercial insurance market.\n\nBut Kehinde Andrews, Professor of Black Studies at the University of Birmingham, described the move as a \"PR exercise\" and \"frankly offensive\".\n\n\"If they were serious they would be proposing a transfer of wealth to the descendants of the enslaved (i.e. reparations), not a diversity scheme for so called 'ethnically diverse' people, which any corporation should be doing,\" he told the BBC in an email.\n\nThe Runnymede Trust, a race equality think tank, welcomed Lloyd's work to acknowledge past mistakes.\n\nBut it questioned the insurance market's commitment to diversity, highlighting Lloyd's ethnicity pay gap - which measures the difference between ethnic groups' average earnings.\n\n\"This gap needs to be addressed not just through more 'inclusion and diversity' but through active anti-racist policies that address inequalities in income and pay now,\" said Dr Shabna Begum, its interim co-chief executive.", "Could first lockdown have been avoided?\n\nThat was a fascinating exchange about the timing of that first national lockdown, announced on 23 March 2020. The previous week - on 16 March - the prime minister had gone on television asking the public to avoid non-essential contact and stay at home for 14 days if they had Covid symptoms. Mark Sedwill - the top civil servant at the time - said over the next few days there was anecdotal evidence that those voluntary measures were not effective enough. \"What we were hearing from focus groups was that, if the government had [really] wanted to close pubs, it would have closed pubs,\" he said. On 19 March the government did go further - and took the extraordinary step of ordering the close of all pubs, clubs and restaurants alongside the launch of what became the furlough scheme. It still wasn't seen as effective enough and the following Monday - 23 March - a full national lockdown was announced with a mandatory stay-at-home order. Sedwill was asked if the government could have waited a few weeks to see if the voluntary measures would have been effective. He said it was \"hard to see how government could have done anything else\" to bring the outbreak under control by that stage, and denied that locking down was an overreaction.", "Fans of the caramel bar Caramac have been left \"devastated\" after Nestlé confirmed it is discontinuing the sweet.\n\nNestlé said it was \"a difficult decision\" but pointed to slower sales in recent years.\n\nCaramac was launched more than 60 years ago, quickly gaining popularity thanks to its distinctive red and yellow wrapper and caramel flavour.\n\nIt comes as rival brands have launched similar \"blonde\" chocolate products.\n\nCadbury's, for example, launched its Caramilk range in 2021 and has since made various different spin-offs like Caramilk Buttons, while supermarkets Asda and B&M have launched caramel-flavoured chocolate bars this year.\n\nNews of Caramac being axed first surfaced on social media on Tuesday, sparking an outcry from fans.\n\nOn X, formerly known as Twitter, one said the news had \"ruined my day\" while another quipped: \"Rest in peace Caramac.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, others said they had never liked the bar, with one adding: \"Didn't realise they were still around, not seen one for years.\"\n\nIn a statement, Nestlé said: \"We know fans will be disappointed to see it go, but this change will enable us to focus on our best-performing brands, as well as develop exciting new innovations to delight consumers' taste buds.\"\n\nA post by a bakery in Scotland that uses Caramac in its pastries posted on Facebook and X, formerly known as Twitter, calling it a \"sad day\" and described how the business would be stocking up on the bars.\n\nThe post read: \"It's been cancelled so I bought as many boxes as I could! They should last a while (I hope) but once they are gone, there will be no more Caramac eclairs!\"\n\nThe post received almost 3,000 comments with followers expressing their shock. One fan posted about launching a petition in an attempt to convince consumer giant Nestle to reinstate the bars.\n\nCaramac was originally created by Mackintosh's and since it launched over 60 years ago in 1959, it has been a mainstay of confectionery shelves across the UK.\n\nThe name is a combination of '\"caramel\" and \"Mackintosh\" and was determined through a competition held by the management team at Mackintosh's for their workers at a factory in Norwich.\n\nSince its launch, the bar has been produced in the UK. In 1996, production moved to the North East of England, with a factory in Newcastle continuing to make the bars until now.\n\nCaramac won fans over with a unique flavour and texture due to the fact it does not contain any cocoa.\n\nBut with other Nestlé chocolate bars taking centre stage, Caramac has not been performing as well in a competitive confectionery market, despite customers' nostalgia and its iconic red-and-yellow wrapping.", "The Israeli military advance into Gaza City has triggered a fresh exodus of civilians, heeding Israeli warnings to leave their homes and head south.\n\nThe Israeli military said it opened an evacuation route south on Tuesday.\n\nFor several hours, hundreds of people were on the move, some on carts pulled by donkeys but most on foot.", "Jewish student Jacob Lederman spoke to BBC Newsnight about an incident of antisemitism on a group chat at university\n\nJewish students are \"deeply anxious\" following an unprecedented rise in antisemitism at UK universities, BBC News has been told.\n\nThe Union of Jewish Students president, Edward Isaacs, said the current spike was like nothing the group had seen.\n\nThe Community Security Trust recorded 67 antisemitic incidents from 7 October to 3 November at 29 campuses, compared with 12 in the same period last year.\n\nIt comes as experts also warn of rising reports of islamophobic incidents.\n\nTell Mama, which monitors islamophobic incidents, says 31 incidents were recorded at UK universities in the same period, compared to three in October last year.\n\nHamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel one month ago, killing 1,400 people and taking 240 hostages.\n\nSince then, more than 10,000 people have been killed in Gaza according to the Hamas-run health ministry, including more than 4,100 children.\n\nGroups that monitor hate crimes in the UK say the conflict is now being played out on university campuses across the UK.\n\nJacob Lederman, a student at the University of Warwick, said he had been racially abused on a university Jewish society WhatsApp group. The incident \"made me feel sick\", he added.\n\nFreshers' week was under way at the university and its Jewish society had set up a WhatsApp group for new Jewish students.\n\nThe group was advertised on the society's website with an invite link, and on 12 October four new people requested access to the chat.\n\nThey started off asking standard questions for a new student, such as where they could find kosher meat in the area. One of the four infiltrators then sent a message saying: \"Everyone agree with what's going on in Israel right?\"\n\nMr Lederman says that is when the abuse started. Several messages were then posted in the chat using offensive language and mentioning the Jewish religion.\n\n\"There were Jews who maybe had been at the university for two weeks and they were on a Jewish Society group and then suddenly they get attacked by this bile,\" Mr Lederman said.\n\nThe 19-year-old said the incident had taken its toll on him and the wider community on campus.\n\n\"It made me feel sick because I think Jews in the UK, we're used to a kind of undercurrent of antisemitism on social media. I see it all the time. I've never seen it this overt before.\"\n\nThe incident was reported to West Midlands Police on 15 October and the force said investigations were ongoing.\n\nSahar Mulji said there is a \"general feeling of anxiety\" among Muslim students\n\nThere are more Muslim living in England and Wales than Jewish people. Nearly 3.9m Muslims make up 6.5% of the total population, while 257,000 Jews account for 0.46%.\n\nSahar Mulji, who is a Muslim university student, says Muslim students are also feeling ostracised on campuses. She said she knows people who have had \"things thrown at them as they're walking through the street\".\n\n\"They're feeling scared, there's a general feeling of anxiety and fear,\" she said.\n\nUK police forces do not routinely publish data on the number of antisemitic or islamophobic incidents, but London's Metropolitan Police was one force that did.\n\nThe Met Police has published data on hate crime dating back to 2018, it reveals that October 2023 saw the highest number of both antisemitic and islamophobic incidents for the same month the force have recorded in the last five years.\n\nThe force says, between 1 October and 1 November, it saw 554 reports of antisemitic offences - compared with 44 in the same period in 2022.\n\nThere were 220 islamophobic offences for the same timeframe the force said, compared with 78 recorded incidents between 1 October and 1 November in 2022.\n\nThe government said it was in frequent contact with Tell Mama and the CST - and has provided £43m to protect interfaith communities in the current financial year. It said any perpetrators of hate crime would face the full force of the law.", "Jon Boutcher is a former chief constable of Bedfordshire Police\n\nJon Boutcher has been appointed as the new chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\nMr Boutcher is already interim chief constable of the PSNI and is a former head of of Bedfordshire Police.\n\nHe said he was \"very honoured,\" adding that he was looking forward to \"leading the dedicated officers and staff of this exceptional organisation\".\n\nThe previous chief constable Simon Byrne resigned in September following a series of crises under his leadership.\n\nMr Boutcher's appointment was made by the Policing Board and approved by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.\n\nHe was one of two candidates shortlisted for the role, alongside Bobby Singleton, an assistant chief constable with the PSNI.\n\nThe position carries a salary of £220,000 and is considered one of the most demanding jobs in UK policing.\n\nThe PSNI has a staff of more than 9,000 and a budget of about £800m.\n\n\"This position carries great responsibility and is a huge privilege,\" the new chief constable said.\n\n\"There is much to do and I am fully committed to delivering an outstanding policing service to address the issues which matter most to our communities.\n\n\"The officers and staff of the police service do an extraordinary job and will have my full support.\"\n\nPolicing Board chairwoman Deirdre Toner was one of the panellists who chose Mr Boutcher as the next PSNI chief\n\nConfirming the appointment, Policing Board chair Deirdre Toner said Mr Boutcher was \"clearly committed to the challenges ahead\".\n\n\"There are also significant pieces of work to be progressed to manage and mitigate the serious financial pressures currently facing policing and deal with confidence and other issues arising from recent events,\" she added.\n\nLiam Kelly, chair of police representative body the Police Federation for Northern Ireland, congratulated Mr Boutcher on his appointment.\n\nHowever, he urged him to prioritise \"direct and urgent\" government intervention to tackle what he described as \"chronic and deep-rooted issues holding back the [police] service\".\n\nHe offered the federation's full support \"for a campaign to get minsters to realise what is urgently required\".\n\n\"The list of what must be fixed is long and can only be addressed by a meaningful and realistic funding package from government,\" Mr Kelly said.\n\nSinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill wished Mr Boutcher well but said there was a \"huge job of work ahead to rebuild trust and confidence in the police with public, and PSNI officers\".\n\nShe added that the focus \"must be on delivering an efficient and effective policing service that works and is representative of everyone in society\".\n\nThe leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Sir Jeffrey Donaldson wished Mr Boutcher \"every success\" but said his appointment \"must not be a false dawn\".\n\nSir Jeffery said the DUP would engage with him to \"hear his plans to restore confidence and improve relations with the unionist community\".\n\nHe also thanked Mr Singleton \"for putting his name forward for consideration\" and wished him continued success with his career in policing.\n\nUlster Unionist Party (UUP) Policing Board member Mike Nesbitt welcomed the appointment and said Mr Boutcher had made a \"strong start\" as interim chief constable, improving morale and dealing with \"a number of challenging issues\".\n\n\"I feel we will see more of the same under his leadership and look forward to working with him through my position on the Policing Board,\" he said.\n\nJon Boutcher will seek to move the PSNI on quickly from what has been a damaging three months for policing.\n\nThe job of rebuilding morale internally is already under way.\n\nFixing the harm done to public confidence is the second part of the challenge.\n\nThe PSNI's financial situation probably overshadows all else.\n\nIt is £50m short of what it needs to balance the books for 2023-24 and mid-term the prognosis looks grim.\n\nUnless money is found, the force will continue to shrink in size.\n\nThere's been a warning of less neighbourhood patrolling and fewer detectives.\n\nExpect Mr Boutcher to use his appointment to make a fresh pitch for help from the Department of Justice and the NIO.\n\nMr Boutcher has spent the past five years overseeing an independent investigation into the activities of the Army's top spy within the IRA during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nHis Operation Kenova report into the agent, who was known as Stakeknife, is due to be published in the coming months.\n\nHe had previously applied to lead the Metropolitan Police after the resignation of Cressida Dick last year but he was unsuccessful in that process.\n\nHe was also unsuccessful in his bid to become PSNI chief constable in 2019, when the job eventually went to Mr Byrne.\n\nSimon Byrne quit as PSNI chief constable after a series of crises within the force\n\nThe PSNI has been without a chief constable for several weeks after Mr Byrne's resignation.\n\nHe quit after a series of controversies, including a court ruling that two junior officers were unlawfully disciplined and a number of data breaches within the force.\n\nMr Boutcher's contract is for five years but it can be extended thereafter.\n\nThe interview panel consisted of Ms Toner and independent Policing Board member Mukesh Sharma as well as board members Joanne Bunting of the DUP, Gerry Kelly of Sinn Féin and Alliance Party representative Nuala McAllister.", "A lucky cat was rescued by firefighters after falling 100ft (30m) down a mineshaft in Cornwall - and it was all thanks to a quick-thinking dog.\n\nAfter six days of searching, Mowgli's owner Michele Rose said she had \"almost given up hope\" of finding her missing pet.\n\nBut she said she saw her dog Daisy \"going berserk\", running in and out of woods near their home in Harrowbarrow.\n\nDaisy's intervention led to the rescue of her feline friend, Ms Rose said.\n\nMowgli was rescued from a mineshaft by firefighters\n\nDaisy guided her along a footpath toward the Prince of Wales old mine workings, she said, before \"stopping dead in her tracks\" next to the mineshaft.\n\n\"Without Daisy doing that Mowgli could still be down there, that's for sure,\" Ms Rose said.\n\n\"She was persistent in making me follow her, it was amazing.\"\n\nThe RSPCA and Cornwall Fire and Rescue were called but it was \"too dark\" on the first night to access the mineshaft, the RSPCA said.\n\nMowgli is greeted by Baloo, the other cat in the house\n\nThe next morning the team, led by RSPCA animal rescue officer Stephen Findlow, spotted Mowgli, who was 100ft down - but remarkably uninjured - and he was pulled to safety.\n\nThe family has another cat, Baloo, who greeted Mowgli after he was pulled up.\n\nMs Rose said she adopted kittens Mowgli and Baloo in December 2022 and oversaw a gentle introduction to Daisy, who was already resident.\n\nShe added: \"Daisy was already a year old when the kittens arrived and they have all been inseparable ever since.\n\n\"She is quite matriarchal and puts up with them, they love her and she's very protective of them.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "Australian store chain Kmart has pulled a festive gift from its website after a complaint from a Jewish group.\n\nThe Christmas food-themed bag featured the pun \"ham-mas\" in large lettering.\n\nThe Australian Jewish Association said it had \"politely suggested\" it be removed from sale because of the unintentional likeness to Hamas, which is a proscribed terrorist group in Australia and several other countries.\n\nAccording to the now-deleted product page on Kmart's website, the bag featured \"printed instructions to keep your ham fresh for longer\" on one side, and the word's \"Merry HAM-MAS\" on the other.\n\nThe unfortunate faux pas was first raised by the Australian Jewish Association on Twitter, alongside a picture of the bag.\n\nThe group wrote: \"Although this is potentially funny (the AJA committee has tossed around some non-PC jokes) it's really not a good look.\n\n\"We suspect some product manager may cause the company some embarrassment.\n\n\"So we've politely written to Wesfarmers corporate suggesting the product be pulled.\"\n\nIn an update around an hour later, the group said it had been contacted by senior management at the supermarket's parent company and assured the bag would be removed from its website.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson said: \"We got it wrong on this occasion, and we apologise unreservedly.\n\n\"When designing this product we clearly didn't think through all the implications and the product has been removed from sale.\"", "House Republicans are summoning President Joe Biden's son Hunter to talk about the family's finances.\n\nCongressional Republicans have issued legal summons to several members of the Biden family in an escalation of their impeachment inquiry into the president.\n\nThe House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Mr Biden's son Hunter, his brother James, and Biden family associate Rob Walker.\n\nIt is also requesting transcribed interviews with five others.\n\nThe White House accused Republicans of \"abusing their power to conduct a smear campaign\".\n\nHouse Republicans opened their impeachment inquiry in September, saying they had uncovered evidence of President Biden's knowledge of and role in his family members' domestic and foreign business dealings.\n\nBut at the Oversight Committee's first hearing that month, witnesses and even Republicans on the panel said more evidence was needed to determine if the president had committed any impeachable offenses.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee said it had obtained financial records that showed Biden family members allegedly set up more than 20 shell companies during Joe Biden's vice presidency in order to hide payments they received from overseas.\n\nThe committee further charged that the Biden family, its associates, and its companies had received more than $24m (£20m) from foreign nations, including some viewed as US adversaries.\n\nKentucky Republican James Comer is leading an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden in his role as chairman of the House Oversight Committee\n\n\"The House Oversight Committee has followed the money and built a record of evidence revealing how Joe Biden knew, was involved, and benefited from his family's influence peddling schemes,\" Chairman James Comer, of Kentucky, said.\n\n\"Now, the House Oversight Committee is going to bring in members of the Biden family and their associates to question them on this record of evidence.\"\n\nHunter Biden was ordered to testify under oath before the committee on 13 December, while James Biden and Mr Walker were asked to appear on 6 December and 29 November respectively.\n\nThe committee also called on Hunter's wife Melissa Cohen, James' wife Sara Biden, Hunter's brother's widow Hallie Biden and her sister Elizabeth Secundy and Hunter's ex-business partner Tony Bobulinski to provide transcribed interviews.\n\nJoe Biden speaks to his brother James during the 2008 Democratic national convention\n\nThe White House was quick to respond, sending out a memo after the subpoenas were issued that accused Republicans of making \"this partisan investigation a higher priority than virtually all issues Americans really care about\".\n\nSpeaking at the daily White House briefing, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said: \"This is an investigation that has been going on for a year now and has turned up zero evidence of wrongdoing by the president because there is none.\"\n\nIn a statement to the BBC's US partner CBS News, Hunter Biden's lawyer indicated he would comply with the subpoena.\n\n\"This is yet another political stunt aimed at distracting from the glaring failure of Rep. Comer and his MAGA [Make America Great Again] allies to prove a single one of their wild and now discredited conspiracies about the Biden family,\" Abbe Lowell said.\n\n\"Nevertheless, Hunter is eager to have the opportunity, in a public forum and at the right time, to discuss these matters with the Committee.\"\n\nMr Comer indicated on X, formerly known as Twitter, that more subpoenas will follow in coming days as part of the investigation.\n\nWednesday's subpoenas and interview requests come one day after the special counsel overseeing a federal probe into Hunter Biden testified to lawmakers behind closed doors.\n\nIn that hearing, David Weiss refuted Republican assertions that the White House is interfering with his investigation, saying he was \"not blocked, or otherwise prevented from pursuing charges\" against the president's son.\n\nThe younger Mr Biden is currently facing three federal gun charges, to which he has pleaded not guilty.\n\nThat investigation is still ongoing.", "The tech was rolled out because \"very large numbers of young girls\" would be attending the Beyoncé gig, according to Alun Michael\n\nFacial recognition was used on crowds attending a Beyoncé concert in Cardiff to scan for paedophiles and terrorists.\n\nSouth Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael said searching for potential terrorists at such events had become normal since the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.\n\nHe said paedophiles were also targeted as \"there would be very large numbers of young girls attending that concert\".\n\nMr Michael described using such cameras as \"entirely sensible\".\n\nAppearing before MPs on the Welsh Affairs Committee, Mr Michael defended the use of the artificial intelligence (AI) technology outside the concert.\n\nHe was one of four of Wales' police and crime commissioners giving evidence in Westminster as part of an inquiry looking into how forces tackle crime.\n\nA live facial recognition camera works by comparing faces with a \"watch list\" generated by police. The CCTV footage is recorded and kept for up to 31 days.\n\nThe use of the cameras has been criticised by human rights campaigners.\n\nKaty Watts, a lawyer for the human rights group Liberty, previously said the technology \"entrenches patterns of discrimination in policing\" and \"violates\" the privacy of thousands.\n\nBut Mr Michael said he did not believe the technology was a problem.\n\n\"There's been a lot of misunderstanding thinking that images are captured and kept - they're not,\" he said.\n\n\"The only image that is retained is of an individual who's identified as being one of the people you're looking for.\"\n\nThe facial recognition van was on the streets of Cardiff ahead of the concert\n\nHe said the issue of governance was important.\n\n\"When there is a live facial recognition deployment I am informed in advance and told what the watchlist is.\n\n\"It's an operational decision which I am, in live time, able to review and check.\"\n\nMr Michael said the Beyoncé concert on 17 May was an example of how this worked in practice.\n\n\"The view beforehand was that a watchlist should consist of two sets of individuals,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"People known to be involved in extremism and terrorism in the light of the Manchester arena bombing - and secondly of paedophiles, because there would be very large numbers of young girls attending that concert.\"\n\n\"That was announced in advance and reported to me, it wasn't secretive,\" he added.\n\n\"It seemed to me entirely sensible.\"\n\nMr Michael also said he felt the general approach taken by South Wales Police when using the tool was the right one.", "Fruit flavours may be banned and extra taxes applied to e-cigarettes, in a crackdown on vaping aimed at children.\n\nLegislation to allow tighter restrictions was promised in the King's Speech, earlier on Tuesday.\n\nThe move, which could apply to the whole of the UK, could also see vapes having to be hidden from view in shops and plain packaging introduced.\n\nAnd, as promised last month, ministers will also be looking to raise the age of sale for smoking.\n\nThe idea is to raise the age at which tobacco products can be bought by a year every year from 2027.\n\nIt would mean those currently aged under 15 could never buy cigarettes or tobacco legally.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the policy a month ago - but he has promised MPs a free vote on the issue.\n\nThe proportion of 11- to 17-year-olds who vape has doubled in the past two years, to 7.6%.\n\nAnd the government is currently consulting on measures to tackle the rise in youth vaping.\n\nBut the King's Speech, setting out the government's priorities for the next year, revealed legislation would be brought forward to push through a tightening of the rules once the consultation had finished.\n\nIntroducing a new tax on e-cigarettes is also proposed - value added tax (VAT) is already applied - to make vapes more expensive.\n\nIt is currently three times cheaper to vape than smoke - although, the consultation has urged careful consideration as vapes are also an important tool to help smokers quit, as they carry a fraction of the risk.\n\nHazel Cheeseman, from the Action on Smoking and Health campaign group, welcomed the move.\n\n\"Vapes have been a valuable aid to help smokers quit - but vaping has been growing among teens,\" she said.\n\n\"Further regulations are needed to ensure products are not promoted or sold to teens.\"\n\nMs Cheeseman also backed the idea of an extra tax on vapes, to reduce their affordability for teenagers, but added it was important they remained \"cheaper than lethal tobacco products\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An image from what Ukraine says was a Russian strike on a civilian ship\n\nAt least one person has been killed after a Russian missile struck a civilian ship entering the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa, Ukrainian officials say.\n\nAccording to the southern defence forces, the Liberian-flagged vessel was struck by an anti-radar missile.\n\nA 43-year-old harbour pilot died, while three Filipino crewmembers and a port worker have been injured.\n\nThere was no immediate comment from Russia on the incident.\n\nAccording to Odesa's Regional Prosecutor's Office, which is investigating, the attack was launched at 16:45 local time (14:45 GMT) on Wednesday. The ship was reportedly moored at the time it was struck.\n\nOne of the injured workers was hospitalised.\n\nUkraine's Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said on social media that the ship was supposed to be transporting iron ore to China.\n\nVessels entering and leaving the port of Odesa have been at risk of Russian attack since Moscow pulled out of a deal earlier this year that allowed for the safe export of Ukrainian grain.\n\nUkraine has since opened a temporary corridor to allow vessels to come and go from its ports.\n\nThe Russian defence ministry said it regards all cargo ships in the Black Sea bound for Ukraine as potential military targets.\n\nAccording to Mr Kubrakov, Wednesday's attack is the 21st targeted assault on port infrastructure since Russia withdrew from the deal in July.\n\nAt least eight people were wounded and a historic museum was damaged on Sunday during Russian airstrikes on Odesa, Ukrainian officials said.", "Rishi Sunak has said he will hold the Met Police chief \"accountable\" over a pro-Palestinian march set to take place this Saturday, on Armistice Day.\n\nThe prime minister has criticised the timing of the demonstration in London as \"provocative and disrespectful\".\n\nSir Mark Rowley rejected calls by campaigners to ban the protest, saying such a move would be a \"last resort\".\n\nOrganisers insist their march will not go near commemorations and accuse the government of manufacturing a row.\n\nProtests have been held in London, and other cities globally, each Saturday since the Israel-Gaza war began.\n\nEarlier, Mr Sunak met the Met Police commissioner to seek \"reassurances\" that remembrance services would be safeguarded, saying there was a risk of \"those who seek to divide society using this weekend as a platform to do so\".\n\nIn a statement, he said police had confirmed the demonstration would be far from the Cenotaph - the focal point of remembrance services - but that Sir Mark would keep the matter under constant review based on latest intelligence.\n\nMr Sunak spoke of the immense sacrifices made for our freedom and peace today.\n\n\"Part of that freedom is the right to peacefully protest,\" he said. \"And the test of that freedom is whether our commitment to it can survive the discomfort and frustration of those who seek to use it, even if we disagree with them.\"\n\nThe organisers of the protest have resisted police pressure to postpone the demonstrations, and accuse the government of trying to undermine their cause.\n\nBen Jamal, of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign which is behind the march, said he believed the government was manufacturing a row and using the Armistice Day angle to try to \"delegitimise\" them.\n\n\"There's something particularly askew with an argument that says a protest calling for a ceasefire is somehow inappropriate on Armistice Day,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman has accused the police of being more lax on left-wing protests than those organised by nationalists or right-wing activists.\n\nWriting in the Times, she said there was \"a perception that senior police officers play favourites when it comes to protesters\".\n\nMs Braverman suggested there was a disparity in the policing of \"lockdown objectors\" and Black Lives Matter demonstrations, and said football fans were treated more harshly by the police than \"politically-connected minority groups who are favoured by the left\".\n\nThe home secretary has voiced her opposition to pro-Palestinian protests in the past, calling them \"hate marches\" in an interview with Sky News.\n\nProtest organiser Chris Nineham, from the Stop the War Coalition, said: \"We do everything we can as stewards to make sure there is nothing antisemitic or calling for violence in our demonstrations. For us, this isn't about religion, it isn't about race.\"\n\nDr Tom Thorpe, of the Western Front Association which organises the annual commemorations at the Cenotaph, said: \"We don't want to stop other people enjoying their democratic rights - and we don't want them to interfere with our assembly and our ceremony that we've been doing for the last 30 years.\"\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Sir Mark said the protest organisers had shown \"complete willingness to stay away from the Cenotaph and Whitehall and have no intention of disrupting the nation's remembrance events\".\n\nThe demonstration on 11 November is due to begin at 12:45, more than an hour after the traditional two-minute silence.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has accused the prime minister of \"picking a fight\" with the police over the planned pro-Palestinian demonstration.\n\nIn a post on X, Sir Keir said: \"Remembrance events must be respected. Full stop. But the person the PM needs to hold accountable is his Home Secretary.\"\n\nLabour's London Mayor Sadiq Khan said on X that the government should be supporting the Met, not making officers' jobs more difficult.\n\nAkshata Murty, the prime minister's wife, held a reception for Chelsea Pensioners at Downing Street ahead of Armistice Day\n\nOn Monday, the Met publicly urged organisers of the march to postpone the event, saying it would not be \"appropriate\".\n\nMr Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman also criticised the timing of the event, which tens of thousands of people are expected to attend, while Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood, the former defence minister, appealed to organisers to \"think again\" and hold the rally on another day.\n\nOn Tuesday, Sir Mark resisted calls, including from pressure group Campaign Against Antisemitism, to request powers from the home secretary to ban the march.\n\nThe group claimed previous marches met the threshold test for public disorder that would justify the ban.\n\n\"As we approach remembrance weekend, where we remember the heroes who defended our freedoms and fought against antisemitic hatred, we must honour their memory by banning demonstrations that abuse those freedoms to call for violence against Jews,\" the group said.\n\nSir Mark said that while police can request such powers if a threat of serious disorder emerges, the \"very high\" threshold for doing so had not yet been reached.\n\nHe added that the use of the power was \"incredibly rare\" and there must be no other way for police to manage the event.\n\nSir Mark said he was concerned about the escalating risk of disorder caused by splinter groups breaking off from the main demonstration on Saturday, saying the threat posed by them would be monitored this week.\n\nA former Metropolitan Police Commissioner is now urging for discussions around police operations for protests to be held privately, rather than aired publicly.\n\nIndependent crossbench peer Lord Hogan-Howe, who led the Met from 2011 to 2017, said: \"We all know that there is a real challenge, both for politicians and the police, in deciding whether to ban a march. Never easy, very rarely done.\n\n\"These are difficult decisions where you are trying to balance the right to protest against the problem of serious disorder. I do worry that the pressures that are being placed on the police at the moment don't always form wise judgments in the end.\"\n\nEarlier, Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer said he fully recognised \"the tensions at play\" but urged people to come to London for remembrance events.\n\n\"I know that elderly veterans will be coming to London and measures will all be in place to make sure that people can go about remembrance in the way they want to unmolested by any of the other events taking place this weekend,\" Mr Mercer said.", "Boris Johnson \"wanted to be injected with Covid-19 on television\" to calm public fears, an ex-aide has said.\n\nThe claim - by Lord Lister - came in a witness statement to the Covid inquiry.\n\nHe said Mr Johnson \"suggested to senior civil servants and advisers that he wanted to be injected with Covid-19 on television to demonstrate to the public that it did not pose a threat\".\n\nIt was \"at a time when Covid was not seen as being the serious disease it subsequently became\", he added.\n\nHe said it was an \"unfortunate comment\" that had been \"made in the heat of the moment\".\n\nHe also confirmed his former boss had said letting \"the bodies pile high\" was preferable to another lockdown.\n\nThe remark was made in September 2020 but first reported in April 2021,\n\nAt the time, Mr Johnson dismissed the report, calling it \"total rubbish\".\n\nLord Edward Udny-Lister said the comment was made at a time when the government was \"trying to avoid a further lockdown given the already severe impact on the economy and education\".\n\nOn Tuesday, the Covid inquiry was also shown messages in which the head of the civil service Simon Case said of his Downing Street colleagues: \"These people are so mad... they are just so madly self-defeating. I've never seen a bunch of people less well-equipped to run the country.\"\n\nAnd entries from the 2020 diaries of Sir Patrick Vallance revealed that the then-chief scientific advisor felt Mr Johnson was \"all over the place\" on the issue of implementing a second lockdown.\n\nLord Lister is a long-time ally of Mr Johnson, having worked with him during his time as mayor of London and prime minister.\n\nIn his evidence session to the Covid inquiry, which lasted over two hours, Lord Lister was asked about the atmosphere in the Downing Street operation.\n\nLast week, Helen MacNamara, a senior civil servant during the Covid pandemic, said there had been a \"macho\" culture and that a \"toxic\" environment had affected decision-making.\n\nLord Lister said: \"I think there was a lot of tension that was taking place\" adding that Dominic Cummings, another senior adviser in Downing Street, was \"not an easy man to deal with\".\n\nLater in the session, Lord Lister was asked about the UK government's relationship with the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales during the pandemic.\n\nHe said there had been \"a great deal of mistrust and frustration\" towards the Scottish government.\n\n\"It seemed to us in Downing Street, it didn't matter what the decision was, Scotland would want to do things slightly differently.\"\n\nAsked if he felt the Scottish government was being \"opportunistic\", Lord Lister said \"I think that is a good word\".\n\nHe later added that Mr Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon, who was Scotland's first minister during the pandemic, \"generally didn't like each other very much\".\n\nQuestioned on the second lockdown, introduced in November 2020, Lord Lister suggested it could have been avoided if the tier system had been given more time to work.\n\nUnder the tier system, areas where subject to different restrictions depending on the prevalence of the disease. It was essentially made redundant around a month after being introduced, when Mr Johnson implemented a second national lockdown.\n\nLord Lister said the tier system was \"messy but the right thing to do\" adding: \"If we kept going I believe it would have worked.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, the Covid inquiry had seen further extracts from a diary written in October 2020 by the government's then chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nThe note says Mr Johnson and Rishi Sunak, who was chancellor at the time, were both \"clutching at straws\" while trying to argue against a second lockdown in October 2020.\n\nSir Patrick describes a meeting on 8 October as, \"very bad\".\n\nAfter being shown the final slide in a presentation by the Covid-19 Taskforce, Sir Patrick wrote that Mr Johnson responded, \"Whisky and revolver.\"\n\n\"He was all over the place\", Sir Patrick says, adding that Mr Sunak was using \"increasingly specific and spurious arguments against closing hospitality\".\n\nIn another diary entry from 25 October, Sir Patrick says Mr Johnson \"owns the reality for a day and then is buffeted by a discussion with [the chancellor].\"\n\nSimon Ridley, former Head of the Cabinet Office Covid taskforce also gave evidence to the inquiry on Tuesday.\n\nHe admitted the taskforce was not asked about the Eat Out To Help Out scheme introduced by Mr Sunak in summer 2020.\n\nThe scheme gave diners up to 50% of their bill off and was aimed at bolstering the hospitality industry, however some scientists have argued it helped the virus spread.\n\nAsked whether his team had been \"completely blindsided by the Treasury\", Mr. Ridley responded, \"correct.\"\n\nThe inquiry is taking witness evidence in London until Christmas, before moving to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nOn Wednesday, it will hear from Sir Mark Sedwill who headed the civil service from April 2018 to September 2020.", "RMT members are to vote on a pay deal that could halt the union's current wave of industrial action against train companies.\n\nOperators have put forward an offer that proposes backdated pay rises for staff and job security guarantees.\n\nHowever, more negotiations will be required to thrash out further pay rises and reforms to the railways.\n\nRMT boss Mick Lynch said he supported the deal but did not rule out future strikes.\n\nA separate dispute with train drivers in the Aslef union also remains ongoing, so walkouts over Christmas could still be possible.\n\nThe RMT's dispute with rail companies has been going on for nearly 18 months already, with workers calling for better job security, pay and conditions.\n\nLast month members voted for a new six-month strike mandate, meaning the threat of action over Christmas and into spring.\n\nAfter talks between the union and the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents operators, a so-called memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been developed which sets out a mutually agreed way forward.\n\nThe BBC understands the MOU involves a backdated pay rise for 2022 of 5%, or £1,750, and job security guarantees such as no compulsory redundancies until the end of 2024.\n\nA second year's pay rise would still depend on reforms being negotiated at local level.\n\nThe RDG said: \"If accepted, this MOU will terminate the national dispute mandate, creating a pause and respite from industrial action over the Christmas period and into spring next year, while allowing for these important negotiations on proposed reforms to take place.\"\n\nRMT boss Mick Lynch told the BBC he \"wasn't ecstatic\" about the deal, and that members could still strike in future if conditions that the union rejected were imposed.\n\nTransport Secretary Mark Harper told the BBC it was \"really important\" the railways didn't see disruption in the run-up to Christmas, particularly for the hospitality industry.\n\nTrade body UK Hospitality described the latest update as a \"significant breakthrough\".\n\nRMT members will now vote on the deal in an online referendum which closes on 30 November. It is the first deal they have voted on since the start of the dispute.\n\nThe Department for Transport called the deal \"fair and reasonable\" and said it marked \"a positive step towards resolving this dispute\".\n\nRMT members, including guards and ticket office staff, who work at 14 train companies have taken part in a series of national strikes since June 2022 in the long-running dispute.\n\nCoinciding with walkouts by train drivers, the strikes have brought much of the rail network to a standstill and disrupted major sporting events and music festivals.\n\nA separate RMT dispute with Network Rail - which manages the UK's rail infrastructure - was resolved in March this year after signallers and maintenance workers voted to accept an offer.", "Labour MP Imran Hussain in the House of Commons (file image)\n\nLabour MP Imran Hussain has quit Sir Keir Starmer's shadow ministerial team over his desire to \"strongly advocate for a ceasefire\" in Gaza.\n\nMr Hussain was the shadow minister for the New Deal for Working People.\n\nHe said he remained committed to Labour's agenda but that his view on Gaza differed \"substantially\" from the position Sir Keir has adopted.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said a humanitarian pause was the most realistic way to address the crisis.\n\nSir Keir has argued that a ceasefire would allow Hamas to carry out future attacks, and the \"only credible approach\" was to call for a humanitarian pause that would allow aid into Gaza.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Labour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson backed her leader's position, arguing a ceasefire \"would freeze the conflict in time\".\n\nShe said a ceasefire \"risks allowing Hamas to regroup and to perpetuate further terrible atrocities that they have said they want the opportunity to do\".\n\nFormer shadow chancellor John McDonnell said a \"majority\" of the Labour party now supported a ceasefire.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's World at One, Mr McDonnell called on Sir Keir to \"show leadership\" by pressing for a ceasefire.\n\nIn a resignation posted on social media, Mr Hussain said he wanted to be a \"strong advocate\" for a ceasefire alongside the UN and multiple charities, calling it \"essential to ending the bloodshed\".\n\n\"It is clear that I cannot sufficiently, in all good conscience, do this from the frontbench given its current position,\" he said.\n\nHe said he had \"unequivocally condemned\" Hamas's attack on 7 October and believed that \"every country has the right to defend itself\", but that that should \"never become a right to deliberately violate international law on protecting civilians or to commit war crimes\".\n\n\"It has always been my view, which I've made clear repeatedly in Parliament, that human rights are universal and that it is our duty to call out all those who violate international law,\" he said.\n\nHe went on to describe the situation in Gaza as \"beyond that of a humanitarian catastrophe\" and said a ceasefire would help both the passage of aid into the territory and the safe return of Israeli hostages.\n\nHe also said he was \"deeply troubled\" by an LBC interview Sir Keir gave on 11 October about Israel's actions in Gaza and that, while he appreciated Sir Keir's later clarification of the comments, he believed the party \"needs to go further and call for a ceasefire\".\n\nIn the interview, Sir Keir was asked whether it was \"appropriate\" for Israel to cut off the supply of power and water to Gaza.\n\n\"I think that Israel does have that right,\" he said. \"Obviously everything should be done within international law, but I don't want to step away from the core principles that Israel has a right to defend herself.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Labour leader later said he had only meant to say Israel had a general right to self-defence.\n\nA number of senior Labour figures, including London mayor Sadiq Khan, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, and Scottish leader Anas Sarwar, as well as more than 60 MPs and 250 councillors, have now backed calls for a ceasefire in Gaza.\n\nMr Khan said a ceasefire would \"allow the international community more time to prevent a protracted conflict in the region and further devastating loss of life\", while Mr Burnham said it was \"vital that urgent support and humanitarian aid is allowed into the area\".\n\nBut Labour's position is that a ceasefire would \"only freeze this conflict and would leave hostages in Gaza and Hamas with the infrastructure and capability to carry out the sort of attack we saw on 7 October,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Labour is calling for humanitarian pauses in the fighting. This is the best and most realistic way to address the humanitarian emergency in Gaza and is a position shared by our major allies,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nOn Wednesday, the government resisted calls from MPs to advocate for a ceasefire during a debate in the House of Commons.\n\nForeign Office minister Andrew Mitchell said the government \"unequivocally supports Israel's right to defend itself\", but was adding pressure to ensure the campaign minimised civilian casualties.\n\nMr Hussain was elected to represent the Bradford East constituency in 2015 and had been shadow minister for the New Deal for Working People since September.\n\nHe has previously served as shadow minister for work, shadow minister for justice, and shadow minister for international development.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "We're pausing our live coverage for the next few hours, so until then, here's a quick recap on where things stand in the war between Israel and Hamas.\n\nPalestinians have continued to flee Gaza City as Israel steps up its ground offensive.\n\nThe Israeli military said 50,000 Palestinians have fled the city today, as its forces once again opened a safe passage on the main north-south road for several hours.\n\nYesterday, Israel said it had surrounded Gaza City and cut the strip in half – today it said Hamas had “lost control” of northern Gaza.\n\nHamas-run authorities in Gaza reported several airstrikes in both the north and south of the territory, with the number of people killed since the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October rising by more than 200 to 10,569 in the last 24 hours.\n\nStrong words from the UN continued, with both Israel and Hamas accused of committing war crimes by the UN commissioner for human rights.\n\nAnd UN Secretary-General Anontio Guterres said the number of civilians killed in Gaza showed something was \"clearly wrong\" with Israeli military operations, but also said Hamas was using people as human shields.\n\nMeanwhile, as families of some 239 people taken hostage in Gaza during the Hamas attacks continue to push for their release, the BBC heard from a source close to talks about the captives.\n\nDiscussions are taking place over a possible release of 12 hostages, half of them Americans, in exchange for a three-day humanitarian pause in fighting, the source said, adding that disagreement remained over the length of the pause and the situation in the north of Gaza.\n\nBut Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed \"false rumours\" and said there would be no ceasefire \"without the release of our hostages\".\n\nThe BBC's International editor, Jeremy Bowen, has travelled with Israeli forces into Gaza - he didn't see a single building that wasn't badly damaged and was shown a building containing both a family apartment and what the military said were weapons-making workshops.\n\nWe continued to hear about the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, with people there struggling to find enough food and water.\n\nHowever, a convoy carrying medical supplies reached Gaza City’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa - where medical conditions are “disastrous” - Unrwa and the World Health Organization said. It was just the second delivery to the hospital during the month-long conflict.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What Ivanka Trump didn't 'recall' on the stand\n\nIvanka Trump said she could not remember property deals she handled at her father's firm, as she testified in a civil fraud case that threatens his business empire.\n\nA judge has already found Donald Trump and two adult sons, Eric and Donald Jr, liable for fraud, ruling they inflated assets to secure favourable loans.\n\nIvanka Trump, 42, was initially a co-defendant, too, until an appeals court ruling in her favour this year.\n\nThe mother-of-three had argued she could not leave her children in Florida during a school week.\n\nBut a New York judge and appeals court ruled she must take the stand as a witness.\n\nThis is a non-jury trial, in which the judge will decide on allegations of falsifying business records, insurance fraud and conspiracy.\n\nMr Trump - the former US president and Republican frontrunner for next year's White House election - could be stripped of prized assets like Trump Tower. He and his sons deny wrongdoing.\n\nNew York Attorney General Letitia James, whose office filed the lawsuit, is seeking $250m (£204m) in fines and severe restrictions on how the Trump business operates in the state.\n\nDuring four hours of testimony in the New York Supreme Court in lower Manhattan on Wednesday, Ms Trump spoke softly into the microphone, sitting upright with her hands in her lap, at times smiling brightly.\n\nIn composed and succinct responses, she repeatedly said she did not recall specifics, or was not aware.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Donald and Ivanka Trump over the years... in 90 seconds\n\nLike her two brothers in their testimony last week, Ms Trump distanced herself from documents central to the case - her father's financial statements, in which assets were allegedly inflated to secure better loan deals.\n\n\"I wasn't involved in his statement of financial condition,\" Ms Trump said. \"That would have been the company.\"\n\nAs they did with her brothers, lawyers for the state attorney general's office showed Ms Trump a series of emails meant to bolster their case, asking if she recognised the messages.\n\nThey pressed her on her role in securing loans from Deutsche Bank for the Trump National Doral Miami, the Old Post Office in Washington DC and Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago.\n\nAt one point state attorneys produced an email she wrote to then-Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg about a loan.\n\n\"It doesn't get better than this,\" she wrote.\n\nShe said she did not remember that message.\n\nHer responses frustrated Louis Solomon, the state lawyer questioning her.\n\n\"She just spent three minutes describing the plaza hotel,\" he shouted, \"but she has no recollection when I ask her a question.\n\nNew York Attorney General Letitia James has brought the case\n\nDefence lawyers began cross-examining Ms Trump in the afternoon, marking the first time they have questioned a Trump family member in this trial.\n\nThey asked her a series of direct questions about her role in company financial statements, to each of which she replied that she had no involvement at all.\n\nThe defence team also sought to portray a harmonious relationship between the Trumps and their loan provider, Deutsche Bank.\n\nThe Trump lawyers have previously argued that banks were happy to do business with the family and incurred no harm from the relationship.\n\nToward the end of the day, tensions began to flare as Judge Engoron argued the defence was wasting time, calling one Trump attorney Jesus Saurez's questions \"ridiculous\". Mr Suarez lost his temper after hearing the attorney general's team laugh at his questions from the bench behind him. The Trumps' legal team argued once again that the judge was biased for siding with prosecutors' objections to Mr Suarez's questioning. \"Your constant insinuations that I have some sort of double standard…it's just not true,\" Mr Engoron said in response.\n\nNonetheless, University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias told the BBC that Ms Trump's testimony was much less combative than her father's time on the witness stand on Monday.\n\nAnd her evidence could ultimately aid the former president, said Prof Tobias.\n\n\"The attorney general's counsel was able to introduce some documents that appeared helpful to their case,\" he said.\n\n\"But counsel did not seem to elicit much information from Ms Trump's testimony that was very damaging to Mr Trump.\"\n\nNew York's attorney general said on the courthouse steps on Wednesday morning that Ivanka Trump was \"very much involved\" in the family enterprise.\n\nFrom 2011-17, she was a top executive at the Trump Organization alongside her brothers Donald Jr and Eric.\n\nAs head of development and acquisitions, she played a key role in the types of real estate deals and loans at the heart of the case, say state attorneys.\n\nThe interest rates on the loans were low because they required a personal guarantee from Mr Trump and evidence of his liquidity and net worth.\n\nState attorneys argue that Mr Trump's annual financial statements were central to those loans and saved him more than $100m.\n\nMr Trump has taken several times to his social media platform, Truth Social, to defend his children.\n\nHours before Ms Trump's testimony, he said his \"wonderful and beautiful daughter\" was being unfairly dragged into the case.\n\nThe trial is expected to last until mid-December.", "There are three prisons sites in Northern Ireland at Maghaberry, Magilligan and Hydebank Wood College and Female Prison\n\nInmates have gone missing from Northern Ireland's prisons almost 250 times during the last decade.\n\nMost of the cases relate to inmates who were unlawfully at large from Maghaberry Prison, near Lisburn.\n\nOn more than 100 occasions prisoners were taken back to custody within the same month of going missing.\n\nBut on several occasions inmates were missing for years and a prison watchdog has raised fresh concerns.\n\nThe chief inspector of criminal justice in Northern Ireland said when prisoners fail to return to custody it can \"impact community confidence and raise public safety concerns\".\n\nThe Northern Ireland Prison Service (NIPS) said pre-release testing is a vital part of rehabilitation and resettlement for inmates.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"After being fully risk assessed, they begin graduated release into the community.\n\n\"Firstly under supervision, then progressing to short periods of unaccompanied release where they work in the community.\n\n\"The reality is that some will fail this test and will be returned to prison, while others will progress back into the community.\"\n\nOn five occasions prisoners were missing for more than a year\n\nAs of November 2023 there were seven prisoners still unlawfully at large in Northern Ireland.\n\nPrisoners can be temporarily released for a number of reasons including compassionate leave or as part of rehabilitation and release planning under a range of schemes including home leave.\n\nEarlier this year there was a UK-wide manhunt for terror suspect Daniel Khalife after he escaped from Wandsworth Prison in September.\n\nHe absconded from a prison kitchen by strapping himself to the underside of a delivery van.\n\nHe was re-arrested four days later.\n\nThere have also been a number of high-profile cases of prisoners going missing in Northern Ireland in recent months.\n\nThomas McCabe was given a life sentence after killing a teenager in London in 1990\n\nConvicted murderer Thomas McCabe went on the run for the second time after failing to return to prison from day release in August.\n\nHe was previously at large for more than two years before being arrested by gardaí (Irish police) in 2020.\n\nFigures obtained by BBC News NI from the Northern Ireland Prison Service show that of the 244 instances of prisoners going missing in Northern Ireland during the last decade, most were apprehended again within a month.\n\nOn 85 occasions, prisoners released by the courts on compassionate bail did not return to prison on time.\n\nA spokesperson of the Lady Chief Justice's Office said: \"The courts are required to apply the law governing bail as laid down in this jurisdiction and will hear all the arguments for and against admission to bail/variation of bail taking account of all relevant factors before arriving at a considered decision.\"\n• None 14compensation payments to inmates who were overheld\n\nOn five occasions prisoners were missing for more than a year and the longest an inmate was unlawfully at large was four years and one month.\n\nDuring the last decade the prison service also made 14 compensation payments in relation to inmates who were accidentally held beyond their sentence.\n\nThe prison service did not provide a detailed breakdown of these figures, confirming only that half of the inmates were paid up to £1,000 and the remaining inmates were paid more than £1,000.\n\nA spokesperson confirmed 11 prisoners were overheld between one to five days and the remaining inmates were overheld by more than five days.\n\nThere are three prisons sites in Northern Ireland at Maghaberry, Magilligan and Hydebank Wood College and Female Prison.\n\nIn 2019, Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland (CJI) published a report looking at pre-release testing arrangements.\n\nConcerns were raised with the then-justice minister, and public confidence in the process was challenged, after a prisoner absconded and others were photographed during an escorted activity outing.\n\nAt that time, CJI made a number of recommendations to improve the system.\n\nThe chief inspector of criminal justice in Northern Ireland, Jacqui Durkan, said it was important that risk assessments are robust\n\nThe most recent inspection of Maghaberry Prison published in June 2023 noted that pre-release planning at the prison was \"well co-ordinated\".\n\nThe chief inspector of criminal justice in Northern Ireland said it was important that risk assessments are robust to support all decisions to release a prisoner temporarily.\n\nJacqui Durkin said: \"The temporary release of prisoners is an important part of a prisoner's rehabilitative journey that can inform decision-making in assessing a prisoner's suitability for release back into the community.\n\n\"While it will never be risk free, conditions of release are an important part of the process for maintaining public safety and those who know the prisoner best and have been working with them are well placed to inform appropriate decisions and conditions.\"\n\nShe added that pre-release schemes will remain a focus for CJI in future prison inspections.\n\nIn a statement, the Northern Ireland Prison Service said: \"Pre-release testing is an essential part of rehabilitation, not just for the individual but also for the wider community in Northern Ireland.\"", "The State Opening of Parliament felt like a ceremonial comma. A punctuation mark in an autumn of familiar political sentences.\n\nThe government set out the hoped-for legal architecture to make their recent promises a reality.\n\nThose hoping for a frisson from the unexpected will be deflated.\n\nBut Downing Street never suggested this would be a flurry of the fresh; a wagon load of new ideas.\n\nInstead, this felt very Sunakian: iterative, rather than explosive, but with an emphasis on ideas he is personally passionate about, like banning young people from smoking.\n\nThere is some interesting detail in this idea, including the government considering extra taxes on vapes.\n\nAs I explored in an earlier blog, I do wonder if the plans on smoking, which the Scottish and Welsh governments agree with and there's support for in Northern Ireland too, could become one of those societal turning points; a long lasting social change.\n\nIt is not without its critics, former Prime Minister Liz Truss among them, but there is widespread cross-party support for it. And there is a political desire to get on with it.\n\nThe government launched an eight-week, UK-wide public consultation on it in the middle of October.\n\nIt means that by early December they will be able to crack on with their desire to \"create a smokefree generation\", as a briefing document accompanying the King's Speech described their ambition.\n\nThe government's plans do include clear dividing lines with Labour, which ministers are attempting to sharpen before the general election campaign.\n\nThe most stark is on oil and gas licencing under the North Sea.\n\nDowning Street argue this is a pragmatic approach towards the switch to greener energy. But Labour have committed to grant no more licences if they win the election.\n\nAnd the focus on crime - while potentially popular with a wide cross-section of the electorate - appears framed with a particular eye on Conservative voters recent and long-standing, a big chunk of whom polls suggest are disillusioned with the party.\n\nThey are not without at least a splash of internal party controversy.\n\nTake the plan to allow the police to enter a property without a warrant to recover a stolen phone, for instance, where it is obvious via a tracking app that that is where the device is.\n\n\"The right not to have the state kick your door down without judicial approval is a massively important British value,\" the former cabinet minister David Davis said.\n\n\"This is one of the fundamental foundation stones of free British society. It's there with jury trials and it's there with the presumption of innocence.\"\n\nAnd what of that idea from Home Secretary Suella Braverman about homeless people living in tents who \"are living on the streets as a lifestyle choice\"?\n\n\"What I want to stop… is those who cause nuisance and distress to other people by pitching tents in public places,\" Mrs Braverman wrote.\n\nHer remarks at the weekend prompted a huge row and an obvious awkwardness from some of her colleagues when asked whether they agreed with her.\n\nAnd then we were told it was still being scrutinised within government.\n\nI hear that prior to her going public with her idea, concerns were raised privately within government about its practicality: whether it could be challenged in the courts.\n\nThe question now is whether it ever sees the light of day again.\n\nBut let's take a step back and ask a bigger question: does all of this add up to enough to change the political weather?\n\nFor those familiar political sentences I mentioned include the increasingly widespread expectation here at Westminster that the Conservatives will lose the next election.\n\nAnd given the familiarity of much of what we heard from the King, the concern of Tory MPs will be that these measures - however individually laudable or otherwise - simply won't be enough.", "A delay to new laws on e-scooters has been criticised by firms and campaigners who accuse the government of missing an opportunity to tighten up safety rules.\n\nE-scooters are widely sold and seen, but are currently only legal on private land or from trial hire schemes.\n\nThere was no mention of new laws in the King's Speech meaning legislation would be delayed.\n\nThe government has instead promised to extend existing trials till May 2026.\n\nIt told the BBC this was \"to gather further evidence as the technology develops to ensure any future legislation balances safety, user accountability and market growth\".\n\nIt also promised to consult later this year on possible regulations including minimum rider ages and maximum speed.\n\nNew laws on e-scooters were announced in the Queen's Speech in May 2022.\n\nAt present e-scooters may only be ridden on the roads legally through rental trial schemes that have been set up in dozens of towns and cities.\n\nE-scooters in these trials are limited to 15.5mph and have automatic lights as safety features.\n\nBut there was no mention of e-scooters in Tuesday's King's Speech, alarming campaigners and companies.\n\nThe national shared transport charity Collaborative Mobility UK (CoMoUK), which is supportive of e-scooter use and whose members include firms involved in trials, warned the UK is falling behind the rest of the world with its \"lack of action\" on e-scooters.\n\nNew laws would ensure e-scooters, whether rented or privately owned, are subject to high safety standards, CoMoUK said.\n\nIt estimates there are 750,000 privately owned, unregulated e-scooters currently in use in the UK.\n\nDott, a firm offering rental e-scooters in London, warned the delay in policy meant the UK was missing out on the benefits of e-scooters. \"By further delaying certainty around the future of e-scooters, it is difficult to justify long-term investments in the UK\".\n\nThe safety of e-scooters has been a subject of much debate. But for those who represent vulnerable pedestrians, new laws might be an opportunity to address concerns.\n\nThe charity Guide Dogs said it was \"disappointed\" by the delay to laws to \"address the problems caused by anti-social e-scooter use\".\n\nIt urged the government to introduce laws as soon as possible.\n\nPreviously the charity has said anti-social e-scooter use was especially hazardous for people with sight loss due to their weight, speed, silence and because they are often ridden on pavements.\n\nThe trial rental e-scooter schemes in towns and cities in England have also presented challenges, with rental e-scooters abandoned on pavements, it argued.\n\nGuide Dogs would like to see mandatory docked-parking for rental e-scooters, strict controls on their weight, power and speed, and enforcement when they are misused.\n• None Where does London stand on e-scooters?", "Marks & Spencer has reported much better-than-expected profits for the first half of the year, as the retailer continues to revamp its brand.\n\nProfit before tax rose 56% to £326m in the six months to 30 September, driven by higher food and clothing sales.\n\nM&S has been focussing on upgrading its shops, clothing lines and digital offer as part of a big turnaround plan.\n\nDespite the recent boost, its boss warned that the retail giant remains cautious about the year ahead.\n\nIts chief executive Stuart Machin said that high interest rates, slowing price rises, global conflict and erratic weather could hit trading.\n\nFood sales were up nearly 15% in the period, after stripping out the effect of new shops opening.\n\nIt comes after M&S lowered the prices of hundreds of its food products as inflation - the rate at which prices rise - has squeezed many customers.\n\nClothing sales also got a boost after \"improved style and value perceptions\" among shoppers, it said.\n\nLooking ahead, Mr Machin said that it was now expecting a good Christmas with customers \"responding positively\" to its ranges.\n\nHe said sales of party food and clothes were both up, with many of its customers telling the firm they are preparing for bigger family Christmas celebrations.\n\n\"Customer food to order is up 25% on last year and in clothing, men's and women's partywear is significantly up. Spirits are high for Christmas,\" he said.\n\nBut he said he was still conscious of household budgets being squeezed in the run-up to the key trading period, and promised that any falls in food costs would be passed on to customers \"immediately\".\n\nM&S has seen a surge in its share price recently, allowing it to return to the FTSE 100 index four years after being relegated.\n\nThe retailer has been battling to regain its crown as the UK's most important High Street brand after years in which its popularity dwindled.\n\nOverall, sales across the company went up by 10.8% to £6.13bn in the six months to 30 September. However, it did say that losses on its tie-up with online grocer Ocado had deepened.\n\nOcado - which is a joint venture between M&S and the tech firm Ocado Group - cost the company £23.4m in profits in the first half of the year.\n\nIt comes months after executives at M&S told shareholders they were \"not happy\" with how the online retailer was performing.\n\nMr Machin said on Wednesday he was still positive about its potential, although it would take \"three years plus\" to realise it.\n\nRichard Lim, boss of the Retail Economics consultancy, said challenges would remain for M&S, particularly because of rising interest rates, which next year \"will continue to squeeze middle and higher income households as well\".", "The Princess of Wales has made her first visit to 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards after being appointed Colonel-in-Chief in August.\n\nAt their base in Norfolk, Catherine drove a Jackal 2 armoured vehicle , flew a drone and also met the guard's mascot, Emrys Jones the Welsh Mountain Pony.\n\nKing Charles III previously held the position of Colonel-in-Chief while he was the Prince of Wales, and before him the first post holder was Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.", "A drone has captured footage of a thick blanket of smog rising over Delhi in India on Wednesday.\n\nAir pollution in Delhi has risen to alarming levels. On Tuesday, the air quality index for the Indian capital hit 300 on 7 November, nearly reaching the hazardous levels of 301-500.\n\nAuthorities there have halted some construction, closed primary schools and will impose restrictions on the use of vehicles from next week to combat pollution.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's top official during the first part of the Covid pandemic has said he urged Boris Johnson to remove Matt Hancock as health secretary.\n\nLord Sedwill, who was cabinet secretary until the autumn of 2020, agreed he left the then-prime minster \"under no doubt\" he should be replaced.\n\nHe raised his concerns with Mr Johnson privately in the summer of that year, he told the Covid inquiry.\n\nA loss of confidence in him had been damaging the Covid response, he added.\n\nWhatsApp messages heard at the inquiry also laid bare the tensions at the top of government between civil servants and ministers.\n\nThey are the latest revelations from the inquiry, which is currently investigating the political response during the pandemic.\n\nLord Sedwill was the UK's top civil servant until he was replaced in the role by Simon Case in September 2020, amid tensions between him and senior members of Mr Johnson's team.\n\nIn one exchange between the two officials in June 2020, Mr Case, who at the time was permanent secretary at No 10, compared working in the Johnson government to \"taming wild animals\".\n\nMr Case added that unnamed advisers to the former prime minister were \"basically feral\".\n\nIn another exchange between the two men, he writes: \"Hancock is so far up [Mr Johnson's] arse his ankles are brown.\"\n\nIn further WhatsApp messages shown to the inquiry, Lord Sedwill appears to describe Mr Hancock as \"totally incompetent\" over his remarks on Dominic Cummings's controversial trip to Barnard Castle in the spring of that year.\n\nHe added that the \"idiocy\" of Mr Hancock's response, as well as then-attorney general Suella Braverman, risked undermining Covid laws, adding: \"I'm ready to read the riot act as required.\"\n\nSpeaking at the inquiry, Lord Sedwill admitted he told Mr Case in another exchange that Mr Hancock should be sacked \"to save lives and the NHS\".\n\nHe said this was \"gallows humour\" echoing the government's own pandemic slogan of the time - but acknowledged this was \"inappropriate, even in a private exchange\".\n\nLord Sedwill told the inquiry he held a private conversation with Mr Johnson, where he did not use the word \"sack\" but discussed whether Mr Hancock \"was the right person to lead the next phase\".\n\nAsked whether Mr Johnson was left in \"no doubt whatsoever\" he should replace Mr Hancock, Lord Sedwill replied: \"Indeed\".\n\nThe inquiry's lawyer said that in his own witness statement, Mr Johnson had recalled he did not think he had received any advice from Lord Sedwill that Mr Hancock should be removed.\n\n\"I can see how he might remember it way. I did not provide formal advice to the prime minister,\" Lord Sedwill replied.\n\nElsewhere in his evidence, Lord Sedwill apologised for suggesting, in the early phase of the pandemic, that people could hold \"chickenpox parties\" to boost their immunity to Covid.\n\nIn the UK where chickenpox vaccines are not routinely given, parents have been known to hold parties to help to expose children to the contagious infection in order for them to become immune in later life.\n\nHe told the inquiry he had made the remarks in \"private exchanges\" that he never thought would be made public.\n\nBut he added that \"the interpretation that has been put on it\" made him come across as \"both heartless and thoughtless\".\n\n\"I do understand the distress that must have caused and I apologise for that,\" he added.\n\nHe added that he had used it as an \"analogy\" for the government's policy at the time, to shield vulnerable people from the virus whilst allowing it to spread among lower-risk groups.\n\n\"I should say, at no point did I believe that coronavirus was only of the same seriousness as chickenpox. I knew it was a much more serious disease, that was not the point I was trying to make.\"\n\nThe inquiry is taking witness evidence in London until Christmas, before moving to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Hancock is expected to give evidence later this autumn. Mr Case is currently on medical leave from the civil service.\n• None Johnson can't lead, top official said over Covid", "The European Commission has recommended that formal talks should begin with Ukraine on joining the European Union.\n\nThe step takes Kyiv closer to the coveted prize of EU membership, five months after the 27 member states gave it candidate status.\n\nCommission chief Ursula von der Leyen praised its \"excellent progress, even as it's fighting an existential war.\"\n\nShe said talks should also start with Moldova and that Georgia should become a candidate, if it passed reforms.\n\nMoldova and Ukraine applied for membership in the weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine and both became candidates in June. Georgia was passed over for candidate status at the time.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky described the European Commission report as \"historic\" and said it was an important day.\n\nMs von der Leyen said Ukraine had completed \"well over 90% of the necessary reforms\" that the EU set out last year, adding that \"the goal is truly within reach\".\n\nIt was also a day to celebrate in Georgia, she said. The government in Tbilisi is seen as having made sufficient progress on gender equality, fighting violence against women and organised crime.\n\nA final decision on the recommendations will be made by the EU's member states at their December summit.\n\nBut the devil to reaching the goal of membership is in the detail.\n\nEU accession talks are a slalom of technicalities and caveats and they tend to be painstakingly slow. Candidate countries need to meet extensive legal and economic criteria to join.\n\nMost Georgians support joining the EU but their government is seen as increasingly pro-Russian\n\n\"Just because you are granted candidate status, it doesn't mean you will join the EU tomorrow,\" said an EU diplomat.\n\nThe entire process normally takes about a decade, but can take longer than that.\n\n\"The Western Balkans are the best example of how slow, tricky and inefficient the process can be,\" said Tina Akhvlediani of the Centre for European Policy Studies.\n\nEach enlargement decision requires the backing of all 27 EU members, and any country can block negotiations at any stage, often due to bilateral disputes.\n\n\"It can be because of ethnic identities, cultural differences, even the name of the country. Greece demanded that Macedonia change its name to North Macedonia,\" said Ms Akhvlediani.\n\nThe European Commission report, released on Wednesday, however recommends that Ukraine needs to:\n\n\"Ukraine has had massive issues with corruption, and it needs to do more to carry out judicial reform - which is relatively fundamental stuff,\" said Tina Akhvlediani.\n\nBut there is a certain leniency, considering that Ukraine is in the middle of a war.\n\n\"In spite of the invasion, they have come a long way and tried their very best to reform. It's really impressive,\" Michael Gahler, a German MEP from the Christian Democrats, told the BBC.\n\nUnlike Nato, which Ukraine is also seeking to join, the European Union has no collective defence pact. But Mr Gahler says Ukraine joining the EU would ensure that Russia does not make a further attempt to take over the country.\n\n\"We need to make it very clear that Ukraine belongs in Europe,\" said Mr Gahler. \"It is not in the Russian orbit, it is firmly anchored in the West. And for that to happen, we need to start accession negotiations.\"\n\nMoldovan President Maia Sandu (R) said Wednesday was an important day for the future of Moldova (file pic)\n\nBut ultimately the EU is facing a dilemma. It is torn between the signal of solidarity it wants to send to Ukrainians, and the difficulty of integrating such a large and war-torn country.\n\nUkraine is the most heavily mined country in the world, it is awash with weapons, and latest estimates suggest that around 18% of its territory is controlled by Russia.\n\n\"EU leaders understand the urgency of anchoring Ukraine firmly in the West, but they are also aware that the country's security situation would pose greater challenges than any previous EU enlargement,\" said Stefan Lehne from the Carnegie Europe think tank.\n\n\"The EU will have genuine problems in integrating a country that is so big and so different from the present members.\"\n\nPresident Zelensky has promised that Kyiv will meet the Commission's conditions, and stressed how a positive EU decision will give fresh motivation to his troops.\n\nThat is particularly relevant amid fears of \"Ukraine fatigue\" mounting among Western allies. He has spoken himself of the Israel-Hamas war \"taking away the focus\" from the war in Ukraine.\n\nNo EU member state is ready to admit Ukraine while it is at war, but the geopolitical urgency is there, says Tina Akhvlediani from the Centre for European Policy Studies.\n\n\"If Ukraine doesn't join the EU, then the country will be lost to Russia. It's autocracy versus democracy. We can't just watch while Russia invades other countries that have European aspirations.\"\n\nBut enlargement has never come about smoothly for the European Union. It is quite normal for the European Commission, which runs the process, to take a positive approach toward future accessions, while national governments are often divided.\n\nIn Brussels, Hungary is seen as the main hurdle that could scupper Ukraine's ambitions.\n\nPrime Minister Viktor Orban was recently photographed shaking hands with Russia's Vladimir Putin and he has been critical of sending more military support to Ukraine.\n\nIn the early days of the EU, enlargement was driven by the need to consolidate Western Europe during the Cold War - and later by the necessity of stabilising the parts of the former Soviet empire that had become independent.\n\nThe renewed Russian threat has revived interest in bringing in Western Balkan and Eastern European countries.\n\n\"European countries understand that we are in systemic conflict with an aggressive Russia,\" says German Michael Gahler. \"The rest of the world is watching how Europe deals with it. If we backtrack on Ukraine, that would be disastrous. We would be seen as unreliable partners for the rest of the world.\"", "The King visited a slice of Korea hidden away in a London suburb\n\nKing Charles became the \"King of Korea Town\" - or New Malden as it's otherwise known - on a royal visit on Wednesday.\n\nThis unobtrusive London suburb claims to have the biggest concentration of Korean people anywhere in Europe.\n\nThe King chatted to crowds crammed outside the Seoul Plaza supermarket, on a high street full of Korean businesses and takeaways.\n\nThe royal trip comes ahead of this month's state visit to Britain by South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol.\n\nThe King has described his vision of Britain as being a \"community of communities\".\n\nAnd here he seemed to really enjoy visiting the place known as \"Korea Town\", named after the 20,000 Koreans living around this part of the south-west London Borough of Kingston.\n\nCouncillor Park introduced the King to the local Korean community\n\nThere was K-Pop playing to greet the King when he arrived to meet members of the Korean community gathered inside the town's Methodist church.\n\nThis is on a street that, despite the rainy November weather, is a little slice of Seoul food. Adverts in the window are for Korean sports teams, a K-Pop competition and a Korean language church.\n\nThere's a job advert for bus drivers with its own Korean language helpline. Possibly gangway rather than Gangnam Style.\n\nThe supermarket is full of the national vegetable dish, called kimchi, and later this month this part of London will be the first in Europe to celebrate Korea's \"Kimchi Day.\"\n\nA Korean photo booth was shown to the King\n\nOn such royal trips, it's unmistakable how much the King enjoys meeting the crowds.\n\nDitching the initial script, he dived into an impromptu walkabout and several more after the official greetings - so much so that his own Bentley was more or less tailing him to scoop him inside at the end.\n\nIt's not all tame stuff either. The crowds were there to cheer him, but there were a couple of placards dotted around - Not My King and Help Gaza were visible - but he goes into the crowd in a way that few politicians would now contemplate.\n\nHe was also wearing a Black Poppy Rose badge for the visit, as well as a conventional poppy, remembering black veterans from Caribbean and African communities.\n\nInside the Cake and Bing Soo cafe, an Earl Grey-flavoured birthday cake was presented to the King in honour of his 75th birthday next week.\n\nThe King was shown the type of Korean food on offer in New Malden\n\nChatting to a representative from a senior citizens' group, he asked about the age of admittance. When he was told it was 65 years old, he said with a shrug: \"I've certainly passed that mark.\"\n\nThere was a more serious chat with some North Koreans, asking them how they had left and was it by crossing the border into China.\n\nTimothy Cho told the King he had escaped that way, and later he talked about how he had initially been deported back from China to North Korea and that he's now campaigning for such escapees to be sent from China to another third country.\n\nHe eventually escaped by being deported to the Philippines.\n\nKorean food was on sale in the local supermarket\n\nBut why have so many Koreans settled in New Malden?\n\nIt depends who you ask. There are claims it dates back to Samsung having offices here once. Or that a South Korean ambassador had a residence here.\n\nNeither seem convincing to some of the locals.\n\nCouncillor Elizabeth Park, wearing Korean national dress for the visit, said: \"My theory is education - there were very good schools. And it's a safe place.\"\n\nAnother suggestion was that Koreans needed to be near Korean food, which is now in abundance on this rainy high street.\n\nSouth Korean ambassador, Yeocheol Yoon, said the Korean \"craving for our own food is strong\".\n\nKorean culture has been a remarkable export story in recent years, down to the King chatting to young people here about Korean music.\n\nWhy has Korean culture caught on so much?\n\n\"I've got my own wacky personal interpretation. Koreans can be very emotional and get wild,\" he says, and he believes that intensity lends itself to creativity.\n\n\"It's like Korean food. It's tangy. You get addicted once you have a taste,\" said the ambassador, who welcomed the King to this small pocket of Korea.\n\nThat gift for performance clearly goes right up the chain.\n\nWhen President Yoon Suk Yeol visited US President Joe Biden, the South Korean president gave a stirring and surprising rendition of \"American Pie\".\n\nWhether such diplomatic karaoke is likely during his visit to Buckingham Palace remains to be seen.", "Michael Matheson racked up nearly £11,000 in roaming charges on a parliament iPad while abroad last year\n\nA Scottish government minister racked up nearly £11,000 in roaming costs on his parliament iPad while in Morocco.\n\nMichael Matheson said he was using the device for constituency work, but had not switched over to the parliament's current mobile contract.\n\nOfficials tried to challenge the bill, but the company declined to waive any of the charges.\n\nMr Matheson has agreed to pay £3,000 towards the bill from his expenses budget.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament has said it will pay the remainder from its own budget.\n\nRoaming charges are incurred when a mobile device connects to a local network outside of the UK rather than to wifi.\n\nAccording to The Telegraph, which first reported the story, Mr Matheson took the iPad with him on a week-long visit to Morocco with his family around Christmas last year.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Matheson told the paper he was not aware of a \"problem with his device at the time, which has since been resolved\".\n\nThis was said to have involved an old sim card in the iPad, which had not been replaced, the paper said.\n\nAt the time the Falkirk West MSP was the net zero, energy and transport secretary in Nicola Sturgeon's government, but he has since been appointed health secretary under Humza Yousaf.\n\nRoaming charges are the higher prices that mobile networks charge for your device use when abroad.\n\nIt has always been more expensive the moment you leave Europe, with some providers charging £7 a megabyte for data and nearly £4 a minute to make or receive a phone call, according to personal finance site MoneySavingExpert.\n\nThe costs for using your device overseas can vary wildly depending on the contract.\n\nSome companies offer daily charges. For instance, you can pay £5 a day for worldwide use and you will be able to use your phone or tablet just as you do at home.\n\nThe advice from personal finance writers is always the same: If in doubt, play it safe and turn roaming off.\n\nIt is understood Mr Matheson was using an old sim card from the parliament's previous provider EE. Its current contract is with Vodafone.\n\nBefore each recess, Holyrood contacts MSPs to remind them they could incur \"expensive out of tariff charges\" if travelling outside of Europe without a roaming bundle from IT.\n\nA spokesperson for the Scottish Parliament confirmed the total of roaming charges incurred by Mr Matheson was £10,935.74.\n\nThey said: \"As the member was still using the parliament's previous mobile provider, and hadn't yet switched to our present contract, he incurred significant data fees over and above its 'rest of the world' tariff rate.\n\n\"The parliament challenged the company over the scale of the data fees and over the late warning to the rising cost, but the company declined to meet or waive any of the charges.\n\n\"On the basis that the member has assured the parliament that these costs were incurred in relation to parliamentary business and not for personal or government use, we agreed that Mr Matheson would contribute £3,000 from his office cost provision and the remainder would be paid centrally by the parliament.\"\n\nCraig Hoy, the Scottish Conservatives chairman, called on Mr Matheson to pay the full bill from his own pocket.\n\nHe said: \"It's absolutely scandalous that taxpayers are picking up an enormous tab for Michael Matheson's mistake.\n\nHe said: \"Even if we are to believe that he racked up this bill doing parliamentary and constituency work on a festive holiday in Morocco, the onus was on him to connect to the wifi where he was staying or check with the network provider to avoid brutal roaming charges.\"\n\nShe said: \"What on earth could Mr Matheson have been doing to justify the public coughing up for this - the SNP is on a different planet when it comes to wasting taxpayers' cash.\n\n\"The Scottish public should not have to pick up this eye-watering bill for Michael Matheson.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "If you were expecting a bombshell testimony from Ivanka Trump today, you will be disappointed.\n\nWhat we did hear was Donald Trump's daughter repeatedly saying she could not recall various business emails that were shown in court.\n\nIvanka was the final witness called by the prosecution team. Now Donald Trump's legal team will call their own witnesses.\n\nThat may include cross examinations of some names we have already heard from in this trial, potentially even Donald Jr and Eric Trump.\n\nOur writers in court today were Chloe Kim, Kayla Epstein and Madeline Halpert.\n\nFor a full wrap of what happened today, you can check out this article.", "Guardians of the Galaxy was one of Disney's success stories\n\nThe big problems at Disney have been fixed, the boss of the entertainment giant has told investors.\n\nBoss Bob Iger said he believed the company was entering a new \"era of building\", after a painful year focused on job cuts and restructuring.\n\nHe said the moves were paying off in bigger savings and other growth.\n\n\"While we still have work to do ... our progress has allowed us to move beyond this period of fixing and begin building our business again,\" he said.\n\nDisney has been grappling with a sharp decline in its traditional television and movie business.\n\nLast year, the board of the company abruptly recalled Mr Iger from retirement and reinstated him as chief executive, as the company grew alarmed by big losses incurred by its new streaming business, Disney+.\n\nThe company's stock price has dropped by more than half since its 2021 peak, and it has remained the target of activist investors who are impatient for improvement.\n\nLosses in its streaming business are narrowing, Disney said.\n\nThe core streaming offering, which does not include Hotstar in India, added nearly 7 million subscribers over the three months ended in September, as films such as Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Little Mermaid and Elemental drove people to the platform.\n\nThe unexpectedly strong gains helped to shrink operating losses to $420m (£341m), compared with more than $1.4bn at the same time last year.\n\nDisney has been making other moves to enhance its online offerings, which also include the sports-focused ESPN+.\n\nIt also recently announced it would move forward to acquire the third it did not already own of Hulu, which offers general audience material, as opposed to family or children-specific viewing.\n\nMr Iger said the company, which recently raised its prices, would launch a trial version within weeks that combines Hulu and Disney+ shows.\n\n\"Integrating Disney+ along with Hulu and ESPN in the future will put the company in a strong position to drive [subscribers], engagement and importantly revenue either through subscription or advertising,\" said Paolo Pescatore of analysts PP Foresight.\n\nMr Iger said the entertainment giant was on track to slash expenses by $7.5bn - a boost of some $2bn more than his original target.\n\nThe move follows more than 8,000 job cuts at the company and coincides with a strike by Hollywood actors, which has put productions on hold.\n\nMr Iger blamed some of Disney's woes on an emphasis on quantity over quality, as it tried to expand its offerings for the streaming service.\n\nHe said the company was now focused on producing fewer, better titles, which could help improve its profits and popularity.\n\nThe company said it expected to spend $25bn on content over the next 12 months, of which 40% will go to purchasing sports rights. That is $2bn less than the current year.\n\nOverall, revenue grew 5% over the three months ended in September to $21.2bn. It increased 7% over the company's financial year, which ended 30 September.\n\nThe company reported profit of $264m in the quarter and nearly $2.4bn (£1.9bn) for the year.\n\n\"These results will give CEO Bob Iger some breathing room to shift into what he calls a 'building' phase,\" said Insider Intelligence principal analyst Paul Verna. But he added \"There are still massive challenges ahead.\"", "Alfie Lewis has been named locally after the stabbing near Horsforth School on Tuesday\n\nA 15-year-old boy who died after a stabbing near a school in Leeds has been named as Alfie Lewis.\n\nEmergency services were called to Town Street in Horsforth, near St Margaret's Primary School, just before 15:00 GMT on Tuesday, West Yorkshire Police said.\n\nFormer Horsforth School student Alfie later died in hospital and two boys were arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nPolice said a 14-year-old remained in custody while the other boy, age 16, had been released without charge.\n\nFloral tributes at the scene of the fatal stabbing in Horsforth, Leeds\n\nTributes were being left at the scene on Wednesday morning.\n\nPaul Bell, head of Horsforth School, said he had been \"overwhelmed\" by the kindness and support of the local community.\n\nHe added: \"Everyone's thoughts and sympathies lie with the boy's family and friends.\n\n\"A tragedy like this is a huge shock to our school and local community, and we understand that people will be deeply affected by this rare incident. However, we know the community will rally together to support each other during this very sad and difficult time.\"\n\nMr Bell said the school was working with Leeds City Council and others agencies to support students and staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBBC research suggests this was the 16th confirmed fatal stabbing in West Yorkshire this year, with six of the victims being teenagers.\n\nReacting to the news during a visit to a school in Lincolnshire, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said: \"My heart goes out to [Alfie's] family and friends. They've lost a friend and this is awful.\"\n\nA bench on Broadgate Lane, about half a mile from the scene, has been covered with flowers and on the ground tealight candles have been arranged to spell out Alfie's name.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Look North in Horsforth, teenagers Maisie, 14, and Holly, 17, described Alfie as \"one of a kind\" and \"amazing\".\n\n\"He was a beautiful soul,\" Maisie said, \"always dancing around, laughing [he was] absolutely lovely, so understanding. It's horrible.\"\n\nHolly said she had been messaging Alfie about \"an hour before it happened\" and added: \"I never thought it would be Alfie. It's the most awful feeling ever.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Close friends pay tribute to 15-year-old Alfie Lewis who was stabbed in Leeds\n\nEarlier, a special service was held at nearby St Margaret's Church to pray for those affected by the stabbing and a book of condolence opened for the teenager.\n\nThe Rev Nigel Sinclair said \"the whole community had been touched by Alfie's death\".\n\n\"I think people are asking 'why us?'. Knife crime we know is everywhere and it's such a terrible thing and you hear about it in other places but you never quite expect it on your own doorstep,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he had attended a vigil on Tuesday night at the bench on Broadgate Lane, with young people gathering to lay flowers and set off fireworks.\n\nHe said: \"I found the young people with such dignity, just remembering their friend.\n\n\"They had an incredible firework display, performed so safely. It was really quite staggering.\n\n\"People talk about violence and people talk about all the anger around but actually the same young people have got so much love and support for each other.\"\n\nA book of condolence has been opened at St Margaret's Church\n\nHorsforth, five miles north west of Leeds city centre, is generally regarded as a safe place to live and is known for its green spaces and good schooling.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, parents were on the way to pick up their children from a local primary and teenagers were leaving the town's secondary when the stabbing took place.\n\nAfter dark, more than 50 people gathered at a seating area where Alfie regularly met with friends. Tealights were lit, flowers were placed on the bench and some fireworks were set off.\n\nOne neighbour of the boy's family told me her emotions were of \"sadness and anger\", with yet another young life lost as a result of a knife.\n\nA short distance up the hill from the scene of the attack, St Margaret's Church is keeping its doors open for anyone who requires a space for reflection and prayer.\n\nA book of condolence has also been opened, with the Wednesday morning Communion service focused on Alfie and the passers-by who were caught up in a tragedy which has shocked the town.\n\nIn addition to tributes left the scene, a fundraising page set up in support of Alfie's family has raised more than £9,200 since it was launched.\n\nMatt Healy, who created the page, described Alfie as a \"kind and thoughtful\" boy who \"had all of his friends' best interests at heart\".\n\n\"He was everything a 15-year-old child should be and his life was senselessly taken from him before he had the chance to grow into it,\" he wrote.\n\nAlison Lowe, deputy mayor for policing and crime in West Yorkshire, said she was \"devastated\" to learn of the latest death.\n\n\"I will be liaising closely with West Yorkshire Police and partners to ensure we are doing all we can to provide reassurance and support in the days and weeks to come,\" she added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPassengers on the Spirit of Discovery have described a state of fear on board the cruise ship after it was hit by a storm in the Bay of Biscay.\n\nAbout 100 people were injured when the ship veered dramatically during a safety manoeuvre on Saturday.\n\nMost of the injuries were described as minor by cruise company Saga, but five people were taken to hospital when the ship docked in Portsmouth on Monday.\n\nOne passenger said some of those on board \"feared for their lives\".\n\n\"People were writing texts to their loved ones in case we capsized,\" the passenger told BBC News.\n\n\"The tone of voice in our captain... he was physically scared. We had crew crying. We had many passengers in awful states of fear.\n\n\"To say 'minor injuries' is an insult to the many horrific broken bones, pelvises, lacerations, stitches etc. that were caused [to] a very old passenger clientele.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A passenger told the BBC \"tables were flying\" and the waves were \"throwing people around all up and down the place\"\n\nThe ship departed for a 14-day cruise around the Canary Islands on 24 October with about 1,000 people on board.\n\nA decision was made to return to the UK early due to worsening weather, but on Saturday the vessel encountered a storm in the Bay of Biscay - where boats often encounter notoriously rough seas.\n\nIt was here that the ship's safety system kicked in, causing the vessel to veer suddenly to the left and effectively stop. A Saga spokesperson said most of the injuries occurred during this sudden movement.\n\nThe ship was subsequently held in position until weather conditions improved.\n\nJan Bendall said she and her husband were \"holding on for dear life\" as the ship moved\n\nJan Bendall, 75, who was on the cruise with her husband, said they were in their cabin when the captain's voice came over the speaker system and told them to \"remain seated or lie down\".\n\nShe said after the ship halted, it was stationary for about 15 hours whilst \"caught in the middle of the storm\", during which she and her husband were \"holding on for dear life\".\n\n\"It was quite frightening,\" she said. \"I'm not somebody who frightens easily... it was quite dramatic.\"\n\nShe went on: \"We were lucky - we're quite able-bodied, but I think some of the older people and people in their own cabins were quite worried.\"\n\nOne passenger said the ship was stationary for about 15 hours whilst \"caught in the middle of the storm\"\n\nPassenger Alan Grisedale, who filmed the huge waves, said the swell knocked his wife over and moved furniture in their cabin.\n\nAnother passenger told the BBC \"tables were flying\" and the waves were \"throwing people around all up and down the place\".\n\nMrs Bendall said part of the dining room was converted into \"a makeshift medical area\" and passengers were told to stay in their cabins for the rest of Saturday and all of Sunday.\n\nDespite the ordeal, she said the staff were \"absolutely fantastic\".\n\nShe said the crew and captain gave regular updates and repeatedly reassured passengers \"the ship is safe\".\n\nShe and her husband disembarked at about 09:00 GMT on Tuesday and described seeing workers replacing glass doors, windows and partitions that had been smashed in the storm.\n\nSaga confirmed there had been \"very limited\" damage to some fixtures inside the ship but it \"remained safe at all times\".\n\n\"While the weather is clearly beyond our control, we want to offer our sincere apologies to all those affected who are now safely on their way home in calmer seas,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nWere you on board the Spirit of Discovery cruise ship? Share your experiences, email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, X, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A video shared on social media shows a \"firenado\" sweeping through Tennant Creek in Australia's Northern Territories.\n\nSilverBridle Contracting, a company working in the area at the time, posted the video on Facebook on 31 October and said there was \"absolutely nothing we could do but sit back and watch\".\n\nAccording to the US's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, this weather phenomenon occurs when heat from a wildfire rises quickly, leaving an empty space behind it. Air floods into that gap, creating an updraft that brings the fire with it.\n\nThe current bushfire season in Australia comes after several years of record-breaking floods, which followed the Black Summer bushfires in 2019-20, which themselves followed years of drought.", "The rapper is definitely not a happy bunny about the new AI track using his voice\n\nRapper Bad Bunny has released a furious rant about a viral TikTok song that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to replicate his voice.\n\nThe track has hundreds of thousands of views and also uses fake vocals from Justin Bieber and Daddy Yankee.\n\nIn a post on his WhatsApp channel, Bad Bunny said anyone who liked the song NostalgIA should leave the group chat.\n\n\"You don't deserve to be my friends,\" the singer wrote in Spanish. \"I don't want them on the tour either.\"\n\nThe track was uploaded by a user under the name flowgptmusic, but there's no evidence to say they're linked to the AI platform FlowGPT - which is powered in a similar way to ChatGPT.\n\nBad Bunny - real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio - also used expletives to describe the song in his post on WhatsApp, where he has 19 million followers.\n\nThe Monaco and Fina singer, 29, has more than 83 million monthly listeners on Spotify and is rumoured to be in a relationship with model Kendall Jenner - but the pair haven't confirmed this publicly.\n\nBBC Newsbeat has approached Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny's record label for a comment about the AI track.\n\nJustin Bieber and Daddy Yankee haven't publicly commented on it, but Newsbeat has reached out to them too.\n\nIt's not the first time stars have hit out at AI-generated tracks.\n\nIn April, Drake and The Weeknd had their voices cloned for Heart On My Sleeve by a creator known as @ghostwriter.\n\nThe song went viral online and later had to be removed from Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer after Drake said it was \"the final straw\".\n\nThe software works by analysing huge amounts of music in order to create something new - but there are currently no clear laws in place about who owns the copyright.\n\nHowever, some people in the industry have said AI can be a useful tool for creating music and the technology should be embraced.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, the boss of Spotify said it wouldn't ban AI tracks from the platform, but drew the line at artists' voices being cloned.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Dustin Lance Black (left) had been accused of twisting a woman's wrist at a Soho nightclub\n\nThe assault case against Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black has been dismissed mid-trial.\n\nMr Black, who is married to Olympic champion Tom Daley, was accused of assaulting Teddy Edwardes at a nightclub in Soho on 18 August 2022.\n\nHe was alleged to have twisted the presenter's wrist \"very hard\".\n\nBut the judge at Westminster Magistrates' Court dismissed the charge, citing inconsistencies in Ms Edwardes's evidence.\n\nDistrict Judge Louisa Ciecora told the court: \"(Edwardes) said in her evidence at one point that she could not remember a wrist grab.\n\n\"She then said that she was sure that it did happen - and that was an obvious contradiction.\"\n\nThe judge added CCTV footage was \"not clear\" due to \"the angle of the camera\".\n\nThe decision means Mr Black and Mr Daley do not need to take the stand.\n\nIt follows a submission from Helena Duong, defending, who said the prosecution failed to prove Mr Black grabbed Ms Edwardes' wrist and that he had grabbed Ms Edwardes's drink and spilled it on the floor.\n\nMs Duong added it was Ms Edwardes, who presents the Big Pride Party Agency on BBC Three, who had shown aggression.\n\nIt was an agreed fact in the case that Ms Edwardes punched Mr Black in the back of the head. She received a police caution for the punch, the court was told.\n\nSpeaking to the press after the hearing, Mr Black, who won an Oscar for best original screenplay for 2008's Milk, described the judge's dismissal as a \"moment of exoneration\".\n\nHe said: \"This case has flown in the face of everything that I am.\n\n\"I am very grateful to the judge for exonerating me.\"\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 15-year-old boy died after he was assaulted near a school\n\nA murder investigation has been launched after a 15-year-old boy was stabbed near a school in north west Leeds.\n\nEmergency services were called to Town Street in Horsforth, near St Margaret's Primary School, just before 15:00 GMT on Tuesday, West Yorkshire Police said.\n\nThe boy, a former student at nearby Horsforth School, later died in hospital.\n\nOne teenage boy has been arrested in connection with the incident.\n\nInitial reports suggested there had been two arrests.\n\nDet Ch Insp Stacey Atkinson, said: \"Our investigation is at an early stage and we are carrying out extensive enquiries to establish exactly what led to this needless loss of a young man's life.\n\n\"We understand the immense impact and huge shock a tragic incident of this nature will have on the community locally.\"\n\nA number of police vans remain at the scene\n\nAbout 50 young people gathered at a candlelight vigil on Tuesday evening in Broadgate Lane, about half a mile from the police cordon.\n\nPeople were hugging each other, with some wiping away tears, as they clustered around a bench covered in floral tributes.\n\nA parent at the school, who did not wish to be named, said: \"It's horrible. It's shocking because it's a nice area.\n\n\"You read about these things happening in London and you think it's dangerous to be a teenager there, but you don't think it would happen here.\n\n\"He probably went out this morning and they were expecting him to come home, and he's not there.\"\n\nPolice officers were speaking to parents outside the school in Horsforth\n\nPudsey, Horsforth and Aireborough MP Stuart Andrew said: \"The terrible news in Horsforth today is deeply shocking and distressing and my heartfelt sympathy goes to the family of the victim.\n\n\"I cannot imagine how they will be feeling and my thoughts and prayers are with them at this dreadful time.\"\n\nMr Andrew said he was also thinking about the pupils, teachers and staff at Horsforth school who he said would be \"devastated\".\n\n\"The whole community will be stunned by this as the school is such a proud part of the town which is a peaceful and welcoming place,\" he added.\n\nEarlier, in a message to parents, Paul Bell, head of Horsforth School, said: \"You will be aware of a distressing incident in the community today, involving a former student of Horsforth School who was stabbed on St Margaret's Avenue.\"\n\nDr Bell said the school was aware of the distress and upset the incident had caused to students and staff and said the school would offer all the support it could to them.\n\nThe police cordon remained in place on Wednesday morning, with several bus routes diverted.\n\nCouncillor John Garvani, who represents the Horsforth ward on Leeds City Council, said: \"It's a rare occurrence across the country, but when it happens on your own doorstep it's a real shock to the community.\n\n\"I've offered any help that I can - or ward colleagues can - give to the school.\"\n\nThe police cordon in Horsforth remained in place on Tuesday morning\n\nThe Labour councillor said counselling would be offered to affected pupils and staff.\n\nHe continued: \"It must be a horrific incident to witness, it must be difficult to understand how they are feeling and I think there will be quite a few people in shock.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has put law and order at the centre of the King's Speech as he sets out his priorities ahead of the next general election.\n\nTougher sentences for the most serious criminals and measures to force offenders to appear in the dock are among those to feature in the government's plans for the year.\n\nLabour said the government had just repackaged previously announced ideas.\n\nAnd some past pledges made by the Conservatives were notably absent.\n\nIt was the first King's Speech in more than 70 years, following the death of the Queen last year, and King Charles's first as monarch, although he stood in for his mother in May 2022.\n\nIt was also Mr Sunak's first as prime minister - and could be his last before the next general election, which is expected next year and must happen by the end of January 2025.\n\nWith the Conservatives lagging behind Labour in the polls, Mr Sunak is hoping to showcase key policies and draw dividing lines with the opposition to win over voters.\n\nAlthough the speech is written by the government, it is delivered by the monarch in a neutral tone, to avoid any appearance of political support.\n\nA phased ban on smoking, reform of the leasehold system and a bill to ensure licences for oil and gas projects in the North Sea are awarded annually were also among measures outlined.\n\nBut supporters of a ban on so-called conversion therapy to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity - which has been promised since 2018 - will be disappointed it is not included.\n\nThere is also no mention of a bill to ban the import of hunting trophies into Great Britain - a Conservative manifesto commitment at the last election.\n\nMeanwhile, campaigners have criticised a delay to new laws on e-scooters, with the government only promising to consult on possible regulations.\n\nThe prime minister traditionally walks alongside the leader of the opposition as MPs file into the chamber for the King's Speech\n\nA key focus of the speech was keeping the public safe and improving justice for victims.\n\nPlans include a bill, covering England and Wales, to implement past promises to ensure offenders who commit murders with sexual or sadistic motives will spend the rest of their lives in prison.\n\nThere would also be tougher sentences for grooming gang members and those who murder their partner at the end of a relationship.\n\nBut with many prisons overcrowded, there are plans for most sentences of less than 12 months to be suspended.\n\nThis would mean for less serious crimes, offenders can stay out of prison if they comply with requirements set by the court.\n\nThe Criminal Justice Bill will include measures to make clear \"reasonable force\" can be used to make criminals appear in the dock, with offenders who refuse given two extra years in prison.\n\nMinisters announced plans for such a law earlier this year, following high-profile cases of offenders refusing to appear for their sentencing such as the baby killer Lucy Letby and Jordan McSweeney - who was convicted of murdering Zara Aleena.\n\nThe bill will also give police the power to enter a building without a warrant to seize stolen goods if they have reasonable proof that the item is inside the property - for example, by a stolen mobile phone which is broadcasting its position.\n\nOther measures set out in the speech include:\n\nThe King and Queen are seated on their thrones in the House of Lords for the state opening\n\nThe prime minister said the speech was about \"taking long-term decisions to build a brighter future for our country\".\n\nMr Sunak is seeking to present himself as a clear change from his predecessors, despite 13 years of a Conservative government, by highlighting measures including plans to phase out the sale of cigarettes in England.\n\nHowever, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the speech offered only \"sticking plasters\" and was \"a plan for more of the same\".\n\nHe added that it offered \"no change\" on public services or the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nThere were also attempts to set political traps for Labour.\n\nFor example, a new bill would force ministers to run an oil and gas licensing round every year - something which normally happens anyway.\n\nReading the speech, the King, who has previously championed environmental issues, said the measure would help the country transition to net zero by 2050 \"without adding undue burdens on households\".\n\nLabour has said it would honour existing licenses for projects granted before the next general election, but would not allow any new ones if it won power.\n\nAny vote on the bill could be tricky for Labour, which has seen internal divisions over the issue.\n\nWith little time to pass new legislation ahead of the next general election, around a third of the 20 or so bills have been carried over from last year's parliamentary session or previously published in some form.\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey accused the government of being \"out of touch and out of ideas\", saying the speech failed to address issues including the cost of living, the NHS and sewage pollution.\n\nSNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn said the government had not taken steps which he said could increase economic growth, including more migration.\n\nSome previous pledges have also been watered down.\n\nThe speech included a promise to make it cheaper and easier for leaseholders to purchase their freehold and to tackle the \"exploitation of millions of homeowners through punitive service charges\".\n\nBut the bill would only ban leaseholds in England and Wales for new houses, not flats - which make up around 70% of leasehold homes.\n\nHousing Secretary Michael Gove had previously promised to scrap the leasehold system, which means some homeowners must pay expensive maintenance charges and ground rent.\n\nMeanwhile, the Renters Reform Bill, which includes a long-promised ban on \"no-fault evictions\" in England will continue its journey through Parliament.\n\nHowever, the government has said the ban will only come into force after the court system is reformed.\n\nA proposal from Home Secretary Suella Braverman to restrict the use of tents by rough sleepers in England and Wales was not included in the speech.\n\nHowever, a source close to Mrs Braverman insisted it had not been dropped, despite a backlash from homelessness charities, opposition parties and some Tories.", "Over three decades, George Alagiah was a familiar and much-loved presence on British screens\n\nHundreds of people attended a memorial service for BBC News presenter George Alagiah, who died in July. Colleagues and family members alike paid tribute to one of British television's best-loved figures.\n\nOn 7 July 2023, three weeks before he died, George Alagiah dictated to his wife Frances the words he wanted to be read aloud at his memorial.\n\n\"It is a painful yet exclusive luxury to be living with cancer because for the most part it is a story of a death foretold,\" he began. \"Many of us cancer patients know that our time is running out so there is time for reflection. It is not the brutality of a car crash.\"\n\nNearly four months later, 800 of George's friends, colleagues and family members listened as Sophie Raworth, his former BBC Six O'Clock News co-presenter, shared his final thoughts with the world.\n\nIt was, for everyone present at St Martin-in-the-Fields church, near London's Trafalgar Square, a deeply emotional moment. The congregation had gathered to remember one the BBC's longest-serving and most highly respected journalists - an award-winning foreign correspondent and a fixture on BBC News for three decades.\n\nBut everyone in the church knew George Alagiah was much more besides - a devoted husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend. And during the service of celebration, colleagues and loved ones alike spoke of his most human qualities - his empathy, compassion and kindness.\n\nBBC special correspondent Allan Little, who worked with George at the BBC's Bureau in Johannesburg and was a close friend, described a ground-breaking reporter who was instrumental in bringing diverse perspectives to the BBC's newsroom.\n\n\"In his reporting there was always the outstretched hand of a shared humanity,\" Little said. \"George wasn't just a good reporter, he was also a good man.\"\n\nThe service began with the London African Gospel Choir performing Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika\n\nThe service began with the London African Gospel Choir performing Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika - a song which, when George began covering South Africa in the 1980s, risked a jail sentence for anyone who sang it. Today it is part of the national anthem. Such was the enormity of the events to which George had faithfully borne witness, said the vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, The Rev Dr Sam Wells.\n\nGeorge Maxwell Alagiah was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka - then called Ceylon - on 22 November 1955, before his family moved to Ghana in the wake of ethnic unrest. He and his siblings were later educated in England.\n\nHis sisters, Mari Martin, Rachel Stojan, Chris Dennington and Jenny Johnson, spoke of the profound impact of these migrations on their childhoods. \"Our parents must have instilled in us a sense of adventure,\" Mari said, \"because we never felt fear or trepidation.\"\n\nBut this did not come without hardship for George. The congregation heard how he later wrote about the racist bullying he received at his boarding school in Portsmouth, as well as the dawning of his belief that the UK was a country where \"class trumps race every time\".\n\nThe service heard stories, too, of George's days at Durham University, where he met Frances and made lifelong friendships. George's sons, Adam Alagiah-Glomseth and Matthew Alagiah, read passages from their father's books.\n\nOn a screen, a montage of photographs showed George at work around the world and at home with his family. It was accompanied by Steve Rosenberg, the BBC's Russia editor, on piano. Later, Natasha Kaplinsky - also once George's Six O'Clock News co-presenter - read Maya Angelou's When Great Trees Fall.\n\n\"To a whole generation of audiences, he was the very best of us,\" BBC director general Tim Davie told all those present.\n\nAt the very end of the order of service, the following item was scheduled: \"A final round of applause for George; exactly one minute; cheering allowed.\"\n\nAllan Little implored congregants to do as suggested and make as much noise as possible. \"For precisely 60 seconds, take the roof off St Martin-in-the-Fields,\" he said.\n\nThey obliged. For somewhat longer than a minute, the church thundered with the sound of applause.\n\nAnd as the congregation left the building, they carried with them George Alagiah's own words, as read by Sophie Raworth.\n\nHe had left them all the following instructions:\n\n\"If you haven't already told the people you love that you love them, tell them;\n\n\"If you haven't already told them how vulnerable you sometimes feel, tell them;\n\n\"If you want to tell them that you'd like to be with them until the front hall stairs feel like Everest, tell them.\n\n\"You never know what is coming around the corner.\n\n\"And if, lucky you, there is nothing around the corner, then at least you got your defence in first.\"", "Crocodiles are protected under Northern Territory and Australian legislation\n\nAn Australian farmer says he is lucky to be alive after repelling a crocodile attack by biting back at the animal.\n\nCattle producer Colin Deveraux has spent a month in hospital after being bitten by the 3.2m (10ft) saltwater crocodile in the Northern Territory.\n\nHe told ABC News he bit the crocodile's eyelid in his struggle to survive.\n\nMr Deveraux said his ordeal began after he stopped at a billabong (lake) while he was travelling to build fencing near the Finniss River last month.\n\nHe paused by the lake after noticing fish swimming in the middle of its retreating waters. After he stepped away again, the crocodile \"latched\" onto his right foot, shaking him like a \"rag doll\" and pulling him into the water.\n\nMr Deveraux told ABC he first tried kicking the crocodile in the ribs with his other foot - before biting the reptile back.\n\n\"I was in such an awkward position… but by accident my teeth caught his eyelid. It was pretty thick, like holding onto leather, but I jerked back on his eyelid and he let go.\n\n\"I leapt away and took off with great steps up to where my car was. He chased me for a bit, maybe four metres, but then stopped.\"\n\nMr Deveraux said he used a towel and some rope to stop the bleeding in his leg, before his brother drove him 130km (80 miles) north to the Royal Darwin Hospital.\n\n\"If he [the crocodile] had bitten me somewhere else it would have been different,\" he said.\n\n\"It means I've got to change what I do. I've been walking around that swamp country too long fixing fences and living life, but it's opened my eyes.\"\n\nAccording to the local government, crocodiles are the basis for an important industry in the Northern Territory and are protected by law.\n\nThey are considered to be of huge scientific and human interest as well as a valuable tourist attraction.\n\nThe last fatal crocodile attack happened in April this year on the Kennedy River in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.", "A firearms officer awarded £30,000 after she was stripped down to her underwear during a training exercise said she felt \"vindicated\" by the decision.\n\nRebecca Kalam received the payout after an employment tribunal heard she was subjected to sexist and derogatory language at West Midlands Police.\n\nShe successfully sued for harassment, sex discrimination and victimisation.\n\nWest Midlands Police said it was considering the judgement findings.\n\nA further claim for future loss of earnings and pensions will be decided in January.\n\nIn an exclusive statement to the BBC, Mrs Kalam said she was \"saddened\" the harassment, discrimination, victimisation and bullying she had experienced had not remained an \"isolated experience\".\n\n\"Only now have West Midlands Police accepted full liability for their many, many failures, yet there remains no clear cultural change or protection for its female officers,\" she said.\n\nDet Insp Kalam was a firearms officer at the force from July 2012\n\nA former detective inspector, Mrs Kalam worked at the force from September 2008 and joined the Firearms Operation Unit in 2012, before medically retiring in July 2023.\n\nThe tribunal in Birmingham heard how in March 2012, she was required to act as a \"stooge\" in a mock training exercise by having her clothes cut off so first aid could be given.\n\nShe said she had felt \"extremely uncomfortable\" during the scenario, based on a bullet hole at the top of her left breast, which officers would have to treat.\n\nShe claimed on another occasion a male officer pushed her down with his foot on the back of her neck while she was doing press-ups, before telling her having breasts \"does not mean you cannot do a press-up\".\n\nThe tribunal heard the force failed to provide her with suitable Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), including ballistic body armour or a handgun with an \"easy trigger pull\" like male officers.\n\nThe officer was also made the \"poster girl\" for the firearms unit and required to undergo a photoshoot when five months pregnant in April 2016, the tribunal heard.\n\nIn a judgement published last week, employment judge Christopher Camp said Mrs Kalam had also suffered \"significant psychiatric injury\" which had left her too unwell to work.\n\nJudge Camp said admitted wrongs had resulted in a \"relatively young\" and \"ambitious\" woman having been \"rendered unable to work for the police again for the foreseeable future\".\n\nMrs Kalam told the BBC \"extraordinary people\" were \"let down\" by managers, senior leadership and a \"litany\" of \"flawed\" disciplinary processes, and she encouraged officers to challenge the behaviour of their peers.\n\n\"I would like to express my sincere appreciation to my witnesses and supporters for their immense courage, much at the risk and detriment to their own careers,\" she added.\n\nA spokesperson for West Midlands Police said it was considering the findings of the judgement\n\nIt was also said that Mrs Kalam, whose husband is a detective sergeant with the force, would have made the rank of superintendent had she not been subjected to discrimination and victimisation.\n\nHer claim for aggravated damages was dismissed but she was awarded compensation of £30,000 for injury to feelings.\n\nShe was previously awarded £3,000 for physical injuries she sustained as a result of unsuitable PPE, including two second-degree burns.\n\nAt the time, she was one of only seven female firearms officers in the unit, which included up to 250 men.\n\n\"I feel sorry for Rebecca and the experience she had, I had the privilege of knowing her, and knew how much she enjoyed her role,\" said former West Midlands Police superintendent Karen Geddes.\n\nSome of the tribunal's findings were not a surprise, she added, as historically departments like firearms had been male dominated.\n\n\"It doesn't matter what uniform you have, if you don't have females to go and put the uniform on, then it will sit in a cupboard.\n\n\"For me, it is what cultural change have you had within the department to ensure that somebody will want to follow after Rebecca, considering the experience she has had.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Scott Green said he was \"sorry that more was not done sooner\" to address the \"serious concerns\" Mrs Kalam had raised.\n\nHe said staff at the firearms unit had worked hard to improve the culture and standards and had made \"significant progress\" in the past two years, with all female officers issued with specific uniform and equipment.\n\n\"There is no place for misogynistic, discriminatory or disrespectful behaviour in policing and we are working hard to set and reinforce the highest professional standards,\" he said.\n\n\"These important steps are helping us to attract and retain the best and most diverse people in firearms policing, and benefit those already working in this critical area and the public they serve.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alfie Lewis's family say \"nothing will ever be the same\" after his death\n\nThe family of a 15-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed near a school in Leeds have said they are \"devastated\".\n\nAlfie Lewis was stabbed close to St Margaret's Primary School in Horsforth just before 15:00 GMT on Tuesday and later died in hospital.\n\nHis family said in a statement that Alfie was \"one in a million\" and \"you will always be with us forever\".\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said a 14-year-old boy had been arrested on suspicion of murder and remained in custody.\n\nA 16-year-old boy who was also arrested on suspicion of murder on Tuesday evening has now been released without charge.\n\nAlfie's family said he had \"the biggest heart\" and took care of everyone around him.\n\nThey added: \"Nothing will ever be the same without you.\n\n\"You will shine in the sky, as bright as you did in all our lives.\n\nA cordon remains in place as forensic examination and specialist searches continue.\n\nPolice have also asked the public to avoid \"unhelpfully speculating\" about Alfie's death.\n\nSenior Investigating Officer Det Ch Insp Stacey Atkinson said: \"We fully appreciate that the murder of a child in these circumstances will cause concern in the community, and we are aware of various discussions and comments on social media.\n\n\"We are still working to build up a clear picture of the circumstances surrounding Alfie's murder and we ask people to leave it to the investigation to find out what led to Alfie's tragic death.\"\n\nFloral tributes at the scene of the fatal stabbing in Horsforth, Leeds\n\nTributes were left at the scene on Wednesday morning and a bench on Broadgate Lane, about half a mile from where Alfie was stabbed, was adorned with flowers and tealights spelling out his name.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Look North in Horsforth, teenagers Maisie, 14, and Holly, 17, described Alfie as \"one of a kind\" and \"amazing\".\n\n\"He was a beautiful soul,\" Maisie said, \"always dancing around, laughing [he was] absolutely lovely, so understanding. It's horrible.\"\n\nHolly said she had been messaging Alfie about \"an hour before it happened\" and added: \"I never thought it would be Alfie. It's the most awful feeling ever.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Close friends pay tribute to 15-year-old Alfie Lewis who was stabbed in Leeds\n\nPaul Bell, head of Horsforth School, where Alfie used to be a student, said his death had been a \"huge shock\" to the school and local community.\n\nHe added: \"Everyone's thoughts and sympathies lie with the boy's family and friends.\"\n\nA special service was held at nearby St Margaret's Church to pray for anyone affected by Alfie's death.\n\nThere was also a vigil on Tuesday night at the bench on Broadgate Lane, with young people gathering to lay flowers and set off fireworks.\n\nThe Rev Nigel Sinclair said: \"I found the young people with such dignity, just remembering their friend.\"\n\nReacting to the news during a visit to a school in Lincolnshire, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said: \"My heart goes out to [Alfie's] family and friends. They've lost a friend and this is awful.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The black and white picture was found in a Victorian photo album\n\nA man depicted on the album cover of Led Zeppelin IV has been revealed as a 19th Century thatcher.\n\nThe figure is most likely Lot Long from Mere in Wiltshire, photographed by Ernest Farmer.\n\nBrian Edwards, from the University of the West of England (UWE), found the original picture when looking through a photograph album for other research.\n\n\"I instantly recognised the man with the sticks - he's often called the stick man,\" he said.\n\nA long-time fan of British rock band Led Zeppelin, he told BBC Radio Wiltshire \"it was quite a revelation\".\n\nWiltshire Museum has since acquired the photograph and plans to include it in an exhibition next year.\n\nReleased in 1971, Led Zeppelin IV has sold more than 37 million copies worldwide and includes the huge hit Stairway to Heaven.\n\nRobert Plant is said to have found a colourised version of the Victorian photo in an antiques shop\n\nThe cover art had previously been described as a photograph of a painting, which was reportedly discovered by the band's lead singer, Robert Plant, in an antique shop near guitarist Jimmy Page's house in Berkshire.\n\nBut the framed image which can be seen on the cover is actually a colourised photograph, the whereabouts of which is now unknown.\n\nMr Edwards - who is part of the regional history centre at UWE in Bristol - explained how he worked out the original photographer was Ernest Farmer, who died in 1944.\n\nThe only clue in the photo album was the photographer's name Ernest, but Mr Edwards discovered hundreds of Victorian photographers with that name.\n\nBrian Edwards said he instantly recognised the thatcher\n\nHe said the quality of the photos suggested they were taken by a professional, and so he looked for chemists, as many of them were involved in photography.\n\nMr Edwards discovered a chemist working in Salisbury, close to where the picture was taken, who had a son called Ernest Farmer, and then found his handwriting online.\n\nMr Farmer was the first head of the school of photography at the then newly-renamed Polytechnic Regent Street, now the University of Westminster.\n\n\"Part of the signatures matches some of the handwriting in the album,\" he said.\n\n\"The black and white photograph has a thumbprint in the corner - it looks like it's the original,\" Mr Edwards added.\n\nThe photo album mostly contains views and architecture from south Wiltshire and Dorset.\n\nIt is titled Reminiscences of a visit to Shaftesbury. Whitsuntide 1892. A present to Auntie from Ernest.\n\nErnest Farmer gave the photo album to his aunt\n\nMr Edwards then set about researching thatchers from that time period, and said his research suggested the man pictured was Lot Long, who died in 1893.\n\nWiltshire Museum's director, David Dawson, said the exhibition in spring next year will be called The Wiltshire Thatcher: a Photographic Journey through Victorian Wessex, and will celebrate Ernest Farmer's work.\n\n\"We will show how Farmer captured the spirit of people, villages and landscapes of Wiltshire and Dorset that were so much of a contrast to his life in London.\n\n\"It is fascinating to see how this theme of rural and urban contrasts was developed by Led Zeppelin and became the focus for this iconic album cover 70 years later,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has apologised for mistakenly revealing details of all its 10,000 staff.\n\nNI's Police Federation said the breach could cause \"incalculable damage\".\n\nIn response to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request, the PSNI had shared names of all police and civilian personnel, where they were based and their roles.\n\nThe details were then published online, before being removed.\n\nApologising to officers, Assistant Chief Constable Chris Todd said the error was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"We operate in an environment, at the moment, where there is a severe threat to our colleagues from Northern Ireland-related terrorism and this is the last thing that anybody in the organisation wants to be hearing this evening.\n\n\"I owe it to all of my colleagues to investigate this thoroughly and we've initiated that.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland police have been the targets of republican paramilitaries - the latest attack was in February.\n\nThe threat to officers means they must be extremely vigilant about their security.\n\nMany, especially from nationalist communities, keep their employment secret, in some cases even from many family members.\n\nThe FoI request had asked the PSNI for a breakdown of all staff rank and grades.\n\nBut as well as releasing a table containing the number of people holding positions such as constable, the PSNI included a spreadsheet.\n\nThis contained the surnames of more than 10,000 individuals, their initials and other data.\n\nIt appears to cover everyone within the PSNI, from Chief Constable Simon Byrne down.\n\nIt does not include any private addresses.\n\nThe scale of this error is enormous.\n\nIt is probably the worst data breach in the organisation's 22-year history.\n\nThe consequences are a little more difficult to evaluate.\n\nHad this contained addresses, it would have been catastrophic in terms of assisting terrorist groups to target officers.\n\nBut the release of employee names could still expose individuals, many of whom take great care to keep who they work for a secret, even, in some cases, from friends and family.\n\nThat the information was published on a website for more than two hours will add to concerns within the workforce.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said he was \"deeply concerned\" by the data breach and that senior PSNI officers were keeping him updated.\n\nThe Police Federation of Northern Ireland, which represents officers' interests, expressed dismay and anger at the incident, calling it a \"breach of monumental proportions\".\n\nPolice officers in Northern Ireland were regularly attacked by republican paramilitary groups during the Troubles and members of the PSNI have also been targeted in gun and bomb attacks in the years following the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nIn February this year, senior PSNI officer Det Ch Insp John Caldwell was seriously injured in a shooting in Omagh, County Tyrone.\n\nThe following month, the terrorism threat level in Northern Ireland was raised from substantial to severe, meaning an attack is highly likely.\n\nThe Police Federation has called for an urgent inquiry.\n\nIts chairman Liam Kelly said: \"Rigorous safeguards ought to have been in place to protect this valuable information which, if in the wrong hands, could do incalculable damage.\n\n\"The men and women I represent are appalled by this breach. They are shocked, dismayed and justifiably angry. Like me, they are demanding action to address this unprecedented disclosure of sensitive information.\"\n\nMr Kelly added that it was fortunate that the PSNI spreadsheet had not given home addresses, saying that would have been a \"potentially calamitous situation\".\n\nBBC News NI understands the contents of the FoI have been seen by current and former PSNI staff.\n\nIt is understood the sensitive information was published online, on the What Do They Know website, before being removed.\n\nSenior police personnel have been meeting to discuss the breach, which is being attributed to human error.\n\nOne person briefed told BBC News NI they were \"very alarmed\" by what had happened, describing it as \"a major breach\".\n\nStormont politicians will attend an emergency meeting on Thursday of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, which oversees the work of the PSNI.\n\nSinn Féin assembly member Gerry Kelly confirmed the meeting, at which he said he would be \"asking why safeguards were not in place to prevent such a breach happening and how quickly measures can be put in place to ensure it won't happen again\".\n\n\"In circumstances where the level of threat is at severe after the attempted murder of DCI John Caldwell there will be huge concern among members of the PSNI and their families and the wider community at this revelation,\" Mr Kelly added.\n\nTrevor Clarke from the Democratic Unionist Party said: \"Any data breach is unacceptable but more so when it discloses personal information identifying rank-and-file officers.\n\n\"This not only jeopardises the safety of officers but will further undermine morale within the organisation at a time when staff are holding the line amid unprecedented budget cuts.\"\n\nThe Alliance Party leader and former Justice Minister Naomi Long said: \"This level of data breach is clearly of profound concern, not least to police officers, civilian staff and their families, who will be feeling incredibly vulnerable and exposed tonight and in the days ahead.\n\n\"That such sensitive information could ever have been held in a manner open to such a breach is unconscionable and will require serious investigation; however, the most urgent issue is supporting those whose security has been compromised.\"\n\nMike Nesbitt from the Ulster Unionist Party, who sits on the Policing Board, asked why there was \"no 'fail safe' mechanism to prevent this information being uploaded\".\n\nHe added that his \"thoughts are with those whose names have been released into the public domain, who had a reasonable expectation this would never happen\".\n\nSocial Democratic and Labour Party leader Colum Eastwood tweeted: \"The level of incompetence involved here is staggering. So dangerous.\"", "A man has been crushed to death by a robot in South Korea after it failed to differentiate him from the boxes of food it was handling, reports say.\n\nThe incident occurred when the man, a robotics company employee in his 40s, was inspecting the robot.\n\nThe robotic arm, confusing the man for a box of vegetables, grabbed him and pushed his body against the conveyer belt, crushing his face and chest, South Korean news agency Yonhap said.\n\nHe was sent to hospital but later died.\n\nAccording to Yonhap, the robot was responsible for lifting boxes of peppers and transferring them onto pallets.\n\nThe man had been checking the robot's sensor operations ahead of its test run at the pepper sorting plant in South Gyeongsang province, scheduled for 8 November, the agency adds, quoting police.\n\nThe test had originally been planned for 6 November, but was pushed back by two days due to problems with the robot's sensor.\n\nThe man, a worker from the company that manufactured the robotic arm, was running checks on the machine late into the night on Wednesday when it malfunctioned.\n\nIn a statement after the incident, an official from the Donggoseong Export Agricultural Complex, which owns the plant, called for a \"precise and safe\" system to be established.\n\nIn March, a South Korean man in his 50s suffered serious injuries after getting trapped by a robot while working at an automobile parts manufacturing plant.", "Banyuls-sur-Mer shares economic, cultural and personal ties with its neighbouring villages in Spain\n\nUp the French coast from the Spanish border, tourists were enjoying a warm autumn day, basking in the Mediterranean and hiking along the arduous coastal paths.\n\nBut behind the idyllic appearances, local feelings have been running high. Two years ago, with little warning, the French government closed four small roads linking this area with its southern neighbour, Spain.\n\nFrance says the aim of the closures is to stop illegal immigration. It has linked the move to anti-terrorism controls.\n\nBut Banyuls-sur-Mer's 6,000 residents have for decades shared numerous economic, cultural and personal ties with the population on the other side of the border in Spain. Posters all across the town now call for the re-opening of the border.\n\nOf the four roads that were shut, the Col de Banyuls has almost mythical status here.\n\nTens of thousands of Spaniards fled along this route to France during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, while many allied forces and Jews escaped in the other direction during the Nazi occupation.\n\nA pressure group of more than 1,000 people has held rallies along the border and gone to court to try and re-open the road. They call themselves \"Alberes without borders\", after this part of the Pyrenees mountain range.\n\n\"Most of the families in Banyuls - my own family, every family - have at different times in history had relatives on one side and part of the family on the other side,\" said the man behind the group, retired lawyer Pierre Becque.\n\nRallies have taken place on the border to try and re-open the road\n\nDriving up the Col de Banyuls, past vineyards, scrubland and cactuses, he says for people like him there is no border: \"In the recent past we would all meet up at various times. Some came to flee Franco, or for work, or better education, or for personal reasons.\"\n\nYou know you've reached the border because massive boulders have been placed in the middle of the road to stop cars going through.\n\nHowever, one of the rocks appears to have been nudged to the side to allow small vehicles through. Pierre Becque winked as he suggested that strong local winds must have pushed it.\n\nCyclists from Switzerland and the UK passed through the boulders oblivious they had broken any law. Two British tourists on mountain bikes, Lisa and Patrick, said there were no signs to turn back and Google Maps told them the road was still open.\n\nCyclists using the route were oblivious that they had broken any law\n\nA French government spokeswoman told the BBC that the purpose behind closing the smaller routes was to allow police to focus on the main roads and rail links between the two countries.\n\nShe said there had been an 82% jump in illegal migration along this part of the border in 2022, and that the roads could be re-opened when joint French-Spanish police units were up and running.\n\nHowever, that appears to be a low priority for now, with France once again on its highest state of terror alert - \"Emergency Attack\" - after a French schoolteacher was fatally stabbed in the northern city of Arras.\n\nThe mayor of Banyuls, Jean-Michel Sole, spends a lot of time with his Spanish counterparts trying to persuade the French government to re-open the border. He believes the arguments for closing the roads make no sense, even with France on maximum terror alert.\n\n\"We all want to feel safe… but I find it hard to believe any terrorist would take a steep remote road to attack who knows who,\" he explained.\n\n\"And immigrants cross on foot, not by car, so a few rocks are not going to stop anyone.\"\n\nJean-Michel Sole is trying to convince his Spanish counterparts to reopen the border\n\nThe border closures are also having an effect on the region's important wine industry.\n\nMore than 120 wine-producers bring their grapes to the biggest co-operative here, L'Etoile. And in the past hundreds of grape-pickers would cross the border for seasonal work.\n\nWhat would have been a 15km (9 mile) trip has now become 80km, says Jean-Pierre Centene, the head of the co-operative.\n\n\"For our Spanish workers it now takes too much time and is too expensive for them so our work ties have been cut.\n\n\"This year grapes withered on the vines because there weren't enough pickers.\"\n\nThe owner of wine cooperative L'Etoile says the road closures mean his business doesn't have enough grape-pickers\n\nOn the Spanish side of the border in the sleepy Catalan village of Espolla, a huge rock taken from the closed border has been placed on display in the main roundabout.\n\nFarmer and local councillor Josep Maria Tegido has also been campaigning against the closed border, arguing that the road has been used for centuries to cross to the other side of the mountain, although he has never seen irregular migrants using it.\n\n\"The closure of the road represents a real impediment to traditional, cultural and economic activities from continuing.\"\n\nChris Bockman is the author of Are you the foie gras correspondent? Another slow news day in south-west France.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The aftermath of a strike on Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp earlier this week\n\nOne of the first things to understand about the reportage, analysis and commentary that has poured out since the Hamas attacks of 7 October is that no-one has the full story. Not only is it, as ever, hard to penetrate the fog of war to work out what is happening on the battlefield. The new shape of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has not yet emerged.\n\nEvents are still moving fast. Fears that the war could spread are very real. New realities in the Middle East are out there somewhere, but their shape and the way that they will work depend on the way this war goes for the rest of the year, and probably beyond.\n\nHere are a few things that we know, and a few that we do not. The list is not exhaustive. Some people mocked Donald Rumsfeld, US defence secretary at the time of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, when he talked of \"unknown unknowns\". But in this part of the world as much as any other, they exist - and when they emerge, they can make a big difference.\n\nOne certainty is that Israelis support the military campaign to break the power in Gaza of Hamas and its junior partner, Islamic Jihad. Their anger is driven by the shock of the Hamas attacks, the killing of more than 1,400 people and the fact that around 240 hostages are still being held in Gaza.\n\nThe Hamas attack on Israel killed 1,400 people, many of them residents of kibbutzes near Gaza\n\nI met Noam Tibon, a retired general in the Israeli army, to hear about how he drove down with his wife to Nahal Oz, a kibbutz on the border with Gaza, after Hamas attacked on 7 October. His mission, which was successful, was to rescue his son, his daughter in law and their two young daughters who were in their safe room, hearing Hamas gunmen roaming around outside.\n\nTibon may be retired but he is a very fit-looking 62-year-old. He ended up armed with an assault rifle and a helmet he had taken from a dead Israeli soldier, leading a group of soldiers he had assembled in the chaos of that day, clearing the kibbutz and saving the lives of his family and many others.\n\nThe general was an old-school, straight-talking Israeli officer.\n\n\"Gaza is going to suffer… no nation will agree that your neighbour will slaughter babies, women or people. Just like you (Britons) crushed your enemy during World War Two. This is what we need to do in Gaza. No mercy.\"\n\nWhat, I asked, about innocent Palestinian civilians who are getting killed?\n\n\"Unfortunately, it's happening. We live in a tough neighbourhood, and we need to survive… we have to be tough. We have no choice.\"\n\nA lot of Israelis are echoing his sentiment that Palestinian civilian deaths are unfortunate, but they are being killed because of the actions of Hamas.\n\nIt is also clear that Israel's assault on Hamas is causing terrible bloodshed. The latest figure for Palestinian deaths from Gaza's health ministry, run by Hamas, has exceeded 9,000 - of whom around 65% are children and women.\n\nIt is not clear how many of the men who have been killed were civilians or fighting for Hamas or Islamic Jihad. US President Joe Biden and the Israelis do not trust the ministry figures. But in past conflicts, Palestinian casualty statistics have been considered accurate by international organisations.\n\nOne grim milestone is fast approaching. The United Nations (UN) says around 9,700 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since the full-scale Russian invasion 21 months ago.\n\nSome of the Palestinian dead would have been part of Hamas. But even if that proportion is as high as 10%, which is unlikely, it means that Israel is on course to have killed as many Palestinian civilians in just over a month as Russia has killed in Ukraine since February 2022. (The UN says its data for Ukraine is incomplete and the true number of civilians killed is likely higher, while in Gaza the number of dead is also likely to be higher as many Palestinians are believed to be buried under rubble).\n\nThe UN has suggested Israeli strikes on Gaza could constitute war crimes\n\nThe UN human rights office has said that so many civilians have been killed and wounded in Israeli air strikes that it has serious concerns that the attacks are disproportionate and could be war crimes.\n\nFrom the first days after the Hamas attacks, President Biden has supported Israel's decision to use military force to remove Hamas from power. But he has also added the qualification that it needed to be done \"the right way\". He meant that Israel should observe the laws of war that protect civilians.\n\nThe US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Tel Aviv. Before he took off, he said: \"When I see a Palestinian child - a boy, a girl - pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building, that hits me in the gut as much as seeing a child from Israel or anywhere else.\"\n\nI have reported on all of Israel's wars in the last 30 years. I do not remember a US administration stating so publicly that Israel needs to observe the laws of war. Blinken's visit suggests that he believes Israel is not following Biden's advice.\n\nSomething else we know for certain is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under great pressure.\n\nUnlike Israel's security and military chiefs, he has not accepted any personal responsibility for the catastrophic series of failures that left Israeli border communities virtually undefended on 7 October.\n\nLast Sunday, 29 October, he caused uproar when he sent out a tweet blaming the intelligence agencies. Mr Netanyahu deleted the message and apologised.\n\nThe Israeli PM has taken the blame from some quarters for the events of 7 October\n\nThree Israelis, a former peace negotiator, the ex-head of the Shin Bet (Israel's internal intelligence agency) and a tech entrepreneur, wrote an article in the journal Foreign Affairs saying that Mr Netanyahu should not have any part of the war and whatever follows. The Israeli PM has loyal supporters, but he has lost the confidence of prominent figures in Israel's military and security establishment.\n\nNoam Tibon, the retired general who fought his way into kibbutz Nahal Oz to rescue his family, compares Mr Netanyahu to Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister who was forced to resign in 1940, and replaced by Winston Churchill.\n\nTibon told me: \"This is the biggest failure in the history of the state of Israel. It was a military failure. It was an intelligence failure. And it was the failure of the government… the one really in charge - and all the blame is on him - is the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu… He is in charge of the biggest failure in the history of Israel.\"\n\nIt is also clear that the old status quo has been smashed. It was unpleasant and dangerous, but it seemed to have a certain grimly-familiar stability. Since the end of the last Palestinian uprising around 2005 a pattern has emerged that Mr Netanyahu believed could be sustained indefinitely. That was a dangerous illusion, for all concerned - Palestinians as well as Israelis.\n\nThe argument went that the Palestinians were no longer a threat to Israel. Instead, they were a problem to be managed. The tools available include sticks, carrots and the ancient tactic of \"divide and rule\".\n\nMr Netanyahu, who has been prime minister for most of the time since 2009 - after an earlier spell between 1996 and 1999 - has argued consistently that Israel does not have a partner for peace.\n\nPotentially, it did. The Palestinian Authority (PA), which is the main rival to Hamas, is a deeply flawed organisation, and many who support it believe its aged President Mahmoud Abbas needs to step aside. But it accepted the idea of establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel back in the 1990s.\n\nMr Netanyahu has tried to drive a wedge between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas (pictured right, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken)\n\n\"Divide and rule\" for Mr Netanyahu meant allowing Hamas to build its power in Gaza at the expense of the PA.\n\nWhile Israel's longest-serving prime minister is always careful about what he says in public, his actions over many years show that he does not want to allow the Palestinians to have an independent state. That would involve giving up land in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which the Israeli right wing believes belongs to the Jews.\n\nFrom time to time, Mr Netanyahu's pronouncements would leak. In 2019, a number of Israeli sources say that he told a group of his Likud members of parliament that if they opposed a Palestinian state they should support schemes to pump money - mostly provided by Qatar - into Gaza. He told them that deepening the division between Hamas in Gaza and the PA in the West Bank would make it impossible to establish a state.\n\nIt is also clear that Israel, backed by the Americans, will not tolerate a deal that allows Hamas to stay in power. That guarantees a lot more bloodshed. It also raises big questions about what or who replaces them, which so far have not been answered.\n\nThe conflict between Arabs and Jews for control of the land between the river Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea has lasted for more than 100 years. One lesson of its long and bloody history is that there will never be a military solution.\n\nIn the 1990s, the Oslo peace process was established to try to end the conflict by establishing a Palestinian state with a capital in East Jerusalem alongside Israel. The last attempt to revive it, after years of on-off negotiations, happened during the Obama administration. It failed a decade ago, and since then the conflict has been allowed to fester.\n\nMore than 20 Israeli soldiers have been killed since Israel began a ground operation in Gaza\n\nAs President Biden and many others have said, the only possible chance for avoiding more wars is to establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel. That will not be possible with the current leaders on either side. Extremists, both Israeli and Palestinian, would do all they could to scupper the idea, as they have done since the 1990s. Some of them believe they are following the will of God, which makes it impossible to persuade them to accept a secular compromise.\n\nBut if this war does not deliver enough of a shock to break deeply-held prejudices and to make the idea of two states viable, nothing will. And without a mutually-acceptable way of ending the conflict, more generations of Palestinians and Israelis will be sentenced to more wars.", "The UN warns that its facilities housing displaced Gazans are becoming overcrowded Image caption: The UN warns that its facilities housing displaced Gazans are becoming overcrowded\n\nWe're pausing our live coverage for the next few hours, so until then here's where things stand in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.\n\nThe US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to Turkey on Sunday, as he continues his diplomatic push.\n\nHe's been working with leaders in the region on a so-called humanitarian pause in the fighting, and we heard from President Joe Biden on Saturday who suggested there had been some progress on the issues.\n\nArab countries have been demanding an immediate ceasefire, but the US is worried that this would allow Hamas to regroup.\n\nMeanwhile, Israeli forces are pushing deeper and deeper into Gaza City. Israel said the main road south from Gaza City would be open for three hours on Saturday to let anyone wanting to leave. But the army accused Hamas of trying to stop people from leaving .\n\nWe've had an update from the UN on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. It says there are nearly 1.5 million displaced in the territory, with more than 700,000 sheltering in UN facilities. It warns that these are becoming overcrowded - adding to health risks for the population – and its sites in the south of the territory are now over capacity\n\nThere have been problems at the Rafah crossing into Egypt - the only way out of Gaza - with reports saying that foreign nationals were not being allowed to leave the territory. Hamas was reportedly asking for more wounded people to leave before more foreigners could leave.", "Licences for oil and gas projects in the North Sea are set to be awarded annually, under government plans.\n\nThere is currently no fixed period between licensing rounds - but this would change under a bill to be announced in Tuesday's King's Speech.\n\nMinisters said projects would have to meet net zero targets and claimed the policy would \"bolster energy security\".\n\nGreenpeace said encouraging oil and gas production was \"backward-facing\" and vowed to fight new licences in court.\n\nThe plans draw a dividing line between the Conservatives and Labour, which says it wants to focus on investing in renewables energy, rather than fossil fuels.\n\nLabour has said it will honour existing licences granted before the next general election, but would not allow any new ones if it won power.\n\nLabour's shadow energy security secretary, Ed Milliband, dismissed the plans as a \"desperate political strategy\" that would do \"nothing to lower bills or deliver energy security\".\n\n\"We already have regular North Sea oil and gas licensing in Britain, and it is precisely our dependence on fossil fuels that has led to the worst cost of living crisis in a generation,\" he said.\n\nEnergy Security Secretary Claire Coutinho told the BBC the government's plans for oil and gas licences \"wouldn't necessarily bring energy bills down\".\n\nInstead, Ms Coutinho said the new licences would improve \"security\" of energy supply, and raise tax revenues from oil and gas companies \"that would help us for example fund public services\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said the new policy would relate to offshore production licences.\n\nApplications to explore oil and gas fields are assessed by the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), an independent regulator.\n\nAccording to the trade body Offshore Energies UK, there are just under 300 active oil and gas fields in the North Sea. But more than half of them will have ceased production by 2030.\n\nThe current licencing round opened in October last year, with the first set of 27 licences granted earlier this month.\n\nThe government says the UK will still need oil and gas to meet its energy needs, even if it reaches its goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.\n\nNet zero means no longer adding to the total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.\n\nIn its latest progress report, the government's adviser, the Committee on Climate Change, said the \"expansion of fossil fuel production is not in line with net zero\".\n\nThe committee said while the UK \"will continue to need some oil and gas until it reaches net zero\", this did not \"in itself justify the development of new North Sea fields\".\n\nThe government also argues importing energy from abroad creates more emissions overall, whilst also making the UK reliant on \"hostile foreign regimes\" such as Russia for its energy security.\n\nFossil fuels make up most of the UK's energy mix, with oil and gas being used to generate electricity, heat homes and fuel vehicles.\n\nThe vast majority of UK gas supplies come from the UK's North Sea fields, by pipeline from Norway, or by seaborne tanker from countries such as the United States and Qatar.\n\nThe UK has no direct dependence on Russian supply, with less than 4% of its gas sourced from the country in 2021.\n\nBut the Committee on Climate Change says the UK's dependence on gas has left it exposed to the high energy prices seen globally in recent years.\n\nAnd in 2022, former energy minister Greg Hands acknowledged UK production was not large enough to reduce energy bills, as prices are set by international, not local, markets.\n\nUnder the government's plans, a new law requiring an annual licensing process will be listed in the King's Speech, where the monarch will set out the government's law-making plans for the year ahead.\n\nA licensing round would only take place if the UK is projected to import more oil and gas from abroad than it produces domestically.\n\nThe carbon emissions linked to UK gas production would also need to be lower than the equivalent emissions from imported liquefied natural gas.\n\nThese two tests are currently part of the government's climate tests for new licences, known as the climate compatibility checkpoint. However, the bill would make them legally binding.\n\nThere have been questions raised about the government's ability to meet its 2050 net zero target, with its climate advisers having warned the UK risks falling behind without much faster action.\n\nIn September, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced some changes to climate policies and extended some of the UK's net zero deadlines.\n\nMr Sunak said he was committed to meeting the target in a \"pragmatic and proportionate way\" but without \"unnecessarily adding costs and burdens to families\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Gayle Redman says she cannot safely run marathons without her vest\n\nA woman has pulled out of running the New York City Marathon after organisers said she could not wear a vest carrying supplies for her stoma and water.\n\nGayle Redman, a GP from Flint, Flintshire, said the vest had allowed her to safely run marathons in London and Paris.\n\nShe said she believed she had been discriminated against.\n\nNew York Road Runners (NYRR), which organises the race, said the vest did not adhere to rules set by police.\n\nGayle has a stoma and needs to self-catheterise six times a day following surgeries for endometriosis.\n\nA stoma connects to the digestive or urinary system and allows waste to be diverted from the body and into a bag.\n\nGayle has found certain aids to help her race and has competed in numerous events over the last decade.\n\n\"New York Marathon's been on the bucket list for quite some time,\" she said.\n\nShe recalled her delight when an email arrived six months ago saying she had been registered as a disabled competitor for the 2023 race.\n\nShe sent organisers pictures of her vest, which has pouches on the back for a 1.5 litre water bag and a straw so she can drink continuously, as her condition makes her susceptible to dehydration.\n\nThe vest also has a pocket on the back where she carries supplies for her stoma.\n\nGayle most recently ran the the Great North Run 2023, a half marathon in Newcastle\n\n\"I carry huge volumes of fluids when I go out on my really long training runs,\" she said.\n\nOn a competition day the supplies she carries in her vest is all she will have for up to 13 hours.\n\nBut Gayle was told by the NYRR that only waist belts would be allowed, a type of aid that would affect her stoma.\n\nGayle sent pictures of the vest, water bag and medical supplies kit to the race organisers\n\n\"I emailed them again and said this is a disability issue, this is really important,\" she said. \"I can't take part if we can't figure something out.\"\n\nThe organisers sent her a type of clear ruck sack for carrying water, but she said it would not work because it had no room to carry stoma supplies.\n\nEleven days before the race she got another email saying she could use front water bottles in a vest, but nothing about where she could carry her stoma supplies.\n\nShe said she was left with no choice but to cancel the trip, losing £500 in entry fees that she and her husband paid to run in the race.\n\nGayle says she and her husband Tim, who is also a disabled runner, have lost £500 in entry fees\n\n\"I'm disappointed that they couldn't find a way of including me,\" she said. \"I feel like I've been discriminated against.\n\n\"I've got a disability that is recognised... the Equality Act in the UK, and as far as I can tell the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is very similar, says that reasonable accommodations should be made.\n\n\"I have gone out of my way to try to meet them halfway and see what I can do.\n\n\"They've made accommodations, but they're not accommodations that suit me.\"\n\nRedman says she feels like she has been \"discriminated against\"\n\nNYRR said in a statement: \"We work with intention to provide reasonable accommodations in accordance with local laws and federal ADA guidelines to ensure runners of all abilities have access to our races while making sure that each and every runner, spectator, volunteer and staff member are safe.\"\n\nIt said it went \"above and beyond to provide this runner with options including purchasing two hydration packs for her, in addition to our 20 course-based hydration stations\".\n\n\"It is unfortunate that her requests didn't align with local law enforcement restrictions and that she has chosen not to join us this year,\" the organisers said, pointing to hydration vests being on a prohibited items list.\n\nGayle said she understood the concerns about security after three people were killed and 260 injured in the Boston Marathon bombing.\n\n\"I would have quite happily had a conversation with New York Police Department about what their concerns are,\" she said.\n\n\"I've repeatedly asked [NYRR] what other suggestions they have to help me with this, and they've not come forward with anything.\"\n\nSo will she be watching the NYC Marathon on television this Sunday?\n\n\"No,\" she said, because it is \"all a bit too raw right now\".\n\n\"We're already exploring what we can do in the next few weeks to get into another marathon that will welcome us and accommodate us,\" she said.\n\n\"The reality is [on the day of the race] we'll probably go out and do a long run.\"", "Ibrahim, Yosra and their two young children are now waiting in Egypt\n\nBritish people and other foreign nationals who have fled Gaza only have 72 hours - three days - in Egypt before they need to leave.\n\nHundreds of foreign nationals were evacuated from Gaza into Egypt through the Rafah Crossing on Friday.\n\nThe border was then closed all weekend.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said: \"We remain in contact with British nationals in the region to provide them with the latest information.\"\n\nIt added in a statement that it was \"using all diplomatic channels to press for the crossing to reopen in coordination with our international partners\".\n\nNasser Alshanti, an academic from Manchester, told BBC News his pregnant daughter Yosra is effectively \"stuck\" in Egypt because her husband isn't a British citizen, and are worried they won't be able to leave before the three days are up.\n\nYosra was raised in the UK and moved to Gaza for university in 2015, where she met - and then married - Ibrahim. The couple had lived in central Gaza since then, until they had to flee in the first week of the war when their neighbourhood was bombed.\n\nThey were evacuated from Gaza into Egypt via the southern border crossing at Rafah at the end of last week, and are now in Cairo.\n\nBecause Ibrahim is not a British national, they now need to apply for a Family Visa for him before they can travel to the UK.\n\nBut the 72-hour deadline in Egypt means they are worried about overstaying if they don't get a visa in time. Under current rules, overstaying would mean having to pay a fine, which could be greater the longer they stay.\n\n\"I thought they would give him an emergency visa or something, a very quick visa just to evacuate them from Cairo before the end of the 72 hours,\" Dr Alshanti said.\n\nA British Family Visa application submitted outside the UK normally takes up to six months to process.\n\nThe FCDO and Home Office are working together to approve visas for non-British family members of British people who've been evacuated from Gaza, with a sped-up process that they expect to be much quicker than usual. However, it's not yet known how long this will take.\n\nDr Alshanti said that sheltering in Gaza in the last few weeks, and now the stress of being in limbo in Egypt, has taken its toll on his daughter.\n\n\"I've just done a video call with her,\" he said. \"You can tell from her face how much weight she's lost. The last time I saw Yosra was in August, which was just three months ago - but she's totally different. You can see how her eyes [are sunken] and her face is quite pale.\n\n\"For a heavily pregnant lady, after three weeks in a shelter with a small amount of food and water and no electricity - what do you expect?\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpectators who attended a fireworks display at a cricket ground have called for refunds after saying the show was ruined by weather conditions.\n\nVideos online show what appears to be thick smoke blocking the display at Edgbaston Stadium on Saturday evening.\n\nThe event was billed as the \"biggest fireworks spectacular in Birmingham\", but ticket holders flocked to social media to express their disappointment.\n\nThe venue said adverse weather conditions had affected the event.\n\nHundreds of people filled the stands in anticipation for the show.\n\nIn a video that was shared with the BBC, the display appeared to start as expected with an array of colourful pyrotechnics exploding in the sky.\n\nHowever, thick plumes of smoke appear to emit from the site, blocking the view of the display.\n\nMany spectators said they were \"disappointed\" by the show and have called for refunds\n\nSeveral clips being shared on X have shown families standing up to leave in the middle of the show, while others appear to be in shock at what is taking place.\n\nSteph Darby, from Tipton, had spent nearly £100 to take her family to see the show.\n\nShe said: \"When the fireworks started, within about 20 seconds it had evidently gone wrong.\n\n\"It went smoky really quickly, you couldn't see any of the fireworks, you couldn't even see where it was lighting from the floor.\n\n\"Everyone then noticed that the fireworks were hitting the floodlights but it didn't seem to be clearing the stadium at all, it was just smoke, you couldn't see a thing.\n\n\"It was disappointing, my two children had never seen fireworks before and they were really excited. People were walking out five minutes into it.\"\n\nSteph Darby with her children Ellie, Olivia and Niamh\n\nBernie Phillips, from Kings Heath, was also in the crowd with her daughter hoping to see the display.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"As the smoke came in, quite of a lot of the young children were getting scared so people just left.\n\n\"Some of the only fireworks that we could see were hitting the floodlights, which was a little bit scary.\n\n\"They carried on, which seems like a waste of thousands of pounds.\"\n\nScores of people have called for refunds.\n\nOne X user said: \"We ended up going back inside, the smoke was choking us, I've never seen so much from a fireworks display before.\n\n\"Display should have been stopped in the first minute and delayed.\"\n\nAnother added: \"Shame - we had high hopes for this but seeing the fireworks bounce off the floodlights and then just a total disaster from there, very disappointed, we would like a refund.\"\n\nMany people got up to leave during the show\n\nA spokesperson for Edgbaston Stadium said: \"The Fireworks Spectacular is one of the most popular events in our calendar, with families returning year after year, so it's really disappointing the adverse weather conditions impacted last night's event.\n\n\"The same type and volume of fireworks were used on Friday night at the stadium and 4,000 visitors enjoyed an amazing display on a clear night.\n\n\"However, last night there was a lingering mist and the atmospheric conditions were such that smoke from the fireworks failed to dissipate. We understand that other displays in the region were also affected by the conditions.\"\n\nThe venue said it worked with an experienced pyrotechnics company to stage the event, adding it is thoroughly risk assessed in advance and during the display.\n\nAn investigation into the issue has been launched and the stadium says it will communicate with all ticket holders as soon as possible.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Blind customers are being left \"frustrated\" and \"embarrassed\" by inaccessible payment devices.\n\nSome shops have buttonless touchscreen card readers, meaning you need sight to tap in your PIN.\n\nThey are increasingly popular because they are cheap and the screen can be used to advertise items at checkout.\n\nTechnical solutions exist for many machines and businesses could find themselves in court if they do not have them enabled.\n\nMany blind people told the BBC's Access All podcast they have had to tell their PIN to strangers so they can have it typed in for them, or be forced to leave their unpurchased items behind because they're unable to pay.\n\nAngharad, an accessibility expert from Wales who is blind, told Access All she will refuse an item when asked to use one of these machines.\n\nShe said giving her PIN out to a sales assistant, or even someone she's with \"feels like an invasion of privacy that other people just don't have to do\".\n\nAngharad is one of many listeners to the Access All podcast who got in touch with experiences of being unable to pay because of the machines' inaccessibility.\n\nDave Williams from blindness charity RNIB, who also spoke to the podcast, said the devices are \"increasingly used by, particularly, the small-to-medium-sized businesses because they're very widely available\".\n\nHe points out that the RNIB and UK Finance, who maintain data\n\nand guidelines on payment services such as card readers, developed accessibility solutions for this problem a few years ago.\n\n\"Some of the manufacturers have tactile templates that fit over the touchscreen. There are also accessibility modes on some devices which will offer some audio cues to help you,\" he said.\n\nHowever, blind consumers have told us retailers don't appear to know about these options and point of sale problems still continue to frustrate.\n\nLawyer Chris Fry, who specialises in disability discrimination, said it's not down to the manufacturers of the device, it's the retailers themselves who could be in breach of the Equality Act.\n\n\"If I was instructed by somebody who then couldn't access the service then we would be suing the business itself,\" he said\n\nFry has been involved in several cases involving inaccessible card readers, and says that if a business offers to take cash as an alternative, that's only a good solution if \"handle correctly\".\n\n\"You should be told as a customer that your only option for payment is touchscreen so that you can make alternative arrangements.\n\n\"It's no good getting to the counter after having done your shop and not knowing ... how you're going to pay, and then where the ATM is in order to go and pay.\"\n\nWe contacted the Federation of Small Businesses about the issues being faced by blind users.\n\nTheir Policy Chair, Tina McKenzie said: \"Digital payment systems which use touchscreen readers can be convenient for small retailers and for many customers who prefer to pay by card. But it's absolutely vital for accessibility for blind and partially sighted people to be considered as well.\n\n\"Accessibility is a basic necessity, and with digital payment options continuing to evolve it should be at the forefront of card company and terminal manufacturers' minds.\"\n\nYou can listen to the podcast and find information and support on the BBC Access All homepage.", "The death toll in Gaza is rising as Israel presses on with its war against Hamas, following the attacks on 7 October in which 1,400 people were killed in Israel.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 9,000 people have been killed since the war began.\n\nBecause of safety concerns, there are relatively few journalists in Gaza to document the human cost of the fighting.\n\nBut the BBC has been speaking to a number of families and eyewitnesses who have told us stories of loved ones who have been killed in recent days.\n\nWith serious power supply issues in the Gaza Strip, Yusof and his two older siblings - sister Jury, 13, and nine-year-old brother Hamed - felt quite lucky.\n\nTheir father, Mohamed Abu Musa, a radiographer at the Nasser hospital in the city of Khan Younis, had installed solar panels at their house, so the children could watch their favourite cartoons on TV.\n\nThey were settling down in front of the television on 15 October when, their father says, their home was hit by an Israeli air strike.\n\nJury and Hamed somehow survived, but Yusof was killed when the roof of their house collapsed.\n\nMohamed was working a 24-hour shift at the hospital when his wife, Rawan, entered, screaming in search for their youngest son.\n\nShe had been able to find Hamed, while rescue teams helped pull Jury out of the rubble. Jury had suffered head injuries but her parents say she is \"improving\".\n\nA video showing Rawan asking at the hospital for her \"handsome and curly-haired son\" circulated widely on social media. But Mohamed would later find his son's body in the hospital morgue.\n\n\"The last time I saw Yusof alive was when he ran to hug me on the doorstep of our home, just before I left for work,\" Mohamed recalls.\n\n\"He kissed me and said goodbye after I had given him some biscuits and bananas. He wanted to be a doctor, maybe because he always saw me going to hospital for work.\"\n\nOn the evening of 15 October, Dr Saidam needed a rest. The 47-year-old surgeon had not left the al-Shifa hospital, in Gaza City for more than week.\n\nHe told his colleagues he was going home for the night. But a few hours later he was killed in a strike at his home.\n\n\"This calm, funny and kind-hearted man came back to the hospital the next morning, but as a lifeless body,\" his colleague Dr Adnan Albursh explained.\n\nDr Albursh, who had known the surgeon for more than 20 years, added that his late colleague had been nicknamed \"the relentless surgeon\" by his peers for his dedication to the job.\n\nA veteran of the operating room, Dr Saidam was also known as a great mentor to younger doctors.\n\n\"If any of the doctors faced any difficulties, they knew Dr Saidam was the one who would sort it out,\" agreed Dr Ahmed El Mokhallalati, the head of the plastic surgery department at al-Shifa Hospital.\n\n\"His death is a huge loss not only to this hospital but also to the medical profession,\" he added.\n\nSeventeen-year-old student Nour was killed on 11 October when an Israeli air strike hit her family home in the town of Deir al-Balah, 14km south of Gaza City, according to her uncle.\n\nMohammed al-Kharma said his niece wanted to relocate because of the bombing and stay with relatives elsewhere.\n\n\"Her father asked her to stay in her house, which was bombed the very next morning. It was her fate,\" he said.\n\nNour was killed alongside her nephew Yazan. The pair had been playing in the living room. Her elder sisters, Ola, and Huda, who were preparing breakfast with their mother, Jamalat, survived.\n\nNour was in her last year of high school and always wanted to be a doctor. Her uncle said his family pulled her school bag from under the rubble. It contained books and a diary, and in one of the pages she had written: \"I want to make my family proud of me and I will get high grades by the will of Allah.\"\n\nIn her last communication with her fiance Khaled al-Masry, Lurin said she was exhausted from moving from place to place in search of safety from the war. The 30-year-old had just arrived at the Nusairat refugee camp, in the centre of the Gaza Strip, to stay with her aunt.\n\nLurin had survived two strikes, including one on 16 October that flattened the building where she lived with her parents in Gaza City.\n\n\"She told me she was going to have a shower, pray and rest,\" Khaled recalls.\n\nAccording to her fiance, who lives and works in Cyprus, she was praying in a room when the house she was in was hit.\n\n\"She was killed while she was praying,\" he says.\n\nLurin and Khaled had postponed their wedding a couple of times due to the unstable situation in Gaza.\n\nThey were planning finally to get married in December and move to Cyprus.\n\nA devastated Khaled said: \"She is now resting forever. She used to wear a white dress, but now is wearing a white shroud.\"\n\nPeople in Gaza City's Radwan district who needed women's formal clothing would head straight to Fekriya Hassan Abdul A'al's place.\n\n\"I remember when we used to have our house full of brides-to-be and bridesmaids who would come to my mother's place to have a fitting. She was exceptionally talented,\" Fekriya's daughter Nevine says.\n\nThe 65-year-old tailor was killed along with two of her siblings, two of her children and two of her grandchildren, after the house they were sheltering in was hit by an air strike on 23 October.\n\nNevine, who was taking cover at a friend's house, says that Fekriya was devoted to her family and would host large weekly gatherings. But Nevine says her mood had been severely affected by the escalation in the conflict: \"She told me in our last phone call: 'I'm very depressed and exhausted from what seems to be an endless war'.\"\n\nBrothers Mazen, 17 and Ahmed, 13 were among those killed by the explosion at the al-Ahli Hospital on 17 October.\n\nPalestinian officials say the blast was caused by an Israeli air strike. But the Israeli military say it was the result of a failed rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic Jihad - an accusation the group rejected.\n\nArafat Abu Massi, the father of Mazen and Ahmed, said the two brothers were \"very close to each other\" but had very different personalities.\n\nArafat and his wife had undergone IVF therapy for eight years to have Mazen, who was at high school and wanted to become a dentist. \"He was the brightest of all my children,\" he says. While Ahmed was described by his father as \"the strongest and bravest in the family\" - and the entrepreneurial one.\n\n\"He used to sell toys and school supplies in a small booth near our house,\" Arafat said.\n\nHis only remaining child now is three-year-old Faraj, who, according to Arafat, keeps crying and asking where his siblings are. \"I told him that God has chosen them to stay in heaven. That is a better place for my two young smart gentlemen.\"\n\nSalam Mema, a 32-year-old Palestinian journalist, was killed on 10 October when her house in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, was hit by an Israeli air strike, her friend told the BBC.\n\nHer husband, their two-year-old daughter Sham, their seven-year-old son Hadi, and other members of the family, were also killed, leaving their five-year-old son Ali as the sole survivor.\n\nAs of 31 October, Salam was one of 31 journalists confirmed killed on both sides, since the Israel-Hamas conflict began.\n\nThe 26-year-old pharmacist was killed in an air strike in the southern city of Rafah, on 17 October.\n\nShe was sleeping beside her three-month-old baby girl Elyana, and her husband.\n\nSafaa's uncle and a retired medical doctor based in the UK, Omar Hassouna, said her parents managed to survive the strike but are in shock and devastated by her death.\n\nOmar said the last time he saw his niece was in January, during his holiday in Gaza. \"Safaa was polite, helpful, and loved by everyone.\n\n\"I have lost a lovely niece. Her death is unfair, as all the deaths of all of the civilians in Gaza have been.\"\n\n\"I would prefer to be in Gaza with them right now, I feel so hopeless here.\"", "Gaza is \"fast becoming a graveyard for children\", the secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) has warned.\n\nSpeaking on Monday, António Guterres warned that the situation in the enclave \"more than a humanitarian crisis, it is a crisis of humanity\".\n\n\"Hundreds of girls and boys are reportedly being killed or injured every day,\" Guterres told a news conference, on the eve of the first full month since Hamas launched its attack on Israel, and the Israeli military responded with retaliatory strikes.\n\nGuterres again called for an immediate ceasefire.\n\nHis remarks were criticised by Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, who wrote \"shame on you\" on X - formerly known as Twitter - tagging the UN boss in the post.\n\n\"More than 30 minors - among them a 9 month-old baby as well as toddlers and children who witnessed their parents being murdered in cold blood - are being held against their will in the Gaza Strip,\" he said, adding:\n\nQuote Message: Hamas is the problem in Gaza, not Israel's actions to eliminate this terrorist organisation.\" Hamas is the problem in Gaza, not Israel's actions to eliminate this terrorist organisation.\"\n\nAs the fighting enters its fifth week, it shows no sign of easing, with the latest figures from Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry suggesting 10,022 people have now been killed in the enclave - including 4,104 children - since Israel's campaign began. Israel began bombing Gaza after Hamas killed more than 1,400 people in Israel and kidnapped more than 200 others.\n\nOur colleagues at BBC Verify have been looking at how the figures are collated, which you can read right here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The team filmed the sheep's rescue from a remote shoreline in the Scottish Highlands\n\nA ewe that was dubbed Britain's loneliest sheep has been rescued from a remote shore in the Scottish Highlands.\n\nThe sheep, now named Fiona, had been stranded at the foot of cliffs on the Cromarty Firth for at least two years.\n\nAn animal welfare charity had said any attempts to rescue her would be \"incredibly complex\".\n\nBut a group of five farmers have now managed to haul her up a steep slope. They plan to shear her overgrown fleece and hand her over to a farm park.\n\nThe rescue mission was organised by Cammy Wilson, a sheep shearer from Ayrshire, after seeing media coverage of the ewe's plight.\n\nMr Wilson, who is a presenter on the BBC's Landward programme, organised the rescue in a personal capacity along with four others.\n\nSpeaking in a video posted on Facebook, he said: \"We've come up here with some heavy equipment and we've got this sheep up an incredibly steep slope.\n\n\"She's in incredible condition. She is about a condition score of about 4.5, she is overfat - it was some job lifting her up that slope.\n\n\"She is going to a very special place that a lot of you know very well, where you'll be able to see her virtually every day.\"\n\nFiona is now due for a much-needed shearing after her rescue\n\nMr Wilson later told BBC News he became determined to rescue the sheep after reading unfair comments about the farmer whose flock she came from.\n\nHe said the farmer had made previous attempts to retrieve her but was unable to do so without putting himself or his employees in danger.\n\nHe said: \"I just hated seeing the misinformation online, the comments from people not in the know about 'farmers don't care.'\n\n\"People were starting to show up on his land and it wasn't fair.\"\n\nHe said he anticipated some people would criticise his rescue mission as foolhardy, and he accepted it was risky.\n\n\"The only difference between us being heroes and idiots is a slip of the foot,\" he said.\n\n\"I would do it again, maybe not tomorrow though because I'm knackered.\"\n\nHe was joined in the rescue by fellow farmers Graeme Parker, Als Couzens, Ally Williamson and James Parker.\n\nTwo of them stayed at the top to operate a winch while three others were lowered 250m (820ft) down the cliff to reach Fiona.\n\nThey found her in a cave.\n\nThe sheep's plight became headline news after she was pictured stranded on a shore in the Highlands.\n\nThe Scottish SPCA said it had been aware of the ewe being stranded at the bottom of the cliff for some time but was unable to find a safe way to rescue her.\n\nA spokesperson for the charity said: \"This morning the Scottish SPCA were in attendance at the hillside after they were made aware that a group of individuals with climbing expertise were attempting to rescue the stranded sheep by descending down to where she was trapped.\n\n\"The team brought the ewe up successfully and our inspector examined her.\n\n\"Thankfully the sheep is in good bodily condition, aside from needing to be sheared. She will now be taken to a specialist home within Scotland to rest and recover.\"\n\nMr Wilson said Fiona would receive a much-needed groom in the coming days.\n\nThe sheep made national headlines after a kayaker took a photograph and shared concerns about her welfare.\n\nJill Turner, from Brora, told the Northern Times she first came across the ewe while kayaking in 2021.\n\nShe was shocked to discover she was still there two years later, and pleaded for someone to rescue her.\n\nA petition calling for a rescue operation has gathered more than 52,000 signatures.\n\nThe full story of the rescue will be told on the BBC's Landward programme, due to broadcast on the BBC Scotland channel on 16 November and BBC One Scotland the following day.", "Humza Yousaf posted a photo of the family's reunion on X, formerly Twitter\n\nHumza Yousaf's in-laws have arrived back in Scotland after being trapped for four weeks in Gaza.\n\nThe family of Scotland's first minister were reunited after they managed to cross into Egypt on Friday.\n\nElizabeth El-Nakla and her husband Maged - the parents of Mr Yousaf's wife Nadia - were allowed to leave Gaza via the Rafah crossing.\n\nMr Yousaf confirmed the news on X, formerly Twitter, and posted a photo of the reunion.\n\nHe said: \"I am pleased to say my in-laws are safe and back home.\"\n\nThe post included some Arabic script, which translates as \"praise be to God\".\n\nSome of Mr Yousaf's relatives who do not hold UK passports remain in Gaza.\n\nHe continued: \"We are, of course, elated, but my father-in-law said, 'My heart is broken in two, and with my mum, son and grandchildren in Gaza.' He then broke down telling me how hard it was saying goodbye to them.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with those who can't leave and are trapped in a war zone. We will continue to raise our voices for peace and to stop the killing of innocent men, women and children in Gaza.\n\n\"This has been a traumatic few weeks. I can't begin to tell you the impact it has had on Nadia and our family, particularly my in-laws. I'm sure they will tell their story in time. In the meantime, we ask that their privacy is respected.\"\n\nMs El-Nakla's mother, Elizabeth, with her twin grandsons aged 9, who remain in Gaza\n\nThe couple travelled to Gaza early last month to visit Mr El-Nakla's mother, who had a stroke in March but has now recovered.\n\nMr Yousaf's brother-in-law, who is a hospital doctor, and his family remain in Gaza, as do his wife's stepmother and grandmother.\n\nMr and Mrs El-Nakla, from Dundee, had spent the past two weeks in a house where 100 people were sheltering, including a child of two months old.\n\nThey had travelled to the border in an attempt to leave on three previous occasions without success.\n\nThe BBC understands the couple arrived at Edinburgh airport at about 10:30 on Sunday morning.\n\nBorder crossings in and out of Gaza had been closed since 7 October, when Hamas, which is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK, attacked Israel, killing more than 1,400 people and taking more than 240 hostage.\n\nSince then Israel has been carrying out military action in Gaza. The Hamas-run health ministry says more than 9,700 people have died.\n\nThe Palestinian border authority has been issuing lists of those who can present themselves at the crossing with their passports. Friday's list named more than 90 British citizens, with 88 on Saturday's list.\n\nOn Sunday, the Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden confirmed more than 100 UK citizens had made it out of Gaza.\n\nIt was thought there were around 200 British nationals there before war broke out.\n\nUp to 500 foreign nationals had been leaving Gaza per day via the Raffah crossing into Egypt since Wednesday but the \"controlled\" evacuations were halted on Saturday.\n\nA source has told the BBC they would resume again on Sunday. The evacuations via the border, which is controlled by the Egyptian authorities, have been conducted over \"time-limited periods\".\n\nA silent vigil calling for Hamas to release Israeli hostages was held at Holyrood on Sunday\n\nHundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied two of Scotland's biggest railway stations during a day of protests on Saturday.\n\nIn Edinburgh Waverley station, protesters could be heard chanting \"free Palestine\" and \"ceasefire now\".\n\nIn Glasgow, supporters held a sit-down protest before marching to the BBC Scotland headquarters for a rally.\n\nOn Sunday, a silent vigil was held outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh to remember those who are being held hostage by Hamas.\n\nHeart-shaped balloons were attached to shoes to represent those who were kidnapped.", "Flowers were laid outside the Motorpoint Arena\n\nCrowds of people have gathered in memory of an ice hockey player who died after his neck was cut during a match.\n\nNottingham Panthers player Adam Johnson suffered the injury from a skate worn by Sheffield Steelers player Matt Petgrave on 28 October.\n\nThe 29-year-old was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.\n\nFans and mourners came together at the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham to pay tribute to Johnson.\n\nThe incident has been described as a \"freak accident\" by the Panthers.\n\nNottingham Panthers forward Adam Johnson was playing at the Utilita Arena in Sheffield when he was fatally injured\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A two-minute silence was held at the arena\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, Panthers players and staff spent time reflecting on their memories of Johnson while signing the books of condolence.\n\nFans were invited on to the ice, which was carpeted, to sign the books.\n\nThe club said local mental health charities would be at the foyer of the arena \"for those that want to have a conversation\".\n\nFan Michelle Hallam described her experience of the incident, adding she was there with her son and his friends - along with 40 pupils from their school - for their first Panthers game.\n\n\"At first I don't think they realised the seriousness of what had happened,\" she told BBC Radio Nottingham.\n\n\"I'd made sure that they put their heads down and they weren't actually watching everything that was then unfolding on the ice.\"\n\nMs Hallam said she returned to the arena on Monday to lay flowers, and then again with her son \"because he wanted to see all the tributes\".\n\n\"He was on edge a bit just walking near the arena,\" she said.\n\nShe added hopefully in time, they will watch another ice hockey game with her son's friends and family.\n\nInside the stadium, fans queued to sign books of condolence\n\nRonnie Woolley, a Sheffield Steelers fan who was also at the match, said it had been a \"really hard week\".\n\n\"Everybody's in shock because it was an absolute tragedy,\" he said.\n\nMr Woolley said he returned to the arena on Monday and again for the gathering on Saturday with his partner to \"pay our respects\", along with other Steelers fans.\n\n\"It's the least we can do and say goodbye to Adam,\" he said. \"Obviously, he wasn't a Steeler, he was a Panther, but that doesn't matter.\n\n\"Everybody's coming together because ice hockey fans are like one big family.\"\n\nSheffield Steelers supporter Ronnie Woolley (right) said ice hockey fans were \"like one big family\"\n\nSpeaking on KSTP-TV - a local news station based in Minnesota in the US - Johnson's aunt Kari Johnson said he was planning to propose to his partner Ryan Wolfe.\n\nAn inquest into Johnson's death opened and adjourned on Friday, which heard he was formally identified by Ms Wolfe.\n\nAn official fundraising page, launched by the club \"with the permission of Adam's family\", has so far raised more than £45,000.\n\nThe fund will support local charitable activities in his home town of Hibbing, Minnesota.\n\nJohnson's funeral will take place in the US on Sunday, according to an obituary posted on the website of Dougherty Funeral Home in Hibbing.\n\nThe obituary said: \"Adam had a quiet confidence about him and was never boastful.\n\n\"He was never looking to be the centre of attention, but rather he preferred to listen to others and do what he could to make them feel important.\"\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police has launched an investigation into the incident, which they say \"is likely to take some time\".\n\nHundreds of people have gathered to pay tribute to Adam Johnson\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Grab your trumpet! Polish the golden carriage! Dust down the throne! It's nearly time. Time for Charles III to make history, giving the first King's Speech in 70 years.\n\nTime for one of the country's finest ceremonial occasions, when a good chunk of all the King's horses and all the King's men trot from the Palace to Parliament before the monarch makes a speech to MPs, members of the House of Lords and all of us.\n\nTuesday's speech will be one of those bizarrely British mashups of arcane tradition (10 points if you know what the Cap of Maintenance is) and modern politics.\n\nIt's a big moment for a new monarch. And it's the last chance for a government in trouble to introduce a programme of new laws in the hope of shaking them out of the doldrums and grabbing your attention.\n\nNew laws take a long time to go through Parliament. So while Prime Minister Rishi Sunak still has at least a year to try to turn things around before he must call an election, the speech is, insiders admit privately, more or less the last chance for the Conservatives to transform ideas into reality - if they want to get them on the statute book before we all go to the polls.\n\nBut all the fancy regal fanfares in the world on Tuesday might be drowned out by bigger realities.\n\nKing Charles - as Prince of Wales - delivered the Queen's Speech in May 2022 on behalf of his mother for the first time\n\nTop of the list, the conflict in the Middle East. Whether it is the fraught practicalities of helping Brits get out of Gaza, or the diplomatic efforts to coax Israel to pause hostilities there, the conflict is naturally gobbling up political time and energy - and dominating the headlines. Although it is Labour leader Keir Starmer, not Rishi Sunak, who is facing more political pressure on the matter from many within his own ranks.\n\nNext, days of evidence at the Covid inquiry are confirming, in ever-more gruesome detail, just how grim the atmosphere was at the top of government during the pandemic.\n\nAnd much more important than Dominic Cummings' habit of inventing ever more vile swear words, evidence this week suggested that in a moment of profound national emergency, our government just could not cope.\n\nMemories of those agonising months have been stirred. We have seen in black and white, from messages between senior officials, that the notion of spreading the virus - \"herd immunity\" like chicken pox - was indeed part of the initial approach that was subsequently denied. And the civil service boss of the Department for Health said, on the record, that the first lockdown was a week too late. Remember just how bitter the political arguments were about the timing of the lockdown, and whether herd immunity had ever been the plan.\n\nThe Covid evidence this week is important for the simple reason that the inquiry is trying to build a complete record of what happened during those months of emergency. But the daily drip of claims hampers Rishi Sunak's ability to move on.\n\nHe was the second most senior minister in the government that struggled so badly, described by one of its most senior civil servants as a \"terrible, tragic, joke\". His \"Eat Out to Help Out\" scheme, it has already emerged, was branded \"Eat out to help the virus\" by government medics.\n\nThe prime minister consistently tries to present himself to the public as a clean break from several years of chaos. But the inquiry's reminders of the problems of the pandemic, and the political failures, dredge up memories of all that.\n\nEven without those two huge blocks in his political path, is Mr Sunak planning to seize Tuesday as a day of radical action anyway?\n\nInsiders caution against expecting any shiny new ideas or revolutionary plans. You can read a primer on what might be coming up here.\n\nSome cabinet ministers worry it is all a bit \"managerial\", all a bit \"tinkering\", not really talking to the problems millions of voters are facing right now.\n\nPM Rishi Sunak in conversation with Elon Musk, in London on 2 November\n\nThe AI summit, and Rishi Sunak's encounter with tech billionaire Elon Musk, complete with dropped consonants and a mid-Atlantic twang, showed that No 10 can generate attention - it can make things happen.\n\nBut whether that is translated into an energetic and packed actual programme to get things done on Tuesday? Don't be so sure.\n\nWhile a senior source says the King's Speech is a \"chance to reset the dynamic\", don't expect big surprises to make that happen.\n\nYou will see laws coming to bring in changes on sentencing that were announced at party conference last month.\n\nYou will also likely see a new law on oil and gas licences that will try to set a trap for Labour. It is one of those strange things in politics where sometimes a government will introduce a law that isn't necessarily needed, but will just make life awkward for their opponents. There are divisions in the Labour Party over whether or not new licences should be granted for fossil fuel exploration. If the Tories make them vote on it, that could be politically tricky for Keir Starmer.\n\nSo on Tuesday, the biggest fanfare may be from the real trumpets that will sound in Parliament, not political excitement.\n\nAfter delivering the Queen's Speech in May 2022, Charles and Camilla processed out behind the Imperial State Crown\n\nThe ongoing conflict in the Middle East, and last week's revelations from the Covid inquiry, both make it harder for the government to be heard.\n\nBut this coming week, a coming reminder of perhaps Rishi Sunak's biggest obstacle. Like any prime minister, he has to deal with \"events\" beyond his control that can knock any leader off course. The real nightmare though, is how to escape from under the weight of what has gone wrong under Conservative PMs who have gone before.\n\nAs King, Tuesday will be Charles's first outing in that grandest of ceremonies in Parliament. Without a dramatic turn for Rishi Sunak, this King's Speech could be this PM's last.\n\nPS: The \"Cap of Maintenance\" is a red velvet hat, lined with ermine, that is one of the Royal Family's insignia. It's normally carried by the leader of the House of Lords on these big days as part of the procession.\n\nIf you got that right, 10 points and your prize, along with everyone else, is to watch the Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden in the studio with me tomorrow morning at 09:00 on BBC One, along with our other guests and a special interview with the Succession star, Sarah Snook.", "Indi Gregory's grandma Nicola Thomas said the eight-month-old was still a \"happy little baby\"\n\nThe grandmother of a critically ill eight-month-old baby has said her family will continue to fight a ruling to withdraw life support.\n\nMedics have been told they can withdraw support for Indi Gregory, who has mitochondrial disease.\n\nThe family's latest challenge to the High Court was dismissed on Saturday.\n\nA protest against the ruling was held outside Nottingham's Queen Medical Centre (QMC), where Indi is being treated, on Sunday.\n\nIndi is receiving round-the-clock care for her condition, which prevents cells in the body producing energy and is incurable, according to the NHS.\n\nLawyers representing her parents, who are from Ilkeston, Derbyshire, said they were considering their next move after judges dismissed an appeal against a ruling that said Indi could not be transferred to a hospital in Italy for treatment.\n\nSpeaking at the protest, attended by more than a dozen parents and supporters, Indi's grandmother Nicola Thomas said Indi was still a \"happy little baby\".\n\nIndi's treatment causes her causes pain and is futile, medics have said\n\n\"We want Indi to live,\" she said.\n\n\"We want justice for her. We just keep getting refused and I don't see why we should.\n\n\"It's an eight-month-old baby at the end of the day and it's her life and we're all heartbroken.\n\n\"There's definitely hope. We're still going to fight. We're going to keep going until there's no more fight left.\"\n\nIndi's parents are being supported by campaign group Christian Concern and its sister organisation, the Christian Legal Centre.\n\nDr Keith Girling - medical director at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the QMC - previously said: \"Cases like this are incredibly difficult for everyone and our thoughts are with Indi's parents at this time.\n\n\"Our priority remains to provide the best possible care for Indi and to support her parents through this process.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hamburg Airport is closed as negotiations with the suspect continue\n\nPolice in Germany are dealing with a hostage situation at Hamburg Airport after an armed man drove through a security barrier and onto the tarmac.\n\nIt is understood that the man, 35, and a child, 4, remain in the vehicle which is parked under a plane.\n\nOfficers are in contact with the driver, who entered the airport on Saturday evening at about 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT).\n\nThe airport has been closed and all flights indefinitely suspended.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Hamburg police on Sunday described the ongoing situation as \"tense\" but said the fact that the suspect was still communicating with them was a good sign.\n\n\"We have to consider that he has a gun with him and we also have to consider that he possibly has some explosive devices with him,\" Sandra Levgruen told German broadcaster ZDF, adding that the child is thought to be unharmed.\n\nThe situation began when the man drove his car to the airport's apron, the area where aircraft are usually parked. According to local media, he parked under a Turkish Airlines plane.\n\nPolice said the man shot his weapon twice in the air and threw burning bottles from the vehicle.\n\nThe authorities believe that the situation involves a \"custody dispute\". The child's mother is reported to have alerted emergency services that the four-year-old had been taken.\n\nMs Levgruen said the man did not agree with some decisions made by the authorities in relation to the custody arrangement and wanted to travel to Turkey with the child.\n\n\"He speaks about his life being a heap of shards,\" she said.\n\nLocal media have also reported that the negotiations with him are being conducted in Turkish through a translator but it is unclear what his connection to the country is.\n\nPsychologists as well as officers specialised in negotiations are on site, police said, along with special forces.\n\nAround half of the departures and arrivals planned for Sunday have been cancelled, with some flights diverted, according to Hamburg Airport. They have warned there will be further delays and cancellations throughout the day.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "President Zelensky rejected suggestions that fighting in Ukraine had reached a stalemate\n\nThe Israel-Gaza war is \"taking away the focus\" from the conflict in Ukraine, the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted.\n\nHe said this was \"one of the goals\" of Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nAnd he denied that fighting in Ukraine had reached a stalemate, despite a recent assessment to this effect by the country's top military general.\n\nUkraine's counter-offensive in the south has so far made little headway.\n\nThis has prompted fears of war fatigue among Kyiv's Western allies, with suggestions of growing reluctance in some capitals to continue giving Ukraine advanced weapons and funds.\n\nIn a separate development on Saturday, Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov confirmed that Ukrainian soldiers from 128th Mountain Assault Brigade \"Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia)\" were killed, ordering a \"full investigation in what he described as a \"tragedy\".\n\nHe did not say how many soldiers died in what Ukraine's military said was a Russian missile strike in the southern Zaporizhzhia region on Friday.\n\nReports in Ukrainian media and among Russian military bloggers earlier said more than 20 Ukrainian service personnel were killed during an award ceremony in a village close to the front lines.\n\nUkraine's military also said that on Saturday it successfully hit \"sea and port infrastructure\" of a shipbuilding plant in Crimea - Ukraine's southern peninsula illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.\n\nRussia's defence ministry was later quoted by the country's state-run news agencies as saying that 13 out of 15 Ukrainian missiles fired on the plant in the city of Kerch, eastern Crimea, were shot down, but a Russian ship was damaged.\n\nSpeaking at Saturday's briefing in Kyiv with visiting European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Mr Zelensky said: \"It's clear that the war in the Middle East is taking away the focus\" from Ukraine.\n\nHe said Russia wanted this focus to be \"weakened\", but stressed that \"everything is in our powers\".\n\nMr Zelensky was also asked to comment on this week's assessment by Ukraine's chief military commander Valery Zaluzhny that the war was now moving to a \"positional\" or static stage, and this would benefit Moscow by \"allowing it to rebuild its military power\".\n\n\"Everyone is getting tired and there are different opinions,\" Mr Zelensky replied, adding: \"But this is not a stalemate.\"\n\nHe admitted that Russia was \"controlling the skies\" and that Ukraine urgently needed US-made F-16 warplanes and advanced anti-aircraft defences to change the situation.\n\nThe Ukrainian leader recalled that last year, there had also been a lot of talk about a stalemate on the vast battlefield in Ukraine - but he pointed to Kyiv's subsequent major military victories in the north-eastern Kharkiv region and Kherson in the south.\n\nRussia has in recent weeks been trying to advance in eastern Ukraine, with heavy shelling of the key town of Avdiivka\n\nMr Zelensky also rejected media reports that he was coming under growing pressure to consider negotiations with Russia.\n\n\"Today, no-one among EU, US leaders and others - our partners - is putting pressure for us to now sit down to negotiate with Russia, and give away something to it. This will not happen.\"\n\nMoscow on Thursday also commented on Mr Zaluzhny's assessment, with Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman saying the current battlefield situation was not a \"stalemate\".\n\n\"All the [war] goals that were set must be achieved,\" Dmitry Peskov said, adding that Ukraine must realise that \"even talking about any prospects for the Kyiv regime's victory on the battlefield is absurd\".\n\nPresident Putin has repeatedly claimed that Ukraine's counter-offensive had failed, while his Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said this week that Kyiv was losing the war despite supplies of new weapons from Nato allies.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK defence intelligence said in its latest report on Saturday that Russia \"has likely lost around 200 armoured vehicles during its assaults on the Donbas town of Avdiivka\" in eastern Ukraine.\n\n\"It is plausible that Russia has suffered several thousand personnel casualties around the town since the start of October 2023.\n\n\"Russia's leadership continues to demonstrate a willingness to accept heavy personnel losses for marginal territorial gains,\" the report said.\n\nMoscow has in recent weeks been trying to advance in eastern and north-eastern Ukraine - but Ukraine's military says all the attacks have been rebuffed.\n\nThe claims by the two warring sides have not been independently verified.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Rebecca Keatley and her partner Jim, pictured in Worthing, are expecting their first child in December\n\nFor parents across the land, Rebecca Keatley is one of those magical people who can give them a quick breather while she entertains their little ones through the screen.\n\nBut soon the CBeebies presenter of 11 years will be viewing the process from the other side, as she prepares to give birth to her first child this winter.\n\nThe actress from Port Talbot, who now lives in Manchester where CBeebies is filmed, has seen from \"this side of the fence\" how important shows like Let's Play can become to families.\n\nKeatley was interested in working in children and youth television from a young age.\n\nShe had an early brush as a teenager, getting down to the final three and a presenting trial after an audition for The Disney Club, which was eventually won by Fearne Cotton.\n\nRebecca Keatley with CBeebies's Mr Maker, Mr Bloom and Basil Brush at an event in the summer\n\nShe first caught the acting bug from a group of drama students \"down the back of the bus\" who were \"so much fun\" on journeys to Gorseinon College in Swansea, where she signed up to do A-levels.\n\nShe quickly persuaded her parents to let her also take a BTEC in performing arts, and from there went on to study acting at Mountview drama school in London.\n\nHer move to CBeebies came after a number of years working in theatre, TV dramas and promotions when her friend, CBeebies presenter Andy Day, said she should audition for a new show being made for the channel.\n\nDespite being \"a bit late\" getting in touch, the producers let her come in and read for the part and she ended up getting the role to work alongside Sid Sloane on Let's Play, and presenting on the CBeebies House.\n\nWorking in children's television meant adapting to a different way of working for Keatley.\n\n\"Before, I would have said the worst thing is that there's no preparation time,\" she said. \"It's low budget, it's quick content, they want to get stuff out as fast as they can.\"\n\nRebecca, pictured on a cruise to Norway, studied acting in London after leaving Port Talbot\n\n\"I used to get very nervous about that because I'd think 'I need to prepare',\" she said.\n\n\"Whereas now, I find it a blessing, because not having time to think and just being spontaneous, quite often you get your best stuff.\n\n\"You're not so precious, and I think that's something I'm really glad that children's television has given me.\"\n\nThe prospect of becoming a parent has given her a different view on the work she produces.\n\nShe explained: \"Talking to the other cast members who've already got children, you know how important it is.\n\n\"[They have talked] about how they really treasure the shows and the characters, and how they become part of your family life, so I will have that to look forward to.\n\n\"I do obviously get that from being in the business. Meeting families, meeting children, I do get that when I meet them because it is special to be on this side of the fence, and I think I'm going to really, really be thankful for CBeebies when my child comes along.\"\n\nRebecca doing the Halloween CBeebies House with Evie Pickerill\n\nPregnancy is often a time for food aversions and exhaustion, but for Keatley the opposite has been true.\n\nShe has an auto-immune condition which can be triggered by various things, including the make-up needed for television work.\n\n\"I've got lots of chemical sensitivities, so your body's having a reaction to lots of foods and chemicals,\" she said.\n\n\"That was a real issue with the first series of Let's Play because of glues, moustaches, make-up. It was really hard because I was having all these issues,\" she said.\n\nShe manages the condition by being very careful about the foods she eats.\n\nLike some others with auto-immune conditions, her symptoms eased with pregnancy.\n\n\"The first trimester was amazing, because actually I felt really energised and I was able to eat and drink everything. I felt really good,\" she said.\n\nShe has had immunotherapy, which involves exposing her to very small amounts of substances she has a reaction to in order to desensitise her system.\n\nFellow CBeebies presenter Joanna Adeyinka-Burford with Rebecca at the CBeebies Robin Hood panto wrap party, after filming in Llandudno finished\n\nIt is an area which has \"piqued her interest\" for future years.\n\n\"I've read so many books on it and I've been fascinated by gut health for the past 15 years really, how diet affects our well-being and our health and our mental health as well,\" she said.\n\n\"That's a path I would like to explore a bit more, for my child's health and future generations as well.\"\n\nWith a bookcase \"full of books about gut health\", she would consider taking a nutrition course in the future in order to deepen her understanding of the topic.\n\nSo, is Rebecca Keatley Investigates the Gut a programme viewers should look out for in a few years?\n\nShe laughed, but added: \"I am genuinely fascinated by it all, because it's about helping yourself - that's where it starts and then before you know it you're like, this is amazing.\n\n\"The human body is incredible and there's so little we know about it.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Rushdi Abualouf on the scene of the damage at the al-Maghazi refugee camp\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says at least 45 people have been killed in what it said was an Israeli air strike at the Al-Maghazi refugee camp.\n\nIsrael's military says it is looking into whether it was operating in the area at the time.\n\nThe small camp has been experiencing overcrowding because of people fleeing bombardments further north.\n\nEfforts are under way to find those still missing. It is thought more than 100 people were there at the time.\n\nThe head of Gaza's Al-Aqsa hospital said 52 people were killed in the blast on Saturday night, slightly more than the number given by the health ministry.\n\nResidents have been trying to dig with their hands through layers of cement in an attempt to extract those trapped under the rubble.\n\nPhotojournalist Muhammad Al-Alul lost his wife and four of his five children. He had been reporting elsewhere when the blast happened.\n\n\"It did not occur to me that my children might be buried under the rubble,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I wish I had been with them and been killed with them.\"\n\nThe BBC has asked Israel's military to comment on the incident. While there has been no official response yet, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman told the BBC he was unable to confirm whether the camp was hit by an Israeli air strike.\n\nSpeaking to BBC World Service's Newshour, Lt Col Peter Lerner added that any strikes taking place in southern Gaza were \"specific intelligence-based strikes, specifically against terrorist elements\".\n\nMr Lerner said that this did not mean that \"there can't unfortunately be deaths\".\n\nThe Al-Maghazi camp is in the area where Israel advised people in the north of Gaza to evacuate to for safety as they continue their campaign to destroy Hamas in retaliation for its 7 October attacks on Israel.\n\nHowever, air strikes in the south have not stopped.\n\n\"There is no safe place in Gaza,\" Muhammad, a civil defence officer who rushed to the scene of Saturday's strike to help, told the BBC.\n\n\"They ask the Palestinians to go to the south, but kill them everywhere - on the roads, in schools where people are sheltering, and even in hospitals.\"\n\nThe death toll in Gaza since 7 October is now more than 9,700, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.\n\nMore than 1,400 people were killed in the attacks by Hamas on Israel and more than 200 people were taken hostage.", "Some people with foreign passports have been allowed to leave Gaza via the Rafah crossing\n\nMore than 100 British people have left Gaza this week - and it is hoped more will be evacuated on Sunday, the deputy prime minister has told the BBC.\n\nOliver Dowden told Laura Kuenssberg it was \"disappointing\" the Rafah crossing was closed on Saturday.\n\nHe said the government was \"engaging closely\" with authorities there and hoped it would reopen soon.\n\nThe Rafah crossing was opened for three days earlier this week, with dozens of Britons named as eligible to leave.\n\nThe Palestinian border authority has been issuing lists of those who can present themselves at the crossing with their passports. Friday's list named more than 90 British citizens, with 88 on Saturday's list.\n\nBefore Mr Dowden's comments, it was not clear how many had actually managed to leave.\n\nAs well as some foreign passport holders and their dependents, some wounded Palestinians were also allowed to leave Gaza via the border crossing and enter Egypt.\n\nBut on Saturday, hundreds with foreign passports went to the border but were not allowed to cross.\n\nSources from the crossing authorities on the Palestinian side told the BBC that movement of people with foreign passports was not being allowed until there was agreement on the safety of transferring injured patients.\n\nThere has been no official statement from the authorities as yet.\n\nIt was thought there were around 200 British nationals in Gaza before war broke out.\n\nMr Dowden said: \"The first thing we are doing is trying to make sure we get the Rafah crossing open again and I'm hopeful we will make progress on that today.\n\n\"Secondly, we are seeking to have these temporary pauses to allow humanitarian aid in and to get our people out.\"\n\nAmong Britons who have left are the in-laws of Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf.\n\nElizabeth and Maged El-Nakla - the parents of Mr Yousaf's wife Nadia, were allowed to leave Gaza via the Rafah crossing on Friday. They had been trapped there after war broke out while they were visiting their son and grandchildren.\n\nMr Yousaf, writing on X, said there were mixed feelings.\n\n\"We are of course elated, but my father-in-law said 'My heart is broken in two, with my mum, son and grandchildren in Gaza'. He then broke down telling me how hard it was saying goodbye to them.\"\n\nMr Dowden urged Britons remaining in Gaza to contact the Foreign Office.\n\nThe Foreign Office said: \"This continues to be a complex and challenging situation and we are using all diplomatic channels to press for its reopening in coordination with our international partners.\n\n\"We remain in contact with British nationals in the region to provide them with the latest information.\"\n\nHumza Yousaf posted a picture of his in-laws reunited with their family in Scotland\n\nBorder crossings in and out of Gaza have been closed since 7 October, when Hamas, which is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK, attacked Israel, killing more than 1,400 people and taking more than 240 hostage.\n\nSince then, the Israeli military has launched a massive bombing campaign on Gaza, placed the strip under a \"complete siege\" and recently launched a ground assault on the north of Gaza. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 9,400 people have been killed.\n\nIt is thought 14 Britons died in the 7 October attack by Hamas on Israel. Mr Dowden said three Britons remained unaccounted for, but he was unable to say whether or not they had been taken hostage.\n\nAbdelkader Hammad, a British transplant surgeon who lives in Liverpool, left through the Rafah crossing on Thursday after being trapped for weeks.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"It was a terrifying experience really with all the explosions around us and the shrapnel and the concrete coming down, the glass broke, and the ceiling coming down [...] but this is the picture in Gaza.\n\n\"In fact, we were the lucky ones there because we are protected by the UN. But for other people, there isn't shelter.\"\n\nDr Hammad added: \"And I can smell, the smell of death really, because there are still a lot of bodies under the rubble.\"\n\nHe later told BBC Radio 5 live: \"I can't stop thinking about my colleagues who I left there and the patients I usually treat in Gaza.\n\n\"I think many of them [kidney patients] will die to due to lack of treatment during this period.\"\n\nMany of those trapped in Gaza and seeking to leave have family in the UK urgently watching the situation.\n\nFaras Abuwarda's wife and five children - aged between three and 11 - have been named on a list of those allowed to leave but they are stuck in the north and cannot get to Rafah.\n\nMr Abuwarda, who travelled with his family to see relatives but then returned to London for work, said: \"The situation is a disaster. We are disgusted at the British government as they aren't able to help us.\n\n\"What we ask for is safe travel to the border, nothing else, and we're unable to get it.\"\n\nHe is waiting in Cairo, Egypt, and says his children are \"frustrated, hopeless, and feel isolated\".\n\nOmar Mofeed, from London, said his brother and pregnant wife, along with their three children, also do not believe it is safe to travel through Gaza.\n\n\"The British foreign ministry called us saying Israel has allowed a safe route [...] then people start going, and Israel attacked people who are walking on this safe route,\" he said.\n\nThe Israeli military has said it does not target civilians.\n\nIcel Chumlukh said his wife Lamia, his 13-year-old stepdaughter and the couple's one-year-old son had turned up at the border but were asked to leave.\n\nWhile his wife and son are on the list, his step-daughter is not - but his wife took her anyway, \"hoping for a miracle\".\n\nHe said his son now \"screams every time he hears a bang, or when someone closes a door\" because they remind him of the sound of airstrikes.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Attiq Malik is chair of the London Muslim Community Forum\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has ended its relationship with an adviser who was filmed making a pro-Palestinian chant during a speech to a group.\n\nAttiq Malik was recorded in 2021 making the speech, ending it with the chant \"from the river to the sea\", the Sunday Telegraph reported.\n\nMr Malik, a lawyer, is the chair of the London Muslim Communities Forum, a body that advises the Met.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Mr Malik for comment.\n\nIn a response to the video shared by the newspaper, the force said he had expressed views \"in a way which does not align to the Met's values\".\n\nOn Sunday morning, after the Telegraph story was published, Mr Malik posted a quote by activist Malcolm X on X, formerly Twitter, which said: \"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.\"\n\nWhen he was recorded, Mr Malik was addressing a group in Luton following an earlier Israeli offensive in Gaza in May 2021, the Telegraph reported.\n\n\"What's going on is global censorship by the Zionists, global censorship to silence us,\" he said in the recording.\n\nDuring consecutive weeks of pro-Palestinian protests in London, the \"from the river to the sea\" chant has been heard frequently. It refers to the land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman previously urged police chiefs to consider interpreting it as an \"expression of a violent desire to see Israel erased from the world\". Israel and most Jewish groups agree.\n\nThis interpretation is disputed by some pro-Palestinian activists who say that most people chanting it are calling for an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and blockade of Gaza, not the destruction of Israel itself.\n\nA spokesperson for the Met Police said: \"We regularly engage with a whole range of community groups, many of which hold strongly opposing views.\n\n\"This instance has highlighted past language and views expressed by Attiq Malik that appear antisemitic and contrary with our values.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added that the force would immediately cease its relationship with Mr Malik while it investigated the matter.\n\nHowever, the spokesperson said the Met would continue its relationship with the London Muslims Community Forum, adding: \"The insights, feedback and reach into communities across London continues to play an important role in our response.\"\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Many thousands join protests and sit-ins for Gaza", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for heavy rain has been issued for parts of southern and south eastern England, where many communities have already been deluged following Storm Ciarán.\n\nThe BBC's Duncan Kennedy visited Bognor Regis, where homes have been breached by the flood waters.", "People have been waiting at Rafah to get into Egypt, the only crossing in and out of Gaza currently open\n\nMore British citizens have begun to leave the Gaza Strip, after Palestinian authorities listed nearly 100 as being eligible to cross to Egypt on Friday.\n\nThe UK section of the Palestinian border authority list names more than 90 people as British nationals.\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly said \"a number\" of Britons were leaving Gaza, a development he described as \"positive news\".\n\nMr Cleverly did not provide a figure for how many have left.\n\nHe added the UK \"will continue to work with\" authorities in the region to ensure as many Britons \"as possible\" can leave Gaza.\n\nThe BBC is aware of at least 19 people named on the list who are unable to leave via the Rafah crossing.\n\nThree family groups have said they are located in the north of Gaza but it is too dangerous to travel to the south where the crossing is located.\n\nThe parents-in-law of Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf, trapped in Gaza since 7 October, have left, but said they were \"severely traumatised\".\n\nAmong the first to arrive back in the UK was Dr Abdelkader Hammad, a surgeon in Liverpool, who said it was a \"big, big relief\" to walk through the doors at Heathrow on Friday evening and see his family.\n\n\"It has been four weeks waiting for this moment really to happen, and, I mean at some stage I wasn't sure this would happen really,\" he said,\"but thanks god I am here.\"\n\nHe said whole neighbourhoods in Gaza had been levelled and said you could \"smell death\", with many bodies still under the rubble.\n\nBorder crossings in and out of Gaza have been closed since 7 October, when Hamas, which is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK, attacked Israel, killing more than 1,400 people and taking more than 240 hostage.\n\nSince then, the Israeli military has launched a massive bombing campaign on Gaza, placed the strip under a \"complete siege\" and recently launched a ground assault on the north of Gaza. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 9,000 people have been killed.\n\nMr Cleverly said his office had not been informed of any British nationals killed in Gaza, but that the flow of information was often interrupted, delayed, or contradictory information was received.\n\nAbout 200 British nationals were believed to be in Gaza before war broke out.\n\nA small number have already left Gaza after some foreign nationals and injured Palestinian people began to be allowed to go through the crossing into Egypt for the first time from Wednesday.\n\nIbrahim Assalia, a British national who travelled to Gaza with his wife and children three months ago after his father was diagnosed with cancer, was on Friday's list but could not get to Rafah.\n\nHe said his family is unable to get to the border, as Israeli tanks have cut off the routes to the Rafah crossing and are \"shelling every civilian car that passes through\".\n\nMr Assalia told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme a family of 10 people was killed on Thursday trying to get to the border, adding: \"We don't sleep, the kids cry. We hate every minute.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office has said it does not comment on individual cases, but added it is working at \"every level of government to ensure British nationals can leave\".\n\nThe Israeli military is yet to respond to the BBC on claims civilians are being fired upon, but has previously said it does not target civilians.\n\nElizabeth and Maged El-Nakla, the parents of Humza Yousaf's wife Nadia, were visiting family in Gaza when the borders closed\n\nThe UK section of the list published by Palestinian authorities contains 127 names, with 92 listed as being British nationals. But it is not clear if the others, the vast majority of whom are described as Palestinian, also hold dual citizenship.\n\nHumza Yousaf's parents-in-law Elizabeth and Maged El-Nakla, who live in Dundee, have made it to Egypt after becoming trapped in Gaza while visiting relatives before the borders closed.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, the first minister and his wife Nadia confirmed her parents had left and expressed gratitude to people who have helped them, including the Foreign Office crisis team.\n\n\"These last four weeks have been a living nightmare for our family, we are so thankful for all of the messages of comfort and prayers that we have received from across the world, and indeed from across the political spectrum in Scotland and the UK,\" they said.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, security minister Tom Tugendhat said the British government was being \"very cautious\" about giving an exact number of people who will be able to get out because \"we neither control the border, nor do we control what's going on inside Gaza\".\n\n\"So what we don't want to do is give false hope or false belief to individuals that they'll be able to cross today,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nThe UK has deployed a Border Force team in Cairo, as well as consular officials in Arish, near Rafah, to provide support for UK nationals after leaving Gaza.\n\nSurgeon Abdelkadar Hammad, who lives in Liverpool, was among those who were able to exit via the Rafah crossing into Egypt on Thursday, his family have said.\n\nDowning Street previously confirmed that two UK aid workers were among those to make it through Rafah, which is the only Gazan border crossing not controlled by Israel.\n\nOn Thursday, the Foreign Office said more British nationals had managed to pass through the Gaza-Egypt border, but did not confirm how many.\n\nA dual UK-US citizen who left Gaza on Thursday with her family has told the BBC an exception was made for her British-Palestinian husband at the border as he was with family on the list of US citizens eligible to leave.\n\nDr Emilee Rauschenberger, an academic who lives in Salford, described the situation at Rafah as chaotic, with many people struggling to make it to the far-south of Gaza without cars or access to other transport.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday there was no system to divide people who were eligible to leave and those not on a list but hoping to cross, creating a stressful situation.\n\nAfter waiting many hours on the Gazan side of the border crossing, the family made it through to Egypt where they were given food and water and seen by medical staff.\n\nDr Rauschenberger said British embassy staff in Egypt told her about 10 British citizens, who she believes work for aid agencies or other international organisations, also crossed on Thursday.\n\nThe UK government has given both the Israeli and Egyptian authorities a list of British citizens and their dependants, prioritised by their medical vulnerability.\n\nDr Ahmed Abou Foul, who is based in Birmingham, has told the BBC that 16 members of his family who are trying to leave Gaza are on the list, including eight children.\n\nHe says he has mixed feelings about the news because two young children and their mothers, his sisters-in-law, will not be be able to leave as their names are not on the list.\n\nDr Abou Foul told BBC Breakfast on Friday the family do not know why they have been excluded, as he said they had been given assurances from the Foreign Office.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None A doctor, a tailor and a young child: Stories of those killed in Gaza", "Israel's military has confirmed that its jets carried out an attack on Jabalia in Gaza.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry and a hospital director said at least 50 people were killed in the attack. Meanwhile, the Israeli military said the strike killed a senior Hamas commander and caused the collapse of Hamas's underground infrastructure.", "Actor Matthew Perry has been laid to rest at a Los Angeles cemetery following a private funeral on Friday, according to US media reports.\n\nAll five of his co-stars from hit sitcom Friends attended the service alongside Perry's family, it was reported.\n\nThe funeral service at the Forest Lawn cemetery, near Warner Bros Studios, is said to have lasted two hours.\n\nPerry was found dead at his LA home last weekend at the age of 54.\n\nHis cause of death has not been confirmed. A post-mortem examination was inconclusive and officials are awaiting the results of toxicology tests.\n\nThe star played wise-cracking Chandler Bing on Friends from 1994 to 2004, with his death generating an outpouring of grief from fans and fellow celebrities.\n\nForest Lawn Memorial Park is the resting place of numerous Hollywood stars including Carrie Fisher, Paul Walker and Stan Laurel.\n\nUS media shared long-distance and aerial photographs from outside the service, where Perry's Friends co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer could be seen.\n\nHis mother, father, and stepfather were also there. About 20 people dressed in black attended in total, according to TMZ.\n\nPerry's co-stars were said to have attended the service\n\nPerry's death came one year after the publication of memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, which chronicled his decades-long struggle with addiction to prescription painkillers and alcohol.\n\nOn the same day as his funeral, a new foundation was launched in Perry's name to help those struggling with addiction.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Friends fans on why Matthew Perry was the perfect Chandler\n\nThe website for the Matthew Perry Foundation leads with a quote from Perry that says: \"When I die, I don't want Friends to be the first thing that's mentioned - I want helping others to be the first thing that's mentioned.\"\n\nFriends co-creator Marta Kauffman said she spoke to Perry two weeks ago, telling NBC's Today programme he was \"happy and chipper\" and seemed \"in a really good place\".", "Antony Blinken says been calling for humanitarian pauses in the war but has stopped short of calling for a ceasefire\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said an Israeli ceasefire in Gaza would allow Hamas to regroup and carry out further attacks.\n\nBut he added that Israel had to take \"every possible measure\" to prevent civilian casualties in the enclave.\n\nMr Blinken made the comments on Saturday in Jordan after holding talks with Arab leaders, who want an immediate halt to the fighting.\n\nThey have accused Israel of committing war crimes.\n\n\"We don't accept that it is a self-defence,\" Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said at a news conference with Mr Blinken following the talks, which also involved Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt.\n\nThe US continues to support Israel's right to defend itself against Hamas.\n\nMr Safadi described the conflict as a \"raging war that is killing civilians, destroying their homes, their hospitals, their schools, their mosques and their churches.\"\n\n\"It cannot be justified under any pretext and it will not bring Israel security, it will not bring the region peace.\"\n\nThere have been concerns that the war could draw in other regional actors and lead to the destabilisation of the Middle East.\n\nMr Blinken, who has been calling for humanitarian pauses in the fighting instead of a ceasefire, said that while the US disagreed with Arab leaders on some of the means to achieve a lasting peace in the region, their goal was the same.\n\n\"We all understand that we not only have an interest, but a responsibility to do everything we can to chart a better path forward together,\" he said.\n\nIsrael began bombing Gaza after Hamas killed more than 1,400 people in Israel in surprise attacks on 7 October. More than 200 people were kidnapped and the majority are still thought to be being held as hostages.\n\nAt least 9,488 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.\n\nMr Blinken's trip to Jordan comes a day after he visited Israel to speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said there would be no humanitarian pause until all Israeli hostages are released.\n\nThe Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) has been focusing its offensive in the northern part of Gaza, following repeated warnings for civilians to leave.\n\nAs many as 400,000 civilians are still in the area, according to the US special envoy for Middle East humanitarian issues, David Satterfield.\n\nThe IDF has also been carrying out strikes in the south and the United Nations has warned no part of Gaza is safe.\n\nMr Blinken spoke on Saturday of the need to dramatically increase the amount of aid that was getting into the enclave through Egypt's Rafah crossing.\n\nOnly limited deliveries are currently making their way into Gaza, weeks after Israel announced a siege - cutting off supplies of power, food and water.\n\nThe US Secretary of State has also met Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, to discuss the violence along Lebanon's southern border with Israel, where there has been frequent fighting between members of the Shia Islamist group Hezbollah and the Israeli military.\n\nThe leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, has so far refrained from calling for an escalation of attacks against Israel, but has left the door open for further action.\n\nMr Blinken will travel to Turkey on Sunday for two days to speak with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the conflict.\n\nThe visit comes after Ankara recalled its ambassador to Israel and broke contact with Mr Netanyahu in protest against the bloodshed.", "Elon Musk has launched an AI chatbot called Grok on his social media site X, formerly Twitter, but so far it is only available to selected users.\n\n\"In some important respects, it is the best that currently exists,\" he posted on X, before its release.\n\nMr Musk boasted that Grok \"loves sarcasm\" and would answer questions with \"a little humour\".\n\nHowever, early signs suggest it suffers from problems common to other artificial intelligence tools.\n\nOther models decline to respond to some questions, for example providing criminal advice. But Mr Musk said Grok would answer \"spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems\".\n\nIn a demonstration of the new tool, posted by Mr Musk, Grok was asked for a step-by-step guide to making cocaine.\n\nIt responded \"just a moment while I pull up the recipe... because I'm totally going to help you with that\", and listed generalised rather than useable information, combined with sarcastic suggestions, before warning against pursuing the idea.\n\nIt struck a gleeful tone in reference to the trial of crypto-entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried, but mistakenly suggested it took eight hours for the jury to deliver a guilty verdict, when in fact they returned it in under five.\n\nGenerative AI tools like Grok have been widely criticised for including basic errors while sounding highly convincing in their style of writing.\n\nThe team behind Grok xAI was launched in July, drawing on talent from other AI research firms. It is a separate company, but closely linked to Mr Musk's other enterprises X and the electric car firm, Tesla.\n\nEarlier this year Mr Musk said he wanted his version of AI to be \"a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe\".\n\nMr Musk said a major advantage of Grok was that it had access to up-to-date information from the X platform, which set it apart from the launch versions of some rivals, although increasingly up-to-date responses are available for paying customers with other AI tools.\n\nGrok is currently in a test or \"beta\" format but will later be available to paying subscribers of X. Mr Musk said late on Sunday that the chatbot would be \"built into the X app and be available as a standalone app\".\n\nLast week at the UK's AI summit, Mr Musk conceded there were dangers associated with AI development.\n\nBut he has also been a long-standing champion of the technology. He was a co-founder of the firm OpenAI which created ChatGPT, the first AI tool made widely available last year. Microsoft has invested in OpenAI making the tool available on its platform.\n\nSince then Google launched its rival artificial intelligence (AI) model, Bard, and Meta has launched Llama. The tools are designed to use previously ingested information to generate text answers that sound as though a human has written them.\n\nGrok is a term coined by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land. In it \"grokking\" was to empathise deeply with others.\n\nHowever, xAI said Grok was modelled after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, which started as a BBC radio series in the 1980s, but was later remade in print and on film.\n\nxAI said Grok was \"intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask\".\n\nGrok was a \"very early beta product - the best we could do with two months of training\", it added.", "Emergency services were called to Center Parcs Woburn Forest during what was the half-term break for many schoolchildren\n\nA teenage boy has died after falling from a skateboard at a Center Parcs resort.\n\nParamedics were called to the company's Woburn Forest site in Millbrook, Bedfordshire, shortly before 16:00 BST on 26 October.\n\nEast of England Ambulance Service (EEAS) said he was taken to Bedford Hospital for treatment but later died.\n\nA Center Parcs spokesman said: \"This is a distressing time and our thoughts are with their family and friends.\"\n\n\"At this time we are also supporting colleagues who assisted the emergency services and express our gratitude to both,\" he added.\n\nAn EEAS spokesperson said: \"We were called at 15:54 on Thursday, 26 October to Center Parcs Woburn Forest, with reports that a teenage boy had fallen off his skateboard.\n\n\"An ambulance, ambulance officer vehicle and a response car from the air ambulance were sent to the scene. The boy was transported by road to Bedford Hospital South Wing for treatment.\"\n\nHis death comes a month after a female member of staff died following a collision at the site.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fiona looks like a new sheep after her overgrown and matted fleece was shorn\n\nA row has broken out over plans to rehome Britain's loneliest sheep.\n\nThe ewe, now named Fiona, was rescued on Saturday after being stranded for more than two years at the foot of cliffs in the Scottish Highlands.\n\nBut an animal rights group says plans to rehome her to a farm park near Dumfries would make her a \"spectacle\".\n\nFiona is now a shorn sheep after her overgrown fleece was removed but remains in hiding after activists turned up at Dalscone Farm.\n\nThe sheep's plight hit the headlines last month after a kayaker photographed her still trapped at the foot of a steep cliff at the Cromarty Firth two years after a previous sighting.\n\nShe was dubbed \"Britain's loneliest sheep\" and an online petition to rescue her attracted thousands of signatures.\n\nAnimal Rising activists had been planning their own rescue of Fiona, who was living in a cave\n\nOn Saturday morning a team of five farmers successfully descended a rocky gully using a winch, and managed to extract her from the remote shoreline.\n\nBut a row quickly erupted when an animal rights group criticised plans to rehome her at a farm park because they believed she would be \"exploited\" for money and become a \"spectacle\".\n\nOn Sunday a small group of activists from Animal Rising - which earlier this year tried to disrupt a number of high-profile horse races - staged a protest at Dalscone Farm.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"It was a peaceful, non-violent demonstration. We want Fiona to be rehomed at a sanctuary rather than a petting zoo\"\n\nAnimal Rising said it was a peaceful protest\n\nThe group said that prior to Fiona's rescue, some of its members had already descended the cliffs to get her accustomed to human contact. They were planning a similar extraction operation when they learned they had been beaten to it.\n\n\"Farmer Ben\" from Dalscone Farm said in a Facebook video that staff and family members felt \"intimidated\" by demonstrators who were flying a drone and holding \"Free Fiona\" placards.\n\n\"We're going to give Fiona a five star home, we are going to get her some amazing friends,\" he said.\n\n\"We are obviously closed at the moment. The farm park's closed for the winter, for the next five months, so she's got loads of time to settle in.\n\n\"Nobody's going to be bugging her, we'll just get to know her, let her do her own thing.\"\n\nHe said they had planned to put her in a single pen, introducing her to other animals slowly and with veterinary supervision - but that has now been put on hold. He said Fiona was currently at a secret location.\n\n\"We are literally giving her the best home she could possibly get - and it's being blocked at the moment. And it's a crying shame,\" he added.\n\nSaturday's rescue operation was led by professional shearer Cammy Wilson who on Sunday relieved Fiona of her matted and overgrown fleece.\n\nHe said his own commercial farm was not set up for looking after Fiona, and he believed Dalscone Farm was the best home for her.\n\nHe told BBC News he became determined to help Fiona after seeing online criticism of the farmer whose flock she once belonged to.\n\nThe owner had tried to retrieve her but found he was unable to do so without putting himself or his employees in danger.\n\nDespite her lonely lifestyle in recent years, Fiona is said to be well-fed - slightly overweight even - and in good condition.\n\nShe will now remain at an undisclosed location until the row over her future home is settled.", "Lauren Mckenzie would like her career to progress but juggling work and childcare is hard, she says\n\nAbout a quarter of a million mothers with young children have left their jobs due to childcare pressures, research by an equal rights charity suggests.\n\nLarge numbers of women were missing out on career opportunities for the same reason, the research indicated.\n\nMore mothers are working than ever before, said the Fawcett Society.\n\nBut they were facing what amounted to a \"motherhood penalty\" as their careers weren't progressing, it said.\n\nA lack of flexible working arrangements and affordable childcare combined with \"outdated and toxic attitudes around motherhood\" were holding women back, said Jemima Olchawski, chief executive of the Fawcett Society.\n\n\"Women, once they have children, find it's harder to progress or they're forced into part-time or low-paid jobs below their skill levels,\" she said.\n\nLess than a third of working mothers with children under the age of four have the flexible working arrangements they need, the Fawcett Society said.\n\nIts survey of 3,000 working parents of pre-schoolers, conducted jointly with recruitment firm Totaljobs, found that one in 10 mothers had handed in their notice, while twice that number had considered doing so.\n\nEven mothers who decided to persevere felt they were held back by the twin demands of children and workplace, the results suggested.\n\nIt found 41% of the mothers surveyed had turned down a promotion or career development opportunity because they worried it would not fit with childcare arrangements. A high proportion of working fathers - 37% - said they had done the same.\n\n\"I do want my career to progress,\" said Lauren Mckenzie, who lives in south London with her husband and two children aged six and eight months. Already a full-time manager, she is not sure about pushing for promotion at work.\n\nShe currently juggles work around her baby's naptimes and part-time nursery place but can't afford the £1,800 cost of putting him in full-time childcare. She also says she can't be sure she won't have to dash out to pick him up during the day if something goes wrong.\n\n\"I don't feel I can fully commit sometimes to work because I have to make sure my child is looked after as well,\" she told the BBC.\n\nFailure to employ and promote mothers was having an impact on the UK economy, the Fawcett Society said, by holding back productivity or the effectiveness of the workforce and it was making it harder to close the gender pay gap.\n\nBusinesses could \"retain talent and combat ongoing skills shortages\" by doing more to support women with young children, rather than consigning them to the \"mummy track\", Ms Olchawski said.\n\n\"Right now, the UK simply cannot afford to let these talents go to waste,\" she said.\n\nEmployers wrongly assumed that pregnant women and mothers were less interested in career progression, the Fawcett Society said. Three quarters remained just as ambitious, while nearly half said they were more ambitious, it said.\n\nBut two thirds said they felt their capabilities and contributions were sometimes undervalued or overlooked in the workplace.\n\nThe Fawcett Society said it was calling on the government and businesses to provide more support with childcare, including more flexible working arrangements and the creation of \"genuinely family-friendly cultures\".\n\nThe government announced a funding package in the Spring Budget earlier this year which will increase free childcare provision for working parents in England in steps over the next two years.\n\nA government spokesperson described it as \"the single biggest investment in childcare in England's history\". Once fully rolled out it will provide 30 hours of free childcare a week for children from nine months old to school age, costing £8bn a year.\n\n\"Our Flexible Working Bill requires employers to consider any requests and provide a reason before rejection, and we have launched a call for evidence to increase understanding of the role of informal flexible working in supporting employees, including parents,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nThe expansion in funding had been welcomed by childcare providers, according to Clare Roberts, founder and chief executive of Kids Planet Nurseries, but she said it didn't address \"real issues\" in the sector.\n\nThe chain's boss, which has more than 170 branches across the UK, said the pandemic and Brexit had taken its toll on staffing levels, something \"many people don't acknowledge\".\n\n\"There are people leaving childcare to go and work in retail or hospitality and that's had a massive impact in the sector,\" she said.\n\nAre you quitting work or turning down opportunities because of childcare costs? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen took a controlled victory in the Sao Paulo Grand Prix to extend his all-time record for wins in a season to 17.\n\nVerstappen fended off a brief challenge from McLaren's Lando Norris early on before easing away to control the race.\n\nFernando Alonso took the final podium position after a stunning drive in the Aston Martin, re-passing Sergio Perez's Red Bull on the last lap after losing the place a lap before.\n\nMercedes had their worst race of 2023, Lewis Hamilton finishing eighth and George Russell retiring when running 11th.\n\nIt was an unwelcome surprise for the former champions after the team felt they had been making progress in recent races with an upgraded floor.\n\nVerstappen's win was copybook after a brief challenge from Norris in the opening laps.\n\nBut the star of the race was arguably Alonso, with a masterful defensive drive against Perez and then some remarkable race-craft to reclaim the position after losing it on the penultimate lap.\n\nPerez was within a second of Alonso, and therefore with use of the DRS overtaking aid, with 16 laps to go.\n\nBut Alonso kept a faster car behind him by clever driving, choosing innovative lines through corners and gauging his pace just right at the key points of the track to ensure Perez was never quite able to get by.\n\nAs the race went into its final three laps, it appeared as if Alonso was going to hold on, only for Perez to make a valiant final effort and pass him into Turn One on the penultimate lap.\n\nAlonso challenged back into Turn Four, but was unable to make the move stick, and it appeared as if third place was gone.\n\nBut he closed back in on Perez, sold him a dummy into Turn One at the start of the final lap, forcing Perez to defend to the inside, which allowed Alonso to compromise the Red Bull's run through the Senna S.\n\nThat gave Alonso a better exit on to the back straight and he reclaimed third place around the outside into Turn Four, and fended Perez off through the final corner and on the run to the line, taking third by just 0.053secs.\n• None 'Alonso masterclass burnishes the legend of one of the greatest'\n\nAt the front, it was another masterful performance from Verstappen in one of the greatest cars Formula 1 has ever seen, despite a multi-car pile-up among the backmarkers at the start, which was followed by a safety car and then a race stoppage.\n\nAt the restart, Norris tracked Verstappen for a few laps as Verstappen trod carefully with his tyres in the early stages, and even challenged the Red Bull for the lead into Turn Four on lap eight.\n\nBut Verstappen then upped his pace and broke Norris' challenge, and the destiny of the race was quickly clear.\n\nNorris was equally untroubled in second place, as was Alonso for the first two-thirds of the race in third until the battle with Perez in the closing laps.\n\nTen seconds back from his team-mate, Stroll also went some way to answering his critics after a poor season in which he has usually lagged well behind Alonso with a strong drive to fifth, ahead of Ferrari's Carlos Sainz, Alpine's Pierre Gasly and Hamilton.\n\nFerrari's Charles Leclerc, who started second alongside Verstappen on the front row, spun off on the formation lap with what he said was a hydraulic failure.\n\nFor Aston Martin, it was a return to form after a difficult few races when they appeared to have lost their way.\n\nBut after qualifying on the second row by virtue of going out early in a qualifying session on Friday defined by impending rain and rapidly changing conditions, Alonso made the most he possibly could have out of the race.\n• None 'Consensus within F1 that sprint format needs to change - but how?'\n\nMercedes will leave Brazil with further questions about their recalcitrant car and unpredictable performance.\n\nHamilton was second in Mexico a week ago, and also in Austin a week before that, until being disqualified for excessive wear of his car's underfloor.\n\nBut in Brazil they were nowhere, in both sprint race on Saturday and in the grand prix on Sunday.\n\nHamilton made a good start and ran third in the early laps, with Russell right behind him in fourth.\n\nBut the cars lacked pace and slid backwards through the race, struggling with worse tyre wear than their rivals - unusually - and fighting to make their stint lengths.\n\nAt one stage, Russell was behind Hamilton and asking to be let by because he was faster, but as the race progressed he dropped back and was eventually called into the pits to retire because of power-unit overheating, with the team saying it was on the point of imminent failure.\n• None Five million pieces of Lego lost at sea near Cornwall: 26 years after being washed off a cargo ship, the tiny toys are still coming ashore...\n• None From the football pitch to the rainforest...: David Beckham and three friends embark on a Brazilian adventure", "Emotional Díaz lifted his shirt to reveal the words \"freedom for papa\" after scoring on Sunday\n\nColombian-born Liverpool footballer Luis Díaz has begged for his father's kidnappers to free him immediately and \"end this painful wait\".\n\nBoth of Díaz's parents were seized at gunpoint in his hometown of Barrancas by left-wing guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) on 28 October.\n\nWhile his mother was found, his father is still missing.\n\nDíaz scored a goal against Luton on Sunday, lifting his shirt to reveal the words in Spanish \"freedom for papa\".\n\n\"Every second, every minute our anxiety grows,\" Díaz, 26, said in a statement released shortly after the match in England's Premier League.\n\n\"My mother, my brothers and I are desperate, anxious and have no words to describe what we are feeling. This suffering will only end when we have him home with us.\n\n\"I beg that they free him immediately, respecting his integrity and ending this painful wait. In the name of love and compassion we ask they reconsider their actions and allow us to have him back.\"\n\nDíaz also thanked \"the Colombians and the international community for the support that's been received, [and the] many demonstrations of care and solidarity in this difficult moment\".\n\nThe Colombian government is offering a reward for information about Luis Manuel Díaz's whereabouts\n\nThe Colombian government has deployed hundreds of police and soldiers to free the footballer's father, Luis Manuel Díaz.\n\nOn the day of the kidnap attack, CCTV footage showed the car Díaz's parents were driving in being followed by men on motorbikes.\n\nThe couple was accosted by the gunmen as they had stopped at a petrol station in Barrancas, in the northern province of La Guajira.\n\nThe kidnappers later abandoned Luis Díaz's mother in a car as police closed in, but dragged away his father.\n\nPolice originally said that a criminal gang was most likely to blame.\n\nBut a government delegation - which is currently engaged in peace talks with the rebel group - late said that it had \"official knowledge\" that the kidnapping had been carried out by \"a unit belonging to the ELN\".\n\nA representative of the group has reportedly said the group will free Díaz's father in the coming days.\n\nThe ELN is Colombia's main remaining active guerrilla group. It has been fighting the state since 1964 and has an estimated 2,500 members.\n\nIt is most active in the border region with Venezuela, where Luis Manuel Díaz and his wife Cilenis Marulanda live.", "Amiram Cooper, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Tsachi Idan are being held in Gaza\n\nIsrael says 132 people remain unaccounted for after they were abducted and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attacks by Hamas.\n\nAn estimated 240 people were taken prisoner, but 105 were later released by Hamas during a six-day ceasefire at the end of November.\n\nThe Israeli military said it mistakenly killed three hostages in northern Gaza who had escaped from their captors and expressed \"deep remorse\" over the incident.\n\nOf the 132 still unaccounted for, Israel says that 20 of them are believed to be dead.\n\nThese are the stories of those hostages who are still being held, which have either been confirmed by the BBC or credibly reported.\n\nThis list is regularly updated and names may change, as some people feared kidnapped are confirmed to have been killed or released.\n\nLast updated on 19 December 2023 at 10:33 GMT\n\nYagev Kirsht, 34, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim, alongside his wife, Rimon Buchstab Kirsht. She has now been released.\n\nAlexander Trupanov, was taken hostage with his mother Lena Trupanov, 50, his partner Sapir Cohen, 29, and his grandmother Irina Tati, 73. All were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz as they spent the Sabbath together, according to a statement by Canada's Raoul Wallenburg Center for Human Rights. Irina and Lena were released on Wednesday 29 November and Sapir was freed the next day.\n\nAriel Cunio, his girlfriend Arbel Yahud and her brother Dolev are also thought to have been abducted in the same attack on Nir Oz. Eitan Cunio, Ariel's brother who escaped Hamas, told the Jewish Chronicle that his last message from Ariel said: \"We are in a horror movie.\"\n\nDavid Cunio, 33, another of Ariel's brothers, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, family say. David's wife Sharon Aloni Cunio and their three-year-old twin daughters Ema and Yuly were released on 27 November. Sharon's sister Daniele Aloni, and her six-year-old daughter Emilia were both released on 24 November.\n\nDoron Steinbrecher, 30, a veterinary nurse, was in her apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas attacked, the Times of Israel reported. At 10:30 on 7 October, the newspaper said, she sent a voice message to friends: \"They've arrived, they have me.\"\n\nItzhak Gelerenter, 53, was taken from the Supernova festival. His family said the IDF found his phone was located in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported. His daughter Pivko told the paper: \"I'm trying to think good thoughts, I have a powerful, smart, resourceful father.\"\n\nDoron Steinbrecher sent a voice message to friends during Hamas' attack\n\nNaama Levy, 19, was filmed being bundled into a jeep, her hands tied behind her back. The footage was released by Hamas and circulated widely on social media. According to her mother, the teenager had just begun her military service.\n\nYousef Zyadna, a 53-year-old Bedouin dairy farmer, was abducted from Kibbutz Holit and taken to Gaza along with his sons Hamza, 22, and Bilal, 18, and his daughter, Aisha, 16. Aisha and Bilal were released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nElad Katzir, 47, was abducted from Nir Oz with his mother Hanna. Hanna has now been released.\n\nOhad Ben Ami, 55, was kidnapped from Be'eri with his wife, Raz. She was released by Hamas on 29 November.\n\nTwin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 26, were taken from Kfar Aza. Ziv was messaging a friend as the attack happened. Their family said the IDF has told them the brothers are being held in Gaza. Their brother Liran told CBN news the pair had \"twin power\" and were the centre of attention wherever they went.\n\nIraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 85, was taken captive from Kibbutz Kissufim, where he lived and worked as a chicken coop manager. His wife, Mazal, managed to escape.\n\nMichel Nisenbaum, 59, is a dual Brazilian-Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel for 45 years and works as a computer technician, his family told Brazilian media. They also say he is diabetic and has Crohn's disease. On 7 October, they say, someone claiming to be from Hamas answered his phone when they tried to call him.\n\nDaniela Gilboa, 19, sent messages saying that Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she was staying, was under attack and asked her mother to pray for her. Her boyfriend, Roy Dadon, told the Economist 1843 magazine that he believes he saw a glimpse of her in a video showing three girls being driven away in the back of an SUV.\n\nItay Chen, 19, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF solider, was on active duty with a tank unit on 7 October, according to the Times of Israel. The paper reported that his family was notified by the IDF that he is officially considered missing in action and probably being held hostage. Another soldier in his unit, Matan Angrest, 21, is also presumed to be in Gaza.\n\nYosi Sharabi, 51, was taken from Be'eri with his brother, Eli Sharabi, 55. Eli's wife and two daughters were murdered in the attack. Ofir Engel, the boyfriend of Yosi's daughter, Yuval, was also taken, but released on 29 November.\n\nAgam Berger, 19, was kidnapped from Nahal Oz. She was seen being taken away in videos released by Hamas.\n\nEdan Alexander, 19, is an Israeli-US citizen who volunteered to join the Israeli army. He was serving near the Gaza border at the time of Hamas's attack. Edan's family said they had been told by Israeli officials that he had been taken to Gaza as a hostage.\n\nKaid Farhan Elkadi, 53, lives with his family south of Rahat and worked as a security guard, according to Israeli media. Reports said his family believes he was kidnapped and taken to Gaza, based on images shared by Hamas.\n\nIlana Gritzewsky and Matan Zanguaker were captured near the Gaza border, family say\n\nMatan Zanguaker, 24, was taken with his partner Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, from Nir Oz, according to Ilana's father. Ilana, a Mexican national, was released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nThe family of Eitan and Yair Horn believe they were taken from Nir Oz kibbutz\n\nEitan Horn, 37, and his brother Yair, 45, both Argentinian citizens, were also in Nir Oz at the time of the attack. Their father Itzik said he believes they were kidnapped. Yair is a construction worker while Eitan works in education.\n\nItai Svirsky, 38, is thought to have been abducted when his elderly parents were killed in Be'eri. He had been visiting them for the holiday of Simhat Torah.\n\nKeith Seigel, 64, and his wife Adrienne - often known as Aviva - Seigel, 62, were taken from their home in Kfar Aza, Keith's brother Lee Seigel told the BBC. Adrienne was released on 26 November.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, lived in Nahal Oz with his wife and two daughters. Omri was led away by Hamas with his hands tied, his wife Lishay told the Guardian newspaper. She told him not to be a hero, urging: \"Do whatever they want because I want you back.\"\n\nBipin Joshi, 23, a Nepalese student, is believed to have been taken from Kibbutz Alumim. Nepalese newspaper Setopati says he was one of 49 university students studying agriculture in Israel. It says 10 students were killed in the attack.\n\nIlan Weiss, 58, went missing from Kibbutz Be'eri after he was last seen leaving the house to defend the community. On 25 November, his wife Shiri Weiss, 53, and their daughter, Noga, 18, were freed from captivity in a hostage deal.\n\nAmiram Cooper, 85, and his wife Nurit, 80, were taken from their home in Nir Oz, their daughter-in-law Noa told the BBC. The family last spoke to the couple during the Hamas attack, Noa said, when the couple were in their safe room. The family later traced Amiram's phone to Gaza. On Monday 23 October, Nurit was one of two women to be released.\n\nAmiram and Nurit Cooper, pictured with their granddaughter, Gali\n\nOded Lifshitz, 83, and his wife Yocheved, 85 were taken hostage from Nir Oz. On Monday 23 October, Yocheved was one of two elderly women to be freed. After hearing the news of her mother's release, their daughter Sharone - a London-based artist - said: \"While I cannot put into words the relief that she is now safe, I will remain focused on securing the release of my father and all those - some 200 innocent people - who remain hostages in Gaza.\"\n\nHaim Peri, 79, was taken from his home in Nir Oz, reports the Times of Israel, and freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz said she saw that he was alive and well. His son Lior Peri told Talk TV that Haim had locked his wife inside the safe room before giving himself up to kidnappers.\n\nAvraham Munder, 78, was kidnapped from Nir Oz, Israeli officials say. His wife Ruthi, daughter and grandson have since been released.\n\nOmer Neutra, a 22-year-old Israeli-American and grandson of Holocaust survivors, put off plans to go to college in the US to study in Israel, and eventually joined the IDF. He was serving as a tank commander near Gaza when Hamas attacked. Omer's parents say they were told by the Israeli embassy that he had been kidnapped.\n\nRon Benjamin's vehicle was found empty following the attacks\n\nRon Benjamin, 53, had been taking part in a group cycle ride near the Gaza border when the Hamas attack began and he decided to drive home, his family told Israeli media. Days later, his vehicle was found empty and his family believe he was kidnapped.\n\nLouis Har, 70, is believed to have been taken from Nir Yitzhak. His partner Clara Marman was released on 28 November along with her sister Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela's daughter Mia Leimberg,17. Clara and Gabriela's brother Fernando Simon Marman, 60, also remains in captivity.\n\nJudith Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 73, also went missing from Nir Oz after the Hamas attack. Ten days later, the Israeli military confirmed to the family they had been taken hostage, CTV News in Canada reported.\n\nAlex Danzig, 75, a scholar and historian of the Holocaust, was at his home in Nir Oz, when it was attacked by Hamas. \"We know for sure he was kidnapped,\" his son Mati told the BBC. Alex - whose older sister Edith is a Holocaust survivor - has spent the last 30 years working for Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust remembrance centre. His disappearance has triggered a campaign for his release, both in Israel and in Poland, the country of his birth.\n\nAlex Danzig has spent decades educating people about the Holocaust\n\nItzhk Elgarat, 68, was kidnapped at the same time as Alex Danzig, his brother Danny Elgert told Israel's Kan 11 TV station, adding that he had tracked his brother's phone to the border with Gaza.\n\nGadi Moses, 79, was also abducted during the same attack on Nir Oz, according to relatives and the Israeli aid agency where he worked as an agricultural expert. Efrat Katz, his partner, was initially thought to have been captured as well, but she was later found dead, the Times of Israel reported. Efrat was the mother of Doron Asher, who was taken hostage and later released with her two daughters. Ravid Katz, 51, Doron Asher's brother, was originally thought to have been taken hostage from Nir Oz, but on 28 November his family confirmed that he had been killed on 7 October.\n\nYair Yaakov, 59, is listed among the hostages. His partner Meirav Tal, 53, was released on 28 November. Yair's children Yagil, 13, and Or, 16, were released on 27 November.\n\nYair Yaakov was pictured being held captive by a gunman in a video shared online\n\nNimrod Cohen, 19, had studied software engineering in high school, according to reports. After he was kidnapped, his father was invited to meet Pope Francis in Rome along with other hostages' families.\n\nTsachi Idan, 51, was last seen by his wife, Gali, as he was taken away by Hamas gunmen. Their family had been ambushed in their safe room in Nahal Oz. Their ordeal was live-streamed by Hamas. Their eldest child, Maayan - who had just turned 18 - was shot dead, Gali told the BBC.\n\nTsachi Idan was ambushed with his wife and children and then led away\n\nYarden Bibas, 34, was abducted from Nir Oz. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were also taken hostage, but on 29 November, Hamas claimed they had been killed in an Israeli air strike while in captivity. The Israeli government has said it is checking the claim.\n\nRonen Engel, 54, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife, Karina Engelbert, 51, and their two daughters, Mika, 18 and Yuval, 11. On 1 December, the organisation representing the families said he had been murdered. Karina, Mika and Yuval were released on 27 November.\n\nKarina Ariev, a 19-year-old soldier, was serving at an army base near Gaza when she was kidnapped. Her sister Alexandra told the BBC she heard shooting as Karina called her during the attack, and later saw a video showing Karina being taken away in a vehicle.\n\nKarina Ariev was at the Nahal Oz military base, which was among the first to be attacked\n\nOfer Kalderon, 53, was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz. On 27 November his two children, Erez, 12, and Sahar, 16, were released. Two other relatives, 80-year-old Carmela Dan and her granddaughter, Noya, 12, were also believed to have been taken, but Israeli authorities later announced they had been found dead.\n\nYoram Metzger, 80, was a resident of Nir Oz. He has diabetes and broke his hip six months ago, his daughter-in-law said. Yoram's wife Tamar was released on 28 November.\n\nNadav Popplewell, 51, and his mother Channah were taken hostage by Hamas, said Channah's daughter Ayelet Svatitzky, who was speaking to them on the phone when the gunmen burst in. She said the captors sent pictures of her two relatives, who both have diabetes, with armed men in the background. Channah has now been released.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, was abducted after his family opened the door to their secure shelter to an Israeli child, who said he would be killed otherwise. Omri's wife, Lishay Lavi, said she saw him being taken away in handcuffs with three other hostages from Nahal Oz.\n\nLiri Elbag, 18, had just started military training as an Army lookout near the Gaza border when Hamas attacked, her father Eli told the Associated Press. Eli said he saw her in a video circulated later by Hamas, crowded with others on the back of a military truck which had been seized by the gunmen.\n\nLior Rudaeff, 61, was taken from Nir Yitzhak during the attack. His family have heard nothing from him since then.\n\nA number of people are believed to have been abducted from the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Among them:\n\nShlomi Ziv, 40, was part of the security detail at the festival and was initially in contact with his sisters as the attack unfolded, according to an interview with The Times of Israel. A few weeks later the family learned he was officially considered to be a hostage, the report says.\n\nAlexander Lobanov, 32, is a Russian-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped at the festival.\n\nOri Danino, 25, is reported to have got away from the festival in his car, but it's believed he was captured after turning back in an attempt to save some people he had met there.\n\nAlmog Sarusi, 26, was kidnapped from the music festival and his partner Shahar Gindi was killed, according to Israeli media. Almog's father, Yigal, was among the relatives of hostages who met with Israel's prime minister in October.\n\nOmer Shem Tov, 21, called his parents as he was running away from gunfire and managed to get into a friend's car. His parents, Shelly and Malki Shem Tov, told Israeli media they lost contact with their son and the live location on his phone showed he was beyond the border in Gaza.\n\nIdan Shtivi, 28, an environmental sciences student, was attending the festival to take pictures at music and yoga workshops being held by friends. He escaped the site in his car but was attacked by Hamas along the route. The bodies of two of his passengers were found, and his family told the Jerusalem Post they suspect he was kidnapped.\n\nYosef Ohana, 24, had been at the festival with a friend, who told his mother he and Yosef had remained to help people escape the gunfire before running themselves. Yosef was last seen hiding under a car, and Israeli authorities have visited his mother to say he was kidnapped.\n\nAndrei Kozlov, 27, a Russian who moved to Israel in 2022, is missing from the Supernova festival, where he was working as a security guard. His mother told the De Taly publication the family was told by the IDF on October 26 that he was being held hostage.\n\nElyakim Libman, 23, was working as a security guard at the festival. In a Facebook post his father Eliyahu Libman said another guard told him his son had helped rescue others before trying to escape. He was last seen trying to help two badly-injured women.\n\nNoa Argamani, a Chinese-born Israeli citizen, was also kidnapped from the festival. Video footage - verified by her father Yaakov Argamani to Israel's Channel 12 - shows the 25-year-old being taken away on the back of a motorbike screaming, \"Don't kill me!\" Her boyfriend Avinatan Or, 30, also appears in the video being marched away from her by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nEden Yerushalmi's family say they were told she had been taken hostage\n\nEden Yerushalmi, 24, called her family during Hamas's attack on the festival, her sister May told CBS News. The family say they were subsequently informed by the IDF that Eden had been abducted.\n\nChanan Yablonka, 42, is a father-of-two from Tel Aviv. According to reports, he attended the festival with friends and was due to celebrate his birthday a few days after the attacks.\n\nJonathan Samerano, 21, has been missing since 7am on the morning of the festival. His family have been told to presume he is being held in Gaza, Israeli media reported.\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal was filmed in captivity in Gaza, his family say\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, attended the festival with his brother. Guy appears in a hostage video that his family say confirms he is in Gaza.\n\nUriel Baruch, 35, was injured during the attack on the festival, his wife said on Facebook. Reports in Israeli media say his mother, Naomi, has heard from the IDF that he is a hostage.\n\nMaxim Kharkin's mother described speaking to him on the morning of 7 October\n\nMaxim Kharkin is aged 35 and a Russian speaker, his mother told Russian media. She added that he had called her at 07:00 on the morning of the attack.\n\nElkana Bohbot was seen in a video posted by Hamas\n\nElkana Bohbot, 34, had gone to the party with friends and, before losing contact, he spoke to his wife and mother telling them he was helping to evacuate the wounded, the Times of Israel reported. Hours later, his family found a video of him posted online by Hamas, which has been seen by BBC Verify.\n\nRom Braslavski, 19, was working on security for the festival. According to an account published by Hostages and Missing Families Forum, he was trying to rescue an injured person in the attack when he was caught in a volley of fire. He has not been heard from since.\n\nOmer Wenkert, 22, a restaurant manager, sent a message to his family to say he was going to a safe shelter but then lost contact, his father Shai Wenkert told the BBC's Today Programme. Shai Wenkert said he had seen footage of his son in captivity, including a photo of him handcuffed and wearing only underwear.\n\nEvyatar David's family say they were sent a video of him in captivity\n\nEvyatar David, 23, was at the festival and on the morning of the attacks, described fleeing from gunfire before losing contact with the outside world, his brother says. Later, his family say, Evyatar's sister posted on Instagram appealing for information about his whereabouts. She then received a text from an unknown number, which contained video footage of Evyatar handcuffed on the floor of a dark room. According to Israel's foreign ministry he is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nEitan Mor, 23, lives in Jerusalem, and was working as a security guard at the festival, the Times of Israel said. He reportedly texted his uncle after Hamas arrived and was last seen with a friend bringing others to safety.\n\nAlon Ohel, 22, a Serbian citizen, took refuge in a shelter after the festival came under attack, his family say. They have seen footage of him being dragged away after a grenade attack.\n\nAlmog Meir Jan, 21, tried to flee the festival. He and a friend made it to the friend's car but only managed to drive a short distance before being forced to stop. Almog's family say they have seen a hostage video in which he appears.\n\nInbar Heiman, a student aged 21, was seen by two young Israeli men being taken away from the festival on a motorcycle. Hamas have released a video in which she is seen very briefly.\n\nHersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual US-Israeli citizen, was badly injured in the attack, his family told the BBC. Eyewitness accounts say he was seen being forced onto a white pick-up truck - the last-known signal from his phone came from just inside Gaza.\n\nSegev Kalfon, 26, was running away from the festival, across the highway, when he was captured by Hamas, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.\n\nOrión Hernández Radoux, 30, from Mexico, attended the festival with his girlfriend, Shani Louk. He has not been seen since. The Sun newspaper says it has seen threatening messages written in Arabic sent from his phone. Shani, a tourist from Germany, was initially thought to be among those seized. But on 30 October, her mother Ricarda told German media that the family had been informed by Israeli military of her death following DNA identification.\n\nRomi Lesham Gonen, 23, was on the phone to her mother as she tried to escape from the Supernova festival. Merav Leshem Gonan has recounted a conversation in which her daughter begged for help after being shot. ABC News reports that Romi's phone is now in Gaza.\n\nBar Kuperstein, 21, last spoke to his family early on the morning of 7 October, as the attack unfolded. Later the same day, his family say they identified him in a video of Israeli prisoners, posted by Hamas. Since then, they say they have had no further information.\n\nEliya Cohen, 26, was hiding with his girlfriend Ziv from the attack, when Ziv felt him being pulled up and driven away by the gunmen, Eliya's mother has told the video initiative #BringThemHomeNow. The family then found a photo of Eliya in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nAmit Buskila, 28, from Ashdod, was last heard of making a call to her uncle, Shimon, as Hamas overran the festival. Her family say they have now been told by the government that she is being held in Gaza.\n\nCarmel Gat, 39, is Jordan's sister-in-law, and also was seen by her father being taken by gunmen from Kibbutz Be'eri, Haaretz newspaper reported. She has not been heard from since.\n\nOhad Yahalomi, 49, was abducted from Nir Oz, along with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the November ceasefire.\n\nDror Or, 48, was seen by a neighbour being dragged out of his home in Be'eri, according to their nephew Emmanuel Besorai, along with his son and daughter. On Saturday 25 November Dror's son Noam, 17, and daughter Alma, 13, were released from captivity. The body of Yonat, 50 - Dror's wife and the children's mother - was identified among the 120 people murdered at the kibbutz, Yonat's brother told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nTal Shoham, 38, was taken from Kibbutz Be'eri. His wife Adi, also 38, her mother Dr Shoshan Haran, 67, were released by Hamas on 25 November, along with the couple's children Nave, eight, and Yahel, three. Dr Haran's husband, Avshalom - an economist and dual German/Israeli citizen - was killed on 7 October.\n\nTamir Adar, 38, who defended Nir Oz as part of the kibbutz's emergency squad, was taken to Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen, 35, an American-Israeli citizen, has been missing since Hamas's attack on Nir Oz, his father Jonathan told the BBC. He said his son was not found among the dead and the \"only reasonable explanation\" is that he was taken to Gaza.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen's father has not heard from him since Hamas attacked the kibbutz where he lived\n\nThailand's ambassador to Israel says 26 of its citizens were taken hostage, 23 of whom have now been released.\n\nThose still being held are believed to include Watchara Sriuan, 32. His mother, Viewwaew, told the Thaiger news site that the family had been informed he was being held captive.\n\nKiattisak \"Top\" Patee and a Mr Pongtorn (no first name given) have also been named by the Thai foreign ministry as hostages.\n\nA number of other people thought to have been held hostage are now confirmed to have died, either during the 7 October attack or while in captivity.\n\nAs well as Ron Scherman and Nik Beizer, four bodies were identified this week. They were Tal Chaimi, an Israeli-Romanian citizen aged 41, and Joshua Mollel, a 19-year-old Tanzanian student. Also, 27-year-old Eden Zecharya, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and 36-year-old Ziv Dado, who had already been declared dead by the Israeli military.\n\nOthers known to have died include Dror Kaplun, 68, Aviv Atzili, 49, Arye Zalmanovich, 85, Ronen Engel, 54, Maya Goren, 56, Guy Iluz, 26, Ofir Tzarfati, 27, Ofra Keider, 70, and Eliyahu Margalit, 75.\n\nThe bodies of 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, and 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss were found by Israeli troops in buildings close to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.\n\nOn Saturday 9 December Kibbutz Bari announced that Sahar Baruch, 25, had been killed in Gaza.\n\nOther hostages whose death has been reported, but not confirmed include Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Many of the 128th Brigade's personnel - as seen in this archive photo - are from Ukraine's westernmost Transcarpathia region\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has demanded answers for the families of soldiers killed in a missile strike during an awards ceremony on Friday.\n\nA Ukrainian unit said 19 of its soldiers were killed in a Russian attack near the front lines in the southern Zaporizhzhia region.\n\nThe 128th Mountain Assault Brigade said its \"best fighters have been killed\".\n\nMany have expressed disbelief that the ceremony was allowed to go ahead so near to the front line.\n\nPresident Zelensky said the incident \"could have been avoided\".\n\n\"Criminal proceedings have been initiated,\" the Ukrainian leader added in a post on social media on Sunday.\n\n\"Every soldier in the combat zone - in the enemy's line of fire and aerial reconnaissance - knows how to behave in the open, how to ensure safety.\"\n\nA number of Ukrainian soldiers and military experts say the ceremony should not have taken place in a strike-risk area.\n\nThey say Ukrainian officers should have been aware that Russian drones are constantly monitoring Ukrainian troops' activities near the frontlines to guide air and artillery strikes.\n\nDrone footage has now emerged on a Russian Telegram channel purportedly showing the moment of the deadly strike - on what appears to be an open-air ceremony.\n\nA number of bodies, believed to be those of Ukrainian soldiers, are also seen lying on the ground.\n\nRussia's military has not officially commented on the attack.\n\nUkrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov had earlier confirmed reports that soldiers from the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade had been killed in the strike.\n\nHe ordered a \"full investigation\" into what he described as a \"tragedy\".\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine's Strategic Command (StratCom) said an Iskander-M - a short-range ballistic missile used by Russia - was used in the attack. A number of civilians were injured.\n\nIn his own statement, President Zelensky said he wanted to \"establish the complete truth about what happened and prevent such incidents from happening again\".\n\nThree days of mourning have been declared in Ukraine's westernmost Transcarpathia region, where many of the victims are believed to be from.\n\nKyiv has not publicly revealed the location of the strike, but reports in Ukrainian media say it was a village near the front line.\n\nRussian bloggers said it was the village of Dymytrovo - which was renamed Zarichne by Ukraine in 2016.\n\nThe attack is believed to have been launched as Ukrainian troops marked Artillery Day, which celebrates military personnel working in artillery and missile units.\n\nRuslan Kahanets, commander of Ukraine's volunteer battalion Sonechko (Sun), said in a Facebook post on Saturday that there was \"a pile of dead officers and soldiers\" in the aftermath. He also posted photos of burned vehicles and soldiers' bodies.\n\nA video has also emerged in which a Ukrainian soldier - believed to be from a nearby brigade - publicly criticises officers for organising the reported ceremony.\n\nThe unnamed soldier says that front-line villages are being hit \"methodically and regularly\" and \"anyone who is here will tell you this\".\n\n\"As a result of this [ceremony] line-up, many Ukrainian defenders and civilians died\".\n\nHe asks what the officers who had gathered the crowd were thinking, because \"everyone on the front lines knows that a crowd of more than two people always provokes an 'arrival' [air strike]\".\n\nSerhiy Sternenko, a well-known Ukrainian volunteer, suggested on Saturday that the commander who had organised the ceremony should be jailed for life.\n\n\"There have already been many similar incidents. Unfortunately. Without systemic changes, there will be more such incidents,\" he said.\n\nA number of social media users in Ukraine have also voiced their anger and demanded punishment for the ceremony's organisers.\n\n\"Who gathered them there, why is this person's name being withheld? Whose initiative was it? Are these people already under investigation?\" one user wrote.\n\nAnother asked: \"How was it possible to gather ALL our warriors in one place?\"\n\nMeanwhile, a Russian military blogger suggested that Ukraine's military chiefs should now \"think why such incidents have become more frequent\".\n\nAnother pro-Kremlin blogger wrote that \"earlier, Ukrainians had 'punished' Russians in a similar way several times. And we quickly forgot about lining up outside, stopped huddling and began to constantly look at the sky\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The home secretary is proposing new laws to restrict the use of tents by homeless people, arguing that many of them see it as a \"lifestyle choice\".\n\nSuella Braverman's plan would introduce new penalties in England and Wales for homeless people who authorities believe have rejected offers of help.\n\nThe plan was to stop \"those who cause nuisance... by pitching tents in public spaces,\" she said.\n\nHousing charity Shelter said: \"Nobody should be punished for being homeless\".\n\nThe plan is expected to be included in the King's speech on Tuesday, which sets out the government's legislative agenda and is expected to focus heavily on law and order.\n\nWriting on X, formerly known as Twitter, Ms Braverman said: \"Nobody in Britain should be living in a tent on our streets. There are options for people who don't want to be sleeping rough.\"\n\nShe said the government would always support those who are genuinely homeless, but added: \"We cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice.\"\n\nShe added: \"What I want to stop, and what the law-abiding majority wants us to stop, is those who cause nuisance and distress to other people by pitching tents in public spaces, aggressively begging, stealing, taking drugs, littering and blighting our communities.\"\n\nUnless action is taken, she said, \"British cities will go the way of places in the US like San Francisco and Los Angeles, where weak policies have led to an explosion of crime, drug taking and squalor.\"\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, the proposals are designed to replace elements of the 1824 Vagrancy Act.\n\nThe paper reported that sources had said the plans being considered were for two clauses to be inserted in the new criminal justice bill, which applies to England and Wales. This would target tents that cause a nuisance - such as by obstructing shop doorways.\n\nAccording to the report, the proposals include creating a civil offence whereby charities could be fined for handing out tents if they were deemed to have caused a nuisance.\n\nPolly Neate, chief executive of Shelter said: \"Living on the streets is not a lifestyle choice.\"\n\nShe added: \"Homelessness happens when housing policy fails and boils down to people not being able to afford to live anywhere.\n\n\"Private rents are at an all-time high, evictions are rising and the cost of living crisis continues.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner added that the government should take responsibility for the housing crisis, rather than blame homeless people.\n\n\"A toxic mix of rising rents and a failure to end no-fault evictions are hitting vulnerable people, yet after years of delay the Tories still haven't kept their promises to act,\" she said.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' home affairs spokesman, Alistair Carmichael, said it was \"grim politics\" to \"criminalise homeless charities for simply trying to keep vulnerable people warm and dry in winter\".\n\nHe added: \"This policy will do nothing to stop rough sleeping and will leave vulnerable people to face the harsh weather conditions without any shelter whatsoever.\"\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan described the proposal as \"deeply depressing\".\n\n\"The government should be investing more in social housing, uplifting housing benefit rates and banning no-fault evictions,\" he wrote on X.", "Some survivors are having to sleep in tents after their homes were destroyed\n\nMore than 150 people have been killed after an earthquake struck remote western Nepal on Friday.\n\nSecurity forces have been deployed to help rescue efforts in the rugged districts of Jajarkot and West Rukum, 500km (310 miles) west of Kathmandu.\n\nStrong tremors were felt far away in the Nepalese capital and in cities in neighbouring India, including Delhi.\n\nThe government said about 375 people had been injured. Jajarkot's hospital is packed with the wounded.\n\nSome people have had to be airlifted as far as Kathmandu, but officials are worried about getting others out after nightfall.\n\nOne survivor, Geethakumari Bista, told the BBC that rescuers saved her elder daughter, but she lost her younger daughter.\n\n\"We three were in the same room on the top floor. Everything happened so suddenly. We couldn't understand what was happening,\" she recalled.\n\nAfter their house collapsed, they were buried in the rubble.\n\n\"People shouted around. The armed police came and I shouted: 'I am alive, too'... First, they rescued my elder daughter by carrying her out and taking her downstairs. Unfortunately, they couldn't save my younger one. She was 14 years old.\"\n\nThree more tremors were felt within an hour of the quake. Local authorities urged people to stay outside for at least 24 hours as minor aftershocks are being reported in the areas.\n\nVideo footage on local media showed crumbled facades of multi-storied brick houses. People were pictured digging through rubble in the dark to pull survivors from the remains of collapsed buildings in posts on social media.\n\nUnicef Nepal said that they were assessing the damage and the toll of the disaster on children and families.\n\nNepal's Prime Minister, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, arrived in the affected region on Saturday, after expressing his \"deep sorrow\" at the loss of life and property wrought by the quake, on social media platform X. He said he had ordered security agencies to immediately launch rescue and relief operations.\n\nA cabinet meeting on Sunday is expected to decide whether to accept foreign assistance for relief and rescue. Officials said many countries, including Nepal's neighbours China and India, had offered humanitarian help.\n\nSearch and rescue operations are being hampered by roads becoming blocked by landslides that were triggered by the quake.\n\n\"Houses have collapsed. People rushed out of their homes. I am out in the crowd of terrified residents,\" said a police official from the region, Santosh Rokka, who spoke to Reuters immediately after the earthquake.\n\n\"We were sleeping. We felt like dying,\" says Laxman Pun, an earthquake survivor. Their house has been damaged and they could survive \"with much difficulty\", he told BBC Nepali. \"We don't know where we will be able to stay. We will probably need tents.\"\n\n\"Our house shook back and forth like a swing. As we rushed outside, there were houses falling and dust everywhere. We couldn't see anything and so we again moved inside. We came out after the tremors stopped,\" said Siddha Bohora, a bank manager from Jajarkot.\n\nIn Athaviskot municipality, one of the areas worst affected by the earthquake, three people who had critical injuries were sent to hospitals in Surkhet by an army helicopter for further treatment.\n\nMunicipality chief Ravi KC warned that because of the cold weather, the victims who lost their houses will \"suffer more\". The municipality has a population of about 35,000 and hundreds of houses were completely damaged, according to KC.\n\nLocal government officials, police and army have been deployed for rescue operations, as there are still bodies left to be recovered from the rubble.\n\nThe earthquake was recorded at 23:47 local time (18:02 GMT), according to Nepal's Monitoring and Research Centre.\n\nThe US Geological Survey measured the earthquake at a magnitude of 5.6 and said it was a shallow earthquake, meaning it happened closer to the earth's surface.\n\nNepal is situated along the Himalayas, where there is a lot of seismic activity.\n\nLast month, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake was registered in the western district of Bajhang, resulting in injuries.\n\nIn 2015, the country suffered two devastating earthquakes in which 9,000 people were killed and 22,309 injured.\n\nThe first, on 25 April 2015, was a 7.8-magnitude quake which caused most of the damage and loss of life. A large number of aftershocks followed, including one that measured 7.3 in May of that year.\n\nThe quakes destroyed or damaged more than 800,000 houses mainly in the western and central districts, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).\n\nGovernment buildings, some stretches of roads and Kathmandu Valley's famous historic monuments - Unesco world heritage sites - were destroyed or damaged, with many villages north of Kathmandu flattened.\n• None One year on from Nepal earthquake", "The effigy depicts prime minister Rishi Sunak coming out of a train with the face of RMT union boss Mick Lynch\n\nAn effigy of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been revealed at bonfire celebrations in Lewes, East Sussex, attended by thousands of people.\n\nThe effigy, known as a tableau, was met with boos from the crowd.\n\nThe historic town is famous for its lively Bonfire Night celebration, which fell on 4 November this year.\n\nThe crowds were not deterred by a yellow weather warning and travel disruption caused by the recent Storm Ciarán.\n\nThey showed up to the event despite rain, road closures, transportation issues, and a plea for people to attend local bonfires.\n\nSeven bonfire societies each produces an effigy, which typically reflect current affairs, and are later burned in fields outside Lewes - along with a traditional Guy Fawkes.\n\nPast effigies have included prime ministers Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Tony Blair, Russia President Vladimir Putin and broadcaster Katie Hopkins.\n\nCrosses are paraded through Lewes each year to mark the burning of 17 Protestant martyrs\n\nThe societies, many of which date to the 19th Century, organise the parade every year.\n\nThe societies marched through the town with drummers, fireworks and burning crosses.\n\nMembers of Commercial Square bonfire society march through the cobbled streets\n\nThe societies often keep their effigies a surprise until the day.\n\nAnother tableau this year shows Chancellor Jeremy Hunt driving a train with HS2 on the side. Some commentators have suggested Treasury cuts have resulted in part of the rail project being cancelled.\n\nA sign within the tableau featuring the chancellor reads \"HS2 Last stop London\" - with \"The North\" crossed out\n\nAnother effigy of Suella Braverman is dragged through the streets of Lewes\n\nThe event does not only commemorate the failed Gunpowder Plot led by Guy Fawkes in 1605.\n\nThe burning crosses are also paraded through Lewes each year to mark the burning of 17 Protestant martyrs during the reign of Mary I, often known as \"Bloody Mary\".\n\nThe procession always includes an effigy of Guy Fawkes\n\nThis effigy reads: \"We stand and don't deliver\" on the front\n\nAuthorities previously urged visitors not to travel to the event due to overcrowding concerns.\n\nAttendees bear torches as they parade through the town\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on X, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Anthony Blinken has faced a challenging few days on his visit to the region\n\nFor three days, the US's top diplomat, Antony Blinken, has been dashing around the Middle East, trying to contain a situation that threatens to spin out of control.\n\nIsrael on Friday. Jordan on Saturday. The West Bank, Iraq and Turkey on Sunday.\n\nEvery stop posed its own challenges and gave reason to be pessimistic that much progress is being made. The central challenge facing the US secretary of state is that he is trying to find a middle ground where none, at the moment, exists.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Blinken encouraged Israeli leaders to make temporary pauses in hostilities in order to ease humanitarian aid and encourage hostage releases - a move the Israeli prime minister quickly rejected.\n\nThe next day, he met representatives of Israel's Arab neighbours. They all called for an immediate ceasefire. Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said Israel was committing war crimes.\n\nAt roughly the same time back in the US, President Joe Biden was asked whether progress was being made toward securing those humanitarian pauses. He gave a thumbs up and replied \"good\".\n\nThe president's optimism stood in stark contrast to the mood on the ground here in the Middle East.\n\nAs if to underscore the tension in the region, Mr Blinken's Sunday stops were done under cover of secrecy. He travelled to Ramallah to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in a convoy of armoured SUVs and vans, speeding through streets cordoned off by soldiers from the Palestinian Palace Guard.\n\nHe arrived in Iraq under cover of darkness. The secretary and his diplomatic entourage donned body armour and helmets for the short helicopter ride from the Baghdad airport to the US embassy, where he then motorcaded to a meeting with Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani.\n\nThe US secretary of state arrived under the cover of darkness in Iraq for his meeting with Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani\n\nOn Monday, he will meet Turkish officials - just one day after Turkey's President, Recip Erdogan, recalled his country's ambassador to Israel and said he was done dealing with Mr Netanyahu. \"We have erased him, thrown him out,\" the Turkish leader said.\n\nEvery time Mr Blinken puts one fire out, another seems to pop up.\n\nI asked Mr Blinken at the Baghdad airport if he shared the US president's optimism about the chances of convincing Israel to agree to pauses and in getting the Arabs to accept that a ceasefire is unrealistic at this point.\n\nThe Americans are continuing to work with the Israelis to address concerns about the \"specifics and the practicalities\" of how humanitarian pauses could be implemented.\n\nThe US secretary of state travelled to Ramallah in the West Bank in a convoy of armoured SUVs\n\nAs for the Arabs, he said there were differences of opinion on a ceasefire, but everyone he had spoken with believed humanitarian pauses could help win the release of hostages, increase aid distribution in Gaza and expedite getting foreign citizens out of Gaza.\n\n\"We've had important progress there in recent days,\" he said, but \"there are also real complications that come along with it.\"\n\nFor the moment, however, no one seems to be buying what Mr Blinken is selling, in part because both the Israelis and the Arab nations are dealing with their own domestic pressures pulling the two sides apart.\n\nOn Friday, as Mr Blinken stood before press cameras with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in central Tel Aviv, chants and horns could be heard - the sound of Israeli protesters calling for the government to do more to rescue the hostages taken by Hamas on 7 October.\n\n\"Our heart goes out to them,\" Mr Herzog said.\n\nMeanwhile, in countries across the region - and in Europe and the US - pro-Palestinian protesters have taken to the street en masse. Demonstrators climbed the fence outside the White House in Washington DC and filled the streets in Paris, London and Berlin.\n\nIn Istanbul, protesters held up a sign that called Mr Blinken \"an accomplice of the massacre\".\n\nIf a positive spin can be put on Mr Blinken's trip so far, it's that he is speaking with all sides and, for the moment, the conflict has not spread. After Joe Biden's October meeting with Arab leaders in Jordan was abruptly cancelled following the explosion at a Gaza hospital, Mr Blinken's foreign minister gathering on Saturday was an indication of some progress.\n\nAntony Blinken's meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah had been kept under wraps\n\nHowever, the secretary of state's attempts to encourage his Arab counterparts to start thinking about the long-term future for the Palestinians, and a means to ensure a \"durable\" peace in the region, were less successful.\n\n\"How can we even entertain what will happen in Gaza when we do not know what kind of Gaza will be left after this war is done?\" Jordan's Mr Safadi asked. \"Are we going to be talking about a wasteland? Are we going to be talking about a whole population reduced to refugees?\"\n\nIn a meeting with Jewish community leaders at the White House on 12 October, Joe Biden said he thought that the end result of the tragedy and bloodshed in Israel and Gaza would be a Middle East that was changed for the better.\n\n\"But then again, I have been referred to as a congenital optimist,\" the US president added.\n\nOn the ground here in the region, such optimism has proven to be a rare commodity.", "Actor Sarah Snook says the film industry should \"set a precedent\" on the use of artificial intelligence (AI).\n\nSnook, best known for her role as Shiv in the TV show Succession, said the use of AI is an \"uncharted landscape\".\n\nShe spoke to Laura Kuenssberg ahead of her role in a London stage adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray. She wasn't able to talk about her time on Succession because of the Hollywood actors' strike.\n\nMany Hollywood screen actors are on strike, demanding better safeguards against the use of AI in TV and movie productions. Striking actors can't promote their screen work, though they can talk about their stage work.\n\nYou can watch the full interview on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg from 09:00 GMT on BBC One and iPlayer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained in Iran for six years\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has said the UK government should be doing more to secure the release of a Scottish man detained for six years in India.\n\nThe British Iranian national was arbitrarily arrested in 2016 and detained in Iran for six years.\n\nShe said both she and Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, should have been better protected by the UK government.\n\nThe UK government said it was committed to seeing Mr Johal's case resolved as soon as possible.\n\nMr Johal, a Sikh activist, was arrested in November 2017 after travelling to India to attend a wedding.\n\nThe 36-year-old has been accused of being part of a terror plot and faces eight charges of conspiracy to murder linked to political violence in India.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, faces charges of conspiracy to murder\n\nMr Johal claims he was tortured in the initial days of his detention - an accusation the Indian authorities have strenuously denied. His trial is under way but he has not been convicted.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Scotland News on the sixth anniversary of his detention, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said that while the two cases were different in some ways, she believed ministers in London should be doing more for Mr Johal.\n\n\"It is not acceptable that the government to date has not called for his release,\" she said.\n\n\"When Prime Minister Rishi Sunak went to India [for the G20 summit] he didn't call for his release and I think that's something the government should do in terms of protecting its citizens beyond its UK borders.\"\n\nMr Sunak has previously confirmed that he raised the case of Jagtar Singh Johal in talks with India's prime minister Narendra Modi in September.\n\nMs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested initially on spying charges which she strongly denied.\n\nShe was widely seen as a hostage used by the Iranians to pressure the UK government to pay a long-standing debt, and was released in March last year once a diplomatic settlement was reached.\n\nIn her interview, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe, spoke of the impact on family members when a person is detained abroad.\n\n\"I think my parents and my family, Richard and my daughter, it was harder for them than me and it must be very hard for Jaggi's family and in his case, more so because they know very little about his whereabouts and how he's spending his time.\"\n\nGurpreet Singh Johal has also criticised the UK government's response to his brother's case\n\nJagtar's brother Gurpreet Singh Johal, who is a solicitor and Labour councillor, told BBC News the support of Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her husband Richard meant a lot to him.\n\n\"They understand, better than anyone, how painful it is that the UK government has failed to seek Jagtar's release.\n\n\"I found Nazanin's comments about how hard it was for her family very moving.\n\n\"It doesn't get any easier being separated from my brother, not even being able to talk to him regularly or know what he's going through. We've been lucky to have the community's support.\"\n\nLast year a UN panel of experts concluded Mr Johal's detention was arbitrary, lacked legal basis and he should be freed immediately.\n\nThe Indian government has maintained that due process is being followed and Mr Johal was arrested based on evidence and according to the laws of India.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"The UK government is committed to seeing Jagtar Singh Johal's case resolved as soon as possible.\n\n\"We continue to provide consular assistance to Mr Johal and his family and have consistently raised his case directly with the government of India.\"", "A radio anchor in the Philippines has been shot dead while performing a live broadcast.\n\nJuan Jumalon, known as DJ Johnny Walker, was shot inside his home-based studio, police said.\n\nPresident Marcos Jr condemned the murder of the radio journalist \"in the strongest terms\".\n\nFour journalists have been killed since Mr Marcos Jr took office in June of 2022, the National Union of Journalists in the Philippines said.\n\n\"The attack is even more condemnable since it happened at Jumalon's own home, which also served as the radio station,\" the union said.\n\nMr Jumalon was live-streaming on Facebook at around 05:30 local time when the suspect entered the recording booth and shot him.\n\nAccording to local media, citing police sources, the suspect asked permission to enter Mr Jumalon's radio booth to announce \"something important on air.\"\n\nPolice say they have already secured CCTV footage in the area.\n\nMr Jumalon's broadcasts are usually aired on 94.7 Gold Mega Calamba FM Facebook page, which has around 2,400 followers.\n\nThe DJ's wife took him to hospital immediately after the incident, but it is understood doctors pronounced him dead upon arrival.\n\nPolice said they were not aware of any previous threats against his life.\n\nThe president posted on X that he has instructed the police to conduct \"a thorough investigation to swiftly bring the perpetrators to justice.\"\n\nThe Philippines is one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists, says US-based Freedom House.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 50 young people have clashed with riot police in Edinburgh with fireworks and petrol bombs being thrown directly at officers.\n\nVideo footage from the Niddrie area of the city showed officers in riot gear standing in a line while youths threw explosives at their feet.\n\nPolice Scotland also responded to disturbances in Glasgow and Dundee.\n\nThe force said eight officers suffered minor injuries on a night of \"unprecedented levels of violence\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) said nine crews were attacked during an eight-hour period across the country.\n\nFootage showed a stand-off between youths and police in Niddrie\n\nIn Niddrie, police were called to the Hay Avenue area at 16:40 GMT after reports of \"antisocial use of fireworks\".\n\nA statement said officers were pursuing a number of individuals who they believe were providing youths with fireworks and petrol bombs to target police.\n\nThe videos showed officers being bombarded with explosives while teenagers gathered on a green, with some filming it.\n\nAbout 50 youths within a larger group of youths and adults were responsible for directing fireworks at vehicles and buildings before their behaviour escalated when officers arrived, the police said.\n\nThe force said while only a small number of arrests had been made on the night, as a result of the \"significant challenges\" officers faced, substantial evidence had been gathered and it was anticipated further arrests would take place in the coming days.\n\nIt added two police vehicles were damaged in the Beauly Square area of Dundee, at about 18:55, after being struck with bricks.\n\nAnd at about 21:00 in Glasgow officers responded to a report of two groups of youths fighting and throwing fireworks at one another in the Quarrywood Avenue area of Barmulloch.\n\nEight officers sustained minor injuries in Edinburgh and Glasgow.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Tim Mairs, gold commander of Operation Moonbeam, said a minority of individuals had been responsible for \"unacceptable and frankly, disgusting level of disorder that left communities alarmed and police officers injured\".\n\nHe said the violent nature of the disorder in Niddrie was \"extremely concerning\" - \"not least because because it is believed young people were being actively encouraged and co-ordinated by adults to target officers while they carried out their duties\".\n\nThe SFRS confirmed crews were attacked in Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Blantyre in South Lanarkshire and Blackburn in West Lothian.\n\nNo firefighters were injured but an appliance in West Lothian had a windscreen smashed by a brick and had to be removed from service.\n\nA spokesperson confirmed the incidents followed four previously reported attacks on crews in Ayrshire and Edinburgh in the week leading up to Bonfire Night, as well as two further attacks over the weekend in Troon and Glasgow.\n\nAssistant chief officer Andy Watt described the total of 15 attacks over the last week as \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"Our staff should be able to carry out their role without being attacked. It is disappointing that people have tried to hurt firefighters and have damaged our appliances.\n\n\"This type of behaviour not only prevents our crews from bringing any emergency to a safe and swift conclusion, but it can impact on our emergency service colleagues - including the police - when they are supporting us on scene to ensure the safety of our personnel.\"\n\nMr Watt said his officers would work with the police to identify those responsible.\n\nBetween 15:30 on Sunday and midnight the SFRS received more than 892 calls from the public and mobilised firefighters to approximately 355 bonfires across the country.\n\nCity of Edinburgh Council leader Cammy Day said he was \"appalled\" by the scenes in Niddrie.\n\nHe said: \"This reckless behaviour endangers lives and like the majority of people in the community I share in their dismay and upset at this disgraceful behaviour.\"\n\nScottish Conservative justice spokesman Russell Findlay said: \"Such attacks on police officers are cowardly, reckless and dangerous. Police Scotland need sufficient resources to tackle these thugs.\"\n\nIn 2018, Police Scotland set up Operation Moonbeam to tackle Bonfire Night disorder.\n\nLast year, a police vehicle was hit by a Molotov cocktail in Niddrie, and motorbike gangs raced through the area while fireworks were lobbed at the ground.\n\nOn Halloween last week, police were called to the Kirkton area of Dundee after youths set off fireworks and lit an illegal bonfire.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The suspect was detained by special forces\n\nA hostage situation at Hamburg Airport involving a young child has ended after 18 hours, according to local police.\n\nThe man, 35, drove through a security barrier and on to the airport tarmac on Saturday night with his four-year-old daughter in the car and parked under a plane.\n\nHe eventually gave himself up to the authorities \"without resistance\", according to police, and was arrested.\n\n\"The child appears to be unharmed,\" they wrote on X (formerly Twitter).\n\nThe incident caused the disruption of several flights in and out of the airport. Operations have since resumed but there are significant delays.\n\nIt began at about 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT) when the suspect drove his car to the airport's apron, the area where aircraft are usually parked.\n\nPolice said the man shot his weapon twice in the air and threw burning bottles from the vehicle. It was unclear if the man had explosives.\n\nThey later clarified that he stopped the vehicle where a commercial flight full of passengers was preparing to take off. Everyone on board was evacuated safely.\n\nAccording to local media, he parked under a Turkish Airlines plane.\n\nHundreds of other people waiting for flights in the airport had to be put up in hotels.\n\nHamburg police spokeswoman Sandra Levgruen said earlier on Sunday that the man did not agree with some decisions made by the authorities in relation to the custody arrangement and wanted to travel to Turkey with the child.\n\n\"He speaks about his life being a heap of shards,\" she told German broadcaster ZDF.\n\nFollowing the incident, the authorities said the man had been in an \"exceptional psychological situation due to custody disputes with his ex-wife\".\n\nThey said he had taken their daughter following an argument and her mother then alerted emergency services - filing a complaint of suspected child abduction.\n\nIt is not the first time the man, who is a Turkish citizen, has been accused of kidnapping the young girl. Last year he was investigated after he travelled to Turkey with her without permission. The mother later brought the child back to Germany.\n\n\"I wish the mother, the child and her family a lot of strength to cope with this terrible experience,\" Hamburg Mayor Peter Tschentscher wrote on X after the hostage situation ended.\n\nThe airport said it was working to resume operations as quickly as possible. A total of 286 flights with about 34,500 passengers had been scheduled for Sunday, it said earlier.", "Deputy PM Oliver Dowden has denied the Conservative Party covered up rape allegations against one of its MPs.\n\nIt comes after reports its former chairman Sir Jake Berry wrote to police to make them aware of the claims after leaving the post last year.\n\nSir Jake told them one alleged victim was receiving support paid for by the party, according to the Mail on Sunday.\n\nMr Dowden said he couldn't comment specifically on the story, as he did not know the unnamed MP's identity.\n\nBut the deputy PM did not \"recognise in any form the idea that we covered up,\" he told BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nHe also specifically denied any allegations had been covered up during his own time as party chairman, between September 2021 and June 2022.\n\nSir Jake, the MP for Rossendale and Darwen, was chairman of the Tory party during Liz Truss's 49-day premiership last year.\n\nAccording to the Mail on Sunday, he became aware of a series of allegations against an MP - referred to as X - when he was appointed to the role in September 2022.\n\nThe newspaper said that after leaving the post the following month, he wrote to police with former chief whip Wendy Morton to express his concerns about how the party had handled the claims.\n\nAccording to extracts of the letter published by the newspaper, he said the matter had been going on for more than two years, adding: \"The failure of others to act has enabled X to continue to offend\".\n\nA published extract reads: \"There may have been five victims of X - who have been subject to a range of offences including multiple rapes.\"\n\nIt also claims one unnamed individual was receiving ongoing support at the expense of the Conservative Party.\n\nAsked about the report, Mr Dowden said he could not comment on the story, because \"I don't know who the individual concerned is\".\n\nHe added that the Conservative Party took all allegations \"exceptionally seriously\" and had an independent process to investigate complaints.\n\nAsked whether the party had covered up the claims, he replied: \"I can assure you categorically it was not the case that when I was chairman of the Conservative Party, I covered up any allegations,\" he added.\n\nThe Conservative Party has declined to comment.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Latitude Festival's director said Duran Duran were \"an ideal fit\" for the event, to be held from 25 to 28 July 2024\n\nRock legends Duran Duran have announced they will play their only UK show next summer at Latitude Festival.\n\nThe band - who have just released their latest album - have been revealed as the first headliner on the Suffolk festival bill for 2024.\n\nFestival director Melvin Benn said the group's \"mesmerising performances make them an ideal fit\" for the event.\n\n\"We are excited to be making Latitude our sole UK performance next summer,\" said bassist John Taylor.\n\n\"It's a great festival, and it's been a long time since Duran have been in that part of the country,\" he added.\n\n\"In fact, it's our first time ever in Suffolk.\n\n\"We are riding high on the reception our new Danse Macabre album has received, and looking forward to bringing music from that record, all the way back to our 1981 debut album.\"\n\nThe group, who formed in 1978 at Birmingham's famed Rum Runner nightclub, have sold more than 100 million albums - with their latest gothic-inspired offering entering the UK chart's top five.\n\nMr Benn said the band's pioneering ways meant Latitude - to be held from 25 to 28 July 2024 - offered them a perfect showcase.\n\n\"Duran Duran's fusion of artistry and innovation seamlessly resonates with Latitude's commitment to curate a multi-faceted cultural experience,\" he said.\n\nThe Latitude announcement follows a year of live shows for the group, including sold-out arena gigs across the UK, Ireland, North America and Canada.\n\nIn 2022, they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, capping off a year that had seen them perform at the Queen's Jubilee Concert, close the Commonwealth Games in their native Birmingham and play sell-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl.\n\nFestival organisers have said the next line-up announcement will be made before the end of the year.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An Australian firm which bought the collapsed battery maker Britishvolt has failed to pay its UK staff for the last four months, the BBC has learned.\n\nRecharge Industries took control of Britishvolt after it went into administration in January.\n\nThe takeover has not gone smoothly, with some £2.5m of the purchase price still unpaid months after it was due.\n\nHowever, sources within Recharge Industries insist a deal with a new investor is imminent.\n\nBritishvolt was a start-up with big ambitions. It wanted to build a £4bn \"gigafactory\" to supply battery packs for a new generation of electric cars.\n\nThe plant was to have been built on the site of an old power station near Blyth in Northumberland.\n\nIt was seen as an ideal location, with a deepwater port and good access to transport links.\n\nBut the venture ran out of money, and fell into administration earlier this year.\n\nAfter examining a number of bids, administrators at EY agreed to sell Britishvolt's assets to Recharge Industries.\n\nThe company agreed to pay £8.57m. Of this, EY says £6.1m was received on initial completion of the transaction.\n\nThe remainder, however, is still outstanding.\n\nWhile most of Britishvolt's staff were made redundant after the company entered administration, 26 were kept on.\n\nThe BBC has been told by several sources that Recharge Industries stopped paying them in July. More than half have since left the company as a result.\n\nPension commitments have not been met since the takeover, they say.\n\nStaff also complain that they have been locked out of computer systems and are unable to work, because an IT contractor has not been paid.\n\nRecharge Industries is a start-up business owned by Scale Facilitation, a New York-based investment firm run by financier David Collard.\n\nDavid Collard has not commented on the claims.\n\nRecharge Industries plans to use the Blyth site to build vehicle batteries for the Australian military.\n\nBut simply to get control of the land, it not only needs to give the remaining £2.47m to EY, but also needs to raise another £11m to pay property investor Katch, which has a financial claim to the site.\n\nSources within Recharge Industries insist funding from a new investor is imminent and that will enable the to deal to go forward by the middle of next week.\n\nBut Britishvolt employees seem to have little confidence this will happen.\n\n\"We've heard this time and time again since August\", said one.\n\n\"He tells us there's an investor waiting. But he can't tell us who it is. It's always the same story\".\n\nAnother described Mr Collard's claims as \"BS\".\n\nDavid Collard insists he can yet prove his many doubters wrong but he has a lot of work to do - and quickly.\n\nAnother employee suggested staff were prepared to give the entrepreneur time to secure the new investment.\n\nIt is clear that Recharge Industries has struggled to obtain the funding it needs.\n\nPart of that can be attributed to the impact of a tax raid by Australian federal police on the local offices of Scale Facilitation.\n\nAt the time of the raid in June, sources close to Mr Collard, who is a former partner at accountancy giant PwC, said that the tax raid is due to a misunderstanding of the interaction between US and Australian tax filings and that all parties were co-operating.\n\nSources have acknowledged though that this made investors deeply wary of becoming involved with the Britishvolt project.\n\nAnother key problem has been a buyback clause held by Northumberland County Council, the original owner of the land.\n\nThis would allow it to repurchase the Blyth site if substantial progress has not been made on developing it by December 2024.\n\nThe BBC understands there are serious doubts at the top of Northumberland County Council that Mr Collard has the financial and industry pedigree to deliver on a project they hope will provide thousands of jobs directly and in the supply chain.\n\nMeanwhile, EY has defended its own role in the affair. It insists that the £6.1m already received from Recharge Industries was \"materially above the next best alternative, deliverable offer received by the Joint Administrators\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Demonstrators in central London protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza\n\nTens of thousands of protesters have joined rallies and sit-ins in dozens of towns and cities across the UK to call for an end to Israeli attacks in Gaza.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police estimate there were 30,000 in central London alone.\n\nAt Edinburgh and Glasgow rail stations, and at London's Charing Cross, people sat on the floor stopping travellers from catching trains, police said.\n\nIn London, 29 people were arrested for offences including inciting racial hatred.\n\nTwo people were arrested on suspicion of breaching the Terrorism Act in connection with the wording on a banner.\n\nOne man was arrested on suspicion of making antisemitic comments during a speech after he was identified on social media.\n\nOne person was arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred and three people were arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer.\n\nNine people were arrested for public order offences, including two that were racially aggravated.\n\nTen people were arrested for breaching a dispersal order while other arrests were for possession of an offensive weapon, violent disorder, affray and possession of cannabis.\n\nPro-Palestinian protests have been held in London, and other cities globally, each Saturday since war began last month.\n\nOne of the protest organisers, Stop the War coalition, said this weekend would see a series of local protests organised in neighbourhoods, town and cities across the UK, rather than a mass rally.\n\nIn London, local protests took place before many thousands of demonstrators packed into Trafalgar Square for a rally, led by the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign.\n\nProtesters brought traffic to a temporary standstill in London's Oxford Street with a sit-in.\n\nLater the Met reported fireworks were fired into crowds and towards police in Trafalgar Square, leaving four officers injured. Police needed a dispersal order to clear the area.\n\nEarlier in the northern city, the North West Friends of Israel group held a vigil for the hostages taken in the Hamas attacks on 7 October.\n\nRed heart-shaped balloons were attached to each of the hostages' names and photos in Manchester's Exchange Square.\n\nOther pro-Palestinian rallies also took place in Belfast, Cardiff, Liverpool and Leeds, with a focus on calling for an immediate ceasefire.\n\nHeart-shaped balloons were set up for Israeli hostages in Manchester's Exchange Square\n\nIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday there would be no temporary ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza until all Israeli hostages were released.\n\nIn contrast to this weekend's smaller-scale protests, there are plans for a mass rally next Saturday on Armistice Day which have been criticised by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as \"provocative and disrespectful\".\n\nHe pointed to a risk that war memorials, including the Cenotaph in central London, could be \"desecrated\".\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said on X, formerly Twitter, that it was \"entirely unacceptable to desecrate Armistice Day with a hate march through London\".\n\nOn Remembrance Sunday, which this year falls on 12 November, thousands of servicemen and women usually march past the Cenotaph as senior politicians and royals lay poppy wreaths to remember the fallen.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police said it was planning a \"significant\" policing and security operation for next weekend.\n\nBoth the Met and the march's organisers say the demonstrators have no intention of going near Whitehall, where the Cenotaph is located.\n\nBen Jamal, director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said all of their protests had been peaceful and orderly, and to suggest that another one - well away from Whitehall - \"was a disrespect to the war dead was an insult to those marching for peace\".\n\nCrowds packed into Trafalgar Square in central London for a rally\n\nIn Belfast, pro-Palestinian activists marched from Queen's University to the US consulate building in the south of the city\n\nIsrael has been bombarding Gaza with prolonged air strikes following the 7 October attacks on southern Israel by Hamas, in which they killed 1,400 people and took more than 200 hostage.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says Israeli air strikes have killed more than 9,000 people. Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK.\n\nProtests in London have been largely peaceful, although 99 people were arrested at the three previous massive weekly marches in London.\n\nBBC reporters, who witnessed the demonstrations, said a wide range of people from different backgrounds, including lots of families with children, have attended the marches.\n\nWriting in the Times however, Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis said the line between protesters supporting innocent Palestinians and backing Hamas have become \"badly blurred\".\n\n\"Those lines have remained blurred in the subsequent demonstrations, in which a minority have proudly displayed their extremism on their banners and in their chants, while the majority stand alongside them,\" he wrote.\n\nOn Friday, five people were arrested during a pro-Palestinian sit-in at London's King's Cross station after the demonstration was banned.\n\nTransport Secretary Mark Harper said he had given an order to allow police to stop the protest.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The London mayor says he was \"kept in the dark\" about what was happening 2020 as the country went into a national lockdown\n\nExcluding regional mayors from key meetings harmed the UK's response to the pandemic, Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham have told the Covid inquiry.\n\nThe Labour mayors of London and Greater Manchester said their repeated requests to join emergency Cobra meetings at the start of the pandemic were refused.\n\nLondon mayor Mr Khan said \"lives could have been saved\" if he had been allowed to attend earlier.\n\nCobra meetings, which were held throughout the pandemic, bring together a mixture of ministers and officials from relevant departments and agencies to coordinate the government's response to national emergencies.\n\nMore on Covid and the Covid inquiry\n\nDespite London facing higher rates of Covid than other parts of the country in early 2020, Mr Khan said he was not allowed to attend any Cobra meetings until 16 March.\n\nThe inquiry heard that his earlier requests to attend were rejected by No 10 on the grounds that other regional mayors would then need to be invited.\n\n\"I was told the pandemic was having an impact on London ahead of the rest of the country,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"The government was aware of the challenges in ICU [intensive care units], the challenges in our hospitals, and the government was aware of community transmission in London.\"\n\nHe added: \"In this particular case, I can see no explanation at all… why the Greater London Authority, the mayor of London were not around the table.\n\n\"I think lives could have been saved if we were there earlier.\"\n\nHe said there was also no reason other mayors could not have joined meetings virtually.\n\nMr Khan told the inquiry he was \"kept in the dark\" by the government and if he had been given a fuller picture he would have taken more action, including lobbying the prime minister for a lockdown earlier.\n\nAndy Burnham has been mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017\n\nIn his evidence to the inquiry, Mr Burnham said he \"repeatedly\" asked to attend Cobra meetings but was not invited to a single one during the pandemic.\n\nThe mayor of Greater Manchester said London-centric decision-making meant his region was \"stuck\" with higher Covid rates for the whole of 2020.\n\nMr Burnham said there was \"zero consultation\" with him over easing the national lockdown in May 2020, which he argued was \"too early\" for Greater Manchester.\n\nHe added that as Covid had spread from the south to the north of England, the north was closer to a peak in cases than the south of the country at that time.\n\nMr Burnham told the inquiry he was \"astonished\" by the \"massively centralised\" response to the pandemic.\n\nIn the summer of 2020, the mayor said he was given only an hour's notice to discuss the imposition of local restrictions in Greater Manchester with local leaders before they were announced.\n\nHe described the situation as \"chaotic\" and said he was \"inundated\" with questions from residents about whether they could go to work the following day.\n\nIn October 2020 a formal three-tier system was introduced, which imposed varying levels of restrictions in different regions of England depending on local Covid rates.\n\nHowever, the system did not bring rising cases and deaths under control and in November a four-week national lockdown was introduced.\n\nMr Burnham said he repeatedly asked for more financial support for businesses and workers affected by tougher restrictions.\n\nHe accused the government of discussing a \"punishment\" for his region, because he had \"stood up\" for people who would have struggled with lockdown measures without extra financial support.\n\nThe mayor read out a minute of a meeting of the government's \"Covid-O\" committee that said: \"Lancashire should have a lighter set of measures imposed than Greater Manchester since they had shown a greater willingness to co-operate.\"\n\nAsked to respond to criticism that he was \"obstructive\" in discussions over financial support, Mr Burnham said it was the government which behaved \"appallingly\" by imposing a policy which he claimed ministers knew would not work.\n\nQuoting from written evidence submitted by former Health Secretary Matt Hancock, Mr Burnham said: \"He says in his evidence about tier three, 'I was in despair that we had announced a policy that we knew would not work'.\"\n\nSteve Rotheram is the elected mayor for Liverpool and other surrounding areas\n\nGiving evidence to the inquiry later, Liverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram also criticised the government's communication with local leaders during the pandemic.\n\nThe Labour mayor said his team had been left to wait for the evening news bulletin to find out \"nearly every major announcement\".\n\nHe highlighted discussions around moving his area to tier three, saying he had previously agreed with then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson that they should work together on announcing the move in autumn 2020.\n\nHowever, later the same day Mr Rotheram said the PM independently announced the restrictions \"without any notification to me\".\n\n\"Then we had to try and pick up the pieces,\" he added.\n\nMr Rotheram said the confusion and anger around the announcement resulted in him receiving \"direct threats\" and needing 24-hour police protection.\n\nThe inquiry is taking witness evidence in London until Christmas, before moving to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer England manager Terry Venables has died at the age of 80 after a long illness.\n\nVenables managed England from 1994 to 1996, most notably leading them to the semi-finals of Euro 96 on home soil.\n\nA former England player, he also managed Barcelona and Tottenham.\n\n\"We are totally devastated by the loss of a wonderful husband and father who passed away peacefully yesterday after a long illness,\" read a family statement.\n\n\"We would ask that privacy be given at this incredibly sad time to allow us to mourn the loss of this lovely man who we were so lucky to have had in our lives.\"\n\nVenables won La Liga and reached the European Cup final with Barcelona, and lifted the FA Cup with Tottenham.\n\nAs a player, he won two England caps and made more than 500 club appearances between 1960 and 1975, largely for Chelsea, Queens Park Rangers and Tottenham.\n• None 'The best English coach we've had' - Venables tributes\n\n'The best, most innovative coach'\n\nFormer England captain Gary Lineker, whom Venables signed for Barcelona and Spurs, told the BBC: \"He was not a coach or just a manager but a friend. He was charming, charismatic, witty but he was also tough - and that's what you needed to be.\n\n\"He understood football - he had an incredible football brain.\"\n\nEx-England skipper Alan Shearer, a member of the Euro 96 side, said: \"Extremely sad news. The great Terry Venables has passed away. RIP Boss. I owe you so much. You were amazing.\"\n\nCurrent England manager Gareth Southgate, whose penalty in the semi-final shootout defeat by Germany was saved, described Venables as \"a brilliant man who made people feel special\".\n\nHe said: \"Any player will have great affinity with the manager that gave them their opportunity, but it was quickly evident playing for Terry Venables that he was an outstanding coach and manager.\n\n\"Tactically excellent, he had a wonderful manner, capable of handling everyone from the youngest player to the biggest star.\n\n\"He was open-minded, forward-thinking, enjoyed life to the full and created a brilliant environment with England that allowed his players to flourish and have one of the most memorable tournaments in England history.\"\n\nPaul Gascoigne, who played under Venables for England and Tottenham, said: \"Such a sad day, cheers boss.\"\n\nTottenham held a minute's applause before Sunday's home Premier League match against Aston Villa and both sets of players wore black armbands.\n\nSpurs said they were \"extremely saddened to learn of the passing of our former player and manager\".\n\nCurrent manager Ange Postecoglou told Sky Sports: \"If you are asking about a person who embodies everything this football club has always wanted to be, it is Terry. It wasn't just about the way he managed or coached; it was the person he was.\n\n\"He influenced Australia as well. He was the manager for the national team and almost got us to the World Cup, but the biggest testament is that anyone who I have ever come across that has worked with him will say he is by far the best coach, manager and tactician they have come across.\"\n\nFormer England defender Gary Neville said Venables was \"without doubt the most technically gifted British coach we've ever produced\".\n\n\"A man who gave me a chance to play for my country and became without a shadow of doubt my number one England coach in my whole career,\" said Neville.\n\n\"England certainly needed more like him and it was a real sadness when he left at the end of Euro 96. I felt it never got as good again for England as it was under him.\"\n\nBarcelona said they \"deeply regret the passing of Terry Venables, who managed Barca from 1984 to 1987\".\n\nFrom Chelsea apprentice to England boss - the career of 'El Tel'\n\nMidfielder Venables joined Chelsea in 1958 as a 15-year-old and made his debut against West Ham in 1960.\n\nHe went on to play 202 league games for Chelsea, including winning the League Cup, before spells at Tottenham, QPR and Crystal Palace.\n\nVenables moved into coaching alongside Malcolm Allison at Third Division Palace after retiring as a player during the 1974-75 season.\n\nHe succeeded Allison in 1976 and, after winning promotion to the Second Division in 1977, took them into the top flight as champions in 1979.\n\nA four-year stint with QPR - and another promotion to the First Division - followed between 1980 and 1984 before Venables was appointed Barcelona manager on the recommendation of England boss Bobby Robson.\n\nNicknamed 'El Tel', Venables led Barca to La Liga title in 1985 - their first since 1974 - and the following season's European Cup final, where they lost to Steaua Bucharest on penalties.\n\nHe was sacked by Barcelona in 1987 and returned to English football to manage Tottenham, winning the FA Cup in 1991.\n\nBut Venables was sacked in 1993 after his relationship with chairman Alan Sugar broke down.\n\nLater that year, the BBC's Panorama programme alleged misdealings connected with Venables' businesses, which he responded to by threatening libel action.\n\nVenables had been overlooked as England manager when Graham Taylor took the job in 1990, but was appointed in 1994.\n\nEngland qualified as hosts for the 1996 European Championship, where they claimed memorable wins over the Netherlands and Scotland.\n\nVenables stood down after their semi-final defeat at Wembley.\n\nHe went on to manage Australia, Palace again, Middlesbrough and Leeds United.\n\nHe returned to the England set-up as assistant to Steve McClaren in 2006, but left after they failed to qualify for Euro 2008.", "We're pausing our live coverage for the next hour or so, so here's a quick recap on where things stand in the Israel-Gaza war.\n\nFourteen Israeli and three foreign nationals were released from Gaza today.\n\nAmong them was Abigail Idan, a four-year-old girl with joint Israeli and US citizenship. Both her parents were killed in the 7 October attack by Hamas on Israel that triggered the war.\n\nPresident Biden welcomed her release, saying she had been through terrible trauma.\n\nIsrael freed 39 Palestinian prisoners in return. Crowds gathered in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank to welcome them home.\n\nThe exchange comes on the third day of a fragile four-day pause in fighting. Gazans have been using the opportunity to get in much-needed supplies of fuel food and medicine.\n\nThe BBC's Lucy Williamson says that both sides appear to be edging towards an extension to the current pause.\n\nHamas has said it is seeking to extend the truce and increase the number of hostages released – 24-hours before the current deal expires.\n\nAnd a senior Palestinian official has told the BBC that Hamas told negotiators it was ready to extend the pause by up to four days.\n\nIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has talked about his \"framework\", under which the release of 10 extra hostages could lead to another day of pause in the fighting.\n\nBut he also said that after the framework ends Israel will return to its goals, which include the elimination of Hamas.\n\nYou can continue to follow our coverage of the conflict with these key stories:\n• For many hostage familes the wait goes on\n• What is Hamas and why is it fighting Israel in Gaza?", "Walliams was a judge on the ITV talent show for 10 years\n\nThe producer of Britain's Got Talent has reached an \"amicable resolution\" with David Walliams after remarks he made on the show were leaked.\n\nThe comic left the programme last year and apologised for making \"disrespectful comments\" about contestants during filming breaks.\n\nWalliams was suing production company Fremantle for misuse of private information and breaching data laws.\n\nThe company apologised and said the matter had been resolved.\n\nA Fremantle spokesperson told the PA News agency: \"We are pleased that we have achieved an amicable resolution of this dispute with David.\n\n\"We are sincerely sorry that his private conversations when a judge on Britain's Got Talent were published, and the great distress this caused David.\n\n\"We have reviewed our production practices on the show to ensure they fully respect the expectations of our talent whilst satisfying the requirements of the show.\"\n\nIt continued: \"We have enjoyed a great relationship with David over many years.\n\n\"We thank David for being an important part of the Britain's Got Talent family and the enduring success of the show and hope to have opportunities to work with him in the future.\"\n\nWalliams has been approached for comment on the agreement.\n\nHe made the remarks about contestants while filming at the London Palladium in January 2020.\n\nAfter the comments were published by the Guardian, Walliams sued Fremantle for misuse of private information and for breaching UK General Data Protection Regulation (UKGDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.\n\nHigh Court documents released last month also said Walliams was accusing the company of causing him psychiatric harm and financial loss.\n\nIn the documents, Walliams said he and the other judges would talk and joke among themselves in breaks during filming for the show.\n\nHe added these private conversations, which happened while they were still wearing their microphones, included him speaking about sensitive personal matters.\n\nHe also claimed he was unaware that they may have been recorded and transcribed. However, in 2018, Britain's Got Talent did announce that \"their cameras would now be rolling 24/7\".\n\nWalliams argued that while he was unaware exactly how the Guardian obtained a transcript of his comments, Fremantle must be the ultimate source of the transcript.\n\nHe said he had suffered financially when, after his comments were leaked, Britain's Got Talent withdrew their £1m offer for him to return to the show.\n\nWalliams added that his reputation and earnings have also been severely damaged, with TV appearances and a podcast with Matt Lucas cancelled, while two planned stage adaptations of two of his books were abandoned.\n\nThe comic was a judge on the ITV talent show between 2012 and 2022, alongside Simon Cowell, Alesha Dixon and Amanda Holden.\n\nFollowing his departure from the series, Walliams was replaced on the panel by former Strictly judge Bruno Tonioli.", "Avi Shamriz's son Alon, believed to be among the hostages, was not expected out this weekend. \"My son does not deserve it,\" he said.\n\nAvi Shamriz was keeping busy during the day. No job was too small. The families in the hotel needed new clothes, new phones. The free shop needed be kept stocked. Movies for the kids. A birthday party. He wandered the grounds, checking in on people.\n\nBut at night, when the hotel was quiet and the small jobs were all done, Avi could no longer distract himself from thinking about his son.\n\n\"I'm thinking, is he safe? Are they treating him well? Does he have enough food? Is he sick, is he injured? Does he have clothes to wear? He is in a tunnel, do they have a shower? It must be dark there. Is it cold?\"\n\nAlon Shamriz, a 26-year-old student of computer engineering from the Kfar Aza kibbutz near the border with Gaza, is believed to have been taken hostage when Hamas stormed the kibbutz during its 7 October attack on Israel.\n\nThis is what the family hopes - that he is in Gaza. They know that Alon was not found among the dead.\n\nA poster of Avi's son, Alon Shamriz, who has been missing since 7 October.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, Avi and his family were sitting in the grounds of a hotel near Tel Aviv that is now home to about 400 people displaced from Kfar Aza. Dotted among the families at the hotel are a few like Avi's, with loved ones among the hostages.\n\nAs Avi sat on his garden chair, describing his sleepless nights, all of Israel awaited the release of the first 13 hostages in a few hours' time, in exchange for 39 Palestinian prisoners.\n\nIt was a day of mixed emotions. Dozens of families knew that their loved one would almost certainly not be among the 50 hostages due to be released as part of the deal struck between Israel and Hamas, because mothers and children had been prioritised.\n\n\"On one hand, I am happy that this has begun, because it might continue,\" Avi said.\n\n\"But right now I don't trust anyone. I don't trust Hamas, I don't trust my own government to keep doing the right thing. So, I have nothing. Only to wait.\"\n\nNaama Weinberg, wearing a t-shirt for her cousin Itai. \"The healing process is going to be extremely difficult,\" she said.\n\nAll over Israel this weekend, families were bracing for footage of the first hostages being returned home, knowing that their pain and uncertainty would endure.\n\nNaama Weinberg, whose cousin Itai Svirsky, 38, is also believed to be among the hostages, watched the exchange from her apartment in Tel Aviv.\n\n\"I sat in front of the news for hours, my eyes glued to the screen,\" she said on Saturday. \"I was crying from happiness and joy, I texted the families of the people who came out to send them love.\"\n\nBut there was also some jealousy, she said. \"Itai is my cousin. He is my family. I want everyone back, of course, but I really want him back.\"\n\nAlong with some other hostage families, Naama's family is facing a daunting scenario: both of Itai's parents were killed in the attack but it isn't clear whether he knows.\n\n\"He was with his mother at the house when the attack happened, but we don't know what he saw,\" Naama said. \"Did he see her being murdered before he was taken? Or was he taken before she was murdered?\n\n\"Was her son being taken away the last thing my aunt saw?\"\n\nThe family knew they would have to break it to Itai that his father, who was killed in a separate building, was gone.\n\n\"The healing process is going to be extremely difficult,\" Naama said, tears forming in her eyes. \"Itai is going to come home an orphan.\"\n\nBy the end of Monday, 50 Israeli hostages should have been released along with 15 foreign nationals, and 150 Palestinian detainees freed by Israel in return, facilitated by a four-day ceasefire.\n\nIsrael has prioritised the release of the elderly, mothers, and children. About 150 Israelis will still be in Gaza, their families forced to endure longer.\n\n\"I want to hope, but I don't think she will be involved in this deal,\" said Yamit Ashkenazi, whose 30-year-old sister Doron, a veterinary nurse, is believed to be in Gaza.\n\nLike a few of the relatives, Yamit has a new tattoo. It reads, 'As the sun we will rise again,' but some of the sun's rays are missing. \"They will be added when she is home,\" Yamit said.\n\nYamit Ashkenazi has a new tattoo, to which she will add missing rays of sunshine when her sister returns.\n\nIsraeli authorities did not confirm to family members in advance whether their loved ones were expected to be released this weekend or not, but families like Yamit's - and Avi's and Naama's - had already reconciled themselves to the fact that their relatives did not fit the criteria.\n\n\"I am a mother also, so I understand why the children have to come out first,\" Yamit said. \"But Doron is my parents' young daughter. She is a human being. Behind every number there is a person with a story and relatives. So we must get them all back, not just certain categories.\"\n\nYamit and her parents were preparing on Saturday to travel to central Tel Aviv for a massive rally to call for all the hostages to be brought home. This rally was going to be particularly big, to coincide with the first hostage release, but Yamit's family had been going every Saturday to the newly renamed Hostages Square, to call for everyone to be brought back.\n\nNaama Weinberg was also at the rally. \"It's exhausting to fight this fight, but we can't quit until he's home,\" she said. \"Until all the hostages are home.\"\n\nA big screen at the rally on Saturday showed how long the Israeli hostages had been in Gaza.\n\nThe exhaustion was visible on Naama's face, and on the faces of the other family members who were still waiting. They had endured 50 days of campaigning, of media appearances, of lying awake at night thinking about their loved ones in Gaza. The deal this weekend had given them some hope, they all said. But it also brought fear that something could go wrong.\n\n\"I'm scared that it might give the world the feeling that the trade is done, that we got some of the hostages back and it will all quiet down,\" Naama said.\n\n\"The situation is very sensitive, anyone can blow it,\" Avi Shamriz said. \"Someone says something wrong, somebody shoots someone, and we are back to square one.\"\n\nAnd then there was the bombing of Gaza, Avi said. \"The government say they are being careful, but you cannot be careful when you are dropping bombs,\" he said. \"You just don't know who you are going to hit.\"\n\nAvi Shamriz, who's son is missing, hugs Simona Steinbrecher, whose daughter Doron is also believed to be in Gaza.\n\nAs the hostage families gathered with thousands of others in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night, Avi was back in his hotel room. He did not believe in the power of the rallies. He thought they were counter-productive. \"I am doing my best to do work behind the scenes,\" he said.\n\nHe was also quietly preparing for his son's return. Alon's Toyota Camry was destroyed in the Hamas attack, so a few weeks ago Avi set up a fundraiser to buy him a new one. When Toyota Israel found out, it donated a used Camry for free.\n\n\"It doesn't have a sunroof like Alon's did, but that's OK,\" Avi said. \"It will be ready for him when he comes home.\"\n\nIdan Ben Ari contributed to this report. Photographs by Joel Gunter", "The video tells the story of a man befriended by a couple and their dog in the pub\n\nMove over M&S and John Lewis - there's a new Christmas advert from Northern Ireland which is packing an emotional punch.\n\nCharlie's Bar in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, posted a video on Saturday and it has already racked up millions of views on social media.\n\nIt tells the story of isolation and companionship - beginning with a man who cuts a solitary figure at a graveside, then wanders alone through the streets, only to be befriended by a couple and their dog in the pub.\n\nThe pub manager who came up with the idea for the now-viral video said the response had been overwhelming.\n\n\"We wanted people to feel something when they watch this video,\" Una Burns said.\n\n\"The idea came really from what we have seen over the years in the bar.\"\n\nThe video begins with a visit to the cemetery\n\nMany people have been commenting on or sharing the video across social media platforms including X, formerly known as Twitter, Instagram and TikTok.\n\nIt has even generated comment from retail giant John Lewis itself - and it is seen by many as the doyen of Christmas advertising.\n\nJohn Lewis posted on TikTok: \"We're not crying, you are\".\n\nThe two-minute video - which cost £700 to make - shows a bereaved man - played by Fermanagh local Martin McManus, in a quiet moment of reflection while laying flowers in memory of a loved one.\n\nIn one scene, he walks through Enniskillen, seemingly ignored by passers-by, before entering Charlie's Bar.\n\nThere, Missy the dog seeks him out and joins him, before Missy's owners, a young couple, ask if they, too, can join the man for a drink.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by charliesbarenniskillen This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe video draws to a close with words from the poet, WB Yeats: \"There are no strangers here, only friends you haven't yet met\".\n\nPeople help the people by Birdy provides the soundtrack throughout the footage.\n\nMs Burns said the bar has posted some videos online before - usually they are \"quite light-hearted\" - but then a friend suggested they do a Christmas advert.\n\nMissy the dog seeks the man out and joins him before Missy's owners ask if they can join him too\n\n\"The day he texted that, it was the only thing I could think about, I couldn't focus on anything else,\" she said.\n\n\"It was very important for me that this message was more serious.\n\n\"We wanted people to feel something when they watch this video and get across the idea that, unfortunately, Christmas isn't as positive and joyful for some as it is for others, and we probably see that more than others at this time of year\".\n\nMs Burns said she never expected the advert to strike a chord in the way that it has.\n\n\"It has completely blown me away,\" she said.\n\n\"There were so many headlines yesterday saying we'd blown John Lewis out of the water.\n\n\"For us to be even in the same headline as John Lewis is completely overwhelming\".\n\nMeagan Daley, who along with her partner Alex Middlemass, play the younger couple, said there is a poignancy to the video's themes.\n\n\"The whole message is really important , and it is told in a lovely way. But we never imagined it would take off in the way it has,\" she said.\n\nMissy, her owner Meagan says, \"is the real star of the show\"\n\nShe and Alex are pub regulars, and Missy, an Irish terrier, is their much-loved pet.\n\n\"She really is the star. She just needed a few treats during filming but she is an amazing dog,\" Meagan said.\n\nColin Neill, the chief executive of Hospitality Ulster, which represents pubs in Northern Ireland said the bar had perfectly captured an important aspect of pub culture.\n\nThe video's underlying message, he said, highlights the \"central role of the local pub in our society, and how even in our contemporary world and an age dominated by social media, pubs are still a sanctuary for many\".\n\nHe added: \"For some of the most vulnerable in our community, pubs are an antidote to loneliness and provide a safe space for people to come together, open up, and share life with others over a pint\".\n\nMr Neill said it's impossible to watch \"without a tear in your eye\".", "A major overhaul of the Senedd would see members elected from ranked lists of candidates\n\nA new way of electing members to an expanded Senedd could erode trust in politicians, an academic has warned.\n\nProf Laura McAllister said the \"closed lists\" system would put too much power in the hands of parties, with voters choosing between them instead of candidates.\n\nThe change is part of plans to add 36 more politicians to the Senedd.\n\nThe Welsh government said the change would allow it to be \"better able to represent people in Wales\".\n\nThe closed lists system is said to have been designed to make the Welsh Parliament more proportional, giving voters choice between parties instead of individuals.\n\nCandidates are then elected from a list of names selected and ranked by each party.\n\nProf McAllister told the Politics Wales programme she fears the system has \"major weaknesses\" because it \"removes the choice from electors to choose individual candidates\".\n\n\"It seems odd to me that at a time when there's such a disconnect between the politicians and the public, we're disconnecting it further,\" she said.\n\nProf Laura McAllister says the close lists system could leave voters \"aggrieved\"\n\n\"The risk... is that they will reward loyalty and longevity rather than calibre and challenge.\n\n\"I think that won't help the diversity of the class of politicians we get, and I think the public will very quickly get aggrieved when they realise they won't be able to select a politician that they wish to.\"\n\nThe closed list system is part of a major overhaul of the Senedd which will see the number of politicians increase from 60 to 96.\n\nCurrently elections use a mix of first past the post, where the candidate with the most votes wins a constituency seat, and lists in regions.\n\nIf agreed by two-thirds of the Senedd, the legislation will take effect from 2026 and could cost as much as £17.8m extra a year.\n\nThe Welsh government said the Senedd Reform Bill \"aims to create a modern Senedd, better able to represent people in Wales, with increased capacity to scrutinise, make laws, and hold the government to account.\"", "PC Jonathan Broadhead Tasered the child twice while she held garden shears and a hammer\n\nA 10-year-old girl who threatened her mother with garden shears was Tasered twice by a Met Police officer, a misconduct hearing was told.\n\nPC Jonathan Broadhead fired his Taser at the girl twice within \"approximately eight seconds\" of entering her home in south London on 21 January 2021.\n\nHe is accused of using force \"which was not necessary, reasonable and proportionate\" against the girl.\n\nIf the complaint is upheld the incident would amount to gross misconduct.\n\nOn Monday, the hearing was told the girl was still clutching the garden shears when PC Broadhead discharged the Taser and had not listened to his commands to drop them.\n\nThe girl, referred to as Child A at the hearing, had grown angry with her mother.\n\nMiss A, her mother, had confiscated her mobile phone because of a safeguarding concern about her online activity, the hearing was told.\n\nGiving evidence, Miss A said she feared the girl's behaviour may have been affected by consuming cannabis edibles, and said she called 999 after she started threatening her with the hammer and shears.\n\nShe claimed her daughter hit her with the hammer before police arrived, but said she was a safe distance away from her when officers got there and did not want her to be Tasered.\n\nOlivia Checa-Dover, a barrister presenting the case for the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), said the incident breached professional standards.\n\nShe said the officer \"accepts the factual elements\" and that the issue for the panel is whether this was \"consistent with high standards\".\n\nThe \"brief circumstances including the age of Child A were relayed over the airwaves\" to PC Broadhead and his colleague PC Stephen Morgan before they arrived, Ms Checa-Dover added.\n\nShe said the incident was captured on the officers' body-worn camera and in the footage Miss A \"was presenting as calm\".\n\nMs Checa-Dover said \"Child A is seen some way from the door, further along the hallway\" and \"appears to pick something up - now understood to be shears - from the floor\".\n\nShe added: \"The officer instructed her to put them down, which she did not do.\n\n\"She walked away from those present, moving up the stairs of the home.\n\n\"The officer didn't speak to Miss A to clarify the present situation or whether there was anyone else in the house; rather, he advanced into the house announcing he was a police officer with a Taser and soon thereafter using his Taser twice on her whilst she was on the stairs.\"\n\nA fellow officer said PC Broadhead's actions brought the high-risk situation to a \"safe halt\"\n\nMs Checa-Dover said the incident left Child A with \"three barbs in her skin\" which had to be removed by paramedics.\n\n\"She was kept in hospital overnight, discharged the following day, at which point the barb injuries were still tender,\" she said\n\nMiss A told the hearing she wanted the police to convince her daughter to put down the hammer and shears \"by talking to her\".\n\nShe said: \"I remember my daughter sitting in the kitchen on a chair with the hammer and shears and she quickly got up - I feel that she was scared - and she quickly ran up the stairs.\n\n\"As she was running up the stairs she was shot with the Taser.\"\n\nMiss A said she was \"shocked\" by \"the way things were handled\".\n\nShe added: \"I wouldn't have called the police if I knew she would have been Tasered.\"\n\nAsked if the experience has affected whether she would call the police again, she said: \"If a child's involved, yes.\"\n\nRobert Morris, representing PC Broadhead, told Miss A: \"Things had got really bad on that day... and it started off because you were concerned with your daughter and who she was dealing with online.\n\n\"You were concerned for her welfare and so you had taken away her mobile phone, and she reacted very badly to that... she just got more and more aggressive.\"\n\nHe asked Miss A if her daughter holding the hammer and shears scared her, to which she replied: \"Yes.\"\n\nMr Morris went on: \"So when you called up 999, it was because you were scared of what your daughter might do to you?\"\n\nPC Morgan said he was concerned for his own safety during the incident and that the 10-year-old, still armed with the shears, had gained a \"positional advantage\" after she moved on to the stairs.\n\nAsked why he at no point challenged PC Broadhead \"on the basis he used disproportionate force\", he said his colleague's actions had brought the high-risk situation to a \"safe halt\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An Israeli soldier walks on a tank near the Israel-Gaza boundary on Tuesday evening Image caption: An Israeli soldier walks on a tank near the Israel-Gaza boundary on Tuesday evening\n\nTuesday was the first of a two-day extension to a break in fighting that will run out in 24 hours’ time.\n\nBut there is a good chance, I think, that we will then see another 48-hour extension agreed by the two parties.\n\nIt’s clear that both sides seem to want that, as long as we have this process going more or less according to plan – with very little in the way of interruptions or challenges.\n\nWe don’t know the state of the negotiations that have been going on, but we know they’ve been going on. Efforts to keep this truce going will be intense.\n\nBut don’t forget that when this process is over, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his troops are planning to continue their operations in Gaza with what he calls “full force”.", "Chinese officials have launched an investigation into one of the country's biggest shadow banks, which has lent billions to real estate firms.\n\nZhongzhi Enterprise Group (ZEG) has an asset management arm that at its peak reportedly handled more than a trillion yuan ($139bn; £110bn).\n\nAuthorities said they are investigating \"suspected illegal crimes\" against the firm, in a statement on the weekend.\n\nThis comes days after reports that ZEG had declared it was insolvent.\n\nThe struggling firm reportedly told investors in a letter last week that its liabilities - up to $64bn - had outstripped its assets, now estimated at about $38bn.\n\nWhile authorities said they had taken \"criminal coercive measures\" against \"many suspects\" it's still unclear who they are, and what role they play in the firm. The company's founder, Xie Zhikun, died of a heart attack in 2021.\n\nZEG is a major player in China's shadow banking industry, a term for a system of lenders, brokers and other credit intermediaries who fall outside the realm of traditional regulated banking. Shadow banking, which is unregulated, is not subject to the same kinds of risk, liquidity and capital restrictions as traditional banks.\n\nChina's shadow banking industry is valued at around $3tn. It often provides a financial lifeline to the country's property sector. The once-booming industry has been hit by a severe credit crunch, with some of the biggest firms now on the brink of financial collapse.\n\n\"For several decades China been chasing this property bubble - and in order to create this bubble, or to fuel growth in China, they needed capital. So they started getting a lot of money from individual investors offering very, very high returns. And it worked for quite a while because the property prices were going up and it's a win-win for everybody,\" says Andrew Collier, a shadow banking expert at Orient Capital Research.\n\nInformal lending has always existed in China's economy, but shadow banking really took off in the aftermath of the global financial crisis in 2008, when credit was scarce.\n\nGiven China's slowing economy and the crisis in the real estate sector, Mr Collier says the troubles at ZEG may just be the start of a bigger problem: \"This is going to spread further into other forms of shadow banks and potentially into the actual real brick-and-mortar banks.\"\n\nEmbattled property developers currently owe Chinese banks money worth as much as 30% of the banks' assets.\n\n\"That is going to take a long time to unwind,\" Mr Collier says.\n\nThe latest developments at ZEG has raised concerns of further turmoil in the world's second-largest economy, after the collapse of property developer Evergrande and more recently the financial woes at Country Garden.\n\nChina's property sector makes up a third of its economic output. That includes houses, rental and brokering services, as well as construction materials and industries producing goods that go into apartments.\n\nThe latest figures show that China's economy expanded by 4.9% in the three months between July and September. That is slower than the previous quarter, when the economy grew by 6.3%.", "Tommy Robinson was led away by police officers at the march in central London\n\nTommy Robinson has been charged after attending a rally against antisemitism in central London.\n\nOrganisers estimated 100,000 people took part in Sunday's march, said to be the first of its kind since the Israel-Gaza war began.\n\nThe English Defence League founder had been asked not to attend by organisers and was arrested by police.\n\nHe has been charged with failing to comply with an order excluding him from the area of the march, the Met said.\n\nThe 40-year-old, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley Lennon, has been bailed and is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 22 January.\n\nMr Robinson was arrested near the Royal Courts of Justice in London, from where the demonstration began on Sunday, after organisers said he would not be welcome at the event.\n\nThe Met Police said: \"A man has now been charged in connection with this incident.\n\n\"Stephen Lennon, of Bedfordshire, has been charged with failing to comply with a Section 35 direction excluding a person from an area.\"\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTens of thousands of people have marched through central London at a demonstration against antisemitism.\n\nOrganisers estimated 100,000 took part in the first march of its kind since the Israel-Gaza war began, including former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nThe rally comes amid a steep rise in hate crime, especially against the capital's Jewish community.\n\nEnglish Defence League founder Tommy Robinson - who was asked not to attend by organisers - was arrested by police.\n\nThere had been concern that he might disrupt the demonstration.\n\nThe Met Police later said in total two people had been arrested. As well as Mr Robinson, 40, who was detained at the start of the march, police arrested a man for making antisemitic comments when crowds were leaving Whitehall.\n\nThe large crowd gathered outside the Royal Courts of Justice and made its way along Whitehall to Parliament Square, where a rally was held.\n\nPlacards bearing slogans like \"Shoulder to shoulder with British Jews\" and \"Never again is now\" were seen being carried by those taking part.\n\nChief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis told the crowd at Parliament Square British Jews \"will not be intimidated\" by antisemitism.\n\nHe said: \"We call for a strengthening of community cohesion and we will forever be proud to champion the finest of British values.\"\n\nThe Campaign Against Antisemitism estimate Sunday's march to be the largest gathering of its kind since the Battle of Cable Street in 1936, when British Union of Fascists supporters were stopped from marching through east London, an area with a high Jewish population at the time.\n\nTracey-Ann Oberman, Eddie Marsan, Rachel Riley and Maureen Lipman were seen at the march\n\nTommy Robinson was led away by police officers - organisers had made clear he was not welcome\n\nSeveral recognisable faces were spotted in the crowd, including TV personalities Vanessa Feltz and Robert Rinder, and actors Tracy-Ann Oberman, Elliot Levey and Maureen Lipman.\n\nCountdown host Rachel Riley told the crowd: \"We've learned from history the sharp price to be paid when good people stay silent and I'm grateful to each and every one of you here today for refusing to be bystanders.\"\n\nActor Eddie Marsan gave a speech urging \"moderate people in this country to stand up and face down extremism and bigotry and antisemitism and Islamophobia and all forms of racism\".\n\nComedian David Baddiel, who attended the march, described the day as \"emotional, bonding, well-attended and shambolic\".\n\nHe joked: \"No-one had any idea where we were going or who was speaking. It was indicative, as ever, of how Jews really don't run the world.\"\n\nAs well as Boris Johnson, security minister Tom Tugenhadt, immigration minister Robert Jenrick and Labour's shadow science minister Peter Kyle were among political figures in attendance.\n\nCrimes against Jewish people motivated by racism have increased dramatically since the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza conflict.\n\nThere were 554 reports of antisemitic offences in London between 1 October and 1 November in London, compared with 44 in the same period last year.\n\nIslamophobic hate crime is also on the rise, with 220 offences in the same period, compared to 78 last year.\n\nSunday's rally against antisemitism comes after the latest large pro-Palestinian demonstration to be held in London since renewed fighting broke out in the Middle East.\n\nThe Met Police said 18 people had been arrested \"during a significant policing operation\" that was put in place around the pro-Palestinian march on Saturday, though the \"overwhelming majority\" protested lawfully, a statement said.\n\nThe force has come under pressure over its policing of pro-Palestinian demonstrations, and has pledged to crack down on placards and chanting which are judged to constitute a hate crime.", "An adviser to the jailed ex-Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan says he was the victim of an acid attack outside his home in the UK.\n\nMirza Shahzad Akbar said the chemical used in the attack missed his eyes but caused injuries on his body.\n\nPolice said they were investigating. No one has been arrested.\n\nMr Akbar was an adviser to Mr Khan, who was removed from office last year and is in prison on numerous charges that he says are politically motivated.\n\nIn a post in Urdu on X, formerly Twitter, Mr Akbar said \"the attacker threw an acid solution on me and ran away\".\n\n\"I will not be intimidated nor bow down to those who are doing this,\" he said in another post in English.\n\nHe told the BBC he had received numerous threats in the UK since fleeing Pakistan with his family.\n\nMr Akbar said his brother had been forcibly disappeared in Pakistan before re-emerging months later.\n\nHe said the alleged acid attack was part of these threats, but refused to say who he thought was responsible.\n\nMr Akbar added that the chemical caused injuries on his arms and the top of his head, but missed his eyes.\n\nHertfordshire police said officers had been called to reports of an assault on Sunday afternoon where \"it was believed an acidic solution was used\".\n\nIt said a man received hospital treatment and had now been discharged, adding it believed it to be an isolated incident.\n\nThe force said enquiries were continuing, and urged witnesses or anyone with information to contact them.\n\nThe BBC is not publishing the full location of the alleged attack in the interests of the safety of Mr Akbar and his family.\n\nMr Akbar served as a cabinet minister in the government of Mr Khan, who was removed from office in 2022 in a parliamentary vote of no confidence.\n\nMr Khan, the former cricketing star turned politician, is now in prison in Pakistan facing numerous charges.\n\nHis lawyers say there are more than 100 against him, including allegedly leaking state secrets and organising violent protests.", "The London-based tobacco company BAT has called for “more stringent” regulations on vaping, including a licensing regime similar to alcohol and cigarettes.\n\nIt also wants a ban on flavours which “uniquely” target children.\n\nThe government is already considering new regulations amid concerns that many young people are vaping.\n\nIt has promised legislation following a public consultation that is currently underway.\n\nBAT is the third-largest seller of vapes in the UK, according to market research firm NielsenIQ. It sells Rothmans and Lucky Strike cigarettes, and is the most successful of the big western tobacco companies when it comes to the UK's booming market for disposable vapes, thought to be worth at least £3bn a year.\n\nBAT is calling for vape sellers to be licensed, and for licences to be taken away from firms caught selling to minors. You must be 18 to legally buy vapes in the UK.\n\nThe company also wants a ban on soft drink, sweet or dessert flavours such as gummy bear or cotton candy, which it says appeal “uniquely” to the young.\n\nBAT doesn’t sell these flavours, though they have been a factor in the success of market leader Elfbar, the number two, SKE, and other brands.\n\nA recent survey by the anti-smoking group ASH found that 20.5% of children had tried vaping, up from 15.8% in 2022.\n\nThe Local Government Association has called for single-use vapes to be banned, as they cause a litter problem and a fire risk in bin lorries, and appeal too strongly to children.\n\nAnd while experts warn that vapes are safer than cigarettes, they still contain addictive nicotine and do have a health impact, which is not yet fully understood.\n\n“We recognise that some want single-use vapes banned altogether,” said Asli Ertonguc, BAT lead for the UK. “But we are concerned such a move would lead to unregulated sales, and less options for adult smokers looking to switch.”\n\nBAT wants a ban on cartoon imagery on packets. However, it does not support a ban on colourful packaging, nor on advertising or sports sponsorship – as it argues that these are still an important way to convince smokers to switch. BAT sponsors the motor racing team McLaren.\n\nThe consultation on e-cigarette regulations ends on 6 December, and legislation in England, Scotland and Wales is expected “as soon as possible” afterwards.\n\nDo you think the rules around vaping needed strengthening? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Pete Weatherby KC now questions Rotheram on behalf of the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice group.\n\nHe asks the Liverpool mayor a question around the Atletico Madrid-Liverpool match, which was held on the same day the WHO director declared Covid to be a pandemic and called for urgent action internationally to combat its spread.\n\nThe match was attended by more than 50,000 people, Weatherby says, including about 3,000 people from Madrid - although Spain already had high case numbers.\n\nRotheram is asked: \"In terms of the match going ahead, were you consulted by ministers or government officials about the decision?\n\n\"At no stage were we consulted by anybody,\" Rotheram says.\n\n\"Quite the opposite: we were trying to get information but at that stage the government said the fixture was low-risk.\"\n\nAsked whether he thought at the time that the match should have gone ahead, Rotheram says: \"We had no scientific evidence to support that we were concerned about it, but had the goverment said it should not go ahead, I think everyone would have breathed a sigh of relief.\"\n\nToday's session of the Covid Inquiry has now ended. It will resume tomorrow, when it will focus on decision making and political governance during the pandemic.", "A portrait of murdered teacher Samuel Paty at the school where he taught\n\nSix teenagers have gone on trial in Paris for their alleged roles in the murder of a teacher, Samuel Paty.\n\nThe children are accused of slander and pointing out Mr Paty to his killer, a Chechen refugee, at the school.\n\nThey were aged between 13 and 15 at the time of the killing in 2020, with the trial happening behind closed doors.\n\nLocal media report that the suspects, who face up to 2.5 years in prison, hid their identities as they arrived at the juvenile court on Monday.\n\nMr Paty was stabbed and beheaded on 16 October 2020 after reportedly showing students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a class on freedom of expression.\n\nThe youngest suspect was 13 years old at the time of the killing. She was suspended from school nine days before Mr Paty's murder - for reasons unrelated to the case.\n\nShe arrived to the court with her head completely hidden in the hood of a black down jacket, according to AFP news agency.\n\nShe is alleged to have untruthfully told her father that she had been disciplined for having confronted Mr Paty over an alleged request for Muslim students to leave the class.\n\nShe had in fact been absent from the class in question. Nonetheless, her father posted videos on social media calling for Mr Paty to be fired.\n\nProsecutors believe these videos prompted Chechen Abdoullakh Anzorov to travel around 80km (50 miles) from Normandy to Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, near Paris, to commit the murder.\n\nAnzorov, 18 years old at the time, was shot dead by police at the scene.\n\nThe other five suspects in the case are alleged to have helped Anzorov identify Mr Paty at the school in exchange for a €300 (£260) payment. One said Anzorov told him that he wanted to film Mr Paty apologising for showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.\n\nA second trial will open next year for eight adults also accused of complicity in the murder. These include Brahim Chnina, the father of the 13-year-old girl on trial.\n\nProsecutors have accused two friends of Anzorov of \"complicity in a terrorist murder\", the most serious crime of the case. One man is accused of accompanying Anzorov to buy weapons, the other of driving him to the school where Mr Paty taught on the day of the murder.", "New Zealand in 2022 passed laws to restrict and eventually ban cigarette sales to future generations\n\nNew Zealand's new government says it plans to scrap the nation's world-leading smoking ban to fund tax cuts.\n\nThe legislation, introduced under the previous Jacinda Ardern-led government, would have banned cigarette sales next year to anyone born after 2008.\n\nSmoking is the leading cause of preventable deaths in New Zealand, and the policy had aimed to stop young generations from picking up the habit.\n\n\"We are appalled and disgusted... this is an incredibly retrograde step on world-leading, absolutely excellent health measures,\" said Prof Richard Edwards, a tobacco control researcher and public health expert at the University of Otago.\n\n\"Most health groups in New Zealand are appalled by what the government's done and are calling on them to backtrack,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe legislation passed last year had been acclaimed internationally with research models backing the key reforms.\n\nMeasures included reducing the number of tobacco retailers by 90%, and limiting the level of nicotine in cigarettes.\n\nModelling had suggested the Smokefree laws could save up to 5,000 lives each year.\n\nNew Zealand's laws were believed to have inspired the UK government in September to announce a similar smoking ban for young people. A spokeswoman said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's position remained unchanged after New Zealand's reversal.\n\nWhile it has been praised as a public health policy, the Smokefree measures drew opposition from some business groups in New Zealand. Owners of newsagents and corner shops criticised the loss of revenue - even with government subsidies.\n\nSome lawmakers - including the new Prime Minister Chris Luxon - also argued a ban would lead to a black market for tobacco.\n\nHowever his National party, which won 38% of the vote in the 14 October election, hadn't mentioned the Smokefree laws during election campaigning. The announcement by the new finance minister Nicola Willis on Saturday that the government would repeal the laws shocked health experts who believed the policy would be untouched.\n\nBut Ms Willis said National's partners in the governing coalition- the populist New Zealand First and libertarian Act - had been \"insistent\" on reversing the laws.\n\nDespite election victory, the centre-right National party has struggled for weeks in policy negotiations to form a government with the two minor parties.\n\nA deal was only agreed to on Friday, six weeks after the election, allowing the new government to be sworn in on Monday. New Zealand First - which won 6% of the vote - had been the only party to campaign on repealing the smoking laws.\n\nNew Zealand's new prime minister Chris Luxon (centre) was sworn in on Monday with his coalition partners Winston Peters (left), leader of New Zealand First, and David Seymour (right), leader of Act\n\nBoth minor parties blocked a flagship National policy to open up foreign property ownership - which the party had been relying on to fund tax cuts for middle and higher-income earners. Ms Willis said on Saturday that had led to the party looking elsewhere.\n\n\"We have to remember that the changes to the Smokefree legislation had a significant impact on the government books, with about a billion dollars there,\" she told New Zealand broadcaster TV3's Newshub Nation.\n\nThe laws still need to be actively repealed through parliament, where the government has a majority.\n\n\"The suggestion that tax cuts would be paid by people who continue to smoke is absolutely shocking,\" Emeritus Prof Robert Beaglehole, chair of New Zealand's Action for Smokefree 2025 committee told Pacific Media Network.\n\nA national Māori health organisation, Hāpai Te Hauora, called it an \"unconscionable blow to the health and wellbeing of all New Zealanders\".\n\nSmoking rates, and associated disease and health issues, are highest among New Zealand's indigenous Māori population, for whom experts had said the policy would have the most positive impact.\n\n\"The government is flying in the face of public opinion and obviously in the face of the vast majority of people who work in this field, health professionals, doctors, nurses,\" said Prof Edwards.\n\nPublic health modelling conducted in 2022 had shown the Smokefree policy would have saved New Zealand's health system about US$1.3bn (£630m) over the next 20 years.\n\nNew Zealand still aims to reduce its national smoking rate to 5% by 2025, with the aim of eventually eliminating it altogether.\n\nMore than 80,000 adults have quit in the past year, its national data shows. Currently, about 8% of its adult population smokes.\n\nWhat do you think of New Zealand's plans on the smoking ban? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "People have been waiting in long queues for fuel and aid in the Gaza Strip, as the four-day truce between Israel and Hamas appears to hold for a second day.\n\nGazans are trying to make the most of the pause in fighting to gather much-needed supplies, search for loved ones and even take a walk by the sea.\n\nSome have visited their homes - or what is left of them - to see damage and recover what they can find.\n\nThe truce has also seen more supplies allowed into the Palestinian territory.\n\nIsrael imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip as it launched its retaliatory operation aimed at eliminating Hamas, following its 7 October attack in which militants killed at least 1,200 people in southern Israel and took more than 240 hostages.\n\nSince then, more than 14,500 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.\n\nThe four-day truce, mediated by Qatar, is meant to result in the release of 50 hostages and 150 Palestinian prisoners and detainees held in Israeli jails.\n\nOn the first day of the truce on Friday, around 150 trucks carried supplies into the Gaza Strip from Egypt.\n\nWhile it was the biggest amount of aid to enter Gaza since the first convoy crossed the border on 21 October, the UN says more is still needed.\n\nCommunications are largely down across Gaza, however pictures emerging from the Strip show long queues for fuel and other supplies in Rafah, in the south of the territory.\n\nPeople have been queuing for fuel as four trucks carrying cooking gas and for containing fuel entered Gaza on Saturday\n\nTrucks have been waiting on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing early on Saturday morning, ready to carry in food, water, fuel and medical supplies.\n\nThe Israeli military confirmed that four tankers containing fuel and another four carrying cooking gas entered Gaza on Saturday morning.\n\nIt is a slow process to get over the border with every vehicle checked by the Israeli military before making the crossing.\n\nThe Palestinian Red Crescent said 61 aid trucks carrying food supplies, drinking water and medicines had set off from Rafah towards the north of Gaza.\n\nIt said this would be the largest aid convoy to reach the north since the beginning of the fighting.\n\nThe Israeli government said it was expecting 226 aid trucks to enter through the Nitzana crossing in southern Israel.\n\n\"This will include 113 trucks containing food, seven containing medical supplies, 27 containing water, 43 containing various supplies for shelter, 25 trucks containing hygiene supplies,\" spokesman Eytan Schwartz said.\n\nAn additional 11 Egyptian trucks are carrying medical supplies to the Emirati hospital, he said.\n\nA woman collects a bag of flour at the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir Al Balah, Gaza\n\nDespite joy for many at the cessation of fighting, it has been mixed with sadness after many returned to their destroyed homes to save what remained and retrieve the bodies of their loved ones from under the rubble.\n\nTahani al-Najjar used the calm of the truce to return to the ruins of her Khan Younis home on Saturday, Reuters news agency reported.\n\nThe 58-year-old pulled several intact cups from the rubble of her home, which she said had been destroyed by an Israeli air strike which also killed seven members of her family.\n\nIn the southern city some people are living in makeshift tents outside the Nasser Hospital as they wait to decide whether to return to the north of the Strip.\n\nCrates of tomatoes, lemons, aubergines, peppers, onions and oranges could be seen at a street market in the city.\n\nJuliette Touma, spokesperson for the UN Relief and Works Agency, Unrwa, told the BBC the situation on the ground was \"absolutely terrible\" and, while the aid which had reached Gaza was welcome, the organisation was ready to receive much more.\n\nShe said there was a need for basic hygiene items as well as more medical equipment, fuel and food.\n\nPeople have described having to flee with only the clothes on their backs and most have been unable to wash properly.\n\nMany public shelters are extremely overcrowded, Unrwa said, with its schools and other facilities housing more than a million displaced people.", "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given Elon Musk a tour of Kfar Aza, a kibbutz that was attacked by Hamas on 7 October.\n\nThe US entrepreneur is currently on a visit to Israel.", "Alejandro Garnacho: Has Man Utd winger already won goal of the season? Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\n\"I don't think I've ever been in a stadium where I've seen an overhead kick that good... and I was there for Wayne Rooney's against Manchester City.\" High praise indeed from Gary Neville, but deservedly so as Alejandro Garnacho scored one of the great Premier League goals in Manchester United's 3-0 win at Everton. The 19-year-old Argentina winger met Diogo Dalot's cross in the third minute at Goodison Park from about 15 yards out and unleashed a stunning overhead kick into the top corner. \"I can't believe it to be honest,\" he said afterwards. \"I didn't see how I scored, I just listened to the crowd and said 'oh my God'.\"\n• None Listen to the latest The Devils' Advocate podcast Former Everton midfielder Leon Osman, summarising on BBC Radio 5 Live, said: \"It was a jaw-dropping moment. Everybody was just stunned by seeing a goal of that quality. \"It wasn't just the finish which was remarkable but the whole move, back to front, cross-field pass, good touch, underlapping run, cross to the far post then that moment.\" Ex-United captain Neville, on Sky Sports, added: \"That is a magical, magical goal. We will see that a few times this season. That is one of the best you will ever see. \"I can't believe it. I don't think it can get any better in his career in terms of a goal. Absolutely spectacular, a world-class moment. \"I've never seen an overhead kick goal as good as that. He has to step metres away from goal, shuffles his feet and lift himself into the air. I've never seen a goal like it.\" On Saturday, the Crystal Palace winger scored a fantastic goal against Luton Town, running down the right wing, cutting in and curling a stunner into the far corner. \"It's got to be up there,\" said Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer on Match of the Day as they discussed whether it would be goal of the season. \"It will take some beating,\" added Lineker. That beating would happen about 22 hours later and unfortunately for Olise, his strike is not even goal of the final weekend of November. United boss Erik ten Hag told BBC Sport: \"The finish was incredible, it was world class. We are early in the season but already it's the goal of the season.\" However his manager says Garnacho has some way to go to be the finished article. \"It's not the first time we saw this, we have already often seen glimpses, but if you want to be a player like Wayne Rooney or Cristiano Ronaldo you have to score 20 to 25 goals in the Premier League each season,\" he said. \"That's not easy to get, you have to work hard, you have to go in areas where it hurts. So there's a lot to come. But he has potential.\" Red Devils captain Bruno Fernandes called it \"superb\". \"It was something amazing and I have no words to describe it. It is out of this world. Special from a special kid,\" he continued. John Murray, who has been a BBC Radio 5 Live commentator since 1997, said: \"Memories there of some of the great goals that we've seen scored. \"I'm thinking Mark Hughes, I'm thinking Wayne Rooney, the famous goal that he scored in the Manchester derby, that was right up there with that. \"It was acrobatic, spectacular, I think it's one of the best goals I've seen live.\" Where does Garnacho goal rank among overhead kicks? We will keep the definition of bicycle kicks fairly liberal so nothing gets ruled out on a technicality. Here is a list of a few we like. You can rank them below but you might need to find footage of some of them elsewhere to make an informed opinion. How would you rank these eight brilliant overhead kicks?\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"Doctor Who is best job I've ever had\" says Catherine Tate\n\nCatherine Tate says starring in Doctor Who is the \"best job\" she has ever had as she reprises her role to celebrate the show's 60th anniversary.\n\nThe first of three specials aired on Saturday to positive reviews, with Tate starring alongside David Tennant.\n\nThe actress and comedian played Donna Noble, the Doctor's mouthy companion in the popular sci-fi franchise.\n\nShe told Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday she had not been a mega fan, or \"whovian\", before stepping into the role.\n\n\"I didn't used to watch it, I do remember Tom Baker [the fourth Doctor] with his long scarf - but I didn't used to watch it,\" she said.\n\n\"I have to say it's amazing to me that I'm part of this massive conglomerate, and amazing collection of experiences and that the character I play staked her claim in this story,\" Tate said.\n\nReferring to the programme's showrunner and writer Russell T Davies, she said: \"Still to this day I don't know why Russell thought it was good idea to put me in it, but I'm delighted.\n\n\"David [Tennant] and I have said it's 100% the best job I've ever had, and to get another bite of the cherry - extraordinary\".\n\nTennant, who played the Doctor from 2005 to 2010, has also returned for the specials.\n\nThe first special, The Star Beast, reunites Tennant and Tate before Ncuti Gatwa, of Sex Education fame, claims the keys to the Tardis in December.\n\nIn their last episode together, which aired in 2008, Donna saved the world by absorbing the Doctor's knowledge and wisdom, and would have died if the Doctor had not erased all the memories she had of him and their adventures.\n\nSince then Donna has lived an ordinary life, is married and has a trans daughter Rose, played by Yasmin Finney, but is plagued by the sense that something is missing.\n\nShe and the Doctor are reunited in a chance encounter as a space ship - carrying an alien voiced by Miriam Margolyes - crashes in London.\n\nThe episode has been met with positive reviews, receiving four stars from the Independent, the Guardian, the i and the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe Guardian's Jack Seale describing the \"comic chemistry\" between Tennant and Tate as \"absolutely faultless\" and the Times' Ben Dowell calling it \"fabulously realised\" and \"defiantly progressive\".\n\nThe second anniversary special, Wild Blue Yonder, airs at 18:30 on Saturday 2 December on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, with the third special, The Giggle- which will introduce Gatwa as the Doctor - airing on 9 December.", "A Thai para-athlete and former soldier shot his bride and three others before killing himself on his wedding day, police told the BBC.\n\nGroom Chaturong Suksuk, 29 and Kanchana Pachunthuek, 44, were married on Saturday in north-east Thailand.\n\nAccording to reports, he left the wedding party abruptly and returned with a gun, shooting his wife, her 62-year-old mother and 38-year-old sister.\n\nStray bullets hit two guests, who were taken to hospital. One of them died.\n\nPolice told the BBC Chaturong \"was quite intoxicated at the time\", but his motive remains unclear. He had bought the gun and ammunition legally last year, they added.\n\nThai media, citing what guests at the party told the police, said the couple had an argument during the party. It also reported that Chaturong had felt insecure about the age gap between him and Kanchana.\n\nBut police said this was still speculation, adding that they had collected evidence and expected to close the case \"soon\".\n\nChaturong and Kanchana had lived together for three years before they married, according to Thai media.\n\nChaturong had clinched a silver medal in swimming at the Asean Para Games in Indonesia last year. He was also believed to be on the list of athletes competing in the World Abilitysport Games in Thailand next month.\n\nHe had lost his right leg while on duty with the paramilitary light infantry force, which patrols Thailand's borders.\n\nWhile mass shootings are rare, gun ownership is common in Thailand.\n\nLast month, three people were killed in a shooting in a luxury mall in Bangkok. And in October 2022, a former policeman killed 37 children in a gun and knife attack at a nursery in north-east Thailand.", "Children are making indecent images of other children using artificial intelligence (AI) image generators, according to a UK charity.\n\nThe UK Safer Internet Centre (UKSIC) said it had received \"a small number of reports\" from schools but called for action now before the problem grew.\n\nIt said children might need help to understand that what they were making was considered child abuse material.\n\nThe charity wants teachers and parents to work together.\n\nIt pointed out that, while young people might be motivated by curiosity rather than intent to cause harm, it was illegal in all circumstances under UK law to make, possess, or distribute such images, whether they are real or generated by AI.\n\nIt said children might lose control of the material and end up circulating it online, without realising there are consequences for these actions. It also warned that these images could potentially be used for blackmail.\n\nNew research conducted by classroom tech firm RM Technology, with 1,000 pupils, suggests that just under a third are using AI \"to look at inappropriate things online\".\n\n\"Students using AI regularly is now commonplace,\" said Tasha Gibson, online safety manager at the firm.\n\n\"In fact, their understanding of AI is more advanced than most teachers - creating a knowledge gap. This makes keeping pupils safe online and preventing misuse increasingly difficult.\n\n\"With AI set to grow in popularity, closing this knowledge gap must become a top priority.\"\n\nIt also found teachers were divided over whether it should be the responsibility of parents, schools or governments to teach children about the harms caused by such material.\n\nThe UKSIC wants a collaborative approach, with schools working together with parents.\n\n\"[We] need to see steps being taken now, before schools become overwhelmed and the problem grows,\" said UKSIC director David Wright.\n\n\"Young people are not always aware of the seriousness of what they are doing, yet these types of harmful behaviours should be anticipated when new technologies, like AI generators, become more accessible to the public.\n\n\"An increase in criminal content being made in schools is something we never want to see, and interventions must be made urgently to prevent this from spreading further.\"\n\nVictoria Green, CEO of the Marie Collins Foundation - a charity which helps children impacted by sexual abuse - warned of the \"lifelong\" damage that could be caused.\n\n\"The imagery may not have been created by children to cause harm but, once shared, this material could get into the wrong hands and end up on dedicated abuse sites.\n\n\"There is a real risk that the images could be further used by sex offenders to shame and silence victims.\"\n\nThe scope for AI to turn children into the generators of extreme content was demonstrated in September by an app which creates the impression of having removed someone's clothing in a photo.\n\nIt was used to create fake nude images of young girls in Spain, with more than 20 girls, aged between 11 and 17, coming forward as victims.\n\nThe images had been circulating on social media without their knowledge. So far there have been no charges brought against the boys who made the pictures.\n\nSo-called \"declothing\" apps began emerging on social media sites in 2019, often on messaging service Telegram as automated software with AI features - also known as bots.\n\nInitially very unsophisticated, improvements to generative AI have allowed apps - like that used in Spain - to become much more effective in creating photorealistic fake nude images.\n\nThe Spanish bot has nearly 50,000 subscribers - implying it has had that many users, who pay a fee to create pictures, typically after being able to make several for free.\n\nThe BBC asked the maker of the bot for comment but they refused to provide a response.\n\nJavaad Malik, a cyber expert at IT security firm KnowBe4, told the BBC it was becoming harder to differentiate between real and AI-generated images, a trend that was fuelling the use of \"declothing\" apps.\n\n\"It's got mass appeal unfortunately, so the trend is just going up and we're seeing a lot of revenge porn-type activities where cultural or religious beliefs cause a lot more issues for victims,\" he said.", "In Russia's Black Sea port of Sochi, big waves have been battering the city's seafront\n\nRussia says hurricane winds and heavy flooding have left about 1.9 million people without power in the south, referring also to Ukrainian regions illegally annexed by Moscow.\n\nRussia's energy ministry says the worst hit are Dagestan, Krasnodar and Rostov, as well as Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea.\n\nAt least four storm-related deaths have been reported by local media.\n\nUkraine says 2,019 of its villages and towns have no power after snowstorms.\n\nThe storm is also battering Moldova, Georgia and Bulgaria.\n\nFlooding was reported in Crimea - Ukraine's southern peninsula illegally annexed by Russia\n\nIn Russia's Black Sea port of Sochi, big waves have been seen battering the city's seafront. Footage has also emerged purportedly showing a three-storey building collapsing.\n\nNear the town of Anapa, also on the Russian Black Sea coast, a cargo vessel with 21 crew has run aground.\n\nA clear-up operation is now under way in Moscow\n\nIn the capital Moscow, authorities had to deploy specialist machinery to clear the streets after heavy snowfall.\n\nIn Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula - illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 - Moscow-installed officials reported flooding in coastal areas. Fallen trees and other debris were seen on the streets of several towns.\n\nAbout 800 exotic fish died when a historic museum-aquarium was destroyed by sea flooding in the port of Sevastopol, the museum director was quoted as saying by a local media outlet.\n\nA state of emergency is now in place in several municipalities in Crimea.\n\nAnton Herashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's interior ministry, said the storm \"washed away trenches in occupied Crimea that the Russian army dug out on the beaches\".\n\nRussia's military has not commented on the claim.\n\nDozens of passengers in Ukraine have had to be rescued from vehicles stuck in heavy snow\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine's DSNS emergency service said snowstorms and fierce winds were battering 16 regions of the country.\n\nIt said 48 people, including children, had been evacuated from trapped vehicles in the worst-affected Odesa region in the south-west.\n\nAs many as 840 vehicles had to be towed away as snow drifts reached more than two metres (6.6ft) in some places, the emergency service said. At least 1,370 cargo lorries are currently stuck.\n\nAt least six people have suffered hypothermia. Traffic is currently blocked on 14 motorways.\n\nSome vehicles have overturned in fierce winds in Ukraine's Odesa region\n\nMore than 1,500 rescuers are now deployed across Ukraine in a massive clean-up operation. They are being helped by police, border guards and National Guard members.\n\nIn the capital Kyiv, the country's largest flag - measuring 16x24m - had to be taken down from a 90m pole after it was damaged by fierce winds. City officials said the flag would be replaced and raised again.\n\nThe extreme weather comes as reports say Russia is again preparing massive rocket and drone strikes on Ukraine's power grid and other critical infrastructure.\n\nLast autumn and winter, Moscow carried out waves of such deadly attacks, leaving millions of people across Ukraine without electricity and heating.\n\nLast Saturday, Russia launched its biggest drone strike on Kyiv since its full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukrainian officials said. They said that 74 out of 75 of Shahed kamikaze drones were shot down around the capital.\n\nAre you in the area? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Housing Secretary Michael Gove has said he is confident a bill reforming the leasehold system in England and Wales will pass by the next general election.\n\nThe bill, which would ban leaseholds for new houses but not flats, is due to be introduced in Parliament later.\n\nIt would also make it easier and cheaper for homeowners to extend their lease or buy their freehold.\n\nUnder the current system leaseholders often have to pay ground rent and expensive maintenance charges.\n\nThis is because they only own the lease, which gives them the right to use the property, but not the land it is built on.\n\nMr Gove said the long-promised legislation would mean leaseholders can \"take back control of their property\" and ensure service charges and ground rents are transparent and \"reasonable\".\n\nThe plans have been broadly welcomed by campaigners but some are disappointed a ban on the sale of new leaseholds does not include flats.\n\nThere are an estimated five million leasehold homes in England - 70% of which are flats.\n\nThe proportion of new-build houses sold as leaseholds has fallen from a 15% high in 2016 to just 1% in December 2022.\n\nMr Gove, who has previously said he wanted to scrap the \"outdated\" system entirely, insisted he was still committed to this aim.\n\n\"Of course what we need to do is make sure we phase out leasehold over time altogether,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut he added: \"We want to make sure that we proceed in a way, in a complex area of law, that helps people now.\"\n\nAsked if the bill could be passed by the next general election, which is expected in 2024, Mr Gove said: \"I'm absolutely confident this bill will be on the statute book by the time of a general election.\n\n\"It has widespread support in the House of Commons and the House of Lords.\"\n\nThere have been reports some Conservative MPs could seek to amend the bill to abolish leaseholds for new flats as well as houses. Labour has said it would back such moves.\n\nMr Gove said: \"We'll look at every amendment as it comes forward but I think it's very important to recognise that in this complex area of law we need to move as quickly as we can, to help as many people as we can, and that's what we're doing.\"\n\nMichael Gove says the leasehold system is outdated\n\nThe government said the bill would increase the standard lease extension from 90 years to 990 years. Currently, extending a lease or buying the freehold can be a complicated and expensive process, often costing thousands of pounds including legal fees.\n\nIt said other measures would include:\n\nThe government is also consulting on options to cap ground rents for existing leases.\n\nA ground rent is paid by owners of leasehold properties on top of their mortgage, with some facing high charges and unexpected increases which can make homes difficult to sell.\n\nCampaigner Katie Kendrick, a former leaseholder, has welcomed the bill\n\nKatie Kendrick, founder of the National Leasehold Campaign, said the bill was \"long overdue\" and its introduction to Parliament was \"momentous\".\n\nHowever, with the bill due to be published later, she added: \"The devil, as always, will be in the detail.\"\n\nMs Kendrick bought the freehold of her leasehold house in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, three years ago for around £8,000 including legal fees. But she said many of her neighbours on her estate who had more expensive ground rents could not afford to do the same and were now struggling to sell their property.\n\nShe said the legislation would \"give some hope to leaseholders that they can have a way out of this... because at the moment, lots of leaseholders are trapped\".\n\nMs Kendrick, who is also a Labour councillor in Cheshire, said all parties had failed to address issues with leaseholds over decades and it was crucial the bill was passed \"swiftly\".\n\nShe said her group would continue to campaign for a commonhold system for new flats, where occupants jointly own and take responsibility for their buildings without an expiring lease.\n\nBut she said she was \"realistic\" and believed if abolishing leaseholds for new flats was in the bill its progress would be slower and \"we wouldn't have any hope of trying to get it through before a general election\".\n\nLabour has previously said commonhold should be the default tenure for all new properties, \"with the system completely overhauled so that existing leaseholders can collectively purchase more easily and move to commonhold if they wish\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Property buyers have said their home completions are being left in limbo after a company providing IT services to law firms was hit by a cyber-incident.\n\nThe firm, CTS, was hit by the problem last week and said it still did not know when services would be restored.\n\nBuyers have expressed their distress on social media after a number of completions were delayed.\n\nThe regulator said law firms needed to work together to avoid disruption.\n\nGenerally, on property completion day, the buyer's solicitor arranges for money to be transferred to the seller's solicitor. A failure to complete is technically a breach of contract.\n\nThe problem at CTS is having a knock-on effect on the firms involved in property completions. It is thought around 80 law firms have been affected.\n\nWriting on X, formerly known as Twitter, some buyers said they had only been given limited information and were surprised the problems had lasted so long.\n\n\"There is no proper update, communications and transparency. This is really horrendous. While I can acknowledge the situation and the complexity, the ... urgency is clear,\" said one.\n\n\"Meant to complete yesterday. Your inability to keep your cyber security in place is causing a lot of distress,\" said another.\n\nCTS last posted an update on its website, and on X, on Friday, and would not answer further questions from the BBC on Monday.\n\n\"The outage was caused by a cyber-incident,\" according to its most recent update. \"We are working closely with a leading global cyber forensics firm to help us with an urgent investigation into the incident and to assist us in service restoration.\n\n\"Whilst we are confident that we will be able to restore services, we are unable to give a precise timeline for full restoration.\"\n\nA spokeswoman said it would update its website when there were any further developments. At present, the front page of its website carries a guide to how law firms can have the \"capability to rapidly detect and respond to [cyber] threats\".\n\nOn Monday, the property law regulator, the CLC, confirmed there was disruption to some transactions.\n\nIt said firms must ensure that they had alerted lawyers acting on the other side of any relevant transactions.\n\n\"This openness is vital for limiting as far as possible disruption and consumer harm,\" it said.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The British Library said it had been a victim of a cyber attack\n\nThe British Library says it has evidence that user data was hacked in a cyber attack and offered for sale on the dark web.\n\nThe library warned users who use the same password elsewhere to change it.\n\nThe attack, which took place on 31 October, is continuing to affect its website, online systems and some onsite services, a statement said.\n\nThe Rhysida ransomware group claim to be behind the attack, have said they will auction off the stolen data.\n\nThe cyber gang said last week that the price for data, that includes passport scans, was set at 20 Bitcoin (£596,459).\n\nThe British Library, the UK's largest, posted on X on Monday evening, saying: \"Following last week's confirmation that this was a ransomware attack, we now have evidence that indicates the attackers might have copied some user data, and additional data appears to have been published on the dark web.\n\n\"We will continue to work with cybersecurity specialists to examine what this material is and we will be contacting our users to advise them of the practical steps they may need to take.\n\n\"If you have a password for British Library services that you use on other websites, we recommend you change it elsewhere as a precaution.\"\n\nLast week the library confirmed that some employee data had been leaked in the attack and at that time there was \"no evidence that data of our users has been compromised\".\n\nThe Rhysida ransomware group said on Monday last week that it was behind the attack and shared an image to its leak site on the dark web showing various documents, some of which appear to be HMRC employment contracts and passports.\n\nThe BBC has not verified whether the data is real.\n\nThe cyber criminals said an auction for \"exclusive, unique and impressive data\" would end just before 08:00 GMT on 27 November, and would be sold to one single-party winner.\n\nRhysida ransomware group has also stolen data from the Chilean army and the University of West of Scotland\n\nThe group are also behind recent attacks on the Chilean army, the Portuguese city of Gondomar and the University of West of Scotland.", "Laurence Fox's life was \"destroyed\" by allegations of racism, the actor has told the High Court in a libel case.\n\nMr Fox said he could not get a mortgage after being called a \"racist\" by drag artist Crystal, ex-Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and actress Nicola Thorp.\n\nCrystal - real name Colin Seymour - and Mr Blake are suing Mr Fox after he called them \"paedophiles\" in response.\n\nMr Fox, who denies being a racist, is counter-suing over their initial social media posts.\n\nThe dispute followed the actor's call to boycott Sainsbury's in October 2020 for its celebration of Black History Month, for which he was called \"racist\" by the trio on Twitter.\n\nThe Reclaim Party leader said he was \"horrified\" when he saw the tweets, later adding it was a \"career-ending word, and a reputation-destroying allegation\".\n\n\"It was very hurtful, firstly as it is not true, and secondly because it was baseless: it felt as if the claimants had posted it to try and destroy me,\" he said in his written statement.\n\n\"I felt that one of the most important things I had in this world was my good name, and they were trying to ruin it.\"\n\nThe former Lewis star claimed by 2020 he was earning between £500,000 and £600,000 a year from acting, but his \"vibrant and busy\" professional life had been \"irreparably harmed, if not destroyed\" following a dramatic drop in his income and loss of his former acting agent Sue Latimer.\n\n\"Without the prospect of work from her and the income from it, I couldn't get a mortgage,\" he said.\n\n\"The only income I earned at that point was from the Reclaim Party.\n\n\"To this day I haven't bought a house, I only received one mortgage offer very recently, and it was far too high and wouldn't have been worth my while to take it.\n\n\"It's a source of incredible sadness to me that my skill set, which has been highly trained, used at great length over 23 or 24 years - it's just been completely put away.\"\n\nHe said \"life was destroyed by what they did\", and that he had become a target.\n\nThe court heard that on two occasions after the claim against him was filed, faeces were posted through Mr Fox's door.\n\nHe said his ex-wife Billie Piper was \"concerned\" that their two children were no longer safe in the house.\n\nEarlier in the trial, Lorna Skinner KC, representing Mr Blake, Mr Seymour and Ms Thorp, said the three \"honestly believed, and continue honestly to believe, that Mr Fox is a racist\".\n\nIn written submissions, the barrister said the 45-year-old \"has made a number of highly controversial statements about race\".\n\nShe added: \"If and to the extent that Mr Fox has been harmed in his reputation, it is his own conduct and not the claimants' comments on it that caused that harm.\"\n\nMs Skinner highlighted several of Mr Fox's social media posts, including a June 2022 tweet of four Pride flags arranged in the shape of a swastika.\n\n\"Such a disgusting post could only be made by a complete ignoramus or an intelligent racist with an agenda. Mr Fox is the latter,\" she said.\n\nIn his evidence discussing his call for a boycott of Sainsbury's, Mr Fox said the supermarket had been \"essentially emotionally blackmailing their customers\" and that he has not shopped there since.\n\n\"I felt that rather than genuinely trying to tackle racism, Sainsbury's were trying to improve their own image, branding themselves as the anti-racist supermarket,\" he said.\n\nIn evidence last week, Mr Seymour and Mr Blake told the court about the impact of being called a paedophile.\n\nMr Seymour said in a written statement that he had faced \"overwhelming and distressing\" abuse and felt less safe as a drag artist.\n\n\"On reading that he had called another gay man, Simon Blake, a paedophile, I felt Mr Fox was attempting to whip up a mob of bigots against us by using lies he knew would incense people,\" he added.\n\nMr Blake told the court the incorrect suggestion that gay men were paedophiles was \"a trope as old as the hills\".\n\nPatrick Green KC, for Mr Fox, said on Monday in his written submissions that neither Mr Blake nor Mr Seymour had \"suffered any actual, real-world consequences\" due to the actor's tweets.\n\nInstead, Mr Green said readers would have understood that Mr Fox's posts were a \"retort to an allegation of racism\" rather than a factual allegation.\n\nThe trial before Mrs Justice Collins Rice continues and is due to conclude this week with a decision expected at a later date.", "Avigail Idan turned four while she was a hostage\n\nA four-year-old Israeli-American girl who was kidnapped by Hamas during its 7 October attack in southern Israel was among the 17 hostages released by the group on Sunday.\n\nAvigail Idan was just three at the time she was taken hostage from her home, where her parents were attacked and killed by Hamas gunmen.\n\nShe turned four while she was held hostage by Hamas.\n\nAvigail's family said: \"We hoped and prayed today would come.\"\n\n\"There are no words to express our relief and gratitude that Avigail is safe and coming home,\" said Liz Hirsh Naftali, Avigail's great aunt, and Noa Naftali, her cousin, in a statement.\n\nThey also thanked US president Joe Biden, the Qatari government and others who were involved in securing Avigail's release and called for the remaining hostages to be released.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ella Mor says her released four-year-old niece Avigail \"has family and we're taking care of her\"\n\n\"We have to keep pushing. We will continue to stand with the families of all the hostages still held captive, and we remain committed as ever to securing their safe and swift return.\"\n\nEarlier, President Biden said Avigail had been through a \"terrible trauma\", adding what she \"endured is unthinkable\".\n\nSpeaking to reporters, he said those around Avigail will be surrounding her with \"love and care.\"\n\n\"Today she's free, and Jilly [first lady of the US Jill Biden] and I, together with so many Americans, are praying for the fact that she is going to be alright,\" he said.\n\nPresident Biden said Sunday's hostage releases were the result of \"intensive US diplomacy\", adding he was hopeful that more American hostages will be released in the coming days.\n\n\"We continue to press and expect that additional Americans will be released as well,\" he said, adding \"we will not stop working until every hostage is returned to their loved ones\".\n\nFourteen of the 17 hostages were Israeli and three of them were Thai nationals. Nine of the Israelis were children.\n\nAvigail was with her family in the Kfar Aza kibbutz on 7 October. Her parents were killed during the attack, while her two siblings hid and were later rescued. Her mother's cousin told Sky News that Avigail's father had been holding her when he was shot.\n\nShe survived and walked to the home of her neighbours, the Brodutch family, but was later abducted along with the family by Hamas.\n\nOfri, Yuval, Hagar and Oria Brodutch were among those released by Hamas on Sunday\n\nSome members of the Brodutch family were among the hostages released on Sunday, including four-year-old Oria, his eight-year-old brother Yuval and their 10-year-old sister Ofri.\n\nTheir mother, 40-year-old Hagar Brodutch was also released.\n\nHagar's father-in-law, Shmuel Brodutch, told Israel's Channel 13 News: \"The moment I heard they were in the hands of the Red Cross, I was relieved.\"\n\nHe added: \"I hope I can invest the same effort until the last captive returns. I am very happy, but I feel a great commitment to the other families until the last captive returns, including IDF soldiers.\"\n\nThe other released hostages include Chen Almog-Goldstein, 48, and her children Tal, eight, Gal, 11, and Agam, 17, who were abducted from their homes in Kfar Aza on the day of the attack. Chen's husband, Nadav, and their 20-year-old daughter, Yam, were killed by Hamas.\n\nAlso released were sisters Dafna and Ela Elyakim, aged 15 and eight respectively. They were taken from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on the day of the attack, and were part of a family group whose capture was live-streamed by the attackers themselves.\n\nTheir mother, Maayan Zin, said in a statement that she was happy her daughters had returned, adding that it was \"a joy mixed with sadness\".\n\nMaayan Zin with her daughters Dafna and Ela Elyakim\n\nDafna and her sister Ela Elyakim were among those released by Hamas on Sunday\n\n\"Joy for my daughters who are here and sadness for those who have not yet returned. My heart will not be whole again until everyone returns home safely.\"\n\nShe said that since the girls were kidnapped, she had been living \"between despair and hope, between pain and optimism\".\n\n\"The girls are returning to a new and complex situation, and now we have a period of recovery that will take time,\" she said.\n\nThe other hostages released were 25-year-old Roni Krivoi - a dual Israeli-Russian national, working as a sound engineer at the Supernova music festival, 62-year-old Adrienne Aviva Seigel who was taken from her home in Kfar Aza along with her 64-year-old husband Keith.\n\nIDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari confirmed that 84-year-old Elma Avraham was airlifted to Soroka hospital in Beersheba in a serious condition.\n\nIsrael's prison service meanwhile has confirmed the release of 39 Palestinian prisoners as part of the four-day truce between Hamas and Israel.\n\nHamas' attack on 7 October killed 1,200 people, and about 240 were taken hostage. Since then, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says more than 14,500 people have been killed in Israel's retaliatory campaign in the territory.\n\nSunday marks the third day of a four-day pause in fighting in Gaza during which some of those being held hostage by Hamas are being freed in return for the release of Palestinian prisoners.\n\nThe total number of hostages released during the window now stands at 54 and the number of prisoners freed is 117.", "The halo around the Moon was seen over the Isle of Wight, among other places, on Saturday evening\n\nA \"lunar halo\" has been spotted in the night skies.\n\nThe ring around the Moon was seen over the skies on Saturday evening in Staffordshire, the West Midlands, Surrey, Berkshire, Dorset, Yorkshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire and the Isle of Wight.\n\nThe phenomenon is caused by the refraction of moonlight from ice crystals in the upper atmosphere.\n\nAccording to the Met Office, the halo can mean rainfall might be approaching.\n\nThe halo is seen in Ashbourne in Derbyshire\n\nThe halo as seen over Poole's Old Town in Dorset\n\nThe phenomenon is caused by light refracting through ice crystals, as spotted in Cheadle, Staffordshire\n\nThe halo, a sign that rain might be coming, was also seen in Kirklees, West Yorkshire\n\nIt added: \"The halo is caused by ice crystals formed in high clouds.\n\n\"These ice crystals then refract the light from the Moon or Sun.\n\n\"As the ice crystals travel lower, precipitation becomes more likely. In summer months particularly, the Halo can be a sign of approaching storms.\"\n\nThe halo was seen over the skies in Surrey on Saturday night\n\nAnd over Shirley in the West Midlands\n\nThe lunar halo was also seen over Wokingham in Berkshire\n\nGeographer Simon Collins said he was \"delighted\" to catch a glimpse of the moment.\n\n\"I'm a keen weather observer [and] run a local weather station so am always delighted to see lovely weather phenomena as so many others did last night as well,\" the 57-year-old, who took a photo in Reigate, Surrey on Saturday night, said.\n\nSome described witnessing the occurrence as \"amazing\", with others described it as \"very weird\" and \"like a night time rainbow\".\n\nThe halo as seen over Sevenoaks\n\nThe halo was also captured over Sutton Coldfield\n\nIt was also seen over Endon in Staffordshire\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A two-day blockade of the world's largest coal port has triggered 109 arrests.\n\nHundreds of activists swam or used kayaks to occupy the Newcastle port's shipping lane in Australia, to protest against climate inaction.\n\nThey claim the disruption prevented over half a million tonnes of coal from leaving the country.\n\nAustralia is the world's second biggest coal exporter and relies on the fossil fuel for its own electricity needs.\n\nLocated roughly 170km (105 miles) from Sydney, the Port of Newcastle is the country's most important terminal for coal shipments.\n\nAn estimated 3,000 people from across Australia took part in the 30-hour weekend blockade of its shipping lane, which had been approved by police.\n\nBut dozens of protesters remained in the water following the protest cut-off point - triggering 109 arrests, including five minors who were subsequently released.\n\nOn Monday, 104 people were charged over their refusal to leave the harbour channel, according to a statement from New South Wales police.\n\n\"I am doing this for my grandchildren and future generations,\" said 97-year-old Alan Stuart, who defied the deadline.\n\n\"I am so sorry that they will have to suffer the consequences of our inaction. So, I think it is my duty to do what I can,\" he added.\n\nRising Tide - which organised the action - has called it the \"biggest act of civil disobedience for climate in Australia's history\".\n\nThe protest took place just days ahead of COP28, the yearly global climate change summit, which begins in Dubai on Thursday.\n\nHundreds of activists swam or used kayaks to occupy the shipping lane\n\nRising Tide says it wants Anthony Albanese's government to tax thermal coal exports and cancel new fossil fuel projects.\n\nAustralia has long been considered a climate laggard, but Mr Albanese promised to \"join the global effort\" to curb emissions when taking office in 2022.\n\nSince then, his government has enshrined into law an emissions reduction target of 43% by 2030, up from the nation's previous commitment of 26-28%. That difference is equivalent to eliminating emissions from Australia's entire transport or agriculture sectors.\n\nBut Mr Albanese has also refused to outlaw new fossil fuel projects completely - and has green lit four new coal mines since last May, with 25 more projects waiting for approval, according to the Australia Institute.\n\nAnjali Beams, a 17-year-old school student from Adelaide who was one of the last protesters to leave the Newcastle shipping lane on Sunday, said she was risking arrest because Australia's \"decision makers have consistently ignored young people's voices\".\n\n\"I will not be complicit in letting my future get sold away by the fossil fuel industry for their profit,\" she added.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The pause in the fighting is also allowing a big increase in deliveries of aid to war-torn Gaza\n\nIsrael and Hamas have agreed to extend the four-day truce in Gaza for another two days, mediator Qatar says.\n\nHamas said the extension was \"under the same conditions\", which were for 50 Israeli hostages to be released in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners.\n\nIsrael has yet to comment, but it had offered a day's pause in the fighting for every 10 Israeli hostages freed.\n\nIt came as 11 hostages were released in the final exchange under the original deal that took effect on Friday.\n\nIsraeli officials said three-year-old twins and their mother were among them, along with six more children, an 18-year-old and her mother.\n\nThe Israeli military said they had crossed into Israeli territory. However all of the released children's fathers remained in Gaza.\n\nThose freed included people who also held French, German and Argentine nationality, Qatar said.\n\nThirty-three Palestinian women and teenagers in Israeli jails were due to be released under the truce deal.\n\nHamas - which is regarded as a terrorist organisation by Israel, the UK and other Western powers - has freed 39 Israelis over the previous three days. In exchange, Israel has freed 117 Palestinian prisoners.\n\nNineteen foreign nationals, one of whom has Israeli citizenship, have also been handed over by Hamas under separate agreements.\n\nThe pause in the fighting is also allowing a big increase in deliveries of aid to Gaza, where there is a deepening humanitarian crisis.\n\nIsrael launched a military campaign in Gaza and imposed a siege in response to an unprecedented cross-border attack by Hamas gunmen on 7 October, in which at least 1,200 people were killed and about 240 others taken hostage.\n\nGaza's Hamas-run government says more than 14,800 people have been killed in the territory since the war began.\n\nQatari foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari announced on Monday afternoon on X, formerly known as Twitter, that \"as part of the ongoing mediation, an agreement has been reached to extend the humanitarian pause for an additional two days in the Gaza Strip\".\n\nWhite House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters the US welcomed the extension.\n\n\"This humanitarian pause has already brought a halt to the fighting together with a surge of humanitarian assistance. Now, in order to extend the pause Hamas has committed to releasing another 20 women and children over the next two days,\" he said.\n\n\"We would of course hope to see the pause extended further and that will depend upon Hamas continuing to release hostages.\"\n\nBefore the start of Monday's exchange, an Israeli official said that 184 people remained in captivity in Gaza, including 14 foreign nationals and 80 Israelis with dual citizenship.\n\nOn Sunday, a Palestinian official told the BBC that Hamas was prepared to release up to 40 additional hostages, which would mean a four-day extension under the terms offered by Israel.\n\nOria Brodutch was released on Sunday along with his mother Hagar and his brothers Yuval and Ofri\n\nIsrael was reported to be leaning towards a more gradual, day-by-day approach. And it has made it clear that it is preparing to resume the war in Gaza at the end of the process.\n\n\"At the end of the outline, we will go to realising our goals with full force: eliminating Hamas, ensuring that Gaza will not go back to being what it was and, of course, releasing all of our hostages,\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video statement on Sunday evening.\n\nEarlier, Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani told the BBC's US partner CBS News that the agreement would be extended if Hamas was \"able to prove, to locate, and secure some of the hostages that are within the criteria of the first group, which is women and children\".\n\nBut he warned that Hamas's \"very complicated structure\" presented a challenge for Qatari mediators, with the group's political leaders in Doha having to relay information to and from military commanders in Gaza.", "Metro Bank shareholders have voted to back a rescue deal worth nearly £1bn aimed at securing the bank's future.\n\nThe agreement to raise extra funds from investors and refinance debt was struck last month after speculation about Metro's financial position.\n\nThe deal includes £325m in new funding and the refinancing of £600m of debt.\n\nMetro said shareholders had voted \"overwhelmingly\" in favour of the deal, with nearly 93% of votes cast backing the package.\n\n\"This is testament to their belief and confidence in the future of Metro Bank and proves there is a place in retail and business banking for our model of stores in major towns and cities, combined with online and mobile banking and great customer service,\" the bank said.\n\nUnder the deal, Colombian billionaire Jaime Gilinski Bacal will become Metro's controlling shareholder with a 53% stake. His firm, Spaldy Investments, is putting £102m into the bank.\n\nAfter the refinancing deal was agreed last month, Metro's chief executive, Daniel Frumkin, said it marked \"a new chapter\" for the bank.\n\nThe shareholder vote was the final hurdle after bondholders - who are set to lose 40% of their investments - backed the plan in October.\n\nWhen it launched in 2010 Metro was the first new bank to open in the UK for more than a century.\n\nIt positioned itself as a so-called \"challenger\" bank to the big High Street names, and pledged to keep its branches open seven days a week.\n\nThe bank now has 2.7 million customers and holds about £15bn worth of deposits in 76 branches.\n\nThe lender has faced a number of challenges in recent years after an accounting scandal in 2019, which led to the departure of some top executives, including the bank's founder.\n\nMetro's share price has slid from above £40 a share in 2018 to 41p by mid-afternoon on Monday, though that was up 5.3% on the day.\n\nThe bank's shares had slumped in early October after reports suggested it needed to raise money to shore up its finances. This led to several days of intense speculation about the bank's future, before the new financial package was agreed.\n\nMetro Bank insisted all along that its finances were strong and it met all regulatory requirements.", "Israel's military campaign in Gaza City is probably in its final stages.\n\nThe truce, brokered to allow for the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, will delay the IDF by anywhere from four to nine days, depending on how many hostages Hamas decides to release.\n\nWhen that ends, Israeli experts expect the battle for control of Gaza City to resume and last another week to 10 days.\n\nBut what happens when the Israeli military turns its attention to the southern Gaza Strip, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has strongly indicated?\n\nIsrael has vowed to destroy Hamas wherever it exists. It assumes that the group's most important leaders, Yayha Sinwar and Mohammed Deif, are somewhere in the south, along with thousands of fighters and, probably, a significant number of Israeli hostages.\n\nIf Israel decides to do to the south what it's already done to the north, will Western - especially American - goodwill start to run out?\n\nWith the bulk of the Gaza Strip's estimated 2.2 million people now crammed into the southern two thirds of the Strip, many of them homeless and traumatised, is a larger humanitarian disaster looming?\n\nOne of the last straws might be the sight of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, huddled in tents, amid the sandy fields of a place called al-Mawasi.\n\nAccording to the UN relief agency for Palestinians (Unrwa), almost 1.7 million people have been displaced across the Gaza Strip since 7 October. Most of them are in the south, living in overcrowded shelters.\n\nUN officials speak of already desperate conditions, with tens of thousands of people sheltering in schools, hospitals and, in some cases, tents.\n\nEarly winter rains have already caused flooding, adding to the misery.\n\nFor several weeks, Israeli officials have been talking about a solution - a so-called \"safe area\" at al-Mawasi, a thin strip of mainly agricultural land along the Mediterranean coast, close to the Egyptian border.\n\nLast week, leaflets dropped over the nearby city of Khan Yunis warned of impending airstrikes and told people to move west, towards the sea.\n\nIn a post on social media on Thursday, Avichay Adraee, the IDF's spokesman for the Arabic media, told Gazans al-Mawasi would provide \"the appropriate conditions to protect your loved ones.\"\n\nBut how realistic is it to expect more than two million people to shelter there while the war rages nearby? And just how \"appropriate\" are conditions at al-Mawasi?\n\nThe map shows a patchwork of fields, greenhouses and scattered houses. Although it is hard to be certain, the area defined by Israel is about 2.5km (1.6 miles) wide, at its widest, and just over 4km (2.5 miles) long.\n\nDr Michael Milshtein, a former adviser on Palestinian affairs to Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), calls it \"a beautiful and fruitful place, but quite small\".\n\n\"It's a tiny piece of land,\" Juliette Touma, director of communications for Unrwa, says. \"There's nothing there. It's just sand dunes and palm trees.\"\n\nAny attempt to accommodate hundreds of thousands of displaced people, in an area seemingly lacking in essential infrastructure - there are no hospitals - will present the UN with a mammoth humanitarian challenge, including the setting up of emergency shelter, most likely tents.\n\nIt is also a moral challenge with deep historical resonance - much of Gaza's population is descended from refugees who lived in tents after their expulsion from Israel in 1948.\n\nThe Gaza Strip is already home to eight refugee camps, which have evolved over the decades into bustling, overcrowded towns. The UN doesn't want to be responsible for setting up yet another camp.\n\nIsraeli officials say it will be up to aid agencies to make sure help reaches al-Mawasi from the Rafah crossing, more than 10km away. They haven't said how this will work in practice.\n\nUS officials are said to be trying to negotiate with Israel over additional safe areas, possibly including one at Dahaniya, at the far southern tip of the Gaza Strip.\n\nUnder the terms of the hostage release agreement, which came into effect on Friday, Israel should also allow 200 trucks of aid into Gaza each day, much more than in recent weeks.\n\nBut on 16 November, a statement by the heads of 18 UN agencies and NGOs involved in providing assistance to Palestinian civilians appeared to reject Israel's plans outright.\n\n\"We will not participate in the establishment of any 'safe zone' in Gaza that is set up without the agreement of all the parties,\" it said.\n\nUN officials say the parties include Israel, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, based in the West Bank.\n\nWithout mentioning al-Mawasi by name, the 16 November statement warned that Israel's unilateral proposals could put many lives at risk.\n\nOne of the signatories, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organisation, called the plans \"a recipe for disaster\".\n\n\"Attempting to cram so many people into such a small area with such little infrastructure or services,\" he said, \"will significantly increase risks to health for people who are already on the brink.\"\n\nIsraeli officials say Hamas is to blame and seem unfazed by the dangers. Al-Mawasi, they say, is the one area Israeli forces have undertaken not to attack.\n\n\"It's going to be dire. But they'll live,\" says Lt Col Richard Hecht, an IDF spokesman.\n\nFor Israel, it's a matter of military necessity. Just as Hamas was embedded in Gaza City, it says, so the group's fighters and infrastructure exist in Khan Yunis and Rafah. Removing the civilian population ahead of an assault, Israelis argue, is the humane way to approach the job of defeating Hamas.\n\n\"People in Israel don't like the situation where people in Gaza are somewhere in al-Mawasi, under the rain of winter, which is coming,\" says retired Maj Gen Yaacov Amidror, a former Israeli national security adviser. \"But what is the alternative? If someone has an idea how to destroy Hamas without it, please tell us.\"\n\nThe prospect of further months of suffering, compounded by extreme overcrowding and harsh winter conditions, is bound to add to mounting international disquiet over the conduct of Israel's military campaign in Gaza.\n\n\"Conducting a new major ground operation in that area risks casualties and displacement of civilians on a scale which will threaten to undermine international sympathy for Israel,\" a Western official told me, speaking on strict condition of anonymity.\n\n'It's a question of how long Western patience will last.\"\n\nThe Netanyahu government knows that it can count on unprecedentedly deep reserves of Western goodwill, following the unspeakable horrors perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October.\n\nBut Israeli officials also know those reserves are not endless and that international calls for restraint are likely to become louder when the hostage truce comes to an end and Israel resumes its military campaign.\n\n\"My hope is that international pressure after the truce is ended will not prevent that,\" says Dr Eyal Hulata, who led Israel's National Security Council from 2021 to 2023.\n\n\"My hope is that the government of Prime Minister Netanyahu will not cave to pressure with this. This is what the citizens of Israel expect of their leaders.\"\n\nWith winter looming, Israel gearing up for the decisive next phase of its campaign, and no agreement on how to deal with the civilian population, Gaza's long agony looks set to continue. Perhaps even to get worse.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe 2023 Booker Prize has been awarded to Prophet Song, a dystopian vision of Ireland in the grips of totalitarianism.\n\nIt was written by Ireland's Paul Lynch, 46, marking the first time he has won the prestigious fiction writing prize.\n\nSet in Dublin, it tells the story of a family grappling with a terrifying new world in which the democratic norms they are used to begin to disappear.\n\nLynch said Prophet Song was inspired by the Syrian war and refugee crisis.\n\nReacting to his win on stage at the award ceremony in Old Billingsgate, London, Lynch said it was with \"immense pleasure\" that he was taking the Booker back to Ireland.\n\nThe author, who was born in Limerick and now lives in Dublin, added that the novel was \"not an easy book to write\".\n\nAsked about the recent rioting and violence in Dublin earlier this week, Lynch said he was \"astonished\" by what happened and said \"we should see it as a warning\".\n\nBut he said he was not a \"political novelist\" and his book was finished 18 months ago.\n\nHe said he was going to spend some of his £50,000 prize money on his mortgage.\n\nThe book is Lynch's fifth and he spent four years working on it. He started writing it just before his son was born and, by the time he finished, his boy was able to ride a bike.\n\nHead judge Esi Edugyan said the panel \"sought a winning novel that might speak to the immediate moment while also possessing the possibility of outlasting it\".\n\nShe added: \"In these troubled times, we sought a novel with a guiding vision - a book to remind us that we are more than ourselves, to remind us of all that is worth saving.\"\n\nBefore the winner was announced Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe spoke about how much reading helped her while she was detained in Iran.\n\nShe said being able to read novels from the prison's secret library \"transformed\" her life and the books took her \"to another world\".\n\nThe Booker Prize is one of the leading literary awards in the English speaking world.\n\nSunday's event was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Front Row and was announced on the Booker Prize live stream on YouTube.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A diplomatic row has broken out between the British and Greek governments over the Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles.\n\nThe Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was due to meet Rishi Sunak in London, but No 10 cancelled the meeting at the last minute.\n\nHe told reporters he was \"deeply disappointed by the abrupt cancellation\" of the meeting.\n\nMr Mitsotakis rejected an alternative meeting with the deputy prime minister.\n\nThe cancellation came a day after Mr Mitsotakis told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that the marbles should be returned, as having some of the artefacts in London and the rest in Athens was like cutting the Mona Lisa in half.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis likens having some Elgin Marbles in the UK to 'cutting Mona Lisa in half'\n\nThe Greek prime minister told reporters on Monday evening he was disappointed the meeting had been cancelled \"mere hours before its slated time\", saying: \"Those who firmly believe in the correctness and justice of their positions are never hesitant to engage in constructive argumentation and debate.\"\n\nMr Mitsotakis said: \"Greece and Britain share longstanding ties of friendship, and the scope of our bilateral relations is extensive.\n\n\"Our positions on the matter of the Parthenon Sculptures are well-known. I had anticipated engaging in a discussion with my British counterpart on this issue, as well as addressing significant global challenges such as the situations in Gaza and Ukraine, the climate crisis, and migration.\"\n\nSources with knowledge of the mood in the Greek government said Mr Mitsotakis was \"baffled\" and \"annoyed\".\n\nThe meeting had been due to happen at lunchtime on Tuesday and, the BBC understands, was due to last 45 minutes.\n\nBut Mr Mitsotakis's appearance on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme had irritated Mr Sunak.\n\nThe British government confirmed the cancellation and offered the Greek PM a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden instead.\n\nA senior Conservative source said: \"It became impossible for this meeting to go ahead following commentary regarding the Elgin Marbles prior to it.\n\n\"Our position is clear - the Elgin Marbles are part of the permanent collection of the British Museum and belong here. It is reckless for any British politician to suggest that this is subject to negotiation.\"\n\nHe will now return to Greece on Tuesday after his scheduled meetings in the morning - declining the meeting with Mr Dowden.\n\nDon't underestimate the politics of this row.\n\nThe Conservatives argue it was naive of Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer to meet the Greek leader, given the public view he expressed on the future of the marbles on Sunday.\n\nLabour's view is they wouldn't stand in the way of a loan arrangement between the British Museum and Athens if one was arranged.\n\nA spokesperson for the British government said there were \"no plans\" to change the 1963 British Museum Act - which prohibits the removal of objects from the institution's collection.\n\nBut a loan does not require a change in the law and so could happen irrespective of the view of the British prime minister.\n\nMany Conservatives believe such an arrangement would be a \"slippery slope\", as one put it to me.\n\n\"Keir Starmer is clearly keen to ignore the contributions generations of British taxpayers have made to keep them safe and share them with the world,\" one party source claimed.\n\nBut a Labour source said their position was long-standing - a Labour government would not change the law to allow the sculptures to be permanently moved - and Mr Sunak's behaviour was \"pathetic\".\n\nAnother source said \"what a bizarre piece of culture war theatre\".\n\nA Labour spokesperson said: \"If the prime minister isn't able to meet with a European ally with whom Britain has important economic ties, this is further proof he isn't able to provide the serious economic leadership our country requires. Keir Starmer's Labour Party stands ready.\"\n\nThe sculptures are arguably the most high-profile artworks in the increasingly contested debate about whether museums across the world should return items to their countries of origin.\n\nLord Elgin, a British soldier and diplomat, removed them from the Parthenon temple in Athens in the early 19th Century. The sculptures were then bought by the British government in 1816 and placed in the British Museum.\n\nThe marble figures are part of a frieze that decorated the 2,500-year old temple, made by the sculptor Phidias.\n\nThe Parthenon Gallery at the Acropolis Museum was built more than a decade ago to house the sculptures. The exhibition combines the original marble sculptures with plaster copies of those held in the British Museum and other foreign museums.\n\nThe trustees of the British Museum are currently exploring the prospect of a loan arrangement with Greece.\n\nThe British Museum's Chair of Trustees, George Osborne, who is the former chancellor, has previously said he is looking to find \"some kind of arrangement to allow some of the sculptures to spend some of their time in Greece\".\n\nSpeaking to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee in October, Mr Osborne said any deal would have to see \"objects from Greece coming here\" for the first time.\n\nIt is thought any decision is at least months away.", "Dent was seen in Sunday night's episode saying: \"I just want to go home\"\n\nFood critic Grace Dent has left I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, ITV has confirmed.\n\nShe entered the Australian jungle just over a week ago, alongside fellow campmates Nigel Farage, Jamie Lynn Spears and Marvin Humes.\n\nIn a statement, ITV said: \"Unfortunately Grace Dent has left the show on medical grounds.\n\n\"She has been a great campmate and will be missed by her fellow celebrities and viewers alike.\"\n\nDent was seen on camera on Sunday evening's episode saying: \"I just want to go home.\"\n\nThe 50-year-old had been picked to do the latest Bushtucker trial, titled Down The Tubes, with fellow campmate Josie Gibson.\n\nFollowing her departure, EastEnders actress Danielle Harold will now take part in the trial alongside Gibson, according to the PA news agency.\n\nDent had said, before facing the previous Touchdown of Terror trial, that she was struggling in the jungle.\n\nShe was seen telling ITV presenter Gibson: \"I've had enough. I've completely had enough. I just want to go home.\"\n\nDent added in the Bush Telegraph later: \"I haven't got a lot left in me at the moment. I'm just keeping on a face for everybody.\"\n\nThis year's series also stars Jamie Lynn Spears, Nigel Farage (pictured), Josie Gibson and Marvin Humes\n\nThis year's I'm A Celebrity has so far attracted a lower audience than last year's series - which featured former health secretary Matt Hancock.\n\nWhile the previous series' launch episode attracted a consolidated audience of nearly 12 million, this year's launch has only been watched by seven million in its first week.\n\nOther campmates this year include Made In Chelsea's Sam Thompson, First Dates star Fred Sirieix, YouTuber Nella Rose and actor Nick Pickard.\n\nA few days after entering camp, the group was joined by jockey Frankie Dettori and former professional boxer Tony Bellew.", "Suella Braverman claims Rishi Sunak gave her \"firm assurances\" he would adopt her policy proposals on migration\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak promised to toughen up migration rules under a Tory leadership contest deal with Suella Braverman, the former home secretary's allies say.\n\nThe Telegraph newspaper says it has seen a copy of a plan Mr Sunak agreed with Mrs Braverman last year.\n\nThe document includes a pledge to increase the salary migrants would have to earn to enter the UK.\n\nBut Mr Sunak's allies dispute the idea he struck a deal with Mrs Braverman.\n\nSources close to the prime minister insist there was a more general policy discussion about legal and illegal migration, rather than an agreement on specific policy proposals.\n\nThe claim of a deal came in Mrs Braverman's scathing letter to Mr Sunak after the prime minister had sacked her as home secretary.\n\nIn the letter, Mrs Braverman said she supported Mr Sunak's Tory leadership bid last year because of \"the firm assurances you gave me on key policy priorities\", which included reducing \"overall legal migration\".\n\nThe Telegraph reported that it had seen \"a copy of the pact\" over the weekend, days after official figures showed net migration into the UK reached a record 745,000 last year.\n\nThe figures represent a challenge for the prime minister, whose party has repeatedly promised to reduce the numbers during its 13-year stint in power.\n\nMr Sunak has faced pressure from his own MPs to bring down net migration, which is the difference between the number of people coming to live in the UK and those leaving.\n\nWhen asked about the figures on Monday, the prime minister said he was clear net migration was \"too high\" and it needed to \"come down to sustainable levels\".\n\nHe said restricting some foreign postgraduate students from bringing family members to the UK - a move announced in May - had been a significant move.\n\nBut he did not comment on a proposal to raise the salary threshold for skilled foreign workers from £26,000 to £40,000.\n\nThis proposal was in the four-point migration plan agreed by Mrs Braverman and Mr Sunak, according to the Telegraph.\n\nThe document also contains other ideas, such as closing down the graduate visa route, and prioritising Russell Group university applicants when evaluating student visa applications.\n\nAllies of the former home secretary claim the prime minister to agreed to implement this plan.\n\nMr Sunak previously said he had conversations with lots of people during the leadership contest, not just Mrs Braverman.\n\nMr Sunak's allies also point out that while Mrs Braverman was home secretary, the government did cut the number of dependents some students were able to bring with them.\n\nLast week, Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick shared a set of proposals to attempt to cut immigration with No 10, which are being discussed internally.\n\nAmong the suggestions was a required minimum annual salary of £35,000 in order to receive a work visa.\n\nBut this will be another unwelcome intervention from Mrs Braverman when he is under pressure from some restless Conservative MPs over net migration numbers.\n\nSeparately, many Conservative MPs also want swift action to rescue the government's plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.\n\nThe policy was ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court earlier this month.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said while the Rwanda plan was \"a crucial part of our approach to stopping the boats\", there \"is no one silver bullet\".\n\n\"And that's why we - alongside the continued work to secure the Rwanda migration partnership - we are taking action, whether that's on bilateral returns agreements, further co-operation with our French counterparts, and that is having an impact,\" the spokesman said.\n\nMr Sunak has promised an upgraded treaty with Rwanda on the asylum plan and a law intended to set aside the Supreme Court's ruling.\n\nBut the prime minister's spokesman declined to comment on the timeline of a new treaty with Rwanda amid speculation over the reason for its delay.\n\n\"It's due to be published in the coming weeks,\" the spokesman said.", "A funeral ceremony was held for the Palestinians who were killed in raids by Israeli forces in Jenin\n\nEight Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian health ministry.\n\nThe most serious incident was an Israeli raid overnight in the city of Jenin, in which five were killed.\n\nThe Israeli army said it was mounting a raid to capture a Palestinian who was suspected of involvement in an ambush that killed two Israelis in August.\n\nPalestinian factions have called for a strike in Jenin to mourn those killed.\n\nThe West Bank has seen almost daily clashes for more than a year and a half, after Israel suffered a wave of deadly violence by Palestinian militants.\n\nIsraeli forces have gone into West Bank towns and cities in search of those suspected of being involved in shootings and stabbings or planning such attacks.\n\nJenin has been a flashpoint, and hundreds of Palestinians - both fighters and civilians - have been killed.\n\nBack in July, Israeli forces launched an incursion into the city's refugee camp, which is regarded as a hotbed of militants.\n\nThirteen Palestinians were killed in the fiercest confrontation in the West Bank for 20 years.\n\nIn addition, Israeli settlers have responded to killings carried out by Palestinian gunmen with rampages in Palestinian towns and villages.\n\nSo, the area was already at boiling point before the Hamas assault on Israel on 7 October.\n\nIn the weeks since then, the UN says some 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli troops or settlers in a new escalation of the conflict. Four Israelis have been killed by Palestinians.\n\nEven as Israel has been fighting a war with Hamas in Gaza, it has tightened its controls on the West Bank in a bid to prevent a spill-over of the conflict.\n\nBut this appears only to have further undermined the Palestinian Authority and boosted the rise of militant groups in Jenin and beyond.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mother of released Palestinian prisoner reunited with her son\n\nA further 39 Palestinians have been freed from Israeli prisons in the third exchange for hostages being held in Gaza.\n\nThey were released as part of an agreement which has seen 40 Israeli hostages taken on 7 October returned.\n\nIt brings the total number of Palestinians released since the first swap on Friday to 117.\n\nA last exchange is expected on Monday under the current deal agreed by Israel and Hamas, but it could be extended.\n\nAmong the latest Palestinian prisoners to be freed was teenager Mohammed Al-Awar, who spent 16 months in jail. His mother said she had mixed feelings about his release.\n\n\"Our joy is incomplete because of the huge number of people killed in Gaza,\" she said in a video showing their reunion.\n\nAnother teenager, Abdurahman Al-Zaghal, was also freed but was not with the others as he is in an Israeli hospital receiving medical treatment.\n\nHe was shot in the head and hit by shrapnel in the lower part of his body in August as he went out to buy bread, according to his uncle. Israeli authorities said he was trying to throw a petrol bomb on a settlement post in the area.\n\nAl-Zaghal's trial was held in absentia as he was still in intensive care.\n\nHe was seen on Sunday removing an electronic bracelet from his leg.\n\nAs in the earlier nights of prisoner swaps, large crowds took to the streets in the West Bank - where detainees are being returned to initially - to greet the coaches carrying the released prisoners.\n\nFootage shows some of those released being paraded around on people's shoulders, while other members of the crowd wave Palestinian flags.\n\nIsrael has compiled a list of 300 Palestinian prisoners, mainly teenage boys, who are eligible for release under the deal struck with Hamas.\n\nLarge crowds have been gathering in the West Bank to greet those who have been freed\n\nUnder a deal brokered with the help of Qatar, 50 Israeli hostages - women and children - were to be freed by Hamas over four days during a ceasefire, in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners.\n\nSome 40 Israeli hostages in total have been freed so far, alongside 18 foreign nationals.\n\nIsrael previously said the ceasefire could be extended if at least 10 Israelis were released daily. However, the government has vowed to wipe out Hamas and added that any cessation in its attacks was only temporary.\n\nHamas said on Sunday that it wanted to extend the agreement and increase the number of hostages released.\n\nA senior Palestinian official familiar with negotiations taking place in Qatar told the BBC the group has informed mediators it is willing to extend the pause by two to four days, and that an extension could see the release of an additional 20 to 40 Israeli prisoners.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the framework deal as a \"blessed thing\", also apparently hinting that it could be extended.\n\nQatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman told the Financial Times that the group would need to locate dozens of hostages held in Gaza by other groups in order to secure an extension.\n\nMany of those kidnapped in the 7 October attacks - thought to be about 240 people - are being held by Hamas, an Iran-backed Islamist group that is categorised as a terrorist organisation by Israel, the UK, the US and the European Union.\n\nHowever, groups including Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which also participated, are believed to be holding some.\n\nSome 1,200 people, most of them civilians were killed in the 7 October raid, according to Israel.\n\nIn retaliation for the attack, Israel has bombed Gaza relentlessly, wrecking its infrastructure.\n\nHamas says nearly 15,000 people have died, including many children. Large supplies of aid - notably food, water and hygiene kits - are desperately needed.", "Thousands of people lined the streets near the Hatzerim military base in southern Israel to welcome the hostages freed from Gaza on Sunday.\n\nSome of the hostages can be seen waving to the crowds from inside the minibuses. The group of 14 included nine children.\n\nHamas took an estimated 240 people hostage during the deadly 7 October attacks on Israel.", "Guess who's back... CM Punk hinted he wouldn't return when he left WWE in 2014\n\nCM Punk has made a dramatic return to WWE after nearly a decade away.\n\nFans roared after hearing his theme music at the Survivor Series event in the United States on Saturday night.\n\nHe initially left WWE in 2014 and has often spoken about his frustrations over creative storylines and a lack of medical care towards him.\n\nThere had been speculation the 45-year-old would come back after he recently left rival wrestling company All Elite Wrestling (AEW).\n\nBut WWE's chief content officer Triple H said CM Punk's return at the show in his hometown Chicago was all a bit last minute.\n\n\"This was one of those lightning in a bottle moments that came together very quickly, but we are incredibly excited about it,\" he said in a press conference after the show.\n\n\"It didn't start to come to fruition until everybody stopped thinking it was going to happen, and then all of a sudden it was happening.\"\n\nTriple H also referenced the fact CM Punk has often hinted he would not return to WWE since he left a decade ago.\n\n\"If you are the same person you were 10 years ago 10 years later, you've messed up,\" Triple H said.\n\n\"Everybody grows, everybody changes. And I'm a different person, he's a different person, this is a different company and we're all on the same even starting ground.\"\n\nFans were loving CM Punk's return in his hometown Chicago\n\nAfter leaving WWE in 2014, CM Punk - real name Phil Brooks - had a short stint in mixed martial arts with UFC.\n\nHe then joined AEW in 2021, before leaving the company earlier this year after the All In pay-per-view event at Wembley Stadium.\n\nCM Punk didn't have a wrestling match at his shock WWE return and didn't even get into the ring, but his appearance was enough to send fans into a frenzy.\n\nMost reacted with shock on social media, with one fan writing it was the \"biggest pop in history of wrestling\".\n\nJoe Clarkson told BBC Newsbeat CM Punk's return came as \"a complete and utter shock\".\n\nHe was at the wrestler's last match for AEW and thought he would never see him in the industry again.\n\n\"I've never been so glad to be proven wrong,\" the 22-year-old said.\n\n\"There are plenty of people in wrestling who cannot stand him, but there are so many who love him.\n\n\"He's always a conversation starter, a star of the calibre of CM Punk doesn't come around very often.\"\n\nJoe says he's happy to see CM Punk back because he's always been a fan\n\nWWE fan Sabrina Nicole also told Newsbeat CM Punk's return means it's \"an exciting time to be a wrestling fan\".\n\nShe was watching Survivor Series and said \"hearing his music gave me chills\".\n\n\"I was definitely surprised to hear it, right at the end of the show.\"\n\nShe's looking forward to seeing what happens next with him, possibly \"a feud with Seth Rollins\", who was pictured looking unhappy at his return.\n\n\"It's quite surreal to be honest to see CM Punk back. I've always been a fan despite the ups and downs.\"\n\nRandy Orton, who made his own return at Survivor Series after more than a year out with injury, was in the ring when CM Punk returned, with the pair sharing a smile while Punk was stood at the top of the ramp.\n\nWWE star Cody Rhodes added: \"If he can help with where we're going and what we're doing, absolutely welcome aboard.\n\n\"I have a feeling the CM Punk we're getting is hungry, and that's the best.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Officers were called out to the Old Avenue area of Auchinleck on Saturday evening\n\nRiot police officers came under attack from a \"hostile\" crowd during large-scale disorder in an East Ayrshire village.\n\nOne officer had to be taken to hospital for treatment after being hit by a firework as trouble flared in Auchinleck on Saturday evening.\n\nFootage on social media showed officers in helmets and carrying riot shields as they tried to break up the crowd.\n\nTwo homes were also badly damaged in apparent fire-raising attacks.\n\nA fire-damaged house in Heathfield Road, near where the disturbances started\n\nPolice Scotland described the attacks on officers as \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nDet Insp Louise White of Ayrshire Division said: \"An investigation is under way following an incident of large-scale disorder in Auchinleck on Saturday, 25 November. Officers were called to reports of a crowd gathered in Old Avenue.\n\n\"The crowd moved to other addresses in the area and public order officers attended to assist when the crowd refused to disperse when requested.\n\n\"Unfortunately during the incident some of those gathered became extremely hostile towards the police and one officer was struck by a firework and taken to hospital for treatment.\"\n\nDet Insp White said officers had a duty to ensure the safety of everyone involved in such incidents and added: \"This kind of behaviour is completely unacceptable\".\n\nShe said: \"Although the crowd later dispersed, our investigation is ongoing to trace those responsible and ensure they are dealt with appropriately.\n\n\"This will include reviewing any available video footage.\"\n\nPolice were initially called after a group gathered on Old Avenue\n\nLocal councillors Claire Leitch and William Lennox issued a joint statement condemning the night of attacks - particularly those aimed at police officers.\n\n\"The community does not deserve the displays of violence and disorder that we saw last night and we will provide support to residents in any way we can,\" they said.\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Lee Anderson is the Conservative MP for Ashfield, in Nottinghamshire\n\nConservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson claims he was offered a financial incentive to defect to another party.\n\nMr Anderson alleges he was offered a job worth the equivalent of five years of an MP's salary in the event he switched but failed to win re-election.\n\nSenior Conservative sources say Mr Anderson told them he had been approached by Reform UK.\n\nIts leader Richard Tice has denied he offered any MP any money.\n\nMr Anderson issued a statement addressing the claims after they were first reported by the Sunday Times.\n\nThe newspaper acquired a leaked recording of Mr Anderson saying at an event: \"There is a political party that begins with an R that offered me a lot of money to join them. I say a lot of money, I mean a lot of money.\"\n\nIt said the comment was made by the Tory MP for Ashfield at a South Cambridgeshire Conservative Association event last month.\n\nMr Tice was asked about the Sunday Times report on Sunday with Laura Kuenssburg, and said he has had \"numerous discussions with Tory MPs\" but denied offering any money.\n\nHe then accused Mr Anderson of using \"the threat of defecting to Reform to negotiate\" his role as deputy chairman of the Tory party.\n\nMr Anderson said the allegations over how he got the senior party job made by Mr Tice are \"simply ridiculous\".\n\nIn a statement issued to GB News - which he is also employed by - on Sunday evening, Mr Anderson clarified the nature of the offer he was allegedly made to defect.\n\nHe said: \"From time to time politicians do meet other politicians from different political parties.\n\n\"At one such meeting I was offered the chance to join another party for the following deal - I join within a few months and stand for this Party at the next election.\n\n\"If I lost my seat I would be guaranteed a job with the party for five years on the same salary as an MP. To falsely claim that I used this as leverage to get the position of deputy chairman is an insult to me and my party.\"\n\nBBC News has approached Mr Tice for further comment in light of Mr Anderson's intervention.\n\nAn MP's salary from April 2023 is £86,584.\n\nBusinessman Richard Tice is the leader of Reform UK\n\nMr Anderson did not specifically name the party involved in his lengthy statement, but did criticise Mr Tice for his leadership of Reform UK.\n\nThe BBC has been told Mr Anderson contacted Tory Party officials with the allegation in February and they contacted the party's chief whip.\n\nA parliamentary official said: \"The party should now pass any evidence it might have to the police which is the appropriate authority to deal with it.\"\n\nReform UK was founded with support from ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage in 2018 and has only taken a small proportion of the vote in recent by-elections.\n\nHowever, some Tories are worried the party could capitalise on concern over record levels of migration, as well as the number of people crossing the Channel in small boats.", "Bobby Brazier said the dance was \"something I'll never forget\"\n\nBobby Brazier has paid tribute to his mother Jade Goody by dedicating his Strictly Come Dancing routine to her.\n\nThe EastEnders actor received a standing ovation on Saturday's show for his dance to This Woman's Work by Maxwell with partner Dianne Buswell.\n\nThe 20-year-old said his mother's death in 2009 \"changed my life completely\" in a clip before he performed.\n\nReality star Jade Goody died at the age of 27 after being diagnosed with cervical cancer.\n\n\"I'd love to spend the day with her, just to see where I get my smile from,\" he said in the clip, as he talked about losing his mother when he was just four years old.\n\nHe added his earliest childhood memory was thinking \"she is a superhero\".\n\nHis father TV presenter Jeff Brazier also appeared in the clip and talked about how \"loss makes you grow closer\" as a family.\n\nThe presenter then choked up as he added he was \"the lucky one, I'm the one who gets to bring the boys up, I'm the one who gets to watch them on Strictly, it brings to my joy to my life.\"\n\nJust before his performance, Brazier said: \"This dance isn't just for my family, this dance is a tribute to my mum.\"\n\nJade Goody's death in 2009 led to a 12% spike in women getting NHS smear tests at the time\n\nWhen the couple's dance was over, Brazier looked emotional as Buswell quickly embraced him, while his father had tears in his eyes as he clapped in the audience.\n\nJudges Shirley Ballas and Motsi Mabuse gave him standing ovations, with Ballas saying the dance had the \"most beautiful true movements through the body as you danced it through your heart\".\n\n\"The message that you both put on the floor was absolutely beautiful,\" Mabuse added.\n\nWhile he was waiting for his score, Brazier said the dance to This Woman's Work, which was originally written and performed by Kate Bush, was \"something I'll never forget\".\n\nEarlier in the week, the actor appeared on ITV's Loose Women, where he said he wanted to perform to the song because the lyrics were \"profound and very impactful for me\".\n\n\"When I was a little bit younger and I was angry and resentful and I feared the world and just couldn't cry or express myself, it was hearing those lyrics that would just made me cry because it felt so true,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThirty-nine Palestinian teenagers and women were freed from Israeli prisons on Saturday after the ceasefire deal looked to be in peril.\n\nThey were released as part of an agreement which has seen 26 Israeli hostages taken on 7 October returned.\n\nIt takes the total number of Palestinians released since the start of the temporary ceasefire to 78.\n\nOne of those released, Mohammad dar-Darwish, 17, said he was \"dizzy with happiness\" to return home.\n\nThe exchange was delayed after Hamas accused Israel of changing the agreed list of prisoners it would release.\n\nHamas also said that not enough aid shipments that had been guaranteed access to Gaza as part of the deal had made it through. But the handover went ahead after last-minute mediation involving Qatar and Egypt.\n\nIsrael denied breaking the terms of the agreement, which entered its third day on Sunday.\n\nOn Saturday night, a crowd of people - including some waving the green flag of Hamas - greeted a coach carrying released Palestinians as it made its way through the West Bank, where detainees are being returned to initially.\n\nSix of them were women, while all the others were under the age of 18.\n\nAmong them was Mohammad dar-Darwish, who was held in an Israeli jail for seven months accused of throwing a petrol bomb at soldiers. He denies the charge.\n\nMohammad dar-Darwish was awaiting trial for a charge he denies\n\nHe said he was \"dizzy with happiness\" when he returned home and found his father and brother in the crowd waiting to greet the detainees.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he claimed Palestinian prisoners were mistreated after the 7 October attack. Israel's prison service says it treats prisoners lawfully.\n\nIsrael has compiled a list of 300 Palestinian prisoners, mainly teenage boys, who are eligible for release under the deal struck with Hamas.\n\nMost are in prison awaiting trial, with less than a quarter of those on the list having been convicted.\n\nAmong the adult women released was Israa Jaabis, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2015 when her car burst into flames 1.5km (0.9 miles) from a checkpoint in the West Bank.\n\nIsraa Jaabis was among the second group of Palestinian detainees released by Israel\n\nIsrael said it was an attempted car bombing and she was convicted, but Israa Jaabis - now 38 - denied the charge, and her family has previously claimed the fire started because of an engine fault.\n\nShe suffered serious facial burns after the car's engine caught fire, but had requests for surgery turned down by Israel's prison authorities.\n\nAfter being released eight years into her sentence, she was pictured hugging her son Mua'tassim, 15, who was eight years old at the time of his mother's arrest.\n\nSome of those released under the ceasefire deal are prisoners who were still children when they were arrested.\n\nMarah Bakeer was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years for a knife attack on a border police officer when she was 16.\n\nAfter returning to her family in East Jerusalem, she said \"I'm emotional, it's a very good feeling\", and said she only found out about her release hours before it happened.\n\nNourhan Awad, 23, served eight years of her 10 year sentence before being released on Saturday.\n\nShe was convicted over a stabbing in Jerusalem, and was shot by police during her arrest. Her cousin was shot and killed during the arrest.\n\nShe was filmed running to her family in Qalandia, West Bank, after her release, and said she would visit the grave of her cousin before returning home.\n\nA second group of Israeli hostages - all women and children - were released from Gaza on Saturday evening.\n\nMore detainees and hostages are set to be released on Sunday as part of the agreement.", "Amiram Cooper, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Tsachi Idan are being held in Gaza\n\nIsrael says 132 people remain unaccounted for after they were abducted and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attacks by Hamas.\n\nAn estimated 240 people were taken prisoner, but 105 were later released by Hamas during a six-day ceasefire at the end of November.\n\nThe Israeli military said it mistakenly killed three hostages in northern Gaza who had escaped from their captors and expressed \"deep remorse\" over the incident.\n\nOf the 132 still unaccounted for, Israel says that 20 of them are believed to be dead.\n\nThese are the stories of those hostages who are still being held, which have either been confirmed by the BBC or credibly reported.\n\nThis list is regularly updated and names may change, as some people feared kidnapped are confirmed to have been killed or released.\n\nLast updated on 19 December 2023 at 10:33 GMT\n\nYagev Kirsht, 34, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim, alongside his wife, Rimon Buchstab Kirsht. She has now been released.\n\nAlexander Trupanov, was taken hostage with his mother Lena Trupanov, 50, his partner Sapir Cohen, 29, and his grandmother Irina Tati, 73. All were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz as they spent the Sabbath together, according to a statement by Canada's Raoul Wallenburg Center for Human Rights. Irina and Lena were released on Wednesday 29 November and Sapir was freed the next day.\n\nAriel Cunio, his girlfriend Arbel Yahud and her brother Dolev are also thought to have been abducted in the same attack on Nir Oz. Eitan Cunio, Ariel's brother who escaped Hamas, told the Jewish Chronicle that his last message from Ariel said: \"We are in a horror movie.\"\n\nDavid Cunio, 33, another of Ariel's brothers, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, family say. David's wife Sharon Aloni Cunio and their three-year-old twin daughters Ema and Yuly were released on 27 November. Sharon's sister Daniele Aloni, and her six-year-old daughter Emilia were both released on 24 November.\n\nDoron Steinbrecher, 30, a veterinary nurse, was in her apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas attacked, the Times of Israel reported. At 10:30 on 7 October, the newspaper said, she sent a voice message to friends: \"They've arrived, they have me.\"\n\nItzhak Gelerenter, 53, was taken from the Supernova festival. His family said the IDF found his phone was located in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported. His daughter Pivko told the paper: \"I'm trying to think good thoughts, I have a powerful, smart, resourceful father.\"\n\nDoron Steinbrecher sent a voice message to friends during Hamas' attack\n\nNaama Levy, 19, was filmed being bundled into a jeep, her hands tied behind her back. The footage was released by Hamas and circulated widely on social media. According to her mother, the teenager had just begun her military service.\n\nYousef Zyadna, a 53-year-old Bedouin dairy farmer, was abducted from Kibbutz Holit and taken to Gaza along with his sons Hamza, 22, and Bilal, 18, and his daughter, Aisha, 16. Aisha and Bilal were released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nElad Katzir, 47, was abducted from Nir Oz with his mother Hanna. Hanna has now been released.\n\nOhad Ben Ami, 55, was kidnapped from Be'eri with his wife, Raz. She was released by Hamas on 29 November.\n\nTwin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 26, were taken from Kfar Aza. Ziv was messaging a friend as the attack happened. Their family said the IDF has told them the brothers are being held in Gaza. Their brother Liran told CBN news the pair had \"twin power\" and were the centre of attention wherever they went.\n\nIraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 85, was taken captive from Kibbutz Kissufim, where he lived and worked as a chicken coop manager. His wife, Mazal, managed to escape.\n\nMichel Nisenbaum, 59, is a dual Brazilian-Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel for 45 years and works as a computer technician, his family told Brazilian media. They also say he is diabetic and has Crohn's disease. On 7 October, they say, someone claiming to be from Hamas answered his phone when they tried to call him.\n\nDaniela Gilboa, 19, sent messages saying that Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she was staying, was under attack and asked her mother to pray for her. Her boyfriend, Roy Dadon, told the Economist 1843 magazine that he believes he saw a glimpse of her in a video showing three girls being driven away in the back of an SUV.\n\nItay Chen, 19, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF solider, was on active duty with a tank unit on 7 October, according to the Times of Israel. The paper reported that his family was notified by the IDF that he is officially considered missing in action and probably being held hostage. Another soldier in his unit, Matan Angrest, 21, is also presumed to be in Gaza.\n\nYosi Sharabi, 51, was taken from Be'eri with his brother, Eli Sharabi, 55. Eli's wife and two daughters were murdered in the attack. Ofir Engel, the boyfriend of Yosi's daughter, Yuval, was also taken, but released on 29 November.\n\nAgam Berger, 19, was kidnapped from Nahal Oz. She was seen being taken away in videos released by Hamas.\n\nEdan Alexander, 19, is an Israeli-US citizen who volunteered to join the Israeli army. He was serving near the Gaza border at the time of Hamas's attack. Edan's family said they had been told by Israeli officials that he had been taken to Gaza as a hostage.\n\nKaid Farhan Elkadi, 53, lives with his family south of Rahat and worked as a security guard, according to Israeli media. Reports said his family believes he was kidnapped and taken to Gaza, based on images shared by Hamas.\n\nIlana Gritzewsky and Matan Zanguaker were captured near the Gaza border, family say\n\nMatan Zanguaker, 24, was taken with his partner Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, from Nir Oz, according to Ilana's father. Ilana, a Mexican national, was released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nThe family of Eitan and Yair Horn believe they were taken from Nir Oz kibbutz\n\nEitan Horn, 37, and his brother Yair, 45, both Argentinian citizens, were also in Nir Oz at the time of the attack. Their father Itzik said he believes they were kidnapped. Yair is a construction worker while Eitan works in education.\n\nItai Svirsky, 38, is thought to have been abducted when his elderly parents were killed in Be'eri. He had been visiting them for the holiday of Simhat Torah.\n\nKeith Seigel, 64, and his wife Adrienne - often known as Aviva - Seigel, 62, were taken from their home in Kfar Aza, Keith's brother Lee Seigel told the BBC. Adrienne was released on 26 November.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, lived in Nahal Oz with his wife and two daughters. Omri was led away by Hamas with his hands tied, his wife Lishay told the Guardian newspaper. She told him not to be a hero, urging: \"Do whatever they want because I want you back.\"\n\nBipin Joshi, 23, a Nepalese student, is believed to have been taken from Kibbutz Alumim. Nepalese newspaper Setopati says he was one of 49 university students studying agriculture in Israel. It says 10 students were killed in the attack.\n\nIlan Weiss, 58, went missing from Kibbutz Be'eri after he was last seen leaving the house to defend the community. On 25 November, his wife Shiri Weiss, 53, and their daughter, Noga, 18, were freed from captivity in a hostage deal.\n\nAmiram Cooper, 85, and his wife Nurit, 80, were taken from their home in Nir Oz, their daughter-in-law Noa told the BBC. The family last spoke to the couple during the Hamas attack, Noa said, when the couple were in their safe room. The family later traced Amiram's phone to Gaza. On Monday 23 October, Nurit was one of two women to be released.\n\nAmiram and Nurit Cooper, pictured with their granddaughter, Gali\n\nOded Lifshitz, 83, and his wife Yocheved, 85 were taken hostage from Nir Oz. On Monday 23 October, Yocheved was one of two elderly women to be freed. After hearing the news of her mother's release, their daughter Sharone - a London-based artist - said: \"While I cannot put into words the relief that she is now safe, I will remain focused on securing the release of my father and all those - some 200 innocent people - who remain hostages in Gaza.\"\n\nHaim Peri, 79, was taken from his home in Nir Oz, reports the Times of Israel, and freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz said she saw that he was alive and well. His son Lior Peri told Talk TV that Haim had locked his wife inside the safe room before giving himself up to kidnappers.\n\nAvraham Munder, 78, was kidnapped from Nir Oz, Israeli officials say. His wife Ruthi, daughter and grandson have since been released.\n\nOmer Neutra, a 22-year-old Israeli-American and grandson of Holocaust survivors, put off plans to go to college in the US to study in Israel, and eventually joined the IDF. He was serving as a tank commander near Gaza when Hamas attacked. Omer's parents say they were told by the Israeli embassy that he had been kidnapped.\n\nRon Benjamin's vehicle was found empty following the attacks\n\nRon Benjamin, 53, had been taking part in a group cycle ride near the Gaza border when the Hamas attack began and he decided to drive home, his family told Israeli media. Days later, his vehicle was found empty and his family believe he was kidnapped.\n\nLouis Har, 70, is believed to have been taken from Nir Yitzhak. His partner Clara Marman was released on 28 November along with her sister Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela's daughter Mia Leimberg,17. Clara and Gabriela's brother Fernando Simon Marman, 60, also remains in captivity.\n\nJudith Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 73, also went missing from Nir Oz after the Hamas attack. Ten days later, the Israeli military confirmed to the family they had been taken hostage, CTV News in Canada reported.\n\nAlex Danzig, 75, a scholar and historian of the Holocaust, was at his home in Nir Oz, when it was attacked by Hamas. \"We know for sure he was kidnapped,\" his son Mati told the BBC. Alex - whose older sister Edith is a Holocaust survivor - has spent the last 30 years working for Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust remembrance centre. His disappearance has triggered a campaign for his release, both in Israel and in Poland, the country of his birth.\n\nAlex Danzig has spent decades educating people about the Holocaust\n\nItzhk Elgarat, 68, was kidnapped at the same time as Alex Danzig, his brother Danny Elgert told Israel's Kan 11 TV station, adding that he had tracked his brother's phone to the border with Gaza.\n\nGadi Moses, 79, was also abducted during the same attack on Nir Oz, according to relatives and the Israeli aid agency where he worked as an agricultural expert. Efrat Katz, his partner, was initially thought to have been captured as well, but she was later found dead, the Times of Israel reported. Efrat was the mother of Doron Asher, who was taken hostage and later released with her two daughters. Ravid Katz, 51, Doron Asher's brother, was originally thought to have been taken hostage from Nir Oz, but on 28 November his family confirmed that he had been killed on 7 October.\n\nYair Yaakov, 59, is listed among the hostages. His partner Meirav Tal, 53, was released on 28 November. Yair's children Yagil, 13, and Or, 16, were released on 27 November.\n\nYair Yaakov was pictured being held captive by a gunman in a video shared online\n\nNimrod Cohen, 19, had studied software engineering in high school, according to reports. After he was kidnapped, his father was invited to meet Pope Francis in Rome along with other hostages' families.\n\nTsachi Idan, 51, was last seen by his wife, Gali, as he was taken away by Hamas gunmen. Their family had been ambushed in their safe room in Nahal Oz. Their ordeal was live-streamed by Hamas. Their eldest child, Maayan - who had just turned 18 - was shot dead, Gali told the BBC.\n\nTsachi Idan was ambushed with his wife and children and then led away\n\nYarden Bibas, 34, was abducted from Nir Oz. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were also taken hostage, but on 29 November, Hamas claimed they had been killed in an Israeli air strike while in captivity. The Israeli government has said it is checking the claim.\n\nRonen Engel, 54, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife, Karina Engelbert, 51, and their two daughters, Mika, 18 and Yuval, 11. On 1 December, the organisation representing the families said he had been murdered. Karina, Mika and Yuval were released on 27 November.\n\nKarina Ariev, a 19-year-old soldier, was serving at an army base near Gaza when she was kidnapped. Her sister Alexandra told the BBC she heard shooting as Karina called her during the attack, and later saw a video showing Karina being taken away in a vehicle.\n\nKarina Ariev was at the Nahal Oz military base, which was among the first to be attacked\n\nOfer Kalderon, 53, was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz. On 27 November his two children, Erez, 12, and Sahar, 16, were released. Two other relatives, 80-year-old Carmela Dan and her granddaughter, Noya, 12, were also believed to have been taken, but Israeli authorities later announced they had been found dead.\n\nYoram Metzger, 80, was a resident of Nir Oz. He has diabetes and broke his hip six months ago, his daughter-in-law said. Yoram's wife Tamar was released on 28 November.\n\nNadav Popplewell, 51, and his mother Channah were taken hostage by Hamas, said Channah's daughter Ayelet Svatitzky, who was speaking to them on the phone when the gunmen burst in. She said the captors sent pictures of her two relatives, who both have diabetes, with armed men in the background. Channah has now been released.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, was abducted after his family opened the door to their secure shelter to an Israeli child, who said he would be killed otherwise. Omri's wife, Lishay Lavi, said she saw him being taken away in handcuffs with three other hostages from Nahal Oz.\n\nLiri Elbag, 18, had just started military training as an Army lookout near the Gaza border when Hamas attacked, her father Eli told the Associated Press. Eli said he saw her in a video circulated later by Hamas, crowded with others on the back of a military truck which had been seized by the gunmen.\n\nLior Rudaeff, 61, was taken from Nir Yitzhak during the attack. His family have heard nothing from him since then.\n\nA number of people are believed to have been abducted from the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Among them:\n\nShlomi Ziv, 40, was part of the security detail at the festival and was initially in contact with his sisters as the attack unfolded, according to an interview with The Times of Israel. A few weeks later the family learned he was officially considered to be a hostage, the report says.\n\nAlexander Lobanov, 32, is a Russian-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped at the festival.\n\nOri Danino, 25, is reported to have got away from the festival in his car, but it's believed he was captured after turning back in an attempt to save some people he had met there.\n\nAlmog Sarusi, 26, was kidnapped from the music festival and his partner Shahar Gindi was killed, according to Israeli media. Almog's father, Yigal, was among the relatives of hostages who met with Israel's prime minister in October.\n\nOmer Shem Tov, 21, called his parents as he was running away from gunfire and managed to get into a friend's car. His parents, Shelly and Malki Shem Tov, told Israeli media they lost contact with their son and the live location on his phone showed he was beyond the border in Gaza.\n\nIdan Shtivi, 28, an environmental sciences student, was attending the festival to take pictures at music and yoga workshops being held by friends. He escaped the site in his car but was attacked by Hamas along the route. The bodies of two of his passengers were found, and his family told the Jerusalem Post they suspect he was kidnapped.\n\nYosef Ohana, 24, had been at the festival with a friend, who told his mother he and Yosef had remained to help people escape the gunfire before running themselves. Yosef was last seen hiding under a car, and Israeli authorities have visited his mother to say he was kidnapped.\n\nAndrei Kozlov, 27, a Russian who moved to Israel in 2022, is missing from the Supernova festival, where he was working as a security guard. His mother told the De Taly publication the family was told by the IDF on October 26 that he was being held hostage.\n\nElyakim Libman, 23, was working as a security guard at the festival. In a Facebook post his father Eliyahu Libman said another guard told him his son had helped rescue others before trying to escape. He was last seen trying to help two badly-injured women.\n\nNoa Argamani, a Chinese-born Israeli citizen, was also kidnapped from the festival. Video footage - verified by her father Yaakov Argamani to Israel's Channel 12 - shows the 25-year-old being taken away on the back of a motorbike screaming, \"Don't kill me!\" Her boyfriend Avinatan Or, 30, also appears in the video being marched away from her by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nEden Yerushalmi's family say they were told she had been taken hostage\n\nEden Yerushalmi, 24, called her family during Hamas's attack on the festival, her sister May told CBS News. The family say they were subsequently informed by the IDF that Eden had been abducted.\n\nChanan Yablonka, 42, is a father-of-two from Tel Aviv. According to reports, he attended the festival with friends and was due to celebrate his birthday a few days after the attacks.\n\nJonathan Samerano, 21, has been missing since 7am on the morning of the festival. His family have been told to presume he is being held in Gaza, Israeli media reported.\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal was filmed in captivity in Gaza, his family say\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, attended the festival with his brother. Guy appears in a hostage video that his family say confirms he is in Gaza.\n\nUriel Baruch, 35, was injured during the attack on the festival, his wife said on Facebook. Reports in Israeli media say his mother, Naomi, has heard from the IDF that he is a hostage.\n\nMaxim Kharkin's mother described speaking to him on the morning of 7 October\n\nMaxim Kharkin is aged 35 and a Russian speaker, his mother told Russian media. She added that he had called her at 07:00 on the morning of the attack.\n\nElkana Bohbot was seen in a video posted by Hamas\n\nElkana Bohbot, 34, had gone to the party with friends and, before losing contact, he spoke to his wife and mother telling them he was helping to evacuate the wounded, the Times of Israel reported. Hours later, his family found a video of him posted online by Hamas, which has been seen by BBC Verify.\n\nRom Braslavski, 19, was working on security for the festival. According to an account published by Hostages and Missing Families Forum, he was trying to rescue an injured person in the attack when he was caught in a volley of fire. He has not been heard from since.\n\nOmer Wenkert, 22, a restaurant manager, sent a message to his family to say he was going to a safe shelter but then lost contact, his father Shai Wenkert told the BBC's Today Programme. Shai Wenkert said he had seen footage of his son in captivity, including a photo of him handcuffed and wearing only underwear.\n\nEvyatar David's family say they were sent a video of him in captivity\n\nEvyatar David, 23, was at the festival and on the morning of the attacks, described fleeing from gunfire before losing contact with the outside world, his brother says. Later, his family say, Evyatar's sister posted on Instagram appealing for information about his whereabouts. She then received a text from an unknown number, which contained video footage of Evyatar handcuffed on the floor of a dark room. According to Israel's foreign ministry he is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nEitan Mor, 23, lives in Jerusalem, and was working as a security guard at the festival, the Times of Israel said. He reportedly texted his uncle after Hamas arrived and was last seen with a friend bringing others to safety.\n\nAlon Ohel, 22, a Serbian citizen, took refuge in a shelter after the festival came under attack, his family say. They have seen footage of him being dragged away after a grenade attack.\n\nAlmog Meir Jan, 21, tried to flee the festival. He and a friend made it to the friend's car but only managed to drive a short distance before being forced to stop. Almog's family say they have seen a hostage video in which he appears.\n\nInbar Heiman, a student aged 21, was seen by two young Israeli men being taken away from the festival on a motorcycle. Hamas have released a video in which she is seen very briefly.\n\nHersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual US-Israeli citizen, was badly injured in the attack, his family told the BBC. Eyewitness accounts say he was seen being forced onto a white pick-up truck - the last-known signal from his phone came from just inside Gaza.\n\nSegev Kalfon, 26, was running away from the festival, across the highway, when he was captured by Hamas, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.\n\nOrión Hernández Radoux, 30, from Mexico, attended the festival with his girlfriend, Shani Louk. He has not been seen since. The Sun newspaper says it has seen threatening messages written in Arabic sent from his phone. Shani, a tourist from Germany, was initially thought to be among those seized. But on 30 October, her mother Ricarda told German media that the family had been informed by Israeli military of her death following DNA identification.\n\nRomi Lesham Gonen, 23, was on the phone to her mother as she tried to escape from the Supernova festival. Merav Leshem Gonan has recounted a conversation in which her daughter begged for help after being shot. ABC News reports that Romi's phone is now in Gaza.\n\nBar Kuperstein, 21, last spoke to his family early on the morning of 7 October, as the attack unfolded. Later the same day, his family say they identified him in a video of Israeli prisoners, posted by Hamas. Since then, they say they have had no further information.\n\nEliya Cohen, 26, was hiding with his girlfriend Ziv from the attack, when Ziv felt him being pulled up and driven away by the gunmen, Eliya's mother has told the video initiative #BringThemHomeNow. The family then found a photo of Eliya in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nAmit Buskila, 28, from Ashdod, was last heard of making a call to her uncle, Shimon, as Hamas overran the festival. Her family say they have now been told by the government that she is being held in Gaza.\n\nCarmel Gat, 39, is Jordan's sister-in-law, and also was seen by her father being taken by gunmen from Kibbutz Be'eri, Haaretz newspaper reported. She has not been heard from since.\n\nOhad Yahalomi, 49, was abducted from Nir Oz, along with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the November ceasefire.\n\nDror Or, 48, was seen by a neighbour being dragged out of his home in Be'eri, according to their nephew Emmanuel Besorai, along with his son and daughter. On Saturday 25 November Dror's son Noam, 17, and daughter Alma, 13, were released from captivity. The body of Yonat, 50 - Dror's wife and the children's mother - was identified among the 120 people murdered at the kibbutz, Yonat's brother told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nTal Shoham, 38, was taken from Kibbutz Be'eri. His wife Adi, also 38, her mother Dr Shoshan Haran, 67, were released by Hamas on 25 November, along with the couple's children Nave, eight, and Yahel, three. Dr Haran's husband, Avshalom - an economist and dual German/Israeli citizen - was killed on 7 October.\n\nTamir Adar, 38, who defended Nir Oz as part of the kibbutz's emergency squad, was taken to Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen, 35, an American-Israeli citizen, has been missing since Hamas's attack on Nir Oz, his father Jonathan told the BBC. He said his son was not found among the dead and the \"only reasonable explanation\" is that he was taken to Gaza.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen's father has not heard from him since Hamas attacked the kibbutz where he lived\n\nThailand's ambassador to Israel says 26 of its citizens were taken hostage, 23 of whom have now been released.\n\nThose still being held are believed to include Watchara Sriuan, 32. His mother, Viewwaew, told the Thaiger news site that the family had been informed he was being held captive.\n\nKiattisak \"Top\" Patee and a Mr Pongtorn (no first name given) have also been named by the Thai foreign ministry as hostages.\n\nA number of other people thought to have been held hostage are now confirmed to have died, either during the 7 October attack or while in captivity.\n\nAs well as Ron Scherman and Nik Beizer, four bodies were identified this week. They were Tal Chaimi, an Israeli-Romanian citizen aged 41, and Joshua Mollel, a 19-year-old Tanzanian student. Also, 27-year-old Eden Zecharya, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and 36-year-old Ziv Dado, who had already been declared dead by the Israeli military.\n\nOthers known to have died include Dror Kaplun, 68, Aviv Atzili, 49, Arye Zalmanovich, 85, Ronen Engel, 54, Maya Goren, 56, Guy Iluz, 26, Ofir Tzarfati, 27, Ofra Keider, 70, and Eliyahu Margalit, 75.\n\nThe bodies of 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, and 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss were found by Israeli troops in buildings close to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.\n\nOn Saturday 9 December Kibbutz Bari announced that Sahar Baruch, 25, had been killed in Gaza.\n\nOther hostages whose death has been reported, but not confirmed include Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A depressingly familiar sight to many drivers across parts of the UK\n\nThe AA is advising drivers to \"avoid puddles\" after a record month for breakdowns caused by potholes.\n\nThe motoring group has had over half a million call-outs for the year so far - a daily average of more than 1,500.\n\n\"Continuous poor weather\" and recent storms such as Babet, Ciaran and Debi have contributed to poor road surfaces.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged more than £8bn in funding last month to tackle what he called the \"scourge of potholes\".\n\nRAC analysis of garage repair data estimates that drivers are paying an average of £440 if their car needs fixing after hitting a pothole for any damage more serious than a puncture.\n\nPotholes are often caused by water entering cracks in the road surface. The constant freezing and thawing of water in icy winter weather weakens the structure of the road and material eventually comes loose - causing the holes.\n\nTony Rich of the AA said \"continuous poor weather\" and recent storms, such as Babet, Ciaran and Debi, were having a \"two-fold effect on driving conditions\".\n\nHe said: \"What feels like relentless rainwater is covering and increasing the severity of potholes, while also holding back essential road repairs by rightly diverting roads maintenance crews to tackle fallen trees and flooded areas.\n\n\"Our advice to drivers and those on two wheels is to avoid puddles where safe to do so, but if there is no alternative other than to travel through, then reduce your speed and keep an increased distance from the vehicle in front.\"\n\nThe AA received 52,541 call-outs last month for vehicles damaged by road defects - a 12% increase on October last year.\n\nIt also beats the previous record set in the same month in 2017 by 389 call-outs.\n\nIn October, the PM highlighted the reallocation of funding towards pothole repairs as part of plans to scrap part of the HS2 high-speed rail line and spend the savings on other projects.\n\nCouncils have said the cost of repairing local roads is around £14bn, roughly £6bn more than Mr Sunak announced.\n\nDarren Rodwell of the Local Government Association said the new funding \"will help with bringing more of our local road network up to scratch, including reinstating repairs for potholes that had been impacted by inflation.\"\n\nIn the longer term, he said the government should award council transport departments with five-yearly funding allocations \"so they can develop resurfacing programmes and other highways improvements\".\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"We are already investing more than £5.5 billion into highways maintenance, and our recent Network North announcement delivers an additional £8.3 billion, the biggest-ever increase in funding for local road improvements, and enough to resurface up to 5,000 miles of roads.\"", "Health officials are investigating the first confirmed case of a new strain of swine flu in the UK.\n\nThe A(H1N2)v infection was detected in a routine flu screening test at a GP surgery in North Yorkshire.\n\nOfficials said the person had respiratory symptoms, a mild illness and had fully recovered.\n\nThey are not known to have worked with pigs and investigations will look at where the infection came from and its risk to human health.\n\nHuman infections with swine flu viruses do occur - there have been 50 cases of A(H1N2)v reported globally in the past 20 years.\n\nThere was a case reported in the United States in August.\n\nThe infection found in the UK is slightly different from recent human cases of swine flu globally, health officials say, but similar to viruses in UK pigs.\n\nIn 2009, there was a pandemic of swine flu in humans caused by a virus spreading in pigs, birds and humans.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said it planned to increase surveillance through GP surgeries and hospitals in parts of North Yorkshire where the case was detected.\n\nMeera Chand, the agency's incident director, said: \"We are working rapidly to trace close contacts and reduce any potential spread.\n\n\"In accordance with established protocols, investigations are under way to learn how the individual acquired the infection and to assess whether there are any further associated cases.\"\n\nThe new Health Secretary Victoria Atkins said the individual was identified through a \"thorough and extensive\" screening and monitoring programme run by UKHSA.\n\n\"It's good that this case has been spotted - please trust the UKHSA to do their job and to monitor carefully,\" she said.\n\nPeople with flu-like symptoms are advised to avoid contact with others, particularly those who are elderly or vulnerable, with other health conditions.\n\nChief Veterinary Officer Christine Middlemiss said: \"We know that some diseases of animals can be transferred to humans - which is why high standards of animal health, welfare and biosecurity are so important.\"\n\nShe said pig-owners must report any signs of swine flu in their herds to their local vet.\n\nPaul Hunter, professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia, said A(H1N2) did not cause any more severe disease than other commonly circulating types of influenza.\n\nIan Jones, professor of virology at the University of Reading, said it was \"very unlikely\" that the single case represented \"anything more than has been seen in the past\", adding that the mild infection was \"also in keeping with previous experience\".", "Caolan Gormley stood trial at the Old Bailey, accused of being involved in the unlawful immigration plot\n\nA haulier linked to the people smugglers responsible for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants has been found guilty of an immigration offence.\n\nCaolan Gormley, 26, was found guilty of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration at the Old Bailey.\n\nThe bodies were found in a lorry trailer near Purfleet, Essex, on 23 October 2019.\n\nThe jury heard Gormley, of Caledon, Co Tyrone, had \"close dealings\" with the traffickers overseeing the fatal trip.\n\nHe is the 11th defendant to be convicted in the UK in connection with the deaths and police described it as the \"final guilty verdict\".\n\nGormley is due to be sentenced on Thursday.\n\nThe Vietnamese migrants were transported by ferry from Belgium, before the trailer was opened near Purfleet\n\nThe container arrived by sea from Zeebrugge, Belgium, at 00:30 BST before being collected by a tractor unit half an hour later.\n\nThe people inside had paid a fee of £10,000, rising to £13,000, for what was promised as a \"VIP\" route to Europe and the hope of better-paid work.\n\nGormley was involved in three previous smuggling operations that month on the 11, 14 and 18 October but there was no evidence he was directly involved on the night of 22 October, police said.\n\nThe two-week trial heard he was an associate of one of the smuggling ringleaders, Ronan Hughes, who he had known since he was a teenager.\n\nHughes and a Romanian national, Gheorghe Nica, had a network of drivers who were \"willing and able\" to drive lorry loads of migrants from Europe into the UK, the prosecution said.\n\nGormley, who ran a small haulage business, passed on messages from Hughes to one of his own drivers, Christopher Kennedy, who was involved in transporting the trailers full of migrants.\n\nOn 23 October, the trailer had been collected by a different driver, Maurice Robinson, who discovered the bodies.\n\nThirty nine people died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nGiving evidence in his defence, Gormley told jurors he was in \"shock\" and \"total disbelief\" when he heard the victims were dead.\n\nHe claimed that he believed he was only involved in smuggling illegal alcohol into the UK.\n\nThe jury deliberated for one hour and 15 minutes and Gormley was remanded in custody.\n\nDet Ch Insp Louise Metcalfe, from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, described the conviction as the \"final guilty verdict\".\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wintry weather on the way later this week\n\nParts of the UK are bracing for snow and wintry showers this week as the cold spell continues.\n\nTemperatures dropped below freezing for much of the country over the weekend, with lows of -8C (17.6F) forecast for Tuesday.\n\nThe coldest recorded temperature so far this autumn was -7.7C in Shap, Cumbria, on Saturday morning.\n\nBBC Weather says snowfalls are possible but there is \"a lot more uncertainty than normal\" in forecasts.\n\nTuesday night will bring frost to much of the country, with temperatures of around -2C to -5C, and possibly as low as -8C, across parts of the north of England and rural Scotland, the Met Office said.\n\nHigher ground in Scotland and northern England saw snowfall last week, which is typical for late November.\n\nMet Office spokesman Oli Claydon said snow showers are expected on the North Sea coast, including Scotland and the north east of England, from Wednesday.\n\nHe added that \"we are not likely to see significant accumulation on the ground\".\n\nSnow may also fall in parts of south-eastern England, including Hampshire.\n\nThe cloudy and damp start to the week will give way to sunnier spells, before turning unsettled later in the week, forecasters say.\n\nLead BBC Weather presenter and meteorologist Simon King said: \"It's going to be a cold week with temperatures only around 2 to 7 degrees Celsius - which is below the average for the time of year.\"\n\nHe added: \"With a cold north easterly wind, snow showers will come into northern and eastern areas of the UK and while this will mostly be over high ground, there's a chance that there could be snow to low levels for a time.\n\n\"There's also a small possibility of getting some sleet or snow to southern areas of the UK later in the week too.\n\n\"Forecasting snow in the UK, in December is actually really tricky. Being an island, it's typically not quite cold enough and we still have a battle between milder tropical air and colder Arctic air.\n\n\"While we still have the battle of the air masses, how much rain that turns into sleet or snow is always a difficult forecast to make.\"\n\nSnowfalls bring delight to schoolchildren but can cause serious problems for the vulnerable and isolated\n\nParts of central Scotland woke up to frost on Monday following cold overnight temperatures falling to -6.4C in the village of Tyndrum, according to the Met Office.\n\nIt stayed above freezing for the rest of the country as bands of cloud and rain moved in.\n\nShowers and hill snow could still affect parts of Scotland and north-east England, where it will also be windy.\n\nThe low temperatures will persist through Tuesday and Wednesday, with sunny spells forecast.\n\nAn area of low pressure moving in from the South West on Thursday could meet colder air, with showers expected across southern England and Wales, turning to snow over higher ground.\n\nThe temperature peaked in double figures in southern England and Wales on Monday before dropping again into Tuesday.\n\nFind out the weather forecast for your area, with an hourly breakdown and a 14-day lookahead, by downloading the BBC Weather app: Apple - Android - Amazon\n\nThe BBC Weather app is only available to download in the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJames Cleverly has apologised in the House of Commons for using \"inappropriate language\" about a Labour MP but denied he used a derogatory term to describe Stockton North.\n\nThe home secretary has faced allegations he used a swearword to describe the Labour-run area.\n\nAddressing the controversy directly for the first time, Mr Cleverly said he \"would never\" insult Stockton.\n\nHe said he used the term to describe the constituency's MP, Alex Cunningham.\n\nFollowing claims he called the Stockton North constituency a \"shithole\", Mr Cleverly said: \"For the avoidance of doubt... I did not, would not and would never make such comments about his constituency.\"\n\nResponding to a point of order raised by Mr Cunningham, the home secretary said: \"I know what I said. I rejected the accusation that I criticised his constituency.\n\n\"My criticism, which I made from a sedentary position, about the honourable gentleman used inappropriate language for which I apologise.\n\n\"But I will not accept that my criticism was of his constituency because it was not.\"\n\nA source close to Mr Cleverly had previously admitted he used \"unparliamentary\" language to describe Mr Cunningham but denied he had criticised Stockton.\n\nMaking a statement in the House of Commons raises the stakes for Mr Cleverly. If a minister knowingly misleads the house this is a serious breach of the Ministerial Code and they are expected to offer their resignation.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons the Labour MP said Mr Cleverly \"hasn't the guts to admit to his appalling remark about my Stockton North constituency from the frontbench and apologise to the people I have the privilege of representing\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The clip where Labour MP Alex Cunningham alleges James Cleverly swore in Commons.\n\nMr Cleverly used a swearword while present during Prime Minister's Questions on 22 November.\n\nMr Cunningham had asked the PM: \"Why are 34% of children in my constituency living in poverty?\"\n\nAfter his question, a voice can be heard using a derogatory term.\n\nRaising the issue in the Commons later that day, Mr Cunningham said: \"Before the prime minister answered, the home secretary chose to add in his pennyworth.\n\n\"He was seen and heard to say 'because it's a shithole'.\n\n\"I know he is denying being the culprit, but the audio is clear and has been checked, and checked, and checked again.\"", "Emily Hand, 9, Noam Or, 17, and Sharon Avigdori, 52, were among the Israeli hostages released late on Saturday night\n\nA second group of Israeli hostages left Hamas captivity on Saturday, after hours of delay had increased the anxiety of desperate families.\n\nThe Israeli military said 13 Israelis were released in Gaza and in exchange 39 more Palestinian prisoners were released by Israel in the West Bank. Hamas also released four Thai hostages.\n\nThe first releases took place smoothly on Friday, under a temporary four-day truce deal brokered by Qatar.\n\nThe Israelis had been expected to be handed over to the Red Cross on Gaza's border with Egypt at 16:00 (14:00 GMT).\n\nThe Hamas armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said there were issues over the delivery of aid to northern Gaza and the selection criteria for Palestinian prisoners being exchanged for captives held by Hamas. Israel denied violating the terms of the deal.\n\nHamas spokesman Osama Hamdan said a total of 340 aid trucks had gone into Gaza since Friday, but only 65 had reached northern Gaza - which he said was less than half of what Israel had agreed on. Israel describes the north as a war zone and says the UN is responsible for delivering the aid.\n\nLater a senior Palestinian official close to the talks confirmed Qatar's statement that the dispute had been resolved.\n\nAnd Hamas voiced \"appreciation towards Egypt and Qatar for ensuring the continuation of their temporary truce with Israel\".\n\nUnder the deal, 50 Israeli hostages - women and children - are to be freed by Hamas over four days, in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners.\n\nThe Israeli government says the truce could be extended if at least 10 Israelis are released daily - but it has also vowed to wipe out Hamas and insists the deal is only temporary.\n\nHamas kidnapped about 240 people when it raided southern Israel on 7 October, and killed 1,200, most of them civilians, Israel says.\n\nThe Iran-backed Islamist group is categorised as a terrorist organisation by Israel, the UK, the US and the European Union.\n\nIn retaliation for the 7 October attack Israel has bombed Gaza relentlessly, wrecking its infrastructure.\n\nHamas says nearly 15,000 people have died, including many children. Large supplies of aid - notably food, water and hygiene kits - are desperately needed.\n\nOn Saturday evening some 50,000 people rallied in central Tel Aviv with the slogan \"Bring them back home\" on posters and t-shirts, hoping that the fragile truce would hold.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Moment nine-year-old Irish-Israeli hostage is reunited with her father\n\nTwo of the Israeli hostages who were released late on Saturday were siblings Noam and Alma Or, 17 and 13 respectively. In the 7 October attacks, they were seen by a neighbour being dragged out of their home in Kibbutz Be'eri, along with their father, according to their nephew. Their father has not been released.\n\nTheir mother was killed in the attack, but the teenagers did not know this, their uncle, Ahal Besorai, told the BBC.\n\n\"We had to bring the sad news to them,\" he said.\n\nDr Shoshan Haran, 67, was also kidnapped from Be'eri and released on Saturday. She is the founder of a not-for-profit organisation to help feed those in poverty and has a PhD in agronomy. She was freed along with her daughter Adi Shoham, 38, and her children, Nave, eight, and Yahel, three.\n\nAlso released were Sharon Avigdori, 52, a drama therapist, and her daughter Noam, 12, who are relatives of Dr Haran and were kidnapped from Be'eri at the same time.\n\nAnother child who was released yesterday is Emily Hand, who turned nine while in captivity. The Irish-Israeli girl had been held hostage without any of her family with her.\n\nEmily's father, Tom Hand, who was originally told Emily had been killed, told the BBC that he was determined to keep doing everything he could to help bring the other hostages home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMost of the 39 Palestinians released by Israel on Friday - 24 women and 15 teenage boys - were in pre-trial detention.\n\nOne of them, Sarah al-Suwaisa, said the Israelis had fired teargas and cut off the prisoners' electricity before the release. She called it \"humiliating, psychological torture\" and said \"only Hamas helped us\".\n\nA crowd gathered again in Beitunia on Saturday to receive more released Palestinians - women and teenagers who were held at Ofer prison. Many green Hamas flags were displayed there, the BBC's Lucy Williamson reports.\n\nAmong those freed was Nourhan Awad, 23, who was arrested in 2015 on suspicion of being involved in a stabbing operation in Jerusalem. She served eight of the 10 years she was sentenced to.\n\nIsraa Jaabis had also been in prison since 2015 after her car broke down on a highway 1.5km (0.9 miles) from a checkpoint in the West Bank. Israel said at the time that it was an attempted car bombing but this has been disputed.\n\nMeanwhile, Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said that the four Thai nationals released on Saturday were doing well.\n\n\"Everybody is safe, on the whole in good mental health and are able to speak normally,\" he wrote on social media.", "Police are investigating an alleged assault in the audience as they watched Hamilton\n\nPolice are investigating a fight which broke out between theatregoers at a performance of the hit musical Hamilton.\n\nA man and a woman in the audience were thought to have been involved in the fight at Palace Theatre, Manchester, on Friday.\n\nPolice said no arrests had been made.\n\nIn April officers were called to the same theatre after rowdy audience members halted a performance of The Bodyguard.\n\nA Greater Manchester Police (GMP) spokesman said officers were called following a \"report of an assault\".\n\nHe added: \"An investigation is ongoing at this time with no arrests made.\n\n\"Thankfully, injuries sustained are not believed to be life-threatening.\"\n\nThe award-winning musical is on a UK-wide tour for the first time.\n\nHamilton is the story of Alexander Hamilton, a man of Scots descent who became an American founding father.\n\nThe UK tour opened in Manchester where it will run for 15 weeks from 11 November to 24 February.\n\nIt will then move to Edinburgh's Festival Theatre for two months before continuing around the UK.\n\nThe Cameron Mackintosh and Jeffrey Seller production has been playing on London's West End since 2017 and continues to play to sell-out houses at the Victoria Palace Theatre.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The three men, all aged 20, were shot on Saturday night in Burlington, Vermont\n\nA 48-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder over the shooting of three men of Palestinian descent in Vermont.\n\nJason J Eaton, who appeared in court in Burlington, was arrested near the site of the shooting on Sunday.\n\nHisham Awartani, Tahseen Ahmed and Kinnan Abdalhamid were attacked near the University of Vermont on Saturday.\n\nThe men were speaking Arabic and two were wearing keffiyeh - a traditional scarf - when they were shot.\n\nThe three men, who are all aged 20, were visiting the home of one of their relatives over the Thanksgiving holiday when a white man confronted them with a gun outside the property, police said.\n\nHe allegedly fired at least four rounds at them without speaking and then fled.\n\nTwo of the victims were shot in the torso while the third was hit in his lower extremities, police said. Two are in a stable condition while the third sustained more serious injuries.\n\nThe attack comes as the US deals with a surge in Islamophobic and antisemitic incidents, including violent assaults and online harassment, since the Israel-Hamas conflict began on 7 October.\n\nThe FBI has warned of potential attacks by \"homegrown violent extremists\" since the war began.\n\nPolice have not given a potential motive in the shooting.\n\nBurlington Police Chief Jon Murad urged the public to avoid jumping to conclusions \"based on statements from uninvolved parties who know even less\" than investigators.\n\n\"In this charged moment, no one can look at this incident and not suspect that it may have been a hate-motivated crime,\" he said. \"I have already been in touch with federal investigatory and prosecutorial partners to prepare for that if it's proven.\"\n\nAt a hearing on Monday, the suspect was ordered to be held without bail until a second hearing takes place in the next few days.\n\nMr Eaton lived in an apartment building opposite the location of the shooting on Prospect Street, according to police. He was reportedly arrested as federal agents were canvassing near the scene on Sunday.\n\nThey searched his home shortly after. \"Evidence collected during that search warrant, and additional evidence developed during the course of this investigation, gave investigators and prosecutors probable cause to believe that Mr Eaton perpetrated the shooting,\" police said.\n\nJason Eaton appeared in court in Burlington on Monday\n\nMr Eaton's mother, Mary Reed, told The Daily Beast her son had struggled with mental health and job security but had been \"in such a good mood\" when they met for Thanksgiving on Thursday.\n\n\"Jason has had a lot of struggles in his life,\" she said. \"I am just shocked by the whole thing.\"\n\nTwo of the victims are US citizens and one is a legal resident, police said.\n\nMr Abdalhamid, was named by Haverford College in Pennsylvania as one of its students. Mr Awartani attends Brown University in Rhode Island and Mr Ahmed is a student at Trinity College in Connecticut.\n\nThey attended Ramallah Friends School, a Quaker-run private non-profit school in Ramallah, together and were visiting Mr Awartani's grandmother for Thanksgiving, according to family members.\n\n\"These are very bright students, they are close friends from first grade,\" the school's head, Rania Maayeh, told CNN.\n\nShe added that Mr Awartani was hit in the spine and \"we are praying that he can walk\".\n\nPolice conducted a search of a property close to where the shooting happened\n\nRich Price, an uncle of one of the victims, said the three men had been visiting an eight-year-old's birthday party. \"The last thing that we imagine could be possible was that in our family neighbourhood, they would walk down the street and this would happen to them,\" he said.\n\n\"Less than five minutes [after] them leaving our home, we saw the sirens and the flashing lights of police cruisers go by our house. And we thought, boy, something's going on.\n\nHe had \"no idea that it was my nephew and his friends.\"\n\nEarlier, the families of the victims released a statement through the pro-Palestinian non-profit organisation Institute for Middle East Understanding.\n\nThey called on law enforcement to conduct a thorough investigation and to treat the attack as a hate crime.\n\nAfter the shooting, the Council on American-Islamic relations offered a $10,000 (£7,900) reward for information leading to an arrest.\n\nAmbassador Husam Zomlot, the head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, posted a photo of the three victims on social media and added: \"The hate crimes against Palestinians must stop.\"", "The prime minister is hosting a group of leading business figures at Hampton Court to highlight foreign firms' plans to invest in the UK.\n\nRishi Sunak said £29.5bn of new investment had been promised, which he described as a \"huge vote of confidence\" in the UK economy.\n\nLast week's Autumn Statement included some measures to encourage more business investment.\n\nBut it came against a backdrop of lower growth forecasts.\n\nThe Autumn Statement measures were largely designed to persuade domestic firms to invest more.\n\nThe government said the UK's track record on attracting foreign investment remained strong.\n\nLast week, Nissan announced that it would build three electric car models at its Sunderland factory as part of a £2bn investment plan which could secure up to 6,000 UK jobs.\n\nHowever, Mr Sunak recently announced that the HS2 high-speed rail line from the West Midlands to Manchester would be scrapped.\n\nEarlier this month, the government was also forced to restructure a deal to entice energy firms to invest in offshore wind farms after an auction last September failed to attract any bidders.\n\nLabour said the government's policies had been a \"total failure\" when it came to growth and business investment.\n\n\"The past 13 years of Conservative government has been marked by a complete lack of stability, consistency and ambition which has turned potential investors away from Britain,\" said Jonathan Reynolds, shadow trade and business secretary.\n\nDeanne Stewart, chief executive of Australia's biggest pension fund Aware Super, is attending the summit on Monday and is opening the firm's first overseas office in London to invest in infrastructure, property and private equity.\n\nCommenting on the recent announcements on HS2 and green energy, she told the BBC's Today programme: \"Certainly as we have spent time with the government, our understanding is there is a healthy pipeline.\n\n\"But in the UK, like in most countries, there is a degree of risk.\"\n\nMs Stewart said that Aware Super plans to invest £5bn in the UK, adding: \"We would not participate in [projects] if they did not have that really strong certainty and really strong policies around them.\"\n\nAs well as Ms Stewart, 200 other business and investment leaders will attend the summit including Stephen Schwarzman, chief executive of investment giant Blackstone and David Solomon from investment bank Goldman Sachs.\n\nMr Sunak pointed to the UK's \"culture of innovation and thriving universities\" and highlighted \"clean energy, life sciences and advanced technology\" as key areas where he said inward investment was already creating jobs and driving growth.\n\nAt the last summit, which was held in 2021, companies promised to invest nearly £10bn in the UK.\n\nHowever, at last week's Autumn Statement, the UK's economic growth forecasts were downgraded by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the independent fiscal watchdog.\n\nIt now expects the economy to grow by 0.7% next year, down from a previous forecast of 1.8%, while in 2025 it predicts growth of 1.4% compared to an earlier estimate of 2.5%.\n\nBusiness and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch said the UK economy was \"doing well despite significant headwinds\".\n\n\"We are dealing with the same problems that many other countries around the world are dealing with,\" she told Sky News.\n\n\"Investors who I hosted at a reception yesterday were telling me about the concerns they have in the US, in France and so on.\"\n\nFigures from the OECD show that foreign direct investment into the UK rose in 2022 to $14bn (£11bn) compared to a $71bn drop in the previous year.\n\nFrance was the only other G7 country to show an increase, rising to $36.3bn last year from $30.8bn. Other countries such as Germany saw a sharp fall, down 76% to $11bn.\n\nBut as a percentage of GDP, foreign direct investment in the UK is the second lowest in the G7.\n\nAccording to accountancy firm EY, France reported the largest number of foreign direct investment projects in 2022, totalling 1,259, ahead of the UK's 929 projects.\n\nThat was followed by Germany which had 832 foreign direct investment projects last year.\n\nDuring the Autumn Statement, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced that tax breaks for firms who invest in their business would be made permanent. It means that companies who spend on equipment, plants and IT can claim back 25p for every £1 they invest.\n\nBut many businesses are paying a higher rate of corporation tax after it rose from 19% to 25% earlier this year.\n\nJamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive of JP Morgan, who is attending the summit, said: \"I think you're doing all the right things to try and grow the economy which helps all of the citizens.\n\nHe said the UK government wanted \"innovation, they want growth, they want reform, they want foreign direct investment, they want all the things that help grow an economy\".\n\nLabour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves also met business leaders on Monday morning.\n\nLabour said businesses discussed what they needed for the UK to attract investment, including \"the need for stability and certainty\" as well as planning reform to speed up the delivery of infrastructure projects and \"access to talent with the skills businesses in the UK need\".\n\nProjects to be confirmed on Monday are expected to include a £10bn investment from Australia's IFM Investors into infrastructure and energy projects and a commitment to build a new lab in Cambridge from BioNTech, the firm which pioneered the mRNA Covid vaccine.\n\nSome of the sums on the list of projects that are being announced at the summit are ones that investors had previously disclosed, and which are now ready to attach a specific investment figure to.\n\nOthers, such as IFM's investments, have already begun, and future investment sums are now being clarified. Other firms are adding new investments to existing portfolios.\n\nAmong the projects being highlighted are a £7bn boost to the amount Spain's Iberdrola is investing in UK electricity transmission and distribution and £2.5bn from Microsoft in AI infrastructure.", "Former police officer Derek Chauvin is serving concurrent prison sentences over the death of George Floyd\n\nMinneapolis ex-police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted in the murder of George Floyd, is reported to be in a stable condition after he was stabbed at an Arizona prison.\n\nThe city's police chief and Minnesota's attorney general confirmed the news.\n\nChauvin, who is white, is serving multiple sentences for the black man's death, which triggered huge protests against police brutality and racism.\n\nA source told AP the 47-year-old was seriously injured by another inmate.\n\nThe Bureau of Prisons confirmed in a statement that an inmate at a federal prison in the city of Tucson was stabbed at 12:30 local time (19:30 GMT) on Friday.\n\nThe agency said employees contained the incident and \"life-saving measures\" were performed on the inmate, who was then taken to hospital. The name of the prisoner was not given.\n\nNobody else is thought to have been injured.\n\nMinnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, quoted by CNN, confirmed that Chauvin had been stabbed and said he was in a stable condition.\n\n\"I am sad to hear that Derek Chauvin was the target of violence,\" Mr Ellison told CNN, in a statement from his office. \"He was duly convicted of his crimes and, like any incarcerated individual, he should be able to serve his sentence without fear of retaliation or violence.\" The state attorney general's office had prosecuted Chauvin in the George Floyd case.\n\nNews of Chauvin's condition was confirmed by Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara, who told local TV station KSTP-TV that he received the update from \"federal law enforcement partners\".\n\n\"We're thankful that he's in a stable condition,\" he said, adding \"anyone who's assaulted like this, regardless of what they've been accused of, deserve to be safe and that's certainly not cause for any celebration.\"\n\nThe news comes days after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Chauvin, in which it was argued that he had not received a fair trial for the killing of Mr Floyd - who died after the former officer knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes in 2020.\n\nThe killing in Minneapolis - captured on a bystander's phone camera - sparked global outrage and a wave of demonstrations against racial injustice and police use of force.\n\nChauvin was later found guilty of Mr Floyd's murder and sentenced to 22 years in prison. He was given a further 20-year sentence in July 2022 for violating Mr Floyd's civil rights.", "Brianna Ghey died after she was found with stab wounds in a park\n\nTwo teenagers accused of murdering Brianna Ghey showed a \"preoccupation\" with \"violence, torture and death\", a court has heard.\n\nThe body of Brianna, 16, who was transgender, was discovered by dog walkers in a park in Culcheth, Cheshire, on 11 February.\n\nManchester Crown Court heard the schoolgirl was stabbed 28 times in a \"sustained and violent assault\".\n\nThe accused pair, who were 15 at the time but now 16, both deny murder.\n\nNeither can be named by court order because of their age and are identified only as girl X, from Warrington, and boy Y, from Leigh, Greater Manchester.\n\nWarning: Some readers might find the following report distressing\n\nOpening the trial, Deanna Heer KC, prosecuting, said messages recovered from the phones of girl X and boy Y showed a \"preoccupation\" with \"violence, torture and death\".\n\nShe said: \"If that was not an unusual way for two teenagers to speak to one another, the messages demonstrate also how, over time, they encouraged one another to think about how they would actually carry out a killing.\n\n\"The messages show how they planned together to kill Brianna in just the way that she was in fact killed.\"\n\nIn November 2022, they discussed killing a child referred to as boy M, the court heard.\n\nIn one message, girl X said: \"If I do end up killing boy M, I have a really sharp blade, the same one that Sweeney Todd uses.\n\n\"If we kill boy M can I keep some things, a couple of teeth and an eye.\"\n\nBrianna Ghey's body was discovered in Culcheth Linear Park by dog walkers\n\nMs Heer said in December, girl X sent boy Y a video which was apparently an advert for an underground site for people who like rape, snuff, torture and murder.\n\nGirl X told boy Y: \"I love watching torture vids. Real ones on the dark web,\" the jury heard.\n\nThe court heard on 1 January, boy Y sent girl X a photo of a hunting knife and told her: \"Spent my money. I bought a knife.\"\n\nMs Heer said it was that knife which was used to kill Brianna six weeks later.\n\nThe court was told in December last year, girl X messaged boy Y telling him she was \"obsessed over someone\" called Brianna but did not have feelings for the teenager.\n\nAfter she sent pictures of Brianna to him, boy Y questioned her gender and made slurs.\n\nMs Heer said on 23 January girl X messaged boy Y telling him she had given Brianna ibuprofen gel tablets that \"should have been enough to kill her\".\n\nThe court heard how girl X also claimed to have killed two people in messages to boy Y, but there was no evidence she had.\n\nMs Heer said they spoke in messages about other people they wanted to kill and by 26 January had compiled a list of at least four people, as well as Brianna.\n\nBrianna Ghey's family arrived at court earlier for the start of the trial\n\nThe court heard girl X created a fake Instagram account to contact one of their targets, referred to as boy E, but it was blocked.\n\nIn a message read to the court, girl X told boy Y: \"If we can't get boy E tomorrow we can kill Brianna.\"\n\nBoy Y said in a reply he wanted to see if Brianna would \"scream like a man or a girl\".\n\nIn one message, girl X said: \"I want to stab her at least once even if she's dead jus coz its fun lol.\"\n\nEarlier, the court heard how two dog walkers were in Culcheth Linear Park when they saw a male and female on the path ahead of them at about 13:30 GMT.\n\nMs Heer said: \"[The woman] saw the male bend down, bending over, as if to tend to a dog, before both he and the female left the path and made their way into an adjacent field, breaking into a run as they did so.\"\n\nBrianna was stabbed in the head and neck and to the back and chest\n\nThe dog walkers continued along the path where they found the \"bloodied body of a young woman lying face down in the mud\".\n\nMs Heer said Brianna had been stabbed 28 times to the head and neck and to the back and chest.\n\nShe said: \"It is accepted that Brianna Ghey was killed with a knife that belonged to boy Y, a knife which he told girl X he would be bringing with him that day and which he said was sharp enough to kill her.\"\n\nThe jury was told each defendant denied murder and denied participating in killing Brianna.\n\nMs Heer said: \"Each blames the other.\n\n\"The prosecution case is that, whoever it was who delivered the fatal blow or blows, both defendants are equally guilty.\n\n\"Acting together, they planned and executed their plan to kill Brianna Ghey.\"\n\nIf you're affected by the issues in this report, you can find support from BBC Action Line\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joint military drills were held between Palestinian armed factions from 2020 onwards\n\nFive armed Palestinian groups joined Hamas in the deadly 7 October attack on Israel after training together in military-style exercises from 2020 onwards, BBC News analysis shows.\n\nThe groups carried out joint drills in Gaza which closely resembled the tactics used during the deadly assault - including at a site less than 1km (0.6 miles) from the barrier with Israel - and posted them on social media.\n\nThey practised hostage-taking, raiding compounds and breaching Israel's defences during these exercises, the last of which was held just 25 days before the attack.\n\nBBC Arabic and BBC Verify have collated evidence which shows how Hamas brought together Gaza's factions to hone their combat methods - and ultimately execute a raid into Israel which has plunged the region into war.\n\nOn 29 December 2020, Hamas's overall leader Ismail Haniyeh declared the first of four drills codenamed Strong Pillar a \"strong message and a sign of unity\" between Gaza's various armed factions.\n\nAs the most powerful of Gaza's armed groups, Hamas was the dominant force in a coalition which brought together 10 other Palestinian factions in a war games-style exercise overseen by a \"joint operation room\".\n\nThe structure was set up in 2018 to coordinate Gaza's armed factions under a central command.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Videos reveal how armed groups trained together before 7 October attacks\n\nPrior to 2018, Hamas had formally coordinated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Gaza's second largest armed faction and - like Hamas - a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK and other countries.\n\nHamas had also fought alongside other groups in previous conflicts, but the 2020 drill was billed in propaganda as evidence a wider array of groups were being unified.\n\nHamas's leader said the first drill reflected the \"permanent readiness\" of the armed factions.\n\nThe 2020 exercise was the first of four joint drills held over three years, each of which was documented in polished videos posted on public social media channels.\n\nThe BBC has visually identified 10 groups, including PIJ, by their distinctive headbands and emblems training alongside Hamas during the Strong Pillar drills in footage posted on the messaging app Telegram.\n\nFollowing the 7 October attack, five of the groups went on to post videos claiming to show them taking part in the assault. Three others issued written statements on Telegram claiming to have participated.\n\nThe role of these groups has come into sharp focus as pressure builds on Hamas to find dozens of women and children believed to have been taken as captives from Israel into Gaza by other factions on 7 October.\n\nThree groups - PIJ, the Mujahideen Brigades and Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades - claim to have seized Israeli hostages, alongside Hamas, on that day.\n\nEfforts to extend the temporary truce in Gaza were said to be hinging on Hamas locating those hostages.\n\nWhile these groups are drawn from a broad ideological spectrum ranging from hard-line Islamist to relatively secular, all shared a willingness to use violence against Israel.\n\nHamas statements repeatedly stressed the theme of unity between Gaza's disparate armed groups. The group suggested they were equal partners in the joint drills, whilst it continued to play a leading role in the plans to attack Israel.\n\nFootage from the first drill shows masked commanders in a bunker appearing to conduct the exercise, and begins with a volley of rocket fire.\n\nIt cuts to heavily armed fighters overrunning a mocked-up tank marked with an Israeli flag, detaining a crew member and dragging him away as a prisoner, as well as raiding buildings.\n\nWe know from videos and harrowing witness statements that both tactics were used to capture soldiers and target civilians on 7 October, when around 1,200 people were killed and an estimated 240 hostages were taken.\n\nThe first Strong Pillar drill propaganda video showed a command room overseeing the joint exercise\n\nThe second Strong Pillar drill was held almost exactly one year later.\n\nAyman Nofal, a commander in the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades - the official name for Hamas's armed wing - said the aim of the exercise on 26 December 2021 was to \"affirm the unity of the resistance factions\".\n\nHe said the drills would \"tell the enemy that the walls and engineering measures on the borders of Gaza will not protect them\".\n\nAnother Hamas statement said the \"joint military manoeuvres\" were designed to \"simulate the liberation of settlements near Gaza\" - which is how the group refers to Israeli communities.\n\nThe exercise was repeated on 28 December 2022, and propaganda images of fighters practising clearing buildings and overrunning tanks in what appears to be a replica of a military base were published to mark the event.\n\nThe exercises were reported on in Israel, so it's inconceivable they were not being closely monitored by the country's extensive intelligence agencies.\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have previously carried out air strikes to disrupt Hamas's training activities. In April 2023, they bombed the site used for the first Strong Pillar drill.\n\nWeeks before the attacks, female surveillance soldiers near the Gaza border reportedly warned of unusually high drone activity and that Hamas was training to take over observation posts with replicas of their positions.\n\nBut, according to reports in the Israeli media, they say they were ignored.\n\nBrigadier General Amir Avivi, a former IDF deputy commander in Gaza, told the BBC: \"There was a lot of intelligence that they were doing this training - after all, the videos are public, and this was happening just hundreds of metres from the fence (with Israel).\"\n\nBut he said while the military knew about the drills, they \"didn't see what they were training for\".\n\nThe IDF said they \"eliminated\" Nofal on 17 October 2023, the first senior Hamas military leader to be killed during the conflict.\n\nHamas went to great lengths to make sure the drills were realistic.\n\nIn 2022, fighters practised storming a mock Israeli military base built just 2.6km (1.6 miles) from the Erez crossing, a route between Gaza and Israel controlled by the IDF.\n\nBBC Verify has pinpointed the site in the far north of Gaza, just 800m (0.5 miles) from the barrier, by matching geographic features seen in the training footage to aerial images of the area. As of November 2023, the site was still visible on Bing Maps.\n\nThe training camp was within 1.6km (1 mile) of an Israeli observation tower and an elevated observation box, elements in a security barrier Israel has spent hundreds of millions of dollars constructing.\n\nThe mock base is on land dug several metres below ground level, so it may not have been immediately visible to any nearby Israeli patrols - but the smoke rising from the explosions surely would have been, and the IDF is known to use aerial surveillance.\n\nHamas used this site to practise storming buildings, taking hostages at gunpoint and destroying security barriers.\n\nBBC Verify has used publicly available information - including satellite imagery - to locate 14 training sites at nine different locations across Gaza.\n\nThey even trained twice at a site less than 1.6 km (1 mile) from the United Nations' aid agency distribution centre, and which was visible in the background of an official video published by the agency in December 2022.\n\nOn 10 September 2023, the so-called joint committee room published images on its dedicated Telegram channel of men in military uniforms carrying out surveillance of military installations along the Gaza barrier.\n\nTwo days later, the fourth Strong Pillar military exercise was staged, and by 7 October, all the tactics that would be deployed in the unprecedented attack had been rehearsed.\n\nFighters were filmed riding in the same type of white Toyota pickup trucks which were seen roaming through southern Israel the following month.\n\nThe propaganda video shows gunmen raiding mock buildings and firing at dummy targets inside, as well as training to storm a beach using a boat and underwater divers. Israel has said it repelled attempted Hamas boat landings on its shores on 7 October.\n\nThe fourth and final Strong Pillar drill saw fighters training on raiding buildings\n\nHowever, Hamas did not publicise its training with motorcycles and paragliders as part of the Strong Pillar propaganda.\n\nA training video posted by Hamas three days after 7 October shows fences and barriers being demolished to allow motorcycles to pass through, a tactic they used to reach communities in southern Israel. We have not identified similar earlier videos.\n\nFootage of fighters using paragliding equipment was also not published until the 7 October attack was under way.\n\nIn a training video shared on the day of the attack, gunmen are seen landing in a mock kibbutz at an airstrip we have located to a site north of Rafah in southern Gaza.\n\nBBC Verify established it was recorded some time before 25 August 2022, and was stored in a computer file titled Eagle Squadron, the name Hamas uses for its aerial division - suggesting the paragliders plan was in the works for over a year.\n\nBefore 7 October, Hamas was thought to have about 30,000 fighters in the Gaza Strip, according to reports quoting IDF commanders. It was also thought that Hamas could draw on several thousands of fighters from smaller groups.\n\nHamas is by far the most powerful of the Palestinian armed groups, even without the support of other factions - suggesting its interest in galvanising the factions was driven by an attempt to secure broad support within Gaza at least as much as bolstering its own numbers.\n\nThe IDF has previously estimated 1,500 fighters joined the 7 October raids. The Times of Israel reported earlier this month the IDF now believes the number was closer to 3,000.\n\nWhatever the true number, it means only a relatively small fraction of the total number of armed operatives in Gaza took part. It is not possible to verify precise numbers for how many fighters from smaller groups took part in the attack or the Strong Pillar drills.\n\nWhile Hamas was building cross-faction support in the build-up to the attack, Hisham Jaber, a former Brigadier General in the Lebanese army who is now a security analyst at the Middle East Centre for Studies and Research, said he believed only Hamas was aware of the ultimate plan, and it was \"probable [they] asked other factions to join on the day\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAndreas Krieg, a senior lecturer in security studies at Kings College London, told the BBC: \"While there was centralised planning, execution was de-centralised, with each squad operationalising the plan as they saw fit.\"\n\nHe said people inside Hamas were said to be surprised by the weakness of Israel's defences, and assessed militants had likely bypassed Israel's surveillance technology by communicating offline.\n\nHugh Lovatt, a Middle East analyst at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said Israel would have been aware of the joint training drills but \"reached the wrong conclusion\", assessing they amounted to the \"standard\" activity of paramilitary groups in the Palestinian territories, rather than being \"indicative of a looming large-scale attack\".\n\nAsked about the issues raised in this article, the Israel Defense Forces said it was \"currently focused on eliminating the threat from the terrorist organisation Hamas\" and questions about any potential failures \"will be looked into in a later stage\".\n\nIt could be several years until Israel formally reckons with whether it missed opportunities to prevent the 7 October massacre.\n\nThe ramifications for its military, intelligence services and government could be seismic.\n\nAdditional reporting by Paul Brown, Kumar Malhotra and Abdirahim Saeed. Video production by Soraya Auer.", "Katie Fowler was woken from an induced coma to meet her baby daughter Abigail before she died\n\nParents of a two-day-old girl who died in hospital after an emergency C-section are calling for a national inquiry into maternity services.\n\nAbigail Fowler Miller died at Brighton's Royal Sussex County Hospital (RSCH), in January last year.\n\nAn inquest last week found her life would have been prolonged if her mother had been admitted to hospital sooner.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust said it had made \"several improvements\" since her death.\n\nIn October, families whose babies have died or been harmed in the care of the NHS called for a statutory public inquiry into England's maternity services.\n\nRobert Miller, Abigail's father, told BBC Newsnight: \"A national inquiry is the only way forward - we cannot continue to treat every incident as a separate tragedy.\"\n\nThe minister for women's health strategy said the Department of Health and Social Care was \"working incredibly hard to improve maternity services\".\n\nOn 21 January 2022, Mr Miller and Katie Fowler contacted the hospital's maternity assessment unit four times during the day.\n\nTheir first phone call was to inform the maternity assessment unit Ms Fowler was in labour, then to report bleeding, and finally to tell them she had become faint and short of breath.\n\nAccording to the Health Safety Investigation Branch's (HSIB) report, staff recorded that Ms Fowler sounded \"distressed\" in the fourth phone call to the unit, and she thought she was having a panic attack.\n\nStaff said she could not answer questions in the fourth phone call because of her \"distressed state\" and she was asked to come into the hospital. Ms Fowler went into cardiac arrest on the journey in a taxi due to a uterine rupture.\n\nAbigail was resuscitated after being born via caesarean\n\nThe couple's daughter, Abigail, was born via caesarean in a hospital reception.\n\nBoth Abigail and her mother needed resuscitating, and Ms Fowler was placed into an induced coma.\n\nAbigail had no heartbeat and was not breathing, according to the HSIB's report.\n\nMs Fowler was brought out of her coma to meet her daughter for the first time and to say goodbye to her, before Abigail died on 23 January.\n\nLast week, an inquest found Abigail had severe hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy, which resulted in multiple organ failure.\n\nConcluding, Coroner Joanne Andrews said the policy of University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, which runs RSCH, required people to have an invitation to attend an assessment.\n\nShe concluded that if Ms Fowler had been offered an assessment, she would have been an in-patient and treated for the rupture - treatment she said could have \"significantly prolonged Abigail's life\".\n\nSpeaking to Newsnight, Ms Fowler said: \"To lose our daughter has destroyed us and to know things should have been different is impossible to come to terms with.\n\n\"Abigail should still be with us. We miss her every single day, but it isn't just about our loss. It's also about hers, of the life she should have had.\"\n\nAbigail was the first and only child of Katie Fowler and Robert Miller\n\nThe HSIB report said Ms Fowler should have been invited into the hospital for an assessment following her third phone call to the maternity assessment unit.\n\nIt found the call document was \"not completed fully\" to allow staff to do a \"dynamic risk assessment\" of Ms Fowler when the couple called.\n\nThis resulted in staff not being alerted to the \"changing clinical picture\", the investigation found.\n\nThe HSIB recommended guidance be put in place to support staff with making decisions on maternity telephone triage services.\n\nA risk assessment tool should be available for the telephone triage service to identify mothers who immediately need an ambulance to get to hospital, the investigation also recommended.\n\nEarlier this month, England's healthcare regulator told BBC News that maternity units currently have the poorest safety ratings of any hospital service it inspects.\n\nBBC analysis of Care Quality Commission (CQC) records showed it deemed two-thirds (67%) of them not to be safe enough, up from 55% last autumn.\n\nThe Brighton couple are now calling for a national inquiry into NHS maternity services. \"\n\nThe need for change is urgent and long overdue, and our own traumatic experience has shown the results of ignoring these issues,\" Mr Miller said.\n\n\"A national inquiry is the only way forward - we cannot continue to treat every incident as a separate tragedy.\n\n\"The government needs to look at the pattern of consistent failures across the UK and make real changes to maternity care to reverse the decline of this vital service.\"\n\nThe couple said they have had to battle to get the answers for their daughter and called on NHS trusts to be willing to have open and honest conversations.\n\nThe Royal Sussex County Hospital had an overall rating of \"inadequate\" in the CQC's inspection in October 2022\n\nEmma Chambers, director of midwifery at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, said it had made \"several improvements\" to how they triage mothers.\n\nThe maternity team \"works incredibly hard\" to provide the \"best care\" to all those using its services, she said.\n\n\"We want to do everything possible to keep them, and their babies safe, and to respond quickly to any early signs that may require a response,\" she said.\n\n\"We have implemented a nationally-recommended triage process and monitor our performance constantly.\"\n\nMaria Caulfield, minister for women's health strategy, said the Department of Health and Social Care had invested £165m since 2021 to \"grow the maternity workforce and improve neonatal services\". However, she said there was \"more to do\".\n\n\"Every parent must be able to have confidence in the care they receive when giving birth, and we are working incredibly hard to improve maternity services, focusing on recruitment, training, and the retention of midwives,\" she added.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this story you can visit BBC Action Line.", "A fresh pay offer has been made to NHS consultants which could end strike action in England.\n\nIt would see many senior doctors in the health service receiving an extra increase from January, on top of the 6% annual rise they have already been given this financial year.\n\nAn extra 4.95% will be put into the consultants' pay pot.\n\nBut the amount individual doctors get will vary from zero to nearly 13% as part of an overhaul of their contracts.\n\nThey will be entitled then to another pay rise in the 2024-25 financial year - although how much that will be has yet to be decided.\n\nThe offer will now be put to British Medical Association (BMA) members, as well as those who are part of the much smaller Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association union.\n\nIn comparison, nurses and other health workers were given 5% and a one-off lump sum of at least £1,655 this year to end their strike action.\n\nThe offer comes after consultants in England have taken part in nine days of strikes in their dispute over pay. Consultants last took strike action in early October.\n\nThe government is also in negotiation with junior doctors over pay. They have been involved in numerous walkouts over the past year, but no deal has yet been reached with them.\n\nThe deal has been signed off by Health Secretary Victoria Atkins just two weeks after she was appointed to the job. Talks had first started under her predecessor Steve Barclay.\n\nBMA consultants leader Dr Vishal Sharma said he was pleased there had been a breakthrough, but added: \"It is a huge shame that it has needed consultants to take industrial action to get to this point.\"\n\nMs Atkins said it was a \"fair and reasonable offer\" that would also help modernise the contract, address gender pay issues and enhance parental leave options.\n\n\"Putting an end to this strike action will support our efforts to bring down waiting lists and offer patients the highest-quality care,\" she added.\n\nStrikes by NHS staff have caused more than one million treatments and appointments to be cancelled, and cost the health service £1bn in premium payments and planning and preparation.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has blamed them for the failure so far to bring down England's hospital waiting list, which is currently at a record high of 7.8 million.\n\nThe in-year pay increase will actually only cost the government 3.45%, after the BMA agreed to end one of the merit awards systems consultants can get to top up basic pay.\n\nAs well as the pay rise, the system of banding doctors will also be streamlined.\n\nThe change is designed to ensure consultants spend less time on the bottom band and rise to the top more quickly, which it is hoped will help women who have taken time out to have, and care for, children.\n\nThe BMA has also agreed to stop pushing for premium rates of up to £269-an-hour for consultants to do overtime.\n\nConsultants will have to wait until April to get the extra money, but it will be backdated to January, if they give the deal their backing.\n\nThe BMA is expected to launch its consultation with members in the coming weeks with a result expected by mid-January. The union's leadership will not go so far as to recommend the deal to members as it says the merits of the deal vary so much depending on what stage of their career a doctor is at making it impossible to give a blanket recommendation.\n\nConsultants had originally asked for an above-inflation pay rise this year - a figure in excess of 11% had been floated - and a commitment to start restoring pay in future years.\n\nThe BMA had argued that since 2008, pay levels had fallen significantly once inflation was taken into account.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rapper Young Thug's racketeering trial has begun with Georgia prosecutors accusing him of being a gang leader in charge of a \"wolf pack\".\n\nThe Atlanta rapper, born Jeffery Lamar Williams, is accused of co-founding a violent street gang in his hometown.\n\nProsecutors are using the critically acclaimed performer's own lyrics as evidence against him.\n\nThe rapper is accused of racketeering - the same charge facing ex-US President Donald Trump in the state.\n\nMr Williams, 32, has been in jail since his May 2022 arrest on charges that also include participating in criminal street gang activity.\n\nHe is being tried alongside five co-defendants.\n\nFulton County Deputy District Attorney Adriane Love told the jury the rapper oversaw dozens of crimes that left a \"crater\" in Fulton County. That crater \"sucked in the youth, innocence and even the lives of some of its youngest members\", she alleged.\n\nIn Monday's colourful opening statement, which was interrupted several times by defence attorneys, Mrs Love said that Mr Williams' lyrics \"bore a very eerie significance to real life\" and the crimes the gang is alleged to have committed.\n\nHer opening statement included portions of lyrics, including one from another allegedly associated gang member referring to a murder.\n\n\"We didn't chase any of the lyrics to solve any murders,\" she said. \"Law enforcement in Fulton County chased the murders and found the lyrics.\"\n\nProsecutors in Fulton County argue that the rapper's music label YSL is not a true business, despite its success at producing Grammy-winning talent. Instead, they allege, it is a street gang affiliated with the US-based Bloods gang.\n\nIn an indictment in May, the district attorney's office alleged the YSL co-defendants were linked to offences including murder, armed robbery and carjacking.\n\nMrs Love said that the group \"moved like a pack\" that \"had an agreement - unspoken, but no less an agreement\" to obtain \"things of value\" and property through illegal activity.\n\nIf found guilty, Mr Williams could face decades in prison.\n\nThe opening day of the trial, however, was marred by repeated objections, delays and a call for a mistrial, prompting Judge Ural Glanville to remark that he is \"not happy about this\".\n\nGeorgia prosecutors used the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (Rico) Act - famously used in mafia prosecutions - to charge the rapper and 27 associates who were allegedly involved in the criminal enterprise at various levels.\n\nFulton County prosecutors also cited the Rico Act to build a case against Mr Trump and 18 co-defendants, alleging they \"unlawfully conspired\" to change the 2020 election outcome as part of a \"criminal enterprise\".\n\nNeama Rahmani, a trial lawyer who is closely watching both cases in Fulton County, says that if prosecutors can win their case against YSL, they are more likely to succeed in prosecuting Mr Trump and his alleged co-conspirators.\n\nThe challenge, he says, is that \"organisation\" under the Rico law is \"really loosely defined\". In both YSL and the Trump campaign's case, prosecutors are wading into \"uncharted waters\", Mr Rahmani says, as it is unclear whether they will meet the legal standard.\n\nProsecutors say they plan to call up to 400 witnesses in Mr Williams' trial to clarify the \"organisation\" at its centre. Popular rappers such as Killer Mike, Lil Wayne, and TI could be among those set to testify.\n\nThe trial, which is expected to last around six months, is part of an investigation that prosecutors said has been ongoing for about 10 years.\n\nDuring that period, Young Thug - who co-wrote the Donald Glover song This is America - has been a growing force in hip-hop.\n\nThis month Judge Glanville ruled that prosecutors would be allowed to use some of Mr Williams' rap lyrics as evidence that crimes had been committed by the defendants.\n\nThat lyrics from his songs are being used as evidence in the case has raised questions about free speech, artistic expression and racial bias, but prosecutors dismissed those arguments.\n\nThe judge's ruling allowed 17 sets of lyrics to be introduced, but only as long as prosecutors could tie them to crimes that they say were committed by YSL members.\n\nProsecutors argue that lyrics from the 2018 track Anybody featuring Nicki Minaj refer to a killing authorised by Mr Williams.\n\n\"I never killed anybody, but I got something to do with that body,\" he repeats in the song's chorus, adding that he is the \"general\" of the group.\n\nAnother lyric cited by prosecutors refers to a \"hundred rounds in a Tahoe\". They allege that one of YSL's murder victims was inside a Chevy Tahoe when he was gunned down.\n\nKevin Liles, the CEO of Warner Music's 300 Entertainment, which represents Mr Williams, was present at the trial on Monday and is among the witnesses expected to be called to testify.\n\n\"If this were country music, rock music,\" he told reporters outside court, \"we wouldn't be here.\"", "Ahmed al-Naouq took this family selfie four years ago - most of the children in the photo are now dead\n\nWhole families have been wiped out in Israel's air strikes on the densely populated streets of Gaza, where many Palestinians live in multi-generational homes. Three Palestinians in the UK told the BBC that more than 20 of their relatives had been killed in one blow - and many were still stuck under the rubble.\n\nIt was just another lazy, sunny Friday afternoon four years ago when Ahmed al-Naouq snapped this selfie with his family. But he remembers it well, especially now.\n\nUnder the shade of olive trees by his father's house, his sisters and brothers got together with their children to eat, play and chat.\n\nTaking a break from running around, the children were ready to eat when Ahmed captured them together. Now, most of them are dead, he says.\n\nThey were killed in an air strike which struck the family home on 22 October. In total, 21 people were killed including his father, three sisters, two brothers and 14 of their children.\n\nMore than 11,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli bombardment, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry. The air strikes began after the 7 October attack by Hamas, in which Israel says about 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 taken hostage.\n\nIsrael says its strategy in Gaza has been to root out Hamas which it accuses of operating in the heart of civilian communities - and that it takes steps to mitigate civilian casualties.\n\nIn Ahmed's photo, only seven of the children who were killed appear. Some weren't there that day, some weren't even born.\n\nLike many Palestinians, Ahmed's brothers built their family homes above their father's - a tradition which means generations are being wiped out in one fell swoop.\n\nAhmed, who moved to London to work with an NGO, last saw family members, such as his nephew Abdullah, in 2019\n\nHis sister Aya had gone there to take shelter with her children after her own apartment was damaged by an air strike. His other sisters, Walaa and Alaa, were there too with their children. The house was in the centre of Gaza in the town of Deir al-Balah, an area that had never been targeted before. They thought it was safe.\n\n\"I thought it's a scary time for them but they will be OK,\" Ahmed says, stunned now by his naivety.\n\nAhmed moved to London four years ago to work for an NGO and hasn't been home since. The last time he saw the children together was by video call. He had been given a bonus and, as part of a family tradition, he promised his nieces and nephews a treat.\n\n\"They all said that they want to go to the beach and rent a chalet and have food and dance together and enjoy,\" he says. So, he hired one and bought them dinner and snacks.\n\nAbdullah was six when he was killed\n\nThe children called him from the beach that day, fighting over the phone to talk.\n\nSo many of them are dead now that Ahmed stumbles as he remembers the names and ages of each one.\n\nHis 13-year-old nephew Eslam was the eldest and the one he knew best. Ahmed was a teenager and living at home when Eslam was born. His mum looked after the baby while his sister was at work, so Ahmed often helped to feed and change him.\n\nAs Eslam grew older, he said wanted to be like his uncle. He was the top of his class, Ahmed says and working hard at English so that he could also come to the UK.\n\nEslam was killed alongside his little sisters - Dima who was 10, Tala who was nine, Nour who was five and Nasma who was two, as well as his cousins Raghad (aged 13), Bakr (aged 11), girls Eslam and Sarah who were both nine, Mohamed and Basema who were eight and Abdullah and Tamim who were six.\n\nAfter the attack, Ahmed posted pictures of each of the children online to let the world know what had happened to them. Among them was three-year-old Omar. The little boy had been in bed with his mum Shimaa and dad Muhammed - Ahmed's brother - when the bomb fell.\n\nThen Ahmed got a call from one of his surviving sisters: Omar was alive. Ahmed's brother Muhammed had been killed but Shimaa and her little boy miraculously survived.\n\n\"That was the happiest moment in my life, ever,\" Ahmed says.\n\nThe only other person pulled from the rubble alive was 11-year-old Malak. She was badly injured, with burns over half of her body.\n\nWhen I met Ahmed, he showed me a picture of Malak in her hospital bed - her body was entirely covered in bandages. At first, I mistook her for a boy because her hair was short. It must have burned in the fire, Ahmed said.\n\nMalak, 11 was pulled from the rubble alive but badly injured. Her brothers Mohamed, 9, and Tamim, 6, were killed in the blast\n\nMalak's father wasn't in the house when it was hit and he is alive. But his wife and two other children were killed. When Ahmed messaged him to ask how he was doing, he replied: \"A body, no soul.\"\n\nA week after the bomb, communications from Gaza were almost entirely cut off as Israel escalated its attack, and Ahmed couldn't contact anyone. When the signal was reconnected two days later, he learned that Malak had died.\n\nMedical supplies were dwindling to nothing and the 11-year-old had to be taken off the ICU unit when a more urgent case came in. She was in a lot of pain.\n\n\"I died a hundred times every day,\" her father told Ahmed, as he watched the eldest and last of his three children fade away.\n\nYoussef was among 20 members of one family killed in one blow. He was aged four\n\nJust before the communication blackout, Ahmed also found out that his uncle's house had been hit. He's still not sure who was killed there. On Tuesday, he also learned that the home of his close friends Maisara and Laura had been hit. Again several generations were killed - Laura survived but Maisara is still missing underneath the rubble.\n\nIn all, we spoke to three people in the UK who had each lost more than 20 family members in Gaza.\n\nDarwish al-Manaama told the BBC that 44 of his family died. Among them was his niece Salma and her husband, their four adult children and their grandchild who was barely one.\n\nDarwish found out his family had died from a list sent to him on WhatsApp. After sharing some details, he was too overwhelmed to talk.\n\nYara Sharif, an architect and academic in London, sent me photos of her aunt's family home which was destroyed in an Israeli strike a week into the war.\n\n\"It was a very beautiful house,\" Yara says, \"A beautiful mansion with a big courtyard in the middle.\" Like Ahmed's family, the sons built apartments for their own families on top of their parents.\n\nFatima, 5, and Anas, 3, in the garden of their home in northern Gaza before they were killed\n\nYara found out that 20 of her relatives had been killed on Facebook - her aunt and uncle, her two cousins and their 10 children, as well as six members of the extended family.\n\nSome of their bodies were pulled from the rubble and they appear as numbers on the list of dead released by the Ministry of Health.\n\nYara sent us a screenshot of the list with a rough red mark by each name and, on the right-hand side, their ages. Sama was 16, Omar and Fahmy were 14-year-old twins, Abdulrahman was 13, Fatima 10, Obaida seven, cousins Aleman and Fatima were both five, Youssef was four and Sarah and Anas were three.\n\nYara has two cousins left. They asked not to be named, worried by an unsubstantiated rumour that those who speak to the media are being targeted.\n\nThe sisters are in different parts of Gaza and can't reach each other to hold a funeral or grieve. And anyway, as Yara's cousin messaged her: \"Muhammed's body and Mama's and the two children are still under the rubble.\"\n\nAbdulrahman died with his cousins, twins Omar and Fahmy. Fahmy's body has yet to be recovered from the rubble\n\nThere is not enough fuel to run excavator machines in Gaza and any that are working are needed to rescue those who are alive.\n\nOn Friday, as I sat with Ahmed al-Naouq watching the news, the list of the dead scrolled down the screen. I asked him if his family were on it. \"Only 12 of them,\" he said. The other nine hadn't yet been recovered.\n\nAfter the bombing, his oldest sister, who was at her own home when it happened, went to visit the ruins. But she told Ahmed she couldn't stay long because she couldn't stand the smell of rotting flesh.\n\nAhmed struggles to keep in touch with his surviving sisters. Often phones aren't working, and he loses touch with them.\n\nHe struggles to find the words in English to describe what he has been feeling since the bombing, saying it feels as if his heart is no longer in his chest. Crying is pointless, he says, because it changes nothing.\n\n\"I feel like I can't stand still. I can't sit still. I can't sleep at night,\" he says. \"There's nothing you can do to stop this feeling.\"\n\nAhmed says he can't sleep since the bombs killed his family, including Sara, 9, Raghad, 13 and Abdullah, 6, and Eslam, 8\n\nAhmed says his father was the kindest man he had ever known. He worked hard driving a taxi and in construction to build a home for his children and educate them well. He listened obsessively to the news and believed the only solution to this conflict was a one-state solution, where Jews and Palestinians would live alongside each other in peace.\n\nBut thinking of his only surviving nephew, Ahmed wonders: after this war has taken so many people he loves, what will Omar believe?", "You won't find a politician saying it loud, but fear matters.\n\nRunning a government or a political party is not a business where the aim is to hold hands and sing Kumbaya.\n\nThe task to is win power. To hold on to it. To get things done. And then win again.\n\nCommon beliefs, loyalty, and a desire to serve can bind politicians together.\n\nBut fear is one of the currencies prime ministers can require to succeed.\n\nAs one senior Conservative told me: \"People need to be scared of Number 10.\"\n\nThat force can stop ministers doing daft things, or make them do things they don't want to, or just keep them in line.\n\nUltimately, it is the fear of losing their precious jobs, their red box, their ministerial limo, their standing, their reputation, that matters in the fraught day to day of government.\n\nRishi Sunak is never going to cosplay some kind of political hard man.\n\nBut he faces a political danger right now that every moment longer he keeps his headline-happy home secretary on, that fear falls away.\n\nThe prime minister is known not just for wanting to find the facts, but wanting to study them before making decisions.\n\nWe saw that in long running embarrassments over the tax affairs of the former Conservative Party chair, Nadhim Zahawi, and bullying claims about the previous foreign secretary, Dominic Raab.\n\nIn political terms both of those situations dragged on for aeons before the two ministers were shown the door.\n\nBut on this occasion there seems little need for a long-winded process or internal investigations into what happened.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman and her team were told to tone down her language in an article for The Times. They refused to make all the changes.\n\nEither Rishi Sunak reckons that defiance merits a P45 or not.\n\nBut as I write Downing Street is in the uncomfortable position of having disowned the article, distancing themselves from the home secretary, but then delayed making a further decision.\n\nNow they are stuck with almost impossible choreography.\n\n\"I think it all depends on this weekend,\" says one senior MP.\n\nMrs Braverman's language related to the policing of protests and Remembrance events.\n\nThere is a logic therefore in Number 10 getting through the next 48 hours before making a public decision on if she should stay or go.\n\nIf she had been fired already, and there was trouble on the streets - and there have been clashes between police and counter-protesters - Mrs Braverman would have been able to say a giant \"I told you so\".\n\nBut if the weekend's events pass relatively smoothly, then some in government are convinced that on Monday she is out.\n\n\"I'd put your money on it,\" one cabinet source told me, suggesting confidently the plan to fire her then has already been hatched, \"the position is pretty entrenched\".\n\nYet, other sources in government suggest Rishi Sunak's natural caution will see him wait for another big event to pass, Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling on the government's plan to send migrants to Rwanda.\n\nSuella Braverman was appointed to keep the Tory right happy\n\nSuella Braverman has been the biggest champion of this proposal all along.\n\nIf the government wins, and can get on with it, that's a victory for her as well as the PM.\n\nIf she is sacked then - after a positive verdict - there is less of a row to have, the message could be: \"Thank you for your marvellous work, now time for a fresh start.\"\n\nBut if the government loses, and then she is shown the door, she has more ammunition to make things awkward, more likely to try to push the Tory Party further on immigration, reinvigorating calls to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, which is a source of argument in Conservative ranks.\n\nSeveral ministers reckon therefore Mr Sunak will wait until that's clear. \"Next Wednesday is a big day that is finally arriving and I'd be astonished if the PM did anything ahead of that,\" said one.\n\nBut there is always a reason politicians can find to wait.\n\nDoes Number 10 really want to change its cast list a few days before the chancellor's big Autumn Statement the week after?\n\nDoes the PM really want to carry out a major reshuffle, perhaps the last before a general election campaign, right now?\n\nIf politicians want to delay, there is, always a reason to wait.\n\nThe pause while Number 10 has been working out what to do has displayed the other reason for hanging on to Mrs Braverman.\n\nThe dangling prospect of sacking the home secretary has prompted screams from the Conservative right, and newspaper headlines about the revenge which would surely follow.\n\nTrying to keep the right happy was the reason Rishi Sunak hired Suella Braverman in the first place.\n\nRemember, she had previously been ditched by Liz Truss when found to have broken ministers' rules.\n\nIt was obvious from the very start that she would be highly likely to grab headlines and be willing to cause political trouble.\n\nWhen he was trying to get to Number 10 - after the Truss implosion - Mrs Braverman's support was a valuable totem for Team Sunak from the right wing of the party.\n\nSince then, while the PM and the home secretary differ hugely in how they use language, there isn't that much variation between the two of them on ideas.\n\nAnd as far as some of Suella Braverman's backers are concerned she has done exactly what she was hired to do.\n\nThat is, talk to the public with conviction about the government's desire to get on top of immigration, and, in the words of one of her allies, \"convince people that we mean it\".\n\nBut there is no question Number 10 is, in the words of one cabinet minister \"deeply hacked off\" at her recent behaviour.\n\nIt's not just the fuss over her newspaper article.\n\nMultiple sources have said her remarks about tents for homeless people have caused huge political damage.\n\n\"It's become the Suella show,\" a minister says. \"It's cumulative,\" another claims.\n\nAnd many Sunak loyalists don't believe the threat Mrs Braverman would present if she is sacked in a giant huff is as significant as her allies, and some headlines, suggest.\n\n\"There is no army that will rise up behind her,\" suggests one cabinet minister.\n\nAnother member of the government says \"her support in Parliament is very, very over stated,\" take away the red box and the car, and she will look like what she was, \"an outlier from the start\".\n\nBut even a small group of politicians determined to make a racket can do so.\n\nIf Mrs Braverman is sacked there will be a backlash of a sort, in parts of the party, and parts of the press.\n\nThere are warnings, however credible, that a small number of other members of the government might leave alongside her if she is fired or walks.\n\nYet, there seems a growing sense in government that there is less and less to be gained from trying to trying to keep every MP happy.\n\nAnd while Mrs Braverman's backers say time and again that she represents many of the public, she alienates others.\n\nOne pollster suggests Mrs Braverman's style could \"peel back some Reform UK's voters, but the combination of alienating more Cameronite Tories and a total sense of government chaos and disunity far outweighs\" that appeal.\n\nThe political question for Rishi Sunak is not whether the perfect process was followed in agreeing a cabinet minister's newspaper article.\n\nBut whether he is willing to keep using up political energy to try to preserve the fraying edges of the Conservative Party.\n\nMr Sunak is grappling with an almost impossible choreography, some Conservatives reckon the party is an almost impossible coalition now too.\n\nHowever the prime minister decides to manage his way out of this tangle it has already dented Downing Street's authority.\n\nOne minister told me: \"If you don't think that actions have consequences and you can say what you like, do what you want, it's harmful for Number 10.\"\n\nThere are logical reasons why Mr Sunak has not yet made a decision with the protests this weekend, and the court ruling on Wednesday.\n\nThere are political reasons why it's not a slam dunk, because there is a risk, although perhaps not as great as often billed, of retribution from the right of the Conservative Party that would be hard to manage, and indeed, to predict.\n\nBut the bigger reality for Downing Street is perhaps that Suella Braverman acted as she did because she didn't fear any consequences.\n\nIf members of any government ignore what the Number 10 machine says, but they get away with it, even for a few days, the prime minister's authority erodes, discipline disappears.\n\n\"Nobody is frightened of Downing Street any more,\" one senior Tory told me.\n\nAn administration that can't put the frighteners on is an administration in trouble.", "Elianne Andam's final journey was in a white coach pulled by white horses\n\nMourners have paid their respects at a funeral for \"remarkable\" Elianne Andam, who was fatally stabbed in south London in September.\n\nThe 15-year-old girl was killed while on her way to school in Croydon.\n\nHundreds of people in colourful T-shirts lined the route of the funeral procession on Saturday morning.\n\nThe family service at the New Life Christian Centre was live streamed for the community.\n\nA white coach pulled by white horses with pink head plumes took Elianne on her last journey through Croydon, which included a short \"act of remembrance\" outside Old Palace School, where Elianne was a student.\n\nPink floral tributes reading \"Sis\" and \"Daughter\" were at the service\n\nSobs were heard from the crowd who had come to stand along the route. Some wore T-shirts with Elianne's smile beaming from the centre, with \"shine bright Elianne\" on the back.\n\nThe large congregation was invited to watch the live stream of the funeral inside a Salvation Army building across the road which was opened especially to accommodate the people who could not fit into the New Life Christian Centre.\n\nElianne was described as a \"remarkable and multifaceted individual\" with an \"infectious enthusiasm for all things good and beautiful,\" in a eulogy read by her aunt Sylvia.\n\nShe spoke of the 15-year-old's love for music, friends, fashion, gymnastics, drawing, cooking and singing, adding that she had a \"charismatic and vivacious\" personality.\n\n\"As we say goodbye to Elianne, we take comfort in the knowledge that she is at peace, with her faith realised,\" she said.\n\n\"Her memory will forever be cherished in our hearts. We look forward to the day when we will meet again in eternity.\n\nA 17-year-old boy is charged with Elianne's murder and is due to appear in court on 19 December.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Family of Elianne Andam not the same since killing", "We'll be pausing our live coverage of the Israel-Gaza War for the next few hours, so here's a quick round-up of all the latest developments.\n\nThe World Health Organization has warned of a \"dire and perilous\" situation at Gaza's main medical facility, Al-Shifa Hospital, which is experiencing a near-complete power outage and shortages of food and water.\n\nWHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said \"constant gunfire and bombings\" in the area around the hospital have \"exacerbated the already critical circumstances\" and that Al-Shifa \"is not functioning as a hospital anymore\".\n\nThe Israeli military has reiterated it is \"ready to help\" evacuate the dozens of vulnerable newborn babies being cared for at the site to another hospital.\n\nAl-Shifa's head of surgery, Dr Marwan Abu Saada, has told the BBC that a third premature newborn baby has died because of a lack of power.\n\nBabies that were previously in incubators have been moved to beds in a surgical ward, after a lack of electricity forced the neonatal unit to shut down Image caption: Babies that were previously in incubators have been moved to beds in a surgical ward, after a lack of electricity forced the neonatal unit to shut down\n\nDozens of other newborns are currently not receiving the care they need and the surgeon said he is \"afraid we are going to lose the lives of all [the] babies\".\n\nAlso speaking to the BBC earlier, Israeli president Isaac Herzog repeated an allegation that Hamas has its headquarters underneath Al-Shifa. Hamas denies using the hospital for military purposes.\n\nDr Abu Saada also described Israel's allegation as a \"big lie\" and issued an \"open invitation\" to its nearby forces to come and inspect the building.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tanks outside the Rantisi children's hospital in Gaza\n\nShelling, gunshots and explosions took place outside Gaza City hospitals on Friday as Israeli forces continued their ground operation against Hamas.\n\nIsrael has always maintained that Hamas fighters hide in tunnels under hospitals, making the structures legitimate targets.\n\nThe Red Cross warned that hospitals in Gaza had \"reached a point of no return\".\n\nIt added that its staff attempting to deliver medical supplies had witnessed \"horrendous\" scenes, and described the destruction as \"unbearable\".\n\nIn Gaza as a whole, the Hamas-run health ministry says 11,078 people have been killed since the start of the war and more than 27,000 others have been injured.\n\nIsrael's bombardment of Gaza and ground operations followed Hamas's unprecedented mass attack on southern Israel on 7 October.\n\nOn Friday evening, Israel revised down the number of people killed during the attack to about 1,200, from the earlier figure of 1,400.\n\nForeign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat said the revised number was because many bodies were not immediately identified after the attack, and \"now we think those belong to terrorists... not Israeli casualties\".\n\nReports that Israeli forces in Gaza were surrounding several hospitals in Gaza City began to emerge early on Friday morning.\n\nOne person inside the Al-Quds hospital told the BBC that they could hear \"continuous clashes and explosions\", while eyewitnesses near the Al-Rantisi Paediatric Hospital said that Israeli troops were using megaphones to order anyone who was not medical staff or patients to leave the premises.\n\nIn one video posted on social media and verified by the BBC, a large group of civilians - many of them carrying white flags - can be seen trying to leave the courtyard of another hospital, Al-Nasr, when gunshots ring out, sending panicked people running for cover.\n\nVideos posted on social media appeared to show the aftermath of a missile or mortar striking the courtyard at Al-Shifa, the city's largest hospital, while others appeared to show dead children and scenes of panic outside the outpatients' clinic.\n\nDr Ashraf al-Qudra, a spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, said that up to five Israeli strikes had damaged parts of Al-Shifa hospital, including the maternity ward.\n\n\"If Al-Shifa hospital goes out of service it will be a disaster for the people of Gaza City,\" Dr Al-Qudra said, adding that staff were afraid.\n\nThe Hamas government reported 13 deaths at Al-Shifa, while Dr Al-Qudra said he knew of one fatality but could not confirm any others.\n\nPeople inside Al-Shifa said they could still hear explosions and firing around the hospital and that Israeli tanks were about 100m (328ft) away.\n\nThe director of the hospital told the BBC that around 15,000 people remained in the structure - largely the elderly and the sick who cannot make the journey further south to where Israel has promised greater safety. He added that staff were overwhelmed by the number of injured people and were having to treat people in corridors and on the floor.\n\nAl-Shifa - where 15,000 people are thought to be sheltering - is Gaza City's largest hospital\n\nThe fighting around Al-Quds hospital also intensified as night fell. The BBC understands an Israeli navy ship was involved as well as tanks, which have surrounded the hospital.\n\nSpeaking at the UN Security Council on Friday, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the situation on the ground in Gaza was \"impossible to describe\".\n\nDr Tedros said that hospital corridors were \"crammed with the injured, the sick, the dying\", that morgues were \"overflowing\", and that surgeries was being performed without anaesthesia.\n\nHe added that half of the Gaza Strip's 36 hospitals were not functioning at all, and that the remaining ones were operating \"way beyond their capacities\". He said that civilians in Gaza \"are not responsible for this violence, but are suffering in ways that we in this room cannot imagine.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the IDF \"does not fire on hospitals\" but that \"we'll do what we need to\" if Hamas fired from hospital grounds.\n\nWhen asked what the plan was to deal with patients in the hospitals who could not walk, or those who were on drips and with broken bones, he said: \"Our plan is - and we're taking an operational risk here - we're saying to Hamas to move people south.\"\n\nHamas has previously denied claims that it places command posts under Gaza hospitals to use them as shields.\n\nThe US says Israel has agreed to daily four-hour military pauses in northern Gaza for humanitarian purposes - yet the fighting remained intense on Friday.", "The case against a member of the armed forces accused of sharing \"highly sensitive military information\" has been dropped.\n\nThomas Newsome, 37, was charged over an alleged breach of the Official Secrets Act and was due to face trial in 2024.\n\nBut prosecutors dropped the case in light of a report about the defendant's mental health and the length of time he had already spent in custody.\n\nIt means Mr Newsome - who denied wrongdoing - has been formally cleared.\n\nThe latest hearing in his case took place at the Old Bailey on Friday, but the prosecution offered no evidence against the defendant.\n\nProsecutor Tom Little KC said Mr Newsome had been suffering from a mental health condition which was linked to the reasons for his prosecution.\n\nMr Newsome's alleged offence arose from \"grievances\" with his employer, the court heard.\n\nAn earlier hearing heard claimed Mr Newsome, who is from Poole in Dorset, shared a 10-page document after returning to the UK from an unspecified overseas deployment on 17 April.\n\nInformation about his unit and posting cannot be disclosed for legal reasons.\n\nMr Newsome was accused of making the \"damaging disclosure of information relating to defence\" to two senior officers and a civilian living outside the UK.\n\nA second allegation related to possession of a USB stick said to have contained \"highly sensitive material\".\n\nMr Newsome had been due to face a trial at Kingston Crown Court on 8 April next year.\n\nHe had appeared at the Old Bailey by video link from his home for the brief hearing and pleaded not guilty before the prosecution signalled they would not pursue the case.", "An iconic leather jacket worn by Michael Jackson in the 1980s has been bought for £250,000 ($306,000).\n\nThe black-and-white garment, worn by the late singer in a Pepsi advert, had been expected to sell for between £200,000 and £400,000 at the auction.\n\nThe item was among more than 200 pieces of music memorabilia sold in London on Friday, including a George Michael jacket and an Amy Winehouse hairpiece.\n\nPieces linked to David Bowie, Oasis and The Beatles also went under the hammer.\n\nJackson wore the jacket in 1984, in the first of a series of commercials the superstar did for the soft drink company.\n\nThose adverts are mainly remembered for an incident owhich saw Jackson's hair catch fire during one filming session, leaving him with serious burns. He was wearing a different jacket at the time.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Giraldi Media This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWham! star Michael wore his La Rocka jacket while duetting alongside US singer Aretha Franklin in I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me). It sold for £93,750 ($115,000) - also including the buyer's premium - as part of the four-day Propstore entertainment sale.\n\nThat was significantly more than the guide price, of between £30,000 and £60,000.\n\nAnother high-ticket item was a beehive hairpiece worn by British singer Amy Winehouse for a 2007 music video You Know I'm No Good, from her last album Back To Black.\n\nIt sold for £18,750 ($22,900), slightly above the lower end of its estimated value.\n\nOther featured items included ones linked to Elvis Presley, Queen and Johnny Marr.\n\nA Gibson guitar that belonged to AC/DC's Angus Young went unsold, as did a limited edition Yellow Submarine Beatles jukebox.\n\nMark Hochman, director of music and posters at Propstore, explained ahead of the auction that this was the first time many of the items had been put on sale to the public.\n\nMemorabilia belonging to Jackson has previously sold for thousands, including a black fedora hat that he wore just before performing his famous moonwalk dance for the first time in 1983.\n\nThat sold at an Paris auction in September for €77,640 (£67,088).", "Sag-Aftra's negotiating team shared details of the agreement in Los Angeles on Friday\n\nA tentative deal between actors and Hollywood studios includes AI safeguards and requirements for intimacy co-ordinators on set.\n\nActors' union Sag-Aftra announced some details of its agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and TV Producers (AMPTP) on Friday.\n\nIt said its national board had voted to back the agreement with 86% approval.\n\nIt will be sent to the union's 160,000 members for final ratification next week.\n\nBut actors are able to return to work immediately.\n\nThe agreement was announced by the union on Wednesday, bringing a likely end to a four-month strike that, combined with a separate writers' strike, severely disrupted film and TV production.\n\nOn Friday, it gave more detail on its contents and said it included, among other things:\n\n\"We collectively feel this deal was made at the point it should've been made,\" chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland said in Los Angeles. \"It achieves the absolute best.\"\n\nHe said the AI protections \"make sure that performers are protected. Their rights to consent are protected. Their rights to fair compensation and their rights to employment are protected\".\n\nStudios have been experimenting with AI in recent years, and safeguards for actors formed a key part of the negotiations.\n\nThere were some fears that background actors could be the first to lose their jobs as a result of AI. \"No use of a digital replica can be used to evade engagement and payment of a background actor under this contract,\" Mr Crabtree-Ireland said.\n\nThe union earlier said it valued the three-year deal, which was welcomed by high-profile stars including Jamie Lee Curtis and Zac Efron, at more than $1bn (£814m).\n\nA full summary of the contract is due to be released on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sag-Aftra actors get a new contract. What's in it?\n\nAlthough Hollywood's star actors earn millions of dollars, many lesser-known performers often struggle to get by, particularly amid rising inflation and industry changes.\n\nThe 118-day shutdown was the longest in the union's 90-year history.\n\nThe combination of the actors' and writers' strikes is estimated to have cost the California economy more than $6.5bn, according to Deadline.\n\nAs well as production delays, actors did not attend events such as premieres while the strike was taking place, as union rules prohibit them from taking any work, including promotion or publicity for projects.", "The Met said the faked audio of the Mayor of London did not amount to a crime\n\nPolice say faked audio purporting to capture the Mayor of London calling for Armistice Day to be re-scheduled for a pro-Palestinian march \"does not constitute a criminal offence\".\n\nSadiq Khan's office said false material was being \"circulated and amplified by a far-right group\".\n\nA Met spokesperson said specialist officers had reviewed the content.\n\nThey described it as \"artificial audio\" that had been brought to the attention of the force.\n\nSecurity minister Tom Tugendhat said he was aware of the fake and called for people not to \"repost or amplify it\".\n\nIt came as the Met prepared for an unprecedented security operation ahead of a pro-Palestine demonstration in London on Armistice Day on Saturday.\n\nThe force has warned there is a risk of clashes with far-right groups.\n\nIn one piece of fake audio circulating on social media, the words falsely purporting to be those of Mr Khan suggest Remembrance events could be put back a week.\n\nThe phoney speech also draws comparison between Remembrance events and the pro-Palestinian demonstration in terms of importance.\n\nThe Met is deploying almost 2,000 officers across central London throughout Saturday and Sunday, Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday respectively.\n\nA spokesperson for the force explained: \"Officers from Counter Terrorism Policing continue to review online content and material that is referred to us by members of the public.\n\n\"We will investigate and take enforcement actions where criminal offences are identified.\"\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Police officers take their positions by the Cenotaph in Whitehall on Saturday morning\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says it is facing a challenging situation in London, as a large pro-Palestinian demonstration coincides with Armistice Day.\n\nHundreds of thousands of protesters are expected to take part in the march, to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.\n\nPolice say there is a risk of clashes with far-right groups, and have set up an exclusion zone around the Cenotaph.\n\nThe PM has called the timing of the pro-Palestinian march disrespectful.\n\nRishi Sunak also urged those taking part to do so calmly and with regard for those attending services to commemorate the end of World War One.\n\n\"It is because of those who fought for this country and for the freedom we cherish that those who wish to protest can do so, but they must do so respectfully and peacefully,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\n\"Remembrance weekend is sacred for us all and should be a moment of unity, of our shared British values and of solemn reflection.\"\n\nThe Met said officers faced some \"aggression from counter-protesters who are in the area in significant numbers\", ahead of a service at the Cenotaph war memorial where a two-minute silence was held.\n\nThe force said the two minutes' silence there was observed \"respectfully\". Officers are now tracking \"different groups\" moving away from Whitehall towards other parts of central London, the Met said.\n\nLater, the King and Queen along with members of the Royal Family will attend the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall - ahead of the main service on Remembrance Sunday.\n\nHundreds of people gathered at London's Cenotaph to observe two minutes of silence at 11:00, commemorating the UK's war dead\n\nThe Met expects Saturday's pro-Palestinian demonstration to be the largest since weekly marches began in early October, and it is deploying nearly 2,000 officers across central London.\n\nPolice have warned the use of force is \"likely\", amid concerns around counter-marches by far-right groups.\n\nThe Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which has organised the march, has repeatedly stressed their route does not go past the Cenotaph, and has rejected appeals by the Met and politicians to postpone.\n\nDemonstrators gathered at Hyde Park around noon, with the protest due to move from there to the US embassy in Vauxhall, and ending at 16:00 GMT.\n\nThe officer in charge of policing Saturday's protest, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, said the Met's job was to police \"without fear or favour\", balancing the rights of all.\n\nHe added it would be a \"very difficult weekend\" but the focus of officers was \"to ensure that people are kept safe\".\n\nOther security measures announced by the Met include an exclusion zone using metal barriers around Whitehall and Parliament, and the US and Israeli embassies, as well as a 24-hour police guard at the Cenotaph.\n\nA dispersal zone covers Trafalgar Square, and much of Soho and north Westminster to prevent impromptu gatherings. Police have also banned demonstrations at Waterloo, Charing Cross and Victoria train stations.\n\nAnd there are plans to prevent a \"convoy of cars\" carrying pro-Palestinian protesters, which is expected to arrive from elsewhere in the UK, reaching Jewish communities.\n\nNo major protest is scheduled to take place on Remembrance Sunday, although the policing operation will continue with some 1,375 officers deployed amid commemoration events in the capital.\n\nMet Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said earlier this week the legal threshold which would allow him to ask the Home Office for permission to ban the march had not been met. He also stressed there are no powers in UK law to ban a static demonstration.\n\nThe Met said it had made 188 hate crime arrests since the conflict between Hamas and Israel erupted on 7 October.\n\nA majority of the arrests were for suspected antisemitic offences.\n\nA political row over Home Secretary Suella Braverman's comments about the Met in the Times newspaper has dominated the week.\n\nShe claimed aggressive right-wing protesters were \"rightly met with a stern response\", while \"pro-Palestinian mobs\" were \"largely ignored\" - accusing the force of applying \"double standards\".\n\nIt later emerged she had defied a Downing Street request to tone the article down, including - according to the Times - a comparison between pro-Palestinian demonstrations and marches in Northern Ireland.\n\nCritics of Mrs Braverman say she has undermined the police and potentially broken the ministerial code by not agreeing her remarks with No 10.\n\nA source close to the home secretary said she had met with the Met commissioner on Friday, where she \"emphasised her full backing for the police in what will be a complex and challenging situation and expressed confidence that any criminality will be dealt with robustly\".\n\nSteve Hartson, national chair of the Police Federation which represents rank and file officers, said it was \"unacceptable\" for a home secretary to \"publicly attempt to tamper with the operational independence of policing\".\n\nDowning Street said the PM continued to have confidence in the home secretary, and was \"still looking in to what happened with [Mrs Braverman's] op-ed\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Armistice Day should serve as a reminder \"that peace is possible\", even against a backdrop of bloodshed in Israel and Gaza.\n\nHave you been affected by any issues raised here? You can share with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "It's nearly two weeks since Israel launched its ground offensive into Gaza and more than a month since it began intensive air strikes against Hamas, all in response to the brutal attacks in Israel in which about 1,200 people were killed.\n\nIsrael's stated military objective from the outset has been to destroy Hamas, militarily and politically. How much closer is it to achieving that goal, and is it achievable?\n\nAs far as Israel is concerned, these are still early days - it has repeatedly said that this operation will be long and difficult. One senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) official who spoke to the BBC used the analogy of a boxing match: \"This is just round four of 15.\"\n\nNo-one in Israel is saying exactly how long the war will last. Some point to the fact that it took nine months for Western-backed Iraqi forces to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State (IS)group in 2017. Israel may want to carry on fighting for several more months, though it may not control the timetable, as international pressure for pauses in the fighting or even a ceasefire are growing.\n\nSo far, Israel says it has carried out more than 14,000 strikes and killed dozens of high-value targets, including senior Hamas commanders. Each of those strikes will have involved multiple weapons. Yaakov Katz, a military expert and former editor of the Jerusalem Post newspaper, says Israel has already fired more than 23,000 munitions.\n\nAs a comparison, at the height of the battle for Mosul, Western allies dropped around 500 bombs a week on IS targets.\n\nMore than 10,800 people in Gaza have been killed since the start of the war, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, including more than 4,400 children.\n\nThe military says its ground forces have successfully divided the Gaza Strip between north and south, and that its troops have surrounded Gaza City. It claims they are now \"deep in the heart of the city\", though that is still far from claiming control. Hamas has denied that Israeli forces have made any significant gains or pushed deep into Gaza City.\n\nThis initial phase of Israel's ground offensive appears to be going according to plan with its aim of isolating Hamas, and the cost to Hamas is likely to have been high. Estimates at the start of the war suggested that the group had between 30,000-40,000 fighters.\n\nOne senior Israeli defence source told the BBC that about 10% of that total - 4,000 fighters - have been killed. Such estimates are impossible to verify and should be treated with caution, but the sheer scale of Israel's bombing campaign will have already degraded Hamas's ability to fight.\n\nIn contrast, Israeli military losses appear to have been relatively low. Israel says 34 of its soldiers have been killed since ground operations began. Yossi Kuperwasser, an Israeli intelligence and security expert, says the military is conducting its ground operations \"more carefully and cautiously\" to avoid heavy casualties among its troops.\n\nIt's still not clear how much of Hamas remains in the north, how many fighters may still be hiding in tunnels, or how many might have melted into the local population who have fled south.\n\nThe tunnels still present a significant challenge to Israel. Its forces are trying to blow up what tunnels it finds, rather than engage in fighting underground.\n\nMore obvious is Israel's significant advantage in terms of intelligence and military capabilities. It can intercept communications and even turn off Gaza's mobile phone and internet networks. It has complete air superiority with Israeli jets and drones able to monitor every movement on the ground, but not below the surface.\n\nOne senior Israeli defence source told the BBC that they were still identifying more than 100 new targets each day, although that list is likely to diminish the longer this war goes on. The longer it lasts, the more it will have to rely on troops on the ground to identify and eliminate resistance.\n\nThe Gaza Strip has suffered an intense bombing campaign\n\nJustin Crump, a former British Army officer who now runs Sibylline, a risk intelligence company, says Israel appears to be making reasonable progress given the density of the terrain, but \"they're now going to encounter the more heavily defended urban areas of the city\".\n\nIsraeli troops are better equipped and well-trained, but urban warfare can still prove difficult for the most advanced militaries.\n\nSo far, close-quarters fighting on the ground appears to have been limited, and is certainly nothing on the scale of the urban warfare that's been taking place between Russia and Ukraine in cities like Bakhmut. Much of the videos released by the IDF show that it is instead relying on tanks and armour.\n\nNeither has Israel committed all its forces. Some estimate that it may have as few as 30,000 troops inside Gaza so far. That's a relatively small proportion of Israel's total - 160,000 active military personnel plus 360,000 reservists.\n\nJustin Crump says the question is how many of its infantry is it willing to commit to clearing every building and the warren of Hamas tunnels?\n\nIsrael could instead chose to target Hamas strongholds. He believes Israel will try to avoid block-by-block fighting, not least because it could lead to very heavy casualties. It would also certainly jeopardise the lives of more than 200 hostages.\n\nWhich raises the question as to whether Israel's stated war aim - destroying Hamas - is really achievable. Even senior Israeli officials recognise that destroying an ideology with bombs and bullets is impossible.\n\nSome of the group's leadership isn't even in Gaza. Mr Katz says that if elements of Hamas can survive this war, then they could still claim \"because we're still here, we've actually won\".\n\nFor that reason, Mr Crump believes Israel's war aims could shift from destroying Hamas to punishing it, to make sure it there is no repeat of the 7 October attacks.\n\nIsrael is also under increasing pressure to explain what happens next, especially from the US.\n\nOne Israeli defence source said Winston Churchill wasn't thinking about a Marshall plan to rebuild Germany, when he helped launched the allies invasion on D-Day in the Second World War.\n\nBut wars are rarely won without a plan post-invasion - something that's been completely absent in Israel's military operation so far.", "Far from a distant observer, one of a chorus of countries offering opinions on the Israel-Gaza war, France feels very much caught up in the conflict.\n\nIt is home to Europe's largest Jewish community and has the largest Muslim population of any European country.\n\nA recent YouGov poll suggested over 70% of French men and women fear Middle East tensions and violence could well spill over at home. There are fears about general security, as well as concerns about antisemitism and Islamophobia.\n\nThe French authorities have reported a steep rise in antisemitic acts across the country.\n\nOn Friday, during our wide-ranging conversation at the Élysée Palace in Paris, President Emmanuel Macron spoke about the multiple challenges facing the world today, from climate change to combating global inequality, to the importance of continuing to support Ukraine against Russia. But when it came to the Middle East, the language the French president used was particularly emotive.\n\nOn a number of occasions he listed the women, the babies, the old people in Gaza who, he said, had nothing to do with terror attacks, being killed in bombings by Israel. He insisted there was no justification for that and the bombing campaigns must stop. Palestinian lives matter, he said, humanitarian law must be respected.\n\nIn stark contrast to Washington, which has ruled out the idea of a ceasefire for now, Mr Macron repeated over and again during our conversation that to protect Gaza civilians a humanitarian ceasefire was needed. He urged Israel to accept one and said he hoped other world leaders, including in the US and the UK, would make the same case.\n\nAt the same time as outlining why he believes there should be a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, Mr Macron also spoke with empathy for Israel following the Hamas massacre of about 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and the hostage-taking of almost 240 others, including French citizens, just over a month ago.\n\n\"We work very hard to try to protect our people there,\" he told me. \"We unhappily lost more than 40 French nationals and we still have hostages and when I speak about that first I think about our families.\"\n\nHamas governs Gaza and is designated a terrorist organisation by many Western countries including the UK.\n\nEmmanuel Macron told me he was one of the first world leaders to call Israel's president and prime minister. \"We share their pain and we share their willingness to get rid of terrorism. We know what terrorism means in France,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFrance has been the focus of a number of Islamist attacks in recent years. Since 2014, more than 260 people have been killed, according to France's Interior Ministry, and 1,200 people injured.\n\nMr Macron said France \"clearly condemned the terrorist attack and the (Hamas) terrorist group and recognised Israel's right to protect itself and to react\". But from Day One, he emphasised, \"France said Israel's reaction must respect the international rules of war and international humanitarian law\".\n\nDid he believe Israel was flouting those laws in its military action in Gaza, I asked. The UN Secretary General says Gaza is turning into a graveyard for children.\n\nWith passions so inflamed across the Middle East as well as in France, Mr Macron said one month after Israel suffered such a devastating attack \"I think it would not be the right way to deal with a partner and a friend, to say you will be condemned and you're guilty. I'm not a judge. I'm a head of state. I just remind everybody of international law. I call for the ceasefire.\"\n\nA ceasefire would benefit Israel, said Mr Macron, because the images of its military strikes in Gaza, seen around the world, were fuelling resentment. \"It's impossible to explain: we want to fight against terrorism while killing innocent people,\" he said.\n\nIn reality, President Macron's words have far more impact back home than in the Middle East where, unlike the US, Iran or Egypt, for example, France is not viewed as hugely influential in the Israel-Hamas conflict.\n\nIn Paris meanwhile, a demonstration planned for this Sunday against antisemitism has become highly politically charged - largely because Marine Le Pen's hard right National Rally party will participate.\n\nMr Macron has called for France to unite \"without ambiguity\" against antisemitism. He said there would be \"no mercy shown in France for those inciting hatred\", but also he has made headlines at home after his team announced he would not attend the demo in person.", "Away from the cameras Owain Wyn Evans and his husband are taking on their own home renovation\n\nHe may spend a lot of time judging some of the most beautiful houses in Wales, but away from the cameras, having his own special place to call home is incredibly important for presenter Owain Wyn Evans.\n\nThe Wales' Home of the Year presenter is embarking on his own home renovation with his husband Aaron - the fifth they have taken on together.\n\nIt makes being paid to have a nose around some of the most spectacular homes in the country even more of a treat.\n\n\"Creating a home is so important to me,\" said Evans.\n\nThe couple, who have been together for 15 years and married for six, live in Pontcanna, Cardiff, with their much-loved cat Franny.\n\nThey have recently bought a Victorian house in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, which they are stripping back to its bones and making their own.\n\nEvans with his fellow judges interior designer Mandy Watkins and architect Glen Thomas\n\n\"It'll become such a special place and a place that I can just sit into and relax around my hours with the Radio 2 gig, which is going to be lush,\" he said.\n\nEvans took over from Vanessa Feltz on the early morning breakfast show in January, broadcasting live five days a week between 04:00 GMT to 06:30 from BBC Wales' Cardiff headquarters.\n\n\"I'm so lucky that Aaron and I have very similar tastes, but of course there'll be some things that we sometimes don't agree on,\" he said.\n\nThe most recent difference of opinion was over cork flooring that Aaron liked for their new kitchen.\n\n\"I was like 'I don't know, I mean, how is it going to behave if I've had a couple too many riojas and I splash some red wine on it', which darlings does happen from time to time,\" laughed Evans.\n\nIn the end they went with the cork floor.\n\nEvans has been a fan of DIY and interior design for many years\n\nOf course his beloved drumkit will have pride of place in the new house and has already been allocated its own room.\n\nIn 2021, Evans, then a BBC weather presenter, made Children in Need history after his drumathon became the charity's most successful 24 hour challenge ever, raising £3m.\n\nHis parents bought him his first drumkit - red with Mickey Mouse on it - when he was seven, and drumming has become a huge part of his life.\n\n\"It's helped my mental health over the years and has given me company when I felt lonely or when little Owain was being bullied,\" he said.\n\nHe said something else that makes the couple's house a home is their cat Franny.\n\n\"Aaron and I don't have any children, we have a cat, and you often hear this with people who don't have kids, the pet becomes your child,\" said Evans.\n\nOwain and Aaron like to mark the start every new renovation project by eating a bag of chips\n\n\"Even though Franny is an incredibly aloof child who doesn't loves me, that's fine I can get over that because she's a cat,\" he laughed.\n\nTheir new home will also be somewhere cosy for Evans to return to after his very early starts.\n\nHis alarm goes off at 03:15 five days a week, he pulls on the clothes he has picked out the day before and is at BBC Wales' Central Square base by about 03:30.\n\n\"By half seven, eight o'clock the latest, I need to be in bed,\" he said.\n\n\"I've got a little routine. Aaron finishes work, we have dinner, watch a bit of telly, and then I'll go up to bed.\"\n\nEarly starts are not new to Evans, who worked for years as a BBC weather presenter, but since starting at Radio 2, he said the experience of very early mornings had given him a connection with his listeners, many of whom are on the work commute themselves.\n\n\"We're part of this group who are always slightly sleep deprived but always somehow also feel grateful to be awake at that time of the day because it's a special part of the day,\" he said.\n\nEvans grew up in former coal mining town Ammanford in Carmarthenshire.\n\n\"It was a gorgeous little three-bedroom house that was just full of love and was just a real family home and when I go back there to see mam and dad, that feeling just washes over me when I go in there,\" he said.\n\nAlthough he was very happy at home, Evans did not have an easy time growing up.\n\n\"Ammanford has changed so much over the years and is just an amazing place now... but when I was growing up, it was a very kind of heteronormative environment,\" he said.\n\n\"Growing up throughout Section 28 was awful, and not only suppressed queer people, but also took lives away from us... having that shadow over your head where you feel like you don't fit and you are just not right was not pleasant to grow up in as a young, queer person.\"\n\nOwain and Aaron have been a couple for 15 years and married for six\n\nHe said the experience made him \"want to fit into a box\" which has taken him decades to shake off.\n\nThese days Evans is known for his flamboyant suits and extensive collection of brooches and pocket squares.\n\n\"I'm nearly 40 now and it's taking me this long to feel comfortable in my own skin,\" he said.\n\n\"If I want to buy a woman's blouse which looks great on me then I'm going to buy it.\"\n\nEvans has developed a unique sense of style and collects brooches and pocket squares\n\nWales' Home of the Year is now on its second series.\n\nAs a home-lover himself, he said the hardest part of making the programme was having to mark someone else's home out of 10.\n\n\"These are stunning homes, so I do always think that it's a bit mean when you're having to say 'oh, that's not quite to my taste' but at the end of the day that's exactly what this show is all about,\" he said.\n\nThe houses featured are vastly different from one another - from grand country mansions to two-bedroom city centre mid-terraces, but Evans insists that size and grandeur is not what is being judged.\n\n\"It's not Wales' 'house' of the year, it's Wales 'home' of the year, because what we're looking at is what makes the place a home,\" said Evans.\n\n\"Homes are our safe spaces, they're the places that we turn to at the end of the day... you open your front door, you close it and you want that space to be your cosy place and your cocoon and your bubble.\"\n\nWales' Home of the Year is on BBC One Wales at 19:30 GMT each Friday and is also available on BBC iPlayer", "Davide Renne, the former head of women's wear at Gucci, died just days after starting his new job as Moschino's creative director\n\nItalian fashion designer Davide Renne has died nine days after becoming the creative director of Moschino, aged 46.\n\nThe cause of death is not known, but Moschino's parent company Aeffe referred to \"a sudden illness\" and said that he died in Milan on Friday.\n\nRenne had previously been head of women's wear at Gucci, where he worked for nearly 20 years.\n\nAeffe's chairman said: \"There are no words to describe the pain we are experiencing at this dramatic time.\"\n\n\"Even though he was only with us for a very short time, Davide was able to immediately make himself loved and respected. Today we are left with the responsibility of carrying on what his imagination and creativity had only envisioned,\" said Massimo Ferretti in a statement posted on Instagram.\n\nRenne was born in Follonica, Tuscany in July 1977.\n\nHe studied at both the University of Florence and Polimoda fashion school, and began his career working with Italian fashion designer and mentor Alessandro Dell'Acqua, before heading to Gucci in 2004.\n\nRenne's appointment as Moschino's creative director was announced in October, and he was due to debut his first collection for Moschino at Milan Fashion Week in February.\n\nAt the time of his appointment, Renne said: \"Franco Moschino had a nickname for his design studio - la sala giochi, the playroom.\n\n\"This resonates deeply with me: what fashion - Italian fashion especially, and the house of Moschino most of all - can achieve with its enormous power should be accomplished with a sense of play, of joy. A sense of discovery, and experimentation.\"\n\nSeveral influential figures in the fashion industry have taken to social media to pay their respects, with many leaving comments on Renne's Instagram posts.\n\nHarris Reed, the creative director of Nina Ricci, described Renne as \"a true true angel\", while model and singer Karen Elson wrote: \"My heart breaks. Sweet Davide rest in peace.\"\n\nRenne's mentor, Dell'Acqua, posted on Instagram: \"Farewell Davide!! You will always be in my heart.\"", "Eric Adams, 63, is the Democratic mayor of New York City and was elected in 2021\n\nThe FBI has seized the phones of New York City Mayor Eric Adams in an apparent escalation of an investigation into campaign financing.\n\nHis campaign said electronic devices, believed to be two iPhones and an iPad, were taken by agents on Monday night.\n\nThe search was first reported by the New York Times, which said the probe centred on whether the campaign had conspired with the Turkish government to receive illegal foreign donations.\n\nOn Friday, Boyd Johnson, a lawyer for the mayor's campaign organisation, said Mr Adams had been approached by the FBI after an event.\n\n\"[He] immediately complied with the FBI's request and provided them with electronic devices,\" he told the BBC's US partner CBS. \"The mayor has not been accused of any wrongdoing and continues to co-operate with the investigation.\"\n\nIn his own statement, Mr Adams, a Democrat and former police captain, said: \"As a former member of law enforcement, I expect all members of my staff to follow the law and fully co-operate with any sort of investigation, and I will continue to do exactly that.\"\n\n\"I have nothing to hide,\" he added.\n\nThe probe became known last week after an early morning raid at the home of Mr Adams' top campaign fundraiser.\n\nThe FBI searched the Brooklyn residence of Brianna Suggs, 25, a lobbyist and former Adams aide. Agents are said to have seized two laptops, three iPhones and a folder labelled \"Eric Adams\".\n\nTeams of agents also searched other homes and businesses in New York.\n\nThe FBI conducted an early morning raid of Brianna Suggs' home in Brooklyn on 2 November\n\nBut the seizure of Mr Adams' electronics on Monday night appears to be the first time the investigation has involved him directly.\n\nA search warrant reviewed by the New York Times reportedly indicates prosecutors are looking into whether the Adams campaign conspired with Turkey's government or individuals with ties to Turkey to violate campaign finance law.\n\nInvestigators also want to know if the Adams campaign kicked back any benefits to the country or these individuals in exchange for donations.\n\nForeign nationals are barred from making contributions to US election campaigns.\n\nLaw enforcement officials familiar with the matter told CNN that the alleged scheme being investigated by the FBI would have allowed money coming from foreign entities to be masked as donations from American citizens.", "Charlotte Crosby has spent nearly 14 years in the public eye. From sharing messy nights out to her new relationships, the reality star has built up a loyal fanbase thanks to her ability to bare all - alongside her infectious humour.\n\nOn TikTok, more than a million people watch along as she takes part in dance trends and shares snippets of her life, including her daughter Alba. On Instagram, nearly nine million follow her.\n\nNow, Charlotte is back with the second series of Charlotte in Sunderland, where she invites cameras into all aspects of her life. Throughout the series she lightly touches on her life online, and the impact of being famous.\n\n“Because I've been doing this since I was 19 years old, I’ve not really known anything different,” Charlotte says.\n\nCharlotte Crosby says she really doesn't care about online hate and negativity\n\n“It’s always just been really normal [to me], whereas if I'd become famous five years ago, and I'd watched everyone else go viral and then saw it happen to me, then it would feel really strange.”\n\nFor lots of viewers, Charlotte’s online influence is aspirational.\n\nNew research suggests up to half of young British people want to be content creators.\n\nNina Willment, a research associate at York University who explores digital work, says these trends are partly down to the fact that influencing is really visible as a profession, and looks really appealing.\n\n“As soon as you go on social media, influencers are there,” she says. “It looks like they’re having the best time and living a wonderful lifestyle with nice clothes, nice cars and holidays.”\n\nBut being an influencer and content creator isn’t a perfect career for everyone and there are downsides like trolling, Nina adds.\n\nSo how does Charlotte deal with negativity online? She truly doesn’t care, she says.\n\n“The internet can only bother you if you let it,” Charlotte says. “It’s so easy to block people and turn comments off but some people obsess over it and sit and read it over and over.”\n\nShe suggests that people who struggle with anxiety about posting online and reading comments might consider another career.\n\n“If you've got that feeling, don't bother doing it because it's never gonna go away unless you have someone by your side every day telling you that everything's gonna be all right,” she says. “But if you can't do that on your own, there’s just no point.”\n\nCharlotte doesn't think of herself as an influencer, but rather someone who's been on TV\n\nDespite her huge online following, Charlotte doesn’t think of herself as an influencer. “I'm a TV personality, who has followers because of that,” she says.\n\nRegardless, she’s grateful for the platform she has. “I wouldn't be doing half the things that I'd be doing now, if it wasn't for being in the public [eye].\n\n“I have been on TV shows, I've been in an incredible position, and I'm able to do amazing things with my life, and for my family, and so I will only say it has affected me positively.\n\n“I've enjoyed every single second of it. The ups and the downs. And really, the downs haven't even been that much of a down,” she adds.\n\nResearcher Nina adds that while some are able to make a living in the world of influencing, there are many who are struggling financially and don’t get paid to create content. There's also a lack of transparency over what people charge for posts, she adds.\n\nIn fact, a 2020 study suggested there was a pay gap between black and white influencers, she says.\n\n'I'd not get drunk on TV now'\n\nWhen she first started out on TV in 2011, Charlotte and her Geordie Shore cast mates rose to fame for partying, “getting mortal” (i.e. drunk), and regular hook-ups.\n\nThey probably didn’t realise just how much would be recorded and archived on the internet for eternity. Now she’s gone through that experience, is there anything she’d do differently?\n\nThere’s not very much she wouldn’t share, she says, but “there are some things that are off limits for TV now”. Things like “getting really drunk on camera”.\n\n“It's an age thing,” she explains. “Like it's just a no.”\n\nIn the second series of Charlotte in Sunderland, Charlotte shares unfiltered, intimate details about her life, like her grief over the recent loss of her grandma, her unfiltered commentary on her sex life with fiancé Jake and her aspirations to have more children and get married.\n\nAnd anyone familiar with the reality star already knows she’s a natural comic.\n\nDoes Charlotte know just how funny she is? Or is she still surprised by just how many people find her hilarious?\n\n“No, I'm definitely funny,” she says, deadpan. “I definitely know that everything that I'm saying is going to make people laugh, and that's why I say it!”\n\nShe goes on to explain that the quality is genetic. “My mum's one of the funniest people I've ever met.”\n\nAs the TV series is largely based around Charlotte’s home and family life, Charlotte’s mum, Letitia makes regular appearances, and the two are very much a reality TV comedy duo.\n\nCharlotte jokes: “People are bigger fans of my mum than me!”", "Car owners in Edinburgh could face a £100 fine under new regulations planned for the capital\n\nEdinburgh is set to become the first city in Scotland to completely ban cars from parking on the pavement.\n\nUnder plans drawn up by the city council, drivers who mount the kerb will face a £100 fine.\n\nDouble parking and parking at dropped kerbs will also be banned - although there will be an exemption for delivery drivers.\n\nNational regulations will come into force on 11 December, with Edinburgh's enforcement to start in January 2024.\n\nIn England, parking on pavements is permitted unless it has been specifically prohibited by a local authority - such as in Greater London.\n\nThe Scottish government passed a law in 2021 that gives local authorities the power to stop pavement parking. The legislation will receive ministerial approval in December - meaning all councils are free to enforce the ban.\n\nCity of Edinburgh Council said pavement parking was a \"persistent issue\" on more than 500 streets across the city.\n\nThe authority carried out a survey which suggested 68% of residents support the proposals.\n\nCars and vans can cause particular challenges for disabled people and parents with pushchairs.\n\nNiall Foley, lead external affairs manager at Guide Dogs Scotland, said: \"Parking on pavements is a nuisance for everyone, but potentially dangerous if you are a wheelchair user forced onto the road, pushing a buggy, or have sight loss and can't see traffic coming towards you.\n\n\"When cars block the way, it undermines the confidence of people with a vision impairment to get out and about independently.\"\n\nStuart Hay, director of Living Streets Scotland, a charity which promotes everyday walking, also backed the plans.\n\nHe said: \"Edinburgh is taking the right approach to the enforcement of pavement parking, recognising that footways are for people, not parking spaces for cars.\"\n\nDespite the scale of the problem, no additional parking staff are being recruited to enforce the ban and the council said there were currently enough legal parking spaces in the city.\n\nCouncillors are due to debate the plan next week with implementation expected some time in the new year.\n\nOther local authorities could be set to follow Edinburgh's lead in implementing the ban.\n\nIn South Lanarkshire, councillors this week showed support for the ban but have not yet committed to implementing it.\n\nCouncillors said levels of car ownership were higher than the amount of parking available in some residential areas.\n\nIf it goes ahead, the council said it would adopt a low key \"soft approach\" to ensure that any enforcement action considers the impact on drivers.\n\nScottish Borders Council has also held a consultation to identify areas where pavement parking currently happens.\n\nIt said information gathered would be used to implement a \"case-by-case basis\" on where to implement the ban.", "A woman and young child sit in a metro station to shelter during an air raid in Kyiv\n\nUkraine's capital Kyiv has been hit by the first Russian air attack in 52 days, according to city officials.\n\nWriting on the Telegram messaging app, Kyiv's mayor Vitali Klitschko said \"strong explosions were heard\" in the early hours of Saturday morning.\n\nPreliminary information suggests air defence systems were able to intercept the missiles, Mr Klitschko said.\n\nResidents have been ordered to take refuge in air raid shelters.\n\nThere have been no initial reports of casualties following the air attack, according to news agency Reuters.\n\nThe strikes came as President Volodomyr Zelensky marked the first anniversary of the liberation of Kherson from Russia.\n\nSpeaking to the city's residents, he praised them for \"inspiring the world with their resistance\".\n\nIn Odesa, the coastal district some 275 miles (442 km) from Kyiv, there were reports of at least two missile attacks.\n\nAccording to the region's head of administration, Oleg Kiper, three people were injured and a 96-year-old woman was hospitalised. Her condition is understood to be stable.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ukrainian officials said at least one person had been killed after a Russian missile struck a civilian ship entering Odesa.\n\nA 43-year-old harbour pilot died, while three Filipino crewmembers and a port worker were injured.\n\nAt a G7 meeting in Japan this week, foreign ministers from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada and the US - as well as EU representatives, said they recognised that Russia is prepared for a long war in Ukraine.\n\nThey also said the Israel-Gaza war should not distract from support for Ukraine and reiterated that they would continue to support Kyiv economically and militarily.\n\nKyiv is increasingly concerned about \"Ukraine fatigue\" among Western countries eroding its ability to hold off Russian forces.\n\nSpeaking exclusively to the BBC's Europe Editor, Katya Adler, French President Emmanuel Macron said it was his country's \"duty\" to help Ukraine.\n\nHe said if Russia were allowed to win its war, \"you will have a new imperial power\" in Europe, that could threaten other former Soviet states like Georgia and Kazakhstan, as well as the whole continent.\n\n\"Because, definitely, it's imperialism and colonialism that Russia is doing [in Ukraine],\" he said.\n\nHowever, Mr Macron did suggest there may come a time for \"fair and good negotiations\" with Moscow.", "Firefighters were called to tackle a Tesla fire outside a home in Plano, Texas, after flames were spotted shooting from the vehicle.\n\nNo one was injured and the blaze was extinguished.\n\nThe car's owner told a local news outlet that they heard a hissing sound from the car, which had recently had a new battery installed, prior to the fire.\n\nThe cause of the fire is being investigated.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Luis Diaz's father makes an emotional statement after being freed by his kidnappers\n\nLuis Manuel Díaz, the father of Liverpool striker Luis Diaz, has spoken publicly for the first time since being freed by a Colombian guerrilla group.\n\nMr Díaz said he was made to walk \"too much\" with little sleep, while he was kept in a mountainous area.\n\n\"I would not want anyone to be in that mountain in the situation I was in,\" he told reporters in a tearful interview.\n\nMr Díaz was abducted on 28 October in his family's hometown of Barrancas in Colombia.\n\nIn a news conference on Friday, the 58-year-old said those days had been a \"very difficult\" time for him.\n\nColombian police say four people have been arrested for being \"allegedly responsible for Luis Manuel Díaz's kidnapping\", according to local media.\n\nPolice say that after a co-ordinated effort between Colombian and British authorities, a criminal group called \"los primos\" was dismantled.\n\nMr Díaz was held hostage until 9 November, when members of the National Liberation Army (ELN) handed him over to United Nations and Catholic Church officials.\n\nPolice had originally said that a criminal gang was most likely to blame for the kidnapping.\n\nBut a government delegation later said it had \"official knowledge\" that the kidnapping had been carried out by \"a unit belonging to the ELN\".\n\nThe ELN is Colombia's main remaining active guerrilla group. It has been fighting the state since 1964 and has an estimated 2,500 members.\n\nIt is most active in the border region with Venezuela, where Luis Manuel Díaz and his wife live.\n\nDíaz scored on Sunday, lifting his shirt to reveal the words in Spanish \"freedom for papa\"\n\nThe Liverpool footballer's mother Cilenis Marulanda, who was kidnapped at gunpoint alongside Mr Díaz, was released within hours.\n\nWhile his father was held by the ELN, the Colombian-born Liverpool footballer repeatedly called for his release.\n\nDays before his father's release on Thursday, Díaz scored a goal against Luton and lifted his shirt to reveal the words in Spanish \"freedom for papa\".\n\nHis family's plight captured Colombia, as residents of the town of Barrancas held a candle-lit march to demand Mr Díaz's release.\n\nIt all comes amid ongoing peace negotiations between the Colombian government led by President Gustavo Petro and the ELN.\n\nMr Petro has come under strong criticism from the opposition over the negotiations, with former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe saying \"with kidnappings there can be no peace\".", "It’s rare for journalists to be allowed into the Met Police’s control room - especially when there is a major operation under way.\n\nEven when it happens there are conditions. It’s supposed to be at a secret location. I can say it’s in Lambeth - that’s about it.\n\nAnd operational information displayed on screen and whiteboards in front of dozens of officers and staff is not for publication.\n\nBut a visit offers a fascinating glimpse at the surveillance possible in modern Britain.\n\nWe were shown live pictures from a police helicopter above a pub. The camera’s lens was powerful enough to show a man sitting in the window. We could see what drink he was enjoying and how much he had left in his glass.\n\nThere are thousands of cameras in London - belonging to the police, TfL, and local authorities, and the Met has access to them all.\n\nSenior Met figures were also keen to point out the threat their officers had encountered today - noting in their briefings the knuckledusters, knives and class A drugs carried confiscated from counter protestors.\n\nMany of the crowd had convictions for football violence, they added.\n\nRemembrance Sunday takes place tomorrow. Police resources will again be boosted - but a testing weekend for policing appears to be over its most difficult day.", "The nation falls silent to mark the end of World War One in 1918, and remember those lost in conflict.", "Suspicious envelopes, some laced with fentanyl, have been sent to election offices in at least five US states.\n\nThe letters were reported in Georgia, Nevada, California, Oregon and Washington, where the letter included a warning to \"end elections now\".\n\nGeorgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger described the letters as \"domestic terrorism\" that \"needs to be condemned\".\n\nFentanyl is a synthetic painkiller 50 times more powerful than heroin.\n\nIt has been blamed for a rise in US drug deaths.\n\nAccording to the FBI and US Postal Service, fentanyl was found in four of the letters. Some of the letters were intercepted before they arrived at their final destination.\n\n\"Law enforcement is working diligently to intercept any additional letters before they are delivered,\" the FBI and Postal Service said in a statement.\n\nIn Washington, officials in Pierce County released images of a letter - postmarked in Portland, Oregon - which included the words \"end elections now\".\n\nA similar letter was received in Seattle's King County, which reported another fentanyl-laced letter during an August primary election.\n\nIn Georgia, the letter appeared to be targeting an office in Fulton County. Authorities discovered the letter and found it contained fentanyl.\n\n\"Some people like to call fentanyl a drug,\" Mr Raffensperger told reporters on Thursday. \"It's actually poison, it will kill you, it will kill you very quickly, very easily.\"\n\n\"My wife and I lost our son five-and-a-half years ago due to a fentanyl overdose, we know how deadly this stuff is.\"\n\nIn Washington, election offices in four counties - King, Pierce, Skagit and Spokane - received envelopes containing \"unknown powdery substances\", according to Secretary of State Steve Hobbs.\n\nThe incidents took place as workers were counting ballots from the 7 November general election, said Mr Hobbs, a Democrat.\n\n\"These incidents are acts of terrorism to threaten our elections,\" he said, echoing Mr Raffensperger.\n\nThe Postal Service was able to intercept envelopes headed to Los Angeles and Sacramento, according to the Associated Press.\n\nFulton County in Georgia has been the target of repeated unfounded claims by former President Donald Trump of widespread ballot fraud.\n\nHe is now facing charges in that same county for allegedly conspiring to overturn Georgia's vote results from 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump: \"I just want to find 11,780 votes\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Fulton County Commission Chairman Robb Pitts - a Democrat - said that officials there had been under threat since the 2020 election.\n\nHe added that there are \"people out there who want to do harm to our workers and disrupt, interrupt, the flow of democracy\".\n\nMr Pitts added that officials are prepared for the 2024 election, which he said would be the \"focal point\" of tension and scrutiny.\n\n\"This was a good trial run for us,\" he said.", "At least 99 people died when an inferno destroyed the town of Lahaina in the deadliest wildfire in modern US history.\n\nThrough first-hand accounts, as well as police bodycam footage and recordings, a BBC investigation reveals why it was so hard to escape - and uncovers mistakes from authorities.\n\nBy the time she saw the smoke, it was almost too late.\n\nThe first thing U'i Kahue noticed was the wind battering her neighbourhood, ripping off roofs and felling trees. Then she saw the smoke, rolling in like a black cloud. In no time, the fire had become an inferno.\n\nShe grabbed a hose, trying to stop her house from going up in flames.\n\n\"That's ridiculous now that I say it out loud, but I'm trying to water the roof.\"\n\nA kumu - or teacher - of Hawaiian traditional crafts, U'i has a deep connection to Hawaii, where her family has lived for five generations, and in particular, the town of Lahaina. Located on the northwest coast of Maui, it had once been the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom before the island chain became a US State in 1959.\n\nAnd now it was burning to the ground.\n\nBy the time the fire was put out, at least 99 people had died - some of them trapped in their cars trying to flee. With just two major roads providing an exit out - the Lahaina Bypass and the Honoapiʻilani Highway - there were few options for people to evacuate in the case of an emergency.\n\nWhen the fire reached the shoreline, some abandoned their cars, choosing to run to the only place the flames couldn't reach - the sea.\n\nBurnt-out buildings and cars on Front Street after a wildfire ripped through Lahaina\n\nBut U'i didn't know any of what was to come that afternoon when the fire started in her neighbourhood. She just knew she had to get out.\n\nAs she raced to her red minivan, three of her neighbours flagged her down: they couldn't find their car keys.\n\nU'i wanted to leave by the main highway out of town, taking the Lahainaluna Road. But when she eventually reached the intersection with the highway, the road was closed.\n\nInstead, police were directing cars to Front Street, which runs parallel to the shoreline and had become a \"parking lot\" of backed-up cars. With flames on either side of them, and black smoke swallowing the trail of headlights behind, she had little choice but to drive forward, one inch at a time.\n\n\"I thought, 'Oh my god, we're not moving fast enough',\" she recalled.\n\nThere were many reasons why roads were unnavigable that day. Strong winds meant debris had made some smaller roads impassable.\n\nThe town is supposed to have an emergency siren - but it was never activated. Many people decided to self-evacuate at around the same time - when they could see the smoke billowing from roofs nearby. That meant that traffic was bumper-to-bumper.\n\nBut Maui Police also blocked many roads, adding to the congestion. They say they did this for two reasons: to stop people driving into the path of the fire, and to prevent people from driving near downed power lines.\n\n\"If there was a downed power line, that was live, we want to make sure you don't go over a downed power line,\" Chief of Police Pelletier said in August.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Maui Mayor Richard Bissen confirmed that had influenced the response by local authorities. \"We were telling everyone throughout the day to treat the power lines as if they were energised,\" he added.\n\nMany have since blamed these closed roads for adding to the confusion that day, and, ultimately, the number of fatalities.\n\nTravis Miller, a photographer and surfer who's lived in Maui for nearly five years, filmed the highway closed for hours due to a police roadblock at Keawe Street.\n\n\"As soon as I saw them close the road, I knew it was insane,\" he said. \"There were two lanes of open traffic, southbound, that could have been used for people to go north.\"\n\nPolice said they were simply trying to stop people from getting electrocuted. But was the power even on?\n\nNot according to Hawaiian Electric. The local electricity company has told the BBC that the power was switched off that morning at 6:40 local time (16:40 GMT) when a brush fire was first reported. Authorities said the fire was totally contained by about 10:00 local time, hours before the afternoon blaze that would engulf the town.\n\n\"The control room advised the Maui Police Department on multiple occasions during the day, starting in the morning and extending into the late afternoon, that the company's lines in Lahaina were not energised,\" Hawaiian Electric told the BBC.\n\nHawaiian Electric said the police called its \"trouble centre\" 18 times on the day of the fire. It has given a recording of one of these conversations to the BBC. In the recording, which occurred at 16:11 local time during the height of the evacuation, police asked whether the power around the road of Lahainaluna was switched off.\n\n\"It's off right now,\" a Hawaiian Electric employee said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The call between Maui police and Hawaiian Electric\n\nHawaiian Electric said this recording was proof they communicated to police the status of the power lines, but did not provide the BBC with any additional recordings.\n\nMaui police see things very differently though.\n\n\"Without clear and definitive confirmation that its downed power lines were not energised, Maui's police officers took reasonable precautions to avoid sending evacuees into potentially electrified lines,\" Maui's police said.\n\nWithout additional recordings, the BBC is unable to verify whether police received enough information to make a different decision. But police bodycam footage obtained by the BBC, and interviews with multiple witnesses, have helped to shed light on the confusing and chaotic situation on the ground.\n\nThe fire was spreading more quickly than anyone could have expected, and people were running out of time. But with the intersection between Lahainaluna Road and the main highway out of town blocked off, many found themselves cut off from escape.\n\nPolice bodycam footage - obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request - shows stationary traffic down Lahainaluna Road as people tried to flee the flames. In addition to the bodycam footage, three separate witnesses told the BBC that when they reached this particular intersection, traffic was blocked in both directions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"Why are the cars not moving?\" Bodycam video shows frustrated Maui police\n\nIn nearly 20 hours of police bodycam footage released to the BBC, police officers on the ground frantically tried to rescue as many people as possible, while others tried to open up escape routes.\n\nBut some were also clearly baffled as to why roads had been blocked.\n\n\"We've got to move these cars! Why are the cars not moving?\" said one police officer who was on Lahainaluna Road.\n\nIn a recent statement to the BBC, Maui police said the intersection was closed north because of downed power lines.\n\n\"Vehicles were not being sent north on Honoapiilani Highway ... .due to utility poles snapped at the base and leaning over the highway.\"\n\nBut at the time, when the officers were told the highway had been blocked by their colleagues, some expressed concern.\n\n\"We need to go down there, because they don't know what the [expletive] they're doing,\" one of them said. \"They don't understand,\" another officer said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Noah filmed his family's escape from the fire - and their six-hour wait in the ocean\n\nNoah Tomkinson, 19, was fleeing with his mother and 13-year-old brother, Milo, when they reached this crossroads.\n\nThey thought they had made it to safety, and would be out of town within a couple of minutes.\n\n\"Thank God,\" he said, he said, in footage of the escape captured on his phone's camera.\n\nThen his mother saw police cars. \"The road's closed\" you can hear her say in surprise.\n\nPolice directed them towards town, where they were stuck for nearly two hours in a traffic jam. Noah filmed the chaos around him as his mother frantically tried to find a safe way out.\n\nEventually they made the decision to climb into the sea to escape the flames, where they met others who had done the same. One man held a stranger's baby above the waves for hours as the parents held their other two children.\n\nThey laughed together in disbelief, trying not to cry as they watched their homes, cars and town burn. Noah and Milo hugged their mother to keep her warm as one hour stretched into six before they were finally rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"It was terrifying,\" Noah said.\n\nKekoa Lansford was able to find a way to safety\n\nWhen the fires finally died down, survivors were left to pick up the pieces, and count the bodies.\n\n\"There's dead people in their cars, there's dead people on the ground. People look like Pompeii - if the wind blows on them, they're gone,\" said Kekoa Lansford, who sold coconuts on Front Street. Once the fire started, he said he drove around, trying to help people escape.\n\nHe did not know it at the time, but he had passed by his grandmother's elderly brother, Joseph Lara, who did not survive.\n\nLike many, Kekoa feels officials contributed to the casualties by closing some roads.\n\n\"He was a good guy, who got trapped in a traffic jam, tried to go around it and got stuck in a fire. Died,\" he said.\n\n\"What should have happened is the roads should have been open.\"\n\nMaui Mayor Bissen accepts that the town was not prepared for the fire. When asked by the BBC what lesson could be learnt from the tragedy, he said: \"Better preparation. That's what everybody is pointing to. Better response.\"\n\nAnd who should take responsibility for that lack of preparation?\n\n\"We all should take responsibility. All of us.\"\n\nThe day after the wildfire, rescuers found a hellish scene on Lahaina's waterfront\n\nU'i, with her passengers in tow, did manage to get out of town, saving not only her own life, but the lives of the neighbours she took in her car. Others were not so lucky, a fact that weighs on her even now.\n\n\"Every other house has somebody lost,\" she said. \"I'm not a hero, did you know how many people I passed evidently?\"\n\nLiving in a hotel since her house burned down, U'i teaches children traditional crafts to take her mind off what happened, and the uncertainty of her future.\n\nShe agrees that road closures led to deaths, but she thinks that officials didn't understand the gravity of the situation when they decided to shut them down.\n\n\"I don't think people purposely blocked the road so that people could burn in their cars,\" she said.\n\n\"I just think that somebody on the other side of the fence or on the other side of the wall, was trying to do what they thought would be the best thing.\"\n\n\"Unfortunately, it may have been a mistake and a very costly one\".", "We're pausing our live coverage for the next few hours, so here's a quick recap on where things stand in the Israel-Gaza war.\n\nOn Friday, eyewitnesses told the BBC that Israeli forces were close to key Gaza hospitals - Al-Shifa, Al-Quds, Al-Rantisi and the Indonesian Hospital - and there were reports of explosions inside or near them throughout the day.\n\nIsrael has repeatedly accused Hamas of operating from tunnels underneath Al-Shifa, which Hamas denies.\n\nA video verified by the BBC showed a woman filming herself at the Al-Rantisi Hospital in Gaza City, where she claimed that the children’s hospital was being “besieged” by tanks and full of people told to evacuate.\n\nAnd the International Committee of the Red Cross warned that hospitals in northern Gaza have \"reached a point of no return\", risking the lives of thousands of people.\n\nIn an exclusive interview with the BBC this evening, French President Emmanuel Macron said Israel must stop killing babies and women in Gaza, but Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu responded that world leaders should be condeming Hamas, not Israel.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says 11,078 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war and more than 27,000 others are injured.\n\nAway from Gaza, in the West Bank, dozens of people attended the funerals of 11 Palestinians killed in a reported Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp.\n\nIt all comes after Israel launched a retaliatory offensive in Gaza as a response to Hamas's deadly 7 October attacks, which killed around 1,200 people while more than 240 others were taken hostage.\n\nIsrael revised the death toll down from 1,400 on Friday because, according to Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat, many poeple killed were not immediately identified after the attack, and \"now we think those belong to terrorists... not Israeli casualties\".", "Coverage from BBC Two as the nation falls silent to mark the end of World War One in 1918, and remember those lost in conflict.\n\nProgramme begins 10:55 GMT (Only available to viewers in the UK)", "The photographer Rankin took the picture of the King for next week's Big Issue\n\nKing Charles is going to be the cover star of the Big Issue magazine, which helps the homeless, to mark his 75th birthday next week.\n\nThe King will highlight his Coronation Food Project, to be officially launched on his birthday on 14 November.\n\nIt aims to help those in need of food, while at the same time reducing surplus food being thrown away.\n\n\"Food need is as real and urgent a problem as food waste,\" King Charles will say in the Big Issue.\n\nEmphasising the idea of a public service monarchy, the food project will be a big theme of the King's birthday celebrations.\n\nIt wants to address the growing problem of those who cannot afford food, at the same time as tackling the widespread waste of perfectly good food.\n\n\"If a way could be found to bridge the gap between them, then it would address two problems in one,\" the King tells the Big Issue, in an edition to be published on Monday.\n\n\"It is my great hope that this Coronation Food Project will find practical ways to do just that - rescuing more surplus food, and distributing it to those who need it most.\"\n\nThe project says there are 14 million people in the UK facing food insecurity, with food banks warning of rising demand.\n\nThe Trussell Trust charity said this week that 1.5 million emergency food parcels were given to people by its food banks between April and September 2023, a 16% increase on last year. Almost two-thirds of these were for families with children.\n\nBut alongside this growing need, millions of tonnes of food are thrown away unused, so the project aims to bring together supermarkets, farmers and distributors to save more of the food that otherwise might be discarded.\n\nThere are already 8,500 local charities trying to share surplus food, and the Coronation Food Project wants to set up regional distribution hubs to make this a more effective network.\n\nFood banks have reported rising demand for help\n\nBaroness Louise Casey, co-chair of the project, says: \"Too many people in the UK are living in poverty and going hungry. At the same time, we are wasting too much food on farms, in manufacturing and across the food industry.\"\n\nThe King will be 75 years old next Tuesday, and on Monday he will share a party in Highgrove in Gloucestershire with other people or organisations who are 75 this year.\n\nOn the day of his birthday, the King is hosting a reception for nurses and midwives as part of the NHS 75th anniversary celebrations.\n\nThe Royal Mint has produced a commemorative coin to mark the birthday, which for the first time uses silver recycled from medical and industrial X-ray film.\n\nWith the King now into the second year of his reign, the names of his charities are also changing - such as the Prince's Trust becoming the King's Trust and the Prince's Foundation becoming the King's Foundation.\n\nYou can see more royal stories in the free BBC Royal Watch newsletter emailed each week - sign up here from within the UK. or here, from outside the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIsrael must stop killing babies and women in Gaza, French President Emmanuel Macron has told the BBC.\n\nIn an exclusive interview at the Élysée Palace, he said there was \"no justification\" for the bombing, saying a ceasefire would benefit Israel.\n\nWhile recognising Israel's right to protect itself, \"we do urge them to stop this bombing\" in Gaza, he said.\n\nBut he also stressed that France \"clearly condemns\" the \"terrorist\" actions of Hamas.\n\nFrance - like Israel, the US, the UK, and other Western nations - considers Hamas a terrorist organisation.\n\nWhen asked if he wanted other leaders - including in the US and the UK - to join his calls for a ceasefire, he replied: \"I hope they will.\"\n\nAfter a month of Israeli bombardment and nearly two weeks after Israel launched a major ground offensive into the territory, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said on Friday that 11,078 people had been killed, while 1.5 million had fled their homes.\n\nIsrael says it attacks military targets in line with international law and takes steps to reduce civilian casualties, like issuing warnings ahead of strikes and calling on people to evacuate.\n\nSpeaking the day after a humanitarian aid conference in Paris about the war in Gaza, Mr Macron said the \"clear conclusion\" of all governments and agencies present at that summit was \"that there is no other solution than first a humanitarian pause, going to a ceasefire, which will allow [us] to protect... all civilians having nothing to do with terrorists\".\n\n\"De facto - today, civilians are bombed - de facto. These babies, these ladies, these old people are bombed and killed. So there is no reason for that and no legitimacy. So we do urge Israel to stop.\"\n\nHe said it was not his role to judge whether international law had been broken.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded quickly to Mr Macron's comments, saying nations should condemn Hamas, not Israel.\n\n\"The crimes that Hamas [is] committing today in Gaza will be committed tomorrow in Paris, New York and anywhere in the world,\" a statement from Mr Netanyahu's office read.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview at the end of the first day of an annual Paris Peace Forum, President Macron also discussed:\n\nStarting by discussing Gaza, Mr Macron said France \"clearly condemns\" Hamas's attacks on Israel on 7 October which sparked the war. Hamas gunmen killed about 1,200 people and took 240 others hostage in its unprecedented cross-border assault it launched that day.\n\n\"We do share [Israel's] pain. And we do share their willingness to get rid of terrorism. We know what terrorism means in France.\" But he said there was \"no justification\" for the ongoing bombing of civilians in Gaza.\n\n\"It's extremely important for all of us because of our principles, because we are democracies. It's important for the mid-to-long run as well for the security of Israel itself, to recognise that all lives matter.\"\n\nThe French president gave the interview after the first day of the Paris Peace Forum, an annual summit in the French capital\n\nWhen asked, he refused to say that Israel had broken international law in Gaza. \"I'm not a judge. I'm a head of state,\" he said, adding it would not be right to criticise Israel in this way - \"a partner and a friend\" - just a month after it was attacked.\n\nBut Mr Macron said he disagreed that the best way for Israel to \"protect [itself] is having a large bombing of Gaza\", saying it was creating \"resentment and bad feelings\" in the region that would prolong the conflict.\n\nIsrael has said it will start daily four-hour military pauses in parts of northern Gaza as it continues its offensive. Its defence minister however stressed the pauses would be \"localised\" and would \"not detract from the war fighting\".\n\nAhead of a march against antisemitism on Sunday which a large section of France's political class will attend, President Macron called on all French citizens to condemn antisemitic acts \"without ambiguity\".\n\nHe said France had probably Europe's biggest Muslim community and a big Jewish community too, and with France and the rest of Europe seeing a big rise in antisemitism, all French citizens had to be united against antisemitism, and had to \"share the pain or the compassion of Palestinians\".\n\nMr Macron gave the exclusive interview to the BBC at the Élysée Palace\n\nMr Macron then moved on to other global issues, including Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHe said if Russia were allowed to win its war, \"you will have a new imperial power\" in Europe, that could threaten other former Soviet states like Georgia and Kazakhstan, as well as the whole continent.\n\n\"Because, definitely, it's imperialism and colonialism that Russia is doing [in Ukraine],\" he said.\n\nThe French president said it was the \"duty\" of his country and all countries to support Ukraine in its defence. But he also said the next month would be critical, as it struggles to retake lost land in counteroffensive operations.\n\nHe said it was \"not yet\" time for Ukraine to come to the table, and stressed the decision to negotiate was Kyiv's alone. But he added there may come a time to \"have fair and good negotiations, and to come back to the table and find a solution with Russia\".\n\nMr Macron also discussed online extremism - a key topic at the Paris Peace Forum. He singled out Facebook's parent company Meta and Google, saying the companies \"simply don't deliver\" on promises they made to moderate hate speech on their platforms.\n\nHe said many online platforms lacked sufficient moderators for French language content, calling it a \"shame\", and promising to \"push them\" on the issue - although he said TikTok had improved the number of moderators for its French language content.\n\nAnd he said that climate change was causing terrorism in parts of the world, specifically mentioning the effects of global warming in lower water levels at Lake Chad in West Africa.\n\n\"As a consequence of climate change, a lot of families living as fishermen [suffered]... A lot of species just disappeared. And it created politics [that] pushed a lot of people to terrorism.\"\n\nBut when asked if he ever felt depressed by the sheer number of issues facing the world, Mr Macron said he saw it as \"a chance and an honour to have responsibilities [as head of state]\".\n\n\"We need international cooperation [to tackle global issues]... This is a unique chance.\"", "Pope Francis has fired the Texan bishop Joseph Strickland, a fierce critic who has questioned the Pope's leadership of the Catholic church.\n\nThe Vatican said the bishop would be \"relieved\" of his duties as a result of investigations at his Diocese of Tyler.\n\nBishop Strickland is a leading voice in a branch of US Catholicism that is opposed to the Pope's reforms.\n\nHis removal comes after Francis spoke of the \"backwardness\" of some US Catholic church leaders.\n\nBishop Strickland has launched a series of attacks on the Pope's attempts to update the Church's position on social matters and inclusion, including on abortion, transgender rights and same-sex marriage.\n\nIn July, he warned that many \"basic truths\" of Catholic teaching were being challenged, including what he called attempts to \"undermine\" marriage \"as instituted by God\" being only between a man and a woman.\n\nHe criticised as \"disordered\" the attempts of those who \"reject their undeniable biological God-given identity\".\n\nHis letter suggested that attempts to change \"that which cannot be changed\" would lead to an irrevocable schism in the Church. Those seeking change, he warned, \"are the true schismatics\".\n\nBishop Strickland was under investigation by the Vatican and had previously declined the opportunity to resign, and in an open letter in September challenged the Pope to fire him.\n\n\"I cannot resign as Bishop of Tyler because that would be me abandoning the flock,\" he said.\n\nThe right-wing \"Coalition for Canceled Priests\" held a conference earlier this year to support him during the investigation.\n\nThe Vatican said that the decision to fire him \"came after an apostolic visitation ordered by the Pope last June in the Diocese of Tyler\". According to Catholic media, the investigation also looked at the handling of financial affairs at the diocese.\n\nBishop Strickland, 65, was appointed bishop in 2012, while Benedict XVI was pope.\n\nIt all follows significant attempts made by the Pope to make the Church more progressive during his papacy.\n\nOn Thursday, the Vatican announced that transgender people can be baptised in the Catholic Church, as long as doing so does not cause scandal or \"confusion\".\n\nIn October, he suggested that the Church would be open to bless same-sex couples, as he told a group of cardinals \"we cannot be judges who only deny, reject and exclude\".\n\nSpeaking at a meeting at the World Youth Day celebrations in Lisbon the Pope said the backwardness of some people was \"useless\".\n\n\"Doing this you lose the true tradition and you turn to ideologies to have support. In other words, ideologies replace faith,\" he added.\n\nClimate change has also been a key pillar of his papacy - from a landmark paper on the environment in 2015 to recent warnings that the world may be \"nearing breaking point\" due to climate change.\n\nHe has also strongly condemned climate deniers and will be at the United Nations' Climate Summit (COP28) later this month - the first time a pope has attended the event since they began in 1995.\n\nThe Vatican said that the Diocese of Tyler would be temporarily administered by Bishop Joe Vasquez of Austin.", "Francesco Vicari in a photo released by prosecutors, who said it was sent to associates after the collection of extortion money\n\nTheir names could have been ripped from the kind of Hollywood mafia script that once dominated US cinema.\n\nBut when an indictment dropped on Wednesday, Joseph \"Joe Brooklyn\" Lanni, Angelo \"Fifi\" Gradilone, and Francesco \"Uncle Ciccio\" Vicar were instead the faces of the justice department's latest attack on the notorious Gambino crime family in New York.\n\nCharging documents filed by prosecutors used wiretaps, secret recordings and surveillance footage to lay out evidence against the men, accusing them of conspiracy to use violence and extortion to commit fraud and retaliate against witnesses.\n\nHowever, as the initial excitement waned, experts observed that the latest round-up - which snared 16 alleged mafia members - was unlikely to have a major effect on criminal operations.\n\nInstead, the real twist revealed by the documents was the ongoing and close relationship between the New York based mafia, and its progenitor in Sicily - where six of the suspects were detained.\n\nItalian officials said the arrests demonstrated \"the solidity of the existing relationship\" between American and Sicilian gangsters.\n\nAmong those arrested were a father in Palermo and his New Jersey-based son.\n\nTwo of those arrested in the US were described as American-based members of the Sicilian Mafia, while at least one of the men arrested in Italy is believed to spend time in the US.\n\nA photo released by US prosecutors shows one suspect allegedly setting fire to a victim's home\n\nSimilar raids in 2019 and 2020 also targeted people who led a \"dual life\" between the US and Italy, said criminology professor Anna Sergi, who has written several books about modern organised crime.\n\nShe told the BBC that the Italian gangsters consider New York to be a \"gym\" where their members go to be toughened up.\n\nThe usefulness of the recruits though, appears to vary.\n\nIn one intercepted discussion, US-based Sicilian Francesco \"Uncle Ciccio\" Vicari vented his frustrations about his American companions to Francesco Rappa back in Sicily.\n\n\"I'm 60 years old. I told them, and now they want me to do deliveries?\" he said, complaining that he was not being given more important jobs.\n\nMr Rappa then contacted his son, Vito, and urged him to intervene, Professor Sergi said, adding that the elder Rappa is very well known to authorities in both the US and Italy and was once arrested in the 1970s for heroin trafficking. His influence - and \"charisma\" - are strong enough in both the US and Italy that he is able to facilitate debt collection through extortion and ensure that his friends are being treated well, she told BBC News.\n\nDespite the varying quality of their Italian recruits, American crime families have continued to rely on a stream of such soldiers, as prosecutors have convinced scores of their own members to \"rat\" or inform on their families in exchange for reduced or more lenient prison sentences over the decades.\n\nThe trend has seen crime bosses appreciate the input of Italians, who are seen as being more loyal to a code of silence known as Omerta, experts told the BBC.\n\nAmong the Five Families that have run New York's Italian-American Mafia since 1931, the Gambino and Genovese groups have had the most success recruiting in Italy over the past 15 years, Professor Sergi observed.\n\nThe Gambinos - who were the primary targets of this week's arrests - are particularly close with the powerful Calabrian group, the 'Ndrangheta.\n\n\"The connection is strong because neither side is strong,\" says Professor Sergi.\n\n\"The Sicilian side is under siege since the 1990's and uses New York as a 'gym' to grow new guys,\" she said. For the New York families - beset by \"recruitment\" issues - the men are welcome additions.\n\nIn such a climate, some observers questioned whether the latest arrests would be seen as a serious blow to the mafia.\n\nBut long-time New York mob lawyer Murray Richman told the BBC that the US indictment doesn't seem particularly serious - or \"heavy\" - compared to other notable prosecutions.\n\nPrevious indictments against the Gambino family included murder, narcotics distribution and loan sharking charges, significantly more serious than those facing Wednesday's arrests.\n\n\"How is it different from any other mafia indictment you've ever seen? All you have to do is change the names,\" Mr Richman said.\n\nThe indictments also outline an obsession with respect among some mafia members.\n\nIn one particularly violent episode from September, alleged Staten Island Gambino captain Joseph \"Joe Brooklyn\" Lanni and Vincent \"Vinny Slick\" Minsquero took revenge on a restaurant owner who had asked them to leave after they got into a heated argument with another patron.\n\nMr Lanni allegedly threatened to burn down Roxy's Bar and Grille, with the owner inside, after boasting of his connections with the Gambino family.\n\nHe was seen on security camera footage 18 minutes later at a nearby petrol station filling a red gas container before Mr Minsquero yanked it away from him.\n\nMafia members struggle over a can of petrol, moments after one threatened to burn down a restaurant in a row\n\nThat night Mr Lanni called the restaurant 39 times, once reaching the owner while he was with a police officer whose body-worn camera recorded the encounter. The owner and the his wife were violently assaulted at knifepoint later that night.\n\nMany of the alleged crimes targeted demolition companies and the carting industry - also known as waste management or rubbish collection.\n\nSome plots intended to embezzle funds and defraud unions and employee benefit plans, officials say.\n\nThe Italian documents include extensive transcripts of phone calls and text messages between the accused in which they discuss developments in the US.\n\nIn one exchange, the men discussed the murder of Gambino family boss Francesco \"Franky Boy\" Cali, who was gunned down outside his New York home in 2019.\n\nThe killing was the highest-profile New York mafia murder in decades and fuelled false speculation of an assassination by a rival family.\n\nGiovan Battista Badalamenti called Cali's death a blow to all in his network, saying \"his death cut off all our legs\", according to the Italian indictment.\n\nA lawyer for Cali's killer later argued that his client was driven by QAnon conspiracy beliefs. The gunman, a young man who lived with his parents in Staten Island, was found unfit to stand trial due to mental health issues.\n\nWhen Mr Badalamenti observed that only a madman would have killed Cali, due to his position as boss of the Gambinos, Mr Francesco responded: \"And thank god\".\n\nItalian prosecutors said the response was \"a clear reference to the fact that a bloody mafia war would have certainly erupted had the killer been from another mafia clan\".\n\nA photo purports to show two mobsters on the day they were 'made' - formally inducted into the syndicate\n\nWhile the arrests may not cause serious challenges to the mafia, the indictments do indicate that FBI attention has again returned to organised crime, says former US Justice Department prosecutor Joseph Moreno.\n\nIn the wake of the 9/11 attacks, FBI resources lurched towards counter terrorism. In 2016, Selwyn Raab, author of the book Five Families, told Rolling Stone magazine that some FBI organised crime task forces dropped from about 400 agents to 20 or 30.\n\nBut during the Obama administration, the FBI began to combine national security and organised crime operations in an attempt to combat what it calls \"transnational organized crime\".\n\n\"The idea is that when organised crime groups reach a certain degree of sophistication they can pose not just the threat of street crimes but instead a danger on a national level,\" Mr Moreno said.\n\nItalian organised crime families may not be as powerful as they once were, he added, but other organised crime groups, from Russia and East Asia, have stepped in to fill the vacuum.\n\n\"No single arrest or prosecution is likely to take down an entire mafia family, but no doubt decades of investigations have eroded their power and influence in major cities such as New York and Chicago,\" he told the BBC.\n\nAll 10 US defendants have pleaded not guilty, indicating that they will fight the charges. But some may turn on their allies.\n\n\"In my experience, one in every three persons is an informant,\" observed Mr Richman, who has represented several Genovese and Lucchese crime family mobsters in New York.\n\nProfessor Sergi agreed that the charges are unlikely to have a major immediate impact.\n\n\"The short term is not that important, what's important is the comeback,\" she said, predicting that there will be an increase in illicit trips in both directions in the near future.\n\nOverall, \"the connections that emerge from both sides of the Atlantic show a very well-oiled network of men that appear to be out of the old movies\".", "Two-year-old Fatima lost both her legs after being trapped under the rubble\n\nNehad Abu Jazar sings softly as she tries to comfort her two-year-old girl Fatima. But it is hard to imagine what will soothe her child when the reality of what has happened is so devastating.\n\n\"On 17 October we were awakened by the sound of bombing and found ourselves trapped under rubble. Fatima had been in my lap but she managed to get out of it. When I got up to help her, I saw that both her legs had been crushed,\" she says in an interview filmed for the BBC by freelance journalists in Gaza.\n\nFatima's legs had to be amputated from below the knees.\n\nSitting in her mother's lap in the European Hospital in southern Gaza, Fatima's face is streaked with tears, her legs are wrapped in white bandages, and she cries as if she's in pain.\n\nNehad and her husband had tried for 14 years to have a baby. And then Fatima was born.\n\n\"I'm truly grateful that she survived. But what is her fault? What has she done wrong? I want her to have a normal life like other children,\" Nehad says.\n\n\"Right now we are constantly giving her painkillers. When the effect of one wears off, we give her another. Her life revolves around painkillers. And every other day she undergoes surgery.\"\n\nA month of intense bombardment on Gaza - Israel's retaliation for a devastating attack by Hamas that killed about 1,200 people - has taken a terrible toll on its residents.\n\nAt least 10,800 people have been killed, including more than 4,400 children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza. Israel disputes the accuracy of the numbers, but the World Health Organization believes the figures are trustworthy.\n\nMore than 26,000 people have been hurt, many of them, like Fatima, left with life-changing injuries.\n\nDespite relocating south for safety, Amira was injured in an air stike on Rafah\n\nIn a room next door lies 13-year-old Amira Al-Badawi. She has striking light brown eyes and dark hair.\n\n\"I was sleeping when we were bombed. I woke up not able to breathe. I could hear people's sounds. There were rocks above and under me,\" she says.\n\nAmira has suffered severe injuries to her spine and it's not clear if she will be able to walk again.\n\nThe strike killed her mother and seven of her brothers.\n\nHer father, Iyad al-Badawi, says they had fled their home in Al-Zaytoun after warnings from the Israeli military, and moved to Rafah in southern Gaza. That's where, he says, they were bombed.\n\nIsrael has been telling Gazans to move south for their own safety, but it has also continued to bomb central and southern areas of Gaza. It says it will hit Hamas targets wherever they are.\n\n\"I was taken to hospital, and there one after another I heard about my children and wife being killed. We raised them, educated them, some were married. And now we've ended up losing them,\" Iyad says.\n\nHe says he is thankful that his 18-month-old son and three of his daughters had survived.\n\n\"I ask for peace and security,\" Amira says. \"I want to be treated for my injuries and go back to my normal life, to my home. I want to feel safe again.\"\n\nBut there's no home to go back to. And nowhere in Gaza is safe.\n\nThe hospitals fill up with the dead and wounded, a large number of whom are children.\n\n11-year-old Assef Abu Mazen says he dreamed of becoming a professional football player\n\nAssef Abu Mazen lived by the beach in Al-Nuseirat. The 11-year-old played football at the neighbourhood club. He started off as a defender but then was made his team's goalkeeper.\n\nAssef says he was playing football with his friends when an air strike destroyed his home and permanently changed his life.\n\nHis right leg had to be amputated below the knee. It's still heavily bandaged.\n\n\"I'm only 11 years old. I haven't harmed anyone. What's my fault?\" Assef says.\n\nHe had wanted to become a professional footballer but that dream is over.\n\n\"I was quite good at it, if you want to check you can ask my coach,\" he says.\n\nOne Friday morning an opponent hit the ball fiercely at an angle, he recalls: \"I made a leap and managed to deflect it back.\"\n\nThe family shares a photograph of Assef in his football kit - a light blue jersey, dark blue shorts, green and black shoes.\n\n\"My kit is buried under the rubble of our home. My socks are gone, my shoes, and the football I owned. They've all turned to dust,\" Assef says.\n\nHe is taken around the hospital complex in a wheelchair by volunteers.\n\nThe complex is full of makeshift tents, temporary shelters for people fleeing fighting in the north.\n\nAssef jokes with the volunteers. Laughter might seem out of place, but it's one way of coping with the fear and grief many Gazans are going through.\n\nHis mother says that behind the brave face he's putting on is a little boy scared for his future.\n\n\"He asks me if his classmates will call him the boy with a severed leg and if they'll make fun of him,\" she says.\n\n\"At night, I often find him crying while looking at old pictures of him running or playing football.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Irish government must plan for \"democratic constitutional change\" by creating a Citizens' Assembly on Irish unity, Sinn Féin's leader has said.\n\nMary Lou McDonald was addressing her party's annual ard fheis (conference) in Athlone.\n\nShe said she wanted to see \"orange and green reconciled\" in a new Ireland.\n\nSinn Féin is the biggest party in Northern Ireland but has been frozen out of power at Stormont due to the collapse of the executive.\n\nBut its popularity has grown in the Republic of Ireland where it aims for a place in government for the first time.\n\nMs McDonald also said housing was \"Sinn Féin's number one priority\" and said her party would introduce a three-year rent freeze in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nSpeaking about Irish unity she said \"the day is coming when everyone on this island will have their say in referendums\".\n\n\"Each vote counting equally, no vetoes, no shifting of the goal posts.\"\n\n\"We're on our marks for a general election, local and European elections in June,\" said Ms McDonald.\n\nIn addition, if they got into government in the Republic of Ireland, she pledged they would give \"a month's rent back to every renter\" and \"deliver the biggest housing programme in the history of the state\".\n\nIn relation to Northern Ireland, Ms McDonald said the generation of politicians who worked on the 1998 Good Friday Agreement \"wrote Ireland's chapter of peace\".\n\nShe added that this generation \"must write the chapter of unity\".\n\nShe told delegates that Irish unity provided the \"very best opportunity for the future\" and that a united Ireland \"lies ahead\".\n\n\"Each vote counting equally, no vetoes, no shifting of the goal posts.\"\n\nSinn Féin continue to be buoyed in polls north and south, and their leader makes clear they see the next twelve months as critical.\n\nSenior party figures have said they are \"on the countdown\" to the country's next general election, which is expected to take place late next year or early in 2025.\n\nBefore that, they are targeting success at local and European elections that are due to be held in the Republic of Ireland next summer.\n\nBut Sinn Féin will also be aiming for a return to government in Northern Ireland, which has been without political leaders since February 2022.\n\nThat crisis began when the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) withdrew from the power-sharing government in a row about post-Brexit trade rules.\n\nIt was the perfect location for Mary Lou McDonald to fire the starter gun on her party's election campaign.\n\nStanding in the middle of a race track in a synthetic velodrome flanked by her top team.\n\nShe made a pitch to voters promising big change, prioritising housing, health and the cost of living crisis.\n\nOn the Stormont standoff her message to the government was blunt, call time on the endless talks with the DUP.\n\nBut if the government doesn't act then there is little Sinn Féin can do.\n\nThe stand out moment came when the Sinn Féin President called for the Israeli ambassador to be sent home.\n\nIt was a moment of release for delegates clearly frustrated by the party's muddled message.\n\nThe next time we see Mary Lou McDonald on an ard fheis stage she could be Taoiseach standing alongside Michelle O' Neill as First Minister.\n\nBut that is likely to depend on the party finding a political partner in Dublin and Belfast.\n\nA process which will only start when the finishing line has been crossed.\n\nMs McDonald also called on the Irish government to expel the Israeli ambassador.\n\n\"Israel must stop its slaughter in Gaza. Hamas must release all hostages. Ceasefires must be called,\" she said.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill said the Northern Ireland \"of today is not that of yesterday\".\n\nHer comment was a reference to decades of unionist dominance at Stormont.\n\n\"Together we must unite and fight the corner of every citizen, to ensure public services are financed with a needs-based funding model,\" she added.\n\nIn May, the party secured a second historic election win in 12 months when it made big gains to take the most seats in Northern Ireland's local elections.\n\nThat came after its dominance in the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election, in which it became the biggest party at Stormont for the first time.\n\nMichelle O'Neill wants the DUP to end its boycott of the Stormont assembly\n\nMs O'Neill is in a position to become the first nationalist first minister of Northern Ireland should power-sharing return.\n\nBut she can only take up the post if the DUP agrees to ends its boycott of the Stormont institutions.\n\nThe DUP has been in negotiations with the UK government for changes to the post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland but has said there \"are still gaps to be closed\".\n\nIn another speech which opened the party's conference on Friday, Ms O'Neill said the DUP \"has had more than enough time to address their concerns\" regarding the Brexit Protocol.\n\n\"Public patience has run out. The boycott of the assembly by the DUP must end.\"", "Amiram Cooper, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Tsachi Idan are being held in Gaza\n\nIsrael says 132 people remain unaccounted for after they were abducted and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attacks by Hamas.\n\nAn estimated 240 people were taken prisoner, but 105 were later released by Hamas during a six-day ceasefire at the end of November.\n\nThe Israeli military said it mistakenly killed three hostages in northern Gaza who had escaped from their captors and expressed \"deep remorse\" over the incident.\n\nOf the 132 still unaccounted for, Israel says that 20 of them are believed to be dead.\n\nThese are the stories of those hostages who are still being held, which have either been confirmed by the BBC or credibly reported.\n\nThis list is regularly updated and names may change, as some people feared kidnapped are confirmed to have been killed or released.\n\nLast updated on 19 December 2023 at 10:33 GMT\n\nYagev Kirsht, 34, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim, alongside his wife, Rimon Buchstab Kirsht. She has now been released.\n\nAlexander Trupanov, was taken hostage with his mother Lena Trupanov, 50, his partner Sapir Cohen, 29, and his grandmother Irina Tati, 73. All were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz as they spent the Sabbath together, according to a statement by Canada's Raoul Wallenburg Center for Human Rights. Irina and Lena were released on Wednesday 29 November and Sapir was freed the next day.\n\nAriel Cunio, his girlfriend Arbel Yahud and her brother Dolev are also thought to have been abducted in the same attack on Nir Oz. Eitan Cunio, Ariel's brother who escaped Hamas, told the Jewish Chronicle that his last message from Ariel said: \"We are in a horror movie.\"\n\nDavid Cunio, 33, another of Ariel's brothers, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, family say. David's wife Sharon Aloni Cunio and their three-year-old twin daughters Ema and Yuly were released on 27 November. Sharon's sister Daniele Aloni, and her six-year-old daughter Emilia were both released on 24 November.\n\nDoron Steinbrecher, 30, a veterinary nurse, was in her apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas attacked, the Times of Israel reported. At 10:30 on 7 October, the newspaper said, she sent a voice message to friends: \"They've arrived, they have me.\"\n\nItzhak Gelerenter, 53, was taken from the Supernova festival. His family said the IDF found his phone was located in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported. His daughter Pivko told the paper: \"I'm trying to think good thoughts, I have a powerful, smart, resourceful father.\"\n\nDoron Steinbrecher sent a voice message to friends during Hamas' attack\n\nNaama Levy, 19, was filmed being bundled into a jeep, her hands tied behind her back. The footage was released by Hamas and circulated widely on social media. According to her mother, the teenager had just begun her military service.\n\nYousef Zyadna, a 53-year-old Bedouin dairy farmer, was abducted from Kibbutz Holit and taken to Gaza along with his sons Hamza, 22, and Bilal, 18, and his daughter, Aisha, 16. Aisha and Bilal were released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nElad Katzir, 47, was abducted from Nir Oz with his mother Hanna. Hanna has now been released.\n\nOhad Ben Ami, 55, was kidnapped from Be'eri with his wife, Raz. She was released by Hamas on 29 November.\n\nTwin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 26, were taken from Kfar Aza. Ziv was messaging a friend as the attack happened. Their family said the IDF has told them the brothers are being held in Gaza. Their brother Liran told CBN news the pair had \"twin power\" and were the centre of attention wherever they went.\n\nIraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 85, was taken captive from Kibbutz Kissufim, where he lived and worked as a chicken coop manager. His wife, Mazal, managed to escape.\n\nMichel Nisenbaum, 59, is a dual Brazilian-Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel for 45 years and works as a computer technician, his family told Brazilian media. They also say he is diabetic and has Crohn's disease. On 7 October, they say, someone claiming to be from Hamas answered his phone when they tried to call him.\n\nDaniela Gilboa, 19, sent messages saying that Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she was staying, was under attack and asked her mother to pray for her. Her boyfriend, Roy Dadon, told the Economist 1843 magazine that he believes he saw a glimpse of her in a video showing three girls being driven away in the back of an SUV.\n\nItay Chen, 19, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF solider, was on active duty with a tank unit on 7 October, according to the Times of Israel. The paper reported that his family was notified by the IDF that he is officially considered missing in action and probably being held hostage. Another soldier in his unit, Matan Angrest, 21, is also presumed to be in Gaza.\n\nYosi Sharabi, 51, was taken from Be'eri with his brother, Eli Sharabi, 55. Eli's wife and two daughters were murdered in the attack. Ofir Engel, the boyfriend of Yosi's daughter, Yuval, was also taken, but released on 29 November.\n\nAgam Berger, 19, was kidnapped from Nahal Oz. She was seen being taken away in videos released by Hamas.\n\nEdan Alexander, 19, is an Israeli-US citizen who volunteered to join the Israeli army. He was serving near the Gaza border at the time of Hamas's attack. Edan's family said they had been told by Israeli officials that he had been taken to Gaza as a hostage.\n\nKaid Farhan Elkadi, 53, lives with his family south of Rahat and worked as a security guard, according to Israeli media. Reports said his family believes he was kidnapped and taken to Gaza, based on images shared by Hamas.\n\nIlana Gritzewsky and Matan Zanguaker were captured near the Gaza border, family say\n\nMatan Zanguaker, 24, was taken with his partner Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, from Nir Oz, according to Ilana's father. Ilana, a Mexican national, was released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nThe family of Eitan and Yair Horn believe they were taken from Nir Oz kibbutz\n\nEitan Horn, 37, and his brother Yair, 45, both Argentinian citizens, were also in Nir Oz at the time of the attack. Their father Itzik said he believes they were kidnapped. Yair is a construction worker while Eitan works in education.\n\nItai Svirsky, 38, is thought to have been abducted when his elderly parents were killed in Be'eri. He had been visiting them for the holiday of Simhat Torah.\n\nKeith Seigel, 64, and his wife Adrienne - often known as Aviva - Seigel, 62, were taken from their home in Kfar Aza, Keith's brother Lee Seigel told the BBC. Adrienne was released on 26 November.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, lived in Nahal Oz with his wife and two daughters. Omri was led away by Hamas with his hands tied, his wife Lishay told the Guardian newspaper. She told him not to be a hero, urging: \"Do whatever they want because I want you back.\"\n\nBipin Joshi, 23, a Nepalese student, is believed to have been taken from Kibbutz Alumim. Nepalese newspaper Setopati says he was one of 49 university students studying agriculture in Israel. It says 10 students were killed in the attack.\n\nIlan Weiss, 58, went missing from Kibbutz Be'eri after he was last seen leaving the house to defend the community. On 25 November, his wife Shiri Weiss, 53, and their daughter, Noga, 18, were freed from captivity in a hostage deal.\n\nAmiram Cooper, 85, and his wife Nurit, 80, were taken from their home in Nir Oz, their daughter-in-law Noa told the BBC. The family last spoke to the couple during the Hamas attack, Noa said, when the couple were in their safe room. The family later traced Amiram's phone to Gaza. On Monday 23 October, Nurit was one of two women to be released.\n\nAmiram and Nurit Cooper, pictured with their granddaughter, Gali\n\nOded Lifshitz, 83, and his wife Yocheved, 85 were taken hostage from Nir Oz. On Monday 23 October, Yocheved was one of two elderly women to be freed. After hearing the news of her mother's release, their daughter Sharone - a London-based artist - said: \"While I cannot put into words the relief that she is now safe, I will remain focused on securing the release of my father and all those - some 200 innocent people - who remain hostages in Gaza.\"\n\nHaim Peri, 79, was taken from his home in Nir Oz, reports the Times of Israel, and freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz said she saw that he was alive and well. His son Lior Peri told Talk TV that Haim had locked his wife inside the safe room before giving himself up to kidnappers.\n\nAvraham Munder, 78, was kidnapped from Nir Oz, Israeli officials say. His wife Ruthi, daughter and grandson have since been released.\n\nOmer Neutra, a 22-year-old Israeli-American and grandson of Holocaust survivors, put off plans to go to college in the US to study in Israel, and eventually joined the IDF. He was serving as a tank commander near Gaza when Hamas attacked. Omer's parents say they were told by the Israeli embassy that he had been kidnapped.\n\nRon Benjamin's vehicle was found empty following the attacks\n\nRon Benjamin, 53, had been taking part in a group cycle ride near the Gaza border when the Hamas attack began and he decided to drive home, his family told Israeli media. Days later, his vehicle was found empty and his family believe he was kidnapped.\n\nLouis Har, 70, is believed to have been taken from Nir Yitzhak. His partner Clara Marman was released on 28 November along with her sister Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela's daughter Mia Leimberg,17. Clara and Gabriela's brother Fernando Simon Marman, 60, also remains in captivity.\n\nJudith Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 73, also went missing from Nir Oz after the Hamas attack. Ten days later, the Israeli military confirmed to the family they had been taken hostage, CTV News in Canada reported.\n\nAlex Danzig, 75, a scholar and historian of the Holocaust, was at his home in Nir Oz, when it was attacked by Hamas. \"We know for sure he was kidnapped,\" his son Mati told the BBC. Alex - whose older sister Edith is a Holocaust survivor - has spent the last 30 years working for Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust remembrance centre. His disappearance has triggered a campaign for his release, both in Israel and in Poland, the country of his birth.\n\nAlex Danzig has spent decades educating people about the Holocaust\n\nItzhk Elgarat, 68, was kidnapped at the same time as Alex Danzig, his brother Danny Elgert told Israel's Kan 11 TV station, adding that he had tracked his brother's phone to the border with Gaza.\n\nGadi Moses, 79, was also abducted during the same attack on Nir Oz, according to relatives and the Israeli aid agency where he worked as an agricultural expert. Efrat Katz, his partner, was initially thought to have been captured as well, but she was later found dead, the Times of Israel reported. Efrat was the mother of Doron Asher, who was taken hostage and later released with her two daughters. Ravid Katz, 51, Doron Asher's brother, was originally thought to have been taken hostage from Nir Oz, but on 28 November his family confirmed that he had been killed on 7 October.\n\nYair Yaakov, 59, is listed among the hostages. His partner Meirav Tal, 53, was released on 28 November. Yair's children Yagil, 13, and Or, 16, were released on 27 November.\n\nYair Yaakov was pictured being held captive by a gunman in a video shared online\n\nNimrod Cohen, 19, had studied software engineering in high school, according to reports. After he was kidnapped, his father was invited to meet Pope Francis in Rome along with other hostages' families.\n\nTsachi Idan, 51, was last seen by his wife, Gali, as he was taken away by Hamas gunmen. Their family had been ambushed in their safe room in Nahal Oz. Their ordeal was live-streamed by Hamas. Their eldest child, Maayan - who had just turned 18 - was shot dead, Gali told the BBC.\n\nTsachi Idan was ambushed with his wife and children and then led away\n\nYarden Bibas, 34, was abducted from Nir Oz. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were also taken hostage, but on 29 November, Hamas claimed they had been killed in an Israeli air strike while in captivity. The Israeli government has said it is checking the claim.\n\nRonen Engel, 54, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife, Karina Engelbert, 51, and their two daughters, Mika, 18 and Yuval, 11. On 1 December, the organisation representing the families said he had been murdered. Karina, Mika and Yuval were released on 27 November.\n\nKarina Ariev, a 19-year-old soldier, was serving at an army base near Gaza when she was kidnapped. Her sister Alexandra told the BBC she heard shooting as Karina called her during the attack, and later saw a video showing Karina being taken away in a vehicle.\n\nKarina Ariev was at the Nahal Oz military base, which was among the first to be attacked\n\nOfer Kalderon, 53, was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz. On 27 November his two children, Erez, 12, and Sahar, 16, were released. Two other relatives, 80-year-old Carmela Dan and her granddaughter, Noya, 12, were also believed to have been taken, but Israeli authorities later announced they had been found dead.\n\nYoram Metzger, 80, was a resident of Nir Oz. He has diabetes and broke his hip six months ago, his daughter-in-law said. Yoram's wife Tamar was released on 28 November.\n\nNadav Popplewell, 51, and his mother Channah were taken hostage by Hamas, said Channah's daughter Ayelet Svatitzky, who was speaking to them on the phone when the gunmen burst in. She said the captors sent pictures of her two relatives, who both have diabetes, with armed men in the background. Channah has now been released.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, was abducted after his family opened the door to their secure shelter to an Israeli child, who said he would be killed otherwise. Omri's wife, Lishay Lavi, said she saw him being taken away in handcuffs with three other hostages from Nahal Oz.\n\nLiri Elbag, 18, had just started military training as an Army lookout near the Gaza border when Hamas attacked, her father Eli told the Associated Press. Eli said he saw her in a video circulated later by Hamas, crowded with others on the back of a military truck which had been seized by the gunmen.\n\nLior Rudaeff, 61, was taken from Nir Yitzhak during the attack. His family have heard nothing from him since then.\n\nA number of people are believed to have been abducted from the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Among them:\n\nShlomi Ziv, 40, was part of the security detail at the festival and was initially in contact with his sisters as the attack unfolded, according to an interview with The Times of Israel. A few weeks later the family learned he was officially considered to be a hostage, the report says.\n\nAlexander Lobanov, 32, is a Russian-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped at the festival.\n\nOri Danino, 25, is reported to have got away from the festival in his car, but it's believed he was captured after turning back in an attempt to save some people he had met there.\n\nAlmog Sarusi, 26, was kidnapped from the music festival and his partner Shahar Gindi was killed, according to Israeli media. Almog's father, Yigal, was among the relatives of hostages who met with Israel's prime minister in October.\n\nOmer Shem Tov, 21, called his parents as he was running away from gunfire and managed to get into a friend's car. His parents, Shelly and Malki Shem Tov, told Israeli media they lost contact with their son and the live location on his phone showed he was beyond the border in Gaza.\n\nIdan Shtivi, 28, an environmental sciences student, was attending the festival to take pictures at music and yoga workshops being held by friends. He escaped the site in his car but was attacked by Hamas along the route. The bodies of two of his passengers were found, and his family told the Jerusalem Post they suspect he was kidnapped.\n\nYosef Ohana, 24, had been at the festival with a friend, who told his mother he and Yosef had remained to help people escape the gunfire before running themselves. Yosef was last seen hiding under a car, and Israeli authorities have visited his mother to say he was kidnapped.\n\nAndrei Kozlov, 27, a Russian who moved to Israel in 2022, is missing from the Supernova festival, where he was working as a security guard. His mother told the De Taly publication the family was told by the IDF on October 26 that he was being held hostage.\n\nElyakim Libman, 23, was working as a security guard at the festival. In a Facebook post his father Eliyahu Libman said another guard told him his son had helped rescue others before trying to escape. He was last seen trying to help two badly-injured women.\n\nNoa Argamani, a Chinese-born Israeli citizen, was also kidnapped from the festival. Video footage - verified by her father Yaakov Argamani to Israel's Channel 12 - shows the 25-year-old being taken away on the back of a motorbike screaming, \"Don't kill me!\" Her boyfriend Avinatan Or, 30, also appears in the video being marched away from her by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nEden Yerushalmi's family say they were told she had been taken hostage\n\nEden Yerushalmi, 24, called her family during Hamas's attack on the festival, her sister May told CBS News. The family say they were subsequently informed by the IDF that Eden had been abducted.\n\nChanan Yablonka, 42, is a father-of-two from Tel Aviv. According to reports, he attended the festival with friends and was due to celebrate his birthday a few days after the attacks.\n\nJonathan Samerano, 21, has been missing since 7am on the morning of the festival. His family have been told to presume he is being held in Gaza, Israeli media reported.\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal was filmed in captivity in Gaza, his family say\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, attended the festival with his brother. Guy appears in a hostage video that his family say confirms he is in Gaza.\n\nUriel Baruch, 35, was injured during the attack on the festival, his wife said on Facebook. Reports in Israeli media say his mother, Naomi, has heard from the IDF that he is a hostage.\n\nMaxim Kharkin's mother described speaking to him on the morning of 7 October\n\nMaxim Kharkin is aged 35 and a Russian speaker, his mother told Russian media. She added that he had called her at 07:00 on the morning of the attack.\n\nElkana Bohbot was seen in a video posted by Hamas\n\nElkana Bohbot, 34, had gone to the party with friends and, before losing contact, he spoke to his wife and mother telling them he was helping to evacuate the wounded, the Times of Israel reported. Hours later, his family found a video of him posted online by Hamas, which has been seen by BBC Verify.\n\nRom Braslavski, 19, was working on security for the festival. According to an account published by Hostages and Missing Families Forum, he was trying to rescue an injured person in the attack when he was caught in a volley of fire. He has not been heard from since.\n\nOmer Wenkert, 22, a restaurant manager, sent a message to his family to say he was going to a safe shelter but then lost contact, his father Shai Wenkert told the BBC's Today Programme. Shai Wenkert said he had seen footage of his son in captivity, including a photo of him handcuffed and wearing only underwear.\n\nEvyatar David's family say they were sent a video of him in captivity\n\nEvyatar David, 23, was at the festival and on the morning of the attacks, described fleeing from gunfire before losing contact with the outside world, his brother says. Later, his family say, Evyatar's sister posted on Instagram appealing for information about his whereabouts. She then received a text from an unknown number, which contained video footage of Evyatar handcuffed on the floor of a dark room. According to Israel's foreign ministry he is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nEitan Mor, 23, lives in Jerusalem, and was working as a security guard at the festival, the Times of Israel said. He reportedly texted his uncle after Hamas arrived and was last seen with a friend bringing others to safety.\n\nAlon Ohel, 22, a Serbian citizen, took refuge in a shelter after the festival came under attack, his family say. They have seen footage of him being dragged away after a grenade attack.\n\nAlmog Meir Jan, 21, tried to flee the festival. He and a friend made it to the friend's car but only managed to drive a short distance before being forced to stop. Almog's family say they have seen a hostage video in which he appears.\n\nInbar Heiman, a student aged 21, was seen by two young Israeli men being taken away from the festival on a motorcycle. Hamas have released a video in which she is seen very briefly.\n\nHersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual US-Israeli citizen, was badly injured in the attack, his family told the BBC. Eyewitness accounts say he was seen being forced onto a white pick-up truck - the last-known signal from his phone came from just inside Gaza.\n\nSegev Kalfon, 26, was running away from the festival, across the highway, when he was captured by Hamas, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.\n\nOrión Hernández Radoux, 30, from Mexico, attended the festival with his girlfriend, Shani Louk. He has not been seen since. The Sun newspaper says it has seen threatening messages written in Arabic sent from his phone. Shani, a tourist from Germany, was initially thought to be among those seized. But on 30 October, her mother Ricarda told German media that the family had been informed by Israeli military of her death following DNA identification.\n\nRomi Lesham Gonen, 23, was on the phone to her mother as she tried to escape from the Supernova festival. Merav Leshem Gonan has recounted a conversation in which her daughter begged for help after being shot. ABC News reports that Romi's phone is now in Gaza.\n\nBar Kuperstein, 21, last spoke to his family early on the morning of 7 October, as the attack unfolded. Later the same day, his family say they identified him in a video of Israeli prisoners, posted by Hamas. Since then, they say they have had no further information.\n\nEliya Cohen, 26, was hiding with his girlfriend Ziv from the attack, when Ziv felt him being pulled up and driven away by the gunmen, Eliya's mother has told the video initiative #BringThemHomeNow. The family then found a photo of Eliya in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nAmit Buskila, 28, from Ashdod, was last heard of making a call to her uncle, Shimon, as Hamas overran the festival. Her family say they have now been told by the government that she is being held in Gaza.\n\nCarmel Gat, 39, is Jordan's sister-in-law, and also was seen by her father being taken by gunmen from Kibbutz Be'eri, Haaretz newspaper reported. She has not been heard from since.\n\nOhad Yahalomi, 49, was abducted from Nir Oz, along with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the November ceasefire.\n\nDror Or, 48, was seen by a neighbour being dragged out of his home in Be'eri, according to their nephew Emmanuel Besorai, along with his son and daughter. On Saturday 25 November Dror's son Noam, 17, and daughter Alma, 13, were released from captivity. The body of Yonat, 50 - Dror's wife and the children's mother - was identified among the 120 people murdered at the kibbutz, Yonat's brother told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nTal Shoham, 38, was taken from Kibbutz Be'eri. His wife Adi, also 38, her mother Dr Shoshan Haran, 67, were released by Hamas on 25 November, along with the couple's children Nave, eight, and Yahel, three. Dr Haran's husband, Avshalom - an economist and dual German/Israeli citizen - was killed on 7 October.\n\nTamir Adar, 38, who defended Nir Oz as part of the kibbutz's emergency squad, was taken to Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen, 35, an American-Israeli citizen, has been missing since Hamas's attack on Nir Oz, his father Jonathan told the BBC. He said his son was not found among the dead and the \"only reasonable explanation\" is that he was taken to Gaza.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen's father has not heard from him since Hamas attacked the kibbutz where he lived\n\nThailand's ambassador to Israel says 26 of its citizens were taken hostage, 23 of whom have now been released.\n\nThose still being held are believed to include Watchara Sriuan, 32. His mother, Viewwaew, told the Thaiger news site that the family had been informed he was being held captive.\n\nKiattisak \"Top\" Patee and a Mr Pongtorn (no first name given) have also been named by the Thai foreign ministry as hostages.\n\nA number of other people thought to have been held hostage are now confirmed to have died, either during the 7 October attack or while in captivity.\n\nAs well as Ron Scherman and Nik Beizer, four bodies were identified this week. They were Tal Chaimi, an Israeli-Romanian citizen aged 41, and Joshua Mollel, a 19-year-old Tanzanian student. Also, 27-year-old Eden Zecharya, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and 36-year-old Ziv Dado, who had already been declared dead by the Israeli military.\n\nOthers known to have died include Dror Kaplun, 68, Aviv Atzili, 49, Arye Zalmanovich, 85, Ronen Engel, 54, Maya Goren, 56, Guy Iluz, 26, Ofir Tzarfati, 27, Ofra Keider, 70, and Eliyahu Margalit, 75.\n\nThe bodies of 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, and 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss were found by Israeli troops in buildings close to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.\n\nOn Saturday 9 December Kibbutz Bari announced that Sahar Baruch, 25, had been killed in Gaza.\n\nOther hostages whose death has been reported, but not confirmed include Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Ms Braverman is responsible for the government department overseeing law and order\n\nThe prime minister has backed Suella Braverman in the face of calls to sack her over an article she wrote accusing the police of bias.\n\nA former senior officer has accused the home secretary of trying to \"end\" police independence in her unauthorised article in the Times on Wednesday.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt said Mrs Braverman's comments \"are not words that I myself would have used\".\n\nBut Downing Street said Rishi Sunak still had \"full confidence\" in her.\n\nA decision on the home secretary's future is unlikely to be made ahead of the pro-Palestinian protest march and Armistice Day on Saturday.\n\nIn her article, Mrs Braverman, who declined to talk to reporters earlier as she left her home, claimed aggressive right-wing protesters were \"rightly met with a stern response\", while \"pro-Palestinian mobs\" were \"largely ignored\".\n\nShe went on to say police were applying \"double standards\" and \"played favourites when it comes to demonstrators\".\n\nA source close to the home secretary said she had met with Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley this afternoon \"to discuss the policing of demonstrations to be held tomorrow, on Armistice Day\".\n\n\"The home secretary emphasised her full backing for the police in what will be a complex and challenging situation and expressed confidence that any criminality will be dealt with robustly,\" the source added.\n\nOn Thursday, it emerged that she had defied a Downing Street request to tone the article down.\n\nDowning Street said it had launched an informal investigation into how Mrs Braverman's article came to be published without the changes they had requested.\n\nBut the prime minister's spokeswoman said the government's \"collective focus\" was on making sure the weekend's events would go ahead without disruption.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Hunt on Suella Braverman comments: \"Not words I would have used\"\n\nNeil Basu, the former head of the UK's counter-terrorism police, said Mrs Braverman's comments were \"tantamount to effectively trying to direct the police\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Today Podcast, Mr Basu said the UK was \"in danger of turning the police into an arm of the state directed by politicians\".\n\nHe said he would describe what is happening \"as potentially the end of operational independence of policing unless people start to speak out\".\n\nGavin Stephens, the head of the National Police Chiefs' Council, told the BBC policing could be undermined if \"public debate\" influences decision making.\n\nFormer permanent secretary at the Home Office, Sir David Normington has Mrs Braverman comments showed she is \"unsuitable\" to be home secretary,\n\n\"I worked for five Home Secretaries - none of them would have done anything like this,\" Sir David told Radio 4's PM programme.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, the SNP and some Conservative MPs have called for Mrs Braverman's removal from office over the article. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused Mrs Braverman of undermining the police and said Rishi Sunak was \"too weak to do anything about it\".\n\nBut Mrs Braverman's allies on the right of the Conservative Party have rallied behind her, with the deputy party chairman, Lee Anderson, tweeting to say the home secretary was \"guilty of saying what most of us are thinking\".\n\nTory MP Miriam Cates called the home secretary's view very \"mainstream in the rest of the UK,\" and argued she \"should be allowed to get on with her job in the way she chooses to do it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Suella Braverman is \"out of control\" - Sir Keir Starmer\n\nThe Times said changes to Mrs Braverman's article requested by 10 Downing Street included removing a warning to the police not to take a \"soft touch\" approach at the Armistice Day protest, along with claims there was \"ample evidence\" senior police officers were biased.\n\nThe paper reported further requested changes, including suggestions that she remove a comparison to marches in Northern Ireland, were rejected by Mrs Braverman.\n\nThe political row comes just days before Mrs Braverman finds out whether the government's flagship Rwanda plan for migrants can go ahead.\n\nOn Wednesday the Supreme Court will decide whether to back the Court of Appeal's ruling in June that the policy is unlawful.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has said it expects a large rally on Saturday, sparking fears of violent clashes with counter-protesters.\n\nSaturday is also Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of World War One, which has prompted calls from the prime minister and others for the pro-Palestine march to be cancelled, on the grounds that it is \"disrespectful\".\n\nMet Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said protests may only be stopped if there is a threat of serious disorder, and that the \"very high threshold\" has not been reached.\n\nSuella Braverman suggested in The Times that during the Covid-19 pandemic, \"lockdown objectors\" were treated more harshly by police than Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters.\n\nOne way to compare how police respond to protests is to look at the number of arrests. Data released by the Metropolitan Police to the London Assembly shows that there were more arrests of anti-lockdown protesters than arrests of BLM protesters.\n\nThe Met did not collect information on how many people were at each protest, but press reports indicated that many more people attended anti-lockdown marches. Also, the number of BLM arrests took place over just one month between May and June 2020 but anti-lockdown arrests took place over six months.\n\nBoth of these factors could explain why there were more arrests of anti-lockdown protestors.", "As things stand, there is going to be a potentially huge pro-Palestinian march in London, on Armistice Day - and there is nothing Home Secretary Suella Braverman alone can do to stop it.\n\nThe reason for that is simple: the law does not tell the Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley to take into account the views of ministers. It tells him to assess the risks to the public - and make a plan accordingly.\n\nSince the Gaza conflict began, the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has organised three national protests in London on successive Saturdays that have grown larger week-on-week.\n\nIt has negotiated with the police over the route and duration of each and abided by conditions.\n\nThe police have a delicate balancing act to perform in protecting free speech and assembly - and also protecting the rights of others not to be intimidated.\n\nThe Met says where protesters have supported terrorist groups, broken racial-hatred laws, or committed other offences, they have made arrests. So far, more than 200 have been arrested - each serious in its own terms, including some allegations of support for Hamas - which is a proscribed terrorist group in the UK.\n\nBut put those numbers in the wider context of public order policing in London.\n\nOn Monday alone, police arrested 219 Just Stop Oil demonstrators who tried to stop traffic near Parliament. The Extinction Rebellion \"sit-ins\" of more than two years ago saw officers cart away a staggering 4,118 demonstrators.\n\nOpponents of the PSC say marchers are chanting deeply antisemitic slogans and providing a cover for extremists. But while individuals can be arrested for hate crime offences, the legal test for banning an event is more complex.\n\nThe Public Order Act 1986 gives Sir Mark Rowley and other police chiefs the power to apply conditions to marches where they reasonably believe there could be:\n\nThe PSC has agreed to conditions under that law. Its supporters say they will gather an hour after the two-minute silence on Armistice Day and more than a mile away from the Cenotaph. Their march, ending with a rally at the US Embassy, is planned to go nowhere near the memorial.\n\nRishi Sunak has described holding a march on Armistice Day as disrespectful and a risk to the Cenotaph or other memorials.\n\nBut given the PSC has repeatedly abided by conditions imposed on its previous marches, the only conclusion the police can reach - unless they get intelligence to the contrary - is that a risk to the Cenotaph won't come from protesters on the march route.\n\nAnd that's why the force has concluded there is no legal justification to ask the home secretary to ban the march.\n\nThat power can only be used if a police chief believes they cannot prevent \"serious public disorder\". That basically means violent crowds potentially bent on running amok. The police haven't seen that in previous weeks.\n\nSo if police commanders asked the home secretary to ban the march, the organisers could go to court - and judges would need to see evidence and intelligence proving the serious risk.\n\nDo you plan to attend a protest? Get in touch.\n\nThe last time these powers were used was in 2011 and 2012. The then-home secretary, on the recommendation of the Met, banned the far-right English Defence League (EDL) from marching through Muslim communities. The EDL was considered to be a thuggish mob and marchers would regularly chant racist or Islamophobic slogans.\n\nThe Campaign Against Antisemitism says the \"River to the Sea\" chant, that will almost certainly be heard on Saturday's march, is deeply offensive and threatening - but the PSC event is not going through Jewish communities - and the Met says that its legal advice is that the slogan can be legitimate free speech in such circumstances.\n\nWhat would happen if the march were banned? The Met believes people would still come to London and stand in the street and peacefully have their say. The police cannot stop them. The last time they tried, it was a fiasco.\n\nIn March 2021, the organisers of a vigil for murdered Londoner Sarah Everard cancelled the event. They feared they would individually face enormous fines under the then Covid lockdown rules, if they were seen to encourage the gathering.\n\nThe unofficial Sarah Everard vigil led to some women being physically restrained by police\n\nBut there was such confusion over whether there was still a right to protest, regardless of the risk of transmitting the virus, that people turned out anyway. They felt so strongly about the horrific murder they wanted to be heard. The Met ended up paying compensation to women who were arrested.\n\nSo the huge risk is that, even if Suella Braverman got her way, people would not only come out, but they would march independently. That would be twice as hard for police because there would be no organisers on the ground directing events and calling on people to abide by a route and curfew.\n\nAnd then there is the risk of counter-demonstrations.\n\nFormer Met commander Dal Babu says Ms Braverman's attack on the forthcoming march has emboldened the extreme far right.\n\nStephen Yaxley-Lennon, founder of the largely defunct English Defence League under the alias Tommy Robinson, is calling on followers to join him near the Cenotaph. Other less well known figures are doing the same.\n\n\"I've never known an occasion for the home secretary to get involved in operational policing at this level,\" says Mr Babu. \"She doesn't understand the law. She doesn't understand the legislation.\"\n\nSo is there anything the home secretary could do to force the Met to ban the march?\n\nIf Ms Braverman is satisfied that the Met is \"failing to discharge any of its functions in an effective manner\" she can direct the Mayor of London to intervene.\n\nBut that is a power designed to be used in exceptional circumstances. And she is not allowed to use that power until she has first consulted the inspectorate of police forces, the expert body on how chief constables are performing.\n\nSir Tom Winsor, former HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Ms Braverman had \"crossed the line\".\n\n\"The operational independence of the police is not a debatable matter,\" he said. \"The policing protocol order made by this home secretary in June 2023... stresses the operational independence of the police.\n\n\"It is the will of Parliament and the government that the police shall not be open to improper political interference that the police must act with impartiality, including political impartiality.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Cannabinoids such as spice and THC have been found in vapes in the Oldham area on four occasions recently\n\nA head teacher is warning that illegal vaping could kill a child, after the collapse of a 12-year-old pupil who had used a vape containing spice - an illegal synthetic drug.\n\nGlyn Potts, from Oldham, told the BBC he feared it would take a tragedy to prompt action to stop children vaping.\n\nHigh levels of psychoactive cannabis oil and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) have also been found in vapes in the area.\n\nThe government said it is planning new laws to prevent under-age vaping.\n\nDame Rachel de Souza, Children's Commissioner for England, said it was \"deeply shocking to hear of children collapsing from spice contained in vapes\", adding that she has previously called for the ban of disposable vapes.\n\nShe said: \"We need to be moving faster on this issue, or we risk it spiralling out of control.\n\n\"We urgently need tighter restrictions on advertising and flavours of vapes that appeal to children as well as stricter licensing for retailers selling vapes.\"\n\n\"I pray that we don't have a fatality in these kinds of instances, but I do fear that is likely to happen if we don't address these matters,\" said Mr Potts, head of Saint John Henry Newman Catholic College in Oldham, a secondary school for pupils aged from 11 to 16.\n\nIt is illegal to sell e-cigarettes to people aged under 18, but a recent survey found one in five teenagers in England had tried vaping, an increase of a third on the previous year.\n\nGlyn Potts said he had \"nightmares\" about his pupils collapsing in the street after using dangerous vapes\n\nThe popularity of vaping among youngsters comes amid concern about the emergence of illegal vapes containing excess nicotine content above the legal limit, and metals such as lead and nickel.\n\nMore recently, some vapes have been found to contain cannabinoids such as tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and spice, which can be more potent than cannabis.\n\nIn July, a pupil at Mr Potts' school collapsed and had to be admitted to hospital after inhaling a vape containing spice, a laboratory-made drug known for its widespread illegal use in prisons.\n\n\"He took one very large inhalation of this vape pen and by the time he got off the bus on the school grounds felt very unwell. By the time he arrived at the school gates he had collapsed on the floor,\" said Mr Potts.\n\nThe pupil has now recovered.\n\nA scientist, who later tested a number of refillable and single-use vapes taken from the school, said it was \"very concerning\" a child had inhaled spice, because it was known to cause \"zombie-like paralysis\" in users, particularly children.\n\nMr Potts said he was confident children could not vape in school but he was worried about incidents away from the premises.\n\n\"If they are collapsing in the street or in areas where they are not necessarily going to be found quickly, that gives me nightmares.\"\n\nThese vapes tested by chemical scientists in Manchester were found to contain spice and THC\n\nHe also said he had been told young people were using the tram network to obtain illicit vapes such as these from dealers in other parts of Greater Manchester.\n\nIn total, there have been four incidents this year in the Oldham area involving vapes found to have contained spice or THC.\n\nA pupil at another school in the area collapsed in September after inhaling a vape containing butane hash oil with a 90% concentration of THC. The testing laboratory, the Manchester Drug Analysis and Knowledge Exchange (Mandrake), said it had never seen such high-strength THC in a vape. The team was set up in 2016 to help Greater Manchester Police tackle an \"epidemic\" of new types of psychoactive substances being found in the city.\n\nMandrake director Dr Oliver Sutcliffe told the BBC the discovery of 90% THC rang alarm bells for the team.\n\n\"The fact that this product is present seems to imply that there may be a shift in the market. And the fact that we are starting to see this on our radar means that we need to be prepared for more of these types of products, with high purity and high potency THC becoming more commonplace.\"\n\nMr Potts said he believes children are using the Manchester tram system to travel to buy drug-filled vapes\n\nSgt Joseph Dunne, who works in Oldham Prevention Hub for Greater Manchester Police, said the emergence of these illegal vapes was \"very concerning\".\n\n\"What we find is that some vapes have been tampered with or are being used specifically to house THC or spice. We are finding quite a lot of these children are getting vapes from other countries, where they will have a higher percentage of nicotine which isn't authorised in the UK, and that can make these children who aren't used to smoking very ill very quickly.\n\n\"Children taking these illegal vapes has become the main priority of our schools-based officers,\" he added.\n\n\"What we have found is that these vapes are being used communally in schools. The schools will find them in lockers and on top of lockers in drawers.\"\n\nDr Oliver Sutcliffe's team said the discovery of a vape containing 90% HTC signified a possible \"shift in the market\"\n\nGreater Manchester Police, Oldham Council, and Trading Standards are working closely together, but Mr Potts says a national strategy is needed urgently to stop children vaping.\n\n\"I think we've got to accept that without the strategy to tackle this, more young people will be at risk.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said it is consulting on measures to crack down on under-age vaping, banning disposable vapes and and restricting flavouring and types of packaging. Health officials say vaping remains an option for adult smokers wishing to quit their habit, but it is not a safe choice for children.\n\nHowever, Mr Potts believes a major, co-ordinated effort is needed to cut off the supply of vapes to youngsters.\n\n\"The issues around vapes are as significant and of prime concern for us because of the ease of access and the sheer numbers of people who come into contact with these devices.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe chance of a volcanic eruption in Iceland is rising, posing a threat to a now-evacuated town, experts say.\n\nIceland has declared a state of emergency after a series of earthquakes.\n\nAuthorities have ordered thousands of people living in the southwestern town of Grindavík to leave as a precaution.\n\nThe Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) said there was a considerable risk of an eruption.\n\nThe probability of an eruption on or just off the Reykjanes peninsula has increased since the morning, IMO says.\n\nAn eruption could start at any time in the next few days, according to the statement.\n\nThor Thordason, professor of volcanology at the University of Iceland, said a 15km-long (nine mile) river of magma running under the peninsula was still active.\n\n\"That's why we're talking about an imminent eruption unfortunately. The most likely eruption side appears to be within the boundary of the town of Grindavík,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThousands of tremors have been recorded around the nearby Fagradalsfjall volcano in recent weeks.\n\nThey have been concentrated in Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, which had remained dormant to volcanic activity for 800 years before a 2021 eruption.\n\nEarth tremors have caused the ground to slip at this golf course and elsewhere in Grindavik\n\nIn a statement on Saturday the agency said a tunnel of magma, or molten rock, that extends northeast across Grindavík and some 10km further inland, was estimated at a depth of less than 800 metres, compared with 1,500 metres earlier in the day.\n\nOn Thursday, the increased seismic activity in the area prompted the closure of the nearby Blue Lagoon landmark.\n\nMore than 20,000 tremors have been recorded in southwest Iceland since late October.\n\nIceland's Civil Protection Agency said the decision to evacuate came after the IMO could not rule out a \"magma tunnel that is currently forming could reach Grindavík\".\n\nAnd on Friday, the agency said people must leave the town, but also emphasised it was not an \"emergency evacuation\" - calling on them to \"remain calm, because we have a good amount of time to react\".\n\n\"There is no immediate danger imminent, the evacuation is primarily preventive with the safety of all Grindavík residents as the principal aim,\" it added.\n\nAll roads into the town of around 4,000 people are closed other than for emergencies, to ensure traffic can get in and out.\n\nAlda Sigmundsdottir, a journalist in Reykjavik, said that people were going back into the town \"to get their absolute bare necessities\" and pets.\n\n\"We are just currently waiting for the eruption to start,\" she told the BBC's Newshour.\n\nCracks from the volcanic activity have damaged roads in Grindavik\n\nIceland is one of the most geologically active regions in the world, with around 30 active volcanic sites.\n\nVolcanic eruptions occur when magma, which is lighter than the solid rock around it, rises to the earth's surface from deep below it.\n\nIn July, Litli-Hrutur, or Little Ram, erupted in the Fagradalsfjall area, drawing tourists to the site of the \"world's newest baby volcano\".\n\nThe site was dormant for eight centuries until eruptions in 2021, 2022 and 2023.", "The Beatles are the British act with the most number one singles in UK charts history\n\nThe Beatles have topped the charts with their single, Now and Then, making them the act with the longest gap between their first and last number ones.\n\nSixty years after From Me to You topped the charts, Sir Paul McCartney said: \"It's blown my socks off!\"\n\nNow and Then is also this century's fastest-selling vinyl single, according to the Official Charts Company.\n\nIts first bars were written by John Lennon in 1978, and it was finally completed last year.\n\nSir Paul said: \"It's mind boggling. It's blown my socks off. It's also a very emotional moment for me. I love it!\"\n\nThe Beatles last topped the charts with The Ballad of John and Yoko in 1969, and have overtaken Kate Bush's 44 years between Wuthering Heights (1978) and Running Up That Hill (2022).\n\nThey are also the oldest band ever to hit number one - Sir Paul McCartney is 82 and Sir Ringo Starr is 83.\n\nThey are also the second and third-oldest chart-topping artists, after Sir Captain Tom Moore, aged 99, whose cover of You'll Never Walk Alone was number one in 2020 with Michael Ball.\n\nNow and Then debuted in the charts at number 42 after its release on 2 November, based on just 10 hours' worth of sales.\n\nThe band are seen here in 1964, the year after their first number one hit\n\nSince then it has jumped 41 places up the charts and is the 18th number one single for Sir Paul, Sir Ringo Starr and the late John Lennon and George Harrison.\n\nThe song has 78,200 combined UK chart units across sales and streaming, and the biggest one-week physical sales in almost a decade, with 38,000 - the most since X Factor 2014 winner Ben Haenow sold 47,000 copies of Something I Need.\n\nThe Beatles are the British act with the most number one singles in UK charts history - only US singer Elvis Presley has more, with 21 chart-topping singles.\n\nBack in 1963, when From Me To You topped the charts, Harold Macmillan was the Conservative prime minister.\n\nThe single knocked Gerry & The Pacemakers' How Do You Do It? from the top spot, where it stayed for seven consecutive weeks.\n\nThe Beatles previously cleaned up John Lennon demos to create the \"new\" songs Free As A Bird and Real Love\n\nAll four Beatles feature on Now and Then, the last credited to Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr. It was issued as a double A-side single with Love Me Do - their 1962 debut.\n\nLennon wrote Now and Then after the Beatles split up in 1970, and the song had circulated as a bootleg for years.\n\nAn apologetic love song, it is addressed to an old friend (or lover), to whom Lennon declares: \"Now and then, I miss you / Now and then, I want you to return to me.\"\n\nSir Paul had wanted to complete the song ever since - and advancements in audio technology finally made that possible.\n\nMartin Talbot, head of the Official Charts Company, said: \"The return of John, Paul, George and Ringo with the last ever Beatles single has cemented their legend by breaking a catalogue of records - and in doing so underlined the extraordinary scope of their enduring appeal, across all the generations, with huge numbers of streams, downloads and vinyl singles.\"\n\nJung Kook of BTS has hit the top 10 for the fourth time with his new single\n\nTaylor Swift is re-recording all of her first six albums\n\nElsewhere in the charts, BTS member Jung Kook managed to get his fourth solo top 10 single with Standing Next to You, while Casso, Raye and D-Block Europe's Prada rose one place to number two.\n\nLast week's number one, Is It Over Now (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift, fell to number three, while Olivia Rodrigo's Can't Catch Me Now, from the soundtrack for the film The Hunger Games: The Ballads of Songbirds and Snakes, was at number 18.\n\nIn the album chart, Taylor Swift's new version of 1989 (Taylor's Version) topped the charts, beating new releases from Oasis, with The Masterplan, and Golden by Jung Kook.\n\nHackney Diamonds by The Rolling Stones was at number four, with Sir Cliff Richard at number five with Strings - My Kinda Life.", "Huge flames and plumes of grey smoke could be seen rising into the sky from a blaze at an industrial waste site in Newark on Saturday.\n\nNottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service said it sent six fire engines, a welfare unit and command unit to the scene.", "The Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge in Maui, Hawaii, has seen a recent influx of visitors - but they're not there to see the wetlands, they've come for the bubblegum pink pond.\n\nScientists do not know for sure what has caused the pond to turn the bright shade of 'Barbie' pink, but they they suspect it could be down to high salt levels in the water prompting the growth of halobacteria organisms.\n\nPeople are warned not to get too close or drink the water.", "Elianne's aunt Ruby Paintsil (left) said: \"If we could change the clock I wish we would not have to go through this\"\n\nThe family of Elianne Andam say they are \"broken\" and \"are not the same\" since the day she was killed.\n\nThe 15-year-old girl was stabbed at about 08:30 BST on her way to school in Croydon, south London, on 27 September.\n\nA 17-year-old boy is charged with murder and is due to appear in court on 19 December.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC the day before Elianne's funeral, they said it will be \"a celebration of her life\" and she will \"forever remain in our hearts\".\n\nShortly before a community event at Croydon Voluntary Action on Friday, Elianne's aunts Regina Boafo and Ruby Paintsil spoke of their \"amazing\" niece's dreams to be a lawyer and to \"defend... the voiceless\".\n\n\"She doesn't like injustice; she likes justice for people. Every time she'd get in trouble [it was] fighting for someone else,\" Ms Paintsil said.\n\nElianne's aunt Regina Boafo said her niece was a \"good girl\" and \"she would never get into any fight with anyone\"\n\nThey said although the teenager was \"very quiet\" she loved dancing and singing and was always \"smiling a lot\".\n\nMs Paintsil said Elianne was respectful of her family and enjoyed spending time with them, adding: \"She doesn't like really a lot of arguments; she would never argue with her auntie or uncle.\"\n\nThe aunts said they never expected such a tragedy would happen to them, or that moments after Elianne said goodbye and set off for school she would be dead.\n\n\"That is the bit I cannot get out of my head,\" Ms Boafo said.\n\n\"She is very calm, she was the last person I would ever think someone would harm her with a knife,\" Ms Paintsil said.\n\nShe stressed Elianne didn't mix with \"the wrong people\" and the aunts said she would keep in touch with family if she went out to the cinema or a restaurant.\n\nSpeaking about the day Elianne was killed, Ms Boafo said after waking she saw her phone had been called \"many times\" and when she found out her niece had died she was \"really destroyed, broken\".\n\nSince her niece's death, Ms Boafo said she hasn't been able to work and rarely leaves the house. She has moved in with her sister - Elianne's mother - to help support her.\n\n\"Up to now, I'm still not the same woman... I can't do anything. I get up and I don't even feel like dressing up, but you have to put clothes on because people are coming to sympathise with you,\" she explained.\n\n\"I wish nobody would ever go through this pain,\" Elianne's aunt Ruby Paintsil said\n\n\"If I can't even do things, just imagine how my sister feels - my sister who was trying to be strong and go to work, she can't.\"\n\n\"She is broken a lot... we have to keep comforting her. She hasn't been herself, every day broken into pieces,\" Ms Paintsil said.\n\n\"If we could change the clock I wish we would not have to go through this.\n\n\"You ask questions - why? Why does that have to happen?\" she added. \"I wish nobody would ever go through this pain.\"\n\nDespite their grief, both women said they have been amazed at support from the community along with thousands of cards and messages sent from around the world - all of which has \"really helped\" their family.\n\nThousands of people attended a vigil in Croydon to remember Elianne\n\n\"We really appreciate everything the nation and everyone is doing... thank you,\" Ms Boafo said.\n\nElianne's funeral will be held in Croydon on Saturday.\n\nMs Paintsil said after her burial there will be a celebration of her life because \"she's a girl that liked to bring joy to people's lives\".\n\n\"If Elianne was here she'd say 'go on, have fun, don't break down', and things like that.\"\n\nMs Boafo added: \"It will be nice to celebrate it and for us, she will forever remain in our hearts - she can never be gone.\n\n\"Even though she is gone, we know that her memory will forever be with us.\"\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Some Jewish people in Germany say they have to hide their identity due to fears over their safety\n\nChancellor Olaf Scholz says he's \"ashamed and outraged\" at recent antisemitic attacks in Germany.\n\nHe was speaking at an event to mark the anniversary of the November pogroms of 1938, sometimes known as \"Kristallnacht.\"\n\nBerlin's staunch diplomatic support for Israel is often described as a matter of historic responsibility.\n\nBut, as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas, social discord is emerging in Germany.\n\nI meet a woman called Noa at a Berlin synagogue where she tells me how she has family who survived the Holocaust by hiding in Poland.\n\nSome Jewish people in today's Germany, she says, are now hiding their identity.\n\n\"It's scary. Why should I live and be afraid of who I am?\"\n\nIt’s scary. Why should I live and be afraid of who I am?\n\nAaron doesn't feel comfortable showing items traditionally worn by Jewish men in public, either his kippah or his tzitzit, the tassels of his prayer shawl.\n\nHaving fled the war in Ukraine, he believes Berlin is unsafe because \"a lot of people support terrorist organisations\".\n\nFears about a rise in antisemitism, since the outbreak of hostilities between Hamas and Israel, are widespread across Europe.\n\nFor Germany, incidents such as two petrol bombs being thrown towards a Berlin synagogue in October spark acute anxiety due to the nation's Nazi past.\n\nCases of antisemitism were, according to preliminary police figures, already on the rise this year before the Hamas attacks - the majority committed by the far right.\n\nCases of antisemitism were already on the rise before the Hamas attacks\n\nSince 7 October, senior politicians have urged people, particularly from parts of the political left and Muslim backgrounds, to distance themselves from the actions of Hamas.\n\nIsrael's security is a fundamental cornerstone of German foreign policy with the former chancellor, Angela Merkel, declaring it to be a Staatsräson - reason of state - in 2008.\n\nOn a recent visit to Israel, Olaf Scholz said: \"In such difficult times there is only one place we can be: at Israel's side.\"\n\nBut Germany's state doctrine is being visibly challenged on the streets of cities like Berlin.\n\n\"Your staatsräson sucks!\" read one placard at a recent pro-Palestinian demonstration.\n\nBerlin's support for Israel is drawing criticism from some in Germany\n\nThis march was permitted to take place whereas many have been banned.\n\nNadim Jarrar, who attended the 9,000-strong demo, tells me he's frustrated by the \"one-sided\" narrative.\n\nHalf-German, half-Palestinian - he thinks Germany must be more prepared to talk about the actions of Israel.\n\n\"It's a healthy process for every nation to get criticised and to have a discussion about what's going on.\"\n\nAny German discomfort with that debate, he believes, cannot lead to shutting it down.\n\nIt’s a healthy process for every nation to get criticised and to have a discussion about what’s going on\n\nSami, who has family in the West Bank and lives in Stuttgart, says people must be able \"to show we are in pain about what's happening in Gaza\".\n\n\"What's been done to the Palestinians since 1948... We've all seen the videos of what they're doing to our children.\"\n\nIn a widely viewed video message, Germany's vice-chancellor, Robert Habeck, said that criticism of Israel is \"of course allowed\" but its right to exist must not be \"relativised\".\n\n\"Israel's security is our obligation,\" he said.\n\nSome demonstrations have led to violent clashes between police and protesters.\n\nThe authorities are investigating reports that black and white banners, which are used by jihadist groups and feature the Islamic statement of faith, were flown at a march in the city of Essen.\n\nThere was outrage when one group, subsequently disbanded by government, appeared to be celebrating the Hamas atrocities of 7 October on the streets of Berlin.\n\nFelix Klein, the government's Commissioner for Jewish life in Germany, says it has become apparent that there is a big problem in Germany's integration policy.\n\n\"It is problematic when it turns into antisemitic and anti-Israel hate where people shout 'From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free' - which would deny Israel's right to exist.\"\n\nIn Germany, there are growing demonstrations in support of Palestinians\n\nHowever, there has been criticism that the messages coming from the government have veered towards stoking anti-Muslim sentiment.\n\nDebate about the German government's foreign and domestic positioning is likely to persist for as long as the conflict between Israel and Hamas lasts.\n\n\"Every time there's a war in Israel,\" says Noa, \"it just hits us again and again that we are not a full part of the society\".\n\n\"We will always be different. We will always be the ones that are not fully German.\"\n\nThere is real anguish in Germany, rooted in its past, that Jewish people don't feel safe. But there is also an anger, bubbling in some communities, about a perceived reluctance by the political classes to break a German taboo and criticise Israel.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nGrand National-winning jockey Graham Lee is in intensive care after being injured at Newcastle Racecourse.\n\nThe 47-year-old was unseated from his mount Ben Macdui as the stalls opened on Friday.\n\n\"He was taken by ambulance to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, where he is in intensive care with a neck injury,\" read a statement on Saturday from the Injured Jockeys Fund.\n\n\"He will undergo further tests today to assess the extent of the injury.\"\n\nLee rode more than 1,000 winners over the jumps, including Amberleigh House for trainer Ginger McCain in the 2004 Grand National.\n\nHe switched to riding on the Flat in 2012 and won the Gold Cup at Ascot three years later with Trip To Paris.\n\nDale Gibson, interim chief executive of the Professional Jockeys Association, who was at Newcastle on Saturday, said: \"Any time a jockey gets injured, there's always a real sense of community and group feeling and that's very much the case now.\n\n\"Graham is hugely popular and what he's achieved in the sport is incredible. The PJA and the weighing room very much want to send our best wishes to Graham and his family.\n\n\"It's not easy for jockeys going out and riding today, especially those who were here last night. They're a very close-knit community.\"", "From left to right: Yumna Afzaal, Madiha Salman, Salman's mother Talat Afzaal, and Salman Afzaal were \"the best\" of their community, friends said\n\nA Canadian jury has heard closing arguments in the case of a man accused of murdering four members of a Muslim family with his vehicle.\n\nNathaniel Veltman, 22, faces four first-degree murder charges and one count of attempted murder.\n\nMr Veltman also faces terrorism counts, with prosecutors arguing that he targeted the Afzaal family because of their faith.\n\nBoth the defence and prosecutors agree that Mr Veltman was behind the wheel.\n\nBut Mr Veltman has pleaded not guilty, arguing that he was in a \"dreamlike state\" on 6 June, 2021, the day he allegedly ran over three generations of the Afzaal family in London, Ontario while they were out for an evening walk.\n\nSalman Afzaal, 46, and his wife Madiha Salman, 44, were killed in the attack - along with their daughter Yumna Afzaal, 15, and Mr Afzaal's mother Talat Afzaal, 74.\n\nThe couple's nine-year-old son was seriously hurt but survived.\n\nThe case marks the first time a jury in Canada is hearing legal arguments on terrorism related to white supremacy. The jury will not only have to decide on whether Mr Veltman is guilty of murder, but also whether his actions can be described as terrorism.\n\nClosing arguments were made on Tuesday in a Windsor, Ontario court, after 10 weeks of proceedings.\n\nTestifying in his own defence, Mr Veltman told the jury during the trial he ingested a large quantity of magic mushrooms about 40 hours before the crash.\n\nHe admitted that the thought of running over Muslims came to him twice after taking the drug, but he resisted. Then, while out for food, he said he saw the family and could not stop the \"urge\".\n\nAnother witness, forensic psychiatrist Julian Gojer, told the jury that Mr Veltman has been diagnosed with several mental health issues, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, severe depression, anxiety and a personality disorder.\n\nHe testified that the magic mushrooms likely exacerbated his existing mental health conditions.\n\nThe murder of the Afzaal family was met with widespread grief and shock in Canada, where rallies were held in their honour\n\nDuring their closing arguments, Christopher Hicks, the lawyer for Mr Veltman, described his client's mental state at the time as \"a runaway freight train headed for explosion\".\n\nProsecutors on the other hand have argued that Mr Veltman, who was 20 at the time of his arrest, was motivated by hate and white nationalist ideologies.\n\nThey had called a total of 19 witnesses to the stand and have shown the jury video of the crash.\n\nIn the video, Mr Veltman is seen wearing a bullet-proof vest and an army helmet. In an interview with police after the incident, he identified himself as a white nationalist and said he struck the family \"because they were Muslim\".\n\nProsecutors also played audio of a 911 call Mr Veltman made after the crash, in which he said: \"Come over and arrest me. I did it on purpose.\"\n\nMr Hicks has argued that Mr Veltman made those statements under duress, and that it is difficult to prove he had intent to kill on the day of the crash because of his various mental disorders.\n\nBut Crown lawyer Fraser Ball told the jury that the case against Mr Veltman is \"overwhelming\" and that his confession is \"logical and coherent\".\n\nHe said that the accused had a message for Muslims: \"That message was strong. That message was brutal. That message was terrible.\"\n\n\"He hit exactly who he wanted to hit, exactly how he wanted to hit them,\" Mr Ball said.\n\nThe trial has been watched closely by law experts in Canada to see if the country's terrorism charges, enacted in the wake of the 11 September attacks on the US, could be applied to someone who allegedly targeted a family because they are Muslim.\n\nAndrew Botterell, a law professor at the University of Western Ontario in London, said he will also be watching to see if Mr Veltman's defence is successful, as it is \"quite a high bar\" to prove that a person is not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder.\n\n\"The mental disorder has to be such that it rendered you incapable of understanding what it was that you were doing, or understanding that what you were doing was wrong,\" Mr Botterell told the BBC.\n\nThe jury will now deliberate the fate of Mr Veltman, who faces life in prison if found guilty.", "Suella Braverman, who was sacked as home secretary by Rishi Sunak after she defied No 10 over an article accusing the Metropolitan Police of bias in the policing of protests, has sent a scathing open letter to her old boss.\n\nThank you for your phone call yesterday morning in which you asked me to leave government. While disappointing, this is for the best.\n\nIt has been my privilege to serve as home secretary and deliver on what the British people have sent us to Westminster to do.\n\nI want to thank all of those civil servants, police, Border Force officers and security professionals with whom I have worked and whose dedication to public safety is exemplary.\n\nI am proud of what we achieved together: delivering on our manifesto pledge to recruit 20,000 new police officers and enacting new laws such as the Public Order Act 2023 and the National Security Act 2023.\n\nI also led a programme of reform: on anti-social behaviour, police dismissals and standards, reasonable lines of enquiry, grooming gangs, knife crime, non-crime hate incidents and rape and serious sexual offences.\n\nAnd I am proud of the strategic changes that I was delivering to Prevent, Contest, serious organised crime and fraud. I am sure that this work will continue with the new ministerial team.\n\nAs you know, I accepted your offer to serve as home secretary in October 2022 on certain conditions.\n\nDespite you having been rejected by a majority of party members during the summer leadership contest and thus having no personal mandate to be prime minister, I agreed to support you because of the firm assurances you gave me on key policy priorities. These were, among other things:\n\nThis was a document with clear terms to which you agreed in October 2022 during your second leadership campaign. I trusted you. It is generally agreed that my support was a pivotal factor in winning the leadership contest and thus enabling you to become prime minister.\n\nFor a year, as home secretary I have sent numerous letters to you on the key subjects contained in our agreement, made requests to discuss them with you and your team, and put forward proposals on how we might deliver these goals.\n\nI worked up the legal advice, policy detail and action to take on these issues. This was often met with equivocation, disregard and a lack of interest.\n\nYou have manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver on every single one of these key policies. Either your distinctive style of government means you are incapable of doing so. Or, as I must surely conclude now, you never had any intention of keeping your promises.\n\nThese are not just pet interests of mine. They are what we promised the British people in our 2019 manifesto which led to a landslide victory. They are what people voted for in the 2016 Brexit Referendum.\n\nOur deal was no mere promise over dinner, to be discarded when convenient and denied when challenged.\n\nI was clear from day one that if you did not wish to leave the ECHR, the way to securely and swiftly deliver our Rwanda partnership would be to block off the ECHR, the HRA and any other obligations which inhibit our ability to remove those with no right to be in the UK. Our deal expressly referenced \"notwithstanding clauses\" to that effect.\n\nYour rejection of this path was not merely a betrayal of our agreement, but a betrayal of your promise to the nation that you would do \"whatever it takes\" to stop the boats.\n\nAt every stage of litigation I cautioned you and your team against assuming we would win. I repeatedly urged you to take legislative measures that would better secure us against the possibility of defeat. You ignored these arguments. You opted instead for wishful thinking as a comfort blanket to avoid having to make hard choices. This irresponsibility has wasted time and left the country in an impossible position.\n\nIf we lose in the Supreme Court, an outcome that I have consistently argued we must be prepared for, you will have wasted a year and an Act of Parliament, only to arrive back at square one.\n\nWorse than this, your magical thinking - believing that you can will your way through this without upsetting polite opinion - has meant you have failed to prepare any sort of credible Plan B.\n\nI wrote to you on multiple occasions setting out what a credible Plan B would entail, and making clear that unless you pursue these proposals, in the event of defeat, there is no hope of flights this side of an election. I received no reply from you.\n\nI can only surmise that this is because you have no appetite for doing what is necessary, and therefore no real intention of fulfilling your pledge to the British people.\n\nIf, on the other hand, we win in the Supreme Court, because of the compromises that you insisted on in the Illegal Migration Act, the government will struggle to deliver our Rwanda partnership in the way that the public expects.\n\nThe Act is far from secure against legal challenge. People will not be removed as swiftly as I originally proposed. The average claimant will be entitled to months of process, challenge, and appeal. Your insistence that Rule 39 indications are binding in international law - against the views of leading lawyers, as set out in the House of Lords - will leave us vulnerable to being thwarted yet again by the Strasbourg Court.\n\nAnother cause for disappointment - and the context for my recent article in The Times - has been your failure to rise to the challenge posed by the increasingly vicious antisemitism and extremism displayed on our streets since Hamas's terrorist atrocities of 7 October.\n\nI have become hoarse urging you to consider legislation to ban the hate marches and help stem the rising tide of racism, intimidation and terrorist glorification threatening community cohesion.\n\nBritain is at a turning point in our history and faces a threat of radicalisation and extremism in a way not seen for 20 years.\n\nI regret to say that your response has been uncertain, weak, and lacking in the qualities of leadership that this country needs. Rather than fully acknowledge the severity of this threat, your team disagreed with me for weeks that the law needed changing.\n\nAs on so many other issues, you sought to put off tough decisions in order to minimise political risk to yourself. In doing so, you have increased the very real risk these marches present to everyone else.\n\nIn October of last year you were given an opportunity to lead our country. It is a privilege to serve and one we should not take for granted. Service requires bravery and thinking of the common good.\n\nIt is not about occupying the office as an end in itself.\n\nSomeone needs to be honest: your plan is not working, we have endured record election defeats, your resets have failed and we are running out of time. You need to change course urgently.\n\nI may not have always found the right words, but I have always striven to give voice to the quiet majority that supported us in 2019. I have endeavoured to be honest and true to the people who put us in these privileged positions.\n\nI will, of course, continue to support the government in pursuit of policies which align with an authentic conservative agenda.", "At PMQs, Rishi Sunak claimed the Labour leader’s plan to stop small boats coming to the UK was “a cosy deal with the EU, which would see the UK accept 100,000 illegal migrants”.\n\nKeir Starmer has said he would negotiate a returns agreement with EU countries to send back some failed asylum seekers - if Labour wins power.\n\nThe Conservatives’ claim is based on the assumption that Labour would have to take 13% of all asylum seekers who arrive in the EU as part of such an agreement because they claim the EU has a policy of sharing asylum seekers between countries based on population size, which would leave the UK taking over 100,000 of them a year.\n\nBut although the EU has been discussing for years how to share responsibility for refugees, no deal based on population is in place.\n\nLabour has said it would not - and could not - sign up to an EU quota scheme because the UK is not a member state, so any agreement would have to be outside that.", "Leaked documents reveal a money trail linking oligarch Roman Abramovich to two men dubbed \"wallets\" of President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe former Chelsea Football Club owner has been sanctioned by the UK and EU but has previously denied any financial relationship with the Russian leader.\n\nNow, leaked documents from Cyprus reveal new evidence linking him to a secret $40m (£26m) deal in 2010.\n\nMr Abramovich has not responded to requests for comment from the BBC.\n\nThe secret deal transferred shares in a highly profitable Russian advertising company, Video International - for less than they appeared to be worth - from companies ultimately owned by a trust connected with Mr Abramovich, to two members of Putin's inner circle. They in turn received millions of dollars in dividends.\n\nConfidential records reveal that one of the men involved in the secret deal was Sergei Roldugin, a close friend of the Russian president.\n\nA cellist, Mr Roldugin is the artistic director of the St Petersburg Music House. He has known Vladimir Putin since they were young men in St Petersburg, and is reported to have introduced him to Lyudmila Shkrebneva, whom the future president married in 1983 (they are now divorced). Mr Roldugin is the godfather of their first daughter, Maria.\n\nSergei Roldugin is an accomplished cellist and close friend of Vladimir Putin\n\nThe second man is another close associate of President Putin - Alexander Plekhov, a biochemist-turned-businessman, also from St Petersburg.\n\nMr Roldugin and Mr Plekhov have both been accused of being \"wallets\" for President Putin - secretly holding money and assets on his behalf.\n\nEarlier this year, Swiss prosecutors alleged they were \"straw men\", and not the real owners of assets in bank accounts set up in connection with the Video International deal.\n\nThe court did not identify anyone as the true ultimate beneficial owner of the accounts.\n\nPresident Putin's stated salary in 2021 was just over $100,000 (£72,700). However, there are rumours his fortune could be worth anywhere between $125bn (£102bn) and $200bn (£164bn), hidden away in a network of shell companies and the accounts of friends.\n\nMr Plekhov has been sanctioned by the UK government, and Mr Roldugin has also been sanctioned by the UK, the EU and the US, which described him as a \"custodian of President Putin's offshore wealth\".\n\nAlexander Plekhov has been sanctioned by the UK government\n\nThe Cyprus Confidential investigation is based on 3.6 million confidential corporate records from companies providing offshore services in Cyprus, and has focused on its close financial relationship with Russia and now-sanctioned oligarchs, many of whom have used the island to manage their secret offshore holdings.\n\nThey include documents from a corporate service provider in Cyprus called MeritServus, originally obtained by the whistleblowing group Distributed Denial of Secrets. MeritServus was itself sanctioned by the UK earlier this year, after internal documents revealed it had breached sanctions on behalf of one of its Russian clients.\n\nCypriot company MeritServus was sanctioned earlier this year over dealings with a Russian client\n\nMeritServus also worked with Mr Abramovich's companies in Cyprus. The oligarch's wealth totals more than $9bn (£7.3bn) and he has made numerous public investments in sports, arts and high-value properties. He became one of the best-known and influential Russian oligarchs in the UK after buying Chelsea FC in London in 2003.\n\nHe has downplayed his relationship with President Putin, and challenged suggestions of a close financial relationship or that he has acted on behalf of the Russian leader.\n\nIn 2010, a spokesperson for Mr Abramovich said he had \"no financial relationship of any kind with [then] Prime Minister Putin\".\n\nAnd in 2021 he sued journalist Catherine Belton over a passage in her book, Putin's People, referring to evidence alleging that he had purchased Chelsea FC in 2003 at President Putin's behest. The case was settled out of court with an agreement by the publisher \"to record the position more accurately\" and add \"a more detailed explanation of Mr Abramovich's motivations\".\n\nRoman Abramovich at a Chelsea game in 2017, when he was still owner of the west London club\n\nThe UK and EU placed Mr Abramovich under sanctions in March 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe EU said: \"He has had privileged access to the president, and has maintained very good relations with him. This connection with the Russian leader helped him to maintain his considerable wealth.\"\n\nMr Abramovich challenged the EU sanctions in court earlier this year. His lawyer claimed the restrictions were prompted by the Russian businessman's \"celebrity\" rather than \"based on evidence\".\n\nBut the secret deal with Mr Roldugin and Mr Plekhov suggests a close financial relationship between Mr Abramovich and President Putin.\n\n\"This case obviously puts more information onto the table and further endorses the alleged connection between Putin and Abramovich in a way that becomes increasingly difficult to deflect,\" says Tom Keatinge, director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at the defence think tank RUSI.\n\nA complex web of companies in Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands, and a trust, concealed the football tycoon's involvement in the transaction - until now.\n\nLeaked documents reveal the former Chelsea boss's relationship with two companies that bought a combined 25% stake in Video International in 2003.\n\nThe two companies - Finoto Holdings and Grosora Holdings - were created in early 2003. Both were ultimately owned, through a series of shell companies, by the Sara Trust Settlement - a trust of which Mr Abramovich was an ultimate beneficiary.\n\nEach company bought a 12.5% stake in the Russian advertising giant in September 2003 for the same price - about $130,000 (£80,000) each.\n\nThe price paid was \"ridiculous\", says Vladimir Milov, a former energy minister in President Putin's first term and now a vocal opposition leader. \"That stake was clearly worth much more, by many orders of magnitude.\"\n\nAt the time of the purchase, Video International enjoyed a dominant position in the domestic TV advertising market, taking a cut of any advertising airtime purchased on Russian channels.\n\nThe company was \"half a step away from the Kremlin administration\", according to Mr Milov.\n\nMr Abramovich had a stake in Video International for the next seven years. At one point, the company declared a turnover of \"more than $2bn [£1.29bn]\". Dividends of $30m (£19.3m) were paid out to Finoto and Grosora over that period.\n\nVideo International reported revenues of $3bn (£1.9bn) in 2010. However, Finoto and Grosora each sold their investment that year for just $20m (£19.5m), a price that appears to be below its fair market value.\n\nFinoto Holdings sold its stake to Med Media Network, a company nominally owned by Sergei Roldugin.\n\nOn the same day as the Finoto Holdings sale, the other Abramovich-linked company, Grosora Holdings, sold its 12.5% stake to Namiral Trading Ltd, a company later linked to Aleksandr Plekhov.\n\nFinancial links between President Putin and Mr Roldugin were uncovered in 2016 as part of the Panama Papers, which involved the leak of millions of confidential documents from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca.\n\nMr Roldugin, along with Mr Plekhov, was at the centre of a suspected money-laundering scheme run by Bank Rossiya and some of President Putin's closest associates. Bank Rossiya was sanctioned by the US government in 2014, which described it as \"the personal bank for senior officials of the Russian Federation\".\n\nMr Roldugin told the New York Times at that time that he was not a businessman and did not \"have millions\". However, at least on paper, he appeared to have an offshore fortune of over $100m (£61m).\n\n\"Rodulgin clearly serves… as a cover-up for Putin's personal beneficial ownership,\" says Vladimir Milov. \"This guy is absolutely clearly 100% a nominal figure because he does not understand anything about business, finance, international transactions and so on.\"\n\nRevelations in the Panama Papers about bank accounts held by Mr Roldugin in Switzerland, led to an investigation and the trial of four Gazprombank employees earlier this year. The bankers were accused by Swiss prosecutors of failing to properly check accounts opened in the name of Roldugin.\n\nThey were also said to have failed to identify the Russian president's friend as politically exposed - someone whose position or relationships mean that they may be more exposed to risks of corruption, and require more checks under international finance regulations.\n\nAccording to the indictment, accounts with Gazprombank had been simultaneously established for both Med Media Network and Namiral Trading Ltd with an identical \"purpose and structure\" to \"hold shares and receive dividends\" from Video International.\n\nThe prosecutors said the arrangement represented a direct extension of \"assets managed... for the Russian political establishment\".\n\nMr Roldugin and Mr Plekhov were \"straw men\", and not the real beneficiaries of the accounts, the prosecutors alleged.\n\nAll four bankers were convicted, but are reported to be appealing.\n\nThe BBC wrote to Mr Plekhov, Mr Roldugin, Bank Rossiya and President Putin for comment but have received no response.\n\nMany wealthy Russians have used Cyprus, an EU member state, as part of their network of offshore investments. Through these economic relations, Russia is \"worth tens of billions of dollars to the Cyprus economy each year\", says Fergus Shiel of the ICIJ.\n\nThe Cyprus Confidential investigation raises \"grave issues\" for European institutions and EU member states, he continues. \"What we can see in these documents is a European member being a conduit for the secret financial operations of the Kremlin, of Vladimir Putin and his cronies.\"\n\nHowever, there are signs that Cyprus may be cleaning up its act.\n\nFollowing the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many Russians considered close to the financial assets of President Putin were sanctioned by the EU. This has had direct consequences for those with Cypriot investments.\n\n\"The sanctions brought home that Cyprus cannot be used by oligarchs to support the dirty orders of Putin,\" says Alexandra Attalides, an independent Cypriot MP.\n\nMeanwhile, reports suggest Mr Abramovich now spends his time between the Russian resort of Sochi, Istanbul and Tel Aviv. He has Russian, Israeli and also Portuguese passports.\n\nThe oligarch remains the subject of sanctions in the UK and EU, but not in the US, where he is understood to still hold considerable assets.\n\nYou can see more on this story on Newsnight on BBC Two on Tuesday 14 November at 22:30 GMT or on BBC iPlayer", "Breonna Taylor's death sparked racial injustice rallies across the US\n\nJurors in the federal trial of the ex-police detective accused of violating Breonna Taylor's civil rights have begun deliberating for a third day.\n\nIf convicted, Brett Hankison could spend the rest of his life in prison.\n\nHe has pleaded not guilty to the charges and was acquitted on separate state charges last year.\n\nMs Taylor's killing, as police officers tried to execute a search warrant on her Kentucky apartment, sparked rallies against racial injustice across the US.\n\nThe nine-day trial has revolved around whether or not officers should shoot when they have not clearly identified their target.\n\nAccording to Louisville authorities, another detective, Myles Cosgrove, fired the fatal shot that struck Ms Taylor, a 26-year-old black woman, but Mr Hankison fired 10 shots during the chaotic \"no-knock\" raid.\n\nNone of those bullets struck anyone but some rounds strayed into an adjoining apartment where a couple and their child lived.\n\nProsecutors have said that Mr Hankison endangered Ms Taylor, her boyfriend and the neighbours by needlessly using excessive force.\n\nOfficers are charged with protecting human life, they argued, and the former detective had \"dishonoured\" his colleagues by \"firing blindly\".\n\nBut defence lawyers asked jurors to consider \"the chaos he was surrounded with\" and the fact that he \"reacted by trying to protect the lives of his fellow officers and himself\".\n\nHow he responded, they claimed, was \"reasonable, not criminal\".\n\nBrett Hankison has said he acted to 'stop the threat'\n\nTaking the stand, Mr Hankison admitted that he could not see a target through the covered windows or sliding door of Ms Taylor's apartment but said he saw muzzle flashes from gunfire and believed a shootout was taking place.\n\nJurors spent Tuesday deliberating, at one point asking if they could separate Mr Hankison's level of force from how it was used.\n\nThe judge asked them to re-read the jury instructions in the case.\n\nIn March 2022, a Kentucky state jury spent about three hours in deliberation before finding Mr Hankison not guilty of three counts of felony wanton endangerment during the incident.\n\nBut three other former officers involved with the raid have been charged in separate federal cases.\n\nOne of them, Kelly Goodlett, has pleaded guilty and is expected to testify against the others, Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany, in their joint trial next year.\n\nThe raid was part of a sprawling drug investigation, but no drugs were found in Ms Taylor's home.\n\nIn December, Ms Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, received a $2m (£1.7m) settlement from the city.\n\nThe death of Ms Taylor, along with that of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia and George Floyd in Minnesota, sparked widespread anti-racism protests across the country.", "Waheed says Muslim voters feel \"taken for granted\" by Labour\n\nWhile they are united in their horror at the Israel-Gaza conflict, the Muslim and Jewish communities of Bury have very different views as to the stance the UK's politicians should be taking.\n\nThe borough has an above average Muslim and Jewish population, and is split into two parliamentary constituencies - Bury North and Bury South.\n\nBury North is currently held by the Conservatives and Bury South is Labour - the MP Christian Wakefield defected from the Tories in 2022.\n\nBoth seats are Labour targets for the next election.\n\nThe UK government and the Labour Party have both called for a \"humanitarian pause\" in the conflict, to allow aid into Gaza and to get Israeli hostages out.\n\nThe Labour Party has now tabled a motion in the House of Commons, which says that the party \"believes all human life is equal and that there has been too much suffering… over the past month in Gaza.\"\n\nIt calls on all parties to follow the \"rules based international order\" and strengthens language around the need to allow in humanitarian assistance.\n\nBut Bury resident Waheed Arshad illustrates the problem the Labour Party has by not calling for a permanent ceasefire.\n\nHe has previously voted Labour, but says Muslim voters in the area feel \"taken for granted\" by the party, which will impact both their voting and their enthusiasm for campaigning.\n\nMany are watching Wednesday's potential vote in the Commons on the issue closely, he believes, \"disappointed\" in the Labour leadership's positioning so far.\n\n\"Disappointed is probably an understatement on this particular issue. You can see the frustration in the way people are talking,\" he says.\n\n\"There's no real recognition of the fact that actually this is a lot of people taking this position, they want a ceasefire and that's not being reflected. It's very easy for us to say do it because Muslims are saying it or we can swing it - I really want him to do it because it's the right thing to do and from a humanitarian point of view.\"\n\nWaheed has heard opponents of a ceasefire argue that it might give Hamas the opportunity to regroup, but doesn't accept that view.\n\n\"You've got to look at the bigger picture in terms of where we are at now with close to 10,000 deaths. Where do we draw the line?\"\n\nIn the absence of Labour calling for a permanent ceasefire, Waheed says he would look to support an independent candidate. \"Conversations are starting to happen\", he says, about council candidates who could stand against Labour councillors.\n\nIn total, there are 14 marginal seats the Labour Party would hope to win at the next general election, where the Muslim population is bigger than the current Conservative majority.\n\nThere are five Labour target seats where Jewish voters could play a crucial role.\n\nBut while ethnicity and religion are significant factors in determining how people feel about the Israel-Gaza war, clearly individuals will make their own judgements as to which party or candidate represents them best.\n\nHendon in north London,which is currently held by the Conservatives,is another marginal constituency with a higher than average Jewish and Muslim population.\n\nLaurence Stein is the kind of swing voter Labour will be hoping to win over at the next election.\n\nIn the past he's voted for both Labour and Conservative and the crisis in the Middle East is the sort of issue that could decide his vote.\n\n\"If you'd asked me this question a few weeks ago, I probably would have said I'd vote Labour,\" he tells me. \"And the reason I would have said that is because I am concerned about the cost of living.\"\n\n\"Because I feel Rishi Sunak has been a really powerful ally of the Jewish people certainly since 7 October, and in truth before then as well, my views are changing and if there was a general election tomorrow, I would vote Conservative.\"\n\nLaurence likes Sir Keir Starmer but says he is leaning towards voting Conservative\n\nUnder Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, the Equality and Human Rights Commission found the Labour Party had been responsible for unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination over antisemitism.\n\nMr Corbyn responded by saying that the scale of antisemitism within Labour had been \"dramatically overstated\" by his opponents. He now sits as an independent MP and is barred from standing as a Labour candidate.\n\nLaurence had been encouraged by Sir Keir Starmer's moves to rid his party of antisemitism, but is now uneasy about the views of some Labour colleagues as they call for a ceasefire.\n\n\"I like Keir Starmer. I think he's been a great ally to the Jewish people as well in this country but I am worried about the people sitting next to him and behind him.\"\n\nWhen asked if there was anything the Labour leader could do to win him back, Laurence is ready with an answer.\n\n\"I think he could go to visit Israel and give his support to the Israeli government.\"\n\nDaniel says Sir Keir Starmer has shown \"solidarity with the Jewish people\"\n\nDaniel Stiassny, another Hendon constituent, says Sir Keir's position has cemented his support among some Jewish voters.\n\nHe says he's voted Conservative at every election since 1992 but Labour has now won his vote.\n\n\"Had Starmer said he's calling for a ceasefire, had Starmer not backed the Jewish community, I think it would have been a disaster for them in terms of the Jewish vote,\" he says.\n\n\"I think Keir Starmer has shown some good solidarity with the Jewish people, some good solidarity with Israel and I hope he can maintain and I am sure they will.\n\n\"There will be some people on the left who will be trying to push him, sway him - but I think he's held his nerve.\"\n\nSir Keir will be hoping that by strengthening his language he can avoid further frontbench resignations and hold together a party that remains significantly ahead in the polls.\n\nBut with both Labour and the Conservatives so far taking a very similar stance on the Israel-Gaza war, there are many who feel their voices are not being heard.", "We've been reporting on Israel's claims - now backed up by the US - that Hamas has a base under Al-Shifa hospital. But as well as Al-Shifa, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have also made allegations about another Gaza City medical facility - Rantisi children's hospital.\n\nOn Monday night it released a six-minute video purporting to show evidence that Hamas had used the now-evacuated hospital building to detain hostages and store weapons.\n\nThe video has a large number of edits. It begins in the vicinity of the hospital where IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari stands outside a building which he says is the home of a senior Hamas figure. He then shows an underground shaft, which he says is a tunnel entrance.\n\nIn the video, Hagari does not enter the tunnel – saying the doors inside are bullet and explosive proof.\n\nHe is then shown at the “back side of the hospital”, outside a damaged building with the same distinctive colour scheme of Rantisi. There is no continuous take showing Hagari entering the hospital itself.\n\nDaniel Hagari point to what the IDF says is a tunnel shaft Image caption: Daniel Hagari point to what the IDF says is a tunnel shaft\n\nThe video then shows Hagari inside rooms said to be in the basement of the hospital. World Health Organization branding is pictured on a wall-mounted control unit.\n\nHagari points out various pieces of “evidence” - including a cache of weapons laid out on the floor - that he says shows that the area was used by Hamas fighters to store weapons and hold hostages.\n\nA key item is a document on the wall which he says shows a schedule for fighters guarding hostages. The top of this document mentions the “al-Aqsa flood” – Hamas’ codename for the 7 October attacks.\n\nHagari calls it a “guardian list, where every terrorist writes his name [and] has his own shift”. However, the Arabic words actually translate to the days of the week, not names.\n\nHe also points out a curtain hanging over a white-tiled wall, which he says could be used as a backdrop for hostage videos. Of the hostage videos released by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad which we have seen so far, none have shown a matching pattern in the background.\n\nBBC News has not visited the site and is not able to independently verify any of the allegations made by the IDF.\n\nHamas denies hiding under the cover of hospitals - a longstanding Israeli allegation. Its health ministry called the video \"a theatrical farce\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hundreds of people have left Barton House due to safety concerns over the flats\n\nA tower block subject to an emergency evacuation was not constructed according to plans, a city councillor has said.\n\nMore than 400 residents were forced to leave Barton House in Bristol on Tuesday, with the council declaring a major incident.\n\nKye Dudd, cabinet member for housing services and energy, said the issues lay with its concrete sections.\n\n\"If the building was built to design we wouldn't have this problem,\" he said.\n\n\"The issue is within the construction of the building and the job that was done at the time, it wasn't built to the design specs - that's the problem we're dealing with.\"\n\nBristol City Council (BCC) declared a major incident after surveys conducted on three of the 98 flats showed Barton House, built in 1958, would be unsafe in the event of a fire, explosion or large impact.\n\nBarton House was declared unsafe by Bristol City Council and an emergency evacuation carried out\n\nThe council said Barton House was not affected by the same reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) which caused issues in many schools and hospitals.\n\nMr Dudd said: \"I had a briefing on Monday where the report from the structural engineer was presented to me and it looked really bad, so I said to the team we need to prepare for a potential emergency evacuation.\n\n\"But we also had to seek further advice from the fire brigade, so the following day we had another meeting...and we had some prep on where we would potentially move people.\n\n\"We had to take the decision with the information we had as the safety with residents is paramount.\"\n\nThe council added it had notified the government's Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities about the structural issue which forced the evacuation.\n\nBCC said this latest issue did not affect other buildings in the city.\n\nPeople were told to pack enough clothes for a day or two and stay with friends and family, or go to rest centres, the council said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's John Maguire explains why hundreds have been forced to leave their homes\n\nMany were taken on buses to temporary accommodation, carrying their belongings in plastic bags and suitcases.\n\nMayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, said letters have been sent to residents to update them on the situation.\n\n\"We are working at pace to complete further surveys now, to go deep into the structure and understand when it would be safe for residents to move back into Barton House,\" he said.\n\n\"The surveys will take us some time to complete, so residents will need to be away from home while they are carried out.\n\n\"We are working as quickly as we can to find everyone suitable temporary accommodation.\"\n\nWilfred Stewart lives in a flat on the 10th floor of Barton House.\n\nThe 50-year-old showed the BBC around his flat, which has cracks in the walls and in what appears to be supporting beams.\n\nHe said he had painted over the cracks a number of times but they had kept reappearing.\n\nResident Wilfred Stewart said there are cracks in the walls of his flat\n\n\"This crack has been here for years and it's by my back door. The wall is almost separated from the door,\" he said.\n\nMr Stewart said there were lots of elderly people who lived in the building, as well as children.\n\nHe added: \"Some people managed to get hotels for the night but a lot of people went to the mosque or the GP clinic over the road.\n\n\"I hope we get better communication today.\"\n\nCracks have appeared by the door frame of Wilfred Stewart's flat\n\nA woman who has been living at the building for nine years said that after being evacuated she stayed at a friend's home with her two children.\n\nBut she added: \"After tonight I don't know where I am going to go.\"\n\nNuh Sharif, a Barton House resident, said his family spent a \"difficult\" night in a hotel.\n\nHe said he did not think they would ever return to living in Barton House as he would not feel safe.\n\n\"I don't want to put my wife and kids at risk,\" he said.\n\nResident Nuh Sharif said he and his family stayed at a hotel for the night\n\nMr Shariff added: \"Last night was very difficult for me and my kids. I am not sure what will happen next. [The Council] put us in a hotel last night and we didn't sleep.\n\n\"We have come back to try and get more information about what next.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a first-floor resident, who has been living in Barton House for six years, said she decided to stay in the tower block on Tuesday night.\n\n\"I didn't leave. There was advice to go along to certain points, I went along and nobody knew what was going on,\" she said.\n\n\"There is no update yet today and I am going to be back tonight.\"\n\nThe Avon Fire and Rescue Service has been liaising with the council following the building survey\n\nOthers in the area said the situation has caused \"shock and panic\" in the community.\n\nKhalil Abdi, of Bristol Horn Youth Concern, said: \"People finished work, picked up their children, then they got the news from the media.\n\n\"The whole area is shocked, not only this building. I saw people having panic attacks, falling on the floor. It was very difficult for the residents and the community.\n\n\"The work the council need to do today is to provide information - how long are people going to be away from their homes? How long are they going to be in temporary accommodation? They need assurances.\"\n\nThe headteacher at Barton Hill Academy, Matthew Poulson, said twenty children at the school were affected\n\nBarton Hill Academy confirmed 20 pupils had been affected by the evacuation.\n\nHeadteacher Matthew Poulson said: \"When we first heard the news it was about getting out into the community, a rally call to staff members.\n\n\"Nine of us came down out of hours to support our families but that's what we do here.\"\n\nMr Poulson said some of the children were able to attend lessons today but others could not.\n\n\"We're currently in contact with the other families to offer practical and emotional support which we will continue to do so,\" he added.\n\nIf you want to find out more about the Bristol tower block residents evacuated from their homes due to safety concerns watch 'High Rise Housing: Forced to Leave' now on BBC iPlayer (UK only).\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A secret report says Ray Adams, pictured in 2012, was cleared in an earlier corruption investigation after \"fictitious\" testimony from a police informant\n\nA senior officer involved in the Stephen Lawrence murder case was corrupt, according to a secret Met Police report uncovered by the BBC.\n\nIt said Ray Adams was cleared by a corruption probe which relied on false testimony from a man linked to the family of one of Stephen's killers.\n\nThe revelation contradicts years of police denial about the role of corrupt officers in the case.\n\nMr Adams says he has asked the Met to investigate the allegations.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police did not answer the BBC's questions about the report's conclusions regarding Mr Adams.\n\nThe force said it will review material before deciding whether any further action is required.\n\nImran Khan, solicitor for Stephen's mother Baroness Lawrence, said the report about Mr Adams - a former commander, who was once head of criminal intelligence for the entire Met - was \"dramatic, disturbing and shocking\".\n\nSir William Macpherson's landmark 1998 public inquiry into the murder did not hear about this link between Mr Adams and the informant.\n\nFourteen years later, the Met said there was no suggestion of any relationship between the two.\n\nStephen, aged 18, was murdered in April 1993 in a racist attack by a gang of young white men in Eltham, south-east London. The failure to bring the killers to justice prompted a national outcry. Two men were eventually convicted in 2012. Other suspects have never been convicted.\n\nThe initial police investigation, perhaps the most controversial of the past 30 years, has long been a focus of corruption allegations, both at the 1998 public inquiry and in an official review 16 years later.\n\nImran Khan said he wants the Met to \"apologise for not telling Baroness Lawrence and her family about what they knew, and I want them to apologise to Sir William Macpherson's inquiry and to admit that they misled that inquiry\".\n\nRay Adams, who retired from the force in August 1993, was one of those under scrutiny. In the late 1980s, he had been investigated and cleared by a major internal corruption inquiry.\n\nMr Adams went on to be a senior officer in the south London area of the Met responsible for the Lawrence investigation and was directly involved in the case for a short time.\n\nThe Macpherson inquiry said it had seen nothing to suggest he was corruptly involved in trying to hold back the murder investigation. The secret report also said there was no evidence that Mr Adams influenced the investigative team in the Lawrence murder inquiry.\n\nNow 81, Mr Adams has always denied being corrupt, citing the fact he never faced either disciplinary or criminal proceedings.\n\nBut the secret Scotland Yard report, now uncovered by the BBC, concluded he was corrupt and detailed how the 1980s investigation against him was manipulated.\n\nThe report sets out an extraordinary tale involving a crooked antiques dealer, clandestine police operations and one of Britain's most notorious criminals.\n\nMarked as secret and prepared in 2000 for the Met's anti-corruption unit, the report was about officers connected to the Lawrence case.\n\nIt concluded Mr Adams was cleared by the 1980s corruption probe after it received a \"totally fictitious\" account by a police informant who was connected to the family of David Norris - one of the two men who were convicted of the murder in 2012.\n\nThe report says the informant must have been \"coached\" by Mr Adams or another officer, with the informant's lying account discrediting a witness against Mr Adams. This amounted to \"flagrant acts of attempting to pervert the course of justice\".\n\nThe informant, also called David Norris, was killed by a hitman in 1991. He was known as \"David Norris (deceased)\" in the public inquiry into the Lawrence case, to distinguish him from the David Norris who would later be found guilty of killing Stephen.\n\nThe informant David Norris gave false testimony during a corruption investigation into Ray Adams, the secret report says\n\nDavid Norris, Stephen's killer, was from a south London criminal family headed by his gangster father Clifford.\n\nThe informant was known to have associated with the Norris crime family.\n\nIn 1989, police stopped the informant David Norris leaving a meeting with a high-ranking drug dealer who was a relative of the Norris family. The informant told officers he was a cousin of Clifford Norris, although an actual familial relationship has never been confirmed.\n\nDavid Norris (right) and Gary Dobson were jailed in 2012 for killing Stephen\n\nThe story of how this informant became involved in a major Scotland Yard corruption investigation and the later Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry, reads more like fiction than fact.\n\nIt all began in July 1988 after a handler of stolen goods was arrested in Tooting, south London, by detectives from Surrey Police.\n\nThe arrested man, James \"Piggy\" Malone, was an antiques dealer who lived in leafy Dorking, but he also ran a network of burglars who stole to order, breaking into houses throughout southern England.\n\nSurrey detectives had set up an operation to target Malone.\n\nThe secret Scotland Yard report says that, on being arrested, Malone uttered a stream of profanities relating to Ray Adams, whom he referred to as \"Ken Noye's mate\" - meaning the notorious gangster Kenneth Noye.\n\nBy then, Noye had already stabbed a Met Police officer to death and been involved in the selling the gold from the 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery, a £26m heist that was later dramatised in the BBC TV series The Gold.\n\nMalone expressed willingness to make a statement on Mr Adams, but he subsequently refused to co-operate, the report says.\n\nThe BBC has traced people familiar with the Surrey investigation. They corroborated some details in the Met's secret report, but also added additional information.\n\nThe Surrey team briefed the Met on their investigation because it regularly strayed into London and they needed to ask for assistance. But after they did, the operation started to go badly, and it appeared Malone and his burglars suddenly had knowledge of what was happening.\n\nAntiques dealer James Malone sparked the corruption investigation into Ray Adams, the secret report says\n\nAfter the operation began to go wrong, the Surrey team decided on an extraordinary ploy: they announced the investigation had been shut down, but then reopened it in secret - and withheld this information from Scotland Yard.\n\nThe new operation resulted in the arrest of Malone, who was visibly shocked and blurted out words which the officers took to mean he had paid Mr Adams, according to the report and people familiar with the investigation.\n\nThe whole matter was therefore referred to the Met's anti-corruption unit.\n\nAfter Malone's arrest, a senior Surrey officer recalled one of their informants had previously stated that \"Malone had a high-ranked police officer by the name of Ron or Ray in his pocket\", according to the 2000 Met report.\n\nBut the report says the allegation made by the Surrey informant was \"never fully progressed\" by the Met.\n\nThe secret Met document also reveals the information about Ray Adams relying on evidence from the informant David Norris.\n\nIt says a detective submitted a report \"vaguely dated\" October 1988, detailing information apparently supplied by an informant he handled, with the alias \"John Tracy\".\n\nIn reality, the secret document from 2000 reveals that Tracy was David Norris.\n\nTracy was said to have told the Met detective that Malone was a close associate and had been openly stating that Malone's claims about Mr Adams were \"totally malicious and false\".\n\nRay Adams had recently transferred to the same branch of the Met which generated the informant Tracy's report.\n\nThe informant's account had been provided to Mr Adams \"for his information\" and to share with the Met's anti-corruption unit at the time, \"if indeed the matter is being investigated by them\".\n\nWhen quoting these words in the 2000 secret report, the author added an exclamation mark afterwards, to indicate astonishment.\n\nMr Adams did not provide the information to anti-corruption officers until the end of January 1989, which the secret report says was an \"incredible\" delay.\n\nThe secret report says Mr Adams or another officer must have \"coached\" the informant in the 1980s corruption probe\n\nWhen the informant Tracy was interviewed, he is said to have given a \"faultless performance\", which reinforced the Met team's misgivings about Malone.\n\nThe 1980s investigation in effect exonerated Adams and portrayed Malone unfavourably. A file was sent to the Crown Prosecution Service, which said there was no case to answer.\n\nThe investigation concluded that Malone had been referring to an earlier case during which he had been investigated by Ray Adams. The case cost him money and had led to him taking the Met to court.\n\nBut the secret document from 2000 concludes the 1988-89 report based on testimony from David Norris - aka John Tracy was \"totally fictitious\" and written to \"discredit Malone and prevent his use as a witness against Adams\".\n\nIt says Norris must have been \"coached\" by Mr Adams or a handler prior to his interview and the story was \"accepted with alarming ease\" by anti-corruption detectives.\n\nThe secret report says there was no link between the informant David Norris and Malone. In his testimony, Norris named another man as a close associate of Malone who had heard the antiques dealer making false claims about Ray Adams. The BBC located this man, who said he had known the informant David Norris but he had never seen or met Malone - and the Met had never asked him about the informant's account.\n\nFour years later, when Stephen Lawrence was murdered, Ray Adams was a commander in the section of the force responsible for the homicide investigation.\n\nHis known involvement in the case was limited to signing a letter to the Lawrence family solicitor, Imran Khan. Mr Adams also appeared in a decision log relating to family liaison.\n\nHe went off sick in May 1993 and did not return to work prior to his retirement in August that year.\n\nImran Khan said the Lawrence family have always regarded his appearance in the case as \"suspicious\" and that \"we now know\" a Met report concluded he was corrupt prior to his involvement in the Lawrence murder.\n\nThe bus stop where Stephen Lawrence was waiting before he was killed (photo from 2012)\n\nHe said they now needed to know whether Mr Adams's activities affected in any way the outcome of the murder investigation.\n\nThe first lead investigator on the case had to leave the role after a few days because he was involved in the trial of those who had murdered the informant David Norris in 1991.\n\nIt meant Norris's name featured in the public inquiry into Stephen's death, but the inquiry did not hear the extent of the link between him and Ray Adams.\n\nAt the inquiry, the Lawrence family formally raised suspicions that Mr Adams's role in the case masked his real aim of influencing the investigation to prevent the suspects being arrested quickly. The family argued this was possibly because of his previous contact with Kenneth Noye, who in turn had links to Clifford Norris - the father of one of the suspects.\n\nWhen questioned during an appearance at the inquiry, Mr Adams denied even knowing who Clifford Norris was at the time Stephen Lawrence was murdered. Mr Adams said the suspicions about him were a \"Merlin's broth of magic and mirrors and innuendo and nudges\".\n\nHe said: \"I defy anybody to produce one ounce of evidence.\"\n\nImran Khan, Baroness Lawrence's solicitor, said the family now need to know if Mr Adams' activities affected the investigation\n\nDuring the inquiry hearing, Mr Adams expressed discomfort at questions relating to the deceased David Norris, saying \"protocol\" meant he never answered questions about informants. This was despite it being publicly known the dead man had been an informant, and the inquiry chairman saying the subject could be publicly discussed.\n\nThe Met itself gave a misleading account of Mr Adams and the deceased David Norris's relationship in a review published in 2012, which said the police commander would have only had \"distant oversight\" of the informant.\n\n\"There is no suggestion of any personal relationship between the two,\" it said.\n\nThe secret report from 2000, now seen by the BBC, shows the Met knew there was a significant connection between them.\n\nNew information about the relationship between the Brink's-Mat gangster Kenneth Noye and Ray Adams is also revealed in the Met's secret report.\n\nThe report states it was \"strongly suspected Adams had a long-standing corrupt relationship with Noye\" but that further investigation would be needed. No such investigation took place.\n\nIn 1985, Noye had stabbed to death Det Con John Fordham, a Met surveillance officer, in the garden of his Kent home. He was acquitted of murder at trial after claiming self-defence. Noye went on to carry out the M25 road rage murder of Stephen Cameron in 1996.\n\nAccording to an account in the secret report, gangster Kenneth Noye said of Mr Adams: \"We go back a long way.\"\n\nAccording to the report, the Met held a photocopy of a pocketbook entry from the 1980s by an officer who escorted Noye to court. The officer had been investigating Noye's role in the conspiracy surrounding the robbery of the Brink's-Mat gold.\n\nThe pocketbook recorded that, while Noye was in a cell at court one day in 1985, he requested that the officer ask Ray Adams to visit. Noye stated: \"We go back a long way and I know I can trust him.\"\n\nThe report says: \"Noye was adamant that he wanted no-one to know that Adams was going to visit him and suggested that he visit under the guise of Noye's accountant.\"\n\nA later statement by a deputy assistant commissioner said he agreed to meetings between Ray Adams and Noye, who intimated he had been an informant for the detective.\n\nUsing an exclamation mark to express the author's astonishment, the 2000 Met report said: \"Adams met Noye on two occasions, however nothing useful was reported from those meetings!\"\n\nThe 2000 report also considered Mr Adams's alleged links with another criminal family and said \"the inescapable conclusion is that there was an unhealthy, corrupt relationship\".\n\nEven though seven years had passed since his retirement, the report warned Mr Adams continued to pose a threat to the Met Police. It said his \"extensive networking\" meant he still had access to serving officers \"who can continue to provide sensitive intelligence which he can then broker to criminals\".\n\nBut the report said further investigation was needed to assess the risk.\n\nMr Adams told the BBC these were \"very serious allegations\" against him. \"All such allegations are a matter for the police the investigate,\" he said.\n\nHe said he had referred the allegations to the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of the Met Police and said he had asked them to appoint a senior officer or officers to investigate.\n\nThere have been investigations into whether corruption affected the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation, including by the police watchdog.\n\nThey have not found corruption affected the case, and no officers have been disciplined or charged.\n\nUpdate, November 15: A paragraph describing how the BBC checked details of the informant David Norris' testimony has been added to this story.\n\nIf you have information about that you would like to share with BBC News' Stephen Lawrence investigation please get in touch. Email SLInvestigation@bbc.co.uk.\n\nYou can also get in touch using SecureDrop, a highly anonymous and secure way of whistleblowing to the BBC which uses the TOR network.\n\nOr by using the Signal messaging app, an end-to-end encrypted message service designed to protect your data.\n\nPlease note that the SecureDrop link will only work in a Tor browser. For information on keeping secure and anonymous, here's some advice on how to use SecureDrop.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer: Hamas would have the \"infrastructure and capability\" to carry out further attacks if a ceasefire is called.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said he understands calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, but argued it was not the \"correct position\" at the moment.\n\nMore than 60 Labour MPs have called for a ceasefire, but Sir Keir insisted his stance of calling for a humanitarian pause was \"the only credible approach\".\n\nHe said a pause would allow aid to get in to Gaza and for hostages to leave.\n\nHe argued that a ceasefire would leave Hamas's infrastructure intact, enabling them to carry out future attacks.\n\nAddressing an audience in London, the Labour leader had sought to quell the growing tensions in his party over the conflict.\n\nMayors Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar and 15 frontbenchers are among those who have diverged from the official party line on the issue.\n\nAt least 250 councillors have also called for a ceasefire, with around 30 councillors resigning from the party over the leadership's position on the war.\n\nMeanwhile, Andy McDonald has been suspended as a Labour MP, over what the party described as \"deeply offensive\" comments at a pro-Palestinian rally.\n\nFollowing his speech, Sir Keir was repeatedly asked if Labour frontbenchers diverging from the party position would be sacked.\n\nHe said the party was unified on wanting to see an \"alleviation of this awful situation\" and that he would \"engage sensitively\" with his colleagues' concerns, but did not say that they would be disciplined for breaking with the party line.\n\nSir Keir said his approach to the conflict had been driven by a desire to defend Israel's right to defend itself against terrorist attacks and the rights of Palestinians \"caught in the crossfire\".\n\n\"While I understand calls for a ceasefire, at this stage I do not believe that is the correct position now.\n\n\"Hamas would be emboldened and start preparing for future violence immediately.\"\n\nHe said a humanitarian pause was \"the only credible approach that has any chance of achieving what we all want to see in Gaza - the urgent alleviation of Palestinian suffering\".\n\nAsked if he believed Israel was abiding by international law, Sir Keir said that would be decided by lawyers in due course and it would be \"unwise\" for politicians to make premature pronouncements.\n\nAs the Labour leader left Chatham House, where he was giving the speech, his car was mobbed by a group of pro-Palestine demonstrators.\n\nPolice cleared a path for the car as the protestors shouted and drummed on the windows.\n\nPolice officers remove a protester trying to block Sir Keir's car following the speech\n\nBy not backing a full ceasefire, the Labour leader is aligned with the UK government, as well as the US and EU.\n\nCompared to a formal ceasefire, humanitarian pauses tend to last for short periods of time, sometimes just a few hours.\n\nThey are typically implemented purely with the aim of providing humanitarian support, as opposed to achieving long-term political solutions, according to the United Nations.\n\nAs the Labour leader was defending his position, both Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar and London Mayor Sadiq Khan reiterated their calls for a ceasefire.\n\nMr Sarwar also said past comments made by Sir Keir had caused hurt to Muslims and \"any peace loving citizen\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC London, Mr Khan didn't directly criticised his party's leader but said: \"I believe in a de-escalation of the violence not escalation, that's why I'm calling for a ceasefire.\"\n\nMomentum, a left-wing Labour campaign group, dismissed Sir Keir's speech as \"fine words\" adding: \"The truth is is that Starmer's support for more war, more bombing and more Palestinian deaths is wholly out of touch with his own party and the public at large, who overwhelmingly back an immediate ceasefire.\n\n\"Those calls will only get louder.\"\n\nFollowing the speech, former party leader Jeremy Corbyn posted on X: \"I wonder, if the dust ever settles, whether opponents of a ceasefire will look back and reflect on the cost of their inhumanity. We need a ceasefire, now.\"\n\nHuman rights group Amnesty International were also critical, accusing the Labour leader of failing to show \"the clear and principled leadership that this decades-old crisis needs\".\n\nThey said calls for a pause were \"vague and unclear\" and that Sir Keir should instead back an immediate ceasefire.\n\nOn Monday Andy McDonald, a former shadow minister under Jeremy Corbyn, was suspended as a Labour MP over comments he made in a speech at a pro-Palestinian rally.\n\nThe MP for Middlesbrough told protesters on Saturday: \"We will not rest until we have justice. Until all people, Israelis and Palestinians, between the river and the sea, can live in peaceful liberty.\"\n\nHe said his words were intended as \"a heartfelt plea for an end to the killings\" in the region.\n\nBut the phrase \"between the river and the sea\" - which refers to the land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean - is interpreted by some, including Israel and most Jewish groups, as implicitly calling for the destruction of Israel.\n\nThis interpretation is disputed by some pro-Palestinian activists who say that most people chanting it are calling for an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and blockade of Gaza, not the destruction of Israel itself.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said Mr McDonald's comments at the weekend \"were deeply offensive, particularly at a time of rising antisemitism which has left Jewish people fearful for their safety\".\n\nHowever, the suspension has outraged the left, who argue Mr McDonald's words had been misrepresented, as well as the Labour Muslim Network.\n\nBut the bigger danger for Sir Keir is that by doubling down on rejecting calls for a ceasefire, some shadow ministers beyond the left come under pressure from members and communities and decide to resign, sparking a potential chain reaction.\n\nMeanwhile, Conservative MP Paul Bristow has been sacked from his government role as a ministerial aide, after calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.", "A former day care worker at Muckamore Abbey Hospital (MAH) has told an inquiry into abuse there that the attitude was \"what happens at MAH, stays at MAH\".\n\nAn inquiry into abuse at the facility in County Antrim has been hearing from staff and former staff from the hospital.\n\nPhilip Ward worked at the hospital between February 2008 and April 2010.\n\nHe was a staff member again for a six month period in 2022.\n\nHe worked mostly in the Moyola ward, helping patients with activities during the day.\n\nHe said he felt a general unease at the lack of oversight of the running of the facility.\n\nMr Ward told the inquiry he did not witness any abuse but some staff members were more \"abrupt\" with patients than he would have been.\n\nHe described the standard of care provided to patients as good on the Moyola ward.\n\nHe said most patients were non-verbal so he was used to reading their reactions in their body language and he did not see any negative change in behaviours when staff entered the room.\n\nHowever he said he was not aware of oversight or inspections from representatives of the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nMr Ward said he left MAH was because it was a very difficult and stressful job for which he did not receive adequate support.\n\nAfter the allegations of abuse at Muckamore emerged, along with reports of the CCTV footage, the hospital experienced a shortage of staff.\n\nHe volunteered to return, against advice from family and friends.\n\n\"I was not concerned about the CCTV as I would never hurt my patients,\" he said.\n\n\"Although my time on Moyola was not great, I learned a lot from my time there.\"\n\nHis second period of employment was in the Cranfield ward, where he said the level of care was \"brilliant\".\n\nThe staff were mostly agency staff from other countries.\n\n\"Staff treated patients with dignity and respect and did as much as they could. Staff took no shortcuts,\" he said.\n\nMr Ward added that he felt the fact that so many staff at Muckamore were related to each other did have an impact on the culture there.\n\nThe inquiry also heard on Wednesday from a senior social worker brought in to Muckamore Abbey Hospital to improve adult safeguarding.\n\nThe former member of staff, who gave evidence anonymously as A3, said they left the role after a year because she felt so unsupported by senior management.\n\nA3 said the atmosphere was tense and while some staff did try and engage, others were unnecessarily defensive and unwilling to attend meetings on safeguarding.\n\n\"I did not see safeguarding taken as seriously as it should have been by all staff at Muckamore Abbey Hospital,\" they said.\n\n\"No patient or service user should experience harm or abuse and no family member should have to worry that this would happen to their loved one,\" she said.", "Maddy threw up stomach acid, blood, white foam after taking an unapproved version of the drug\n\nA woman who was illegally sold a weight loss drug on social media told the BBC she ended up in A&E vomiting blood.\n\nMaddy, 32, fell seriously ill after using an unlicensed version of semaglutide - the active ingredient in Ozempic - from Instagram.\n\nIt also found the drug being offered in beauty salons in Manchester and Liverpool.\n\nDoctors say drugs bought from unregulated sources are dangerous and could contain potentially toxic ingredients.\n\nDemand for Ozempic, a prescribed type 2 diabetes medication, spiralled last year after it hit the headlines for being Hollywood's secret weight loss drug - nicknamed the skinny jab.\n\nThe drug works by lowering blood-sugar levels and slowing down food leaving the stomach.\n\nIts soaring popularity led to a rise in off-label prescriptions for weight loss, which triggered global supply issues and created a shortage for diabetes patients in the UK.\n\nAs pharmacies across the UK struggled to get hold of the medication, an illicit black market selling semaglutide \"diet kits\" began to flourish online.\n\nMaddy was sent two vials and some needles by post\n\nDelivered by post, these usually contain needles and two vials - one containing a white powder and the other a liquid - which have to be mixed together before the drug can be injected.\n\nThat's what came through Maddy's letterbox after she searched for a \"quick fix\" on Instagram to help her lose weight ahead of an event.\n\n\"I struggle in general with losing weight. I'm just not one of those people that can shift it easily,\" she says.\n\nMaddy came across The Lip King, a company run by Jordan Parke. The Lip King's Instagram feed was flooded with before-and-after transformation photos of women with newly slimmed physiques and screenshots of text messages from customers raving about his product. Maddy wanted in.\n\nAfter a brief message exchange with Mr Parke and a £200 bank transfer, Maddy was sold 10mg of semaglutide with no questions asked.\n\nAn Instagram conversation between Maddy and the Lip King\n\nShe also received a video from him on WhatsApp instructing her how to mix and inject the drug, along with dangerous guidance advising her to take a higher dose than what health officials would recommend.\n\nAfter her first injection, Maddy was instantly \"extremely ill, bed-bound, vomiting\".\n\nShe says Mr Parke told her over text that vomiting was normal and to take anti-sickness tablets.\n\nWhatsApp messages sent between Maddy and the Lip King\n\nA few weeks later, when the nausea had passed, Maddy tried the drug again - this time before bed.\n\n\"I was woken up by the vomiting,\" Maddy says.\n\n\"It was bad. I was throwing up all night, to the point where I was throwing up stomach acid, blood, white foam.\"\n\nShe went to A&E the following afternoon, where she was put on a drip.\n\n\"I can be a bit of a drama queen, but I thought I was dying. I was literally crunched over, bawling my eyes out to my mum. I was so angry, as well, because I was like, no-one told me that this was going to be a side effect,\" she says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I did my own research, but I didn't see anywhere that anyone was suffering to this level.\"\n\nThe BBC made several attempts to contact Mr Parke, but he did not respond.\n\nMr Parke is one of many illicit sellers peddling semaglutide through social media. To find out what is actually in the drugs, the BBC bought unlicensed semaglutide from several sellers and had them tested in the lab.\n\nThe results showed inconsistencies in what was in each sample. Although most of the products contained semaglutide, vials from two different sellers had no semaglutide in them at all, and nearly all of them, including the one bought from the Lip King, did not contain the full dose that had been paid for.\n\nOzempic is available on the NHS strictly for type 2 diabetes patients. Wegovy, another semaglutide drug prescribed specifically to treat obesity, will be offered on the NHS to those with a body mass index (BMI) of at least 35, and exceptionally, some people with a BMI of 30 and a weight-related health problem.\n\nUnder UK law, it is illegal to sell semaglutide as a medicine without a prescription.\n\nDrugs manufacturer Novo Nordisk is the only company approved to sell and market semaglutide, branded as Ozempic and Wegovy, in the UK, but it is now battling against knock-off online sales.\n\nThe firm says it is working with a third party to \"proactively identify and remove websites, ads or social-media accounts selling counterfeit semaglutide\", and has been carrying out \"in-depth investigations into copyright infringement, criminal networks and sellers illegally diverting our products\".\n\nBut the BBC has discovered sellers that are closed down one day usually return the next under a new name.\n\nOnline sellers attempt to get around the law by placing \"not fit for human consumption\" or \"for research purposes only\" on their product.\n\nGerard Hanratty, a public law expert, says: \"You can put lots of different things on a label. It doesn't mean to say that it is then legal and you are compliant with the regulations.\"\n\nHe says sellers would need to be able to prove they are supplying the product for research purposes and not for human use in order for the warnings to be valid.\n\nA BBC Three documentary The Skinny Jab Uncovered found the unapproved versions of the drug advertised in beauty salons on British high streets. Undercover investigators visited four salons in Manchester and Liverpool and received dangerous advice about mixing and dosages in some about how to use the drug.\n\nIn one salon, a reporter was told: \"Well, if you have too much, you just wouldn't want to eat anything, and you might feel sick. It's not going to be dangerous.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) says it has received reports of people ending up in hospital after using fake Ozempic pens, which are also flooding the market, with more than 300 seized since January.\n\nProf Barbara McGowan, a consultant endocrinologist who co-authored a Novo Nordisk-funded study which trialled semaglutide to treat obesity, says licensed medications - like Ozempic and Wegovy - go through \"very strict\" quality controls before they are approved for use.\n\nShe warns that buyers using semaglutide sourced outside the legal supply chain \"could be injecting anything\".\n\n\"We don't know what the excipients are - that is the other ingredients, which come with the medication, which could be potentially toxic and harmful, [or] cause an anaphylactic reaction, allergies and I guess at worse, significant health problems and perhaps even death,\" she says.\n\nProf McGowan says that drugs like semaglutide can cause \"significant side effects\", such as nausea, for some patients, which is why proper medical support is needed.\n\n\"The important thing to understand is not just about the prescription. It's about... all the wraparound care that one gets from senior health-care professionals,\" she adds.\n\nDale Dennis, a personal trainer from East Yorkshire, sells 10mg vials of the unofficial drug and pre-mixed pens.\n\nMr Dennis sells the unlicensed drug on social media, encouraging buyers to message him on WhatsApp to place an order.\n\nHis company, Raw Peptides Limited, is listed as a business involved in the sale of \"new cars and light motor vehicles\".\n\nThe BBC contacted Mr Dennis for comment, but after initially agreeing to speak to us, he cancelled our call and sent a text using an expletive, adding: \"I definitely make your yearly salary weekly\".\n\nDr Simon Cork, senior lecturer in physiology at Anglia Ruskin University, stresses that semaglutide is not a short-term weight loss solution and is suitable only for people with obesity.\n\n\"That might be seen as being kind of selfish, because those people quite understandably want to lose some weight, but the drug is not tested or designed to help people in that position.\"\n\nHe says mixing and injecting weight loss drugs at home comes with \"huge risks\".\n\n\"The vast majority of the population are not qualified or trained to administer injectable drugs themselves. And the drugs you buy if you're prescribed Wegovy or Ozempic, or one of the licensed drugs, those come in predefined amounts,\" he says.\n\n\"So you press a button and you get the correct dose of the medication. You're not drawing up an amount into a needle that you're then injecting into yourself.\"\n\nThe vials of semaglutide sold illegally online do not have the safeguards the official medication comes with to prevent patients from overdosing.\n\nTilly, 22, decided to stop using semaglutide she bought on TikTok after she accidentally injected double the amount she was supposed to.\n\n\"When it came, it didn't have any instructions, which completely confused me… I messaged the company after being like 'what am I meant to do with this?' And she was like, 'well, join a Facebook group',\" she says.\n\n\"It felt like the worst hangover ever. I felt like I had a really bad headache. I felt sick, and I felt stressed about the fact that I'd taken too much,\" she says.\n\nThe medicines regulator says it will use its powers to protect the public by taking \"appropriate enforcement action, including, where necessary, prosecuting those who put your health at risk\".\n\nThe Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency's chief safety officer, Dr Alison Cave, warns that buying semaglutide from illegal suppliers \"means there are no safeguards to ensure products meet our quality and safety standards, and taking such medicines may put your health at risk\".\n\n\"If you suspect you've had an adverse reaction to semaglutide or any other medicinal product, are worried about its safety or effectiveness, or suspect it is not a genuine product, please report it to our Yellow Card scheme,\" she says.\n\nBBC Three investigates the black market in cut price 'skinny jabs' and asks: are they what they claim to be? And are they safe?\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Cervical cancer will be eliminated by 2040, the NHS in England is promising.\n\nNHS England boss Amanda Pritchard will say later that with improved rates of vaccination and screening, the point where almost nobody gets the cancer could be achieved within two decades.\n\nBut she will tell a conference of health leaders later that more must be done to boost vaccination and screening rates to achieve the goal.\n\nCurrently, around 2,600 women a year in England are diagnosed with the cancer.\n\nMs Pritchard will call for the NHS to learn from what worked during the Covid pandemic by offering catch-up vaccinations in community settings, such as libraries, halls and sports venues in areas with particularly low uptake - which is already happening in some places.\n\nAnd she will say improvements will be made to the NHS app to make it easier for people to check on their vaccination history and book appointments.\n\nEliminating cervical cancer - defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as getting to a really low rate of four cases per 100,000 - is something globally many countries are working towards. In Australia a goal of 2035 has been set.\n\nTo achieve it the WHO says targets of 90% for vaccination and 70% for screening will need to be achieved.\n\nLatest figures show around 86% of girls and 81% of boys in England are getting the HPV vaccine.\n\nHPV (human papillomavirus) causes 99% of cervical cancers and the vaccine being used is 90% effective protecting against the virus.\n\nTherefore, cervical screening continues to play a key role in preventing cervical cancer and ensuring it is treated early.\n\nThe screening programme can spot the early signs of cancer and prevent three-quarters of cases ever developing.\n\nBut latest figures show one person in three of those eligible for screening does not come forward for it.\n\nThere will be an expansion of trials of self-testing screening kits to try to tackle this.\n\nCurrently there are 9.5 cervical cancer cases per 100,000 women in England - more than double the target rate and a figure that has remained steady for the past decade.\n\nBut since the HPV vaccine started being given to girls in 2008 there has been an 87% reduction in cervical cancers in this group, research has shown, suggesting the rate of incidence will start dropping in the coming years.\n\nSpeaking in Liverpool at the annual conference of NHS Providers, which represents health managers, Ms Pritchard is expected to say she wants to make it \"easier than ever\" for people to protect themselves from cervical cancer.\n\n\"It is truly momentous to be able to set out such an important, life-saving ambition - to eliminate cervical cancer would be an incredible achievement.\n\n\"As ever, the public can play their part by coming forward for their vaccines and screening appointments when invited - to achieve our goal of eliminating cervical cancer, we need as many people as possible to take up the offer. So please don't delay - it could save your life.\"\n\nWomen are still advised to have cervical screening after having the vaccine\n\nCancer Research UK's Dr Julie Sharp, said eliminating cervical cancer was a realistic goal and she fully supported NHS England's pledge.\n\nBut she said there needed to be targeted action to increase take-up of both vaccination and screening and to reduce the barriers that stop people coming forward - research shows embarrassment, previous bad experiences, difficulty booking appointments and not understanding what the smear test is for are all factors.\n\n\"This ambition will only be possible if the vaccination and screening programmes are backed by sufficient resource and modern IT infrastructure.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Families of the hostages have been active in calling for their release\n\nTheir smiling faces look down from the sides of skyscrapers, walls between Tel Aviv's restaurants and bars and a giant video screen at a shopping mall entrance.\n\nMore than 240 hostages were snatched at gunpoint on 7 October from their homes or workplaces next to the Gaza Strip, from military bases and a big outdoor dance party.\n\nThey included some 30 children, the youngest just nine months old. But since Hamas gunmen spirited them away to Gaza, the fates of most remain unknown.\n\nFor Israelis reeling from last month's bloody massacres, it is an ongoing trauma.\n\n\"This is the last photo we have of my aunt. She was taken on a motorcycle by two terrorists,\" says Eyal Nouri, showing me a picture of Amina Moshe, 72, being driven away from Nir Oz, a kibbutz where she lived for 50 years.\n\n\"No children, no babies, no older women are meant to be part of any conflict. It's something against humanity to kidnap children.\"\n\nMore than 240 people were taken hostage last month\n\nAlthough this is the biggest, over the years, Israel has endured many hostage crises.\n\nDuring the 1980s, the country showed it was ready to pay high prices for its citizens in prisoner swaps with Palestinian and Lebanese armed groups. Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, who later founded Hamas, was freed in one exchange.\n\nEven Israeli soldiers' corpses were traded to give them proper Jewish burials.\n\nThen in 2006, Hamas kidnapped a soldier, 19-year-old Gilad Shalit, in a cross-border raid. His father, Noam, led a painful five-year campaign to bring him home, stressing the \"unwritten contract\" between the state and its conscripts.\n\nBenjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister - then as now - signed off on the biggest ever prisoner exchange for a single soldier. More than a thousand inmates were released including Yahya Sinwar, who went on to lead Hamas in Gaza, and apparently masterminded the 7 October attacks.\n\nA key figure involved in the Shalit deal sees major differences between the circumstances then and now which he thinks will prevent any comprehensive deal being done.\n\n\"We had five years and four months to build trust with Gilad Shalit. [Now], we have days. The future of the hostages will be decided in the coming days,\" says Gershon Baskin, an Israeli peace activist, who led secret backchannel talks with Hamas.\n\nWhat Hamas did, they crossed the line... it's inconceivable that they will continue to be in power in Gaza after this war is over\n\nThe main complication this time, he says, is the scale of atrocities. \"What Hamas did, they crossed the line, where it's inconceivable that they will continue to be in power in Gaza after this war is over,\" Mr Baskin says.\n\n\"So, there's some kind of built in contradiction to trying to negotiate with the people that you intend on killing.\"\n\nEarly on, Qatar did broker the release of an American Israeli mother and daughter and Egypt helped bring out two older Israeli women hostages. However, no bigger agreement has since taken shape.\n\nThis week, the military wing of Hamas said it was ready to free up to 70 women and children held in Gaza in exchange for a five-day ceasefire.\n\nSpeaking to the US network, NBC on Sunday, Mr Netanyahu raised the possibility of a deal. The US President Joe Biden has since said he is engaged in daily discussion to secure the release of the hostages and believes it will happen.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has raised the possibility of a deal\n\nHowever, publicly, Israel has rejected a ceasefire, arguing that Hamas would use it to regroup. It has said it could agree to shorter humanitarian pauses in hostilities.\n\nPolls suggest that position is supported by many Israelis. In the latest survey by the Israeli Democracy Institute, the most common response - from 38% of people - was that Israel should negotiate a prisoner deal but continue fighting. Overall, 70% of respondents did not think the war should stop.\n\n\"In return for the hostages they are ready to give Palestinian prisoners. But the popular view is to say: \"don't stop the fighting,\"\" says Professor Tamar Hartmann who conducted the poll.\n\n\"It's because the cost of stopping the fighting right now might be greater in terms of people's lives, if we stop and the aims of the war will not be achieved.\"\n\nProfessor Tamar Hartmann's poll found that 70% of respondents thought the war should continue\n\nA persistent small group of those polled - about a fifth - refuse any deal making with Hamas. Many Israelis point out how in the past, prisoners - like Yahya Sinwar - who already had blood on their hands were released and went on to plot further deadly attacks.\n\nWith the odds against them, families and supporters of the hostages are coming up with creative ways of raising public pressure.\n\nA huge art installation filling HaBima Square in Tel Aviv features an empty bed for every adult, child and couple missing in Gaza.\n\nEvery Friday on the Jewish sabbath, relatives gather in what is now known as Hostages Square outside the Museum of Art. They set up a giant table with places set for every person missing.\n\nFamilies of hostages are coming up with creative ways to raise public pressure\n\nOn Tuesday, a large crowd began a 40 mile (63 km) march from Tel Aviv to the prime minister's office in Jerusalem to urge their government to take action.\n\nWith each passing day, fears grow for the hostages. Hamas says several dozen have already been killed in Israeli air strikes.\n\nPast experience has taught Israelis that deals can be done but now the intensity of the ongoing war brings a new level of urgency.", "A County Down businessman who admitted defrauding more than £400,000 from 15 motorhome owners has been jailed for three years.\n\nLancelot William Walker, 61, from Ballynahinch Road in Carryduff, was sentenced at Newry Crown Court on Wednesday.\n\nHe was a director of Motorhome Ireland Ltd.\n\nMany of Walker's 15 victims were elderly and vulnerable motorhome owners, the court heard.\n\nThe court heard Walker told his victims he would sell their motorhomes and deliver the proceeds of the sale to them or use their profits towards payment for another motorhome.\n\nThe sentencing comes after Walker entered guilty pleas to 16 dishonesty offences, committed between 22 August 2005 and 21 August 2008.\n\nThese included 14 counts of fraud by false representation and single charges of obtaining property by deception and concealing criminal property.\n\nIn addition to the jail sentence, Walker was barred from being a director of any limited company for 10 years.\n\nJudge Gordon Kerr KC said his offences were aggravated because of the length of time over which his crimes were committed, the amount of money involved and the multiple victims impacted.\n\nMany of them lost significant sums of money which will never be repaid.\n\nFor many of the victims, including one who has since passed away, their motorhomes were sold and there was evidence of the proceeds going into the company's bank account but no trace of money going back to the customer.\n\nFor the most part \"they never saw their money\" and for the two who did, cheques they were given later bounced.\n\nThe court heard the total proceeds of sales of motorhomes belonging to others amounted to about £418,495.\n\nThe judge said a chartered accountant employed to conduct a full audit of the company's finances found \"significant and unexplained trading losses, vehicles were being double financed, there was retaining money due to be paid to customers, retention of deposits paid for motorhomes to a value of £179,000 and there was no payment of debts\".\n\nThe audit also uncovered \"unexplained payments to directors including a £51,000 withdrawal which was transferred to the defendant\".\n\nThe judge told the court he had a number of victim impact statements which evidence the \"devastating effect\" of the frauds upon them.\n\n\"In each case substantial sums of money were lost to them with no prospect of recompense,\" he said.\n\nWalker was interviewed a number of times in 2009 but denied any wrongdoing, claiming he was not fully aware of the company's financial problems.\n\nThe judge said there had clearly been a breach of the defendant's right to have his case dealt with \"within a reasonable time\", highlighting there were 14 years between his interview at the beginning of the legal process and the hearing.\n\nHe said that delay negated the \"serious aggravating factor\" of Walker's previous conviction for fraud and obtaining property by deception, adding that he would also decrease the final prison sentence in recognition of the significant delay.\n\nThe judge added that there was also mitigation in that Walker had entered a guilty plea which was \"welcomed\" by the PPS, and expressed remorse.", "Shawn Seesahai, 19, died of his injuries at the scene on Laburnum Road\n\nTwo 12-year-old boys have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was killed in a street stabbing in Wolverhampton.\n\nDetectives investigating the murder of 19-year-old Shawn Seesahai said the schoolboys were arrested at their home addresses.\n\nMr Seesahai died after being stabbed on land off Laburnum Street, East Park, just before 20:30 GMT on Monday.\n\nOfficers said dedicated patrols would be stepped up following local concern.\n\nDet Ch Insp Dave Sanders, of West Midlands Police, said the investigation was \"moving at pace\".\n\nHe added the two boys remained in custody and Mr Seesahai's relatives were being kept updated as the probe continued.\n\n\"We continue to encourage anyone with information to contact us,\" he said.\n\nPolice launched a murder investigation in the wake of the stabbing\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service said crews arrived to discover Mr Seesahai critically ill with serious injuries.\n\nParamedics battled to save his life but he died at the scene, a spokesperson added.\n\nPolice said they were continuing door-to-door inquiries and trawling CCTV from around the area.\n\nRoads near the scene were closed off as forensic experts carried out examinations.\n\nWitnesses told the BBC at least seven police cars had been dispatched to the scene following Mr Seesahai's death.\n\nBal Chamber and his wife Hardeep Kaur said the streets were filled with emergency crews after Shawn Seesahai's stabbing\n\nHardeep Kaur, who lives nearby, said the stabbing had made her fear for her children's safety.\n\n\"I'm a mother of two kids,\" she said.\n\n\"They keep asking the same thing, whether we are safe or not.\"\n\nHer husband Bal Chamber said the street was filled with police, police dogs and ambulances.\n\n\"So we knew something had happened - something serious.\"\n\nRoads near the scene were closed off as forensic experts carried out examinations\n\nPolice have urged anyone who was in the area between 20:00 and 21:00 GMT to get in touch if they had seen anything.\n\n\"Any piece of information, however small, could be vital to our investigation,\" the force said.\n\nPat McFadden, MP for Wolverhampton South East, said the stabbing was devastating and his thoughts were with the victim's family and friends.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Unite the Union members were at the picket line at Glenveagh school in south Belfast\n\nSchool support staff feel they have been \"pushed to the side\", a classroom assistant taking part in a 48-hour strike over pay and grading has said.\n\nAmong 800 Unite members taking part in the action are bus drivers, classroom assistants, cooks and clerical staff.\n\nMathew Kirkpatrick said staff feel they are \"not appreciated\".\n\nThe Department of Education said there is no budget available for proposed pay increases.\n\n\"Everything is going up, bar our wages,\" Mr Kirkpatrick said.\n\n\"Every time I go and do a grocery shop everything's going up my rent has gone up 10% so why can't our wages go up to the same value?\"\n\nMr Kirkpatrick, who works at Glenveagh School in south Belfast, said workers do not want to strike but \"just want to be fairly compensated\".\n\n\"It's a job we love doing, it's not a job, it's a vocation,\" he added.\n\nMatthew Kirkpatrick said he viewed his job as a vocation\n\nAmong them were classroom assistants Michelle Stewart and Diana Fox.\n\nMs Fox told BBC News NI: \"We're carers and it's doesn't pay to be a carer anymore. I worry about what's going to happen to these children in the future.\"\n\nUnison and GMB members employed by the Education Authority (EA) will walk out for the full day on Thursday, while Nipsa members will strike for two hours after the start of their shifts.\n\nUnite said responsibility for the industrial action lies with the Department of Education (DE) for what it described as \"obstructive behaviour\".\n\nUnite general secretary Sharon Graham said it was unacceptable that the DE continued \"to renege on the implementation of a pay and grading review that has been negotiated by the Education Authority with Unite\".\n\n\"As a matter of urgency, the Education Authority must secure the necessary funding to avoid further escalation of strike action in Northern Ireland's education sector,\" she added.\n\nSpeaking from the picket to BBC News NI, classroom assistant Victoria Brown, who also works at Glenveagh School said she would rather not be on strike but had no choice.\n\nClassroom assistant Victoria Brown is on strike in south Belfast\n\n\"I feel for the parents knowing that it's going to be a big disruption because a lot of the children are very routine-based and expect to be coming to school today,\" she said.\n\n\"I understand parents are going to be having it tough but we are having it tough as well.\"\n\nDesmond Milne, a senior driver with the Education Authority's special needs transport service said that within the transport industry in Northern Ireland, special needs drivers are among the lowest paid in the country.\n\nHe said this is particularly jarring \"when you take into consideration the responsibility our drivers have and the level of training and qualifications they have to get before they actually get in behind the wheel of a special needs bus\".\n\n\"It's the last thing unite members every wanted to do because at the end of the day there's no winners in strikes,\" he said.\n\nThe strike began at 00:01 GMT on Wednesday and is due to run until midnight on Thursday.\n\nOn Thursday, school staff from Unison, GMB and Nipsa will join the strike.\n\nUnions said it would be one of the biggest strikes among non-teaching unions in years.\n\nClassroom assistants Michelle Stewart and Diana Fox were among those on strike at Mitchell House school in east Belfast\n\nAt least four special schools are closed to pupils as a result of the strike action.\n\nGlenveagh, Mitchell House, Park and Oakwood schools in Belfast all said they were closed to pupils on both Wednesday and Thursday, while Rossmar School in Limavady said its primary department was open on Wednesday while its secondary department was closed to pupils.\n\nThe school added that both departments would be closed to pupils on Thursday.\n\nTranslink school services were not affected by the strike.\n\nThe Education Authority said steps had been taken to identify the potential impact of the action on schools and services.\n\n\"We are taking steps to mitigate the impact of the action; however, due to the large number of staff anticipated to be involved in the planned action, we are expecting significant disruption,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nLast week, the DE said it was continuing to engage with the EA on the content of the pay and grading business case to \"ensure the proposals are fully justified and affordable\".\n\nA spokesperson added that the proposal put forward by the EA and trade unions has a significant cost associated with it.\n\nThe initial annual implementation cost for the EA would be £39m, with the subsequent recurring cost rising to £71m after three years, the department said.\n\n\"This would be in addition to any National Joint Council pay rise each year.\n\n\"However, there is currently no budget available to implement this without further funding being made available.\"", "Margot Robbie was unable to sing the praises of her latest movie, Saltburn, because she lost her voice before its premiere in Los Angeles.\n\nThe actress does not appear in Saltburn, but is one of the film's producers.\n\nLuckily director Emerald Fennell and members of the cast were on hand to do the talking for her.\n\nIt was one of the first major premieres since US actors' union the Screen Actors Guild ended its four-month strike.", "Sir Ian said the opportunity to appear in the \"ingenious adaptation\" was \"irresistible\"\n\nSir Ian McKellen is to appear in a new play which blends parts one and two of Shakespeare's Henry IV.\n\nThe actor will play John Falstaff, a character he has never portrayed despite appearing in a huge number of Shakespeare plays throughout his life.\n\nDirector Robert Icke's production of Player Kings will play in Manchester and London next year.\n\nSir Ian told BBC News the offer to appear in the \"ingenious adaptation\" was \"irresistible\".\n\nThe production will open in March, playing at the New Wimbledon Theatre and Manchester Opera House, before transferring to the West End for a 12-week run at the Noël Coward Theatre from April to June.\n\nSir Ian said: \"I decided to become a professional actor at Cambridge in 1959, when I was in John Barton's undergraduate production of Henry IV. Derek Jacobi played Prince Hal and I was the ancient Justice Shallow.\n\n\"Ever since, the plays have been among my favourite Shakespeares, although through the years I've resisted offers to play John Falstaff. Robert Icke's ingenious adaptation was irresistible.\"\n\nThe show will play in Wimbledon and Manchester before transferring to the West End for a 12-week run\n\nSir Ian's previous Shakespeare credits include roles as Richard II, Coriolanus, Iago, Richard III, King Lear and Macbeth - in which he starred opposite Dame Judi Dench. He is set to star as Hamlet in a new film adaptation directed by Sean Mathias.\n\nFor over a decade, Sir Ian also toured his one-man show, Acting Shakespeare, in the UK and abroad.\n\nThe text of Player Kings will be entirely made up of Shakespeare dialogue, however the parts one and two of Henry IV are being condensed and reorganised into one show.\n\nJohn Falstaff appears in three plays by William Shakespeare and is eulogised in a fourth. The character is a companion to Prince Hal, the future King Henry V.\n\nIcke's last new London production The Doctor opened at the Almeida theatre in 2019 but later transferred to the West End and Broadway.\n\nThe director said: \"It's a genuine honour to work with one of our greatest Shakespearean actors, Ian McKellen, especially as he tackles one of the most iconic Shakespearean roles - and one he's previously never turned his hand to. It's an exciting challenge to bring together two of Shakespeare's plays into one production.\"\n\nSir Ian's screen credits include Magneto in the X-Men films and as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, as well as roles in The Da Vinci Code, Mr Holmes, Beauty and the Beast and The Good Liar.\n\nNovember marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio, without which several of the Bard's most famous plays would have been lost.", "Starbucks Workers United said this year's Red Cup walkout would be bigger than in 2022\n\nThe union representing thousands of Starbucks workers in the US is staging a walkout on one of the coffee chain's busiest days of the year.\n\nThe action comes amid a bitter fight between Starbucks and Starbucks Workers United, which started organising workers at the company in 2021.\n\nThe two sides are fighting over pay, scheduling and other issues.\n\nRoughly 200 stores are expected to be affected by the 16 November work stoppage.\n\nBarista Michelle Eisen, one of the union's leaders, said the company could afford to \"do better by its workers\".\n\nThe protest is the second to coincide with Starbucks' 'Red Cup' day, when the company distributes reusable, holiday-themed cups.\n\nIn some locations, the walkout is set to last just a few hours, while in others it is expected to close the branch for most of the day.\n\nThe union said the action was aimed at calling attention to Starbucks' refusal to fairly negotiate contracts with the unionised stores.\n\nMembers are also protesting work conditions, including inadequate staffing on promotional days.\n\nMs Eisen said she expected more customers and community activists to join the action this year in a warning sign for the coffee brand.\n\n\"That's what's going to set this apart,\" she told the BBC. \"That's what should scare the company. Their reputation is everything.\"\n\nStarbucks, which operates roughly 10,000 stores across the US, said it did not expect major disruption.\n\nIt said it had spent hundreds of millions of dollars on higher wages, training and new equipment and it blamed the union for delays in talks, noting successful negotiations at several stores in Canada.\n\n\"Starbucks remains ready to progress in-person negotiations with the unions certified to represent partners,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nSince 2021, workers at about 350 of the company's roughly 10,000 locations in the US have voted to join the union.\n\nStarbucks has fiercely opposed the campaign.\n\nUnion members say it has dragged its feet at the negotiating table and gone so far as to fire workers and shut stores in an effort to stop the movement.\n\nAdministrative law judges in the US have found the company has repeatedly violated labour laws.\n\nStarbucks, which typically appeals the findings, has denied wrongdoing.\n\nLast year, former boss Howard Schultz was forced to appear before Congress to answer for the union's claims.\n\nThe union campaign at Starbucks has been closely watched, and is credited with helping to galvanise workers at other companies.\n\nMs Eisen, who was involved with the first Starbucks store to unionise, said watching other unions win big wage increases at other companies, such as UPS, had been \"bittersweet\".\n\n\"It feels like this campaign really lit a fire under the labour movement in this country and we are still sitting here fighting super hard,\" she said.", "What a day— no, week, it's been in political news... and it's only Wednesday.\n\nThe government's plan to send asylum seekers arriving by small boats to Rwanda is in tatters, after the Supreme Court this morning ruled it was unlawful.\n\nThe policy was a key part of Rishi Sunak's plan to tackle migrants crossing the Channel and has already cost the UK £140m, but the UK's highest court ruled there had not been a proper assessment of whether Rwanda was safe.\n\nIt was a blow for Sunak, who had already made headlines this week when he sacked Home Secretary Suella Braverman - a key champion of the Rwanda policy - and shook-up his top team.\n\nBraverman popped up again today, saying the judgement was \"no surprise\" and the government should bring in emergency laws and \"block off\" the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).\n\nWell, Sunak is doing some of that - in a news conference this afternoon the PM said the government would introduce emergency legislation to confirm that Rwanda was safe - and the UK was working on a new treaty with Rwanda.\n\nBut he didn't say he would pull out of the ECHR - although added he we would \"not allow foreign courts\" to block flights.\n\nSeveral charities, meanwhile, have welcomed the ruling, and opposition parties including Labour have called the government's migration plan a \"shambles\" and the Rwanda policy a \"gimmick\".\n\nWe're ending our live coverage now, but there's still plenty to get your teeth into:\n• For a round-up of the latest, that's here\n• Read analysis from our political editor Chris Mason here\n• And recap what the Rwanda plan involves here\n\nFrom all of the team here, thanks for joining us.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nUltra-marathon runner Joasia Zakrzewski has been banned for 12 months by UK Athletics for using a car in a race.\n\nZakrzewski accepted a medal and trophy for finishing third in the 2023 GB Ultras Manchester to Liverpool 50-mile race on 7 April.\n\nTracking information later showed she travelled by car for about 2.5 miles before continuing the race.\n\nZakrzewski claimed she told officials she used a car and finished the race \"in a non-competitive way\".\n\n\"The claimant had collected the trophy at the end of the race, something which she should have not done if she was completing the race on a non-competitive basis,\" said an independent disciplinary panel.\n\n\"She also did not seek to return the trophy in the week following the race.\n\n\"Even if she was suffering from brain fog on the day of the race, she had a week following the race to realise her actions and return the trophy, which she did not do.\n\n\"Finally, she posted about the race on social media, and this did not disclose that she had completed the race on a non-competitive basis.\"\n• None Ultrarunner disqualified for using a car in race\n\nZakrzewski, a 47-year-old GP from Dumfries in Scotland, now lives near Sydney in Australia.\n\nIn February, at the Taipei Ultramarathon in Taiwan, she won the 48-hour race outright - setting what was at the time a world record distance of 255 miles (411.5 km).\n\nRacing for Great Britain in the IAU World 100km Championships, she won individual silver in 2011 and bronze in 2014 and 2015.\n\nShe also represented Team Scotland in the marathon at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.\n\nIn 2020, aged 44, she won a 24-hour event in Australia with a distance of 236.561km.\n\nShe has set a number of records including the Scottish 24-hour record, the British 200k and the Scottish 100 miles record.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Israeli president challenged on airstrikes and says Mein Kampf found on Hamas fighter\n\nIsraeli President Isaac Herzog has denied that Israel is striking the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip.\n\nThe UN has said the situation at Al-Shifa Hospital is dire, with constant gunfire and bombings in the area.\n\nDoctors there have said newborn babies have died after power for incubators was cut off due to a lack of fuel.\n\nWhen challenged by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg about those reports, Mr Herzog rejected them as \"spin by Hamas\" and insisted there was electricity.\n\nThe president also showed what he said was a copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was found on the body of a Hamas fighter in Gaza.\n\nHe said a copy translated into Arabic was found \"just a few days ago\" in a children's room that had been \"turned into a military operation base of Hamas\".\n\nThe Nazi leader's antisemitic manifesto was first printed in 1925.\n\nFinding a copy of it in northern Gaza, Mr Herzog said, showed that some in Hamas \"learned again and again Adolf Hitler's ideology of hating the Jews\".\n\nOn Sunday morning, the World Health Organization (WHO) said it had lost communication with its contacts at Al-Shifa, with staff and patients trapped by fighting outside.\n\nIt warned that the hospital had been reportedly attacked multiple times over the previous two days, leaving several people dead and many others wounded. The intensive care unit had suffered damage, as had areas where displaced people were sheltering, it added.\n\nIt also said there were reports that some people who fled the hospital were shot at.\n\nWHO chief Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus later said that contact has been restored but warned of \"dire\" conditions inside. He repeated calls for a ceasefire and said the hospital has been without electricity and water for three days.\n\nDoctors and the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza have said a lack of fuel for Al-Shifa's generators there means patients cannot be operated on and incubators for premature babies cannot run. But the president disputed this.\n\n\"We deny this at all, there is a lot of spin by Hamas... but there's electricity in Shifa, everything is operating,\" Mr Herzog told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme.\n\nIsrael has said that Hamas has a base underneath the hospital building - a claim denied by Hamas.\n\nAsked whether Israel has gone too far in its response to Hamas's 7 October attack, in which 1,200 people in Israel were killed and some 240 taken hostage back to Gaza, Mr Herzog said: \"We work exactly according to the rules of international humanitarian law. We alert each and every civilian, because their homes have become terror bases\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, there are tragedies. We don't shy away from them. But truly many of the tragedies are done by Hamas, like they bombed [Al-]Shifa hospital yesterday, not Israel.\"\n\nSurgeon Marwan Abu Saada told the BBC on Saturday that the hospital had run out of water, food and electricity.\n\nHe said the sounds of shooting and bombardments echoed through the hospital \"every second\".\n\nIsraeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Israel would help evacuate babies from Al-Shifa following a request from the hospital administration. Dr Abu Saada said on Sunday night that three newborn babies had already died.\n\nThe Israeli military also released a video of soldiers leaving 15 jerry cans of fuel on the side of a street for the hospital on Sunday but claimed Hamas stopped them being picked up.\n\nHowever, doctors said the amount would not bring enough power for an hour, while any evacuation of the babies needed specialised mobile incubators.\n\nAsked whether it was time to listen to calls from Israel's allies, including from France's President Macron, for a ceasefire and measures to reduce civilian casualties, Mr Herzog asserted Israel's right to defend itself after the October attacks.\n\n\"We of course listen to our allies, but first and foremost, we defend ourselves,\" he said.\n\nHe acknowledged that there had been civilian deaths in Gaza but blamed Hamas for many of the tragedies.\n\nMr Herzog said his country's operations in Gaza were carried out \"according to the rules of international humanitarian law\", with Israel alerting civilians with phone calls and text messages, and urging them to evacuate from northern Gaza and \"go down [to southern Gaza]\".\n\n\"We give them humanitarian pauses so that they can go down [south],\" Mr Herzog said.\n\nHe accused Hamas of stopping civilians from fleeing northern Gaza when asked about the pictures from Gaza showing many still sheltering in the area and reports that they were unable to leave.\n\nMore than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. More than 1.5m people are also displaced, according to the United Nations' agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa).\n\nFighting has been fierce in the northern part of the 41km (25 miles) long and 10km wide enclave, but blasts have also hit the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Younis.", "A vote was passed with an amendment for some special services to go ahead sooner than expected\n\nGay couples will be able to have special services of blessing in Church of England parishes for the first time.\n\nThe services, while not formal weddings, will be able to include the wearing of rings, prayers, confetti and a blessing from the priest.\n\nThe amendment to back the services on a trial basis passed the Church's parliament by one vote.\n\nThe Church of England's official teaching is that marriage is only between one man and one woman.\n\nEarlier this year, bishops refused to back a change in teaching which would have allowed priests to marry same-sex couples, but said they would allow prayers of blessings for people in gay relationships as part of wider services.\n\nIt had been thought approval for standalone services might not come for well over a year from now.\n\nBut Wednesday's vote, which passed narrowly in the General Synod, the Church's legislative body, means distinct services of blessing could now be allowed, rather than simply prayers within a normal church service.\n\nWhile there is no set timeframe for temporary trial services to begin, it is understood these could be authorised in the comings weeks with the first services in the new year.\n\nThe proposal for stand alone services on a trial basis came in an amendment to a motion. The full formal process of authorisation, which will take around two years, will take place while the trial is running.\n\nThe Bishop of Oxford, the Rt Rev Stephen Croft, who has campaigned for a change in the Church's stance, said he was \"delighted\".\n\nNoting the services would not be official weddings, he added: \"I hope there will be a similar joy and affirmation and those that come to receive these prayers will feel fully welcomed into the life of the church.\"\n\nThe Church of England's official position on marriage is at odds with its Anglican equivalent in Scotland - The Scottish Episcopal Church - and the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, which both allow same-sex weddings.\n\nThe Anglican Church in Wales has provided an authorised service of blessing for gay couples but does not allow same-sex weddings in church.\n\nJayne Ozanne, a prominent LGBT campaigner who sits on the Church of England's General Synod, called for the Church to change its position to allow gay couples to marry.\n\n\"The Church of England remains deeply homophobic, whatever bishops and archbishops may say,\" she said.\n\n\"I fear that much of the nation will judge the Church of England as being abusive, hypocritical and unloving - they are, sadly, correct.\"\n\nMeanwhile, conservative clergy described it as a \"watershed\" moment.\n\nRevd Canon John Dunnett, national director of the Church of England Evangelical Council, said he felt \"grieved and saddened\" by the decision.\n\n\"It will tear local parish congregations apart, damage the relationship between large numbers of clergy and their bishops and cause churches across the dioceses to feel as though their shepherds have abandoned them,\" he said.", "Thousands of people took to the streets of Mexico City calling for justice following the death of Jesús Ociel Baena\n\nThe death of Mexico's first openly non-binary member of the judiciary, a prominent LGBTQ+ activist, appears to have been murder, officials say.\n\nJesús Ociel Baena was found dead at home next to their partner, Dorian Daniel Nieves, in the central city of Aguascalientes on Monday.\n\nA razor blade was found at the scene and the authorities say there was no sign a third person had been present.\n\nThey now suspect Baena was killed by Nieves, who then took their own life.\n\nAguascalientes chief prosecutor Jesús Figueroa said Baena had been found with 20 wounds on their body, including one on their neck that was probably the cause of death.\n\nHowever, he stressed that the investigation was ongoing so no definitive conclusions could yet be made.\n\nBaena's family disputed the authorities' hypothesis. Their father, Juan Baena, said it \"would be a shame to let this justice system make a judgment that is not correct and that the majority do not believe it\".\n\nMourners visited the coffins of the dead\n\nRights organisations have called on the authorities to investigate whether the deaths were a hate crime and said Baena had received death threats.\n\nThe 38-year-old became a magistrate for the Aguascalientes state electoral court in October 2022 and was thought to be the first non-binary person in Latin America to take up a judicial position.\n\nIn June, they were among the first group of people to be issued gender-neutral passports\n\n\"Baena's purpose was to promote the people of the LGBT+ community, who supported him throughout his struggle, achieving a powerful message of inclusion and equality in our state and our country,\" fellow magistrate Laura Hortensia Llama said at a tribute held at the headquarters of the Aguascalientes electoral court.\n\n\"We will never forget Baena's essence, persistence, and desire to achieve a better world.\"\n\nThese sentiments were echoed by thousands of people who attended vigils and demonstration in several cities, including the capital, for the slain activist on Monday evening.\n\n\"Ociel is, and was, the most relevant figure in today's fight for human rights for the LGBTQ+ community,\" Humberto Dena, 24, told the Associated Press in Mexico City.\n\n\"We want [the authorities] to continue to investigate this case, and not just say it was a 'crime of passion'.\"\n\nSupporters of the LGBTQ+ community are calling for the authorities to investigate the deaths thoroughly", "Wrexham AFC's Hollywood owners have forged close links with Wrexham, both on and off the pitch\n\nPlenty of Wrexham fans would love to meet Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.\n\nBut what one shop owner really wants to do is thank them for saving his business.\n\nWrexham AFC's celebrity owners stepped in to donate £3,500 after a sportswear store in the city was burgled on 28 October.\n\n\"It was overwhelming - I literally had to be picked up off the floor,\" said owner Stephen Tapp.\n\n\"One of the biggest actors in Hollywood donating money to my little shop, it's ridiculous.\n\n\"We were about to wrap up the online donations page, then they doubled the amount I'd already received - taking it to £7,000.\"\n\nStephen, who owns Wrexham Trainer Revival, had just celebrated the one month anniversary of his shop's new location when he discovered the break-in.\n\nHe said, \"After spending so much time talking to the police my head wasn't in a very good place.\n\n\"I was very close to packing up and selling it all on eBay - the support I've had from everyone has been amazing\".\n\nThe words of encouragement and donations for Mr Tapp's shop have not just been limited to the Wrexham community.\n\nRyan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney doubled the donations the shop had received\n\n\"The donations page was set up by an American couple I've only met once - that money has covered all of my costs and kept the business going.\n\n\"By Sunday tea-time, with the amount of messages I received on social media, there was no way I could give up.\"\n\nMr Tapp's son met Rob McElhenney last Saturday at Wrexham's winning game against Gillingham.\n\n\"Rob said, 'Oh yeah, the trainer guy' - I didn't realise they even knew I existed, so this has blown my mind.\"\n\n\"They're welcome to the shop anytime,\" he added.\n\n\"There'll be a couple of free T-shirts there for them, that's for sure.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPop star Kylie Minogue has thanked a terminally-ill woman for her \"acts of bravery and selflessness\".\n\nSince receiving her diagnosis, mother-of-two Wendy Clarke has been working to raise awareness of cervical cancer.\n\nKylie, who has had cancer herself, said she was \"so proud\" of Wendy for everything she was doing.\n\nWendy, from Fairfield, Stockton, spoke with the singer for a BBC local radio Christmas special.\n\n\"She's not just beautiful to look at, she's a beautiful lady in every sense of the word.\n\n\"For her to spare her time for me, it's amazing.\"\n\nKylie, 55, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 and given the all-clear the following year.\n\nShe told Wendy: \"You're achieving amazing things. I'm so proud of you.\n\n\"To be handling the information and the diagnosis and just getting through day by day - I can appreciate that, I share some of your story.\n\n\"But to be translating that into empowering other people and doing such amazing things, I could only just say thank you for these acts of bravery and selflessness and really finding the spirit within yourself and allowing others around you to reaffirm life in this moment, it's just incredible.\"\n\nBack in January, Wendy received the news that her cancer was terminal and was given a year to live if she had treatment.\n\nShe is using that time to encourage other women to get a smear test and raise money for charity.\n\n\"I'm aware there's one or two people out there who have gone and got their test based on me nagging them,\" the 46-year-old said.\n\nShe also received a Bravery Award at the BBC Radio Tees Make A Difference Awards in September and was chosen to take part in the BBC local radio Christmas special featuring Kylie.\n\nWendy has also been raising money for charity\n\nDuring their conversation, Wendy asked the singer if she would consider making a return to Doctor Who, where Kylie appeared as Astrid Peth in a one-off performance.\n\nKylie replied: \"It was such an amazing experience.\n\n\"I would be totally up for that.\"\n\nThere are about 3,200 new cervical cancer cases in the UK every year, according to Cancer Research UK.\n\nThe majority of cases are preventable and the government has pledged to eliminate the disease by 2040.\n\nWendy has told the BBC she did not get tested \"out of fear\", and has urged other women to go for their smear test.\n\n\"The fear of the smear test is nothing compared to the fear of cancer, of what I'm going through now,\" she said.\n\n\"I absolutely regret not going for my smear test.\"\n\n\"Do it, because it's worth it. You can't put a price on your life.\"\n\nFollow BBC Tees on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Kathleen, pictured on the right alongside her sister Mary, was killed in November 1973.\n\nThe brother of a teenager killed by the IRA 50 years ago has revealed he met her killer against the wishes of his family to learn the truth about her death.\n\nKathleen Feeney,14, was killed near her home in the Brandywell area of Londonderry on 14 November 1973.\n\nThe IRA blamed the Army for shooting the teenager and claimed later it had killed a soldier in retaliation.\n\nBut in 2005 the IRA admitted that one of its members shot the 14-year-old.\n\nHarry Feeney said the bullet that killed his sister has \"kept going and it just affected the whole family, even 50 years on\".\n\nHe told BBC News NI that a few years after the 30th anniversary of his sister's death he came face to face with the man who killed her.\n\n\"Against my family's wishes I met the gunman a couple of years later and I got exactly what happened from him.\n\n\"It was a very poignant moment when I shook his hand that I realised that's the hand that he fired the Armalite from. But I got the truth.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Feeney: \"It was a poignant moment when I shook his hand and realised that's the hand that he fired from\"\n\nMr Feeney said the gunman told him that \"you carry it all the time with you\".\n\n\"At the time he didn't know he'd did it,\" Mr Feeney said.\n\n\"It was the next day he was told that what had happened and he went to his superiors and they more or less told him 'don't you be worrying about that and don't mention it again to anybody and to take your mind of it', this is his words not mine, 'go and plant that bomb up in the Diamond'.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Kathleen's family attended an anniversary Mass in Derry to mark the 50th anniversary of Kathleen's killing.\n\nKathleen's sister Mary Morrison said it took a long time to forgive the man who killed her.\n\n\"I myself forgive him - that has healed me,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle's North West Today programme.\n\n\"I was only hurting myself.\n\n\"There were four people involved in it - two girls, two fellas - no-one has ever been convicted. It is their sin, not mine.\"\n\nOn the day Kathleen was killed, their older brother Danny had been told there was \"a wee girl lying outside the shop\".\n\nThe two sisters - Mary was one year older than Kathleen - had just got new coats.\n\n\"I think he recognised the coat,\" said Mary.\n\n\"He went over and turned her over. It was our Kathleen.\"\n\nDanny went with Kathleen in an ambulance. She was alive but unconscious.\n\nHe talked to her, asked her to squeeze his hand, Mary said.\n\nBut by the time they had crossed the city, Kathleen was dead.\n\nKathleen's mother and father both died prior to the IRA's admission and apology\n\nMary says the days after her sister's death are a blur and the years since have been equally challenging.\n\n\"Even at the funeral and wake, there is very little memory of it for me,\" she said.\n\n\"When I look at the photos, everyone is just devastated.\"\n\nThe two sisters had come as \"a duo\".\n\n\"Kathleen was funny and bright, a brilliant sister,\" Mary said.\n\nMary Morrison says she looks back fondly on the happy times her sister and their family shared together\n\n\"Growing up with your sister, then not having her, and as you get older and have your own children and wondering about her, wondering if she would have had children.\n\n\"You don't move on, but you get on with your life, think of the happy times we had when we were all together.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Museum of Free Derry\n\nMary said the family had known the IRA was responsible for Kathleen's death \"from three or four days\" after the shooting.\n\nYears later she saw former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams on television and wrote to him to ask for help getting to the truth about her sister's death.\n\nIn 2005 the IRA admitted it had killed Kathleen.\n\nIn a statement in the Derry Journal newspaper, the IRA said it apologised unreservedly for what happened and admitted that its failure to admit killing Kathleen added to the family's hurt and pain.\n\nA number of Kathleen's personal items are currently on display in the Museum of Free Derry.", "Republican support for Israel has been near monolithic since the 7 October attack by Hamas.\n\nConservatives argue the US is backing a close ally, standing up for the region's only democracy and sending a message that terror against civilians will not be tolerated.\n\nBut there's more to it than that.\n\nEvangelical conservatives are a key part of the Republican party's coalition, and these religious voters - and politicians - have a connection to the state of Israel that runs deep.\n\nGeorge Washington University religious scholar Christopher Rollston says: \"There's a strong sense within evangelicalism that the Jewish people are God's people.\n\n\"And there's a theological assumption that's pretty pervasive within certain segments of evangelicalism that the establishment of the modern state of Israel was the fulfilment of biblical prophecy.\"\n\nThe new Republican Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, has strong evangelical ties.\n\nThe Louisiana congressman was one of a handful of politicians who addressed a crowd organisers estimated as being in the hundreds of thousands at a \"March for Israel\" event in Washington DC on Tuesday.\n\nQuoting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he called the conflict between Israel and Hamas \"a fight between good and evil, between light and darkness, between civilisation and barbarism\".\n\nHe said demands for an Israeli ceasefire in Gaza were \"outrageous\".\n\n\"It is my hope that this gathering today serves as a reminder to the entire world, but also to those within our own borders, that the United States stands proudly with Israel and the Jewish people forever,\" he said.\n\nSpeaker Mike Johnson, a staunch evangelical, has been outspoken in his support of Israel\n\nMr Johnson stood on a stage bedecked with dozens of Israeli and American flags, the US Capitol in the background. Two senior Democrats, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, joined him, along with Republican Senator Joni Ernst.\n\nThey raised their hands together and led the audience in a chant of \"we stand with Israel\".\n\n\"There are few issues in Washington that could so easily bring together leaders of both parties in both chambers,\" Mr Johnson said, \"but the survival of the state of Israel unites us together and unites all Americans.\"\n\nThe Democrats are divided, however. While the two congressional leaders, along with President Joe Biden, have been firm in their support for Israel following the attack, a growing number on the left are calling attention to Palestinian civilian casualties and condemning the Israeli military campaign.\n\nWith the exception of a handful of Republican politicians, however, dissent on the right has been missing.\n\nWhen a standalone bill providing $14.3bn (£11.5bn) in US aid to Israel was introduced in the House of Representatives, only two Republicans - Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Thomas Massie of Kentucky - voted no.\n\nTheir isolated opposition is a far cry from the significant and growing number of Republicans who oppose continued US support for Ukraine, the world's other current major international conflict.\n\nThe influence of an evangelical leader invited to speak towards the end of the March for Israel's programme helps explain why Israel is treated differently by Republicans.\n\nJohn Hagee is a Texas-based Christian minister and president of Christians United for Israel, which boasts 10 million members.\n\nIn 2008, he said the Holocaust was part of God's plan to return Jews to Israel. The Republican presidential candidate at the time, John McCain, declined his endorsement in part because of those comments.\n\nThe organisers of Tuesday's march, the Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, invited Mr Hagee to speak at their rally, however, as a part of a \"voices of allies\" segment. The organisers did not immediately respond to BBC requests for comment.\n\nFor his part, Mr Hagee was effusive in his support for Israel. He told the crowd that a line should be drawn uniting Christians and Jews and that there was no \"middle\" ground in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.\n\n\"We must all stand united with one voice and boldly declare over and over: Israel, you are not alone,\" he said.\n\nIn his deep southern preacher drawl, he placed the fate of Israel squarely in a religious context.\n\n\"The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob guarantees Israel's deliverance will come as proclaimed every year during Passover,\" he said. \"Israel is the apple of God's eye. Israel is the shining city on the hill. God says of Israel, Israel is my firstborn son.\"\n\nFor some evangelicals, however, the ties between their religion and the fate of Israel have a darker hue. And it's where Mr Hagee's more controversial views come into play.\n\nIn the End Days, a certain strain of Christian theology holds, the Jewish people will either convert to Christianity or perish in flames. It is a key step towards Armageddon that is then followed by 1,000 years of peace, according to this belief.\n\nA Pew Research survey last year found 39% of Americans - including 63% of evangelicals - believe humanity is \"living in the end times\".\n\nAnd for the moment - on the stage in Washington on Tuesday and in the halls of Congress - the interests of Israel, Republicans and evangelicals are in alignment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSuella Braverman has been forced out as home secretary after challenging the prime minister one too many times.\n\nShe was sacked from the role on Monday morning.\n\nIn an article for the Times newspaper, she accused the Metropolitan Police of bias in the policing of protests.\n\nMrs Braverman was accused of undermining the police with her claim that aggressive right-wing protesters were \"rightly met with a stern response\", while \"pro-Palestinian mobs\" were \"largely ignored\", ahead of pro-Palestinian marches in central London.\n\nThe row is just the latest in a long line of controversies in Mrs Braverman's political career.\n\nBut it has not stopped her emerging as a leading figure on the right of the Conservative Party and someone with ambitions to lead it.\n\nThe now former home secretary's political leanings were evident at an early age. In 1997, the year of Labour's landslide victory, she won a mock election as the Conservative candidate at her independent all-girls school in Harrow.\n\nA classmate at the time said she had turned the school \"in completely the opposite direction\" during the election, using her \"personality, joviality and optimism\".\n\nMrs Braverman was born Sue-Ellen Fernandes, in April 1980 - named after Sue-Ellen Ewing, the matriarch of the American TV show Dallas, one of her mother's favourite shows.\n\nTeachers shortened it to Suella at school, where she was a high-flying student - crowning her time there as head girl.\n\nHer parents were both of Indian origin, and met in London, after her father fled Kenya and mother emigrated from Mauritius to become a nurse.\n\nShe has spoken about how her parents' journey and emphasis on hard work and integration deeply influenced her.\n\nThis drive took her to study law at University of Cambridge, where she chaired the university's Conservative Association - a post held by Tory grandees (and former home secretaries) Ken Clarke and Michael Howard.\n\nAfter Cambridge, she studied for two years in Paris, gaining a postgraduate degree in European and French law at Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and developing a love for the works of Marcel Proust and songs of Belgian singer Jacques Brel.\n\nMrs Braverman's legal career took her from the UK to the US, passing the bar exam in both London and New York. She was also set on politics, gaining work as a lawyer for the government and unsuccessfully standing as the Conservative candidate in the solid Labour seat of Leicester East in 2005.\n\nShe was selected as the Conservative candidate for the safe seat of Fareham, a role she secured by doing the most \"homework\" according to a member of her selection panel.\n\nIn the 2015 election she was duly elected as an MP, and quickly made a name for herself for her views on the EU, immigration, and law and order.\n\nA fervent supporter of Brexit, she chaired the Eurosceptic European Research Group (ERG) of Tory MPs, after the UK left the EU.\n\nIt was in the melee following the 2016 referendum that she headed to her ministerial office - getting a job as a junior minister at the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU).\n\nShe resigned from the role 10 months later, alongside her boss at DExEU Dominic Raab, in protest at Theresa May's Brexit deal, which she called \"a betrayal\".\n\nShe changed her name to Suella Braverman, having married South African business executive Rael Braverman in 2019.\n\nSir John Hayes, one of Mrs Braverman's oldest allies in politics, said Rael \"reinforced\" his wife's conservatism.\n\nMrs Braverman made a return to government when she was appointed attorney general by Boris Johnson, but maintained an independent streak.\n\nAs the chief legal adviser to the government, she was criticised by lawyers for backing the Internal Market Bill - setting post-Brexit customs and trade rules - which broke international law in a \"specific and limited way\".\n\nShe also made history in 2021 as the first cabinet minister to take maternity leave, following the passage of a new law.\n\nFollowing Mr Johnson's resignation as prime minister, Mrs Braverman was the first to announce she was running to replace him.\n\nShe was installed as home secretary by eventual winner Liz Truss, but was forced to resign within the space of a few weeks.\n\nMrs Braverman stood down after admitting to sharing confidential documents.\n\nIn a political twist, Mrs Braverman was reinstated as home secretary by Rishi Sunak - and under him, she has carved out a reputation for her headline-grabbing comments.\n\nNot long after returning to office, it emerged she had been caught speeding while attorney general. Mr Sunak decided her request for advice from officials on arranging a private course \"did not amount to a breach of the ministerial code\" without the need for an investigation.\n\nMrs Braverman's comments have often proved a thorn in Mr Sunak's side, with the prime minister repeatedly distancing himself from her language on immigration and homeless people.\n\nUntil recently, Mr Sunak appeared unwilling to rein in his home secretary. There had been suggestions Mrs Braverman acted as a \"politically useful pressure valve\" for Mr Sunak - allowing him to indirectly signal approval for right-wing populist policies without having to make those statements himself.\n\nNow her departure marks the end of a tumultuous period in government, but is unlikely to end her leadership ambitions.\n\nListen to Suella Braverman's interview on Political Thinking with Nick Robinson.", "That's it for today's live page on inflation, brought to you by James FitzGerald, Owen Amos and me.\n\nIf you'd like to brush up more on inflation - and frankly, why wouldn't you? - here's our explainer on what it is and how it affects your everyday life.\n\nOr if you'd like to work out what the new inflation figure means for your household finances, the BBC and the ONS have put together a calculator to help you.\n\nAnd finally, check out today's report on inflation - with more reaction to today's figure and an overview of what it could mean for the future. As to whether the government can claim credit - there's more here.\n\nSee you next time.", "Kefaia Abu Asser fled on foot to southern Gaza while heavily pregnant\n\n\"My child doesn't have a name yet because of the war. She's four days old,\" says Kefaia Abu Asser. Sitting on a straw mat in a corner of a school shelter run by the UN in Rafah, in southern Gaza, Kefaia cradles her baby daughter, who is wrapped in a red blanket.\n\nStress and exhaustion are visible on her face. Being a first-time mother is hard anywhere in the world, but Kefaia had to do it under unimaginable trauma.\n\nOriginally from northern Gaza, the 24-year-old fled her home with her family after the Israeli military warned civilians to move to the south of the Strip for their safety.\n\n\"I had to run and flee from one place to another. I was utterly exhausted. Initially we went to the Nuseirat Camp. But there was a bombing close to us. I saw bodies that had been ripped apart. It was extremely difficult,\" she tells a freelance journalist working in Gaza for the BBC.\n\nKefaia and her family are among the hundreds of thousands who have fled northern Gaza and, like many others, she had to walk for miles, all the while worried about being bombed.\n\n\"It was so dangerous for my unborn child. I was scared all the time,\" she says.\n\nThe family finally reached the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah city but its maternity ward had been closed down. Kefaia was then moved to the nearby Emirati Hospital.\n\n\"It was very hard because the number of women giving birth was huge,\" she says. \"They were coming from all parts of Gaza, from the north to the south and everywhere in between.\"\n\n\"There was a shortage of painkillers,\" she adds. \"So they only administered it if the pain became really unbearable and only to those most in need.\"\n\nShe gave birth with no painkillers.\n\nThe WHO warns maternal deaths are expected to increase in Gaza as women don't have access to adequate care\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) says more than half the hospitals in Gaza are not functioning due to lack of fuel, damage, attacks and insecurity. The UN estimates that around 50,000 pregnant women have been caught up in the conflict, and despite the state of hospitals, roughly 180 deliveries are expected to take place each day.\n\nMany pregnant women have been cut off from safe delivery services as hospitals are overwhelmed with casualties, out of fuel for generators, and lacking medicines and basic supplies - including for the management of obstetric emergencies.\n\nOla Abu Oali was one of them.\n\n\"My baby is two weeks old. He was born during the war, right here in this school,\" she tells Majdi Fathi, a freelance journalist working for the BBC in Gaza.\n\nOla has another young son. They are all currently living in a different overcrowded UN school shelter in Rafah.\n\n\"Both my children are getting sick. Their stomachs are bloating and they have severe diarrhoea. Every time I breastfeed my baby, he vomits. I've had to take my other child to the hospital three times to put him on a drip, but his condition has not changed,\" she says.\n\nAccess to clean water is one of the biggest challenges for the displaced in Gaza. The UN says each person has access to only three litres of water a day for all their needs.\n\n\"We don't have any water. There is no milk for my baby. And the condition of the toilets is unbearable. There is a stench and we have to wait our turn to use it,\" Ola says.\n\nWafaa Yousef Fakhry Ahmed says she and her family resorted to drinking sea water while evacuating from northern Gaza\n\nWafaa Yousef Fakhry Ahmed is sheltering in the same school as Ola.\n\n\"I'm pregnant. I fear for my child's life. I'm approaching my due date and I'm worried about the environment I'm living in, about getting diseases. We don't have water for basic cleanliness, \" she says.\n\nWafaa is from Beit Hanoun, near Gaza's northern border, and has also moved from place to place in search of safety.\n\n\"First, we went to a school in the Al-Muaskar area. We were asked to leave there too, so we came further south. We used carts and donkeys on some part of the way. But most of it, we walked, \" she says. \"We had no water with us to drink, so the only option we had was to drink from the sea. My husband was trying so hard to get one bottle for us to drink from.\"\n\nThe WHO says maternal deaths are expected to increase in Gaza given the lack of access to adequate care. It says the hostilities have direct and deadly consequences for pregnancies, with a rise in stress-induced miscarriages, stillbirths and premature births.\n\nAsma is from Gaza City but is now living with her three young children in a tent in the compound of the Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza.\n\nShe's pregnant and before she was forced to flee her home, she had gone to the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City for a check-up.\n\n\"Due to the constant sound of bombings, many women suffered miscarriages at Al-Shifa. The situation is unbearable, especially for pregnant mothers. I'm really worried about my baby and about having a miscarriage,\" Asma says. \"Waking up with aching bones has become a daily reality. We're exposed to unsanitary conditions. And we've repeatedly witnessed distressing sights of dead bodies.\"\n\nAsma says she's exhausted and wants the fighting to stop.\n\n\"I plead for a ceasefire. What is the fault of the children that they have to suffer this much? What is the fault of my baby who hasn't come to life yet?\"\n\nAdditional reporting by Majdi Fathi in Gaza and Haneen Abdeen in Jerusalem.", "Wounded Palestinian women, injured following Israeli air raids, visit Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City for treatment on 10 October\n\nHospitals and medical facilities have become caught up in intense fighting as Israel presses its offensive against Hamas in Gaza City.\n\nThe focus of attention has been on Al-Shifa, Gaza's largest hospital, where thousands are trapped by nearby battles, but other facilities are also reporting a lack of supplies and power because of fighting.\n\nIsrael says it is not targeting hospitals directly but acknowledges \"clashes\" around Al-Shifa and other facilities.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) says 36 health facilities including 22 hospitals have been damaged since the war began on 7 October, and only a handful are now still operational.\n\nHere is what the BBC knows about the situation at the main facilities in northern Gaza.\n\nThe WHO said on Sunday that Al-Shifa in Gaza City - the territory's largest with 700 beds - had ceased to function and that the situation inside was \"dire and perilous\".\n\nThe surrounding streets are engulfed by fighting between Hamas and Israeli forces. Critical infrastructure has been damaged, according to the UN.\n\nIsrael says Hamas fighters operate in tunnels underneath the hospital - a claim which Hamas denies.\n\nStaff inside say it is impossible to leave without risking injury or death.\n\nThe WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on X that \"constant gunfire and bombings in the area\" had \"exacerbated the already critical circumstances\".\n\nMultiple reports from inside say there are no food and no fuel to run generators. Solar energy is being used to power a few critical systems.\n\nThere have been communication blackouts - the Doctors Without Borders charity was unable to contact its members inside Gaza over the weekend. Attempts by the BBC to contact workers have often been unsuccessful.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry has said there are at least 2,300 people still inside the hospital - up to 650 patients, 200-500 staff and around 1,500 people seeking shelter.\n\nThis number includes newborn babies being kept in a surgical theatre at the site.\n\nStaff say that three of 39 infants in their care died over the weekend for lack of incubators. Surviving babies were at serious risk of death, according to doctors.\n\nThe Israel Defense Force's (IDF) chief spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said on Saturday that Israel would provide assistance to evacuate the babies to a \"safer hospital\".\n\nHowever, that evacuation had yet to happen as of Monday afternoon.\n\nHospital staff have told the BBC that moving the babies safely would require sophisticated equipment, and that there is no \"safer hospital\" inside Gaza.\n\nMark Regev, a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said that the 300 litres offered would have been enough for the babies and more could be provided.\n\n\"Hamas did not want to accept solutions for the lack of fuel needed to save the babies,\" he said, adding: \"We provided fuel and they [Hamas] refused to take it.\"\n\nBabies trapped inside Al-Shifa hospital, in an imaged issued by medical staff\n\nOn Saturday, Colonel Moshe Tetro of the IDF said there were clashes nearby, but no shooting at the hospital itself, and no siege.\n\nAnyone who wanted to leave, he said, could do so. He insisted that to say otherwise was a lie.\n\nMarwan Abu Saada, a surgeon in Shifa, told the BBC that there was bombing around the hospital and ambulances could not get in.\n\nThe IDF also said efforts to deliver 300 litres of fuel to Shifa on Sunday had failed because Hamas had refused to accept it - something Hamas denied.\n\nMr Abu Saada told the BBC on the same day that 300 litres would \"last 30 minutes\" - the hospital needs 10,000 litres a day to operate normally.\n\nOn top of this is the growing risk of disease from lack of sanitation and the decomposition of dead bodies that cannot be refrigerated.\n\nMr Abu Saada said that attempts to bury the dead had been thwarted by fighting around the complex, and the morgue refrigerator had failed for lack of power.\n\nThere were 100 bodies unburied in the hospital courtyard, he added.\n\nDr Marwan Al-Barsh, director general of Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry, said that as well as the courtyard, the hospital's mortuaries were also filled with corpses.\n\nHe added that hospital officials had tried to bury those who had died in the hospital, but that people had been unable to leave without coming under fire.\n\nIsrael says it knows \"with certainty\" that there is a Hamas command centre underneath Shifa.\n\nIt has shared a 3-D representation of what it said were a network of tunnels under the hospital, and recordings it says are of Hamas fighters discussing them.\n\nHamas denies it is using the hospital or that it has an operations centre underneath. Doctors inside insist there is no Hamas presence there. The BBC's Gaza correspondent Rushdi Abualouf said that he had never seen \"any military capability\" inside the hospital, but acknowledged it was difficult to verify either Israel's or Hamas's claims.\n\nWHO's Dr Tedros said on 10 November that the hospitals that were functioning in the Gaza Strip were \"operating way beyond their capacities\".\n\nDr Ghassan Abu Sittah, a doctor working at Al-Ahli in northern Gaza, told the BBC that the hospital was now taking all of the wounded from Gaza City but that it did not have the resources to cope.\n\nHe said that ambulances were arriving with wounded people every 10 minutes, and that hospital staff did not have access to a blood bank, which he said was surrounded by Israeli tanks.\n\n\"We don't have an x-ray technician and we are short of medication to the point where we're having to do extremely painful procedures on large wounds to keep them clean with no analgesia, no anaesthetic,\" he said.\n\nHe added that operating rooms were being saved for life-saving surgeries \"because we don't have enough resources to treat everybody\".\n\nLast month Al-Ahli was the scene of a deadly blast that was at the centre of competing claims between Israel and Hamas about who was responsible.\n\nThe Gaza Strip's second largest hospital after Al-Shifa has, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, ceased to be operational.\n\nThe Palestinian Red Crescent said on Saturday that its teams were trapped inside with 500 patients and around 14,000 displaced people, mostly women and children.\n\nOn Sunday it stated that the hospital was \"out of service... no longer operational... due to the depletion of available fuel and power outage\".\n\nIt added that the hospital \"has been left to fend for itself under ongoing Israeli bombardment, posing severe risks to the medical staff, patients and displaced civilians\".\n\nIt also said that an \"evacuation convoy\" travelling from Khan Younis in southern Gaza towards Al-Quds hospital had had to turn back after experiencing \"relentless bombardment\". It added that those trapped in the hospital were without food, water or electricity.\n\nDoctors Without Borders said on Saturday it had lost contact with a surgeon working and sheltering in Al-Quds with his family.\n\nA spokesman for the Red Crescent told Reuters news agency that the hospital had been cut off for nearly a week, with \"no way in, no way out\", and the surrounding area was under constant attack.\n\nThe small Rantisi Specialised Hospital for Children and the nearby Al-Nasr hospital, in the north of Gaza City, were evacuated on Friday save for a handful of patients and staff. Rantisi had Gaza's only paediatric cancer ward.\n\nThe IDF released to the BBC details of phone conversations between an official at Rantisi and a senior officer in the IDF, in which they discussed arrangements to get ambulances to evacuate patients.\n\nThe hospital official asked about hundreds of displaced civilians camped out at the two hospitals. The Israeli officer told them to leave via the main entrance at 11:20 and explained in detail which streets they should walk along to leave Gaza City.\n\nAnd he twice told the hospital official to make sure civilians were carrying something white to show they were not combatants.\n\n\"They will all go out with their hands in the air,\" the hospital official said. \"Perfect,\" the Israeli said.\n\nIn a video verified by the BBC, people waving white flags were seen apparently coming under gunfire on as they attempted to leave Al-Nasr on Friday. It was not clear where the gunshots had come from or who had fired them.\n\nDr Bakr Gaoud, the head of Rantisi, was quoted by the New York Times as saying that Israeli forces had arrived at the end of last week and provided maps showing a safe way out.\n\n\"We dragged our patients out of their beds,\" he said, adding that the patients in the worst condition were sent to Al-Shifa, which was already overwhelmed and ceasing to function.\n\nEveryone else, he said, had made their way to southern Gaza away from the main fighting.\n\nOn Monday evening IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari showed journalists what he said was evidence of Hamas infrastructure at Rantisi - video of explosives, suicide vests and even a motorcycle used in the 7 October attacks, hidden in a basement.\n\nHe showed video of a deep shaft with a ladder down the side which he said was the entrance to a tunnel that was next to both a school and the hospital, adding it was \"nothing else but a terror tunnel\".\n\nRefugees taking shelter in Rantisi hospital before its evacuation on Friday\n\nThe UN's office for humanitarian affairs said in its Sunday night update that the Swedish clinic had been \"hit and destroyed\" by an air strike on Saturday.\n\nThere were around 500 people sheltering there, it reported, and the casualty toll was \"unclear\".\n\nOn Monday morning, BBC Gaza correspondent Rushdi Abu Alouf spoke to Maryam al-Arabeed, a 65-year-old woman who said Israeli soldiers had entered the facility on Sunday night and moved everyone out. She said she had then watched \"an Israeli bulldozer completely demolish the building\".\n\n\"They took the young men out including my three sons and separated the women and children,\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe added that she did not know where her sons or relatives were.\n\nThe IDF said it was investigating the report.\n\n\"In start contrast to Hamas's intentional attacks on Israeli men, women and children, the IDF follows international law and takes feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm,\" the Israeli military added.", "Troye Sivan won big at the Aria Awards, while Kylie Minogue's Padam Padam won best pop release on Australia's biggest night in music.\n\nSivan took home four awards, including song of the year for Rush and best solo artist, at the ceremony in Sydney.\n\n\"This has been the most insane week of my life, like ever,\" he said accepting the award for song of the year.\n\nIt comes days after the singer received two Grammy nominations for best pop dance recording and best music video.\n\nSivan said: \"I try and play it cool like this is all normal, but it's really tripping me out, and it's so exciting.\n\n\"I've been doing this for like ten, eleven years at this point and so to feel this much energy and love - I'm confused but so happy.\"\n\nThe Perth-raised singer, along with his producer Styalz Fuego, also won best engineered release and best produced release.\n\nThis year the 28-year-old's album Something To Give Each Other was not eligible for album of the year category as it was released after nominations were finalised, making it a potential for the award next year.\n\nMinogue won her first Aria award in 21 years beating Sivan to win best pop release for her hit single Padam Padam.\n\n\"This is just unbelievable, and I am super super happy,\" she said accepting the award in a video in another location.\n\nThe award brings Minogue's number of Aria Music awards to seventeen.\n\nIn February, she will be facing-off against Sivan again after she also received a Grammy nomination for best pop dance recording.\n\nEarlier in the night, Taylor Swift took home most popular international artist - voted for by fans.\n\nThe ceremony was also marked by calls for a ceasefire in the Middle East.\n\n\"There are atrocious things happening in the world right now that I think as a community we should be putting our minds, heart and bodies behind to stop it any junction that we can,\" said Genesis Owusu who won album of the year and best hip-hop release with Struggler.\n\nNic Cester, frontman of rock band Jet who were honoured with an induction into the Aria Hall of Fame, also touched on the conflict: \"It's impossible to turn on the news at the moment and not to be confronted by the destruction being committed through war, racism and politics.\"\n\nThe organisers of the Aria Awards bill it as the \"premier event\" in Australian music.\n\nAustralian rock band Jet were inducted into the Aria Hall of Fames", "Perry, Aniston and Schwimmer pictured in one of their last shows in 2003\n\nFriends actors Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow have paid tribute to their co-star Matthew Perry following his death last month.\n\nSchwimmer, who played Ross in the US TV sitcom, shared a picture on Instagram of himself alongside Perry as Chandler.\n\n\"Thank you for 10 incredible years of laughter and creativity,\" he wrote.\n\nAniston, who played Rachel, posted a clip of her and Perry from the sitcom and wrote: \"We loved him deeply. He was such a part of our DNA.\"\n\nKudrow, who was Phoebe in the sitcom that ran on NBC from 1994 to 2004, wrote in an Instagram post: \"Thank you for making me laugh so hard at something you said, that my muscles ached, and tears poured down my face EVERY DAY.\"\n\nPerry, 54, was found unresponsive in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home at the end of October.\n\nPerry and his Friends co-stars at the People's Choice Awards in 1995\n\n\"Having to say goodbye to our Matty has been an insane wave of emotions that I've never experienced before,\" Aniston wrote on Wednesday.\n\n\"He made all of us laugh. And laugh hard. In the last couple weeks, I've been poring over our texts to one another. Laughing and crying then laughing again.\n\n\"Matty, I love you so much and I know you are now completely at peace and out of any pain.\"\n\nIn his message, Schwimmer wrote: \"I will never forget your impeccable comic timing and delivery. You could take a straight line of dialogue and bend it to your will, resulting in something so entirely original and unexpectedly funny it still astonishes.\n\n\"And you had heart. Which you were generous with, and shared with us, so we could create a family out of six strangers.\"\n\nAnd Kudrow posted a photo of herself and Perry, thanking him \"for the best 10 years a person gets to have\".\n\nMatt LeBlanc (centre) said his times with Perry were \"honestly among the favourite times of my life\"\n\nThe comments by Schwimmer, Aniston and Kudrow come a day after fellow co-stars Courtney Cox and Matt LeBlanc also paid tribute to Perry.\n\nCox, who played his on-screen wife Monica, said she was \"so grateful for every moment they worked together\".\n\nLeBlanc, who starred as flatmate Joey, shared pictures of him on set with Perry and wrote on Instagram: \"The times we had together are honestly among the favourite times of my life.\"\n\nThe cast of Friends had previously issued a joint statement saying they were \"utterly devastated\" by the loss of their fellow star.\n\nHis post-mortem examination was inconclusive, while officials await the results of toxicology tests.\n\nAfter his death, a new foundation was set up in his name to continue his commitment to \"helping others struggling with the disease of addiction\" following his public battles with alcohol and drugs.", "Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin challenged union leader Sean O'Brien to a fight in the middle of a Senate hearing.\n\nThe heated exchange began after Mr Mullin paraphrased a tweet made about him by Mr O'Brien in June: \"What a clown, a fraud. Always has been, always will be. Quit the tough guy act in these Senate hearings. You know where to find me. Any place, anytime cowboy.\"\n\nMr Mullin then offered to fight Mr O'Brien at the hearing, saying \"Sir, this is a time, this is a place, if you want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults, we can finish it here,\" while pointing to the floor separating the two.\n\nMr Mullin rose from his seat, before Senator Bernie Sanders, chairman of the committee, intervened and told him to sit down.\n\n\"It should never come to that,\" Mr O'Brien later told the Reuters news agency, \"We're not 12 years old anymore.\" He also said he was willing to sit down with Mr Mullin for a coffee or a beer.", "During their meeting Xi told Biden to \"stop arming Taiwan\" and that the US should \"reflect its position of not supporting 'Taiwan independence' in concrete actions\", according to a Chinese government readout.\n\nHe also asked for US support of China's \"peaceful reunification\" with Taiwan.\n\nTaiwan, which counts the US as its biggest ally, is a self-governed island that China claims as its own. It's been a huge sticking point for both sides.\n\nOne bugbear for China is what it sees as conflicting messages from the US.\n\nThe US has stuck to the One China policy, the diplomatic acknowledgement there is only one Chinese government which is Beijing. Biden reiterated this in his press conference just now. But it has also been arming Taiwan to its teeth, especially in recent months.\n\nFor decades the US has operated under \"strategic ambiguity\", where they are deliberately unclear about whether they would defend Taiwan in the event of an attack. But Biden has on several occasions said the US would go to Taiwan's military aid, only for officials to later row back on his statements.\n\nIt's also worth remembering that China has been sending its own conflicting messages.\n\nIt has long insisted that it wants \"peaceful reunification\". Most experts do not believe that China, at this moment, wants to invade Taiwan, even though some in US intelligence and military believe otherwise.\n\nYet, China has been ramping up its military presence in the South China Sea and its warplanes have been buzzing round Taiwan on an unprecedented basis. Beijing says it is defending its sovereignty claims in the area, but many see it as grey zone warfare designed to wear down Taiwan's defences.", "Incendiary because it is a direct, unflinching assault not just on the prime minister's political capabilities - or lack of them, as she claims - but on his integrity.\n\nShe claims to have presented Rishi Sunak with a document outlining her conditions for serving as his home secretary.\n\nThose close to Suella Braverman claim Mr Sunak read and agreed the document the letter refers to, say he took a copy and there were witnesses.\n\nTonight, I have asked to see that document and was told it was \"not for today\".\n\nThat suggests she intends to drip feed her pungent critique - in an attempt to maximise the damage it might cause the government.\n\nDowning Street's response to Mrs Braverman's letter hints at a frostiness, to put it gently - \"the Prime Minister believes in actions not words\", a spokesman noted acidly.\n\nIt is to those actions, or lack of them, that attention turns here tomorrow, with the Supreme Court's decision on the government's plan to send some migrants to Rwanda.\n\nExpect to hear more from Mrs Braverman after we've heard from the judges.\n\nThe former home secretary isn't going quietly and she isn't finished yet.", "Mr Xi faces a host of problems at home as he arrives in San Francisco\n\nWhen Xi Jinping stepped off his plane in San Francisco for the Apec summit, it was in circumstances very different to the last time he landed on American soil.\n\nFive years ago, when he was wined and dined by Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Mr Xi was in charge of a China still in the ascendancy.\n\nIt had a buoyant economy outperforming forecasts. Its unemployment rate was among the lowest in years. While consolidating his power for a second term, Mr Xi proudly pointed to China's \"flourishing\" growth model as something other countries could emulate.\n\nBy then, cracks were already appearing in what he calls his \"Chinese Dream\". They have only widened since then.\n\nOne view is that because of this, Mr Xi is in a more vulnerable negotiating position this time, though expectations of major breakthroughs are low.\n\nAfter an initial bounce back, the post-Covid Chinese economy has turned sluggish. Its property market - once a key driver of growth - is now mired in a credit crisis, exacerbating a domestic \"debt bomb\" that has ballooned from years of borrowing by local government and state-owned enterprises. Many of these issues could be attributed to China's long-predicted structural slowdown finally making itself felt - painfully.\n\nIn the last two years crackdowns on various sectors of the economy, as well as prominent Chinese businessmen, have caused uncertainty. These have recently widened to include foreign nationals and firms, heightening worries in the international business community. Foreign investors and companies are now moving their money out of China in search of better investment returns elsewhere.\n\nA real estate crisis is one of China's biggest economic problems currently\n\nYouth unemployment has skyrocketed to the point that officials no longer publish that data. A fatalistic ennui is spreading among young Chinese, who talk about \"lying flat\" or leaving the country in search of better prospects elsewhere.\n\nMr Xi is also struggling with issues within his carefully-constructed power structure. The unexplained disappearances of key members of his leadership team and military top brass could be seen as either signs of pervasive corruption or political purges.\n\nSome observers have contrasted China with the US, whose economy has weathered the post-Covid recovery better. Until recently, Americans may have feared the day China would overtake them as the world's largest economy, but now analysts doubt if this will happen.\n\nChina's current economic challenges will be an \"important factor\" in Mr Xi's negotiations and \"would lead to a stronger desire to stabilise the economic, trade and investment relations with the US\", Li Mingjiang, an associate professor at Singapore's S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, told the BBC.\n\n\"Mr Xi will want to receive reassurance from Joe Biden that the US will not expand its trade war or tech rivalry, nor take additional measures to decouple economically.\" Beijing has complained vociferously about the US imposing tariffs on Chinese imports, blacklisting Chinese companies, and restricting China's access to advanced chip-making tech.\n\nThe fact they are meeting in San Francisco, home of Silicon Valley and the world's leading technology companies, will not be lost on the two leaders. There is speculation they may announce a working group to discuss artificial intelligence, which the Chinese reportedly hope to use to persuade the Americans not to further extend US technology export restrictions.\n\nWith Taiwan's election round the corner, which has the potential of becoming a flashpoint, Chinese officials have made it clear they want the US to steer clear of supporting Taiwanese independence. But the US has repeatedly emphasised its support for the self-governed island in the face of Chinese aggression and claims over it. Taiwan remains a dicey tightrope for both countries.\n\nUS officials are also seeking a resumption of military-to-military communications and Chinese co-operation in stemming the flow of ingredients fuelling the fentanyl trade in the US - and there are already reports that the Chinese will agree to these.\n\nSupporters of Chinese president Xi Jinping gathered in San Francisco for his arrival\n\nChinese state media has pressed pause on the US-bashing, releasing a raft of commentaries extolling the merits of resetting relations and working on co-operation.\n\nThere is talk of \"returning from Bali, heading to San Francisco\". This is a reference to the last time Mr Xi and Mr Biden met in person - at the G20 Bali summit almost exactly a year ago - which marked a high point in recent US-China relations before plunging to the nadir of the spy balloon incident.\n\n\"The propaganda preparations for the Xi-Biden meeting this week are making it clear it is okay to like America and Americans again… I think you could make the argument the propaganda 180 makes Xi look like he is quite eager for a stabilised relationship because of at least economic if not also political pressures,\" China analyst Bill Bishop wrote this week.\n\nMr Xi also appears equally, if not more, keen to woo the US business community.\n\nThe BBC understands he will be the guest of honour at a ritzy dinner on Wednesday night organised especially for him to meet top corporate executives. In what could be a sign of his true priorities, Chinese officials had initially demanded the dinner take place before Mr Xi's meeting with Mr Biden, according to a Wall Street Journal report.\n\nBut the Americans should also not expect Mr Xi to be arriving hat in hand and eager to please.\n\nMany believe mutual suspicion will endure and the two leaders will not likely remove existing trade and economic roadblocks put up in the name of national security.\n\nMr Biden has preserved many of the Trump-era sanctions aimed at China, while initiating and then deepening the chip tech ban. Meanwhile Mr Xi has enacted a wide-ranging anti-espionage law, which has seen raids conducted on foreign consulting firms and exit bans reportedly used on foreign nationals.\n\nThe two sides are also likely to not budge on \"core interest\" issues such as Taiwan and the South China Sea, where Beijing continues to build up its military presence to defend its expansionist claims, while Washington does the same to reinforce its alliances in the region.\n\nFaced with the need to \"not appear weak\" to the US, Dr Li says, \"it's a difficult balance that the Chinese leadership has to strike - between the objective of seeking a more stable and positive relationship with US on one hand, and also appear to be strong and resilient against some of the American pressures.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC forecaster Ben Rich takes a look at the extreme heat affecting Brazil\n\nRed alerts have been issued for almost 3,000 towns and cities across Brazil, which have been experiencing an unprecedented heatwave.\n\nRio de Janeiro recorded 42.5C on Sunday - a record for November - and high humidity on Tuesday meant that it felt like 58.5C, municipal authorities said.\n\nMore than a hundred million people have been affected by the heat, which is expected to last until at least Friday.\n\nOfficials have attributed it to the El Niño phenomenon and climate change.\n\nThe city of São Paulo saw average temperatures of 37.3C on Tuesday afternoon, the National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet) reported.\n\n\"I'm exhausted, it's hard,\" Riquelme da Silva, 22, told AFP news agency on the streets there.\n\n\"When I get home, it's cold water, otherwise I can't even get up because I'm so tired. It's even hard to sleep.\"\n\nDora, a 60-year-old street vendor, described the heat as \"unbearable\" for those who worked outside.\n\nThe authorities have attributed the heatwave to the El Niño phenomenon and climate change\n\nInmet has issued red alerts for a large part of the country. These indicate that temperatures may be 5C above average for longer than five days and could pose a serious danger to health.\n\nThe heatwave, which comes more than a month before the beginning of summer in the southern hemisphere, has seen Brazil's energy consumption soar to record levels as people try to keep themselves cool.\n\nInmet research released last week showed that the average temperature in the country had been above the historical average from July to October.\n\nExtreme weather is becoming more frequent and more intense in many places around the world because of climate change.\n\nAccording to scientists, heatwaves are becoming longer and more intense in many places and this is expected to continue whilst humans keep releasing planet-warming greenhouse gases.\n\nMeanwhile, the Earth is currently in an El Niño weather phase, during which time global temperatures typically increase.\n\nBrazilian cities including Sao Paulo are among those to be experiencing high temperatures\n\nThe heatwave is expected to last until at least Friday", "The pūteketeke has been crowned New Zealand's Bird of the Century after US talk show host John Oliver's controversial intervention in the poll.\n\nOliver sparked a global frenzy with an \"alarmingly aggressive\" campaign for the vulnerable crested grebe.\n\nFewer than 3,000 of the native birds are estimated to remain in the wild.\n\nThe Bird of the Year contest has run for almost two decades, but this year's special poll attracted a record number of votes.\n\nMore than 350,000 ballots were cast from almost 200 countries, crashing the voting verification system, and delaying the result by two days.\n\n\"Congratulations to campaign manager John Oliver and all those who gave their support to the pūteketeke,\" New Zealand's incoming prime minister Christopher Luxon wrote on X.\n\nThe pūteketeke had begun as \"an outside contender\", according to Nicola Toki, from Forest and Bird, the environmental conservation organisation which runs the contest.\n\n\"But [it] was catapulted to the top spot thanks to its unique looks, adorable parenting style, and propensity for puking,\" she said.\n\nIt was those qualities that won over Oliver - host of the HBO show Last Week Tonight.\n\n\"They are weird puking birds with colourful mullets. What's not to love here?\" Oliver said on his show last week, when launching the lake bird's campaign.\n\nOliver, who holds British and US citizenship, later turned up on fellow comedian Jimmy Fallon's chat show clad in a giant, feathered pūteketeke costume.\n\nThe comedian erected billboards in countries including New Zealand, Japan, France and the UK - dubbing the bird \"Lord of the Wings\" in reference to the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy being filmed in New Zealand.\n\n\"This is what democracy is all about - America interfering in foreign elections,\" Oliver said.\n\nBut his campaign ruffled feathers in some circles, with a concerted effort by many in New Zealand to thwart what they perceived to be \"American interference\" in the bird election.\n\nSupporters of the kakariki karaka - a green parakeet - put up billboards reading: \"Dear John, don't disrupt the pecking order\". Others begged people to vote for the kiwi, which Oliver had likened to \"a rat carrying a toothpick\".\n\nSuch was the intensity of the contest that some were moved to commit voter fraud. One supporter of the eastern rockhopper penguin - which Oliver dismissed as a \"hipster penguin\" - cast 40,000 votes for the bird. Another person, from Pennsylvania in the US, cast 3,403 votes - with one arriving every three seconds. Neither were included in the final count.\n\nWhen the ballots were tallied, the pūteketeke - also known as the Australasian crested grebe - raked in more than 290,000 votes. In second place, with 22-times fewer votes - just 12,904 - was the kiwi. Rounding out the top five were the kea, kākāpō and the fantail.\n\nIt is not the first time the competition has been mired in controversy. There was an outcry last year when the kākāpō, the world's fattest parrot, was banned from competing because it was the only bird to win twice in the past. That followed the shock of 2021 when the crown of Bird of the Year was given to... a bat.\n\nBut while the level of controversy this year was unprecedented, Ms Toki said it was worthwhile as it had brought global attention to the plight of the country's birds.\n\n\"More than 80% of our native birds are on the threatened species list... the world is watching us and how we look after our birds.\"", "Ukrainian forces fire a mortar over the Dnipro river toward Russian positions\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff Andriy Yermak has said that Ukrainian forces have gained a foothold on the left (eastern) bank of the Dnipro river.\n\nRussia has admitted that some Ukrainian forces have set up positions in a village but claims they will soon be wiped out.\n\nIf the area is held it would mean a significant advance for Ukraine.\n\nRussia retreated from the right bank of the river a year ago.\n\nThe Ukrainian army has since been trying to create and hold a bridgehead on its eastern shore.\n\n\"The Armed Forces of Ukraine captured a bridgehead on the left bank of the Dnipro,\" Mr Yermak told a US think tank, using a military term for a secured position.\n\nUS-based experts said earlier that marginal advances had been made into the village of Krynky, 2km (1.25 miles) inland from the river and 30km from the city of Kherson, recaptured a year ago.\n\nRussia conceded on Wednesday that \"small groups\" of Ukrainian forces had set up positions in the village on the left bank.\n\nBut Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-installed official in charge of the Kherson region still under occupation, insisted that they had sustained heavy losses and faced a \"fiery hell\" and had no chance of breaking through. \"Our additional forces have now been brought in. The enemy is trapped in Krynky,\" he claimed.\n\nHis admission that Ukrainian forces had gained a foothold came two days after Russian state media bizarrely published and then swiftly retracted news of a retreat from positions on the left bank.\n\nRepeated attempts to cross the river made during the spring and summer had been met with little success.\n\nUkrainian forces conducted several raids across the Dnipro, Ukraine's longest river, in small boats. However, Kyiv lacks air superiority, which made the task more difficult.\n\nSecuring a bridgehead means that Ukrainian forces may be able to begin transferring armoured vehicles and air defence systems across the river. This would put them one step closer to breaking through to Crimea, the peninsula illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.\n\n\"Step by step, Ukraine's armed forces are demilitarising Crimea. We have covered 70% of the distance,\" Mr Yermak added. He appealed to Western countries to provide more weapons to Kyiv, saying Russia was using Iranian drones and North Korean artillery against Ukrainian forces.\n\nOn Tuesday, President Zelensky said fighting was escalating in the east near the town of Avdiivka. He added, however, that Russian forces were \"losing men and equipment\" trying to capture the destroyed city.\n\nUkraine launched its much-anticipated counteroffensive in June, seeking to regain territory in the south and east. However, the counteroffensive has so far failed to recapture significant territory.", "The ban on GB News on Senedd TVs will continue for now, the Welsh Parliament was told\n\nA ban on GB News in the Welsh Parliament helps to protect people working there, according to the presiding officer.\n\nElin Jones suspended the channel from the internal TV system last month after sexist comments made by Lawrence Fox.\n\nShe said she wanted to prevent workers from witnessing offensive comments.\n\nMs Jones told Senedd members on Wednesday that there will be an independent review of what TV channels are available in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nShe confirmed GB News's suspension would continue in the meantime.\n\nAddressing a question about the ban, from the leader of the Conservative group Andrew RT Davies, she said: \"Please understand and respect my attempt to protect women and men working in the Senedd from having to witness them [offensive and misogynistic comments] on our internal Senedd system.\"\n\nThe review will develop a \"broadcasting protocol\" to provide \"clarity and consistency\" on the channels available on the Senedd's internal TV system.\n\nIt is not yet known who will carry out the review.\n\nMs Jones said she had not banned the channel because she disagreed with its editorial remit or political content, but because of what she called \"the totally offensive, misogynistic comments of Mr Fox, facilitated by a presenter.\"\n\nMs Jones did not give details of when the review would be completed.\n\nShe revealed that she had written to the chief executive of GB News to ask what lessons had been learned and new guidance brought in, but that she had not received a reply.\n\nMr Fox was fired by GB News following the incident.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nChelsea boss Emma Hayes has been named the new manager of the United States women's national team and will take charge when the Women's Super League season ends in May.\n\nThe Blues announced on Saturday that Hayes would pursue \"a new opportunity outside the WSL and club football\".\n\nHayes, 47, who started her managerial career in the USA, has won 13 major trophies since joining the WSL in 2012.\n\nShe said her feelings for the US team and the country \"run deep\".\n• None Hayes says leading Chelsea to Champions League glory would be 'fairytale'\n\n\"This is a huge honour to be given the opportunity to coach the most incredible team in world football history,\" Hayes added.\n\n\"I've dreamed about coaching the USA for a long time so to get this opportunity is a dream come true.\n\n\"I know there is work to do to achieve our goals of winning consistently at the highest levels.\n\n\"To get there, it will require dedication, devotion and collaboration from the players, staff and everyone at the US Soccer Federation.\"\n\nHayes will be highest-paid women's football coach in world.\n\nUS Soccer president Cindy Parlow called Hayes a \"fantastic leader\" and a \"world class coach who sets high standards for herself and for everyone around her\".\n\n\"She has tremendous energy and an insatiable will to win,\" said Parlow.\n\n\"Her experience in the USA, her understanding of our soccer landscape and her appreciation of what it means to coach this team makes her a natural fit for this role and we could not be more pleased to have her leading our Women's National Team forward.\"\n\nHayes will take over when she finishes with Chelsea, with the WSL season ending on 18 May 2024, while the Women's Champions League final takes place on 25 May.\n\nShe will then join up with the national side two months before the start of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, which begin on 26 July 2024.\n\nInterim head coach Twila Kilgore will continue in her role and then join Hayes' staff full-time as an assistant coach.\n\nHayes has won six WSL titles with Chelsea, including the past four in a row, while she has also won five FA Cups and the League Cup twice.\n\nShe was inducted into the WSL Hall of Fame in 2021.\n\nThe USA are looking to rebuild after suffering their earliest exit at a World Cup - going out of the 2023 edition in the last 16.\n\nThey won back-to-back tournaments in 2015 and 2019 under head coach Jill Ellis, but Vlatko Andonovski was unable to continue the USA's dominance and subsequently resigned after the tournament in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nHayes' first managerial post came between 2001 and 2003 with Long Island Lady Riders in the United States, before a spell with Iona College.\n\nArsenal came calling in 2006 when Hayes took up the post of assistant manager to Vik Akers, before she returned to America in 2008 to manage Chicago Red Stars.\n\n\"I understand how important this team is to the people and culture of the United States, not just the soccer community,\" said Hayes.\n\n\"I fully understand the place this team has in US society. I've lived it.\"\n• None 'Believe it ... that loving yourself is the answer': Actor and talk show host Jada Pinkett Smith on the advice she would give her younger self", "Kettle Produce admitted safety failures at its Orkie Farm facility in Fife\n\nA food company has admitted failures that led to one of its workers being strangled on a machine that makes carrot batons.\n\nRemigiusz Cyrek was choked unconscious after being dragged into the machine and trapped by a giant roller.\n\nKettle Produce admitted failing to ensure the safety of staff at its Orkie Farm facility near Freuchie, Fife, from August 2017 to June 2018.\n\nThe company, which has a £150m turnover, faces a substantial fine.\n\nMr Cyrek, a Polish national, had been employed as a hygiene operative with the company since 21 August 2017.\n\nThe 37-year-old was unable to work for six months after the injury.\n\nFiscal depute Gail Adair told Dundee Sheriff Court that the conveyor belt and rollers should have been isolated and completely switched off before the weekly clean.\n\nShe said: \"[Mr Cyrek] was undertaking the weekly clean of the carrot baton line. He began pressure washing the line. It was running at the time and the driven roller was turning.\n\n\"This was a rotating power roller. The hood of his waterproof jacket got caught in the roller, causing it to tighten round his neck and lead to a loss of consciousness.\n\n\"The other hygiene operative found him unconscious under the conveyor, with the hood of his jacket tangled in the roller. Others became aware of that operative screaming at them.\n\n\"They ran to the central cabin and switched off the line. They freed him by manually feeding the roller to free his clothing.\"\n\nThe prosecutor told the court that Mr Cyrek was treated by paramedics and taken to hospital with severe swelling and bruising to his neck. He suffered a loss of feeling in his fingertips.\n\n\"He was off work for six months and then returned to light duties. He continued to have pain in his hand.\"\n\nMs Adair said the firm failed to have a safe system of work.\n\nCounsel for the company, Barry Smith, said Kettle Produce \"very sincerely regret this accident occurred\" and that Mr Cyrek was a \"valued employee\".\n\nHe said the company, which was founded in 1976 and has 1,100 staff, was a market leader in the prepared vegetable sector and was a \"large company\" in terms of turnover.\n\nHe added: \"There was a system, and had it been followed properly, it would have ensured safety.\n\n\"Clear instruction was not universally understood and followed. It is accepted the company fell short of the required standard.\"\n\nHe urged the court to take Covid-affected losses of over £4m over the last two financial years into account when deciding the scale of the fine to impose.\n\nSheriff Jillian Martin-Brown deferred sentence for consideration of the level of fine to impose and said: \"I think the injured person in this case has been very fortunate.\"", "Suella Braverman has been sacked as home secretary - leaving one of the most important jobs in government for a second time in just over a year.\n\nShe has been no stranger to controversy in her time in office. Mrs Braverman resigned from the same job while Liz Truss was prime minister before being brought back into government a week later by Rishi Sunak.\n\nHere are eight things she said that made headlines - and caused controversy.\n\n\"I would love to have a front page of the Telegraph with a plane taking off to Rwanda, that's my dream, it's my obsession.\"\n\nThis was said at a fringe event at last year's Conservative Party conference, shortly after she had been appointed as home secretary by Liz Truss. She was referring to the government's asylum plan, to take asylum seekers who have crossed the Channel to the UK on a one-way ticket to Rwanda where they could claim asylum instead.\n\nMrs Braverman faced criticism from refugee groups and others for trivialising the plight of people in need. The most important point about the quote is not whether you agree with its tone, but that the new home secretary was making clear her single priority would be controlling migration.\n\nOne of Suella Braverman's first tasks as home secretary was to pilot through Parliament a plan to restrict the right to protest in order to stop highly disruptive stunts by groups, including Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil - such as motorway occupations.\n\nShe accused the opposition of being in league with eco-protesters because a previous version of the measures had failed to win enough support.\n\n\"I am afraid that it is the Labour Party, the Lib Dems, the coalition of chaos, the Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati and, dare I say, the anti-growth coalition that we have to thank for the disruption we are seeing on our roads today.\"\n\nThe very next day Mrs Braverman sensationally quit as home secretary, after confessing to a serious blunder.\n\nShe had sent a confidential and sensitive government email to her own Gmail account and then forwarded it to her confidante and Tory backbencher, John Hayes.\n\nHowever, the real story here was the timing. The incident had happened some time earlier - and her resignation came as Liz Truss was on the precipice and her government in turmoil.\n\nIn her resignation letter, Mrs Braverman accused the embattled PM of breaking key pledges. The next day, Liz Truss resigned as prime minister. Less than a week later, Mrs Braverman's serious ministerial error was forgiven by the new prime minister, Rishi Sunak - and she was back in the same job.\n\n\"The British people deserve to know which party is serious about stopping the invasion on our southern coast.\"\n\nThere had been months of rising political tension over small boat crossings - and at the end of October 2022, a man firebombed the government's arrivals centre for the migrants in Dover's docks. Separately, independent inspectors warned conditions were \"wretched\" at a migrant reception camp.\n\nMrs Braverman came out fighting in the Commons, but days later, she was confronted in her constituency by 83-year-old Holocaust survivor Joan Salter.\n\n\"When I hear you using words against refugees like 'swarms' and an 'invasion',\" she said, \"I am reminded of the language used to dehumanise and justify the murder of my family and millions of others.\"\n\n\"There are 100 million people around the world who could qualify for protection under our current laws. Let us be clear - they are coming here.\"\n\nFor the second time in two years, the government launched a new immigration plan.\n\nParliament eventually voted to place a legal duty on the home secretary to not only detain anyone crossing the English Channel, but also remove them to another country, such as Rwanda.\n\nIn the Commons, Mrs Braverman stuck to her guns and made the 100 million claim. The next day, she doubled-down, telling the Daily Mail there was \"likely billions\" eager to come to the UK.\n\nShe returned to analysing migrant trends at the Conservative Party conference, last month, declaring: \"The wind of change that carried my own parents across the globe in the 20th Century was a mere gust compared with the hurricane that is coming.\"\n\nExperts have disputed her projections, saying the UK receives far fewer asylum seekers than other countries, and that recent record numbers of arrivals of workers and students will likely level off.\n\n\"Multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate. It has failed.\"\n\nThe daughter of immigrants from Mauritius and Kenya, Mrs Braverman told an American think tank that migrants end up living \"parallel lives\" - a phrase first used 20 years ago in relation to complex riots in northern England.\n\nOpponents said she had given up fixing the UK's broken asylum system and was trying to set out her stall for the Tory leadership.\n\n\"We cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice.\"\n\nThat social media post came amid government backroom wrangling over what would make it into this year's King's Speech. Mrs Braverman reportedly wanted to impose fines on charities who give tents to rough sleepers.\n\nHer push to get the police included triggered an internal row with colleagues. The idea was not included in the speech.\n\n\"There's only one way to describe those marches: they are hate marches.\"\n\nSpeaking after a government emergency meeting over the crisis in Gaza, Mrs Braverman laid into the pro-Palestinian demonstrators amid rows over whether their chants amounted to antisemitic attacks.\n\nAnd it's the row that has ultimately led to her downfall.\n\nOn 8 November, the Times newspaper published a column by the Mrs Braverman where she repeated the phrase - and also accused the police of bias, saying they were \"playing favourites\" with some demonstrations and using stronger tactics against some and not others.\n\nThis triggered accusations of political interference in independent policing - an absolute red line that ministers cannot cross under British laws.\n\nHer comments were condemned by former police officers, MPs and Labour, who accused her of \"deliberately creating division\". Four days later - and following clashes between protesters, counter-protesters and police in London on Armistice Day - she was sacked.", "Alstom's Litchurch Lane factory in Derby has no confirmed workload beyond the first quarter of 2024\n\nMore than 1,300 jobs have been put at risk at the UK's largest rail assembly factory.\n\nAlstom is consulting on job losses at its Litchurch Lane site in Derby, which has no confirmed workload beyond the first quarter of 2024.\n\nWork on trains for HS2 is scheduled to start at the plant in late 2026, but there is a gap in orders from early next year.\n\nThe BBC understands 550 permanent jobs and 780 temporary jobs are at risk.\n\nAn Alstom spokesperson said the company had been working with the government over the past six months in a bid to secure a \"sustainable future\" for the factory.\n\n\"No committed way forward has yet been found and therefore it is with deep regret that we must now begin to plan for a significant reduction in activity at Derby by entering a period of collective consultation on potential redundancies at Litchurch Lane,\" they said.\n\n\"We will fully support our dedicated colleagues during this exceptionally difficult time.\n\n\"We look forward to fulfilling our commitments on HS2 and successfully competing for rolling stock opportunities across the UK in the future.\n\n\"We remain open-minded as to the future of non-production functions located at Litchurch Lane and to potential future alternative uses for the Derby site.\n\n\"We will begin an extensive review of options, and will fully involve our stakeholders in this process.\"\n\nCouncil leader Baggy Shanker said the authority \"stands with\" Alstom workers\n\nDerby City Council leader Baggy Shanker said: \"We've been informed by Alstom this morning that after months of talks with government, they must now plan to end the production of rolling stock within the city.\n\n\"The Litchurch Lane factory site is a unique asset for Derby and the UK and we understand the impact these supply chain job losses will have on our residents and the wider region.\n\n\"We've been working closely with Alstom, Unite and senior government officials to explore potential resolutions to the current situation since the announcement of possible job cuts back in September and we're saddened to hear that a solution has not yet been possible.\n\n\"Minsters really need to commit and focus on this vital industrial sector. To date I'm disappointed that no minister has agreed to speak to us on this matter.\"\n\nMargaret Beckett, Labour MP for Derby South, said she was \"desperately disappointed\" by the news.\n\n\"Everybody has been trying for weeks and months to get the government to realise how difficult the situation is,\" she said.\n\n\"The prime minister talks about making decisions for the long-term, but that's precisely what they are not doing. There isn't even any work for which Alstom can compete. It's very bad news.\"\n\nAmanda Solloway, Conservative MP for Derby North, said: \"I know this announcement will be very concerning for constituents whose jobs are in scope and I have been reassured that as part of the cross-government taskforce set up by the Secretary of State for Transport, Mark Harper, both the Department for Business and Trade and the Department for Work and Pensions will be supporting employees who need new employment opportunities.\n\n\"I know the secretary of state and his team have been engaged in good faith, thorough discussions with the company exploring ways to maintain the capacity of the site's production line.\"\n\nThe firm was relying on large orders to supply HS2 but these have been delayed, along with the wider project\n\nParesh Patel, from the union Unite, told the BBC the announcement being made so close to Christmas was \"an absolute disgrace\".\n\n\"It's massive. This site has been here and has been part of this community for the past 180-odd years. It's a dedicated, skilled workforce,\" he said.\n\n\"The stark reality is that if the government doesn't get its act together... there is a real danger that the workforce will dwindle and at some point in the future we may not be talking about Alstom or rail manufacturing in the way we are today.\n\n\"[The] government have just sat on their hands and have refused to fully and properly come to an arrangement that would potentially not only save the jobs that we're talking about today, but actually future-proof this site for rail manufacturing.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said: \"Rail manufacturing is an important part of the UK economy and we will work closely with Alstom as it continues to deliver its contractual commitments, as we do with all rolling stock manufacturers.\n\n\"While this is a commercial matter for the company, we have already set up a dedicated cross-government taskforce to properly support workers at Alstom during what will be a concerning time.\"\n\nLooking on to the site, it seems like business as usual.\n\nThe car park is full, forklifts are whizzing through, parts are being delivered and a new fence is being built.\n\nInside, it sounds like a busy day, with a flustered member of staff telling me they have many meetings, including with unions, this morning.\n\nIt's been difficult to speak to members of staff leaving their cars for a day's work.\n\nThe few that have left for an early dinner haven't been willing to speak, looking quite solemn as the inevitable looks to be happening.\n\nI spoke to an employee of Paintbox - a supplier of advanced paint solutions - visiting the Alstom site, who told me he had concerns for his own employment with rumours of job losses there.\n\nHe said work was drying up \"from March next year\", suggesting this could be an industry-wide issue not just affecting Alstom.\n\nThe news has prompted concern from local companies that form part of the factory's supply chain.\n\nMalcolm Prentice, who runs Swadlincote-based firm MTMS, said: \"There's a vast number of businesses round Derby that supply every item that's needed for the construction of the trains and they're going to suffer.\n\n\"We're going to find a lot of businesses round Derby will now go to the wall. They won't be able to wait for the next order and there's going to be a lot more job losses.\n\n\"You can double it and keep going.\"\n\nSim Harris, managing editor of Rail News, said he feared the number of job losses across Derbyshire and the East Midlands could be higher than the current number.\n\n\"The cancellation of HS2 north of the West Midlands to Crewe and Manchester certainly is an issue because the eventual fleet will now inevitably be smaller,\" he said.\n\n\"And the doubt over the size of the fleet will be reducing future income for Litchurch Lane.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Suella Braverman has launched a full-scale attack on her old boss Rishi Sunak, a day after he sacked her as home secretary.\n\nIn a blistering letter to the prime minister, she said he had repeatedly failed on key policies and broken pledges over immigration.\n\nMr Sunak had adopted \"wishful thinking\" to \"avoid having to make hard choices\", she wrote.\n\nHer broadside comes on the eve of a key ruling on the government's Rwanda plan.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, the UK Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on the lawfulness of the postponed scheme to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda to claim asylum there.\n\nThe ruling on the flagship policy will be a key moment for Mr Sunak's government, and could reignite divisions among Tory MPs over the ECHR human rights treaty.\n\nMrs Braverman, a leading figure on the right of the party, has previously described delivering the Rwanda plan as her \"dream\" and \"obsession\".\n\nIn her letter, the former home secretary claimed she struck a secret deal to serve in Mr Sunak's cabinet in exchange for a series of commitments in key areas, after Liz Truss's premiership imploded last year.\n\nHer support, she added, had been a \"pivotal factor\" in allowing Mr Sunak to win the support of Tory MPs and enter No 10.\n\nShe added that she had argued within government for curbs on human rights law to ensure the Rwanda policy was not derailed by legal challenges.\n\nBut compromises from Mr Sunak during the passage of the Illegal Migration Act, she wrote, had left the policy \"vulnerable\" to legal challenges under the European Convention of Human Rights, even if the Supreme Court declares it lawful.\n\nIf the ruling goes against the government, she added, he would have \"wasted a year\" on the flagship law to stop small boat crossings, \"only to arrive back at square one\".\n\n\"Worse than this, your magical thinking - believing that you can will your way through this without upsetting polite opinion - has meant you have failed to prepare any sort of credible Plan B,\" she wrote.\n\nA No 10 spokesman thanked Mrs Braverman for her service, but added: \"The prime minister was proud to appoint a strong, united team yesterday focused on delivering for the British people.\"\n\nHe said the government had \"brought forward the toughest legislation to tackle illegal migration this country has seen and has subsequently reduced the number of boat crossings by a third this year\".\n\nAnd whatever the outcome of the Supreme Court tomorrow, the prime minister \"will continue that work,\" he said.\n\nIn her letter, the former home secretary told Mr Sunak he had \"manifestly and repeatedly\" failed to deliver on policy priorities.\n\n\"Either your distinctive style of government means you are incapable of doing so,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Or, as I must surely conclude now, you never had any intention of keeping your promises.\"\n\nShe added: \"Someone needs to be honest: your plan is not working, we have endured record election defeats, your resets have failed and we are running out of time. You need to change course urgently.\"\n\nMrs Braverman was sacked from her role on Monday, after opponents accused her of stoking tensions ahead of pro-Palestinian marches in London.\n\nShe lost her job days after she claimed police had applied a \"double standard\" to protesters, in an article for the Times newspaper.\n\nMrs Braverman said Mr Sunak had failed \"to rise to the challenge posed by the increasingly vicious antisemitism and extremism displayed on our streets\".\n\n\"I have become hoarse urging you to consider legislation to ban the hate marches and help stem the rising tide of racism, intimidation and terrorist glorification threatening community cohesion,\" she added, accusing the PM of putting off \"tough decisions in order to minimise political risk to yourself\".\n\nIn her letter, Mrs Braverman said the conditions under which she agreed to become home secretary in October 2022 were set out in a \"document with clear terms\".\n\nSources close to Mrs Braverman claim Mr Sunak read and agreed the document the letter refers to, which had been drawn up by Mrs Braverman.\n\nThey say he took a copy and there were witnesses.\n\nMrs Braverman said the agreement included \"firm assurances\" on cutting legal migration, inserting measures to override the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into legislation to stop small boat crossings, delivering key Brexit legislation and issuing \"unequivocal\" guidance to schools on protecting biological sex and safeguarding single-sex spaces.\n\nShe accused Mr Sunak of \"a betrayal of our agreement\" and \"a betrayal of your promise to the nation that you would do 'whatever it takes' to stop the boats\".\n\nLabour shadow minister Lisa Nandy said the letter was \"just the latest instalment in a Tory psychodrama that's been playing out over the last 13 years, holding the rest of the country to ransom while the Tories fight among themselves\".\n\nFollowing Mrs Braverman's sacking on Monday, Conservative MP Dame Andrea Jenkyns published a letter of no confidence in Mr Sunak.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said the party would not win the election with Mr Sunak as prime minister and that it was time to \"bite the bullet\" and replace him.\n\nFormer Conservative leader Lord Michael Howard said her suggestion was \"some distance from reality\".\n\nOn Mrs Braverman's letter, he said that if the she had disagreed with the government's policies she could have resigned earlier but it was \"only since she was sacked that she came out with this tirade of abuse\".", "Palestinians search for casualties at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in the southern Gaza Strip last week\n\nIf this Gaza war was like all the others, a ceasefire would probably have been in force by now.\n\nThe dead would be buried and Israel would be arguing with the United Nations about how much cement could come into Gaza for rebuilding.\n\nBut this war is not like that. It is not just because of the enormity of the killing, first by Hamas on 7 October, mostly of Israeli civilians, followed by Israel's \"mighty vengeance\" as its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it, which has mostly killed Palestinian civilians.\n\nThis war is different to the others because it comes at a time when the fault lines that divide the Middle East are rumbling. For at least two decades, the most serious rift in the region's fractured geopolitical landscape has been between the friends and allies of Iran, and the friends and allies of the United States.\n\nThe core of Iran's network, sometimes called the \"axis of resistance\", is made up of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Assad regime in Syria, the Houthis in Yemen and assorted Iraqi militias that are armed and trained by Iran. The Iranians have also supported Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza.\n\nIran is also getting closer to Russia and China. Iran has become a significant part of Russia's war effort in Ukraine. China buys a great deal of Iranian oil.\n\nThe longer the war in Gaza goes on, and as Israel kills more Palestinian civilians and destroys tens of thousands of homes, the greater the risk of conflict involving some members of those two camps.\n\nHezbollah, and leader Hassan Nasrallah, has threatened to open a second front in the war\n\nThe border between Israel and Lebanon is heating up, slowly and steadily. Neither Israel nor Hezbollah want a full-scale war. But as they trade increasingly heavy punches, the risks of uncontrolled escalation will grow.\n\nThe Houthis in Yemen have been launching missiles and drones towards Israel. They have all been brought down, so far, by Israel's air defences or by US Navy warships in the Red Sea.\n\nIn Iraq, militias supported by Iran have attacked American bases. The US retaliated at some of their sites in Syria. Again, all sides are trying to limit escalation, but controlling the tempo of military action is always difficult.\n\nOn America's side are Israel, the Gulf oil states, Jordan and Egypt. The US continues to give strong support to Israel, even though it is clear that President Joe Biden is uncomfortable about the way Israel is killing so many Palestinian civilians. The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has said publicly that too many Palestinian civilians are being killed.\n\nAmerica's Arab allies have all condemned what Israel is doing and called for a ceasefire. The sight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fleeing their homes in northern Gaza and walking down the main road south raises the ghosts of Israel's victory over the Arabs in its independence war in 1948.\n\nMore than 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes at gunpoint by the Israelis, events referred to by Palestinians as al Nakba - the catastrophe. The descendants of the 1948 refugees include much of the population of the Gaza Strip.\n\nDangerous talk by some of the extreme Jewish nationalists who are supporting the government of Benjamin Netanyahu about imposing another Nakba on Palestinians is alarming Arab states in America's camp, particularly Jordan and Egypt. One minister in Netanyahu's government even mused about dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza to deal with Hamas. He was reprimanded but not sacked.\n\nAll that can be dismissed as the ravings of the lunatic fringe, but it is being taken seriously in Jordan and Egypt. Not nuclear weapons, of which Israel has a large and undeclared arsenal, but the prospect of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians being forced over their borders.\n\nAs for the war itself in Gaza, senior western diplomats from countries that are firm allies of Israel's allies, told the BBC that ending the war, and dealing with the aftermath will be \"difficult and messy\".\n\nOne said that \"the only way through will be rebuilding a political horizon for Palestinians\". That was a reference to an independent Palestine alongside Israel, the so called two-state solution, a failed idea that survives only as a slogan.\n\nReviving it, perhaps in the context of a wider accommodation between Israel and the Arabs, is an ambitious plan, and perhaps the best idea around. But in the current atmosphere of pain, alarm and hatred it will be very difficult to deliver.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will have \"overall security responsibility\" for the Gaza Strip \"for an indefinite period\"\n\nIt won't happen under the current leaderships of both Palestinians and Israelis.\n\nPrime Minister Netanyahu has not revealed his plan for the day after the fighting ends in Gaza, but he has rejected America's idea of installing a government led by the Palestinian Authority, headed by President Mahmoud Abbas and ejected by Hamas from Gaza in 2007.\n\nThe second part of the American plan is for negotiations on a two-state solution, something that Benjamin Netanyahu has opposed throughout his political life.\n\nNot only is Mr Netanyahu against independence for the Palestinians. His survival as prime minister depends on support from Jewish extremists who believe the entire territory between the river Jordan and the Mediterranean was given to the Jewish people by God and should all be inside Israel's borders.\n\nMany Israelis want him out, blaming him for the security and intelligence failures that allowed the attacks of 7 October to happen.\n\nThe Palestinian President Abbas is in his late 80s and is discredited in the eyes of potential voters, though he has not subjected himself to the ballot box since 2005. The Palestinian Authority cooperates with Israel on security in the West Bank but cannot protect its own people from armed Jewish settlers.\n\nLeaderships change, eventually. If this terrible war in Gaza doesn't force the Israelis, Palestinians and their powerful friends to try again to make peace, then the only future is more war.", "Mark Lang was previously described as \"a good man with a lot of love to give\" by his partner\n\nA delivery driver killed by his own stolen van was \"a hardworking man, who was simply trying to protect his and other's property,\" a court has heard.\n\nMark Lang, 54, was hit by the van, and dragged around half a mile along one of the busiest roads in Cardiff.\n\nHe died in hospital 18 days later.\n\nChristopher El Gifari, 31, from Aberdare admitted taking the van, and causing Mr Lang's death, but denies murder.\n\nProsecutor David Elias KC said Mr Lang was standing in the middle of the road in his hi-vis vest, and the defendant ran him down without any deviation.\n\nThe jury was shown photos of the van's bonnet with a dent in its centre showing the area of impact.\n\nMr Elias said: \"Mr El Gifari must have been looking straight at him.\"\n\nThe jury were also shown CCTV footage of the moment of impact, and the van's onward journey.\n\nPolice in North Road, Cardiff where a Mark Lang was killed by his own stolen van\n\nMembers of Mr Lang's family broke down in tears, and comforted each other, as the final moments of his life were shown, several times, from different angles, in slow motion.\n\nMr Elias added that the van was being driven \"so fast\" on North Road, that \"it activated the speed camera\" and was going at 47mph (75km per hour).\n\nHe said El Gifari drove the van at Mark Lang \"deliberately\" and \"decided to run him over.\"\n\n\"When he made that decision, he must have at least intended to cause very serious injury to Mr Lang,\" he said.\n\nDefending El Gifari, Mark Graffius KC, told the jury that the defence case will be that the defendant was trying to \"frighten\" Mr Lang out of the road adding that \"he didn't intend to cause him harm\", and that he thought he would move out of the way.\n\nEl Gifari denies murder and robbery, but has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and theft.\n• None Man admits killing courier driver with his own van", "It's coming up to 03:00 in Gaza and Israel, and 01:00 in London. On a live video feed being transmitted from Israel we can hear occasional, distant explosions from the direction of the Gaza Strip tonight. Let's look back at Thursday's key developments:\n\nThe body of 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss, who was abducted by Hamas during its attacks on 7 October, has been found by Israeli forces in a structure close to Gaza's largest hospital.\n\nYehudit Weiss was recovering from breast cancer when she was taken from kibbutz Be’eri, according to campaigners. Her husband, Shmuel, was killed by Hamas gunmen.\n\nIsrael is continuing its operation at Gaza's largest hospital, and this evening the military said it had found a tunnel shaft and a \"booby-trapped vehicle\" on the grounds of the site.\n\nEarlier, the BBC heard from a journalist at the hospital who said:\" Soldiers are everywhere, shooting in all directions.\" Before his phone line cut out, he told us armoured bulldozers had been brought in.\n\nIsrael has repeatedly accused Hamas of housing a command-and-control centre in a tunnel network underneath the hospital. Hamas denies this.\n\nThe hospital's director warned of \"tragic\" conditions inside. He said the facility had run out of oxygen and water, with patients \"screaming from thirst\". Read more on this here.\n\nIn Gaza’s south, leaflets were dropped by Israeli forces over Khan Younis, warning people in four towns to evacuate their homes and head to shelters.\n\nFor most of the day mobile phone and internet services were down across the Gaza Strip because of a lack of fuel, according to Palestinian telecoms companies. We've written up the story here.\n\nFuel shortages are also causing significant problems for the delivery of aid throughout the Strip. The UN's Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) has said that, from Friday, it will be unable to send trucks to pick up supplies for Gazans from the border with Egypt.\n\nIsrael said its security forces had killed three gunmen who opened fire at a checkpoint on a road leading into Jerusalem from the West Bank.\n\nIsrael says one of its soldiers was killed and others were wounded. Hamas's armed wing said it carried out the attack.\n\nThere are also reports of an Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Jenin tonight. We will bring you more on that as it comes in.", "House Speaker Mike Johnson proposed a two-tiered plan to avoid a government shutdown before funding runs out on 17 November\n\nThe US House of Representatives has passed a short-term funding bill in a bid to avert a government shutdown that looms on Friday, despite a major Republican revolt.\n\nThe measure, the first major test for new House Speaker Mike Johnson, was approved by 336 votes to 95.\n\nIt keeps federal agencies open at current spending levels until mid-January.\n\nThe Senate is expected to approve the stopgap measure before the week's end.\n\nIt must be signed into law by President Joe Biden before government funding expires on 17 November, otherwise tens of thousands of federal employees would be temporarily laid off without pay as soon as next week and various government services would be abruptly suspended.\n\nMr Johnson hailed its passage as putting \"House Republicans in the best position to fight for conservative policy victories\".\n\nThe vote required a two-thirds majority to pass. On Tuesday night, 93 Republicans opposed the measure.\n\nThe bill faced criticism from the House Freedom Caucus - a group of likeminded Republicans who are fiscally conservative and regularly oppose party leadership - in part because it does not include the steep spending cuts they wanted.\n\n\"Republicans must stop negotiating against ourselves over fears of what the Senate may do with the promise 'roll over today and we'll fight tomorrow,'\" the group said in a statement.\n\nNeither does the bill include President Biden's request for more than $100bn (£80bn) in funding, including for Ukraine and Israel.\n\nBut House Democrats sided with Mr Johnson, citing the need to keep the government functioning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a statement released before the vote, the Democratic leadership said it would support the resolution because it was \"devoid of harmful cuts and free of extreme right-wing policy riders\".\n\nThe vote marked the first major test of leadership for the new Republican House Speaker, Mr Johnson.\n\nHis unusual two-tiered plan leaves parts of the government - including the Food and Drug Administration, Veterans Affairs and the Department of Transportation - funded until a January deadline, while others would be funded up to early February.\n\nThe stopgap measure is meant to give lawmakers time to prepare longer-term spending bills.\n\nMr Johnson's continuing resolution is a so-called \"clean\" bill with no spending cuts, policy provisions or other strings attached.\n\nThe Speaker's decision to override the right flank of his party and pass a funding bill with Democratic support is the very same tactic that led to the removal of his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, in October.\n\n\"We're not surrendering,\" Mr Johnson said after a closed-door meeting of House Republicans on Tuesday morning, as he referred to their slim 221-213 majority, \"but you have to choose fights you can win\".\n\nThe new House Speaker is three weeks into the job, but the discontent from some in his party on Tuesday indicated his political honeymoon could be short-lived.\n\nTexas congressman Chip Roy, an influential conservative, told reporters the House Freedom Caucus was \"trying to give the speaker a little grace\", but argued that \"today's a mistake, right out of the gate\".\n\nThe Republican party has experienced a tumultuous two months after eight right-wing Republicans voted to oust Mr McCarthy.\n\nTensions flared before the vote on Tuesday, when right-wing congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee accused Mr McCarthy of \"elbowing\" him in the back while he stood in the halls of Congress.\n\nThe incident led another Republican lawmaker, Matt Gaetz, to file an ethics complaint.", "Sir Keir Starmer has suffered a major rebellion over his stance on the Israel-Gaza war, with 56 of his MPs voting for an immediate ceasefire.\n\nJess Phillips, Afzal Khan and Yasmin Qureshi were among shadow ministers who quit their roles to back the motion from the SNP.\n\nTen of the party's frontbenchers have left their jobs over the vote, including eight shadow minsters.\n\nSir Keir has instead backed pauses in the conflict to deliver aid.\n\nAnnouncing she was quitting her role as shadow domestic violence minister, Ms Phillips said she was voting with \"my constituents, my head, and my heart\".\n\n\"I can see no route where the current military action does anything but put at risk the hope of peace and security for anyone in the region now and in the future,\" she added.\n\nMs Phillips, Mr Khan and Ms Qureshi, along with Paula Barker, announced they would be leaving shadow ministerial positions in the run-up to the vote.\n\nSir Keir had signalled before the vote that MPs holding such a role would be sacked if they backed the ceasefire call.\n\nOther frontbenchers Sarah Owen, Rachel Hopkins, Naz Shah and Andy Slaughter have also left their roles after voting for the motion. Dan Carden and Mary Foy left posts as parliamentary aides.\n\nIn a statement after the vote, Sir Keir said he regretted the vote of some of his party.\n\n\"I regret that some colleagues felt unable to support the position tonight. But I wanted to be clear about where I stood, and where I will stand\".\n\nHe said Israel had suffered \"its worst terrorist attack in a single day\" at the hands of Hamas on 7 October.\n\n\"No government would allow the capability and intent to repeat such an attack to go unchallenged,\" he added.\n\nThe vote was on an SNP amendment to a government motion on its plans for the year ahead, presented in the King's Speech last week.\n\nIt called for an end to the \"collective punishment of the Palestinian people\" and urged \"all parties to agree to an immediate ceasefire\".\n\nIt was defeated by 125 votes to 294, with the 56 Labour rebels joining other opposition parties to demand a ceasefire, against the Conservatives who opposed it.\n\nThere are 29 Labour MPs in the shadow cabinet, but around half of the party's 198 MPs hold some kind of frontbench position, including party whips.\n\nAmong the Labour MPs voting in favour of a ceasefire was Stella Creasy, who told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that, while she respected Sir Keir's position, she defied party instruction as a matter of principle.\n\n\"Nobody is under any illusions that a single vote in the UK parliament is going to change the situation on the ground,\" she said, but \"advocating for a ceasefire is far better than the alternative of being silent.\"\n\nSNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn said it was \"shameful that a majority of Tory and Labour MPs blocked calls for a ceasefire - and have condoned the continued bombardment of Gaza\".\n\nThe voting took place amid demonstrations from pro-Palestinian supporters, who chanted \"ceasefire now\" outside Parliament.\n\nThe UK has seen a series of protest marches demanding a ceasefire in recent weeks, with an estimated 300,000 people taking part in a rally over the weekend, the biggest in the UK since the war began.\n\nPro-Palestinian supporters gathered outside Parliament ahead of the vote\n\nIn a bid to defuse the ongoing row over the party's position, the Labour leader had tabled his own amendment spelling out his position, which was defeated - but garnered 160 Labour votes.\n\nIt supported Israel's right to self-defence after Hamas's \"horrific terrorist attack\" on 7 October, in which 1,200 people were killed, and called for the release of more than 200 people taken hostage.\n\nBut it also said there had been \"far too many deaths of innocent civilians and children\" since Israel began striking Gaza in response.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says more than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza since then - of whom more than 4,500 were children.\n\nThe amendment also called for longer humanitarian pauses to allow aid, calling this a \"necessary step to an enduring cessation of fighting as soon as possible\".\n\nSir Keir has argued that a ceasefire would not be appropriate, because it would freeze the conflict and embolden Hamas.\n\nLabour, like the Conservative government, the United States and the European Union, is calling for \"humanitarian pauses\" to help aid reach Gaza.\n\nCompared with a formal ceasefire, these pauses tend to last for short periods of time, sometimes just a few hours.\n\nThey are implemented with the aim of providing humanitarian support only, as opposed to achieving long-term political solutions.\n\nLast week, the US said Israel would begin to implement daily four-hour military pauses in areas of northern Gaza.\n\nThere had been intense efforts to minimise frontbench resignations by strengthening criticism of Israel's conduct of the campaign in Labour's own motion.\n\nThere will be relief in Labour leader's office that no one who sits round the very top shadow cabinet table broke ranks to support the SNP's ceasefire motion- though they are now looking for eight more junior shadow ministers and two parliamentary aides.\n\nWhile the rebellion stretched beyond Labour's left wing, the party leadership believe the scale of disunity won't be replicated in other policy areas.\n\nThe assessment is that the passion and pressures relating to the Middle East are unique.\n\nInsiders say that Sir Keir's call for a pause not a ceasefire keeps him in lock-step with the EU and US.\n\nBut some of his closest allies frankly recognise that calls for a ceasefire from an opposition Labour leader will have no effect on Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, never mind Hamas in Gaza.\n\nSo in that sense, there's little logic to calling for it.\n\nBut it means politically, he will have to face down continued pressure domestically to change position.", "A 16-year-old boy has died almost three weeks after a crash near the village of Camlough in County Armagh.\n\nDylan Vallely, from Newtownhamilton, was one of three people involved in the single-vehicle crash on Sturgan Road on 27 October.\n\nPolice said at the time that Dylan was a back-seat passenger.\n\nOn Wednesday, his school said he \"embodied everything that is positive about the young people of south Armagh\".\n\nSt Joseph's High School in Crossmaglen added the teenager, who died on Tuesday, was a shining light and a perfect pupil.\n\n\"He was the perfect role model with his mature and courteous manner that leaves an indelible mark on all who had the privilege of knowing him,\" a social media post continued.\n\n\"His impact on the life of St Joseph's High School is impossible to quantify, but his innate goodness will always be the standard by which all of us are measured, and that is a truly remarkable legacy to leave.\"\n\nIn a statement, his GAA club, St Michael's, also paid tribute.\n\nLiam Carragher, the club cathaoirleach (chairman), said the club was heartbroken.\n\n\"Dylan was a great lad, on and off the pitch, hardworking, talented and with great manners,\" Mr Carragher said.\n\n\"He was well-known and loved within not just our club but also in the whole GAA community in south Armagh and further afield.\"\n\nNewry and Armagh assembly member Conor Murphy, of Sinn Féin, said Dylan was \"an extremely talented young footballer who was well known within his local community and across all of south Armagh\".\n\n\"All our thoughts and prayers are with the family, friends and teammates of Dylan at this extremely difficult time,\" the MLA added.\n\nPolice said its investigation into the single-vehicle crash is ongoing.\n\nTwo other teenagers, aged 18 and 17, who were in the front of the car, required hospital treatment.", "David DePape, seen here in a 2013 file photo\n\nA man accused of a hammer attack on ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband has testified how he hatched a plan to end US corruption after becoming absorbed in conspiracy theories.\n\nDavid DePape, 43, has pleaded not guilty to two charges including attempted kidnap of a federal official.\n\nHe cried as he testified how he hatched a bizarre plot that included wearing a unicorn costume while interrogating Ms Pelosi and posting the video online.\n\nIf convicted, he faces life in prison.\n\nClosing arguments in the trial are expected on Wednesday.\n\nOn Tuesday, in sometimes tearful testimony, Mr DePape told the court he used to have left-wing political beliefs before a political transformation that started when he was living in a garage without a toilet or shower, playing video games for hours at a time.\n\nGiving evidence for more than an hour, he said that in the course of looking up information about video games he became interested in Gamergate, an anti-feminist campaign that targeted prominent women in the gaming world and became a huge online trend starting in 2014.\n\nHe began listening to right-wing podcasters and watching political YouTube videos.\n\n\"At that time, I was biased against Trump,\" Mr DePape said, \"but there's, like, truth there. So if there's truth out there that I don't know, I want to know it.\"\n\nHe said he formulated a \"grand plan\" that involved luring \"targets\" to the Pelosi home.\n\nThe names on his list included University of Michigan academic Gayle Rubin, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Tom Hanks, congressman Adam Schiff, former Vice-President Mike Pence, former Attorney General Bill Barr, Senator Bernie Sanders and liberal mega-donor George Soros.\n\nUltimately, Mr DePape said, he wanted to confront President Joe Biden's son Hunter, and after he got his targets to admit to corruption, he planned to ask the president to pardon everyone he considered a \"criminal\".\n\n\"It's just easier giving them a pardon so we can move forward as a country,\" he said, crying on the stand.\n\nMr DePape said he went to the Pelosi home in the early hours of 28 October last year, hoping to talk to Mrs Pelosi about what he thought were false theories of Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said he planned to wear an inflatable unicorn costume and upload his interrogation of her online. He was arrested with zip ties and duct tape in his possession.\n\nWhen asked why he hit Mr Pelosi, he responded: \"I reacted because my plan was basically ruined.\"\n\n\"He was never my target and I'm sorry that he got hurt,\" he said.\n\nMr Pelosi, 83, testified on Monday of his alarm upon waking up to find Mr DePape \"standing in the doorway\".\n\nMr Pelosi spent six days in hospital with a fractured skull and injuries to his arm and hand.\n\nDefence lawyers are not denying that Mr DePape struck Mr Pelosi, but they are arguing he was motivated by his belief in conspiracy theories rather than Mrs Pelosi's status as Speaker of the House.\n\nBecause the charges involve assault on a federal official, prosecutors must prove that Mr DePape's actions were motivated by Mrs Pelosi's elected position.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rishi Sunak tells the BBC's Chris Mason that flights to Rwanda will happen by spring\n\nThe government is in the \"final stages\" of negotiating a new treaty with Rwanda, the immigration minister says.\n\nRobert Jenrick said it was \"absolutely critical that flights go off to Rwanda in the spring\".\n\nHe was speaking after the UK Supreme Court ruled the government's flagship asylum policy was unlawful.\n\nThe new treaty would protect against the removal of asylum seekers from Rwanda back to their home country, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said.\n\nIn their ruling, the Supreme Court justices said there were \"substantial grounds\" to believe people deported to Rwanda could then be sent, by the Rwandan government, to places where they would be unsafe.\n\nSpeaking after the ruling, Mr Sunak said he was determined to \"end the merry-go-round\" of legal challenges.\n\nMr Jenrick, meanwhile, said he was \"confident\" that the government will be able to see flights take off to Rwanda next year.\n\nThe treaty and emergency legislation will \"determine Rwanda as a safe country and ensure that the endless cycle of legal disputes and challenges finally comes to an end\", he told the BBC's Newsnight programme.\n\nBut legal heads are being scratched as to how the emergency legislation might work.\n\nDeclaring a country safe is not the same as proving to a court that it genuinely is - as the Supreme Court has shown.\n\nThe controversial plan to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda and ban them from returning to the UK - which has already cost at least £140m - has been subject to court challenges since it was first announced by Boris Johnson in April 2022.\n\nNo asylum seeker has been sent to Rwanda. The first flight was scheduled to go in June 2022 but was cancelled after an intervention from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).\n\nThe latest ruling from the Supreme Court - the highest court in the UK - determined that the plan in its current form was unlawful.\n\nAddressing reporters at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Sunak said the new treaty and emergency legislation would address concerns and confirm Rwanda was a safe country.\n\nBut he said the plan could face further challenges from the ECHR.\n\n\"We must be honest about the fact that even once Parliament has changed the law here at home, we could still face challenges from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg,\" he said.\n\n\"I will not allow a foreign court to block these flights. If the Strasbourg court chooses to intervene against the expressed wishes of Parliament, I am prepared to do what is necessary to get flights off.\"\n\nThe legal case against the policy hinges on the principle of \"non-refoulement\" - that a person seeking asylum should not be returned to their country of origin if doing so would put them at risk of harm - which is established under both UK and international human rights law.\n\nThe treaty Mr Sunak said the government was working on with Rwanda aims to address this, suggesting the Rwanda government will promise never to send a genuine refugee back to where they had fled from.\n\nBut there are concerns Rwanda would not follow through on this promise.\n\nMr Sunak is facing pressure from a significant section of his party over immigration.\n\nHe has promised to \"do what is necessary\" to enact the Rwanda policy, but it is not clear yet how far he would go.\n\nMany expect a new treaty to be challenged in the courts and Tory MPs will be demanding more detail on how he thinks he can circumvent human rights laws and international conventions.\n\nIf Mr Sunak takes the step of saying the European Convention on Human Rights no longer applies to sending people to Rwanda, that would deal with one part of his problem.\n\nBut the Supreme Court also said three separate British laws stand in the way.\n\nSo the government might have to change all these laws - and that's quite a feat to pull off when political time is running out.\n\nIt normally takes several months for legislation to pass, but with emergency legislation, the government can make sure it happens more quickly.\n\nAll the stages in the House of Commons can be done in as little as a single day. The same is true for the House of Lords - although it is a lot harder for the government to force the pace there if they face opposition.\n\nMr Sunak said the government wanted to see flights to Rwanda take off by next spring \"as planned\".\n\nBut he carefully avoided promising flights would leave before the next general election, widely expected to be held next year.\n\nThe failure of the flagship immigration policy came in a week when the prime minister sacked his home secretary, Suella Braverman, who had championed it.\n\nShe had accused him of not having an alternative plan to the Rwanda policy. After the news conference, an ally of Mrs Braverman said: \"This is a treaty which he's putting in legislation - it's just another version of Plan A. He'll be stuck in the courts again.\"\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper accused Mr Sunak of \"making more promises and chasing more headlines\".\n\nMinisters had known what the problems with the scheme were 18 months ago, she said, adding \"if they thought this was the answer, why didn't they do it long ago?\"\n\nThe Rwandan government has taken issue with the Supreme Court, saying that, while it was a decision for the UK's judicial system, the ruling that Rwanda was not a safe country for asylum seekers was unjustified \"given Rwanda's welcoming policy and our record of caring for refugees\".\n\nIn its judgement, the Supreme Court said the Rwandan government had entered into the agreement in \"good faith\" but the evidence cast doubt on its \"practical ability to fulfil its assurances, at least in the short term\", to fix \"deficiencies\" in its asylum system and see through \"the scale of the changes in procedure, understanding and culture which are required\".\n\nOne asylum seeker told the BBC he thanked the judges \"from the bottom of my heart\" for their ruling, adding \"they treated us with humanity\".\n\nCharities, including Oxfam, have welcomed the court's decision and called for the government to look at alternative policies, including opening more legal routes for those seeking asylum.", "A man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over the death of ice hockey player Adam Johnson, whose neck was cut during a match.\n\nThe Nottingham Panthers player was hit in the neck by a skate during a match against the Sheffield Steelers on 28 October.\n\nThe 29-year-old was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.\n\nA post-mortem examination confirmed he died as a result of a fatal neck injury, South Yorkshire Police said.\n\nThe force said detectives arrested the suspect on Tuesday, adding that he remained in custody.\n\nHundreds gathered to pay tribute to Johnson in Nottingham earlier this month\n\nDet Ch Supt Becs Horsfall, from South Yorkshire Police, said: \"We have been carrying out extensive inquiries to piece together the events which led to the loss of Adam in these unprecedented circumstances.\n\n\"We have been speaking to highly specialised experts in their field to assist in our inquiries and continue to work closely with the health and safety department at Sheffield City Council, which is supporting our ongoing investigation.\n\n\"Adam's death has sent shockwaves through many communities, from our local residents here in Sheffield to ice hockey fans across the world.\"\n\nShe urged members of the public to refrain from \"comment and speculation which could hinder\" the investigation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe death of Johnson, who was from Minnesota in the US, sparked an outpouring of grief across the world.\n\nTalking to KSTP-TV, a local news station based in Minnesota, the player's aunt Kari Johnson said her nephew was planning to propose to his partner, Ryan Wolfe.\n\n\"We were all really excited because we were really looking forward to their future and he didn't get a chance to ask her, and then this happened,\" she said.\n\nHe made the move to the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) for the 2020-21 season, before spells with the Ontario Reign and the Lehigh Valley Phantoms in the American Hockey League.\n\nJohnson played for Augsburger Panther in Germany before switching to the Nottingham Panthers in August.\n\nJohnson's inquest was opened and adjourned earlier this month.\n\nIn a prevention of future deaths report, coroner Tanyka Rawden called for compulsory use of neck guards in ice hockey.\n\nThe sport's top division in the UK - the Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) - announced it would not enforce the use of neck guards but would \"strongly encourage\" players and officials to wear them.\n\nThe English Ice Hockey Association - which oversees all levels of ice hockey in England below the Elite League - previously said neck guards would be mandatory from 2024 onwards.\n\nThe incident has been described as a \"freak accident\" by the Panthers.\n\nThe Anaheim Ducks and the Pittsburgh Penguins held a moment of silence for Johnson\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Horse, not pictured here, escaped as the plane cruised at 30,000ft (file photo)\n\nA Boeing 747 cargo jet has been forced to turn around, after a horse escaped from its stall and caused chaos as the plane cruised at 30,000ft (9,144m).\n\nThe plane was headed to Belgium from New York but did a U-turn roughly 90 minutes after its departure when the animal got loose.\n\nAir traffic control audio recorded the pilot saying: \"We have a live animal, a horse, on board the airplane. The horse managed to escape.\"\n\n\"We cannot get the horse back secured.\"\n\nThe pilot flying Air Atlanta Icelandic flight 4592 told air traffic control the plane was fine but that the horse on the loose was the concern.\n\nHe then requested a veterinarian meet the aircraft once it landed back at John F Kennedy International Airport.\n\nAs the plane made its way back during the incident last Thursday, the pilot said he needed to dump 20 tonnes of fuel, \"east of Nantucket\", a popular enclave for the rich near Massachusetts.\n\nThe plane had to dump the fuel due to the plane's weight.\n\nIt remains unclear how the horse Houdini-ed its way out, but it was unrestrained when the plane landed at the airport.\n\n\"Do you require assistance?\" air traffic control asked the pilot after the plane arrived.\n\n\"On the ground, negative\" the pilot replied. \"On the ramp, yes. We have a horse in problem, in difficulty.\"\n\nThe flight took off later in the same day and successfully arrived at Liege Airport on Friday morning, according to FlightRadar24.\n\nAir Atlanta Icelandic did not immediately respond to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nWhy the horse was being transported also remains unknown.\n\nOne of the more common reasons is the transportation of race horses, according to experts.\n\n\"You have a first class, a business class, and the economy,\" one source told CNN, referring to the different size container options available for the animals.\n\nThis latest incident was not the first time an animal escaped its cargo stall while onboard an airplane.\n\nIn August, a bear freed itself from its crate on an Iraqi Airways flight headed from Dubai to Baghdad, the Associated Press reported.", "BBC correspondent Jessica Parker was reporting from the Icelandic town of Grindavik when authorities ordered an immediate evacuation for anyone in the area.\n\nResidents were being allowed back into the town in small numbers to quickly retrieve belongings when the evacuation order came.\n\nAuthorities later said the area around Grindavik was evacuated after sulphur dioxide was detected, sparking fears of a nearby opening in the ground.\n\nThe wider Reykjanes peninsula was struck by hundreds of earthquakes on Monday and according to scientists a volcanic eruption is expected.\n\nThere's been an increase in earthquake activity the region surrounding the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik, since late October.\n\nThat's due to a underground river of magma - hot liquid or semi-liquid rock - about 15km (10 miles) in length moving upwards below the earth's surface.", "Dozens of residents were waiting outside the tower block as the evening progressed\n\nHundreds of people living in a tower block were told to leave their homes immediately after \"major structural faults\" were discovered.\n\nBristol City Council declared a major incident after building surveys showed Barton House would be unsafe in the event of a fire or explosion.\n\nPeople were told to pack enough clothes for \"a day or two\" and stay with friends and family, or go to rest centres, the council said.\n\nAbout 400 people live in the building.\n\nCouncil employees knocked on doors, sent texts and made contact \"with everyone in the block\" in a bid to empty the 15-storey building \"as soon as possible\", the authority added.\n\nNuh Sharif, who has lived in Barton House since 2012, said he was \"panicking\" about what he and his family would do.\n\nA tearful Mr Sharif, who has two children, said his partner had been told the building \"might collapse\".\n\n\"We need to go somewhere quiet because they [his children] panic and can't sleep.\n\n\"I am worried where they are going to stay. How am I going to get them to school tomorrow?\"\n\nBarton House resident Nuh Sharif said he had \"nowhere to go\"\n\nYousif Ahmed, who lives in Barton House with his wife and three children, aged two, four and six, said the council \"should have warned people earlier\".\n\n\"They have just suddenly come knocking on the door saying you have to leave.\"\n\nMr Ahmed was packing some belongings in his car when he spoke to the BBC, and said he did not know where he would go.\n\nThe council said it had been carrying out building surveys on tower block in Redfield, which dates from 1958 and is the oldest in its estate, as it decided on the structure's long-term future.\n\nDuring the surveys, experts discovered the structure could be \"compromised\" in the event of a fire, explosion or large impact.\n\nYousif Ahmed said he was not sure where he and his family would go\n\nFurther surveys are planned but in the meantime, the authority said it was going door-to-door telling residents to leave.\n\nDeclaring a major incident allows the council, which has confirmed the issue is not related to RAAC concrete, to seek help from outside organisations.\n\nAvon Fire and Rescue Service said it has been liaising with the council since it undertook the survey on the tower block.\n\n\"As a precautionary measure and to allow for further, more in-depth surveys, residents in the block are being asked to leave immediately,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"The approach the council are taking as responsible owners of the building is appropriate and proportional, we are in support of this to ensure that residents are kept safe.\"\n\nLocal GP surgery Wellspring Settlement said on X (formerly Twitter) it was likely to be an information point.\n\nThe emergency services have been put on standby as a precaution, Bristol City Council said.\n\nBuses have been arriving to take residents away from Barton House\n\nAnother resident of Barton House said he found out about the evacuation from Facebook and a friend.\n\nHe said the tower block \"should have been condemned years ago\".\n\n\"My flat is terrible. It's full of damp and mould.\n\n\"Half my ceiling has collapsed literally into my bathroom.\"\n\nSheila Barrett said she was moving out and would and stay with her grandson.\n\n\"I am really, really shocked,\" she said.\n\n\"I have lived here for 50 years. I thought it was something to do with cladding, but have been told it is structural.\n\n\"I have been told it was something to do with a fire-brigade survey and we have to move out. It's a shock.\"\n\nSheila Barrett said she had lived in Barton House for 50 years\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer is set for a showdown with Labour MPs later over the party's position on the Israel-Hamas war.\n\nDozens could back a Commons motion from the SNP calling for an immediate ceasefire in the conflict, in contrast to the Labour leader.\n\nLabour has ordered its MPs to abstain on the SNP's motion, meaning frontbenchers must resign or face the sack to support it.\n\nBut three frontbenchers have already indicated they will defy their leader.\n\nShadow Home Office minister Naz Shah, shadow education minister Helen Hayes and shadow trade minister Afzal Khan all told MPs they wanted to support an immediate ceasefire.\n\nThe party has tabled its motion urging longer pauses in the fighting to deliver aid, which, along with the SNP motion, will be voted on after 19.00 GMT.\n\nNineteen frontbenchers have expressed an opinion on the conflict at odds with their leader. One, shadow minister Imran Hussain, quit his position last week in order to campaign for an immediate ceasefire.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the vote, he said humanitarian pauses - as advocated by Labour's leader - do not \"go far enough,\" adding that a ceasefire would \"create space for meaningful negotiations\".\n\nNearly 70 Labour MPs have defied their leader to call for a ceasefire now, and nearly 50 councillors have resigned from the party over the leadership's position on the war.\n\nSir Keir has argued that a ceasefire would not be appropriate, because it would freeze the conflict and embolden Hamas.\n\nInstead, Labour, like the Conservative government, the United States and the European Union, is calling for \"humanitarian pauses\" to help aid reach Gaza.\n\nCompared with a formal ceasefire, these pauses tend to last for short periods of time, sometimes just a few hours.\n\nThey are implemented with the aim of providing humanitarian support only, as opposed to achieving long-term political solutions.\n\nLast week, the US said Israel would begin to implement daily four-hour military pauses in areas of northern Gaza.\n\nThe competing motions on the conflict come in the form of amendments to the King's Speech, the government's legislative programme for the year ahead unveiled last week.\n\nLabour's motion would support Israel's right to self-defence after Hamas's \"horrific terrorist attack\" on 7 October, in which 1,200 people were killed, and call for the release of more than 200 people taken hostage.\n\nBut it also says there has been \"too much suffering, including far too many deaths of innocent civilians and children\" since Israel began striking Gaza in response.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says more than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza since then - of whom more than 4,500 were children.\n\nThe amendment calls on Israel to \"protect hospitals and lift the siege conditions\" on the territory, and urges longer humanitarian pauses to allow aid \"on a scale that begins to meet the desperate needs of the people of Gaza\".\n\nIt says this is a \"necessary step to an enduring cessation of fighting as soon as possible and a credible, diplomatic and political process to deliver the lasting peace of a two-state solution\".\n\nLabour has confirmed that its MPs will be under a three-line whip - the strictest instruction - to back the party's motion, and abstain on the competing SNP motion calling on \"all parties to agree to an immediate ceasefire\".\n\n\"This is a whipped vote and every MP knows what the consequence of that means,\" a spokesman added.\n\nSupporters of Sir Keir's position hope the gambit of tabling its own motion could mean most resignations are avoided.\n\nHowever, they concede that the question of backing a ceasefire has become the central issue for some of the MPs.", "Greta Thunberg appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court with other Fossil Free London activists\n\nClimate campaigner Greta Thunberg has appeared before magistrates to deny a public order offence after her arrest at a protest in central London.\n\nThe 20-year-old Swedish national was detained at a demonstration near the InterContinental Hotel in Mayfair on 17 October as oil executives met inside.\n\nShe pleaded not guilty at Westminster Magistrates' Court to breaching Section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986.\n\nFour other Fossil Free London activists pleaded not guilty alongside her.\n\nMs Thunberg confirmed her name and date of birth, but her address in Stockholm was not read out in court due to concerns over threats she is said to have received.\n\nThe protesters were granted unconditional bail ahead of a trial at City of London Magistrates' Court, which is set to start on 1 February.\n\nGreta Thunberg ran from awaiting crowds of photographers after she left court\n\nA group of Greenpeace and Fossil Free London protesters gathered outside Westminster Magistrates' Court, chanting and holding banners reading \"oily money out\" and \"make polluters pay\".\n\nA large crowd of photographers and video journalists waited for Ms Thunberg and surrounded her as she left the court.\n\nAfter failing to break free from the cluster as she walked down the pavement, Ms Thunberg sharply changed direction and sprinted away down Marylebone Road.\n\nActivists were protesting outside an energy conference when arrests were made last month\n\nThe Metropolitan Police had imposed imposed conditions on the 17 October protest under Section 14 of the Public Order Act to \"prevent serious disruption to the community, hotel and guests\".\n\nDozens of protesters blocked Hamilton Place, near Park Lane, on the first day of the three-day Energy Intelligence Forum - formerly called the Oil and Money conference - where bosses of Shell and Total were due to speak.\n\nActivists carried banners and pink umbrellas with eyes painted on, shouting \"cancel the conference\", while some lit yellow and pink flares.\n\nThe Met Police previously said a number of protesters failed to move from the road and on to the pavement when asked to do so, resulting in multiple arrests.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Courteney Cox revealed that her character's marriage to Chandler was not the writers' original plan\n\nFriends stars Courteney Cox and Matt Le Blanc have both paid their first individual tributes to co-star Mathew Perry, following his death last month.\n\nCox, who played his on-screen wife Monica, shared a clip of her with Perry's character Chandler on Instagram and said she was \"so grateful for every moment\" they worked together.\n\nMatt Le Blanc, who played room-mate Joey, posted his first tribute earlier.\n\n\"It was an honour to call you my friend,\" he wrote.\n\nLe Blanc, 56, said: \"It is with a heavy heart I say goodbye. I'll never forget you.\"\n\nPerry was found dead at his Los Angeles home last month at the age of 54, sparking an outpouring of grief from fans across the world.\n\nIn a joint statement last month, Cox and Le Blanc were joined by their fellow cast members Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow and David Schwimmer in describing Perry's death as an \"unfathomable loss\".\n\n\"We are all so utterly devastated by the loss of Matthew,\" the statement said. \"We will always cherish the joy, the light, the blinding intelligence he brought to every moment - not just to his work, but in life as well.\n\n\"He was always the funniest person in the room. More than that, he was the sweetest, with a giving and selfless heart.\"\n\nMatt LeBlanc said he would never forget Matthew Perry\n\nLeBlanc became the first to post an individual tribute, sharing pictures of him on set with Perry, as he said on Instagram: \"The times we had together are honestly among the favourite times of my life.\n\n\"It was an honour to share the stage with you and to call you my friend.\n\n\"I will always smile when I think of you and I'll never forget you. Never.\n\nWithin hours, Cox added her tribute on Instagram, writing alongside her chosen clip: \"When you work with someone as closely as I did with Matthew, there are thousands of moments I wish I could share. For now here's one of my favourites.\"\n\nShe also revealed a behind-the-scenes story as she said: \"Chandler and Monica were supposed to have a one-night fling in London. But because of the audience's reaction, it became the beginning of their love story.\n\n\"In this scene, before we started rolling, he whispered a funny line for me to say. He often did things like that. He was funny and he was kind.\"\n\nA new foundation has been set up in his name promising to continue his commitment to \"helping others struggling with the disease of addiction\" following his public battles with alcohol and drugs.", "Amiram Cooper, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Tsachi Idan are being held in Gaza\n\nIsrael says 132 people remain unaccounted for after they were abducted and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attacks by Hamas.\n\nAn estimated 240 people were taken prisoner, but 105 were later released by Hamas during a six-day ceasefire at the end of November.\n\nThe Israeli military said it mistakenly killed three hostages in northern Gaza who had escaped from their captors and expressed \"deep remorse\" over the incident.\n\nOf the 132 still unaccounted for, Israel says that 20 of them are believed to be dead.\n\nThese are the stories of those hostages who are still being held, which have either been confirmed by the BBC or credibly reported.\n\nThis list is regularly updated and names may change, as some people feared kidnapped are confirmed to have been killed or released.\n\nLast updated on 19 December 2023 at 10:33 GMT\n\nYagev Kirsht, 34, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim, alongside his wife, Rimon Buchstab Kirsht. She has now been released.\n\nAlexander Trupanov, was taken hostage with his mother Lena Trupanov, 50, his partner Sapir Cohen, 29, and his grandmother Irina Tati, 73. All were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz as they spent the Sabbath together, according to a statement by Canada's Raoul Wallenburg Center for Human Rights. Irina and Lena were released on Wednesday 29 November and Sapir was freed the next day.\n\nAriel Cunio, his girlfriend Arbel Yahud and her brother Dolev are also thought to have been abducted in the same attack on Nir Oz. Eitan Cunio, Ariel's brother who escaped Hamas, told the Jewish Chronicle that his last message from Ariel said: \"We are in a horror movie.\"\n\nDavid Cunio, 33, another of Ariel's brothers, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, family say. David's wife Sharon Aloni Cunio and their three-year-old twin daughters Ema and Yuly were released on 27 November. Sharon's sister Daniele Aloni, and her six-year-old daughter Emilia were both released on 24 November.\n\nDoron Steinbrecher, 30, a veterinary nurse, was in her apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas attacked, the Times of Israel reported. At 10:30 on 7 October, the newspaper said, she sent a voice message to friends: \"They've arrived, they have me.\"\n\nItzhak Gelerenter, 53, was taken from the Supernova festival. His family said the IDF found his phone was located in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported. His daughter Pivko told the paper: \"I'm trying to think good thoughts, I have a powerful, smart, resourceful father.\"\n\nDoron Steinbrecher sent a voice message to friends during Hamas' attack\n\nNaama Levy, 19, was filmed being bundled into a jeep, her hands tied behind her back. The footage was released by Hamas and circulated widely on social media. According to her mother, the teenager had just begun her military service.\n\nYousef Zyadna, a 53-year-old Bedouin dairy farmer, was abducted from Kibbutz Holit and taken to Gaza along with his sons Hamza, 22, and Bilal, 18, and his daughter, Aisha, 16. Aisha and Bilal were released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nElad Katzir, 47, was abducted from Nir Oz with his mother Hanna. Hanna has now been released.\n\nOhad Ben Ami, 55, was kidnapped from Be'eri with his wife, Raz. She was released by Hamas on 29 November.\n\nTwin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 26, were taken from Kfar Aza. Ziv was messaging a friend as the attack happened. Their family said the IDF has told them the brothers are being held in Gaza. Their brother Liran told CBN news the pair had \"twin power\" and were the centre of attention wherever they went.\n\nIraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 85, was taken captive from Kibbutz Kissufim, where he lived and worked as a chicken coop manager. His wife, Mazal, managed to escape.\n\nMichel Nisenbaum, 59, is a dual Brazilian-Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel for 45 years and works as a computer technician, his family told Brazilian media. They also say he is diabetic and has Crohn's disease. On 7 October, they say, someone claiming to be from Hamas answered his phone when they tried to call him.\n\nDaniela Gilboa, 19, sent messages saying that Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she was staying, was under attack and asked her mother to pray for her. Her boyfriend, Roy Dadon, told the Economist 1843 magazine that he believes he saw a glimpse of her in a video showing three girls being driven away in the back of an SUV.\n\nItay Chen, 19, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF solider, was on active duty with a tank unit on 7 October, according to the Times of Israel. The paper reported that his family was notified by the IDF that he is officially considered missing in action and probably being held hostage. Another soldier in his unit, Matan Angrest, 21, is also presumed to be in Gaza.\n\nYosi Sharabi, 51, was taken from Be'eri with his brother, Eli Sharabi, 55. Eli's wife and two daughters were murdered in the attack. Ofir Engel, the boyfriend of Yosi's daughter, Yuval, was also taken, but released on 29 November.\n\nAgam Berger, 19, was kidnapped from Nahal Oz. She was seen being taken away in videos released by Hamas.\n\nEdan Alexander, 19, is an Israeli-US citizen who volunteered to join the Israeli army. He was serving near the Gaza border at the time of Hamas's attack. Edan's family said they had been told by Israeli officials that he had been taken to Gaza as a hostage.\n\nKaid Farhan Elkadi, 53, lives with his family south of Rahat and worked as a security guard, according to Israeli media. Reports said his family believes he was kidnapped and taken to Gaza, based on images shared by Hamas.\n\nIlana Gritzewsky and Matan Zanguaker were captured near the Gaza border, family say\n\nMatan Zanguaker, 24, was taken with his partner Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, from Nir Oz, according to Ilana's father. Ilana, a Mexican national, was released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nThe family of Eitan and Yair Horn believe they were taken from Nir Oz kibbutz\n\nEitan Horn, 37, and his brother Yair, 45, both Argentinian citizens, were also in Nir Oz at the time of the attack. Their father Itzik said he believes they were kidnapped. Yair is a construction worker while Eitan works in education.\n\nItai Svirsky, 38, is thought to have been abducted when his elderly parents were killed in Be'eri. He had been visiting them for the holiday of Simhat Torah.\n\nKeith Seigel, 64, and his wife Adrienne - often known as Aviva - Seigel, 62, were taken from their home in Kfar Aza, Keith's brother Lee Seigel told the BBC. Adrienne was released on 26 November.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, lived in Nahal Oz with his wife and two daughters. Omri was led away by Hamas with his hands tied, his wife Lishay told the Guardian newspaper. She told him not to be a hero, urging: \"Do whatever they want because I want you back.\"\n\nBipin Joshi, 23, a Nepalese student, is believed to have been taken from Kibbutz Alumim. Nepalese newspaper Setopati says he was one of 49 university students studying agriculture in Israel. It says 10 students were killed in the attack.\n\nIlan Weiss, 58, went missing from Kibbutz Be'eri after he was last seen leaving the house to defend the community. On 25 November, his wife Shiri Weiss, 53, and their daughter, Noga, 18, were freed from captivity in a hostage deal.\n\nAmiram Cooper, 85, and his wife Nurit, 80, were taken from their home in Nir Oz, their daughter-in-law Noa told the BBC. The family last spoke to the couple during the Hamas attack, Noa said, when the couple were in their safe room. The family later traced Amiram's phone to Gaza. On Monday 23 October, Nurit was one of two women to be released.\n\nAmiram and Nurit Cooper, pictured with their granddaughter, Gali\n\nOded Lifshitz, 83, and his wife Yocheved, 85 were taken hostage from Nir Oz. On Monday 23 October, Yocheved was one of two elderly women to be freed. After hearing the news of her mother's release, their daughter Sharone - a London-based artist - said: \"While I cannot put into words the relief that she is now safe, I will remain focused on securing the release of my father and all those - some 200 innocent people - who remain hostages in Gaza.\"\n\nHaim Peri, 79, was taken from his home in Nir Oz, reports the Times of Israel, and freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz said she saw that he was alive and well. His son Lior Peri told Talk TV that Haim had locked his wife inside the safe room before giving himself up to kidnappers.\n\nAvraham Munder, 78, was kidnapped from Nir Oz, Israeli officials say. His wife Ruthi, daughter and grandson have since been released.\n\nOmer Neutra, a 22-year-old Israeli-American and grandson of Holocaust survivors, put off plans to go to college in the US to study in Israel, and eventually joined the IDF. He was serving as a tank commander near Gaza when Hamas attacked. Omer's parents say they were told by the Israeli embassy that he had been kidnapped.\n\nRon Benjamin's vehicle was found empty following the attacks\n\nRon Benjamin, 53, had been taking part in a group cycle ride near the Gaza border when the Hamas attack began and he decided to drive home, his family told Israeli media. Days later, his vehicle was found empty and his family believe he was kidnapped.\n\nLouis Har, 70, is believed to have been taken from Nir Yitzhak. His partner Clara Marman was released on 28 November along with her sister Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela's daughter Mia Leimberg,17. Clara and Gabriela's brother Fernando Simon Marman, 60, also remains in captivity.\n\nJudith Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 73, also went missing from Nir Oz after the Hamas attack. Ten days later, the Israeli military confirmed to the family they had been taken hostage, CTV News in Canada reported.\n\nAlex Danzig, 75, a scholar and historian of the Holocaust, was at his home in Nir Oz, when it was attacked by Hamas. \"We know for sure he was kidnapped,\" his son Mati told the BBC. Alex - whose older sister Edith is a Holocaust survivor - has spent the last 30 years working for Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust remembrance centre. His disappearance has triggered a campaign for his release, both in Israel and in Poland, the country of his birth.\n\nAlex Danzig has spent decades educating people about the Holocaust\n\nItzhk Elgarat, 68, was kidnapped at the same time as Alex Danzig, his brother Danny Elgert told Israel's Kan 11 TV station, adding that he had tracked his brother's phone to the border with Gaza.\n\nGadi Moses, 79, was also abducted during the same attack on Nir Oz, according to relatives and the Israeli aid agency where he worked as an agricultural expert. Efrat Katz, his partner, was initially thought to have been captured as well, but she was later found dead, the Times of Israel reported. Efrat was the mother of Doron Asher, who was taken hostage and later released with her two daughters. Ravid Katz, 51, Doron Asher's brother, was originally thought to have been taken hostage from Nir Oz, but on 28 November his family confirmed that he had been killed on 7 October.\n\nYair Yaakov, 59, is listed among the hostages. His partner Meirav Tal, 53, was released on 28 November. Yair's children Yagil, 13, and Or, 16, were released on 27 November.\n\nYair Yaakov was pictured being held captive by a gunman in a video shared online\n\nNimrod Cohen, 19, had studied software engineering in high school, according to reports. After he was kidnapped, his father was invited to meet Pope Francis in Rome along with other hostages' families.\n\nTsachi Idan, 51, was last seen by his wife, Gali, as he was taken away by Hamas gunmen. Their family had been ambushed in their safe room in Nahal Oz. Their ordeal was live-streamed by Hamas. Their eldest child, Maayan - who had just turned 18 - was shot dead, Gali told the BBC.\n\nTsachi Idan was ambushed with his wife and children and then led away\n\nYarden Bibas, 34, was abducted from Nir Oz. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were also taken hostage, but on 29 November, Hamas claimed they had been killed in an Israeli air strike while in captivity. The Israeli government has said it is checking the claim.\n\nRonen Engel, 54, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife, Karina Engelbert, 51, and their two daughters, Mika, 18 and Yuval, 11. On 1 December, the organisation representing the families said he had been murdered. Karina, Mika and Yuval were released on 27 November.\n\nKarina Ariev, a 19-year-old soldier, was serving at an army base near Gaza when she was kidnapped. Her sister Alexandra told the BBC she heard shooting as Karina called her during the attack, and later saw a video showing Karina being taken away in a vehicle.\n\nKarina Ariev was at the Nahal Oz military base, which was among the first to be attacked\n\nOfer Kalderon, 53, was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz. On 27 November his two children, Erez, 12, and Sahar, 16, were released. Two other relatives, 80-year-old Carmela Dan and her granddaughter, Noya, 12, were also believed to have been taken, but Israeli authorities later announced they had been found dead.\n\nYoram Metzger, 80, was a resident of Nir Oz. He has diabetes and broke his hip six months ago, his daughter-in-law said. Yoram's wife Tamar was released on 28 November.\n\nNadav Popplewell, 51, and his mother Channah were taken hostage by Hamas, said Channah's daughter Ayelet Svatitzky, who was speaking to them on the phone when the gunmen burst in. She said the captors sent pictures of her two relatives, who both have diabetes, with armed men in the background. Channah has now been released.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, was abducted after his family opened the door to their secure shelter to an Israeli child, who said he would be killed otherwise. Omri's wife, Lishay Lavi, said she saw him being taken away in handcuffs with three other hostages from Nahal Oz.\n\nLiri Elbag, 18, had just started military training as an Army lookout near the Gaza border when Hamas attacked, her father Eli told the Associated Press. Eli said he saw her in a video circulated later by Hamas, crowded with others on the back of a military truck which had been seized by the gunmen.\n\nLior Rudaeff, 61, was taken from Nir Yitzhak during the attack. His family have heard nothing from him since then.\n\nA number of people are believed to have been abducted from the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Among them:\n\nShlomi Ziv, 40, was part of the security detail at the festival and was initially in contact with his sisters as the attack unfolded, according to an interview with The Times of Israel. A few weeks later the family learned he was officially considered to be a hostage, the report says.\n\nAlexander Lobanov, 32, is a Russian-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped at the festival.\n\nOri Danino, 25, is reported to have got away from the festival in his car, but it's believed he was captured after turning back in an attempt to save some people he had met there.\n\nAlmog Sarusi, 26, was kidnapped from the music festival and his partner Shahar Gindi was killed, according to Israeli media. Almog's father, Yigal, was among the relatives of hostages who met with Israel's prime minister in October.\n\nOmer Shem Tov, 21, called his parents as he was running away from gunfire and managed to get into a friend's car. His parents, Shelly and Malki Shem Tov, told Israeli media they lost contact with their son and the live location on his phone showed he was beyond the border in Gaza.\n\nIdan Shtivi, 28, an environmental sciences student, was attending the festival to take pictures at music and yoga workshops being held by friends. He escaped the site in his car but was attacked by Hamas along the route. The bodies of two of his passengers were found, and his family told the Jerusalem Post they suspect he was kidnapped.\n\nYosef Ohana, 24, had been at the festival with a friend, who told his mother he and Yosef had remained to help people escape the gunfire before running themselves. Yosef was last seen hiding under a car, and Israeli authorities have visited his mother to say he was kidnapped.\n\nAndrei Kozlov, 27, a Russian who moved to Israel in 2022, is missing from the Supernova festival, where he was working as a security guard. His mother told the De Taly publication the family was told by the IDF on October 26 that he was being held hostage.\n\nElyakim Libman, 23, was working as a security guard at the festival. In a Facebook post his father Eliyahu Libman said another guard told him his son had helped rescue others before trying to escape. He was last seen trying to help two badly-injured women.\n\nNoa Argamani, a Chinese-born Israeli citizen, was also kidnapped from the festival. Video footage - verified by her father Yaakov Argamani to Israel's Channel 12 - shows the 25-year-old being taken away on the back of a motorbike screaming, \"Don't kill me!\" Her boyfriend Avinatan Or, 30, also appears in the video being marched away from her by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nEden Yerushalmi's family say they were told she had been taken hostage\n\nEden Yerushalmi, 24, called her family during Hamas's attack on the festival, her sister May told CBS News. The family say they were subsequently informed by the IDF that Eden had been abducted.\n\nChanan Yablonka, 42, is a father-of-two from Tel Aviv. According to reports, he attended the festival with friends and was due to celebrate his birthday a few days after the attacks.\n\nJonathan Samerano, 21, has been missing since 7am on the morning of the festival. His family have been told to presume he is being held in Gaza, Israeli media reported.\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal was filmed in captivity in Gaza, his family say\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, attended the festival with his brother. Guy appears in a hostage video that his family say confirms he is in Gaza.\n\nUriel Baruch, 35, was injured during the attack on the festival, his wife said on Facebook. Reports in Israeli media say his mother, Naomi, has heard from the IDF that he is a hostage.\n\nMaxim Kharkin's mother described speaking to him on the morning of 7 October\n\nMaxim Kharkin is aged 35 and a Russian speaker, his mother told Russian media. She added that he had called her at 07:00 on the morning of the attack.\n\nElkana Bohbot was seen in a video posted by Hamas\n\nElkana Bohbot, 34, had gone to the party with friends and, before losing contact, he spoke to his wife and mother telling them he was helping to evacuate the wounded, the Times of Israel reported. Hours later, his family found a video of him posted online by Hamas, which has been seen by BBC Verify.\n\nRom Braslavski, 19, was working on security for the festival. According to an account published by Hostages and Missing Families Forum, he was trying to rescue an injured person in the attack when he was caught in a volley of fire. He has not been heard from since.\n\nOmer Wenkert, 22, a restaurant manager, sent a message to his family to say he was going to a safe shelter but then lost contact, his father Shai Wenkert told the BBC's Today Programme. Shai Wenkert said he had seen footage of his son in captivity, including a photo of him handcuffed and wearing only underwear.\n\nEvyatar David's family say they were sent a video of him in captivity\n\nEvyatar David, 23, was at the festival and on the morning of the attacks, described fleeing from gunfire before losing contact with the outside world, his brother says. Later, his family say, Evyatar's sister posted on Instagram appealing for information about his whereabouts. She then received a text from an unknown number, which contained video footage of Evyatar handcuffed on the floor of a dark room. According to Israel's foreign ministry he is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nEitan Mor, 23, lives in Jerusalem, and was working as a security guard at the festival, the Times of Israel said. He reportedly texted his uncle after Hamas arrived and was last seen with a friend bringing others to safety.\n\nAlon Ohel, 22, a Serbian citizen, took refuge in a shelter after the festival came under attack, his family say. They have seen footage of him being dragged away after a grenade attack.\n\nAlmog Meir Jan, 21, tried to flee the festival. He and a friend made it to the friend's car but only managed to drive a short distance before being forced to stop. Almog's family say they have seen a hostage video in which he appears.\n\nInbar Heiman, a student aged 21, was seen by two young Israeli men being taken away from the festival on a motorcycle. Hamas have released a video in which she is seen very briefly.\n\nHersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual US-Israeli citizen, was badly injured in the attack, his family told the BBC. Eyewitness accounts say he was seen being forced onto a white pick-up truck - the last-known signal from his phone came from just inside Gaza.\n\nSegev Kalfon, 26, was running away from the festival, across the highway, when he was captured by Hamas, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.\n\nOrión Hernández Radoux, 30, from Mexico, attended the festival with his girlfriend, Shani Louk. He has not been seen since. The Sun newspaper says it has seen threatening messages written in Arabic sent from his phone. Shani, a tourist from Germany, was initially thought to be among those seized. But on 30 October, her mother Ricarda told German media that the family had been informed by Israeli military of her death following DNA identification.\n\nRomi Lesham Gonen, 23, was on the phone to her mother as she tried to escape from the Supernova festival. Merav Leshem Gonan has recounted a conversation in which her daughter begged for help after being shot. ABC News reports that Romi's phone is now in Gaza.\n\nBar Kuperstein, 21, last spoke to his family early on the morning of 7 October, as the attack unfolded. Later the same day, his family say they identified him in a video of Israeli prisoners, posted by Hamas. Since then, they say they have had no further information.\n\nEliya Cohen, 26, was hiding with his girlfriend Ziv from the attack, when Ziv felt him being pulled up and driven away by the gunmen, Eliya's mother has told the video initiative #BringThemHomeNow. The family then found a photo of Eliya in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nAmit Buskila, 28, from Ashdod, was last heard of making a call to her uncle, Shimon, as Hamas overran the festival. Her family say they have now been told by the government that she is being held in Gaza.\n\nCarmel Gat, 39, is Jordan's sister-in-law, and also was seen by her father being taken by gunmen from Kibbutz Be'eri, Haaretz newspaper reported. She has not been heard from since.\n\nOhad Yahalomi, 49, was abducted from Nir Oz, along with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the November ceasefire.\n\nDror Or, 48, was seen by a neighbour being dragged out of his home in Be'eri, according to their nephew Emmanuel Besorai, along with his son and daughter. On Saturday 25 November Dror's son Noam, 17, and daughter Alma, 13, were released from captivity. The body of Yonat, 50 - Dror's wife and the children's mother - was identified among the 120 people murdered at the kibbutz, Yonat's brother told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nTal Shoham, 38, was taken from Kibbutz Be'eri. His wife Adi, also 38, her mother Dr Shoshan Haran, 67, were released by Hamas on 25 November, along with the couple's children Nave, eight, and Yahel, three. Dr Haran's husband, Avshalom - an economist and dual German/Israeli citizen - was killed on 7 October.\n\nTamir Adar, 38, who defended Nir Oz as part of the kibbutz's emergency squad, was taken to Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen, 35, an American-Israeli citizen, has been missing since Hamas's attack on Nir Oz, his father Jonathan told the BBC. He said his son was not found among the dead and the \"only reasonable explanation\" is that he was taken to Gaza.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen's father has not heard from him since Hamas attacked the kibbutz where he lived\n\nThailand's ambassador to Israel says 26 of its citizens were taken hostage, 23 of whom have now been released.\n\nThose still being held are believed to include Watchara Sriuan, 32. His mother, Viewwaew, told the Thaiger news site that the family had been informed he was being held captive.\n\nKiattisak \"Top\" Patee and a Mr Pongtorn (no first name given) have also been named by the Thai foreign ministry as hostages.\n\nA number of other people thought to have been held hostage are now confirmed to have died, either during the 7 October attack or while in captivity.\n\nAs well as Ron Scherman and Nik Beizer, four bodies were identified this week. They were Tal Chaimi, an Israeli-Romanian citizen aged 41, and Joshua Mollel, a 19-year-old Tanzanian student. Also, 27-year-old Eden Zecharya, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and 36-year-old Ziv Dado, who had already been declared dead by the Israeli military.\n\nOthers known to have died include Dror Kaplun, 68, Aviv Atzili, 49, Arye Zalmanovich, 85, Ronen Engel, 54, Maya Goren, 56, Guy Iluz, 26, Ofir Tzarfati, 27, Ofra Keider, 70, and Eliyahu Margalit, 75.\n\nThe bodies of 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, and 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss were found by Israeli troops in buildings close to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.\n\nOn Saturday 9 December Kibbutz Bari announced that Sahar Baruch, 25, had been killed in Gaza.\n\nOther hostages whose death has been reported, but not confirmed include Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A man who was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over the death of ice hockey player Adam Johnson has been released on police bail.\n\nThe Nottingham Panthers player's neck was injured by a skate during a collision with Sheffield Steelers' Matt Petgrave on 28 October.\n\nThe 29-year-old was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police announced the arrest on Tuesday but said on Wednesday the man had been released on bail.\n\nNottingham Panthers have previously described Johnson's death as a \"freak accident\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe death of Johnson, who was from Hibbing, Minnesota in the US, sparked an outpouring of grief across the world.\n\nSpeaking to KSTP-TV, a local news station based in Minnesota, the player's aunt Kari Johnson said her nephew had been planning to propose to his partner, Ryan Wolfe.\n\n\"We were all really excited because we were really looking forward to their future and he didn't get a chance to ask her, and then this happened,\" she said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Nottingham Panthers posted footage of a tribute created on the ice at Motorpoint Arena for Johnson\n\nHe scored his maiden NHL goal in his home state for the Penguins against the Minnesota Wild in 2019.\n\nHe made the move to the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) for the 2020-21 season, before spells with the Ontario Reign and the Lehigh Valley Phantoms in the American Hockey League (AHL).\n\nJohnson played for Augsburger Panther in Germany's DEL before switching to the Nottingham Panthers in August.\n\nHe posted 11 points in 12 games in both league and cup fixtures before his death.\n\nThe Anaheim Ducks and the Pittsburgh Penguins held a moment of silence for former Penguin forward Adam Johnson\n\nNottingham Panthers are to return to the ice for the first time since 28 October in a special memorial game against the Manchester Storm on Saturday.\n\nThe Panthers will then play their first Elite League game since Johnson's death on 26 November, against Belfast Giants at their Motorpoint Arena home.\n\nA South Yorkshire Police spokesperson added: \"Our investigation continues and we will provide further updates as and when we can.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two men died in a road crash which saw a car driven at \"insane\" speeds, an inquest has heard.\n\nLewis Moghul, 22, from Whitchurch Hill, and Sammy Phillips, 19, from Henley-on-Thames, died instantly when the BMW they were in hit trees in Bix, Oxfordshire, on 3 February.\n\nThe inquest heard Mr Moghul, the driver, was more than three times over the legal alcohol limit for driving.\n\nDrink-driving and excess speed caused the crash, the coroner concluded.\n\nThe inquest was told a witness described the speed of the vehicle was \"insane\".\n\nThames Valley Police said they believed the pair were travelling between 70mph and 100mph (113km/h and 160km/h).\n\nSenior coroner Darren Salter concluded Mr Moghul \"failed to stay on his side of the road\" while negotiating a slight bend.\n\nA \"swerve to the left\" caused his \"loss of control\", as well as a decision to \"drive at high speed while intoxicated\", he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sammy Phillips' mother Justine Morris said she was \"utterly heartbroken\" by her son's death\n\nDuring the inquest, Justine Morris, Mr Phillips' mother, read a statement to Oxford Coroner's Court.\n\nShe said: \"Boys like Sammy die on our roads every single day of the year, and the ingredients are too often the same: young men, fast cars and alcohol.\"\n\nShe added: \"As a family, we can only hope that the death of both boys will serve as a reminder to all their young friends, to all those who knew them; you are not invincible.\n\n\"While we would support a zero-tolerance drink-drive limit so that it becomes socially unacceptable to have even one drink when driving, we recognise that no change in the law can eradicate the exuberance of youth. We were all young once.\n\n\"So to all young men, I would simply say this: 'Think of your mum'.\n\n\"Before you put your foot down, before you have a drink and think it's OK to get behind the wheel, think of your mum standing where I am now, and imagine how utterly heartbroken she'd be.\"\n\nThe men died instantly when a red BMW crashed in Bix, Oxfordshire, on 3 February\n\nSgt James Surman, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"I can only hope this serves as a reminder to all young drivers of the risks involved in drink driving. It significantly impairs people's driving ability.\n\n\"That, coupled with the speed that was involved in this case, needs to serve as a warning.\n\n\"Both Lewis and Sammy have lost their lives far too young.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, X, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of people are believed to be sheltering at the hospital\n\nThe US says it has intelligence that Hamas has a command centre under Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.\n\nNational Security spokesman John Kirby said the group stored arms there and were prepared for an Israeli attack.\n\nThis is the first time the US has independently backed claims by close ally Israel that Hamas uses hospitals to hide its bases. Hamas denies this.\n\nThe statement came as Israel faced mounting global pressure to protect civilians trapped in the hospitals.\n\nUS President Joe Biden said that Al-Shifa hospital \"must be protected\" from intense fighting around the complex, and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Israel must act within international law.\n\nThe area around Al-Shifa, Gaza's biggest hospital, has become the focus of fighting in recent days. Thousands of people are believed to be sheltering there.\n\nMr Kirby said the US had its own intelligence, which had come from a variety of sources, suggesting that Hamas and Islamic Jihad used hospitals in the Gaza Strip and tunnels underneath them to conceal military operations and hold hostages.\n\nPreviously the US administration had only cited open-source intelligence and would not confirm that it had its own sources for this.\n\n\"Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad members operate a command and control node from Al-Shifa in Gaza City,\" he said.\n\n\"They have stored weapons there and they are prepared to respond to an Israeli military operation against that facility.\"\n\nMr Kirby said this showed how challenging the Israeli operation was as \"Hamas has deeply embedded itself within the civilian population\".\n\n\"To be clear, we do not support striking a hospital from the air and we do not want to see a firefight in the hospital where innocent people, helpless people, sick people are simply trying to get the medical care that they deserve, not to be caught in a crossfire. Hospitals and patients must be protected,\" he said.\n\n\"As we have been clear on multiple occasions, Hamas's actions do not lessen Israel's responsibility to protect civilians in Gaza, and this is obviously something we're going to have an active conversation with our counterparts about.\"\n\nResponding to the White House's remarks on Tuesday, Hamas said in a statement reported by the AFP news agency that Israel would use Washington's assessment to give it a \"green light\" to commit \"brutal massacres\" against medical facilities, \"destroying Gaza's healthcare system and displacing Palestinians\".\n\nDoctors inside Al-Shifa say that dozens of people, including at least three premature babies, have died due to a lack of fuel, medicine and power.\n\nThey have told the BBC that more than 100 bodies lay unburied in courtyards, and anyone trying to leave the complex - or even move between buildings - risks death due to the violence in the area.\n\nIsrael maintains that it has not fired directly on hospitals in Gaza despite what it says is Hamas's presence in them. The Israeli military has vowed to destroy Hamas, a designated terror group in the US, UK and EU, in the Gaza Strip.\n\nOn Monday Israel released video of what it said was a Hamas hideout under the Rantisi children's hospital in northern Gaza City.\n\nIn a six-minute video marked as \"raw footage\", the IDF's chief spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari is seen saying he is at a tunnel 200 metres away from Rantisi.\n\nIn the video, Hagari points to the tunnel entrance, which he says he believes is \"connected\" to the hospital, and electrical wiring he says proved solar panels had been powering a bunker.\n\nNo further evidence is provided for the existence of a command centre but the IDF spokesman said investigations were continuing.\n\nThe footage then cuts to basement rooms he says are inside Rantisi hospital. He points to a cache of weapons, including explosive belts and grenades, and a motorcycle with what he says is bullet damage.\n\nRear Adm Hagari says there are signs that hostages kidnapped by Hamas during the group's attack on Israel had been held in the basement.\n\nHagari at the entrance of the tunnel near Rantisi hospital\n\nA shot shows a chair with what appears to be rope ties, below a control panel marked \"World Health Organization\" with a child's feeding bottle resting on top.\n\nIn another room, he points to a calendar on the wall counting the days in Arabic from 7 October - the date of Hamas's attack into southern Israel.\n\nRear Adm Hagari claims the calendar shows the \"terrorists' shifts\" as they guarded the room. He says names were written alongside shift times.\n\nThe top of this document mentions the \"al-Aqsa flood\" - Hamas's codename for the 7 October attacks. However, the Arabic words translate to the days of the week, not names.\n\nHe separately states that the room is decorated with curtains like a video studio. Of the hostage videos released by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, none have shown a matching pattern in the background.\n\nThe IDF escorted CNN journalists around the site and the hospital, which was evacuated on Friday. BBC News has not visited the site and is not able to independently verify any of the allegations made by Hagari.\n\nHowever, the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza responded in detail to the Israeli claims, describing them as a \"theatrical farce\".\n\nIt said the underground space shown in the video was used for administration and storage, and as a shelter from air strikes.\n\nIt described the display of weapons as staged, and said there were thousands of similar motorcycles in Gaza.\n\nThe ministry says that more than 11,000 people have been killed in Israel's operations against Hamas, since the group killed 1,200 people in Israel on 7 October and took about 240 people hostage.", "Therese Coffey revealed the stress of the ministerial workload had made her ill\n\nFormer Environment Secretary Therese Coffey said she \"nearly died\" because of the stress of being a government minister.\n\nMs Coffey, the Conservative MP for Suffolk Coastal, revealed how tough she found being a minister in a BBC radio interview.\n\nThe MP resigned from her job as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reshuffled his cabinet.\n\nShe said: \"Nearly five years ago I got so ill, I nearly, dare I say it, died.\"\n\nMs Coffey, who said she was proud to have served under five Conservative leaders, resigned as environment secretary as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reshuffled his ministers.\n\nHer previous cabinet roles included two months as both secretary of state for health and social care and deputy prime minister under Liz Truss.\n\nDuring a frank interview, Ms Coffey told BBC Radio Suffolk: \"I was in hospital for a month with some of the stresses that happen with ministerial life.\n\n\"A few years ago I certainly worked myself into the ground somewhat, but I learned a lot from that incident and that's why I've always had a joy about life.\"\n\nThe Save the Deben campaign aims to make the river cleaner\n\nMeanwhile, the founder of a group trying to clean up Suffolk's River Deben said she was \"delighted\" Ms Coffey was no longer environment secretary and hoped she would spend more time supporting the river campaign.\n\nRuth Leach, from Save the Deben, said she hoped the resignation would end conflicts between her constituency and ministerial duties.\n\nRuth Leach, of the Save the Deben group, hopes Ms Coffey will now devote more time to local issues\n\nRachel Smith-Lyte, East Suffolk Council's cabinet member for the environment, a member of the Green Party, added: \"I'm amazed she's been around as long as she has, both in terms of being environment minister, which is laughable, and as an MP for this area.\"\n\nMs Coffey told BBC Radio Suffolk she was proud of her record as environment secretary.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 183", "Paul Mosley was jailed along with Mick and Mairead Philpott for the manslaughter of six children\n\nA man convicted of killing six children in a deliberate fire can be released from prison following a parole hearing.\n\nPaul Mosley was jailed along with Mick and Mairead Philpott for the manslaughter of six children in a house fire in Derby in 2012.\n\nHe was released in May 2021 after serving half of his sentence, but was returned to prison in 2022 after breaching the terms of his parole.\n\nThe Parole Board confirmed the decision on Wednesday.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We can confirm that a panel of the Parole Board has directed the release of Paul Mosley following an oral hearing.\n\n\"Parole Board decisions are solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public if released and whether that risk is manageable in the community.\n\n\"A panel will carefully examine a huge range of evidence, including details of the original crime, and any evidence of behaviour change, as well as explore the harm done and the impact the crime has had on the victims.\"\n\nThe six children all died as a result of the fire in Victory Road, Derby, in 2012\n\nThe parole hearing took place on 24 October.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"This was a horrific crime and our thoughts remain with the victims and their families.\n\n\"Paul Mosley will be under the close supervision of the Probation Service and can be recalled to prison if he breaches the strict conditions of his release.\"\n\nMosley was sentenced to 17 years in prison after a trial heard how he helped the Philpotts start the fire at their home in Victory Road.\n\nThe couple's children Jade, 10, and brothers John, nine, Jack, seven, Jesse, six, and Jayden, five, died on the morning of the blaze on 11 May 2012.\n\nDwayne, who was 13, died in hospital three days later.\n\nMosley and the Philpotts were jailed in 2013.\n\nMairead Philpott was sentenced to 17 years in prison and was released on licence in 2020.\n\nMick Philpott was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 15 years.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The parents of a girl killed when a Land Rover crashed through a fence at her school have spoken about the \"absolute horror\" of that day.\n\nNuria Sajjad, eight, and her mother Smera Chohan had been taking a photograph together at the preparatory school in Wimbledon when they were hit.\n\nMs Chohan, who needed several operations, cannot remember the moment of the crash itself.\n\nAs the police investigation continues, she is haunted by unanswered questions.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC alongside husband Sajjad Butt for the first time since the crash, Ms Chohan said: \"My mind goes blank. I didn't see anything come at me. Because if I had, I would have protected my girl.\n\n\"I would have. And I didn't. So I wake up every morning thinking 'Could I have picked her up and done something?' I didn't see the car come. I didn't save my girl.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wimbledon crash: 'We want justice, we want accountability'\n\nThe Land Rover crashed through the fence just before 10:00 BST on 6 July. If it had happened the following day, the playground would have been empty.\n\nThe children and parents of Nuria's cohort at the all-girls establishment, The Study Preparatory School in Wimbledon, were celebrating the last day of term with a special assembly and picnic.\n\nIt was a more significant ending than most, as the autumn term would see the eight and nine-year-olds begin at a different campus.\n\nNuria's father said that when people ask how they are, \"we always say we are doing the best we can\".\n\n\"What we are left with is a deep hole,\" he said. \"A deep sense of grief. It is truly difficult to find any sense of purpose.\n\n\"It is difficult every day to wake up. It is difficult to sleep. At the deepest, deepest level, there is no purpose.\n\n\"We lived for our daughter and she lived for life.\"\n\nMs Chohan said: \"We are not coping.\"\n\nA Land Rover could be seen on school grounds surrounded by emergency responders\n\nSeveral people were injured, some seriously. Another eight-year-old, Selena Lau, was also killed.\n\nMr Butt had gone to get himself a cup of coffee and stopped to chat with another parent.\n\nHe said: \"In a matter of seconds, we went from what should have been one of the happiest days of my daughter's life, to absolute horror.\"\n\nMr Butt said: \"The two people most dear to me in the world, one was taken away and the other thinks it was their fault.\n\n\"The morning of the 6 July was planned to be a memorable and truly joyous occasion.\n\n\"At the assembly the girls all spoke of their hopes and dreams.\"\n\nRecalling how he heard a crash and saw a car \"hurtling in\", Mr Butt said: \"I witnessed the car collide with three people. I remember screaming, I remember pain.\n\n\"I went into shock and I don't know how long passed until panic set in. It took some time but I did find Smera and Nuria.\n\n\"Nuria was severely injured, physically, visibly, severely. There were a couple of people attending to her.\n\n\"At some point the police arrived, at some point the paramedics arrived, at some point the air ambulance arrived and it was clear Nuria was a high priority.\n\n\"And I had to make a very difficult decision to leave Smera in the care of the paramedics.\"\n\nThe family wants to know exactly what happened that July morning.\n\nIt has been four months since Nuria's death and so far they have not had any answers to their questions.\n\nWhat led to the car losing control? Could anything have been done to prevent it? Who bears responsibility?\n\nBoth parents remember a bright, feisty, girl who had a zest for life. A child who was eager for her future and had excitedly planned a party for a birthday she would never see.\n\nMr Butt said: \"One of her teachers described her as a force for good, and she truly was. And that's been taken away for no reason we can discern.\n\n\"We will live with what we have to, because we truly have no choice but to live with this utter despair that we have been left with.\"\n\nMs Chohan said: \"There is no future. We had hoped and dreamed with her.\n\n\"She was my only, only one. I wake up every morning not ready to face the world without her in it.\n\n\"Every day seems like a punishment and we have to carry on and we have to carry on without her. Every breath I take cuts me.\n\nHer husband echoes her, softly reiterating \"yes, she was perfect\".\n\nA woman was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and has been bailed until January.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We understand the families want and need answers as to what happened. We are continuing to give them specialist support through our dedicated family liaison officers who are providing updates on the investigation where they can.\n\n\"Specialist detectives are working tirelessly to establish the circumstances of that day, including analysing CCTV and examining the expert report from forensic collision investigators.\n\n\"We recognise that the time taken can cause further distress but it is only right and fair to all involved that we carry out a thorough and extensive investigation.\"\n\nAn inquest into Nuria's death has been opened and adjourned.\n\nWhile the criminal case is ongoing, lawyers for almost 20 people affected have been instructed to claim compensation from the driver in a civil case, for the injuries and loss they have suffered.\n\nTrevor Sterling, a senior partner at Moore Barlow Lawyers who are representing the families, said the action was \"part of a broader process\".\n\n\"We have to remember that we are talking about parents who lost their loved ones, and for them there is this selfless sense of responsibility,\" he explained.\n\n\"So we need to make sure we can get an understanding of how this incident occurred - that they can assure there is a level of accountability and then lessons can be learned.\"\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This picture taken on 12 November shows displaced Palestinians seeking shelter in tents outside Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City\n\nAl-Shifa is the main hospital in Gaza City - I've been there many times. It has big grounds, so people in Gaza went there to seek shelter and camp out as they saw it as a safe area.\n\nIt has now become a symbol of the juxtaposition of the war - the Israeli invasion of Gaza inflicting masses of casualties and damage, set against the crisis of urgent humanitarian need inside the hospital.\n\nThe Israelis have made a very big point about saying that, as well as going after the Hamas military command, they have brought in some fuel and incubators, because there has been a very concerning claim that premature babies in Al-Shifa Hospital had to be taken out of their incubators.\n\nHowever, the issue isn't a lack of incubators, it's a lack of fuel. Until Wednesday, Israel hadn't allow fuel into the Gaza Strip because they argued that Hamas would steal it and use it.\n\nSome 23,000 litres (5,060 gallons) of fuel has now been allowed in, but it is only to be used to refuel UN lorries. The UN says the delivery comprises only a fraction of what's needed for humanitarian operations, and the entry of fuel to run generators at hospitals and at water and sanitation facilities remains banned.\n\nIsrael says Hamas has stockpiles of its own, and that it should use that fuel for the generators supplying the hospital electrical system.\n\nSo there are a lot of strands coming together in what's unfolding in Al-Shifa Hospital this morning, but that's not the whole war - it will continue once this particular operation is over.\n\nAt the same time, we have seen a hardening of the international position around the Israeli offensive in the last few days with the US, the UK and France using language that is shifting the tone - perhaps summed up best by what US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last weekend: \"Far too many\" Palestinian civilians have been killed.\n\nThe Israelis knew this shift would come because this is a repeat of the pattern we have seen many times before with Israel's military operations. They talk about different clocks running during any operation.\n\nOne is military: how long do they need before they accomplish their military objectives? The other is diplomatic: how long does Israel hold legitimacy to carry out that operation before its allies say, \"you've killed enough people, civilians, you need to stop now please.\"\n\nIsrael feels that because of the absolute enormity of the numbers of casualties in the Hamas attacks on 7 October, they have more time than usual, and I think they have gone in - as we can see from the levels of casualties in Gaza - using a great deal of force.\n\nI have seen some estimates that suggest the Israel Defense Forces will continue to work in this way for a couple more weeks, but I think the forces are gathering among their allies to say you need to change the nature of your military operation.\n\nThat doesn't necessarily translate to a call for this to stop - certainly we haven't yet heard a call for a ceasefire from the British or the Americans.", "An Israeli-Canadian peace advocate, feared to have been taken hostage in Gaza, has been confirmed killed.\n\nVivian Silver, 74, lived close to Israel's border with Gaza in kibbutz Be'eri - which was attacked by Hamas during the 7 October attacks.\n\nRemains had been found earlier at her house, but they were only formally identified as hers five weeks later.\n\nCanadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly described Ms Silver as a \"lifelong advocate for peace\".\n\n\"Canada mourns her loss,\" she wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\nMs Silver, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was one of Israel's best known advocates for peace with the Palestinians. Her movement, Women Wage Peace, was established to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to reach a peace agreement to end the Arab-Israeli conflict.\n\nHer son Yonatan Zeigen told the BBC she stayed busy in her retirement, continuing her life's work as an activist, holding meetings just days before the Hamas attacks.\n\nHer family had believed she had been kidnapped by Hamas and held in Gaza for the past five weeks.\n\nSpeaking to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation last week, Mr Zeigen said that while they knew Ms Silver's house had been burned to the ground during Hamas's attack, and that a body had been found at that time, there was \"no evidence there of a struggle or bullets\", leading the family to believe she had been kidnapped.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC in the days after the attack, Mr Zeigen recounted his final communications with her as she hid in a cupboard while armed men were moving through the kibbutz.\n\nHe said his mother told him that she loved him, and said \"'they're inside the house, it's time to stop joking and say goodbye.'\"\n\n\"I wrote back that 'I love you, Mum. I have no words, I'm with you,'\" he said.\n\n\"Then she writes, 'I feel you.' And then that was it, that's the last message.\"\n\nAsked what his mother would have said about everything that has happened, Mr Yonatan said: \"That this is the outcome of war. Of not striving for peace, and this is what happens.\"\n\n\"It's very overwhelming but not completely surprising. It's not sustainable to live in a state of war for so long and now it bursts. It bursts.\"\n\nGershon Baskin, a friend of Silver's, remembered her as a \"happy, optimistic person\".\n\n\"She was a person who lit up a room whenever she came in,\" he told CBC. \"She had a moral compass that led the direction of many people who followed her.\"\n\nMore than 100 members of Ms Silver's kibbutz were killed in the attack.\n\nThere have been growing calls for a humanitarian pause to allow aid into Gaza, and to help get out some of the 240 hostages taken by Hamas.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister Netanyahu has said all hostages must be released before any temporary truce can be agreed.\n\nIsrael began striking Gaza after Hamas's surprise attacks, in which 1,200 people were killed. The Hamas-run health ministry says more than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza since.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Yonatan Ziegen's mother Vivian Silver texted her son to say her home had been attacked", "Sometimes, the words of a court room amount to mumbo jumbo to the occasional visitor.\n\nAnd as a political reporter I am an only occasional visitor to court.\n\nBut sitting there in Court 1 of the Supreme Court this morning, the words and the decision were crystal clear.\n\nThey leave the government's Rwanda policy in tatters.\n\nAt the heart of it, a couple of sentences.\n\n\"There is a legal rule that refugees must not be returned to their countries of origin, either directly or indirectly, if their life or freedom would be threatened in that country.\"\n\nThis is known technically as \"refoulement\".\n\n\"The legal test which has to be applied in this case is whether there are substantial grounds for believing that asylum seekers sent to Rwanda would be at real risk of refoulement. The Court of Appeal concluded that there were such grounds. We are unanimously of the view that they are entitled to reach that conclusion.\"\n\nPow. They all agree, in the UK's highest court, that the Rwanda plan is a legal dud.\n\nAnd so now the political row, particularly within the Conservative Party, begins.\n\nThose on the liberal wing of the Tory Party are clear.\n\nFormer First Secretary of State Damian Green told me: \"Anyone who thinks leaving the European Convention on Human Rights is a sensible response to this judgement has not read it. It wouldn't make any difference.\"\n\nBut there are those of a radically different view within the party too.\n\nBrendan Clarke-Smith has shared a photo of a Daily Mail headline from a few years ago, describing judges as \"enemies of the people\".\n\nAllies of former Home Secretary Suella Braverman tell me the judgement is \"damning\" and is \"so damning there is nothing the government can do with the tools that they currently have\".\n\nThey claim Mrs Braverman privately argued within government for an alternative option to be set down in law, where there would be offshore processing of claims in Rwanda, handled by UK officials. Those granted refugee status would have been returned to the UK, but others would not.\n\n\"No10 blocked it, because they had blind faith that they would win in court,\" one ally claimed.", "Llyn Bochlwyd has been called Lake Australia in some maps and guidebooks\n\nA national park will refer to its lakes in Welsh only after more than 200 names were standardised.\n\nSome lakes in Eryri National Park are also known by English names - Llyn Tegid is sometimes known as Lake Bala and Llyn Bochlwyd as Lake Australia.\n\nBut the national park authority voted to use the standardised list, with all names in Welsh.\n\nThe head of the authority's cultural heritage said it would mean the names were protected for future generations.\n\nIt follows a decision by the national park authority last year to drop the English names Snowdon and Snowdonia in favour of Yr Wyddfa and Eryri respectively.\n\nOnly a handful of the 200-plus lakes were also known by English names, with some of the standardisation relating to Welsh spellings of the lakes.\n\nLlyn Bochlwyd, which translates to grey cheek lake, has been called Australia Lake on maps and in guidebooks over recent years.\n\nThe Welsh name refers to a legend of an old grey stag which made a miraculous escape from archers and hounds by plunging into the lake and swimming with its head above water.\n\nBut it has been known as Lake Australia because its outline bears a resemblance to that of the country.\n\nLlyn Tegid will only be known by its Welsh name, rather than Bala Lake\n\nThe national park authority will also refer to Llyn Tegid, also known as Bala Lake, and Llyn Barfog, sometimes called Bearded Lake, by their Welsh names only.\n\nThe project between the national park authority, Cardiff University's school of Welsh and the Welsh language commissioner aims to \"safeguard\" historic names.\n\nThe names and spellings were decided based on the history, meanings and origins of the names, as well as speaking to individuals and experts with specialist knowledge.\n\nThe next project will revolve around the names of waterfalls and mountains.\n\nMaps and other material will be updated to mark the changes.\n\nThere is little debate over the name Llyn Idwal\n\nDylan Foster Evans, head of Cardiff University's school of Welsh, said the project drew \"attention to the richness of our local dialects and folklore, and allow us to share all kinds of stories about the names that are such an important part of the identities of our communities\".\n\nNaomi Jones, head of cultural heritage for the national park authority, said the park's \"wealth of names\" is a \"treasured part of our cultural heritage\".\n\n\"By recommending the standard list of Eryri's lake names, the authority ensures that these historical names are recorded for future generations and used extensively in day-to-day life,\" she added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Home Secretary James Cleverly denies using a swear word to describe the constituency Stockton North\n\nHome Secretary James Cleverly has denied an allegation that he described Stockton North using an offensive term.\n\nLabour MP Alex Cunningham alleged the swear word was used during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday.\n\nMr Cunningham said it happened after he challenged the prime minister about child poverty in the constituency.\n\nMr Cleverly's spokesman said: \"He did not say that, and would not. He's disappointed people would accuse him of doing so.\"\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Cunningham had asked: \"Why are 34% of children in my constituency living in poverty?\"\n\nMaking a point of order in the Commons later on Wednesday, Mr Cunningham said: \"Before the prime minister answered, the home secretary chose to add in his pennyworth.\n\n\"He was seen and heard to say 'because it's a shithole'.\n\n\"Yes, I have contacted his office advising him I planned to name him, but sadly he has chosen not to be in the chamber.\n\n\"I know he is denying being the culprit, but the audio is clear and has been checked, and checked, and checked again.\n\n\"There is no doubt that these comments shame the home secretary, this rotten government, and the Tory Party. He is clearly unfit for his high office.\"\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle \"did not hear any remark\", said Commons Deputy Speaker Dame Eleanor Laing\n\nIn footage of the exchange in the Commons, it was unclear where the remarks came from as there was no shot of Mr Cleverly mouthing the words.\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow Commons leader Lucy Powell called for the home secretary to apologise.\n\nDuring business questions, she asked Commons leader Penny Mordaunt: \"Does she agree with me that besmirching another honourable member's constituency goes against all the courtesies of this place and it is utterly disrespectful to their constituents?\"\n\nShe added: \"This sort of foul language may be accurate when describing government policy, but it is not for the great town of Stockton.\"\n\nIn response, Ms Mordaunt said Mr Cleverly denies making the comment \"and I believe him\".\n\nThe Conservative Party chairman and Durham North West MP Richard Holden said he was \"sure it wasn't said by any Conservative MP\".\n\nHe said Mr Cleverly had been to his constituency and had \"real respect for the North of England\".\n\nAsked if the person who used the word should apologise, Mr Holden said: \"As far as I'm concerned nobody did say it. I certainly didn't hear anything like that.\"\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Mr Cunningham asked how he could secure an apology from the home secretary for the \"appalling insult and foul language\" about his seat in the north-east of England.\n\nCommons Deputy Speaker Dame Eleanor Laing said it was her understanding that Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle \"didn't hear any remark of the kind from the chair at the time when the honourable gentleman was asking his question\".\n\nShe said: \"I understand that the alleged words were not actually used, though I appreciate what [Mr Cunningham] says.\n\n\"But I think we all know that it's very difficult in the noisy atmosphere of Prime Minister's Questions to discern exactly what someone says.\n\n\"So I can make no judgment here from the chair as to what was or wasn't said.\"\n\nThe prime minister was challenged by Mr Cunningham about levels of child poverty in his constituency\n\nResponding at the despatch box to Mr Cunningham's initial question about poverty, Rishi Sunak said: \"It's this government that has ensured that across our country 1.7 million fewer people are living in... poverty as a result of the actions of this government.\"\n\nMr Cunningham could then be heard calling out \"it's not true\" to the prime minister.\n\nMr Sunak went on: \"Yes that is true. Not only that, hundreds of thousands fewer children are living in poverty, and income inequality is at a lower level than we inherited from the party opposite.\"\n\nChris McDonald, Labour's new candidate for Stockton North, addressed the alleged derogatory comment in a statement saying: \"This is a disgrace, but it lays bare what the Tories' view of Teesside is.\"\n\nThe Local Democracy Reporting Service said Mr McDonald had called on Conservative councillor for Stockton North, Niall Innes, to \"condemn the remarks made\".\n\nMr Cunningham has chosen not to stand at the next general election, so Mr McDonald will represent Labour in the constituency.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two migrants have died attempting to cross the Channel in a small boat.\n\nThe boat was spotted getting into difficulty, with several people in the water, less than a mile from the French coast early on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nSome 57 people were rescued by boat and taken to the French town of Boulogne-sur-Mer while another was airlifted to safety, French officials said.\n\nBritish and French teams also responded to a separate small boat incident on Wednesday evening.\n\nIn the first incident, the two people drowned after the boat carrying them capsized just two hours after leaving the French town of Neufchatel-Hardelot.\n\nWith 60 people onboard, the boat was seen getting into difficulty in French waters shortly after 13:00 local time. Several of those who were rescued had hypothermia, officials said.\n\nAn investigation has since been opened by prosecutors in France.\n\nEnver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, described it as \"yet another appalling and preventable tragedy\".\n\nTheir deaths come almost two years to the day since the UK's deadliest migrant boat incident which saw at least 27 people die, including a pregnant woman and three children.\n\nMeanwhile, photos have emerged showing groups of people, thought to be migrants, being brought to shore in Dungeness, Kent, by an RNLI lifeboat shortly after 20:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nOne person was pictured being carried away from the shore on a stretcher.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the UK government confirmed an ongoing response in the Channel inside French waters.\n\nRNLI confirmed their crews were involved in the earlier incident, and are seen here bringing people ashore in Dungeness, Kent\n\nA spokesperson for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said its teams had been working with French counterparts who had coordinated the response.\n\n\"HM Coastguard will continue to work with partners to respond to those in distress around the seas and coastal areas of the UK,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has made \"stopping the boats\" a key priority for his government.\n\nAs of 13 November, 27,284 people had been detected crossing the English Channel in 2023, according to the Home Office. This is down a third from the same date in 2022.\n\nIn 2022, 45,755 migrants made the crossing - the highest number since figures began to be collected in 2018.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None How many people cross the Channel in small boats?", "A leading cruise ship company is being accused of planning to fire more than 900 staff members if they do not accept new terms and conditions.\n\nCarnival UK, owner of P&O Cruises and Cunard, notified authorities of the \"fire-and-rehire\" plan one day after beginning talks with union members.\n\nThe Nautilus union said it showed the cruise firm had \"no real intention to engage\" in meaningful negotiations.\n\nCarnival UK said it was \"categorically not making any redundancies\".\n\nThe staff who could be affected include 919 crew working across 10 vessels, including the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mary 2.\n\nLast year a separate company, P&O Ferries, became embroiled in a dispute over the sacking of 800 of its workers by its owner DP World. The firm sacked staff without notice, replacing them with foreign agency workers who were paid less than the UK minimum wage.\n\nLater, the firm's boss admitted the sackings were illegal.\n\nUnder UK law, employers planning to make 20 or more staff redundant within any 90-day period, must first consult staff and speak to trade union representatives.\n\nIn the present case, Nautilus, which represents hundreds of those potentially affected, is accusing Carnival UK of entering into negotiations over next year's pay and conditions without being open about their fall-back position - that they were considering a plan to dismiss the workers if talks failed.\n\nIt is not currently illegal to fire and then rehire staff, as long as the correct procedures are followed.\n\nNautilus said Carnival had notified the authorities that it was considering redundancies, by submitting what is known as a Form HR1, just a day after starting talks with the union over reducing workers' hours and pay.\n\nThe union only found out about that notification a week later.\n\nThe HR1 includes the statement: \"Dismissal and re-engagement may be considered if agreement cannot be reached on new terms.\"\n\nNautilus said the move suggested that Carnival \"never had any intention of 'meaningful negotiation'\".\n\nCarnival UK said: \"We are categorically not making any redundancies and we will not dismiss and re-engage staff. In fact we have significantly increased our headcount across our fleet.\"\n\nIt added: \"This is an annual pay review process with our maritime officers onboard our ships which will ensure alignment. This will empower our staff, deliver the right teams across our fleet and attract and retain talent to work on our ships.\"\n\nThe union said the cruise company effectively wanted to \"enforce a cut in 20% of their working days\", which amounted to a drop from 243 days worked per year, to 200 days, and a drop in income.\n\nIt said changes were being enforced and were \"not negotiable\", leaving members upset, especially as it seemed that the company were \"taking away flexibility\" in terms of when the work could be done.\n\nNautilus has written to the company calling for it to withdraw the threat of \"fire-and-rehire\", and engage in meaningful negotiations.\n\nShadow transport secretary Louise Haigh said history was \"repeating itself\".\n\n\"The lives of hundreds more seafarers are once again being upended by bad bosses who know they can get away with it,\" she said, adding ministers have ignored \"warning after warning\" that this would happen again without changes in employment law.\n\nNautilus's senior national organiser Garry Elliot called on the government to learn lessons from last year's P&O Ferries scandal and \"outlaw the coercive practice of fire-and-rehire\".\n\nHe added: \"Employers cannot be allowed to treat their employees with contempt and force through fundamental changes to terms and conditions by playing with their employees' livelihoods.\"\n\nFollowing the P&O Ferries dispute the government promised to improve the rights of seafarers, through a nine-point plan to improve pay and conditions published last year.\n\nBut Paul Nowak, general secretary of the union umbrella body, the TUC, said ministers had failed to stop workers from \"being treated like disposable labour\".\n\nThe government had reneged on a pledge to introduce a bill strengthening workers' rights he said.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the government for comment.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The manufacturing industry called for the policy to be made permanent\n\nA tax break which allows businesses to deduct the full cost of investing in machinery and equipment from their tax bill has been made permanent.\n\nIn his Autumn Statement, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt called it the \"largest business tax cut in modern British history\", but this was disputed by an economics think tank.\n\nBig business groups praised the policy, which had been due to end in 2026.\n\nIt is hoped it will encourage firms to invest and lead to economic growth.\n\nMr Hunt said the policy - known as \"full expensing\" - would mean that for every £1m a company invests, it would get £250,000 off their tax bill in the same year.\n\nUnder full expensing, companies can deduct the costs of various equipment from their tax bills, including machines from computers to lathes, office equipment such as desks and chairs, as well as vans, tractors, large construction equipment and tools.\n\nMr Hunt said the move - which has been supported by Labour - would cost £11bn per year.\n\nAccording to research by the British Chambers of Commerce, the policy has benefited 34% of businesses since it was temporarily put in place in April.\n\nHowever, the UK's official economic watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), has forecast that business investment could fall in the short term due to firms no longer having to ensure investments were made before the previous 2026 deadline. Ultimately, the OBR estimates the policy will drive business investment up by £3bn a year.\n\nThe OBR has forecast the UK's economy will grow more slowly than previously thought over the next two years due to inflation - the rate prices are increasing - taking longer to fall.\n\nBusinesses are currently having to pay a higher rate of corporation tax, after it rose from 19% to 25% in April. Corporation tax is charged on a company's profits - the amount of money firms make, minus their costs - and is paid to the government by UK businesses with profits over £250,000 and foreign companies with UK offices.\n\nBig profitable construction, engineering and manufacturing businesses will be happy tonight.\n\nThe ability to offset 100% of new equipment and machinery permanently against profits - Labour also says it backs the move - will give the UK one of the most competitive investment environments in the developed world.\n\nPerversely, as the OBR notes, we may actually see business investment go down as there is no incentive to pull investment forward before the current scheme's old expiry date in March 2026. But the OBR says over the next five years, business investment will be £3bn a year higher.\n\nIf you are a small business or a hospitality business you will be grateful of the extra year of business rate discounts and the freeze on alcohol duty till next autumn. It will help sooth the very real concerns they had over the 10% rise in the living wage - more for younger workers.\n\nBut the engine room of the economy is services and here there is less to cheer. Businesses that invest in people and ideas rather than machines and widgets won't benefit from the biggest single tax giveaway in today's statement.\n\nRain Newton-Smith, chief executive of the CBI business lobby group, said the tax break would help firms to \"unleash pent-up investment\", which she argued was \"critical to getting momentum into the economy\".\n\nNeil Carberry, chief executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation industry body, said making full expensing permanent was good news, but only for businesses \"in the sectors that can really benefit from it\".\n\nHe said services firms which make up \"the bulk of the economy - benefit far less\" compared with companies in the manufacturing and construction sectors.\n\nBut Robert Forrester, boss of one of Britain's biggest car dealerships, Vertu Motors, said he did not think making the move was a \"massive thing for most businesses\".\n\n\"For many British businesses, they're just trying to keep going,\" he told the BBC's Today programme prior to the chancellor's speech.\n\n\"They're not investing heavily in plants and machinery, but they're still very valid businesses that employ people and serve customers.\"\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank said there were \"serious trade-offs\" with making full expensing permanent, including creating \"a bias towards investing in qualifying plant and machinery rather than other assets\".\n\n\"The chancellor described the change as 'the biggest business tax cut in modern British history'. It is not,\" said Isaac Delestre, a research economist at the IFS.\n\nOther policy measures affecting business announced by the chancellor included:\n\nTina McKenzie, policy chair at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), said business rates were \"one of the absolute worst taxes faced by small firms\", adding that the chancellor was right to have concentrated on \"helping the smallest firms at the heart of so many communities\".\n\nBut Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium which represents retailers, said the announcements would \"not do enough to support shops, shoppers, and industry that employs over three million people\".\n\nShe said Mr Hunt had \"poured fuel on the fire spreading across our high streets with a tax hike on shops and other businesses\", due to his decision to allow business rates to rise in line with inflation.\n\n\"The country needs wholesale reform of our broken business rates system,\" Ms Dickinson added.\n\nAre you a small business owner or self-employed with a young family? How will the Autumn Statement affect you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:", "There is an excitable industry of guesswork at Westminster right now.\n\nIf anyone finds themselves lost for words - a rare affliction around here, it must be said - the gap is instantly filled by asking \"when do you reckon the election will be?\"\n\nWhat will follow, in considerable detail, are a range of perfectly lucid, plausible, thought through hypotheses assembled on a massive mountain of guesswork.\n\nThe Conservatives will want an election in May because spring is a better time for elections and it might catch Labour by surprise. The number of migrant small boat crossings will shoot up in the summer and they'll want the election done before then.\n\nThe Conservatives will want an election in the autumn because why wouldn't they make the most of their time in government and who knows what might turn up between now and then?\n\nAnd now this festival of estimates is cranking up another notch.\n\nAfter the Autumn Statement, with its promise to cut National Insurance for millions at the beginning of January, rather than by April as is standard after an autumn announcement, does that mean an election in May is more likely?\n\nThe Conservative Campaign Director Isaac Levido is expected back at Conservative Campaign Headquarters in the new year.\n\nLabour have recently moved into a new HQ themselves and are upping their preparations, as are the other parties too.\n\nAll we know for definite is an election has to happen, by law, by the tail end of January 2025.\n\nPrecisely when it happens prior to then is in the prime minister's gift.\n\nAnd so here is my advice on the off chance this parlour game so beloved here crops up in your day-to-day conversation.\n\nPlenty of potential signs of when it might happen probably tell us nothing definitive whatsoever, other than providing evidence for whatever your hunch was in the first place.\n\nWhat we can be pretty certain of is come January things will notch up.\n\nThe general election campaign year will be under way - the campaign has to begin next year, even if the election itself is held at the latest possible date of January 2025 - and all the parties will think, behave and prepare as though the election will be in the spring.\n\nAnd they will continue to behave as such until it physically can't be in the spring, but in the summer… and ditto the autumn, and, yes, the winter.\n\nAnd the only people who could know when polling day will be - the prime minister and a handful of his advisers - probably haven't decided definitively themselves yet, because they'll be driven by judgements a bit nearer the time.\n\nAnd as for everyone else, me included?\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVehicles were set on fire and shops looted in Dublin after a knife attack that left a number of people, including three children, injured.\n\nA five-year-old girl and a woman in her 30s were seriously hurt in the attack on Thursday afternoon.\n\nIt happened on Parnell Square East in the city centre, outside the Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire school.\n\nA man in his 40s who was also seriously injured is a person of interest, police said.\n\nThey added that they were not looking for any other people at this time and are following a definite line of inquiry.\n\nSources have indicated to the BBC that the man suspected of carrying out the attack is an Irish citizen, who has lived in the country for 20 years.\n\nThe head of An Garda Síochána (Irish police), Drew Harris, blamed the subsequent disorder on a \"lunatic, hooligan faction driven by a far-right ideology\", who engaged in violence as police tried to maintain the crime scene.\n\nThe streets are now \"mainly calm\", the Irish police have said, with no serious injuries reported as a result of the violence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCh Supt Patrick McMenamin said more than 400 officers remain on patrol after the disorder, which he blamed on \"gratuitous thuggery\".\n\n\"Some of my colleagues were attacked and assaulted, thankfully none were seriously injured and I commend them all on their bravery to protect our community,\" he added.\n\nIt is unclear how many arrests have been made, but Irish Justice Minister told Irish national broadcaster RTÉ that it was a significant number.\n\nRiot police were deployed after protesters gathered in the area near the scene of the attack.\n\nThe disorder centred on several streets in the city centre, including O'Connell Street.\n\nA number of vehicles were set on fire, including at least one police car, a tram and a bus.\n\nA shop on O'Connell Street was looted while the windows of other stores were smashed.\n\nTrinity College, which is nearby in the city centre, said it was in lockdown with all gates to its campus closed due to the disturbances.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar said extra police resources had been deployed.\n\nHe added that he had been shocked by the knife attack and said \"the facts in this matter are still emerging\".\n\nMr Harris urged people to \"act responsibly, not to listen to misinformation and rumour that is circulating on social media\".\n\n\"We know what happened, but the motive for this is entirely unclear.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the head of Ireland's National Bus and Railworkers' Union described those who targeted bus and trams as \"thugs\" and \"despicable people\".\n\nIn a press conference earlier, Supt Liam Geraghty said that the five-year-old girl is receiving emergency care in hospital, while another girl, aged six, and a five-year-old boy were less seriously hurt.\n\nHe added that although it is early in the investigation, gardaí (police) are confident that there is \"no terror-related activity\" and that it would appear to be a \"standalone attack\".\n\nThe incident happened on Parnell Square East, not far from O'Connell Street, one of Dublin's busiest streets\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins said that his thoughts were with the children and families affected by the incident.\n\n\"This appalling incident is a matter for the gardaí and that it would be used or abused by groups with an agenda that attacks the principle of social inclusion is reprehensible and deserves condemnation by all those who believe in the rule of law and democracy,\" he added.\n\nThe Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) said: \"Our hearts are with the entire school community of Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire following the horrendous incident that has taken place today.\"\n\nO'Connell Street is usually thought of as the gateway to Dublin city centre. But tonight, it was a chaotic and frightening scene.\n\nThe rioters have now largely dispersed but earlier, scores of them attacked police with fireworks and bricks. They set fire to a bus, a tram and at least one police vehicle.\n\nLooters broke into several shops, in the retail district on the northern side of the River Liffey.\n\nThe situation in Dublin has calmed, but a large number of police remain on the streets in riot gear.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Siobhan Kearney witnessed the stabbing in Dublin's city centre on Thursday.\n\nAn eyewitness told RTÉ how she and another bystander disarmed a man with a knife.\n\nSiobhan Kearney described the scene as \"bedlam\".\n\n\"Without thinking, I just took across the road to help out,\" she said.\n\n\"Two children and the woman were taken back into the school where they were coming from.\"\n\nOn the man with the knife, she said that he was on the ground and there were a lot of people trying to restrain him.\n\n\"Me and an American lady formed a ring around him saying we'd wait on the garda (police).\"\n\nIn a statement, the Irish Minister for Justice Helen McEntee said she was \"deeply shocked by the appalling attack\".\n\nShe added that her thoughts are with those injured, especially the children, their parents and families, during \"this extremely difficult period\".\n\nA number of police officers were attacked by crowds near the crime scene\n\nSinn Féin leader and Dublin Central TD (member of the Irish parliament) Mary Lou McDonald said the incident had sent \"shock and horror throughout the community\".\n\n\"My heart goes out to all the hurt and injured, the parents, teachers but especially the children who have been so traumatised,\" she added.\n\nLabour Party senator Marie Sherlock, who was in the area after the incident, said the children who were stabbed were queueing up to go to after-school care when they were attacked.\n\n\"While it is all very real today, I think the impact of the trauma tomorrow, next week and in the time after is really going to be very difficult.\"", "Teachers used swearing and poo emojis to criticise vulnerable primary school pupils in a WhatsApp group chat, BBC Scotland News can reveal.\n\nThe existence of the chat between staff at Aberdeenshire schools was first revealed last year but the affected pupils' parents were not informed.\n\nThe messages have now been obtained by the BBC and show derogatory exchanges about pupils and parents.\n\nAberdeenshire Council said nobody was put at risk from the messages.\n\nThe local authority has apologised for the situation and said the incident was dealt with through the council's disciplinary procedure.\n\nAn independent review last year ruled some of the messages were \"disparaging\" but did not put the children at harm and the council was right not to tell parents about them.\n\nBut Nick Hobbs, head of advice and investigations at the Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland, said the council got it wrong.\n\nHe said: \"We repeatedly made clear to the council that the children's rights issues engaged went beyond simply child protection.\n\n\"Of particular concern was the failure to tell the children and their families about the WhatsApp messages, either at the time or subsequently.\n\n\"This decision denied their right to complain, to seek redress, and to receive an apology from the council.\"\n\nIt is understood the independent reviewer into Aberdeenshire Council's handling of the situation did not speak to the commissioner's office during her investigation.\n\nThe WhatsApp messages, some of which date back to 2018, include comments about individual children and their behaviour in the classroom.\n\nIn one exchange about a pupil with additional support needs, a teacher refers to them as a \"complete little\" and then uses a four-letter swear word.\n\nThe teachers then go on to share their concerns about teaching the pupil again.\n\nElsewhere the pupils' parents also come in for criticism from the teachers.\n\nThere is a discussion about individuals' parenting decisions and then exchanges about pupil behaviour and the role of parents in this.\n\nIn a letter to Aberdeenshire Council in 2021, Scotland's children commissioner said the WhatsApp messages contained \"unprofessional, abusive and degrading\" references to children with additional support needs who attended schools in the area.\n\nAt the time of the first complaint about the messages, Aberdeenshire Council decided, after an internal investigation, not to tell the parents as they ruled the exchanges did not give any child protection concerns.\n\nThe council commissioned Mhairi Grant, chairwoman of a child protection committee in a different local authority area, to review its actions last year.\n\nShe concluded: \"The messages at the centre of this review were indiscreet and at some parts disparaging and certainly not what is expected from a professional working with children.\n\n\"However, I do not find that the messages themselves or any commentary therein gave cause for concern that a particular child or children in general had been harmed or were at risk of harm.\"\n\nLaurence Findlay, director of education and children's services at Aberdeenshire Council, said he was sorry the incident happened and that it was both \"unprofessional and unfortunate\".\n\nHe said: \"As soon as the incident came to light, it was dealt with through the council's disciplinary procedure.\n\n\"To parents of pupils at Aberdeenshire schools, it is important you know that the safety of your young people is our top priority.\n\n\"No young people were at placed at risk as a result of these messages being sent. This matter was dealt with appropriately and proportionately.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None Parents will not see teachers' 'disparaging' texts", "Ashley Dale was not the intended target of the shooting\n\nThe mother of a 28-year-old woman shot with a machine gun in her home faced her daughter's killers in court and called them \"monsters\" as they were jailed for her murder.\n\nAshley Dale was hit when James Witham burst into her Liverpool home and began firing after a feud with her boyfriend.\n\nFour men have each received minimum jail sentences of more than 41 years.\n\nMs Dale's mother Julie addressed the killers directly in an emotional statement from the witness box.\n\nShe said: \"I hope you all understand that I will never ever forgive you for the life sentence you have given to me and my family.\n\n\"Although I can now rest knowing that you monsters are going to pay for what you have done to me and my family and that you too have ruined your own lives and your families' lives.\n\n\"I hope my words haunt you all forever and you, James Witham. I hope when you go to sleep at night you too see my baby girl's face as I do every single night.\"\n\nWitham, who had his head in his hands, left the dock for a short period after she finished speaking.\n\nThe prosecution described the killing as \"an execution\".\n\nMs Dale's father Steven Dunne said he had been \"confined to a nightmare\" and \"history was repeating itself\" as his teenage son was also shot dead seven years ago.\n\nHe said: \"I am now sitting with my one remaining child, having been put through the trauma of yet another trial, listening to those verdicts being read out in relation to Ashley's murder.\n\n\"I have lost another child. A victim of big egos running around the city with powerful guns, involved in petty feuds and killing innocent people.\"\n\nAshley Dale's mother told of the damage the killing had done to the family\n\nWitham, 41, who used a Skorpion sub-machine gun in the killing, was ordered to serve a minimum term of 43 years.\n\nHis accomplices Niall Barry, 26, Sean Zeisz, 28, and Joseph Peers, 29, must serve prison sentences of at least 47, 42 and 41 years respectively.\n\nThe trial at Liverpool Crown Court heard how two of the men - Zeisz and Barry - were named as potential suspects in the shooting of schoolgirl Olivia Pratt-Korbel.\n\nThe court heard how Ms Dale's partner, Lee Harrison, who was not in the house at the time, had been the intended target of the shooting in August 2022.\n\nA feud with Barry over the theft of drugs had been reignited at Glastonbury festival in June that year.\n\nDuring the festival, Barry was heard threatening to stab Mr Harrison and Zeisz was assaulted by a group said to include Jordan Thompson - a friend of Mr Harrison's and member of the Hillside organised crime group with which he was associated.\n\nMs Dale, an environmental health officer, was killed when Witham, of Ashbury Road, Huyton, forced open the door of her home in the Old Swan area and began firing a Skorpion submachine gun.\n\nBarry, of Moscow Drive, Tuebrook, was described by the prosecution as a \"malign presence\" behind the killing.\n\nZeisz, of Longreach Road, Huyton, was found to have organised and encouraged the attack with Barry.\n\nPeers, of Woodlands Road, Roby, was described in court as a \"foot soldier\" who drove Witham to the scene and earlier helped Witham to stab tyres on Ms Dale's car in an attempt to lure the couple out of the house.\n\nThe court heard how in the final months of her life Ms Dale had voiced her mounting fears and anxieties in voice notes to her friends.\n\nThese messages proved instrumental in convicting those responsible, with some of the voice notes sent just 30 minutes before she was shot dead.\n\nNiall Barry, left, was described as a \"malign presence\" while Sean Zeisz encouraged the killing\n\nThe court heard Mr Harrison had been \"totally uncooperative\" with police ever since his girlfriend's murder.\n\nMrs Dale described to the court how \"time had stood still\" since her daughter's death.\n\n\"That day I not only lost my daughter, but my best friend. The night we got that dreaded knock that no parent or family should ever have to get,\" she said.\n\n\"Ashley's two younger sisters were sleeping peacefully in their beds upstairs. Then the reality set in, that I was going to have to tell them, their big sister they so adored was no longer here.\n\n\"No act or person deserves to die - but this I will never ever begin to understand or accept how this could have happened to my perfect beautiful girl, who had her whole life ahead of her.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Witham gave police a false name when he was held by officers\n\nKnowsley Council said she was a \"very popular\" member of staff and had recently been promoted.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"She was eager to learn and develop, and genuinely enjoyed helping people. She had her whole life ahead of her. Our thoughts remain with her family, friends and colleagues.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDet Ch Insp Cath Cummings, of Merseyside Police, described Ms Dale's murder as \"brutal and senseless\" in the \"safest place she thought she would be, her home\".\n\n\"As James Witham stormed into Ashley's home that night, wearing a balaclava, firing from a Skorpion sub-machine gun, he took away Ashley, an ambitious, bubbly, charismatic, young woman. The community rocked, her family and friends left devastated.\"\n\nAshley Dale's father Steven Dunne said he had been \"confined to a nightmare\"\n\nShe praised Ms Dale's family for their \"immense courage and composure\" while Mr Justice Julian Goose also commended them.\n\nHe said: \"I have been struck by the dignity you have shown and your personal statements - they were truly remarkable.\"\n\nThe judge told the men: \"Each of you is a dangerous offender.\n\n\"Ashley Dale was in the prime of her life and she was gunned down in her own home where she should have been safe.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "With more wet weather likely for Queensland, some people believe the worst is yet to come\n\nThousands of rats - dead and alive - have swept up on beaches in Queensland Australia, overwhelming residents.\n\nParts of the state have been battling a rat and mouse plague for months now.\n\nA surge in the native rodent population has forced the rats to move coastwards in their search for more food, but many do not survive the trip, according to experts quoted in local media.\n\n\"Mate, there's rats everywhere,\" Derek Lord, a resident from the town of Normanton, told AFP news agency.\n\n\"We have hire vehicles and they literally destroyed a car overnight, taking all of the wiring out of the engine bay,\" said Mr Lord, 49.\n\nHe added that his pet ducks had been \"going mad\" as rats broke into their cages.\n\nThe rats have also infested the neighbouring town of Karumba in the past few weeks and some residents worry they will have an adverse effect on tourism in the area, Australian media reported. Karumba is well-known as a fishing and birdwatching paradise.\n\nWarning: Some readers may find the following image and details disturbing.\n\nOne video posted on social media shows heaps of dead rats piled up by the water, while flies and other insects swarm around them. Another clip shows a large number of them floating in the river.\n\nThousands of dead rats have overrun the beaches in Australian's north\n\nThe surge in the rat population has been caused by a combination of ideal wet weather conditions for breeding and a bountiful harvest.\n\nWith more wet weather expected for Queensland, some people believe the worst is as yet to come.\n\nParts of Queensland and New South Wales - a south-eastern Australian state - have been experiencing a boom in rodent numbers, Australia's national science agency said in a 2021 article.\n\nMouse populations have reached plague conditions not seen since 2011, it said.\n\n\"We've heard there are still more that are coming,\" Jemma Probert, a fishing charter owner in Karumba, told AFP.\n\n\"It's not a good thing to leave Karumba remembering,\" she said.\n• None 'The ground just moves with mice'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA crane operator has rescued a worker from a roof close to a burning building.\n\nFirefighters were called to the Station Hill development in Reading, which has since been cordoned off, at 11:40 GMT.\n\nVideo footage from social media shows a person being lifted by a crane from the roof of a building, prompting applause from a crowd below.\n\nCrane operator Glen Edwards said it had been a \"very close call\" due to swirling winds.\n\n\"I looked out my left-hand window and saw a guy standing on the corner of the building,\" said the 65-year-old, from Egham, Surrey.\n\n\"I'd only just seen him and someone said 'can you get the cage on', so that was it, I got the cage on and got it over to him the best I could.\n\n\"I tried to put the cage down between him and the flames, but I was hampered by the wind swirling around there.\n\n\"But I got the cage down and I managed to get him in there.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 50 firefighters were called to fight the blaze at Station Hill in Reading\n\nThe blaze, which created a huge amount of black smoke, has now been been put out by Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service.\n\nGroup Manager Chris Hearn said during the incident another person was also rescued using a crane.\n\nSouth Central Ambulance Service said two people were taken to the Royal Berkshire Hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation, but neither case was severe.\n\nLocal residents and businesses were urged to avoid the area, stay indoors and to keep windows closed.\n\nMore than 50 firefighters attended the blaze, along with the air ambulance and an incident command unit.\n\nTom Canning, who was on his way to a meeting, said there were crowds of people watching the fire from below.\n\nHe said: \"I worked out as I walked closer to my office that it was the new development on Station Hill - it looked horrific, just massive plumes of black smoke.\n\n\"The crane operator was just incredibly brave to rescue that worker.\"\n\nThe fire in Reading town centre sent up thick, black smoke that could be seen for miles around\n\nSteve Reynolds works in a building 100 yards away from where the fire started.\n\nHe said: \"I saw a black cloud go up and a ball of flames happen and all of a sudden I could see there was a guy trapped on the corner.\n\n\"There were bits of glass falling off the side of the building and he was completely exposed up there.\n\n\"Then all of a sudden a crane came out from the left with a carriage on it and they lowered it down… and he gets in and they pull him away.\n\n\"There was a massive cheer from all the workers on the ground. It was pretty terrifying.\"\n\nPeter, who runs a local cafe, said the fire was \"really quite dramatic - thick billowing smoke and lots of flames\".\n\n\"We immediately got rid of all our customers - that's all we could think to do,\" he said.\n\nAaron, who was a bystander, said it was the \"most devastating thing\" he had seen in his life.\n\n\"I thought the flames and smoke were going to break the glass,\" he added.\n\nThe fire service said all people had been accounted for\n\nAnother witness said: \"I was in the next door building, there was a guy standing up there, luckily the crane came in just in time.\n\n\"He was coughing [when he came down], from the smoke.\n\n\"When he got inside the crane and the crane put him down everyone was clapping.\n\n\"The crane operator was very fast. He was still in the crane while the building was on fire.\"\n\nRedwood Consulting, on behalf of the Station Hill redevelopment project, said: \"We activated our fire emergency plans immediately, the emergency services were notified and are currently on site.\n\n\"The safety of those on site and the wider public is always our first priority, and the site has been evacuated as a result.\"\n\nLocal residents and businesses were urged to avoid the area, stay indoors and to keep windows closed\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, X, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Net migration into the UK was a record 745,000 last year, figures show - far higher than originally thought.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data published on Thursday show that experts have revised up previous estimates.\n\nIn May, it said net migration - the difference between the number of people coming to live in the UK and those leaving - for 2022 had been 606,000, 139,000 lower than the true figure.\n\nNo 10 said migration was \"far too high\" but it was taking action.\n\nPM Rishi Sunak's spokesman said migration was putting \"unsustainable pressure on communities and councils\" and it was clamping down on dependents of students arriving in the UK. \"We believe there is more to do,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said \"shockingly high\" net migration represented \"a failure not just of immigration, but also of asylum and of the economy\".\n\nThe ONS said the population of England and Wales grew by an estimated 1% in the year to June 2022 - the fastest rate since the baby boom in the 1960s, but this time it was driven by international migration.\n\nBut it cautioned its estimates could be revised again - and provisional figures to June of this year suggest the rate of net migration may now be slowing.\n\nStatisticians said in the year to June net migration fell back to 672,000, after 1.2 million people came to live in the UK for at least a year, and 508,000 left.\n\nThe vast majority (968,000) arriving were from countries outside the European Union.\n\nStudents accounted for the largest group of non-EU migrants, also true of last year.\n\nBut there has been an increase in workers arriving with visas to fill chronic staff shortages in the NHS and social care, the ONS said.\n\nArrivals of people via humanitarian routes have fallen from 19% to 9% over the same period, the ONS said, with most of these made up of Ukrainians and British Nationals (Overseas) arrivals from Hong Kong.\n\nThey said estimates showed a marked change in immigration since 2021 following Brexit - when free movement for EU nationals ended, the easing of travel restrictions after the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.\n\nHowever, the ONS said it was too early to know whether the latest falling net migration figure was the start of a downward trend, but recent estimates did indicate a slowing of immigration coupled with increasing emigration.\n\nWith more than a decade of Conservative-led governments promising to reduce numbers, these latest figures represent a political challenge for the prime minister.\n\nBack in 2010, David Cameron, former Tory PM now foreign secretary, pledged to get net migration below 100,000 - \"no ifs, no buts\". And the party's 2019 manifesto also committed to bring the rate down, without setting a specific target.\n\nHome Secretary James Cleverly said the government remained \"completely committed\" to reducing levels of legal migration while also focusing on \"stopping the boats\", referring to the issue of people making dangerous English Channel crossings in small boats.\n\nHe said the ONS figures did not show a \"significant increase from last year's figures\" and pointed to \"a number of important and positive changes\" affecting them.\n\n\"The biggest drivers of immigration to the UK are students and healthcare workers - [they] are testament to both our world-leading university sector and our ability to use our immigration system to prioritise the skills we need,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he was \"proud\" the UK had welcomed more than half a million people through humanitarian routes, principally from Hong Kong, Ukraine and Afghanistan, over the last decade but said they still needed to reduce numbers by \"eliminating the abuse and exploitation of our visa system by both companies and individuals\".\n\nSome Conservative MPs are not convinced by his argument however.\n\nThe New Conservative group, on the right of the party, called for Rishi Sunak to \"act now\" on the \"do or die\" issue and propose a package of measures to bring down migration.\n\n\"Each of us made a promise to the electorate. We don't believe that such promises can be ignored,\" the group, led by Miriam Cates, Danny Kruger and Sir John Hayes, said in a statement.\n\nIt is understood the government is considering some new measures, including:\n\nDowning Street said any next steps needed to be carefully considered.\n\nLabour has criticised the government for the cost of using hotels to house asylum seekers who make up a tiny proportion of overall migration.\n\nHome Office figures, also published on Thursday, showed hotel use reached a record high in September - despite a slight fall in the asylum backlog.\n\nThere were 56,042 people in hotel accommodation, while 58,444 people were in \"dispersed\" accommodation - usually housing provided by the Home Office through private companies.\n\nThe number of people in hotels rose by 5,500 over three months while the number in housing stayed broadly the same.\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the number of asylum seekers in hotels was 10,000 more than when Rishi Sunak promised to end hotel use - and was costing almost £3bn a year.\n\n\"Once again, the British taxpayer is footing the bill for the Conservatives' chaos,\" she said.\n\nThe population of England and Wales was estimated to be 60.2 million mid-2022, an increase of around 578,000 - or 1% - since 2021.\n\nThe ONS's Neil Park said: \"Unlike the baby boom driving population growth in the 1960s, the increases in our latest estimates are predominately being driven by international migration.\"\n\nHe said the picture varied across regions, with growth higher in the north of England than the south, and lowest in London.\n\nProf Brian Bell told the BBC's World At One programme net migration \"is very high in the UK relative to historical trends\", adding: \"But there's probably some indication it's beginning to fall. I wouldn't want to bet my house on it, but I think the indications are that we've reached the peak.\"\n\nHe said the Government should raise the salary thresholds related to the skilled worker route - which have not been increased for a number of years - as a way to reduce net migration.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The less than perfectly straight Christmas tree has got residents of March talking\n\nA \"wonky\" Christmas tree erected in a town has been causing a stir among residents.\n\nThe tree, which is about 30ft (9m) high, has a pronounced lean at the top and sits on Market Place, in the Cambridgeshire town of March.\n\nResident Kimberly Williams said: \"The Italians have got the leaning tower of Pisa - March has now got the leaning tree of Christmas.\"\n\nVolunteers who erected the tree said it was like that when they got it.\n\nDozens of people commented when a photograph of the wonky tree was posted on a local Facebook group.\n\nSome called it \"embarrassing\" while others praised the work of volunteers from the March Christmas Lights Committee who are responsible for erecting the tree and decorating it.\n\nKimberly Williams said it was possible the leaning tree would make the Fenland town famous\n\nMs Williams, 50, said: \"It's better than last year, but it's a bit wonky isn't it? It's a bit on the lean.\"\n\nBut, she added she was grateful that the town did actually have a real tree.\n\n\"I think we should be proud of it\", she said, agreeing its imperfections could become the unique selling point for the Fenland town.\n\nRobert Moat, 64, who lives in March, told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire: \"I've been here four years and the tree's been wonky every year, but at least they make the effort to put something up.\"\n\nAnne Conroy said she would be worried if she was the fairy on top of this tree\n\nDavid Williams, 51, said he had some concerns about whether the tree was safe - because it was leaning.\n\n\"It's a bit of a disappointment to the community,\" he said.\n\n\"There's no symmetry to it at all, but we love coming down with the kids to see the lights turned on, so we're just hoping the lights are going to do the trick.\"\n\nAnne Conroy, 88, agreed, and said she would not personally like to be the fairy trying to balance on the top of this particular tree.\n\n\"It's certainly leaning, it's dangerous,\" she said.\n\nOne resident said it might look better once all the lights are on\n\nReplying to criticism on social media, the lights committee wrote that members had ordered the tree almost a year ago and it was \"down to the supplier/luck as to what overall size/condition of tree we receive in the end\".\n\n\"We will pass the feedback we received regarding the tree not being straight to the supplier in the hopes that next year's tree is a better one,\" they added.\n\nMartin Field, a town councillor and member of the lights committee, told the BBC the tree had been donated to the town by a local business.\n\nHe said the tree had been put in place by a professional tree surgeon but the trunk was bent - \"so it's in the ground as it should be, but that's what he had to work with\".\n\n\"We always have a nice big tree and it's a focal point.\n\n\"Huge numbers of people will come along and enjoy Friday's Christmas lights switch-on and we don't want a few negative comments to distract from the joy of this.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dramatic footage shared on social media shows a crane rescuing a worker from a roof close to a burning building.\n\nRoyal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service was called to a premises on Station Hill in Reading, which has since been cordoned off, at 11:40 GMT.\n\nVideo footage from social media shows a person being lifted by a crane from the roof of a building, prompting applause from a crowd below.\n\nThe blaze, which created a huge amount of black smoke, has now been put out by the fire service.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, X, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Suella Braverman has said the pressure on public services from migration is \"unsustainable\", after figures estimated record levels last year.\n\nThe former home secretary said the government must \"act now\" to cut the numbers coming to the UK.\n\nNet migration - the difference between the number of people coming to live in the UK and those leaving - was a record 745,000 last year, ONS figures show.\n\nNo 10 said migration was \"far too high\" but it was acting to bring it down.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said this included clamping down on dependants of students coming to the UK and increasing visa costs.\n\nBut Mrs Braverman, who was sacked from her cabinet role last week, said the record figures were \"a slap in the face to the British public who have voted to control and reduce migration at every opportunity\".\n\nShe added: \"The pressure on housing, the NHS, schools, wages, and community cohesion, is unsustainable. When do we say: enough is enough?\"\n\nAs home secretary, Mrs Braverman said she had called for measures including an annual cap on net migration, closing the graduate visa route, and a cap on health and social care visas.\n\n\"Brexit gave us the tools. It's time to use them,\" she added.\n\nOther Tory MPs, including former cabinet ministers Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and Sir Simon Clarke, have also called for more action to bring down migration.\n\nThe New Conservatives group, which is on the right of the party, described the issue as \"do or die\" for the party.\n\n\"Each of us made a promise to the electorate. We don't believe that such promises can be ignored,\" the group, led by Miriam Cates, Danny Kruger and Sir John Hayes, said in a statement.\n\nBack in 2010, Lord David Cameron, the former Tory PM who was appointed foreign secretary in last week's reshuffle, pledged to get net migration below 100,000 - but the commitment has never been met.\n\nThe party's 2019 manifesto also promised to bring overall numbers down, without setting a specific target, after the introduction of post-Brexit border controls.\n\nIt is understood the government is considering some new measures to cut migration, including:\n\nFigures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) earlier on Thursday revised up previous estimates for net migration for 2022 from 606,000 to 745,000.\n\nIt cautioned its estimates could be revised again - and provisional figures to June of this year suggest the rate of net migration may now be slowing.\n\nStatisticians said in the year to June net migration fell back to 672,000, after 1.2 million people came to live in the UK for at least a year, and 508,000 left.\n\nHowever, the ONS said it was too early to know whether the latest falling net migration figure was the start of a downward trend.\n\nThe vast majority (968,000) arriving were from countries outside the European Union.\n\nStudents accounted for the largest group of non-EU migrants, which was also true last year.\n\nBut there has been an increase in workers arriving with visas to fill chronic staff shortages in the NHS and social care, the ONS said.\n\nArrivals of people via humanitarian routes have fallen from 19% to 9% over the same period, the ONS added, with most of these made up of Ukrainians and British Nationals (Overseas) arrivals from Hong Kong.\n\nHome Secretary James Cleverly said the government remained committed to reducing levels of legal migration, as well as eliminating abuse of the visa system.\n\nHe said the ONS figures did not show a \"significant increase from last year's figures\" and pointed to \"a number of important and positive changes\" affecting them.\n\n\"The biggest drivers of immigration to the UK are students and healthcare workers - [they] are testament to both our world-leading university sector and our ability to use our immigration system to prioritise the skills we need,\" he said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said \"shockingly high\" net migration represented \"a failure not just of immigration, but also of asylum and of the economy\".\n\nThe SNP's home affairs spokeswoman, Alison Thewliss, said: \"The Westminster obsession with net migration figures just strengthens the need for Scotland to have the full powers of independence and control over migration.\n\n\"The Tories are simply hiding the fact the UK government is failing to attract the talent we need in key sectors to boost our economy and NHS through their obsession with these figures.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The UK economy will grow much more slowly than expected in the next two years as inflation takes longer to fall, the government's forecaster says.\n\nLiving standards are also not expected to return to pre-pandemic levels until 2027-28, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said.\n\nIt comes as the chancellor announced tax cuts and a rise in benefits in his Autumn Statement.\n\nLabour said people were still paying for \"Tory economic recklessness\".\n\nThe OBR, which is independent from government, publishes two sets of economic forecasts a year, which are used to predict what will happen to government finances.\n\nThese are based on its best guess about what will happen, and are subject to change.\n\nAccording to the watchdog, the UK will grow by 0.6% this year - considerably better than what it expected last autumn, when it predicted the economy would fall into recession and shrink.\n\nHowever, it slashed its growth outlook to 0.7% in 2024 and 1.4% in 2025 - down from a previous forecast of 1.8% and 2.5%.\n\n\"The economy has proved more resilient to the shocks of the pandemic and energy crisis than we anticipated. But inflation has also been more persistent and interest rates higher than [forecast] in March,\" it said.\n\nThe OBR warned that inflation - currently 4.6% - will only fall to 2.8% by the end of 2024, before reaching the Bank of England's 2% target in 2025.\n\nPreviously it forecast inflation would easily beat the target next year.\n\nAnd it said that UK living standards, as measured by households' real disposable income, were expected to be 3.5% lower in 2024-25 than their pre-pandemic level, before returning to normal several years later.\n\nThis drop would be less sharp than previously expected, but still represent \"the largest reduction in real living standards since Office for National Statistics records began in the 1950s\".\n\nThe economy has been struggling with a combination of high inflation, rising interest rates and flagging consumer demand, which is weighing on growth.\n\nIn slightly more pessimistic forecasts put out earlier this month by the Bank of England, the central bank said it expected the UK to see almost no growth at all in 2024 and 2025.\n\nThe Bank has put up interest rates 14 times since December 2021 to tackle soaring price rises, leaving them at 5.25% - a 15-year high - at its last two meetings.\n\nThe idea is this makes borrowing money more expensive, dampening demand and slowing price rises. But higher interest rates also tend to make businesses less likely to invest which can drag on the economy.\n\nAnd while rates for savers have risen, so have mortgage rates, putting pressure on households.\n\nThis has hit property prices, which the OBR said would fall by around 4.7% in 2024.\n\nDelivering his Autumn Statement, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said the UK was growing faster than the eurozone but that productivity needed to improve.\n\nHe said the private sector was more productive in the US, Germany and France because they invested more, but added that his new proposals such as removing planning red tape, helping entrepreneurs raise capital and cutting business taxes would \"help close that gap\".\n\nMr Hunt added that government borrowing and debt - which have risen sharply as interest rates have gone up - would be lower than the OBR previously forecast in both 2024 and 2025.\n\n\"Some of this improvement is from higher tax receipts from a stronger economy, but we also maintain a disciplined approach to public spending,\" he said.", "Nella Rose questioned Nigel Farage on his attitudes towards immigration\n\nNella Rose has accused Nigel Farage of being anti-immigration on Wednesday's episode of ITV's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!\n\nThe YouTuber said the former politician wanted people like her \"gone\" from the UK whilst discussing his policies to reduce immigration.\n\nRose said she had read online that Farage was \"anti-immigrants\".\n\nShe also asked why black people didn't like him.\n\nFormer UKIP and Brexit Party leader Farage replied by saying \"You'd be amazed, they do,\" and Rose replied: \"So everyone hates you for no reason?\"\n\nFarage responded: \"You can disagree with somebody, but to chuck around accusations the way they've been chucked around is grossly unfair.\n\n\"Anti-immigrant, right? No, no, all I've said is we cannot go on with the numbers coming to Britain that are coming.\"\n\nWhilst standing in the bath area of the camp, Rose pressed Farage on what the \"problem\" was with immigration and added that as someone who moved to the UK as a child she was \"one of those numbers\".\n\nFarage, who currently works as a presenter on GB News, said the number of people entering the UK was affecting GP appointments.\n\nRose, who has one million followers on Instagram and TikTok, replied: \"I'm stopping you getting a GP appointment? You're not getting an appointment because the NHS is lacking funding.\n\n\"I bet you anything if every single immigrant or from immigrant descent was to leave the UK, all your doctors gone, most of your doctors are Asian right? Most of your nurses are African women, right?\n\n\"You want us gone, that's all I understood.\"\n\nFarage then said Rose was not listening to him, before adding: \"We can agree to disagree.\"\n\nNella Rose and Fred Sirieix had a heated conversation earlier in the week.\n\nIt's not the first time that Farage has been questioned on his political beliefs in the I'm A Celebrity camp.\n\nOn Monday's episode he was criticised by fellow contestant, First Dates star Fred Sirieix, about a poster he used in his campaign for the UK to leave the European Union during the 2016 referendum.\n\nSirieix said it was \"shameful\", adding that Farage was \"demonising migrants\".\n\nFarage replied: \"In your view it was, but it wasn't.\"\n\nSirieix also had a disagreement with Rose earlier in the week after a row around the campfire when he was cooking.\n\nDiscussing his bad eyesight, he told Nella: \"I'm 51. I'm not 26 any more am I? I could be your dad\".\n\nRose, who had previously told him she had lost both her parents, said the comment made her feel \"disrespected\" and despite a later apology from Sirieix, added she no longer wanted to talk to him.\n\nThis year's show is attracting lower viewing figures than last year, with the injection of two new contestants hoping to provide a boost.\n\nJockey Frankie Dettori and retired professional boxer Tony Bellew were announced as late arrivals on the show on Wednesday evening.\n\nIt was watched by 6.18m people, which includes live viewing and some, but not all of those who streamed the episode online.", "Yannai and Liel Hetzroni-Heller, 12-year-old twins, were killed in an attack on their kibbutz\n\nFor the father of 12-year-old twins Yannai and Liel Hetzroni-Heller the last few weeks have been filled with agonising waits and devastating news.\n\nIt was nearly six weeks after the attacks by Hamas in Israel before Gavin Heller, from London, had confirmation that both his children had been killed.\n\nThe twins were killed at Kibbutz Be'eri with their great-aunt and grandfather.\n\nMr Heller said so little was found of Liel's body that some of her toys were buried at a ceremony instead.\n\n\"I don't even know how to put this into words,\" he told the BBC. \"They just found remnants of Liel... initially they didn't have enough pieces to make a formal identification. They identified her literally by sieving the remnants. This will unfortunately live with me for the rest of my life.\"\n\nIsraeli media has reported the children, who were British-Israeli, were held hostage by Hamas gunmen in a building that caught fire during a stand-off with Israeli forces.\n\nHis daughter was finally identified just five days ago, with the help of forensic archaeologists. \"I was literally inconsolable with grief, not finding her body and at least having something to bury.\"\n\nThe children's great-aunt, who helped raise them after their mother suffered brain damage giving birth, and their grandfather were also murdered. Mr Heller believes they were killed for just one reason.\n\n\"It's something that is such a shock that people can do this to other human beings just because they were Jewish.\n\n\"There was no other reason why these Hamas terrorists came in the kibbutz other than to kill, murder, maim Jewish children, babies, parents and old people all because they lived in the Jewish homeland.\"\n\nMr Heller says Liel was \"a bundle of energy, an extrovert. She loved to perform. She was like a princess. She was very popular and liked to be the centre of attention.\"\n\nHe said Yannai was a very sporty child who loved tennis, football and basketball.\n\n\"He had a shyness about him that I think everyone respected... he was a lovely boy who was really coming into his own in terms of his character and personality.\"\n\nHe mourns the life the twins will not now have.\n\n\"They really loved each other and unfortunately they will never be able to live their life to do what they wanted to do in the future and that really is a crying shame, an absolute tragedy... I won't watch them grow up, I will never see them get married, I will never see the flourish as normal teenagers would.\"\n\nMr Heller, who lives in the UK, recalled the agony of not knowing what had happened to his children for weeks after the attack on 7 October.\n\n\"It was just an utter sense of fear, terror... not knowing whether they were hostages in Gaza. The worst thing is I wasn't able to protect them... and being in London not knowing where they were. It was agonising, absolutely agonising.\"\n\nBefore the attack occurred, Mr Heller had been due to visit his children in October. Liel, he said, had asked him to bring her some perfume.\n\n\"I have lost both my children who I cared for deeply and loved.\"\n\nThere were 1,200 Israelis killed by Hamas on 7 October and more than 200 still being held hostage in Gaza.\n\nMr Heller has one wish. \"Something of this magnitude should never happen again. The world must come together and ensure this awful atrocity should never happen, ever, ever again.\"", "Today marked a major milestone in almost two months of intense fighting between Israel and Hamas.\n\nThe first Israeli hostages were released hours after the war began its four-day truce this morning.\n\nA total of 24 hostages were returned to Israel - 13 Israelis, 10 Thais and one Filipino - which in turn released 39 Palestinian prisoners to the West Bank as part of a deal during a temporary ceasefire.\n\nThere were rare scenes of celebration as crowds gathered to watch a helicopter carrying eight freed Israeli hostages arrive at a children's hospital in Petah Tikva, after they spent almost seven weeks being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nAround 137 aid lorries carrying much-needed medical supplies, fuel and food entered Gaza from Egypt. It's the biggest delivery of supplies since the start of the conflict but Oxfam pointed out it would not be \"nearly enough\".\n\nDespite the ceasefire, videos circulated on social media that appear to show Palestinians being shot at as they tried to head from the south of Gaza to the north of the Strip. The Israeli military had advised people against heading north, saying \"the humanitarian pause is temporary, and the northern region of Gaza is a war zone\".\n\nMeanwhile the \"catastrophic\" situation at Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital continues, according to a surgeon there. Israeli troops had moved in last week claiming Hamas operates out of the hospital - which it denies. An estimated 100 patients and staff are thought to still be at the biggest medical facility in Gaza but it is no longer operational.\n\nSo what could tomorrow bring? US President Joe Biden described today's hostage releases as \"the start of a process\", and Israeli media reported Hamas has sent a list of 13 more hostages expected to be released tomorrow to Israel.\n\nAs fighting pauses for now, a reminder of how we got here - on 7 October Hamas launched an attack on Israel in which 1,200 people were killed and 240 taken hostage.\n\nIsrael launched a retaliatory campaign, in which Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says more than 14,500 people have been killed.", "Scotland's only oil refinery could cease operations as soon as 2025 under plans announced by owners Petroineos.\n\nThe company said Grangemouth had been facing significant challenges because of global market pressures.\n\nPetroineos intends to turn the site into a fuels import terminal which would result in the loss of at least 400 jobs.\n\nWork to transform the site is expected to take 18 months.\n\nThe refining business at Grangemouth is owned by Petroineos which is a joint venture between Chinese state-owned PetroChina and London-based Ineos.\n\nAbout 2,000 people are directly employed at Grangemouth including 500 at the refinery, 450 on the Forties pipeline from the North Sea and a further 1,000 in the Ineos petrochemicals business.\n\nSome 100 staff would be needed for the planned import terminal.\n\nPetroineos said the timescale for the transition had \"not yet been determined\", but the work was expected to take about 18 months, so refinery operations were expected to continue until Spring 2025.\n\nThe firm said its new terminal would be able to import petrol, diesel, aviation fuel and kerosene into Scotland.\n\nPetroineos said it was working closely on the project with a \"range of interested parties\", including the Scottish and UK governments, and said it would provide more information in due course.\n\nClimate protesters took action at Grangemouth in July\n\nFranck Demay, chief executive officer at Petroineos Refining, said it was \"business-as-usual\" for the time being.\n\nHe said: \"As the energy transition gathers pace, this is a necessary step in adapting our business to reflect the decline in demand for the type of fuels we produce.\n\n\"As a prudent operator, we must plan accordingly, but the precise timeline for implementing any change has yet to be determined.\n\n\"This is the start of a journey to transform our operation from one that manufactures fuel products, into a business that imports finished fuel products for onward distribution to customers.\"\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said the scale of the job losses could be \"quite significant\" and the Scottish government was ready to work with the business and trade unions.\n\n\"This will be a very worrying time for the workers that are impacted by this,\" he said.\n\nAsked if his government bore some responsibility for the situation, he said oil and gas licensing decisions are made by the UK government.\n\nBut he stressed the importance of a \"just transition\" and \"taking the workers with us on the journey towards a sustainable future\".\n\nMr Yousaf added: \"We're at very early stages. We've just heard the announcement of what could potentially happen in the future.\n\n\"The job of government now is to work closely with the owners, with trade unions, to ensure a sustainable future for our country.\"\n\nOil operations at Grangemouth can be traced back to 1919. The refinery, established in 1924, was one of the first crude oil refineries in the UK.\n\nGrangemouth was run by Innovene until 2005. Ineos - owned by one of Britain's richest men Jim Ratcliffe - bought Innovene in a £5bn takeover.\n\nIn 2019 plans were announced to build a £350m energy plant at the site, as part of a £1bn investments in the UK oil and chemical industries.\n\nTrade union Unite has said it would \"leave no stone unturned\" in its fight to save jobs at Grangemouth.\n\nSharon Graham, the union's general secretary, said: \"This proposal clearly raises concerns for the livelihoods of our members but also poses major questions over energy supply and security going forward.\"\n\nDerek Thomson, the union's Scottish secretary, added: \"Every option must be on the table in order to secure the hundreds of highly skilled jobs based at the Grangemouth complex for the long-term.\"\n\nThe refinery is a primary supplier of aviation fuel for Scotland's airports, and a major supplier of petrol and diesel in central Scotland.\n\nThe 1,700-acre site supplies 70% of the fuel to Scotland's filling stations as well as Northern Ireland and the north of England.\n\nIt also provides power to the Forties oil pipeline, which brings oil and gas ashore from the North Sea.\n\nAccording to Petroineos, the refinery is responsible for 4% of Scotland's GDP and approximately 8% of its manufacturing base.\n\nHowever, economists at the Fraser of Allander Institute dispute this, suggesting a lower GDP figure of around 0.25% to 0.3%.\n\nIn July, climate protestors blocked the entrance to the refinery and climbed on equipment within the site. Police had to use a crane to remove them. 20 people were arrested during the incident.\n\nLast August, Grangemouth staff were among thousands at energy sites across the UK who voted in favour of strike action over pay. And in October 2022 an unofficial walkout was also held by contractors.\n\nThe Grangemouth complex has dominated the night skyline of central Scotland for decades.\n\nWith the ability to handle 150,000 barrels of oil per day, the facility on the Firth of Forth is one of only six refineries remaining in the UK.\n\nIt imports crude oil via the Finnart terminal which opened at Loch Long on the Firth of Clyde in 1951 and also handles North Sea crude transported via the Forties pipeline.\n\nPetroineos itself says Grangemouth is of \"strategic importance\" to Scotland's energy supply and economic development.", "Margarita was just 10 months when she was taken from the home\n\nA key political ally of Vladimir Putin has adopted a child seized from a Ukrainian children's home, according to documents uncovered by BBC's Panorama.\n\nSergey Mironov, the 70-year-old leader of a Russian political party, is named on the adoption record of a two-year-old girl who was taken in 2022 by a woman he is now married to.\n\nRecords show the girl's identity was changed in Russia.\n\nMr Mironov has not responded to the investigation's specific allegations.\n\nBut on Thursday morning he posted a general criticism on his Telegram account about false information attacks on him and his family.\n\nThe child, originally named Margarita, was one of 48 who went missing from Kherson Regional Children's Home when Russian forces took control of the city.\n\nThey are among about 20,000 children who, according to the Ukrainian government, have been taken by Russian forces since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022.\n\nEarlier this year the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for President Vladimir Putin and his Commissioner for Children's Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, for the alleged illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to Russian-controlled territory, with the intention of permanently removing them from their own country.\n\nThe Russian government says it does not deport Ukrainian children, but does evacuate them to give them protection from the war.\n\nThe BBC worked with Ukrainian human rights investigator Victoria Novikova to find out what happened to Margarita and the other children. Ms Novikova has prepared a dossier of new evidence for Ukraine's prosecutor-general's office, which will hand it to the ICC.\n\nThe mystery surrounding Margarita began when a woman in a lilac dress turned up at Kherson's children's hospital, where the 10-month-old was being treated for a bout of bronchitis in August 2022.\n\nMargarita was the youngest resident of the local children's home, which looked after children who had medical problems, or whose parents had lost custody of them or had died.\n\nMargarita's mother had given up custody shortly after her birth, and her father's whereabouts were unknown.\n\nDr Nataliya Lyutikova, who led infant treatment at the hospital, said she was a smiley baby who loved cuddling people.\n\nThe woman in lilac introduced herself as \"the head of children's affairs from Moscow\", Dr Lyutikova recalls.\n\nKherson - now back under Ukrainian control - was then in its sixth month of Russian occupation.\n\nSoon after the woman left, Dr Lyutikova says she received repeated phone calls from a Russian-appointed official, who had recently been put in charge of the children's home. The official demanded that Margarita be sent back to the home immediately.\n\nWithin a week, Margarita was discharged from the hospital. The following morning, staff at the children's home were asked to prepare her for a journey.\n\n\"We were afraid, everyone was afraid,\" said Lyubov Sayko, a nurse at the home.\n\nShe described how Russian men - some in military-style camouflage trousers, one in black glasses and holding a briefcase - had arrived to collect the girl.\n\n\"It was like something out of a film,\" she said.\n\nBut this was just the start.\n\nRussian MP Igor Kastyukevich (left) organised the loading of children onto buses\n\nSeven weeks later, Igor Kastyukevich, a Russian MP dressed in military fatigues, arrived at the home and, with other officials, began to organise the deportation of the remaining children, including Margarita's half-brother Maxym.\n\n\"They took them from our hands and carried them out,\" Ms Sayko said.\n\nVideo footage - posted on Telegram by Mr Kastyukevich - showed the children, bundled up in their outdoor clothing, being carried into buses and ambulances, and driven away.\n\n\"The children will be taken to safe conditions in Crimea,\" Mr Kastyukevich said, as the children were loaded up. Crimea was annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014. Mr Kastyukevich portrayed the event as a humanitarian mission.\n\nFor five months, the BBC has been trying to trace Margarita and the other 47 children, working with Victoria Novikova.\n\nFinding lost children in a place as vast as Russia, a country of more than 17 million sq km (6.6 million sq miles), is no easy task.\n\nThe first job was to identify the mysterious woman in lilac who visited Margarita in the hospital last August.\n\nThe \"woman in lilac\" (centre) later identified as Inna Varlamova\n\nVictoria uncovered a Russian document which authorised Margarita's transfer to a Moscow hospital for medical tests. A woman was named on the document: Inna Varlamova. A search on social media confirmed she was the mysterious woman in lilac.\n\nWe then showed a photo of Ms Varlamova to Dr Lyutikova and she identified her as the same woman who had visited Margarita on the children's ward.\n\nAfter further searches, we discovered that Ms Varlamova works in Russia's parliament, though it is not clear in what capacity, and owns property in Podolsk, near Moscow.\n\nWe had solved part of the mystery. But questions remained.\n\n\"Margarita did not need a special examination,\" said Dr Lyutikova, speaking of the night the child was taken.\n\n\"Why take a small child so far away?\"\n\nPanorama investigates what happened to more than 40 children taken by Russian forces from a children's home in Kherson. The film-makers, working with journalists in Ukraine, uncover birth certificates, a secret adoption and a trail of evidence leading all the way to the Russian parliament.\n\nWith Inna Varlamova's name in hand Panorama then acquired train records from sources inside Russia. These showed that she arrived in occupied Ukraine on the same day that witnesses say Margarita was taken from the children's home.\n\nLater that night, at 12:20, Ms Varlamova took the train back to Moscow, with extra return tickets.\n\nMargarita, the evidence suggests, was spirited out on this midnight train.\n\nA Russian source then delivered another crucial piece of information: a document showing Ms Varlamova had recently married political party leader Sergey Mironov.\n\nMr Mironov, a former paratrooper, is the leader of Just Russia Party - part of Russia's state-authorised opposition - and supports President Putin. He has been sanctioned by a number of Western countries, including the UK and the EU.\n\nWe accessed a birth record, created last December, for a 14-month-old girl named \"Marina\". The child's parents were named as Inna Varlamova and Sergey Mironov. The entry was irregular, showing no original record of the child's birth.\n\n\"Marina's\" birthday was listed as 31 October 2021 - the same day Margarita was born.\n\n\"When I saw Marina's birthday was the same as Margarita's, I realised it was 'bingo',\" said Victoria.\n\nThrough anonymous Russian sources, our team has now been given Margarita's adoption record. Margarita Prokopenko has been renamed Marina Mironova, after her adoptive father Sergey Mironov. Her birthplace is listed as Podolsk.\n\nThe Russian government said it had no knowledge of Margarita's case and could not comment.\n\nThe Geneva Convention, which defines what constitutes a war crime, says it is unlawful to deport civilians in times of war, unless it is essential for security or imperative military reasons and it is temporary. The convention also bans changing a child's family status.\n\nHuman rights investigator Victoria Novikova has been working with the BBC to discover what happened to the children\n\nWhen President Putin and his children's commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova were indicted by the ICC earlier this year, the court alleged that the unlawful deportation of hundreds of Ukrainian children from orphanages and children's homes was done with the \"intention to permanently remove these children from their own country\".\n\nThis followed President Putin's decision to issue decrees which had the effect of making it easier for Russians to adopt Ukrainian children.\n\nMs Lvova-Belova has said that Russia only takes children into foster care or guardianship.\n\n\"We don't have adoptions,\" she said last month. \"This is a very important fact because adoption means that the child becomes fully native. You can change his last name, first name, patronymic [middle name], you can change the place of birth.\"\n\nBut in its response to our investigation, the Russian government said it was \"incorrect\" to say that Russia does not authorise the adoption of Ukrainian children from the newly declared regions of Russia. It said it now considers large parts of Ukraine to be Russian, and the people living there its citizens, including children.\n\nWe have written to Sergey Mironov and Inna Varlamova, asking where Margarita is now, but they have not replied.\n\nAlmost all of the other children who were taken from the home are believed to remain in Russian hands. At least 17 are in Crimea, according to the Russian authorities. All have relatives in Ukraine, Victoria Novikova says.\n\nUkraine says it has identified 19,546 children who have been taken to Russia. It claims that fewer than 400 have returned.\n\nMoscow says it will reunite children with family or friends if a legitimate claim is made and they travel to get them. But many parents do not know where their children are, and the process of finding and retrieving them is difficult and complex.\n\nWe know of only one child from Kherson Children's Home who has been brought back to Ukraine. Last month, three-year-old Viktor Puzik, who had been in the facility waiting for an operation for a health condition, was collected from Crimea by his mother, Olha.\n\nViktor was driven away from Kherson Regional Children's Home in 2022\n\nShe said waiting to know he was safe had been agony.\n\n\"I kept thinking, where is he, how is he? Is he alive or not? Everything crossed my mind.\"\n\nVictoria wants to find all the other missing children from the Kherson Children's Home but is worried they could soon become untraceable.\n\n\"Time is not on our side,\" she says. \"The problem is [the Russian authorities] try and erase the children's identity when they issue Russian birth certificates or even passports.\"\n\nIn the meantime, she has not given up hope of returning Margarita to Ukraine.\n\nShe has not yet found relatives who can take in Margarita so she herself has been appointed the little girl's legal guardian by the Ukrainian government, and has plans to apply to the Russian authorities to return her.\n\n\"The world needs to know about Margarita's existence. They wanted to erase her. We need to bring her back.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A still image from one of the videos showing Stuart Seldowitz confronting the food cart vendor, Mohamed Hussein\n\nPolice have held an ex-US state department aide who allegedly spewed anti-Muslim abuse at a New York City food vendor.\n\nStuart Seldowitz has acknowledged in media interviews that he is the man seen in viral video calling the vendor a \"terrorist\".\n\nHe alleged the individual had provoked him by expressing support for Hamas.\n\nThe halal cart man, named in reports as Mohamed Hussein, denied to media he made any comments in favour of Hamas.\n\nA New York Police Department spokesperson confirmed to the BBC that Mr Seldowitz had been taken into custody on Wednesday.\n\nHe is facing multiple charges, including aggravated harassment, hate crime and stalking, CBS, the BBC's US partner, reported.\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Seldowitz for comment. In the viral videos, he is seen at the food cart at different times of day.\n\nIn one clip he says: \"If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, you know what, it wasn't enough.\"\n\nIn another interaction, viewed more than 40 million times, according to X, formerly known as Twitter, he calls the vendor \"ignorant\", suggests his family could be tortured by the Egyptian secret police and makes inflammatory remarks about the Prophet Muhammad and the Quran.\n\nDuring another encounter, a bystander is heard saying: \"You're harassing this man.\"\n\nMr Seldowitz had a long career in the US Department of State, including in the Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs, and was a White House National Security Council director under President Barack Obama.\n\nThe Daily Beast reported on Tuesday that Mr Seldowitz had confirmed it was him in the clips.\n\n\"The bottom line is, yes, it's me,\" the outlet quoted him as saying.\n\nHe said he thought \"there should be some comment back to someone who is endorsing terrorism and the killing of innocent civilians\".\n\nIn an interview with City & State, Mr Seldowitz was quoted as saying: \"I regret the whole thing happened and I'm sorry.\n\n\"But you know, in the heat of the moment, I said things that probably I shouldn't have said.\"\n\nMr Seldowitz formerly worked for a lobbying company, Gotham Government Relations, which said in a statement on Tuesday that his actions were \"vile, racist and beneath the dignity of the standards we practice at our firm\".\n\nA press release issued by the company in November 2022 called him the firm's \"Foreign Affairs Chair\".\n\nBut David Schwartz, Gotham's founder and president, said that Mr Seldowitz hadn't done any work for the firm for about five years and that the title was an honorary one.\n\n\"I am incensed, I am outraged, and I am beyond words,\" Mr Schwartz told the BBC.\n\n\"This is not the person that I knew, he was very intelligent, he was honoured by the state department and won three awards.\n\n\"But when I saw that video, within seconds I knew we had to act, and I did not hesitate. We have severed all ties.\"\n\nMany New Yorkers have expressed support on social media for Mr Hussein, the food truck vendor.\n\nNew York Mayor Eric Adams posted on X: \"Islamophobia is hate. Plain and simple.\n\n\"This vile, disrespectful rhetoric has no home in our city. We reject it - and we're glad to see we're not alone.\"\n\nMr Hussein, originally from Egypt, told the New York Post he intended to sue Mr Seldowitz.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNovak Djokovic told a group of British fans to \"shut up\" as they tried to drown out his interview with musical instruments after their team were knocked out of the Davis Cup by Serbia.\n\nBritain lost the quarter-final 2-0 as Cameron Norrie was unable to inflict a rare defeat on the world number one.\n\n\"You should learn how to show some respect,\" Djokovic told the fans.\n\nJack Draper was beaten 7-6 (7-2) 7-6 (8-6) by Miomir Kecmanovic in the opening match of the best-of-three tie.\n\nThat result meant Norrie had to beat 24-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic for the first time in his career.\n\nBut Djokovic showed his class as he cruised to a 6-4 6-4 win and set Serbia up for a semi-final against Italy on Saturday.\n\nAfter an assured and drama-free performance, Djokovic had the spiky exchange prior to his on-court interview, challenging the small number of British fans who act as the team's band.\n\nHe had celebrated at the end of the first set by blowing a kiss to a British supporter heckling him and also cupped his ear in their direction at the end of the match.\n\n\"It's normal that sometimes fans step over the line and in the heat of the moment you react too, and in a way show that you don't allow this kind of behaviour,\" Djokovic said.\n\n\"They can do whatever they want, but I'm going to respond to that. That's what happened.\n\n\"I was trying to talk and they were purposely starting to play the drums so that I don't talk and they were trying to annoy me the entire match.\"\n\nBritain, who last won the Davis Cup in 2015, will not automatically qualify for the 2024 knockout stage after their quarter-final exit in Malaga.\n\nUnless they receive a wildcard, Leon Smith's team will have to negotiate the same path as this year - a qualifying tie early next year, followed by the round-robin stage before the Final Eight.\n\nAndy Murray, who missed the tie through injury, said it was a \"tough one\" for his team-mates and thanked the British fans - estimated at almost half of those in attendance at the 11,500 capacity arena - for their support.\n\n\"Huge thanks to all the fans who made the big effort to travel out there and create a brilliant atmosphere for the players,\" said Murray, who added the Davis Cup would not be the same without them.\n\nDjokovic takes another step towards another trophy\n\nDespite being in the twilight of his career, 36-year-old Djokovic's powers are showing little sign of diminishing.\n\nIn another extraordinary season, Djokovic has won the Australian Open, French Open and US Open titles, with his only defeat at a major coming against Spain's Carlos Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final.\n\nOn Sunday, he further underlined his superiority by rounding off the tour season with a record seventh title at the ATP Finals in Turin.\n\nNow he is aiming to cap a spectacular year, even by his standards, by adding the Davis Cup to his enviable trophy haul.\n\nDjokovic's supremacy this season - and the gulf between him and most of his rivals - was further emphasised by a dominant performance against Norrie.\n\nNorrie has been a fixture inside the world's top 20 for three successive seasons but was short of the quality needed to really damage Djokovic.\n\nDjokovic took two of his 12 break point opportunities, while Norrie was only able to win eight points on the Serb's serve.\n\nSerbia will now face Italy after world number four Jannik Sinner inspired them to victory over the Netherlands earlier on Thursday.\n\nConsidered one of the rising stars of the ATP Tour, Draper is still a novice in Davis Cup terms.\n\nBut the 21-year-old left-hander had been thrust into the pressurised situation of knowing he would probably have to win his singles match if Britain were going to advance - barring Norrie inflicting a first Davis Cup singles defeat in 12 years on Djokovic.\n\nFollowing injuries to Dan Evans and Andy Murray, Draper was the natural choice to open the tie against Serbia even though he only made his competition debut in September's round-robin stage.\n\nPossessing a thunderous serve and clinical forehand from the baseline, Draper is ranked 60th in the world on the back of strong form in recent weeks.\n\nInjuries ruined his first eight months of the season, but a run of 17 wins from his 21 previous matches going into the Davis Cup tie left him feeling confident in his body and mind.\n\nThere was little to choose between Draper and 55th-ranked Kecmanovic - but it was the Serb who executed better in the crucial moments.\n\nTwo double faults from Draper in the first-set tie-break - for 2-0 and 5-2 respectively - proved particularly costly.\n\n\"It's difficult knowing that Cam has to go and play Djokovic after, and that's seemingly a must-win match for me,\" Draper said.\n\n\"I back Cam but it's definitely a tough challenge to go out there knowing that there is a lot more pressure on me to win the match.\n\n\"That's the kind of pressure that if I want to be a top player, I have to cope with and perform under. It's tough not to get the win today.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Two people were killed after a car accelerated before being engulfed in flames near Niagara Falls in New York.\n\nThe incident took place on Wednesday on the Rainbow Bridge, a border crossing between the US and Canada. Surveillance video shows the speeding vehicle go airborne before it was engulfed by a fireball.\n\nNew York Governor Kathy Hochul said there was \"no sign of terrorist activity\" in the crash.", "The presence of the medicinal leech has been confirmed on the Solway Coast\n\nOne of the rarest invertebrates in Scotland has been confirmed in Dumfries and Galloway for the first time.\n\nThe medicinal leech - once used across Europe for bloodletting treatments - has been found in three ponds near Carrick Shore on the Solway Coast.\n\nIt makes the region one of only three parts of the country where they are known to exist.\n\nConservation group Buglife said it raised hopes they could be found at other sites in future.\n\nThe sighting was made by local naturalist, Bob Merritt, and follows unverified records from 2005 and 2008.\n\nBuglife confirmed its presence as part of its Scotland-wide conservation programme - Species on the Edge.\n\nMedicinal leeches can grow up to 20cm (8in) long, making them one of the UK's largest native leeches.\n\nThe leeches can grow up to 20cm (8in) in length\n\nThey can be found in a variety of freshwater habitats, including ponds, lochs, ditches, wetlands, and streams.\n\nIn Scotland, medicinal leeches have a dark brown or black upper side with yellow-grey stripes and a speckled underside.\n\nThey feed on blood from cattle, deer, amphibians, fish, and birds, and only feed every three to 12 months. They can live up to 20 years.\n\nOnce widespread, they are now known in only three areas in Scotland - mainland Argyll, Islay, and now Dumfries and Galloway - having suffered severe declines primarily due to historical overharvesting for use in medicine.\n\nA breeding programme is starting at the Highland Wildlife Park to boost leech numbers\n\nIn the late 18th to early 19th Century, millions of the leeches were used in hospitals across Europe for bloodletting treatment.\n\nSince that time, habitat loss and freshwater pollution have also badly affected their populations in Scotland.\n\nBuglife conservation director, Craig Macadam, said \"Medicinal leeches have an important place in our medical history but are now one of the rarest invertebrates in Scotland.\n\n\"The discovery of three new sites for this species in Dumfries and Galloway is incredibly important and gives us hope that further sites are discovered for this incredible species in the future.\"\n\nBuglife is also working with the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) to deliver Scotland's first ever medicinal leech captive breeding programme to help save it from extinction.\n\nThey have been collected and transferred to a specially-designed facility at the Highland Wildlife Park in the Cairngorms National Park.\n\nIt is hoped they can be bred there and released back into the wild in order to boost numbers.", "Home Secretary James Cleverly has admitted using a swearword to describe the Stockton North MP\n\nThe home secretary has admitted he used \"unparliamentary\" language to describe a Labour MP, a close source has said.\n\nJames Cleverly had denied claims he called the Stockton North constituency a swearword in response to a question in the Commons from Alex Cunningham.\n\nThe source said on Thursday: \"James made a comment. He called Alex Cunningham a shit MP. He apologises for unparliamentary language.\"\n\nMr Cunningham said it was \"simply not true\", adding he did not \"believe\" it.\n\nHe had alleged the swearword was used during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday.\n\nMr Cunningham had asked: \"Why are 34% of children in my constituency living in poverty?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMaking a point of order in the Commons later that day, he said: \"Before the prime minister answered, the home secretary chose to add in his pennyworth.\n\n\"He was seen and heard to say 'because it's a shithole'.\n\n\"I know he is denying being the culprit, but the audio is clear and has been checked, and checked, and checked again.\"\n\nConservative Party chairman and Durham North West MP Richard Holden had earlier said he was \"sure it wasn't said by any Conservative MP\".\n\nThe source close to Mr Cleverly added: \"As was made clear yesterday, he would never criticise Stockton. He's campaigned in Stockton and is clear that it is a great place.\"\n\nMr Cunningham said: \"This is simply not true. I don't believe it. Two syllables were clearly heard.\n\n\"'MP' doesn't fit. He's moved today but needs to go the full distance and admit that he said the words.\"\n\nStockton hosted its annual launch event of its Christmas countdown on Thursday\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's PM programme, Mr Cunningham said the Home Secretary had a \"responsibility to own up for what he actually said, my colleagues saw and heard it\".\n\nIt was a \"terrible slur on my community\" and Mr Cleverly was not \"fit for such high office\", he added.\n\nA spokeswoman for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he continued to have confidence in Mr Cleverly as his team \"had clarified and provided an apology for using unparliamentary language\".\n\n\"We don't have anything further to add to that,\" she added.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Newscast, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: \"You just couldn't make it up could you.\n\n\"He's not been Home Secretary for more than two weeks and he's already managed to pick a fight with a northern town and been insulting towards a fellow MP.\"\n\nLord Houchen, the Conservative Tees Valley Mayor, which includes Stockton, said the speculation had \"dragged Stockton's name through the mud\", which was \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"I'm pleased James Cleverly has apologised for using unparliamentary language,\" he wrote on X (formerly Twitter).\n\n\"We're all human and he's a good guy who made a mistake,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A fire which caused \"extensive\" damage to a double-decker bus in Leeds is being treated as arson, police have said.\n\nFootage on social media showed firefighters tackling the blaze on Strathmore Drive in Harehills at about 13:40 GMT on Thursday.\n\nPassengers and the driver had left the bus safely and no-one was injured, police said.\n\nTwo crews from Killingbeck were involved in dealing with the blaze, West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nPolice said a VW Golf which was parked in the street was also damaged in the incident.\n\nTwo young people were seen acting \"suspiciously\" and got off the bus just before the blaze on the top deck of the vehicle was discovered, according to West Yorkshire Police.\n\nA force spokesperson said officers from the local neighbourhood policing team would carry out increased patrols of the area to reassure residents.\n\nAnyone who saw what happened, or who had information about the incident, was asked to contact police.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "An artist's impression of the robot rover, which is designed to search for life on Mars\n\nA scientific instrument built in Wales will lead the search for life on Mars at the end of this decade.\n\nEnfys, meaning \"rainbow\" in Welsh, is an infrared spectrometer and will be assembled at Aberystwyth University.\n\nIt will be fitted to the European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin rover, which launches to the Red Planet in 2028.\n\nEnfys will work alongside the robot's other camera systems to identify the most promising rocks to drill and test for evidence of ancient biology.\n\nThe development cost of £10.7m ($13.4m) is due to be announced by science minister Andrew Griffith at the UK Space Conference in Belfast on Thursday.\n\nThe Welsh spectrometer will be replacing an instrument from Russia.\n\nMoscow had previously been a partner on the mission but all its hardware was offloaded from the rover by Europe's space agency in protest at the war in Ukraine.\n\nEnfys will be a direct replacement in terms of mass and volume but will carry a number of technical updates.\n\nIt will be hung from a mast holding the robot's camera platform, called Pancam, working in unison with high-resolution and wide-angle sensors to survey the Martian landscape.\n\n\"We will take a picture with Pancam and get a spectral measurement from Enfys,\" explained the university's Dr Matt Gunn.\n\n\"This will allow us to work out what kind of minerals are in the rocks,\" he told BBC News, adding: \"We'll be interested in the sorts of minerals that formed in wet environments, the kinds of environments that could potentially have harboured life.\"\n\nThe rover project was first approved in 2005\n\nRosalind Franklin is designed to do something no previous Mars rover has attempted, which is to drill and retrieve rock samples from more than a metre underground. It is thought any evidence of present or, more likely, past life will be found beneath the planet's surface, away from the destructive effects of space radiation.\n\nThe six-wheeled Franklin robot was first approved way back in 2005. The project has since gone through a number of redesigns and funding crises. The fallout over Ukraine is just the latest setback and means the mission will not get to the launchpad for another five years now.\n\nMuch larger Russian components than the infrared spectrometer also need to be substituted with European-sourced elements, not least the rocket mechanism that will land Rosalind Franklin softly at a near-equatorial site on Mars known as Oxia Planum.\n\nThe rover will be aimed at Oxia Planum where clay minerals may preserve evidence of past life\n\nThe late inclusion of Enfys does have the benefit that its performance requirements can be revisited.\n\nAn example is the range of infrared wavelengths in which it will be working.\n\nPreviously, there was going to be a gap in sensitivity between what Pancam could detect and what the old Russian spectrometer could see.\n\nEnfys will be set up so that there is a slight overlap.\n\n\"We'll now have spectral continuity from Pancam into the infrared, which is light we can't see with our own eyes,\" said Enfys team member Dr Claire Cousins from the University of St Andrews in Scotland.\n\n\"This mission will be very focused on looking for clay minerals, which have the greatest likelihood of preserving organic matter. And these minerals have very specific absorption bands in the infrared that Enfys will be able to see but that Pancam won't.\"\n\nAberystwyth University will be assisted on the new build by the Mullard Space Science Laboratory at University College London, STFC RAL Space in Harwell, Oxfordshire, and Qioptiq Ltd in St Asaph, Denbighshire.\n\nThe £10.7m being spent on Enfys brings the total UK investment in the Rosalind Franklin rover to £377m. With other members of Esa and help from the US space agency (Nasa), the total cost of the robot project will be well in excess of £1bn.\n\nDr Paul Bate, chief executive of the UK Space Agency, said: \"The UK-built Rosalind Franklin rover is a truly world-leading piece of technology at the frontier of space exploration. It is fantastic that experts from the UK can also provide a key instrument for this mission, using UK Space Agency funding.\n\n\"As well as boosting world-class UK space technology to further our understanding of Mars and its potential to host life, this extra funding will strengthen collaboration across the fast-growing UK space sector and economy.\"", "'Politicians need to combat rise of right' - NI secretary\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris, who is in Dublin for the meeting of the British-Irish Council, says there’s an onus on elected politicians to combat the rise of the far right. Heaton-Harris adds that he is not in a position \"to suggest to the Irish as to how they could and should react\". But he referred to the rise of the British National Party in England. “We had in English politics the rise of the British National Party only a few years ago, they were elected to the European Parliament, MEPs were elected to the European Parliament in two regions of the United Kingdom,” he says. “On the rise of the far right, it is up to democratically elected politicians to be able to articulate the concerns of their electorate and we need to do that better.\" He says when mainstream politicians fail to properly debate issues around migration and immigration they “leave a vacuum for other people who might not be as benign as we are\".", "Gillian Grant raised concerns about her grandmother's treatment in a Bishopbriggs care home\n\nA \"do not resuscitate\" plan was put in place for a grandmother living in a care home against her family's wishes, Scotland's Covid Inquiry has heard.\n\nGillian Grant said the Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) notice was discovered in her grandmother's medical records after her death with Covid in 2020.\n\nInquiry lawyer Stuart Gale KC named the home as Mavisbank in Bishopbriggs.\n\nMs Grant said she believed her gran was the first of several residents to die during a Covid outbreak at the home.\n\nMavisbank Care Home in East Dunbartonshire was at the centre of a Covid outbreak in November, 2020 which reportedly killed 13 residents.\n\nThe operator of Mavisbank said it adhered to government Covid guidelines and added that DNRs were a medical decision taken by doctors\n\nMs Grant's 91-year-old grandmother, who the BBC is not able to name due to reporting restrictions issued by the inquiry, died on 4 November, 2020.\n\nWhen preparing to participate in the public inquiry, Ms Grant's legal team discovered a DNR plan in her grandmother's medical records.\n\nThe inquiry heard that these records showed Ms Grant's grandmother had been given drugs \"associated with end of life care\" prior to her death.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Scotland, Ms Grant said she had \"explicitly made clear\" to the home that she did not want a DNR put in place for her gran, and that an ambulance was to be called if her health deteriorated.\n\nShe said a DNR form with her name on it had been filled in for her gran the same day she had told the home not to.\n\nShe said: \"To know somebody had filled that in on my behalf and without my consent made me so angry and so upset.\n\n\"And then to think that I might not be the only person that this has happened to.\"\n\nA Coronavirus outbreak at Mavisbank care home in 2020 led to the deaths of 13 residents\n\nAllowed into the home for the first time on the day of her grandmother's death, Ms Grant said she was concerned about the measures, such as adequate PPE, in place to combat the virus.\n\nShe said: \"I was sitting there with my grandmother's body in front of me, when I should have been grieving, and all I could think was 'they're just spreading this virus around this home'.\n\n\"My grandmother was the first person to die at Mavisbank and I just kept thinking everyone else here is going to die if they don't stop doing what they're doing.\"\n\nMs Grant also told the inquiry she felt she had been misled over the time that her grandmother had died, saying she was cold to touch when she arrived at the home despite staff telling her that the death had just happened.\n\nThe public inquiry is investigating Scotland's response to the pandemic.\n\nThe inquiry's approach is to look at the impact of the pandemic first, before turning to how decisions to respond to the crisis were taken, and then how Covid policies were implemented.\n\nA spokesperson for Mavisbank, said: \"Our thoughts and sympathies are with all families that have lost a loved one from coronavirus.\n\n\"While it would not be appropriate for us to comment on the specific medical details of individual residents, we think it is important to note that DNRs are a medical decision taken by doctors. Care homes do not have the authority to make this decision.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"Throughout the pandemic we adhered to the government guidance and followed the advice of medical professionals.\"", "A man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his former partner in her home in Whitehead, County Antrim.\n\nFormer nurse Alyson Nelson, 64, was stabbed to death in the house on Victoria Avenue in April 2022.\n\nWilliam Finlay, from Old Forde Gardens in Whitehead, appeared at Belfast Crown Court.\n\nThe 68-year-old had previously denied murdering the retired nurse but changed his plea to guilty.\n\nHe was charged with murdering Ms Nelson, aggravated by domestic abuse.\n\nThe judge sentenced Finlay to life imprisonment and scheduled a hearing for 19 January when he will tell him the minimum term he must serve before he can be considered for parole.\n\nA defence lawyer told the court they would be seeking a pre-sentence report and a forensic psychiatrist's report to deal with \"specific issues\".\n\nFinlay was remanded into custody and was led from the dock in handcuffs by two prison officers.", "Rapper Nines has been charged with drug offences after being arrested at Heathrow Airport.\n\nThe Mobo Award-winner is accused of being concerned in the supply of cannabis and possession of a Class B drug, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nHe was bailed and is set to appear at Kingston Crown Court on 15 December.\n\nIt comes after a video was widely shared on TikTok claiming to show police walking the rapper through the airport in handcuffs.\n\nThe Met confirmed the Tony Soprano 2 rapper was detained on 15 November at the airport.\n\nThe 33-year-old of Bushey, Hertfordshire - whose real name is Courtney Freckleton - is also charged with three counts of the breach of an existing Serious Crime Prevention Order.\n\nLast month Nines released album Crop Circle 3 which peaked at number two in the UK album charts.\n\nThe rapper, from north-west London, beat the likes of Stormzy and J Hus to collect album of the year at the Mobo Awards in 2020 for Crabs In A Bucket.\n\nHe has also collaborated with Dave and Tion Wayne.", "Vehicles have been set alight and fireworks thrown at police in violent clashes in Dublin.\n\nThe Irish police chief has blamed the unrest on a \"lunatic, hooligan faction\", which follows an earlier knife attack in Ireland's capital city.\n\nThe justice minister has accused those involved in the violence of using the earlier incident to \"wreak havoc\".\n\nVideos shared on social media showed a police car, a tram and a bus among the vehicles set on fire. In another video people could be seen throwing fireworks at police.", "While we wait for more details of where the operation is at, here's what will happen once the rescuers reach the workers - the process will be a delicate one, and has to be carried out with utmost caution.\n\nOnce the final rescue pipe reaches the workers, a doctor will be sent ahead to check on their condition.\n\nThey will also help guide the workers through the tunnels which have sharp edges, reports NDTV news channel.\n\nThe rescue operation has hit several obstacles in the past 11 days Image caption: The rescue operation has hit several obstacles in the past 11 days\n\nThere are other concerns too. The workers have been inside for 12 days and may be weak as they have mostly been eating snacks - they only got their first hot meal two days ago.\n\nOfficials have told the BBC that it's hotter inside the tunnel than outside, so rescuers will have to keep the temperature difference in mind.\n\nThe aim is to to pull them out to safety and shift them to the nearby hospital as quickly as possible, they said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA speeding car crashed and exploded in a deadly fireball on a US-Canada border bridge, triggering a major security scare on the eve of Thanksgiving.\n\nTwo people in the vehicle died, and a US border agent was injured, but New York's governor ruled out terrorism.\n\nThe car was being driven from the New York side of the border to Rainbow Bridge when it crashed at a checkpoint.\n\nThe incident near Niagara Falls saw the closure of four bridges on the world's longest international border.\n\nThe explosion happened at around 11:30 local time (16:30 GMT) on Wednesday, causing serious disruption on one of the busiest travel days of the year, the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday in the US.\n\nTrain services between New York and Canada were temporarily halted and officers at Buffalo and Niagara Falls airports went into a heightened state of alert screening cars for explosives.\n\nThe incident stoked fears of a possible terror attack, and baseless speculation swirled online about a supposed threat to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.\n\nBoth US President Joe Biden, who is in Massachusetts for Thanksgiving, and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau were quickly briefed on the incident.\n\nMr Trudeau excused himself from Question Period in the House of Commons, and said his government was taking the incident \"extraordinarily seriously\".\n\nAs a precaution, officials used trucks to block the Canadian entrance to Rainbow Bridge, which links Ontario with New York and the US city of Niagara Falls with Niagara Falls, Canada.\n\nSeveral hours after the blast, there was relief when New York Governor Kathy Hochul told reporters: \"Based on what we know at this moment, there is no sign of terrorist activity with respect to this crash.\"\n\nShe added that one of the people who died was a \"local\" from the western New York region.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe two who died were a married couple - the husband was driving and his wife was the passenger, US law enforcement officials said.\n\nAccording to CNN, the motorist was driving a 2022 Bentley and had just been to a US casino after a concert by hard rock band Kiss that he was initially going to attend in Canada had been cancelled.\n\nThe car travelled at a \"very high rate of speed\", the governor said, hurtling over an 8ft (2.4m) fence, though it was unclear if the crash was deliberate.\n\nThe vehicle had been \"incinerated\" and nothing was left but the engine, she said. Not even a registration plate was recovered.\n\nGovernor Hochul said video of the crash was \"surreal\" and looked almost like it \"was generated by AI\".\n\nThe person who sustained non-life threatening injuries in the crash is a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer, she added.\n\nThe governor noted it was fortunate that more people were not hurt at the busy crossing \"when you look at the scale of the scene, how far the pieces of this vehicle exploded and scattered\".\n\nRainbow Bridge remained closed on Wednesday night, but three other US-Canada crossings - the Peace Bridge, Lewiston-Queenston Bridge and Whirlpool Bridge - had reopened to the public.\n\nToronto resident and eyewitness Dor Tamang told BBC News he was on the second floor of a CBP building when the blast occurred.\n\nMr Tamang said he felt the ground shake inside the building.\n\nAnother eyewitness told the BBC: \"We just saw this car going up in flames.\" He said the blast felt like a \"mini-earthquake\".\n\nAaron Beatty, from Cleveland, Ohio, said he crossed into Canada to see Niagara Falls on Wednesday morning.\n\n\"I said, 'oh, I'll just cross over to the Canadian side for a quick hour to see the other side and walk back,\" Mr Beatty told the BBC.\n\nBut as he was heading back into the US, a border agent told him to go back to Canada.\n\n\"That one hour turned into almost eight hours now,\" Mr Beatty said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVeteran anti-Islam populist leader Geert Wilders has won a dramatic victory in the Dutch general election, with almost all votes counted.\n\nAfter 25 years in parliament, his Freedom party (PVV) is set to win 37 seats, well ahead of his nearest rival, a left-wing alliance.\n\n\"The PVV can no longer be ignored,\" he said. \"We will govern.\"\n\nHis win has shaken Dutch politics and it will send a shock across Europe too.\n\nBut to fulfil his pledge to be \"prime minister for everyone\", he will have to persuade other parties to join him in a coalition. His target is 76 seats in the 150-seat parliament.\n\nAt a party meeting on Thursday, Mr Wilders, 60, was cheered and toasted by party members in a room crammed with TV cameras.\n\nHe told the BBC that \"of course\" he was willing to negotiate and compromise with other parties to become prime minister.\n\nThe PVV leader won after harnessing widespread frustration about migration, promising \"borders closed\" and putting on hold his promise to ban the Koran.\n\nHe was in combative mood in his victory speech: \"We want to govern and... we will govern. [The seat numbers are] an enormous compliment but an enormous responsibility too.\"\n\nBefore the vote, the three other big parties ruled out taking part in a Wilders-led government because of his far-right policies. But that might change because of the scale of his victory.\n\nThe left-wing alliance under ex-EU commissioner Frans Timmermans has come a distant second with 25 seats, according to a forecast based on 94% of the vote.\n\nHe made clear he would have nothing to do with a Wilders-led government, promising to defend Dutch democracy and rule of law. \"We won't let anyone in the Netherlands go. In the Netherlands everyone is equal,\" he told supporters.\n\nThat leaves third-placed centre-right liberal VVD under new leader Dilan Yesilgöz, and a brand new party formed by whistleblower MP Pieter Omtzigt in fourth - both have congratulated him on the result.\n\nAlthough Ms Yesilgöz doubts Mr Wilders will be able to find the numbers he needs, she says it is up to her party colleagues to decide how to respond. Before the election she insisted she would not serve in a Wilders-led cabinet, but did not rule out working with him if she won.\n\nMr Omtzigt said initially his New Social Contract party would not work with Mr Wilders, but now says they are \"available to turn this trust [of voters] into action\".\n\nDilan Yesilgöz had been tipped as a possible prime minister, but failed to match her poll ratings\n\nA Wilders victory will send shockwaves around Europe, as the Netherlands is one of the founding members of what became the European Union.\n\nNationalist and far-right leaders around Europe praised his achievement. In France, Marine Le Pen said it \"confirms the growing attachment to the defence of national identities\".\n\nMr Wilders wants to hold a \"Nexit\" referendum to leave the EU, although he recognises there is no national mood to do so. He will have a hard time convincing any major prospective coalition partner to sign up to that.\n\nHe tempered his anti-Islam rhetoric in the run-up to the vote, saying there were more pressing issues at the moment and he was prepared to \"put in the fridge\" his policies on banning mosques and Islamic schools.\n\nThe strategy was a success, more than doubling his PVV party's numbers in parliament.\n\nDuring the campaign Mr Wilders took advantage of widespread dissatisfaction with the previous government, which collapsed in a disagreement over asylum rules.\n\nFor political scientist Martin Rosema from the University of Twente, it was one of several gifts that had been handed to Mr Wilders on a plate in a matter of months. Another was that the centre-right liberal leader had opened the door to working with him in coalition.\n\n\"We know, also from international precedent, that radical right-wing parties fare worse when they're excluded,\" he said.\n\nMigration became one of the main themes, and Mr Wilders made clear on Wednesday he intended to tackle a \"tsunami of asylum and immigration\".\n\nLast year net migration into the Netherlands more than doubled beyond 220,000, partly because of refugees fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But the issue has been aggravated by a shortage of some 390,000 homes.\n\nAt the Hague headquarters of Ms Yesilgöz's VVD, supporters had been preparing to raise their glasses at the prospect of the Netherlands' first female prime minister.\n\nVVD supporters had hoped for victory but it was the Freedom party that won\n\nBut there was a collective gasp of disbelief when the exit polls flashed up on the screens and they huddled over their phones trying to understand what went wrong.\n\nMs Yesilgöz took over as centre-right leader when the country's longest-serving prime minister, Mark Rutte, bowed out of politics in July. She came to the Netherlands as a seven-year-old refugee from Turkey but has adopted a hard line on immigration.\n\nSome politicians and Muslim figures have accused her of opening the door to the far right by refusing to rule out working with Geert Wilders.\n\nMs Yesilgöz, 46, had tried to distance herself from the Rutte government in which she was justice minister, but ultimately she was unable to live up to the opinion polls.\n\nRight up to the eve of the election, almost half of the electorate were being described as floating voters. Many of those may well have decided not to back her.\n\nA measure of Mr Wilders' success in winning over voters came from one Muslim voter in The Hague who said: \"If he wasn't so opposed to Muslims, I'd be interested in him.\"\n\nHours before the vote, Mr Wilders was buoyant about his chances, telling the BBC. \"I think it's the first time ever in Holland that in one week we gained 10 seats in the polls.\"\n\nHe was realistic about the uphill task he faced in forming a government led by him, but he said he was a positive person and victory would make it \"difficult for the other parties to ignore us\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "When a car exploded after flying into a US customs and border structure on the eve of the major Thanksgiving holiday, tensions were high.\n\nThe FBI started an investigation and border routes between the US and Canada were blocked off.\n\nNew York Governor Kathy Hochul has since told media that at this stage, it appears to have no relation to terrorism.\n\nTwo people died, but their identities have not yet been confirmed. What caused the high-speed crash and explosion to happen is still uncertain.\n\nMost of the border crossings have since re-opened. But the investigation into what took place could take some time. Governor Hochul said barely anything was left from the car.\n\nOur writers today have been Bernd Debusmann Jr, Holly Honderich and Chloe Kim. And Nadine Yousif was reporting from Niagara Falls.\n\nYou can read more about the Niagara incident at the Rainbow Bridge in this article.\n\nThanks for following along with our live updates.", "Government investigator Kate Smith says her team was looking for illegal medicines\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of illegally selling \"skinny jabs\" online.\n\nPolice raided a house near Hull and seized vials thought to contain semaglutide - the active ingredient in \"Hollywood weight loss drug\" Ozempic.\n\nA BBC Three investigation recently found it for sale without prescription on social media and in salons.\n\nPolice arrested the man in his 30s, from the Goole area in East Yorkshire, on suspicion of selling unlicensed medicines.\n\nBBC Newsbeat was invited to accompany the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and Humberside Police on the raids.\n\nThey said the operation, at two addresses in Humberside, was the first to target black market semaglutide supply.\n\nAfter a briefing to talk through the operation, the team split up and went to each address - Newsbeat was taken to a quiet cul-de-sac not too far away from Hull.\n\nOnce the man was taken into custody in a police van, officers searched the house for evidence.\n\nIt wasn't possible to accompany them inside the property, but, watching through a window, they could be seen taking photos.\n\nThe search wasn't just for semaglutide, but also any evidence that painted a picture of the suspect's life.\n\nMHRA investigator Kate Smith told Newsbeat the team would be looking for anything that could suggest a \"criminal lifestyle\" funded by \"selling these products illegally online\".\n\nA man was arrested after suspected semaglutide was found by officers\n\nThe agency, which regulates new medicines in the UK, says it's launched a crackdown on black market sellers after demand skyrocketed for weight loss jabs and products including Botox and Melanotan.\n\nSemaglutide-containing Ozempic is usually prescribed for diabetes and works by lowering blood sugar levels and slowing down food leaving the stomach.\n\nFor a doctor to give it to you for weight-loss, you have to have a BMI over 30 and a weight-related health condition.\n\nMedics say taking it incorrectly can have serious side effects and there's a risk unregulated versions could be toxic.\n\nAndy Morling, the MHRA's deputy director of criminal enforcement, says the market sale for the products is still new and fairly \"small scale\" but the agency is planning more raids.\n\nHe says they're also working to remove online ads and the agency believes the \"powerful medicines\" have the potential to cause harm.\n\n\"The very best that could happen to you is you lose your money in a scam,\" he says. \"And the worst that could happen is you end up hospitalised.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kemi Badenoch was giving evidence about her time as Minister of Equalities\n\nMisinformation and a lack of trust made it harder to reach minority communities during the pandemic, Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch told the Covid inquiry.\n\nPeople from ethnic minority backgrounds were both more likely to catch Covid and die of it in 2020 and 2021, Office for National Statistics figures showed.\n\nMs Badenoch, equalities minister at the time, said the government was not trusted by some in these communities.\n\n\"Lots of conspiracy theories\" came up in her family WhatsApp group, she said.\n\n\"The government cannot get into my family WhatsApp group. There are some channels which you cannot break into in the information age that we live in,\" she added.\n\nMs Badenoch added that \"within ethnic minority populations there is a very high level of first-generation immigrants who come from countries where people don't trust the government, and there is no reason to assume that just because the government is saying something, that they will take it as verifiable information that they have to act on\".\n\nMs Badenoch later said that misinformation was an ongoing problem for the government.\n\n\"Even as a constituency MP, the number of people who come up to me in the street and tell me that I am part of a grand conspiracy to infect them, and 'so-and-so died' because of the material that we were putting out,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't think government has got a handle on dealing with misinformation. I don't think that we have adapted to this age of social media, where information travels at lightning speed across the world.\"\n\nMore on Covid and the Covid Inquiry\n\nEarlier in her evidence, Ms Badenoch also said that the term BAME - an acronym standing for black, Asian and minority ethnic - had actually hindered the government's ability to work out why ethnic minority groups were being hit harder.\n\nWhile the term was common in early 2020, by the end of 2021 the government, corporations, and broadcasters - including the BBC - had announced they would no longer use it.\n\n\"Using the term BAME masked what was actually happening within different ethnicities. By lumping people who are black with people who are Asian - very different groups of people - it made it harder to actually look at the underlying factors,\" Ms Badenoch said.\n\n\"Lumping people into one group completely obscures different bits of information, which we were then able to single out once we started splitting groups apart.\n\n\"What BAME basically does is summarise anyone who is not white. From a health perspective, or even just from any sort of analysis perspective, that's not particularly helpful.\"", "Amiram Cooper, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Tsachi Idan are being held in Gaza\n\nIsrael says 132 people remain unaccounted for after they were abducted and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attacks by Hamas.\n\nAn estimated 240 people were taken prisoner, but 105 were later released by Hamas during a six-day ceasefire at the end of November.\n\nThe Israeli military said it mistakenly killed three hostages in northern Gaza who had escaped from their captors and expressed \"deep remorse\" over the incident.\n\nOf the 132 still unaccounted for, Israel says that 20 of them are believed to be dead.\n\nThese are the stories of those hostages who are still being held, which have either been confirmed by the BBC or credibly reported.\n\nThis list is regularly updated and names may change, as some people feared kidnapped are confirmed to have been killed or released.\n\nLast updated on 19 December 2023 at 10:33 GMT\n\nYagev Kirsht, 34, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim, alongside his wife, Rimon Buchstab Kirsht. She has now been released.\n\nAlexander Trupanov, was taken hostage with his mother Lena Trupanov, 50, his partner Sapir Cohen, 29, and his grandmother Irina Tati, 73. All were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz as they spent the Sabbath together, according to a statement by Canada's Raoul Wallenburg Center for Human Rights. Irina and Lena were released on Wednesday 29 November and Sapir was freed the next day.\n\nAriel Cunio, his girlfriend Arbel Yahud and her brother Dolev are also thought to have been abducted in the same attack on Nir Oz. Eitan Cunio, Ariel's brother who escaped Hamas, told the Jewish Chronicle that his last message from Ariel said: \"We are in a horror movie.\"\n\nDavid Cunio, 33, another of Ariel's brothers, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, family say. David's wife Sharon Aloni Cunio and their three-year-old twin daughters Ema and Yuly were released on 27 November. Sharon's sister Daniele Aloni, and her six-year-old daughter Emilia were both released on 24 November.\n\nDoron Steinbrecher, 30, a veterinary nurse, was in her apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas attacked, the Times of Israel reported. At 10:30 on 7 October, the newspaper said, she sent a voice message to friends: \"They've arrived, they have me.\"\n\nItzhak Gelerenter, 53, was taken from the Supernova festival. His family said the IDF found his phone was located in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported. His daughter Pivko told the paper: \"I'm trying to think good thoughts, I have a powerful, smart, resourceful father.\"\n\nDoron Steinbrecher sent a voice message to friends during Hamas' attack\n\nNaama Levy, 19, was filmed being bundled into a jeep, her hands tied behind her back. The footage was released by Hamas and circulated widely on social media. According to her mother, the teenager had just begun her military service.\n\nYousef Zyadna, a 53-year-old Bedouin dairy farmer, was abducted from Kibbutz Holit and taken to Gaza along with his sons Hamza, 22, and Bilal, 18, and his daughter, Aisha, 16. Aisha and Bilal were released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nElad Katzir, 47, was abducted from Nir Oz with his mother Hanna. Hanna has now been released.\n\nOhad Ben Ami, 55, was kidnapped from Be'eri with his wife, Raz. She was released by Hamas on 29 November.\n\nTwin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 26, were taken from Kfar Aza. Ziv was messaging a friend as the attack happened. Their family said the IDF has told them the brothers are being held in Gaza. Their brother Liran told CBN news the pair had \"twin power\" and were the centre of attention wherever they went.\n\nIraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 85, was taken captive from Kibbutz Kissufim, where he lived and worked as a chicken coop manager. His wife, Mazal, managed to escape.\n\nMichel Nisenbaum, 59, is a dual Brazilian-Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel for 45 years and works as a computer technician, his family told Brazilian media. They also say he is diabetic and has Crohn's disease. On 7 October, they say, someone claiming to be from Hamas answered his phone when they tried to call him.\n\nDaniela Gilboa, 19, sent messages saying that Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she was staying, was under attack and asked her mother to pray for her. Her boyfriend, Roy Dadon, told the Economist 1843 magazine that he believes he saw a glimpse of her in a video showing three girls being driven away in the back of an SUV.\n\nItay Chen, 19, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF solider, was on active duty with a tank unit on 7 October, according to the Times of Israel. The paper reported that his family was notified by the IDF that he is officially considered missing in action and probably being held hostage. Another soldier in his unit, Matan Angrest, 21, is also presumed to be in Gaza.\n\nYosi Sharabi, 51, was taken from Be'eri with his brother, Eli Sharabi, 55. Eli's wife and two daughters were murdered in the attack. Ofir Engel, the boyfriend of Yosi's daughter, Yuval, was also taken, but released on 29 November.\n\nAgam Berger, 19, was kidnapped from Nahal Oz. She was seen being taken away in videos released by Hamas.\n\nEdan Alexander, 19, is an Israeli-US citizen who volunteered to join the Israeli army. He was serving near the Gaza border at the time of Hamas's attack. Edan's family said they had been told by Israeli officials that he had been taken to Gaza as a hostage.\n\nKaid Farhan Elkadi, 53, lives with his family south of Rahat and worked as a security guard, according to Israeli media. Reports said his family believes he was kidnapped and taken to Gaza, based on images shared by Hamas.\n\nIlana Gritzewsky and Matan Zanguaker were captured near the Gaza border, family say\n\nMatan Zanguaker, 24, was taken with his partner Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, from Nir Oz, according to Ilana's father. Ilana, a Mexican national, was released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nThe family of Eitan and Yair Horn believe they were taken from Nir Oz kibbutz\n\nEitan Horn, 37, and his brother Yair, 45, both Argentinian citizens, were also in Nir Oz at the time of the attack. Their father Itzik said he believes they were kidnapped. Yair is a construction worker while Eitan works in education.\n\nItai Svirsky, 38, is thought to have been abducted when his elderly parents were killed in Be'eri. He had been visiting them for the holiday of Simhat Torah.\n\nKeith Seigel, 64, and his wife Adrienne - often known as Aviva - Seigel, 62, were taken from their home in Kfar Aza, Keith's brother Lee Seigel told the BBC. Adrienne was released on 26 November.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, lived in Nahal Oz with his wife and two daughters. Omri was led away by Hamas with his hands tied, his wife Lishay told the Guardian newspaper. She told him not to be a hero, urging: \"Do whatever they want because I want you back.\"\n\nBipin Joshi, 23, a Nepalese student, is believed to have been taken from Kibbutz Alumim. Nepalese newspaper Setopati says he was one of 49 university students studying agriculture in Israel. It says 10 students were killed in the attack.\n\nIlan Weiss, 58, went missing from Kibbutz Be'eri after he was last seen leaving the house to defend the community. On 25 November, his wife Shiri Weiss, 53, and their daughter, Noga, 18, were freed from captivity in a hostage deal.\n\nAmiram Cooper, 85, and his wife Nurit, 80, were taken from their home in Nir Oz, their daughter-in-law Noa told the BBC. The family last spoke to the couple during the Hamas attack, Noa said, when the couple were in their safe room. The family later traced Amiram's phone to Gaza. On Monday 23 October, Nurit was one of two women to be released.\n\nAmiram and Nurit Cooper, pictured with their granddaughter, Gali\n\nOded Lifshitz, 83, and his wife Yocheved, 85 were taken hostage from Nir Oz. On Monday 23 October, Yocheved was one of two elderly women to be freed. After hearing the news of her mother's release, their daughter Sharone - a London-based artist - said: \"While I cannot put into words the relief that she is now safe, I will remain focused on securing the release of my father and all those - some 200 innocent people - who remain hostages in Gaza.\"\n\nHaim Peri, 79, was taken from his home in Nir Oz, reports the Times of Israel, and freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz said she saw that he was alive and well. His son Lior Peri told Talk TV that Haim had locked his wife inside the safe room before giving himself up to kidnappers.\n\nAvraham Munder, 78, was kidnapped from Nir Oz, Israeli officials say. His wife Ruthi, daughter and grandson have since been released.\n\nOmer Neutra, a 22-year-old Israeli-American and grandson of Holocaust survivors, put off plans to go to college in the US to study in Israel, and eventually joined the IDF. He was serving as a tank commander near Gaza when Hamas attacked. Omer's parents say they were told by the Israeli embassy that he had been kidnapped.\n\nRon Benjamin's vehicle was found empty following the attacks\n\nRon Benjamin, 53, had been taking part in a group cycle ride near the Gaza border when the Hamas attack began and he decided to drive home, his family told Israeli media. Days later, his vehicle was found empty and his family believe he was kidnapped.\n\nLouis Har, 70, is believed to have been taken from Nir Yitzhak. His partner Clara Marman was released on 28 November along with her sister Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela's daughter Mia Leimberg,17. Clara and Gabriela's brother Fernando Simon Marman, 60, also remains in captivity.\n\nJudith Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 73, also went missing from Nir Oz after the Hamas attack. Ten days later, the Israeli military confirmed to the family they had been taken hostage, CTV News in Canada reported.\n\nAlex Danzig, 75, a scholar and historian of the Holocaust, was at his home in Nir Oz, when it was attacked by Hamas. \"We know for sure he was kidnapped,\" his son Mati told the BBC. Alex - whose older sister Edith is a Holocaust survivor - has spent the last 30 years working for Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust remembrance centre. His disappearance has triggered a campaign for his release, both in Israel and in Poland, the country of his birth.\n\nAlex Danzig has spent decades educating people about the Holocaust\n\nItzhk Elgarat, 68, was kidnapped at the same time as Alex Danzig, his brother Danny Elgert told Israel's Kan 11 TV station, adding that he had tracked his brother's phone to the border with Gaza.\n\nGadi Moses, 79, was also abducted during the same attack on Nir Oz, according to relatives and the Israeli aid agency where he worked as an agricultural expert. Efrat Katz, his partner, was initially thought to have been captured as well, but she was later found dead, the Times of Israel reported. Efrat was the mother of Doron Asher, who was taken hostage and later released with her two daughters. Ravid Katz, 51, Doron Asher's brother, was originally thought to have been taken hostage from Nir Oz, but on 28 November his family confirmed that he had been killed on 7 October.\n\nYair Yaakov, 59, is listed among the hostages. His partner Meirav Tal, 53, was released on 28 November. Yair's children Yagil, 13, and Or, 16, were released on 27 November.\n\nYair Yaakov was pictured being held captive by a gunman in a video shared online\n\nNimrod Cohen, 19, had studied software engineering in high school, according to reports. After he was kidnapped, his father was invited to meet Pope Francis in Rome along with other hostages' families.\n\nTsachi Idan, 51, was last seen by his wife, Gali, as he was taken away by Hamas gunmen. Their family had been ambushed in their safe room in Nahal Oz. Their ordeal was live-streamed by Hamas. Their eldest child, Maayan - who had just turned 18 - was shot dead, Gali told the BBC.\n\nTsachi Idan was ambushed with his wife and children and then led away\n\nYarden Bibas, 34, was abducted from Nir Oz. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were also taken hostage, but on 29 November, Hamas claimed they had been killed in an Israeli air strike while in captivity. The Israeli government has said it is checking the claim.\n\nRonen Engel, 54, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife, Karina Engelbert, 51, and their two daughters, Mika, 18 and Yuval, 11. On 1 December, the organisation representing the families said he had been murdered. Karina, Mika and Yuval were released on 27 November.\n\nKarina Ariev, a 19-year-old soldier, was serving at an army base near Gaza when she was kidnapped. Her sister Alexandra told the BBC she heard shooting as Karina called her during the attack, and later saw a video showing Karina being taken away in a vehicle.\n\nKarina Ariev was at the Nahal Oz military base, which was among the first to be attacked\n\nOfer Kalderon, 53, was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz. On 27 November his two children, Erez, 12, and Sahar, 16, were released. Two other relatives, 80-year-old Carmela Dan and her granddaughter, Noya, 12, were also believed to have been taken, but Israeli authorities later announced they had been found dead.\n\nYoram Metzger, 80, was a resident of Nir Oz. He has diabetes and broke his hip six months ago, his daughter-in-law said. Yoram's wife Tamar was released on 28 November.\n\nNadav Popplewell, 51, and his mother Channah were taken hostage by Hamas, said Channah's daughter Ayelet Svatitzky, who was speaking to them on the phone when the gunmen burst in. She said the captors sent pictures of her two relatives, who both have diabetes, with armed men in the background. Channah has now been released.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, was abducted after his family opened the door to their secure shelter to an Israeli child, who said he would be killed otherwise. Omri's wife, Lishay Lavi, said she saw him being taken away in handcuffs with three other hostages from Nahal Oz.\n\nLiri Elbag, 18, had just started military training as an Army lookout near the Gaza border when Hamas attacked, her father Eli told the Associated Press. Eli said he saw her in a video circulated later by Hamas, crowded with others on the back of a military truck which had been seized by the gunmen.\n\nLior Rudaeff, 61, was taken from Nir Yitzhak during the attack. His family have heard nothing from him since then.\n\nA number of people are believed to have been abducted from the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Among them:\n\nShlomi Ziv, 40, was part of the security detail at the festival and was initially in contact with his sisters as the attack unfolded, according to an interview with The Times of Israel. A few weeks later the family learned he was officially considered to be a hostage, the report says.\n\nAlexander Lobanov, 32, is a Russian-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped at the festival.\n\nOri Danino, 25, is reported to have got away from the festival in his car, but it's believed he was captured after turning back in an attempt to save some people he had met there.\n\nAlmog Sarusi, 26, was kidnapped from the music festival and his partner Shahar Gindi was killed, according to Israeli media. Almog's father, Yigal, was among the relatives of hostages who met with Israel's prime minister in October.\n\nOmer Shem Tov, 21, called his parents as he was running away from gunfire and managed to get into a friend's car. His parents, Shelly and Malki Shem Tov, told Israeli media they lost contact with their son and the live location on his phone showed he was beyond the border in Gaza.\n\nIdan Shtivi, 28, an environmental sciences student, was attending the festival to take pictures at music and yoga workshops being held by friends. He escaped the site in his car but was attacked by Hamas along the route. The bodies of two of his passengers were found, and his family told the Jerusalem Post they suspect he was kidnapped.\n\nYosef Ohana, 24, had been at the festival with a friend, who told his mother he and Yosef had remained to help people escape the gunfire before running themselves. Yosef was last seen hiding under a car, and Israeli authorities have visited his mother to say he was kidnapped.\n\nAndrei Kozlov, 27, a Russian who moved to Israel in 2022, is missing from the Supernova festival, where he was working as a security guard. His mother told the De Taly publication the family was told by the IDF on October 26 that he was being held hostage.\n\nElyakim Libman, 23, was working as a security guard at the festival. In a Facebook post his father Eliyahu Libman said another guard told him his son had helped rescue others before trying to escape. He was last seen trying to help two badly-injured women.\n\nNoa Argamani, a Chinese-born Israeli citizen, was also kidnapped from the festival. Video footage - verified by her father Yaakov Argamani to Israel's Channel 12 - shows the 25-year-old being taken away on the back of a motorbike screaming, \"Don't kill me!\" Her boyfriend Avinatan Or, 30, also appears in the video being marched away from her by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nEden Yerushalmi's family say they were told she had been taken hostage\n\nEden Yerushalmi, 24, called her family during Hamas's attack on the festival, her sister May told CBS News. The family say they were subsequently informed by the IDF that Eden had been abducted.\n\nChanan Yablonka, 42, is a father-of-two from Tel Aviv. According to reports, he attended the festival with friends and was due to celebrate his birthday a few days after the attacks.\n\nJonathan Samerano, 21, has been missing since 7am on the morning of the festival. His family have been told to presume he is being held in Gaza, Israeli media reported.\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal was filmed in captivity in Gaza, his family say\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, attended the festival with his brother. Guy appears in a hostage video that his family say confirms he is in Gaza.\n\nUriel Baruch, 35, was injured during the attack on the festival, his wife said on Facebook. Reports in Israeli media say his mother, Naomi, has heard from the IDF that he is a hostage.\n\nMaxim Kharkin's mother described speaking to him on the morning of 7 October\n\nMaxim Kharkin is aged 35 and a Russian speaker, his mother told Russian media. She added that he had called her at 07:00 on the morning of the attack.\n\nElkana Bohbot was seen in a video posted by Hamas\n\nElkana Bohbot, 34, had gone to the party with friends and, before losing contact, he spoke to his wife and mother telling them he was helping to evacuate the wounded, the Times of Israel reported. Hours later, his family found a video of him posted online by Hamas, which has been seen by BBC Verify.\n\nRom Braslavski, 19, was working on security for the festival. According to an account published by Hostages and Missing Families Forum, he was trying to rescue an injured person in the attack when he was caught in a volley of fire. He has not been heard from since.\n\nOmer Wenkert, 22, a restaurant manager, sent a message to his family to say he was going to a safe shelter but then lost contact, his father Shai Wenkert told the BBC's Today Programme. Shai Wenkert said he had seen footage of his son in captivity, including a photo of him handcuffed and wearing only underwear.\n\nEvyatar David's family say they were sent a video of him in captivity\n\nEvyatar David, 23, was at the festival and on the morning of the attacks, described fleeing from gunfire before losing contact with the outside world, his brother says. Later, his family say, Evyatar's sister posted on Instagram appealing for information about his whereabouts. She then received a text from an unknown number, which contained video footage of Evyatar handcuffed on the floor of a dark room. According to Israel's foreign ministry he is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nEitan Mor, 23, lives in Jerusalem, and was working as a security guard at the festival, the Times of Israel said. He reportedly texted his uncle after Hamas arrived and was last seen with a friend bringing others to safety.\n\nAlon Ohel, 22, a Serbian citizen, took refuge in a shelter after the festival came under attack, his family say. They have seen footage of him being dragged away after a grenade attack.\n\nAlmog Meir Jan, 21, tried to flee the festival. He and a friend made it to the friend's car but only managed to drive a short distance before being forced to stop. Almog's family say they have seen a hostage video in which he appears.\n\nInbar Heiman, a student aged 21, was seen by two young Israeli men being taken away from the festival on a motorcycle. Hamas have released a video in which she is seen very briefly.\n\nHersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual US-Israeli citizen, was badly injured in the attack, his family told the BBC. Eyewitness accounts say he was seen being forced onto a white pick-up truck - the last-known signal from his phone came from just inside Gaza.\n\nSegev Kalfon, 26, was running away from the festival, across the highway, when he was captured by Hamas, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.\n\nOrión Hernández Radoux, 30, from Mexico, attended the festival with his girlfriend, Shani Louk. He has not been seen since. The Sun newspaper says it has seen threatening messages written in Arabic sent from his phone. Shani, a tourist from Germany, was initially thought to be among those seized. But on 30 October, her mother Ricarda told German media that the family had been informed by Israeli military of her death following DNA identification.\n\nRomi Lesham Gonen, 23, was on the phone to her mother as she tried to escape from the Supernova festival. Merav Leshem Gonan has recounted a conversation in which her daughter begged for help after being shot. ABC News reports that Romi's phone is now in Gaza.\n\nBar Kuperstein, 21, last spoke to his family early on the morning of 7 October, as the attack unfolded. Later the same day, his family say they identified him in a video of Israeli prisoners, posted by Hamas. Since then, they say they have had no further information.\n\nEliya Cohen, 26, was hiding with his girlfriend Ziv from the attack, when Ziv felt him being pulled up and driven away by the gunmen, Eliya's mother has told the video initiative #BringThemHomeNow. The family then found a photo of Eliya in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nAmit Buskila, 28, from Ashdod, was last heard of making a call to her uncle, Shimon, as Hamas overran the festival. Her family say they have now been told by the government that she is being held in Gaza.\n\nCarmel Gat, 39, is Jordan's sister-in-law, and also was seen by her father being taken by gunmen from Kibbutz Be'eri, Haaretz newspaper reported. She has not been heard from since.\n\nOhad Yahalomi, 49, was abducted from Nir Oz, along with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the November ceasefire.\n\nDror Or, 48, was seen by a neighbour being dragged out of his home in Be'eri, according to their nephew Emmanuel Besorai, along with his son and daughter. On Saturday 25 November Dror's son Noam, 17, and daughter Alma, 13, were released from captivity. The body of Yonat, 50 - Dror's wife and the children's mother - was identified among the 120 people murdered at the kibbutz, Yonat's brother told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nTal Shoham, 38, was taken from Kibbutz Be'eri. His wife Adi, also 38, her mother Dr Shoshan Haran, 67, were released by Hamas on 25 November, along with the couple's children Nave, eight, and Yahel, three. Dr Haran's husband, Avshalom - an economist and dual German/Israeli citizen - was killed on 7 October.\n\nTamir Adar, 38, who defended Nir Oz as part of the kibbutz's emergency squad, was taken to Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen, 35, an American-Israeli citizen, has been missing since Hamas's attack on Nir Oz, his father Jonathan told the BBC. He said his son was not found among the dead and the \"only reasonable explanation\" is that he was taken to Gaza.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen's father has not heard from him since Hamas attacked the kibbutz where he lived\n\nThailand's ambassador to Israel says 26 of its citizens were taken hostage, 23 of whom have now been released.\n\nThose still being held are believed to include Watchara Sriuan, 32. His mother, Viewwaew, told the Thaiger news site that the family had been informed he was being held captive.\n\nKiattisak \"Top\" Patee and a Mr Pongtorn (no first name given) have also been named by the Thai foreign ministry as hostages.\n\nA number of other people thought to have been held hostage are now confirmed to have died, either during the 7 October attack or while in captivity.\n\nAs well as Ron Scherman and Nik Beizer, four bodies were identified this week. They were Tal Chaimi, an Israeli-Romanian citizen aged 41, and Joshua Mollel, a 19-year-old Tanzanian student. Also, 27-year-old Eden Zecharya, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and 36-year-old Ziv Dado, who had already been declared dead by the Israeli military.\n\nOthers known to have died include Dror Kaplun, 68, Aviv Atzili, 49, Arye Zalmanovich, 85, Ronen Engel, 54, Maya Goren, 56, Guy Iluz, 26, Ofir Tzarfati, 27, Ofra Keider, 70, and Eliyahu Margalit, 75.\n\nThe bodies of 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, and 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss were found by Israeli troops in buildings close to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.\n\nOn Saturday 9 December Kibbutz Bari announced that Sahar Baruch, 25, had been killed in Gaza.\n\nOther hostages whose death has been reported, but not confirmed include Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "More than a fifth of pupils in England were persistently absent over the past academic year\n\nParents are increasingly willing to challenge school rules in England, the head of Ofsted has said.\n\nIn her final annual report, Amanda Spielman says the \"unwritten agreement\" ensuring families take their children to school and respect the policies, in return for a good education, has been fractured.\n\nAnd restoring the contract between parents and schools \"will take time\".\n\nMs Spielman is stepping down at the end of the year.\n\nHer report reflects a \"broadly positive picture\" but draws particular attention to a troubling shift in behaviour, attendance and attitudes towards education since the pandemic.\n\nLooking back on her seven-year term, Ms Spielman says the pandemic has \"left a troublesome legacy\".\n\n\"We see its impact in lower school attendance, poorer behaviour and friction between parents and schools,\" she says.\n\nOver the 2022-23 academic year, 22.3% of pupils were \"persistently absent\", missing at least 10% of lessons.\n\nBefore the pandemic, the proportion was just over one in 10.\n\nSchools are struggling to reverse this trend, Ms Spielman says, with secondary schools seeing more absences than normal on Mondays and Fridays.\n\nSome of these were due to an increase in mental-health problems, Ms Spielman told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour programme, but also \"families becoming more relaxed about children missing schools for odd days or term-time holidays\".\n\nHer report also raises concerns about an increase in part-time timetables.\n\nThe government says these should be used in exceptional circumstances only and never as a sanction for poor behaviour.\n\nBut Ms Spielman says the increase is partly due to a delay in assessments for \"school refusal\" or special educational needs and disabilities.\n\nShe also says it is \"incredibly disappointing\" Ofsted's powers to investigate and close illegal unregistered schools remain limited despite every one of her previous annual reports highlighting concerns.\n\n\"Most of these places offer a poor standard of education and many are unsafe,\"' she says.\n\nOfsted has also seen an increase in parents complaining about school policies and is calling for \"greater central guidance\" on a range of issues from \"uniform policies to the delicate choices around curriculum for relationships and sex education or the handling of transgender and other identity issues\", left in large part to head teachers.\n\n\"When heads must exercise that autonomy in contentious areas, they can feel isolated and unsupported - and their decisions can be inconsistent\" the report says.\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan said her number one priority is making sure \"every child is in school every day\" and progress is being made, with 380,000 fewer children persistently absent compared with last year.\n\nAmanda Spielman is the longest-serving chief inspector of the watchdog in England\n\nHead teacher Ruth Perry's suicide ahead of an \"inadequate\" Ofsted rating led to a debate about how the watchdog operates, with calls for its single-word grading system to be replaced with a narrative judgement.\n\nAnd some changes to Ofsted inspections have already been made, including reinspecting schools rated inadequate over their ability to keep children safe sooner, to give them a chance to improve.\n\nBut Ms Spielman says there remains \"a wave of publicly expressed discontent\" about issues Ofsted cannot resolve alone.\n\nGovernment interventions in schools, following an inspection, has intensified anxiety ahead of inspections and made them more pressurised, she says.\n\n\"Ofsted is not a policy-making department and cannot decide to divert its resources to support work.. yet it is being argued that Ofsted is acting punitively or in bad faith by not doing so and that clarification is needed,\" Ms Spielman's report says.\n\nThe current judgement model is \"in fact entirely in line with other inspectorates\", she says.\n\nMs Spielman also says funding for school inspections is about a quarter of what it was 20 years ago, meaning \"school inspections are necessarily shorter and more intense and reports are necessarily briefer\" - but Ofsted \"continues to perform its role fairly, professionally, thoroughly and constructively\".\n\nHead-teachers' unions have welcomed the report's findings, while calling for \"fundamental reform\" of Ofsted.\n\nThe changes already made \"do not go nearly far enough\", National Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman said.\n\nMPs have launched an inquiry into school inspections in England, looking at how useful they are to parents, governors and schools.", "David Tennant as The Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble in a 2008 episode\n\nBringing Doctor Who to Wales was a \"leap of faith\", according to the team that brought it to Cardiff.\n\nSince 2005 the hit sci-fi series has been made in Wales, first by BBC Wales and now by Cardiff production company Bad Wolf.\n\nThe show is celebrating its 60th anniversary with events in the capital and an upcoming trio of new episodes starring David Tennant.\n\nNcuti Gatwa is set to replace him as the next Time Lord on Christmas Day.\n\nThe show's production has also created \"thousands of jobs\", birthing a wider TV drama industry around it, and contributed more than £134m to the Welsh economy.\n\nCardiff was chosen as the home for Doctor Who by the BBC in 2004 and it began filming the following year.\n\nIt was the corporation's then drama commissioner Jane Tranter who persuaded BBC Wales head of drama Julie Gardner to work with writer Russell T Davies to create the new series in the city.\n\nAll three are now reunited as Tranter and Gardner's production company Bad Wolf is making Doctor Who for the BBC at its Wolf Studios in Splott, with Davies again penning the scripts.\n\nAsked about the original risk they took relaunching it and basing its production in Wales, Jane Tranter said: \"You call it a risk, I call it a leap of faith - or bloody-minded determination that this is what we are going to do.\n\n\"I never felt it was a risk to bring back Doctor Who, and as soon as Julie and Russell were involved I didn't think it was going to be a risk at all.\"\n\nCardiff quickly became a backdrop for a succession of new Doctors, beginning with the 2005 revival starring Christopher Eccleston.\n\nHe was followed by David Tennant, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi and Jodie Whittaker.\n\nJane Tranter and Julie Gardner helped bring Doctor Who to Cardiff almost 20 years ago\n\nNow Tennant is set to make an imminent return to mark the show's landmark birthday, before Gatwa becomes the 15th Doctor on 25 December.\n\nThe success of Doctor Who has coincided with increased demand for high-end TV dramas, and a sprawling Welsh production base has emerged.\n\n\"We have always believed the crews and the locations are here, it's a place of endless possibility,\" said Ms Gardner.\n\n\"That said, Cardiff and Wales in 2023 is very different in spirit to where it was in 2004.\n\n\"Back then there was a lot of suspicion about Doctor Who coming 'down the motorway from London'.\n\n\"It's like it wasn't quite real, or wouldn't be Welsh enough, wouldn't do enough or be taken away.\"\n\nA BBC report into the economic impact of Doctor Who found more than £134m in gross value added (GVA) in Wales, and a total UK contribution to the economy of £256m.\n\nOn location in Llandaff, Matt Smith as The Doctor in 2010\n\nBut it also triggered a far greater investment by other production companies who were persuaded to film in Wales after witnessing its success.\n\n\"I had no idea it was going to be as popular as it is now,\" said Danny Hargreaves, who provided special effects for the first series of Doctor Who before opening Real SFX in 2008.\n\nHe still makes explosions and blizzards for the series, with a workshop in Cardiff that houses cutting-edge equipment.\n\n\"We get to build some really cool stuff and the show gives me a licence to blow up stuff,\" he added.\n\nDanny has witnessed the broader impact of the iconic TV series on Wales's production sector.\n\n\"What people don't realise is how much of an impact Doctor Who created here in Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"It was really the catalyst for what is an exceptional industry in Wales, and many different productions from all over the world have filmed here since.\"\n\nNcuti Gatwa as the next Doctor, with Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday\n\nMeanwhile, returning showrunner Davies is as great an advocate for Wales in 2023 as he was in 2005.\n\nHe said he would have rejected the option to make the show in London.\n\n\"I've lived in Manchester for many years, made Queer as Folk there and done tonnes of dramas there with a local flavour,\" he said.\n\n\"But I'm fundamentally Welsh, so to bring Who here was a great opportunity.\n\n\"I think if they'd asked me to make Doctor Who in London, I would have refused,\" he added.", "The typical annual energy bill for a household in England, Wales and Scotland is set to increase to £1,928 per year from January.\n\nThe figure is based on how much energy the typical household uses. However, how much you'll actually end up paying depends on how much you use, where you live, and how you pay.\n\nFor example, energy users in north Wales, Cheshire and parts of Merseyside, are paying more than the average customer in Britain, while those in North East England pay less.\n\nHaving a prepayment meter, or paying by cash, cheque or bank transfer, also means you're paying more than direct debit customers.\n\nUse the calculator below to estimate how much you'll be paying from January 2024.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation", "China has reported no \"unusual or novel pathogens\" in clusters of child pneumonia cases, the World Health Organization has said.\n\nBeijing has attributed a rise in flu-like illnesses to the lifting of Covid curbs, said the WHO, which had requested for more data on the cases.\n\nStill it urged residents in China to take precautions, like getting vaccinated and wearing masks.\n\nLocal media had in recent days reported hospitals being overwhelmed.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the WHO said it requested China for more information on reports in the media and from ProMed - a global outbreak surveillance system - of \"clusters of undiagnosed pneumonia in children in northern China\".\n\nPneumonia is a general medical term used to describe an infection and inflammation of the lungs. It can be caused by many different viruses, bacteria or fungi.\n\nAfter the WHO's request, state-run Xinhua news agency published an article which quoted officials of China's National Health Commission (NHC) as saying they were paying close attention to the diagnosis and care of children with respiratory illnesses.\n\nLater on Thursday, the WHO said in a statement that China has not detected any \"unusual or novel pathogens\", and that the increase in respiratory illnesses spreading in the north of the country was due to \"multiple known pathogens\".\n\nSince October, northern China has reported an \"increase in influenza-like illness\" compared to the same period over the past three years, the WHO said.\n\n\"Some of these increases are earlier in the season than historically experienced, but not unexpected given the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions, as similarly experienced in other countries,\" the statement said.\n\nThe WHO said it is \"closely monitoring the situation and is in close contact with national authorities in China\".\n\nWhile mentions of China and a wave of infection can get people jittery as it brings memories of the Covid-19 pandemic, it's good practice for the WHO to ask for clarity.\n\nIt is also not unusual for the WHO to ask countries for more information about a cluster of illnesses. They do so almost every day.\n\nA specialist WHO team combs through thousands of media reports and internal surveillance information on circulating diseases from countries on a daily basis. Experts then decide whether they need more information, in case it could have the potential to become a public health emergency of international concern.\n\nBut it is unusual to announce the request for more information publicly. In general, this has previously been done through private channels between the WHO and health officials in a country.\n\nThe UN agency is no doubt mindful that people might be more jumpy about viruses reported in China with the not so distant memory of Covid-19. The WHO is also trying to be more transparent in the aftermath of the pandemic.\n\nThe UK's health security agency (UKHSA) said it was closely monitoring the situation.\n\nLast week, the Chinese NHC said there had been a rise in several respiratory diseases across the country: in particular influenza, Covid, mycoplasma pneumoniae - a common bacterial infection affecting younger children - and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).\n\nOfficials attributed the rise to the lifting of Covid restrictions.\n\nOther countries, including the UK and the US, saw similar surges in flu-like illnesses once pandemic restrictions were lifted.\n\n\"China is likely experiencing a major wave of childhood respiratory infections now as this is the first winter after their lengthy lockdown, which must have drastically reduced the circulation of respiratory bugs, and hence decreased immunity to endemic bugs,\" said Prof Francois Balloux of the University College of London Genetics Institute.\n\nProf Paul Hunter, of the University of East Anglia (UEA), said at present there was too little information to make a definitive diagnosis of what was causing the infections.\n\nHe added: \"Overall, this does not sound to me like an epidemic due to a novel [new] virus. If it was, I would expect to see many more infections in adults. The few infections reported in adults suggest existing immunity from a prior exposure.\"", "US actor Jamie Foxx is being sued by a woman who alleges he sexually assaulted her at a restaurant in New York City eight years ago.\n\nAccording to the lawsuit, Mr Foxx, whose real name is Eric Marlon Bishop, groped the unnamed woman after she asked to have her photo taken with him.\n\nThe accuser is suing Mr Foxx for damages, alleging \"sexual assault, abuse, assault and battery\".\n\nA representative for the actor said \"the alleged incident never happened\".\n\nIn a statement to Deadline on Thursday, the spokesperson said the woman had filed a similar lawsuit in Brooklyn three years ago, which was dismissed.\n\n\"We are confident they will be dismissed again. And once they are, Mr Foxx intends to pursue a claim for malicious prosecution against this person and her attorneys for re-filing this frivolous action,\" the representative said.\n\nThe BBC has reached out to Mr Foxx's representatives for comment.\n\nThe lawsuit alleges the assault occurred at around 01:00 in the morning on 26 August 2015 at Catch NYC after the woman was seated at a table next to Mr Foxx.\n\nThe actor appeared intoxicated and agreed to a photo, saying, \"sure, baby, anything for you\", the lawsuit says.\n\nIt adds that he told the woman she had a \"supermodel body\" and smelled \"so good\".\n\nHe led her to a secluded part of the restaurant and touched her breasts and put his hands in her underwear without her consent, the lawsuit says, adding that the incident ended when her friend came looking for her.\n\nThe lawsuit is also seeking damages from the restaurant and bar owner Mark Birnbaum, who the accuser says was seated with Mr Foxx shortly before the alleged assault occurred.\n\nThe legal action says Mr Birnbaum and the restaurant's employees breached their duty of care towards the plaintiff by failing to protect her.\n\nMr Birnbaum did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BBC on Wednesday night.\n\nThe lawsuit adds that as a result of the \"heinous acts\" the woman \"suffered and continues to suffer severe emotional distress and anxiety, humiliation, embarrassment, post-traumatic stress disorder and other physical and emotional damages\".\n\nThe legal action comes days before the New York Adult Survivors Act - which allows alleged victims of sex crimes to sue after the statute of limitations has lapsed - ends on 24 November.\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump, rapper Sean Combs, comedian Bill Cosby, actor Cuba Gooding Jr and Russell Brand have all been sued under the act.\n\nMr Foxx won a Best Actor Academy Award for his performance as pianist Ray Charles in 2004 film Ray.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has unveiled the contents of his Autumn Statement in the House of Commons.\n\nIt sets out the government's tax and spending plans for the year ahead, affecting the take-home pay and household budgets of millions of people, as well as the funding for key public services.\n\nHere is a summary of the main measures.\n\nAre you a small business owner or self-employed with a young family? How will the Autumn Statement affect you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None What the Autumn Statement means for you", "This Autumn Statement is a significant tax cut both for businesses and for workers, but overall the tax burden remains at a post-war high.\n\nThat's largely because tax thresholds are still frozen until 2028. That means any kind of pay rise could drag people into a higher tax bracket, or see a greater proportion of their income taxed, therefore bringing in more tax revenue to the Treasury.\n\nIn fact the government's independent economic forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), confirmed that by 2028, a truly astonishing £46bn will be raised by the freezes in just one year.\n\nHigher tax receipts due to frozen thresholds, and fuelled by inflation, have led to a £27bn improvement in the public finances - what the OBR refers to as a \"windfall\".\n\nThis was spent on a bigger-than-expected £9bn National Insurance cut and an £11bn tax cut for business investment.\n\nThis was a choice. And the chancellor's view is that all of this will help the economy grow eventually.\n\nBut that growth takes time - years to really show through.\n\nThat is why growth in the next couple of years has been downgraded from the March forecast.\n\nNot only is growth lower, but inflation is higher. Having previously predicted inflation to fall to 0.9% next year, the OBR now expects it to drop to only 2.8% by the end of 2024.\n\nThe picture painted by the OBR forecast is difficult to declare a definitive \"turning point\" in the economy.\n\nIt is, however, a change of gear on the economic policy. Downing Street has clearly decided that the unexpected buoyancy of tax revenues should be returned to businesses and to workers. The latter is nicely timed for the election, especially as it will be delivered in January.\n\nThey are calculating that the shadow cast by last year's mini-Budget is over, and that having built up market credibility, some money can now be spent with a significant set of giveaway decisions.\n\nOther choices were available.\n\nPublic spending and investment remains squeezed, after accounting for inflation, at a time when the public has begun to notice severe strains in some health, education and council services.\n\nIndeed, the OBR concludes that had public services been given funding in line with its higher inflation forecasts, there would have been no space for the chancellor's jumbo tax cuts.\n\nThe question is whether the public will see this notable National Insurance cut as light at the end of the tunnel, or instead, a partial refund of the significant tax rise seen over the past two years.", "Amid the hurricane of numbers and blizzard of words in the Autumn Statement, just three things really matter: Living standards, the tax burden, and tax cuts.\n\nThe government sought to sail the statement on a breeze of rhetoric about tax cuts, from the prime minister down.\n\nAnd, yes, they were flagged prominently and proudly in Jeremy Hunt's words.\n\nHe acknowledged too - in my interview with him - his political inheritance: The pandemic, as well as support paying our energy bills that shot up after Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nEach were huge and rare moments of colossal state intervention which the Conservatives argue were pragmatic, sensible and widely supported ideas - but ones that were going to have deep and long-lasting impacts on the public finances.\n\nAnd then there is the current economic picture, which is sluggish.\n\nLet's take a look at each of those three things I mentioned, in turn.\n\nHere is what the Office for Budget Responsibility said about them: \"Living standards, as measured by real household disposable income per person, are forecast to be 3.5% lower in 2024-25 than their pre-pandemic level.\"\n\nThis, the OBR adds, isn't as bad as they had previously forecast (and does underline how forecasts can and do change - and change significantly), but \"it still represents the largest reduction in real living standards since Office for National Statistics records began in the 1950s.\"\n\nGraphs and rhetoric, spreadsheets and spin can't alter this.\n\nSo what about the tax burden, and tax cuts?\n\nAgain, let's look at what the OBR has to say.\n\nThe tax cuts will reduce the tax burden, compared to if the tax cuts hadn't happened, as you might expect.\n\n\"Tax changes in this Autumn Statement reduce the tax burden by 0.7% of GDP, but it still rises in every year to a post-war high of 37.7% of GDP by 2028-29.\"\n\nAnd the principal reason the tax burden is continuing to grow, albeit at a slower rate, is the thresholds at which people start paying tax on their income, or start paying a higher rate, have been frozen - as inflation has soared.\n\nSo millions of people have been dragged into paying a higher rate of tax, without the government doing anything.\n\nOur economics editor Faisal Islam has written about this here.\n\nIt prompts an interesting thought about what makes news and what doesn't.\n\nWhen governments (or opposition parties) choose to do something by changing something, like putting up or cutting taxes, that makes news.\n\nBut the decision to opt for inaction, rather than action - which still involves a decision - doesn't so easily make news.\n\nAnd yet that decision, at repeated Budgets, has a huge impact.\n\n\"By 2028-29, frozen thresholds result in nearly four million additional workers paying income tax, three million more moved to a higher rate and 400,000 more paying the additional rate,\" says the OBR.\n\nThe higher rate is charged at 40% on income just over £50,000 a year.\n\nThe additional rate is charged at 45% on income of a little over £125,000 a year.\n\nAll of this provides Labour with an easy target, right now.\n\nBut the most bleak of inheritances if they win the next general election.\n\nLabour say they agree with the tax cuts in the Autumn Statement and they are not outright rejecting other measures in there either.\n\nAnd they share a diagnosis with the Conservatives about what is at the root of so many of the UK's contemporary challenges: A lack of growth.\n\nTrying to caffeinate a listless, lethargic economy is what the Autumn Statement is attempting to do.\n\nAnd the opposition would face the same, grinding challenge in power themselves, if they get the chance.", "Christine Hui said her son's asthma was not taken seriously in the months before his death\n\nA 10-year-old boy died from an asthma attack as a \"consequence of failures by healthcare professionals\", a coroner has concluded.\n\nWilliam Gray died at Southend University Hospital in Essex in May 2021.\n\nHis mother claimed his asthma was not taken seriously in the months beforehand.\n\nFollowing a two-week inquest, area coroner Sonia Hayes concluded that \"neglect\" contributed to his death.\n\n\"There were multiple failures to escalate and treat William's very poorly controlled asthma by healthcare professionals that would and should have saved William's life,\" said Ms Hayes.\n\nWilliam's asthma was generally well-controlled in the years leading up to a severe attack in October 2020\n\nThe inquest, which took place at the Essex coroner's court in Chelmsford, heard how William's asthma was generally well-controlled and he had not been admitted to hospital for any attacks in the three years before October 2020.\n\nBut his mother Christine Hui was forced to give CPR on 27 October that year when he was struggling to breathe and he was admitted to hospital.\n\nThe incident was recorded as a \"severe asthma attack\", rather than a respiratory attack, the inquest was told.\n\nIn spring 2021, William's asthma worsened and Ms Hui spoke to his GP, the asthma nurse and the GP practice nurse a few weeks before he died.\n\nHis medication was not changed and he was not referred for further care, the coroner was told.\n\nMs Hui slept in the same bed as her son up until 29 May 2021, when he suffered another attack and died in the early hours of the morning.\n\nThe inquest lasted two weeks at the coroner's court in Chelmsford\n\nMs Hayes's full conclusion noted: \"William Gray died as a consequence of failures by healthcare professionals to recognise the severity and frequency of his asthma symptomatology and the consequential risk to his life that was obvious.\n\n\"William's death was contributed to by neglect. William's death was avoidable.\"\n\nMs Hayes said there should have been more \"medical curiosity\" in his case and added: \"Record keeping was minimal, contact was minimal and William's voice was nowhere to be heard, and he was old enough to be involved.\"\n\nWilliam Gray's voice was \"nowhere to be heard\", the coroner said\n\nMs Hui said in a statement, at the start of the inquest, that her son was a \"cheeky\" and \"clever boy\" who dreamt of being a doctor.\n\nHe died from a cardio respiratory arrest due to acute and severe asthma.\n\nThe Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT), which runs the local children's asthma and allergy service, said its \"heartfelt sympathies\" remained with William's family.\n\nAn EPUT spokesperson said: \"We continue to work with our partners across the health and care system to ensure children with complex needs and their families receive the best possible care and support.\n\n\"We will be reviewing and acting on the coroner's findings.\"\n\nThe Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Southend hospital, said it was \"committed to learning from this terrible loss\".\n\nDiane Sarkar, the chief nursing and quality officer at the trust, said: \"Since his death in 2021 we have brought in numerous changes to improve patient care.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nitazenes can be injected, inhaled or swallowed\n\nThe largest ever UK seizure of synthetic opioids has been made by police and border officials.\n\nA series of raids in Waltham Forest and Enfield, north London, culminated in 11 people being charged with conspiracy to supply class A and B drugs.\n\nAbout 150,000 tablets of a drug called Nitazene were found in a factory set up to make the pills, Metropolitan Police said.\n\nDetectives believe the drug was being sold on the dark web.\n\nThey also found various other class A and B drugs, a gun, a pill pressing machine, more than £60,000 in cash and £8,000 in cryptocurrency stored on hard drives.\n\nArrests were made between August and November and all those arrested have since been charged.\n\nNitazenes were first developed in the 1950s as a pain-killing medication but are so potent and addictive they have never been approved for medical or therapeutic use.\n\nIn recent years, they have been linked to thousands of deaths in the United States.\n\nIn 2019, it was reported that, unknown to users, they were being cut and spliced into heroin, cocaine, and street pills.\n\nInjected, inhaled or swallowed, mixing them with other drugs and alcohol is extremely dangerous and significantly increases the risk of overdose and death.\n\nBritish law enforcement is aiming to stop any rise in the use of synthetic opioids amid a decrease in heroin being smuggled from Afghanistan, a Met force spokesperson said.\n\nThey want to avoid a situation similar to that in the US, where the number of fatal fentanyl overdoses went up by three times in the five years to 2021.\n\nDet Supt Helen Rance said: \"Synthetic opioids have been detected in batches of heroin found in London and across the UK; they substantially raise the risk of incredibly serious harm to the user and are believed to be linked to a number of deaths.\n\n\"We are working closely with partners to monitor and proactively tackle this issue, provide advice and remove the availability of these dangerous drugs from our streets.\"\n\nDr Caroline Copeland, director of the National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths, said: \"I think people are buying what they believe to be heroin and it's been adulterated by these stronger compounds.\n\n\"Because they are so much stronger the people that are using them have no idea how much to use, and what they thought was previously a safe dose is now a very unsafe dose.\"\n\nSigns that someone may have taken one of these drugs:\n\nAnyone who has consumed synthetic opioids and experiences the symptoms described should seek urgent medical treatment, the Met said.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the first video of trapped tunnel workers in India’s Uttarakhand\n\nThe operation to rescue 41 workers trapped inside a tunnel in India's Uttarakhand state has resumed after hitting a snag, officials say.\n\nThey hope to free the workers in the next 10-12 hours if things go to plan.\n\nThe workers have been inside the tunnel since 12 November after a part of it caved in due to a landslide.\n\nLate on Wednesday, the operation to rescue them was slowed down after a drilling machine encountered a steel structure it could not cut through.\n\nRescuers had drilled through three-quarters of the debris trapping the workers by that point, and hopes had been high they could be brought out by Thursday morning.\n\nGas-cutters were then used to slice through the obstacle, which delayed the work by around six hours.\n\n\"If everything goes to plan, and there are no impediments, we should complete the rescue by tonight,\" Atul Karwal, director general of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), told BBC Hindi on Thursday morning.\n\nMr Karwal added that the authorities were prepared to deal with any obstacles that might come in their way.\n\n\"We will get these men out,\" he said.\n\nOfficials established contact with the trapped men hours after the collapse. They have been supplying them with oxygen, dry snacks and water through a pipeline that was laid for supplying water to the tunnel for construction work.\n\nThey have also been communicating with them regularly and giving updates on their health.\n\nOfficials say they are just a few metres away from the men trapped inside the tunnel\n\nFriends and relatives of the workers are waiting anxiously and have been asking why it is taking so long to get the men out. Earlier this week, some of them were able to get a glimpse of their loved ones through an endoscopic camera inserted inside the tunnel.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Karwal said that Uttarakhand's Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami spoke to the workers in the morning and they seemed to be in good spirits.\n\n\"Even they feel they will be rescued soon,\" he said.\n\nAuthorities have been working to send multiple pipes of differing widths through the estimated 60m (197ft) debris wall to create a micro-tunnel through which the workers can be brought out.\n\nRescuers have been working day and night to reach the trapped workers\n\nBut the operation has encountered several delays and obstacles due to loose soil, hard rock and falling debris.\n\nAn American-made auger drill was flown in from across the country to drill through the debris, after excavators failed to clear the thick mound of soil and rock. The powerful tool has a spiral shaft at the end that spins to push soil and stones away and make its way into the ground.\n\nOnce the final rescue pipe reaches the workers, a doctor will be sent ahead to check on their condition.\n\nAmbulances have been kept on standby outside the tunnel. Officials say the aim is to pull the workers out to safety and shift them to the nearby hospital as quickly as possible.\n\nBBC News India is now on YouTube. Click here to subscribe and watch our documentaries, explainers and features.", "Statisticians at the ONS use a number of different methods of counting people in and out of the country.\n\nBut being a net migrant – among that number that shows up in the total – depends on whether a person intends to stay in the UK for twelve months or longer. That is a widely used United Nations classification.\n\nWhen people arrive here, there is not always enough information to know whether someone intends to stay for 12 months. So the ONS uses estimates based on past behaviour – known as an “early leaver adjustment”.\n\nIt is these adjustments which have changed, leading to a backwards recalculation of the previous net migration total.\n\nThe adjustments were also applied to the numbers arriving from Ukraine and from Hong Kong on British National (Overseas) visas.\n\nThe ONS says that as those schemes opened in the past two years, they do not have enough historical information to make a full calculation.\n\nThey have also adjusted for students who arrived but did not leave at the end of their study period – instead switching to a work visa.", "Hostage deal: A hotly anticipated hostage deal between Hamas and Israel - which includes a four-day pause to fighting - has been left up in the air. Hamas had announced there'd be a four-day pause beginning at 10am on Thursday - but an Israeli source has since told the BBC there's been a setback.\n\nIt came after a security adviser to the Israeli government said there'd be no Israeli hostages released by Hamas before Friday.\n\nCriticism of pause time: Families of those being held in Gaza have said every captive \"needs to come home\", but the UN's Palestinian refugee agency Unrwa said a four-day pause - in which more aid would be allowed to go into the enclave - is simply not enough.\n\nAid crisis: Lorries carrying aid are now queuing up at the Rafah crossing from Egypt into Gaza in anticipation of the pause in hostilities. Earlier, the executive director of Unicef - the UN's agency for children - said Gaza now faces a crisis of \"child wasting\" - a term used to describe the most life-threatening form of malnutrition.\n\nFighting continues: On the ground, Israel has continued its ground and air operation in Gaza - and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to win \"absolute victory\" over Hamas. Meanwhile, Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said Israel is \"slowly but surely\" dismantling the military framework of Hamas.\n\nWhat happens now? Our colleagues on the ground are continuing to gather information about the hostage deal and what its potential delay means.", "Friends left photographs, letters and flowers in tribute to the boys\n\nShrewsbury is in mourning after four teenage friends were killed in a crash in north Wales. People in the town told the BBC it would be a long time before they would make sense of the tragedy.\n\nThe stage was set in The Square for the Christmas lights switch-on, an event that draws thousands for music, merriment and a night of festive shopping.\n\nInstead, the only crowds gathering in Shrewsbury are those of students - solemn and silent, consumed with shock and grief over the deaths of their friends.\n\nThe switch-on is cancelled, the start of late-night shopping delayed for a week. Celebrating Christmas is the last thing on anyone's mind here.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James and Alfie light candles at Shrewsbury Abbey in memory of their four friends who died in the crash in north Wales\n\nWilf Fitchett, Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen and Hugo Morris were students at Shrewsbury College. As news of their deaths filtered through yesterday, the college was closed for a teacher training day.\n\nArriving back today, students laid flowers at the English Bridge campus. Messages of \"love you\" and \"rest in peace\" have been written on the stone stairs.\n\nMolly Clarkson said she knew all the boys, meeting Jevon first at primary school.\n\n\"Wilf sits in my English class and today the teacher was crying,\" she said.\n\n\"There is an undisputed sadness. They were all best friends.\"\n\nJevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Fitchett and Hugo Morris were all best friends, a fellow student said\n\nAt Shrewsbury Abbey, dozens of students have been going to light candles in the church.\n\nSteve Swinden, church administrator, watched as nine boys stood in silence at the altar after laying flowers.\n\n\"What they are experiencing is hard to contemplate. It doesn't matter if you have a faith, it is about humanity,\" he said.\n\n\"We are here for everybody. Shrewsbury is a strong community.\"\n\nFriends of the boys bowed their heads in silence at the abbey\n\nThe market town is \"one of those places where everyone knows everybody\", said Reverend Charlotte Gompertz, the vicar of Shelton and Oxon.\n\nThe news of the boys' deaths is \"utterly devastating\", she said.\n\n\"It's impacting everyone, this is a tight-knit community where many of the young people have been at school together since they were four years old.\n\n\"It is going to take a long time for us to get our heads even vaguely around this tragedy.\"\n\nMessages to the four boys have been written on to the steps at the front of one of the college buildings\n\nIn a statement, Shrewsbury Colleges Group called it \"truly heartbreaking\" and \"tragic\" and said \"our thoughts go out to those affected\".\n\nThe group said it would be working directly with affected students and staff and had \"put in place a range of support measures for all our community\".\n\nTragically, the deaths of the four boys comes just weeks after two other college students died.\n\nAlfie McCormick, 18, took his own life in October and Ben Worrall, 17, was killed in a road accident two days later. Principal James Staniforth described the news as \"devastating\" at the time.\n\nMeole Brace School in Shrewsbury, which the four teenagers previously attended, said in a statement earlier on Tuesday that all four boys were well-thought of and well-known by the school community.\n\nLots of people knew Harvey because he worked in the kitchen of popular local pizza restaurant Dough and Oil, his friends said.\n\nIt has closed for the day as a mark of respect.\n\n\"Harvey, our boy,\" the restaurant team wrote on its Instagram page, alongside a picture of him in his work uniform, a bowl of pasta in his hand, taken just two weeks ago.\n\n\"Easy going, funny, gentle, bright, hard-working and humble - we all had a soft spot for Harvey,\" it went on.\n\nDough and Oil, where Harvey worked, was closed in respect\n\nHe had started working there two years ago on the pot wash, and had dreams of opening his own bakery.\n\n\"Our love, thoughts and condolences go out to Harvey's family and to those of his friends, their lives so full of promise cut so tragically short,\" the post added.\n\nShrewsbury's town clerk, Helen Ball, described the mood in the town as very subdued as she explained the reasoning behind cancelling Wednesday evening's events.\n\nThe town's lights will be \"quietly\" switched on over the next few days instead, she said.\n\nWhen the time is right, the town council will help the college commemorate the lives of the four friends, Ms Ball added.\n\nUp the road from Dough and Oil, Shane Swannick has put four candles in the window of Shropshire Cycle Hub.\n\nFour candles for four boys have been lit at Shropshire Cycle Hub\n\n\"As a parent of teenagers, I really feel it,\" he said.\n\n\"My son, he's 19 now and he goes to Snowdonia with his mates mountain-biking all the time.\n\n\"I used to - as lads you go with your mates, that's what you do.\n\n\"But it can end, just like that.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWembley's arch will only be lit for football and entertainment under a new Football Association policy.\n\nThe decision follows criticism when the arch was not lit in the colours of the Israel flag after attacks by Hamas in which 1,200 people were killed.\n\nIsrael responded to the attacks with a military campaign during which Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says more than 14,000 people have been killed.\n\nA period of silence was held at Wembley for \"innocent victims\" of the conflict.\n\nThat preceded England's friendly against Australia on 13 October.\n\nThere had been calls for the arch to be lit after the attacks by Hamas during which 240 people were also taken hostage.\n\nThe decision not to do so was described as \"disappointing\" by the UK government, and Rabbi Alex Goldberg resigned from an FA faith in football group.\n\nFA senior officials were known to be wary of a perception they might be taking sides on the issue, and insisted they acted on \"expert advice\".\n\nBut they later accepted the episode had caused hurt to the Jewish community, describing it as \"one of the hardest decisions\" they had ever had to make.\n\nNow, as first reported by the Telegraph, the FA will restrict the lighting of the arch to far fewer occasions, in recognition of the fact it is a football and entertainment venue, rather than a political one.\n\nThe FA will still support a number of diversity and equality causes and campaigns, but will not illuminate the arch for them. It will be lit when Wembley is hosting matches or concerts for instance, but not when there are natural disasters or tragedies, as in the past.\n\nPreviously, the FA has lit up the arch to commemorate events including Remembrance Day and International Women's Day or to pay tribute to victims of the war in Ukraine or of terror attacks such as in Paris in 2015.\n\nBut it is understood it felt it had little choice but to change its approach.\n\nFA chief executive Mark Bullingham said last month the controversy \"made us question whether we should light the arch and when, and we'll be reviewing that\".\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Laurence Fox has been described as \"an intelligent racist with an agenda\" on the opening day of a libel trial with two people he called paedophiles.\n\nThe actor-turned-politician is being sued by ex-Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and drag artist Crystal over an online row in October 2020.\n\nMr Fox called Mr Blake and the ex-contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race - real name Colin Seymour - \"paedophiles\".\n\nHe denies being a racist and claims he lost his acting agent over the row.\n\nThe dispute followed a decision by Sainsbury's to celebrate Black History Month and provide a safe space for black employees.\n\nAfter Mr Fox called for a boycott of the supermarket, he was described as \"a racist\" by Mr Blake and Mr Seymour, and by actress Nicola Thorp, in their own posts on Twitter, now known as X.\n\nMr Fox is counter-suing these three people over their tweets, claiming they damaged his reputation.\n\nLorna Skinner KC, representing Mr Blake, Mr Seymour and Ms Thorp, said the three \"honestly believed, and continue honestly to believe, that Mr Fox is a racist\".\n\nIn written submissions, the barrister said the 45-year-old \"has made a number of highly controversial statements about race\".\n\nShe added: \"If and to the extent that Mr Fox has been harmed in his reputation, it is his own conduct and not the claimants' comments on it that caused that harm.\"\n\nMs Skinner highlighted several of Mr Fox's social media posts, including a June 2022 tweet of four pride flags arranged in the shape of a swastika.\n\n\"Such a disgusting post could only be made by a complete ignoramus or an intelligent racist with an agenda. Mr Fox is the latter,\" she said.\n\nPatrick Green KC, for Mr Fox, said in his written submissions that neither Mr Blake or Mr Seymour \"has suffered any actual, real-world consequences\" due to the actor's tweets.\n\nInstead, Mr Green said readers would have understood that Mr Fox's posts were a \"retort to an allegation of racism\" rather than a factual allegation.\n\nHe said it was accepted that abuse had been sent to Mr Blake and Mr Seymour on the X platform, but that it had been from \"trolls, a well-recognised species of Twitter user who have, at best, a ribald sense of humour and, at worst, deep personality disorders\".\n\nHowever, Mr Green said there was \"little doubt that Mr Fox's reputation has actually suffered very considerably\" since October 2020, particularly in the mind of his former agent.\n\nHe continued: \"The allegation of being 'a racist' will have been looked upon very seriously by many of Mr Fox's actual and potential colleagues... He is not a racist, he is a colour-blind liberal who dislikes racism, 'progressive' and identitarian politics.\"\n\nThe trial before Mrs Justice Collins Rice continues and is due to conclude next week with a decision expected at a later date.", "Nissan is to commit to making future electric versions of its two best selling cars in Sunderland.\n\nThe Japanese carmaker will announce on Friday that its new electric Qashqai and Juke models will be made at the site, helping to preserve 6,000 jobs.\n\nThe investment is thought to be in the region of £1bn and will be supported by a government contribution from the Automotive Transformation Fund (ATF).\n\nThe ATF received a £2bn top-up in the Autumn Statement on Wednesday.\n\nNissan is the only carmaker in the UK with its own dedicated battery plant located close to the car factory. It is owned by Chinese company AESC with Nissan as its only customer.\n\nThe battery plant was expanded last year with contributions from the ATF and Sunderland Council, involving about £100m in public money.\n\nPost-Brexit trading rules due to take effect in January next year will trigger a 10% tariff on cars sold between the UK and European Union unless carmakers have sourced 45% of their components by value from the UK or EU.\n\nThe rules were designed to protect the European industry from cheap imports.\n\nAs batteries are the most expensive part of an electric vehicle, some manufacturers in both the UK and EU have said they will be unable to hit that threshold and have called for the requirement to be deferred.\n\nIn May, Stellantis, which owns Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat, warned it may have to close UK factories if the government did not renegotiate the Brexit deal.\n\nThe firm had committed to making electric cars in the UK, but warned that if the cost of electric vehicle manufacturing in the country \"becomes uncompetitive and unsustainable, operations will close\".\n\nSpeaking at the time, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the January deadline was \"something that car manufacturers across Europe, not just in the UK, have raised as a concern\".\n\nBut battery packs for Nissan's two most successful models will be made on-site, in the Chinese-owned plant, meaning they will avoid the tariffs.\n\nThe firm began producing electric Juke and Qashqai cars in the North East of England last year and has already committed to producing the successor to its Leaf electric car at its factory in Sunderland.\n\nThe battery plant next to Nissan's Sunderland factory is the only one currently producing batteries for electric cars in the UK.\n\nJaguar Land Rover owner Tata plans to build a £4bn factory in Somerset, with production due to start in 2026.\n\nAnother proposed battery manufacturer in the North East, Britishvolt, went into administration earlier this year. Australian firm Recharge Industries took control of it in February, but the takeover hasn't gone smoothly, with some £2.5m of the purchase price still unpaid months after it was due.\n\nBy contrast the EU has 35 plants open, under construction or planned.\n\nNissan is exactly the kind of big profitable manufacturer that stands to benefit from the key business tax change that was announced in the Autumn Statement.\n\nUnder a policy known as \"full expensing\", businesses are able to offset 100% of investment in new plant and machinery against profits. The tax relief, which had been due to end in 2026, was made permanent by the chancellor on Wednesday.\n\nIn September, Nissan said it would only manufacture electric vehicles by 2030, despite the government postponing a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars that had been due to come in that year to 2035.\n\nThe firm's boss Makoto Uchida said at the time it was the right thing to do for its business, customers and for the planet.\n\nPublishing its outlook alongside the Autumn Statement on Wednesday, the Office for Budget Responsibility slashed its prediction for the number of electric cars forecast to be sold in the UK by 2027.\n\nIt said that just 38% of new vehicles sold in the UK in 2027 would be electric, lower than the 67% it predicted in March.", "Scientists think blue whales may breed in the waters around the Seychelles\n\nBlue whales - the largest animals on Earth - are making their home in a part of the Indian Ocean where they were wiped out by whaling decades ago.\n\nResearchers and filmmakers in the Seychelles captured footage of the whales in 2020 and 2021. It features in the Imax film Blue Whales 3D.\n\nBut a year of underwater audio recording revealed the animals spend months in the region.\n\nThis means they could be breeding there, scientists say.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Drone footage captured by the Oceanic Films documentary team shows a blue whale in the Seychelles\n\nThe researchers, including scientists from the University of Seychelles, described the discovery as a \"conservation win\" after the Soviet whaling fleet decimated the population in the 1960s.\n\nOne of the lead investigators, Dr Kate Stafford, told BBC News: \"It turns out if you stop killing animals on mass scales and you give them a chance to rebound, they can recover.\"\n\nCommercial whaling has had a lasting impact. Blue whale numbers are still a tiny proportion of what they were and the species is listed as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.\n\nMore than 300,000 were killed in the southern hemisphere alone - chased down by modern, fast whaling ships.\n\nIn a single year during the 1930s, whalers killed about 30,000 blue whales, according to figures from the International Whaling Commission\n\n\"This is the largest animal to ever exist on the planet,\" Dr Stafford said, adding: \"We want to know where they are coming back and knowing there's a population around the Seychelles is incredibly exciting.\"\n\nThe discovery, published in the Journal of Endangered Species Research, was the result of fixing a \"sound trap\" to the seabed close to the tiny island nation.\n\nFitted with underwater microphones, batteries and recording devices, the trap was left in place for a year, recording 15 minutes of every hour, every day.\n\nDuring the team's month-long expedition, Dr Stafford also spent a few hours each day dangling a hydrophone [underwater microphone] into the water.\n\nBlue whales are the largest animals on Earth and can reach around 98ft (30m) in length\n\nChris Watson, the wildlife sound recordist on the trip, told BBC News: \"We heard remarkable things - the tapping of sperm whales thousands of feet down and dolphins echolocating and communicating but sadly no blue whales.\"\n\nHowever, after scientists retrieved their sound trap, painstaking analysis of the recording revealed blue whales were there and communicating when the researchers were not.\n\nThe mammals' signature, very low frequency song could be heard primarily during March and April.\n\nDivers fixed the sound trap to the seabed at a depth of about 79ft (24m)\n\n\"This means the Seychelles could be really important for blue whales,\" said Dr Stafford, explaining: \"They sing during the breeding season and we think it's probably the males who are singing, based on what we know about other whales.\n\n\"So there's also potential that the Seychelles is a breeding area or a nursery area.\"\n\nThe scientists were even able to pick out which acoustic population the blue whales in the area belong to.\n\nDr Stafford said: \"You can tell them apart by the sounds they make. In the Seychelles we heard one acoustic population - the one generally associated with the northern Indian Ocean.\"\n\nKate Stafford (left) and her colleagues spent hours each day listening for the calls of blue whales\n\nThe song or fundamental frequency of the blue whale is so deep and such a low frequency that it is beyond the range of human hearing.\n\nBut Mr Watson, who has managed to record blue whales in the Sea of Cortez, said we can hear what are called its harmonics - higher frequency sounds that \"ring out\" when a blue whale sings, explaining: \"It's this really low, deep, consistent pulse.\n\n\"When I recorded blue whales in Mexico, that was what was resonating in my headphones.\"\n\nDr Stafford added: \"It's the loudest sustained sound in the animal kingdom. [Their call lasts] 15 to 20 seconds at about 188 decibels, which is the equivalent of a jet engine in air.\"\n\nSound travels much faster and further in water, enabling blue whales to communicate over distances of hundreds and even thousands of miles.\n\nConservation scientists are keen to understand exactly how important the Seychelles is for blue whales.\n\nThe Seychelles government has made a commitment to protect 30% of its national waters\n\nAn area around the islands has been formally protected in a unique \"debt for nature\" swap, where the country had almost £16.8m ($22m) of its national debt written off in exchange for doing more to protect its oceans.\n\nAbout 400,000 square kilometres (154,000 square miles) of its seas are now protected.\n\nDr Jeremy Kiszka from Florida International University, a lead scientist on the study, told BBC News that the diversity and abundance of marine mammals in the region was \"exceptional\". \"We recorded 23 species during our surveys,\" he said.\n\n\"Some of these are among the least known species of whales and dolphins around the world. We now need to understand why and make sure human activities do not affect blue whales and other species present.\"\n\nOne major concern is protecting important areas for blue whales from noise pollution, which travels equally efficiently through the water.\n\n\"There's not a tremendous amount of ship traffic in the Seychelles so perhaps we could think of it as a nice, quiet, safe place for blue whales,\" said Dr Stafford.", "A flash mob has ransacked a Nike store in Los Angeles, stealing $12,000 (about £9,500) worth of goods.\n\nFootage released by the Los Angeles Police Department’s Commercial Crimes Division shows a group of young people ripping clothing off the racks and carrying bags full of merchandise.\n\nPolice say the group, which consisted of 17 suspects between the ages of 15 and 20, fled the premises in five different vehicles.\n\nDetectives are seeking assistance from the public in identifying the suspects.", "Kemi Badenoch covered a lot of ground today – but one of the key things that how much the government has struggled to get people in ethnic minority communities to trust them.\n\nAt no point was this perhaps more stark than during the pandemic – a time when, from lockdowns to vaccines, trust in the authorities was key.\n\nBadenoch used her own family’s group chat as an example of how anti-government conspiracy theories were able to spread.\n\n“I’m in a family WhatsApp group with members from across the world, from Africa to the US,” she said – adding that people share “a lot of conspiracy theories” in there.\n\n“The government cannot get into my family WhatsApp group. There are some channels which you cannot break into in the information age that we live in.”\n\nShe added that in a lot of communities there are people who are first-generation migrants from countries where people really don’t trust governments.\n\nAnd summing up her thoughts, she said: “I don't think government has got a handle on dealing with misinformation.”\n\nNote her use of the present tense, there. It’s clear that that lack of trust is still a concern.", "The cost of the tax cuts in the Autumn Statement will hit spending on public services, think tanks have warned.\n\nSpending is set for the biggest cut - factoring in rising prices - since the coalition government's austerity measures, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Resolution Foundation said.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation said the cuts were \"completely undeliverable\".\n\nDowning Street has insisted that departmental spending will continue to increase in the coming years.\n\nIn Wednesday's Autumn Statement, Mr Hunt said he would cut National Insurance from 12% to 10% from January, at a cost of £10bn.\n\nHe also extended or made permanent several tax breaks for business.\n\nBut the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the chancellor was able to do this because he had not increased spending on public services.\n\nWhen factoring in rising prices, that meant that unprotected departments would face budget cuts of more than £20bn by 2027-28.\n\n\"Put another way, the tax cuts are paid for by planned real cuts in public service spending,\" IFS director Paul Johnson said.\n\nDuring the austerity years, former chancellor George Osborne and his successors made more than £30bn in spending reductions to welfare payments, housing subsidies and social services.\n\nAhead of the last general election in 2019, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised there would be no return to austerity.\n\nBut the IFS said that unprotected public services, including courts, prisons, further education, local government, housing and others would see a cumulative 13% cut in day-to-day spending - when taking the impact of inflation into account - between next year and 2029.\n\nThis would be \"broadly in line\" with what was delivered under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government's austerity plan in 2010-15, it said.\n\n\"We've seen councils in financial difficulty, maybe we'll see more of that. We've seen quality of service in prisons and the court system deteriorate, maybe there will be more of that,\" said Ben Zaranko, a senior research economist at the IFS.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation, which campaigns for better living standards for those on low and middle incomes, came to a broadly similar conclusion and called the plans \"implausible\".\n\n\"The idea that there is as much scope to cut spending today as there was in 2010, given the deterioration of public services is far-fetched,\" it said.\n\nThe think tank also said the government would set a \"grim\" new record for living standards going down in this parliament.\n\nIt said that despite the \"tax-cutting rhetoric\" of the Autumn Statement, there had already been £90bn of tax rises announced by the government - so taxes would rise by the equivalent of £4,300 per household between 2019-20 and 2028-29.\n\nIt added that people's purchasing power had been stagnating for 20 years, and that recent pay rises just reflected the reality of rising prices.\n\nBy the end of this parliament, it expects households to be £1,900 worse off than they were at the start.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the government's economic forecaster, said that the UK's tax burden was going up \"to its highest level in the post-war era\".\n\n\"Over the medium term, the combination of higher inflation and frozen tax thresholds means that the tax burden for this country is going up,\" boss Richard Hughes said.\n\nResponding to claims that departmental spending would fall, the prime minister's spokesman said total departmental spending would be \"£85bn higher in real terms over the next five years compared to the start of the parliament\".\n\nMr Hunt said his tax cuts would put \"more money in people's pockets\".\n\n\"Taxes have gone up, but I want to start bringing them down,\" he added.\n\nHe said the government had been right to help families during the coronavirus pandemic with the furlough scheme, and with energy bills during the cost of living crisis.\n\nMr Hunt added that he had chosen to cut National Insurance to get more people into work, and that the measure would help fill one in 10 job vacancies.\n\nHe also said the government planned to boost the economy by making business more competitive. \"If we want to bring the tax burden down, we have to grow the economy.\"", "Lie Instate's 2022 winner, Cue Jumper, was inspired by a row over claims Holly and Phil from This Morning jumped a queue\n\nThe spoof Turnip Prize award for purposefully low-effort and cheap art is open to entries for its 25th year.\n\nThe competition, held in Somerset, has entries from around the world but those that display \"too much effort\" are immediately disqualified.\n\nEntries will be accepted from 1 to 21 November, and this year's winner will be announced on 6 December.\n\nAn exhibition of 16 former winners and notable entrants is also being held at the New Inn, Wedmore.\n\nMany entries have puns as titles: Panda Mick was the 2021 winner, spoofing on the recent pandemic\n\nCompetition organiser Trevor Prideaux told the BBC: \"It never ceases to amaze me how many entries we get every year.\n\n\"I never expected the award to run on for this long, but people want a Turnip and they want that recognition!\"\n\nTracey Emin's work was a snapshot of her bed during a depressive state, covered in rubbish, alcohol and stains\n\nThe Turnip Prize started in 1999, when artist Tracey Emin's 'My Bed' was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize.\n\nEmin's work sold to Charles Saatchi for £150,000 and was later auctioned at Christie's for over £2.5m.\n\nThe modern art piece proved controversial and Prideaux took inspiration from that to create his own spoof art award.\n\nLockdown, a padlock on top of a pile of duck down feathers, won for Herewe Goagain in 2020 at the height of pandemic lockdowns\n\n2010 winner Chilli n' Minors is one of Trevor Prideaux's favourite entries\n\nMr Prideaux said: \"I think one of my favourite submissions that we've had was Chilli n' Minors, back in 2010.\n\n\"It kind of changed the game for people that were entering.\n\n\"People realised they needed to be more topical. We are looking forward to some more topical and interesting entries this year.\"\n\nChris P Bacon won the award in 2017 for her Pulled Pork entry - she was only 12 when she scooped the top prize\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "For months now, Zimbabwe has been battling to stem the spread of deadly cholera in its cities and villages because the country simply lacks clean water.\n\n\"If the water comes at all it's often dirty,\" Regai Chibanda, a 46-year-old father of five from the sprawling township of Chitungwiza, told me.\n\nCholera, an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by consuming food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, can spread quickly in cramped and dirty conditions.\n\nIt has become a kind of grim reaper to this southern African nation - back in 2008-2009 more than 4,000 went to their graves when the water-borne disease struck in what was already a frenzied and turbulent time.\n\nIt reflected the imploding political and economic crisis when hyper-inflation peaked at 80 billion per cent and heralded a historic power-sharing government that eventually got to grips with the situation.\n\nToday inflation is again rearing its head and cholera has spread across all of the country's 10 provinces, mainly affecting children, often left unsupervised in the stifling heat as their parents try to work.\n\nThis outbreak first struck back in February and as October ended official figures from the Health and Childcare Department are listing nearly 6,000 cases and some 123 suspected deaths.\n\nPresident Emmerson Mnangagwa, who won disputed polls in August for a second term in office, has promised a nationwide borehole-drilling programme.\n\nThis is to be supported by solar-powered water points, mainly to serve some 35,000 villages which do not have access to clean drinking water.\n\nIn the capital, Harare, residents can go for weeks, or even months, without a regular supply of water from the Harare City Council. In Harare's satellite township of Chitungwiza, more than 50 deaths were reported as October ended - all from cholera.\n\nThe stench of sewage is overpowering in the township of Chitungwiza near Harare\n\nChitungwiza is a city all of its own given its size and population, but the infrastructure of its water works and civil planning have barely caught up with an ever-expanding population and a massive exodus from the villages to the city in the constant search for work.\n\n\"In Chitungwiza things are not good as far as water is concerned. There have been many people affected by cholera and every year it's the same,\" said Mr Chibanda, who commutes by car daily to central Harare for his job as a printer. He said he had heard of several deaths in his neighbourhood.\n\n\"Our water supply is not good, residents are resorting to buying mineral water from the supermarkets to save their lives but of course it's hitting their pockets.\"\n\nOut in Mutare, the main city in Manicaland's eastern highlands, it is the same story - more infections from cholera and a city struggling to serve their residents with the most basic of needs - clean water.\n\nSocial media is full of cholera information alerts, though a comment earlier this month on the health ministry's Facebook page from a resident in the southern city of Bulawayo summed up the predicament for most: \"How can we wash our hands? We don't have running water in Bulawayo - for almost two weeks now.\"\n\nCholera is cheap to treat with rehydration salts - and easy to avoid altogether if people have access to clean water and decent toilet facilities.\n\nAs recently as last week, Harare pharmacist Panashe Chawana, 26, told me he was seeing between two and three patients each day for cholera medication - children and adults, all showing the classic symptoms of the runs and a desperate lack of energy.\n\n\"If it wasn't for the public announcements, Harare would have seen much more. It's only because people became aware of the dangers of unpurified water matching their symptoms - that's when they sought medical help,\" said Mr Chawana.\n\n\"And so we tell them to look out for white substance in their stool and prescribe things like [the antibiotic] Azithromycin. On the whole there're less people coming in now.\"\n\nBut aid organisation Mercy Corps, in an appeal for borehole funding, has warned that the situation is far from improving.\n\n\"Despite a significant decline in cases from July to August, we now witness a worrying spike of cholera cases, particularly among women and children. In Manicaland, many people have to use crowded water facilities, while others must rely on unsafe wells and rivers for drinking water, putting them at further risk,\" Mildred Makore, the group's country director, said in a statement.\n\nA few days ago the World Health Organization's emergencies director Mike Ryan called cholera \"a poster child of poverty, social injustice, climate change and conflict\".\n\nIt is not straightforward to see which of these can be pinned on President Mnangagwa's government, but the reported cholera cases point to a lack of will or ability or both to stem the occurrences by providing fresh water.\n\nIn Harare's southern suburbs, the search for water is a visual reality.\n\nCholera is easy to avoid altogether if people have access to clean water\n\nWheelbarrows are carted across many roads to community centres and churches with boreholes willing to open their taps and share their water.\n\nThe government's investment in fresh water supplies has been underwhelming, and here critics point to the disparities in wealth between those who can afford to sink boreholes in their backyards and those who cannot.\n\nIn the towns, city councils - often run by the opposition - blame a desperate lack of investment by the government in providing new kit and cleaning chemicals to purify the water.\n\nThat the government is always caught unawares shows a depressing underinvestment in the waterworks of its cities and its rural areas.\n\nPrecious Shumba, director of the Harare Residents' Trust, an NGO that says water shortages in the capital are worsening, urged the government to do more to help councils.\n\n\"Local authorities cannot sustain service delivery from ratepayers alone,\" he told Zimbabwe's Independent newspaper - pointing to the cost of replacing broken pipes and chemicals.\n\nThe paper reported that water-treating chemicals were costing the City of Harare up to US$3m (£2.5m) a month.\n\nSewage management is also to blame, with Mr Shumba noting that industrial waste and effluent are continually being discharged into the tributaries and streams feeding Lake Chivero, which provides the main water supply for Harare.\n\nIn more affluent areas of the capital, residents organise their own rubbish collections through community initiatives - but elsewhere the streets have turned into rubbish dumps because the authorities no longer organise collections.\n\nWith the heavens set to open for the seasonal rains, many fear the dirt and filth accumulated over months mean cholera, which lurks in shallow pools of water, will prove difficult to defeat.\n\nThey continue the battle of keeping their toddlers away from the water taps and puddles and running the daily gauntlet of what is or not safe to drink.\n\nFarai Sevenzo is a freelance journalist and film-maker based in Harare.", "Queen Camilla joined a traditional dance with Maasai women during a state visit to Kenya.\n\nShe was presented with Maasai traditional regalia at the Brooke Donkey Sanctuary in Nairobi.\n\nOn the same day, she also fed milk to orphaned elephants at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage.", "Some people were allowed through the Rafah crossing on Wednesday - but the wait goes on for others\n\nBritish nationals have left Gaza for the first time since war with Israel broke out last month.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office confirmed an unspecified number of UK passport holders had been able to leave via the Rafah crossing into Egypt on Wednesday.\n\nIt said the route was being opened for \"controlled and time-limited periods\" to allow some foreign nationals and injured Palestinians to leave.\n\nAbout 200 British nationals are believed to be in Gaza.\n\nIt emerged on Wednesday that some 500 people a day would be allowed through the crossing, which is controlled by Egyptian authorities.\n\nThousands gathered at the border this morning hoping to leave, but it emerged that only those whose names appeared on a limited list agreed by the Egyptian and Israeli governments would be permitted to cross.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said it had handed over the names of people who wished to leave Gaza.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, it confirmed some Britons were among a group of around 400 foreign nationals and injured Palestinians who had crossed, but did not say who or how many.\n\nEarlier, the BBC spoke to British-Palestinian doctor Abdelkader Hammad, who was told he was in the first group allowed to leave.\n\nBut when he arrived at the crossing point, he found the route was closed and described frustration and confusion at the border.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's PM programme at around 16:00 GMT (18:00 in Gaza) from the crossing point, Dr Hammad said: \"It's a little frustrating. We don't know what's going on...we don't know when the next group will go - if it will be tonight or tomorrow.\n\n\"It's dark - I'm not sure it will happen tonight, we'll see what happens tomorrow.\"\n\nSpeaking from the Rafah crossing at around 13:00 GMT, BBC News reporter Rushdi Abualouf said thousands of people were already at the border when it emerged only those on the list would be allowed through.\n\nWith no passport control or electronic ID system in place, the process is slowed by the need for an official to manually check the identities of every person leaving, he reported.\n\nHe also saw between 20 and 30 ambulances passing through the crossing carrying injured people into Egypt for medical treatment.\n\nRoutes in and out of Gaza have been closed since Hamas - which is proscribed as a terrorist group in the UK - attacked Israel on 7 October, killing more than 1,400 people and taking at least 239 hostage.\n\nBBC News understands that 14 British nationals were among those killed. Three more are missing.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 8,700 people have been killed since Israel launched air strikes as part of a military response to the attacks.\n\nSelected foreign nationals, and some injured Palestinians, left Gaza on Wednesday\n\nThe partial opening of the Rafah crossing follows international diplomatic efforts to convince Egypt to allow people to leave and aid to be transported into the enclave.Rishi Sunak held a further call with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Wednesday evening.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC at the AI summit in London earlier on Wednesday, Mr Sunak said the government was committed to getting humanitarian supplies into Gaza, and helping UK passport holders leave.\n\nHe continued: \"We're playing an active role in getting aid into Gaza to help those people who need it, but also diplomatically working with everyone in the region to find ways to move our British nationals out of Gaza and hopefully bring them home.\"\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverley called the first departures from Gaza a \"hugely important first step\". He earlier said British officials are on the ground in Egypt \"ready to assist British nationals as soon as they are able to leave\".\n\nWestern officials told the BBC a team had been deployed to Arish, a city some 25 miles (41km) away from Rafah, to \"ensure we can provide the necessary medical, consular and administrative support needed\" for British nationals.\n\nAmong the British nationals in Gaza are Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf's in-laws. He welcomed the opening of the border but said his wife's parents remained trapped without clean drinking water and rapidly diminishing supplies.\n\nBoth Mr Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer have called for humanitarian \"pauses\" in fighting to allow the movement of aid.\n\nHumanitarian pauses tend to last for shorter periods of time than formal ceasefires, sometimes just a few hours.\n\nThey are typically implemented purely with the aim of providing humanitarian support, as opposed to achieving long-term political solutions, according to the United Nations.", "The BBC's security correspondent Gordon Corera analyses videos from inside Hamas' network of tunnels - thought to cover around 300 miles under Gaza - and explores how they could shape the next phase of the war.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTens of thousands of people have taken part in Londonderry's annual Halloween festival which drew to a close on Tuesday night.\n\nThe four-day event culminated in the annual parade and fireworks finale.\n\nOrganisers say the festival is the largest Halloween event in Europe.\n\nDerry's mayor Patricia Logue said the city had showcased its \"wonderful community spirit and unrivalled creativity\" over the festival's run.\n\n\"The fun didn't stop all weekend, and I was so impressed to see how many children, big and small, got into the spirit and turned out in their costumes each night.\n\n\"You just wouldn't get that anywhere else, and it's what makes Derry the true home of Halloween\".\n\nFireworks over the Foyle brought the festival to a close.\n\nAeidin McCarter, from Derry City and Strabane District Council, said the festival's popularity spreads across the world.\n\n\"Derry Halloween once again dazzled over the weekend,\" she said.\n\n\"Its value to the local economy is unquestionable, the footfall through the city over the weekend was amazing, and our hotels were struggling to cope with demand\".\n\nMore than 600 people took part in the city centre parade.\n\nThe closing parade involved hundreds of local schoolchildren and members of community groups from across the region.\n\nIt was followed by a drone display that saw one hundred drones take to the sky above the River Foyle.\n\nOne hundred drones took to the skies following the carnival parade.\n\nA variety of spooky Halloween themed images took shape including a witch, a ghost and a raven.\n\nOne of the drone pilots, Nigel Lelew, told BBC News NI the show was a first in Derry.\n\n\"We know there's a high bar when it comes to celebrating Halloween in Derry so we hope people love it,\" said Mr Lelew.\n\nFew people come to Derry for Halloween without dressing accordingly\n\nThe festivities in Derry have grown to global renown since the first official Halloween celebrations in 1986 and it is now regarded as among the world's premier destinations for Halloween.\n\nIt is the biggest night of the year in the city and brings in thousands of people - the vast majority of both young and old are in costume and fancy dress.\n\nThe council is anticipating that over the four days of the event, more than 130,000 people will have come to the city.\n\nThe Dark Knight has also made his way to the north west\n\nMs McCarter said the £450,000 it cost to put on was money well spent.\n\n\"We know from previous events it brings around £3.5m into the local economy and untold non-monetary benefits right across Northern Ireland,\" she said.\n\nCity Dance have been \"rocking it\" over the last few nights in Derry.\n\nDance troupe City Dance entertained the crowds throughout the festival. They are aged between 11 and 17.\n\n\"There's 20 in our troupe and they are just super and they have been rocking it this week,\" City Dance's Irena Noonan said.\n\nThe festivities are in full swing across the city\n\nLondonderry Chamber of Commerce president Selina Horshi said the festival had been brilliant for business.\n\n\"For a small region, we have proven time and again that we punch above our weight on the world stage and our Halloween festivities are another example of this,\" she said.\n\n\"The footfall seen in the city not just today, but over the entire weekend has been brilliant and is as always, a welcome boost to businesses in the city\".\n\nRise - Ring of Fire at Ebrington Square has been among the festival highlights this year\n\nTens of thousands have attended a plethora of Halloween events during the festival run including Awakening the Walls - capturing the myth and magic of the Halloween story through music, pyrotechnics and illumination on the city walls - and Rise - Ring of Fire at Ebrington Square.\n\nBoth the parade and fireworks display were streamed live by BBC News NI.", "Tina, diagnosed with a sarcoma in June 2022, now has scans every three months\n\nArtificial intelligence is nearly twice as good at grading the aggressiveness of a rare form of cancer from scans as the current method, a study suggests.\n\nBy recognising details invisible to the naked eye, AI was 82% accurate, compared with 44% for lab analysis.\n\nResearchers from the Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research say it could improve treatment and benefit thousands every year.\n\nThey are also excited by its potential for spotting other cancers early.\n\nAI is already showing huge promise for diagnosing breast cancers and reducing treatment times.\n\nComputers can be fed huge amounts of information and trained to identify the patterns in it to make predictions, solve problems and even learn from their own mistakes.\n\n\"We're incredibly excited by the potential of this state-of-the-art technology,\" said Professor Christina Messiou, consultant radiologist at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and professor in imaging for personalised oncology at The Institute of Cancer Research, London.\n\n\"It could lead to patients having better outcomes, through faster diagnosis and more effectively personalised treatment.\"\n\nTina's sarcoma was at the back of her abdomen\n\nThe researchers, writing in Lancet Oncology, used a technique called radiomics to identify signs, invisible to the naked eye, of retroperitoneal sarcoma - which develops in the connective tissue of the back of the abdomen - in scans of 170 patients.\n\nWith this data, the AI algorithm was able to grade the aggressiveness of 89 other European and US hospital patients' tumours, from scans, much more accurately than biopsies, in which a small part of the cancerous tissue is analysed under a microscope.\n\nWhen dental nurse Tina McLaughlan was diagnosed - in June last year, after stomach pain - with a sarcoma at the back of her abdomen, doctors relied on computerised-tomography (CT) scan images to find the problem.\n\nThey decided it was too risky to give her a needle biopsy.\n\nThe 65-year-old, from Bedfordshire, had the tumour removed and now returns to the Royal Marsden for scans every three months.\n\nShe was not part of the AI trial but told BBC News it would help other patients.\n\n\"You go in for the first scan and they can't tell you what it is - they didn't tell me through all my treatment, until the histology, post-op, so it would be really useful to know that straight away,\" Ms McLaughlan said.\n\n\"Hopefully, it would lead to a quicker diagnosis.\"\n\nAbout 4,300 people in England are diagnosed with this type of cancer each year.\n\nProf Messiou hopes the technology can eventually be used around the world, with high-risk patients given specific treatment while those at low risk are spared unnecessary treatments and follow-up scans.\n\nDr Paul Huang, from the Institute of Cancer Research, London, said: \"This kind of technology has the potential to transform the lives of people with sarcoma - enabling personalised treatment plans tailored to the specific biology of their cancer.\n\n\"It's great to see such promising findings.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None 5 Minutes On - AI and Cancer Diagnosis - -An absolute game changer- - BBC Sounds\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The claims and revelations of the past three days have been pretty dizzying.\n\nHelen MacNamara's job - as deputy cabinet secretary - was to make government work well. It's clear she doesn't think it did under Boris Johnson.\n\nShe's argued the lack of diversity in decision-making meant the needs of women and people from ethnic minorities was often forgotten.\n\nMacNamara made clear the No 10 team - the one she called macho - was too bullish when the pandemic first hit. They believed the UK could deal with it.\n\nShe's said the then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson didn't make decisions and regularly changed his mind. Johnson didn't stand up to aides who used offensive language, she observed.\n\nFor days, witnesses have said the government machine was chaotic and dysfunctional.\n\nBut MacNamara also offered comments on Partygate which will be incredibly awkward for people who were working in and around Whitehall.\n\nShe concluded hundreds - literally hundreds - of civil servants and ministers will have broken the rules (based on the line drawn by police in their investigations).\n\nShe's said there wasn't a single day where the rules were completely followed in No 10.\n\nWe've heard some of these things in isolation before. But to hear such a senior civil servant spell them out is quite extraordinary.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKing Charles says the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) need to be tackled with \"a sense of urgency, unity and collective strength\".\n\nHe made the remarks in a taped address to attendees at the UK's AI Safety Summit.\n\nAs the global meeting opened, the UK government unveiled a \"world first agreement\" on how to manage the riskiest forms of AI.\n\nThe Bletchley Declaration's signatories include the US, the EU and China.\n\nThe summit focuses on so-called \"frontier AI\" - by which ministers mean highly advanced forms of the tech with as-yet unknown capabilities.\n\nAhead of the meeting, Tesla and X owner Elon Musk, who is attending, said he thinks AI could lead to humanity's extinction - without any detail on how that could actually happen in reality.\n\nOthers have warned against speculating about unlikely future threats and said the world should instead focus on the potential present-day risks AI poses, such as replacing some jobs and entrenching bias.\n\nIn his address, King Charles called the development of advanced AI \"no less important than the discovery of electricity\".\n\nHe said tackling the risks of AI would, like efforts to combat climate change, need to involve conversations across societies, governments, civil society and the private sector.\n\nThe UK government said the Bletchley Declaration, which attendees have signed, has seen 28 countries agree there is an urgent need to understand and collectively manage potential AI risks.\n\nTechnology Secretary Michelle Donelan said it was an important moment: \"We have always said that no single country can face down the challenges and risks posed by AI alone, and today's landmark declaration marks the start of a new global effort to build public trust by ensuring the technology's safe development.\"\n\nOther countries have also stressed the need for a global approach to managing the technology.\n\nRelations between China and the West are fraught in many areas - but the country's Vice Minister of Science and Technology, Wu Zhaohui, told the conference it was seeking a spirit of openness in AI.\n\n\"We call for global collaboration to share knowledge and make AI technologies available to the public,\" he told delegates.\n\nMeanwhile, US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said the US would be launching its own AI Safety Institute following the summit.\n\nIn a short interview at the UK's AI safety summit, Mr Musk said he was not looking for any particular policy outcome from the meeting, suggesting it was important to understand the problem before regulating.\n\n\"You've got to start with insight before you do oversight,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elon Musk ahead of his meeting with UK PM Rishi Sunak\n\nMany experts consider fears that AI might threaten humanity overblown.\n\nNick Clegg, the president of global affairs at Meta and former deputy prime minister - who is also attending the summit - said people should not let \"speculative, sometimes somewhat futuristic predictions\" crowd out more immediate challenges.\n\nMany observers feel AI's biggest threat is in automating away people's jobs, or building existing bias and prejudices into new, much more powerful, online systems.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The head of the National Crime Agency (NCA) has called for import restrictions on the motors used on small boats to reduce people smuggling.\n\nGraeme Biggar said cheap outboard motors commonly used on the makeshift vessels are made in China and bought by criminal gangs in Europe.\n\nImport measures in the UK and on the continent could \"reduce the flow of people\" migrating illegally, he said.\n\nMore than 20,000 people have crossed the Channel in small boats this year.\n\nGiving a speech on the NCA's work at the Royal United Services Institute, Mr Biggar said the agency was focused on \"disrupting\" organised crime.\n\n\"If we can disrupt the supply of engines and boats coming to the UK, we can reduce the flow of people coming and increase the cost of a trip,\" Mr Biggar told reporters at the event.\n\nHe suggested it may be more effective than trying to track down those behind the smuggling.\n\nPeople smugglers usually inflate their boats and fit them with motors at the last minute, sometimes in sand dunes along the French coast, before migrants climb aboard to cross the Channel.\n\nThe NCA, which has outposts across Europe, has been working with law enforcement agencies from other countries to seize the components before they can be used.\n\nLast year the agency said it had joined forces with German police to raid a farm near Osnabruck as part of an operation which intercepted 135 boats, 45 outboard motors and more than 1,200 life jackets. Police made 40 arrests in raids across Europe.\n\nMr Biggar - who has led the NCA since October 2021 - said three types of \"flimsy\" outboard motors made in China were often used by the gangs, which usually cannot be recovered once they have been used.\n\nHe said the NCA was \"working on the right way\" of persuading the authorities in China to help, possibly by joining forces with European countries to ban imports of the types of motors used in the trade.\n\nHe warned the NCA was facing ever-increasing challenges posed by crime networks operating internationally and making use of new technologies.\n\n\"We have investigations where the suspect is in one country, using servers or sourcing drugs in another, to target victims in a third, laundering the money in a fourth and accruing assets in a fifth,\" he continued.\n\n\"Technology enables much of this to happen or switch in an instant.\"\n\nRudimentary vessels are used to carry thousands over the perilous Channel crossing\n\nPeople smugglers exploit encrypted messaging technology to recruit people wanting to travel to the UK and make arrangements.\n\nThe NCA head warned that in the internet age, crime has evolved so that much of it is being conducted at arms' length from other countries.\n\nHe also urged the government to change the law to stop a small but growing number of criminals making their own guns using 3D printers.\n\nThis is being encouraged by the difficulty criminals currently face in obtaining guns via other means, including converting them from blank firing weapons.\n\nA recent Home Office consultation included measures to criminalise the creation and possession of blueprints for firearms components.\n\n3D printed guns were once \"as likely to hurt the person firing them\" as the intended target, Mr Biggar said, but with some devices now capable of printing in metal, he warned they are becoming more sophisticated.", "A man has been banned from driving after crashing his car into a shop front in Swindon.\n\nIt happened on Cricklade Road during a police pursuit, causing around £100,000 worth of damage to the Michael's Workwear store.\n\nLiam Wells, 31, of The Circle, Swindon, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, drug driving, driving uninsured and driving without a licence.\n\nHe has been given a 16 month suspended sentence and has been banned from driving for two years.", "Boris Johnson asked government scientists whether people could kill Covid by using a \"special hair dryer\" up their nose, his former aide has claimed.\n\nDominic Cummings said the former prime minister shared a video of a man using such a device with his top advisers Sir Patrick Vallance and Sir Chris Whitty.\n\nHe then asked the medical experts what they thought about the clip, he added.\n\nMr Johnson has been approached for a comment.\n\nThe eye-catching claim was among several made by Mr Cummings in his witness statement to the inquiry into the government's pandemic response.\n\nMr Cummings was Mr Johnson's chief adviser until he left Downing Street in late 2020 after an internal battle over his role. He has since been a vocal critic of the former prime minister's leadership during the response to the virus.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Cummings said the former prime minister \"did not want us to 'antagonise' the media by calling out false stories\". Staff, he wrote, were even unsure whether \"he was not himself the source of false stories\".\n\n\"A low point was when he circulated a video of a guy blowing a special hair dryer up his nose 'to kill Covid',\" he wrote.\n\nHe said Mr Johnson shared the Youtube clip - since deleted - in a WhatsApp group with Sir Chris, England's chief medical officer (CMO), and Sir Patrick, then the government's chief scientific adviser (CSA).\n\nHe then \"asked the CSA and CMO what they thought\", he added. The statement does not detail what response - if any - was given by the advisers.\n\nElsewhere in his witness statement, Mr Cummings alleged that the former prime minister asked him to find a \"dead cat\" (a term for a striking claim used to distract the media) to draw attention away from Covid in late 2020.\n\nIn the summer of that year, he wrote, Mr Johnson \"wanted to declare Covid 'over' even though this would obviously backfire\".\n\n\"At one point in autumn he told me to 'put your campaign head back on and figure out how we dead-cat Covid, I'm sick of Covid, I want it off the front pages,'\" Mr Cummings added.\n\n\"I said that no campaign could 'dead-cat Covid' and I would not spend my time on such a project,\" he added.\n\nMr Cummings is one of several senior government advisers and officials to have submitted evidence to the Covid inquiry this week.\n\nIn her witness statement, former deputy cabinet secretary Helen MacNamara suggested officials sought to obscure how seriously ill Mr Johnson had become after he was admitted to hospital with Covid in April 2020.\n\nMs MacNamara said lines journalists were told about Mr Johnson \"receiving updates in hospital\" and \"continuing to receive a box\" were \"technically accurate but right on the edge of what was comfortable\".\n\nMs MacNamara said senior press advisers had warned against saying something \"untrue\" but it was \"fair to say that the lines used allowed for a more positive impression of the prime minister's health at that point\".\n\n\"The prime minister was conscious, and it was possible to contact him and for him to make decisions but he was very ill.\"", "Two Palestinian sisters have been reunited in Rafah, in southern Gaza.\n\nJulia, an 18-month-old toddler, was pulled from the rubble of a destroyed building and rushed to El-Najar Hospital.\n\nHer sister, five-year-old Joury, was also rescued from the rubble and was already there, being treated for her injuries.\n\n\"My sister, my beloved,\" Joury cried the moment she realised her sister had survived.\n\nThe two were with their family eating lunch when the building next to theirs was bombed, destroying the house they were in, the girls' uncle said.\n\nThe girls were treated for head injuries and were left scared and traumatised, their uncle added. They later left the hospital with their family.", "Three videos of Anthony Joshua were tweeted by Betfred before his fight with Jermaine Franklin in April\n\nThree tweets by Betfred featuring Anthony Joshua have been banned for breaching gambling advertising rules.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) investigated the posts shared in March and April promoting a fight.\n\nIt said Joshua was likely to strongly appeal to under-18s - which is forbidden by new gambling ad rules.\n\nBetfred, which rejected claims Joshua appealed to children, called the decision \"unjust\" and said it would demand an independent review.\n\nLast year the ASA, which regulates advertising in the UK on TV, radio and online, updated its rules for promoting gambling.\n\nThe new guidelines state that companies cannot appeal to under-18s \"by reflecting or being associated with youth culture\".\n\nBetfred's tweets featured videos of Joshua discussing his diet, his preparation routine and his pre-fight mentality before his bout with Jermaine Franklin.\n\nThe company had argued boxing is an \"adult-orientated sport\" because its late-night matches are mostly streamed pay-per-view and can only be bought by over-18s.\n\nIt also said the three tweets weren't advertising but were \"editorial\" in nature.\n\nThe bookies did admit Joshua is hugely popular across social media, with 29.3m followers worldwide, but argued they were \"overwhelmingly adult\".\n\nHowever, the ASA found about a million of Joshua's 15.7m Instagram followers were registered as under-18, as well as 82,000 of his followers on Snapchat.\n\nThe watchdog found this to be \"a significant number\" meaning Joshua was \"of inherent strong appeal\" to a young audience.\n\nIt told Betfred the ads \"must not appear again in their current form\" and warned it not to use figures who appeal to young people in future.\n\nA Betfred spokesman said the company firmly believed posting the three interviews with Joshua \"in no way undermined\" its commitment to avoiding strong youth appeal in its marketing.\n\n\"It should also be remembered that the ASA did not receive a single complaint from a member of the public about our association with Anthony Joshua in this respect,\" he added.\n\nSky Bet recently had a tweet featuring Gary Neville banned for breaching the same rules.\n\nEven though Neville's footballing career ended in 2011, the ASA found he too was likely to have a strong appeal to under-18s - something Sky Bet disagreed with.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The grip artificial intelligence has gained over humanity in 2023 - or at least the increase in conversations about whether it will be a force for revolutionary good or apocalyptic destruction - has led AI to be given the title of \"word of the year\" by the makers of Collins Dictionary.\n\nUse of the term has quadrupled this year, the publisher said.\n\nOther contenders ranged from ultraprocessed to Ulez, but Collins managing director Alex Beecroft said AI had been \"the talking point of 2023\".\n\nHe said: \"We know that AI has been a big focus this year in the way that it has developed and has quickly become as ubiquitous and embedded in our lives as email, streaming or any other once futuristic, now everyday technology.\"\n\nWhen asked for a comment by BBC News, AI chatbot ChatGPT said: \"AI's selection as the word of the year by Collins Dictionary reflects the profound impact of artificial intelligence on our rapidly evolving world, where innovation and transformation are driven by the power of algorithms and data.\"\n\nThe Collins announcement comes as UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hosts a summit for 100 world leaders, tech bosses, academics and AI researchers to discuss how best to maximise the benefits of this powerful technology while minimising the risks.\n\nMeanwhile, the Beatles have used it to help retrieve John Lennon's vocals from an old cassette to create their \"last song\", which will be released later this week.\n\nBut Sir Cliff Richard prefers not to use AI - which he mistakenly referred to in a BBC interview as \"artificial insemination\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe word of the year usually reflects the preoccupations of that time. In 2022, it was permacrisis in reference to the seemingly constant upheavals in British politics.\n\nThe previous year saw chatter about NFTs (non-fungible tokens) reach its peak. And 2020 was dominated by the word lockdown.\n\nOther words of the year contenders for 2023, according to Collins, were:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak says Elon Musk 'can be valuable' in the AI conversation\n\nMonitoring the risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI) is too important to be left to big tech firms, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nHe told the BBC that governments needed to take action and AI firms could not be left to \"mark their own homework\".\n\nHe was speaking ahead of the AI Safety Summit, where a global declaration on managing AI risks has been announced.\n\nIt comes amid growing concerns about highly advanced forms of AI with as-yet unknown capabilities.\n\nSo far countries are only starting to address the potential risks, which may include breaches to privacy, cyberattacks and the displacement of jobs.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC at Downing Street, Mr Sunak AI was a \"transformative technology\" that could have huge benefits in the NHS or in schools.\n\nBut he said he wanted the UK and other countries to be able \"do the testing that is necessary to make sure that we are keeping our citizens and everyone at home safe\".\n\n\"There has to be governments or external people who do that work,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman, he said that many AI firms had already given the UK access to their models before their release.\n\nAnd he claimed the UK was \"investing more\" AI risk management than any other country.\n\n\"We've already invested £100 million in our task force, which will become our Safety Institute,\" he said.\n\n\"And we're attracting the best and the brightest researchers from around the world to come and work in that institution.\"\n\nAround 100 world leaders, tech bosses and academics are currently gathering at the UK's first AI safety summit at Bletchley Park, in Buckinghamshire.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, the delegates agreed the world's first ever \"international statement\" on so called frontier AI - the government's term for AI that could exceed the capabilities of today's most advanced systems.\n\nThe Bletchley Declaration calls for global cooperation on tackling the risks, which include potential breaches to privacy and the displacement of jobs.\n\nSigned by 28 countries and the EU, it also says AI should be kept \"safe, in such a way as to be human-centric, trustworthy and responsible\".\n\nDr Caitlin Bentley, AI education lecturer at King's College London, said the declaration was an \"important milestone\" in promoting the \"responsible AI development\".\n\nHowever, she said more investment in AI education was needed to ensure \"AI is not only responsible, but equitable in its effects\" with the benefits felt by all.\n\nIn his BBC interview, the prime minister defended a planned discussion with controversial tech billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday night, saying he could bring \"something valuable to the conversation\".\n\n\"Elon Musk for a long time has both been an investor and developer of AI technologies himself,\" said Mr Sunak.\n\n\"For over a decade, he's been also talking about the potential risks that they pose and the need for countries and companies to work together to manage and mitigate against those risks.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elon Musk ahead of his meeting with UK PM Rishi Sunak\n\nMr Musk arrived at the summit on Wednesday morning, having warned the day before that AI could lead to the extinction of humanity.\n\nBut many experts consider warnings like this overblown.\n\n\"We've got representatives from all the major AI companies here at the summit,\" said Mr Sunak.\n\n\"And that's crucial, because countries will need to work together with the companies that are developing the technology.\"\n\nThose appearing at the summit are discussing how best to maximise the benefits of AI - such as discovering new medicines and tackling climate change - while minimising the risks.\n\nThe summit's priorities include the threat of bio-terrorism and cyber attacks.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the event in London, US Vice President Kamala Harris said that world leaders \"must address the full spectrum of AI risks to humanity\" and listed examples of faulty algorithms in healthcare, the use of AI in making \"deepfakes\", misinformation and biased facial recognition.\n\nChina has also backed international cooperation on AI, with the country's Vice Minister for Science and Technology, Wu Zhaohui, calling for \"global collaboration to share knowledge and make AI technologies available to the public\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Lady Leshurr had denied two counts of assault\n\nLady Leshurr has said her \"career has been ruined\" after she was found not guilty of assault.\n\nThe rapper, whose real name is Melesha O'Garro, had been accused of assaulting her ex-girlfriend Sidnee Hussein and Ms Hussein's then partner, Chante Boyea.\n\nA jury found the 35-year-old not guilty of two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.\n\nFollowing the judgement, Ms O'Garro said she had been dropped from deals and not received any income for a year.\n\nThe former Dancing On Ice contestant had told her trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court that Ms Boyea, a security officer, had attacked her first and used her Belgian Malinois dog Toby as a \"weapon\" during the incident in Walthamstow, north-east London, on 22 October 2022.\n\nWriting on the social media website Instagram, Ms O'Garro said: \"For the past year I've been battling a court case from people that accused me of stalking, harassing, and biting them but I was the victim.\n\n\"I was attacked and bitten by a dog and made out to be the aggressor.\"\n\nShe added she had been left with \"no income\" and that her career had been ruined \"regardless of the outcome\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe court had heard how the defendants flagged down Ms Boyea's car at about 05:00 BST as she was driving to work along Knotts Green Road in Walthamstow.\n\nMs Boyea, who was training to become a dog handler at the time, told jurors that after she stopped, Ms O'Garro \"bit down on my hand and from that point on she didn't let go\".\n\nShe said she had suffered nerve damage to her left hand as a result of the attack and could no longer hold a dog lead securely.\n\n\"I will never be able to continue in that line of work again,\" she told the court.\n\nHowever, Ronnie Bergenthal, for Ms O'Garro, told jurors that doctors' notes did not specify that she had suffered nerve damage in references to her left hand being injured.\n\nThe defence lawyer claimed Ms Boyea had also used her security dog in the boot of the car \"as a weapon on Ms O'Garro\", adding: \"You were directing that dog to bite Ms O'Garro.\"\n\nMs Boyea denied this, and said: \"At no point did I throw punches or attack her or release the dog from the boot.\"\n\nSherelle Smith, from Yardley, Birmingham, who had been accused of assaulting Sidnee Hussein after she tried to help Ms Boyea was also found not guilty.\n\nLady Leshurr, from Kingshurst, Solihull, previously hosted a weekly show on Saturdays on BBC Radio 1Xtra.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA \"macho\" culture in Downing Street harmed the UK's response to the Covid pandemic, a top official from the time has said.\n\nFormer deputy cabinet secretary Helen MacNamara told the Covid inquiry a \"toxic\" environment affected decision-making during the crisis.\n\nShe said that female experts were ignored, and women were \"looked over\".\n\nShe also accused Boris Johnson of failing to tackle \"misogynistic language\" used by Dominic Cummings.\n\nThe then-prime minister's failure to take action over abusive WhatsApp messages by his top adviser - that were revealed on Tuesday - had been \"disappointing\", she told the inquiry.\n\nMs MacNamara, who was the second-most senior official at the height of the pandemic, was thrust into the spotlight last year when she revealed she was fined by police for breaking Covid rules during the Partygate scandal.\n\nShe hit the headlines again this week, when it emerged Mr Cummings told colleagues on WhatsApp during the crisis he wanted to \"personally handcuff her and escort her from the building\".\n\n\"We cannot keep dealing with this horrific meltdown of the British state while dodging stilettos from that [expletive],\" Mr Cummings wrote about her in one message from August 2020.\n\nIn her own testimony earlier on Wednesday, Ms MacNamara said \"it is disappointing to me that the prime minister didn't pick him up on some of that violent and misogynistic language\".\n\nHis reaction was \"just miles away from what is right or proper or decent, or what the country deserves\", she added.\n\nGiving evidence to the inquiry on Tuesday, Mr Cummings accepted his language was \"deplorable\" but denied he had been misogynistic, adding: \"I was much ruder about men.\"\n\nIn her own evidence, Ms MacNamara described a \"macho, confident\" environment within government when Covid struck in early 2020, with an \"unbelievably bullish\" approach about the UK's ability to respond.\n\nShe recalled people \"laughing at the Italians\" during meetings over restrictions they had imposed in response to the virus, with her witness statement recording a feeling the country was \"overreacting\".\n\nIn other extracts from her statement, she expressed concern that the lack of a \"female perspective\" on the crisis in a number of policy areas.\n\nThis included a \"lack of thought\" about childcare during school closures, the impact of restrictions on victims of domestic violence, and a lack of guidance for pregnant women.\n\nShe also wrote that a \"disproportionate amount of attention\" was given to the impact of lockdown on \"male pursuits\", citing football, hunting, shooting and fishing.\n\nIn a draft of a report she prepared on improving the working environment, the atmosphere was likened to a \"superhero bunfight\".\n\nIn an email sent to female staffers from April 2020, read out at the inquiry, she described the \"egotistical and macho\" culture as \"demoralising to work in,\" noting that women had only spoken for \"10-15 minutes\" in over five hours of meetings earlier that month.\n\nShe told the inquiry she had found the lack of female participation \"striking\", with women turning their screens off during Zoom calls or \"sitting in the back row\" during meetings.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing's chief nurse, Nicola Ranger, said senior men in government \"relied on nursing staff to deliver care to the highest standard, whilst failing to meet basic professional standards themselves\".\n\n\"As a 90% female profession, nursing staff will find today's reminders painful,\" Ms Ranger said. \"These cavalier and misogynistic attitudes left nursing staff, especially women, at even greater risk and with deadly consequences.\"\n\nIn other evidence heard by the inquiry:\n\nElsewhere in her evidence, she described a \"lack of care\" for government staff, which she added proved \"damaging in all sorts of ways\".\n\nShe recalled that it was over seven months into the pandemic before a hand sanitizing station was placed near a link bridge between the Cabinet Office and No 10 with a Pin pad regularly used by officials.\n\nShe also said she repeatedly requested but failed to receive \"psychological support\" for civil servants working on on the Covid response, adding \"I don't really understand why we couldn't do that\".\n\nShe told the inquiry the government's response in a number of areas showed an \"absence of humanity,\" adding in her testimony that the reaction to the Covid situation in prisons \"felt very cold\".\n\nMatt Fowler, co-founder of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK, said the evidence coming from the inquiry was \"worse\" than feared.\n\nHe said the evidence showed \"special advisors from privileged backgrounds\" were not interested in \"how their decisions would impact the disabled, low-income households, at-risk children and others who weren't like them\".", "A video circulating on social media showed a box of mice after being dumped at the restaurant in Perry Barr\n\nA man has been arrested after boxes of live mice were released into McDonald's restaurants in Birmingham.\n\nA 32-year-old man was detained over the apparent protests on Wednesday evening, West Midlands Police said.\n\nVideos on social media show the rodents being released in branches in Star City, Perry Barr and Small Heath.\n\nPolice are also looking for Billal Hussain, 30, in connection with the incidents.\n\nThe force said a number of warrants had been executed in efforts to arrest Mr Hussain, suspected of being involved in the \"unacceptable\" and \"distressing\" incidents.\n\nOfficers are also looking for a second man in connection with the incidents\n\nA video on social media showed mice dyed in the colours of the Palestinian flag being released into the Star City restaurant on Monday.\n\nA second clip also showed mice in a box in the Perry Barr branch on Tuesday.\n\nThe incidents were being treated as public nuisance offences, police confirmed.\n\nThe first mice release took place on Monday evening at the Star City site\n\nBoth restaurants were temporarily closed for a full clean and visits from pest control officers, a McDonald's spokesperson said\n\nA video of a reported third incident of a similar nature was also shared on social media on Wednesday, where a group of masked people appeared to empty a box of mice in a branch in Small Heath.\n\nWest Midlands Police said it was investigating the third incident but it was unclear if it was connected.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "After recent heavy rain and storms bringing floods and disruption, there's another storm on the way to the United Kingdom this week.\n\nStorm Ciarán is the third named storm of the season and will bring damaging winds and heavy rain to areas where the ground is already saturated.\n\nMet Office severe weather warnings are already in force along with flood warnings.\n\nImpacts are likely from late Wednesday and through into the weekend.\n\nThis autumn has already been very wet with some parts of the UK having well over the normal monthly rainfall.\n\nFor some locations in eastern areas, such as Wattisham in Suffolk and Aboyne in Aberdeenshire, it has been the wettest October on record.\n\nThe prospect therefore of another storm - Ciarán (pronounced Keer-on) - will not be welcome for those already suffering from recent flooding after heavy rain and Storm Babet only a couple of weeks ago.\n\nStorm Ciarán is being driven by a very powerful jet stream - winds high in the atmosphere - with speeds of around 200mph. A jet stream this powerful contains a lot of energy for low pressure systems to develop.\n\nThis low pressure system could indeed be one of the deepest areas of low pressure recorded in November in the UK, close to the current record of 948.4hPa in 1954.\n\nA deep area of low pressure called Storm Ciarán will approach from the Atlantic late on Wednesday into Thursday\n\nWinds will strengthen from later on Wednesday into Thursday as Storm Ciarán approaches from the south-west.\n\nStrongest winds are initially likely across southern England and the Channel Islands where they could be around 80mph (130km/h) to perhaps 90mph (145km/h) in the most exposed locations.\n\nThese wind strengths have the potential to bring damage to trees and power lines with transport disruption likely. Cross channel ferries could be especially disrupted.\n\nInland gusts across southern parts of the UK could be as high as 50-60mph (80-97km/h) which again can bring some disruption and damage.\n\nMuch of the week will be dominated by periods of rain which will in turn lead to some localised flooding in the short term, especially in eastern areas of Northern Ireland where an amber warning is in place.\n\nRain associated with Storm Ciarán will move north-east from Wednesday evening and throughout Thursday.\n\nPersistent and heavy rain will be followed by heavy showers and thunderstorms.\n\nThere are severe weather warnings in force for southern England, south Wales, north-east England and Northern Ireland suggesting widely 20-40mm (1-2in) of rainfall with 40-60mm (2-3in) possible over high ground.\n\nWhile rainfall totals expected with Storm Ciarán are not necessarily high or unusual with autumn storms, problems are likely as it comes after a very wet period for many.\n\nRiver levels remain high with ground already very saturated. There are also still around 70 flood warnings in force across the UK.\n\nBy the end of the week some of the highest rainfall totals will be across southern England, south Wales, parts of northern England, Northern Ireland and eastern Scotland.\n\nRiver and groundwater levels remain high after recent heavy rain so flooding will continue to be a problem\n\nWhile there are already wind and rain warnings issued for Storm Ciarán, these will be tweaked and upgraded as necessary in the coming days.\n\nWhile we are pretty certain to get some stormy weather, there are still some uncertainties in the finer details of the forecast, primarily because Storm Ciarán is likely to still be intensifying as it hits the UK.\n\nIn this situation, the exact track and timing can change and therefore the location of the most damaging winds could shift slightly.\n\nIt would therefore be worth staying across the forecast and warnings on our BBC Weather website or social channels.\n\nHow are you affected by Storm Ciarán? Share your pictures and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Jamie Arnold was captured on CCTV making the gestures and was seen by several witnesses, prosecutors said\n\nA football fan has been convicted of racially abusing former England footballer Rio Ferdinand.\n\nJamie Arnold made racist gestures to the ex-defender at Wolves' Molineux stadium during a game against Man United, in May 2021.\n\nArnold, 33 and from Stone, Staffordshire, was ejected before being arrested, West Midlands Police said. He is due to be sentenced on 8 December.\n\nThe force thanked Mr Ferdinand for his assistance in the investigation.\n\nArnold, of The Glebe in Norton Bridge, had denied a charge of racially aggravated public order, but was convicted by a unanimous decision at Wolverhampton Crown Court.\n\nIn a post on social media after the verdict, Mr Ferdinand said Arnold now had to face the consequences of his actions.\n\n\"Racism will only be eradicated when we all work together,\" he said.\n\nJamie Arnold racially abused Rio Ferdinand when Man United played against Wolves in May 2021\n\nMr Ferdinand also thanked witnesses, Wolves fans and staff who testified in court and for support from the force's hate crime officer, PC Stuart Ward.\n\nThe sports broadcaster was targeted by Arnold during the first match to be held with fans inside Molineux following the first Covid lockdown.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said he was captured on CCTV making racist gestures that several witnesses saw from the stands.\n\nMr Ferdinand previously told the trial that he did not see the gestures made by Arnold, but had noted one fan's \"more aggressive body language\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPC Stuart Ward said: \"Abusing anyone for the colour of their skin is disgusting and can never, ever be condoned.\n\n\"Arnold is old enough to know such appalling behaviour is inexcusable and certainly won't be tolerated.\"\n\nHe thanked Mr Ferdinand for assisting the investigation.\n\n\"Through his support we've ensured a man has this conviction to his name,\" PC Ward said.\n\nArnold was previously banned from games for three years after being found guilty of hurling homophobic abuse and making gestures that mimicked disability during the same game, police said.\n\nHe was also ordered to pay almost £900 in fines and court costs.\n\nA spokesman for Kick It Out, an organisation which challenges discrimination within football, said it welcomed the verdict.\n\n\"It is imperative that perpetrators of discriminatory abuse are held to account for their actions and we hope this result sends a strong statement that racism has no place in our society.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tom Parfett bought poison from a seller whose details were widely shared on the forum - he was 22 when he died\n\nLeading UK broadband providers have told the BBC they have blocked access to a website promoting suicide.\n\nSky Broadband, which has 5.7 million users, says the forum will automatically be barred if home users are using its standard filters.\n\nVirgin Media said it would be automatically barred on its mobile and broadband services, while TalkTalk and BT said it could also now be blocked.\n\nIt follows a BBC investigation linking the forum to more than 50 UK deaths.\n\nBereaved relatives had written to internet service providers in the UK requesting they block the site.\n\nSky Broadband - the second biggest internet service provider (ISP) in the country - has now confirmed the forum had been added to a list of websites that are blocked by its Sky Broadband Shield safety filter, which is automatically activated on home routers.\n\nThe company said it had moved as quickly as possible and blocked the online forum with \"immediate effect\".\n\nTalkTalk - which has about four millions users - told the BBC the site would now be blocked for any customer with its HomeSafe safety filter activated. It said it was unable to automatically block the site.\n\nBT told the BBC the site is automatically barred on their mobile networks and is also blocked on home broadband, if users turn on parental controls.\n\nVirgin Media said its web filters are switched on by default and the site is now blocked.\n\nFollowing the publication of the BBC investigation, administrators of the controversial website have posted a message on its front page saying they are unconcerned by threats from the UK digital safety regulator Ofcom to block their forum. The post also calls on users in the UK to lobby MPs against the newly passed Online Safety Act.\n\nPeople known to have visited the forum before taking their lives - L-R from top row: Beth Matthews, Aaron Jones, Imogen Nunn, Josh Hendy, Zoe Lyalle, Jay Barr, Laura Campbell, Jason Thompson, Rose Paterson\n\nDavid Parfett's son Tom, 22, ended his life in 2021, after finding instructions on the forum.\n\nResponding to Sky Broadband's decision, Mr Parfett said: \"It made me cry. It's pure relief, mixed with anger that Tom may still be here if [the forum] had been regulated two years ago. My sole aim has been to stop other people being influenced to take their own life.\"\n\nJoe Nihill, 23, died in 2020 and left a note asking his family to get the forum shut down.\n\nHis mother Catherine Adenekan and sister-in-law Melanie Saville said other internet service providers should follow Sky Broadband's example.\n\n\"It's really important to us both, as it means access is becoming limited to prevent others… finding it - which is a step in the right direction.\"\n\nThe BBC identified Lamarcus Small as one the of the creators of the site and tracked him down to his home in Huntsville, Alabama, in the US. He refused to answer any questions, but an account associated with Mr Small on the controversial platform \"Kiwi Farms\" has since posted about the BBC's findings.\n\n\"The UK wants to block the site and pretend that this is going to help things, when it won't,\" the post says, continuing: \"Chasing me down to the ends of the earth to harass me isn't going to solve the mental health crisis, nor would shutting the site down.\"\n\nResponding to the post, Mr Parfett added: \"These people encourage others to die and celebrate death, they have no place in a civilised society.\"\n\nThe government's controversial Online Safety Bill, which aims to make the internet safer, became law last week - giving the regulator, Ofcom, further jurisdiction.\n\nIn a statement Ofcom told BBC News: \"If services don't comply, we'll have a broad range of enforcement powers at our disposal to ensure they're held accountable\".\n\nJoe Nihill exchanged messages with other forum users who coached him on the most effective way to die\n\nIn a further development, digital music streaming service Spotify has moved to disable what is called a \"social login\" button on the forum.\n\nA \"social login\" allows users of an app to use their existing username and password to register or log on to a third party website, using a simple click button.\n\nBBC News discovered the Spotify \"social login\" button on the pro-suicide forum and approached the music app for comment.\n\nSpotify says the feature was enabled by a third party developer, without the company's knowledge, violating their terms of agreement. It said: \"Once we were alerted to this matter, we removed access for the site in question immediately and the button no longer works.\"\n\nIf you've been affected by issues in this story, help and support is available via BBC Action Line\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None Suicide website linked to 50 UK deaths still active despite warnings", "Boris Johnson agreed with some Tory MPs who thought Covid was \"nature's way of dealing with old people\", the inquiry into the pandemic has been told.\n\nThe allegation comes from diary entries by former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nMeanwhile, ex-adviser Dominic Cummings told the inquiry the government had no plan and was in \"complete chaos\".\n\nThe inquiry was also shown offensive messages sent by Mr Cummings about cabinet ministers and top officials.\n\nLee Cain, No 10's former communications director, said the pandemic was the \"wrong crisis\" for Mr Johnson and he was a \"challenging character to work with\" because he kept changing his mind.\n\nThe government's handling of the Covid crisis was laid bare in a day of candid testimony by the prime minister's former advisers.\n\nAt one point, the inquiry was shown notes by Sir Patrick, who wrote of his frustrations in dealing with Mr Johnson in his diaries.\n\nIn August 2020, Sir Patrick wrote that Mr Johnson was \"obsessed with older people accepting their fate and letting the young get on with life and the economy going\".\n\n\"Quite bonkers set of exchanges,\" he said, referring to messages exchanged between Mr Johnson and others in a WhatsApp group.\n\nIn later notes from December 2020, Sir Patrick wrote that Mr Johnson said his party \"thinks the whole thing is pathetic and Covid is just nature's way of dealing with old people - and I am not entirely sure I disagree with them\".\n\nAnother note from December says Mr Johnson agreed with the Conservative Party's Chief Whip Mark Spencer when he said \"we should let the old people get it and protect others\".\n\nMr Spencer wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that he \"actually said exactly the opposite\" - that only elderly people should be protected at that point - and was \"appalled\" to hear the comment attributed to him.\n\nBrenda Doherty, spokesperson for Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK, said reading Mr Johnson's messages felt like being \"punched in the stomach\".\n\n\"During the first and second waves of the pandemic the UK had one of the highest death tolls per person in the world from Covid-19 and it's clear just how personally responsible for that he was,\" Ms Doherty said.\n\nMr Johnson's spokesman has so far declined to comment on the evidence given at this week's hearings, but says he is \"co-operating fully\" with the inquiry.\n\nThe former prime minister, as well as his successor Rishi Sunak, are due to give evidence to the inquiry later this autumn.\n\nThe Covid inquiry was shown notes made by the government's chief scientist Sir Patrick Vallance\n\nSir Patrick's notes were shown during Mr Cain's testimony, which followed evidence on Monday from Imran Shafi and Martin Reynolds, another two of Mr Johnson's aides.\n\nMr Cain repeatedly cited Mr Johnson's tendency to \"oscillate\" between decisions as delaying the crisis response.\n\nThe former journalist and Brexit campaigner said he found Mr Johnson's style of operating \"rather exhausting from time to time\".\n\nMr Cain said he was frustrated when the prime minister announced \"we were going to turn the tide in 12 weeks\" at a press conference early on in the pandemic.\n\nWhen asked if he agreed with the view that Mr Johnson was not \"up to the job\", Mr Cain said: \"That's quite a strong thing to say. What would probably be clear in Covid - it was the wrong crisis for this prime minister's skill set.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Cummings on his 2020 messages about Downing Street's handling of Covid: \"My appalling language was obviously my own\"\n\nIn his testimony, Mr Cummings did not mince his words as he gave a withering account of his time in government at the height of the pandemic.\n\nAppearing in white shirt and tie, he apologised for berating ministers in expletive-laden texts, but said his language only \"understated\" their incompetence.\n\nHis conduct and choice of language was brought up regularly, with the inquiry shown disparaging messages from Mr Cummings sent about then deputy cabinet secretary Helen MacNamara in 2020.\n\n\"I will personally handcuff her and escort her from the building,\" Mr Cummings wrote in one message.\n\nMr Cummings apologised for his \"appalling\" language but added: \"A thousand times worse than my bad language is the underlying issue at stake - that we had a Cabinet Office system that had completely melted.\"\n\nHe also said he was not misogynistic adding: \"I was much ruder about men.\"\n\nHe described the Cabinet Office as a \"bomb site\" and a \"dumpster fire\", where many officials were in the wrong job when he took up his role as adviser to Mr Johnson in 2019.\n\nMr Cummings argued an \"overall dysfunctional system\" was in place during the pandemic, and no plans were in place when the crisis erupted.\n\nFor example, he said there had been essentially no plan for shielding those most at risk from the virus.\n\nHe also said the impact of a potential lockdown on vulnerable groups, such as ethnic minorities and domestic abuse victims, was \"appallingly neglected\".\n\nLabour said the evidence heard by the inquiry exposed \"a government that is chaotic, callous and dangerously out of its depth\".\n\nThe Covid inquiry continues on Wednesday, with Ms MacNamara due to give evidence.", "The first incident took place on Monday evening at the Star City site\n\nMcDonald's has condemned what it called disinformation over the Israel-Gaza war after boxes of live mice were released in three of its restaurants in apparent protests.\n\nA video on social media showed customers at Birmingham's Star City restaurant jumping in shock as mice dyed in the colours of the Palestinian flag scurried near their feet on Monday.\n\nA second clip showed mice in a box in the Perry Barr branch.\n\nWest Midlands Police has launched an investigation into the first case.\n\nThe fast food giant said both stores were temporarily closed for a full clean and visits from pest control officers.\n\nPolice said they were treating the first incident, an apparent protest against the Israel-Gaza war, as a public nuisance offence.\n\nThree boxes of live mice were dyed the red, green and black\n\nA video of a reported third incident of the same nature was also shared across social media on Wednesday.\n\nIn the clip, a group of masked people appear to enter the branch in Small Heath and empty a clear plastic box filled with live mice near the counter.\n\nAfter Hamas gunmen launched an assault on Israel from the Gaza Strip on 7 October, a branch of the restaurant chain in Israel reportedly donated 100,000 of free meals including to soldiers and security forces.\n\nThe move sparked calls from Pro-Palestinian activists to boycott the brand, the Daily Express reported.\n\nA spokesperson for McDonald's said the firm was \"dismayed by the disinformation and inaccurate reports regarding our position in response to the conflict in the Middle East.\"\n\nThe chain added: \"McDonald's Corporation is not funding or supporting any governments involved in this conflict, and any actions from our local developmental licensee business partners were made independently without McDonald's consent or approval.\n\nThe restaurant has confirmed it temporarily shut its branch in Perry Barr following an incident\n\n\"Our hearts are with all of the communities and families impacted by this crisis. We abhor violence of any kind and firmly stand against hate speech, and we will always proudly open our doors to everyone.\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to ensure the safety of our people in the region while supporting the communities where we operate.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police has been contacted for comment about the second and third incidents.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shares in the troubled office-sharing firm WeWork plunged on Wednesday, following reports it could file for bankruptcy as early as next week.\n\nIts shares fell by more than 50% in early trade in New York.\n\nThe firm was once seen as the future of the office. But it has been plagued by problems, including a disastrous attempt in 2019 to sell shares to the public and the exit of its co-founder.\n\nWeWork declined to comment when contacted by the BBC.\n\nThe company was also hit hard by the pandemic as more people started working from home.\n\nWeWork is considering filing for bankruptcy in New Jersey, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the story.\n\nThe Reuters news agency also reported the story, citing a source familiar with the matter.\n\nIn response to the reports, a WeWork spokesperson said: \"We do not comment on speculation.\"\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, the company told the US financial regulator it had agreed with creditors to temporarily postpone payments for some of its debt.\n\nJane Sydenham, investment director at Rathbones, told the BBC that WeWork had been \"a great idea\" when it started out.\n\n\"We all know that flexible working and being able to use offices on an ad-hoc basis is a helpful opportunity to have,\" she said.\n\n\"But I think the problem with WeWork was it over-expanded, borrowed too much money, took on too many sites too quickly, didn't really put in place all the checks and balances and controls that a company needs to have.\"\n\nMs Sydenham added that WeWork had also been hit by the rise in interest rates, which made borrowing more expensive.\n\nThe New York-based firm has been struggling since its initial attempt to sell shares on the stock market collapsed in 2019 due to concerns about its debts, losses and management.\n\nA week before the company confirmed that its share sale had been scrapped founder Adam Neumann stepped down as chief executive.\n\nScrutiny of his leadership had \"become a significant distraction,\" the firm said.\n\nA few months after the listing debacle, the pandemic hit, sparking a revolution in remote work and exposing WeWork to blistering public criticism from tenants looking to escape their leases.\n\nBut the company kept operating, as executives sold off ancillary businesses, cut jobs and cancelled or modified hundreds of leases, trying to stem the firm's losses before it ran out of money.\n\nWeWork finally listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2021 with a much lower valuation.\n\nThe Japanese conglomerate SoftBank has pumped tens of billions of dollars into WeWork as it continued to lose money.\n\nThe firm, which was valued at roughly $47bn (£38.7bn) at its height in early 2019, has lost almost 98% of its stock market valuation in the last year.\n\nIn August, WeWork raised \"substantial doubt\" about its ability to continue operations.\n\nAt the time, the company said in a statement that it faced challenges including softer demand and a \"difficult\" operating environment.\n\nIt has also seen the exit of several top executives this year, including chief executive and chairman Sandeep Mathrani.\n\nAs of the end of June WeWork had 777 locations in 39 countries around the world, according to the company.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "House prices had the biggest monthly rise in October for more than a year, according to the Nationwide.\n\nHowever, they were still down sharply on a year ago, the UK's biggest building society said.\n\nThe 0.9% monthly rise in prices was most likely due to there not being enough properties to meet demand, it said.\n\nActivity in the housing market is still \"extremely weak\", it added, as buyers grapple with higher mortgage rates.\n\n\"This is not surprising as affordability remains stretched,\" said Robert Gardner, Nationwide's chief economist.\n\n\"Market interest rates, which underpin mortgage pricing, have moderated somewhat but they are still well above the lows prevailing in 2021.\"\n\nOn an annual basis the price of an average home fell by 3.3% in October to £259,423 - down from £268,282 a year earlier.\n\nHowever, prices are still much higher than before the Covid pandemic, which sparked a mini-housing boom as people sought more space, enjoyed historically low mortgage rates, and benefitted from a stamp duty holiday.\n\nThe average cost of a UK home in October 2019 was £215,368, according to Nationwide.\n\nAlthough it is difficult for many first-time buyers to secure a mortgage at the moment, they will welcome the correction in prices.\n\n\"Sky-high borrowing costs and the continued squeeze on household incomes forces some to delay buying plans because they are unable to secure a mortgage,\" said Alice Haine, an analyst at investment platform Bestinvest.\n\nMr Gardner said that borrowing costs were likely to remain relatively high compared with the last decade, but affordability would eventually improve.\n\n\"It appears likely that a combination of solid income growth, together with modestly lower house prices and mortgage rates, will gradually improve affordability over time, with housing market activity remaining fairly subdued in the interim,\" he said.\n\nLast week Lloyds Banking Group, which owns the Halifax - the UK's biggest mortgage lender - said UK house prices were likely to drop by 4.7% this year and by a further 2.4% in 2024, before starting to rise again in 2025.\n\nNationwide bases its survey data on its own mortgage lending, so the survey does not include those who purchase homes with cash or buy-to-let deals.\n\nAccording to the latest available official data, cash buyers currently account for more than a third of housing sales.\n\nTo tackle soaring inflation, the Bank of England put up interest rates 14 times in a row before holding them steady at 5.25% in September.\n\nThe theory is that by raising rates it becomes more expensive to borrow money, people have less to spend, and demand falls - meaning businesses put up their prices less quickly.\n\nBut mortgage rates tend to rise in line with official interest rates, so house buyers, people on tracker mortgages and those re-mortgaging have seen their costs surge.\n\nIn the UK, the rate on an average five-year fixed residential mortgage was 5.87% as of 31 October, down slightly from levels seen earlier in 2023 but still high compared with a few years ago.", "We started the day with 25 minutes of arguing about the judge’s clerk before Eric Trump even took the stand.\n\nAnd we ended the day with Trump’s legal team once again feuding with Judge Engoron about his clerk.\n\nIt was the clear theme of the day and overshadowed Eric Trump’s own testimony.\n\nWe asked legal analysts what the motive might be for this, which you can read in this post from earlier.\n\nOverall, the mood in the courtroom seemed tense.\n\nAnd former President Donald Trump hasn’t even taken the stand yet. That happens on Monday.\n\nOur team today has been Chloe Kim and Madeline Halpert in court, and Kayla Epstein and myself reporting from New York.\n\nIf you want some more analysis on the trial and a summary of what's happened so far, you can read click here.", "Most of the population of Avdiivka has been evacuated but more than 1,500 civilians remain\n\nRussia bombarded 118 Ukrainian towns and villages in 24 hours, more than on any other day this year, says Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko.\n\nHe said 10 of Ukraine's 27 regions had come under attack and the onslaught had caused deaths and injuries.\n\nMany of the communities hit were near the front lines in the east and south.\n\nRussia has for weeks trained much of its military firepower on Avdiivka, a strategically significant town in the eastern region of Donetsk.\n\n\"[Avdiivka] is being erased, shattered. There have been more than 40 massive shelling attacks against the territorial community in the past day,\" said local leader Vitaliy Barabash.\n\nHe said two civilians had been killed and warned that Russia was building up to a third wave in its offensive. Ukraine says Russia has been pouring reinforcements into the area in a bid to encircle and capture the town.\n\nTwenty attacks in the Avdiivka area alone were repelled on Tuesday, Ukraine's armed forces general staff said.\n\nRussia has also ramped up attacks on the town of Kupyansk in the north-eastern Kharkiv region and sought to stop Ukrainian forces from recapturing territory around Bakhmut.\n\nThere were also attacks away from the front lines, on a block of flats, shops and a pharmacy in the southern city of Nikopol on the bank of the Dnipro river, and in Kremenchuk, where a disused oil refinery was set on fire by a Russian drone.\n\nThe refinery, in the central region of Poltava, has been targeted several times by Russia and officials said it had come under attack throughout the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nThe Kremenchuk refinery was the biggest in Ukraine until Russian attacks put it out of action a few weeks into the full-scale invasion.\n\nUkraine's counter-offensive has so far made little headway in recapturing land occupied by Russian forces in the south and east, prompting fears of Western fatigue with the war.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted the slow progress, repeatedly urging Kyiv's allies to urgently provide more advanced weapon, and also stay united.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ukraine's chief military commander Zaluzhny warned that the war was now moving to a \"positional\" or static stage.\n\nIn a column for the Economist, he said this would benefit Moscow by \"allowing it to rebuild its military power\".\n\nDespite heavy losses, Russia still had \"superiority in weapons, equipment, missiles and ammunition\", Mr Zaluzhny warned, calling on Ukraine's allies to deliver warplanes and drones, as well as modern electronic warfare and mine-breaching technology, among other things.\n\nOne of the Ukrainian leader's closest allies, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, addressed the issue of fatigue during a hoax call from two Russian pranksters, widely known for targeting Kremlin opponents.\n\n\"I see there is a lot of fatigue, if I have to say the truth, from all the sides,\" she is heard to tell the pair, Vovan and Lexus. \"We're near the moment in which everybody understands that we need a way out.\"\n\n\"The counter-offensive of Ukraine is maybe not going as they were expecting. It is going, but it didn't change, I mean, the destiny of the conflict.\"\n\nUS President Joe Biden's administration has asked Congress to approve a $106bn package for both Ukraine and Israel. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned this week: \"I can guarantee that without our support [Russia's Vladimir] Putin will be successful.\"\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky told Ukrainians in an overnight address on Tuesday that \"we live in a world that gets used to success too quickly\".\n\nHe reserved particular praise for the military's success in reducing Russia's control over the Black Sea: \"The more protection we have along our coastline and in our sea, the more protection there is in the world.\"\n\nRecent Ukrainian attacks have hit the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet prompting most of its ships to leave occupied Crimea.\n\nKyiv has tried to create an export corridor safe for civilian vessels to carry grain along Ukraine's Black Sea coast, via Romanian waters and on to the Turkish coast.\n\nAlthough at least 700,000 metric tonnes of grain have evaded Russian bombardment in recent months, Ukrainian officials said war planes had dropped \"explosive objects\" on the expected paths of civilian ships. \"However, the functioning of the navigational corridor continues under the aegis of the defence forces,\" said Ukraine's southern operational command.\n\nRussian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday that Ukraine was losing the war despite supplies of new weapons from Nato.\n\nHe said that Ukraine was taking heavy losses as it tried to push into Russian-held areas of Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Donetsk and \"demoralisation of personnel is growing\". He also claimed Russian units were advancing.\n\nMr Shoigu provided no evidence to back his claims.", "Dangerous conditions are expected around English Channel coasts as Storm Ciarán moves in.\n\nAmber severe weather warnings for wind have been issued by the Met Office ahead of Storm Ciarán moving in on Wednesday night.\n\nDamaging gusts of wind and stormy seas are expected in southern parts of the United Kingdom.\n\nHeavy rain will also spread northwards which may lead on to further flooding issues.\n\nTravel disruption is likely in some areas so the advice is to stay tuned to updates.\n\nStorm Ciarán (pronounced Keer-on) is rapidly developing on its approach to the UK later on Wednesday. In a process called explosive cyclogenesis, the low pressure system will deepen by over 24 millibars in 24 hours.\n\nWinds will strengthen from late Wednesday and through Thursday as Storm Ciarán approaches from the south-west.\n\nThe most powerful winds are expected in the English Channel hitting the Channel Islands and north-west France where wind gusts of up to 100mph (161km/h) are predicted.\n\nThe Jersey Met Service has issued a red warning from Wednesday evening and throughout Thursday. It warns of storm force winds, exceptional gusts, rainfall and coastal flooding.\n\nPreparations are already under way in the Channel Islands with the Jersey government saying people should work from home where possible to \"reduce the risk\" to those providing essential services.\n\nIn north-west France, red warnings have been issued by Météo-France with Brittany expected to be badly hit. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has appealed for people \"not to go out during the night from Wednesday into Thursday\" across the entire country.\n\nThe Met Office amber warnings for Thursday cover the south coast of England.\n\nIn southern England, there are two amber severe weather warnings from the Met Office.\n\nThe first covers south-west England and south-west Wales from 03:00 GMT Thursday until 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nGusts of 70-80mph (112-130km/h) are expected around coastal areas, perhaps even 85mph (137km/h) in the most exposed locations.\n\nStrong winds will then transfer east along the south coast into south-east England where the second amber warning is valid from 06:00 to 17:00 on Thursday.\n\nThese wind strengths have the potential to bring damage to trees and power lines with transport disruption likely. Cross channel ferries could be especially disrupted.\n\nVery large waves could bring additional impacts to coastal areas of the English Channel.\n\nInland gusts across southern parts of the UK could be as high as 50-60mph (80-97km/h) which again can bring some disruption and damage.\n\nThe Met Office points out that the extent of these high winds remains a little uncertain and is dependent on the exact track of Storm Ciarán.\n\nRain associated with Storm Ciarán will move north-east from Wednesday evening and throughout Thursday.\n\nPersistent and heavy rain will be followed by heavy showers and thunderstorms.\n\nThere are severe weather warnings in force for southern England, parts of Wales, north-east England and Northern Ireland suggesting widely 20-40mm (1-2in) of rainfall with 40-60mm (2-3in) possible over high ground.\n\nWhile rainfall totals expected with Storm Ciarán are not necessarily high or unusual with autumn storms, problems are likely as it comes after a very wet period for many.\n\nRiver levels remain high with ground already very saturated. There are also still around 70 flood warnings in force across the UK.\n\nFlooding is likely in the coming days from further bouts of heavy rain\n\nBecause the exact track Storm Ciarán is likely to take is still a little uncertain, there may be further updates as it approaches.\n\nThe track will influence the timing and strength of the most damaging winds so that may still change slightly.\n\nIt would therefore be worth staying across the forecast and warnings on our BBC Weather website or social channels.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Residents of Barrancas marched through the town to demand the safe return of Luis Manuel Díaz\n\nResidents of the Colombian town of Barrancas have held a candle-lit march to demand the release of the father of Liverpool footballer Luis Díaz.\n\nLuis Manuel Díaz was kidnapped at gunpoint along with his wife on Saturday.\n\nThe player's mother was left behind in a car by the kidnappers as police closed in, but the gunmen dragged away his father.\n\nSpecialised police units are searching the area with sniffer dogs.\n\nShouting \"freedom\" and dressed in white T-shirts emblazoned with a photo of Luis Manuel Díaz, hundreds of people marched through Barrancas on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nLuis Díaz's grandfather Alfonso was among those taking part in the candle-lit vigil\n\n\"It's an injustice that someone from our town, a son of a local family should be suffering this pain and sadness,\" she added.\n\nLuis Manuel Díaz, also known as Mane, is a well-known and popular figure in Barrancas, where he trains young footballers.\n\nCCTV footage broadcast by local media appears to show men on motorcycles following the couple's car just before they were seized at a petrol station in Barrancas on Saturday.\n\nThe deputy head of the Colombian police, General Nicolás Zapata, told journalists that \"when something like this happens, it's not spontaneous, there is prior planning\".\n\nThe Colombian authorities have stepped up their search for Luis Manuel Díaz.\n\nBarrancas is located in La Guajira province, in the extreme north of Colombia, an area where several guerrilla groups and armed gangs operate.\n\nPolice and soldiers are focusing their search on the Perijá mountains, a dense forest straddling the Colombia-Venezuela border.\n\nPolice Chief William Salamanca announced on Tuesday that two sniffer dogs with experience of searching for people in jungle areas had been flown to the area to join in the search.\n\nElite police units are using helicopters and planes equipped with heat-seeking cameras to fly over the forest.\n\nThey have also dropped leaflets with a photo of Luis Manuel Díaz and the offer of a 200m-peso reward ($50,000; £40,000) for information on Luis Manuel Díaz's whereabouts.\n\nOn Monday, police said that they had identified a number of individuals \"linked to the kidnapping\" but did not say who they were.\n\nThey have, however, said that he appears to have been seized by a criminal gang rather than a guerrilla group.\n\nThere are a number of gangs which engage in smuggling, extortion and people-trafficking on both sides of the porous border.", "Devon and Cornwall Police said nobody was in the vehicle when it washed off the promenade\n\nLives could be put at risk in the UK and parts of the British Isles as Storm Ciarán hits, forecasters have warned.\n\nPowerful winds and rain are already lashing southern England and gusts of up to 95mph (152km/h) are expected to hit the Channel Islands.\n\nThe Met Office has warned of travel disruption and damage to buildings, prompting the declaration of a major incident in Hampshire.\n\nThere are also 33 flood warnings in place across England.\n\nA red wind warning, the highest level, has been issued by Jersey Met for Wednesday night into Thursday.\n\nStorm-force gusts, heavy rainfall and coastal flooding are expected in the Channel Islands, where conditions could be some of the worst seen in decades and flood defence measures have been put in place.\n\nYellow and amber warnings for wind and rain - indicating potential risks to life and property - have been issued by the Met Office for parts of England and Scotland.\n\nAn amber warning of wind has been issued for South West England from 03:00 GMT to 11:00 on Thursday, and for the East of England and the South East from 06:00 to 17:00 on Thursday.\n\nHeavy rain was pushing into parts of Cornwall and Devon on Wednesday evening. The Met Office said there was some uncertainty around the path of the storm, but the \"greatest impacts (are) likely along the south coast\".\n\nThe Met Office says the UK has provisionally recorded the joint-sixth wettest October on record, after the heavy rain brought by Storm Babet. Eastern Scotland had its wettest October since records began in 1836, with 82% more rain than its average.\n\nA DFDS ferry leaves the Port of Dover in Kent\n\nGusts are likely to reach 70-80mph (113-129 km/h) in some coastal areas in southern England, and in a few coastal spots may exceed 85mph (123 km/h). And20-30mm of rain is expected in southern and western areas.\n\nAn amber warning of wind has been issued for South West England from 03:00 to 11:00 on Thursday, and for the East of England and the South East from 06:00 to 17:00 on Thursday.\n\nThe power of the storm is created by a phenomenon known as explosive cyclogenesis - sometimes dubbed a \"bomb cyclone\" - where an area of low pressure rapidly deepens and strengthens, causing the weather system to violently rotate.\n\nThe amber warnings for wind could cause structural damage, the Met Office warned.\n\nIt said gusts could blow off roofs, bring down powerlines and disrupt transport routes.\n\nFlying debris could be a danger to life, it said, and there is the potential for large waves and beach material being thrown onto coastal roads.\n\nSome businesses and residents in Guernsey have been putting out sandbags in preparation\n\nThere are also yellow warnings for rain for eastern England, London, the South East, South West, North West, West Midlands and Wales from 18:00 on Wednesday.\n\nAnd yellow warnings for wind are in place for the East of England, London, South East, South West and Wales from 21:00 on Wednesday to 23:59 on Thursday.\n\nIn Scotland, a yellow warning for rain has been issued for the south west and Lothian Borders from 06:00 Thursday to 06:00 Friday. An earlier warning for rain in Northern Ireland has been cancelled but the region has already seen some flooding.\n\nShelves have been left empty at supermarkets across Jersey, including Waitrose in St Brelade\n\nEast Devon District Council said a temporary barrier of sand and a fabric membrane were being put in place to reduce the impact of waves from the storm.\n\nWith trees still in full leaf and the ground already saturated, Devon County Council said there was a high chance that there would be a lot of debris on the roads and a risk of highway flooding.\n\nIt said it would have additional staff monitoring the highways, as well as tree surgeons and gully jetters on standby to keep drains and gullies as clear as possible.\n\nFlood defences have been erected at Exeter Quay\n\nWork is being carried out on Exmouth's seawall to reduce the impact of waves until full repairs can be done\n\nStorm Ciarán follows localised weather-related incidents last weekend when large waves brought down coastal barriers in North Tyneside and homes were evacuated and shops were damaged when a village in County Durham was deluged by \"several feet of water\".\n\nIn West Sussex on Sunday, a caravan park in Bognor Regis was submerged, the town's Tesco supermarket car park was flooded, and the roof of a house was ripped off in heavy winds that residents described as like a \"tornado\".\n\nExperts say a warming atmosphere increases the chance of intense rainfall and storms.\n\nHowever, many factors contribute to extreme weather and it takes time for scientists to calculate how much impact climate change has had on particular events - if any.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nHow is Storm Ciarán affecting you? If it is safe to do so, get in touch.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe eldest son of former President Donald Trump has said he did not work on the financial statements at the centre of a civil fraud trial that threatens the family's property empire.\n\nDonald Trump Jr, 45, appeared relaxed in the New York City court as he cracked jokes and denied wrongdoing.\n\nHis siblings, Ivanka and Eric Trump, are due to testify in the coming days.\n\nThe judge has already found the Trump Organization exaggerated its wealth and falsified business records.\n\nThe civil trial will determine what penalty should be imposed. New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, is seeking a fine of $250m (£204m) and a ban on the former president doing business in his home state.\n\nDonald Trump Jr is the first of the Trump children to give evidence in this case. Earlier this week, he appeared on the conservative Newsmax network to call the trial a \"sham\" in a \"kangaroo court\".\n\nHe and Eric Trump are co-defendants, alongside their father. The brothers are both executive vice-presidents at the Trump Organization.\n\nDressed in a blue suit and bright pink tie, Mr Trump Jr testified for a little over an hour. His testimony will resume on Thursday.\n\nThe outset of his evidence focused on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) - the standardised practices and guidelines that businesses use to ensure financial records are accurately maintained.\n\nMr Trump Jr said he was not familiar with GAAP, besides what he could recall from his time studying business at university.\n\nPressed by state attorney Colleen Faherty on his understanding of the subject, he drew chuckles in court as he responded: \"I have no understanding.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Trump lashes out at ex-attorney before court appearance\n\n\"I leave it to my accountants,\" Mr Trump Jr said.\n\nAt another point Mr Trump Jr told the judge he was sorry for speaking too quickly for the court stenographer to keep up.\n\n\"I apologise, Your Honour, I moved to Florida, but I kept the New York pace,\" he joked.\n\nHe told the court that he has done \"anything and everything\" during his time working for the family business. He is not an accountant, however.\n\nMr Trump Jr testified that his role in the company grew after his father, the Republican president, won the White House.\n\n\"We stopped reporting to my father on decisions in the business,\" he said.\n\nBoth Trump brothers became trustees of the company after his father took office in 2017, to avoid conflict-of-interest laws.\n\nWhen asked on Wednesday whether he had signed off his father's \"statement of financial condition\", Mr Trump Jr replied: \"Not that I can recall.\"\n\nThe afternoon in court proved mostly calm, aside from a few fiery exchanges between Mr Trump's lawyers and the New York attorney general's team near the end of questioning.\n\nProsecutors pressed Mr Trump Jr on whether he was involved in preparing financial statements for the company.\n\nHe said he had relied on others to \"put together a document of this nature\".\n\n\"The accountants worked on it. That's what we paid them for,\" he said.\n\nMr Trump Jr told the court the task belonged to longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg, who was also charged in this case and pleaded guilty last year to tax crimes.\n\n\"I had an obligation to listen to the people with intimate knowledge of those things,\" he said, adding that he \"relied\" on Weisselberg and his accounting team.\n\nNew York Judge Arthur Engoron, a Democrat, is presiding over the trial and has already found Mr Trump liable for inflating his assets to secure favourable loans.\n\nHours before his son took the stand, Mr Trump wrote on his Truth Social account: \"Leave my children alone, Engoron. You are a disgrace to the legal profession!\"\n\nThe judge last week fined the former president a total of $15,000 for twice breaching a gag order over comments he made about a court clerk.\n\nIvanka Trump was initially listed as a co-defendant in the case, before she was removed from the docket and compelled to testify as a witness.\n\nOn Wednesday, lawyers for Ms Trump appealed against the order to testify. She is expected to take the stand on 8 November.\n\nThe former president, who is the frontrunner to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024, is himself expected to testify on Monday.\n\nHe appeared in court last week to watch the testimony of his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who told the court one of his responsibilities at the Trump Organization was to \"reverse engineer\" assets to increase their value based on a number \"arbitrarily elected\" by Mr Trump.\n\nMr Trump is also facing four criminal prosecutions, including cases in Georgia and Washington DC in which he is accused of seeking to overturn his 2020 election defeat.", "Tata Steel's Port Talbot site in south Wales employs more than 4,000 workers\n\nUnions have claimed Tata Steel was planning to close the bulk of its operation at the UK's biggest steelworks.\n\nTata's announcement about the future of its Port Talbot plant was anticipated on Wednesday, but it is now not clear when its statement will be made.\n\nUnions have responded ferociously to the proposals after they were briefed by Tata officials.\n\nTata said it was not in a position to make a statement about its plans.\n\nPreviously the GMB said the company would have \"fired the starting gun on the death of UK steel\".\n\nGMB, along with Community and Unite, promised to oppose the plans with every means at their disposal.\n\nThe Labour MP for the area, Stephen Kinnock, said it would be \"utter madness\" to close the heavy end of the steelworks.\n\nHe told BBC Wales that a proper transition plan was needed: \"You need a bridge from where we are now to where we want to be.\n\n\"Instead of building a bridge with this proposal we were told was coming today, and I'm very glad that it hasn't, they weren't talking about building a bridge, they were talking about putting a load of dynamite under the bridge and blowing it up.\"\n\nUnite said it was planning a day of action in Port Talbot on Thursday to raise support for its plan to save the steel industry.\n\nThe union said more than 50 businesses and community groups would support Thursday's \"highly visible and vocal\" event, which aims to put pressure on politicians to support measures to back existing steel jobs.\n\nThe UK government previously announced £500m to keep open the Port Talbot site, which employs 4,000 people. Tata Steel employs 8,000 people across the UK.\n\nHowever, the money will see new electric arc furnaces replace existing blast furnaces, reducing the number of workers needed.\n\nThe company, which asked the government to provide further funds, is also investing £700m in the site.\n\nPort Talbot's steelworks is one of the biggest polluters in the UK, with its two existing blast furnaces working around the clock.\n\nThe new £1.25bn greener arc furnaces are expected to be operational within three years of getting regulatory and planning approval.\n\nThe UK government said the deal \"has the potential to safeguard\" more than 5,000 jobs across the UK.\n\nUp to 3,000 people could lose their jobs as a result of the deal\n\nBut the unions have criticised this plan, with GMB's national officer for steel, Charlotte Brumpton-Childs, saying: \"Tata must pull back from the brink, work with us to deliver a better outcome for their workforce and protect UK virgin steelmaking.\n\n\"If this plan remains unchanged, Tata and UK government have fired the starting gun on the death of UK steel.\"\n\nShe warned closing down facilities while supplying mills with foreign steel would \"put us on a collision course with massive industrial unrest\".\n\nThe unions also want Tata to wait for a report from consultant Syndex, which is looking at other options to decarbonise the steel industry.\n\nRoy Rickhuss, general secretary of the Community union, said: \"This is another kick in the teeth for Tata's loyal workforce and the Port Talbot community.\n\n\"The unions do not accept the closure of the heavy end and we continue to believe the blast furnaces are crucial to the transition to green steelmaking.\"\n\nHe added the unions would \"never accept\" the plan and would \"oppose it with everything we've got\".\n\nAlun Davies, also from Community, said staff had been left \"on tenterhooks\".\n\n\"All we want is meaningful consultation with the company,\" he said.\n\nAhead of the expected announcement Tata said it hoped to start formal consultation with staff representatives shortly.\n\nBut on Wednesday the firm said: \"Despite today's press commentary, we are not in a position to make a formal announcement about any proposals for a transition to a decarbonised future for Tata Steel UK.\n\n\"We hope to soon start a formal information and consultation process with our employee representatives, in which we would share more details about any such proposals.\n\n\"We believe our £1.25bn proposal to transition to green steel making will secure the business for the longer term, bolster UK steel security and help develop a green ecosystem in the region.\n\n\"We are committed to a meaningful information and consultation process with our trade union partners and will carefully consider any proposals put forward.\"", "\"We cannot keep dealing with this horrific meltdown of the British state while dodging stilettos from that [expletive].\"\n\nSo wrote Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson's most senior adviser in Downing Street, about the second most senior civil servant in the country during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHer name is Helen MacNamara.\n\nAnd yes - you guessed it - she is next up in front of the Covid inquiry, on Wednesday morning.\n\nWe already know what she thought about what it was like going to work at the time: \"What people probably never understood was just how testy and toxic and unpleasant it got as a place to work during those periods,\" she told Laura Kuenssberg's State of Chaos series.\n\n\"The sense from the political team that they thought the civil service wasn't up to much. There was an awful lot of wasted energy… on internal fights, and people not getting on with each other, at a time when we ought to have been really working well together,\" she added.\n\nPage one of the 115 pages of written evidence provided by Dominic Cummings - and now on the inquiry's website - rather pithily summarises a core reason for those \"fights\".\n\nJust ahead of a quote from the leader of - of all things - the Apollo space programme, Mr Cummings quotes from War and Peace: \"Nothing was ready for the war which everybody expected.\"\n\nQuite whether it is reasonable to say everybody expected a pandemic of the type that came is rather questionable - but it illustrates directly Mr Cummings' instincts on what he sees as systemic state failure.\n\nSo, Helen MacNamara will head into the Covid inquiry hearing room in Paddington in west London and will be asked what worked and what didn't, and why, as the government she was at the heart of dealt with the pandemic.\n\nIncidentally, Mr Cummings recounted in parliament more than two years ago what he claimed Ms McNamara had said to him at the beginning of the pandemic: \"I've been told for years there is a whole plan for this. There is no plan. We are in huge trouble.\"\n\nBereaved families protest outside the Covid inquiry in London\n\nLet's see, as she gives her evidence, if she acknowledges this.\n\nAs she does, yards away from her will be the bereaved: the loved ones of those who died.\n\nYou don't see them on camera if you've watched any clips from the inquiry. But, just along from where reporters are seated, they are there: many clutching laminated A4 photographs of their spouse or sibling or parent, each a victim of Covid.\n\nIt is as stark a reminder as possible of what this inquiry is all about: accountability and learning lessons. We already know that in spring 2020, senior government officials spoke to Buckingham Palace to express their concerns about Boris Johnson's conduct in office.\n\n\"The perception among the political team in No10 about the failings in the system, the failings of the civil service and the failings of different institutions was so extreme, Helen MacNamara has told the BBC. Their instinct, she claimed, was to \"smash everything up\".\n\n\"We were systematically in real trouble.\"\n\nWhat, then, in practical terms, does she think that meant for the government's response to the pandemic?\n\nHow much worse did this make what would be - under any circumstances - a massive challenge for any government at any time?\n\nWhat more will she say about the impact of the departure of her boss, the country's then most senior civil servant, Mark Sedwill, at the height of the pandemic? He and Dominic Cummings had a well-documented dreadful relationship.\n\nAnd will she also express the recurring view from witnesses this week that Boris Johnson wasn't up to be being prime minister during a pandemic?\n\nAnd what might she say about Rishi Sunak?\n\nBoth the prime minister and the prime minister before last will themselves appear before the inquiry before Christmas.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nIrene Paredes was unable to make her 100th appearance for Spain on Tuesday because of a \"computer error\", says head coach Montse Tome.\n\nThe Barcelona defender, 32, missed Spain's 7-1 win against Switzerland in the Women's Nations League.\n\nSpanish media reported the error meant a teamsheet from Spain's previous match, which Paredes missed, was submitted to Uefa.\n\nThe injured Amaiur Sarriegi was instead named on the official squad list.\n\n\"There was some kind of computer problem,\" said Tome.\n\n\"I was told about it at the hotel so I had to adapt to the situation. From there, we chose the 11 that you saw.\"\n\nParedes could still win her 100th cap when Spain face Italy in the Women's Nations League on 1 December.\n\nShe was expected to return against Switzerland after injury kept her out of Spain's 1-0 win over the Italians last week.\n\nOnly two players - Alexia Putellas and Jenni Hermoso - have played 100 times for Spain's women's team.\n\nPutellas scored twice against Switzerland, while women's Ballon d'Or winner Aitana Bonmati played 77 minutes.\n\nSpain lead their Nations League group with 12 points after four matches, five points ahead of Sweden.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "An investigation into a toxic culture in the RAF's Red Arrows display team has found predatory behaviour towards women was \"widespread and normalised\".\n\nExamples included unwanted physical contact, sexual texts, invitations to engage in sexual activity, and women being seen as \"property\".\n\nA \"bystander culture\" meant such behaviour went unchallenged, it found.\n\nChief of the air staff, Sir Richard Knighton, said he was appalled by the findings and \"unreservedly\" apologised.\n\nThe non-statutory inquiry was launched in 2021 after three women went to the then head of the RAF about complaints they had made which had not been addressed by their chain of command. The inquiry covers a period dating back to 2017.\n\nThe RAF admitted part of the problem may have been a view that members of the display team were \"special\".\n\nThe aerobatic display team performs striking routines on distinctive Hawk fast-jets and, by the beginning of 2023, had performed almost 5,000 displays in 57 countries.\n\nThe RAF said the \"high profile of the team, their regular exposure to VIPs, celebrities and an admiring public… promotes the view among some personnel that they are special and that normal rules and behaviours do not apply to them\".\n\nAir Chief Marshal Knighton offered his \"unreserved apologies\" to anyone who experienced unacceptable behaviour - and in particular the three women.\n\nHe admitted the reputation of the Red Arrows had been damaged as a result by a \"minority\", but said few of its leadership, air and ground crews from that time were still serving on the squadron.\n\nHe said there were no plans to disband the elite flying display team and that a change of culture, leadership and safeguards had been implemented to address the widespread and normalised \"unacceptable behaviours\" uncovered.\n\nThey included unwanted physical contact, unwanted text messages of a sexual nature, unwanted invitations to engage in sexual activity and \"male sexual entitlement\" towards women, who were \"being viewed as 'property' of either individuals or the squadron\".\n\nThere were two incidents of exposure of genitals, the RAF said.\n\nMany of the specific examples, along with all names, have been redacted.\n\nInvestigators were concerned the squadron was not a safe environment for women and that it was highly likely they would experience unlawful harassment because of their sex.\n\nThe RAF said many examples of sexual harassment were not challenged. The inquiry found there \"was a bystander culture... and an unwillingness to take action that could be viewed as unpopular\".\n\nIt noted a \"high propensity of extra marital relationships between serving personnel\" which may have contributed to a \"low opinion of female service personnel\".\n\nThe inquiry highlighted a drinking culture - with so called unacceptable behaviours by male members often fuelled by alcohol.\n\nAlcohol was seen as a mitigating factor but should have been treated as an aggravating factor, the RAF said.\n\nThe RAF said women had normalised the behaviour they experienced, and \"many said they had 'got used to it'\", with some modifying their own behaviour to reduce the risk of experiencing such actions.\n\nIt noted there was a sense of loyalty, with incidents dismissed because people did not want to ruin someone's career or disrupt the squadron.\n\nIt said: \"All of the females expressed their concern, without solicitation, that they were not showing moral courage by not speaking out and they could be enabling the situation to happen to other women, but they had to balance this against the reality that they felt likely to suffer a detriment on a day to day basis and they had worked hard to get where they were and they did not want to sacrifice their position.\"\n\nRobert Courts, chairman of the Defence Committee, said the inquiry findings showed there were \"serious cultural problems running deep within the unit\".\n\nHe said: \"It is particularly concerning that the investigators warn that the squadron was not a safe environment for females, concluding that it was 'highly likely' that women would be subject to illegal sexual harassment.\n\n\"No service personnel should be made to feel unsafe by their colleagues. These are the very people who should protect them.\"\n\nDeep-rooted problems still persist and must be urgently addressed, he said, adding the committee would be raising the issues in coming sessions.\n\nTwo pilots serving with the Red Arrows were dismissed from the team and the RAF following an initial investigation in 2022.\n\nFive other members of the team, which includes ground staff and totals 120 personnel, have faced \"administrative actions\".\n\nA separate military police investigation concluded that none of the allegations highlighted between 2017 and 2021 met the threshold for criminal charges.\n\nThe Red Arrows are based at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, having moved there in 2022 from RAF Scampton, also in Lincolnshire.", "De Niro is being sued for $12m in the gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit\n\nRobert De Niro shouted \"shame on you\" at his former assistant across a courtroom, as he rejected claims that he was an abusive and demeaning boss.\n\nThe star was speaking on the second day of a civil trial in which he and Graham Chase Robinson are suing each other.\n\nDe Niro insisted he was \"never abusive\" but admitted he could have called her a \"brat\" when he missed an appointment because she did not wake him up.\n\n\"I got angry that one time,\" he said, according to the Associated Press.\n\nThe Raging Bull and Taxi Driver actor accepted that he \"berated her\" on that occasion and was \"upset\" but not abusive.\n\nGraham Chase Robinson claims the actor treated her like an \"office wife\"\n\nIn testimony that was at times bad-tempered, De Niro dismissed Ms Robinson's suggestions that her time working for him was one of endless servitude, Deadline reported.\n\n\"She implies that she's out in front of the building on her knees scrubbing the floor,\" he said.\n\n\"There was never any lewdness or disrespect or weirdness that you're trying to imply,\" De Niro said, before looking at her and exclaiming: \"Shame on you, Chase Robinson!\"\n\nHe conceded that he had asked her to scratch his back once or twice when he had an itch in a spot he could not reach, but said \"it was never done with any disrespect\".\n\nAmong other things, Ms Robinson has also said he once asked her to deliver a martini from the Nobu restaurant to him in an Uber late at night.\n\n\"Might have been,\" De Niro replied, according to the Times, arguing that the use of an Uber was justified.\n\nWhen asked about calling her twice because he wanted her to buy his teenage son a bus ticket, the actor replied: \"So?\" He denied knowing she was at a family member's funeral at the time.\n\nMs Robinson became the actor's assistant in 2008, before being promoted to vice-president of production and finance at his company Canal Productions.\n\nShe left in 2019 and sued the double Oscar winner for $12m (£9.8m).\n\nMs Robinson claims he underpaid her because she's a woman, made sexist comments, treated her like an \"office wife\" and assigned her \"stereotypically female\" tasks like mending clothing and doing laundry.\n\nDe Niro told the court on Monday her allegations were \"all nonsense\".\n\nHe is suing Ms Robinson for $6m, accusing her of improperly transferring more than $450,000 in airline miles to her personal account, spending tens of thousands of dollars of company money on food, travel and other personal services, and binge-watching Netflix at work.\n\nHer lawyers have said his lawsuit is full of \"false allegations\". The New York trial is expected to last for two weeks.", "Significant damage: Courts have ruled there are no human rights defences to such protests\n\nThe co-founder of Extinction Rebellion has been convicted of causing £27,500 of damage after a four-year legal saga over protest rights.\n\nGail Bradbrook was unanimously found guilty of criminal damage to the Department for Transport in 2019 after a three-day trial.\n\nAt one stage, the judge warned he could use anti-jury tampering powers amid rows over what she could tell jurors.\n\nShe said she was silenced by the court - and will be sentenced next month.\n\nThe Extinction Rebellion mass demonstrations movement staged two major protests in London in 2019 - leading to thousands of arrests and a policing bill running to ten of millions after parts of the city were brought to a halt.\n\nDuring the second protest in October, Gail Bradbrook climbed onto an entrance canopy at the Department for Transport's headquarters.\n\nShe then used tools to break a large pane of reinforced security glass. The specialist glass cost £27,500 to replace because it had to meet specific security standards and had to be quickly replaced.\n\nBradbrook said she had specifically chosen to target the DfT because of the huge environmental damage that was being caused by the HS2 project.\n\nDuring her police interview, she said she was trying to stop crimes against humanity and \"had permission from nature\" to break the window.\n\nThe pandemic delayed her trial - and it was then put off amid a political row over the acquittal of protesters who had toppled the controversial Bristol statute of slave trader Edward Colston.\n\nProtest: Gail Bradbrook on top of the government building's entrance\n\nFollowing that case, the Court of Appeal ruled that the right to protest under human rights law could not be used to avoid conviction for violent demonstrations that cause significant damage.\n\nDuring the preparations for Gail Bradbrook's trial in July this year, the former scientist, who did not have a lawyer, said she intended to tell jurors that she could not be found guilty because of her right to freedom of expression and that she was also trying to prevent a greater crime of climate destruction.\n\nShe also argued that breaking the glass had been legally necessary and it was possible that government officials may have consented had they known why she was doing it.\n\nJudge Martin Edmunds KC ruled none of these arguments were valid legal defences that a jury could consider - but Dr Bradbrook then repeatedly tried to turn to them in her evidence, arguing that she was otherwise being silenced.\n\nThe judge stopped the hearing and gave a rare warning that he may have to decide the case alone under seldom-used powers originally drawn up to prevent gangsters influencing juries.\n\n\"It is evident that Dr Bradbrook, by reference to her beliefs, considers either that the rules that apply to every other criminal defendant do not apply to her or that she is entitled to disregard them,\" said the judge in his July ruling.\n\n\"Dr Bradbrook gave every appearance of seeking to engineer a situation where I was obliged to curtail her evidence in front of the jury and/or to commence contempt proceedings.\n\n\"The Crown [Prosecution Service] have given notice that, if there was an attempt at what they consider to be jury tampering, they may well make application... to seek a discharge of the jury and to seek a trial continued by judge alone.\"\n\nGail Bradbrook's trial was rescheduled for October - and she was banned again from reading out a 75-page on her beliefs and justifications for breaking the glass.\n\nThis time, when she began to tell the jury her reasoning, Judge Edmunds chose not to halt the trial - but instead intervened 15 times to stop her from breaching his ruling on admissible evidence.\n\nSupporters stood outside the court during the trial\n\n\"I admit I broke the window,\" she said. \"I intended to break the window. None of this is in dispute. I maintain I am not a criminal.\n\n\"I believed that I had a defence in law. The powers that be don't like it when people like me are acquitted and have made it more difficult.\"\n\nJudge Edmunds told her that the law had not been changed since she had been charged.\n\n\"You are clear about my rulings?\" he asked. \"This is a trial about criminal damage. It is not and can never be a platform for your general views which you are welcome to share elsewhere.\"\n\n\"I have a defence as a mother,\" she replied at one point.\n\n\"We operate on the basis of rules of relevance and inadmissibility,\" said the judge.\n\nBradbrook replied: \"To quote Gandhi, 'I have disregarded the order in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience'.\"\n\nDuring the three days of the trial, supporters sat outside the court holding placards telling jurors they had a right to acquit according to their conscience.\n\nOne demonstrator is currently facing a Contempt of Court hearing over a previous identical incident at another trial.\n\nGail Bradbrook will be sentenced on 18 December. The judge said that the starting point was 18 months in jail - but a suspended sentence was an option.\n\nThe XR founder has been separately convicted of breaking the window of a bank - a case that was been dealt with as a less serious matter.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate trial of eight environmental protesters who were accused of damaging the Treasury by spraying it with fake blood ended in acquittals.", "The online retailer Temu has had an advert banned for sexualising a child.\n\nIt showed a girl aged between eight and 11 wearing a bikini in a pose that \"was quite adult for a girl of her age\", the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said.\n\nIt banned four other adverts for showing sexual images and pictures which objectified women.\n\nTemu said the picture of the child violated their marketing policy and would not be shown again.\n\nIt disputed the other complaints but all were ruled to be inappropriate by the ASA.\n\nTemu is a Chinese-owned online marketplace where sellers can upload pictures of their products.\n\nThe sellers have to follow rules against using pornographic, obscene or harassing pictures.\n\nSince its UK launch earlier in 2023, Temu has become known for its wide range of products which are advertised at cheap prices.\n\nIt told the ASA that it has over a million photos uploaded to its Google Ads account but that it \"did not get to decide the specific products advertised,\" or where they were shown.\n\nThe images which received complaints included those of women's torsos in low-cut dresses, a grey jockstrap and padded cycling underwear.\n\nThe ASA ruled that the jockstrap emphasised \"the outline of the genitalia\" while the cycling shorts \"appeared as underwear with the bottom cut out\".\n\nThe pictures of the dresses, which did not show the models' faces, meant \"the women were presented as stereotypical sexual objects\".\n\nFurthermore, pictures of a facial roller and balloon ties \"were phallic in shape and appeared sexual in nature\" when shown alongside the other ads.\n\nThe ads were shown on a local news website, a chess website, a translation site and a puzzle app.\n\nTemu said that the pictures of the models with their faces cut off were not meant to objectify women and argued that other retail platforms showed similar photos.\n\nIt also argued that the pictures of the other objects were accurate representations of the products on sale.\n\nThe chess website and the news website said that they would not advertise Temu products again.\n\nThe ASA said it had told Temu to make sure its future adverts were \"prepared with a sense of responsibility to consumers and to society\".\n\nIt has also told the company that under-18s should not be shown in a sexual way and that ads should be responsibly targeted.", "A pilot has been rescued after spending nine hours in Florida's Everglades after his small plane crashed.\n\nThe Florida Everglades are the only waters where man-eating crocodiles share the same space as alligators.\n\nVideo shared by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue shows the man sitting on the plane's wing, while waiting to be rescued, before a helicopter came to his aid.\n\nThe man was taken to hospital and had minor injuries.", "Cdr Julian Bennett has been suspended on full pay since July 2020\n\nA senior Met Police officer who drew up the force's anti-drugs strategy has been sacked for refusing to provide a urine sample for cannabis testing.\n\nThe actions of Cdr Julian Bennett, who joined the Met in 1976, were found to have amounted to gross misconduct.\n\nHe was cleared by a three-person disciplinary panel of smoking the illicit substance.\n\nHis former flatmate Sheila Gomes accused him of using it daily before heading to work at New Scotland Yard.\n\nShe reported Mr Bennett in July 2020 and, in the presence of an assistant commissioner, he was asked to provide a sample.\n\nHe offered to resign on the spot instead, and asked for a meeting with then-commissioner Dame Cressida Dick.\n\nMark Ley-Morgan KC, representing the Metropolitan Police, said it would have smacked of \"organised corruption at the highest level\" if he had been allowed to resign on the spot.\n\nMr Bennett, who wrote the force's drugs strategy for 2017-21, said he had been taking CBD (cannabidiol) to treat facial palsy and was worried the sample would come up positive for an innocent reason.\n\nDuring the tribunal in Southwark, south London, his lawyer John Beggs KC branded Ms Gomes a \"liar\" and a \"fantasist\" who he said wanted to write a book about the claims and make money.\n\nBy failing to provide the sample, Mr Bennett, who has been suspended on full pay since July 2020, was found to have breached force standards for honesty and integrity, orders and instructions and discreditable conduct.\n\nPanel chairman Akbar Khan said: \"It is highly improbable the officer believed he had a good reason for failing to comply with a lawful order.\n\n\"Harm has undoubtedly been caused to the reputation of the Metropolitan Police Service.\"\n\nHe said Mr Bennett's behaviour was \"deliberate and intentional, seeking a personal advantage or special treatment from the commissioner\" and that he would have had a \"unique insight\" into what would have been a good reason.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Barbara Gray said: \"Julian Bennett's actions were deplorable. He was a senior officer and showed complete disregard and disrespect for the standards we must all uphold.\n\n\"The public will justifiably be outraged that any police officer, but particularly one of such a senior rank, refused a lawful order to take a drugs test.\n\n\"Cdr Bennett was highly experienced and knew full well what was required of him, yet he made a choice not to cooperate.\n\n\"He could have been in no doubt of the professional standards required as he was responsible for chairing the misconduct hearings of numerous officers between 2010 and 2016.\"\n\nFreedom of information requests showed Mr Bennett presided over 74 police misconduct hearings involving 90 officers between June 2010 and February 2012.\n\nOf the hearings involving Mr Bennett, more than three-quarters of officers were dismissed.\n\nMr Beggs KC has indicated that the gross misconduct finding would be appealed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Travel agents recorded the biggest rise in pay last year, up 21% in a year, official data shows, with public relations directors and publicans next on the list.\n\nSports coaches saw the largest fall and, overall, UK workers saw earnings fail to keep pace with rising prices.\n\nThe average full-time worker's annual wage was nearly £35,000 in April 2023, a rise of 5.8% on the previous year.\n\nBut the cost of living grew faster than wages over the same period.\n\nJobs, like travel agents and publicans, fared better than average, but that was likely to be part of a rebound after these roles were hit hard during Covid.\n\nTheir typical annual earnings were also still below the national average of all occupations.\n\nSean Tipton, from the travel agents trade body ABTA, said: \"During the pandemic, the travel industry was by far the worst affected. Business fell through the floor. Over 100,000 people left the travel sector.\"\n\nWhen demand from holidaymakers surged back, there was a shortage of workers in the industry, so companies offered higher wages, he said. Higher numbers of bookings meant they had the funds to increase pay.\n\nBBC News analysed the latest earnings figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to see which professions have managed to beat rising inflation rates, and which have not.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nTravel agents had the biggest pay rises, with the average wage going up by more than a fifth to around £29,600, but still below the national average of £35,000.\n\nPublic relations directors, publicans and directors have had pay bumps of more than 15% as well.\n\nOn the other hand, some jobs fared worse. Delivery operatives, interior designers and tax agents have had substantial pay cuts, even before accounting for inflation.\n\nWhile these figures are less timely than the most up-to-date pay figures released by the ONS, they provide a more granular view of the labour market.\n\nThe average full-time worker in the UK was earning £34,963 in the year to March 2023, about £1,900 or 5.8% more than the previous year. The increase in hourly wages was the biggest since comparable records began in 1997 - but unlikely to be higher than during some earlier periods during, for example, the 1970s.\n\nBut the inflation figure, or the rate at which the cost of goods and services has increased, for the year April to April, was even higher at 7.8%.\n\nThis means that in real terms, wages fell by 1.9% for full-time workers, a sign of the continued cost of living squeeze.\n\nThese numbers will not reflect the easing of inflation and further wage rises since April, for which detailed data is not yet available. According to more recent figures from the ONS, pay has already overtaken inflation in June to August 2023.\n\nThe gender pay gap, which charts the hourly earnings of men and women, has barely changed in all major sectors between 2022 and 2023, although it has improved over time.\n\nOver the last decade, the gender pay gap has fallen by about a quarter, reaching 7.7% for full-time workers by April 2023. However, it remains disproportionately high for workers aged 40 or over at 10.3%.\n\nWednesday's figures also reveal that the proportion of low-wage earners, that is, people who earn below two-thirds of the average hourly earnings, is the lowest since comparable records began in 1997.", "Israel's military has confirmed that its jets carried out an attack on Jabalia in Gaza.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry and a hospital director said at least 50 people were killed in the attack. Meanwhile, the Israeli military said the strike killed a senior Hamas commander and caused the collapse of Hamas's underground infrastructure.", "Five men who were part of grooming gang in Rochdale have been jailed for the \"sickening\" abuse of two teenage girls.\n\nMohammed Ghani, 39, Insar Hussain, 38, Jahn Shahid Ghani, 50, Martin Rhodes, 39, and Ali Razza Hussain Kazmi, 36, abused them between 2002 and 2006.\n\nThe girls would often be picked up outside school in their uniforms, Minshull Street Crown Court heard.\n\nJudge Tina Landale said the men were \"highly predatory\" and they had committed \"appalling abuse\".\n\nThe schoolgirls, known as Girl A and Girl B, were aged 13 and 14 when they were plied with alcohol, cannabis and ecstasy pills before being sexually assaulted.\n\nThe court heard that they were abused by various men, either together or on their own.\n\nThe girls were sexually assaulted in cars, public parks, on Saddleworth Moor and in flats and houses in Rochdale, the jury was told.\n\nGirl A said the abuse began after a chance meeting with Mohammed Ghani, of Bamford Way, Rochdale.\n\nThe jury heard he would have sex with the teenager then pass her on to his friends, where she was also pressured into multiple sexual encounters with men, one after the other.\n\nGhani was jailed for 14 years and six months after being found guilty of five counts of penetrative sex with a child.\n\nThe court heard his older brother, Jahn Shahid Ghani, of Whitworth Road, Rochdale, was described as a \"sex addict\" who gave Girl A up to 10 ecstasy tablets at a time and then had sex with her and another woman.\n\nHe was jailed for 20 years for causing a child to engage in sexual activity and four counts of penetrative sexual activity with a child.\n\nTheir friend Insar Hussain, of Bishop Street, Rochdale, was jailed for 17 years for rape and two counts of penetrative sex with Girl A.\n\nJahn Shahid Ghani was described as a \"sex addict\" who plied one girl with 10 ecstasy tablets before abusing her\n\nAli Razza Hussain Kasmi, of Brotherod Hall Road, Rochdale, was jailed for eight years for rape and two other sexual offences against Girl B.\n\nA fifth man, Martin Rhodes, of Dinmore Avenue, Blackpool, pleaded guilty to four counts of penetrative sex with a child, relating to both Girl A and Girl B, and was jailed for 12 years and six months.\n\nThe allegations only came to light in 2015 after Girl A described being \"beaten and raped\" while on a parenting course and police were contacted.\n\nShe told course workers: \"I was abused daily for six years.\n\n\"I was 12 when they began to abuse me, feeding me alcohol and drugs, abuse me and pass me on to their friends.\n\n\"They did as they pleased, they made videos of me to use as blackmail.\"\n\nAs a result of what she told the police, they spoke with Girl B, a childhood friend.\n\nJurors also found three other men - Ikhlaq Yousef, 38, of Stanley Street, Rochdale, Aftar Khan, 34, of Sparth Bottoms Road, Rochdale, and Mohammed Iqbal, 67, of Gainsborough Drive, Rochdale - not guilty of all the charges against them.\n\nAn NSPCC spokesperson said: \"The victims in this case have shown exceptional bravery in speaking out and pursuing justice.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Antisemitism in the US is reaching \"historic levels\" in the wake of violence in Israel and Gaza, FBI Director Christopher Wray has warned.\n\nSpeaking to a senate panel on Tuesday, Mr Wray said 60% of all religious-based hate crimes targeted Jewish people.\n\nHe added that the figure had likely increased amid anger caused by the ongoing violence in Gaza.\n\nOther countries, including the UK and France, have also warned of a recent major uptick in antisemitic incidents.\n\n\"This is a threat that is reaching, in some way, sort of historic levels,\" Mr Wray told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.\n\nHe added that although Jews make up only about 2.4% of the US public, they account for about 60% of all religious-based hate crimes.\n\n\"The Jewish community is targeted by terrorists really across the spectrum,\" he testified.\n\n\"This is not a time for panic, but it is a time for vigilance,\" Mr Wray continued. \"We shouldn't stop conducting our daily lives - going to schools, houses of worship, and so forth - but we should be vigilant.\"\n\nOfficials across the US and in other countries have noted a major increase in threats to Jewish people. On Tuesday, New York officials questioned a person after threats were made against Jewish pupils at Cornell University.\n\nOn Monday, the Biden administration announced that it was working to combat antisemitism and other hate speech on campuses by increasing communications with local, state and federal authorities.\n\nOffering examples of the threat faced by the Jewish community, Mr Wray cited a man who was arrested in Texas last week for trying to build a bomb and posting about his support for killing Jews, and another man who was arrested in Illinois for killing a six-year-old Muslim boy.\n\nThe security chief was appearing before the senate alongside Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, where the pair offered an analysis of the threat facing the US as the conflict continues.\n\nMr Wray said that the terror threat to Americans has been \"elevated throughout 2023\", but has risen again \"to a whole other level,\" after the 7 October Hamas attack.\n\nHe added that he was concerned that extremists will \"draw inspiration\" from the Hamas attack on 7 October.\n\n\"The actions of Hamas and its allies will serve as an inspiration the likes of which we haven't seen since ISIS launched its so-called caliphate years ago,\" he warned senators.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Sir Bobby is hailed as one of England's greatest footballers\n\nSir Bobby Charlton died after an accidental fall at a care home, an inquest has heard.\n\nThe England and Manchester United legend died aged 86 in Macclesfield General Hospital on 21 October.\n\nThe inquest at Cheshire Coroner's Court heard Sir Bobby was living in The Willows in Knutsford, a nursing home caring for patients with dementia.\n\nSenior coroner for Cheshire Jacqueline Devonish concluded his death was accidental.\n\nThe hearing was told Sir Bobby had lost his balance as he stood up from his chair, striking a window sill and \"possibly a radiator\".\n\nStaff performed a full-body check at the time and noted no visible injuries, and recorded his mobility seemed unaffected.\n\nBut they later noticed swelling on his back and paramedics were called to the centre, where he had been receiving respite care since July.\n\nTributes to Sir Bobby were left ahead of the Premier League match at Old Trafford on Sunday\n\nHe was then taken to a local hospital before being moved to Macclesfield General Hospital.\n\nA chest X-ray and CT scan revealed he had fractured his ribs and was likely to develop pneumonia, the inquest heard.\n\nDoctors then agreed Sir Bobby should be put on end-of-life care, dying five days later.\n\nThe inquest heard he had an extensive medical history and had also contracted Covid in September.\n\nCare home manager Tamara Simmons, said Sir Bobby \"needed support with all aspects of daily living\".\n\nThe coroner gave the cause of death as trauma in the lungs, a fall and dementia.\n\nFollowing the inquest, Karen Slater, associate operations director at MHA which owns the care home, said Sir Bobby had been living at the site for a short period of time.\n\n\"Staff at the home were very fond of Sir Bobby and cared for and supported him, as they do for all our residents,\" she said.\n\n\"Our deepest sympathies go to his widow Lady Norma Charlton and his family.\"\n\nWidely hailed as one of England's greatest ever players, Sir Bobby was a key figure in the Three Lions' 1966 World Cup victory.\n\nDuring a 17-year first-team career with United he won three league titles, a European Cup and an FA Cup.\n\nThousands of fans have left tributes at Old Trafford, with the area in front of the famous Trinity statue - where he is immortalised alongside team-mates George Best and Denis Law - flooded with memorabilia and flowers.\n\nPlans for a full memorial service later this month have also been unveiled.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPakistan has started to arrest Afghans as the country begins a nationwide crackdown on foreign nationals it says are in the country illegally.\n\nThousands of Afghans in Pakistan have made their way back to Afghanistan in the last two months. But many of them, who have called Pakistan home for decades, say they have nothing to go back to, while others say they are terrified to be heading back to the Taliban government.\n\nYou know you are getting closer to the border when the stream of trucks thickens. Faces old and young watch the road, sitting atop piles of furniture, firewood, cookers and air conditioning units that judder precariously as the vehicles weave through traffic on their way to Afghanistan.\n\nWe meet Abdullah at a petrol station in Punjab province. He has hired a truck to bring all 22 of his family members out of the country - 20 of them were born in Pakistan, he says.\n\n\"I initially came here when the Russian war started, I used to work in a brick kiln as a labourer. There are fewer job opportunities in Afghanistan,\" he tells the BBC.\n\n\"I am very sad about leaving my house. I can't express in words the pain I felt leaving it. Our house was made of mud, and we built it ourselves. I planted many trees there. My neighbours and friends were in tears [when I left] - It's the cruel government that is making us leave.\"\n\nAbdullah, who had a house in Punjab, left together with 22 family members\n\nIn the last two months around 200,000 Afghan nationals have already left Pakistan ahead of the 1 November deadline, according to the Pakistan government. The recent daily returnee figures are three times higher than normal, says the Taliban refugee ministry spokesman Abdul Mutaleb Haqqani.\n\nThe government says the first wave of deportations will target those without any documentation - adding that the policy is only aimed at those that are in the country illegally. UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency, has also reassured that the government will not take action against those with refugee cards.\n\nBut Abdullah says he has been targeted despite having an Afghan Citizen Card - an ID issued by the Pakistan government. He brandishes a plastic wallet and shows the cards for his entire family. According to the government's own website, this counts as an official document.\n\nHe says that despite this, the police raided his house and arrested his sons. The BBC could not independently verify this.\n\n\"The government says to go back, even though we have these cards. This level of problem has never happened in the past,\" Abdullah tells us.\n\nWe climb into the truck - sitting on top of tarpaulin bags of belongings are Abdullah's children, grandchildren and his wife. She didn't tell us her name, but can't stop crying.\n\n\"We have nothing,\" she says in tears.. \"We didn't do anything wrong; we used to work as labour and feed the family.\"\n\nPakistan is home to over four million Afghan migrants and refugees, about 1.7 million of whom are undocumented, according to authorities. As Afghanistan's neighbour, Pakistan has seen people travel across the border for safety for four decades, from the 1979 Soviet invasion through to the more recent return of the Taliban in 2021.\n\nHuman rights groups have criticised the deportation policy, including Amnesty international which pointed out that because of considerable delays in the registration process, many new arrivals in Pakistan have not been able to obtain recognised identity documents.\n\nIt called on the government to reverse its decision, saying that women and girls in particular would be put in \"grave danger\" if they returned.\n\nThe UNHCR is also concerned that certain groups of people, including minorities, journalists and women, could be at risk. They say they have received assurances from government officials that these groups will not be forced to return.\n\nThe organisation has issued slips to those that have approached them for help, in hopes the government will acknowledge them. Some we meet show us their printed slips hopefully, but for now these are not officially recognised by Pakistani authorities.\n\nDespite the criticism, Pakistan's government has forged ahead. Last week its interior minister announced plans to open centres around the country to help process detainees before deportation, saying that the elderly, children and women would be treated with extra care.\n\nThe Pakistan government has promised to take special care of Afghan children being deported\n\nWhen challenged, the government has pointed out that it is within its rights to follow its own laws. Furthermore its \"record of the last forty years in hosting millions of our Afghan brothers and sisters speaks for itself\", according to a foreign ministry spokeswoman.\n\nThe Taliban government has urged Pakistan to rethink its \"unacceptable\" move. The Afghan Ministry of Refugees intends to register returnees and house them in temporary camps, while the Taliban administration will try and find returnees jobs.\n\nBut there are worries about how thousands of deportees will impact the economy of a country that is already struggling.\n\nAfghanistan was pushed into economic collapse when the Taliban took over in 2021, and foreign funds that were being given to the previous regime were frozen. The unemployment rate more than doubled from the period immediately before the Taliban takeover to June 2023, according to the World Bank.\n\nUN agencies say around two-thirds of the population is in need of humanitarian aid.\n\n\"We've just had the earthquake which is impacting heavily on the situation in Afghanistan, and on top of that, winter is approaching so it's not the best season to have people going back to a country that is already in a very fragile situation,\" says Philippa Candler, UNHCR representative in Pakistan.\n\n\"We certainly don't want to see a worsening of the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan as a result of large numbers of people being forced to return.\"\n\nThe Taliban government announced an amnesty on those who worked for international forces, but there is still a strong sense of fear about what deportation could mean for many we spoke to.\n\nEarlier this year, a UN report said hundreds of former government officials and armed force members were allegedly killed despite assurances from the Taliban of an amnesty.\n\nOne woman who was an activist told us in phone messages that she had tried to hide after finding out that the Pakistan police had their details. She said some of her friends had tried to move to villages to give themselves some time.\n\nAfghan refugees in Pakistan have been streaming across the border into Afghanistan.\n\nAnother Afghan national -Rehman* - tells us he was part of theAfghan forces and left the country after he says he was beaten by members of the Taliban when they came to power.\n\n\"If I go back to Afghanistan, we face death,\" he says. \"Our lives are in danger. We are living here with one hope, that UNHCR might find a way.\"\n\nAs we sit, Rehman's little son curls up in his lap, flicking through his father's phone and occasionally looking up. His daughter watches carefully from the side.\n\n\"I am worried about the future of my children. There is no way for my daughter to study because we don't have legal documents,\" he says.\n\n\"We are here without any destiny and unknown future.\"", "Disney has announced that it will buy the remaining stake in streaming service Hulu, in a widely expected move.\n\nThe company said on Wednesday it would acquire the 33% stake it does not own from TV giant Comcast.\n\nThis would give Disney full ownership of the streaming service and the ability to incorporate it into its own Disney+ platform.\n\nDisney has been locked in battle with other streamers as profits have fallen.\n\nCompleting its takeover of Hulu is expected to cost some $8.6bn (£7bn), Disney said in a statement.\n\nBut it added that the move would \"further Disney's streaming objectives\" as it sought to boost subscriber numbers.\n\nIn the US, the entertainment giant already sells Hulu as part of bundled offerings with its Disney+ and ESPN+ platforms.\n\nIn the UK, some Hulu content is already available to watch via the Disney+ app, such as The Kardashians and The Bear.\n\nThe price tag reflects a \"guaranteed floor value\" for the streaming service that was established when California-based Disney took over Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox in a huge deal in 2019, along with a majority stake in Hulu.\n\nUnder an agreement between Disney and Comcast that year, both firms had the right to force a sale of Comcast's stake in Hulu - and executives have been vocal about wanting to do a deal.\n\nBut at a conference this year, Comcast chief executive Brian Roberts described Hulu as a \"scarce kingmaker asset\", which was \"way more valuable today\" due to its hits like the series Only Murders in the Building.\n\nDisney said on Wednesday that it hoped the deal would be concluded by 1 December although negotiations with Comcast, NBC Universal's parent company, are ongoing.\n\nIn the announcement, Disney said that if the current value of Hulu was determined to be greater than the guaranteed price, it would pay NBC Universal the difference.\n\nHulu currently has about 48.3 million subscribers, in comparison with Disney's 146.1 million globally.\n\nThe boss of Disney, Bob Iger, told investors in August that the company was moving towards having one app in the US where it could combine content from its various brands.\n\nSince economies have reopened from pandemic-related lockdowns, competition for audience attention has been fierce.\n\nDisney reported in August that profits continued to fall as it faced a raft of issues including lacklustre film performance and a sharp drop in advertising sales in its traditional television business.\n\nOverall, revenue at the company grew by 4% year on year in the three months ending 1 July, but it posted a loss of $460m, compared with a $1.4bn profit in the same period last year.\n\nAlongside Disney, other streamers have been weighing up how to generate cash and crack down on password-sharing.\n\nThe film and television sector has also seen some productions paused by strikes in the US, slowing down the turnaround of the new content needed to hook audiences.\n\nA senior Disney creative behind films like Frozen recently told the BBC that the actors' strike could halt animation production later this year.", "British authorities failed to act on multiple official warnings about a website promoting suicide that has been connected to at least 50 UK deaths, the BBC has found.\n\nThe online forum, which we are not naming, is easily accessible to anyone on the open web, including children.\n\nOur investigation has identified multiple warnings to government by coroners and a number of police investigations, but the forum still remains active.\n\nFamilies of the dead, the youngest just 17, say the failure to act led to more avoidable deaths. They are demanding an inquiry.\n\nThey're speaking out, despite the risks others may find the forum, because they want action now to shut it down and prevent deaths in the future.\n\nThe forum's founders remain elusive, but during our investigation we managed to track one of them down to his home in the US.\n\nThe government was first warned by a coroner about the forum in December 2019.\n\nCallie Lewis had been assessed as being autistic at a young age and struggled with chronic depression and suicidal thoughts.\n\nCallie spent just over a month as a forum member. She researched a new suicide method and bought materials which she later used to end her life.\n\n\"Without those forums, I think my daughter would have struggled to find the information that she was looking for about how to die,\" Callie's mother Sarah told the BBC at the time.\n\nThe inquest into Callie's death highlighted the role the forum had played.\n\nAfter an inquest, coroners have a duty to ask public bodies, companies and individuals to explain what steps they plan to take to prevent a similar death taking place in the future.\n\nThis is called a Prevention of Future Death report. However, it is advisory only, and doesn't lay down what action should be taken.\n\nThe senior coroner in charge in Central and SE Kent, Patricia Harding, wrote to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, raising concerns.\n\n\"Callie was enabled by the advice provided through the forum to frustrate a mental health assessment and thereafter take her life,\" Ms Harding wrote.\n\n\"In my opinion, action should be taken to prevent future deaths and I believe you have the power to take such action.\"\n\nPeople known to have visited the forum before taking their lives - L-R from top row: Beth Matthews, Aaron Jones, Imogen Nunn, Josh Hendy, Zoe Lyalle, Jay Barr, Laura Campbell, Jason Thompson, Rose Paterson\n\nWe have discovered that at least six coroners have written to government departments demanding action to shut the forum down.\n\nCollating inquest reports, press articles and posts on the forum itself, we have identified at least 50 UK victims.\n\nWe have learned that at least five police forces are aware of the forum, and have investigated deaths linked to it, but have been unable to take action.\n\nThe forum is hosted abroad and is well known among those struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts. It has more than 40,000 members worldwide. More than two million messages have been posted, many of them horrifyingly graphic.\n\nOnly last month, a post on the forum showed an image of a package that arrived by courier, apparently poison, ordered by a child in another country.\n\n\"It arrived while I was at school,\" they wrote. \"I called my mum and told her not to open it. I'm going to use it today.\"\n\nAnother user posted a photograph of his hotel bedroom, with equipment set up ready for a suicide attempt.\n\nOther forum members offer encouragement to these kinds of posts.\n\n\"Good luck. I hope it works out well and you go peacefully,\" writes one user. \"Godspeed,\" says another.\n\nThe problem for the authorities is that the website is hosted anonymously and no-one knows who is currently running it.\n\nBut the BBC did manage to track down one of those who created it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLamarcus Small helped set up the forum after a similar pro-suicide thread was banned from the social media forum and discussion site Reddit.\n\nSmall lives in the suburbs of Huntsville, a city in the US state of Alabama. Something of a recluse, he rarely comes out of his house.\n\nWe waited three days to speak to him.\n\nSmall has claimed in the past to no longer be involved in the forum. When confronted, he refused to answer any of our questions.\n\n23-year-old Joe Nihill from Leeds found the forum in April 2020.\n\nJoe spent a month online, exchanging messages from other forum users, being coached on the most effective way to die.\n\nJoe even left a note to his family, spelling out how dangerous the forum had been for him. \"Please do your best to close that website for anyone else,\" he wrote.\n\n\"The government are failing people. The police are failing people\" says Joe's sister-in-law Melanie.\n\n\"It's a joke,\" interjects Joe's mother Catherine. \"The government knew about this five years ago. Why are we still here? Are we supposed to just leave this and let them continue?\"\n\nKevin McLoughlin, Senior Coroner for West Yorkshire (East) wrote to the Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC).\n\nThe forum, he said, \"may be actively promoting a particular method of committing suicide and hence breaking the criminal law by assisting suicide. Consideration should be given to blocking its availability in the UK so as to negate this risk.\"\n\nFormer Home Secretary Sajid Javid told us he thought the website was \"poisonous\" and clearly designed to prey on \"incredibly vulnerable\" people.\n\nMuch of the content was, in his view, illegal - he said - and he called on the police and regulator Ofcom to investigate.\n\nLee Cooper blames the website for his brother Gary's suicide\n\nFamilies of those who have died want to know why more hasn't been done.\n\nImogen Nunn was a deaf mental health campaigner who had hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok.\n\nBut despite her positive messages on social media, \"Deaf Immy\" as she was known, continued to struggle with her own mental health.\n\nShe found the forum in November 2022 and ended her life three months later.\n\nHer mother Louise told us: \"When will something be done about it, how many lives have got to be lost?\"\n\nLee Cooper, whose brother Gary found the forum and took his own life last July, said: \"If it was shut down five years ago, hundreds of people would still be alive. If it was shut down a year ago, my brother would still be alive.\"\n\nThe forum also received attention from police in the UK after the death of 22-year-old Tom Parfett - in Surrey in October 2021.\n\nTom had bought poison from Kenneth Law, a well-known Canadian seller whose details were widely shared on the forum.\n\nWhen Law was arrested in May this year, Canadian police discovered that he had shipped the same poison to hundreds of buyers around the world.\n\nHe is now awaiting trial, facing multiple charges of counselling or aiding suicide.\n\nWelfare checks were carried out, coordinated by the UK's National Crime Agency. It confirmed that 88 people had died in the UK alone.\n\nOur research suggests almost all the 88 probably found Kenneth Law through the same online forum.\n\nThere is likely to be considerable overlap with the 50 we have positively identified, who we know used the site, but didn't necessarily buy from Law.\n\nWe even found one of the forum's administrators advising users on how to evade welfare checks by police looking for poison shipped by Law.\n\nKenneth Law has been charged in connection to two deaths in Canada, but police believe there may be more victims\n\n\"Don't put it in plain sight,\" they wrote. \"Don't let them into your house without a search warrant. You don't need to talk to the police.\"\n\nWhile Law's own websites have been removed, the forum remains up - and users can now find details of alternative suppliers and suicide methods.\n\nThe National Crime Agency has begun an investigation into Law to see if any criminal offences have been committed in the UK.\n\nThe Agency has said it will \"explore every avenue\" and has not ruled out looking into the forum too.\n\nThe UK government says that the Online Safety Bill, due to receive royal assent shortly, should address many of these issues.\n\nWhen it becomes law, the Online Safety Act will include a new criminal offence of encouraging self harm and force platforms to remove that kind of content when it is reported to them.\n\nThe DHSC told us it has pledged to reduce England's suicide rate within two and a half years with a new national suicide prevention strategy, \"backed by more than 100 measures including a national alert system\".\n\nThe Samaritans told us the act should go some way to improve safety. However, Jacqui Morrissey from the mental health charity has misgivings.\n\n\"It fails to reach its full potential to save lives,\" she says. \"Dangerous suicide and self-harm content will continue to be accessible to anyone over the age of 18.\"\n\n\"I don't believe the Online Safety Bill will resolve this problem,\" he said. \"It's too weak. It will not lead to change. And consequently, people will still be dying.\"\n\nThe suicide forum recently added an announcement to its front page saying it would not be complying with the UK's Online Safety Bill. It also posted that going forward it would block or ignore demands for censorship from foreign governments.\n\nOfcom - which will take on the role of digital regulator once the act becomes law - says it would be a serious concern if companies say they are going to ignore the law, and adds that it will have a \"broad range of enforcement powers\".\n\nSites and apps will have to take steps to stop users from coming across illegal material, and Ofcom says that platforms will have to \"act swiftly to remove these kinds of videos or posts when they become aware of them\".\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The World Health Organization says it is extremely concerned by reports of air strikes in the vicinity of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in the last two days.\n\nThe hospital, which is located south of Gaza City, is the main cancer centre in the Gaza Strip.\n\nThe Israeli military told the BBC that it had not stuck the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital. It did not deny that there may have been strikes in the area.\n\n\"Services have been severely reduced because of cut-off electricity and restricted entry of medicines, other medical supplies, fuel and water. It is currently sheltering internally displaced people,\" the WHO wrote in a post on X on Tuesday .\n\nWHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: \"Cancer patients are already fragile, and it's imperative to do everything possible to ensure they're receiving the care they need. It’s truly a matter of life or death.\"\n\nThe BBC has verified a video circulated on social media on Monday evening in which a cloud of smoke can be seen outside the hospital and an explosion can be heard.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza circulated on Tuesday photographs that it said showed some damage to the interior of the hospital.\n\nThe Hamas-run Gaza health ministry published photographs which it said shows damage inside the hospital Image caption: The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry published photographs which it said shows damage inside the hospital", "Sam Bankman-Fried struggled to account for the management of his now-bankrupt crypto exchange, FTX, as his fraud trial neared its conclusion on Tuesday.\n\nProsecutors in New York finished questioning the 31-year-old, who made the risky decision to take the stand in his own defence.\n\nThe former billionaire is accused of stealing billions of dollars from FTX customers and lying to investors and lenders.\n\nHe has denied the charges.\n\nBut he is facing the task of convincing a jury to discount weeks of evidence they heard from his former top deputies, including his ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison, who have already pleaded guilty and were testifying against him to reduce their sentences.\n\nProsecutors have tied Mr Bankman-Fried to decisions that allowed the crypto trading firm he owned, Alameda Research, to take billions of dollars deposited at FTX. He is accused of spending the money to repay lenders, buy property, and make investments and political donations.\n\nProsecutors say he tried to hide the transfers between the two firms and their close relationship - and have buttressed their allegations with text messages, spreadsheets and tweets.\n\nWhen FTX went bankrupt last November, Alameda owed the company $8bn (£6.58bn), money prosecutors say had been taken from customers.\n\nThe court heard earlier in the trial from Ms Ellison that Alameda ultimately took about $14bn (£11.4bn) from FTX clients, using it for investments and repaying lenders.\n\nDuring his testimony, which started last Thursday, Mr Bankman-Fried expressed a mix of defiance, regret and frustration at comments and actions he felt were being taken out of context.\n\nOn Tuesday, he told the court that he thought it was \"permissible\" for Alameda to spend FTX customer funds but had not been aware until October 2022, just a few weeks before the bankruptcy, that the company had actually done so.\n\n\"I deeply regret not taking a deeper look into it,\" he said.\n\nProsecutor Danielle Sassoon pressed Mr Bankman-Fried to explain why he had not tried to understand what was happening between Alameda and FTX by June 2022, when it appeared at one point that the trading firm had gone bankrupt.\n\nHe said that he had \"trusted\" that his former friends and deputies had the situation under control.\n\n\"I was told they were busy and should stop asking questions,\" he said.\n\nMr Bankman-Fried has maintained that he was far more absent from decision-making than his friends had suggested, saying he could not recall, for example, going over spreadsheets that had been presented to him.\n\nHe has said Ms Ellison failed to \"hedge\" bets to better protect Alameda from a downturn in the market, as he had instructed her to do. But he acknowledged that he did not take action in response to the failure.\n\n\"I wasn't particularly interested in trying to dole out blame,\" he said, in explaining his decision not to fire anyone. \"It generally wasn't something I tried to prioritize as a leader.\"\n\nAt times during Ms Sassoon's questions, Mr Bankman-Fried appeared visibly restless, blinking furiously and shifting back and forth, responding with curt \"yeps\".\n\nQuestioned by his own attorney, Mark Cohen, he was more expansive.\n\nUnder questioning from Mr Cohen, he said that he had stepped back from Alameda after handing off the chief executive role and was \"essentially uninvolved\" in core operations like day-to-day trading.\n\nMr Bankman-Fried finished testifying around mid-day and the jury was dismissed, while the judge conducted a hearing with lawyers from the two sides on what instructions he will give to the jury.\n\nThe entrepreneur has pleaded not guilty to seven federal charges including wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering and could face a life sentence in prison if convicted.\n\nMr Bankman-Fried's defence team has argued he was following \"reasonable\" business practices, as his companies grew rapidly.\n\nAfter the collapse of his companies last year, he admitted in media interviews, including with the BBC, to managerial mistakes but said he never intended fraud.\n\nClosing arguments are expected to start on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sam Bankman-Fried denies claims he knew FTX customer money was used for risky financial bets", "We've just heard from our correspondent Anthony Zurcher in Ireland, where the US secretary of state's plane is refuelling on the way to Israel.\n\nHis arrival come just hours after the country's president, Michael D Higgins, made a vocal intervention warning against the \"collective punishment\" of people living in Gaza.\n\nHiggins called on the European Union and the broader international community to put an end to the conflict, saying they have a responsibility of upholding and vindicating international law.\n\n\"The ongoing horrific loss of civilian life in Gaza and Israel has to be addressed,\" Higgins said in a statement. \"When it comes to the protection of children, no other issues should stand in the way for even a minute.\"\n\nHis statement criticised the targeting of hospitals in particular, saying it is \"simply unacceptable that hospitals and those being cared for within them are threatened by the basic lack of resources, damaged or indeed threatened with destruction\".\n\nHe concluded that if the world is to move past this conflict, a consistent, diverse body of proposals on the region's future should be put forward.\n\nThe proposals, he says, are \"ones that can deliver a reasonable security to citizens of Israel, and at the same time achieve the delivery of the long-neglected rights of the Palestinian people\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKing Charles has acknowledged the \"abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence committed against Kenyans\" during their independence struggle.\n\nOn his state visit to Kenya, the King addressed the \"wrongdoings\" of Britain's colonial era.\n\nHe told a state banquet in Nairobi of his \"greatest sorrow and regret\" and that there was \"no excuse\".\n\nBut the King did not deliver a formal apology - which would have to be decided by government ministers.\n\nIn response, Kenya's President William Ruto praised the King's courage for addressing such \"uncomfortable truths\".\n\nThe Kenyan head of state told the King that colonial rule had been \"brutal and atrocious to African people\" and that \"much remains to be done in order to achieve full reparations\".\n\nAhead of the King's state visit to Kenya, the first to a Commonwealth country since the start of his reign, there had been speculation about a symbolic royal apology.\n\nBut if the King stopped short of an apology, his speech in Kenya's State House was a significant and strongly-worded recognition of the wrongs committed under colonialism.\n\nAs Kenya marks its 60th anniversary of independence, the King told his audience: \"It matters greatly to me that I should deepen my own understanding of these wrongs, and that I meet some of those whose lives and communities were so grievously affected.\"\n\nThe King and Queen were hosted by President William Ruto for a banquet in Nairobi\n\nIn particular in Kenya there are memories of the suppression of the Mau Mau uprising, in which thousands were killed and tortured in the 1950s before independence.\n\nA decade ago the UK government voiced its \"regrets that these abuses took place\" and announced payments of almost £20m to more than 5,000 people, in what it called a \"process of reconciliation\".\n\nMonarchs have to speak on the advice of ministers and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has already rejected calls for an apology on the separate issue of slavery.\n\nThe lack of an apology on this trip might have disappointed some Kenyans like David Ngasura of the Kenyan Talai clan.\n\nHe has written letters to the Royal Family seeking an apology and reparations - and in response Buckingham Palace referred his request to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.\n\nIf there are concerns an apology would be interpreted as an admission of liability and lead to legal claims, the Kenyan survivors of the colonial government's excesses argue it would help bring healing and closure.\n\nKing Charles, who delivered a strong acknowledgement of the \"most painful times of our long and complex relationship\", told his audience that the friendship between Britain and Kenya could be strengthened by \"addressing our history with honesty and openness\".\n\nHis comments went further than a speech in Rwanda last year where he spoke of \"the depths of his personal sorrow\" at the suffering caused by the slave trade.\n\nPart of the King's speech in Kenya was delivered in Swahili, as he toasted the connections between the countries and remembered the affection his late mother felt for the Kenyan people.\n\nOn this first day of the state visit, King Charles had a meeting with President Ruto, visited an urban farm and met young Kenyan tech entrepreneurs.\n\nThe King also visited a museum dedicated to Kenya's history and its battle of independence.\n\nThe Royal Family, particularly on visits to Commonwealth countries, have increasingly faced questions about the legacies of colonialism and slavery, with calls for apologies and reparations.\n\nThe King visited an urban farming project that reused waste land\n\nThe King was shown a museum with a display on \"colonial oppression\"\n\nEarlier this year, Buckingham Palace said it was supporting independent historical research to examine royal connections to the slave trade.\n\nBut newly-published research has revealed a complex picture in royal attitudes towards slavery, with the royal family of the early 1800s divided over abolishing slavery.\n\nThe future William IV was a strong pro-slavery advocate, while his cousin the Duke of Gloucester was a leading light of the campaign for abolition.\n\nIn the next few days, the state visit to Kenya will focus on ways in which Britain and Kenya are working together, including in tackling climate change and encouraging opportunities and employment for young people.\n\nThere will also be a meeting with faith leaders who will talk about building links between communities.\n\nYou can see more royal stories each week in the free BBC Royal Watch newsletter - sign up here from within the UK. or here, from outside the UK.", "Strike action has closed schools in four council areas as staff walked out in a dispute over pay.\n\nThe one-day walk-out by some council workers in Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire and Inverclyde follows a three-day strike in September.\n\nCouncil body Cosla has argued that a bigger pay rise is unaffordable.\n\nNon-teaching staff involved in the dispute include catering, cleaning, pupil support, administration and janitorial workers.\n\nAs a general rule, primary schools in the four areas will be closed but some secondary schools will be open to S4, S5 and S6 students. Full details are on council websites.\n\nFor a number of pupils, this could be the 12th day they have lost to strike action within a year.\n\nSome lost as many as eight days in school because of the teachers' strike between November and March, before they then lost a further three days when Unison staged a three-day strike across most of Scotland in September.\n\nThere will also be disruption to council-run nurseries.\n\nMore action is planned for four other council areas next week - South Lanarkshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Edinburgh and Fife.\n\nThe pay offer from Cosla would see the lowest-paid workers get a rise of about £2,000 a year while other staff would get rises worth at least 5.5%.\n\nMembers of the two other main council unions - Unite and the GMB - voted to accept this offer but Unison have argued that a better deal is possible.\n\nThe strike began in four local authority areas on the morning after Halloween\n\nEarlier this month, Unison Scotland's head of local government Johanna Baxter said: \"The strength of feeling amongst Unison's 91,000 local government members, who voted overwhelmingly to reject Cosla's latest pay offer, is clear. They are determined to continue to fight to get an improved pay offer.\"\n\nCosla previously stated that the proposal was \"as far as local government can go\".\n\nCouncil leaders from across Scotland are due to decide on Friday whether to implement this offer despite Unison's opposition.\n\nOne argument in favour of doing this is that staff will receive their pay rise - including money backdated to April - in time for Christmas.\n\nBut it also risks escalating the dispute with Unison which is expected to announce more strikes within the next few days.\n\nUnison is also warning that it could ballot other council workers - such as refuse collectors - to see if they would also be prepared to go on strike.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "One in 10 county councils in England is facing effective bankruptcy - putting vital services at risk, local government leaders have warned.\n\nIn September Birmingham City Council was forced to slash spending after declaring itself effectively bankrupt.\n\nMore local authorities fear they could be next, according to a survey by the County Councils Network.\n\nThey are calling for emergency funding from the government to stave off financial collapse.\n\nThe government said it had already made £5.1bn extra available to local authorities for 2022/23 - and was ready to talk to any council concerned about its financial position.\n\nLabour-run Birmingham City Council faces a bill of up to £760m following equal pay claims and a flawed IT system that spiralled over budget, leading to questions about the council's governance.\n\nHowever, local government leaders are warning other, \"well-managed\" county councils could follow suit.\n\nAs well as increased funding, councils are calling for longer-term budget settlements to allow them to plan their finances.\n\nSoaring inflation has driven up costs and many councils are facing an increase in demand for the services they provide - such as adult social care, education and highways.\n\nCounty councils are forecasting they will overspend their budgets in 2023/24 by £639m this year - an average of £16m per council.\n\nGrowing demand for children's services - including care placements for vulnerable children and foster care - accounts for almost half of the projected overspend.\n\nDerbyshire County Council has seen a quarter increase in children in their care since March 2020\n\nThe County Councils Network, which represents some of England's largest local authorities, surveyed its members and found one in 10 are not sure they can balance their budgets in this financial year.\n\nThe BBC has contacted dozens of councils - at both district and county level and led by all parties - that have previously been reported to be facing financial pressures or have high debt loads.\n\nAll were confident of balancing their budgets and avoiding a Section 114 notice, which means the council is effectively bankrupt and cannot commit to any new spending other than for essential services required by law.\n\nSome councils told the BBC their finances are in good shape - but others said they are facing intense pressure on their budgets and making difficult decisions on spending.\n\nThe Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead said it was introducing \"emergency controls of non-essential spending\", while Hampshire County Council said its budget was \"stretched to breaking point\".\n\nStoke-on-Trent City Council said that without an overhaul in funding it would \"not be able to sustain services\", while Coventry City Council said it was facing a \"devastating\" financial crisis and that \"local government stands on the precipice of financial disaster\".\n\nBarry Lewis, vice-chairman of the County Councils Network, said: \"Last year the chancellor stepped in with much-needed additional resources for adult social care.\n\n\"We now need the same priority to be given to vulnerable children, providing emergency funding this year and next.\"\n\nHe said Birmingham's recent financial difficulties - which led to it issuing a Section 114 notice - were \"undoubtedly made worse by the council's performance and governance\".\n\nBut he added: \"Unless we act now, this analysis shows that other well-managed councils are running out of road to prevent insolvency.\"\n\nThe organisation said its members, which cover almost 27 million people in England, had already identified more than £2bn of \"challenging\" spending cuts over the next three years.\n\nBut a legal obligation to provide certain services such as care for adults and children for which demand and costs are \"spiralling\" meant there was little \"wriggle room\" to bring down costs further.\n\nThe survey of its 41 members found one in 10 were not sure they could balance the books this financial year, with that number rising to six in 10 in two years' time.\n\nCouncils have been raising concern about financial pressures for some time, but across the sector there are increasing warnings that the system is becoming unsustainable.\n\nEarlier this month, the Local Government Association wrote to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, outlining a £4bn funding gap over the next two years.\n\nThe District Councils Network, which represents hundreds of smaller authorities, said \"cherished local services\", including those which support vulnerable people, would disappear in a \"growing financial crisis\".\n\nJonathan Carr-West, chief executive of the Local Government Information Unit think tank, said: \"Council finances are in a really precarious position. We've seen this over more than a decade.\n\n\"There have been some well-publicised failures in places like Birmingham, Thurrock, Slough and Woking, but our research shows even if councils haven't got to the point where they're issuing Section 114 notices saying they can't balance the books, even the councils that aren't there yet are very anxious that they're on that pathway.\n\n\"We need to ask tough questions about governance and decision-making, but we've also seen the overall precarity of council finances has meant that where mistakes are made there's no resilience to cope with them and I think we're seeing more and more well-run councils telling us they're moving much closer to the edge.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said: \"We continue to monitor pressures on all councils and we stand ready to talk to any council that is concerned about its financial position.\n\n\"Councils are ultimately responsible for the management of their own finances, but the government has been clear that they should not take excessive risk with taxpayers' money. We have established the Office for Local Government to improve the accountability for performance across the sector.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Ealing Council said Ealing Central Library had to close on Monday after the insects were found in furnishings\n\nA west London library has closed temporarily after bedbugs were found.\n\nEaling Council said Ealing Central Library closed on Monday after the insects were discovered in the furnishings.\n\nThe council said although it was deemed safe for the public, it closed due to concerns from staff and library users.\n\nA spokesperson for the authority said it planned to reopen the library on Thursday, once measures had been taken to get rid of the insects.\n\nIt comes after widespread panic of bedbugs infesting London after a widely-reported outbreak in Paris.\n\nIn Paris, the insects were reported in schools, trains, hospitals and cinemas.\n\nLast month, London mayor Sadiq Khan reassured Londoners that everything was being done to prevent an outbreak, including disinfecting the Tube train furnishings daily.\n\nA council spokesperson said: \"The technical advice was that it was safe for both the public and staff to reopen the library - both in terms of controlling and preventing the spread of the infestation and in relation to the chemicals used to treat furniture.\n\n\"However, the council recognised that library users and staff had concerns and decided that temporarily closing the library was the right course of action.\"\n\nThe council said the library would reopen once a \"full course of treatment\" had been applied by its contractors.\n\nThe chemicals used were safe for people of all ages, the authority added.\n\n\"The council will continue to monitor the situation and take preventative measures to ensure that the issue has been fully resolved, and that everything is being done to prevent its recurrence,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nNewcastle United claimed their second Old Trafford victory over Manchester United since 1972 to avenge their Carabao Cup final defeat at Wembley and pile the pressure on home manager Erik ten Hag.\n\nFirst-half goals from substitute Miguel Almiron and Lewis Hall, his first for the club, were followed up by a solo effort from Joe Willock on the hour to give Newcastle their biggest away win over their hosts in 93 years as they cruised into the quarter-finals.\n\nNewcastle will travel to Stamford Bridge to take on fellow Premier League side Chelsea, who beat Blackburn 2-0 in the fourth round.\n\nIt was another desperate day for Manchester United and Ten Hag, who have lost eight of their opening 15 games for the first time since the 1962-63 season.\n\nComing just three days after they suffered another three-goal home humiliation at the hands of Manchester City, the home side's weaknesses were again cruelly exposed.\n\nDiogo Dalot was replaced at half-time following his failure to track Almiron's right-wing burst for the opener.\n\nReturning Brazilian midfielder Casemiro did not re-appear for the second-half either with Ten Hag evidently unimpressed by the former Real Madrid man.\n\nHall struck a fine second as he met Harry Maguire's headed clearance with a first-time volley. Willock's effort emulate Hall's by finding the bottom corner after he had been allowed to run 30 yards unchecked before shooting after Sofyan Amrabat had lost possession on the halfway line.\n\nIn a week where the size of their kit has been questioned, Manchester United's players could have done with shirts big enough to cover their heads as, for the second game running, they were booed off at the end of both halves.\n• None Ten Hag vows to 'fight on' - but 'questions' grow for Man Utd boss\n\nManchester United's collapse in form since they beat Newcastle at Wembley in February to end a near six-year trophy drought has been stunning.\n\nTen Hag lost six of his first 40 games in charge up to that EFL Cup final success. They have lost 13 of 36 since. They have lost consecutive home matches by three goals or more for the first time since October 1962.\n\nAs was the case with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer two seasons ago, the downturn has been totally unexpected given his side finished third last season and reached the FA Cup final in addition to their trophy success.\n\nTen Hag has spent in excess of £350m over three transfer windows. Five of his signings started the game and six finished it. None emerged with any real credit, although it could be argued goalkeeper Andre Onana was blameless for all three Newcastle goals.\n\nCasemiro before the break and Amrabat after it failed to plug gaps in midfield. Once again Mason Mount was anonymous.\n\nThe home side's best chance was squandered when Anthony Martial appeared to pull out of a header, despite being barely six yards out in the centre of the goal, when he seemed to hear a call from Mount behind him. Mount failed to control and the opportunity disappeared.\n\nNot that the issues enveloping Old Trafford are any concern of Newcastle, whose fans revelled in their opponents' discomfort, chanting 'You'll be sacked in the morning' and taunting over the number of empty red seats on show from fans leaving well before the final whistle.\n\nTargett injury the only negative for Newcastle\n\nThe game could not have got off to a worse start for the visitors.\n\nWith five senior players out injured, plus Sandro Tonali ruled out for 10 months due to his gambling ban, Newcastle could ill afford any more personnel issues.\n\nBut after just two minutes Matt Targett went down with what seemed to be a pretty severe hamstring injury on the basis he could barely walk off the pitch such was the pain he was in.\n\nContinuing was clearly out of the question and, as the English season heads towards its most congested point, Howe will now be fearing he will be without the services of Targett for a while.\n\nAt that point, with his options so limited, Howe must have feared the worst.\n\nInstead, Almiron broke the deadlock, racing onto Tino Livramento's cross-field pass to set Newcastle on their way to a memorable and thoroughly deserved victory.\n\nAt the end, Howe and his players saluted a 9,000-strong travelling support, whose backing was constant. But then, they had plenty to sing about.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bruno Guimarães (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Sean Longstaff (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sofyan Amrabat.\n• None Joelinton (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Sofyan Amrabat (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Actor Noel Clarke has said he will pursue his libel case against the Guardian at the High Court next year.\n\nIt comes after a judge ruled the meaning of seven articles to be that there were strong grounds to believe he was guilty of sexual harassment.\n\nIn 2021 and 2022, the paper published a series of stories in which 20 women made accusations of sexual misconduct.\n\nThe actor and writer, who denies the allegations, is suing the newspaper and is seeking £10m in damages.\n\nThe Guardian said its investigation was \"deeply reported and researched\", and it would defend it \"robustly\".\n\nAt a hearing last week, lawyers for Mr Clarke and the paper made submissions about what the average reader would understand the articles to mean.\n\nThe Guardian argued that the articles would be read as \"reporting reasonable grounds to suspect\" that Mr Clarke had abused his power, bullied or sexually harassed women, rather than a direct allegation of guilt.\n\nMr Clarke's lawyers said the impression that an ordinary reader would take away was one of guilt.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Justice Johnson ruled that the meaning of seven articles was that \"there are strong grounds to believe that the claimant is guilty of various forms of sexual harassment\".\n\nAnd he said an eighth meant there were grounds to investigate Mr Clarke.\n\nThe judge also ruled that all of the articles were defamatory of the actor, something the Guardian had not disputed about seven of the eight pieces.\n\nMr Clarke is known for writing and starring in 2006 film Kidulthood and its sequels, as well as for roles in TV Shows like Doctor Who, Bulletproof and Viewpoint.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"I have always disputed the content of the eight Guardian articles and I am satisfied that the High Court has now found that all eight articles issued by the defendant were defamatory in law.\n\n\"I look forward to now receiving the Guardian's defence and progressing my claim for defamation in the High Court next year.\"\n\nThe Guardian said: \"We welcome this judgment on meaning. The Guardian's investigation was deeply reported and researched, and we intend to defend our journalism robustly.\"\n\nAfter the allegations against Mr Clarke were published, Bafta suspended his membership as well as the outstanding British contribution to cinema award he had been presented with days earlier.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said in March 2022 there was not enough evidence against him to warrant a criminal investigation.", "Police say the tree was felled in a deliberate act of vandalism\n\nTwo further arrests have been made by officers investigating the felling of the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree.\n\nThe landmark, which was planted in the late 1800s and sat beside Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, was chopped down overnight on 27 September.\n\nThe tree was cut up and removed by the National Trust last month.\n\nTwo men aged in their 30s have been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and bailed. A boy, 16, and a man aged in his 60s were previously held.\n\nPart of Hadrian's Wall was also damaged when the tree came down, some time between the evening of 27 September and morning of 28 September.\n\nThe Sycamore Gap tree had been there for more than 100 years\n\nOn 12 October the tree, which was once 50ft (15m), was taken to an unnamed National Trust property to be stored.\n\nNational Trust manager Andrew Poad, who had worked around the tree for about 35 years, described it as being \"like a funeral\".\n\nThe felling sparked an outpouring of emotion from millions of people, with many lamenting the loss of an emblem of north-east England.\n\nThe spot was made famous in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and became a popular place for walkers and photographers due to its unusual setting.\n\nKevin Reynolds, who directed the Hollywood film, described the events as \"ugly\", \"despicable\" and \"senseless\".\n\nMeanwhile, the National Trust, which looks after the site with the Northumberland National Park Authority, said it felt like the team \"had lost a family member\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Rebecca Fenney-Menzies said Northumbria Police was \"committed to getting justice\".\n\nShe urged anyone with information \"no matter how small or insignificant you think it may be\" to come forward.\n\nDetectives described the case as \"very difficult and complex\" and urged people not speculate about the investigation.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rodney and Deanna Hodgins were travelling to Las Vegas when the incident occurred\n\nCanadian officials have launched a probe after a man in a wheelchair said he was forced to drag himself out of an Air Canada plane because he was not offered assistance.\n\nRodney and Deanna Hodgins, a Canadian couple, said the incident happened on a flight from Vancouver to Las Vegas in August.\n\nMs Hodgins has accused the airline of failing her husband \"in every sense\".\n\nThe BBC has reached out to Air Canada for comment.\n\nMs Hodgins detailed the incident in an interview with the BBC.\n\nShe said her husband, who has spastic cerebral palsy and who uses a motorised wheelchair, was not offered any help by Air Canada crew to get off the plane.\n\nUsually, airlines provide an aisle chair to help passengers with limited mobility exit the plane safely, after all the other passengers have left.\n\nBut Ms Hodgins said that no such assistance was offered, and that a crew member had told the couple that Mr Hodgins needed to get to the front of the plane by himself.\n\n\"They made it very clear that they wanted us to get off the plane because they had to turn it around,\" Ms Hodgins said.\n\n\"We thought it was a joke at first, but after we were flabbergasted,\" she said.\n\nShe said that eight cleaning crew members, two flight attendants, and the captain and co-captain watched as she tried to help her husband exit the plane.\n\n\"I was so mad at watching him fight to drag his uncooperative body so slowly and painfully,\" she said, adding that he suffered muscle spasms as he tried to make his way toward the cockpit.\n\n\"It took us struggling, in front of a dozen people, as some looked away and others looked on with shame, to get him off that plane,\" Ms Hodgins said.\n\nShe added that her husband suffered for days from pain while they were in Las Vegas. The couple had travelled there to celebrate their first wedding anniversary.\n\nThe incident has been covered widely in Canadian media, and Ms Hodgins said the airline has since apologised to the couple.\n\n\"An apology is great and we do appreciate that,\" she said, but added that \"Rodney really wants change, so it's not over for him, and it's certainly not over for us.\"\n\n\"We just want to make sure that this really never happens again.\"\n\nIn a statement to the CBC, Air Canada said it uses a third-party wheelchair assistance specialist in Las Vegas.\n\n\"Following our investigation into how this serious service lapse occurred, we will be evaluating other Mobility Assistance service partners in Las Vegas,\" the airline said.\n\nThe Canadian Transportation Agency confirmed to the BBC that it is investigating the incident.\n\nIt added that airlines are required to assist passengers with limited mobility, including when they are boarding or getting off an aircraft.\n\nMs Hodgins said her husband's rights \"were trampled on\" in the aftermath of the incident.\n\n\"Rodney is the most beautiful human on the planet, and did not deserve this at all.\"\n\nBut she added she was grateful for the outpouring of support from fellow Canadians since their story became public.\n\nAccessibility advocates have long called for better rules to ease travel for people who require wheelchairs or other assistance, including allowing them to sit on their own chair during the flight.\n\nOthers have called out airlines for taking poor care of their wheelchairs, with some being damaged during travel.\n\nAccording to data by the US Department of Transportation, airlines mishandled 871 wheelchairs and scooters, amounting to 1.6 for every 100, in the month of January, which is the most recent month data is available.", "In Downpatrick, more than a dozen businesses have been flooded on Market Street.\n\nWater is flowing in front of the St Patrick’s Centre straight into shops and pubs.\n\nThe road has been closed but some cars are still driving through, sending torrents into premises.\n\nWater levels have been rising steadily all afternoon and tractors bringing pumps to flush out floodwater have been coming throughout the day.\n\nThe Quoile River has also burst its banks on to the main Belfast Road into the town, which is closed to traffic.\n\nPolice say the Old Belfast Road, Strangford Road and Quoile Road are also closed.\n\nTranslink have said Ulsterbus services operating via Downpatrick have also been affected, with disruptions and delays expected.", "The mask was valued at €300,000 by the auctioneers but sold for 14 times as much\n\nA second-hand dealer in France has appeared in court accused of deceiving a couple by paying €150 (£130) for an African mask which he resold for €4.2m.\n\nThe pensioner couple found the mask from Gabon at the home of an ancestor who had been a colonial governor.\n\nThey sold it to the dealer in 2021, only to find out its true value following an auction six months later.\n\nAs the case opened on Tuesday, Gabon's government asked for proceedings to be halted and the mask returned.\n\nThe saga began when the couple - who are in their 80s and live in central France - asked the dealer to clear their holiday home near the southern town of Alès. The house had belonged to René-Victor Fournier, a colonial administrator in the early 20th Century.\n\nThe wooden mask was found in a cupboard. The dealer argues that he had no idea how valuable it was when he bought it.\n\nIn March 2022, reading about the auction in the city of Montpelier, the couple discovered that it was a rare 19th-Century \"Ngi\" mask made by the Fang people of Gabon.\n\nThe auction catalogue said it had been collected around 1917 by Fournier \"in unknown circumstances\".\n\nOne expert said at the time that only about 10 such items had ever been made by Fang masters. \"This mask is rarer than a Leonardo da Vinci painting,\" he told French media.\n\nThe mask - which the auctioneers had initially valued at €300,000 - was bought for €4.2m by an unnamed bidder.\n\nThe couple then launched a civil case to annul the sale.\n\nThe Gabonese government has argued that the mask was stolen in the first place and should be returned home. It has asked for the court to delay its ruling pending a decision on its own complaint.\n\nIn 2020, the French parliament voted to return to Senegal and Benin prized artefacts that were looted during colonial times.\n\nThere are some 90,000 African artefacts in France, most from sub-Saharan Africa.", "On Tuesday, the Covid Inquiry heard evidence from two of Boris Johnson's key advisers at the height of the pandemic - Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain.\n\nHere are the key points that emerged from the hearing.\n\nThe inquiry was shown notebook entries written in 2020 by then chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, in which he said Mr Johnson was \"obsessed with older people accepting their fate and letting the young get on with life\".\n\nIn another entry from December 2020, Sir Patrick wrote that Mr Johnson said his party \"thinks the whole thing is pathetic and Covid is just nature's way of dealing with old people - and I am not entirely sure I disagree with them\".\n\nMr Cain said Mr Johnson was concerned about society as a whole, but added that some of the language is not \"what I would have used\".\n\nMr Johnson's spokesman has so far declined to comment on the evidence given at these hearings, but says he is \"co-operating fully\" with the inquiry.\n\nMr Cummings said that ahead of the first lockdown in March 2020, there was \"essentially no shielding plan at all\" for those most at risk of severe disease.\n\nHe said that was \"one of the most appalling things\" and added that the Cabinet Office was \"trying to block us creating a shielding plan\".\n\nAsked whether decision-makers considered the impact on vulnerable groups such as ethnic minority groups and domestic abuse victims, he said \"that entire question was almost entirely appallingly neglected by the entire planning system\".\n\nSince leaving government Mr Cummings has been vocal about the failings of the civil service and ministers during the pandemic and he repeated many of his criticisms to the inquiry.\n\nHe described the Cabinet Office - the department that supports the PM and the running of government - as a \"dumpster fire\" and a \"bomb site\" when he was appointed in 2019.\n\nMr Cain was shown a message Mr Cummings sent Mr Johnson on 12 March 2020 which read: \"We've got big problems coming... Cab off [cabinet office] terrifyingly [expletive], no plans, totally behind on pace.\"\n\nAsked by the inquiry if he agreed, Mr Cain said: \"The point was nobody quite knew who was the point person who should be driving this machine.\n\n\"If you asked me now who was supposed to be doing that... I couldn't tell you.\"\n\nMr Cain said the pandemic was the \"wrong crisis\" for Mr Johnson's \"skill set\", describing dither and delay.\n\n\"I felt it was the wrong challenge for him mostly,\" he added.\n\nHe said Mr Johnson had been \"torn\" between the scientific evidence and public opinion on the one hand and media opinion and the Tory Party \"pushing him in the other direction\".\n\nEarlier, the adviser had told the inquiry: \"Indecision probably was a theme of Covid that people did struggle with inside No 10.\"\n\nMr Cummings reiterated his past criticisms of his one-time boss, telling the inquiry that everyone called Mr Johnson \"the trolley\" due to his tendency to change his mind.\n\nThe inquiry read out messages in which Mr Cummings aggressively criticised then senior civil servant Helen MacNamara\n\nInquiry lawyer Andrew O'Connor KC asked Mr Cain if there was a \"macho culture\" in Downing Street during the pandemic.\n\nMr Cain replied that \"there was a lack of diversity - and that was the same in gender, in socioeconomic, and ethnic minority\".\n\n\"If you lack that diversity within a team, you create problems in decision-making and policy development and culture,\" he added.\n\nLater in the day, Mr Cummings was asked if he contributed to a toxic atmosphere in government. \"No,\" he replied.\n\nHe said conversations he had with the prime minister about government problems \"contributed to bad relations... but it was necessary and justified\".\n\nThe inquiry lawyer Hugo Keith KC read out messages from Mr Cummings in which he used a strong expletive to described then-senior civil servant Helen MacNamara.\n\nIn another message from August 2020 Mr Cummings said he would \"personally handcuff her and escort her from the building\".\n\nMr Cummings apologised for his \"appalling\" language but added: \"A thousand times worse than my bad language is the underlying issue at stake that we had a Cabinet Office system that had completely melted.\"\n\nHe insisted he was not misogynistic adding: \"I was much ruder about men.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Cummings on his 2020 messages about Downing Street's handling of Covid: \"My appalling language was obviously my own\"\n\nMr Cummings said flights from China should have been closed down around New Year's Eve in 2019.\n\nHe said \"serious border control\" and an effective test and trace system would have been preferable to a national lockdown in early 2020.\n\nHowever, he added that the government was advised the UK did not have the capability to close borders and that, even if it did, that would \"only delay things by a relatively trivial amount\".\n\n\"If you're going for a single-wave 'herd immunity by September' fundamental strategy, then faffing around at the borders wasn't regarded as relevant or coherent,\" he added.\n\nMr Cummings was also questioned on his infamous trip to Barnard Castle at the height of the first lockdown.\n\nHe said he had moved his family out of their London home due to security concerns and said that was \"completely reasonable\" and legal.\n\nPushed on whether it was necessary for him to drive with his family 30 miles from his parent's home to Barnard Castle, he said he wanted to test if he was well enough to drive back to London but acknowledged he did not need to have his wife and child with him for that particular journey.\n\nThe inquiry revealed messages from July 2021 in which Mr Johnson said Mr Cummings was an \"utter liar\" and that he only discovered Mr Cummings had travelled to Durham, when stories emerged in the newspapers.", "Aid workers greeted families who have been ordered to leave their homes near the front lines\n\nIt is still dark when an early train pulls into the station in central Ukraine and aid workers crowd expectantly around one of the carriages.\n\nThe doors then open and a small child steps into the platform light.\n\nHands stretch out to help her down as her mother follows, carefully passing her baby in a tiny pink carrycot to the helpers below.\n\nLast week, the authorities ordered the forced evacuation of children from 31 towns and villages close to the frontline.\n\nThis train has brought several families from the Donetsk region to relative safety further west. We cannot name the exact location for security reasons.\n\nLiliya Mykhailik (right) and her three daughters join the ranks of millions of displaced Ukrainians\n\nThe orders - which are made whenever conditions are considered too dangerous - came after Russia renewed offensives in parts of the Donetsk region and fighting intensified in Kherson region.\n\nAs volunteers unload bags, boxes and suitcases, others usher the new arrivals, bewildered and exhausted, into the warmth of the station.\n\nHere, three teenage girls sit on the benches, faces blank with shock. A loud meow comes from a basket at their feet.\n\n\"The last time a shell hit our house it was the tenth time,\" their mother tells us.\n\nLiliya Mykhailik says the family then moved to an apartment in the same village but, as strikes knocked out communication and energy links, her daughter's online schooling became impossible.\n\nHer husband has stayed behind with his father and her mother, who refused to leave.\n\nLiliya says she is uncertain about her family's future: \"We travelled here blindly.\"\n\nThe BBC cannot reveal where the evacuees arrived for security reasons\n\nAs the family wait for a bus which will take them to their accommodation, aid workers hand out coffee and state officials hand out cash.\n\nIn addition to free transport to safety, Ukraine initially gives all forced evacuees money - around £45 per adult, £70 per child or vulnerable adult - and a place to live. The adults will be expected - eventually - to work.\n\nNo-one says so, but everyone here knows there is a chance they will not see their homes again.\n\nAnd that is why, despite enduring daily danger and discomfort, some did not want to leave.\n\nIt is up to people like Pavlo Dyachenko to persuade them. He is one of the so-called 'White Angels' special police unit responsible for getting humanitarian aid in - and people out - of Ukraine's most dangerous places.\n\n\"Everything has to be done really fast,\" he says. \"The danger is always there because Russians do not stop shelling.\"\n\nThe White Angels bring aid into dangerous areas in Ukraine - and get civilians out\n\nGetting families with children to safety presents a particular challenge. Every crew carries toys in the car.\n\n\"Someone has to talk with the children all the time, distract them from the dangers on the road or any other stressful moments,\" he says.\n\nWhile millions of Ukrainians have fled the war abroad, the Ukrainian government estimates there are nearly five million internally displaced people in the country. Forced evacuees are taken in by communities all over Ukraine.\n\nWe meet several families who have been placed in an old school.\n\nThe sound of someone playing the recorder floats down the corridor as Varvara, who is 10 years old, sits in front of a laptop in what was once a classroom. Appropriately enough, she is doing an online lesson with the school she can no longer physically attend.\n\nVarvara (centre) now attends school via Zoom after her evacuation west\n\nVarvara came here with her mother Iryna and grandmother Svitlana from Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region where shelling had forced them to live in a basement. They share a bathroom and kitchen with the other residents.\n\n\"I really like it here,\" says Iryna and Svitlana agrees. But tears begin to stream down both women's faces.\n\n\"We want to go home. We want all this to end.\"\n\nVarvara watches as they weep, unsurprised by their pain.\n\nUkraine's refugee children may now be far away from the front line. But their lives continue to be shaped by the conflict.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The prospect of a World Cup in Saudi Arabia has long been anticipated, with the country's unprecedented investment in sport over recent years always seemingly intended to lead to this moment.\n\nNo-one who has been paying attention to the way the country has turned the world of golf upside down through the rebel LIV Series, or started to dominate the hosting of top boxing, or sent shockwaves through football's international transfer market, can be that surprised.\n\nThe regular meetings Fifa president Gianni Infantino has had with the Saudi Crown Prince in recent years were also a sign of the growing influence the country enjoys at the very top of the game.\n\nAnd yet, despite the staggering level of Saudi ambition in sport, the idea of a World Cup in the kingdom will still shock many.\n\nNow that the country is all but guaranteed to be staging the tournament in 11 years' time, it has the potential to be even more controversial than Qatar's hosting last year; with concerns ranging from human rights issues, and Fifa's handling of the bidding process, to the calendar disruption and impact on player welfare due to what is likely to be another winter World Cup because of extreme summer temperatures.\n\nIn fact, with an expanded 48-team format, the level of disruption could be even greater than for Qatar 2022, along with the requirement for significant infrastructure construction, intensifying sustainability concerns.\n\nMany critics will see this as the ultimate expression of 'sportswashing' - a form of soft power - by the biggest exporter of oil in the world - a country where there are grave concerns over women's rights abuses, the criminalisation of homosexuality, the restriction of free speech, the continued use of the death penalty, the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and scrutiny over the country's involvement in the conflict in Yemen.\n\nThe Saudi authorities deny this, insisting their bid is designed to help modernise the country, to grow the game, inspire a youthful population, boost tourism, diversify the economy before the arrival of a post-oil world, and be a unifying force.\n\nThey point to the progress made in women's football for instance, and argue this is a natural next step after successfully hosting many events across multiple sports, establishing the Saudi Pro League as a footballing force, purchasing Newcastle United, and preparing to stage the Club World Cup this winter, along with the AFC Asian Cup in 2027.\n\nHowever, while there is more footballing heritage in Saudi Arabia than in Qatar, attendances at most of the Pro League clubs have actually fallen this season.\n\nBut whatever the true motive of Saudi Arabia's rulers, its emergence as the one bidder for 2034 will intensify scrutiny on Fifa's processes and judgement, with some observers voicing concerns that this outcome had almost been engineered as an effective fait accompli in a deal lacking transparency and accountability.\n• None 2034 World Cup: Saudi Arabia set to host after Australia does not bid\n\nFirst there was Fifa's shock announcement earlier this month, bringing forward the bidding process for 2034 by three years when decreeing that the host country must come from either Asia or Oceania, and giving just 26 days for bids to be declared.\n\nThis followed its approval of the 2030 tournament being given jointly to the continents of Europe, Africa and South America, despite the dismay of environmental campaigners, thereby ruling them out of bidding for 2034 under Fifa's rotation policy.\n\nThen - within minutes - came the Saudis' formal announcement of their bid, swiftly followed by the backing of the Asian Football Confederation.\n\nIn another move seen by some as being designed to help the Saudis, Fifa then relaxed its rules around the construction of new stadiums, with bidders now needing just four established venues (rather than the current seven).\n\nThe fact that Australia has now decided not to bid will also raise concerns that they knew taking on the Saudis would have been futile.\n\nFifa - if it had held a news conference and taken questions following its announcement earlier this month - would probably have suggested that this method of 'anointing' hosts via uncontested bids - is preferable to the past, when years-long contests between many countries were vulnerable to the threat of vote-swapping, bribery and corruption.\n\nBut the way that this process has seemed to pave the way for the Saudis will leave many uneasy.\n\nIn March, the World Leagues Forum - which represents domestic leagues around the world - expressed its \"concern\" over what it claimed was Fifa's lack of consultation over the global football calendar including expanding the 2026 men's World Cup and the new versions of the Club World Cup.\n\nIts mood - along with that of other stakeholders such as player and fan representatives - is unlikely to have been improved by the way decisions have been taken since.\n\nHuman Rights Watch has also accused Fifa of ignoring its own rules, saying: \"The possibility that Fifa could award Saudi Arabia the 2034 World Cup despite its appalling human rights record and closed door to any monitoring exposes Fifa's commitments to human rights as a sham.\"\n\nFifa has declined to comment, but privately insists that human rights remain an integral part of the bidding process. Certainly Saudi Arabia will be far from the only controversial host of a sporting mega-event in recent years.\n\nSame-sex relationships are illegal in 2030 World Cup co-hosts Morocco, as they are in Qatar of course, as well as in Saudi Arabia. Gay fans who said they did not feel safe going to the last World Cup may now feel they cannot attend two more either. Will there be player protests of the kind seen in Qatar, when the Germany team showed their support for the LGBTQ+ community? Could some countries even consider boycotting the event?\n\nWhat is clear is that this underlines the extraordinary shift in sporting power towards the Middle East. Up until relatively recently, the idea of tiny Qatar and neighbouring Saudi Arabia hosting two World Cups within the space of just 12 years would have have been inconceivable to most. But given these countries' wealth and Fifa's approach under president Gianni Infantino, anything now seems possible.\n\nThe Saudis, meanwhile, will continue to defend themselves against what they see as hypocrisy, pointing to the trade that many Western countries seem happy to do with them, and hinting at ignorance, as suggested recently by boxer Tyson Fury after he fought in Riyadh, saying that people should not judge the kingdom before visiting it themselves.\n\nThe authorities will draw comparisons with the way that Qatar, despite so much criticism, managed to stage a World Cup deemed by many who attended to be a success.\n\nAnd others will argue that the media exposure accompanying the build-up to the World Cup could help accelerate reforms - as suggested by Jordan Henderson recently when responding to the intense criticism over his move to the Saudi Pro League.\n\nMany others, however, will fear such a view is unrealistic, and will be dismayed at the prospect of Saudi Arabia 2034, concluding that this represents the domination of money, and continued sidelining of human rights, along with the wishes of many fans, as important considerations when the hosting of such events is determined.\n\nThe Saudi authorities and Fifa now have 11 years to try to convince the doubters, but the scrutiny is highly unlikely to fade.", "As an award-winning photographer, Richard worked in conflict zones in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Zimbabwe\n\nOn 14 July 2008 my dad called to my house at 07:00. He had a key but it was an unusually early time for him to visit.\n\nI was in the kitchen with my two-year-old son and seven-month-old baby daughter.\n\n\"Richard's been killed in Zimbabwe,\" he said.\n\nAs anyone who has suffered the sudden death of a loved one knows, those words never leave you. They remain embedded in your head forever.\n\nRichard had been in the country working on assignment covering the brutality carried out in President Mugabe's regime.\n\nHe was my big brother, the middle child of three.\n\nMy mum denies it, but he was her favourite.\n\nShe is a typical Irish Mammy and would get him his favourite strawberry cornetto if he was hungover. Me and my sister Pamela were told to get up and clean our rooms if we'd had a big night out.\n\nMy dad used to laugh when we had custard and ice-cream on a Sunday; it always meant Richard was home for a visit.\n\nHe'd left home for England when he was 21 while we stood in tears at Belfast International Airport waving him off.\n\nAny time he came home he caused chaos and soon gained the nickname the Tasmanian Devil. He would sweep in, cause havoc and disappear again.\n\nWe both shared a love of the news - we were in different countries during the OJ Simpson trial but spent hours on the phone watching it and discussing every detail.\n\nThose were the days before mobile phones and FaceTime.\n\nHis path into photojournalism was unusual, fast and very different to mine into broadcasting.\n\nAged 36, he wanted to change careers and did work experience at the Irish News with their picture editor, the incredibly talented Brendan Murphy, who became his mentor and very close friend.\n\nWe initially assumed he'd been killed by Mugabe's men.\n\nHe'd photographed several farmers who'd been beaten and had their land taken.\n\nA few hours later a colleague from The Times phoned me to say it was, in fact, suicide.\n\nBreaking that news to my parents and sister was the hardest thing I've ever done.\n\nI remember interviewing the mum of a young woman killed in a road accident. She told me her mind shattered into a million tiny pieces like a big glass ball falling to the ground.\n\nAt that moment I knew exactly what she meant.\n\nLike every other family who has lost a loved one to suicide, we will never, ever know why\n\nI also felt the enormity of my parents losing their child and that was the hardest thing to bear.\n\nRichard's son Finn was just five at the time and he was staying with my parents in Belfast while his mum and dad were both abroad working.\n\nMy sister and I took him out for the day, went swimming and tried to distract him while desperate attempts were made to bring his mum home so she could be there when he was told his dad was dead.\n\nAll the while we tried to piece together the incomprehensible news that he had taken his own life.\n\nIt didn't make sense. He was a 6ft 4 ins amiable Irishman who could talk his way into and out of every scrape.\n\nHe was the last man standing at a party.\n\nI had a fantastic BBC colleague, the late Seamus Kelters. He was very interested in how trauma affects journalists, having spent a lifetime covering the Troubles, and watching colleagues succumb to depression and alcoholism.\n\nA few years before Richard died, Seamus said to me look out for him.\n\nI replied: \"Seamus, don't worry. He's the last one you'd ever have to worry about. He's the life and soul of the party.\"\n\nSeamus said: \"Everyone has an emotional ATM that runs out eventually.\"\n\nIt turns out he was right. Something happened, but like every other family who has lost a loved one to suicide, we will never, ever know why.\n\nAnd since that time thousands more men and women have taken their own lives.\n\nThere are schools across Northern Ireland that have lost more than one pupil to suicide - something that was unheard of in the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nOur decision to make a documentary about suicide did not come easily.\n\nWe pondered for months, talked about the impact on our family and friends. But also on wider society.\n\nI've spent years covering suicides as part of my job and I'm so mindful of the impact of reporting and not wanting to contribute to the statistics.\n\nTimes have changed in the 15 years since my brother died.\n\nWe are more open about how we help grieving families. There are some fantastic organisations out there helping their communities.\n\nTwo of them, Steps in Draperstown, and the Derry Crisis Intervention Centre are featured in our film. We also hear from the man who lost his son in 2009, and then almost incomprehensibly, his 13-year-old granddaughter earlier this year.\n\nIn nearly every photograph I have of my brother when we were kids, he's making a rude gesture covering his face.\n\nI'm not sure if it was prophetic that Richard would make a career working behind the lens rather than in front of it. Or maybe I was just his annoying little sister.\n\nAcross five days he covered a murder, an IRA funeral and talked his way into taking a portrait of then UK Prime Minister Tony Blair who just happened to be at Stormont. He produced an impressive portfolio of work.\n\nHe took that portfolio of pictures and walked along Fleet Street and knocked on the doors of all the broadsheets.\n\nThe Times took him on and he became and award-winning war photographer working with some of the best war reporters in the business in conflict zones in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Zimbabwe.\n\nHe came back to Northern Ireland regularly for the Times. During the Holy Cross dispute in 2001 he arrived to cover the stand-off outside the girls' primary school.\n\nRichard became an award-winning war photographer working in conflict zones in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Zimbabwe\n\nI was there working for BBC Newsline. He saw me and dropped his kit, saying: \"Here, look after that for me,\" and ran off to take pictures.\n\nHe was rarely in the press pack, he would be taking the photograph from a different height or a different angle.\n\nHis motto was: \"You're only as good as your next photograph.\"\n\nHe was always working, always striving to take the ultimate picture.\n\nHis reporter colleagues were a huge source of support. They told us tales of how during sub-zero temperatures in the Pakistan earthquake, Richard gave a homeless man his coat.\n\nI remember him talking down the fact that when he returned from the trip he had frostbite and ended up with pneumonia.\n\nWe also heard how he talked militant Islamist rebels in Somalia into playing a football match when things became tense. And then they raced them in their hire car around an old dirt track.\n\nMany of his photos concentrate on the eyes of the subject - often women and children in desperate times. Sometimes moments of hope in crisis.\n\nHe had the ability to connect with those he photographed and he had a chameleon nature where he could quickly blend into the company he found himself in and make friends with those around him.\n\nAnd although we'll never know why, it doesn't stop us wondering. And sometimes we have to be careful not to drive ourselves mad in the process. Was it PTSD?\n\nDid he empathise so much that his emotional reserves run out? Did he feel too much of the pain of those he photographed?\n\nAnd so the idea of the film emerged. A journey to Zimbabwe to retrace Richard's final steps and let Finn know more about the dad he has virtually no memory of.\n\nPeople might ask why, given it's 15 years since he died.\n\nThere are several reasons: It's mostly about Finn. He's 20 now and during the documentary we tracked down some footage of Richard talking in a BBC interview in 2003 and thought his voice might jog Finn's memory.\n\nI wanted him to know what his dad meant not just to us but to the wider world.\n\nIt's also about my children. They're old enough now to be told what happened and I want them to know about their uncle.\n\nAnd it's about the family. My parents and my sister. The confusion and disbelief can still stop us in our tracks. Could the people he worked with in Zimbabwe, who saw him the day he died, give us any clues about the why?\n\nIt's unlikely we could ever make the trip without the security of a film crew and director. It was tricky even then.\n\nAnd the director Michael Fanning and the crew have inadvertently become part of our grieving process by making a film that beautifully captures the essence of a man they never got to meet.\n\nI'll be forever grateful that they have helped a young man, who never knew what it was like to have a dad, try to make sense of that.\n\nThere is a bigger picture too. I've spoken to hundreds of bereaved families and those who want to be interviewed often say the motivation is to prevent it happening to someone else.\n\nPeople who take their own lives are in terrible crisis. They don't want to die, they just don't want to live the life they have at that moment.\n\nThose moments do pass and when I think of what Richard has missed over the last 15 years, I'm blindsided.\n\nI told my daughter recently that I have thought about Richard every day for 15 years and she looked at me in utter disbelief.\n\nIt seems appropriate that during the darkest times it's his photographs and those of him when we were children that give me comfort.\n\nTara Mills: Life after Loss is available on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nIf you've been affected by any of the issues mentioned in this article, please go to BBC Action Line where you can find support", "People pick through the rubble in the aftermath of a strike in Khan Younis on the 19 October\n\nSince the Israeli military issued the first of several instructions for civilians to evacuate north Gaza, hundreds of thousands of Gazans have moved to the south of the strip. But the south has continued to come under Israeli bombardment, leading the UN and other aid organisations to warn that nowhere in Gaza is safe for civilians.\n\nTo better understand the risk to civilians in south Gaza, BBC Verify has identified and analysed four specific instances of strikes in that region. We also looked at some of the warnings and evacuation instructions that were issued to Gazan civilians, including some advising them to move to certain areas in the south.\n\nSome of these warnings were accompanied by maps with arrows pointing to vaguely defined areas to move towards. Three strikes we examined hit within, or close to, those areas in the days after the warnings were issued.\n\nThe IDF has said that it communicates with Gaza's residents in a variety of ways, including leaflet drops, social media posts in Arabic, and warnings issued through civilian and international organisations. In this piece we have examined the IDF's instructions posted on social media.\n\nThe IDF said on 10 October that overnight its fighter jets had struck more than 200 targets in Rimal in the north, and Khan Younis in the south. The BBC has examined a strike on that day in central Khan Younis to understand the location and the scale of the damage. Video footage published in the aftermath of the attack shows rubble and collapsed buildings in the city centre. We have verified its location using visual clues such as the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Khan Younis.\n\nWe have also examined photos showing destroyed buildings, and people picking through what remains of cars and homes. We know the photos show the same location as that seen in the video because the same pharmacy sign can be seen in both. We also used reverse image search to check that the photos were not from an earlier incident.\n\nOn the morning of 8 October, IDF spokesperson Avichay Adrae had posted a warning on X (formerly known as Twitter) in Arabic, giving instructions to residents of various areas in Gaza to leave their homes and move elsewhere for their safety.\n\nWhile evacuation zones have often been clearly delineated, the destinations residents have been told to head to have often been much more vague.\n\nIn this instance, those living in the neighbourhoods of Abasan al-Kabira and Abasan al-Saghira, a few kilometres south-east of central Khan Younis, were told in the 8 October tweet to go to \"Khan Younis city centre.\"\n\nThe map included in the tweeted video for those living in the two neighbourhoods highlights their current residencies, and is labelled with an arrow simply pointing in the direction of Khan Younis.\n\nWe cannot discount the possibility that there were then subsequent different instructions, but the BBC has not found any evidence of this.\n\nThe BBC has verified that there was another strike the next day, further south near the border with Egypt. This 11 October strike hit Nejmeh Square in the centre of Rafah. The BBC looked at a video posted to social media showing destruction in the strike's aftermath. Using available images of the square before the attack, we were able to identify the shape of the buildings as that of Nejmeh square.\n\nThe warning, issued on 8 October by the IDF, also contained an instruction for residents of Rafah, telling them to immediately go to the shelter in Rafah city centre \"for your safety\".\n\nThe map in the video for those living in the Rafah neighbourhoods contains an arrow directing residents towards \"Rafah\".\n\nThe BBC analysed all of the IDF social media warning posts in Arabic it is aware of in this time period. It has not been able to find evidence of any subsequent different instructions, but that does not eliminate the possibility that others were issued.\n\nEight days on, back in Khan Younis, there was another strike - on Gamal Abdel Nasser Street. We verified this by looking at videos of the collapsed buildings in one of the city's main thoroughfares. By matching the shape of the buildings in the video, with those in other still images of the same location, we were able to verify this was the same place.\n\nAdditional footage from the aftermath shows bodies of the dead and injured being pulled out of rubble and taken to nearby Nasser hospital.\n\nThe IDF had issued a warning on 16 October for residents of Gaza City to move south to Khan Younis if \"your safety and the safety of your loved ones are important to you\".\n\nAgain, there is a possibility that there were further instructions that were different, but we have not found any evidence of this.\n\nFurther north, in central Gaza, there are four refugee camps. The BBC has verified strikes on two of them. Social media footage of the aftermath of a strike on al-Bureij camp on 17 October shows extensive rubble, flames, and bloodied bodies being carried out of the damage. We have verified the footage by matching up buildings in this footage with photos by news agencies of the aftermath. We also verified the footage location using a mosque that was visible.\n\nAnother camp nearby, al-Nuseirat, was struck the next day, on 18 October. We have verified social media footage of the aftermath, which shows ambulances, detritus, people trying to douse flames and a destroyed bakery. We located it by matching the shop names that can be seen in the video with those seen in photos published before the strike took place.\n\nDespite the earlier 8 October warning instructing residents of the eastern and southern Maghazi area to go to camps in central Gaza, there do not appear to be any camps in the location specified on the tweet's map.\n\nWe have however identified three camps nearby: al-Nuseirat and al-Bureij, hit by the strikes on the 17 and 18 October, and another camp called Deir al-Balah.\n\nWe cannot discount the possibility that there were then subsequent different instructions, but the BBC has not found any evidence of this.\n\nThe aftermath of another strike in al-Nuseirat camp, on 25 October, was shown on the news outlet Al Jazeera.\n\nFootage posted online shows its chief Gaza correspondent Wael al-Dahdouh in tears in hospital, holding the body of his seven-year-old daughter and kneeling over the body of his teenage son. His wife was also killed.\n\n\"There is no safe place in Gaza at all,\" he said in an English translation of an interview with Al Jazeera. He said that his family had moved from the north following Israel's warning to residents to move south for their safety.\n\nThe BBC provided specific locations and dates to the IDF for each of the strikes highlighted in the article.\n\nWe asked if these locations had been struck by IDF forces and whether warnings had been given prior to these attacks.\n\nIn its response the IDF said it \"cannot provide any further information regarding these specific locations\".\n\nIt said that it had \"called on civilians in Gaza to move south for their safety but will continue striking terrorist targets in all parts of Gaza\".\n\nIt added: \"In accordance with international law, the IDF takes precautionary measures in order to avoid damage to the civilian population. These measures include warnings before strikes in cases where it is possible to do so.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The hide was found in a hedgerow on agricultural land near Crossmaglen\n\nA significant amount of suspected weapons and ammunition have been recovered from a hedgerow in County Armagh, police have said.\n\nIt follows a search at Monog Road, Crossmaglen, on Monday and Tuesday.\n\nThe weapons, including an assault rifle, two shotguns, three revolvers and seven handguns, as well as ammunition, were found in a hide on agricultural land.\n\nPolice have said they are keeping an open mind over who owned them.\n\nThe items will also be subject to forensic testing, Supt Norman Haslett added.\n\n\"These searches send a clear message to those involved in organised criminal activity that we will continue to disrupt their activities so that our communities can live in peace and without fear,\" he said.\n\nHe urged anyone with information about the items or any suspicious activity to contact the police.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester United's faltering season suffered another significant blow as Marcus Rashford's red card contributed to a dramatic, qualification-damaging Champions League defeat by FC Copenhagen.\n\nIn a wild and wonderful contest in the Danish capital, United showed guile and grit for periods and twice looked to have claimed a crucial win before succumbing late on to a goal from 17-year-old substitute Roony Bardghji.\n\nThey were cruising midway through the first half thanks to Rasmus Hojlund's double against his hometown club - both close-range finishes from a striker knowing exactly where he needed to be and when.\n\nBut the game turned in the 42nd minute when referee Donatas Rumsas was called to the pitchside monitor to review a late tackle by Rashford on the ankle of Elias Jelert, and responded by showing the forward a straight red card.\n\nWith 13 minutes added, largely as a result of an injury to United defender Jonny Evans and a medical emergency in the crowd, the home side took advantage through Mohamed Elyounoussi's finish and Diogo Goncalves' penalty - awarded for a handball by Harry Maguire.\n\nUnited defied their numerical disadvantage to hold the home side at bay, before again claiming the lead through Bruno Fernandes' penalty - awarded via VAR for a handball by Lukas Lerager.\n\nBut the home side were not to be denied. Lerager made amends and drew them level with a back-post effort, before Bardghji hammered home after United failed to clear.\n\nWhile United are down, they are not yet out, although they do sit bottom of Group A and face a trip to Galatasaray - where they have never won - before hosting the already-qualified Bayern Munich.\n• None VAR 'out of control' in Man Utd's Copenhagen defeat\n\nManchester United seem determined to put themselves and their supporters through an emotional wringer this season.\n\nYou would forgive most for believing their worst start to a campaign in six decades, culminating with back-to-back 3-0 home losses to Manchester City and Newcastle, would be the nadir.\n\nThat seemed to be the case when Hojlund gave them the 2-0 lead their purposeful and precise display merited. At that stage, the Red Devils were eyeing a second successive win, following Saturday's snatched victory at Fulham, and a much-strengthened shot at making the last 16 of Europe's elite club competition.\n\nLittle did we know of the drama to come.\n\nRashford sparked it when his misplanted foot - clumsy at best - found the ankle of Jelert and gave the officials a decision to make, which they did to United's detriment. It sparked an implosion when this still-fragile team could least afford one.\n\nUnited's composure gave way to chaos, with Copenhagen drawing strength from a raucous and re-energised Parken Stadium to draw level. United were wobbling, the whistle for half-time timely.\n\nRestructured and refocused by manager Erik ten Hag, the visitors were excellent for 25 minutes. Their resilience at the back was complemented by hints of counter-attacking intent that kept Copenhagen cautious, even with the extra man. It was at the end of this that they won the penalty, from which Fernandes restored their lead.\n\nWhen the dust settles, it will be this period and the matching one in the first half Ten Hag will likely draw on to show his battered and bruised side are indeed making progress, albeit slowly.\n\nUltimately though, with such little wiggle room following their early-season travails, results are key for United now, and again one eluded them here.\n\nThe instinct to retreat to their own box was understandable in the circumstances, but the defending when they got there for Copenhagen's leveller and winning goal left a lot to be desired.\n\nIn contrast to United's 1-0 win at Old Trafford two weeks ago, it was the Danes dancing deliriously after a late show of strength.\n\nThey are now second in the group, leaving United with it all to do to keep their Champions League hopes alive.\n• None Attempt saved. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Alejandro Garnacho.\n• None Goal! FC Copenhagen 4, Manchester United 3. Roony Bardghji (FC Copenhagen) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Viktor Claesson (FC Copenhagen) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.\n• None Goal! FC Copenhagen 3, Manchester United 3. Lukas Lerager (FC Copenhagen) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Rasmus Falk with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Lukas Lerager (FC Copenhagen) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kevin Diks following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "John Hemingway is the last fighter pilot alive who fought in the Battle of Britain\n\nSo says the Irishman who is the last known surviving member of the group Sir Winston Churchill famously described as \"the few\".\n\nGroup Captain John Hemingway, now 104, was a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain.\n\nHe now lives back in the city he was brought up in - Dublin - and credits \"Irish luck\" with helping him survive being shot down four times.\n\nHe joined the RAF as a teenager before World War Two.\n\nWhen he was 21 he was a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain, a three-month period when air force personnel defended the skies against a large-scale assault by the German air force, the Luftwaffe.\n\nChurchill said of the pilots: \"Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.\"\n\nThe battle in 1940 was a turning point in the conflict but Gp Capt Hemingway has never looked for accolades or fame for his part.\n\n\"I don't think we ever assumed greatness of any form,\" he tells the BBC.\n\n\"We were just fighting a war which we were trained to fight.\"\n\nGp Capt Hemingway's recollections and reflections on the war are focused on his role as a professional pilot.\n\nHe says: \"We were doing a job we were employed to do. We just went up and did the best we could.\"\n\nHe explains the approach airmen took during one-on-one aerial combat - known as \"dogfights\" - which were often over in just a few seconds.\n\n\"There were two of you. One of you was going to be dead at the end.\n\n\"You thought: 'Make sure that person was not you.'\"\n\n\"Every day, off you went.\n\n\"When you took off you knew some of you would come back - and some of you wouldn't.\"\n\nKing George VI awarded Gp Capt Hemingway the Distinguished Flying Cross, pictured on the left of this row of medals\n\nGp Capt Hemingway was shot down four times during the war.\n\nTwo of those occasions happened in the space of eight days - during the Battle of Britain.\n\nHe recorded in his logbook that on 18 August 1940 he bailed out of his Hurricane near the Thames Estuary after it was hit by a German aircraft.\n\n\"If you didn't bail out you knew you would be dead,\" he says.\n\nHe parachuted into the North Sea and was eventually rescued by a lifeboat.\n\nHe says the thought of being in the ocean, and not knowing whether he would drown or live, was \"dreadful\".\n\n\"You felt all the time you were part of something which would save you.\n\n\"But if it ever came to the point where you were just alone that would have been quite horrible.\"\n\nHe was back in a plane two days later.\n\nOn 26 August he was shot down in combat off the coast of Kent and landed in Pitsea Marshes.\n\nThe wreckage of his Hurricane was recovered in 2019 with the control column and the gun-button frozen in time, still set to \"fire\".\n\nJohn spent most of the war with 85 Squadron.\n\nOne of his most prominent memories is of Flt Lt Richard \"Dickie\" Lee.\n\n\"Dickie Lee could do anything - fly across an airfield, upside down, firing at a target and hitting the target.\"\n\n\"Dickie\" Lee was one of more than 500 of John's fellow pilots who were killed during the Battle of Britain.\n\nJohn's Squadron leader was Peter Townsend, later the fiancé of Princess Margaret.\n\n\"He was a very nice person and a very good leader,\" says John.\n\n\"He always went in first.\"\n\nPeter Townsend is standing with John and eight other men in uniform in front of a Hurricane in one of John's photographs.\n\nGp Capt Hemingway, second from left in this photograph, served alongside Peter Townsend (centre, holding a cane)\n\nWhen asked what his thoughts are about the picture, he says: \"They were first-class pilots.\n\n\"There are lots of aces in this photograph.\"\n\nBut he points to himself and chuckles: \"That's not one of them!\"\n\nAnother photograph of John featured on the cover of the American magazine Life.\n\nIt shows him looking up to the sky.\n\nGp Capt Hemingway says this was the photograph that allowed his family to see what he did at work\n\n\"This was the most important photograph ever taken of me,\" says John.\n\n\"It made me into a fighter pilot in the eyes of others.\n\n\"It meant my family were able to see me at work.\"\n\nThe image is now captured in a sculpture of John by the artist Stephen Melton at the Kent Battle of Britain Museum.\n\nJohn was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and mentioned in dispatches at 1941.\n\nIn all he was shot down four times during the war.\n\nThe last incident was in 1945 when he was flying a Spitfire behind enemy lines in Italy.\n\nLocal people helped to put him in the hands of the Italian resistance and he was taken back to Allied troops.\n\nAt one point a young girl, who he thinks was only about seven years old, led him by the hand past scores of German soldiers.\n\nJohn thinks of all those who came to his aid during the war with \"huge gratitude\".\n\n\"They were brilliant people - they risked their lives.\"\n\nHe modestly puts his long life down to \"luck\".\n\n\"It must be to do with something like that because here I am, an Irishman, talking to you.\n\n\"I was shot down many times but I'm still here.\n\n\"So many others were shot down first time and that was the end of them.\n\n\"I was lucky. And I'm still lucky.\"", "Transgender people can be baptised in the Catholic Church as long as doing so does not cause scandal or \"confusion\", the Vatican has announced.\n\nThe Church's doctrinal office also said trans people could be godparents at a baptism and witnesses at a wedding.\n\nThe move follows attempts by Pope Francis to make the Church more welcoming to LGBT people.\n\nThe Pope told one trans person in July that \"even if we are sinners, he (God) draws near to help us\".\n\nThe Vatican's updated stance comes after Brazilian Bishop José Negri wrote to the Church's Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith with six questions regarding LGBT people and their participation in baptism and matrimony.\n\nOn Wednesday the department posted on its website three pages in response, which was signed by the dicastery's head - Argentine Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández - and with the approval of Pope Francis.\n\nIt states that a transgender person - including those who have undergone hormonal treatment and gender reassignment surgery - can receive baptism under the same conditions as other believers \"if there are no situations in which there is a risk of generating public scandal or disorientation among the faithful\".\n\nThe document also explores Bishop Negri's other questions, including whether trans people can be a godparent. It says that where an adult has undergone hormone treatment and gender reassignment surgery they may be a godfather or godmother.\n\nBut it goes on to state that priests have the discretion to refuse such a request if \"there is a danger of scandal, undue legitimisation or disorientation in the educational sphere of the church community\".\n\nAmerican Jesuit priest Fr James Martin, who is a supporter of LGBT rights, posted on X (formerly Twitter): \"This is an important step forward in the Church seeing transgender people not only as people (in a Church where some say they don't really exist) but as Catholics.\"\n\nWhile the document seems to set out clearly what the Church thinks in terms of trans people being baptised or acting as godparents, it is more nuanced on the other issues raised by Bishop Negri.\n\nOn the question of whether same-sex parents who adopt or use a surrogate mother could have a child baptised in the Church, the Vatican said a priest's decision would have to be based on the \"well-founded hope that he or she would be educated in the Catholic religion\".\n\nThere was a similarly nuanced response to a question whether a person in a same-sex relationship could be a godparent at a Church baptism. It said the person had to \"lead a life that conforms to the faith\".\n\nThe updated guidance to Catholic clergy follows a suggestion by the Pope last month that same-sex couples could receive a blessing from a priest - saying such a request should be treated with \"pastoral charity\".\n\nFrancis added, however, that the Church still considered same-sex relationships \"objectively sinful\" and would not recognise same-sex marriage.", "On-the-spot fines of £10,000 for breaching Covid laws on large gatherings were too high, the home secretary during the pandemic has said.\n\nDame Priti Patel told the Covid inquiry the penalty - introduced ahead of the August bank holiday in 2020 - was not proportionate.\n\nShe added that, along with her officials at the Home Office, she had pushed back against it at the time.\n\nHundreds of such fines were issued by police during the pandemic.\n\nAt the time, the government said the penalty - for hosting unlawful gatherings of more than 30 people - would act as a \"new deterrent\" against rule breaches.\n\nIt was subsequently criticised in a report by MPs in September 2021, who argued fines of such size should only be imposed by a court.\n\nHowever, evidence heard by the Covid inquiry showed the extent to which the fines were part of the government's strategy for encouraging compliance.\n\nA handwritten note from former PM Boris Johnson suggested he wanted them emphasised when restrictions were eased in the summer of 2020.\n\n\"I agree with the openings, but the OVERRIDING MESSAGE should be about tougher enforcement and BIGGER FINES,\" it read.\n\nThe lawyer for the inquiry noted the \"crushing irony\" of the memo. Mr Johnson was himself handed a £50 fine for breaking different Covid-era restrictions in April last year.\n\nAccording National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) data from June 2021, 366 fines of £10,000 were issued by police forces in England and Wales.\n\nIn its 2021 report, MPs on the Commons justice committee said the government should not rely on large spot fines to enforce public health laws, adding police could not take people's financial circumstances into account.\n\nThe inquiry was shown this August 2020 note from then-prime minister Boris Johnson\n\nElsewhere in her testimony, Dame Priti said she felt the policing of the 2021 vigil to remember murder victim Sarah Everard was \"totally inappropriate\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police was criticised for its handling of the unofficial event, which saw hundreds of people gather on Clapham Common, south London, after a planned event was cancelled.\n\nThe force was later found to have breached the rights of the organisers - and subsequently apologised and paid damages to two women arrested at the event.\n\nA WhatsApp message shown at the inquiry from Lord Frost, then a Cabinet Office minister, suggested there was concern about the regulations within government at the time.\n\n\"Truth is the rules on outside gatherings are close to unenforceable and are evidently being widely ignored in all kinds of contexts now,\" his message read.\n\nDame Priti also accepted that the Covid regulations had proved confusing for both the public and police - but said drafting the legislation was \"solely the domain\" of Matt Hancock's health department.\n\nGiving evidence ahead of Dame Priti, former police leader Martin Hewitt said forces had struggled to keep on top of the many rule changes.\n\nMr Hewitt, who was boss of the national police chiefs' council throughout the pandemic, also said officers should have been consulted more often when rules were drafted.\n\nHe added in one case officers had to delay enforcement of a new Covid regulation, having received only 16 minutes' notice before it legally came into effect.\n\nHe also said ministers had created \"confusion\" among the public about the requirements by conflating laws and guidance during media interviews.", "A Palestinian flag was attached to the front of the Holyrood building\n\nFive people have been arrested after a group of pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the roof of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.\n\nThe activists demonstrated with a large hand-painted sign which read \"Stop arming Israel\".\n\nA large Palestinian flag was also attached to the front of the building in a prominent position.\n\nPolice Scotland officers closed off the area in front of the building and spoke to the protesters.\n\nThe force confirmed the arrests after the group was escorted from the roof at about 16:00.\n\nThe incident came ahead of First Minister's Questions in the Holyrood chamber.\n\nAs reporters shouted questions to the protesters, one member of the group said: \"We're here to put pressure on the Scottish government to take action against arms exports to Israel.\n\n\"The occupation of Palestine is illegal, what's happening right now is genocide.\"\n\nPolice Scotland closed off the area in front of the building\n\nThe group of people, who had their faces covered, did not say if they were part of any organisation.\n\nA Scottish Parliament spokesperson said there was no disruption to parliament business and public access to the building was unaffected.\n\nThe protest ended with the protesters led away by police officers. They were questioned and searched by officers in a car park area of the Scottish Parliament before being driven away in a police van.\n\nAccording to the Campaign Against Arms Trade, the UK government has licensed more than £400m worth of arms to Israel since 2015.\n\nIn response, a Department for Business and Trade spokesperson said: \"We can and do respond quickly and flexibly to changing international circumstances.\n\n\"All licences are kept under careful and continual review and we are able to amend, suspend, refuse or revoke licences as circumstances require.\"\n\nLarge pro-Palestinian protests have been held in recent days in both Glasgow and Edinburgh, with activists occupying both Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley train stations.\n\nMarches have been taking place across the UK to urge an end to Israeli attacks in Gaza.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf, whose parents-in-law escaped from Gaza last week after four weeks under Israeli siege, has backed the right of protesters to hold further events on Armistice Day on Saturday.\n\nIt came after Home Secretary Suella Braverman described a planned pro-Palestinian event in London on Armistice Day as a \"hate march\".\n\nBorder crossings in and out of Gaza had been closed since 7 October, when Hamas, which is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK, attacked Israel, killing more than 1,400 people and taking more than 240 hostage.\n\nSince then Israel has been carrying out military action in Gaza. The Hamas-run health ministry says more than 10,000 people have died.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's top official during the first part of the Covid pandemic has said he urged Boris Johnson to remove Matt Hancock as health secretary.\n\nLord Sedwill, who was cabinet secretary until the autumn of 2020, agreed he left the then-prime minster \"under no doubt\" he should be replaced.\n\nHe raised his concerns with Mr Johnson privately in the summer of that year, he told the Covid inquiry.\n\nA loss of confidence in him had been damaging the Covid response, he added.\n\nWhatsApp messages heard at the inquiry also laid bare the tensions at the top of government between civil servants and ministers.\n\nThey are the latest revelations from the inquiry, which is currently investigating the political response during the pandemic.\n\nLord Sedwill was the UK's top civil servant until he was replaced in the role by Simon Case in September 2020, amid tensions between him and senior members of Mr Johnson's team.\n\nIn one exchange between the two officials in June 2020, Mr Case, who at the time was permanent secretary at No 10, compared working in the Johnson government to \"taming wild animals\".\n\nMr Case added that unnamed advisers to the former prime minister were \"basically feral\".\n\nIn another exchange between the two men, he writes: \"Hancock is so far up [Mr Johnson's] arse his ankles are brown.\"\n\nIn further WhatsApp messages shown to the inquiry, Lord Sedwill appears to describe Mr Hancock as \"totally incompetent\" over his remarks on Dominic Cummings's controversial trip to Barnard Castle in the spring of that year.\n\nHe added that the \"idiocy\" of Mr Hancock's response, as well as then-attorney general Suella Braverman, risked undermining Covid laws, adding: \"I'm ready to read the riot act as required.\"\n\nSpeaking at the inquiry, Lord Sedwill admitted he told Mr Case in another exchange that Mr Hancock should be sacked \"to save lives and the NHS\".\n\nHe said this was \"gallows humour\" echoing the government's own pandemic slogan of the time - but acknowledged this was \"inappropriate, even in a private exchange\".\n\nLord Sedwill told the inquiry he held a private conversation with Mr Johnson, where he did not use the word \"sack\" but discussed whether Mr Hancock \"was the right person to lead the next phase\".\n\nAsked whether Mr Johnson was left in \"no doubt whatsoever\" he should replace Mr Hancock, Lord Sedwill replied: \"Indeed\".\n\nThe inquiry's lawyer said that in his own witness statement, Mr Johnson had recalled he did not think he had received any advice from Lord Sedwill that Mr Hancock should be removed.\n\n\"I can see how he might remember it way. I did not provide formal advice to the prime minister,\" Lord Sedwill replied.\n\nElsewhere in his evidence, Lord Sedwill apologised for suggesting, in the early phase of the pandemic, that people could hold \"chickenpox parties\" to boost their immunity to Covid.\n\nIn the UK where chickenpox vaccines are not routinely given, parents have been known to hold parties to help to expose children to the contagious infection in order for them to become immune in later life.\n\nHe told the inquiry he had made the remarks in \"private exchanges\" that he never thought would be made public.\n\nBut he added that \"the interpretation that has been put on it\" made him come across as \"both heartless and thoughtless\".\n\n\"I do understand the distress that must have caused and I apologise for that,\" he added.\n\nHe added that he had used it as an \"analogy\" for the government's policy at the time, to shield vulnerable people from the virus whilst allowing it to spread among lower-risk groups.\n\n\"I should say, at no point did I believe that coronavirus was only of the same seriousness as chickenpox. I knew it was a much more serious disease, that was not the point I was trying to make.\"\n\nThe inquiry is taking witness evidence in London until Christmas, before moving to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Hancock is expected to give evidence later this autumn. Mr Case is currently on medical leave from the civil service.\n• None Johnson can't lead, top official said over Covid", "Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned the Conservatives are \"drifting to defeat\" under Rishi Sunak.\n\nIn a blistering attack he said Mr Sunak was offering voters \"nothing to rally behind\" and needed to offer a \"positive agenda for change\".\n\nMr Johnson made the comments in a series of interviews with staunch ally and former cabinet minister Nadine Dorries for her new book.\n\nBoth have been strong critics of Mr Sunak since Mr Johnson left No 10.\n\nMr Johnson quit as an MP when he was facing the prospect of a by-election, after being found to have misled Parliament over parties at Downing Street during lockdown.\n\nMs Dorries interviewed the former PM for her book, The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson, which was published on Thursday.\n\nThe former PM told her the current government was losing voters in so-called Red Wall seats which had voted for Brexit, where he said people were going back to supporting Labour.\n\n\"You've got to have a positive agenda for change in the country,\" he said.\n\n\"You know, people still feel hacked off. They voted for change in 2019 and they are drifting back to Labour in those Brexit seats because they're not seeing a changed government.\n\n\"Nothing to rally behind, nothing; we are just drifting to defeat.\"\n\nMr Johnson criticised Mr Sunak's decision to raise corporation tax from 19p to 25p, a move first announced in 2021 when he was Mr Johnson's chancellor.\n\nHe suggested cutting the rate to 10p, asking: \"Why the hell are we putting up corporation tax in this way?\"\n\n\"I really, really think that unless we grip it, the results of the local elections will be repeated at a general election, and [Labour leader Sir Keir] Starmer will be a complete disaster.\"\n\nMr Johnson also claimed Mr Sunak was a \"stooge\" put in place by his own former senior adviser Dominic Cummings.\n\nMr Cummings was sacked by Mr Johnson in late 2020 after a bitter falling-out between the pair.\n\n\"I heard that Cummings has said he started to plot to get rid of me in January 2020,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"The plot was always to get Rishi in. I just couldn't see it at the time. It's like this Manchurian candidate, their stooge,\" he said.\n\nMs Dorries called Mr Johnson's comments \"absolutely right,\" adding that he had made them in the wake of May's local election, where the Conservatives lost control of more than 40 councils.\n\nIn a BBC Breakfast interview about her book, she said the government needed a \"kick in the pants,\" adding: \"You've got to give people something to vote for.\"\n\nAsked about her motivation for writing it, she said she wanted to inform people about a \"complete deficit in democracy\" within the Conservative Party.\n\nShe said decisions within the party since the time of former leader Iain Duncan Smith had been dominated by a \"quite small group of men\" who could make or break the careers of MPs and ministers.\n\nThis group, she claimed, has been working to install Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch as the next Tory leader, calling her \"the person they've been preparing for years\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "We're pausing our live coverage for the next few hours, so here's a quick recap on where things stand in the Israel-Gaza war.\n\nOn Friday, eyewitnesses told the BBC that Israeli forces were close to key Gaza hospitals - Al-Shifa, Al-Quds, Al-Rantisi and the Indonesian Hospital - and there were reports of explosions inside or near them throughout the day.\n\nIsrael has repeatedly accused Hamas of operating from tunnels underneath Al-Shifa, which Hamas denies.\n\nA video verified by the BBC showed a woman filming herself at the Al-Rantisi Hospital in Gaza City, where she claimed that the children’s hospital was being “besieged” by tanks and full of people told to evacuate.\n\nAnd the International Committee of the Red Cross warned that hospitals in northern Gaza have \"reached a point of no return\", risking the lives of thousands of people.\n\nIn an exclusive interview with the BBC this evening, French President Emmanuel Macron said Israel must stop killing babies and women in Gaza, but Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu responded that world leaders should be condeming Hamas, not Israel.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says 11,078 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war and more than 27,000 others are injured.\n\nAway from Gaza, in the West Bank, dozens of people attended the funerals of 11 Palestinians killed in a reported Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp.\n\nIt all comes after Israel launched a retaliatory offensive in Gaza as a response to Hamas's deadly 7 October attacks, which killed around 1,200 people while more than 240 others were taken hostage.\n\nIsrael revised the death toll down from 1,400 on Friday because, according to Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat, many poeple killed were not immediately identified after the attack, and \"now we think those belong to terrorists... not Israeli casualties\".", "A study to assess whether blood tests could help diagnose people with very early Alzheimer's disease, is being launched by the NHS.\n\nSpotting the condition much sooner would mean people could have more support and new treatments to slow the disease, say experts.\n\nThe five-year project has £5m funding from the People's Postcode Lottery.\n\nCurrently, there is no single test for Alzheimer's, and patients can wait years for a diagnosis.\n\nA blood test would not be able to rule in or out Alzheimer's 100% of the time, but might be a cheap and easy way to help doctors spot which patients have hidden physical signs of the disease, years before telltale symptoms appear.\n\nThere are lots of different ones in development around the world - some are already used in private clinics in the US.\n\nThey look for traces of brain proteins that have leaked into the bloodstream.\n\nThese proteins, such as tau and amyloid, start to build up in the brain a decade or more before people develop memory loss and confusion.\n\nNew Alzheimer's drugs, such as donanemab and lecanemab, can clear some of that brain build-up.\n\nMost amyloid-lowering drug trials so far involve people with advanced disease, and many researchers believe that by the time symptoms set in, the window of opportunity for preventing cognitive decline may have passed already.\n\nThe drugs might be more effective earlier on, in people who have amyloid build-up but do not have symptoms yet, which is why a blood test could be really useful.\n\nFiona Carragher, from the Alzheimer's Society, said: \"Nearly four in 10 people in the UK who have dementia have not received a diagnosis. We also know that those who do have a diagnosis have often waited many months, sometimes years, to receive it.\n\n\"This means thousands of families are stuck in limbo, trying to manage symptoms and plan for the future without access to the vital care and support that a diagnosis can bring.\n\n\"New drugs targeting early-stage Alzheimer's disease are just around the corner, but without a diagnosis, people simply won't be able to access them if they are approved.\"\n\nHaving a measurable biomarker for the disease would provide a way to monitor how well new treatments work too.\n\nThe NHS Blood Biomarker Challenge will look to recruit at least 1,000 NHS patients.\n\nThe Alzheimer's Society, Alzheimer's Research UK and the National Institute for Health and Care Research are working with the UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London for the project.\n\nDr Susan Kohlhaas, from Alzheimer's Research UK, said: \"We need to move these tests out of the lab and assess their effectiveness in real-world settings like the NHS.\"\n\nUK regulators would still need to approve a blood test, and research would need to show it is cost-effective for the NHS to use.\n\nEmma Ruscoe, 55, from Solihull, said it took four years for her husband Simon to be diagnosed with young-onset dementia.\n\n\"When Simon received his diagnosis, I felt a sense of relief. I knew something was wrong and I was battling for so long. If a blood test had existed, it would have saved a lot of heartache. The uncertainty was really hard to deal with as a family.\"\n\nAlzheimer's disease affects about six in every 10 people with dementia in the UK. Alzheimer's is not a normal part of ageing, but the chance of developing the disease increases as we get older.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "First Minister Humza Yousaf said the government was first asked for group messages in September\n\nHumza Yousaf has denied misleading parliament over government WhatsApp messages sent during the pandemic.\n\nThe first minister and his deputy Shona Robison told MSPs last week they were asked to submit group messages to the UK Covid Inquiry in September.\n\nBut a timeline published by Ms Robison on Wednesday stated ministers had first been asked to release WhatsApp files seven months earlier in February.\n\nHe rejected this but said his government had interpreted requests for messages from the UK inquiry \"too narrowly\".\n\nSpeaking at First Minister's Questions, Scottish Tory leader Douglas said the published timeline and the first minister's previous statements were \"clearly contradictory\".\n\nHe said Mr Yousaf's government should be \"ashamed\" for treating the parliament with \"contempt\".\n\n\"They have been caught red-handed in a cover-up,\" Mr Ross told MSPs. \"They knowingly told this chamber that were false.\"\n\nThe first minster said it was \"not the case\" that he and Ms Robison had misled parliament.\n\nHe apologised \"unreservedly\" for any distress caused to bereaved families.\n\nScottish Tory leader Douglas Ross says the first minister was caught \"red-handed\"\n\nThe first minister said Ms Robison was referring to the \"initial\" request from the inquiry in her statement last week, but that the government interpreted that request, made in February, \"too narrowly\".\n\n\"What we have done to take corrective action is to make sure is we submitted 14,000 messages,\" Mr Yousaf said.\n\n\"What I have done of course is make sure I handed over messages in unredacted form.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said Mr Yousaf had \"lost control\" of his government and misled parliament more than once.\n\nHe said the UK inquiry had raised concerns that legal advice given to the Scottish government had not been submitted in full and in some cases was almost entirely redacted.\n\nThe Labour chief accused the government of \"hiding\" the legal advice and not co-operating with the inquiry.\n\nMr Yousaf said he disagreed \"wholeheartedly\" with suggestions the government had not co-operated and said he expected all evidence, including legal advice, to be handed over when requested.\n\nHe told MSPs any redaction would have been made due to \"issues around legal privileges\".\n\nMr Sarwar also said it had been reported that non-government emails had been used by senior figures during the pandemic and asked for assurances that such evidence would be handed over.\n\nMr Yousaf said: \"Where we can do so in this inquiry I expect every single document, including legal advice, to be handed over.\"\n\nBoth the first minister and his deputy Ms Robison told MSPs last week that when the UK inquiry asked in June for details of the WhatsApp groups, it did not request the messages specifically.\n\n\"The messages were asked for in September, just a matter of weeks ago,\" the first minister said in parliament.\n\nBut Ms Robison, making a point of order in parliament on Wednesday, said the UK inquiry had asked the Scottish government to set out the timetable of requests \"in more detail\".\n\nIn a written statement to parliament, she said the Scottish government was initially asked on 4 November 2022 about WhatsApps and other \"informal messaging systems\".\n\nDeputy First Minister Shona Robison said the UK Covid Inquiry asked the government to set out the timeline in detail\n\nThe inquiry then made a formal request for WhatsApp messages relating to the pandemic response and decision-making on 2 February.\n\nThe government did not provide WhatsApp messages in its subsequent responses, instead arguing \"key decisions and decision-making were recorded on the Scottish government corporate record\".\n\nThe inquiry asked for further information about WhatsApp groups \"concerned with the Covid-19 response\" in June, according to Robison.\n\nShe added that once information concerning those groups was provided, the inquiry then asked in September for those messages to be handed over.\n\nAamer Anwar, lead solicitor for the Scottish Covid Bereaved, said: \"The Scottish government's continued failure to provide clarity, the changing timelines, the redundant excuse of 'confidentiality' inflames the belief that they are obstructing the search for truth.\"\n\nHumza Yousaf has held his hands up to the Covid inquiry, admitting that his government took \"too narrow\" a reading of their requests for access to messages.\n\nIt does feel like ministers have had a ticking off from the inquiry, after Shona Robison published the timeline of requests at their behest and Mr Yousaf followed up with an apology.\n\nThe first minister clearly wants to make good with the inquiry. But his admission does not extend to the opposition's claims that he misled parliament.\n\nRather, the \"narrow reading\" that he has admitted to actually helps him to argue that he was referring to very specific messages and groups when he told MSPs that the request was not made until September.\n\nIt's important to remember that the inquiry is effectively acting on behalf of families bereaved in the pandemic - Mr Yousaf is mindful that he needs to be seen to be cooperating with them.\n\nAnd while \"misleading parliament\" is a dangerous charge from the opposition, that risks sinking into a he-said-she-said parliamentary spat. The judgement of the independent inquiry is far more important to Mr Yousaf than that of his political opponents.\n\nThe UK inquiry asked to see the WhatsApp messages of 70 officials, medical chiefs, ministers and former ministers, and identified 137 messaging groups that could contain relevant information.\n\nHowever, the inquiry's counsel, Jamie Dawson KC, said last month that \"very few\" of the messages it was interested in appeared to have been retained.\n\nThe Scottish inquiry issued a \"do not destroy\" order at the beginning of August 2022, meaning it could be an offence for witnesses to have deleted Covid-related messages after that date.\n\nIn June this year, Mr Yousaf told MSPs that all requested material would \"absolutely\" be handed over to the Covid inquiries in full.\n\nThe Scottish government handed over more than 14,000 messages on Monday. It came after senior members of the Scottish government's leadership team from the pandemic - including Ms Sturgeon and ex-deputy first minister John Swinney - were accused of deleting messages.\n\nBoth have vowed to comply with the inquiry.\n\nThe government said it required a formal request under Section 21 of the Inquiries Act 2005 before it was able to submit the 14,000 messages, due to data privacy concerns.\n\nThis \"corporate\" submission did not include minister-to-minister conversations and was restricted to conversations of three or more people involving at least one civil servant.\n\nMr Yousaf also made his final submission to the UK inquiry on Monday, according to the government. It is understood to run to around 100 pages.\n\nHe has handed over Covid WhatsApp messages which he is said to have retrieved from an old phone handset.\n• None Why the first minister has a Covid transparency problem", "As things stand, there is going to be a potentially huge pro-Palestinian march in London, on Armistice Day - and there is nothing Home Secretary Suella Braverman alone can do to stop it.\n\nThe reason for that is simple: the law does not tell the Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley to take into account the views of ministers. It tells him to assess the risks to the public - and make a plan accordingly.\n\nSince the Gaza conflict began, the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has organised three national protests in London on successive Saturdays that have grown larger week-on-week.\n\nIt has negotiated with the police over the route and duration of each and abided by conditions.\n\nThe police have a delicate balancing act to perform in protecting free speech and assembly - and also protecting the rights of others not to be intimidated.\n\nThe Met says where protesters have supported terrorist groups, broken racial-hatred laws, or committed other offences, they have made arrests. So far, more than 200 have been arrested - each serious in its own terms, including some allegations of support for Hamas - which is a proscribed terrorist group in the UK.\n\nBut put those numbers in the wider context of public order policing in London.\n\nOn Monday alone, police arrested 219 Just Stop Oil demonstrators who tried to stop traffic near Parliament. The Extinction Rebellion \"sit-ins\" of more than two years ago saw officers cart away a staggering 4,118 demonstrators.\n\nOpponents of the PSC say marchers are chanting deeply antisemitic slogans and providing a cover for extremists. But while individuals can be arrested for hate crime offences, the legal test for banning an event is more complex.\n\nThe Public Order Act 1986 gives Sir Mark Rowley and other police chiefs the power to apply conditions to marches where they reasonably believe there could be:\n\nThe PSC has agreed to conditions under that law. Its supporters say they will gather an hour after the two-minute silence on Armistice Day and more than a mile away from the Cenotaph. Their march, ending with a rally at the US Embassy, is planned to go nowhere near the memorial.\n\nRishi Sunak has described holding a march on Armistice Day as disrespectful and a risk to the Cenotaph or other memorials.\n\nBut given the PSC has repeatedly abided by conditions imposed on its previous marches, the only conclusion the police can reach - unless they get intelligence to the contrary - is that a risk to the Cenotaph won't come from protesters on the march route.\n\nAnd that's why the force has concluded there is no legal justification to ask the home secretary to ban the march.\n\nThat power can only be used if a police chief believes they cannot prevent \"serious public disorder\". That basically means violent crowds potentially bent on running amok. The police haven't seen that in previous weeks.\n\nSo if police commanders asked the home secretary to ban the march, the organisers could go to court - and judges would need to see evidence and intelligence proving the serious risk.\n\nDo you plan to attend a protest? Get in touch.\n\nThe last time these powers were used was in 2011 and 2012. The then-home secretary, on the recommendation of the Met, banned the far-right English Defence League (EDL) from marching through Muslim communities. The EDL was considered to be a thuggish mob and marchers would regularly chant racist or Islamophobic slogans.\n\nThe Campaign Against Antisemitism says the \"River to the Sea\" chant, that will almost certainly be heard on Saturday's march, is deeply offensive and threatening - but the PSC event is not going through Jewish communities - and the Met says that its legal advice is that the slogan can be legitimate free speech in such circumstances.\n\nWhat would happen if the march were banned? The Met believes people would still come to London and stand in the street and peacefully have their say. The police cannot stop them. The last time they tried, it was a fiasco.\n\nIn March 2021, the organisers of a vigil for murdered Londoner Sarah Everard cancelled the event. They feared they would individually face enormous fines under the then Covid lockdown rules, if they were seen to encourage the gathering.\n\nThe unofficial Sarah Everard vigil led to some women being physically restrained by police\n\nBut there was such confusion over whether there was still a right to protest, regardless of the risk of transmitting the virus, that people turned out anyway. They felt so strongly about the horrific murder they wanted to be heard. The Met ended up paying compensation to women who were arrested.\n\nSo the huge risk is that, even if Suella Braverman got her way, people would not only come out, but they would march independently. That would be twice as hard for police because there would be no organisers on the ground directing events and calling on people to abide by a route and curfew.\n\nAnd then there is the risk of counter-demonstrations.\n\nFormer Met commander Dal Babu says Ms Braverman's attack on the forthcoming march has emboldened the extreme far right.\n\nStephen Yaxley-Lennon, founder of the largely defunct English Defence League under the alias Tommy Robinson, is calling on followers to join him near the Cenotaph. Other less well known figures are doing the same.\n\n\"I've never known an occasion for the home secretary to get involved in operational policing at this level,\" says Mr Babu. \"She doesn't understand the law. She doesn't understand the legislation.\"\n\nSo is there anything the home secretary could do to force the Met to ban the march?\n\nIf Ms Braverman is satisfied that the Met is \"failing to discharge any of its functions in an effective manner\" she can direct the Mayor of London to intervene.\n\nBut that is a power designed to be used in exceptional circumstances. And she is not allowed to use that power until she has first consulted the inspectorate of police forces, the expert body on how chief constables are performing.\n\nSir Tom Winsor, former HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Ms Braverman had \"crossed the line\".\n\n\"The operational independence of the police is not a debatable matter,\" he said. \"The policing protocol order made by this home secretary in June 2023... stresses the operational independence of the police.\n\n\"It is the will of Parliament and the government that the police shall not be open to improper political interference that the police must act with impartiality, including political impartiality.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "On a chaotic night in Copenhagen there were seven goals, two penalties, a \"game-changing\" red card, a protester on the pitch and a late winner by a 17-year-old substitute - but once more we are left talking about VAR.\n\nIn a week where video technology has made headlines because of its use in Monday's madness at Tottenham, it came to the fore to make key decisions in Denmark as Manchester United slipped to a damaging Champions League defeat.\n\nUnited manager Erik ten Hag felt its use to dismiss Marcus Rashford for planting his foot on the ankle of Elias Jelert \"changed the game\". At the time, the visitors led 2-0. \"In real time it's just not a red,\" former United midfielder Paul Scholes told TNT Sports.\n\nHowever, Robbie Savage, who was co-commentating on the game for TNT Sports, disagreed with Scholes. \"That for me is a red card,\" said the former Wales midfielder.\n\n\"Initially I thought he just turned, but I think that is a red card. When you see it from that other angle - he has gone to protect the ball, and by doing that he has stamped on his shin and that is 100% a red card.\"\n\nReferee Donatas Rumsas would be called to the pitchside monitor twice more in the game, to award a penalty to each side for handball - both described as \"soft\" by Scholes' ex-United team-mate and colleague in the TNT studio, Owen Hargreaves.\n\nWith United smarting from another chastening defeat which leaves them facing a huge task to qualify for the last 16, BBC Sport picks through the chaos and controversies in the Danish capital.\n• None Best action and reaction from Man Utd's defeat by FC Copenhagen\n\nEverything seemed to be going swimmingly for United after arguably their most accomplished 25 minutes of the season at the start of Wednesday's game.\n\nRasmus Hojlund's two close-range finishes in a period of purpose and precision had the visitors in complete control.\n\nThen, with 42 minutes on the clock, the referee was alerted to Rashford's indiscretion - the planting of his foot on Jelert's ankle in what appeared to be a mistimed attempt to shield the ball. A review and red card followed.\n\n\"I think first we played very good until the red card. The red card changed everything. Then it becomes a different game,\" said Ten Hag.\n\n\"It is a harsh decision - he was going for the ball. The review was over, then he went up to the screen. I think the referee was not sure.\"\n\nPundit Hargreaves was more forthright when asked if it was a red.\n\n\"Not in a million years,\" he said. \"Marcus is just trying to put his leg out to protect the ball.\n\n\"When you see a still [picture] it looks horrendous, but in real time he's not trying to foul him. It's not malicious, it's just a foul, it's just clumsy.\n\n\"They have to stop re-refereeing these games like that because it's ruining it. That's where the game changed.\"\n\nScholes added: \"It's understanding what Rashford is trying to do. He's accidentally stood on his leg.\n\n\"He's thinking he's planting his leg down and protecting the ball. It's not a nasty challenge and totally accidental.\n\n\"This is where the referee's understanding of the game has to come into question.\"\n\nTen Hag was also adamant the two goals conceded by his side to level the game before the break should not have counted, with VAR again involved.\n\n\"We concede two goals that shouldn't count,\" he said. \"The first is offside - there is a player in front of [Andre] Onana. The second [the penalty], what can you do about that?\n\n\"We have to deal with many decisions against us in other games. That's how it is. But the season is long. At one point it will turn in our favour.\"\n\nThe first goal Ten Hag refers to was scored by Mohamed Elyounoussi, with Elias Achouri the man the United boss believed was obstructing the view of goalkeeper Andre Onana while in an offside position.\n\nThe second came in the middle of 13 added minutes in a first half delayed for lengthy periods by a protester on the pitch and a medical emergency in the crowd.\n\nFor this, VAR was again used to adjudge that Harry Maguire had handled while attempting to clear. Diogo Goncalves levelled from the spot.\n\nIn the first 25 minutes of a second half United again controlled, even with 10 men, the referee evened up the penalty count, with video technology utilised to decide that Lukas Lerager had handled. Bruno Fernandes slotted home to make it 3-2.\n\n\"Where the confusion comes in is if that's in England I don't think that's a penalty,\" said Hargreaves of the penalty Copenhagen conceded. \"It needs to be aligned across Europe.\n\n\"It is incredibly harsh. I thought the Maguire penalty was soft, and that was even softer.\n\n\"The whole VAR thing, the last couple of weeks it's got a little bit out of control. It's taking a little bit away from the game. We want to see games decided on the pitch and not on screens, and at the moment a lot of these games are being decided on screens.\n\n\"Whether you love or hate VAR, it's just becoming a bigger part of the game than we all thought.\n\n\"The Champions League is so amazing, the football is so amazing - the game shouldn't be slowed down and stopped. The reason these games are so good is the speed of the games, and we're slowing them down to a still on a screen.\"\n\nThere was still time for a sting in the tail of Wednesday's game, as poor defending by United allowed Lerager to level again before 17-year-old substitute Roony Bardghji struck the winner with three minutes of normal time left.\n\n\"I saw lots of positives, but in the end we lost some focus. It's hard when you play so long with 10 men,\" added Ten Hag.\n\n\"That [the opening of the game] was the best 20 minutes I saw from my side. Also with 10 we were still controlling the game. It's very disappointing. We fought so hard, played so good. Still we don't have one point.\"\n\nWhat United have in total is three points in Group A, one fewer than Copenhagen and Galatasaray.\n\nThey next travel to Turkey to face Galatasaray, before a final home game with already qualified Bayern Munich.\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "A row has erupted over Home Secretary Suella Braverman's attack on the Metropolitan Police for its handling of pro-Palestinian protests.\n\nWriting in The Times, Ms Braverman accused the force of applying a \"double standard\" to its policing of protests.\n\nShe claimed aggressive right-wing protesters were \"rightly met with a stern response\", while \"pro-Palestinian mobs\" were \"largely ignored\".\n\nHer comments have been condemned by former police officers and MPs.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing calls to sack Ms Braverman, with Labour accusing the home secretary of undermining police independence and \"deliberately creating division\".\n\nOne senior Conservative MP told the BBC: \"The home secretary's awfulness is now a reflection on the prime minister. Keeping her in post is damaging him.\"\n\nBut the home secretary's allies on the right of the Conservative Party have defended her and argued that a pro-Palestinian march planned for Saturday in central London should not have been allowed to go ahead.\n\nConservative MP Danny Kruger denied Ms Braverman was interfering, and said she was entitled to comment on the \"broader culture of police\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Yvette Cooper says Suella Braverman is attacking the police \"when she should be backing them\".\n\nMs Braverman's comments came after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak held a meeting with Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley to discuss security ahead of Saturday's March, which falls on Armistice Day.\n\nNeither Mr Sunak or Ms Braverman have publicly called for the police to ban Saturday's march, but the prime minister has urged organisers to call it off, saying the choice of date was \"provocative and disrespectful\".\n\nIn an article for The Times, the home secretary claimed that there was \"a perception that senior officers play favourites when it comes to protesters\".\n\nThe home secretary said the pro-Palestinian marches, which began last month in response to Israel's siege of Gaza, had been \"problematic\" because of \"violence around the fringes\" as well as \"highly offensive\" chants, posters and stickers.\n\n\"Right-wing and nationalist protesters who engage in aggression are rightly met with a stern response yet pro-Palestinian mobs displaying almost identical behaviour are largely ignored, even when clearly breaking the law,\" she wrote.\n\nThe BBC has been told Mr Sunak's team suggested amendments to the home secretary's draft, but not all of them were applied to the eventual article published last night.\n\nA government source told the BBC: \"We are not commenting on internal process.\"\n\nThere have been regular protests in London after Hamas gunmen launched an unprecedented assault on Israel from the Gaza Strip on 7 October, killing more than 1,400 people and taking more than 200 hostages.\n\nIsrael has been carrying out strikes on Gaza since then in response, and has now also launched a ground offensive. More than 10,500 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.\n\nLondon's police force has faced increasing pressure to prevent Saturday's pro-Palestinian march from going ahead.\n\nBut Sir Mark has said it may only be stopped if there is a threat of serious disorder, and that the \"very high threshold\" has not been reached.\n\nPlenty of the home secretary's colleagues agree with Ms Braverman on the substance of her article, but they are frustrated by repeatedly having to defend - or distance themselves from - her rhetoric.\n\nOne government figure told the BBC Ms Braverman's intervention was \"unhinged\".\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper described it as a \"dangerous attempt to undermine respect for police\", while London mayor Sadiq Khan said it was \"irresponsible\".\n\n\"The PM's weakness when it comes to standing up to Suella is the most shocking thing in all this,\" claimed a senior Labour source.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said Mr Sunak \"must finally act with integrity by sacking his out-of-control home secretary\".\n\n\"Suella Braverman is now putting police officers in harm's way ahead of far right protesters flocking to the capital this weekend,\" Sir Ed said.\n\nHe said her remarks demonstrated the \"increasing politicisation of policing\", and how the march is handled should be an operational matter for officers.\n\nIn her article, Ms Braverman wrote that she believed the marches were not \"merely a cry for help for Gaza\", but an \"assertion of primacy by certain groups - particularly Islamists - of the kind we are more used to seeing in Northern Ireland\".\n\nA source close to the home secretary told the BBC the comment was a reference to the activities of \"dissident republicans\".\n\nResponding to the article, one Conservative Party source called the comparison with Northern Ireland \"wholly offensive and ignorant\".\n\nMs Braverman also questioned why \"lockdown objectors were given no quarter by public order police yet Black Lives Matters demonstrators were enabled, allowed to break rules\".\n\n\"I have spoken to serving and former police officers who have noted this double standard,\" the home secretary wrote.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Nadine Dorries claimed Ms Braverman was trying to get sacked to give her a platform of martyrdom in service of the right-wing.\n\n\"The competition is on now for who is going to be the leader of the opposition,\" Ms Dorries told the BBC.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is on his way home after suffering a minor stroke, according to US media reports.\n\nMr Wozniak told ABC News a MRI scan confirmed he had a stroke whilst attending the World Business Forum in Mexico City.\n\nThe 73-year-old was taken to hospital after passing out at the conference, according to the CNN news website.\n\nThe BBC has contacted representatives of Mr Wozniak for comment.\n\nBetter known in the tech world as Woz, Mr Wozniak is a Silicon Valley veteran who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976 and invented the first Apple computer.\n\nApple went on to become the most valuable company in the world.\n\nThe computing pioneer signed a letter in March alongside Elon Musk calling for a pause in the development of the most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models.\n\nHe called for the regulation of AI when he spoke to the BBC in May 2023, fearing the technology would be harnessed by \"bad actors\".\n\nHe said: \"AI is so intelligent it's open to the bad players, the ones that want to trick you about who they are.\"\n\nBut he sounded a note of scepticism that regulators would get it right: \"I think the forces that drive for money usually win out, which is sort of sad.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A diabetes medicine dubbed the \"King Kong\" of weight loss jabs has been approved in the UK for treating obesity.\n\nMounjaro, or tirzepatide, makes you feel fuller so you eat less.\n\nIn trials, people on it have lost a fifth of their body weight and UK regulators now say it is safe and effective enough to be sold and prescribed in the UK.\n\nUnlike a similar jab called Wegovy, it is not recommended on the NHS yet.\n\nThe NHS can use it for diabetes though.\n\nHealthcare spending watchdog The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is reviewing its use for obesity and should report back in March 2024.\n\nBoth Wegovy and Mounjaro, which work in similar ways, come as pre-filled injection pens that patients can self-administer - giving themselves a dose under the skin of their stomach area or thigh.\n\nThey can help people shed significant weight.\n\nBut, in studies, users often put weight back on after stopping treatment.\n\nThese medicines can have side effects though - the most common are nausea, diarrhoea, vomiting and constipation.\n\nAnd the jabs - widely used in the US and endorsed by many celebrities - are not a quick fix or a substitute for a healthy diet and exercise.\n\nExperts caution that Mounjaro may affect how well the contraceptive pill works. Women who are on it should consider using extra contraception, such as condoms or switching to a non-oral contraceptive method for four weeks after starting Mounjaro and for four weeks after each increase in dose.\n\nWegovy shots, which contain a drug called semaglutide, are being offered by some specialist NHS weight-loss management services, as well as some private clinics. There is a plan for GPs to offer it too.\n\nSome High Street chains are prescribing and selling it too, although stocks are limited.\n\nAs more doses become available, it could help tens of thousands of patients in England, the NHS says.\n\nIn the future, Mounjaro might be added to the list of possible NHS treatments too.\n\nThe UK's drugs regulator, the MHRA, says it can be used by adults who are obese or those who are overweight and have weight-related health problems such as high blood pressure.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay said: \"Although further approvals are needed to use this in the NHS, Mounjaro has the potential to help thousands of people living with obesity and support those suffering from weight-related illnesses - if used alongside diet and physical activity. Tackling obesity could help cut waiting lists and save the NHS billions of pounds.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US officials said the MQ9 drone, pictured here in a training photo over Nevada, was shot down over the Yemeni coast\n\nYemen's Houthi rebels have shot down a US military drone, US officials and the Iran-aligned Houthi movement have said.\n\nA US official said an MQ9 drone was shot down off the Yemeni coast by Houthi forces.\n\nThis was confirmed by a Houthi military spokesman.\n\nIt comes as Washington is on alert for activity by Iran-backed groups in the Middle East as its close ally Israel - Iran's main adversary - battles Hamas in the Gaza Strip.\n\nLast month, a US navy warship intercepted cruise missiles and several drones launched by the Houthis from Yemen towards Israel.\n\nThe US has moved military assets, including aircraft carriers, Marines and support ships, to the Middle East in the wake of regional tensions surrounding the Israel-Gaza war.\n\nThis includes troops being stationed onboard military vessels in the Red Sea, which lies between Yemen and Israel.\n\nYemen's Houthi rebels are backed by Iran, and have been locked in a prolonged civil war with Yemen's official government - supported by another Iran rival, Saudi Arabia - since 2014.\n\nThe deputy leader of another Iran-backed group in the region, Lebanon's Hezbollah, told the BBC this week that Israel's killing of civilians in Gaza risks wider war in the Middle East.\n\nSheikh Naim Qassem said that \"very serious and very dangerous developments could occur in the region, and no one would be able to stop the repercussions\".\n\nMeanwhile, the US also said on Wednesday that it had carried out strikes against a facility in eastern Syria that it said was used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and affiliated groups.\n\nA Pentagon official said the strikes, the second in recent weeks, were in response to attacks against US forces in Iraq and Syria.\n\n\"While we are seeing an uptick in attacks, our purpose is to ensure that this conflict doesn't widen out beyond Israel,\" Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters regarding American deterrence efforts.\n\nThe Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said the strike killed nine people affiliated with Iran-backed groups in Syria, a figure that could not be independently confirmed.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Every police force in England and Wales has reported migrants who are domestic-abuse victims to Immigration Enforcement, new data suggests.\n\nFear of deportation can stop victims coming forward and empower abusers, Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales Nicole Jacobs says.\n\nShe has written to the home secretary, urging the practice be ended.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says officers do not routinely investigate victims' migration status.\n\nThe figures, obtained from the Home Office and published by Ms Jacobs, show, in the three years to March 2023, police checked the immigration status of 537 complainants in domestic-abuse cases. No victim was detained or removed as a result.\n\n\"That no immigration enforcement action was taken against victims shows us that this practice is serving no-one - but the fear it instils creates a high cost to the safety of the victims and the public,\" Ms Jacobs says.\n\nThe court sentencing former Metropolitan Police officer and serial rapist David Carrick heard he had told one of his victims he had reported her to immigration authorities, the commissioner points out.\n\nHer report also highlights the case of a Latin American woman whose partner falsely promised to marry her before her UK visitor visa expired. He became controlling and threatened her. A women's support service urged her to report him to the police but officers then contacted Immigration Enforcement in front of her and, after receiving a letter from them, she withdrew from the support service.\n\nMs Jacobs has written to the home secretary, calling for \"a data-sharing firewall\" to stop police and other services reporting victims to Immigration Enforcement.\n\nShe is also calling for an amendment to the Victims and Prisoners Bill, which was part of the King's Speech on Tuesday.\n\n\"At the point when victims have come to the police for safety from abuse, they are met with what many fear most - contact with Immigration Enforcement,\" Ms Jacobs says.\n\n\"Migrant victims have told me that this plays into the perpetrator's tactics of control.\n\n\"The data shows there is not single police force where migrant victims are treated as victims first and foremost. This must change now.\"\n\nUnder NPCC guidance, police can share basic information, including an address, with Immigration Enforcement, if they suspect a victim or witness may not be legally residing in the UK - but NPCC domestic-abuse lead Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe says this is not routine.\n\nThe guidance also \"emphasises that the focus of police will always be to investigate the allegation at hand and to put the necessary measures in place to protect the victim or witness from harm\", Ms Rolfe says.\n\nShe says the referral of 537 victims over three years equates to less than 0.5% of domestic abuse cases but adds: \"We know that the fear and exploitation of victims with an uncertain immigration status is very real\n\n\"We must ensure we are doing all we can to remove this barrier to reporting and safeguarding all victims of domestic abuse.\"\n\nHowever, a Home Office official defended current data-sharing practices as \"essential\" in helping \"remove the perpetrator's control... over victims because of their immigration status\".\n\nThe Home Office will be introducing a statutory code of practice, including guidance on when data-sharing in relation to domestic-abuse victims for immigration purposes is appropriate, said the official.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Micheál Martin said the investment represented ways to connect people\n\nIrish government spending in Northern Ireland is not being used as a Trojan horse to win support for a united Ireland, the tánaiste (deputy prime minister) has said.\n\nMicheál Martin said the Shared Island fund is focused on improving the economy across the island and does not have any wider political motive.\n\nThe Dublin government has committed to spending €1bn (£868m) by 2030 on initiatives with cross-border benefits.\n\nAmong the most significant investments is a promise of tens of millions of euro to help improve facilities and boost student numbers at Ulster University's campus in Londonderry.\n\n\"It's not a Trojan horse; many of these projects were committed to by both (the Irish and British) governments 10, 15, 25 years ago,\" Mr Martin told BBC News NI.\n\n\"The Ulster Canal - we said we would complete that. The Narrow Water Bridge was committed to,\" he continued.\n\n\"It's back to doing sensible, practical things to connect people.\"\n\nWhile much of the focus has been on those larger-scale projects, significant amounts of funding have been given out as smaller grants.\n\nCash is being used, for example, to organise trips for men's shed groups between Northern Ireland and the Republic.\n\nSheds is the name given for community workshops where groups of men can get together to share interests and make friendships.\n\nBrian Carr said the mental health benefits of men's shed projects meant they were money well spent\n\n\"We know men do not really talk or communicate but when they come into a men's shed setting they all just let go,\" said Brian Carr, the coordinator of the Donegal Local Development Company's Donegal Men's Shed network.\n\nBrian helped to organise a recent visit by men from the north of the border to his shed on the outskirts of Donegal town.\n\n\"They all have something in common, should it be Armagh or Down or Donegal or anywhere else in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIt's also improving and building relationships which many think is at the centre of the Irish government's thinking.\n\nEamonn Murphy believes the Irish government spending is because \"they see the lie of the land\"\n\nEamonn Murphy is a former republican prisoner and a member of the Barcroft Community Garden shed in Newry.\n\nHe was on the trip to Donegal and believes, despite what the tánaiste says, that Dublin is looking at the longer term and a need to have stronger ties should the Irish border ever be removed.\n\n\"I think the Irish government is being forced to reach out because they see the lie of the land,\" added Eamonn.\n\n\"They actually see what is coming.\"\n\nRaymond Flynn told BBC News NI his men's shed includes people of different traditions\n\nBut do members of other sheds on this visit share the view that a united Ireland is Dublin's aim for spending this cash?\n\n\"It could well be, but to say that with some members of our shed who may be of the Protestant faith, that's certainly not something I would be saying,\" insisted Raymond Flynn of the Derramore Men's Shed in Newry.\n\nThe funding reflects that what connects people across the island is not always related to constitutional issues.\n\nAn LGBT group in Londonderry was also recently awarded cash - the Rainbow Project said that was a recognition that what is important to people is not limited to orange and green.\n\n\"Queer rights are always hard fought here on this island - but they're fought across the entire island,\" said Eimear Willis, a health and wellbeing officer with the group.\n\nEimear Willis said rights issues mattered across the island\n\n\"In 2015 equal marriage was an all-Ireland fight,\" she explained. \"We were crossing the border and knocking on doors.\n\n\"And whenever the bill was coming in about a conscience clause. people were coming over the border to support us in our fight.\"\n\nThe key question about cash though is how much the Irish government is prepared to spend to improve cross-border connections.\n\nThe draft report of an All-Island Strategic Rail Review set out an ambitious £30bn (£26bn) plan to improve train links.\n\nSteve Bradley said a railway plan for the north-west of Ireland would be transformational\n\nIt suggested that Northern Ireland would pay a quarter of the cost if Belfast and Dublin agreed to go ahead with the proposals.\n\nWithout an executive the report can't even be formally published but some have also questioned whether any of it would be affordable given Stormont's financial problems.\n\n\"One frustration I would have with the Shared Island Fund is, so far, it's tended to be relatively small projects,\" said Steve Bradley who is part of the railway lobby group Into the West.\n\n\"I can't see anything else that would be as transformational on this island as closing the gap in the rail map in the north-west corner.\"", "AstraZeneca is facing legal action over its Covid vaccine, by a man who suffered severe brain injury after having the jab in April 2021.\n\nFather-of-two Jamie Scott suffered a blood clot that left him with brain damage and unable to keep working.\n\nThe action, taken under the Consumer Protection Act, alleges the vaccine was \"defective\" as it was less safe than individuals were entitled to expect.\n\nIn June 2022, the World Health Organization said the AstraZeneca vaccine was \"safe and effective for individuals aged 18 and above\".\n\nThe legal action is at least a year away from a full court hearing.\n\nA further claim from about 80 people who say they were injured by the AstraZeneca vaccine is also due to be launched later this year but Mr Scott's case is expected to be heard first.\n\nAstraZeneca said: \"Patient safety is our highest priority and regulatory authorities have clear and stringent standards to ensure the safe use of all medicines, including vaccines.\n\n\"Our sympathy goes out to anyone who has lost loved ones or reported health problems.\n\n\"From the body of evidence in clinical trials and real-world data, Vaxzevria [the vaccine against Covid] has continuously been shown to have an acceptable safety profile and regulators around the world consistently state that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks of extremely rare potential side effects.\"\n\nMany of the claimants have received one-off fixed tax-free payments of £120,000 under the government's Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS), which provides compensation for those injured or to bereaved next of kin.\n\nOfficial figures obtained under a Freedom of Information request showed at least 144 out of 148 VDPS payments had gone to recipients of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the Daily Telegraph reported. And an attempt to have the VDPS overhauled is at the heart of these legal actions.\n\nClaimants have to show the vaccine caused serious disability of at least 60%. And the families say the level of compensation is wholly insufficient and has not been adjusted for inflation since 2007.\n\nOn 7 April 2021, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation advised adults aged under 30 be offered an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine, \"following reports of extremely rare blood clots in a very small number of people\".\n\nOn 7 May 2021, the guidance was amended to apply to adults aged under 40.\n\nMr Scott was aged 44 when he received the AstraZeneca vaccine, on 23 April 2021.\n\nKate Scott, Jamie's wife, told the BBC: \"Jamie has had over 250 rehabilitation sessions from specialists, he had to learn to walk again, to swallow, to talk. [He has had] memory problems.\n\n\"Although he has done very well with them we are at the point now where this new version of Jamie… is the version that will go forward. He has cognition problems…he has aphasia..severe headaches, blindness.\"\n\nShe added: \"We need the government to reform the vaccine damage payment scheme. It is inefficient and unfair…and then fair compensation.\"\n\nOn 4 January 2021, Brian Pinker, 82, became the first person to receive the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine outside of a clinical trial.\n\nHe was given the jab in Oxford, just a few hundred metres away from the Jenner Institute, where the vaccine had been developed. The government called it a pivotal moment in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe immunisation came just weeks after the rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nBy September 2022, some 53 million people in the UK had received at least one dose of Covid vaccine.\n\nAstraZeneca manufactured the Oxford vaccine on a not-for-profit basis. And the vaccine had saved more than six million lives in its first year of use, more than any other Covid jab, an independent study by disease-forecasting company Airfinity, published last year, estimated.\n\nBut within a few months of the AstraZeneca vaccine rollout, cases began emerging of a potential side effect from blood clots. And a condition known as vaccine-induced immune thrombosis and thrombocytopenia (VITT) was eventually identified.\n\nThe cases were so rare they had not been identified in the global trials of the vaccine.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jon Boutcher will seek to move the PSNI on quickly from what has been a damaging three months for policing.\n\nThe job of rebuilding morale internally is already under way.\n\nFixing the harm done to public confidence is the second part of the challenge.\n\nThe PSNI's financial situation probably overshadows all else.\n\nIt is £50m short of what it needs to balance the books for 2023-24 and mid-term the prognosis looks grim.\n\nUnless money is found, the force will continue to shrink in size.", "The assault case against Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black was dismissed mid-trial on Wednesday.\n\nMr Black, who is married to Olympic diving champion Tom Daley, was accused of assaulting Teddy Edwardes at a nightclub in Soho on 18 August 2022.\n\nHe was alleged to have twisted the presenter's wrist \"very hard\".\n\nBut a judge at Westminster Magistrates' Court dismissed the case, citing inconsistencies in Ms Edwardes's evidence.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service has released CCTV footage of the incident at a Soho nightclub.", "Australian store chain Kmart has pulled a festive gift from its website after a complaint from a Jewish group.\n\nThe Christmas food-themed bag featured the pun \"ham-mas\" in large lettering.\n\nThe Australian Jewish Association said it had \"politely suggested\" it be removed from sale because of the unintentional likeness to Hamas, which is a proscribed terrorist group in Australia and several other countries.\n\nAccording to the now-deleted product page on Kmart's website, the bag featured \"printed instructions to keep your ham fresh for longer\" on one side, and the word's \"Merry HAM-MAS\" on the other.\n\nThe unfortunate faux pas was first raised by the Australian Jewish Association on Twitter, alongside a picture of the bag.\n\nThe group wrote: \"Although this is potentially funny (the AJA committee has tossed around some non-PC jokes) it's really not a good look.\n\n\"We suspect some product manager may cause the company some embarrassment.\n\n\"So we've politely written to Wesfarmers corporate suggesting the product be pulled.\"\n\nIn an update around an hour later, the group said it had been contacted by senior management at the supermarket's parent company and assured the bag would be removed from its website.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson said: \"We got it wrong on this occasion, and we apologise unreservedly.\n\n\"When designing this product we clearly didn't think through all the implications and the product has been removed from sale.\"", "We're pausing our live coverage for the next few hours, so until then, here's a quick recap on where things stand in the war between Israel and Hamas.\n\nPalestinians have continued to flee Gaza City as Israel steps up its ground offensive.\n\nThe Israeli military said 50,000 Palestinians have fled the city today, as its forces once again opened a safe passage on the main north-south road for several hours.\n\nYesterday, Israel said it had surrounded Gaza City and cut the strip in half – today it said Hamas had “lost control” of northern Gaza.\n\nHamas-run authorities in Gaza reported several airstrikes in both the north and south of the territory, with the number of people killed since the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October rising by more than 200 to 10,569 in the last 24 hours.\n\nStrong words from the UN continued, with both Israel and Hamas accused of committing war crimes by the UN commissioner for human rights.\n\nAnd UN Secretary-General Anontio Guterres said the number of civilians killed in Gaza showed something was \"clearly wrong\" with Israeli military operations, but also said Hamas was using people as human shields.\n\nMeanwhile, as families of some 239 people taken hostage in Gaza during the Hamas attacks continue to push for their release, the BBC heard from a source close to talks about the captives.\n\nDiscussions are taking place over a possible release of 12 hostages, half of them Americans, in exchange for a three-day humanitarian pause in fighting, the source said, adding that disagreement remained over the length of the pause and the situation in the north of Gaza.\n\nBut Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed \"false rumours\" and said there would be no ceasefire \"without the release of our hostages\".\n\nThe BBC's International editor, Jeremy Bowen, has travelled with Israeli forces into Gaza - he didn't see a single building that wasn't badly damaged and was shown a building containing both a family apartment and what the military said were weapons-making workshops.\n\nWe continued to hear about the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, with people there struggling to find enough food and water.\n\nHowever, a convoy carrying medical supplies reached Gaza City’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa - where medical conditions are “disastrous” - Unrwa and the World Health Organization said. It was just the second delivery to the hospital during the month-long conflict.", "Social media platforms should fight online grooming by not suggesting children as \"friends\" by default, the communications watchdog says.\n\nThe warning is contained in Ofcom's first guidance for tech platforms on complying with the Online Safety Act.\n\nThis covers how they should tackle illegal content, including child abuse online.\n\nOfcom revealed figures suggesting that over one in ten 11-18 year olds have been sent naked or semi-naked images.\n\nThis first draft code of practice published by Ofcom in its role enforcing the Online Safety Act covers activity such as child sexual abuse material (CSAM), grooming and fraud.\n\nIt wants to hear what tech platforms think of its plans.\n\nMuch of the guidance targets grooming. The largest platforms are expected to change default settings so children aren't added to suggested friends lists, something that can be exploited by groomers.\n\nThey should also ensure children's location information cannot be revealed in their profile or posts and prevent them receiving messages from people not in their contacts list.\n\nDepending on their size, type, and the risk they present platforms should also:\n\nOfcom will also require some platforms to use a technology called hash-matching to detect CSAM.\n\nThis converts an image into numbers called a \"hash\", and compares that with a database of numbers generated by known CSAM images. If there is a match, then it means a known CSAM image has been found.\n\nThe method is already widely used by social media and search engines, according to Professor Alan Woodward of Surrey University.\n\n\"I fear Ofcom are simply codifying mechanisms that are already in use. It's not surprising as research to date has found nothing more effective than what is in use already\", he told the BBC.\n\nBut this hashing will not apply to private or encrypted messages. Ofcom stresses it is not - in this guidance - making any proposals that would break encryption.\n\nPowers in the bill that could, if certain conditions are met, be used to force private messaging apps such as iMessage, WhatsApp and Signal to scan messages for CSAM have been deeply controversial.\n\nThese apps use end-to-end-encryption, which means even the tech firm cannot read the contents of the message.\n\nSome major apps have said they will not comply if asked to scan encrypted messages - arguing it would require them to weaken the privacy of their systems globally, and weaken the security of systems that protect users including children.\n\nOfcom says those powers will not be consulted on until 2024 and are unlikely to come into force until around 2025.\n\nSome question whether it will ever be possible to enforce these powers in a way that preserves the privacy of encrypted communications.\n\nAsked in a BBC interview if those powers would ever be used, Ofcom's chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes said, \"it's hard to say right now, but there isn't a solution yet, a technology solution, that allows scanning to take place in encrypted environments without breaking the encryption.\"\n\nBut she encouraged encrypted messaging companies to find ways to combat child abuse on their platforms.\n\nThe challenge facing Ofcom is significant. This first guidance is over 1,500 pages long. Over 100,000 services, many based outside the UK, may be subject to regulation.\n\nAnd government figures have suggested that 20,000 small business could need to comply.\n\nAsked if Ofcom had the resources it needed, Dame Melanie admitted it was a \"really big job\" but added \"we're absolutely up for the task. And we're really excited that we're launching today.\"\n\nIt faces another challenge managing expectations from the public and from campaigners. Whatever Ofcom announces it may be criticised for being too hard on tech platforms or not hard enough, said Dame Melanie.\n\n\"It isn't the job of a regulator to be loved by everybody. That's impossible.\n\n\"And it's not what we ever aim for, but it is our job to be proportionate. And to make sure that what we require is evidenced and has been backed up by proper facts\", Dame Melanie added.\n\nAnd one expectation Ofcom is keen to dismiss is that harmful content should be reported directly to it - instead its task is to make sure the tech-firms have good systems for users to report illegal or harmful content to them.\n\n\"So this isn't like TV [complaints] where you can submit a complaint to Ofcom, and we will consider it as the regulator\", Dame Melanie said.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Meta will require political advertisers to flag when they have used AI or digital manipulation in adverts on Facebook and Instagram.\n\nThe social media company already has policies on using deepfakes in place, but says this goes a step further.\n\nFrom January, adverts related to politics, elections or social issues will have to declare any digitally altered image or video.\n\nThe worldwide policy will be moderated by a mix of human and AI fact checkers.\n\nIn an announcement, Meta said this would include changing what somebody has said in a video, altering images or footage of real events, and depicting real-looking people who do not exist.\n\nUsers will be notified when adverts have been marked as being digitally changed. Meta told the BBC that it would add this information to the ad but didn't go into detail on how it would be presented.\n\nAdvertisers do not have to declare when small changes have been made, such as cropping or colour correction, \"unless such changes are consequential or material to the claim, assertion, or issue raised in the ad\".\n\nMeta already has policies for all users - not just advertisers - about using deepfakes in videos.\n\nDeepfakes are removed if they \"would likely mislead an average person to believe a subject of the video said words that they did not say\".\n\nThe new rules require adverts relating to politics, elections or social issues to disclose any kind of digital alteration, whether done by a human or AI, before the ad goes live on Facebook or Instagram.\n\nMeta's other social media platform, Threads, follows the same policies as Instagram.\n\nIt says that if advertisers do not declare this when they upload adverts, \"we will reject the ad and repeated failure to disclose may result in penalties against the advertiser.\"\n\nGoogle recently announced a similar policy on its platforms. TikTok does not allow any political advertising,\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC's James Clayton puts a deepfake video detector to the test\n\nGeneral elections are expected in 2024 in some of the world's biggest democracies, including India, Indonesia, the US and the UK.\n\nRussia, South Africa and the EU also have elections scheduled for next year.\n\nDeepfakes - where AI is used to changed what someone says or does in a video - are a growing concern in politics.\n\nIn March, a fake picture of former US President Donald Trump falsely showing him being arrested was shared on social media. The image was created by AI tools.\n\nThe same month, a deepfake video circulated of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky talking of surrendering to Russia.\n\nHowever in July, false claims that a video of US President Joe Biden was a deepfake were debunked, with the video proven to be authentic.", "The pūteketeke is considered to be in serious trouble by New Zealand conservationists\n\nAn annual vote to elect New Zealand's favourite bird has exploded into an international public relations battle that is ruffling some feathers.\n\nBird of the Year seeks to raise awareness of the country's many native species that are considered in danger.\n\nThe stakes are higher this year, with the winner to be dubbed Bird of the Century in celebration of the event organiser's founding.\n\nAnd now one bird has got the backing of US chat show host John Oliver.\n\nOn Sunday, he launched his campaign in support of one of the competition's 75 candidates, the pūteketeke, on his late-night show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.\n\nThe rules of the election mean that anyone can campaign for a candidate, not just those living in New Zealand.\n\n\"They puke, they do a 'weed' dance before mating, they have great hair, and there are fewer than 1,000 of them left in New Zealand!\" wrote Mr Oliver's team of the bird's unique qualities on its voting page.\n\n\"The pūteketeke isn't just a bird cooler than any of us could ever hope to be — it's a bird that needs our help.\"\n\nMr Oliver, who holds British and US citizenship, later turned up on fellow comedian Jimmy Fallon's chat show dressed up as a pūteketeke.\n\nComedian John Oliver has waded into New Zealand-related issues in the past\n\nThe comedian has gone so far as to erect billboards in countries including New Zealand, Japan, France and the UK - dubbing the bird \"Lord of the Wings\" in reference to the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy being filmed in New Zealand.\n\n\"This is what democracy is all about - America interfering in foreign elections,\" said Mr Oliver.\n\nHis involvement has certainly had an effect. The head of the environmental conservation organisation running the competition, known commonly as Forest and Bird, told New Zealand media agency Newshub that there had been an additional 50,000 votes less than 24 hours after Sunday's segment aired.\n\n\"Last year, the total votes for Bird of the Year was just under 52,000,\" said Nicola Toki, who added the surge in voting had put the team responsible for the website under a lot of pressure.\n\nMs Toki said Mr Oliver's involvement was not a surprise, as his team had been in touch earlier in the year.\n\nThe 46-year-old has a history of wading in on New Zealand issues, such as how to stop the country being left off world maps.\n\nHowever, the eligibility of the pūteketeke, also known as the Australasian crested grebe, for candidacy in the competition is now being called into question by the campaign team due to the fact it is found in both New Zealand and Australia.\n\nIt has been accused of adding extra stars to the New Zealand flag and of calling flipflops \"thongs\" rather than \"jandals\" in reference to some of the well-known differences between the two countries.\n\nMeanwhile, a conservationist who is backing another bird, the kākāriki karaka, has told Radio New Zealand in a tongue-in-cheek interview that Mr Oliver's support for the pūteketeke reminded him of previous election meddling in the US.\n\nIt is not the first time the competition has been mired in controversy. There was an outcry last year when the kākāpō, the world's fattest parrot, was banned from competing because it was the only bird to win twice in the past. That followed the shock of 2021 when the crown of Bird of the Year was given to... a bat.\n\nVoting in this year's competition is due to close on Sunday.", "Stormont is on course for an overspend of £450m this year, the senior official in the Department of Finance has warned.\n\nThat figure is based on the assumption that there are no pay rises across public services.\n\nPay awards matching those in the rest of the UK would see the deficit balloon to around £1bn.\n\nStormont overspent by £300m last year, money to be paid back from additional Treasury funds awarded.\n\nNeil Gibson, the permanent secretary at the Department of Finance, said that savings of £980m have been made this year.\n\nMr Gibson said public servants deserve a fair pay award and has previously spoken of his regret at the below inflation pay awards for civil servants this year.\n\nHowever it is unclear what sort of pay awards will be on offer in the current financial climate.\n\nEarlier this year, the head of Northern Ireland's civil service said Stormont officials were at the limit of what they could legally cut in the absence of ministers.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has also ordered Stormont departments to consult on possible revenue raising measures.\n\nThe first consultation, launched this week, would see rates reliefs removed which would increase rates bills for some households and businesses.\n\nHowever, it is highly unlikely that any of those measures could be in place in this financial year.\n\nNorthern Ireland politicians have been lobbying the government to ask for a change to the funding system which would see a greater 'needs-based' focus.\n\nNeil Gibson said savings of £980m had been made this year\n\nThe executive's spending on public services is largely financed by a core block grant from Westminster, which evolves according to the Barnett Formula.\n\nThis ensures that when the government increases spending in the rest of the UK, the block grant rises by broadly the same amount in pounds per head in Northern Ireland.\n\nFor historic reasons, Northern Ireland has higher government spending per head than other parts of the UK.\n\nHowever, that premium is falling and is set to continue falling in the coming decades.\n\nThat is happening for a combination of technical reasons and the end of temporary additional funding Northern Ireland received as the result of various political deals.\n\nSpending per head is set to fall from 38% above equivalent UK spending in 2017-18 to 25% above in 2024-25 and about 20% by the end of the decade.\n\nSome politicians suggest Northern Ireland could seek a similar agreement with the UK government to that reached by the Welsh government in 2016.\n\nIt set a floor under the block grant premium at an agreed estimate of relative need and an additional uplift to Barnett Formula increases to slow the rate at which the premium approaches the floor.\n\nMr Gibson suggested that if Northern Ireland currently had the Welsh funding model it would go a long way to tackling the crisis in Stormont's finances.\n• None Stormont budget to fall by £2.3bn in real terms", "Guardians of the Galaxy was one of Disney's success stories\n\nThe big problems at Disney have been fixed, the boss of the entertainment giant has told investors.\n\nBoss Bob Iger said he believed the company was entering a new \"era of building\", after a painful year focused on job cuts and restructuring.\n\nHe said the moves were paying off in bigger savings and other growth.\n\n\"While we still have work to do ... our progress has allowed us to move beyond this period of fixing and begin building our business again,\" he said.\n\nDisney has been grappling with a sharp decline in its traditional television and movie business.\n\nLast year, the board of the company abruptly recalled Mr Iger from retirement and reinstated him as chief executive, as the company grew alarmed by big losses incurred by its new streaming business, Disney+.\n\nThe company's stock price has dropped by more than half since its 2021 peak, and it has remained the target of activist investors who are impatient for improvement.\n\nLosses in its streaming business are narrowing, Disney said.\n\nThe core streaming offering, which does not include Hotstar in India, added nearly 7 million subscribers over the three months ended in September, as films such as Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Little Mermaid and Elemental drove people to the platform.\n\nThe unexpectedly strong gains helped to shrink operating losses to $420m (£341m), compared with more than $1.4bn at the same time last year.\n\nDisney has been making other moves to enhance its online offerings, which also include the sports-focused ESPN+.\n\nIt also recently announced it would move forward to acquire the third it did not already own of Hulu, which offers general audience material, as opposed to family or children-specific viewing.\n\nMr Iger said the company, which recently raised its prices, would launch a trial version within weeks that combines Hulu and Disney+ shows.\n\n\"Integrating Disney+ along with Hulu and ESPN in the future will put the company in a strong position to drive [subscribers], engagement and importantly revenue either through subscription or advertising,\" said Paolo Pescatore of analysts PP Foresight.\n\nMr Iger said the entertainment giant was on track to slash expenses by $7.5bn - a boost of some $2bn more than his original target.\n\nThe move follows more than 8,000 job cuts at the company and coincides with a strike by Hollywood actors, which has put productions on hold.\n\nMr Iger blamed some of Disney's woes on an emphasis on quantity over quality, as it tried to expand its offerings for the streaming service.\n\nHe said the company was now focused on producing fewer, better titles, which could help improve its profits and popularity.\n\nThe company said it expected to spend $25bn on content over the next 12 months, of which 40% will go to purchasing sports rights. That is $2bn less than the current year.\n\nOverall, revenue grew 5% over the three months ended in September to $21.2bn. It increased 7% over the company's financial year, which ended 30 September.\n\nThe company reported profit of $264m in the quarter and nearly $2.4bn (£1.9bn) for the year.\n\n\"These results will give CEO Bob Iger some breathing room to shift into what he calls a 'building' phase,\" said Insider Intelligence principal analyst Paul Verna. But he added \"There are still massive challenges ahead.\"", "Dustin Lance Black (left) had been accused of twisting a woman's wrist at a Soho nightclub\n\nThe assault case against Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black has been dismissed mid-trial.\n\nMr Black, who is married to Olympic champion Tom Daley, was accused of assaulting Teddy Edwardes at a nightclub in Soho on 18 August 2022.\n\nHe was alleged to have twisted the presenter's wrist \"very hard\".\n\nBut the judge at Westminster Magistrates' Court dismissed the charge, citing inconsistencies in Ms Edwardes's evidence.\n\nDistrict Judge Louisa Ciecora told the court: \"(Edwardes) said in her evidence at one point that she could not remember a wrist grab.\n\n\"She then said that she was sure that it did happen - and that was an obvious contradiction.\"\n\nThe judge added CCTV footage was \"not clear\" due to \"the angle of the camera\".\n\nThe decision means Mr Black and Mr Daley do not need to take the stand.\n\nIt follows a submission from Helena Duong, defending, who said the prosecution failed to prove Mr Black grabbed Ms Edwardes' wrist and that he had grabbed Ms Edwardes's drink and spilled it on the floor.\n\nMs Duong added it was Ms Edwardes, who presents the Big Pride Party Agency on BBC Three, who had shown aggression.\n\nIt was an agreed fact in the case that Ms Edwardes punched Mr Black in the back of the head. She received a police caution for the punch, the court was told.\n\nSpeaking to the press after the hearing, Mr Black, who won an Oscar for best original screenplay for 2008's Milk, described the judge's dismissal as a \"moment of exoneration\".\n\nHe said: \"This case has flown in the face of everything that I am.\n\n\"I am very grateful to the judge for exonerating me.\"\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amy Dowden rang the bell after completing her eighth and final round of chemotherapy\n\nStrictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden has proudly rung the bell to signify the end of her cancer treatment.\n\nThe dancer from Caerphilly had her eighth and final round of chemotherapy at Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham on Thursday.\n\nThe 33-year-old was joined by two fellow breast cancer patients as they rang the celebratory bell.\n\n\"Cancer doesn't discriminate! Our wish to you all is to remember to monthly check,\" she wrote on Instagram.\n\nAmy discovered the lump in her breast in April, a day before she was due to fly on her honeymoon to the Maldives with husband Ben.\n\nShe has been spreading awareness of breast cancer throughout the treatment explaining how she was prompted to check herself ahead of a trek with the breast cancer charity Coppafeel!\n\nIn September, she shared an emotional video of her with loved ones taking turns to cut a lock of her hair, before she inspired many by returning to Strictly without a wig.\n\nAmy's milestone in her cancer journey comes just two weeks after comedian Rhod Gilbert tearfully rang the bell to mark the end of his cancer treatment - a moment that went viral online, prompting many to relive their own experiences.", "Kar Hao Teoh, who lived in Bishop's Stortford, was on a two-week \"trip of a lifetime\" with his mother, wife and two-year-old son when he was fatally shot in front of them\n\nAn NHS surgeon killed in South Africa was directed by police towards the violent protest in which he was shot dead, his family has claimed.\n\nKar Hao Teoh, 40, was killed in front his wife, mother and young son after a day out whale watching in South Africa.\n\nSpeaking exclusively to the BBC, his family claims they were directed towards a minibus strike by police.\n\nThe South African Police Service said the family should contact the force if they had any complaints.\n\nMr Teoh's family claim that after he was shot in the head on 3 August, officers refused to take him to hospital, refused to call an ambulance and stood around chatting as he was dying.\n\nMr Teoh, an orthopaedic surgeon at Princess Alexandra Hospital, in Harlow, Essex, died in front of his mother, wife and two-year-old son.\n\nThe family told how they were on the two-week \"trip of a lifetime\" and had enjoyed a \"wonderful\" day whale watching in Hermanus and seeing penguins at Betty's Bay before he was killed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Teoh's mother, Ainah, said she was left \"broken\" after seeing her son shot dead on the trip to South Africa\n\nBut on their return to Cape Town, they they ended up following cars directed into the township of Nyanga, near Cape Town International Airport, to avoid road closures caused by a minibus taxi strike called unexpectedly that afternoon.\n\nBy the end of the strike - a week later - five people were left dead, including a police officer and Mr Teoh, who lived in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, .\n\n\"We were on our way back from seeing the whales and were about 30 minutes from our destination when suddenly there was a road closure,\" said his mother Ainah, who lives in Singapore, where Mr Teoh grew up.\n\n\"There was a policeman standing in the centre of the road junction directing the cars.\n\n\"He stopped our car and directed my son to take the left turn and asked him to follow the white car in front of us.\"\n\nSara said: \"The police made a point to knock on our window to tell us which way to go. I thought, 'Oh, he's a very considerate policeman.'\"\n\nIt is understood they were sent this way amid concerns motorists were being targeted on the road they were heading towards.\n\nMr Teoh drove into the path of people caught up in an ongoing taxi protest\n\n\"I could see that there were car wheels on the floor. There were lots of pedestrians walking on the roads,\" said Mr Teoh's wife, Sara.\n\nThe family then found themselves driving past a burnt-out bus.\n\nAs they were heading down Ntlangano Crescent, Sara spotted a man approaching their rental car.\n\n\"The shooter came out and shot my husband as he was driving,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no confrontation, no provocation - nothing whatsoever. He was driving and he was shot.\"\n\nMr Teoh's mother tried to take control of the steering wheel in a desperate bid to prevent them crashing.\n\nLocals came to help stop the car.\n\nDespite being shot in the head, Mr Teoh did not die immediately.\n\nAnother motorist, who had also been directed into Nyanga, approached, telling Sara he had seen the shooter and wanted to help but feared he would be arrested.\n\nHe then gave advice about putting pressure on the wound.\n\nThe eyewitness was one of those who helped the car come to a stop next to a petrol station, just by a police station.\n\nSara and Ainah saw at least two or three police vehicles and about six different police officers at the scene as Mr Teoh fought for his life.\n\nThe family said the officers asked what had happened but refused to call an ambulance.\n\nSara (right), shown here looking at images of Mr Teoh with cousin Dr Sancy Low, told the BBC how she pleaded with officers to help her dying husband\n\n\"Each one, we pleaded with them,\" said Sara. \"We said that he is a doctor. He saves lives. Please help him. He's a good man.\n\n\"One even suggested we drive Kar Hao to the nearest hospital ourselves.\"\n\nAinah said the whole car was covered in glass.\n\n\"The windscreen was cracked with holes. I thought it was obvious that we were in desperate need of help,\" she said.\n\n'What really broke my heart was that no empathy and care was shown to us in that moment.\"\n\nAinah claims officers just \"walked away, and continued chatting amongst themselves\".\n\n\"Couldn't they see what had happened to us?\"\n\nIt took an hour for an ambulance to arrive at the scene, by which time Mr Teoh was dead.\n\n\"They dismissed us and they said that we could come to identify his body at the morgue the next day,\" said Sara.\n\nThe family was not asked by police for their names or where they were staying. Nor were they asked for a statement.\n\nMr Teoh died near a police station after he was shot in the head\n\nMr Teoh's mother said police insisted they could not take them to safety in a police car.\n\n\"They told us that we could leave this place without my son. They kept telling us, 'We cannot take you in a police car.'\"\n\nInstead, paramedics took the family to safety in the ambulance and contacted the British Embassy on their behalf.\n\n\"We are really grateful, incredibly thankful that we met these wonderful ambulance drivers because God knows what would have happened to us if it was not for them,\" Sara said.\n\nThe BBC put the family's account to the South African Police Service (SAPS).\n\nCol Andrè Traut, provincial commander for media communication in the Western Cape, said the murder was under investigation.\n\nMr Teoh and family had been whale watching on the day he was killed\n\n\"Should the family of the deceased have any concerns regarding the investigation or complaints directed at SAPS, they are encouraged to approach police management with the information so that the allegations can be probed,\" he said.\n\n\"It will be improper to discuss such a sensitive matter with a third party, as information could be misconstrued.\"\n\nThe BBC understands no arrests have been made.\n\nThe family has pleaded with those in the area at the time of Mr Teoh's killing to come forward.\n\n\"There were a lot of vehicles surrounding the place and a lot of the locals standing around the area,\" Ainah said.\n\n\"We are appealing to the witnesses and to the parents of the person responsible. My son passed away almost 100 days ago.\n\n\"We are doing prayers for him because he passed away in a foreign land. And we need to call his soul back home.\n\n\"And I just appeal to the witnesses to come forward so my son can rest in peace.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kailam Fearn and Sian Murphy after their employment tribunal\n\nTwo Pizza Hut workers were sacked for speaking up about being sexually harassed, an employment tribunal ruled.\n\nKailam Fearn and Sian Murphy were dismissed for gross misconduct in June 2021 after complaining about two managers at two Neath Port Talbot branches of the franchise.\n\nThey also voiced concerns about racist, misogynistic and transphobic behaviour.\n\nPizza Hut said it took the incidents seriously and has processes it expects franchises to follow.\n\nWarning: This article contains language some people might find offensive\n\nMs Murphy, 28, from Resolven, was sexually harassed by Neath store manager Rhys Stephens, who said her nipples were \"like cut diamonds\" when she was in the cold store.\n\nHe also said \"she shouldn't bend down like that in front of men\" when she picked something off the floor.\n\nMr Stephens said comments were \"jokes\" and \"banter\" and also used homophobic slurs against a gay colleague.\n\nMr Fearn, 27, also from Resolven, worked at the Port Talbot store and was sent a Snapchat photo by area manager Dean Green which showed him in the bath watching the store's CCTV on his mobile phone.\n\nMr Green also told Mr Fearn he had \"sexy legs\" and asked if he wanted a threesome.\n\nGreen referred to a transgender staff member as \"it\" and called a foreign-born employee Barry, saying he had \"no obligation to learn how to say his real name\".\n\nThe tribunal ruled franchise owners Salamaan and Javeria Rasul of S&J Enterprises Wales Ltd did not reprimand either manager and \"simply accepted their denial of events\".\n\nThe tribunal ruled that neither Mr Fearn nor Ms Murphy had been given proper employment contracts.\n\nIt also ruled Ms Murphy was wrongfully dismissed for gross misconduct, with stealing, poor performance and breaching social media policy being the reasons given.\n\nMs Murphy had proof she paid for a bottle of water she was accused of taking, while her poor performance amounted to selling an out-of-date salad to a customer.\n\nShe was also told that using her personal phone at work was unacceptable despite the company expecting staff to track pizza orders and join its work WhatsApp group, while the disparaging social media comments she was accused of were made in a private WhatsApp chat.\n\nWhen Mr Fearn complained to Mr Rasul he was told it would be investigated, but instead he was suspended and removed from the company WhatsApp group and as an admin on the store's Facebook page.\n\nAt his disciplinary hearing he was informed he was to be dismissed for gross misconduct for stealing food, leaving the store unattended and using his personal mobile phone.\n\nWhen the case progressed to the tribunal, Mr Rasul falsely accused Mr Fearn of encouraging a vulnerable person to sell intimate footage of themselves online.\n\nMr Fearn was suspended from his duties as a special constable during an eight-month police investigation, which cleared him of any wrongdoing, and the tribunal heard he was \"traumatised\" by the experience.\n\nTribunal chairman Samantha Moore said Salamaan and Javeria Rasul made the false allegations in \"retaliation\" for Mr Fearn pursuing them for unfair dismissal.\n\nThe tribunal found that both complaints about wrongful dismissal and sexual harassment were successful.\n\nMs Murphy described her \"massive sense of relief\" at the result after enduring \"many sleepless nights and lots of tears and stress\".\n\nMr Fearn said he hoped their case \"will go some way to help other people who might be in a similar situation, to show them what rights they have and that it's always worth looking for help\".\n\nA Pizza Hut UK and Europe spokesperson said: \"We are aware of the outcome of the tribunal regarding franchisee S&J Enterprises Wales Limited.\n\n\"We take these incidents very seriously and have strict processes in place that we expect all our franchisees to follow, however with the appropriate authorities involved, we will not be commenting further.\"\n\nJudgement on what compensation Mr Fearn and Ms Murphy should receive has been scheduled for next year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has apologised for mistakenly revealing details of all its 10,000 staff.\n\nNI's Police Federation said the breach could cause \"incalculable damage\".\n\nIn response to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request, the PSNI had shared names of all police and civilian personnel, where they were based and their roles.\n\nThe details were then published online, before being removed.\n\nApologising to officers, Assistant Chief Constable Chris Todd said the error was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"We operate in an environment, at the moment, where there is a severe threat to our colleagues from Northern Ireland-related terrorism and this is the last thing that anybody in the organisation wants to be hearing this evening.\n\n\"I owe it to all of my colleagues to investigate this thoroughly and we've initiated that.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland police have been the targets of republican paramilitaries - the latest attack was in February.\n\nThe threat to officers means they must be extremely vigilant about their security.\n\nMany, especially from nationalist communities, keep their employment secret, in some cases even from many family members.\n\nThe FoI request had asked the PSNI for a breakdown of all staff rank and grades.\n\nBut as well as releasing a table containing the number of people holding positions such as constable, the PSNI included a spreadsheet.\n\nThis contained the surnames of more than 10,000 individuals, their initials and other data.\n\nIt appears to cover everyone within the PSNI, from Chief Constable Simon Byrne down.\n\nIt does not include any private addresses.\n\nThe scale of this error is enormous.\n\nIt is probably the worst data breach in the organisation's 22-year history.\n\nThe consequences are a little more difficult to evaluate.\n\nHad this contained addresses, it would have been catastrophic in terms of assisting terrorist groups to target officers.\n\nBut the release of employee names could still expose individuals, many of whom take great care to keep who they work for a secret, even, in some cases, from friends and family.\n\nThat the information was published on a website for more than two hours will add to concerns within the workforce.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said he was \"deeply concerned\" by the data breach and that senior PSNI officers were keeping him updated.\n\nThe Police Federation of Northern Ireland, which represents officers' interests, expressed dismay and anger at the incident, calling it a \"breach of monumental proportions\".\n\nPolice officers in Northern Ireland were regularly attacked by republican paramilitary groups during the Troubles and members of the PSNI have also been targeted in gun and bomb attacks in the years following the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nIn February this year, senior PSNI officer Det Ch Insp John Caldwell was seriously injured in a shooting in Omagh, County Tyrone.\n\nThe following month, the terrorism threat level in Northern Ireland was raised from substantial to severe, meaning an attack is highly likely.\n\nThe Police Federation has called for an urgent inquiry.\n\nIts chairman Liam Kelly said: \"Rigorous safeguards ought to have been in place to protect this valuable information which, if in the wrong hands, could do incalculable damage.\n\n\"The men and women I represent are appalled by this breach. They are shocked, dismayed and justifiably angry. Like me, they are demanding action to address this unprecedented disclosure of sensitive information.\"\n\nMr Kelly added that it was fortunate that the PSNI spreadsheet had not given home addresses, saying that would have been a \"potentially calamitous situation\".\n\nBBC News NI understands the contents of the FoI have been seen by current and former PSNI staff.\n\nIt is understood the sensitive information was published online, on the What Do They Know website, before being removed.\n\nSenior police personnel have been meeting to discuss the breach, which is being attributed to human error.\n\nOne person briefed told BBC News NI they were \"very alarmed\" by what had happened, describing it as \"a major breach\".\n\nStormont politicians will attend an emergency meeting on Thursday of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, which oversees the work of the PSNI.\n\nSinn Féin assembly member Gerry Kelly confirmed the meeting, at which he said he would be \"asking why safeguards were not in place to prevent such a breach happening and how quickly measures can be put in place to ensure it won't happen again\".\n\n\"In circumstances where the level of threat is at severe after the attempted murder of DCI John Caldwell there will be huge concern among members of the PSNI and their families and the wider community at this revelation,\" Mr Kelly added.\n\nTrevor Clarke from the Democratic Unionist Party said: \"Any data breach is unacceptable but more so when it discloses personal information identifying rank-and-file officers.\n\n\"This not only jeopardises the safety of officers but will further undermine morale within the organisation at a time when staff are holding the line amid unprecedented budget cuts.\"\n\nThe Alliance Party leader and former Justice Minister Naomi Long said: \"This level of data breach is clearly of profound concern, not least to police officers, civilian staff and their families, who will be feeling incredibly vulnerable and exposed tonight and in the days ahead.\n\n\"That such sensitive information could ever have been held in a manner open to such a breach is unconscionable and will require serious investigation; however, the most urgent issue is supporting those whose security has been compromised.\"\n\nMike Nesbitt from the Ulster Unionist Party, who sits on the Policing Board, asked why there was \"no 'fail safe' mechanism to prevent this information being uploaded\".\n\nHe added that his \"thoughts are with those whose names have been released into the public domain, who had a reasonable expectation this would never happen\".\n\nSocial Democratic and Labour Party leader Colum Eastwood tweeted: \"The level of incompetence involved here is staggering. So dangerous.\"", "Omegle's announcement of its closure included an image of its logo on a gravestone\n\nPopular live video chat website Omegle is shutting down after 14 years following user claims of abuse.\n\nThe service, which randomly placed users in online chats with strangers, grew in popularity with children and young people during the Covid pandemic.\n\nBut the site has been mentioned in more than 50 cases against paedophiles in the last couple of years.\n\nFounder Leif Brooks said that operating the website was \"no longer sustainable, financially nor psychologically\".\n\n\"There can be no honest accounting of Omegle without acknowledging that some people misused it, including to commit unspeakably heinous crimes,\" he said.\n\n\"As much as I wish circumstances were different, the stress and expense of this fight - coupled with the existing stress and expense of operating Omegle, and fighting its misuse - are simply too much.\n\n\"Frankly, I don't want to have a heart attack in my 30s.\"\n\nOmegle's closure announcement included an image of its logo on a gravestone.\n\nMr Brooks launched Omegle in 2009 at the age of 18. He described it as \"the idea of 'meeting new people' distilled down to almost its platonic ideal\", and built on what he saw as \"the intrinsic safety benefits of the internet, users were anonymous to each other by default\".\n\nThe website had around 73 million visitors a month, according to analysts at website watchers Semrush, mostly from India, the US, the UK, Mexico and Australia.\n\nFor some teenagers it was seen as a rite of passage to be matched with a stranger in a live video chat where anything could happen.\n\nIndeed, as news of its closure spread, young people who have grown up with Omegle being a wild part of the internet have been sharing stories and memories of the site on social media.\n\nHowever, Omegle has also been the subject of controversy, and many are also posting horrible stories of the sorts of sexual and predatory behaviour they experienced on the platform.\n\nIn a landmark case a young American is suing the website, accusing it of randomly pairing her with a paedophile.\n\nThe account user was a minor when the incident took place and the lawsuit against Omegle was filed 10 years later in November 2021.\n\nOmegle's legal team argued in court that the website was not to blame for what happened, and denied that it was a haven for predators.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Omegle's creator Leif Brooks declines to talk to the BBC\n\nReclusive owner Mr Brooks and his fans argue that the shutdown of Omegle is a symptom of internet freedoms being taken away and the end of an era.\n\nBut in many ways Omegle was a strange relic of a former way the internet worked.\n\nThe site itself was glitchy and ugly, with an offensive joke about the Chinese president on its landing page.\n\nModeration was extremely light-touch at a time when politicians and society are asking for more from internet companies.\n\nFor instance, this week, in the UK Ofcom issued its first guidance for tech platforms to comply with the Online Safety Act and the communications regulator singled out online grooming.\n\nTwo people with knowledge of the inner workings of Omegle say that there wasn't any human moderation despite Mr Brooks' claims.\n\nThe entire company was seemingly run solely by him, with no other registered employees.\n\nIt was operated from his lakeside house in Florida and when he was asleep or offline, no complaints were acted upon.\n\nEarlier this year, the BBC found that Omegle has been mentioned in dozens of cases against paedophiles in countries including the UK, US and Australia.\n\nVideo-sharing platform TikTok banned sharing links to Omegle, after a BBC investigation in 2021 found what appeared to be children exposing themselves to strangers on the website.\n\nMr Brooks never publicly answered his critics or posted to social media, despite the trend of tech bosses being held to account in parliamentary hearings.\n\nOther sites like it will no doubt rise to fill the void, but the demise of Omegle shows that times have changed since the 18-year-old programmer launched his experimental social platform.\n\nImagery of young children carrying out sexual acts on camera has risen more than tenfold since the pandemic lockdowns, according to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).\n\nIn 2022, the IWF logged more than 63,000 webpages showing the material compared to 5,000 before the pandemic.\n\nCyber reporter Joe Tidy speaks exclusively with child abuse survivor \"Alice\" and her legal team, as they prepare a case that could have major consequences for social media companies. Then he tracks down Omegle's elusive creator, Leif Brooks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What Ivanka Trump didn't 'recall' on the stand\n\nThe four hours of testimony from Ivanka Trump on Wednesday could almost be summarised in three words: \"I don't recall\".\n\nThe eldest daughter of former President Donald Trump became the fourth member of the family to take the stand in a civil fraud lawsuit brought by New York's attorney general, who has accused Mr Trump of inflating his net worth to obtain favourable loans from banks.\n\nThe approach of the three Trumps before her, Mr Trump and two of his sons, Donald Jr and Eric, ranged from bombastic to humorous to visibly agitated.\n\nBut Ms Trump, who unlike them is not a co-defendant, had a different persona on the stand.\n\nThe 42-year-old maintained a placid, tightly controlled demeanour even as the tempers of the lawyers and Judge Arthur Engoron began to flare. Unfailingly polite, she smiled brightly at the judge and other court officials, answering questions in a quiet and sometimes monotone voice.\n\nThis was a \"sharp contrast\" to that of her father earlier this week, said University of Richmond law professor Cal Tobias. \"She's not jousting with Judge Engoron or the attorney general's counsel, not making political statements, and is respectfully addressing the judge.\"\n\nDonald Trump's eldest daughter remained composed throughout her day in court\n\nWhile her style may have been different, there was one element of Ms Trump's testimony that overlapped with that of her brothers: she did not seem to remember much about the issues at hand.\n\nFor each question from prosecutor Lou Solomon aimed at whether Ms Trump had knowledge of her father's financial statements at the heart of this case, she replied mostly with a variation of \"I don't know\" and \"I don't remember\".\n\n\"Did you have any roles in preparing Donald J Trump's statements of financial condition?\" Mr Solomon asked.\n\n\"Not that I'm aware of,\" Ms Trump replied.\n\n\"Did you ever review any of Donald J Trump's statements of financial condition before they were finalised?\" the prosecutor asked.\n\nThe strategy is common in business cases, where executives can argue that they handle a wide variety of issues and interact with many people daily, as well as put their name to a range of documents, said Eric Chaffee, an expert on white collar crime and a professor at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.\n\n\"I think that the use of this defence is significant,\" Mr Chaffee said.\n\n\"It probably is a smart thing to do, legally,\" he added, as Ms Trump's repeated assertion of not recalling instances and documents could \"end up being truthful\", while at the same time helping protect both her reputation and help the defendants.\n\nMs Trump tried to avoid testifying, arguing she could not leave her three children in Florida\n\nAnd Ms Trump's approach is further helped by timing. Many of those instances and documents referred to in court were from ten or more years ago, meaning her lack of recall is entirely plausible.\n\nAt one point early in the questioning, she joked that she could not remember a call because it happened more than 12 years ago when she was nine months pregnant with her first child.\n\nExperts told the BBC the net effect of Ms Trump's testimony on the trial as a whole is likely to be negligible.\n\nTy Cobb, a lawyer who represented Mr Trump early in his presidency but has since spoken out against him, told the BBC he thought Ms Trump would have \"zero impact\" on the ultimate outcome.\n\n\"Her testimony has added not a single fact, as far as I can tell, other than she received one call while she was nine months pregnant,\" he said.\n\nIf anything, Mr Cobb said, her appearance on the stand - something she fought hard to avoid - may hurt the prosecution in the court of public opinion.\n\n\"I think it's a little bit of a dangerous decision by the attorney general, in the sense that it plays into the Trump theme of: this is just a political witch hunt,\" Mr Cobb said.\n\n\"Her being forced to testify, given the absence of any seemingly relevant testimony, sadly feeds into Mr Trump's fantasies,\" he said.\n\nMs Trump was the final person called to the stand by the attorney general's office. Next, the defence will be able to call their own witnesses.\n\nMr Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, has already been found liable for fraud along with his two sons. All have denied wrongdoing.\n\nThis trial will decide the penalties the defendants will face.\n\nNew York Attorney General Letitia James, whose office filed the lawsuit, is seeking $250m (£204m) in fines and severe restrictions on how the Trump business operates in New York.", "Ocean has kept out of the limelight over the last few years\n\nIt's been over three years since Frank Ocean last released a new single.\n\nBut now it looks like he could be making a comeback after he posted a one-minute teaser of a new song on his Instagram story.\n\nThe singer has played out unreleased tracks on his Apple Music radio show since his last, but none have been officially published.\n\nAnd the snippet has caused a wave of reaction from his fans, who were shocked to see him drop new material.\n\nSeveral followers reported being \"in tears\" when they heard the latest from the mysterious artist, pleading with him to give them the full single.\n\nIt's prompted speculation that a new album will be coming soon, although there are no ripples of evidence to back this up.\n\nThe 60-second snippet was described as \"the song of the decade\" by some fans, and positive reviews flooded in from plenty of accounts.\n\nOthers were more cautious and said his next album \"won't top Blonde\" - Frank's critically acclaimed follow-up to debut Channel Orange.\n\nAnd some said the preview was \"nothing special\" and the Grammy award winner should \"keep it in the drafts\".\n\nFrank has kept a fairly low profile since his early career, where he was praised for openly discussing his sexuality and regarded as one of hip-hop's most influential new artists.\n\nHis first live performance since 2017 was at this year's Coachella festival in California, which he dedicated to his younger brother, Ryan Breaux, who died in a car crash in 2020.\n\nBut some fans left disappointed, complaining that there was no new music and the set was cut short by a curfew after Frank arrived late to the stage.\n\nFrank then pulled out of the festival's second weekend, with his team saying he'd suffered a leg injury in the lead-up to the first.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Jon Boutcher is a former chief constable of Bedfordshire Police\n\nJon Boutcher has been appointed as the new chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\nMr Boutcher is already interim chief constable of the PSNI and is a former head of of Bedfordshire Police.\n\nHe said he was \"very honoured,\" adding that he was looking forward to \"leading the dedicated officers and staff of this exceptional organisation\".\n\nThe previous chief constable Simon Byrne resigned in September following a series of crises under his leadership.\n\nMr Boutcher's appointment was made by the Policing Board and approved by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.\n\nHe was one of two candidates shortlisted for the role, alongside Bobby Singleton, an assistant chief constable with the PSNI.\n\nThe position carries a salary of £220,000 and is considered one of the most demanding jobs in UK policing.\n\nThe PSNI has a staff of more than 9,000 and a budget of about £800m.\n\n\"This position carries great responsibility and is a huge privilege,\" the new chief constable said.\n\n\"There is much to do and I am fully committed to delivering an outstanding policing service to address the issues which matter most to our communities.\n\n\"The officers and staff of the police service do an extraordinary job and will have my full support.\"\n\nPolicing Board chairwoman Deirdre Toner was one of the panellists who chose Mr Boutcher as the next PSNI chief\n\nConfirming the appointment, Policing Board chair Deirdre Toner said Mr Boutcher was \"clearly committed to the challenges ahead\".\n\n\"There are also significant pieces of work to be progressed to manage and mitigate the serious financial pressures currently facing policing and deal with confidence and other issues arising from recent events,\" she added.\n\nLiam Kelly, chair of police representative body the Police Federation for Northern Ireland, congratulated Mr Boutcher on his appointment.\n\nHowever, he urged him to prioritise \"direct and urgent\" government intervention to tackle what he described as \"chronic and deep-rooted issues holding back the [police] service\".\n\nHe offered the federation's full support \"for a campaign to get minsters to realise what is urgently required\".\n\n\"The list of what must be fixed is long and can only be addressed by a meaningful and realistic funding package from government,\" Mr Kelly said.\n\nSinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill wished Mr Boutcher well but said there was a \"huge job of work ahead to rebuild trust and confidence in the police with public, and PSNI officers\".\n\nShe added that the focus \"must be on delivering an efficient and effective policing service that works and is representative of everyone in society\".\n\nThe leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Sir Jeffrey Donaldson wished Mr Boutcher \"every success\" but said his appointment \"must not be a false dawn\".\n\nSir Jeffery said the DUP would engage with him to \"hear his plans to restore confidence and improve relations with the unionist community\".\n\nHe also thanked Mr Singleton \"for putting his name forward for consideration\" and wished him continued success with his career in policing.\n\nUlster Unionist Party (UUP) Policing Board member Mike Nesbitt welcomed the appointment and said Mr Boutcher had made a \"strong start\" as interim chief constable, improving morale and dealing with \"a number of challenging issues\".\n\n\"I feel we will see more of the same under his leadership and look forward to working with him through my position on the Policing Board,\" he said.\n\nJon Boutcher will seek to move the PSNI on quickly from what has been a damaging three months for policing.\n\nThe job of rebuilding morale internally is already under way.\n\nFixing the harm done to public confidence is the second part of the challenge.\n\nThe PSNI's financial situation probably overshadows all else.\n\nIt is £50m short of what it needs to balance the books for 2023-24 and mid-term the prognosis looks grim.\n\nUnless money is found, the force will continue to shrink in size.\n\nThere's been a warning of less neighbourhood patrolling and fewer detectives.\n\nExpect Mr Boutcher to use his appointment to make a fresh pitch for help from the Department of Justice and the NIO.\n\nMr Boutcher has spent the past five years overseeing an independent investigation into the activities of the Army's top spy within the IRA during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.\n\nHis Operation Kenova report into the agent, who was known as Stakeknife, is due to be published in the coming months.\n\nHe had previously applied to lead the Metropolitan Police after the resignation of Cressida Dick last year but he was unsuccessful in that process.\n\nHe was also unsuccessful in his bid to become PSNI chief constable in 2019, when the job eventually went to Mr Byrne.\n\nSimon Byrne quit as PSNI chief constable after a series of crises within the force\n\nThe PSNI has been without a chief constable for several weeks after Mr Byrne's resignation.\n\nHe quit after a series of controversies, including a court ruling that two junior officers were unlawfully disciplined and a number of data breaches within the force.\n\nMr Boutcher's contract is for five years but it can be extended thereafter.\n\nThe interview panel consisted of Ms Toner and independent Policing Board member Mukesh Sharma as well as board members Joanne Bunting of the DUP, Gerry Kelly of Sinn Féin and Alliance Party representative Nuala McAllister.", "Climate change could bring more lightning to forests in northern reaches of the globe, increasing the risk of wildfires, a new study shows.\n\nResearchers found that lightning is the main cause of fires similar to those seen in parts of Canada this summer.\n\nMore lightning could spark a vicious cycle, as trees and soil set ablaze release warming CO2 - creating more storms and potentially more lightning.\n\nWhile the overall number of fires has decreased around the world over the last two decades, they have increased markedly in heavily forested areas outside the tropics.\n\nThis year Canada experienced a fire season like no other - over 6,500 fires blazed, burning around 18 million hectares (45 million acres) of forest and land.\n\nSmoke from those fires drifted into major cities in Canada and the US, even crossing the Atlantic to Spain and Portugal.\n\nUnlike other years which saw fires confined to the western part of the country, 2023 was marked by conflagrations across the entire territory including in eastern regions like Quebec.\n\nThe majority of these fires in northern parts were started by lightning strikes according to experts.\n\nThis new study used machine learning tools to develop a new global map showing forest fires by their ignition sources.\n\nThe authors found that 77% of burned areas in these forests are related to lightning ignitions. This is very different from tropical regions where humans are the main cause.\n\nIn the remote forests where lightning is the main fire starter, these conflagrations can rapidly turn into mega-fires.\n\n\"When a thunderstorm passes through this landscape, there are thousands of lightning strikes, and some hundreds of them start little fires,\" said Prof Sander Veraverbeke from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, one of the authors on the research paper.\n\n\"And these can grow together into mega-fire complexes that become the size of small countries. Once these fires are so big, it becomes very difficult to do anything about them.\"\n\nUsing climate models, the authors also found that lightning frequency over intact northern forests would increase by 11-31% for every degree of global warming.\n\nThis poses a threat of increased emissions as the trees contain large amounts of carbon, as do the soils in which they grow.\n\nThese \"extratropical forests\" are often in regions of permafrost and fire may also amplify the emissions of greenhouse gases as the icy ground melts, by up to 30% by the end of this century under moderate levels of warming.\n\n\"Our research highlights that extratropical forests are vulnerable to the combined effects of a warmer, drier climate and a heightened likelihood of ignitions by lightning strikes,\" said Dr Matthew Jones from the University of East Anglia.\n\n\"Future increases in lightning ignitions threaten to destabilise vast carbon stores in extratropical forests, particularly as weather conditions become warmer, drier, and overall more fire-prone in these regions.\"\n\nWhile fires in tropical forests can be limited by education and intervention programmes to prevent people burning these areas, stemming fires from lightning is far more difficult.\n\nThe researchers believe the most effective step would be major cuts in emissions of warming gases which might in turn limit the rise in lighting strikes. The possibility of more fires as large as the ones seen in Canada this year should be a wake-up call, experts say.\n\n\"The fire season was unprecedented and hard for a lot of people to ignore,\" said Dr Katrina Moser from the University of Western Ontario, who wasn't involved in the study.\n\n\"But my take-home message is it's not too late to make a change. Take forest fires as a warning but not as reason to do nothing.\"", "Rishi Sunak has said he will hold the Met Police chief \"accountable\" over a pro-Palestinian march set to take place this Saturday, on Armistice Day.\n\nThe prime minister has criticised the timing of the demonstration in London as \"provocative and disrespectful\".\n\nSir Mark Rowley rejected calls by campaigners to ban the protest, saying such a move would be a \"last resort\".\n\nOrganisers insist their march will not go near commemorations and accuse the government of manufacturing a row.\n\nProtests have been held in London, and other cities globally, each Saturday since the Israel-Gaza war began.\n\nEarlier, Mr Sunak met the Met Police commissioner to seek \"reassurances\" that remembrance services would be safeguarded, saying there was a risk of \"those who seek to divide society using this weekend as a platform to do so\".\n\nIn a statement, he said police had confirmed the demonstration would be far from the Cenotaph - the focal point of remembrance services - but that Sir Mark would keep the matter under constant review based on latest intelligence.\n\nMr Sunak spoke of the immense sacrifices made for our freedom and peace today.\n\n\"Part of that freedom is the right to peacefully protest,\" he said. \"And the test of that freedom is whether our commitment to it can survive the discomfort and frustration of those who seek to use it, even if we disagree with them.\"\n\nThe organisers of the protest have resisted police pressure to postpone the demonstrations, and accuse the government of trying to undermine their cause.\n\nBen Jamal, of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign which is behind the march, said he believed the government was manufacturing a row and using the Armistice Day angle to try to \"delegitimise\" them.\n\n\"There's something particularly askew with an argument that says a protest calling for a ceasefire is somehow inappropriate on Armistice Day,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman has accused the police of being more lax on left-wing protests than those organised by nationalists or right-wing activists.\n\nWriting in the Times, she said there was \"a perception that senior police officers play favourites when it comes to protesters\".\n\nMs Braverman suggested there was a disparity in the policing of \"lockdown objectors\" and Black Lives Matter demonstrations, and said football fans were treated more harshly by the police than \"politically-connected minority groups who are favoured by the left\".\n\nThe home secretary has voiced her opposition to pro-Palestinian protests in the past, calling them \"hate marches\" in an interview with Sky News.\n\nProtest organiser Chris Nineham, from the Stop the War Coalition, said: \"We do everything we can as stewards to make sure there is nothing antisemitic or calling for violence in our demonstrations. For us, this isn't about religion, it isn't about race.\"\n\nDr Tom Thorpe, of the Western Front Association which organises the annual commemorations at the Cenotaph, said: \"We don't want to stop other people enjoying their democratic rights - and we don't want them to interfere with our assembly and our ceremony that we've been doing for the last 30 years.\"\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Sir Mark said the protest organisers had shown \"complete willingness to stay away from the Cenotaph and Whitehall and have no intention of disrupting the nation's remembrance events\".\n\nThe demonstration on 11 November is due to begin at 12:45, more than an hour after the traditional two-minute silence.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has accused the prime minister of \"picking a fight\" with the police over the planned pro-Palestinian demonstration.\n\nIn a post on X, Sir Keir said: \"Remembrance events must be respected. Full stop. But the person the PM needs to hold accountable is his Home Secretary.\"\n\nLabour's London Mayor Sadiq Khan said on X that the government should be supporting the Met, not making officers' jobs more difficult.\n\nAkshata Murty, the prime minister's wife, held a reception for Chelsea Pensioners at Downing Street ahead of Armistice Day\n\nOn Monday, the Met publicly urged organisers of the march to postpone the event, saying it would not be \"appropriate\".\n\nMr Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman also criticised the timing of the event, which tens of thousands of people are expected to attend, while Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood, the former defence minister, appealed to organisers to \"think again\" and hold the rally on another day.\n\nOn Tuesday, Sir Mark resisted calls, including from pressure group Campaign Against Antisemitism, to request powers from the home secretary to ban the march.\n\nThe group claimed previous marches met the threshold test for public disorder that would justify the ban.\n\n\"As we approach remembrance weekend, where we remember the heroes who defended our freedoms and fought against antisemitic hatred, we must honour their memory by banning demonstrations that abuse those freedoms to call for violence against Jews,\" the group said.\n\nSir Mark said that while police can request such powers if a threat of serious disorder emerges, the \"very high\" threshold for doing so had not yet been reached.\n\nHe added that the use of the power was \"incredibly rare\" and there must be no other way for police to manage the event.\n\nSir Mark said he was concerned about the escalating risk of disorder caused by splinter groups breaking off from the main demonstration on Saturday, saying the threat posed by them would be monitored this week.\n\nA former Metropolitan Police Commissioner is now urging for discussions around police operations for protests to be held privately, rather than aired publicly.\n\nIndependent crossbench peer Lord Hogan-Howe, who led the Met from 2011 to 2017, said: \"We all know that there is a real challenge, both for politicians and the police, in deciding whether to ban a march. Never easy, very rarely done.\n\n\"These are difficult decisions where you are trying to balance the right to protest against the problem of serious disorder. I do worry that the pressures that are being placed on the police at the moment don't always form wise judgments in the end.\"\n\nEarlier, Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer said he fully recognised \"the tensions at play\" but urged people to come to London for remembrance events.\n\n\"I know that elderly veterans will be coming to London and measures will all be in place to make sure that people can go about remembrance in the way they want to unmolested by any of the other events taking place this weekend,\" Mr Mercer said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What Ivanka Trump didn't 'recall' on the stand\n\nIvanka Trump said she could not remember property deals she handled at her father's firm, as she testified in a civil fraud case that threatens his business empire.\n\nA judge has already found Donald Trump and two adult sons, Eric and Donald Jr, liable for fraud, ruling they inflated assets to secure favourable loans.\n\nIvanka Trump, 42, was initially a co-defendant, too, until an appeals court ruling in her favour this year.\n\nThe mother-of-three had argued she could not leave her children in Florida during a school week.\n\nBut a New York judge and appeals court ruled she must take the stand as a witness.\n\nThis is a non-jury trial, in which the judge will decide on allegations of falsifying business records, insurance fraud and conspiracy.\n\nMr Trump - the former US president and Republican frontrunner for next year's White House election - could be stripped of prized assets like Trump Tower. He and his sons deny wrongdoing.\n\nNew York Attorney General Letitia James, whose office filed the lawsuit, is seeking $250m (£204m) in fines and severe restrictions on how the Trump business operates in the state.\n\nDuring four hours of testimony in the New York Supreme Court in lower Manhattan on Wednesday, Ms Trump spoke softly into the microphone, sitting upright with her hands in her lap, at times smiling brightly.\n\nIn composed and succinct responses, she repeatedly said she did not recall specifics, or was not aware.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Donald and Ivanka Trump over the years... in 90 seconds\n\nLike her two brothers in their testimony last week, Ms Trump distanced herself from documents central to the case - her father's financial statements, in which assets were allegedly inflated to secure better loan deals.\n\n\"I wasn't involved in his statement of financial condition,\" Ms Trump said. \"That would have been the company.\"\n\nAs they did with her brothers, lawyers for the state attorney general's office showed Ms Trump a series of emails meant to bolster their case, asking if she recognised the messages.\n\nThey pressed her on her role in securing loans from Deutsche Bank for the Trump National Doral Miami, the Old Post Office in Washington DC and Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago.\n\nAt one point state attorneys produced an email she wrote to then-Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg about a loan.\n\n\"It doesn't get better than this,\" she wrote.\n\nShe said she did not remember that message.\n\nHer responses frustrated Louis Solomon, the state lawyer questioning her.\n\n\"She just spent three minutes describing the plaza hotel,\" he shouted, \"but she has no recollection when I ask her a question.\n\nNew York Attorney General Letitia James has brought the case\n\nDefence lawyers began cross-examining Ms Trump in the afternoon, marking the first time they have questioned a Trump family member in this trial.\n\nThey asked her a series of direct questions about her role in company financial statements, to each of which she replied that she had no involvement at all.\n\nThe defence team also sought to portray a harmonious relationship between the Trumps and their loan provider, Deutsche Bank.\n\nThe Trump lawyers have previously argued that banks were happy to do business with the family and incurred no harm from the relationship.\n\nToward the end of the day, tensions began to flare as Judge Engoron argued the defence was wasting time, calling one Trump attorney Jesus Saurez's questions \"ridiculous\". Mr Suarez lost his temper after hearing the attorney general's team laugh at his questions from the bench behind him. The Trumps' legal team argued once again that the judge was biased for siding with prosecutors' objections to Mr Suarez's questioning. \"Your constant insinuations that I have some sort of double standard…it's just not true,\" Mr Engoron said in response.\n\nNonetheless, University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias told the BBC that Ms Trump's testimony was much less combative than her father's time on the witness stand on Monday.\n\nAnd her evidence could ultimately aid the former president, said Prof Tobias.\n\n\"The attorney general's counsel was able to introduce some documents that appeared helpful to their case,\" he said.\n\n\"But counsel did not seem to elicit much information from Ms Trump's testimony that was very damaging to Mr Trump.\"\n\nNew York's attorney general said on the courthouse steps on Wednesday morning that Ivanka Trump was \"very much involved\" in the family enterprise.\n\nFrom 2011-17, she was a top executive at the Trump Organization alongside her brothers Donald Jr and Eric.\n\nAs head of development and acquisitions, she played a key role in the types of real estate deals and loans at the heart of the case, say state attorneys.\n\nThe interest rates on the loans were low because they required a personal guarantee from Mr Trump and evidence of his liquidity and net worth.\n\nState attorneys argue that Mr Trump's annual financial statements were central to those loans and saved him more than $100m.\n\nMr Trump has taken several times to his social media platform, Truth Social, to defend his children.\n\nHours before Ms Trump's testimony, he said his \"wonderful and beautiful daughter\" was being unfairly dragged into the case.\n\nThe trial is expected to last until mid-December.", "Luis Manuel Díaz is said to be in good health after his release\n\nColombian-born Liverpool footballer Luis Díaz's father has been released by the left-wing guerrillas who kidnapped him 13 days ago, police sources and local media say.\n\nLuis Manuel Díaz was handed over to United Nations and Catholic church officials by members of the National Liberation Army (ELN).\n\nHe was abducted on 28 October in the family's hometown, Barrancas.\n\nThe footballer's mother was also seized, but was freed within hours.\n\nLocal media said Mr Díaz had travelled by military helicopter to the city of Valledupar, where he would undergo a medical examination before being returned to his family.\n\nThey also quoted authorities as saying that he was in a good state of health, with no signs of mistreatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAccording to El Tiempo newspaper, there were tearful scenes in the neighbourhood where the couple lived, with family members taking to their cars to drive through the streets in celebration.\n\nMost of them were dressed in Liverpool team shirts bearing the number 23 and Luis Díaz's name.\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp told TNT Sports that the footballer was \"really happy\".\n\n\"We are delighted by the news of [Luis Díaz's] father's safe return and we thank all those involved in securing his release,\" the club said on Twitter.\n\nLuis Alfonso Díaz, a cousin of the footballer's father, told Caracol Radio that it was \"emotional\" to learn that he had been freed \"after so many days of sadness\".\n\n\"We feel a great satisfaction, we are glad that it's come to an end,\" he added.\n\nPresident Gustavo Petro reacted on X, formerly Twitter, with the message: \"Long live Freedom and Peace.\"\n\nThe Colombian Football Federation issued a statement thanking all those responsible for Luis Manuel Díaz's release, including the government, the military and the police.\n\nIt added: \"Football is passion in peace. Let no-one ever think of attacking that reality again.\"\n\nDíaz scored on Sunday, lifting his shirt to reveal the words in Spanish \"freedom for papa\"\n\nOn the day of the kidnap attack, the couple was accosted by the gunmen as they had stopped at a petrol station in Barrancas, in the northern province of La Guajira.\n\nThe kidnappers later abandoned Luis Díaz's mother, Cilenis Marulanda, in a car as police closed in, but dragged away his father.\n\nPolice originally said that a criminal gang was most likely to blame.\n\nBut a government delegation - which is currently engaged in peace talks with the rebel group - later said that it had \"official knowledge\" that the kidnapping had been carried out by \"a unit belonging to the ELN\".\n\nThe ELN is Colombia's main remaining active guerrilla group. It has been fighting the state since 1964 and has an estimated 2,500 members.\n\nIt is most active in the border region with Venezuela, where Luis Manuel Díaz and his wife live.\n\nThe kidnapping caused outrage in Colombia, where Luis Díaz - who is part of Colombia's national team - is immensely popular.\n\nHis Liverpool team has also shown its unwavering support. Díaz scored a goal against Luton Town on Sunday, lifting his shirt to reveal the words in Spanish \"freedom for papa\".\n\n\"Every second, every minute our anxiety grows,\" Díaz, 26, said in a statement released shortly after the match in England's Premier League.\n\nThe ELN has an estimated 2,500 members", "The protest happened in January in the Atlantic\n\nShell is suing Greenpeace for $2.1m (£1.7m) in damages after environmental protesters occupied a vessel transporting one of the oil company's floating platforms earlier this year.\n\nActivists boarded the White Marlin ship north of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic in January.\n\nShell said it was entitled to recover \"the significant costs of responding to Greenpeace's dangerous actions\".\n\nHowever, Greenpeace said it planned to contest the action.\n\nThe environmental group described it as \"one of the biggest legal threats\" in its history.\n\nThe White Marlin was transporting the platform to Shell's Penguins oilfield in the North Sea when it was occupied.\n\nThe Penguins field, which was discovered in 1974, is about 150 miles (241km) north east of Shetland.\n\nActivists campaigning against fossil fuels and oil drilling used inflatable boats to reach the Shell-contracted ship, before hoisting themselves onto it with ropes.\n\nThey remained on board for 13 days until the ship reached Norway.\n\nActivists boarded the White Marlin ship north of the Canary Islands\n\nAt the time Shell was granted an injunction to prevent more activists boarding. Now court papers show it is seeking damages from Greenpeace.\n\nA Shell statement said: \"The right to protest is fundamental and we respect it absolutely. But it must be done safely and lawfully.\n\n\"The legal costs to secure two court injunctions to prevent further boarding were significant. So were the costs for the companies who had to deal with the action at sea, for example by mobilising an extra safety vessel, and increasing security at the port.\n\n\"The safety of the protesters - as well as the crew - was paramount. Rightly, we did not hesitate to put in place measures to protect all people involved.\n\n\"Shell and its contractors are entitled to recover the significant costs of responding to Greenpeace's dangerous actions.\"\n\nGreenpeace said: \"The claim is one of the biggest legal threats against the Greenpeace network's ability to campaign in the organisation's more than 50-year history.\"\n\nThe group said Shell offered to reduce its damage claim to $1.4m (£1.14m) if Greenpeace's activists agreed not to protest again at any of Shell's oil and gas infrastructure at sea or in port.\n\nGreenpeace said it would only do so if Shell complied with a 2021 Dutch court order to cut its emissions by 45% by 2030, which Shell has appealed.\n\nProtests at sea are an established part of Greenpeace's operations.", "The Princess of Wales has made her first visit to 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards after being appointed Colonel-in-Chief in August.\n\nAt their base in Norfolk, Catherine drove a Jackal 2 armoured vehicle , flew a drone and also met the guard's mascot, Emrys Jones the Welsh Mountain Pony.\n\nKing Charles III previously held the position of Colonel-in-Chief while he was the Prince of Wales, and before him the first post holder was Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.", "The questioning moves to the issue of domestic abuse during the pandemic.\n\nA memo is shown to the inquiry raising concerns about the risk of it happening in lockdown, stressing the need for a speedy response to the issue.\n\nLiz Davies KC, who is focusing on domestic abuse during the pandemic, suggests the memo is the first time the issue has been documented, three days into lockdown.\n\nPatel says there may be other informal documents on the issue.\n\nDavies insists there is no other mention of tackling domestic abuse in everything that has been disclosed to the inquiry.\n\nPatel says a wide range of discussions were taking place in the Home Office in the run up to lockdown.", "Police officers guarded The Cenotaph during protests last month\n\nAnd it's cranked up further, again, with yet another intervention from the home secretary, this time accusing the police of bias.\n\nIt is quite the claim. And it is there in black and white in Suella Braverman's article in The Times.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there is a perception that senior police officers play favourites when it comes to protesters,\" she writes.\n\nSo did Downing Street sign off these words?\n\nA No 10 source wouldn't comment on \"internal processes\" when asked if they had seen the home secretary's article before it was published. Those around Mrs Braverman claimed Downing Street had seen the full text in advance.\n\nI note those two positions don't tessellate as neatly as they could.\n\nAnd the beginnings of what might become an almighty row within the Conservative Party are brewing.\n\nOne senior figure told me: \"These latest comments are unhinged.\"\n\nAnother party source said her remarks on Northern Ireland were \"wholly offensive and ignorant\".\n\nIn her article, Mrs Braverman writes: \"I do not believe that these marches are merely a cry for help for Gaza. They are an assertion of primacy by certain groups - particularly Islamists - of the kind we are more used to seeing in Northern Ireland. Also disturbingly reminiscent of Ulster are the reports that some of Saturday's march group organisers have links to terrorist groups, including Hamas.\"\n\nFor the last four Saturdays, parts of central London have been full of pro-Palestinian marchers.\n\nAnother demonstration and march is planned this Saturday.\n\nBut this Saturday is Armistice Day, and so a question: should a march go ahead on a day of commemoration?\n\nThere is what politicians might say about this.\n\nThere is what demonstrators might say about this.\n\nAnd there is what the law says about this.\n\nLet's look first at the law - and in particular, the Public Order Act 1986, section 13.\n\nIt spells out that if the \"Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis\" or, to use more everyday language, the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, concludes there is a risk of \"serious public disorder\" they can ask the home secretary to ban the march.\n\n(Incidentally, there is no mechanism to ban a static protest, as opposed to a moving one, a march).\n\nCrucially, in this case, the Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, says there isn't intelligence suggesting there will be serious public disorder, and so he believes he doesn't need to ask the home secretary to ban it.\n\nThe prime minister said he thought the demonstration was \"disrespectful\".\n\nAnd yes, some found it despicable that a video appeared to show a man shouting \"jihad\" at a separate event from one of the main marches last month.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police say since the horrific attacks on Israel a month ago, it has made a total of 188 arrests involving \"hate crimes and acts such as violence\" linked to protests in the capital.\n\nWhat is notable here is plenty of rows within and between public bodies happen every day - many out of public sight.\n\nBut the prime minister and home secretary are actively choosing to publicise this one - and continue to lean into it.\n\nRishi Sunak stressed it was the commissioner's decision and \"my job is to hold him accountable for that\".\n\nThis involved Sir Mark being called into Downing Street.\n\nFor his part, he had already said: \"Matters of taste and decency, whilst I understand them, aren't for us. The reason we have an independent police service is my concern and our concern is two things. It is the law. And the facts as they are today.\"\n\nAnd those facts, he claims, don't point to serious public disorder.\n\nThat could change, but it hasn't yet.\n\nBen Jamal of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, the march organisers, told me \"there was something askew with an argument that says a protest calling for a ceasefire is somehow inappropriate on Armistice Day\".\n\nHe concludes the government has manufactured this row.\n\nThe shadow home secretary, Labour's Yvette Cooper, claimed: \"Suella Braverman is out of control… No other Home Secretary of any party would ever do this.\"\n\nBut perhaps the most memorable conversation I've had about all this was with the Western Front Association.\n\nThey are the organisers of the Armistice Day commemorations at the Cenotaph on Whitehall.\n\nIn other words, the organisers of the very event the prime minister and home secretary are seeking to defend.\n\nAnd yet they were at pains to try to avoid being dragged into all this.\n\nAfter the meeting between the commissioner and the prime minister, Rishi Sunak confirmed that the march was going ahead.\n\nThe route, as had been known for some time, isn't going very close to the Cenotaph.\n\nAnd it isn't starting until midday, in Hyde Park, an hour after the two-minute silence in Westminster.\n\nHe added that \"there remains the risk of those who seek to divide society using this weekend as a platform to do so\", and - rather archly - described the Metropolitan Police's judgement as a \"posture\".\n\nThere are highly political roles in public life that don't involve being a capital P politician.\n\nBeing the Metropolitan Police commissioner is one of them.\n\nSources at Scotland Yard said they wouldn't respond to the home secretary's remarks and their focus was on planning for events this weekend.", "Aaron James lost his nose, mouth and left eye in a work-related accident. Surgeons in New York successfully performed the reconstruction that included a whole-eye implant. His vision was not restored, but the first-of-its-kind procedure may help advance transplant medicine.\n\n“If some form of vision restoration occurred, it would be wonderful, but... the goal was for us to perform the technical operation,” said the chief surgeon, Dr Eduardo Rodriguez.", "Chris Harris (left), Paddy McGuinness (centre) and Andrew Flintoff have hosted the show together since 2019\n\nTop Gear co-host Chris Harris has said Andrew \"Freddie\" Flintoff is \"healing\" following his crash while filming for the show almost a year ago.\n\nFormer cricketer Flintoff was injured at Top Gear's test track last December.\n\nThe BBC has apologised to him, suspended the series and paid him compensation worth a reported £9m.\n\nHarris told BBC Breakfast on Thursday: \"I think he's healing. It was a serious incident. I'm not going to say any more than that.\"\n\nThe crash happened at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey, but few details have been made public.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Breakfast This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHarris, who was speaking to promote his memoir, continued: \"As I've said in the book and in the few interviews I've given, I'm so proud of the fact that team Top Gear kept everything quiet and we were dignified.\n\n\"There is nothing out there about what happened. There won't be. There's no mole in the organisation. I'm really proud of that.\"\n\nIn his book, titled Variable Valve Timings, Harris writes: \"I was there that day and the only thing I want to say on the subject is that I'm happy he's still with us.\"\n\nSpeaking to the Times, Harris said: \"I'm just over the moon that my friend Fred is still with us.\n\n\"If there is only one good thing that comes out of it, it is that there's been dignity. Fred's been given the time to heal. It's been a tough time. I defy anyone to not care about their friends if they get injured. I do.\"\n\nFlintoff's legal team told the Sun newspaper in October that the star was recovering from \"life-alteringly significant\" injuries.\n\nIn September, Flintoff was pictured for the first time since the accident\n\nHe made his first steps back into the public eye in September when he joined the England coaching set-up on an informal basis for the one-day international series against New Zealand and Ireland.\n\nThe 45-year-old was pictured with scars on his face, and in a video released by England Cricket he talked about \"the hardest times of your life\" in reference to his recent experiences.\n\n\"It's great to see him out and about being passionate about cricket,\" Harris told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"I'm sad I'm not doing Top Gear with him at the moment, but that's life. It's the best thing for him right now.\"\n\nDiscussing the impact the crash had on his own life, Harris said the show's abrupt hiatus had left him in a \"slightly dark place\".\n\n\"I suddenly had nothing to do,\" Harris said. \"I have got another business, which is an online car platform, which is great. I do stuff there.\n\n\"But my day job went, and you can imagine, your muscle memory of working life is really important. If that suddenly stops... and suddenly you don't talk to those people, you don't see those people, then yeah, you go into a slightly dark place, I think. I really missed it.\"\n\nHarris has been on the Top Gear line-up since 2016. Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness joined in 2019.\n\nThe show's future is still uncertain following Flintoff's accident. In March, the BBC said there would be a health and safety review of the programme, undertaken by an independent third party.\n\nA spokesperson for the Heath and Safety Executive, the national regulator for workplace safety, said in March it had completed its inquiries into the incident and would not be investigating further.", "Dr Maisara Al Rayyes (R) and his fiancée are both former Chevening scholars\n\nA Palestinian doctor who graduated from a prestigious UK Foreign Office scholarship scheme is feared to have been killed along with most of his family in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, colleagues say.\n\nDr Maisara Al Rayyes, 30, was photographed with Foreign Secretary James Cleverly after meeting him alongside other graduates of the programme two months ago.\n\nHe was trapped under the rubble of a six-storey apartment building which was razed to the ground in Gaza City on Sunday night.\n\nThe UK's handling of the case has triggered anger among some Foreign Office staff, the BBC understands, amid wider complaints over a failure to explicitly highlight the spiralling civilian death toll in Gaza.\n\nIt has also sparked a fierce backlash from some of the medic's former colleagues and scholarship members.\n\nDr Al Rayyes was a graduate of the Chevening Scholarship scheme, an elite programme run by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).\n\nThe scheme is seen as a pillar of British diplomatic prowess, funding places at UK universities for overseas applicants it describes as global \"leaders and decision-makers\" of the future. More than 15 Chevening graduates have gone on to become heads of state.\n\nThe story of Dr Al Rayyes, who won funding for a master's degree in health at King's College London, was embraced by the Foreign Office especially as he met his fiancée, another Chevening scholar, via the programme.\n\nIn September he was chosen among a select group of graduates to meet the Foreign Secretary in Jerusalem.\n\nDr Al Rayyes and other Chevening alumni met UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly two months ago\n\nOn Monday, Dr Al Rayyes's parents and a nephew were found dead in the rubble of the family home, friends say, while Dr Al Rayyes himself is yet to be recovered.\n\nIt has not been possible for BBC journalists to visit the scene to verify what happened on the ground. Videos of the aftermath show the apartment block completely collapsed, with the concrete structure of each floor compressed into the next, forming a vast area of compacted wreckage and tangled metal.\n\nThe Israeli military declined to respond to questions about the incident.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, the BBC attempted to make contact with Dr Al Rayyes's younger brother Moayed who was said to have witnessed the strike from a neighbouring house. He was spending a third day along with another sibling searching for Dr Al Rayyes in the rubble.\n\nBut on Wednesday afternoon while still trying to reach their brother, Moayed and his older sibling Mohammed Al Rayyes were killed in another blast on the street, family friends say.\n\nVideo showed their bodies on top of the wreckage. A local journalist documenting the rescue scene was also wounded.\n\nThe Foreign Office on Wednesday said it was \"devastated\" and offered condolences to the surviving family and \"Chevening Alumni community\" over the death of Dr Al Rayyes but didn't give any details about what happened to him, or where.\n\nThe post triggered a storm of criticism from users on X, previously known as Twitter, including from some of his former medical colleagues who accused the UK of trying to avoid any criticism of Israel.\n\nThe handling of his case also sparked \"huge amounts of discontent\" among some UK officials who felt the death announcement was not placed in context, according to accounts of events described to the BBC.\n\nIt is also understood \"staff counsellors\" in the Foreign Office have been collating internal concerns raised about the government's position on the Israel-Hamas war, and briefing senior officials on their contents.\n\nThese have included claims the government has shown a permissive approach to Israel \"breaching international humanitarian law\" given the unprecedented scale of the civilian death toll in Gaza, and that this could damage wider foreign policy, for example, when it comes to highlighting breaches of the global rules-based order by Russia in Ukraine.\n\nOn Monday, a group representing Chevening graduates in 28 countries wrote to the foreign secretary pleading with him to protect their colleagues and \"focus on the needs and safety of Chevening Alumni\" in Gaza and \"work towards an immediate ceasefire\".\n\nOne Chevening graduate has since accused the Foreign Office of whitewashing Dr Al Rayyes's death.\n\nHala Hanini, a Chevening graduate and close friend of Dr Al Rayyes, told the BBC it was \"disgusting, disappointing and outrageous\" that the government tweeted its sympathies but did not raise any questions over how he was killed.\n\n\"It's as if he just died of normal things,\" she said. \"[UK ministers] claim that Israel has the right to self defence but… it actually has responsibilities over the occupied people to provide them with safety, security… [instead] they are committing genocide and calling it in a false way self-defence,\" she said, accusing the UK of failing to uphold international law.\n\nAsked about the concerns raised, the FCDO declined to comment, telling the BBC \"we wouldn't have anything to add beyond the tweet\" about Dr Al Rayyes.\n\nIn Gaza more than 10,500 Palestinians have been killed in just over a month according to the health ministry in the territory, which is governed by Hamas and has been blockaded by Israel and Egypt since 2007.\n\nThe UK government has previously given its \"unequivocal\" support to Israel saying it has a \"right to defend itself\" following the 7 October attacks by Hamas which saw 1,400 people killed and more than 240 taken hostage.\n\nThe UK has also called on Israel to observe international humanitarian law in its response.\n\nIsrael says its strikes have targeted \"Hamas terrorists and infrastructure\", blaming the group for deaths of civilians by using them as \"human shields\".\n\nMany Palestinians accuse the Israeli military of deliberately targeting civilians in order to add to the pressure on Hamas. Israel has said it will not agree to any pause in the fighting until hostages are released.", "About one million people in England are on more than one waiting list for treatment, it has been revealed for the first time, as the NHS backlog hits a new record high.\n\nThere were 7.77 million waits for non-emergency care at the end of September - up from 7.75 million in August.\n\nBut analysis by NHS England has found that includes many people who are waiting for more than one treatment.\n\nMost are on two or three waiting lists, but some will be on up to five.\n\nMany will be elderly people waiting for a variety of non-emergency treatments, including everything from knee and hip replacements to those who may need drug therapies or physio.\n\nThe fresh insight has been provided after NHS England drilled down into the figures by using patients' unique NHS numbers.\n\nIt showed the backlog of 7.77 million waits involved an estimated 6.5 million patients - around 1 million of whom were waiting for more than one treatment.\n\nThe waiting list is now nearly 3.5 million higher than it was before the pandemic.\n\nRoyal College of Nursing chief nurse Prof Nicola Ranger said the government \"had lost control\" of waiting times.\n\n\"These lists have been growing for years and the shortage of nurses is one of the fundamental causes,\" she added.\n\nAre you on one or more waiting list? Are you having to pay privately for treatment? Get in touch.\n\nThe backlog has continued rising this year despite the prime minister's pledge to cut down waiting lists.\n\nHowever, progress has been made on tackling the longest waits of more than 18 months.\n\nRishi Sunak has blamed strikes for the lack of progress.\n\nThe continued industrial action is estimated to have cost the NHS £1bn in this financial year in paying premium rates to staff to cover shifts, and in planning and preparing for walkouts.\n\nThe ones by doctors have proved to be the most disruptive - and still remain unresolved, although talks are under way between the government and the British Medical Association.\n\nThe NHS had asked for extra funding to cover the cost of strikes.\n\nBut this week it emerged its plea had been rejected, with the Treasury only agreeing to an extra £100m.\n\nInstead, the NHS has been told it will have to use £200m of winter money and raid other budgets, including those originally earmarked for IT and maintenance, to tackle the backlog.\n\nIn return, the target for the amount of treatments the NHS is expected to have carried out has been relaxed - a further sign that the government accepts its push to tackle the backlog will take longer than first hoped.\n\nSaffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospitals, said there was a \"deep sense of frustration\" about the lack of extra funding.\n\n\"This will undoubtedly have knock-on consequences for the health service and patient care.\"\n• None Shop around on NHS app to shorten treatment wait", "The stars of The Iron Claw, including Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White, found out about the deal at the film's premiere\n\nUS actors are expected to resume work after their union agreed a tentative deal with Hollywood studios to end a four-month strike.\n\nSag-Aftra reached agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and TV Producers (AMPTP) in a unanimous vote.\n\nThe shutdown - combined with a separate writers' strike - paralysed the entertainment industry and disrupted numerous major films and TV shows.\n\nActors have been calling for better pay and safeguards on the use of AI.\n\nSag-Aftra president Fran Drescher posted: \"We did it!!!!\" She thanked members \"for hanging in and holding out for this historic deal!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sag-Aftra actors get a new contract. What's in it?\n\nActors have welcomed the deal, with Zac Efron describing it as \"incredible\" at the premiere for his wrestling film The Iron Claw.\n\nEfron's co-star Jeremy Allen White, who stars in TV drama The Bear, found out the strike was over during an interview on the red carpet with Entertainment Tonight. \"That's amazing!\" he exclaimed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Entertainment Tonight This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOscar winner Octavia Spencer wrote on social media: \"Who else is dancing right now??? Ready to work now that the strike is over! Congratulations and thank you to our @sagaftra negotiating committee!\"\n\nJamie Lee Curtis posted on Instagram that \"perseverance pays off\".\n\nThis Is Us star Mandy Moore said on her Instagram story: \"Let's get back to work, friends!\"\n\nShe added: \"Thank you @sagaftra negotiators and leadership for getting us over the finish line!!! Gratitude is the attitude!!\"\n\nAlec Baldwin offered his \"congratulations to everyone who did this great work on behalf of the members\", in a post on Instagram.\n\nThe actors' and writers' strikes led production on major TV shows and films to grind to a halt\n\nSag-Aftra chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland told Reuters there were \"definitely some tears, a lot of big smiles, a lot of hugs\" when the agreement was reached.\n\nThe three-year contract would \"make a long-term difference for the future of our members in this industry\", he said.\n\nThe union said the deal was valued at more than $1bn (£814m) and included increases in minimum salaries, a new \"streaming participation\" bonus, and more protections against their images and voices being replicated by artificial intelligence.\n\nSag-Aftra said the strike would officially end on Thursday, with more details released following a meeting on Friday.\n\nUnion negotiating committee member Kevin E West told Variety that there were \"tears of exhilaration and joy\" after the contract was approved, but that the agreement was \"not perfect\".\n\nFellow committee member Shaan Sharma told the New York Times he had mixed emotions because not all of the union's demands were met.\n\n\"You can be happy for the deal overall, but you can feel a sense of loss for something that you didn't get that you thought was important,\" he said.\n\nAMPTP said it was pleased to have reached the tentative agreement and \"looks forward to the industry resuming the work of telling great stories\".\n\nIt said the deal gave Sag-Aftra \"the biggest contract-on-contract gains in the history of the union\".\n\nIn addition to increased pay and AI guarantees, Sag-Aftra has called for increased royalties and higher contributions to actors' pension and health plans.\n\nSag-Aftra represents about 160,000 members and has been on strike since July 14, causing major disruption and knock-on effects for those in all branches of the film and TV industry, and in countries like the UK as well as the US.\n\nDisney/Marvel's Blade, Dune: Part Two and Fantastic Four have all been delayed by several months, while Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars have also been pushed back by a year.\n\nLive action remakes of Disney animations Moana and Lilo & Stitch have also been affected, as has James Cameron's Avatar series and Paddington in Peru.\n\nAs well as film delays, Hollywood stars have also not been attending some events such as premieres while the strike has been taking place, as union rules prohibit them from taking any work, including promotion or publicity for projects.\n\nSome productions, like The Iron Claw, had an \"interim agreement\", meaning stars could do interviews and attend the premiere.\n\nActors had also not been allowed to attend awards ceremonies, meaning the Emmys - TV's biggest night - were delayed from their usual September slot.\n\nThe Emmys ceremony will take place in January instead, and organisers of events like the Oscars are likely to be breathing a sigh of relief that stars can hit the red carpet when the movie awards season kicks off in the New Year.\n\nThe Writers Guild of America (WGA) ended its separate strike in September, after almost five months.\n\nThe combination of the actors' and writers' strikes is estimated to have cost the California economy more than $6.5bn (£5.3bn) so far, according to Deadline.\n\nLos Angeles Mayor Karen Bass welcomed the \"fair agreement\", and said the strikes had impacted \"millions\" in Los Angeles and throughout the country.\n\nAlthough Hollywood's star actors earn millions of dollars, many lesser-known performers often struggle to get by, particularly amid rising inflation and industry changes.", "A man has been arrested on suspicion of a number of driving and drug offences after a high-speed chase on the M6 motorway in Cheshire.\n\nOfficers tried to stop the vehicle on the A49 near Stretton, Warrington, and gave chase when the driver took off and drove his car into oncoming traffic.\n\nThe 34-year-old man from Manchester was arrested on a number of offences, including suspicion of dangerous driving, failing to stop for police, using a cloned number plate, and driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol.", "Anthony Daniels is selling a C-3PO head used on screen in the original Star Wars movie, A New Hope\n\nThe actor who played C-3PO in Star Wars said \"it feels like it is time\" to sell the costumes, props and scripts he kept from the iconic films.\n\nAnthony Daniels, 77, is parting company with items from his personal collection via Hertfordshire-based auctioneer Propstore from Thursday.\n\nThe famous gold helmet he wore for his character in the first film from 1977 is estimated to sell for up to £1m.\n\nDaniels said he was excited for his collection to \"find a good home\".\n\n\"I realised I had these items and they're not unloved but they are unlooked at - we don't have them crowding the sitting room,\" he said, explaining why he has chosen to sell the items now.\n\n\"Will I feel sad to part with them? No. I will enjoy the fact people will cherish and display them.\"\n\nOther items in the auction include a cereal box with C-3PO on the cover, character themed ties and a Star Wars Christmas album where Anthony Daniels provides lead vocals\n\nHe has put nearly 200 items up for sale at the auction including part of his C-3PO costume, scripts he used during production and even parts of legendary spaceship the Millennium Falcon.\n\n\"I did rescue those pieces of the Millennium Falcon from a bonfire at the back of Elstree Studios after production finished on Return of the Jedi,\" he recalled.\n\nIt is estimated those various scraps of Han Solo's beloved ship could sell for a total of £9,000.\n\nHis hand-annotated dubbing scripts for The Empire Strikes Back could sell for more than £1,000.\n\nHe said: \"Those are so real, it takes me back to standing in front of the dubbing screen.\"\n\nAnthony Daniels is the only Star Wars actor to appear in every Star Wars film\n\nThe actor does still have some Star Wars memorabilia on display in his home.\n\nHe has a small Lego brick statue of his character he was given after working on a Star Wars Lego film.\n\nHe also has a C-3PO statuette, designed to look like an Oscar, which he kept from production company Lucasfilm.\n\nThe Wiltshire-born thespian said he has no plans to auction those, \"I'll take those to the grave\" he said, firmly.\n\nDaniels revealed while working on the final film of the saga, 2019's Rise of Skywalker, he was told he could take items off the set if he wanted, \"but I've got enough,\" he added.\n\nAnthony Daniels said he has given away a lot of memorabilia over the years, especially Star Wars toys\n\nPropstore will start auctioning various items from film and TV, including the C-3PO head, on Thursday at BAFTA's Piccadilly base in London.\n\nThe actor, who will be attending the auction, said he feels \"very good about it and very excited\" about the event.\n\nThe auction will last until Sunday with most items from the Daniels' collection expected to go under the hammer on Saturday.\n\n\"Propstore have beautifully and carefully curated the collection.\n\n\"In a curious way it means more to them than it does to me, because I have the real memories - I was there,\" he said.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alfie Lewis, 15, was stabbed in Horsforth, Leeds, just before 15:00 GMT on Tuesday and died from his injuries\n\nA 14-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with murder after a teenager was fatally stabbed near a school in Leeds.\n\nAlfie Lewis, 15, was stabbed near St Margaret's Primary School in Horsforth just before 15:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nThe former Horsforth School student later died in hospital, police said.\n\nAt Leeds Magistrates' Court, the charged boy was remanded in custody and told to reappear at the city's crown court on Friday.\n\nHe has also been charged with possession of a knife.\n\nThe boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, spoke to confirm his name and address.\n\nHe told the judge he understood that the charges he faced could only be dealt with at a crown court.\n\nIn a statement released on Wednesday, Alfie's family said he was \"one in a million\" and \"you will always be with us forever\".\n\nThey added: \"Nothing will ever be the same without you.\n\n\"You will shine in the sky, as bright as you did in all our lives.\"\n\nFloral tributes were left at a bench on Broadgate Lane, Horsforth following Alfie's death\n\nA 16-year-old boy who was also arrested on suspicion of murder on Tuesday evening has been released without charge.\n\nTributes were left at the scene on Wednesday morning and a bench on Broadgate Lane, about half a mile from where Alfie was stabbed, was adorned with flowers and tealights spelling out his name.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n• None Stabbed boy was 'one in a million', say family\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A pro-Palestinian march due to take place on Armistice Day would only be banned as a \"last resort\", the Metropolitan Police Commissioner said.\n\nSir Mark Rowley vowed officers would do all they could to protect remembrance activities and Jewish communities.\n\nWhile he said police could not ban static protests under UK law, they can request the power to stop a march if a threat of serious disorder emerges.\n\nBut he said the \"very high\" threshold had not yet been reached.\n\nSir Mark added that use of the power was \"incredibly rare\" and there must be no other way for police to manage the event.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak will meet the Met chief later on Wednesday. Mr Sunak said he would be asking for information on how the police can ensure the public are kept safe over remembrance weekend.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on Tuesday, Sir Mark said: \"At the moment, the organisers are still putting the final stages to their plans - which, to be fair to them, are some way away from the ceremonial footprint in Whitehall.\n\n\"They're putting the final touches to those, we're looking alongside that at what conditions we might need to do to reinforce the protection of critical events and of Jewish communities and the like.\n\n\"If over the next few days the intelligence evolves further and we get to such a high threshold - and it's only been done once in a decade where we need to say to the home secretary 'we think we need to ban the march element' - then of course we will do.\"\n\n\"But that's a last resort that we haven't reached yet. People should be very reassured that we are going to keep this all away from the remembrance and Armistice events.\"\n\nHe added: \"There will be a protest this weekend - the law provides no mechanism to ban a gathering, a static protest, a rally, anything like that... if the organisers want that, then it will happen.\"\n\nOn Monday, the force publicly urged organisers to postpone the event, which is due to take place in central London, saying it would not be \"appropriate\".\n\nBoth Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman have criticised the timing of the march on 11 November, which thousands are expected to attend.\n\nA Remembrance event is due to take place at the Royal Albert Hall the same day, as well as a national two minute's silence.\n\nBut organisers have refused to postpone despite public pressure from police and politicians, pointing out the planned route does not go past the Cenotaph war memorial and the march is due to start after the two minute's silence.\n\nConservative MP Tobias Ellwood, the former defence minister, told BBC Radio 4 Today's programme on Wednesday it would be \"highly inappropriate\" for demonstrations to overshadow a weekend of reflection.\n\n\"It will put a strain on public order policing, but more importantly, with thousands due to show up, can the organisers guarantee it will be peaceful? They cannot vouch for everyone \" he said.\n\nHe appealed to organisers to \"think again\" and hold the rally on another day, adding: \"I'm not saying ban it, I'm simply saying postpone and respect the weekend we have for Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day.\"\n\nChris Nineham from the Stop the War Coalition said he felt vindicated by Sir Mark's comments that there was no public order case for banning the demonstration.\n\n\"We do everything we can as stewards to make sure there is nothing antisemitic or calling for violence in our demonstrations for us this isn't about religion, it isn't about race,\" he told Today.\n\nWhile there have been arrests on previous protests - including for serious offences - the Met chief told the BBC he would not class the scale as \"major disorder\".\n\nBut Sir Mark said he was concerned about the escalating risk of disorder caused by splinter groups breaking off from the main demonstration, saying the threat posed by them would be monitored this week.\n\nHe said the force was \"never afraid to use the law to its full effect\" but suggested banning the march at a late stage could create problems for police.\n\nHe continued: \"If you've got tens of thousands of people coming from across the country, and they know their absolute right to protest means the gathering itself can't be banned, the chaos that comes into this because of last-minute changes in plans and those issues can make it more difficult.\"\n\nHe said if the Met \"comes to the view that our existing tactics and control measures\" aren't sufficient, then the force \"will go to the Home Secretary, but not before that point\".\n\nSuella Braverman has been highly critical of the large pro-Palestinian protests which have taken place in London in the last month.\n\nSir Mark declined to criticise her for dubbing them \"hate marches\", but added: \"I wouldn't use one phrase to characterise 100,000 people\".\n\nVeterans Minister Johnny Mercer said he fully recognised \"the tensions at play\" but urged people to come to London for remembrance events.\n\n\"I know that elderly veterans will be coming to London and measures will all be in place to make sure that people can go about remembrance in the way they want to unmolested by any of the other events taking place this weekend,\" Mr Mercer said.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "For as long as Suella Braverman has been Rishi Sunak's home secretary, she has had a licence to say the unsayable.\n\nSay stuff in public some of her colleagues would only ever dare say in private.\n\nSay stuff in public some of her colleagues wouldn't even say in private.\n\nHow do we know she has this licence?\n\nBecause the lack of it would mean being sacked.\n\nSo is she going to keep her job?\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman has said No 10 did not sign off her article in The Times.\n\nI am told there was a back and forth yesterday between the Home Office and No 10. Some changes requested by Downing Street were made, others were not.\n\nThe spokesman said Downing Street is \"looking into what happened\".\n\nIgnore the guff about the prime minister having \"full confidence\" in the home secretary. That is always true of every minister, until it isn't - when they're out.\n\nSo it is strictly true, but it tells us nothing.\n\nThe home secretary has defied the prime minister, and Downing Street have publicly said that is the case.\n\nOne of Labour's favourite lines of criticism of Rishi Sunak is he is weak.\n\nSo can Mr Sunak let Suella Braverman get away with this? Or would sacking her make things worse for him?\n\nThere aren't many good options for the prime minister here.\n\nSome loyal to Mr Sunak are pointing to the Ministerial Code, and pondering that the home secretary may have broken it.\n\nConvention says that is a sackable offence. But then again Rishi Sunak appointed her as home secretary about a week after she'd lost the job for breaking the Ministerial Code.\n\nConvention has had a rough couple of years at Westminster.\n\nAnd what is Mrs Braverman up to?\n\nMany instantly leap to ascribe a motive to the home secretary's interventions: her ambitions to lead the Conservative Party one day.\n\nBut Mrs Braverman's primary motivation is she wants to articulate her authentic view - and high office won't stop her doing that.\n\nOr at least it won't for as long as she holds it.\n\nFor any public figure to question the integrity of the police would be incendiary.\n\nFor the home secretary to do it is astonishing.\n\nThat is not to say she is necessarily wrong: I regularly hear, in private, concerns from some Conservatives about the policing of demonstrations.\n\nPerceived double standards. Some protesters treated apparently more leniently than others.\n\nPlenty, including those in policing, would acknowledge it is perfectly legitimate for politicians to scrutinise the work of any vital, publicly funded organisations.\n\nBut: public demonstrations are \"the brain surgery of policing,\" counters Tom Winsor, the former Chief Inspector of Constabulary.\n\nIn other words, not easy.\n\nThere are a blizzard of complicating factors the police have to juggle, not least the scale of what confronts them.\n\nAnd they are dynamic, potentially dangerous, rapidly evolving events.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home secretary Suella Braverman is \"out of control\" - Sir Keir Starmer\n\nWhere does all this leave the prime minister, the home secretary, the government and the Conservative Party?\n\nA year ago, she talked about an \"invasion\" of migrants.\n\nA month ago, Mrs Braverman talked of a \"hurricane\" of migrants coming to the UK - and suggested too many were too squeamish about immigration.\n\nAgain, it was her colleagues left publicly squeamish when asked if they agreed with her language.\n\nA week or so ago, another intervention.\n\nAnd now her article in the Times.\n\n\"These latest comments are unhinged,\" one senior Conservative tells me.\n\nA senior Conservative MP adds: \"The home secretary's awfulness is now a reflection on the prime minister. Keeping her in post is damaging him.\"\n\nA third source, a senior Tory, claims her remarks about Northern Ireland are \"wholly offensive and ignorant.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Harper asked four times if he has confidence in Suella Braverman over her protest march questions.\n\nSo what does the prime minister make of this?\n\nIncendiary remarks from the home secretary punctuated by a period of months of less attention-grabbing were arguably a politically useful pressure valve for Rishi Sunak.\n\nA senior government figure willing to articulate views easily found on the Conservative backbenches.\n\nThe question for him now is whether the ratcheting frequency of her interventions - and her insubordination - lead No10 to conclude it is unsustainable for her to stay.\n\nOr lead her to conclude, given the at best tepid public support of her colleagues, that she has outstayed her welcome.\n\nThings do feel like they are coming to a head: where either she leaves or she considerably dials down the frequency of her explosive interventions.\n\nOh and here's another curve ball for the prime minister: we'll find out next Wednesday whether the Supreme Court deems the government's Rwanda plan for migrants lawful or not.\n\nA flagship policy, led by Suella Braverman falls or flies next week.\n\nDoes the prime minister want her in post for that moment, or not? If the plan is on and she's in post, her position would be hugely strengthened.\n\nSuella Braverman is making news. Not for the first time. And not for the last.", "The bodies of those who drowned were taken back to Calais\n\nThe government has ordered an independent inquiry into a migrant mass drowning in the English Channel.\n\nAt least 27 people including a pregnant woman and three children died when a boat sank in 2021.\n\nTransport Secretary Mark Harper said an inquiry would look at the circumstances of the deaths to give victims' families the clarity they deserved.\n\nIt comes after an investigation into the UK's deadliest migrant boat incident made two recommendations.\n\nA report by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said the UK's emergency response had been hampered by the lack of dedicated aircraft to carry out aerial surveillance of the Dover Strait.\n\nAndrew Moll, chief inspector of marine accidents, said multiple boats had attempted to cross the Dover Strait on the night of the sinking - 24 November - and many had made distress calls.\n\nIt had, he said, been \"extremely challenging\" for the coastguard to understand how many boats were attempting to cross, their locations and levels of distress.\n\nMr Moll added: \"As the pace of dealing with located migrant boats increased, the plight of the stricken craft became masked and, sadly, the victims were not found until spotted by a passing fishing vessel later that day.\"\n\nEmergency services took part in the rescue operation on both sides of the Channel\n\nThe MAIB's report also says the Coastguard had insufficient staff at base to correlate the information they were getting from numerous emergency calls made during the night. It said that might have contributed to the wrong assumption that people on board the boat had been rescued by the Border Force.\n\nMr Moll said the incident had come at a time when the UK's response to the migrant crisis was evolving, but that the report acknowledged significant changes had been made since.\n\nThe MAIB said that by crowding 33 migrants on to the boat, the people who facilitated the attempted crossing had put the occupants at high risk.\n\nThe report also found the vessel used by the migrants to make the crossing had been \"wholly unsuitable\".\n\nA recommendation has been made for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and Border Force to develop procedures to ensure effective surveillance of the Dover Strait is possible when aviation assets are unavailable.\n\nAnd it was also recommended that the Coastguard should work with the French authorities to improve transfer of information during migrant crossings.\n\nFour people are still missing after the sinking and only two survived.\n\nThe transport secretary said: \"Every day, hundreds of courageous responders from HM Coastguard and other UK agencies, including volunteers, stand ready to respond around the clock to every search and rescue operation involving small boats in the Channel.\n\n\"The inquiry I have announced today will allow a thorough and independent investigation into the circumstances of the deaths to take place, further to the MAIB's report.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Coastguard said it worked in the most challenging conditions imaginable to save lives and the tragedy was a reminder of the scale of the task it faced.\n\nThe French authorities refused to take part in the initial investigation.\n\nFrench police patrolled beaches near Calais after the mass drowning\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on X, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "House Republicans are summoning President Joe Biden's son Hunter to talk about the family's finances.\n\nCongressional Republicans have issued legal summons to several members of the Biden family in an escalation of their impeachment inquiry into the president.\n\nThe House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Mr Biden's son Hunter, his brother James, and Biden family associate Rob Walker.\n\nIt is also requesting transcribed interviews with five others.\n\nThe White House accused Republicans of \"abusing their power to conduct a smear campaign\".\n\nHouse Republicans opened their impeachment inquiry in September, saying they had uncovered evidence of President Biden's knowledge of and role in his family members' domestic and foreign business dealings.\n\nBut at the Oversight Committee's first hearing that month, witnesses and even Republicans on the panel said more evidence was needed to determine if the president had committed any impeachable offenses.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee said it had obtained financial records that showed Biden family members allegedly set up more than 20 shell companies during Joe Biden's vice presidency in order to hide payments they received from overseas.\n\nThe committee further charged that the Biden family, its associates, and its companies had received more than $24m (£20m) from foreign nations, including some viewed as US adversaries.\n\nKentucky Republican James Comer is leading an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden in his role as chairman of the House Oversight Committee\n\n\"The House Oversight Committee has followed the money and built a record of evidence revealing how Joe Biden knew, was involved, and benefited from his family's influence peddling schemes,\" Chairman James Comer, of Kentucky, said.\n\n\"Now, the House Oversight Committee is going to bring in members of the Biden family and their associates to question them on this record of evidence.\"\n\nHunter Biden was ordered to testify under oath before the committee on 13 December, while James Biden and Mr Walker were asked to appear on 6 December and 29 November respectively.\n\nThe committee also called on Hunter's wife Melissa Cohen, James' wife Sara Biden, Hunter's brother's widow Hallie Biden and her sister Elizabeth Secundy and Hunter's ex-business partner Tony Bobulinski to provide transcribed interviews.\n\nJoe Biden speaks to his brother James during the 2008 Democratic national convention\n\nThe White House was quick to respond, sending out a memo after the subpoenas were issued that accused Republicans of making \"this partisan investigation a higher priority than virtually all issues Americans really care about\".\n\nSpeaking at the daily White House briefing, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said: \"This is an investigation that has been going on for a year now and has turned up zero evidence of wrongdoing by the president because there is none.\"\n\nIn a statement to the BBC's US partner CBS News, Hunter Biden's lawyer indicated he would comply with the subpoena.\n\n\"This is yet another political stunt aimed at distracting from the glaring failure of Rep. Comer and his MAGA [Make America Great Again] allies to prove a single one of their wild and now discredited conspiracies about the Biden family,\" Abbe Lowell said.\n\n\"Nevertheless, Hunter is eager to have the opportunity, in a public forum and at the right time, to discuss these matters with the Committee.\"\n\nMr Comer indicated on X, formerly known as Twitter, that more subpoenas will follow in coming days as part of the investigation.\n\nWednesday's subpoenas and interview requests come one day after the special counsel overseeing a federal probe into Hunter Biden testified to lawmakers behind closed doors.\n\nIn that hearing, David Weiss refuted Republican assertions that the White House is interfering with his investigation, saying he was \"not blocked, or otherwise prevented from pursuing charges\" against the president's son.\n\nThe younger Mr Biden is currently facing three federal gun charges, to which he has pleaded not guilty.\n\nThat investigation is still ongoing.", "An image from what Ukraine says was a Russian strike on a civilian ship\n\nAt least one person has been killed after a Russian missile struck a civilian ship entering the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa, Ukrainian officials say.\n\nAccording to the southern defence forces, the Liberian-flagged vessel was struck by an anti-radar missile.\n\nA 43-year-old harbour pilot died, while three Filipino crewmembers and a port worker have been injured.\n\nThere was no immediate comment from Russia on the incident.\n\nAccording to Odesa's Regional Prosecutor's Office, which is investigating, the attack was launched at 16:45 local time (14:45 GMT) on Wednesday. The ship was reportedly moored at the time it was struck.\n\nOne of the injured workers was hospitalised.\n\nUkraine's Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said on social media that the ship was supposed to be transporting iron ore to China.\n\nVessels entering and leaving the port of Odesa have been at risk of Russian attack since Moscow pulled out of a deal earlier this year that allowed for the safe export of Ukrainian grain.\n\nUkraine has since opened a temporary corridor to allow vessels to come and go from its ports.\n\nThe Russian defence ministry said it regards all cargo ships in the Black Sea bound for Ukraine as potential military targets.\n\nAccording to Mr Kubrakov, Wednesday's attack is the 21st targeted assault on port infrastructure since Russia withdrew from the deal in July.\n\nAt least eight people were wounded and a historic museum was damaged on Sunday during Russian airstrikes on Odesa, Ukrainian officials said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Matheson blamed an outdated SIM card for the £11,000 roaming charges on his iPad\n\nAn £11,000 iPad roaming bill racked up by Scotland's health secretary was a \"legitimate parliamentary expense\", according to the first minister.\n\nMichael Matheson ran up the charges on his parliamentary iPad during a holiday to Morocco which he says was caused by an \"outdated sim card\".\n\nHe said he was not aware it was due to be replaced and the cost built up as a result.\n\nHumza Yousaf said Mr Matheson should not have to pay it back.\n\nIt is understood the health secretary had been using the iPad during a family holiday for constituency work when the charges occurred.\n\nSpeaking in the Scottish Parliament after First Minister's Questions, Mr Matheson said: \"It has been caused by an outdated sim card that was in an iPad that I had for constituency purposes, which was a parliamentary iPad.\"\n\nRoaming charges are an expense incurred when using mobile devices abroad.\n\nIt is understood Mr Matheson was using an old sim card from the parliament's previous provider EE. Its current contract is with Vodafone.\n\nBefore each recess, Holyrood contacts MSPs to remind them they could incur \"expensive out of tariff charges\" if travelling outside Europe without a roaming bundle from IT.\n\nThe health secretary said he was unaware the sim card needed to be replaced.\n\nMr Matheson added: \"As the parliament has also stated very clearly, the network provider didn't provide information around the costs that were being incurred as well.\n\n\"So it was something that was unknown to me, and as the parliament have also confirmed, the parliamentary equipment was used for constituency and parliamentary purposes.\"\n\nMichael Matheson came back from Morocco with a very unwelcome souvenir - a hefty data roaming bill.\n\nHe spoke - very briefly - with journalists in Holyrood this afternoon, insisting this was all down to an old sim card that he was not aware had to be replaced\n\nThe health secretary was swift to depart, refusing to take any of the many questions journalists wanted to put to him.\n\nWe don't have the complete picture of what Michael Matheson used his iPad for in Morocco.\n\nWhy didn't he ensure it was on Wi-Fi? How did the bill get so high? And is it right that the taxpayer picks up the bill?\n\nHumza Yousaf defended his health secretary this afternoon, saying he shouldn't have to pay back the money.\n\nBut it feels like the next time Mr Matheson is in front of the microphones, he'll still be facing questions over this Morocco trip.\n\nMr Matheson, who as the cabinet secretary for health and social care receives receives a yearly salary of £118,511, has agreed to pay £3,000 towards the bill from his expenses budget.\n\nMr Matheson did not respond when questioned on whether he should make a contribution to the bill out of his own pocket.\n\nHe also did not respond when asked why taxpayers should foot the bill.\n\nThe £11,000 bill is more than the total of all MSPs' mobile phone, business line, tablet and staff phone bill expenses claimed in 2022/23 combined. The total for all phone-related expenses last year was £9,507.\n\nCraig Hoy, chairman of the Scottish Conservatives has called on Mr Matheson to cover the costs himself.\n\nHe said: \"Michael Matheson offered only a cursory explanation - and no apology - for racking up this enormous bill. His sense of entitlement is breathtaking.\n\n\"The first minister is wrong to say this was a legitimate expense.\n\n\"Michael Matheson must belatedly do the right thing and pay back this £11,000 in full - no ifs, no buts.\"\n\nA Scottish Parliament spokesman said that, following an investigation, senior officials \"accepted Mr Matheson's assurances that all costs incurred were for parliamentary purposes\".\n\nThey added: \"Following the close of the financial year, it was agreed by parliament's senior management, in September 2023, that the events of this incident should lead to a policy review of mobile data usage.\n\n\"In addition to reviewing the policy, the parliament will shortly award a new mobile contract that will enhance technical controls to ensure there is no repeat of these substantial data charges.\"\n\nRoaming charges are the higher prices that mobile networks charge for your device use when abroad.\n\nIt has always been more expensive the moment you leave Europe, with some providers charging £7 a megabyte for data and nearly £4 a minute to make or receive a phone call, according to personal finance site MoneySavingExpert.\n\nThe costs for using your device overseas can vary wildly depending on the contract.\n\nSome companies offer daily charges. For instance, you can pay £5 a day for worldwide use and you will be able to use your phone or tablet just as you do at home.\n\nThe advice from personal finance writers is always the same: If in doubt, play it safe and turn roaming off.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kerrie Aldridge says finishing the New York Marathon is a \"dream come true\"\n\nA woman who was mocked as she finished last in the London Marathon has described the \"incredible\" moment she completed her bucket list event.\n\nKerrie Aldridge finished Sunday's New York City Marathon in seven hours and 29 minutes - a personal best time.\n\nIn 2019, the Cardiff runner said stewards \"sniggered\" during her \"brutal\" nine-hour run in London.\n\nLondon Marathon apologised at the time and made changes following an investigation.\n\nKerrie said she felt event organisers had \"listened to the experiences of those at the back\".\n\nKerrie Aldridge says the atmosphere in NYC was \"amazing\" on marathon day\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales' Breakfast, she added that in the 2019 race, clean-up trucks had come on to the course early and she was forced to finish without mile-markers or aid stations.\n\n\"It was probably one of the hardest days of my life and I was the official last finisher at the time,\" she said.\n\nBut Kerrie continued running, with coaching from a personal trainer, and secured a spot in the 52nd annual New York event, which took place on Sunday.\n\n\"It was my bucket list. It was something I really wanted to do, so I made it happen and it was the most incredible day,\" she said.\n\nKerrie Aldridge says she worked hard with a personal trainer to prepare for the New York Marathon\n\nShe described the \"amazing\" atmosphere of the starting area, stood among 50,000 fellow participants, and the \"goose bumps\" she felt as the American national anthem was played at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, followed by Frank Sinatra's New York, New York.\n\n\"Then I was off and I was running… I absolutely loved it from start to finish.\n\n\"New York knows how to party.\"\n\nKerrie said she was delighted that all her hard work paid off and she ran her fastest marathon to date.", "Katie Tidmarsh was found guilty after a trial at Leicester Crown Court\n\nA woman has been found guilty of murdering a one-year-old baby girl she was in the process of adopting.\n\nThere were gasps in the public gallery as a jury found Katie Tidmarsh, now 39, guilty by majority verdict of causing catastrophic head injuries to Ruby Thompson in Leicester in August 2012.\n\nEmergency services were called to an address in Pickwell Close, Glenfield, and Ruby was taken to hospital where she died two days later.\n\nTidmarsh will be sentenced on Friday.\n\nShe had been placed for adoption with Tidmarsh and her husband, and had gone to live with them in March 2012, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nThe trial previously heard Tidmarsh said Ruby was behaving in a \"perfectly normally\" manner before her \"eyes rolled to the back of her head\" and she collapsed on 11 August 2012.\n\nTidmarsh added Ruby was \"happy and smiling\" and had drunk milk and eaten two yoghurts before playing with some packaging that arrived earlier in the day.\n\nBut a number of medical experts told the court a number of injuries inflicted - which included a fractured skull and bleeding in her eyes - happened shortly before her collapse.\n\nLeicestershire Police said during her hospital treatment, an X-ray found Ruby had sustained a broken bone in her arm about two weeks before.\n\nRuby had been taken to hospital at the time, after Tidmarsh claimed Ruby had been knocked over by one of her dogs.\n\nEmergency services were called to an address in Pickwell Close in Leicester\n\nThe CPS said police had gathered evidence and submitted a file in December 2013 for prosecutors to consider a charge of murder.\n\nIn February 2014, it was decided by the CPS not to charge anyone in connection with Ruby's death.\n\nAn inquest was held into Ruby's death, which concluded she died from a head injury; the cause of which could not be established.\n\nThree years later, the CPS said Tidmarsh became subject to separate court proceedings - and additional medical experts were instructed for the hearing surrounding Ruby's case.\n\nA judge ruled Tidmarsh had inflicted the injuries that resulted in Ruby's collapse and death.\n\nThis led to \"further consultation\" between officers and the CPS, and following additional medical expert evidence obtained by police, Tidmarsh was arrested and charged with murder in July 2022.\n\nTidmarsh will be sentenced at Leicester Crown Court on Friday\n\nTidmarsh, now of Station Road, Littlethorpe, denied murder and two charges of causing grievous bodily harm.\n\nShe was also found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm by a majority verdict and not guilty of another count of the same charge.\n\nAddressing Tidmarsh, High Court judge Mr Justice Wall said: \"I will sentence you tomorrow, until that time, you are remanded into custody. Take her down.\"\n\nJanine McKinney, from the CPS, added: \"Little Ruby was barely a year old when her life was ended by an act of violence at the hands of the person caring for her.\n\n\"Tidmarsh denied any violence or intent and tried explaining Ruby's injuries in all manner of ways, but the truth was that it was she who inflicted the injuries that killed her.\"\n\nLeicestershire County Council - the authority that placed Ruby in to Tidmarsh's care - told the BBC an independent review found the \"right steps and assessments were carried out\" based on information provided.\n\nIt added following Ruby's death, it had continued to review procedures and ways to always improve services.\n\nJane Moore, director of children and family services, said: \"This is an extremely sad case and our heartfelt sympathies go to those who knew and loved Ruby.\n\n\"The welfare and wellbeing of a child is our number one priority and is always at the heart of any decisions that are made. Our foster carers and adopters undergo thorough checks and assessments that include training before they can care for children.\n\n\"An independent review which looked into the circumstances of Ruby's death and the actions and assessments that were undertaken as part of the pre-adoption process, found that the right steps and assessments were carried out based on the information provided to all professionals.\n\n\"Assessments for prospective adopted parents are robust and detailed information is sought from key agencies including GPs and a medical advisor.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Michael Matheson racked up nearly £11,000 in roaming charges on a parliament iPad while abroad last year\n\nA Scottish government minister racked up nearly £11,000 in roaming costs on his parliament iPad while in Morocco.\n\nMichael Matheson said he was using the device for constituency work, but had not switched over to the parliament's current mobile contract.\n\nOfficials tried to challenge the bill, but the company declined to waive any of the charges.\n\nMr Matheson has agreed to pay £3,000 towards the bill from his expenses budget.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament has said it will pay the remainder from its own budget.\n\nRoaming charges are incurred when a mobile device connects to a local network outside of the UK rather than to wifi.\n\nAccording to The Telegraph, which first reported the story, Mr Matheson took the iPad with him on a week-long visit to Morocco with his family around Christmas last year.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Matheson told the paper he was not aware of a \"problem with his device at the time, which has since been resolved\".\n\nThis was said to have involved an old sim card in the iPad, which had not been replaced, the paper said.\n\nAt the time the Falkirk West MSP was the net zero, energy and transport secretary in Nicola Sturgeon's government, but he has since been appointed health secretary under Humza Yousaf.\n\nRoaming charges are the higher prices that mobile networks charge for your device use when abroad.\n\nIt has always been more expensive the moment you leave Europe, with some providers charging £7 a megabyte for data and nearly £4 a minute to make or receive a phone call, according to personal finance site MoneySavingExpert.\n\nThe costs for using your device overseas can vary wildly depending on the contract.\n\nSome companies offer daily charges. For instance, you can pay £5 a day for worldwide use and you will be able to use your phone or tablet just as you do at home.\n\nThe advice from personal finance writers is always the same: If in doubt, play it safe and turn roaming off.\n\nIt is understood Mr Matheson was using an old sim card from the parliament's previous provider EE. Its current contract is with Vodafone.\n\nBefore each recess, Holyrood contacts MSPs to remind them they could incur \"expensive out of tariff charges\" if travelling outside of Europe without a roaming bundle from IT.\n\nA spokesperson for the Scottish Parliament confirmed the total of roaming charges incurred by Mr Matheson was £10,935.74.\n\nThey said: \"As the member was still using the parliament's previous mobile provider, and hadn't yet switched to our present contract, he incurred significant data fees over and above its 'rest of the world' tariff rate.\n\n\"The parliament challenged the company over the scale of the data fees and over the late warning to the rising cost, but the company declined to meet or waive any of the charges.\n\n\"On the basis that the member has assured the parliament that these costs were incurred in relation to parliamentary business and not for personal or government use, we agreed that Mr Matheson would contribute £3,000 from his office cost provision and the remainder would be paid centrally by the parliament.\"\n\nCraig Hoy, the Scottish Conservatives chairman, called on Mr Matheson to pay the full bill from his own pocket.\n\nHe said: \"It's absolutely scandalous that taxpayers are picking up an enormous tab for Michael Matheson's mistake.\n\nHe said: \"Even if we are to believe that he racked up this bill doing parliamentary and constituency work on a festive holiday in Morocco, the onus was on him to connect to the wifi where he was staying or check with the network provider to avoid brutal roaming charges.\"\n\nShe said: \"What on earth could Mr Matheson have been doing to justify the public coughing up for this - the SNP is on a different planet when it comes to wasting taxpayers' cash.\n\n\"The Scottish public should not have to pick up this eye-watering bill for Michael Matheson.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stars hit the red carpet for new Hunger Games film\n\nStars of Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes have hit the red carpet for its world premiere.\n\nActress Rachel Zegler greeted screaming fans as the cast celebrated the upcoming film's release in London.\n\nThe latest instalment of the billion-dollar film franchise comes after an eight-year gap.\n\nZegler was joined on the red carpet by co-stars Tom Blyth, Hunter Schafer and Josh Andres Rivera, actors who grew up watching the previous films.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News about making the film, Zegler said: \"I just wanted to do a good service to me and my 12-year-old self that loved the films. And it was just such a joy to get to do that.\"\n\n\"It's unbelievable,\" said Schafer, a trans actress who found fame starring in HBO's Euphoria. \"I don't think 13-year-old me could have comprehended what I'm feeling now.\"\n\nThe fifth instalment of the movies, based on Suzanne Collins' best-selling books, is set 64 years before the first Hunger Games movie starring Jennifer Lawrence.\n\nIt sees British actor Blyth play the young Coriolanus Snow, who goes on to become the tyrannical president of dystopian nation Panem.\n\nWest Side Story actress Zegler stars as the Lucy Gray Baird, the tribute during the 10th Hunger Games - a gladiatorial contest that pits the oppressed against each other, while the elite of the wealthy Capitol watch on.\n\n\"I got to do my own stunts. I got to hold live animals, sing, dance, cry, run for my life. It's amazing,\" she told Reuters news agency.\n\nThe cast had been given a waiver to attend the blockbuster's premiere during the Hollywood actors' strike, before on Wednesday union SAG-AFTRA ended the four-month walkout which prevented movie stars from promoting their films.\n\nCommenting on the strike ending Rivera, who plays Snow's friend, Sejanus Plinth said: \"I know a lot of people who are ready to get back to work. I'm ready to get back to work.\"\n\nAfter waiting since the early hours Hunger Games superfan Cyrille Herman got to meet Rachel Zegler\n\nThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is the fifth Hunger Games film\n\nYoung fans queued and braved the rain and cold to get a chance to meet the actors on the red carpet lined with buckets catching dripping water, as influencers, former Love Island contestants and drag queens turned up for the screening.\n\nJenifer Bawden, who made costumes inspired by the film for the occasion, told BBC News: \"We got here at 05:20 in the morning, it was a lot. We're from Bournemouth.\n\n\"The films are so well translated from the book to the film, so I'm very excited to see how they do it this time.\"\n\nDescribing the new film estimated to have cost $100m (£82m), director Francis Lawrence said: \"It's a very different kind of movie, very much a Hunger Games movie, but a different kind of story and different characters.\"\n\nThe film is scheduled to be released in cinemas worldwide on 17 November.\n\nDirector Francis Lawrence said he and producers will get talking about another Hunger Games movie", "Amiram Cooper, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Tsachi Idan are being held in Gaza\n\nIsrael says 132 people remain unaccounted for after they were abducted and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attacks by Hamas.\n\nAn estimated 240 people were taken prisoner, but 105 were later released by Hamas during a six-day ceasefire at the end of November.\n\nThe Israeli military said it mistakenly killed three hostages in northern Gaza who had escaped from their captors and expressed \"deep remorse\" over the incident.\n\nOf the 132 still unaccounted for, Israel says that 20 of them are believed to be dead.\n\nThese are the stories of those hostages who are still being held, which have either been confirmed by the BBC or credibly reported.\n\nThis list is regularly updated and names may change, as some people feared kidnapped are confirmed to have been killed or released.\n\nLast updated on 19 December 2023 at 10:33 GMT\n\nYagev Kirsht, 34, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim, alongside his wife, Rimon Buchstab Kirsht. She has now been released.\n\nAlexander Trupanov, was taken hostage with his mother Lena Trupanov, 50, his partner Sapir Cohen, 29, and his grandmother Irina Tati, 73. All were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz as they spent the Sabbath together, according to a statement by Canada's Raoul Wallenburg Center for Human Rights. Irina and Lena were released on Wednesday 29 November and Sapir was freed the next day.\n\nAriel Cunio, his girlfriend Arbel Yahud and her brother Dolev are also thought to have been abducted in the same attack on Nir Oz. Eitan Cunio, Ariel's brother who escaped Hamas, told the Jewish Chronicle that his last message from Ariel said: \"We are in a horror movie.\"\n\nDavid Cunio, 33, another of Ariel's brothers, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, family say. David's wife Sharon Aloni Cunio and their three-year-old twin daughters Ema and Yuly were released on 27 November. Sharon's sister Daniele Aloni, and her six-year-old daughter Emilia were both released on 24 November.\n\nDoron Steinbrecher, 30, a veterinary nurse, was in her apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas attacked, the Times of Israel reported. At 10:30 on 7 October, the newspaper said, she sent a voice message to friends: \"They've arrived, they have me.\"\n\nItzhak Gelerenter, 53, was taken from the Supernova festival. His family said the IDF found his phone was located in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported. His daughter Pivko told the paper: \"I'm trying to think good thoughts, I have a powerful, smart, resourceful father.\"\n\nDoron Steinbrecher sent a voice message to friends during Hamas' attack\n\nNaama Levy, 19, was filmed being bundled into a jeep, her hands tied behind her back. The footage was released by Hamas and circulated widely on social media. According to her mother, the teenager had just begun her military service.\n\nYousef Zyadna, a 53-year-old Bedouin dairy farmer, was abducted from Kibbutz Holit and taken to Gaza along with his sons Hamza, 22, and Bilal, 18, and his daughter, Aisha, 16. Aisha and Bilal were released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nElad Katzir, 47, was abducted from Nir Oz with his mother Hanna. Hanna has now been released.\n\nOhad Ben Ami, 55, was kidnapped from Be'eri with his wife, Raz. She was released by Hamas on 29 November.\n\nTwin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 26, were taken from Kfar Aza. Ziv was messaging a friend as the attack happened. Their family said the IDF has told them the brothers are being held in Gaza. Their brother Liran told CBN news the pair had \"twin power\" and were the centre of attention wherever they went.\n\nIraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 85, was taken captive from Kibbutz Kissufim, where he lived and worked as a chicken coop manager. His wife, Mazal, managed to escape.\n\nMichel Nisenbaum, 59, is a dual Brazilian-Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel for 45 years and works as a computer technician, his family told Brazilian media. They also say he is diabetic and has Crohn's disease. On 7 October, they say, someone claiming to be from Hamas answered his phone when they tried to call him.\n\nDaniela Gilboa, 19, sent messages saying that Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she was staying, was under attack and asked her mother to pray for her. Her boyfriend, Roy Dadon, told the Economist 1843 magazine that he believes he saw a glimpse of her in a video showing three girls being driven away in the back of an SUV.\n\nItay Chen, 19, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF solider, was on active duty with a tank unit on 7 October, according to the Times of Israel. The paper reported that his family was notified by the IDF that he is officially considered missing in action and probably being held hostage. Another soldier in his unit, Matan Angrest, 21, is also presumed to be in Gaza.\n\nYosi Sharabi, 51, was taken from Be'eri with his brother, Eli Sharabi, 55. Eli's wife and two daughters were murdered in the attack. Ofir Engel, the boyfriend of Yosi's daughter, Yuval, was also taken, but released on 29 November.\n\nAgam Berger, 19, was kidnapped from Nahal Oz. She was seen being taken away in videos released by Hamas.\n\nEdan Alexander, 19, is an Israeli-US citizen who volunteered to join the Israeli army. He was serving near the Gaza border at the time of Hamas's attack. Edan's family said they had been told by Israeli officials that he had been taken to Gaza as a hostage.\n\nKaid Farhan Elkadi, 53, lives with his family south of Rahat and worked as a security guard, according to Israeli media. Reports said his family believes he was kidnapped and taken to Gaza, based on images shared by Hamas.\n\nIlana Gritzewsky and Matan Zanguaker were captured near the Gaza border, family say\n\nMatan Zanguaker, 24, was taken with his partner Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, from Nir Oz, according to Ilana's father. Ilana, a Mexican national, was released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nThe family of Eitan and Yair Horn believe they were taken from Nir Oz kibbutz\n\nEitan Horn, 37, and his brother Yair, 45, both Argentinian citizens, were also in Nir Oz at the time of the attack. Their father Itzik said he believes they were kidnapped. Yair is a construction worker while Eitan works in education.\n\nItai Svirsky, 38, is thought to have been abducted when his elderly parents were killed in Be'eri. He had been visiting them for the holiday of Simhat Torah.\n\nKeith Seigel, 64, and his wife Adrienne - often known as Aviva - Seigel, 62, were taken from their home in Kfar Aza, Keith's brother Lee Seigel told the BBC. Adrienne was released on 26 November.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, lived in Nahal Oz with his wife and two daughters. Omri was led away by Hamas with his hands tied, his wife Lishay told the Guardian newspaper. She told him not to be a hero, urging: \"Do whatever they want because I want you back.\"\n\nBipin Joshi, 23, a Nepalese student, is believed to have been taken from Kibbutz Alumim. Nepalese newspaper Setopati says he was one of 49 university students studying agriculture in Israel. It says 10 students were killed in the attack.\n\nIlan Weiss, 58, went missing from Kibbutz Be'eri after he was last seen leaving the house to defend the community. On 25 November, his wife Shiri Weiss, 53, and their daughter, Noga, 18, were freed from captivity in a hostage deal.\n\nAmiram Cooper, 85, and his wife Nurit, 80, were taken from their home in Nir Oz, their daughter-in-law Noa told the BBC. The family last spoke to the couple during the Hamas attack, Noa said, when the couple were in their safe room. The family later traced Amiram's phone to Gaza. On Monday 23 October, Nurit was one of two women to be released.\n\nAmiram and Nurit Cooper, pictured with their granddaughter, Gali\n\nOded Lifshitz, 83, and his wife Yocheved, 85 were taken hostage from Nir Oz. On Monday 23 October, Yocheved was one of two elderly women to be freed. After hearing the news of her mother's release, their daughter Sharone - a London-based artist - said: \"While I cannot put into words the relief that she is now safe, I will remain focused on securing the release of my father and all those - some 200 innocent people - who remain hostages in Gaza.\"\n\nHaim Peri, 79, was taken from his home in Nir Oz, reports the Times of Israel, and freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz said she saw that he was alive and well. His son Lior Peri told Talk TV that Haim had locked his wife inside the safe room before giving himself up to kidnappers.\n\nAvraham Munder, 78, was kidnapped from Nir Oz, Israeli officials say. His wife Ruthi, daughter and grandson have since been released.\n\nOmer Neutra, a 22-year-old Israeli-American and grandson of Holocaust survivors, put off plans to go to college in the US to study in Israel, and eventually joined the IDF. He was serving as a tank commander near Gaza when Hamas attacked. Omer's parents say they were told by the Israeli embassy that he had been kidnapped.\n\nRon Benjamin's vehicle was found empty following the attacks\n\nRon Benjamin, 53, had been taking part in a group cycle ride near the Gaza border when the Hamas attack began and he decided to drive home, his family told Israeli media. Days later, his vehicle was found empty and his family believe he was kidnapped.\n\nLouis Har, 70, is believed to have been taken from Nir Yitzhak. His partner Clara Marman was released on 28 November along with her sister Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela's daughter Mia Leimberg,17. Clara and Gabriela's brother Fernando Simon Marman, 60, also remains in captivity.\n\nJudith Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 73, also went missing from Nir Oz after the Hamas attack. Ten days later, the Israeli military confirmed to the family they had been taken hostage, CTV News in Canada reported.\n\nAlex Danzig, 75, a scholar and historian of the Holocaust, was at his home in Nir Oz, when it was attacked by Hamas. \"We know for sure he was kidnapped,\" his son Mati told the BBC. Alex - whose older sister Edith is a Holocaust survivor - has spent the last 30 years working for Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust remembrance centre. His disappearance has triggered a campaign for his release, both in Israel and in Poland, the country of his birth.\n\nAlex Danzig has spent decades educating people about the Holocaust\n\nItzhk Elgarat, 68, was kidnapped at the same time as Alex Danzig, his brother Danny Elgert told Israel's Kan 11 TV station, adding that he had tracked his brother's phone to the border with Gaza.\n\nGadi Moses, 79, was also abducted during the same attack on Nir Oz, according to relatives and the Israeli aid agency where he worked as an agricultural expert. Efrat Katz, his partner, was initially thought to have been captured as well, but she was later found dead, the Times of Israel reported. Efrat was the mother of Doron Asher, who was taken hostage and later released with her two daughters. Ravid Katz, 51, Doron Asher's brother, was originally thought to have been taken hostage from Nir Oz, but on 28 November his family confirmed that he had been killed on 7 October.\n\nYair Yaakov, 59, is listed among the hostages. His partner Meirav Tal, 53, was released on 28 November. Yair's children Yagil, 13, and Or, 16, were released on 27 November.\n\nYair Yaakov was pictured being held captive by a gunman in a video shared online\n\nNimrod Cohen, 19, had studied software engineering in high school, according to reports. After he was kidnapped, his father was invited to meet Pope Francis in Rome along with other hostages' families.\n\nTsachi Idan, 51, was last seen by his wife, Gali, as he was taken away by Hamas gunmen. Their family had been ambushed in their safe room in Nahal Oz. Their ordeal was live-streamed by Hamas. Their eldest child, Maayan - who had just turned 18 - was shot dead, Gali told the BBC.\n\nTsachi Idan was ambushed with his wife and children and then led away\n\nYarden Bibas, 34, was abducted from Nir Oz. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were also taken hostage, but on 29 November, Hamas claimed they had been killed in an Israeli air strike while in captivity. The Israeli government has said it is checking the claim.\n\nRonen Engel, 54, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife, Karina Engelbert, 51, and their two daughters, Mika, 18 and Yuval, 11. On 1 December, the organisation representing the families said he had been murdered. Karina, Mika and Yuval were released on 27 November.\n\nKarina Ariev, a 19-year-old soldier, was serving at an army base near Gaza when she was kidnapped. Her sister Alexandra told the BBC she heard shooting as Karina called her during the attack, and later saw a video showing Karina being taken away in a vehicle.\n\nKarina Ariev was at the Nahal Oz military base, which was among the first to be attacked\n\nOfer Kalderon, 53, was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz. On 27 November his two children, Erez, 12, and Sahar, 16, were released. Two other relatives, 80-year-old Carmela Dan and her granddaughter, Noya, 12, were also believed to have been taken, but Israeli authorities later announced they had been found dead.\n\nYoram Metzger, 80, was a resident of Nir Oz. He has diabetes and broke his hip six months ago, his daughter-in-law said. Yoram's wife Tamar was released on 28 November.\n\nNadav Popplewell, 51, and his mother Channah were taken hostage by Hamas, said Channah's daughter Ayelet Svatitzky, who was speaking to them on the phone when the gunmen burst in. She said the captors sent pictures of her two relatives, who both have diabetes, with armed men in the background. Channah has now been released.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, was abducted after his family opened the door to their secure shelter to an Israeli child, who said he would be killed otherwise. Omri's wife, Lishay Lavi, said she saw him being taken away in handcuffs with three other hostages from Nahal Oz.\n\nLiri Elbag, 18, had just started military training as an Army lookout near the Gaza border when Hamas attacked, her father Eli told the Associated Press. Eli said he saw her in a video circulated later by Hamas, crowded with others on the back of a military truck which had been seized by the gunmen.\n\nLior Rudaeff, 61, was taken from Nir Yitzhak during the attack. His family have heard nothing from him since then.\n\nA number of people are believed to have been abducted from the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Among them:\n\nShlomi Ziv, 40, was part of the security detail at the festival and was initially in contact with his sisters as the attack unfolded, according to an interview with The Times of Israel. A few weeks later the family learned he was officially considered to be a hostage, the report says.\n\nAlexander Lobanov, 32, is a Russian-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped at the festival.\n\nOri Danino, 25, is reported to have got away from the festival in his car, but it's believed he was captured after turning back in an attempt to save some people he had met there.\n\nAlmog Sarusi, 26, was kidnapped from the music festival and his partner Shahar Gindi was killed, according to Israeli media. Almog's father, Yigal, was among the relatives of hostages who met with Israel's prime minister in October.\n\nOmer Shem Tov, 21, called his parents as he was running away from gunfire and managed to get into a friend's car. His parents, Shelly and Malki Shem Tov, told Israeli media they lost contact with their son and the live location on his phone showed he was beyond the border in Gaza.\n\nIdan Shtivi, 28, an environmental sciences student, was attending the festival to take pictures at music and yoga workshops being held by friends. He escaped the site in his car but was attacked by Hamas along the route. The bodies of two of his passengers were found, and his family told the Jerusalem Post they suspect he was kidnapped.\n\nYosef Ohana, 24, had been at the festival with a friend, who told his mother he and Yosef had remained to help people escape the gunfire before running themselves. Yosef was last seen hiding under a car, and Israeli authorities have visited his mother to say he was kidnapped.\n\nAndrei Kozlov, 27, a Russian who moved to Israel in 2022, is missing from the Supernova festival, where he was working as a security guard. His mother told the De Taly publication the family was told by the IDF on October 26 that he was being held hostage.\n\nElyakim Libman, 23, was working as a security guard at the festival. In a Facebook post his father Eliyahu Libman said another guard told him his son had helped rescue others before trying to escape. He was last seen trying to help two badly-injured women.\n\nNoa Argamani, a Chinese-born Israeli citizen, was also kidnapped from the festival. Video footage - verified by her father Yaakov Argamani to Israel's Channel 12 - shows the 25-year-old being taken away on the back of a motorbike screaming, \"Don't kill me!\" Her boyfriend Avinatan Or, 30, also appears in the video being marched away from her by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nEden Yerushalmi's family say they were told she had been taken hostage\n\nEden Yerushalmi, 24, called her family during Hamas's attack on the festival, her sister May told CBS News. The family say they were subsequently informed by the IDF that Eden had been abducted.\n\nChanan Yablonka, 42, is a father-of-two from Tel Aviv. According to reports, he attended the festival with friends and was due to celebrate his birthday a few days after the attacks.\n\nJonathan Samerano, 21, has been missing since 7am on the morning of the festival. His family have been told to presume he is being held in Gaza, Israeli media reported.\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal was filmed in captivity in Gaza, his family say\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, attended the festival with his brother. Guy appears in a hostage video that his family say confirms he is in Gaza.\n\nUriel Baruch, 35, was injured during the attack on the festival, his wife said on Facebook. Reports in Israeli media say his mother, Naomi, has heard from the IDF that he is a hostage.\n\nMaxim Kharkin's mother described speaking to him on the morning of 7 October\n\nMaxim Kharkin is aged 35 and a Russian speaker, his mother told Russian media. She added that he had called her at 07:00 on the morning of the attack.\n\nElkana Bohbot was seen in a video posted by Hamas\n\nElkana Bohbot, 34, had gone to the party with friends and, before losing contact, he spoke to his wife and mother telling them he was helping to evacuate the wounded, the Times of Israel reported. Hours later, his family found a video of him posted online by Hamas, which has been seen by BBC Verify.\n\nRom Braslavski, 19, was working on security for the festival. According to an account published by Hostages and Missing Families Forum, he was trying to rescue an injured person in the attack when he was caught in a volley of fire. He has not been heard from since.\n\nOmer Wenkert, 22, a restaurant manager, sent a message to his family to say he was going to a safe shelter but then lost contact, his father Shai Wenkert told the BBC's Today Programme. Shai Wenkert said he had seen footage of his son in captivity, including a photo of him handcuffed and wearing only underwear.\n\nEvyatar David's family say they were sent a video of him in captivity\n\nEvyatar David, 23, was at the festival and on the morning of the attacks, described fleeing from gunfire before losing contact with the outside world, his brother says. Later, his family say, Evyatar's sister posted on Instagram appealing for information about his whereabouts. She then received a text from an unknown number, which contained video footage of Evyatar handcuffed on the floor of a dark room. According to Israel's foreign ministry he is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nEitan Mor, 23, lives in Jerusalem, and was working as a security guard at the festival, the Times of Israel said. He reportedly texted his uncle after Hamas arrived and was last seen with a friend bringing others to safety.\n\nAlon Ohel, 22, a Serbian citizen, took refuge in a shelter after the festival came under attack, his family say. They have seen footage of him being dragged away after a grenade attack.\n\nAlmog Meir Jan, 21, tried to flee the festival. He and a friend made it to the friend's car but only managed to drive a short distance before being forced to stop. Almog's family say they have seen a hostage video in which he appears.\n\nInbar Heiman, a student aged 21, was seen by two young Israeli men being taken away from the festival on a motorcycle. Hamas have released a video in which she is seen very briefly.\n\nHersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual US-Israeli citizen, was badly injured in the attack, his family told the BBC. Eyewitness accounts say he was seen being forced onto a white pick-up truck - the last-known signal from his phone came from just inside Gaza.\n\nSegev Kalfon, 26, was running away from the festival, across the highway, when he was captured by Hamas, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.\n\nOrión Hernández Radoux, 30, from Mexico, attended the festival with his girlfriend, Shani Louk. He has not been seen since. The Sun newspaper says it has seen threatening messages written in Arabic sent from his phone. Shani, a tourist from Germany, was initially thought to be among those seized. But on 30 October, her mother Ricarda told German media that the family had been informed by Israeli military of her death following DNA identification.\n\nRomi Lesham Gonen, 23, was on the phone to her mother as she tried to escape from the Supernova festival. Merav Leshem Gonan has recounted a conversation in which her daughter begged for help after being shot. ABC News reports that Romi's phone is now in Gaza.\n\nBar Kuperstein, 21, last spoke to his family early on the morning of 7 October, as the attack unfolded. Later the same day, his family say they identified him in a video of Israeli prisoners, posted by Hamas. Since then, they say they have had no further information.\n\nEliya Cohen, 26, was hiding with his girlfriend Ziv from the attack, when Ziv felt him being pulled up and driven away by the gunmen, Eliya's mother has told the video initiative #BringThemHomeNow. The family then found a photo of Eliya in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nAmit Buskila, 28, from Ashdod, was last heard of making a call to her uncle, Shimon, as Hamas overran the festival. Her family say they have now been told by the government that she is being held in Gaza.\n\nCarmel Gat, 39, is Jordan's sister-in-law, and also was seen by her father being taken by gunmen from Kibbutz Be'eri, Haaretz newspaper reported. She has not been heard from since.\n\nOhad Yahalomi, 49, was abducted from Nir Oz, along with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the November ceasefire.\n\nDror Or, 48, was seen by a neighbour being dragged out of his home in Be'eri, according to their nephew Emmanuel Besorai, along with his son and daughter. On Saturday 25 November Dror's son Noam, 17, and daughter Alma, 13, were released from captivity. The body of Yonat, 50 - Dror's wife and the children's mother - was identified among the 120 people murdered at the kibbutz, Yonat's brother told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nTal Shoham, 38, was taken from Kibbutz Be'eri. His wife Adi, also 38, her mother Dr Shoshan Haran, 67, were released by Hamas on 25 November, along with the couple's children Nave, eight, and Yahel, three. Dr Haran's husband, Avshalom - an economist and dual German/Israeli citizen - was killed on 7 October.\n\nTamir Adar, 38, who defended Nir Oz as part of the kibbutz's emergency squad, was taken to Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen, 35, an American-Israeli citizen, has been missing since Hamas's attack on Nir Oz, his father Jonathan told the BBC. He said his son was not found among the dead and the \"only reasonable explanation\" is that he was taken to Gaza.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen's father has not heard from him since Hamas attacked the kibbutz where he lived\n\nThailand's ambassador to Israel says 26 of its citizens were taken hostage, 23 of whom have now been released.\n\nThose still being held are believed to include Watchara Sriuan, 32. His mother, Viewwaew, told the Thaiger news site that the family had been informed he was being held captive.\n\nKiattisak \"Top\" Patee and a Mr Pongtorn (no first name given) have also been named by the Thai foreign ministry as hostages.\n\nA number of other people thought to have been held hostage are now confirmed to have died, either during the 7 October attack or while in captivity.\n\nAs well as Ron Scherman and Nik Beizer, four bodies were identified this week. They were Tal Chaimi, an Israeli-Romanian citizen aged 41, and Joshua Mollel, a 19-year-old Tanzanian student. Also, 27-year-old Eden Zecharya, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and 36-year-old Ziv Dado, who had already been declared dead by the Israeli military.\n\nOthers known to have died include Dror Kaplun, 68, Aviv Atzili, 49, Arye Zalmanovich, 85, Ronen Engel, 54, Maya Goren, 56, Guy Iluz, 26, Ofir Tzarfati, 27, Ofra Keider, 70, and Eliyahu Margalit, 75.\n\nThe bodies of 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, and 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss were found by Israeli troops in buildings close to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.\n\nOn Saturday 9 December Kibbutz Bari announced that Sahar Baruch, 25, had been killed in Gaza.\n\nOther hostages whose death has been reported, but not confirmed include Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Chantelle Jolley with her daughter Nylah, the first baby born in NI without any paper records\n\nThe first baby has been born in Northern Ireland without any paper records.\n\nIt follows a move by the South Eastern Trust to move from paper-based files to an electronic system.\n\nIt is the first time health and social care records have been digitised in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Trust said the system, called encompass, will be safer, more efficient and effective.\n\nIt will be rolled out to other Trusts on a phased basis over the next 18 to 24 months.\n\nBaby Nylah, born to her mother Chantelle Jolley at the Ulster Hospital on Thursday at 01:25 GMT, was the first person born in Northern Ireland to have a digital-only record.\n\nDan West, chief digital Information officer at the Department of Health said the move would allow care workers to see the right information at the right time.\n\nIt is also hoped it will reduce the duplication of tests.\n\n\"It makes managing medicines easier for our pharmacists, and provides better quality data for improvement of our services in the future,\" added Mr West.\n\n\"It is more than just an IT system - it is a clinical and operational change that will help our most precious resources, our staff, to deliver the best services they can to people in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nIn time, everyone in Northern Ireland will be able to access their own patient records using a mobile app called 'MyCare'.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. History was made at the Ulster Hospital on Thursday morning when the first babies were born with full digital patient records.\n\nThe South Eastern Trust said it will be \"revolutionary\" but has asked the public to be patient as staff adjust to the new system.\n\nIn February, the Department of Health said £113.8m had been spent on the programme with a further £163.9m planned spend over the next five years.\n\nThe encompass system has been built by a company called Epic which currently provides electronic records for over 300m people within the UK and across the globe.\n\nBBC News NI has been made aware of some staff concerns about technical problems with the initial system roll out.\n\nThe South Eastern Trust has been approached for a response.\n\nSpeaking earlier, Dr David Wilson, a consultant involved in implementing encompass, said: \"Staff certainly have been nervous but there is also a good bit of excitement out there.\n\n\"Of course it is going to take some time to get to grips with the new system, there are going to be teething issues, we're going to be a little slower initially and there may be disruption and technical issues.\n\n\"That is to be expected but over the next few weeks we will get back up to speed as staff get used to the new system.\"", "Home Secretary Suella Braverman is facing questions about her future after defying Downing Street over an article accusing the police of bias.\n\nShe claimed aggressive right-wing protesters were \"rightly met with a stern response\", while \"pro-Palestinian mobs\" were \"largely ignored\".\n\nThe article was not cleared by Downing Street and suggested changes to the text were not followed, No 10 said.\n\nSome Tories have called for the home secretary to be sacked.\n\nIt comes ahead of a Pro-Palestinian march for a ceasefire in Gaza, which is due to take place in central London on Saturday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused Mrs Braverman of undermining the police and said Prime Minster Rishi Sunak was \"too weak to do anything about it\".\n\nFormer Conservative minister Sir Bob Neill became the first Tory to publicly call for her to resign over the article.\n\nSir Bob, a frequent critic of Mrs Braverman, told LBC that her position was \"untenable\" after she had \"gone over the line\" with her comments.\n\nBut Conservative MP Danny Kruger - an ally of Mrs Braverman - denied the home secretary was interfering, and said she was entitled to comment on the \"broader culture of police\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: Suella Braverman has worked \"incredibly hard and also incredibly constructively\" with the police\n\nThe prime minister's spokesperson said Downing Street was \"looking into what happened\" over the article - but they added Mr Sunak had full confidence in the home secretary.\n\nThe ministerial code says all major interviews and media appearances, both print and broadcast, should \"be agreed with the No 10 Press Office\".\n\nThe prime minister can punish a minister who is deemed to have breached the code. Options can range from demanding a public apology to sacking them.\n\nMrs Braverman, who is popular on the right of her party and seen as a possible future Conservative leader, often takes a harder line than many of her colleagues on issues such as crime and immigration.\n\nShe has recently been criticised for calling pro-Palestinian rallies in London \"hate marches\" and has described being homeless as a \"lifestyle\" choice.\n\nThis latest row comes before the Supreme Court is due to give next week its decision on whether government plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda are lawful.\n\nMrs Braverman has been a vocal backer of the Rwanda scheme, which is part of Mr Sunak's plans to curb the number of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Suella Braverman is \"out of control\" - Sir Keir Starmer\n\nPolice have said they expect a large rally on Saturday, prompting fears of violent clashes with counter-protesters.\n\nSaturday is also Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of World War One, which has prompted calls from the prime minister and others for the Pro-Palestine march to be cancelled, on the grounds that it is \"disrespectful\".\n\nThe Met Police has faced calls to ban the march - but commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said protests may only be stopped if there is a threat of serious disorder, and that the \"very high threshold\" has not been reached.\n\nIn her Times article, Mrs Braverman claimed that there was \"a perception that senior officers play favourites when it comes to protesters\".\n\n\"Right-wing and nationalist protesters who engage in aggression are rightly met with a stern response yet pro-Palestinian mobs displaying almost identical behaviour are largely ignored, even when clearly breaking the law,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Minister Mark Harper asked four times if he has confidence in Suella Braverman\n\nThere have been regular protests in London after Hamas gunmen launched an unprecedented assault on Israel from the Gaza Strip on 7 October, killing more than 1,400 people and taking more than 200 hostages.\n\nIsrael has been carrying out strikes on Gaza since then in response, and has now also launched a ground offensive. More than 10,500 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.", "A young boy tries to grow the perfect Christmas tree in John Lewis's advert\n\nIt's still only November, but the Christmas TV adverts are coming in thick and fast, bringing a sprinkling of festivity to our screens.\n\nJohn Lewis has become the latest big name brand to beam its festive message into UK homes.\n\nThe advert, released on Thursday, tells the tale of a little boy and a giant Venus flytrap.\n\nOpinion was split on social media, with some calling it \"scary\" but others saying it offered light relief.\n\nOne user on X said the advert was \"a disappointment\", while another asked whether someone in the John Lewis creative department had \"basically watched Little Shop Of Horrors\" before pitching for this year's ad, referring to the musical about a bloodthirsty plant.\n\nHowever, others were more positive, saying they enjoyed the fact the advert was uplifting at a difficult time.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCharlotte Lock, customer director at John Lewis, told the BBC the retailer had \"asked for something that moved us on from last year and was different\".\n\nRetail expert Catherine Shuttleworth said it will \"be hoping the theme of family values works\".\n\n\"The overall theme in this year's Christmas adverts is glitz, fame and fun,\" Ms Shuttleworth added. \"John Lewis has opted instead for a vision of a modern family Christmas. Let's see if it works.\"\n\nAlfie, the star of John Lewis' ad, nurtures a plant from a seed\n\nSet to a track called Festa sung by opera legend Andrea Bocelli, the advert shows a little boy, Alfie, who plants his own Christmas tree - only to find it grows into a carnivorous Venus flytrap called Snapper.\n\nBut his family eventually embrace the idea of a new tradition, and even enlist the help of Snapper to open their presents on Christmas morning.\n\nWhereas last year's ad was toned down to reflect the cost of living crisis, this year's advert focuses on family and evolving traditions.\n\n\"It's not the tradition itself that matters, it's how it brings together families and loved ones,\" Ms Lock said.\n\nMany other retailers have spent heavily on recruiting famous faces to front their campaigns.\n\nMichael Bublé and Rick Astley to Sophie Ellis-Bextor are some of the A-list stars fronting this year's ads.\n\nSascha Darroch-Davies, co-founder of creative music agency DLMDD, said many have gone with celebrities \"because they have cultural currency\".\n\n\"There's not a lot of risk-taking at Christmas. Celebrities are a formula that has worked before,\" he told the BBC. \"It's a tough time for retailers. Many are struggling. They know this is usually a safe bet.\"\n\nSophie Ellis-Bextor does away with Christmas traditions in the M&S clothing ad\n\nMarks and Spencer was quick off the mark with its Christmas food advert, which sees the return of Dawn French as a festive fairy.\n\nShe is joined by Hollywood actors and Wrexham football club co-chairmen Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds, who voice 'the Mittens' in the six-part ad.\n\nThe trio dance around the house, ending up in the dining room, where a table is seen groaning under the weight of an M&S Christmas feast.\n\nM&S's Christmas clothing and home advert also recruits well-known faces including actors Zawe Ashton and Hannah Waddingham, Queer Eye presenter Tan France, and singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor.\n\nWhereas John Lewis focuses on changing traditions, M&S's ad suggests people should simply do away with Christmas traditions they no longer love.\n\nHowever, M&S was forced to apologise after an outtake from the advert - showing red, green and silver hats burning in a fireplace - was criticised by some who said it resembled the colours of the Palestinian flag.\n\nThe company removed the photo, which it had posted on Instagram, and said the advert was filmed in August, before the latest Israel-Gaza conflict began.\n\nSome might argue that controversies don't matter, and indeed might help a company, by getting its advert talked about. But Sophie Lewis, chief strategy officer at creative company M&C Saatchi, disagrees.\n\n\"I don't think controversy at Christmas is ever advisable,\" she told the BBC. \"And I do not think for one second that M&S were courting it in the case of the ad they pulled, and then re-edited.\"\n\nMs Lewis said time would tell whether, and to what extent, the row has affected M&S.\n\nSinger Michael Bublé takes on a new role in Asda's advert\n\nElsewhere, Bublé has been defrosted for Christmas, and is the star of Asda's ad this year.\n\nThe crooner takes on the role of Asda's chief quality officer, making the big decisions on what food the nation should eat this Christmas.\n\nOpinion on social media was mostly positive, with some expressing surprise to see that Bublé can act as well as sing. But others felt the ad fell short after the success of Elf last year.\n\nPop icon Rick Astley is the face of the Sainsbury's advert this year\n\nNot to be outdone, Sainsbury's casts 1980s icon Rick Astley alongside real supermarket workers as they explore what Santa's Christmas dinner would be.\n\nIt concludes a huge year for Astley, who also played Glastonbury Festival for the first time in June, leading a mass sing-a-long to some of his classic hits.\n\nThe singer achieved internet notoriety through the Rickrolling meme, in which users are pranked when they click on an unrelated link, only to be redirected to his famous song Never Gonna Give You Up.\n\nThe hashtag #RickAstley has also accumulated more than 716 million views on the TikTok app.\n\n\"Winning over shoppers' hearts and minds is quite challenging in the cost of living crisis so you've got to really find a way to make a people smile,\" said Ms Shuttleworth.\n\n\"Bublé and Rick Astley achieve that. People are wanting to get excited for Christmas, and that's what these ads do.\"\n\nNot all of this year's Christmas adverts have a star line-up.\n\nArgos has shunned celebrities in favour of cartoon duo Connie the doll and Trevor the dinosaur.\n\nAnd Lidl has gone for the tried and tested formula of recruiting a furry friend - a favourite for retailers at Christmas. Its advert follows a raccoon that goes out of its way to make one little boy's day extra special.\n\nTaken as a whole, advertisers are set to spend a record £9.5bn during this festive season, according to new data by the Advertising Association and World Advertising Research Centre.\n\nWhether that will pay off in attracting new customers is \"impossible\" to tell, says cultural historian Dorothy Hobson.\n\n\"But companies would not waste the vast sums of money they spend on making the ads and buying the air space if they were not getting a good return on their outlays,\" she told the BBC.\n\nRetailers are treading a fine line, she said. Their Christmas adverts are planned months in advance, so it's important they don't have the wrong ambiance when they hit the reality of the everyday lives of their customers.\n\nThat's one reason why ads often stick to safe territory, showing empathy and care of others. If they get it right, they can become a major cultural moment.\n\n\"They have become a cultural genre in their own right, which means that they are fulfilling their function by making us look forward to them and talk about them,\" Ms Hobson said.\n\n\"And if they are good, they become part of the history of television.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Civilians fleeing intense fighting in northern Gaza have described seeing decomposing bodies and Israeli tanks along a designated \"safe road\".\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has told people - via social media and leaflets - to use the Salah al-Din road between specific times of day.\n\nSo what is this journey like?\n\nBBC Verify has been looking at video, listening to eyewitness testimony and analysing satellite images to try to get a clearer picture.\n\nBefore the fighting started, northern Gaza was home to over one million people.\n\nIt has been heavily bombed and Israeli ground forces are now fighting Hamas there, following the group's attack on Israel on 7 October.\n\nSalah al-Din is the main road crossing the length of Gaza and the Israeli military has told civilians to use it as an evacuation route. The road runs past Wadi Gaza, a valley the IDF uses to divide northern and southern Gaza.\n\nThe IDF has said people will be safer in southern Gaza although its air strikes there have continued.\n\nOn Wednesday Ahmed Zeyadah told a local journalist filming for the BBC about his journey. He had travelled from his home in the district of al-Nasr in the north.\n\nCarrying his toddler, he said, \"I am so tired. We don't know what to do, we don't know where to go. To whom do we turn? To whom do we say: Come and save us.\"\n\nMahmoud Ghazzaawi fled his home in al-Zeitoun in northern Gaza because of the number of attacks.\n\nHe said he left his home at midday and had been walking for five hours. He also said he did not know where to go.\n\n\"There are martyrs [dead people] thrown on the ground, may God have mercy on them,\" he said.\n\nAhmed Zeyadah made the journey down Salah al-Din road with his toddler\n\nMost people appear to be walking. According to the UN, the Israeli military reportedly forced evacuees to leave vehicles at the southern edge of Gaza City.\n\nThose travelling from the furthest point north walked up to 12 miles (20km).\n\nOne of the evacuees told UN observers: \"I saw a lot of damage on my way, I saw Israeli tanks and soldiers positioned at the eastern side of the road, near Netzarim, and they did not approach us.\n\n\"I saw a few dead bodies and body parts on the road.\"\n\nIn another video, posted on the messaging app Telegram on Tuesday, a woman talked about bodies on the highway.\n\nShe said she had been looking for her son near the Netzarim junction - named after the former Israeli settlement in Gaza that was located nearby - and described finding his body lying in the road among others as she travelled south.\n\n\"I saw the Israeli tanks, but I didn't care, I looked around and found my son. I recognised him by his belt, and his phone,\" she said on the video.\n\nThe BBC spoke to a local journalist who recognised the woman and said she had visited the Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, on Tuesday where she registered the death of her son. He was buried on the same day, he said.\n\nThe BBC has not found video footage or still images of bodies on the Salah al-Din highway in recent days. We have asked the IDF to comment on the reports of bodies there.\n\nThis woman, seen in a video posted on Telegram, said she found her son's dead body on Salah al-Din Road\n\nThe UN estimates up to 15,000 people made the journey on Tuesday, with around 5,000 the day before.\n\nOn Wednesday the Israeli military said it was opening the road for an extra hour until 15:00 local time because large numbers of people were using it. A military spokesman later claimed as many as 50,000 people had left northern Gaza along Salah al-Din Road on Wednesday.\n\nThe IDF has published video footage on X showing groups of people walking along the road, some of them waving white flags (to show they are civilians), with an Israeli tank next to the highway and facing them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC has verified the location - by matching distinctive buildings seen in the background of the shot, and it is on the Salah al-Din road about 3km north of Wadi Gaza.\n\nSatellite imagery of the highway - posted on 7 November - shows people walking along the same stretch of road and an IDF tank next to it.\n\nThe image also shows damage to buildings alongside the Salah al-Din road and what appears to be debris on the road.\n\nAnother satellite image from the same date shows a larger group of people walking along the road around 0.6 miles (1km) north of Wadi Gaza.\n\nIsraeli tanks have been spotted on this key road before.\n\nOn 30 October, the BBC verified footage of a tank firing near a car - trying to reverse away - followed by a large explosion.\n\nWe asked the IDF whether - at the time of this incident - the road has been designated as \"safe\".\n\nIt would not comment on this specific incident, but said Salah al-Din \"had been an open road throughout the war\" and they had been \"securing it with ground troops and tanks to encourage safe evacuation\".\n\nBBC Verify has also analysed satellite imagery of the Salah al-Din Road - as far as Wadi Gaza - to try to assess the level of damage to it during this conflict.\n\nEvery red dot represents damage of some kind on the road: for example, a crater on the tarmac or a building damaged next to the highway.\n\nWe have identified about 60 individual examples but we cannot tell exactly when these occurred.\n\nThe IDF says it makes efforts to avoid harming civilians and will continue evacuation routes.", "During their march protesters stopped to release yellow helium balloons\n\nThousands of Israelis have joined the families of hostages held in Gaza to call on the government to prioritise securing their release.\n\nProtesters walked from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem before holding a demonstration outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence.\n\nHe has been criticised for not doing more to free those held by Hamas.\n\nIt comes as US President Joe Biden reiterated calls for a two-state solution.\n\nOf the estimated 240 people taken hostage by Hamas during their deadly 7 October attacks, only four have been freed so far and another, a soldier, was rescued in an Israeli operation.\n\nThis week Israel's military said it had found the bodies of two hostages - 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss and 19-year-old soldier Noa Marciano - in the Gaza Strip.\n\nThe protest calling for the hostages' release started in Tel Aviv on Tuesday before heading to Jerusalem. Near the end of their march protesters stopped briefly to release hundreds of yellow helium balloons.\n\n\"We want answers,\" said Ari Levi, who had two family members - including his 12-year-old son - taken by Hamas from kibbutz Nir Oz on 7 October.\n\n\"It's not normal to have children kidnapped for 43 days. We don't know what the government is doing, we don't have any information,\" Mr Levi told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"I want the government to bring them home to us,\" said Dvora Cohen, 43, whose brother-in-law and 12-year-old nephew are both believed to be held by Hamas.\n\nIn a press conference on Saturday night Mr Netanyahu said that \"until now there has not been a hostage release deal\", adding that \"when we have something to say, we will update you\".\n\nHe said that the first goal of the war is to destroy Hamas, the second is to return the hostages and the third is to eliminate the threat from Gaza.\n\nOn Saturday, about 400 people protested in Caesarea, north of Tel Aviv, calling on Mr Netanyahu to resign, according to local media reports.\n\nOne sign read: \"He who blames only the army does not deserve to command it.\"\n\nLast month Mr Netanyahu swiftly deleted a social media post blaming military and security chiefs for allowing the Hamas attacks to take place. He later apologised.\n\nSeparately, in an article published in the Washington Post on Saturday, Mr Biden said the two-state solution is \"the only way to ensure the long-term security of both the Israeli and Palestinian people\".\n\nThe president was referring to a final settlement that would see the creation of an independent state of Palestine living peacefully alongside Israel.\n\n\"A two-state solution - two peoples living side-by-side with equal measures of freedom, opportunity and dignity - is where the road to peace must lead,\" Mr Biden wrote, adding that achieving it would require \"commitments from Israelis and Palestinians\".\n\nThe article - which also accused Hamas of having an \"ideology of destruction\" - appeared to be aimed at Mr Netanyahu, who has opposed the two-state solution throughout his political career.\n\nHis survival as prime minister depends in part on support from Israeli hardliners who believe the entire territory between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea was given to the Jewish people by God.\n\nMr Netanyahu has previously said that Israel must maintain \"overall military responsibility\" in Gaza \"for the foreseeable future\".\n\nMr Biden also said the Palestinian Authority should govern the Gaza Strip and the West Bank after the Israel-Hamas war, adding that his government is prepared to issue visa bans against \"extremists\" attacking civilians in the occupied West Bank.", "Nigel Farage waded in gunk to help his fellow campmates\n\nThe return of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! was watched by an average of seven million viewers on Sunday according to overnight ratings.\n\nThat's just over two million fewer than watched the first episode last year, which attracted 9.1m.\n\nNigel Farage, who is earning £1.5m for taking part, said he is \"a hero\" to some people and \"a villain\" to others.\n\n\"In the jungle you're going to find the real me,\" the former Ukip and Brexit Party leader promised viewers.\n\nHe is the latest political figure to star on the ITV show, following in the footsteps of the former health secretary, Matt Hancock, last year.\n\nHe was paid £320,000 last year, according to the register of MPs' financial interests.\n\nLast year, the public voted for Hancock to take part in a range of unpleasant bushtucker trials.\n\nAnd Farage has already been chosen by the public to take part in the next trial after his debut on the show - alongside social media sensation Nella Rose in a game called \"Jungle Pizzeria\".\n\nIn the opening episode, Farage and two other campmates - This Morning host Josie Gibson and YouTuber Rose - were dumped in the middle of the Australian outback.\n\nTheir task was to battle slime and snakes as they sought to win time for their fellow campmates, who were participating in other challenges thousands of miles away.\n\nGibson rummaged in barrels full of gunk in the first episode\n\nFarage, who came dressed in a pink shirt and chinos, said he was excited to try \"something different in life\", to which Gibson replied: \"It can't be worse than Brexit.\"\n\nHe hit back: \"Oh… didn't take long did it? Didn't take long. I had a feeling we'd get a bit of that.\"\n\nHe then got straight into the challenges, sticking his head through the window of a campervan filled with snakes while unable to use his hands.\n\nHe was joined by Rose, who looked terrified at the prospect of the tasks.\n\nYoutuber Nella Rose had her work cut out for her\n\nRose has a million followers on TikTok, plus 900,000 on Instagram and nearly 800,000 on YouTube.\n\nThe show's producers will be hoping she can help engage younger audiences.\n\nOther contestants this year include Jamie Lynn Spears, who said in her introductory video that she was \"best known for being an actress and a singer\".\n\nShe is also - and arguably better - known for being the younger sister of pop star Britney, who recently released a memoir.\n\nSpears, Hollyoaks actor Nick Pickard and JLS singer Marvin Humes had to face a skydive before entering the camp.\n\nSpears later said the dive had been like \"living out my childhood dreams of being a fairy\".\n\nJamie Lynn Spears tackled a skydive in the first episode\n\nOther contestants this year include the restaurant critic and MasterChef guest judge Grace Dent, TV presenter Fred Sirieix, reality star Sam Thompson and former EastEnders actress Danielle Harold.\n\nThe foursome arrived by helicopter on the top of a Gold Coast skyscraper and were tasked with walking along a horizontal beam.\n\nHosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly were on hand to cheer on the celebrities as the battle commenced for one of them to be crowned King or Queen of the Jungle.\n\nWelcoming viewers to the new series, they said: \"Tonight the talking stops and the adventure begins... strap yourself in for the ride of your lives.\"\n\nFollowing a public vote, Farage and Rose will both take part in the next challenge in the show.\n\nFarage had told The Sun newspaper that he would be exempt from certain trials on medical grounds, such as anything involving weightlifting.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Fans sheltered from the heat ahead of Swift's now postponed Saturday concert\n\nTaylor Swift has postponed a concert she was due to perform in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, after a fan died while attending her show on Friday.\n\nThe decision came as thousands of people were already at the stadium as part of her record-breaking Eras tour.\n\nPosting on Instagram, Swift said: \"The safety and well-being of my fans, fellow performers and crew has to and always will come first.\"\n\nAuthorities warned of the danger to life as it recorded a heat index, which combines temperature with humidity, of 59.3C (138.7F) on Friday followed by 59.7C (139.5) on Saturday.\n\nThe US pop star's show on Monday will still go ahead.\n\nIn a statement on Instagram, the pop star said she was \"devastated\" over the death of a fan and that her heart was \"shattered\", adding: \"She was so incredibly beautiful and far too young.\"\n\n\"I can't believe I'm writing these words but it is with a shattered heart that I say we lost a fan earlier tonight before my show,\" Swift wrote.\n\n\"I can't even tell you how devastated I am by this.\"\n\nAccording to the organisers, 23-year-old Ana Clara Benevides Machado had sought help at the stadium after feeling unwell. She was transferred to hospital but died one hour later.\n\nAccording to Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, the cause of death was given as cardiorespiratory arrest.\n\nTaylor Swift, 33, said she would not be able to speak about the incident from the stage because she felt \"overwhelmed by grief\" whenever she tried to talk about it.\n\n\"I want to say now I feel this loss deeply and my broken heart goes out to her family and friends.\"\n\nShe added that this was \"the last thing\" she thought would happen when she brought the tour to Brazil.\n\nSwift said she had little other information about the death.\n\nIn videos and pictures circulated on social media, Swift was later seen urging staff at the stadium to give water to fans during the concert.\n\nAt one point, while singing All Too Well, she was seen throwing a water bottle into the crowd.\n\nRio Mayor Eduardo Paes posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) that what happened was unacceptable and he had asked the show's producers for several changes including extra water distribution points and more emergency services on standby.\n\nBrazil's Justice Minister Flávio Dino also posted on X that fans must be allowed to bring in water bottles to the venues.\n\nHe ordered the company organising the Eras Tour in Brazil, T4F Entertainment, to provide fans with free and easily accessible drinking water.\n\nThe minister's statement came after concert-goers were banned from bringing in their own water bottles.\n\nSwift arrived in Brazil earlier this week for her record-breaking tour, with Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue illuminated to welcome her to the country.\n\nTaylor Swift addressed the death in an Instagram post\n\nThe pop star is due to play two more shows in Rio before heading to Sao Paulo.\n\nSwift had to cancel previously scheduled performances in the country because of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nShe is coming to the UK in June 2024, where she will play Edinburgh, London, Liverpool and Cardiff.\n\nThe BBC has approached T4F Entertainment, for a response.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAdditional reporting by Katy Watson in Sao Paulo and Emily McGarvey in London", "British actor Joss Ackland has died at the age of 95, his family said in a statement.\n\nThe prolific stage and screen actor, who has been in more than 100 movies and TV series, died \"peacefully\" and was \"surrounded by family\", they said.\n\nHe was also described as a \"beloved father\" and had been married to his wife Rosemary for 51 years before she died in 2002.\n\nHe appeared in films including White Mischief and 1989's Lethal Weapon 2.\n\nThe family statement said: \"With his distinctive voice and commanding presence, Ackland brought a unique intensity and gravitas to his role.\n\n\"He will be remembered as one of Britain's most talented and beloved actors.\"\n\nBorn in 1928 in London's Ladbroke Grove area, Ackland grew up in Kilburn, north London.\n\nHe honed his skills by working for a variety of regional theatre troupes, eventually joining London's Old Vic.\n\nAckland also played writer CS Lewis in the 1985 television movie Shadowlands.\n\nHe appeared in dozens of films throughout the 1980s and 1990s, including The Mighty Ducks and Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.\n\nIn a 2001 interview with the BBC he said he appeared in some \"awful films\" because he was a workaholic.\n\nHe was awarded a CBE in 2000 for his services to acting.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNovak Djokovic delivered a masterclass to beat Carlos Alcaraz in the latest instalment of their burgeoning rivalry to reach the ATP Finals showpiece.\n\nThe Serb will aim for a record seventh title on Sunday after a 6-3 6-2 win put him through to face Italian Jannik Sinner in Turin.\n\nSinner became the first Italian to make the season-ending final with a 6-3 6-7 (4-7) 6-1 win over Daniil Medvedev.\n\nIn doubles, Britain's Joe Salisbury and American Rajeev Ram reached the final.\n\nThe defending champions beat French-Mexican pair Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Santiago Gonzalez 7-6 (7-5) 3-6 10-7, and will face Argentina's Horacio Zeballos and Marcel Granollers of Spain for the title on Sunday.\n\nDjokovic at his best against Alcaraz\n\nIn a blockbuster encounter between the two players who have dominated the tour this season, Djokovic, 36, was at his ruthless and relentless best against his 20-year-old opponent.\n\nHe faced just two break points in the first set, in his opening service game, and delivered stunning back-to-back volleys at the net followed by a smash to hold a seven-minute game for 3-2 - but those were the only real times he faced pressure in the opener.\n\nA loose service game from Alcaraz handed Djokovic a break for 5-3 and the Serb served emphatically out to love.\n\nDjokovic broke early in the second set to tighten his grip on the match but was then in danger of losing the advantage when the Spaniard had two break points in an enthralling sixth game that featured the best tennis of the match.\n\nBut the 24-time Grand Slam champion saved them both, including one by delivering a brilliant passing shot at the end of a 23-shot rally, and then went a double break up in the next game.\n\nHe then raced to 40-0 when serving for the match before the rare blemish of a double fault, before sealing victory with a smash.\n\nDjokovic has won three of the season's Grand Slams, beating Alcaraz in the French Open semi-finals, while Alcaraz won the other major by overcoming the Serb in the Wimbledon final.\n\nThe pair traded the world number one ranking through the season but Djokovic sealed the year-end top spot earlier this month for a record eighth time, and his performance on Saturday underlined why he remains the player to beat.\n\nBut on Sunday he faces a player who has beaten him very recently, Sinner having ended Djokovic's 19-match winning streak on Wednesday with a three-set victory in the round-robin phase.\n\nIf Djokovic plays at anywhere near this level on Sunday, though, the Italian may need to find another gear if he is to repeat that feat.\n\n\"This year I wasn't maybe as sharp in the second and third group matches, particularly, but I think tonight from the very beginning I felt the ball well,\" Djokovic was quoted as saying on the ATP Finals website.\n\n\"I approached the match with the right attitude, the right mentality, and I knew from the very first point it was going to be greatly intense.\"\n\nYou can follow live text coverage of Sunday's final (which will not start before 17:00 GMT) on the BBC Sport website and app.\n• None Djokovic will end the year as world number one\n\nWorld number four Sinner's victory was his third straight success against Medvedev, having lost the previous six encounters between the pair.\n\nHe has been backed by strong home support all week at the prestigious event and will be hoping for more of the same in the final.\n\n\"It is a privilege to have this kind of pressure. The crowd has given me so much energy,\" the 22-year-old said.\n\nSinner held a crucial service game early in the first set to make it 1-1, before backing that up with a break and going on to clinch the set.\n\nThe second set was much tighter as Sinner saved the only break point opportunity, only to lose out in the tie-break when he overhit a forehand.\n\nMedvedev handed Sinner the upper hand in the decider, losing his serve with a double fault, and the Italian never looked back.\n\nSinner produced a superb backhand winner to give himself three match points against the world number three, closing the match out at the first attempt.\n\n\"I felt that he was playing more aggressively, especially in the first set. Somehow I made the break and from that point I felt better,\" added Sinner, who has never been beyond the semi-final of a Grand Slam.\n\n\"The second set was really tight, but then he played a very good tie-break. In the third set I just tried to stay a bit more aggressive, mixing up my game a little bit.\n\n\"It is an incredible feeling because it was a really tough match. I am happy to be in the final.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Australia stunned hosts India in Ahmedabad to win the men's Cricket World Cup for a sixth time.\n\nAustralia quietened the wild support from the 100,000-strong home crowd by dismissing their previously unbeaten opponents for 240 before Travis Head's sensational century meant they romped to victory with seven overs to spare.\n\nAfter their bowlers expertly took advantage of a slow pitch, Australia were themselves reduced to 47-3 as India hit back in an electric new-ball spell.\n\nBut Head and Marnus Labuschagne calmly weathered the storm with a stand of 192 as Indian hope drifted away from the world's largest cricket stadium.\n\nHead was caught for 137 from 120 balls with just two runs needed, but Glenn Maxwell flogged the winning runs a ball later while Labuschagne ended 58 not out from 110.\n\nThe superb victory means Australia extend their record as the most successful side in 50-over World Cup history and now sit four titles clear of the rest of the pack.\n\nIt also caps a six-month period in which they beat India to win the World Test Championship and retained the Ashes in England.\n\nIndia, meanwhile, were left crestfallen as their bid for a first white-ball title since 2011 - an achievement which looked unstoppable as they made rampant progress through the semi-final and group stage - fell at the final hurdle.\n• None Australia win 'one of the great World Cup victories'\n\nThis was supposed to be India's day in front of an enormous home crowd with their prime minister Narendra Modi, who this stadium is named after, up in the stands.\n\nInstead, it ended in crushing disappointment as Head produced one of the great World Cup knocks and Australia ran out surprise and comfortable winners.\n\nBy the time 29-year-old Head reached his century, some in the vast stands had already made their exit, while seamer Mohammed Siraj was in tears at the end.\n\nAustralia were contenders when this tournament began, without being tipped by many to go all of the way, just like when they won the 2021 T20 World Cup.\n\nTheir campaign hit serious jitters early on with defeats in their opening two games, first by India and then South Africa, but they have won the title with nine consecutive victories, beating every team in the tournament in a row.\n\nAt the end, their players, including England's old foes David Warner and Steve Smith, charged onto the field in celebration.\n\nAustralia may have won it all before, but this ranks as one of their greatest nights.\n\nHead did not play in the first four games of Australia's campaign because of a broken hand, but Australia kept him in their squad, knowing the match-winning quality he possesses.\n\nHe scored 109 in his first appearance against New Zealand but this innings was on another level as he first dealt with intense pressure before punishing the bowling.\n\nAfter his opening partner Warner nicked the first ball of the chase through the slips, Head crashed two boundaries to settle Australian nerves.\n\nWarner then edged a wide ball to slip for seven off Mohammed Shami, while Mitchell Marsh and Steve Smith both fell to the brilliant Jasprit Bumrah.\n\nThe crowd was alive again at that stage, although Smith's lbw decision would have been overturned had he reviewed.\n\nThose wickets came in a manic opening period in which India took the upper hand but also gave up 15 extras in the powerplay alone, those in blue seemingly too eager to defend their low score.\n\nBatting became easier on a slow pitch that had offered more turn in the day, and Head took advantage. He cracked 14 fours and four sixes, with the sixes all pumped high over mid-wicket.\n\nOn 99 he would have been run out as he scampered to three figures, had Ravindra Jadeja's throw hit from cover.\n\nHe was finally out for 137, caught at deep mid-wicket attempting to finish in style. As he left the field he was embraced by Labuschagne and was congratulated by the Indians with the result already decided.\n\nHead's innings will take the headlines, but this victory was built on a sensational performance with the ball and a brave decision to bowl first at the toss by Pat Cummins.\n\nCaptain Rohit Sharma gave India a rapid start with 47 from 31 balls, but from 76-1 in the 10th over, Australia applied a stranglehold on India's star-studded batting line-up and did not let go.\n\nHead played a crucial hand too, brilliantly catching Rohit as he ran back from cover, before Shreyas Iyer was caught behind off Cummins four balls later to leave the hosts 81-3.\n\nThat left Virat Kohli and KL Rahul to attempt a rebuild, but the canny Australia bowlers kept the scoring to a crawl through a mix of short, slower balls and athletic fielding, all while captain Cummins mixed his pack to great effect.\n\nKohli and Rahul put on 67 in 109 balls before the former captain played on to Cummins for 54 in the 29th over to leave the vast stadium stunned in silence. Rahul then nicked a beauty from Starc, ending any real hope of a significant India score.\n\nIndia's lower order had hardly been needed in this tournament, and when finally called upon, Ravindra Jadeja managed only nine and Suryakumar Yadav 18 with just four boundaries coming after the first 10 overs.\n\nIndia's worst performance with the bat came at the worst possible time in the tournament, but huge credit must go to Cummins and his champion attack.\n\n'We saved our best for last' - what they said\n\nAustralia captain Pat Cummins: \"We saved our best for last and a couple of big-match players stood up and we're pretty chuffed.\n\n\"We were desperate in the field, I thought it all started against South Africa last week. The boys were fantastic. We've got an ageing squad but we are still throwing ourselves around. We were really chuffed with 240 because we were happy with anything under 300.\"\n\nIndia captain Rohit Sharma: \"We were not good enough today but I'm really proud of the team and how we played from game one. We tried everything we could from our side but it wasn't supposed to be.\n\n\"We were looking at 270 or 280 but then we kept losing wickets. We couldn't get a partnership together and that is exactly what Australia did to win the game, they stitched a good partnership after they lost three wickets.\"\n\nPlayer of the match, Australia's Travis Head: \"Not in a million years did I think that would happen [being man of the match today and in the World Test Championship final]. What an amazing day. I'm just thrilled to be a part of it.\n\n\"It is a lot better than being sat on the couch at home! I'm very lucky that everything went well and I was able to get back and the support that the boys showed, I didn't think this would happen. I was nervous in the first 20 balls but Marnus [Labuschagne] batted brilliantly and it is great to bat with him. It was an amazing partnership.\"\n\nFormer England bowler Steven Finn on BBC Test Match Special: \"Everything, from start to finish, that Australia did was outstanding.\n\n\"They were truly outstanding in the field again. Australia were just on top from that moment that Travis Head caught Rohit Sharma and they never let India off the hook.\"", "Investors are reportedly calling for Mr Altman to be reinstated\n\nThe ex-boss of leading artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has posted a photo of himself at its HQ, but he's reportedly unlikely to return to the helm of the start-up.\n\nWriting on X, formerly Twitter, Sam Altman is pictured holding a guest ID pass, commenting: \"First and last time i ever wear one of these\".\n\nThe 38-year-old helped launch the firm which created the popular ChatGPT bot.\n\nOn Friday the board dismissed Mr Altman saying it had lost confidence in him.\n\nThere were reports this weekend suggesting employees and investors including Microsoft were pushing for Mr Altman to be reinstated.\n\nBut, according to The Information tech news site, board director Ilya Sutskever told employees on Sunday night that Mr Altman would not return, prompting many to internally announce they were quitting.\n\nEmmett Shear is expected to be named as the new interim chief executive, according to the the New York Times, citing an internal memo.\n\nMr Shear is an internet entrepreneur who was previously chief executive at Twitch.\n\nMr Altman and Greg Brockman - another co-founder who quit on Friday as the company's president - were invited to the firm's San Francisco headquarters for talks on Sunday.\n\nThe BBC has contacted OpenAI for comment.\n\nReports of Mr Shear's appointment have emerged despite OpenAI saying on Friday that its chief technology officer, Mira Murati, had been appointed as interim chief executive.\n\nMr Altman is seen as one of the most influential figures in the fast-growing generative AI space and his sacking sent shockwaves across the industry.\n\nIn a letter on Friday, the company's board accused him of not being \"consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities\".\n\nThe board did not specify what he is alleged to have not been candid about.\n\nHowever, whatever the board was so alarmed about on Friday has perhaps been overtaken by the global reaction to its decision. There may also have been fears of Mr Altman setting up a rival company and taking OpenAI's top talent with him.\n\nOpenAI's board of directors consists of Mr Sutskever and three independent directors - Quora chief executive Adam D'Angelo, technology entrepreneur Tasha McCauley, and Helen Turner from the Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology.\n\nReports this weekend suggested his sacking had angered current and former employees who were worried it might affect an upcoming $86bn (£69bn) share sale.\n\nThe firm's venture capitalist backers and the tech giant Microsoft - which has a $10bn stake in OpenAI - have also believed to have called for his return.\n\nSources say there have been a couple of sleepless nights in Seattle, the headquarters of Microsoft, which has also integrated OpenAI's technology into its applications.\n\nOpenAI's bot ChatGPT is used by millions around the world\n\nOpenAI is widely seen to be a company at its peak, with lucrative investment pouring in, and ChatGPT - which was launched almost a year ago - is used by millions.\n\nMr Altman has been the face of the firm's rise. More than that, he is seen by many as the face of the industry more widely.\n\nHe testified before a US Congressional hearing to discuss the opportunities and risks created by the new technology and also appeared at the world's first AI Safety Summit in the UK at the beginning of November.\n\nHis ousting sparked an outpouring of support from Silicon Valley bosses, including former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt who called Mr Altman \"a hero of mine\" and said that he had \"changed our collective world forever\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Javier Milei and Sergio Massa have been battling it out in an acrimonious election campaign\n\nArgentines will vote on Sunday in a run-off election to choose the man who will lead the South American country for the next four years.\n\nOpinion polls put the two candidates, left-wing economy minister Sergio Massa and far-right libertarian Javier Milei, neck and neck.\n\nMr Massa won the first round with 36.7%, ahead of Mr Milei with 30%.\n\nBut polls suggest Mr Milei, who has promised to \"blow up\" Argentina's political system, has made gains since.\n\nPolling gets under way at 08:00 local time (11:00 GMT) and closes at 18:00.\n\nWith 40% of Argentines living in poverty, high prices and skyrocketing inflation are by far voters' top concerns.\n\nIt therefore came as a surprise to many when Mr Massa, who has been at the helm of the ministry of the economy as the country's annual inflation rate reached a whopping 143%, beat Mr Milei into second place during the first round on 22 October.\n\nSergio Massa pulled off the feat of winning a first-round victory despite being part of a government which has presided over skyrocketing inflation\n\nBut as he was short of the 45% of votes needed to win outright, Mr Massa now faces Mr Milei again in the decisive run-off.\n\nThe candidate who came third on 22 October, conservative Patricia Bullrich, has thrown her weight behind Mr Milei, and polls suggest most of her voters will back the self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist.\n\nAnd while a majority of surveys are giving Mr Milei a slight lead over his rival, Sunday's run-off looks set to be a nail-biting finish to an acrimonious election campaign.\n\nJavier Milei, 53, is an economist whose anti-establishment rhetoric has gained him a loyal following especially among young voters disillusioned with traditional politics.\n\nHis Libertarian party, which he founded in 2018, is seen by voters as untainted by mistakes of the past and much of his appeal stems from the fact that voters are willing to give his radical proposals a chance after decades of economic upheaval.\n\nMr Milei has promised to replace the local currency, the peso, with the US dollar, and said he would \"blow up\" Argentina's central bank.\n\nHe likes to court controversy on social issues, too, saying he will abolish sex education in schools, loosen gun laws and allow the sale and purchase of human organs.\n\nProne to outbursts and swearing, he has even attacked Pope Francis, whom he accused of being a communist.\n\nThe flamboyant economist, who likes to appear at events wearing a leather jacket and wielding a chainsaw, has devoted followers who mob him wherever he goes.\n\nMr Milei has gone from relatively unknown outsider to leading in the polls in record time\n\nSergio Massa, 51, a seasoned politician who led the Chamber of Deputies before becoming economy minister in the Peronist government in 2022, has been trying to convince voters that he has the experience to steer the country out of its economic slump.\n\nHe says he is the man who will guarantee that Argentina's poor will continue getting welfare payments and subsidised public transport.\n\nOn social issues he is liberal, backing Argentina's recent legalisation of abortion. He has also warned of the dangers of climate change, in contrast to Mr Milei, who is a climate-change sceptic.\n\nAnd while Mr Massa has been trying to sway undecided voters by encouraging them to vote against Mr Milei - whom he portrays as a liability - he is unlikely to be able to win over a considerable proportion of Argentines who have told pollsters from company CB Consultoras that they are so fed up with his Peronist party that they \"would never vote\" for him.", "Peter McCormack was 42 when he was killed by gunmen believed to be from the UVF\n\nPolice investigating the murder of County Down man Peter McCormack have issued a fresh appeal for information on the 31st anniversary of his death.\n\nThe 42-year-old was shot dead when two gunmen burst into the Thierafurth Inn in Kilcoo on 19 November 1992.\n\nIt is believed the attack was carried out by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).\n\nThree other customers, including a 69-year-old man who was registered blind, were also injured in the attack.\n\nDet Ch Insp Byrne said Mr McCormack was \"an innocent victim of a sickening sectarian attack\".\n\nHe added that police are appealing for \"anyone who has any knowledge of what happened that evening who has not spoken to police previously, or who has any new information, to do so now\".\n\n\"It is not too late,\" the senior officer from the PSNI's Legacy Investigation Branch added.\n\n\"If anyone now feels they are able to talk to us, we are ready to listen.\"\n\nPeter McCormack was shot in the Thierafurth Inn in Kilcoo on 19 November 1992\n\nDet Ch Insp Byrne said the bar was full of customers who were about to take part in a charity darts match when the fatal attack happened.\n\nPolice believe the gunmen made their escape in a grey Ford Orion car, which was found abandoned a few miles away from the bar in Tollymore Forest Park.\n\nThe car had been stolen from an address in east Belfast earlier in the day.\n\nDet Ch Insp Byrne also made a direct appeal to those involved in Mr McCormack's murder.\n\nHe said that \"a number of people were involved\" and urged them to \"do the right thing and make a difference to Peter's family by making themselves known to police\".", "Esports superstar Lee \"Faker\" Sang-hyeok led team T1 to their fourth League of Legends world title\n\nOne of the world's biggest esports will hold its 2024 grand final at the O2 Arena in London.\n\nLeague of Legends is a multiplayer online battle arena (moba) game that pits two teams of five against each other.\n\nLaunched in 2009, its World Championships - known as Worlds - have grown into Superbowl-style arena events.\n\nThis year's finals, held in South Korea, ended this weekend.\n\nKorean Team T1, led by esports superstar Lee Sang-hyeok, aka \"Faker\", beat Chinese rival Weibo Gaming to reclaim the championship.\n\nFans will have to wait until next November for the team's title defence in London, which will be the game's second big event in the UK in recent years.\n\nLeague of Legends' global esports boss Naz Aletaha tells BBC Newsbeat she was \"blown away\" by the response to its three-week the mid-season invitational event at the capital's Copper Box arena in May.\n\nThe game's top players tend to come from Asia, with South Korean and Chinese teams dominating this year's Worlds.\n\nBut Naz says she has no worries about Western fans getting on board with its flagship event when it comes to London.\n\n\"Actually, we have a very large player base in Europe,\" she says.\n\n\"We're pretty confident that our fans are going to show up and show out.\"\n\nLil Nas X performed at the final of the 2022 Worlds\n\nNaz admits that, like the rest of the games industry, 2023 has been a tough year for esports - which has seen high-profile team closures and bleak predictions for the future.\n\nBut she feels League of Legends is \"in a position of strength\".\n\n\"What I'm happy to see is that it seems like the economy is starting to turn a corner, we're seeing sponsors come back to teams, we're still seeing our fans engaged by the tens of millions around the world.\n\n\"So we know that esports is here to stay.\"\n\nBut esports does need to keep growing to survive, and finding new players can be hard given multiplayer gaming's reputation for toxicity, particularly for females and people of colour.\n\nShe says Riot Games, the company that makes League of Legends, has launched programmes to boost access and representation across esports.\n\nNaz's own position is an interesting one - Riot recently paid compensation to 1,548 female staff over gender discrimination.\n\nShe's worked there for almost 12 years and says she's seen \"really encouraging\" progress across the company and the wider industry.\n\nMuch has been written about Naz herself, and the fact she's a woman of colour in a prominent gaming job.\n\n\"I'm personally a big believer in that adage of, if you can see her, you can be her,\" she says.\n\nNaz Aletaha says she hopes people will continue to want to work in the games industry\n\nAnd Naz says she hopes new generations of players, developers and behind-the-scenes workers won't be put off joining the games industry.\n\n\"My message would be that we want you to join our ranks,\" she says.\n\n\"The industry and the output of the industry will only get better with more diverse perspectives and more diverse inputs.\n\n\"I selfishly think that we stand to gain by you joining us. So I hope that they're encouraged, I hope they see it as a really viable career path.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The fate of the babies has often been mentioned as al-Shifa ran out of fuel and stopped crucial services\n\nThirty-one premature Palestinian babies have been evacuated from Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has described as a \"death zone\".\n\nThe babies have been taken to an Emirati hospital in the southern city of Rafah, close to the Egyptian border.\n\nHundreds of people, including patients, left from al-Shifa on Saturday.\n\nThe hospital - the territory's largest and most modern - is under the control of Israeli troops.\n\nThey have been searching the complex for evidence that it served as headquarters of Hamas.\n\nOn Saturday, hundreds of people, including some patients, evacuated the hospital, but some 300 critically ill people remained as well as 33 premature babies. A Red Crescent spokeswoman told the BBC that one baby then died on Friday evening and another on Saturday morning.\n\nOn Sunday the 31 surviving babies were evacuated by the Red Crescent in coordination with the UN.\n\nWorld Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the babies were \"very sick\", had been moved under \"extremely intense and high-risk security conditions\", and were now \"receiving urgent care in the neonatal intensive care unit\" in Rafah.\n\nDr Mohammad Zaqout, general director of hospitals in the Gaza Strip, told AP some of the babies were dehydrated or had developed gastritis due to unsanitised water. Lack of medications had caused others to develop sepsis, and some had hypothermia as they could not be placed in incubators.\n\nThe babies had been accompanied by six health workers and 10 staff family members, Dr Tedros said.\n\nDoctors at al-Shifa had previously said newborns had died after power for incubators was cut off due to a lack of fuel.\n\nRed Crescent spokeswoman Nebal Farsakh told the BBC that some of the premature babies' parents had been killed in Israeli air strikes. The BBC is not able to independently verify this.\n\nShe said the surviving parents had been ordered to leave Gaza City - where al-Shifa hospital is located - before the babies' evacuation, and their current whereabouts were unknown.\n\nA Gaza health ministry Facebook page urged the babies' parents to rejoin their babies at the hospital in Rafah.\n\nIsrael has not yet commented, though it previously said it would help evacuate babies to a \"safer hospital\".\n\nThe WHO was planning further missions to take the remaining patients and staff out of al-Shifa once safe passage guarantees had been secured, he said.\n\nAl-Shifa's hospital director Dr Muhammad Abu Salima has called on the WHO and the UN to help the medical teams and patients \"leave this desolated place\".\n\nHe told BBC Arabic there were about 25 medical staff left at the hospital, but that without water and electricity they were unable to properly care for the hundreds of remaining patients.\n\n\"The hospital, now, is a ghost house in the full sense of the word,\" he said.\n\n\"Corpses are spreading out in the emergency department, patients are screaming, the medical staff is quite helpless, while the army is walking freely around in the hospital,\" he said.\n\nIsrael has said Hamas has a command centre under al-Shifa - a claim Hamas has denied - but has not yet provided substantial evidence of this.\n\nLater on Sunday the Israeli military released footage which it said showed a \"55m-long terror tunnel, 10m deep underneath the Shifa hospital\". The footage shows a tunnel leading to a door. The IDF said investigations were \"continuing to uncover the route of the tunnel\".\n\nEarlier this week, Israel military spokesman Lt Col Jonathan Conricus, said it could take weeks to fully search the medical complex.\n\nHamas, classified as a terrorist organisation in many Western countries, attacked Israel on 7 October, killing 1,200 people and taking more than 240 hostage.\n\nIsrael has launched a massive retaliatory operation - involving air and artillery strikes as well as ground troops - with the aim of eliminating Hamas.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says the death toll in Gaza since then has reached 12,300. More than 2,000 more are feared to be buried under rubble.", "The Israeli military has raided Gaza's main hospital in what it describes as a \"targeted operation against Hamas\".\n\nAn eyewitness at Al-Shifa hospital told the BBC that troops moved in overnight and were interrogating people.\n\nOn Wednesday, Israel said it found Hamas' \"operational centre\" at the hospital, sharing images of what it said were Hamas weapons and equipment.\n\nHamas denies operating there and the BBC cannot independently verify claims by either side.\n\nUN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said he was \"appalled\" by the Israeli raid, while the World Health Organization (WHO) said it was \"extremely worried\" for patients and staff, with whom it had lost contact.\n\nThe BBC has been speaking to a journalist and a doctor inside the hospital to find out what is happening there, while the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has also been providing updates.\n\nKhader, a journalist inside Al-Shifa, told the BBC's Rushdi Abualouf that Israeli troops were in \"complete control\" of the hospital and no shooting was taking place.\n\nHe said six tanks and about 100 commandos entered the complex during the night. The Israeli forces then went room to room, questioning staff and patients.\n\nThe IDF reportedly asked all men aged 16-40 to leave the hospital buildings, except the surgical and emergency departments, and go to the hospital courtyard.\n\nSoldiers fired into the air to force those remaining inside to come out, Khader said.\n\nHowever Muhammad Zaqout, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry's director of hospitals, told Al Jazeera that \"not a single bullet\" had been fired - because \"there are no resistors or detainees\" inside.\n\nEarly on Wednesday, the IDF said its forces were in the midst of a \"precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area\" in the hospital.\n\nIt said the raid was \"based on intelligence information and an operational necessity\", calling for the surrender of \"all Hamas terrorists\" present there.\n\nAs the soldiers entered the hospital complex, they engaged with a number Hamas members and killed them, the IDF said.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the IDF said troops found \"an operational command centre, weapons, and technological assets\" belonging to Hamas inside the MRI building.\n\nIt said it was \"continuing to operate in the hospital complex\", sharing images and videos showing what it said were Hamas weapons.\n\nIn a seven-minute video, IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus pointed to security cameras that he said had been covered over, and weapons that he said were AK47 rifles hidden behind MRI scanners.\n\nThe BBC has not yet been able to verify the video or its location.\n\nBut unless Israel has more to reveal, the military's controversial operation inside the hospital did not net a major arsenal of weapons, reports the BBC's Orla Guerin in Jerusalem.\n\nHamas knew Israel was coming, and therefore, if they were operating beneath the hospital, they would have had weeks to clear out through Gaza's extensive tunnel network, our correspondent adds.\n\nIsrael's Army Radio reported that troops had not yet found any sign of any of the 240 hostages taken by Hamas during the 7 October attack on Israel, when 1,200 other people were killed.\n\nThe raid on Al-Shifa came shortly after the US publicly backed Israeli claims that Hamas had infrastructure underneath the hospital.\n\nHowever Dr Ahmed Mokhallalati, a plastic surgeon at Al-Shifa, told the BBC there were only civilians in the hospital.\n\nHe said there were tunnels under every building in Gaza, including Al-Shifa hospital.\n\nAccording to international humanitarian law, hospitals are specially protected facilities.\n\nThis means that parties to conflicts cannot attack hospitals, or prevent them performing their medical functions. They can lose their protection if they are used by a party to the conflict to commit an \"act harmful to the enemy\".\n\nThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says this could be something like a hospital being used as a base from which to launch an attack, as a shelter for able-bodied fighters, or to shield a military objective from attack.\n\nThe IDF said it had repeatedly warned Hamas its \"continued military use of Al-Shifa jeopardises its protected status\", calling for the evacuation of the hospital before the raid.\n\nThe WHO had warned that evacuating patients would be a \"death sentence\", given that the medical system was collapsing.\n\nDr Mokhallalati told the BBC on Wednesday the hospital was without power, oxygen and water. On Tuesday, surgeries had been carried out without proper anaesthesia, with patients \"screaming in pain\". Doctors were unable to help one patient with burns, and had to just \"let him die\".\n\nBabies trapped inside Al-Shifa hospital, in an image issued by medical staff\n\nDr Mokhallalati said six premature babies had died in recent days.\n\n\"Why can't they be evacuated,\" he said. \"In Afghanistan, they evacuated the cats and dogs.\"\n\nThe IDF said it was providing incubators, baby food and medical supplies.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA drink-driver who filmed himself at the wheel saying he was \"smashed\" moments before a fatal crash has been jailed.\n\nAnton Hull had been drinking rum and lager before he hit Sarah Baker, who was driving to Somerset for a weekend away.\n\nMs Baker, 29, had just finished her masters degree and put in an offer on her first home.\n\nHull, who was jailed for six years, was called \"utterly selfish\" by her family.\n\nHull, 21, hit Ms Baker's Volkswagen near Wincanton, Somerset, at about 23:00 BST on 18 August 2022.\n\nPeople who called 999 at the crash scene said he \"stank of booze\".\n\nSarah Baker had spent the last four weeks of her life supporting her sister with her newborn baby\n\nPub staff told police they had refused to serve him at about 22:30 because of his \"level of intoxication\", and other people had told him to leave his Ford Transit van in the car park.\n\nThe family of Ms Baker, who was originally from Kent but lived in London, said: \"The loss of Sarah has left a gaping hole in our hearts. Over a year has passed and every single day, we have struggled to know how to carry on without her.\n\n\"Sarah was 29 years old, she had just finished a masters degree and, in her last days, put in an offer to buy her first home.\n\n\"Sarah had spent the last four weeks of her life supporting her sister with her newborn baby and was simply driving to Somerset to have a weekend away.\n\n\"She was the most caring, loyal and generous daughter, sister, niece, cousin, friend and most recently aunty anyone could hope to have in their lives.\n\n\"The immeasurable pain we feel is so unnecessary when Sarah's death was entirely preventable. The utterly selfish act of one individual has ended her life and ruined those lives around her.\"\n\nA blood test showed Hull, of Long Street, Galhampton, was approximately one-and-a-half to two times over the legal drink-drive limit.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said he had refused to provide officers with the passcode for his mobile phone but experts were able to gain access and find videos he had filmed at the wheel.\n\n\"I don't know about you, but I'm smashed,\" he could be heard saying in one.\n\nHull admitted causing death by dangerous driving at a hearing in October.\n\nHe was jailed for six years and given a nine-year driving ban on Friday.\n\nJudge Edward Burgess said: \"Your dangerous driving killed Sarah Baker, having made a selfish decision to drive despite warnings, knowing full well you were too drunk to do so.\n\n\"Your driving was significantly impaired, and you used your phone to record yourself driving in an intoxicated state.\n\n\"Words cannot do justice to the enormity and needless tragedy of this incident.\"\n\nDai Nicholas, who led the police investigation, said Ms Baker's life had been \"cruelly snatched away\" and Hull had made a \"catastrophic conscious decision to drive home\".\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A major incident was declared when it was found Barton House was unsafe\n\nResidents of a Bristol tower block evacuated over safety fears have been told the earliest they will be able to return to their homes will be in \"two to three weeks\".\n\nAll 400 tenants at Barton House were forced to leave their homes on Tuesday over safety fears.\n\nFamilies have been staying in temporary accommodation or with relatives.\n\nBristol City Council has now said \"complex and intrusive\" surveys mean further delays to their return.\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday night, the council - which owns the building - said it was staying in touch with Barton House tenants on a daily basis.\n\n\"Updates have been shared with residents this weekend regarding the ongoing temporary accommodation arrangements,\" it said.\n\n\"Residents were advised that due to the need to complete complex and intrusive building survey work, we do not expect households to be able to return to their flats in the next two to three weeks.\n\n\"Officers are working hard to identify more suitable temporary accommodation, and housing officers will remain in contact with residents to discuss individual circumstances.\"\n\nYousif and Majda are among the residents who were told to evacuate the building on Tuesday\n\nThe council also said some residents had concerns over access to food and laundry services and were worried about their pets.\n\nIt said it was in \"constant contact\" with affected residents to find solutions to those issues.\n\nOn Friday, Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees said it will be two weeks before there is any more news about the long-term future of Barton House.\n\nResidents were asked to leave the tower block due to worries over concrete that had not been fitted correctly.\n\nA structural engineer presented a report on the building's integrity to Kye Dudd, cabinet member for housing, services and energy, on Monday, the day before the evacuation.\n\nThe findings determined that the building would not be able to withstand any high impact, fire or explosion.\n\nBristol City Council has said Barton House was built in a different way to other tower blocks in the city, so it is not expecting the issue to be widespread.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emergency services attended the scene where two people were airlifted to hospital\n\nFour people have been injured, two badly, following a dog attack.\n\nNorth Wales Police went to an address on the Llŷn peninsula in Gwynedd on Friday morning, after reports of a dangerous dog.\n\nTwo people were airlifted to hospital with serious injuries, and another two had minor injuries.\n\nThe dog involved was destroyed, and is yet to be examined to establish the breed. A total of 37 dogs and a number of cats were seized from the address.\n\nOne person was taken by air ambulance to Royal Stoke University Hospital, while the other was taken to Aintree University Hospital, Liverpool.\n\nCouncillor Gareth Williams said the attack was in Rhydlios: \"As a community, there's a sense of shock and concern at the news.\n\n\"My biggest concern is the fact that there is a public footpath not far from the house, and also families that live in close proximity.\"\n\nHe said that \"our thoughts are with everyone concerned\" and hoped that they all make a quick recovery.\n\nPolice remained in the area on Saturday while inquiries continue.\n\nCh Supt Sian Beck said: \" We understand this was a concerning incident in the local area, and wish to reassure the community that there is no further risk to the wider public.\n\n\"We have launched a joint investigation with the RSPCA.\"\n\nThe force is appealing to anyone with any information to get in touch.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How Biden's message to Israel has evolved\n\nUS President Joe Biden is under growing pressure to rein in Israel's military campaign against Hamas in Gaza.\n\nThe thousands of civilian casualties and desperate humanitarian conditions have alarmed Arab allies, but also stirred an extraordinary level of criticism from within his own administration.\n\n\"I'm stunned by the intensity,\" said Aaron David Miller, who worked as an adviser on Arab-Israeli relations during a 25 year tenure at the US State Department.\n\n\"I've never seen anything quite like this.\"\n\nSeveral internal memos have been sent to Secretary of State Antony Blinken through a channel, established after the Vietnam war, which allows employees to register disapproval of policy.\n\nAn open letter is also said to be circulating at the Agency for International Development (USAID). Another has been dispatched to the White House by political appointees and staff members representing dozens of government agencies. Another to members of Congress by staffers on Capitol Hill.\n\nMuch of this dissent is private, and the signatures are often anonymous out of concerns the protest might affect jobs, so the full scale of it is not clear. But according to leaks cited by multiple reports, hundreds of people have signed on to the wave of opposition.\n\nAn administration official has told the BBC that these concerns are very real and there are active discussions about them.\n\nAt a minimum, the letters are asking that President Biden demand an immediate ceasefire, and push Israel much harder to allow for more humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.\n\nIn some cases, the language is stronger, echoing the rhetoric of young political activists and apparently reflecting to some degree a generational divide that is more critical of Israel and sympathetic to Palestinians.\n\nThe letters condemn the atrocities carried out by Hamas during its surprise 7 October attack that killed around 1,200 people, mostly Israeli civilians.\n\nMore than 12,000 have been killed in Gaza by Israel since that attack, according to the latest figure from the territory's Hamas-run health ministry. Israel has said it is trying to minimise civilian casualties in the war in Gaza but has not been successful, blaming this on Hamas.\n\nThe high number of Palestinian deaths is a \"font of the dismay\" in the administration, according to Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, a former US diplomat who is now president of the Middle East Policy Council.\n\nThe administration's support for the Israeli military operation appears for many \"far too much of a one-sided position for the US government\", she said.\n\nMs Abercrombie-Winstanley signed dissent cables during her career and has been consulted by current employees about whether they should do so now. These memos feel like they have a \"broader reach\" than others, she said, drawing in people who are not necessarily working on the specific issue at hand.\n\nMs Abercrombie-Winstanley believes the chorus of dismay has contributed to significant shifts in US language and approach, since the days immediately after the Hamas attack when President Biden pledged unwavering support for Israel in an emotional address.\n\nPropelled by the destruction in Gaza and growing anger in the Arab world, the administration's rhetoric on protecting civilians has become more insistent. \"Far too many Palestinians have been killed\" in Gaza, Mr Blinken said recently.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Joe Biden has a reply for all your jokes about his age\n\nHe and other senior officials are now treating humanitarian assistance as not only a moral imperative, but a strategic one too.\n\nThis is something Mr Blinken highlights when meeting frustrated employees in listening sessions, according to State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller. He makes clear that \"it is the United States of America, not any other country, that was able to secure an agreement to get humanitarian assistance into Gaza\" and \"to get humanitarian pauses\".\n\nThe secretary of state is aware of the disquiet simmering in his building and has made a point of addressing it.\n\n\"We're listening,\" he wrote after returning from his recent trip to the Middle East, in an email obtained by the BBC. \"What you share is informing our policy and our messages.\"\n\nBut it has not changed core policy approaches, nor appeared to have had significant influence on Israel's military campaign.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Israel \"not successful\" at minimising casualties but Hamas to blame - Netanyahu\n\nThe Biden administration has become more open about airing its growing divergences with Israel. Mr Blinken has deliberately set out principles of Palestinian governance and statehood for the \"day after\" in Gaza, that Israel's right-wing government rejects.\n\nThe president is frequently on the phone to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and senior officials keep up a steady drumbeat of visits to the region, pressing Israel to follow the laws of war.\n\nBut there's no suggestion the Biden administration is considering using its main leverage, putting conditions on its massive military assistance to Israel, which was ramped up even further after the Hamas attack.\n\nAnd Biden signalled this week that the US had not given Israel a deadline for its military campaign to end.\n\nIt will end when Hamas \"no longer maintains the capacity to murder, abuse and just do horrific things\" to Israel, the president said.\n\nThe bottom line is that the US and Israel have the same goal, according to Mr Miller, the former adviser at the State Department. Both want to destroy Hamas's capacity as a military organisation so it can never mount a 7 October-style attack again.\n\nWith that aim in mind, he said, a full ceasefire that ends hostilities in pursuit of peace does not make operational or political sense.\n\nIt only delays war, Mr Miller said, \"because you're not going to get a negotiated ending to this... The tactics may differ, but the objective remains the same\".\n\nSo what exactly would force President Biden to change course?\n\nMost likely not his internal opposition. For all its ferment, the dissent in the administration is not yet a revolt. Only one State Department official has publicly resigned.\n\nMr Miller suggests it would more likely take an external event, such as the unconditional release of all the hostages held by Hamas, or a single Israeli operation that results in mass Palestinian casualties, although the bar has been set quite high.\n\nThere are also political risks for Mr Biden. His solidarity with Israel is shared by Republicans and centrist Democrats, but concerns within the younger and more left-wing elements of the Democratic Party are growing.\n\nHis former election campaign staffers have sent their own letter to the president calling for a ceasefire.\n\nGwen Schroeder, who worked on Mr Biden's digital team during the 2020 election, was one of the signatories.\n\nShe said Israel's \"disproportionate response\" in Gaza showed that Palestinian lives \"mean less than those of our Israeli allies\".\n\n\"I'm not ashamed of getting Biden elected,\" she said, but added: \"I grapple with this every day, you know, is this the administration that I fought so hard for?\"\n\nIt is too early to say how these sentiments might affect Mr Biden's bid for re-election next year, but it does underline the tightrope that he is walking.\n\nHe has been telling Israeli leaders that the way they fight this war will determine what is possible after it ends. How much he is able to influence that is important, because he will be linked with whatever the outcome.", "Some schools with Raac have had to close off small areas, but others have had to shut entire buildings\n\nA \"lack of basic information\" about work to address dangerous concrete in schools in England is \"shocking and disappointing\", a report by MPs says.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) should say how many surveys are yet to be carried out and how many temporary classrooms have been ordered, it said.\n\nThe report comes a month after the last official list confirmed 214 schools and colleges had reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac).\n\nA spokeswoman said the government had \"taken swift action, responding to new evidence, to identify and support all schools with Raac to ensure the safety of pupils and teachers\".\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said Education Secretary Gillian Keegan \"should come to the House of Commons and explain when she and her Conservative ministers are going to get a grip of this crisis\".\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee, which scrutinises the delivery of public services, warned the list of schools with Raac would grow, and expressed concern that the DfE \"does not have a good enough understanding of the risks in schools\".\n\nIts report set out 10 recommendations for the DfE, calling on it to:\n\nDame Meg Hillier, chair of the committee, said many schools were \"still not sure where they stand or whether they'll get the money to sort out the problems that they've got\".\n\nThe report also stressed broader concerns about the state of school buildings, noting that the DfE was yet to establish whether asbestos was present in around 1,000 schools.\n\nIt warned that the government's School Rebuilding Programme was behind schedule and would not be able to help many schools that ultimately need rebuilding.\n\nThe condition of schools was worse in the north of England, it added, as well as in rural and coastal areas.\n\nA DfE spokeswoman said questionnaire responses had been gathered from all education settings \"in affected areas\" and most schools did not have Raac.\n\n\"We have been clear that we will do whatever it takes to remove Raac from the school and college estate. We are working closely with schools with Raac to ensure remediation work is carried out and disruption to learning is minimised,\" she said.\n\n\"Our School Rebuilding Programme is continuing to rebuild and refurbish school buildings in the poorest condition, with the first 400 projects selected ahead of schedule.\"\n\nAn estimated 700,000 children in England are being taught in unsafe or ageing school buildings that need major repairs, according to a National Audit Office report from June.\n\nThe presence of Raac was thrust into the spotlight at the end of August when the government told affected schools without safety mitigations to shut days before the start of term.\n\nThe sudden change in approach left some pupils learning from home for weeks as head teachers scrambled to make alternative arrangements. The DfE spokeswoman said \"only a small handful\" of schools taught remotely \"for a short period\".\n\nThe DfE first published a list of affected schools on 19 September. It had suggested it would update it every fortnight, but so far that has only happened once, on 19 October.\n\nIt said 202 of the 214 were now offering full-time face-to-face education.\n\nFor some schools, that may mean things are more or less back to normal.\n\nBut at others, children are being taught in sports halls, corridors, temporary classrooms including marquees, nearby schools and external buildings.\n\nOne parent, whose children's school was waiting for asbestos to be cleared so a Raac survey could be carried out last month, told the BBC she felt her children had been forgotten.\n\nIn September, the DfE suggested 29 schools required temporary classrooms, of which 11 already had them in place, and orders have been made for at least 180 single and 68 double classrooms.\n\nThis month, the government awarded three contracts worth up to £35m to providers of temporary classrooms.\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said it \"appears to be taking an eternity to put in place remedial measures\".\n\n\"We are gravely concerned that when the government eventually gets around to permanent solutions for affected schools it will do so at the expense of other schools that desperately need upgrading,\" he said.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the head teachers' union NAHT, said he was \"increasingly concerned\", especially for exam students in affected schools.\n\n\"Many schools are still awaiting temporary classrooms and are having to repurpose dining halls, PE facilities, and spaces for after-school provision and wrap-around care,\" he said.\n\nDaniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union, said schools needed \"substantial new money to tackle a crisis in school buildings\".\n\nA Save Our School sign put up during a parents' demonstration over Raac outside St Leonard's Catholic School in Durham\n\nAre you affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "US entrepreneur Elon Musk has launched his Starship rocket from its launch site in Texas, for a second time.\n\nThe rocket flew for about eight minutes before SpaceX said it had lost contact, and ended its live stream.\n\nThe top part of the rocket successfully separated from the booster, which then exploded.\n\nBBC correspondent Jonathan Amos says any debris would have come down over the ocean.\n\nAt the first launch in April, the huge rocket broke apart and exploded after four minutes.\n\nRead more: Elon Musk's Starship rocket goes further and higher", "A Boeing 787 made an icy landing at the Troll Airfield in Queen Maud Land, Antarctic.\n\nOn board were 45 researchers and 12 tonnes of research equipment, sent to the area as part of the Norwegian Polar Institute's operations in the area.\n\nIt's the largest passenger plane to have ever landed on the continent, the Institute said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Today we retake the path that made our country great,\" says Argentina's Javier Milei\n\nArgentines have elected far-right outsider Javier Milei, 53, as their new president.\n\nWith almost all votes counted, Mr Milei had won close to 56% in the decisive run-off, ahead of his left-wing rival, Sergio Massa, with 44%.\n\nThe radical newcomer's victory has been described as \"a political earthquake\".\n\nIt has been welcomed by like-minded politicians such as US ex-President Donald Trump, who said Mr Milei would \"Make Argentina Great Again\".\n\nBrazil's former leader Jair Bolsonaro said that \"hope would shine again in South America\".\n\nSometimes dubbed \"El Loco\" (the madman) by his critics, Mr Milei has promised drastic changes, which include ditching the local currency, the peso, for the US dollar and \"blowing up\" the central bank in order to prevent it from printing more money, which he argues is driving inflation.\n\nHe has also proposed cutting welfare payments and slashing bureaucracy by closing the ministries of culture, women, health and education, among others.\n\nIn a round of media interviews following his election win, he said he would privatise Argentina's state energy company, YPF, and the country's public broadcasters.\n\n\"Everything than can be [put] into the hands of the private sector, will be in the hands of the private sector,\" he said. However, Mr Milei added that before YPF could be privatised, it would have to be \"rebuilt\". He did not say how long that process could take.\n\nThe president-elect also announced that public works would be \"cut down to zero\" and those already in progress would be put out to tender so that \"there would be no more state spending\".\n\nOn social issues, he wants to loosen gun laws, abolish abortion - which was legalised in Argentina in 2020 - and allow the sale and purchase of human organs.\n\nMr Milei's victory comes amid a deep economic crisis which has seen annual inflation rise to 143% and 40% of Argentines living in poverty.\n\nWhile opinion polls conducted before the election had given Mr Milei a slight lead over Mr Massa, the wide margin of his win - by more than 11% according to provisional results - has surprised many.\n\nMr Massa, who is the economy minister in the outgoing left-wing government, quickly conceded defeat saying that \"obviously the results are not what we had hoped for\".\n\nAnalysts say Mr Milei's aggressive style and his promise to \"do away with the political caste\", which he blames for the country's ills, appealed to voters who were fed up with Argentina's established parties.\n\n\"This model of decadence has come to an end. There is no turning back,\" he told his supporters in his victory speech, promising a new era for Argentina.\n\n\"From being the richest country in the world, today we are (ranked) 130. Half of Argentines are poor and the other 10% are destitute. Stop this impoverishing model of the caste. Today we embrace the Libertarian model so as to return to being a global power,\" he said.\n\nHe also announced that the changes he would bring in would be drastic and immediate.\n\nDuring campaigning, the former economist and pundit held a chainsaw aloft to symbolise plans to cut spending.\n\nHis message appeared to resonate with voters celebrating his win in the streets of Buenos Aires. One woman told AFP news agency that \"we were very tired, we wanted to renew, we wanted to see new faces, always the same ones, I bet on change, on Milei, that it will go well for him, it will go well for the country\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why these Argentines voted for Javier Milei\n\nHowever, economists have been more circumspect, pointing out that Mr Milei's party only holds a small number of seats in Argentina's Congress and that he will therefore have to negotiate with the very politicians he disparaged and attacked during the campaign.\n\nDespite his anti-establishment rhetoric, Mr Milei has in the past been quick to bury the hatchet if it suits him politically.\n\nFollowing his win in the first round, he stopped attacking the third-placed candidate, conservative Patricia Bullrich, who in turn threw her weight behind Mr Milei in the second round.\n\nIn his victory speech, he thanked both Ms Bullrich and the conservative former president, Mauricio Macri, who had also endorsed him.\n\nBut while his supporters took to the streets of the capital, Buenos Aires, chanting \"change!\", there are also those who worry about what Mr Milei's victory may mean for Argentine society.\n\nHis choice of Victoria Villarruel as his vice-presidential running mate shocked human rights campaigners in the country, in which 30,000 people were killed or forcibly disappeared under military rule from 1976 to 1983.\n\nMs Villarruel, who comes from a military family, has defended officers convicted of crimes against humanity and proposed dismantling a museum which commemorates victims of Argentina's military junta.\n\nMr Milei and Ms Villarruel will be sworn in on 10 December for a four-year term.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Jeremy Hunt says he will not take any risks on tax cuts\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt has not ruled out cutting income tax in Wednesday's Autumn Statement, as he insisted economic growth was his priority.\n\nMr Hunt is finalising the government's spending plans as he seeks to revive a stagnant British economy.\n\nThe chancellor is believed to be considering reducing taxes on income or national insurance.\n\nHe told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme his speech would focus on removing barriers to growth.\n\nThe chancellor was traditionally coy when it came to confirming any of the actual financial decisions he will make before Wednesday.\n\nMr Hunt said he wanted to put the UK on \"the path to lower taxes\" but would \"only do so in a responsible way\" that did not \"sacrifice the progress on inflation\".\n\nWhen asked if he would cut income tax, he said he would not comment on a decision ahead of the statement, adding: \"Our priority is growth.\"\n\nTax levels in the UK are at their highest since records began 70 years ago and are unlikely to come down soon, according to a leading think tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies.\n\nAhead of the Autumn Statement, Tory MPs on the right of the Conservative Party, including former Prime Minister Liz Truss, have been urging the chancellor to announce tax cuts.\n\nMr Hunt has previously said tax cuts are \"virtually impossible\" given the state of the economy and stressed bringing down living costs was his priority.\n\nAppearing on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the Conservative mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street said he would prefer taxes on businesses to be reduced than cutting inheritance tax.\n\nWhile the chancellor had considered cutting inheritance tax, sources said the focus of the Autumn Statement would be to promote growth - on which inheritance tax has minimal impact.\n\nMr Hunt is likely to return to the issue for his Budget in the spring. He is also thought to have ruled out increasing tax thresholds as a way to cut taxes.\n\nInstead, Mr Hunt appears to be weighing up direct cuts to income tax or national insurance.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Hunt remarked that \"if you believe the papers there won't be any taxes left\".\n\nThe chancellor and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are hoping the Autumn Statement will turn the political tide in their favour after a bruising few weeks.\n\nLast week Mr Sunak sacked Suella Braverman as home secretary and the Supreme Court ruled his plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful.\n\nBut there was some good news for the prime minister, as UK inflation fell sharply in October to its lowest rate in two years, largely because of lower energy prices.\n\nThe government says it has met its pledge of halving inflation by the end of the year, but there is a limit to how much credit ministers can take as energy prices fall.\n\nThe Bank of England says raising interest rates, which it controls independently, is the best way to make sure inflation comes down.\n\nMr Hunt said the UK was \"not out of the woods yet\", but added he felt \"there's too much negativity about the British economy\".\n\nHeld back by high energy prices and interest rates, the UK economy has been struggling to recover since the pandemic, with the Bank of England forecasting zero growth until 2025.\n\nThe chancellor will base his spending plans on the latest economic forecast from the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR), which assesses the health of the UK's finances and is independent of the government.\n\nAs inflation slows, economists have estimated the chancellor could have more than £10bn to spend on tax cuts.\n\nMr Hunt said tax cuts were not his only tool: \"We need to be growing faster and that's why we're going to be taking a lot of measures.\"\n\nOne policy that has already been announced is a plan to reduce the time to approve and build pylons, overhead cables and other electricity infrastructure.\n\nUnder the plans, households living closest to new pylons and electricity substations could receive up to £1,000 a year off their energy bills for a decade.\n\nWhat was clear was the extent to which Mr Hunt will try to use Wednesday to mark a new era - one in which the worst pressures of inflation have passed and the focus is on getting the economy to grow, instead of bumping along the bottom.\n\nThe tough task is how a message that things have improved translates into the real world when so many people are finding it hard to pay the bills.\n\nWhen questioned about possible changes to benefits, Mr Hunt again refused to be drawn on the detail but said in principle, the Conservatives \"don't believe in parking people in welfare\".\n\nThis week, the BBC reported that ministers have drawn up large benefit changes for people who are unable to work due to health conditions.\n\nPlans were unveiled which would mean people on Universal Credit allowance would have their claims closed if they fail to take steps to find work over six months. The government says it will encourage people back into employment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rachel Reeves says Labour would increase benefits in line with September inflation\n\nLabour shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves criticised the government's plans for welfare, saying the number of people out of work is \"on them\" after 13 years in power.\n\nMs Reeves said: \"The reason we've got so many people out of work is because our NHS is not functioning properly.\"\n\nShe said people's \"lives are on hold\" because they are waiting for the treatments that would allow them to get back to work.\n\nThe shadow chancellor was also asked about reports the government could subtly change how it sets the rate benefits increase for the next financial year to save billions for the Treasury.\n\nTraditionally, the September inflation rate is used, which this year was 6.7% - but the government could instead base the increase on October's lower rate of 4.6% in order to save money.\n\nMs Reeves said: \"In government I will use the inflation rate that is traditionally used to uprate benefits. I think that's the right thing to do.\"\n\nAre you struggling to live on your current benefit allowance? Are you struggling to find work? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Areej Jabari holds her video camera on her rooftop in H2. \"The goal is to divide us, to pressure us to leave,\" she said.\n\nFawaz Qafisha cracked his front door open a few inches, stuck his head through the gap and squinted against the sun. The street outside was almost completely dead, save for an Israeli soldier who was sitting on a garden chair placed opposite Qafisha's house, facing the front door.\n\nBefore Qafisha had even adjusted his eyes to the light and spotted us coming down the road towards him, the Israeli soldier had sprung to his feet, raised his rifle halfway and ordered Qafisha back inside.\n\nThe falafel cook, aged 52, gestured for us to hurry.\n\n\"This is how it is any time we try to open the door now,\" he said, as we entered.\n\n\"We are not even allowed to stand at our windows.\"\n\nQafisha, who was born and raised in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, is a resident of H2, a dense and heavily fortified district that is home to 39,000 Palestinians and roughly 900 Israeli settlers considered some of the most extreme in the occupied territory. The Palestinians and Israelis of H2 are separated in some places here by just a few feet, and surrounded by cameras, cages, checkpoints, concrete blast walls and rolls of razor wire.\n\nFor more than 40 days now, since the Hamas attack on Israel, 11 Palestinian neighbourhoods within H2 - comprising about 750 families - have been under one of the harshest lockdowns imposed on the area for more than 20 years. H2's population is almost entirely Palestinian, but the district is under the total control of the Israeli military, which has for the past few weeks been forcing Palestinian residents back inside their homes at gunpoint.\n\nQafisha and his family of nine had barely left the house, he said. He did not want to take any risks. \"You saw what happened when you arrived,\" he said. \"We have a door we cannot open and windows we cannot look out from. We do not have any freedom. We are living in fear.\"\n\nIsraeli soldiers walk past Fawaz Qafisha's house. The Palestinian residents are not allowed on the street.\n\nQafisha's house sat just off Shuhada Street, once one of the busiest Palestinian market streets in Hebron. In 1994, a massacre of 29 Muslims by a Jewish extremist at a nearby mosque led to riots, which in turn prompted a crackdown by the Israeli army. The army forcibly closed Palestinian businesses and then welded shut the front doors of the Palestinian residents, on the Shuhada Street side.\n\nSince then, the Palestinians of the area around Shuhada Street have lived through shifting restrictions on where they can go, when, and how. Flare-ups in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have often led to some form of lockdown, but several residents told the BBC that this was the harshest they had ever experienced.\n\nA few hundred feet up the road from Qafisha's house, Zleekhah Mohtaseb, a 61-year-old former tour guide and translator, was staring down from her rooftop, watching a young Israeli settler shouting to himself as he meandered slowly down Shuhada Street.\n\nMohtaseb had had spent all her six decades within a stone's throw of where she stood now, she said. Directly across Shuhada street, no more than 20 feet away, was Hebron Cemetery, where 10 generations of her family were buried. Once upon a time, she could walk straight across the street and into the cemetery. Now it took her an hour by car.\n\n\"The settlers,\" she said, shaking her head, as the young Israeli walked past her welded-shut front door. \"They can do what they want. They are the chosen people.\"\n\nZleekhah Mohtaseb on a typical Palestinian balcony on Shuhada Street, caged in to protect against stones.\n\nMohtaseb had seen a lot in her lifetime in Hebron, but the past 40 days had been among the most tense, she said. Hours after Hamas attacked Israel, in a murderous rampage that left an estimated 1,200 Israelis dead, Palestinian residents of H2 received messages from the Israeli military telling them that they were no longer allowed to leave their homes. Israeli soldiers began forcing people off the streets at gunpoint, including Mohtaseb. \"Those first two weeks were hell,\" she said.\n\nTwo weeks after it began, the curfew in H2 relented slightly, allowing the Palestinians to leave their homes for certain hours on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Then this past Thursday, as Mohtaseb was preparing to meet us, three Palestinian militants from Hebron attacked an Israeli checkpoint dividing the West Bank from Jerusalem, killing one soldier and wounding five. Immediately, she knew that the attack would prolong and intensify the crackdown in H2.\n\n\"Everyone says that Israel has the right to defend herself. Fine. We are not against it. But what about us, the Palestinians?\" she said.\n\n\"Many times we were attacked, many times we were killed, many times we were forced from our homes. Where was this right to defend when the Palestinians were attacked?\"\n\nPalestinian boys play football, in front of a checkpoint, just outside H2. Israel restricts movement in and out of the area.\n\nH2 began life in 1997 when Hebron was divided into two sectors, under an agreement between the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Israel. H1, populated entirely by Palestinians and controlled by the Palestinian Authority, accounts for roughly 80% of the city. H2, which accounts for just 20% of the city, is populated almost entirely by Palestinians but controlled by the Israeli military. Within H2, the area around Shuhada Street and the Ibrahimi Mosque is the most fortified by checkpoints and guard posts. It has seen decades of tension, violence, and terror attacks from both sides.\n\n\"This is the closed place inside the closed place,\" said Muhammad Mohtaseb, a 30-year-old hospital security guard, sitting on the roof of his house opposite the mosque.\n\n\"We are completely surrounded by checkpoints,\" he said. \"Even on a good day, I cannot drive a car, no car can come in with Palestinian number plates. If I want to bring something to my house, I have to carry it half a kilometre from the checkpoint. When I got married, I bought all new furniture for my bedroom, but I had to take it all apart into pieces on the other side of the checkpoint to get it through the turnstiles, then rebuild it on this side.\"\n\nThat was a good day. Since 7 October, the freedom even to move around in the street was gone. When we arrived at Mohtaseb's home, just like at the home of Fawaz Qafisha, a soldier sprang towards the door and ordered Mohtaseb back inside.\n\nMohammad Mohtaseb on his rooftop in H2. \"This is the closed place inside the closed place,\" he said.\n\nUp on the roof, Mohtaseb rolled a cigarette and looked out over the empty streets. With three of his four children out of school - the H2 schools have all been closed - Mohtaseb had been at home and away from work for 40 days. Fortunately for him, his employer had been understanding and was still paying him.\n\nThis was not the case for everyone. Qafisha, the falafel cook, had been unable to fulfil his work responsibilities since the lockdown began, because he could only go out three days a week, and on those three days the allotted hours did not match the hours he would need to travel for work anyway. And unlike Mohtaseb's employer, his had not been understanding. \"In these jobs, if you work you eat,\" he said. \"And if you don't work you don't eat.\"\n\nQafisha had borrowed money several times from friends, to buy food for the family, but he was running out of options. \"Anything that you spend you cannot replace,\" he said, sitting in his living room, away from the window. \"So we are sinking.\"\n\nH2 is dotted with more than 100 Israeli checkpoints, guard posts or other security obstacles.\n\nThe following morning, there was another armed attack on Israeli soldiers by a Palestinian militant, this one in Hebron itself. This time it resulted in only the attacker's death. But a few hours later, another message was sent out via WhatsApp from the Israeli military to the Palestinian residents of Shuhada Street.\n\n\"A notification for the residents of Shuhada Street,\" it said. \"You are forbidden to be in the streets for one week.\" And if they left H2, it said, they would not be allowed to re-enter until the week had passed.\n\nThe lockdown in H2 was a \"blatant example of how Israel is implementing collective punishment in the West Bank\", said Dror Sadot, a spokeswoman for the Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem.\n\n\"The Palestinians in Hebron are paying a price for something they didn't do,\" she said. \"People cannot go to work, children cannot go to school, they are having trouble getting water and food. It is collective punishment, and it is illegal under international law.\"\n\nThe Israeli military told the BBC in a statement that its forces operate in the West Bank \"in accordance with the situational assessment in order to provide security to all residents of the area.\"\n\n\"Accordingly, there are dynamic checkpoints and efforts to monitor movement in different areas in Hebron,\" it said.\n\nA heavily fortified checkpoint at one entrance to H2. Residents say they are sometimes harassed at the checkpoints. (Tanya Habjouqa/Noor)\n\nAmong the Israeli settlers living in H2, in the hardline Kiryat Arba settlement, is Israel's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir. On Thursday, Ben Gvir, who has personally overseen the distribution of thousands of new rifles to West Bank settlers since October 7th, said that Israel should take the same approach to the occupied territory that it was taking in Gaza, where more than 11,000 Palestinians have now been killed. \"Containment will blow up in our faces,\" Ben Gvir said, of the West Bank. \"Just like it did in Gaza.\"\n\nAccording to the Palestinian Health Ministry, more than 200 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since 7 October, by settlers or in clashes with the military.\n\nOn Wednesday, just a few hundred metres from Ben Gvir's house, Areej Jabari had gathered a small group of women into a knitting circle in her home in H2, in defiance of the Israeli orders not to move in the streets that day. This was only the second successful gathering since the lockdown began, and there were only eight women present, down from around 50 who usually gather once a week at the mosque. The knitters had got there by sleight. \"We sneak through the side roads and between the buildings,\" said Huda Jabari, Areej's younger cousin, with a grin.\n\nThe women have learned, this long into the lockdown, to observe the Israeli soldiers and move when they are not looking. They use one another's houses to avoid checkpoints within H2, entering the front door in one sector and emerging from the back door into another. \"In normal times, 50 families pass through my house to get around,\" said Areej's mother Sameera, whose own house sat in the shadow of Ben Gvir's.\n\nAreej Jabari, a resident of H2, looks out of her window onto the street, which she can no longer use freely.\n\nAreej took us up to her roof to show us her view, over an Israeli military base and guard post close to her house. Below us, Israeli settlers passed by along her street, which she was no longer allowed to use.\n\nSince 7 October, Areej had been coming up here to the roof with her video camera to gather footage of the soldiers and send it to B'Tselem, the human rights organisation. In return, the Israeli military arrived at her house last Saturday and forced their way in, she said. \"They broke my press card and warned me not to take any more video or post anything on social media.\"\n\nThey also forbade her to go up onto her roof, she said, or look out of her windows on Fridays or Saturdays, when the Israeli settlers use her road to walk from the settlement to the Jewish holy site near Shuhada Street.\n\nThe IDF told the BBC that it was aware of the incident Areej described and was following up with the specific soldiers involved to examine what happened. \"We are taking this incident very seriously,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nTo Areej, it did not feel particularly out of the ordinary. \"Any time something happens they put more restrictions on us,\" she said. \"The goal is to divide us, to split the area into small pieces and to pressure us to leave.\"\n\nShe was standing up against the railing around the roof of her home, looking out over H2. \"I call this area the fortress of steadfastness,\" she said. She opened her video camera and pointed it in the direction of the Israeli guard post down the road.\n\nMuath al-Khatib contributed to this report. Photographs by Joel Gunter", "Crash, bang, wallop! An adrenaline hit of headlines. A massive bust-up. A big surprise. And a clash in the courts.\n\nWestminster's gorged itself this week on some of its favourite pastimes: obsessing over who is slithering up or down in the game of political snakes and ladders; pondering the edges of our stretchy, unwritten constitution as the courts and government do battle; and, of course, frantically trying to predict what is next.\n\nFully paid-up political nerds, myself included, have been glued to the spectacle of the last seven days.\n\nBitter sackings, vitriolic public letters, the prime minister vowing to take on the courts, even talk of letters calling for his resignation going in. (\"You'd just look like idiots,\" one senior MP tells me he told his more excitable colleagues.)\n\nBut for the ultimate boss, the voter, all the drama might have fallen on confused, or even deaf, ears.\n\nThe signals from government have been mixed, to put it diplomatically. In all the soap opera, has the prime minister been moving to the left or to the right?\n\nGetting rid of Suella Braverman at the start of the week, gave the impression No 10 wanted to take a softer tack.\n\nBut when the Supreme Court ruled against the government's plan to send migrants to Rwanda, up popped Rishi Sunak with seemingly tough language, claiming he won't let \"foreign courts\", stand in his way.\n\nIn fact, the ruling was based on both international and UK law, so the notion the problem has been created just by meddling courts in a faraway land is misleading. Whatever your view of the plans, the court referred to British laws that say refugees must not be put at a real risk of harm.\n\nAnd the PM promised \"emergency\" new laws - political speak for plans that need to sound bold and important.\n\nYes, that's the party that sees itself as the bastion of law and order, saying when it doesn't like the long-predicted verdict of our highest court, it will just change the rules instead, with the prime minister vowing to do \"whatever it takes\" to make it happen.\n\nThat's not entirely true, because No 10 does not seem willing to follow the much more drastic steps sketched out, entirely predictably, by the departing home secretary to get planes in the sky.\n\nIt's worth saying whatever Downing Street comes up with (and watch this space), the chances of keeping the right of the Tory party happy appear vanishingly small. Members of the public would be absolutely entitled this weekend to be scratching their heads and wondering if the controversial plan the prime minister has committed to time and again, the \"stop the boats\" slogan that screeches from government lecterns, is ever really going to happen.\n\nResearch carried out by the polling group, More in Common, helps explore the real world reaction. And a flavour of voters' views from focus groups about Mrs Braverman suggests there is real division - the most common words chosen to describe her include, \"brave\" and \"outspoken\", but \"racist\" features there too.\n\nThen a former PM was brought back into the fold.\n\n\"Cameron??\" to quote one of the messages that blew up on my phone when the news broke.\n\nIt was job done for No 10 if they wanted to create headlines out of their reshuffle that would distract from the Suella show.\n\nThere were MPs on his former wing of the much-changed Conservative Party who were delighted that someone with his experience is back in town. That was reflected by voters too, with comments in focus groups such as: \"Old knowledge in a team is always good\", while another said: \"He's probably been brought back to give the party some sort of stability because at the moment it just seems to be a lot of just infighting.\"\n\nThe word voters chose more than any other to describe the now Lord Cameron was \"experienced\". Tick!\n\nBut words like \"Brexit\" and \"past\" and \"idiot\" feature pretty heavily too.\n\nHere are the words voters used:\n\nYou wouldn't be alone if you felt a bit puzzled.\n\nThat's not just because you might have to squint to imagine how the leader of the failed Remain campaign can become the architect of UK foreign policy after Brexit. As one voter said: \"I'm really angry about it if I'm honest. I think he really divided the country down to families being one side of the argument or the other.\"\n\nBut it also risks highlighting the government's dreadful polling position, as well as the experience gap between the current and former prime minister, as if the much younger Rishi Sunak has got in trouble, lost his bus fare and has had to phone his dad to come and pick him up.\n\nOne senior party figure asked: \"Who is the prime minister here? Sunak is the prefect and Cameron's the headmaster.\"\n\nThat point is picked up by some voters, one remarking: \"It kind of smacks of desperation a bit, because they've had to resort to that in order to get any kind of stability in the party.\"\n\nThere's another point of confusion. Rishi Sunak's last big swing was at the Conservative Party conference when he styled himself as the candidate of change, hammering the point by criticising what he called the 30-year consensus and the status quo.\n\nThis was no small move, but a considered big strategic decision to pitch the prime minister like this, when other tacks had failed.\n\nNow, in blunt terms, how can you convincingly be the change guy, if you are bringing back the old guy?\n\nInevitably this changing tack has been noticed by the backbenches. One senior figure says: \"We have all been trying to read the tea leaves, but not able to drink the tea\" because \"No 10 keeps changing its mind all the time.\"\n\nWhether on small boats or David Cameron sauntering back into government, all the hullabaloo in Westminster this week hasn't been on the stresses and strains most relevant to most voters' lives.\n\nJeremy Hunt has a chance to show the Tories are listening to people's concerns with the Autumn Statement\n\nResearch shared with us this week from More in Common, consistent with polling for months and months, shows that making ends meet is by miles at the top of the list - 71% of those asked put it as their highest concern.\n\nWorries about the NHS was the next priority, but some distance behind at 40%.\n\nOnly 17% named asylum seekers crossing the channel as their biggest worry, behind climate change at 23%.\n\nIt's foolish to read too much into any one snapshot, and one week of polling is, of course, just that. But as the prime minister wriggles uncomfortably over his chosen small boats priority, as the Tory party wrangles over the direction No 10 really wants to take, it is a reminder that neither of those issues are the public's most common concern.\n\nOne senior Tory MP admits: \"Most people just want to be able to pay their bills and get a doctor's appointment.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the Chancellor has a chance to help people do just that with the Autumn Statement.\n\nThe pressure is on Jeremy Hunt to act on those very real concerns. Number 10 was cock-a-hoop, at least for half an hour or so, when this week's inflation numbers showed price rises slowing down, mainly due to falling energy prices. But remember, slowing inflation doesn't remove high prices, it just means costs aren't going up so fast.\n\nAs that polling suggests, making ends meet is a challenge for millions of families.\n\nFrom the splurge of early briefings it is not clear what Jeremy Hunt will actually propose to do to help. There's also the potential political contradiction of dangling a tax cut for a tiny number of families affected by inheritance tax, while taking much more from millions in income tax.\n\nThat is not because the Chancellor has actually put income tax up, but because more and more people are getting dragged into paying higher rates. (This has one of the least attractive names in Treasury jargon, fiscal drag, but is one of the most significant and little talked about changes to how the government makes its sums add up.)\n\nIt is also, at the risk of sounding prim, worth noting how unusual it is for the Treasury to be teasing quite so much around tax cuts just before a big statement like this.\n\nOne former Treasury minister told me it's \"extraordinary\" they have been so open. Is it - as they archly note - \"just to chuck red meat to the Suella brigade\" after a bumpy week?\n\nThe overall economic picture is not pretty. Growth has stalled. The government is spending an absolute fortune paying interest on its huge debts. Taxes and government spending are both at historic levels, a nightmare for Conservative purists who, after all, hope their party stands for leaner government and lower tax.\n\nIt is a challenge to those in the Conservative Party, and, of course, the opposition, who want more resources for public services. Overall the former Treasury minister notes brutally, \"we are in a really bad spot - do I see a coherent strategy? No!\"\n\nThe overwhelming concern for the chancellor and the prime minister to respond to is to help families and firms feel consistently better off. The drama that's consumed Westminster these last seven days isn't likely to make much difference to that.\n\nJeremy Hunt has a chance to change that on Wednesday. But it's just not clear that the neighbours in No 10 and 11 can make the sums, and the politics, add up.\n\nWhat questions would you like to ask the chancellor and the shadow chancellor?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Temporary restrictions on how many planes can land or take off at Heathrow have been lifted, after a day of delays and cancellations at the airport.\n\nThe UK's air traffic services provider NATS said \"staff absence and strong winds\" had led to limits being imposed.\n\nHeathrow warned of \"minor\" changes to schedules but declined to say how many journeys would be affected.\n\nIt could not confirm if there would be further delays this evening and said passengers should check with airlines.\n\nEarlier, British Airways confirmed that it had made \"some adjustments to our short-haul schedule\".\n\nThere are normally about 175 short-haul BA flights that land at Heathrow every day.\n\nTravellers took to X, previously Twitter, to vent their frustration, with some concerned that they would miss connecting flights to other destinations. Some were reportedly facing hours of delays.\n\nNATS has been criticised in recent months for disruption at UK airports. In late August, thousands of flights were cancelled or disrupted when the UK's air traffic control systems suffered a technical failure.\n\nJust over a fortnight later, flights at Gatwick were cancelled, delayed or diverted at short notice because of a shortage of air traffic controllers.\n\nOn Sunday, NATS said there was \"short notice staff absence in the tower\", as well as strong winds.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We are working hard to minimise disruption, working closely with Heathrow airport and airlines. Passengers should check the status of their flight with their airline.\n\n\"Restrictions of this sort are only ever applied to ensure safety and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nBA said that it had \"contacted affected customers to apologise and offer them rebooking options or a full refund\".\n\nA spokesperson for Heathrow, said: \"We want to reassure passengers that our colleagues are working in close collaboration with our airline and air traffic control partners to get them safely on their journeys as quickly as possible.\n\n\"We encourage passengers to check with their airline for the latest information.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Al-Shifa evacuees flee amid gunfire, with IDF tanks on the move\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has described al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City as a \"death zone\".\n\nA joint UN team led by the WHO assessed the hospital for one hour following its occupation by the Israeli military and as some patients and those seeking shelter there began to evacuate it.\n\nThe team said they saw evidence of shelling and gunfire and observed a mass grave at the hospital's entrance.\n\nThey were told it held the remains of 80 people.\n\nFollowing an evacuation which the hospital director said was ordered by the Israeli army but which the army said was requested by the director, 300 critically ill patients remain in al-Shifa - formerly the largest and most advanced hospital in Gaza.\n\nThe WHO said it was trying to arrange the urgent evacuation of remaining patients and staff to other facilities in Gaza, and repeated calls for a ceasefire.\n\nMeanwhile, the White House has responded to a report in the Washington Post which said Israel, Hamas and the US were on the verge of a deal that would see the release of women and children seized by Hamas on 7 October in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting.\n\nA White House spokesperson said no such deal had yet been reached but it was working hard to get one agreed.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has ruled out a full ceasefire with Hamas and said he will consider only a temporary truce in exchange for the return of hostages kidnapped by the group.\n\nIsraeli troops looked on as Palestinians left northern Gaza on Saturday\n\nHundreds of people, including some patients, left al-Shifa on Saturday.\n\nA journalist at al-Shifa hospital told the BBC that only \"patients who could not move and a very small number of doctors\" remained behind.\n\n\"We raised our hands and carried white flags,\" Khader, a journalist who had been at al-Shifa, told the BBC.\n\nThe IDF denied ordering the evacuation of al-Shifa and said it had agreed to a request from the hospital's director for those wanting to leave to evacuate through a \"secure route\".\n\n\"At no point did the IDF order the evacuation of patients or medical teams and in fact proposed that any request for medical evacuation will be facilitated by the IDF,\" a statement said.\n\nDr Ramez Radwan, a doctor who said he was ordered to leave al-Shifa by Israeli authorities, described the situation at the hospital as \"miserable\", saying there were no painkillers or antibiotics and some patients had \"worms coming out of the wounds\".\n\nIsrael's military has raided the hospital in recent days, as part of what it describes as a \"targeted operation against Hamas\", but is yet to provide substantial evidence that the group conducted a major operation in tunnels underneath the medical complex.\n\nThe Israeli military says its troops found weapons including Kalashnikov rifles when they raised the al-Shifa site last week\n\nSeparately, Hamas health officials said two explosions in Jabalia in northern Gaza together killed 80 people.\n\nIsrael told the BBC it could not confirm it struck a UN school-turned-shelter but was investigating.\n\nBBC Verify has geolocated footage to al-Fakhoura school in Jabalia that shows many people - including women and children - with severe injuries or lying motionless on the floor in different parts of the building.\n\nThere are more than 20 such casualties visible in the footage, and around half of these are seen in one particular room on the ground floor, which also shows signs of considerable damage.\n\nThe head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said he had seen \"horrifying images and footage of scores of people killed and injured\" in one of his agency's schools \"sheltering thousands of displaced\".\n\n\"These attacks cannot become commonplace, they must stop,\" he said.\n\nElsewhere, the Hamas-run health ministry said more than 30 people from the same family had been killed elsewhere in Jabalia, in what it also said was an Israeli strike.\n\nThe IDF had no immediate comment on the report but said it was expanding operations in Gaza, including in Jabalia, to target Hamas.\n\nIt has told Palestinians in northern Gaza to leave for their own safety and has now begun telling people in the southern city of Khan Younis, where many thousands of people who have fled northern Gaza are, that they must now also leave.\n\nIsrael says the aim is to wipe out Hamas, following its attack on Israel on 7 October in which 1,200 people were killed and more than 240 taken hostage.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says the death toll in Gaza has reached 12,300. More than 2,000 more are feared to be buried under rubble.", "India captain Rohit Sharma: \"The result has not gone our way, we know that.\n\n\"We were not good enough today but I'm really proud of the team and how we played from game one. We tried everything we could from our side but it wasn't supposed to be.\"\n\nOn what a par total would have been: \"Honestly, 20 or 30 more would have been good. We spoke when KL Rahul and Virat Kohli were batting and they were putting on a good partnership.\n\n\"They needed to bat for as long as possible, we were looking at 270 or 280 but then we kept losing wickets. We couldn't get a partnership together and that is exactly what Australia did to win the game, they stitched a good partnership after they lost three wickets.\"\n\nOn getting three early wickets: \"That was the plan. When you have 240 on the board, you want to take wickets as early as possible and we did that.\n\n\"But credit to those two guys in the middle, Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne, they stitched a big partnership together and put us completely out of the game. We tried everything we could but the wicket got slightly better to bat on under the lights.\"\n\nOn the pitch: \"We knew under the lights it would be slightly better but I don't want to give that as an excuse.\n\n\"We didn't bat well enough to put enough runs on the board. Then with the seamers we got three quick wickets and we thought another wicket there would open up the game for us.\n\n\"Credit to those guys in the middle for that big partnership.\"", "Max Verstappen fought back from a five-second penalty with a damaged car to win a gripping Las Vegas Grand Prix.\n\nHe complained on Wednesday it was \"99% show\" but the show was all on track in one of the best races of the season.\n\nVerstappen, his team-mate Sergio Perez and Ferrari's Charles Leclerc swapped and re-swapped places throughout as they fought for the podium positions.\n\nVerstappen moved into the lead with 16 laps to go but Leclerc passed Perez back on the final lap to secure second.\n\nVerstappen was penalised five seconds for forcing Leclerc off track at the first corner, suffered a damaged front wing in a collision with Mercedes' George Russell and made an extra pit stop than Leclerc under a mid-race safety car - the second in an action-packed race.\n\nBut the pace of the man who has utterly dominated the season inevitably prevailed and he climbed back up to pass Leclerc for the lead with 13 laps to go for his 18th win of his record-breaking season.\n\nThere were battles throughout the field as F1 put on the spectacle its bosses had hoped for when they invested upwards of £500m - including building a pit building on a plot of land the sport bought in the centre of the Nevada city.\n\nThe investment - which will take in the region of three years to be repaid - already proved worthwhile as the drivers staged arguably the best race of the season.\n\nAs drivers arrived the whole paddock knew this race weekend would be different\n\nThe drama began at the beginning when Verstappen, making a better start than Leclerc from second on the grid, got up the inside of the Ferrari into the first corner.\n\nBut the Dutchman misjudged his braking and forced Leclerc wide and off track as both cars speared into the run-off area.\n\nIt was reminiscent of some of the controversial moves pulled by Verstappen on Lewis Hamilton in their titanic battle for the title in 2021.\n\nHe protested that he was ahead at the apex, but that was untrue, and the stewards agreed with Leclerc that the move was worthy of a penalty.\n\n\"I didn't mean to push Charles off the track but I couldn't slow down, looking back, the penalty was probably the right call.\"\n\nLeclerc wanted Verstappen to give him back the position but Red Bull decided to leave their driver where he was and take the penalty, which the world champion served at his first pit stop on lap 16.\n\nBut that pit stop was from second place, not the lead. Rather than waltz off into the distance after taking the lead, Verstappen found it impossible to shake off Leclerc, and as Verstappen struggled with his tyres after lap 10 the Ferrari closed in and was able to pass the Red Bull at the end of the Strip on lap 16, triggering the Red Bull stop.\n\nThat put Leclerc in the lead and he stayed out for a further five laps, now with Perez behind him.\n\nThe Mexican had dropped to the back when he was involved in a melee at the first corner involving several cars and needed a pit stop for a new front wing.\n\nBut he moved up the field, helped by not stopping under the first safety car, triggered by a heavy crash for Lando Norris' McLaren.\n• None In pictures: Bright lights and black holes at Las Vegas GP\n\nLeclerc's pit stop on lap 21 put Perez into the lead, and his race was aided enormously by a safety car shortly afterwards, called to recover debris from the track following the Russell-Verstappen collision.\n\nThe debris was Verstappen's front wing endplate but its loss seemed not to slow him down.\n\nAt the safety car, Perez pitted for a second set of hard tyres, as did Verstappen, while Leclerc, on tyres only five laps old, did not.\n\nThe stops dropped Perez and Verstappen to second and fifth, Verstappen also behind the Alpine of Pierre Gasly and Oscar Piastri's McLaren.\n\nAt the restart, Leclerc managed to hold Perez off, despite the five-lap tyre offset, for three laps before the Red Bull got him on the straight.\n\nRather than dropping away, Leclerc hung on to Perez and re-passed him with a stunning late-braking move at the end of the Strip on lap 34.\n\nBy now, Verstappen had picked off Gasly and Piastri and homed in on the leaders and he passed Perez down the Strip two laps later.\n\nLeclerc fought as hard as he could but the inevitable happened on lap 37 as Verstappen steamed past into Turn 14 with the help of the DRS overtaking aid.\n\nPerez then chased Leclerc and took back second place, and Red Bull looked to be on for a one-two.\n\nBut Leclerc had other ideas. He hung on to Perez and as the race neared its climax he was on the Red Bull's tail as they started the final lap, and down the straight he made another great late-braking move to clinch second into Turn 14 at the end of the Strip.\n\nHe admitted after the race that Ferrari had not pitted under the second safety car because they did not know what the others would do, and said: \"We got a little bit unlucky there,\" but said he had \"really enjoyed the race even though I wanted to win\".\n\nVerstappen, after his criticisms of Las Vegas throughout the weekend - one for each day - said: \"It was a lot of fun. The DRS helped a lot with good racing and the tarmac you could push on the tyres. It was a lot of fun.\n\n\"I hope the fans enjoyed it and already excited to come back here and hopefully do something similar.\"\n\n\"I was really confident the win was ours. I believed without the safety car the win was ours. We had five laps newer hard than Max, I had a good four, five laps to bring them into temperature. Then there was the safety car, Max and Checo stopped and I stayed on my used five-laps tyres, and to restart a used tyre is incredibly difficult and there we lost the race.\n\n\"If they had not stopped, it would be difficult to pass two Red Bulls. Now, I would have stopped, now I know what they have done, but it is too easy to say now.\"\n\nThe top three were not the only drivers providing entertainment in Sin City as there were similarly intense battles throughout the field.\n\nEsteban Ocon's Alpine took fourth place with a single stop, the same strategy as Leclerc.\n\nLance Stroll was fifth for Aston Martin, while Carlos Sainz and Lewis Hamilton fought up from 12th and 11th on the grid to take sixth and seventh places.\n\nHamilton's team-mate Russell was eighth, serving a five-second penalty for the collision with Verstappen mid-race at Turn 12, while Fernando Alonso was ninth for Aston Martin after a spin at the first corner, which gave him damage and a first-lap pit stop.\n\nHamilton was unlucky. A puncture after a collision with Piastri on lap 16 cost him 15 seconds because he had to do a full lap with the deflating rear tyre - only realising the problem as he passed the pit entry.\n\nThat forced him off the one-stop inverted hard-medium strategy Mercedes had chosen and required a second pit stop.\n\nRussell was the architect of his own demise, turning in on Verstappen in their collision and not only earning himself the penalty but causing a safety car that allowed Perez to jump up into the top-three fight from a position that would otherwise have been significantly lower.\n\nPiastri took the final point. Norris was taken to hospital for further check-ups after initially being assessed at the medical centre, but was walking away from his car after his crash.\n\nNorris was later discharged when all checks came back clear.", "About 210,000 people will head to Worthy Farm for the festival in June 2024\n\nTickets for next year's Glastonbury Festival have sold out in just under an hour.\n\nAll tickets for the 2024 event were bought just before 10:00 GMT.\n\nIn a post on X, formerly Twitter, the festival said: \"Our thanks to everyone who bought one and we're sorry to those of you who missed out, on a morning when demand greatly exceeded supply.\"\n\nThere will be a re-sale of any cancelled or returned tickets in spring 2024.\n\nOrganiser Emily Eavis has hinted that a \"really big American artist\" will be among the headliners, and Madonna has been rumoured to be one of the performers being lined up.\n\nEavis, who faced criticism for 2023's all-male headliners, also hinted that two female headliners could perform at the Pyramid Stage next year, with another booked for the legend's slot.\n\nIn an Instagram post, she thanked everyone who tried to get a ticket on Sunday.\n\n\"We're blown away that so many people want to come (we all still remember the years when they didn't!) and I'm sorry that many of you missed out,\" she said.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Demand far exceeds supply and with many millions of devices trying at once, it means the system can only work at certain speed.\"\n\nThe festival line-up will be revealed early next year.\n\nIt has been widely rumoured that Madonna may be among the headliners for 2024\n\nOn Sunday, Glastonbury hopefuls gathered around phones, tablets and laptops in an attempt to secure tickets.\n\nFestival enthusiasts experienced contrasting emotions as tickets sold out in rapid time\n\nSam Keaveney, 30, a student nurse from Stockton-on-Tees, will attend the festival next summer for the second time.\n\nHe described it as \"one of the best feelings\" and said he just feels \"so relieved and buzzing to go to the best place on Earth.\"\n\nAsked who he was hoping to see at the festival, Mr Keaveney said: \"It really doesn't matter who's playing as it's just that big and so much to see, there's always something and someone to see.\"\n\nEach year, tickets to the festival sell out in record time\n\nHowever, huge numbers were left disappointed, with some claiming they have been unsuccessful for many years.\n\nHomeless recovery worker Katie Cowdrey, 43, from Gosport in Hampshire, said she had attended with her late friend Katrina in the 1990s, but has been unable to buy a ticket since 2011 despite trying every year.\n\nShe said she just wanted to visit the festival one last time, adding: \"I'm 44 next month and have arthritis in my knees, so not as mobile as I once was, so I know the clock is ticking for such things that involve walking about.\"\n\nLast year, about two-and-a-half million people sought tickets for the event at Worthy Farm in Somerset, with just 210,000 available.\n\nFestival organisers said the demand for the 2024 festival outstripped supply and festival ticket and coach packages sold out in 25 minutes on 16 November.\n\nThis year's ticket sale was postponed by two weeks \"out of fairness\" to customers who did not realise their registration had expired.\n\nTickets for 2024 cost £355 (plus a £5 booking fee), up from £335 for 2023's event.\n\nFestival-goers will pay a £75 as a deposit and the balance is due by the first week of April.\n\nThe event, which hosts more than 3,000 acts, will take place from 26-30 June.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Palestinian children react after an Israeli strike on a house in Khan Younis on Saturday\n\nIsrael has told Palestinians in Khan Younis, the largest city in southern Gaza, to leave their homes.\n\nThe city hosts hundreds of thousands who fled northern Gaza as Israel began a ground operation against Hamas.\n\nThe new order suggests the military operations could soon move towards the south of the Gaza Strip.\n\nIsrael says the aim is to wipe out Hamas, following its attack on Israel on 7 October in which 1,200 people were killed and more than 240 taken hostage.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 12,000 people have been killed by Israel since then, including 5,000 children.\n\nOn Saturday, Israeli missiles struck a residential building in Khan Younis, killing 26 people, a local health official said.\n\nIsrael has not yet commented on the incident.\n\nBut it has been dropping leaflets in the wider area, urging people to leave for shelters.\n\n\"We're asking people to relocate. I know it's not easy for many of them, but we don't want to see civilians caught up in the crossfire,\" Mark Regev, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told US network MSNBC on Friday.\n\nIsrael did not want to see \"civilians caught up in the crossfire\", Mr Regev said.\n\nHe said Israeli troops would need to advance into the city to remove Hamas fighters from underground tunnels, adding he was \"pretty sure\" those being urged to relocate \"won't have to move again\" if they head west, towards the Mediterranean Sea.\n\nMr Regev said the areas they were being asked to move to would \"hopefully have tents and a field hospital\", although no such plans have yet been publicised, and it is unclear if such facilities would be able to accommodate potentially well over a million evacuees.\n\nBecause the western areas are close to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, humanitarian aid could be brought in \"as quickly as possible\", Mr Regev said.\n\nLike elsewhere in the Gaza Strip, southern Gaza has been in the grip of a humanitarian crisis since 7 October, when Israel enforced a full-scale blockage.\n\nThere have been widespread reports of water, food and fuel shortages, as well as concerns about healthcare facilities and sanitation conditions.\n\nIsrael has launched near-constant air strikes across much of the Gaza Strip, as well as a ground incursion into northern Gaza, including reducing much of Gaza City - the enclave's largest city - to rubble.\n\nThe UN estimates that at least 1.5 million people in Gaza are internally displaced, with overcrowding a major concern. Many are sheltering in UN facilities, as well as hospitals, churches and public buildings.\n\nMuch of the recent fighting has centred on Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital, where Israel says Hamas has been operating a command-and-control centre, which Hamas denies. Israel is yet to provide substantial evidence to back its claim.\n\nHundreds of people are reported to have left al-Shifa on Saturday, with one journalist who left the hospital telling the BBC \"we raised our hands and carried white flags\".\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have denied ordering an evacuation of the hospital, but said it had agreed to a request from a hospital director and was providing a \"secure route\" for those wishing to leave.\n\nHamas officials say 120 patients remain at the hospital, along with premature babies.\n\nThere are also reports that a UN school-turned-shelter in northern Gaza has been hit, with many casualties.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip told the AFP news agency that at least 50 people had been killed in an Israeli strike on the Al-Fakhoura school.\n\nBBC Verify has geolocated footage to the school that shows many people - including women and children - with severe injuries or lying motionless on the floor in different parts of the building.\n\nThere are more than 20 such casualties visible in the footage, and around half of these are seen in one particular room on the ground floor, which also shows signs of considerable damage.\n\nAn IDF spokesman told the BBC that he could not confirm it was an IDF strike and was looking into the incident.\n\nThe head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini said he had seen \"horrifying images and footage of scores of people killed and injured\" in one of his agency's schools \"sheltering thousands of displaced\".\n\n\"These attacks cannot become commonplace, they must stop,\" he said.", "What is in it and does it go far enough?", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFrance scored seven goals in each half as they recorded their biggest ever win by thrashing 10-man Gibraltar 14-0 in Euro 2024 qualifying.\n\nThe hosts are already through to the Germany tournament but did not take things easy as Kylian Mbappe hit a hat-trick that included a 40-yard strike.\n\nTeenager Warren Zaire-Emery was one of seven different first-half scorers.\n\nAt 17 years, eight months and 11 days, he became France's youngest player since 1914.\n\nHe marked his debut with a goal to make it 3-0 before going off injured.\n\nEthan Santos turned Jonathan Clauss' cross into his own net after just three minutes before Marcus Thuram made it 2-0 minutes later.\n\nThen came Zaire-Emery's goal before the unfortunate Santos was shown a red card in the 18th minute.\n\nMbappe made it 4-0 from the penalty spot before further strikes from Clauss, Kingsley Coman and Youssouf Fofana made it 7-0 at the break.\n\nFrance appeared to take their foot off the pedal for a while as it took until the 63rd minute for them to add an eighth, Adrien Rabiot drilling home.\n\nBut then the goals started flowing again as Coman and Ousmane Dembele scored before Mbappe grabbed two more - including a stunning 40-yard finish after the striker spotted goalkeeper Dayle Coleing off his line.\n\nOlivier Giroud rounded off the huge win by helping himself to two goals in quick succession shortly before the final whistle.\n\nFrance finished the game with 39 shots on goal, compared to none for Gibraltar.\n• None Goal! France 14, Gibraltar 0. Olivier Giroud (France) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Théo Hernández (France) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kylian Mbappé.\n• None Goal! France 13, Gibraltar 0. Olivier Giroud (France) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Dayle Coleing (Gibraltar).\n• None Goal! France 12, Gibraltar 0. Kylian Mbappé (France) right footed shot from more than 35 yards to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Youssouf Fofana.\n• None GOAL OVERTURNED BY VAR: Olivier Giroud (France) scores but the goal is ruled out after a VAR review.\n• None Offside, France. Kylian Mbappé tries a through ball, but Olivier Giroud is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The director of celebrated films including Gladiator, Alien, Thelma & Louise and Blade Runner certainly speaks his mind.\n\nDoes he seek out advice? Asking someone what they think is a \"disaster\", he tells me.\n\nWhat about his lack of a best director Oscar - despite being at the helm of some of the most memorable films of the past four decades?\n\nAnd as for the historians who have suggested his latest movie, Napoleon, is factually inaccurate: \"You really want me to answer that?... it will have a bleep in it.\"\n\nWe meet in a plush hotel in central London.\n\nScott had recently arrived from Paris, where the movie - which stars Joaquin Phoenix as the French soldier turned emperor, and Vanessa Kirby as his wife (and obsession) Josephine - had its world premiere.\n\nSir Ridley (with Phoenix and Kirby) at the Paris world premiere\n\nIt's a visual spectacle that contrasts the intimacy of the couple's relationship with the actions of a man whose lust for power brought about the deaths of an estimated three million soldiers and civilians.\n\n\"He's so fascinating. Revered, hated, loved… more famous than any man or leader or politician in history. How could you not want to go there?\"\n\nThe film is two hours and 38 minutes long. Scott says if a movie is longer than three hours, you get the \"bum ache factor\" around two hours in, which is something he constantly watches for when he's editing.\n\n\"When you start to go 'oh my God' and then you say 'Christ, we can't eat for another hour', it's too long.\"\n\nIn spite of the \"bum ache\" issue, it's been reported that he plans a longer, final director's cut for Apple TV+ when the movie hits the streamer, but \"we're not allowed to talk about that\".\n\nNapoleon has been well reviewed in many parts of the UK media. Five stars in the Guardian for \"an outrageously enjoyable cavalry charge of a movie\". Four stars in The Times for this \"spectacular historical epic\" and in Empire for \"Scott's entertaining and plausible interpretation of Napoleon\".\n\nThe French critics have been less positive.\n\nLe Figaro said the film could be renamed \"Barbie and Ken under the Empire\". French GQ said there was something \"deeply clumsy, unnatural and unintentionally funny\" in seeing French soldiers in 1793 shouting \"Vive La France\" with American accents.\n\nAnd a biographer of Napoleon, Patrice Gueniffey in Le Point magazine, attacked the film as a \"very anti-French and very pro-British\" rewrite of history.\n\n\"The French don't even like themselves\" Scott retorts. \"The audience that I showed it to in Paris, they loved it.\"\n\nIn his movie, Napoleon's empire-building land grabs are distilled into six vast battle scenes.\n\nOne of the emperor's greatest victories, at Austerlitz in 1805, sees the Russian army lured onto an icy lake (shot at \"an airfield just outside London\") before the cannons are turned on them.\n\n\"The reverse angle in the trees was where I made Gladiator… I managed to blend them digitally so you get the scale and the scope\".\n\nTo prepare for battles scenes, Scott gave images which he had storyboarded to his crafts team\n\nAs the cannonballs hurtle into the ice, bloodied soldiers and horses are sucked into the freezing waters, desperately trying to escape.\n\nIt's dramatic. It's terrifying. It is also beautiful.\n\n\"I'm blessed with a good eye, that's my strongest asset,\" says South Shields-born Sir Ridley, who went to art school first in Hartlepool and then London.\n\nIn the 1970s he was one of the UK's most renowned commercial directors, making, he tells me, two adverts a week in his heyday.\n\nHe always wanted to direct films but \"I was too embarrassed to discuss it with anyone\", and \"I didn't know how to get in.\"\n\nOnce he did, he rose fast.\n\nScott's visual artistry makes him a consummate creator of worlds, whether that's outer space in Alien and The Martian, civil war Somalia in Black Hawk Down, medieval England in Robin Hood or the Roman Empire in Gladiator.\n\nScott's 1979 science fiction horror film, Alien, was considered \"culturally significant\" by the US Library of Congress\n\nAn accomplished artist, he does his own storyboarding.\n\n\"You could publish them as comic strips,\" he says. \"A lot of people can't translate what's on paper to what it's going to be and that's my job.\"\n\nHis Napoleon, Joaquin Phoenix, tells me Scott also \"draws pictures, as he's coming to work, of what the scene is.\"\n\nHe finds Scott an open and receptive director. \"He's figured everything out and yet he's also able to spontaneously pivot\" when new ideas are suggested, on this occasion even when there were 500 extras, a huge crew and multiple cannons.\n\nPhoenix was \"excited\" to work with Scott again, 23 years after he was cast as the emperor Commodus in Gladiator.\n\n\"The studio did not want me for Gladiator. In fact, Ridley was given an ultimatum and he fought for me and it was just this extraordinary experience.\"\n\nJoaquin Phoenix said Sir Ridley \"fought\" with the studio for him to take on the role of Commodus in Gladiator\n\nScott has called Phoenix \"probably the most special, thoughtful actor\" he has ever worked with.\n\nThe leading actors had freedom to develop the relationship between Napoleon and Josephine, a woman six years older than him, who he divorced because she was unable to provide him with an heir, but whose name was on his lips when he died in exile on St Helena. \"France, the Army, the Head of the Army, Josephine\" were the Emperor's last words.\n\nVanessa Kirby says of her experience being directed by Scott that \"none of it was prescriptive from the start and I thought that was really freeing.\"\n\nVanessa Kirby says it was freeing to see the relationship between Josephine and Napoleon as \"unconventional\"\n\nBut she adds that she had to adjust to the pace at which he works.\n\n\"He moves really fast. You might have five big scenes in one day, which means you're on the fly.\"\n\nThey shot Napoleon in just 61 days. \"If you know anything about movies, that should have been 120,\" Scott tells me.\n\nIn the early days, he used to operate the camera on his films as well as direct - think The Duellists, Alien, Thelma & Louise, though it wasn't allowed on Blade Runner.\n\nHe says he realised where the real power lay - with the camera operator and the first AD - and didn't want to relinquish it.\n\nScott's fascination with Napoleon goes back to his first film, 1977's The Duellists, set during the Napoleonic Wars\n\nOn Napoleon he worked with up to 11 cameras at the same time and directed them from an air conditioned trailer, saying: \"It's 180 degrees outside and I'm sitting inside shouting 'faster!'.\"\n\nUsing all those cameras shooting from different angles \"frees the actor to come off-piste and improvise\" because you don't need to repeat endless takes (which is \"disastrous\").\n\nImmortalising Napoleon on film was something Scott's hero Stanley Kubrick tried and failed to do. \"He couldn't get it going, surprisingly, because I thought he could get anything going.\" That was down to money, says Scott.\n\nThese costume designs were for Stanley Kubrick's meticulously researched, but unmade film about Napoleon\n\nHis Napoleon watches Marie Antoinette die at the guillotine and fires a cannonball at the Sphinx. The artistic licence in this impressionistic film has put up the backs of some historians.\n\nScott says 10,400 books have been written about Napoleon, \"that's one every week since he died\".\n\nHis question, he tells me, to the critics who say the film isn't historically accurate is: \"Were you there? Oh you weren't there. Then how do you know?\"\n\nDirector of photography Dariusz Wolski said Jacques-Louis David's coronation painting was an influence\n\nScott announced he was making Napoleon on the day he wrapped his previous film, The Last Duel, which starred Jodie Comer.\n\nShe was originally cast as his Josephine, but had to pull out after the dates were pushed back by the pandemic.\n\nWith Napoleon heading into cinemas, Scott is about to restart filming Gladiator 2, with Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington, a shoot interrupted by the actors' strike.\n\nSo why go back to Gladiator? \"Why not, are you kidding?\"\n\nHe also has another movie in the pipeline which is already written and cast, but what it is, \"I'm not going to tell you.\"\n\nAnd he will celebrate his 86th birthday later this month.\n\nMany might be happy to slow down, but not Scott. He will make films for the rest of his days, he tells me.\n\n\"I go from here to Malta, I shoot in Malta, finish there and I've already recce'd what I'm doing next.\"\n\nSo would he have any advice for his younger self?\n\n\"No advice. I did pretty good. I got there,\" comes his characteristically direct reply.", "Villagers are \"extremely pleased\" that a missing piece of punctuation has returned to a village road sign after a year-long wait, a councillor has said.\n\nA resident protested after noticing no apostrophe on a replacement sign for St Mary's Terrace in Twyford, Hampshire.\n\nWinchester City Council found the old sign and reinstalled it more than a year later.\n\nCouncillor Susan Cook said it was \"a small thing but important to people\".\n\nThe issue was first raised with the council by Twyford resident Oliver Gray in September 2022.\n\nNews of his successful campaign has been carried by newspapers and broadcasters around the world.\n\nCouncillor Cook, who represents Twyford, said she collected the old sign from the council's maintenance department and had it remounted.\n\nShe said: \"Oliver is a former teacher and he knows his grammar. If you want to change a sign, do it right.\n\n\"If it has an apostrophe, it's supposed to have an apostrophe, then it will have an apostrophe.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, X, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: IDF releases CCTV which appears to show Hamas bringing hostages to hospital\n\nThe Israeli military has released footage which it says shows hostages being taken into Gaza's largest hospital after the deadly Hamas attacks of 7 October.\n\nA military spokesman said one of them - a soldier - was murdered there.\n\nCpl Noa Marciano, 19, was killed after being taken into al-Shifa hospital with minor injuries, he said.\n\nIsrael said a tunnel had been found at the site which it claims was a Hamas command centre. Hamas denies that.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify the video which was presented at a news briefing by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday.\n\n\"This morning we updated Noa's family that according to our findings, she was kidnapped to a safe house near Shifa,\" Rear Adm Daniel Hagari, IDF chief spokesperson told reporters.\n\n\"During IDF air strikes in the area, the Hamas terrorist who was holding Noa was killed and she was wounded in the air strike, but not a life-threatening injury. Noa was taken inside Shifa hospital, where she was murdered by another Hamas terrorist.\"\n\nHamas has previously claimed Ms Marciano was killed in an Israeli air strike, which the IDF said occurred on 9 November.\n\nRear Adm Hagari then played CCTV footage which he said was from the morning of 7 October - the day Hamas launched its surprise attack on southern Israel in which 1,200 Israelis were killed and more than 240 taken hostage.\n\nThe video showed two hostages being brought into the hospital, Gaza's largest and most modern.\n\nArmed men can be seen in the CCTV video which is date-stamped 7 October. One of the hostages appears to be resisting - the other is shown on a stretcher.\n\nThe IDF has been under pressure to substantiate its claim that Hamas operated an expansive command centre underneath the vast medical complex in the north of the territory.\n\nResponding to the video released by Israel, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said it was not able to confirm the authenticity of the footage.\n\nThe ministry also said it was Israel which bore full responsibility for the deterioration and collapse of health services in Gaza.\n\nEarlier, the IDF released a video that it said showed a tunnel 10m (33ft) below ground that runs for 55m up to a closed and reinforced door.\n\nIt said this was now part of the evidence that \"clearly proves\" numerous buildings in the hospital's complex have been \"used by Hamas as cover for terrorist infrastructure and activities\".\n\nThe latest video is not yet the evidence that's been promised of the sort of vast and intricate operation depicted in a computer simulation which the IDF previously released showing what it believes any Hamas base underground at al-Shifa could look like.\n\nThe WHO says the hospital - once Gaza's most modern - has essentially stopped being a medical facility\n\nThe US has said it also has intelligence that Hamas has used hospitals in the Gaza Strip, including al-Shifa, as command centres and weapons stores.\n\nIsrael has cited US intelligence to substantiate their claim of the existence of a major headquarters at the complex but the Americans' use of the term \"node\" may suggest a smaller operation.\n\nIsrael believes it is building a credible case and is keen to present evidence as and when it finds it.\n\nWhile Israel's allies have supported its military campaign of retaliation, which it says is aimed at eliminating Hamas, they have expressed a lot of unease at the toll that the offensive is having on civilians.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says the death toll in Gaza since then has reached 12,300. More than 2,000 people are feared to be buried under rubble.\n\nThe government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also under pressure from families of the hostages. They want him to do more to free those held by Hamas.\n\nOn Saturday, protesters calling on the Israeli government to prioritise securing the release of hostages walked from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem before holding a demonstration outside Mr Netanyahu's residence.\n\nThe prime minister, however, appears undeterred in his mission.\n\nHe says his first goal of the war is to destroy Hamas; the second to return the hostages; and the third to eliminate the threat from Gaza.", "Protesters have gathered in cities around the world calling for the release of hostages taken by Hamas\n\nThe Israeli ambassador to the US says he is hopeful a deal for the release of a significant number of hostages will be reached \"in the coming days\".\n\nMichael Herzog told ABC \"serious efforts\" were being made, but that the fewer details he revealed, \"the better the chances of such a deal\".\n\nHamas took an estimated 240 people hostage during their 7 October attacks which killed 1,200 Israelis.\n\nQatar, which has been mediating, also says a deal is within reach.\n\nThe Washington Post newspaper has reported that Israel and Hamas are \"close to agreement on a US-brokered deal that would free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting\", citing \"people familiar with the emerging terms\".\n\nQatar's Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said on Sunday that only \"very minor\" practical and logistical obstacles remain, adding that \"we are close enough to reach a deal\".\n\nThe US has not confirmed any details of progress.\n\nWhite House National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson posted on X: \"We have not reached a deal yet, but we continue to work hard to get to a deal.\"\n\nAnd Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out a full ceasefire.\n\nQatar has been playing a leading role in mediation efforts to secure the release of hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nIt was involved in the negotiations that have seen four people freed so far - a mother and daughter, who are US nationals, and two elderly Israeli women.\n\nThe small, gas-rich Arab Gulf state is home to the political leadership of Hamas, which has had an office in the capital, Doha, since 2012, headed by its leader Ismail Haniyeh.\n\nOn Saturday, protesters calling on the Israeli government to prioritise securing the release of hostages walked from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem before holding a demonstration outside Mr Netanyahu's residence.\n\nMr Netanyahu has been criticised for not doing more to free those held by Hamas.\n\nIn a press conference on Saturday night, he said the first goal of the war was to destroy Hamas, the second was to return the hostages and the third was to eliminate the threat from Gaza.\n\nThousands have joined hostages' families putting pressure on the Israeli government\n\n\"We want answers,\" said protester Ari Levi, who had two family members - including his 12-year-old son - taken by Hamas from kibbutz Nir Oz on 7 October.\n\n\"It's not normal to have children kidnapped for 43 days. We don't know what the government is doing, we don't have any information,\" Mr Levi told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"I want the government to bring them home to us,\" said Dvora Cohen, 43, whose brother-in-law and 12-year-old nephew are both believed to be held by Hamas.\n\nThis week Israel's military said it had found the bodies of two hostages - 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss and 19-year-old soldier Noa Marciano - in the Gaza Strip.\n\nIsrael has launched a massive retaliatory operation - involving air and artillery strikes as well as ground troops - with the aim of eliminating Hamas.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says the death toll in Gaza since then has reached 12,300. More than 2,000 more are feared to be buried under rubble.", "In the BBC One series, Orla, played by Jodie Whittaker, loses custody of her children as a result of a short prison sentence\n\nThe impact of short prison sentences on women and their families is a central theme of the latest BBC One prison drama Time. One woman - jailed for stealing in her early 30s - says the four months she spent behind bars \"totally derailed\" her life.\n\n\"I often think about how life might have been different without going to prison,\" says Martha, who is using a pseudonym.\n\n\"I don't think purely punishing someone and re-traumatising them helps them to move on with their lives.\"\n\nMartha was jailed in 2016 after committing \"petty and pathetic crimes\" to fund her heroin use - stealing a car jack from a garage, some artificial flowers from a front garden and a purse containing £3 - close to her home in County Durham. She had previously received a few cautions for shoplifting but had no convictions for violence.\n\nShe acknowledges that all crimes have a negative impact on victims. \"It was awful to walk into someone's house like that, I don't want to take away from the severity of doing that,\" she says.\n\nBut with scant focus on rehabilitation and very little support, Martha says life after prison was even more isolating and unmanageable than it had been before.\n\n\"I ended up in another toxic, damaging relationship, lost hope of gainful employment and life got exponentially worse,\" she says. \"Prison left me feeling really awful about myself. I told myself I was just a scummy junkie who didn't deserve good things.\"\n\nThe first series of Time, starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham, won multiple Bafta awards with its portrayal of men navigating the penal system and their consciences. In the second series, the writers wanted to focus on the experiences of women.\n\nHelen Black, who co-wrote the drama with Jimmy McGovern, says giving women short sentences for non violent crimes is \"a terrible idea\".\n\n\"They're long enough to ruin lives and cause chaos in the prison estate but not long enough to act as a deterrent or offer up the chance of rehabilitation,\" she says.\n\nIn the series, her sentiments are played out through a fictional single mum of three called Orla, played by Jodie Whittaker. She tampers with her electricity meter to cut costs and, because of aggravating factors in her case, is sent down for six months, losing her children, home and job as a result.\n\nThe government says prison costs £47,000 per prisoner, per year.\n\nHer situation reflects the fact that the majority of women sent to prison in England and Wales last year were handed sentences of six months or less, according to the Prison Reform Trust. Non-violent crimes like shoplifting were the most frequent offence.\n\nPaula Harriott, who works for the charity and has been to prison herself, says she consistently sees female prisoners ending up in Orla's situation.\n\nShe says the sentences are intended only as a punishment - but they \"bite deep\".\n\n\"Prison should be reserved for the gravest of crimes, for women who are a danger to society,\" she says.\n\nThe charity wants to see the government put more money into helping women serve sentences in the community, rather than on plans to build 500 more cells inside women's prisons.\n\nIt argues that community sentences are a better alternative because they allow women to maintain their family ties, hold on to their jobs and look after their children - all factors which, it says, reduce the risk of reoffending.\n\nMartha's background reflects the profile of many women in prison.\n\nShe had been a heroin user for more than a decade by the time she went to jail, and in a violent relationship with the man who had first introduced her to the drug. Part of the reason she stole was to fund his drug habit.\n\nThere are 3,596 women in England and Wales currently serving prison sentences\n\nLike many women in prison, Martha also had a long history of mental health issues and self-harm. As of 3 November, there were 3,596 women in England and Wales doing time, compared to 84,168 men.\n\nAccording to data from the Prison Reform Trust and charity Women in Prison:\n\nMartha believes it would have been better if the judge had sent her to a drug rehabilitation centre, because she quickly fell back into an even worse version of her old life when she was released on probation.\n\nShe did receive some basic drug counselling while serving her sentence, but there wasn't long enough to do much more than that, she says.\n\n\"I went from a domestic violence, drug-using environment which was stressful and scary into another stressful and scary place, where violence would break out around me,\" she says.\n\nPrison put a strain on already frayed relationships with her family and she lost access to her welfare benefits, causing problems when she was released.\n\nPeople are given a prison discharge grant when they are released, which amounts to £82.39 - the first thing she did with that money was go and buy heroin.\n\nThis was because she says she knew she wouldn't be able to last the several days it would take to get an appointment to sort out a prescription of methadone, the legal heroin substitute doctors prescribe to ease the worst of withdrawal symptoms.\n\nThings took an even darker turn when Martha missed a probation appointment and was sent back inside for a week to serve the remainder of her sentence.\n\nThe government's own analysis links prison sentences of under a year with higher levels of reoffending, when compared to types of sentences served in the community. It says prison costs £47,000 per prisoner, per year.\n\nOn 7 November, a change of approach to sentencing was announced in the King's Speech. It said the government would legislate for a presumption that men and women sentenced to less than a year in prison would serve sentences in the community, to address concerns over overcrowded jails and the reoffending rate.\n\nThe Prison Reform Trust welcomes the change but warns that investment in probation and community support will be \"vital\".\n\nIt would like to see more investment in women's centres across the country, to help women address the root causes behind their crimes.\n\nThese centres help women find employment and housing - and also offer mental health therapy, counselling and other support to address trauma and overcome addiction. Some of them are residential and accommodate children too.\n\nBut the charity points out that a lack of adequate, secure funding can deter judges from offering non-custodial sentences.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson told the BBC that \"custody is always a last resort for women\" and the number of female prisoners has fallen since 2010.\n\n\"Since 2018, we have invested around £60m into organisations that support female offenders outside of prison and have a wide-ranging programme of work alongside that to help them turn their backs on crime.\"\n\n\"In May, we awarded 40 women's centres and charities up to £15m to run services until 2025 that support women in or at risk of contact with the criminal justice system living in the community.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Martha has managed to slowly regain control over her life and has been in recovery from heroin for three years.\n\n\"My life is peaceful in comparison to how it was, but I still struggle and support for people like me is extremely limited,\" she says. She volunteers at her local drug and alcohol service to offer the kind of peer support she thinks she would have benefitted from. She also works with charity Agenda Alliance on research projects about disadvantaged women.\n\n\"I was a frightened, emotionally unsupported young person who took a wrong turn in life and suffered the harshest consequences.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Video provided by activist Sayed Alwadaei shows his confrontation with Tory MP Bob Stewart\n\nConservative Bob Stewart has announced he will step down as MP for Beckenham after being convicted of a racially aggravated public order offence.\n\nMr Stewart, who has represented the south-east London constituency since 2010, relinquished the party whip after his conviction.\n\nHe currently sits as an independent and will not seek re-election.\n\nMaking the announcement on X, formerly Twitter, he said it was \"an honour and a privilege\" to serve in the role.\n\nThe 74-year-old said: \"I am incredibly grateful to everyone who has given me this opportunity. However, it is time for a new candidate, so I will not be seeking re-election at the next election.\"\n\nSayed Ahmed Alwadaei is director of advocacy at the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy\n\nLast month, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard Mr Stewart had been attending an event hosted by the Bahraini Embassy when Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei shouted: \"Bob Stewart, for how much did you sell yourself to the Bahraini regime?\"\n\nThe MP, who was stationed in Bahrain as an Army officer in the 1960s, told the campaigner to \"get stuffed\" and added: \"Bahrain's a great place. End of.\"\n\nMr Alwadaei - the director of advocacy at the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy - challenged Stewart on his connections with the country, asking whether he had accepted any money from the Bahraini government.\n\nMr Stewart replied: \"Go away, I hate you. You make a lot of fuss. Go back to Bahrain.\"\n\nThe confrontation took place outside the Foreign Office's Lancaster House in Westminster and the MP was ordered to pay legal costs of £835, on top of a £600 fine.\n\nThe BBC understands Mr Stewart is considering appealing against the conviction.\n\nA crowdfunding page set up by Conservative MP for Bassetlaw Brendan Clarke-Smith to cover Mr Stewart's fine and any further legal costs has so far raised more than £18,000.\n\nThe Beckenham constituency is expected to be changed at the next general election, following a regular review process.\n\nThe Boundary Commission for England has proposed a new constituency of Beckenham and Penge.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amiram Cooper, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Tsachi Idan are being held in Gaza\n\nIsrael says 132 people remain unaccounted for after they were abducted and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attacks by Hamas.\n\nAn estimated 240 people were taken prisoner, but 105 were later released by Hamas during a six-day ceasefire at the end of November.\n\nThe Israeli military said it mistakenly killed three hostages in northern Gaza who had escaped from their captors and expressed \"deep remorse\" over the incident.\n\nOf the 132 still unaccounted for, Israel says that 20 of them are believed to be dead.\n\nThese are the stories of those hostages who are still being held, which have either been confirmed by the BBC or credibly reported.\n\nThis list is regularly updated and names may change, as some people feared kidnapped are confirmed to have been killed or released.\n\nLast updated on 19 December 2023 at 10:33 GMT\n\nYagev Kirsht, 34, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim, alongside his wife, Rimon Buchstab Kirsht. She has now been released.\n\nAlexander Trupanov, was taken hostage with his mother Lena Trupanov, 50, his partner Sapir Cohen, 29, and his grandmother Irina Tati, 73. All were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz as they spent the Sabbath together, according to a statement by Canada's Raoul Wallenburg Center for Human Rights. Irina and Lena were released on Wednesday 29 November and Sapir was freed the next day.\n\nAriel Cunio, his girlfriend Arbel Yahud and her brother Dolev are also thought to have been abducted in the same attack on Nir Oz. Eitan Cunio, Ariel's brother who escaped Hamas, told the Jewish Chronicle that his last message from Ariel said: \"We are in a horror movie.\"\n\nDavid Cunio, 33, another of Ariel's brothers, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, family say. David's wife Sharon Aloni Cunio and their three-year-old twin daughters Ema and Yuly were released on 27 November. Sharon's sister Daniele Aloni, and her six-year-old daughter Emilia were both released on 24 November.\n\nDoron Steinbrecher, 30, a veterinary nurse, was in her apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas attacked, the Times of Israel reported. At 10:30 on 7 October, the newspaper said, she sent a voice message to friends: \"They've arrived, they have me.\"\n\nItzhak Gelerenter, 53, was taken from the Supernova festival. His family said the IDF found his phone was located in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported. His daughter Pivko told the paper: \"I'm trying to think good thoughts, I have a powerful, smart, resourceful father.\"\n\nDoron Steinbrecher sent a voice message to friends during Hamas' attack\n\nNaama Levy, 19, was filmed being bundled into a jeep, her hands tied behind her back. The footage was released by Hamas and circulated widely on social media. According to her mother, the teenager had just begun her military service.\n\nYousef Zyadna, a 53-year-old Bedouin dairy farmer, was abducted from Kibbutz Holit and taken to Gaza along with his sons Hamza, 22, and Bilal, 18, and his daughter, Aisha, 16. Aisha and Bilal were released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nElad Katzir, 47, was abducted from Nir Oz with his mother Hanna. Hanna has now been released.\n\nOhad Ben Ami, 55, was kidnapped from Be'eri with his wife, Raz. She was released by Hamas on 29 November.\n\nTwin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 26, were taken from Kfar Aza. Ziv was messaging a friend as the attack happened. Their family said the IDF has told them the brothers are being held in Gaza. Their brother Liran told CBN news the pair had \"twin power\" and were the centre of attention wherever they went.\n\nIraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 85, was taken captive from Kibbutz Kissufim, where he lived and worked as a chicken coop manager. His wife, Mazal, managed to escape.\n\nMichel Nisenbaum, 59, is a dual Brazilian-Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel for 45 years and works as a computer technician, his family told Brazilian media. They also say he is diabetic and has Crohn's disease. On 7 October, they say, someone claiming to be from Hamas answered his phone when they tried to call him.\n\nDaniela Gilboa, 19, sent messages saying that Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she was staying, was under attack and asked her mother to pray for her. Her boyfriend, Roy Dadon, told the Economist 1843 magazine that he believes he saw a glimpse of her in a video showing three girls being driven away in the back of an SUV.\n\nItay Chen, 19, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF solider, was on active duty with a tank unit on 7 October, according to the Times of Israel. The paper reported that his family was notified by the IDF that he is officially considered missing in action and probably being held hostage. Another soldier in his unit, Matan Angrest, 21, is also presumed to be in Gaza.\n\nYosi Sharabi, 51, was taken from Be'eri with his brother, Eli Sharabi, 55. Eli's wife and two daughters were murdered in the attack. Ofir Engel, the boyfriend of Yosi's daughter, Yuval, was also taken, but released on 29 November.\n\nAgam Berger, 19, was kidnapped from Nahal Oz. She was seen being taken away in videos released by Hamas.\n\nEdan Alexander, 19, is an Israeli-US citizen who volunteered to join the Israeli army. He was serving near the Gaza border at the time of Hamas's attack. Edan's family said they had been told by Israeli officials that he had been taken to Gaza as a hostage.\n\nKaid Farhan Elkadi, 53, lives with his family south of Rahat and worked as a security guard, according to Israeli media. Reports said his family believes he was kidnapped and taken to Gaza, based on images shared by Hamas.\n\nIlana Gritzewsky and Matan Zanguaker were captured near the Gaza border, family say\n\nMatan Zanguaker, 24, was taken with his partner Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, from Nir Oz, according to Ilana's father. Ilana, a Mexican national, was released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nThe family of Eitan and Yair Horn believe they were taken from Nir Oz kibbutz\n\nEitan Horn, 37, and his brother Yair, 45, both Argentinian citizens, were also in Nir Oz at the time of the attack. Their father Itzik said he believes they were kidnapped. Yair is a construction worker while Eitan works in education.\n\nItai Svirsky, 38, is thought to have been abducted when his elderly parents were killed in Be'eri. He had been visiting them for the holiday of Simhat Torah.\n\nKeith Seigel, 64, and his wife Adrienne - often known as Aviva - Seigel, 62, were taken from their home in Kfar Aza, Keith's brother Lee Seigel told the BBC. Adrienne was released on 26 November.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, lived in Nahal Oz with his wife and two daughters. Omri was led away by Hamas with his hands tied, his wife Lishay told the Guardian newspaper. She told him not to be a hero, urging: \"Do whatever they want because I want you back.\"\n\nBipin Joshi, 23, a Nepalese student, is believed to have been taken from Kibbutz Alumim. Nepalese newspaper Setopati says he was one of 49 university students studying agriculture in Israel. It says 10 students were killed in the attack.\n\nIlan Weiss, 58, went missing from Kibbutz Be'eri after he was last seen leaving the house to defend the community. On 25 November, his wife Shiri Weiss, 53, and their daughter, Noga, 18, were freed from captivity in a hostage deal.\n\nAmiram Cooper, 85, and his wife Nurit, 80, were taken from their home in Nir Oz, their daughter-in-law Noa told the BBC. The family last spoke to the couple during the Hamas attack, Noa said, when the couple were in their safe room. The family later traced Amiram's phone to Gaza. On Monday 23 October, Nurit was one of two women to be released.\n\nAmiram and Nurit Cooper, pictured with their granddaughter, Gali\n\nOded Lifshitz, 83, and his wife Yocheved, 85 were taken hostage from Nir Oz. On Monday 23 October, Yocheved was one of two elderly women to be freed. After hearing the news of her mother's release, their daughter Sharone - a London-based artist - said: \"While I cannot put into words the relief that she is now safe, I will remain focused on securing the release of my father and all those - some 200 innocent people - who remain hostages in Gaza.\"\n\nHaim Peri, 79, was taken from his home in Nir Oz, reports the Times of Israel, and freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz said she saw that he was alive and well. His son Lior Peri told Talk TV that Haim had locked his wife inside the safe room before giving himself up to kidnappers.\n\nAvraham Munder, 78, was kidnapped from Nir Oz, Israeli officials say. His wife Ruthi, daughter and grandson have since been released.\n\nOmer Neutra, a 22-year-old Israeli-American and grandson of Holocaust survivors, put off plans to go to college in the US to study in Israel, and eventually joined the IDF. He was serving as a tank commander near Gaza when Hamas attacked. Omer's parents say they were told by the Israeli embassy that he had been kidnapped.\n\nRon Benjamin's vehicle was found empty following the attacks\n\nRon Benjamin, 53, had been taking part in a group cycle ride near the Gaza border when the Hamas attack began and he decided to drive home, his family told Israeli media. Days later, his vehicle was found empty and his family believe he was kidnapped.\n\nLouis Har, 70, is believed to have been taken from Nir Yitzhak. His partner Clara Marman was released on 28 November along with her sister Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela's daughter Mia Leimberg,17. Clara and Gabriela's brother Fernando Simon Marman, 60, also remains in captivity.\n\nJudith Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 73, also went missing from Nir Oz after the Hamas attack. Ten days later, the Israeli military confirmed to the family they had been taken hostage, CTV News in Canada reported.\n\nAlex Danzig, 75, a scholar and historian of the Holocaust, was at his home in Nir Oz, when it was attacked by Hamas. \"We know for sure he was kidnapped,\" his son Mati told the BBC. Alex - whose older sister Edith is a Holocaust survivor - has spent the last 30 years working for Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust remembrance centre. His disappearance has triggered a campaign for his release, both in Israel and in Poland, the country of his birth.\n\nAlex Danzig has spent decades educating people about the Holocaust\n\nItzhk Elgarat, 68, was kidnapped at the same time as Alex Danzig, his brother Danny Elgert told Israel's Kan 11 TV station, adding that he had tracked his brother's phone to the border with Gaza.\n\nGadi Moses, 79, was also abducted during the same attack on Nir Oz, according to relatives and the Israeli aid agency where he worked as an agricultural expert. Efrat Katz, his partner, was initially thought to have been captured as well, but she was later found dead, the Times of Israel reported. Efrat was the mother of Doron Asher, who was taken hostage and later released with her two daughters. Ravid Katz, 51, Doron Asher's brother, was originally thought to have been taken hostage from Nir Oz, but on 28 November his family confirmed that he had been killed on 7 October.\n\nYair Yaakov, 59, is listed among the hostages. His partner Meirav Tal, 53, was released on 28 November. Yair's children Yagil, 13, and Or, 16, were released on 27 November.\n\nYair Yaakov was pictured being held captive by a gunman in a video shared online\n\nNimrod Cohen, 19, had studied software engineering in high school, according to reports. After he was kidnapped, his father was invited to meet Pope Francis in Rome along with other hostages' families.\n\nTsachi Idan, 51, was last seen by his wife, Gali, as he was taken away by Hamas gunmen. Their family had been ambushed in their safe room in Nahal Oz. Their ordeal was live-streamed by Hamas. Their eldest child, Maayan - who had just turned 18 - was shot dead, Gali told the BBC.\n\nTsachi Idan was ambushed with his wife and children and then led away\n\nYarden Bibas, 34, was abducted from Nir Oz. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were also taken hostage, but on 29 November, Hamas claimed they had been killed in an Israeli air strike while in captivity. The Israeli government has said it is checking the claim.\n\nRonen Engel, 54, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife, Karina Engelbert, 51, and their two daughters, Mika, 18 and Yuval, 11. On 1 December, the organisation representing the families said he had been murdered. Karina, Mika and Yuval were released on 27 November.\n\nKarina Ariev, a 19-year-old soldier, was serving at an army base near Gaza when she was kidnapped. Her sister Alexandra told the BBC she heard shooting as Karina called her during the attack, and later saw a video showing Karina being taken away in a vehicle.\n\nKarina Ariev was at the Nahal Oz military base, which was among the first to be attacked\n\nOfer Kalderon, 53, was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz. On 27 November his two children, Erez, 12, and Sahar, 16, were released. Two other relatives, 80-year-old Carmela Dan and her granddaughter, Noya, 12, were also believed to have been taken, but Israeli authorities later announced they had been found dead.\n\nYoram Metzger, 80, was a resident of Nir Oz. He has diabetes and broke his hip six months ago, his daughter-in-law said. Yoram's wife Tamar was released on 28 November.\n\nNadav Popplewell, 51, and his mother Channah were taken hostage by Hamas, said Channah's daughter Ayelet Svatitzky, who was speaking to them on the phone when the gunmen burst in. She said the captors sent pictures of her two relatives, who both have diabetes, with armed men in the background. Channah has now been released.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, was abducted after his family opened the door to their secure shelter to an Israeli child, who said he would be killed otherwise. Omri's wife, Lishay Lavi, said she saw him being taken away in handcuffs with three other hostages from Nahal Oz.\n\nLiri Elbag, 18, had just started military training as an Army lookout near the Gaza border when Hamas attacked, her father Eli told the Associated Press. Eli said he saw her in a video circulated later by Hamas, crowded with others on the back of a military truck which had been seized by the gunmen.\n\nLior Rudaeff, 61, was taken from Nir Yitzhak during the attack. His family have heard nothing from him since then.\n\nA number of people are believed to have been abducted from the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Among them:\n\nShlomi Ziv, 40, was part of the security detail at the festival and was initially in contact with his sisters as the attack unfolded, according to an interview with The Times of Israel. A few weeks later the family learned he was officially considered to be a hostage, the report says.\n\nAlexander Lobanov, 32, is a Russian-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped at the festival.\n\nOri Danino, 25, is reported to have got away from the festival in his car, but it's believed he was captured after turning back in an attempt to save some people he had met there.\n\nAlmog Sarusi, 26, was kidnapped from the music festival and his partner Shahar Gindi was killed, according to Israeli media. Almog's father, Yigal, was among the relatives of hostages who met with Israel's prime minister in October.\n\nOmer Shem Tov, 21, called his parents as he was running away from gunfire and managed to get into a friend's car. His parents, Shelly and Malki Shem Tov, told Israeli media they lost contact with their son and the live location on his phone showed he was beyond the border in Gaza.\n\nIdan Shtivi, 28, an environmental sciences student, was attending the festival to take pictures at music and yoga workshops being held by friends. He escaped the site in his car but was attacked by Hamas along the route. The bodies of two of his passengers were found, and his family told the Jerusalem Post they suspect he was kidnapped.\n\nYosef Ohana, 24, had been at the festival with a friend, who told his mother he and Yosef had remained to help people escape the gunfire before running themselves. Yosef was last seen hiding under a car, and Israeli authorities have visited his mother to say he was kidnapped.\n\nAndrei Kozlov, 27, a Russian who moved to Israel in 2022, is missing from the Supernova festival, where he was working as a security guard. His mother told the De Taly publication the family was told by the IDF on October 26 that he was being held hostage.\n\nElyakim Libman, 23, was working as a security guard at the festival. In a Facebook post his father Eliyahu Libman said another guard told him his son had helped rescue others before trying to escape. He was last seen trying to help two badly-injured women.\n\nNoa Argamani, a Chinese-born Israeli citizen, was also kidnapped from the festival. Video footage - verified by her father Yaakov Argamani to Israel's Channel 12 - shows the 25-year-old being taken away on the back of a motorbike screaming, \"Don't kill me!\" Her boyfriend Avinatan Or, 30, also appears in the video being marched away from her by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nEden Yerushalmi's family say they were told she had been taken hostage\n\nEden Yerushalmi, 24, called her family during Hamas's attack on the festival, her sister May told CBS News. The family say they were subsequently informed by the IDF that Eden had been abducted.\n\nChanan Yablonka, 42, is a father-of-two from Tel Aviv. According to reports, he attended the festival with friends and was due to celebrate his birthday a few days after the attacks.\n\nJonathan Samerano, 21, has been missing since 7am on the morning of the festival. His family have been told to presume he is being held in Gaza, Israeli media reported.\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal was filmed in captivity in Gaza, his family say\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, attended the festival with his brother. Guy appears in a hostage video that his family say confirms he is in Gaza.\n\nUriel Baruch, 35, was injured during the attack on the festival, his wife said on Facebook. Reports in Israeli media say his mother, Naomi, has heard from the IDF that he is a hostage.\n\nMaxim Kharkin's mother described speaking to him on the morning of 7 October\n\nMaxim Kharkin is aged 35 and a Russian speaker, his mother told Russian media. She added that he had called her at 07:00 on the morning of the attack.\n\nElkana Bohbot was seen in a video posted by Hamas\n\nElkana Bohbot, 34, had gone to the party with friends and, before losing contact, he spoke to his wife and mother telling them he was helping to evacuate the wounded, the Times of Israel reported. Hours later, his family found a video of him posted online by Hamas, which has been seen by BBC Verify.\n\nRom Braslavski, 19, was working on security for the festival. According to an account published by Hostages and Missing Families Forum, he was trying to rescue an injured person in the attack when he was caught in a volley of fire. He has not been heard from since.\n\nOmer Wenkert, 22, a restaurant manager, sent a message to his family to say he was going to a safe shelter but then lost contact, his father Shai Wenkert told the BBC's Today Programme. Shai Wenkert said he had seen footage of his son in captivity, including a photo of him handcuffed and wearing only underwear.\n\nEvyatar David's family say they were sent a video of him in captivity\n\nEvyatar David, 23, was at the festival and on the morning of the attacks, described fleeing from gunfire before losing contact with the outside world, his brother says. Later, his family say, Evyatar's sister posted on Instagram appealing for information about his whereabouts. She then received a text from an unknown number, which contained video footage of Evyatar handcuffed on the floor of a dark room. According to Israel's foreign ministry he is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nEitan Mor, 23, lives in Jerusalem, and was working as a security guard at the festival, the Times of Israel said. He reportedly texted his uncle after Hamas arrived and was last seen with a friend bringing others to safety.\n\nAlon Ohel, 22, a Serbian citizen, took refuge in a shelter after the festival came under attack, his family say. They have seen footage of him being dragged away after a grenade attack.\n\nAlmog Meir Jan, 21, tried to flee the festival. He and a friend made it to the friend's car but only managed to drive a short distance before being forced to stop. Almog's family say they have seen a hostage video in which he appears.\n\nInbar Heiman, a student aged 21, was seen by two young Israeli men being taken away from the festival on a motorcycle. Hamas have released a video in which she is seen very briefly.\n\nHersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual US-Israeli citizen, was badly injured in the attack, his family told the BBC. Eyewitness accounts say he was seen being forced onto a white pick-up truck - the last-known signal from his phone came from just inside Gaza.\n\nSegev Kalfon, 26, was running away from the festival, across the highway, when he was captured by Hamas, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.\n\nOrión Hernández Radoux, 30, from Mexico, attended the festival with his girlfriend, Shani Louk. He has not been seen since. The Sun newspaper says it has seen threatening messages written in Arabic sent from his phone. Shani, a tourist from Germany, was initially thought to be among those seized. But on 30 October, her mother Ricarda told German media that the family had been informed by Israeli military of her death following DNA identification.\n\nRomi Lesham Gonen, 23, was on the phone to her mother as she tried to escape from the Supernova festival. Merav Leshem Gonan has recounted a conversation in which her daughter begged for help after being shot. ABC News reports that Romi's phone is now in Gaza.\n\nBar Kuperstein, 21, last spoke to his family early on the morning of 7 October, as the attack unfolded. Later the same day, his family say they identified him in a video of Israeli prisoners, posted by Hamas. Since then, they say they have had no further information.\n\nEliya Cohen, 26, was hiding with his girlfriend Ziv from the attack, when Ziv felt him being pulled up and driven away by the gunmen, Eliya's mother has told the video initiative #BringThemHomeNow. The family then found a photo of Eliya in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nAmit Buskila, 28, from Ashdod, was last heard of making a call to her uncle, Shimon, as Hamas overran the festival. Her family say they have now been told by the government that she is being held in Gaza.\n\nCarmel Gat, 39, is Jordan's sister-in-law, and also was seen by her father being taken by gunmen from Kibbutz Be'eri, Haaretz newspaper reported. She has not been heard from since.\n\nOhad Yahalomi, 49, was abducted from Nir Oz, along with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the November ceasefire.\n\nDror Or, 48, was seen by a neighbour being dragged out of his home in Be'eri, according to their nephew Emmanuel Besorai, along with his son and daughter. On Saturday 25 November Dror's son Noam, 17, and daughter Alma, 13, were released from captivity. The body of Yonat, 50 - Dror's wife and the children's mother - was identified among the 120 people murdered at the kibbutz, Yonat's brother told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nTal Shoham, 38, was taken from Kibbutz Be'eri. His wife Adi, also 38, her mother Dr Shoshan Haran, 67, were released by Hamas on 25 November, along with the couple's children Nave, eight, and Yahel, three. Dr Haran's husband, Avshalom - an economist and dual German/Israeli citizen - was killed on 7 October.\n\nTamir Adar, 38, who defended Nir Oz as part of the kibbutz's emergency squad, was taken to Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen, 35, an American-Israeli citizen, has been missing since Hamas's attack on Nir Oz, his father Jonathan told the BBC. He said his son was not found among the dead and the \"only reasonable explanation\" is that he was taken to Gaza.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen's father has not heard from him since Hamas attacked the kibbutz where he lived\n\nThailand's ambassador to Israel says 26 of its citizens were taken hostage, 23 of whom have now been released.\n\nThose still being held are believed to include Watchara Sriuan, 32. His mother, Viewwaew, told the Thaiger news site that the family had been informed he was being held captive.\n\nKiattisak \"Top\" Patee and a Mr Pongtorn (no first name given) have also been named by the Thai foreign ministry as hostages.\n\nA number of other people thought to have been held hostage are now confirmed to have died, either during the 7 October attack or while in captivity.\n\nAs well as Ron Scherman and Nik Beizer, four bodies were identified this week. They were Tal Chaimi, an Israeli-Romanian citizen aged 41, and Joshua Mollel, a 19-year-old Tanzanian student. Also, 27-year-old Eden Zecharya, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and 36-year-old Ziv Dado, who had already been declared dead by the Israeli military.\n\nOthers known to have died include Dror Kaplun, 68, Aviv Atzili, 49, Arye Zalmanovich, 85, Ronen Engel, 54, Maya Goren, 56, Guy Iluz, 26, Ofir Tzarfati, 27, Ofra Keider, 70, and Eliyahu Margalit, 75.\n\nThe bodies of 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, and 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss were found by Israeli troops in buildings close to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.\n\nOn Saturday 9 December Kibbutz Bari announced that Sahar Baruch, 25, had been killed in Gaza.\n\nOther hostages whose death has been reported, but not confirmed include Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Former US first lady Rosalynn Carter speaking in New Delhi in 2006\n\nFormer US First Lady Rosalynn Carter, the wife of ex-President Jimmy Carter, has died at the age of 96.\n\nThe Carter Center confirmed in a statement that she died peacefully with her family by her side.\n\nOn Friday, it was reported that she had entered a hospice care home in the state of Georgia, and was spending time with her 99-year-old husband, who has been in hospice care since February.\n\nMrs Carter was diagnosed with dementia in May.\n\nThe longest-married first couple marked their 77th wedding anniversary in July.\n\n\"Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,\" said Mr Carter in the statement.\n\n\"She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.\"\n\nShe married Jimmy Carter on 7 July 1946 and they had four children.\n\nThe Carters' son, Chip, described her as a loving mother, extraordinary first lady and \"a great humanitarian in her own right.\"\n\n\"She will be sorely missed not only by our family but by the many people who have better mental health care and access to resources for caregiving today.\"\n\nShe is also survived by 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren, after losing a grandson in 2015.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen her husband began his political career in the 1960s - first as Georgia state senator, governor, and later US president - Mrs Carter was focused on raising mental health awareness and reducing the stigma attached to people with mental illnesses.\n\nAs first lady of Georgia she was a member of a governor's commission to improve services for the mentally ill, and as US First Lady she became honorary chair of the President's Commission on Mental Health, which was key to the passage of a 1980 act that helped fund local mental health centres.\n\nAfter leaving Washington she and her husband founded the Carter Center in 1982, through which she continued her advocacy work for mental health, early childhood immunisation, and other humanitarian causes.\n\nThe couple were also key figures in the Habitat For Humanity charity, helping build homes for families in need.\n\nThey received recognition for their humanitarian work in 2002 when Mr Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.\n\nIn a 2013 interview with US TV network C-SPAN, she said: \"I hope our legacy continues, more than just as first lady, because the Carter Center has been an integral part of our lives.\n\n\"And our motto is waging peace, fighting disease and building hope. And I hope that I have contributed something to mental health issues and help improve a little bit the lives of people living with mental illnesses.\"\n\nMrs Carter seen outside her home after US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden met former President Jimmy Carter in Georgia in 2021\n\nUS President Joe Biden paid tribute to Mrs Carter, saying she \"walked her own path, inspiring a nation and the world along the way\".\n\n\"On behalf a grateful nation, we send our love to the entire Carter family and the countless people whose lives are better, fuller, and brighter because of Rosalynn Carter,\" President Biden posted on X, formerly Twitter.\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama said: \"When our family was in the White House, every so often, Rosalynn would join me for lunch, offering a few words of advice and always - always - a helping hand.\n\n\"She reminded me to make the role of First Lady my own, just like she did. I'll always remain grateful for her support and her generosity.\"\n\nFormer President George W Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush said Mrs Carter was \"a woman of dignity and strength\".\n\nIn a statement, they said: There was no greater advocate of President Carter, and their partnership set a wonderful example of loyalty and fidelity.\n\n\"She leaves behind an important legacy in her work to destigmatize mental health.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How Rosalynn Carter paved the way for Hillary Clinton", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rachel Reeves says pressure put on MPs by ceasefire protests is \"concerning\"\n\nSome of the protests targeting MPs over the Israel-Gaza war are \"crossing the line\" into intimidation, the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has said.\n\nShe made the comments after a demonstration was held in north London on Saturday close to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's constituency office.\n\nMs Reeves called for \"civility and decency\" when discussing the conflict.\n\nLabour MPs were this week told not to vote for an SNP amendment calling for an immediate ceasefire.\n\nOn Wednesday, 10 Labour frontbenchers resigned from their jobs to defy Sir Keir and back the amendment.\n\nIn total, 56 of the MPs voted with the SNP position. It differed from the Labour Party's, which is to call for \"humanitarian pauses\" in order to allow more aid into the enclave while backing Israel's right to self-defence.\n\nMs Reeves called for the targeting of public figures by protesters to stop, telling the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme: \"What I find very concerning is the huge pressure that MPs have been put [under] leading up to the vote and this week.\n\n\"I support the right to protest - Suella Braverman's comments about these being 'hate marches' are appalling.\n\n\"But I don't support the intimidation of MPs and I think that's what you are seeing with some of these protests now, outside of people's offices and outside of people's homes.\n\n\"MPs have got a difficult job to do - all public servants do - and this sort of intimidation, taking protests to people's homes, goes beyond the line.\"\n\nHundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters descended on Sir Keir's north London office on Saturday, chanting \"Starmer, shame on you\".\n\nJo Stevens's constituency office was covered in red paint and banners on Thursday night\n\nShadow Welsh secretary Jo Stevens had her Cardiff constituency office vandalised after abstaining on the Gaza vote, and told BBC Wales the experience was \"intimidating\" and \"threatening\".\n\nBradford West MP Naz Shah - who quit the Labour frontbench to support a ceasefire - said she has received \"Islamophobic hatred\", while Conservative minister Michael Gove needed a police escort after he was surrounded by pro-Palestinian protesters at a London train station last weekend.\n\nMs Reeves said she had not personally been targeted but said it had happened \"to colleagues\" without providing specific examples, adding: \"I'm afraid that some of these protests are now crossing the line.\"\n\nAsked about the Labour rebellion over the ceasefire motion, Ms Reeves said she was \"sorry\" to see resignations.\n\nShe added: \"But being leader - and hopefully next year, prime minister - Keir is going to make incredibly difficult decisions, and he's going to have to do what he thinks is right, and offer that leadership, even in difficult times.\"\n\nFormer shadow chancellor John McDonnell said he had not seen examples of antisemitism on pro-Palestinian marches he has attended, but said he would challenge it if he did.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"It bothers me those chants, but they're so small a minority we've got the powers to deal with that.\"\n\nHamas gunmen launched an unprecedented assault on Israel from the Gaza Strip on 7 October, killing about 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostages.\n\nIsrael responded with air strikes on Gaza and has launched a ground offensive. More than 12,300 people have been killed, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.", "A house damaged by Russian shelling in August in Tarasivka, Ukraine\n\nRussia has launched several waves of drone attacks on Kyiv for the second night in a row, the city's military administration said.\n\nSerhiy Popko, head of the administration, said Ukraine's air defence systems hit around 10 drones in Kyiv and its outskirts.\n\nNo \"critical damage\" or casualties have been reported, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Russian authorities said a Ukrainian drone heading for Moscow was shot down on Saturday.\n\nThe defence ministry said the un-crewed aircraft (UAVs) was intercepted over the Bogorodsky District on the north-eastern outskirts of the capital.\n\nMoscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said there was no damage or casualties.\n\nSunday's air raids against Ukrainian targets follow a wave of attacks the night before, with Kyiv saying it had shot down 29 out of 38 Iranian-made Shahed drones launched by Russia.\n\nThe BBC is unable to independently verify exactly how many drones were launched and destroyed.\n\nOn Saturday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky praised his air force for shooting down the UAVs - the highest number reported to have been launched by Russia in more than six weeks.\n\nIn his nightly address, Mr Zelensky said: \"Your accuracy, guys, is literally life for Ukraine\" - but he warned that as winter approaches Russia would try to make its attacks more powerful.\n\nHe said Russia could be stockpiling missiles for a winter assault on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.\n\nFriday night's drone strikes caused power cuts in more than 400 towns and villages across Ukraine and also damaged an oil depot in Odesa in the south - leaving more than 1,500 residents without power.\n\nUkraine said nearly 21,000 people in the Donetsk region have no electricity, and 63 settlements are cut off in the Zaporizhzhia region.\n\nLast winter, Russian attacks left millions of Ukrainians without power for hours in freezing temperatures.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine's general staff said on Saturday that its forces \"continue to hold positions on the left (eastern) bank of the Dnipro river\".\n\nUkrainian forces said this week they had gained a foothold on the eastern bank of the Dnipro about 30km (19 miles) from the city of Kherson.\n\nThe river has separated Ukrainian and Russian forces since Moscow's troops withdrew from Kherson a year ago.\n\n\"Our defenders are consolidating their positions and firing on the occupiers,\" the general staff said on Saturday, updating on its operations on the eastern side of the river.\n\nRussia conceded on 15 November that \"small groups\" of Ukrainian forces had set up positions in the village but insisted they had sustained heavy losses and had no chance of breaking through.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Zelensky said Russia was \"accumulating\" missiles and that while Ukraine did not have \"100% protection\" from Russian strikes, the country's air defences were better than last year.", "Households living close to new pylons and electricity substations could receive up to £1,000 a year off energy bills for a decade under new plans.\n\nIt is hoped the plan would convince people to support upgrades in their area, which are needed in part for new electric vehicle charging points.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt is expected to announce the policy in the Autumn Statement on Wednesday.\n\nIt is unclear at this stage how many households will get the full discount.\n\nMr Hunt and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are currently finalising the content of the statement, which will set out the priorities for government spending in the final year before a general election has to be held.\n\nIt is known that they are considering announcing some tax cuts, and changes to income tax, national insurance, inheritance tax and business taxes are all being discussed.\n\nBut the Treasury has indicated the pounds-for-pylons plan will definitely form part of the chancellor's statement.\n\nA spokesman said: \"By speeding up the planning system - including the rollout of electric vehicle charge-points - we will be tackling one of the most common issues raised by businesses who are keen to invest in the UK.\"\n\nThe department declined to say who would be paying for the discounts, or offer any information on how close houses would have to be to qualify for the maximum discount.\n\nOne of the government's manifesto commitments in 2019 was to reach net zero by 2050 by investing in clean energy solutions and green infrastructure.\n\nTo better connect with renewable energy projects, much of the UK's electricity network needs upgrading.\n\nHowever, it currently takes 12 to 14 years to build new electricity transmission lines - and the government says it is aiming to cut that time in half.\n\nUnder the plan, nationally significant low-carbon energy infrastructure will be designated as a \"critical national priority\", to underline its importance to local planning officers who are required to approve to building projects.\n\nMatt Copeland, head of policy at the National Energy Action campaign to eradicate fuel poverty, said: \"It's only right that those affected by pylons are compensated - but this is not a substitute for the UK government supporting vulnerable people with their sky-high energy bills.\"\n\nEarlier this summer, a government-commissioned report recommended the idea of simply smoothing the path for the building of new large pylons by handing over cash to those who would be affected.\n\nNick Winser, the former chief executive of the National Grid, said a radical solution was needed to streamline the planning process and his report said people living near newly-built transmission pylons, the larger lines that connect electricity from where it is generated to regional substations, should get lump sum payments.\n\nHe pointed out that the cost of compensation would be lower than building cables underground and much cheaper than resorting to offshore cables.\n\nThousands more EV (electric vehicle) charging points will be needed in the next two decades\n\nThe three companies that maintain the transmission grid in Great Britain - National Grid in England and Wales, and Scottish Power and SSE in Scotland - do not currently offer any payments to households.\n\nBut in the Republic of Ireland, people in rural areas living within 200m of a new overhead line or transmission station qualify for payments of between €2,000 and €30,000 from EirGrid, the state-owned operator, depending on how close they are and the capacity of the line.\n\nEd Miliband, Labour's shadow energy security and net zero secretary, said the Conservative had failed to \"solve the problems of the grid\", after 13 years in power.\n\n\"Every family is paying the price of the Tories' failures to deliver clean power- from banning onshore wind, to winding down our storage, to crashing solar, to failing to upgrade our grid,\" Mr Miliband said.\n\nLiberal Democrat Treasury spokeswoman Sarah Olney said: \"This scheme would create a postcode lottery system leaving millions of families still facing higher energy bills while others benefit.\"", "The Macallan Adami 1926 was sold at Sotheby's in London on Saturday\n\nA rare bottle of whisky has been sold for $2.7m (£2.1m) - breaking the record for the most expensive wine or spirit sold at auction.\n\nThe Macallan 1926 single malt is one of the world's most sought-after bottles of Scotch whisky.\n\nIt was sold by Sotheby's on Saturday, at more than double its estimated price.\n\nThe auction house's head of whisky said he had been allowed to taste \"a tiny drop\" of it beforehand.\n\n\"It's very rich, it's got a lot of dried fruit as you would expect, a lot of spice, a lot of wood,\" Jonny Fowle told the AFP news agency.\n\nThe whisky spent 60 years maturing in dark oak sherry casks before becoming one of just 40 bottled in 1986.\n\nThe 40 bottles were reportedly not made available for purchase - instead, some were offered to The Macallan's top clients.\n\nAnd whenever any of the bottles have been auctioned over the years there have been extraordinary results - a similar bottle was sold in 2019 for £1.5m.\n\nSpeaking last month in the run-up to the auction, Mr Fowle said The Macallan 1926 \"is the one whisky that every auctioneer wants to sell and every collector wants to own\".\n\n\"It's not a whisky to take lightly. It's a rich, rich dram, but it is incredible,\" said Jonny Fowle from Sotheby's\n\nSotheby's said the 40 bottles from the 1926 cask had been labelled in different ways.\n\nTwo bottles had no labels at all, a maximum of 14 were decorated with the iconic Fine and Rare labels and 12 were labelled by pop artist Sir Peter Blake.\n\nA further 12 bottles - including the record-breaking one sold on Saturday - were designed by Italian painter Valerio Adami.\n\nIt is not known how many of the 12 bottles of The Macallan Adami 1926 still exist.\n\nOne is said to have been destroyed in an earthquake in Japan in 2011, and it is believed at least one other has been opened and consumed.", "Wounded Palestinian women, injured following Israeli air raids, visit Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City for treatment on 10 October\n\nHospitals and medical facilities have become caught up in intense fighting as Israel presses its offensive against Hamas in Gaza City.\n\nThe focus of attention has been on Al-Shifa, Gaza's largest hospital, where thousands are trapped by nearby battles, but other facilities are also reporting a lack of supplies and power because of fighting.\n\nIsrael says it is not targeting hospitals directly but acknowledges \"clashes\" around Al-Shifa and other facilities.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) says 36 health facilities including 22 hospitals have been damaged since the war began on 7 October, and only a handful are now still operational.\n\nHere is what the BBC knows about the situation at the main facilities in northern Gaza.\n\nThe WHO said on Sunday that Al-Shifa in Gaza City - the territory's largest with 700 beds - had ceased to function and that the situation inside was \"dire and perilous\".\n\nThe surrounding streets are engulfed by fighting between Hamas and Israeli forces. Critical infrastructure has been damaged, according to the UN.\n\nIsrael says Hamas fighters operate in tunnels underneath the hospital - a claim which Hamas denies.\n\nStaff inside say it is impossible to leave without risking injury or death.\n\nThe WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on X that \"constant gunfire and bombings in the area\" had \"exacerbated the already critical circumstances\".\n\nMultiple reports from inside say there are no food and no fuel to run generators. Solar energy is being used to power a few critical systems.\n\nThere have been communication blackouts - the Doctors Without Borders charity was unable to contact its members inside Gaza over the weekend. Attempts by the BBC to contact workers have often been unsuccessful.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry has said there are at least 2,300 people still inside the hospital - up to 650 patients, 200-500 staff and around 1,500 people seeking shelter.\n\nThis number includes newborn babies being kept in a surgical theatre at the site.\n\nStaff say that three of 39 infants in their care died over the weekend for lack of incubators. Surviving babies were at serious risk of death, according to doctors.\n\nThe Israel Defense Force's (IDF) chief spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said on Saturday that Israel would provide assistance to evacuate the babies to a \"safer hospital\".\n\nHowever, that evacuation had yet to happen as of Monday afternoon.\n\nHospital staff have told the BBC that moving the babies safely would require sophisticated equipment, and that there is no \"safer hospital\" inside Gaza.\n\nMark Regev, a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said that the 300 litres offered would have been enough for the babies and more could be provided.\n\n\"Hamas did not want to accept solutions for the lack of fuel needed to save the babies,\" he said, adding: \"We provided fuel and they [Hamas] refused to take it.\"\n\nBabies trapped inside Al-Shifa hospital, in an imaged issued by medical staff\n\nOn Saturday, Colonel Moshe Tetro of the IDF said there were clashes nearby, but no shooting at the hospital itself, and no siege.\n\nAnyone who wanted to leave, he said, could do so. He insisted that to say otherwise was a lie.\n\nMarwan Abu Saada, a surgeon in Shifa, told the BBC that there was bombing around the hospital and ambulances could not get in.\n\nThe IDF also said efforts to deliver 300 litres of fuel to Shifa on Sunday had failed because Hamas had refused to accept it - something Hamas denied.\n\nMr Abu Saada told the BBC on the same day that 300 litres would \"last 30 minutes\" - the hospital needs 10,000 litres a day to operate normally.\n\nOn top of this is the growing risk of disease from lack of sanitation and the decomposition of dead bodies that cannot be refrigerated.\n\nMr Abu Saada said that attempts to bury the dead had been thwarted by fighting around the complex, and the morgue refrigerator had failed for lack of power.\n\nThere were 100 bodies unburied in the hospital courtyard, he added.\n\nDr Marwan Al-Barsh, director general of Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry, said that as well as the courtyard, the hospital's mortuaries were also filled with corpses.\n\nHe added that hospital officials had tried to bury those who had died in the hospital, but that people had been unable to leave without coming under fire.\n\nIsrael says it knows \"with certainty\" that there is a Hamas command centre underneath Shifa.\n\nIt has shared a 3-D representation of what it said were a network of tunnels under the hospital, and recordings it says are of Hamas fighters discussing them.\n\nHamas denies it is using the hospital or that it has an operations centre underneath. Doctors inside insist there is no Hamas presence there. The BBC's Gaza correspondent Rushdi Abualouf said that he had never seen \"any military capability\" inside the hospital, but acknowledged it was difficult to verify either Israel's or Hamas's claims.\n\nWHO's Dr Tedros said on 10 November that the hospitals that were functioning in the Gaza Strip were \"operating way beyond their capacities\".\n\nDr Ghassan Abu Sittah, a doctor working at Al-Ahli in northern Gaza, told the BBC that the hospital was now taking all of the wounded from Gaza City but that it did not have the resources to cope.\n\nHe said that ambulances were arriving with wounded people every 10 minutes, and that hospital staff did not have access to a blood bank, which he said was surrounded by Israeli tanks.\n\n\"We don't have an x-ray technician and we are short of medication to the point where we're having to do extremely painful procedures on large wounds to keep them clean with no analgesia, no anaesthetic,\" he said.\n\nHe added that operating rooms were being saved for life-saving surgeries \"because we don't have enough resources to treat everybody\".\n\nLast month Al-Ahli was the scene of a deadly blast that was at the centre of competing claims between Israel and Hamas about who was responsible.\n\nThe Gaza Strip's second largest hospital after Al-Shifa has, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, ceased to be operational.\n\nThe Palestinian Red Crescent said on Saturday that its teams were trapped inside with 500 patients and around 14,000 displaced people, mostly women and children.\n\nOn Sunday it stated that the hospital was \"out of service... no longer operational... due to the depletion of available fuel and power outage\".\n\nIt added that the hospital \"has been left to fend for itself under ongoing Israeli bombardment, posing severe risks to the medical staff, patients and displaced civilians\".\n\nIt also said that an \"evacuation convoy\" travelling from Khan Younis in southern Gaza towards Al-Quds hospital had had to turn back after experiencing \"relentless bombardment\". It added that those trapped in the hospital were without food, water or electricity.\n\nDoctors Without Borders said on Saturday it had lost contact with a surgeon working and sheltering in Al-Quds with his family.\n\nA spokesman for the Red Crescent told Reuters news agency that the hospital had been cut off for nearly a week, with \"no way in, no way out\", and the surrounding area was under constant attack.\n\nThe small Rantisi Specialised Hospital for Children and the nearby Al-Nasr hospital, in the north of Gaza City, were evacuated on Friday save for a handful of patients and staff. Rantisi had Gaza's only paediatric cancer ward.\n\nThe IDF released to the BBC details of phone conversations between an official at Rantisi and a senior officer in the IDF, in which they discussed arrangements to get ambulances to evacuate patients.\n\nThe hospital official asked about hundreds of displaced civilians camped out at the two hospitals. The Israeli officer told them to leave via the main entrance at 11:20 and explained in detail which streets they should walk along to leave Gaza City.\n\nAnd he twice told the hospital official to make sure civilians were carrying something white to show they were not combatants.\n\n\"They will all go out with their hands in the air,\" the hospital official said. \"Perfect,\" the Israeli said.\n\nIn a video verified by the BBC, people waving white flags were seen apparently coming under gunfire on as they attempted to leave Al-Nasr on Friday. It was not clear where the gunshots had come from or who had fired them.\n\nDr Bakr Gaoud, the head of Rantisi, was quoted by the New York Times as saying that Israeli forces had arrived at the end of last week and provided maps showing a safe way out.\n\n\"We dragged our patients out of their beds,\" he said, adding that the patients in the worst condition were sent to Al-Shifa, which was already overwhelmed and ceasing to function.\n\nEveryone else, he said, had made their way to southern Gaza away from the main fighting.\n\nOn Monday evening IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari showed journalists what he said was evidence of Hamas infrastructure at Rantisi - video of explosives, suicide vests and even a motorcycle used in the 7 October attacks, hidden in a basement.\n\nHe showed video of a deep shaft with a ladder down the side which he said was the entrance to a tunnel that was next to both a school and the hospital, adding it was \"nothing else but a terror tunnel\".\n\nRefugees taking shelter in Rantisi hospital before its evacuation on Friday\n\nThe UN's office for humanitarian affairs said in its Sunday night update that the Swedish clinic had been \"hit and destroyed\" by an air strike on Saturday.\n\nThere were around 500 people sheltering there, it reported, and the casualty toll was \"unclear\".\n\nOn Monday morning, BBC Gaza correspondent Rushdi Abu Alouf spoke to Maryam al-Arabeed, a 65-year-old woman who said Israeli soldiers had entered the facility on Sunday night and moved everyone out. She said she had then watched \"an Israeli bulldozer completely demolish the building\".\n\n\"They took the young men out including my three sons and separated the women and children,\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe added that she did not know where her sons or relatives were.\n\nThe IDF said it was investigating the report.\n\n\"In start contrast to Hamas's intentional attacks on Israeli men, women and children, the IDF follows international law and takes feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm,\" the Israeli military added.", "Why Amitabh Bachchan fans are asking him to not watch the match\n\nThe big question is: will Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan watch the match or not? That's because the actor is known to be superstitious about watching India's matches. \"When I don't watch, we WIN!\" the actor wrote on X (formerly Twitter) after India won the semi-final match against New Zealand. Since then, Indian fans have been asking him to stay away from the final. Back in 2011, his son, actor Abhishek Bachchan, had said his father believed the Indian team would lose a wicket if he watched their World Cup matches. So, the legendary actor would stay in his room, asking his family to update him about the score. While he skipped the semi-final in 2011, reports say he did watch the final - which India won. So, maybe he should just watch it this time too.", "Efforts to clear debris from the mouth of the tunnel have failed so far\n\nEfforts to rescue 40 workers trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in northern India have been expanded to include drilling down from the mountain top.\n\nA platform is being prepared to place the drilling machine at the site in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.\n\nAnother bid to reach the workers will also be made from the mouth of the tunnel. Three attempts to drill through the debris there have failed so far.\n\nPart of the tunnel under construction caved in after a landslide last Sunday.\n\nContact with the men has been established and they are being provided oxygen and food.\n\nExplaining the latest rescue attempt on Saturday, Uttarkashi's District Forest Officer DP Baluni said: \"A spot right above the tunnel has been identified and marked. A hole will be drilled from there.\"\n\nA digger has been brought to build a flat surface for the drilling machinery.\n\nThe commander leading federal rescue teams, Maj Naman Narula, said he hoped to have the platform built by Sunday. The depth of the hole is expected to be between 300 and 350 feet (90-105m), he added.\n\nNew heavy drilling equipment is being brought to the site\n\nOfficials say that if everything goes to plan, the rescue could another take four or five days.\n\nAlso on Saturday. there was an angry confrontation between rescue officials and colleagues and friends of the trapped workers.\n\nTensions ran high as officials were challenged about the lack of progress. One man cried out: \"It's been seven days and my brother is trapped in there.\"\n\nRescuers responded by saying they were spending sleepless nights to reach the workers. One official said the boys in the tunnel were like his own children: \"I go to my bunk at night and cry as well. I can't cry in front of you otherwise you will lose hope.\"\n\nThe Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi district is part of the federal government's ambitious highway project to improve links with famous pilgrimage spots in Uttarakhand.\n\nThe mountainous state, where several Himalayan peaks and glaciers are located, is home to some of the holiest sites for Hindus.\n\nA nearby landslide caused heavy debris to fall on the tunnel, leading to the collapse of a section about 200m from the entrance.\n\nA water pipeline set up for construction work is now being used to supply oxygen, food and water to those still inside.", "A hat belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte when he ruled France in the 19th Century has been sold for €1.9m ($2.1m; £1.7m) at auction in Paris.\n\nThe bicorne black beaver felt hat was valued between €600,000 and €800,000 (£525,850-£701,131).\n\nThe person who bought the hat has not made themselves known.\n\nHistorians say the hat was part of his brand. Wearing it sideways made him recognisable in battle. He owned about 120 bicorne hats over the years.\n\nHowever only 20 are thought to remain - many in private collections.\n\nThe hat is being sold along with other Napoleonic memorabilia assembled by an industrialist who died last year.\n\nBut the auctioneers said for specialists, the hat is the true holy grail.\n\nThe emperor wore his hat with the corns parallel to shoulders - known as \"en bataille\" - whereas most of his officers wore their hats perpendicular to the shoulders.\n\nAuctioneer Jean Pierre Osenat said: \"People recognised this hat everywhere. When they saw it on the battlefields, they knew Napoleon was there.\n\n\"And when in private, he always had it on his head or he had it in his hand, and sometimes he threw it on the ground. That was the image - the symbol of the emperor.\"\n\nThe auctioneers said this hat comes with impeccable provenance, remaining throughout the 19th Century in the family of Napoleon's palace quartermaster.\n\nThe hat being auctioned by Osenat auction house in Fontainebleau has a cockade that Napoleon fixed to his hat in 1815, during the crossing of the Mediterranean from his exile in Elba to Antibes, where he led a brief return to power.\n\nOther items being sold include a silver plate looted from Napoleon's carriage after his 1815 defeat at Waterloo and a wooden vanity case he owned, with razors, a silver toothbrush, scissors and other belongings.", "A premature baby being prepared for evacuation from Gaza's al-Shifa hospital Image caption: A premature baby being prepared for evacuation from Gaza's al-Shifa hospital\n\nIt's just gone 02:30 in Israel and Gaza - and 00:30 London time. Here's a look at some of the latest headlines:\n\nUS President Joe Biden says a deal that would see Hamas releasing hostages could be close. Asked by a reporter whether a rumoured agreement was near, he said: \"I believe so\".\n\nThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - a humanitarian organisation which facilitated previous hostage releases - says its boss has travelled to Qatar to meet with Hamas. The development has further raised hopes that an agreement could be imminent.\n\nOur Jerusalem correspondent Tom Bateman says any deal could be staggered - with groups of hostages freed at a time, in return for a sustained ceasefire.\n\nTwenty-eight out of 31 premature babies who were evacuated from the besieged al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Sunday have now been taken into Egypt.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) says 12 of them have been flown to Cairo for further treatment - all of whom are fighting \"serious infections and other conditions\".\n\nThe director of Gaza's Indonesian Hospital has told the BBC there is still “intermittent shooting” being heard at the site.\n\nThe World Health Organization has labelled an earlier attack on the building - which Hamas said killed 12 people - as \"appalling\".\n\nThe hospital director said he believed the strike came from Israeli forces. The Israeli military said it had come under fire \"from within\" the hospital and retaliated, but insisted it did not fire shells toward the hospital.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza now says 13,300 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's offensive. Of that figure, at least 5,600 of the dead are children.\n\nIsrael began its operation following an attack by Hamas on 7 October that killed 1,200 people.", "Russell Brand has been questioned by the Metropolitan Police in relation to allegations of historical sex offences.\n\nAn investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4's Dispatches revealed allegations of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse against the British comedian and actor.\n\nThe Met has confirmed that a man in his 40s attended a police station in south London on 16 November, as first reported by the Times newspaper.\n\nThe force said he was interviewed under caution by detectives in relation to allegations of \"three non-recent sexual offences\".\n\nIt said inquiries were continuing.\n\nThe Met said in September that it would investigate allegations of \"non-recent\" sexual offences, after receiving a number of allegations.\n\nAt the time, it said it was encouraging anyone who believed they may have been a victim of a sexual offence to contact them, \"no matter how long ago it was\".\n\nEarlier that month, the Times, Sunday Times and Channel 4's Dispatches programme said four women had accused Brand, 48, of sexual offences, including a rape, alleged to have taken place between 2006 and 2013.\n\nThe investigation claimed he had also behaved inappropriately at work, and displayed predatory and controlling behaviour.\n\nDuring that time, Brand held several jobs, including at Channel 4 and BBC Radio 2.\n\nThe BBC has approached Mr Brand for comment but has not yet heard back.\n\nHe has previously denied those claims and said his relationships have \"always\" been consensual.\n\nThe day before the investigation was published online in September, Brand shared a video on social media.\n\nIn it, he denied \"serious criminal allegations\" he said were to be made against him, and said his relationships \"were absolutely, always consensual\".\n\nFollowing the allegations of \"non-recent\" sexual offences reported to the Met later that month, Brand put out another video in which he was critical of the mainstream media but did not directly address the claims against him.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man who set fire to two elderly worshippers after they left mosques has been convicted of attempted murder.\n\nMohammed Abbkr, 29, sprayed petrol on and set alight Hashi Odowa, 82, and Mohammed Rayaz, 70, during attacks in London and Birmingham.\n\nHe told Mr Odowa \"I swear in the name of Allah, in the name of God, you will know me,\" Birmingham Crown Court heard.\n\nAbbkr was found guilty by majority verdict over the attacks in Ealing and Edgbaston, in February and March.\n\nThe Recorder of Birmingham, Judge Melbourne Inman KC, told the court he wanted to hear further psychiatric evidence before considering a proposal to sentence Abbkr, of Gillott Road, Edgbaston, to a hospital order.\n\nThe defendant who, the jury was told, had admitted setting fire to both men, is due to re-appear at the court on 17 November.\n\nMohammed Abbkr had admitted he was the person who set both men on fire\n\nBoth of his victims needed hospital treatment, with Mr Rayaz kept in for several weeks having suffered life-changing injuries.\n\nMr Odowa was attacked as he made his way to a neighbour's car outside West Ealing Islamic Centre, when Abbkr followed him after evening prayers.\n\nProsecutor Nicholas de la Poer KC said Abbkr had insisted his victim knew him, which was untrue, and that seemed to \"provoke\" him.\n\nHe then used a lighter to ignite petrol he had in a water bottle and sprayed it at Mr Odowa's head. His victim escaped serious injury only because he was able to remove his burning jacket and vest.\n\nA month later, Abbkr set fire to Mr Rayaz, after the defendant followed him from Dudley Road Mosque in Birmingham, again after evening prayers.\n\nAbbkr threw more petrol on him after the initial flames dissipated, engulfing him \"in a ball of flame which subsequently subsided to reveal that he was on fire from head to foot\", the court heard.\n\nAbbkr can be seen inside the Dudley Road Mosque where Mr Rayaz was also captured on camera attending evening prayers\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of both attacks, during which Mr Rayaz could be heard shouting in pain.\n\nNeighbours helped to put the flames out before carrying him to his home.\n\nCounter-terror police were later drafted into the investigation in a case that was described at the time by Downing Street as \"concerning\".\n\nDuring the trial, jurors heard one psychiatrist judged Abbkr to be a paranoid schizophrenic, after the defendant claimed those he attacked were not human and therefore not expected to be hurt by fire.\n\nAbbkr, who came to the UK from Sudan in 2017 seeking asylum and was granted leave to remain in 2019, also said he believed those he had set ablaze were among several people \"controlling him through magic\", the court heard.\n\nIn a statement issued by West Midlands Police after the hearing, Mohammed Ayaz, the eldest son of Mr Rayaz, described seeing his father after the attack was \"just awful and unbearable\".\n\nPolice released images of the remnants of Mr Rayaz's burnt coat after the attack\n\n\"No words can describe that moment the emotions which I was feeling, I felt so helpless and weak, no son or daughter should see their father or mother in that state,\" he said.\n\nAnother son, Adnaan Riaz, said the CCTV of his father being set on fire and his screams of pain would stay with him forever.\n\n\"I would describe the attacker as a coward, this coward does not belong to any religion, society or even humanity,\" he said.\n\n\"This impact of emotions which I have shared with you will be felt by me and my family for a very long time to come, and will remain with me for the rest of my life.\"\n\nMohammed Rayaz was seriously injured and required a skin graft after he was attacked\n\nCh Insp Haroon Chughtai, said the attacks were \"absolutely horrific\" and \"almost defy belief in their apparent randomness and severity\".\n\nThere was no evidence Abbkr was motivated by a particular ideology, and so the incidents were not treated as a terrorist attack, he explained.\n\n\"The courage of the victims and their families has been exceptional,\" he said.\n\n\"They have been left with physical and emotional wounds that they may never recover from, but I hope today's verdicts will offer them some comfort.\"\n\nAbbkr was caught the day after the Birmingham attack and Ch Insp Chughtai said the force drafted a lot of officers into the investigation.\n\n\"It was very close to the start of Ramadan so we could understand the fears and tensions that were in the wider community,\" he added.\n\nShabana Mahmood, Birmingham Ladywood MP, who was in contact with Mr Rayaz's family after the attack, said both men were victims of of \"heinous violence\".\n\n\"I am incredibly proud of the way our local community in Birmingham pulled together to support Mr Rayaz, his family and each other, as well as supporting the police to do their job,\" she said. \"I hope this verdict gives both victims and their families justice and goes some way to help ease the pain and suffering they have been through.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Bottled water stations have been handing out emergency supplies to residents\n\nThousands of people are still without water in Surrey after a major incident was declared following a technical issue at a water treatment works.\n\nThames Water has apologised and said Shalford treatment works in Guildford had faced issues after Storm Ciarán.\n\nWaverley Borough Council leader Paul Follows told BBC Breakfast trying to get \"basic information\" from the water company had been a \"challenge\".\n\nHe said the issue was affecting \"about 10 to 12,000 people\" on Monday morning.\n\nMr Follows said: \"I have certainly got questions for the county for not declaring a major incident much earlier, and I will certainly have questions for our MP about the state of water infrastructure in the local area because it is clearly failing.\"\n\nGuildford's A&E unit at the Royal Surrey County Hospital is operating with low levels of water and closed toilet facilities.\n\nPeople have been urged only to attend the emergency department if they cannot get urgent and emergency care they need elsewhere.\n\nRoyal Surrey NHS Foundation trust, which also runs services at Haslemere and Milford hospitals, said Thames Water was working to secure hospital water supplies including supplying water via tankers and currently there was sufficient access to water across most areas of its sites.\n\nJames Wallace, chief executive of River Action, said it was a disgrace, adding: \"This is one of the wealthiest parts of the UK.\n\n\"To blame Storm Ciarán is unacceptable. We are witnessing the water industry's systemic lack of investment.\"\n\nHe claimed Thames Water leaked 600m litres of drinking water per day and had opened no new reservoirs in decades.\n\nHowever, the company said it had plans to provide a secure supply for the next 50 years, including a new reservoir near Abingdon and a direct river abstraction project in West London.\n\nThe company is also planning a 5.5mile (9km) water transfer pipeline to connect part of the Guildford area to an alternative source of water, with work scheduled to start early next year.\n\nDavid Bird of Thames Water said the company had made deliveries to vulnerable customers\n\nDavid Bird, retail director at Thames Water, told BBC Breakfast the company started to see a loss of supply to some customers on Saturday evening.\n\nHe said the company had 28 tankers, 24 hours a day, bringing supplies to local hospitals and others, with vulnerable customers receiving water before the outage impacted them.\n\nOn Monday, the Shalford water treatment works was \"back online\" but underground reservoirs still needed to be refilled, the company said. It said it expected supplies to resume over the next 24-hours.\n\nTim Oliver, Surrey County Council leader, said all agencies would continue to work with Thames Water to support residents, \"particularly those most vulnerable\".\n\nAmong customers affected was Alice Poole from Farncombe, who said her water went off on Sunday morning.\n\nShe said they managed to find bottled water but had two small boys at home who had been out playing football getting \"grubby\" and she had another small child who had been sick overnight and they needed to wash sheets.\n\nShe said the family had resorted to using baby wipes and anti-bacterial products, adding: \"We're just boiling water and washing what we can.\"\n\nJeanette, who spoke to BBC Radio Surrey at the bottled water station at Crown Court car park said: \"I've got disabled people down my road. I was going to take some back for them but I can't because I could only have two packs.\n\n\"I know a lot of people were queuing for hours yesterday. I went to three shops yesterday to buy water - all out, none of the stores have got them.\"\n\nThere's a steady flow of cars heading into Godalming's Crown Court Car Park which has been handing out bottled water since just gone 07:30 GMT.\n\nMore than 25 pallets filled with hundreds of bottles of water await collection from residents who've been without water at home for more than 24 hours.\n\nPeople I've been speaking to this morning are relieved to get supplies, but frustrated at Thames Water.\n\nIlhan Cosgun, 45, from Godalming, said he and his two boys hadn't showered for a couple of days so were a bit grumpy. He said Thames Water needed to improve communication and get a move on and fix it.\n\nOn Monday, Godalming College closed for the day and Godalming Junior School also closed but said some pupils would be invited in at specific times.\n\nRodborough School in Milford closed and said learning would move online.\n\nSurrey County Council has told parents to refer to individual school websites for updates.\n\nMr Bird said Thames Water had been speaking to the Department for Education about \"the small number of schools\" affected and said he hoped this had been \"minimised through all the deliveries we have been making\".\n\nPallets of water were waiting for collection on Monday morning\n\nThames Water said supplies would \"only gradually return\" on Monday and apologised to those affected in postcode areas GU1, GU2, GU3, GU5, GU6, GU7 and GU8.\n\nOne of the affected areas, Milford, was also without power earlier. Scottish and Southern Electricity Network (SSEN) said 276 customers were cut off but supplies were later restored.\n\nAre you still without water? Share your experiences, email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on X, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Licences for oil and gas projects in the North Sea are set to be awarded annually, under government plans.\n\nThere is currently no fixed period between licensing rounds - but this would change under a bill to be announced in Tuesday's King's Speech.\n\nMinisters said projects would have to meet net zero targets and claimed the policy would \"bolster energy security\".\n\nGreenpeace said encouraging oil and gas production was \"backward-facing\" and vowed to fight new licences in court.\n\nThe plans draw a dividing line between the Conservatives and Labour, which says it wants to focus on investing in renewables energy, rather than fossil fuels.\n\nLabour has said it will honour existing licences granted before the next general election, but would not allow any new ones if it won power.\n\nLabour's shadow energy security secretary, Ed Milliband, dismissed the plans as a \"desperate political strategy\" that would do \"nothing to lower bills or deliver energy security\".\n\n\"We already have regular North Sea oil and gas licensing in Britain, and it is precisely our dependence on fossil fuels that has led to the worst cost of living crisis in a generation,\" he said.\n\nEnergy Security Secretary Claire Coutinho told the BBC the government's plans for oil and gas licences \"wouldn't necessarily bring energy bills down\".\n\nInstead, Ms Coutinho said the new licences would improve \"security\" of energy supply, and raise tax revenues from oil and gas companies \"that would help us for example fund public services\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said the new policy would relate to offshore production licences.\n\nApplications to explore oil and gas fields are assessed by the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), an independent regulator.\n\nAccording to the trade body Offshore Energies UK, there are just under 300 active oil and gas fields in the North Sea. But more than half of them will have ceased production by 2030.\n\nThe current licencing round opened in October last year, with the first set of 27 licences granted earlier this month.\n\nThe government says the UK will still need oil and gas to meet its energy needs, even if it reaches its goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.\n\nNet zero means no longer adding to the total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.\n\nIn its latest progress report, the government's adviser, the Committee on Climate Change, said the \"expansion of fossil fuel production is not in line with net zero\".\n\nThe committee said while the UK \"will continue to need some oil and gas until it reaches net zero\", this did not \"in itself justify the development of new North Sea fields\".\n\nThe government also argues importing energy from abroad creates more emissions overall, whilst also making the UK reliant on \"hostile foreign regimes\" such as Russia for its energy security.\n\nFossil fuels make up most of the UK's energy mix, with oil and gas being used to generate electricity, heat homes and fuel vehicles.\n\nThe vast majority of UK gas supplies come from the UK's North Sea fields, by pipeline from Norway, or by seaborne tanker from countries such as the United States and Qatar.\n\nThe UK has no direct dependence on Russian supply, with less than 4% of its gas sourced from the country in 2021.\n\nBut the Committee on Climate Change says the UK's dependence on gas has left it exposed to the high energy prices seen globally in recent years.\n\nAnd in 2022, former energy minister Greg Hands acknowledged UK production was not large enough to reduce energy bills, as prices are set by international, not local, markets.\n\nUnder the government's plans, a new law requiring an annual licensing process will be listed in the King's Speech, where the monarch will set out the government's law-making plans for the year ahead.\n\nA licensing round would only take place if the UK is projected to import more oil and gas from abroad than it produces domestically.\n\nThe carbon emissions linked to UK gas production would also need to be lower than the equivalent emissions from imported liquefied natural gas.\n\nThese two tests are currently part of the government's climate tests for new licences, known as the climate compatibility checkpoint. However, the bill would make them legally binding.\n\nThere have been questions raised about the government's ability to meet its 2050 net zero target, with its climate advisers having warned the UK risks falling behind without much faster action.\n\nIn September, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced some changes to climate policies and extended some of the UK's net zero deadlines.\n\nMr Sunak said he was committed to meeting the target in a \"pragmatic and proportionate way\" but without \"unnecessarily adding costs and burdens to families\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson has apologised to a doctor over a \"misleading\" social media post.\n\nHe offered his \"sincerest apologies\" to Tom Dolphin for any distress caused by a post on X, formerly Twitter, related to the ongoing junior doctors strike.\n\nThe MP has also agreed to pay £1,870 to the British Medical Association (BMA) strike fund to \"compensate the upset I may have caused\".\n\nDr Dolphin tweeted to thank Mr Anderson for his \"very gracious apology\".\n\nOn 6 October, in a tweet which appears to have been deleted, Mr Anderson responded to a Mail Online article that reported Dr Dolphin had \"boasted of charging the NHS for a strike cover shift\".\n\nA tweet from Dr Dolphin on that day suggests that \"some commentators\" had not understood that he, as a consultant, had been covering for striking junior doctors. He had not been on strike himself on this occasion.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Anderson wrote a post to say that his words had been misleading.\n\nThe Ashfield MP, who is also a presenter on the GB News channel, said he understood Dr Dolphin had donated the pay for his covered shift to the BMA strike fund, and \"whilst I do not agree with the strikes\" this was an unselfish act and he would make the same contribution to the fund.\n\nDr Dolphin responded to the apology saying: \"A very gracious apology, thank you Lee Anderson.\n\n\"Thanks also for the donation. I hope it inspires others to donate to the strike fund as well.\"\n\nThe BMA said doctors had been \"repeatedly misrepresented by the government during this industrial dispute\" and said it was good the false claims about Dr Dolphin had been corrected.\n\nJunior doctors have staged a series of strikes in the long-running dispute about pay and conditions in the NHS in England. The latest talks to try to resolve the dispute took place last week and have been described as \"constructive\".", "Fiona the sheep is no longer alone in her new surroundings\n\nThe sheep described as the loneliest in Britain is said to be settling in well to her new home.\n\nThe ewe, now named Fiona, was rescued on Saturday after being stranded for more than two years at the foot of cliffs in the Scottish Highlands.\n\nA protest was staged at the weekend by an animal rights group over plans to move her to a farm park, near Dumfries.\n\nBut she arrived at Dalscone Farm \"under cover of darkness\" on Sunday and is said to be in good condition.\n\nThe sheep's plight hit the headlines last month after a kayaker photographed her still trapped at the foot of a steep cliff at the Cromarty Firth, two years after a previous sighting.\n\nShe was dubbed \"Britain's loneliest sheep\" and an online petition to rescue her attracted thousands of signatures.\n\nPlans to move her to the farm park in southern Scotland provoked a \"peaceful, non-violent demonstration\" at the site amid concerns she would become a \"spectacle\".\n\nBen Best said the sheep was \"super chilled\"\n\nFarmer Ben Best of Dalscone Farm said it had been a \"stressful\" couple of days to get the sheep to Dumfries.\n\n\"Last night, under the cover of darkness, we brought her in just away from any prying eyes,\" he said.\n\n\"She has settled in absolutely brilliantly. She has been eating, drinking.\n\n\"We couldn't be happier with how she has settled in.\"\n\nHe said the whole experience had been a \"bit surreal\" but Fiona was \"super chilled\".\n\nThe rescued sheep arrived at Dalscone on Sunday night\n\n\"Everything is transparent what we do - we are known worldwide for our animal care,\" he said.\n\n\"Everything is absolutely five-star and we are very proud of that.\"\n\nThe farm section of the visitor attraction is currently closed to the public but it posts regular live updates on its Facebook page.\n\n\"The world's loneliest sheep is lonely no more,\" added Mr Best.\n\nFiona is in her own pen as she gets used to her new surroundings\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme \"I have never worked with a sheep as calm as she is.\n\n\"She has essentially had unlimited grass to eat for two years and she is what we would describe as fat in the sheep world.\n\n\"I am not sure if you are allowed to say that these days to sheep, but she didn't seem to be too offended.\"\n\nFiona weighed in at 92kg (200lbs) without her wool and the wool itself weighed 9kg (20lbs).\n\nMr Wilson said the wool was quite poor quality but it was hoped it could eventually be made into something and used in a raffle for charity.\n\nHe also explained the cinematic inspiration behind the sheep's name.\n\n\"I came up with the name Fiona because, several years ago now, the world was taken by storm by a sheep called Shrek in New Zealand who had been living alone in a cave,\" Mr Wilson said.\n\n\"I thought Shrek is the male version of this situation so it has to be Fiona. It is also a good Scottish name.\"\n\nHe said they had waited until the \"coast was clear\" to take the sheep to the farm park on Sunday night where he was confident she would be well looked after.\n\nMr Wilson added: \"She will live out the rest of her life down there at Dalscone, probably being better looked after than I will be.\"", "Exhibition attendees view the work of Hannah Reyes Morales - which was closed off to under-18s by the government\n\nThe head of Hungary's National Museum has been sacked for allegedly letting under-18s view LGBT content.\n\nA controversial Hungarian law bans the \"display and promotion of homosexuality\" in materials accessible to children, such as books and films.\n\nThe museum recently hosted the World Press Photo exhibition, featuring shots of LGBT people in the Philippines.\n\nThe government said Laszlo Simon had failed to follow \"legal obligations\" with the show - something he denied.\n\nMr Simon insisted that the museum did not intentionally break any laws, having complied with an order to restrict entry for under-18s.\n\nIn a post on Facebook, he added: \"As a father and grandparent of four children, I firmly reject the idea that our children should be protected from me or from the institution I lead.\"\n\nOne of the images displayed in the exhibition\n\nA far-right lawmaker had earlier demanded the government launch an inquiry into the exhibition over a series of photos that depicted a community of elderly LGBT people in the Philippines.\n\nShe cited legislation introduced in Hungary in 2021 that prohibits under-18s from consuming material deemed to promote homosexuality, gay rights or gender change.\n\nThe Hungarian government decreed that the snaps broke the law. The museum responded by putting a notice on its website and at the exhibition's entrance - saying that entry was off-limits to visitors under 18.\n\nReacting to Mr Simon's sacking, World Press Photo organisers said they were \"shocked\".\n\nWorld Press Photo executive director Joumana El Zein Khoury said the images contained \"nothing explicit or offensive\".\n\n\"This series of photos is a thoughtful and honest record of the lives of a community of older LGBTQI+ people in the Philippines,\" he said.\n\nHe had previously said this was the first time one of the World Press Photo shows had been censored in Europe.\n\nThe photographer, Hannah Reyes Morales, earlier said she was \"beyond saddened\". Speaking to the AP news agency before Mr Simon was sacked, she said: \"What is harmful is limiting visibility for the LGBTQIA+ community, and their right to exist and to be seen.\"\n\nThe images feature LGBT people from the Philippines\n\nMr Simon is a former minister in the right-wing government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Mr Orban says he is defending Christian values and protecting children with his controversial crackdown on LGBT content.\n\nBut this has met sharp condemnation from human rights campaigners, as well as the European Union - of which Hungary is a member. The legislation has previously been labelled a \"disgrace\" by European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen.\n\nIn recent months, authorities used the same law to fine a bookseller for selling the popular British graphic novel Heartstopper - which features a love story between two male teenagers - without wrapping the book in a plastic cover.\n\nThe World Press Photo exhibition came to a scheduled close in the Budapest museum on Sunday.", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nThe rebel group holding Luis Diaz's father hostage has demanded \"security guarantees\" before his release.\n\nThe National Liberation Army (ELN) said the ongoing military and police search \"will delay the release and increase the risks\", Colombian media reported.\n\nLuis Manuel Diaz was kidnapped at gunpoint along with his wife in Barrancas, Colombia on 28 October.\n\nLiverpool player Diaz has called on the kidnappers to free his father immediately and end a \"painful wait\".\n\nHis mother was abandoned in a car after the kidnapping as police closed in, but his father was taken hostage.\n\nColombia international Diaz came off the bench to salvage a point for Liverpool with a stoppage-time goal at Luton Town on Sunday in his first match since his parents were kidnapped.\n\nThe ELN reiterated its intention to release Diaz's father \"as soon as possible\".\n\nBut, in a statement signed by commander Jose Manuel Martinez Quiroz, it added the current scale of the search operation undertaken by the Colombian authorities was delaying that process.\n\n\"We are making efforts to avoid incidents with government forces,\" the ELN said. \"The area is still militarised, they are carrying out flyovers, disembarking troops, broadcasting and offering rewards as part of an intense search operation.\n\n\"This situation is not allowing for the execution of the release plan quickly and safely, where Mr Luis Manuel Diaz is not at risk.\n\n\"If operations continue in the area, they will delay the release and increase the risks.\n\n\"We understand the anguish of the Diaz Marulanda family, to whom we say that we will keep our word to release him unilaterally, as soon as we have security guarantees for the development of the liberation operation.\"\n\nBoth of Diaz's parents were seized at gunpoint in his hometown of Barrancas, in the northern province of La Guajira, by left-wing guerrillas of the ELN.\n\nBut, while his mother was found later that day, his father remains missing and the Colombian government has deployed hundreds of police and soldiers in the search.\n\nDiaz, 26, had not featured for Liverpool since their Europa League win over Toulouse on 26 October but returned to the squad for Sunday's Premier League match at Luton.\n\nAfter scoring his side's equaliser, Diaz lifted his shirt to show a message of \"freedom for papa\" and later released a statement calling for his father's release.\n\n\"I beg that they free him immediately, respecting his integrity and ending this painful wait. In the name of love and compassion we ask they reconsider their actions and allow us to have him back,\" Diaz said.\n• None Listen to the latest The Red Kop podcast\n• None Our coverage of Liverpool is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Liverpool - go straight to all the best content", "A council leader and 10 councillors have quit the Labour Party over Sir Keir Starmer's decision not to push for a ceasefire in Gaza.\n\nBurnley Council leader Afrasiab Anwar, who had called for the Labour leader to resign over the issue, is among those to leave the party.\n\nIn a statement, the councillors said their memberships were \"untenable\".\n\nLabour backs the government's stance of calling for Israel to pause its action against Hamas to allow aid into Gaza.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said the party fully understood calls for a ceasefire but said one at this juncture would only \"freeze the conflict\" leaving hostages in Gaza, and Hamas capable of carrying out further attacks on Israel.\n\nIt has seen a number of resignations in councils across England over its stance on Gaza, including in Oxford where the party has lost control of the city council.\n\nIsrael began its operation in Gaza after Hamas killed more than 1,400 people in Israel and kidnapped more than 200 others on 7 October.\n\nIt has carried out thousands of air and artillery strikes, while a ground offensive is ongoing.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza has said more than 9,700 people have been killed since 7 October.\n\nMr Anwar was joined in resigning by nine other Burnley councillors as well as Lancashire County councillor Usman Arif. They will now sit as independents.\n\nBefore the resignations, the Labour group held 22 out of 45 seats on Burnley Council. It remains the largest party after Sunday's announcement.\n\nIn their statement they said: \"We have collectively decided to resign from the Labour Party with immediate effect, feeling that our place within the party is untenable given its present position.\n\n\"We cannot remain in a party that is not doing enough whilst innocent people are being killed in Gaza and Israel.\"\n\nSobia Malik, who represents Burnley Central East on Lancashire County Councillor, also announced her resignation from the Labour party last week.\n\nLabour's leadership is likely to face more pressure on its position as MPs return to Westminster this week.\n\nA number of Labour MPs - including shadow ministers - have called for a ceasefire, but Sir Keir has rejected these calls.\n\nConcerns about Sir Keir's position are understood to go up to shadow cabinet level.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said everybody wanted to see \"an end to this cycle of violence and suffering\", adding hostages needed to be released and aid needed to get to those in the most need.\n\nThey added: \"International law must be followed at all times and innocent civilians must be protected.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Queues of people can be seen waiting outside Cardiff Central Station after major events and shows\n\nA railway line aimed at improving travel after major events in Cardiff has been cancelled.\n\nThe Welsh government pulled the plug on the plan, saying it no longer offered value for money.\n\nTransport for Wales (TfW) says it cannot get back £10m spent on preparing to build the track at a steelworks near Newport.\n\nBut Senedd opposition parties said public money had been lost on the project.\n\nUnder the plans, extra trains could have waited on the 1.6km-long line near the Llanwern steelworks when big crowds of fans were expected at venues such as the Principality Stadium.\n\nIt would have provided additional capacity, making transport run more smoothly.\n\nIn its latest annual report, TfW said the £10.54m spent on the project, known as the Major Event Stabling Line (MESL), since 2018 was \"now considered irrecoverable\".\n\nThe company said other plans to open new commuter stations around Newport and Cardiff, including at Llanwern, will go ahead.\n\nThere have been difficulties with transport to and from events in Cardiff in the past, including when Ed Sheeran played at the Principality in 2022.\n\nBeyonce kicked off the UK leg of her Renaissance tour in Cardiff and more major events are planned for the city next year\n\nMore big-name acts are lined up there next year, including Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nCardiff has also been announced as a host city for the 2028 Euros.\n\nSarah Hemsley-Cole, who runs a Cardiff-based event production company, said the city had \"really fragile transport infrastructure\".\n\n\"There's always a great push on sustainability and I don't think we really have the solutions here in Wales to deliver a robust transport network to support the events that we have,\" she said.\n\nFootball fan Evan Powell, 20, of Cefn Hengoed, Caerphilly county, said that while delays on match days were inevitable, overcrowding was the biggest issue.\n\n\"The amount of times that a two-carriage train has turned up at a platform with hundreds of people waiting on… you're either getting refused to travel back or you're stuck in the most uncomfortable train ride that could be potentially dangerous,\" he said.\n\nFootball fan Evan Powell says overcrowded trains on match days are \"potentially dangerous\"\n\nChris Medlicott, 45, from Aberdare, took his son Owen, five, to his first Wales rugby match at the Principality on Saturday and said train passengers were \"irate\" due to how packed it was.\n\n\"I'm dreading going back,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't know why they don't put extra carriages on when it's going to be busy.\"\n\nChris Medlicott says he was dreading taking the train home after taking his five-year-old son to his first rugby match\n\nAlso attending the Wales v Barbarians match, Shelli Docherty, 44, said her 15-minute train journey from Pontyclun with son Marcus and husband Doc was \"absolutely packed\".\n\n\"The carriage was completely full. There was kissable distance,\" she said.\n\n\"Leaving a couple of hours before kick-off time, I think we've left it a bit late to be honest.\"\n\nShelli Docherty said fellow passengers were \"kissable distance\" in the packed pre-match trains\n\nWarren Beck said his son and grandson stood all the way from Gowerton to Cardiff because of the \"absolute chaos\" of only three carriages.\n\nThe Welsh government said a review had concluded the line \"would not provide value for money\".\n\n\"TfW is introducing brand new trains to their fleet to help improve resilience and meet increased demand across the network on major event days,\" it said.\n\nWarren Beck (left) says travelling to big games by train is \"absolute chaos\"\n\nMinisters recently announced a big cash injection of more than £125m for TfW.\n\nThis year it emerged the cost of the South Wales Metro had risen more than £260m to £1bn.\n\nRail expert Andrew Potter, of Cardiff University, said there was a \"fixed pot\" of money and rising construction and energy costs had hit the industry.\n\n\"If there's something that's only going to be used occasionally and potentially you can work around with other fixes it seems pointless to invest in that when there are bigger priorities,\" he said.\n\nTfW said the Welsh government had initially asked it to develop the scheme in 2017, and to look at a new station.\n\n\"However, following detailed development work, including feasibility, design and enabling works, it became clear the costs associated with the project would be significantly more than initial estimates,\" said TfW.\n\nColdplay's Chris Martin travelled by train when the band played Cardiff's Principality Stadium on their last world tour\n\n\"The business case for the scheme was challenged in light of the changes in post-covid demand and wider pressures on budgets.\n\nMoney spent will result in \"other benefits which have been transferred as part of the wider work which was developed,\" including the plan for the new Llanwern station.\n\nWelsh Conservative shadow transport minister Natasha Asghar said to \"essentially write off\" more than £10m was \"completely irresponsible\".\n\n\"I worry the shambolic trains here will be an embarrassment for Wales on the world stage when we host the Euros in 2028,\" she said.\n\nDelyth Jewell of Plaid Cymru said public transport should be the first choice for fans but that was \"nowhere near the case\".\n\n\"It's disappointing, therefore, to see that this plan to increase the capacity has been shelved and so much money lost,\" she said.", "Boris Johnson referred to the Treasury as the \"pro-death squad\" during a meeting to discuss lifting lockdown restrictions in January 2021, the Covid Inquiry has heard.\n\nThe phrase appears in a diary entry written by then chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nGiving evidence on Monday, senior civil servant Stuart Glassborow said he did not remember hearing the term.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to appear before the inquiry next month.\n\nStrict lockdown restrictions were re-imposed in late 2020 as the UK tackled a spike in infections and the emergence of a new variant of the virus.\n\nDermot Keating, counsel to the inquiry, read from the private diaries of Sir Patrick Vallance, extracts of which have been released before he gives evidence later this month.\n\nBy the end of January 2021, officials were debating how quickly to ease lockdown rules and move regions of England out of a series of staggered tiers - each with lighter restrictions.\n\n\"There is an entry... at a meeting on 25 January 2021, the PM is recorded saying he wants Tier 3 [by] 1 March, Tier 2 [by] 1 April, Tier 1 [by] 1 May and nothing by September,\" said Mr Keating.\n\n\"And he ends it by saying the team must bring in the pro-death squad from [HM Treasury]\".\n\nSir Patrick's diaries have been described as a \"brain dump\" by his legal counsel and a way to process the events of the day and protect his mental health.\n\nAsked about Sir Patrick's description of the meeting, Mr Glassborow - the PM's deputy principal private secretary at the time - said: \"I would not dispute what he's recorded, but I don't recall the phrase at all.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, the inquiry was also shown a briefing paper sent by Treasury officials to then Chancellor Rishi Sunak in September 2020 in which he was advised to \"push back strongly on the circuit-breaker proposal\".\n\nAround that time, the government's Sage group of scientific advisers was recommending tightening restrictions including the \"consideration\" of a short circuit-breaker lockdown.\n\nThe note - written ahead of a key meeting of officials to discuss the spread of the virus - said further measures to strengthen the rules were \"likely to be catastrophic\" for the economy.\n\nMr Sunak has previously said he had opposed stricter measures at the time but that the final decision lay with the prime minister.\n\nBen Warner, centre, next to Boris Johnson on 14 March, 2020\n\nThe inquiry was later shown a series of WhatsApp messages sent in September and October 2020 between then Downing Street director of communications Lee Cain and Ben Warner - a data scientist hired by Dominic Cummings after working on the 2016 Vote Leave campaign.\n\n\"Why are we not acting in London and urban areas now? Same errors as March,\" Mr Cain wrote to Mr Warner on 12 October.\n\nMr Warner replied: \"Agreed. Feel like we are where we knew we would be three/four weeks ago.\"\n\nOn 30 October, Mr Warner sent another message: \"I feel like I have accidentally invented a time machine\".\n\nCain replied: \"Oh mate. I can't take this insanity.\"\n\nAsked about the exchange, Mr Warner said he believed infections would continue to rise until more stringent restrictions were put in place and that other measures, such as the test and trace system, were not able to control the virus.\n\n\"We [were] seeing that infections keep rising until you do something,\" he said.\n\nMr Warner also told the inquiry he was \"continually concerned\" by the lack of scientific understanding across government departments outside of the Sage group.\n\n\"Throughout the pandemic, I thought that there was a lack of scientific capability within the different teams and groups that I was working with,\" he added.", "A group of anti-Trump protesters have gathered outside the courthouse.\n\nMichael Handy, who is wearing a \"Army Veteran\" hat, says he hopes the former president is held accountable for what he says are financial crimes committed by him.\n\n\"I hope he goes to jail, though not sure if that will happen. I hope it costs him a lot of money.\"\n\nHandy also says he hopes Trump is not re-elected in 2024.\n\nEarlier, protesters could be heard chanting \"no one is above the law\".\n\nHolding a placard that shows Trump behind bars, Julie DeLaurier tells me she has been taking it to protests for six years.\n\nShe says Trump is not welcome in New York and that he has \"pulled off the greatest con in history\".\n\nAnother large sign draped in front of the courthouse says \"Trump lies all the time\".", "Humza Yousaf posted a photo of the family's reunion on X, formerly Twitter\n\nHumza Yousaf's in-laws have arrived back in Scotland after being trapped for four weeks in Gaza.\n\nThe family of Scotland's first minister were reunited after they managed to cross into Egypt on Friday.\n\nElizabeth El-Nakla and her husband Maged - the parents of Mr Yousaf's wife Nadia - were allowed to leave Gaza via the Rafah crossing.\n\nMr Yousaf confirmed the news on X, formerly Twitter, and posted a photo of the reunion.\n\nHe said: \"I am pleased to say my in-laws are safe and back home.\"\n\nThe post included some Arabic script, which translates as \"praise be to God\".\n\nSome of Mr Yousaf's relatives who do not hold UK passports remain in Gaza.\n\nHe continued: \"We are, of course, elated, but my father-in-law said, 'My heart is broken in two, and with my mum, son and grandchildren in Gaza.' He then broke down telling me how hard it was saying goodbye to them.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with those who can't leave and are trapped in a war zone. We will continue to raise our voices for peace and to stop the killing of innocent men, women and children in Gaza.\n\n\"This has been a traumatic few weeks. I can't begin to tell you the impact it has had on Nadia and our family, particularly my in-laws. I'm sure they will tell their story in time. In the meantime, we ask that their privacy is respected.\"\n\nMs El-Nakla's mother, Elizabeth, with her twin grandsons aged 9, who remain in Gaza\n\nThe couple travelled to Gaza early last month to visit Mr El-Nakla's mother, who had a stroke in March but has now recovered.\n\nMr Yousaf's brother-in-law, who is a hospital doctor, and his family remain in Gaza, as do his wife's stepmother and grandmother.\n\nMr and Mrs El-Nakla, from Dundee, had spent the past two weeks in a house where 100 people were sheltering, including a child of two months old.\n\nThey had travelled to the border in an attempt to leave on three previous occasions without success.\n\nThe BBC understands the couple arrived at Edinburgh airport at about 10:30 on Sunday morning.\n\nBorder crossings in and out of Gaza had been closed since 7 October, when Hamas, which is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK, attacked Israel, killing more than 1,400 people and taking more than 240 hostage.\n\nSince then Israel has been carrying out military action in Gaza. The Hamas-run health ministry says more than 9,700 people have died.\n\nThe Palestinian border authority has been issuing lists of those who can present themselves at the crossing with their passports. Friday's list named more than 90 British citizens, with 88 on Saturday's list.\n\nOn Sunday, the Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden confirmed more than 100 UK citizens had made it out of Gaza.\n\nIt was thought there were around 200 British nationals there before war broke out.\n\nUp to 500 foreign nationals had been leaving Gaza per day via the Raffah crossing into Egypt since Wednesday but the \"controlled\" evacuations were halted on Saturday.\n\nA source has told the BBC they would resume again on Sunday. The evacuations via the border, which is controlled by the Egyptian authorities, have been conducted over \"time-limited periods\".\n\nA silent vigil calling for Hamas to release Israeli hostages was held at Holyrood on Sunday\n\nHundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied two of Scotland's biggest railway stations during a day of protests on Saturday.\n\nIn Edinburgh Waverley station, protesters could be heard chanting \"free Palestine\" and \"ceasefire now\".\n\nIn Glasgow, supporters held a sit-down protest before marching to the BBC Scotland headquarters for a rally.\n\nOn Sunday, a silent vigil was held outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh to remember those who are being held hostage by Hamas.\n\nHeart-shaped balloons were attached to shoes to represent those who were kidnapped.", "Moussa Abu Marzouk said Hamas's armed wing \"don't have to consult with the political leadership\"\n\nA senior Hamas leader has refused to acknowledge that his group killed civilians in Israel, claiming only conscripts were targeted.\n\nMoussa Abu Marzouk told the BBC that \"women, children and civilians were exempt\" from Hamas's attacks.\n\nHis claims are in stark contrast to the wealth of evidence of Hamas men shooting unarmed adults and children.\n\nThe proof includes video from Hamas body cameras and first-hand testimony given to international news networks.\n\nIsrael says more than 1,400 people were killed by Hamas in the 7 October attacks, most of them civilians.\n\nMr Marzouk, the group's deputy political leader, who is subject to an asset freeze in the UK under counter-terrorism regulations, was interviewed on Saturday in the Gulf. He is the most senior member to speak to the BBC since the 7 October atrocities.\n\nThe BBC pressed Mr Marzouk on the war on Gaza, specifically on the scores of hostages being held inside the territory.\n\nHe responded that they were not able to be freed while Israel was bombing Gaza. The Hamas-run health ministry says 10,000 people have been killed since Israel started operations last month.\n\n\"We will release them. But we need to stop the fighting,\" he said.\n\nMr Marzouk recently travelled to Moscow to discuss eight Russian-Israeli dual citizens snatched on 7 October by Hamas, a proscribed terror organisation in many countries including the UK and US.\n\nHe said Hamas members in Gaza had \"looked for and found two female hostages\" from Russia but were unable to release them because of the conflict.\n\nThey could only realistically release hostages, he said, if \"the Israelis stop the fighting so we can hand them over to the Red Cross\".\n\nChallenged by the BBC about the attack of 7 October, Mr Marzouk claimed that Mohamed el-Deif, the leader of Hamas's Qassam Brigades military wing, had ordered his men to spare civilians.\n\n\"El-Deif clearly told his fighters 'don't kill a woman, don't kill a child and don't kill an old man',\" he said.\n\nReservist soldiers were, he said, \"targeted\". He maintained that only \"conscripts [...] or soldiers\" were killed.\n\nBut women, children and civilians were \"exempt\", he said.\n\nYet a huge body of evidence has been gathered which documents the range of bloody acts committed by Hamas in Israel on 7 October.\n\nBBC journalists went to the scene of the attacks in their immediate aftermath and saw the bodies of civilians who had been killed.\n\nWe have also verified CCTV footage which captured shootings by Hamas. Separately, footage from Hamas body cameras has been shown to the BBC and other journalists by the Israeli government.\n\nOther international news organisations have also pieced together, and verified, evidence of what happened on the day.\n\nThe BBC challenged Mr Marzouk on this, but the leader, whose polished, measured manner during the interview sometimes slipped into irritation, did not answer the question directly.\n\nWhen asked if Hamas's political wing had known of preparations for the attack, the deputy leader said that the armed wing \"don't have to consult with the political leadership. There is no need.\"\n\nThe political wing, based in Qatar, often presents itself as being remote from the military forces in Gaza.\n\nThe UK government sees no distinction - it proscribed the Hamas political wing as a terrorist organisation in 2021, saying that \"the approach of distinguishing between the various parts of Hamas is artificial. Hamas is a complex but single terrorist organisation\".\n\nMr Marzouk is also listed as a specially designated global terrorist by the US Treasury Department, and is indicted on several charges of co-ordinating and financing Hamas activities.\n\nThe interview on Saturday came after Israel had refused US requests for a \"humanitarian pause\" in Gaza to let aid in and help get out some of the 240 hostages taken by Hamas on 7 October.\n\nThe Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Friday all hostages must be released before any temporary truce could be agreed.\n\nMr Marzouk claimed that Hamas did not possess a list of all those he referred to as \"guests\", nor did he know where many were, because they were being held by \"different factions\".\n\nThere are several groups inside Gaza including Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which work closely with Hamas but are ostensibly independent.\n\nHe said a ceasefire was needed to compile the information - there were other priorities while the territory was under bombardment.\n\nMr Marzouk will play a key role in how the conflict with Israel plays out, and is likely to be central in negotiations over the hostages.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Pallets of water were waiting for collection on Monday morning\n\nWater was returning to customers after a technical issue at a treatment works left thousands without.\n\nA major incident was declared after people had to queue for bottled water in a Guildford car park after supplies went off on Saturday.\n\nThe issue had affected up to 12,000 people and businesses in Surrey.\n\nThames Water said the plant was back online with water returning to half of affected customers. It had faced issues after Storm Ciarán, it said.\n\nThe supplier said it expected supplies to resume for remaining customers overnight and into Tuesday.\n\nIt repeated its apology to those in affected postcodes including: GU1, GU2, GU3, GU5, GU6, GU7 and GU8.\n\nBottled water stations in Guildford at Crown Court car park, Artinton car park and at Sainsbury's in Clay Lane shut at 21:00 GMT but were expected to reopen on Tuesday.\n\n\"We'd like to thank our customers for their patience during this time and we're very sorry to residents who are still experiencing no water or low pressure,\" Thames Water said.\n\n\"Tankers remain in the area to pump water into the local supply network and we continue to deliver bottled water to customers who are on our priority services register.\"\n\nWaverley Borough Council leader Paul Follows previously criticised the communication of Thames Water, telling BBC Breakfast that trying to get \"basic information\" from the water company had been a \"challenge\".\n\nA number of schools were affected with Godalming College, Godalming Junior School and Rodborough School in Milford all closing to some degree.\n\nCustomers have been lining up at bottled water stations for emergency supplies\n\nAmong customers affected was Alice Poole from Farncombe, who said her water went off on Sunday morning.\n\nShe said they managed to find bottled water but had two small boys at home who had been out playing football getting grubby and she had another small child who had been sick overnight and they needed to wash sheets.\n\nDavid Bird, retail director at Thames Water, told the BBC the company had 28 tankers, 24 hours a day, bringing supplies to local hospitals and others, with vulnerable customers receiving water before the outage impacted them.\n\nThe company said it would continue to update customers via its website.\n\nAre you still without water? Share your experiences, email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on X, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Prince of Wales was said to have “kept up really well” during a training session with a British dragon boating team in Singapore.\n\nThe prince is in the city state to attend the annual Earthshot Prize ceremony.\n\nFive winners are chosen each year, with each receiving £1m ($1.2m) to fund projects that aim to save the planet.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nJenni Hermoso said she \"received threats\" amid the controversy of Luis Rubiales kissing her on the lips during the World Cup trophy presentation.\n\nThe kiss, which Hermoso says was not consensual, occurred after the Spain forward helped her country beat England in the final in August.\n\nThe incident sparked outcry and Rubiales eventually resigned as Spanish football federation (RFEF) president.\n\n\"These weeks have been very difficult,\" Hermoso told GQ magazine in Spain.\n\n\"Having to tell it over and over again was hurting me a lot. But I know I had to let it go somehow.\n\n\"I continue working on it with the help of my psychologist, who I have been with for many years.\n\n\"For me, mental health is as important as daily training and the hours I have to sleep to be able to go out on the field. Thanks to her I feel strong and I'm not shattered or thinking about not wanting to play football anymore. I have not lost my enthusiasm.\"\n\nRubiales was banned from going within 200 metres of Hermoso after she filed a legal complaint.\n\nAt a court case in Madrid, the former federation president denied sexually assaulting and coercing Hermoso.\n\nRubiales has also been banned from all football-related activities for three years by Fifa.\n\nHermoso added: \"I've had to assume the consequences of an act that I did not provoke, that I had not chosen or premeditated.\n\n\"I have received threats, and that is something you never get used to.\"\n\nSpain's World Cup-winning manager Jorge Vilda was sacked in September and is being investigated as part of the criminal case against Rubiales. He has since been appointed manager of the Morocco women's national team.\n• None The kiss that shook Spanish and global football\n\nMontse Tome took over as the new Spain manager and said she left Hermoso out of Nations League fixtures in September to \"protect\" the player.\n\nThe 33-year-old was then named in the squad to face Italy and Switzerland in the Nations League in October.\n\nHermoso came on as a 68th-minute substitute against Italy and marked her return by scoring an 89th-minute winner.\n\nThe actions of Rubiales led to the creation of the hashtag #SeAcabo - which translates as 'It's over' - in support of Hermoso and taking aim at the sexism the incident was seen to embody by some.\n\nAsked how she wanted to be remembered, Hermoso said: \"As someone who has wanted to leave Spain at the top but, above all, as someone who has tried to change many attitudes.\n\n\"For better or worse, this story exists. I am going to learn to take advantage of it positively to fight for what I believe is good for society. The #SeAcabo movement must bring a new era.\n\n\"These last few months, with everything that has happened, my mind has wandered a little from football. At times I didn't remember that I was a footballer. But I go back to training, onto the pitch, put on my kit, and I want to give the best version of myself again.\"", "The founder and chief executive of one of the biggest dating apps in the world is stepping down after nearly 10 years in charge.\n\nWhitney Wolfe Herd, who created the company in 2014, will become Bumble Inc's executive chair.\n\nShe will be replaced by Slack boss Lidiane Jones, who will take up the role in January.\n\nMs Wolfe Herd said she was passing the \"the baton to a leader and a woman I deeply respect\".\n\nThe 34-year-old Ms Wolfe Herd became the world's youngest self-made female billionaire when she took Bumble public in February 2021.\n\nShe created the company in 2014, and differentiated the app to rivals by putting women in control of interactions.\n\nMs Wolfe Herd has said she was inspired to create a platform where women \"make the first move\" by her frustration with archaic gender norms controlling dating.\n\nUnlike most dating apps, only female users can make the first contact with matched male users, while in same-sex matches either person can send a message first.\n\nJust after its flotation, Bumble Inc's shares hit a high of $75 but have since tumbled and, following the announcement that Ms Wolfe Herd is stepping down, they dropped to an all-time low of $12.77.\n\nMatch Group, Bumble's rival which owns Tinder and Hinge, has also seen its share price drop in that time.\n\nHowever, Ms Wolfe Herd said she was \"incredibly optimistic about the future\".\n\n\"I believe in Bumble Inc's significant potential today more than ever before,\" she added.\n\nMs Jones is taking over as the boss of Bumble Inc, the parent company of Bumble and its other products which include friendship and business networking apps.\n\nShe has been chief executive of Slack, an instant messaging platform popular with workplaces, since January 2023.\n\nBefore that, she worked at Slack's parent company Salesforce and Microsoft.\n\n\"As a woman who has spent her career in technology, it's a gift to lean on my experience to lead a company dedicated to women and encouraging equality, integrity and kindness, all deeply personal and inspiring to me,\" Ms Jones said in a statement.\n\nIn an interview with the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news, Ms Jones said she wants to integrate more AI features into Bumble Inc's products.\n\n\"AI can play such a big role in accelerating people finding the right person, finding the right friends and the right community,\" she said.\n\nBefore Bumble, Ms Wolfe Herd was among the founding team at Tinder but after tensions with other executives - one of whom she had been dating - she left. Shortly after, she launched a sexual harassment case.\n\nTinder's parent company, Match Group Inc, denied the claims but paid around $1m (£810,000) to settle the dispute.\n\nBumble has been known for backing women's safety campaigns, such as calling for cyber-flashing to be made illegal in the UK and EU.\n\nCyber-flashing became illegal in the UK as part of the Online Safety Act in October.\n\nBumble says it bans users who body shame others, and similar to other dating apps, it uses AI to detect nude photos sent in private chats and lets the recipient to choose to view or block the images.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CEO Secrets (2017): Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe says don't take yourself too seriously", "Mohammed Farooq had planned to detonate an IED at St James's Hospital in Leeds, a court heard\n\nA former patient talked a man out of detonating a bomb in a Leeds hospital after spotting him looking upset, a jury has heard.\n\nMohammed Farooq, 28, who is accused of planning a terror attack at St James's Hospital, was \"agitated\" when Nathan Newby said he tried to \"cheer him up\".\n\nFarooq told Mr Newby he wanted revenge on the hospital and planned on setting off a pressure cooker bomb.\n\nFarooq, of Roundhay, is also accused of planning a terror attack at the US base at RAF Menwith Hill, near Harrogate.\n\nIn an interview played in court, Mr Newby told police officers how he spotted the defendant as he was walking back into St James's in the early hours of 20 January.\n\nHe said: \"He just looked upset, as though he'd had some really bad news.\n\n\"I thought I'd go over and see if he's all right. I thought, if he was down, I'd try and cheer him up.\"\n\nA video has been released showing the arrest of Mohammed Farooq at St James's Hospital.\n\nThe video, shown to the jury at Sheffield Crown Court last week but released on Monday, shows Farooq telling armed police a patient had talked him out of exploding a bomb.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Newby said the defendant described how he was either a student or had worked at the hospital for two years but now \"he's lost everything and just wanted to get them back for what they'd done\".\n\nWhen he asked Farooq what he was carrying in his bag, Farooq told him it was a bomb and that he was planning on walking into the hospital canteen.\n\nMr Newby said that he tried to keep Farooq calm and get him away from the hospital entrance so he led him to a bench where they talked for \"so many hours\".\n\nMr Newby said Farooq eventually said he wanted to hand himself in and passed him his phone to call 999.\n\nIt was during the emergency call that Farooq produced a handgun, which later turned out to be an imitation.\n\nProsecutors have told the jury that the pressure cooker bomb Farooq had with him was a viable device, modelled on one used in the 2013 Boston Marathon attacks.\n\nThough Farooq denies preparing acts of terrorism, he has admitted a number of other offences including possessing a pressure cooker bomb \"with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury to property\".\n\nThe jury has also been told that Farooq had a grievance against several of his former colleagues at St James's Hospital, and \"had been conducting a poison pen campaign against them\".\n\nDefence barrister Gul Nawaz Hussain KC has told the court his client was \"ready and willing\" to detonate the home-made bomb at the hospital because of a \"sense of anger and grievance\" towards work colleagues but was not motivated by Islamist extremism and not radicalised.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The rare phenomenon could be clearly seen in the night sky in Northumberland\n\nA message to everyone called Steve - your name was quite literally up in lights on Sunday night.\n\nSteve is shy and rarely appears in the skies of the UK - there were reported sightings back in March and in the Shetland Islands in 2021.\n\nBut Steve has returned, this time illuminating the skies over the north-east of England and Scotland.\n\nThe thin, purple ribbon, which was seen glowing in the sky in Northumberland, County Durham and Argyll, is a relatively new scientific discovery.\n\nSteve is not an aurora but is often associated with its better known cousin, the aurora borealis - or Northern Lights - which was also captured across parts of the UK on Sunday.\n\nThe much rarer Steve has appeared in the pictures BBC Weather were sent from their Weather Watchers.\n\nRibbon of purple light during an aurora event known as Steve captured in Argyll by Weather Watcher 'R Westerman'\n\nIt has been photographed for decades but only got the name Steve in 2016, following a US citizen science project funded by Nasa and the National Science Foundation.\n\nThe inspiration behind the glow's name is thought to be a scene from the animated movie \"Over the Hedge\".\n\nIn it, a group of animals awake from hibernation to find what to them is another awe-inspiring phenomenon - a big garden hedge.\n\n\"What is this thing?\" one creature says.\n\n\"I'd be a lot less afraid of it if I just knew what it was called,\" another says, before a squirrel recommends calling it Steve.\n\n\"I'm a lot less scared of Steve,\" another animal replies.\n\nScientists later adapted the name into an acronym - \"Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement\".\n\nAnd it's not just sky-watchers who have shown an interest in Steve.\n\nIn 2019, the Canadian government minted a collector's coin worth $20 featuring the mysterious streaks of light.\n\nLittle was known about its formation and why it can sometimes appear during an aurora display.\n\nNasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has been studying Steve using pictures from the ground along with satellites.\n\nWhile auroras happen globally in an oval shape, Steve appears as a ribbon and lasts for 20 minutes to an hour before disappearing.\n\nWhile Steve is only spotted in the presence of an aurora, it is not a normal aurora as scientists suggests it comprises of a fast-moving stream of extremely hot particles called a subauroral ion drift, or SAID.\n\nAs Steve is unpredictable and only lasts for a short time, recording occurrences from the ground is rare.\n\nThe phenomenon has been reported from the UK, Canada, northern US states and New Zealand, according to Nasa.\n\nRibbon of purple light during an aurora event known as Steve captured in Northumberland by Weather Watcher 'JulieJ'\n\nThe aurora borealis was spotted right across the UK on Sunday night.\n\nAurora watchers were alerted to a geomagnetic storm in the evening after a strong solar wind sent charged particles towards Earth.\n\nThese charged particles follow the magnetic pull into the North Pole and interacted with oxygen and nitrogen in our atmosphere to create the greens, purples and reds associated with the Northern Lights.\n\nWhile normally just seen at high latitudes such as Scotland, it was so strong it was captured on camera right across the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Comedian Mark Watson said he had been at the venue for about an hour but was still locked out of the venue 15 minutes before he was due to start\n\nA comedian was late to his own show after being locked out of the venue with his audience.\n\nA regular on QI and Taskmaster, Mark Watson was due to perform his The Search show at the Tobacco Factory in his home city of Bristol on Sunday.\n\nHowever he found the theatre still locked 15 minutes before he was meant to start.\n\nHe told waiting audience members: \"There's no other way to say it, I can't get in.\"\n\nHe said he had let staff know he was there an hour before finding the door still locked, but said: \"It's no-one's fault.\"\n\nOn a video he posted on Instagram the comedian is seen in the theatre bar explaining the situation to his audience, who were also unable to get to their seats.\n\n\"We could do it here, but you paid for a seat and you paid to be in a room resembling a theatre so I just wanted you to know, in case it looks like I'm very complacent, just drinking at the bar, yes I am drinking at the bar, but I'm taking the situation as seriously as you are,\" he says.\n\n\"I've been here an hour ago to let them know I'm here and the aim of that was that everyone would relax but I say they've over relaxed.\"\n\nThe comedian explained he had arrived at the venue earlier in the day to complete sound checks and then had gone out for food.\n\nHe said: \"I'd already been in to the venue a couple hours before, then gone out to lunch with family around the corner.\n\n\"So I'd done most of the set up but as a result when I came back it didn't seem like they were expecting me, the doors were locked which meant the audience couldn't get in but neither could I.\"\n\nHe added it was it was \"quite panic inducing\" to realise he had been locked out.\n\nMr Watson, who has appeared on Mock the Week, Would I Lie To You? and Have I Got News For You, also revealed it was not the first time that he had been unable to get into his own venue on his current tour.\n\nThe Bristol performance went ahead a little later than planned, after Mr Watson and his audience eventually managed to get into the venue.\n\nA spokesperson for Tobacco Factory Theatres said: \"We had two sold-out gigs one after the other for Mark yesterday (Sunday), Mark showed up an hour or so before the matinee to do his sound checks with our technical team, which all went well, he then left the building for food.\n\n\"Our front-of-house duty manager then went to do their building safety checks and seemingly, as the title of Mark's show suggests, they all had to search for each other afterwards to get him access to the space again.\n\n\"We're very grateful to both Mark and the audience for their good humour pre-show, we often open the house 10 minutes or so before the start time, so business as usual in that sense.\n\n\"We're very pleased that everyone enjoyed the performance in the auditorium and not in the bar.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Attiq Malik is chair of the London Muslim Community Forum\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has ended its relationship with an adviser who was filmed making a pro-Palestinian chant during a speech to a group.\n\nAttiq Malik was recorded in 2021 making the speech, ending it with the chant \"from the river to the sea\", the Sunday Telegraph reported.\n\nMr Malik, a lawyer, is the chair of the London Muslim Communities Forum, a body that advises the Met.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Mr Malik for comment.\n\nIn a response to the video shared by the newspaper, the force said he had expressed views \"in a way which does not align to the Met's values\".\n\nOn Sunday morning, after the Telegraph story was published, Mr Malik posted a quote by activist Malcolm X on X, formerly Twitter, which said: \"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.\"\n\nWhen he was recorded, Mr Malik was addressing a group in Luton following an earlier Israeli offensive in Gaza in May 2021, the Telegraph reported.\n\n\"What's going on is global censorship by the Zionists, global censorship to silence us,\" he said in the recording.\n\nDuring consecutive weeks of pro-Palestinian protests in London, the \"from the river to the sea\" chant has been heard frequently. It refers to the land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman previously urged police chiefs to consider interpreting it as an \"expression of a violent desire to see Israel erased from the world\". Israel and most Jewish groups agree.\n\nThis interpretation is disputed by some pro-Palestinian activists who say that most people chanting it are calling for an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and blockade of Gaza, not the destruction of Israel itself.\n\nA spokesperson for the Met Police said: \"We regularly engage with a whole range of community groups, many of which hold strongly opposing views.\n\n\"This instance has highlighted past language and views expressed by Attiq Malik that appear antisemitic and contrary with our values.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added that the force would immediately cease its relationship with Mr Malik while it investigated the matter.\n\nHowever, the spokesperson said the Met would continue its relationship with the London Muslims Community Forum, adding: \"The insights, feedback and reach into communities across London continues to play an important role in our response.\"\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Many thousands join protests and sit-ins for Gaza", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch how Marc walks with the stimulator working versus how he walks without its help\n\nA man with advanced Parkinson's disease has been helped to walk again with a special implant that stimulates nerves in his spine.\n\nMarc Gauthier, 63, from Bordeaux, France, the first person to try out the device, says it has given him a second chance in life.\n\nHe can now walk for miles, when previously he was often housebound and had several falls a day.\n\nThe medical team treating him describe the advance in Nature Medicine journal.\n\nBefore the implant, navigating steps or going into a lift posed extra problems for Marc.\n\nThe treatment appears to have stopped the shuffling and \"freezing\" or sudden stopping Marc and many Parkinson's patients struggle with - and now, when the device is switched on, his gait looks almost normal.\n\nMarc can now walk for miles\n\nMarc said: \"Getting into an elevator... sounds simple. For me, before, it was impossible.\n\n\"I turn on the stimulation in the morning and I turn off in the evening. This allows me to walk better and to stabilise. Right now, I'm not even afraid of the stairs anymore. Every Sunday, I go to the lake, and I walk around 6km [four miles]. It's incredible.\"\n\nMarc feels \"a little tingling sensation\", when the device is on, but is not bothered by it.\n\nThe stimulator sits on the lumbar region of the spinal cord, which sends messages to the leg muscles.\n\nMarc is still in control - his brain gives the instructions - but the epidural implant adds electrical signals for a smoother end result.\n\nIt is wired to a small impulse generator with its own power supply, implanted under the skin of Marc's abdomen.\n\nAfter surgery to fit the device, Marc had weeks of rehabilitation to programme it, using feedback sensors on his legs and shoes.\n\nNeurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch, who fitted Marc's device, almost two years ago, said the technology and procedure was similar to that which had helped some spinal-injury patients for many years - but it was a first for Parkinson's disease, although other teams are exploring different techniques.\n\nShe said: \"It is impressive to see how by electrically stimulating the spinal cord in a targeted manner, in the same way as we have done with paraplegic patients, we can correct walking disorders caused by Parkinson's disease.\"\n\nEduardo Martin Moraud, an expert from NeuroRestore, which made the implant initially tested in animals, said Marc was a pioneer:\n\n\"He was very courageous to be the first one,\" Mr Moraud said. \"We were extremely happy to see how it could bring so many benefits to someone.\"\n\nThe work is a collaboration between the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, the city's hospital and university, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research and the University of Bordeaux.\n\nOne of the team, Prof Grégoire Courtine, said more work was needed to see whether it could help other Parkinson's patients.\n\n\"This is only one participant and we don't know whether all the individuals with Parkinson's disease will respond to the therapy,\" he said.\n\nThe team will now try the device in six more Parkinson's patients, using funding from the Michael J Fox Foundation.\n\nFor some, a brain implant - deep brain stimulation - might be able to do the job instead. But the medical team told a press briefing that had not been not an option for Marc, who already had an older brain implant that would have been hard to replace.\n\nThe treatment is not a cure - Parkinson's is a progressive condition that worsens over time.\n\nThose with the disease have too little of the chemical dopamine in their brain because some of the nerve cells that make it have stopped working.\n\nParkinson's UK research director David Dexter said: \"This is quite an invasive procedure but could be a game-changing technology to help restore movement in people with advanced Parkinson's, where the drugs are no longer working well.\n\n\"The research is still at a very early stage and requires much more development and testing before it can be made available to people with Parkinson's. However, this is a significant and exciting step forward and we hope to see this research progress quickly.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Connor Davies had only been driving for three weeks when he had his insurance suspended\n\nA driver's car insurance was suspended due to a computer error that read the speed limit on 60mph roads as 20mph.\n\nConnor Davies, 17, from Penrhyn-coch, Ceredigion, said the black box monitor in his car started incorrectly triggering dangerous driving alerts.\n\nWales switched its default 30mph speed limits to 20mph on 17 September.\n\nSterling Insurance said it suspended Connor's cover for four days but has reinstated his policy and apologised for the \"technical issue\".\n\n\"It was very frustrating,\" Connor said, \"like what I was saying wasn't the truth\".\n\nConnor's mum Angela was also getting the notifications and said she told him to \"take it down a bit\", thinking he was accelerating too quickly as a new driver, having only passed his test three weeks earlier.\n\n\"But Connor said 'I haven't been speeding',\" she added.\n\nConnor tried a different route on his nine-mile drive to work as an upholstery apprentice, but the \"unacceptable driving\" alerts kept pouring in.\n\nAngela Davies had to use the map on her phone to show the insurance company the speed limit was not 20mph in places where her son had been given a speed alert\n\nFinally he took his dad in the car to show him that driving 32mph through a 40mph zone still resulted in a speed warning.\n\nWhen the comprehensive part of his cover was suspended on Friday for all the speeding alerts, Connor took a day off work to call the company and try to find a solution.\n\nAngela said her son was being \"punished for something he hadn't done\".\n\nSterling Insurance made Angela and her son go to the locations of his alleged speeding infractions and take pictures of the road signs next to a digital map on a phone.\n\nConnor's sister, the model and social media influencer Jess Davies, even posted details of her little brother's dilemma to her 167,000 followers on X, formerly known as Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jess Davies This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSterling Insurance admitted the error, saying in a statement: \"The national database had changed the speed limit of a number of roads in his local area across the last four days and a technological issue meant it hadn't been updated on the Fluxscore app when the journey was completed.\n\n\"The information has now been updated, the driver's suspension has been lifted and we would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nThe firm called it an \"isolated incident\", and said it had no further reports of customers in Wales being affected.", "The Northern Lights have put on a stunning show across parts of the UK - stealing the limelight from Bonfire Night fireworks.\n\nPictures and sped-up videos shared on social media show vivid shades of red, green and magenta - over places like Northumberland and Aberdeenshire.\n\nAnd the aurora was seen much further south than usual due to a major geomagnetic storm, including in Kent and the Isle of Wight.", "Jailed Iranian human right activist Narges Mohammadi has begun a hunger strike, a month after she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, her family says.\n\nThe 51-year-old is protesting against Iran's denial of medical care to her and other inmates and its mandatory hijab law, according to a statement.\n\nShe needs treatment for heart and lung conditions but a prosecutor is blocking her transfer to hospital, it says.\n\nLast week, her family said that was because she refused to cover her hair.\n\nThe chairwoman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee - which awarded Ms Mohammadi the peace prize for \"her fight against the oppression of women in Iran\" - said it was deeply concerned.\n\n\"The requirement that female inmates must wear a hijab in order to be hospitalised is inhumane and morally unacceptable,\" Berit Reiss-Andersen said, according to AFP news agency.\n\nThere was no immediate comment from Iran's judiciary or prison authorities.\n\nThe statement from Ms Mohammadi's family said they were informed in a message from Tehran's notorious Evin prison that she had started a hunger strike on Monday morning.\n\nIt explained that she was protesting against two things: \"the Islamic Republic's policy of delaying and neglecting medical care for sick inmates, resulting in the loss of the health and lives of individuals\", and \"the policy of 'death' or 'mandatory hijab' for Iranian women\".\n\nA prosecutor had opposed Ms Mohammadi's transfer to hospital for treatment for a week, despite repeated appeals to prison officials and the judiciary, it said.\n\n\"According to the diagnosis and echocardiogram of a trusted doctor of the prison, she has been in need of emergency transfer to the heart and lung centre for urgent medical care.\"\n\nLast Wednesday, Ms Mohammadi's family said other female inmates at Evin had protested for two days and nights to put pressure on authorities to transfer her to hospital.\n\nHowever, they added, \"the prison warden announced that, according to the orders of the higher authorities, sending her to the heart hospital without a headscarf was prohibited\".\n\nMs Mohammadi, the vice-president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran, is currently serving a 10-year prison term.\n\nShe has been arrested 13 times in total, convicted five times and sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison. She has also been sentenced to 154 lashes, although it is unclear whether that punishment has been carried out.\n\nUnder Iranian law, which is based on the country's interpretation of Sharia, women must cover their hair with a headscarf and wear long, loose-fitting clothing to disguise their figures.\n\nIn September 2022, mass protests erupted across Iran in response to the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who was detained by morality police for allegedly wearing an \"improper\" hijab.\n\nWomen and girls have burnt their headscarves or waved them in the air at demonstrations against the clerical establishment. Many have even stopped covering their hair in public altogether.\n\nIn a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee published last Tuesday, Ms Mohammadi described the compulsory hijab as \"a means of control and repression imposed on the society and on which the continuation and survival of [Iran's] authoritarian religious regime depends\".", "Rail workers have walked out regularly over the past 18 months\n\nAbout 40% of rail services will run during strikes under planned minimum service rules for train operators in Great Britain, the government has said.\n\nMinisters are hoping the legislation will come into effect before Christmas.\n\nIt will also specify minimum service levels for ambulance workers in England and border security staff in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nThe government said the measures were \"proportionate\" but unions have criticised them as unworkable.\n\nThe country has been facing a wave of strike action across the public sector, after wages failed to keep up with soaring prices.\n\nMany of these disputes have now been resolved, but others are continuing.\n\nThere are no further rail strikes scheduled currently, but there is an ongoing dispute between rail companies, train drivers' union Aslef and the RMT union, which represents other rail workers.\n\nUnion members have regularly walked out during the past 18 months over pay and conditions, including last Christmas, and there is the potential for more strike action in the coming months.\n\nUnder a law passed by Parliament earlier this year, ministers can set minimum service levels for health, fire and education services, as well as border security and nuclear decommissioning.\n\nSome employees would be required to work during industrial action and could be sacked if they refuse, while unions which fail to comply could face damages claims from employers of up to a million pounds.\n\nThe government has completed consultations on the service levels required for ambulance and rail workers, with other sectors to follow.\n\nUnder the rules for train operators, the government said the equivalent of 40% of normal timetables should operate during strike action, allowing priority routes to stay open.\n\nFor ambulance workers in England, the legislation has been designed to ensure emergency services will continue throughout any strike action and all life-threatening calls will be responded to.\n\nThe legislation will also apply to Border Force employees and some Passport Office staff in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nThe government said it would ensure all ports and airports remain open on strike days and that the level of service provided by border security will be as effective as if no industrial action was taking place.\n\nThe legislation will be laid in Parliament on Tuesday, with ministers hoping it will come into effect by Christmas, subject to parliamentary approval.\n\nThe government said the measures would ensure public services could continue during walkouts, while balancing the ability to take industrial action.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said: \"We are doing everything in our power to stop unions derailing Christmas for millions of people.\n\n\"This legislation will ensure more people will be able to travel to see their friends and family, and get the emergency care they need.\"\n\nUnder the legislation, employers can issue work notices to unions, identifying who is required to work during industrial action.\n\nThere would be no automatic protection from unfair dismissal for an employee who is told to work through a notice but chooses to strike.\n\nThe TSSA transport union said the legislation would not work and would only \"inflame industrial tensions\".\n\n\"Moreover, it's undemocratic and a direct attack on the right to strike which is at the heart of British democracy,\" the union's head Maryam Eslamdoust said.\n\nMick Lynch, general secretary of the RMT union, said: \"We believe employers have the discretion not to issue minimum service work notices and, as such, we are calling on them not to issue them.\n\n\"Any employer that seeks to issue a work notice will find themselves in a further dispute with my union.\"\n\nGMB, Unison and Unite also criticised the measures, arguing they would not solve the problems in the NHS.\n\nLabour, which has said it would repeal the legislation, said the government was \"getting their excuses in early for Christmas\".\n\nThe party's deputy leader Angela Rayner said: \"Rishi Sunak is offering another sticking plaster to distract from the Conservatives' track record of failure.\n\n\"We all want minimum standards of service and staffing, but it's Tory ministers who are consistently failing to provide them.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care is currently consulting on extending minimum service levels to cover other emergency services, which could include nurses and doctors.\n\nHealth unions already provide \"life and limb\" cover during strikes, because under existing laws it is illegal to take industrial action that would endanger human life.\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan has committed to introducing minimum service levels in schools on a voluntary basis, if an agreement can be reached with unions. The department also plans to consult on introducing minimum service levels in universities.", "Elon Musk has launched an AI chatbot called Grok on his social media site X, formerly Twitter, but so far it is only available to selected users.\n\n\"In some important respects, it is the best that currently exists,\" he posted on X, before its release.\n\nMr Musk boasted that Grok \"loves sarcasm\" and would answer questions with \"a little humour\".\n\nHowever, early signs suggest it suffers from problems common to other artificial intelligence tools.\n\nOther models decline to respond to some questions, for example providing criminal advice. But Mr Musk said Grok would answer \"spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems\".\n\nIn a demonstration of the new tool, posted by Mr Musk, Grok was asked for a step-by-step guide to making cocaine.\n\nIt responded \"just a moment while I pull up the recipe... because I'm totally going to help you with that\", and listed generalised rather than useable information, combined with sarcastic suggestions, before warning against pursuing the idea.\n\nIt struck a gleeful tone in reference to the trial of crypto-entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried, but mistakenly suggested it took eight hours for the jury to deliver a guilty verdict, when in fact they returned it in under five.\n\nGenerative AI tools like Grok have been widely criticised for including basic errors while sounding highly convincing in their style of writing.\n\nThe team behind Grok xAI was launched in July, drawing on talent from other AI research firms. It is a separate company, but closely linked to Mr Musk's other enterprises X and the electric car firm, Tesla.\n\nEarlier this year Mr Musk said he wanted his version of AI to be \"a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe\".\n\nMr Musk said a major advantage of Grok was that it had access to up-to-date information from the X platform, which set it apart from the launch versions of some rivals, although increasingly up-to-date responses are available for paying customers with other AI tools.\n\nGrok is currently in a test or \"beta\" format but will later be available to paying subscribers of X. Mr Musk said late on Sunday that the chatbot would be \"built into the X app and be available as a standalone app\".\n\nLast week at the UK's AI summit, Mr Musk conceded there were dangers associated with AI development.\n\nBut he has also been a long-standing champion of the technology. He was a co-founder of the firm OpenAI which created ChatGPT, the first AI tool made widely available last year. Microsoft has invested in OpenAI making the tool available on its platform.\n\nSince then Google launched its rival artificial intelligence (AI) model, Bard, and Meta has launched Llama. The tools are designed to use previously ingested information to generate text answers that sound as though a human has written them.\n\nGrok is a term coined by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land. In it \"grokking\" was to empathise deeply with others.\n\nHowever, xAI said Grok was modelled after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, which started as a BBC radio series in the 1980s, but was later remade in print and on film.\n\nxAI said Grok was \"intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask\".\n\nGrok was a \"very early beta product - the best we could do with two months of training\", it added.", "The government has agreed to fund a one-off bonus for health workers who missed out previously because they worked for non-NHS organisations.\n\nA payment of at least £1,655 was agreed as part of the NHS pay deal in England this year, to recognise the pressure of the Covid pandemic on staff.\n\nBut the BBC recently reported thousands of outsourced staff did not qualify and employers had launched legal action.\n\nTheir employers can now apply for funding to cover the payments.\n\nIt is estimated that up to 20,000 staff, including community nurses and physiotherapists, could benefit, but one health union has warned there are other staff on different contracts who still won't qualify.\n\nHealthcare staff working for some charities, local authorities and social enterprises that provide services for the health service had been told they would not get the one-off payment of between £1,655 and £3,789, as they did not work directly for the NHS.\n\nSocial Enterprise UK, an industry body which represents 10,000 such workers, had described the decision as \"an injustice\" and threatened to take legal action against the government.\n\nBut the government has now announced it has \"stepped in\" to help independent healthcare organisations to give the bonus.\n\n\"This will ensure hardworking healthcare staff and the organisations they work for are not financially disadvantaged as a result of the NHS pay deal, and means they will receive their backlog bonus for their efforts during the pandemic,\" said Health Minister Will Quince.\n\nHe added that the additional funding would be provided \"on this occasion\" given the difficult economic context.\n\nPeter Holbrook, chief executive of Social Enterprise UK, said: \"We're pleased to see the government acknowledge the critical role of social enterprises in the NHS family, with tens of thousands of staff delivering vital care across the country and services reinvesting profits to help local communities,\" he said.\n\nSocial Enterprise UK previously told the BBC it had started the process of applying for a judicial review, as it believed the arrangement was \"completely unfair\".\n\nThe decision to fund the bonus will only apply to non-NHS organisations. Some \"bank\" staff - who provide temporary cover for hospital trusts to fill rota gaps - have lobbied to be included in the scheme will not receive the payment.\n\nPatricia Marquis, of the Royal College of Nursing, welcomed the announcement but added there was more work to be done.\n\n\"Unfortunately there are some nursing staff delivering NHS care who will not get this... The department must provide clarity on who will receive the funding.\"\n\nShe said nursing staff working in general practice should be given the full pay uplift funded by central government.\n\nUnite's general secretary Sharon Graham added: \"This is barely a sticking plaster from a government that has defunded the NHS to the point it is now on life support.\n\n\"Instead of doing the right thing and funding a lump sum payment for everyone who works in the NHS, it has instead created a multi-tier workforce.\"\n\nThe lump-sum award was announced earlier this year as part of a deal which included a 5% pay rise for more than a million NHS staff in England.\n\nSeparate pay deals were made for staff working in the NHS in Wales and Scotland.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Indi Gregory's treatment causes her pain and is futile, medics have said\n\nA critically ill eight-month-old baby has been granted Italian citizenship as her parents fight to prevent doctors ending her life support.\n\nMedics in Nottingham have been told by the High Court they can withdraw treatment for Indi Gregory, who has mitochondrial disease.\n\nIndi's parents oppose the move and an Italian hospital has agreed to continue treating her.\n\nNow the Italian government has made Indi a citizen to support the move.\n\nItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said she will defend Indi's life until the end.\n\nIn a post on X, formerly Twitter, she said: \"They say there isn't much hope for little Indi, but I will do everything in my power to defend her life until the end.\n\n\"And to defend her mother and father's right to do everything they can for her.\"\n\nItaly's cabinet met on Monday to grant the child citizenship, citing \"pre-eminent humanitarian values\".\n\nIndi's parents, Claire Staniforth and Dean Gregory, had previously said they had \"given up\" their legal battle\n\nChristian Concern, which has been supporting Indi's parents, from Ilkeston in Derbyshire, said an urgent High Court hearing would take place on Tuesday to consider her life-support removal.\n\nIndi has mitochondrial disease and medics at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) have said they can do no more for her.\n\nThey said she was dying and told a previous High Court hearing her treatment was futile and causes pain.\n\nHowever parents Claire Staniforth and Dean Gregory have been fighting the move and Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital in Rome has agreed to provide treatment.\n\nThe family's latest challenge to the High Court was dismissed on Saturday.\n\nA protest against the ruling was held outside the QMC on Sunday.\n\nAn Italian government source told the Reuters news agency the family would be able to appeal to the Italian consulate in Britain to ask that Indi be airlifted to Italy, but there was no obligation for Britain to grant the request.\n\nThe news agency reported Galeazzo Bignami, a junior minister, said the government's move would allow the baby's transfer to the Bambino Gesu paediatric hospital, and that without it her life support would have been turned off on Monday.\n\nIn response to the latest development, Mr Gregory said: \"My heart fills up with joy that the Italians have given Claire and I hope and faith back in humanity.\"\n\nDr Keith Girling, medical director at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, said: \"Cases like this are incredibly difficult for everyone and our thoughts are with Indi's parents at this very difficult time.\n\n\"A hearing to decide whether Indi can be extubated at home or at hospital is now due to be held on Tuesday 7 November.\n\n\"Until a decision is made we will continue to provide specialised care for Indi.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fiona looks like a new sheep after her overgrown and matted fleece was shorn\n\nA row has broken out over plans to rehome Britain's loneliest sheep.\n\nThe ewe, now named Fiona, was rescued on Saturday after being stranded for more than two years at the foot of cliffs in the Scottish Highlands.\n\nBut an animal rights group says plans to rehome her to a farm park near Dumfries would make her a \"spectacle\".\n\nFiona is now a shorn sheep after her overgrown fleece was removed but remains in hiding after activists turned up at Dalscone Farm.\n\nThe sheep's plight hit the headlines last month after a kayaker photographed her still trapped at the foot of a steep cliff at the Cromarty Firth two years after a previous sighting.\n\nShe was dubbed \"Britain's loneliest sheep\" and an online petition to rescue her attracted thousands of signatures.\n\nAnimal Rising activists had been planning their own rescue of Fiona, who was living in a cave\n\nOn Saturday morning a team of five farmers successfully descended a rocky gully using a winch, and managed to extract her from the remote shoreline.\n\nBut a row quickly erupted when an animal rights group criticised plans to rehome her at a farm park because they believed she would be \"exploited\" for money and become a \"spectacle\".\n\nOn Sunday a small group of activists from Animal Rising - which earlier this year tried to disrupt a number of high-profile horse races - staged a protest at Dalscone Farm.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"It was a peaceful, non-violent demonstration. We want Fiona to be rehomed at a sanctuary rather than a petting zoo\"\n\nAnimal Rising said it was a peaceful protest\n\nThe group said that prior to Fiona's rescue, some of its members had already descended the cliffs to get her accustomed to human contact. They were planning a similar extraction operation when they learned they had been beaten to it.\n\n\"Farmer Ben\" from Dalscone Farm said in a Facebook video that staff and family members felt \"intimidated\" by demonstrators who were flying a drone and holding \"Free Fiona\" placards.\n\n\"We're going to give Fiona a five star home, we are going to get her some amazing friends,\" he said.\n\n\"We are obviously closed at the moment. The farm park's closed for the winter, for the next five months, so she's got loads of time to settle in.\n\n\"Nobody's going to be bugging her, we'll just get to know her, let her do her own thing.\"\n\nHe said they had planned to put her in a single pen, introducing her to other animals slowly and with veterinary supervision - but that has now been put on hold. He said Fiona was currently at a secret location.\n\n\"We are literally giving her the best home she could possibly get - and it's being blocked at the moment. And it's a crying shame,\" he added.\n\nSaturday's rescue operation was led by professional shearer Cammy Wilson who on Sunday relieved Fiona of her matted and overgrown fleece.\n\nHe said his own commercial farm was not set up for looking after Fiona, and he believed Dalscone Farm was the best home for her.\n\nHe told BBC News he became determined to help Fiona after seeing online criticism of the farmer whose flock she once belonged to.\n\nThe owner had tried to retrieve her but found he was unable to do so without putting himself or his employees in danger.\n\nDespite her lonely lifestyle in recent years, Fiona is said to be well-fed - slightly overweight even - and in good condition.\n\nShe will now remain at an undisclosed location until the row over her future home is settled.", "The Metropolitan Police has urged the organisers of pro-Palestinian demonstrations to postpone events due to take place on Armistice weekend.\n\nThousands are expected to take part in a march in London on 11 November, the same day some Remembrance events are planned in the capital.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman welcomed the Met's statement, which warned of potential disorder.\n\nOrganisers criticised the force and refused to cancel the march.\n\nThe Met warned of a \"growing\" risk of violence and disorder fuelled by breakaway groups linked to the protests.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Ade Adelekan said: \"This is of concern ahead of a significant and busy weekend in the capital.\n\n\"Our message to organisers is clear: Please, we ask you to urgently reconsider. It is not appropriate to hold any protests in London this weekend.\"\n\nA statement from the Met said it had spoken with organisers on Monday from several groups, and that they had \"declined to postpone\" any demonstrations - but this account was disputed by organisers.\n\nThey said it was \"categorically untrue that the police told us that it was not appropriate\" to go ahead with the march, adding that they are \"deeply concerned\" by the statement.\n\nOrganisers confirmed they won't postpone the march, and accused the government and \"right wing political groups\" of putting pressure on the police to intervene.\n\nThe route of the pro-Palestinian march on Saturday runs from Hyde Park to the US Embassy in south London. It does not pass through Whitehall.\n\nNo large demonstration is planned for Remembrance Sunday.\n\nOrganisers have previously pointed out the Saturday march is due to begin almost two hours after the national two minutes' silence of commemoration.\n\nIn the statement released on Monday night, signed by six organising groups including the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, they added: \"The idea that it is acceptable for Israel to keep bombing and killing Palestinians in Gaza including over 4,000 children, but not for people to protest peacefully against these crimes is grotesque.\"\n\nThe Met has so far stopped short of invoking a public order law whereby it can ask the Home Secretary Suella Braverman to ban a demonstration from taking place.\n\nResponding to the Met's statement, Ms Braverman said: \"I welcome this statement from the Met Police. The hate marchers need to understand that decent British people have had enough of these displays of thuggish intimidation and extremism.\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday: \"To plan protests on Armistice Day is provocative and disrespectful, and there is a clear and present risk that the Cenotaph and other war memorials could be desecrated, something that would be an affront to the British public and the values we stand for.\"\n\nHe added that the police had the government's \"full support in making robust use of all your powers to protect Remembrance activity\", in a letter to Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley.\n\nMs Braverman has previously described pro-Palestinian protests as \"hate marches\".\n\nCivil liberties group Liberty said police \"should not be able to pick and choose what people can speak out about on any given day\", adding \"shutting down\" protests would be a \"wildly disproportionate response\".\n\nIsraeli President Isaac Herzog described the planned march as \"atrocious\". He told TalkTV: \"I call upon all decent human beings to object to the march and ban it, because the symbol of that day is a symbol of victory.\"\n• None UN says Gaza becoming a 'graveyard for children', as Israeli strikes intensify", "British Steel's Scunthorpe plant looms large on the skyline of the town\n\nBritish Steel has confirmed it plans to close down its blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, putting up to 2,000 jobs at risk.\n\nThey will be replaced with two electric arc furnaces - one at Scunthorpe and one at Teesside.\n\nThe company said its £1.25bn proposal would make British Steel \"a clean, green and sustainable business\".\n\nBut it said the plans were still \"subject to appropriate support\" from the UK government.\n\nThe business, which is owned by China's Jingye Group, said the new furnaces could be in operation by late 2025.\n\nChief executive Xijun Cao said the firm was not able to keep the blast furnaces and meet environmental commitments.\n\n\"We have engaged extensively with the public and private sector to understand the feasibility of producing net zero steel with our current blast furnace operations. However, thorough analysis shows this is not viable,\" he said.\n\nUnions estimate the shift could ultimately lead to the loss of 1,500 to 2,000 jobs, predominantly at Scunthorpe.\n\nBritish Steel said it was working with North Lincolnshire Council on \"a masterplan\" to attract new business and jobs to the site in Scunthorpe, parts of which would become vacant under the proposals.\n\nThe Department for Business and Trade said the proposals were part of a plan to put the UK steel industry on a greener, more sustainable footing for the future.\n\nA spokesperson said the government had offered \"a generous support package including more than £300m of investment\".\n\nEarlier this year, British Steel's larger rival, Tata, announced it would close its two blast furnaces in Port Talbot and replace them with electric arc furnaces, with an expected loss of up to 3,000 jobs. It will receive £500m of government support.\n\nBritish Steel said it remained in talks with the government over what backing it could expect for its strategy.\n\n\"We need the UK to adopt the correct policies and frameworks now to back our decarbonisation drive,\" said Mr Cao.\n\nThe government concedes the plan to close the blast furnaces at Scunthorpe and Port Talbot will leave the UK without the ability to make \"virgin steel\".\n\nBut it says the output from new electric arc furnaces will cover most of the UK's needs.\n\nBlast furnaces use coke in the process of creating \"virgin\" steel, but the process generates carbon dioxide.\n\nElectric arc furnaces are mostly used to melt down and repurpose scrap steel. The end product is not the same grade of steel that is produced in blast furnaces, and is not suitable for all industrial uses in, for example, motor manufacturing and construction.\n\nHowever, arc furnaces can be powered by electricity, including renewable generation.\n\nUnions expressed concern at the timescale of the migration and said they would examine British Steel's proposals in detail.\n\nRoy Rickhuss, general secretary of Community, the specialist trade union representing UK steelworkers, said he was \"deeply concerned\" by the plans, which he described as \"dangerous and foolhardy\".\n\n\"The plans that British Steel has announced, combined with Tata Steel's plans, would leave the UK unable to make steel from raw materials and dangerously exposed to international markets,\" he said.\n\nPaul Nowak, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, said workers would not \"stand back\" as the UK's steel industry was \"dismantled in real time.\"\n\nUnions have already threatened industrial action over Tata's plans.\n\n\"The Conservatives are presenting a false choice,\" Mr Nowak said. \"Other countries have shown that it is possible to transition to zero-carbon steelmaking and protect good steelmaking jobs for the future. We can do the same here.\"\n\nUK Steel, the industry body, said the announcement marked a turning point.\n\n\"The UK's major steel producers are taking crucial steps to decarbonise by 2035,\" said its director general Gareth Stace.\n\nHowever, critics point out that switching from traditional blast furnaces to electric arc furnaces will not reduce overall carbon emissions, but instead will \"export\" them, if the UK buys the virgin steel it needs from plants abroad that still use the traditional process.\n\nProduction of steel is responsible for around 7% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, but some countries are pursuing an alternative, low-emission process using hydrogen.\n\nCharlotte Brumpton-Childs from the GMB union said the closure would be \"a hammer blow\" for UK steel and \"devastating\" for the people of Scunthorpe.\n\nThe towers and chimneys of the steelworks have been part of the Lincolnshire town's landscape for more than five decades, employing generations of local workers.\n\nBut the UK's second largest steel manufacturer collapsed in 2019, then was bought by Jingye, with promises to invest more than a £1bn over 10 years.\n\nHowever, in February the firm announced that it was closing its coking oven. At the time it said steelmaking in the UK was \"uncompetitive\" with some of the highest energy, carbon and labour costs in the world.\n\nHow are you affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your pictures and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Most adults in the UK should be receiving treatment for high cholesterol but are not, while a quarter have untreated high blood pressure, the country's biggest medical-research project suggests.\n\nFunded by government and industry, Our Future Health analyses people's genes and lifestyle to prevent disease.\n\nThe millionth volunteer of a hoped for five million adults has just enrolled.\n\nOne of the project's leaders said he was \"shocked\" by the findings so far.\n\n\"When we looked at the first 100,000 people we put through the system, we found that actually over half had cholesterols that should have been treated and hadn't been treated,\" Prof Sir John Bell, from the University of Oxford, who chairs Our Future Health, said.\n\n\"And they included people that were actually quite young.\n\n\"So we are actually quite concerned that there is quite a large amount of ill health in the population that could be very easily managed, much further beyond what I expected.\"\n\nOnce people sign up to the research project online, they are invited to have a series of health checks performed at a mobile health centre, which are often located in supermarket car parks.\n\nI went to one of the centres in a retail park on the outskirts of Oxford, and spoke to some of the volunteers. Each gave a blood sample, and had cholesterol, height and blood pressure measurements taken. The whole appointment takes around 15 minutes. Volunteers also fill out lifestyle and medical questionnaires online.\n\nJaap Van Der Werf, 45, who is originally from the Netherlands, cycled six miles for his appointment. He knows the importance of keeping fit when it comes to maintaining good health, but also realises that genetics play a part.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"My parents have heart issues, so I wanted to make sure that I don't have them. And if I have something, I can make sure my children are well prepared for their future.\"\n\nGillian Ebberson is wearing a heart monitor as part of a study\n\nGillian Ebberson, 67, is already a member of UK Biobank, a similar project set up two decades ago, which is following the health of 500,000 adults in the UK. She was wearing a heart monitor as part of UK Biobank research. She has grandchildren and wants any health advances to help them.\n\n\"I just think going forward for the future health of our children, our grandchildren and for everyone, it's a good thing.\"\n\nDr Raghib Ali, the Chief Medical Officer of Our Future Health, is a consultant in acute medicine in Oxford, so spends some of his time in A&E.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"Most of my patients come in with things like a heart attack, stroke or cancer, and we know these diseases have developed over many years. With Our Future Health we are trying to move our model of healthcare from the treatment of disease at a late stage when people have symptoms, to one where we identify those at high risk earlier, intervening and preventing those diseases in the first place.\"\n\nHe also said it was important that people from all backgrounds signed up to prevent any further widening health inequalities, after a relative lack of diversity in previous studies.\n\nOur Future Health is funded by the government and industry. The project team say volunteers' data is being kept in a \"very secure environment\" and only scientists whose research has a public health benefit will be given access.\n\nFergus Walsh has a blood test as part of becoming a volunteer for the project\n\nI am also a member of both UK Biobank and Our Future Health. The new project has more personal health feedback - you come out of your appointment with a small folder of health-related measurements from heart rhythm to cholesterol levels and blood pressure.\n\nUK Biobank has been an extraordinary success. More than 30,000 researchers from over over 90 countries have been approved to use it. And more than 9,000 peer reviewed papers have been published using its research.\n\nOur Future Health won't complete enrolment until 2028, so has a long way to go to catch up. But its strength is its scale: it is 10 times bigger than UK Biobank. In decades to come - as the data and the participants mature - it should yield powerful insights into a range of diseases and how best to prevent, diagnose and treat them.\n• None Health of nation study calls on millions to sign up", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen took a controlled victory in the Sao Paulo Grand Prix to extend his all-time record for wins in a season to 17.\n\nVerstappen fended off a brief challenge from McLaren's Lando Norris early on before easing away to control the race.\n\nFernando Alonso took the final podium position after a stunning drive in the Aston Martin, re-passing Sergio Perez's Red Bull on the last lap after losing the place a lap before.\n\nMercedes had their worst race of 2023, Lewis Hamilton finishing eighth and George Russell retiring when running 11th.\n\nIt was an unwelcome surprise for the former champions after the team felt they had been making progress in recent races with an upgraded floor.\n\nVerstappen's win was copybook after a brief challenge from Norris in the opening laps.\n\nBut the star of the race was arguably Alonso, with a masterful defensive drive against Perez and then some remarkable race-craft to reclaim the position after losing it on the penultimate lap.\n\nPerez was within a second of Alonso, and therefore with use of the DRS overtaking aid, with 16 laps to go.\n\nBut Alonso kept a faster car behind him by clever driving, choosing innovative lines through corners and gauging his pace just right at the key points of the track to ensure Perez was never quite able to get by.\n\nAs the race went into its final three laps, it appeared as if Alonso was going to hold on, only for Perez to make a valiant final effort and pass him into Turn One on the penultimate lap.\n\nAlonso challenged back into Turn Four, but was unable to make the move stick, and it appeared as if third place was gone.\n\nBut he closed back in on Perez, sold him a dummy into Turn One at the start of the final lap, forcing Perez to defend to the inside, which allowed Alonso to compromise the Red Bull's run through the Senna S.\n\nThat gave Alonso a better exit on to the back straight and he reclaimed third place around the outside into Turn Four, and fended Perez off through the final corner and on the run to the line, taking third by just 0.053secs.\n• None 'Alonso masterclass burnishes the legend of one of the greatest'\n\nAt the front, it was another masterful performance from Verstappen in one of the greatest cars Formula 1 has ever seen, despite a multi-car pile-up among the backmarkers at the start, which was followed by a safety car and then a race stoppage.\n\nAt the restart, Norris tracked Verstappen for a few laps as Verstappen trod carefully with his tyres in the early stages, and even challenged the Red Bull for the lead into Turn Four on lap eight.\n\nBut Verstappen then upped his pace and broke Norris' challenge, and the destiny of the race was quickly clear.\n\nNorris was equally untroubled in second place, as was Alonso for the first two-thirds of the race in third until the battle with Perez in the closing laps.\n\nTen seconds back from his team-mate, Stroll also went some way to answering his critics after a poor season in which he has usually lagged well behind Alonso with a strong drive to fifth, ahead of Ferrari's Carlos Sainz, Alpine's Pierre Gasly and Hamilton.\n\nFerrari's Charles Leclerc, who started second alongside Verstappen on the front row, spun off on the formation lap with what he said was a hydraulic failure.\n\nFor Aston Martin, it was a return to form after a difficult few races when they appeared to have lost their way.\n\nBut after qualifying on the second row by virtue of going out early in a qualifying session on Friday defined by impending rain and rapidly changing conditions, Alonso made the most he possibly could have out of the race.\n• None 'Consensus within F1 that sprint format needs to change - but how?'\n\nMercedes will leave Brazil with further questions about their recalcitrant car and unpredictable performance.\n\nHamilton was second in Mexico a week ago, and also in Austin a week before that, until being disqualified for excessive wear of his car's underfloor.\n\nBut in Brazil they were nowhere, in both sprint race on Saturday and in the grand prix on Sunday.\n\nHamilton made a good start and ran third in the early laps, with Russell right behind him in fourth.\n\nBut the cars lacked pace and slid backwards through the race, struggling with worse tyre wear than their rivals - unusually - and fighting to make their stint lengths.\n\nAt one stage, Russell was behind Hamilton and asking to be let by because he was faster, but as the race progressed he dropped back and was eventually called into the pits to retire because of power-unit overheating, with the team saying it was on the point of imminent failure.\n• None Five million pieces of Lego lost at sea near Cornwall: 26 years after being washed off a cargo ship, the tiny toys are still coming ashore...\n• None From the football pitch to the rainforest...: David Beckham and three friends embark on a Brazilian adventure", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Trump testifies in his fraud trial... in 85 seconds\n\nDonald Trump clashed repeatedly with a judge and defended his family's business as he testified in a civil fraud trial in New York.\n\nDuring almost four hours on the witness stand, the former president disputed claims that he deceived banks and aired grievances with the case.\n\nThe judge has already ruled the Trump Organization committed fraud and this trial will determine the penalties.\n\nDuring his highly anticipated appearance at a Manhattan federal courthouse on Monday, Mr Trump, 77, was asked about the value of various properties including his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago, Trump Tower in New York and a golf course in Scotland.\n\nThese properties are among several that prosecutors say were intentionally overvalued in company statements in order to secure better loans and insurance policies.\n\nIn his testimony, Mr Trump, who is the current frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, stood by the valuations as prosecutors quizzed him on how they were reached and the financial statements at the centre of the trial.\n\n\"I'm worth billions of dollars more than the financial statements,\" Mr Trump said, before describing the property valuations as \"very conservative.\"\n\nHe said the valuations were bolstered by his personal brand, something he said carried him to the White House and was never factored into financial statements.\n\n\"I can look at buildings and tell you what they're worth,\" he said in another testy exchange.\n\nThe lawsuit was brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who accuses Mr Trump, along with his sons Eric and Donald Jr and other Trump Organization executives, of deliberately inflating company assets for years. All deny wrongdoing.\n\nMs James, who was in the courtroom and stared directly at Mr Trump during his testimony, later told reporters: \"He rambled. He hurled insults. But we expected that.\"\n\n\"The numbers don't lie,\" she said. \"Justice will prevail.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe former president's time on the stand was marked by heated exchanges and lengthy, sometimes meandering, responses. These prompted several rebukes from Judge Arthur Engoron who appeared exasperated at times.\n\n\"Please just answer the questions, no speeches,\" the judge said.\n\nAfter another lengthy answer, Judge Engoron said to one of Mr Trump's lawyers: \"Can you control your client? This is not a political rally, this is a courtroom.\"\n\n\"I beseech you to control him,\" he added. \"If you can't, I will.\"\n\nJudge Engoron will ultimately decide the outcome of the trial and, as well as a multi-million dollar fine, could strip the defendants of the ability to do business in New York.\n\n\"I'm sure the judge will rule against me because he always rules against me,\" Mr Trump said at one point in court.\n\nJudge Engoron fired back: \"You can attack me in whichever way you want, but please answer the questions.\" He later referred to Mr Trump as a \"broken record\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLike his two sons in their testimony last week, the former president said it was the Trump Organization accountants who bore responsibility for the financial reports.\n\n\"All I did was authorise and give people whatever was necessary for the accountants to do the statement,\" Mr Trump said.\n\nAs he left court, he again referred to the case as a \"fraud\" and said he believed his testimony \"went very well\".\n\nSome legal and political analysts have suggested Mr Trump's combative approach on the stand was a considered strategy, while others have said he used the much anticipated moment as an opportunity to campaign.\n\nRenato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, told the BBC that Mr Trump's responses indicate his legal team believes \"they've already lost\".\n\n\"They're trying to spin or add some colour to a very bad result,\" Mr Mariotti said.\n\n\"I think he is trying to goad the judge into doing something [Trump] can argue on appeal that shows prejudice on his part,\" Kevin McMunigal, another former federal prosecutor, said. \"Maybe he makes a comment they can use to support a bias case later.\"\n\nThe judge has already fined Mr Trump $15,000 for comments made outside of court last month.\n\nMr Trump's daughter, Ivanka, is expected to give evidence on Wednesday.\n\nThe civil case in New York is one of several legal battles in which Mr Trump is embroiled.\n\nHe also faces four criminal indictments - two relating to his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, one on his handling of classified documents and another alleging false accounting involving hush money.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Humza Yousaf and Nadia El-Nakla say they fear for family members left in Gaza\n\nHumza Yousaf has described as \"bittersweet\" the return of his parents-in-law after four weeks of being under siege in Gaza.\n\nThe first minister said his father-in-law has shed tears for the family members left behind.\n\nElizabeth El-Nakla and her husband Maged - the parents of Mr Yousaf's wife Nadia - escaped Gaza via the Rafah crossing on Friday.\n\nMr Yousaf said their return to Scotland was \"really emotional\".\n\n\"They are of course delighted that they are here but they are heartbroken that they had to leave family behind in Gaza,\" he told BBC Scotland News.\n\nHe later told reporters he saw his father-in-law cry for the first time.\n\n\"He was really broken by the fact that he had to say goodbye to his mother, to his son, to their grandchildren, as well - the youngest of which is only three months old,\" the first minister said.\n\nHe said their situation in Gaza had been\"incredibly desperate\" and that they had been forced to drink sea water after running out of supplies.\n\n\"We continue to watch the situation in Israel-Gaza with a lot of distress,\" the SNP leader told BBC Scotland News.\n\nMembers of Humza Yousaf's family reunited after his parents-in-law returned from Gaza\n\nMr Yousaf reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire - a step which has not been supported by either the UK government or Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.\n\n\"This is a pivotal moment, frankly, for the international community,\" Mr Yousaf said.\n\n\"You are either on the side of humanity calling for an immediate ceasefire or you are enabling the suffering of 2.2 million men, women and children, the vast majority of whom are innocent.\"\n\nThe first minister also said he was \"beyond angry\" at the UK government seeming to want to \"drive every issue into a culture war\".\n\nIt came after Home Secretary Suella Braverman described a planned pro-Palestinian event in London on Armistice Day as a \"hate march\".\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said the Met Police had his \"absolute and total backing\" to tackle criminality.\n\nSpeaking to journalists in Dundee, Mr Yousaf said: \"I understand [the march] is taking place after the minute silence that we will all undoubtedly observe, I hear it's not going anywhere near Whitehall or, indeed, the Cenotaph.\n\n\"And, of course, if Armistice was about anything, my goodness, it's about peace.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Home Office said: \"Remembrance Day is a time for national mourning and reflection, with the country united in paying tribute to those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for us.\n\n\"Peaceful protest is a cornerstone of our democracy, but the home secretary will always back the police to take action to prevent serious disruption and take a zero tolerance approach towards criminality.\"\n\nThe first minister's in-laws, from Dundee, travelled to Gaza early last month to visit Mr El-Nakla's mother, who had a stroke in March but has now recovered.\n\nMr Yousaf's brother-in-law, who is a hospital doctor, and his family remain in Gaza, as do his wife's stepmother and grandmother.\n\nBorder crossings in and out of Gaza had been closed since 7 October, when Hamas, which is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK, attacked Israel, killing more than 1,400 people and taking more than 240 hostage.\n\nSince then Israel has been carrying out military action in Gaza. The Hamas-run health ministry says more than 10,000 people have died.\n\nA silent vigil calling for Hamas to release Israeli hostages was held at Holyrood on Sunday\n\nPro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied Glasgow's Queen Street train station on Monday, following similar demonstrations at Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Central on Sunday.\n\nA rally was also held at the BBC Scotland headquarters in Glasgow.\n\nOn Sunday, a silent vigil was held outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh to remember those who are being held hostage by Hamas.\n\nHeart-shaped balloons were attached to shoes to represent those who were kidnapped.", "Albania's Edi Rama and Italy's Giorgia Meloni announced the plans at a press conference in Rome\n\nItaly will build two centres in Albania to host tens of thousands of illegal migrants, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said.\n\nShe announced the plan at a news conference with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in Rome.\n\nMs Meloni said the centres - due to open next spring - will be able to process up to 36,000 people a year.\n\nThe plan will apply to migrants rescued at sea by Italian boats, and not to those who arrive on Italian shores.\n\nThe migrants will stay in the centres while Italy examines their asylum requests, Ms Meloni said, adding that the plan would not apply to pregnant women, children and vulnerable people.\n\nShe said the structures - which will be built at Italy's expense - would be able to accommodate 3,000 people each month \"for the time necessary to quickly process asylum applications and, if necessary, for repatriation\".\n\nThe centres will be built at the port of Shengjin and the Gjader area in north-west Albania. Security personnel and police officers will be provided by Albania.\n\nMs Meloni said that, although Albania is not an EU member state, \"it is already behaving like one\". She added that she believes \"Albania is, for all intents and purposes, a European country\" and stated her support for Albania's entry into the EU.\n\nSpeaking in Italian, Mr Rama used warm words to describe his country's relationship with Italy, saying that Italy's citizens and institutions had helped Albanians in the 1990s after the fall of the Communist regime.\n\n\"This debt cannot be repaid,\" Mr Rama said. \"But if Italy calls, Albania responds.\"\n\nMr Rama added: \"Everyone can see this is a difficult situation for Italy. Geography has become a curse for Italy, because if you arrive in Italy, you arrive in the EU. But when it comes to managing these arrivals as the EU, we know how things go.\"\n\n\"We might not have the capacity to be the sole solution, but we have the duty to... help Italy,\" he added.\n\nMr Rama said he and Ms Meloni discussed the migrants centre agreement while the Italian PM was on holiday in Albania over the summer.\n\nA day after the plans were announced, a European Commission spokesperson told the BBC that the Commission is aware of the \"operational arrangement\" between the Italian and Albanian authorities but said it had not yet received detailed information about it.\n\nHowever, it pointed out that the agreement still needs to be translated into law by Italy and added: \"It is important that any such arrangement is in full respect of EU and international law.\"\n\nThe Commission is likely to hold off from giving a verdict on the plan until it is approved by the Italian Parliament.\n\nOpposition politicians in both Italy and Albania have criticised the agreement.\n\nRiccardo Magi, the leader of Italian liberal party +Europa (More Europe), said the plan was \"frightening\" and that the centres would be like \"a sort of Italian Guantanamo\".\n\nWriting on X, formerly known as Twitter, Mr Magi said: \"It's also an illegitimate agreement: Italy can't ship people rescued at sea to a country outside of the EU, as if they were parcels or goods.\"\n\nBelind Kellici of Albania's Democratic Party criticised the the \"lack of transparency\" surrounding the deal.\n\n\"This is treason against Albania and it is the biggest disloyalty that Rama could do to our country,\" Mr Kellici wrote on X.\n\n\"The biggest anti-Albanian today is called Edi Rama, who every year expels hundreds of thousands of young people from the country to replace them with illegal immigrants.\"\n\nAndrea Costa, president of Rome-based migrant aid association Baobab Experience, told the BBC that the announcement \"caught everyone by surprise\" and showed that the Italian government's immigration policies were \"heading in the wrong direction\".\n\nMr Costa said the centres risked becoming \"like a Lampedusa in the Albanian hinterland,\" referring to the Italian island that is one of the main arrival ports for people wanting to reach Europe.\n\nHe also made a reference to the British government's attempt to send thousands of asylum seekers to Rwanda, saying: \"We don't know if the centres in Albania will be a sort of Guantanamo, a Lampedusa, a Rwanda - or a bit of all three.\"\n\nMs Meloni, who heads the right-wing, nationalist Brothers of Italy party, is known for her staunch anti-immigration views. Since becoming PM, she has announced a string of interventions to end illegal immigration, including the detention of irregular migrants.\n\nHowever, more than 145,000 migrants have entered Italy this year - 52,000 more than the same period in 2021.\n\nIn April, Italian ministers called a six-month state of emergency in response to a rise in migrant numbers crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa.", "A former Metropolitan Police officer has been found guilty of sending an offensive racist message following a BBC Newsnight investigation.\n\nMichael Chadwell, 62, of Liss, Hampshire, was in a WhatsApp group with other former officers where numerous racist messages were shared.\n\nThe men served in various parts of the Met Police but all spent time in the Diplomatic Protection Group.\n\nMessages shared in the group included references to the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nAt City of London Magistrates' Court on Monday, Chadwell was found guilty of one count of sending by public communication grossly offensive racist messages.\n\nThe court heard that he shared an image in the WhatsApp group in September 2022 that the prosecution described as \"grossly offensive\".\n\nThe image showed parrots of different colours and children of different ethnicities.\n\nIt read: \"Why do we cherish the variety of colour in every species except our own?\"\n\nAnd underneath, said: \"Because I've never had a bike stolen out of my front yard by a parrot.\"\n\nChadwell then sent the message \"oops, not too woke\", the court heard.\n\nOn Monday, he told the court he thought the image was a \"silly\" joke and was \"a bit like Monty Python\".\n\nHe added he thought \"woke\" meant \"politically correct\" but did not believe the message was racist or offensive.\n\nOn finding Chadwell guilty, deputy magistrate Tanweer Ikram told the court: \"He thought it was funny, but it was grossly offensive, and he was aware of it at the time.\"\n\nThe former officer retired from the Met in November 2015.\n\nLast year Newsnight was passed dozens of messages shared within the chat, called Old Boys Beer Meet, by a member of the group.\n\nThe communications were sent between September 2020 and 2022 and included messages that referenced the Prince and Princess of Wales, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, former Home Secretary Priti Patel and former Health Secretary Sajid Javid.\n\nFive other officers previously pleaded guilty to sending racist messages in the group.\n\nAll six officers retired between 2001 and 2015 and were all charged under the Communications Act 2003.\n\nThey are on unconditional bail and are due to be sentenced on 8 December at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Emotional Díaz lifted his shirt to reveal the words \"freedom for papa\" after scoring on Sunday\n\nColombian-born Liverpool footballer Luis Díaz has begged for his father's kidnappers to free him immediately and \"end this painful wait\".\n\nBoth of Díaz's parents were seized at gunpoint in his hometown of Barrancas by left-wing guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) on 28 October.\n\nWhile his mother was found, his father is still missing.\n\nDíaz scored a goal against Luton on Sunday, lifting his shirt to reveal the words in Spanish \"freedom for papa\".\n\n\"Every second, every minute our anxiety grows,\" Díaz, 26, said in a statement released shortly after the match in England's Premier League.\n\n\"My mother, my brothers and I are desperate, anxious and have no words to describe what we are feeling. This suffering will only end when we have him home with us.\n\n\"I beg that they free him immediately, respecting his integrity and ending this painful wait. In the name of love and compassion we ask they reconsider their actions and allow us to have him back.\"\n\nDíaz also thanked \"the Colombians and the international community for the support that's been received, [and the] many demonstrations of care and solidarity in this difficult moment\".\n\nThe Colombian government is offering a reward for information about Luis Manuel Díaz's whereabouts\n\nThe Colombian government has deployed hundreds of police and soldiers to free the footballer's father, Luis Manuel Díaz.\n\nOn the day of the kidnap attack, CCTV footage showed the car Díaz's parents were driving in being followed by men on motorbikes.\n\nThe couple was accosted by the gunmen as they had stopped at a petrol station in Barrancas, in the northern province of La Guajira.\n\nThe kidnappers later abandoned Luis Díaz's mother in a car as police closed in, but dragged away his father.\n\nPolice originally said that a criminal gang was most likely to blame.\n\nBut a government delegation - which is currently engaged in peace talks with the rebel group - late said that it had \"official knowledge\" that the kidnapping had been carried out by \"a unit belonging to the ELN\".\n\nA representative of the group has reportedly said the group will free Díaz's father in the coming days.\n\nThe ELN is Colombia's main remaining active guerrilla group. It has been fighting the state since 1964 and has an estimated 2,500 members.\n\nIt is most active in the border region with Venezuela, where Luis Manuel Díaz and his wife Cilenis Marulanda live.", "Fortnite puts up to 100 players against each other in a fight to be the last one standing\n\nFortnite's makers say the game had the biggest day in its history over the weekend.\n\nThe battle royale blaster regularly changes up its arenas and has transported players back to its original island setting for its latest.\n\nPublisher Epic Games says 44.7 million players logged a total 102 million hours of play in new season Fortnite OG on Saturday.\n\nThat's despite some people struggling to log in or getting stuck in queues.\n\nFortnite, first launched in 2017, puts up to 100 players against each other in a fight to be the last one standing.\n\nThe game is currently in its fourth chapter, split up into shorter seasons, with each new one bringing changes and new features.\n\nFortnite OG will bring back fan-favourite locations and weapons, but retain some of the updated game mechanics added in later seasons.\n\nOne thing that isn't returning for now is challenges - a popular scavenger hunt-style feature of old-school Fortnite that boosted player numbers when it updated on a Tuesday.\n\nThe new season launched on Friday, and appeared to be an instant hit with fans.\n\nAccording to unofficial stats site Fortnite.gg, the game recorded 6.2 million concurrent players - an all-time high - on Saturday.\n\nAnd it even boosted the number of people watching Fortnite on streaming site Twitch, according to viewing tracker SullyGnome.\n\nEpic tweeted on Saturday to say it was monitoring its servers due to the high demand, and warned players to expect queues before joining a match.\n\nDespite the success of Fortnite's latest update, Epic recently announced mass layoffs, with company boss Tim Sweeney saying the company had been \"spending more than it earned\".\n\nIt's not the only games company to lose lots of workers despite a bumper year for great games - Halo and Destiny developer Bungie is the most recent high-profile name to lay people off.\n\nAs well as owning Fortnite, Epic also runs its own online games store publishing titles from well-known developers.\n\nIt recently released highly-praised sequel Alan Wake 2, and created a special Fortnite map previewing that game.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Many of the 128th Brigade's personnel - as seen in this archive photo - are from Ukraine's westernmost Transcarpathia region\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has demanded answers for the families of soldiers killed in a missile strike during an awards ceremony on Friday.\n\nA Ukrainian unit said 19 of its soldiers were killed in a Russian attack near the front lines in the southern Zaporizhzhia region.\n\nThe 128th Mountain Assault Brigade said its \"best fighters have been killed\".\n\nMany have expressed disbelief that the ceremony was allowed to go ahead so near to the front line.\n\nPresident Zelensky said the incident \"could have been avoided\".\n\n\"Criminal proceedings have been initiated,\" the Ukrainian leader added in a post on social media on Sunday.\n\n\"Every soldier in the combat zone - in the enemy's line of fire and aerial reconnaissance - knows how to behave in the open, how to ensure safety.\"\n\nA number of Ukrainian soldiers and military experts say the ceremony should not have taken place in a strike-risk area.\n\nThey say Ukrainian officers should have been aware that Russian drones are constantly monitoring Ukrainian troops' activities near the frontlines to guide air and artillery strikes.\n\nDrone footage has now emerged on a Russian Telegram channel purportedly showing the moment of the deadly strike - on what appears to be an open-air ceremony.\n\nA number of bodies, believed to be those of Ukrainian soldiers, are also seen lying on the ground.\n\nRussia's military has not officially commented on the attack.\n\nUkrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov had earlier confirmed reports that soldiers from the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade had been killed in the strike.\n\nHe ordered a \"full investigation\" into what he described as a \"tragedy\".\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine's Strategic Command (StratCom) said an Iskander-M - a short-range ballistic missile used by Russia - was used in the attack. A number of civilians were injured.\n\nIn his own statement, President Zelensky said he wanted to \"establish the complete truth about what happened and prevent such incidents from happening again\".\n\nThree days of mourning have been declared in Ukraine's westernmost Transcarpathia region, where many of the victims are believed to be from.\n\nKyiv has not publicly revealed the location of the strike, but reports in Ukrainian media say it was a village near the front line.\n\nRussian bloggers said it was the village of Dymytrovo - which was renamed Zarichne by Ukraine in 2016.\n\nThe attack is believed to have been launched as Ukrainian troops marked Artillery Day, which celebrates military personnel working in artillery and missile units.\n\nRuslan Kahanets, commander of Ukraine's volunteer battalion Sonechko (Sun), said in a Facebook post on Saturday that there was \"a pile of dead officers and soldiers\" in the aftermath. He also posted photos of burned vehicles and soldiers' bodies.\n\nA video has also emerged in which a Ukrainian soldier - believed to be from a nearby brigade - publicly criticises officers for organising the reported ceremony.\n\nThe unnamed soldier says that front-line villages are being hit \"methodically and regularly\" and \"anyone who is here will tell you this\".\n\n\"As a result of this [ceremony] line-up, many Ukrainian defenders and civilians died\".\n\nHe asks what the officers who had gathered the crowd were thinking, because \"everyone on the front lines knows that a crowd of more than two people always provokes an 'arrival' [air strike]\".\n\nSerhiy Sternenko, a well-known Ukrainian volunteer, suggested on Saturday that the commander who had organised the ceremony should be jailed for life.\n\n\"There have already been many similar incidents. Unfortunately. Without systemic changes, there will be more such incidents,\" he said.\n\nA number of social media users in Ukraine have also voiced their anger and demanded punishment for the ceremony's organisers.\n\n\"Who gathered them there, why is this person's name being withheld? Whose initiative was it? Are these people already under investigation?\" one user wrote.\n\nAnother asked: \"How was it possible to gather ALL our warriors in one place?\"\n\nMeanwhile, a Russian military blogger suggested that Ukraine's military chiefs should now \"think why such incidents have become more frequent\".\n\nAnother pro-Kremlin blogger wrote that \"earlier, Ukrainians had 'punished' Russians in a similar way several times. And we quickly forgot about lining up outside, stopped huddling and began to constantly look at the sky\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nCristian Romero has been sent off four times for Tottenham since joining just over a year ago Mauricio Pochettino made a winning return to Tottenham with Chelsea as his former club were reduced to nine men on a night of chaos and controversy. The Argentine's comeback was reduced to a minor sub-plot by an epic game which brought five goals, a further five which were disallowed, two red cards, and a slew of VAR decisions in one of the Premier League's most frenetic ever encounters. Spurs started brilliantly and deservedly went ahead when Dejan Kulusevski's sixth minute shot deflected in off Chelsea defender Levi Colwill, before Son Heung-min had an effort narrowly ruled out for offside as the home side looked to capitalise on their early dominance. In a fevered atmosphere Chelsea had two goals of their own disallowed, one each from Raheem Sterling and Moises Caicedo ruled out for handball and offside respectively. The latter situation still led to a Chelsea goal as a penalty was awarded for a crude challenge by Romero on compatriot Enzo Fernandez, and the Spurs defender was deservedly sent off in the aftermath. Chelsea's summer signing Cole Palmer scored the resulting spot-kick to level the match before Spurs were also handicapped by what looked like a serious hamstring injury for key defender Micky van de Ven and an ankle problem for James Maddison as both players were substituted before the interval. Spurs were battling an even greater disadvantage when Destiny Udogie was sent off ten minutes after the break for an inexplicably reckless tackle on Sterling which brought a second yellow card from referee Michael Oliver. Ange Postecoglou, who also received a yellow card on the Spurs bench amid the mayhem, gambled on keeping a high line even with nine men but Chelsea finally broke their resistance with 15 minutes left, Raheem Sterling breaking clear to set up Nicolas Jackson for a simple finish. The game was far from finished, though, and Spurs came close to securing a stunning draw as Eric Dier had a superb finish ruled out for a narrow offside and Rodrigo Bentancur headed just wide after beating Chelsea's defensive line at a late free-kick. Jackson then scored twice more in stoppage time to secure a late hat-trick and render the scoreline far more comfortable than the evening had been for the visitors, who faced stern resistance from Spurs, who finally went down to their first Premier League defeat under Postecoglou.\n• None 'One of the most mind-boggling Premier League games ever'\n• None Unpacking nine VAR checks in chaotic half of football\n• None Tottenham v Chelsea as it happened, plus reaction and analysis Lack of discipline costs Spurs on night which promised so much Tottenham 1-4 Chelsea: Nine-man Spurs could not have given any more - Postecoglou Spurs fans were in buoyant mood before the game as they pondered the possibility of returning to the top of the Premier League, only to see their hopes extinguished in a spectacular, incident-packed game. It all started so well with Kulusevski's goal but Spurs paid a heavy price for the reckless indiscipline of Romero, who was fortunate not to see red earlier than he did for kicking out at Colwill, but there was no escape when he followed through needlessly on Fernandez. Udogie was also lucky not to be sent off before his eventual dismissal for a wild challenge on Sterling, and the Italy international left the over-worked Oliver with no option when he dived in on the same player early in the second half. Postecoglou gambled on continuing with the high line and goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario hero acting as an emergency sweeper on several occasions, but just as Chelsea started to look frustrated, Spurs were broken and Jackson cashed in with his hat-trick. Aside from the short-term pain of this defeat, Spurs now face long-term consequences from the chaos, not just with suspensions for Romero and Udogie but those injuries to Van de Ven and Maddison. Spurs supporters gave their players a rousing reception for their efforts at the final whistle but this was a painful night which could be very costly in the long run.\n• None Get Tottenham news, analysis, fan views and more sent straight to you\n• None Go to our dedicated Spurs page for all the best content Chelsea took their time to break down nine-man Spurs but eventually unlocked the defence, with Senegalese striker Nicolas Jackson the beneficiary. Pochettino's men were already edging their way into the game even before Romero demonstrated his irresponsibility, but once he and Udogie were off Chelsea knew anything other than victory would have been unthinkable. The home side made it to within 15 minutes of pulling off a remarkable draw before Sterling and Jackson finally cracked the code and this could be a landmark night for the 22-year-old striker, who has looked very much a work in progress since his summer move to Stamford Bridge. He finish off three chances comfortably and marched off with the match ball, beaming in front of Chelsea's elated fans. Pochettino will know this was not a victory earned in normal circumstances, but he will also aim to use it as a springboard after a middling start to the campaign.\n• None Go straight to all the best Blues content BBC Sport app: Download to follow all the latest on your Premier League team\n• None Attempt missed. Nicolas Jackson (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Mykhailo Mudryk.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1, Chelsea 4. Nicolas Jackson (Chelsea) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Cole Palmer with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Rodrigo Bentancur tries a through ball, but Eric Dier is caught offside.\n• None Lesley Ugochukwu (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1, Chelsea 3. Nicolas Jackson (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Conor Gallagher.\n• None Attempt saved. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Oliver Skipp.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Guglielmo Vicario (Tottenham Hotspur).\n• None Mykhailo Mudryk (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson has had his account reinstated on social media platform X, formerly Twitter.\n\nRobinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was reinstated alongside political commentator Katie Hopkins.\n\nHopkins was banned in 2020 and Robinson's account was suspended in 2018 - Twitter accused both of breaking its rules on hateful conduct.\n\nA number of controversial figures have been allowed back on the platform since it was bought by Elon Musk last year.\n\nIn November 2022, Mr Musk - a self-styled \"free speech absolutist\" - announced a \"general amnesty\" to suspended accounts that had \"not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam\".\n\nResearch by BBC Monitoring found that of 1,100 reinstated accounts it examined, nearly 190 were promoting hate and violence.\n\nX has also reinstated the controversial influencer and self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate, whose accounts are banned by YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.\n\nNick Lowles, chief executive of anti-hate campaigners Hope Not Hate, criticised the latest move by X.\n\n\"Reinstating Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkins means Elon Musk is allowing hateful content and misinformation to take place on his watch on X/Twitter,\" he said.\n\nThe group said it would be writing to X to \"make it clear the danger that their content poses\".\n\nHopkins, a former LBC presenter and MailOnline columnist, has repeatedly attracted criticism for her views - including an incident where she compared migrants to cockroaches and another when she claimed that a photograph of a drowned three-year old Syrian refugee had been staged.\n\nIn 2017 she caused anger when she tweeted that there must be a \"final solution\" to dealing with terrorists following the Manchester Arena attack.\n\nShe later changed the term \"final solution\" to \"true solution\", describing the earlier version as a \"mis-type\".\n\nHopkins had more than one million Twitter followers before her permanent suspension in 2020. The ban was for violating the platform's hateful conduct policy but it did not, however, say which of her tweets had prompted the action.\n\nFollowing her reinstatement Hopkins posted on X: \"Thank you @elonmusk. And thank you to all the Twitter family who have brought Tommy & I back to @X.\n\n\"Know this. You are not alone. We are many. And we are stronger together. The fight back for your freedom is on.\"\n\nRobinson founded the far right English Defence League, best known for protests against what it calls \"radical Islam\", but stepped down in 2013.\n\nIn July 2021 Robinson was ordered to to pay £100,000 in libel damages to a Syrian schoolboy who was filmed being attacked in a playground.\n\nIn two videos posted to Facebook, Robinson made a number of false accusations about the boy.\n\nIn November 2013, Robinson pleaded guilty to fraud, and he was subsequently jailed for 18 months.\n\nHe also has convictions for stalking, assault, using someone else's passport, using threatening behaviour and contempt of court.\n\nMr Musk and X have repeatedly proclaimed \"freedom of speech, not reach\" as a mantra, meaning that they intend to provide free speech for all - while simultaneously limiting the reach of offensive and misleading posts.\n\nIn practice, it hasn't always worked that way, and many accounts prone to spreading misinformation on the platform have access to X Premium (formerly Twitter Blue). For Premium subscribers the platform actually boosts their posts in the algorithm.\n\nThousands of accounts that were previously banned from Twitter have been reinstated since Mr Musk's takeover.\n\nThese include accounts with fringe views that were suspended for hateful conduct, accounts that shared health misinformation and anti-vaccine content during the Covid pandemic, and those that spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 US election.\n\nSome of those accounts have since been resuspended by X for repeating past offences.\n\nThe BBC has approached X for comment.", "Anthony Blinken has faced a challenging few days on his visit to the region\n\nFor three days, the US's top diplomat, Antony Blinken, has been dashing around the Middle East, trying to contain a situation that threatens to spin out of control.\n\nIsrael on Friday. Jordan on Saturday. The West Bank, Iraq and Turkey on Sunday.\n\nEvery stop posed its own challenges and gave reason to be pessimistic that much progress is being made. The central challenge facing the US secretary of state is that he is trying to find a middle ground where none, at the moment, exists.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Blinken encouraged Israeli leaders to make temporary pauses in hostilities in order to ease humanitarian aid and encourage hostage releases - a move the Israeli prime minister quickly rejected.\n\nThe next day, he met representatives of Israel's Arab neighbours. They all called for an immediate ceasefire. Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said Israel was committing war crimes.\n\nAt roughly the same time back in the US, President Joe Biden was asked whether progress was being made toward securing those humanitarian pauses. He gave a thumbs up and replied \"good\".\n\nThe president's optimism stood in stark contrast to the mood on the ground here in the Middle East.\n\nAs if to underscore the tension in the region, Mr Blinken's Sunday stops were done under cover of secrecy. He travelled to Ramallah to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in a convoy of armoured SUVs and vans, speeding through streets cordoned off by soldiers from the Palestinian Palace Guard.\n\nHe arrived in Iraq under cover of darkness. The secretary and his diplomatic entourage donned body armour and helmets for the short helicopter ride from the Baghdad airport to the US embassy, where he then motorcaded to a meeting with Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani.\n\nThe US secretary of state arrived under the cover of darkness in Iraq for his meeting with Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani\n\nOn Monday, he will meet Turkish officials - just one day after Turkey's President, Recip Erdogan, recalled his country's ambassador to Israel and said he was done dealing with Mr Netanyahu. \"We have erased him, thrown him out,\" the Turkish leader said.\n\nEvery time Mr Blinken puts one fire out, another seems to pop up.\n\nI asked Mr Blinken at the Baghdad airport if he shared the US president's optimism about the chances of convincing Israel to agree to pauses and in getting the Arabs to accept that a ceasefire is unrealistic at this point.\n\nThe Americans are continuing to work with the Israelis to address concerns about the \"specifics and the practicalities\" of how humanitarian pauses could be implemented.\n\nThe US secretary of state travelled to Ramallah in the West Bank in a convoy of armoured SUVs\n\nAs for the Arabs, he said there were differences of opinion on a ceasefire, but everyone he had spoken with believed humanitarian pauses could help win the release of hostages, increase aid distribution in Gaza and expedite getting foreign citizens out of Gaza.\n\n\"We've had important progress there in recent days,\" he said, but \"there are also real complications that come along with it.\"\n\nFor the moment, however, no one seems to be buying what Mr Blinken is selling, in part because both the Israelis and the Arab nations are dealing with their own domestic pressures pulling the two sides apart.\n\nOn Friday, as Mr Blinken stood before press cameras with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in central Tel Aviv, chants and horns could be heard - the sound of Israeli protesters calling for the government to do more to rescue the hostages taken by Hamas on 7 October.\n\n\"Our heart goes out to them,\" Mr Herzog said.\n\nMeanwhile, in countries across the region - and in Europe and the US - pro-Palestinian protesters have taken to the street en masse. Demonstrators climbed the fence outside the White House in Washington DC and filled the streets in Paris, London and Berlin.\n\nIn Istanbul, protesters held up a sign that called Mr Blinken \"an accomplice of the massacre\".\n\nIf a positive spin can be put on Mr Blinken's trip so far, it's that he is speaking with all sides and, for the moment, the conflict has not spread. After Joe Biden's October meeting with Arab leaders in Jordan was abruptly cancelled following the explosion at a Gaza hospital, Mr Blinken's foreign minister gathering on Saturday was an indication of some progress.\n\nAntony Blinken's meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah had been kept under wraps\n\nHowever, the secretary of state's attempts to encourage his Arab counterparts to start thinking about the long-term future for the Palestinians, and a means to ensure a \"durable\" peace in the region, were less successful.\n\n\"How can we even entertain what will happen in Gaza when we do not know what kind of Gaza will be left after this war is done?\" Jordan's Mr Safadi asked. \"Are we going to be talking about a wasteland? Are we going to be talking about a whole population reduced to refugees?\"\n\nIn a meeting with Jewish community leaders at the White House on 12 October, Joe Biden said he thought that the end result of the tragedy and bloodshed in Israel and Gaza would be a Middle East that was changed for the better.\n\n\"But then again, I have been referred to as a congenital optimist,\" the US president added.\n\nOn the ground here in the region, such optimism has proven to be a rare commodity.", "Fast-fashion firm Boohoo has broken promises to make its clothes fairly and ethically, a BBC Panorama investigation has found.\n\nAn undercover reporter at the company's Manchester HQ saw evidence of staff pressuring suppliers to drive prices down, even after deals had been agreed.\n\nIt comes after the company pledged to overhaul its practices in 2020.\n\nBoohoo said it hasn't shied away from the problems of the past and has driven positive changes in its business.\n\nThe retailer is a market leader in getting its customers the latest styles as cheaply and quickly as possible. Last year, Boohoo Group had 18 million customers and £1.7bn worth of sales.\n\nThree years ago, Boohoo promised to overhaul the way it did business and launched its \"Agenda for Change\" programme.\n\nThe move was sparked by reports that staff at a factory making Boohoo clothes in Leicester were earning less than the minimum wage and in unsafe working conditions.\n\nBoohoo then asked a senior barrister to review its supply chain. Alison Levitt KC found the allegations to be \"substantially true\".\n\nThe company then introduced Agenda for Change - which includes promising to pay its suppliers a fair price for garments, with realistic timescales.\n\nBut BBC reporter Emma Lowther saw those promises being consistently undermined during her 10 weeks undercover at Boohoo's head office in Manchester, where she worked as an admin assistant.\n\nFast fashion giant Boohoo faced serious criticism in 2020 for poor working conditions at its suppliers. A Panorama investigation reveals renewed pressure to cut costs.\n\nWatch now on BBC iPlayer(UK Only), or on BBC One at 20:00 GMT on Monday 6 November (20:30 in Northern Ireland).\n\nBetween April and June this year she worked in the busy dresses department alongside buyers - the staff who negotiate prices and place orders with suppliers.\n\n\"Working at Boohoo is intense,\" she says, and saw staff under \"constant pressure to drive prices lower and lower\".\n\nDuring her time at Boohoo, the reporter was told about one tactic to secure cheap deals with suppliers who won't budge on price.\n\n\"Go in low and if you're not getting anywhere then just say that you can get it cheaper elsewhere,\" a colleague told her. \"I'm just lying. I just lie.\"\n\nBoohoo says it has invested \"significant time, effort and resource into driving positive change\"\n\nIn 2020, Boohoo's group director of responsible sourcing said the company was serious about making sure its suppliers could make a profit.\n\nBuyers now have a set of \"responsible purchasing\" principles to follow.\n\nThe BBC investigation revealed that Boohoo put pressure on suppliers to drive prices down - even after orders had been agreed.\n\nOn one day alone, the reporter was told to process a 5% cut on more than 400 orders that had already been agreed, saving Boohoo thousands of pounds.\n\nSometimes price cuts were demanded for orders which had already been made and were ready for delivery.\n\nLowther saw how the drive for price cuts came right from the top of the company. In a staff meeting, she was told Boohoo's executive chairman, Mahmud Kamani, wouldn't allow buyers to confirm any brand-new orders until he approved them.\n\nStaff around her fielded fraught emails from suppliers grappling with Boohoo's price cut demands.\n\nOne supplier was furious about a 10% discount being applied which it said it hadn't agreed to.\n\nIt said it would lose money because it would be working under cost and asked for the discount to be removed urgently. The undercover reporter doesn't know how the dispute was resolved.\n\nBoohoo told the BBC it had experienced significant cost inflation over the past year, which it had absorbed in order to maintain affordable prices for customers.\n\nAn independent review in 2020 found there were \"many failings\" in the company's supply chain\n\nAs costs started to come down, Boohoo said it asked its suppliers to reflect this in their pricing through discounts of between 1% and 10%. It said these savings have been passed on to customers.\n\nBoohoo's lawyers said these price reductions were not decided unilaterally by Mr Kamani.\n\nBoohoo said most of its suppliers have worked with the company for many years and \"that would not be possible if the work was not profitable\".\n\nBoohoo has also committed to agreeing realistic timescales with suppliers for its orders.\n\nBoohoo's target customers are typically under 30s who want to buy rapidly changing fashion trends as quickly as possible.\n\nDuring the time the reporter was undercover, there was an average of 10 weeks between Boohoo making an order in the dresses department and receiving it - known as the lead time.\n\nBut then, while she was there, a lead time of six weeks or under was imposed as a new policy for all garments across the brand, with suppliers in China and India given a week longer.\n\nOne of Lowther's managers admitted this would be \"a real challenge\" for suppliers.\n\n\"Even with the UK, we've definitely not been seeing that sort of lead time from them… It's going to be really hard,\" the manager said.\n\nAfter a week's grace, Boohoo introduced a 5% price cut for every week the supplier's order was late.\n\nCommenting on the BBC's footage, Peter McAllister, executive director of the Ethical Trading Initiative said, the shorter the lead times the more pressure there is on the workforce and on working conditions.\n\n\"If you are always putting that pressure on your supply chain, what we typically then see are problems,\" he added.\n\nBoohoo's lawyers said the company's lead times are not unrealistic or unfair, and it is standard practice to have late delivery penalties which are discussed with suppliers.\n\nOur expert said Boohoo paid significantly less than a fair price to make this dress\n\nThe BBC took a closer look at what Boohoo pays its suppliers.\n\nWe asked industry expert Chris Grayer to price-up the cost of making a light brown, mini bodycon dress - with a rouched detail - which Boohoo retailed at £15.\n\nBoohoo paid a UK supplier £4.25 for the dress. Mr Grayer estimated it would cost £7.23 to make. He made some assumptions on the fabric cost and built a 10% profit margin for the supplier into his calculations.\n\n\"If I had a factory that was making that [dress] for that price in the UK, I wouldn't have a business,\" said Mr Grayer - who spent more than 10 years as head of supplier ethical compliance at high street retailer Next.\n\nBoohoo's lawyers say the supplier of the dress told the company it made a profit on it.\n\nBoohoo said its suppliers pay at least minimum wage wherever they operate and that it carries out audits and regular unannounced checks.\n\nThe National Minimum Wage in the UK for people over 23 is £10.42.\n\nIn January last year, Boohoo opened a flagship factory of its own in Leicester called Thurmaston Lane. This was part of its Agenda for Change programme and designed to showcase its new ethical practices.\n\nIt was promoted as a UK manufacturing centre of excellence offering end-to-end garment production in the UK.\n\nBut, while Lowther worked at Boohoo's head office, she discovered those public statements about Thurmaston Lane didn't always match what was happening.\n\nThurmaston Lane in Leicester is Boohoo's first ever manufacturing site\n\nHundreds of orders placed with Thurmaston Lane were actually being made by seven factories in Morocco and four in Leicester.\n\nBoohoo's lawyers say Thurmaston Lane only makes 1% of all Boohoo's garments.\n\nThe factory was opened to \"support the group in several ways, including manufacturing, printing and training,\" a Boohoo statement said.\n\n\"As in any retail business, the role of our sites continue to evolve over time.\"\n\nBoohoo and other fast fashion retailers use factories in Leicester to make their clothes.\n\nSecret filming by Panorama at one of Boohoo's suppliers - a factory called MM Leicester Clothing Ltd - revealed staff being told they may need to work late into the night with just hours' notice to get Boohoo's orders completed.\n\nThe factory took orders for more than 70,000 Boohoo garments between January and June this year.\n\nIn the footage, workers tell managers they need to go home to feed their families. A supervisor later told them: \"No-one is leaving at eight, or 10, or later.\"\n\nBoohoo suppliers have to sign up to a code of conduct which says overtime should be voluntary.\n\nWhen contacted by the BBC, MM Leicester said its normal hours are 08:00 to 18:00 and it never forces workers to stay late.\n\nBoohoo said MM Leicester Clothing Ltd was \"subject to regular audits and unannounced checks\" as is the case with all its factories.\n\n\"We take any breach of our supplier Code of Conduct extremely seriously and are currently investigating Panorama's claims.\"\n\nThe company said it has invested \"significant time, effort and resource into driving positive change\" across \"every aspect\" of its business and supply chain.\n\nIt added that it has implemented \"every one\" of the recommendations Alison Levitt KC made in her 2020 review, including \"improving corporate governance\" and \"strengthening the ethical and compliance obligations on those wishing to supply Boohoo\".\n\n\"The action we've taken has already delivered significant change and we will continue to deliver on the commitments we've made.\"\n\nAfter 10 weeks of working at Boohoo, Lowther was called into a meeting and told she had made mistakes which had cost the company money. The reporter was sacked.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The solid gold toilet disappeared from Blenheim Palace in September 2019\n\nFour men have been charged over the theft of an 18-carat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace in 2019.\n\nThe £5m lavatory was stolen from the stately home in Oxfordshire shortly before 05:00 BST on 14 September.\n\nMichael Jones, 38, of Oxford, and James Sheen, 39, face burglary charges. Frederick Sines, 35, of Ascot, and Bora Guccuk, 39, from London, are accused of conspiring to transfer criminal property.\n\nThey are due to appear before Oxford magistrates on 28 November.\n\nMr Sheen, from Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, is additionally charged with transferring criminal property and conspiracy to do the same.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEntitled America, the toilet was part of an exhibition by Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan and valued at $6m (£4.8m).\n\nThe loo, which could be used for its intended purpose - with a three-minute time limit to avoid queues - had only been on show for two days when it was stolen.\n\nAs it was plumbed in at the time, the heist caused flooding and damage to the 18th Century stately home in Woodstock.\n\nThe palace is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, X, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Just Stop Oil said the glass of the Rokeby Venus painting was smashed with safety hammers\n\nTwo Just Stop Oil protesters have been arrested after glass protecting the Rokeby Venus painting at the National Gallery in London was smashed.\n\nThe Met Police said two activists had been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage.\n\nJust Stop Oil named the pair as Hanan, 22, and Harrison, 20, and said safety hammers were used to smash the glass.\n\nMeanwhile, police said about 100 Just Stop Oil protesters were arrested after slow marching in the road at Whitehall.\n\nThe vandalised artwork, by Diego Velazquez in the 1600s, was previously slashed by suffragette Mary Richardson in 1914.\n\nFollowing the latest incident, Just Stop Oil (JSO) said: \"Women did not get the vote by voting, it is time for deeds not words. It is time to Just Stop Oil.\n\n\"Politics is failing us. It failed women in 1914 and it is failing us now. New oil and gas will kill millions. If we love art, if we love life, if we love our families we must Just Stop Oil.\"\n\nJust Stop Oil activists were detained after taking part in a slow march at Whitehall\n\nThere had been reports that activists had targeted the Cenotaph memorial - action that has been criticised by MPs and the mayor - but the group and the police have denied these claims.\n\nSadiq Khan and Labour's shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, both said that targeting the monument was \"unacceptable\" in X posts now deleted.\n\nTory party deputy chairman Lee Anderson said that JSO were \"now stuck to the Cenotaph\" as he shared a picture on social media site X.\n\nThe activists said they had been moved to the base of the monument after shutting down traffic on Whitehall, an account supported by one officer at the scene.\n\nThe Met Police confirmed that there were no offences linked to the Cenotaph and no protester glued themselves to the road.\n\nThey added that the arrests were made for breaching section 7 of the Public Order Act at various points between Trafalgar Square, Parliament Square and near to the Cenotaph.\n\nThe Met Police said they arrested 40 protesters within 15 minutes of arriving\n\nProtesters failing to engage with officers can be arrested under section seven of the Public Order Act introduced this year.\n\nIt states that an arrest can be made if their actions \"interfere with the use or operation of any key national infrastructure in England and Wales\".\n\nThe government said the new measures would not ban protests, but \"only prevent a small minority of individuals from causing serious disruption to the daily lives of the public\".\n\nHuman rights group Liberty responded to the arrests, saying: \"The use of this new power is a dangerous escalation of the attack on the right to protest, with protesters potentially facing up to a year in prison for standing up for what they believe in.\n\n\"These arrests are a clear attempt to criminalise people for exercising that right. The government, in passing these new laws, has tried to make it even harder for the public to stand up to power.\"\n\nA series of Just Stop Oil protests have taken place in recent days, including on Wednesday when more than 30 people were charged after blocking Earl's Court Road.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 50 young people have clashed with riot police in Edinburgh with fireworks and petrol bombs being thrown directly at officers.\n\nVideo footage from the Niddrie area of the city showed officers in riot gear standing in a line while youths threw explosives at their feet.\n\nPolice Scotland also responded to disturbances in Glasgow and Dundee.\n\nThe force said eight officers suffered minor injuries on a night of \"unprecedented levels of violence\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) said nine crews were attacked during an eight-hour period across the country.\n\nFootage showed a stand-off between youths and police in Niddrie\n\nIn Niddrie, police were called to the Hay Avenue area at 16:40 GMT after reports of \"antisocial use of fireworks\".\n\nA statement said officers were pursuing a number of individuals who they believe were providing youths with fireworks and petrol bombs to target police.\n\nThe videos showed officers being bombarded with explosives while teenagers gathered on a green, with some filming it.\n\nAbout 50 youths within a larger group of youths and adults were responsible for directing fireworks at vehicles and buildings before their behaviour escalated when officers arrived, the police said.\n\nThe force said while only a small number of arrests had been made on the night, as a result of the \"significant challenges\" officers faced, substantial evidence had been gathered and it was anticipated further arrests would take place in the coming days.\n\nIt added two police vehicles were damaged in the Beauly Square area of Dundee, at about 18:55, after being struck with bricks.\n\nAnd at about 21:00 in Glasgow officers responded to a report of two groups of youths fighting and throwing fireworks at one another in the Quarrywood Avenue area of Barmulloch.\n\nEight officers sustained minor injuries in Edinburgh and Glasgow.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Tim Mairs, gold commander of Operation Moonbeam, said a minority of individuals had been responsible for \"unacceptable and frankly, disgusting level of disorder that left communities alarmed and police officers injured\".\n\nHe said the violent nature of the disorder in Niddrie was \"extremely concerning\" - \"not least because because it is believed young people were being actively encouraged and co-ordinated by adults to target officers while they carried out their duties\".\n\nThe SFRS confirmed crews were attacked in Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Blantyre in South Lanarkshire and Blackburn in West Lothian.\n\nNo firefighters were injured but an appliance in West Lothian had a windscreen smashed by a brick and had to be removed from service.\n\nA spokesperson confirmed the incidents followed four previously reported attacks on crews in Ayrshire and Edinburgh in the week leading up to Bonfire Night, as well as two further attacks over the weekend in Troon and Glasgow.\n\nAssistant chief officer Andy Watt described the total of 15 attacks over the last week as \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"Our staff should be able to carry out their role without being attacked. It is disappointing that people have tried to hurt firefighters and have damaged our appliances.\n\n\"This type of behaviour not only prevents our crews from bringing any emergency to a safe and swift conclusion, but it can impact on our emergency service colleagues - including the police - when they are supporting us on scene to ensure the safety of our personnel.\"\n\nMr Watt said his officers would work with the police to identify those responsible.\n\nBetween 15:30 on Sunday and midnight the SFRS received more than 892 calls from the public and mobilised firefighters to approximately 355 bonfires across the country.\n\nCity of Edinburgh Council leader Cammy Day said he was \"appalled\" by the scenes in Niddrie.\n\nHe said: \"This reckless behaviour endangers lives and like the majority of people in the community I share in their dismay and upset at this disgraceful behaviour.\"\n\nScottish Conservative justice spokesman Russell Findlay said: \"Such attacks on police officers are cowardly, reckless and dangerous. Police Scotland need sufficient resources to tackle these thugs.\"\n\nIn 2018, Police Scotland set up Operation Moonbeam to tackle Bonfire Night disorder.\n\nLast year, a police vehicle was hit by a Molotov cocktail in Niddrie, and motorbike gangs raced through the area while fireworks were lobbed at the ground.\n\nOn Halloween last week, police were called to the Kirkton area of Dundee after youths set off fireworks and lit an illegal bonfire.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "The suspect was detained by special forces\n\nA hostage situation at Hamburg Airport involving a young child has ended after 18 hours, according to local police.\n\nThe man, 35, drove through a security barrier and on to the airport tarmac on Saturday night with his four-year-old daughter in the car and parked under a plane.\n\nHe eventually gave himself up to the authorities \"without resistance\", according to police, and was arrested.\n\n\"The child appears to be unharmed,\" they wrote on X (formerly Twitter).\n\nThe incident caused the disruption of several flights in and out of the airport. Operations have since resumed but there are significant delays.\n\nIt began at about 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT) when the suspect drove his car to the airport's apron, the area where aircraft are usually parked.\n\nPolice said the man shot his weapon twice in the air and threw burning bottles from the vehicle. It was unclear if the man had explosives.\n\nThey later clarified that he stopped the vehicle where a commercial flight full of passengers was preparing to take off. Everyone on board was evacuated safely.\n\nAccording to local media, he parked under a Turkish Airlines plane.\n\nHundreds of other people waiting for flights in the airport had to be put up in hotels.\n\nHamburg police spokeswoman Sandra Levgruen said earlier on Sunday that the man did not agree with some decisions made by the authorities in relation to the custody arrangement and wanted to travel to Turkey with the child.\n\n\"He speaks about his life being a heap of shards,\" she told German broadcaster ZDF.\n\nFollowing the incident, the authorities said the man had been in an \"exceptional psychological situation due to custody disputes with his ex-wife\".\n\nThey said he had taken their daughter following an argument and her mother then alerted emergency services - filing a complaint of suspected child abduction.\n\nIt is not the first time the man, who is a Turkish citizen, has been accused of kidnapping the young girl. Last year he was investigated after he travelled to Turkey with her without permission. The mother later brought the child back to Germany.\n\n\"I wish the mother, the child and her family a lot of strength to cope with this terrible experience,\" Hamburg Mayor Peter Tschentscher wrote on X after the hostage situation ended.\n\nThe airport said it was working to resume operations as quickly as possible. A total of 286 flights with about 34,500 passengers had been scheduled for Sunday, it said earlier.", "Callum Rycroft was hit by a car as he tried to cross the M62 with his father\n\nA drink driver who \"abandoned\" his son on a motorway moments before the boy was hit and killed by a car has been jailed for 10 years.\n\nCallum Rycroft, 12, died as he and his father Matthew Rycroft crossed the M62 in West Yorkshire after the 37-year-old crashed their car on 5 August.\n\nRycroft admitted manslaughter and was jailed at Leeds Crown Court on Monday.\n\nJudge Guy Kearl KC told Rycroft: \"You were responsible for him and you are responsible for his death.\"\n\nJudge Kearl said Rycroft had put Callum in \"danger of extreme harm\" and had \"abandoned him\".\n\nThe court heard Rycroft, of Nowell View, Leeds, had drunk lager and shots at the Paddock Cricket Club in Huddersfield after taking Callum, who was autistic, to visit his grandfather.\n\nRycroft's father urged him not to drive back to Leeds but he insisted on driving back with Callum.\n\nThe pair left the club at about 21:05 BST in a silver Audi Q5 courtesy car, which Rycroft was driving while his vehicle was being repaired.\n\nThey were seen travelling eastbound on the motorway by another driver, who described the car as swerving between lanes before it hit a barrier on the left-hand side.\n\nThe car flipped over on the slip road at Hartshead Moor services.\n\nMatthew Rycroft was jailed for 10 years for manslaughter\n\nThe court then saw CCTV footage that showed Rycroft and Callum walking along the hard shoulder of the M62, with Callum walking on the side closest to the traffic.\n\nThey walked for about 15 minutes, covering about 1.12 km (0.7 miles).\n\nRycroft was seen crossing to the central reservation and Callum followed.\n\nWhen the pair tried to cross back, Rycroft reached the hard shoulder and carried on walking eastbound without looking back for his son, who had been struck by a car.\n\nThe court heard Rycroft was later found hiding in bushes by the fire service and did not mention Callum or ask where he was.\n\nHe was taken to Leeds General Infirmary, where he \"did not mention Callum at all\" and swore at staff, according to prosecution barrister Michael Smith.\n\nThe court heard that when he was told his son had died, Rycroft became upset.\n\nCallum, 12, was described as having \"such an impact\" on everyone who met him\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Callum's mother Claire Bancroft said: \"Callum was with someone who he trusted the most. Someone who should have kept him safe and brought him home.\"\n\nShe said Callum had \"worshipped the ground\" his father walked on and that her son's death had had \"such an impact on everyone who had met him\".\n\nBarrister Matthew Harding, defending Rycroft, said: \"He will have to live with the utterly tragic consequences of that night for the rest of his life.\n\n\"It is a punishment well in excess of any that your lordship must and will impose.\"\n\nJudge Kearl told Rycroft he had had several opportunities to \"wait for help\" but said: \"You continued to attempt to flee the scene, despite knowing that Callum was not with you.\n\n\"You didn't even turn around to search for your son.\"\n\nRycroft was also disqualified from driving for nine years and seven months.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has described allegations that a Conservative MP committed multiple rapes as \"very serious\".\n\nHe urged anyone with evidence of criminal acts to go to the police.\n\nIt comes after reports that former Tory Party chairman Sir Jake Berry wrote to police to make them aware of the claims after leaving the post last year.\n\nLabour and the Lib Dems have called for an investigation by the party into how it handled the accusations.\n\nSir Jake told police a failure of some individuals to act allowed the alleged perpetrator to \"continue to offend\", the Mail on Sunday reported.\n\nMr Sunak said the Conservative Party had \"robust independent complaint procedures in place\".\n\nDuring a visit to Bacton Gas Terminal in Norfolk, the prime minister was asked whether the rape allegations had been covered up and whether he was investigating the issue.\n\nHe told broadcasters: \"These are very serious, anonymous allegations.\n\n\"It may be that they allude to something that is already the subject of a live police investigation, so I hope you understand it wouldn't be right for me to comment on that further specifically.\n\n\"More broadly the Conservative Party has robust independent complaint procedures in place, but I would say to anybody who has information or evidence about any criminal acts to of course talk to the police, that's the right course of action.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden, who was previously party chairman between September 2021 and June 2022, denied the party had covered up allegations.\n\nHowever, he said he could not comment on the specific case as he did not know the identity of the unnamed MP.\n\nSir Jake, the MP for Rossendale and Darwen, was chairman of the Tory Party during Liz Truss's 49-day premiership last year.\n\nAccording to the Mail on Sunday, he became aware of a series of allegations against an MP - referred to as X - when he was appointed to the role in September 2022.\n\nThe newspaper said that after leaving the post the following month, he wrote to police with former Chief Whip Wendy Morton to express his concerns about how the party had handled the claims.\n\nAccording to extracts of the letter published by the newspaper, he said the matter had been going on for more than two years, adding: \"The failure of others to act has enabled X to continue to offend.\"\n\nA published extract reads: \"There may have been five victims of X - who have been subject to a range of offences including multiple rapes.\"\n\nIt also claims one unnamed individual was receiving ongoing support at the expense of the Conservative Party.\n\nConservative MP Caroline Nokes, who chairs the Commons Women and Equalities Committee, said the case was \"horrific\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour political parties needed transparent processes in place for when individuals made complaints, with alleged victims supported to go to the police.\n\n\"My sense is one of horror and despair that still we haven't got in place a mechanism that will support victims, that will make sure that individuals who are accused of horrific acts are not still free to wonder around Parliament, free to meet with their constituents in constituency surgeries,\" she said.\n\nLabour Party chairwoman Anneliese Dodds said the allegations were \"deeply concerning\" and needed to be \"thoroughly investigated by the Conservative Party\".\n\nAlso calling for an investigation, Liberal Democrat chief whip Wendy Chamberlain said the reports were \"deeply disturbing\".\n• None No cover-up of MP rape allegations, says deputy PM", "A leading cruise ship company is being accused of planning to fire more than 900 staff members if they do not accept new terms and conditions.\n\nCarnival UK, owner of P&O Cruises and Cunard, notified authorities of the \"fire-and-rehire\" plan one day after beginning talks with union members.\n\nThe Nautilus union said it showed the cruise firm had \"no real intention to engage\" in meaningful negotiations.\n\nCarnival UK said it was \"categorically not making any redundancies\".\n\nThe staff who could be affected include 919 crew working across 10 vessels, including the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mary 2.\n\nLast year a separate company, P&O Ferries, became embroiled in a dispute over the sacking of 800 of its workers by its owner DP World. The firm sacked staff without notice, replacing them with foreign agency workers who were paid less than the UK minimum wage.\n\nLater, the firm's boss admitted the sackings were illegal.\n\nUnder UK law, employers planning to make 20 or more staff redundant within any 90-day period, must first consult staff and speak to trade union representatives.\n\nIn the present case, Nautilus, which represents hundreds of those potentially affected, is accusing Carnival UK of entering into negotiations over next year's pay and conditions without being open about their fall-back position - that they were considering a plan to dismiss the workers if talks failed.\n\nIt is not currently illegal to fire and then rehire staff, as long as the correct procedures are followed.\n\nNautilus said Carnival had notified the authorities that it was considering redundancies, by submitting what is known as a Form HR1, just a day after starting talks with the union over reducing workers' hours and pay.\n\nThe union only found out about that notification a week later.\n\nThe HR1 includes the statement: \"Dismissal and re-engagement may be considered if agreement cannot be reached on new terms.\"\n\nNautilus said the move suggested that Carnival \"never had any intention of 'meaningful negotiation'\".\n\nCarnival UK said: \"We are categorically not making any redundancies and we will not dismiss and re-engage staff. In fact we have significantly increased our headcount across our fleet.\"\n\nIt added: \"This is an annual pay review process with our maritime officers onboard our ships which will ensure alignment. This will empower our staff, deliver the right teams across our fleet and attract and retain talent to work on our ships.\"\n\nThe union said the cruise company effectively wanted to \"enforce a cut in 20% of their working days\", which amounted to a drop from 243 days worked per year, to 200 days, and a drop in income.\n\nIt said changes were being enforced and were \"not negotiable\", leaving members upset, especially as it seemed that the company were \"taking away flexibility\" in terms of when the work could be done.\n\nNautilus has written to the company calling for it to withdraw the threat of \"fire-and-rehire\", and engage in meaningful negotiations.\n\nShadow transport secretary Louise Haigh said history was \"repeating itself\".\n\n\"The lives of hundreds more seafarers are once again being upended by bad bosses who know they can get away with it,\" she said, adding ministers have ignored \"warning after warning\" that this would happen again without changes in employment law.\n\nNautilus's senior national organiser Garry Elliot called on the government to learn lessons from last year's P&O Ferries scandal and \"outlaw the coercive practice of fire-and-rehire\".\n\nHe added: \"Employers cannot be allowed to treat their employees with contempt and force through fundamental changes to terms and conditions by playing with their employees' livelihoods.\"\n\nFollowing the P&O Ferries dispute the government promised to improve the rights of seafarers, through a nine-point plan to improve pay and conditions published last year.\n\nBut Paul Nowak, general secretary of the union umbrella body, the TUC, said ministers had failed to stop workers from \"being treated like disposable labour\".\n\nThe government had reneged on a pledge to introduce a bill strengthening workers' rights he said.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the government for comment.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Oh my time lord! Colum Sanson-Regan (l) as the doctor's clone, and David as the doctor\n\nSaving Kylie Minogue from a bridge was not in Colum Sanson-Regan's plans when he turned up as a Doctor Who extra.\n\nBut David Tennant was not around, so someone had to do it, and producers thought Colum looked like the doctor.\n\n\"I've saved Kylie, flown the Tardis, held the screwdriver and had Billie Piper look deep into my eyes and tell me how much she loved me,\" joked Colum.\n\n\"I asked the producer 'Why am I putting on the doctor's suit? They replied 'Well, David Tennant isn't in'.\n\nNow a father of two, Colum was earning some extra cash before his first child was born.\n\n\"I didn't know what was going on,\" recalled Colum of when he arrived on the set but was ushered past the \"cold bus\" where the extras usually hang around and was shown to a posh trailer.\n\nI should be so lucky: Colum's unexpected starring role was with Kylie Minogue as Astrid Peth in Doctor Who\n\nThe 10th Doctor had to leave the set for the 2007 Christmas special Voyage of the Damned, and producers needed a Tennant-alike for some extra shots showing his back.\n\nSo they improvised and Colum, then 31, stepped in to the suit synonymous with the Doctor since the world's longest running sci-fi TV show rebooted on the BBC in 2005.\n\nColum, now 46, had been asked by producers to be on set early but he had no inkling that his time (lord) had come.\n\n\"All of a sudden I was standing with the suit there, and I was handed a script and told 'You're gonna need this',\" recalled Colum. \"I was thinking pinch me, what's going on?\n\nColum couldn't believe it when he was unexpectedly asked to put on the iconic doctor's suit\n\n\"Then I went for a haircut and a little Australian lady passed me dressed in a French maid outfit and said hello. I did a double take and realised I was there with Kylie Minogue.\"\n\nThe Australian singer and actor was a Doctor Who superfan and had asked for a part, which was humanoid waitress Astrid Peth, a one-off companion of the doctor.\n\n\"I was a bit star struck, for sure,\" he admitted.\n\nHis first work in Voyage of the Damned - where a starship replica of the Titanic is on collision course with Earth - was an action-packed scene where killer robot angels launched a deadly attack.\n\n\"There was a bridge, and the killer robot angels were trying to shoot, so I had to stop Kylie from falling over,\" recalled Colum.\n\nSnap: Colum Sanson-Regan with a dressing room selfie in the doctor's suit before his starring role in 2007\n\n\"I had to hang on to her and pull her back from a precipice. That was the first thing I had to do in the morning.\"\n\nThe author and musician had a gig with his band that weekend in Leicester. As Kylie almost sang, he couldn't get it out of his head that he had worked with her - and we should all be so lucky.\n\n\"We got in the car and I said to my bandmates, guess who I've been working with this week?\" said Colum, who lives near Cardiff.\n\n\"We'd been driving for almost two hours and had nearly hit Birmingham and they still hadn't guessed. I had to tell them! They're like 'absolutely no way'. It was so bizarre.\"\n\nCompanion Billie Piper with 10th Doctor David Tennant before Colum slipped into his suit\n\nTo Colum's pleasant surprise, producers were so happy with his work and lookalike skills, they asked him to play the Doctor again in the 2008 episode Journey's End - this time as his clone in the final episode of the fourth series.\n\nThat meant he had to be in the same scenes with Tennant, Billie Piper, John Barrowman and Catherine Tate, making her final appearance as a regular.\n\n\"I got to fly the Tardis in Journey's End,\" recalled Colum, who is originally from the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"Everybody was gathered around the central console of the Tardis. We all had to have our hands on the machine and flying controls. Everybody was on that episode. There was a real buzz.\n\n\"I got to hold the screwdriver - they were very protective and kept taking it off me.\"\n\nColum was then involved in an emotional scene where Rose Tyler, played by Piper, had to say her final goodbyes to the doctor.\n\n\"It was an amazing and surreal experience.\n\nCatherine Tate and David Tennant return for a 60th anniversary special but Colum will this year be watching on his sofa\n\n\"The nicest thing I have to take away was getting to work near David Tennant. I loved it. He was a thoroughly lovely, lovely guy and so professional. I think that was my favourite thing about the whole crazy time.\"\n\nThis weekend sees Tennant and Tate back together for Doctor Who, reprising their roles as the Doctor and Donna Noble in The Star Beast on BBC One on Saturday evening - but Colum will be back on his sofa with his family at home.\n\nHusband to Kerry, singer and guitarist of band Goose, a creative writing lecturer and author of books like The Fly Guy, The Tall Owl and Other Stories, Colum has limited time for more extra work - especially after having his own trailer as the doctor's double.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to the show on Saturday with the return of some fantastic actors,\" added Colum.\n\n\"As a fan, working on the show was incredible and it's only strengthened my love for Doctor Who.\"", "Police have cordoned off part of the road after it collapsed at Hemsby on Friday afternoon\n\nA road along an erosion-hit coastline in Norfolk has partially collapsed after the area was battered by strong winds combined with the high tide.\n\nSeveral feet of dunes in Hemsby were washed away overnight into Friday, undermining another part of The Marrams where several houses have already been demolished.\n\nAmanda Goffin, a volunteer at Hemsby Lifeboat, said the road then \"went in before our eyes\" during the afternoon.\n\nPolice were contacted to cordon it off.\n\nDan Hurd, the Hemsby Lifeboat coxswain, said: \"It's not looking promising for Hemsby - north and south of the Gap's been hit.\n\n\"Late last night we lost probably about 20ft (6m) to the north of the Gap and the south's now been compromised.\"\n\nMs Goffin, who had been out to The Marrams earlier, said: \"One second the road was there, and then there was an almighty crack and the entire lot went all in one go and just slid away before our eyes.\"\n\nThis was the scene earlier on Friday after storms battered parts of the Marrams again at Hemsby\n\nShe said a number of cars were parked on one side of the road that is now inaccessible, but she said she hoped most people were notified in time to remove them.\n\n\"I hope we've got most of them off but if we haven't, unfortunately, they are now stranded.\n\n\"We're working alongside the emergency services - there is foot access but as for fire engines etc, nothing is getting along that road now, so we'd like to hope that perhaps residents will be moved if they're at high risk.\n\n\"Some of them are holiday homes, but some are still residential and they live there full-time and it's just very, very sad.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp us on 0800 169 1830\n\nHave you been affected by issues covered in this story? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nVehicles were set on fire and shops looted in Dublin after a knife attack that left a number of people, including three children, injured.\n\nA five-year-old girl and a woman in her 30s were seriously hurt in the attack on Thursday afternoon.\n\nIt happened on Parnell Square East in the city centre, outside the Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire school.\n\nA man in his 40s who was also seriously injured is a person of interest, police said.\n\nThey added that they were not looking for any other people at this time and are following a definite line of inquiry.\n\nSources have indicated to the BBC that the man suspected of carrying out the attack is an Irish citizen, who has lived in the country for 20 years.\n\nThe head of An Garda Síochána (Irish police), Drew Harris, blamed the subsequent disorder on a \"lunatic, hooligan faction driven by a far-right ideology\", who engaged in violence as police tried to maintain the crime scene.\n\nThe streets are now \"mainly calm\", the Irish police have said, with no serious injuries reported as a result of the violence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCh Supt Patrick McMenamin said more than 400 officers remain on patrol after the disorder, which he blamed on \"gratuitous thuggery\".\n\n\"Some of my colleagues were attacked and assaulted, thankfully none were seriously injured and I commend them all on their bravery to protect our community,\" he added.\n\nIt is unclear how many arrests have been made, but Irish Justice Minister told Irish national broadcaster RTÉ that it was a significant number.\n\nRiot police were deployed after protesters gathered in the area near the scene of the attack.\n\nThe disorder centred on several streets in the city centre, including O'Connell Street.\n\nA number of vehicles were set on fire, including at least one police car, a tram and a bus.\n\nA shop on O'Connell Street was looted while the windows of other stores were smashed.\n\nTrinity College, which is nearby in the city centre, said it was in lockdown with all gates to its campus closed due to the disturbances.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar said extra police resources had been deployed.\n\nHe added that he had been shocked by the knife attack and said \"the facts in this matter are still emerging\".\n\nMr Harris urged people to \"act responsibly, not to listen to misinformation and rumour that is circulating on social media\".\n\n\"We know what happened, but the motive for this is entirely unclear.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the head of Ireland's National Bus and Railworkers' Union described those who targeted bus and trams as \"thugs\" and \"despicable people\".\n\nIn a press conference earlier, Supt Liam Geraghty said that the five-year-old girl is receiving emergency care in hospital, while another girl, aged six, and a five-year-old boy were less seriously hurt.\n\nHe added that although it is early in the investigation, gardaí (police) are confident that there is \"no terror-related activity\" and that it would appear to be a \"standalone attack\".\n\nThe incident happened on Parnell Square East, not far from O'Connell Street, one of Dublin's busiest streets\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins said that his thoughts were with the children and families affected by the incident.\n\n\"This appalling incident is a matter for the gardaí and that it would be used or abused by groups with an agenda that attacks the principle of social inclusion is reprehensible and deserves condemnation by all those who believe in the rule of law and democracy,\" he added.\n\nThe Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) said: \"Our hearts are with the entire school community of Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire following the horrendous incident that has taken place today.\"\n\nO'Connell Street is usually thought of as the gateway to Dublin city centre. But tonight, it was a chaotic and frightening scene.\n\nThe rioters have now largely dispersed but earlier, scores of them attacked police with fireworks and bricks. They set fire to a bus, a tram and at least one police vehicle.\n\nLooters broke into several shops, in the retail district on the northern side of the River Liffey.\n\nThe situation in Dublin has calmed, but a large number of police remain on the streets in riot gear.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Siobhan Kearney witnessed the stabbing in Dublin's city centre on Thursday.\n\nAn eyewitness told RTÉ how she and another bystander disarmed a man with a knife.\n\nSiobhan Kearney described the scene as \"bedlam\".\n\n\"Without thinking, I just took across the road to help out,\" she said.\n\n\"Two children and the woman were taken back into the school where they were coming from.\"\n\nOn the man with the knife, she said that he was on the ground and there were a lot of people trying to restrain him.\n\n\"Me and an American lady formed a ring around him saying we'd wait on the garda (police).\"\n\nIn a statement, the Irish Minister for Justice Helen McEntee said she was \"deeply shocked by the appalling attack\".\n\nShe added that her thoughts are with those injured, especially the children, their parents and families, during \"this extremely difficult period\".\n\nA number of police officers were attacked by crowds near the crime scene\n\nSinn Féin leader and Dublin Central TD (member of the Irish parliament) Mary Lou McDonald said the incident had sent \"shock and horror throughout the community\".\n\n\"My heart goes out to all the hurt and injured, the parents, teachers but especially the children who have been so traumatised,\" she added.\n\nLabour Party senator Marie Sherlock, who was in the area after the incident, said the children who were stabbed were queueing up to go to after-school care when they were attacked.\n\n\"While it is all very real today, I think the impact of the trauma tomorrow, next week and in the time after is really going to be very difficult.\"", "Lee Yong-soo leaves the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on April 21, 2021\n\nA South Korean court has ordered Japan to compensate a group of women who were forced to work in military brothels during World War Two.\n\nThe 16 women, who were kept as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers, previously had their case dismissed.\n\nThey filed a lawsuit in 2016 but Seoul Central District Court dismissed it five years later, citing sovereign immunity.\n\nThe Seoul High Court have now overturned the ruling.\n\nIn a statement the court said it recognises South Korea's jurisdiction over the Japanese government because the women lived in the country and sought compensation for acts deemed \"unlawful\".\n\n\"It is reasonable to consider that there is a common international law which does not recognise state immunity for an illegal act... regardless of whether the act was a sovereign act\".\n\nLee Yong-soo, a 95-year-old activist and victim was emotional as she thanked the court for the ruling.\n\nAs she left the courthouse she told reporters \"I'm grateful. I'm really grateful\".\n\nShe added that she wished she could tell all the victims who had already passed away about the verdict.\n\nIt's estimated that more than 200,000 women and girls were forced into prostitution to serve Japanese soldiers in World War Two.\n\nMany of those kept in military brothels were Korean, others were from mainland China, the Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan.\n\n\"Japan once again strongly urges the Republic of Korea to immediately take appropriate measures to remedy the status of its breaches of international law,\" she said.\n\nKorean women and girls lined up against a wall with a Japanese soldier looking at them\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A long-anticipated four-day pause in the fighting between Israel and Hamas has come into effect, with both sides saying the pause is temporary.\n\nThe BBC's reporter in southern Israel Anna Foster described the scene as she looked out towards the Gaza Strip.", "Police officers helped a man propose to his girlfriend by staging a traffic stop in the city of Eau Claire, Wisconsin.\n\nBodycam footage shows what looks like a routine traffic stop turning into a surprise marriage proposal by Troy Goldschmidt to his shocked girlfriend Moriah Prichard.\n\nEau Claire Police Department told local media Mr Goldschmidt had asked for their assistance in organising the proposal, and they obliged.\n\nPolice released the footage on social media with the caption: \"You never know what's going to happen on a traffic stop.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA crane operator has rescued a worker from a roof close to a burning building.\n\nFirefighters were called to the Station Hill development in Reading, which has since been cordoned off, at 11:40 GMT.\n\nVideo footage from social media shows a person being lifted by a crane from the roof of a building, prompting applause from a crowd below.\n\nCrane operator Glen Edwards said it had been a \"very close call\" due to swirling winds.\n\n\"I looked out my left-hand window and saw a guy standing on the corner of the building,\" said the 65-year-old, from Egham, Surrey.\n\n\"I'd only just seen him and someone said 'can you get the cage on', so that was it, I got the cage on and got it over to him the best I could.\n\n\"I tried to put the cage down between him and the flames, but I was hampered by the wind swirling around there.\n\n\"But I got the cage down and I managed to get him in there.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 50 firefighters were called to fight the blaze at Station Hill in Reading\n\nThe blaze, which created a huge amount of black smoke, has now been been put out by Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service.\n\nGroup Manager Chris Hearn said during the incident another person was also rescued using a crane.\n\nSouth Central Ambulance Service said two people were taken to the Royal Berkshire Hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation, but neither case was severe.\n\nLocal residents and businesses were urged to avoid the area, stay indoors and to keep windows closed.\n\nMore than 50 firefighters attended the blaze, along with the air ambulance and an incident command unit.\n\nTom Canning, who was on his way to a meeting, said there were crowds of people watching the fire from below.\n\nHe said: \"I worked out as I walked closer to my office that it was the new development on Station Hill - it looked horrific, just massive plumes of black smoke.\n\n\"The crane operator was just incredibly brave to rescue that worker.\"\n\nThe fire in Reading town centre sent up thick, black smoke that could be seen for miles around\n\nSteve Reynolds works in a building 100 yards away from where the fire started.\n\nHe said: \"I saw a black cloud go up and a ball of flames happen and all of a sudden I could see there was a guy trapped on the corner.\n\n\"There were bits of glass falling off the side of the building and he was completely exposed up there.\n\n\"Then all of a sudden a crane came out from the left with a carriage on it and they lowered it down… and he gets in and they pull him away.\n\n\"There was a massive cheer from all the workers on the ground. It was pretty terrifying.\"\n\nPeter, who runs a local cafe, said the fire was \"really quite dramatic - thick billowing smoke and lots of flames\".\n\n\"We immediately got rid of all our customers - that's all we could think to do,\" he said.\n\nAaron, who was a bystander, said it was the \"most devastating thing\" he had seen in his life.\n\n\"I thought the flames and smoke were going to break the glass,\" he added.\n\nThe fire service said all people had been accounted for\n\nAnother witness said: \"I was in the next door building, there was a guy standing up there, luckily the crane came in just in time.\n\n\"He was coughing [when he came down], from the smoke.\n\n\"When he got inside the crane and the crane put him down everyone was clapping.\n\n\"The crane operator was very fast. He was still in the crane while the building was on fire.\"\n\nRedwood Consulting, on behalf of the Station Hill redevelopment project, said: \"We activated our fire emergency plans immediately, the emergency services were notified and are currently on site.\n\n\"The safety of those on site and the wider public is always our first priority, and the site has been evacuated as a result.\"\n\nLocal residents and businesses were urged to avoid the area, stay indoors and to keep windows closed\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, X, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Jo Farrell has apologised for the error of judgement\n\nPolice Scotland's chief constable has apologised after an officer drove her home to England when her train was cancelled.\n\nJo Farrell was driven about 120 miles from Edinburgh to Northumberland during Storm Babet on 20 October.\n\nShe had started in the role of Scotland's top police officer just 11 days earlier having previously been chief constable of Durham Constabulary.\n\nMs Farrell said she was sorry for her \"error of judgement\".\n\nIn a statement, the chief constable said: \"I requested my office to arrange for a car to drive me home to the Northumberland area after work.\n\n\"I was unable to complete the journey by train as services had been cancelled and my own police vehicle was unavailable.\n\n\"I have apologised for this error of judgement.\"\n\nA civilian worker from Durham Constabulary was also a passenger in the police car. Police Scotland have confirmed this person was dropped off a further 15 miles south, in Gateshead.\n\nA Durham Constabulary spokesman said: \"Senior officers and staff from Durham Constabulary routinely visit other forces to help with advice and share best practice with colleagues across policing, both on a formal and informal basis.\n\n\"In this instance, an experienced member of staff attended Police Scotland to advise the chief constable about finances and resources.\"\n\nThe police driver, a road policing officer, was then said to have returned to Edinburgh - a round trip that would have taken about six hours.\n\nMuch of Scotland was under severe weather warnings at the time as the country was battered by heavy rain and strong winds during Storm Babet.\n\nTrain services, including LNER and Transpennine Express services which travel south of the border from Edinburgh Waverley, were cancelled due to the extreme weather conditions.\n\nScottish Conservative shadow justice secretary Russell Findlay said: \"The new chief constable is tasked with making extremely difficult financial decisions due to SNP budget cuts, which makes her misuse of police resources even more jarring.\n\n\"There are many unknown details and unanswered questions, including what, if any, consideration was given to the safety of the officer who was ordered to complete this 250-mile round trip in dangerous weather conditions.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Police Authority said: \"The authority is aware the chief constable used a police vehicle following the cancellation of a scheduled train journey.\n\n\"The chair has discussed this with the chief constable who has apologised. The authority considers the matter closed.\"\n\nThis is an embarrassing revelation for a chief constable who's kept a low profile since she took charge of the UK's second biggest police force.\n\nOnce upon a time, Jo Farrell could have expected a lift home under such circumstances without anyone making much of a fuss.\n\nBut it's 2023, it was a Friday during a storm, and Police Scotland has been complaining about being under-funded and overstretched.\n\nNext week Jo Farrell will use her first public speech to argue for increased funding to ease the force's financial woes.\n\nNot a great time to have to apologise over an error of judgement involving police resources.", "The less than perfectly straight Christmas tree has got residents of March talking\n\nA \"wonky\" Christmas tree erected in a town has been causing a stir among residents.\n\nThe tree, which is about 30ft (9m) high, has a pronounced lean at the top and sits on Market Place, in the Cambridgeshire town of March.\n\nResident Kimberly Williams said: \"The Italians have got the leaning tower of Pisa - March has now got the leaning tree of Christmas.\"\n\nVolunteers who erected the tree said it was like that when they got it.\n\nDozens of people commented when a photograph of the wonky tree was posted on a local Facebook group.\n\nSome called it \"embarrassing\" while others praised the work of volunteers from the March Christmas Lights Committee who are responsible for erecting the tree and decorating it.\n\nKimberly Williams said it was possible the leaning tree would make the Fenland town famous\n\nMs Williams, 50, said: \"It's better than last year, but it's a bit wonky isn't it? It's a bit on the lean.\"\n\nBut, she added she was grateful that the town did actually have a real tree.\n\n\"I think we should be proud of it\", she said, agreeing its imperfections could become the unique selling point for the Fenland town.\n\nRobert Moat, 64, who lives in March, told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire: \"I've been here four years and the tree's been wonky every year, but at least they make the effort to put something up.\"\n\nAnne Conroy said she would be worried if she was the fairy on top of this tree\n\nDavid Williams, 51, said he had some concerns about whether the tree was safe - because it was leaning.\n\n\"It's a bit of a disappointment to the community,\" he said.\n\n\"There's no symmetry to it at all, but we love coming down with the kids to see the lights turned on, so we're just hoping the lights are going to do the trick.\"\n\nAnne Conroy, 88, agreed, and said she would not personally like to be the fairy trying to balance on the top of this particular tree.\n\n\"It's certainly leaning, it's dangerous,\" she said.\n\nOne resident said it might look better once all the lights are on\n\nReplying to criticism on social media, the lights committee wrote that members had ordered the tree almost a year ago and it was \"down to the supplier/luck as to what overall size/condition of tree we receive in the end\".\n\n\"We will pass the feedback we received regarding the tree not being straight to the supplier in the hopes that next year's tree is a better one,\" they added.\n\nMartin Field, a town councillor and member of the lights committee, told the BBC the tree had been donated to the town by a local business.\n\nHe said the tree had been put in place by a professional tree surgeon but the trunk was bent - \"so it's in the ground as it should be, but that's what he had to work with\".\n\n\"We always have a nice big tree and it's a focal point.\n\n\"Huge numbers of people will come along and enjoy Friday's Christmas lights switch-on and we don't want a few negative comments to distract from the joy of this.\"\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dramatic footage shared on social media shows a crane rescuing a worker from a roof close to a burning building.\n\nRoyal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service was called to a premises on Station Hill in Reading, which has since been cordoned off, at 11:40 GMT.\n\nVideo footage from social media shows a person being lifted by a crane from the roof of a building, prompting applause from a crowd below.\n\nThe blaze, which created a huge amount of black smoke, has now been put out by the fire service.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, X, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Suella Braverman has said the pressure on public services from migration is \"unsustainable\", after figures estimated record levels last year.\n\nThe former home secretary said the government must \"act now\" to cut the numbers coming to the UK.\n\nNet migration - the difference between the number of people coming to live in the UK and those leaving - was a record 745,000 last year, ONS figures show.\n\nNo 10 said migration was \"far too high\" but it was acting to bring it down.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said this included clamping down on dependants of students coming to the UK and increasing visa costs.\n\nBut Mrs Braverman, who was sacked from her cabinet role last week, said the record figures were \"a slap in the face to the British public who have voted to control and reduce migration at every opportunity\".\n\nShe added: \"The pressure on housing, the NHS, schools, wages, and community cohesion, is unsustainable. When do we say: enough is enough?\"\n\nAs home secretary, Mrs Braverman said she had called for measures including an annual cap on net migration, closing the graduate visa route, and a cap on health and social care visas.\n\n\"Brexit gave us the tools. It's time to use them,\" she added.\n\nOther Tory MPs, including former cabinet ministers Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and Sir Simon Clarke, have also called for more action to bring down migration.\n\nThe New Conservatives group, which is on the right of the party, described the issue as \"do or die\" for the party.\n\n\"Each of us made a promise to the electorate. We don't believe that such promises can be ignored,\" the group, led by Miriam Cates, Danny Kruger and Sir John Hayes, said in a statement.\n\nBack in 2010, Lord David Cameron, the former Tory PM who was appointed foreign secretary in last week's reshuffle, pledged to get net migration below 100,000 - but the commitment has never been met.\n\nThe party's 2019 manifesto also promised to bring overall numbers down, without setting a specific target, after the introduction of post-Brexit border controls.\n\nIt is understood the government is considering some new measures to cut migration, including:\n\nFigures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) earlier on Thursday revised up previous estimates for net migration for 2022 from 606,000 to 745,000.\n\nIt cautioned its estimates could be revised again - and provisional figures to June of this year suggest the rate of net migration may now be slowing.\n\nStatisticians said in the year to June net migration fell back to 672,000, after 1.2 million people came to live in the UK for at least a year, and 508,000 left.\n\nHowever, the ONS said it was too early to know whether the latest falling net migration figure was the start of a downward trend.\n\nThe vast majority (968,000) arriving were from countries outside the European Union.\n\nStudents accounted for the largest group of non-EU migrants, which was also true last year.\n\nBut there has been an increase in workers arriving with visas to fill chronic staff shortages in the NHS and social care, the ONS said.\n\nArrivals of people via humanitarian routes have fallen from 19% to 9% over the same period, the ONS added, with most of these made up of Ukrainians and British Nationals (Overseas) arrivals from Hong Kong.\n\nHome Secretary James Cleverly said the government remained committed to reducing levels of legal migration, as well as eliminating abuse of the visa system.\n\nHe said the ONS figures did not show a \"significant increase from last year's figures\" and pointed to \"a number of important and positive changes\" affecting them.\n\n\"The biggest drivers of immigration to the UK are students and healthcare workers - [they] are testament to both our world-leading university sector and our ability to use our immigration system to prioritise the skills we need,\" he said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said \"shockingly high\" net migration represented \"a failure not just of immigration, but also of asylum and of the economy\".\n\nThe SNP's home affairs spokeswoman, Alison Thewliss, said: \"The Westminster obsession with net migration figures just strengthens the need for Scotland to have the full powers of independence and control over migration.\n\n\"The Tories are simply hiding the fact the UK government is failing to attract the talent we need in key sectors to boost our economy and NHS through their obsession with these figures.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Convicted paedophile Jacky Jhaj greets a crowd played by actors at the film \"premiere\"\n\nYoung children were hired as extras for a public film shoot starring a paedophile, the BBC has learned.\n\nAbout 200 children and young women played fans alongside Jacky Jhaj, 38, who is on the sex offenders register, in London's Leicester Square.\n\nIn 2016 he was jailed for four years, having been found guilty of four counts of sexual activity with two 15-year-olds after posing as a film producer.\n\nCasting agencies say actors were kept safe and children had chaperones.\n\nThe BBC has been told by two cast members that they were not made aware of the real identity of Jhaj, of west London.\n\nFilming was held on 17 October outside the Odeon Luxe cinema, where a red carpet was set up with barricades resembling a movie premiere.\n\nOne young adult who attended the event said she felt \"sickened\" after learning of Jacky Jhaj's criminal convictions\n\nJhaj can be seen repeatedly parading up and down in different outfits and then greeting some of the extras, in videos and photographs seen by the BBC.\n\nThe footage shows the cast in close proximity to Jhaj, with some touching his hands and back.\n\nThe BBC has learned that the organiser of the event - known only as \"Project BRT\" - hired 90 children aged six to 14 from one agency, Jam 2000.\n\nThe production also booked about 100 young women between the ages of 16-24 from another company, Uni-versal Extras.\n\nIt is not clear who else was involved in the production or what plans there are to release any footage.\n\nThe BBC has been provided with the names of people said to have helped organise the filming. All denied involvement or declined to respond - and it is unclear if anyone working as part of a film crew was aware of Jhaj's criminal conviction.\n\nLetters and calls made to Jhaj and the production company were not returned.\n\nThe BBC has seen text messages and correspondence sent by Uni-versal Extras when recruiting the older cast - and also following the event.\n\nFollowing the event, Uni-versal Extras emailed its actors to say it had only been made aware after the event that a cast member may have had a criminal conviction. A second email warned them that speaking to the media would be in breach of their contracts.\n\nOn 2 November, the agency sent a third email which sought to reassure the cast. It said it had conducted an \"extensive investigation\" and reported concerns to the police.\n\n\"[The Metropolitan Police] assured us that there is no cause for concern in relation to Artiste safety and there were no restrictions placed on this individual preventing him working with, or being near, any of our Artistes, including those under 18,\" it said.\n\nJacky Jhaj has been charged with breaching his sexual harm prevention order\n\nThe BBC approached the Met Police and was told that Jhaj has been charged with two counts of failing to comply with the notification requirements of the sex offenders' register - failure to comply with the registration of a new passport and provide notification of travel seven days prior to departure.\n\nHe has also been charged with breaching his sexual harm prevention order by failing to supply a mobile phone for inspection, the Met added. He has not yet been required to provide a plea.\n\nThe BBC has also spoken to two young adults who attended the Leicester Square event. Both say they were left \"clueless\" over the exact nature of the production and given no information about the star's identity or criminal record.\n\nOne said she assumed that the lack of information meant it was possibly \"a high-profile\" production that required secrecy and feels it's \"dangerous\" how little information is shared about such filming.\n\nThe second said that on learning of Jhaj's criminal conviction she had been left feeling \"sickened\" and \"scared\" - and was having nightmares about it.\n\nDo you have more information about this story?\n\nYou can reach Noel directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +44 7809 334720 or by email at noel.titheradge@bbc.co.uk\n\nUni-versal Extras' director Liana Berko said she was \"horrified\" to learn of Jhaj's involvement - and his criminal history - but the company does not have the authority to ask for a cast list.\n\nShe said all actors were aged over 16-and-a-half. They do not legally require chaperones, she added.\n\nThe agency had told the production that its terms and conditions had been broken and all footage of the event should be destroyed, she said.\n\nNone of the extras were prevented from reporting their concerns, she said, but the company had \"sought to limit\" the sharing of inaccurate claims made online.\n\nIn this photograph, chaperoned children can be seen in close proximity to Jacky Jhaj (shown here with his back to the camera)\n\nJam 2000, the agency which booked 90 children aged between six and 14 years old, also said they were unaware of Jhaj's identity.\n\nIt said its cast were kept safe at all times, licensed to attend and looked after by 20 chaperones. The company added that the children had no contact with Mr Jhaj, were kept away from the barriers where he greeted some actors - and were able to use an auditorium inside the Odeon as a holding area, which he did not have access to.\n\nThe NSPCC told the BBC that children working in the entertainment industry can be \"particularly vulnerable\".\n\nA spokesperson said it was \"fundamental\" that those making arrangements in which children come into contact with adults \"take full responsibility for keeping the children safe\".\n\nThe Odeon says it entered into a contract with a legitimate UK company for the event - and has now terminated this agreement. It added that no filming took place within the auditorium and it is reviewing its event-booking process.\n\nThe staged red carpet event was also held on public land outside the cinema's entrance. Westminster City Council says it did not receive a \"full\" filming application and that it was the responsibility of the event organiser, not the local authority, to check the criminal background of anyone attending.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Dilan Yesilgöz, leader of the conservative-liberal VVD, said her party would support a centre-right government\n\nThe biggest party in the former Dutch government has ruled out a role in the next Dutch cabinet, after anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders' dramatic election victory.\n\nIn a blow to Mr Wilders' hopes of a majority, centre-right VVD leader Dilan Yesilgöz said her party needed a different role, after losing 10 seats.\n\nPolitical leaders met to consider their next steps in forming a coalition.\n\nA scout from Mr Wilders' Freedom party will now assess who could take part.\n\nThe far-right PVV won 37 seats in Tuesday's election, far more than any other party, more than doubling its representation in the 150-seat parliament.\n\nThe scale of his victory has put pressure on centre and centre-right parties to help form a Wilders-led government.\n\nThe Dutch coalition process tends to take several months, and the first step in the process began on Friday with the appointment of Freedom party senator Gom van Strien as the scout who will hold initial talks with all the relevant parties.\n\nMr van Strien said he was aware it would not be a straightforward task, but that \"in politics and society there is a great sense of urgency\".\n\nAnd as party leaders assembled for exploratory talks in the parliament building, Ms Yesilgöz, whose VVD party came third in Wednesday's vote, announced she would not take part in the next administration because Dutch voters had given a \"clear signal\".\n\n\"The big winners of these elections are the PVV and [new centrist party] NSC,\" she told Dutch TV. \"But we will make a centre-right cabinet possible - so we will support that and won't block it.\"\n\nWithout the liberals, Mr Wilders will struggle to make up the 76 seats needed to form a majority. The only other major potential partners are the newly formed centrist New Social Contract and the centre-right Farmer Citizens Movement.\n\nHowever, Ms Yesilgöz emphasised that her party would be prepared to play a constructive role as a tacit partner in supporting a minority government in parliament. The VVD's 24 seats could in effect hand him a working majority.\n\nGeert Wilders said the VVD's decision did not make forming a coalition any easier\n\nMr Wilders said he was very disappointed by the VVD's decision, which he complained had been taken \"without taking part in negotiations for a minute... and this isn't what VVD-voters want either, I think\".\n\nHe complained that forming a cabinet could now take months and Ms Yesilgöz had not made it any easier.\n\nCommentators were quick to point out that Geert Wilders had himself propped up Mark Rutte's first VVD-led government as a tacit partner in 2010, but he triggered its collapse little more than a year and a half later when he refused to back austerity measures.\n\nMr Wilders badly needs the support of New Social Contract, formed only in August by whistleblower MP Pieter Omtzigt, and the BBB Farmer Citizens Movement, which has a strong representation in the upper house, the senate.\n\nBy deciding not to be part of the cabinet, Ms Yesilgöz has also increased pressure on Mr Omtzigt to join a coalition, because with 20 seats he is the only other top-four party still available.\n\nMr Omtzigt said the timing of her announcement was odd and made the whole process more complicated.\n\nBBB leader Caroline van der Plas complained that it was the centre-right liberals under previous leader Mark Rutte who had led to the cabinet's collapse in July in the first place, in a row over capping asylum numbers. Now again, she said, it was about playing party politics, \"and not about what citizens want\".\n\nHer newly elected MPs were brought to the parliament building by seven tractors, one for each MP.\n\nDuring the election campaign, Geert Wilders announced that his anti-Islam manifesto policies were being put on hold, as he presented a milder image to voters. But he did not hold back on his vow to stop what he called an \"asylum tsunami\", as well as deport illegal immigrants and demand work permits for EU nationals.\n\nIn a post on social media, Caroline van der Plas said that deportations or banning mosques or the Koran would require changing the constitution, which itself involved several steps to be endorsed by the parliament and the king.\n\n\"In short it's just not possible; stop scaring the children,\" she wrote.\n\nMeanwhile, in a letter to the Freedom party leader, Muslim, Christian and Jewish organisations appealed to Mr Wilders to meet them soon to spell out his \"promise to be there for every Dutch citizen, regardless of religion, sex or colour\".", "The Met Police are to clarify what type of language might break the law when chanted or displayed at pro-Palestinian marches.\n\nThe force will hand out leaflets at Saturday's march in central London warning against using words or images \"likely to land you in jail\".\n\nIt is the first time the Met has tried to give clarity on what language is unacceptable.\n\nOrganisers say at least 100,000 people could turn out for the protest.\n\nThe Met has previously been criticised over its handling of the pro-Palestinian protests - which have been held weekly since 14 October - with ministers calling for the force to take a tougher line on those deemed to be expressing extremist views.\n\nThe force is also planning to position Arabic-speaking officers on the march, backed up in its central control room with lawyers to advise on whether specific phrases break the law.\n\nSome 1,500 officers will be on the streets on Saturday with instructions to protect war memorials following criticism that police have not stopped protesters climbing on them.\n\nThe leaflets warn protesters not to use words or images:\n\nProtesters will be told to \"bin any placard or sign that might break these rules\".\n\nThe leaflets also warn against damaging statues, using threatening words or behaviour and fireworks, which have been a problem on Pro-Palestinian protests to date.\n\nIn a briefing to reporters, the Met's Assistant Commissioner Ade Adelekan stressed the force's new approach of directly telling protesters about the limits to what they can say or write on placards.\n\n\"We will not tolerate anyone who celebrates acts of terrorism such as the killing or kidnap of innocent people,\" he said.\n\nHe said police would act \"decisively and quickly\" and \"intervene immediately\" if there were chants of \"jihad\", though he also said context was important.\n\nDamage to poppy wreaths would not be tolerated, and police will specifically protect the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner after criticism that protesters who climbed on it last week were not arrested.\n\nMr Adelekan said there were potential offences of criminal damage and disorderly behaviour for people who climbed statues but the power of arrest lay with individual officers.\n\nThe Met is also under pressure to stop breakaway protests, especially attempts to sit in at railway stations after the main protests have finished.\n\nLast week, a sit-in protest was held at London's Waterloo station.\n\nPro-Palestinian demonstrations have been held each week in London and other parts of the UK since 14 October, a week after Hamas's unprecedented cross-border attacks in Israel killed 1,200 people and saw about 240 taken hostage.\n\nGaza's Hamas-run health ministry says more than 14,000 people have been killed in Israel's retaliatory campaign, and the UN has warned of a worsening humanitarian crisis in the territory.\n\nMeanwhile, the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir has given the police notice of a separate protest at the Egyptian embassy.\n\nHizb ut-Tahrir's status has been a subject of political controversy for decades.\n\nFormer prime ministers Tony Blair and David Cameron both promised to ban the group, whose stated aim is the re-establishment of an Islamic caliphate, before abandoning the proposals,\n\nMr Adelekan said the Hizb ut-Tahrir protest would be subject to strict requirements that it should begin at 13:00 GMT and disperse at 15:30.\n\nThe main pro-Palestinian march in London on 21 October attracted up to 100,000 people\n\nHe dismissed suggestions from Jewish people that it was not safe to enter central London during pro-Palestinian protests, saying that the 1,500 officers were being deployed to ensure safety.\n\nOn Sunday the first major march against antisemitism will take place with 45,000 expected by the organisers, the Campaign Against Antisemitism.\n\nThe Met has intelligence that right-wing activist Tommy Robinson is due to attend as a \"reporter\". Protest organisers have made clear he is not welcome.\n\n\"Mutual aid\" officers from other police forces will again support operations in London this weekend. \"Our officers just need a break\", Mr Adelekan said.\n\nCorrection: A previous version incorrectly identified the location of a potential protest. Police have been notified of a protest at the Egyptian embassy.", "Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick has drawn up a set of proposals to attempt to cut immigration to the UK.\n\nThe ideas, which he has shared with No 10, are not yet government policy, but are being discussed internally.\n\nAmong the suggestions are a required minimum annual salary of £35,000 in order to receive a work visa.\n\nIt comes after official figures put last year's net migration figure higher than previously thought - at a record 745,000 people.\n\nThis has led to calls for more action to bring down migration from Tory MPs.\n\nRishi Sunak said \"levels of immigration are too high\" and need to come down \"to sustainable levels\".\n\nThe prime minister added that the government's plans to clamp down on dependents of students arriving in the UK is \"the single toughest measure that anyone has taken to bring down the levels of legal migration in a very long time\".\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that, since Brexit, the UK government has full \"control of the level of migration into the country\".\n\n\"And it's up to us how we use that,\" he said.\n\nMr Stride said this week's Autumn Statement would also help reduce migration by getting more UK citizens \"into the labour market\".\n\nThe UK needs \"some level of migration\" to make up for skills shortages in the economy, he said. But these gaps could be filled by reintegrating long-term unemployed back into the labour market as part of a £2.5bn overhaul of the benefits system.\n\nGiven the size of the net migration numbers, it is understood Mr Jenrick believes the government has to consider radical policy changes if the figures are, eventually, to fall.\n\nHe has suggested stopping those working in health and social care from bringing dependents with them to the UK.\n\nAnother idea is to put a cap on visas for people working in social care.\n\nBut this would probably meet resistance from the Department of Health. There has been an increase in workers arriving with visas to fill chronic staff shortages in the NHS and social care, the Office for National Statistics says.\n\nMr Jenrick has also suggested scrapping what is known as the Shortage Occupation List, which highlights jobs that employers are struggling to fill.\n\nThe Migration Advisory Committee - an independent body that advises the government on migration issues - recommended the abolition of the list earlier this month.\n\nDespite repeated questions, the prime ministers official spokesman refused to address Mr Jenrick's proposals. Instead Downing Street has insisted the government's current plans would have a \"significant impact\" on migration figures.\n\nMigration has been a continuing theme to the Conservatives' 13 years in office, since 2010.\n\nWhen the now Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron was prime minister, he promised to cut net migration to the tens of thousands.\n\nIt is a pledge that has never come close to being met and became a motivating factor for some to back Brexit.\n\nSpeaking at a fringe event at the Conservative conference this October, Mr Jenrick said: \"Where I think we have gone wrong, immediately after leaving the EU we established a legal migration system that was, if anything, even more liberal than the system we had when we were in the EU.\"\n\nHe added that the government had been \"quite naive about the consequences in terms of numbers\".\n\nMr Sunak is coming under pressure from within his party to reduce migration numbers.\n\nEarlier, former Home Secretary Suella Braverman - who worked alongside Mr Jenrick until she was sacked 10 days ago - criticised the government's record on immigration and said the figures were a \"slap in the face to the British public who have voted to control and reduce migration at every opportunity\".\n\nSetting out her own ideas for reducing immigration, Mrs Braverman has called for an annual cap on net migration and the raising of the salary threshold outside health and social care to £45,000 a year.\n\nIt is understood Mrs Braverman and Mr Jenrick had jointly submitted ideas to No 10 when she was home secretary.\n\nFollowing her sacking, Mr Jenrick has since gone back to Downing Street, with a similar but pared-down set of ideas he hopes Prime Minister Rishi Sunak might accept.\n\nDowning Street is yet to comment on the proposals.\n\nOther Tory MPs have also called for more action to bring down migration.\n\nThe New Conservatives group, on the Tory right, has described the issue as \"do or die\" for the party.\n\nWriting in his Daily Mail column, former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the minimum income for most migrant workers should be increased to at least £40,000.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said \"shockingly high\" net migration represented \"a failure not just of immigration, but also of asylum and of the economy\".\n\nProvisional figures to June of this year suggest the rate of net migration - the difference between the number of people coming to live in the UK and those leaving - may now be slowing.\n\nThe vast majority arriving were from countries outside the European Union, with students accounting for the largest group of non-EU migrants - also true of last year.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Yannai and Liel Hetzroni-Heller, 12-year-old twins, were killed in an attack on their kibbutz\n\nFor the father of 12-year-old twins Yannai and Liel Hetzroni-Heller the last few weeks have been filled with agonising waits and devastating news.\n\nIt was nearly six weeks after the attacks by Hamas in Israel before Gavin Heller, from London, had confirmation that both his children had been killed.\n\nThe twins were killed at Kibbutz Be'eri with their great-aunt and grandfather.\n\nMr Heller said so little was found of Liel's body that some of her toys were buried at a ceremony instead.\n\n\"I don't even know how to put this into words,\" he told the BBC. \"They just found remnants of Liel... initially they didn't have enough pieces to make a formal identification. They identified her literally by sieving the remnants. This will unfortunately live with me for the rest of my life.\"\n\nIsraeli media has reported the children, who were British-Israeli, were held hostage by Hamas gunmen in a building that caught fire during a stand-off with Israeli forces.\n\nHis daughter was finally identified just five days ago, with the help of forensic archaeologists. \"I was literally inconsolable with grief, not finding her body and at least having something to bury.\"\n\nThe children's great-aunt, who helped raise them after their mother suffered brain damage giving birth, and their grandfather were also murdered. Mr Heller believes they were killed for just one reason.\n\n\"It's something that is such a shock that people can do this to other human beings just because they were Jewish.\n\n\"There was no other reason why these Hamas terrorists came in the kibbutz other than to kill, murder, maim Jewish children, babies, parents and old people all because they lived in the Jewish homeland.\"\n\nMr Heller says Liel was \"a bundle of energy, an extrovert. She loved to perform. She was like a princess. She was very popular and liked to be the centre of attention.\"\n\nHe said Yannai was a very sporty child who loved tennis, football and basketball.\n\n\"He had a shyness about him that I think everyone respected... he was a lovely boy who was really coming into his own in terms of his character and personality.\"\n\nHe mourns the life the twins will not now have.\n\n\"They really loved each other and unfortunately they will never be able to live their life to do what they wanted to do in the future and that really is a crying shame, an absolute tragedy... I won't watch them grow up, I will never see them get married, I will never see the flourish as normal teenagers would.\"\n\nMr Heller, who lives in the UK, recalled the agony of not knowing what had happened to his children for weeks after the attack on 7 October.\n\n\"It was just an utter sense of fear, terror... not knowing whether they were hostages in Gaza. The worst thing is I wasn't able to protect them... and being in London not knowing where they were. It was agonising, absolutely agonising.\"\n\nBefore the attack occurred, Mr Heller had been due to visit his children in October. Liel, he said, had asked him to bring her some perfume.\n\n\"I have lost both my children who I cared for deeply and loved.\"\n\nThere were 1,200 Israelis killed by Hamas on 7 October and more than 200 still being held hostage in Gaza.\n\nMr Heller has one wish. \"Something of this magnitude should never happen again. The world must come together and ensure this awful atrocity should never happen, ever, ever again.\"", "The French government has launched a campaign encouraging people not to buy new clothes in Black Friday sales.\n\nThe advert shows a man asking for advice in a shop before an assistant tells him not to buy anything, to help the planet and his finances.\n\nThe minister for ecological transition - responsible for promoting sustainability - Christophe Béchu, is behind the campaign.\n\nBut the message has been criticised by other government departments.\n\nFinance minister Bruno Le Maire called it \"ill-conceived\" and said it would harm \"honest businesses\".\n\nLe Maire's department been trying to tackle the rise in unemployment and the cost of living crisis - and seasonal sales are thought to put more money back into the economy.\n\nBlack Friday, when retailers offer significant discounts and promotions, is one of the biggest shopping days of the year in many European countries.\n\nOn Thursday Béchu admitted that the message may have targeted the wrong businesses, he told France Inter: \"We should have targeted online sales platforms rather than physical businesses with the same message.\"\n\nBut he said the adverts would not be pulled.\n\nThe campaign is one of a number of initiatives from Mr Béchu, who previously launched a \"repair bonus\" to encourage people to repair their existing clothes instead of buying new ones.\n\nFrom October the government has subsidised clothing and shoe repairs by giving people between €6 (£5) and €25 (£21) off the cost. The government has committed to contributing €154m to the repair bonus fund over the next five years.\n\nBérangère Couillard, the junior ecology minister, said the government was committed to tackling fast fashion.\n\nMore criticism came from the Commerce Alliance, the Union of Textile Industries and the French Union of Fashion and Clothing Industries which issued a joint statement.\n\n\"We ask for its immediate withdrawal, failing which we will consider legal action for commercial denigration.\n\n\"We ask ADEME [the French Environment and Energy Management Agency] and the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territories to immediately remove this video and to work together to develop positive communication on the transformation of the fashion and commerce sector.\"", "Kittiya Thuengsaeng recognised Wichai Kalapat among TV images of Thai hostages being released\n\nA woman who believed her boyfriend was killed in the 7 October attack on Israel has spoken of her joy at realising they would soon be reunited.\n\nKittiya Thuengsaeng told the BBC she recognised Wichai Kalapat in TV images of the 10 Thai hostages released from Gaza on Friday.\n\nIt was feared Wichai was among Thai citizens killed in the Hamas raid.\n\nShe said confirmation her boyfriend was among the foreign nationals being held only came five days ago.\n\nTwo days after the 7 October attack, Kittiya was given the devastating news her boyfriend of three years was believed to be among a group of at least 30 Thai nationals killed.\n\nShe posted messages on social media mourning the man she planned to marry next year when he returned from Israel, where he had travelled for work.\n\nHowever, when an official list of the dead was published, Wichai's name was not on it.\n\nAfter an agonising wait for information, Kittiya discovered last week that he was among 32 Thai citizens being held hostage inside Gaza.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after seeing him alive in a car carrying hostages from the border to an Israeli hospital, she said: \"I'm so happy because I feared he wouldn't be among those released.\n\n\"I want him to heal from any mental condition he may have first, then he can return to Thailand.\n\n\"Right now, I can wait for him. I've been waiting for so long, I can wait a little longer.\"\n\nThai nationals were disproportionately impacted as around 30,000 have travelled to Israel for work, primarily in the agriculture sector.\n\nKittiya told the BBC she thought her boyfriend was among the dead\n\nAmong them were Thai nationals Boonthom Pankhong, 39, and his girlfriend, Natthawaree Mulakan, who were also released by Hamas on Friday.\n\nBoonthom's family told BBC Thai that he had been working in Israel for five years when he was kidnapped, and that he was the family's main breadwinner, sending money home to Thailand regularly.\n\nHis sister Urai Chantachart told BBC Thai the family were told about the release by Boonthom's nephew, who still works on a farm in Israel, and that they were \"overjoyed\".\n\n\"Our family has been suffering for over a month, but we never thought he was dead. We strongly believed that he [was] still alive,\" she said.\n\nLooking at a photo released by the foreign affairs ministry, she said she thought her brother looked \"better than expected\", although he seemed to have lost weight.\n\nUrai was not sure whether he and his girlfriend would return home or stay in Israel. They are both receiving treatment at Shamir Medical Center in Israel, she added.\n\nOther families are nervously awaiting news to find out if their loved one is among those whose release was secured on Friday.\n\nThongkoon Onkaew, the mother of Natthaporn Onkaew, a 26-year-old Thai farmer, said the last time she spoke to her son was on the morning of 7 October, when he was planning to play football with friends.\n\nShe said: \"I wish my son is one of the first being released. It has been a painful month with no good news.\n\n\"I wish my son and other Thai hostages are safe, I thank all the authorities for the effort negotiating the release of Thai nationals.\"\n\nWanida Maarsa, the wife of Anucha Angkaew, 28, said: \"I need to call the local representative to check the news. I am now bombarded with messages.\n\n\"If my husband is one of them, I would be so happy.\"\n\nThailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin initially said 12 people were released, but an official from the Qatari government - which has mediated between Israel and Hamas - later said the number was 10.\n\nThe release of Thai nationals is separate to an agreement which is expected see 50 Israeli hostages freed from Gaza during a temporary four-day pause in fighting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThirteen Israeli citizens - all women and children - and a Filipino national were among the first group of hostages to be freed.\n\nIsrael has released 39 Palestinian detainees as part of the agreement.\n\nThailand's foreign ministry said its freed citizens would be placed under medical supervision without access to relatives for 48 hours after being transferred to an Israeli hospital.\n\nA statement issued by the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it sent its heartfelt congratulations to the released Thai nationals and their families, and would do all possible to get them home to Thailand quickly.", "Today marked a major milestone in almost two months of intense fighting between Israel and Hamas.\n\nThe first Israeli hostages were released hours after the war began its four-day truce this morning.\n\nA total of 24 hostages were returned to Israel - 13 Israelis, 10 Thais and one Filipino - which in turn released 39 Palestinian prisoners to the West Bank as part of a deal during a temporary ceasefire.\n\nThere were rare scenes of celebration as crowds gathered to watch a helicopter carrying eight freed Israeli hostages arrive at a children's hospital in Petah Tikva, after they spent almost seven weeks being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nAround 137 aid lorries carrying much-needed medical supplies, fuel and food entered Gaza from Egypt. It's the biggest delivery of supplies since the start of the conflict but Oxfam pointed out it would not be \"nearly enough\".\n\nDespite the ceasefire, videos circulated on social media that appear to show Palestinians being shot at as they tried to head from the south of Gaza to the north of the Strip. The Israeli military had advised people against heading north, saying \"the humanitarian pause is temporary, and the northern region of Gaza is a war zone\".\n\nMeanwhile the \"catastrophic\" situation at Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital continues, according to a surgeon there. Israeli troops had moved in last week claiming Hamas operates out of the hospital - which it denies. An estimated 100 patients and staff are thought to still be at the biggest medical facility in Gaza but it is no longer operational.\n\nSo what could tomorrow bring? US President Joe Biden described today's hostage releases as \"the start of a process\", and Israeli media reported Hamas has sent a list of 13 more hostages expected to be released tomorrow to Israel.\n\nAs fighting pauses for now, a reminder of how we got here - on 7 October Hamas launched an attack on Israel in which 1,200 people were killed and 240 taken hostage.\n\nIsrael launched a retaliatory campaign, in which Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says more than 14,500 people have been killed.", "David Cameron says his six years as prime minister \"was a good apprenticeship\" for being foreign secretary\n\nLord Cameron has defended his pro-China policy as prime minister, insisting that it is still right to \"engage\" with Beijing.\n\nIn his first full interview since becoming foreign secretary, Lord Cameron said China is key to solving big issues like climate change.\n\nThe comments risk angering Tory MPs, some of whom China has sanctioned.\n\nBut he told the BBC he supported the government's current \"realistic, hard-headed policy\" towards China.\n\nIn a wide-ranging conversation, Lord Cameron also denied he had become foreign secretary because he was bored.\n\n\"Being prime minister for six years was a good apprenticeship for being foreign secretary,\" he said.\n\nLord Cameron has been criticised for his close involvement with Chinese investment in recent years.\n\nHe has given speeches praising a port development in Sri Lanka owned ultimately by a Chinese state company.\n\nHe tried to set up a £1bn China-Investment fund. And he met senior Chinese figures on visits to Beijing.\n\nThis has raised fears among some MPs that Lord Cameron could seek to soften the government's attitude towards China.\n\nBut he told the BBC the world had changed since he was prime minister.\n\n\"China has become much more aggressive, much more assertive, over the Uighurs, over Hong Kong, the 'wolf warrior' diplomacy,\" he said.\n\n\"And so that's why security and protection is such an important part of our policy.\n\n\"We also need to align more carefully with our allies to make sure we can counter any malign threats coming from China. So, it is a realistic hard headed policy.\"\n\nBut he defended his previous policy in Downing Street that sought a new \"golden era\" in Sino-UK relations.\n\nHe said: \"When I became prime minister, the greatest need was for Britain to grow again, trade again, with exports to help our businesses around the world.\n\n\"I loaded up planes, I took them to India, I took them to China, I took them to Africa to get the economy moving again.\"\n\nAnd the government, he said, should still deal with Beijing today.\n\n\"Engaging China is one part of the approach we need to take,\" he said.\n\n\"Not least, because China is a fifth of humanity. We're not going to solve challenges like climate change, unless we engage.\n\n\"And hopefully I can be a part of that.\"\n\nDavid Cameron took Chinese President Xi Jinping to a pub near Chequers as part of his push for a 2golden era\" of Chinese relations.\n\nLord Cameron also risked angering pro-Brexit Tory MPs by saying Britain should engage more closely with the European Union on foreign, defence and security policy.\n\nHe said Britain had decided not to be a member of the EU but had to be \"a friend, a neighbour and the best possible partner\" and the UK had to make that work.\n\n\"When you look at the engagement in Ukraine, that probably is the best example of how it's worked,\" he said.\n\n\"There's no doubt that Britain is the leading European power in helping Ukraine.\n\n\"I heard that over and over again from the president downwards. But we're doing that in partnership with our European colleagues.\n\n\"So, I think we can make friend, neighbour and partner work. And I'm determined to do so.\"\n\nEven in his first few days back in office, Lord Cameron has been a strong advocate for boosting Britain's international development policy.\n\nBut he suggested he would not push for a return to the target of spending 0.7% of national income on foreign aid.\n\n\"I took this job accepting collective Cabinet responsibility,\" he said.\n\nLord Cameron gave his \"100% support\" to the government's Rwanda migration policy, saying \"we have to do what it takes to break the model of the people smugglers\".\n\nHe said: \"What I'm absolutely ready to do is to support the government's policy and 100% because we have got to stop the boats.\n\n\"And I don't say this glibly. I know that there's nothing more destructive to a country's immigration system and immigration policy than large scale, very visible illegal migration.\n\n\"And that is what we have. That's what we got to stop.\n\n\"Now the number of small boat crossings is down by a third. But we have to do whatever it takes to break the model of the people's workers.\"\n\nAsked if he was willing to countenance pulling Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights, he ignored the question and said: \"I'm very happy to say I 100% support the government policy and whatever it takes.\"", "Harry Styles won best artist at this year's Brit Awards. All of his competitors were male.\n\nOrganisers of the Brit Awards have announced they will update their rules to address criticism over diversity.\n\nThe show faced a backlash in January when it was revealed that no women were shortlisted for the best artist prize, which replaced the gendered best male and female categories two years ago.\n\nHarry Styles, who won the award, dedicated it to artists like Charli XCX, who had been overlooked.\n\nThe Brits will now expand the number of nominees for the prize from five to 10.\n\nIt is hoped the change will create a more balanced field.\n\nA new award for best R&B act will also be created for the 2024 ceremony.\n\nPreviously, R&B artists were forced to compete in a combined best pop/R&B category - which was predictably dominated by mainstream stars like Harry Styles and Dua Lipa.\n\nSinger Mahalia voiced her dissatisfaction at the 2023 Brits ceremony, turning up in a Burberry jacket with the words \"Long Live R&B\" painted on the back.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News on Friday, she welcomed the changes.\n\n\"I literally screamed on the phone when I found out,\" she said. \"This is huge\".\n\nMahalia protested the merged pop and R&B category on the Brits' red carpet in February\n\nShe continued: \"For me, when the [combined] category got announced a couple of years ago, I was disappointed for the younger generation of R&B kids, who were going to think a Brit nomination was impossible.\n\n\"I was kind of feeling that, too. If I'm in a longlist with all of these huge art pop artists, I don't know how I'm going to shine through.\n\n\"So my initial reaction to the change was just pure happiness and pride.\"\n\nHer comments were echoed by BBC 1Xtra's DJ Ace, who presents a weekly show dedicated to R&B.\n\n\"Right now is such a great time for R&B,\" he said, citing acts like Ella Mai, Cleo Sol and Flo - all of whom would be eligible for the new prize.\n\n\"Feel-good music is back, there's an explosion of R&B and Afrobeats music. People want to feel again.\n\nHe credited Mahalia with persuading the organisers to take action.\n\n\"Wearing that jacket said a lot, even though it could have been detrimental to her career.\n\n\"Going against the grain isn't always the done thing in the music industry, but she had something to say and she said it. And I'm so glad that they've taken heed.\"\n\nThe Brits said the inaugural best R&B prize would have an eligibility period of 24 months, instead of the usual 12, to make sure artists who may have been overlooked in 2023 were eligible to qualify.\n\nThe extended shortlist for artist of the year will also apply to the best international artist category.\n\nThe changes were decided as part of an annual review of the ceremony, said Dr Jo Twist, CEO of awards organisers the BPI.\n\n\"Obviously we were disappointed that no women were nominated for artist of the year in 2023,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"So we reached out to people in the industry and expert groups to understand how we can improve this for this year, to make the Brits inclusive and reflective.\"\n\nShe added that \"this year is looking very positive\" for female artists and R&B acts, with the likes of Dua Lipa, Raye, Mahalia and PinkPantheress all eligible in multiple categories.\n\nRachel Jones' trophy (left) is the latest in a long line of bespoke Brits statues\n\nSeparately, organisers revealed that British visual artist Rachel Jones would design the 2024 Brit Award Trophy.\n\nShe follows in the footsteps of Damien Hirst, Vivienne Westwood, Sir Peter Blake and Zaha Hadid, all of whom have put their individual spin on the traditional Britannia statue.\n\nRecently labelled \"the most interesting abstract painter working today\" by Time Out magazine, Jones's trophy is an explosion of colour, painted in a variety of styles and textures.\n\n\"I feel like it's my voice in the form of a trophy, it's colourful and chaotic,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"This was really important because all the other trophies were so distinctive, and you know immediately who made them. I'm really happy that what we've ended up with is a reflection of my visual language\".\n\nThe 2024 Brit Award ceremony will take place at London's O2 Arena on Saturday, 2 March, and will be broadcast live on ITV.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Alex Salmond was cleared by a jury of sexual assault at the High Court in Edinburgh\n\nFormer First Minister Alex Salmond has launched a fresh legal case against the Scottish government.\n\nMr Salmond took the government to court in 2019 over its mishandling of harassment complaints against him.\n\nHe has already been awarded over half a million pounds in costs for the case but is now seeking significant damages and loss of earnings.\n\nThe former SNP leader was cleared of sexual assault charges in a separate criminal trial in 2020.\n\nMr Salmond, who is now leader of the Alba party, has lodged a Court of Session petition alleging misfeasance - the wrongful exercise of lawful authority - by civil servants.\n\nHe said that \"not one single person has been held accountable\" for the botched handling of the harassment inquiry, which he said a Court of Session judge described as unlawful, unfair and tainted by apparent bias.\"\n\n\"With this court action, that evasion of responsibility ends,\" Mr Salmond added.\n\nHe added: \"The calling of the action signals that the day of reckoning for the Scottish government's record of misfeasance on this grand scale will inevitably come.\"\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf said, given that the case was now live, he could not comment other than to say the Scottish government would \"defend its position robustly\".\n\nThe case has been put on hold while investigations continue into other complaints Mr Salmond has made - including about perjury during the previous case.\n\nThe Crown Office has been looking at that, with a spokesman saying: \"Correspondence from Mr Salmond's solicitor will be responded to in due course.\n\n\"As is standard practice in any matter regarding politicians, this is being dealt with by independent prosecutors without the involvement of the Law Officers.\"\n\nThe public officials and ministers named in Mr Salmond's action include his successor as first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, as well as the Scottish government's former permanent secretary Leslie Evans and ex-chief of staff Liz Lloyd.\n\nA spokeswoman for Ms Sturgeon said: \"Nicola utterly refutes Salmond's claims, as she has always done.\n\n\"She answered questions before a parliamentary committee for eight hours in 2021, and was also investigated and cleared by the independent adviser on the ministerial code.\n\n\"Salmond's actions are a matter for him, and the conduct of the case is a matter for the Scottish government.\"\n\nAlex Salmond claimed his successor as first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, broke the ministerial code\n\nThe legal move comes after a special Holyrood committee was set up to investigate the government's handling of misconduct claims made against him by two civil servants.\n\nThe Scottish government had been forced to admit it had acted unlawfully and paid the former first minister's legal fees of £512,000 after he launched a judicial review case.\n\nA committee of nine MSPs - four from the SNP, two Tories and one from each of Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems - was chosen, headed by deputy presiding officer Linda Fabiani.\n\nMr Salmond told them that a group of people close to his successor, Nicola Sturgeon, had plotted against him.\n\nHe claimed Ms Sturgeon broke the ministerial code by misleading parliament during the investigation.\n\nMs Sturgeon had already been cleared of breaching the ministerial code by a separate independent inquiry.\n\nThe panel concluded that the Scottish government's handling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond was \"seriously flawed\".\n\nIt also said women had been badly let down by the government.\n\nIn January last year, the Scottish government published a new procedure for dealing with harassment and bullying complaints against ministers.\n\nExternal investigators will now look into formal complaints against ministers, with the government responsible for acting on findings.\n\nAlex Salmond was cleared by a jury of 14 counts of sexual assault after a two week trial at the High Court in Edinburgh in 2020.\n\nAfter the bombshell of the original court case and the drama of the Holyrood inquiry, it may have seemed like Scottish politics had moved on from this row.\n\nBut for Alex Salmond there was always unfinished business.\n\nThe former first minister accepted the outcome of the inquiry and recovered half a million pounds in costs for his successful judicial review.\n\nBut he had long threatened to sue for compensation, and to try to force someone in government - specifically the former permanent secretary Leslie Evans - to take responsibility for the flawed investigation.\n\nHe was also frustrated by the legal barriers to putting certain points on the record, which he believed backed his claims against figures in the SNP and the government.\n\nThose barriers have not gone away. But Mr Salmond looks set to bring the row back to the fore again.\n\nThis case will be contested entirely in the courts, and it will be for judges to decide on its merits. But these are politicians we are talking about, so there is some politics to this too.\n\nMr Salmond's previous legal action and the inquiry that followed was damaging for the government, and threatened Nicola Sturgeon's position as first minister.\n\nHumza Yousaf can at least say that was all before his time, but a fresh legal wrangle is still the last thing the first minister needs.\n\nIt is also interesting for Mr Salmond, whose new-ish Alba Party has been pushing for a \"Scotland United\" deal with the SNP.\n\nIf he is to resume his criticism of senior figures in the party and government, any hopes of a political rapprochement seem remote.", "It's the first time Lana Del Rey is headlining the festivals\n\nFred Again, Lana Del Rey and Catfish and the Bottlemen have been announced as headliners of next year's Reading and Leeds festivals.\n\nBlink-182 and Liam Gallagher will also be rocking the main stages.\n\nThe festival will take place on 21 to 25 August, returning to Richfield Avenue, Reading, and Leeds' Bramham Park.\n\nIt will be the only time Lana, Fred Again and Blink-182 will play UK festival sets in 2024.\n\nFestivalgoers will also have the chance to see Gerry Cinnamon, American DJ Skrillex, band Spiritbox, rapper Digga D and Mercury Prize nominee Raye.\n\nTo celebrate the 30th anniversary of Oasis' Definitely Maybe, Liam Gallagher will be playing the album in full.\n\n\"The most RnR [rock and roll] festivals we have left in the UK. Be there or be square LG x,\" the Oasis star posted online.\n\nFred Again played at Glastonbury in June 2023\n\nFor Fred Again, like many teenagers, he says it's \"the first festival I ever went to\".\n\nFans have expressed excitement about the return of indie rock band Catfish and the Bottlemen, who last headlined in 2021, but have \"disappeared\" for the last two years.\n\nMelvin Benn, managing director of promoter Festival Republic, says it's \"very rewarding\" to see Catfish And The Bottlemen headlining the festival for a second time.\n\nHe also describes the 2023 edition as being \"a hugely successful year for attendance\".\n\nAt Leeds Festival 2023, more people were arrested for drug offences, compared to the previous year, as part of a police crackdown following the death of a teenager.\n\nDavid Celino, 16, died after taking drugs at Leeds Festival in 2022.\n\nBoth Festival Republic and West Yorkshire Police have said safety planning for the 2024 festival had begun.\n\nTickets go on general sale on 30 November.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Pistorius is serving 13 years for murder, after killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in 2013.\n\nFormer Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius is making another bid for early release from the South African prison where he is serving over 13 years for murdering his girlfriend.\n\nPistorius shot Reeva Steenkamp 10 years ago at his home in Pretoria in a killing that shocked the world, and was jailed for murder in 2016.\n\nShe however said she was not convinced that Pistorius was rehabilitated.\n\nJune Steenkamp is not attending the hearing at Atteridgeville prison, just outside the capital, Pretoria. She said she \"simply cannot muster the energy to face [Pistorius] again at this stage\".\n\nReeva Steenkamp's father Barry died in September and his \"demise had opened the wounds in many ways caused by Reeva's death\".\n\nA victim impact statement from her is being read to the parole board.\n\nShe wrote that she doubted that Pistorius was rehabilitated because \"rehabilitation requires someone to engage honestly with the full truth of his crime and the consequences\" and she did not feel that he had engaged \"honestly with the full truth of his crime\".\n\nReeva Steenkamp, who was 29 when she died, was a law graduate and successful model.\n\nShe was killed when Pistorius fired four shots with a pistol through the door of a toilet cubicle at his house in Pretoria in the early hours of Valentine's Day in February 2013.\n\nPistorius, now 37, said at trial he thought an intruder was present in the house and that Ms Steenkamp was still in bed.\n\nHe was convicted of murder in 2015 at the Supreme Court of Appeal having initially been convicted of the lesser offence of culpable homicide.\n\nThe Supreme Court ruled that Pistorius's account of the night \"varied substantially\" and that he had \"fired without having a rational or genuine fear that his life was in danger\".\n\n\"I do not believe Oscar's version that he thought the person in the toilet was a burglar. In fact, I do not know anybody who does. My dearest child screamed for her life; loud enough for the neighbours to hear her,\" June Steenkamp wrote in her statement.\n\nShe said she was also concerned for the safety of women if his behaviour had not been addressed in prison.\n\nIt is unclear how long the parole board will take to make its decision, but it could be fast. In the event Pistorius is granted parole, a date will be set for his release.\n\nAmong other factors, the parole board will consider Pistorius's conviction, his conduct while in prison and the risk he poses to the public.\n\nA first parole hearing for Pistorius in March collapsed when the authorities decided he had not completed the minimum detention period required to be released.\n\nBut last month, the Constitutional Court found that was a mistake, leading to Friday's hearing.\n\nPistorius's lower legs were amputated when he was less than a year old. He subsequently relied on prosthetics and became a world-renowned athlete known as the \"blade runner\".\n\nHe won multiple gold medals at the Paralympics. He also competed against non-disabled athletes at the London 2012 Olympics.\n\nThe murder of Reeva Steenkamp and subsequent criminal process dominated headlines around the world.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNovak Djokovic told a group of British fans to \"shut up\" as they tried to drown out his interview with musical instruments after their team were knocked out of the Davis Cup by Serbia.\n\nBritain lost the quarter-final 2-0 as Cameron Norrie was unable to inflict a rare defeat on the world number one.\n\n\"You should learn how to show some respect,\" Djokovic told the fans.\n\nJack Draper was beaten 7-6 (7-2) 7-6 (8-6) by Miomir Kecmanovic in the opening match of the best-of-three tie.\n\nThat result meant Norrie had to beat 24-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic for the first time in his career.\n\nBut Djokovic showed his class as he cruised to a 6-4 6-4 win and set Serbia up for a semi-final against Italy on Saturday.\n\nAfter an assured and drama-free performance, Djokovic had the spiky exchange prior to his on-court interview, challenging the small number of British fans who act as the team's band.\n\nHe had celebrated at the end of the first set by blowing a kiss to a British supporter heckling him and also cupped his ear in their direction at the end of the match.\n\n\"It's normal that sometimes fans step over the line and in the heat of the moment you react too, and in a way show that you don't allow this kind of behaviour,\" Djokovic said.\n\n\"They can do whatever they want, but I'm going to respond to that. That's what happened.\n\n\"I was trying to talk and they were purposely starting to play the drums so that I don't talk and they were trying to annoy me the entire match.\"\n\nBritain, who last won the Davis Cup in 2015, will not automatically qualify for the 2024 knockout stage after their quarter-final exit in Malaga.\n\nUnless they receive a wildcard, Leon Smith's team will have to negotiate the same path as this year - a qualifying tie early next year, followed by the round-robin stage before the Final Eight.\n\nAndy Murray, who missed the tie through injury, said it was a \"tough one\" for his team-mates and thanked the British fans - estimated at almost half of those in attendance at the 11,500 capacity arena - for their support.\n\n\"Huge thanks to all the fans who made the big effort to travel out there and create a brilliant atmosphere for the players,\" said Murray, who added the Davis Cup would not be the same without them.\n\nDjokovic takes another step towards another trophy\n\nDespite being in the twilight of his career, 36-year-old Djokovic's powers are showing little sign of diminishing.\n\nIn another extraordinary season, Djokovic has won the Australian Open, French Open and US Open titles, with his only defeat at a major coming against Spain's Carlos Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final.\n\nOn Sunday, he further underlined his superiority by rounding off the tour season with a record seventh title at the ATP Finals in Turin.\n\nNow he is aiming to cap a spectacular year, even by his standards, by adding the Davis Cup to his enviable trophy haul.\n\nDjokovic's supremacy this season - and the gulf between him and most of his rivals - was further emphasised by a dominant performance against Norrie.\n\nNorrie has been a fixture inside the world's top 20 for three successive seasons but was short of the quality needed to really damage Djokovic.\n\nDjokovic took two of his 12 break point opportunities, while Norrie was only able to win eight points on the Serb's serve.\n\nSerbia will now face Italy after world number four Jannik Sinner inspired them to victory over the Netherlands earlier on Thursday.\n\nConsidered one of the rising stars of the ATP Tour, Draper is still a novice in Davis Cup terms.\n\nBut the 21-year-old left-hander had been thrust into the pressurised situation of knowing he would probably have to win his singles match if Britain were going to advance - barring Norrie inflicting a first Davis Cup singles defeat in 12 years on Djokovic.\n\nFollowing injuries to Dan Evans and Andy Murray, Draper was the natural choice to open the tie against Serbia even though he only made his competition debut in September's round-robin stage.\n\nPossessing a thunderous serve and clinical forehand from the baseline, Draper is ranked 60th in the world on the back of strong form in recent weeks.\n\nInjuries ruined his first eight months of the season, but a run of 17 wins from his 21 previous matches going into the Davis Cup tie left him feeling confident in his body and mind.\n\nThere was little to choose between Draper and 55th-ranked Kecmanovic - but it was the Serb who executed better in the crucial moments.\n\nTwo double faults from Draper in the first-set tie-break - for 2-0 and 5-2 respectively - proved particularly costly.\n\n\"It's difficult knowing that Cam has to go and play Djokovic after, and that's seemingly a must-win match for me,\" Draper said.\n\n\"I back Cam but it's definitely a tough challenge to go out there knowing that there is a lot more pressure on me to win the match.\n\n\"That's the kind of pressure that if I want to be a top player, I have to cope with and perform under. It's tough not to get the win today.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Home Secretary James Cleverly has admitted using a swearword to describe the Stockton North MP\n\nThe home secretary has admitted he used \"unparliamentary\" language to describe a Labour MP, a close source has said.\n\nJames Cleverly had denied claims he called the Stockton North constituency a swearword in response to a question in the Commons from Alex Cunningham.\n\nThe source said on Thursday: \"James made a comment. He called Alex Cunningham a shit MP. He apologises for unparliamentary language.\"\n\nMr Cunningham said it was \"simply not true\", adding he did not \"believe\" it.\n\nHe had alleged the swearword was used during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday.\n\nMr Cunningham had asked: \"Why are 34% of children in my constituency living in poverty?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMaking a point of order in the Commons later that day, he said: \"Before the prime minister answered, the home secretary chose to add in his pennyworth.\n\n\"He was seen and heard to say 'because it's a shithole'.\n\n\"I know he is denying being the culprit, but the audio is clear and has been checked, and checked, and checked again.\"\n\nConservative Party chairman and Durham North West MP Richard Holden had earlier said he was \"sure it wasn't said by any Conservative MP\".\n\nThe source close to Mr Cleverly added: \"As was made clear yesterday, he would never criticise Stockton. He's campaigned in Stockton and is clear that it is a great place.\"\n\nMr Cunningham said: \"This is simply not true. I don't believe it. Two syllables were clearly heard.\n\n\"'MP' doesn't fit. He's moved today but needs to go the full distance and admit that he said the words.\"\n\nStockton hosted its annual launch event of its Christmas countdown on Thursday\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's PM programme, Mr Cunningham said the Home Secretary had a \"responsibility to own up for what he actually said, my colleagues saw and heard it\".\n\nIt was a \"terrible slur on my community\" and Mr Cleverly was not \"fit for such high office\", he added.\n\nA spokeswoman for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he continued to have confidence in Mr Cleverly as his team \"had clarified and provided an apology for using unparliamentary language\".\n\n\"We don't have anything further to add to that,\" she added.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Newscast, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: \"You just couldn't make it up could you.\n\n\"He's not been Home Secretary for more than two weeks and he's already managed to pick a fight with a northern town and been insulting towards a fellow MP.\"\n\nLord Houchen, the Conservative Tees Valley Mayor, which includes Stockton, said the speculation had \"dragged Stockton's name through the mud\", which was \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"I'm pleased James Cleverly has apologised for using unparliamentary language,\" he wrote on X (formerly Twitter).\n\n\"We're all human and he's a good guy who made a mistake,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two Doors Down is the Scottish sitcom which has been quietly creeping into living rooms across the UK for a decade.\n\nAnd it's an ordinary living room where the show is set. Latimer Crescent is home to Beth and Eric (Arabella Weir and Alex Norton) to Christine (Elaine C Smith) and to Colin (Jonathan Watson) and the show revolves around them and the various friends and neighbours who find reasons to intrude into their home.\n\nThe show has been networked from the start, but this, the seventh series, will move to BBC One.\n\n\"It's always had a loyal following,\" says Kieran Hodgson who plays Gordon, the partner of Beth and Eric's son, Ian (Jamie Quinn).\n\n\"But each year, it's got bigger and bigger. And now BBC One which feels very well-deserved.\"\n\nKieran Hodgson, who plays Gordon, says the show has always had a loyal following\n\nFans of the show include Graham Norton, Peter Capaldi, Zoe Ball and David Tennant.\n\n\"I think it works because there's a great level of universality,\" Kieran says.\n\n\"Yes, it's set in Paisley and a lot of the time the conversation seems to be around very Scottish things but it has a grounding in reality which allows you to really believe in these people and their lives.\n\n\"And these lives are being led across the country, and those microaggressions are being experienced in living rooms from Lerwick to Truro.\"\n\nThe show has had a slow but steady rise. Creators Simon Carlyle and Gregor Sharp created the original pilot in 2013 but it was another three years before a series was commissioned.\n\nDoon Mackichan has returned to play Cathy, the wife of Colin (Jonathan Watson) on the sitcom\n\nCharacters have come and gone over the years, and fans will be delighted to see the return of Cathy, the monstrous but glorious wife of Colin, played by Jonathan Watson.\n\n\"Don't get me wrong,\" Jonathan says. \"I've enjoyed working with Siobhan Redmond [who plays new girlfriend Anne Marie] and I've enjoyed Colin's adventures on Tinder but having Doon Mackichan back as Cathy has been great.\"\n\n\"If Eric and Beth anchor the programme, Colin and Cathy bring chaos as soon as they enter the room.\"\n\nAnd don't assume that the programme revolves around any major happenings. The genius of Two Doors Down is that nothing happens. Think The Royle Family. Or a swearier version of The Broons.\n\nKieran Hodgson agrees: \"It all revolves around small trivial incidents that then take on rich and obscene life.\n\n\"There's one episode where all that happens, is that Alan (Graham \"Grado\" Stevely) has some spare doughnuts.\n\n\"That's the thing. If you keep the stakes low, there's no end to small events that you can dramatise and explore.\"\n\nSimon Carlyle on the set of Two Doors Down\n\nBut the success of Two Doors Down has been tinged with sadness. In August, just weeks after filming on the series finished, Simon Carlyle died. He was 48.\n\n\"It's still quite difficult to come to terms with, to be honest,\" Jonathan says.\n\n\"We had the press launch the week before last in London. We showed a couple of episodes, and it was really odd because he should've been there.\n\n\"He'll certainly be in our thoughts when we sit down to watch the new season.\"\n\nKieran agrees, and says the show serves as a tribute to his talent.\n\n\"But reaching this pinnacle is doubly, triply sad for us all,\" he says.\n\n\"The delight and pride we have watching these latest episodes is tinged with huge sadness because we were working on them together, just a couple of weeks before he died.\n\n\"We've lost a friend first and foremost and someone taken away far, far too young, but we've also lost this wonderful project that he and Gregor created and that we all came to love.\"\n\nTwo Doors Down is on BBC One on Friday at 21:30 and BBC Scotland on Sunday at 22:30.\n• None How Two Doors Down changed Kieran Hodgson's life", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA crane worker who lifted a man to safety from a burning high-rise building in Reading has been thanked by the fire service.\n\nThe large fire broke out at the Station Hill development site in the Berkshire town on Thursday morning.\n\nCrane operator Glen Edwards used a cage to rescue the workman, who was surrounded by flames and thick smoke.\n\nThe fire service said: \"Without their actions, we may be looking at an entirely different scenario.\"\n\nGlen Edwards had been working at the site before the blaze broke out but played down his heroics\n\nMr Edwards lifted a man to safety from the fire as flames and smoke billowed around him\n\nWayne Bowcock, chief fire officer at Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue, said: \"I would like to add my thanks to the crane operator for an incredibly skilful rescue under extremely difficult circumstances.\"\n\nFootage captured by bystanders showed the moment Mr Edwards, 65, used the winch he was operating to move a cage towards the workman.\n\nCrowds below broke out in applause as the man was lifted in the air and down to safety.\n\nMr Edwards, who had been working at the site before the blaze broke out, played down his heroics.\n\n\"I don't want to blow it up too much, I'm not that sort of person,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 50 firefighters were called to fight the blaze at Station Hill in Reading\n\nIt's very quiet here, especially compared to how it was yesterday.\n\nThere are a few roads directly around the building which are still closed, with fire and rescue tape up and steel fences still in place.\n\nThe lights are on in the Station Hill development this morning and, as I look up at the building, the damage is clear to see seven or eight storeys up, where the glass is warped. It's shattered across two floors.\n\nYou can see into the building, crystal clear, on the floors directly below the scar of where that fire was, but in the floors above that, light is dim - you can see the glass has been blackened and charred by the smoke.\n\nThe damage to the high-rise building following the fire\n\nAnother man was also lifted from the building by crane, firefighters said.\n\nSouth Central Ambulance Service said two people were taken to the Royal Berkshire Hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation, but neither case was severe.\n\nMr Bowcock added: \"On behalf of the service, I would like to extend our best wishes to the two people who were rescued from the building and wish them a speedy recovery.\"\n\nSir Robert McAlpine, the firm behind the build, said: \"We are immensely proud of those on site whose actions helped ensure a safe evacuation.\n\n\"Our site safety procedures and training for dealing with an incident of this nature worked and everyone is safe.\"\n\nA spokesman for the construction and civil engineering company added: \"We are getting in touch with all those affected and are offering support from wellbeing professionals. Fortunately, incidents of this nature are extremely rare.\n\n\"The site has been safely secured and a thorough investigation is underway, meaning at this stage we are unable to comment further\".\n\nA HSE spokesperson said: \"We are aware of this incident and making enquiries.\"\n\nThe fire service said all other people had been accounted for.\n\nAt 14:20 GMT on Thursday, the fire service confirmed the fire had been put out. At its peak, more than 50 firefighters were on the scene from fire stations across the county.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, X, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "'Politicians need to combat rise of right' - NI secretary\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris, who is in Dublin for the meeting of the British-Irish Council, says there’s an onus on elected politicians to combat the rise of the far right. Heaton-Harris adds that he is not in a position \"to suggest to the Irish as to how they could and should react\". But he referred to the rise of the British National Party in England. “We had in English politics the rise of the British National Party only a few years ago, they were elected to the European Parliament, MEPs were elected to the European Parliament in two regions of the United Kingdom,” he says. “On the rise of the far right, it is up to democratically elected politicians to be able to articulate the concerns of their electorate and we need to do that better.\" He says when mainstream politicians fail to properly debate issues around migration and immigration they “leave a vacuum for other people who might not be as benign as we are\".", "Kim Jong Un attended the celebration banquet with his daughter\n\nNorth Korea's leader Kim Jong Un has congratulated his team of scientists for launching a spy satellite, calling it a \"new era of space power\".\n\nHe described the mission as a \"full-fledged exercise in self defence\".\n\nNorth Korea fired a rocket believed to contain the spy satellite on Tuesday.\n\nIt claimed it was a success but South Korea said it was too soon to tell if the satellite is functioning, after two previous launches failed.\n\nMr Kim appeared at a reception of space scientists and technicians on Thursday with his wife Ri Sol Ju and, daughter, Kim Ju Ae, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).\n\nHe said the launch \"had propelled the country into a new era of space power\", KCNA said.\n\nAnd it added that Mr Kim said \"the possession of reconnaissance satellite is a full-fledged exercise of the right to self-defence\".\n\nNorth Korea's premier Kim Tok Hun said the satellite would give their military the capacity to strike the whole world.\n\nDeveloping a functioning spy satellite is a major part of North Korea's five-year military plan - and the technology could in theory enable Pyongyang to monitor the movement of US and South Korean troops and weapons on the Korean Peninsula, allowing it to spot incoming threats.\n\nA few hours after Tuesday's launch, North Korean state media claimed that they were already reviewing images of US military bases in Guam.\n\nThe launch has been strongly condemned by the UN as well as other countries including the US and Japan.\n\nAnd it has sparked a row with South Korea, who said it believed the North received help from Russia.\n\nThe latest launch followed Mr Kim's rare trip to Russia in September, when President Vladimir Putin offered Pyongyang help to build satellites.\n\nPyongyang's launch of the satellite called \"Malligyong-1\" was its third attempt after two attempts had failed in May and August.\n\nSouth Korea confirmed that the launch was successful but said it was too early to determine if the satellite was functioning as claimed by the North.\n\nSouth Korea partially suspended a five-year-old military accord with the North, after Pyongyang's launch of the satellite on Tuesday.\n\nPyongyang responded by threatening to suspend the deal in full, adding that it \"will never be bound\" by the agreement again.", "The aim is to cut the amount of waste that gets left at the end of a typical shoot\n\nAway from the bright lights and the big star names, Tilly Ashton spends her days on film sets doing less glitzy but no less important work.\n\nWhile the cameras roll, she is busy washing dirty waste packaging and sorting it for recycling.\n\nA veteran of big productions for Netflix and ITV, her mission is to cut carbon and reduce waste.\n\nThat's because Wales' screen sector has been chosen to pilot major changes to meet net zero targets.\n\nAccording to industry experts, filmmakers both in Wales and abroad are more likely to be drawn to places where making carbon neutral films is easier.\n\nIt is something that resonated with Tilly from her first time on the set of a major production.\n\nShe noticed straight away the sense of shame among crew members regarding the amount of waste that gets left at the end of an average shoot.\n\nIt presented a clear opportunity to try to find a way of reducing waste and cutting the large carbon footprint created within that world.\n\n\"It's a massive challenge, like trying to turn a super tanker,\" said Tilly, a film and television sustainability coordinator.\n\n\"People who have been in the industry for a long time have ways of working under pressure and know what suits them best - they don't have time to think of other ways of doing things.\n\n\"So what I've focused on initially are the easy wins.\"\n\nMost recently having worked on an upcoming Martin Clunes drama for ITV, part of Tilly's time is spent cleaning used packaging and separating it into different recycling bins.\n\nHer work also focuses on encouraging crew members to think more about sustainable options - for example, asking the catering department to provide meals with a smaller carbon footprint.\n\n\"It's a massive challenge, like trying to turn a super tanker,\" says Tilly Ashton of her unglamorous but vital work\n\nBut while Dragon Studios in Bridgend, which hosted the Clunes production, runs entirely on green energy, filming in rural and remote parts of Wales can often require carbon-heavy transport and energy use - diesel-powered generators, for example.\n\n\"As a result, I suggest how we look at cleaner types of fuel,\" said Tilly.\n\n\"We have an option such as HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oil), which is 90% lower on carbon emissions and much cleaner burning, so better in terms of air quality but it's more expensive.\n\n\"However, persuading a production to go for HVO it can be difficult if budgets are really tight.\n\n\"What we really need are dedicated environmental budgets that I can then prioritise which will benefit our carbon footprint.\"\n\nTilly is now employed by Severn Screen in Cardiff and her first on-set experience was during the filming of its upcoming Netflix thriller Havoc, starring Tom Hardy.\n\n\"We're not going to solve the sustainability challenge overnight, we have to keep learning,\" says Mathew Talfan of Severn Screen\n\nMathew Talfan, head of strategy and operations at Severn Screen, said: \"Actually having someone whose sole responsibility is sustainability has been transformational for us.\n\n\"It's meant that voice is there as we're planning production from the very early stages. We're not going to solve the sustainability challenge overnight, we have to keep learning.\"\n\nWales is the first UK nation to participate in Screen New Deal, a landmark initiative which offers support to reach zero-carbon and zero-waste targets.\n\nBafta albert, an environmental organisation which upholds sustainability standards within the screen industry, has said it hopes its plan for Wales will provide a blueprint for the rest of the UK.\n\nAverage CO2 emissions from TV and film produced in the UK in 2022 far exceeded the levels of the previous five years.\n\nBafta albert said this was reflective of industry engagement to disclose information and an improvement in data recording.\n\nWelsh productions were more reliant on diesel in 2022 compared to the UK average, according to new figures.\n\nThe reliance on road travel on Welsh productions was almost double the UK average - although air travel accounted for 14% of emissions for transport, which was much lower than the UK average.\n\nOther elements which have been measured to calculate the overall carbon footprint of productions include food, in particular meat consumption, what materials are used to build sets and whether they've been recycled or stored for reuse.\n\nBafta albert's pilot project in Wales will focus on a number of key areas, including a shift to renewable energy on location, establishing carbon budgets for productions and creating a circular approach so that costumes and kit is reused.\n\nIts head of industry sustainability, April Sotomayer, said: \"Climate change is impacting our world in immediate and sustained ways, and the film and high-end television industries have a key role to play in showing the ways to address it.\n\n\"It is a very exciting step for the production community in Wales to pilot the Screen New Deal, and we're committed to working with stakeholders on the ground to support programme-makers in adopting these recommendations.\"\n\nWales' Deputy Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism Dawn Bowden said the screen industry in Wales is of huge value.\n\n\"The benefits and potential of the industry are huge for us, but we must also be focused on ensuring we are all working together to minimise the impact on our environment,\" she said.", "A man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his former partner in her home in Whitehead, County Antrim.\n\nFormer nurse Alyson Nelson, 64, was stabbed to death in the house on Victoria Avenue in April 2022.\n\nWilliam Finlay, from Old Forde Gardens in Whitehead, appeared at Belfast Crown Court.\n\nThe 68-year-old had previously denied murdering the retired nurse but changed his plea to guilty.\n\nHe was charged with murdering Ms Nelson, aggravated by domestic abuse.\n\nThe judge sentenced Finlay to life imprisonment and scheduled a hearing for 19 January when he will tell him the minimum term he must serve before he can be considered for parole.\n\nA defence lawyer told the court they would be seeking a pre-sentence report and a forensic psychiatrist's report to deal with \"specific issues\".\n\nFinlay was remanded into custody and was led from the dock in handcuffs by two prison officers.", "Vehicles have been set alight and fireworks thrown at police in violent clashes in Dublin.\n\nThe Irish police chief has blamed the unrest on a \"lunatic, hooligan faction\", which follows an earlier knife attack in Ireland's capital city.\n\nThe justice minister has accused those involved in the violence of using the earlier incident to \"wreak havoc\".\n\nVideos shared on social media showed a police car, a tram and a bus among the vehicles set on fire. In another video people could be seen throwing fireworks at police.", "John Travolta stars in the short film adapted from Frederick Forsyth's novella The Shepherd\n\nThe London screening of a new Disney+ movie is already running late - but it isn't John Travolta's fault.\n\nThe star of the short film in question, The Shepherd, is sitting in the audience, patiently waiting to see the story on a big screen for the first time, 30 years after he first dreamed of adapting it.\n\nWhen it becomes clear that there are more people entering the screening room than there are seats, he happily gives up his chair and perches at the end of the row.\n\nDespite taking place on Christmas Eve and being called The Shepherd, the story is not what you might expect. Set in 1957, it follows a young Royal Air Force pilot returning home for Christmas who runs into trouble when his plane suffers electrical failure.\n\nWith navigational systems down and his radio not working, he accepts his fate. But through the darkness and fog, the pilot suddenly spots another plane, flown by a man who offers to help guide him to safety.\n\nThe story is an adaptation of the 1975 novella by Frederick Forsyth - one of the other famous faces in the audience at the screening. By the time Travolta came across the book, he had coincidentally just had a near-death experience of his own when piloting a plane.\n\n\"The kismet of the project is, I actually experienced a total electrical failure, not in a Vampire but a corporate jet, over Washington DC, prior to my discovering the book,\" he tells journalists after the screening.\n\nTravolta, pictured in 2005, has been a qualified pilot for several decades\n\n\"So when I read the book, it resonated more because of this experience I'd personally had.\n\n\"I knew what it felt like to absolutely think you're going to die. Because I had two good jet engines but I had no instruments, no electric, nothing.\n\n\"And I thought it was over, just like this boy, portrayed so beautifully [by actor Ben Radcliffe]. He captured that despair when you think you're actually going to die.\"\n\nThe Grease actor recalls: \"I had my family on board and I said, 'This is it, I can't believe I'm going to die in this plane.'\n\n\"And then, as if by a miracle, we descended to a lower altitude, I saw the Washington DC Monument and identified that Washington National Airport was right next to it and I made a landing just like [character Freddie] does in the film. So I'm reading this book saying, I've lived this.\"\n\nTravolta did not discover Forsyth's book until a few years after his own brush with death.\n\n\"I had just purchased a Vampire jet just like the one in the film. I had flown it for two years and I'm doing a film in Canada and I'm at a book store, and I see a small novella with a Vampire jet on the front of it, and I said, I have to read this.\"\n\nWhen he read the novel, Travolta says he was struck by the feeling he had experienced the events in real life.\n\n\"I instantly fell in love with this book. And it was my dream to one day make it into a film. So a couple of years later I purchased the rights to this book, but because it was right after Pulp Fiction, I was doing one movie after another.\n\n\"So after 10 years, I let it go and decided I was never going to get to do it. Then this hero [director Iain Softley] came along who had also fallen in love with it, and brought me back into the group.\"\n\nTravolta, pictured in London on Thursday, is best known for starring in 1978 musical Grease\n\nWhen Travolta first had the idea of starring in the film more than three decades ago, he envisaged himself portraying the young pilot who runs into difficulty.\n\nInstead, the film sees him play the older man who helps him. \"I was young enough then that I could've played that part,\" he jokes. \"But I had to wait 30 years to play the shepherd.\"\n\nThe film was shot largely in the UK, which explains why Travolta was spotted in Wetherspoons and Morrisons in Norfolk last April, taking selfies with fans.\n\nThursday's screening - overcrowded because some are here for the second showing an hour later - is the first chance for an audience to see the story come to fruition on the silver screen.\n\nMost viewers will watch it on Disney+ when it is released on the streaming platform in December, and at 38 minutes it is the kind of snackable, family-friendly tale that could make easy viewing over the holidays.\n\nDirector Iain Softley (left) and Travolta were interviewed by film critic Mark Kermode at the screening\n\nThe film also stars Millie Kent, Simon Wilson and Steven Mackintosh, while Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón, who directed Gravity and Roma, serves as producer.\n\nThe Shepherd has previously been adapted for the stage and radio, including by the BBC. In Canada, the story has been read on radio network CBC almost every Christmas since 1979.\n\n\"One of the reasons I think it is so enduring is the genius of the story,\" says Softley. \"It makes you question and examine what home means and what is important.\n\n\"And it goes beyond that. It's about the kind of sacred nature in a lot of religions of bringing people home and looking after the lost traveller.\n\n\"And it's self-sacrifice,\" he adds. \"I think also at Christmas, you don't only think about your loved ones, it's a time when you think about other people who are less fortunate.\n\n\"I think it encapsulates all of that, and I think that's why people find it moving and resonant.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "Harvey Owen, 17, from Shrewsbury, was a \"unique\" and \"special person\", his mum has said\n\nThe mum of one of four teenagers killed in a car crash in north Wales has described him as the \"most precious soul\".\n\nPaying tribute, Harvey's mum, Crystal, said the 17-year-old was a \"unique\" and \"special\" person.\n\n\"I can't accept that I won't be able to hold him again or tell him I love him again,\" she said.\n\nIn a statement issued through North Wales Police, she said her son had touched \"many people along the way\".\n\n\"There are absolutely no words to describe the pain we are feeling,\" she said.\n\nThe boys were found on Tuesday in a silver Ford Fiesta which appeared to have come off the road on the A4085 in Garreg, near Tremadog, Gwynedd.\n\nThe car was found upside down, partially submerged in water.\n\nA major search had been launched after the boys went missing following a camping trip.\n\nJevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Fitchett and Hugo Morris were found in an overturned, partially submerged car in Gwynedd\n\nHarvey's mum described her son as \"laid back, charismatic, cheeky\" and \"a boy not of his time\".\n\n\"He was the most gentle soul, always feeling empathy for people and seeing the good in everyone\" she said.\n\n\"He was always passionate about his latest craze, whether that be his pets, BMX, his skateboarding or more recently his passion for playing guitar, jazz music, poetry and art.\n\n\"Lately he had developed a passion for working with bread and dreamed of one day having his own bread shop and cafe.\"\n\nMs Owen said \"everyone had a funny story to tell about Harvey\".\n\n\"Harvey was perfect when he came into the world and he will go out that way,\" she said.\n\n\"He never caused ill will, he did no harm, he wronged nobody, he was and will forever be a son we can be proud of.\"\n\nHarvey Owen was described as \"quirky\", a \"trendsetter,\" and \"loving, pure and hilarious,\" by his mum\n\n\"The fact that Harvey will always be 17 is unbearable to think of and even harder to accept,\" Ms Owens said.\n\n\"Please hold your loved ones tight, all the minor things we worry about are irrelevant, life is so short and can be so cruel.\"\n\nSupt Owain Llewellyn of North Wales Police said on Wednesday the crash had appeared to have been \"a tragic accident\".\n\nPolice said some of the family had visited the scene of the crash on Thursday, before local residents held a vigil in Llanfrothen.\n\nIn Shropshire, Shrewsbury Abbey and other churches have opened their doors to those who wanted to pay their respects.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "David May said: \"Tea for two? Two wee coal tits having a chat in the Cairngorms.\"\n\nA selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 17 and 24 November.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nCraig Milloy took this photo of the Grangemouth Refinery and Forth from Culross.\n\nFiona Duff from Dunmore near Beauly said: \"I have set up a hide and got this lovely red squirrel peeking out from behind the tree.\"\n\nRyan Carroll said: \"I took this image from the Squinty Bridge of a night time Finnieston Quay skyline.\"\n\nHazel Thomson from Elgin sent us this shot of a sparrowhawk.\n\nDeirdre MacKinnon took this dramatic image on North West Skye.\n\nSherellyn Borral's dog Ulis got in on the action in this picture at Glenfinnan Viaduct.\n\nFraser Cormack took this photo at Randolph's Leap, Forres, Moray.\n\nGeorge Current from Edinburgh took this picture at the Scott Monument, adding: \"What would Sir Walter Scott have thought of this?\"\n\nJoan Smith said: \"I saw this beautiful waxwing, one of a group of 40 or 50 outside Tesco in Dunblane.\"\n\nAlice Fechlie from Dundee took this photo of South Shore, Lochearnhead, overlooking St Fillans. She said: \"Beautiful reflections in the water, truly magical.\"\n\nStuart Taylor said: \"I took this picture up Croy Hill in Cumbernauld during some rain. The bad weather really created a gloomy atmosphere.\"\n\nSteve Buckland from Cupar sent us this picture of a sparrowhawk, confused by an ornamental frog at Kedlock Feus, Fife.\n\nGuy Barthorpe sent us this stunning picture of the Old Man of Storr.\n\nKirsty McNab took this picture at Silver Sands of Morar. She said: \"A heart-shaped hole we dug in the sand then put our camera in facing upwards.\"\n\nKeith Almond said: \"I took this photo from the Caledonian Canal at Corpach looking over to Ben Nevis.\"\n\nGraham Christie took this photo of the River Etive with Buachaille Etive Mor in the background.\n\nLauren McKendrick took this picture of a curious fox outside Glasgow Airport.\n\nNatalie Gallan captured this image of waves crashing at Aberdeen Beach.\n\nHugh Maxwell said: \"I took this image from the shore at Barassie in South Ayrshire as a weather front was moving in. I was lucky to catch the shafts of sunlight breaking through the dark clouds.\"\n\nMo Griffiths sent in this photo of RRS Discovery in Dundee \"given an eerie look by the red lighting.\"\n\nNeil Robson said: \"It was nice to have some company whilst waiting on the bus to work on a dry but chilly morning looking toward Lochgoilhead.\"\n\nMark Reynolds took this shot of a colourful sunrise over Aonach Mor and Ben Nevis.\n\nPeter Semple from Perth said: \"Beautiful calm day for a wander up Birnam Hill, was rewarded with this very autumnal view.\"\n\nPat Christie sent us this photo at Milsey Bay in North Berwick.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Industrial action at the Amazon depot in Coventry could continue until the end of the year\n\nHundreds of Amazon staff have gone on strike as people take advantage of Black Friday, one of the year's busiest shopping days.\n\nMembers of the GMB union are locked in a pay dispute with their employer and are on the picket line outside the firm's Coventry site.\n\nStrikes are also taking place in Europe and the US - unions say it is the biggest walkout in Amazon history.\n\nAmazon said the industrial action would not affect customers.\n\nStaff in Coventry were the first of Amazon's employees in the UK to strike when they began industrial action in January.\n\nThe GMB Union said more than about 1,000 workers were taking part on Friday, with some 800 on the picket line.\n\nThe company recently announced it would increase the minimum starting pay to up to £13 an hour from April, depending on location, but the union has called for a rate of at least £15 as well as better working conditions.\n\nGMB members are calling for higher wages for its staff at Amazon's depot in Coventry\n\nSpeaking at the picket in Coventry, GMB senior organiser Stuart Richards said the offer from Amazon \"isn't enough\".\n\n\"They [the workers] deserve better than this. They deserve a decent amount of pay from a company that makes huge amounts of profit,\" he said.\n\nMr Richards said there were union members taking action in five different countries, including Germany, the United States and Italy.\n\nHe added: \"This is now a global wake-up call for Amazon. They can't keep ignoring the concerns of these workers and the workers in warehouses across the world.\n\n\"It's clear that this is a huge momentous thing that Amazon just needs to listen to.\"\n\nUnion members across the world are taking industrial action against Amazon over pay and conditions\n\nAn Amazon spokesperson said the firm regularly reviewed its pay \"to ensure we offer competitive wages and benefits\".\n\n\"By April 2024, our minimum starting pay will have increased to £12.30 and £13 per hour, depending on location - that's a 20% increase over two years and 50% since 2018,\" they continued.\n\n\"We also work hard to provide great benefits, a positive work environment and excellent career opportunities. These are just some of the reasons people want to come and work at Amazon, whether it's their first job, a seasonal role or an opportunity for them to advance their career.\"\n\nThe strike comes two days after the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement included an announcement that the National Living Wage is set to rise from £10.42 to £11.44 per hour, from April.\n\nAmazon said its pay was above that level already, as well as being higher than the voluntary Real Living Wage, which stands at £12 an hour for workers outside London. It added that it also offered other benefits.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A van carrying Palestinian detainees arrives at the Israeli military prison, Ofer, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank\n\nA total of 39 Palestinian detainees have been released from Israeli prisons in exchange for a group of hostages held by Hamas.\n\nThe deal - mediated by Qatar - includes a four-day pause in the fighting.\n\nThey are accused of a range of offences, from throwing stones to attempted murder. Some were convicted while others were awaiting trial.\n\nThe group of 24 women and 15 teenage boys was released across the Beituniya checkpoint in the occupied West Bank.\n\nThey will then be allowed to return home, according to Israel's prison service.\n\nThe detainees were chosen from a list of 300 women and minors compiled by Israel.\n\nLess than a quarter of those on the list have been convicted - the vast majority are being held on remand while awaiting trial. Most of those listed are teenage boys - 40% of them under the age of 18. There is also one teenage girl and 32 women.\n\nEarlier, the road by Beituniya checkpoint, near Ramallah, was sharp with the smell of tear gas. Groups of Palestinian men and boys faced the Israeli army lining up on the road ahead.\n\nThe army fired rubber bullets and tear gas towards the crowd, to push them back.\n\nSome of the young people gathered threw stones and tear gas canisters back towards the troops.\n\n\"It's a sign of hope for Palestinians and Israelis that the ceasefire will continue and the killing will stop,\" Mohammed Khatib, who was in the crowd, told the BBC.\n\nUpon the prisoners' release, the bus that transported them inched its way through a sea of jubilant Palestinian supporters.\n\nThrough the windows, some of the prisoners could be seen dancing, one wrapped in a Palestinian flag. Outside, mobile phones were raised to the glass amid ululations and shouts of welcome and \"God is great\".\n\nPalestinians were pictured waving flags in the street after their release from Ofeh prison\n\nA few in the crowd waved Hamas flags, but others spoke of Palestinian unity, a small moment of victory in the midst of a gruelling war.\n\nFor Israel, the released prisoners are a security threat; for the Palestinians gathered here to greet them, they are victims of Israel's occupation - and their release is a symbol.\n\nThirteen Israeli hostages were released by Hamas under the truce deal. It was confirmed on Friday that they had arrived back in Israel.\n\nThe Thai prime minister says that a group of Thai nationals held hostage by Hamas in Gaza were also released - separate from the Qatar-mediated truce deal.\n\nIsrael and Hamas reached a deal earlier this week to release 50 of the hostages held in Gaza during four-day pause in fighting.\n\nThe agreement should see a total of 150 Palestinians held in Israeli jails released and a significant increase in humanitarian aid allowed into Gaza. Some 60 lorries carrying medical supplies, fuel and food entered from Egypt on Friday.\n\nHamas took more than 200 hostages during a cross-border attack on southern Israel on 7 October in which 1,200 people were killed.\n\nHuman rights organisations say the number of Palestinians held without charge in Israeli jails has shot up since the 7 October attacks.\n\nThere are now thought to be more than 6,000 Palestinians held by Israel on security grounds - many still awaiting trial.\n\nAlmost every Palestinian family in the West Bank is thought to have had a relative detained by Israel at some point in the past - often in jails inside Israel, making it difficult or impossible for their relatives to visit.\n• None What we know about Israel-Hamas hostage deal", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Cameron said those responsible for \"settler violence\" in the West Bank must be prosecuted\n\nLord Cameron has warned Israel that it will never be secure unless there is \"long-term safety, security and stability\" for the Palestinian people.\n\nIn his first full interview as foreign secretary, he welcomed Friday's pause in the fighting to get hostages out of Gaza and humanitarian aid in.\n\nBut he told the BBC that civilian casualties in Gaza were too high.\n\nHe also said that Israeli forces must abide by international humanitarian law.\n\nLord Cameron urged Israel to crack down on what he called \"completely unacceptable\" violence by settlers in the occupied West Bank.\n\nIt was important for Israel to realise, he said, that \"it must act in a way that delivers its long-term security\" and he said that would ultimately depend on \"Palestinians living in peace and stability and security in this land at the same time\".\n\nHe also said that getting Arab countries involved in working for a future for the Palestinian people that gave them some kind of security was \"a very big part of the picture\".\n\nLord Cameron was speaking on the day he visited Ramallah in the West Bank where he met Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority and other senior Palestinian leaders.\n\nHe announced the UK would give a further £30m in humanitarian aid to the United Nations and other agencies on the ground in Gaza, mainly shelters, blanket, food and medicine.\n\nHe said Israel had a right to self-defence and what happened on 7 October was \"completely appalling\", but he added: \"When I met the Israeli president, prime minister and others, I stressed over and over again that they must abide by international humanitarian law, that the number of casualties are too high and they have to have that at the top of their minds.\"\n\nHe said he would have a \"continuous dialogue\" with Israel about this and also the rising settler violence in the West Bank.\n\n\"People are actually targeting and on occasion killing Palestinian civilians, it's completely unacceptable and those people responsible for that, it's not good enough just to arrest them, they need to be arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned. These are crimes.\"\n\nLord Cameron said he had come to Israel to talk to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders about the future.\n\n\"There won't be long term safety and security and stability for Israel, unless there is long term safety, security and stability for the Palestinian people,\" he said.\n\n\"And you have to start thinking about the future…you've got to paint a picture of Palestinians living in peace and stability.\"\n\nHe added: \"You've got to think about what will happen in Gaza after this conflict has finished and how is that going to be stabilised? How is that going to be secure? How's it going to be governed.\n\n\"And then you've got to think about how you start to build the capacity for there to be a state in which Palestinians can live in stability and security, that, of course, that's difficult. But you have to try.\"", "Amiram Cooper, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Tsachi Idan are being held in Gaza\n\nIsrael says 132 people remain unaccounted for after they were abducted and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attacks by Hamas.\n\nAn estimated 240 people were taken prisoner, but 105 were later released by Hamas during a six-day ceasefire at the end of November.\n\nThe Israeli military said it mistakenly killed three hostages in northern Gaza who had escaped from their captors and expressed \"deep remorse\" over the incident.\n\nOf the 132 still unaccounted for, Israel says that 20 of them are believed to be dead.\n\nThese are the stories of those hostages who are still being held, which have either been confirmed by the BBC or credibly reported.\n\nThis list is regularly updated and names may change, as some people feared kidnapped are confirmed to have been killed or released.\n\nLast updated on 19 December 2023 at 10:33 GMT\n\nYagev Kirsht, 34, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim, alongside his wife, Rimon Buchstab Kirsht. She has now been released.\n\nAlexander Trupanov, was taken hostage with his mother Lena Trupanov, 50, his partner Sapir Cohen, 29, and his grandmother Irina Tati, 73. All were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz as they spent the Sabbath together, according to a statement by Canada's Raoul Wallenburg Center for Human Rights. Irina and Lena were released on Wednesday 29 November and Sapir was freed the next day.\n\nAriel Cunio, his girlfriend Arbel Yahud and her brother Dolev are also thought to have been abducted in the same attack on Nir Oz. Eitan Cunio, Ariel's brother who escaped Hamas, told the Jewish Chronicle that his last message from Ariel said: \"We are in a horror movie.\"\n\nDavid Cunio, 33, another of Ariel's brothers, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, family say. David's wife Sharon Aloni Cunio and their three-year-old twin daughters Ema and Yuly were released on 27 November. Sharon's sister Daniele Aloni, and her six-year-old daughter Emilia were both released on 24 November.\n\nDoron Steinbrecher, 30, a veterinary nurse, was in her apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas attacked, the Times of Israel reported. At 10:30 on 7 October, the newspaper said, she sent a voice message to friends: \"They've arrived, they have me.\"\n\nItzhak Gelerenter, 53, was taken from the Supernova festival. His family said the IDF found his phone was located in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported. His daughter Pivko told the paper: \"I'm trying to think good thoughts, I have a powerful, smart, resourceful father.\"\n\nDoron Steinbrecher sent a voice message to friends during Hamas' attack\n\nNaama Levy, 19, was filmed being bundled into a jeep, her hands tied behind her back. The footage was released by Hamas and circulated widely on social media. According to her mother, the teenager had just begun her military service.\n\nYousef Zyadna, a 53-year-old Bedouin dairy farmer, was abducted from Kibbutz Holit and taken to Gaza along with his sons Hamza, 22, and Bilal, 18, and his daughter, Aisha, 16. Aisha and Bilal were released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nElad Katzir, 47, was abducted from Nir Oz with his mother Hanna. Hanna has now been released.\n\nOhad Ben Ami, 55, was kidnapped from Be'eri with his wife, Raz. She was released by Hamas on 29 November.\n\nTwin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 26, were taken from Kfar Aza. Ziv was messaging a friend as the attack happened. Their family said the IDF has told them the brothers are being held in Gaza. Their brother Liran told CBN news the pair had \"twin power\" and were the centre of attention wherever they went.\n\nIraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 85, was taken captive from Kibbutz Kissufim, where he lived and worked as a chicken coop manager. His wife, Mazal, managed to escape.\n\nMichel Nisenbaum, 59, is a dual Brazilian-Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel for 45 years and works as a computer technician, his family told Brazilian media. They also say he is diabetic and has Crohn's disease. On 7 October, they say, someone claiming to be from Hamas answered his phone when they tried to call him.\n\nDaniela Gilboa, 19, sent messages saying that Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she was staying, was under attack and asked her mother to pray for her. Her boyfriend, Roy Dadon, told the Economist 1843 magazine that he believes he saw a glimpse of her in a video showing three girls being driven away in the back of an SUV.\n\nItay Chen, 19, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF solider, was on active duty with a tank unit on 7 October, according to the Times of Israel. The paper reported that his family was notified by the IDF that he is officially considered missing in action and probably being held hostage. Another soldier in his unit, Matan Angrest, 21, is also presumed to be in Gaza.\n\nYosi Sharabi, 51, was taken from Be'eri with his brother, Eli Sharabi, 55. Eli's wife and two daughters were murdered in the attack. Ofir Engel, the boyfriend of Yosi's daughter, Yuval, was also taken, but released on 29 November.\n\nAgam Berger, 19, was kidnapped from Nahal Oz. She was seen being taken away in videos released by Hamas.\n\nEdan Alexander, 19, is an Israeli-US citizen who volunteered to join the Israeli army. He was serving near the Gaza border at the time of Hamas's attack. Edan's family said they had been told by Israeli officials that he had been taken to Gaza as a hostage.\n\nKaid Farhan Elkadi, 53, lives with his family south of Rahat and worked as a security guard, according to Israeli media. Reports said his family believes he was kidnapped and taken to Gaza, based on images shared by Hamas.\n\nIlana Gritzewsky and Matan Zanguaker were captured near the Gaza border, family say\n\nMatan Zanguaker, 24, was taken with his partner Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, from Nir Oz, according to Ilana's father. Ilana, a Mexican national, was released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nThe family of Eitan and Yair Horn believe they were taken from Nir Oz kibbutz\n\nEitan Horn, 37, and his brother Yair, 45, both Argentinian citizens, were also in Nir Oz at the time of the attack. Their father Itzik said he believes they were kidnapped. Yair is a construction worker while Eitan works in education.\n\nItai Svirsky, 38, is thought to have been abducted when his elderly parents were killed in Be'eri. He had been visiting them for the holiday of Simhat Torah.\n\nKeith Seigel, 64, and his wife Adrienne - often known as Aviva - Seigel, 62, were taken from their home in Kfar Aza, Keith's brother Lee Seigel told the BBC. Adrienne was released on 26 November.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, lived in Nahal Oz with his wife and two daughters. Omri was led away by Hamas with his hands tied, his wife Lishay told the Guardian newspaper. She told him not to be a hero, urging: \"Do whatever they want because I want you back.\"\n\nBipin Joshi, 23, a Nepalese student, is believed to have been taken from Kibbutz Alumim. Nepalese newspaper Setopati says he was one of 49 university students studying agriculture in Israel. It says 10 students were killed in the attack.\n\nIlan Weiss, 58, went missing from Kibbutz Be'eri after he was last seen leaving the house to defend the community. On 25 November, his wife Shiri Weiss, 53, and their daughter, Noga, 18, were freed from captivity in a hostage deal.\n\nAmiram Cooper, 85, and his wife Nurit, 80, were taken from their home in Nir Oz, their daughter-in-law Noa told the BBC. The family last spoke to the couple during the Hamas attack, Noa said, when the couple were in their safe room. The family later traced Amiram's phone to Gaza. On Monday 23 October, Nurit was one of two women to be released.\n\nAmiram and Nurit Cooper, pictured with their granddaughter, Gali\n\nOded Lifshitz, 83, and his wife Yocheved, 85 were taken hostage from Nir Oz. On Monday 23 October, Yocheved was one of two elderly women to be freed. After hearing the news of her mother's release, their daughter Sharone - a London-based artist - said: \"While I cannot put into words the relief that she is now safe, I will remain focused on securing the release of my father and all those - some 200 innocent people - who remain hostages in Gaza.\"\n\nHaim Peri, 79, was taken from his home in Nir Oz, reports the Times of Israel, and freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz said she saw that he was alive and well. His son Lior Peri told Talk TV that Haim had locked his wife inside the safe room before giving himself up to kidnappers.\n\nAvraham Munder, 78, was kidnapped from Nir Oz, Israeli officials say. His wife Ruthi, daughter and grandson have since been released.\n\nOmer Neutra, a 22-year-old Israeli-American and grandson of Holocaust survivors, put off plans to go to college in the US to study in Israel, and eventually joined the IDF. He was serving as a tank commander near Gaza when Hamas attacked. Omer's parents say they were told by the Israeli embassy that he had been kidnapped.\n\nRon Benjamin's vehicle was found empty following the attacks\n\nRon Benjamin, 53, had been taking part in a group cycle ride near the Gaza border when the Hamas attack began and he decided to drive home, his family told Israeli media. Days later, his vehicle was found empty and his family believe he was kidnapped.\n\nLouis Har, 70, is believed to have been taken from Nir Yitzhak. His partner Clara Marman was released on 28 November along with her sister Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela's daughter Mia Leimberg,17. Clara and Gabriela's brother Fernando Simon Marman, 60, also remains in captivity.\n\nJudith Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 73, also went missing from Nir Oz after the Hamas attack. Ten days later, the Israeli military confirmed to the family they had been taken hostage, CTV News in Canada reported.\n\nAlex Danzig, 75, a scholar and historian of the Holocaust, was at his home in Nir Oz, when it was attacked by Hamas. \"We know for sure he was kidnapped,\" his son Mati told the BBC. Alex - whose older sister Edith is a Holocaust survivor - has spent the last 30 years working for Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust remembrance centre. His disappearance has triggered a campaign for his release, both in Israel and in Poland, the country of his birth.\n\nAlex Danzig has spent decades educating people about the Holocaust\n\nItzhk Elgarat, 68, was kidnapped at the same time as Alex Danzig, his brother Danny Elgert told Israel's Kan 11 TV station, adding that he had tracked his brother's phone to the border with Gaza.\n\nGadi Moses, 79, was also abducted during the same attack on Nir Oz, according to relatives and the Israeli aid agency where he worked as an agricultural expert. Efrat Katz, his partner, was initially thought to have been captured as well, but she was later found dead, the Times of Israel reported. Efrat was the mother of Doron Asher, who was taken hostage and later released with her two daughters. Ravid Katz, 51, Doron Asher's brother, was originally thought to have been taken hostage from Nir Oz, but on 28 November his family confirmed that he had been killed on 7 October.\n\nYair Yaakov, 59, is listed among the hostages. His partner Meirav Tal, 53, was released on 28 November. Yair's children Yagil, 13, and Or, 16, were released on 27 November.\n\nYair Yaakov was pictured being held captive by a gunman in a video shared online\n\nNimrod Cohen, 19, had studied software engineering in high school, according to reports. After he was kidnapped, his father was invited to meet Pope Francis in Rome along with other hostages' families.\n\nTsachi Idan, 51, was last seen by his wife, Gali, as he was taken away by Hamas gunmen. Their family had been ambushed in their safe room in Nahal Oz. Their ordeal was live-streamed by Hamas. Their eldest child, Maayan - who had just turned 18 - was shot dead, Gali told the BBC.\n\nTsachi Idan was ambushed with his wife and children and then led away\n\nYarden Bibas, 34, was abducted from Nir Oz. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were also taken hostage, but on 29 November, Hamas claimed they had been killed in an Israeli air strike while in captivity. The Israeli government has said it is checking the claim.\n\nRonen Engel, 54, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife, Karina Engelbert, 51, and their two daughters, Mika, 18 and Yuval, 11. On 1 December, the organisation representing the families said he had been murdered. Karina, Mika and Yuval were released on 27 November.\n\nKarina Ariev, a 19-year-old soldier, was serving at an army base near Gaza when she was kidnapped. Her sister Alexandra told the BBC she heard shooting as Karina called her during the attack, and later saw a video showing Karina being taken away in a vehicle.\n\nKarina Ariev was at the Nahal Oz military base, which was among the first to be attacked\n\nOfer Kalderon, 53, was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz. On 27 November his two children, Erez, 12, and Sahar, 16, were released. Two other relatives, 80-year-old Carmela Dan and her granddaughter, Noya, 12, were also believed to have been taken, but Israeli authorities later announced they had been found dead.\n\nYoram Metzger, 80, was a resident of Nir Oz. He has diabetes and broke his hip six months ago, his daughter-in-law said. Yoram's wife Tamar was released on 28 November.\n\nNadav Popplewell, 51, and his mother Channah were taken hostage by Hamas, said Channah's daughter Ayelet Svatitzky, who was speaking to them on the phone when the gunmen burst in. She said the captors sent pictures of her two relatives, who both have diabetes, with armed men in the background. Channah has now been released.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, was abducted after his family opened the door to their secure shelter to an Israeli child, who said he would be killed otherwise. Omri's wife, Lishay Lavi, said she saw him being taken away in handcuffs with three other hostages from Nahal Oz.\n\nLiri Elbag, 18, had just started military training as an Army lookout near the Gaza border when Hamas attacked, her father Eli told the Associated Press. Eli said he saw her in a video circulated later by Hamas, crowded with others on the back of a military truck which had been seized by the gunmen.\n\nLior Rudaeff, 61, was taken from Nir Yitzhak during the attack. His family have heard nothing from him since then.\n\nA number of people are believed to have been abducted from the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Among them:\n\nShlomi Ziv, 40, was part of the security detail at the festival and was initially in contact with his sisters as the attack unfolded, according to an interview with The Times of Israel. A few weeks later the family learned he was officially considered to be a hostage, the report says.\n\nAlexander Lobanov, 32, is a Russian-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped at the festival.\n\nOri Danino, 25, is reported to have got away from the festival in his car, but it's believed he was captured after turning back in an attempt to save some people he had met there.\n\nAlmog Sarusi, 26, was kidnapped from the music festival and his partner Shahar Gindi was killed, according to Israeli media. Almog's father, Yigal, was among the relatives of hostages who met with Israel's prime minister in October.\n\nOmer Shem Tov, 21, called his parents as he was running away from gunfire and managed to get into a friend's car. His parents, Shelly and Malki Shem Tov, told Israeli media they lost contact with their son and the live location on his phone showed he was beyond the border in Gaza.\n\nIdan Shtivi, 28, an environmental sciences student, was attending the festival to take pictures at music and yoga workshops being held by friends. He escaped the site in his car but was attacked by Hamas along the route. The bodies of two of his passengers were found, and his family told the Jerusalem Post they suspect he was kidnapped.\n\nYosef Ohana, 24, had been at the festival with a friend, who told his mother he and Yosef had remained to help people escape the gunfire before running themselves. Yosef was last seen hiding under a car, and Israeli authorities have visited his mother to say he was kidnapped.\n\nAndrei Kozlov, 27, a Russian who moved to Israel in 2022, is missing from the Supernova festival, where he was working as a security guard. His mother told the De Taly publication the family was told by the IDF on October 26 that he was being held hostage.\n\nElyakim Libman, 23, was working as a security guard at the festival. In a Facebook post his father Eliyahu Libman said another guard told him his son had helped rescue others before trying to escape. He was last seen trying to help two badly-injured women.\n\nNoa Argamani, a Chinese-born Israeli citizen, was also kidnapped from the festival. Video footage - verified by her father Yaakov Argamani to Israel's Channel 12 - shows the 25-year-old being taken away on the back of a motorbike screaming, \"Don't kill me!\" Her boyfriend Avinatan Or, 30, also appears in the video being marched away from her by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nEden Yerushalmi's family say they were told she had been taken hostage\n\nEden Yerushalmi, 24, called her family during Hamas's attack on the festival, her sister May told CBS News. The family say they were subsequently informed by the IDF that Eden had been abducted.\n\nChanan Yablonka, 42, is a father-of-two from Tel Aviv. According to reports, he attended the festival with friends and was due to celebrate his birthday a few days after the attacks.\n\nJonathan Samerano, 21, has been missing since 7am on the morning of the festival. His family have been told to presume he is being held in Gaza, Israeli media reported.\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal was filmed in captivity in Gaza, his family say\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, attended the festival with his brother. Guy appears in a hostage video that his family say confirms he is in Gaza.\n\nUriel Baruch, 35, was injured during the attack on the festival, his wife said on Facebook. Reports in Israeli media say his mother, Naomi, has heard from the IDF that he is a hostage.\n\nMaxim Kharkin's mother described speaking to him on the morning of 7 October\n\nMaxim Kharkin is aged 35 and a Russian speaker, his mother told Russian media. She added that he had called her at 07:00 on the morning of the attack.\n\nElkana Bohbot was seen in a video posted by Hamas\n\nElkana Bohbot, 34, had gone to the party with friends and, before losing contact, he spoke to his wife and mother telling them he was helping to evacuate the wounded, the Times of Israel reported. Hours later, his family found a video of him posted online by Hamas, which has been seen by BBC Verify.\n\nRom Braslavski, 19, was working on security for the festival. According to an account published by Hostages and Missing Families Forum, he was trying to rescue an injured person in the attack when he was caught in a volley of fire. He has not been heard from since.\n\nOmer Wenkert, 22, a restaurant manager, sent a message to his family to say he was going to a safe shelter but then lost contact, his father Shai Wenkert told the BBC's Today Programme. Shai Wenkert said he had seen footage of his son in captivity, including a photo of him handcuffed and wearing only underwear.\n\nEvyatar David's family say they were sent a video of him in captivity\n\nEvyatar David, 23, was at the festival and on the morning of the attacks, described fleeing from gunfire before losing contact with the outside world, his brother says. Later, his family say, Evyatar's sister posted on Instagram appealing for information about his whereabouts. She then received a text from an unknown number, which contained video footage of Evyatar handcuffed on the floor of a dark room. According to Israel's foreign ministry he is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nEitan Mor, 23, lives in Jerusalem, and was working as a security guard at the festival, the Times of Israel said. He reportedly texted his uncle after Hamas arrived and was last seen with a friend bringing others to safety.\n\nAlon Ohel, 22, a Serbian citizen, took refuge in a shelter after the festival came under attack, his family say. They have seen footage of him being dragged away after a grenade attack.\n\nAlmog Meir Jan, 21, tried to flee the festival. He and a friend made it to the friend's car but only managed to drive a short distance before being forced to stop. Almog's family say they have seen a hostage video in which he appears.\n\nInbar Heiman, a student aged 21, was seen by two young Israeli men being taken away from the festival on a motorcycle. Hamas have released a video in which she is seen very briefly.\n\nHersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual US-Israeli citizen, was badly injured in the attack, his family told the BBC. Eyewitness accounts say he was seen being forced onto a white pick-up truck - the last-known signal from his phone came from just inside Gaza.\n\nSegev Kalfon, 26, was running away from the festival, across the highway, when he was captured by Hamas, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.\n\nOrión Hernández Radoux, 30, from Mexico, attended the festival with his girlfriend, Shani Louk. He has not been seen since. The Sun newspaper says it has seen threatening messages written in Arabic sent from his phone. Shani, a tourist from Germany, was initially thought to be among those seized. But on 30 October, her mother Ricarda told German media that the family had been informed by Israeli military of her death following DNA identification.\n\nRomi Lesham Gonen, 23, was on the phone to her mother as she tried to escape from the Supernova festival. Merav Leshem Gonan has recounted a conversation in which her daughter begged for help after being shot. ABC News reports that Romi's phone is now in Gaza.\n\nBar Kuperstein, 21, last spoke to his family early on the morning of 7 October, as the attack unfolded. Later the same day, his family say they identified him in a video of Israeli prisoners, posted by Hamas. Since then, they say they have had no further information.\n\nEliya Cohen, 26, was hiding with his girlfriend Ziv from the attack, when Ziv felt him being pulled up and driven away by the gunmen, Eliya's mother has told the video initiative #BringThemHomeNow. The family then found a photo of Eliya in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nAmit Buskila, 28, from Ashdod, was last heard of making a call to her uncle, Shimon, as Hamas overran the festival. Her family say they have now been told by the government that she is being held in Gaza.\n\nCarmel Gat, 39, is Jordan's sister-in-law, and also was seen by her father being taken by gunmen from Kibbutz Be'eri, Haaretz newspaper reported. She has not been heard from since.\n\nOhad Yahalomi, 49, was abducted from Nir Oz, along with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the November ceasefire.\n\nDror Or, 48, was seen by a neighbour being dragged out of his home in Be'eri, according to their nephew Emmanuel Besorai, along with his son and daughter. On Saturday 25 November Dror's son Noam, 17, and daughter Alma, 13, were released from captivity. The body of Yonat, 50 - Dror's wife and the children's mother - was identified among the 120 people murdered at the kibbutz, Yonat's brother told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nTal Shoham, 38, was taken from Kibbutz Be'eri. His wife Adi, also 38, her mother Dr Shoshan Haran, 67, were released by Hamas on 25 November, along with the couple's children Nave, eight, and Yahel, three. Dr Haran's husband, Avshalom - an economist and dual German/Israeli citizen - was killed on 7 October.\n\nTamir Adar, 38, who defended Nir Oz as part of the kibbutz's emergency squad, was taken to Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen, 35, an American-Israeli citizen, has been missing since Hamas's attack on Nir Oz, his father Jonathan told the BBC. He said his son was not found among the dead and the \"only reasonable explanation\" is that he was taken to Gaza.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen's father has not heard from him since Hamas attacked the kibbutz where he lived\n\nThailand's ambassador to Israel says 26 of its citizens were taken hostage, 23 of whom have now been released.\n\nThose still being held are believed to include Watchara Sriuan, 32. His mother, Viewwaew, told the Thaiger news site that the family had been informed he was being held captive.\n\nKiattisak \"Top\" Patee and a Mr Pongtorn (no first name given) have also been named by the Thai foreign ministry as hostages.\n\nA number of other people thought to have been held hostage are now confirmed to have died, either during the 7 October attack or while in captivity.\n\nAs well as Ron Scherman and Nik Beizer, four bodies were identified this week. They were Tal Chaimi, an Israeli-Romanian citizen aged 41, and Joshua Mollel, a 19-year-old Tanzanian student. Also, 27-year-old Eden Zecharya, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and 36-year-old Ziv Dado, who had already been declared dead by the Israeli military.\n\nOthers known to have died include Dror Kaplun, 68, Aviv Atzili, 49, Arye Zalmanovich, 85, Ronen Engel, 54, Maya Goren, 56, Guy Iluz, 26, Ofir Tzarfati, 27, Ofra Keider, 70, and Eliyahu Margalit, 75.\n\nThe bodies of 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, and 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss were found by Israeli troops in buildings close to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.\n\nOn Saturday 9 December Kibbutz Bari announced that Sahar Baruch, 25, had been killed in Gaza.\n\nOther hostages whose death has been reported, but not confirmed include Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The world's biggest iceberg is on the move after more than 30 years being stuck to the ocean floor.\n\nThe iceberg, called A23a, split from the Antarctic coastline in 1986. But it swiftly grounded in the Weddell Sea, becoming, essentially, an ice island.\n\nAt almost 4,000 sq km (1,500 sq miles) in area, it's more than twice the size of Greater London.\n\nThe past year has seen it drifting at speed, and the berg is now about to spill beyond Antarctic waters.\n\nGreat icebergs, such as the recent A68 object, \"fertilise\" the oceans with mineral nutrients\n\nA23a is a true colossus, and it's not just its width that impresses.\n\nThis slab of ice is some 400m (1,312 ft) thick. For comparison, the London Shard, the tallest skyscraper in Europe, is a mere 310m tall.\n\nA23a was part of a mass outbreak of bergs from the White Continent's Filchner Ice Shelf.\n\nAt the time, it was hosting a Soviet research station, which just illustrates how long ago its calving occurred.\n\nMoscow despatched an expedition to remove equipment from the Druzhnaya 1 base, fearing it would be lost. But the tabular berg didn't move far from the coast before its deep keel anchored it rigidly to the Weddell's bottom-muds.\n\nIceberg A23a first began to stir from its long static slumber in 2020\n\nSo, why, after almost 40 years, is A23a on the move now?\n\n\"I asked a couple of colleagues about this, wondering if there was any possible change in shelf water temperatures that might have provoked it, but the consensus is the time had just come,\" said Dr Andrew Fleming, a remote sensing expert from the British Antarctic Survey.\n\n\"It was grounded since 1986 but eventually it was going to decrease (in size) sufficiently to lose grip and start moving. I spotted first movement back in 2020.\"\n\nA23a has put on a spurt in recent months, driven by winds and currents, and is now passing the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.\n\nLike most icebergs from the Weddell sector, A23a will almost certainly be ejected into the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which will throw it towards the South Atlantic on a path that has become known as \"iceberg alley\".\n\nThis is the same movement of water - and accompanying westerlies - that the famous explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton exploited in 1916 to make his escape from Antarctica following the loss of his ship, the Endurance, in crushing sea-ice.\n\nShackleton aimed his lifeboat for South Georgia, and it's at this island that you will frequently see the big tabular bergs sitting offshore. The blocks' keels mean they have a tendency to get pinned on the British Overseas Territory's shallow continental shelf.\n\nEventually, all bergs, however big, are doomed to melt and wither away.\n\nScientists will be following the progress of A23a closely.\n\nIf it does ground at South Georgia, it might cause problems for the millions of seals, penguins and other seabirds that breed on the island. A23a's great bulk could disrupt the animals' normal foraging routes, preventing them from feeding their young properly.\n\nBut it would be wrong to think of icebergs as being just objects of danger - Titanic and all that. There's a growing recognition of their importance to the wider environment.\n\nAs these big bergs melt, they release the mineral dust that was incorporated into their ice when they were part of glaciers scraping along the rock bed of Antarctica. This dust is a source of nutrients for the organisms that form the base of ocean food chains.\n\n\"In many ways these icebergs are life-giving; they are the origin point for a lot of biological activity,\" said Dr Catherine Walker, from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who was born in the same year as A23a. \"I identify with it; it's always been there for me.\"", "Kemi Badenoch was giving evidence about her time as Minister of Equalities\n\nMisinformation and a lack of trust made it harder to reach minority communities during the pandemic, Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch told the Covid inquiry.\n\nPeople from ethnic minority backgrounds were both more likely to catch Covid and die of it in 2020 and 2021, Office for National Statistics figures showed.\n\nMs Badenoch, equalities minister at the time, said the government was not trusted by some in these communities.\n\n\"Lots of conspiracy theories\" came up in her family WhatsApp group, she said.\n\n\"The government cannot get into my family WhatsApp group. There are some channels which you cannot break into in the information age that we live in,\" she added.\n\nMs Badenoch added that \"within ethnic minority populations there is a very high level of first-generation immigrants who come from countries where people don't trust the government, and there is no reason to assume that just because the government is saying something, that they will take it as verifiable information that they have to act on\".\n\nMs Badenoch later said that misinformation was an ongoing problem for the government.\n\n\"Even as a constituency MP, the number of people who come up to me in the street and tell me that I am part of a grand conspiracy to infect them, and 'so-and-so died' because of the material that we were putting out,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't think government has got a handle on dealing with misinformation. I don't think that we have adapted to this age of social media, where information travels at lightning speed across the world.\"\n\nMore on Covid and the Covid Inquiry\n\nEarlier in her evidence, Ms Badenoch also said that the term BAME - an acronym standing for black, Asian and minority ethnic - had actually hindered the government's ability to work out why ethnic minority groups were being hit harder.\n\nWhile the term was common in early 2020, by the end of 2021 the government, corporations, and broadcasters - including the BBC - had announced they would no longer use it.\n\n\"Using the term BAME masked what was actually happening within different ethnicities. By lumping people who are black with people who are Asian - very different groups of people - it made it harder to actually look at the underlying factors,\" Ms Badenoch said.\n\n\"Lumping people into one group completely obscures different bits of information, which we were then able to single out once we started splitting groups apart.\n\n\"What BAME basically does is summarise anyone who is not white. From a health perspective, or even just from any sort of analysis perspective, that's not particularly helpful.\"", "David Tennant as The Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble in a 2008 episode\n\nBringing Doctor Who to Wales was a \"leap of faith\", according to the team that brought it to Cardiff.\n\nSince 2005 the hit sci-fi series has been made in Wales, first by BBC Wales and now by Cardiff production company Bad Wolf.\n\nThe show is celebrating its 60th anniversary with events in the capital and an upcoming trio of new episodes starring David Tennant.\n\nNcuti Gatwa is set to replace him as the next Time Lord on Christmas Day.\n\nThe show's production has also created \"thousands of jobs\", birthing a wider TV drama industry around it, and contributed more than £134m to the Welsh economy.\n\nCardiff was chosen as the home for Doctor Who by the BBC in 2004 and it began filming the following year.\n\nIt was the corporation's then drama commissioner Jane Tranter who persuaded BBC Wales head of drama Julie Gardner to work with writer Russell T Davies to create the new series in the city.\n\nAll three are now reunited as Tranter and Gardner's production company Bad Wolf is making Doctor Who for the BBC at its Wolf Studios in Splott, with Davies again penning the scripts.\n\nAsked about the original risk they took relaunching it and basing its production in Wales, Jane Tranter said: \"You call it a risk, I call it a leap of faith - or bloody-minded determination that this is what we are going to do.\n\n\"I never felt it was a risk to bring back Doctor Who, and as soon as Julie and Russell were involved I didn't think it was going to be a risk at all.\"\n\nCardiff quickly became a backdrop for a succession of new Doctors, beginning with the 2005 revival starring Christopher Eccleston.\n\nHe was followed by David Tennant, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi and Jodie Whittaker.\n\nJane Tranter and Julie Gardner helped bring Doctor Who to Cardiff almost 20 years ago\n\nNow Tennant is set to make an imminent return to mark the show's landmark birthday, before Gatwa becomes the 15th Doctor on 25 December.\n\nThe success of Doctor Who has coincided with increased demand for high-end TV dramas, and a sprawling Welsh production base has emerged.\n\n\"We have always believed the crews and the locations are here, it's a place of endless possibility,\" said Ms Gardner.\n\n\"That said, Cardiff and Wales in 2023 is very different in spirit to where it was in 2004.\n\n\"Back then there was a lot of suspicion about Doctor Who coming 'down the motorway from London'.\n\n\"It's like it wasn't quite real, or wouldn't be Welsh enough, wouldn't do enough or be taken away.\"\n\nA BBC report into the economic impact of Doctor Who found more than £134m in gross value added (GVA) in Wales, and a total UK contribution to the economy of £256m.\n\nOn location in Llandaff, Matt Smith as The Doctor in 2010\n\nBut it also triggered a far greater investment by other production companies who were persuaded to film in Wales after witnessing its success.\n\n\"I had no idea it was going to be as popular as it is now,\" said Danny Hargreaves, who provided special effects for the first series of Doctor Who before opening Real SFX in 2008.\n\nHe still makes explosions and blizzards for the series, with a workshop in Cardiff that houses cutting-edge equipment.\n\n\"We get to build some really cool stuff and the show gives me a licence to blow up stuff,\" he added.\n\nDanny has witnessed the broader impact of the iconic TV series on Wales's production sector.\n\n\"What people don't realise is how much of an impact Doctor Who created here in Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"It was really the catalyst for what is an exceptional industry in Wales, and many different productions from all over the world have filmed here since.\"\n\nNcuti Gatwa as the next Doctor, with Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday\n\nMeanwhile, returning showrunner Davies is as great an advocate for Wales in 2023 as he was in 2005.\n\nHe said he would have rejected the option to make the show in London.\n\n\"I've lived in Manchester for many years, made Queer as Folk there and done tonnes of dramas there with a local flavour,\" he said.\n\n\"But I'm fundamentally Welsh, so to bring Who here was a great opportunity.\n\n\"I think if they'd asked me to make Doctor Who in London, I would have refused,\" he added.", "Nissan and its partners have announced a £2bn plan to build three electric car models at its Sunderland factory.\n\nThe Japanese firm will build electric Qashqai and Juke models at the plant alongside the next generation of the electric Leaf, which is already produced there. The scheme could help preserve the jobs of about 6,000 workers directly, and thousands more across the UK.\n\nNissan said that alongside this, a major new battery plant known as a \"gigafactory\" will also be needed.\n\nThis is in addition to the current factory adjacent to the car plant, and a further gigafactory already being built by its partner, AESC.\n\nNissan will spend £1.12bn on preparing its UK facilities and supply chain for the new models and training its workforce.\n\nAlongside the gigafactory the total new investment will be up to £2bn, according to the company.\n\nLei Zhang, chairman of AESC, said the firm had launched a feasibility study on expanding its gigafactory operations in Sunderland. The plan is expected to receive government support, though it is not clear what form that will take. Nissan has confirmed it will receive £15m in funding for its research centre in Bedfordshire.\n\nThe Unite union said the plan \"secures the long-term future of the site and the thousands of skilled well-paid jobs it supports\", but called for more government support for the car industry.\n\nEarlier this year, Nissan's chief operating officer Ashwani Gupta, who has since left the firm, said that the UK would struggle to remain competitive with other car-making countries because of higher manufacturing costs, elevated by energy bills and inflation.\n\nAlan Johnson, Nissan's senior vice president of manufacturing and supply chain, told the BBC's Today programme that the UK \"can be a competitive place for car production, but everything needs to be right\".\n\n\"Not just the plant itself, but the surrounding environment: energy costs, infrastructure, local government [and] national government support, needs to be right for it to work,\" he said.\n\nThe UK government has provided support for Nissan through the Automotive Transformation Fund, which received a £2bn top-up in the Autumn Statement on Wednesday.\n\nMr Johnson declined to comment on how much funding the company has received from UK taxpayers.\n\nHe said: \"The support we have received in the past has been excellent and we're very grateful for the support we do receive.\n\n\"The truth is discussions are ongoing with the government, not concluded, and therefore I'm not in a position at the moment to make any announcement or any comment about any numbers.\"\n\nThe government's contribution to Nissan's project is understood to be about £100m, and if the gigafactory goes ahead, the funding for that will also be about £100m.\n\nNissan's announcement comes as an \"investment zone\" for North East England was confirmed by the government. The government said it will create more than 4,000 jobs over five years.\n\nIn the summer, Mr Gupta also warned that the UK's largest car manufacturing plant in Sunderland would be \"unsustainable\" without a post-Brexit trade deal on tariffs.\n\nRules due to take effect in January next year mean there will be a 10% tariff on cars sold between the UK and EU unless carmakers have sourced at least 45% of their components by value from the UK or EU.\n\nBatteries are the most expensive part of an electric vehicle, and some manufacturers in both the UK and EU have said they will struggle to meet the requirements, and have called for the rules to be deferred.\n\nMr Johnson said that Nissan exports 80% of the vehicles made at its Sunderland plant, \"so of course exportation is critical to our success\".\n\n\"In terms of the Brexit deal, we're just getting on with it,\" he said, adding that the key to Nissan's strategy is \"having your major investments like battery production in the UK\".\n\nOther car makers have also expressed concerns about the tariffs.\n\nIn May, Stellantis, which owns Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat, said it may have to close UK factories if the government did not renegotiate the Brexit deal.\n\nThe firm has made a commitment to making electric cars in the UK, but said that if the cost \"becomes uncompetitive and unsustainable, operations will close\".\n\nThe AESC plant in Sunderland is the only one in the UK currently making electric vehicle batteries, but Jaguar Land Rover owner Tata plans to build a £4bn factory in Somerset.\n\nSome battery firms have had problems setting up in the UK.\n\nBritishvolt, which planned to make batteries in the North East, went into administration earlier this year. It was taken over by Australian firm Recharge Industries, but that hasn't gone smoothly either, with £2.5m of the purchase price still unpaid months after it was due.\n\nBy contrast the EU has 35 plants open, under construction or planned.\n\nIn September Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a major shift in UK green policy by delaying a ban on new petrol and diesel cars by five years, to 2035.\n\nNissan said in September it would not change its timetable, and that it would stick to manufacturing electric vehicles only by 2030.\n\nThe firm's boss Makoto Uchida said at the time it was the right thing to do for its business, customers and for the planet.\n\nPostponing the ban has had a knock-on effect on the number of electric vehicles expected to be sold in the UK by 2027.\n\nThe government's independent economic forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility, said on Wednesday that just 38% of new vehicles sold in the UK in 2027 would be electric, lower than the 67% it predicted in March.", "The athlete nicknamed 'Blade Runner' was jailed in 2016\n\nFormer Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius is to be freed from jail on parole, nearly 11 years after murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.\n\nHe shot her multiple times through a bathroom door on Valentine's Day in 2013, later claiming he mistook her for a burglar at their Pretoria home.\n\nPistorius, now 37, was sentenced by a South African court in 2016 to serve 13 years and five months in prison.\n\nThe parole board has set his release for 5 January 2024.\n\nOnce released, Pistorius will be monitored by the authorities until his sentence officially expires \"just like all other parolees\", the Department of Correctional Services said on Friday. If he wants to move house or get a job during that time he will have to notify his parole officer.\n\nPistorius will also have to attend therapy sessions, according to the Steenkamp family's spokesman.\n\nIn a letter read out to the parole board during Friday's hearing, Ms Steenkamp's mother said she did not oppose his release but wondered whether Pistorius's \"huge anger issues\" were truly dealt with in prison. She added that she would be \"concerned for the safety of any woman\" who now comes into contact with him.\n\nJune Steenkamp chose not to attend the parole hearing at Atteridgeville prison, near the capital, Pretoria, saying: \"I simply cannot muster the energy to face him again at this stage.\"\n\nHer husband and Reeva's father, Barry, died earlier this year and she said the strain on them both had been immense.\n\n\"My dear Barry left this world utterly devastated by the thought that he had failed to protect his daughter... I've no doubt that he died of a broken heart,\" Mrs Steenkamp's statement read.\n\nBarry Steenkamp had met Oscar Pistorius face-to-face last year as part of the rehabilitation process.\n\nMrs Steemkamp says that while she does not believe her daughter's killer has shown remorse, she had nonetheless decided to forgive him \"long ago, as I knew most certainly that I would not be able to survive if I had to cling to my anger\".\n\nThis was Pistorius's second parole hearing in under a year.\n\nHis first parole bid collapsed in March because he had not completed the minimum detention period. That was later ruled a mistake by South Africa's Constitutional Court, leading to the new parole hearing.\n\nUnder South African law, all offenders are entitled to be considered for parole once they have served half their total sentence.\n\nFriends say Reeva Steenkamp was kind-hearted and ambitious\n\nReeva Steenkamp, who was 29 when she died, was a law graduate and successful model who also worked as a TV presenter and appeared in a reality show called Tropika Island of Treasure.\n\n\"She was more than just a pretty face, she had a beautiful heart and ambition,\" her friend Kerry Smith told the BBC.\n\nThe two women met at university and had planned to start a law firm to help abused women after graduating.\n\n\"She wanted to save everyone, wanted to protect everyone,\" her friend recalls.\n\nSteenkamp was three months into her relationship with Pistorius when he fired four shots with a pistol through the door of a toilet cubicle at his house in Pretoria in the early hours of 14 February 2013.\n\nHe was convicted of murder in 2015 at the Supreme Court of Appeal having initially been convicted of the lesser offence of culpable homicide.\n\nPistorius's lower legs were amputated when he was less than a year old. He subsequently relied on prosthetics and became a world-renowned athlete known as the \"blade runner\".\n\nHe won multiple gold medals at the Paralympics. He also competed against non-disabled athletes at the London 2012 Olympics.\n\nThe murder of Reeva Steenkamp just six months later, and the subsequent trials, dominated headlines around the world.", "Jung Yoo-jung, 23, posed as a high-school student to enter the house of the tutor she killed\n\nA South Korean court has given a life sentence to a true crime fan who told police she murdered a stranger \"out of curiosity\".\n\nJung Yoo-jung, 23, had been obsessed with crime shows and novels and scored highly on psychopath tests, police said.\n\nFixated with the idea of \"trying out a murder\", she used an app to meet an English-language teacher, stabbing her to death at her home in May.\n\nProsecutors had asked for the death penalty - a request typically reserved for the gravest of offences.\n\nThey told the court that Jung, an unemployed loner who lived with her grandfather, had looked for victims for months, using an online tutoring app to find a target.\n\nShe contacted more than 50 people and favoured women, asking them if they conducted their lessons at home.\n\nIn May, posing as the mother of a high school student who needed English lessons, she contacted the 26-year-old victim, who lived in the south-eastern city of Busan. Her identity has not been disclosed by police.\n\nJung then showed up at the tutor's house dressed in a school uniform she had bought online, prosecutors said.\n\nAfter the teacher let her in, she attacked the woman, stabbing her more than 100 times - continuing the frenzied attack even after the victim had died.\n\nShe then dismembered the woman's body and took a taxi ride to dump some of the remains in remote parkland near a river, north of Busan.\n\nShe was arrested after the taxi driver tipped off police about a customer who had dumped a blood-soaked suitcase in the woods.\n\nPolice said Jung's online browsing history showed she had researched for months on how to kill, and how to get rid of a body.\n\nBut she was also careless, police said, and took no effort to avoid CCTV cameras, which captured her entering and leaving the tutor's home several times.\n\nOn Friday, a sentencing judge in the Busan District Court said the killing had \"spread fear in society that one can become a victim for no reason\" and \"incited a general distrust\" among the community.\n\nJung, who confessed to the crime in June, pleaded for a more lenient sentence, saying she had suffered hallucinations and other mental disorders at the time.\n\nBut the court rejected her argument as the crime had been \"carefully planned and carried out, and it is difficult to accept her claim of mental and physical disorder\".\n\nThey noted that her statements to police had frequently changed. Initially Jung said she had only moved the body after someone else killed the woman, then later claimed that the killing had occurred as a result of an argument.\n\nIn the end, she confessed that her interest in committing a murder had been piqued by crime shows and TV programmes.\n\nWhile South Korea retains the death penalty, it has not carried out an execution since 1997.", "Officers were called to Weston Green by a man who said he was in possession of loaded firearms, the Met Police said\n\nA man has died in a police shooting in east London.\n\nFirearms officers were called to Weston Green, Dagenham, at about 20:00 GMT on Thursday after a man told the Met Police he wanted to take his own life and was in possession of loaded firearms.\n\nShots were fired by officers just before 21:00.\n\nThe force said it had informed the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nThe IOPC has confirmed it has started an independent investigation.\n\n\"Our investigators were sent to the scene and the police post-incident procedures to begin gathering information,\" an IOPC spokesman added.\n\n\"We have no further information at this time.\"\n\nThe Met Police added a specialist negotiator had also attended and tried to \"bring the incident to a safe conclusion\".\n\nOfficers and paramedics provided first aid and CPR but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe Met also said a non-police firearm was located by officers at the scene.\n\nIt added an investigation was in its \"very early stages\".\n\nFormal identification of the man, believed to be 40, is yet to take place but his next of kin has been informed.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Matt Twist said: \"Our thoughts remain with the loved ones of the man who has died, with the local community in Dagenham and the officers involved in this incident.\n\n\"The IOPC is independently investigating this matter. It is right that officers are held to account when shots are fired, and we will work with the IOPC to provide all the information they need to carry out their inquiries.\n\n\"Our armed officers are highly trained and work around the clock to keep people safe in London. We ask them to do an incredibly difficult job every day and make split-second decisions under huge pressure.\n\n\"A fatal police shooting is rare. The officers involved in this matter are being supported as they assist the IOPC investigation.\"\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Players had to cross a line while the singing doll faced the wall, but were eliminated if caught moving when doll turned its head to face them\n\nContestants on Netflix's Squid Game: The Challenge are seeking compensation for injuries they allegedly suffered on the show, their lawyers said.\n\nExpress Solicitors is representing two players who it says \"suffered injuries such as hypothermia and nerve damage\".\n\nPlayers competed for a $4.56m (£3.63m) prize on the spin-off show, based on the hit South Korean drama Squid Game.\n\nA show spokesperson said in a statement: \"We take the welfare of our contestants extremely seriously.\"\n\nStudio Lambert, the company who co-produced the show for Netflix, has been contacted for comment.\n\nExpress Solicitors claimed the unnamed contestants suffered the injuries when \"they had to stay motionless for hours in cold temperatures while filming\".\n\nDaniel Slade, CEO of the UK firm, said: \"Contestants thought they were taking part in something fun and those injured did not expect to suffer as they did.\n\n\"Now they have been left with injuries after spending time being stuck in painful stress positions in cold temperatures.\n\n\"We have a case where someone complains of hypothermia. One had his hands turn purple from the cold.\"\n\nThe law firm said it has sent letters of claim to Studio Lambert outlining their clients alleged injuries it says were \"a result of poor health and safety standards on set\".\n\nA letter of claim is a step before legal action - putting a person or organisation on notice court proceedings may be brought against them.\n\nContestants who could not remain still were thrown out by a team of adjudicators watching video footage\n\nThe Green Light, Red Light game sees players run to a line while a 13.7ft (4.2m) doll sings and faces the wall. But players must stand still once the doll rotates its neck to face players.\n\nThose caught moving were eliminated using an automated video system with several adjudicators picking out players that moved.\n\nStephen Lambert, CEO of Studio Lambert, previously said players who got across the line quickly took two hours to finish the game, but slower players took four or five hours.\n\n\"Everybody had been told it was going to be arduous,\" he said in press materials for the show.\n\nContestant Lorenzo Nobilio told BBC News last week it took him seven hours to finish the game.\n\nIn January Netflix said three people received medical treatment during filming, but \"claims of serious injury are untrue\". Other contestants complained about the cold conditions in a report by Hollywood trade publication Variety.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) confirmed it contacted the programme's producers after concerns were raised with them, but said it decided to take no further action and stressed to them the importance of \"planning properly for any risks in future filming\".\n\nA spokesperson for Squid Game: The Challenge said: \"No lawsuit has been filed by any of the Squid Game contestants. We take the welfare of our contestants extremely seriously.\"\n\nThe game was filmed at Cardington Studios in Bedford.\n\nLast week Mr Lambert told BBC News it took player welfare \"terribly seriously\".\n\nHe said: \"Everybody was warned that it was going to be cold, we took all the necessary steps to prepare them for that.\n\n\"Yes, a few anonymous people were unhappy about the fact they had been eliminated and it had been a cold, quite long experience.\n\n\"But it was no worse than many unscripted shows... when you're giving away a huge prize it is always going to be to clear to us it was going to be a tough show to take part in.\"", "Rap mogul Sean \"Diddy\" Combs has been accused of sexual assault by a third woman who is suing him in the US.\n\nThe new complaint alleges he and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall took turns raping the woman and her friend in 1990 or 1991.\n\nThe legal documents have been obtained by US media including Rolling Stone.\n\nA representative for Mr Combs said: \"These are fabricated claims falsely alleging misconduct from over 30 years ago and filed at the last minute.\n\n\"This is nothing but a money grab. He is an easy target for anonymous accusers who lie... for financial benefit,\" the representative said.\n\nThe BBC has also contacted representatives for Mr Hall.\n\nThe flurry of recent lawsuits comes as the New York Adult Survivors Act, which allows alleged victims of sex crimes to sue after the statute of limitations has lapsed, ends on 24 November.\n\nThe act was passed to acknowledge the impact of trauma on sexual assault survivors and how it may delay people from coming forward.\n\nMultiple high-profile people are facing sexual assault lawsuits under the act, including Jamie Foxx and Axl Rose. Both denied the allegations against them.\n\nIn the latest filing, the woman, referred to as Jane Doe, alleges she and her friend attended an event in New York hosted by a record company where they met Mr Combs and Mr Hall.\n\nThe woman alleges the two men offered the pair drinks throughout the night, and later invited them back to Mr Hall's apartment, where the woman claims she was \"coerced into having sex with [Mr] Combs\".\n\nThe legal action also alleges Mr Combs visited Jane Doe's home a few days later and became violent. \"He was worried that [Jane Doe's friend] would tell the girl he was with at the time what he and Hall had done to them,\" it says.\n\nThe lawsuit, filed in New York County Supreme Court, alleges Jane Doe \"informed her close friends and family about what had occurred\". It claims she sought medical treatment \"to heal from the trauma visited upon her\".\n\nIt is the third sexual assault lawsuit Mr Combs' has faced this month. On Thursday, a second lawsuit alleged Mr Combs had sexually assaulted the plaintiff, Joi Dickerson-Neal, in 1991.\n\nShe says that during that time she was drugged by the rapper \"resulting in her being in a physical state where she could not independently stand or walk\".\n\nHe later drove Ms Dickerson-Neal to the place he was staying, where he sexually assaulted her, according to the lawsuit.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, a spokesperson for Mr Combs said the allegations were \"not credible\" and \"purely a money grab and nothing more\".\n\nReferring to the Adult Survivors Act, Mr Combs spokesperson said the \"last-minute lawsuit is an example of how a well-intentioned law can be turned on its head\".\n\nMs Dickerson-Neal said on Friday in a statement that filing the lawsuit brought \"great relief\".\n\n\"I'm feeling as if the darkness has been lifted and I can freely move forward in achieving my full potential,\" she said.\n\nMr Combs settled the first sexual assault suit which was brought by his former partner Casandra Ventura, an R&B singer known as Cassie, last week.\n\nMs Ventura accused the music mogul of rape and sex trafficking. She alleged that the rap producer raped and beat her over 10 years starting when she was 19 and he was 37.\n\nThe two reached a settlement a day after the suit was filed.\n\nMr Combs had denied Ms Ventura's claims and his lawyer said the decision to settle was not an admission of wrongdoing.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Inspectors will monitor the force regularly and insist the force meets with them regularly.\n\nWest Midlands Police is not carrying out its investigations effectively or managing the risk to the public by sex offenders, inspectors have said.\n\nThe government will now monitor the force closely and insist it meets with its inspectors regularly.\n\nHome Secretary James Cleverly described it as \"a failure of leadership from Labour's West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner.\"\n\nThe PCC and chief constable said they completely disagreed with the decision.\n\nMr Cleverly said the leadership failure was the reason the force had been placed into special measures.\n\n\"We will do everything in our power to ensure the police are keeping the people of this country safe,\" he posted on X.\n\nPCC Simon Foster apologised saying it was \"completely unacceptable\" if people were not obtaining access to justice.\n\n\"Action has already been taken and continues to be taken, to drive significant improvements within West Midlands Police,\" he said.\n\nWest Midlands Mayor Andy Street said victims of crime must be a priority\n\nWest Midlands Conservative Mayor Andy Street said the news made for \"very uncomfortable reading\".\n\n\"I feel for those officers who are working tirelessly to keep us all safe, but most importantly I'm concerned for the victims of crime who must be our priority,\" he said.\n\nEarlier this month Mr Street requested the PCC powers be transferred to his office after the next Mayoral elections in May.\n\n\"I believe that move to a single point of accountability has become even more important after today.\"\n\nThe police force's monitoring level has been escalated to \"Engage\", an enhanced form of monitoring, as it is \"not effectively addressing the inspectorate's concerns\", inspectors said.\n\nIt added significant improvements were needed and the force, which covers Birmingham, Wolverhampton, the Black Country and Coventry, has been asked to urgently produce an improvement plan.\n\nHis Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services said West Midlands Police had failed to:\n\nWest Midlands Police is the biggest force outside London, covering 348 square miles with a population of 2.94 million people.\n\nThe watchdog's decision to effectively place it into special measures, will fuel the debate about who should be responsible for policing in the region.\n\nThose who want the police and crime commissioner's powers to be handed to the winner of next May's West Midlands Metro Mayor election, say failures on investigating crime and delivering for victims are clear evidence the current model doesn't work.\n\nThe Police and Crime Commissioner himself disputes the watchdog's findings and puts the blame for any shortcomings on a lack of government funding.\n\nThe force does have 1,000 fewer officers than in 2010, but all expectations are that the home secretary will merge the two offices, a decision I'm told will be made in the next few weeks.\n\nHis Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary Wendy Williams said the process would provide additional security and support from the inspectorate.\n\nChief Constable Craig Guildford said many of the issues identified developed as a result of a previous operating model, with statistics \"largely drawn\" from before a new model was introduced in April this year.\n\nHe added the force was outperforming other forces in solving burglary, robbery and homicide cases.\n\n\"Although I remain respectful of HMICFRS, I completely disagree with their decision-making to move West Midlands Police into 'Engage' now despite providing them with recent evidence that should inform a much more comprehensive and fair assessment of the force.\n\n\"I want to reassure people that we had already identified these issues and put robust plans in place to rectify them,\" he added.\n\nChief Constable Craig Guildford said he disagreed with the decision\n\nIt was \"misleading\" for the inspectorate to say victims were not safeguarded, he said and added domestic abuse arrest rates have increased from 27% to 39%, he said.\n\nPCC Simon Foster said he was treating the matter \"with the utmost seriousness and as a top priority\".\n\nHe added the cuts to policing, leaving the force with 1,000 fewer officers, had \"caused immense damage to the force.\"\n\nChair of the West Midlands Police Federation, Rich Cooke, said he had been \"surprised and shocked\" at the move and added officers felt undervalued by the government.\n\nThe Federation would work with the force on the issues highlighted, he added.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tents were previously a common sight in underpasses in Milton Keynes\n\nMilton Keynes was created in the 1960s as a way of easing housing shortages in London. But five decades later it was facing a housing crisis of its own, dubbed \"tent city\" in the media because of the encampments of rough sleepers dotted around the centre.\n\nIn autumn 2017, there were estimated to be 48 people sleeping rough on a single night in Milton Keynes. That number has now fallen to just 16, according to the local council.\n\nThe city appears to be bucking the national trend, with the total number of people estimated to be rough sleeping across England on the rise again, after a drop during the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe issue hit the headlines this week, when Home Secretary Suella Braverman's claim that some people were living on the streets as a \"lifestyle choice\" provoked a backlash from homelessness charities, as well as some Conservatives.\n\nShe has proposed restricting the use of tents by rough sleepers, for example by issuing fines to those who refuse to move from shop doorways or charities that supply tents to people identified by police as having caused a nuisance.\n\nEmily Darlington, a Labour councillor in Milton Keynes and the cabinet member for housing, says \"tents are just the symptom, they're not the cause\".\n\n\"There's no point in just dealing with the symptom, it's like you just want to hide away the problem.\"\n\nShe argues people that sleep in tents think they have no other option \"because public services or the voluntary sector have failed them\".\n\nIn Milton Keynes, Ms Darlington says the key to preventing people falling through the cracks has been bringing emergency beds and other support services under one roof.\n\nDuring the pandemic, councils across England received government funding to help get people off the streets and into emergency accommodation including then-empty hotels, as part of the Everyone In scheme.\n\nThe initiative was widely praised but charities were also concerned many people were not found permanent homes.\n\nMs Darlington, who is also Labour's parliamentary candidate for Milton Keynes Central at the next general election, says putting people in hotels was only \"a sticking plaster\" and the council wanted to keep people off the streets for good.\n\nIn April 2022 the council opened its own shelter for rough sleepers at the city's old bus station, providing emergency beds for up to 19 people every night.\n\nCrucially, on the ground floor of the building there is also access to GP, mental health and addiction services. Meanwhile, charities provide help setting up bank accounts, accessing benefits and finding housing, as well as hot meals, a hairdresser and laundry facilities.\n\n\"So it's not asking people to run around the city, try and make appointments, when they already lead super chaotic lives,\" Ms Darlington explains.\n\nEmily Darlington is the council cabinet member responsible for homelessness in Milton Keynes\n\nAt the shelter, those signing in for the night have faced issues including addiction, relationship breakdown and eviction, which contributed to them ending up on the streets.\n\nJoseph, a recovering drug addict, says he became homeless when he was evicted after complaining about the condition of his housing.\n\nSince then the 35-year-old has been sleeping rough on and off for several months.\n\nSo what does he make of the home secretary's comment that sleeping on the streets is a \"lifestyle choice\" for some?\n\n\"Wow,\" he says. \"My reaction to that would be try and live one day like that.\"\n\nPausing for a moment he reflects that perhaps some people do have other options, but adds: \"I had no choice. I had to.\"\n\nJoseph has used the shelter at the old bus station\n\nAs a rough sleeper, he has had to contend with not only the cold but also violence.\n\n\"Yesterday a guy came over and stamped on my head. It's constant,\" he says. \"And it's like you don't even sleep. It is rest but you're literally just lying there.\"\n\nHe also developed problems with alcohol \"because it's the only thing that keeps you warm outside\".\n\nJoseph says the system hasn't been perfect for him and he's struggled to access intensive support for his addictions.\n\nBut he still thinks the help offered by the shelter is crucial.\n\n\"If this place weren't here, people would die, literally.\"\n\nThe shelter has 19 beds available for rough sleepers\n\nSince the shelter opened, 145 people who have stayed there have been helped to move into long-term accommodation.\n\nMs Darlington recognises the problem is not solved and there are still some people sleeping rough in Milton Keynes. She says many of these individuals face significant challenges with addiction or mental health issues and continue to be visited daily by outreach workers.\n\n\"Some people aren't ready to face their issues, they're not ready to face their addictions... If we force them to participate in things before they're ready, we are just setting them up to fail,\" she says.\n\n\"I don't want to pretend like in Milton Keynes it's all easy and everyone's problems are sorted overnight - they're not. But it's the persistence of working over time with individuals, getting to know them.\"\n\nJohnny Luk, who is the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Milton Keynes Central, said at a council level there was cross-party support for the work being done to tackle rough sleeping locally.\n\nHowever, he said government funding had been \"pivotal\" in enabling progress, with more than £10m given to the council to address homelessness since 2019.\n\nMr Luk said he would not describe sleeping on the streets as a \"lifestyle choice\".\n\n\"I prefer we positively support homeless people, who are members of our community and deserve empathy and support under complex circumstances, rather than create a new offence or give fines,\" he added.\n\nDowning Street has said no-one should be criminalised for having nowhere to live and it wants to ensure vulnerable people get support, whilst cracking down on anti-social and intimidating behaviour.\n\nEmma Johnson says her charity is seeing an increase in demand for its services\n\nEmma Johnson is the general manager of local homelessness charity UnityMK, which runs support services on the ground floor below the council shelter, alongside other agencies like the NHS.\n\nShe says strong partnerships between voluntary organisations and the council have been key to tackling rough sleeping in Milton Keynes.\n\nHowever, Ms Johnson is concerned the charity is seeing an increase in demand from rough sleepers, as well as others in temporary accommodation or facing homelessness.\n\nShe says this includes some people who are working but end up on the streets due to family breakdown, mental health crises and the high cost of renting.\n\nOfficial figures suggest a slight increase in rough sleeping in Milton Keynes after the end of the pandemic-era Everyone In scheme, but the council says numbers have now fallen again.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of people living in temporary accommodation in the city is amongst the highest in England, according to research by charity Shelter.\n\n\"I think there is just not enough social housing to be able to move people on,\" Ms Johnson says. \"Social housing has to become a priority for whoever's going to be in government.\"\n\nAn independent commission has said the government will not meet its own target to end rough sleeping by 2024, with a severe shortage of affordable housing, a lack of support services and the cost-of-living crisis pushing more people into homelessness.\n\n\"I think there will always be people that find themselves homeless,\" says Ms Johnson. \"So it's about trying to create a pathway to pick people up as quickly as possible.\"", "Writing in the Times, Suella Braverman accused the Met Police of applying a \"double standard\" to its policing of protests\n\nGrant Shapps is the latest cabinet minister to distance himself from the home secretary's choice of words, after she criticised police ahead of Saturday's pro-Palestinian rally.\n\nIn a Times article, Suella Braverman called protesters \"hate marchers\" and accused police of a \"double standard\".\n\nMr Shapps said it was \"proper\" for the home secretary to debate the issue, but he \"wouldn't use that set of words\".\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper said she \"shouldn't carry on in her job\".\n\nShe also suggested Ms Braverman's remarks had made disorder during Saturday's demonstrations worse.\n\nOn Sunday, the home secretary thanked police for \"their professionalism in the face of violence and aggression from protesters and counter-protesters\".\n\nShe criticised chants and placards from the march, saying: \"This can't go on. Week by week, the streets of London are being polluted by hate, violence, and antisemitism... Jewish people in particular feel threatened - further action is necessary.\"\n\nHer earlier claims that police were \"biased\" prompted widespread criticism and calls for the prime minister to sack her.\n\nPressure has increased on the home secretary after the Metropolitan Police made more than 100 arrests on Saturday and said officers faced \"aggression\" from counter-protesters.\n\nOn Saturday, Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the march had taken place against a backdrop of conflict in the Middle East, remembrance events and a \"week of intense debate\" about protest and policing, which \"all combined to increase community tensions\".\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, the defence secretary refused to say whether Ms Braverman would still be in her role in a week's time.\n\n\"A week is a long time in politics,\" Mr Shapps told Sky News's Trevor Phillips adding the make-up of the cabinet is \"entirely a matter for the prime minister\".\n\nDowning Street is currently investigating how the article was published without edits they had wanted to be made - for now Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has backed his home secretary.\n\nIn her article in the Times, Ms Braverman claimed aggressive right-wing protesters were \"rightly met with a stern response\", while \"pro-Palestinian mobs\" were \"largely ignored\".\n\nShe went on to say police were applying \"double standards\" and \"played favourites when it comes to demonstrators\".\n\nOn Friday, while Downing Street gave its backing to Ms Braverman, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said her comments were \"not words that I myself would have used\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Shapps told BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg he also would not endorse Mrs Braverman's choice of language.\n\nHe added: \"I think there have been concerns sometimes that people have felt at liberty, perhaps because they haven't seen swift enough action to carry on going out carrying these banners, singing these chants and breaking laws which were in place to prevent racial hatred.\n\n\"On the other hand, I wouldn't put it in those particular set of words, because I recognise the police have a very difficult job to do in managing marches which contain large numbers of people - a lot of that work has to be done afterwards.\"\n\nThe Met Police made over 100 arrests during Saturday's demonstrations - the \"vast majority\" were counter-protesters, the force said\n\nScotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf has called for the home secretary to resign, as has the Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford, who said Ms Braverman's comments \"put other people in harms way\".\n\nDowning Street had, in effect, hit pause on deciding the home secretary's political future on Thursday as it turned its focus to the weekend's events.\n\nWith Remembrance commemorations passed and a clearer picture of what happened at protests and counter protests on Saturday, pressure will resume on Rishi Sunak to send a clear message on his home secretary.\n\nHe could, as the opposition are calling for, sack her.\n\nThat would almost certainly mean carrying out a bigger reshuffle, which has been rumoured to be on the cards for months.\n\nThe downside would be that it would anger her supporters, who are predominantly on the right of the party.\n\nThat could trigger letters of no confidence and other public displays of division.\n\nOne Tory MP told the BBC efforts were already under way to lobby to keep her in the job.\n\nMrs Braverman has also never hidden her ambitions to one day be the party leader and sacked ministers have been known to be a thorn in the side of their former bosses.\n\nOn the other hand, Rishi Sunak could decide keeping her on outweighs the controversies and he could choose to back her.\n\nIn order to avoid claims of weakness though, he'd have to find a convincing reason for why she went ahead and published a newspaper opinion piece that hadn't been cleared by Downing Street.\n\nHe would also frustrate those Tory MPs who have tired of her knack for attracting controversy and are starting to use phrases like \"unhelpful\" and \"brand damage\" in relation to the home secretary.\n\nHer continued presence in the Cabinet would also provide an ongoing target for Labour.\n\nNow, of course, Mrs Braverman has one big option of her own: she could choose to resign.\n\nThat would free her from the constraints of having to stick to the government line.\n\nBut it would also mean leaving a job that carries huge influence and gives her a platform to push her particular agenda on issues such as immigration.\n\nJust to complicate matters, this all comes days before the Supreme Court gives a ruling on the government's Rwanda plan, with which Mrs Braverman has become closely associated.", "\n• None Protests and the war in Gaza", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nHeavyweights Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder are in talks to fight on the same card in Saudi Arabia on 23 December.\n\nWilder's team are \"hopeful\" a deal can be finalised as organisers aim to fill a gap on the card.\n\nTyson Fury v Oleksandr Usyk was set to headline, but Fury's difficult encounter with Francis Ngannou last month derailed those plans.\n\nOrganisers are very confident a deal is close with Joshua and Wilder.\n\nQueensberry promoter Frank Warren said this week that 23 December would be a \"historic\" night for boxing.\n\nTurki Alalshikh, of Saudi Arabia's General Entertainment Authority, is leading discussions with Joshua and Wilder alongside Queensberry Promotions.\n\nBriton Joshua, 34, is promoted by Matchroom Boxing and Eddie Hearn, while American Wilder has spent most of his career with Premier Boxing Champions and adviser Al Haymon, as well as being managed by Shelly Finkel.\n\nHopes are high that a deal will be done for Joshua and Wilder to fight separate opponents and could be announced shortly as 23 December is only six weeks away.\n\nThe deal could pave the way for Joshua and Wilder to fight each other in 2024, although the possibility of Joshua-Wilder appearing on the same card as Usyk-Fury is unlikely.\n\nWBC champion Fury and IBF, WBO and WBA belt holder Usyk are expected to fight in a long-awaited undisputed heavyweight bout by February in Saudi Arabia.\n\nEarlier this year Joshua and 38-year-old Wilder were in talks with Saudi Arabia-based Skills Challenge about fighting before discussions collapsed. Alalshikh's outfit has now emerged as the power broker for boxing in the country.\n\nJoshua and Wilder are former world champions but are on the comeback trail since losing their world titles to Usyk and Fury respectively.\n\nFury, 35, is unbeaten in 35 fights, while former undisputed cruiserweight champion Usyk is undefeated in 21 bouts.", "You won't find a politician saying it loud, but fear matters.\n\nRunning a government or a political party is not a business where the aim is to hold hands and sing Kumbaya.\n\nThe task to is win power. To hold on to it. To get things done. And then win again.\n\nCommon beliefs, loyalty, and a desire to serve can bind politicians together.\n\nBut fear is one of the currencies prime ministers can require to succeed.\n\nAs one senior Conservative told me: \"People need to be scared of Number 10.\"\n\nThat force can stop ministers doing daft things, or make them do things they don't want to, or just keep them in line.\n\nUltimately, it is the fear of losing their precious jobs, their red box, their ministerial limo, their standing, their reputation, that matters in the fraught day to day of government.\n\nRishi Sunak is never going to cosplay some kind of political hard man.\n\nBut he faces a political danger right now that every moment longer he keeps his headline-happy home secretary on, that fear falls away.\n\nThe prime minister is known not just for wanting to find the facts, but wanting to study them before making decisions.\n\nWe saw that in long running embarrassments over the tax affairs of the former Conservative Party chair, Nadhim Zahawi, and bullying claims about the previous foreign secretary, Dominic Raab.\n\nIn political terms both of those situations dragged on for aeons before the two ministers were shown the door.\n\nBut on this occasion there seems little need for a long-winded process or internal investigations into what happened.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman and her team were told to tone down her language in an article for The Times. They refused to make all the changes.\n\nEither Rishi Sunak reckons that defiance merits a P45 or not.\n\nBut as I write Downing Street is in the uncomfortable position of having disowned the article, distancing themselves from the home secretary, but then delayed making a further decision.\n\nNow they are stuck with almost impossible choreography.\n\n\"I think it all depends on this weekend,\" says one senior MP.\n\nMrs Braverman's language related to the policing of protests and Remembrance events.\n\nThere is a logic therefore in Number 10 getting through the next 48 hours before making a public decision on if she should stay or go.\n\nIf she had been fired already, and there was trouble on the streets - and there have been clashes between police and counter-protesters - Mrs Braverman would have been able to say a giant \"I told you so\".\n\nBut if the weekend's events pass relatively smoothly, then some in government are convinced that on Monday she is out.\n\n\"I'd put your money on it,\" one cabinet source told me, suggesting confidently the plan to fire her then has already been hatched, \"the position is pretty entrenched\".\n\nYet, other sources in government suggest Rishi Sunak's natural caution will see him wait for another big event to pass, Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling on the government's plan to send migrants to Rwanda.\n\nSuella Braverman was appointed to keep the Tory right happy\n\nSuella Braverman has been the biggest champion of this proposal all along.\n\nIf the government wins, and can get on with it, that's a victory for her as well as the PM.\n\nIf she is sacked then - after a positive verdict - there is less of a row to have, the message could be: \"Thank you for your marvellous work, now time for a fresh start.\"\n\nBut if the government loses, and then she is shown the door, she has more ammunition to make things awkward, more likely to try to push the Tory Party further on immigration, reinvigorating calls to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, which is a source of argument in Conservative ranks.\n\nSeveral ministers reckon therefore Mr Sunak will wait until that's clear. \"Next Wednesday is a big day that is finally arriving and I'd be astonished if the PM did anything ahead of that,\" said one.\n\nBut there is always a reason politicians can find to wait.\n\nDoes Number 10 really want to change its cast list a few days before the chancellor's big Autumn Statement the week after?\n\nDoes the PM really want to carry out a major reshuffle, perhaps the last before a general election campaign, right now?\n\nIf politicians want to delay, there is, always a reason to wait.\n\nThe pause while Number 10 has been working out what to do has displayed the other reason for hanging on to Mrs Braverman.\n\nThe dangling prospect of sacking the home secretary has prompted screams from the Conservative right, and newspaper headlines about the revenge which would surely follow.\n\nTrying to keep the right happy was the reason Rishi Sunak hired Suella Braverman in the first place.\n\nRemember, she had previously been ditched by Liz Truss when found to have broken ministers' rules.\n\nIt was obvious from the very start that she would be highly likely to grab headlines and be willing to cause political trouble.\n\nWhen he was trying to get to Number 10 - after the Truss implosion - Mrs Braverman's support was a valuable totem for Team Sunak from the right wing of the party.\n\nSince then, while the PM and the home secretary differ hugely in how they use language, there isn't that much variation between the two of them on ideas.\n\nAnd as far as some of Suella Braverman's backers are concerned she has done exactly what she was hired to do.\n\nThat is, talk to the public with conviction about the government's desire to get on top of immigration, and, in the words of one of her allies, \"convince people that we mean it\".\n\nBut there is no question Number 10 is, in the words of one cabinet minister \"deeply hacked off\" at her recent behaviour.\n\nIt's not just the fuss over her newspaper article.\n\nMultiple sources have said her remarks about tents for homeless people have caused huge political damage.\n\n\"It's become the Suella show,\" a minister says. \"It's cumulative,\" another claims.\n\nAnd many Sunak loyalists don't believe the threat Mrs Braverman would present if she is sacked in a giant huff is as significant as her allies, and some headlines, suggest.\n\n\"There is no army that will rise up behind her,\" suggests one cabinet minister.\n\nAnother member of the government says \"her support in Parliament is very, very over stated,\" take away the red box and the car, and she will look like what she was, \"an outlier from the start\".\n\nBut even a small group of politicians determined to make a racket can do so.\n\nIf Mrs Braverman is sacked there will be a backlash of a sort, in parts of the party, and parts of the press.\n\nThere are warnings, however credible, that a small number of other members of the government might leave alongside her if she is fired or walks.\n\nYet, there seems a growing sense in government that there is less and less to be gained from trying to trying to keep every MP happy.\n\nAnd while Mrs Braverman's backers say time and again that she represents many of the public, she alienates others.\n\nOne pollster suggests Mrs Braverman's style could \"peel back some Reform UK's voters, but the combination of alienating more Cameronite Tories and a total sense of government chaos and disunity far outweighs\" that appeal.\n\nThe political question for Rishi Sunak is not whether the perfect process was followed in agreeing a cabinet minister's newspaper article.\n\nBut whether he is willing to keep using up political energy to try to preserve the fraying edges of the Conservative Party.\n\nMr Sunak is grappling with an almost impossible choreography, some Conservatives reckon the party is an almost impossible coalition now too.\n\nHowever the prime minister decides to manage his way out of this tangle it has already dented Downing Street's authority.\n\nOne minister told me: \"If you don't think that actions have consequences and you can say what you like, do what you want, it's harmful for Number 10.\"\n\nThere are logical reasons why Mr Sunak has not yet made a decision with the protests this weekend, and the court ruling on Wednesday.\n\nThere are political reasons why it's not a slam dunk, because there is a risk, although perhaps not as great as often billed, of retribution from the right of the Conservative Party that would be hard to manage, and indeed, to predict.\n\nBut the bigger reality for Downing Street is perhaps that Suella Braverman acted as she did because she didn't fear any consequences.\n\nIf members of any government ignore what the Number 10 machine says, but they get away with it, even for a few days, the prime minister's authority erodes, discipline disappears.\n\n\"Nobody is frightened of Downing Street any more,\" one senior Tory told me.\n\nAn administration that can't put the frighteners on is an administration in trouble.", "The Westgate Hotel, pictured during this year's Newport Rising march, holds huge historical significance for the city\n\nYou would usually expect to find a forensic expert a crime scene dealing with fresh evidence.\n\nBut Andre Horne has been looking at something a little older - 184-year-old bullet holes.\n\nThe firearm expert has been tasked with investigating these holes in stone pillars at Newport's historic Westgate Hotel.\n\nHis aim is to confirm the holes were from muskets fired in the 1839 Newport Chartist Rising.\n\n\"It's a welcome change,\" said Andre.\n\n\"It was very interesting to find out about these stories and try to see what potentially happened here.\"\n\nTypically at crime scenes, Andre analyses the impact marks, ejection patterns and determined trajectories of bullets to try and understand where the shooter might have been standing.\n\nBut because the pillars at the Westgate Hotel have moved since 1839, this complicates matters.\n\nThe building, which saw the battle between the Welsh Chartists and the soldiers of Queen Victoria, had been demolished in 1884 - only to be rebuilt two years later.\n\nThe pillars which used to stand by the entrance of the old hotel are now ensconced within the building.\n\nForensic expert Andre Horne examines the holes in the hotel's pillars\n\nAs the Westgate is currently closed to the public, people are no longer able to go and see the bullet holes for themselves.\n\nFor decades speculation has been rife about whether the pillars do actually bear the scars of the musket balls from nearly two hundred years ago.\n\nSome doubters have even circulated rumours that the holes were the result of the pillars being drilled at some point in order to attach posts or gates.\n\nOne person trying to put an end to those rumours is Oliver Blackmore, collections manager at Newport Museum.\n\nOliver, who joined Newport Museum in 2010, said: \"I'd never seen the bullet holes and I accepted as fact what I'd been told about them being created simply to house railings.\n\n\"However, when we visited the pillars questions started to arise because they actually did look like bullet holes to us.\"\n\nOliver Blackmore says the holes were made by bullets\n\nThe team at the Newport Museum then enlisted Andre's forensic expertise to test the holes.\n\nOliver said: \"When Andre went back to the lab there was very limited evidence of bullet residue - probably because thousands of enquiring fingers have been shoved into the holes over time.\n\n\"But the historical evidence is pretty definitive, making any physical or forensic evidence just icing on the cake.\n\n\"I think we can confidently say that the holes in the Westgate pillars are actually bullet holes\".\n\nDavid Daniel is the Project Director of Our Chartist Heritage, the charity behind the Newport Rising festival.\n\nIt commemorates that fateful day in 1839 when more than 20 protesters were killed fighting for the democratic rights of the working classes.\n\nAnd this year's festival saw the highest ever turnout for the torch-lit march, as hundreds marched to Westgate Square to mark the occasion.\n\nDavid Daniel helped reopen the Westgate Hotel after it had stood empty for years\n\nDavid helped reopen the doors of the Westgate Hotel in 2019 after it had laid derelict for years.\n\nInitially resurrected to host a small event, it birthed an ambitious plan to regenerate the hotel into a community space.\n\nDavid said the Westgate Hotel and its bullet holes were of key historical importance to Newport.\n\n\"To see the bullet holes, the real effects of the rising and that fight for democratic rights is what makes the building really special, along with our part in it.\n\n\"I think the idea that they weren't bullet holes came about because the building was empty for so long and people couldn't see them up close and personal.\n\nA mural commemorating the rising was controversially demolished in 2013, only to be replaced elsewhere in the city six years later\n\n\"That they are bullet holes is really the only real explanation that makes any sense.\n\n\"So opening those doors and being able to show people was so powerful.\"\n\nDavid added the hotel's recent closure was a big loss to the city.\n\n\"I think that the Westgate Hotel is a key venue in Newport, which is a struggling city,\" he said.\n\n\"It's right in the centre, this piece of history - there's nothing that compares to it.\n\n\"Its locked doors are a huge missed opportunity, both for Newport and Wales as a whole, in terms of how we remember our heritage.\"", "Thousands of those displaced from the north have been packed into schools like this one in Deir al-Balah\n\nWashing in polluted seawater, sleeping in packed tents, eating what little bread they can find, or on some days none at all. In southern Gaza, hundreds of thousands of refugees are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis that is deepening by the hour and pushing every possible safety net to the brink.\n\nThe refugees are coming from Gaza's north, fleeing Israel's bombing campaign. They stream down the Salah al-Din road, which connects north to south, many thousands on foot, some with a few possessions but most bearing only their children and the clothes on their backs.\n\nA young girl holds an improvised white flag as her family, heading south, stops to rest on the Salah al-Din road\n\nTens of thousands have stopped in Deir al-Balah, a central Gazan city in the supposed safe zone which has been plunged into crisis by the influx. The refugees in Deir al-Balah are crammed into school buildings hastily repurposed as UN shelters, up to 70 people in a single classroom, surrounded by food waste and swarmed by flies.\n\n\"If you want to speak about space, we sleep on our sides because there is not even enough room to lie on our backs,\" said Hassan Abu Rashed, a 29-year-old blacksmith who fled with his family from Jabalia in Gaza City.\n\n\"If you want to speak about food, we hope we will find a few slices of bread per day to eat. If you want to speak about health, the sewage system in the school is broken. If you want to speak about diseases, there is chickenpox, scabies, and lice here. If you want to speak about our condition, we are desperate.\"\n\nHundreds of thousands have streamed down the Salah al-Did road on foot, fleeing the bombing further north\n\nAt the gate of one school in Deir al-Balah, Khaled Filfel, a 42-year-old father, was alone and stressed over a very specific need. \"My 21-year-old daughter is disabled and I cannot get any nappies for her,\" he said. On top of that, he said, the pair had not been able to find drinking water or food so far that day.\n\nThere were two saving graces for Filfel, though. The first was that his wife and six other children happened to be out of Gaza when Hamas attacked Israel. The second was that someone had seen his daughter at the school that morning and offered them a room in a family home nearby. \"Because of my daughter's condition they offered us shelter,\" Filfel said. \"Some people here are looking out for each other.\"\n\nBefore the beginning of this war, the UN's refugee agency, Unwra, had contingency planning in place to house 1,500 displaced people in each school, the agency's Gaza director, Thomas White, told the BBC. The average school-turned-shelter is now housing 6,000 people - a total of 670,000 people across 94 shelters in the south.\n\nWith no room left inside, many refugees are living in makeshift lean-tos\n\n\"We have been overwhelmed by the numbers,\" White said. \"There are people everywhere. The sanitation is overwhelmed, we're averaging about 125 people per toilet, about 700 per shower unit. You can feel the humidity of so many people crammed into these schools, you can smell the mass of humanity.\"\n\nTo escape the teeming classrooms and courtyards at the school in Deir al-Balah, some of its new residents take the short walk down to the beach front and spend the daylight hours there.\n\nOn Saturday morning, a young family was washing themselves and their clothes in the sea, trying to avoid the rubbish floating on the water and strewn on the sand. When they were done, they hung their clothes up under the sun. They had been in Deir al-Balah for three weeks.\n\n\"You could say that we have gone back to the dark ages,\" said the father, Mahmoud al-Motawag, 30. \"We use the sea for everything,\" he said. \"To wash ourselves, to wash our clothes, to clean our kitchen utensils, and now to drink when we cannot find clean water. We eat just one meal each per day, and we beg the fishermen to give us one or two fishes for the children.\"\n\nMahmoud al-Motawag and his wife Duaa and their children, waiting for their clothes to dry on the beach in Deir al-Balah\n\nMahmoud, a farm worker from Jabalia, said his family had fled the bombing. He was sitting next to his two children, a boy and girl aged four and two, and his wife Duaa. The family spent all day at the beach, Mahmoud said, partly to wait for their clothes to dry but mostly to avoid for as long as they could returning to the baking hot tent on the school grounds that had become their temporary home along with 50 others.\n\nAs he spoke, Duaa, aged just 20, rested a hand on her large baby bump. She was due to give birth in a month, she said. With the local hospital already on its knees, she wondered if she might be forced to deliver at the dirty, overcrowded school.\n\n\"I am afraid,\" Duaa said. \"I am afraid that the birth will take a long time, I am afraid for my baby, I am afraid that there will be no clothes or blankets. Everything was planned for the birth, and then everything changed.\"\n\nDuaa Filfel, who is eight months pregnant, with her son. \"I am afraid for my baby,\" she said\n\nFor now, there was the daily strain of simply being a refugee while eight months pregnant. \"I have this physical and mental fatigue,\" Duaa said. \"My children are small and we have to stand in a queue for the toilets for 15 to 30 minutes. I have pain from washing and sitting for a long time by the sea. It doesn't go away.\"\n\nEven if Duaa could reach the hospital in Deir al-Balah, it would not be a guarantee of a safe and comfortable birth. The Al-Aqsa hospital, like others across the Gaza Strip, is on its knees. As the refugees move south, so has the Israeli bombing, levelling buildings in residential areas of Deir al-Balah and sending dozens of badly wounded there.\n\nKhalil al-Duqran, a 55-year-old emergency doctor who has worked at the Al-Aqsa for 20 years, was on the phone to the BBC when the wounded from a strike on Salah al-Din road started to arrive.\n\n\"They are coming now, hundreds of injured people, dozens have injuries in the head and limbs,\" he shouted, over sounds of chaos in the background. \"This is a massacre of our people.\"\n\nDr Khalil al-Duqran attends to a boy with two badly wounded arms at Al-Aqsa hospital on Saturday\n\nAl-Duqran apologised and hung up. Later, when the chaos had died down, he called back, sounding shattered. \"This is the hardest war that I have seen in my 20 years,\" he said. \"Every day the wounded and the dead arrive by the dozens or hundreds. Children come with amputated limbs, upper and lower. They have severe head wounds.\"\n\nLike other hospitals across Gaza, the Al-Aqsa was running low on almost everything it needed to function. \"We are making beds from wooden pallets, we are missing nearly 90% of medicines,\" Al-Duqran said. \"Everything from operation room trays to fraction fixing devices have run out, and in the ICU we will lose patients soon because we can simply no longer keep them alive.\"\n\nA mother fleeing with her child on the Salah al-Din road, which was bombed on Friday\n\nAs Israel's air and land attack on northern Gaza intensifies, people continue to flow down the Salah al-Din road into Deir al-Balah and all cities of central and southern Gaza.\n\nBut at many of the school shelters, there is no longer room. So refugees are building ramshackle lean-tos against the sides of the buildings, keen to be positioned as close as possible to a UN flag in the hope of protection from an air strike, but open to the elements as the weather worsens.\n\n\"People are living increasingly out in the open,\" said Thomas White, the Unrwa Gaza director. \"Right now its remarkably warm for November, but by Wednesday we are expecting the cold weather to come through,\" he said. \"People are going to be seriously exposed.\"\n\nA young boy stares out from a shelter in a school in Khan Younis, southern Gaza\n\nEvery shop that was providing food to Gazans under a World Food Programme assistance scheme ran out of basic supplies on Friday, WFP spokeswoman Alia Zaki told the BBC. Bakeries have no gas to make bread, she said, and there was a potential wave of malnutrition in the making in Deir al-Balah and across Gaza.\n\n\"People are not eating enough to be healthy so their immune systems are weakened,\" Zaki said. \"They are queuing for five or six hours for bread and coming back empty handed.\"\n\nAt the beach in Deir al-Balah on Saturday, this was the unwelcome prospect facing Mahmoud and Duaa. They were preparing mentally to leave the relative haven of the waterfront to go in search of bread.\n\n\"We could be waiting many hours, only to find the bakeries are closed again and we will have nothing again for our children,\" Mahmoud said.\n\n\"Our ancestors' lives were war and our lives have been war,\" he said, wearily. \"And now the war has caught up with our children, too.\"", "We'll be pausing our live coverage of the Israel-Gaza War for the next few hours, so here's a quick round-up of all the latest developments.\n\nThe World Health Organization has warned of a \"dire and perilous\" situation at Gaza's main medical facility, Al-Shifa Hospital, which is experiencing a near-complete power outage and shortages of food and water.\n\nWHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said \"constant gunfire and bombings\" in the area around the hospital have \"exacerbated the already critical circumstances\" and that Al-Shifa \"is not functioning as a hospital anymore\".\n\nThe Israeli military has reiterated it is \"ready to help\" evacuate the dozens of vulnerable newborn babies being cared for at the site to another hospital.\n\nAl-Shifa's head of surgery, Dr Marwan Abu Saada, has told the BBC that a third premature newborn baby has died because of a lack of power.\n\nBabies that were previously in incubators have been moved to beds in a surgical ward, after a lack of electricity forced the neonatal unit to shut down Image caption: Babies that were previously in incubators have been moved to beds in a surgical ward, after a lack of electricity forced the neonatal unit to shut down\n\nDozens of other newborns are currently not receiving the care they need and the surgeon said he is \"afraid we are going to lose the lives of all [the] babies\".\n\nAlso speaking to the BBC earlier, Israeli president Isaac Herzog repeated an allegation that Hamas has its headquarters underneath Al-Shifa. Hamas denies using the hospital for military purposes.\n\nDr Abu Saada also described Israel's allegation as a \"big lie\" and issued an \"open invitation\" to its nearby forces to come and inspect the building.", "Indi has mitochondrial disease which prevents cells in the body producing energy\n\nSpecialists have withdrawn life-support treatment from a critically ill baby girl who has been at the centre of a legal battle.\n\nStaff at the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) in Nottingham said they could do no more for Indi Gregory, who has mitochondrial disease.\n\nChristian Concern, which has been supporting her parents, said the eight-month-old had been moved to a hospice.\n\nIt comes after the Derbyshire family's appeal to take her home was rejected.\n\nIn a statement issued through the group, Indi's father said she was \"fighting hard\".\n\nDean Gregory and Claire Staniforth, from Ilkeston, wanted specialists to keep treating their daughter but the couple lost fights in both the High Court and Court of Appeal.\n\nA spokesman for Christian Concern said Indi's life support had now been withdrawn and she had been moved to a hospice.\n\nIndi, photographed here with mother Claire Staniforth, was born on 24 February\n\nHigh Court judge Mr Justice Peel ruled limiting treatment would be lawful, and doing so would be in Indi's best interests.\n\nHer parents failed to persuade Court of Appeal judges and judges at the European Court of Human Rights, to overturn the decision.\n\nThe couple also failed in a bid to transfer Indi to a hospital in Rome.\n\nIt was ruled a move to Italy would not be in Indi's best interests and Court of Appeal judges backed the decision.\n\nIndi was being cared for at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre\n\nSpecialists said she was dying and the treatment she was receiving caused pain and was futile but her parents disagreed.\n\nMr Justice Peel considered evidence at private hearings in the Family Division of the High Court in London.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Met said the faked audio of the Mayor of London did not amount to a crime\n\nPolice say faked audio purporting to capture the Mayor of London calling for Armistice Day to be re-scheduled for a pro-Palestinian march \"does not constitute a criminal offence\".\n\nSadiq Khan's office said false material was being \"circulated and amplified by a far-right group\".\n\nA Met spokesperson said specialist officers had reviewed the content.\n\nThey described it as \"artificial audio\" that had been brought to the attention of the force.\n\nSecurity minister Tom Tugendhat said he was aware of the fake and called for people not to \"repost or amplify it\".\n\nIt came as the Met prepared for an unprecedented security operation ahead of a pro-Palestine demonstration in London on Armistice Day on Saturday.\n\nThe force has warned there is a risk of clashes with far-right groups.\n\nIn one piece of fake audio circulating on social media, the words falsely purporting to be those of Mr Khan suggest Remembrance events could be put back a week.\n\nThe phoney speech also draws comparison between Remembrance events and the pro-Palestinian demonstration in terms of importance.\n\nThe Met is deploying almost 2,000 officers across central London throughout Saturday and Sunday, Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday respectively.\n\nA spokesperson for the force explained: \"Officers from Counter Terrorism Policing continue to review online content and material that is referred to us by members of the public.\n\n\"We will investigate and take enforcement actions where criminal offences are identified.\"\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "It's nearly two weeks since Israel launched its ground offensive into Gaza and more than a month since it began intensive air strikes against Hamas, all in response to the brutal attacks in Israel in which about 1,200 people were killed.\n\nIsrael's stated military objective from the outset has been to destroy Hamas, militarily and politically. How much closer is it to achieving that goal, and is it achievable?\n\nAs far as Israel is concerned, these are still early days - it has repeatedly said that this operation will be long and difficult. One senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) official who spoke to the BBC used the analogy of a boxing match: \"This is just round four of 15.\"\n\nNo-one in Israel is saying exactly how long the war will last. Some point to the fact that it took nine months for Western-backed Iraqi forces to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State (IS)group in 2017. Israel may want to carry on fighting for several more months, though it may not control the timetable, as international pressure for pauses in the fighting or even a ceasefire are growing.\n\nSo far, Israel says it has carried out more than 14,000 strikes and killed dozens of high-value targets, including senior Hamas commanders. Each of those strikes will have involved multiple weapons. Yaakov Katz, a military expert and former editor of the Jerusalem Post newspaper, says Israel has already fired more than 23,000 munitions.\n\nAs a comparison, at the height of the battle for Mosul, Western allies dropped around 500 bombs a week on IS targets.\n\nMore than 10,800 people in Gaza have been killed since the start of the war, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, including more than 4,400 children.\n\nThe military says its ground forces have successfully divided the Gaza Strip between north and south, and that its troops have surrounded Gaza City. It claims they are now \"deep in the heart of the city\", though that is still far from claiming control. Hamas has denied that Israeli forces have made any significant gains or pushed deep into Gaza City.\n\nThis initial phase of Israel's ground offensive appears to be going according to plan with its aim of isolating Hamas, and the cost to Hamas is likely to have been high. Estimates at the start of the war suggested that the group had between 30,000-40,000 fighters.\n\nOne senior Israeli defence source told the BBC that about 10% of that total - 4,000 fighters - have been killed. Such estimates are impossible to verify and should be treated with caution, but the sheer scale of Israel's bombing campaign will have already degraded Hamas's ability to fight.\n\nIn contrast, Israeli military losses appear to have been relatively low. Israel says 34 of its soldiers have been killed since ground operations began. Yossi Kuperwasser, an Israeli intelligence and security expert, says the military is conducting its ground operations \"more carefully and cautiously\" to avoid heavy casualties among its troops.\n\nIt's still not clear how much of Hamas remains in the north, how many fighters may still be hiding in tunnels, or how many might have melted into the local population who have fled south.\n\nThe tunnels still present a significant challenge to Israel. Its forces are trying to blow up what tunnels it finds, rather than engage in fighting underground.\n\nMore obvious is Israel's significant advantage in terms of intelligence and military capabilities. It can intercept communications and even turn off Gaza's mobile phone and internet networks. It has complete air superiority with Israeli jets and drones able to monitor every movement on the ground, but not below the surface.\n\nOne senior Israeli defence source told the BBC that they were still identifying more than 100 new targets each day, although that list is likely to diminish the longer this war goes on. The longer it lasts, the more it will have to rely on troops on the ground to identify and eliminate resistance.\n\nThe Gaza Strip has suffered an intense bombing campaign\n\nJustin Crump, a former British Army officer who now runs Sibylline, a risk intelligence company, says Israel appears to be making reasonable progress given the density of the terrain, but \"they're now going to encounter the more heavily defended urban areas of the city\".\n\nIsraeli troops are better equipped and well-trained, but urban warfare can still prove difficult for the most advanced militaries.\n\nSo far, close-quarters fighting on the ground appears to have been limited, and is certainly nothing on the scale of the urban warfare that's been taking place between Russia and Ukraine in cities like Bakhmut. Much of the videos released by the IDF show that it is instead relying on tanks and armour.\n\nNeither has Israel committed all its forces. Some estimate that it may have as few as 30,000 troops inside Gaza so far. That's a relatively small proportion of Israel's total - 160,000 active military personnel plus 360,000 reservists.\n\nJustin Crump says the question is how many of its infantry is it willing to commit to clearing every building and the warren of Hamas tunnels?\n\nIsrael could instead chose to target Hamas strongholds. He believes Israel will try to avoid block-by-block fighting, not least because it could lead to very heavy casualties. It would also certainly jeopardise the lives of more than 200 hostages.\n\nWhich raises the question as to whether Israel's stated war aim - destroying Hamas - is really achievable. Even senior Israeli officials recognise that destroying an ideology with bombs and bullets is impossible.\n\nSome of the group's leadership isn't even in Gaza. Mr Katz says that if elements of Hamas can survive this war, then they could still claim \"because we're still here, we've actually won\".\n\nFor that reason, Mr Crump believes Israel's war aims could shift from destroying Hamas to punishing it, to make sure it there is no repeat of the 7 October attacks.\n\nIsrael is also under increasing pressure to explain what happens next, especially from the US.\n\nOne Israeli defence source said Winston Churchill wasn't thinking about a Marshall plan to rebuild Germany, when he helped launched the allies invasion on D-Day in the Second World War.\n\nBut wars are rarely won without a plan post-invasion - something that's been completely absent in Israel's military operation so far.", "Humza Yousaf's in-laws arrived back in Scotland last weekend after being trapped for four weeks in Gaza\n\nScotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf has called for the home secretary to resign after counter protesters clashed with police in London.\n\nSuella Braverman previously branded pro-Palestinian demonstrators \"hate marchers\" and claimed the police were biased against right-wing marches.\n\nMr Yousaf accused her of \"fanning the flames of division\" and said her position was now \"untenable\".\n\nBut the prime minister said he still had \"full confidence\" in Ms Braverman.\n\nThe home secretary's claims that police were biased for letting the march go ahead prompted widespread criticism and calls for the prime minister to sack her.\n\nDowning Street told BBC Scotland News its position had not changed since it commented on the row on Friday.\n\nBut pressure mounted on Ms Braverman as the Metropolitan Police said officers had faced \"aggression\" from counter-protesters ahead of Saturday's two-minute silence in Whitehall.\n\nThe force later confirmed it had made more than 100 arrests \"to prevent a breach of the peace\".\n\nProtesters participated in a Pro-Palestine march at Waverley Bridge in Edinburgh\n\nA group of protestors prevented shoppers from entering the Marks and Spencer shop on Glasgow's Argyle Street\n\nMeanwhile, largely peaceful pro-Palestinian marches took place across Scotland in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Forres and Dumfries.\n\nIn Glasgow, the crowd listened to speeches from SNP and Green politicians as well as a representative of the Stop the War Coalition and an eight-year-old girl whose parents moved to Scotland from Gaza.\n\nSeveral hundred demonstrators protested outside the main branch of Marks and Spencer in Argyle Street.\n\nShoppers were unable to get into the shop for around 15 minutes but police protected one door to allow customers to leave.\n\nPolice officers scuffle with counter protesters in London's Chinatown ahead of a pro-Palestinian protest march in London\n\nThe trouble in London began shortly after 10:00 when a large crowd of people bearing St George flags was seen walking along Embankment and shouting \"England 'til I die\".\n\nSkirmishes broke out as police attempted to stop them from reaching the Cenotaph war memorial but the group pushed through, with some shouting \"let's have them\" as officers hit out with batons.\n\nThe Met posted on social media: \"While the two minutes' silence was marked respectfully and without incident on Whitehall, officers have faced aggression from counter-protesters who are in the area in significant numbers.\"\n\nThe force added that it would use \"all the powers and tactics available to us\" to prevent the counter-protesters from confronting the main march.\n\nMs Braverman is responsible for the government department overseeing law and order\n\nMr Yousaf later took to X, formerly Twitter, and said Mrs Braverman had encouraged the far-right protestors with her rhetoric.\n\nHe posted: \"The far right has been emboldened by the Home Secretary. She has spent her week fanning the flames of division. They are now attacking the police on Armistice Day.\n\n\"The Home Secretary's position is untenable. She must resign.\"\n\nThe Scottish Green Party's justice spokeswoman Maggie Chapman said: \"The shameful scenes and disruption we have seen today are a direct result of the smears and misinformation that has been amplified and spread by the home secretary and her colleagues. It is a disgrace of their own making.\n\n\"If the home secretary had any dignity she would resign, and if the prime minister wasn't so weak he would sack her.\"", "This week marked the end of the most dramatic phase of Donald Trump's New York business fraud trial, which saw high-profile members of his family make the journey to Lower Manhattan one by one to answer probing questions from prosecutors.\n\nOn Monday Mr Trump's defence team will begin presenting their side, calling the former president's oldest son back to the stand as their first witness. But legal analysts told the BBC that after two damaging weeks of testimony from members of the Trump family, salvaging their case now will be a herculean task.\n\n\"It's been a disaster from a legal perspective,\" said Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor and president of West Coast Trial Lawyers.\n\nHe believes that Mr Trump is \"going to lose this case, and lose badly\".\n\nIn a worst-case scenario for Mr Trump, Judge Arthur Engoron could bar him and his fellow defendants from doing business in New York, and issue fines of at least $250m (£204m) in penalties.\n\nPerhaps the most harmful of all the testimony came from Mr Trump himself. When he took the stand on Monday, he called New York Attorney General Letitia James a \"political hack\", declared the case \"a disgrace\" and personally attacked Judge Engoron.\n\nAt several points, Judge Engoron demanded Mr Trump's lawyers rein in his behaviour, and answer the questions posed to him. If they did not, the judge pledged to \"draw every negative inference that I can\".\n\n\"If Donald Trump was anybody other than a person with Secret Service protection, he would have been jailed for contempt of court,\" said Mitchell Epner, an attorney who handles commercial litigation.\n\nWhen he did directly respond to prosecutors' questions, Mr Trump did perhaps even more damage to his cause.\n\nAt the heart of the attorney general's lawsuit are documents known as statements of financial condition, the balance sheets that the Trump Organization used to demonstrate the value of its properties and Mr Trump's net worth so they could obtain loans and insurance rates.\n\nThe attorney general's office alleges those documents were fraudulently inflated to obtain deals they could not have received based on their true financials.\n\nThe judge had already ruled those documents were false. He is now weighing whether there was an intent to defraud, whether the defendants did so for personal gain, and other charges. The judge will also determine whether to issue penalties and if so, how severe.\n\nJudge Arthur Engoron expressed frustration with some of Donald Trump's answers during testimony\n\nOn the stand, Mr Trump boasted that his properties like Mar-a-Lago and 40 Wall Street were in fact worth more than their value on paper, but acknowledged he believed at least one of his properties may have been overvalued.\n\nAt another point, a prosecutor questioned him about the size of his Trump Tower penthouse, which the company had claimed was over 30,000sq ft but really took up just over 10,000. Mr Trump first acknowledged he had believed the claimed square footage was \"high\" - but then began to throw around larger estimates of its size.\n\nOver the course of his testimony, Mr Trump admitted he had given his input, and that some of those values on paper were wrong.\n\nBut he insisted that even if he did offer this input, he did not direct his accountants or employees on what valuations to use.\n\nMr Trump denies any wrongdoing and has accused the New York attorney general of waging a campaign of political persecution against him.\n\nSpeaking to reporters after Mr Trump testified, his attorney Alina Habba said he had \"built a great company, it's worth a ton more than that statement of financial condition.\"\n\nShe added that Ms James, the attorney general, \"doesn't know how to get out of it because her politics won't allow her.\"\n\nHis children, Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump, were all more composed in their testimony and took a different approach to that of their father. But they did not necessarily help the family's case.\n\nEach one, in their own way, attempted to deflect the responsibility for the false documents onto the company's accountants and lawyers.\n\nMr Trump Jr said he was unfamiliar with the standard accounting guidelines to which companies like his must adhere. Eric Trump testified he was not involved with the creation of the statements of financial condition. Both are executive vice-presidents at the Trump Organization.\n\nThey stuck to this defence even as they were presented with various emails they sent or were copied on, or documents they signed, that contained information based on the false financial statements.\n\nMs Trump, who was not a defendant, tried to give prosecutors as little to work with as possible, repeatedly saying she could not recall documents they presented to her.\n\nWhen confronted with emails that showed her discussing the terms of a loan Deutsche Bank was about to grant her father for a real estate project, Ms Trump stated she could not recall the exchanges.\n\nHer declarations were unlikely to help, Mr Rahmani said. Mr Trump Jr and Eric Trump were \"still liable for some of the claims like financial fraud, even if they didn't have intent\", he observed.\n\nAnd, he added, the Trump Organization was liable for the actions of Donald Trump and his sons in the course of their employment.\n\nLegal experts agreed Mr Trump's defence team, led by veteran attorney Chris Kise, will be starting on the back foot next week.\n\nThey could attempt to introduce reams of new evidence or continue to prod and goad Judge Engoron to give them grounds for an appeal.\n\nThe lawyers spent the last few weeks attacking the judge over his alleged lack of impartiality. Other accusations of bias launched against Judge Engoron's clerk led to angry reprimands from the bench and a gag order on the attorneys themselves.\n\n\"I'm sure the judge will rule against me, because he always rules against me,\" Mr Trump said at one point on Monday.\n\nDespite the aggressive attacks, experts told the BBC that Mr Trump's legal team had failed to undermine the state's case.\n\n\"The defence needs someone to get up there and justify these valuations,\" Mr Rahmani said. \"Accountants, CPAs, real estate experts, appraisers. And they just haven't done that yet.\"\n\nAt this point, they face an uphill battle in salvaging their case, analysts told the BBC.\n\n\"The reason that they are in such a bad situation is that the judge has already found that the most important documents in this case were all false,\" Mr Epner said. \"As of now, the judge has also been given an enormous amount of evidence to show that they were knowingly false, and provided with the intent to defraud.\"\n\n\"Since they don't have the ability to get into a Back to the Future DeLorean and turn back time,\" Mr Epner said of the defence team, \"I can't imagine what they can do to turn around this case.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "King Charles III and Queen Camilla have unveiled new bronze statues of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at the Royal Albert Hall.\n\nPoppy Field's two-metre-high artworks, installed as part of the concert hall's 150th anniversary, were uncovered as the royals were arriving for the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance.", "Andy Foster died in hospital after being attacked at his home in Wrekenton\n\nA fourth man has been charged with murder following the death of a 26-year-old man who was sprayed with suspected ammonia.\n\nAndy Foster died in hospital after being attacked at his home in Eighton Terrace in Wrekenton on 20 August.\n\nNorthumbria Police have so far arrested 12 people in their investigation.\n\nYousef Wynne, 39, of Wuppertal Court, Jarrow, was remanded in custody and is due to appear before South Tyneside magistrates on Monday.\n\nTwo 31-year-olds, Kenneth Fawcett of North Shields, and John Wandless of no fixed address, and 21-year-old Josh Craig Hawthorn, of Ashfield, Jarrow, were previously charged with murder and have been remanded in custody.\n\nIt comes as a woman, 24, was also arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender on Friday but has since been released on police bail.\n\nDetectives previously said two people had knocked on Mr Foster's front door before they sprayed the substance at him and fled.\n\nMr Foster was injured at about 23:00 BST on 20 August, Northumbria Police said\n\nMr Foster was described by his loved ones as \"a kind and funny boy\", who was \"so loved by his family and many friends\".\n\nDet Insp Tam Fowler, leading the investigation, said: \"The public have been very supportive of our efforts so far.\n\n\"I hope our continued work and further arrests show just how seriously we are taking this incident.\"\n\nThe force is continuing to appeal for witnesses.\n\nFollow BBC North East on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Big Brother producers are investigating how offensive and controversial social posts by housemate Trish Balusa were not flagged before she joined the show.\n\nMost of the tweets in question - which fans have criticised for using racist and homophobic language - were posted more than 10 years ago.\n\nIn a statement on X, formerly Twitter, she apologised, saying she was \"deeply disappointed, embarrassed and ashamed\".\n\nThe 33-year-old from Luton was evicted from the ITV2 show on Friday.\n\nIt was only after she left that the old posts came to light. It looks like her former account has been deleted, with the apology posted from a new account in her name.\n\nBBC News is choosing not to repeat the language contained in some of the historical posts.\n\nA spokesperson for the production company behind Big Brother, Initial TV, said: \"This weekend we have been made aware of concerning historical tweets.\n\n\"We are currently looking into why they were not identified by the independent supplier we engage to review the digital footprint of potential housemates as part of our pre-checks.\"\n\nA planned appearance by Trish on spin-off Big Brother: Late & Live, hosted by AJ Ododu and Will Best, will not go ahead, a production source said. Contestants who have been evicted usually appear on the lively evening debate show.\n\nTrish is said to be being supported as part of the programme's welfare measures for contestants.\n\nThe new Big Brother series - the first for five years - is hosted by AJ Odudu and Will Best\n\nIn her apology, Trish wrote: \"I would like to sincerely apologise for the harmful stereotypes I perpetuated and the pain I have caused to the marginalised communities and groups of people mentioned.\n\n\"I have come a very long way since by educating myself and being educated by others on the impact and harm these views cause.\"\n\nShe asked fans to give her grace and \"believe that people can change\".\n\nThere has been a focus on the duty of care for reality contestants in recent years, especially after the deaths of former Love Island contestants Sophie Gradon and Mike Thalassitis after they appeared on the ITV dating show.\n\nITV's welfare package, published last month, says there is a social media blackout for all Big Brother contestants while they are on the programme, with their family and friends asked not to post on their behalf.\n\nIt also says checks of their social media are made by an \"independent, specialised service\". After a housemate leaves the show, they have a mandatory session with a mental health professional, with more sessions put in place if needed, according to ITV.\n\nDr Paul Litchfield, who independently reviews ITV's duty of care guidelines, said previously: \"The measures applied to safeguard the mental health of contributors to reality TV shows have evolved considerably over the past five years.\"\n\nBig Brother returned to UK TV on 8 October. The format first appeared on British screens on Channel 4 in 2000, fronted by Davina McCall and spawning a celebrity version, before moving to Channel 5, hosted by Emma Willis. It was scrapped in 2018.\n\nMore than 2.5 million people watched the launch show across ITV and ITV2 last month, when the 16 contestants were seen entering the latest Big Brother house in a north London warehouse for the first time.\n\nITV has confirmed a celebrity version will air once again, next year.", "Nicola became a universal credit claimant after leaving work to help care for her daughter in 2019\n\nThe way to access free sight and dental treatments in Northern Ireland is \"flawed\", a County Down woman has said.\n\nNicola Coburn, from Culcavy, described the application for help with costs for benefit claimants as \"convoluted\".\n\nConcerns have been raised by optometrists that vulnerable people could miss out on basic healthcare.\n\nLast month, about 150,000 people lost their automatic entitlement to free eye and dental care when they moved to universal credit (UC).\n\nThe Association of Optometrists (AOP) said it expected a further 70,000 people will be affected by the \"legal technicality\" when they move from legacy benefit systems.\n\nIt added people must complete a 22-page form which can take weeks to be processed with no guarantee of approval.\n\nNicola became a UC claimant after leaving work to help care for her daughter in 2019.\n\nShe said she became aware of the difficulties in accessing eye and dental treatments after noticing changes to her sight.\n\n\"I was getting different advice as to what needed to happen,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"It took maybe five or six weeks before I eventually discovered it was a HC1 form I needed to submit and then I still didn't know where to send it.\n\n\"I consider myself fairly tech savvy and I know how much I struggled. I dread to think how hard it is for people to get the information they need.\"\n\nNicola said she was eventually told her request for help with healthcare had been approved but \"it probably took three or four months\".\n\nAOP Chief Executive, Adam Sampson, described it as a \"diabolical situation\".\n\n\"We're talking about thousands upon thousands of people, some of the most vulnerable in society, being excluded from eye care and dental care - a vital service enabling them to continue working, driving, looking after their children and loved ones.\n\nAOP said it expected a further 7,000 people will be affected by the \"legal technicality\" when they move from legacy benefit systems\n\n\"That's not to mention the number of people who will simply stop making sight test appointments for them and their children for fear of the cost.\n\n\"We could be facing a backlog of people getting diagnosed and accessing treatment far too late.\"\n\nMr Sampson said the problem does not exist in the rest of the UK and called for the Department of Health \"to act immediately to enable automatic entitlement on Universal Credit, which simply matches the approach in England, Wales and Scotland\".\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson acknowledged \"the concerns expressed about access to help with health care costs, particularly in the context of the migration of benefits to universal credit\".\n\n\"We will work with stakeholders to see if the process for the interim solution - the form HC1 - can be improved,\" they continued.\n\n\"We also accept that a longer-term solution is required. This will require a decision on whether or indeed which income threshold might apply to universal credit recipients for help with health care costs eligibility.\n\n\"Further work is required to take into account a number of factors including comparisons with other jurisdictions, as well as the cost implications for the different eligibility options.\"", "A speech by Greta Thunberg at a large climate protest in Amsterdam was interrupted by a stage invader on Sunday.\n\nThe man said he \"came here for a climate demonstration, not a political view\", while trying to pull the microphone from Ms Thunberg's hands.\n\nShortly before the incident, chants of \"Palestine will be free\" could be heard from the crowd.\n\nEarlier during the rally, an activist had her speech cut short by organisers after using the phrase \"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free\", according to Reuters news agency.\n\nMany Jewish groups say the slogan, used at demonstrations around the world, is a call for the destruction of Israel. Pro-Palestinian activists argue that most people using it are calling for an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and blockade of Gaza, not the elimination of Israel itself.\n\nAfter the man had been removed from the stage, Ms Thunberg joined the crowd in chanting \"no climate justice on occupied land\".\n\nLast month, the Swedish climate activist came under fire after sharing pro-Palestinian messages on social media, with some accusing her of not showing support for Israeli victims of the Hamas attacks.", "The \"great civil march\" comes amid a steep rise in anti-Jewish incidents in France\n\nSomething unprecedented is happening this weekend in Paris, brought about by the war between Israel and Hamas and its spill-over in Europe.\n\nFor the first time ever, a major demonstration being attended by representatives of the major political parties includes the far right - but not the far left.\n\nOn Sunday afternoon thousands of people heeded a call from the Speakers of the two houses of parliament to show their support for French \"Republican\" values and their rejection of antisemitism - this in the face of a steep rise in antisemitic actions since 7 October.\n\nAmong the first to announce their presence were Marine Le Pen, three-time presidential candidate for the National Rally (formerly the National Front), and the party's young president, Jordan Bardella.\n\nAlmost simultaneously came a rejoinder from their counterpart on the far left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, irascible leader of France Unbowed (LFI). His party would not be attending, he tweeted, because the march was a \"rendezvous for unconditional supporters of the massacre [of Gazans]\".\n\nIt is hard to overestimate the symbolic significance of this switch-over.\n\nMarine Le Pen (left) and Jordan Bardella (right) were pictured attending the march in Paris on Sunday\n\nFor decades French politics erected a bulwark against the far right, whose views - not least on Jews - were deemed \"anti-Republican\". The old National Front under Marine's father Jean-Marie Le Pen was seen as beyond the pale, and it was shunned.\n\nThe far left meanwhile - the Communists, the Trotskyists and the new formations like Mr Mélenchon's LFI - were certainly attacked for their views, but they were never excluded. They were part of the broad political family, in a way that the Le Pen franchise clearly wasn't.\n\nA few years ago, for a far-left party not to have been part of a march against antisemitism would have been unthinkable. For a far-right party to have been there instead would have been unconscionable.\n\nSuch is the shake-up in the political order, which of course long predates the Gaza war and is mirrored in varying ways across other European countries.\n\nToday's far right, rebranded \"hard right\" or \"national right\" has - in France at least - forgotten its obsession with Jews and its claims of a \"Jewish lobby\". Its primary focus now is the three I's - immigration, insecurity and Islamism - issues on which it finds common cause with many Jews.\n\nJean-Luc Mélenchon (2nd left) is boycotting Sunday's march over Israel's military campaign in Gaza\n\nMeanwhile the far left in France, analysing Gaza through the anti-colonial lens, sees an oppressed people hammered by a superpower proxy and shouts \"Solidarity!\" Having lost the support of the old working class, many of whom vote National Rally, it has a new natural base among politicised immigrants.\n\nThus we arrive at the novel situation where a party whose founder once called the Holocaust a \"detail of history\" openly embraces the cause of French Jews; and at the other end of the spectrum, a party built on ideas of human rights and equality stands accused of antisemitism for failing to call Hamas \"terrorist\".\n\nMaybe this should all be nuanced. After all, many people still think that at heart the far right, by virtue of its French-first ethos, cannot help but be anti-Jewish. They note that Jordan Bardella this week refused to explicitly call Jean-Marie Le Pen antisemitic - a faux-pas to which enemies of the National Rally (RN) have reacted with glee.\n\nAnd on the far left there are signs of division around Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whose prickly personality and autocratic methods are driving some colleagues to exasperation. This week one senior lieutenant, Raquel Garrido, was given a four-month suspension as party spokeswoman for challenging the leader's line - not least on Hamas.\n\nBut the fundamental point remains: the RN under Marine Le Pen is manoeuvring itself very successfully into the mainstream, while Mr Mélenchon's LFI is manoeuvring itself out.\n\nFrance has seen several pro-Israel marches since the 7 October attack by Hamas that killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel\n\nOpinion polls bear it out: according to IFOP last week, Marine Le Pen would trounce the opposition in the first round of a presidential election today, with up to 33% of the vote. Mr Mélenchon, at 22% in the 2022 election, is down to 14%.\n\nThis week one of the historic figures in the fight against antisemitism in France gave his views on these ironies of history and politics.\n\nSerge Klarsfeld and his wife Beate helped bring Nazi war criminals to justice, and documented the deportations and deaths of 80,000 Jews from France exterminated in the Holocaust.\n\nSpeaking to Le Figaro newspaper, Mr Klarsfeld, now 88, said: \"For me the DNA of the far right is antisemitism. So when I see a big party of the far right abandon antisemitism and negationism and move towards our Republican values, naturally I rejoice.\"\n\n\"The far left for its part has always had its own antisemitic tradition. So just as I am relieved to see the RN… take a stand for Jews, so I am sad to see the far left abandon its actions to combat antisemitism.\"", "The USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier is one of two sent to the eastern Mediterranean (file photo)\n\nFive American service members have died in a helicopter crash in the eastern Mediterranean, the US military says.\n\nIt says the aircraft suffered a mishap while refuelling as part of a routine training exercise.\n\nThe US has increased its operations in the region since the outbreak of the conflict between Israel and Hamas.\n\nPresident Joe Biden paid tribute to the victims, saying service members were putting \"their lives on the line for our country every day\".\n\n\"We pray for the families of all our fallen warriors today and every day,\" he added.\n\nThe military statement did not specify where the aircraft was flying from or where the crash happened.\n\nOn Monday, the military named the victims as:\n\nBut the US has moved two aircraft carriers, as well as ships and jets, to the eastern Mediterranean over the past month.\n\nThe deployment reflects American concerns that the conflict between Israel and Hamas could draw in other parts of the region.\n\nIn particular, the US is eager to prevent Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah movement from joining the conflict.\n\nIt is backed by Iran, which also funds and arms Hamas.\n• None US moves warships closer to Israel after Hamas attack", "Seven men have been charged over disorder on Armistice Day for offences including inciting racial hatred.\n\nThe Met Police said 145 people were arrested - the \"vast majority\" of whom were counter-protesters - and nine officers were injured on Saturday.\n\nIt condemned violence from right-wing counter-protesters who it says set out to confront the pro-Palestinian march.\n\nInvestigations into other offences - including antisemitic hate crimes - continue, police said.\n\nThe pro-Palestinian demonstration - which coincided with Armistice Day - saw some 300,000 people march through central London calling for a Gaza ceasefire.\n\nIt was the biggest UK rally since the war between Israel and Hamas began on 7 October.\n\nPolice added while the march itself did not see such physical violence, other serious offences were being investigated.\n\nThe seven men, aged between 23 and 75, have been charged over offences including possession of weapons, public order, possession of drugs and assault on an emergency worker.\n\nTwo of those charged live in London, with the others coming from across the UK, including Norfolk, Flintshire, Kent, Manchester and West Lothian.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said those involved in crimes must face the full force of the law, with the \"despicable actions of a minority of people\" undermining \"those who have chosen to express their views peacefully\".\n\nHe added that \"EDL [English Defence League] thugs attacking police and trespassing on the Cenotaph\" war memorial had disrespected the honour of the UK's armed forces.\n\nOn Saturday, the Met's Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the violence directed towards officers was \"extraordinary and deeply concerning\", with nine injured after counter-protesters clashed with police.\n\n\"They arrived early, stating they were there to protect monuments, but some were already intoxicated, aggressive and clearly looking for confrontation,\" he said.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said on Sunday it was \"an outrage\" that several officers had been injured, thanking them for \"their professionalism in the face of violence and aggression from protesters and counter-protesters\".\n\nShe is currently under pressure after criticising police ahead of the march and there have been calls for her to be sacked, with some ministers distancing themselves from her comments.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Twist said the pro-Palestinian march \"did not see the sort of physical violence carried out by the right wing\", but \"a number of serious offences identified in relation to hate crime and possible support for proscribed organisations\" during the protest were being investigated.\n\nPolice issued five photos of six individuals suspected of hate crimes.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, who led Saturday's policing operation, said: \"We urge anyone who has information about the identity of suspects, or who has footage or photos of further potential offences, to get in touch so we can take the appropriate action.\"\n\nThe force has issued an appeal for information regarding videos filmed in Waterloo and Victoria stations showing \"unacceptable abuse including antisemitic language, as well as threatening behaviour\".\n\nFootage shared on social media showed Michael Gove ushered through London's Victoria Station by police officers, as crowds waving Palestinian flags shouted: \"Shame on you.\"\n\nOn Sunday, the Levelling Up Secretary addressed the incident on X, formerly Twitter, thanking police for their \"exemplary work in getting me home safely yesterday\".\n\nOn the pro-Palestinian march, chants of \"free Palestine\" and \"ceasefire now\" could be heard as crowds began marching from London's Hyde Park.\n\nAt one point the march, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, extended from the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane to the US Embassy in Nine Elms - a distance of roughly 2.5 miles.\n\nThe Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph, led by the King, passed without incident.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Israeli president challenged on airstrikes and says Mein Kampf found on Hamas fighter\n\nIsraeli President Isaac Herzog has denied that Israel is striking the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip.\n\nThe UN has said the situation at Al-Shifa Hospital is dire, with constant gunfire and bombings in the area.\n\nDoctors there have said newborn babies have died after power for incubators was cut off due to a lack of fuel.\n\nWhen challenged by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg about those reports, Mr Herzog rejected them as \"spin by Hamas\" and insisted there was electricity.\n\nThe president also showed what he said was a copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was found on the body of a Hamas fighter in Gaza.\n\nHe said a copy translated into Arabic was found \"just a few days ago\" in a children's room that had been \"turned into a military operation base of Hamas\".\n\nThe Nazi leader's antisemitic manifesto was first printed in 1925.\n\nFinding a copy of it in northern Gaza, Mr Herzog said, showed that some in Hamas \"learned again and again Adolf Hitler's ideology of hating the Jews\".\n\nOn Sunday morning, the World Health Organization (WHO) said it had lost communication with its contacts at Al-Shifa, with staff and patients trapped by fighting outside.\n\nIt warned that the hospital had been reportedly attacked multiple times over the previous two days, leaving several people dead and many others wounded. The intensive care unit had suffered damage, as had areas where displaced people were sheltering, it added.\n\nIt also said there were reports that some people who fled the hospital were shot at.\n\nWHO chief Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus later said that contact has been restored but warned of \"dire\" conditions inside. He repeated calls for a ceasefire and said the hospital has been without electricity and water for three days.\n\nDoctors and the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza have said a lack of fuel for Al-Shifa's generators there means patients cannot be operated on and incubators for premature babies cannot run. But the president disputed this.\n\n\"We deny this at all, there is a lot of spin by Hamas... but there's electricity in Shifa, everything is operating,\" Mr Herzog told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme.\n\nIsrael has said that Hamas has a base underneath the hospital building - a claim denied by Hamas.\n\nAsked whether Israel has gone too far in its response to Hamas's 7 October attack, in which 1,200 people in Israel were killed and some 240 taken hostage back to Gaza, Mr Herzog said: \"We work exactly according to the rules of international humanitarian law. We alert each and every civilian, because their homes have become terror bases\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, there are tragedies. We don't shy away from them. But truly many of the tragedies are done by Hamas, like they bombed [Al-]Shifa hospital yesterday, not Israel.\"\n\nSurgeon Marwan Abu Saada told the BBC on Saturday that the hospital had run out of water, food and electricity.\n\nHe said the sounds of shooting and bombardments echoed through the hospital \"every second\".\n\nIsraeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Israel would help evacuate babies from Al-Shifa following a request from the hospital administration. Dr Abu Saada said on Sunday night that three newborn babies had already died.\n\nThe Israeli military also released a video of soldiers leaving 15 jerry cans of fuel on the side of a street for the hospital on Sunday but claimed Hamas stopped them being picked up.\n\nHowever, doctors said the amount would not bring enough power for an hour, while any evacuation of the babies needed specialised mobile incubators.\n\nAsked whether it was time to listen to calls from Israel's allies, including from France's President Macron, for a ceasefire and measures to reduce civilian casualties, Mr Herzog asserted Israel's right to defend itself after the October attacks.\n\n\"We of course listen to our allies, but first and foremost, we defend ourselves,\" he said.\n\nHe acknowledged that there had been civilian deaths in Gaza but blamed Hamas for many of the tragedies.\n\nMr Herzog said his country's operations in Gaza were carried out \"according to the rules of international humanitarian law\", with Israel alerting civilians with phone calls and text messages, and urging them to evacuate from northern Gaza and \"go down [to southern Gaza]\".\n\n\"We give them humanitarian pauses so that they can go down [south],\" Mr Herzog said.\n\nHe accused Hamas of stopping civilians from fleeing northern Gaza when asked about the pictures from Gaza showing many still sheltering in the area and reports that they were unable to leave.\n\nMore than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. More than 1.5m people are also displaced, according to the United Nations' agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa).\n\nFighting has been fierce in the northern part of the 41km (25 miles) long and 10km wide enclave, but blasts have also hit the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Younis.", "Services have been held across Northern Ireland to mark Remembrance Sunday.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris and the Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar attended the commemoration in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.\n\nThey were joined by victims and relatives of the 1987 IRA bomb attack at the town's war memorial which killed 12 people.\n\nIn Belfast, wreaths were laid at the cenotaph at City Hall, while other cities and towns held ceremonies following a silence observed at 11:00 GMT.\n\nThe events commemorate servicemen and women who died during both world wars and in later conflicts.\n\nThe head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, Jayne Brady, was among the guests at the Enniskillen commemoration.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable Jon Boutcher also laid a wreath.\n\nThe ecumenical service in Saint Macartin's Cathedral was attended by senior clergy from the four main churches in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe town's war memorial is the site of what became known as the Poppy Day bomb.\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson took part in the commemoration in London\n\nThe IRA explosion took place on 8 November 1987, when a crowd had gathered for that year's ceremony.\n\nEleven people were killed and a 12th victim, Ronnie Hill, slipped into a coma two days after he was injured by the blast and died 13 years later.\n\nA visit to Enniskillen on Remembrance Sunday has become a regular fixture in the diary of Irish leaders in recent years.\n\nThe tradition began in 2012, when the then-taoiseach, Enda Kenny, became the first Irish prime minister to attend the event during the year that the town marked the 25th anniversary of the bomb.\n\nMr Varadkar followed in his predecessors' footsteps by laying a green laurel wreath at the town's war memorial on behalf of the Irish government.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris said the Irish government's presence at the event was \"really important\".\n\n\"People like to see the British government and the Irish government work together, remember together and that can only be good for our mutual futures,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nElsewhere, Democratic Unionist Party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson attended the national commemoration in London, while Ulster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie was at the service in Portadown.\n\nA service has been held at Belfast City Hall to mark Remembrance Sunday.\n\nThe deputy lord mayor, Cllr Áine Groogan of the Green Party, laid a wreath at the cenotaph in the Garden of Remembrance on behalf of the citizens of Belfast.\n\nSpeaking after the event, Cllr Groogan said it was \"true honour and a privilege\" to represent the city at the event.\n\n\"Now more than ever, we really need to remember the horror of war, remember those who have lost their lives in conflicts, and work extra hard towards peace,\" she added.\n\nOther wreathes were also placed at the cenotaph during the service.\n\nAmong the attendees were Northern Ireland Office Minister Steve Baker and Irish Sport Minister Thomas Byrne.\n\nOn the stroke of 11 o'clock the crowd of several hundred people fell silent to remember those who have died in wars around the world.\n\nIn Ballynahinch, County Down, a parade and service took place at town's new war memorial on Sunday afternoon.\n\nEvent organiser Margaret Armstrong said the names of 49 local men who served in both world wars have been added to the memorial in recent years.\n\nMargaret Armstrong says names of 44 World War One veterans and five World War Two veterans have been added to the Ballynahinch war memorial in recent years\n\nA total of 168 names are now inscribed on the monument - 144 of those being men who served during World War One, 24 in World War Two.\n\n\"I think it was difficult for the people at the time of the first memorial that research wasn't just as easy,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"But by the time the second memorial was going up a lot more research had been done, so we put on two additional plaques to the new memorial.\"\n\nA commemoration was also held in Ballyclare, County Antrim, on Sunday morning\n\nArmistice Day commemorations also took place in towns and cities across Northern Ireland on Saturday.\n\nBelfast's Lord Mayor Ryan Murphy, of Sinn Féin, took part in the remembrance ceremony at the Cenotaph in the grounds of the city hall on Saturday morning.\n\nHe said his participation was a \"genuine attempt at reaching out the hand of friendship to all of those people who think Armistice Day is a significant event\".\n\nIn Carrickfergus, County Antrim, a 97-year-old D-Day veteran was among those who attended the town's Armistice Day ceremony on Saturday.\n\nWorld War Two soldier George Horner was in his late teens when he landed on Sword Beach, Normandy, on D-Day\n\nFormer Royal Ulster Rifles soldier George Horner said it was \"very, very important\" to pay tribute to his fallen comrades.\n\n\"It's a day of remembrance. You remember all your friends - departed friends, the ones you lost,\" he said.\n\nOn Friday, crowds gathered at The Fountain in Londonderry to remember local people killed during World War One.\n\nPrimary school pupils and members of the community collaborated with the Building Cultural Networks project to create 100 white crosses with poppies.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Luis Diaz's father makes an emotional statement after being freed by his kidnappers\n\nLuis Manuel Díaz, the father of Liverpool striker Luis Diaz, has spoken publicly for the first time since being freed by a Colombian guerrilla group.\n\nMr Díaz said he was made to walk \"too much\" with little sleep, while he was kept in a mountainous area.\n\n\"I would not want anyone to be in that mountain in the situation I was in,\" he told reporters in a tearful interview.\n\nMr Díaz was abducted on 28 October in his family's hometown of Barrancas in Colombia.\n\nIn a news conference on Friday, the 58-year-old said those days had been a \"very difficult\" time for him.\n\nColombian police say four people have been arrested for being \"allegedly responsible for Luis Manuel Díaz's kidnapping\", according to local media.\n\nPolice say that after a co-ordinated effort between Colombian and British authorities, a criminal group called \"los primos\" was dismantled.\n\nMr Díaz was held hostage until 9 November, when members of the National Liberation Army (ELN) handed him over to United Nations and Catholic Church officials.\n\nPolice had originally said that a criminal gang was most likely to blame for the kidnapping.\n\nBut a government delegation later said it had \"official knowledge\" that the kidnapping had been carried out by \"a unit belonging to the ELN\".\n\nThe ELN is Colombia's main remaining active guerrilla group. It has been fighting the state since 1964 and has an estimated 2,500 members.\n\nIt is most active in the border region with Venezuela, where Luis Manuel Díaz and his wife live.\n\nDíaz scored on Sunday, lifting his shirt to reveal the words in Spanish \"freedom for papa\"\n\nThe Liverpool footballer's mother Cilenis Marulanda, who was kidnapped at gunpoint alongside Mr Díaz, was released within hours.\n\nWhile his father was held by the ELN, the Colombian-born Liverpool footballer repeatedly called for his release.\n\nDays before his father's release on Thursday, Díaz scored a goal against Luton and lifted his shirt to reveal the words in Spanish \"freedom for papa\".\n\nHis family's plight captured Colombia, as residents of the town of Barrancas held a candle-lit march to demand Mr Díaz's release.\n\nIt all comes amid ongoing peace negotiations between the Colombian government led by President Gustavo Petro and the ELN.\n\nMr Petro has come under strong criticism from the opposition over the negotiations, with former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe saying \"with kidnappings there can be no peace\".", "It’s rare for journalists to be allowed into the Met Police’s control room - especially when there is a major operation under way.\n\nEven when it happens there are conditions. It’s supposed to be at a secret location. I can say it’s in Lambeth - that’s about it.\n\nAnd operational information displayed on screen and whiteboards in front of dozens of officers and staff is not for publication.\n\nBut a visit offers a fascinating glimpse at the surveillance possible in modern Britain.\n\nWe were shown live pictures from a police helicopter above a pub. The camera’s lens was powerful enough to show a man sitting in the window. We could see what drink he was enjoying and how much he had left in his glass.\n\nThere are thousands of cameras in London - belonging to the police, TfL, and local authorities, and the Met has access to them all.\n\nSenior Met figures were also keen to point out the threat their officers had encountered today - noting in their briefings the knuckledusters, knives and class A drugs carried confiscated from counter protestors.\n\nMany of the crowd had convictions for football violence, they added.\n\nRemembrance Sunday takes place tomorrow. Police resources will again be boosted - but a testing weekend for policing appears to be over its most difficult day.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nGrand National-winning jockey Graham Lee is in intensive care after being injured at Newcastle Racecourse.\n\nThe 47-year-old was unseated from his mount Ben Macdui as the stalls opened on Friday.\n\n\"He was taken by ambulance to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, where he is in intensive care with a neck injury,\" read a statement on Saturday from the Injured Jockeys Fund.\n\n\"He will undergo further tests today to assess the extent of the injury.\"\n\nLee rode more than 1,000 winners over the jumps, including Amberleigh House for trainer Ginger McCain in the 2004 Grand National.\n\nHe switched to riding on the Flat in 2012 and won the Gold Cup at Ascot three years later with Trip To Paris.\n\nDale Gibson, interim chief executive of the Professional Jockeys Association, who was at Newcastle on Saturday, said: \"Any time a jockey gets injured, there's always a real sense of community and group feeling and that's very much the case now.\n\n\"Graham is hugely popular and what he's achieved in the sport is incredible. The PJA and the weighing room very much want to send our best wishes to Graham and his family.\n\n\"It's not easy for jockeys going out and riding today, especially those who were here last night. They're a very close-knit community.\"", "The nation falls silent to mark the end of World War One in 1918, and remember those lost in conflict.", "Some 300,000 protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza marched through central London on Saturday, according to a police estimate.\n\nWatch aerial and ground footage of the biggest pro-Palestinian rally in the UK since the Israel-Gaza war began.", "Milly Main died after contracting an infection at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow\n\nScotland's largest health board has been named as a suspect in a corporate homicide investigation following the deaths of four patients at a Glasgow hospital campus.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) informed families of the development via a closed Facebook group set up during a water contamination crisis.\n\nThe board confirmed it had received an update from the Crown Office.\n\nBut it added there was no indication prosecutors had \"formed a final view\".\n\nPolice Scotland launched a criminal investigation in 2021 into a number of deaths at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) campus, including that of 10-year-old Milly Main.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) instructed officers to investigate the deaths of Milly, two other children and 73-year-old Gail Armstrong.\n\nMilly's mother previously told a separate public inquiry into the building of several Scottish hospitals that her child's death was \"murder\".\n\nA review earlier found an infection which contributed to Milly's death was probably caused by the QEUH environment.\n\nMolly Cuddihy contracted a rare bacterial infection when she was undergoing cancer treatment\n\nProf John Cuddihy's daughter, Molly, contracted an infection while being treated for cancer and later gave evidence at the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry.\n\nThe former senior detective described the corporate homicide investigation as \"deeply troubling\".\n\nHe told BBC Scotland News: \"Whilst this is undoubtedly in the public interest, it further compounds the distress, anxiety and trauma experienced by our children, their families and indeed the staff who have cared for and continue to deliver outstanding clinical care for our children.\n\n\"Whilst our confidence in the ongoing public inquiry has been significantly eroded with the unexplained loss of key personnel with whom families had developed trust, we must have faith in COPFS and indeed Police Scotland to carry out their investigations.\"\n\nThe Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow opened in 2015\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, NHSGGC said: \"Our sympathies remain with the families who have been affected by events at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Children.\n\n\"We have received a communication from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) about this update to the status of their ongoing inquiry.\n\n\"It should be made clear that this letter does not indicate that the COPFS have formed a final view.\n\n\"They have thanked us for our voluntary contribution so far, and we will continue to co-operate with this investigation.\"\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"COPFS asked Police Scotland to investigate a number of deaths at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus, Glasgow.\n\n\"Our investigation is ongoing, it would be inappropriate to comment further.\"\n\nScottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar has campaigned on behalf of the families of the children who died.\n\nHe said it had taken four years to get to this stage and Milly's family could now be \"one step closer\" to getting justice.\n\nMr Sarwar added: \"Throughout this entire ordeal, Kimberly and all those who lost loved ones have shown extraordinary courage, while the health board engaged in denial and cover-up.\n\n\"To this day, nobody has been held to account for what went so tragically wrong. I long argued that had this scandal occurred in the private sector, there would have been a criminal investigation.\n\n\"I hope the full force of the law is used so that no family ever again has to go through what Milly's family have been through.\"", "Peter Nygard seen in a police vehicle in Toronto after the guilty verdict\n\nA Canadian jury has found the former fashion mogul Peter Nygard guilty of sexual assault after a six-week trial.\n\nProsecutors told a Toronto court that Nygard, 82, used his \"status\" to assault five women in a series of incidents from the late 1980s to 2005.\n\nNygard denied the charges, and his defence team accused the victims of \"gold-digging\" for financial gain.\n\nHe was found not guilty on a fifth count of sexual assault and one count of forcible confinement.\n\nNygard appeared to show no emotion as the verdict was handed down on the jurors' fifth day of deliberations.\n\nAccording to prosecutors, Nygard lured the women - aged 16 to 28 at the time - to a private luxury bedroom in his firm's Toronto headquarters.\n\nOne prosecutor described the room as having \"a giant bed...and a bar and doors, doors with no handles and automatic locks controlled by Peter Nygard\".\n\nProsecutors alleged that Nygard would assault the women once they were trapped in the room.\n\nAfter Nygard's conviction, his son Kai Zen Bickle told reporters outside the Toronto court that the jury's ruling was \"a victory\" for all those \"who came forward and were denied justice\".\n\n\"One more child won't be affected, one more woman won't be affected, \" Mr Bickle said. \"(Nygard) has to actually sit down and think about all of these things.\"\n\nMr Bickle has become an outspoken supporter of his father's alleged victims and described the moment Nygard was found guilty on Sunday as \"emotional\".\n\n\"There are so many survivors out there, this is their day,\" he said.\n\nPeter Nygard's son Kai Zen Bickle said: \"It's not good brand association to be the son of a monster.\"\n\nNygard's lawyer Brian Greenspan said \"we will consider the options\" when asked by reporters whether Nygard would seek an appeal.\n\nA sentencing hearing will be set on 21 November.\n\nDuring closing arguments earlier this week, Crown prosecutors and Nygard's defence team painted dramatically different pictures of the man who once hobnobbed with celebrities and stood at the helm of a lucrative global apparel empire.\n\nMr Greenspan told jurors that the state's case rested on \"revisionist history\" built on \"contradictions and innuendo\", Canadian media reported.\n\nHe also claimed that four of the five women - who are also part of a US class action lawsuit - were motivated by financial gain.\n\nOver five days of tense testimony and cross-examination earlier in the trial, Nygard said he could never have acted \"in that kind of manner\" and that he did not recall four of the five women, according to CBC.\n\nProsecutors relied heavily on the evidence of the women in court.\n\nCrown Attorney Neville Golwalla addressed the media on Sunday after the verdict and thanked the women who had come forward.\n\n\"This is a crime that typically happens in private and profoundly impacts human dignity,\" Ms Golwalla said.\n\n\"To stand up and recount those indignities in a public forum such as a courtroom is never easy and takes great courage.\"\n\nNygard - who was once estimated to be worth at least $700m (£570m) - is still facing another trial in Montreal next year and assault and confinement charges in Winnipeg.\n\nOnce his criminal cases in Canada are completed, he is set to be extradited to the US, where authorities claim he engaged in a \"decades-long pattern of criminal conduct\" involving at least a dozen victims across the globe. He is currently fighting that extradition.\n\nThe guilty verdicts on Sunday cap a stunning fall from grace for Nygard.\n\nIn February 2020, he stepped down as chairman of his firm, Nygard International, shortly before it filed for bankruptcy after US authorities raided its New York headquarters.\n\nHe has been jailed since his arrest in December the same year.", "The 57-year-old hinted that Jesse James Ramsay would be his last child\n\nGordon Ramsay has announced the birth of his sixth child, as he and his wife Tana welcome a 7lbs 10oz \"whopper\" to the family.\n\nThe celebrity chef, 57, strongly suggested that Jesse James Ramsay would be his last child, posting on social media: \"3 boys, 3 girls.... Done.\"\n\nRamsay posted pictures of Jesse and Tana in hospital on Saturday night.\n\nThe baby boy, wearing a pink hat, can be seen in his mother's arms in three images, one of which shows his father kissing him on the head.\n\nRamsay, who celebrated his birthday on Wednesday, wrote on Instagram: \"What an amazing birthday present, please welcome Jesse James Ramsay, 7lbs 10oz whopper!!\n\n\"One more bundle of love to the Ramsay brigade!! 3 boys, 3 girls.... Done.\"\n\nIt is unclear exactly when Jesse was born.\n\nThe couple are already parents to Megan, the eldest, who is now in her mid-20s; twins Jack and Holly, Matilda \"Tilly\" and Oscar.\n\nGordon Ramsay with wife Tana and children Megan, Jack, Holly and Matilda, in Disneyland California in 2008\n\nIn 2016, before the birth of Oscar, Ramsay announced that Tana had had a miscarriage.\n\nIn response to his post about the birth of Jesse, Ramsay received a string of congratulatory messages from celebrity friends, including Hollywood star Jeremy Renner, TV chefs James Martin and Gino D'Acampo, Top Gear star Paddy McGuinness and Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden.", "Ciera Grimley died a week after the crash which killed her husband Patrick\n\nA woman who has died days after a crash which also killed her husband has been described as loving and caring.\n\nCiera Grimley, a mother-of-three, died on Saturday, a week after the four-vehicle collision near Markethill, County Armagh, last weekend.\n\nHer husband Patrick died at the scene.\n\nThe couple, from Madden in County Armagh, had been returning home from Patrick's 40th birthday party when the crash happened.\n\nAnother victim, Ciara McElvanna, was buried on Saturday morning. A number of other people suffered injuries after the crash on the Gosford Road at 01:20 GMT on 4 November.\n\nNine emergency ambulance crews were deployed to the scene and the injured were taken to Craigavon Area Hospital and the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.\n\nDet Sgt McIvor of the Police Service of Northern Ireland's Collision Investigation Unit said: \"A full investigation into the circumstances surrounding the collision is ongoing and officers are asking anyone who witnessed it to get in touch.\"\n\nSt Patrick's Primary School in Armagh, where Mrs Grimley previously worked as a classroom assistant, said \"her kind nature and caring instincts were on show each and every day\".\n\nThe school added she had a strong bond with the pupils and she left a \"lasting impression on those who worked closest with her\".\n\nWriting on social media, Paddy Woods from Madden Raparees GAA club, where Patrick Grimley was the secretary, described Ciera as a \"loving, caring and supportive wife to Patrick\".\n\n\"Ciera, along with Patrick, spent many evenings supporting their children in their many hobbies and activities,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Grimley was a married father of three from Madden and was heavily involved in the Gaelic Athletic Association\n\n\"Their passion for the GAA has seen them follow club and county throughout Ireland, creating precious memories in the process.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with all those within our community recovering at this time,\" he continued.\n\n\"Also, for all those impacted by recent events, can we ask you to continue to keep them in your thoughts and prayers in the days, weeks and months ahead.\n\nMr Grimley, a former GAA player, has previously been his club's public relations officer.\n\nSpeaking at the time of his death, Mr Woods told BBC News NI the Grimley family were \"steeped in GAA\" and his loss would be felt throughout the Madden area.\n\nCiara McElvanna 44, was from the Armagh area.\n\nHer funeral mass was held at St Joseph's Church in Madden on Saturday morning.", "Staff inside Gaza's largest hospital have said patients and refugees are trapped in horrific conditions as heavy fighting rages in nearby streets.\n\nA surgeon at Al-Shifa in Gaza City told the BBC that the hospital had run out of water, food and electricity.\n\nIsrael said it had clashed with Hamas nearby but not fired on the hospital.\n\nIt said it would help to evacuate babies to \"a safer hospital\" on Sunday, after medics said two had died and 37 others were at risk.\n\nThe BBC has been sent pictures of at least 20 newborn babies being kept in a surgical theatre at Al-Shifa, as doctors warn they may die because the neonatal intensive care unit has stopped working, due to the lack of electricity.\n\nReports from inside the hospital paint a picture of horror and confusion, with regular fighting nearby, patients who have recently undergone operations unable to evacuate, and bodies piling up without any way to bury them.\n\nThousands of people are thought to have sought refuge in Al-Shifa, which has been at the centre of fierce fighting for two days.\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) repeatedly accuse Hamas of operating from tunnels underneath the hospital, which Hamas denies.\n\nSurgeon Marwan Abu Saada told the BBC that the sounds of shooting and bombardments echoed through Al-Shifa \"every second\".\n\nHe said attempts to bury the dead had been thwarted by fighting around the complex.\n\n\"We don't want to have any outbreaks due to these dead bodies,\" he said, adding that the morgue refrigerator was not working because the generator had run out of fuel.\n\nPhysicians for Human Rights Israel, a doctors group, said two premature babies had died because there was no electricity.\n\nThe group warned that there was \"a real risk to the lives of 37 other premature infants\".\n\nIsrael said there was no siege of Al-Shifa, and that the east side of the hospital was open for the safe passage of those who wanted to leave.\n\nSpokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Israel would help those \"in the paediatric department to get to a safer hospital\" on Sunday.\n\nHe said the decision was taken following a request from the hospital administration and Israel \"will provide the assistance needed\".\n\nEarlier, Colonel Moshe Tetro said there were clashes near Al-Shifa between Hamas and Israeli forces, but no shooting at the hospital itself.\n\nPictures shared with the BBC show at least 20 infants in a surgical ward, wrapped in blankets and lined up in rows on adult hospital beds.\n\nMany of them appear to have tape on their faces, suggesting the need for oxygen administration.\n\nDoctors have warned for at least a fortnight that the number of available incubators was being reduced due to the power shortage amid the ongoing Israeli siege.\n\nDr Abu Saada said the babies needed intensive care, life support equipment and artificial respiration.\n\n\"I'm afraid if we leave these children in this unit in this condition we are allowing them to die… they are premature babies\", he said, in a voice note passed on to the BBC.\n\nInternational charities have warned that patients in hospitals close to fighting in Gaza are at risk of dying because of a lack of medical treatment.\n\nDoctors Without Borders (MSF) deputy medical coordinator told the BBC that if there was no ceasefire, \"all the patients who are remaining in these hospitals will just die, and these hospitals will turn into graveyards\".\n\nAt the Al-Quds hospital, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said its teams were trapped inside alongside 500 patients and around 14,000 displaced people.\n\nMeanwhile one of Gaza's smaller hospitals, Al-Rantisi, was largely evacuated - with only a handful of patients and staff inside.\n\nThe Gaza Strip is home to 2.2m people, but since the start of the war more than 1.5m people have been displaced, according to the UN's agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA).\n\nHamas killed an estimated 1,200 people inside Israel on 7 October - many of them civilians - and took more than 200 others hostage.\n\nIsrael's response inside Gaza has killed more than 11,000 people, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. It says that figure includes more than 4,500 children.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC on Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron said Israel must stop killing Gaza's women and babies.\n\nMr Macron called for a ceasefire and hoped other leaders - including the US and the UK - would join him.", "Footage taken by an ice rescue instructor and his wife showed them skating on a rare \"ice window\" in Alaska's Alpine lakes.\n\nLuc Mehl, who is also an outdoor educator, said that weather conditions had allowed Rabbit Lake to freeze in a way that the ice became see-through because of an \"unusually cold but dry transition into winter\".", "Francesco Vicari in a photo released by prosecutors, who said it was sent to associates after the collection of extortion money\n\nTheir names could have been ripped from the kind of Hollywood mafia script that once dominated US cinema.\n\nBut when an indictment dropped on Wednesday, Joseph \"Joe Brooklyn\" Lanni, Angelo \"Fifi\" Gradilone, and Francesco \"Uncle Ciccio\" Vicar were instead the faces of the justice department's latest attack on the notorious Gambino crime family in New York.\n\nCharging documents filed by prosecutors used wiretaps, secret recordings and surveillance footage to lay out evidence against the men, accusing them of conspiracy to use violence and extortion to commit fraud and retaliate against witnesses.\n\nHowever, as the initial excitement waned, experts observed that the latest round-up - which snared 16 alleged mafia members - was unlikely to have a major effect on criminal operations.\n\nInstead, the real twist revealed by the documents was the ongoing and close relationship between the New York based mafia, and its progenitor in Sicily - where six of the suspects were detained.\n\nItalian officials said the arrests demonstrated \"the solidity of the existing relationship\" between American and Sicilian gangsters.\n\nAmong those arrested were a father in Palermo and his New Jersey-based son.\n\nTwo of those arrested in the US were described as American-based members of the Sicilian Mafia, while at least one of the men arrested in Italy is believed to spend time in the US.\n\nA photo released by US prosecutors shows one suspect allegedly setting fire to a victim's home\n\nSimilar raids in 2019 and 2020 also targeted people who led a \"dual life\" between the US and Italy, said criminology professor Anna Sergi, who has written several books about modern organised crime.\n\nShe told the BBC that the Italian gangsters consider New York to be a \"gym\" where their members go to be toughened up.\n\nThe usefulness of the recruits though, appears to vary.\n\nIn one intercepted discussion, US-based Sicilian Francesco \"Uncle Ciccio\" Vicari vented his frustrations about his American companions to Francesco Rappa back in Sicily.\n\n\"I'm 60 years old. I told them, and now they want me to do deliveries?\" he said, complaining that he was not being given more important jobs.\n\nMr Rappa then contacted his son, Vito, and urged him to intervene, Professor Sergi said, adding that the elder Rappa is very well known to authorities in both the US and Italy and was once arrested in the 1970s for heroin trafficking. His influence - and \"charisma\" - are strong enough in both the US and Italy that he is able to facilitate debt collection through extortion and ensure that his friends are being treated well, she told BBC News.\n\nDespite the varying quality of their Italian recruits, American crime families have continued to rely on a stream of such soldiers, as prosecutors have convinced scores of their own members to \"rat\" or inform on their families in exchange for reduced or more lenient prison sentences over the decades.\n\nThe trend has seen crime bosses appreciate the input of Italians, who are seen as being more loyal to a code of silence known as Omerta, experts told the BBC.\n\nAmong the Five Families that have run New York's Italian-American Mafia since 1931, the Gambino and Genovese groups have had the most success recruiting in Italy over the past 15 years, Professor Sergi observed.\n\nThe Gambinos - who were the primary targets of this week's arrests - are particularly close with the powerful Calabrian group, the 'Ndrangheta.\n\n\"The connection is strong because neither side is strong,\" says Professor Sergi.\n\n\"The Sicilian side is under siege since the 1990's and uses New York as a 'gym' to grow new guys,\" she said. For the New York families - beset by \"recruitment\" issues - the men are welcome additions.\n\nIn such a climate, some observers questioned whether the latest arrests would be seen as a serious blow to the mafia.\n\nBut long-time New York mob lawyer Murray Richman told the BBC that the US indictment doesn't seem particularly serious - or \"heavy\" - compared to other notable prosecutions.\n\nPrevious indictments against the Gambino family included murder, narcotics distribution and loan sharking charges, significantly more serious than those facing Wednesday's arrests.\n\n\"How is it different from any other mafia indictment you've ever seen? All you have to do is change the names,\" Mr Richman said.\n\nThe indictments also outline an obsession with respect among some mafia members.\n\nIn one particularly violent episode from September, alleged Staten Island Gambino captain Joseph \"Joe Brooklyn\" Lanni and Vincent \"Vinny Slick\" Minsquero took revenge on a restaurant owner who had asked them to leave after they got into a heated argument with another patron.\n\nMr Lanni allegedly threatened to burn down Roxy's Bar and Grille, with the owner inside, after boasting of his connections with the Gambino family.\n\nHe was seen on security camera footage 18 minutes later at a nearby petrol station filling a red gas container before Mr Minsquero yanked it away from him.\n\nMafia members struggle over a can of petrol, moments after one threatened to burn down a restaurant in a row\n\nThat night Mr Lanni called the restaurant 39 times, once reaching the owner while he was with a police officer whose body-worn camera recorded the encounter. The owner and the his wife were violently assaulted at knifepoint later that night.\n\nMany of the alleged crimes targeted demolition companies and the carting industry - also known as waste management or rubbish collection.\n\nSome plots intended to embezzle funds and defraud unions and employee benefit plans, officials say.\n\nThe Italian documents include extensive transcripts of phone calls and text messages between the accused in which they discuss developments in the US.\n\nIn one exchange, the men discussed the murder of Gambino family boss Francesco \"Franky Boy\" Cali, who was gunned down outside his New York home in 2019.\n\nThe killing was the highest-profile New York mafia murder in decades and fuelled false speculation of an assassination by a rival family.\n\nGiovan Battista Badalamenti called Cali's death a blow to all in his network, saying \"his death cut off all our legs\", according to the Italian indictment.\n\nA lawyer for Cali's killer later argued that his client was driven by QAnon conspiracy beliefs. The gunman, a young man who lived with his parents in Staten Island, was found unfit to stand trial due to mental health issues.\n\nWhen Mr Badalamenti observed that only a madman would have killed Cali, due to his position as boss of the Gambinos, Mr Francesco responded: \"And thank god\".\n\nItalian prosecutors said the response was \"a clear reference to the fact that a bloody mafia war would have certainly erupted had the killer been from another mafia clan\".\n\nA photo purports to show two mobsters on the day they were 'made' - formally inducted into the syndicate\n\nWhile the arrests may not cause serious challenges to the mafia, the indictments do indicate that FBI attention has again returned to organised crime, says former US Justice Department prosecutor Joseph Moreno.\n\nIn the wake of the 9/11 attacks, FBI resources lurched towards counter terrorism. In 2016, Selwyn Raab, author of the book Five Families, told Rolling Stone magazine that some FBI organised crime task forces dropped from about 400 agents to 20 or 30.\n\nBut during the Obama administration, the FBI began to combine national security and organised crime operations in an attempt to combat what it calls \"transnational organized crime\".\n\n\"The idea is that when organised crime groups reach a certain degree of sophistication they can pose not just the threat of street crimes but instead a danger on a national level,\" Mr Moreno said.\n\nItalian organised crime families may not be as powerful as they once were, he added, but other organised crime groups, from Russia and East Asia, have stepped in to fill the vacuum.\n\n\"No single arrest or prosecution is likely to take down an entire mafia family, but no doubt decades of investigations have eroded their power and influence in major cities such as New York and Chicago,\" he told the BBC.\n\nAll 10 US defendants have pleaded not guilty, indicating that they will fight the charges. But some may turn on their allies.\n\n\"In my experience, one in every three persons is an informant,\" observed Mr Richman, who has represented several Genovese and Lucchese crime family mobsters in New York.\n\nProfessor Sergi agreed that the charges are unlikely to have a major immediate impact.\n\n\"The short term is not that important, what's important is the comeback,\" she said, predicting that there will be an increase in illicit trips in both directions in the near future.\n\nOverall, \"the connections that emerge from both sides of the Atlantic show a very well-oiled network of men that appear to be out of the old movies\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Police has condemned \"extreme violence from right-wing protesters\" who it says set out to confront Saturday's pro-Palestinian march.\n\nNine officers were injured and 145 people arrested - the \"vast majority\" of whom were counter-protesters.\n\nPolice added while the march itself did not see such physical violence, serious offences relating to antisemitic hate crimes were being investigated.\n\nThe PM said those involved in crimes must face the full force of the law.\n\nRishi Sunak said: \"I condemn the violent, wholly unacceptable scenes we have seen today from the EDL (English Defence League) and associated groups and Hamas sympathisers attending the National March for Palestine.\n\n\"The despicable actions of a minority of people undermine those who have chosen to express their views peacefully.\"\n\nHe added that \"EDL thugs attacking police and trespassing on the Cenotaph\" war memorial had disrespected the honour of the UK's armed forces.\n\nThe pro-Palestinian demonstration - which coincided with Armistice Day - saw some 300,000 people march through central London calling for a Gaza ceasefire.\n\nIt was the biggest UK rally since the war between Israel and Hamas began on 7 October.\n\nOn Sunday, police said seven men had been charged between the ages of 23 and 75 for offences including assault, possession of weapons, criminal damage, public order, inciting racial hatred and possession of drugs.\n\nThose charged hailed from areas across the UK, including London, Norfolk, Flintshire, Kent, Manchester and West Lothian.\n\nOfficers made dozens of arrests during Saturday's operation to prevent a breach of the peace, including a significant number of counter-protesters arrested in Tachbrook Street, Pimlico, as they tried to confront the main pro-Palestinian demonstrators. They have since been released.\n\nThose who were arrested for other matters in addition to a breach of the peace are being dealt with for those offences, police said.\n\nThe force has said investigations are continuing into a number of other incidents.\n\nOn Saturday, Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the march had taken place against a backdrop of conflict in the Middle East, remembrance events and a \"week of intense debate\" about protest and policing, which \"all combined to increase community tensions\".\n\nHe said the violence directed towards officers on Saturday was \"extraordinary and deeply concerning\", with nine injured after counter-protesters clashed with police along Whitehall and in Chinatown.\n\n\"They arrived early, stating they were there to protect monuments, but some were already intoxicated, aggressive and clearly looking for confrontation,\" he said.\n\nOfficers protecting the Cenotaph faced abuse and chants of \"you're not English any more\".\n\nMany in these groups, who were \"largely football hooligans from across the UK\", were stopped and searched, with weapons including a knife, baton and knuckleduster found, as well as class A drugs.\n\nThe assistant commissioner continued that while the pro-Palestinian march \"did not see the sort of physical violence carried out by the right wing\", it was clear that for Jewish communities \"the impact of hate crime and in particular antisemitic offences is just as significant\".\n\nHe said \"a number of serious offences identified in relation to hate crime and possible support for proscribed organisations\" during the protest were being investigated.\n\nPolice issued five photos of six individuals suspected of hate crimes.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, who led Saturday's policing operation, said: \"We urge anyone who has information about the identity of suspects, or who has footage or photos of further potential offences, to get in touch so we can take the appropriate action.\"\n\nOne shows a woman carrying a placard on which the Jewish symbol, the star of David, is shown to incorporate a Swastika.\n\nElsewhere, footage shared on social media showed Michael Gove ushered through London's Victoria Station by police officers, as crowds waving Palestinian flags shouted: \"Shame on you.\"\n\nOn Sunday, the Levelling Up Secretary addressed the incident on X, formerly Twitter, thanking police for their \"exemplary work in getting me home safely yesterday\".\n\nDuring the protests, BBC News was given rare access to the Met Police's control room in south London, which includes thousands of cameras.\n\nOne live feed from a police helicopter was powerful enough to show a man sitting in a pub window and how much he had left in his drink.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn the pro-Palestinian march, chants of \"free Palestine\" and \"ceasefire now\" could be heard as crowds began marching from London's Hyde Park.\n\nAt one point the march, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, extended from the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane to the US Embassy in Nine Elms - a distance of roughly 2.5 miles.\n\nOne demonstrator told BBC News: \"We want a ceasefire. People are suffering, children are dying under the rubble, and no-one seems to care about them.\"\n\nAnother protester said: \"I think it is the perfect day to actually do it on. Because that's what Armistice is, it is a call for ceasefire and a call for stopping war.\"\n\nOn Sunday, the Met Police issued an appeal for information regarding videos filmed in Waterloo and Victoria stations showing \"unacceptable abuse including antisemitic language, as well as threatening behaviour\".\n\nNo major protest is scheduled to take place on Remembrance Sunday, although the policing operation will continue with some 1,375 officers deployed amid commemoration events in the capital.\n\nIt came after Home Secretary Suella Braverman described the pro-Palestinian protests as a \"hate march\" and accused the police of bias in a Times article this week. She later stressed she backed the police.\n\nDowning Street has said it is \"looking into what happened\" over the Times article, and the PM has confidence in Mrs Braverman.", "Amiram Cooper, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Tsachi Idan are being held in Gaza\n\nIsrael says 132 people remain unaccounted for after they were abducted and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attacks by Hamas.\n\nAn estimated 240 people were taken prisoner, but 105 were later released by Hamas during a six-day ceasefire at the end of November.\n\nThe Israeli military said it mistakenly killed three hostages in northern Gaza who had escaped from their captors and expressed \"deep remorse\" over the incident.\n\nOf the 132 still unaccounted for, Israel says that 20 of them are believed to be dead.\n\nThese are the stories of those hostages who are still being held, which have either been confirmed by the BBC or credibly reported.\n\nThis list is regularly updated and names may change, as some people feared kidnapped are confirmed to have been killed or released.\n\nLast updated on 19 December 2023 at 10:33 GMT\n\nYagev Kirsht, 34, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim, alongside his wife, Rimon Buchstab Kirsht. She has now been released.\n\nAlexander Trupanov, was taken hostage with his mother Lena Trupanov, 50, his partner Sapir Cohen, 29, and his grandmother Irina Tati, 73. All were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz as they spent the Sabbath together, according to a statement by Canada's Raoul Wallenburg Center for Human Rights. Irina and Lena were released on Wednesday 29 November and Sapir was freed the next day.\n\nAriel Cunio, his girlfriend Arbel Yahud and her brother Dolev are also thought to have been abducted in the same attack on Nir Oz. Eitan Cunio, Ariel's brother who escaped Hamas, told the Jewish Chronicle that his last message from Ariel said: \"We are in a horror movie.\"\n\nDavid Cunio, 33, another of Ariel's brothers, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, family say. David's wife Sharon Aloni Cunio and their three-year-old twin daughters Ema and Yuly were released on 27 November. Sharon's sister Daniele Aloni, and her six-year-old daughter Emilia were both released on 24 November.\n\nDoron Steinbrecher, 30, a veterinary nurse, was in her apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas attacked, the Times of Israel reported. At 10:30 on 7 October, the newspaper said, she sent a voice message to friends: \"They've arrived, they have me.\"\n\nItzhak Gelerenter, 53, was taken from the Supernova festival. His family said the IDF found his phone was located in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported. His daughter Pivko told the paper: \"I'm trying to think good thoughts, I have a powerful, smart, resourceful father.\"\n\nDoron Steinbrecher sent a voice message to friends during Hamas' attack\n\nNaama Levy, 19, was filmed being bundled into a jeep, her hands tied behind her back. The footage was released by Hamas and circulated widely on social media. According to her mother, the teenager had just begun her military service.\n\nYousef Zyadna, a 53-year-old Bedouin dairy farmer, was abducted from Kibbutz Holit and taken to Gaza along with his sons Hamza, 22, and Bilal, 18, and his daughter, Aisha, 16. Aisha and Bilal were released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nElad Katzir, 47, was abducted from Nir Oz with his mother Hanna. Hanna has now been released.\n\nOhad Ben Ami, 55, was kidnapped from Be'eri with his wife, Raz. She was released by Hamas on 29 November.\n\nTwin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 26, were taken from Kfar Aza. Ziv was messaging a friend as the attack happened. Their family said the IDF has told them the brothers are being held in Gaza. Their brother Liran told CBN news the pair had \"twin power\" and were the centre of attention wherever they went.\n\nIraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 85, was taken captive from Kibbutz Kissufim, where he lived and worked as a chicken coop manager. His wife, Mazal, managed to escape.\n\nMichel Nisenbaum, 59, is a dual Brazilian-Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel for 45 years and works as a computer technician, his family told Brazilian media. They also say he is diabetic and has Crohn's disease. On 7 October, they say, someone claiming to be from Hamas answered his phone when they tried to call him.\n\nDaniela Gilboa, 19, sent messages saying that Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she was staying, was under attack and asked her mother to pray for her. Her boyfriend, Roy Dadon, told the Economist 1843 magazine that he believes he saw a glimpse of her in a video showing three girls being driven away in the back of an SUV.\n\nItay Chen, 19, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF solider, was on active duty with a tank unit on 7 October, according to the Times of Israel. The paper reported that his family was notified by the IDF that he is officially considered missing in action and probably being held hostage. Another soldier in his unit, Matan Angrest, 21, is also presumed to be in Gaza.\n\nYosi Sharabi, 51, was taken from Be'eri with his brother, Eli Sharabi, 55. Eli's wife and two daughters were murdered in the attack. Ofir Engel, the boyfriend of Yosi's daughter, Yuval, was also taken, but released on 29 November.\n\nAgam Berger, 19, was kidnapped from Nahal Oz. She was seen being taken away in videos released by Hamas.\n\nEdan Alexander, 19, is an Israeli-US citizen who volunteered to join the Israeli army. He was serving near the Gaza border at the time of Hamas's attack. Edan's family said they had been told by Israeli officials that he had been taken to Gaza as a hostage.\n\nKaid Farhan Elkadi, 53, lives with his family south of Rahat and worked as a security guard, according to Israeli media. Reports said his family believes he was kidnapped and taken to Gaza, based on images shared by Hamas.\n\nIlana Gritzewsky and Matan Zanguaker were captured near the Gaza border, family say\n\nMatan Zanguaker, 24, was taken with his partner Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, from Nir Oz, according to Ilana's father. Ilana, a Mexican national, was released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nThe family of Eitan and Yair Horn believe they were taken from Nir Oz kibbutz\n\nEitan Horn, 37, and his brother Yair, 45, both Argentinian citizens, were also in Nir Oz at the time of the attack. Their father Itzik said he believes they were kidnapped. Yair is a construction worker while Eitan works in education.\n\nItai Svirsky, 38, is thought to have been abducted when his elderly parents were killed in Be'eri. He had been visiting them for the holiday of Simhat Torah.\n\nKeith Seigel, 64, and his wife Adrienne - often known as Aviva - Seigel, 62, were taken from their home in Kfar Aza, Keith's brother Lee Seigel told the BBC. Adrienne was released on 26 November.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, lived in Nahal Oz with his wife and two daughters. Omri was led away by Hamas with his hands tied, his wife Lishay told the Guardian newspaper. She told him not to be a hero, urging: \"Do whatever they want because I want you back.\"\n\nBipin Joshi, 23, a Nepalese student, is believed to have been taken from Kibbutz Alumim. Nepalese newspaper Setopati says he was one of 49 university students studying agriculture in Israel. It says 10 students were killed in the attack.\n\nIlan Weiss, 58, went missing from Kibbutz Be'eri after he was last seen leaving the house to defend the community. On 25 November, his wife Shiri Weiss, 53, and their daughter, Noga, 18, were freed from captivity in a hostage deal.\n\nAmiram Cooper, 85, and his wife Nurit, 80, were taken from their home in Nir Oz, their daughter-in-law Noa told the BBC. The family last spoke to the couple during the Hamas attack, Noa said, when the couple were in their safe room. The family later traced Amiram's phone to Gaza. On Monday 23 October, Nurit was one of two women to be released.\n\nAmiram and Nurit Cooper, pictured with their granddaughter, Gali\n\nOded Lifshitz, 83, and his wife Yocheved, 85 were taken hostage from Nir Oz. On Monday 23 October, Yocheved was one of two elderly women to be freed. After hearing the news of her mother's release, their daughter Sharone - a London-based artist - said: \"While I cannot put into words the relief that she is now safe, I will remain focused on securing the release of my father and all those - some 200 innocent people - who remain hostages in Gaza.\"\n\nHaim Peri, 79, was taken from his home in Nir Oz, reports the Times of Israel, and freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz said she saw that he was alive and well. His son Lior Peri told Talk TV that Haim had locked his wife inside the safe room before giving himself up to kidnappers.\n\nAvraham Munder, 78, was kidnapped from Nir Oz, Israeli officials say. His wife Ruthi, daughter and grandson have since been released.\n\nOmer Neutra, a 22-year-old Israeli-American and grandson of Holocaust survivors, put off plans to go to college in the US to study in Israel, and eventually joined the IDF. He was serving as a tank commander near Gaza when Hamas attacked. Omer's parents say they were told by the Israeli embassy that he had been kidnapped.\n\nRon Benjamin's vehicle was found empty following the attacks\n\nRon Benjamin, 53, had been taking part in a group cycle ride near the Gaza border when the Hamas attack began and he decided to drive home, his family told Israeli media. Days later, his vehicle was found empty and his family believe he was kidnapped.\n\nLouis Har, 70, is believed to have been taken from Nir Yitzhak. His partner Clara Marman was released on 28 November along with her sister Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela's daughter Mia Leimberg,17. Clara and Gabriela's brother Fernando Simon Marman, 60, also remains in captivity.\n\nJudith Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 73, also went missing from Nir Oz after the Hamas attack. Ten days later, the Israeli military confirmed to the family they had been taken hostage, CTV News in Canada reported.\n\nAlex Danzig, 75, a scholar and historian of the Holocaust, was at his home in Nir Oz, when it was attacked by Hamas. \"We know for sure he was kidnapped,\" his son Mati told the BBC. Alex - whose older sister Edith is a Holocaust survivor - has spent the last 30 years working for Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust remembrance centre. His disappearance has triggered a campaign for his release, both in Israel and in Poland, the country of his birth.\n\nAlex Danzig has spent decades educating people about the Holocaust\n\nItzhk Elgarat, 68, was kidnapped at the same time as Alex Danzig, his brother Danny Elgert told Israel's Kan 11 TV station, adding that he had tracked his brother's phone to the border with Gaza.\n\nGadi Moses, 79, was also abducted during the same attack on Nir Oz, according to relatives and the Israeli aid agency where he worked as an agricultural expert. Efrat Katz, his partner, was initially thought to have been captured as well, but she was later found dead, the Times of Israel reported. Efrat was the mother of Doron Asher, who was taken hostage and later released with her two daughters. Ravid Katz, 51, Doron Asher's brother, was originally thought to have been taken hostage from Nir Oz, but on 28 November his family confirmed that he had been killed on 7 October.\n\nYair Yaakov, 59, is listed among the hostages. His partner Meirav Tal, 53, was released on 28 November. Yair's children Yagil, 13, and Or, 16, were released on 27 November.\n\nYair Yaakov was pictured being held captive by a gunman in a video shared online\n\nNimrod Cohen, 19, had studied software engineering in high school, according to reports. After he was kidnapped, his father was invited to meet Pope Francis in Rome along with other hostages' families.\n\nTsachi Idan, 51, was last seen by his wife, Gali, as he was taken away by Hamas gunmen. Their family had been ambushed in their safe room in Nahal Oz. Their ordeal was live-streamed by Hamas. Their eldest child, Maayan - who had just turned 18 - was shot dead, Gali told the BBC.\n\nTsachi Idan was ambushed with his wife and children and then led away\n\nYarden Bibas, 34, was abducted from Nir Oz. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were also taken hostage, but on 29 November, Hamas claimed they had been killed in an Israeli air strike while in captivity. The Israeli government has said it is checking the claim.\n\nRonen Engel, 54, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife, Karina Engelbert, 51, and their two daughters, Mika, 18 and Yuval, 11. On 1 December, the organisation representing the families said he had been murdered. Karina, Mika and Yuval were released on 27 November.\n\nKarina Ariev, a 19-year-old soldier, was serving at an army base near Gaza when she was kidnapped. Her sister Alexandra told the BBC she heard shooting as Karina called her during the attack, and later saw a video showing Karina being taken away in a vehicle.\n\nKarina Ariev was at the Nahal Oz military base, which was among the first to be attacked\n\nOfer Kalderon, 53, was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz. On 27 November his two children, Erez, 12, and Sahar, 16, were released. Two other relatives, 80-year-old Carmela Dan and her granddaughter, Noya, 12, were also believed to have been taken, but Israeli authorities later announced they had been found dead.\n\nYoram Metzger, 80, was a resident of Nir Oz. He has diabetes and broke his hip six months ago, his daughter-in-law said. Yoram's wife Tamar was released on 28 November.\n\nNadav Popplewell, 51, and his mother Channah were taken hostage by Hamas, said Channah's daughter Ayelet Svatitzky, who was speaking to them on the phone when the gunmen burst in. She said the captors sent pictures of her two relatives, who both have diabetes, with armed men in the background. Channah has now been released.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, was abducted after his family opened the door to their secure shelter to an Israeli child, who said he would be killed otherwise. Omri's wife, Lishay Lavi, said she saw him being taken away in handcuffs with three other hostages from Nahal Oz.\n\nLiri Elbag, 18, had just started military training as an Army lookout near the Gaza border when Hamas attacked, her father Eli told the Associated Press. Eli said he saw her in a video circulated later by Hamas, crowded with others on the back of a military truck which had been seized by the gunmen.\n\nLior Rudaeff, 61, was taken from Nir Yitzhak during the attack. His family have heard nothing from him since then.\n\nA number of people are believed to have been abducted from the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Among them:\n\nShlomi Ziv, 40, was part of the security detail at the festival and was initially in contact with his sisters as the attack unfolded, according to an interview with The Times of Israel. A few weeks later the family learned he was officially considered to be a hostage, the report says.\n\nAlexander Lobanov, 32, is a Russian-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped at the festival.\n\nOri Danino, 25, is reported to have got away from the festival in his car, but it's believed he was captured after turning back in an attempt to save some people he had met there.\n\nAlmog Sarusi, 26, was kidnapped from the music festival and his partner Shahar Gindi was killed, according to Israeli media. Almog's father, Yigal, was among the relatives of hostages who met with Israel's prime minister in October.\n\nOmer Shem Tov, 21, called his parents as he was running away from gunfire and managed to get into a friend's car. His parents, Shelly and Malki Shem Tov, told Israeli media they lost contact with their son and the live location on his phone showed he was beyond the border in Gaza.\n\nIdan Shtivi, 28, an environmental sciences student, was attending the festival to take pictures at music and yoga workshops being held by friends. He escaped the site in his car but was attacked by Hamas along the route. The bodies of two of his passengers were found, and his family told the Jerusalem Post they suspect he was kidnapped.\n\nYosef Ohana, 24, had been at the festival with a friend, who told his mother he and Yosef had remained to help people escape the gunfire before running themselves. Yosef was last seen hiding under a car, and Israeli authorities have visited his mother to say he was kidnapped.\n\nAndrei Kozlov, 27, a Russian who moved to Israel in 2022, is missing from the Supernova festival, where he was working as a security guard. His mother told the De Taly publication the family was told by the IDF on October 26 that he was being held hostage.\n\nElyakim Libman, 23, was working as a security guard at the festival. In a Facebook post his father Eliyahu Libman said another guard told him his son had helped rescue others before trying to escape. He was last seen trying to help two badly-injured women.\n\nNoa Argamani, a Chinese-born Israeli citizen, was also kidnapped from the festival. Video footage - verified by her father Yaakov Argamani to Israel's Channel 12 - shows the 25-year-old being taken away on the back of a motorbike screaming, \"Don't kill me!\" Her boyfriend Avinatan Or, 30, also appears in the video being marched away from her by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nEden Yerushalmi's family say they were told she had been taken hostage\n\nEden Yerushalmi, 24, called her family during Hamas's attack on the festival, her sister May told CBS News. The family say they were subsequently informed by the IDF that Eden had been abducted.\n\nChanan Yablonka, 42, is a father-of-two from Tel Aviv. According to reports, he attended the festival with friends and was due to celebrate his birthday a few days after the attacks.\n\nJonathan Samerano, 21, has been missing since 7am on the morning of the festival. His family have been told to presume he is being held in Gaza, Israeli media reported.\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal was filmed in captivity in Gaza, his family say\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, attended the festival with his brother. Guy appears in a hostage video that his family say confirms he is in Gaza.\n\nUriel Baruch, 35, was injured during the attack on the festival, his wife said on Facebook. Reports in Israeli media say his mother, Naomi, has heard from the IDF that he is a hostage.\n\nMaxim Kharkin's mother described speaking to him on the morning of 7 October\n\nMaxim Kharkin is aged 35 and a Russian speaker, his mother told Russian media. She added that he had called her at 07:00 on the morning of the attack.\n\nElkana Bohbot was seen in a video posted by Hamas\n\nElkana Bohbot, 34, had gone to the party with friends and, before losing contact, he spoke to his wife and mother telling them he was helping to evacuate the wounded, the Times of Israel reported. Hours later, his family found a video of him posted online by Hamas, which has been seen by BBC Verify.\n\nRom Braslavski, 19, was working on security for the festival. According to an account published by Hostages and Missing Families Forum, he was trying to rescue an injured person in the attack when he was caught in a volley of fire. He has not been heard from since.\n\nOmer Wenkert, 22, a restaurant manager, sent a message to his family to say he was going to a safe shelter but then lost contact, his father Shai Wenkert told the BBC's Today Programme. Shai Wenkert said he had seen footage of his son in captivity, including a photo of him handcuffed and wearing only underwear.\n\nEvyatar David's family say they were sent a video of him in captivity\n\nEvyatar David, 23, was at the festival and on the morning of the attacks, described fleeing from gunfire before losing contact with the outside world, his brother says. Later, his family say, Evyatar's sister posted on Instagram appealing for information about his whereabouts. She then received a text from an unknown number, which contained video footage of Evyatar handcuffed on the floor of a dark room. According to Israel's foreign ministry he is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nEitan Mor, 23, lives in Jerusalem, and was working as a security guard at the festival, the Times of Israel said. He reportedly texted his uncle after Hamas arrived and was last seen with a friend bringing others to safety.\n\nAlon Ohel, 22, a Serbian citizen, took refuge in a shelter after the festival came under attack, his family say. They have seen footage of him being dragged away after a grenade attack.\n\nAlmog Meir Jan, 21, tried to flee the festival. He and a friend made it to the friend's car but only managed to drive a short distance before being forced to stop. Almog's family say they have seen a hostage video in which he appears.\n\nInbar Heiman, a student aged 21, was seen by two young Israeli men being taken away from the festival on a motorcycle. Hamas have released a video in which she is seen very briefly.\n\nHersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual US-Israeli citizen, was badly injured in the attack, his family told the BBC. Eyewitness accounts say he was seen being forced onto a white pick-up truck - the last-known signal from his phone came from just inside Gaza.\n\nSegev Kalfon, 26, was running away from the festival, across the highway, when he was captured by Hamas, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.\n\nOrión Hernández Radoux, 30, from Mexico, attended the festival with his girlfriend, Shani Louk. He has not been seen since. The Sun newspaper says it has seen threatening messages written in Arabic sent from his phone. Shani, a tourist from Germany, was initially thought to be among those seized. But on 30 October, her mother Ricarda told German media that the family had been informed by Israeli military of her death following DNA identification.\n\nRomi Lesham Gonen, 23, was on the phone to her mother as she tried to escape from the Supernova festival. Merav Leshem Gonan has recounted a conversation in which her daughter begged for help after being shot. ABC News reports that Romi's phone is now in Gaza.\n\nBar Kuperstein, 21, last spoke to his family early on the morning of 7 October, as the attack unfolded. Later the same day, his family say they identified him in a video of Israeli prisoners, posted by Hamas. Since then, they say they have had no further information.\n\nEliya Cohen, 26, was hiding with his girlfriend Ziv from the attack, when Ziv felt him being pulled up and driven away by the gunmen, Eliya's mother has told the video initiative #BringThemHomeNow. The family then found a photo of Eliya in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nAmit Buskila, 28, from Ashdod, was last heard of making a call to her uncle, Shimon, as Hamas overran the festival. Her family say they have now been told by the government that she is being held in Gaza.\n\nCarmel Gat, 39, is Jordan's sister-in-law, and also was seen by her father being taken by gunmen from Kibbutz Be'eri, Haaretz newspaper reported. She has not been heard from since.\n\nOhad Yahalomi, 49, was abducted from Nir Oz, along with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the November ceasefire.\n\nDror Or, 48, was seen by a neighbour being dragged out of his home in Be'eri, according to their nephew Emmanuel Besorai, along with his son and daughter. On Saturday 25 November Dror's son Noam, 17, and daughter Alma, 13, were released from captivity. The body of Yonat, 50 - Dror's wife and the children's mother - was identified among the 120 people murdered at the kibbutz, Yonat's brother told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nTal Shoham, 38, was taken from Kibbutz Be'eri. His wife Adi, also 38, her mother Dr Shoshan Haran, 67, were released by Hamas on 25 November, along with the couple's children Nave, eight, and Yahel, three. Dr Haran's husband, Avshalom - an economist and dual German/Israeli citizen - was killed on 7 October.\n\nTamir Adar, 38, who defended Nir Oz as part of the kibbutz's emergency squad, was taken to Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen, 35, an American-Israeli citizen, has been missing since Hamas's attack on Nir Oz, his father Jonathan told the BBC. He said his son was not found among the dead and the \"only reasonable explanation\" is that he was taken to Gaza.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen's father has not heard from him since Hamas attacked the kibbutz where he lived\n\nThailand's ambassador to Israel says 26 of its citizens were taken hostage, 23 of whom have now been released.\n\nThose still being held are believed to include Watchara Sriuan, 32. His mother, Viewwaew, told the Thaiger news site that the family had been informed he was being held captive.\n\nKiattisak \"Top\" Patee and a Mr Pongtorn (no first name given) have also been named by the Thai foreign ministry as hostages.\n\nA number of other people thought to have been held hostage are now confirmed to have died, either during the 7 October attack or while in captivity.\n\nAs well as Ron Scherman and Nik Beizer, four bodies were identified this week. They were Tal Chaimi, an Israeli-Romanian citizen aged 41, and Joshua Mollel, a 19-year-old Tanzanian student. Also, 27-year-old Eden Zecharya, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and 36-year-old Ziv Dado, who had already been declared dead by the Israeli military.\n\nOthers known to have died include Dror Kaplun, 68, Aviv Atzili, 49, Arye Zalmanovich, 85, Ronen Engel, 54, Maya Goren, 56, Guy Iluz, 26, Ofir Tzarfati, 27, Ofra Keider, 70, and Eliyahu Margalit, 75.\n\nThe bodies of 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, and 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss were found by Israeli troops in buildings close to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.\n\nOn Saturday 9 December Kibbutz Bari announced that Sahar Baruch, 25, had been killed in Gaza.\n\nOther hostages whose death has been reported, but not confirmed include Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Irish government must plan for \"democratic constitutional change\" by creating a Citizens' Assembly on Irish unity, Sinn Féin's leader has said.\n\nMary Lou McDonald was addressing her party's annual ard fheis (conference) in Athlone.\n\nShe said she wanted to see \"orange and green reconciled\" in a new Ireland.\n\nSinn Féin is the biggest party in Northern Ireland but has been frozen out of power at Stormont due to the collapse of the executive.\n\nBut its popularity has grown in the Republic of Ireland where it aims for a place in government for the first time.\n\nMs McDonald also said housing was \"Sinn Féin's number one priority\" and said her party would introduce a three-year rent freeze in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nSpeaking about Irish unity she said \"the day is coming when everyone on this island will have their say in referendums\".\n\n\"Each vote counting equally, no vetoes, no shifting of the goal posts.\"\n\n\"We're on our marks for a general election, local and European elections in June,\" said Ms McDonald.\n\nIn addition, if they got into government in the Republic of Ireland, she pledged they would give \"a month's rent back to every renter\" and \"deliver the biggest housing programme in the history of the state\".\n\nIn relation to Northern Ireland, Ms McDonald said the generation of politicians who worked on the 1998 Good Friday Agreement \"wrote Ireland's chapter of peace\".\n\nShe added that this generation \"must write the chapter of unity\".\n\nShe told delegates that Irish unity provided the \"very best opportunity for the future\" and that a united Ireland \"lies ahead\".\n\n\"Each vote counting equally, no vetoes, no shifting of the goal posts.\"\n\nSinn Féin continue to be buoyed in polls north and south, and their leader makes clear they see the next twelve months as critical.\n\nSenior party figures have said they are \"on the countdown\" to the country's next general election, which is expected to take place late next year or early in 2025.\n\nBefore that, they are targeting success at local and European elections that are due to be held in the Republic of Ireland next summer.\n\nBut Sinn Féin will also be aiming for a return to government in Northern Ireland, which has been without political leaders since February 2022.\n\nThat crisis began when the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) withdrew from the power-sharing government in a row about post-Brexit trade rules.\n\nIt was the perfect location for Mary Lou McDonald to fire the starter gun on her party's election campaign.\n\nStanding in the middle of a race track in a synthetic velodrome flanked by her top team.\n\nShe made a pitch to voters promising big change, prioritising housing, health and the cost of living crisis.\n\nOn the Stormont standoff her message to the government was blunt, call time on the endless talks with the DUP.\n\nBut if the government doesn't act then there is little Sinn Féin can do.\n\nThe stand out moment came when the Sinn Féin President called for the Israeli ambassador to be sent home.\n\nIt was a moment of release for delegates clearly frustrated by the party's muddled message.\n\nThe next time we see Mary Lou McDonald on an ard fheis stage she could be Taoiseach standing alongside Michelle O' Neill as First Minister.\n\nBut that is likely to depend on the party finding a political partner in Dublin and Belfast.\n\nA process which will only start when the finishing line has been crossed.\n\nMs McDonald also called on the Irish government to expel the Israeli ambassador.\n\n\"Israel must stop its slaughter in Gaza. Hamas must release all hostages. Ceasefires must be called,\" she said.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill said the Northern Ireland \"of today is not that of yesterday\".\n\nHer comment was a reference to decades of unionist dominance at Stormont.\n\n\"Together we must unite and fight the corner of every citizen, to ensure public services are financed with a needs-based funding model,\" she added.\n\nIn May, the party secured a second historic election win in 12 months when it made big gains to take the most seats in Northern Ireland's local elections.\n\nThat came after its dominance in the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election, in which it became the biggest party at Stormont for the first time.\n\nMichelle O'Neill wants the DUP to end its boycott of the Stormont assembly\n\nMs O'Neill is in a position to become the first nationalist first minister of Northern Ireland should power-sharing return.\n\nBut she can only take up the post if the DUP agrees to ends its boycott of the Stormont institutions.\n\nThe DUP has been in negotiations with the UK government for changes to the post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland but has said there \"are still gaps to be closed\".\n\nIn another speech which opened the party's conference on Friday, Ms O'Neill said the DUP \"has had more than enough time to address their concerns\" regarding the Brexit Protocol.\n\n\"Public patience has run out. The boycott of the assembly by the DUP must end.\"", "A 45-year-old man has been charged with murdering a mother in front of her two children.\n\nPerseverance Ncube, aged 35, was stabbed in the chest in Dukesgate Grove, Salford, at about 02:40 GMT on Friday, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nShe was taken to hospital where she later died.\n\nObert Moyo, 45, of Pennington Road, Bolton, has been charged with her murder and possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nHe has been remanded in custody and is due to appear at Bolton Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nMs Ncube was found injured at a house in Dukesgate Grove, Little Hulton\n\nIn an earlier tribute, Ms Ncube's family said she was a \"devoted mother who lived for her children, family, and friends\".\n\nThey said: \"Percy was an active member of her church and had created a beautiful community for herself and her children.\n\n\"Her passing has left us with an immeasurable sense of loss.\n\n\"Our focus now is on supporting her children as they continue their journey without their mother.\"\n\nPolice are appealing for anyone with information to contact them.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Newcastle\n\nNewcastle defender Kieran Trippier says he told fans \"there's no need to panic\" when confronting them at full-time following their defeat at Bournemouth.\n\nIn a video widely shared on social media, Trippier could be seen speaking to some travelling Magpies supporters after Saturday's 2-0 loss at Vitality Stadium in the Premier League.\n\nTrippier appeared upset as he asked the fans: \"How many injuries have we got?\"\n\n\"The fans are emotional,\" he told Sky Sports after the incident.\n\n\"They have travelled a long way. I had a chat with one of them, saying we are giving everything and there's no need to panic.\n\n\"We got beat and we apologise for that result but the lads are giving everything.\"\n\nTrippier was led away from the confrontation by team-mate Joelinton and was consoled by manager Eddie Howe following their second successive defeat after losing at Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League.\n\nIt leaves Newcastle seventh in the Premier League table, four points behind fourth-placed Liverpool, and the Reds can extend their advantage against Brentford at Anfield on Sunday.\n\nHowever, it was the first time since 2 September that Newcastle had lost in the league, and they were missing several key players through injury and suspension including midfielder Bruno Guimaraes and strikers Callum Wilson and Alexander Isak.\n\n\"We wanted to play Champions League football and in every competition. This is what we want,\" added Trippier.\n\n\"We've lost a lot of players but this is when we need to stand up and give even more. The international break has come at a good time for us.\"\n\nNewcastle host Chelsea in the Premier League next on 25 November, before travelling to Paris St-Germain in a crucial Champions League tie on 28 November.\n• None Our coverage of Newcastle United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Newcastle - go straight to all the best content", "Forecasters have warned of a 'severe weather' event on Monday\n\nNI Police have urged people not to make unnecessary journeys on Monday amid severe weather alerts across Ireland.\n\nStorm Debi is forecast to bring intense rain and high winds, and authorities north and south have warned of danger to life.\n\nMet Éireann has extended a red wind alert - the most severe warning level - to 14 counties. Schools have been asked to delay opening in affected areas.\n\nAn amber wind warning has been issued for parts of counties Down and Armagh.\n\n\"Please stay at home where possible and do not make unnecessary journeys. If you must travel, please bear the prevailing conditions in mind,\" the Police Service of Northern Ireland said in a statement on Sunday night.\n\n\"Consider the potential risks before you leave. Do not place yourself or others in unnecessary danger.\"\n\nThe Met Office said a spell of very strong winds is expected to develop during the morning across counties Down and Armagh, with inland gusts of 60-65mph likely in places and coastal gusts of up to 75mph.\n\nTh amber warning will be in place in these areas from 06:00 GMT until 12:00, as Storm Debi moves north.\n\nA yellow alert for rain and wind has been issued for all Northern Ireland counties from 03:00 GMT to 14:00.\n\nSome places could get up to 40mm of rainfall within a six-hour period.\n\nThe warnings come as many towns and cities still recovering from recent flooding face the potential impact of this latest weather event.\n\nThe Met Office warns that Northern Ireland homes and businesses could be further affected by Monday's rain.\n\nDrivers are urged to anticipate difficult conditions before a transition to drier weather from the south later in the afternoon.\n\nClothing worth thousands of pounds was destroyed in a menswear shop as a result of the recent flood in Newry\n\nFlying debris and damage to buildings could also occur because of the strong winds.\n\nLarge waves around the coast could cause injuries and pose a danger to life.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the government's National Emergency Co-ordination Group (NECG) met on Sunday to discuss Storm Debi.\n\nThe head forecaster at Irish meteorological agency Met Éireann has described the storm as a \"severe weather event\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Met Office - Northern Ireland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We can expect some disruption with travel, some infrastructural issues such as power cables coming down,\" Eoin Sherlock told reporters after the meeting.\n\nThe red alert for wind means people should take action to protect themselves and their property.\n\nThe rare most severe weather warning is in place for counties Clare, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, Galway and Roscommon from 02:00 local time until 05:00 on Monday.\n\nA red warning is also in place for counties Dublin, Kildare, Laois, Louth, Meath, Wicklow, Offaly and Westmeath from 05:00 until 08:00.\n\nMr Sherlock said those living in affected areas can expect winds of up to 130km (80 miles) per hour.\n\nHe has described the weather system as \"very chaotic\" and difficult to predict.\n\nThe national director for fire and emergency management, Keith Leonard, said Storm Debi is a \"serious winter storm with some dangerous features\".\n\nHe has advised people to stay away from coastal areas as conditions will be \"extremely hazardous\" and has warned of \"very hazardous and difficult conditions\" on roads with a substantial number of downed trees.\n\n\"A very important message in relation to keeping your phone charged. There's going to be extensive electricity outages tomorrow and your mobile phone is your link to the emergency services,\" Mr Leonard added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Met Éireann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA status orange wind alert - the second highest level - has been issued for County Cork, from 01:00 until 04:00, with warnings of dangerous travelling conditions, damage to power lines and exposed structures, and disruption to services.\n\nAn orange alert for 19 other counties is in place from 02:00 until 10:00.\n\nDisruption is also expected at Ireland's airports and ports. Irish Rail has warned passengers to expect delays as speed restrictions will apply across the Republic's entire rail network for safety reasons due to the storm.\n\nThe NECG has advised schools and pre-schools in all counties affected to remain closed until 10.00 and for those that can work from home to do so.\n\nYellow warnings have also been issued for rest of the Republic.\n\nStorm Debi is the fourth named storm of the season which began on 1 September.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFor one day a year the hustle and bustle of London's Whitehall - gawking tourists, chanting protestors and hooting taxis - is swept away and in its place a very different slice of Britain descends.\n\nOn Sunday came military veterans, lots of them, in blazers and berets, well-shined shoes and crisply-creased trousers, with nods to old comrades and regimental rivals.\n\nHere were families making sure their loved ones were remembered and here were people who had come to see the spectacle, but also to pay their respects.\n\nThe crowd that lines Whitehall on these Remembrance Sundays does not all dress up for the occasion. But this is a Britain with Sunday-best manners, polite and orderly, this is a day of unity in divided times.\n\nQueen Camilla and the Princess of Wales watch on as the Remembrance Sunday service takes place on Whitehall\n\nThe hinge of this day is the eleventh hour - that time on 11 November 1918 when four terrible years of slaughter came to end.\n\nThe two minutes' silence that falls after Big Ben sounds sees faces long with memory and grief, none more so than the King, a single poppy blazing out from the blue-grey lapel of his greatcoat.\n\nKing Charles III led the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in central London\n\nMassed Bands and Pipers assembled and played in the rain at the Cenotaph as members of the armed forces laid their wreaths\n\nA command is barked into the thick cold air: \"Stand at ease, stand easy.\" The troops settle a little.\n\nAnd then begins the beating heart of the day, the parade of veterans, in berets and bowler hats, sometimes in wheelchairs and sometimes led by guide dogs.\n\nTheir march not quite as steady as it once was, but their pride shining out like the medals across their chests.\n\nA two-minute silence was held at the service\n\nAs they pass the Cenotaph - Whitehall's 103-year-old war memorial - heads swing left in unison, some give a sharp salute.\n\nAnd, as they pass, they yield up their ring of poppies, which is taken to the base of the Cenotaph and laid gently down, the ring of red around the simple monument gradually becoming a long carpet of remembrance.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.", "Waves crash over the promenade in Folkestone, Kent.\n\nStorm Debi has brought heavy rain and strong winds to several regions after wild weather hit large parts of the UK.\n\nA yellow warning for thunderstorms was in place for south-east England, parts of the south coast and London until 15:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nIt follows stormy conditions across northern England and Scotland, with gusts of more than 70mph (112.7km/h) recorded in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nDebi is the fourth named storm of this winter so far.\n\nThe rain and wind first hit Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, then Wales, before moving eastwards and into the North Sea on Monday evening.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the storm caused road closures and some disruption to the public transport network. NIE Networks said about 3,000 customers were without power, mainly around Craigavon, Newry and Downpatrick.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, the Environment Agency had 15 flood warnings in place - meaning flooding is expected - and 102 lesser flood alerts.\n\nGusts of up to 77mph battered parts of the Welsh coast after a yellow weather warning across north, mid and west Wales, while winds of 74mph were recorded at Killowen, Northern Ireland, and 68mph on the Isle of Man.\n\nA Met Office amber wind warning - meaning a potential risk to life and property - was in place for parts of south-west Northern Ireland in the morning and remained in place until Monday afternoon in parts of north-west England, including Cumbria, Lancashire and Merseyside.\n\nYellow weather warnings for wind were also in place for much of northern England and Wales until 18:00. This was extended until 21:00 for much of the north of England, including Lincoln, Sheffield and Manchester up to Carlisle and Newcastle.\n\nStorm Debi developed in the Republic of Ireland, where red weather warnings were in place earlier. About 100,000 homes and businesses had lost power as of Monday morning.\n\nA woman was taken to hospital after being hit by flying debris in Limerick and some schools were forced to close.\n\nElsewhere, a plane flying into Dublin Airport had to abort its landing due to Storm Debi.\n\nA car on a flooded road in County Tyrone. Storm Debi caused power cuts in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nBBC Weather's Simon King said Storm Debi could lead to some localised flooding, especially in Northern Ireland and eastern Scotland.\n\nHe said the stormy conditions will be especially felt around Irish Sea coasts and there may be branches or trees down and potentially damage to buildings.\n\nThe Met Office said severe weather could lead to the flooding of homes and businesses - with possible fast-flowing or deep floodwater causing a danger to life.\n\nSpray and flooding could also lead to difficult travel conditions, with some road and bridge closures, and disruption to rail, air and ferry services.\n\nThe Met Office said mobile phone coverage could also be affected and injuries and danger to life could occur from large waves and beach material being thrown onto sea fronts, coastal and road properties.\n\nBritish Airways said it had to \"make a small number of cancellations\" due to the bad weather, which has reduced the number of flights air traffic controllers will allow to land per hour.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Marco Petagna said Storm Debi would bring \"heavy and potentially thundery showers\" moving eastwards across the south of England on Tuesday.\n\nHe urged people to \"take extra care and be prepared to see thundery showers\".\n\nThe latest storm comes after Storm Ciarán caused flooding and disruption across the Channel Islands and southern England, while another recent storm, Babet, flooded nearly 600 properties in Lincolnshire.\n\nExperts say a warming atmosphere increases the chance of intense rainfall and storms.\n\nHowever, many factors contribute to extreme weather and it takes time for scientists to calculate how much impact climate change has had on particular events - if any.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nHow have you been affected by Storm Debi? You can share with us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFind out the weather forecast for your area, with an hourly breakdown and a 14-day lookahead, by downloading the BBC Weather app: Apple - Android - Amazon\n\nThe BBC Weather app is only available to download in the UK.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Gareth Stobart said he has received a bill for around £43,000\n\nA council that introduced a yearly fee of more than £800 for landlords has defended a decision to charge an owner in Middlesbrough about £43,000.\n\nGareth Stobart said Middlesbrough Council was charging the fee for each of the 52 flats at student accommodation Linthorpe Hall 248.\n\nHe accused them of handing out \"blanket\" requirements, while university-owned bedrooms were exempt.\n\nThe council said it had deemed each of the flats to be \"licensable dwellings\".\n\nIt said because the facility is \"privately owned and operated\", it was no different to hundreds of other privately-rented properties where the fee must be paid.\n\nThe fee, introduced as part of a five-year scheme to \"improve\" standards of private rentals, is charged per home or property in selected Middlesbrough areas.\n\nHowever Mr Stobart, group property manager at Linthorpe Property Management, said he and other landlords were being put in the \"firing line\" when charged per flat.\n\n\"It's just crazy,\" he told the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nThe scheme was designed to improve standards in private renting\n\nHis company charges up to £100 per week for an en suite room and access to shared facilities such as kitchens, according to its website.\n\nMr Stobart the company was still dealing with the impact of Covid and far fewer students moving to the town as a result.\n\nMeanwhile, he said the building had been designated as purpose-built student accommodation but he had been told it would be classified as houses of multiple occupation (HMO) for the purposes of the fee.\n\n\"No other student properties of our size are required to pay a licence [because] the council states they are operated by an educational body so don't require one,\" he said.\n\n\"Why aren't the university-operated buildings being classed as HMOs?\"\n\nThe licence, which applies in the town's Newport area and is meant to provide support and advice for landlords, was introduced in 2019 but is due to be reviewed in a few months.\n\nSome landlords have questioned its effectiveness and said they were still being charged the full rate, despite the scheme potentially coming to an end next year.\n\nThey also suggested that the cost was being passed to their tenants.\n\nA council spokesperson maintained that Linthorpe Hall 248 was not exempt as it is not controlled by an \"educational establishment\".\n\nIt said the scheme, which is known as \"selective licensing\" and was established to improve housing conditions, was approved following a three-month consultation.\n\n\"The income generated by the licence fee pays solely for the staff who deliver the scheme and the council makes no profit,\" they added.\n\nFollow BBC Tees on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A lion that was spotted walking through Ladispoli, west of Rome, has been captured and returned to the circus it escaped from.\n\nVideos posted on social media show locals shocked at seeing the big cat roaming the streets of the seaside town.\n\nKimba, the lion, was caught more than five hours after the initial alert was raised.\n\nCircus owner Rony Vassallo said the lion was doing fine, and that investigations were under way to find out how he escaped.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe chance of a volcanic eruption in Iceland is rising, posing a threat to a now-evacuated town, experts say.\n\nIceland has declared a state of emergency after a series of earthquakes.\n\nAuthorities have ordered thousands of people living in the southwestern town of Grindavík to leave as a precaution.\n\nThe Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) said there was a considerable risk of an eruption.\n\nThe probability of an eruption on or just off the Reykjanes peninsula has increased since the morning, IMO says.\n\nAn eruption could start at any time in the next few days, according to the statement.\n\nThor Thordason, professor of volcanology at the University of Iceland, said a 15km-long (nine mile) river of magma running under the peninsula was still active.\n\n\"That's why we're talking about an imminent eruption unfortunately. The most likely eruption side appears to be within the boundary of the town of Grindavík,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThousands of tremors have been recorded around the nearby Fagradalsfjall volcano in recent weeks.\n\nThey have been concentrated in Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, which had remained dormant to volcanic activity for 800 years before a 2021 eruption.\n\nEarth tremors have caused the ground to slip at this golf course and elsewhere in Grindavik\n\nIn a statement on Saturday the agency said a tunnel of magma, or molten rock, that extends northeast across Grindavík and some 10km further inland, was estimated at a depth of less than 800 metres, compared with 1,500 metres earlier in the day.\n\nOn Thursday, the increased seismic activity in the area prompted the closure of the nearby Blue Lagoon landmark.\n\nMore than 20,000 tremors have been recorded in southwest Iceland since late October.\n\nIceland's Civil Protection Agency said the decision to evacuate came after the IMO could not rule out a \"magma tunnel that is currently forming could reach Grindavík\".\n\nAnd on Friday, the agency said people must leave the town, but also emphasised it was not an \"emergency evacuation\" - calling on them to \"remain calm, because we have a good amount of time to react\".\n\n\"There is no immediate danger imminent, the evacuation is primarily preventive with the safety of all Grindavík residents as the principal aim,\" it added.\n\nAll roads into the town of around 4,000 people are closed other than for emergencies, to ensure traffic can get in and out.\n\nAlda Sigmundsdottir, a journalist in Reykjavik, said that people were going back into the town \"to get their absolute bare necessities\" and pets.\n\n\"We are just currently waiting for the eruption to start,\" she told the BBC's Newshour.\n\nCracks from the volcanic activity have damaged roads in Grindavik\n\nIceland is one of the most geologically active regions in the world, with around 30 active volcanic sites.\n\nVolcanic eruptions occur when magma, which is lighter than the solid rock around it, rises to the earth's surface from deep below it.\n\nIn July, Litli-Hrutur, or Little Ram, erupted in the Fagradalsfjall area, drawing tourists to the site of the \"world's newest baby volcano\".\n\nThe site was dormant for eight centuries until eruptions in 2021, 2022 and 2023.", "Huge flames and plumes of grey smoke could be seen rising into the sky from a blaze at an industrial waste site in Newark on Saturday.\n\nNottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service said it sent six fire engines, a welfare unit and command unit to the scene.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nGhana striker Raphael Dwamena has died aged 28 after collapsing on the pitch during a league match in Albania.\n\nDwamena was playing for Egnatia against Partizani on Saturday.\n\n\"Despite the immediate intervention of specialist doctors he unfortunately passed away,\" said the Albanian Football Federation (AFL).\n\nDwamena was the leading scorer in the Albanian league this season with nine goals. He had won nine caps and scored two goals for his country.\n\nSaturday's match was abandoned and the federation has postponed all games scheduled in Albania this week.\n\n\"The AFL expresses its deepest condolences to the Dwamena family and the Egnatia club for this great loss that has shocked the entire Albanian football community,\" the federation added.\n\nThe Ghana Football Association (GFA) said it sent \"our deepest condolences to his family at this difficult moment\".\n\n\"He served his country well and showed class any time he represented Ghana,\" GFA president Kurt Edwin Simeon Okraku said in a statement.\n\nIn 2017 a proposed £14m move to Brighton fell through after Dwamena failed a medical. He went on to represent Levante in La Liga and also played for Real Zaragoza on loan.\n\nIn 2021 he collapsed during a cup match in Austria between his side Blau-Weiss Linz and Hartberg, but recovered and continued his playing career.\n\nHe reportedly had a heart operation and had an automatic defibrillator implanted.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with his family and his loved ones in these difficult moments. His legacy in our club will last forever,\" Levante said on social media.\n\nZaragoza also paid tribute, saying: \"We are devastated by the sad news of the passing of our former player Raphael Dwamena. You will always be in the memory of Zaragoza´s fans. Rest in peace.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "The Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge in Maui, Hawaii, has seen a recent influx of visitors - but they're not there to see the wetlands, they've come for the bubblegum pink pond.\n\nScientists do not know for sure what has caused the pond to turn the bright shade of 'Barbie' pink, but they they suspect it could be down to high salt levels in the water prompting the growth of halobacteria organisms.\n\nPeople are warned not to get too close or drink the water.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRob McElhenney's attempts to learn Welsh provided a highlight of television show Welcome to Wrexham.\n\nBut if things had been different, the language may not have been so alien to him - and he might have spoken it in school or even at home.\n\nIt was the intention of settlers in parts of his native Philadelphia for the government and people to use Welsh.\n\nHowever, the attempts in 1681 did not prove as successful as those later in Patagonia, Argentina.\n\nEven so, the map of the area is plastered with Welsh names - Bryn Mawr, Hughes Park, Uwchlan, North Wales, Bala Cynwyd, Haverford, Narberth, Gwynedd Valley and Penllyn.\n\nThere's even a St Asaph Church, its design based on the original in Denbighshire, and red dragons adorning police badges.\n\nIt's Always Sunny in Philadelphia actor, writer and creator McElhenney started learning Welsh after buying Wrexham AFC with Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds.\n\nBut the language was spoken in his hometown on-and-off for four centuries, after two waves of immigration helped shape the state of Pennsylvania.\n\nIn fact, the original intention was to call Pennsylvania \"New Wales\", according to Connor Duffy, who is from Philadelphia and gives presentations on the history.\n\nWhile it is unlikely you will hear Welsh on the streets of Pennsylvania, the legacy of the Welsh settlers is apparent\n\nHundreds of Welsh-speaking Quakers from rural parts of Wales began arriving in the late 1660s, after facing persecution in Great Britain for their beliefs, Mr Duffy said.\n\nHe added: \"William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, converted to Quakerism at a young age and was a strong advocate of religious freedom and democratic values.\n\n\"The king granted him a massive tract of land in North America to settle a debt with the Penn family.\n\n\"Believe it or not, Penn's first idea for a name for this land was 'New Wales', but King Charles II overruled him and the name Pennsylvania or 'Penn's Woods' was chosen to honour Penn's father, whom the king owed a debt to.\"\n\nWhen suburban Philadelphia was being created in the late 1800s, Welsh names were seen as a sign of affluence\n\nThe Welsh Quakers believed an agreement was reached to create a \"Welsh Tract\" on 40,000 acres (160sq km), where the language of government, law, business and daily life would be Welsh.\n\nBut Mr Duffy said this failed to happen, adding: \"The Welsh came to know Penn as 'Diwyneb', or 'Faceless' for reneging on their agreement.\"\n\nHowever, the settlers left their mark.\n\nIn the 1880s, when the Pennsylvania Railroad was built, laying the foundations for suburban Philadelphia, it ran through what was the Welsh Tract.\n\nGiving new areas Welsh names was seen as a sign of affluence by the wealthy residents who moved in.\n\nMany were named by the president of the railroad - George Brooke Roberts, a direct descendant of one of the first Welsh settlers in the 1680s.\n\nHe lived at his ancestor's estate \"Pencoyd\" and raised funds to build the Church of St Asaph, Bala Cynwyd.\n\nAffluent suburbs often have Welsh-influenced names for streets\n\nEven now, new developments occasionally nod to the settlers - including Llewelyn Road, Cymry Drive, Llanelly Lane and Derwydd Lane.\n\nMr Duffy, 24, said DNA tests showed he had \"at least a few percentage points of Welsh\".\n\nHis passion for Wales was stirred further when he met boyfriend Mathew Rhys, 25, from Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, in 2019.\n\nThe couple live in Swansea, where Mr Duffy is studying history.\n\nHe said Welsh heritage is still strong in the Lower Merion Historical Society and Welsh Society of Philadelphia - the oldest ethnic society of its kind in the USA.\n\nPictured in Betws y Coed, Conwy, Mathew Rhys and Connor Duffy have been celebrating the huge influence of Wales on Pennsylvania\n\nHowever, he added: \"Unfortunately, in my experience, many people in the area don't know the fascinating story of their past or how their towns came to have such unique names.\n\n\"I believe it's possible to ignite an interest among the population and inspire people to learn more about and celebrate the history of the Welsh settlers whose legacy firmly remains in the names of the places around them.\"\n\nMr Duffy is doing his bit.\n\nHe organised Mari Lwyd events in Philadelphia in 2021 and New Jersey in 2022, handing out pamphlets to explain the Welsh tradition.\n\nThe Welsh Mari Lwyd tradition took to the streets of Philadelphia in 2021, and Mathew and Connor plan to do the same this year\n\nPennsylvania has \"two layers of Welshness in two parts\", according to Cardiff University's head of Welsh Dylan Foster Evans.\n\nAfter the Quakers' idea of a Welsh colony came to nothing by the end of the 1600s, he said Welsh largely disappeared from families within two generations.\n\nHowever, the first Welsh language book to be published in the USA was in Philadelphia in 1721 and there were Anglican clergymen conducting services in Welsh in the early part of the 18th Century.\n\nA legacy would continue, though, because the settlers were seen as \"founding fathers of the area by many\", Dr Foster Evans believes.\n\nAs they were there so early in the foundation of the state, he also thinks there are a large number of descendants now.\n\nA huge wave of immigration from Wales happened in the late 1800s, with those from mining areas taking their experience, and towns being named after their roots\n\nHowever, their numbers were dwarfed by those of Welsh settlers that arrived during a second wave of immigration in the late 19th Century.\n\nDuring the industrial revolution, they brought their mining experience to the coal-rich regions.\n\nIn total, about 80,000 Welsh people headed over - with 5,000 in the town of Scranton, where the US edition of The Office was later set, by the start of the 20th Century.\n\n\"My family were quarrymen from the Nantlle Valley in Caernarfonshire, but got good jobs in the mines because of their experience, as foremen and safety officers,\" Dr Foster Evans said.\n\n\"My great-grandfather, his brother and two sisters went over. The others stayed but my great-grandfather came back - which is why I'm here.\"\n\nMany towns adopted the red dragon as an emblem\n\nThere were Welsh chapels, books, newspapers, while popular folk song Moliannwn (Let's Give Praise) was written in the USA.\n\nDr Foster Evans said in some cases, second and third generations were speaking Welsh having never been to Wales, and it was spoken into the middle of the 20th Century\n\nHe added: \"Even now, there are some people with something of the language, but there were no structures to keep it alive.\n\n\"America was a melting pot of cultures, with no place for it in schools. It was only in the home and chapels where it was kept going.\"\n\nFollowing one of Mr Duffy's presentations in Philadelphia, musicians Keith Trievel and Katherine Crusi performed Welsh folk music\n\nAs Philadelphia was \"a major destination\" for immigrants from Europe, locals are used to place names from many cultures, according to Kate Jiggins.\n\nBut the president of the Lower Merion Historical Society said: \"Nonetheless, the western suburbs retain more Welsh place names than names from any other language, and many of the residents of this area have at least some amount of Welsh heritage - myself included.\"\n\nShe said the Quaker religion remains prominent, with one of the oldest meeting houses in the USA \"a lovely example of Welsh architecture of the early 18th Century\".\n\nMs Jiggins added: \"Last year Philadelphia had its first ever Welsh Week in the city, so it's safe to say that even though our Welsh history may not be a topic of daily conversation, it's certainly not been forgotten.\"\n\nUwchlan, Nanty Glo and Cumru are some of the townships that emerged following the arrival of Welsh settlers", "Ahmed al-Naouq took this family selfie four years ago - most of the children in the photo are now dead\n\nWhole families have been wiped out in Israel's air strikes on the densely populated streets of Gaza, where many Palestinians live in multi-generational homes. Three Palestinians in the UK told the BBC that more than 20 of their relatives had been killed in one blow - and many were still stuck under the rubble.\n\nIt was just another lazy, sunny Friday afternoon four years ago when Ahmed al-Naouq snapped this selfie with his family. But he remembers it well, especially now.\n\nUnder the shade of olive trees by his father's house, his sisters and brothers got together with their children to eat, play and chat.\n\nTaking a break from running around, the children were ready to eat when Ahmed captured them together. Now, most of them are dead, he says.\n\nThey were killed in an air strike which struck the family home on 22 October. In total, 21 people were killed including his father, three sisters, two brothers and 14 of their children.\n\nMore than 11,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli bombardment, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry. The air strikes began after the 7 October attack by Hamas, in which Israel says about 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 taken hostage.\n\nIsrael says its strategy in Gaza has been to root out Hamas which it accuses of operating in the heart of civilian communities - and that it takes steps to mitigate civilian casualties.\n\nIn Ahmed's photo, only seven of the children who were killed appear. Some weren't there that day, some weren't even born.\n\nLike many Palestinians, Ahmed's brothers built their family homes above their father's - a tradition which means generations are being wiped out in one fell swoop.\n\nAhmed, who moved to London to work with an NGO, last saw family members, such as his nephew Abdullah, in 2019\n\nHis sister Aya had gone there to take shelter with her children after her own apartment was damaged by an air strike. His other sisters, Walaa and Alaa, were there too with their children. The house was in the centre of Gaza in the town of Deir al-Balah, an area that had never been targeted before. They thought it was safe.\n\n\"I thought it's a scary time for them but they will be OK,\" Ahmed says, stunned now by his naivety.\n\nAhmed moved to London four years ago to work for an NGO and hasn't been home since. The last time he saw the children together was by video call. He had been given a bonus and, as part of a family tradition, he promised his nieces and nephews a treat.\n\n\"They all said that they want to go to the beach and rent a chalet and have food and dance together and enjoy,\" he says. So, he hired one and bought them dinner and snacks.\n\nAbdullah was six when he was killed\n\nThe children called him from the beach that day, fighting over the phone to talk.\n\nSo many of them are dead now that Ahmed stumbles as he remembers the names and ages of each one.\n\nHis 13-year-old nephew Eslam was the eldest and the one he knew best. Ahmed was a teenager and living at home when Eslam was born. His mum looked after the baby while his sister was at work, so Ahmed often helped to feed and change him.\n\nAs Eslam grew older, he said wanted to be like his uncle. He was the top of his class, Ahmed says and working hard at English so that he could also come to the UK.\n\nEslam was killed alongside his little sisters - Dima who was 10, Tala who was nine, Nour who was five and Nasma who was two, as well as his cousins Raghad (aged 13), Bakr (aged 11), girls Eslam and Sarah who were both nine, Mohamed and Basema who were eight and Abdullah and Tamim who were six.\n\nAfter the attack, Ahmed posted pictures of each of the children online to let the world know what had happened to them. Among them was three-year-old Omar. The little boy had been in bed with his mum Shimaa and dad Muhammed - Ahmed's brother - when the bomb fell.\n\nThen Ahmed got a call from one of his surviving sisters: Omar was alive. Ahmed's brother Muhammed had been killed but Shimaa and her little boy miraculously survived.\n\n\"That was the happiest moment in my life, ever,\" Ahmed says.\n\nThe only other person pulled from the rubble alive was 11-year-old Malak. She was badly injured, with burns over half of her body.\n\nWhen I met Ahmed, he showed me a picture of Malak in her hospital bed - her body was entirely covered in bandages. At first, I mistook her for a boy because her hair was short. It must have burned in the fire, Ahmed said.\n\nMalak, 11 was pulled from the rubble alive but badly injured. Her brothers Mohamed, 9, and Tamim, 6, were killed in the blast\n\nMalak's father wasn't in the house when it was hit and he is alive. But his wife and two other children were killed. When Ahmed messaged him to ask how he was doing, he replied: \"A body, no soul.\"\n\nA week after the bomb, communications from Gaza were almost entirely cut off as Israel escalated its attack, and Ahmed couldn't contact anyone. When the signal was reconnected two days later, he learned that Malak had died.\n\nMedical supplies were dwindling to nothing and the 11-year-old had to be taken off the ICU unit when a more urgent case came in. She was in a lot of pain.\n\n\"I died a hundred times every day,\" her father told Ahmed, as he watched the eldest and last of his three children fade away.\n\nYoussef was among 20 members of one family killed in one blow. He was aged four\n\nJust before the communication blackout, Ahmed also found out that his uncle's house had been hit. He's still not sure who was killed there. On Tuesday, he also learned that the home of his close friends Maisara and Laura had been hit. Again several generations were killed - Laura survived but Maisara is still missing underneath the rubble.\n\nIn all, we spoke to three people in the UK who had each lost more than 20 family members in Gaza.\n\nDarwish al-Manaama told the BBC that 44 of his family died. Among them was his niece Salma and her husband, their four adult children and their grandchild who was barely one.\n\nDarwish found out his family had died from a list sent to him on WhatsApp. After sharing some details, he was too overwhelmed to talk.\n\nYara Sharif, an architect and academic in London, sent me photos of her aunt's family home which was destroyed in an Israeli strike a week into the war.\n\n\"It was a very beautiful house,\" Yara says, \"A beautiful mansion with a big courtyard in the middle.\" Like Ahmed's family, the sons built apartments for their own families on top of their parents.\n\nFatima, 5, and Anas, 3, in the garden of their home in northern Gaza before they were killed\n\nYara found out that 20 of her relatives had been killed on Facebook - her aunt and uncle, her two cousins and their 10 children, as well as six members of the extended family.\n\nSome of their bodies were pulled from the rubble and they appear as numbers on the list of dead released by the Ministry of Health.\n\nYara sent us a screenshot of the list with a rough red mark by each name and, on the right-hand side, their ages. Sama was 16, Omar and Fahmy were 14-year-old twins, Abdulrahman was 13, Fatima 10, Obaida seven, cousins Aleman and Fatima were both five, Youssef was four and Sarah and Anas were three.\n\nYara has two cousins left. They asked not to be named, worried by an unsubstantiated rumour that those who speak to the media are being targeted.\n\nThe sisters are in different parts of Gaza and can't reach each other to hold a funeral or grieve. And anyway, as Yara's cousin messaged her: \"Muhammed's body and Mama's and the two children are still under the rubble.\"\n\nAbdulrahman died with his cousins, twins Omar and Fahmy. Fahmy's body has yet to be recovered from the rubble\n\nThere is not enough fuel to run excavator machines in Gaza and any that are working are needed to rescue those who are alive.\n\nOn Friday, as I sat with Ahmed al-Naouq watching the news, the list of the dead scrolled down the screen. I asked him if his family were on it. \"Only 12 of them,\" he said. The other nine hadn't yet been recovered.\n\nAfter the bombing, his oldest sister, who was at her own home when it happened, went to visit the ruins. But she told Ahmed she couldn't stay long because she couldn't stand the smell of rotting flesh.\n\nAhmed struggles to keep in touch with his surviving sisters. Often phones aren't working, and he loses touch with them.\n\nHe struggles to find the words in English to describe what he has been feeling since the bombing, saying it feels as if his heart is no longer in his chest. Crying is pointless, he says, because it changes nothing.\n\n\"I feel like I can't stand still. I can't sit still. I can't sleep at night,\" he says. \"There's nothing you can do to stop this feeling.\"\n\nAhmed says he can't sleep since the bombs killed his family, including Sara, 9, Raghad, 13 and Abdullah, 6, and Eslam, 8\n\nAhmed says his father was the kindest man he had ever known. He worked hard driving a taxi and in construction to build a home for his children and educate them well. He listened obsessively to the news and believed the only solution to this conflict was a one-state solution, where Jews and Palestinians would live alongside each other in peace.\n\nBut thinking of his only surviving nephew, Ahmed wonders: after this war has taken so many people he loves, what will Omar believe?", "From left to right: Yumna Afzaal, Madiha Salman, Salman's mother Talat Afzaal, and Salman Afzaal were \"the best\" of their community, friends said\n\nA Canadian man accused of killing a Muslim family in London, Ontario, wanted to make \"all Muslims fearful for their safety\", a jury has heard.\n\nProsecutors said in their closing argument that Nathaniel Veltman had planned to send \"a brutal message\".\n\nMr Veltman, 22, faces four first-degree murder charges and one count of attempted murder.\n\nHe also faces terrorism counts, with prosecutors arguing he targeted the family because of their faith.\n\nThe jury is now deliberating. The accused faces life in prison if found guilty.\n\nBoth the defence and prosecutors agree that Mr Veltman was behind the wheel on 6 June 2021, when a vehicle ran over three generations of the Afzaal family as they took an evening walk.\n\nMr Veltman has pleaded not guilty to the charges, arguing that he suffers from mental illness.\n\nSalman Afzaal, 46, and his wife, Madiha Salman, 44, their daughter, Yumna Afzaal, 15, and Mr Afzaal's mother, Talat Afzaal, 74, died in the attack.\n\nA nine-year-old boy was seriously hurt, but survived.\n\nThe case marks the first time a jury in Canada has heard legal arguments on terrorism related to white supremacy.\n\nThe panel will not only have to decide whether Mr Veltman is guilty of murder, but if his actions can be described as terrorism.\n\nProsecutors are looking to prove the murders were intentional and committed for a political, religious or ideological purpose to intimidate the public or a specific group.\n\nIn the second and final day of closing arguments on Wednesday, prosecutors sought to establish that Mr Veltman was motivated by white nationalist ideologies to attack the Afzaal family.\n\nCrown lawyer Fraser Ball told the jury the accused became \"highly radicalised\" in the lead-up to the attack, and had been viewing \"highly racist\" content on the dark web.\n\nMr Ball added that Mr Veltman left a document behind, outlining his hatred for Muslims.\n\nIt was found by police on his computer shortly after his arrest, the court heard.\n\nIn his arguments, Mr Ball said the accused had looked into buying body armour as early as April 2021, and that right before leaving his apartment on the day of the attack he had re-read materials written by a mass shooter.\n\nMr Ball argued that Mr Veltman had \"bigger goals\" that day than committing murder.\n\n\"The Afzaals were just the medium. The brutal message was for a much bigger audience,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, the 13-person jury heard closing arguments from Mr Veltman's lawyers, who said that the accused was in a \"dreamlike state\" on the day of the attack from consuming a large quantity of magic mushrooms.\n\nThey also argued that Mr Veltman suffered from mental conditions including depression, anxiety and a personality disorder, all exacerbated by his drug use.\n\nChristopher Hicks, the lawyer for Mr Veltman, described his client's mental state at the time as \"a runaway freight train headed for explosion\".\n\nHe argued that his client was guilty of manslaughter, rather than first-degree murder.", "New Foreign Secretary David Cameron has made his first working visit to Ukraine, meeting President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.\n\nLord Cameron reiterated the UK's support for Ukraine, promising moral, diplomatic and \"above all military support for... however long it takes\".\n\nMr Zelensky congratulated Mr Cameron on his new post and thanked him for the UK's continued backing.\n\nLord Cameron became foreign secretary in a cabinet shuffle on Monday.\n\n\"This is very important, especially now, when the world is paying attention not only to the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine, and dividing the focus really does not help,\" the Ukrainian president said, alluding to the Middle East.\n\n\"We are grateful for the unwavering support of Ukraine from the United Kingdom. We are grateful for the warm welcome of Ukrainian citizens in the UK. And we are glad that you came to Ukraine,\" he said.\n\nMr Zelensky posted a short clip of the meeting to social media, during which Lord Cameron can be heard saying \"I wanted this to be my first visit.\"\n\n\"What I want to say by being here is that we will continue to give you the moral support, the diplomatic support and the economic support and above all the military support that you need not just this year and next year but however long as it takes,\" Lord Cameron said.\n\nThe former UK prime minister added: \"I've had some disagreements with Boris Johnson, we've known each other for 40 years, but his support for you was the finest thing he and his government did.\"\n\nUkraine's foreign ministry said the pair discussed weapons, arms production, and security in the Black Sea.\n\nIn a statement following the meeting, Lord Cameron said: \"As winter approaches, we continue to stand with the Ukrainian people as they resist Putin's illegal invasion. In the last three months, they have pushed Russia back in the Black Sea and are opening vital sea trade routes for the Ukrainian economy and global food supplies.\"\n\nThe UK has provided Ukraine with billions of pounds in military aid since Russia launched its invasion in February 2022.\n\nMilitary hardware donations have included a number of Challenger 2 tanks and long-range missiles, and tens of thousands of Ukrainian recruits have been trained by the British military on UK soil.\n\nLord Cameron's visit comes after Ukrainian forces succeeded in establishing positions across the Dnipro river in southern Ukraine, a potentially significant advance. Local Russian-installed officials acknowledged on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces were present in the village of Krynky, on the Russian-occupied left (east) bank.\n\nThe river has separated Ukrainian and Russian forces since Moscow's troops withdrew from Kherson a year ago.\n\nThe news has heartened Ukrainians, whose four-month-old counter-offensive has failed to regain significant occupied territory from Russia.\n\nLord Cameron's new post marks his return to the cabinet table for the first time in more than seven years.\n\nHe has replaced James Cleverly, who was moved to be home secretary to take over from Suella Braverman in a dramatical overhaul of Rishi Sunak's cabinet on Monday.\n\nLord Cameron was prime minister from 2010 to 2016, resigning after the UK voted to leave the EU as he had backed the Remain campaign.\n\nIn the time since, Lord Cameron has occupied himself with various business endeavours, charity work, teaching and speaking engagements.\n\nThere has been some controversy about Lord Cameron's return to the cabinet, since he is no longer an elected MP and will sit as a peer rather than in the Commons.\n\nOpposition parties and Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle have raised concerns about how MPs will be able to hold Lord Cameron to account, given he will not be in the Commons chamber to take questions during the regular departmental scrutiny sessions.\n\nInstead, those questions will be fielded by the ministers below him at the Foreign Office, including Andrew Mitchell and Anne-Marie Trevelyan. It is not uncommon for deputies to answer for the department, although this normally occurs if the foreign secretary is on diplomatic visits around the world.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC team's access to Al-Shifa hospital was limited by the Israel Defense Forces and they were not able to speak to doctors or patients\n\nWe clamber into the Al-Shifa hospital complex in darkness over a caved-in wall in the perimeter - knocked through with an armoured bulldozer on Tuesday to allow safer access for Israeli forces.\n\nThe BBC and one other television crew were the first journalists invited by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to view what Israel says it has found at the site.\n\nAny extra light here is risky so we grope our way through the compound, following the heavily armed troops sent to escort us - stepping around makeshift tents, debris and sleeping people.\n\nDoctors at the hospital say they have been working without power, food or water for days now - and that critically ill patients have died as a result, including newborn babies. People displaced by the fighting in Gaza have been sheltering in the hospital complex.\n\nThe BBC team was shown around part of Al-Shifa hospital by IDF spokesperson Lt Col Jonathan Conricus\n\nBut Israel says Hamas also runs a network of underground tunnels, including under Al-Shifa hospital.\n\nThe masked special forces leading us into the building over debris and broken glass are a sign of how tense the situation still is here. Our presence, just a day after Israel took control of the hospital, speaks volumes about Israel's motivation to show the world why they are here.\n\nIn the brightly lit corridors of the MRI unit, Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus shows us three small stashes of Kalashnikovs, ammunition and bullet-proof vests - he says they have found around 15 guns in all, along with some grenades.\n\nLt Col Conricus also shows us some military booklets and pamphlets, and a map that he says is marked with potential entry and exit routes from the hospital.\n\nIDF soldiers said they found Kalashnikov rifles stashed behind an MRI scanner inside Al-Shifa hospital\n\nA pamphlet entitled \"Military Ordnance\" and another published by Hamas's military wing that IDF soldiers said they found\n\nWhat it tells us, he says, is that Hamas uses hospitals for military purposes.\n\n\"[And] we uncovered a lot of computers and other equipment which could really shed light on the current situation, hopefully regarding hostages as well.\"\n\nThe laptops, he says, contain photos and videos of hostages, taken after their kidnap to Gaza. There is also recently released footage, shared by Israeli police, of their interrogations of Hamas fighters arrested after the October attacks. The BBC was not shown what was on the laptops.\n\nThis, Lt Col Conricus said, suggested Hamas were here \"within the last few days\".\n\n\"At the end of the day, this is just the tip of the iceberg,\" he said. \"Hamas aren't here because they saw we were coming. This is probably what they were forced to leave behind. Our assessment is that there's much more.\"\n\nThe IDF says its forces are continuing their search of Al-Shifa hospital\n\nIsrael's army has spent weeks fighting its way to the gates of the hospital. The streets around have seen some of the fiercest fighting in Gaza in the past few days.\n\nOur visit was tightly controlled; we had very limited time on the ground and were not able to speak to doctors or patients there.\n\nOur journey in to Gaza, in an armoured personnel carrier sealed tight from the darkness outside, traced the path of Israel's first major ground incursions into Gaza weeks ago.\n\nOn the screens inside the military vehicle, the agricultural land morphed slowly into distorted streets strewn with large pieces of debris, and the blurred outlines of shattered buildings.\n\nJust south of Gaza City, we stopped to change vehicles, clambering out on to undulating mounds of twisted metal and large chunks of rubble and concrete.\n\nSmall groups of soldiers crouched over tiny campfires, cooking a makeshift dinner beside the rows of tanks. \"It's a secret recipe,\" one winked.\n\nAbove them, buildings had collapsed in strange shapes. The rolling metal door of a shopfront hung cramped, halfway open.\n\nA Star of David was scrawled on a wall in red spray-paint; inside it someone had written \"IDF\", and above it, the words: \"Never Again\".\n\nA Star of David spray-painted on a wall south of Gaza City, with the word \"IDF\" written inside it, and above it, the words: \"Never Again\"\n\nThe attacks of 7 October changed the calculation for Israel in its conflict with Hamas. It has vowed to end years of uneasy standoff, by destroying both the military and political power of Hamas, designated a terrorist organisation by the UK, US and others.\n\nThat means going into the heart of Gaza City, including inside Al-Shifa.\n\nIsraeli forces are still searching for the tunnels beneath the hospital that they believe Hamas fighters may have withdrawn to, perhaps with some of the hostages.\n\nThis building has become a central focus of Israel's war, described as a key command centre, even potentially the \"beating heart\" of Hamas operations.\n\nAnd in the brutal information war that tails this conflict, this is Israel's moment of truth.\n\nAfter almost 24 hours securing and searching the hospital, Israel says it has found weapons and other equipment that could help provide information on both Hamas fighters and the hostages. But it has its hands on neither.\n\nWe leave the hospital, and rumble down the wide avenue that leads to Gaza's coastal road. Gaza City is now ruled by tanks. The ghostly avenues look in places like an earthquake zone, the destruction is so severe.\n\nIt is clear what it took for Israel to get control of these streets.", "Breonna Taylor's death sparked racial injustice rallies across the US\n\nJurors in the federal trial of the ex-police detective accused of violating Breonna Taylor's civil rights have begun deliberating for a third day.\n\nIf convicted, Brett Hankison could spend the rest of his life in prison.\n\nHe has pleaded not guilty to the charges and was acquitted on separate state charges last year.\n\nMs Taylor's killing, as police officers tried to execute a search warrant on her Kentucky apartment, sparked rallies against racial injustice across the US.\n\nThe nine-day trial has revolved around whether or not officers should shoot when they have not clearly identified their target.\n\nAccording to Louisville authorities, another detective, Myles Cosgrove, fired the fatal shot that struck Ms Taylor, a 26-year-old black woman, but Mr Hankison fired 10 shots during the chaotic \"no-knock\" raid.\n\nNone of those bullets struck anyone but some rounds strayed into an adjoining apartment where a couple and their child lived.\n\nProsecutors have said that Mr Hankison endangered Ms Taylor, her boyfriend and the neighbours by needlessly using excessive force.\n\nOfficers are charged with protecting human life, they argued, and the former detective had \"dishonoured\" his colleagues by \"firing blindly\".\n\nBut defence lawyers asked jurors to consider \"the chaos he was surrounded with\" and the fact that he \"reacted by trying to protect the lives of his fellow officers and himself\".\n\nHow he responded, they claimed, was \"reasonable, not criminal\".\n\nBrett Hankison has said he acted to 'stop the threat'\n\nTaking the stand, Mr Hankison admitted that he could not see a target through the covered windows or sliding door of Ms Taylor's apartment but said he saw muzzle flashes from gunfire and believed a shootout was taking place.\n\nJurors spent Tuesday deliberating, at one point asking if they could separate Mr Hankison's level of force from how it was used.\n\nThe judge asked them to re-read the jury instructions in the case.\n\nIn March 2022, a Kentucky state jury spent about three hours in deliberation before finding Mr Hankison not guilty of three counts of felony wanton endangerment during the incident.\n\nBut three other former officers involved with the raid have been charged in separate federal cases.\n\nOne of them, Kelly Goodlett, has pleaded guilty and is expected to testify against the others, Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany, in their joint trial next year.\n\nThe raid was part of a sprawling drug investigation, but no drugs were found in Ms Taylor's home.\n\nIn December, Ms Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, received a $2m (£1.7m) settlement from the city.\n\nThe death of Ms Taylor, along with that of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia and George Floyd in Minnesota, sparked widespread anti-racism protests across the country.", "Waheed says Muslim voters feel \"taken for granted\" by Labour\n\nWhile they are united in their horror at the Israel-Gaza conflict, the Muslim and Jewish communities of Bury have very different views as to the stance the UK's politicians should be taking.\n\nThe borough has an above average Muslim and Jewish population, and is split into two parliamentary constituencies - Bury North and Bury South.\n\nBury North is currently held by the Conservatives and Bury South is Labour - the MP Christian Wakefield defected from the Tories in 2022.\n\nBoth seats are Labour targets for the next election.\n\nThe UK government and the Labour Party have both called for a \"humanitarian pause\" in the conflict, to allow aid into Gaza and to get Israeli hostages out.\n\nThe Labour Party has now tabled a motion in the House of Commons, which says that the party \"believes all human life is equal and that there has been too much suffering… over the past month in Gaza.\"\n\nIt calls on all parties to follow the \"rules based international order\" and strengthens language around the need to allow in humanitarian assistance.\n\nBut Bury resident Waheed Arshad illustrates the problem the Labour Party has by not calling for a permanent ceasefire.\n\nHe has previously voted Labour, but says Muslim voters in the area feel \"taken for granted\" by the party, which will impact both their voting and their enthusiasm for campaigning.\n\nMany are watching Wednesday's potential vote in the Commons on the issue closely, he believes, \"disappointed\" in the Labour leadership's positioning so far.\n\n\"Disappointed is probably an understatement on this particular issue. You can see the frustration in the way people are talking,\" he says.\n\n\"There's no real recognition of the fact that actually this is a lot of people taking this position, they want a ceasefire and that's not being reflected. It's very easy for us to say do it because Muslims are saying it or we can swing it - I really want him to do it because it's the right thing to do and from a humanitarian point of view.\"\n\nWaheed has heard opponents of a ceasefire argue that it might give Hamas the opportunity to regroup, but doesn't accept that view.\n\n\"You've got to look at the bigger picture in terms of where we are at now with close to 10,000 deaths. Where do we draw the line?\"\n\nIn the absence of Labour calling for a permanent ceasefire, Waheed says he would look to support an independent candidate. \"Conversations are starting to happen\", he says, about council candidates who could stand against Labour councillors.\n\nIn total, there are 14 marginal seats the Labour Party would hope to win at the next general election, where the Muslim population is bigger than the current Conservative majority.\n\nThere are five Labour target seats where Jewish voters could play a crucial role.\n\nBut while ethnicity and religion are significant factors in determining how people feel about the Israel-Gaza war, clearly individuals will make their own judgements as to which party or candidate represents them best.\n\nHendon in north London,which is currently held by the Conservatives,is another marginal constituency with a higher than average Jewish and Muslim population.\n\nLaurence Stein is the kind of swing voter Labour will be hoping to win over at the next election.\n\nIn the past he's voted for both Labour and Conservative and the crisis in the Middle East is the sort of issue that could decide his vote.\n\n\"If you'd asked me this question a few weeks ago, I probably would have said I'd vote Labour,\" he tells me. \"And the reason I would have said that is because I am concerned about the cost of living.\"\n\n\"Because I feel Rishi Sunak has been a really powerful ally of the Jewish people certainly since 7 October, and in truth before then as well, my views are changing and if there was a general election tomorrow, I would vote Conservative.\"\n\nLaurence likes Sir Keir Starmer but says he is leaning towards voting Conservative\n\nUnder Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, the Equality and Human Rights Commission found the Labour Party had been responsible for unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination over antisemitism.\n\nMr Corbyn responded by saying that the scale of antisemitism within Labour had been \"dramatically overstated\" by his opponents. He now sits as an independent MP and is barred from standing as a Labour candidate.\n\nLaurence had been encouraged by Sir Keir Starmer's moves to rid his party of antisemitism, but is now uneasy about the views of some Labour colleagues as they call for a ceasefire.\n\n\"I like Keir Starmer. I think he's been a great ally to the Jewish people as well in this country but I am worried about the people sitting next to him and behind him.\"\n\nWhen asked if there was anything the Labour leader could do to win him back, Laurence is ready with an answer.\n\n\"I think he could go to visit Israel and give his support to the Israeli government.\"\n\nDaniel says Sir Keir Starmer has shown \"solidarity with the Jewish people\"\n\nDaniel Stiassny, another Hendon constituent, says Sir Keir's position has cemented his support among some Jewish voters.\n\nHe says he's voted Conservative at every election since 1992 but Labour has now won his vote.\n\n\"Had Starmer said he's calling for a ceasefire, had Starmer not backed the Jewish community, I think it would have been a disaster for them in terms of the Jewish vote,\" he says.\n\n\"I think Keir Starmer has shown some good solidarity with the Jewish people, some good solidarity with Israel and I hope he can maintain and I am sure they will.\n\n\"There will be some people on the left who will be trying to push him, sway him - but I think he's held his nerve.\"\n\nSir Keir will be hoping that by strengthening his language he can avoid further frontbench resignations and hold together a party that remains significantly ahead in the polls.\n\nBut with both Labour and the Conservatives so far taking a very similar stance on the Israel-Gaza war, there are many who feel their voices are not being heard.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nTyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk will fight for the undisputed heavyweight title on 17 February in Saudi Arabia.\n\nBriton Fury, 35, is the WBC champion with Ukraine's Usyk, 36, holding the WBA, WBO and IBF belts.\n\nThe winner in Riyadh will become the first undisputed heavyweight champion since 1999.\n\nThe bout was scheduled to take place on 23 December but Fury's difficult encounter with Francis Ngannou last month derailed those plans.\n\nInstead on that date, in Riyadh, former heavyweight world champions Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder will fight separate opponents.\n\nShould Joshua overcome Otto Wallin and American Wilder beats former champion Joseph Parker, the pair could fight each other in 2024.\n\nFury has won 34 fights with one draw since turning professional in 2008.\n\nHe has faced criticism for failing to reach terms with Usyk after a proposed bout at London's Wembley Stadium in April fell through.\n\nAn unexpected announcement in September confirmed a deal had been brokered by Turki Alalshikh, of Saudi Arabia's General Entertainment Authority.\n\nFury had been expected to cruise past former MMA champion Ngannou - making his boxing debut - in a non-title fight, but narrowly edged a split-decision success.\n\nThe Morecambe fighter and Usyk came face-to-face following the victory, but after the fight Fury and his co-promoter, Frank Warren, suggested it would be pushed back to 2024.\n\nThe last undisputed heavyweight champion was Briton Lennox Lewis, who beat Evander Holyfield in Las Vegas to defend the WBA, WBC and IBF titles.\n\nNo heavyweight has held all four of the recognised world titles.\n\nThe contest will form part of 'Riyadh Season' - an entertainment events festival held in Saudi Arabia's capital every winter since its launch in 2019 and was kicked off this year by the Fury-Ngannou clash.\n\nA number of high-profile bouts have been held in Saudi in recent years, including Usyk's win over Anthony Joshua in August 2022.\n\nThe Gulf kingdom has been accused of investing in sport and using high-profile events to improve its international reputation.\n\nSaudi Arabia has been criticised for its human rights violations - 81 men were executed on one day last year - women's rights abuses, the criminalisation of homosexuality, the restriction of free speech and the war in Yemen.\n\nIts international standing was severely damaged by the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a US-based Saudi journalist who was a prominent critic of the government.\n\nHuman rights campaigners say sport is being used by the Saudi government to distract from long-standing reputation issues.\n\nFelix Jakens, Amnesty International UK's Head of Priority Campaigns and Individuals at Risk, said in a statement: \"Ever since Anthony Joshua's fight against Andy Ruiz in 2019 we've become used to these big-money bouts being hosted in Saudi Arabia.\n\n\"They are clearly part of a pattern of sportswashing where the Saudi authorities try to use sport to distract from their appalling human rights record.\n\n\"We'd like to see both Tyson Fury or Oleksandr Usyk using their platforms to speak out about human rights issues in Saudi Arabia.\"\n\nHistory will be made on 17 February in Riyadh.\n\nNever has there been a four-belt heavyweight undisputed world champion.\n\nFury and Usyk have sat firmly at the top of the division ever since the Ukrainian dethroned Joshua. The winner will now cement their legacy as the greatest of their generation.\n\nSome fans feel Fury's below-par performance against Ngannou has devalued the undisputed contest. It was worse than a bad day at the office - edging a split decision against a debutant may well be a sackable offence.\n\nThere were calls for a Fury-Ngannou rematch but with mandatory challengers for Usyk's belt waiting in line, the chance for an undisputed bout, with all the belts on the line, may not have come again.\n\nFury will have a point to prove and naysayers to silence, while there are perhaps some question marks about Usyk too.\n\nUp until a few weeks ago, Fury was probably the favourite. Usyk is not considered a natural heavyweight and the thinking was Fury would, quite simply, be too big and too strong.\n\nThe two will come face-to-face at an intriguing news conference in London on Thursday.\n\nHas the Ngannou performance humbled the usually brash Fury? You never quite know how he will act, but you are pretty much guaranteed box-office entertainment from the Gypsy King.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Matheson said the roaming charges were caused by his sons watching football.\n\nHealth Secretary Michael Matheson has admitted an £11,000 data roaming charge on his iPad was caused by his sons watching football.\n\nThe bill was incurred during a family trip to Morocco last year.\n\nThe expense was initially picked up by the Scottish Parliament, which was told by Mr Matheson that the iPad was only used for work.\n\nHe has since paid the money back and said he had referred himself to the parliament for further investigation.\n\nMr Matheson - who was visibly emotional during a statement to parliament - told MSPs he was not aware that other family members had used the device until last Thursday, after the first media reports about the charges emerged.\n\nHe said the iPad itself had not been used by his children but had been used as a hotspot to allow internet access for other devices.\n\nThe health secretary said he did not mention this in his statement on Friday, in which he announced he would pay the bill himself, because he wanted to protect his children.\n\nHe apologised unreservedly to the parliament and said the responsibility for the data usage and iPad was his.\n\nMr Matheson went on holiday with his wife and two sons shortly after Christmas last year.\n\nFirst Minister Humza Yousaf has previously said there was no reason for Mr Matheson to pay the £11,000 bill himself\n\n\"As a parent, I wanted to protect them from being part of the political and media scrutiny associated with this, something I believe any parent would want to do,\" he told MSPs.\n\nHe said he was \"a father first and foremost\", adding that it was wrong not to reference his sons using the iPad data.\n\n\"That was a mistake and I am sorry,\" he continued.\n\n\"I can see now that it just isn't possible to explain the data usage without explaining their role.\"\n\nHe added: \"The simple truth is they watched football matches.\"\n\nMr Matheson said he did not watch the football, nor did he know it was being watched by his sons.\n\nHe told MSPs he had been advised that he could use the iPad as a mobile hotspot and that his son helped to set it up.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament confirmed that Mr Matheson had contacted officials on 28 December about his phone not working in Morocco, but said its records did not \"show any discussion of his iPad\".\n\nOn Monday, the health secretary denied that there had been any personal use of his iPad.\n\nIn his statement to MSPs on Thursday, he said he would refer himself for investigation to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, but would not stand down as health secretary.\n\nThe minister said when he was initially informed about the bill in January, he could not understand why it was so high.\n\nIn the absence of a \"clear explanation\", he said he thought it was appropriate when he agreed in March that he would contribute £3,000 from his office expenses, with the rest to be paid by parliament.\n\nThe data charges, including more than £7,000 on 2 January - when Celtic were playing Rangers - were incurred for using more than 6GB of data on the parliamentary device between 28 December 2022 and 3 January 2023.\n\nA Sim card in the device should have been changed after parliament officials switched a mobile contract from EE to Vodafone in December 2021.\n\nBut Mr Matheson failed to replace the Sim despite being told to do so almost a year before his holiday.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have called for the health secretary to be sacked, and are expected to call a motion of no confidence. The government would be expected to defeat it due to an SNP-Green majority in parliament.\n\nTory leader Douglas Ross said parliament had been misled by Mr Matheson, who initially told Holyrood officials that his expense claim for the iPad data usage was for legitimate parliamentary work.\n\nMr Ross told BBC Scotland News: \"So if it was a legitimate expense, yet he was also saying he didn't know how that data had been accrued, then he misled parliament.\"\n\nHe added: \"If Michael Matheson is a man of integrity, as he says he is, he will resign.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said parents of teenagers would understand the scenario, but \"what people will not understand is the cover-up\".\n\nShe said Mr Matheson had been \"wholly negligent\" not to replace his device's Sim card, and not to keep it secure from being used by others.\n\n\"It is simply unfathomable that Michael Matheson thinks he can keep his job after deceiving the public and parliament over his actions,\" she added.\n\nIt was an emotional statement from Michael Matheson revealing that his sons were using his iPad as a hotspot to stream football.\n\nThat explains how he was able to run up £11,000 in data roaming charges on his family holiday to Morocco over New Year.\n\nIt does not explain the security arrangements for his Holyrood iPad.\n\nNor does it explain how he convinced himself he could have done that volume of constituency work in order to claim it as a legitimate parliamentary expense.\n\nMr Matheson has told us his family only fessed up last Thursday which is why he offered to pay back the full amount the following day.\n\nHowever, he was still denying there had been \"personal\" use of the iPad to reporters on Monday.\n\nMr Matheson has made clear he was trying to protect his family - an instinct many of his MSP colleagues will understand.\n\nThe problem is he has now admitted concealing the truth because he thought that was justified and that could undermine trust in a politician who is supposed to lead the NHS through a difficult winter.\n\nAt First Minister's Questions earlier on Thursday, Humza Yousaf said he had \"absolute confidence\" in Mr Matheson, who he described as a man of \"honesty and integrity\".\n\nMr Yousaf had initially described the £11,000 iPad bill as a \"legitimate parliamentary expense\" and said Mr Matheson should not have to pay it out of his own pocket.\n\nThe health secretary cancelled a planned visit to a Glasgow health centre after parliament published a breakdown of the data usage. A spokesperson said it would be rescheduled for a future date.\n\nTory MSPs had pointed out that the day Mr Matheson was billed £7,346 - on 2 January for using 3.18GB - coincided with an Old Firm football match.\n\nA further £1,320 charge was listed as a separate entry for 2 January. It is not yet known if the fee could relate to a previous day due to a lag effect in the billing system but there is no figure listed for 1 January.\n\nThe next largest fee was on 28 December 2022, when the minster was charged £2,249 for using 1.26GB. A match between Hibernian and Celtic was played that day.\n\nAccording to Netflix, 6GB of data can be used to watch about 36 hours of streaming while on a data-saving mode.\n\nOn the highest possible streaming quality, 6GB would only provide about 120 minutes of streaming, depending on the device and network speed.\n\nThe parliament said that after the bill was received earlier in the year, IT officials checked the iPad to see if it was working. They also examined the mobile data usage, but were only presented with a cumulative total and did not see the browsing history.\n\nThe presiding officer confirmed parliament had ordered a review into its data roaming and mobile devices rules to \"ensure the present situation cannot happen again\".", "Picture of plastic pollution from the lawsuit filing by New York State Attorney General\n\nPepsiCo has been sued by New York state for plastic pollution along the Buffalo River that is allegedly contaminating the water and harming wildlife.\n\nAccording to the lawsuit, PepsiCo is the single largest identifiable contributor to the problem.\n\nPepsiCo's spokesperson has told the BBC that it has been \"transparent in its journey to reduce use of plastic\".\n\nLast week Coca-Cola, Danone and Nestle were accused of making misleading claims about their plastic bottles.\n\nPepsiCo, maker of Pepsi, Doritos and other snacks, is the world's second biggest food company after industry leader Nestle.\n\nThe American giant is the latest major corporation to face a lawsuit by local authorities about its impact on the environment.\n\nThe New York complaint says Pepsi broke state laws by failing to warn the public about the risks from plastic packaging and promoting misleading statements about its effort to combat the pollution.\n\n\"No company is too big to ensure that their products do not damage our environment and public health,\" said Attorney General Letitia James.\n\nAccording to the lawsuit, PepsiCo manufactures, produces, and packages at least 85 different beverage brands and 25 snack food brands that predominantly come in single-use plastic containers.\n\nWhen Ms James's office conducted a survey of all types of waste collected at 13 sites along the Buffalo River last year, it found that PepsiCo's single-use plastic packaging was the most significant.\n\n\"Of the 1,916 pieces of plastic trash collected with an identifiable brand, over 17% were produced by PepsiCo,\" it said.\n\nThe lawsuit said microplastics had been detected in the city of Buffalo's drinking water supply which \"can cause a wide range of adverse health effects, from reproductive dysfunction to inflammation of the intestine and neurotoxic effects\".Pepsi said in a statement that it was \"serious about plastic reduction and effective recycling\".\n\nIt added that this was a \"complex issue\" which required involvement from \"businesses, municipalities, waste-reduction providers, community leaders and consumers\".\n\nNew York state senator Andrew Gounardes told the BBC Pepsi should be designing its packages and products in a way that was not harmful to human health.\n\n\"Based on the allegations that were filed yesterday in the Attorney General's lawsuit, PepsiCo has been advertising itself as a very environmentally conscious company.... And yet, the reality is, according to the Attorney General, they've actually not been decreasing, but increasing their use of plastics,\" he said.\n\n\"But the company has a responsibility if they're going to be an actor in this marketplace. They have to make sure that they products are not going to cause harm to people.\"", "The government is considering whether police need new powers to stop protesters climbing war memorials.\n\nA breakaway group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators scaled the Royal Artillery Memorial in London's Hyde Park Corner on Wednesday night.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said their actions were \"inflammatory\" but did not break any laws.\n\nNo 10 said it was an \"affront\" and that it would look at further measures so officers could take action in future.\n\n\"We will look at what further measures are needed so that the police can have confidence in taking action on this,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said on Thursday.\n\n\"We do believe there are extensive powers available to them but the public will have been shocked and I'm sure appalled by what they saw.\"\n\nProtesters calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict marched outside the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday night.\n\nA group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators were filmed climbing up the Hyde Park Corner monument, which was built to commemorate the thousands of soldiers from the Royal Artillery who were killed in World War One.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said officers were on the scene quickly but \"not quickly enough to prevent the protesters accessing the memorial\".\n\nMet chief Sir Mark said his officers recognised the behaviour to be \"unfortunate\" and \"inflammatory in certain ways\", but not illegal.\n\nSpeaking at an Institute for Government event on Thursday, he said it was for the government to consider whether officers should be given further powers to respond to protests.\n\nAsked about the police response to the incident, he said: \"What the officer didn't do last night was make up a law that it's illegal to do something and do an arrest which would have been illegal, clearly.\n\n\"The officers intervened, as officers often are doing, to try and de-escalate risk of conflict, even when there isn't explicit power to do it.\"\n\nSir Mark refused to be drawn on an article in the Times newspaper written by former Home Secretary Suella Braverman, in which she accused officers of \"playing favourites\" when policing protests.\n\nIn her article, Mrs Braverman accused Met Police of applying a \"double standard\" to its policing of recent pro-Palestinian protests.\n\nShe claimed aggressive right-wing protesters were \"rightly met with a stern response\", while \"pro-Palestinian mobs\" were \"largely ignored\".\n\nJames Cleverly, who replaced Mrs Braverman as home secretary, said he would be examining whether the police needed new powers following Wednesday's protest.\n\n\"These - and the police have said this - are deeply disrespectful actions,\" he told ITV's Good Morning Britain on Thursday.\n\n\"The war memorials recognise the sacrifice people have made for our freedom, and abusing, desecrating behaviour like this is deeply, deeply offensive.\n\n\"I will look at what further measures need to be taken so the police can take action on this.\"\n\nOther measures intended to strengthen police powers to deal with protesters are also reportedly being considered by the government, including lowering the threshold for when police could apply for a ban to stop marches taking place.\n\nProtests have been taking place in London and across the UK to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.\n\nIsrael began air strikes on Gaza following Hamas's attacks on 7 October, in which 1,200 were killed and more than 200 hostages were taken.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says more than 11,500 people have been killed in Gaza since then.", "An image of a hiker who found the ironing board was shared on a Highlands Facebook page\n\nAn ironing board abandoned at the top of Ben Nevis has angered hillwalkers in the Scottish Highlands.\n\nIt was photographed last week resting against the ruined walls of the 19th century Ben Nevis observatory.\n\nIt is not uncommon for household items to be carried to the top of the UK's highest mountain as part of fundraising efforts for charities.\n\nBut the John Muir Trust, which shares responsibility for its management, said the rule is \"leave nothing behind\".\n\nIn April, a former soldier made it to the top of the 1,345m (4,413 ft) peak with a fridge on his back.\n\nAnd in June, a mountain rescuer carried a 100kg (220lb) barbell to raise money for motor neurone disease research.\n\nOther strange items reportedly left on Ben Nevis include a church organ, a toilet seat and a 3ft garden gnome.\n\nBen Nevis is the highest mountain in the UK\n\nThe photograph of the ironing board angered hillwalkers when it was posted on a Highlands Facebook page.\n\nIt is believed those responsible may have been doing \"extreme ironing\" for charity - a craze where people take ironing boards to remote locations.\n\nThe John Muir Trust, which runs volunteer litter picks on Ben Nevis, said the summit \"would start to look like a Home Bargains store\" if all charity walkers left their items behind.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"A lot of people raise money for great causes on Ben Nevis, and we don't want to discourage that.\n\n\"Those unfamiliar with outdoors culture don't always understand the first unwritten rule of the hills, which is leave nothing behind but your boot prints.\"\n• None Here are 10 of the strangest items ever found on the UK's highest mountains The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of people who need support at home face an increased risk of poor care because of low fees paid by the NHS and councils, care companies say.\n\nOnly one UK public authority in 20 pays enough to fund the minimum wage and other staff costs, research suggests.\n\nThis means some companies struggle to find enough staff to support people with complex needs, while others face going under.\n\nCouncil bosses say they \"can't perform miracles\" on overstretched budgets.\n\nThe government says the sector is getting more than £8bn of extra funding over two years.\n\nSocial care, which supports people with tasks such as washing, dressing and medication in their own home, is mostly provided by private or not-for-profit companies and funded by public bodies such as local authorities or NHS trusts.\n\nThe financial pressure the councils and trusts are under means they are paying companies less than the work actually costs, according to the Homecare Association (HA), which represents UK home care providers.\n\nThe funding gap is likely to get worse, as data shared with the BBC by directors of council social care shows that a third of local authorities in England expect to make additional cuts to services in the next few months.\n\nVictoria Pringle, the registered manager at Welcombe Care in Stratford-upon-Avon, says the fees they receive from public bodies are \"really poor\". She says potential staff are choosing higher-paid employment because of the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nTo help balance the books, her company is taking on more private clients who need care, but Ms Pringle says it is becoming harder for companies to stay financially viable.\n\nVictoria Pringle, a manager at a care provider, says potential staff are choosing other careers because of the cost-of-living crisis\n\nThe HA calculates that to ensure workers get the minimum wage - plus to cover travel costs, training, administration, regulation and insurance, with about £1 for profit and reinvestment - an hourly rate of £25.95 should be paid to care providers.\n\nTo measure how this compares with the reality, it asked all 276 UK councils and NHS bodies how much they paid on average for an hour of social homecare for someone aged 65 or over.\n\nIn its report, it found only 14 out of the 276 bodies paid the companies enough to cover wages plus other business-related costs. And 18 paid fees that did not even meet the direct costs of employing a care worker.\n\nThe minimum wage in the UK is £10.42 per hour for people aged over 23. The devolved nations have committed to pay care workers the voluntary \"Real Living Wage\" of £12 per hour, which means their overall fees should be higher.\n\nHA chief executive Jane Townson told the BBC that councils and NHS bodies were \"driving down fee rates; driving down wages [and] driving down quality\".\n\n\"Quality care, a strong workforce, and sustainable services cannot be delivered on the cheap,\" she says.\n\nThe Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) said its latest survey of council care bosses showed \"really tough\" decisions being made.\n\nIt said a third of senior managers had been asked to make £83.7m in cuts in the next few months - in addition to £806m of savings already made this year.\n\n\"Social care leaders and their teams are struggling to find savings and meet people's needs at least minimally,\" said ADASS president, Beverley Tarka. \"But they can't perform miracles from already overstretched budgets.\"\n\nA recent survey suggested that one in 10 local authorities in England feared becoming effectively bankrupt.\n\nCare provider Victoria Pringle says she is \"concerned\" about the quality of care offered when fees are low, adding it is \"really distressing to see how people have been treated\".\n\nMs Pringle said her company recently had to hand over a person's care to an alternative provider that charged the local authority lower fees. She said the new carers had very little understanding of spoken English, so found it very difficult to communicate with the person being cared for.\n\n\"They had no understanding of the correct moving and handling techniques or what equipment was needed. And they had no idea on how to administer medication safely,\" she explains.\n\nMs Pringle says her company was so worried, it raised the new care arrangement as an issue of safeguarding with the local authority.\n\nThe HA is calling for it to become unlawful for public bodies to purchase services at fees that risk employment and care regulations around wages and training not being followed.\n\nGood support in the home can make a huge difference to families. Anne and Ian are both 82 and have been married for more than 50 years.\n\nIan says it would be a \"tragedy\" for him if Anne, his wife of 50 years, was forced into a care home because of a lack of support at home\n\nAnne spent her working life helping others as a nurse, midwife and teacher, but now has severe dementia. Ian does what he can with the help of his son, Craig, who lives two hours away. But they say the support they get from Welcombe has been vital.\n\n\"I can't get here very quickly,\" Craig says. \"I can see the attention and care these people offer Mum and Dad, and so it's a huge source of support and reassurance.\"\n\nAnne's needs are very high, so her care is funded by the NHS. The family say it is regularly being reviewed by the health service, and they worry if funding changes then Anne might be forced into a care home.\n\n\"It would be a disaster. I couldn't bear it, it would be a tragedy,\" Ian says. \"I do everything within my capabilities to keep her here.\"\n\nSince successive governments have delayed reforming the way adult social care is funded, the sector's difficulties are deep-rooted.\n\nIan and his son Craig say home care is a vital source of support for Anne\n\nADASS said an additional £900m was needed now to stabilise adult social care in England. It also called for a fully-funded plan in the longer term, which took into account the true cost of social care.\n\nThe HA estimates just to pay homecare workers a fair wage, an additional £2.08bn would need to be invested annually in the UK's care sector.\n\nImproving pay is seen as essential if staff shortages are to be tackled. There are currently more than 150,000 vacancies in social care in England alone, according to Skills for Care, the body that monitors the workforce.\n\nOverseas recruitment has eased some of the most acute staffing pressures, but there is increasing concern about the exploitation of some new arrivals.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Health and Social Care said it was providing up to £8.1bn of additional funding over two years to support home care, \"putting it on a stronger footing for the future and addressing workforce pressures\".\n\nThe department said it was also reforming the workforce, with a plan to \"boost progression opportunities, and encourage take-up of professional qualifications along with learning and development\".\n\nHave you left your job in care because of low pay? Has your discharge from hospital been affected by a care package? Has your care been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer: Hamas would have the \"infrastructure and capability\" to carry out further attacks if a ceasefire is called.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said he understands calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, but argued it was not the \"correct position\" at the moment.\n\nMore than 60 Labour MPs have called for a ceasefire, but Sir Keir insisted his stance of calling for a humanitarian pause was \"the only credible approach\".\n\nHe said a pause would allow aid to get in to Gaza and for hostages to leave.\n\nHe argued that a ceasefire would leave Hamas's infrastructure intact, enabling them to carry out future attacks.\n\nAddressing an audience in London, the Labour leader had sought to quell the growing tensions in his party over the conflict.\n\nMayors Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar and 15 frontbenchers are among those who have diverged from the official party line on the issue.\n\nAt least 250 councillors have also called for a ceasefire, with around 30 councillors resigning from the party over the leadership's position on the war.\n\nMeanwhile, Andy McDonald has been suspended as a Labour MP, over what the party described as \"deeply offensive\" comments at a pro-Palestinian rally.\n\nFollowing his speech, Sir Keir was repeatedly asked if Labour frontbenchers diverging from the party position would be sacked.\n\nHe said the party was unified on wanting to see an \"alleviation of this awful situation\" and that he would \"engage sensitively\" with his colleagues' concerns, but did not say that they would be disciplined for breaking with the party line.\n\nSir Keir said his approach to the conflict had been driven by a desire to defend Israel's right to defend itself against terrorist attacks and the rights of Palestinians \"caught in the crossfire\".\n\n\"While I understand calls for a ceasefire, at this stage I do not believe that is the correct position now.\n\n\"Hamas would be emboldened and start preparing for future violence immediately.\"\n\nHe said a humanitarian pause was \"the only credible approach that has any chance of achieving what we all want to see in Gaza - the urgent alleviation of Palestinian suffering\".\n\nAsked if he believed Israel was abiding by international law, Sir Keir said that would be decided by lawyers in due course and it would be \"unwise\" for politicians to make premature pronouncements.\n\nAs the Labour leader left Chatham House, where he was giving the speech, his car was mobbed by a group of pro-Palestine demonstrators.\n\nPolice cleared a path for the car as the protestors shouted and drummed on the windows.\n\nPolice officers remove a protester trying to block Sir Keir's car following the speech\n\nBy not backing a full ceasefire, the Labour leader is aligned with the UK government, as well as the US and EU.\n\nCompared to a formal ceasefire, humanitarian pauses tend to last for short periods of time, sometimes just a few hours.\n\nThey are typically implemented purely with the aim of providing humanitarian support, as opposed to achieving long-term political solutions, according to the United Nations.\n\nAs the Labour leader was defending his position, both Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar and London Mayor Sadiq Khan reiterated their calls for a ceasefire.\n\nMr Sarwar also said past comments made by Sir Keir had caused hurt to Muslims and \"any peace loving citizen\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC London, Mr Khan didn't directly criticised his party's leader but said: \"I believe in a de-escalation of the violence not escalation, that's why I'm calling for a ceasefire.\"\n\nMomentum, a left-wing Labour campaign group, dismissed Sir Keir's speech as \"fine words\" adding: \"The truth is is that Starmer's support for more war, more bombing and more Palestinian deaths is wholly out of touch with his own party and the public at large, who overwhelmingly back an immediate ceasefire.\n\n\"Those calls will only get louder.\"\n\nFollowing the speech, former party leader Jeremy Corbyn posted on X: \"I wonder, if the dust ever settles, whether opponents of a ceasefire will look back and reflect on the cost of their inhumanity. We need a ceasefire, now.\"\n\nHuman rights group Amnesty International were also critical, accusing the Labour leader of failing to show \"the clear and principled leadership that this decades-old crisis needs\".\n\nThey said calls for a pause were \"vague and unclear\" and that Sir Keir should instead back an immediate ceasefire.\n\nOn Monday Andy McDonald, a former shadow minister under Jeremy Corbyn, was suspended as a Labour MP over comments he made in a speech at a pro-Palestinian rally.\n\nThe MP for Middlesbrough told protesters on Saturday: \"We will not rest until we have justice. Until all people, Israelis and Palestinians, between the river and the sea, can live in peaceful liberty.\"\n\nHe said his words were intended as \"a heartfelt plea for an end to the killings\" in the region.\n\nBut the phrase \"between the river and the sea\" - which refers to the land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean - is interpreted by some, including Israel and most Jewish groups, as implicitly calling for the destruction of Israel.\n\nThis interpretation is disputed by some pro-Palestinian activists who say that most people chanting it are calling for an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and blockade of Gaza, not the destruction of Israel itself.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said Mr McDonald's comments at the weekend \"were deeply offensive, particularly at a time of rising antisemitism which has left Jewish people fearful for their safety\".\n\nHowever, the suspension has outraged the left, who argue Mr McDonald's words had been misrepresented, as well as the Labour Muslim Network.\n\nBut the bigger danger for Sir Keir is that by doubling down on rejecting calls for a ceasefire, some shadow ministers beyond the left come under pressure from members and communities and decide to resign, sparking a potential chain reaction.\n\nMeanwhile, Conservative MP Paul Bristow has been sacked from his government role as a ministerial aide, after calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.", "The co-founders of Hotel Chocolat will each get £144m after agreeing to sell the British business to Mars.\n\nThe US confectionery giant will pay £534m for the firm that Angus Thirlwell and Peter Harris set up in 1993.\n\nHotel Chocolat said the deal would allow the brand to \"grow further and faster\", including overseas.\n\nThe company has had mixed success with expanding internationally and last year had to shut down its five shops in the US.\n\n\"We know our brand resonates with consumers overseas, but operational supply chain challenges have held us back,\" said chief executive Mr Thirlwell.\n\nThe company is mostly based in the UK with around 124 shops, but has some overseas.\n\nMr Thirlwell said: \"By partnering with Mars, we can grow our international presence much more quickly using their skills, expertise and capabilities.\"\n\nMr Thirlwell and Mr Harris each have a 27% stake in Hotel Chocolat. Mr Thirlwell, who will stay on as chief executive, said that he would invest 80% of the £144m he will make back into the company.\n\nHe added that Mr Harris, who will retire, would also invest some of his windfall in Hotel Chocolat under Mars' ownership but did not say how much.\n\nAngus Thirlwell will stay on as chief executive after Mars buys Hotel Chocolat\n\nHotel Chocolat started by selling its upmarket confectionery online and opened its first shop, in north London, in 2004.\n\nCommenting on whether Mars intended to change Hotel Chocolat's recipes following the takeover, Andrew Clarke, global president of Mars snacking, said there were \"absolutely no plans\" to do that.\n\n\"We've got a real track record here of nurturing, protecting and accelerating brands and actually keeping that entrepreneurial nature at what that brand stands for,\" he said.\n\nThere are also no plans to start selling Mars confectionery in Hotel Chocolat shops.\n\nHotel Chocolat's overseas expansion has been costly and problematic.\n\nIn September last year, it announced the closure of its five shops in the US at a cost of £3.5m, but it continues to sell online, focusing on its Velvetiser hot chocolate-maker.\n\nEarlier this year, it announced a joint venture in Japan with Tokyo's Eat Creator Corporation to set up 21 Hotel Chocolat shops after its first deal fell apart.\n\nIt previously had a partnership with Chris Horobin, the former boss of QVC Japan, to open stores in the country. However, that deal ended and resulted in Hotel Chocolat writing off nearly £22m.\n\nThe company now holds a 20% stake in the joint venture with Eat Creator and will receive royalties from the deal.\n\nCommenting on its past difficulties with expanding internationally, Mr Thirlwell said: \"Building a brand overseas is not a short-term fix.\"\n\nHe said there was \"huge appeal\" for Hotel Chocolat and its products overseas.\n\nBut he went on: \"What we found more difficult and what was going to require more capital and more work was the operational elements of the business, so that includes manufacturing in country, distribution and the behind-the-scenes element that customers don't really see.\n\n\"This tie-up with Mars is actually all about solving that for Hotel Chocolat.\"\n\nThe company also owns an estate in St Lucia, which has a 140-acre farm that produces organic cacao and is where the company operates the Rabot Hotel.\n\nIn its most recent results, Hotel Chocolat disclosed impairment charges on the estate because of \"continued Covid-19 disruption where visitor numbers to the island have not recovered to pre-pandemic levels\".\n\nThe company also has shops in Ireland and Gibraltar.", "Families of the hostages have been active in calling for their release\n\nTheir smiling faces look down from the sides of skyscrapers, walls between Tel Aviv's restaurants and bars and a giant video screen at a shopping mall entrance.\n\nMore than 240 hostages were snatched at gunpoint on 7 October from their homes or workplaces next to the Gaza Strip, from military bases and a big outdoor dance party.\n\nThey included some 30 children, the youngest just nine months old. But since Hamas gunmen spirited them away to Gaza, the fates of most remain unknown.\n\nFor Israelis reeling from last month's bloody massacres, it is an ongoing trauma.\n\n\"This is the last photo we have of my aunt. She was taken on a motorcycle by two terrorists,\" says Eyal Nouri, showing me a picture of Amina Moshe, 72, being driven away from Nir Oz, a kibbutz where she lived for 50 years.\n\n\"No children, no babies, no older women are meant to be part of any conflict. It's something against humanity to kidnap children.\"\n\nMore than 240 people were taken hostage last month\n\nAlthough this is the biggest, over the years, Israel has endured many hostage crises.\n\nDuring the 1980s, the country showed it was ready to pay high prices for its citizens in prisoner swaps with Palestinian and Lebanese armed groups. Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, who later founded Hamas, was freed in one exchange.\n\nEven Israeli soldiers' corpses were traded to give them proper Jewish burials.\n\nThen in 2006, Hamas kidnapped a soldier, 19-year-old Gilad Shalit, in a cross-border raid. His father, Noam, led a painful five-year campaign to bring him home, stressing the \"unwritten contract\" between the state and its conscripts.\n\nBenjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister - then as now - signed off on the biggest ever prisoner exchange for a single soldier. More than a thousand inmates were released including Yahya Sinwar, who went on to lead Hamas in Gaza, and apparently masterminded the 7 October attacks.\n\nA key figure involved in the Shalit deal sees major differences between the circumstances then and now which he thinks will prevent any comprehensive deal being done.\n\n\"We had five years and four months to build trust with Gilad Shalit. [Now], we have days. The future of the hostages will be decided in the coming days,\" says Gershon Baskin, an Israeli peace activist, who led secret backchannel talks with Hamas.\n\nWhat Hamas did, they crossed the line... it's inconceivable that they will continue to be in power in Gaza after this war is over\n\nThe main complication this time, he says, is the scale of atrocities. \"What Hamas did, they crossed the line, where it's inconceivable that they will continue to be in power in Gaza after this war is over,\" Mr Baskin says.\n\n\"So, there's some kind of built in contradiction to trying to negotiate with the people that you intend on killing.\"\n\nEarly on, Qatar did broker the release of an American Israeli mother and daughter and Egypt helped bring out two older Israeli women hostages. However, no bigger agreement has since taken shape.\n\nThis week, the military wing of Hamas said it was ready to free up to 70 women and children held in Gaza in exchange for a five-day ceasefire.\n\nSpeaking to the US network, NBC on Sunday, Mr Netanyahu raised the possibility of a deal. The US President Joe Biden has since said he is engaged in daily discussion to secure the release of the hostages and believes it will happen.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has raised the possibility of a deal\n\nHowever, publicly, Israel has rejected a ceasefire, arguing that Hamas would use it to regroup. It has said it could agree to shorter humanitarian pauses in hostilities.\n\nPolls suggest that position is supported by many Israelis. In the latest survey by the Israeli Democracy Institute, the most common response - from 38% of people - was that Israel should negotiate a prisoner deal but continue fighting. Overall, 70% of respondents did not think the war should stop.\n\n\"In return for the hostages they are ready to give Palestinian prisoners. But the popular view is to say: \"don't stop the fighting,\"\" says Professor Tamar Hartmann who conducted the poll.\n\n\"It's because the cost of stopping the fighting right now might be greater in terms of people's lives, if we stop and the aims of the war will not be achieved.\"\n\nProfessor Tamar Hartmann's poll found that 70% of respondents thought the war should continue\n\nA persistent small group of those polled - about a fifth - refuse any deal making with Hamas. Many Israelis point out how in the past, prisoners - like Yahya Sinwar - who already had blood on their hands were released and went on to plot further deadly attacks.\n\nWith the odds against them, families and supporters of the hostages are coming up with creative ways of raising public pressure.\n\nA huge art installation filling HaBima Square in Tel Aviv features an empty bed for every adult, child and couple missing in Gaza.\n\nEvery Friday on the Jewish sabbath, relatives gather in what is now known as Hostages Square outside the Museum of Art. They set up a giant table with places set for every person missing.\n\nFamilies of hostages are coming up with creative ways to raise public pressure\n\nOn Tuesday, a large crowd began a 40 mile (63 km) march from Tel Aviv to the prime minister's office in Jerusalem to urge their government to take action.\n\nWith each passing day, fears grow for the hostages. Hamas says several dozen have already been killed in Israeli air strikes.\n\nPast experience has taught Israelis that deals can be done but now the intensity of the ongoing war brings a new level of urgency.", "Jess Phillips was one of the 10 MPs to resign their front bench positions\n\nClearly, the Labour rebellion over a ceasefire in Gaza was embarrassing for Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nIt's the biggest parliamentary revolt he's suffered in his three and a half years as Labour leader, which is especially unusual because over that time he has generally tightened his grip over the party.\n\nIf anything, Sir Keir was fortunate that the rebellion took place in such a wild week of political developments, rather than with Westminster's focus solely on the divisions in his ranks.\n\nRegardless, it is likely to provide political ammunition for Rishi Sunak.\n\nWe got a preview of this at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, with Mr Sunak taunting Sir Keir across the despatch box: \"He talks about a changed Labour Party… he can not even make his party do the right thing when it comes to standing by Israel.\"\n\nThat was before the vote. Expect much more of it from Mr Sunak now that more than a quarter of Sir Keir's MPs have defied him.\n\nYet there are reasons Sir Keir might draw consolation and even - some of his allies claim - optimism from the vote and the debates leading up to it.\n\n\"He was very resolute throughout,\" one confidant of the Labour leader said. \"He didn't blink at all.\" This, they argue, will mean attacks from the Conservatives on the issue will fall flat.\n\nDrawing attention to the internal opposition Sir Keir has faced could also draw attention to the political strength he showed in facing it down.\n\nAt the heart of this dispute was Sir Keir's view that a ceasefire would \"freeze\" the conflict as it is and embolden Hamas to carry out more attacks. But Labour strategists also believe the politics is in their favour.\n\nWhile polls have suggested many voters support a ceasefire, some around the Labour leader take the view that diverging from the government on this issue could make foreign policy a more vulnerable area for Labour in the run-up to the general election campaign.\n\nIt is worth stressing, too, that this was not a wider revolt against Sir Keir's leadership. It was confined to one highly-charged issue, with many of those who resigned frontbench roles eager to proclaim their continuing determination to campaign for a Labour government.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did my MP vote For or Against calling for a ceasefire in Gaza? Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nAnd while losing 10 frontbenchers is a problem, it could have been more. Double that number had expressed public unease with Sir Keir's position.\n\nSue Gray, the Labour leader's new chief of staff, was closely involved in the efforts to win some of the frontbenchers round, I'm told.\n\n\"She's got the conflict resolution skills you'd expect from decades at the top of Whitehall. She's much more emotionally intelligent than some of us steeped in the Labour Party,\" one shadow cabinet minister said.\n\nYou'll never catch a Labour MP saying this publicly, but some of them believe that among those who resigned are people who should never have been on the front bench. Their presence, the argument goes, was testament to some in Sir Keir's team being too willing to accommodate the 'soft left' of the Labour Party.\n\nAs a result of last night's vote, there are also no longer any MPs from the Socialist Campaign Group, the organising body for Labour's most left-wing MPs, on the front bench. Of the 56 MPs who defied Sir Keir, 27 are members of this group.\n\nThe Labour leader on a visit to a distillery in Glenrothes the day after the rebellion in his party\n\nThis is one reason why Sir Keir's team have been paying such close attention to whom local parties are selecting as candidates for the general election. Almost none of those chosen in the most winnable constituencies so far are associated with the Labour left.\n\nAnd it's striking that of the 10 Labour MPs who have entered Parliament in by-elections since he became leader, none rebelled. So the Labour ranks could look pretty different after the next election.\n\nOf course, for many of the Labour MPs who did rebel this was not ideological, but about their own consciences and often about pressure from hundreds or even thousands of constituents.\n\nThe clearest example of that is Jess Phillips, who is so far from the Labour left that in 2020 she briefly ran for leader with the support of Rachel Reeves, Pat McFadden and Wes Streeting, all on the right of the party and now leading members of Sir Keir's shadow cabinet.\n\nThose MPs who have spent recent weeks wrestling with the competing forces of party allegiance and constituency anger are, of course, dealing with a question that has faced MPs of all parties for hundreds of years: are they representatives or are they delegates?\n\nOr as one senior Labour MP put it to me just before the vote: \"I have had hundreds of emails from constituents on this and I take them seriously. But I just think they are wrong.\"", "Sir Keir Starmer has said he wants Labour to be \"as united as we can\" after a series of frontbench resignations over the Israel-Gaza war.\n\nTen frontbenchers quit to vote for an SNP motion in the Commons backing a ceasefire, in defiance of Sir Keir's instructions.\n\nHe said he was focused on \"alleviating the situation on the ground\" in Gaza, not \"party management\".\n\nBut he added: \"I want us to move forward as united as we can.\"\n\nThere was \"absolute unity\" across the party about helping people in Gaza, the Labour leader told ITV News.\n\nHe said: \"You wouldn't expect me to stand here today and say my concern is Labour Party management rather than the hostages and the innocent civilians and children that are dying in Gaza.\n\n\"My focus and attention is there, and that's where it is and where it will always be.\"\n\nJess Phillips, Afzal Khan and Yasmin Qureshi were among eight shadow ministers who quit their roles to back an amendment to the King's Speech, tabled by the SNP, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Two parliamentary aides also voted for it.\n\nA Labour motion, tabled by Sir Keir, backed a pause in the conflict instead, to allow in more humanitarian aid. Both were heavily defeated.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said it was \"disappointing\" that Labour MPs had rebelled - but added that those who had left the front bench would be supporting the party from the back benches.\n\nShe said Sir Keir \"wants to act like a prime minister in waiting and that means aligning ourselves with the international community and taking practical steps to get support into Gaza, whilst also putting pressure on Hamas to release the hostages.\"\n\nThe day after the vote, six Labour councillors in Walsall, including the group leader, resigned from the party over its position on Gaza.\n\nIn a letter, they said they felt \"betrayed\" over the party's stance, adding the leadership had \"lost its moral compass\".\n\nSince the beginning of the conflict, at least 56 Labour councillors have left the party over the issue.\n\nSir Keir had signalled before the vote that MPs holding a frontbench role would be sacked if they backed the ceasefire call.\n\nAt least seven Labour frontbenchers who have publicly supported the idea of a ceasefire did not vote for the SNP amendment and kept their roles.\n\nOne of these MPs, Rushanara Ali, the shadow business minister, said she would have resigned if it \"meant the needle would move in the slightest over forcing a ceasefire\".\n\nMs Phillips, who announced she was quitting her role as shadow domestic violence minister ahead of the vote, told the BBC: \"I don't feel like I am rebelling against the Labour Party\".\n\nIn an interview with Radio WM, she said: \"I feel like I am taking a position with my heart, my head and my constituents.\n\n\"There is no animosity between me and Keir Starmer. I will work every single day to ensure a Labour victory and, as I said in my resignation letter, I am incredibly proud of the work the Labour Party is proposing to do in government about the thing I care the most about in politics and that is violence against women and girls.\"\n\nThe vote was on an SNP amendment to a government motion on its plans for the year ahead, presented in the King's Speech last week.\n\nIt called for an end to the \"collective punishment of the Palestinian people\" and urged \"all parties to agree to an immediate ceasefire\".\n\nIt was defeated by 125 votes to 294, with 56 Labour rebels joining other opposition parties against the Conservatives who opposed it.\n\nThere are 29 Labour MPs in the shadow cabinet - none of whom rebelled - but around half of the party's 198 MPs hold some kind of frontbench position, including as whips in charge of party discipline.\n\nLabour, like the Conservative government, the United States and the European Union, is calling for \"humanitarian pauses\" to help aid reach Gaza.\n\nCompared with a formal ceasefire, these pauses tend to last for short periods of time, sometimes just a few hours.\n\nThey are implemented with the aim of providing humanitarian support only, as opposed to achieving long-term political solutions.\n\nLast week, the US said Israel would begin to implement daily four-hour military pauses in areas of northern Gaza.", "Almost half a million women will be able to get the contraceptive pill from pharmacies in England, from next month, without the need for a GP appointment.\n\nTreatments for urinary infections and other common conditions will also be on offer under the Pharmacy First scheme.\n\nNHS England said it was a safe and common-sense way of making NHS services easier for patients to use.\n\nBut one pharmacy group said community outlets were closing at an alarming pace because of a lack of funding.\n\nNew Health and Social Care Secretary Victoria Atkins said the changes meant \"more options for women when making a choice about their preferred contraception\" and would free up GP appointments.\n\nThe plan was first mentioned in May, as part of a primary-care plan for England.\n\nIt will bring England into line with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, where similar services are already offered.\n\nAnd from February, pharmacists who successfully apply to join the scheme will be able to offer advice and treatment, including antibiotics, for seven common conditions:\n\nNHS England said more blood-pressure checks would also be offered, as part of a plan to deliver more than two million by 2025.\n\nIn time, when thousands of pharmacies are signed up to the plan, this could prevent more than 1,000 heart attacks and strokes, it added.\n\nThe aim is that 10 million GP appointments will eventually be freed up every year.\n\nPharmacies are being asked to opt in to the scheme and will be paid an upfront fee of £2,000 followed by payment per consultation. Industry sources expect a large majority to nominate themselves.\n\nThere will be a few which don't take part and in these areas women wanting the contraceptive service and patients needing treatment for common conditions will have to travel to another pharmacy or go to a GP practice.\n\nNHS primary-care medical director and lead GP in England Dr Claire Fuller said she was \"delighted\" people would have new and convenient ways of accessing treatments.\n\n\"Contraception is essential for many women and this is a big step forward in making these services easier for women to access,\" she added.\n\nTase Oputu, who chairs the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's English Pharmacy Board, also welcomed community-pharmacy teams being able to treat the seven common conditions\n\nBut some pharmacists are cautious about the scheme.\n\nAssociation of Independent Multiple Pharmacies chief executive Dr Leyla Hannbeck said it was \"a step in the right direction for patient care\" but would \"very much depend on the level of red tape and whether pharmacists' time was compensated appropriately\".\n\nYears of underfunding and rising inflation meant \"more and more pharmacies are closing their doors for good at a worrying pace in many areas of the country\", she added.\n\nHigh Street chemists say it will be a fast turnaround to train staff and launch the service for consultations early in 2024 when also coping with a growing workload.\n\nDr Hannbeck said: \"We want to do it and will do it - but this will be difficult.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This was a highly emotional statement from the health secretary.\n\nThat may do as much for his position as any of the actual content.\n\nSome sympathy was clearly stirred among opposition members. They understand Mr Matheson’s points about being a father, and wanting to protect his children from the glare of scrutiny.\n\nBut that doesn’t mean their questions are at an end.\n\nThey spy a clear discrepancy between what Mr Matheson just told them, about learning of the other use of the device last Thursday, and the fact he continued to defend his position on Monday.\n\nUltimately though the row could drift over time - the referral to the Holyrood authorities will drag out for months, as would any other standards investigations.\n\nThe Tories have threatened a confidence vote, but the government has the numbers to swat that away.\n\nMr Matheson will be hoping that his emotional statement will prove enough to save his career.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'You cannot imagine how I felt when I heard my children were leaving Gaza'\n\nA Belfast-born man whose wife and other family members were killed in Gaza has told BBC News NI of his happiness after learning that his children will leave the Palestinian territory.\n\nKhalid El-Estal, 30, had appealed for help reuniting with his children after the loss of his family members.\n\nHis four-year-old son Ali and one-year-old daughter Sara are now included on an evacuation list to leave Gaza.\n\nThey are due to enter Egypt via the Rafah crossing in the next day.\n\nThe children are currently situated at the crossing and will travel to Ireland with his brother-in-law, he added.\n\n\"You can't imagine how I felt, I was very happy and excited about that... I was thinking 'what should I bring for the kids?'\n\n\"I hope they will make it, if not today then please tomorrow,\" he said. \"They have a good chance [in Ireland].\"\n\nMr El-Estal was born in Belfast and attended primary school in the Botanic area while his father worked as a lecturer at Queen's University.\n\nWhen he was aged eight, the family relocated to Gaza, where he met his wife, Ashwak Jendia, at university.\n\nHe told BBC News NI it was a \"very long love story\" with his \"beautiful, talented\" wife.\n\nIsrael began striking Gaza after Hamas's 7 October attacks, in which 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 hostages were taken.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 11,500 people have been killed in the territory since 7 October - of whom more than 4,500 were children.\n\nMr El-Estal was working in Saudi Arabia when his wife was killed along with his mother, brother, uncle and two cousins.\n\n\"Everything was going in the right path, we were expecting to come [to Ireland] together,\" he said of his wife. \"Years of love, happiness... all of it is gone.\"\n\nMr El Estal said he is now worried for his father and brothers who remain in the Gaza Strip.\n\n\"My brothers are Irish citizens, they didn't want to come to Ireland because they [didn't] want to leave my father and mother, but now it's different.\n\n\"I'm really hoping they can figure something for my father, because he's not Irish, to join me here... I can't imagine leaving my father alone.\n\n\"How can he face all of this, and I am his eldest son? I should be with him.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Micheál Martin said 23 Irish citizens had crossed into Egypt from Gaza.\n\nHe said it was \"very welcome news\" that some families with children had successfully crossed the Rafah checkpoint.\n\nSpeaking to Irish broadcaster RTÉ, Mr Martin said there is another group of about 40 Irish citizens and dependents due to leave the war zone.\n\nOn Thursday, the tánaiste travelled to southern Israel, following a visit to Egypt on Wednesday.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, Mr Martin said three more Irish citizens have managed to cross into Egypt today, which is a lower number than hoped for, due to \"processing delays\".\n\nHe also said the Israeli foreign minister, Eli Cohen, has assured him that the majority of Irish citizens remaining in Gaza will be able to exit within the next three days.\n\nForeign passport holders are exiting Gaza via the Rafah crossing\n\nOn Wednesday evening, a motion which called for the expulsion of Israel's ambassador to Ireland was rejected in the the Dáil (Irish lower house of parliament).\n\nMeanwhile, in the UK Parliament, MPs voted to reject a call for an immediate ceasefire.\n\nAmong the Northern Ireland's MPs, the SDLP and Alliance voted in favour and four DUP MPs who were present in the chamber voted against the move.\n\nThe DUP also voted against a separate Labour amendment which stopped short of calling for a ceasefire.", "New Home Secretary James Cleverly has told UK police chiefs he will praise them in public and criticise them in private.\n\nMr Cleverly was addressing a major policing conference in London after taking up the role of home secretary this week.\n\nLast week his predecessor, Suella Braverman, wrote an article in The Times accusing officers of \"playing favourites\" when policing protests.\n\nSpeaking at the annual meeting of the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) and the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC), Mr Cleverly said \"I will push you, cajole you.\n\n\"I will back you when you do the right thing, and I want you to know that I will be critical if I think you need to be critical.\n\n\"But I will always attempt to do so professionally, calmly, directly so that we always maintain that professional working relationship.\n\n\"I think you can have a relationship that has challenge, and demands excellence and professionalism, without having to be in a relationship of conflict.\n\n\"The two are not inextricably linked. And that is why, you will know for those of you who have worked with me before, my instinct is always to praise in public, to criticise in private.\"\n\nHe went on to say: \"We have a duty to the British people to work constructively together for their benefit.\"\n\nEarlier Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper told the senior officers that \"the attacks on you by Suella Braverman were a total disgrace\" and warned \"a spiral of disrespect\" cannot be allowed to develop between the government and the police.\n\nMs Cooper also called for a renewal in monitoring Islamophobic and antisemitic hate incidents due to increased tensions over the conflict in Gaza.\n\nShe said there should be a re-examination of the threshold for offences for stirring up hatred too.\n\nCounter-protesters clashed with police in London's Parliament Square during a pro-Palestinian march last weekend\n\nIn her Times article, Mrs Braverman accused London's Metropolitan Police of applying a \"double standard\" to its policing of recent pro-Palestinian protests.\n\nShe claimed aggressive right-wing protesters were \"rightly met with a stern response\", while \"pro-Palestinian mobs\" were \"largely ignored\".\n\nShe claimed there was \"violence around the fringes\" as well as \"highly offensive\" chants, posters and stickers at the protests, which began last month in response to Israel's military action in Gaza.\n\nHer comments were condemned by former police officers and MPs across party lines.\n\nIt later emerged Mrs Braverman had defied a Downing Street request to make changes to the article.", "Margot Robbie was unable to sing the praises of her latest movie, Saltburn, because she lost her voice before its premiere in Los Angeles.\n\nThe actress does not appear in Saltburn, but is one of the film's producers.\n\nLuckily director Emerald Fennell and members of the cast were on hand to do the talking for her.\n\nIt was one of the first major premieres since US actors' union the Screen Actors Guild ended its four-month strike.", "Stephen Port met young men online where he presented a very different version of himself\n\nEight former and current Met Police officers are being investigated for gross misconduct regarding failings in the case of serial killer Stephen Port.\n\nAnthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor were all murdered between 2014 and 2015.\n\nThey were drugged with overdoses of GHB by Port, who dumped their bodies near his flat in Barking, east London.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) will examine alleged breaches of professional standards.\n\nPort, who met his victims online, is serving a whole-life prison term after being convicted in 2016 at an Old Bailey trial.\n\nAfter Port was jailed, the police watchdog took years to decide no officers should be disciplined.\n\nBut that conclusion was upended by inquests into the deaths in 2021, which laid bare multiple Met failures that a jury found contributed to three of the deaths.\n\nBasic errors by a string of detectives left Port free to carry out the three murders, as well as to drug and sexually assault more than a dozen other men.\n\nThe watchdog was forced to reopen its inquiry and, two years on, has announced a new stage of its investigation.\n\nThe inquiry relates to equality and diversity, duties and responsibilities, authority, respect and courtesy, and honesty and integrity.\n\nFive of the eight people under investigation are serving officers.\n\nSisters of Jack Taylor, Donna and Jenny, said in a statement: \"The news today made us feel grateful that someone is finally taking this serious and that our Jack and also Anthony, Gabriel, Daniel and the living victims are now finally being treated as human beings instead of just numbers. Which should have happened from the start.\n\n\"We sat through eight weeks of the trial and eight weeks of the inquest, every single day and we listened to every piece of evidence.\n\n\"We know that Jack should still be here if the officers had done their jobs properly. We live this nightmare every day and we will do for the rest of our lives.\n\n\"Whilst we have been told that this may have amounted to gross misconduct, this does not necessarily mean disciplinary actions will take place.\n\n\"We hope this is the case and people are held accountable for letting people lose their lives.\"\n\nIOPC regional director Steve Noonan said: \"We recognise it has taken some time to reach this stage, but these are complex matters, involving multiple officers and four investigations into unexplained deaths and then the subsequent murder investigation into Port.\n\n\"Though we have found an indication that the behaviour of these eight individuals may have amounted to gross misconduct, this does not necessarily mean disciplinary proceedings will automatically follow.\n\n\"Based on the evidence, at the conclusion of our investigation we will decide whether any officers should face disciplinary proceedings.\"\n\nCdr Jon Savell from the Met Police reiterated the force's \"heartfelt\" apologies for its mistakes in the case.\n\nFamilies of three of Port's victims received compensation from the Met after settling civil claims.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the families of the four men, solicitor Neil Hudgell said they were \"cautiously encouraged\", adding that the latest development was testament to their \"determination and perseverance\".\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Starbucks Workers United said this year's Red Cup walkout would be bigger than in 2022\n\nThe union representing thousands of Starbucks workers in the US is staging a walkout on one of the coffee chain's busiest days of the year.\n\nThe action comes amid a bitter fight between Starbucks and Starbucks Workers United, which started organising workers at the company in 2021.\n\nThe two sides are fighting over pay, scheduling and other issues.\n\nRoughly 200 stores are expected to be affected by the 16 November work stoppage.\n\nBarista Michelle Eisen, one of the union's leaders, said the company could afford to \"do better by its workers\".\n\nThe protest is the second to coincide with Starbucks' 'Red Cup' day, when the company distributes reusable, holiday-themed cups.\n\nIn some locations, the walkout is set to last just a few hours, while in others it is expected to close the branch for most of the day.\n\nThe union said the action was aimed at calling attention to Starbucks' refusal to fairly negotiate contracts with the unionised stores.\n\nMembers are also protesting work conditions, including inadequate staffing on promotional days.\n\nMs Eisen said she expected more customers and community activists to join the action this year in a warning sign for the coffee brand.\n\n\"That's what's going to set this apart,\" she told the BBC. \"That's what should scare the company. Their reputation is everything.\"\n\nStarbucks, which operates roughly 10,000 stores across the US, said it did not expect major disruption.\n\nIt said it had spent hundreds of millions of dollars on higher wages, training and new equipment and it blamed the union for delays in talks, noting successful negotiations at several stores in Canada.\n\n\"Starbucks remains ready to progress in-person negotiations with the unions certified to represent partners,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nSince 2021, workers at about 350 of the company's roughly 10,000 locations in the US have voted to join the union.\n\nStarbucks has fiercely opposed the campaign.\n\nUnion members say it has dragged its feet at the negotiating table and gone so far as to fire workers and shut stores in an effort to stop the movement.\n\nAdministrative law judges in the US have found the company has repeatedly violated labour laws.\n\nStarbucks, which typically appeals the findings, has denied wrongdoing.\n\nLast year, former boss Howard Schultz was forced to appear before Congress to answer for the union's claims.\n\nThe union campaign at Starbucks has been closely watched, and is credited with helping to galvanise workers at other companies.\n\nMs Eisen, who was involved with the first Starbucks store to unionise, said watching other unions win big wage increases at other companies, such as UPS, had been \"bittersweet\".\n\n\"It feels like this campaign really lit a fire under the labour movement in this country and we are still sitting here fighting super hard,\" she said.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nUltra-marathon runner Joasia Zakrzewski has been banned for 12 months by UK Athletics for using a car in a race.\n\nZakrzewski accepted a medal and trophy for finishing third in the 2023 GB Ultras Manchester to Liverpool 50-mile race on 7 April.\n\nTracking information later showed she travelled by car for about 2.5 miles before continuing the race.\n\nZakrzewski claimed she told officials she used a car and finished the race \"in a non-competitive way\".\n\n\"The claimant had collected the trophy at the end of the race, something which she should have not done if she was completing the race on a non-competitive basis,\" said an independent disciplinary panel.\n\n\"She also did not seek to return the trophy in the week following the race.\n\n\"Even if she was suffering from brain fog on the day of the race, she had a week following the race to realise her actions and return the trophy, which she did not do.\n\n\"Finally, she posted about the race on social media, and this did not disclose that she had completed the race on a non-competitive basis.\"\n• None Ultrarunner disqualified for using a car in race\n\nZakrzewski, a 47-year-old GP from Dumfries in Scotland, now lives near Sydney in Australia.\n\nIn February, at the Taipei Ultramarathon in Taiwan, she won the 48-hour race outright - setting what was at the time a world record distance of 255 miles (411.5 km).\n\nRacing for Great Britain in the IAU World 100km Championships, she won individual silver in 2011 and bronze in 2014 and 2015.\n\nShe also represented Team Scotland in the marathon at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.\n\nIn 2020, aged 44, she won a 24-hour event in Australia with a distance of 236.561km.\n\nShe has set a number of records including the Scottish 24-hour record, the British 200k and the Scottish 100 miles record.", "Russia is flooding occupied cities like Melitopol with its flags, currency and propaganda\n\nThe Kremlin has launched a wide-ranging campaign to force Ukrainians in occupied territories to become Russian, an investigation has found.\n\nUkrainians are being denied healthcare and free movement unless they take up Russian citizenship, evidence suggests.\n\nThe European Broadcasting Union (EBU), an alliance of public service media including the BBC, interviewed refugees for the investigation.\n\nThey spoke of relentless pro-Russian propaganda in the occupied lands.\n\nOne refugee from the occupied territories, Larysa, told the EBU's Investigative Journalism Network that one of her friends was not provided with insulin for her diabetes - a key part of treatment - until she applied for a Russian passport.\n\nAnother friend had to become a Russian citizen to have her broken arm treated, Larysa said.\n\nPensions are not provided without Russian passports, food is not provided without Russian passports, and medical services are out of the question\n\nShe also spoke of other types of pressure forcing Ukrainians to assimilate as Russians.\n\n\"Pensions are not provided without Russian passports, food is not provided without Russian passports, and medical services are out of the question. There are lots of checkpoints on the roads. And every time they stop you, they check your documents, and then say they will not let you through without a Russian passport next time.\n\n\"So people have to obtain these papers. Because if someone, say, has cows in one village and sells milk in another, it is impossible to move between villages.\"\n\nLarysa's account of pressure to obtain Russian passports is corroborated by other refugees, such as Lyudmyla (not her real name) from the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia region.\n\n\"When you go to a hospital you need to have a Russian passport. If you do not have a Russian passport, they won't treat you. If you drive your own car and the patrol stops you, and you do not have a Russian passport, they can simply take your car away. So people are forced to obtain them. Retired people are forced to obtain Russian passports to receive pensions. It is a matter of survival.\"\n\nAuthorities are reportedly denying Ukrainians healthcare and freedom of movement, unless they get Russian passports\n\nIn the past, Russia handed passports to residents of the breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and later used them as part of its justification for invading Georgia in 2008.\n\nBut Lyudmyla and her friend Oksana (also not her real name) say the main reason why they left their homes was because their children were being forced to study the Russian school curriculum.\n\n\"We were provoked into leaving by the opening of a Russian school, and we were being forced to go there. They told us that if we did not let our children go there, they would take our children away and deprive us of our parental rights.\n\n\"When you send your children to the school, you must have a Russian passport. If you do not have a Russian passport your child will have problems and you will have problems.\n\n\"What kind of problems? You will be stripped of your parental rights. They will take our children away and that's it - you will be left without children,\" Lyudmyla says.\n\nLyudmyla has relatives still living under Russian occupation and is afraid of being identified\n\nEarlier in 2023, Russia unveiled new schoolbooks which aim to justify its invasion of Ukraine. They falsely portray Ukraine as an aggressive state run by nationalist extremists and manipulated by the West, which allegedly uses the country as a \"battering ram\" against Russia.\n\nOksana says she left also because she was afraid that her 20-year-old son would be drafted into the Russian army and forced to fight Ukrainians.\n\nHistorian Artem Petryk was in the southern city of Kherson when it was occupied by Russians between February and November 2022. He described the Russian authorities' concerted efforts to influence the hearts and minds of the local population.\n\nThey introduced the Russian school curriculum, crucially the history course, and tried to impose Russia's world view\n\n\"From the first days of the occupation, they seized control of television and began broadcasting Russian radio. There was a stream of fakery about Ukraine and the West. It glorified the Russian army and the Russian state.\n\n\"And everywhere in the city they put up billboards with portraits of Russian tsars, commanders, and there were slogans saying that Kherson is a city with a Russian history, Russia is here forever, and so on.\n\n\"They tried to impose the Russian identity through the public space. They marked days of the Russian flag, days of Russia, put up billboards and, of course, tried to establish control over school. They introduced the Russian school curriculum, crucially the history course, and tried to impose Russia's world view,\" Mr Petryk says.\n\nLarysa describes Russification efforts by the occupying authorities as another weapon used by Russia.\n\n\"This is the same as weapons - not the ones which shoot, but moral ones. Sometimes these moral weapons hurt harder than a machine gun. Because machine guns fire once and it's done, but the moral ones oppress you every day. This is very hard,\" Larysa says.", "A vote was passed with an amendment for some special services to go ahead sooner than expected\n\nGay couples will be able to have special services of blessing in Church of England parishes for the first time.\n\nThe services, while not formal weddings, will be able to include the wearing of rings, prayers, confetti and a blessing from the priest.\n\nThe amendment to back the services on a trial basis passed the Church's parliament by one vote.\n\nThe Church of England's official teaching is that marriage is only between one man and one woman.\n\nEarlier this year, bishops refused to back a change in teaching which would have allowed priests to marry same-sex couples, but said they would allow prayers of blessings for people in gay relationships as part of wider services.\n\nIt had been thought approval for standalone services might not come for well over a year from now.\n\nBut Wednesday's vote, which passed narrowly in the General Synod, the Church's legislative body, means distinct services of blessing could now be allowed, rather than simply prayers within a normal church service.\n\nWhile there is no set timeframe for temporary trial services to begin, it is understood these could be authorised in the comings weeks with the first services in the new year.\n\nThe proposal for stand alone services on a trial basis came in an amendment to a motion. The full formal process of authorisation, which will take around two years, will take place while the trial is running.\n\nThe Bishop of Oxford, the Rt Rev Stephen Croft, who has campaigned for a change in the Church's stance, said he was \"delighted\".\n\nNoting the services would not be official weddings, he added: \"I hope there will be a similar joy and affirmation and those that come to receive these prayers will feel fully welcomed into the life of the church.\"\n\nThe Church of England's official position on marriage is at odds with its Anglican equivalent in Scotland - The Scottish Episcopal Church - and the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, which both allow same-sex weddings.\n\nThe Anglican Church in Wales has provided an authorised service of blessing for gay couples but does not allow same-sex weddings in church.\n\nJayne Ozanne, a prominent LGBT campaigner who sits on the Church of England's General Synod, called for the Church to change its position to allow gay couples to marry.\n\n\"The Church of England remains deeply homophobic, whatever bishops and archbishops may say,\" she said.\n\n\"I fear that much of the nation will judge the Church of England as being abusive, hypocritical and unloving - they are, sadly, correct.\"\n\nMeanwhile, conservative clergy described it as a \"watershed\" moment.\n\nRevd Canon John Dunnett, national director of the Church of England Evangelical Council, said he felt \"grieved and saddened\" by the decision.\n\n\"It will tear local parish congregations apart, damage the relationship between large numbers of clergy and their bishops and cause churches across the dioceses to feel as though their shepherds have abandoned them,\" he said.", "Students will receive formulae and equation sheets for maths, physics and combined science GCSE exams\n\nGCSE students in England will get formulae and equations in their maths and science exams under plans to limit the impact of Covid.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) has asked the exams regulator, Ofqual, to extend the extra support for another year.\n\nMost students due to sit exams next summer were in Year 7 when the first national lockdown was introduced.\n\nTeaching unions have welcomed the proposal, which is being consulted on.\n\nThe DfE said it would mean \"enhanced formulae and equation sheets\" for students in maths, physics and combined science GCSEs.\n\nEducation Secretary Gillian Keegan said: \"Young people taking GCSEs next year will be the last who experienced two years of national closures during secondary school and it's right that we recognise that with some additional support.\"\n\nSarah Hannafin, head of policy for school leaders' union NAHT, said there was \"no need for an additional test of memory\" in the exams.\n\nHowever, she said it was \"disappointing that this decision has been made so late on\" in the run-up to pupils taking mocks next month.\n\nThe Association of School and College Leaders also welcomed the consultation, but argued that students should be given the materials \"on a permanent basis\".\n\n\"This would reduce some of the stress of exam preparation and ensure students can focus on core knowledge and skills,\" said Geoff Barton, its general secretary.\n\nExams in England had been due to return to 2019 arrangements this year, until this latest announcement.\n\nThey were cancelled across the UK in 2020 and 2021 and grades were based on teachers' assessments, leading to a spike in top results.\n\nWhen students returned to exam halls in 2022, they were given extra support to reflect the disruption they had experienced as a result of the pandemic.\n\nSome of those measures remained in place for exams in England in 2023. GCSE papers in the same subject were spaced apart more than they were before the pandemic, allowing for rest and revision.\n\nStudents had formulae and equation sheets in some subjects, and were not tested on unfamiliar vocabulary in modern foreign language exams.\n\nBut, unlike in the rest of the UK, GCSE students in England were not given advance information about the topics on which they would be tested.\n\nEngland was also the only nation this summer to bring grades back in line with 2019, with Wales and Northern Ireland planning a slower return to pre-pandemic grading.\n\nAs a result, the drop in pass grades was steepest in England.\n\nLast month, colleges told the BBC they were having to expand class sizes and hire exam halls to cope with a rising number of pupils taking compulsory maths and English GCSE resits.\n\nFollowing the DfE's announcement about formulae in maths and science GCSEs, a Welsh Government spokeswoman said exams in equivalent qualifications in Wales \"include formulae as standard, and this will be continuing.\"", "Aroen Kishen and his wife Seema lived in the property on Channel Close with their children\n\nA sixth person has been confirmed dead in a house fire that killed three children and two adults.\n\nAroen Kishen and his wife Seema lived in Channel Close, Hounslow, with their three children, neighbours said.\n\nIt is believed Mr Kishen is in hospital but his wife and children, Riyan, Shanaya and Arohi, died in the blaze on Sunday night, along with another adult.\n\nThe Met Police said that the body of the sixth person had now been found at the scene.\n\nThe BBC understands that two unnamed adults were visiting the family for Diwali, a festival marked by observants of the Hindu, Sikh and Jain faiths.\n\nDet Ch Insp Garth Hall said: \"I want to express my sincere condolences to all those affected by this terrible incident.\n\n\"The deaths of so many people, including children, is simply heart-breaking.\n\n\"We intend to complete a meticulous investigation into how this tragedy happened.\n\nHe explained that previously the scene had been \"too unstable and dangerous\" to investigate.\n\n\"It was only after the walls were shored up, and the roof removed, that it became safe enough for search teams to enter the premises,\" he said.\n\n\"We understand that family and communities will be looking for answers, but this will be a thorough investigation and we will not rush to any judgement, but follow where the evidence leads.\n\n\"Should there be any change in the nature of this inquiry, we will share that information immediately.\"\n\nPost-mortem examinations and formal identification will take place in due course and the deaths are being treated as unexplained.\n\nThe families of all those concerned have been informed of the development and are being supported, the Met added.\n\nThe burnt-out house with a collapsed roof can be seen on the left\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a six-year-old boy who shot his teacher in the US state of Virginia has been sentenced to 21 months in prison on a drug charge linked to the gun used in the attack.\n\nDeja Taylor, 26, pleaded guilty in June to using cannabis while owning a firearm. She still faces sentencing on a state charge of felony child neglect.\n\nHer son brought the gun to school on 6 January in Newport News and shot teacher Abby Zwerner, injuring her.\n\nAfter the shooting, investigators found roughly 1oz (28g) of cannabis in Taylor's home.\n\nWhile the drug is legal in many states, including Virginia, it is illegal to own a gun and be an active drug user.\n\nTaylor reportedly wiped away tears in court as Judge Mark Davis handed down the full term requested by prosecutors on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"This case cries out for imprisonment,\" he said.\n\nTeacher Abby Zwerner said she has needed multiple surgeries since the shooting\n\nOne of Taylor's attorneys read a brief statement from their client, in which she said she would feel remorse \"for the rest of my life\".\n\nMs Zwerner read aloud a victim-impact statement at the hearing, talking about the physical and emotional toll the shooting had taken on her, according to the Associated Press news agency.\n\n\"I have nightmares of gore, blood and death - always involving a firearm,\" she told the court.\n\nShe added that she had to have five surgeries to regain motion in her left hand and has suffered both emotionally and financially since the incident.\n\n\"I feel as if I've lost my purpose - I loved children,\" she said, according to the Associated Press. \"I contend daily with deep emotional scars.\"\n\nTaylor faces a separate hearing in December on the child neglect charge.\n\nIn June, she negotiated a guilty plea in a federal court in Newport News, a military shipbuilding city.\n\nTaylor was convicted on two counts: using marijuana while owning a gun and lying about her drug use on a federal form.\n\nHer attorneys had asked for home confinement and probation. They have argued that Taylor needs therapy for mental health issues, including schizoaffective disorder, and treatment for marijuana addiction.\n\nMs Zwerner, who was shot in the hand and upper chest and spent two weeks in hospital, has filed a lawsuit against the Virginia school board.\n\nShe said Richneck Elementary School was aware of the child's \"history of random violence\", which she alleged was repeatedly ignored.\n\nEarlier this month the school board lost a bid to dismiss the lawsuit, where they argued that her injuries fell exclusively under workers' compensation.\n\nThe child, now aged seven, told police he obtained the firearm by mounting a drawer to reach his mom's handbag on top of a dresser, where the handgun was kept.\n\nInvestigators also said they found evidence of frequent drug use in her text messages and paraphernalia around Taylor's home.\n\nThe federal charge of using drugs while owning a firearm is relatively rare and has faced multiple court challenges for infringing upon constitutional rights to gun ownership.\n\nPresident Joe Biden's son Hunter has been charged with violating the same law.", "Ch Insp Graham Dodds said the amount of road deaths is \"tragic and horrifying\"\n\nA cross-border police operation is aiming to tackle a rise in the number of road deaths on the island of Ireland this year.\n\nThere have been 166 road deaths in the Republic of Ireland and 57 in Northern Ireland so far in 2023.\n\nThat is up from 132 and 45 deaths in the same period last year.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and An Garda Síochána conducted a joint checkpoint at the Derry-Donegal border.\n\nGardaí (Irish police) said the operation, at Bridgend, County Donegal, was the first of its kind between the two police forces.\n\nCh Insp Graham Dodds, head of PSNI road policing, told BBC News NI the joint operation was all about deterring and detecting speeding.\n\nThe initiative is part of National Slow Down Day\n\nHe said it was \"tragic and horrifying\" that there have been 57 road deaths in Northern Ireland so far this year.\n\n\"That's 57 homes destroyed, 57 communities affected, workplaces or schools who will never be the same.\"\n\nTo date, 33 people have died on roads in border counties such as Cavan/Monaghan (12), Donegal (nine), Sligo/Leitrim (five) and Louth (seven).\n\nThe initiative is part of National Slow Down Day and it aims to remind drivers of the dangers of speeding.\n\nGarda Supt David Kelly says the joint operation is all about reducing the number of road deaths\n\nGarda Supt David Kelly said the joint approach from both the PSNI and An Garda Síochána was a first for the island of Ireland.\n\n\"We are working together to try and save lives on the roads,\" he said.\n\n\"There have been too many road traffic collisions, sadly involving fatalities, on the roads this year and we are trying to reduce that.\n\n\"By working together on an all-island basis we feel we can achieve more and that's what we are doing here today and it's a first for both organisations.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Anna Skochilenko says she fears for her sister Sasha's life\n\nA Russian anti-war activist has been sentenced to seven years in a penal colony for replacing supermarket pricing labels with anti-war messages.\n\nSasha Skochilenko, 33, an artist from St Petersburg, has been in detention since April last year.\n\nShe was convicted of spreading \"false information\" about the Russian army.\n\nHer lawyers pleaded for her acquittal, saying that chronic illnesses she suffers from mean she is at risk of dying in prison.\n\nWeeks after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ms Skochilenko protested by replacing supermarket labels in a St Petersburg supermarket with anti-war messages, a small act called for by a feminist collective.\n\nThe replacement labels read: \"The Russian army bombed an art school in Mariupol. Around 400 people were hiding inside,\" and: \"My great grandfather did not fight in WWII for four years so that Russia could become a fascist state and attack Ukraine.\"\n\nSasha Skochilenko replaced pricing labels with anti-war messages (seen here in English translation)\n\nIn her closing statement, the artist struck a defiant tone, asking the court: \"How little faith does our prosecutor have in our state and society if he thinks that our statehood and public security can be ruined by five small pieces of paper?\"\n\n\"Say what you want - I was wrong, or I was brainwashed,\" she said. \"I will stand by my opinion and my truth.\"\n\nSkochilenko was convicted of \"discrediting the Russian army\" under repressive laws adopted in the wake of the invasion.\n\nThe trial lasted a year and a half, apparently because it was one of the first to be brought under the new laws.\n\n\"At first, the investigation took a long time. Prosecutors needed to find some evidence somewhere,\" said her lawyer Yana Nepovinnova.\n\nSasha Skochilenko's sister Anna told the BBC that her sibling was \"a symbol of everything the [Russian] authorities hate\".\n\n\"She is artistic, fragile, lesbian, has a Ukrainian surname,\" Anna Skochilenko said.\n\nShe said she was terrified that her sister's chronic health conditions meant there was a risk of her dying in prison. Skochilenko has been diagnosed with coeliac disease as well as a heart defect that causes her heart to stop beating for two to three seconds.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has overseen an unprecedented crackdown on domestic opposition in parallel with the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The laws used to convict Ms Skochilenko have been used to target scores of critics of his rule.\n\nLast month, journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who protested against the invasion of Ukraine live on state TV, was convicted to 8.5 years in jail in absentia.\n\nIn April, British-Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years for his criticism of the war.", "Convicted murderer Ronald Evans has been jailed for sexually assaulting a woman\n\nA convicted murderer, dubbed the 'Clifton Rapist', has been jailed for four years for sexually assaulting a woman while out on licence.\n\nRon Evans, 82, befriended the woman at a community centre in Wembley, London, and assaulted her after inviting her to his flat in July 2022.\n\nHe was found guilty on Monday and sentenced at the Old Bailey earlier.\n\nEvans spent more than 50 years in jail for murdering Kathleen Heathcote in 1964 and multiple Bristol sex attacks.\n\nOne of Britain's longest-serving prisoners, he was released by the parole board in 2018 and moved to London a year later.\n\nEvans had been volunteering at the community centre where he met the woman he would go on to assault, the court was told.\n\nWhen she phoned him the following day to confront him he told her \"this kind of talk will get me in trouble,\" before hanging up.\n\nJudge Vanessa Francis said it would be for the parole board to decide when it was safe to release Evans.\n\nShe told him: \"The sheer length of time you remained in custody speaks volumes as to the parole board's view of the risk you posed.\n\nRon Evans committed a series of sexual offences in Bristol in the 1970s\n\n\"It is apparent from your actions towards (the victim) that time has done nothing to change the fact you are a sexual predator.\n\n\"You sought out a new victim that was vulnerable who you knew you could manipulate.\"\n\nShe described the defendant, who appeared by video link from Pentonville jail, as \"intelligent and manipulative\".\n\nThe judge also ordered the victim to be paid compensation.\n\nThe court was told how the victim had become involved with the community centre after suffering from domestic violence and the effects of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nBut prosecutor Lauren Sales said that as a result of the sexual assault, the victim had stopped visiting the centre and suffered \"ongoing trauma\".\n\nEarlier in mitigation, Afzal Anwar had suggested that Evans had been helping people in the community in a \"positive way\".\n\nBut the judge told Evans: \"It is apparent to me that you manipulated (her) obvious vulnerabilities and cultivated her friendship so when the chance presented itself you could pursue sexual contact.\"\n\nEvans was given the name the Clifton Rapist after committing a string of sex attacks in Bristol during the 1970s\n\nPragati Patel, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"Ron Evans presented himself as a harmless pensioner volunteering in his local community.\n\n\"But in reality, and despite his age, he was still very much a deviant sexual predator waiting for his next opportunity.\n\n\"The prosecution case included strong witness testimony and we were also able to tell the jury about some of Evans' previous predatory behaviour towards women through bad character evidence made admissible in court.\"\n\nEvans was found not guilty of two counts of sexual assault in relation to another complainant in the trial at Harrow Crown Court.\n\nAt the age of 22 Evans was convicted of the sexually motivated murder of Ms Heathcote, a 21-year-old shop worker who went missing in Nottinghamshire in 1964.\n\nHe was jailed for life but served only 11 years before being released on licence in 1975 and moved to Bristol where he went on to commit a series of sex attacks which he was convicted of and jailed for a further 39 years.\n\nBetween 1977 to 1979 seven women were sexually assaulted in the Clifton, Redland and Westbury Park areas of the city.\n\nAfter mounting public pressure, Avon and Somerset Police launched an undercover operation in January 1979, which had young female officers and male officers setting 'honeytraps' for the attacker.\n\nIn March that year, police officer Michelle Leonard was grabbed by a man who told her \"Don't scream or I'll kill you\".\n\nHer assailant turned out to be Evans, who went on to admit five attacks.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Australian actress Debicki, who plays Princess Diana, has also appeared in Tenet, The Great Gatsby and Guardians of the Galaxy\n\nThe first four episodes of the final series of Netflix's The Crown have split critics, but many have given it the thumbs down.\n\nSeason six of the royal drama depicts the events of the late 1990s, including Princess Diana's death.\n\nIt also covers the aftermath of her death in which 'ghost Diana' appears to Prince Charles and the Queen.\n\nIn a one-star review, the Guardian said the \"Diana-obsessed series is the very definition of bad writing\".\n\n\"Beyond all its formal failures, late-period Crown is also impossibly hamstrung by being set well within living memory. Even if there were anything to engage with, the memories and consequent questions that crowd into the viewer's mind at every stage would make it impossible,\" wrote Lucy Mangan.\n\n\"It started teetering in season three, lost its balance entirely over the next two and is now plummeting into the abyss.\"\n\nShe added that this was \"despite the uniformly brilliant performances from the entire cast\".\n\nPrincess Diana began a relationship with Egyptian film producer, Dodi Fayed, after her divorce from Prince Charles\n\nAnita Singh of The Telegraph echoed the Guardian, writing that the \"Netflix jewel hits a dead end\" as the new season is \"haunted by Princess Diana's bizarre ghost\".\n\nHer two-star review notes that the use of Diana's ghost \"on the plane home from Paris to comfort a distraught Prince of Wales, and on the sofa at Balmoral to give the Queen some friendly PR advice\", ends up sounding \"like desperation on the part of writer Peter Morgan\" who created the hugely popular show which has been running since 2016.\n\nSingh also criticised the handling of the the car crash scene, writing: \"The chaos of Diana and Dodi's final day in Paris is conveyed but there are no scenes inside the Pont d'Alma tunnel: we cut from the sound of the crash to the phone ringing at Balmoral. All dialogue in which someone breaks the news of Diana's death has been dubbed out; their mouths move in silence, and we focus on the reactions.\n\n\"Why do this? If it's for reasons of taste, why have the camera capture the bewildered face of Harry as he mouths the word \"no\"? Good taste would mean leaving this scene to our imagination.\"\n\nBBC Culture's two star review described the final season is a \"clumsy, predictable end to the royal family drama\" and while it has been a \"joy to watch over the years, too often in these predictable last seasons... we could have written the story ourselves.\"\n\nDespite a four-star review from The Times, Carol Midgley noted that Diana's ghost \"wasn't the show's finest hour\" and was \"peculiarly self-defeating in an otherwise powerful and moving opening four-episode suite\".\n\nHowever, the review goes on to praise Elizabeth Debicki's performance as Diana, calling it \"outstanding\".\n\n\"The empathy with which she portrays the last eight weeks of Diana's life and the likeness to Diana is extraordinary, that flirty cocking of the head, a slightly lost, lonely soul who ends up in various swimsuits in the gaudy Hello! mag environs of Mohamed Al Fayed's yacht.\"\n\nFflyn Edwards (left) and Rufus Kampa play Princes Harry and William respectively in the first part of the sixth season\n\nVariety's Aramide Tinubu also picks up on Diana and Dodi's relationship, writing: \"Morgan doesn't offer a whirlwind romance but a depiction of a comforting friendship that had only started to blossom and was exacerbated by public perception and familial obligation.\"\n\nHe adds that the new season has helped the show \"reclaim its glittering throne\".\n\nEmpire's four-star review also praises the new season, saying: \"This is the most emotional The Crown has ever been, using a mix of tears, real-life footage and 'ghosts' to grieve for the Princess all over again. However you feel about these ghosts - which include Dodi as well as Diana - episode four remains an unforgettable hour that elevates the season as a whole.\"\n\nNew images show Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana and Khalid Abdalla as Dodi Fayed sitting in a car\n\nThe new season covers the media frenzy around Diana and Dodi's (Khalid Abdalla) relationship, culminating in the paparazzi chase that caused the car they were both in to crash in a tunnel in Paris. Both died on 31 August 1997 along with the car's driver Henri Paul, who was found, along with the paparazzi, to be \"grossly negligent\" at the inquest.\n\nThe series also portrays the immediate events following the fatal car accident, including reactions and responses from the Queen and Al Fayed and Prince William trying to integrate back into life at Eton following his mother's death.\n\nSpeaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival earlier this year, producers said the subject of Diana's death has been treated \"sensitively\".\n\nHowever, Time Magazine's Judy Berman wrote that the new season is \"weirdly audacious\" as it is \"milking the mystery of Diana's last days - as well as, unfortunately, her imagined afterlife - for manufactured poignancy. Like the tragedy on which it fixates, it's a wreck on a scale that the show has never seen before.\"\n\nThe Financial Times's three-star review described those scenes as \"indicative of a series lacking inspiration; all too happy to take emotive shortcuts which externalise the complexity of the royals' shock and grief\".\n\nHow Prince Charles broke the news of Diana's death to his sons is covered in the new season\n\nThe show has also been met with criticism over historical inaccuracies.\n\nKelly Swaby, a royal historian, told the BBC: \"As a historian it sometimes makes me want to cry.\n\n\"Viewers often expect a certain degree of accuracy with the show because the production quality is so high, but we don't always get that.\"\n\nMs Swaby said The Crown will have taken \"artistic licence\" on how sensitive events are depicted, not least because \"no-one knows what happened in private events\" such as how Prince Charles broke the news of Diana's death to his sons.\n\nNetflix previously said the show \"has always been presented as a drama based on historical events\".\n\nA two-star review from the Independent notes the show \"routinely privileges gossip over emotional resonance: highly speculative conversations between Diana and Dodi are included - and drive the plot\".\n\nNick Hilton adds that the \"tabloid tone relegates Staunton's Queen to a side character, while Lesley Manville's Princess Margaret slips by entirely unnoticed.\"\n\nImelda Staunton reprises her role as Queen Elizabeth II, who has previously also been played by Claire Foy and Olivia Colman\n\nThe Hollywood Reporter's Daniel Feinberg also criticises the portrayal of other characters, writing that the third episode specifically \"becomes a rather brutal hatchet job on Dodi, presented as a spineless man-child, and father Mohamed Al-Fayed (Salim Daw), who becomes a scheming Machiavellian stereotype that has no resemblance to the sympathetic and nuanced version of the character we met in season five.\"\n\nSalim Daw as Mohamed Al Fayed, who died earlier this year aged 94\n\nThe remaining six episodes of the new season will be released on 14 December.\n\nThe second half of the final season, released in December, will cover events including the Queen's Golden Jubilee, Prince Charles and Camilla's wedding and the courtship of William and Kate - now the Prince and Princess of Wales - at the University of St Andrews.\n\nThe second part of the final season will cover the courtship of William and Kate\n\nPrinces William and Harry will be played by Ed McVey and Luther Ford respectively in the second half of the season. Kate Middleton will be played by Meg Bellamy.\n\nIt is the first major role for all three of the young actors.", "Iceland has some \"ingenious ways\" to fight lava, says Dr Roberts, but he concedes \"nature always wins if the eruption is long enough\"\n\nIceland's south-western peninsula could face decades of volcanic instability, warns the Icelandic Met Office (IMO).\n\nEarthquakes and fears of an impending eruption have led to the evacuation of the small fishing town of Grindavik.\n\nAfter an 800-year hiatus, eruptions on the Reykjanes Peninsula began again in 2021, which may mark a new \"eruptive cycle\", the IMO's Matthew Roberts says.\n\n\"We expect to see volcanic eruptions along the peninsula, not just repeatedly in the same location.\"\n\nThis instability, he adds, could last decades.\n\nHuge cracks have appeared on the roads of Grindavik, as the fishing town continues to sink every day\n\nDr Roberts, who is a managing director in the IMO's Reykjavik headquarters, takes us into a room where staff are intensely monitoring seismic activity 24 hours a day.\n\nLast Friday, the team were shocked to realise magma was coursing into the ground, fracturing rock over a distance of 15km (nine miles).\n\nIt cut beneath Grindavik \"almost like an underground freight train\", says Dr Roberts. A phenomenon unknown in modern times.\n\nThe order was quickly given to evacuate, and soon after stark images began emerging of severely cracked roads and damaged houses following repeated earthquakes.\n\nThe town will continue to subside, Dr Roberts says, exacerbating damage to buildings and roads.\n\nThe western part of Grindavik has sunk by more than a metre (3.3ft) since last Friday, and continues to do so at a rate of about 4cm (1.6in) a day.\n\nThe situation is being monitored by IMO experts 24 hours a day\n\nA colour map shows the recent levels to which land has collapsed and in one area the situation remains \"highly volatile\", with an eruption likely within days or weeks.\n\nIf there is an eruption, there could be significant damage to local infrastructure and a release of toxic fumes.\n\nFascinatingly, aerial photographs suggest that the magma is running underneath a previous, centuries-old, visible fissure.\n\n\"The magma intrusion is exploiting this exact same location again,\" says Dr Roberts.\n\nIceland is very used to volcanic activity because it sits over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The Eurasian and North American plates are pulling apart from each other, a few centimetres each year.\n\nBut this kind of evacuation of an entire community has not happened in 50 years.\n\nIn 1973, a fissure started spouting molten red lava on Heimaey, the largest of Iceland's Westman Islands.\n\nCurrently, within the Reykjanes Peninsula, it is estimated that the magma is now sitting about 800m (0.5 miles) beneath the surface.\n\nResidents may have to wait for weeks, at least, before it is clear whether they can return to the area.\n\n\"We're not expecting an explosive eruption,\" says Dr Roberts, although that is not necessarily a good thing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA low-intensity eruption could mean lava pouring from a series of fissures over weeks and weeks.\n\n\"If that were to occur there would be lava flow to the south - possibly towards Grindavik - and also possibly north and westwards\" towards the Svartsengi power station and Blue Lagoon, says Dr Roberts.\n\nContingency plans include protective barriers - known as \"levees\" - which are being built near the geothermal plant while the famous Blue Lagoon spa remains closed.\n\nIceland has all sorts of ingenious ways to fight lava, says Dr Roberts, but \"nature always wins if the eruption is long enough\".", "Benefit claimants who fail to find work for more than 18 months will have to undertake work experience placements, under rules planned for late next year.\n\nIf they refuse they will lose access to their benefits for a period, the government says.\n\nBut the charity Mind said the use of sanctions would worsen peoples' mental health.\n\nIt is part of new plans to get people back to work, which will also see an extra £2.5bn spent on career support.\n\nUnder a plan that would need parliamentary approval, those solely eligible for the standard Universal Credit allowance who refuse to engage with job centre staff or accept work offered to them after six months will have their claims closed.\n\nThat means they will have to go through the application process again if they want to keep receiving benefits and lose access to extras such as free prescriptions and legal aid during that time.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour pledged to invest an extra £1.1bn to cut NHS waiting lists to help get people back to work.\n\nAccording to the Treasury, the number of people not seeking work has risen sharply since the pandemic, hurting the economy.\n\nIt said there were 300,000 people who had been registered as unemployed for over a year in the three months to July.\n\nBut Vicki Nash from mental health charity Mind said: \"The increase in the use of sanctions is deeply worrying. Evidence has repeatedly shown they don't work and make people's mental health worse\".\n\nShe added that changes to sick notes will also make it tougher to be signed off from work and could mean people don't get the time they need to recover.\n\n\"Poverty and mental health problems form a vicious cycle that need to be tackled by every part of government working together. Today's announcements look like they have come from departments working on different planets,\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile, the number \"inactive\" due to long-term sickness or disability had risen by almost half a million since the pandemic to a record 2.6 million.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt said that many of these people wanted to work and that \"with almost a million vacancies in the jobs market the opportunities are there\".\n\n\"These changes mean there's help and support for everyone [to find work] - but for those who refuse it, there are consequences too,\" he added.\n\n\"Anyone choosing to coast on the hard work of taxpayers will lose their benefits.\"\n\nUnder its Back to Work plan - which is part of next week's Autumn Statement - the government says it will expand and reform existing career help schemes for people with disabilities, health conditions or the long-term unemployed, as well as launch new ones.\n\nIt will also put additional staff in job centres to help claimants struggling to find work.\n\nHowever, it said there would be stricter sanctions for \"people who should be looking for work but are not\".\n\nUnder the current sanctions regime, such claimants only have a deduction applied to their benefits until they re-comply with their requirement to meet with a work coach and establish a personalised job-seeking plan.\n\nMinisters said the new rules would not apply to additional payments for child, housing or disability support.\n\nFrom late 2024 mandatory work placement trials will also be rolled out for people unemployed longer than 18 months, and benefits will be removed from those who refuse to take part.\n\nDigital tools will also be used to \"track\" attendance at job fairs and interviews under the tougher sanctions regime.\n\nThe Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Mel Stride, said: \"Our message is clear: if you are fit, if you refuse to work, if you are taking taxpayers for a ride - we will take your benefits away.\"\n\nBut Liberal Democrat's Treasurer Sarah Olney said the government seemed more interested in \"penalising people than helping them get back into work.\"\n\nSeparately, Labour has unveiled its own back to work plan with a focus on cutting NHS waiting lists. Since January waiting lists have risen by 500,000 to a record 7.8 million, it says.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told the BBC: \"Labour have committed to getting rid of the non-dom status. If you make your home in Britain you should pay your taxes here and under Labour you will.\n\n\"We will put that money into creating every year an additional two million appointments, scans and operations in our National Health Service so that we can get those waiting lists down, get people the treatment they need, and get them in many cases back into work.\"", "Perry, Aniston and Schwimmer pictured in one of their last shows in 2003\n\nFriends actors Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow have paid tribute to their co-star Matthew Perry following his death last month.\n\nSchwimmer, who played Ross in the US TV sitcom, shared a picture on Instagram of himself alongside Perry as Chandler.\n\n\"Thank you for 10 incredible years of laughter and creativity,\" he wrote.\n\nAniston, who played Rachel, posted a clip of her and Perry from the sitcom and wrote: \"We loved him deeply. He was such a part of our DNA.\"\n\nKudrow, who was Phoebe in the sitcom that ran on NBC from 1994 to 2004, wrote in an Instagram post: \"Thank you for making me laugh so hard at something you said, that my muscles ached, and tears poured down my face EVERY DAY.\"\n\nPerry, 54, was found unresponsive in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home at the end of October.\n\nPerry and his Friends co-stars at the People's Choice Awards in 1995\n\n\"Having to say goodbye to our Matty has been an insane wave of emotions that I've never experienced before,\" Aniston wrote on Wednesday.\n\n\"He made all of us laugh. And laugh hard. In the last couple weeks, I've been poring over our texts to one another. Laughing and crying then laughing again.\n\n\"Matty, I love you so much and I know you are now completely at peace and out of any pain.\"\n\nIn his message, Schwimmer wrote: \"I will never forget your impeccable comic timing and delivery. You could take a straight line of dialogue and bend it to your will, resulting in something so entirely original and unexpectedly funny it still astonishes.\n\n\"And you had heart. Which you were generous with, and shared with us, so we could create a family out of six strangers.\"\n\nAnd Kudrow posted a photo of herself and Perry, thanking him \"for the best 10 years a person gets to have\".\n\nMatt LeBlanc (centre) said his times with Perry were \"honestly among the favourite times of my life\"\n\nThe comments by Schwimmer, Aniston and Kudrow come a day after fellow co-stars Courtney Cox and Matt LeBlanc also paid tribute to Perry.\n\nCox, who played his on-screen wife Monica, said she was \"so grateful for every moment they worked together\".\n\nLeBlanc, who starred as flatmate Joey, shared pictures of him on set with Perry and wrote on Instagram: \"The times we had together are honestly among the favourite times of my life.\"\n\nThe cast of Friends had previously issued a joint statement saying they were \"utterly devastated\" by the loss of their fellow star.\n\nHis post-mortem examination was inconclusive, while officials await the results of toxicology tests.\n\nAfter his death, a new foundation was set up in his name to continue his commitment to \"helping others struggling with the disease of addiction\" following his public battles with alcohol and drugs.", "At least 26 people have died after a fire tore through an office building in northern China, state media report.\n\nThe fire at the four-storey building in Luliang City, Shanxi province broke out at around 07:00 local time on Thursday (23:00 GMT Wednesday).\n\nOf the dozens evacuated from the Yongju Coal Industry Joint Building, 63 people were taken to hospital.\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping has instructed that \"hidden risks\" in key industries be investigated.\n\nMr Xi, who is currently in San Francisco for the Apec summit, also told authorities to safeguard people's lives and property, as well as social stability, Global Times reported.\n\nState media earlier reported that the fire was under control.\n\nVideo posted on Chinese social media platform Weibo by the state-run Beijing Youth Daily showed flames and thick smoke coming out of the building.\n\nThe blaze broke out in a province that is the country's largest producer of coal.\n\nIndustrial accidents including fires often occur in China due to lax enforcement of safety standards.\n\nIn April, 29 people died in a hospital fire in the capital, Beijing, sparking public anger as many questioned the lack of reporting on the incident and why the relatives of patients were not informed earlier.\n\nLast October, an explosion at a barbecue restaurant in north-western Yinchuan province killed 31 people.", "The Israeli military has raided Gaza's main hospital in what it describes as a \"targeted operation against Hamas\".\n\nAn eyewitness at Al-Shifa hospital told the BBC that troops moved in overnight and were interrogating people.\n\nOn Wednesday, Israel said it found Hamas' \"operational centre\" at the hospital, sharing images of what it said were Hamas weapons and equipment.\n\nHamas denies operating there and the BBC cannot independently verify claims by either side.\n\nUN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said he was \"appalled\" by the Israeli raid, while the World Health Organization (WHO) said it was \"extremely worried\" for patients and staff, with whom it had lost contact.\n\nThe BBC has been speaking to a journalist and a doctor inside the hospital to find out what is happening there, while the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has also been providing updates.\n\nKhader, a journalist inside Al-Shifa, told the BBC's Rushdi Abualouf that Israeli troops were in \"complete control\" of the hospital and no shooting was taking place.\n\nHe said six tanks and about 100 commandos entered the complex during the night. The Israeli forces then went room to room, questioning staff and patients.\n\nThe IDF reportedly asked all men aged 16-40 to leave the hospital buildings, except the surgical and emergency departments, and go to the hospital courtyard.\n\nSoldiers fired into the air to force those remaining inside to come out, Khader said.\n\nHowever Muhammad Zaqout, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry's director of hospitals, told Al Jazeera that \"not a single bullet\" had been fired - because \"there are no resistors or detainees\" inside.\n\nEarly on Wednesday, the IDF said its forces were in the midst of a \"precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area\" in the hospital.\n\nIt said the raid was \"based on intelligence information and an operational necessity\", calling for the surrender of \"all Hamas terrorists\" present there.\n\nAs the soldiers entered the hospital complex, they engaged with a number Hamas members and killed them, the IDF said.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the IDF said troops found \"an operational command centre, weapons, and technological assets\" belonging to Hamas inside the MRI building.\n\nIt said it was \"continuing to operate in the hospital complex\", sharing images and videos showing what it said were Hamas weapons.\n\nIn a seven-minute video, IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus pointed to security cameras that he said had been covered over, and weapons that he said were AK47 rifles hidden behind MRI scanners.\n\nThe BBC has not yet been able to verify the video or its location.\n\nBut unless Israel has more to reveal, the military's controversial operation inside the hospital did not net a major arsenal of weapons, reports the BBC's Orla Guerin in Jerusalem.\n\nHamas knew Israel was coming, and therefore, if they were operating beneath the hospital, they would have had weeks to clear out through Gaza's extensive tunnel network, our correspondent adds.\n\nIsrael's Army Radio reported that troops had not yet found any sign of any of the 240 hostages taken by Hamas during the 7 October attack on Israel, when 1,200 other people were killed.\n\nThe raid on Al-Shifa came shortly after the US publicly backed Israeli claims that Hamas had infrastructure underneath the hospital.\n\nHowever Dr Ahmed Mokhallalati, a plastic surgeon at Al-Shifa, told the BBC there were only civilians in the hospital.\n\nHe said there were tunnels under every building in Gaza, including Al-Shifa hospital.\n\nAccording to international humanitarian law, hospitals are specially protected facilities.\n\nThis means that parties to conflicts cannot attack hospitals, or prevent them performing their medical functions. They can lose their protection if they are used by a party to the conflict to commit an \"act harmful to the enemy\".\n\nThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says this could be something like a hospital being used as a base from which to launch an attack, as a shelter for able-bodied fighters, or to shield a military objective from attack.\n\nThe IDF said it had repeatedly warned Hamas its \"continued military use of Al-Shifa jeopardises its protected status\", calling for the evacuation of the hospital before the raid.\n\nThe WHO had warned that evacuating patients would be a \"death sentence\", given that the medical system was collapsing.\n\nDr Mokhallalati told the BBC on Wednesday the hospital was without power, oxygen and water. On Tuesday, surgeries had been carried out without proper anaesthesia, with patients \"screaming in pain\". Doctors were unable to help one patient with burns, and had to just \"let him die\".\n\nBabies trapped inside Al-Shifa hospital, in an image issued by medical staff\n\nDr Mokhallalati said six premature babies had died in recent days.\n\n\"Why can't they be evacuated,\" he said. \"In Afghanistan, they evacuated the cats and dogs.\"\n\nThe IDF said it was providing incubators, baby food and medical supplies.", "The Prince of Wales has been put on the spot when visiting a youth project in a city when a boy asked him how much was in his bank account.\n\nPrince William was in Manchester's Moss Side to learn about how the Manchester Peace Together Alliance is trying to tackle youth violence.\n\nAmir Hassan, 11, made the prince laugh with his financial inquiry during the visit to the Hideaway Youth Project.\n\nThe boy said afterwards the future king had quipped he did not know the answer.\n\nThe prince was joined by Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham after the prince's Royal Foundation and the politician's office donated £50,000 each to bolster the work of the Manchester Peace Together Alliance.\n\nThe funding will be used to create an employment, skills and training programme for young people at risk of violence.\n\nThe prince met volunteers and young people benefitting from the youth projects\n\nPrince William met some mothers who had lost children to violence, including Audrey Preston, 57, whose 21-year-old son was killed three years ago.\n\nShe said: \"I think it's important he came into Moss Side to listen to our stories. When I was told he was coming I thought 'wow, why would he want to come and listen to me?'.\n\n\"Lots of kids get murdered in this area and nobody cares really about the families, we're just left to our own devices, so it's good he came, good for the community.\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales looks at Jessie's Wall, a memorial built in tribute of Jessie James who was shot dead\n\nThe Hideaway Youth Project is a lead partner in the Manchester Peace Together Alliance\n\nThe prince also visited Jessie's Wall, a memorial built in tribute of Jessie James, a teenager who was shot dead in 2006 in a park in Moss Side.\n\nLater, he visited the Moss Side Millennium Powerhouse, a community hub with sports facilities and a library.\n\nThe Prince of Wales receives a t-shirt during his visit to the Moss Side Millennium Powerhouse\n\nHe brought with him his own donation to the food bank, a basket of food of cultural importance to Jamaicans, but sometimes hard to buy in the UK, including okra, yams and dragon fruit.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police say the tree was felled in a deliberate act of vandalism\n\nA 16-year-old boy who was arrested and bailed in connection with the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree will \"face no further action\", police said.\n\nNorthumbria Police is investigating the attack on the landmark, beside Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, and said the teenager had been released.\n\nTwo men in their 30s and a man in his 60s were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and are on police bail.\n\nPolice said the tree was \"deliberately\" felled overnight on 27-28 September.\n\nDet Ch Insp Rebecca Fenney-Menzies said the force was \"committed to establishing the full circumstances\" and bringing \"any offenders to justice\".\n\n\"We completely recognise the feeling of loss in the community and further afield following the deliberate felling of [the Sycamore Gap tree],\" she said.\n\nShe asked members of the public to continue coming forward with information, since this \"could prove vital\" to police inquiries.\n\nEarlier this month, experts said they were looking at repair options after they found part of Hadrian's Wall had suffered damage where the tree was felled.\n\nFollow BBC North East on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gracie Spinks, 23, was murdered by a former colleague who was \"obsessed\" with her\n\nA police force has said it failed a woman who was stabbed to death by a former colleague who had stalked her.\n\nDerbyshire Police has apologised to the family of Gracie Spinks, after a jury at her inquest concluded she was unlawfully killed.\n\nMichael Sellers murdered the 23-year-old in Duckmanton in Derbyshire on 18 June 2021 after she went to look after her horse. Sellers then killed himself.\n\nSeveral months before her death, Miss Spinks had made a report to police about Sellers being \"obsessed\" with her and waiting for her near to the same field where she died.\n\nTwo dog walkers also found a bag of weapons belonging to Sellers, but police did not investigate the bag and instead treated it as \"found property\".\n\nSpeaking after the jury gave its conclusion, Det Supt Darren De'ath said: \"During the inquest it has been clear that there were significant failures throughout both Gracie's report of stalking and the way in which the finding of the bag of weapons was dealt with.\n\n\"Put simply, as a force we failed Gracie - and for that I can only offer my own, and the force's, most sincere apologies.\"\n\nThe 10 members of the jury wore pink and purple wristbands in Miss Spinks's memory.\n\nReferring to Sellers as \"the supervisor\", the foreman said: \"It was the supervisor that killed Gracie.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn their findings, the jury listed a number of failings by police, but said they could not conclude that these contributed to Miss Spinks's death.\n\nIn response, the family's solicitor Sajad Chaudhury said: \"The family's opinion is that their failings did [contribute]. However, we respect the decision of the jury and the court.\"\n\nSpeaking outside Chesterfield Coroner's Court, Miss Spinks's father Richard Spinks said: \"Derbyshire Police let Gracie down, let us down and we hope that they do not let anyone else down.\n\n\"They do need to change how they operate from the top to the bottom.\"\n\nSpeaking before the inquest ended, he said: \"They just seemed to want to get the job done, deal with the bag or deal with the complaint and shelve it and forget about it. There was no investigation.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) previously found five police officers had a case to answer for misconduct.\n\nThe police constable and sergeant who dealt with Miss Spinks's report about Sellers both had disciplinary meetings held by Derbyshire Police in November 2022.\n\nHowever, the allegations were found not proven.\n\nThe two police constables who dealt with the bag of weapons also had disciplinary meetings in November 2022.\n\nThey were found to have breached standards of police professional behaviour for duties and responsibilities, and both received written warnings.\n\nNo action could be taken against the sergeant who supervised the two constables, because he retired.\n\nThe IOPC said the three officers all \"told us they did not think the contents of the bag were concerning\", and one remarked the items had the hallmarks of \"a kid's game\".\n\nMatthew Kewley, assistant coroner for Derby and Derbyshire, has said he will issue a prevention of future death report to the chief constable of Derbyshire Police, which will include his matters of concern and will ask the force to take action.\n\nHe said he would also issue his report at a national level, due to his concern about there being an absence of stalking advocates at other police forces.\n\nMiss Spinks had complained to e-commerce firm Xbite about supervisor Michael Sellers\n\nThe inquest has heard Miss Spinks met Sellers when she started working at Xbite, an e-commerce firm based in Chesterfield, while furloughed from her job as a swimming instructor in April 2020.\n\nSellers had been working there since 2015 and had previously given unwanted attention to seven other female colleagues, but Miss Spinks was not aware of this.\n\nIn their findings, the jurors said Miss Spinks and Sellers \"shared a brief friendship which was not romantic\".\n\nThey said Miss Spinks had then \"gently ended that friendship\" on 16 December 2020.\n\n\"The supervisor did not accept Gracie's decision,\" the jury said.\n\n\"He continued to contact her and abused his position at work by asking others to spy on her.\"\n\nAnna White reported the bag of weapons to police, saying she was particularly concerned about the note inside\n\nOn 4 January 2021, Sellers parked in a layby near to where she kept her horse Paddy, which had \"distressed and upset\" her, according to the jury.\n\nShe told Xbite, which suspended Sellers and conducted a formal investigation, which resulted in him being dismissed.\n\nThe jurors noted her report was initially \"marked as a real and immediate risk\", and an investigation was undertaken.\n\nThis resulted in a \"verbal conversation\" with both Miss Spinks and Sellers, and \"the stalking case was closed down as low risk,\" the jurors said.\n\nMiss Spinks was murdered after going to look after her horse Paddy at stables in Duckmanton\n\nThe police failings listed by jurors, described by them as \"serious\", included the following:\n\nThe IOPC investigation highlighted several \"failings and missed investigative opportunities\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "During their meeting Xi told Biden to \"stop arming Taiwan\" and that the US should \"reflect its position of not supporting 'Taiwan independence' in concrete actions\", according to a Chinese government readout.\n\nHe also asked for US support of China's \"peaceful reunification\" with Taiwan.\n\nTaiwan, which counts the US as its biggest ally, is a self-governed island that China claims as its own. It's been a huge sticking point for both sides.\n\nOne bugbear for China is what it sees as conflicting messages from the US.\n\nThe US has stuck to the One China policy, the diplomatic acknowledgement there is only one Chinese government which is Beijing. Biden reiterated this in his press conference just now. But it has also been arming Taiwan to its teeth, especially in recent months.\n\nFor decades the US has operated under \"strategic ambiguity\", where they are deliberately unclear about whether they would defend Taiwan in the event of an attack. But Biden has on several occasions said the US would go to Taiwan's military aid, only for officials to later row back on his statements.\n\nIt's also worth remembering that China has been sending its own conflicting messages.\n\nIt has long insisted that it wants \"peaceful reunification\". Most experts do not believe that China, at this moment, wants to invade Taiwan, even though some in US intelligence and military believe otherwise.\n\nYet, China has been ramping up its military presence in the South China Sea and its warplanes have been buzzing round Taiwan on an unprecedented basis. Beijing says it is defending its sovereignty claims in the area, but many see it as grey zone warfare designed to wear down Taiwan's defences.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nStadium 974 was a temporary venue made for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar \"Inaction\" by Qatar and Fifa on workers' rights is \"tainting the legacy\" of the 2022 World Cup, according to Amnesty International. Almost a year since the tournament began, the human rights group claims progress has \"largely stalled\". It says \"remedy and justice for hundreds of thousands of workers who suffered abuses linked to the tournament remain elusive\". In a new report titled 'A Legacy in Jeopardy', the organisation concludes that reforms have been \"weakly-enforced\" with abuses \"still continuing\". However, Qatar's government responded by insisting that the World Cup \"accelerated labour reforms, creating a significant and lasting tournament legacy\". Fifa said it was \"undeniable that significant progress has taken place\", but accepted that \"heightened efforts are needed to ensure the reforms benefit all workers in the country\". Controversy over the human cost of building the infrastructure required for the 2022 tournament in the gulf state's extreme summer heat has hung over the event for years. In 2021 it was revealed that 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka had died in Qatar since it won its bid to host the World Cup in 2010. However, the Qatari government said not all the deaths recorded were of people working on World Cup-related projects, and that many could have died from old age or other natural causes. Before the tournament, authorities claimed there had only been three 'work-related' deaths on actual stadium construction sites since work began in 2014. But during the event, organisers said the number of migrant workers who died on World Cup-related projects was \"between 400 and 500\". Qatar had introduced labour reforms from 2017, with more protection for workers, a minimum wage, and the dismantling of the controversial 'kafala' sponsorship system, but there have been long-standing concerns over the implementation of the changes. Despite pressure from campaigners and European football associations, as well as generating a record £6bn from the World Cup, Fifa resisted calls for a compensation fund for the families of workers who had died, instead setting up a 'legacy fund' directed at education. Amid calls for the creation of a Migrant Worker Centre in Doha, Fifa President Gianni Infantino announced plans for a permanent office for the International Labour Organization - a UN agency. 'Too little has been done', Amnesty says Amnesty acknowledges that it has learned from migrant workers that most can now leave the country freely, and noted advances in the enforcement of laws related to working in heat. But it said that \"beyond this, [workers] painted a bleak picture of lost momentum and continued exploitation\". \"Qatar's continued failure to properly enforce or strengthen its pre-World Cup labour reforms puts any potential legacy for workers in serious peril\", said Steve Cockburn, Amnesty International's Head of Economic Social Justice. \"From illegal recruitment fees to unpaid wages, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers lost their money, health and even their lives while Fifa and Qatar tried to deflect and deny responsibility\" he added. \"A year on from the tournament, too little has been done to right all these wrongs, but the workers who made the 2022 World Cup possible must not be forgotten.\" Amnesty said details of the promised tournament legacy fund \"remain vague\", and that while workers no longer legally require a 'no-objection certificate' from employers to change jobs, in practice many must still secure some form of permission. It added that \"huge barriers remain\" for workers trying to access remedy through the justice system. Fifa told BBC Sport it was conducting an independent assessment on \"whether additional steps would be recommended in view of further strengthening the tournament's legacy for migrant workers.\" \"International experts and trade union representatives […] have repeatedly recognised that major steps forward have occurred in the labour rights sphere\" it said. \"It is undeniable that significant progress has taken place, and it is equally clear that the enforcement of such transformative reforms takes time and that heightened efforts are needed to ensure the reforms benefit all workers in the country.\" In a statement, the Qatari government told the BBC: \"The World Cup accelerated labour reforms in Qatar, creating a significant and lasting tournament legacy. \"Qatar now leads the region on workers' rights and labour reforms, setting an example for other countries on how a system can be successfully overhauled. \"The region's first non-discriminatory minimum wage, 97% of all salaries protected through the Wage Protection System, the removal of barriers to change jobs, a simplified complaints mechanism and easier access to justice, stricter enforcement including a crackdown on the payment of illegal recruitment fees, increased awareness of workers' rights, region-leading health and safety standards on-site and in accommodations, and regular health screenings to identify underlying conditions. \"One year on from the World Cup, Qatar's commitment to labour reform remains as strong as ever as we strive to establish a world-leading labour system.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Fontaine Hospital Center is a community clinic in the impoverished Port-au-Prince shantytown of Cite Soleil (file image)\n\nA hospital in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, has been evacuated by police after nearby gang violence.\n\nMore than 100 patients - nearly half of them children - had to be removed from the Fontaine Hospital Center, according to its director Jose Ulysse.\n\nThe hospital is in the large shantytown of Cite Soleil, where there have been reports of unrest in recent days following the death of a gang leader.\n\nHaiti is currently in the grip of unprecedented levels of lawlessness.\n\n\"There was a gang war, but the war is around the hospital,\" Mr Ulysse told AFP news agency, clarifying an earlier report that gangs had entered the hospital and taken people hostage.\n\nHe said houses around the hospital had been set on fire and that while some people had been able to flee the facility on their own, others - including a woman who had given birth by Caesarean section a day earlier - needed the help of the local authorities.\n\n\"We were able to get everyone to safety,\" Mr Ulysse added.\n\nA source in Port-au-Prince told the BBC's Mexico, Central America and Cuba Correspondent, Will Grant, that the situation at the hospital had \"escalated very quickly\".\n\nIt came a day after powerful gang leader Iskar Andrice was killed in Cite Soleil - raising fears that there could be a further spike in violence in the area.\n\nGangs have taken increasing control of Port-au-Prince since the assassination of the country's president in 2021 threw Haiti into a political crisis.\n\nThousands of Haitians have fled their homes in the capital, while more than 2,400 others have been killed, according to the latest figures from the UN.\n\nKenya has said it will send 1,000 police officers to Haiti to help restore order - a move that has been backed by the UN.", "Ms Ventura says she met the rapper in 2005\n\nRap mogul Sean \"Diddy\" Combs has been accused of rape and sex trafficking by R&B artist Casandra \"Cassie\" Ventura.\n\nIn a lawsuit seen by the BBC, Ms Ventura said she was trapped for a decade by Mr Combs, her-ex-boyfriend, in a cycle of abuse and violence.\n\nThe rapper and record executive - who also goes by the stage name Puff Daddy - denies the allegations, accusing the singer of trying to extort him.\n\nHis lawyer said the claims were \"offensive and outrageous\".\n\nMs Ventura alleges that the rap producer raped and beat her over 10 years starting when she was 19 and he was 37.\n\n\"After years in silence and darkness, I am finally ready to tell my story,\" she said in a statement on Thursday.\n\nThe lawsuit includes multiple graphic descriptions of the violent abuse that she says occurred beginning after she met the rapper in 2005.\n\nAccording to the complaint, Mr Combs signed her to his record label, Bad Boy, and \"plied the vulnerable Ms Ventura with drugs and alcohol, causing her to fall into dangerous addictions that controlled her life\".\n\nDiddy's lawyer said the lawsuit was outrageous lies\n\nThe lawsuit labels the musician a \"serial domestic abuser, who would regularly beat and kick Ms Ventura, leaving black eyes, bruises, and blood\".\n\nIn her statement, Ms Ventura said she was ready \"to speak up on behalf of myself and for the benefit of other women who face violence and abuse in their relationships\".\n\nIn a statement to BBC News, Mr Combs' lawyer said Ms Ventura had demanded $30m (£24m) \"under the threat of writing a damaging book about their relationship\".\n\nHis lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said the alleged demand \"was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail\".\n\nSean Combs and Cassie at a 2006 music awards in Copenhagen, Denmark\n\n\"Ms Ventura has now resorted to filing a lawsuit riddled with baseless and outrageous lies, aiming to tarnish Mr Combs' reputation, and seeking a pay day,\" he added.\n\nIn response to Mr Brafman, Ms Ventura's lawyer, Doug Wigdor, said Mr Combs had offered her a payment of \"eight figures to silence her and prevent the filing of this lawsuit\".\n\n\"She rejected his efforts and decided to give a voice to all woman who suffer in silence,\" he said.\n\nHer lawsuit also alleges that the music mogul told her he planned to \"blow up\" a car owned by rapper Kid Cudi. Mr Combs had become jealous that Ms Ventura was in a relationship with the rapper, according to the legal action.\n\nShe says he told her of his plan during Paris Fashion Week in 2012.\n\n\"Mr Combs told Ms Ventura that he was going to blow up Kid Cudi's car,\" the complaint says, \"and that he wanted to ensure that Kid Cudi was home with his friends when it happened. Around that time, Kid Cudi's car exploded in his driveway.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Kid Cudi told the New York Times that Ms Ventura's account was true.\n\nBut New York police said in a statement on Friday that no investigation had yet been opened into any of the allegations.\n\nMs Ventura released several hits in the 2000s, including songs that featured Diddy.\n\nHer most famous tracks include Me & U, Long Way to Go and Official Girl, featuring Lil Wayne.", "Rich Moore's body was found in the San Juan mountains.\n\nA dog who was found alive beside her owner's dead body 10 weeks after they went missing in the Colorado mountains survived by hunting small animals, rescuers said.\n\nRich Moore, 71, with his Jack Russell terrier, Finney, had set out to climb Blackhead Peak on 19 August, but never returned home.\n\nMr Moore's body was found on 30 October, with Finney by his side.\n\nRescuers said it was a \"magnificent story of survival\".\n\nDelinda VanneBrightyn, of the volunteer group Taos Search and Rescue, said rescuers carried out an unsuccessful days-long search of the steep western side of the mountain between where Mr Moore's car was parked and the peak.\n\nWeeks later a hunter found Mr Moore's body in the San Juan Mountains - about 1.5 miles (2.5km) east of the peak - with Finney still alive but weighing about six pounds, about half her original body weight.\n\nA recovery crew was flown in the next day. Finney was taken to a veterinarian and is now with Mr Moore's family.\n\nThe Associated Press quoted Ms VanneBrightyn as saying that Finney somehow survived, probably by hunting small animals such as mice while also managing to avoid predators like mountain lions, coyotes and bears.\n\n\"Jack Russells are pretty fierce, I have to say, they're tough little dogs,\" she said, adding that Finney's \"magnificent story of survival\" is a testament to her dedication and loyalty to her owner.\n\n\"We are very glad... that Finney was returned to the family because they have lost their loved one, but they still have this wonderful, loyal dog,\" Ms VanneBrightyn said.\n\nArchuleta County Coroner Brad Hunt ruled that Mr Moore had died of hypothermia, which can cause people to become disorientated and confused.\n\nFrom the starting point, the hike to Blackhead Peak gains 2,150ft (650m) in elevation.\n\nFriends of Mr Moore told Outside Magazine that he was an experienced hiker and that he had hiked to Blackhead Peak before with a friend.\n\nMr Moore's wife, Dana Holby, told the magazine that Finney was very attached to her husband.\n\nMs Holby was in Montana visiting her sick sister when Mr Moore told her over the phone that he planned to hike to the peak with Finney, and she told him not to go alone.\n\nShe also told the magazine she was shocked to discover that Finney had survived for 10 weeks in the wilderness, and that she and her son wept when they collected the dog from the animal hospital.", "Paul Pelosi was seriously injured in the attack\n\nA man who attacked the husband of former US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been found guilty by a jury in San Francisco.\n\nDavid DePape was convicted of assault and attempted kidnapping of a federal official.\n\nThe attack left Paul Pelosi, 83, in hospital for six days with a fractured skull and other injuries.\n\nDePape, who tearfully apologised for the attack in testimony on Tuesday, now faces up to 50 years in prison.\n\nHe was convicted on Thursday after a week-long trial at the Phillip Burton Federal Courthouse in central San Francisco.\n\nAs the unanimous verdict was read, he kept his eyes down, fidgeting with his fingers.\n\nVideo evidence shows the attacker, a Canadian citizen who has lived in the US for 20 years, breaking into the Pelosi home in San Francisco with a hammer on 28 October last year.\n\nOnce inside, he asked for Mrs Pelosi, who was not home at the time.\n\nDavid DePape, seen here in a 2013 file photo\n\nOfficers responding to a 911 call from Mr Pelosi found both men gripping a hammer.\n\nWhen asked to drop the weapon, DePape abruptly swung the weapon at Mr Pelosi before being subdued by officers.\n\nThe entire encounter was caught on body camera footage, which was played in court.\n\nOne of the witnesses, an FBI special agent, testified that the video showed the attacker striking Mr Pelosi three times.\n\nIn his own testimony, Mr Pelosi told the court that during the attack, DePape said his intention was to \"take out\" Mrs Pelosi, referring to her as \"the leader of the pack\".\n\nIn addition to a fractured skull, Mr Pelosi suffered injuries to his arm and hand.\n\nDePape's court-appointed lawyer Jodi Linker argued that, while her client did attack Mr Pelosi, he did so because he believed in right-wing conspiracy theories with \"every ounce of his being\".\n\nMs Linker said DePape blamed what he saw as America's demise on corrupt elites using their status to spread lies, including facilitating the sexual abuse of children.\n\nShe argued that DePape was motivated by these conspiracies instead of Mrs Pelosi's government position.\n\nProsecutors, however, argued that DePape was looking for Mrs Pelosi as part of a \"plan of violence\".\n\nWhen he was arrested, he had zip ties and duct tape in his possession.\n\nHe also told investigators after the incident that he had a \"target list\" and planned to hold Mrs Pelosi captive and break \"her kneecaps\" if she did not reveal \"the truth\".\n\nOn Monday, Mr Pelosi recalled waking up to find DePape \"standing in the doorway\".\n\n\"It was a tremendous shock, looking at him, looking at the hammer and the ties,\" he added. \"I recognised I was in serious danger. I tried to stay as calm as possible.\"\n\nAt the time of the attack, Mrs Pelosi was House Speaker, a role second in line to the US presidency.\n\nDePape now faces up to 20 years in prison for the attempted kidnapping charge, as well as an additional 30 years for assault on a federal official's family member.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe is also facing separate state charges stemming from the incident, including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and residential burglary.\n\nHe could face life in prison if convicted of the more serious state charges. He has pleaded not guilty.\n\nA statement from Mrs Pelosi's office following Thursday's verdict said her husband had \"demonstrated extraordinary composure and courage on the night of the attack a year ago and in the courtroom this week\".\n\nMr Pelosi \"continues to make progress in his recovery\", the statement said, adding that no further comment would be made given the ongoing state proceedings.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nikki Girvan from Newry had a heart attack when she was 45\n\nA woman who survived a heart attack aged 45 has said it was a wake-up call to lose weight and make lifestyle changes.\n\nWithin weeks of having a stent inserted, Nikki Girvan from Newry, County Down, was also diagnosed with blood cancer.\n\n\"At that point, I began thinking of my own mortality and that I could have died,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, 27% of adults are obese, according to official figures.\n\nThe Public Health Agency says a further 38% of adults are overweight.\n\nIt is a startling figure, Dr Nicola Johnston, a consultant cardiologist at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, told BBC News NI.\n\nAccording to Chest, Heart and Stroke NI (NICHS), women in Northern Ireland are twice as likely to die from heart disease than breast, cervical, endometrial and cervical cancers combined.\n\nBut Dr Johnston said heart attacks were under-recognised in women.\n\nNikki Girvan before she made drastic lifestyle changes\n\nIn June 2019, on a return train from Dublin, Nikki became unwell and her colleagues phoned an ambulance to meet her in Newry.\n\n\"I was sweating profusely, having trouble breathing and had pain down my left arm,\" she said.\n\n\"I knew something was seriously wrong. I was blue-lighted to Daisy Hill Hospital then transferred to Craigavon Area Hospital for heart surgery.\"\n\nDespite a heart attack and blood cancer diagnosis, it took another few months for Nikki to ask for help.\n\n\"During Covid, and after the first lockdown, my weight spiralled out of control with eating and drinking and no exercise,\" she said.\n\n\"Then I thought: 'My goodness, look at yourself, you really need to do something about this.' But it was difficult, as when the mood is low you tend to overeat and drink.\n\n\"I'd become socially reclusive, I couldn't find anything to fit me, and I didn't want to go out.\"\n\nBut she turned her life around, making healthier food and drink choices, and exercise became \"my thing\", with the support of a personal trainer.\n\nShe said that, eventually, thinking about her health issues \"was the wake-up call I needed\".\n\n\"I am a single mum with a full-time job, my son needs me, and I have to take care of him,\" she added.\n\nWith the help of a personal trainer, Nikki said her diet and lifestyle were turned upside down\n\nNow Nikki is enjoying life, and is in a healthier place mentally and physically.\n\n\"I am full of energy and playing football with my son,\" she said.\n\n\"I am not breathless and my cholesterol is back to normal. I'm off the statin medication and my blood cancer is under control with treatment.\n\n\"My advice to other women is: 'You can do it and take action now.'\"\n\nAccording to Dr Johnston, the NHS needs to see more people like Nikki taking ownership of their health to help themselves and the health service.\n\nShe said statistics show that obesity is becoming an \"increasingly difficult problem\" with over half of the population being overweight.\n\n\"Obesity can increase the risk of many health conditions including heart attacks, heart failure, stroke, diabetes and respiratory conditions.\n\n\"There is an increased risk of breast and bowel cancers, and it affects mental health too,\" Dr Johnston said.\n\nPersonal trainer Geraldine McAleenan, who specialises in women's health, said since the Covid-19 lockdown, she had been training more women like Nikki who want to shift the extra pounds gained.\n\nShe said two factors that often affect weight gain were overeating and lack of sleep.\n\nHer message is to take \"little steps, including leaving the front door to walk for 10 minutes then walk 10 minutes back and that for most people can be the start of a weight-loss journey\".\n\n\"Additional weight around the tummy breeds inflammation around the organs which slows everything down,\" she added.\n\n\"You can see a big increase in people carrying weight around the stomach which impacts on the organs especially the heart, liver kidneys bones and joints.\n\n\"As well as physically, it also affects the mood, sleep and people take time off work sick and just don't want to leave the house.\"", "A BBC correspondent said the blackout would make it difficult to get information about what was happening in the war\n\nMobile phone and internet services have gone down across the Gaza Strip due to a lack of fuel for back-up generators, Palestinian telecoms companies say.\n\nTelecom firms Paltel and Jawwal said all energy sources sustaining their networks were depleted, and an internet monitor confirmed a major outage.\n\nIsrael has blocked all but one delivery of fuel to Gaza since the start of its war with Hamas five weeks ago.\n\nThe UN said a blackout could jeopardise civil order and undermine aid efforts.\n\n\"We regret to announce that all telecom services in Gaza Strip have gone out of service as all energy sources sustaining the network have been depleted, and fuel was not allowed in,\" Paltel said in a statement on Thursday afternoon.\n\nAt the same time, internet observatory NetBlocks said live metrics showed Gaza was \"in the midst of a major internet outage\", with telecom services likely to be unavailable to most residents.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NetBlocks This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIsrael launched a major military campaign in the Gaza Strip to destroy Hamas, which it considers a terrorist group, in retaliation for the 7 October cross-border attack by hundreds of gunmen. At least 1,200 people were killed in Hamas's assault on Israel and about 240 others were taken hostage.\n\nSince Israel started its counterattack, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry has said 11,400 people have been killed in the territory and the United Nations has warned of a \"humanitarian disaster\".\n\nThe Israeli government has defended blocking fuel deliveries during its campaign, saying it is concerned that Hamas could steal fuel and use it for military purposes.\n\nOne tanker carrying 23,000 litres of diesel crossed from Egypt on Wednesday, but Israel restricted its use only for the refuelling of UN aid lorries.\n\nOther key services have already had to shut down because of similar issues. This includes hospitals, water pumps, desalination plants, sewage treatment facilities and bakeries.\n\nThe BBC's Rushdi Abu Alouf, who is in the southern city of Khan Younis, confirmed that all communications were down across Gaza on Thursday night.\n\nHe said it would now be extremely difficult to get any information about what was happening on the ground elsewhere, particularly in places like Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where Israeli forces were carrying out an operation for a second consecutive day.\n\nBefore the start of the blackout, a journalist trapped inside the complex had told him by phone that troops were storming all of the hospital's departments and \"shooting in all directions\". Our correspondent has been unable to re-establish contact since then.\n\nThe head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa - which runs the largest humanitarian operation in Gaza - said he feared the blackout could cause a further breakdown of civil order.\n\n\"These are signs of a situation when you have a blackout and you cannot communicate with anyone anymore... that triggers and fuels even more the anxiety and the panic,\" Philippe Lazzarini, the UN leader, told a news conference in Geneva.\n\n\"This can provoke or accelerate the last remaining civil order that we have in the Gaza Strip. And if this completely breaks down, we will have difficulties to operate in an environment where you do not have a minimum of order.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC team's access to Al-Shifa hospital was limited by the Israel Defense Forces and they were not able to speak to doctors or patients\n\nHuman Rights Watch said on Wednesday that a prolonged communications blackout could \"provide cover for atrocities and breed impunity while further undermining humanitarian efforts and putting lives at risk\".\n\nMr Lazzarini also said that he believed there was a \"deliberate attempt to strangle\" Unrwa's work in Gaza, warning that the agency might have to entirely suspend its operations if its fuel supplies ran out.\n\nUnrwa, which is hosting 813,000 displaced people in its facilities, says it needs at least 160,000 litres of fuel every day to maintain its basic operations.\n\n\"If the fuel does not come in, people will start to die because of the lack of fuel,\" Mr Lazzarini warned.\n\n\"Exactly as from when, I don't know. But it will be sooner rather than later.\"\n\nThe head of the UN World Food Programme meanwhile said that supplies of food and water were \"practically non-existent\" and that \"only a fraction of what is needed is arriving through the borders\".\n\n\"With winter fast approaching, unsafe and overcrowded shelters, and the lack of clean water, civilians are facing the immediate possibility of starvation,\" Cindy McCain warned.\n\nAn estimated 1.5 million Palestinians have been displaced by the conflict\n\nBut a spokesman for the Israeli defence ministry body overseeing policy for the Palestinian territories, Cogat, told the BBC: \"As far as I know, there is no lack of food and no lack of water in Gaza.\"\n\nCol Moshe Tetro said Israel was fulfilling its obligations to facilitate the delivery of aid and that the number of lorries crossing from Egypt was increasing every day. The UN says 1,139 aid lorries have entered since 21 October, compared to about 500 each day on average before the war.\n\nCol Tetro also stressed that Israel was doing everything it could to reduce civilian casualties, including by telling residents in the north of Gaza to flee southwards for their own safety as it focuses its air and ground assault on what it sees as Hamas's stronghold.\n\nMany of the 1.5 million displaced people have fled to Khan Younis, where the pre-war population of 300,000 has tripled.\n\nOn Thursday, there were reports that Israeli forces had dropped leaflets urging people to evacuate four towns east of the city - Bani Shuhaila, Khuzaa, Abasan and Qarara - where tens of thousands of people have been sheltering.\n\nAn Unrwa spokeswoman said the south had \"not been safe at all\", and an expansion of Israel's ground assault into the region would be bad news.", "Israeli soldiers entered Al-Shifa Hospital in the early hours of Wednesday\n\nThe director of the Gaza Strip's main hospital raided by Israeli soldiers says the facility has now run out of oxygen and water, and patients \"are screaming from thirst\".\n\nMuhammad Abu Salmiya said the conditions were \"tragic\" in Al-Shifa, where there were more than 650 patients, 500 medical staff and 5,000 displaced people.\n\nIsraeli tanks were surrounding the hospital in Gaza City, he said, with drones buzzing overhead and Israeli soldiers still moving around inside, as their search of the complex lasted a second day.\n\nIsrael's army said its operation against Hamas was proceeding in a \"discreet, methodical and thorough manner\". However a journalist trapped inside the hospital, Khader, told the BBC's Rushdi Abu Alouf by phone that Israeli troops were \"everywhere, shooting in all directions\".\n\nThe BBC has not been able to independently verify either of the reports.\n\nSince the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched their raid on Al-Shifa early on Wednesday, they have released several photos and videos of what they say are Hamas weapons and equipment.\n\nOn Thursday they said they had found an \"operational tunnel shaft and a vehicle containing a large number of weapons\".\n\nMr Abu Salmiya said Israeli troops had blown up Al-Shifa's main water line.\n\n\"Sniping operations continue, no-one can move from one building to another, and we have lost communication with our colleagues,\" he said.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Khader told the BBC that Israeli troops had \"stormed all departments\", destroying the southern part of the building's wall and dozens of cars.\n\nBefore Khader's phone line cut off, he also said that armoured bulldozers had been brought in.\n\nGaza's Hamas-controlled health ministry reports that Israeli bulldozers \"destroyed parts of the southern entrance\" of the medical complex.\n\nIsrael launched a major military campaign in the Gaza Strip to destroy Hamas in retaliation for the 7 October cross-border attack by hundreds of gunmen. Israel considers Hamas a terrorist group, as does the UK, US and European Union.\n\nAt least 1,200 people were killed in Hamas's assault on Israel and about 240 others were taken hostage.\n\nSince Israel started its counter-attack, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry has said at least 11,400 people have been killed in the territory and the UN has warned of a \"humanitarian disaster\".\n\nOn Thursday evening, the IDF announced that the body of one of the hostages had been found near Al-Shifa.\n\nThe IDF identified the victim as Yehudit Weiss, saying she had been kidnapped from her home in Be'eri - a kibbutz in southern Israel.\n\nYehudit Weiss was recovering from breast cancer when she was kidnapped, campaigners said\n\nAt the same time, there have been reports of a major phone and internet outage in Gaza believed to have been caused by telecom companies running out of fuel supplies.\n\nThe IDF said their soldiers were continuing their \"complex\" operation against Hamas at the hospital.\n\n\"Soldiers are proceeding one building at a time, searching each floor, all while hundreds of patients and medical staff remain in the complex,\" an official said in an update on Thursday evening.\n\nThe official reiterated the IDF's claim that there was a \"well-hidden terrorist infrastructure in the complex\".\n\nHamas has repeatedly denied that its fighters have been operating inside the hospital.\n\nOn Thursday, Osama Hamdan, the most senior Hamas leader in Lebanon, ridiculed the Israeli weapons claims, saying that all the arms had been brought in and planted in the hospital by Israelis.\n\nAsked by the BBC why progress on talks to release hostages had failed, he said that on three occasions they had been close to a deal but each time it had been stopped by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.\n\nThe Israeli government has not commented on Mr Hamdan's allegation.\n\nIn a separate development, Israel has dropped dropped leaflets in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza, warning people in four towns to evacuate their homes and head to shelters.\n\nIf that is an indication of an upcoming military operation around the southern city of Khan Younis, it could be a real concern to the hundreds of thousands now sheltering there.\n\nBefore the war, Khan Younis was home to about 300,000 people - a number that has now grown to one million after Israel urged civilians to move south for their safety.", "After weeks of haggling, Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez has clinched a vote in parliament to lead Spain for another term as prime minister.\n\nHe has secured a four-seat majority in the 350-seat chamber, after sealing an amnesty deal for Catalans involved in a failed bid to secede from Spain.\n\nThe conservative Popular Party won elections in July, but leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo failed to form a majority.\n\nMr Sánchez told MPs that the amnesty deal would help \"heal wounds\".\n\nHis reliance on two Catalan pro-independence parties to form a majority has infuriated opponents, who argue his proposed amnesty deal for hundreds of politicians and activists will trigger another bid for secession and threaten Spain's territorial unity.\n\nSocialist MPs applauded their leader for several minutes when the result of the vote was confirmed but MPs were booed by protesters as they filed out of the Spanish Congress building.\n\nLast weekend tens of thousands of Spaniards took part in protests across Spain, and Mr Feijóo has accused the prime minister of pursuing his own interests rather than his country's.\n\nThe Popular Party leader shook his opponent's hand after the vote but later declared to reporters: \"I told the president of the government that this was a mistake but he is responsible for what he has just done.\"\n\nThe Socialists were clearly in the hands of those who wanted \"recognition of a nation different from that of Spain and a referendum for self-determination\", Mr Feijóo declared.\n\nShortly before the vote, Mr Sánchez linked attempts to question the legitimacy of his new government to part of a global trend. He referred to the presence of former Fox News TV anchor Tucker Carlson at a recent protest outside the Socialist Party headquarters in Madrid.\n\n\"We've seen it in the United States, in Brazil and other parts of the world where there is a political right and political far right who do not accept the result of elections,\" he said.\n\nSeveral Socialist members of parliament were chased and had eggs thrown at them as they left a cafe near Congress. One egg hit MP Herminio Sánchez and delegates were advised to look after their personal safety in light of the febrile political atmosphere.\n\nProtesters gathered outside parliament in anger at the formation of the new Sánchez-led government\n\nBuses hired by right-wing Catholic organisation Hazte Oír drove past the congress building with anti-Sánchez messages on them. One had a picture of Sánchez made to look like Adolf Hitler, with the slogan: \"Sánchez dictator.\"\n\nPedro Sánchez was given the chance to form a government by King Felipe VI in early October, after the Popular Party leader had tried and failed twice to persuade parliament to back him. In the end Mr Feijóo fell four seats short of a simple majority in parliament, despite the support of the far-right Vox party.\n\nThe Socialists first secured the backing of a pro-independence party - the Catalan Republican Left (ERC) - who are in power in Spain's north-eastern region.\n\nThen they clinched a controversial amnesty deal with the more radical Together for Catalonia (Junts), led by Carles Puigdemont, who fled to Brussels to avoid arrest after leading an illegal independence vote in 2017.\n\nThe proposed amnesty law would benefit not only the Junts leader, but hundreds of other pro-independence figures too. It would cover actions dating back to 2012 and any arrest warrants not yet served will be scrapped and would likely allow Mr Puigdemont's eventual return from exile.\n\nMuch of Spain's judiciary has criticised the proposals and the main judges' association, which is considered conservative, has condemned it as the \"beginning of the end of democracy\".\n\nMr Sánchez has rejected claims that his government is reliant on parties that want to break up Spain and he will be sworn in by the king at the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid on Friday.\n\nHowever. a hint of the fragility of his new government came from Ione Belarra, whose Podemos party is part of a broad left-wing alliance called Sumar, which is part of the new ruling coalition.\n\nPodemos has so far not been invited to run any of the ministries in the new government. \"The Socialist Party likes a leftist regime, a docile left that does whatever the Socialist Party wants,\" she complained.", "BBC correspondent Jessica Parker has flown on a mission with the Icelandic Coast Guard over the Reykjanes Peninsula, where recent volcanic activity has been concentrated.\n\nScientists say the area could face decades of increased volcanic instability.\n\nFears of an impending eruption led to the evacuation of the town of Grindavik, which has partially sunk by more than a metre.\n\nIt is thought that magma is running underneath a previous, centuries-old, visible fissure seen in aerial photographs.\n\nIceland's biggest bulldozer is heading to the small fishing town to build defences to stop lava from a volcano destroying key buildings.\n\nOne of the country's most famous tourist attractions, the nearby Blue Lagoon, will remain closed until the end of this month.\n\nRead more on this story here", "The PSNI said there were 19 victims of paramilitary style shootings over the past year\n\nParamilitary-style shootings are on the rise in Northern Ireland, according to statistics released by the police.\n\nThe Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) have said 19 people were victims of these shootings between 1 November 2022 and 31 October 2023.\n\nIn the previous 12 months there were only seven victims.\n\nMegan Phair from the pressure group Stop Attacks described the increase as a \"massive concern\".\n\nParamilitary style shootings usually result in the injured party being shot in the knees, elbows, feet, ankles or thighs, police say, and the motive is supposedly to punish the person for antisocial activities.\n\nThese paramilitary style shootings are generally conducted by loyalist or republican paramilitary groups on members of their own community.\n\nPrevious figures show there were up to 22 casualties of paramilitary-style shootings per year since 2017, with incidences broadly declining over time:\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Talkback programme Ms Phair pointed to funding cuts to the likes of youth services as a possible explanation for the rise in shootings.\n\n\"If you look across the board at the funding cuts that the youth service in particular have faced and multiple other services have faced, you can see the trends of the increase in violence because of a lack of space and place for so many vulnerable people,\" she said.\n\n\"Young people are groomed, radicalised, coerced, exploited and criminalised by these gangs.\"\n\nMs Phair said that \"we have young people who maybe were targeted by paramilitary groups in the past who were shot or beaten are now members of the same groups\".\n\nShe described this as \"grooming at its core\".\n\nThe PSNI have said that in September alone of 2023 there were five casualties of paramilitary-style attacks.\n\nDet Ch Supt Andy Hill said the PSNI \"remain 100% committed to tackling the cruel issue of paramilitary-style attacks\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Andy Hill, Head of the PSNI's Organised Crime Branch, said there has been an overall fall in all types of paramilitary attacks compared to 2018 and said that \"while there has been progress, we are not complacent\".\n\n\"We remain concerned about the continuing existence of paramilitary structures and groups, and their actions. And we, along with our partners, will relentlessly continue to target those groups and individuals who continue to exploit the most vulnerable in our communities,\" he said.\n\nDet Ch Supt Hill said that the PSNI \"remain 100% committed to tackling the cruel issue of paramilitary-style attacks\".\n\nHowever, he added that the \"budgetary situation facing policing remains hugely difficult\".", "The PM's current Rwanda plan will mean no asylum seekers are flown there before the next election, sacked home secretary Suella Braverman has said.\n\nWriting in the Telegraph, she said \"tinkering with a failed plan\" would not achieve the government's aims.\n\nShe said ministers should ignore human rights laws and obligations in their \"entirety\" to push it through.\n\nBut ex-cabinet minister Damian Green called this the \"most unconservative proposal I've ever heard\".\n\nA former First Secretary of State under Theresa May, Mr Green told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that overriding legal constraints was the behaviour of \"dictators\" like Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nIn a ruling on the government's scheme to fly some asylum seekers to Rwanda, the Supreme Court said there were \"substantial grounds\" to believe that some of those deported to the country could be sent back to places where they would be unsafe.\n\nAfter the judgement, Rishi Sunak announced he would bring in emergency legislation to certify that Rwanda was a \"safe\" country, despite the court's decision.\n\nThe prime minister also said he would sign a new treaty with Rwanda, so that the first flights could begin in the spring.\n\nBut Mrs Braverman said a new treaty was \"magical thinking,\" repeating the language of her scathing letter to Mr Sunak after he sacked her.\n\nThe proposed treaty would not solve \"the fundamental issue\", that the UK's highest court had found Rwanda unsafe for deporting asylum seekers, she argued.\n\nMrs Braverman, who was sacked as home secretary on Monday, said that unless the prime minister went further than his current proposals, she could not see how the government could deliver on its pledge before running out of Parliamentary time.\n\nA general election is expected to be held next year and one must take place by January 2025.\n\n\"Any new treaty would still require going back through the courts, a process that would likely take at least another year,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the process \"could culminate in yet another defeat\".\n\n\"That is why the plan outlined by the PM will not yield flights to Rwanda before an election if Plan B is simply a tweaked version of the failed Plan A,\" she said.\n\nMrs Braverman said the PM's proposed legislation should ignore \"the entirety\" of the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), as well as other relevant international obligations including the Refugee Convention.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rishi Sunak tells the BBC's Chris Mason that flights to Rwanda will happen by spring\n\nMrs Braverman's arguments have been supported by some of her colleagues.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Sir Simon Clarke said parliament was \"entitled in extremis to say certain sections of the law are disapplied\".\n\nHe argued it was wrong that \"our human rights framework\" was blocking the government's ability to police the UK's borders.\n\nThe Rwanda policy is central to Mr Sunak's plan to stop asylum seekers crossing the English Channel in small boats - one of his key pledges - as it is designed to deter people from making the dangerous journey.\n\nTransport Secretary Mark Harper told BBC Breakfast that the government was \"committed\" to getting the Rwanda policy working by the spring.\n\nAny new legislation is expected to face strong opposition in the House of Lords, which contains several former Supreme Court judges. It would also be likely to face legal challenges in the courts.\n\nSir David Normington, former Home Office permanent secretary, told Today that Mrs Braverman was \"right in one way\" - that getting a working Rwanda policy \"would be very difficult\".\n\n\"We could pull out of all conventions, but that would be a very bad idea,\" he said, adding that it would always come down to a British court deciding whether Rwanda was safe.\n\n\"The courts say it is not a safe country. You can't say black is white.\"\n\nAsked if international law was \"outdated\", Sir David said that \"at the core\" international agreements were written to protect the vulnerable.\n\n\"What is true is that the rights of people to not be tortured never goes out of date.\"\n\nIt's not immediately clear how Mrs Braverman's plan would legally work quickly.\n\nThe UK and other countries that are signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights can put to one side only some of its protections in times of war or some other emergency. The key protection at the heart of the Rwanda case - that nobody should be subjected to torture or to inhuman treatment - is not one of the rights that can be swept away in what's known as \"derogation\".\n\nThe UK has only derogated from the ECHR eight times in 70 years. Seven of those situations were related to detaining paramilitaries during the conflict in Northern Ireland. The most recent in 2001 concerned holding al-Qaeda suspects without charge - a move that the courts later said was illegal.\n\nDuring Boris Johnson's time as prime minister, the government proposed limiting and replacing some human rights protections in a highly-criticised replacement bill which Rishi Sunak then scrapped.\n\nLeaving the ECHR entirely would separately breach the 25-year-old Good Friday Agreement at the heart of Northern Ireland's power-sharing peace deal - and enrage the UK's partners on the other side of the English Channel - potentially making co-operation on stopping boats harder.", "Palestinians search for casualties at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in the southern Gaza Strip last week\n\nIf this Gaza war was like all the others, a ceasefire would probably have been in force by now.\n\nThe dead would be buried and Israel would be arguing with the United Nations about how much cement could come into Gaza for rebuilding.\n\nBut this war is not like that. It is not just because of the enormity of the killing, first by Hamas on 7 October, mostly of Israeli civilians, followed by Israel's \"mighty vengeance\" as its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it, which has mostly killed Palestinian civilians.\n\nThis war is different to the others because it comes at a time when the fault lines that divide the Middle East are rumbling. For at least two decades, the most serious rift in the region's fractured geopolitical landscape has been between the friends and allies of Iran, and the friends and allies of the United States.\n\nThe core of Iran's network, sometimes called the \"axis of resistance\", is made up of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Assad regime in Syria, the Houthis in Yemen and assorted Iraqi militias that are armed and trained by Iran. The Iranians have also supported Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza.\n\nIran is also getting closer to Russia and China. Iran has become a significant part of Russia's war effort in Ukraine. China buys a great deal of Iranian oil.\n\nThe longer the war in Gaza goes on, and as Israel kills more Palestinian civilians and destroys tens of thousands of homes, the greater the risk of conflict involving some members of those two camps.\n\nHezbollah, and leader Hassan Nasrallah, has threatened to open a second front in the war\n\nThe border between Israel and Lebanon is heating up, slowly and steadily. Neither Israel nor Hezbollah want a full-scale war. But as they trade increasingly heavy punches, the risks of uncontrolled escalation will grow.\n\nThe Houthis in Yemen have been launching missiles and drones towards Israel. They have all been brought down, so far, by Israel's air defences or by US Navy warships in the Red Sea.\n\nIn Iraq, militias supported by Iran have attacked American bases. The US retaliated at some of their sites in Syria. Again, all sides are trying to limit escalation, but controlling the tempo of military action is always difficult.\n\nOn America's side are Israel, the Gulf oil states, Jordan and Egypt. The US continues to give strong support to Israel, even though it is clear that President Joe Biden is uncomfortable about the way Israel is killing so many Palestinian civilians. The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has said publicly that too many Palestinian civilians are being killed.\n\nAmerica's Arab allies have all condemned what Israel is doing and called for a ceasefire. The sight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fleeing their homes in northern Gaza and walking down the main road south raises the ghosts of Israel's victory over the Arabs in its independence war in 1948.\n\nMore than 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes at gunpoint by the Israelis, events referred to by Palestinians as al Nakba - the catastrophe. The descendants of the 1948 refugees include much of the population of the Gaza Strip.\n\nDangerous talk by some of the extreme Jewish nationalists who are supporting the government of Benjamin Netanyahu about imposing another Nakba on Palestinians is alarming Arab states in America's camp, particularly Jordan and Egypt. One minister in Netanyahu's government even mused about dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza to deal with Hamas. He was reprimanded but not sacked.\n\nAll that can be dismissed as the ravings of the lunatic fringe, but it is being taken seriously in Jordan and Egypt. Not nuclear weapons, of which Israel has a large and undeclared arsenal, but the prospect of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians being forced over their borders.\n\nAs for the war itself in Gaza, senior western diplomats from countries that are firm allies of Israel's allies, told the BBC that ending the war, and dealing with the aftermath will be \"difficult and messy\".\n\nOne said that \"the only way through will be rebuilding a political horizon for Palestinians\". That was a reference to an independent Palestine alongside Israel, the so called two-state solution, a failed idea that survives only as a slogan.\n\nReviving it, perhaps in the context of a wider accommodation between Israel and the Arabs, is an ambitious plan, and perhaps the best idea around. But in the current atmosphere of pain, alarm and hatred it will be very difficult to deliver.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will have \"overall security responsibility\" for the Gaza Strip \"for an indefinite period\"\n\nIt won't happen under the current leaderships of both Palestinians and Israelis.\n\nPrime Minister Netanyahu has not revealed his plan for the day after the fighting ends in Gaza, but he has rejected America's idea of installing a government led by the Palestinian Authority, headed by President Mahmoud Abbas and ejected by Hamas from Gaza in 2007.\n\nThe second part of the American plan is for negotiations on a two-state solution, something that Benjamin Netanyahu has opposed throughout his political life.\n\nNot only is Mr Netanyahu against independence for the Palestinians. His survival as prime minister depends on support from Jewish extremists who believe the entire territory between the river Jordan and the Mediterranean was given to the Jewish people by God and should all be inside Israel's borders.\n\nMany Israelis want him out, blaming him for the security and intelligence failures that allowed the attacks of 7 October to happen.\n\nThe Palestinian President Abbas is in his late 80s and is discredited in the eyes of potential voters, though he has not subjected himself to the ballot box since 2005. The Palestinian Authority cooperates with Israel on security in the West Bank but cannot protect its own people from armed Jewish settlers.\n\nLeaderships change, eventually. If this terrible war in Gaza doesn't force the Israelis, Palestinians and their powerful friends to try again to make peace, then the only future is more war.", "Columba McVeigh was kidnapped, murdered and buried in secret by the IRA\n\nThe sister of a man murdered and secretly buried by the IRA almost 50 years ago said she is \"heartbroken\" after a sixth search for his remains ended without success.\n\nColumba McVeigh was one of 16 murder victims known as the Disappeared.\n\nThe lead investigator said the outcome was \"bitterly disappointing\".\n\nThe search started in October last year and concentrated on four acres of Bragan Bog, near Emyvale in County Monaghan.\n\nMr McVeigh, from Donaghmore, in County Tyrone, was 19 years old when he disappeared in 1975.\n\nDympna Kerr, pictured here at the dig site in April, says she cannot give up hope\n\nHis family has strongly rejected the IRA's claim that he was an informer.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme, his sister Dympna Kerr said: \"I'm totally heartbroken - I don't know how many more times I can go through this.\"\n\n\"All we need is for people to come forward with the correct information - there is nothing for them to fear.\"\n\nMrs Kerr said she cannot give up hope that one day her brother will be found.\n\nColumba McVeigh's family have never lost hope that they will find his remains\n\nThere have been five previous searches of the area since 1999.\n\nThe latest search took place in a part of the bog that had not been excavated before.\n\nIn total, 26 acres have now been examined.\n\nThe searches have been undertaken by the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR).\n\nDescribing the disappointment, its lead investigator, Jon Hill, said: \"This was a particularly frustrating search for all concerned.\n\n\"While we started over a year ago on what turned out to be an area of just over four acres of difficult terrain, we lost several months due to the severe weather last winter and this summer.\n\n\"The final phase when we reached the tree line was particularly challenging.\n\n\"Every day we started in the hope that that would be the day we would find Columba and the disappointment that we have is deeply felt by everyone on the search team whose hearts go out to the McVeigh family.\"\n\nThe ICLVR said it \"will never close the book on the case\" while there is a possibility that new information is brought forward.\n\nIt remains convinced Mr McVeigh's remains are buried in the bog.\n\nA series of excavations have previously been carried out at Bragan Bog in County Monaghan\n\nMr Hill said: \"I have no doubt that the information we have been working on was given in good faith.\n\n\"But we haven't found him which can only mean that he's not where we were told to look.\n\n\"We need those who have information to think again to see if there is anything further that they can tell us that will get us to the place we need to be.\n\n\"If credible information is forthcoming and the commissioners accept that there are good grounds for us to search again, then we will be back.\"\n\nMr McVeigh's case is one of four unresolved cases being looked at by the ICLVR - other victims still to be located are Joe Lynskey, Seamus McGuire and Army officer Robert Nairac.\n\nThe ICLVR has so far located the remains of 13 people since it was established by the British and Irish governments in 1999.\n\nThe majority of the murders took place in the 1970s, with victims abducted in Northern Ireland and mostly killed and buried at locations in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe Provisional IRA has admitted responsibility for 13 of the murders and the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) one.", "It's coming up to 03:00 in Gaza and Israel, and 01:00 in London. On a live video feed being transmitted from Israel we can hear occasional, distant explosions from the direction of the Gaza Strip tonight. Let's look back at Thursday's key developments:\n\nThe body of 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss, who was abducted by Hamas during its attacks on 7 October, has been found by Israeli forces in a structure close to Gaza's largest hospital.\n\nYehudit Weiss was recovering from breast cancer when she was taken from kibbutz Be’eri, according to campaigners. Her husband, Shmuel, was killed by Hamas gunmen.\n\nIsrael is continuing its operation at Gaza's largest hospital, and this evening the military said it had found a tunnel shaft and a \"booby-trapped vehicle\" on the grounds of the site.\n\nEarlier, the BBC heard from a journalist at the hospital who said:\" Soldiers are everywhere, shooting in all directions.\" Before his phone line cut out, he told us armoured bulldozers had been brought in.\n\nIsrael has repeatedly accused Hamas of housing a command-and-control centre in a tunnel network underneath the hospital. Hamas denies this.\n\nThe hospital's director warned of \"tragic\" conditions inside. He said the facility had run out of oxygen and water, with patients \"screaming from thirst\". Read more on this here.\n\nIn Gaza’s south, leaflets were dropped by Israeli forces over Khan Younis, warning people in four towns to evacuate their homes and head to shelters.\n\nFor most of the day mobile phone and internet services were down across the Gaza Strip because of a lack of fuel, according to Palestinian telecoms companies. We've written up the story here.\n\nFuel shortages are also causing significant problems for the delivery of aid throughout the Strip. The UN's Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) has said that, from Friday, it will be unable to send trucks to pick up supplies for Gazans from the border with Egypt.\n\nIsrael said its security forces had killed three gunmen who opened fire at a checkpoint on a road leading into Jerusalem from the West Bank.\n\nIsrael says one of its soldiers was killed and others were wounded. Hamas's armed wing said it carried out the attack.\n\nThere are also reports of an Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Jenin tonight. We will bring you more on that as it comes in.", "Almost two million people in Gaza - more than 85% of the population - are reported to have fled their homes in the two months since Israel began its military operation in response to Hamas's deadly attacks of 7 October.\n\nThe Strip has been under the control of Hamas since 2007 and Israel says it is trying to destroy the military and governing capabilities of the Islamist group, which is committed to the destruction of Israel.\n\nThe situation for ordinary people in Gaza - a densely populated enclave 41km (25 miles) long and 10km wide, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on one side and fenced off from Israel and Egypt at its borders - is \"getting worse by the hour\", according to United Nations aid agencies.\n\nIsrael warned civilians to evacuate the area of Gaza north of the Wadi Gaza riverbed, ahead of its invasion.\n\nThe evacuation area included Gaza City - which was the most densely populated area of the Gaza Strip. The Erez border crossing into Israel in the north is closed, so those living in the evacuation zone had no choice but to head towards the southern districts.\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are now focusing its operations on southern Gaza and have told Palestinians that even Khan Younis - the largest urban area in the south - is not safe and they should move south, or further west to a so-called \"safe area\" at al-Mawasi, a thin strip of mainly agricultural land along the Mediterranean coast, close to the Egyptian border.\n\nFighting in Khan Younis has pushed tens of thousands of people to flee to the southern district of Rafah in recent days, the UN said.\n\nAccording to the UN, just over 75% of Gaza's population - some 1.7 million people - were already registered refugees before Israel warned Palestinians to leave northern Gaza.\n\nPalestinian refugees are defined by the UN as people whose \"place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 War\". The children of Palestinian refugees are also able to apply for refugee status.\n\nMore than 500,000 of those refugees were already in eight crowded camps located across the Strip.\n\nFollowing Israel's warnings, the number of displaced people has risen rapidly and 1.9 million have fled their homes since 7 October, the UN says.\n\nOn average, before the conflict, there were more than 5,700 people per sq km in Gaza - very similar to the average density in London - but that figure was more than 9,000 in Gaza City, the most heavily populated area.\n\nThe UN warns that overcrowding has become a major concern in its emergency shelters in central and southern Gaza, with some housing at four times its capacity.\n\nMany of these emergency shelters are schools and in some there are dozens of people living in a single classroom. Other families are living in tents or makeshift shelters in compounds or on waste ground in open spaces.\n\nIsrael has already launched hundreds of airstrikes across Gaza and says it has used more than 10,000 bombs and missiles, causing extensive damage to buildings and infrastructure.\n\nGazan officials say more than 50% of housing units in Gaza have been destroyed, left uninhabitable or damaged since the start of the conflict.\n\nThe map below - using analysis of satellite data by Corey Scher of CUNY Graduate Center and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University - shows which urban areas have sustained concentrated damage since the start of the conflict.\n\nThey say over 100,000 buildings across the whole Gaza Strip have suffered damage. North Gaza and Gaza City have borne the brunt of this, with around half the buildings in the two northern regions believed to have been damaged, but their analysis now suggests up to 20% of buildings in Khan Younis have also been damaged.\n\nEven healthcare facilities have been left unable to function as a result of bomb damage or lack of fuel.\n\nThe UN says hospital capacity in the enclave has more than halved from 3,500 beds before 7 October to about 1,500 now - and \"hardly any\" in the north.\n\nMore than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed during the Hamas attacks on 7 October. More than 18,000 Palestinians - including about 7,700 children - have been killed in Israeli airstrikes and operations since then, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry.\n\nIt is difficult for the BBC to verify exact numbers, but the UN's World Health Organization (WHO) has said it has no reason to believe the figures are inaccurate.\n\nThe airstrikes were accompanied by a \"complete siege\" of Gaza by Israel, with electricity, food and fuel supplies cut, followed by military action on the ground.\n\nThe IDF began its ground operations by moving into Gaza from the north west along the coast and into the north east near Beit Hanoun. A few days later Israeli forces cut across the middle of the territory to the south of Gaza City.\n\nArmoured bulldozers created routes for tanks and troops, as the Israeli forces tried to clear the area of Hamas fighters based in northern Gaza.\n\nHaving cut Gaza in two, the Israelis pushed further into Gaza City, where they faced some resistance from Hamas.\n\nThe image below, released by the IDF, shows tanks and armoured bulldozers on the beach near Gaza City.\n\nA photo of the same beach from last summer shows people making the most of a hot day in Gaza, families splashing in the sea or sitting on fanning out along the beach.\n\nEven before the current conflict, about 80% of the population of Gaza was in need of humanitarian aid, and although Israel has been allowing some aid in from Egypt, aid agencies said it was nowhere near enough.\n\nA seven-day ceasefire at the end of November allowed agencies to deliver an average of 170 trucks and 110,000 litres of fuel a day but that has since fallen to about 100 trucks and 70,000 litres of fuel, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says.\n\n\"It's too little, it's way too little,\" the WHO's Dr Rick Peeperkorn said.\n\nMeanwhile, the WHO has warned that renewed fighting is making the distribution of aid in most of Gaza \"almost impossible\" and will \"only intensify the catastrophic hunger crisis\" that already threatens to overwhelm civilians.\"\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US and China have agreed to resume military-to-military communications in an effort to ease rising tensions, President Joe Biden says.\n\n\"We're back to direct, open, clear communications,\" he said following a rare meeting with China's President Xi Jinping in California on Wednesday.\n\nIt was the first time the pair had spoken in person in more than a year.\n\nBut there were still signs of tension between the two - Mr Biden repeated his view that Mr Xi is a dictator.\n\nChina's foreign ministry later criticised the remarks, but they do not appear to have taken the shine off what both sides are portraying as a largely successful meeting.\n\nMr Biden also said both leaders had agreed to establish a direct line of communication with one another.\n\nAt a news conference following the summit, which took place at a historic country estate near San Francisco, Mr Biden said a lack of communication was \"how accidents happen\" and added that both presidents could now \"pick up the phone and be directly heard immediately\".\n\nChina severed military-to-military communications last year after then-US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan. Beijing views self-ruled Taiwan as its territory, and has threatened to annex it by force if necessary.\n\nMr Biden said that, while many disagreements remained between the pair, Mr Xi had \"just been straight\". He said the talks were \"some of the most constructive and productive discussions we've had\".\n\nSpeaking later at a dinner with US business leaders, Mr Xi spoke openly about wanting to pursue better relations with the US.\n\nHe said he and President Biden agreed to continue on a path of diplomacy and co-operation.\n\n\"The door of China-US relations cannot be closed again now that's open,\" he said. \"We need to build more bridges and pave more roads between each other.\"\n\nBut in a sign of how difficult relations still are, Mr Biden, as he was exiting the stage, responded to a reporter's question by saying he considered Mr Xi a dictator.\n\n\"He's a dictator in the sense that he is a guy who runs a country... based on a form of government that is totally different from ours,\" he said. When Mr Biden made a similar comment in June, Chinese officials reacted angrily and described it as \"extremely absurd and irresponsible\".\n\nOn Thursday, China's foreign ministry condemned Mr Biden's remark, saying the description was \"extremely wrong\" and \"irresponsible political manipulation\".\n\nIt was a sour note in what is seen as an overall positive meeting between the two leaders.\n\nThe \"dictator\" remark was noticeably absent in state news agency Xinhua's readout of the meeting. The readout - which can sometimes be an indication of how good or bad the Chinese government perceives relations to be - featured talk of substantial progress in bilateral ties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs well as resuming military communications, the two sides announced several other agreements in areas that have become sources of tension in recent times.\n\nThese included taking steps to tackle the flow of fentanyl into the US, which has contributed to a rise in overdose deaths in the country.\n\nChinese manufacturing companies are a source not only of the synthetic opioid itself but of precursor chemicals which can be combined to make it. \"We're taking action to significantly reduce the flow of precursor chemicals and pill presses from China to the Western Hemisphere,\" Mr Biden said.\n\nUnder the deal, China will directly target companies that are producing those precursor chemicals. \"It will save lives,\" Mr Biden told reporters.\n\nThe two leaders also discussed the conflict in Israel and Gaza. One senior US official told reporters that Mr Biden had asked China to use its influence with Iran to urge it not to take steps that could be seen as provocative.\n\nThe two superpowers further agreed to jointly examine artificial intelligence (AI), and had a lengthy conversation about Taiwan which, according to one US official, Mr Xi said was \"the biggest, most dangerous issue in US-China ties\".\n\nMr Xi and Mr Biden met at the Filoli Estate, a country house near San Francisco, and spoke for four hours\n\nFollowing the talks, China said communications were restored between the two militaries on \"the basis of equality and respect\".\n\nWhile the meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) summit had been highly anticipated, officials on both sides played down expectations of any major breakthroughs.\n\n\"The goals here really are about managing the competition, preventing the downside of risk - of conflict, and ensuring channels of communication are open,\" a senior US administration official said.\n\nRelations deteriorated in February when a suspected Chinese spy balloon was shot down over US airspace.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Beijing in June, making him the highest-ranking Washington official to visit the Chinese capital in almost half a decade. He met President Xi and then foreign minister Qin Gang.\n\nAt the end of his trip, Mr Blinken said that while there were still major issues between the two countries, he hoped they would have \"better communications [and] better engagement going forward\".\n\nAdditional reporting by Fan Wang in Singapore and BBC Monitoring\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How has Biden and Xi's relationship changed?", "Video shared by Rapper 50 Cent showed 64-year-old Mary Jane Farquharson enjoying his gig at Resorts World Arena.\n\nA big fan of hip hop, Mrs Farquharson, from Nuneaton, said she was introduced to the genre by her son and now cannot get enough of it.\n\nWriting on X, formerly Twitter, 50 Cent said she was \"by far\" the coolest person at the gig.", "Sir Keir Starmer has suffered a major rebellion over his stance on the Israel-Gaza war, with 56 of his MPs voting for an immediate ceasefire.\n\nJess Phillips, Afzal Khan and Yasmin Qureshi were among shadow ministers who quit their roles to back the motion from the SNP.\n\nTen of the party's frontbenchers have left their jobs over the vote, including eight shadow minsters.\n\nSir Keir has instead backed pauses in the conflict to deliver aid.\n\nAnnouncing she was quitting her role as shadow domestic violence minister, Ms Phillips said she was voting with \"my constituents, my head, and my heart\".\n\n\"I can see no route where the current military action does anything but put at risk the hope of peace and security for anyone in the region now and in the future,\" she added.\n\nMs Phillips, Mr Khan and Ms Qureshi, along with Paula Barker, announced they would be leaving shadow ministerial positions in the run-up to the vote.\n\nSir Keir had signalled before the vote that MPs holding such a role would be sacked if they backed the ceasefire call.\n\nOther frontbenchers Sarah Owen, Rachel Hopkins, Naz Shah and Andy Slaughter have also left their roles after voting for the motion. Dan Carden and Mary Foy left posts as parliamentary aides.\n\nIn a statement after the vote, Sir Keir said he regretted the vote of some of his party.\n\n\"I regret that some colleagues felt unable to support the position tonight. But I wanted to be clear about where I stood, and where I will stand\".\n\nHe said Israel had suffered \"its worst terrorist attack in a single day\" at the hands of Hamas on 7 October.\n\n\"No government would allow the capability and intent to repeat such an attack to go unchallenged,\" he added.\n\nThe vote was on an SNP amendment to a government motion on its plans for the year ahead, presented in the King's Speech last week.\n\nIt called for an end to the \"collective punishment of the Palestinian people\" and urged \"all parties to agree to an immediate ceasefire\".\n\nIt was defeated by 125 votes to 294, with the 56 Labour rebels joining other opposition parties to demand a ceasefire, against the Conservatives who opposed it.\n\nThere are 29 Labour MPs in the shadow cabinet, but around half of the party's 198 MPs hold some kind of frontbench position, including party whips.\n\nAmong the Labour MPs voting in favour of a ceasefire was Stella Creasy, who told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that, while she respected Sir Keir's position, she defied party instruction as a matter of principle.\n\n\"Nobody is under any illusions that a single vote in the UK parliament is going to change the situation on the ground,\" she said, but \"advocating for a ceasefire is far better than the alternative of being silent.\"\n\nSNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn said it was \"shameful that a majority of Tory and Labour MPs blocked calls for a ceasefire - and have condoned the continued bombardment of Gaza\".\n\nThe voting took place amid demonstrations from pro-Palestinian supporters, who chanted \"ceasefire now\" outside Parliament.\n\nThe UK has seen a series of protest marches demanding a ceasefire in recent weeks, with an estimated 300,000 people taking part in a rally over the weekend, the biggest in the UK since the war began.\n\nPro-Palestinian supporters gathered outside Parliament ahead of the vote\n\nIn a bid to defuse the ongoing row over the party's position, the Labour leader had tabled his own amendment spelling out his position, which was defeated - but garnered 160 Labour votes.\n\nIt supported Israel's right to self-defence after Hamas's \"horrific terrorist attack\" on 7 October, in which 1,200 people were killed, and called for the release of more than 200 people taken hostage.\n\nBut it also said there had been \"far too many deaths of innocent civilians and children\" since Israel began striking Gaza in response.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says more than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza since then - of whom more than 4,500 were children.\n\nThe amendment also called for longer humanitarian pauses to allow aid, calling this a \"necessary step to an enduring cessation of fighting as soon as possible\".\n\nSir Keir has argued that a ceasefire would not be appropriate, because it would freeze the conflict and embolden Hamas.\n\nLabour, like the Conservative government, the United States and the European Union, is calling for \"humanitarian pauses\" to help aid reach Gaza.\n\nCompared with a formal ceasefire, these pauses tend to last for short periods of time, sometimes just a few hours.\n\nThey are implemented with the aim of providing humanitarian support only, as opposed to achieving long-term political solutions.\n\nLast week, the US said Israel would begin to implement daily four-hour military pauses in areas of northern Gaza.\n\nThere had been intense efforts to minimise frontbench resignations by strengthening criticism of Israel's conduct of the campaign in Labour's own motion.\n\nThere will be relief in Labour leader's office that no one who sits round the very top shadow cabinet table broke ranks to support the SNP's ceasefire motion- though they are now looking for eight more junior shadow ministers and two parliamentary aides.\n\nWhile the rebellion stretched beyond Labour's left wing, the party leadership believe the scale of disunity won't be replicated in other policy areas.\n\nThe assessment is that the passion and pressures relating to the Middle East are unique.\n\nInsiders say that Sir Keir's call for a pause not a ceasefire keeps him in lock-step with the EU and US.\n\nBut some of his closest allies frankly recognise that calls for a ceasefire from an opposition Labour leader will have no effect on Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, never mind Hamas in Gaza.\n\nSo in that sense, there's little logic to calling for it.\n\nBut it means politically, he will have to face down continued pressure domestically to change position.", "The Care Quality Commission has been conducting focused inspections because of concerns about maternity care\n\nEngland's healthcare regulator has told BBC News that maternity units currently have the poorest safety ratings of any hospital service it inspects.\n\nBBC analysis of Care Quality Commission (CQC) records showed it deemed two-thirds (67%) of them not to be safe enough, up from 55% last autumn.\n\nThe \"deterioration\" follows efforts to improve NHS maternity care, and is blamed partly on a midwife shortage.\n\nThe government said maternity care was of the \"utmost importance\".\n\nThe Department for Heath and Social Care (DHSC) said £165m a year was being invested in boosting the maternity workforce, but said \"we know there is more to do\".\n\nThe BBC's analysis also revealed the proportion of maternity units with the poorest safety ranking of \"inadequate\" - meaning that there is a high risk of avoidable harm to mother or baby - has more than doubled from 7% to 15% since September 2022.\n\nThe CQC, which also inspects core services such as emergency care and critical care, said the situation was \"unacceptable\" and \"disappointing\".\n\n\"We've seen this deterioration, and action needs to happen now, so that women can have the assurance they need that they're going to get that high-quality care in any maternity setting across England,\" said Kate Terroni, the CQC's deputy chief executive.\n\nThe regulator has been conducting focused inspections because of concerns about maternity care. These findings are \"the poorest they have been\" since it started recording the data in this way in 2018, Ms Terroni said.\n\nRachel Tustain, whose daughter Eve was injured during her birth, said maternity care needed to be a \"priority\"\n\nRachel Tustain, whose daughter Eve was injured during her birth in 2016, said she believed maternity services were \"massively under-resourced, massively underfunded\", which was leading to safety issues.\n\nEve suffered a bleed to her brain after \"the incorrect application of forceps\" during her delivery at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield.\n\nShe died last year, aged five.\n\n\"We feel short-changed. The life she had was not the life she should have had,\" Ms Tustain said.\n\n\"Maternity care needs to be the biggest priority within the NHS, it needs to be funded properly.\"\n\nThe Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust admitted liability and apologised for the poor care Rachel and Eve received.\n\nIt added that \"significant changes\" had been made in the trust's maternity services since Eve's birth.\n\nLast autumn, BBC News analysed data from the CQC.\n\nIt showed that 55% of maternity units in England were not always safe enough - with ratings of Requires Improvement or Inadequate for safety.\n\nThe CQC has now almost finished a national maternity inspection programme, so has a fuller picture.\n\nIt's got worse - 67% of units are now classed as Inadequate or Requires Improvement for safety.\n\nThe CQC has changed how it assesses maternity units, so the number it inspects has gone from 137 to 178.\n\nThe proportion in the lowest category has more than doubled.\n\nThe decline in safety ratings has happened despite several attempts to transform maternity care, including an NHS programme launched in 2016.\n\nThis was set up after an inquiry in 2015 into the failures that led to the deaths of babies at the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust.\n\nThe scandal at the trust was among several in recent years in which failures were found to have led to the deaths of babies. These cases led to calls for an England-wide public inquiry into maternity care.\n\nIn 2019, the NHS said it was committed to reducing the number of fatalities by 50% by 2025, although maternal deaths, neonatal deaths and stillbirths had been decreasing over the last decade.\n\nHowever, it is not expected to meet this target.\n\nJoshua Titcombe died because of failures at the Furness General Hospital maternity unit in 2008 - a scandal which led to fresh attempts to transform maternity services\n\nThe Royal College of Midwives says the government is not prioritising this enough.\n\nIt says it's not managed to have a meeting with a Health Secretary about maternity safety since Jeremy Hunt in 2018.\n\nThe DHSC declined an interview request from the BBC, but the Minister for Women's Health Strategy, Maria Caulfield, said she wanted to \"reassure mothers and families that maternity care is of the utmost importance to this government\". She added that the government was \"working incredibly hard to improve maternity services, focusing on recruitment, training, and the retention of midwives\".\n\nThe NHS's chief midwifery officer, Kate Brintworth, said England was one of the safest places in the world to give birth.\n\n\"We're not complacent about that because we know it's not this case for everyone.\"\n\nNHS England said it was working closely with trusts to \"ensure safer, more personalised and more equitable maternity care for all women, babies and families\".\n\nPippa Nightingale, chief executive at Northwick Park Hospital which was previously rated \"inadequate\" for safety, said it was not possible to \"fix a maternity service overnight\", but said there had been positive changes at the north-west London trust.\n\nThe rate of stillbirths there has declined to below the national average, but the CQC still believes the unit \"requires improvement\".\n\nShe said she was \"determined that we're going to turn things around\".\n\n\"I think in another year, we will be in a very different place in terms of what our CQC rating will look like.\"\n\nStillbirth and neonatal charity Sands spokeswoman Clea Harmer said on BBC breakfast that the stats were \"really frightening\".\n\n\"If we can build a culture where parents are listened to respected and heard, maternity safety will improve.\n\n\"It's about listening if the worst happens and a baby does die. Listening to a parent, involving them in the review, making sure their voices are central and that will improve maternity safety.\"\n\nThe Scottish government says it is committed to delivering high-quality care.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a review has called for a new safety strategy.\n\nWales has delayed the second phase of a maternity review, because of the Covid-19 pandemic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rishi Sunak tells the BBC's Chris Mason that flights to Rwanda will happen by spring\n\nThe government is in the \"final stages\" of negotiating a new treaty with Rwanda, the immigration minister says.\n\nRobert Jenrick said it was \"absolutely critical that flights go off to Rwanda in the spring\".\n\nHe was speaking after the UK Supreme Court ruled the government's flagship asylum policy was unlawful.\n\nThe new treaty would protect against the removal of asylum seekers from Rwanda back to their home country, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said.\n\nIn their ruling, the Supreme Court justices said there were \"substantial grounds\" to believe people deported to Rwanda could then be sent, by the Rwandan government, to places where they would be unsafe.\n\nSpeaking after the ruling, Mr Sunak said he was determined to \"end the merry-go-round\" of legal challenges.\n\nMr Jenrick, meanwhile, said he was \"confident\" that the government will be able to see flights take off to Rwanda next year.\n\nThe treaty and emergency legislation will \"determine Rwanda as a safe country and ensure that the endless cycle of legal disputes and challenges finally comes to an end\", he told the BBC's Newsnight programme.\n\nBut legal heads are being scratched as to how the emergency legislation might work.\n\nDeclaring a country safe is not the same as proving to a court that it genuinely is - as the Supreme Court has shown.\n\nThe controversial plan to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda and ban them from returning to the UK - which has already cost at least £140m - has been subject to court challenges since it was first announced by Boris Johnson in April 2022.\n\nNo asylum seeker has been sent to Rwanda. The first flight was scheduled to go in June 2022 but was cancelled after an intervention from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).\n\nThe latest ruling from the Supreme Court - the highest court in the UK - determined that the plan in its current form was unlawful.\n\nAddressing reporters at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Sunak said the new treaty and emergency legislation would address concerns and confirm Rwanda was a safe country.\n\nBut he said the plan could face further challenges from the ECHR.\n\n\"We must be honest about the fact that even once Parliament has changed the law here at home, we could still face challenges from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg,\" he said.\n\n\"I will not allow a foreign court to block these flights. If the Strasbourg court chooses to intervene against the expressed wishes of Parliament, I am prepared to do what is necessary to get flights off.\"\n\nThe legal case against the policy hinges on the principle of \"non-refoulement\" - that a person seeking asylum should not be returned to their country of origin if doing so would put them at risk of harm - which is established under both UK and international human rights law.\n\nThe treaty Mr Sunak said the government was working on with Rwanda aims to address this, suggesting the Rwanda government will promise never to send a genuine refugee back to where they had fled from.\n\nBut there are concerns Rwanda would not follow through on this promise.\n\nMr Sunak is facing pressure from a significant section of his party over immigration.\n\nHe has promised to \"do what is necessary\" to enact the Rwanda policy, but it is not clear yet how far he would go.\n\nMany expect a new treaty to be challenged in the courts and Tory MPs will be demanding more detail on how he thinks he can circumvent human rights laws and international conventions.\n\nIf Mr Sunak takes the step of saying the European Convention on Human Rights no longer applies to sending people to Rwanda, that would deal with one part of his problem.\n\nBut the Supreme Court also said three separate British laws stand in the way.\n\nSo the government might have to change all these laws - and that's quite a feat to pull off when political time is running out.\n\nIt normally takes several months for legislation to pass, but with emergency legislation, the government can make sure it happens more quickly.\n\nAll the stages in the House of Commons can be done in as little as a single day. The same is true for the House of Lords - although it is a lot harder for the government to force the pace there if they face opposition.\n\nMr Sunak said the government wanted to see flights to Rwanda take off by next spring \"as planned\".\n\nBut he carefully avoided promising flights would leave before the next general election, widely expected to be held next year.\n\nThe failure of the flagship immigration policy came in a week when the prime minister sacked his home secretary, Suella Braverman, who had championed it.\n\nShe had accused him of not having an alternative plan to the Rwanda policy. After the news conference, an ally of Mrs Braverman said: \"This is a treaty which he's putting in legislation - it's just another version of Plan A. He'll be stuck in the courts again.\"\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper accused Mr Sunak of \"making more promises and chasing more headlines\".\n\nMinisters had known what the problems with the scheme were 18 months ago, she said, adding \"if they thought this was the answer, why didn't they do it long ago?\"\n\nThe Rwandan government has taken issue with the Supreme Court, saying that, while it was a decision for the UK's judicial system, the ruling that Rwanda was not a safe country for asylum seekers was unjustified \"given Rwanda's welcoming policy and our record of caring for refugees\".\n\nIn its judgement, the Supreme Court said the Rwandan government had entered into the agreement in \"good faith\" but the evidence cast doubt on its \"practical ability to fulfil its assurances, at least in the short term\", to fix \"deficiencies\" in its asylum system and see through \"the scale of the changes in procedure, understanding and culture which are required\".\n\nOne asylum seeker told the BBC he thanked the judges \"from the bottom of my heart\" for their ruling, adding \"they treated us with humanity\".\n\nCharities, including Oxfam, have welcomed the court's decision and called for the government to look at alternative policies, including opening more legal routes for those seeking asylum.", "The Horse, not pictured here, escaped as the plane cruised at 30,000ft (file photo)\n\nA Boeing 747 cargo jet has been forced to turn around, after a horse escaped from its stall and caused chaos as the plane cruised at 30,000ft (9,144m).\n\nThe plane was headed to Belgium from New York but did a U-turn roughly 90 minutes after its departure when the animal got loose.\n\nAir traffic control audio recorded the pilot saying: \"We have a live animal, a horse, on board the airplane. The horse managed to escape.\"\n\n\"We cannot get the horse back secured.\"\n\nThe pilot flying Air Atlanta Icelandic flight 4592 told air traffic control the plane was fine but that the horse on the loose was the concern.\n\nHe then requested a veterinarian meet the aircraft once it landed back at John F Kennedy International Airport.\n\nAs the plane made its way back during the incident last Thursday, the pilot said he needed to dump 20 tonnes of fuel, \"east of Nantucket\", a popular enclave for the rich near Massachusetts.\n\nThe plane had to dump the fuel due to the plane's weight.\n\nIt remains unclear how the horse Houdini-ed its way out, but it was unrestrained when the plane landed at the airport.\n\n\"Do you require assistance?\" air traffic control asked the pilot after the plane arrived.\n\n\"On the ground, negative\" the pilot replied. \"On the ramp, yes. We have a horse in problem, in difficulty.\"\n\nThe flight took off later in the same day and successfully arrived at Liege Airport on Friday morning, according to FlightRadar24.\n\nAir Atlanta Icelandic did not immediately respond to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nWhy the horse was being transported also remains unknown.\n\nOne of the more common reasons is the transportation of race horses, according to experts.\n\n\"You have a first class, a business class, and the economy,\" one source told CNN, referring to the different size container options available for the animals.\n\nThis latest incident was not the first time an animal escaped its cargo stall while onboard an airplane.\n\nIn August, a bear freed itself from its crate on an Iraqi Airways flight headed from Dubai to Baghdad, the Associated Press reported.", "The chancellor has said that flights taking asylum seekers to Rwanda may not start next year.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has targeted next spring for the first departures but Jeremy Hunt said he could not \"guarantee\" that deportations would begin in 2024.\n\nIt comes as an ex-Supreme Court justice described measures aiming to revive the plan as \"profoundly discreditable\".\n\nThe flagship policy was ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court on Wednesday.\n\nThe government has said it will use emergency laws to allow flights to take off but questions have been raised about whether there will be time for approval of the plan before the next general election.\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Mr Hunt said: \"We are hopeful that because of the solutions that the prime minister announced yesterday [Wednesday] we will be able to get flights off to Rwanda next year.\"\n\nBut, he added: \"We can't guarantee that.\n\n\"We have to pass legislation, emergency legislation, in the House of Commons (and) we have to sign a new international treaty with Rwanda.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Amol Rajan quizzes James Cleverly on Today: 'I can go and get a cup of tea'\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary James Cleverly told the BBC the government was in the \"final stages\" of agreeing the new treaty with Rwanda.\n\nAsked for a timescale of when flights would take off, Mr Cleverly said: \"We are working to make sure we can do that some time in the new year. We're keeping to the timescale we originally proposed.\"\n\nHe claimed MPs could vote to approve the treaty once it was agreed and pass new laws within days.\n\nBut, speaking later on Thursday, the prime minister's official spokesperson appeared to shift the timeframe, saying emergency legislation would be brought forward \"in the coming weeks\".\n\nHe said they wanted to do it as soon as possible, adding that the legislation would prevent \"systemic challenges\" being brought to try to question the policy before British courts.\n\nMany are already anticipating the new treaty will be challenged in the courts and Tory MPs will be demanding more detail on how the government thinks it can bypass human rights laws and international conventions.\n\nMr Hunt described the Supreme Court ruling as a \"setback\", but said ministers \"would not allow anything to get in the way of delivering the prime minister's pledge\" to put a stop to small boats of migrants crossing the Channel.\n\nEarlier, Mr Cleverly did not deny previously describing the policy as \"batshit\", as he defended the planned use of emergency laws to get planes off the ground.\n\nFormer Supreme Court Justice Lord Sumption said such a move \"won't make any difference\", after the Supreme Court ruling.\n\nMr Cleverly disagreed with the criticism and said a new treaty with Rwanda would allow flights to depart.\n\nIn their ruling on Wednesday, the Supreme Court justices said there were \"substantial grounds\" to believe the Rwandan government could deport people sent to the country to places where they would be unsafe.\n\nThey said Rwanda had entered into the agreement in \"good faith\" but the evidence cast doubt on its \"practical ability to fulfil its assurances, at least in the short term,\" to fix deficiencies in its asylum system and see through changes in procedure, understanding and culture which were needed.\n\nDoris Uwicyeza Picard, adviser to Rwanda's justice minister, told BBC's Newsday that Rwanda's government was offended by the judgement.\n\nShe pointed out that it was already hosting more than 130,000 refugees and had been commended by international organisations, including the UN, over the years for their treatment of refugees and guarantee of safety.\n\nAfter the ruling, Mr Sunak rejected calls to drop the plans and said he was working on a new treaty that would prevent genuine refugees from being sent back to where they had fled from.\n\nFacing pressure from Tory MPs on the right of his party, the prime minister promised to \"do what is necessary\" to enact the Rwanda policy, including changing UK laws.\n\nThe Supreme Court made it clear in its judgement that domestic legislation, as well as international treaties, were relevant to its decision to rule the Rwanda scheme unlawful.\n\nWith a general election expected next year, time is running out to change laws and pass legislation, which can take months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The home secretary said he did not remember privately ridiculing the government's Rwanda policy.\n\nLord Sumption, a former justice of the Supreme Court, told The Today Podcast on BBC Sounds the \"profoundly discreditable\" plan to use a law to declare Rwanda as safe was \"constitutionally really quite extraordinary\".\n\nHe argued it would \"effectively overrule a decision on the facts, on the evidence, by the highest court in the land\".\n\n\"I've never heard of a situation in which parliament intervenes to declare the facts - the safety or unsafety of Rwanda - to change the facts from those that have been declared by the courts to be correct,\" he said.\n\n\"The courts have perused hundreds of pages of documents to reach this decision. For Parliament simply to say the facts are different would be constitutionally really quite extraordinary.\"\n\nThe prime minister is facing calls to withdraw the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), an international treaty.\n\nMr Cleverly played down the possibility of the UK leaving the ECHR, which ensures human rights cases can be heard at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.\n\nThe first Rwanda flight was scheduled to depart in June 2022 but was cancelled after an intervention from the European Court of Human Rights.\n\nWhen asked if the government was prepared to leave the ECHR treaty, Mr Cleverly replied: \"I don't believe that will be necessary. I believe we can act in accordance with international law and we are very determined to do that.\"", "In a world first, medical regulators in the UK have approved a gene therapy that aims to cure two blood disorders.\n\nThe treatment for sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia is the first to be licensed using the gene-editing tool known as Crispr, for which its discoverers were awarded the Nobel prize in 2020.\n\nThis is a revolutionary advance for two inherited blood conditions, both triggered by errors in the gene for haemoglobin.\n\nPeople with sickle cell disease produce unusually shaped red blood cells that can cause problems because they do not live as long as healthy blood cells and can block blood vessels, causing pain and life-threatening infections.\n\nPeople with beta thalassaemia do not produce enough haemoglobin, which is used by red blood cells to carry oxygen around the body. Patients with beta thalassemia often need a blood transfusion every few weeks of their lives.\n\nDNA is the blueprint of life - and genes contain the instructions for how every cell in our body works.\n\nGene-editing allows the precise manipulation of DNA. The treatment involves removing bone marrow stem cells from a patient's blood.\n\nIn a laboratory, the gene-editing tool Crispr uses molecular scissors to make precise cuts in the DNA of the cells, thus disabling the faulty gene. The modified cells are infused back, allowing the body to start producing functioning haemoglobin.\n\nIn trials, 28 out of 29 sickle cell patients were free of severe pain and 39 of 42 beta thalassemia patients no longer needed blood transfusions for at least a year. It's hoped it could be a permanent fix.\n\nTrials are continuing in the UK, US, France, Germany and Italy.\n\nProf Josu de la Fuente from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is leading the UK trials in adults and children. He told the BBC he was delighted the drug had been licensed: \"This the kind of technology you read in science fiction books and you never thought would be reality ad here we are in my professional life being able to be part of the story and deliver it to patients.\"\n\nAround 15,000 people in the UK have sickle cell disease, most with an African or Caribbean family background. Almost 300 babies are born in the UK with sickle cell disease each year.\n\nMore than 1,000 people in the UK are affected by thalassemia, mainly those of Mediterranean, southeast Asian and Middle Eastern origin.\n\n\"Both sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia are painful, life-long conditions that in some cases can be fatal,\" said Julian Beach, interim executive director of healthcare quality and access at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).\n\n\"To date, a bone marrow transplant - which must come from a closely matched donor and carries a risk of rejection - has been the only permanent treatment option.\"\n\nBut now a \"first-of-its-kind\" gene-editing treatment called Casgevy has been authorised by the MHRA, he said.\n\nIn trials, it has been \"found to restore healthy haemoglobin production in the majority of participants with sickle-cell disease and transfusion-dependent beta thalassaemia, relieving the symptoms of disease\", he said.\n\nJimi Olaghere thought he would have to wait decades to be freed from his sickle cell disease - but he spoke to BBC News in 2022 after becoming one of the first seven sickle cell patients to have benefited from the revolutionary new gene-editing treatment in the US.\n\n\"It's like being born again,\" said Jimi. He spoke of how he felt it had changed his life. \"When I look back, it's like, 'Wow, I can't believe I lived with that.'\"\n\nJimi had lived with sickle cell since childhood. \"You always have to be in a war mindset, knowing that your days are going to be filled with challenges.\"\n\nJohn James OBE, Chief Executive of the Sickle Cell Society said: \"Sickle cell disorder is an incredibly debilitating condition, causing significant pain for the people who live it and potentially leading to early mortality.\n\n\"There are limited medicines currently available to patients, so I welcome today's news that a new treatment has been judged safe and effective, which has the potential to significantly improve the quality of life for so many.\"\n\nNo price has yet been set for Casgevy, but the one off treatment is likely to cost £1 million or more - which could be deemed too high a price for the NHS to bear. It will now be up to the health assessment body NICE to determine if it is cost-effective.\n\nIn April, a US think tank, ICER, said the drug would be cost effective if it was priced at no more than £1.5million.\n\nFor Casgevy, the drug is a personalised one-off treatment made from tweaking the patient's own cells - that makes it expensive and time-consuming. Add in the cost of research and development - there are just two labs one in the US and the other in the UK - currently producing the drug.\n\nThe Boston-based pharma company involved, Vertex, will want its product used as widely as possible so will need to set a price that health services here and abroad are prepared to pay.", "MPs gather to hear the result of the vote on the Gaza motion\n\nSir Keir Starmer has suffered a major rebellion over his stance on the Israel-Gaza war, with 56 Labour MPs voting for an immediate ceasefire.\n\nThe Labour leader had ordered the party's MPs to abstain in a vote on a motion tabled by the SNP on Wednesday.\n\nBut 10 frontbenchers including Jess Phillips, Afzal Khan and Yasmin Qureshi left their roles to back the motion, which was defeated by 125 votes to 294.\n\nFind out how your MP voted using the search box below.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive Did my MP vote For or Against calling for a ceasefire in Gaza? Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nClick here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services.\n\nThe motion, one of several proposed amendments to the King's Speech, condemned Hamas's \"horrific\" killings and hostage-taking, but urged the government to press all sides for \"an immediate ceasefire\".\n\nLabour's official position, like that of the government, is to call for \"humanitarian pauses\" in the fighting to allow more aid through. Sir Keir set this out in a separate amendment which was also defeated, but was backed by 160 Labour MPs.\n\nEight shadow ministers either resigned or were sacked after voting for the ceasefire motion. They were:\n\nTwo others, Dan Carden and Mary Foy, left their posts as parliamentary aides.", "Amiram Cooper, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Tsachi Idan are being held in Gaza\n\nIsrael says 132 people remain unaccounted for after they were abducted and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attacks by Hamas.\n\nAn estimated 240 people were taken prisoner, but 105 were later released by Hamas during a six-day ceasefire at the end of November.\n\nThe Israeli military said it mistakenly killed three hostages in northern Gaza who had escaped from their captors and expressed \"deep remorse\" over the incident.\n\nOf the 132 still unaccounted for, Israel says that 20 of them are believed to be dead.\n\nThese are the stories of those hostages who are still being held, which have either been confirmed by the BBC or credibly reported.\n\nThis list is regularly updated and names may change, as some people feared kidnapped are confirmed to have been killed or released.\n\nLast updated on 19 December 2023 at 10:33 GMT\n\nYagev Kirsht, 34, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim, alongside his wife, Rimon Buchstab Kirsht. She has now been released.\n\nAlexander Trupanov, was taken hostage with his mother Lena Trupanov, 50, his partner Sapir Cohen, 29, and his grandmother Irina Tati, 73. All were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz as they spent the Sabbath together, according to a statement by Canada's Raoul Wallenburg Center for Human Rights. Irina and Lena were released on Wednesday 29 November and Sapir was freed the next day.\n\nAriel Cunio, his girlfriend Arbel Yahud and her brother Dolev are also thought to have been abducted in the same attack on Nir Oz. Eitan Cunio, Ariel's brother who escaped Hamas, told the Jewish Chronicle that his last message from Ariel said: \"We are in a horror movie.\"\n\nDavid Cunio, 33, another of Ariel's brothers, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, family say. David's wife Sharon Aloni Cunio and their three-year-old twin daughters Ema and Yuly were released on 27 November. Sharon's sister Daniele Aloni, and her six-year-old daughter Emilia were both released on 24 November.\n\nDoron Steinbrecher, 30, a veterinary nurse, was in her apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas attacked, the Times of Israel reported. At 10:30 on 7 October, the newspaper said, she sent a voice message to friends: \"They've arrived, they have me.\"\n\nItzhak Gelerenter, 53, was taken from the Supernova festival. His family said the IDF found his phone was located in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported. His daughter Pivko told the paper: \"I'm trying to think good thoughts, I have a powerful, smart, resourceful father.\"\n\nDoron Steinbrecher sent a voice message to friends during Hamas' attack\n\nNaama Levy, 19, was filmed being bundled into a jeep, her hands tied behind her back. The footage was released by Hamas and circulated widely on social media. According to her mother, the teenager had just begun her military service.\n\nYousef Zyadna, a 53-year-old Bedouin dairy farmer, was abducted from Kibbutz Holit and taken to Gaza along with his sons Hamza, 22, and Bilal, 18, and his daughter, Aisha, 16. Aisha and Bilal were released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nElad Katzir, 47, was abducted from Nir Oz with his mother Hanna. Hanna has now been released.\n\nOhad Ben Ami, 55, was kidnapped from Be'eri with his wife, Raz. She was released by Hamas on 29 November.\n\nTwin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 26, were taken from Kfar Aza. Ziv was messaging a friend as the attack happened. Their family said the IDF has told them the brothers are being held in Gaza. Their brother Liran told CBN news the pair had \"twin power\" and were the centre of attention wherever they went.\n\nIraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 85, was taken captive from Kibbutz Kissufim, where he lived and worked as a chicken coop manager. His wife, Mazal, managed to escape.\n\nMichel Nisenbaum, 59, is a dual Brazilian-Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel for 45 years and works as a computer technician, his family told Brazilian media. They also say he is diabetic and has Crohn's disease. On 7 October, they say, someone claiming to be from Hamas answered his phone when they tried to call him.\n\nDaniela Gilboa, 19, sent messages saying that Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she was staying, was under attack and asked her mother to pray for her. Her boyfriend, Roy Dadon, told the Economist 1843 magazine that he believes he saw a glimpse of her in a video showing three girls being driven away in the back of an SUV.\n\nItay Chen, 19, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF solider, was on active duty with a tank unit on 7 October, according to the Times of Israel. The paper reported that his family was notified by the IDF that he is officially considered missing in action and probably being held hostage. Another soldier in his unit, Matan Angrest, 21, is also presumed to be in Gaza.\n\nYosi Sharabi, 51, was taken from Be'eri with his brother, Eli Sharabi, 55. Eli's wife and two daughters were murdered in the attack. Ofir Engel, the boyfriend of Yosi's daughter, Yuval, was also taken, but released on 29 November.\n\nAgam Berger, 19, was kidnapped from Nahal Oz. She was seen being taken away in videos released by Hamas.\n\nEdan Alexander, 19, is an Israeli-US citizen who volunteered to join the Israeli army. He was serving near the Gaza border at the time of Hamas's attack. Edan's family said they had been told by Israeli officials that he had been taken to Gaza as a hostage.\n\nKaid Farhan Elkadi, 53, lives with his family south of Rahat and worked as a security guard, according to Israeli media. Reports said his family believes he was kidnapped and taken to Gaza, based on images shared by Hamas.\n\nIlana Gritzewsky and Matan Zanguaker were captured near the Gaza border, family say\n\nMatan Zanguaker, 24, was taken with his partner Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, from Nir Oz, according to Ilana's father. Ilana, a Mexican national, was released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nThe family of Eitan and Yair Horn believe they were taken from Nir Oz kibbutz\n\nEitan Horn, 37, and his brother Yair, 45, both Argentinian citizens, were also in Nir Oz at the time of the attack. Their father Itzik said he believes they were kidnapped. Yair is a construction worker while Eitan works in education.\n\nItai Svirsky, 38, is thought to have been abducted when his elderly parents were killed in Be'eri. He had been visiting them for the holiday of Simhat Torah.\n\nKeith Seigel, 64, and his wife Adrienne - often known as Aviva - Seigel, 62, were taken from their home in Kfar Aza, Keith's brother Lee Seigel told the BBC. Adrienne was released on 26 November.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, lived in Nahal Oz with his wife and two daughters. Omri was led away by Hamas with his hands tied, his wife Lishay told the Guardian newspaper. She told him not to be a hero, urging: \"Do whatever they want because I want you back.\"\n\nBipin Joshi, 23, a Nepalese student, is believed to have been taken from Kibbutz Alumim. Nepalese newspaper Setopati says he was one of 49 university students studying agriculture in Israel. It says 10 students were killed in the attack.\n\nIlan Weiss, 58, went missing from Kibbutz Be'eri after he was last seen leaving the house to defend the community. On 25 November, his wife Shiri Weiss, 53, and their daughter, Noga, 18, were freed from captivity in a hostage deal.\n\nAmiram Cooper, 85, and his wife Nurit, 80, were taken from their home in Nir Oz, their daughter-in-law Noa told the BBC. The family last spoke to the couple during the Hamas attack, Noa said, when the couple were in their safe room. The family later traced Amiram's phone to Gaza. On Monday 23 October, Nurit was one of two women to be released.\n\nAmiram and Nurit Cooper, pictured with their granddaughter, Gali\n\nOded Lifshitz, 83, and his wife Yocheved, 85 were taken hostage from Nir Oz. On Monday 23 October, Yocheved was one of two elderly women to be freed. After hearing the news of her mother's release, their daughter Sharone - a London-based artist - said: \"While I cannot put into words the relief that she is now safe, I will remain focused on securing the release of my father and all those - some 200 innocent people - who remain hostages in Gaza.\"\n\nHaim Peri, 79, was taken from his home in Nir Oz, reports the Times of Israel, and freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz said she saw that he was alive and well. His son Lior Peri told Talk TV that Haim had locked his wife inside the safe room before giving himself up to kidnappers.\n\nAvraham Munder, 78, was kidnapped from Nir Oz, Israeli officials say. His wife Ruthi, daughter and grandson have since been released.\n\nOmer Neutra, a 22-year-old Israeli-American and grandson of Holocaust survivors, put off plans to go to college in the US to study in Israel, and eventually joined the IDF. He was serving as a tank commander near Gaza when Hamas attacked. Omer's parents say they were told by the Israeli embassy that he had been kidnapped.\n\nRon Benjamin's vehicle was found empty following the attacks\n\nRon Benjamin, 53, had been taking part in a group cycle ride near the Gaza border when the Hamas attack began and he decided to drive home, his family told Israeli media. Days later, his vehicle was found empty and his family believe he was kidnapped.\n\nLouis Har, 70, is believed to have been taken from Nir Yitzhak. His partner Clara Marman was released on 28 November along with her sister Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela's daughter Mia Leimberg,17. Clara and Gabriela's brother Fernando Simon Marman, 60, also remains in captivity.\n\nJudith Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 73, also went missing from Nir Oz after the Hamas attack. Ten days later, the Israeli military confirmed to the family they had been taken hostage, CTV News in Canada reported.\n\nAlex Danzig, 75, a scholar and historian of the Holocaust, was at his home in Nir Oz, when it was attacked by Hamas. \"We know for sure he was kidnapped,\" his son Mati told the BBC. Alex - whose older sister Edith is a Holocaust survivor - has spent the last 30 years working for Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust remembrance centre. His disappearance has triggered a campaign for his release, both in Israel and in Poland, the country of his birth.\n\nAlex Danzig has spent decades educating people about the Holocaust\n\nItzhk Elgarat, 68, was kidnapped at the same time as Alex Danzig, his brother Danny Elgert told Israel's Kan 11 TV station, adding that he had tracked his brother's phone to the border with Gaza.\n\nGadi Moses, 79, was also abducted during the same attack on Nir Oz, according to relatives and the Israeli aid agency where he worked as an agricultural expert. Efrat Katz, his partner, was initially thought to have been captured as well, but she was later found dead, the Times of Israel reported. Efrat was the mother of Doron Asher, who was taken hostage and later released with her two daughters. Ravid Katz, 51, Doron Asher's brother, was originally thought to have been taken hostage from Nir Oz, but on 28 November his family confirmed that he had been killed on 7 October.\n\nYair Yaakov, 59, is listed among the hostages. His partner Meirav Tal, 53, was released on 28 November. Yair's children Yagil, 13, and Or, 16, were released on 27 November.\n\nYair Yaakov was pictured being held captive by a gunman in a video shared online\n\nNimrod Cohen, 19, had studied software engineering in high school, according to reports. After he was kidnapped, his father was invited to meet Pope Francis in Rome along with other hostages' families.\n\nTsachi Idan, 51, was last seen by his wife, Gali, as he was taken away by Hamas gunmen. Their family had been ambushed in their safe room in Nahal Oz. Their ordeal was live-streamed by Hamas. Their eldest child, Maayan - who had just turned 18 - was shot dead, Gali told the BBC.\n\nTsachi Idan was ambushed with his wife and children and then led away\n\nYarden Bibas, 34, was abducted from Nir Oz. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were also taken hostage, but on 29 November, Hamas claimed they had been killed in an Israeli air strike while in captivity. The Israeli government has said it is checking the claim.\n\nRonen Engel, 54, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife, Karina Engelbert, 51, and their two daughters, Mika, 18 and Yuval, 11. On 1 December, the organisation representing the families said he had been murdered. Karina, Mika and Yuval were released on 27 November.\n\nKarina Ariev, a 19-year-old soldier, was serving at an army base near Gaza when she was kidnapped. Her sister Alexandra told the BBC she heard shooting as Karina called her during the attack, and later saw a video showing Karina being taken away in a vehicle.\n\nKarina Ariev was at the Nahal Oz military base, which was among the first to be attacked\n\nOfer Kalderon, 53, was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz. On 27 November his two children, Erez, 12, and Sahar, 16, were released. Two other relatives, 80-year-old Carmela Dan and her granddaughter, Noya, 12, were also believed to have been taken, but Israeli authorities later announced they had been found dead.\n\nYoram Metzger, 80, was a resident of Nir Oz. He has diabetes and broke his hip six months ago, his daughter-in-law said. Yoram's wife Tamar was released on 28 November.\n\nNadav Popplewell, 51, and his mother Channah were taken hostage by Hamas, said Channah's daughter Ayelet Svatitzky, who was speaking to them on the phone when the gunmen burst in. She said the captors sent pictures of her two relatives, who both have diabetes, with armed men in the background. Channah has now been released.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, was abducted after his family opened the door to their secure shelter to an Israeli child, who said he would be killed otherwise. Omri's wife, Lishay Lavi, said she saw him being taken away in handcuffs with three other hostages from Nahal Oz.\n\nLiri Elbag, 18, had just started military training as an Army lookout near the Gaza border when Hamas attacked, her father Eli told the Associated Press. Eli said he saw her in a video circulated later by Hamas, crowded with others on the back of a military truck which had been seized by the gunmen.\n\nLior Rudaeff, 61, was taken from Nir Yitzhak during the attack. His family have heard nothing from him since then.\n\nA number of people are believed to have been abducted from the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Among them:\n\nShlomi Ziv, 40, was part of the security detail at the festival and was initially in contact with his sisters as the attack unfolded, according to an interview with The Times of Israel. A few weeks later the family learned he was officially considered to be a hostage, the report says.\n\nAlexander Lobanov, 32, is a Russian-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped at the festival.\n\nOri Danino, 25, is reported to have got away from the festival in his car, but it's believed he was captured after turning back in an attempt to save some people he had met there.\n\nAlmog Sarusi, 26, was kidnapped from the music festival and his partner Shahar Gindi was killed, according to Israeli media. Almog's father, Yigal, was among the relatives of hostages who met with Israel's prime minister in October.\n\nOmer Shem Tov, 21, called his parents as he was running away from gunfire and managed to get into a friend's car. His parents, Shelly and Malki Shem Tov, told Israeli media they lost contact with their son and the live location on his phone showed he was beyond the border in Gaza.\n\nIdan Shtivi, 28, an environmental sciences student, was attending the festival to take pictures at music and yoga workshops being held by friends. He escaped the site in his car but was attacked by Hamas along the route. The bodies of two of his passengers were found, and his family told the Jerusalem Post they suspect he was kidnapped.\n\nYosef Ohana, 24, had been at the festival with a friend, who told his mother he and Yosef had remained to help people escape the gunfire before running themselves. Yosef was last seen hiding under a car, and Israeli authorities have visited his mother to say he was kidnapped.\n\nAndrei Kozlov, 27, a Russian who moved to Israel in 2022, is missing from the Supernova festival, where he was working as a security guard. His mother told the De Taly publication the family was told by the IDF on October 26 that he was being held hostage.\n\nElyakim Libman, 23, was working as a security guard at the festival. In a Facebook post his father Eliyahu Libman said another guard told him his son had helped rescue others before trying to escape. He was last seen trying to help two badly-injured women.\n\nNoa Argamani, a Chinese-born Israeli citizen, was also kidnapped from the festival. Video footage - verified by her father Yaakov Argamani to Israel's Channel 12 - shows the 25-year-old being taken away on the back of a motorbike screaming, \"Don't kill me!\" Her boyfriend Avinatan Or, 30, also appears in the video being marched away from her by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nEden Yerushalmi's family say they were told she had been taken hostage\n\nEden Yerushalmi, 24, called her family during Hamas's attack on the festival, her sister May told CBS News. The family say they were subsequently informed by the IDF that Eden had been abducted.\n\nChanan Yablonka, 42, is a father-of-two from Tel Aviv. According to reports, he attended the festival with friends and was due to celebrate his birthday a few days after the attacks.\n\nJonathan Samerano, 21, has been missing since 7am on the morning of the festival. His family have been told to presume he is being held in Gaza, Israeli media reported.\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal was filmed in captivity in Gaza, his family say\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, attended the festival with his brother. Guy appears in a hostage video that his family say confirms he is in Gaza.\n\nUriel Baruch, 35, was injured during the attack on the festival, his wife said on Facebook. Reports in Israeli media say his mother, Naomi, has heard from the IDF that he is a hostage.\n\nMaxim Kharkin's mother described speaking to him on the morning of 7 October\n\nMaxim Kharkin is aged 35 and a Russian speaker, his mother told Russian media. She added that he had called her at 07:00 on the morning of the attack.\n\nElkana Bohbot was seen in a video posted by Hamas\n\nElkana Bohbot, 34, had gone to the party with friends and, before losing contact, he spoke to his wife and mother telling them he was helping to evacuate the wounded, the Times of Israel reported. Hours later, his family found a video of him posted online by Hamas, which has been seen by BBC Verify.\n\nRom Braslavski, 19, was working on security for the festival. According to an account published by Hostages and Missing Families Forum, he was trying to rescue an injured person in the attack when he was caught in a volley of fire. He has not been heard from since.\n\nOmer Wenkert, 22, a restaurant manager, sent a message to his family to say he was going to a safe shelter but then lost contact, his father Shai Wenkert told the BBC's Today Programme. Shai Wenkert said he had seen footage of his son in captivity, including a photo of him handcuffed and wearing only underwear.\n\nEvyatar David's family say they were sent a video of him in captivity\n\nEvyatar David, 23, was at the festival and on the morning of the attacks, described fleeing from gunfire before losing contact with the outside world, his brother says. Later, his family say, Evyatar's sister posted on Instagram appealing for information about his whereabouts. She then received a text from an unknown number, which contained video footage of Evyatar handcuffed on the floor of a dark room. According to Israel's foreign ministry he is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nEitan Mor, 23, lives in Jerusalem, and was working as a security guard at the festival, the Times of Israel said. He reportedly texted his uncle after Hamas arrived and was last seen with a friend bringing others to safety.\n\nAlon Ohel, 22, a Serbian citizen, took refuge in a shelter after the festival came under attack, his family say. They have seen footage of him being dragged away after a grenade attack.\n\nAlmog Meir Jan, 21, tried to flee the festival. He and a friend made it to the friend's car but only managed to drive a short distance before being forced to stop. Almog's family say they have seen a hostage video in which he appears.\n\nInbar Heiman, a student aged 21, was seen by two young Israeli men being taken away from the festival on a motorcycle. Hamas have released a video in which she is seen very briefly.\n\nHersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual US-Israeli citizen, was badly injured in the attack, his family told the BBC. Eyewitness accounts say he was seen being forced onto a white pick-up truck - the last-known signal from his phone came from just inside Gaza.\n\nSegev Kalfon, 26, was running away from the festival, across the highway, when he was captured by Hamas, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.\n\nOrión Hernández Radoux, 30, from Mexico, attended the festival with his girlfriend, Shani Louk. He has not been seen since. The Sun newspaper says it has seen threatening messages written in Arabic sent from his phone. Shani, a tourist from Germany, was initially thought to be among those seized. But on 30 October, her mother Ricarda told German media that the family had been informed by Israeli military of her death following DNA identification.\n\nRomi Lesham Gonen, 23, was on the phone to her mother as she tried to escape from the Supernova festival. Merav Leshem Gonan has recounted a conversation in which her daughter begged for help after being shot. ABC News reports that Romi's phone is now in Gaza.\n\nBar Kuperstein, 21, last spoke to his family early on the morning of 7 October, as the attack unfolded. Later the same day, his family say they identified him in a video of Israeli prisoners, posted by Hamas. Since then, they say they have had no further information.\n\nEliya Cohen, 26, was hiding with his girlfriend Ziv from the attack, when Ziv felt him being pulled up and driven away by the gunmen, Eliya's mother has told the video initiative #BringThemHomeNow. The family then found a photo of Eliya in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nAmit Buskila, 28, from Ashdod, was last heard of making a call to her uncle, Shimon, as Hamas overran the festival. Her family say they have now been told by the government that she is being held in Gaza.\n\nCarmel Gat, 39, is Jordan's sister-in-law, and also was seen by her father being taken by gunmen from Kibbutz Be'eri, Haaretz newspaper reported. She has not been heard from since.\n\nOhad Yahalomi, 49, was abducted from Nir Oz, along with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the November ceasefire.\n\nDror Or, 48, was seen by a neighbour being dragged out of his home in Be'eri, according to their nephew Emmanuel Besorai, along with his son and daughter. On Saturday 25 November Dror's son Noam, 17, and daughter Alma, 13, were released from captivity. The body of Yonat, 50 - Dror's wife and the children's mother - was identified among the 120 people murdered at the kibbutz, Yonat's brother told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nTal Shoham, 38, was taken from Kibbutz Be'eri. His wife Adi, also 38, her mother Dr Shoshan Haran, 67, were released by Hamas on 25 November, along with the couple's children Nave, eight, and Yahel, three. Dr Haran's husband, Avshalom - an economist and dual German/Israeli citizen - was killed on 7 October.\n\nTamir Adar, 38, who defended Nir Oz as part of the kibbutz's emergency squad, was taken to Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen, 35, an American-Israeli citizen, has been missing since Hamas's attack on Nir Oz, his father Jonathan told the BBC. He said his son was not found among the dead and the \"only reasonable explanation\" is that he was taken to Gaza.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen's father has not heard from him since Hamas attacked the kibbutz where he lived\n\nThailand's ambassador to Israel says 26 of its citizens were taken hostage, 23 of whom have now been released.\n\nThose still being held are believed to include Watchara Sriuan, 32. His mother, Viewwaew, told the Thaiger news site that the family had been informed he was being held captive.\n\nKiattisak \"Top\" Patee and a Mr Pongtorn (no first name given) have also been named by the Thai foreign ministry as hostages.\n\nA number of other people thought to have been held hostage are now confirmed to have died, either during the 7 October attack or while in captivity.\n\nAs well as Ron Scherman and Nik Beizer, four bodies were identified this week. They were Tal Chaimi, an Israeli-Romanian citizen aged 41, and Joshua Mollel, a 19-year-old Tanzanian student. Also, 27-year-old Eden Zecharya, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and 36-year-old Ziv Dado, who had already been declared dead by the Israeli military.\n\nOthers known to have died include Dror Kaplun, 68, Aviv Atzili, 49, Arye Zalmanovich, 85, Ronen Engel, 54, Maya Goren, 56, Guy Iluz, 26, Ofir Tzarfati, 27, Ofra Keider, 70, and Eliyahu Margalit, 75.\n\nThe bodies of 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, and 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss were found by Israeli troops in buildings close to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.\n\nOn Saturday 9 December Kibbutz Bari announced that Sahar Baruch, 25, had been killed in Gaza.\n\nOther hostages whose death has been reported, but not confirmed include Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Gen Gwyn Jenkins, right, pictured with the former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, received warnings about SAS raids.\n\nOne of the UK's most senior generals was warned in writing in 2011 that SAS soldiers were claiming to have executed handcuffed detainees in Afghanistan.\n\nBBC Panorama can reveal that Gen Gwyn Jenkins, who is now the second most senior officer in the British armed forces, received accounts of conversations in which members of the SAS described extrajudicial killings.\n\nBut instead of referring the evidence to military police, Gen Jenkins placed it in a classified dossier and locked it in a safe.\n\nThe failure to refer the evidence to military police has previously been disclosed in court, but the identities of the officers involved were withheld from the public by the Ministry of Defence.\n\nGen Jenkins - who was at the time a colonel in the senior ranks of special forces - created the classified dossier in April 2011 after first briefing his direct superior, then-head of special forces Gen Jonathan Page, on the nature of the evidence.\n\nUnder British law, commanding officers are legally obliged to inform the military police if they are made aware of any evidence that a war crime may have been committed.\n\nBut the dossier containing the testimony remained locked in the safe for four years, known only to a handful of officers, as Gen Jenkins rose through the ranks of the armed forces, until a separate special forces whistleblower informed the Royal Military Police of its existence.\n\nThe same month that Gen Jenkins created the classified dossier, he became head of all United Kingdom Special Forces in Afghanistan. He would go on to become the director of UK Special Forces and then vice chief of the defence staff, the second most senior position in the military - a promotion that saw him jump from a two-star to a four-star general.\n\nAllegations of extrajudicial killings by British special forces in Afghanistan are currently the subject of a judge-led public inquiry at the Royal Courts of Justice, following reporting by the BBC and others into night raids conducted by the SAS.\n\nLast year, Panorama revealed that one SAS squadron had killed 54 people in suspicious circumstances in one six-month tour that ended in May 2011.\n\nIn March 2011, Gen Jenkins was the commanding officer of the Special Boat Service (SBS), the naval equivalent of the SAS, making him one of the most senior officers in UK Special Forces.\n\nThat month, an officer under his command reported a conversation in which a member of the SAS had allegedly confessed to him that units from the elite army regiment were unlawfully killing unarmed people and detainees during aggressive, fast-moving night raids.\n\nGen Jenkins instructed the officer to write a formal statement. In it, the officer wrote that the SAS soldier had told him that SAS units were killing all fighting-age males during night raids, regardless of whether they posed a threat.\n\nFighting-age males were defined by the special forces teams as anyone believed to be 15 years or over.\n\n\"In one case it was mentioned a pillow was put over the head of an individual being killed with a pistol,\" the SBS officer wrote.\n\nThe officer also wrote that the SAS soldier implied that weapons were planted on or near the bodies of unarmed Afghans killed in the raids and then photographed in order to justify the killings - a tactic known in the military as using \"drop weapons\".\n\nAfter reading the officer's statement, Gen Jenkins wrote directly to his superior, General Jonathan Page, then the director of UK Special Forces.\n\nUnder the subject line, \"ALLEGATIONS OF EJK BY [UKSF]\" - in which EJK stands for \"extrajudicial killings\" - Gen Jenkins wrote that he had been aware \"for some time\" of rumours that the SAS was \"conducting summary executions of supposed Taliban affiliates\".\n\n\"However, I have now been given more information of a nature which makes me seriously concerned for the reputation of [UK Special Forces],\" he wrote.\n\nThe SAS operated in some of the most dangerous areas in southern Afghanistan, often raiding homes in Helmand Province.\n\nGen Jenkins warned Gen Page that there appeared to be \"an unofficial policy\" among SAS squadrons to kill any fighting-age Afghan male during a raid, \"regardless of the immediate threat they pose to our troops\".\n\nHe wrote: \"In some instances this has involved the deliberate killing of individuals after they have been restrained by [the SAS] and the subsequent fabrication of evidence to suggest a lawful killing in self-defence.\"\n\nGen Jenkins concluded that he felt \"most strongly that thorough investigation is warranted\".\n\nTwo days later, Gen Page's assistant chief of staff sent Gen Page a classified memo that reiterated Gen Jenkins' concerns, writing that several whistleblowers within the SBS had reported hearing similar accounts from members of the SAS, and that Gen Jenkins thought the whistleblowers' testimony was credible.\n\n\"My instinct is that this merits deeper investigation, hopefully to put minds at rest… or at worst to put a stop to criminal behaviour,\" the assistant chief of staff wrote.\n\nThe day after he wrote to Gen Page detailing his concerns, Gen Jenkins set up what is known as a \"controlled-access security compartment\" - a classified file that limited access to the whistleblower testimony to a small number of officers within UK Special Forces.\n\nThe compartment was labelled: \"Anecdotal evidence suggesting [extrajudicial killings] have been carried out by members of [the SAS] in Afghanistan\".\n\nOfficial UK Special Forces paperwork said the purpose of the compartment was to \"provide an additional level of control over the handling and briefing of the more sensitive aspects of this matter\".\n\nIt continued: \"This is because dissemination of the information protected by this Compartment could cause severe damage to the reputation of [UKSF], could prejudice further investigation, and could disrupt current operations\".\n\nIn evidence to the High Court in 2020, as part of a case brought by one of the Afghan families whose relatives were killed in a night raid, Col Robert Morris of the Royal Military Police said that the controlled access compartment created by Gen Jenkins had prevented the RMP from accessing the evidence for years.\n\nGen Page responded to Gen Jenkins' memo by commissioning a rare formal review of the tactics used by SAS units on night raids. A special forces officer was deployed to Afghanistan to interview personnel from the SAS squadron under scrutiny.\n\nAs vice chief of defence staff, Gen Jenkins was photographed meeting the King last year after the death of the Queen\n\nBut the officer - an SAS major who had recently commanded a squadron in Afghanistan - appeared to take the squadron's version of events at face value. The BBC understands that the officer did not visit any of the sites of the raids or interview any witnesses outside of the military, and his review was conducted in less than a week. Court documents show that his report was signed off by the commanding officer of the SAS unit responsible for the suspicious killings.\n\nFollowing the appointment of Gen Jenkins as head of UK Special Forces in Afghanistan, in April 2011, the suspected executions of unarmed Afghan people continued. Back in London, senior special forces officers had begun to keep a tally of suspicious incidents. But at no point did anyone in special forces leadership, including Gen Jenkins and Gen Page, refer the matter to military police.\n\nUnder the Armed Forces Act 2006, commanding officers are legally obliged to inform the military police if they have any reason to suspect a war crime may have been carried out by their troops and can be prosecuted for failing to make a referral.\n\nGen Jenkins served for a year as the head of UK Special Forces in Afghanistan, before returning to the UK to join the government as military assistant to Prime Minister David Cameron, a role he held until 2014.\n\nThat year, the Royal Military Police embarked on an investigation that examined dozens of suspected extrajudicial killings by the SAS squadron on tour in the first half of 2011. The investigation was later closed with no charges brought - a decision that caused consternation among some members of the government and senior levels of the civil service.\n\nMilitary police investigators have told the BBC that they were not allowed to conduct a thorough and independent probe into the SAS killings. The investigators said they were blocked from interviewing key witnesses and collecting forensic evidence and ordered to drop official suspects.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence told the BBC that it was fully committed to supporting the public inquiry it established in 2022, which is currently taking place at the Royal Courts of Justice, and that it would not be appropriate to comment on any allegations that may be within the inquiry's scope.\n\nNeither Gen Jenkins nor Gen Page responded to the BBC's requests for comment.\n\nDo you have information about this story that you want to share?\n\nGet in touch using SecureDrop, a highly anonymous and secure way of whistleblowing to the BBC which uses the TOR network.\n\nOr by using the Signal messaging app, an end-to-end encrypted message service designed to protect your data.\n\nPlease note that the SecureDrop link will only work in a Tor browser. For information on keeping secure and anonymous, here's some advice on how to use SecureDrop.", "Shawn Seesahai was described by his mother as a \"courageous, compassionate and confident young soul\"\n\nTwo boys aged 12 have been charged with murdering a 19-year-old man.\n\nShawn Seesahai died when he was fatally stabbed in Wolverhampton on Monday evening. The boys were arrested a day later.\n\nThe pair, who cannot be named due to their age, are set to appear before Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nMr Seesahai's mother has described her son as a \"courageous, compassionate and confident young soul\".\n\nThe boys have also been charged with possession of a bladed article.\n\nWest Midlands Police said the incident happened on open land off Laburnum Road shortly before 20:30 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe force added patrols in the area were continuing to offer reassurance to the public.\n\nIn a tribute issued through the police earlier on Thursday, Mr Seesahai's mother, who was not named, said her son was a \"generous person\" who had a \"good personality\".\n\n\"He was looking forward to accomplish many future plans and ambitions,\" she said.\n\n\"We will always have him in our hearts.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"Not the week I was hoping for since finishing chemo,\" says Amy Dowden after breaking her foot\n\nStrictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden's hopes of returning to the show this year have been dashed by a broken foot.\n\nThe dancer posted a snap on Instagram of herself pointing at the large plastic boot she now has to wear.\n\nThe 33-year-old from Caerphilly, who has been undergoing cancer treatment, last week celebrated her final round of chemotherapy.\n\nAmy said she was heartbroken by the injury, adding: \"2023 is certainly not my year. Roll on 2024 I say!\"\n\n\"Not the week I was hoping for since finishing chemo,\" she wrote on Instagram, after she \"unfortunately gained a boot for a fractured foot\".\n\n\"Absolutely gutted and heartbroken, as this means the plans for me to dance in the Strictly ballroom this year are no longer possible,\" she said.\n\n\"This is what has kept me going the past few months.\"\n\nAmy discovered a lump in her breast in April, a day before she was due to fly on her honeymoon to the Maldives with her husband Ben.\n\nShe has been spreading awareness of breast cancer throughout her treatment explaining how she was prompted to check herself ahead of a trek with the breast cancer charity Coppafeel!", "Paul Mosley was jailed along with Mick and Mairead Philpott for the manslaughter of six children\n\nA man convicted of killing six children in a deliberate fire can be released from prison following a parole hearing.\n\nPaul Mosley was jailed along with Mick and Mairead Philpott for the manslaughter of six children in a house fire in Derby in 2012.\n\nHe was released in May 2021 after serving half of his sentence, but was returned to prison in 2022 after breaching the terms of his parole.\n\nThe Parole Board confirmed the decision on Wednesday.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We can confirm that a panel of the Parole Board has directed the release of Paul Mosley following an oral hearing.\n\n\"Parole Board decisions are solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public if released and whether that risk is manageable in the community.\n\n\"A panel will carefully examine a huge range of evidence, including details of the original crime, and any evidence of behaviour change, as well as explore the harm done and the impact the crime has had on the victims.\"\n\nThe six children all died as a result of the fire in Victory Road, Derby, in 2012\n\nThe parole hearing took place on 24 October.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"This was a horrific crime and our thoughts remain with the victims and their families.\n\n\"Paul Mosley will be under the close supervision of the Probation Service and can be recalled to prison if he breaches the strict conditions of his release.\"\n\nMosley was sentenced to 17 years in prison after a trial heard how he helped the Philpotts start the fire at their home in Victory Road.\n\nThe couple's children Jade, 10, and brothers John, nine, Jack, seven, Jesse, six, and Jayden, five, died on the morning of the blaze on 11 May 2012.\n\nDwayne, who was 13, died in hospital three days later.\n\nMosley and the Philpotts were jailed in 2013.\n\nMairead Philpott was sentenced to 17 years in prison and was released on licence in 2020.\n\nMick Philpott was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 15 years.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This picture taken on 12 November shows displaced Palestinians seeking shelter in tents outside Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City\n\nAl-Shifa is the main hospital in Gaza City - I've been there many times. It has big grounds, so people in Gaza went there to seek shelter and camp out as they saw it as a safe area.\n\nIt has now become a symbol of the juxtaposition of the war - the Israeli invasion of Gaza inflicting masses of casualties and damage, set against the crisis of urgent humanitarian need inside the hospital.\n\nThe Israelis have made a very big point about saying that, as well as going after the Hamas military command, they have brought in some fuel and incubators, because there has been a very concerning claim that premature babies in Al-Shifa Hospital had to be taken out of their incubators.\n\nHowever, the issue isn't a lack of incubators, it's a lack of fuel. Until Wednesday, Israel hadn't allow fuel into the Gaza Strip because they argued that Hamas would steal it and use it.\n\nSome 23,000 litres (5,060 gallons) of fuel has now been allowed in, but it is only to be used to refuel UN lorries. The UN says the delivery comprises only a fraction of what's needed for humanitarian operations, and the entry of fuel to run generators at hospitals and at water and sanitation facilities remains banned.\n\nIsrael says Hamas has stockpiles of its own, and that it should use that fuel for the generators supplying the hospital electrical system.\n\nSo there are a lot of strands coming together in what's unfolding in Al-Shifa Hospital this morning, but that's not the whole war - it will continue once this particular operation is over.\n\nAt the same time, we have seen a hardening of the international position around the Israeli offensive in the last few days with the US, the UK and France using language that is shifting the tone - perhaps summed up best by what US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last weekend: \"Far too many\" Palestinian civilians have been killed.\n\nThe Israelis knew this shift would come because this is a repeat of the pattern we have seen many times before with Israel's military operations. They talk about different clocks running during any operation.\n\nOne is military: how long do they need before they accomplish their military objectives? The other is diplomatic: how long does Israel hold legitimacy to carry out that operation before its allies say, \"you've killed enough people, civilians, you need to stop now please.\"\n\nIsrael feels that because of the absolute enormity of the numbers of casualties in the Hamas attacks on 7 October, they have more time than usual, and I think they have gone in - as we can see from the levels of casualties in Gaza - using a great deal of force.\n\nI have seen some estimates that suggest the Israel Defense Forces will continue to work in this way for a couple more weeks, but I think the forces are gathering among their allies to say you need to change the nature of your military operation.\n\nThat doesn't necessarily translate to a call for this to stop - certainly we haven't yet heard a call for a ceasefire from the British or the Americans.", "Gracie Spinks, 23, was murdered by Michael Sellers, who then killed himself\n\nA man took his own life after killing a former colleague who had rejected him romantically, a coroner has concluded.\n\nMichael Sellers killed himself shortly after killing Gracie Spinks in Duckmanton in Derbyshire on the morning of 18 June 2021.\n\nThe same coroner has now concluded that Sellers' death was suicide, following an inquest at Chesterfield Coroner's Court.\n\nMichael Sellers, 35, met Gracie Spinks when they worked for a firm called Xbite\n\nMatthew Kewley, assistant coroner for Derby and Derbyshire, said: \"What Michael Sellers did was effectively remove himself from any form of accountability for his actions towards Gracie Spinks.\"\n\nSpeaking about the way he killed Miss Spinks, which was by repeatedly stabbing her, the coroner said: \"This was not a spur of the moment act of violence. His actions were premeditated and carefully planned.\n\n\"The level of violence that he displayed during the murder is beyond comprehension.\"\n\nMiss Spinks was murdered after going to look after her horse Paddy at stables in Duckmanton\n\nSellers was 35 when he died and lived at home in Sheffield with his parents and sister.\n\nThe inquest heard he had no known history of violence before he killed Miss Spinks.\n\nDet Con Denise Sandall, who investigated Miss Spinks's murder and Sellers' death, said he seemed to have had a \"normal upbringing\".\n\n\"He did, yes, he had a stable, normal upbringing,\" she said, agreeing with a question from the coroner.\n\n\"Normal education. He probably lived a middle class life in a way. He had a normal life.\"\n\nHowever, she said Sellers spent \"a lot of time with his family, didn't appear to have any close friends, and had never had a girlfriend\".\n\nHe started working for Xbite, an e-commerce firm in Chesterfield, in 2015.\n\nThis was where he met Miss Spinks, who started working in the warehouse in April 2020 after being furloughed from her normal job as a swimming instructor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMiss Spinks's inquest heard Sellers had previously harassed multiple other female colleagues before he became obsessed with Miss Spinks.\n\nIn his findings at Sellers' inquest, the coroner said: \"Michael Sellers seemed incapable of understanding how to behave towards his female colleagues.\n\n\"He would latch on to women who showed him attention. He would think that relationships were more than they actually were. He would give unwanted attention and he made some of those women feel uncomfortable.\n\n\"The evidence that I've heard suggests that he lacked even a shred of insight into his own behaviour and how he made those women feel.\"\n\nThe coroner said Miss Spinks had the \"misfortune\" of meeting Sellers at work.\n\n\"They met up several times outside of work but they never entered into any sort of boyfriend-girlfriend relationship,\" he said.\n\nMiss Spinks then \"politely and kindly\" told Sellers she did not wish to continue seeing him in a message on 16 December 2020, the coroner said.\n\n\"I have read that message several times over the last few weeks and it is patently clear that Gracie was trying to let him down gently,\" said the coroner.\n\n\"That should have been the end of it.\"\n\nHowever, the coroner said Sellers then became \"utterly obsessed with Gracie\".\n\n\"He continued to harass her despite her making it clear that she didn't want a relationship with him,\" the coroner said.\n\n\"He abused his power over a junior colleague, encouraging him to effectively spy on Gracie and provide feedback on what she was doing.\"\n\nSellers bought knives to kill Miss Spinks, which were found in his rucksack by a woman walking her dog\n\nSellers was dismissed from Xbite in early 2021 after Miss Spinks complained about his behaviour, which included him waiting in his car, near to the field where she kept her horse, on 4 January 2021.\n\nHe then bought several knives online on 11 March.\n\n\"I find there is no other explanation for him purchasing these knives other than to wish to use them to kill Gracie, so it follows that Michael Sellers must have formed an intention to kill Gracie by 11 March 2021,\" said the coroner.\n\nOn 6 May 2021 a woman walking her dog found a rucksack belonging to Sellers near to where Miss Spinks kept her horse, and she reported this to police because the bag contained three knives and a note saying \"don't lie\".\n\nSellers then bought more knives on the same day his rucksack was found.\n\nHis inquest heard he and Miss Spinks both left their homes on the morning of 18 June 2021 and drove to where she kept her horse in Duckmanton.\n\n\"It's most likely that he lay in wait for her arrival,\" said the coroner.\n\n\"Having killed Gracie Spinks, Michael Sellers then headed towards a field nearby. He was then found dead at 11am on 18 June 2021.\"\n\nThe coroner said he was certain Sellers had died by suicide for the following reasons:\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Jones bites his bronze medal he won at the European Blackball Championships in Malta in November\n\nA man who bought a pool table after winning £2.4m on the National Lottery has now won a bronze medal for England in a tournament in Malta.\n\nFormer tiler Neil Jones, 59, from Stoke-on-Trent, won the money with his partner just before Christmas in 2010.\n\nHe retired and bought a professional-grade pool table so he could practise.\n\nHe played at the European Blackball Championships earlier this month after being picked to captain the England B1 team in an over-50s Masters category.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC ahead of the tournament, he said: \"There was an open trial for anyone who wants to trial for England, and I got in. That's when it became real.\n\n\"It's overwhelming and you just think, I wish my dad was here,\" he added. He has now dedicated the bronze medal to his late father.\n\nMr Jones said that before the lottery win he had just £13 in his pocket and did not have enough money to get through Christmas.\n\nBut a celebration at a pool hall with friends led to Mr Jones measuring up his dining room so he could buy a decent pool table.\n\nAt the tournament, his team played other second-level over-50s sides from France, Spain, Belgium, Ireland and Gibraltar, before losing to Wales in the semi-final. Scotland won the gold medal in the final.\n\nMr Jones said: \"It was the most amazing journey and I can't believe that we won a medal. I am so proud.\n\n\"The [lottery] win allowed me to retire and practise, which I couldn't have done while I was still working.\"\n\nThe 59-year-old says he couldn't have afforded a professional-grade pool table before the win\n• None 'I won the lottery and now I'm playing for England'", "Nigel Farage waded in gunk to help his fellow campmates\n\nThe return of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! was watched by an average of seven million viewers on Sunday according to overnight ratings.\n\nThat's just over two million fewer than watched the first episode last year, which attracted 9.1m.\n\nNigel Farage, who is earning £1.5m for taking part, said he is \"a hero\" to some people and \"a villain\" to others.\n\n\"In the jungle you're going to find the real me,\" the former Ukip and Brexit Party leader promised viewers.\n\nHe is the latest political figure to star on the ITV show, following in the footsteps of the former health secretary, Matt Hancock, last year.\n\nHe was paid £320,000 last year, according to the register of MPs' financial interests.\n\nLast year, the public voted for Hancock to take part in a range of unpleasant bushtucker trials.\n\nAnd Farage has already been chosen by the public to take part in the next trial after his debut on the show - alongside social media sensation Nella Rose in a game called \"Jungle Pizzeria\".\n\nIn the opening episode, Farage and two other campmates - This Morning host Josie Gibson and YouTuber Rose - were dumped in the middle of the Australian outback.\n\nTheir task was to battle slime and snakes as they sought to win time for their fellow campmates, who were participating in other challenges thousands of miles away.\n\nGibson rummaged in barrels full of gunk in the first episode\n\nFarage, who came dressed in a pink shirt and chinos, said he was excited to try \"something different in life\", to which Gibson replied: \"It can't be worse than Brexit.\"\n\nHe hit back: \"Oh… didn't take long did it? Didn't take long. I had a feeling we'd get a bit of that.\"\n\nHe then got straight into the challenges, sticking his head through the window of a campervan filled with snakes while unable to use his hands.\n\nHe was joined by Rose, who looked terrified at the prospect of the tasks.\n\nYoutuber Nella Rose had her work cut out for her\n\nRose has a million followers on TikTok, plus 900,000 on Instagram and nearly 800,000 on YouTube.\n\nThe show's producers will be hoping she can help engage younger audiences.\n\nOther contestants this year include Jamie Lynn Spears, who said in her introductory video that she was \"best known for being an actress and a singer\".\n\nShe is also - and arguably better - known for being the younger sister of pop star Britney, who recently released a memoir.\n\nSpears, Hollyoaks actor Nick Pickard and JLS singer Marvin Humes had to face a skydive before entering the camp.\n\nSpears later said the dive had been like \"living out my childhood dreams of being a fairy\".\n\nJamie Lynn Spears tackled a skydive in the first episode\n\nOther contestants this year include the restaurant critic and MasterChef guest judge Grace Dent, TV presenter Fred Sirieix, reality star Sam Thompson and former EastEnders actress Danielle Harold.\n\nThe foursome arrived by helicopter on the top of a Gold Coast skyscraper and were tasked with walking along a horizontal beam.\n\nHosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly were on hand to cheer on the celebrities as the battle commenced for one of them to be crowned King or Queen of the Jungle.\n\nWelcoming viewers to the new series, they said: \"Tonight the talking stops and the adventure begins... strap yourself in for the ride of your lives.\"\n\nFollowing a public vote, Farage and Rose will both take part in the next challenge in the show.\n\nFarage had told The Sun newspaper that he would be exempt from certain trials on medical grounds, such as anything involving weightlifting.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "British actor Joss Ackland has died at the age of 95, his family said in a statement.\n\nThe prolific stage and screen actor, who has been in more than 100 movies and TV series, died \"peacefully\" and was \"surrounded by family\", they said.\n\nHe was also described as a \"beloved father\" and had been married to his wife Rosemary for 51 years before she died in 2002.\n\nHe appeared in films including White Mischief and 1989's Lethal Weapon 2.\n\nThe family statement said: \"With his distinctive voice and commanding presence, Ackland brought a unique intensity and gravitas to his role.\n\n\"He will be remembered as one of Britain's most talented and beloved actors.\"\n\nBorn in 1928 in London's Ladbroke Grove area, Ackland grew up in Kilburn, north London.\n\nHe honed his skills by working for a variety of regional theatre troupes, eventually joining London's Old Vic.\n\nAckland also played writer CS Lewis in the 1985 television movie Shadowlands.\n\nHe appeared in dozens of films throughout the 1980s and 1990s, including The Mighty Ducks and Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.\n\nIn a 2001 interview with the BBC he said he appeared in some \"awful films\" because he was a workaholic.\n\nHe was awarded a CBE in 2000 for his services to acting.", "After her death, Melissa Kerr's family said it hoped others would avoid \"cosmetic tourism\"\n\nThe UK government said it would meet with officials in Turkey to discuss regulations around medical and cosmetic tourism, following several deaths.\n\nMelissa Kerr, 31, died at the private Medicana Haznedar Hospital in Istanbul in 2019 during buttock enlargement (Brazilian butt-lift) surgery.\n\nA coroner raised concerns she and others were not given enough information before travelling abroad.\n\nHealth minister Maria Caulfield said government took the issue \"seriously\".\n\nIn her response to a prevention of future deaths report written by Norfolk senior coroner Jacqueline Lake, Ms Caufield said officials from the Department of Health and Social Care would be \"visiting Turkey shortly to meet with their counterparts\".\n\nMelissa Kerr died during cosmetic surgery at a Turkish hospital in 2019\n\nIn September, an inquest heard Ms Kerr, from Gorleston, Norfolk, suffered a fatal clot that had travelled to her lungs during the Brazilian butt-lift surgery (BBL).\n\nThe inquest was told BBL operations carried the highest risk of all cosmetic surgery procedures.\n\nLast year, new guidelines were issued to members of a UK cosmetic surgery association following a four-year moratorium on carrying out such operations due to the dangers involved.\n\nMs Lake ruled that Ms Kerr had not been given enough information to make a safe decision and said \"the danger to citizens who continue to travel abroad for such procedures continues... and I'm of the view future deaths can be prevented by way of better information\".\n\nMs Kerr suffered a fatal clot at Medicana Haznedar Hospital during the surgery in Istanbul\n\nConservative Ms Caulfield, minister for mental health and women's health strategy, offered her \"heartfelt condolences\" to the Kerr family and said: \"It is vital that we take the learnings from what happened to her in order to prevent future deaths.\"\n\nShe said the government was aware checks made by some countries offering \"healthcare tourism... may not match UK regulatory standards\" but that \"such transparency and standardisation are important to reduce potential risks to patients\".\n\nA prevention of future deaths report was sent to the health secretary to try and warn others about travelling to Turkey for plastic surgery\n\n\"It is particularly important that those considering having the Brazilian butt-lift (BBL) procedure are made fully aware of the risks and have time to reflect fully on their decision ahead of surgery,\" said Ms Caulfield.\n\n\"The risk of death for BBL surgery is at least 10 times higher than many other cosmetic procedures.\"\n\nThe government was considering how to \"effectively communicate\" information about the risks of going abroad, she said.\n\nThe minister said while the UK government was looking globally at \"the consequences of international health tourism... we have a strong interest in Turkey given the number of UK nationals travelling to the country for medical treatments\".\n\nThe Ministry of Health in Turkey was contacted for comment.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Plans to ban conversion therapy weren't included in the King's Speech\n\nA proposed ban on conversion therapy in the UK, which would introduce unlimited fines for those found guilty, has been put forward in the House of Lords.\n\nBaroness Burt has tabled a Private Members' Bill proposing a UK-wide ban, which will now be debated next year.\n\nIt comes after the government left out a ban from last month's King's Speech - five years after first promising one.\n\nBaroness Burt, a Liberal Democrat peer, said there was a \"cross-party consensus\" in favour of the measure.\n\nConversion therapy refers to practices aiming to change or suppress someone's sexual orientation or their gender identity.\n\nBaroness Burt's proposal would ban practices aimed at both.\n\nThe Lib Dem peer says the proposed new law aims to \"robustly differentiate\" between genuine psychological or religious practice, and conversion therapy practices, to protect legitimate therapies and prayer.\n\nShe said: \"It is very disappointing that the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their promise to ban conversion therapy for five years now.\"\n\nShe was selected first in a House of Lords Private Members' Bill ballot - which allow members who aren't ministers to put forward proposed new laws.\n\nBut it is far from guaranteed that it will be passed. The proposal will have to go through several rounds of voting in the House of Lords and, if it receives enough support, would then pass to the House of Commons for MPs to debate and vote upon.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGovernment plans to ban conversion therapy have been widely discussed and caused several resignations from the government's LGBT advisory panel, as well as a boycott of the UK's first ever international LGBT conference.\n\nIn January this year, the government re-affirmed its plan to ban the practice. However, earlier this month, the proposed Conversion Therapy Bill was left out of the King's Speech - the list of new laws Number 10 is prioritising over the next few months. It means it is unlikely to become law before the next general election.\n\nThe delay has frustrated some Conservative MPs, with one telling the BBC they were annoyed the government had \"delivered Brexit quicker\". Some are planning to try to amend another proposed law, the Criminal Justice Bill, as a way of getting the ban through.\n\nBut other politicians and campaigners fear a ban could have unintended consequences for parents, teachers and therapists having exploratory conversations about a child's gender identity. They also say it could also hamper religious freedoms.\n\nIn the days leading up to the King's Speech, a group of politicians met to discuss those concerns and wrote to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak asking him not to press ahead with a ban.\n\nSpeaking earlier this month, Cabinet Office minister Alex Burghart suggested it was those concerns that had delayed the bill.\n\n\"What we don't want to do is end up in a situation where legislation accidentally criminalises parents or teachers, we just don't want to end up in a bad legal space,\" he said. \"Anyone who tells you this is easy hasn't looked at the legal situation.\"\n\nThe government has said it is still \"carefully considering\" a ban.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Alex Burghart says he has concerns about unintended consequences of a ban\n\nHowever, campaigners and those who have undergone conversion therapy are unhappy the bill wasn't included in the King's Speech.\n\nKitty, who grew up in a religious family and asked us not to use her last name, says she underwent six months' of sessions at New Life Church, in Woking, at the age of 16.\n\nAfter being invited to talk about her feelings, she was shocked to be told her homosexuality was a result of Satan \"whispering\" in her ear.\n\nAs part of the sessions, she says she was told to look for reasons that could explain her sexuality and asked what she felt were intrusive questions over her upbringing.\n\nKitty says it left her feeling depressed, unable to trust her family and friends, and ultimately led to an attempt on her own life on two separate occasions.\n\n\"If you are trying to change someone from who they are meant to be then you are probably doing something wrong,\" she told the BBC.\n\nNew Life Church in Woking said it was \"very sad to hear these claims from a much-loved former member of our congregation\".\n\n\"While we hold to mainstream Christian beliefs on sexual ethics, we respect the right of all people to live their lives according to their own principles, and do not practice 'conversion therapy'.\"\n\nJayne Ozanne, a former government LGBT advisor who resigned over delays on banning conversion therapy, says she believes a ban can still protect religious freedoms.\n\n\"Any conversation that allows people to be challenged and explore who they are, is to be welcomed,\" she said. \"But when the mindset is 'you can never be gay, or you can never be transgender', that thinking will cause great harm.\"\n\nThe BBC agreed not to use Kitty's surname\n• None What is conversion therapy and will it be banned?", "Hannes Strydom has been described as a Springbok legend\n\nSouth Africa's former rugby star Hannes Strydom has died in a car accident at the age of 58.\n\nHe was part of the Springbok team that famously won the 1995 Rugby World Cup after the end of apartheid in 1994.\n\nStrydom gained 21 Springbok caps in his career between 1993 and 1997.\n\nFormer teammate and close friend Kobus Wiese told local media that details of the accident were still vague, but the vehicle Strydom was travelling in collided with a minibus taxi.\n\nThe accident took place on Sunday near the coal mining town of eMalahleni in Mpumalanga province.\n\nSouth African Rugby Union President Mark Alexander hailed Strydom as \"one of the heroes of our local game\" in the Springboks' tribute to him.\n\nHis former club, the Lions, also paid tribute to him, describing him as a legend who had formed a formidable lock combination with Wiese.\n\n\"We share a tight bond as members of the 1995 group and to lose yet another one of our brothers is a big blow,\" said Lions Rugby Company chief executive officer Rudolf Straeuli.\n\nStrydom made his debut for the Springboks in 1993, and helped defeat arch-rivals New Zealand 15-12 in the 1995 World Cup final in Johannesburg - the biggest sporting event in South Africa after the end of apartheid.\n\nHe ended his Springbok career in 1997 after playing in the British and Irish Lions series.\n\nStrydom also captained the Lions team that hoisted the local Currie Cup trophy in 1999.\n\nHe made 115 appearances for the team between 1993 and 2000.\n\nOutside rugby, Strydom worked as a pharmacist in the capital, Pretoria, and started pharmacy chain Pharma Valu after hanging up his boots.\n\nIn 2014, he suffered a cracked skull and stab wounds after six people attacked him in a carjacking, landing him in intensive care.\n\nHe is the fifth player from the 1995 Springbok team to have died.\n\nThe others include Ruben Kruger in 2010, Joost van der Westhuizen in 2017, and Chester Williams and James Small in 2019. Coach Kitch Christie also died in 1998.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do parents think about proposals to cut school summer holidays?\n\nSchool summer holidays in Wales will be cut by a week with the possibility of moving to a four-week break in future under new Welsh government plans.\n\nThe changes would see the week-long October half term break extended to a fortnight.\n\nIt is claimed the change would benefit disadvantaged pupils and boost the wellbeing of students and staff.\n\nBut a union said there was no evidence the changes would help children's education.\n\nA decision will be made in spring and, if given the go-ahead, the proposed changes would take effect in the 2025-26 school year with a five-week break starting later in July 2026.\n\nThe government said research suggested teachers and pupils found the long autumn term tiring and a fortnight half term would provide more of a rest.\n\nOverall the number of school holidays across the year will not change.\n\nMother-of-two and teacher Katie, who was collecting her five-year-old daughter from an after-school club in Caerphilly, said: \"When you've got a seven and eight-week term, that can be quite an onslaught.\n\n\"I don't find it so bad in the spring and the summer term but sometimes that winter term can be quite a slog.\"\n\nKatie says the long winter term can be hard-going\n\nAnd while six weeks over the summer \"is quite a long stretch\", as a teacher she said \"we also need it, frankly, by the time we get to that point\".\n\nFaisal Abbasi, whose child attends Lakeside Primary in Cardiff, said the government should focus on other matters.\n\n\"I think they should leave it the same. Everybody is used to the schedule and people who are working have holidays pre-booked,\" he said.\n\nFaisal Abbasi says there is no need to change the current arrangement\n\nFourteen-year-old schoolboy Dylan and his mother, who is from Thailand, said they use the long break to spend the summer with family there without affecting his studies.\n\n\"The summer term is an opportunity for us to visit them and catch up with them,\" he said.\n\nLucy Purcell, headteacher at Caerleon Comprehensive, said looking at the school year is a \"positive thing\".\n\nShe added: \"I think the long summer holiday is not good, particularly for disadvantaged young people, so I think it's very positive to have a shorter summer holiday and a break in the autumn term.\"\n\nEducation Minister Jeremy Miles said he was concerned about the impact of the long summer break on pupils' learning when they get back to school.\n\nBut education unions have previously argued against the reforms, saying that there are \"many more pressing issues\" and questioning the appetite for change.\n\nLaura Doel from the National Association of Headteachers Cymru said: \"When school staff are being made redundant to balance the books, when schools should be prioritising delivering quality education to learners, and when we are deeply concerned about the recruitment and retention crisis, this should not be a priority for government.\"\n\nSome are also worried that a shorter summer holiday could damage teacher recruitment.\n\nThe Welsh government consultation will also ask for views on the summer holiday being reduced to four weeks in future, adding a week to the May half term to spread breaks out more evenly across the year.\n\nChanging GCSE and A-level results days to the same week rather than dates a week apart in August is also being considered.\n\nMr Miles said: \"Families struggle to find childcare over the six weeks, and others struggle with the additional costs long summers bring.\n\nEducation Minister Jeremy Miles discussed the proposed changes with the school council at Caerleon Comprehensive\n\n\"We also know our most disadvantaged learners suffer the most 'learning loss' from a long summer.\"\n\nThe pledge to look at the pattern of the school year is part of the cooperation agreement between the Labour Welsh government and Plaid Cymru.\n\nLaura Anne Jones, Welsh Conservatives' education spokesperson, said: \"There are many issues with Labour's plans to reform the school year, with the biggest impact potentially being felt by pupils, teachers and parents. As well as an already struggling tourism sector.\"\n\nOther local authorities in England and Scotland already have two-week breaks in October, including the Isle of Wight and Falkirk.\n\nWhat do you think of the plans? Would you like to see shorter school summer holidays and a longer half term break? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nBenjamin Mendy is taking former club Manchester City to an employment tribunal over millions of pounds he claims he is owed in unauthorised wage deductions.\n\nFrance full-back Mendy, 29, left City at the end of his contract this summer.\n\nHe was cleared of a series of rape and attempted rape charges made against him.\n\nIt is alleged City stopped paying Mendy in September 2021 after he was initially charged and held in custody.\n\nIn a statement, it was confirmed leading UK sports lawyer Nick De Marco is handling Mendy's case, which amounts to a \"multi-million pound claim\" and it is expected the case will be heard in 2024.\n\nMendy joined Ligue 1 club Lorient at the start of this season and he has so far made three substitute appearances for the French side.\n\nHe joined City from Monaco in a £52m deal in 2017 and won Premier League titles in 2018, 2019 and 2021.\n\nHis final appearance for the club came in the Premier League on 15 August 2021.\n\nMendy was remanded in custody for five months before being released on bail in January 2022, and then went to trial for the first time in August 2022.\n\nIn January he was cleared of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.\n\nHe was then cleared of raping a woman and attempting to rape another in July at a retrial.\n\nCity did not comment when approached by BBC Sport.", "Nazim Asmal lured women into his car before driving them to remote locations and assaulting them\n\nA man who posed as a taxi driver has admitted raping women he picked up as they made their way home from nights out.\n\nNazim Asmal lured his victims into his car before driving to remote locations and assaulting them.\n\nThe 34-year-old, formerly of Blackburn, appeared at Preston Crown Court where he pleaded guilty to four counts of rape and sexual assault.\n\nHe was remanded into custody to be sentenced on 13 February.\n\nLancashire Police said the first rape happened on 3 October 2021 after the victim was picked up by Asmal in Preston city centre.\n\nHe drove for about ten minutes, raped her in the car and then dropped her off back in the city centre.\n\nShe flagged a member of the public down for help.\n\nThe second rape happened on 4 March when the victim got into Asmal's fake taxi after a night out in Darwen.\n\nHe drove her to a secluded area on the outskirts of the town where he assaulted her.\n\nAsmal later called her twice in April and she recognised his voice as the man who had raped her but did not know his identity.\n\nShe ended the call after he asked her if she \"wanted to do something\", police said.\n\nAsmal raped his third victim, who he picked up in Darwen town centre, on the same evening he made that phone call.\n\nDriving her towards Bolton, in the opposite direction of her home, Asmal said: \"You don't want to pay for this taxi, do you?\"\n\nHe stopped in a secluded area and raped her. He then dropped her off at her home.\n\nDetectives identified Asmal after his black Toyota Yaris was picked up on CCTV cameras.\n\nDet Insp Darren Irving said: \"Asmal deliberately targeted his victims because of their vulnerable state and subjected them to serious sexual assaults.\"\n\nHe said his crimes were \"abhorrent\", adding: \"My thoughts are very much with the victims who continue to be supported by specially trained officers.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When her daughter's father was sent to prison for child sexual abuse, Bethan was horrified to discover he could still be allowed access to their child after he was released. It was a risk she wasn't willing to take.\n\nOutside a Cardiff courtroom, a smartly dressed young woman sits waiting, anxiously. Bethan has never been inside a family court before, but she is here to try to protect her child - whose father has been convicted of paedophile offences and is currently in jail.\n\nWhen he was sentenced, some months ago, he was given an order banning him from any future contact with children - but that ban does not prevent him seeking contact with his own child.\n\nHe and Bethan were married when their daughter was born and so he retains parental rights, allowing him at least a say over his child's health, education and living arrangements.\n\nBethan is \"absolutely petrified\" about what will happen once he is freed from prison. She fears he might take their daughter out of school one day without her knowledge, and the only way to get the child back will be to go through the family court. And while he has their child, he could do to her what he did to the other children he abused.\n\n\"You'd never forgive yourself,\" she says.\n\nWith the support of her parents, Bethan has taken the exceptional step of asking the court to remove her ex-husband's parental rights and ban all contact - direct, indirect and through social media - until their daughter turns 18.\n\nDespite the severity of her former partner's crimes, Bethan has been advised this process is likely to be difficult. She describes him as \"manipulative\" and fears he will be able to convince the court of his remorse.\n\nShe is not entitled to legal aid, and even before the first hearing, the costs for her solicitor and barrister are already mounting.\n\nBethan's case will be heard at a family court, where disputes between parents - often involving vulnerable children - are handled. Until recently, cases have been heard in private and journalists have not been permitted to report them.\n\nBut since January, accredited reporters have been allowed inside family courts in Leeds, Carlisle and Cardiff - allowing closer scrutiny of the actions of local authorities and the courts, subject to strict rules of anonymity.\n\nBBC News has been following Bethan's case for the last six months.\n\nIn court, Bethan sits behind a partition so she cannot be seen. The father of her child - who has no lawyer - appears by video-link from prison, shown on a big screen. He looks small, sitting behind a long table, with papers spread out in front of him.\n\nA social worker from Cafcass Cymru, the children and family court advisory service for Wales, is also there.\n\nBethan's former partner tells the court he accepts he is in prison for crimes of a \"very serious nature\" and says he \"wants to be present for his child\", should she want to have a relationship with him. He has been writing letters to her every week, which he cannot currently send.\n\nLater, he makes what appears to be a heartfelt appeal - he is a father \"who loves his child without end\" he says - his voice breaking as he tells the court he \"wishes he could be there\" for his daughter.\n\nFor Bethan it is \"just unbearable\" to listen to, and \"incredibly painful\" to try to reconcile this man with \"the horrors that he put those children through\".\n\nBethan's child is one of more than 80,000 caught up in private family law proceedings.\n\nIn 2022, the average private family law case in England and Wales took around 10 months, or almost 45 weeks - it is a system \"in crisis\", according to the Law Society.\n\nBut the rights of a parent are \"absolute\" in law and can only be managed through court order, explains Hannah Markham KC, chair of the Family Law Bar Association.\n\n\"Even if somebody is in prison for very serious paedophile offences, they retain the parental responsibility,\" she says - describing Bethan as \"brave\" for going through with this.\n\nOver the coming weeks the social worker spends time with Bethan and her daughter, and visits the father in jail.\n\nThe case progresses quickly, and Bethan is back at Cardiff Family Justice Centre three months later.\n\nThe social worker's report is highly critical of Bethan's ex-husband. He appears to break down and says he is \"sorry he cannot be the father his child deserves\", before thanking the court.\n\nHe hopes he can be reassessed when he's released and requests an annual report detailing how his daughter is doing.\n\nFor Bethan, this kind of indirect contact feels unacceptable. When her barrister questions what value such a report would have, the father of her child interjects.\n\n\"It would have exponential value to me,\" he says.\n\nAs the case progresses, Bethan's legal bills continue to stack up. To help her with the fees her parents extend the mortgage on their home, something that will \"significantly change their future\" - but their priority is protecting the family.\n\n\"I feel sorry for people who can't find that money,\" Bethan's father says. \"They are in a horrible situation.\"\n\nThe case has \"taken over\" all their lives, but compared to many other family court cases, it is moving fast - the final hearing date is in less than two weeks.\n\nBack in court, the judge summarises the social worker's findings. Bethan is \"hugely relieved\" they decide her daughter should always live with her, while her former partner's parental responsibility is \"comprehensively restricted\".\n\nAs well as the crimes for which he is in jail, the judge says the man has also admitted watching child sexual abuse material featuring incest, and grooming a vulnerable young person.\n\nHe is \"an extremely high risk\", the judge says, and does not allow the father's request for yearly reports. A barring order, which will make it more difficult for Bethan's ex-husband to apply to change the judge's decision once he is released from prison, is granted.\n\nHe will be informed if his daughter is terminally ill, or if they have moved to a different country - but not where they are.\n\nFor Bethan - who has spent hours researching family law and who has read many accounts from parents who do not get the decision they hoped for - it is an \"enormous relief\".\n\n\"I was just so grateful,\" she says.\n\nBethan's parents are very pleased, too.\n\n\"For the first time in three years they freed my daughter to be able to raise her child in a normal, happy, healthy way,\" Bethan's mother says. \"We can't explain how excruciatingly painful it has been.\"\n\nAs well as the emotional impact of bringing the case, it has also come at a significant price - costing more than £30,000.\n\nThe family believe others could avoid similarly costly court cases if the law is changed to automatically suspend parental rights from paedophiles when they are sentenced, and only restore them if the offender applies to a family court.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice told the BBC they are \"carefully reviewing the approach to parental access to make sure all children are kept safe\".\n\nFor Hannah Markham KC, changing legal aid could be a quicker, more effective way to enable more parents like Bethan to go to court - and she hopes this case will serve as a precedent.\n\n\"The more it's published and talked about, the more it will educate other people to know this is the right thing to do,\" she says.\n\nBethan and her parents believe the presence of journalists in court under the new transparency scheme has really benefitted them, and will also be helpful to others in future.\n\nNow Bethan says her daughter \"can have a normal childhood, and she can be safe\".\n\nAnd one day, Bethan says, she will tell her child about their father - sensitively and carefully - when she is old enough.\n\nThis story uses a false name to protect Bethan's privacy.\n\nIf you've been affected by issues raised in this story, there is information and support available on BBC Action Line.\n\nAre you affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A big focus of the Autumn Statement on Wednesday will be economic growth.\n\nThe reason for that is simple: there isn't any, or at least there isn't very much.\n\nThe Autumn Statement is Westminster's term for what amounts to a mini-budget.\n\nThe Budget itself will be in March, closer to the general election.\n\nSo ministers have to decide what to do now and what to do then.\n\nYou might have caught the rather absurd spectacle of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt volunteering for lengthy interrogations over the weekend, during which it felt like he started every other answer with \"you'll have to wait until Wednesday\" or words to that effect.\n\nHe managed to say everything and nothing when it came to specifics. And the range of the briefing to reporters has been pretty broad too.\n\nFrom the conversations I have had, plus what we are hearing and crucially not hearing, both in public and in private, here's a sense of where we seem to be.\n\nThere are enough kites flying about tax that I think we can be reasonably confident there will be some tax cuts.\n\nThe Treasury has let most of the speculation run. In other words, it hasn't gone out of its way to dampen down some of it.\n\nBut I expect the focus to be on business taxes - as cutting them is seen to be key to helping to get the economy growing.\n\nA cut in National Insurance for the self-employed is seen by many as likely. Could there be a wider cut to National Insurance?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Jeremy Hunt says he will not take any risks on tax cuts\n\nThere has been a blizzard of headlines about inheritance tax.\n\nAnd yes, the Treasury has considered a cut.\n\nAs discussed on the BBC's Newscast, cuts to inheritance tax can prove popular even among those who are not likely to have to pay it.\n\nBut, it appears the government might be having second thoughts about it, given the backlash against the idea from some who say it would benefit the most well off.\n\nWithin the Treasury, one of the merits of an inheritance tax cut is they believe it wouldn't be inflationary.\n\nThey are obsessed with ensuring that whatever they do doesn't contribute to higher inflation.\n\nIn fact we can expect a splash of pride from the prime minister and the chancellor this week that inflation has halved this year.\n\nHow they would have loved to talk about this last week.\n\nBut they were drowned out by the Supreme Court rejecting their Rwanda migrants plan.\n\nMuch of the fall in inflation is driven by factors beyond the government's control.\n\nBut it was, arguably, the prime minister's most important promise at the beginning of the year. And it has happened. They can at least point to things they didn't do which would have made inflation worse.\n\nThe balance Rishi Sunak and Mr Hunt have to pull off this week is to project a sense of economic optimism and cut some taxes, but not fuel inflation. Not easy.\n\nThe last thing they need is the Bank of England cancelling anything they do by jacking up interest rates as a result.\n\nA couple of other things to watch out for: do benefits go up next April in line with September's (higher) inflation figure, as is convention, or October's (lower) one? The difference - as set out here by the Institute for Fiscal Studies - is big.\n\nAnd does the triple lock - which guarantees the state pension goes up by 2.5%, inflation or wages, whichever is highest - take account of one-offs in wage packets or not? If it does, it'll be more generous, if it doesn't, it won't. Let's see.\n\nThe crux of what we will get is a government in trouble arguing that it and we have turned a corner; things are looking up.\n\nThey will try to argue that incentivising businesses to grow and rewarding work through tax cuts are Conservative instincts at odds with what Labour would do.\n\nLabour will point out that the tax burden is higher than it's been in decades and that millions feel poorer than they did five or ten years ago - and make the argument that anything we hear from Mr Hunt won't change that.", "The Israeli military has raided Gaza's main hospital in what it describes as a \"targeted operation against Hamas\".\n\nAn eyewitness at Al-Shifa hospital told the BBC that troops moved in overnight and were interrogating people.\n\nOn Wednesday, Israel said it found Hamas' \"operational centre\" at the hospital, sharing images of what it said were Hamas weapons and equipment.\n\nHamas denies operating there and the BBC cannot independently verify claims by either side.\n\nUN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said he was \"appalled\" by the Israeli raid, while the World Health Organization (WHO) said it was \"extremely worried\" for patients and staff, with whom it had lost contact.\n\nThe BBC has been speaking to a journalist and a doctor inside the hospital to find out what is happening there, while the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has also been providing updates.\n\nKhader, a journalist inside Al-Shifa, told the BBC's Rushdi Abualouf that Israeli troops were in \"complete control\" of the hospital and no shooting was taking place.\n\nHe said six tanks and about 100 commandos entered the complex during the night. The Israeli forces then went room to room, questioning staff and patients.\n\nThe IDF reportedly asked all men aged 16-40 to leave the hospital buildings, except the surgical and emergency departments, and go to the hospital courtyard.\n\nSoldiers fired into the air to force those remaining inside to come out, Khader said.\n\nHowever Muhammad Zaqout, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry's director of hospitals, told Al Jazeera that \"not a single bullet\" had been fired - because \"there are no resistors or detainees\" inside.\n\nEarly on Wednesday, the IDF said its forces were in the midst of a \"precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area\" in the hospital.\n\nIt said the raid was \"based on intelligence information and an operational necessity\", calling for the surrender of \"all Hamas terrorists\" present there.\n\nAs the soldiers entered the hospital complex, they engaged with a number Hamas members and killed them, the IDF said.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the IDF said troops found \"an operational command centre, weapons, and technological assets\" belonging to Hamas inside the MRI building.\n\nIt said it was \"continuing to operate in the hospital complex\", sharing images and videos showing what it said were Hamas weapons.\n\nIn a seven-minute video, IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus pointed to security cameras that he said had been covered over, and weapons that he said were AK47 rifles hidden behind MRI scanners.\n\nThe BBC has not yet been able to verify the video or its location.\n\nBut unless Israel has more to reveal, the military's controversial operation inside the hospital did not net a major arsenal of weapons, reports the BBC's Orla Guerin in Jerusalem.\n\nHamas knew Israel was coming, and therefore, if they were operating beneath the hospital, they would have had weeks to clear out through Gaza's extensive tunnel network, our correspondent adds.\n\nIsrael's Army Radio reported that troops had not yet found any sign of any of the 240 hostages taken by Hamas during the 7 October attack on Israel, when 1,200 other people were killed.\n\nThe raid on Al-Shifa came shortly after the US publicly backed Israeli claims that Hamas had infrastructure underneath the hospital.\n\nHowever Dr Ahmed Mokhallalati, a plastic surgeon at Al-Shifa, told the BBC there were only civilians in the hospital.\n\nHe said there were tunnels under every building in Gaza, including Al-Shifa hospital.\n\nAccording to international humanitarian law, hospitals are specially protected facilities.\n\nThis means that parties to conflicts cannot attack hospitals, or prevent them performing their medical functions. They can lose their protection if they are used by a party to the conflict to commit an \"act harmful to the enemy\".\n\nThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says this could be something like a hospital being used as a base from which to launch an attack, as a shelter for able-bodied fighters, or to shield a military objective from attack.\n\nThe IDF said it had repeatedly warned Hamas its \"continued military use of Al-Shifa jeopardises its protected status\", calling for the evacuation of the hospital before the raid.\n\nThe WHO had warned that evacuating patients would be a \"death sentence\", given that the medical system was collapsing.\n\nDr Mokhallalati told the BBC on Wednesday the hospital was without power, oxygen and water. On Tuesday, surgeries had been carried out without proper anaesthesia, with patients \"screaming in pain\". Doctors were unable to help one patient with burns, and had to just \"let him die\".\n\nBabies trapped inside Al-Shifa hospital, in an image issued by medical staff\n\nDr Mokhallalati said six premature babies had died in recent days.\n\n\"Why can't they be evacuated,\" he said. \"In Afghanistan, they evacuated the cats and dogs.\"\n\nThe IDF said it was providing incubators, baby food and medical supplies.", "Investors are reportedly calling for Mr Altman to be reinstated\n\nThe ex-boss of leading artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has posted a photo of himself at its HQ, but he's reportedly unlikely to return to the helm of the start-up.\n\nWriting on X, formerly Twitter, Sam Altman is pictured holding a guest ID pass, commenting: \"First and last time i ever wear one of these\".\n\nThe 38-year-old helped launch the firm which created the popular ChatGPT bot.\n\nOn Friday the board dismissed Mr Altman saying it had lost confidence in him.\n\nThere were reports this weekend suggesting employees and investors including Microsoft were pushing for Mr Altman to be reinstated.\n\nBut, according to The Information tech news site, board director Ilya Sutskever told employees on Sunday night that Mr Altman would not return, prompting many to internally announce they were quitting.\n\nEmmett Shear is expected to be named as the new interim chief executive, according to the the New York Times, citing an internal memo.\n\nMr Shear is an internet entrepreneur who was previously chief executive at Twitch.\n\nMr Altman and Greg Brockman - another co-founder who quit on Friday as the company's president - were invited to the firm's San Francisco headquarters for talks on Sunday.\n\nThe BBC has contacted OpenAI for comment.\n\nReports of Mr Shear's appointment have emerged despite OpenAI saying on Friday that its chief technology officer, Mira Murati, had been appointed as interim chief executive.\n\nMr Altman is seen as one of the most influential figures in the fast-growing generative AI space and his sacking sent shockwaves across the industry.\n\nIn a letter on Friday, the company's board accused him of not being \"consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities\".\n\nThe board did not specify what he is alleged to have not been candid about.\n\nHowever, whatever the board was so alarmed about on Friday has perhaps been overtaken by the global reaction to its decision. There may also have been fears of Mr Altman setting up a rival company and taking OpenAI's top talent with him.\n\nOpenAI's board of directors consists of Mr Sutskever and three independent directors - Quora chief executive Adam D'Angelo, technology entrepreneur Tasha McCauley, and Helen Turner from the Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology.\n\nReports this weekend suggested his sacking had angered current and former employees who were worried it might affect an upcoming $86bn (£69bn) share sale.\n\nThe firm's venture capitalist backers and the tech giant Microsoft - which has a $10bn stake in OpenAI - have also believed to have called for his return.\n\nSources say there have been a couple of sleepless nights in Seattle, the headquarters of Microsoft, which has also integrated OpenAI's technology into its applications.\n\nOpenAI's bot ChatGPT is used by millions around the world\n\nOpenAI is widely seen to be a company at its peak, with lucrative investment pouring in, and ChatGPT - which was launched almost a year ago - is used by millions.\n\nMr Altman has been the face of the firm's rise. More than that, he is seen by many as the face of the industry more widely.\n\nHe testified before a US Congressional hearing to discuss the opportunities and risks created by the new technology and also appeared at the world's first AI Safety Summit in the UK at the beginning of November.\n\nHis ousting sparked an outpouring of support from Silicon Valley bosses, including former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt who called Mr Altman \"a hero of mine\" and said that he had \"changed our collective world forever\".\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Peter McCormack was 42 when he was killed by gunmen believed to be from the UVF\n\nPolice investigating the murder of County Down man Peter McCormack have issued a fresh appeal for information on the 31st anniversary of his death.\n\nThe 42-year-old was shot dead when two gunmen burst into the Thierafurth Inn in Kilcoo on 19 November 1992.\n\nIt is believed the attack was carried out by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).\n\nThree other customers, including a 69-year-old man who was registered blind, were also injured in the attack.\n\nDet Ch Insp Byrne said Mr McCormack was \"an innocent victim of a sickening sectarian attack\".\n\nHe added that police are appealing for \"anyone who has any knowledge of what happened that evening who has not spoken to police previously, or who has any new information, to do so now\".\n\n\"It is not too late,\" the senior officer from the PSNI's Legacy Investigation Branch added.\n\n\"If anyone now feels they are able to talk to us, we are ready to listen.\"\n\nPeter McCormack was shot in the Thierafurth Inn in Kilcoo on 19 November 1992\n\nDet Ch Insp Byrne said the bar was full of customers who were about to take part in a charity darts match when the fatal attack happened.\n\nPolice believe the gunmen made their escape in a grey Ford Orion car, which was found abandoned a few miles away from the bar in Tollymore Forest Park.\n\nThe car had been stolen from an address in east Belfast earlier in the day.\n\nDet Ch Insp Byrne also made a direct appeal to those involved in Mr McCormack's murder.\n\nHe said that \"a number of people were involved\" and urged them to \"do the right thing and make a difference to Peter's family by making themselves known to police\".", "US researchers say they may have discovered why some people get a headache after just one small glass of red wine, even though they are fine drinking other types of alcohol.\n\nThe University of California team say it is due to a compound in red grapes that can mess with how the body metabolises alcohol.\n\nThe compound is an antioxidant or flavanol called quercetin.\n\nCabernets from the sunny Napa Valley contain high levels of it, they say.\n\nRed grapes make more quercetin when they are exposed to sunshine.\n\nAnd that meant more expensive red wines, rather than cheap reds, would be worse for headache-prone people, one of the researchers, Prof Andrew Waterhouse, told BBC News.\n\n\"The cheap grape varieties are grown on vines with very large canopies and lots of leaves, so they don't get as much sun,\" he said. \"Whereas the high-quality grapes are from smaller crops with fewer leaves.\n\n\"The amount of sunshine is carefully managed to improve the quality of the wine.\"\n\nOthers are sceptical though.\n\nProf Roger Corder, an expert in experimental therapeutics, at Queen Mary University of London, told BBC News anecdotal evidence suggested cheaper wines were worse for headache, so understanding some of the additives used in making lower-end mass-market red wines might be more informative.\n\nSeveral theories have been put forward to explain red-wine headaches, which can strike within 30 minutes of drinking even small amounts.\n\nSome have suggested the cause might be sulphites - preservatives to prolong shelf-life and keep wine fresh.\n\nGenerally though, the sulphite content is higher in sweet white wines rather than reds.\n\nAnd while some people can be allergic to sulphites and should avoid them, there is little evidence they are to blame for headaches.\n\nAnother possible culprit is histamine - an ingredient more common in red wine than white or rose.\n\nHistamine can dilate blood vessels in the body, which might trigger headache. But again, absolute proof is lacking.\n\nExperts do know more than one in three people with East Asian heritage are intolerant of any type of alcohol - beer, wine and spirits - and will experience facial flushing, headaches and nausea when they drink.\n\nThis is because of a gene affecting how well an alcohol-metabolising enzyme called ALDH2 or aldehyde dehydrogenase works.\n\nAlcohol is broken down in the body in two steps - it is converted into a toxic compound called acetaldehyde, which ALDH2 then changes into harmless acetate, basically vinegar.\n\nIf this cannot happen, harmful acetaldehyde builds up, causing the symptoms.\n\nAnd the researchers say a similar pathway is involved in red-wine headache.\n\nThey showed in the lab quercetin could indirectly block the action of ALDH2, through one of its own metabolites.\n\nQuercetin only becomes problematic when mixed with alcohol, according to the researchers, who crowd-funded for their work and have now published the findings in Scientific Reports journal.\n\nQuercetin is also found in many other fruits and vegetables - and is even available as a health supplement because of its beneficial anti-inflammatory properties - and does not appear to cause headaches on its own.\n\nThe researchers still need to prove their theory in people and say a simple experiment could be to give volunteers prone to red-wine headaches a quercetin supplement or a dummy pill, along with a standard drink of vodka.\n\nCo-author Prof Morris Levin, an expert in neurology and director of the Headache Center at the University of California, San Francisco, said: \"We are finally on the right track toward explaining this millennia-old mystery. The next step is to test it scientifically on people who develop these headaches, so stay tuned.\"\n\nThey hope to start those studies in a few months.\n\nBut Prof Corder, who has studied the possible health benefits of wine, suspects other ingredients are worth exploring as headache triggers:\n\nDrinking a lot, quickly, or drinking to get drunk can have serious consequences for short- and long-term health.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Everton points deduction taken to Parliament by MP Ian Byrne with early day motion Last updated on .From the section Everton\n\nFormer Everton midfielder Leon Osman says the club 'feel they did all they could' Everton's 10-point deduction by the Premier League has been taken to Parliament after a Liverpool MP called the punishment \"grossly unfair\". Ian Byrne, Labour MP for West Derby, has tabled an early day motion (EDM) in the House of Commons which will be laid on Tuesday for other MPs to consider. Everton received the sanction on Friday after being found to have breached the Premier League's financial rules. Byrne also called to \"immediately establish\" an independent regulator.\n• None Why Everton points deduction sent shockwaves through Premier League\n• None Dyche's Blues gear up for another relegation fight after deduction In February, the government announced plans to appoint a regulator, following a fan-led review last year. Plans for the regulator were outlined in the King's Speech this month. King Charles III said the Football Governance Bill, which will introduce a regulator, will \"safeguard the future of football clubs for the benefit of communities and fans\". English top-flight clubs are permitted to lose £105m over three years, and an independent commission found Everton's losses to 2021-22 amounted to £124.5m. The punishment is the biggest sporting sanction in the competition's history and leaves Everton 19th in the table, two points adrift of safety. Everton's case relates to interest payments on the club's new £760m stadium at Bramley Moore Dock, which they believe were permissible 'add backs' for profit and sustainability calculations in the 2021-22 financial year. But the commission disagreed and did not accept the club's claim of mitigating factors such as being fully compliant with the Premier League over the past two years, the direct impact of the Russia-Ukraine war by forgoing the lucrative USM sponsorship and the impact of the Covid pandemic on the transfer market. The Toffees are set to appeal against the decision and BBC Sport understands could formally submit it to the Premier League this week. In the motion, Byrne requested the \"suspension of all proceedings and sanctions made by the Commission until the regulator makes its own determination\". He added: \"This House condemns the grossly unjust points deduction imposed on Everton Football Club by a Premier League commission. \"A punishment lacking any legal or equitable foundation or justification for the level of sanction and notes that financial, not sporting penalties, for far more severe breaches have been applied. \"[The motion] declares that sporting sanctions unfairly punish supporters and notices the improper dismissal of extraordinary mitigating circumstances outlined by Everton.\" Earlier on Monday, mayor of Liverpool Steve Rotheram wrote to Premier League chief executive Richard Masters regarding the \"wholly disproportionate\" and \"unprecedented\" points deduction. Rotheram said: \"While I understand, and indeed support, the importance of maintaining discipline and upholding the integrity of the sport, it is crucial to ensure that any punitive measures are proportionate and just. I do not believe that this punishment fits the crime. \"I completely support the club's appeal and would urge you to take a more lenient approach and consider alternative forms of punishment that do not unfairly penalise the club's players and supporters.\"\n• None Our coverage of Everton is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Everton - go straight to all the best content", "Sir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser when the pandemic started in 2020, has been giving evidence at the public inquiry into Covid on Monday.\n\nSir Patrick recorded his thoughts most evenings as handwritten notes, saying they were a \"form of release\" which helped him focus on the next day's challenges.\n\nWhen he appeared in the inquiry's first phase he described them as a \"brain dump\" and argued that they should not be made public in full as they were never intended for public consumption.\n\nThose notes have been handed over in full to the inquiry's legal team, and about 25 short extracts have already been read in open court when other witnesses were being questioned.\n\nThe first entry from his diaries we know about so far comes from May 2020, and focuses on the debate around how to release lockdown restrictions.\n\nSir Patrick was responsible for chairing the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), a committee of scientists, mainly from academia, responsible for advising ministers on Covid.\n\nBut his diary reveals he is concerned about the \"following the science\" mantra coming from the government.\n\nIn another entry he worries that scientists are being used as \"human shields\".\n\nHe writes: \"Ministers try to make the science give the answers rather than them making decisions.\n\n\"I am [worried] that a 'Sage is trouble' vibe is appearing in No 10.\n\n\"Some person has completely rewritten the science advice as though it is the definitive version. They have just cherry picked. Quite extraordinary...\"\n\nBoris Johnson's special adviser Dominic Cummings (DC) is giving his press conference in the Downing Street Rose garden after the Mirror and Guardian newspapers reveal he has travelled to Barnard Castle, near Durham, during lockdown.\n\nSir Patrick writes: \"PM seems very bullish and wants to have everything released sooner and more extremely than we would.\n\n\"Wants to divert from the DC fiasco (caught have gone [sic] to Durham - clearly against the rules).\n\n\"All very worrying. Cabinet all upbeat and 'breezy confidence' - incredibly alarming.\n\n\"It was another rambling opening to Cabinet. Quite extraordinary.\"\n\nOn the same day, Sir Patrick's diaries reveal that he and Prof Sir Chris Whitty do not like the idea of taking part in a daily news conference, as they know they will be asked about Mr Cummings.\n\nSir Patrick says communications chiefs Lee Cain and James Slack plus civil servant Martin Reynolds tried to convince them, but they managed to avoid doing it in the end.\n\n\"Chris and I not at all keen to do the press conference.\n\n\"All highly political and dwarfed by DC.\n\n\"We tried to get out of it by suggesting that it was not the right day to announce new measures and that this would undermine our credibility.\"\n\nSir Patrick makes diary notes on the decision to move to step 4 of the roadmap for releasing lockdown restrictions, which removed all legal limits on socialising and life events as the school year ended (announced on 12 July).\n\nHe is getting frustrated around this time with the inconsistency in Mr Johnson's decision-making.\n\nHe writes: \"PM cancelled the big announcement and has gone more cautious (for now).\n\n\"Simon Case taking one day at a time. PM is simply not consistent (as he wasn't at the beginning).\"\n\nSir Patrick Vallance's diary indicates frustration with the prime minister after Mr Johnson recovers from being seriously ill with Covid\n\nSir Patrick notes that Mr Johnson is increasingly convinced the economy needs to be kept open, because it is mainly older people who are being affected by Covid.\n\nHe writes: \"PM WhatsApp group kicks off because PM has read in FT that the IFR [infection fatality rate] is 0.04%.\n\n\"Age-related IFR explained and that overall looks more like 0.4 to 1%.\n\n\"He is obsessed with older people accepting their fate and letting the young get on with life and the economy going.\n\nBy this point, Sage's scientific advisers have been pressing for tougher restrictions as Covid cases start to rise sharply.\n\nNew measures (rule of six, then tiers) are brought in, but there is no full lockdown until 5 November.\n\nHe writes: \"Very bad meeting in No.10...\n\n\"PM talks of Medieval measures than ones being suggested.\n\n\"Perhaps we should look at another approach and apply different values.\n\n\"Surely this just sweeps through in waves like other natural phenomena and there is nothing we can do.\n\n\"As Simon Ridley said final slide, PM said, 'Whisky and a revolver.' He was all over the place.\"\n\nSir Patrick writes: \"PM meeting - begins to argue for letting it all rip. Saying yes there will be more casualties but so be it - 'they have had a good innings'.\n\n\"Not persuaded by Edmonds, Ferguson, Farrar [scientists on emergency advisory group].\n\n\"PM saying 'the population just has to behave doesn't it!'.\n\n\"PM getting very frustrated - throwing papers down. PM back on to 'Most people who die have reached their time anyway'.\"\n\nWe do not know the context around Sir Patrick's first entry on this day.\n\n\"The right-wing press are culpable & we have a weak indecisive PM.\"\n\nThe following month is a chaotic time in Downing Street as Mr Cain and then Mr Cummings leave their roles amid rumours of clashes with Mr Johnson's then-fiancee Carrie Symonds.\n\nSir Patrick did not always agree with England's chief medical officer (CMO) Sir Chris on how strict social restrictions should be to manage rising case numbers.\n\nWhile the CMO thought the public would rebel against rules, Sir Patrick was keen to introduce them earlier.\n\nIn this day's diary entry, he writes: \"CMO again talks about going 'too early' and losing people. Is he really right about this? I think we need to go sooner and harder.\"\n\nIt would be a mistake to think all of the diary entries paint Mr Johnson as resisting tougher Covid rules.\n\nHere, in mid-November, he is, apparently, the one pushing for harder action.\n\n\"PM is the only rational voice in the political side [ ... ]\n\n\"PM - arguing for going harder and says, 'More jobs will go if this thing takes off again'.\"\n\nBy now the UK has a vaccine against Covid-19. In this entry, the first line refers to a plan to vaccinate 15 million people by 15 February.\n\nHe writes: \"PM says 15M Vx Feb 15, 20M March 1st, April 30M & by then we must do something.\n\n\"Says he wants Tier 3 March 1, Tier 2 April 1, & Tier 1 May 1st & nothing by September ... ends by saying the team must bring in the 'pro death squad' from HMT.\"\n\nMention of the \"pro death squad\" at the Treasury is a reference to the fact they are the ones pushing for opening up quickly. Mr Johnson wanted complete unlocking with no remaining restrictions by September.", "Harold Browne's son David said his father was a Christian and an upright man\n\nA man whose father died in the Darkley killings 40 years ago has said he does not harbour bitterness, hate or resentment, but feels a raw injustice.\n\nHarold Browne was one of three men murdered when gunmen attacked worshippers at the Mountain Lodge Pentecostal Church in County Armagh.\n\nVictor Cunningham and David Wilson also lost their lives in the attack on 20 November 1983.\n\nThe attack was claimed by a group called the Catholic Reaction Force.\n\nThat was a cover name for the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDavid Browne said his father was a Christian and \"upright man\", who took his role as an elder at the church seriously.\n\n\"He was well respected throughout the Mountain Lodge community of people but much beyond this,\" he continued in a statement.\n\n\"Dad didn't stand a chance that fateful night, his instinct was to try and protect others from harm and injury but in doing so he, himself, paid with his life.\"\n\nMr Browne said 40 years is seen by some as a long period of time with \"lots of water under the bridge\".\n\nHowever, he added: \"For me, there remains stagnant water under the bridge which cannot flow.\n\n\"I do not harbour bitterness, hate or resentment for what happened, but I do have strong feelings of injustice. A wonderful man, my earthly father was taken away from us, and that was no-one's right.\"\n\nWitnesses reported multiple shots being fired along the outside of the hall\n\nMr Browne said the feelings were still raw.\n\n\"I remember a special man who lived life well, who lived to serve others but most importantly for him, he lived his life by the values set down by his Heavenly Father.\"\n\nKenny Donaldson, the director of the South East Fermanagh Foundation (SEFF), said the families continue to suffer but had shown tremendous fortitude.\n\nHis group works with a number of those bereaved, injured and otherwise impacted by the Darkley killings.\n\n\"Over the years the Darkley families have been particularly private in how they have dealt with the most horrific grief in the aftermath of November 1983,\" Mr Donaldson explained.\n\n\"I think everybody is a human being and we all have pain to endure. They have wrestled with that and kept tight counsel.\n\n\"They have obviously looked to a pastor in some situations and an immediate family around them to try and keep themselves. They maybe wouldn't trust so easily with external organisations, but they have been able to carry themselves through.\"\n\nKenny Donaldson said the Darkley families suffered horrific grief after the killings\n\nMr Donaldson said even the mention of a loved one's name \"can bring tears very quickly\".\n\n\"We would obviously have contact with a number of the families and things become very difficult when anniversaries are approaching, as it is for many,\" he continued.\n\nThe SEFF representative said some had suppressed and internalised their pain and grief, leaving a sense of \"unfinished business\".\n\n\"The overriding factor for them is that they do not want to create a circumstance where others ever lost their lives,\" he added.\n\n\"So their talk was always talk of restraint, talk of their faith, talk of Christian love. That was the determining factor through it all.\"\n\nDavid Wilson, Harold Browne and Victor Cunningham were killed in the attack\n\nA new larger church opened at the Mountain Lodge site in 1990.\n\nThe leadership of the church said it had taken a decision not to participate in interviews marking the 40th anniversary of the killings, but that everyone is welcome to attend services.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Youssef Mikhaiel said he would like to start a career and build a family in Scotland\n\nAn Egyptian man with a rare genetic disorder facing deportation has won the right to stay in the UK until 2026.\n\nYoussef Mikhaiel was due to be deported in June, within days, but that was postponed after a ruling at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.\n\nThe 28-year-old has Fabry disease, which damages the heart, kidneys and nervous system. He cannot access treatment in his home country.\n\nThe Home Office has now granted him leave to remain for two years.\n\nIn a letter seen by BBC Scotland News, it told the graduate engineer it would exercise discretion due to his \"exceptional circumstances\".\n\nIt comes after Mr Mikhaiel had been held at Dungavel House detention centre in Lanarkshire for two weeks in May and June.\n\nHe described the relief he felt following the decision.\n\nSpeaking of his initial detention, he said: \"Until this moment, I wasn't able to process it.\n\n\"You are being treated as a criminal and I didn't have access to the proper medical treatment. You fight for years for treatment and then all of a sudden, you could be deported.\"\n\nHe added: \"I can take a breath now. I have skills and would like to invest more in myself.\n\n\"And now I can start my treatment. In the beginning, it had stopped until we knew whether I was going to stay or be deported.\"\n\nFabry disease in an inherited condition in which enzymes cannot break down fatty materials known as lipids, allowing them to build up in the body.\n\nIt is believed to affect one in every 40,000 men, though estimates vary.\n\nSymptoms include chronic pain, high temperatures and an inability to sweat and can shorten a person's lifespan.\n\nMr Mikhaiel's case hinged on a letter sent by officials at Misr International Hospital in Egypt.\n\nIt confirmed that the country's drug authority did not provide a medicine called migalastat, which is used in Scotland to treat the disease.\n\nAn annual course of migalastat treatment can cost £210,000, according to the Scottish Medicines Consortium.\n\nIt added: \"Undoubtedly, the absence of his required treatment for his rare disorder in Egypt would cause intense suffering or death.\"\n\nYoussef Mikhaiel is greeted by his partner Sarah outside Dungavel immigration centre in June\n\nMr Mikhaiel said: \"The treatment is not available at all and you don't even have access to proper diagnosis for Fabry disease.\n\n\"First of all, this is my life. It affects my lifespan - the maximum is 50 years old for males and I am 28.\n\n\"I would like to have career, have a future and build a family.\n\n\"So this was critical for my life.\"\n\nMr Mikhaiel arrived in Scotland on a student visa in 2016 and graduated in aeronautical engineering at Glasgow University in 2019.\n\nHis visa expired the same year and he applied for leave to remain after he was diagnosed with Fabry disease.\n\nHis initial application was rejected over a failure to provide evidence of his illness in 2021.\n\nWhen the Home Office then ordered that he should be removed from the UK, he applied for leave to remain on medical grounds.\n\nHowever, he was detained and held at Dungavel in May this year - just a day after his lawyer obtained evidence from Egypt.\n\nMr Mikhaiel was detained at Dungavel earlier this year\n\nA petition for judicial review into the decision to detain him was accepted by the Court of Session in June and Mr Mikhaiel was released from detention.\n\nThe Home Office has now written to him, confirming it has granted leave to remain until 26 April 2026.\n\nIt stated: \"Although you do not qualify for leave to remain in the United Kingdom under the immigration rules, it has nonetheless been decided that discretion should be exercised in your favour.\n\n\"You have therefore been granted limited leave to remain in the United Kingdom in accordance with the principles set out in the Home Office policy instruction on discretionary leave.\"\n\nIt added that it made the decision \"on the basis of [his] exceptional circumstances\".\n\nMr Mikhaiel's solicitor Usman Aslam said his client should have been released as soon as he provided evidence on treatment in Egypt.\n\n\"I think there are a lot of questions that still need to be answered,\" he said. \"He should not have been detained or spent that amount of time in detention.\n\n\"What should have happened is that the Home Office should have contacted me.\n\n\"We had the evidence from the Egyptian hospital, including the Egyptian drug authority, confirming that he could not have access to that treatment and that it would shorten his life.\"\n\nAfter his leave to remain expires, Mr Mikhaiel - who is now studying cybersecurity - will need to apply to extend his stay but he said that access to better treatment had given him \"hope\".\n\n\"It will reduce my symptoms and lessen the pain,\" he said.\n\n\"I will have a longer life, build a career, have a family and hopefully have a happy life.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it did not comment on individual cases.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"All applications for leave to remain are carefully considered on their individual merits, on the basis of the evidence provided and in accordance with the immigration rules.\n\n\"We only return those with no legal right to remain in the UK and will not return anyone to countries where they have been found to be at risk of persecution or serious harm.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says taxes can only be cut when inflation is under control and \"that promise has now been met\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the government is now able to cut taxes, after the pace of price rises eased.\n\nMr Sunak said his target of halving inflation had been met so taxes would be reduced in \"a responsible way\".\n\nHe refused to comment on \"speculation\" about changes to individual taxes and said there would be more details in Wednesday's Autumn Statement.\n\nBut the PM said the government could now move to \"the next phase\" of its plan to grow the economy.\n\nLast week the government said it had met its pledge to halve inflation - the rate prices are rising - after the figure fell sharply to 4.6% in October.\n\nThe decrease was largely due to lower global energy prices, so there is a limit to how much credit ministers can take.\n\nHowever, Mr Sunak said the government had taken \"difficult decisions\", including avoiding inflationary pay rises in response to strikes, to deliver on its pledge.\n\n\"That's why we can now can move on to the next phase of our economic plan and turn our attention to cutting taxes,\" he said.\n\n\"We will do so seriously, we will do so responsibly, but that time is now here.\"\n\nTax levels in the UK are at their highest since records began 70 years ago, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank.\n\nWith the Conservatives trailing in the polls, the government has been under pressure from many of its own MPs to cut taxes ahead of a general election, which is expected next year.\n\nIn a speech at a London college, Mr Sunak acknowledged \"we can't do everything all at once\".\n\n\"It will take discipline and we need to prioritise,\" he said. \"But over time, we can and we will cut taxes.\"\n\nHis comments all but confirmed tax cuts are coming in Wednesday's Autumn Statement, when the chancellor sets out the government's tax and spending plans for the year ahead.\n\nThe prime minister would not confirm where exactly tax cuts would be made.\n\nHowever, Mr Sunak said he wanted to focus on \"rewarding hard work\", which would suggest national insurance as the likeliest candidate.\n\nHe also stressed the need to avoid doing anything which could fuel inflation.\n\nIn a reference to his predecessor Liz Truss, who beat him in the Conservative leadership election in the summer of 2022, he pledged not to make \"the same economic mistake as last year's mini-budget\" and warned against \"unfunded tax cuts\".\n\nOn benefits, he said he wanted to \"reform\" the welfare system so \"work always pays\".\n\nThis could mean increasing benefit payments by October's inflation figure of 4.6%, rather than September's higher figure of 6.7% as is convention.\n\nMr Sunak said he would not \"pre-empt\" any announcements on Wednesday, but added that the welfare system should be \"compassionate, fair and sustainable\".\n\nIn his speech, the prime minister promised to do more to help people into work, as well as to \"clamp down on welfare fraudsters\".\n\nThe government has already announced that claimants who are deemed fit to work and refuse to seek employment would lose access to their benefits for a period.\n\nWhile Chancellor Jeremy Hunt had considered cutting inheritance tax, sources said the focus of the Autumn Statement would be to promote growth - on which inheritance tax has minimal impact. Mr Hunt is likely to return to the issue for his Budget in the spring.\n\nThere is also expected to be a focus on business taxes as cutting them is seen as key to helping the economy to grow.\n\nOn support for businesses, the prime minister said he wanted to help companies to \"invest, innovate and grow through lower taxes and simpler regulation\".\n\nIn his speech Mr Sunak set out \"five long-term decisions\" for the economy - reducing debt, cutting tax, building sustainable energy, backing British businesses and delivering world-class education.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden said: \"The Tories have failed to deliver on so many pledges from the past. Why should people believe they will deliver on pledges for the future?\"\n\n\"After thirteen years of Conservative governments, working people have been left worse off and the Conservative economic record lies in tatters,\" he added.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats accused the government of \"de-prioritising the NHS\" and failing to understand \"the link between a better health service and a stronger economy\".\n\nThe party has argued higher-than-expected tax receipts should go towards a \"rescue package\" for the NHS.\n\nLess than two months ago, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt had warned tax cuts this autumn would be \"virtually impossible\".\n\nHowever, inflation has come down faster than some in government feared it might and tax receipts have also been higher than expected.\n\nThis is partly a result of many people being dragged into higher tax brackets as a result of inflation and the freeze on personal tax thresholds - and means the government could have as much as £25bn to use for tax cuts.\n\nGovernment sources expect those thresholds to remain frozen despite Conservative MPs' complaints about this \"fiscal drag\".", "A major incident was declared when it was found Barton House was unsafe\n\nResidents of a Bristol tower block evacuated over safety fears have been told the earliest they will be able to return to their homes will be in \"two to three weeks\".\n\nAll 400 tenants at Barton House were forced to leave their homes on Tuesday over safety fears.\n\nFamilies have been staying in temporary accommodation or with relatives.\n\nBristol City Council has now said \"complex and intrusive\" surveys mean further delays to their return.\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday night, the council - which owns the building - said it was staying in touch with Barton House tenants on a daily basis.\n\n\"Updates have been shared with residents this weekend regarding the ongoing temporary accommodation arrangements,\" it said.\n\n\"Residents were advised that due to the need to complete complex and intrusive building survey work, we do not expect households to be able to return to their flats in the next two to three weeks.\n\n\"Officers are working hard to identify more suitable temporary accommodation, and housing officers will remain in contact with residents to discuss individual circumstances.\"\n\nYousif and Majda are among the residents who were told to evacuate the building on Tuesday\n\nThe council also said some residents had concerns over access to food and laundry services and were worried about their pets.\n\nIt said it was in \"constant contact\" with affected residents to find solutions to those issues.\n\nOn Friday, Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees said it will be two weeks before there is any more news about the long-term future of Barton House.\n\nResidents were asked to leave the tower block due to worries over concrete that had not been fitted correctly.\n\nA structural engineer presented a report on the building's integrity to Kye Dudd, cabinet member for housing, services and energy, on Monday, the day before the evacuation.\n\nThe findings determined that the building would not be able to withstand any high impact, fire or explosion.\n\nBristol City Council has said Barton House was built in a different way to other tower blocks in the city, so it is not expecting the issue to be widespread.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Elizabeth El-Nakla and her daughter Nadia were interviewed for Sky News\n\nThe first minister's mother-in-law has described the \"living nightmare\" of being trapped in Gaza for four weeks during the Israel-Hamas war.\n\nElizabeth El-Nakla and her husband Maged were visiting family when Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October.\n\nShe admitted she felt she may die during their ordeal but that she had \"left my heart in Gaza\" when they were finally able to flee.\n\nThe couple's daughter Nadia is married to Humza Yousaf.\n\nIn an interview with Beth Rigby for Sky News, Ms El-Nakla said: \"I [wake] up in the middle of the night and I hear silence in the dark and then I remember I'm home and that I'm safe. And I feel very grateful for that.\n\n\"You really do think every day or every night you will die, and the family that are under your roof as well. And that's hard to comprehend and hard to get over.\"\n\nAfter two failed attempts, the couple - who live in Dundee - were eventually able to enter Egypt via the Rafah Border Crossing on 3 November.\n\nMs El-Nakla said that was the moment she knew she was safe, but it was then when exhaustion hit.\n\n\"I hadn't slept for nearly three weeks and you're just so relieved but you still don't believe it and you're so exhausted.\n\n\"And it is such a relief, you can't imagine, but again your heart is torn. I left my heart in Gaza. I didn't bring it home with me.\"\n\nHer daughter Nadia, who is a councillor in Dundee, said she had been \"holding onto hope\" but imagined that she may not see her parents again.\n\nWhen the conflict began on Saturday 7 October, Nadia messaged her parents and said: \"Your window is going to be small, you need to leave. It's going to become really, really a bad, dangerous situation for everyone in Gaza.\"\n\nElizabeth El-Nakla and Maged El-Nakla were visiting family in Gaza when the Hamas attacks happened\n\nDuring their first attempt to flee to safety on 14 October, the couple were driven to the border by a neighbour.\n\n\"This is 15 minutes in a fast drive, 22 minutes on Google it tells you it takes. But to me, it could have been 15,000 miles it felt so far away,\" she said.\n\nThey were told to turn back, and while on the phone to Nadia the line cut out following an explosion. Nadia said she \"fell to her knees\" and it took around 10 minutes for her to know her parents were still alive.\n\nNadia said that was her lowest point. \"We then had to travel to Aberdeen because the [SNP] conference was about to start. So, I was crying the whole journey to Aberdeen.\n\n\"That for me was the worst - worst day in terms of my own mental health and dealing with it.\"\n\nWhen the couple eventually crossed over into Egypt, Ms El-Nakla said she could see the \"desperation\" on the faces of those trying to flee.\n\nShe said: \"I wouldn't wish that situation on my worst enemy.\"\n\nMs El-Nakla said she was getting stronger every day, but added: \"Unfortunately, until our family and people that we know and love and everyone in Gaza are safe, I don't think we will get over it and I think my life has changed forever.\"\n\nThe family are calling for a full ceasefire and a two-state solution.", "Three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer's disappearance from Fairy Meadow beach in Australia has been a mystery for 53 years\n\nA potential new eyewitness has told the BBC he saw a teenage boy carrying away a small child from an Australian beach on the day a three-year-old vanished.\n\nPolice believe Cheryl Grimmer was abducted but the 53-year-old mystery has never been solved. Her family had recently migrated to Fairy Meadow in New South Wales from the UK.\n\nThe witness was seven in 1970 but said the moment was \"etched in my mind\".\n\nPolice have now contacted the man, the BBC understands.\n\nIn a new episode of the BBC's true crime podcast Fairy Meadow, the potential new witness gave a detailed description of seeing an adolescent male leaving the female changing rooms at the beach on the outskirts of Wollongong, about 50 miles (80km) south of Sydney.\n\nCheryl disappeared from the changing rooms on 12 January 1970 when her brother, who had been taking care of her, turned away for a few seconds. The British toddler and her family had only recently migrated to Australia from Bristol as so-called Ten Pound Poms.\n\nLocals joined the police search for Cheryl the day after her disappearance\n\nThe possible eyewitness, who asked to keep his identity private, said: \"When I glanced back at the toilet block, the profile of the guy was sort of full-stride with this baby in his arm, just kind of screaming and yelling at his hip, like low on his hip.\"\n\nHe said the teenage boy had medium-dark hair, short back and sides and was of average build.\n\nThe witness said he believes he can pinpoint this memory to the afternoon of 12 January 1970 because he recalls that the wind suddenly strengthened and changed direction, causing people to leave the beach in panic.\n\nA rare \"southerly buster\" is known to have blown through Fairy Meadow in the moments before Cheryl Grimmer vanished.\n\nFairy Meadow beach today - the open-air ladies' changing rooms, where Cheryl was last seen, are closest to the camera\n\nThe man told the BBC: \"I heard this screaming of the kid. That's what caught my ear. What was that shrieking sound? I turned around and that's what I saw.\"\n\nHe said that he did not tell police at the time what he had seen because he did not realise that a child had been abducted. The man said he and his family did not speak English in 1970 because they had only just arrived in Australia from eastern Europe.\n\n\"We had only been in the country for three or four weeks. We didn't have a TV and we never read the newspapers at that time. We were oblivious to what was really going on,\" he said. \"It wasn't even on my radar that it was such an important thing that I saw.\"\n\nThe man added that his family lived several miles from Fairy Meadow, so he was not aware of the huge public search for Cheryl in the days after she disappeared.\n\nThe BBC contacted him after a friend who listened to the Fairy Meadow podcast emailed with details of his story, which she said he had recounted for several years.\n\nA retired detective who reinvestigated the case in 2016 has now spoken to the man and believes his testimony is \"compelling\".\n\nFormer Det Sgt Damian Loone said it is the first time anyone has described seeing a teenage boy carrying a child from the beach.\n\nFormer Det Sgt Damian Loone said the potential witness sounded \"very credible\" and his claims should be \"fully investigated\"\n\nHe told the BBC: \"He sounded very credible to me - and what he says he saw on that particular day is very important and it should be fully investigated. I can understand the reasons why he didn't come forward beforehand, but he's now come forward to you. I have got his permission for an officer from the unsolved homicide unit to contact him.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that New South Wales Police have made contact with the man in the past few days.\n\nCheryl Grimmer's eldest brother Ricki - who is four years older and was looking after her in the moments before her disappearance - said that he is \"praying with everything I have left that police will now follow through and investigate… I won't sleep until it's over. And the only way it's going to be over is when I hear the truth.\"\n\nIn 1970, three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer was taken from an Australian beach. No-one knows what happened. Fifty years on - can the mystery be solved?\n\nIn 2016, a man in his sixties was charged with the murder of Cheryl Grimmer after officers discovered a confession made to police by a teenage boy a year after the toddler disappeared.\n\nA judge later ruled that the confession could not be presented as trial evidence. The defendant, known only by his police codename \"Mercury\", was freed and all charges dropped. He had denied the charges.\n\nTo mark the 50th anniversary of Cheryl Grimmer's disappearance in 2020, New South Wales Police announced a AU$1m reward for information leading to a successful conviction in the case.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Today we retake the path that made our country great,\" says Argentina's Javier Milei\n\nArgentines have elected far-right outsider Javier Milei, 53, as their new president.\n\nWith almost all votes counted, Mr Milei had won close to 56% in the decisive run-off, ahead of his left-wing rival, Sergio Massa, with 44%.\n\nThe radical newcomer's victory has been described as \"a political earthquake\".\n\nIt has been welcomed by like-minded politicians such as US ex-President Donald Trump, who said Mr Milei would \"Make Argentina Great Again\".\n\nBrazil's former leader Jair Bolsonaro said that \"hope would shine again in South America\".\n\nSometimes dubbed \"El Loco\" (the madman) by his critics, Mr Milei has promised drastic changes, which include ditching the local currency, the peso, for the US dollar and \"blowing up\" the central bank in order to prevent it from printing more money, which he argues is driving inflation.\n\nHe has also proposed cutting welfare payments and slashing bureaucracy by closing the ministries of culture, women, health and education, among others.\n\nIn a round of media interviews following his election win, he said he would privatise Argentina's state energy company, YPF, and the country's public broadcasters.\n\n\"Everything than can be [put] into the hands of the private sector, will be in the hands of the private sector,\" he said. However, Mr Milei added that before YPF could be privatised, it would have to be \"rebuilt\". He did not say how long that process could take.\n\nThe president-elect also announced that public works would be \"cut down to zero\" and those already in progress would be put out to tender so that \"there would be no more state spending\".\n\nOn social issues, he wants to loosen gun laws, abolish abortion - which was legalised in Argentina in 2020 - and allow the sale and purchase of human organs.\n\nMr Milei's victory comes amid a deep economic crisis which has seen annual inflation rise to 143% and 40% of Argentines living in poverty.\n\nWhile opinion polls conducted before the election had given Mr Milei a slight lead over Mr Massa, the wide margin of his win - by more than 11% according to provisional results - has surprised many.\n\nMr Massa, who is the economy minister in the outgoing left-wing government, quickly conceded defeat saying that \"obviously the results are not what we had hoped for\".\n\nAnalysts say Mr Milei's aggressive style and his promise to \"do away with the political caste\", which he blames for the country's ills, appealed to voters who were fed up with Argentina's established parties.\n\n\"This model of decadence has come to an end. There is no turning back,\" he told his supporters in his victory speech, promising a new era for Argentina.\n\n\"From being the richest country in the world, today we are (ranked) 130. Half of Argentines are poor and the other 10% are destitute. Stop this impoverishing model of the caste. Today we embrace the Libertarian model so as to return to being a global power,\" he said.\n\nHe also announced that the changes he would bring in would be drastic and immediate.\n\nDuring campaigning, the former economist and pundit held a chainsaw aloft to symbolise plans to cut spending.\n\nHis message appeared to resonate with voters celebrating his win in the streets of Buenos Aires. One woman told AFP news agency that \"we were very tired, we wanted to renew, we wanted to see new faces, always the same ones, I bet on change, on Milei, that it will go well for him, it will go well for the country\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why these Argentines voted for Javier Milei\n\nHowever, economists have been more circumspect, pointing out that Mr Milei's party only holds a small number of seats in Argentina's Congress and that he will therefore have to negotiate with the very politicians he disparaged and attacked during the campaign.\n\nDespite his anti-establishment rhetoric, Mr Milei has in the past been quick to bury the hatchet if it suits him politically.\n\nFollowing his win in the first round, he stopped attacking the third-placed candidate, conservative Patricia Bullrich, who in turn threw her weight behind Mr Milei in the second round.\n\nIn his victory speech, he thanked both Ms Bullrich and the conservative former president, Mauricio Macri, who had also endorsed him.\n\nBut while his supporters took to the streets of the capital, Buenos Aires, chanting \"change!\", there are also those who worry about what Mr Milei's victory may mean for Argentine society.\n\nHis choice of Victoria Villarruel as his vice-presidential running mate shocked human rights campaigners in the country, in which 30,000 people were killed or forcibly disappeared under military rule from 1976 to 1983.\n\nMs Villarruel, who comes from a military family, has defended officers convicted of crimes against humanity and proposed dismantling a museum which commemorates victims of Argentina's military junta.\n\nMr Milei and Ms Villarruel will be sworn in on 10 December for a four-year term.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Sera Cracroft is sharing her story of being sexually assaulted as a child publicly for the first time\n\nAn actress in Welsh-language TV soap Pobol y Cwm has said she was sexually assaulted as a young child.\n\nSera Cracroft, who plays Eileen Probert in the S4C drama, said she was sharing her story to help others.\n\nThe 57-year-old mother-of-three added she has suffered with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) since the incident and considered taking her own life.\n\nPolice investigated the allegations, but nobody was ever convicted.\n\nIn an interview with Elin Fflur on S4C's Sgwrs Dan y Lloer, she said: \"I was sexually abused when I was a small child at a friend's house.\n\n\"While the attack was happening, I remember feeling like I was suffocating.\n\n\"I bit his hand and screamed for my mam.\"\n\nSera, who lives in Cardiff, said she never mentioned the assault to anyone and suffered with serious mental health problems as a result.\n\n\"I hadn't realised how much of an effect it had on me until I was older,\" she revealed.\n\n\"Whenever I was under pressure or was busy the flashbacks became worse.\n\n\"I decided one day that I just couldn't live in my skin and I decided that I wanted to kill myself.\"\n\nSera received extensive specialist help in hospital, where she remembers people were \"terribly nice\" to her.\n\nSera Cracroft has played Eileen Probert in Pobol y Cwm since 1989\n\nSera said sharing her story with others for the first time \"was the start of getting better\".\n\nShe also described Cerian, the policewoman who asked her to make an initial statement when she reported the assault as an adult, as \"an angel\".\n\nSera added she was \"so, so disappointed\" to learn there wasn't enough evidence for the police to investigate the allegation further.\n\nShe demanded the police question the man.\n\n\"I wanted him to feel a percentage of the fear that I had suffered,\" she said.\n\nBut when quizzed by the police he denied ever meeting Sera.\n\nAs a result nobody has ever been prosecuted.\n\nSera said thanks to a lot of counselling and help she was in a \"good place\".\n\nThe actress said former Welsh footballer and mental health campaigner Neville Southall has also become a good friend and has helped empower her.\n\n\"I can't change the past,\" she added.\n\n\"The only thing I can change now is how I respond to that.\"\n\nIf you've been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, information and support is available on BBC Action Line.", "Thirty-one premature babies have been moved from al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City to a maternity hospital in southern Gaza.\n\nThe babies had to be \"wrapped in foil to maintain their body temperatures [while] on the move - but their \"health condition is good\", a spokesperson for the Palestinian Red Crescent told the BBC.\n\nMany of the 31 babies evacuated to the Emirati Hospital in Rafah on Sunday have \"lost their parents in bombardments\" by Israel, Nebal Farsakh said.\n\nShe said the surviving parents had been ordered to leave Gaza City - where al-Shifa hospital is located - before the babies' evacuation, and their current whereabouts are unknown.\n\nHundreds of people have left Gaza's largest hospital in the days since the Israeli military entered the complex to carry out what it called \"a precise and targeted operation against Hamas\".\n\nThe World Health Organisation estimates that almost 300 critically ill patients remain stranded at al-Shifa.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Jeremy Hunt says he will not take any risks on tax cuts\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt has not ruled out cutting income tax in Wednesday's Autumn Statement, as he insisted economic growth was his priority.\n\nMr Hunt is finalising the government's spending plans as he seeks to revive a stagnant British economy.\n\nThe chancellor is believed to be considering reducing taxes on income or national insurance.\n\nHe told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme his speech would focus on removing barriers to growth.\n\nThe chancellor was traditionally coy when it came to confirming any of the actual financial decisions he will make before Wednesday.\n\nMr Hunt said he wanted to put the UK on \"the path to lower taxes\" but would \"only do so in a responsible way\" that did not \"sacrifice the progress on inflation\".\n\nWhen asked if he would cut income tax, he said he would not comment on a decision ahead of the statement, adding: \"Our priority is growth.\"\n\nTax levels in the UK are at their highest since records began 70 years ago and are unlikely to come down soon, according to a leading think tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies.\n\nAhead of the Autumn Statement, Tory MPs on the right of the Conservative Party, including former Prime Minister Liz Truss, have been urging the chancellor to announce tax cuts.\n\nMr Hunt has previously said tax cuts are \"virtually impossible\" given the state of the economy and stressed bringing down living costs was his priority.\n\nAppearing on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the Conservative mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street said he would prefer taxes on businesses to be reduced than cutting inheritance tax.\n\nWhile the chancellor had considered cutting inheritance tax, sources said the focus of the Autumn Statement would be to promote growth - on which inheritance tax has minimal impact.\n\nMr Hunt is likely to return to the issue for his Budget in the spring. He is also thought to have ruled out increasing tax thresholds as a way to cut taxes.\n\nInstead, Mr Hunt appears to be weighing up direct cuts to income tax or national insurance.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Hunt remarked that \"if you believe the papers there won't be any taxes left\".\n\nThe chancellor and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are hoping the Autumn Statement will turn the political tide in their favour after a bruising few weeks.\n\nLast week Mr Sunak sacked Suella Braverman as home secretary and the Supreme Court ruled his plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful.\n\nBut there was some good news for the prime minister, as UK inflation fell sharply in October to its lowest rate in two years, largely because of lower energy prices.\n\nThe government says it has met its pledge of halving inflation by the end of the year, but there is a limit to how much credit ministers can take as energy prices fall.\n\nThe Bank of England says raising interest rates, which it controls independently, is the best way to make sure inflation comes down.\n\nMr Hunt said the UK was \"not out of the woods yet\", but added he felt \"there's too much negativity about the British economy\".\n\nHeld back by high energy prices and interest rates, the UK economy has been struggling to recover since the pandemic, with the Bank of England forecasting zero growth until 2025.\n\nThe chancellor will base his spending plans on the latest economic forecast from the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR), which assesses the health of the UK's finances and is independent of the government.\n\nAs inflation slows, economists have estimated the chancellor could have more than £10bn to spend on tax cuts.\n\nMr Hunt said tax cuts were not his only tool: \"We need to be growing faster and that's why we're going to be taking a lot of measures.\"\n\nOne policy that has already been announced is a plan to reduce the time to approve and build pylons, overhead cables and other electricity infrastructure.\n\nUnder the plans, households living closest to new pylons and electricity substations could receive up to £1,000 a year off their energy bills for a decade.\n\nWhat was clear was the extent to which Mr Hunt will try to use Wednesday to mark a new era - one in which the worst pressures of inflation have passed and the focus is on getting the economy to grow, instead of bumping along the bottom.\n\nThe tough task is how a message that things have improved translates into the real world when so many people are finding it hard to pay the bills.\n\nWhen questioned about possible changes to benefits, Mr Hunt again refused to be drawn on the detail but said in principle, the Conservatives \"don't believe in parking people in welfare\".\n\nThis week, the BBC reported that ministers have drawn up large benefit changes for people who are unable to work due to health conditions.\n\nPlans were unveiled which would mean people on Universal Credit allowance would have their claims closed if they fail to take steps to find work over six months. The government says it will encourage people back into employment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rachel Reeves says Labour would increase benefits in line with September inflation\n\nLabour shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves criticised the government's plans for welfare, saying the number of people out of work is \"on them\" after 13 years in power.\n\nMs Reeves said: \"The reason we've got so many people out of work is because our NHS is not functioning properly.\"\n\nShe said people's \"lives are on hold\" because they are waiting for the treatments that would allow them to get back to work.\n\nThe shadow chancellor was also asked about reports the government could subtly change how it sets the rate benefits increase for the next financial year to save billions for the Treasury.\n\nTraditionally, the September inflation rate is used, which this year was 6.7% - but the government could instead base the increase on October's lower rate of 4.6% in order to save money.\n\nMs Reeves said: \"In government I will use the inflation rate that is traditionally used to uprate benefits. I think that's the right thing to do.\"\n\nAre you struggling to live on your current benefit allowance? Are you struggling to find work? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Lawyers for Sir Patrick Vallance have told the Covid inquiry that full pages from his diaries should not to be shown on screen during public hearings.\n\nThe government's former chief scientific adviser kept evening notes in the pandemic as part of a \"brain dump\" to protect his mental health.\n\nHis lawyer argued only text referred to in hearings should be released.\n\nEight media organisations, including the BBC, want the entries shown in context as part of a full diary page.\n\nTheir joint submission, which is backed by groups representing bereaved families, must now be considered by the inquiry's chairwoman, Baroness Hallett.\n\nSir Patrick's informal diaries - or evening notes - have already been referenced a number of times in this second phase of the inquiry, which focuses on political decision-making from January 2020 until February 2022.\n\nIn one entry, he wrote of \"chaos as usual\" in Downing Street after a meeting on social distancing; in another he described then-prime minister, Boris Johnson, as \"... all over the place and so completely inconsistent\".\n\nIn legal submissions on Monday afternoon, Matthew Hill, who is representing the Government Office for Science along with current and former chief scientific advisers, described the notes as a \"brain dump\" which was written at the end of a stressful day to protect Sir Patrick's mental health.\n\n\"He [Sir Patrick] describes them as a form of release which helped him focus on the challenges of the next day rather than dwelling on the events of the past,\" the barrister said.\n\n\"It was a way of creating space... in what could have been an overwhelming situation.\"\n\nThe diaries were never intended for publication. They were voluntarily provided to the inquiry in full and have already been redacted to remove personal or irrelevant information.\n\nIn hearings to date, specific extracts have been read out by lawyers but not displayed on screen like other documentary evidence.\n\nEight media organisations have made a submission arguing that the notes, which were handwritten by Sir Patrick, should be displayed in context as part of the page of the diary in which they were originally written.\n\nSir Patrick's legal team say that would be in breach of his human rights and only the words directly relevant to questioning should be displayed in public.\n\nProf Mark Woolhouse, from University of Edinburgh, being sworn in at the Covid Inquiry\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, told the inquiry that he had become \"very, very concerned\" about the spread of coronavirus as early as January 2020.\n\n\"The worst case scenarios were very, very frightening,\" he said.\n\nThe inquiry was shown a series of emails between Prof Woolhouse and Sir Jeremy Farrar, then director of the Wellcome Trust and now chief scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nIn one, dated 21 January 2020, Sir Jeremy agreed that the new virus had probably already spread around the world: \"So many asymptomatic, very mild infectious individuals who can transmit - sort of worst hybrid of flu+Sars!\"\n\nIn his evidence, Prof Woolhouse told the inquiry that the idea coronavirus could be transmitted by people who did not have obvious symptoms was \"absolutely crucial\" as it made it much harder to contain and control.\n\nThe epidemiologist, who also sat on the influential SPI-M-O subgroup of government advisers which modelled the spread of the pandemic, said he supported the first full lockdown when it was announced on 23 March 2020.\n\nWith hindsight though, he said he has questioned whether it was necessary to impose legal restrictions, given that public behaviour was already starting to change, according to mobile phone data released months later by the technology giant Google.\n\n\"All the way through the pandemic, it was clear that the public were anticipating what government would do and making decisions for themselves,\" he said.\n\nHe also suggested government advisers were too quick to dismiss policies which, he argued, would have better protected the elderly and vulnerable by \"cocooning\" carers and other family members with whom they might have contact.\n\nThis second stage of the Covid Inquiry is examining political decision-making during the pandemic, including the timing and effectiveness of lockdowns and other social-distancing restrictions.\n\nIt is taking witness evidence in London until Christmas, before moving to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to look specifically at the decisions made by administrations in those parts of the United Kingdom.", "Ashley Dale was not the intended target of the shooting\n\nFour men have been found guilty of murdering a woman who was shot when a gunman opened fire in her home after a feud involving her boyfriend.\n\nAshley Dale, 28, was killed when James Witham fired a Skorpion sub-machine gun in her house in Liverpool in the early hours of 21 August 2022.\n\nWitham, 41, Joseph Peers, 29, Niall Barry, 26, and Sean Zeisz, 28, were convicted at Liverpool Crown Court.\n\nThe trial heard Ms Dale's partner had been the intended target of the shooting due to a feud with Barry, which had reignited at Glastonbury festival.\n\nMs Dale, an environmental health officer, was killed when Witham, who admitted manslaughter but denied murder, forced open the door of her home in the Old Swan area of the city.\n\nHe fired 10 bullets in her dining room, one hitting Ms Dale in the abdomen as she stood by the back door, and five bullets into the wall of an upstairs bedroom.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ashley Dale's mum says Witham, who fired the fatal shot, \"destroyed our lives\"\n\nPeers was described in court as a \"foot soldier\" after he drove a Hyundai to the scene and earlier helped Witham to stab tyres on Ms Dale's car in an attempt to lure the couple out of the house.\n\nBarry and Zeisz were found to have helped organise and encourage the killing, which came after a feud with Ms Dale's boyfriend Lee Harrison.\n\nJames Witham, left, who fired the sub-machine gun and Joseph Peers, right, were found guilty of murder\n\nThe trial heard Ms Dale's own voice describing the falling out between her partner and Barry, as voice notes which she recorded and sent to friends in the two months before her murder were played to the jury.\n\nHer phone was found an arm's length from her and the court heard she had tried to call Mr Harrison, who was out with friends, in her final moments.\n\nThe jury was told Barry's feud with Mr Harrison started about three years before the shooting when Mr Harrison sided with the Hillside organised crime group after they allegedly stole drugs from Barry.\n\nThe feud was reignited when both attended Glastonbury festival in June 2022, the prosecution said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Witham gave police a false name when he was held by officers\n\nMr Fitzgibbon, who flew to Dubai after the shooting and was extradited from Spain in August, told the jury he had witnessed Barry threatening to stab Mr Harrison during the festival.\n\nMs Dale's family said the 28-year-old had fallen \"in love with the wrong boy\" as they expressed their anger towards the \"despicable\" boyfriend her murderers were targeting.\n\nJulie Dale, 46, said she was \"very, very angry\" towards Mr Harrison, who had been in a relationship with her daughter for about five years before her death.\n\nNiall Barry, left, and Sean Zeisz, right, were also convicted of murder\n\n\"Some days I feel like I'm more angry towards him than I am to the person who's actually killed Ashley because without Lee Harrison this wouldn't have happened,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"The way he's acted since this has happened has been absolutely despicable.\n\n\"We've had no remorse from him. We've had no support from him. We have no admittance that it's anything to do with him.\"\n\nDuring the trial, the court heard that since his girlfriend's death Mr Harrison had been \"totally unco-operative\" with police, and had been to Dubai on several occasions.\n\nMs Dale's stepfather Rob Jones said: \"The problem we keep coming back to is Ashley fell in love with the wrong boy.\n\n\"I'm not saying for one minute Ashley did not love him, I'm saying he doesn't love her, clearly, by actions.\"\n\nThe trial was previously shown picture of Ms Dale's front door, which was kicked in before she was shot\n\nHer mother added: \"The difficult thing is, most of the defendants, pretty much all of them, knew Ashley and have known her on a friendly basis.\n\n\"Never mind to do what they did, but then to get up and lie about it and talk about her.\n\n\"Hearing them mention her name just makes me so angry.\"\n\nAs the verdicts were read out, Ms Dale's mother and stepfather were hugged by relatives sitting behind them and they stood and embraced each other in tears once the proceedings had ended.\n\nFamily members of the convicted men were also in tears, with some relatives running out of the court room causing the judge to pause proceedings.\n\nWitham, Peers, Barry and Zeisz were also convicted of conspiracy to murder Mr Harrison and conspiracy to possess a prohibited weapon, a Skorpion sub-machine gun, and ammunition.\n\nFitzgibbon, of St Helens, was cleared of those charges.\n\nKallum Radford, 26, was acquitted of assisting an offender after being accused of helping to store the car used in the murder.\n\nSentencing for the four convicted men will take place on Wednesday at 11:00 GMT.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, X and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman was fired as chief executive on Friday\n\nStaff at OpenAI have called on the board of the artificial intelligence company to resign after the shock dismissal of former boss Sam Altman.\n\nIn a letter, they question the board's competence, and accuse it of undermining the firm's work.\n\nBut Mr Altman now has a job at Microsoft and seems to want to stay. He and Microsoft boss Satya Nadella see OpenAI's success as vital, he added.\n\n\"Satya and my top priority remains to ensure OpenAI continues to thrive,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"We are committed to fully providing continuity of operations to our partners and customers. The OpenAI/Microsoft partnership makes this very doable.\"\n\nThe sacking on Friday of a man who is one of the leading figures in artificial intelligence (AI) shocked the tech world.\n\nThe letter's hundreds of signatories, who include senior staff, say they may themselves resign if their demands are not met.\n\nThey also state that Microsoft, the biggest investor in OpenAI, has assured them that there are jobs for all OpenAI staff if they want to join the company.\n\nIn an interview with CNBC, Mr Nadella said he was open to working with OpenAI or working with the OpenAI employees who come to Microsoft.\n\n\"At this point… it's very, very clear that something has to change around the governance [at OpenAI],\" he added, saying the firms would be in dialogue about this.\n\nEvan Morikawa, an engineering manager at OpenAI, posted on X - formerly Twitter - that 743 of the company's 770 workers had put their names to the letter.\n\nOne of the notable people to sign the letter is OpenAI's chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever - despite being a member of the board which now finds itself under fire.\n\nWriting on X, he said that he had made a mistake.\n\n\"Now I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company\", he posted.\n\nIn a fast moving and chaotic series of events over the weekend it seemed briefly that Mr Altman might get his job back, only for it to be announced he was joining Microsoft, which has invested billions in OpenAI in exchange for a 49% stake.\n\nMicrosoft chief executive Satya Nadella wrote on X, that Mr Altman would be leading \"a new advanced AI research team\".\n\nResponding to the post confirming his new job, but before the letter was published, Mr Altman wrote \"the mission continues\".\n\nHe later added: \"We are all going to work together some way or other, and i'm so excited. one team, one mission.\"\n\nMeanwhile, ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear will become OpenAI's new interim boss.\n\nWriting on X, he called the job a \"once-in-a-lifetime opportunity\".\n\nBut he added the way Mr Altman had been sacked was \"handled very badly\" and \"seriously damaged our trust\".\n\nMr Altman, 38, helped launch the firm - best known for creating the popular ChatGPT bot - and has become one of the most influential figures in the fast-growing generative artificial intelligence (AI) space.\n\nThe sacking of such a high profile figure surprised industry watchers, and angered many in the company he'd led - culminating in them demanding the board members resign.\n\nDan Ives of investment firm Wedbush Securities says Microsoft has ended up being strengthened - but the episode reflected badly on OpenAI.\n\nThey were \"at the kid's poker table and thought they won until Nadella and Microsoft took this all over in a World Series of Poker move for the ages\", he wrote.\n\n\"The embarrassing circus show over the weekend at OpenAI was finally taken over by the adults in the room.\"\n\nEmmett Shear was the former boss of video-sharing platform Twitch\n\nOpenAI's new boss Emmett Shear is the former head and co-founder of video streaming service Twitch. A memo to OpenAI's staff said he had a \"unique mix of skills, expertise and relationships that will drive OpenAI forward\".\n\nIn spite of now being at the helm of one of the world's most powerful AI companies - and being a self-described \"techno-optimist\" - Mr Shear has expressed concerns about what he sees as the potential existential threat posed by the technology.\n\n\"It's like someone invented a way to make 10x [ten times] more powerful fusion bombs out of sand and bleach, that anyone could do at home\", he told the Logan Bartlett Show podcast in June.\n\nThe exact reasons for Mr Altman's sacking by the board remain unclear.\n\nOn Friday, when OpenAI announced it was firing Mr Altman, it accused him of not being \"consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities\" - but did not specify what he is alleged to have not been candid about.\n\nMr Shear has addressed some of the speculation on the subject.\n\n\"The board did *not* remove Sam over any specific disagreement on safety, their reasoning was completely different from that. I'm not crazy enough to take this job without board support for commercializing our awesome models\", he wrote on X.\n\nThe mention of safety could suggest that this was not a disagreement about the management of the risks AI may pose, though the words are open to interpretation.\n\nBut Mr Shear committed to hiring an independent investigator \"to dig into the entire process\".", "Taylor Little says they were exposed to graphic material at the age of 11 with no warning\n\nHundreds of families are suing some of the world's biggest technology companies - who, they say, knowingly expose children to harmful products. One plaintiff explains why they are taking on the might of Silicon Valley.\n\n\"I literally was trapped by addiction at age 12. And I did not get my life back for all of my teenage years.\"\n\nTaylor Little's addiction was social media, an addiction that led to suicide attempts and years of depression.\n\nTaylor, who's now 21 and uses the pronoun \"they\", describes the tech companies as \"big, bad monsters\".\n\nThe companies, Taylor believes, knowingly put into children's hands highly addictive and damaging products.\n\nWhich is why Taylor and hundreds of other American families are suing four of the biggest tech companies in the world.\n\nThe lawsuit against Meta - the owner of Facebook and Instagram - plus TikTok, Google and Snap Inc, the owner of Snapchat, is one of the largest ever mounted in Silicon Valley.\n\nThe plaintiffs include ordinary families and school districts from across the US.\n\nThey claim that the platforms are harmful by design.\n\nLawyers for the families believe the case of 14-year-old British schoolgirl Molly Russell is an important example of the potential harms faced by teenagers.\n\nMolly Russell saw large amounts of material around self-harm, suicide and depression on social media\n\nLast year they monitored the inquest into her death via video link from Washington, looking for any evidence which they could use in the US lawsuit.\n\nMolly's name is mentioned a dozen times in the master complaint submitted to the court in California.\n\nLast week, the families in the case received a powerful boost when a federal judge ruled that the companies could not use the First Amendment of the US constitution, which protects freedom of speech, to block the action.\n\nJudge Gonzalez Rogers also ruled that S230 of the Communications Decency Act, which states that platforms are not publishers, did not give the companies blanket protection.\n\nThe judge ruled that, for example, a lack of \"robust\" age verification and poor parental controls, as the families argue, are not issues of freedom of expression.\n\nLawyers for the families called it a \"significant victory\".\n\nThe companies say the claims are not true and they intend to defend themselves robustly.\n\nTaylor, who lives in Colorado, tells us that before getting their first smartphone, they were sporty and outgoing, taking part in dance and theatre.\n\n\"If I had my phone taken away, it felt like having withdrawals. It was unbearable. Literally, when I say it was addictive, I don't mean it was habit-forming. I mean, my body and mind craved that.\"\n\nTaylor Little described the impact of viewing material related to body image and eating disorders\n\nTaylor remembers the very first social media notification they clicked on.\n\nIt was someone's personal self-harm page, showing graphic images of wounds and cuts.\n\n\"As an 11-year-old, I clicked on a page and was shown that with no warning. No, I didn't look for it. I didn't ask for it. I can still see it. I'm 21 years old, I can still see it.\"\n\nTaylor also struggled with content around body image and eating disorders.\n\n\"That was - is - like a cult. It felt like a cult. You're constantly bombarded with photographs of a body that you can't have without dying.\n\nLawyers for Taylor and the other plaintiffs have taken a novel approach to the litigation, focusing on the design of the platforms and not individual posts, comments or images.\n\nThey claim the apps contain design features which cause addiction and harm.\n\nMeta released a statement saying: \"Our thoughts are with the families represented in these complaints.\n\n\"We want to reassure every parent that we have their interests at heart in the work we are doing to provide teens with safe, supportive experiences online.\"\n\nGoogle told us: \"The allegations in these complaints are simply not true. Protecting kids across our platforms has always been core to our work.\"\n\nAnd Snapchat said its platform \"was designed to remove the pressure to be perfect. We vet all content before it can reach a large audience to prevent the spread of anything that could be harmful.\"\n\nTaylor knows all about the story of Molly Russell, from north-west London, who took her own life after being exposed to a stream of negative, depressing content on Instagram.\n\nAn inquest into her death found she died \"while suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content\".\n\nTaylor says their stories are very similar.\n\n\"I feel incredibly lucky to have survived. And my heart breaks in ways I can't put into words for people like Molly.\n\n\"I'm happy. I really love my life. I'm in a place I didn't think I would live to.\"\n\nIt makes Taylor determined to see the legal action through.\n\n\"They know we're dying. They don't care. They make money off us dying.\n\n\"All hope I have for better social media is entirely dependent on us winning and forcing them to make it - because they will never, ever, ever choose to.\"", "An Abu Dhabi-backed investment fund is poised to take control of the Telegraph newspaper and Spectator magazine.\n\nRedBird IMI said it had agreed to provide loans to repay debts owed by the publication's previous owners, the Barclay family, that would bring the titles out of receivership.\n\nIf the deal is approved then Redbird IMI's chief executive, former CNN boss Jeff Zucker, would run the business.\n\nHowever, any deal is likely to face close regulatory scrutiny.\n\nIt comes five months after the Telegraph and Spectator were taken over by Lloyds bank as it sought to recover debts owed by the Barclay brothers.\n\nLloyds launched a sales process of the business to recover more than £1bn that was outstanding.\n\nHowever, on Monday the investment fund, which is a joint venture between US firm RedBird Capital and International Media Investments (IMI) of Abu Dhabi, confirmed it had reached a deal with the Barclays.\n\nThis would see the debts owed to Lloyds repaid, and the news titles taken out of receivership.\n\nRedBird IMI will lend the Barclays £600m, secured against the publications, with IMI also providing a similar sized loan against other Barclay-owned assets.\n\nUnder the terms of the deal Redbird has the right to turn the loan secured against the Telegraph and Spectator into equity, which would hand it control of the titles.\n\nA spokesman said it planned to \"exercise this option at an early opportunity\".\n\nOther bidders interested in the publications are seeking clarity on whether the auction process will still go ahead. They are also exploring legal options to ensure RedBird IMI's Gulf backers are subject to the same levels of regulatory scrutiny their bids would have been subject to.\n\nThe BBC understands the Culture and Media Secretary, Lucy Frazer, has held discussions with other interested parties on this issue today.\n\nOn Sunday, six Conservative MPs wrote to Deputy PM Oliver Dowden and the business and culture secretaries to raise concerns about how RedBird IMI's offer could affect national security and press freedom.\n\nThey said International Media Investments was owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the Emirati royal family and the deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates.\n\nThe MPs wrote: \"Material influence over a quality national newspaper being passed to a foreign ruler at any time should raise concerns, but given the current geopolitical context, such a deal must be investigated.\"\n\nIn its statement, Redbird IMI said that following the transfer of ownership, RedBird Capital alone would take over the management of the titles. It added that International Media Investments \"will be a passive investor only\".\n\nIt added: \"RedBird IMI are entirely committed to maintaining the existing editorial team of the Telegraph and Spectator publications and believe that editorial independence for these titles is essential to protecting their reputation and credibility.\"\n\nOther names have been linked to the Telegraph and Spectator since they were put up for sale including GB News investor Sir Paul Marshall, Daily Mail publisher DMGT and German publisher Axel Springer.", "Scientists were not aware of Rishi Sunak's Eat Out to Help Out scheme until it was announced, Sir Patrick Vallance has said.\n\nSir Patrick - then the government's chief scientific adviser - was giving evidence to the Covid inquiry about major decisions taken in the pandemic.\n\nHe said it would have been \"obvious\" the hospitality scheme would cause an increase in transmission risk.\n\nHe also said the then-PM Boris Johnson had been \"bamboozled\" by some science.\n\nHe said the first lockdown at the start of the pandemic was imposed about a \"week too late\".\n\nAnd he criticised the \"lack of leadership\" in the run-up to the second national lockdown in autumn 2020.\n\nIn a witness statement released on Monday evening, he said there were times that he considered resigning.\n\n\"Like many others I received abuse and threats and I was concerned for the wellbeing and safety of my family,\" he said.\n\n\"At times those factors did lead me to question whether I should continue.\n\n\"I also found people breaking the lockdown rules very difficult and considered what I should do in response, but decided that I would help most by continuing with my job.\"\n\nHe also said Dominic Raab led more effectively than Mr Johnson when he was briefly put in charge of the pandemic response while the prime minister was in hospital with Covid.\n\nSir Patrick was questioned for about five hours on Monday about decisions taken in and around Downing Street during the pandemic, and excerpts of his diary were read out.\n\nHis close colleague Sir Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer and the UK government's top medical adviser at the time the pandemic struck, is due to give evidence later on Tuesday.\n\nSir Patrick was asked about the Eat Out to Help Out scheme - a scheme devised by the then chancellor Mr Sunak to boost the hospitality sector in the post-lockdown summer of 2020 by offering diners a discount in cafes and restaurants.\n\nA section of Mr Sunak's witness statement was read out in which he had said no-one had raised concerns with him about the scheme in the summer of 2020.\n\nBut Sir Patrick said: \"We didn't see it before it was announced and I think others in the Cabinet Office also said they didn't see it before it was formulated as policy. So we weren't involved in the run-up to it.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think it would have been very obvious to anyone that this inevitably would cause an increase in transmission risk, and I think that would have been known by ministers.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Sunak's understanding of the risks, Sir Patrick said: \"If he was in the meetings, I can't recall which meetings he was in.\n\n\"But I'd be very surprised if any minister didn't understand that these openings carried risk.\"\n\nBecky Kummar, a spokesperson for Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK, said the evidence presented was \"horrific\", accusing Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak of making \"catastrophic decisions that led to the unnecessary loss of countless lives, crippled the NHS and plunged the country into even longer lockdowns\".\n\n\"Our loved ones should have been able to trust that their government was prioritising saving life, and that's why so many people believed that Eat Out to Help Out was safe. Instead masses of people almost certainly died because of Rishi Sunak's callous and reckless attitude.\"\n\nSir Patrick also criticised some of the Treasury's input into pandemic decision-making.\n\nIn a diary entry from October 2021, he described some economic predictions as being based on \"no evidence, no transparency, pure dogma and wrong throughout\".\n\nWhen questioned on the remarks, he said they were probably made late at night in \"frustration\", but he believes there was an \"imbalance\" between the transparency of economic and scientific advice during the pandemic.\n\nHe added that the advice was often \"not beloved\" and advisers sometimes had to \"work doubly hard to make sure that the science evidence and advice was being properly heard\".\n\nA diary entry mentioned that at one economics-based meeting Mr Sunak had said \"it's all about handling the scientists, not handling the virus\", without realising that Sir Chris Whitty was in the room.\n\nHis diaries showed he was particularly critical of political decision-making in the run-up to the second national lockdown in the autumn of 2020.\n\nHe wrote in his diary that by mid-October, Mr Johnson had become frustrated by talk of a second lockdown.\n\nHe reports him as saying it was time to let it rip - as \"most people who died have reached their time anyway\".\n\nThe diary excerpts say that by late October, Mr Johnson had appeared to swing behind the idea of more restrictions, saying the numbers were \"terrible\".\n\n\"He is so inconsistent,\" Sir Patrick writes, on 28 October. \"We have a weak, indecisive PM.\"\n\nMr Johnson's special adviser, Dominic Cummings, had said: \"[Then Chancellor] Rishi [Sunak] thinks just let people die and that's OK\", according to Sir Patrick's diary.\n\nSir Patrick wrote at the time: \"This all feels like a complete lack of leadership.\"\n\nCommenting on it now, Sir Patrick said he had been recording what must have been \"quite a shambolic day\".\n\nThe then-Chancellor Rishi Sunak was pictured promoting the Eat Out to Help Out scheme in late July 2020\n\nIn an entry written at the start of the pandemic, in May 2020, he wrote that Mr Johnson was \"clearly bamboozled\" by some of the science.\n\nHe said it was hard work to make sure that the then-prime minister \"had understood what a graph of a piece of data was saying\".\n\nBut he adds that Mr Johnson wasn't alone among world leaders in struggling to understand \"complicated\" data.\n\nSir Patrick also revealed he had sometimes disagreed with the UK's chief medical adviser, Prof Sir Chris Whitty, about whether to introduce restrictions, and that \"sometimes [Sir Chris] was right\".\n\nHowever, he said his belief that the March 2020 lockdown came too late - which Sir Chris has disagreed with - had been vindicated.\n\n\"This was an occasion when I think it's clear that we should have gone earlier,\" he said, meaning that the measures should have started a week sooner.\n\nSir Chris's remit included public health, so he had been more focused on the consequences to people's health of restrictions, Sir Patrick said. And it had been \"useful and helpful\" to debate these with him inside government.\n\nTurning to events later in the year, Sir Patrick said more mistakes were made when some areas like Leicester and Liverpool were put into enhanced measures.\n\n\"The temptation is always to make [the restrictions] as limited as possible - and then that fails because the surrounding areas immediately got overwhelmed,\" he said.\n\nThis had been seen very clearly in October 2020 under the tier system of regional restrictions, where \"every MP\" had argued their area should not be placed in a higher tier, with tougher rules on meeting up and opening businesses, Sir Patrick said.\n\nSir Patrick also said of former health secretary Matt Hancock: \"I think he had a habit of saying things which he didn't have a basis for and he would say them too enthusiastically, too early, without the evidence to back them up, and then have to backtrack from them days later.\n\n\"I don't know to what extent that was sort of over-enthusiasm versus deliberate - I think a lot of it was over-enthusiasm. He definitely said things which surprised me because I knew that the evidence base wasn't there.\"\n\nWhen asked if this meant he \"said things that weren't true\", Sir Patrick answered \"yes\".\n\nDid you lose someone close to you during the pandemic? Have you been following the inquiry? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "A Royal Navy nuclear submarine suffered a \"concerning\" malfunction while diving, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe incident on board the unnamed Vanguard class submarine, which carries the UK's trident nuclear missiles, happened more than a year ago while it was preparing to go out on patrol.\n\nA defence source said \"there was a problem and it was concerning\", but that it was picked up by \"the system\".\n\nA Royal Navy investigation into the incident took place, the source said.\n\nBut they declined to give further details.\n\nDuring the incident the main depth gauge on the submarine failed as it was diving, a defence source confirmed, but a secondary depth gauge was still working.\n\nSubmarines have to be strong enough to withstand enormous pressures exerted by the ocean when diving.\n\nRedundancy systems are built into nuclear armed submarines to prevent problems from escalating.\n\nDetails of the incident were first reported in the Sun newspaper which said engineers on board alerted the crew to the failure while the submarine was diving.\n\nThe paper said the submarine was still within its limits for operating safely but was diving towards its \"crush depth\" before the alarm was raised.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) does not normally comment on the operations of the UK's submarines.\n\nThe Royal Navy said its submarines continue to meet their commitments and that while it does not comment on operations, the safety of its personnel is always the highest priority.\n\nThe Vanguard submarines are based at Faslane in Scotland and, according to the Royal Navy, normally have a crew of 132 officers and men.\n\nIn January this year it was reported that inspectors found a \"defect\" on HMS Vanguard, the lead boat of the four Vanguard-class submarines, while it was undergoing maintenance work.\n\nThe defect, from \"work done in the past\" was \"promptly reported and fixed\", the MoD said at the time.\n\nIn May the vessel finally left the Devonport dockyard where it had undergone a seven-and-a-half-year refit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: IDF releases CCTV which appears to show Hamas bringing hostages to hospital\n\nThe Israeli military has released footage which it says shows hostages being taken into Gaza's largest hospital after the deadly Hamas attacks of 7 October.\n\nA military spokesman said one of them - a soldier - was murdered there.\n\nCpl Noa Marciano, 19, was killed after being taken into al-Shifa hospital with minor injuries, he said.\n\nIsrael said a tunnel had been found at the site which it claims was a Hamas command centre. Hamas denies that.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to verify the video which was presented at a news briefing by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday.\n\n\"This morning we updated Noa's family that according to our findings, she was kidnapped to a safe house near Shifa,\" Rear Adm Daniel Hagari, IDF chief spokesperson told reporters.\n\n\"During IDF air strikes in the area, the Hamas terrorist who was holding Noa was killed and she was wounded in the air strike, but not a life-threatening injury. Noa was taken inside Shifa hospital, where she was murdered by another Hamas terrorist.\"\n\nHamas has previously claimed Ms Marciano was killed in an Israeli air strike, which the IDF said occurred on 9 November.\n\nRear Adm Hagari then played CCTV footage which he said was from the morning of 7 October - the day Hamas launched its surprise attack on southern Israel in which 1,200 Israelis were killed and more than 240 taken hostage.\n\nThe video showed two hostages being brought into the hospital, Gaza's largest and most modern.\n\nArmed men can be seen in the CCTV video which is date-stamped 7 October. One of the hostages appears to be resisting - the other is shown on a stretcher.\n\nThe IDF has been under pressure to substantiate its claim that Hamas operated an expansive command centre underneath the vast medical complex in the north of the territory.\n\nResponding to the video released by Israel, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said it was not able to confirm the authenticity of the footage.\n\nThe ministry also said it was Israel which bore full responsibility for the deterioration and collapse of health services in Gaza.\n\nEarlier, the IDF released a video that it said showed a tunnel 10m (33ft) below ground that runs for 55m up to a closed and reinforced door.\n\nIt said this was now part of the evidence that \"clearly proves\" numerous buildings in the hospital's complex have been \"used by Hamas as cover for terrorist infrastructure and activities\".\n\nThe latest video is not yet the evidence that's been promised of the sort of vast and intricate operation depicted in a computer simulation which the IDF previously released showing what it believes any Hamas base underground at al-Shifa could look like.\n\nThe WHO says the hospital - once Gaza's most modern - has essentially stopped being a medical facility\n\nThe US has said it also has intelligence that Hamas has used hospitals in the Gaza Strip, including al-Shifa, as command centres and weapons stores.\n\nIsrael has cited US intelligence to substantiate their claim of the existence of a major headquarters at the complex but the Americans' use of the term \"node\" may suggest a smaller operation.\n\nIsrael believes it is building a credible case and is keen to present evidence as and when it finds it.\n\nWhile Israel's allies have supported its military campaign of retaliation, which it says is aimed at eliminating Hamas, they have expressed a lot of unease at the toll that the offensive is having on civilians.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says the death toll in Gaza since then has reached 12,300. More than 2,000 people are feared to be buried under rubble.\n\nThe government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also under pressure from families of the hostages. They want him to do more to free those held by Hamas.\n\nOn Saturday, protesters calling on the Israeli government to prioritise securing the release of hostages walked from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem before holding a demonstration outside Mr Netanyahu's residence.\n\nThe prime minister, however, appears undeterred in his mission.\n\nHe says his first goal of the war is to destroy Hamas; the second to return the hostages; and the third to eliminate the threat from Gaza.", "Russia complained that Jamala's Eurovision-winning song should have been ruled out for being too political\n\nRussia has added Ukrainian Eurovision song contest winner Jamala to its wanted list, according to state media.\n\nThe singer, whose real name is Susana Jamaladinova, has reportedly been accused of spreading fake information about the Russian armed forces.\n\nThe Kremlin often levels such charges against those who share details of Russia's invasion of Ukraine that conflicts with its official line.\n\nJamala has been openly critical of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nShe was placed on the wanted list last month, according to the independent Russian human rights website Mediazona. Details of the listing were only picked up on Monday.\n\nRussian breaking news Telegram channel Shot claimed Jamala was on the list for posting \"fakes\" about atrocities in the Ukrainian town of Bucha in 2022.\n\nThe Kremlin has denied responsibility for the massacre that occurred there while Russian troops occupied the Kyiv suburb, despite there being evidence that it was Russian forces' doing.\n\nJamala, who is currently in Australia, responded to the news of her being placed on the list by posting a photo of herself in front of the Sydney Opera House with a link to an article about it and a facepalm emoji.\n\nThe 40-year-old fled Ukraine with her family after Russia's invasion in February last year.\n\nJamala won Eurovision in 2016 with the song entitled 1944, which was inspired by the forced deportation of her people - the Crimean Tatars - by Russia during that year.\n\nIt caused controversy, with allegations the lyrics broke the competition's rule against overtly political songs. However, the organisers allowed it and it eventually upset the odds by pipping Russia to the title.\n\nMany saw a clear message in the song about Russia's illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC earlier this year about the release of her new folk album, Qirim, Jamala said it was her attempt \"to give strong voice to my homeland, to Crimea\".\n\n\"The centuries of the Russian Empire, then Soviet Union, now Russia - they did a lot of propaganda to shut us up. Then they told the whole world we did not exist.\n\n\"But we know the truth. I know the truth. And so that's why for me, it's really important to show this truth through the stories behind each of the songs in this album.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Scotland\n\nJohn McGinn and his Scotland team-mates are \"living the dream\" as they try to keep their minds off playing at a second consecutive European Championship next summer.\n\nSteve Clarke's side booked their spot in Germany last month before rounding off their campaign with back-to-back draws with Georgia and Norway.\n\nHampden was in party mode following the 3-3 with the Norwegians on Sunday, but McGinn added that the experience was \"a bit strange for everyone\" given the nature of how Scotland qualified.\n\n\"The campaign's been amazing,\" the Aston Villa captain told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"I'm just so proud of the way the boys have handled it. We have a team and a group of players that the country are so proud of and I think that showed at the end.\n\n\"I think the punters were a bit surprised we had actually qualified, it had a strange atmosphere, but it's hopefully one we can get used to.\"\n• None 'Scotland go merrily from purgatory to paradise'\n• None Podcast: 'Finals are in back of our minds all the time'\n• None All the latest news & views on the national team\n\n'We had to create an identity'\n\nScotland's progression to the delayed Euro 2020 finals was achieved via back-to-back penalty shootout successes in play-off wins against Israel and Serbia.\n\nThis time around, automatic qualification was secured after five victories from their opening six group games booked a place in Germany with two matches to spare.\n\nMcGinn hopes that is an experience Scotland \"can get used to\" while making \"the pathway easier\" for future squads by eventually becoming pot one nation.\n\nMeanwhile, head coach Clarke reflected on \"an evolution\" that has taken the national team from a sorry state to successive Euro finals under his guidance.\n\n\"I had to identify a core group,\" he said on Viaplay. \"We tweaked the system. I had a lot of time to think during Covid. I sat at home and thought: 'How can we tighten up at the back? How do we stop conceding goals?'.\n\n\"I came up with the back three idea, which started with Scott McTominay there. We had to find a way of playing that was different and could become our identity.\n\n\"This group of players have now shown the Tartan Army and the people of Scotland they want to turn up and do well.\n\n\"I want us to be competitive every time we enter the pitch and we have to be like that if we want to consistently qualify for major tournaments.\"\n\nIf the form doesn't load properly, go straight to it here...\n• None Communities around Scotland tell the stories that matter to them", "Shakira arriving at court: \"I need to move past the stress and emotional toll of the last several years\"\n\nColombian pop star Shakira has reached a deal with Spanish prosecutors to settle a tax fraud case, just as her trial was about to begin.\n\nThe singer has paid a €7.5m (£6.5m) fine - prosecutors had wanted to jail her for eight years and fine her €23.8m (£20.8m) if found guilty.\n\nShe had faced tax fraud allegations for €14.5m (£12.7m) in a Barcelona court.\n\nShakira, who has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, said she settled \"with the best interest of my kids at heart\".\n\nIn a lengthy statement, she said her children \"do not want to see their mom sacrifice her personal well-being in this fight\".\n\nThe performer had previously rejected a deal offered by prosecutors, instead opting to go to trial.\n\nThe case centred around where Shakira was living between 2012 and 2014\n\n\"Throughout my career, I have always strived to do what's right and set a positive example for others,\" she said.\n\n\"Unfortunately, and despite these efforts, tax authorities in Spain pursued a case against me as they have against many professional athletes and other high-profile individuals, draining those people's energy, time, and tranquillity for years at a time.\n\n\"While I was determined to defend my innocence in a trial that my lawyers were confident would have ruled in my favour, I have made the decision to finally resolve this matter with the best interest of my kids at heart who do not want to see their mom sacrifice her personal well-being in this fight.\"\n\nShe added she needed to \"move past the stress and emotional toll of the last several years and focus on the things I love - my kids and all the opportunities to come in my career\".\n\nAt the centre of this row is Shakira's residency status between 2012 and 2014, when prosecutors alleged that she was living in Spain but listing her official residence elsewhere.\n\nUnder Spanish law, people who spend more than six months in the country are considered residents for tax purposes. But Shakira says Spain was not where she was mainly living at the time.\n\nIn July, prosecutors issued a document which claimed that she bought a house in Barcelona in 2012, which became a family home for her and her then-partner, Barcelona footballer Gerard Piqué.\n\nHer lawyers have said that up until 2014 most of her income came from international tours and she spent long chunks of time outside of Spain.\n\n\"The Spanish tax authorities saw that I was dating a Spanish citizen and started to salivate. It's clear they wanted to go after that money no matter what\", she told Elle magazine.\n\nShakira declared Spain to be her place of residence for tax purposes in 2015. She said she has paid €17.2m (£15m) in tax and has no outstanding debts.\n\nIn a separate case in 2019, Mr Piqué was fined €2.1m (£1.8m) by the Spanish national court for evading tax between 2008 and 2010.\n\nThe couple announced in early June that they had split up after 11 years. They have two sons together, aged seven and nine.", "The Queen highlighted the role of women in reporting on war zones\n\nQueen Camilla has highlighted the threats to journalists who are \"risking their lives\" to cover conflicts such as those in Israel and Gaza, and Ukraine.\n\nIn a speech to the Foreign Press Association in London, she spoke of the particular importance of female journalists in war zones.\n\nShe stressed the need to report on sexual violence - a \"pervasive and all-too-often hidden feature of conflict\".\n\nAnd she warned of female journalists being \"targeted on social media\".\n\nSpeaking in London, she said: \"As we gather, journalists, photographers and their support teams are even now risking their lives.\"\n\nIt follows reports of dozens of journalists dying during the current violence in Gaza and Israel.\n\nBut the Queen also sent a strong message on the often under-reported issue of abuse and sexual violence against women in war zones.\n\nIt was even more vital to cover such stories in an era when \"disinformation runs rife\", the Queen told her audience of international journalists.\n\n\"You have the ability to break the corrosive silence that frequently surrounds abuse. You bring into the open the voices of victims, you break taboos, you shine a light on these heinous crimes and you guide the public on what they can do to help,\" said the Queen.\n\nShe praised the role of women journalists in war zones, \"who despite the many hurdles they have faced, have been among the bravest reporters of all\".\n\nShe spoke of \"trailblazers\" like Martha Gellhorn, who reported during World War Two, and CNN's Christiane Amanpour, and she praised journalists who had \"paid with their lives\", such as Marie Colvin, who was killed in Syria, and Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta.\n\n\"Their courage was matched only by their conviction that the truth matters,\" said the Queen.\n\nSince becoming Queen last year, Camilla has continued with her outspoken campaign to highlight the threat of violence against women and domestic abuse.\n\nQueen Camilla praised the efforts of the Foreign Press Association in providing training for women facing \"disruptive and abusive behaviour from members of the public\".\n\nShe mentioned that the association, marking its 135th anniversary, was originally founded by overseas journalists who had travelled to London to cover a notorious case of violence against women, in the form of the Jack the Ripper murders.\n\nJournalism was vital to freedom of expression in a democratic system, she said.\n\n\"And I have even been the subject of one or two stories myself over the years...,\" said the Queen.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate believes \"he has learned a lot\" despite his side finishing their European Championship qualifying campaign unbeaten with a disappointing draw at North Macedonia.\n\nAlready-qualified England got the point they needed to secure a top seeding at Euro 2024 in Skopje, but were unable to improve on their underwhelming performance in Friday's 2-0 win over Malta.\n\n\"I think in both matches we've been able to look at different players as well as trying to win,\" Southgate told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"Normally you're waiting until March to do that. We've learned quite a bit from those two games which is an advantage for us.\"\n\nThe hosts were awarded a controversial penalty at the end of the first half when England debutant Rico Lewis caught striker Bojan Miovski with his hand as he jumped up for a header.\n\nNorth Macedonia captain Enis Bardhi put his side ahead from the rebound after his spot-kick was saved by England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford.\n\nEngland equalised in the 59th minute when Phil Foden's corner deflected in off Macedonian Jani Atanasov under pressure from Harry Kane.\n\nThe point sealed England's place in pot one for the draw for next summer's European Championship in Germany as one of the top five group winners, with 20 points from eight qualifying matches.\n• None Twenty teams through, but can Wales join them? Euro 2024 qualifying latest\n\nEngland were routinely frustrated in Skopje against a North Macedonia side who were hammered 7-0 by the Three Lions at Old Trafford in June.\n\nFormer England goalkeeper Rob Green dubbed their performance \"rushed, hurried\" and without \"quality\".\n\n\"In the end, two flat games to finish the campaign with,\" Green told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"They got the equaliser and then North Macedonia caused problems and England caused more of their own.\"\n\nSouthgate's team had made a promising start. Declan Rice hit the post with a driven shot from the edge of the box in the 14th minute before Ollie Watkins sent a free header wide seconds later.\n\nMidway through the first half Harry Maguire was fortunate not to concede a penalty when he nudged over Elif Elmas in the box. The penalty England did concede on the stroke of half-time though was harsh on the visitors.\n\nSlovakian referee Filip Glova had initially waved play on when Lewis caught Aberdeen striker Miovski, but awarded the hosts a spot-kick after consulting the pitch-side monitor.\n\nSeconds into the second half England had a goal ruled out for offside after Jack Grealish had timed his run too early before he bundled in Bukayo Saka's cross.\n\nTheir leveller eventually came just before the hour mark when substitute Kane did enough to panic defender Atanasov into deflecting Foden's corner into his own net.\n\nEngland looked the likelier to grab a late winner but, just as they did for most of the game, struggled to break down their opponent's low block.\n\n\"Of course we would have liked to have racked the goals up, but North Macedonia have been pretty good here,\" said Southgate. \"They drew with Italy, they make life tough.\"\n\nOne positive for Southgate was teenager Lewis who became England's 20th youngest player, making his debut a day before his 19th birthday.\n\nThe versatile Manchester City player made his club debut less than 12 months ago, but has also impressed for Pep Guardiola's side this campaign in defence and midfield.\n\nHe looked lively from left-back at Tose Proeski Arena, firing a shot over the bar inside the first three minutes.\n\nAfter conceding a penalty and collecting a yellow card for his foul, he forced Macedonian keeper Stole Dimitrievski into a fine diving save just before the break.\n\n\"I thought he was excellent,\" added Southgate. \"His ability to receive in tight areas was a standout. His bravery with the ball, but also the resilience to come back from a bit of a setback that was no fault of his own.\n\n\"He's a unique player because working out the specifics of the role and where that all fits is really interesting. His ability to keep possession and do that well under pressure is a fabulous asset to have.\"\n\nKyle Walker also became the 126th player to captain England, filling in for Kane until the Bayern Munich forward came on in the second half.\n\nEngland end their Euro 2024 qualifying campaign unbeaten and next face Brazil and Belgium in friendlies in March.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Kane (England) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Marcus Rashford (England) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt missed. Nikola Serafimov (North Macedonia) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Ezgjan Alioski with a cross following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Protesters have gathered in cities around the world calling for the release of hostages taken by Hamas\n\nThe Israeli ambassador to the US says he is hopeful a deal for the release of a significant number of hostages will be reached \"in the coming days\".\n\nMichael Herzog told ABC \"serious efforts\" were being made, but that the fewer details he revealed, \"the better the chances of such a deal\".\n\nHamas took an estimated 240 people hostage during their 7 October attacks which killed 1,200 Israelis.\n\nQatar, which has been mediating, also says a deal is within reach.\n\nThe Washington Post newspaper has reported that Israel and Hamas are \"close to agreement on a US-brokered deal that would free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting\", citing \"people familiar with the emerging terms\".\n\nQatar's Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said on Sunday that only \"very minor\" practical and logistical obstacles remain, adding that \"we are close enough to reach a deal\".\n\nThe US has not confirmed any details of progress.\n\nWhite House National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson posted on X: \"We have not reached a deal yet, but we continue to work hard to get to a deal.\"\n\nAnd Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out a full ceasefire.\n\nQatar has been playing a leading role in mediation efforts to secure the release of hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nIt was involved in the negotiations that have seen four people freed so far - a mother and daughter, who are US nationals, and two elderly Israeli women.\n\nThe small, gas-rich Arab Gulf state is home to the political leadership of Hamas, which has had an office in the capital, Doha, since 2012, headed by its leader Ismail Haniyeh.\n\nOn Saturday, protesters calling on the Israeli government to prioritise securing the release of hostages walked from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem before holding a demonstration outside Mr Netanyahu's residence.\n\nMr Netanyahu has been criticised for not doing more to free those held by Hamas.\n\nIn a press conference on Saturday night, he said the first goal of the war was to destroy Hamas, the second was to return the hostages and the third was to eliminate the threat from Gaza.\n\nThousands have joined hostages' families putting pressure on the Israeli government\n\n\"We want answers,\" said protester Ari Levi, who had two family members - including his 12-year-old son - taken by Hamas from kibbutz Nir Oz on 7 October.\n\n\"It's not normal to have children kidnapped for 43 days. We don't know what the government is doing, we don't have any information,\" Mr Levi told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"I want the government to bring them home to us,\" said Dvora Cohen, 43, whose brother-in-law and 12-year-old nephew are both believed to be held by Hamas.\n\nThis week Israel's military said it had found the bodies of two hostages - 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss and 19-year-old soldier Noa Marciano - in the Gaza Strip.\n\nIsrael has launched a massive retaliatory operation - involving air and artillery strikes as well as ground troops - with the aim of eliminating Hamas.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says the death toll in Gaza since then has reached 12,300. More than 2,000 more are feared to be buried under rubble.", "Amiram Cooper, Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Tsachi Idan are being held in Gaza\n\nIsrael says 132 people remain unaccounted for after they were abducted and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attacks by Hamas.\n\nAn estimated 240 people were taken prisoner, but 105 were later released by Hamas during a six-day ceasefire at the end of November.\n\nThe Israeli military said it mistakenly killed three hostages in northern Gaza who had escaped from their captors and expressed \"deep remorse\" over the incident.\n\nOf the 132 still unaccounted for, Israel says that 20 of them are believed to be dead.\n\nThese are the stories of those hostages who are still being held, which have either been confirmed by the BBC or credibly reported.\n\nThis list is regularly updated and names may change, as some people feared kidnapped are confirmed to have been killed or released.\n\nLast updated on 19 December 2023 at 10:33 GMT\n\nYagev Kirsht, 34, was taken from his home in Kibbutz Nirim, alongside his wife, Rimon Buchstab Kirsht. She has now been released.\n\nAlexander Trupanov, was taken hostage with his mother Lena Trupanov, 50, his partner Sapir Cohen, 29, and his grandmother Irina Tati, 73. All were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz as they spent the Sabbath together, according to a statement by Canada's Raoul Wallenburg Center for Human Rights. Irina and Lena were released on Wednesday 29 November and Sapir was freed the next day.\n\nAriel Cunio, his girlfriend Arbel Yahud and her brother Dolev are also thought to have been abducted in the same attack on Nir Oz. Eitan Cunio, Ariel's brother who escaped Hamas, told the Jewish Chronicle that his last message from Ariel said: \"We are in a horror movie.\"\n\nDavid Cunio, 33, another of Ariel's brothers, was also kidnapped from Nir Oz, family say. David's wife Sharon Aloni Cunio and their three-year-old twin daughters Ema and Yuly were released on 27 November. Sharon's sister Daniele Aloni, and her six-year-old daughter Emilia were both released on 24 November.\n\nDoron Steinbrecher, 30, a veterinary nurse, was in her apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas attacked, the Times of Israel reported. At 10:30 on 7 October, the newspaper said, she sent a voice message to friends: \"They've arrived, they have me.\"\n\nItzhak Gelerenter, 53, was taken from the Supernova festival. His family said the IDF found his phone was located in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported. His daughter Pivko told the paper: \"I'm trying to think good thoughts, I have a powerful, smart, resourceful father.\"\n\nDoron Steinbrecher sent a voice message to friends during Hamas' attack\n\nNaama Levy, 19, was filmed being bundled into a jeep, her hands tied behind her back. The footage was released by Hamas and circulated widely on social media. According to her mother, the teenager had just begun her military service.\n\nYousef Zyadna, a 53-year-old Bedouin dairy farmer, was abducted from Kibbutz Holit and taken to Gaza along with his sons Hamza, 22, and Bilal, 18, and his daughter, Aisha, 16. Aisha and Bilal were released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nElad Katzir, 47, was abducted from Nir Oz with his mother Hanna. Hanna has now been released.\n\nOhad Ben Ami, 55, was kidnapped from Be'eri with his wife, Raz. She was released by Hamas on 29 November.\n\nTwin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, 26, were taken from Kfar Aza. Ziv was messaging a friend as the attack happened. Their family said the IDF has told them the brothers are being held in Gaza. Their brother Liran told CBN news the pair had \"twin power\" and were the centre of attention wherever they went.\n\nIraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 85, was taken captive from Kibbutz Kissufim, where he lived and worked as a chicken coop manager. His wife, Mazal, managed to escape.\n\nMichel Nisenbaum, 59, is a dual Brazilian-Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel for 45 years and works as a computer technician, his family told Brazilian media. They also say he is diabetic and has Crohn's disease. On 7 October, they say, someone claiming to be from Hamas answered his phone when they tried to call him.\n\nDaniela Gilboa, 19, sent messages saying that Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she was staying, was under attack and asked her mother to pray for her. Her boyfriend, Roy Dadon, told the Economist 1843 magazine that he believes he saw a glimpse of her in a video showing three girls being driven away in the back of an SUV.\n\nItay Chen, 19, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF solider, was on active duty with a tank unit on 7 October, according to the Times of Israel. The paper reported that his family was notified by the IDF that he is officially considered missing in action and probably being held hostage. Another soldier in his unit, Matan Angrest, 21, is also presumed to be in Gaza.\n\nYosi Sharabi, 51, was taken from Be'eri with his brother, Eli Sharabi, 55. Eli's wife and two daughters were murdered in the attack. Ofir Engel, the boyfriend of Yosi's daughter, Yuval, was also taken, but released on 29 November.\n\nAgam Berger, 19, was kidnapped from Nahal Oz. She was seen being taken away in videos released by Hamas.\n\nEdan Alexander, 19, is an Israeli-US citizen who volunteered to join the Israeli army. He was serving near the Gaza border at the time of Hamas's attack. Edan's family said they had been told by Israeli officials that he had been taken to Gaza as a hostage.\n\nKaid Farhan Elkadi, 53, lives with his family south of Rahat and worked as a security guard, according to Israeli media. Reports said his family believes he was kidnapped and taken to Gaza, based on images shared by Hamas.\n\nIlana Gritzewsky and Matan Zanguaker were captured near the Gaza border, family say\n\nMatan Zanguaker, 24, was taken with his partner Ilana Gritzewsky, 30, from Nir Oz, according to Ilana's father. Ilana, a Mexican national, was released on Thursday 30 November.\n\nThe family of Eitan and Yair Horn believe they were taken from Nir Oz kibbutz\n\nEitan Horn, 37, and his brother Yair, 45, both Argentinian citizens, were also in Nir Oz at the time of the attack. Their father Itzik said he believes they were kidnapped. Yair is a construction worker while Eitan works in education.\n\nItai Svirsky, 38, is thought to have been abducted when his elderly parents were killed in Be'eri. He had been visiting them for the holiday of Simhat Torah.\n\nKeith Seigel, 64, and his wife Adrienne - often known as Aviva - Seigel, 62, were taken from their home in Kfar Aza, Keith's brother Lee Seigel told the BBC. Adrienne was released on 26 November.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, lived in Nahal Oz with his wife and two daughters. Omri was led away by Hamas with his hands tied, his wife Lishay told the Guardian newspaper. She told him not to be a hero, urging: \"Do whatever they want because I want you back.\"\n\nBipin Joshi, 23, a Nepalese student, is believed to have been taken from Kibbutz Alumim. Nepalese newspaper Setopati says he was one of 49 university students studying agriculture in Israel. It says 10 students were killed in the attack.\n\nIlan Weiss, 58, went missing from Kibbutz Be'eri after he was last seen leaving the house to defend the community. On 25 November, his wife Shiri Weiss, 53, and their daughter, Noga, 18, were freed from captivity in a hostage deal.\n\nAmiram Cooper, 85, and his wife Nurit, 80, were taken from their home in Nir Oz, their daughter-in-law Noa told the BBC. The family last spoke to the couple during the Hamas attack, Noa said, when the couple were in their safe room. The family later traced Amiram's phone to Gaza. On Monday 23 October, Nurit was one of two women to be released.\n\nAmiram and Nurit Cooper, pictured with their granddaughter, Gali\n\nOded Lifshitz, 83, and his wife Yocheved, 85 were taken hostage from Nir Oz. On Monday 23 October, Yocheved was one of two elderly women to be freed. After hearing the news of her mother's release, their daughter Sharone - a London-based artist - said: \"While I cannot put into words the relief that she is now safe, I will remain focused on securing the release of my father and all those - some 200 innocent people - who remain hostages in Gaza.\"\n\nHaim Peri, 79, was taken from his home in Nir Oz, reports the Times of Israel, and freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz said she saw that he was alive and well. His son Lior Peri told Talk TV that Haim had locked his wife inside the safe room before giving himself up to kidnappers.\n\nAvraham Munder, 78, was kidnapped from Nir Oz, Israeli officials say. His wife Ruthi, daughter and grandson have since been released.\n\nOmer Neutra, a 22-year-old Israeli-American and grandson of Holocaust survivors, put off plans to go to college in the US to study in Israel, and eventually joined the IDF. He was serving as a tank commander near Gaza when Hamas attacked. Omer's parents say they were told by the Israeli embassy that he had been kidnapped.\n\nRon Benjamin's vehicle was found empty following the attacks\n\nRon Benjamin, 53, had been taking part in a group cycle ride near the Gaza border when the Hamas attack began and he decided to drive home, his family told Israeli media. Days later, his vehicle was found empty and his family believe he was kidnapped.\n\nLouis Har, 70, is believed to have been taken from Nir Yitzhak. His partner Clara Marman was released on 28 November along with her sister Gabriela Leimberg, 59, and Gabriela's daughter Mia Leimberg,17. Clara and Gabriela's brother Fernando Simon Marman, 60, also remains in captivity.\n\nJudith Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 73, also went missing from Nir Oz after the Hamas attack. Ten days later, the Israeli military confirmed to the family they had been taken hostage, CTV News in Canada reported.\n\nAlex Danzig, 75, a scholar and historian of the Holocaust, was at his home in Nir Oz, when it was attacked by Hamas. \"We know for sure he was kidnapped,\" his son Mati told the BBC. Alex - whose older sister Edith is a Holocaust survivor - has spent the last 30 years working for Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust remembrance centre. His disappearance has triggered a campaign for his release, both in Israel and in Poland, the country of his birth.\n\nAlex Danzig has spent decades educating people about the Holocaust\n\nItzhk Elgarat, 68, was kidnapped at the same time as Alex Danzig, his brother Danny Elgert told Israel's Kan 11 TV station, adding that he had tracked his brother's phone to the border with Gaza.\n\nGadi Moses, 79, was also abducted during the same attack on Nir Oz, according to relatives and the Israeli aid agency where he worked as an agricultural expert. Efrat Katz, his partner, was initially thought to have been captured as well, but she was later found dead, the Times of Israel reported. Efrat was the mother of Doron Asher, who was taken hostage and later released with her two daughters. Ravid Katz, 51, Doron Asher's brother, was originally thought to have been taken hostage from Nir Oz, but on 28 November his family confirmed that he had been killed on 7 October.\n\nYair Yaakov, 59, is listed among the hostages. His partner Meirav Tal, 53, was released on 28 November. Yair's children Yagil, 13, and Or, 16, were released on 27 November.\n\nYair Yaakov was pictured being held captive by a gunman in a video shared online\n\nNimrod Cohen, 19, had studied software engineering in high school, according to reports. After he was kidnapped, his father was invited to meet Pope Francis in Rome along with other hostages' families.\n\nTsachi Idan, 51, was last seen by his wife, Gali, as he was taken away by Hamas gunmen. Their family had been ambushed in their safe room in Nahal Oz. Their ordeal was live-streamed by Hamas. Their eldest child, Maayan - who had just turned 18 - was shot dead, Gali told the BBC.\n\nTsachi Idan was ambushed with his wife and children and then led away\n\nYarden Bibas, 34, was abducted from Nir Oz. His wife, Shiri, and their two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were also taken hostage, but on 29 November, Hamas claimed they had been killed in an Israeli air strike while in captivity. The Israeli government has said it is checking the claim.\n\nRonen Engel, 54, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his wife, Karina Engelbert, 51, and their two daughters, Mika, 18 and Yuval, 11. On 1 December, the organisation representing the families said he had been murdered. Karina, Mika and Yuval were released on 27 November.\n\nKarina Ariev, a 19-year-old soldier, was serving at an army base near Gaza when she was kidnapped. Her sister Alexandra told the BBC she heard shooting as Karina called her during the attack, and later saw a video showing Karina being taken away in a vehicle.\n\nKarina Ariev was at the Nahal Oz military base, which was among the first to be attacked\n\nOfer Kalderon, 53, was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz. On 27 November his two children, Erez, 12, and Sahar, 16, were released. Two other relatives, 80-year-old Carmela Dan and her granddaughter, Noya, 12, were also believed to have been taken, but Israeli authorities later announced they had been found dead.\n\nYoram Metzger, 80, was a resident of Nir Oz. He has diabetes and broke his hip six months ago, his daughter-in-law said. Yoram's wife Tamar was released on 28 November.\n\nNadav Popplewell, 51, and his mother Channah were taken hostage by Hamas, said Channah's daughter Ayelet Svatitzky, who was speaking to them on the phone when the gunmen burst in. She said the captors sent pictures of her two relatives, who both have diabetes, with armed men in the background. Channah has now been released.\n\nOmri Miran, 46, was abducted after his family opened the door to their secure shelter to an Israeli child, who said he would be killed otherwise. Omri's wife, Lishay Lavi, said she saw him being taken away in handcuffs with three other hostages from Nahal Oz.\n\nLiri Elbag, 18, had just started military training as an Army lookout near the Gaza border when Hamas attacked, her father Eli told the Associated Press. Eli said he saw her in a video circulated later by Hamas, crowded with others on the back of a military truck which had been seized by the gunmen.\n\nLior Rudaeff, 61, was taken from Nir Yitzhak during the attack. His family have heard nothing from him since then.\n\nA number of people are believed to have been abducted from the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Among them:\n\nShlomi Ziv, 40, was part of the security detail at the festival and was initially in contact with his sisters as the attack unfolded, according to an interview with The Times of Israel. A few weeks later the family learned he was officially considered to be a hostage, the report says.\n\nAlexander Lobanov, 32, is a Russian-Israeli citizen who was kidnapped at the festival.\n\nOri Danino, 25, is reported to have got away from the festival in his car, but it's believed he was captured after turning back in an attempt to save some people he had met there.\n\nAlmog Sarusi, 26, was kidnapped from the music festival and his partner Shahar Gindi was killed, according to Israeli media. Almog's father, Yigal, was among the relatives of hostages who met with Israel's prime minister in October.\n\nOmer Shem Tov, 21, called his parents as he was running away from gunfire and managed to get into a friend's car. His parents, Shelly and Malki Shem Tov, told Israeli media they lost contact with their son and the live location on his phone showed he was beyond the border in Gaza.\n\nIdan Shtivi, 28, an environmental sciences student, was attending the festival to take pictures at music and yoga workshops being held by friends. He escaped the site in his car but was attacked by Hamas along the route. The bodies of two of his passengers were found, and his family told the Jerusalem Post they suspect he was kidnapped.\n\nYosef Ohana, 24, had been at the festival with a friend, who told his mother he and Yosef had remained to help people escape the gunfire before running themselves. Yosef was last seen hiding under a car, and Israeli authorities have visited his mother to say he was kidnapped.\n\nAndrei Kozlov, 27, a Russian who moved to Israel in 2022, is missing from the Supernova festival, where he was working as a security guard. His mother told the De Taly publication the family was told by the IDF on October 26 that he was being held hostage.\n\nElyakim Libman, 23, was working as a security guard at the festival. In a Facebook post his father Eliyahu Libman said another guard told him his son had helped rescue others before trying to escape. He was last seen trying to help two badly-injured women.\n\nNoa Argamani, a Chinese-born Israeli citizen, was also kidnapped from the festival. Video footage - verified by her father Yaakov Argamani to Israel's Channel 12 - shows the 25-year-old being taken away on the back of a motorbike screaming, \"Don't kill me!\" Her boyfriend Avinatan Or, 30, also appears in the video being marched away from her by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nEden Yerushalmi's family say they were told she had been taken hostage\n\nEden Yerushalmi, 24, called her family during Hamas's attack on the festival, her sister May told CBS News. The family say they were subsequently informed by the IDF that Eden had been abducted.\n\nChanan Yablonka, 42, is a father-of-two from Tel Aviv. According to reports, he attended the festival with friends and was due to celebrate his birthday a few days after the attacks.\n\nJonathan Samerano, 21, has been missing since 7am on the morning of the festival. His family have been told to presume he is being held in Gaza, Israeli media reported.\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal was filmed in captivity in Gaza, his family say\n\nGuy Gilboa-Dalal, 22, attended the festival with his brother. Guy appears in a hostage video that his family say confirms he is in Gaza.\n\nUriel Baruch, 35, was injured during the attack on the festival, his wife said on Facebook. Reports in Israeli media say his mother, Naomi, has heard from the IDF that he is a hostage.\n\nMaxim Kharkin's mother described speaking to him on the morning of 7 October\n\nMaxim Kharkin is aged 35 and a Russian speaker, his mother told Russian media. She added that he had called her at 07:00 on the morning of the attack.\n\nElkana Bohbot was seen in a video posted by Hamas\n\nElkana Bohbot, 34, had gone to the party with friends and, before losing contact, he spoke to his wife and mother telling them he was helping to evacuate the wounded, the Times of Israel reported. Hours later, his family found a video of him posted online by Hamas, which has been seen by BBC Verify.\n\nRom Braslavski, 19, was working on security for the festival. According to an account published by Hostages and Missing Families Forum, he was trying to rescue an injured person in the attack when he was caught in a volley of fire. He has not been heard from since.\n\nOmer Wenkert, 22, a restaurant manager, sent a message to his family to say he was going to a safe shelter but then lost contact, his father Shai Wenkert told the BBC's Today Programme. Shai Wenkert said he had seen footage of his son in captivity, including a photo of him handcuffed and wearing only underwear.\n\nEvyatar David's family say they were sent a video of him in captivity\n\nEvyatar David, 23, was at the festival and on the morning of the attacks, described fleeing from gunfire before losing contact with the outside world, his brother says. Later, his family say, Evyatar's sister posted on Instagram appealing for information about his whereabouts. She then received a text from an unknown number, which contained video footage of Evyatar handcuffed on the floor of a dark room. According to Israel's foreign ministry he is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nEitan Mor, 23, lives in Jerusalem, and was working as a security guard at the festival, the Times of Israel said. He reportedly texted his uncle after Hamas arrived and was last seen with a friend bringing others to safety.\n\nAlon Ohel, 22, a Serbian citizen, took refuge in a shelter after the festival came under attack, his family say. They have seen footage of him being dragged away after a grenade attack.\n\nAlmog Meir Jan, 21, tried to flee the festival. He and a friend made it to the friend's car but only managed to drive a short distance before being forced to stop. Almog's family say they have seen a hostage video in which he appears.\n\nInbar Heiman, a student aged 21, was seen by two young Israeli men being taken away from the festival on a motorcycle. Hamas have released a video in which she is seen very briefly.\n\nHersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a dual US-Israeli citizen, was badly injured in the attack, his family told the BBC. Eyewitness accounts say he was seen being forced onto a white pick-up truck - the last-known signal from his phone came from just inside Gaza.\n\nSegev Kalfon, 26, was running away from the festival, across the highway, when he was captured by Hamas, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.\n\nOrión Hernández Radoux, 30, from Mexico, attended the festival with his girlfriend, Shani Louk. He has not been seen since. The Sun newspaper says it has seen threatening messages written in Arabic sent from his phone. Shani, a tourist from Germany, was initially thought to be among those seized. But on 30 October, her mother Ricarda told German media that the family had been informed by Israeli military of her death following DNA identification.\n\nRomi Lesham Gonen, 23, was on the phone to her mother as she tried to escape from the Supernova festival. Merav Leshem Gonan has recounted a conversation in which her daughter begged for help after being shot. ABC News reports that Romi's phone is now in Gaza.\n\nBar Kuperstein, 21, last spoke to his family early on the morning of 7 October, as the attack unfolded. Later the same day, his family say they identified him in a video of Israeli prisoners, posted by Hamas. Since then, they say they have had no further information.\n\nEliya Cohen, 26, was hiding with his girlfriend Ziv from the attack, when Ziv felt him being pulled up and driven away by the gunmen, Eliya's mother has told the video initiative #BringThemHomeNow. The family then found a photo of Eliya in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nAmit Buskila, 28, from Ashdod, was last heard of making a call to her uncle, Shimon, as Hamas overran the festival. Her family say they have now been told by the government that she is being held in Gaza.\n\nCarmel Gat, 39, is Jordan's sister-in-law, and also was seen by her father being taken by gunmen from Kibbutz Be'eri, Haaretz newspaper reported. She has not been heard from since.\n\nOhad Yahalomi, 49, was abducted from Nir Oz, along with his 12-year-old son, Eitan, who was released during the November ceasefire.\n\nDror Or, 48, was seen by a neighbour being dragged out of his home in Be'eri, according to their nephew Emmanuel Besorai, along with his son and daughter. On Saturday 25 November Dror's son Noam, 17, and daughter Alma, 13, were released from captivity. The body of Yonat, 50 - Dror's wife and the children's mother - was identified among the 120 people murdered at the kibbutz, Yonat's brother told the Guardian newspaper.\n\nTal Shoham, 38, was taken from Kibbutz Be'eri. His wife Adi, also 38, her mother Dr Shoshan Haran, 67, were released by Hamas on 25 November, along with the couple's children Nave, eight, and Yahel, three. Dr Haran's husband, Avshalom - an economist and dual German/Israeli citizen - was killed on 7 October.\n\nTamir Adar, 38, who defended Nir Oz as part of the kibbutz's emergency squad, was taken to Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen, 35, an American-Israeli citizen, has been missing since Hamas's attack on Nir Oz, his father Jonathan told the BBC. He said his son was not found among the dead and the \"only reasonable explanation\" is that he was taken to Gaza.\n\nSagui Dekel-Chen's father has not heard from him since Hamas attacked the kibbutz where he lived\n\nThailand's ambassador to Israel says 26 of its citizens were taken hostage, 23 of whom have now been released.\n\nThose still being held are believed to include Watchara Sriuan, 32. His mother, Viewwaew, told the Thaiger news site that the family had been informed he was being held captive.\n\nKiattisak \"Top\" Patee and a Mr Pongtorn (no first name given) have also been named by the Thai foreign ministry as hostages.\n\nA number of other people thought to have been held hostage are now confirmed to have died, either during the 7 October attack or while in captivity.\n\nAs well as Ron Scherman and Nik Beizer, four bodies were identified this week. They were Tal Chaimi, an Israeli-Romanian citizen aged 41, and Joshua Mollel, a 19-year-old Tanzanian student. Also, 27-year-old Eden Zecharya, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and 36-year-old Ziv Dado, who had already been declared dead by the Israeli military.\n\nOthers known to have died include Dror Kaplun, 68, Aviv Atzili, 49, Arye Zalmanovich, 85, Ronen Engel, 54, Maya Goren, 56, Guy Iluz, 26, Ofir Tzarfati, 27, Ofra Keider, 70, and Eliyahu Margalit, 75.\n\nThe bodies of 19-year-old soldier, Noa Marciano, and 65-year-old Yehudit Weiss were found by Israeli troops in buildings close to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.\n\nOn Saturday 9 December Kibbutz Bari announced that Sahar Baruch, 25, had been killed in Gaza.\n\nOther hostages whose death has been reported, but not confirmed include Shiri Bibas, 32, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Former US first lady Rosalynn Carter speaking in New Delhi in 2006\n\nFormer US First Lady Rosalynn Carter, the wife of ex-President Jimmy Carter, has died at the age of 96.\n\nThe Carter Center confirmed in a statement that she died peacefully with her family by her side.\n\nOn Friday, it was reported that she had entered a hospice care home in the state of Georgia, and was spending time with her 99-year-old husband, who has been in hospice care since February.\n\nMrs Carter was diagnosed with dementia in May.\n\nThe longest-married first couple marked their 77th wedding anniversary in July.\n\n\"Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,\" said Mr Carter in the statement.\n\n\"She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.\"\n\nShe married Jimmy Carter on 7 July 1946 and they had four children.\n\nThe Carters' son, Chip, described her as a loving mother, extraordinary first lady and \"a great humanitarian in her own right.\"\n\n\"She will be sorely missed not only by our family but by the many people who have better mental health care and access to resources for caregiving today.\"\n\nShe is also survived by 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren, after losing a grandson in 2015.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen her husband began his political career in the 1960s - first as Georgia state senator, governor, and later US president - Mrs Carter was focused on raising mental health awareness and reducing the stigma attached to people with mental illnesses.\n\nAs first lady of Georgia she was a member of a governor's commission to improve services for the mentally ill, and as US First Lady she became honorary chair of the President's Commission on Mental Health, which was key to the passage of a 1980 act that helped fund local mental health centres.\n\nAfter leaving Washington she and her husband founded the Carter Center in 1982, through which she continued her advocacy work for mental health, early childhood immunisation, and other humanitarian causes.\n\nThe couple were also key figures in the Habitat For Humanity charity, helping build homes for families in need.\n\nThey received recognition for their humanitarian work in 2002 when Mr Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.\n\nIn a 2013 interview with US TV network C-SPAN, she said: \"I hope our legacy continues, more than just as first lady, because the Carter Center has been an integral part of our lives.\n\n\"And our motto is waging peace, fighting disease and building hope. And I hope that I have contributed something to mental health issues and help improve a little bit the lives of people living with mental illnesses.\"\n\nMrs Carter seen outside her home after US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden met former President Jimmy Carter in Georgia in 2021\n\nUS President Joe Biden paid tribute to Mrs Carter, saying she \"walked her own path, inspiring a nation and the world along the way\".\n\n\"On behalf a grateful nation, we send our love to the entire Carter family and the countless people whose lives are better, fuller, and brighter because of Rosalynn Carter,\" President Biden posted on X, formerly Twitter.\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama said: \"When our family was in the White House, every so often, Rosalynn would join me for lunch, offering a few words of advice and always - always - a helping hand.\n\n\"She reminded me to make the role of First Lady my own, just like she did. I'll always remain grateful for her support and her generosity.\"\n\nFormer President George W Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush said Mrs Carter was \"a woman of dignity and strength\".\n\nIn a statement, they said: There was no greater advocate of President Carter, and their partnership set a wonderful example of loyalty and fidelity.\n\n\"She leaves behind an important legacy in her work to destigmatize mental health.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: How Rosalynn Carter paved the way for Hillary Clinton", "It's difficult to digest five hours of questioning, much of it dense, and examining in detail the way scientific advice was communicated through the pandemic.\n\nIn one sense much of Vallance's testimony covered areas we have heard about before in this inquiry.\n\nHe said he felt - with hindsight - the UK was about a week too late in entering the first national lockdown.\n\nThat might not sound like a huge delay but, at the time, we now know Covid cases were doubling every three days.\n\nA seven- or ten-day wait would have meant thousands of extra infections and, potentially, thousands more hospitalisations and deaths.\n\nThen there is the second lockdown in the autumn of 2020. Vallance suggested that lessons were not leant and \"flip-flopping\" in Downing Street meant that restrictions were again brought in too slowly.\n\nOf course ministers had to also weigh up the impact of those restrictions - on the economy, on education and on society in general.\n\nBoth Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak will get a chance to respond to these claims, and the others made today, when they give evidence in person next month.", "Be prepared to shell out £30,000 to £50,000 to jazz up your commute with the \"ultimate in regal transportation\"\n\nA number of props - including a replica of Princess Diana's so-called \"revenge\" dress - from TV programme The Crown are to be auctioned.\n\nA façade of the front of Number 10 Downing Street and a golden coach will also go under the hammer.\n\nTwo sales, one online and one live, will be held by Bonhams auction house in February.\n\nAn exhibition of the sets, costumes and props will tour New York, Los Angeles, Paris and London ahead of the sale.\n\nProceeds from the live auction will go towards establishing a scholarship programme at the National Film and Television School, Bonhams said.\n\nThe best revenge is a dress served cold (shouldered)\n\nInspired by the 1991 original by Christina Stambolian, this is a custom made off-the-shoulder pleated black silk and chiffon cocktail dress with mini chiffon train.\n\nPrincess Diana wore the dress to the Vanity Fair party at the Serpentine Gallery on 20 November 1994, the same day Charles's affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles had gone public.\n\nPeople interpreted the choice of the figure-hugging black mini-dress as the princess showing her resilience and drive to take back control of her life.\n\nThose seeking understated chic need not place a bid\n\nBuilt in 1762 for King George III, the original Gold State Coach has been used at every coronation since 1831 when King William IV succeeded to the throne. The coach is made of gilded wood with elaborate carvings and is upholstered in velvet and satin.\n\nIt weighs four tonnes and requires eight horses to pull it, so is restricted to walking pace.\n\nA combination of 3D printing and fibreglass casting was used in making the carriage that bore The Crown actress Olivia Colman et al. The prop company also made offset steel hinges and brass handles featuring lion's head details to tie in with the carvings on the main body.\n\nLarry the Downing Street cat is sadly not included\n\nThe door of 10 Downing Street was copied from the original and is enclosed within a composite fibreglass painted architrave \"flanked by scrolled acanthus leaf corbels\" and surrounded by black-painted iron railings.\n\nThe knocker should work - but potential buyers should be aware of the \"faux doorbell\", which might leave members of your cabinet (or delivery order) cooling their heels on the doorstep.\n\nThe door of Number 10 had to be scaled up during the first two seasons of The Crown, when John Lithgow played Winston Churchill. The actor is considerably taller than the former prime minister.\n\nWelsh corgis are known to make loyal companions - these two lovingly gaze at an ancestor\n\nThese are not reproductions, in that they are actual Beswick china dogs - but they did not belong to the late Queen.\n\nThe auction lot is estimated at £200 to £300 - but it is fairly easy to get hold of a Beswick corgi without TV connections for about £10.\n\n\"Who wants meat paste sandwiches and who wants fish paste?\"\n\nThis picnic set is another genuine vintage item dressed by the set decorating department. It could be yours for an estimated £200 to £300.\n\nThe highest bidder will get a hinged basket; a tartan blanket and scarf; two chromium steel sandwich boxes; a white-metal hip flask with brass cover imitating a cartridge base; two enamel tin mugs; a thermos flask; and a pair of field glasses.\n\nInhospitable weather, inescapable midges and an irascible Prince Philip will have to be supplied by the buyer.\n\nSeveral gadgets are needed to enjoy a drink the Queen Mother way\n\nThis is listed as \"The Queen Mother: A selection of character bar props\" and has a guide price of £60 to £80.\n\n\"A gadroon rim above a pierced gallery leading to a foliate and scroll decorated body surrounding a plain central cartouche, raised upon four claw and ball feet\" is a fairly elaborate way of describing \"a tray\".\n\nAlso included are a champagne swizzle stick and a metal-mounted foliate cocktail stick holder.\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US president pardoned 'Liberty' and 'Bell' ahead of Thanksgiving, joking that their luck was like getting tickets to a Taylor Swift concert... though he got the singer's name wrong.", "Wounded Palestinian women, injured following Israeli air raids, visit Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City for treatment on 10 October\n\nHospitals and medical facilities have become caught up in intense fighting as Israel presses its offensive against Hamas in Gaza City.\n\nThe focus of attention has been on Al-Shifa, Gaza's largest hospital, where thousands are trapped by nearby battles, but other facilities are also reporting a lack of supplies and power because of fighting.\n\nIsrael says it is not targeting hospitals directly but acknowledges \"clashes\" around Al-Shifa and other facilities.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) says 36 health facilities including 22 hospitals have been damaged since the war began on 7 October, and only a handful are now still operational.\n\nHere is what the BBC knows about the situation at the main facilities in northern Gaza.\n\nThe WHO said on Sunday that Al-Shifa in Gaza City - the territory's largest with 700 beds - had ceased to function and that the situation inside was \"dire and perilous\".\n\nThe surrounding streets are engulfed by fighting between Hamas and Israeli forces. Critical infrastructure has been damaged, according to the UN.\n\nIsrael says Hamas fighters operate in tunnels underneath the hospital - a claim which Hamas denies.\n\nStaff inside say it is impossible to leave without risking injury or death.\n\nThe WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on X that \"constant gunfire and bombings in the area\" had \"exacerbated the already critical circumstances\".\n\nMultiple reports from inside say there are no food and no fuel to run generators. Solar energy is being used to power a few critical systems.\n\nThere have been communication blackouts - the Doctors Without Borders charity was unable to contact its members inside Gaza over the weekend. Attempts by the BBC to contact workers have often been unsuccessful.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry has said there are at least 2,300 people still inside the hospital - up to 650 patients, 200-500 staff and around 1,500 people seeking shelter.\n\nThis number includes newborn babies being kept in a surgical theatre at the site.\n\nStaff say that three of 39 infants in their care died over the weekend for lack of incubators. Surviving babies were at serious risk of death, according to doctors.\n\nThe Israel Defense Force's (IDF) chief spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said on Saturday that Israel would provide assistance to evacuate the babies to a \"safer hospital\".\n\nHowever, that evacuation had yet to happen as of Monday afternoon.\n\nHospital staff have told the BBC that moving the babies safely would require sophisticated equipment, and that there is no \"safer hospital\" inside Gaza.\n\nMark Regev, a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said that the 300 litres offered would have been enough for the babies and more could be provided.\n\n\"Hamas did not want to accept solutions for the lack of fuel needed to save the babies,\" he said, adding: \"We provided fuel and they [Hamas] refused to take it.\"\n\nBabies trapped inside Al-Shifa hospital, in an imaged issued by medical staff\n\nOn Saturday, Colonel Moshe Tetro of the IDF said there were clashes nearby, but no shooting at the hospital itself, and no siege.\n\nAnyone who wanted to leave, he said, could do so. He insisted that to say otherwise was a lie.\n\nMarwan Abu Saada, a surgeon in Shifa, told the BBC that there was bombing around the hospital and ambulances could not get in.\n\nThe IDF also said efforts to deliver 300 litres of fuel to Shifa on Sunday had failed because Hamas had refused to accept it - something Hamas denied.\n\nMr Abu Saada told the BBC on the same day that 300 litres would \"last 30 minutes\" - the hospital needs 10,000 litres a day to operate normally.\n\nOn top of this is the growing risk of disease from lack of sanitation and the decomposition of dead bodies that cannot be refrigerated.\n\nMr Abu Saada said that attempts to bury the dead had been thwarted by fighting around the complex, and the morgue refrigerator had failed for lack of power.\n\nThere were 100 bodies unburied in the hospital courtyard, he added.\n\nDr Marwan Al-Barsh, director general of Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry, said that as well as the courtyard, the hospital's mortuaries were also filled with corpses.\n\nHe added that hospital officials had tried to bury those who had died in the hospital, but that people had been unable to leave without coming under fire.\n\nIsrael says it knows \"with certainty\" that there is a Hamas command centre underneath Shifa.\n\nIt has shared a 3-D representation of what it said were a network of tunnels under the hospital, and recordings it says are of Hamas fighters discussing them.\n\nHamas denies it is using the hospital or that it has an operations centre underneath. Doctors inside insist there is no Hamas presence there. The BBC's Gaza correspondent Rushdi Abualouf said that he had never seen \"any military capability\" inside the hospital, but acknowledged it was difficult to verify either Israel's or Hamas's claims.\n\nWHO's Dr Tedros said on 10 November that the hospitals that were functioning in the Gaza Strip were \"operating way beyond their capacities\".\n\nDr Ghassan Abu Sittah, a doctor working at Al-Ahli in northern Gaza, told the BBC that the hospital was now taking all of the wounded from Gaza City but that it did not have the resources to cope.\n\nHe said that ambulances were arriving with wounded people every 10 minutes, and that hospital staff did not have access to a blood bank, which he said was surrounded by Israeli tanks.\n\n\"We don't have an x-ray technician and we are short of medication to the point where we're having to do extremely painful procedures on large wounds to keep them clean with no analgesia, no anaesthetic,\" he said.\n\nHe added that operating rooms were being saved for life-saving surgeries \"because we don't have enough resources to treat everybody\".\n\nLast month Al-Ahli was the scene of a deadly blast that was at the centre of competing claims between Israel and Hamas about who was responsible.\n\nThe Gaza Strip's second largest hospital after Al-Shifa has, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, ceased to be operational.\n\nThe Palestinian Red Crescent said on Saturday that its teams were trapped inside with 500 patients and around 14,000 displaced people, mostly women and children.\n\nOn Sunday it stated that the hospital was \"out of service... no longer operational... due to the depletion of available fuel and power outage\".\n\nIt added that the hospital \"has been left to fend for itself under ongoing Israeli bombardment, posing severe risks to the medical staff, patients and displaced civilians\".\n\nIt also said that an \"evacuation convoy\" travelling from Khan Younis in southern Gaza towards Al-Quds hospital had had to turn back after experiencing \"relentless bombardment\". It added that those trapped in the hospital were without food, water or electricity.\n\nDoctors Without Borders said on Saturday it had lost contact with a surgeon working and sheltering in Al-Quds with his family.\n\nA spokesman for the Red Crescent told Reuters news agency that the hospital had been cut off for nearly a week, with \"no way in, no way out\", and the surrounding area was under constant attack.\n\nThe small Rantisi Specialised Hospital for Children and the nearby Al-Nasr hospital, in the north of Gaza City, were evacuated on Friday save for a handful of patients and staff. Rantisi had Gaza's only paediatric cancer ward.\n\nThe IDF released to the BBC details of phone conversations between an official at Rantisi and a senior officer in the IDF, in which they discussed arrangements to get ambulances to evacuate patients.\n\nThe hospital official asked about hundreds of displaced civilians camped out at the two hospitals. The Israeli officer told them to leave via the main entrance at 11:20 and explained in detail which streets they should walk along to leave Gaza City.\n\nAnd he twice told the hospital official to make sure civilians were carrying something white to show they were not combatants.\n\n\"They will all go out with their hands in the air,\" the hospital official said. \"Perfect,\" the Israeli said.\n\nIn a video verified by the BBC, people waving white flags were seen apparently coming under gunfire on as they attempted to leave Al-Nasr on Friday. It was not clear where the gunshots had come from or who had fired them.\n\nDr Bakr Gaoud, the head of Rantisi, was quoted by the New York Times as saying that Israeli forces had arrived at the end of last week and provided maps showing a safe way out.\n\n\"We dragged our patients out of their beds,\" he said, adding that the patients in the worst condition were sent to Al-Shifa, which was already overwhelmed and ceasing to function.\n\nEveryone else, he said, had made their way to southern Gaza away from the main fighting.\n\nOn Monday evening IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari showed journalists what he said was evidence of Hamas infrastructure at Rantisi - video of explosives, suicide vests and even a motorcycle used in the 7 October attacks, hidden in a basement.\n\nHe showed video of a deep shaft with a ladder down the side which he said was the entrance to a tunnel that was next to both a school and the hospital, adding it was \"nothing else but a terror tunnel\".\n\nRefugees taking shelter in Rantisi hospital before its evacuation on Friday\n\nThe UN's office for humanitarian affairs said in its Sunday night update that the Swedish clinic had been \"hit and destroyed\" by an air strike on Saturday.\n\nThere were around 500 people sheltering there, it reported, and the casualty toll was \"unclear\".\n\nOn Monday morning, BBC Gaza correspondent Rushdi Abu Alouf spoke to Maryam al-Arabeed, a 65-year-old woman who said Israeli soldiers had entered the facility on Sunday night and moved everyone out. She said she had then watched \"an Israeli bulldozer completely demolish the building\".\n\n\"They took the young men out including my three sons and separated the women and children,\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe added that she did not know where her sons or relatives were.\n\nThe IDF said it was investigating the report.\n\n\"In start contrast to Hamas's intentional attacks on Israeli men, women and children, the IDF follows international law and takes feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm,\" the Israeli military added.", "Tax on period pants will be abolished in the Autumn Statement, the BBC has been told.\n\nOn Wednesday, the chancellor is expected to announce that the underwear - which is absorbent, washable and reusable - will be \"zero-rated\" and no longer subject to Value Added Tax (VAT) from January.\n\nOther period products such as pads and tampons have been exempt since 2021.\n\nIt follows a campaign by retailers, women's groups and environmentalists.\n\nPeriod pants have grown in popularity as customers look for sustainable alternatives to single-use products. However, campaigners say removing VAT from the underwear would make it more affordable.\n\nIn 2021, the government removed the so-called \"tampon tax\" on period products including sanitary pads and menstrual cups. But period pants were classed as \"garments\" and therefore not covered by the change in the law.\n\nVAT is currently paid at 20% on most products, with the exception of some items such as most food, books and children's clothing.\n\nRetailers including Marks & Spencer and the brand Wuka were among around 50 signatories of a letter to the Treasury in August, which urged the government to remove VAT on period pants.\n\nIn the letter, they pledged to pass on any tax cut straight to customers, \"so they feel the benefit of the cost saving immediately\".\n\nThe letter added that period pants \"have the power to reduce plastic pollution and waste\", and could save people money in the long term, but added that \"one of the main barriers to switching to period pants is cost\".\n\nMarks & Spencer has estimated that the cost of the VAT exemption would be 55p a year for a UK household with an average income - about the price of a pint of milk.\n\nFormer sports minister Tracey Crouch said \"nobody should be taxed no matter what period product they choose\".\n\nSNP home affairs spokesperson Alison Thewliss said: \"The chancellor has already accepted the logic of removing VAT on sanitary products, so it's only right that he extends that VAT cut to period pants. They are essential for many women and girls.\"\n\nOver the past 20 years, period underwear has become more widespread, with major high street brands including Tesco, Sainsbury's, Primark and Next now selling it.\n\nThe pants contain a highly absorbent lining and can be used in place of sanitary pads or tampons. They can be washed and reused many times, just like ordinary pants.\n\nThe move is expected to be confirmed in Wednesday's Autumn Statement, when the government sets out its tax and spending plans for the year ahead.", "Work began on Monday morning at the Dark Hedges site\n\nCrews have arrived on site to cut down six trees which form part of the Dark Hedges, due to fears some of the ageing trees pose a safety risk to road users.\n\nThe tunnel of ancient beech trees outside Armoy, County Antrim, shot to international fame when it appeared in the US TV drama Game of Thrones.\n\nOriginally there were about 150 trees but due to age and damage from several storms, only 86 are still standing.\n\nThe felling plan follows a specialist survey which identified at-risk trees.\n\nThe survey was commissioned by Stormont's Department for Infrastructure which stressed that the decision to fell the six trees \"has not been made lightly\".\n\nThe Dark Hedges are approximately 250 years old and some are showing signs of decay due to their advanced age\n\nThe trees being cut down have been marked in yellow\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the department said that \"whilst the amenity value afforded by the corridor of trees is acknowledged, the safety of road users is paramount\".\n\nThe Dark Hedges became a popular tourist attraction after the site was used to represent the Kingsroad in Game of Thrones.\n\nThe trees appeared on screen in the first episode of the second season of HBO's epic fantasy series, albeit very briefly.\n\nFans of the series flocked to the site to take photos of the tree-lined avenue, often as part of a tour of 25 Game of Thrones set locations around Northern Ireland.\n\nVisitors came in such numbers that a traffic ban was introduced in 2017.\n\nCampaigners called for a traffic ban after the Dark Hedges was overwhelmed with visitors at Easter 2017\n\nThe Dark Hedges stand on privately-owned land but they overhang a public road outside the village.\n\nSafety concerns were raised with the Department for Infrastructure which is responsible for roads.\n\nThe department said the independent survey \"found that 11 trees, out of a total of 86, along this route are in a poor condition and could pose a potential risk to the public\".\n\nIt spoke to the landowners and stakeholders but said that \"given the urgency of the work required\" it had made arrangements to remove six of the 11 damaged trees this week.\n\nThe department added it will \"continue to engage with landowners and other stakeholders regarding their implementation of a suitable management strategy to protect the future of the other 75 trees\".\n\nThe Dark Hedges originally formed part of the Gracehill House estate\n\nThe Dark Hedges were planted in the 18th Century by the Stuart family who lived in the nearby Georgian mansion, Gracehill House.\n\nThe Dark Hedges were intended to provide an impressive tree-lined entrance to their Gracehill estate.\n\nIt is believed that most of the beech trees date from about 1775, but some could be even older.\n\nGame of Thrones crews filmed at the site in 2011, broadcasting the first and only scene featuring the Dark Hedges in 2012.\n\nBy 2017, the road had become such a popular visitor attraction that traffic was banned from driving along Bregagh Road in order to protect the trees' roots.\n\nBut no-one has been able to protect the Dark Hedges from the passage of time nor the ravages of Northern Ireland's winters.\n\nIn recent years, several named storms have been responsible for taking down some of the more vulnerable trees.\n\nOne of the trees crashed onto Bregagh Road during Storm Arwen in November 2021\n\nIn 2016, Storm Gertrude ripped up two trees causing them collapse on to the road, and left a third tree badly damaged.\n\nIn 2018, more trees fell when Storm Hector brought gales of up to 60mph to Northern Ireland.\n\nIn 2021, another two trees were brought down by Storm Arwen.", "A knife-wielding woman broke into a Seoul theatre dressing room and injured prominent K-pop star Kyuhyun during a struggle.\n\nShe broke into the room at about 18:00 local time (09:00 GMT), local media reported.\n\nKyuhyun, a member of the boy band Super Junior, was visiting his fellow actors at the time and was cut on his finger while attempting to restrain her.\n\nThe woman, who is in her 30s, has been arrested.\n\nThe police are investigating where she got the weapon and whether she has a history of mental illness.\n\nShe reportedly has no connection to Kyuhyun or any of the other actors who were present, local media said.\n\n\"Kyuhyun suffered a small cut on his finger, which was treated right away on site,\" the 35-year-old's celebrity agency Antenna Music told South Korea's national newspaper JoongAng Daily.\n\nKyuhyun is currently starring as the lead actor in a Korean-language version of the Ben-Hur musical, which tells the story of a fictional Jewish hero who was falsely accused of an assassination attempt by the Romans.\n\nThe actor-singer joined Super Junior, one of the country's most popular boy bands, in 2006.\n\nSince then, he has also established himself as a musical actor.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRapper A$AP Rocky will stand trial on charges that he fired a pistol in a feud with a former childhood friend, a Los Angeles judge has ruled.\n\nThe decision came on Monday during the second day of a preliminary hearing, which was attended by A$AP Rocky, real name Rakim Mayers.\n\nProsecutors say Mr Mayers, 35, pointed and fired a handgun at Terell Ephron two years ago, causing minor injuries.\n\nMr Mayers, who has two children with singer Rihanna, has pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe Grammy-nominated Mr Mayers, who has had two US number one albums, is facing two felony counts of assault with a firearm.\n\nHe could receive up to nine years in prison if found guilty.\n\nMr Ephron, who was part of the A$AP Mob hip-hop collective and has known him since their time together at a New York high school, alleges separately in a lawsuit that he is the victim of assault and battery, negligence and emotional distress.\n\nMr Ephron, known as A$AP Relli, says Mr Mayers \"lured\" him to an obscure location outside the W Hotel in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on 6 November 2021 to discuss a disagreement.\n\nCCTV footage of the alleged assault that was played in court shows Mr Mayers brandishing and firing a gun, an LA detective testified earlier this month.\n\nMr Mayers's lawyers deny that it is their client who is seen in the video.\n\nSuperior Court Judge ML Villar only had to decide whether there was sufficient evidence for the case to go forward, not whether a crime had been committed. The burden of proof is significantly lower for preliminary hearings like these.\n\nMr Ephron is also suing Mr Mayers, claiming that after a verbal altercation Mr Mayers \"pulled out a handgun and purposefully pointed it in the direction of [Mr Ephron] and fired multiple shots\".\n\nMr Ephron was \"struck by bullet projectile/fragments\" in his left hand and required medical attention, according to the court papers. He is seeking at least $25,000 (£20,000) in damages.\n\nAt a court hearing in August 2022, the judge ordered Mr Mayers to stay 100 yards (300ft) away from Mr Ephron at all times.\n\nMr Mayers was previously given a two-year suspended sentence for his role in a brawl in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 2019.\n\nHe is being represented in the Los Angeles case by lawyer Joe Tacopina, who is also representing former President Donald Trump in his New York civil fraud trial.\n\nAs A$AP Rocky, he was one of the biggest breakout stars of the 2010s, earning eight platinum singles in the US, including Wild For The Night, Everyday, LSD and A$AP Forever.\n\nHe rose to fame after being championed by Drake, and has worked with artists including Alicia Keys, Lana Del Rey, Skepta, Selena Gomez and Kendrick Lamar.", "A premature baby being prepared for evacuation from Gaza's al-Shifa hospital Image caption: A premature baby being prepared for evacuation from Gaza's al-Shifa hospital\n\nIt's just gone 02:30 in Israel and Gaza - and 00:30 London time. Here's a look at some of the latest headlines:\n\nUS President Joe Biden says a deal that would see Hamas releasing hostages could be close. Asked by a reporter whether a rumoured agreement was near, he said: \"I believe so\".\n\nThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - a humanitarian organisation which facilitated previous hostage releases - says its boss has travelled to Qatar to meet with Hamas. The development has further raised hopes that an agreement could be imminent.\n\nOur Jerusalem correspondent Tom Bateman says any deal could be staggered - with groups of hostages freed at a time, in return for a sustained ceasefire.\n\nTwenty-eight out of 31 premature babies who were evacuated from the besieged al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Sunday have now been taken into Egypt.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) says 12 of them have been flown to Cairo for further treatment - all of whom are fighting \"serious infections and other conditions\".\n\nThe director of Gaza's Indonesian Hospital has told the BBC there is still “intermittent shooting” being heard at the site.\n\nThe World Health Organization has labelled an earlier attack on the building - which Hamas said killed 12 people - as \"appalling\".\n\nThe hospital director said he believed the strike came from Israeli forces. The Israeli military said it had come under fire \"from within\" the hospital and retaliated, but insisted it did not fire shells toward the hospital.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza now says 13,300 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's offensive. Of that figure, at least 5,600 of the dead are children.\n\nIsrael began its operation following an attack by Hamas on 7 October that killed 1,200 people.", "Albania's opposition politicians set off smoke flares and a fire in parliament in a bid to stop the chamber voting on the 2024 budget.\n\nThe opposition lawmakers were protesting against what they said was increasingly authoritarian rule by the governing Socialist party.", "A 28-year-old man was charged with impersonating a nurse in Scotland's biggest hospital earlier this year, it has been revealed.\n\nLee Woods will face a trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court after his arrest at the city's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) on 18 July.\n\nIt is alleged he was impersonating a member of nursing staff at the time.\n\nThe QEUH campus in south Glasgow includes the Royal Hospital for Children, the Queen Elizabeth Maternity Unit and two Accident and Emergency departments - one for adults and one for children.\n\nBBC Scotland News has seen a memo sent to staff in another health board area - NHS Lanarkshire - to alert them to be on their guard.\n\nIt said the man was accused of wearing an NHS uniform with a lanyard and falsified identification badge claiming he had the position of a charge nurse.\n\nThe memo also said a review revealed the man had \"accessed the hospital in this way on at least four occasions between March and the date of his arrest\".\n\nIt reminded staff to wear their ID badge at work, remain vigilant and report suspicious activity.\n\nGordon Young, head of NHS National Services Scotland Counter Fraud Services, said it had issued \"an internal alert notice to counter fraud liaison officers within health boards regarding a security breach at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital\".\n\nHe added: \"Police Scotland have taken forward the full investigation.\"\n\nA statement from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said staff had supported the \"relevant authorities\" responding to the incident.\n\nIt added: \"We would like to reassure members of the public that our onsite security teams work very hard to ensure the safety and security of our facilities for all those who need to use them.\"\n\nMr Woods appeared in court charged with breach of the peace on 19 July and a trial has been set for 31 January 2024.", "The judges in the case were placed under police protection\n\nMore than 200 defendants in one of Italy's biggest mafia trials for generations have been sentenced to a total of more than 2,200 years in jail.\n\nThe three-year trial saw individuals allegedly linked to the 'Ndrangheta sentenced for crimes ranging from extortion to drug trafficking.\n\nThose sentenced included a former Italian senator, though the verdicts can still be appealed.\n\nThe 'Ndrangheta is one of Europe's most influential criminal organisations.\n\nThe case illustrated the mob's broad influence over the politics and society of southern Italy. Experts said the convictions of white collar workers, including local officials, businessmen and politicians, showed the far-reaching impact of organised crime on Italian institutions.\n\nAmong the most notable people to be sentenced was Giancarlo Pittelli, a lawyer and former senator for ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's party Forza Italia. Pittelli received an 11-year sentence for collusion with a mafia-type organisation.\n\nOthers convicted included civil servants, professionals across various industries and high-ranking officials, who were critical to the 'Ndrangheta's success in infiltrating the legitimate economy and state institutions.\n\nMore than 100 defendants were acquitted.\n\nThe judges presiding over the case were put under police protection over fears for their safety.\n\nOriginating in the impoverished region of Calabria, the 'Ndrangheta is considered one of the world's most dangerous criminal organisations. It is estimated to control as much as 80% of Europe's cocaine market.\n\nThe gang boasts an estimated annual turnover of around $60bn (£49bn).\n\nThe trial was held in a call centre on the outskirts of the town of Lamezia Terme, converted into a high-security courtroom equipped with cages to hold the defendants and large enough to hold some 600 lawyers and 900 witnesses. Charges included murder, extortion, drug-trafficking, loan sharking, abuse of office and money laundering.\n\nOver three years, proceedings demonstrated how the Calabrian syndicate extended its reach across continents, eventually operating as far afield as South America and Australia. Its members infiltrated the local economy, public institutions, and even the health system, rigging public tenders and bribing local officials.\n\nThe trial, the largest of its kind since the 1980s, saw judges examine thousands of hours of testimony. Former mobsters turned collaborators with the justice system testified about the activities of the Mancuso family and their associates, who wield extensive control over the province of Vibo Valentia.\n\nThe Mancuso family, from the town of Limbadi, are one of the most powerful of the 150 clans which make up the 'Ndrangheta.\n\nAnna Sergi, a professor of criminology at the University of Exeter, said: \"This trial confirms convictions of classic mafiosi, sentenced for offences traditionally more associate with criminal activities, such as extortion or drug trafficking.\"\n\nShe added: \"However, it is important to note how the different types of people involved, including white collar workers, provide a more comprehensive view of the entire province and the connections between various mafia clans.\"\n\nMost of the defendants were arrested in December 2019, following an extensive investigation spanning at least 11 Italian regions, which began in 2016. Approximately 2,500 officers took part in raids targeting suspects in Vibo Valentia, an area primarily controlled by the 'Ndragheta's Mancuso clan.\n\nMore than 50 former mafia members agreed to cooperate with the trial, among them Luigi Mancuso's nephew, Emanuele.\n\nTheir testimony shed light on the inner workings of one of Italy's most powerful mobs. The trial revealed that 'Ndrangheta members allegedly concealed weapons in cemetery chapels, used ambulances for drug transportation and diverted public water supplies to grow marijuana.\n\nThose who opposed the organised crime group faced grim consequences, including finding dead puppies and goat heads left in front of their houses, torched cars and vandalised shop windows.\n\n\"This first round of sentences demonstrates how challenging it is to combat the 'Ndrangheta due to its political, economic, and financial connections,\" Antonio Nicaso, a writer and organised crime expert, said.", "The Beyond Ofsted inquiry called for a \"transformational change\" to the school inspections system\n\nOfsted inspectors should not be in classrooms and the whole system needs \"a big change\", an inquiry has said.\n\nThe Beyond Ofsted inquiry, chaired by former Schools Minister Lord Knight and funded by the National Education Union, called for a \"transformational\" alteration to school inspections.\n\nThe report recommended that schools should instead be responsible for their own improvement plans.\n\nOfsted said inspections are needed to ensure a high-quality education.\n\n\"Children only get one chance at education, and inspection helps make sure that education standards are high for all children,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nBut Lord Knight's inquiry said Ofsted was now seen as \"toxic\" and \"not fit for purpose\" and was in need of major reform.\n\nThat reform should include an end to single-word judgements like \"outstanding\" or \"inadequate\", which the inquiry said were too simplistic to describe a whole school.\n\nThat was also one of the key recommendations of another report on school improvement released on Monday, by the Institute for Public Policy Research, which called for narrative-style judgements instead.\n\nThe suicide of head teacher Ruth Perry earlier this year highlighted the pressure inspections can put on schools and led to a debate about how Ofsted operates.\n\nOfsted, the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills, inspects and reports on anywhere that provides education for young people in England - including schools, nurseries and childminders.\n\nThe inquiry recommended stopping Ofsted from having \"direct contact\" with schools.\n\nInstead, schools should draw up their own improvement plans to be accountable to parents and the wider local community, the inquiry said.\n\nThat would leave Ofsted to look at how well schools, or groups of schools, are managed.\n\nA Department for Education (DfE) spokesperson said the current system was important for maintaining high school standards, with 89% now rated good or outstanding.\n\nOfsted has a \"crucial role\" in reassuring parents that pupils are receiving a high-quality education and being kept safe, they added.\n\nBut Lord Knight told BBC Breakfast on Monday: \"It's created a culture of fear in our schools, and if anybody thinks that fear is the basis for sustained improvement, rather than support, then I think they've got it completely wrong.\"\n\nHis inquiry said schools should carry out their own \"self-evaluations\" by working with an external \"improvement partner\" - an experienced school leader, including serving heads, from the school's trust or local authority - to produce a performance review.\n\nSafeguarding in schools should also be looked at in separate yearly checks, overseen by a new national body, the inquiry said.\n\nCarried out by academics from University College London, the inquiry considered a range of options for reform based on a survey, focus groups, international comparisons and research material.\n\nHead teacher Ruth Perry took her own life in January\n\nIn his report, Lord Knight said Ofsted had become \"under-resourced\" for the \"high-stakes job\" expected of it.\n\nInspections had gone from week-long deep dives by expert teams to \"snapshot judgements by fewer than a handful of inspectors\", he said.\n\nThe report said routine inspections currently carried out by Ofsted should be paused while the inquiry's recommendations are put in place.\n\nA spokesperson for Ofsted said \"nine out of 10\" schools say inspections help them improve.\n\n\"We always want inspections to be a constructive experience for school staff,\" they said.\n\n\"Our inspectors are all former or current school leaders and well understand the nature and pressures of the work.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "Nine medieval coins were found during a metal detecting rally in September 2019\n\nA lost purse of \"rare\" King Stephen silver pennies has been found during a metal detecting rally.\n\nNine medieval coins were discovered, with two dating to the reigns of Henry II and III, near Wymondham, Norfolk.\n\nNumismatist Adrian Marsden said \"a penny was a lot of money then\", with a labourer earning between one and two pennies a day.\n\nStephen usurped the English throne in 1135, but his rule was contested by his cousin Matilda, the official heir.\n\nThe lost purse included cut coins, such as this halfpenny, used as change\n\nThe find is made up of two pennies, three cut halfpennies and two cut quarters of pennies from Stephen's reign, as well as two cut quarters of short cross pennies from Henry II and Henry III's reigns.\n\nDr Marsden, from the Norfolk Historic Environment Service, believes the purse contained the Stephen coins, while the others were lost separately.\n\n\"I suspect this is a purse loss because you've got chopped halves and quarters,\" he said.\n\n\"With a hoard, you hide the best coins you've got.\"\n\nCoin expert Adrian Marsden said the \"highly pure\" silver coins were chopped up because there was also a shortage of money\n\nThe Norman Conquest in 1066 destroyed Anglo-Saxon England's \"very monetised and sophisticated economy... setting the country back at least 100 years,\" he said.\n\nAs a result, money was in short supply so people would chop up the \"highly pure\" silver pennies to make change.\n\nThe coins from Stephen's reign, between 1135 until 1154, are \"sufficiently rare\" to be interesting, said Dr Marsden.\n\nHenry I's favourite nephew took over the throne, despite the late king forcing his barons to accept his only surviving legitimate child Matilda as his heir.\n\nMatilda, who was in her 30s, spent the next 19 years trying to get her throne back in a period known later as the Anarchy.\n\nThe detectorist lives in Cornwall, so reported the hoard to his county's finds liaison officer\n\nDr Marsden said: \"While Stephen and Matilda are slogging it out, people were changing sides all the time.\n\n\"How anarchic it was depends on where you were, I don't think Norfolk had it particularly bad.\"\n\nStephen eventually accepted Matilda's eldest son as his heir and she lived to see him become the first Plantagenet king, Henry II.\n\nThe coins are the subject of a treasure inquest.\n\nFollow East of England news on Facebook, Instagram and X. Got a story? Email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp 0800 169 1830\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A car park near a primary school has been fenced off after a large sinkhole appeared in the ground.\n\nDrone footage filmed by Lee Cripps showed the hole at East Park Farm Car Park in Charvil, Berkshire.\n\nIt was discovered on Monday morning and is about two metres (6.5ft) deep and one metre (3.2ft) wide.\n\nStaff from the school are guarding the hole to make sure members of the public do not get too close.", "Historic homes and buildings are costing the National Trust millions of pounds to protect from the elements\n\nFlooding, wildfires and extreme weather threaten the future of nearly three-quarters of sites managed by the National Trust, a new report says.\n\nThe charity says climate change is \"the single biggest threat\" facing its 28,500 historic homes, 250,000 hectares of land and 780 miles of coastline.\n\nIn Monday's report, the trust called on the UK government to do more to help organisations adapt to climate change.\n\nThe government said it had a five-year plan to boost the country's resilience.\n\nPatrick Begg, the trust's natural resources director, said that climate change demanded \"urgent and unswerving attention\" and presented \"the single biggest threat to the places in our care\".\n\nThe trust is monitoring the climate change threats posed to its stately homes, museum collections, parks, gardens and land holdings by mapping current extreme weather events, such as downpours, flooding, drought and wildfires.\n\nMore than £2m has been spent repairing the two breakwaters at Mullion Cove harbour\n\nIt then uses the data on its 'hazard map' to predict the threats posed to its sites under a \"worst-case scenario\" in which greenhouse gas emissions, which trap heat in the atmosphere, continue at their current rate.\n\nThe charity says planning for the worst will help it identify vulnerable sites across England, Wales and Northern Ireland and use knowledge gained on the ground by local teams to adapt to the impacts of climate change.\n\nWhen the map was launched in 2021, it estimated that the number of National Trust sites facing a high level of threat from issues such as coastal erosion, extreme heat and flooding could rise from 5% to 17% over the next 40 years.\n\nBut in Monday's report - \"A Climate for Change\" - the trust now estimates that 71% of its sites could be at medium or high risk of being impacted by climate change-related extreme weather events by 2060.\n\nIn response, the conservation body is ramping up its work on climate adaptation, spending millions to repair and protect some sites but also having to decide where money could be better spent.\n\nOne of those sites where the trust is looking at new ways of working is Mullion Cove Harbour in Cornwall.\n\nNestled between steep cliffs and built in the 1890s, the harbour's two breakwaters are being hit by frequent and violent storms. That has left the trust needing to spend more than £2m on repairing them - with more than 80% of that spent since 1995.\n\nIt's a cost that might not be worth continuing to pay in the face of rising sea levels and the trust may decide not to carry on with major repairs to one of the two breakwaters.\n\nCatherine Lee, community manager for the National Trust on the Lizard Peninsula, told the BBC: \"We've reached the threshold where we feel very strongly that it's unviable to repair the southern breakwater like-for-like.\n\n\"That's a really tough call - the National Trust is about looking after special places forever. But what we know is that we can't continue this battle against climate change. We have to adapt to climate change.\"\n\nThe trust is focusing its efforts on the western breakwater, working closely with local volunteers on day-to-day repairs.\n\nJonny Pascoe says hard decisions will have to be made about Mullion harbour\n\nOne of those volunteers is third-generation fisherman Jonny Pascoe, who is also chairman of the Mullion Cove Harbour Society.\n\n\"My dad and grandfather worked here so it's a very special place to me. I like to think I'm keeping that heritage going and being part of that rich history,\" he said.\n\nMr Pascoe said \"hard discussions\" had to be had with the trust about what could be saved, and how.\n\n\"We can't afford to procrastinate. The climate change situation is not going to allow us to. The sea is certainly not going to allow us to,\" he explained.\n\nWhen it comes to the trust's historic buildings and stately homes, protecting them from extreme weather isn't cheap.\n\nThe Tudor mansion Coughton Court in Warwickshire is currently undergoing a £3.3m facelift to make sure its roof and gutters can cope with heavy rainfall.\n\nAlready, staff at the country house have had to rescue collections of historic paintings and chandeliers, which had been leaked on.\n\nClose to the edge, the ancient hill fort Dinas Dinlle is being eroded and lost to the sea\n\nIn other locations, extreme weather has already seen the trust accept climate adaptation will sometimes mean letting things go.\n\nAt the Iron Age hill fort Dinas Dinlle on Wales' Gwynedd coast, erosion made worse by heavy rainfall in recent years is destroying the site, with many parts already lost to the sea.\n\nBut its story and history is being recorded - digital 3D modelling is being used to keep a record of the site before it disappears.\n\nThe work is being carried out with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales and Aberystwyth University.\n\nThree years of work at the site has shown that increasingly heavy rainfall is having a significant impact on the ongoing erosion of the hill fort.\n\nProfessor Sarah Davies, from Aberystwyth University, said the 3D modelling and geophysical studies of the area would help them \"understand more about the hills, the landscape around it and the rates of change before that information is lost\".\n\nThe National Trust is now calling for more funding and support from government for landowners, heritage organisations and tourism groups across England, Wales and Northern Ireland to help them adapt their buildings, coastlines and countryside to better cope with the impacts of climate change\n\nIt also wants to see the UK government establish a new Climate Resilience Bill to create national targets for adaptation and a statutory duty on all public bodies to make adaptation a key factor in decision-making.\n\nThe UK government said it had a national adaptation programme that does set out a five-year plan to increase the country's resilience to climate change risks, including those posed to heritage sites and its coastline and countryside.\n\nIt added that it had committed to investing billions of pounds in wider climate change adaptation measures, including £5.2bn on flood and coastal schemes in England.\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said it took climate adaptation \"extremely seriously\" and would be publishing a new national strategy towards the end of next year.\n\nA spokesperson for Northern Ireland's Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) said it welcomed the trust's report and said it would also be publishing a new climate change adaptation programme in late 2024.", "Russell Brand has been questioned by the Metropolitan Police in relation to allegations of historical sex offences.\n\nAn investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4's Dispatches revealed allegations of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse against the British comedian and actor.\n\nThe Met has confirmed that a man in his 40s attended a police station in south London on 16 November, as first reported by the Times newspaper.\n\nThe force said he was interviewed under caution by detectives in relation to allegations of \"three non-recent sexual offences\".\n\nIt said inquiries were continuing.\n\nThe Met said in September that it would investigate allegations of \"non-recent\" sexual offences, after receiving a number of allegations.\n\nAt the time, it said it was encouraging anyone who believed they may have been a victim of a sexual offence to contact them, \"no matter how long ago it was\".\n\nEarlier that month, the Times, Sunday Times and Channel 4's Dispatches programme said four women had accused Brand, 48, of sexual offences, including a rape, alleged to have taken place between 2006 and 2013.\n\nThe investigation claimed he had also behaved inappropriately at work, and displayed predatory and controlling behaviour.\n\nDuring that time, Brand held several jobs, including at Channel 4 and BBC Radio 2.\n\nThe BBC has approached Mr Brand for comment but has not yet heard back.\n\nHe has previously denied those claims and said his relationships have \"always\" been consensual.\n\nThe day before the investigation was published online in September, Brand shared a video on social media.\n\nIn it, he denied \"serious criminal allegations\" he said were to be made against him, and said his relationships \"were absolutely, always consensual\".\n\nFollowing the allegations of \"non-recent\" sexual offences reported to the Met later that month, Brand put out another video in which he was critical of the mainstream media but did not directly address the claims against him.", "Queen Camilla joined a traditional dance with Maasai women during a state visit to Kenya.\n\nShe was presented with Maasai traditional regalia at the Brooke Donkey Sanctuary in Nairobi.\n\nOn the same day, she also fed milk to orphaned elephants at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage.", "People should not be worried about the impact of AI on jobs because education reforms will boost skills, Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nSpeaking after the UK's first AI safety summit, the prime minister said the technology would improve the economy in the long term.\n\nHe added that new tools should be seen as a \"co-pilot\" to help people at work, rather than replacing them.\n\nThe government's job should be to improve training, he told reporters.\n\nMr Sunak said he recognised there was \"anxiety\" about the impact new AI tools could have on the workplace, but said it would enhance productivity over time.\n\n\"We should look at AI much more as a co-pilot than something which is necessary going to replace someone's job. AI is a tool that can help almost anybody do their jobs better, faster, quicker.\n\n\"My job, the government's job, is to make sure we have a world-class education system,\" he added.\n\n\"That is my answer in a nutshell, that's why I don't want people to be worried, because we are building a world-class education system.\"\n\nMr Sunak cited his recently-announced plan to introduce a new qualification for all school leavers in England, including some English and maths to 18.\n\nHe also suggested efforts to improve technical training, and plans to boost adult education, would ensure that the UK could \"reap the benefits of AI economically\".\n\nHis comments came at a press conference following a two-day summit on artificial intelligence safety attended by 28 countries, including the US and China, alongside tech bosses and academics.\n\nTrade unions, which have complained about not being represented at the event, have called for stronger measures to ensure jobs are protected as AI technology evolves.\n\nAt the summit, hosted at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, several leading technology companies agreed to allow governments to safety-test their next generation of AI models before they are deployed.\n\nThe voluntary document was signed by 10 countries and the EU, including the UK, US, Singapore and Canada. China was not a signatory.\n\nIn a statement, the UK government said it would work with the Alan Turing Institute, a research body, to assess possible risks such as the potential for bias and misinformation.\n\nMr Sunak said the testing regime would provide some \"independent assurance\" - adding that the firms developing new models cannot be expected to \"make their own homework\".\n\nHis government has so far declined to announce legislation to regulate AI, arguing that existing regulators are best placed to mitigate the risks whilst the technology evolves.\n\nMr Sunak told reporters that binding rules would \"likely be necessary,\" but stressed that the technology was still evolving and it was necessary to ensure it is done in \"the right way\".\n\nBefore the summit, various unions and campaign groups warned the event would prove a \"missed opportunity\".\n\nIn an open letter, they argued the event should have focused more on topics such as the impact of AI on employment law and smaller businesses, as well as policing and identity profiling.\n\nThe summit has been held at Bletchley Park, where top British codebreakers worked during World War Two\n\nThe summit has seen countries sign a declaration pledging more co-operation on research, to ensure the technology develops in a way that is \"human-centric, trustworthy and responsible\".\n\nMr Sunak said he hoped the event would become the first in a series, with Korea and France also expressing a willingness to host further summits next year.\n\nSome had criticised the inclusion of China at the event at a time of tense relations with West, despite the country being a key player in AI technology.\n\nMr Sunak defended the decision to invite the country, adding it \"wasn't an easy decision\" but that it was the \"right long-term decision\".\n\n\"Any serious conversation about AI safety has to engage the leading AI nations,\" he added.\n\nOn Wednesday, US Vice-President Kamala Harris announced the creation of the US AI Safety Institute, which the White House said would work alongside its UK counterpart.\n\nMs Harris had called for a focus on the \"everyday threats\" of AI, such as discrimination and disinformation, as well as \"existential\" fears.\n\nEarlier in the week, US President Joe Biden also signed an executive order, seeking to ensure \"America leads the way in seizing the promise and managing the risks of artificial intelligence\".\n\nSome commentators had suggested the US's moves threatened to overshadow the UK's summit.\n\nHowever, Mr Sunak welcomed the US executive order, calling it \"a deep and comprehensive demonstration of the potential of AI\".", "Andy McDonald was suspended as a Labour MP earlier this week\n\nAndy McDonald has threatened a fellow MP with legal action, over a social media post about his speech at a pro-Palestinian rally.\n\nHe accused Conservative Chris Clarkson of making \"a highly defamatory statement\" about him on X.\n\nIn his post, Mr Clarkson claimed Mr McDonald had sought \"to justify the murderous actions of Hamas\".\n\nBut Mr McDonald, who has been suspended as a Labour MP, said his speech had \"called for peace\".\n\nMr Clarkson has been approached for comment.\n\nThe MP for Middlesbrough was suspended from Labour's parliamentary party earlier this week, pending an investigation, after Labour said he had allegedly made \"deeply offensive\" comments at a demonstration on Saturday.\n\nHe is sitting as an independent while the party investigation takes place,\n\nIn his speech Mr McDonald, a former shadow minister under Jeremy Corbyn, said: \"We will not rest until we have justice. Until all people, Israelis and Palestinians, between the river and the sea, can live in peaceful liberty.\"\n\nThe phrase \"between the river and the sea\", which refers to the land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean, features in a chant which has been heard at pro-Palestine protests.\n\nCritics of the chant, including Israel and most Jewish groups, argue it implicitly calls for the destruction of Israel.\n\nThis interpretation is disputed by some pro-Palestinian activists who say that most people chanting it are calling for an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and blockade of Gaza, not the destruction of Israel itself.\n\nMr McDonald has previously said his words were intended as \"a heartfelt plea for an end to the killings in Israel, Gaza, and the occupied West Bank, and for all peoples in the region to live in freedom without the threat of violence\".\n\nSharing a video of the speech on X on Sunday, Mr Clarkson, the MP for Heywood and Middleton in Greater Manchester, wrote: \"'Between the River and the Sea' is a deeply sinister antisemitic trope - seeing a Labour MP use it whilst seeking to justify the murderous actions of Hamas should be shocking. Sadly, it's barely surprising.\"\n\nMr McDonald said the post was \"highly defamatory and caused serious harm to my reputation\".\n\n\"I am not prepared to stand by, while an MP or others peddle the lie that I have sought to justify the actions of Hamas on 7 October 2023, including the awful murder of 1,400 people in Israel,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Much of what I have said in the last few days about the recent events in Israel and Palestine has been deliberately distorted and misinterpreted.\"\n\nMr McDonald said his lawyers had taken \"the first steps in commencing legal proceedings against Mr Clarkson\" by sending him a letter of claim for libel.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Newsnight, Mr McDonald said: \"I beg everybody to look at the words that I've used. Calling for Israelis and Palestinians to live in peaceful liberty together.\"\n\nHe added: \"I would condemn anyone who would call for the destruction and the eradication of the nation state of Israel or indeed a putative and viable Palestinian state - so the words I used are clear. I would never, ever make comments that would cause such hurt.\"\n\nThe MP declined to apologise for using the phrase \"from the river to the sea\", saying he believed his explanation of why he used it would be enough to convince the Labour Party to restore the whip.\n\nChris Clarkson has been the Tory MP for Heywood and Middleton since 2019\n\nHamas, which is proscribed as a terrorist group by the UK and other governments, killed more than 1,400 people in an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October.\n\nGaza's Hamas-run health ministry says more than 9,000 people have been killed in the territory since then, after Israel launched a bombing campaign in response.\n\nMr McDonald's suspension followed days of internal Labour tensions over the party's position on the Israel-Gaza war.\n\nThe move provoked a backlash from some on the left of the party, who argued Mr McDonald's words were misrepresented, as well as the Labour Muslim Network.\n\nA growing number of Labour MPs and councillors are calling for the party leadership to back an immediate ceasefire in the region.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said he understands calls for a ceasefire but that this would leave Hamas's infrastructure intact, enabling them to carry out future attacks.\n\nInstead he has backed humanitarian pauses to help aid get in to Gaza and allow hostages to get out.", "The Colombian government is offering a reward for information about Luis Manuel Díaz's whereabouts\n\nThe Colombian government says that the father of Liverpool footballer Luis Díaz was kidnapped by left-wing rebels of the National Liberation Army (ELN).\n\nLuis Manuel Díaz was seized at gunpoint along with his wife on Saturday.\n\nThe player's mother was left behind in a car by the kidnappers as police closed in, but the gunmen dragged away his father.\n\nHundreds of police and soldiers have been deployed to free him.\n\nPolice had originally said that a criminal gang was most likely to blame.\n\nBut on Thursday, a government delegation which is currently engaged in peace talks with the rebel group, said that it had \"official knowledge\" that the kidnapping had been carried out by \"a unit belonging to the ELN\".\n\nA representative of the group has reportedly said the group will free Díaz's father in the coming days.\n\nThe ELN is Colombia's main remaining active guerrilla group. It has been fighting the state since 1964 and has an estimated 2,500 members.\n\nIt is most active in the border region with Venezuela where Luis Manuel Díaz and his wife Cilenis Marulanda live.\n\nCilenis Marulanda (third from left) took part in a march to demand that her husband be freed\n\nCCTV footage showed their car being followed by men on motorbikes on Saturday afternoon.\n\nThe couple was accosted by the gunmen as they had stopped at a petrol station in their hometown of Barrancas, in the northern province of La Guajira.\n\nThe kidnappers later abandoned Luis Díaz's mother in a car as police closed in, but dragged away his father.\n\nPolice have focussed their search on the Serranía del Perijá, a mountainous area straddling the Colombia-Venezuela border.\n\nThey have found two motorbikes and a car they think were used in the kidnapping but have yet to pinpoint Luis Manuel Díaz's whereabouts.\n\nIn his statement [in Spanish], the head of the government delegation negotiating with the ELN, Otty Patiño, demanded the \"immediate release of Luis Manuel Díaz.\n\n\"We remind the ELN that kidnappings are criminal acts which violate international humanitarian law and that it is their [the ELN's] duty as part of the current peace process to not only stop engaging in kidnappings but also to forever stamp them out,\" the statement reads.\n\nPrevious attempts at reaching a peace deal with the ELN have failed but as part of President Gustavo Petro's strategy for \"total peace\", his government restarted talks with the guerrilla group.\n\nEarlier this year, the two sides agreed on a bilateral six-month ceasefire which came into force on 3 August.\n\nThe kidnapping of Luis Díaz's father has caused outrage in Colombia, where the player - who is part of Colombia's national team - is immensely popular.\n\nOn Tuesday, hundreds accompanied Cilenis Marulanda on a march to demand his release.\n\nHis Liverpool team has also shown its unwavering support, with manager Jürgen Klopp dedicating Sunday's 3-0 Premier League victory over Nottingham Forest to Díaz, saying they had won \"for our brother\".\n\nDiogo Jota held up Luis Díaz's shirt after he scored against Forest on Sunday", "Some people were allowed through the Rafah crossing on Wednesday - but the wait goes on for others\n\nBritish nationals have left Gaza for the first time since war with Israel broke out last month.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office confirmed an unspecified number of UK passport holders had been able to leave via the Rafah crossing into Egypt on Wednesday.\n\nIt said the route was being opened for \"controlled and time-limited periods\" to allow some foreign nationals and injured Palestinians to leave.\n\nAbout 200 British nationals are believed to be in Gaza.\n\nIt emerged on Wednesday that some 500 people a day would be allowed through the crossing, which is controlled by Egyptian authorities.\n\nThousands gathered at the border this morning hoping to leave, but it emerged that only those whose names appeared on a limited list agreed by the Egyptian and Israeli governments would be permitted to cross.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said it had handed over the names of people who wished to leave Gaza.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, it confirmed some Britons were among a group of around 400 foreign nationals and injured Palestinians who had crossed, but did not say who or how many.\n\nEarlier, the BBC spoke to British-Palestinian doctor Abdelkader Hammad, who was told he was in the first group allowed to leave.\n\nBut when he arrived at the crossing point, he found the route was closed and described frustration and confusion at the border.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's PM programme at around 16:00 GMT (18:00 in Gaza) from the crossing point, Dr Hammad said: \"It's a little frustrating. We don't know what's going on...we don't know when the next group will go - if it will be tonight or tomorrow.\n\n\"It's dark - I'm not sure it will happen tonight, we'll see what happens tomorrow.\"\n\nSpeaking from the Rafah crossing at around 13:00 GMT, BBC News reporter Rushdi Abualouf said thousands of people were already at the border when it emerged only those on the list would be allowed through.\n\nWith no passport control or electronic ID system in place, the process is slowed by the need for an official to manually check the identities of every person leaving, he reported.\n\nHe also saw between 20 and 30 ambulances passing through the crossing carrying injured people into Egypt for medical treatment.\n\nRoutes in and out of Gaza have been closed since Hamas - which is proscribed as a terrorist group in the UK - attacked Israel on 7 October, killing more than 1,400 people and taking at least 239 hostage.\n\nBBC News understands that 14 British nationals were among those killed. Three more are missing.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 8,700 people have been killed since Israel launched air strikes as part of a military response to the attacks.\n\nSelected foreign nationals, and some injured Palestinians, left Gaza on Wednesday\n\nThe partial opening of the Rafah crossing follows international diplomatic efforts to convince Egypt to allow people to leave and aid to be transported into the enclave.Rishi Sunak held a further call with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Wednesday evening.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC at the AI summit in London earlier on Wednesday, Mr Sunak said the government was committed to getting humanitarian supplies into Gaza, and helping UK passport holders leave.\n\nHe continued: \"We're playing an active role in getting aid into Gaza to help those people who need it, but also diplomatically working with everyone in the region to find ways to move our British nationals out of Gaza and hopefully bring them home.\"\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverley called the first departures from Gaza a \"hugely important first step\". He earlier said British officials are on the ground in Egypt \"ready to assist British nationals as soon as they are able to leave\".\n\nWestern officials told the BBC a team had been deployed to Arish, a city some 25 miles (41km) away from Rafah, to \"ensure we can provide the necessary medical, consular and administrative support needed\" for British nationals.\n\nAmong the British nationals in Gaza are Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf's in-laws. He welcomed the opening of the border but said his wife's parents remained trapped without clean drinking water and rapidly diminishing supplies.\n\nBoth Mr Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer have called for humanitarian \"pauses\" in fighting to allow the movement of aid.\n\nHumanitarian pauses tend to last for shorter periods of time than formal ceasefires, sometimes just a few hours.\n\nThey are typically implemented purely with the aim of providing humanitarian support, as opposed to achieving long-term political solutions, according to the United Nations.", "Tala says her younger brother Yazid is very afraid, and his seizures are getting \"worse and worse\"\n\nThis was their third time trying to cross. But there were reasons to hope. All the news reports said the border would definitely open.\n\nThe family had been called by the Jordanian embassy and told to go to the Rafah crossing.\n\nTala Abu Nahleh's mother is a Jordanian citizen. Foreign passport holders were going to be allowed through. So were the wounded and the seriously sick.\n\nTala's 15-year-old brother Yazid is disabled and suffers from seizures. He can only move from one place to another with the aid of a wheelchair. The hospitals in Gaza have run out of the medication he needs, while the bombing has exacerbated his condition.\n\n\"Once the escalation started,\" Tala says, \"he got very afraid, the seizures kept getting worse and worse. Every time I believe it's gotten to the worst, it just keeps getting worse.\"\n\nThere are six in the family and Tala is the sole financial support. She won scholarships and studied in the US and Beirut, Lebanon. Confident and articulate as she is, it is easy to imagine her guiding her family through the challenges of life beyond Gaza's borders.\n\n\"We are trying to survive. We're not sure we're going to make it, but we're trying to do everything we can to survive, because I simply don't want to die at 24.\"\n\nAt the Rafah crossing crowds have been checking lists of those already approved for departure\n\nThe border is a place where the word \"luck\" has different meanings. It means escaping bombing, hunger and lack of water.\n\nIt also means having to leave behind those you love who don't have foreign passports, or who are not badly wounded enough to merit evacuation, or who are trapped under fire and cannot reach the border.\n\nThe number of those who have left, or will be able to leave, is only a tiny percentage of Gaza's population of 2.2 million people.\n\nMona - she did not wish to give her surname - is an Australian citizen through marriage. She came to the border alone and was haunted by the thought of her family trapped in Gaza.\n\n\"I'm not happy at all, because I'm leaving my other part, my brothers and sisters, my whole family is still here. I wish, God willing, they would all be in a safe place. The situation is terrible there, it's very very bad,\" she says.\n\nGroups of men gathered in front of paper lists posted on windows on the Gaza side of the crossing. Fingers ran down lines of names seeking out those already approved for departure. Families sat on the plastic chairs of the waiting hall, a small space into which so much hope is being funnelled.\n\nAltogether, 400 foreign nationals and wounded people were able to leave Gaza on the first day of the evacuation on Wednesday.\n\nNot all of those desperately waiting to cross into Egypt made it on Wednesday\n\nBy the day's end, it was clear to Tala Abu Nahleh that her family would not be so fortunate. They went home to their apartment, dark like those of their neighbours because there is no electricity.\n\nTala sent us a video message saying she did not know how to feel any more. She sounded and looked weary.\n\n\"We came back to no electricity, no food for today, no clean water to drink or even washing water. And one more day closer to my brother running out of medications, and we're still here. And it's night. I don't know if we will make it tomorrow, but I hope so.\"\n\nAdditional reporting by Mahmoud Bassam in Gaza, and Hanin Abdeen, Alice Doyard, Morgan Gisholt Minard, and John Landy in Jerusalem.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The King's English and Cockney are no longer common dialects among young people in the South East of England, according to a new study.\n\nResearchers from the University of Essex studied the dialects of a group of 18 to 33-year-olds in the region.\n\nThey identified three voices, estuary English, southern British English and multicultural London English.\n\nProject leader Dr Amanda Cole said the latter was \"a really innovative and interesting accent\".\n\n\"Multicultural London English is a relatively more recent accent, it is thought to have be around since the 80s, it has a lot in common with the cockney and South Eastern dialects,\" she said.\n\n\"But it also has linguistic features that have come from other languages and other dialects of English.\"\n\nYoung people with a multicultural London English accent made up 25% of the 193 people who took part in the study, she said.\n\nDr Cole said a quarter of people who took part in the study spoke with a multicultural London English dialect\n\nPeople with this accent tend to say vowels in their words like \"bate\" and \"boat\" with the tongue starting at a point higher up in the mouth compared to people with the standard southern British English, Dr Cole added.\n\nThis means they will sound like \"beht\" and \"boht\".\n\nPeople with this accent tended to be Asian British or Black British from London and across the South-East England, she said.\n\nIn recent years, Cockney and the King's English were spoken by people of all ages, but now 49% of the participants spoke in a standard southern British English accent, which the study said was a modern, updated version of received pronunciation.\n\nPeople with this accent tended to say words like \"goose\" with the tongue further forward in the mouth (sounding a bit more like \"geese\") than received pronunciation.\n\nResearchers said this change even happened in the accent of the late Queen Elizabeth II over her lifetime.\n\nAround 26% of the participants spoke estuary English, which had similarities with Cockney but was closer to received pronunciation.\n\nParticipants with this accent pronounced words like \"house\" like \"hahs\" but the study said it was not as extreme as Cockney.\n\nEstuary English is spoken across the South-East, particularly in parts of Essex, and is similar to how TV personality Stacey Dooley, singers Olly Murs and Adele or The Repair Shop's Jay Blades talk.\n\nThe study said: \"This occurs as a result of the increased movement of people resulting in greater contact between dialects, the growth of universal education and literacy, and people buying into the idea that there is a 'correct' or 'standard' way of speaking.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and X. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former health secretary Matt Hancock wanted to decide \"who should live and die\" if the NHS was overwhelmed, the Covid inquiry has heard.\n\nThe revelation came to light in evidence presented by Sir Simon Stevens, the former NHS England chief.\n\nIn his witness statement, he said Mr Hancock thought he, not doctors or the public, should decide who to prioritise if hospitals became overwhelmed.\n\nSir Simon said: \"Fortunately this horrible dilemma never crystallised.\"\n\nHe told the inquiry: \"The secretary of state for health and social care took the position that in this situation he - rather than, say, the medical profession or the public - should ultimately decide who should live and who should die.\"\n\nHe added: \"I certainly wanted to discourage the idea that an individual secretary of state, other than in the most exceptional circumstances, should be deciding how care would be provided.\n\n\"I felt we were well-served by the medical profession, in consultation with patients to the greatest extent possible, in making those decisions.\"\n\nSir Simon stepped down as NHS England chief executive in summer 2021\n\nSir Simon also rejected suggestions by then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson, made in his witness statement which has already been handed to the inquiry, that it was \"very frustrating\" to be forced into lockdown because the NHS and social care had failed to get to grip with the decades-old problem of delayed discharges.\n\nThis is where patients have to remain in hospital despite being ready to leave because of the lack of support in the community.\n\nMr Johnson said that about 30% of beds were occupied by such patients.\n\nSir Simon said that would equate to about 30,000 beds, but there could have been 200,000, perhaps even 800,000 patients in the reasonable worst-case scenario, needing a bed.\n\n\"Even if all of those 30,000 beds were freed up - for every one coronavirus patient who was then admitted, there would be another five who need that care and were not able to get it.\n\n\"So no, I don't think that is a fair statement in describing the decision calculus for the first wave.\"", "Asylum seekers housed on the Bibby Stockholm migrant barge have not been evacuated from the vessel, despite the stormy conditions, the Home Office has told the BBC\n\nThe barge - which can accommodate around 500 people - has been moored at Portland Port on the south coast since July. Wind gust speeds there have topped 70mph, according to the Met Office.\n\n\"Some people on board are getting quite seasick,\" Heather Jones from the Stand Up to Racism group told the Guardian.\n\n\"They have told me they got absolutely no sleep last night and the boat was shaking so much, it was pretty scary.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesperson has told the BBC the \"welfare of the people accommodated at Portland is of the utmost priority\", and it has ensured the safety of those on board.\n\nThey added that the barge \"is in a sheltered port, protected by a large breakwater and moored securely alongside a permanent jetty which means the vessel is well secured\".", "A student at Queen's University Belfast (QUB) was sent swastikas for being Jewish, the government's independent adviser on antisemitism has said.\n\nLord Mann told BBC News NI some students have hidden their identity and fear for their safety.\n\nQueen's said it was not aware of the incident and urged the student involved to contact the university.\n\nThe peer visited Belfast on Wednesday to meet members of the Jewish community and political parties.\n\nHe said the conflict between Israel and Hamas had led to religious attacks in the UK.\n\n\"Why are they picking on vulnerable, literally isolated Jewish students to vent this hatred?\" he asked.\n\n\"Where's the hatred coming from and what are the systems for dealing with this?\"\n\nLord Mann said young Jewish people were \"keeping their heads down\" and are \"masking their identity\" in terms of wearing religious symbols.\n\nLord Mann said the incident was \"not normal behaviour, it is extremist behaviour\"\n\n\"They're fearful that that will get a negativity, it will get them abuse,\" he told BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster.\n\nReferring to the Queen's student who was sent swastikas, a symbol associated with Nazism, Lord Mann said: \"Why should a young Jewish person, a student here in Belfast, as a response to wearing a Jewish religious symbol around their neck, have more than one person responding with swastikas?\"\n\nWhen asked by BBC News NI for more details on how the student was sent the swastikas, Lord Mann said he did not want \"to end up identifying the person and the exact situation\".\n\n\"This is not normal behaviour, it is extremist behaviour and it is dangerous,\" he added.\n\nQueen's University told BBC News NI it was not aware of the incident \"and would urge the student to report this matter to us so it can be properly investigated\".\n\nIt added that it was \"keen to engage with Lord Mann on this issue\".\n\n\"Queen's recognises the events that have led to the harrowing loss of life in the Middle East and the distressing and complex nature of the current conflict,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"The university is mindful of our students and colleagues with family and other connections in the region and remains committed to supporting them at this difficult time.\"\n\nQueen's University said the student should contact officials so the matter can be investigated\n\nThe university also said it had been in contact with the PSNI \"due to the seriousness of the allegations\", however, both Queen's and the PSNI said no report had been made to police by a student.\n\n\"The University's concern is this story is being presented as factual without any clear verification other than an anecdotal claim,\" a spokesperson continued on Thursday.\n\n\"Unchallenged suggestions that there is an ongoing problem at Queen's are completely without foundation.\n\nMeanwhile, on Wednesday, Lord Mann also told BBC News NI he had asked to meet Sinn Féin during his visit but was not given a reason for why this had not happened.\n\nThe party later said this had been an \"administrative oversight\" on its part.\n\nA spokesperson added the party has contacted Lord Mann's office to \"rearrange the meeting at the earliest opportunity possible\" and it looked \"forward to the opportunity to discuss the issue\".\n\nOn Wednesday, more than 400 people left Gaza, according to Palestinian officials, including British and US passport holders.\n\nThe territory has been bombed by Israel since the 7 October Hamas attacks in Israel which killed 1,400 people. More than 200 people were taken hostage.\n\nThe health ministry run by Hamas said more than 8,700 people had been killed in the retaliatory bombings.\n\n\"I am here in terms of the security, the safety, and critically the wellbeing of a community that's traumatised and is terrified,\" Lord Mann said of his visit to Belfast.\n\n\"What I'm not comfortable with: Anybody in this time of conflict and war, in the Jewish community or indeed in the Muslim community, being targeted because of what's going on.\"", "Ditza Heiman is being held hostage in Gaza\n\nNearly four weeks have passed since Hamas kidnapped about 240 people into Gaza - among them is 84-year-old Ditza Heiman.\n\nWhen Ditza's daughter called her on 7 October, Hamas answered the phone.\n\n\"They were shouting 'It's Hamas, it's Hamas',\" another daughter, Neta Heiman Mina, told the BBC.\n\n\"My sister was terrified, she hung up. I didn't think they had taken her. I thought they had killed her.\"\n\nDitza Heiman is being held hostage in Gaza.\n\nShe was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz when Hamas staged its deadly attack on Israel, killing 1,400 people and taking more than 240 hostage.\n\nNeta says she was in touch with her mother in the morning. Ditza was in her safe room and didn't know what was happening outside.\n\n\"I don't think she realised, or we realised, that the terrorists were at the kibbutz,\" Neta said.\n\nThe last message she got from her mother was a few minutes before 10:00 local time. After that she didn't answer her phone.\n\nNeta later spoke to one of her mother's neighbours, who told her that Ditza had been calling for help. He went out to see what was happening and saw her being taken away by Hamas gunmen.\n\n\"There were too many terrorists outside, they started shooting. He crawled back into his shelter. He was lucky,\" Neta said.\n\nOn a Hamas Facebook page, Neta and her sister found a video that showed her mother. \"They took her. They put her in a car. When we found the video, we knew she was alive.\"\n\nDitza Heiman had lived all her adult life in Nir Oz. A social worker who had only stopped working a few years ago, she has 12 grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and \"so many more children who grew up with her and consider her to be family\".\n\nNeta Heiman Mina at an installation to highlight the plight of hostages\n\nNeta's voice is unwavering as she talks about her mother. She lived on her own, she cooked for herself, she walked places.\n\n\"But she walked slowly. I don't think she could walk for many kilometres, like Yocheved,\" Neta said, referring to 85-year-old Yocheved Lifschitz who was freed last month and who has spoken of having to walk in the tunnels.\n\nMs Lifschitz described being taken into a \"spider's web\" of tunnels underneath Gaza.\n\nNeta is very worried about the ground offensive in Gaza. She doesn't know what it means for the hostages, and she is also concerned for the young soldiers.\n\n\"They are all friends of my children, they are children of my friends. I don't think it will bring the hostages back,\" she said.\n\nShe wants Israel's government to \"talk directly to Hamas\".\n\nA long-time activist with Women Wage Peace, the largest Israeli grassroots peace movement made up of Jewish and Arab women, she has long campaigned for an agreement-based resolution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.\n\nShe also blames Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government for what has happened.\n\n\"In the last nine months they did everything to escalate the situation, especially in the West Bank,\" she said.\n\nShe says that Hamas attacked at a time when many Israeli troops had been stationed in the occupied West Bank.\n\n\"The army was there [in the West Bank], to protect the Sukkah [a shelter put up as part of a Jewish festival].\" she says, referring to tensions in the flashpoint town of Huwara.\n\n\"They were there and they didn't protect my mother. And now they need to do everything to bring them [the hostages] back.\"", "Two Palestinian sisters have been reunited in Rafah, in southern Gaza.\n\nJulia, an 18-month-old toddler, was pulled from the rubble of a destroyed building and rushed to El-Najar Hospital.\n\nHer sister, five-year-old Joury, was also rescued from the rubble and was already there, being treated for her injuries.\n\n\"My sister, my beloved,\" Joury cried the moment she realised her sister had survived.\n\nThe two were with their family eating lunch when the building next to theirs was bombed, destroying the house they were in, the girls' uncle said.\n\nThe girls were treated for head injuries and were left scared and traumatised, their uncle added. They later left the hospital with their family.", "M&S has apologised after being accused of posting an Instagram photo of Christmas party hats in the colours of the Palestinian flag on fire.\n\nThe image, an out-take from one of the company's TV adverts, showed red, green and silver hats burning in a fireplace.\n\nM&S said the intent was to \"playfully show that some people don't enjoy wearing paper Christmas hats\".\n\nThe company removed the photo and said the advert was filmed in August, before the latest Israel-Gaza conflict began.\n\nIt said the hats were \"traditional, festive coloured red, green and silver Christmas paper hats\".\n\n\"We have removed the post following feedback and we apologise for any unintentional hurt caused,\" M&S added in a statement posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday night.\n\nThe photo was an out-take from the company's Christmas clothing and home advert, which is based on the premise that people should do away with Christmas traditions they no longer love.\n\nThe picture drew criticism from several social media users who claimed there was a similarity between the colours of the hats and the Palestinian flag, with one user describing the photo as \"distasteful\".\n\nThe company has also been defended by other social media users who said the hats are in traditional Christmas colours.\n\nQueer Eye presenter Tan France, who appears in the advert, said on Instagram: \"The ad was shot in August, so maybe you're reaching with your ridiculous comments.\"\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority, which regulates advertising in the UK, says it has received 40 complaints about the Instagram post.\n\nThe regulator says it is reviewing the complaints to determine whether further action is needed, but is not currently investigating the advert.\n\nThe post - an out-take image from M&S's Christmas clothing and home advert - was deleted by M&S\n\nReleasing the \"Love Thismas not Thatmas\" advert earlier this week, M&S said it was intended to \"celebrate and empower our customers to just do the things they love\".\n\nThe advert also features actors Zawe Ashton and Hannah Waddingham, and singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor.\n\nMore than 1,400 people were killed in attacks by Hamas on Israel on 7 October, while at least 239 people were taken hostage.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 9,000 people have been killed since Israel launched air strikes as part of a military response to the attacks.\n• None Why are Israel and Hamas fighting in Gaza?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak says Elon Musk 'can be valuable' in the AI conversation\n\nMonitoring the risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI) is too important to be left to big tech firms, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nHe told the BBC that governments needed to take action and AI firms could not be left to \"mark their own homework\".\n\nHe was speaking ahead of the AI Safety Summit, where a global declaration on managing AI risks has been announced.\n\nIt comes amid growing concerns about highly advanced forms of AI with as-yet unknown capabilities.\n\nSo far countries are only starting to address the potential risks, which may include breaches to privacy, cyberattacks and the displacement of jobs.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC at Downing Street, Mr Sunak AI was a \"transformative technology\" that could have huge benefits in the NHS or in schools.\n\nBut he said he wanted the UK and other countries to be able \"do the testing that is necessary to make sure that we are keeping our citizens and everyone at home safe\".\n\n\"There has to be governments or external people who do that work,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman, he said that many AI firms had already given the UK access to their models before their release.\n\nAnd he claimed the UK was \"investing more\" AI risk management than any other country.\n\n\"We've already invested £100 million in our task force, which will become our Safety Institute,\" he said.\n\n\"And we're attracting the best and the brightest researchers from around the world to come and work in that institution.\"\n\nAround 100 world leaders, tech bosses and academics are currently gathering at the UK's first AI safety summit at Bletchley Park, in Buckinghamshire.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, the delegates agreed the world's first ever \"international statement\" on so called frontier AI - the government's term for AI that could exceed the capabilities of today's most advanced systems.\n\nThe Bletchley Declaration calls for global cooperation on tackling the risks, which include potential breaches to privacy and the displacement of jobs.\n\nSigned by 28 countries and the EU, it also says AI should be kept \"safe, in such a way as to be human-centric, trustworthy and responsible\".\n\nDr Caitlin Bentley, AI education lecturer at King's College London, said the declaration was an \"important milestone\" in promoting the \"responsible AI development\".\n\nHowever, she said more investment in AI education was needed to ensure \"AI is not only responsible, but equitable in its effects\" with the benefits felt by all.\n\nIn his BBC interview, the prime minister defended a planned discussion with controversial tech billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday night, saying he could bring \"something valuable to the conversation\".\n\n\"Elon Musk for a long time has both been an investor and developer of AI technologies himself,\" said Mr Sunak.\n\n\"For over a decade, he's been also talking about the potential risks that they pose and the need for countries and companies to work together to manage and mitigate against those risks.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elon Musk ahead of his meeting with UK PM Rishi Sunak\n\nMr Musk arrived at the summit on Wednesday morning, having warned the day before that AI could lead to the extinction of humanity.\n\nBut many experts consider warnings like this overblown.\n\n\"We've got representatives from all the major AI companies here at the summit,\" said Mr Sunak.\n\n\"And that's crucial, because countries will need to work together with the companies that are developing the technology.\"\n\nThose appearing at the summit are discussing how best to maximise the benefits of AI - such as discovering new medicines and tackling climate change - while minimising the risks.\n\nThe summit's priorities include the threat of bio-terrorism and cyber attacks.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the event in London, US Vice President Kamala Harris said that world leaders \"must address the full spectrum of AI risks to humanity\" and listed examples of faulty algorithms in healthcare, the use of AI in making \"deepfakes\", misinformation and biased facial recognition.\n\nChina has also backed international cooperation on AI, with the country's Vice Minister for Science and Technology, Wu Zhaohui, calling for \"global collaboration to share knowledge and make AI technologies available to the public\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Alexandra Gregory posed with what the court heard was a pretend baby bump\n\nA children's cancer nurse who faked having her ex-partner's baby during lockdown has been given a suspended prison sentence.\n\nAlexandra Gregory, 25, from Redditch, sent Daniel Smith fake pregnancy scans and photos of a baby in intensive care.\n\nShe pleaded guilty to sending malicious communications between August 2020 and February 2021.\n\nChairman of the bench Kevin Lloyd-Wright said Gregory had committed a \"prolonged campaign against Mr Smith\".\n\n\"It was planned, sustained and relentless,\" he said during sentencing at Worcester Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nThe court heard the pair had had a short relationship between February and July 2020, which ended amicably.\n\nHowever, a month later Mr Smith received a photo of a positive pregnancy test, which was followed by a photo of her with a small bump.\n\nThe pair met up to discuss the situation where they agreed Gregory would have an abortion.\n\nBut in October, she sent him a message saying she had changed her mind.\n\nAfter that, Gregory bombarded Mr Smith with messages, including faked baby scans and photos of her in her Birmingham's Women's and Children's Hospital nurse's uniform seemingly with a pregnancy bump.\n\nPolice said Gregory had since gone on to have a baby with another partner, and had refused to answer questions during interviews\n\nShe also sent child maintenance forms and told him that she had been bleeding heavily.\n\nThe court was told Mr Smith had questioned the legitimacy of the scans, and at one point requested a DNA test, but felt too guilty to confront her.\n\nOn 2 January 2021 alone, she sent more than 300 messages to him.\n\nThat month she told Mr Smith she had given birth to a girl called Aria, but added she was \"born blue\" and sent him photos of a baby in a hospital unit.\n\n\"Our daughter is in intensive care,\" she told him.\n\nThe court heard that the truth finally came to light a month later, when Gregory's father told Mr Smith's aunt that there was no baby.\n\nWest Mercia Police said Gregory had since gone on to have a baby with another partner and had refused to answer questions during interviews.\n\nProsecuting, Tom Wickstead told the court that the experience had left Mr Smith feeling \"like a shadow of himself\" while the judge later acknowledged he had suffered \"continuous anxiety\".\n\nGregory's defence team said she had indeed become pregnant, but the court was told she had suffered a miscarriage at some point before she messaged Mr Smith in October.\n\nHer solicitor said she had become distressed with the situation as well as her work as a paediatric nurse during lockdown.\n\nHe added that the defendant \"fully accepted\" that she had lied about having Mr Smith's baby and that there was \"no sensible explanation for what she did\".\n\n\"She doesn't understand why she did it,\" he told the court and added that she had been off work in January 2021 due to her mental health.\n\nGregory was sentenced to a four-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, as well as a 12-month mental health treatment plan and 20 days of community service.\n\nShe was also ordered to pay £500 in compensation to Mr Smith and was given a three-year restraining order against him and his mother.\n\nMr Smith's family said his life had not been the same since and they were glad the truth was finally out.\n\nA spokesperson for Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust said Gregory had been suspended pending the police investigation and that it would now \"conclude its own internal investigation\".\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "The Covid pandemic may have impacted brain health in people in the UK aged 50 and over, according to a new study.\n\nMore than 3,000 volunteers completed yearly questionnaires and online cognitive tests to measure changes in memory, and other faculties, as the pandemic unfolded.\n\nStress, loneliness and alcohol consumption may explain some of the findings, experts say.\n\nCoping with Covid fears, worries and uncertainties and disruption to routines may have had a \"real, lasting impact\" on brain health, they say.\n\nThe rate of the drop in cognitive function was accelerated during the first year of the pandemic, when lockdowns occurred, the study found.\n\nFor memory issues, the decline continued into the second year.\n\nPeople who already had some mild memory problems before the pandemic began had the worst overall decline.\n\nThe study, called PROTECT - published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity - was set up to help understand how healthy brains age and why some people develop dementia.\n\nIt uses brain-training games to check memory skills and reasoning, while the questionnaire looks for possible risk factors that could harm brain health.\n\nThe plan is to keep the study running in the future to see how participants fare, and what lessons can be learned to help others.\n\nBased on the current findings, lead investigator Prof Anne Corbett, from the University of Exeter and previously King's College London, says pandemic conditions may have hastened brain decline.\n\n\"Our findings suggest that lockdowns and other restrictions we experienced during the pandemic have had a real, lasting impact on brain health in people aged 50 or over, even after the lockdowns ended.\n\n\"This raises the important question of whether people are at a potentially higher risk of cognitive decline which can lead to dementia.\n\n\"It is now more important than ever to make sure we are supporting people with early cognitive decline, especially because there are things they can do to reduce their risk of dementia later on.\n\n\"So if you are concerned about your memory, the best thing to do is to make an appointment with your GP and get an assessment.\"\n\nDr Dorina Cadar, a dementia expert from Brighton and Sussex Medical School, said the effect of the pandemic on the general population had been \"catastrophic\".\n\n\"Many of the long-term consequences of Covid-19, or the restriction measures implemented around the world, remain unknown,\"\n\nShe recommended more research, and said although the findings could not prove cause and effect, there is mounting evidence that some of the factors described, such as social isolation, can negatively impact brain health.\n\nDr Susan Mitchell from Alzheimer's Research UK said: \"While our genetics play an important role in the health of our brains as we age, we know that a range of health and lifestyle factors can impact our brain health.\n\n\"Sadly, there's no sure-fire way to prevent dementia yet, but meanwhile, taking care of our brains can at least help stack the odds in our favour. It's never too early or too late to think about adopting healthy habits, which includes looking after your heart health, keeping connected and staying sharp.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA \"macho\" culture in Downing Street harmed the UK's response to the Covid pandemic, a top official from the time has said.\n\nFormer deputy cabinet secretary Helen MacNamara told the Covid inquiry a \"toxic\" environment affected decision-making during the crisis.\n\nShe said that female experts were ignored, and women were \"looked over\".\n\nShe also accused Boris Johnson of failing to tackle \"misogynistic language\" used by Dominic Cummings.\n\nThe then-prime minister's failure to take action over abusive WhatsApp messages by his top adviser - that were revealed on Tuesday - had been \"disappointing\", she told the inquiry.\n\nMs MacNamara, who was the second-most senior official at the height of the pandemic, was thrust into the spotlight last year when she revealed she was fined by police for breaking Covid rules during the Partygate scandal.\n\nShe hit the headlines again this week, when it emerged Mr Cummings told colleagues on WhatsApp during the crisis he wanted to \"personally handcuff her and escort her from the building\".\n\n\"We cannot keep dealing with this horrific meltdown of the British state while dodging stilettos from that [expletive],\" Mr Cummings wrote about her in one message from August 2020.\n\nIn her own testimony earlier on Wednesday, Ms MacNamara said \"it is disappointing to me that the prime minister didn't pick him up on some of that violent and misogynistic language\".\n\nHis reaction was \"just miles away from what is right or proper or decent, or what the country deserves\", she added.\n\nGiving evidence to the inquiry on Tuesday, Mr Cummings accepted his language was \"deplorable\" but denied he had been misogynistic, adding: \"I was much ruder about men.\"\n\nIn her own evidence, Ms MacNamara described a \"macho, confident\" environment within government when Covid struck in early 2020, with an \"unbelievably bullish\" approach about the UK's ability to respond.\n\nShe recalled people \"laughing at the Italians\" during meetings over restrictions they had imposed in response to the virus, with her witness statement recording a feeling the country was \"overreacting\".\n\nIn other extracts from her statement, she expressed concern that the lack of a \"female perspective\" on the crisis in a number of policy areas.\n\nThis included a \"lack of thought\" about childcare during school closures, the impact of restrictions on victims of domestic violence, and a lack of guidance for pregnant women.\n\nShe also wrote that a \"disproportionate amount of attention\" was given to the impact of lockdown on \"male pursuits\", citing football, hunting, shooting and fishing.\n\nIn a draft of a report she prepared on improving the working environment, the atmosphere was likened to a \"superhero bunfight\".\n\nIn an email sent to female staffers from April 2020, read out at the inquiry, she described the \"egotistical and macho\" culture as \"demoralising to work in,\" noting that women had only spoken for \"10-15 minutes\" in over five hours of meetings earlier that month.\n\nShe told the inquiry she had found the lack of female participation \"striking\", with women turning their screens off during Zoom calls or \"sitting in the back row\" during meetings.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing's chief nurse, Nicola Ranger, said senior men in government \"relied on nursing staff to deliver care to the highest standard, whilst failing to meet basic professional standards themselves\".\n\n\"As a 90% female profession, nursing staff will find today's reminders painful,\" Ms Ranger said. \"These cavalier and misogynistic attitudes left nursing staff, especially women, at even greater risk and with deadly consequences.\"\n\nIn other evidence heard by the inquiry:\n\nElsewhere in her evidence, she described a \"lack of care\" for government staff, which she added proved \"damaging in all sorts of ways\".\n\nShe recalled that it was over seven months into the pandemic before a hand sanitizing station was placed near a link bridge between the Cabinet Office and No 10 with a Pin pad regularly used by officials.\n\nShe also said she repeatedly requested but failed to receive \"psychological support\" for civil servants working on on the Covid response, adding \"I don't really understand why we couldn't do that\".\n\nShe told the inquiry the government's response in a number of areas showed an \"absence of humanity,\" adding in her testimony that the reaction to the Covid situation in prisons \"felt very cold\".\n\nMatt Fowler, co-founder of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK, said the evidence coming from the inquiry was \"worse\" than feared.\n\nHe said the evidence showed \"special advisors from privileged backgrounds\" were not interested in \"how their decisions would impact the disabled, low-income households, at-risk children and others who weren't like them\".", "A video circulating on social media showed a box of mice after being dumped at the restaurant in Perry Barr\n\nA man has been arrested after boxes of live mice were released into McDonald's restaurants in Birmingham.\n\nA 32-year-old man was detained over the apparent protests on Wednesday evening, West Midlands Police said.\n\nVideos on social media show the rodents being released in branches in Star City, Perry Barr and Small Heath.\n\nPolice are also looking for Billal Hussain, 30, in connection with the incidents.\n\nThe force said a number of warrants had been executed in efforts to arrest Mr Hussain, suspected of being involved in the \"unacceptable\" and \"distressing\" incidents.\n\nOfficers are also looking for a second man in connection with the incidents\n\nA video on social media showed mice dyed in the colours of the Palestinian flag being released into the Star City restaurant on Monday.\n\nA second clip also showed mice in a box in the Perry Barr branch on Tuesday.\n\nThe incidents were being treated as public nuisance offences, police confirmed.\n\nThe first mice release took place on Monday evening at the Star City site\n\nBoth restaurants were temporarily closed for a full clean and visits from pest control officers, a McDonald's spokesperson said\n\nA video of a reported third incident of a similar nature was also shared on social media on Wednesday, where a group of masked people appeared to empty a box of mice in a branch in Small Heath.\n\nWest Midlands Police said it was investigating the third incident but it was unclear if it was connected.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "After recent heavy rain and storms bringing floods and disruption, there's another storm on the way to the United Kingdom this week.\n\nStorm Ciarán is the third named storm of the season and will bring damaging winds and heavy rain to areas where the ground is already saturated.\n\nMet Office severe weather warnings are already in force along with flood warnings.\n\nImpacts are likely from late Wednesday and through into the weekend.\n\nThis autumn has already been very wet with some parts of the UK having well over the normal monthly rainfall.\n\nFor some locations in eastern areas, such as Wattisham in Suffolk and Aboyne in Aberdeenshire, it has been the wettest October on record.\n\nThe prospect therefore of another storm - Ciarán (pronounced Keer-on) - will not be welcome for those already suffering from recent flooding after heavy rain and Storm Babet only a couple of weeks ago.\n\nStorm Ciarán is being driven by a very powerful jet stream - winds high in the atmosphere - with speeds of around 200mph. A jet stream this powerful contains a lot of energy for low pressure systems to develop.\n\nThis low pressure system could indeed be one of the deepest areas of low pressure recorded in November in the UK, close to the current record of 948.4hPa in 1954.\n\nA deep area of low pressure called Storm Ciarán will approach from the Atlantic late on Wednesday into Thursday\n\nWinds will strengthen from later on Wednesday into Thursday as Storm Ciarán approaches from the south-west.\n\nStrongest winds are initially likely across southern England and the Channel Islands where they could be around 80mph (130km/h) to perhaps 90mph (145km/h) in the most exposed locations.\n\nThese wind strengths have the potential to bring damage to trees and power lines with transport disruption likely. Cross channel ferries could be especially disrupted.\n\nInland gusts across southern parts of the UK could be as high as 50-60mph (80-97km/h) which again can bring some disruption and damage.\n\nMuch of the week will be dominated by periods of rain which will in turn lead to some localised flooding in the short term, especially in eastern areas of Northern Ireland where an amber warning is in place.\n\nRain associated with Storm Ciarán will move north-east from Wednesday evening and throughout Thursday.\n\nPersistent and heavy rain will be followed by heavy showers and thunderstorms.\n\nThere are severe weather warnings in force for southern England, south Wales, north-east England and Northern Ireland suggesting widely 20-40mm (1-2in) of rainfall with 40-60mm (2-3in) possible over high ground.\n\nWhile rainfall totals expected with Storm Ciarán are not necessarily high or unusual with autumn storms, problems are likely as it comes after a very wet period for many.\n\nRiver levels remain high with ground already very saturated. There are also still around 70 flood warnings in force across the UK.\n\nBy the end of the week some of the highest rainfall totals will be across southern England, south Wales, parts of northern England, Northern Ireland and eastern Scotland.\n\nRiver and groundwater levels remain high after recent heavy rain so flooding will continue to be a problem\n\nWhile there are already wind and rain warnings issued for Storm Ciarán, these will be tweaked and upgraded as necessary in the coming days.\n\nWhile we are pretty certain to get some stormy weather, there are still some uncertainties in the finer details of the forecast, primarily because Storm Ciarán is likely to still be intensifying as it hits the UK.\n\nIn this situation, the exact track and timing can change and therefore the location of the most damaging winds could shift slightly.\n\nIt would therefore be worth staying across the forecast and warnings on our BBC Weather website or social channels.\n\nHow are you affected by Storm Ciarán? Share your pictures and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Swiss cows are now fitted with electronic chips so bells are no longer quite as important as they once were\n\nThe gentle tinkling of cowbells is a sound almost everyone associates with Switzerland.\n\nIt conjures up images of peaceful pastures, with majestic snow-capped mountains in the distance.\n\nBut what if those bells are right outside your bedroom window day and night, and rather than tinkle gently, clang loudly around the necks of 20 or 30 cows?\n\nThat is the dilemma many Swiss communities are facing.\n\nAarwangen, population 4,700, is a charming village sitting on the banks of the beautiful river Aare, the Bernese Alps in the distance.\n\nIt has a medieval castle and an attractive centre with a church and traditional farmhouses.\n\nBut the village is also strategically placed to serve Switzerland's highly successful economy.\n\nIt is just an hour from Bern, Zurich, and Basel and is a lovely place to live for city workers who want some peace after the day job. Now, a growing number of new houses and apartments extend out from the village's original centre.\n\nBut if you want complete quiet, Aarwangen, or anywhere in rural Switzerland, may not be for you. Those traditional farmhouses are still functioning, the green fields around the village are home not just to new houses, but to dairy cows, complete with bells around their necks.\n\nFor some of Aarwangen's new residents, the din proved too much. At least two families complained formally to the village council, asking for the bells to be removed at night.\n\nHowls of protest ensued. Long-term residents, and the village's remaining farmers - just five or six according to village mayor Niklaus Lundsgaard-Hansen - were outraged at what they felt was an attack on their traditional culture.\n\nThe farmer who owned the herd in question viewed it as a \"personal insult to him and his cows\", said the mayor.\n\nThe noise of the cowbells has proved too much for some of Aarwangen's new residents\n\nBefore long, in good Swiss tradition, a petition had been organised, gathering signatures for a vote to keep the bells because, it reads, \"we, the Swiss [want to] preserve and maintain our lived traditions in the future\".\n\nAndreas Baumann believes firmly that the bells are an essential part of the Swiss soul. He points to Zurich airport's international terminal, where new arrivals are whisked to baggage pick-up through walkways with alpine scenes and the sound of cowbells.\n\n\"As soon as I hear them, I know I'm back home,\" he said. Anyone disturbed by the bells had \"too romantic a notion of rural life\", he argued, and should really live somewhere else.\n\nOver 1,000 signatures were gathered for the petition in just a few days. They were handed over to the village authorities at a formal ceremony, accompanied by traditional sausages donated by the farmers.\n\nCowbells were once very useful in Swiss rural life. With their herds, especially in summer, grazing high in the Alps and often on steep slopes, the bells were vital to keep track of them. Older farmers will still tell you they can hear each individual cow by the sound of its own bell.\n\nBut nowadays cows have electronic chips, and spend most of their time in fenced-off pastures. The row in Aarwangen is not the first over whether bells are really necessary.\n\nSome Swiss farmers have already removed cowbells at night, so as not to disturb their neighbours' sleep. Others have given up on them altogether. Animal rights activists have questioned whether the cows are harmed by having to wear a heavy noisy bell.\n\nBut in a country of high immigration, where 25% of the population is not Swiss, there will always be those who see any change to tradition as an attack on their culture and their identity.\n\nThat is really what Aarwangen's cowbell row is about. In last month's parliamentary elections the right-wing Swiss People's Party campaigned on the slogan \"so that Switzerland stays Switzerland\", and was rewarded with sizeable gains.\n\nNext month, Aarwangen's population will gather for a public meeting to vote on the future of their bells. In the meantime, perhaps shocked by the level of feeling, one of those who objected to the noise has withdrawn their complaint. The other has moved away.", "Jamie Arnold was captured on CCTV making the gestures and was seen by several witnesses, prosecutors said\n\nA football fan has been convicted of racially abusing former England footballer Rio Ferdinand.\n\nJamie Arnold made racist gestures to the ex-defender at Wolves' Molineux stadium during a game against Man United, in May 2021.\n\nArnold, 33 and from Stone, Staffordshire, was ejected before being arrested, West Midlands Police said. He is due to be sentenced on 8 December.\n\nThe force thanked Mr Ferdinand for his assistance in the investigation.\n\nArnold, of The Glebe in Norton Bridge, had denied a charge of racially aggravated public order, but was convicted by a unanimous decision at Wolverhampton Crown Court.\n\nIn a post on social media after the verdict, Mr Ferdinand said Arnold now had to face the consequences of his actions.\n\n\"Racism will only be eradicated when we all work together,\" he said.\n\nJamie Arnold racially abused Rio Ferdinand when Man United played against Wolves in May 2021\n\nMr Ferdinand also thanked witnesses, Wolves fans and staff who testified in court and for support from the force's hate crime officer, PC Stuart Ward.\n\nThe sports broadcaster was targeted by Arnold during the first match to be held with fans inside Molineux following the first Covid lockdown.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said he was captured on CCTV making racist gestures that several witnesses saw from the stands.\n\nMr Ferdinand previously told the trial that he did not see the gestures made by Arnold, but had noted one fan's \"more aggressive body language\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPC Stuart Ward said: \"Abusing anyone for the colour of their skin is disgusting and can never, ever be condoned.\n\n\"Arnold is old enough to know such appalling behaviour is inexcusable and certainly won't be tolerated.\"\n\nHe thanked Mr Ferdinand for assisting the investigation.\n\n\"Through his support we've ensured a man has this conviction to his name,\" PC Ward said.\n\nArnold was previously banned from games for three years after being found guilty of hurling homophobic abuse and making gestures that mimicked disability during the same game, police said.\n\nHe was also ordered to pay almost £900 in fines and court costs.\n\nA spokesman for Kick It Out, an organisation which challenges discrimination within football, said it welcomed the verdict.\n\n\"It is imperative that perpetrators of discriminatory abuse are held to account for their actions and we hope this result sends a strong statement that racism has no place in our society.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Glastonbury Festival ticket sale has been delayed by two weeks \"out of fairness\" to customers who did not realise their registration had expired.\n\nSome older profiles were deleted last month - and several fans claimed they had not been made aware of the issue.\n\nCustomers must register their identities in advance to buy tickets as part of a system to prevent touting.\n\nThe festival's announcement came four hours before tickets with coach travel were due to go on sale.\n\nThese tickets will now be released 16 November at 18:00 GMT, and general admission tickets will go on sale on 19 November at 09:00.\n\nRegistration will reopen on Monday 6 November at 12:00 and close the following Monday at 17:00.\n\nCustomers were alerted by email that registrations created before 2020 would be deleted on 2 October, with the chance to re-register before the 30 October deadline.\n\nOrganisers said some people had only discovered they were no longer registered after this deadline, and that sales were being delayed \"out of fairness to those individuals\".\n\nTickets for 2024 cost £355 (plus a £5 booking fee), up from £335 for this year's event.\n\nThe 2023 festival saw a bigger price hike of £55, which organiser Emily Eavis said was the result of \"incredibly challenging times\" following the pandemic, and \"enormous rises\" in costs.\n\nNext year will be the third time the festival has taken place after the pandemic, during which the 2020 and 2021 events were postponed.\n\nThe world-famous music event will take place at Worthy Farm in Somerset from 26-30 June 2024, with the line-up not yet confirmed.\n\nLast week, Eavis told the BBC's Sidetracked podcast that she had recently been offered a \"really big American artist\" for one of the headline slots.\n\n\"I was like, 'Oh my God, this is incredible',\" she said. \"Thank God we held the slot.'\"\n\nLast year, Elton John headlined the festival as the final show on his farewell tour. Other acts to perform on the Pyramid Stage included headliners Arctic Monkeys and Guns N' Roses, as well as Lizzo.", "We started the day with 25 minutes of arguing about the judge’s clerk before Eric Trump even took the stand.\n\nAnd we ended the day with Trump’s legal team once again feuding with Judge Engoron about his clerk.\n\nIt was the clear theme of the day and overshadowed Eric Trump’s own testimony.\n\nWe asked legal analysts what the motive might be for this, which you can read in this post from earlier.\n\nOverall, the mood in the courtroom seemed tense.\n\nAnd former President Donald Trump hasn’t even taken the stand yet. That happens on Monday.\n\nOur team today has been Chloe Kim and Madeline Halpert in court, and Kayla Epstein and myself reporting from New York.\n\nIf you want some more analysis on the trial and a summary of what's happened so far, you can read click here.", "The introduction of London's first clean air zone 15 years ago has significantly improved air quality, according to new analysis.\n\nUniversity of Bath academics have examined the launch of the 2008 low emission zone (Lez) for lorries and the 2019 ultra low emission zone (Ulez).\n\nThey found the schemes have had health and economic benefits for the city.\n\nHowever, they said solutions were needed to reduce the burden on poorer motorists.\n\nThe researchers said the introduction of the Lez helped to reduce particulate matter (PM10) in Greater London by 13% between 2008 and 2013, compared to between 2003 and 2007.\n\nNitrogen dioxide levels had also fallen by 18.4% in 2019 following the launch of Ulez in central London, compared to the period between 2016 and 2018, according to the analysis.\n\nMayor Sadiq Khan has previously stated that Ulez has resulted in a 21% reduction in nitrogen dioxide concentrations in inner London and a 46% reduction in central London.\n\nNitrogen dioxide were brought down by Ulez in central London, the report found\n\nCleaner air in London brought about by the low emission zone contributed to a 4.5% reduction in long-term health problems and an 8% decrease in respiratory issues like asthma and bronchitis, the report said.\n\nResearchers concluded the clean air zones had helped to generate cost savings of more than £963m in Greater London.\n\nThey said the analysis suggested the low emission zone avoided 12 respiratory hospital admissions and 2.88 acute respiratory hospital admissions per 10,000 people in Greater London, compared to other areas in England.\n\nLead author Dr Habtamu Beshir, from the University of Bath, said: \"With this analysis, our goal was to offer an objective overview of the impact of low emission zones in the capital and beyond.\n\n\"Our study compares London to cities like Manchester, demonstrating the effectiveness of Lez and Ulez in improving air quality, enhancing health and alleviating the economic burden of ill health.\"\n\nProfessor Eleonora Fichera acknowledged concerns with compliance costs for owners of older vehicles, particularly affecting poorer communities.\n\n\"Our analysis confirms the effectiveness of low emission zones in improving air quality and health - crucial for residents in large cities,\" she said.\n\n\"It shouldn't be a choice between health and affording schemes like Ulez.\n\n\"We must explore innovative policy solutions to make these schemes viable and effective,\" she added.\n\nEarlier this week, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the controversial expansion of the ultra low emission zone had led to \"cleaner air across London\".\n\nA Transport for London report showed the proportion of vehicles in the expanded area which comply with minimum emissions standards had risen from 85% in May 2022 to 95% in September.\n\nMr Khan extended the Ulez zone from everywhere within the North and South Circular roads to cover all London boroughs from 29 August .\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Most of the population of Avdiivka has been evacuated but more than 1,500 civilians remain\n\nRussia bombarded 118 Ukrainian towns and villages in 24 hours, more than on any other day this year, says Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko.\n\nHe said 10 of Ukraine's 27 regions had come under attack and the onslaught had caused deaths and injuries.\n\nMany of the communities hit were near the front lines in the east and south.\n\nRussia has for weeks trained much of its military firepower on Avdiivka, a strategically significant town in the eastern region of Donetsk.\n\n\"[Avdiivka] is being erased, shattered. There have been more than 40 massive shelling attacks against the territorial community in the past day,\" said local leader Vitaliy Barabash.\n\nHe said two civilians had been killed and warned that Russia was building up to a third wave in its offensive. Ukraine says Russia has been pouring reinforcements into the area in a bid to encircle and capture the town.\n\nTwenty attacks in the Avdiivka area alone were repelled on Tuesday, Ukraine's armed forces general staff said.\n\nRussia has also ramped up attacks on the town of Kupyansk in the north-eastern Kharkiv region and sought to stop Ukrainian forces from recapturing territory around Bakhmut.\n\nThere were also attacks away from the front lines, on a block of flats, shops and a pharmacy in the southern city of Nikopol on the bank of the Dnipro river, and in Kremenchuk, where a disused oil refinery was set on fire by a Russian drone.\n\nThe refinery, in the central region of Poltava, has been targeted several times by Russia and officials said it had come under attack throughout the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nThe Kremenchuk refinery was the biggest in Ukraine until Russian attacks put it out of action a few weeks into the full-scale invasion.\n\nUkraine's counter-offensive has so far made little headway in recapturing land occupied by Russian forces in the south and east, prompting fears of Western fatigue with the war.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted the slow progress, repeatedly urging Kyiv's allies to urgently provide more advanced weapon, and also stay united.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ukraine's chief military commander Zaluzhny warned that the war was now moving to a \"positional\" or static stage.\n\nIn a column for the Economist, he said this would benefit Moscow by \"allowing it to rebuild its military power\".\n\nDespite heavy losses, Russia still had \"superiority in weapons, equipment, missiles and ammunition\", Mr Zaluzhny warned, calling on Ukraine's allies to deliver warplanes and drones, as well as modern electronic warfare and mine-breaching technology, among other things.\n\nOne of the Ukrainian leader's closest allies, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, addressed the issue of fatigue during a hoax call from two Russian pranksters, widely known for targeting Kremlin opponents.\n\n\"I see there is a lot of fatigue, if I have to say the truth, from all the sides,\" she is heard to tell the pair, Vovan and Lexus. \"We're near the moment in which everybody understands that we need a way out.\"\n\n\"The counter-offensive of Ukraine is maybe not going as they were expecting. It is going, but it didn't change, I mean, the destiny of the conflict.\"\n\nUS President Joe Biden's administration has asked Congress to approve a $106bn package for both Ukraine and Israel. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned this week: \"I can guarantee that without our support [Russia's Vladimir] Putin will be successful.\"\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky told Ukrainians in an overnight address on Tuesday that \"we live in a world that gets used to success too quickly\".\n\nHe reserved particular praise for the military's success in reducing Russia's control over the Black Sea: \"The more protection we have along our coastline and in our sea, the more protection there is in the world.\"\n\nRecent Ukrainian attacks have hit the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet prompting most of its ships to leave occupied Crimea.\n\nKyiv has tried to create an export corridor safe for civilian vessels to carry grain along Ukraine's Black Sea coast, via Romanian waters and on to the Turkish coast.\n\nAlthough at least 700,000 metric tonnes of grain have evaded Russian bombardment in recent months, Ukrainian officials said war planes had dropped \"explosive objects\" on the expected paths of civilian ships. \"However, the functioning of the navigational corridor continues under the aegis of the defence forces,\" said Ukraine's southern operational command.\n\nRussian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday that Ukraine was losing the war despite supplies of new weapons from Nato.\n\nHe said that Ukraine was taking heavy losses as it tried to push into Russian-held areas of Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Donetsk and \"demoralisation of personnel is growing\". He also claimed Russian units were advancing.\n\nMr Shoigu provided no evidence to back his claims.", "Sainsbury's has said customers are starting to switch back from discounters Aldi and Lidl.\n\nThe UK's second biggest supermarket chain has been trying to regain ground after shoppers turned to cheaper rivals as the cost of living has soared.\n\nIt said customers who used to shop only at the discounters were now buying items in Sainsbury's too.\n\nGrocery sales at Sainsbury's were up 10% in the six months to 16 September, compared with a year earlier.\n\nSainsbury's said the sales hike was driven not just by price rises, but by the fact that shoppers were also buying more items.\n\nHowever, the supermarket's profit before tax dropped by 27% to £275m.\n\nClothing sales, in particular, were hit by a cooler summer and warm early autumn, reducing demand for seasonal items, the company said.\n\nHousehold budgets have been hit hard by inflation, the rate at which prices rises.\n\nAs cost of living pressures squeeze shoppers, they have been turning to Aldi and Lidl as they hunt for bargains.\n\nBoth supermarket chains have been opening stores as they battle for shoppers with the more established players in the UK: Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons.\n\nSainsbury's said it had not gained more of an overall share of the market, but it did claim that it was the only big supermarket to be winning back customers and gaining spend from Aldi and Lidl.\n\nIts chief executive Simon Roberts said: \"We know people are still finding things tough and we're working harder than ever to reduce our costs, putting the money back into our customers' pockets through lower prices on the products they buy most often.\"\n\nHe added: \"Food inflation is coming down and we are passing savings on to customers.\"\n\nSainsbury's has been running an \"Aldi price match\" campaign as part of its battle.\n\nHowever, Aldi said: \"Shoppers know that the only place to get Aldi prices is at Aldi.\n\n\"That's why we've been confirmed as the UK's cheapest supermarket for 16 consecutive months, growing our market share and attracting around one million new customers.\"\n\nLidl said it did not comment on competitor activity.\n\nEarlier this year, supermarkets were investigated by the Competition and Markets Authority after concerns that customers were overpaying for food and fuel.\n\nThe watchdog found that higher food costs had not been passed on in full to consumers and that people were shopping around to get the best deals.\n\nBut it said that customers had been overpaying for fuel.\n\nMr Roberts said on Thursday that the group's food price inflation was running at half the level reported by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), with price cuts in some areas such as fresh food.\n\nThe ONS said in October that food price inflation remained high at 12.2% on an annual basis, but had been easing.", "Donald Trump Jr has denied any wrongdoing or involvement in the Trump Organization's financial statements\n\nDonald Trump's two eldest sons took the stand in a New York court, testifying in a civil fraud trial that threatens to engulf the family's property empire.\n\nProsecutors say Eric and Donald Trump Jr played key roles in the Trump Organization's efforts to exaggerate its wealth and falsify records.\n\nIn court, the brothers denied wrongdoing and sought to shift the blame onto the company's accountants.\n\nTheir sister Ivanka is also expected to testify later in November.\n\nThe judge in the case, Arthur Engoron, has already ruled that the Trump Organization committed massive fraud.\n\nThe trial will ultimately determine what civil penalty should be imposed. New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking a fine of $250m (£204m) and a ban on the former president and his adult sons doing business in the state.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why Trump’s kids are taking the stand... in 90 seconds\n\nIn his testimony on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, Mr Trump Jr frequently denied having worked on the financial statements at the centre of the case or having knowledge of how the statements and other important business documents were prepared.\n\nThe graduate of The Wharton School, an Ivy League business college, is executive vice-president at the Trump Organization, along with Eric.\n\nHe frequently stated that the documents were the responsibility of the company's accountants, the Mazars firm, and other employees.\n\n\"They have as much, if not more, information and details than I ever would have had,\" he said.\n\nAsked whether he ever took any steps to ensure the documents he was signing off on were accurate, Mr Trump Jr replied: \"I can't recall\".\n\nAt one point, Judge Arthur Engoron attempted to cut to the heart of the matter, asking Mr Trump Jr directly whether he had anything to do with the documents.\n\n\"No I did not, your honour,\" he said.\n\nWhile his older brother projected confidence and made jokes in court, Eric was far more subdued and had several tense interactions with prosecutors during questioning.\n\nThe 39-year-old often refused to provide \"yes\" or \"no\" answers to prosecutors' questions, to their great frustration.\n\nEric Trump testified after his brother Donald Trump Jr., and also sought to distance himself from the Trump organization's financial statements.\n\nLike his brother, Eric attempted to distance himself from financial documents pertaining to his father and the wider Trump Organization, particularly statements of financial condition.\n\nAndrew Amer, a senior lawyer with the New York attorney general's office, grilled him for several hours, displaying emails in which the Trump son appeared to contradict statements that he did not have \"anything\" to do with his father's financial statements.\n\nIn the emails, Eric Trump agreed to assist Trump Organization controller Jeff McConney with information about a property in Westchester, New York, for a financial statement.\n\nStill, Eric Trump said he was not directly involved in preparing the document and did not pay particular attention to how the information was used.\n\n\"I didn't work on the statement of financial condition,\" he said. \"I've been very, very clear about that.\"\n\nTensions flared toward the end of the day over another matter: Judge Engoron's law clerk.\n\nThe judge threatened to expand a gag order he had imposed on former President Donald Trump over a social media post about the clerk to include the family's attorneys.\n\nTrump attorney Christopher Kise had made a reference to the female law clerk during an objection.\n\nJudge Engoron, who has been protective of staff members involved in the high-profile case, ventured the reference \"might be misogyny\".\n\nThe admonishment and threat of expanded gag order did not sit well with the Trumps' lawyers, including Mr Kise, who said he felt the New York judge was biased against him.\n\n\"I do often feel like…I'm fighting two adversaries,\" Mr Kise said. \"I'm not a misogynist. I'm very happily married and I have a 17-year-old daughter.\"\n\nThe Trumps' female attorney, Alina Habba, told the judge she did not believe Mr Kise to be misogynistic and said prosecutors needed to \"move on\" from their line of questioning.\n\n\"We've been here all day and have gotten, frankly, not very far,\" she said.\n\nFormer President Trump is expected to testify in the case early next week. He has previously appeared in court to watch the testimony of his former attorney, Michael Cohen.\n\nHe, like his sons, has denied any wrongdoing and earlier this week called Judge Engoron \"a disgrace to the legal profession\".\n\nHis daughter, Ivanka Trump - who is no longer listed as a co-defendant in the case - is expected to testify on 8 November.\n\nOn Wednesday, however, she appealed against the order to testify. Her attorney has argued that she has not lived or worked in New York since 2017.", "Dangerous conditions are expected around English Channel coasts as Storm Ciarán moves in.\n\nAmber severe weather warnings for wind have been issued by the Met Office ahead of Storm Ciarán moving in on Wednesday night.\n\nDamaging gusts of wind and stormy seas are expected in southern parts of the United Kingdom.\n\nHeavy rain will also spread northwards which may lead on to further flooding issues.\n\nTravel disruption is likely in some areas so the advice is to stay tuned to updates.\n\nStorm Ciarán (pronounced Keer-on) is rapidly developing on its approach to the UK later on Wednesday. In a process called explosive cyclogenesis, the low pressure system will deepen by over 24 millibars in 24 hours.\n\nWinds will strengthen from late Wednesday and through Thursday as Storm Ciarán approaches from the south-west.\n\nThe most powerful winds are expected in the English Channel hitting the Channel Islands and north-west France where wind gusts of up to 100mph (161km/h) are predicted.\n\nThe Jersey Met Service has issued a red warning from Wednesday evening and throughout Thursday. It warns of storm force winds, exceptional gusts, rainfall and coastal flooding.\n\nPreparations are already under way in the Channel Islands with the Jersey government saying people should work from home where possible to \"reduce the risk\" to those providing essential services.\n\nIn north-west France, red warnings have been issued by Météo-France with Brittany expected to be badly hit. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has appealed for people \"not to go out during the night from Wednesday into Thursday\" across the entire country.\n\nThe Met Office amber warnings for Thursday cover the south coast of England.\n\nIn southern England, there are two amber severe weather warnings from the Met Office.\n\nThe first covers south-west England and south-west Wales from 03:00 GMT Thursday until 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nGusts of 70-80mph (112-130km/h) are expected around coastal areas, perhaps even 85mph (137km/h) in the most exposed locations.\n\nStrong winds will then transfer east along the south coast into south-east England where the second amber warning is valid from 06:00 to 17:00 on Thursday.\n\nThese wind strengths have the potential to bring damage to trees and power lines with transport disruption likely. Cross channel ferries could be especially disrupted.\n\nVery large waves could bring additional impacts to coastal areas of the English Channel.\n\nInland gusts across southern parts of the UK could be as high as 50-60mph (80-97km/h) which again can bring some disruption and damage.\n\nThe Met Office points out that the extent of these high winds remains a little uncertain and is dependent on the exact track of Storm Ciarán.\n\nRain associated with Storm Ciarán will move north-east from Wednesday evening and throughout Thursday.\n\nPersistent and heavy rain will be followed by heavy showers and thunderstorms.\n\nThere are severe weather warnings in force for southern England, parts of Wales, north-east England and Northern Ireland suggesting widely 20-40mm (1-2in) of rainfall with 40-60mm (2-3in) possible over high ground.\n\nWhile rainfall totals expected with Storm Ciarán are not necessarily high or unusual with autumn storms, problems are likely as it comes after a very wet period for many.\n\nRiver levels remain high with ground already very saturated. There are also still around 70 flood warnings in force across the UK.\n\nFlooding is likely in the coming days from further bouts of heavy rain\n\nBecause the exact track Storm Ciarán is likely to take is still a little uncertain, there may be further updates as it approaches.\n\nThe track will influence the timing and strength of the most damaging winds so that may still change slightly.\n\nIt would therefore be worth staying across the forecast and warnings on our BBC Weather website or social channels.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "\"If I was not on the farm that morning, I would be one of the missing,\" Ezekiel Kitiku told the BBC from southern Israel.\n\nTwo of his fellow Tanzanians - Joshua Loitu Mollel and Clemence Felix Mtenga - were among more than 230 people taken as hostages to the Gaza Strip, which is under the control of Hamas, proscribed as a terrorist group in the UK and some other countries.\n\nThe three students had landed in Israel in September, excited to start their work as agricultural interns for the next 11 months.\n\nSince their arrival, Ezekiel Kitiku and Mr Mtenga had been living on Kibbutz Nir Oz and working at a dairy farm in the afternoons. Their friend Mr Mollel was staying and working about 30km (18 miles) away at Kibbutz Nahal Oz. Both kibbutzes have a population of several hundred people and are very near Gaza.\n\n\"That week the new timetable was prepared and my name was mentioned to work on the nightshifts, but Clemence remained on afternoon shifts,\" Mr Kitiku told the BBC. Mr Mollel was on day shifts at a different farm.\n\nAt around 01:00 on 7 October, Mr Kitiku says he set off in the dark on his bike and rode five minutes to the farm to start his shift.\n\nHe spent the early hours of that morning milking cows and carrying out veterinary duties. By 06:00, as the sun started to rise, he was tending to cattle inside a shed.\n\nThirty minutes later he heard a huge explosion. This was when Hamas began to fire rockets from Gaza.\n\n\"When I heard the noise, I remembered that we had been told that if we hear the sound of shooting or bombs we should go to the shelter, so that's what I did.\n\n\"I was so scared. It was my first time to hear a noise like this.\"\n\nAs he headed to the shelter, he noticed thick smoke and orange flames billowing from near his kibbutz, so he immediately contacted both of his friends.\n\nEzekiel Kitiku took this photo of smoke rising near Kibbutz Nir Oz on the morning of the Hamas attack\n\n\"They told me that there were so many rockets coming from Gaza - and that they were going to the shelters too.\"\n\nUnknown to him, however, Hamas gunmen had already begun raiding the two kibbutzes where his friends were.\n\nA couple of hours later, he noticed that his WhatsApp and text messages were no longer being delivered to their phones.\n\n\"I thought maybe their phones were out of charge. The last message I sent to them was - 'Are you safe?'\"\n\nNeither replied. This was at around 10:00. He has not heard from them since.\n\nAs rockets hammered down throughout the day, Mr Kitiku was forced to remain at the farm, trying to sleep inside the shelter.\n\nThe following morning when things seemed a little calmer and desperate to find out what had happened to his friends, he begged his manager to take him back to his kibbutz. There he could see that troops from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had been deployed.\n\n\"At the gate of the kibbutz there were so many IDF soldiers. They refused me entry and told me I would have to go back to stay at the farm because it was safer.\"\n\nHe remained in the shelter at the farm with two others for another two days - with barely any food - and another night on his own.\n\nIn the end the IDF said he would not be able to return to his kibbutz and soldiers escorted him to another location around 30km north of Gaza.\n\nAs he left the farm, he was shocked by what he saw outside the gates.\n\n\"The water systems had been bombed, and water was flowing everywhere. I saw dead bodies on the street.\n\n\"The fear of what had happened to my friends started to grow.\"\n\nThe three men had met in Tanzania's economic hub of Dar es Salaam through their agriculture studies a few months before they travelled to Israel.\n\nIt was not until three weeks after the Hamas attack that Mr Kitiku finally found out what had happened to his friends.\n\nThe Israeli foreign affairs ministry announced in a statement on Sunday that they were being held hostage in Gaza.\n\nThe capture of Joshua Loitu Mollel (l) and Clemence Felix Mtenga (r) was confirmed on Sunday\n\nHe says he is grateful to learn that they are both alive, but remains concerned about their conditions. He also knows other students on their programme who have been taken hostage, including one from Thailand.\n\nIn addition to those they took hostage, Hamas gunmen killed about 1,400 people on 7 October, many of whom were living on kibbutzes.\n\nSince then, Israel has carried out air strikes on the Gaza Strip. The Hamas-run health ministry says some 9,000 people have been killed.\n\nMr Kitiku says he is extremely worried about the safety of his friends being held in the Gaza Strip.\n\n\"There is so much bombing and people have few social services. I try to put myself in their shoes, but I cannot imagine what they are going through.\"\n\nHe says the realisation of how close he came to being caught up in the attack lies heavy on his mind.\n\n\"The first few days, psychologically I was not stable. I am trying to force myself to cope with the situation.\n\n\"If I was not on the farm that morning, I would be one of the missing.\"\n\nHe is now working at a different farm.\n\n\"The authorities in Israel told us we are safe and we can continue our internship here,\" he says.\n\nHe and other Tanzanian students - there are an estimated 260 in Israel - have been offered assistance by their embassy to return home should they wish to, he says.\n\n\"But how can I think about going home when I don't know the situation and the condition of my two friends in Gaza?\"", "Devon and Cornwall Police said nobody was in the vehicle when it washed off the promenade\n\nLives could be put at risk in the UK and parts of the British Isles as Storm Ciarán hits, forecasters have warned.\n\nPowerful winds and rain are already lashing southern England and gusts of up to 95mph (152km/h) are expected to hit the Channel Islands.\n\nThe Met Office has warned of travel disruption and damage to buildings, prompting the declaration of a major incident in Hampshire.\n\nThere are also 33 flood warnings in place across England.\n\nA red wind warning, the highest level, has been issued by Jersey Met for Wednesday night into Thursday.\n\nStorm-force gusts, heavy rainfall and coastal flooding are expected in the Channel Islands, where conditions could be some of the worst seen in decades and flood defence measures have been put in place.\n\nYellow and amber warnings for wind and rain - indicating potential risks to life and property - have been issued by the Met Office for parts of England and Scotland.\n\nAn amber warning of wind has been issued for South West England from 03:00 GMT to 11:00 on Thursday, and for the East of England and the South East from 06:00 to 17:00 on Thursday.\n\nHeavy rain was pushing into parts of Cornwall and Devon on Wednesday evening. The Met Office said there was some uncertainty around the path of the storm, but the \"greatest impacts (are) likely along the south coast\".\n\nThe Met Office says the UK has provisionally recorded the joint-sixth wettest October on record, after the heavy rain brought by Storm Babet. Eastern Scotland had its wettest October since records began in 1836, with 82% more rain than its average.\n\nA DFDS ferry leaves the Port of Dover in Kent\n\nGusts are likely to reach 70-80mph (113-129 km/h) in some coastal areas in southern England, and in a few coastal spots may exceed 85mph (123 km/h). And20-30mm of rain is expected in southern and western areas.\n\nAn amber warning of wind has been issued for South West England from 03:00 to 11:00 on Thursday, and for the East of England and the South East from 06:00 to 17:00 on Thursday.\n\nThe power of the storm is created by a phenomenon known as explosive cyclogenesis - sometimes dubbed a \"bomb cyclone\" - where an area of low pressure rapidly deepens and strengthens, causing the weather system to violently rotate.\n\nThe amber warnings for wind could cause structural damage, the Met Office warned.\n\nIt said gusts could blow off roofs, bring down powerlines and disrupt transport routes.\n\nFlying debris could be a danger to life, it said, and there is the potential for large waves and beach material being thrown onto coastal roads.\n\nSome businesses and residents in Guernsey have been putting out sandbags in preparation\n\nThere are also yellow warnings for rain for eastern England, London, the South East, South West, North West, West Midlands and Wales from 18:00 on Wednesday.\n\nAnd yellow warnings for wind are in place for the East of England, London, South East, South West and Wales from 21:00 on Wednesday to 23:59 on Thursday.\n\nIn Scotland, a yellow warning for rain has been issued for the south west and Lothian Borders from 06:00 Thursday to 06:00 Friday. An earlier warning for rain in Northern Ireland has been cancelled but the region has already seen some flooding.\n\nShelves have been left empty at supermarkets across Jersey, including Waitrose in St Brelade\n\nEast Devon District Council said a temporary barrier of sand and a fabric membrane were being put in place to reduce the impact of waves from the storm.\n\nWith trees still in full leaf and the ground already saturated, Devon County Council said there was a high chance that there would be a lot of debris on the roads and a risk of highway flooding.\n\nIt said it would have additional staff monitoring the highways, as well as tree surgeons and gully jetters on standby to keep drains and gullies as clear as possible.\n\nFlood defences have been erected at Exeter Quay\n\nWork is being carried out on Exmouth's seawall to reduce the impact of waves until full repairs can be done\n\nStorm Ciarán follows localised weather-related incidents last weekend when large waves brought down coastal barriers in North Tyneside and homes were evacuated and shops were damaged when a village in County Durham was deluged by \"several feet of water\".\n\nIn West Sussex on Sunday, a caravan park in Bognor Regis was submerged, the town's Tesco supermarket car park was flooded, and the roof of a house was ripped off in heavy winds that residents described as like a \"tornado\".\n\nExperts say a warming atmosphere increases the chance of intense rainfall and storms.\n\nHowever, many factors contribute to extreme weather and it takes time for scientists to calculate how much impact climate change has had on particular events - if any.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nHow is Storm Ciarán affecting you? If it is safe to do so, get in touch.", "Victoria Coren Mitchell is the host of BBC Two show Only Connect\n\nThe TV presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell has announced the birth of her second child with comedian David Mitchell.\n\nCoren Mitchell, 51, who is best known for hosting BBC quiz show Only Connect, welcomed June Violet Mitchell last week.\n\nShe gave birth to her first daughter Barbara, with David, 49, in 2015.\n\nThe news comes after Coren Mitchell posted a picture of herself in a red cloak at Halloween.\n\nWriting on X on Wednesday, Coren Mitchell said: \"Many people are assuming my tweet yesterday was a Halloween costume.\n\nShe added: \"Not at all; last week I had a baby and nothing currently fits me except cloaks. Luckily, Only Connect is a pre-record. Happy All Saints Day!\"\n\nThe birth was also shared in The Times on Wednesday, with a statement that reads: \"On 26th October 2023 to Victoria and David, a daughter, June Violet sister to Barbara.\"\n\nDavid Mitchell and Victoria Coren Mitchell have two children together, Barbara and June.\n\nCoren Mitchell, who is also a professional poker player, married David Mitchell in 2012, two years after confirming their relationship.\n\nMitchell is best known for playing Mark in comedy sitcom Peep Show and for his work with co-collaborator Robert Webb.\n\nThe pair met at Jonathan Ross's Halloween party in 2007, with Mitchell saying in his autobiography Back Story that he was \"hopelessly in love\" despite Coren Mitchell being in a relationship with someone else at the time.\n\n\"I told no one about it. I didn't tell my closest friends or my parents of the enormous sadness that overshadowed my life,\" he wrote.\n\nCoren Mitchell has kept her pregnancy concealed from viewers and fans on social media, but hinted two weeks ago by saying she was \"taking a little sabbatical\" from her TV column for The Telegraph.\n\nShe also hosted an episode of Have I Got News For You on BBC One on 6 October.", "Vertiv has operated in Ireland since 2021 when it bought E&I Engineering\n\nA manufacturing company that makes equipment for data centres is creating about 200 jobs in Londonderry.\n\nVertiv is already a major employer in the north west with factories in County Donegal.\n\nThe group has operated in Ireland since 2021 when it bought E&I Engineering. E&I was founded by Derry-man Philip O'Doherty, who now has a senior role at Vertiv.\n\nHe said Derry was not the only location considered for the new investment.\n\nMr O'Doherty said the city came out on top due to \"crucial\" support from Invest NI.\n\nInvest NI will fund an Assured Skills Academy, which will assist in filing 72 of the roles by providing skills training in electrical and mechanical installation.\n\nThe academy guarantees at least a job interview for people who complete the training.\n\nData centres are full of computer servers which are central to the operations of online businesses\n\nVertiv bought E&I because the electrical switchgear and power distribution systems it makes were complementary to its existing data centres services business.\n\nData centres are effectively warehouses full of computer servers, which are central to the operations of online businesses.\n\nThey need a large and constant supply of electricity to operate and cool the servers.\n\nThe company is already a major employer in the north west with factories in Donegal\n\nThey have been a growth area as they provide the physical infrastructure needed for services like social media and video streaming.\n\nVertiv's president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Karsten Winther, said there was still strong market demand mainly driven by AI and continued digitalisation.\n\nHe added that the new investment would support the company's global growth plans.\n\nFoyle MP Colum Eastwood said the jobs announcement \"is hugely welcome\".\n\nThe SDLP leader added that it \"creates a range of opportunities for people in our city to obtain skilled and well-paid work in a growing company\".", "Prosecutors have accused former crypto boss Sam Bankman-Fried of deceit as his US fraud trial draws to a close, claiming he repeatedly lied to customers, the public and the jury.\n\nMr Bankman-Fried is facing charges of fraud and money laundering.\n\nProsecutors say he precipitated the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, by stealing billions of dollars from customers.\n\nHe denies the charges and has claimed he was acting in \"good faith\".\n\nMr Bankman-Fried's defence lawyer said that prosecutors had failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the entrepreneur had acted with criminal intent.\n\nBut prosecutor Nick Roos said that arguments that Mr Bankman-Fried was not aware of what was going on at his company were not \"remotely credible\".\n\n\"This was a pyramid of deceit built by the defendant on a foundation of lies and false promises,\" he told the jury that will decide his fate.\n\n\"He took the money, he knew it was wrong and he did it anyway because he thought he was smarter and better… He thought he could talk his way out of it,\" he added. \"That ends with you.\"\n\nProsecutors for the US government have argued that Mr Bankman-Fried directed special systems to be set up, such as a massive line of credit, that allowed his crypto hedge fund Alameda Research to take billions in FTX customer deposits.\n\nThey say he then spent the money to repay Alameda lenders, buy property, make investments and political donations.\n\nWhen FTX collapsed last year, $8bn (£6.6bn) in customer funds was missing, owed by Alameda.\n\n\"There is just one person who had the motive\" for such activity, Mr Roos said.\n\n\"This is not about complicated issues of crypto urgency, it's not about hedging, it's not about technical jargon,\" Mr Roos said. \"It's about deception, it's about stealing, it's about greed.\"\n\nHe challenged Mr Bankman-Fried's testimony, saying he had become a \"different person\" depending on whether he faced friendly questions from his own lawyers or cross-examination by the government.\n\nLawyers for the two sides summed up their cases for the jury on Wednesday, staying late to finish. Deliberations are expected to begin on Thursday.\n\nThe entrepreneur denies the charges and has claimed he was acting in \"good faith\".\n\nHe spent much of his lawyer's closing argument facing the jury, his hands resting below the desk, unlike the morning, when he could be seen passing notes to his team and typing on the internet-disabled laptop he received a special exception to have in the courtroom.\n\nHis lawyer, Mark Cohen, said the special features of Alameda's account that prosecutors focused on had been set up for \"valid business reasons, not to carry out some grand fraudulent scheme\".\n\n\"In the real world, things get messy,\" he said. \"Bad business judgments are not a crime.\"\n\nHe also said that prosecutors had sought to portray Mr Bankman-Fried as a \"villain\" and \"monster\".\n\nThe 31-year-old is a former billionaire and was arrested last year after the collapse of his firm, FTX.\n\nThe downfall left many customers unable to recover their funds.\n\nBefore the collapse of his companies, Mr Bankman-Fried was known for socialising with celebrities and appearing frequently in Washington DC and in the media with a head of wild curls to discuss the sector.\n\nMr Cohen said the government had introduced elements like Mr Bankman-Fried's messy hair and cargo shorts that were irrelevant to criminality.\n\nHe added: \"Every movie needs a villain... And let's face it, an awkward high school math nerd doesn't look particularly villainous.\n\n\"So what did they do? They wrote him into the movie as a villain.\"\n\nThe rapid growth of his firm and his deal-making last year, when a market downturn hit other firms, earned him the moniker the \"Crypto King\".\n\nDuring the trial that began early in October, the entrepreneur admitted he had made \"mistakes\" in managing his business empire, but said that he never committed fraud.\n\nHe depicted himself as overwhelmed by work and claimed he only became aware of the issues facing Alameda when it was too late.\n\nHe said the problems at the company arose because his instructions were ignored by employees, including his former girlfriend.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe eldest son of former President Donald Trump has said he did not work on the financial statements at the centre of a civil fraud trial that threatens the family's property empire.\n\nDonald Trump Jr, 45, appeared relaxed in the New York City court as he cracked jokes and denied wrongdoing.\n\nHis siblings, Ivanka and Eric Trump, are due to testify in the coming days.\n\nThe judge has already found the Trump Organization exaggerated its wealth and falsified business records.\n\nThe civil trial will determine what penalty should be imposed. New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, is seeking a fine of $250m (£204m) and a ban on the former president doing business in his home state.\n\nDonald Trump Jr is the first of the Trump children to give evidence in this case. Earlier this week, he appeared on the conservative Newsmax network to call the trial a \"sham\" in a \"kangaroo court\".\n\nHe and Eric Trump are co-defendants, alongside their father. The brothers are both executive vice-presidents at the Trump Organization.\n\nDressed in a blue suit and bright pink tie, Mr Trump Jr testified for a little over an hour. His testimony will resume on Thursday.\n\nThe outset of his evidence focused on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) - the standardised practices and guidelines that businesses use to ensure financial records are accurately maintained.\n\nMr Trump Jr said he was not familiar with GAAP, besides what he could recall from his time studying business at university.\n\nPressed by state attorney Colleen Faherty on his understanding of the subject, he drew chuckles in court as he responded: \"I have no understanding.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Trump lashes out at ex-attorney before court appearance\n\n\"I leave it to my accountants,\" Mr Trump Jr said.\n\nAt another point Mr Trump Jr told the judge he was sorry for speaking too quickly for the court stenographer to keep up.\n\n\"I apologise, Your Honour, I moved to Florida, but I kept the New York pace,\" he joked.\n\nHe told the court that he has done \"anything and everything\" during his time working for the family business. He is not an accountant, however.\n\nMr Trump Jr testified that his role in the company grew after his father, the Republican president, won the White House.\n\n\"We stopped reporting to my father on decisions in the business,\" he said.\n\nBoth Trump brothers became trustees of the company after his father took office in 2017, to avoid conflict-of-interest laws.\n\nWhen asked on Wednesday whether he had signed off his father's \"statement of financial condition\", Mr Trump Jr replied: \"Not that I can recall.\"\n\nThe afternoon in court proved mostly calm, aside from a few fiery exchanges between Mr Trump's lawyers and the New York attorney general's team near the end of questioning.\n\nProsecutors pressed Mr Trump Jr on whether he was involved in preparing financial statements for the company.\n\nHe said he had relied on others to \"put together a document of this nature\".\n\n\"The accountants worked on it. That's what we paid them for,\" he said.\n\nMr Trump Jr told the court the task belonged to longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg, who was also charged in this case and pleaded guilty last year to tax crimes.\n\n\"I had an obligation to listen to the people with intimate knowledge of those things,\" he said, adding that he \"relied\" on Weisselberg and his accounting team.\n\nNew York Judge Arthur Engoron, a Democrat, is presiding over the trial and has already found Mr Trump liable for inflating his assets to secure favourable loans.\n\nHours before his son took the stand, Mr Trump wrote on his Truth Social account: \"Leave my children alone, Engoron. You are a disgrace to the legal profession!\"\n\nThe judge last week fined the former president a total of $15,000 for twice breaching a gag order over comments he made about a court clerk.\n\nIvanka Trump was initially listed as a co-defendant in the case, before she was removed from the docket and compelled to testify as a witness.\n\nOn Wednesday, lawyers for Ms Trump appealed against the order to testify. She is expected to take the stand on 8 November.\n\nThe former president, who is the frontrunner to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024, is himself expected to testify on Monday.\n\nHe appeared in court last week to watch the testimony of his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who told the court one of his responsibilities at the Trump Organization was to \"reverse engineer\" assets to increase their value based on a number \"arbitrarily elected\" by Mr Trump.\n\nMr Trump is also facing four criminal prosecutions, including cases in Georgia and Washington DC in which he is accused of seeking to overturn his 2020 election defeat.", "Paul and Sonia live in Taunton with their six children and can’t believe how much their lives have changed since interest rates started to rise.\n\n“I have to decide, do I pay the credit card this month? Or do I pay the loan this month? Because if I do then I can’t pay the mortgage,” Paul tells me.\n\nA couple of years ago, they were paying around £700 a month on their mortgage. But their fixed rate ended as mortgage rates spiked, so they rolled onto a tracker.\n\n“We took the decision to ride it out,” explains Paul. “But the last rise took our mortgage to £2,003 per month which is almost debilitating”.\n\nSonia has taken on an extra job in a care home just to pay the mortgage increase. She wells up as she tells me it’s been tough for everyone, and Paul explains: “12-hour shifts including Saturdays and Sundays - it's a real change to our family life.”", "An investigation into a toxic culture in the RAF's Red Arrows display team has found predatory behaviour towards women was \"widespread and normalised\".\n\nExamples included unwanted physical contact, sexual texts, invitations to engage in sexual activity, and women being seen as \"property\".\n\nA \"bystander culture\" meant such behaviour went unchallenged, it found.\n\nChief of the air staff, Sir Richard Knighton, said he was appalled by the findings and \"unreservedly\" apologised.\n\nThe non-statutory inquiry was launched in 2021 after three women went to the then head of the RAF about complaints they had made which had not been addressed by their chain of command. The inquiry covers a period dating back to 2017.\n\nThe RAF admitted part of the problem may have been a view that members of the display team were \"special\".\n\nThe aerobatic display team performs striking routines on distinctive Hawk fast-jets and, by the beginning of 2023, had performed almost 5,000 displays in 57 countries.\n\nThe RAF said the \"high profile of the team, their regular exposure to VIPs, celebrities and an admiring public… promotes the view among some personnel that they are special and that normal rules and behaviours do not apply to them\".\n\nAir Chief Marshal Knighton offered his \"unreserved apologies\" to anyone who experienced unacceptable behaviour - and in particular the three women.\n\nHe admitted the reputation of the Red Arrows had been damaged as a result by a \"minority\", but said few of its leadership, air and ground crews from that time were still serving on the squadron.\n\nHe said there were no plans to disband the elite flying display team and that a change of culture, leadership and safeguards had been implemented to address the widespread and normalised \"unacceptable behaviours\" uncovered.\n\nThey included unwanted physical contact, unwanted text messages of a sexual nature, unwanted invitations to engage in sexual activity and \"male sexual entitlement\" towards women, who were \"being viewed as 'property' of either individuals or the squadron\".\n\nThere were two incidents of exposure of genitals, the RAF said.\n\nMany of the specific examples, along with all names, have been redacted.\n\nInvestigators were concerned the squadron was not a safe environment for women and that it was highly likely they would experience unlawful harassment because of their sex.\n\nThe RAF said many examples of sexual harassment were not challenged. The inquiry found there \"was a bystander culture... and an unwillingness to take action that could be viewed as unpopular\".\n\nIt noted a \"high propensity of extra marital relationships between serving personnel\" which may have contributed to a \"low opinion of female service personnel\".\n\nThe inquiry highlighted a drinking culture - with so called unacceptable behaviours by male members often fuelled by alcohol.\n\nAlcohol was seen as a mitigating factor but should have been treated as an aggravating factor, the RAF said.\n\nThe RAF said women had normalised the behaviour they experienced, and \"many said they had 'got used to it'\", with some modifying their own behaviour to reduce the risk of experiencing such actions.\n\nIt noted there was a sense of loyalty, with incidents dismissed because people did not want to ruin someone's career or disrupt the squadron.\n\nIt said: \"All of the females expressed their concern, without solicitation, that they were not showing moral courage by not speaking out and they could be enabling the situation to happen to other women, but they had to balance this against the reality that they felt likely to suffer a detriment on a day to day basis and they had worked hard to get where they were and they did not want to sacrifice their position.\"\n\nRobert Courts, chairman of the Defence Committee, said the inquiry findings showed there were \"serious cultural problems running deep within the unit\".\n\nHe said: \"It is particularly concerning that the investigators warn that the squadron was not a safe environment for females, concluding that it was 'highly likely' that women would be subject to illegal sexual harassment.\n\n\"No service personnel should be made to feel unsafe by their colleagues. These are the very people who should protect them.\"\n\nDeep-rooted problems still persist and must be urgently addressed, he said, adding the committee would be raising the issues in coming sessions.\n\nTwo pilots serving with the Red Arrows were dismissed from the team and the RAF following an initial investigation in 2022.\n\nFive other members of the team, which includes ground staff and totals 120 personnel, have faced \"administrative actions\".\n\nA separate military police investigation concluded that none of the allegations highlighted between 2017 and 2021 met the threshold for criminal charges.\n\nThe Red Arrows are based at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, having moved there in 2022 from RAF Scampton, also in Lincolnshire.", "An offshore firm helped create companies used by members of Vladimir Putin's inner circle, including one hiding the late mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin's yacht, the BBC can reveal.\n\nSeychelles-based Alpha Consulting also helped to form more than 900 UK partnerships which used a secrecy loophole to conceal their true owners.\n\nOne partnership was involved in running a sanctions-busting oil tanker, while others committed crimes.\n\nAlpha said it always followed the law.\n\nThe investigation by the BBC, Finance Uncovered and the Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation has analysed internal Alpha documents and thousands of company records to identify some of the people who secretly benefitted from the work of the offshore firm, based in the island nation in the Indian Ocean.\n\nAs well as catering to members of Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle, Alpha Consulting was a secrecy factory - one of the most prolific companies helping to exploit a gaping loophole in UK law. Some of the partnerships it helped create have been involved in alleged fraud and running an illegal essay mill. One has been accused of interfering in a foreign election.\n\nYevgeny Prigozhin, boss of the Wagner Group who died earlier this year, was one of those who benefitted from Alpha's services. His company Beratex Group Ltd was sanctioned by the United States in 2019, as a front company which concealed ownership of his private jet and yacht.\n\nLeaked documents - obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and examined as part of the 2021 Pandora Papers investigation - show Alpha helped set up Beratex in the Seychelles, and the hidden beneficial owner was recorded as the mercenary boss's elderly mother-in-law.\n\nAlpha said it was \"never involved in any business activity\" with Beratex.\n\nA private jet and a yacht belonging to Yevgeny Prigozhin were concealed behind a front company Alpha helped to set up\n\nLeonid Reiman, a close friend and associate of President Putin, was a client of Alpha. In 2006, while he was Russia's communications minister, Reiman was found by a Swiss tribunal to have been the secret owner of a company that received corrupt payments.\n\nDespite Mr Reiman's well-documented relationship with the Russian president, the documents show that Alpha provided a director for one of his companies who failed to declare Mr Reiman was a \"politically exposed person\" - someone whose position or relationships mean they may be more exposed to risks of corruption and who therefore requires a greater level of checks.\n\nAnti-money laundering expert Graham Barrow said this was \"not really an oversight\". Failing to make a declaration is \"a breach of the rules if you are knowingly doing business with somebody who is a politically exposed person,\" he said.\n\nAlpha said it had carried out all the required checks on Mr Reiman and did not find information which suggested he was a politically exposed person or involved in money-laundering. It said it does \"not act for clients or professional intermediaries who we find have been involved in wrongdoing\".\n\nThe investigation also reveals that Alpha, run by a Russian businesswoman named Victoria Valkovskaya, helped to create 927 limited partnerships - one in five of those registered in England, Wales and Northern Ireland since 2017.\n\nLimited partnerships, a type of firm usually created by two or more people to own and run a business together, can also be used to sidestep transparency regulations.\n\nAfter a law was introduced in 2016 requiring UK companies to declare who owns them or is really in control, there was a surge in the registration of limited partnerships, which were exempt. This requirement was extended to Scottish limited partnerships a year later after it was revealed that they were being increasingly used for money laundering and other crimes.\n\nBut last year, the BBC and Finance Uncovered revealed the increasing use of English limited partnerships and evidence linking a number of them to fraud, terrorism and money laundering.\n\nDespite this, the government has failed to extend laws requiring companies to identify the people really in control - known as \"persons of significant control\" - to all limited partnerships.\n\nKevin Hollinrake, a junior business minister, dismissed concerns about a loophole, telling the House of Commons \"limited partnerships cannot own property or assets in their own name\".\n\nBut our investigation shows that Alpha helped create limited partnerships which were used to acquire assets and hide the owners of them - including an oil tanker, the Delfi, which polluted the coast of Ukraine after it was wrecked in 2019.\n\nInvestigations by authorities obtained documents identifying the owner of the tanker as a Cardiff-based limited partnership called Mister Drake PC.\n\nLike many of the firms Alpha helped to set up, it appeared to be partly owned by a Seychelles resident who on paper looked like a prolific entrepreneur: Luther Denis, who is listed as general partner of 184 UK limited partnerships.\n\nAlpha helped create the limited partnership which owned the Delfi oil tanker, which leaked oil for months after it was wrecked\n\nBut internal documents show that partners like Mr Denis sign over all their powers to the secret \"beneficial owner\". Mr Denis is one of 12 nominee or sham partners provided and paid by Alpha, who often know nothing about what the firms that they help to create actually do.\n\nFollowing the wreck, a court imposed a fine on Mister Drake PC - but it has never been able to identify the real owner and the fine has never been paid.\n\nMichelle Wiese Bockmann, an analyst at Lloyd's List Intelligence, said: \"The beneficial owners, as they're known, are ultimately liable and responsible for any of the environmental costs or damages that the vessel causes.\"\n\nOur investigation found internal Alpha documents that record the beneficial owner of Mister Drake PC as Alla Kovtunova, the mother of a former local politician in Ukraine's now-banned pro-Russian Party of the Regions.\n\nAlpha said it was \"not aware of any of your claimed activities in relation to this company\".\n\nBaroness Kramer, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson in the House of Lords, said it was a shock the government had not used its economic crime bill to shut down every loophole. \"It certainly is aware of this one, and frankly, it can't even be called a loophole - it's so wide, you can drive an oil tanker through it,\" she said.\n\nThe investigation uncovered another eight partnerships linked to Alpha which at one time were registered as owning ships.\n\nIn September 2020, Luther Denis was named on paperwork of another partnership, Cilkon PC, which this time was involved in running an oil tanker called the Ostra.\n\nSeychelles resident Luther Denis was named on the paperwork for 184 UK limited partnerships\n\nUnder a different name, the Ostra had already breached sanctions against Syria in 2019. Mr Denis's partnership became involved in running the tanker after its registered owner, a Russian company called Rustanker, was sanctioned for attempting to evade the US ban on trading in Venezuelan oil.\n\nOur investigation analysed tracking data for the Ostra during the period after Mr Denis's partnership took over. It found the tracker was turned off for three weeks in September last year, allowing it to disappear off the coast of Venezuela - indicating it may have been breaching sanctions again.\n\nMs Bockmann said ships \"go dark\" to obscure where they are loading and unloading their cargo, \"in order to deceive, evade, and keep one step ahead of any regulatory authorities that are monitoring these vessels\".\n\nThe BBC wrote to Cilkon and Rustanker but received no response. We also wrote to Mr Denis but he declined to comment.\n\nThe Ostra oil tanker, pictured here under its former name the Nostras, turned off tracking near Venezuela\n\nThe BBC attempted to contact these partnerships and the people we were able to identify behind them but did not receive a response. Alpha said it was not aware of any of the activities of these partnerships.\n\nFinancial crime consultant Graham Barrow said that this use of nominees \"brings the whole process into disrepute\".\n\n\"It is making a mockery of this idea that the UK is open for business because frankly, we'll accept anyone's name on a piece of paper and away you go,\" he said.\n\nAlpha set up more than 280 partnerships registered at this Cardiff address - including Mister Drake PC\n\nAs well as exploiting this loophole, Alpha may have breached the law in relation to Scottish partnerships, which does require that the people who really control them are disclosed.\n\nIn March 2017, the firm involved, Biniatta Trade LP, paid a US lobbyist on behalf of Lulzim Basha, leader of the Democratic Party of Albania. The lobbyist arranged access to Republican politicians and a fundraiser, where Mr Basha was able to get a photo opportunity with then-President Donald Trump - later used in the Albanian election campaign.\n\nReports last year suggested US intelligence believed that Mr Basha's election campaign, whose slogan was Make Albania Great Again, had been secretly backed by Russia with $500,000.\n\nBiniatta's ownership was hidden through offshore secrecy and sham directors, but the leaked Alpha documents include an agreement from 2015, when the partnership was set up, which named the beneficial owner as a Russian national called Maxim Trofimets.\n\nIn summer 2017, when the law for Scottish partnerships changed, Mr Trofimets was not declared as the \"person of significant control\" of Biniatta, and an Alpha nominee falsely declared that the firm had provided all the information it had to.\n\nThe next day, the same Alpha nominee secretly signed a new power of attorney agreement, renewing Mr Trofimets' control over Biniatta.\n\nAfter media reports of a possible Russia connection in 2018, Alpha's owner Victoria Valkovskaya set out in an email how Biniatta could conceal its ownership.\n\nThe ownership of Biniatta could be structured using a Seychelles foundation with five nominee councillors \"so as to not declare a controlling person\".\n\nThis would give the appearance that no one person had control over 25% of the company, the threshold under UK law for the requirement to name a person of significant control.\n\nBiniatta followed the advice and no person of significant control was declared. Alpha said it rejects the allegation that it attempted to avoid Biniatta having to make such a declaration.\n\nIn September this year, the Council of Europe appointed Mr Basha to prepare a report on supporting the reconstruction of Ukraine following the Russian invasion. He said he had no conflict of interest.\n\nThe BBC attempted to contact Mr Trofimets and Mr Basha but they did not respond.\n\nMs Valkovskaya, Alpha's managing director, said she \"categorically\" denied her company was involved in any illegal activity. \"We always followed the letter of the law. The use of nominees is not something new or illegal in the industry,\" she said.\n\nAlpha Consulting said its \"involvement in UK-based limited partnerships is limited to providing advice and assistance with registering, incorporating and structuring them in accordance with UK regulations\".\n\nIt does not \"engage in, or assume any responsibility for, the management, operation or decision making of our end clients or the companies we assist them in forming,\" it said.\n\nAlpha also said it has due diligence and anti-money laundering procedures that comply with the law.\n\nLast month the Seychelles was added to the EU's tax haven black list.\n\nThe Department for Business and Trade told us its economic crime bill would make it easier for Companies House to \"tackle rogue agents and deregister illegitimate limited partnerships\", and to challenge and remove suspicious information.\n\nYou can see more on this story on Newsnight on BBC Two on Thursday 2 November at 22:30 GMT or on iPlayer.", "Significant damage: Courts have ruled there are no human rights defences to such protests\n\nThe co-founder of Extinction Rebellion has been convicted of causing £27,500 of damage after a four-year legal saga over protest rights.\n\nGail Bradbrook was unanimously found guilty of criminal damage to the Department for Transport in 2019 after a three-day trial.\n\nAt one stage, the judge warned he could use anti-jury tampering powers amid rows over what she could tell jurors.\n\nShe said she was silenced by the court - and will be sentenced next month.\n\nThe Extinction Rebellion mass demonstrations movement staged two major protests in London in 2019 - leading to thousands of arrests and a policing bill running to ten of millions after parts of the city were brought to a halt.\n\nDuring the second protest in October, Gail Bradbrook climbed onto an entrance canopy at the Department for Transport's headquarters.\n\nShe then used tools to break a large pane of reinforced security glass. The specialist glass cost £27,500 to replace because it had to meet specific security standards and had to be quickly replaced.\n\nBradbrook said she had specifically chosen to target the DfT because of the huge environmental damage that was being caused by the HS2 project.\n\nDuring her police interview, she said she was trying to stop crimes against humanity and \"had permission from nature\" to break the window.\n\nThe pandemic delayed her trial - and it was then put off amid a political row over the acquittal of protesters who had toppled the controversial Bristol statute of slave trader Edward Colston.\n\nProtest: Gail Bradbrook on top of the government building's entrance\n\nFollowing that case, the Court of Appeal ruled that the right to protest under human rights law could not be used to avoid conviction for violent demonstrations that cause significant damage.\n\nDuring the preparations for Gail Bradbrook's trial in July this year, the former scientist, who did not have a lawyer, said she intended to tell jurors that she could not be found guilty because of her right to freedom of expression and that she was also trying to prevent a greater crime of climate destruction.\n\nShe also argued that breaking the glass had been legally necessary and it was possible that government officials may have consented had they known why she was doing it.\n\nJudge Martin Edmunds KC ruled none of these arguments were valid legal defences that a jury could consider - but Dr Bradbrook then repeatedly tried to turn to them in her evidence, arguing that she was otherwise being silenced.\n\nThe judge stopped the hearing and gave a rare warning that he may have to decide the case alone under seldom-used powers originally drawn up to prevent gangsters influencing juries.\n\n\"It is evident that Dr Bradbrook, by reference to her beliefs, considers either that the rules that apply to every other criminal defendant do not apply to her or that she is entitled to disregard them,\" said the judge in his July ruling.\n\n\"Dr Bradbrook gave every appearance of seeking to engineer a situation where I was obliged to curtail her evidence in front of the jury and/or to commence contempt proceedings.\n\n\"The Crown [Prosecution Service] have given notice that, if there was an attempt at what they consider to be jury tampering, they may well make application... to seek a discharge of the jury and to seek a trial continued by judge alone.\"\n\nGail Bradbrook's trial was rescheduled for October - and she was banned again from reading out a 75-page on her beliefs and justifications for breaking the glass.\n\nThis time, when she began to tell the jury her reasoning, Judge Edmunds chose not to halt the trial - but instead intervened 15 times to stop her from breaching his ruling on admissible evidence.\n\nSupporters stood outside the court during the trial\n\n\"I admit I broke the window,\" she said. \"I intended to break the window. None of this is in dispute. I maintain I am not a criminal.\n\n\"I believed that I had a defence in law. The powers that be don't like it when people like me are acquitted and have made it more difficult.\"\n\nJudge Edmunds told her that the law had not been changed since she had been charged.\n\n\"You are clear about my rulings?\" he asked. \"This is a trial about criminal damage. It is not and can never be a platform for your general views which you are welcome to share elsewhere.\"\n\n\"I have a defence as a mother,\" she replied at one point.\n\n\"We operate on the basis of rules of relevance and inadmissibility,\" said the judge.\n\nBradbrook replied: \"To quote Gandhi, 'I have disregarded the order in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience'.\"\n\nDuring the three days of the trial, supporters sat outside the court holding placards telling jurors they had a right to acquit according to their conscience.\n\nOne demonstrator is currently facing a Contempt of Court hearing over a previous identical incident at another trial.\n\nGail Bradbrook will be sentenced on 18 December. The judge said that the starting point was 18 months in jail - but a suspended sentence was an option.\n\nThe XR founder has been separately convicted of breaking the window of a bank - a case that was been dealt with as a less serious matter.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate trial of eight environmental protesters who were accused of damaging the Treasury by spraying it with fake blood ended in acquittals.", "Yoni Asher's wife, Doron, and two young daughters Raz (pictured) and Aviv were taken by Hamas in the 7 October attack\n\nIn the garden of his home in central Israel, amid the palm trees dappled in the morning sun, Yoni Asher shows me a video on his phone.\n\nIt's of his two small girls, sitting on a bed. They're singing Happy Birthday.\n\nRaz, the eldest, with long fair hair, is just four years old. Her sister Aviv, darker and more like her dad, is only two.\n\n\"They made this for my birthday in July,\" Yoni tells me.\n\nBut four months on, the 37-year-old father and husband is home alone.\n\nAlong with their mother Doron, they were captured on 7 October in Hamas's unprecedented cross border attack. They are thought to be among the youngest of the 240 hostages being held in Gaza.\n\n\"They had been visiting their grandma for the holidays in Nir Oz,\" Yoni says.\n\nThe Israeli kibbutz sits only two miles from Gaza. It was one of the communities worst affected by the attack, with one in four of those who lived there believed to have been killed or kidnapped by Hamas.\n\nYoni saw his wife and kids in a TikTok clip, surrounded by Hamas gunmen\n\nYoni was not with his family that day. He'd stayed home for work, a hundred miles away.\n\nThe first confirmation his family had been abducted by Hamas came in a video, posted on TikTok from inside Gaza. Yoni shows it to me.\n\nIn the five-second clip, you can see his wife Doron, still in her nightwear crammed onto a motorised cart surrounded by Hamas gunmen.\n\nRaz is there in a pink summer dress.\n\n\"That's Aviv's hand,\" Yoni says, pointing to five tiny fingers, reaching out towards her mother.\n\nThat was more than three weeks ago. Yoni has not seen or heard of his family since. Their grandma, Efrat Katz, has been found dead. Her partner, Gadi Mozes, also abducted, is missing.\n\n\"The only way to describe it is hell,\" says Yoni. \"It's the definition of hell.\"\n\n\"How can I eat when I don't know what my family are eating? How can I sleep when I don't know if they if they are cold or too hot?\"\n\n\"As a father, if you ever saw your children jumping on the bed, or the sofa, you worry they will fall on their head. So, imagine how I feel in this situation. Everything is frightening to me.\"\n\nFor now, all Yoni has are memories. And inside the family home, they are everywhere. Photographs and children's artwork on the wall. Tiny handprints in red paint.\n\n\"They loved to draw. Raz did this one for me,\" says Yoni, pointing to a cartoon-like figure on a pin board that's meant to look like him.\n\n\"She told me it's a superhero.\"\n\nAviv is just two years old. She and her sister Raz, 4, are among the youngest thought to be held in Gaza\n\n\"They always liked to pretend to cook for me.\"\n\nA collection of tiny shoes is lined up in the corner amid children's books.\n\n\"I had to take all the batteries out of the noisy toys,\" he says.\n\n\"They are tiny balls of energy. With three women in the house, we had enough noise for any man,\" Yoni tells me managing to raise a smile.\n\nI ask him how he feels about the suffering in Gaza, now under Israeli bombardment for almost a month and where the United Nations says thousands of children have been killed or injured.\n\n\"Children are children, it doesn't matter which country they are from,\" he says.\n\n\"Children need to be off limits. I can't hate not even the children of my so-called enemies. How can you hate a child?\"\n\nAnd what about the hostage videos that have been released by Hamas?\n\n\"It was not easy to watch,\" Yoni replies.\n\nYoni says his children love to draw and often pretended to cook for him\n\n\"They're the ones who got kidnapped. They [Hamas] are taking advantage [of] them in a cynical and the lowest way possible, in order to make some kind of psychological battle.\"\n\nAt 37 years old, Yoni has known the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians his entire life. His parents knew it before him.\n\nBut for him, 7 October is obviously the worst moment.\n\n\"It's one day of Holocaust,\" he tells me, as he pauses to choose his words.\n\n\"I know it's a harsh word. But that day was the worst that was seen in the history of the Jewish people and the Israeli people.\"\n\nDoes he think Israel can ever get over its collective trauma?\n\n\"We have no other choice. It's like my own personal case. It's either fight or be dropped,\" he says.\n\n\"We have to recover. It will be very difficult. But I believe in the long term, our nation will recover.\"\n\nFor now though, all Yoni can do is wait, hope and tell his family's story.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I should have worn make-up,\" Donald Trump Jr quipped on Wednesday as a group of photographers rushed into court to take his picture.\n\nAs an executive at the Trump Organization, he was testifying in a multimillion-dollar civil trial that could see his family lose a sizable part of its business empire.\n\nHis comment set the tone for what was an hour-long charm offensive that saw Mr Trump Jr lightheartedly engaging with the judge while letting his lawyers do the brawling for him.\n\nIn under two hours of testimony in New York, he said he did not work on the financial statements at the centre of the case.\n\nThe eldest son of the former president appeared confident and relaxed on the witness stand. He smiled during proceedings, even making the occasional joke and drawing laughter from the courtroom.\n\nThe stakes, however, were high and the claims against him serious.\n\nThe judge has already found the Trump Organization falsified business records. This hearing will resolve other claims and potential penalties, which, in a worst-case scenario for the family, could see Mr Trump Jr, along with his father and brother Eric, essentially lose the ability to do business in New York\n\nBut Mr Trump Jr did not appear perturbed. Wearing a dark blue suit and flamingo-pink tie, the current Florida resident quipped to the judge that he had \"kept the New York pace\" after being asked to speak more slowly.\n\nAt another point, Judge Arthur Engoron noted humorously that Mr Trump Jr could settle a minor pronunciation argument: whether to pronounce \"revocable\" as \"re-VOCK-able\" or \"re-VOKE-able\".\n\nMr Trump Jr laughed and said he did not know.\n\nWhen Colleen Faherty of the attorney general's office then phrased her question with one pronunciation, Mr Trump Jr joked that he only understood the other.\n\nOn another occasion, Ms Faherty pressed the 45-year-old on his understanding of the guidelines businesses use to ensure financial records are accurately maintained. He drew chuckles as he smiled and responded: \"I have no understanding\" - part of his broader argument that he was not involved in the minutiae of the company's accounting as prosecutors have claimed.\n\nThe attorney general's office argues he and his brother Eric were \"intimately involved\" in the Trump Organization, and said in court filings that they were \"aware of the true financial performance of the company\".\n\nMr Trump Jr's jovial persona on Wednesday was notably different to the hyper-masculine right-wing influencer he usually portrays.\n\nIn an appearance on the conservative Newsmax network earlier this week, he called the trial a \"sham\" and and labelled the chamber a \"kangaroo court\".\n\nBut he refrained from airing such bombastic criticism in court. While Judge Engoron appeared in decent spirits, he had earlier fined Mr Trump Jr's father $15,000 (£12,300) for levelling political attacks against court staff.\n\nMost of Ms Faherty's questioning focused on establishing Mr Trump Jr's work at the Trump Organization and his involvement in the preparation of various financial documents that had come under the attorney general's scrutiny.\n\nAnticipation for this phase of the trial had been building since it began on 2 October. Mr Trump Jr is the first of his siblings to give testimony, with Ivanka and Eric Trump scheduled to do so in the coming days. Donald Trump himself may take the stand next week.\n\nAnd while Mr Trump Jr faced a relatively drama-free day on Wednesday, the tone could change as the attorney general's team resume their questioning on Thursday morning.", "Afi Farma has been linked to the deaths of more than 200 children\n\nThe boss and three other officials of an Indonesian firm whose cough syrup was linked to the deaths of over 200 children have been sentenced to jail.\n\nThey were handed two-year prison sentences and fined 1bn Indonesian rupiah ($63,056; £51,786).\n\nThe firm, Afi Farma, was accused of producing cough syrups containing excess amounts of toxic substances.\n\nThe company's lawyer said they denied negligence and the firm was considering whether to appeal.\n\nProsecutors had been seeking a prison sentence of up to nine years for Afi Farma's chief executive, Arief Prasetya Harahap, and seven years each for the other defendants.\n\nThe Public Prosecutor said that between October 2021 and February 2022 the company received two batches of propylene glycol, which is used for making cough syrup.\n\nThese batches contained 96% to 99% ethylene glycol, the prosecutor said. Both substances can be used as additives to solvents. While, propylene glycol is non-toxic and widely used in medicines, cosmetics and food, ethylene glycol is toxic and used in paint, pens and brake fluid.\n\nThe company did not test the ingredients used in the cough syrup and instead relied on quality and safety certificates from its supplier, prosecutors said.\n\nAfi Farma's lawyer, Samsul Hidayat, told the BBC that Indonesia's drug regulator did not require drug makers to carry out rigorous testing of ingredients.\n\nThe judge in the Kediri District Court, East Java, found the four defendants guilty of intentionally producing pharmaceutical goods that did not meet safety standards.\n\nThe case comes as efforts grow worldwide to tighten the oversight of drug supply chains after the poisonings.\n\nSince 2022, more than 200 Indonesian children, most of whom were under the age of five, have died of acute kidney injury linked to contaminated cough syrup. About 100 deaths have been reported in The Gambia and Uzbekistan.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has issued warnings about six cough syrups made in India and Indonesia.", "Don and Gail Patterson were two of the three victims who died days after the mushroom lunch\n\nAn Australian woman suspected of poisoning her former in-laws and others with deadly mushrooms at a lunch she served has been charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder.\n\nThree people died after Erin Patterson, 49, served beef Wellington, a dish that includes mushrooms, to guests in July.\n\nWhile three murder charges relate to the lunch, three of five attempted murder charges are linked to separate incidents between 2021-22, police say.\n\nShe has said she did not intentionally poison her guests at the family lunch at her home in the Victoria town of Leongatha on 29 July.\n\nHer former husband Simon Patterson had also been invited to the meal, but was unable to make it at the last minute.\n\nAlong with the three murder charges, Ms Patterson has been charged with two attempted murder charges relating to the July lunch.\n\nThe police have not provided details of the two attempted murder charges. However it is known that one of the guests at the meal fell critically ill but survived.\n\nMs Patterson has also been charged with three counts of attempted murder linked to what police said were three separate incidents where it is alleged a 48-year-old man became ill following meals between 2021 and 2022. No further details have been given.\n\nMs Patterson was named as a suspect by police after she and her two children appeared unharmed after the lunch.\n\nShe was taken into custody on Thursday and police spent hours searching her home in Leongatha, around 125km (78 miles) south-east of Melbourne.\n\nSpecialist technology detector dogs, which are trained to look for items like laptops and Sim cards, were at the scene.\n\nHomicide squad Inspector Dean Thomas stressed the complexity of the case in a press conference, describing it as a tragedy that may \"reverberate for years to come\".\n\n\"I cannot think of another investigation that has generated this level of media and public interest, not only here in Victoria, but also nationally and internationally,\" he added.\n\nGail and Don Patterson - the parents of Ms Patterson's ex-husband - were guests at the lunch along with Gail Patterson's sister Heather Wilkinson and brother-in-law Ian Wilkinson.\n\nThe four were taken to hospital on 30 July reporting violent illness, police say.\n\nWithin days the Patterson couple, both 70, and Ms Wilkinson, 66, had died. Mr Wilkinson, 68, was taken to hospital in a critical condition but later recovered after two months of treatment.\n\nHeather Wilkinson (left) also died, while her husband Ian (right) survived after weeks in hospital\n\nErin Patterson has said she herself was taken to hospital after the meal due to stomach pains, and was put on a saline drip and given medication to guard against liver damage.\n\nShe has said she served the beef Wellington using a mixture of button mushrooms bought from a supermarket, and dried mushrooms purchased at an Asian grocery months earlier.\n\n\"I am now devastated to think that these mushrooms may have contributed to the illness suffered by my loved ones,\" she wrote in a statement in August.\n\n\"I really want to repeat that I had absolutely no reason to hurt these people, whom I loved.\"\n\nHer children, who were not present at the lunch, ate some of the leftover beef Wellington the next day. However the mushrooms had been scraped off the dish as they do not like the fungi, she said.\n\nMs Patterson has also addressed questions concerning a food dehydrator found by police at a local tip. She has admitted to having owned it, explaining that she got rid of it in a state of panic following the deaths.\n\nShe has been remanded in custody and will appear at Latrobe Valley Magistrates' Court on Friday.", "Waves crash on to the beach and cliffs in West Bay, Dorset\n\nStorm Ciarán has hit the UK, Channel Islands and parts of Europe, bringing strong winds, heavy rain and flooding.\n\nThe Met Office issued a yellow warning for wind and rain along the south coast of England.\n\nMore than 300 schools are shut across the region, while major incidents have been declared in Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and Jersey.\n\nFire and rescue officers search for people in need help at Freshwater Beach Holiday Park in Dorset\n\nSome people were rescued from their holiday chalets which had been cut off by flooding\n\nCouncil workers survey the damage and debris in West Bay\n\nA person and their dog watch the waves break on the front in West Bay\n\nDozens of people in Jersey were evacuated to hotels overnight as wind gusts of up to 102mph uprooted trees and damaged homes.\n\nThe Grand Hotel in St Helier was damaged, with the side rendering ripped away after winds tore through the island in the early hours of the morning.\n\nUprooted trees lie on the road after winds reaching 100mph hit St Helier\n\nThe storm is causing severe disruption in the south of England with strong winds and rain affecting many transport routes.\n\nThe Environment Agency says flooding is expected in 82 areas, most of which are on the south coast.\n\nA weather warning sign alerts drivers travelling through water spray and winds on the M5 motorway\n\nThe Portland Beach Road is closed in Weymouth, Dorset\n\nWorkers clear the water over the flooded railway in Romsey, southern England\n\nThe Port of Dover suspended all sailings earlier, sparking long lorry queues - it has since reopened for shipping, but passenger ferries are cancelled.\n\nSome vehicles were brought to a standstill on the A20 near Dover\n\nA bus makes its way through heavy rain in Kent\n\nCoastal regions of north-west France have been battered by gale-force winds of 128mph (207km/h), as Storm Ciarán reached Brittany and Normandy.\n\nPower provider Enedis says 1.2 million people are without electricity, after falling trees brought down power lines and pylons.\n\nAn Enedis employee works to repair damaged power cables in Lanildut, western France\n\nWaves crash against the breakwater of the port at Goury near Cherbourg, Normandy\n\nA woman is splashed by the waves on the Quai du Lazaret near the Port des Minimes in La Rochelle, centre-western France\n\nSome of the worst damage has been reported in Finistère, in the far north-west, where gusts of 128mph were recorded at Pointe-du-Raz.\n\nThe local prefect has barred all traffic from the roads apart from emergency services and other essential transport.\n\nWaves crashing on the Phare du Four (Four's lighthouse) in Porspoder, western France\n\nWarnings were activated throughout Spain, except for the Canary Islands, because of heavy rain, gusts of wind of up to 68mph, with a greater incidence in the Galicia region, which is on the red alert.\n\nCars have been damaged by fallen trees in downtown Madrid\n\nFire services have been dealing with the damage and debris\n\nPeople battle with umbrellas during heavy gusts of wind in the Spanish capital", "Schitt's Creek actress Emily Hampshire has apologised for dressing up as Johnny Depp and Amber Heard with a friend for Halloween.\n\nHampshire, 42, told her Instagram followers she was \"sorry and ashamed\".\n\nIn a now-deleted post, Hampshire was seen styled as Depp, with drawn-on facial hair and tattoos, while her friend screwed up her face in mock distress as the actor's ex-wife.\n\nFormer couple Depp and Heard both accused each other of domestic abuse.\n\nHampshire, who played Stevie Budd in sitcom Schitt's Creek, described the costume as \"one of the most thoughtless, insensitive, and ignorant things\" she had ever done.\n\nIn the original post, the Canadian actress was seen wearing a pin-striped suit, with her hair slicked back. She was also holding a wine bottle - an apparent reference to details from the couple's televised court case last year.\n\nHampshire went on to write that she was ashamed at having put \"something that awful out into the universe\" and said \"domestic abuse is never, ever funny\".\n\nLast year, Depp and Heard's relationship was in the spotlight due to a US court case in which Depp accused his ex-wife of defamation over an article she wrote for the Washington Post.\n\nIn the 2018 opinion piece, Heard said she had lost work and received death threats after accusing her ex-husband of domestic abuse, and had \"felt the full force of our culture's wrath for women who speak out\".\n\nDepp said the article implied he was violent towards Heard, and won the seven-week case against her.\n\nTwo years previously, Depp lost a similar case in the UK against the Sun newspaper, after the High Court said the content of an article which called him a \"wife-beater\" was \"substantially true\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Cars were washed into the sea and roofs were blown off\n\nCommunities across the British Isles are reeling after Storm Ciarán battered homes and businesses.\n\nThere is widespread flooding and damage around the UK, with thousands of homes left without power, hundreds of schools closed and major travel disruption.\n\nSouthern England and the Channel Islands have been worst-hit by Ciarán, with 80 flood warnings still in place across England.\n\nNo UK deaths have so far been linked to the rain and 100mph (161km/h) gusts.\n\nBut countless homes around the country have been severely damaged - with some residents even believing they have been hit by tornadoes - and many still assessing the full scale of the destruction. It follows a series of other flooding incidents in recent weeks.\n\nOne yellow weather warning for rain remains in place until Friday evening in eastern Scotland, with the rest of the country no longer covered by any other weather warnings.\n\nMore than 200 flood alerts have been issued for England, alongside the 86 flood warnings where flooding is expected, but there are currently no severe flood warnings - the highest category - in place.\n\nDozens of people in Jersey were evacuated to hotels overnight on Wednesday after gusts of up to 102mph (164km/h) were recorded. Locals were also hit by huge hailstones \"bigger than golf balls\".\n\nIn St Clement, Sharon Mackie Marquer filmed video showing the destruction around her home, with roof tiles littering her garden and the fence knocked over. Cars smashed up by debris and overturned tables can also be seen.\n\nA clip from the same Jersey parish showed Jessica O'Reilly sleeping in bed alongside her baby when the sound of the 'weather bomb' woke her - seconds before the window was blown inwards.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Woman wakes up to window being blown in\n\nShe described the moment her \"motherly instinct\" kicked in, telling the BBC: \"We went up to bed and could hear the wind getting stronger and stronger, closer and closer.\n\n\"Something didn't seem right, then the windows just smashed in, I grabbed [my daughter] and got out the room.\n\n\"I think I just thought 'my baby's in danger, I need to get out' and ran down the stairs.\"\n\nShe added that her house is not habitable as there is still glass everywhere, and they are having to stay in a hotel - but despite the shock, there was \"not a scratch\" on mother or baby.\n\nSt Helier-based Carl Walker, the chairman of Jersey's Consumer Council, said his family were woken by hailstones at midnight, which he said had stuck together to create \"golf ball-sized lumps of ice\".\n\nHe explained: \"We camped out in our living room downstairs with our children because it was just simply too noisy and too frightening to be upstairs in the bedrooms - tiles were lifting, debris was hitting the roof, windows were flexing.\n\n\"The noise of the wind was just incredible and quite frightening. It was like a scene from a disaster movie.\"\n\nMags Balston, who is in her 80s and has lived in her house in Jersey for 21 years, told the BBC that she is still in shock after spending the night in her kitchen after the windows blew in.\n\nShe recalls \"a sudden explosion like a bomb had gone off\" but wants to stay in her home as she does not want to move the cat.\n\nMags Balston in the wreckage of her home in Jersey\n\nA fallen tree on the road in Dover, Kent\n\nHuge waves crash onto the beach near Brighton pier\n\nLong queues near the Port of Dover\n\nFallen trees have blocked roads amid travel chaos around the UK\n\nElsewhere across the British Isles, roofs have been blown off, some train lines have completely ground to a halt and there were long queues around the Port of Dover, which shut earlier amid rough seas.\n\nSome train companies had asked commuters to work from home ahead of major disruption to lines in southern England and Scotland.\n\nSouth Western Railway was among the rail providers impacted and said services across the whole network may be cancelled, delayed or revised - with disruptions expected until the end of Thursday.\n\nThe storm caused chaos for drivers too, and the AA, which had a large number of callouts in southern England, said it had rescued 84 customers stuck in floods so far on Thursday. One driver caught in flood water was being treated for hypothermia, it added.\n\nThere was also significant disruption at airports, with all flights from Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney cancelled on Thursday.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, which is experiencing flooding following heavy rain and weather warnings earlier this week, one assembly member branded the scenes in County Down \"apocalyptic\", with flood waters \"decimating\" local businesses.\n\nIn France, where 1.2 million people were reported to be without electricity, a lorry driver was killed after being struck by a falling tree. Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands have also been badly hit.\n\nAround 9,000 homes across Devon and Cornwall, Sussex, Surrey and the Channel Islands were left without power earlier today.\n\nEmergency services said earlier an unoccupied vehicle which washed off a promenade in Devon on Wednesday night will remain on a beach until it is safe to recover it.\n\nIn Falmouth, student Kate Marsh told the BBC she was woken at 05:30 GMT when the roof of her bedroom entirely blew off and collapsed onto her.\n\nAaron Waterer had a similar experience in his motorhome in Broadstairs, Kent.\n\nFishing trawlers rock in the sea as waves crash against the harbour wall in Folkestone, Kent\n\nThe sharp branch ended up centimetres above his mattress\n\nTwo lorries on the A20 in Kent\n\nA large tree branch was ripped off in strong winds and pierced the roof - ending up just centimetres above his mattress.\n\nBut 47-year-old Mr Waterer was out of bed getting a drink of water at the time of the incident, around 02:00 GMT.\n\n\"My nerves were all shot\", he said.\n\n\"I just didn't know what to do, it was just shock. I still don't think it has sunk in that much, it's just bizarre.\"\n\nIn south Wales, a caravan park was evacuated following a risk to life warning, with \"the majority\" of the Kiln Park site underwater. One man was pictured kayaking through the area.\n\nIn Dorset, firefighters evacuated 70 people from 198 caravans at Freshwater Holiday Park in Burton Bradstock, near Bridport, with some being taken to dry land by boat.\n\nMany children remained at home across the country, as more than 300 schools closed in southern England, mainly in Devon.\n\nAlbourne School in Hassocks, West Sussex, closed after it was struck by lightning, lost power and was flooded.\n\nThe Government of Jersey said schools will close for a second day on Friday, as they aim to get pupils back in classrooms on Monday.\n\nElizabeth Rizzini, from BBC Weather, said many coastal areas had been exposed to dangerously large waves.\n\nVehicles are driven through a flooded road in Yapton, West Sussex\n\nFlood water covers a field after the River Clyst overflowed in Clyst Saint Mary, near Exeter.\n\n\"The wind gusts have now peaked... winds will ease as we head through the rest of (Thursday) as the storm pulls out into the North Sea\", she explained.\n\nBut Ms Rizzini warned some gusts of 60-65mph (97-105km/h) could still be expected along the coast, particularly in eastern areas.\n\nShe added: \"We are going to see more heavy rain, another 40 to 60mm perhaps over the higher ground of the Pennines.\"\n\nStrong winds and rain are expected overnight in north-east England and northern Scotland, but Friday is forecast to be calmer.\n\nStorm Ciarán is the third named storm of the year, after Babet caused significant flooding to thousands of homes a fortnight ago, and Agnes struck in late September.\n\nBBC Weather's Matt Taylor confirmed that Ciarán has been classified as a weather bomb, or 'explosive cyclogenesis'.\n\nHe explained that meteorologists use the term for a storm \"that appears to intensify rapidly, with its central air pressure dropping by at least 24 millibars (mb) in 24 hours.\"\n\nExperts say a warming atmosphere increases the chance of intense rainfall and storms.\n\nHowever, many factors contribute to extreme weather and it takes time for scientists to calculate how much impact climate change has had on particular events - if any.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.", "Israel's military has confirmed that its jets carried out an attack on Jabalia in Gaza.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry and a hospital director said at least 50 people were killed in the attack. Meanwhile, the Israeli military said the strike killed a senior Hamas commander and caused the collapse of Hamas's underground infrastructure.", "The scene in Downpatrick has been described as \"apocalyptic\"\n\nThe damage caused by flooding in Downpatrick has \"ripped the heart out of the town\", a businessman has said.\n\nPaul McCartan, who owns two shops in the County Down town, said the damage was soul destroying and government support was needed.\n\nA number of towns in counties Down, Armagh and Antrim have been hit by heavy rainfall.\n\n\"It looks like it's gone in a flash,\" Mr McCartan said of his business.\n\n\"I've been on the street about 44 years,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"Although we're fully insured, we're not covered for flood, and we're in bother.\"\n\nMr McCartan added there was no chance of the premises drying out ahead of Christmas.\n\nAnother Downpatrick clothing shop owner, Brian Rodgers, said floodwater was up to chest height on Thursday morning.\n\nHe said he had about £150,000 of Christmas stock inside but he could not get in to see how bad the damage was.\n\nOn Thursday evening, the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) said an operation to use high-volume pumps to clear the water from Market Street, Downpatrick, would begin \"once river waters are low enough\".\n\n\"Whilst there have been some indications of floodwaters increasing slightly in Downpatrick, water levels in the Quoile River have peaked and have begun to fall from early morning,\" they said.\n\nHow have you been affected by the flooding? If it is safe to do so, get in touch.\n\nSocial Democratic and Labour Party assembly member Colin McGrath said Downpatrick witnessed \"apocalyptic scenes\" and that about 25 businesses had been \"decimated\".\n\nHe warned there were further concerns about the risks from the next high tide.\n\nFears are rising in Downpatrick as a high tide is scheduled for later\n\nDfI described recent rainfall as \"an exceptional natural event\".\n\nBus services across the town have been suspended and parts of Portadown, County Armagh, remain badly affected.\n\nTranslink confirmed its Downpatrick depot remained cut off in both directions due to flood waters and 10 bus services in the town had been suspended.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Mr McGrath said many businesses in Downpatrick were not covered by flood insurance.\n\nHe called for Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris to \"step up to the mark\" and provide a financial package for those affected by the flooding.\n\nA Northern Ireland Office spokesperson said the UK government has been \"in close contact\" with the civil service.\n\n\"Whilst this is a devolved matter for the relevant NI departments, we will continue to work closely with the NI Civil Service in the days ahead,\" they said.\n\nThe Department for Communities is providing emergency £1,000 payments for domestic properties which have been flooded.\n\nA spokesperson for DfI said its engineering team carried out an assessment and determined it could be another 24 hours before floodwater in Market Street in Downpatrick town centre could be decreased.\n\n\"The main reason for this is that the water levels in the river and its smaller tributaries need to decrease before we can make meaningful progress,\" they said.\n\nIn Kilkeel, County Down, the Newcastle Road has been closed due to serious structural damage, with the police warning people to avoid it and obey road closure signs. It is not yet clear how long the road will be closed.\n\nPaul Sloane is worried the road could worsen with drivers ignoring the closure\n\nPaul Sloane, who lives in one of the houses directly outside the stretch of closed road, said many vehicles were ignoring road closure signs and then turning outside his property when they can go no further.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party assembly member Diane Forsyth told BBC News NI the closure was devastating for businesses and residents because it is the the main road into Kilkeel.\n\nSinn Féin councillor Michael Rice said the feeling in the town was one of frustration.\n\n\"Those in Kilkeel feel trapped, from the initial rain on Tuesday the town has been isolated and many feel that rural areas in the Mournes did not get the same support.\n\n\"However, I can't fault the road service, the staff have been working non-stop and the damage to the road is very serious.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stefan Douglas has been helping residents affected by flooding in Portadown\n\nThe flood waters in most parts of Portadown have not receded since Wednesday.\n\nThe water was too deep to go in - you don't know what's underneath, it's too dangerous.\n\nYoung people are travelling up the road in boats, delivering sandbags and medication.\n\nI've seen video footage from inside homes - water above the windows and washing machines floating in garages.\n\nThirty minutes ago, portaloos were delivered to homes in the town.\n\nA drone image taken above Island Road shows three homes sitting on a small piece of land and completely surrounded by water.\n\nThere are people who have no access to food and they are relying on volunteers.\n\nWe are seeing the force of this water on homes, on small businesses, on the big supermarkets - they're all impacted.\n\nThere are unimaginable scenes, I don't know how people are keeping their spirits high in some parts of the town.\n\nThe manager of Portadown-based championship club Annagh United, Ciaran McGurgan, said its pitch was \"gone\".\n\n\"We don't know what sort of destruction has been done underneath it in terms of sand and stones and whatever else,\" he told BBC's Evening Extra.\n\nHe said the impact of the damage would have a \"knock-on effect across the community\" with multiple organisations and schools using club facilities on a regular basis.\n\nAnnagh United's Ciaran McGurgan surveys the damage at the club's ground\n\nDee Herron from Killyleagh YC Football Club said \"the water keeps on coming\" but their main pitch was completely flooded.\n\nMr Herron said representatives from the Irish Football Association had visited the club and \"promised a bit of help\".\n\n\"We need help, absolutely,\" he said.\n\nRodney Watson, from Watson Autos, a vehicle recovery firm in Portadown, said he had recovered more than 20 vehicles from floodwaters across the town over the past 24 hours.\n\nRodney Watson said he had recovered more than 20 vehicles from flooding in Portadown in a 24-hour period\n\nHe said some cars were floating in the train station car park and that the water level was much higher on Thursday than the previous day.\n\nDfI said since Monday there had been more than 13,000 calls to the Flooding Incident Line and approximately 13,000 sandbags had been deployed.\n\nThe Scheme of Emergency Financial Assistance (SEFA) has been made available to homeowners who have encountered significant inconvenience due to flooding inside their homes.\n\nIt offers eligible applicants a £1,000 payment through their respective local councils.\n\nThe department warned the public to pay attention to road closure advice with many roads still not suitable for traffic due to flood conditions.\n• None Residents almost knee-deep in water after flooding", "Disney has announced that it will buy the remaining stake in streaming service Hulu, in a widely expected move.\n\nThe company said on Wednesday it would acquire the 33% stake it does not own from TV giant Comcast.\n\nThis would give Disney full ownership of the streaming service and the ability to incorporate it into its own Disney+ platform.\n\nDisney has been locked in battle with other streamers as profits have fallen.\n\nCompleting its takeover of Hulu is expected to cost some $8.6bn (£7bn), Disney said in a statement.\n\nBut it added that the move would \"further Disney's streaming objectives\" as it sought to boost subscriber numbers.\n\nIn the US, the entertainment giant already sells Hulu as part of bundled offerings with its Disney+ and ESPN+ platforms.\n\nIn the UK, some Hulu content is already available to watch via the Disney+ app, such as The Kardashians and The Bear.\n\nThe price tag reflects a \"guaranteed floor value\" for the streaming service that was established when California-based Disney took over Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox in a huge deal in 2019, along with a majority stake in Hulu.\n\nUnder an agreement between Disney and Comcast that year, both firms had the right to force a sale of Comcast's stake in Hulu - and executives have been vocal about wanting to do a deal.\n\nBut at a conference this year, Comcast chief executive Brian Roberts described Hulu as a \"scarce kingmaker asset\", which was \"way more valuable today\" due to its hits like the series Only Murders in the Building.\n\nDisney said on Wednesday that it hoped the deal would be concluded by 1 December although negotiations with Comcast, NBC Universal's parent company, are ongoing.\n\nIn the announcement, Disney said that if the current value of Hulu was determined to be greater than the guaranteed price, it would pay NBC Universal the difference.\n\nHulu currently has about 48.3 million subscribers, in comparison with Disney's 146.1 million globally.\n\nThe boss of Disney, Bob Iger, told investors in August that the company was moving towards having one app in the US where it could combine content from its various brands.\n\nSince economies have reopened from pandemic-related lockdowns, competition for audience attention has been fierce.\n\nDisney reported in August that profits continued to fall as it faced a raft of issues including lacklustre film performance and a sharp drop in advertising sales in its traditional television business.\n\nOverall, revenue at the company grew by 4% year on year in the three months ending 1 July, but it posted a loss of $460m, compared with a $1.4bn profit in the same period last year.\n\nAlongside Disney, other streamers have been weighing up how to generate cash and crack down on password-sharing.\n\nThe film and television sector has also seen some productions paused by strikes in the US, slowing down the turnaround of the new content needed to hook audiences.\n\nA senior Disney creative behind films like Frozen recently told the BBC that the actors' strike could halt animation production later this year.", "And we'll keep you signed in.", "Smear tests, or cervical screening, checks the health of the cervix\n\nA major review of cervical screening in Northern Ireland which was due to start this week has been delayed.\n\nLast month, it emerged smear tests of more than 17,000 women in the Southern Trust would be re-checked as part of a review dating back to 2008.\n\nThe Belfast Trust, which was to review the slides, has had its cervical cytology service accreditation suspended, BBC News NI understands.\n\nIn a statement, the Belfast Trust said it planned to appeal that decision.\n\nIt added it will continue cytology testing as planned and that the Public Health Agency (PHA) has been informed.\n\nThe Belfast Trust added that the PHA will continue to monitor and quality review all aspects of their work.\n\nAt this stage it is not yet clear whether the Trust intends to include those slides included in the Southern Trust's review or is continuing to screen those slides within its own screening programme.\n\nCervical screening can not detect cancer, but detecting and treating abnormal cells may help prevent cancer. No screening process is 100% accurate.\n\nThe screening looks for the human papillomavirus (HPV) which can cause abnormal cells on the cervix. If HPV is detected a cytology test is used to check for any abnormal cells.\n\nUnlike the rest of the UK and Ireland, Northern Ireland does not have the primary HPV screening system in full operation.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the cervical screening process involves two people - a screener and checker analysing slides under a microscope.\n\nThe United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) is an independent body which assesses the competence of organisations that provide certification, testing, inspection, and calibration services which meet internationally specified standards.\n\nImposed suspensions are applied when UKAS has identified that the organisation is unable to continue to meet the requirements of the standard for which they hold accreditation.\n\nIt can be for a variety of reasons ranging from the performance and availability of staff even broken equipment.\n\nIt will also apply if there are failings in the integrity of the organisation's senior management.\n\nBBC News NI understands there may be concern over the performance of screeners at the Belfast Health Trust Laboratory.\n\nIt follows a highly critical report into the Southern Health Trust commissioned by the Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath).\n\nWhile it is not mandatory for all cervical smear testing laboratories to be accredited, BBC News NI understands that all laboratories involved in the screening programme had been accredited prior to these sanctions being imposed.\n\nIn its statement, the Belfast Trust said it wanted to \"reassure the public that it continues to have full faith in the rigorous testing carried out within the service\".\n\n\"We will continue cytology testing as planned and have informed the Public Health Agency (PHA),\" the Trust said.\n\n\"The PHA undertakes ongoing monitoring and quality review of all aspects of the work of the cervical cytology screening programme and based on this are assured that the work of the cervical cytology service is to an appropriate standard.\"\n\nUKAS confirmed to BBC News NI that accreditation for cervical cytology within the Belfast Health Trust had been removed on 31 October.\n\nThe same measure had been applied to the Southern Health Trust, as reported by BBC News NI last month.\n\nWhen an accreditation is suspended or withdrawn, the organisation can no longer provide accredited services and must inform its existing and prospective customers of this status.", "Around one in four pregnant women in the UK has a Caesarean birth\n\nFour women giving birth by Caesarean have had surgery to cut their risk of ovarian cancer at the same time, in what doctors say is a documented first.\n\nThe pioneering two-in-one operations, at a London hospital, all went well\n\nExperts say it is not a decision to be taken lightly, as removing the ovaries puts a woman into early menopause.\n\nDoing the surgery at the time of Caesarean delivery also risks greater blood loss, due to the physical changes that occur during pregnancy.\n\nHowever, it can avoid an anxious wait for the standard cancer risk-reducing operation to remove the fallopian tubes and ovaries, which is usually a standalone procedure.\n\nProf Adam Rosenthal, who performed the procedure at University College London Hospital, said this type of simultaneous surgery has not previously been reported in a medical journal. The results are published in the latest edition of Obstetrics and Gynecology journal.\n\nClaire Rodrigues Lee has a gene that puts her at higher risk of developing certain cancers\n\nClaire Rodrigues Lee, 45, from London, was one of the four women to have the pioneering dual procedure, which took surgeons about an hour to complete.\n\nShe was awake for the entire operation, but had a spinal anaesthetic, meaning she felt no pain.\n\nHer operation in 2019, when she had just turned 41, was at the same time as the birth of her son - her second child.\n\nShe told BBC News: \"They handed him to me, so I had a cuddle with him - I think it was before they started on the next procedure. Then I passed him to my husband and they started the second part.\"\n\nExplaining what the procedure entails, Prof Rosenthal said: \"We lift the top of the uterus out of the abdomen to bring the tubes and ovaries out of the abdominal incision so they are easily accessible.\n\n\"The only real issue is that the blood vessels get much bigger in pregnancy so extra care has to be taken to avoid damaging them. We ligate or cauterise them very carefully.\"\n\nClaire says she knew she was at higher risk of ovarian cancer due to a gene she had inherited, and wanted to have the risk-reducing surgery as soon as possible after giving birth for the second time, knowing she had had all the children she wanted.\n\n\"I was looking up online how quickly I could have the surgery after giving birth, and I came across the combined surgery as the first case had just been done. So I wanted to know if it would be possible for me.\"\n\nShe says she has no regrets about the surgery. \"It saved me having to go into surgery twice...and the worry - this cloud of fear that I would get ovarian cancer.\"\n\nShe had her daughter by Caesarean too, and says the recovery and experience with her son was \"no different really\".\n\n\"It's probably the best decision I've made, simply because I didn't have to take out more time away from my children to go in for another procedure.\n\n\"Why would I put myself through two surgeries when I could have everything done all at once and then I heal?\"\n\nA woman who inherits a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene variant has an increased risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer during her lifetime.\n\nIt is not inevitable that she will get cancer, but her odds are higher than average.\n\nThere is a one-in-two, or 50-50, chance she will pass the variant to each of her children.\n\nClaire says she discovered that she had the BRCA2 variant when she was 36.\n\n\"I had just got married. I started to look at what my options were.\n\n\"It was quite scary. You sail through life thinking everything is fine... then all of a sudden this thing hits you in the face. You've got this gene and it means you are at a higher risk for cancer.\"\n\nClaire has also had a double mastectomy to reduce her risk of getting breast cancer.\n\nShe says when her children grow up they will be able to chose whether or not to get tested for the gene. \"With all the luck in the world hopefully neither of them have it, but if they do, then they have choices.\"\n\nAthena Lamnisos, from The Eve Appeal charity which works to raise awareness about women's cancers, said: \"These case studies tell a powerful story about what preventative surgery can deliver for women at high risk of ovarian cancer.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "We've just heard from our correspondent Anthony Zurcher in Ireland, where the US secretary of state's plane is refuelling on the way to Israel.\n\nHis arrival come just hours after the country's president, Michael D Higgins, made a vocal intervention warning against the \"collective punishment\" of people living in Gaza.\n\nHiggins called on the European Union and the broader international community to put an end to the conflict, saying they have a responsibility of upholding and vindicating international law.\n\n\"The ongoing horrific loss of civilian life in Gaza and Israel has to be addressed,\" Higgins said in a statement. \"When it comes to the protection of children, no other issues should stand in the way for even a minute.\"\n\nHis statement criticised the targeting of hospitals in particular, saying it is \"simply unacceptable that hospitals and those being cared for within them are threatened by the basic lack of resources, damaged or indeed threatened with destruction\".\n\nHe concluded that if the world is to move past this conflict, a consistent, diverse body of proposals on the region's future should be put forward.\n\nThe proposals, he says, are \"ones that can deliver a reasonable security to citizens of Israel, and at the same time achieve the delivery of the long-neglected rights of the Palestinian people\".", "A screengrab of the viral video shows the worker appearing to urinate in a container\n\nA Chinese worker urinated into a Tsingtao beer tank after having an argument with a colleague, it has emerged.\n\nThe worker was filmed urinating into a tank used to store ingredients to make one of China's most popular beers last month.\n\nThe video then went viral on social media, gaining tens of millions of views.\n\nThe worker has since been detained, an official report said.\n\nOfficials from the city of Pingdu - where the factory is located - found that the worker in question was helping to unload malt containers from a truck at the time of the incident.\n\nIn a statement on the city's official Weibo page, they said the worker, surnamed Cui, got into an argument with a truck driver about moving the vehicle.\n\nMr Cui then climbed into the container, which had just been emptied, and urinated into it.\n\nMr Cui's actions were caught on camera by the driver, who then published the video on Douyin, China's version of TikTok.\n\nIn a statement published on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo, Tsingtao said the worker had been placed in administrative detention for property damage.\n\nIn China, administrative detention is a penalty that can be imposed by the police, acting with no judicial oversight, and usually involves being detained for between five to 15 days and sometimes comes with a warning and a fine.\n\nTsingtao added that the worker was not a direct employee of the brewery and worked for a company that provides outsourcing services to Tsingtao.\n\nThe brewer went on to say that they have adopted a number of measures to strengthen quality control and step up monitoring of employee behaviour to prevent such incidents in the future.\n\nThey also vowed to plug in what they called \"loopholes in the management of raw material transportation,\" and said that the batches of malt involved in the incident have been sealed and will not enter production.", "An inquest into the death of an ice hockey player whose neck was fatally cut is due to open on Friday.\n\nNottingham Panthers player Adam Johnson was pronounced dead in hospital after sustaining the injury from a skate worn by Sheffield Steelers player Matt Petgrave on Saturday evening.\n\nAn inquest into the 29-year-old's death will open at the Medico-Legal Centre in Sheffield.\n\nThe Nottingham Panthers have described his death as a \"freak accident\".\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said officers had been studying footage of the incident and added the investigation \"is likely to take some time\".\n\nFans have been invited by the Panthers to attend a memorial event at their home stadium on Saturday.\n\nThe Motorpoint Arena will be open from 17:30 GMT for a gathering to remember the player, the club said.\n\nFlowers, candles, and messages have been left outside Nottingham's Motorpoint Arena, where the Panthers play\n\nA two-minute silence in memory of Johnson, who studied at Loughborough Business School, will take place at 20:20 GMT.\n\nThe club launched an official fundraising page on Tuesday evening \"with the permission of Adam's family\".\n\nA commemorative ice hockey puck created in the player's memory was unveiled on Wednesday.\n\nMoney raised by the sale of the puck and the fundraising page will support charitable activities in Johnson's home city of Hibbing, Minnesota.\n\nThe Anaheim Ducks and the Pittsburgh Penguins held a moment of silence for former Penguin forward Adam Johnson\n\nHe previously played in North America's National Hockey League, playing 13 games for the Pittsburgh Penguins.\n\nJohnson moved to the Swedish Hockey League for the 2020-21 season before spells with the Ontario Reign and the Lehigh Valley Phantoms in the American Hockey League.\n\nHe played for the Augsburger Panther in Germany before joining the Nottingham Panthers in August.\n\nFormer player and Sky Sports commentator Nick Rothwell, said he believed more players would wear neck guards following Johnson's death.\n\n\"I think a lot of guys will wear one to honour Adam,\" he said.\n\n\"They will feel like they have lost a brother, so what can they do?\n\n\"They can wear a neck guard and it is nothing to be ashamed of.\"\n\nThe Canadian, who played for the Sheffield Steelers, said he thought the clubs who were the fiercest rivals in UK ice hockey might now come together.\n\n\"I think this will unite them in a way they never thought before,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on X, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Olivia Rodrigo: \"Soooo beyond excited that I got the opportunity to write a song for The Hunger Games\"\n\nUS singer Olivia Rodrigo has revealed her delight at being part of the soundtrack for the much-anticipated Hunger Games prequel: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes.\n\nThe Drivers License singer wrote Can't Catch Me Now for the film, which stars Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Viola Davis and Peter Dinklage.\n\nShe said she was \"soooo beyond excited\" to be part of the franchise.\n\nThe film is set years before the first four, which starred Jennifer Lawrence.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by oliviarodrigo This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRodrigo's announcement follows the release of her second studio album in September. Guts debuted at number one in the UK album chart, outselling the rest of the top 10 combined in its first week.\n\nDirected by Francis Lawrence, the films sees British actor Blyth play the young Coriolanus Snow aged 18, who goes on to become the \"tyrannical president of Panem\". West Side Story actress Zegler stars as the games tribute Lucy Gray Baird.\n\nOscar winner Davis plays head gamemaker Dr Volumnia Gaul, while Game of Thrones star Dinklage plays the public face of the Hunger Games, Casca Highbottom.\n\nSnow is assigned to mentor Baird in the upcoming Hunger Games, a brutal battle of life and death between young tributes from Panem's oppressed districts.\n\nRachel Zegler and Tom Blyth in a scene from The Hunger Games: the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes\n\nThe franchise is based on Suzanne Collins' best-selling dystopian books, set in a post-apocalypse America, said to have been inspired by a combination of Greek myth and reality television, as well as Collins' own upbringing as the daughter of an air-force officer who served in Vietnam.\n\nThe novels' themes include freedom and resistance against oppression, and the prequel is set 64 years before the events of The Hunger Games, detailing the \"Dark Days\" that led to a failed rebellion in Panem.\n\nThe original films starred Jennifer Lawrence as the games tribute Katniss Everdeen and they took nearly $3bn (£2.5bn) at the global box office.\n\nRodrigo's song will be released on 3 November and the film is released on 17 November.", "Mourners gather at Hongxing Road, the former home of Li Keqiang in Hefei\n\n\"He was a great leader who has remained in our hearts,\" says a man who has come to pay his respects to Li Keqiang, China's popular former premier who died last week.\n\nFlowers in hand, he and his son walk up to Li's childhood home on Hongxing road in the city of Hefei. The footpaths are covered in a sea of flowers. Crowds of mourners have been gathering since the 68-year-old suddenly died in Shanghai of a heart attack.\n\n\"He visited our textile factory and it left a deep impression,\" says the man. Li was from the same province as him, Anhui, he added: \"It's too sad. I can't accept it.\"\n\nChina's Communist Party has had no choice but to allow this remembrance of Li, who had been the number two leader before he retired earlier this year. But even in death, he remains a challenge to China's current leader, Xi Jinping.\n\nPublicly criticising Xi, or the Communist Party, would be dangerous. But Li's passing has provided a window to acknowledge his vision for the country and his seemingly more open and moderate approach to politics - which many see as a sharp contrast to Xi's hard-line style.\n\n\"My best friend and I took a day off to come here and place flowers,\" says a well-dressed middle-aged woman, wearing a pearl necklace and earrings. \"He was always looking out for ordinary people. He always had us in his heart.\"\n\nHowever, she is soon interrupted by officials telling her, and the BBC crew, to move on.\n\nOfficers in plain clothes keep gathering in greater numbers around those speaking to the BBC, listening in to what they say. Along Hongxing road, there are hundreds of them, and many more Communist Party volunteers. They are there to maintain order, and journalists are pushed out of the area, with interviews prevented.\n\nTwo young women in their 20s can barely be heard over the shouts telling them to leave, as they try to explain the gratitude and love they wanted to express towards Li.\n\nTwo other women emerge from Hongxing road, and one of them is pushing their mother in a wheelchair. \"We took our mother to visit our former premier,\" one of them says.\n\n\"I saw him and paid my respects,\" her elderly mother chimes in, clasping her hands as if to pray. \"He was a really good man…\" she continues, but then a woman appears next to her and starts pushing the wheelchair away, urging them to leave and stop talking to the media.\n\nNearby, a man wearing a backpack is watching. He says he has come to Anhui province from Shanghai to honour Li, \"a leader who ordinary people believe spoke the truth\".\n\n\"When we had difficulties or hardships, he visited to try to understand the situation.\" Then, referring to the man who has replaced him as premier, he adds \"not like Li Qiang\", who he describes as a sycophant.\n\nWhen asked to clarify if he thought Li Keqiang was better than Li Qiang, he says: \"I don't need to say it. You can ask anyone in Shanghai.\"\n\nBy now, people are gathering to listen. \"Chinese officials are not used to speaking the truth,\" he says. \"When we heard about his death, we felt surprised because Chinese leaders normally have good health and live to a long age.\"\n\nAn official interrupts the interview, and starts pushing him down the street. She keeps telling him that he's not a local, implying that it is not his place to come to Hefei and start speaking to reporters. He turns to the BBC crew and says, \"I can't stay here\". The official physically manoeuvres him into a taxi and orders him to leave.\n\nAbout an hour's drive out of Hefei, another house where Li used to live has become a place of remembrance. Like in Hefei, the regional capital, the home of Li's ancestors in the village of Jiuzi is surrounded by thousands of flowers, bunched together in black plastic for the occasion.\n\nPolice have cleared a pathway for mourners to enter and leave. Chickens and birds can be heard above the shuffle of feet and quiet words as people bow in front of the thatch-roofed, mud-walled house where Li spent time as a child.\n\nHis modest background has endeared him to ordinary Chinese, especially after he famously referred to the high proportion of them who still live on a meagre income. Two women who've brought their small daughters to place flowers acknowledge this - one of them describes him as \"considerate\" towards the country's poor and its millions of migrant labourers.\n\n\"He was always thinking of ordinary folk, so we brought our daughters here to send him off,\" she adds. Another woman walks past and stops to say: \"He was really down to earth. He's the son of a farmer. He didn't behave like an official.\"\n\nThen an 80-year-old woman arrives with her family. She is wearing a red medal around her neck with a hammer and sickle, the symbols of the Communist Party. She holds it up, declaring proudly that she's been in the Party for 60 years.\n\nAsked if Li was one of the best leaders China has had, she says, \"Yes, yes, yes\". Her much younger companion adds: \"He was actually the best.\"\n\nClutching her medal, the older woman says: \"Premier Li won people's hearts.\"", "Oil and gas giant Shell has posted strong profits helped by oil prices rising again.\n\nThe energy giant reported earnings of $6.2bn (£5.1bn) between July and September, up sharply on the previous quarter.\n\nProfits were down from $9.4bn in the same period last year, however, when Russia's invasion of Ukraine caused a spike in oil and gas prices.\n\nOil prices are currently lower than that period, but have risen recently.\n\nThat is largely due to members of the Opec+ group of oil-producing nations cutting output to support the market.\n\nEarlier this week, the World Bank warned that the conflict in the Middle East could push the price of crude oil up to $150 a barrel - compared to $85 today.\n\nShell said its earnings in the past three months were up 23% on the previous quarter.\n\nIt said it had benefitted from higher oil prices and pumping more oil and gas, along with making more money from refining and gas trading.\n\nOil prices surged in 2022 before falling back earlier this year, leading to lower profits at energy firms.\n\nHowever, the cost of crude oil has moved upwards again since the production cuts in the summer.\n\nMembers of Opec+, led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, brought the cuts in due to concerns about weakening global demand.\n\nMoscow also blamed Western \"interference with market dynamics\", referring to the cap on Russian oil brought in following its invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIt has already caused petrol prices to rise, hitting drivers at the pumps.\n\nFollowing its results, Shell announced a plan to return $3.5bn to shareholders through a share buyback programme. In total the firm will return $23bn to shareholders this year.\n\nJonathan Noronha-Gant, of the climate campaign group Global Witness, criticised the payouts.\n\n\"Shell's shareholders remain some of the biggest winners of Russia's brutal war in Ukraine and ongoing global instability,\" he said.\n\n\"The turmoil in fossil fuel markets allows Shell to rake in enormous profits - but instead of investing in clean energy, the company has doubled down on oil, gas, and shareholder pay-outs.\"\n\nGreenpeace campaigner Charlie Kronick said: \"People are sick of watching oil bosses feign concern about the planet while slashing jobs and investment in renewables and ploughing money into dividends, share buybacks, and new fossil fuel projects.\"\n\nShell boss Wael Sawan, who took up his post in January, changed Shell's strategy to put more focus on oil and gas and announced plans to cut at least 15% of the workforce at its low-carbon solutions division.\n\nThe firm declined to comment further.", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nNewcastle United claimed their second Old Trafford victory over Manchester United since 1972 to avenge their Carabao Cup final defeat at Wembley and pile the pressure on home manager Erik ten Hag.\n\nFirst-half goals from substitute Miguel Almiron and Lewis Hall, his first for the club, were followed up by a solo effort from Joe Willock on the hour to give Newcastle their biggest away win over their hosts in 93 years as they cruised into the quarter-finals.\n\nNewcastle will travel to Stamford Bridge to take on fellow Premier League side Chelsea, who beat Blackburn 2-0 in the fourth round.\n\nIt was another desperate day for Manchester United and Ten Hag, who have lost eight of their opening 15 games for the first time since the 1962-63 season.\n\nComing just three days after they suffered another three-goal home humiliation at the hands of Manchester City, the home side's weaknesses were again cruelly exposed.\n\nDiogo Dalot was replaced at half-time following his failure to track Almiron's right-wing burst for the opener.\n\nReturning Brazilian midfielder Casemiro did not re-appear for the second-half either with Ten Hag evidently unimpressed by the former Real Madrid man.\n\nHall struck a fine second as he met Harry Maguire's headed clearance with a first-time volley. Willock's effort emulate Hall's by finding the bottom corner after he had been allowed to run 30 yards unchecked before shooting after Sofyan Amrabat had lost possession on the halfway line.\n\nIn a week where the size of their kit has been questioned, Manchester United's players could have done with shirts big enough to cover their heads as, for the second game running, they were booed off at the end of both halves.\n• None Ten Hag vows to 'fight on' - but 'questions' grow for Man Utd boss\n\nManchester United's collapse in form since they beat Newcastle at Wembley in February to end a near six-year trophy drought has been stunning.\n\nTen Hag lost six of his first 40 games in charge up to that EFL Cup final success. They have lost 13 of 36 since. They have lost consecutive home matches by three goals or more for the first time since October 1962.\n\nAs was the case with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer two seasons ago, the downturn has been totally unexpected given his side finished third last season and reached the FA Cup final in addition to their trophy success.\n\nTen Hag has spent in excess of £350m over three transfer windows. Five of his signings started the game and six finished it. None emerged with any real credit, although it could be argued goalkeeper Andre Onana was blameless for all three Newcastle goals.\n\nCasemiro before the break and Amrabat after it failed to plug gaps in midfield. Once again Mason Mount was anonymous.\n\nThe home side's best chance was squandered when Anthony Martial appeared to pull out of a header, despite being barely six yards out in the centre of the goal, when he seemed to hear a call from Mount behind him. Mount failed to control and the opportunity disappeared.\n\nNot that the issues enveloping Old Trafford are any concern of Newcastle, whose fans revelled in their opponents' discomfort, chanting 'You'll be sacked in the morning' and taunting over the number of empty red seats on show from fans leaving well before the final whistle.\n\nTargett injury the only negative for Newcastle\n\nThe game could not have got off to a worse start for the visitors.\n\nWith five senior players out injured, plus Sandro Tonali ruled out for 10 months due to his gambling ban, Newcastle could ill afford any more personnel issues.\n\nBut after just two minutes Matt Targett went down with what seemed to be a pretty severe hamstring injury on the basis he could barely walk off the pitch such was the pain he was in.\n\nContinuing was clearly out of the question and, as the English season heads towards its most congested point, Howe will now be fearing he will be without the services of Targett for a while.\n\nAt that point, with his options so limited, Howe must have feared the worst.\n\nInstead, Almiron broke the deadlock, racing onto Tino Livramento's cross-field pass to set Newcastle on their way to a memorable and thoroughly deserved victory.\n\nAt the end, Howe and his players saluted a 9,000-strong travelling support, whose backing was constant. But then, they had plenty to sing about.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bruno Guimarães (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Sean Longstaff (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sofyan Amrabat.\n• None Joelinton (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Sofyan Amrabat (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The boy will be sentenced at the Old Bailey in January\n\nA teenager who tripped up a 62-year-old man, causing him to suffer a heart attack, has admitted manslaughter.\n\nThe boy, 16, ran up to Jerald Netto, put his foot between his legs and swept him off his feet in Hanwell, west London, early on 19 March.\n\nMr Netto fell forward and suffered a heart attack from the trauma of hitting the pavement, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nThe teenager, who was originally charged with murder, will be sentenced for manslaughter on 12 January.\n\nJudge Rebecca Trowler KC ordered a pre-sentence report but warned the defendant and his family that they should prepare for a custodial sentence. She remanded him back into local authority accommodation with \"stringent conditions\".\n\nThe boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested shortly after the attack, which happened on Boston Road at about 00:50 GMT. Mr Netto, from Southall, died later the same day.\n\nProsecutor Louise Oakley said the victim's relatives in court wanted time to reflect on the teenager's plea and to prepare a statement on the impact of Mr Netto's death on them and their wider family.\n\nOn the boy's responsibility for what happened, Ms Oakley submitted that Mr Netto died \"as a result of an unlawful act which involved an intention to cause harm or recklessness as to whether harm was caused\".\n\nJudge Trowler said: \"I am aware that the defendant has admitted responsibility for the physical act from the outset and so the only factor that has changed today in legal terms is causation has been accepted on his behalf and therefore plea has been entered.\"\n\nListen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hello.bbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Li Keqiang, China's former premier, was cremated in Beijing\n\nNational flags flew at half-mast across China on Thursday as the country put its former premier Li Keqiang to rest.\n\nLi, whose body was moved to Beijing from Shanghai where he had died of a heart attack on 27 October, was cremated.\n\nPictures show crowds gathered along the streets as a convoy said to be carrying his body drove past.\n\nMuted state coverage of his funeral stands in contrast to the outpouring of sorrow among ordinary Chinese.\n\nLi, 68, was once tipped to be China's future leader. But he was overtaken and then swiftly sidelined by Xi Jinping, who has centralised power in his own hands during his more than 10 years at the helm.\n\nState news agency Xinhua issued a statement on Thursday afternoon accompanied by a picture of Mr Xi offering condolences to Li's widow Cheng Hong.\n\nIn an obituary published last Friday, China's Communist Party described Li as a \"time-tested communist soldier\" and urged the people to \"turn grief into strength\" and rally around the current leadership of Mr Xi.\n\nLi's funeral was held at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, where his body lay on a bed of flowers and was covered with the Communist Party's flag. Mr Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan were in attendance, along with new premier Li Qiang and other members of the Politburo Standing Committee, which makes up the top rung of the Party leadership.\n\nAcross the country, Li's sudden death prompted tributes, showing warm praise and grief. While some analysts say Li's track record as an administrator was uneven, they believe people are mourning as much for the man as the loss of what China could have been under his leadership.\n\n\"The public outpouring of grief for Li reflects the mourning of some Chinese people for a more open and optimistic time, before Mr Xi steered the country in a more authoritarian, statist, and nationalist direction,\" said Neil Thomas, fellow for Chinese Politics at Asia Society Policy Institute.\n\nHe adds that the the public reaction to Li's death is especially strong because he died soon after leaving office.\n\nNational flags flew at half-mast across China on Thursday as the country put Li Keqiang to rest\n\nLi served as China's premier for a decade until March this year. A trained economist, he entered Chinese elite politics at the young age of 28 and rose through the ranks to become the youngest provincial governor in China. His ascent in the Party was particularly noted given he had no power base and was not a \"princeling\" like many Chinese leaders whose fathers were high-ranking officials. Mr Xi's father, Xi Zhongxun, was the first secretary-general of China's State Council.\n\nLi was known for being pragmatic rather than ideological in his economic policies, with a focus on reducing the wealth gap and providing affordable housing. But he struggled to implement reforms under Mr Xi, whose leadership saw the party taking a firmer grip of China's economy, which has increasingly raised concerns among foreign businesses.\n\nLi was best-known outside of China for the Li Keqiang index, a term coined by The Economist to measure China's true economic growth, after Li described his country's gross domestic product figures as \"man-made\" in a private meeting with US officials.\n\nKyle Jaros, a professor on global affairs at the University of Notre Dame, says the Chinese public tends to feel a closer affinity to premiers whose mandates involve more domestic issues - as was the case with Li who often spoke of China's challenges, including jobs and cost of living.\n\nIn the days since Li's death, crowds of mourners have laid thousands of chrysanthemum bouquets across the country - including in Zhengzhou, the capital city of Henan where Li once served as the top provincial official, and around his childhood home in the city of Hefei in Anhui province.\n\nMany bouquets had cards bearing Li's words, including his parting words to the State Council, China's cabinet, when he stepped down in March: \"The heavens are looking at what humans are doing. The firmament has eyes.\"\n\n\"Sometimes to praise the path not taken is to make a comment on the path that was taken… Li represented a top leader who looked out for the little guys. He made them feel 'seen',\" says Wen-Ti Sung, a political scientist at the Australian National University who studies China and Taiwan.\n\nBy the time he retired, Li was the last of the top Party leadership who was not handpicked by Mr Xi. In an attempt to crush the once-powerful Youth League faction that Li hails from, Mr Xi sidelined him. He left Li and former vice-premier Wang Yang out of the Party's top decision-making body in a twice-a-decade leadership reshuffle last year.\n\nThe decision came days after Mr Xi's predecessor Hu Jintao, who is part of the same faction, was asked to leave the Communist Party Congress while it was still under way. Mr Hu, 80, patted Li, widely seen as his protégé, on the shoulder as he was escorted out. Li briefly nodded in acknowledgement. Many viewed Mr Hu's exit as a public display of Mr Xi cementing his hold on power.\n\nPeople mourn and lay bouquets outside Li's childhood home in Hefei\n\nThere has also been an outpouring of emotion online, despite the authorities' attempt at managing comments. According to the US-based China Digital Times, which also monitors Chinese censorship, Beijing had ordered platforms and media outlets to \"pay particular attention to overly effusive\" comments.\n\nIn contrast, on Chinese social media platform Weibo, a hashtag related to Li received more than 360 million views and 17,000 comments as of 13:30 local time (5:30 GMT) on Thursday.\n\nSome users commented that this scale of mourning reflects \"the highest regard\" from the people. \"The people know who are really serving them. The premier worked hard. He was too tired,\" wrote another Weibo user. Some users described Li as the \"people's premier\", although those comments and the like were swiftly censored.\n\nIn Li's hometown Hefei the BBC encountered difficulty speaking to mourners as local officials and party volunteers interrupted interviews and ordered the crew to leave.\n\nA middle-aged woman who witnessed the commotion told the BBC: \"[Li was] a great leader. Why can't we show it?\"\n\n\"He's gone. We are all very sad,\" she said and teared up.\n\nWhile he did not visibly challenge any of Mr Xi's priorities, Prof Jaros says people in and outside of China nevertheless valued his more liberal and less ideological outlook: \"He stood as a symbol of a different path that China might have taken.\"\n\nSome have labelled Li a \"weak premier\" who was quickly sidelined, but in death he seems to have become a symbol of quiet opposition to Mr Xi.", "The UN says at least 20 people were killed in an explosion in the Jabalia refugee camp\n\nIsraeli forces have encircled the Hamas stronghold of Gaza City, Israel's military says, as it continues its assault on the Gaza Strip.\n\nThe Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said soldiers were engaged in close quarters combat with Hamas fighters staging hit-and-run attacks from tunnels.\n\nThe UN said four of its schools being used as shelters had been damaged and warned water shortages were worsening.\n\nThe Hamas-run health ministry says over 9,000 Palestinians have been killed.\n\nOn Thursday the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said four of its schools being used as shelters had been damaged in less than 24 hours.\n\nAt least 20 people were reportedly killed at a school in the Jabalia refugee camp, UNRWA said, while a child was reportedly killed at a school-turned-shelter in the Beach refugee camp.\n\nThe BBC has verified two videos from the schools.\n\nOne extremely graphic video, filmed at an elementary school in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, shows the aftermath, first outside the main gate of the school and then in the main courtyard.\n\nAt least 20 people, either dead or injured, can be seen on the ground, including men, women and children.\n\nThe second video, filmed at the main courtyard of a primary school in Beach refugee camp, also in northern Gaza but near the Mediterranean coast, shows a plume of smoke rising from behind the main building of the school.\n\nSeveral people, including children, run for safety in the courtyard, while some residents of the camp watch from the windows above. A series of explosions can be heard in the background of the video. The last one, the loudest, causes the crowd in the courtyard to flee in panic.\n\nHamas authorities in Gaza blamed Israeli air strikes. The IDF has not yet commented.\n\nUN-appointed experts have called for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, saying time was running out for Palestinian people there who find themselves at \"grave risk of genocide\".\n\n\"The situation in Gaza has reached a catastrophic tipping point,\" they said, warning that a ban on fuel entering Gaza and disruption to water supplies meant people had little access to safe drinking water.\n\n\"Water is essential to human life and today, two million Gazans are struggling to find drinking water,\" they said.\n\nThe Israeli mission to the UN in Geneva called the comments \"deplorable and deeply concerning\" and blamed Hamas for civilian deaths.\n\nEarlier on Thursday the IDF said it had killed about 130 Hamas fighters.\n\nIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said troops were at \"the height of battle\".\n\n\"We've had impressive successes and have passed the outskirts of Gaza City. We are advancing,\" he said in a statement.\n\nA number of foreign nationals were able to leave Gaza after the Rafah crossing with Egypt opened for a second day. President Biden says more than 70 Americans were among them.\n\nBut medical aid organisation Doctors Without Borders says more than 20,000 wounded people remained trapped in the territory.\n\nMeanwhile, the Lebanese movement Hezbollah said it had attacked 19 targets in Israel simultaneously, in what would be its most intense assault on Israel so far.\n\nThe Israeli military said it was striking a series of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in response.\n\nIt comes a day before a much-anticipated speech by the leader of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah, his first public address since the conflict broke out last month.", "Tech billionaire Elon Musk has predicted that artificial intelligence will eventually mean that no one will have to work.\n\nHe was speaking to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during an unusual \"in conversation\" event at the end of this week's summit on AI.\n\nThe 50-minute interview included a prediction by Mr Musk that the tech will make paid work redundant.\n\nHe also warned of humanoid robots that \"can chase you anywhere\".\n\nThe pair talked about how London was a leading hub for the AI industry and how the technology could transform learning.\n\nBut the chat took some darker turns too, with Mr Sunak recognising the \"anxiety\" people have about jobs being replaced, and the pair agreeing on the need for a \"referee\" to keep an eye on the super-computers of the future.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Billionaire Elon Musk tells the British prime minister that AI will be smarter than the smartest human\n\nTech investor and inventor Mr Musk has put money into AI firms and has employed the technology in his driverless Tesla cars - but he's also on the record about his fears it could threaten society and human existence itself.\n\n\"There is a safety concern, especially with humanoid robots - at least a car can't chase you into a building or up a tree,\" he told the audience.\n\nMr Sunak - who is keen to see investment in the UK's growing tech industry - replied: \"You're not selling this.\"\n\nIt's not every day you see the prime minister of a country interviewing a businessman like this, but Mr Sunak seemed happy to play host to his famous guest.\n\nAnd if he seemed like he was enjoying it, it should be no surprise - he previously lived in California, home to Silicon Valley, and his love of all things tech is well-documented.\n\nIn a hall that size, Mr Musk was difficult to hear and mumbled through his elaborate musings about the future, but refrained from any off-the-cuff remarks that might have caused Downing Street embarrassment.\n\nThe event was held in front of invited guests from the tech industry in a lavish hall in central London's Lancaster House.\n\nUnusually for an event involving the prime minister, TV cameras were not allowed inside, with Downing Street instead releasing their own footage.\n\nSome reporters were allowed to observe - but told they could not ask questions.\n\nThe pair discussed the potential benefits of AI, with Mr Musk saying: \"One of my sons has trouble making friends and an AI friend would be great for him.\"\n\nThere was also agreement on the possibilities AI presents for young people's learning, with Mr Musk saying it could be \"the best and most patient tutor\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ‘Like having a very smart friend’: Musk on impact of AI\n\nBut there was a stark warning on the potentially ruinous impact it could have on traditional jobs.\n\n\"We are seeing the most disruptive force in history here,\" Mr Musk said, before speculating: \"There will come a point where no job is needed - you can have a job if you want one for personal satisfaction but AI will do everything.\n\n\"It's both good and bad - one of the challenges in the future will be how do we find meaning in life.\"\n\nAmid all the philosophising, there was little in the way of new announcements about how the technology will be employed and regulated in the UK - aside from the prime minister's promise that AI could be used to improve the government's own website.\n\nMr Musk was one of the star guests at this week's summit - but it briefly looked like the event with Mr Sunak might be a little overshadowed.\n\nHours before it was due to begin, Mr Musk took to his own website X, formerly known as Twitter, to take a swipe at the summit.\n\nAs Mr Sunak was on his feet giving his final press conference at Bletchley Park, Mr Musk shared a cartoon parodying an \"AI Safety Summit\".\n\nIt depicted caricatures representing the UK, European Union, China and the US with speech bubbles reading \"We declare that AI posses a potentially catastrophic risk to humankind\" - while their thought bubbles read \"And I cannot wait to develop it first\".\n\nBut in the end, the pair appeared at ease together, and Mr Sunak in particular looked in his element - perhaps even slightly bowled over by the controversial billionaire, who he called a \"brilliant innovator and technologist\".\n\nFrom the cheap seats behind the dignitaries of the tech world, it was hard to put your finger on who was really the powerful one out of this pair.\n\nWas it Mr Sunak as he asked the celeb tech billionaire questions? Or was it Mr Musk, who did much of the talking?\n\nEither way, both men hope to have a say in whatever our AI future has in store for us.\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.\n\nand get BBC News in your inbox.", "Taylor Tomlinson has made her name on Netflix specials and social media\n\nComedian Taylor Tomlinson is set to host a new show on the CBS network, making her the only female late-night host in the US.\n\nAfter Midnight will air next year after The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, filling a gap left by the exit of James Corden.\n\nTomlinson, 29, has gained prominence from two Netflix stand-up specials - Quarter Life Crisis and Look at You.\n\nThe comic will become the youngest late-night host by more than 20 years.\n\nShe joins the likes of NBC's Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, and Jimmy Kimmel at ABC on the late-night circuit and fills the slot left by Corden on The Late Late Show earlier this year.\n\nTomlinson has gained popularity on social media, particularly TikTok but was also a finalist on NBC's Last Comic Standing in 2015 and was named as one of the top 10 comics to watch by Variety, after appearing at the Just for Laughs festival in 2019.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe format of her new show, After Midnight, will be based on Comedy Central's @midnight With Chris Hardwick, which ran from 2013-2017 and featured a panel of comics.\n\nProduction company Funny Or Die, who are behind Brockmire and Billy on the Street, produced the original @midnight and will again return to create this series, with Colbert serving as an executive producer.\n\nHe announced After Midnight would be broadcast next year on his show on Wednesday, saying \"We'll need someone who is, I don't know, fun, likeable, young, in touch with online trends and available every night of the week.\"\n\nColbert shared a screenshot of the moment he told Tomlinson she had got the job, over a Zoom call earlier this week.\n\nTaylor Tomlinson heard she had got the job via Zoom\n\nTomlinson, who is currently on a US comedy tour, then joined Colbert on the sofa, joking: \"I've never had a real job\".\n\nShe referenced that she had been \"doing stand-up since I was 16, which is not a job\".\n\nTomlinson had a message for people who might not know her, saying: \"I'm 29 so if you don't know who I am, don't worry. I barely know myself.\"\n\nShe then said that her 30th birthday is on Saturday and Colbert replied, \"Happy birthday, I got you a network show.\"\n\nFemale network comedy television hosts have been hard to come by in the US in recent years, with Lilly Singh's stint as replacement for Carson Daly on NBC being the only notable role in the last few years.\n\nSingh took on his slot from 2019 to 2021, before the show was taken off air.", "The storm caused damage to homes in St Clement, Jersey\n\nFamilies forced from their homes in Jersey during Storm Ciarán have been put up in hotels, as winds of more than 100mph left fallen trees, flooded roads and ripped roofs from homes.\n\nA tornado and strong winds battered the island overnight, with 40 people evacuated from their homes.\n\nHigh tide swells surged on Victoria Avenue amid road closures, shut schools and cancelled flights and ferries.\n\nThe government has assured residents medical supplies will remain available.\n\nThere had been some concerns supplies could start to run out with the island effectively cut off.\n\nCarl Walker, chairman of Jersey's Consumer Council, said Storm Ciarán hitting the island was like a \"scene from a disaster movie\".\n\nHe described \"marble-sized\" hailstones coming together to create \"golf ball sized lumps of ice\".\n\n\"We camped out in our living room downstairs with our children because it was just simply too noisy and too frightening to be upstairs in the bedrooms - tiles were lifting, debris was hitting the roof, windows were flexing,\" he added.\n\nThe Government of Jersey closed all its schools and colleges as the Met Office confirmed overnight wind speeds had hit 103mph (164km/h). They will remain closed on Friday as well.\n\nPolice in Jersey, meanwhile, said officers had received 107 emergency 999 calls and 270 non-emergency calls by 06:00 GMT.\n\nEmergency services and staff from Infrastructure and Environment worked through the night \"to answer hundreds of calls from islanders, with the vast majority related to storm damage\".\n\nCentenier Paul Davies, of the Honorary Police, said: \"It's very very busy, there's lots of roads closed off, trees down and we're trying to divert the traffic as best we can.\"\n\nAt 08:00, as the \"worst part of the storm\" hit the island, police urged people to stay in their homes as winds of 90mph (145km/h) wreaked havoc outside.\n\nConfirming about 600 islanders had lost power, Jersey Electricity said its teams were working to restore connections \"as soon as possible\", while Condor Ferries cancelled all its sailings for the day.\n\nResidents at FB Cottages in St Clement said about 12 homes had been damaged overnight, forcing them to seek shelter in their lounges.\n\nFlooding on the edge of St Helier\n\nPolice said there were \"lots of trees down island-wide\", including one that blocked Le Mont Fallu in St Peter, while the west coast was also battered.\n\nIslander Megan Williams said the \"swell was insane\" at Greve de Lecq, while another resident described Pier Road as \"wild and loud\" at about 08:30.\n\nThe government said the morning high tide had been 11.5m (37ft 7in), or 1.1m (3ft 6in) higher than had been predicted.\n\nWhile the coasts were battered by the sea the high winds caused inland\n\nResidents reported tiles being blown off, fences taken down and greenhouses smashed, while Mark Bailey-Walker, sergeant commander for Jersey Fire and Rescue Service, confirmed \"a lot of structural damage\" across the island.\n\nAt St Clements and FB Fields the roof of a padel court was blown off and goal posts pushed across FB Fields.\n\nTrees were down across the island\n\nBy lunchtime, winds had slowed to 50mph (80km/h), although a yellow warning for rain and wind remained in place until 17:00 GMT.\n\nFollow BBC Jersey on Twitter and Facebook. Send your story ideas to channel.islands@bbc.co.uk.", "The safety of people with learning disabilities in England is being compromised when they are admitted to hospital, a watchdog says.\n\nThe Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) reviewed the care people receive and said there were \"persistent and widespread\" risks.\n\nIt warned staff are not equipped with the skills or support to meet the needs of patients with learning disabilities.\n\nNearly one million adults in England are living with a learning disability.\n\nThe watchdog launched its review after receiving a report about a 79-year-old who died following a cardiac arrest two weeks after being admitted to hospital.\n\nThe man, who had a mild learning disability and struggled with speaking and hearing, was originally admitted with chest and skin infections.\n\nHe became anxious while in hospital and staff struggled to communicate with him, partly because of problems with his hearing aids.\n\nBut the difficulties were also compounded by the fact the sole specialist learning disability nurse employed by the hospital was on leave.\n\nDuring his two weeks in hospital, the man refused care as well as blood tests. When a successful blood test was taken it was discovered he was suffering with kidney failure, but he died following a cardiac arrest before those results were known.\n\nThe watchdog said the hospital had failed to meet his needs sufficiently.\n\nAs part of its investigation, HSSIB also looked at the care provided in other places to people with learning disabilities.\n\nIt warned systems in place to share information about them were unreliable, and that there was an inconsistency in the availability of specialist teams - known as learning disability liaison services - that were in place in hospitals to support general staff.\n\nIt also said general staff had insufficient training - although it did note a national mandatory training programme is currently being rolled out.\n\nSenior investigator Clare Crowley said: \"If needs are not met, it can cause distress and confusion for the patient and their families and carers, and raises the risk of poor health outcomes and, in the worst cases, harm.\"\n\nSaffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospitals, said services were committed to \"stamping out\" the inequalities this group of patients faced.\n\nBut she said there needed to be investment in training programmes and a more consistent approach to specialist support.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The clean up operation to deal with the aftermath of Storm Ciarán is set to begin in Guernsey.\n\nSignificant damage to properties and other infrastructure has been caused as a result of the storm, the States has said.\n\nTemporary accommodation has not been needed for those affected, and no one has been reported injured.\n\nThe States said staff were assessing the main roads, and storm boards and cleaning efforts would be prioritised between St Sampson's and town.\n\nRuari Hardy, head of Bailiwick Law Enforcement and chair of the Strategic Coordinating Group for the Storm Ciarán response, asked people to remain indoors for now.\n\nHe said: \"While we are certainly through the worst of the storm I must emphasise that we’re continuing to ask for the community’s support in staying at home, staying off the roads unless absolutely necessary.\n\n\"The reason for this advice is not due to the current weather conditions, but because of the after-affects of the storm.\n\n\"More than 70 trees have fallen, we have flooding on some major roads, there is debris in more other areas and all of that combined means it is still dangerous to be driving on the roads right now.\"", "People pick through the rubble in the aftermath of a strike in Khan Younis on the 19 October\n\nSince the Israeli military issued the first of several instructions for civilians to evacuate north Gaza, hundreds of thousands of Gazans have moved to the south of the strip. But the south has continued to come under Israeli bombardment, leading the UN and other aid organisations to warn that nowhere in Gaza is safe for civilians.\n\nTo better understand the risk to civilians in south Gaza, BBC Verify has identified and analysed four specific instances of strikes in that region. We also looked at some of the warnings and evacuation instructions that were issued to Gazan civilians, including some advising them to move to certain areas in the south.\n\nSome of these warnings were accompanied by maps with arrows pointing to vaguely defined areas to move towards. Three strikes we examined hit within, or close to, those areas in the days after the warnings were issued.\n\nThe IDF has said that it communicates with Gaza's residents in a variety of ways, including leaflet drops, social media posts in Arabic, and warnings issued through civilian and international organisations. In this piece we have examined the IDF's instructions posted on social media.\n\nThe IDF said on 10 October that overnight its fighter jets had struck more than 200 targets in Rimal in the north, and Khan Younis in the south. The BBC has examined a strike on that day in central Khan Younis to understand the location and the scale of the damage. Video footage published in the aftermath of the attack shows rubble and collapsed buildings in the city centre. We have verified its location using visual clues such as the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Khan Younis.\n\nWe have also examined photos showing destroyed buildings, and people picking through what remains of cars and homes. We know the photos show the same location as that seen in the video because the same pharmacy sign can be seen in both. We also used reverse image search to check that the photos were not from an earlier incident.\n\nOn the morning of 8 October, IDF spokesperson Avichay Adrae had posted a warning on X (formerly known as Twitter) in Arabic, giving instructions to residents of various areas in Gaza to leave their homes and move elsewhere for their safety.\n\nWhile evacuation zones have often been clearly delineated, the destinations residents have been told to head to have often been much more vague.\n\nIn this instance, those living in the neighbourhoods of Abasan al-Kabira and Abasan al-Saghira, a few kilometres south-east of central Khan Younis, were told in the 8 October tweet to go to \"Khan Younis city centre.\"\n\nThe map included in the tweeted video for those living in the two neighbourhoods highlights their current residencies, and is labelled with an arrow simply pointing in the direction of Khan Younis.\n\nWe cannot discount the possibility that there were then subsequent different instructions, but the BBC has not found any evidence of this.\n\nThe BBC has verified that there was another strike the next day, further south near the border with Egypt. This 11 October strike hit Nejmeh Square in the centre of Rafah. The BBC looked at a video posted to social media showing destruction in the strike's aftermath. Using available images of the square before the attack, we were able to identify the shape of the buildings as that of Nejmeh square.\n\nThe warning, issued on 8 October by the IDF, also contained an instruction for residents of Rafah, telling them to immediately go to the shelter in Rafah city centre \"for your safety\".\n\nThe map in the video for those living in the Rafah neighbourhoods contains an arrow directing residents towards \"Rafah\".\n\nThe BBC analysed all of the IDF social media warning posts in Arabic it is aware of in this time period. It has not been able to find evidence of any subsequent different instructions, but that does not eliminate the possibility that others were issued.\n\nEight days on, back in Khan Younis, there was another strike - on Gamal Abdel Nasser Street. We verified this by looking at videos of the collapsed buildings in one of the city's main thoroughfares. By matching the shape of the buildings in the video, with those in other still images of the same location, we were able to verify this was the same place.\n\nAdditional footage from the aftermath shows bodies of the dead and injured being pulled out of rubble and taken to nearby Nasser hospital.\n\nThe IDF had issued a warning on 16 October for residents of Gaza City to move south to Khan Younis if \"your safety and the safety of your loved ones are important to you\".\n\nAgain, there is a possibility that there were further instructions that were different, but we have not found any evidence of this.\n\nFurther north, in central Gaza, there are four refugee camps. The BBC has verified strikes on two of them. Social media footage of the aftermath of a strike on al-Bureij camp on 17 October shows extensive rubble, flames, and bloodied bodies being carried out of the damage. We have verified the footage by matching up buildings in this footage with photos by news agencies of the aftermath. We also verified the footage location using a mosque that was visible.\n\nAnother camp nearby, al-Nuseirat, was struck the next day, on 18 October. We have verified social media footage of the aftermath, which shows ambulances, detritus, people trying to douse flames and a destroyed bakery. We located it by matching the shop names that can be seen in the video with those seen in photos published before the strike took place.\n\nDespite the earlier 8 October warning instructing residents of the eastern and southern Maghazi area to go to camps in central Gaza, there do not appear to be any camps in the location specified on the tweet's map.\n\nWe have however identified three camps nearby: al-Nuseirat and al-Bureij, hit by the strikes on the 17 and 18 October, and another camp called Deir al-Balah.\n\nWe cannot discount the possibility that there were then subsequent different instructions, but the BBC has not found any evidence of this.\n\nThe aftermath of another strike in al-Nuseirat camp, on 25 October, was shown on the news outlet Al Jazeera.\n\nFootage posted online shows its chief Gaza correspondent Wael al-Dahdouh in tears in hospital, holding the body of his seven-year-old daughter and kneeling over the body of his teenage son. His wife was also killed.\n\n\"There is no safe place in Gaza at all,\" he said in an English translation of an interview with Al Jazeera. He said that his family had moved from the north following Israel's warning to residents to move south for their safety.\n\nThe BBC provided specific locations and dates to the IDF for each of the strikes highlighted in the article.\n\nWe asked if these locations had been struck by IDF forces and whether warnings had been given prior to these attacks.\n\nIn its response the IDF said it \"cannot provide any further information regarding these specific locations\".\n\nIt said that it had \"called on civilians in Gaza to move south for their safety but will continue striking terrorist targets in all parts of Gaza\".\n\nIt added: \"In accordance with international law, the IDF takes precautionary measures in order to avoid damage to the civilian population. These measures include warnings before strikes in cases where it is possible to do so.\"\n\nSign up for our morning newsletter and get BBC News in your inbox.", "This year's Christmas stamps have been revealed by Royal Mail.\n\nThey feature lyrics from Christmas carols including Silent Night and Away in a Manger, and a barcode that you can scan to get a special Christmas message from Shaun the Sheep.\n\nThey've been made with an art technique called woodblock printing, which involves using carved wooden blocks to print ink or paint onto paper.\n\nThey are also the first Christmas stamps to feature King Charles's silhouette.\n\nThe stamps show lots of different scenes from the Christian story about the birth of Jesus.\n\nThis includes pictures of Mary, an angel singing, and baby Jesus in a stable. Each stamp has its own line from a famous Christmas carol.\n\nRoyal Mail stamps always have a silhouette of the monarch on them, and King Charles's face replaced the previous monarch, Queen Elizabeth, in April this year.\n\nWhy does the Royal Mail make Christmas stamps? The tradition of Christmas-themed stamps goes back to December 1966. The UK's Postmaster General created an art competition for kids to enter, with the hope of having their art featured on a stamp. The Postmaster General used to be a role in the government, given to an MP. They used to be in charge of the Royal Mail and telegraphs. Telegraphs were machines that people used to use to send messages over long distances using electric signals.\n\nThese Christmas stamps also feature a barcode that you can use on an app to view a special Christmas message from Shaun the Sheep.\n\nIt features Shaun sending some festive cheer to the farmer's dog.\n\nDo you write Christmas cards, maybe to give to your family and friends? Let us know what you think in the comments!", "So far, the migrant caravan has made its way about 40km (25 miles) from Tapachula to Huixtla\n\nA group of thousands of migrants who have set off on foot for the United States from southern Mexico is steadily growing in size.\n\nIts organiser says around 7,000 people now make up this migrant caravan, up from 5,000 just days ago.\n\nMost of them are from Central and South America, local aid groups say.\n\nUS President Joe Biden is due to meet leaders from the region on Friday to discuss how to curb the flow of migrants to the United States.\n\nPresident Biden has come under attack for his handling of migration, in particular on the US-Mexico border.\n\nRepublicans say he is not doing enough to stem the flow and Democrat mayors, whose cities have seen an influx after Republican governors bussed newly arrived migrants there, have joined in the criticism, saying that their cities cannot house and feed them.\n\nThe number of people apprehended at the US's southern border exceeded 2 million both in the 2022 and the 2023 fiscal years.\n\nIn September 2023 alone, US Border Patrol apprehended more than 200,000 migrants crossing the US-Mexico border unlawfully, according to US Homeland Security figures.\n\nThose who have joined the migrant caravan, which left the city of Tapachula on Monday, say they are determined to make it to the US.\n\n\"In Venezuela things are very tough, we can't live with the money we get, it's not enough for us, and that's why we're going to the United States,\" a Venezuelan father who was embarking on the long walk with his wife and two daughters told Reuters news agency.\n\nOne of the organisers of the caravan, Irineo Mújica of the NGO People without Borders, said that the migrants had set off together after having been left \"stranded\" by the Mexican authorities in increasingly dangerous Chiapas state.\n\n\"Organised crime is already taking over Chiapas, violence is everywhere. We are trying to save lives with these kinds of actions,\" he said of the caravan.\n\nA migrant from Honduras told Mexican newspaper La Jornada that he decided to join the trek north after having waited in vain for a transit permit to cross Mexico.\n\n\"I could not keep on waiting without money, sleeping in the street, that's not a life. Better that we should head up [northwards] and let's hope the [Mexican] government helps us, doesn't stop us\".\n\nSome previous caravans have clashed with Mexican police, which tried to stop them from walking along major highways.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Three points to understand the current wave of migration into the US", "Apple sales have continued to fall, despite strong demand for its iPhones and services like streaming platform Apple TV+.\n\nThe tech giant says revenues dipped 1% to $89.5bn (£73.3bn) in the three months to 30 September when compared with the same period last year.\n\nSales of its Mac computers and iPads struggled after a post-lockdown surge in interest.\n\nIt marks the fourth quarter in a row where sales have fallen year on year.\n\nIn an update to investors, the firm said that profits had reached $23bn, helped by a new record for iPhone sales in the three-month period.\n\nThe amount it took from services such as iCloud and Apple Music also hit a high, bringing in $22.3bn for the California-based firm, up 16% from a year before.\n\nBut it cited concerns over potential supply chain issues hampering deliveries of its new iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max devices.\n\nApple chief executive Tim Cook said it was \"working hard to manufacture more\".\n\n\"We do believe that later this quarter, we'll reach a supply-demand balance,\" he said.\n\nMr Cook said he felt the firm had its \"strongest line-up of products ever\" heading into the key Christmas trading period.\n\nThe latest update suggested, however, that other Apple items had been failing to capture the customer's imagination more recently.\n\nIts Mac computers, for example, saw sales drop to $7.6bn for the quarter, down from $11.6bn the year before.\n\nThe company revealed its latest iPhone line-up in September at a highly anticipated conference.\n\nIt announced that the iPhone 15 would not feature its proprietary lightning charging port, after the European Union forced the change. Instead, it uses a USB-C cable as the \"universally-accepted standard\".\n\nIt has also faced challenges elsewhere, with economic uncertainty weighing on consumers in the Chinese market.\n\nOn Thursday, the company said that sales in China had dipped by 2.5%, although Mr Cook said that after accounting for foreign exchange rates its business there had grown year on year.\n\nThe executive made a surprise visit to China last month, meeting gamers in the city of Chengdu.\n\nIt marked his second visit to China - a key market for Apple - this year, as the firm's operations in the country have been complicated by Covid restrictions and US-China tensions.\n\nIn March, Mr Cook said he felt Apple had a \"symbiotic\" relationship with China, a key manufacturing base.", "The troubled office-sharing firm WeWork is to start closing some of its buildings around the world, the BBC understands.\n\nThe company, once valued at $47bn (£38.6bn), has seen its shares tumble following reports it could file for bankruptcy as early as next week.\n\nWeWork would not confirm exactly how many sites in the UK would close.\n\nIt did, however, say that it will shut one of its central London buildings close to Blackfriars station.\n\nThe move would be part of what the company called \"our previously-announced strategy to improve liquidity and strengthen our balance sheet.\"\n\nWeWork members at the building on London's Southbank told the BBC that they had been emailed by the company telling them it was closing \"unprofitable\" sites.\n\nThey said they had been asked to be out of the building by 30 November and that WeWork had said it would find them \"alternative workplace solutions\".\n\nIt comes as the firm grapples with financial struggles. On Tuesday, it told the US financial regulator it had agreed with creditors to temporarily postpone payments for some of its debt.\n\nThe BBC understands the company will now be looking to renegotiate many of its leases not just in the UK, but around the world, as it tries to solve problems caused by rapid expansion, increasing interest rates, a disastrous attempt to sell shares to the public and the exit of its co-founder.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, WeWork said it was \"fully committed\" to the UK and Ireland, but declined to comment on reports it was set to enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the United States.\n\nAs of the end of June, the firm had more than 700 locations in 39 countries around the world.\n\nThe New York-based firm has been struggling since its initial attempt to sell shares on the stock market collapsed in 2019 due to concerns about its debts, losses and management.\n\nA week before the company confirmed that its share sale had been scrapped, its founder Adam Neumann stepped down as chief executive.\n\nScrutiny of his leadership had \"become a significant distraction,\" the firm said.\n\nA few months after the listing debacle, the pandemic hit, sparking a revolution in remote work and exposing WeWork to public criticism from tenants looking to escape their leases.\n\nBut the company kept operating as executives sold off some businesses, cut jobs and cancelled or modified hundreds of leases, trying to stem the firm's losses before it ran out of money.\n\nWeWork finally listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2021 with a much lower valuation than originally expected.\n\nThe Japanese conglomerate SoftBank has pumped tens of billions of dollars into WeWork as it continued to lose money.\n\nThe firm has seen its share price plunge by almost 99% in the last year.\n\nIn August, WeWork raised \"substantial doubt\" about its ability to continue operations.\n\nAt the time, the company said in a statement that it faced challenges including 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