Translation i would like to speak | about yet another russian attack. L in don bass, in the town of. An attack on in don bass, in the town of. In attack on the market, in the in don bass, in the town of. Film attack on the market, in the shops, and the drugstore. I have been there any times before with my team. Everyone who knows the place is aware this is a civilian town, there were no Military Bases there. We understand they do this when our Army Advances on the front line. They always attack civilians where there are tillery cant reach. We understand they are killing civilians on purpose. Live now to nomia iqbal in washington. We know whats happening on the ground in ukraine in regards to the offensive, the context for blinken� s visit now. He offensive, the context for blinkens visit now. , visit now. He is visiting the ukrainian visit now. He is visiting the Ukrainian Capital visit now. He is visiting the Ukrainian Capital for visit now. He is visiting the Ukrainian Capital for the i visit now. He is visiting the l Ukrainian Capital for the third visit now. He is visiting the Ukrainian Capital for the third time since the war started last year. Americas diplomat, what he plans to do is double down on the us support for ukraine which has been pretty much unwavering since the war began. But also he needs to make the case back home in the us that its still worth supporting ukraine. We are expecting him to announce another package of support worth about 1 billion. It is committed more than 60 million in aid, billion dollars in aid, more than 60 billion of that. Especially with this counteroffensive thats happening, its about four months and, its not been going to plan. There is some concern, certainly amongst officials here that its slow, its not achieving the objectives that needs to, and also bear in mind ukraine is going to experience autumn soon and well see heavy rain, incredibly muddy. Blinken will be addressing that with officials in ukraine. But as i say, what i think here in the us, certainly what congress and what the American Public are looking for is, is it still worth it . Can he make that case that all the support that has been given to ukraine is worth it. �. ,. ,. , worth it. And how much concern is there about worth it. And how much concern is there about the worth it. And how much concern is there about the other worth it. And how much concern is| there about the other development recently and you ukraine, about that corruption scandal. Recently and you ukraine, about that corruption scandal. That corruption scandal. President biden was asked that corruption scandal. President biden was asked about that corruption scandal. President biden was asked about that, biden was asked about that, basically there was no comment from him. But blinken, whilst hes been in ukraine, having this kind of roundtable conference about corruption. That may be as a sign that they are sending, they are taking it more seriously. As far as washington is concerned, as far as the president is concerned they arent commenting on that, theyve got nothing to say publicly on it. Thank you so much, no Mia Iqbal Joining us from washington there. This is us Secretary Entity blinken and his ukrainian counterpart. That is correct, they are at mcdonalds and enjoying a meal there. This happened earlier today of course. We are expecting to hear more from them. Is it a happy meal . Well find out more later im sure. But yes, we are expecting a conference, Press Conference from the two Men A Little Bit later, well bring you that life as soon as it happens. A manhunt has been launched after a Terror Suspect escaped from Hmp Wandsworth in london this morning. Daniel khalife was aWaiting Trial after being accused of leaving fake bombs at a Military Base while serving as a soldier. Ports and airports have been alerted by Counter Terrorism command. For more on this im joined by correspondent greg mckenzie. Greg, what else can you tell us about this escape . The greg, what else can you tell us about this escape . Greg, what else can you tell us about this escape . The escape took lace this about this escape . The escape took place this morning about this escape . The escape took place this morning at about this escape . The escape took place this morning at seven about this escape . The escape took place this morning at seven to about this escape . The escape took place this morning at seven to 50 i place this morning at seven to 50 a. M. 7 50 a m. Its a category b prison, now its believed the 21 year old who is being housed on raymonde, has escaped by strapping himself underneath a food delivery van that had come into the prison, believed also he was wearing a chef � s outfit at the time. Potentially taken from the kitchen at wandsworth prison. There has been a Security Alert at the ports in search of this individual, just in case he attempts to leave the country via Heathrow Airport or gatwick. As far as manchester have been put on alert to be on the lookout for this former soldier. He was discharged from the army only in may of this year, having been taken to court, really, he was in court accused of a number of fake plots to bomb a number of Ministry Of Defence sites in stafford, thats why he was being housed on remand. But this morning he escaped and police said although he escaped and police said although he isnt a danger to individual people, he is a danger nonetheless and therefore they are asking people not to approach him and to simply contact the police. This not to approach him and to simply contact the police. Contact the police. This picture ust in. Contact the police. This picture just in yes contact the police. This picture just in. Yes greg, contact the police. This picture just in. Yes greg, many contact the police. This picture | just in. Yes greg, many people watching the story would be quite i think, anxious to find out what you just mentioned there, what police are saying about this man and whether he is a danger to the public. Whether he is a danger to the ublic. ~ , u, whether he is a danger to the ublic. ~ , � public. Well they say he isnt a dan. Er, public. Well they say he isnt a danger. So public. Well they say he isnt a danger. So he public. Well they say he isnt a danger, so he wasnt public. Well they say he isnt a danger, so he wasnt jailed public. Well they say he isnt a danger, so he wasnt jailed forj danger, so he wasntjailed for Stabbing Somebody or trying to carry out an offence on an individual. He was jailed on remand, Waiting Trial for terrorism offences. He is accused of obtaining information pertaining to soldiers at one of these barracks, that that information could have been used in the act of terrorism. So he is aWaiting Trial on that charge alone, and also a number of charges pertaining to this hoax bomb he is accused of carrying out a number of hoaxes at these army barracks, and Thatis Hoaxes at these army barracks, and that is why he was facing trial. He will once captured he will obviously go to trial and a jury will decide whether he is guilty or not, but as of today, he is a wanted man and the police have warned airports and ports to be on the lookout for the 21 year old. Mil ports to be on the lookout for the 21yearold ports to be on the lookout for the 21yearold. All right greg, thank ou for 21yearold. All right greg, thank you for that 21yearold. All right greg, thank you for that update, 21yearold. All right greg, thank you for that update, our you for that update, our Correspondent Mckenzie there. The bbc has been sent a video of the father and step mother of sara sharif the 10 year old found dead at a house in woking last month in which they claim theyre willing to co operate with british police. Its the couples first Public Statement since they left the uk the day before saras body was found on 10th of august. Its a short video and the couple focuses mainly on the circumstances they now find themselves in. Heres our pakistan correspondent, caroline davies. We are coming forward and presenting ourselves. Four weeks to the day after they left the uk, this is the first and weve heard from urfan sharif and beinash batool. Theyre wanted for questioning about the death of sara sharif, urfan� s ten year old daughter. She was found dead the day after they left for pakistan. Pakistan Police Believe they travel to a hamlet in a rural area. Ina ruralarea. But from there, police say they lost the trail. Firstly, i would like to talk about sara. Saras death was an incident. In the 2 36 video, this is the only mention of sara. 0urfamily in pakistan are severely affected by all that is going on. They are harassing my extended family. They have also illegally raided many more of my Family Members homes. Most is about the harassment the couple say their family are facing as the Police Search for them. They have talked about a lawyer they have instructed in court to stop it. Police have previously admitted detaining some Family Members for questioning and conducting raids. My main concern is that the Pakistani Police will torture or kill us, that is why we have gone into hiding. 0n the latest allegation of torture, the police have been adamant, saying this is totally baseless. We dont know where this was filmed of the conditions was filmed or the conditions it was filmed under but some details help us to date it. Including when their lawyer will next try to stop the alleged harassment. The next Court Hearing is on 19th September 2023. There, thats important because that decision was only made yesterday in court in rawalpindi, our team was there. That means this video must have be made in the course of the last day. Most crucial is this element. Lastly, we are willing to cooperate with the uk authorities and fight our case in court. Pakistani police say they still do not know where the family is. Caroline davies, bbc news, islamabad. Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb. The Weizmann Institute team says its synthetic embryo Model Looks Like a textbook example of a real 14 day old embryo. It even released hormones that produced a positive Pregnancy Test. The aim of these embryo models is to provide an ethical way of studying how stem cells form organs in developing embryos, and may one day make it possible to grow tissues and organs for transplantation using synthetic embryo models. 0ur health and science correspondent James Gallagher has more. This is a field thats been progressing rapidly and has now reached a significant moment. Take a second to think how remarkable it is that our lives start out like this. A single sperm fertilizing a single egg. But the first steps on the journey from this to us are poorly understood, and researching embryos is legally, ethically and technically fraught. So this is where embryo models come in and this is how its done. So there are no sperm or eggs involved. Instead, scientists start with human stem cells. These have the potential to become any type of tissue in our body. These are then transformed into the four types of cell youd find in an embryo that was just one week old. Then 120 of them are mixed together and you can see they start off as a jumble. But as they grow, this happens, they start to organize themselves, mimicking what a real embryo would look like 1a days after fertilization. And we can take a look at one. Now, this might appear confusing, i admit, but we can spot some things in here. The purple cells around the outside are the ones that would grow to form the placenta, and as we go inside, the yellow cells would create a yolk sac, and the blue ones would form in a real embryo, a human being. Now, of course, this isnt a real embryo. Its not possible to put this in the womb and make a baby. But it is similar. It even released hormones that made a Pregnancy Test turn positive in the lab. And thats whats exciting the Research Team in israel. Yes, this does look like textbook and and the structures are there and it looks really, really good. This is a stem cell derived entity that has all the cell types, all the compartments that are known and in the right orientation, which hasnt been done before. For those struggling to start a family, this research may one day help. It could lead to new ideas for tackling infertility or improving ivf. And thats because these embryo models allow scientists to perform research that would be impossible on real embryos. To understand the crucial early moments of our development when miscarriage and birth defects often arise. Theyre not normal human embryos. They are embryo models, but theyre very close to them. And so should you regulate them in the same way as a normal human embryo, or can you be a bit more relaxed about how theyre treated because because theyre not actually normal human embryos. You could not implant one of these in a woman because that would be illegal and they probably wouldnt work anyway. This field of research is advancing incredibly rapidly and its left regulators playing catch up. Around the world and across the uk. This is bbc news. Lets look at some other stories making news. Parts of the uk are expected to hit 32 degrees celsius later this week as an unseasonal heatwave sweeps across the country. Usually september marks the start of autumn and cooler weather but forecasters say the mercury could hit levels higher than the middle of summer. Heat Health Alerts have been upgraded to amber for most of england. Archaeologists in israel have discovered four Ancient Roman swords in a remote desert cave. They believe they were captured by jewish rebels nearly 2000 years ago. The site where they were found is known to have been a Hideout Forjewish fighters rising up against the romans who controlled what was then judea. New analysis by the un suggests about six billion tonnes of sand is dredged from the worlds oceans each year. The Un Environment Programme said the practice endangered marine life and coastal communities and that there is an urgent need for better management of sea mining. Sand is one of the most exploited Natural Resources in the world and is used in the production of concrete and glass. Youre live with bbc news. An investigation into the Helicopter Crash at leicester citys stadium five years ago has found there was nothing the pilot could have done to prevent it. Five people were killed in the crash outside the king power stadium, including the clubs billionare thai owner. The Aviation Accidents Investigation Bureau blames catastrophic mechanical failure and rules out pilot error. 0ur Midlands Correspondent phil mackie reports. This was the aftermath of the accident in october 2018, a start of an investigation into what became a loss of life. When the rear rotor blade failed, it cause the helicopter to spin out of control. It crashed and caught fire, everyone on board was killed. The Billionaire Chairman and others, including an experienced pilot and in structure, inspectors say all Safety Checks have been properly carried out, and he couldnt have done anything to prevent the accident. Its he couldnt have done anything to prevent the accident. He couldnt have done anything to prevent the accident. Its a serious failure, prevent the accident. Its a serious failure. And prevent the accident. Its a serious failure, and what prevent the accident. Its a serious failure, and what happened, prevent the accident. Its a serious failure, and what happened, it prevent the accident. Its a serious l failure, and what happened, it drove the blades to their full negative pitch and that spun the aircraft around, it was spinning once every two seconds, it made the helicopter impossible to control. There wasnt anything else he could have done. This is where the Helicopter Crashed and players and staff did their best to pull people out of the wreckage, a year later it was opened odds this beautiful Memorial Garden as a permanent reminder of the club and supporters of what happened. The aip has made a number of recommendations. Lets interrupted that now to take your life to kyiv. Translation that now to take your life to kyiv. Translation . , ,. , translation tony, welcome to kyiv. I dont think we translation tony, welcome to kyiv. I dont think we need translation tony, welcome to kyiv. I dont think we need any i dont think we need any formal greetings. Because throughout this time of our working together, especially since this part of the full scale invasion, the relations between ukraine and the United States have reached a level when no formalities are necessary. What we need is sincere, friendly and fully frank conversation exactly what we had today. But first of all i would like to thank this secretary, this state secretary. Because we began the day with visiting the cemetery. I would like to comment on that because we have started a new tradition and i would like to thank the Secretary Of State for the support by becoming the first head of Foreign Ministry to begin his visit by honouring the graves of ukrainian soldiers. Who died repelling a full scale invasion. Today i told tony that, unfortunately, there are hundreds of such cemeteries all over ukraine. Everyone recognises them because there are ukrainian flags flying over them and the flags of the big grades where these soldiers fought. And i would like to thank tony for being with me there today, for sharing the emotional moment and for paying respects to the dead. But also for demonstrating the highest level of respect for the ukrainian soldiers who are continuing the fight, who are leading a counteroffensive, who are taking part in defence faction and are defending ukraine. From me today, it was important to hear the words of the Secretary Of State. And his high praise for the actions of our soldiers, our officers and our defence forces. This is an objective assessment which takes into account the difficulties on the front line, the difficulties on the front line, the heroic deeds of ukrainian serviceman, but first of all let us address the substantive part of the talks today. We, again, saw for ourselves there the United States remains a leading ally of ukraine encountering the russian aggression. We are extremely appreciative of the financial, humanitarian, energy and Political Support coming from the United States. And we think the biden administration, the Foreign Policy team and especially the Secretary Of State, the congress, and each american supporting ukraine in this fight. The Military Assistance provided to ukraine and Financial Assistance are not a charitable act. I would like to stress that. It is the most beneficial investment on the part of the us in European Security and the euro Atlantic Security and the security of the entire world. Today ukraine, supported by its partners, is deterring russia. Its forcing it to renounce its aggressive plans. To subjugate other countries to its well. And unprecedented in history, well. And unprecedented in history, we are not putting any american lives at risk. We are leading this fight with our own resources, our own people, who are fighting, using weapons from our partners. We have never called for american troops to be brought into ukraine. We will never do this. But indeed, we need support in this fight. And this support in this fight. And this support is also a recognition of the mission. That ukraine is performing in the global context. Today, it will be no surprise to you that we spent a lot of time talking about weapons. And we thank you, we thank you for the decisions taken already, for the decisions yet to be announced, its important that the Secretary Of State will return to washington with a very concise understanding of our needs. We discussed an increase in air defence, strengthening air defence, while the Secretary Of State was en route to kyiv, kyiv sustains yet another missile attack. And other ukrainian regions were affected. So we did not spend a lot of time discussing our air defence needs because there isnt anything to discussed. Its obvious, the need is high and very important. And i only mentioned the number of air Defence Systems that we need to protect the green corridor and our cities. Grain corridor. I would like to give special thanks to the United States for the decision to allow other countries to start Training Pilots on f 16 combat aircraft and to handle this aircraft. We have spent a lot of time thinking denmark, the netherlands, norway, have already stated their readiness to handle their planes and we thanked for countries that have announced training for pilots, and thanking them we also think the United States without whose decision these countries would not have been able to approve their own decisions. Because f 16 is an american plane. We also discussed in detail, providing ukraine with long range missiles, we have very substantive conversation on this and i am glad that this remains an open discussion, it remains an open question, and the discussions within, we hope the discussions within, we hope the discussions within the administration will lead to a positive decision. We spent time today. As you know, its not enough to engage partners weapons, but ukraine and the whole world needs to step up in arms production. Production of weapons of different types, and the right times in history where the world is disarming, but now is the time for the world, when the world is forced to arm itself. And therefore i implored the Secretary Of State about our plan to hold the first ever forum of Defence Industries where foreign and Ukrainian Defence enterprises will pool efforts in the joint production and servicing of weapons. I also said that we are talking about integrating they ukraines defence with natos defence programmes. Us and American Companies will take part in this important event i hope they will. I already mentioned that this grain as export, our positions concur. The most promising is the danube corridor and we will work on its development. We also discussed of course, the piece formula. We coordinated our next steps in strengthening and expanding the circle of those involved in this initiative, that was president zielinski zelensky� s initiative. Tools for ending the war, the rules of ending the war are defined not by the aggressor but the country repelling the aggression. And this is an important moment in International Diplomacy and it is a fair approach. We also agreed to specific steps that we are going to take together for this. And ultimately i want to mention one more thing. These are civilian prisoners. I informed the Secretary Of State that russia is engaging in a very large scale operation in capturing civilians and taking them prisoner. Tens of thousands of civilians have ended up in russian captivity only because they are ukrainians and for some reason the Russian Occupying authorities do not like them. We in ukraine understand that the world needs more effective mechanisms to save these people. There are many questions here, but we must not allow russia to create a precedent which will be used by russia and other hostile regimes. To use, which will use civilians as hostages. We agreed that our teams will hold consultations on which instruments are available in International Law and could be used to release these people. And which instruments should be created to save them. And finally, i would like to thank the Secretary Of State for the fact that whatever we discussed, whatever these are, diplomatic efforts or the piece formula or relations with african states, weapons, the counteroffensive, central to these discussions for the Secretary Of State is always the human being. There security and their freedom. Human being. There security and theirfreedom. And thanks human being. There security and their freedom. And thanks to this approach, we always find solutions because everything we do, we do for people. And this is also about such things as the return of mcdonalds to ukraine. It is back, and has become symbolic of the return of large scale American Business and the confidence that you can do large scale business in ukraine and stand next to our people at a difficult time for them. So thank you tony, again, for this visit, it is very timely. The talks you had with the Prime Minister and president of ukraine were very meaningful, and i am sure that very soon, concrete decisions will be approved as a result of these talks. We will continue to move forward. Whoever made out that ukraine and the United States will stand shoulder to shoulder in this war, in this fight for victory, have again seen today that they are mistaken. We are moving Forward Together because we understand that this war is not only for the future of ukraine. This is about the future of the world. And we must defend the world together. Tony, over to you. Thank you very, very much. Let me start thank you very, very much. Let me start by thank you very, very much. Let me start by saying how moving it was to oin start by saying how moving it was to join you start by saying how moving it was to join you this start by saying how moving it was to join you this morning in paying tribute join you this morning in paying tribute to