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Peace or putin. And the british Indie Rock Band English Teacher have won this Years Mercury Prize for their Debut Album, this could be texas. Hello, iam hello, i am sarah campbell. A united Nations Fact finding mission has uncovered what it described as harrowing Human Rights Violations in sudan. The war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support forces has triggered one of the worlds worst humanitarian crises. Thousands of people have been killed and millions forced from their homes. The un team said the violations by both sides since april last year may amount to War Crimes and crimes against humanity. Meanwhile the bbc has seen, first hand, the desperate conditions civilians are enduring in sudan. Aid agencies are warning the Hunger Crisis is of historic proportions. Our correspondent nawal al maghafi, has gained rare access to the city of Port Sudan and a key Border Area in neighbouring chad where refugees are still flowing out as Aid Agencies desperately try to get aid in. We only get one meal a day, this woman says. In this displacement is camp, they say life is hard. In another camp nearby, People Queue for water. Mace daly a most basic rights. This amount has mystified with a children from one city to another, trying to escape the war before arriving here in this Displacement Camp in portadown. Translation . , ~ , translation that i think is so intense. I saw translation that i think is so intense. I saw two translation that i think is so intense. I saw two of translation that i think is so intense. I saw two of my intense. I saw two of my neighbours being cut into. The children are morning a life they once had. We dont know where he is what happened to him. That is at, ourfuture is over. That is nothing left. My children are devastated. The scale of suffering children are devastated. The scale of suffering here in saddam is unimaginable. 60 months of what have had a devastating impact on peoples lives here. Over 10 Million people have had to flu their homes. If they escape the bombs and bullets, there is another killer, hunger. Hunger is ravaging sudan. In neighbouring chad, these Aid Trucks are lined up and ready to cross, but its held by Rapid Support forces who are fighting the sudanese armed forces. For months, the Saf Have blocked supplies from getting through this key crossing points. They say it has been stolen by the rss, and weapons are being smuggled in. Both sides in the conflict have denied impeding the delivery of humanitarian relief. As it prepares to go into this border, families are crossing it to escape the war. These refugees arrived five days ago. It was hunger that drove them to make the treacherous journey. Translation it treacherous journey. Tuna mom treacherous journey. 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The un wants if the Flow Isnt increased, the consequences could be dire. Thats much suffering, these are not statistics was that for mothers, daughters, kids. People are going to die, its as simple as that. Children are already dying. There is more gender based violence towards women, some will not recover from. ,. , from. This is ultimate suffering. From. This is ultimate suffering. By from. This is ultimate i suffering. By repeatedly spreading Peace Talks and impeding aid, they are putting millions at risk of starvation. Many we spoke to are hoping people will take notice and take action before it is too late. Here in the uk, the Home Secretary Will chair a meeting of senior ministers, Intelligence Agencies and Law Enforcement bodies, to discuss what progress has been made in tackling criminal gangs who smuggle people from france across the english channel. 12 people died on tuesday when their small boat came apart off the french coast. Yvette cooper said this showed the moral imperative of dismantling the gangs. Our home editor, mark easton, reports. The government claims the deaths of 12 migrants in the channeljust off the french coast earlier this week is evidence of both the moral imperative in destroying the smuggling gangs, and also that measures to disrupt the criminal networks are having an impact. The Home Office says it suggests the Business Model of the smugglers is under pressure. More people are being crammed into less seaworthy vessels, with intelligence suggesting the gangs have increased their charges, including demanding payment for children. Almost 22,000 migrants have arrived in britain after attempting to cross the channel this year, more than 7,000 since the election. Having scrapped the previous governments rwanda plan, the Labour Administration is under pressure to prove it has a plan to stop the boats. At a meeting of senior government ministers, Intelligence Agencies and Law Enforcement bodies In London today, the Home Office will say a0 small boats and engines were seized in an operation in bulgaria in recent weeks. That there are currently 70 live investigations, including operations targeting gangs in libya, Romania And Southeast asia. Meanwhile, plans to house asylum seekers, Including Small Boat Migrants at Raf Scampton, a former ministry of Defence Site in lincolnshire, have been scrapped. The Home Office says it would have cost £122 million over three years, and no longer represents value for money. Even the civil servants that came to visit the site i have never thought Raf Scampton was a viable property. Lets not pretend it was ever an answer to that problem. It has ranged under the previous government that said it would hold hundreds of thousands of people and the cuts have massively been inflated. Critics say the government is not moving quickly enough to deal with the small boat crisis. After promising the rapid recruitment of a Border Security Commander to oversee the response two months ago, Downing Street has said the appointment will be confirmed in the next few weeks. Todays meeting styled as a Landmark Operational Summit is an operation to demonstrate some progress in an attempt to destroy the smuggling gangs. Within the past hour the Ministry Ofjustice has announced that the Prison Population in england and wales has hit a record high. It now stands at 88 Thousand 521. This comes as thousands of offenders whove served 40 of their Prison Terms will be eligible for early release its necessary, says the government, because of severe overcrowding in jails. There are fewer than 500 spaces left in mens prisons in england and wales a crisis made worse by the convictions of hundreds of people involved in riots last month. Our senior Uk Correspondent Sima Kotecha was given full and rare access to Hmp Pentonville In London and this is what she found. Alarm blares. Chaos in Hmp Pentonville. Were the only broadcast journalists given access. Its a Code Red. To one of britains most dangerous jails since the current crisis. Ok, come on, folks. And some Prison Officers are so frightened of being targeted on the outside that weve had to blur theirfaces. Hmp pentonville. Staff are overstretched. Another alarm here. And on the verge of breaking point. You worry about, you know, opening the door in the morning and making sure that theyre alive~ anything can happen. Theres been deaths in prison. All right, what have we got coming in this afternoon, then . Each day, more Bus Loads arrive, making this jail one of the most crowded in the country. Can you stand in the middle of the black and Yellow Box for me . They undergo body checks. So this scanner will show whether theyre hiding anything inside their body. Any drugs, any weapons. Yep. Most of the inmates are on remand, so theyre waiting for their trial or sentencing. Others are doing time for crimes such as murder, robbery and rape. And anything can happen. Alarm blares. Theres an alarm gone off. Yeah. Im going to go and see. Its a Code Red. A Code Red alarm involves blood or burns. An inmate has Self Harmed. A moment of apprehension as they assess the situation. Can you talk me through whats happened . Yes, weve got a prisoner Whos Self harmed here. Hes made superficial cuts to his arm. Staff say overcrowding is leading to an increase in Self Harm and violence. Because of Inmates Frustration with being locked up for longer. Across the wing, michaels inside for drug offences. There are some people who simply dont care about prisoners. Theyre like, they broke the law, they should be locked up. Shouldnt be a hotel. But you are supposed to be rehabilitated inside. Do you think prison is providing a rehabilitation . No. Its a punishment, its not a rehabilitation. Its hard to rehabilitate yourself in a place where youve got gang violence, postcode wars, drug violence, money wars. If youve got beef there, violence there, drugs there, people collapsing here, the staff, theyre outstretched. Theyre trying to do this, this, this and this. But now you want help, as well. Moments later, another alarm. The fifth of the day. Yesterday, there were more than 30. Theyve just jumped on the netting. Prison officers are running up the stairs to try and get them down. What the staff are saying is that it can turn really quickly. A quiet moment can become chaotic within a matter of seconds. As one Prison Officer said, its like the flick of a switch. Staff do what they can to calm things down. You told me about it yesterday. And very quickly theyre back on normal duties. There must have been some hairy moments . They kind of they all kind of blur into one because its not like, oh, once in a blue Moon Something happens. Its like day in, day out, you kind of are dealing with incidents from Self Harm to violence to kind of people with severe Mental Health issues. Gang violence is an ongoing threat at pentonville and has had some serious consequences for staff. This Prison Officer broke both her wrists while separating two gang members during a fight. Its probably the biggest thing In London. Like, the gang affiliation, gang issues are the biggest reasons why we have so many, probably, people injail. So it ends up us trying to stop them. Were just trying to stop the fight. Thats how i broke both my wrists just trying to stop it. That wasnt even. Yeah, itjust gets really messy sometimes in that quite small space. Stressful . Stressful. Yeah, stressful. Sima kotecha, bbc news, Hmp Pentonville. Around the world and across the uk. This is bbc news. Welcome back. The European Unions climate monitor, copernicus, has said that during the past three months, the Club Experience the hottest june and august ever recorded, and the hottest day on record. Reports from The Agency said that 2024 saw the highest temperatures ever recorded for the northern hemisphere summer, beating last years record. The report suggests that this string of Record Temperatures increase the likelihood of 2024 being the hottest year on record. Lets speak to the. It. It doesnt appear to be a particularly hot summer, but elsewhere it has . Particularly hot summer, but elsewhere it has . Yes, look at euroe, elsewhere it has . Yes, look at eumpe. It elsewhere it has . Yes, look at eumpe. It has elsewhere it has . Yes, look at europe, it has been elsewhere it has . Yes, look at europe, it has been some elsewhere it has . Yes, look at. Europe, it has been some method to europes. The balkans and eastern Cyprus And Greece has peaked. But if you look at the west, atlantic france and the uk, ireland, and patterson of Southern Norway have been really quite cold and wet. It looks surprising. If you look even further, it has been the warmest summer we had on record going back to the 1940s. In all likelihood, one of the warmest summers of our civilisation, may be in A Thousand years. Take us through some of the statistics. Take us through some of the statistica statistics. August 2024 was 1. 54 statistics. August 2024 was 154 above statistics. August 2024 was 1. 54 above that statistics. August 2024 was | 1. 54 above that preindustrial level, and the 13th month in which the global average was above average. This is interesting because last year, as you know, we were in the El Nino, the one phase of the insulation of the tropical pacific. Now we are out of it, we are getting to the next phase which is the cold phase. We can expect temperatures slowly to go down, but we have to cut so much extra heat during the early months, we have never been so one for the eight Month Period in a record. In all likelihood, 2024 will become the warmest year on record by The End of the air. Through the impact of the high we havejust seen through the impact of the high we have just seen pictures of Coral Bleaching and we have been reporting on the fires across europe and northern america. What are the temperatures mean . In america. What are the temperatures mean . In a its not a result temperatures mean . In a its not a result of temperatures mean . In a its not a result of a temperatures mean . In a its not a result of a Piece Temperatures mean . In a its not a result of a piece of not a result of a piece of research. Its not like watching a Super Big Thermometer of the planets. We have been taking millions of observation every day and giving us a snapshot of what is happening. It is important, its relevance. As i said, we have never been so warm and our history, and this tells us we are really and truly in uncharted territory. This comes as a higher risk of flooding, one must atmosphere means higher waters. One must atmosphere means higherwaters. It one must atmosphere means higher waters. It will one must atmosphere means higherwaters. It willalso higher waters. It will also increase higherwaters. It willalso increase their chances of drought, we have seen at the summer especially, once again, and eastern europe. It increases the intensity of the most intense fire. All these things, all the extreme events which we have seen the summer are likely to become more or likely to become stronger, intense, and he with being the most noticeable one with the warming of the climate. find Warming of the climate. And finall , warming of the climate. And finally. You warming of the climate. And finally, you said warming of the climate. And finally, you said El Warming of the climate. And finally, you said El Nino warming of the climate. And finally, you said El Nino has now finished, so we should expect some just to be less going forward from now . Yes, if ou look going forward from now . Yes, if you look at going forward from now . Yes, if you look at the going forward from now . Yes, if you look at the temperature you look at the temperature today, the average from january today, the average from january to now, you see that every month that passed the average tended to go down. Last year it was the opposite. We were riding up the globe attempted because El Nino was adding to the system. Now it is going down. We are still at a warmer level than last year, but pending something really unexpected that we have never seen before, these will become the warmest on record, because we wont cool down enough to go beyond 2023. We wont cool down enough to go beyond 2021 beyond 2023. Thank you very much for beyond 2023. Thank you very much for talking beyond 2023. Thank you very much for talking to beyond 2023. Thank you very much for talking to us, beyond 2023. Thank you very much for talking to us, the l much for talking to us, the director of the company because Climate Change service. President zelensky has urged ukraines military backers, during a meeting in germany, to authorise the use of long range missiles to attack targets within russia. Sitting next to the us secretary of defence, lloyd austin, whos hosting the talks at the ramstein air base, Mr Zelensky said this was the only way to bring about an end of the war. He said President Putin did not care about russian land or people, and he urged russian soldiers to ask themselves what was more important, Peace Or Putin . The us has announced a new package of aid, and the uk says it will provide ukraine with 650 new lightweight missiles, in a package worth £162 million. Lets hearfrom President Zelensky here he is speaking at the start of the conference. We do want to end this war. We want peace. We want to save our people first of all. Our country. It is putin who does not want peace and is obsessed with territorial conquests. He wants our cities or the ruins that remain of them and that is why we need strength. We need to force russia to seek peace. We need to make russia citizens and even russian soldiers think about what they need Peace Or Putin . Earlier i spoke to our Europe Correspondent Nick beake whos in kyiv. This is significant because there have been more than 20 of these meetings held in West Germany at this american military base, but this is the first time that President Zelenskyy has gone there in person. Previously, he has appeared via a Video Link up. So its a big trip for him, like every trip he makes through this country, with all the Security Risk that involves. As we were seeing there, hes taken this message to his key allies, notably the americans, and what he said this morning is that his western partners need to ignore what he described as President Putins red line. So, in other words, nato allies need to do much more. Interestingly, though, the americans are stressing today that this is all about providing more defensive support, particularly to thwart some of the ongoing russian air attacks, but President Zelenskyy is saying no, the focus has to be on these long range missiles because we heard the president just there and he said the whole key to bringing about peace is through ukraine using these longer range missiles, which will hit further into russia and if more pressure is applied on President Putin, that is how you bring him to the negotiating table. That was nick beek reporting. At least 17 children have died after a fire swept through their primary School Dormitory overnight in central kenya. Police said the blaze at the academy in nyeri broke out at about midnight, engulfing rooms where the children were sleeping. More than 2000 people tried to rescue the boy is it under their beds. The cause of the fire is still unclear. The Israeli Army have withdrawn from janine in the West Bank after a ten day operation. More than 30 people died doing what the israeli military called a counterterrorism operation. The funerals for some of those killed have been taking place in janine. Killed have been taking place injanine. Israeli forces in janine. Israeli forces launched injanine. Israeli forces launched the operation at The End of august. Residents have now started returning to the homes in the northern West Bank. A middle East Correspondence sent this update from janine. The bulldozers have now left, but this is the aftermath. This was the heart of Israels Sweep at the northern West Bank. They were here for nine and a half days, and this is the first time at residence here have been able to leave their homes, see the destruction around them. In some cases, actually come back to homes that they had fled days ago. Israel says this was a counterterrorist operation. It is clear that its targets was the armed palestinian groups that are based here. The methods its using and whats a raising alarm. Its notjust the civilians killed and injured, but the levels of destruction that are wrecking peoples lives. The winner of the prestigious Mercury Prize has been revealed at a Cermony At Abbey Road Studios In London. Indie band English Teacher from leeds have been recognised for their Debut Album this could be texas. They beat competition from the likes of charli xcx, irish singer cmat, rising Star Cat burns and indie group the last dinner party. Lets take a listen to a hit by winners English Teacher. Tell us a bit about your record. Tell us a bit about your record tell us a bit about your record. �. ,. , , record. Im not really sure what to record. Im not really sure what to say. Record. Im not really sure what to say. We record. Im not really sure what to say. We worked. Record. Im not really sure what to say. We worked really hard on it. We definitely hold ourselves to a high standard, whether its a good thing or not, it wasnt necessarily that smoothest process. I think that was maybe. We definitely pushed ourselves. Congratulations there are two that band, if you havent heard of them already, im sure you will now. They are the winners of the Mercury Prize. Stay with us here on bbc news. Hello. Its a day of big contrasts north to south across the uk. Weve got some heavy showers and some thunderstorms in the south, but for many of us, warm sunshine. Its going to feel quite humid out there for all of us. Do watch out for Heavy Rain, which may bring some localised flooding and some rumbles of thunder for southern England And South wales. On the Satellite Image you can see this Swirling Mass of cloud. This is marking an area of low pressure sitting across the Bay Of Biscay and its throwing towards us some quite humid air, but also those heavy downpours, as well. An easterly breeze further north, so any Mist And Fog that weve seen through this morning clearing away. Lots of long spells of sunshine for many areas. Its going to feel warm and humid, 25, 26 degrees for the likes of western scotland, north west england, as well. A few Degrees Cooler Close to the East Coast where youve got that breeze coming in off the sea, though heavy showers and thunderstorms will eventually start to ease away from southern England And South wales through tonight. There could be the Odd Spot of drizzle still around though. Further north, again, some mist and some fog patches, some low clouds, so a bit of a murky start to saturday, but certainly mild with temperatures sitting in the mid teens. So quite moist, humid air still with us as we head into the weekend. Weve still got this area of low pressure to the south on saturday, but a little bit of a quieter day i think. Not as many showers coming in, certainly compared to the Heavy Rain of today and yesterday. Still a fair amount of cloud and low Cloud And Mist in the north and the east. That should tend to break up, so, for most places, not a bad day. An improving picture again. Some really lovely, warm Sunshine And Light winds for Northern Ireland, much of scotland, northern england, wales, as well. Further south we have still got that cloud hanging on for the south of wales and southern england, bringing a few showers. More showers, though, as we head into sunday. They will be working their way north across england and wales. There could be the Odd Rumble of thunder, as well, but these showers will be hit and miss. There will be some warm spells of sunshine in between. Scotland and Northern Ireland having another largely dry and settled day. Temperatures not quite as warm as today, but were still looking at highs up to about 22 degrees. The warm air thats been with us as we head into next week will get shifted away towards the South And East as were going to open the doors for more of a north westerly airflow. That will certainly bring a colder Air Mass and a Real Change to the feel of the weather. So another few warm and humid days, with that Heavy Rain in the south, but into next week a drop in temperature for all of us, with a mix of sunny spells and scattered blustery showers. Bye bye. There will be a complete financial audit. Donald trump lays out his tone for the Countrys Economy from local taxes to a Top Job for elon musk. Also on the programme, the worlds biggest convenience to chain, 7 11, rejected a takeover deal. Hello and welcome to rejected a takeover deal. Hello and welcome to business rejected a takeover deal. Hello and welcome to business today. We begin the programme in the united states where it has been a rather tumultuous week on the markets following the publication of a series of reports on the state