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it's saturday 8th july. our main story: tributes are being paid to the eight—year—old girl who died when a car crashed into her school in wimbledon on thursday. she's been named as selena lau. her family says she was "adored and loved by everyone". another eight—year old girl and a woman in her 40s are still in a critical condition. a woman who was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving has been released on bail. louisa pilbeam reports. "an intelligent and cheeky girl, adored and loved by everyone." selena lau's family have paid tribute to the eight—yearâ...

at the post office after the chairman of the organisation stood down yesterday. henry staunton left the role following the fall—out from the horizon it scandal. but there's confusion over whether it was by "mutual consent" as reported by the government, or whether he was asked to leave, as the post office says. our political correspondent iain watson has the latest. it has been thrown out enough, that is it, i am free. it has been thrown out enough, that is it. i am free-— is it, i am free. dismantled resisted — is it, i am free. dismantled resisted his _ is it, i am free. dism...

streets under siege, a dramatic outpouring of anger, after a 17—year—old, nahel, was killed by police during a traffic stop. many of the rioters are teenagers, out despite a plea from france's president to parents to keep their children at home. as the protests have intensified, so too has the police presence. across the country from friday into saturday morning, more than 115,000 officers were deployed stop and it is the police thatis deployed stop and it is the police that is driving people onto the streets in the first place. many here accuse officers of discrimination, and ev...

to moscow — as well. there's increased security in moscow — with what's being called anti—terror measures. the m4 motorway — which links the russian capital with cities in south — such as rostov — is closed because of a military convey that is moving along it. the kremlin has called for prigozhin�*s arrest — with top russian generals telling wagner forces to stand down. and the russian president vladimir putin has given a tv address and said russia is facing a betrayal. here's mr putin's television address to the russian nation. translation: russia is engaged in a fig...

will be extraordinary. and after all this time, did covid—19 really escape from a laboratory in wuhan? there are a lot of people now who believe that china's primary aim here isn'tjust to deny the possibility of a lab leak, but it is to deny the possibility that covid came from within china's borders at all. the disaster at the nova kakhovka dam on the dnieper river, flooding parts of the front line in southern ukraine, could well be a deliberately engineered effort by russia to derail ukraine's big counteroffensive. it's another extraordinary twist in this war, which almost every ...