you're watching the context on bbc news. a massive increase in the discharge of raw sewage into england's rivers and seas is adding to public anger over the conduct of water companies. sport and for a full round—up, from the bbc sport centre, here's mark edwards. 8 time winners lyon are through to the semi finals of the women's champions league with a convincing 4—1 victory over the french champions confidently dispatching the portuguese side 6—2 on aggregate. delphine cascarino with a double on the night in lyon. chelsea meanwhile are in action against ajax at stamford bridge, leading 3—0 from the first leg in amsterdam it's currently 0—0 in london. manchester city defender

and former england captain steph houghton will retire at the end of the current women's super league season. the 35—year—old is city's record appearance holder and is part of the squad in contention to win the wsl title this season. houghton has 121 england caps and represented team gb at london 2012 and tokyo 2020. rob page will continue as welsh national team manager despite the failure to qualify for the euro 2024 finals. the news was confirmed by football association of wales president steve williams has moved quickly to remove doubts over page's future. former wales forward, rob earnshaw, agrees page should future. former wales forward, rob earnshaw, agrees page should stay but says he had to do better. i think he has done very, very well in the last eight months or so. i think he has improved the squad. but i will say this, he has to improve now because we did not make it to a major tournament and that also backs up going to the world cup, the world cup was very, very disappointing.

so there has to be an improvement from the coach himself but also, how do we take them over the line? because we were one penalty kick away from another major tournament. the ukraine manager, serhiy rebrov, says his sides victory over iceland to reach euro 2024, was a very important one for the players and the people of ukraine against the backdrop of the ongoing war with russia. but arguably the result of the qualifiers belonged to georgia who beat greece to reach their first major tournament in their history sparking huge celebrations for the home fans in tblisi. head coach, willy sagnol, believes they're building something very special. to stay in georgia, i will pay to feel what i feel today. so i'm happy, and i never thought about going even if you would have asked me before the match. ifeel good, i'm feeling good, for years i'm surrounded by amazing people, and i think

that is the most important thing. england's women have won the t20 series against new zealand, with a game to spare. maia bouchier hit an impressive 91 off 56 balls — her second half—century in a row — to help england to 177—3. and charlie dean took four wickets, as new zealand fell 47 runs short. the win means england are 3—1 up in the series — the final game is on friday. i think it'll be good to just go out and play with the same intensity that we have been. we can try different things if we want to but that is something that we want to do, win games. inasmuch as the series is over, it is not over yet. we want to make sure we do that really well. it was great to get a win and win the series. the world number one, novak djokovic, has split with his long time coach goran ivanisovic. 0n social media djokovic said "goran and i decided to stop working

together a few days ago. 0ur on—court chemistry had its ups and downs but ourfriendship was always rock solid, ending the post saying, "thanks for everything my friend." and that's all the sport for now. before we move on, i want to bring you news of another stabbing in london tonight. the victim is in a life—threatening condition after being stabbed on a moving train in front of passengers who from the video seemed powerless to stop him. a warning — this footage we're about to show you is distressing although we are not showing the most graphic parts of the incident. this video shows two men fighting on the train, with one using a large knife. looks like a zombie knife. they are believed to have boarded the train at shortlands railway station in the south east of the capital. police say the man who was attacked was treated at beckenham junction

station and is now in hospital. they are appealing for witnesses to come forward with any information. so far no arrests have been made — the suspect is still believed to be at large. there has been a big jump in the number of times water companies in england have released raw sewage into our rivers and seas. according to the environment agency, there were 3.6 million hours of spills last year — that's more than double the previous year's number of 1.75 million hours of spills. water uk — which represents sewage companies — said the spills were unacceptable, but said the the record levels were down to long periods of heavy rain. here's our environment correspondentjonah fisher. it's covered in raw, untreated sewage. welcome to one of the many rather smelly front lines in england's war on sewage. i mean, the smell here is very much poo rather than chemicals, isn't it? yes. the reason for that reflects the fact that we've had

overflows of sewage. and the latest data shows that particularly when it rains, it's a battle that's being lost. we've seen, you know, solids floating past. turds? yeah, turds. we're outside a sewage treatment works in surrey. simon, a geography teacher, and nigel, who's retired, are showing us a video they filmed of sewage spilling through the fence onto the public footpath. there's a problem at this sewage works at horley where the storm tanks overtop across and out of the sewage works into the public realm where people are walking, dogs, children are playing. the latest environment agency data shows this site discharged sewage 80 times last year, for more than 1,200 hours. across england, the figures are as grim as the water by the footpath, with the number of hours of spills doubling to 3.6 million. these figures are unacceptable,

and they're sadly the result of a lack of investment in the system. our system combines waste water and rainwater. it needs upgrading urgently, which is why we have a plan to sort it out. these are terrible figures, caused in part by the fact that last year was just such a very wet year. but there's also a lot of finger—pointing taking place. everyone very keen to blame each other for the steady stream of sewage that's flowing into our streams, our rivers and seas. i don't see this as an environment agency or a regulator failure. it's a water industry failure. and i think our record on holding the industry to account is a good one. we've taken the water companies to court 60 times in the last eight years, but the damage has been done. in the last eight years. but the damage has been done. at this saturday's

boat race on the thames, don't expect to see scenes like this. 0rganisers are advising the rowers to be more cautious after campaigners found high levels of the e.coli bacteria, which can be linked to sewage in the water. next year, the rowers may have more luck. costing £5 billion and paid for by customer bills, a huge tunnel underneath the river thames was completed today. the super sewer will catch sewage that otherwise would have spilled into the river in central london, and should improve water quality. are you happy that the super sewer has been finished? the super sewer for london?! back outside the smelly sewage works, who do nigel and simon blame? the super city of london, back outside the smelly sewage works. who did nigel and simon blame? the government, the regulator 0fwat and the environment agency. and then the water companies themselves. sounds like pretty much everyone. jonah fisher, bbc news. on a brighter note, london's super—sewer — or the thames tideway tunnel as it's

officially known — will begin testing in a few months time. it is a huge tunnel — it's nearly 16 miles long and it stretches underneath the thames. eventually it'll connect 3a storm overflow drains and it'll take the sewage to be treated to a works in beckton in east london. leana hosea co—runs watershed, its an investigativejournalism unit focusing on water issues. this explanation about this spills being down during heavy rain, as i understand it, the high court ruling was switched should only be dumped in exceptional circumstances and exceptional weather. so unique that they cannot be foreseen. and i don't classify it as exceptional circumstances, do you? it classify it as exceptional circumstances, do you? it is illegal for companies _ circumstances, do you? it is illegal

for companies to _ circumstances, do you? it is illegal for companies to release _ circumstances, do you? it is illegal for companies to release and - circumstances, do you? it is illegal for companies to release and the i for companies to release and the circumstances and this is what the uk industry body and what we also found out really over time is that water companies are notjust water companies are not just releasing water companies are notjust releasing this in heavy rain and the bbc investigator found that in 2020 2023 waters and 3500 and dry weather which does suggest that domes were illegal and the revelations of the data today were of those doubling and increasing hours of spills is going to put pressure in the water industry and government and some activists are already calling for a lack of immediate investigation by the regulators and these are just enormous and so many hours which as i've said, double than the year before, if we have teams water for

example, that increase by 50,000 hours and bills increasing and united utilities in the northwest look like it's the worst offender and it's the highest bill to wait for it and 97,530 and it's the highest bill to wait for it and 97,537 might makea might make a split of the uk average in that backs up or you might make a split of the uk average in that backs up or yo— in that backs up or you are saying. and historically, _ in that backs up or you are saying. and historically, there _ in that backs up or you are saying. and historically, there have - in that backs up or you are saying. and historically, there have been. and historically, there have been problems and not enough investment but do you think things are heading to the right direction?— to the right direction? obviously, our to the right direction? obviously, your report _ to the right direction? obviously, your report mentioned _ to the right direction? obviously, your report mentioned the - to the right direction? obviously, your report mentioned the super| your report mentioned the super sewer, 16 mile long pipe that is going to act like a giant storage tank to divert waste from poor sewage flows from the river tames which we have seen over the years becoming really an open sewer.

myself, i have stood on the island with sanitary towels on its banking it's just horrendous. and that will get treated but it is not going to be a silver bullet, if there'll be times or it's going to reach capacity and if the treatment is also at capacity, we will see sewage spills and not all of the treatment work will be connected to the super sewer. for example, the sewage works which deal with the waste of 2,000,100 or so. which deal with the waste of 2,000,100 orso. i which deal with the waste of 2,000,100 or so. i looked into that a couple years ago and found that in 2020, they released the equivalent of 800 0lympic swimming pools of sewage injust two of 800 0lympic swimming pools of sewage in just two days. of 800 0lympic swimming pools of sewage injust two days. so, the amount of sewage that we are dealing with is absolutely huge and there is investment stop by the companies says will be triple the rate that it is now and will cut spills. br;

says will be triple the rate that it is now and will cut spills. 153; a is now and will cut spills. by a third. which _ is now and will cut spills. by a third. which is _ is now and will cut spills. by a third. which is good _ is now and will cut spills. by a third. which is good news - is now and will cut spills. by a third. which is good news but we're still going to have 60% of the spills that we currently have. there's been a lot of criticism that the upgrade that the government targets themselves and are ambitious and not fast enough —— aren't ambitious. the percentage need a good ecological status and there's also been criticism that overall, there's a big problem with the whole sewage infrastructure which is built on the victorian times. it is just not able to cope with this population growth in the amount of sewage that we are producing. so, as your report said, we have this combined sewage overflow system where you've got one pipe which takes all the rainwater and all the sewage and one pipe if they updated the whole network so that there was just one pipe for sewage, then there would be a lot smaller volumes of the sewage system to be able to deal

with and there's also a lack of investment in nature —based solutions and increasing those areas that with climate change, it's going to be increasing intensity and drought at other times. and we need to be increasing.— to be increasing. climate change will have an _ to be increasing. climate change will have an impact. _ to be increasing. climate change will have an impact. thank- to be increasing. climate change will have an impact. thank you l to be increasing. climate change i will have an impact. thank you very much for coming on the programme.

1972 was the bloodiest year of the troubles in northern ireland, but amidst the conflict that year, american filmmakers were quietly producing a documentary about the ira. it was hoped the film would boost support for the ira in the us, but it was never released and the tapes disappeared. more than 50 years later, the originalfilm reels have been recovered from an apartment in new york. and tonight the story of that investigation will air on bbc 2.

darragh mcintyre reports. the uncredited star of a strange lost film. this is 21—year—old ira leader martin mcguinness handling guns. before he died in 2017, he became one of the most important figures in northern ireland's peace process. thank you very much. but here he is in 1972, helping to make a car bomb that would wreck the centre of his hometown. as we dug into how and why this film was made, the story only became more mysterious — like how it disappeared for almost 50 years. look at the rust on that. but inside, this looks 0k. all our operations are carried out from inside the bogside and creggan. the american crew was able to film alongside the ira, openly carrying out attacks — here, firing on british

soldiers in londonderry. ira members who took part in the film hoped it would be a propaganda triumph. do you remember that day, tony? i do. sure. what actually happened was ten or 12 of our creggan volunteers had set up an ambush behind these houses. how did the camera crew behave? no matter where we went, they were there. these seasoned guerrillas who relied so much on secrecy, went before the cameras and, in effect, put their heads on the block. it will explode. the ira thought they were in control of the film, even threatening the crew to prevent potentially incriminating pictures from going astray. they said if any separate parts of the film were attempted to be taken separately to america

that we would be all shot at the airport — we're going to kill you. thompson submachine gun. in fact, it's now clear that the ira left themselves exposed to intelligence agencies. cia, top secret, department of defence — top secret again. a bunch of teenagers in the bogside — mossad, the cia, m15. that's alljames bond kind of stuff. despite all the risks the ira took, the film was only ever seen by a handful of private audiences, which raises the question more than 50 years later — why was it ever made in the first place? darragh macintyre, bbc news. let's now go to dr giada lagana. she is leverhulme fellow and lecturer in politics at cardiff university. she is also the author of the book the european union and the northern ireland peace

process. we knew that martin mcguinness, the former deputy first minister was in the command back in 1972 but we had never seen him in film like this and handling weapons and planning out a car bombing in his hometown, it's quite extraordinary stuff, isn't it? it is and what is even providing a more comprehensive story line of the irish republican activity of those days and very particular is the subsequent triangulation of the images with the original images of the archives from the bbc interviews, including interviews with some of the original film—makers and the different sources that have been included in this new thing that is going to be

filmed and on air today which exit even more comprehensive and even more unique for anyone who has an interest in northern ireland. find i interest in northern ireland. and i su- ose interest in northern ireland. and i su ose it interest in northern ireland. and i suppose it comes _ interest in northern ireland. and i suppose it comes through - interest in northern ireland. and i suppose it comes through for me, they deceive themselves spark ciders and in a fairly strong position because we are blood is sunday, the british forces are being criticised that 14 people were killed and there was a lot going on around that time which is why they're looking for support from the united states. do you think they would have appeared without mass had they known how much longer the troubles are going to carry on?

longer the troubles are going to car on? �* , �* ., ., carry on? and they weren't and that will liner carry on? and they weren't and that will linger that _ carry on? and they weren't and that will linger that positive _ carry on? and they weren't and that will linger that positive part - will linger that positive part appearing publicly without mask, it's the fact that the film was never released at the time but, i would just get the attention on the fact that as usual in conflict when they really need to delve into different channels available information, an excellent book was published a couple of years ago looking at the back channel, the secret communications between the ira in the british state in 1972, it is a key year in which may be the first time, martin mcginnis actually travelled to the uk mainland to meet the obligation to british officials which probably should tell us that may be rumours from noisy about the

possibility of a compromise to be rich soon which may reveal what prompted the ira and the paramilitary group to relax and open up paramilitary group to relax and open up to the external world. interesting that it was that year and other things going on and thank you very much indeed for coming on the programme. regular viewers of this programme will know that i have developed an unhealthy obsession with the bald headed eagles in california who for several weeks now have been sitting on eggs that sadly will not hatch. which comes as a great disappointment. but i am pretty fickle in my attachment to the wild, and so now i have switched to fish. migrating fish. if you looked at the netherlands from space you would see one big river delta. all these rivers flowing into the sea. a quarter of the country is below sea level, and so to stay afloat they need locks, pumping stations, dikes and dams. lots of them. problem is, as in utrecht,

that blocks the passage of the migrating fish. until the municipality came up with an idea. they have set up a web cam which streams live pictures on you tube and it comes with an interactive doorbell. so every time the public sees the fish they press the �*fish doorbell�* which prompts the worker in utrecht to open the canal lock allowing the waiting fish to pass unscathed. genius. the brain behind the fish cam is ecologist, mark van hook—eloom and here he is welcoming viewers to his youtube channel. also a very warm welcome and a big thank you for all of our viewers around the world. many thousands of people outside of netherlands have been helping us this week, and i was amazed about your sweet messages and kind words. it turns out that there are a lot of fish fans out there. well, you are not alone. be prepared because the following

weeks are going to be even more special than what you have seen so far. i'm delighted to say that mark joins me now from utrecht. rock and roll in my house, we watch this camera for 20 minutes last night waiting for the door bell and how many are out there watching your fish camp? we how many are out there watching your fish cam - ? ~ ., how many are out there watching your fish cam? ., ., ., ., fish camp? we have about a thousand streams available _ fish camp? we have about a thousand streams available and _ fish camp? we have about a thousand streams available and it _ fish camp? we have about a thousand streams available and it is _ fish camp? we have about a thousand streams available and it is for - fish camp? we have about a thousand streams available and it is for all - streams available and it is for all the time. people cannot unfortunately press a button but we are so many people watching and it's been amazing. are so many people watching and it's been amazing-— are so many people watching and it's been amazing. counted times does the lock 0 en? been amazing. counted times does the lock open? we — been amazing. counted times does the lock open? we look _ been amazing. counted times does the lock open? we look whenever - lock open? we look whenever necessary _ lock open? we look whenever necessary because _ lock open? we look whenever necessary because it - lock open? we look whenever necessary because it takes . lock open? we look whenever necessary because it takes a i lock open? we look whenever i necessary because it takes a lot lock open? we look whenever - necessary because it takes a lot of time and sometimes it takes almost an hour it's been once or twice a day which is already a lot and to get a feeling of the 5000 times

people press the door bells and this is live and i've got my finger on the buzzerjust in case. and what kind of. the buzzer 'ust in case. and what kind of. . , the buzzer 'ust in case. and what kind of. , , ., ., ., kind of. fish in my grading and how man of kind of. fish in my grading and how many of them? _ kind of. fish in my grading and how many of them? we _ kind of. fish in my grading and how many of them? we have _ kind of. fish in my grading and how many of them? we have so - kind of. fish in my grading and how many of them? we have so many i many of them? we have so many secies many of them? we have so many species of — many of them? we have so many species of fish _ many of them? we have so many species of fish but _ many of them? we have so many species of fish but we _ many of them? we have so many species of fish but we see - many of them? we have so many species of fish but we see a - many of them? we have so many species of fish but we see a lot i many of them? we have so manyj species of fish but we see a lot of them. it's still early in the season and why you have to be patient to see the fish, especially in the morning especially when the sun rises is still a bit more fish and water temperatures will rise and we will see a lot more fish. i5 water temperatures will rise and we will see a lot more fish. is it water temperatures will rise and we will see a lot more fish.— will see a lot more fish. is it a problem? _ will see a lot more fish. is it a problem? obviously, - will see a lot more fish. is it a problem? obviously, the - will see a lot more fish. is it a - problem? obviously, the netherlands is binging yes in the way that it has stopped flooding but doesn't have detrimental affect on things? we can be pretty proud of what we

did with the water but we're starting to learn and did not take into account they would have a big affect on the aquatic life and especially fish and so, we tried to build fish ladders and other things like this to help fish pass but we have many thousands and thousands of small dams. and is bigger and so we can up a lot of fish but there are many smaller places that are more difficult to bring the solution. i5 difficult to bring the solution. is a brilliant idea and well done to you and i will post my twitter feed the address so people can also come and watch and be ready with the buzzer. . ~' , ., and watch and be ready with the buzzer. ., ,, , ., and watch and be ready with the buzzer. ., ,, i. . and watch and be ready with the - buzzer._ believe buzzer. thank you so much. believe me, the fish — buzzer. thank you so much. believe me, the fish are _ buzzer. thank you so much. believe me, the fish are there _ buzzer. thank you so much. believe me, the fish are there and - buzzer. thank you so much. believe me, the fish are there and i - buzzer. thank you so much. believe me, the fish are there and i have i me, the fish are there and i have seen them of the last few days. you're watching the context on bbc news and will take a short break. 0ur panel will be with us. we will be right back.

hello there. it's going to stay very unsettled as we head into the easter weekend. and today was certainly very mixed weather. we had some sunshine and some brief warmth of 12 degrees in eastern england before we saw that spell of rain. but it was in scotland where the rain hung around for much longer and that really kept the temperatures much lower as well. it's so very unsettled because we've got low pressure sitting close to us and this one is going to strengthen the winds into thursday. we've got this weather front here bringing rain back up from france, in across england and wales. there may even be a bit of sleet and snow over exmoor and into the cotswolds, more particularly over the hills of wales. further north, there'll be some showers for a while, but it may well turn drier and it will also get colder with a frost likely in some parts of scotland.

let's head to the south of england, though, where it's going to get windy through the day on thursday, particularly so along these coastal areas, gales are likely large waves, maybe even some travel disruption as well. and together with those strengthening winds, it's going to get wetter from the south west. this is the overnight rain, though, moving into northern england. some heavier rain again, unfortunately for northern ireland. it'll turn more showery, i think in scotland, so not as wet as today was, but we will see these showers or longer spells of rain developing more widely across england and wales as the winds pick up and that will prevent the temperatures rising too high. although nine degrees will be better in the central belt than it was today. still got low pressure around as we head into good friday. the wind is not going to be quite as strong across southern areas by this stage, but we're still in this sort of showery air stream. there will be some sunshine at times and that will give us a little bit of warmth, sufficient to trigger

more showers, mind you. and these are going to be turning heavy and thundery, particularly across the western side of the uk. we've got a top temperature of 13 or 14 degrees on good friday. now the really warm air, if you are travelling further afield into europe, it's going to be across eastern europe and the eastern mediterranean could make the mid 20s. for western areas of europe, we've got this cooler air and this is where it's going to be a wetter as well. with the heavier rain more likely across iberia heading into the south of france, we've got the low pressure to the west of the uk and so it's not going to be a wash—out over the easter weekend. will feel warm when the sun is out, but the showers are never too far away, particularly in the west.

0k great hello, i'm christian fraser. you're watching the context on bbc news. my report finds that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating that israel is committing the crime of genocide against the palestinians as a group in gaza has been met. the collective punishment that was declared with the siege is indeed amounts to a war crime and needs to be dealt with as such. we have no interest - in harming gazan civilians. we are after hamas. we are after the genocidal murderers of hamas and we need our— hostages back right now. on our panel this evening — from fife, kezia dugdale, for leader of the scottish labour party and from washington, republica startegist, mike shields.

first, the latest headlines. investigators in the us city of baltimore are examining the data