and whether i would have to go back on that horrendous treatment that i was on for six months. i was going to say, i think that is something people watching maybe he don't realise as much, that it's notjust the victims like geraint and others, but the family members that are living with the legacy of this, like yourself? and my children and grandchildren. you know, most of my grandchildren will never know their grandfather. my children have had... it has had a great impact on them. karisa jones there explaining her experience to my colleague rajini vaidyanathan. an afghan officer who fought side by side with british forces has told us he's in fear of being sent to rwanda. sardar has to sign in at a loughborough immigration centre where several people were detained in the past few days. the government says the new law

will tackle illegal migration by deterring small boats. but the bbc has heard claims that it's already driving migrants underground. our social affairs correspondent, jeremy ball, reports. these men both risked their lives with uk forces in afghanistan, but here in nottinghamshire, they're facing very different futures. obi was invited to resettle here legally because he worked for the british army. but as an afghan army officer, sardar didn't qualify. so he came here on a small boat. he worked alongside with the british forces in afghanistan. end of the day, the mission was same for everybody. sardar brought these photos and the glowing reference to prove his record supporting western forces. it's evidence that he could have used to claim refugee status here if he'd arrived just a few months earlier. and it's a role that several former british military chiefs campaigns to exempt from the rwanda plan.

but instead, sardar has been warned that he could now be removed from the country, so he has to sign in regularly at an immigration reporting centre. it's very scary, very stressful. maybe i get in and they arrest me and don't let me to get back out. i come here just for save my life. i'm very scared. but that's the rule. at the building in loughborough where sardar signs in, refugee campaigners are taking everyone�*s details and handing out advice on who to call if they are detained. they say they've been supporting desperate friends and relatives who've been breaking down in tears outside. i've got to know people and they've fled because they're in fear for their lives. and i can't stand by and let this happen. this is where hopes and dreams and futures collide with the politics of immigration. the home office says it's detaining people in preparation for the first flights to rwanda in what it calls a landmark policy to stop the boats and tackle illegal migration.

so do people here at loughborough market think it's going to work? do it, but don't hang about. just put them straight on the planes. take them if they're not here properly. no, it won't work. we've got to stop it at the source, in france. and back at the immigration centre last week, protesters blocked this enforcement van. support groups say eight people have already been detained here and one man in leicester says it's pushing him under the radar. now campaigners are counting everyone out of the immigration reporting centre. but the asylum seekers who don't emerge could be on rwanda flights within weeks. jeremy ball, bbc east midlands today, loughborough. some international students in wales are sleeping rough on campuses

because of difficulties in finding accommodation and jobs, the bbc has been told. students are struggling to find affordable accommodation near universities — meaning some travel in from miles away and sleep rough in university buildings — including libraries and study rooms — on the days they are studying. sanjana idnani has more. university can be your home away from home. but there are concerns that some international students have been sleeping rough at university buildings due to difficulty securing somewhere to live. at bangor university, the students union say some students have been found staying in the university's 24—hour study space in the pontio building. this is very concerning. like, even if students are sleeping in pontio, using washrooms, for example, early in the mornings, trying to get ready for the classes. and again, if students are coming from liverpool and manchester, they are travelling as well, then they are taking their classes on, for example, mondays and then staying over for example, overnight and on tuesday, they are taking again classes and then going back again.

it had become such an issue here that it was one of the main reasons the student union opened a new living room space on campus this year. bangor university said it had support services available to help with accommodation. students at swansea have said they faced similar difficulties settling in wales. patience told us she has found herself staying in a shared apartment with her children for months while looking for a place to live. you are forced to stay in a shared apartment which normally you wouldn't. you stay in places you probably wouldn't stay normally. you find yourself in such areas because the landlords refuse to rent, even with your guarantor. concerns about international students struggling with destitution were raised by the senedd's children, young persons and education committee last year. the ms for south wales west, sioned williams, was on that committee. what they do sometimes is have accommodation quite a long way from campus.

transport costs are very prohibitive and so what they do when they do come to campus, they sort of stay a few days, sleeping in inappropriate places and then going back to their accommodation. universities wales said it was concerned to hear about the challenges these students faced, while the home office said it was focused on striking the right balance between lowering net migration and attracting international students. tighter rules on allowing international students to bring family members with them have also been put in place. sanjana idnani reporting there. efforts to clean up england's rivers, lakes and seas have been called "poor" by a key watchdog. the office for environmental protection says government targets to improve water quality will be missed by a "large margin." here's our environment correspondent, jonah fisher. the government has through the water framework directive, committed itself to improving the health of england's damaged rivers, lakes and coastal waters. at the moment, only 16% of them have a good ecological status and the target for 2027 of 77% looks

a long way away. so what's going on? the office for environmental protection, the official watchdog, has been taking a closer look and has delivered a scathing verdict on the government's efforts to improve water quality. we found the legal framework to be basically sound, thankfully, but it's the way that it's being interpreted and implemented that is the issue. it is really being done poorly and that means that government is very unlikely to achieve its ambitions for our waters. in fact, it's very likely to miss by a large margin the targets it set for the quality of waters which were to be met by 2027. so there's some really serious issues here. the oep says the government's plans lack detail, commitment and adequate funding and that plans for polluted

river basins are too generic. what we've seen over the last 25 years since the water framework directive was launched is that our rivers have really flatlined. we haven't made any strategic improvement to the condition of our rivers despite lots of new initiatives and small packages of funding. what we need to do is to take a much more fundamental approach and really change course if we want to deliver the kind of improvements that's going to give us resilience to climate change and restore biodiversity to our precious rivers and lakes. a government spokesperson said... jonah fisher, bbc news. a 97—year—old veteran from lincolnshire has finally been recognised for the role she played in the women's auxiliary air force

during world war two. evelyn hillier always thought she hadn't served for long enough to receive a medal. but, almost eight decades later, her family decided to investigate whether she was entitled to one. our reporterjake zuckerman has the story. well, it's a bit late! it is indeed, nearly 80 years late, to be exact. this is the war medal that 97 year old evelyn hillier never knew she was entitled to. evelyn volunteered for the women's auxiliary air force as a 17 year old in 1944. why did you choose the air force? because i liked the uniform! she served for three years working in the officer's mess where she got to know the fighter ace douglas bader, who famously flew spitfires despite having lost both his legs in a crash. he was very kind. they had the dances in the officer's mess. but he always sent the steward in to

to the kitchen to buy us a drink. it wasn't until her family started looking into evelyn's past that they realised she'd missed out on a medal. the family thought it would be something nice for mum at her age if we could do some investigations as to whether she could get a medal. and my sister contacted the mod, and they they awarded her the 1939—45 war medal, which we then arranged for somebody very special to come and give it to her, which is the wing commander, nicola duncan from raf wittering. and this was the moment they surprised evelyn at her care home near stamford. where have you all come from? when i got demobbed, i didn't think i'd been in long enough to get a medal. so i never applied for it. it's important to have because people then know that

i was in the air force. it may have been a long time coming, but now evelyn's wartime service has finally been properly recognised. jake zuckerman, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. another fine and warm and sunny day to come for most of us. again, we did start off a little bit of mist and fog that's mostly cleared away during the morning period and into the afternoon. it looks fine for many. however, we still have that weather front affecting northern scotland, so stays rather cloudy here. further spots of rain at times. you can see that front very slow to clear northwards. eventually it will do will be drier, brighter, warmer across northern it will be drier, brighter, warmer across northern scotland into tomorrow. but essentially for most of the country, it's going to be dry for the rest of the afternoon. a little bit of cloud at times affecting north sea coasts, particularly eastern and northeast england. the thickest of the cloud,

though, northern scotland. a few spots of rain there, particularly for the outer hebrides and into the northern isles. and temperatures here low to mid—teens. elsewhere, it's going to be warm — pretty widely, into the low twenties. now, as we head into this evening and overnight, it stays dry for many. still some spots of rain across northern scotland as that weather front continues to move northwards. we'll see some mist and fog developing once again, some low cloud and murk affecting north sea coasts. temperatures range from 9 to ii or 12 degrees. so then into friday, we eventually lose that weather front. it pushes northwards, the rain slowest to clear from the northern isles. but even here, it'll be drier during the course of friday afternoon. so a brighter, drier, warmer day for northern scotland. elsewhere, plenty of sunshine around, a bit of cloud tending to build in towards the midlands, eastern england and maybe some low cloud and mist into east anglia later in the day. otherwise, most places dry and sunny. maybe a touch warmer too — 23, 2a degrees will be the high, but even the low 20s there across central southern scotland. now, into the weekend, saturday promises to be another fine day. plenty of sunshine around. could see some grey, misty weather for east anglia

and the southeast for a while. there's a chance of a few heavy, maybe thundery showers developing later in the day for northern england and southern scotland, mainly over the high ground. but most places will be dry. another very warm daytime, maybe humidity a little bit higher, low to mid twenties. so all change as we head into sunday, although most places having a fine day on sunday. weather fronts, low pressure start to move in later on sunday and into monday next week, we're dominated by low pressure, so it's back to being unsettled. could be very warm, quite humid across the south of the country on sunday, up to 26 degrees, but increasing chance of showers, much more unsettled into monday.

this is bbc news. israeli officials hit back afterjoe biden wants the us will stop supplying some weapons if it launches a major ground invasion in rafah. heavy fighting is reportedly edging closer to the centre of the city amid warnings that hospitals will run out of fuel in three days. president vladimir putin uses victory day celebrations to justify his war with ukraine saying russians are living to a difficult period. xijinping is in a hungry, one of its closest allies in the eu -- hungry, one of its closest allies in the eu —— is in hungary. i will be speaking to gary lineker about his

new sports volunteering campaign. hello and welcome to bbc news. could president biden�*s patients be running out with israel over its ongoing military campaign in gaza? he has expressed concerns for several weeks over the planned invasion of rafah where hundreds of thousands of civilians have sought shelter and he said he will not allow the us to supply heavy weapons which could be used in any such attack. this has prompted concern from israel and its ambassador to the un saying... the israeli finance minister on the right of israeli politics was rather more strident in his response. the far right interior minister went

even furtherfor israel.