both had fairly comfortable semifinal wins earlier, as our reporter chetan pathak tells us. so, here we go again, just like last year, novak djokovic will have to beat carlos alcaraz if he is to win a roger federer equalling eight wimbledon singles title. in the first semifinal of the day, alcaraz was up against daniil medvedev and, like when they played each other 12 months ago, it was medvedev who made the strongest start and edge to the first set on a tie—break. but alcaraz is well used to coming from behind and his superior shotmaking showed thereafter. he comfortably took the next three sets to make it back to back finals at wimbledon stop so if you have kept hold of this title, but one man who has is novak djokovic who at 37 is as focused and determined as he has ever been. up against italian 22—year—old lorenzo musetti, there was not too much the 2a time grants i'm jumping was not too much the 2a time grants i'mjumping had to was not too much the 2a time grants

i'm jumping had to worry about. djokovic had knee surgery only a matter of weeks ago, yet has had too much for all those that of for so far —— 2a time grand slam champion. straight sets win puts djokovic into a tent wimbledon final. now, his attention turns to a vending —— avenging last year's defeat. the build—up to sunday's european championship final continues in berlin. ahead of their match with spain, england striker ollie watkins says the team aren't bothered about their performances so long as they win games. watkins scored the 90th—minute winner in the semifinal victory over the dutch, in only his second substitute appearance of the tournament. speaking earlier, he says he's ready to play his part. i have full belief in myself. i knew and i was going onto pitch that i was going to score. manifested it. i had worked very hard to get to that point, so it's been an amazing feeling, but i'm not shocked. i got that fire in my belly. ready whenever i'm called upon. and

hopefully i get the call to come onto the pitch again and then hopefully i can produce. now to lord's, where it's been the end of an era on friday, as record test wicket—taker james anderson brought the curtain down on his england career. his final test lasted barely three days, as he and his england team—mates swept the west indies aside, winning the first test of the series by an innings and 114 runs. joe wilson reports. well, whenjoshua da silva of west indies became james anderson's 704th test wicket, he experienced the same feeling as so many of those who have come before him — leaning forward to play at a delivery, finding the ball taking his outside edge, caught and gone. sadly, because of the weakness, really, in west indies�* batting, there was no sense of tension about the outcome of the match here. the realjeopardy was whetherjames anderson could take the final wicket with his final act in cricket. he should have done — put down a pretty simple

caught and bowled chance. but it is right, i think, that at least some of the attention will be shared by gus atkinson, who took that final wicket, took 12 in the match on his debut. now, he is the kind of bowler that england think will help them win back the ashes. in these kind of conditions against inexperienced batters, james anderson is still at the top of his game, almost at the age of 42 as he finishes his career, and i think making that contribution will give him the most satisfaction. lewis, much, much more on the bbc sport website, on those stories and many more. you can download the app to your mobile or tablet. i will be back a little bit later. tolson, thank you very much for that. four people have drowned off the coast of northern france while trying to cross the channel to britain in an overcrowded inflatable boat. dozens of other

migrants were on board. stopping the dangerous and illegal journeys is a major issue for the new labour government, and they inherit a system where no new asylum claims are currently being processed. daniel sandford has been speaking to two people stuck in legal limbo. reporting to the police in luton, as he has to every fortnight, suhaibjaber is an asylum—seeker from syria whose application has made no progress for 20 months. along with more than 100,000 others, he's stuck in legal limbo with no way out. and this week, hundreds more people arrived illegally across the english channel on small boats. more than 400 arrived on tuesday. under a law passed by the conservative government last year, none of them can be granted asylum. so the list of people in limbo just grows. it's the only thing that i want — just to treat us like human beings, not numbers. i'm nota number. suhaib arrived illegally by boat in 2022, but having been

he says he was tortured by the assad regime and the islamic state group, so he has a good chance of getting asylum in the uk — if his case is looked at. he is concerned about his family, who he has left in turkey. my children grew up without me. some of them even doesn't know me. sometimes my youngest daughter, she looks at me and she's, like, trying to discover me. so, "who's that?" and because cases like his are not being processed, the accommodation including hotels like this one in luton still holding people — is costing taxpayers millions of pounds a day. yani told me she's fleeing persecution in east africa and asked us not to use her real name. she'd been in asylum limbo for a year when, in may, she was suddenly detained and told she was being sent to rwanda.

a victim of trafficking, she was then held for more than a month before being released, when it was clear the rwanda scheme would be scrapped. translation: i've never been detained - actuallyl imprisoned, that's the word. so this is the first time i was experiencing it and it was bad. so i felt very, very depressed. i was crying my eyes out, i couldn't explain it because i wasn't expecting it. and people continue to make the dangerous journey across the channel. four men who tried died this morning. so with the rwanda plan abandoned, labour ministers will have to... preventing new asylum claims being processed. daniel sandford, bbc news. it's been confirmed thousands

of uk prisoners are to be released early, to avoid what the newjustice secretary shabana mahmood is calling "a total breakdown of law and order." she says without immediate action to address overcrowding, prisons would run out of space within weeks. here's sima kotecha. hmp bedford, a prison for hundreds of male offenders, some of whom are very dangerous. earlier this year, the chief inspector of prisons said the victorian jail had some of the worst conditions he'd ever seen. today, inmates here are behind bars for a long time due to overcrowding. the number of staff is disproportionate to the number of prisoners. and this is why the government says it is announcing these emergency measures, to let some people out after they have served 40% of their sentence, to free up space. when prisons are full, violence rises, putting prison officers on the front line at risk. when no cells are available, suspects cannot be held in custody. this means van loads of dangerous people circling the country with nowhere to go. the prison governors association welcomed the news, saying the government had no choice.

we've been in crisis for some considerable time. that crisis has showed no signs of being alleviated and the prisons were in a pretty desperate state. serious violent offenders doing four years or more will be excluded, along with those doing time for sex offences under domestic abuse offences, such as stalking and coercive behaviour. but some victims groups have raised concerns. it's always a very distressing and highly anxious time for victims when the offender is being released from prison anyway. so for those victims that are going to learn that their offenders are going to come out earlier, of course that's just going to only exacerbate their anxiety and trauma. the government wants to look on the ball here, taking urgent action to deal with the crisis. but how it pans out could put down an early marker on its handling of crime and punishment.

this is a short—term solution. the government has said it will build more prisons, but that will take time. and there are worries about the already stretched probation service and how it will cope. hmp fivewells, in wellingborough, is a newerjail — builtjust two years ago. the government wants more prisons to be like this one, but first it needs to deal with this immediate crisis. sima kotecha, bbc news, wellingborough. only one of sudan's warring parties has attended un—brokered peace talks, resulting in their failure. sudan's de facto leader, general abdel fattah al—burhan, said they would not take part in any talks unless the paramilitary rapid support forces withdraws from the cities it controls. war began in the country in april last year. since then, thousands have been killed and millions forced from their homes. kalkidan yibeltal is our east africa correspondent. when the un first organised these talks, the aim was to have ceasefires on local level, localised ceasefires,

to facilitate for increased humanitarian support, increased humanitarian access, as well as to ensure the protection of civilians. but unfortunately, what we know now is only the delegates from the rapid support forces — that's the paramilitary force which is one of the factions in sudan — have arrived in geneva, and they have met with the un special envoy set up by the un secretary—general. the army head and the de facto leader of sudan, general al—burhan, yesterday said that he and his army is not going to participate in these talks or any other talks, whether it's in geneva or injeddah, which are being facilitated by saudi arabia, because he said that, first, the rapid support forces must withdraw from urban centres that it controls and civilian homes that it occupies. so it seems that despite these hopes and these efforts by the un, we're not seeing any progress so far, which is going to be sad

news for the millions of sudanese people who are trapped in this ongoing fighting. and there is a looming fear of famine, as well as millions of people displaced from their homes and thousands who were killed. so for now, what we know is only one party of the warring factions has participated in these talks. we don't know if there is any progress in the coming days, because the un has reiterated its call for the army tojoin this meeting. these were indirect talks, which means both the army and the rsf were not expected to have face—to—face talks. they were individually expected to meet with the un and arrive at some sort of consensus. but we know that that's not happening, at least for now. thanks to kalkidan for that. a company has installed automated vending machines to sell ammunition in grocery stores in three us states. buyers at selected supermarkets in oklahoma, alabama and texas can now buy a box of hollow—point

bullets for their rifles or shotguns as they pop into the grocery store to get their milk and bread. here's the boss of the company behind the scheme. we looked at the market that way and said, "0k, how can we use this technology, then, to create a better environment but still maintain the integrity of the second amendment?" it will ask them to insert their id, it'll scan the id, and it's also going to determine if someone is 21. it'll do a facial recognition scan to make sure the person is who they say they are and it's not someone who's trying to use someone else's id or a stolen id, and then, only then, when the identification is verified, that they're of legal age and they are who they are, can the transaction be complete. so in the united states, ammunition is sold two primary ways. it's sold off the shelf in retail stores or it's sold online. 0nline, anybody who's a minor can simply click a button that says they're of age. nobody can tell what state of mind they're in, who they are,

how they are, and they can have ammo shipped right to their house. if they go to a retail store, ammo sits on the shelf, no different than bread in a grocery store, and they can walk right up to the front register, check out like anybody else, and people generally don't ask for the id. they're supposed to, but they don't. i've never been asked for my id ever in my entire life when purchasing ammo. and not only that, it's a high degree of theft when it just sits on the shelf, right? it's a very shoplifted item. —— it's a very shopliftable item. 0ne store that i won't mention the name in the north—east had 500,000 rounds of ammo stolen — one retail store. so here in the united states, hands down, we are the safest, most secure method of ammo sales in the country. people that have bad intentions, what is the more likely scenario? are they more likely to go to a local pawn shop, which you can do here, and pay cash for ammunition and walk out? buy it online and have it

shipped to your house? go shoplift it in a retail store because it sits on the shelf? 0r walk into a grocery store where our machines are located, security cameras monitoring it, hack the machine? you still have to use a credit card, use a driver's licence, and have your facial recognition scanned. when you look at the context of how ammunition sold, it's still the safest and most secure method in the united states of selling ammunition. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

this is bbc news. next, celebrities from around the world have been arriving in mumbai for the final phase of wedding celebrations for the son of asia's richest man and his bride, celebrations that have already lastest four months. a warning — there is some flash photography in the following pictures.

this weekend, anant ambani — who's the youngest son of industry magnate mukesh ambani — is tieing the knot in a lavish ceremony with radhika merchant, the daughter of business tycoons. here are some pictures of her bridal outfit today posted by her designer. here's pictures of those attending. the wedding is thought to have cost between $132 million and $156 million. 60% of india's 1.3 billion people live on less than a few dollars a day. despite that, the wedding is being seen in india as a success story, as social anthropologist dr anastasia piliavsky explains. india's income and wealth and equality at the moment is worse than it has been in 100 years, and 1% of indians own 40% of the country's wealth, so you would have thought that the popularjudgment of this five—month long occasion would be very negative. but it isn't.

0verwhelmingly, the wedding is being treated as a national achievement, as a show of india's power and wealth, and the ambanis are being popularly described in the national press as india's own royal family and this being india's own royal wedding. it's being compared to the british royal family, and the ambanis are increasingly being called the windsors of india and also compared to the precolonial kings of india. what's really important to understand about this is a very deep logic through which people assess wealth and inequality in india. so, as long as somebody who is very wealthy is generous and shows that they can share, they are seen as not as someone who deals with wealth unfairly, but rather as a deserving owner of this wealth, and i think

that this extraordinary, exhausting, five—month—long wedding — by the end of which the bride and groom must be in pieces — i am sure that the ambani family isn't doing this simply because they want to have a large and lavish occasion. they are showing to the populace their largess by employing thousands, hundreds of thousands of people, and that's frequently been cited as a positive outcome of this wedding — that lots of people have gotten jobs in catering, dancing, whatever. so, whilejustin bieber is being excoriated in canada for having received 10 million for singing at a pre—wedding party, in india, there's a completely different view of this. next, a new study suggests narcissistic people get more empathetic, generous and agreeable with age. the research involved more than 37,000 people. and it suggests although their unreasonably high sense of self—importance may mellow,

they do not fully grow out of it. dr tennyson lee is a consultant psychiatrist who's reviewied this study. who's reviewed this study. first of all, this is a very good study. and what the study identifies is particular types of narcissists. i think the ones that we become very aware of are the antagonistic kinds. and those are the ones that — you know, certain politicians, i'm sure, spring to mind — are the ones that really make things very difficult for those around them. there are other kinds of narcissism which are less in—your—face, and in fact, there are some forms of narcissism which might actually be quite helpfulfor the individual. so i think it's a very complex issue. and i think in a way, that's why the world is so fascinated about this condition called narcissism. but i think it's very important

that we don't oversimplify what the concept is. there are some aspects to narcissism which we all have, but when it's very extreme, then it becomes what we can call a condition, and it is what some doctors will then call a disorder. so i think, again, narcissism is built into our personality structure, all of us. but it's just that with certain individuals, due to very difficult things that have happened in their lives, it becomes very extreme and takes particular forms. and again, i'm referring to this particularform, which is the antagonistic one, which is the one which creates such difficulties for all of us. a team of explorers is preparing to return to the site of the wreck of the titanic. the mission will see an uncrewed craft carry out a 3d scan of the world—famous shipwreck over several weeks. rebecca morelle reports. instantly recognisable. the most famous

shipwreck in the world. the titanic. lying 3,800 metres beneath the waves, she attracts as much attention today as when she sank more than 100 years ago. now this ship is about to head off on a new expedition, with final preparations under way for a three week visit to the wreck. underwater robots will study the ship. they're being fitted out with a multitude of cameras, to create the most detailed 3d scan of the entire site. every time people go out, the things that they always go to are the bow and the stern, those are the most iconic and beautiful. personally, i'm looking forward to spending a lot more time out in the debris field to look at all of the little bits and bobs that are out in the sand, this little pile to this pile, to that pile. and there's an extraordinary amount of material out there. i don't think it's quantified in the sort of detail that we're hoping to do. getting down to the titanic

at the bottom of the atlantic is a real challenge. this robotic sub is tethered to the ship. so here, there's 11,500 metres of cabling attached to this winch. then, at the very top of the submersible, there's another 1,000 metres. it means that the crew on board will be able to operate this sub with precise control at these extreme depths. for the first time, the team will be able to see what lies beneath the sediment, using a bit of kit called a magnetometer. that is probably the most exciting thing of all. there's a lot of mystery surrounding us, parts of titanic that are under the surface, such as the bow, how deep it is under that sediment, where the damage from the iceberg would be. there's such a debate over titanic�*s central propeller. was it four blades? was it three blades?

so a lot of potential with that. it's the first expedition to return to the titanic since the titan submersible disaster last year. this plaque shows the latitude and longitude of the wreck and ph's nickname. he was known as mr titanic because of the amount of times that he had dived to the wreck. for the crew, it's a chance to remember theirfriend, ph nargeolet, one of the five people who died on the sub. he was supposed to be leading this voyage. and he was a very special man, very generous in his imparting of knowledge of what he knew about the titanic. everybody misses him. we miss hisjoie de vivre, his happy, outgoing way of looking at things. to leave something down there is a mark of respect for ph, because he won't have a memorial and grace to him, because his body is gone.

so this, in many ways, is like a headstone or a tombstone for him. they thought the titanic was unsinkable, but after striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage, nearly1,500 people lost their lives. rms titanic inc owns the salvage rights and have recovered thousands of items. they'll be looking for artefacts to retrieve on a return visit, but some say the wreck should be left untouched as a grave site. i understand that point, but for me, the stuff that's going to disappear forever, i would like to see it in a museum and my kids to be able to see it, you know, more thanjust pictures, rather than let the ocean swallow them forever. mother nature has a strange way of making things go away. you know, there's sub sea storms and hurricanes, and who knows what's going to happen? operating in the middle of the north atlantic won't be easy. the crew needs good weather and a bit of luck for their ambitious plans. if successful, the dives are a chance to reveal some of the many secrets titanic still holds. rebecca morelle, bbc news,

providence, rhode island. and that's it. i will be back with all the headlines at the top of the hour. dojoin me for that. all the headlines at the top of the hour. dojoin me forthat. i'm all the headlines at the top of the hour. dojoin me for that. i'm lewis vaughanjones. this is bbc news. bye—bye. hello there, good evening. it's been cloudy and cool today across the uk, with temperatures for most of us below the seasonal average. some brighter skies — best towards the west — but it's helped to trigger off some showers, and some of those showers heavy and thundery, especially in southwest england. now, as we head through the weekend it's more of the same again tomorrow — it's cloudy, it's cool, some brighter skies, but also some showers, too. it will be feeling warmer on sunday, especially in the south, with more sunshine around. but always cloudier for these eastern coasts, including tonight. some showers across parts of east anglia drifting down towards central, southern england, as well. cloudy towards the east coast,

some clearer skies further west — but there will be plenty of mist and some hill fog developing into tomorrow morning. so, it's a cloudy, damp, buta mild start to tomorrow morning. now high pressure remains out in the atlantic — it drifts a little further northwards as we head through saturday. low pressure still spiralling away in the north sea. it's developing more of a northeasterly wind as we head through saturday, so more of those showers just coming onshore, and even more, i think, through the day on sunday, too. but it's cloudy towards eastern areas. the best of the sunshine will tend to be across southern england into wales, perhaps the western highlands, northern ireland, northwest england, too, seeing some sunshine. watch out for some showers that will also develop — they'll melt away into the evening. temperatures, again, disappointingly low for the time of year, just 14—19 celsius. and on sunday, with low pressure, remains out in the north sea again. we will see more showers across parts of northern england, down through southeastern scotland. there'll be more in the way of sunshine, though, further west, again, across western scotland, down through england and wales, and we'll see some

higher temperatures, too. any showers, any cloud should melt away into the evening to leave us with a dry and a fine end to the day. now further east, in germany for the euros final on sunday evening, then, well, it's looking dry — some thunderstorms there at the moment of course, but it will be drying out. temperatures generally in the low—to—mid—20s. now, as we head through into the start of next week, well, it's not too long before we see our next area of low pressure drifting from the southwest, but because we're drawing in a south—westerly wind, then the air will turn a little warmer. so, temperatures will be rising, here's the outlook for our capital cities — still rather unsettled with some showers, and possibly some longer spells of rain at times, but a bit drier for most. bye— bye.

hello, i'm lewis vaughanjones. you're watching the context on bbc news. now i want to hand over to the president of ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination. ladies and gentlemen, president putin. we do see more democrats and more celebrities in hollywood and big donors coming out publicly, expressing some concerns. ageing is an inevitable process everyone has to face _ and unfortunately forjoe biden, . it is unfolding on the global stage.

0n the panel tonight, journalist caroline modarressy—tehrani and former uk government adviser leon emirali. first, the latest headlines. at least 16 students are reported to have died — and many more are trapped in the rubble — after a school in central nigeria collapsed. it was not immediately clear what caused the collapse but residents said it came after three days of heavy rains. a rescue operation is continuing. at least 48 people are missing in central nepal after two buses were swept into a river by a landslide during heavy rains. local media said three people had escaped afterjumping out of one of the vehicles. nepal's prime minister has directed government agencies to put all their resources into a search and rescue mission. here in the uk, police investigating the discovery of human remains — which were in two suitcases left at the clifton suspension bridge in bristol — have arrested a 36—year—old man in the greenwich