today at five. six men are found guilty of trying to smuggle albanian migrants in speed boats across the english channel. the gang were caught after one overcrowded boat carrying at least 18 people ran out of fuel. they were unsuitably clothed for the passage. they didn't have any life jackets, it was very overcrowded and they seemed to be in a great deal of distress, all of them. we'll have the latest developments. the other main stories on bbc news at 5. the conservative party chairman calls for boris johnson to apologise for his comments about women who wear burkhas — but mrjohnson refuses to back down. a court hears that england cricketer ben stokes — on trial for affray — was not acting in self—defence — but with revenge, retaliation, or punishment in mind. us president donald trump re—imposes sanctions on iran — president rouhani accuses him of psychological warfare. and we'll bring you the latest on uk european championship medal hopes in the athletics later this evening, where dina asher—smith will be running in the 100 meters.

it's five o'clock — our top story. six men have been found guilty of a people—smuggling operation that brought albanian migrants across the english channel to the uk. two other men have been found not guilty. jurors heard how 17 people arrived on a beach at dymchurch in kent during the night in may 2016. later — when one of their boats ran out of fuel — the gang decided to use jet—skis to smuggle people across the world's busiest shipping lane. our correspondent frankie mccamley has been following the case at the old bailey. this was a trial that lasted nine weeks and took the jury of seven men and five women 29 hours to find six out of the eight defendants

guilty of trying to breach immigration laws. now, the operation was mainly based in dymchurch in kent, the men bought speedboats to try and travel across the channel to bring back albanian migrants, but the men were caught following a series of failures. they left boats abandoned and they put many lives at risk. around a mile and a half off the coast of kent in the pitch black, a boat designed for six people, carrying 20 and taking on water quickly. 18 albanian migrants were on board, each had paid £5,500 to be there. now, all desperate for help. the weather was deteriorating quite quickly, quite a strong wind from the north—east, so it was very much quick action to get the migrants on board, very quickly, onto the valiant. they were unsuitably clothed for the passage. they didn't have any life jackets, it was very overcrowded

and they seemed to be in a great deal of distress, all of them. the only two on board with life jackets were robert stilwell and and mark stribling. both pleaded guilty and convicted of people smuggling. that was two years ago. it was what officers found next to this slipway in dymchurch in kent that launched the whole investigation. 0ne abandoned boat and after making an initial enquiries, they realised that that was part of a much bigger operation. another gang member, albert letchford was covertly filmed on a different boat with francis wade who was found not guilty. they are in ramsgate, preparing another trip to france. but, after nearly tipping the boat over, francis wade calls leonard powell to tell him the water is too dangerous. it was that choppy out there, it nearly tipped the thing over.

the pair then struggled to get the gps system to work. we are trying. we are both trying. we still cannot do it. francis wade set off the following day but has to be rescued after he says he deliberately runs out of fuel after getting suspicious about the reason for the journey. he also nearly collides with a shipping container. yet another failed trip for the gang meant they had to be even more creative. george and leonard powell made sabah dulaj buy a jet ski to do the job instead. the vessel may have had to refuel at the other side before returning, but it is feasible, and it is their intention to do that and it shows and demonstratesjust how reckless the crime is. today at the old bailey the verdicts of all eight defendants were read out. those found guilty were father and son leonard and alfie powell alongside gang members, albert letchford and wayne bath. it was albanian nationals, sabah dulaj and artur nutaj who acted as the travel agents finding people who wanted to go to the uk. they were also found guilty.

those found not guilty were francis wade and alan viles. mr viles said he did jobs and favours for the group without asking questions at the time. those found guilty will be sentenced at a later date. well here at the old bailey, six out of the eight defendants heard those verdicts being read out. two could not be here because of health reasons and none showed any emotion at the time. now following the verdicts, the nca has said this is an excellent result and they hope it deters anyone else from trying to carry out what they describe as a very dangerous operation. now those found guilty, the immigration offence carries a maximum sentence 01:14 years and people will return here on september the 21st to be sentenced. conservative party chairman brandon lewis has asked borisjohnson to apologise for comments he made about muslim women who wear face veils. in his newspaper column in the telegraph , borisjohnson said women wearing burkas ‘look like letter boxes‘

and ‘bank robbers‘. let‘s go live to westminster and our political correspondent tom barton. earlier lewis brandon lewis, a seniorfigure in the party earlier lewis brandon lewis, a senior figure in the party tweeted that boris johnson senior figure in the party tweeted that borisjohnson should apologise for the comments. they were made in an article in his daily telegraph comment yesterday in which he actually said that he opposed a ban ona actually said that he opposed a ban on a full face veil which has just been introduced in denmark but that was the language he used, saying that muslim women who wear burqas lookalike letterboxes and bank robbers. sources close to boris johnson has said he will not be apologising saying it is ridiculous that these views are being attacked and saying we must not fall into the trap of shutting down the debate on difficult issues like this. these

criticisms have drawn criticism from muslim groups including the conservative muslim forum who say that the article will whip up hatred of women who wear niqabs and burqas while the muslim council of britain has accused him of pandering to the far right. earlier today, has accused him of pandering to the far right. earliertoday, baroness morrisey, said that if borisjohnson does not apologise, there should be disciplinary action. i am not a fan of the veils, but what is concerning about this incident is not so much the message that boris was allegedly trying to get out but the very deliberate language that he used, letterbox, armed robber, it was the kind of dog whistle type of language that we saw during the brexit campaign and that may campaign on site goldsmith, it is the bigotry

and the trademark trump tactics that we saw during the presidential election. it is appealing to a certain type of audience were essentially their message in the end does not matter, it is the language and the way it is delivered that captures that boat and i felt that this was an appalling way in which we we re this was an appalling way in which we were using, what i think is a very serious debate, but using muslim women as a convenient political football for boris to increase his poll ratings among the tory faithful. earlier today a minister had his borisjohnson as his boss. also criticised in saying that the comments carried a degree of offence and saying that he would never have made such remarks and yet friends borisjohnson say, he was simply making a joke and they defended his right to make his comments, doing his job defended his right to make his comments, doing hisjob as a newspaper columnist for the daily telegraph. he's perfectly entitled

to his views, he is paid to write a column for the daily telegraph. it was an erudite column with a bit of humour about a pertinent issue, denmark have banned the burqa but boris doesn't think that is the answer to the issue in our country. and he made his comments. nothing to apologise for. it has all been blown out of proportion by those who wish to cause him political damage. he was suggesting that those responsible for stoking criticism are people who want to harm boris johnson‘s political prospects and stop him from ever standing a chance of becoming conservative leader or even potentially prime minister. sources close to borisjohnson have been saying that he will not be apologising for these comments. it does not look like a line will be

drawn under this row any time soon. thank you, tom. a court has heard the england cricketer ben stokes was abusive towards a doorman before he was involved in a fight with two men. giving evidence at bristol crown court, the doorman said the durham all—rounder became "spiteful" and "angry" after he was refused entry to a nightclub in september. the court previously heard that mr stokes knocked two men unconscious. he denies a charge of affray —— claiming he was acting in self defence. 0ur correspondent, phil mackie, is following the case... the two men he knocked unconscious, his co—defendants, they have all been charged with affray. it has been charged with affray. it has been a case which has obviously drawn a great deal of public interest and once again, as the defendants arrived at court, they we re defendants arrived at court, they were greeted with a mass of media attention. arriving for the second day of his trial, the england star again faced a phalanx of photographers. he denies a charge of affray along

with two other men all filmed in a brawl outside the mbargo nightclub in the centre of bristol last september. the footage shows the england star throwing a number of punches. he knocked both of his co—defendants unconscious. ryan hale on the left, and ryan ali on the right, were both treated in hospital. mr ali‘s eye socket was fractured. pc daniel evans, in the red tie, today told the court that cctv footage showed the cricketer mocking a gay couple outside the club and later arguing with a doorman who would not let him back in. the doorman, andrew cunningham, said mr stokes became angry and abusive. when he was interviewed after his arrest he told detectives he had been defending the gay men and acted in self defence. prosecutors allege that mr hale and mr ali armed themselves with makeshift weapons during the fight. there is intense public interest in the case and judge peter blair qc warned jurors to ignore

what he described as biased and inaccurate comments on social media. this afternoon during cross—examination by the representative for ben stokes, mr cunningham was asked whether what happened outside the nightclub was just playful banter and he said it was not. he was also asked why he refused to shake the hands of ben stokes and he said he did not like bullies. we have also been hearing from max wilson, the student who lived above the nightclub who filmed the fight and he said before he started recording, he heard shouting and when he went to the window to look outside, he saw men acting in a drunk man behaving like football hooligans. the trial will continue 110w hooligans. the trial will continue now for the next week or so before the end of this week we would expect to hear the three defendants gave their account of events that night.

thank you very much. a woman has been pulled alive from a collapsed building on the indonesian island of lombok — two days after the second powerful earthquake in a week left nearly a hundred people dead. thousands of others have been left without shelter, and are having to camp out in the fields. matt cole reports. celebrating a survivor. these rescuers have just pulled a woman free from the mangled wreckage of a convenience store. she was taken away by ambulance, alive, after neighbours heard her cries for help two days on from the quake. footage has now emerged of an imam at prayer on the island of bali at the very moment the ground began shaking. worshippers began to run but his calm response has been hailed. the images have gone viral online. he later said his fate was in the hands of god. 0n lombok, this mosque fared far worse, suffering total collapse. there are fears that many

worshippers were still inside when its walls crumbled. across the island of lombok it is believed around 20,000 people have been displaced. this villager returned to what used to be his home. translation: we might be still in trauma after three to six months. i don‘t think it will be easy to return to normal life. we need to do it slowly, because the trauma was extraordinarily bad. since the initial violent quake captured on camera here at a bar, there have been more than 200 after—shocks. afraid there may be more, thousands of people are living out in the open. aid agencies say they have only managed to provide some shelter and water. for many of the temporary visitors, the tourists, the wait to get home is long. but those who have made it to an airport are doing better than the many still stranded on the gili islands. some are now getting away, but rescue came slowly. it was really scary.

we were on the beach, it was really strong, there are so many people injured but nobody came to the island, so... maybe we were there for, like, 12 hours before a boat or anybody came. we‘ve been there for two nightsjust waiting. the british foreign office has advised against travelling to the affected area and says it has been assisting british nationals who have been in touch by phone or social media, but the real concern remains for those, mostly local, who remain missing and for whom the search continues. matt cole, bbc news. roland inglis and his family were on holiday on the gili island when the earthquake struck — hejoins me from lombok now. thank you for coming on. when you realise what was happening, what did you and your family realise what was happening, what did you and yourfamily do? realise what was happening, what did you and your family do? well, it was

pretty scary and i realise quickly it was an earthquake. i was in an earthquake in san francisco as a child. we work cycling back from dinnerand child. we work cycling back from dinner and the whole earth was moving underneath us on our bicycles and the lights went off and ijumped off my bike and there was darkness andi off my bike and there was darkness and i grabbed my family who were cycling ahead of us and we hurried to try and find them. my eldest son managed to get the torch on his phone on and my youngest was pushed off his bicycle to get out of the way of falling debris by one of the locals. the main thing was to go with the family and finding the boys and been saved together. we would then ushered into a field where a lot of the locals and people were going, whichjust by lot of the locals and people were going, which just by chance lot of the locals and people were going, whichjust by chance happen to be the highest part of the very flat island and at that point, the big fear after an earthquake just from watching movies and from a little bit of knowledge was to get up little bit of knowledge was to get up high, just to get away from any

potential is in army risk. there was a tsunami warning being put out and we decided to climb a large tree, climbed up about 15 feet and spent four hours up there. goodness. yes. it was pretty scary and the after—shocks came, the main shock was about seven on the richter scale and the after—shock was around 5.4 and the after—shock was around 5.4 and this big tree was shaking like mad and it was very scary. there we re mad and it was very scary. there were others up there as well, a local man, a baby as well and after four hours, the locals warned us of snakes and biting ants and we thought then we should come down but there were lots of after tremors and there were lots of after tremors and the locals were very generous and shared blankets and water with us and we spent the rest of the evening in seals were lots of other people gathered. there was lots of panic

and lots of people running around.|j know you sent us some photographs, including one of the villa you had been staying in and i think we can show that. eventually you went back and discovered how much damage had been done. yes. at daylight the next morning, we felt secure enough to walk back to the villa that we were supposed to be staying in and there was lots of devastation on the way, but the villa was completely collapsed. 0ne but the villa was completely collapsed. one of the locals helped us collapsed. one of the locals helped us retrieve our passports and the essentials and we made to try and get out of our island. if fate had happened 20 minutes later, i think you can see, some of the beds were covered in air conditioning units, masonry, it would have been a different story. how did you get to lombok in the end? we went to the harbour at sunrise and we waited a long time. the locals had headed

back to lombok that evening and taken a lot of the boats with them, which is understandable, but the few books that did come were getting loaded up with locals and tourists we re loaded up with locals and tourists were not allowed on them. my wife contacted the british consulate in london who did say they would have to wait until the office opened at nine o‘clock later that morning in valley. i think we stress to them in need of the evacuation and there we re need of the evacuation and there were 30 people deep on the shoreline on the island we were on and eventually we got onto a boat and got back to lombok weather was further devastation. then it was a case of walking a few miles with the family and some other british people that we met and after another two hour wait, we got onto a truck and about 50 of us got into the back of about 50 of us got into the back of a large dumper truck, for want of a better description, who took us to the airport to see if we could get

flights. that is presumably the current plan, to get away from lombok? yeah. the airport was in mayhem, it is only small and they we re mayhem, it is only small and they were doing the best they could but there was one person on the customer service desk and a queue of about three and a half hours. we have got flights out on the ninth, that is the soonest. we have now headed south and our staying on a resort very high up, out of the risk of any zune armies and it is further away from the epicentre in the north of the island. the other islands are at the island. the other islands are at the north—west. down here, there was another earthquake last night, about five on the richter scale and we felt it but nothing in comparison to the first one. you tell a compelling story and we thank you for doing that. we are glad that you and your family are safe. thank you for coming on. the headlines on bbc news.

six men are found guilty of trying to smuggle albanian migrants in speed boats across the english channel to kent. the conservative party chairman calls for borisjohnson to apologise for his comments about women who wear burkhas — but mrjohnson refuses to back down. a court hears that england cricketer ben stokes — on trial for affray — was not acting in self—defence — but with revenge, retaliation, or punishment in mind. and in sport, britain‘s most decorated diverjack doyle clinches gold in the springboard final at the european championships. james heatley took the bronze medal. there are two british silver medal so far, ben proud in the 50 metres butterfly and georgia davies in the 100m backstroke. and stan clunky is set to ta ke backstroke. and stan clunky is set to take full control of arsenal as a bid is accepted to buy his share.

the arsenal supporters trust has described it as a dreadful day for the club. i will have a full at 5.30. european union officials say they‘re committed to preserving legitimate business links with iran, after tough us sanctions targeting the country‘s financial and automotive sectors came into force. president trump has warned that anyone doing business with iran won‘t be doing business with america. the german car manufacturer daimler — which owns mercedes — has said it‘s suspending its operations in tehran. 0ur diplomatic correspondent paul adams reports. president trump has always made it clear he absolutely hates the iran nuclear deal. the iran deal was one of the worst and most one—sided transactions. and it‘s a horrible agreement for the united states. we‘re not going to allow certain things to happen that are happening, and the iran deal is a disaster. and when he pulled out of it three months ago, he said iran would suffer.

we will be instituting the highest level of economic sanction. any nation that helps iran in its quest for nuclear weapons could also be strongly sanctioned by the united states. iran will no longer be able to buy american dollars. it won‘t be able to trade in gold. aluminium and steel are also on the list, as is the country‘s currency, the rial. in three months‘ time there‘ll be more sanctions on iran‘s oil industry, shipping and insurance and the central bank. iranians are very frustrated and angry, there are protests morphing around the country. this has been ongoing since december and january. and the government has very limited tools to really protect itself. from the domestic instability, of course, they can always crack down. but they are in trouble, and this is going to be a tough period for them. this is precisely what mr trump wants. he says the nuclear deal did nothing to curb iran‘s behaviour around the middle east —

its support for militant groups in lebanon and gaza, its involvement in the wars in syria and yemen. the nuclear deal‘s other partners — the europeans, russia and china — are desperate to keep the deal alive. they still think it‘s the best way to stop iran from developing nuclear weapons. the deal has two parts. iran gives up their nuclear programme and the international community opens up trade and economic relations with iran. this second pillar has to be maintained if we want the first pillar to be maintained. and, so far, iran has been compliant, fully, with their nuclear commitments. mrtrump thinks iran will ultimately come back to the negotiating table... and i have a feeling they‘ll be talking to us pretty soon. ..but so far all we‘ve had is a lot of heated rhetoric on both sides. if donald trump is trying to change iranian behaviour, it‘s not happening yet. let‘s get the thoughts now from iran and joining me now is mohammad marandi —

a professor at tehran university who was invited by the iranian government to be an observer at the talks in vienna that led to the 2015 iran nuclear deal. good evening. good evening. what will be the impact to the everyday lives of people living in iran of all this? obviously since the us is waging economic warfare on iranians, it will make life more difficult and the objective is to make ordinary people suffer as much as possible. in previous years, when 0bama implemented what he called crippling sanctions, a lot of cancer patients died until the iranians learned how to go around the sanctions to obtain that sort of medicine. now the iranians are much more capable of dealing with the sanctions but they are so very dealing with the sanctions but they are so very brutal and they are

specifically targeted at ordinary people. you see them in those terms, president trump would say that what he is trying to do is convince the reigning government to change its ways and some of the things it does in the middle east region. ways and some of the things it does in the middle east regionlj ways and some of the things it does in the middle east region. i think that the iranians would say that in this region it was the us that invaded iraq, it was the us alone with the saudi arabians that created al-qaeda in afghanistan, and they created a dirty war in syria and destroyed libya and now they are strangling the people of yemen with the saudi arabians created mass starvation. they are allowing the saudis to blockade the path, allowed them to kidnap the lebanese prime minister, so i do not think the us is in minister, so i do not think the us isina minister, so i do not think the us is in a position to complain about iranians behaviour, if it was not for them, there with be black flags there. they might point to the backing of president assad and the

backing of president assad and the backing of president assad and the backing of his brother, there are a lwa ys backing of his brother, there are always two sides to these kinds of arguments. that does not make it the moral equivalent, what we saw in syria according to the us defence intelligence agency, that viewers should read, is that the us knew almost from the beginning that the dominant militant force in syria where the extremists and according to the head of that organisation at that time, the us took a wilful decision to support those countries in supporting the extremists. in yemen, people are surrounded and are being starved. a few days ago, the saudi arabians bombed another hospital. i wanted to ask you, apologies for interrupting, we are losing a little bit of the line and i wanted to ask you about the state of the iranians economy, this will have an impact and your view is that ordinary iranians will suffer. is it

not true now though that there are already economic problems in iran and there have been reports of u nrest and there have been reports of unrest since last december over a poorly performing economy? it is not just because of what the americans are doing now, it is because of what has been going on of late, is it not? the americans have been carrying out psychological warfare and economic warfare over the last few months and in england itself and britain in the uk you have brexit and you have all these discussions and you have all these discussions and all these problems that the country faces. imagine the us carrying out engaging in economic warfare, in such a way that the us is basically ordering britain, france and germany to abide by the demands of trump or else. this is what iran is facing but nevertheless, what is happening is that the us, trump has united the political parties in iran like i had

never seen political parties in iran like i had never seen in the past but—macro decades, it has united the population because trump is extremely unpopular and iran is also being pushed towards creating much greater and stronger relations with countries like china and the iranians are increasingly working with russia and the us to a large degree is helping its adversaries move closer to each other. we must leave it there, thank you for coming on. a german woman who sold her son to paedophiles on the dark net has been jailed for 12 years and six months by a court in southern germany. prosecutors say the boy was subjected to more than sixty serious sex attacks . the boy‘s 39—year—old stepfather and five other men have also been prosecuted in connection with the abuse. let‘s cross over to our berlin correspondent, jenny hill .. more about this case, what has been

happening? even experienced investigators say they were shocked by the scale of they were shocked by the scale of the youth suffered by this little boy who is nowjust ten years old. 0ver boy who is nowjust ten years old. over a two—year period he was raped and abused many times by his own mother and her boyfriend. but also sold him to strangers for sex on the so—called dark net. prosecutors estimate more than 60 serious sex attacks were carried out on the boy and many of those films and the footage then distributed. again on the dark net. as you would imagine this case has horrified germany not least because the authorities appear to have missed opportunities to rescue the boy. for example they we re rescue the boy. for example they were aware that the mother ‘s boyfriend was convicted paedophile who had been banned from contact with children and yet the boy was able to live up alongside batman and

his own mother in the house where much of the abuse took place. there are also concerns that perhaps there was a presumption on the part of the authorities sometimes that no woman could abuse her own child. in fact sentencing her mother today, a 48—year—old woman, the judge said she had been responsible for one of the most brutal rapes that the boy had suffered. so a shocking case, the mother ‘s boyfriend has been sentenced to 12 years in prison and thejudge has said he sentenced to 12 years in prison and the judge has said he will not be allowed to leave detention until the authorities are satisfied that he will pose no risk to the public, to children. six other men who participated in the abuse have also been sent to jail. the boy has been paid damages actually by his mother and her boyfriend of around 30,000 euros, a small compensation of course for what he suffered. worth bearing in mind that by german standards these are pretty hefty jail sentences but as you would

expect there was outrage here is what has happened to the boy, the young boy who is now we‘re told recovering in care in a foster family. this summer won‘t be forgotten easily for the heatwave across many parts of uk — and indeed the world. but could this be a growing trend? scientists are warning today that the world could be decades away from ‘uncontrollable‘ climate change that would make parts of the planet uninhabitable. a new study suggests a ‘hothouse earth‘ could be triggered by a worldwide temperature rise ofjust two more degrees. here‘s our environment correspondent matt mcgrath. the oceans, the lands and the forests of the world have long played an important role in helping humanity avoid the worst of global warming. they have soaked up huge amounts of c02 over the past two centuries, limiting the rise in temperatures to around 1 degree celsius. but scientists are now worried these friendly natural systems will turn into enemies,

and instead of soaking up c02, they may start spewing out huge quantities of warming gases into the atmosphere. when we approach a two degree celsius warming, due to burning of fossil fuels, we can no longer exclude crossing the tipping point where the biosphere shifts from being a self cooler — our best friend — to becoming a self—reinforcing warming entity, meaning a foe, basically. these researchers also say that events like the widespread wildfires seen around the world this summer could also send a pulse of carbon into the air that could negatively influence the earth‘s system in the future. all these extra sources of carbon could cause a domino effect where permafrost thaws, forests die back and ice sheets crumble. this would cause temperature rises on an unprecedented scale and seeing many coasts flooded and some parts of the world made uninhabitable. but there are still many uncertainties, say uk researchers.

the problem is that if we are looking for evidence of a tipping point, the earth has tipped into a new state, we will see the full evidence when it has happened and it will be too late by then. we are starting seeing some tell—tale signs of it beginning to happen, and we need to take those really seriously. in 2015, politicians signed the paris climate agreement to limit global warming this century. but the scientists in this new study say it will not be enough in itself to avoid hothouse earth. the world will need to plant huge amounts of forests, to cut emissions deeper than planned, and to develop new technology to suck carbon out of the air. and everyone, countries and individuals alike, will need to become stewards, not exploiters, of the earth. matt mcgrath, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here‘s ben rich with the forecast. in the short term we are looking at

cooler weather over the next couple of days but with that change comes some clout and thunderstorms as we head to tonight. for the rest of the week then some cooler weather still with some sunshine but showers as well. both thunderstorms now pushing up well. both thunderstorms now pushing up from the near continent, tending to clear way through the early hours of tomorrow. elsewhere some clear spells and showers into the west and temperatures down to nine or 10 degrees across parts of the north west, still relatively warm across the south eastern corner but as we go into tomorrow we have cooler conditions sweeping right across the country. there will be some sunshine and showers mostly in central, western and northern areas. temperature is around 17, 23 degrees, staying considerably cooler towards the end of the week and pretty unsettled for the weekend with some wind and rain at times.

a look at all the sports news now with azi. it has been a successful afternoon for britian‘s divers at the european championships. jack law showed exactly why he is britain‘s most decorated diver, winning gold in the1 metre springboard final. the olympic champion won by 13 points, with teammate james heatly‘s taking bronze. a good start forjack law at these championships. he‘s vying for a repeat of the hat—trick of titles he won at the commonwealth games. there was also a gold for britain in the 10 metre sychronised diving for lois touslon and eden cheng. they really had to hold their nerve going into their final dive when they were in third place, but the pressure didn‘t show — their final dive got the 68 points they needed to overtake russia and germany for the title. there is action in the swimming pool at the moment, adam peaty has just qualified for the final of the 50 metres breaststroke

with a championships record. meanwhile, ben proud won silver in the men‘s 50 metre butterfly. he was beaten by world record holder andriy govorov who secured gold. georgia davies added to the british success with a silver in the 100m backstroke. that‘s her third medal of the championships. earlier this afternoon in the velodrome matt walls won gold in the men‘s elimination race. the 20—year—old mancunian comfortably sprinted away from his final challenger on the final back straight, to take his first major championships medal and great britain‘s fourth cycling gold medal. and glasgow‘s jack carlin clinched the bronze medal in the keirin in front of a delighted home crowd after a photo finish. focus turns to the athletics‘ in berlin — the championships‘ co host — later this evening. it is the 100 metres for the women and the men with british hopes in both events.

ade adedoyin is there for us. history could be made tonight because gb have never won the men‘s and women‘s 100 metres at the same european championships but it could happen tonight because the two athletes dina asher—smith and darnell hughes put up a have been in great form this evening. dina asher—smith has been in great form. also around laugher and three seconds set in stockholm and she has regularly finished ahead of the defending champion who will feature in the semifinals of well. that is the dutch athlete deftly skippers. —— dafne schippers. also later this

evening is the men‘s semifinals featuring darnell hughes alongside rhys prescott, the man who qualified for the 100 metres in london last season. also look out for and under ten second time put up a real chance forgb to win ten second time put up a real chance for gb to win gold in both events later this evening. we‘ll have more for you in sportsday at half past six. the islamic state group s kidnapping and murder ofjournalists and aid workers brought the group s depravity and brutality to the world s attention. ricardo vilanova, a spanish photographer, was one of their captives. he says that his tormentors were a group of four british jihadists, dubbed the beatles by their captives. the gang are thought to have tortured and murdered as many as 27 people.

in this exclusive report, mr vilanova returns to syria with our middle east correspondent, quentin sommerville to find the former prisons where he was held, and the men he accuses of keeping him captive. 0n the river euphrates, photojournalist ricardo vilanova is on a personal assignment. war, he says, brings out the best of us. and the worst. in raqqa, he experienced both. under kurdish escort, he‘s come to find his formerjail. and his formerjailers. an is gang of british jihadists, known to their prisoners as the beatles. this is the right place but we don‘t know exactly because maybe the house is there... ricardo was held captive for eight months. he and his british, french and american cell—mates were moved regularly to prevent any western rescue attempts. once an is stronghold, this ground

now belongs to the kurds. the house was destroyed by a coalition air strike. this is the place. this was the view that ricardo saw, a rare glimpse of sunlight from underneath his blindfold. we are here in the room and we used to sleep there and we had the toilet there. 0n the second floor. now ricardo is free to go where he wants. the cells under raqqa‘s stadium are a reminder that is brutalised a population. a new sadism was born here in this is prison. he was held nearby. ricardo heard the screams of the tortured and the dying on a daily basis. yeah, we spent three months here in a cell like that, three people.

eventually, his government secured his freedom. ransoms were paid. then, he went back to work. but his task here is not complete. here are the men suspected of imprisoning him. alexanda kotey and el shafee elsheikh are accused of torturing and killing 27 hostages. ricardo wants to confront them. he says they are cowards who fled the battlefield. they refuse to answer his questions and quickly bring the interview to a halt. before he leaves, he takes a final picture. but they want to shut him out. afterwards, he gave me his reaction to the meeting. translation: i wanted to see

the suspects and look them in the face, that‘s it. the first thing i thought when i saw them was gaddafi or saddam. they were able to torture and murder but when the moment arrived, they handed themselves in order to survive. i think that‘s despicable. should they face the death penalty? translation: no, i don't believe in the death penalty. but i think they should spend the rest of their lives in prison. and in the same conditions they kept their hostages. his tormentors are now dead or injail. ricardo vilanova had the strength and the opportunity to survive. but more than that, he has had the courage to return here so that these dark horrors won‘t be forgotten. quentin somerville, bbc news, raqqa.

the headlines on bbc news. six men are found guilty of trying to smuggle albanian migrants in speed boats across the english channel. the conservative party chairman calls for boris johnson to apologise for his comments about women who wear burkhas — but mrjohnson refuses to back down. a court hears that england cricketer ben stokes — on trial for affray — was not acting in self—defence — but with revenge, retaliation, or punishment in mind. a study of twenty countries has found the uk experienced one of the largest global slow—downs in improvements to life expectancy between 2011 and 2016. the office for national statistics said the change was more pronounced for women in the uk where increases to life expectancy fell by 90 per cent.

between 2006 and 2011 a woman in the uk could expect an average improvement in their life expectancy — from birth — of 12.9 weeks per year, but that improvement has fallen to just 1.2 weeks extra per year from 2011 to 2016 — the biggest reduction in all of the countries the office for national statistics analysed. joining me now from oxford is danny dorling, he studies life expectancy as a professor of geography at the university of oxford. some context first, how worrying do these figures look to you? extremely worrying when we compare different countries in the world you do not expect to be at the bottom of the league table of 20. with not doing this kind of slump in the improvement of our health since the

second world war so this is the biggest crisis that we have had for many decades. it is worse for women as far as we can tell the cost women are much more likely than men to be on their own when their elderly and what is happening is elderly people are dying several years earlier than in 2005 or six. and women are dying asa in 2005 or six. and women are dying as a higher rate and much more often bear on their own and requiring the help of services, social workers and so on more than men because often men have a wife with them. so on more than men because often men have a wife with themlj so on more than men because often men have a wife with them. i will ask you about possible causes in a moment but first a question about where else has done better when you look at these 20 countries, which are at the top and we learn something from them perhaps? we could definitely learn, japan and finland and norway are at the top and all three of those countries like thick stick and seek is not just improving but improving faster

thanit just improving but improving faster than it was six years ago. —— life expectancy. these are very different places but all remarkably equitable countries with the gap between rich and poor about the lowest that you will find anywhere on earth whereas in the uk and the usa which of them badly, they are two of the most unequal countries in the world. we have these huge gaps between the affluent and the poor and that affects everything including how good we are at the policy—making. unequal countries tend to be worse and making policy. so my next question was the cause and we cannot be sure, that is the point? we cannot be sure, it is complex but we do know it is not influenza, we do know it is not cold winters because winters have been worn since 2010. we know it is not behaviour and eating too much because the people affected a re eating too much because the people affected are the generation who have not become more a piece. we know it

isa not become more a piece. we know it is a sudden change, it‘s started around 2010. we know it is not more smoking or drinking and we are beginning to narrow down on what it might be. so how do we find out? the best way is for the health select committee in the house of commons to call for an enquiry and then to call witnesses, the chief medical and so on, to give evidence in the house of commons to the health select committee including separate state for health and asked them all what has happened and why they think it has happened and why they think it has happened and what can be done. as of now we have heard almost nothing from any of these people who are responsible for the health of the nation. we must leave it there, thank you. police say they are treating the death of a seven year old boy in a fire at a house in east london as murder. the body ofjoel urhie was found in the house

in deptford this morning. his fatherjohn said his loss was a "pain we cannot forget". two women who jumped from the first floor are being treated in hospital. the metropolitan police gave this statement in the last hour. we‘re working closely with the london fire brigade to establish the exact cause of the fire. and are now treating this as a murder investigation. detectives from our homicide and major crime command are in the process of taking over the lead for this investigation. our work will continue at the scene and i would like to take this opportunity to thank the local community for their support as we do this. i would also like to stress that the local community can help us piece together what happened in the early hours of this morning. i would directly appeal to anybody who was in the area or saw anything suspicious at around 3:30am. 0r who has any information about who was responsible for starting the fire to contact the police immediately. tens of thousands of

pupils in scotland have been receiving crucial exam results today. more than 135,000 pupils have been finding out how well they did in their national 4 and 5s, highers and advanced highers. across the country, the number of entries for highers — and the proportion of students who received a pass mark — has fallen slightly. here‘s our scotland correspondent catriona renton. the anticipation and trepidation, that envelopes under the headteacher‘s arm, as pupils wait nervously in the library for the moment of truth. the moment has arrived. i got my five as, i am so... i cannot say how happy i am. what was it like waiting for that envelope this morning? i was all right until

about 30 seconds... until i got handed the envelope, to be honest. then got a bit nervous, to be honest, and just ripped the envelope to shreds. how much have you put into this? so much, like.... hardly left the house in study leave, so much work goes into five highers, so it's really good to see. it was not just the traditional envelopes, douglas got his results by text. not bad at all. that is all right. the students here have sat a range of exams, including highers, often used for university entry, and national 5s, qualifications usually sat the year before. but whatever the outcome, it is not just these results that count. the culture of schools has changed significantly in recent years and there‘s a huge focus now in terms of the soft skills young people possess for leaving school and moving into society, and that is much more important to us than the grades that come on the certificate. yes, they are important, yes, they count, but

there are lots of other opportunities that matter just as much. the pass rate in this school for highers is 83.8% — the national pass rate is 76.8%, down slightly on 77% last year. we all felt the tension in the room before the exam results were opened and now, of course, there is the relief. some will have done better than they thought, others maybe not quite so well, and for those who need help, there is plenty. there will be young people who do not get the results they were hoping for in the exam information published today, and yesterday i visited the skills development scotland exams helpline in glasgow, a service available to any young person, orfamily member, for that matter, who require assistance in advising the young person about what it is best to do. an emotional day for everyone here, but now it is time to go home and look to the future. catriona renton, bbc news, cumbernauld. europe‘s scorching

heatwave has killed nine people in a week in spain, and continues to kindle wildfires throughout the iberian peninsular. in portugal a ferocious blaze is encircling an algarve resort town. 0ur europe reporter gavin lee reports from brussels. the clearest images yet of the devastation caused by five days of continuing wildfires in portugal. more than a thousand firefighters have been trying to bring it under control as the flames spread towards the town of monchique. this british couple are among the hundreds whose homes are threatened. it‘s very scary at the moment. and you feel for the guys that are trying to help, to protect us. because 90% are volunteers, aren't they? and they are amazing, absolutely amazing. wildfires have also broken out in spain‘s valencia region, with 2500 people evacuated from their homes. and there are weather warnings in place across much of the country. and in france, too,

where temperatures have come close to record levels, peaking at 38 celsius in paris today. across swiss lakes and rivers authorities say the heatwave has had a catastrophic effect on fish populations, with water temperatures reaching 27 degrees, killing thousands of freshwater fish. the army has taken emergency water to cattle in the mountains. storms in the west of the country have led to flash flooding. this continuous intense heat has been felt across europe, with record high temperatures as far north as finland. weather forecasters predict these temperatures will cool over the next 24 hours across most of the continent, with storms to follow. and here in brussels, a place known for its stereotypically grey weather, suddenly people have become used to living life in the sun. this morning i had a choice, staying in my hotel bed with the nc on, or going out. i made a choice, so we are dying, we‘re literally dying.

but i have to enjoy my holidays, even if! this weather is not normal, and we don't have fresh air and we have to drink a lot. we like it, but on the other side we don't like it because we can't support it. in poland, germany, and here in croatia, the summer heat is still to peak over the next few days. but lower temperatures and some respite to the incessant heat is predicted for the rest of the month. gavin lee, bbc news, brussels. time for a look at the weather. here‘s ben rich with the forecast. heatwave conditions across europe for many but here at home quite a range of conditions today. for many western and northern areas it has been relatively cool with quite a lot of cloud around. but we have had some hot sunshine as well, up to 32

degrees across parts of east anglia. and we have seen some storm clouds developing across southern areas. you can see those drifting across the channel island and now beginning to moving towards southern counties of england. as we go through this evening through parts of hampshire, berkshire, towards kent and east anglia, the chance for some very intense dundry downpours. quite hit and miss but it you do catch one quite a lot of rainfall in a short time. further west a quieter night to come with a few showers here and there. temperature is dipping in north—western areas, but still some residual warmth and humidity across the south east. that will be swept away tomorrow as we all get into this much cooler and pressure air. temperatures dropping around eight

or9 temperatures dropping around eight or 9 degrees compared with today in some places. still some sunshine around and some showers, most frequent across western areas of the uk. still some warmth to be had but when i show you the numbers you can see the change. 23, 20 4 degrees across eastern areas, 17 in glasgow and belfast, a much fresherfeel. that stays with us into thursday, promised again a day of sunshine and showers. but the chance of some heavy rain towards the south—east as the day wears on. for friday we‘re back to and showers, fairly breezy by the stage and still that cooler and fresher feel. but let me show you what we expect to happen for the weekend, all eyes to the atlantic

foran area of weekend, all eyes to the atlantic for an area of low pressure which we expect to push in our direction. quite a lot of isobars in this chart, some strong wind across all parts of the country and some rain as well put up some uncertainty at this stage but most likely coming into northern areas. but wherever you are a blustery wind and very different to the rest of this week. they were risking lives for profit. six men have been found guilty of attempted people smuggling into britain. 0ne boat was so overcrowded, it started to sink, and those on board had to be rescued. it sends a clear message to other crime groups who are thinking about facilitating people over the english channel by this dangerous method, that we will look to identify you and look to prosecute you. the criminals were caught after making several blunders, we‘ll have the details. also on the programme. calls for boris johnson to apologise, after writing that muslim women wearing face veils "look like letter boxes". the death of a seven—year—old boy

is being treated as murder, after a house fire in south east london. the increase in uk life expectancy has stalled,