a man is arrested in florida after a series of pipe bombs were sent to critics of president trump. police say cesar syock is a registered supporter of the republicans. the fiancee of the journalist jamal khasoggi has spoke for the first time about her pain following his murder. a constitutional crisis has erupted in sri lanka where the president has ina tearful in a tearful interview with a turkish television channel, she spoke of her panic whenjamal khashoggi did not emerge from the saudi consulate in istanbul. a constitutional crisis has erupted in sri lanka where the president has appointed his predecessor and former rival mahinda rajapa kse as the new prime minister. but the coalition‘s leader, ranil wickramasinghe insists that he is still prime minister and says he still commands a majority in parliament. now on bbc news, inside out. aged as young as eight, they

travelled thousands of miles to the uk, all alone. i thought i was travelled thousands of miles to the uk, all alone. ithought i was going to die because i was very young, so my journey was very scary. from afghanistan to hear, we had just been sold from one person to the other and we ended up in the uk. the government is meant to ensure young asylu m government is meant to ensure young asylum seekers are cared for. but charities say there is a culture of disregard and disbelief of aiding the home office, and it is proving deadly. —— pervading. the home office, and it is proving deadly. -- pervading. in alex's case he was not believed about how old he was. he had been through a lot of very traumatic experiences and as a consequence of that he took his own life. many children have been put through very, very hostile age assessments. the extreme, tragic

outcome that can come from this process is suicide. are the government's hostile immigration policy is contributing to suicides among the uk's child refugees. policy is contributing to suicides among the uk's child refugeesm you leave these young people abandoned without support and you get awful things happening. over half of the world's refugees are children. separated from their families. many flee to europe, where the majority settle in spain and italy. they also come to the uk. according to the home office, last yeari in ten asylum claims were blown children, arriving without their parents or anyone to care for them. —— lone children. their parents or anyone to care for them. -- lone children. my family emigrated from eritrea to england when i was a child, so stories of young asylum seekers have a special meaning for me. recently i was

desperately saddened to discover four teenage refugees had taken their own lives within months of arriving here. like my family and i, came hoping for a safe haven, but we re came hoping for a safe haven, but were they welcomed? croydon is home to around 400 unaccompanied child asylu m to around 400 unaccompanied child asylum seekers, at higher number than other boroughs. over 90% of these children are male, and a local charity has been trying to help some of them assimilate into the area, using the universal language of football. of course, the first thing that comes to mind as they don't have the language skills and they really struggle to understand. so thatis really struggle to understand. so that is the first barrier. along with that, some suffer from poster matic stress disorder. —— post—traumatic stress. they can have a range of emotional difficulties. it is important they get access to the correct support. what type of difficulties have led these young

people to seek refuge in the uk? well, the young people we see are fleeing war. and persecution. that could be because of them belonging toa could be because of them belonging to a religious group, a certain ethnic group. sometimes they flee because of their family's political activities. sometimes they might be persecuted because of their sexuality. there is a variety of reasons. naz says he was smuggled into the uk from afghanistan after his family was targeted by the taliban. he is now 22, but his journey began when he was just 13 yea rs journey began when he was just 13 years old. they kidnapped my dad in the middle of the night and they took him. since they took him, we have never seen him again. after that, the people, the taliban, was coming again. they used to take me toa coming again. they used to take me to a place where they were training people to become suicide bombers. and then one day, from that place,

they came to my house and they said your brother and sister have them killed. in desperation, nas says his mother secretly plotted his escape from the country. my mother was crying and she said you have to go with this man. and i said, i don't wa nt to with this man. and i said, i don't want to go. she said, you have to 90, want to go. she said, you have to go, your life is in danger. so she gave me to that man, who took me from auras gan to kandahar, and then from auras gan to kandahar, and then from kandahar to kabul, which is the capital city. —— boroughs gun province. i couldn't escape from them, they put me on cars, in trucks, in dangerous places. there we re trucks, in dangerous places. there were passing me from one to another. two different countries. one year later, aged 14 and having travelled over 4000 miles, nas was dumped in the uk. i didn't even know the name of england. i was very young. i was in the back of the lorry with two other guys. we just started

in the back of the lorry with two other guys. wejust started making noise and the guy called the police and the police came and they took us toa and the police came and they took us to a police station. nas was granted discretionary leave to remain in the uk, and placed with a foster family. he settled down and did his best in school. however, six months before his 18th birthday he was told that he would have to leave country. my foster fa m ily he would have to leave country. my foster family received a call from my solicitor and he said, this is to the half—year status, and the home office gave you this because you are a child under 18. i grew up here in the uk. and now, you are telling me to go back to my country? nas' story is not unusual. last year, while 56% of unaccompanied children were granted indefinite leave to stay, the fate of the remainder hangs in the fate of the remainder hangs in the balance. the young people we are talking about today, they are liable at any point, any day, to be picked up at any point, any day, to be picked up and detained and removed from the country. for some, it up and detained and removed from the country. forsome, it happens up and detained and removed from the country. for some, it happens very quickly. for others, they can wait

weeks, months, years, before it happens to them, living in fear every day. some of these young people could still be children in this process kicks in. and of course they are more vulnerable, because they are more vulnerable, because they do not have a network. they do not have any family here. and they are fiow not have any family here. and they are now illegal in this country. in order to avoid being deported back to countries where their lives might be at risk, many resort to going off radar. scraping by on poorly paid black—market jobs, radar. scraping by on poorly paid black—marketjobs, ending radar. scraping by on poorly paid black—market jobs, ending up radar. scraping by on poorly paid black—marketjobs, ending up as rough sleepers. ismaf was refused asylu m rough sleepers. ismaf was refused asylum after fleeing from afghanistan as a child. he went underground before he could be deported when he turned 18.|j underground before he could be deported when he turned 18. i stay with my friends sometimes. i can't work, i can't even rent a room. it is like, just, homeless. some take the option, rather than face the

risk of being returned to eritrea or afghanistan or sudan, they will take the risk of going underground, which is horrible, terrible for them, but bad for all of us. we do not want a country where people are forced to live underground to survive. immigration has become a subject of increasing public tension, and the focus has centred on bogus claims. politicians have responded to this with tougher policies, but campaigners say such measures have led to children in genuine need being turned away. we have raised concerns, the home affairs select committee, about what should happen for people who come here as children and then suddenly, their cases change when they reach 18 and they are not getting the kind of support they need. they shouldn't civilly be returned to the country they came from and there needs to be a proper system in place. —— simply be returned. when an unaccompanied minor arrives in the uk, they must first resent themselves that the government screening units for their

application to be processed. —— present. but many of them struggle to convince officials they are the age they claim to be. as an asylum seeker you are, nowadays, age they claim to be. as an asylum seekeryou are, nowadays, i age they claim to be. as an asylum seeker you are, nowadays, i think it is about £36 a week you are given to live on. liz clarke runs a national charity based in birmingham. since opening its doors earlier this year dozens opening its doors earlier this year d oze ns of opening its doors earlier this year dozens of unaccompanied children have come seeking support. we deal with a lot of people who are destitute. so they have got nothing at all. hennok appeared on the charity's doorstep hungry and dirty a few months ago. he says he is a child who fled from ethiopian after his family were caught up in a political conflict. we are still unravelling it but it appears that when he arrived in the uk he claimed asylu m when he arrived in the uk he claimed asylum as a 16—year—old. and at some point he was aegis as and deemed to be an adult. —— age assessed. based

in adult accommodation. and he of course had no idea what to do next. so asa course had no idea what to do next. so as a result, he has literally been sleeping on the streets for nearly two months. it was sad when they did not accept my age. i have told many people but i cannot do anything other than be homeless. told many people but i cannot do anything other than be homelesslj have anything other than be homeless.” have no choice other than to beg for food and drink. all the time, i used to cry. i was hungry. no shower, stressed, and worried. hanok insists he is 16, and liz believes him.” stressed, and worried. hanok insists he is 16, and liz believes him. i am convinced he is a child, through his behaviour and his abilities to kind of look after himself and day to day stuff. however, the local authority disagrees. they have declined to review hanok‘s case and are standing by his original assessment, concluding he is an adult. yet every day he remains on the streets sleeping rough is another day when he is vulnerable and at risk. we've

been working, along with some of our partners in the city, to try to identify ways whereby we can get the case looked at and some kind of resolution. it has been about three months now. sadly, nothing has progressed at all. hanok is still not receiving any support. either accommodation, financial support, and importantly, emotional and psychological support. from any statutory organisation. when unaccompanied minors don't have the documents to prove their age, social services usually make an assessment based on their physical appearance 01’ based on their physical appearance or demeanour, and they conduct interviews to suss them out. statistics reveal that last year, one infourof statistics reveal that last year, one in four of those assessed were deemed to be adults, not children. but there are claims that

cash—strapped councils are making these assessments under pressure. undoubtedly the times of austerity we are going through means there is trend is pressure on all sorts of services, and there has been research whereby social workers have told researchers they are under extreme pressure not to accept children, to come back from a meeting and say that they are over 18, because of those huge pressures on budgets. there is a financial incentive, ina on budgets. there is a financial incentive, in a way, for the local authority to be able to say that that person is not a child. so unfortunately those decisions are quite frequent. and they are then appealed against, or sometimes even go tojudicial review, appealed against, or sometimes even go to judicial review, a appealed against, or sometimes even go tojudicial review, a higher level, and quite often those decisions are overturned, and the local authority is forced to accept that this is a child and they have a responsibility for them. across the capital, hundreds of young asylum seekers are struggling to access the

appeals process. due to an extensive backlog of unresolved cases at the home office. nas has been appealing his case for the past four years and the latest stage of the process has been pushed back yet again. the latest stage of the process has been pushed back yet againm the latest stage of the process has been pushed back yet again. it is a bit like drama, to be honest with you. when my case was refused, in april this year, the solicitor said to me, you have to bring evidence, pictures, references, character references from people, and then when he called the home office for the interview, the home office said, you know, he can come in three months. we are busy and stuff. so thatis months. we are busy and stuff. so that is six months. that is six months already gone.” that is six months. that is six months already gone. i have cases in my own constituency office and i know only too well how slow and inefficient the home office can be. there is an institutional problem. there is an institutional problem. the home office is so slow in dealing with people's cases. and if you are a child with an extended

family it can be a really fanatic situation. —— with no extended family. i think the immigration syste m family. i think the immigration system isn't working to take account of the kinds of traumas they face. sometimes you even have the immigration system making things worse by adding long delays. from those who are dismissed when they claim to be children to be teenagers who face being deported at the cusp of that altered, many working in the sector say that failures in the system a re sector say that failures in the system are having a devastating effect, exacerbating the pain and mental health problems of children who are already profound little ties. the author of a recent study into the mental health of unaccompanied minors believes the government's hostile environment campaign is having a direct negative impact on the well—being of child migrants. our research on the mental health needs of unaccompanied young people did find that the hostile environment is one of many can to beating factors. the risks with

regard to self harm and suicide, how big are they? there is this really high risk of self harm and suicide. and actually, we are concerned that it might be an increasing risk because the issues that are affecting these young people are remaining unresolved. if they are having to wait years to receive a decision from the home office, or if they are not getting an education or healthcare or not being put into accommodation that would be appropriate to their needs, all of these things can accumulate, and u nfortu nately create these things can accumulate, and unfortunately create this really high risk of self harm and suicide. over the last year, at least for teenaged asylum seekers in london all originally from eritrea are believed to have taken their own lives. solicitor olivia and this is presenting two of the families. the first is alexander. the second is

osman. they both are from eritrea. they were children seeking refuge in the uk. very sadly, alexander died when he was only 18, and osman died when he was only 18, and osman died when he was 19. we are aware that osmond and alexander art two of four deaths that have occurred in about the last year of young people who came to the uk as asylum seeking miners. and it appears that they have all died in similar circumstances, which is obviously externally concerning. inquests into the two deaths are ongoing. however, people who knew the boys said they we re people who knew the boys said they were deeply distressed with a protracted process of applying for refugee status in the uk. then he met alexander when he was volunteering at the calais migrant camp to years ago. that was the two of us in calais. he would have been desperately six or seven months when

i met desperately six or seven months when imet him. desperately six or seven months when i met him. he lived ever a whole yearin i met him. he lived ever a whole year in the worst of circumstances for a teenager to be living in them to be growing up in. and without any family, without any supervision, without any, you know, education. alex was, i don't know, you know, so stubborn and funny and, you know, so interested in everything, in the world, and he wasjust interested in everything, in the world, and he was just so childlike andi world, and he was just so childlike and i really miss him. i really miss him a lot. so do you know how alex came to be in london? he hopped in the back of richer red lorry with a bunch of other people. it was a dangerous crossing. that is a risky was himself in. when he arrived in the uk, there was an issue with his age and the age that he gave was disputed by the authorities. so they placed him in an at a

disputed by the authorities. so they placed him in an ata —— disputed by the authorities. so they placed him in an at a —— as an adult asylu m placed him in an at a —— as an adult asylum seeker. how old was he at this time? 17. while he was there he was assaulted in his accommodation. he decided to stop going back to his hostel and became homeless. eventually the home office resisted alex and concluded he was indeed just 17. a child. but by then, penny says it was too late. in alex's case, he was not believed about how old he was, and i think that he had been through a lot of very dramatic experiences that he would have been thinking about. so after a few months of being in the uk, is mental—health, is mental state started to deteriorate. as a consequence of that, he took his own life. the home office has to ask itself whether it, putting children

through immigration control is worth the risk of their well—being. they are experiencing trauma and there are experiencing trauma and there are experiencing trauma and there are experiencing stressful environments and not adequately being supported through that. the home office declined our request for an interview, but in a statement they said... they did not comment on the recent deaths. we do need to find a balance between our immigration policies. we are treating these young children unfairly. when young people are driven to suicide or are otherwise mentally desperate because of the weight they are processed when they get here, that must be changed.” think it is deeply distressing that you have teenagers who may have gone through all kinds of awful experiences that end up taking their

owfi experiences that end up taking their own lives. that is a deeply distressing thing to happen. it shows the level of support and offered mental health support as well that some of these young people really need. at the home office needs to recognise that and not add to the stress by long delay in home office processes. india before he died, alex are different with other asylu m died, alex are different with other asylum seekers in london. 18—year—old tass shared a room with him from time to time and says alex was happy and hopeful about his future when he first arrived. —— in the year before he died. translation: he had stress. the experiences had been bad. i am angry. alex died three or four months ago. he lived with me and osman. he died too. just travel to london two years ago from eritrea. he says alex took the same route as him ata he says alex took the same route as

him at a later date and was haunted by the experience until his death. translation: ourjourney was very dangerous and scary because we travelled without family, money, and with no communication or language. it was very dangerous and unbeatable. if you come to europe from my country, i went through sudan, then libya. travelling to libya was one of the worst experience in my life, because it was very hot with no water or food. then kidnappers turned up. they would like to kidnap us so we needed to protect ourselves. seven months, six months, too many people from eritrea as well. semi from ethiopia as well. they came in one vote. our vote was very small and there were many women, men and women. when the boat started to approach, we moved with happiness. many people died in the sea. no charge at how to suffer

the sea. no charge at how to suffer the way that is how. the british to see people die around in order to get to a safe place. the psychological and emotional damage done to these young people is strongly. they write their thinking they are safe and will be taken care, ben simmons as they do not believe that you're a child. campaign is now growing for britain to adopt a cynicism to europe, where upon arrival, and the company miners are partnered with a guardian throughout the asylum process. —— and then somebody says they do not believe that you are a child. national government, local authorities, and health—ca re officials need to work together to ensure that these people are properly supported. that means that they are getting thorough assessments so there these are properly identified, and also that they get nominated an independent guardian, someone that the government is providing, that will actually help them through these processes . actually help them through these processes. and is worth up at their best interests. another month has

passed, and nazis still waiting to hear from the passed, and nazis still waiting to hearfrom the home passed, and nazis still waiting to hear from the home office. passed, and nazis still waiting to hearfrom the home office. he is tragically fit as he was to be a firefighter, but due to his own sta ble firefighter, but due to his own stable immigration status, he is not allowed to work. before i was working in the pizza shop, i was paying taxes, i was paying for my rent, and for other things. so now i — there it is my case, and i'm not allowed to work. naz needs money for food. but can a key leader, he is not given the same level of support as young british adults who have recently left ca re. as young british adults who have recently left care. fairly recently, they have put the age up to 25, where young people leaving care can access support packages. you know, so they can get support workers to checkin so they can get support workers to check in with them, make sure that they are going in the right

direction if they need help with application. all sorts. children who have failed the process and reach 18 are then denied any of that support, because they become no records to public funds. life for haydock has change in the past few weeks. when ariel met had, she said she instinctively felt that he was a child and offered him a home. he is definitely a teenager. he hasjust the beginnings of some facial hair on his upper lip. he has mood swings and temper tantrums. he has that covered where becoming obsessed with little things like drawing. he has been through a lot. he's been on the road and his journey from been through a lot. he's been on the road and hisjourney from long been through a lot. he's been on the road and his journey from long time. his clique spirits and trauma. you can see that in the way that he relates to certain situations. bidding you people, he is often withdrawn. —— meeting new people.

hancock is out of immediate danger, but this offer of a place to sleep is only temporarily. time is running out. the home office says it never returns and accompanied children to their country of origin, until it is said to do so. yet unless cannot can convince them that he job certain, there is every chance he will be deported. i fear that the home office and everybody in positions of authority tragedy with this case, they are postponing dealing with this case until he turns 18, which is not that far away. i worry that he will get to that stage and they will say it over, look, even he is now saying his 18, so we can wash our hands of him. some of the

children who arrived in the uk in search of a safe haven are being failed by us. instead of compassion and care, they are being met with suspicion and disdain. they will all be brought as traffic on the system, but i believe we are capable of written out without causing further harm to those children who are in genuine need. british summertime ends this weekend as the clocks go back. it has nothing to do with the weather. clearly we are not in summer any more. it will feel that we are not even in autumn, though. cold arctic air in place across the uk. a biting wind. many of us will be dry with crisp, clearsunshine, but there will be some showers about. some of those will be heavy, even wintry and places, too. the air coming all the way from the arctic, all in the blue. and it is a strong wind well. the showers are strong in the areas that are exposed to the wind.

here is how it looks bursting. —— first thing. these are the starting temperatures. that is the distribution of the showers. they've been coming in overnight into northern scotland, icy and places, and a bit slushy on higher routes, high areas of northern ireland, which are close to freezing. the showers will continue on the northerly wind running into ireland. northern scotland and the west of wales and far south—west of england. in the name, it penetrates inland across parts of the midlands, east anglia, and south—east england. showers could be heavy or thundery with hail. for many, as you see, it will be dry and sunny. the rain has that biting northerly wind. that has an effect on the feel of the weather. last weekend top temperatures close to 20. because of that wind, it feels even colder. mid to low single figures in places. many will be dry on saturday night, clear, cold, with frost setting in. showers will continue, though, particularly across eastern

parts of the uk. again, it could be wintry in higher ground. remember on saturday night the clocks go back an hour. an hour in bed for some of us. as we start off on sunday morning, again, it will be cold and frosty in places with a risk of ice in some spots, too. the showers going on through sunday will really be across eastern parts of the uk. the north—easterly wind will penetrate a bit further inland. lighter wind for scotland and northern ireland. possibly a struggle wind in the east and south—east of england. for many on sunday it will be dry, sunny, but the temperatures, well covered some may be just agree also higher. but the wind will still will be a bit stronger. going into next week, wet at times, but low pressure close by. the temperatures will gradually creep up again.

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