in the middle east to help hunt down the remnants of the so—called islamic state. the battle for the last pocket of is territory is being held up because civilians remain trapped there. eight illegal gold miners have been pulled alive from flooded mines in zimbabwe but officials fear dozens more are still trapped underground. more than 20 bodies have been recovered since the incident happened on tuesday night. the government has declared it a national disaster. international observers have appealed to nigerians to back the democratic process after the electoral commission postponed presidential and parliamentary elections at the last minute. the commission denies coming under external pressure to delay the poll. thousands of criminals in england and wales will be tagged with gps trackers, to allow authorities to constantly monitor their wherabouts. the current tags, which are worn

by around 60,000 offenders, are only linked to a fixed address, such as an offender's home, with alerts generated if they are not there at certain hours. our home affairs correspondent, danny shaw reports. we have gps technology in our cars and our smartphones. after 100 yards... now, it is being used to track movements of offenders and suspects on bail. this is a demonstration of how the satellite tags are fitted, using an expert who has helped to set up the scheme. the ankle tag sends an alert if someone goes to an area they are banned from, or isn't attending a rehabilitation course when they should be. it gives us very detailed information as to where that person potentially has been, where they have been tracked, and it gives us evidence to be able to present to the relevant criminal justice agency, to take that appropriate action. the offender satellite tracking has

been operating in three areas since last november. it will be rolled out across england and wales by this summer. tags will monitor 4,000 people every year. it will be used in cases of domestic abuse and stalking, to keep offenders away from victims. david blunkett was the first politician to trial satellite tracking, launching the scheme when he was home secretary 15 years ago. progress stalled due to contractual disputes and technical problems. the government will be hoping it has more success this time. now on bbc news what's it like being born to immigrant parents in a country where there is growing support for anti—immigration parties? bbc africa's daniel henry investigates how young people of african heritage are making their way in europe's big cities. when people ask, "where are you from?",

they usually follow up with another question — "where are you really from?" i'm from cameroon, west africa. london. ghana. portugal. so i'm from somalia and my partner's from ghana and my other partner is from morocco. my somali heritage, going back home, i wouldn't be considered fully somali. being here in sweden, i'm not really considered swedish. personal question, i know. but for some, it's very political. look at the islamization of our country. there is a lot of morrocan scum in holland who makes the streets unsafe. you have to integrate — that was one of the most things i heard on the news. integration, integration, integration, integration. and i ask, what does that mean? growing up with the values of immigrant parents in a country where support is growing for anti—immigration parties isn't easy. so i wanted to find out if europe's changing political mood is affecting

the way young people of african heritage are defining home and celebrating the culture they've been raised with. 0ur parents came here, right? we were born here. somali for me is not the same as it is for my mother. they just want their own culture. this is it, this is final. everything else is different, you know? go back to your own country. this is african diaspora diaries. my name is daniel henry, i'm a bbc africa reporter. east london is home for me, it's where i was born, it's where i was raised and crucially, it's where i get my hair cut. good to see you. but if we're talking about going "back" home, that's barbados and st lucia where my family comes from. it's always fun going back, but as i get older, i realise how special those trips were and it made me think, what if you've never been able to visit your country of origin

because it's a place your family left to keep you safe? how do you celebrate the culture of a country that you've never seen? where you're from, you're not going to forget where you're from, and how you are raised you're not going to forget how you are raised. all you're going to do is when you get to the new place, you're going to add that to what is already you. you've got to deal with this place now which is not the place where you've come from, and you've also got to fit in. so you've got to deal with it. but how? i headed to amsterdam to find out. hussein suleiman is the co—founder of a clothing line called daily paper. it's where i live... he was born in somalia and his family arrived in europe when he was a little boy. they are close to 2 million people in the netherlands with parents that emigrated to the country and call it home. so i'm from somalia and jefferson, my partner is from ghana. abderrahmane, my other partner is from morocco. blending those cultures like amsterdam and like our african

heritage together, that is literally the daily paper. daily paper is a reflection of the three founders. can you show me what it means? yeah, definitely. hussein has never been back to somalia, but he finds ways to show his connection to the country through his clothing. what is it about that logo do you think represents? it's actually the masai shield. the masai is a nomadic tribe, wherever they go is their home. so we have the same feeling. you relate to that? we relate to that. we're going to make him look extra pretty. ready for appelsap. ready for appelsap, what's that? appelsap, it's a music festival. today? yeah, today. yeah, as a festival, it's been going on for more than 15 years and one of my favourites.

are you going too? yeah for sure, are you coming? all right, yeah. appelsap is literally like everybody from amsterdam and outside of amsterdam that loves hip hop culture that come together. what does this festival mean to you? why did you bring us here? daily paper got big around the same time dutch hip—hop became big in the netherlands, and one of the first supporters were people from the hip hop industry, they were the first people to really embrace daily paper as a label and yeah, they brought it to mass popularity in this country. it's been said a lot of time, hip—hop connects people. it brings so many different cultures

together, and if you look around you at this festival, this is the embodiment of that. and they're also telling our stories. a lot of the lyrics, what they talk about in their lyrics a lot of times are our stories. who is here do you think who does that? i like yung nnelg. right. i like him, he's dope. he's an artist from amsterdam south east. just the way he makes his music... 0h, bleep, that's him right there. that's him right there, that's him. with the rugby shirt? with the rugby shirt. should we go and say hi? hi, yung nnelg. pleasure to meet you. i was just talking about you. no, we really were, we really were. he asked me what kind of music do you listen to and i was like yung nnelg. and there you are. here i am. tell me about people, the musicians like you of african descent who are making music here in holland.

what kind of stories are you telling? 0k, basically, i try to tell the story of where i come from and what my environment has taught me, like the norms and values that i got from my home, from my parents which are ghanian, and then like implying that with this dutch culture type of wave which we are in right now, just combine those things together and that gets me. that's what i am. i know you're are going to go on the stage real soon, so i'm going to let you go. really good to meet you, brother. thank you. it's really interesting walking around this festival and you see all of these artists of african descent who are headlining, all of these people who are running the show and then at the same time, you walk around and you see people who are wearing the clothing, the brands, the prints, that hussein and his team have been putting together for years and it's as though holland,

or at least this part of amsterdam, has reached a point where to celebrate being of african descent and to celebrate being dutch at the same time, that people here are comfortable with that. at appelsap, you can wear what you like, but that's not true for everyone in amsterdam. last year, the dutch parliament announced the ban on wearing the full islamic veil in some public places. and this man campaigned to make it happen. look at the islamization of our country. there is a lot of moroccan scum in holland who makes the streets unsafe. the people want to be in charge again, it's not only america first, it's also holland first and that is what i try to accomplish. some people say you are a bit of a fascist. well, don't listen to those people. that is totally untrue. geert wilders leads the freedom party, the second largest in dutch politics and they called to ban the quran and shut down all asylum centres.

ideas like that would make life even more difficult for hussein and his family. when they left somalia, they claimed asylum in the netherlands. hussein was two years old. when i caught up with him at his favourite coffee shop he told me it's a part of his life that he hasn't forgotten. before we actually lived in our own house, we lived in a, how do you call this, like a asylum—seekers centre and i think around that period, we had a lot of refugees coming in from bosnia, serbia, around that area, and we used to live in the city which was outside of amsterdam in a big centre and i had a great time, because i'm young, i'm a kid and everybody around me are kids. when i think about it now with my adult mind... that place was really bad, actually.

it was kind of like a prison. we still did not go back to somalia, and that is still something that... i think it's quite difficult. would you like to go? i would definitely like to go... but... at the same time i like to go but at the same time i don't because at the end of the day, we are always looking for a place that you can really call home, right? eventually his family made a life in the netherlands. despite all he has achieved, he says that he is reminded that for some, it will never be enough. for me, growing up and always thinking that i need to forget my culture where i am from, that is what everyone tells you, you have to integrate. that was one of the most things i've heard on the news, integration,

integration, integration. what does that mean? what does that actually mean? so, basically, whatever i had, i must strip that off and go become you. when i keep hearing this kind of talk from politicians, from all of the world, not just the netherlands, all of europe, the united states, everywhere, i keep hearing this and i'm like, 0k. should i actually spend my time and energy trying to tell them to chill? or should i just accept the fact that a lot of these kind of, rhetoric comes from ignorance because they don't want to know about other cultures. they just want their own culture, this is it, this is final. and everything else is different, go back to your own country. hussein won't let his place in the netherlands or his connection to somalia be defined by people or politics. his co—founder, jefferson, agrees.

he refuses to let others dictate what it means to be a young black man in the netherlands. i noticed it a lot from the sudanese demographic in holland. back in the day, they used to tease a lot of people from african descent, you are like a smelling fish in sudanese language, they were used to teasing ghanians, nigerians, while not knowing they're from the same continent. because of all of those people teasing ghanians, some people were even afraid to say they were from ghana, they would pretend they were sudanese, just to be accepted amongst them. or they would have like dark skin, light skin complexities, you know. for me, it was always like, how can you be ashamed of where you're from, you know? we can't deny it, we live in a multicultural society so you have to be open for new things.

it was funny during the world cup, you have some moroccans playing for the morocco team and a lot of dutch people were wearing moroccan jerseys and they rooted for morocco. so seeing something like that, i am very happy, i'm like 0k, we are getting there, there is some positive things going on. so yeah, i feel like people are getting more open and i feel like the new generation is going to definitely make a difference. cherrie is a star in scandinavia whose family story starts in somalia. she runs her own record label and she has put out some big hits, like this one, that includes a shout—out to somalia's capital. hip hop music. when her family moved to escape the civil war, they headed to europe, first norway where cherrie was born, then finland, before eventually settling in sweden. around 280,000 somalis live

in europe, with sweden accepting more refugees in proportion to the size of their population than any other european country. cherrie's family have made a home here, but her mum remembers the life they left behind. when you decided that somalia was no longer safe and to move from there to northern europe, do you think, looking at what your children do now, the opportunities you have now, do you think it was worth it? i think i can answer that. a lot of somalian parents, in europe and america, the diaspora, aren't really too happy

to be living here. really and truly. i think they're happy for us, but they know what they had to leave behind, as in we have a whole country that we loved, that's war—torn. and we know what it used to be and how much better and how much of a paradise it used to be, so obviously, there is a lot of hurt there, i think, for somalian parents. but knowing the opportunities they made for their children, they're very happy, but there's definitely a bittersweet feeling to it. cherrie has never been to somalia. most of her friends and memories were made here, in the swedish suburb of rinkeby. hey boo. hi. nice to meet you. good afternoon, i'm daniel,

nice to meet you. one of the best that we have here. this is really like rinkeby‘s angel. he's looked after us since i was a baby, so. really? of course. what stuck out when you first met, when she first came through? just like all the kids, but she seemed more lively, more happiness, you could just see she is going to be a leader. so important to not only have her but have more of her. because it's tough — like living here in rinkeby is so tough, and it's so hard for some people to see what we are doing that is good, you know. so you have to do something more better than what other people do on the other side for them to accept you. and she was among the ones who always fight to do something right, the best. there are lots of artists, you know, they can sing. but you can't learn nothing

from what they sing. right. she is among the ones that can sing and you can learn something from them and these kids also, when they see her, they feel that this is something that we can learn from. and that is so important. she is here and i will never ever remove her from here. she is the best. thank you so much. she's the best. families from all over the world live here. some have left countries of war to find peace. but some politicians have had enough. there is a connection between immigration and crime. when you look at rape, for example, it's a very for some immigrants from some countries, like in northern africa, the middle east. that's the leader of the sweden democrats speaking in 2010. fast—forward to the 2018 elections and he's got a new message to go with the new suit as he redefines his pitch

for sweden's voters. it was racism from the beginning, but he has gone in front and changed that. too many immigrants. we should take care of those who are already here for 20 years, they cannot speak any swedish. when cherrie's family arrived, the sweden democrats were a fringe group. but they picked up support in the 2018 elections and now a far right party with origins in neo—nazism is the third largest in swedish politics. when i caught up with cherrie at her studio, the votes hadn't been counted yet. but she knew why the message

was going mainstream. i think it's a thing of like people of the world not learning from past mistakes or what the older generations have done. before us, it was the turkish and it keeps on going like that, and somalis were like the — we came in the early 2000s, we came in a lot because of the war and everything that's been going on. in the beginning, they don't know how to speak swedish, they can't get anyjobs, you know, and now you see like most of the nurses are somali. and the somali people are actually doing a lot of stuff and people like me in music. hip—hop wasn't huge at all in sweden just

a couple of years ago. but then somalis came into the mix, you know, and yeah. we're just really cool people, but that's what it is, people just hate whatever is unknown, like for instance, as a woman of somali heritage, going back home, i wouldn't be considered fully somali. and being here in sweden, i'm not considered swedish. but i feel like both, but not fully, if that makes sense. because i've never been to somalia and i definitely don't feel swedish, and i don't look swedish. so there's always been a sense of uncertainty because of that. i don't have any roots like that anywhere and growing up, if you don't have that, that will confuse you. hip hop music really and truly, just because we come from different backgrounds, the real culture that i have been a part of is the one in rinkeby,

where i've grown up amongst chileans and kurdish, and turkish, and iraqi, and gambian, and eritrean and ethiopian, and somali people, and all kinds of other people, where i ate their food and spoke their languages and i feel like that's the culture that represents me the most. it came out of nothing, it came out of unity. she sings so, i can make music that represents young somali girls all over the world, but also, that would hopefully give a better understanding to the older generation, our parents, and grandparents, a better understanding of what we go through. because our parents came here, right?

we were born here. so we have different... we have different experiences of what it means to be a refugee in sweden, or what it means to be somali. somali for me is not the same as it is for my mother. she's been there, she knew what it when it was peaceful, when — you know? i've heard stories about it, but i'm never going to be able to know what it was. i didn't expect to see you back so soon! how was the trip, man? because i went to barbados and st lucia so often, i thought that everybody did that, that everyone that was of caribbean or african descent just automatically went back. but seeing these guys, it showed me that even if you haven't had the opportunity to go, there's still a way to create that connection and to express that connection. 'cause that is part of who you are.

yeah. music plays hello. after hitting a high of 17 degrees on friday, saturday could only manage 1a. of course, it didn't help, it certainly felt cooler if your skies looked like this. but there's still some springlike sunshine to be found here and there. in fact, parts of eastern england could be as high as 16 degrees during sunday, because we're all going to see a bit of sunday sunshine, either side though of an area of cloud, with the chance of rain spreading east across the uk. we've got low pressure to the west of us, see the swirl in the satellite picture here. so it's this cloud which is going to move on through, but it is a weakening system, and some of us willjust about stay dry throughout. so this is how we're starting the day, nowhere particularly cold and actually, for many of us, it will be a sunny start, but that's away from this area of cloud and some rain to the west. notice how narrow it is though as it moves into south—west england, into wales, knocking on the door of north—west england. most of its rain is now done from northern ireland at this stage, it's 9am in the morning.

there's still some heavier bursts affecting parts of western scotland. there is a stiff, southerly wind out of this as well, it is going to be windier day compared with saturday. so what we have then is a fairly thin area of cloud and the chance of seeing some rain, then it's gradually going to push its way further east. so gone from northern ireland, we'll soon have the sunshine back into western scotland, wales, and western england as well, and it'll be drierfor much of the rest of the day, bar the odd shower. so the cloud reaches into eastern scotland and into eastern england. it's really hard to pick out any rain because most of it has just fizzled out, it's essentially dry. it is a windier day. these are average speeds, western scotland could be gusting up to around 50 miles an hour or so going to the evening. it's a touch milder though and through parts of eastern england, helped by some sunshine here, 16 celsius could well be seen. now, we could well hold on to a bit of cloud for east anglia and the south—east of england on through sunday night and into monday, delivering a bit of rain at times. still quite breezy, quite

windy going into monday, so no frost and further showers moving into the north—west. this line of showers just pushing its way further south as well into parts of northern england and wales as monday starts. monday, many of us will get to see some sunshine away from east anglia and the south—east of england, with thicker cloud at times and the chance of rain, plenty of showers on the brisk wind coming into the north—west. hail, thunder possible coming out of this as well, and may merge in western scotland to give some longer spells of rain, and temperatures are just taking a small step backwards, and another weather system coming in into tuesday could welljust keep that cooler feel going for a time, before it could well become very mild again later in the week. you're watching bbc news. i'm reged ahmad. our top stories: the battle to claim the last piece of territory held by islamic state fighters stalls, because thousands of civilians remain trapped inside. us military planes carrying humanitarian aid for venezuela begin arriving at the border. president maduro calls it a coverfor a us invasion.

the battle to claim the last pocket of territory from the so—called islamic state group has slowed, because thousands of civilians remain trapped inside the area. us backed kurdish forces launched an attack on is‘s last remaining