that the two eldest — boys aged 13 and 1a — had died. we now know that the four other children, including a seven—month—old baby, have been released from hospital. none of the children involved in yesterday's incident can be identified for legal reasons. now, two people were arrested on suspicion of murder yesterday, a 37—year—old man and a 34—year—old woman, and police have said they're not looking for anybody else in connection with the deaths. all day, we've seen pcsos on patrol in this area, trying to provide a bit of reassurance to local people. but south yorkshire police have stressed that there is no wider risk to the local community. (police are appealing for witnesses after a mugger held a knife to a young child's throat — and then robbed his grandmother. the incident happened in normanby, middlesbrough between 5pm and 6pm. the victim, in her 405, was taking her 19—month—old grandson for a walk. the suspect is described as aged 20—25 years old, around 6ft tall, with a medium build

and short black hair. he was wearing a black tracksuit and gold nike trainers. anyone who might have seen a man matching this description — should contact police. the number of migrants arriving in the uk on small boats this month has reached m0. that's higher than the figure in december, when the home secretary sajid javid declared a major incident. eight migrants — describing themselves as iranian and afghan — were picked up in the channel today by border force officials, and taken to dover for health checks and questioning. the troubled retail giant arcadia is to close twice as many stores as it had said it would earlier this week. the group, which own brands such as topshop, burton and dorothy perkins, said it would close a further 25 sites on top of the 23 already announced as part of a rescue plan. now it's time for a look at the weather with alina jenkins.

hello, it's been quite a wet saturday across parts of scotland and northern england. the rain continuing across scotland overnight. still quite heavy for more western areas. mainly dry for the northern isles. the rain will ease from northern england. becoming mainly dry crossing land in wales. rain returning into northern ireland and then extending its way eastwards into parts of england and wales. for most it is not going to be a cold night. archie mist and fog for east anglia in south—east england. dry he at first, but rain will push its way eastwards a cross at first, but rain will push its way eastwards across much of the uk. brighter skies were northern ireland, southern scotland and northern england through the afternoon. rain continuing across the far north of scotland. a cooler feeling day and quite a brisk westerly wind. temperature is lower than they have been today. 15 or 19 celsius, typically. we could see 21 across south—east england. some spells of sunshine for a time. going into bank what a monday, there are still rain continuing across northern scotland. elsewhere, sunny spells and showers. the showers are

most frequent across northern and western areas. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... another two cabinet ministers — matt hancock and rory stewart — enter the race to become the new conservative leader and prime minister. delivering brexit is absolutely mission critical and it must be done and done as soon as possible and it has to be done in this parliament. a british climber dies on mount everest. robin haynes fisher is the tenth person to die on the mountain this season. four children who were rescued from a house in sheffield yesterday have been released from hospital. two boys, aged 13 and 1a, died in the same incident. exit polls in the republic of ireland suggest that voters have

overwhelmingly backed reforms to the country's divorce laws. now on bbc news, the first of two special programmes on the efforts to rebuild the lives of communities devastated by war. betta ny hughes travels tojordan in paths to peace. years of brutal civil war have ripped syria apart, with horrific devastation to its historical and archaeological heritage. hopeless. no future. nobody is looking forward for the future. your biggest hope is just finding food for your kids whatever. but now, refugees from the war are coming together to learn an ancient craft, creating something beautiful and lasting out of the toughest of materials. their hope that one day they could return to their homeland to use the skills of stone masonry

to help rescue their country's shattered heritage and rebuild their broken lives. in its own tiny way it might help to create more peace. here injordan or in syria, maybe this is the first time here in arabian countries, that a lady is working in a stone, in carving a stone. when you build something you start from just a tiny little bit, and this is the tiny little bit.

like so many, i watched the destruction of homes, lives and heritage, in the war zones of the middle east with horror and sorrow. these are the lands i love. boasting unique ancient sites like this, umm el—jimal, just four miles from the syrian border injordan. built 2000 years ago, out of basal stone, for centuries it has been a crossroad of cultures from all points of the compass. i've been travelling to this part of the world for years because i'm drawn here by the remarkable monuments and stories left behind by some of the most vibrant and energetic civilizations

in human history — the nabateans, the greeks, the romans, the byzantines, the abbasids, the umayyads, the ottomans, to name but a few. these people were often at war and conflict with one another but one thing that united them was their sheer delight in the raw resource of this region — building blocks of stone, and the other thing that united them was their desire for their creations to out—live them, to stand the test of time. but i'm notjust here to investigate history, because heritage sites like these are in danger across the region. i have come tojordan because i want to see how, in the desolation of war, the restoration of the past is bringing rare hope for the future.

this is the border town of mafraq, a place haunted by the violence of syria's civil war. here, we are close enough to hear shelling at night. death is moments away. mafraq has been on the front—line of the refugee crisis since the start of the war. wave after wave of refugees have poured over here across the border, which means there are actually more refugees here than there are locals

so the atmosphere can be a bit charged. these are the kinds of images we have grown used to. lines of refugees, desperate for help. but i have come to mafraq to visit a place which has defied those stereotypes. these are the outskirts of mafraq. just over there is a reception centre for refugees. but where i'm heading is this modest little building. now, this is originally the home of the international medical corps but now it is a trading centre, and there is something rather remarkable happening here. for ten months, these 45 students, drawn here by word of mouth,

have been taught heritage stone masonry from scratch. this has to be one of the most extraordinary of fine craft courses. most of these students are dispossessed refugees — women, men, teenagers, who have lost their homes and fled syria with nothing. and now creating architectural triumphs. learning the skills which could one day help rebuild their shattered land. and a third of the students are women tackling a job which has traditionally been the preserve of men.

in the future, the women of syria will play a role in rebuilding what others have destroyed. how lovely to see you. for over a year, the project has been overseen by a powerhouse duo, baraa and nour. it is amazing to see because i'm used to looking at these buildings from the ancient world, so imagining those stonemasons from the past creating something. so just explain to me what exactly is happening here? we have now 45 students, jordanian and syrian, male and female. they age from 17 to a0. 17 to 40? 17 to 40, yes. actually, no—one worked with the stone before. so nobody‘s...none of these people have ever done this before? no.

and so is the idea that, with these skills, when they can go back to syria, they will be able to work as stonemasons in the country? yes, they can go and rebuild syrian heritage and they can work in our cultural places because here we are teaching them all the islamic and cultural architectural features. this is such an important project, it feels, because when we hear about syria all we hear about is destruction but here something is being created. yes. as part of their training, the students are taken to local heritage sites, likejerash, a jewel in the crown of the roman empire, to study the kind of architecture they could one day be asked to rebuild. the trips ram home the shared cultural power of these places and the value of preserving and restoring. in the workshop, they are systematically taught the entire process.

with a rough limestone block they create flat surfaces. and then carve a variety of architectural features, reproducing what they have seen. like this cylindrical plinth created by students which could be the base of a column or a pedestal for a statue. nour is a trained engineer, and teaches the theory, from geometry to conservation and preservation techniques. while baraa is the local project manager. i have to say, it is so impressive to me that you are two women running this project. it is brilliant and also that you have so many women who are training as stone masons. yes, we have 1a women here. all the women here are housewives. to rebuild the places and to rebuild the old cities, like here in old souq.

yes, cos that's aleppo, what used to be... yes, it's an old souq in aleppo. baraa says the trips to heritage sites have triggered a passion for the remnants of the past. all the time the students ask, why this is stones here, why they built this castle here. they feel something in their heart actually, because when when you work in the heritage places, we need to rebuild our countries. but they are also taught how it could be restored and renewed. and also it must give them hope that there is a chance, because this is terrible but if they can do this, then they can rebuild what was lost? yes. i'm told two of the most promising students are khadija and aisha. they both fled from syria at the beginning of the war and were forced to reconstruct their lives here from scratch.

in this impoverished area, localjordanians have been severely challenged by the crisis at their borders, and jordan's heritage sites also need repair, restoration and preservation.

so locals have been welcomed too. reina and nourare mother and daughter. they grew up near mafraq and always work on the same stone together. with more refugees than locals in mafraq, there have inevitably been tensions between the communities. but here, jordanians and syrians have bonded and become close friends. in the punishing heat of the afternoon, the students take a break, and kadijah invites reina, nour and me for a girl power lunch. you look so beautiful!

what a lovely dress. kadijah and her young family fled from homs in syria with nothing at all except a few treasured photos of happier times at the home they have lost. that's the only thing you brought with you? so those photographs, those memories, will be very precious? it seems to me, ladies, that in a way you are making history, because it was very unusual for there to be female stonemasons. do you think it has made you feel more powerful, doing this?

it has actually made you stronger! show me your muscles, yeah! hearing all this, ladies, it must make you feel very proud of what you have been doing? we are proud of our women, syrian and jordanian. the work is notjust for the men. actually, the women can do everything. you can see that. inshallah, thank you. these students are notjust taught a craft here. the course acts as a form

of timeless art therapy. the first civilisations who built in stone were often brutal and violent, as well as brilliant. seeing this in action makes me wonder if, for centuries, stonemasonry has offered its artisans a kind of oasis of calm and fulfilment and achievement. a number of these students told me that stone masonry has a therapeutic effect. that it gives order and structure to your day, that the sound of the chisels is hypnotic. the work becomes the sole centre of your attention. some become completely absorbed in the work, as if they're able to lose

themselves for a time. scientists will tell us that we are at our happiest when we are using our hands to make things, that it takes us back to a kind of primordial state. but creating things that are beautiful or useful or both is one of the things that, as a species, makes us, us. mohammed is the youngest student here. his family fled from homs when he was just 11, after their home was bombed. life as a refugee can be aimless and dispiriting.

hamza is from damascus and came here in his early teens. he has become particularly skilled in calligraphy, spending hours carefully carving arabic script into the finished stone. what does the second word say? allah? god is the merciful. yeah. do you find when you are doing this kind of thing that you feel connected to the craftsmen and stonemasons who would have done this 500 years ago? exactly, yeah. when you look at those

things that they built, they are so, so... so beautiful, so amazing to look at. they did it with their hands. so that'sjust, you know, thinking about that is amazing... the process of creating something absolutely beautiful, something you can enjoy looking at, can be proud of. it is the beginning of the process of becoming something, something that happens to you in the past, you know, trying to do something new. no—one at the school is under any illusions about the scale of the task ahead. this is a video shown to students, just one terrible example of the damage to syria's historic monuments. by the use of drones and 3d scanners, archaeologists have revealed the devastation to beit ghazaleh, one of the largest 0ttoman—era palaces in aleppo.

the skills taught at the stonemasonry courses injordan could help rebuild and restore every architectural feature of this palace, and others like it. perhaps, just perhaps, this offers a glimmer of hope. the lack of skilled stonemasons is a serious cultural threat. after the civil war in lebanon, for instance, many of the historic buildings that were damaged were simply bulldozed away. and there is a very real possibility that that might well happen in syria too, which is why this scheme, it feels to me, is fighting the cause of the past, and the future. reima and nour grew up just a stone's throw from this spot. i am back out the remote desert site of umm el—jimal,

the city built by stonemasons 2000 years ago using exactly the same techniques that they have been taught. i am so delighted that you've brought me here, but why did you bring me? why is this place special to you? i have to ask this, because i have two daughters. what is it like working together as mother and daughter?

in the end, it is notjust about art, but about love. love for archaeology, for the legacy of the past, and the power of culture to bring people together, helping to find direction for the future, and to heal the wounds of the past. for all their weight and solidity, there is something else. something intangible about these remarkable blocks of stone. these are storehouses of generations‘ worth of inspiration and ambition.

and for dislocated refugees, they are also a reminder of a culture that has been lost but could live again. and surely there is something else more fundamental, too. surely these tell us that we should always create rather than destroy, and that how we choose to live in the world impacts not just the present but the lives of others, and the future.

hello. some of us started the bank holiday weekend with some sunshine. afairamount of holiday weekend with some sunshine. a fair amount of it around across parts of south and south—east england. this was the scene earlier on the isle of wight. for others, a different story, a lot of cloud around, outbreaks of rain, particularly for northern ireland, northern england and scotland. it remains a mixed picture through the rest of the bank holiday weekend. it will be turning cooler. the wind will be turning cooler. the wind will be turning cooler. the wind will be strengthening as well. most of us will see some rain at times. it all comes courtesy of this frontal system moving in from the atlantic. it's going to linger across much of northern scotland through the bank holiday weekend. it is here, across scotland, we will see the lion's share of the rain overnight. heavy is the further west you are. mainly dry for 0rkney and shetland. the rain will use for northern england. most of england

and wales will be dry, clear skies, mist and fog developing. later in the night, rain in northern ireland, western parts of englund and wales. not a cold night. most will stay in double figures. this rain will continue on its journey eastwards through tomorrow, still heaviest across scotland, becoming lighter and patchy across east anglia and south—east england. we will see spells of sunshine developing. the wind is quite gusty, so for many it will feel cooler. 15 or 19 celsius. we keep the rain he has are going to bank what a monday. elsewhere, some spells of sunshine. also some sharp showers, particularly across northern ireland, southern scotland, north—west england, down into parts of wales and south—west england. fewer showers and more sunshine of the further south and east you are. nowhere immune from showers on bank what a monday. temperatures are

typically 1a or 19 celsius. we still have this brisk northerly wind. there will be fewer showers around compared to bank what a monday. some spells of sunshine. cloud building through the day. watch out, an improvement in northern scotland, but still on the cool side, nine or 10 celsius. elsewhere, 16 or 17. cool and fairly settled theme, a mixture of sunshine and showers.

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