hello and welcome to sports day. coming up on the programme. celtic are stunned as they crashed out in the third round of champions league qualifying. we will look ahead to the first ever all premier league super cut, the european tonight at ten. championships liverpool repaired to face chelsea. —— prepare. fighting the vulnerable children who are specifically targetted by criminals whilst they're in care. we join police on the front line as they try to trace youngsters some as young as 12 who've been talk from england, and the start of recruited as drug dealers. we're barely dealing with it now the second against australia lords. and i think if it gets bigger and more violent, then there's just not enough of us. we'll have more in a special report on the criminals operating so called county lines. also tonight: more violence in hong kong as police and pro—democracy demonstrators clash at the airport after a second welcome to the programme and thank you forjoining us. we start with day of flight cancellations. celtic will not be playing in the group stages of the champions league police in malaysia say that a body found near a jungle holiday resort this season after being knocked out is that of the missing london by romanian in the second leg of the

teenager, nora quoirin. 50 years since the start third round qualifier at celtic of the northern ireland troubles — a view from south africa park. they finished 11—3 to the on bridgeing the divide. remaining champions who came from growing up in south africa, segregation was stark but even i've behind to go through 5—4 on never seen anything like this. this is one of many peace walls aggregate. a huge blow. his side here in belfast keeping two communities separate. we re aggregate. a huge blow. his side were expecting to progress. what sailing to new york surprised me was our approach to the to address the un — game. we worked the goalkeeper in teenage climate change campaigner greta thunberg's taking to the ocean the first half and then i don't in a zero carbon emitting yacht. think we played with any real and coming up on sportsday intensity and we got a warning on bbc news: tonight's football results before that and then they got across and we look ahead to the start of tomorrow's second test at lord's. can jofra archer drag england the run. we let it go. the game was back into the ashes? there for us and we had the lead and we let it slip through our own decision—making. we let it slip through our own decision-making. plenty of reaction on social media. saying the messing about in the last few windows has

bitten celtic on the backside. in good evening. the bbc has seen how criminal gangs are targeting children in care, some as young as 12 and using them the year oblique qualifier, the to work as drug dealers. irish league champions are into a vulnerable children are specifically playoff for the group stages after targeted and then sent to work beating them from montenegro five to in towns and cities many miles from home — the phenomenon three on aggregate. in the cup this known as county lines. the police say they are struggling to deal with the scale of the problem. last night, our special evening, the newcomers lost 3—0 to correspondent ed thomas reported on the officers trying to tackle the sale and consumption of class a drugs. this second report focuses leeds united, it was the first taste on the children at the centre of the county lines problem. of the league cup from the class of 92. some of them there, all in put that knife down. in care, missing from home... so at the moment in st helens attendance, their opponents prove children—wise we've got three missings. too much for them. rounding off the ..found in north wales. county lines is all over. score with that lovely finish, all it's cross—border. they have to be controlled. of tonight its results are available on the bbc sports website. to the children exploited to sell crack and heroin. the most vulnerable in our society are the kids. can you protect them? premier league teams though be right now i can't protect playing at the super cub for the

first time ever tomorrow night, last those kids because i don't know where they are. it is becoming a daily thing now, it keeps season champions, liverpool, will being the kids that have got links to north wales. in st helens, searching face chelsea. jean dougal is there for missing children. by the time it gets to the sixth in istanbul and has been following and seventh address, you know, the sites in the preparation. you start to feel sick, you're just thinking that these kids are not here, they're not anywhere they should be. it's becoming a daily routine... especially not this early in the season would anyone turn anyone's give you some information on the county lines. ..with searches from day to night. nose up. they‘ re season would anyone turn anyone's nose up. they're really excited at we're going to another another european match and of course address of missing child. but this is the care home, this is the home address. he has a taste for lifting european and in those children's homes police trophies, so i'm sure that he will are hearing the same story. the most vulnerable kids be pleased to lift another one tomorrow. as for chelsea, if they being found in north wales. obviously we have massive concerns we re tomorrow. as for chelsea, if they were to be successful tomorrow night, it will be frank's second about this north wales link. competitive match and charge his manager and he will be lifting, you we have changed the carer's voice to protect the child's identity. also be putting out his best team so both managers are putting this match very yeah, 0k. what's your big worry? he's being exploited 7

these are good kids, really. you've got to understand that these children have been ripped apart by family issues, drugs mainly stuff like that from their parents. it's not their fault. so, today, i've been on duty for three hours and all i've done is missing person cheques. this is the reality for some care children. is that yours? arrested in north wales, this teenager had more than 20 grams of heroin and crack hidden inside his body worth around £3,000. six months later, we're back in st helens outside his supported accommodation. your door's broken. two girls, three girls. come on, guys. why is the window, why is the door smashed? officers are searching for a different child, a 15—year—old missing from care at

risk of county lines. have you got a warrant? your door's open. ijust needed to check you're all right. well, you know where the door is. yeah, i do know where the door is. police say younger missing care children repeatedly end up here, all vulnerable to exploitation. so the missing child who we think is coming and going from wales spends some time in there. he does, yeah. how old is he? he's 15, yeah, and the lad we are looking for is 15. it really is getting to know our kids from the care homes, getting to know our kids on the street and to look out for these sort of danger signs really. gangs are targeting a network of children's homes to send them 50 miles away to sell heroin and crack. 14 i think was the youngest that i'm personally aware of was found drug dealing in north wales. and then a couple of weeks later we had a 15—year—old arrested. it was only when it was looked at, why were these two kids from merseyside both from care homes, in north wales drug dealing, that we identified those children are in fact being used and county lines is a bigger problem. calm down!

police showed us this footage. in the middle of this, a child in care. stop fighting! although this arrest isn't for a county lines offence, officers say he has already been found in north wales. oh, my god! put your leg down. a young child in crisis. bleep it's all on body camera, it's all being recorded. the kids that do get exploited, a lot of them do go through an ordeal, so it's extreme. these kids are traumatised by it. the care home that we spoke to the people we spoke to said, he's lovely. the last two weeks he's out of control. what's your fear? why is he doing this? my fear is he's criminally exploited. he's gone from being a nice loving child now to someone who is dead aggressive. and that's county lines? and that's county lines. and this goes far beyond st helens. across the uk, it is believed 10,000 children are involved in county lines drug dealing.

there's chaos. if it goes any more than it is now, we are barely dealing with it now, and i think if it gets bigger and more violent, then there's just not enough of us. they have to be controlled. we don't know exactly how many care children are being exploited in st helens but we do know no one has been prosecuted for trafficking kids in the town. and ed is here now. police there are saying they are struggling, thousands of children involved, most of them already very vulnerable. yes, the most vulnerable, simon. we havejust seen is just vulnerable, simon. we havejust seen isjust one vulnerable, simon. we havejust seen is just one county line from merseyside to north wales. this is a countrywide problem and it is getting bigger. during our time following this flow of class a drugs we often found it was left to the front officers to protect the heroin and crack cocaine users and safeguard the children. and often it was overwhelming. 0ne officer told us was overwhelming. 0ne officer told us that we arrest one child and the

next day there is another ten ready to ta ke next day there is another ten ready to take the place and we did this for three months and officers repeatedly told us they needed more resources . repeatedly told us they needed more resources. at one point we watched this body cam footage of a teenager who had been exploited selling heroin and crack and he was laughing at the police, saying there weren't enough officers to catch people like him. we also consistently heard from higher ranking officers who said it can't be left just higher ranking officers who said it can't be leftjust down to them. schools need to sort out issues with truancy, alternative provision in schools need to be involved, children's services, health services, all of these agencies need to be involved to help the police because officers said that they alone cannot solve this and by the time it does get to them almost it is too late. ed thomas, thank you very much. violent clashes have broken out at hong kong airport after riot police stormed the terminal to disperse protesters. 0fficers charged on pro democracy campaigners arresting some whose protests had led to the cancellation

of hundreds of flights at one of the world's busiest airports. china has described the anti government protests as "terrorism" and said it would intervene if they don't stop soon. from hong kong jonathan head sent this report. this was the day a self—styled democracy movement came close to mob violence. fearful of infiltrators, the protesters seized individuals they believed were undercover chinese officers. with emotions so raw it was hard to restrain them. for a second day they had occupied the airport and shut it down. luggage trolleys rammed together to make effective barricades. thousands filled the departure hall mingling with bewildered passengers whose flights were no longer leaving, and at times trying to wind their understanding. what started as opposition to a controversial

extradition bill has evolved into demands for a fully democratic government in hong kong and four police accountability. a roarfrom the crowd and another suspected infiltrator had gone down. it was a struggle for medics to evacuate him. a delegation of police was allowed into the airport. this officer pleading for cooperation. but the bellowing theory of these young protesters drove them back out of the terminal. that was followed by lines of riot police moving towards the doors. it sent them scurrying for more trolleys. 0utside, this officer's attempt to arrest someone backfired badly and he had to raise his gun to fend off his attackers. as you can see they are building barricades at the moment at the

entrance to the terminal. we have seen riot police outside, they are trying to stop them coming in. have a look down there, there are still passengers arriving at this airport. how are the police going to storm this building? while all this was going on, stranded travellers sat amongst the empty check—in desks in one of asia's most important transport hubs. losing control of it isa transport hubs. losing control of it is a humiliation for the hong kong government. more significantly, it isa government. more significantly, it is a humiliation for china, which has warned that its patience is running out. jonathan head, bbc news, hong kong airport. 0ur beijing correspondent john sudworth is here with me now. that is the question, at what point does chinese patience ran out? china's intervention isn't a certainty, of course, but you have to say the odds must be rising. hong kong is a major international financial centre. it is one of the

world's busiest transport hubs, and yet here it is locked in this extraordinary escalating violence with chinese troops seemingly menacingly poised at the border. i think if in recent weeks people have said the actions of the hong kong authorities have played into the hands of the protesters, the failure to offer political concessions, the police violence, then i think the scenes have seen today injonathan‘s report must play into the hands of beijing. the propaganda machine is in overdrive as it tries to convince people that this is a city now dangerously out of control. and i think although the majority of people are genuinely concerned, fear that there freedoms are being eroded by an increasingly authoritarian china, the irony is that infighting for those freedoms they may give china the excuse to sweep them away altogether. john sudworth, thank you very much. police in malaysia say they've found the body of 15 year—old nora quoirin

who went missing nine days ago. the teenager, who has learning difficulties, was on holiday with her family when she disappeared from the resort. her body was found just over a mile from where she was staying. 0ur correspondent howard johnson sent this report from seremban and a warning, it contains some flashing images. a malaysian police helicopter hovers over the area of dense jungle where the unclothed body of nora quoirin was discovered. then this... ..winched up in a cage, supported by a police officer. the teenager went missing from the dusun eco—resort in western malaysia ten days ago. the family had planned a two—week holiday but the morning after they arrived, nora's father sebastien discovered her bed empty and a downstairs window open. the family have always insisted given nora's learning difficulties, it is very unlikely she would have walked off alone. nora!

today's search and rescue effort started with more than 300 personnel scouring a 2.5 mile square radius around the resort. but by mid—afternoon, the police were alerted to a macabre discovery. in the last half an hour, we've seen a flurry of activity here, policemen coming and going. these are some police chiefs here, you can see the lights are on on this forensics car here. what we've found out is there is a gentleman inside who is being questioned. he was the one who went up to a police checkpoint earlier on today and said that he had found a body. the body was taken to a nearby hospital where nora's family had the grim task of confirming it was her. translation: the family has been brought in to identify the body found today and have confirmed the body is indeed nora anne, who went missing on august 4th. a postmortem will be carried out tomorrow. it came just a day after her parents announced a reward for information about her.

she has been vulnerable since the day she was born. she is so precious to us and our hearts are breaking. what started as a dream holiday for nora and herfamily, has ended up being every parent's worst nightmare. howard johnson, bbc news, pantai, malaysia. a legal challenge to try to prevent boris johnson shutting down parliament to force through a no—deal brexit has begun in a scottish court. a cross party group of more than 70 mps and peers brought the case. they say suspending parliament to make the uk leave the eu without a deal is "unlawful and unconstitutional". the next hearing will take place in september. meanhwile amber rudd, the work and pensions secretary, has said that the prime minister and cabinet colleagues should remember parliament cannot be ignored in any push towards what she said was a "far inferior" no—deal brexit. speaking as new figures showed a slight rise in unemployment alongside rising wages she acknowledged thatjobs could be lost if the uk leaves

the european union without a deal, as our economics editor faisal islam reports. 0n the bank of the thames, the construction work to build a 16 mile sewage tunnel underneath the river and that means jobs, increasingly for women. the work and pensions secretary amber rudd, loading record women's employment and good numbers onjobs generally women's employment and good numbers on jobs generally and wages. the unemployment rate did rise a little. iam unemployment rate did rise a little. i am delighted to see these strong numbers and also growing levels of wages over inflation for the 17th month running. the unemployment rate has gone up for the first time in a couple of years? i looked at that, it isa couple of years? i looked at that, it is a very small increase and it means more people will be looking for work. she kept herjob last month after signing up to the prime minister's no—deal brexit if necessary policy. she cautions her cabinet colleagues about a rumoured

plan to set an election date so parliament is not sitting until after we leave the eu. are you saying you can back a situation where an election is held on purpose so that parliament doesn't have its say are no deal? i will play my part in cabinetand say are no deal? i will play my part in cabinet and privately with the prime minister and ministers, in cabinet and privately with the prime ministerand ministers, in arguing strongly for respecting parliamentary sovereignty. i am a member of parliament, the prime minister and cabinet members are members of parliament. we need to remember where our authority comes from. as an offer of enthusiastic support if the country goes for no—deal brexit from the president's adviserjohn bolton, and he said the car industry could be implemented as soon as november. welcome news for the prime minister on a prison visit to leeds, but he seemed more interested in getting something from our near neighbours. all sorts of opportunities we have to open up

trade with the us but that also goes for countries around the world. the single, biggest deal we need to do isa single, biggest deal we need to do is a free trade agreement with our friends and partners over the channel. she and her boss want to continue to be able to boast about job creation records. the message here, that requires engineering, some sort of deal with europe over brexit. faisal islam, bbc news. this week marks 50 years since the beginning of the troubles in northern ireland. the conflict lasted decades and claimed thousands of lives. for different reasons, south africa lived through its own bloody divisions and like northern ireland, went through it's own journey of reconciliation. 0ur correspondent pumza fihlani has travelled from johannasburg and gives this personal assessment of northern ireland's peace process. it's home to a people haunted by the past, ghosts that simply will not let go. like south africa, northern ireland has an emotive connection to its violent history.

for 30 years, this community was the scene of bloodshed, thousands were killed in sectarian violence. these gates are going to close soon for the night, it is to help the communities living on either side feel safer. but as a south african who lived under apartheid, i've come to find out why now more than 20 years after the peace agreement with these divisions still exist here. # and blood red lines lie where you fell...# my father's name is trevor bracknell. in the play blood red lines, cast members all have personal stories of the troubles. in south africa there is a common narrative — apartheid was wrong. i was seven when my father was killed... alan bracknell whose father was killed in a bombing over a0 years ago says a common narrative doesn't exist here. there is an ongoing debate as to the definition of the victim here. there are so many different narratives.

but if we can get an understanding of how violence affected people, how people had to live through violence, then i think we can start to get to a stage of acknowledging what we've done to each other. but reaching an understanding is difficult while there are continuing divisions. growing up in south africa, segregation was stark. but even i've never seen anything like this. this is one of many peace walls here in belfast keeping two communities separate. efforts at integration have not been enough. communities remain polarised. a vast majority of schools in northern ireland are segregated. i visited two schools in londonderry. one with many protestant pupils and the other, a catholic school separated by a river and identity. so, i'm south african. what do you identify as? i would identify myself as irish. identify as irish. i identify as irish.

but in the school with protestant pupils... what do you identify as? british. british as well, yeah. why do you think it's still so separate? it's like the fear of the unknown. we all live in different areas. there's not much integration between the communities. what sort of future do you imagine? more open. like, more accepting of people. and rather than it being us versus them. i think it's definitely still influenced a lot by older generations. people especially who grew up, if they are in a family who are, you know, particularly once i did. i think there still is bitterness, as you said, from older generations and that does still trickle down. we were born after the peace agreement so we don't really know the brunt of what happened. we can read it in a textbook but that's never the same. the tensions don't have to be there. so, how do you overcome those tensions? for professor brendon hamber, it's about trust. he's worked on both south africa's and northern ireland's

post—conflict transitions. if you think of south africa, sometimes when people use the language of reconciliation it implies a certain vision of the future that in and of itself can silence people as well. reconciliation is a contested idea. it's not getting everybody together and saying we all agree on this great future. it's more that we agree to share the space. two societies of a similar history. the violence has diminished since the days of mass slaughter but neither society has the luxury of forgetting about the past. i'm reminded that peace is a fragile thing. pumza fihlani, bbc news, belfast. scientists say they've made important progress in the search for a cure for ebola, the virus which has killed almost 15,000 people in africa since it first emerged in the mid 1970s. two experimental drugs have

significantly increased survival rates in clinical trials in the democratic republic of congo where health workers have been struggling to contain an outbreak of ebola for more than a year. the teenage climate change campaigner, greta thunberg is preparing to sail across the atlantic to attend a summit at the united nations in new york. the 16 year—old activist is travelling on a 60—foot yacht, fitted with solar panels and underwater turbines that produce electricity onboard with the aim of making the journey zero carbon emitting. 0ur chief environment correspondent justin rowlatt has been speaking to her in plymouth. how do you get to new york without any co2 emissions? this is how. but greta thunberg isn't anxious. i might feel a bit seasick and it's not going to be comfortable but that i can live with. the malizia is all about speed. look at her, she's just a giant sale attached to a superlight carbon fibre hull.

she basically bounces through the wave, sometimes dives right through them. it is a very, very rough ride, it's a very wet ride, to be honest, i'm not sure that i could take two weeks of this. it is thrilling but it won't be comfortable, one the skipper boris hermann. so, no washing, no shower. we just put clothes on and we keep them for two weeks. there is no fridge, no kitchen, no heating and no privacy. so here you have your little intimate corner. you can hide here and use the bucket. and look, poos only, please. but there are also no carbon emissions. the entire journey will be under sail and all the electricity will be generated by solar panels and turbines. if we are honest, one

person giving up flying doesn't make any difference in a world of 8 billion people. so what is the point? i mean, the point, ithink, is to sort of create an opinion. by stop flying you don't only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you that, i mean, the climate crisis is a real thing and that also pushes a political movement. but it's been a year since the 16—year—old began her climate strikes and carbon emissions have continued to rise. she plans to encourage world leaders to take more urgent action in new york. and despite the privations, she is looking forward to the trip. i think it will feel good in a way to be just alone with those on the boat and the ocean. the voyage will take two weeks.

greta's team say they haven't yet planned how she's going to get back from america. justin rowlatt, bbc news, plymouth. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. 00:26:14,123 --> 2147483051:49:51,776 from me and the team, 2147483051:49:51,776 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 a very good night.