this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. at least 16 people have died after an air india jet crash lands and breaks into two at an airport in kerala. hopes of finding survivors in the wreckage of the beirut explosion, many are still missing, with hundreds of thousands made homeless. there's a massive clean—up going on. they've come from all over the country. the devastation here is enormous. where are you from? we are iraqians! we are from iraq! iraq? record numbers of migrants cross the english channel — with pressure on local councils rising. plus, strike action could be on the cards over british airways‘ plans to cut cabin crew, and their pay.

city of calicut. the aircraft with 191 people on board broke in two afterfalling 35 feet down a ravine, but it didn't catch fire. our correspondent yogita limaye has more. this plane was bringing home indians who had been stuck abroad amidst the covid pandemic. landing in the dark amidst heavy rainfall, on what many say is a challenging runway, the plane couldn't stop in time. both pilots are among those dead. that seems to have skidded

off the runway and it's a table top runway. so it seems to have crossed that runway and fallen into a ditch, sort of a place. and because of that impact, there seems to have been a breaking of the fuselage into two and the aircraft, the front portion has been very badly mangled and damaged. locals were among the first to respond. the injured, taken to hospitals in taxis and private cars. families, searching for loved ones they've waited months for. many on board are believed to have been migrant workers who'd gone overseas to earn a living. the crash is yet another blow for a region that is grappling with landslides and the covid crisis. yogita limaye, bbc news, mumbai. merlyn thomas is a bbcjournalist who knows the area well — she's been describing to me what the airport's like.

on top of a hill on top of a plateau and it kind of falls sharply away at the side. normally when i make the landing because i fly into my hometown regularly, you can kind of see greenery as far as i can see and then you see the valley beneath you and it is kind of scary and quite terrified. it makes for really beautiful views but obviously in this case, it can go very badly wrong. and another big thing that's important here is the weather and i have landed many times during monsoon season when the weather has been really, really terrible. so, very foggy, heavy weather conditions makes it very hard for the pilot to land. and so that makes a very big difference here. there have been many times where i have been on the flight and the pilot has had to make a few approaches, once or twice. and so we come down into land and we go up again, and we circle around the airport, we can see the runway, and then we go down again for a second time and clearly, this can go very badly wrong as well.

sure, so the logistics of the airport itself can cause a lot of problems? exactly, exactly. it causes a lot of problems. and this has something that has happened in other airports as well in table top runway airports. so, just ten years ago with the very same airline in mangalore, over 158 people died in a plane crash there. and there was a report from that they came out and said that table top runways do require extra special care and caution when landing and they actually even specify this very same airport of calicut airport in kerala as one where pilots need to take extra special caution, and they had specified that terrains and the space constraints makes it very hard to land. and we can see what happens here when it goes very badly wrong. merlyn thomas there. the united nations is warning of a humanitarian disaster in lebanon, with widespread medicine and food shortages, after this week's explosion in the capital, beirut. the country's largest grain silo was destroyed, with supplies of flour now having to be brought into a country, whose economy, was already on it's knees. 154 people are now known

to have died in the blast and thousands more were injured. at least 300,000 people have been made homeless. 0ur middle east correspondent, quentin sommerville has this report. singing the lebanese are used to taking matters into their own hands. singing their national anthem, they came from all over the country to clear up their capital. you've come all the way here to beirut? why? yes, for volunteering. to support all the people who are damaged and they are homeless right now. and meet the ladies of the tripoli cleaning squad, from just up the coast from beirut. they told me, "we remain united no matter how much "they try to separate us. "muslim, sunni, shia, druze, christian — "we're all one band." it seems like every second person in beirut is carrying either a shovel or a broom. there's a massive clear—up going on. they've come from all over the country. the devastation here is enormous,

and these homes aren't going to be habitable for a very long time. in some neighbourhoods, the devastation is almost total. no house has been spared. more than 300,000 people are now homeless. and the crisis is far from over. here, they're rushing to evacuate another home. there is a house up there. it's almost getting fallen. can you see the roof? yeah, so we're helping them to get out their stuff from the house before the building fall down. french firefighters are helping with the search. they're welcome, but there's frustration that the lebanese authorities aren't doing enough. there's blood everywhere... yeah. alan says his family are now homeless. he took us inside their apartment. his father was badly injured. his blood is everywhere. his dad will make it, but 12 of their neighbours died

on this one street corner alone. in lebanon, nobody come check. three days, this big catastrophe in lebanon, nobody can come and tell me, "this room, you cannot sit in this room." here, it's... i don't know. nobody care. and they're still finding survivors. mobile phone footage. in the last few hours, this girl was pulled from the rubble. inside the port, at ground zero, it's a scene of annihilation, though russian teams are still looking for survivors, and french rescue workers too. one said, "we always hope of still finding people alive. "if there's still structures standing, "then there's still a chance." lebanon's president says a missile may have detonated the chemicals, which flattened this area, but he offered no supporting evidence. he's rejected calls

for an international investigation. but in any case, leaving such a large store of chemicals here in the heart of the city was deadly folly. quentin sommerville, bbc news, beirut. despite the desperate situation in beirut, stories of heroism and survival are emerging. 0ur correspondent, carine torbey has been speaking to a nurse, who managed to rescue three newborn babies, after the explosion ripped through the city. this is normally a place ofjoy, but tuesday's explosion ripped through the neonatal intensive care unit. three premature babies were in their incubators. in the chaos, pamela, the only nurse on shift who was unhurt, picked them up. a picture that spread across the world. the only thing i could think of was the safety of the babies i had in the unit. the first thing i had to do was to rescue the babies and just

carry them and get away with them. i thought that i can never leave them. pamela walked for over 30 minutes before finding safety, holding them close to keep them warm amidst the havoc. i felt like the babies are very important to me, they were part of me. i had to keep them safe until they reached their destination. people were giving me theirjackets so that i could cover the babies and take them back to safety. i felt like i was their mother in this timing. they needed me the most and i needed them most. today, one of those three babies is with her mother again. translation: they gave us hope again. they revive our home again.

there aren't manyjoyful pictures coming out from beirut nowadays, but this one does stand out. carine torbey, bbc news, beirut. tougher coronavirus lockdown measures including new restrictions on household gatherings, are being reintroduced in preston in north west england from midnight uk time. it follows a sharp rise in infections. 0ur correspondent, judith moritz, reports. this cafe in preston market only moved into new premises just before lockdown. now it's getting back on its feet again, but the owner remains nervous. infection rates have surged in the city, and she fears the consequences unless they're brought under control. i am concerned, because obviously we've all invested a lot of money into our businesses, and what i don't want to see is another total lockdown again, especially for small independent businesses. i mean, you know, it

would be a real struggle. the cafe's bread comes from a baker who operates across north—west england, covering some areas where government restrictions are in place and others where they're not. it is without doubt the clarity, that's all you hear, people say, if we just knew what was going to happen, there needs to be clear guidance, and i think people are more than willing to support it, but theyjust need that clarity and support. infection rates have spiked across preston. cases in the under—305 have rocketed. nightclubs are not allowed to open under current restrictions. recently lancashire police criticised this club's decision to re—purpose itself as a bar. the club said it is adhering to social distancing and safety guidelines. 0n preston high street, people were not surprised to hear that restrictions are being tightened. i'm just using my common sense, which is what maybe one or two people aren't using, hence why it's, you know, spreading again. a lot of people have been asking me to, like,

meet up and that kind of thing, and they don't want to wear masks and they don't want social distance. if the government is asking us to follow, then we have to follow, because it's not for someone else, it's for our safety, so we have to follow. the prohibition on household gatherings will continue in other parts of northern england, including pendle, where mobile testing has been introduced. kirklees in west yorkshire is still under restriction, but one of its mps feels that, within its boundaries, the rules in some low infection areas should be eased. we need to have the confidence of the people that are making the sacrifices that they're doing it to reduce transmission and because there are cases, so in areas where there are no new cases, we need to take them out of restrictions as soon as possible. here in preston, the authorities were already asking people to wear masks and avoid visiting each other‘s houses voluntarily. from midnight tonight, they'll have to do so by law and the council has warned that if the restrictions are ignored, it's highly likely that even more stringent measures will follow.

judith moritz, bbc news, preston. the british home secretary, priti patel, says the rising number of migrants reaching the uk across the english channel in small boats, is "unacceptably high". more than 1,000 people arrived last month, while 235 were detained yesterday, a record for a single day. so far this year, more than 300 boats, carrying almost 4000 people are known to have attempted the journey. our home editor, mark easton reports from dover. calm seas are attracting desperate people. in the early hours, our camera spotted this group — among the occupants, several children and a pregnant woman. it's just one dinghy among more than a dozen that yesterday left france seeking a better tomorrow in britain. where are you from? from iraq, we are iraqis, from iraq! iraq? ruthless smugglers convince those in migrant camps that it's now or never, while the waters are benign and the land borders are open — covid or brexit, they lie, will soon shut off

this route to asylum. during the course of the day, we watched dozens of rescued migrants being led up the ramp to the processing centre on the dockside — from here, adult asylum seekers and families are loaded into vans and taken off to home office immigration detention centres. the unaccompanied children, though, become the responsibility of kent social services. in the last day, there have been 23 — the most ever recorded. i don't think there is any council in the country, certainly not even one of the size of kent county council, that could take on board 60, 70, 80 or more young people coming into its care month on month on month. we are in some considerable pressure now as those numbers increase. throughout the day, coastguard and border force vessels have patrolled the kent coast as holiday—makers enjoy the sun on beaches where migrant dinghies recently came ashore. many more migrants sneak into britain in the back of lorries and other vehicles, but the sight of dinghies breaching the country's borders beneath the iconic white cliffs

is always politically potent. the mp for dover says britain should send them all straight back. what we've seen is an absolutely unacceptable level of small boats crossing this year, and we do need the french to stop the boats leaving their shore, we need to make sure boats are taken back to france, and that if people do arrive here, that they are sent back to another country. the home secretary, priti patel, is not the first in that position to be embarrassed by the sight of migrants being smuggled into the uk, even more so as a brexiteer who campaigned for britain to control its borders. it's understood she wants the royal navy to join border force cutters on patrol. meanwhile, a repatriation flight is due to leave for france and germany in the middle of next week as british and french immigration officials monitor a crisis that has every possibility of becoming a tragedy. today's beautiful weather has, of course, seen thousands of sun—seekers relaxing on the beaches of kent, while just out to sea, border force vessels are still patrolling, on the lookout

for more desperate migrants, risking their lives crossing the busiest sea lane in the world to reach those same beaches. mark easton, bbc news, dover. stay with us on bbc news, still to come — why latinos in texas are more likely to die from the coronavirus than other groups there. we have a special report. the question was whether we wanted to save our people and japanese as well and win the war or whether we wanted to take a chance on being able to win the war by killing all our young men. the invasion began at 2am this morning. mr bush like most other people was clearly caught by surprise. we call for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all the iraqi forces. 100 years old and still full of vigour, vitality, and enjoyment of life.

no other king or queen in british history has lived so long and the queen mother is said to be quietly very pleased indeed that she has achieved this landmark anniversary. this is a pivotal moment for the church as an international movement. the question now is whether the american vote will lead to a split in the anglican community. this is bbc news. the latest headlines. at least 16 people have died after an air india jet crash lands and breaks into two at an airport in kerala. the lebanese shia movement, hezbollah, has denied any link to tuesday's deadly blast at the port in beirut. the state of texas has the third highest number of coronavirus cases in the united states — and more than half of those who've died come from the state's hispanic community.

latinos are four times more likely to be hospitalised than other groups. the bbc‘s larry madowo reports now from houston on why that is. after more than a month battling covid—19, 0ctavio calderra's back at work as a mechanic. like many other latino texans during the pandemic, he was hit hard by the virus. "i had sensations that i'd never felt before. "i had to completely isolate and take care "of myself to not spread to my family," 0ctavio told me. like 0ctavio, most of the other workers here are hispanic. the risk of getting infected hangs in the air, but if they don't work, they have no income. in thisjob, you can't work from home. blue—collar workers in texas have been especially hard—hit by the coronavirus. many of them work in places like this, a concrete plant. the work involves close contact with other people. there's pressure to show up for work that's available because there are fewer opportunities with the economic crisis.

we don't have the same amount of hours that we normally have. they don't do the production that they're used to, so, you know, from 30 drivers, we're down to 15. the number of positive cases and deaths doubled in houston injuly compared to the previous four months. this community health centre that has been conducting tests for its predominantly latino patients has seen a positivity rate of 39%. our patients are part of the essential workforce, and so they are construction workers and they work in grocery stores and they are caregivers for other people. and that makes it extremely challenging to be able to practice those safe mechanisms for social distancing and also to decrease the spread. the consequences of record coronavirus infections are both clinical and financial here. fearing a language barrier with immigrants from latin america, the houston health department is running a multilingual covid—19 campaign.

the mayor says this outreach is critical. you have people within the community who may be undocumented and who are fearful and distrustful of government. and maybe waiting too late before seeking medical attention because they're scared and they're concerned. the mayor's better together campaign is trying to overcome those barriers with information. texas has the highest number of people without health insurance in the us, and 60% of them are hispanic. in a pandemic this prolonged, the worst—affected are also the least protected. larry madowo, bbc news, houston. let's look at some of the day's other news. the united states is placing sanctions on hong kong's chief executive, carrie lam, and 11 other officials, arguing they were responsible for suppressing democratic processes in the chinese territory. it follows an announcement last week

from ms lam that september's elections would be delayed for a year because of the coronavirus, sparking claims she was undermining hong kong's politicalfreedoms. the main challenger to president alexander lukashenko in this sunday's election in belarus has accused the authorities of subverting the poll. svetlana tikhanovskaya said voters were tired, after 26 years of mr lukashenko's rule. earlier, thousands of people gathered at a rally in the capital minsk in support of the opposition candidate. canada will impose $2.7 billion worth of counter—tariffs on american aluminium products after president trump announced a 10% levy on canadian aluminium. the country's deputy prime minister, chrystia freeland, called the us decision "absurd". union leaders are threatening industrial action, after accusing british airways of naked greed, in forcing some cabin crew out of theirjobs. thousands of uk staff have received emails today telling them whether they're being made redundant, while most of those choosing to stay with ba will have to sign new contracts on lower pay.

the airline says the changes are needed for its survival following the coronavirus pandemic. 0ur transport correspondent, tom burridge, has been speaking to some of those affected. ba is locked in a bitter battle with some of its staff, who now face a bleak new reality. how this is going to affect my family personally, that's what's keeping me up at night, is to be able to provide for them. and i simply didn't want to end my career at british airways like this. this cabin crew member wanted to hide his face. he fears ba could take action against him, but he wants his story heard. myself and my wife, we both fly. it's going to affect us both. we're going to have to sell our home. even if he keeps hisjob, his overall pay will be halved. they forced me into a corner. it's been unfair, immoral and opportunistic, and itjust leaves with a really bad taste.

he protested with colleagues — who hid theirfaces with photos of their bosses — earlier this week, their salaries cut or theirjobs gone. we're losing our livelihoods, we're losing our houses, we're losing everything. why? because they're just being greedy, greedy, greedy. we've devoted our lives to british airways, and this is how they treat us. we are going to be on the lowest pay, the lowest terms and conditions if british airways get their way. and i say, "no way, ba." you're an absolute disgrace to treat people like this who have built the airline. so, what exactly does ba plan? two in five of the lowest—paid crew should get a small pay rise, but three in five will have their basic salary cut by 20%. crucially, they'll allowances too, meaning longer—serving members of staff would have their overall income cut by around 50%. in a statement, ba said it has to...

ba needs to reset, it has to develop a new strategy because it's facing huge competition from the very low cost carriers that are emerging from this crisis with better balance sheets and better financial situations. with much of its fleet parked up for months, the airline has lost record sums, but staff argue they helped the company make healthy profits before covid. now, strike action is on the cards. tom burridge, bbc news. here in the uk, it's been the hottest day in august for 17 years, as large parts of the country experienced high temperatures. people are being advised to avoid busy beaches as the warm weather continues through the weekend, as sangita myska reports. sun, sea, sand, and social distancing. this is british summertime in our new normal. the sun seekers of essex have today flocked to southend sea front

as temperatures across england's southern coast have soared. the government is urging people to keep their distance from one another but with limited success. when we got here actually we suddenly realised there is a lot of people in a very small amount of space. so we're going to try our best to keep our distance from everybody else. with thousands of people now having to cancel their foreign holidays, public health england recognises that they will instead probably flock to beaches like this one in southend. even so, they are urging members of the public, particularly those invulnerable groups like the elderly and the very young, to limit their exposure to the sun and make sure they remain hydrated. sangita myska there. let us leave you with this tale. how about this, the tale of the german nudist who was determined not to let nature get the better of him. the naked man, as seen here, gave chase to a wild boar in berlin, after it snatched his plastic bag — which had his laptop inside. the person who captured the footage

said it was a good example of someone persevering to achieve their goal. we are pleased to report bag and laptop were recovered. he got his laptop back. that is it hello there. for the second friday in a row, some of us have experienced some extreme heat drifting up from the near continent. in fact, the first friday of august saw temperatures peaking at 36.4 degrees in central london, and the heat was pretty widespread across the midlands, central and southern england. widely seeing those temperatures in excess of 30 degrees. that said, not for all. in parts of northwest wales and the outer hebrides we saw temperatures only at around 16 or 17 degrees, and here there were some showery outbreaks of rain. so over the next few hours those temperatures will fall into single figures, by contrast in the southeast it's going to be a very uncomfortable night for getting a good night's sleep. we wake up on saturday morning,

perhaps low to mid 20s. so that means plenty of sunshine around, albeit hazy for the weekend. we keep the heat in the southeast for some very warm nights to come, much fresher in the far northwest. that's because we are under this influence of high pressure, but there is a weak weather front slicing across the high. now this is just a band of cloudy, really. maybe just of the odd spot of light drizzle, but it's the dividing line between the fresher air is a north—easterly breeze that willjust make it feel a little bit more comfortable, perhaps, along those exposed east coasts. at the same time, after that warm and sultry start, the temperatures in the south are set to climb once again. so widely we are going to see mid to high 20s, possibly into the mid—30s once again. further north and west, that's where temperatures should be, really, for the time of year. 17 to 22 degrees. that weather front could spark a few showers through the night, but generally speaking it will be a quiet night, and a quiet start to sunday morning once again. again it's going to be another

uncomfortable night down into the south with low 20s to greet us first thing on sunday morning. we could see a few isolated showers here and there across eastern england on sunday, but generally this weekend it's with a dry story with some hazy sunshine coming through. again, that north—easterly breeze just peppering the feel of the temperatures, really, across the east coast. highest values on sunday afternoon are 32 degrees. now that heat is set to stay with us, and it could, as we go into next week, trigger off the risk of some sharp and thundry downpours. that's it, have a great weekend.

this is bbc world news, the headlines. at least 16 people have died after an air india express flight — carrying 191 people — crash landed and broke in two at an airport in kerala. many of the injured have been taken to hospitals. the lebanese shia movement, hezbollah, has denied any link to tuesday's deadly blast at the beirut port. hassan nasrallah said that those who linked the organisation to the explosion were pushing for civil war. a record numbers of migrants have been stopped in a single day in the english channel, trying to reach britain. four thousand people including pregnant women and children, are known to have attempted the journey this year. union leaders are threatening industrial action, after accusing british airways of naked greed, in forcing some cabin crew out of theirjobs. the airline says the changes are needed for its survival following the coronavirus pandemic.