this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the former head of world athletics‘ governing body lamine diack is jailed for covering up evidence of russian doping. more evidence of the severe difficulties faced by adults and children, needing tests for coronavirus in the uk. hurricane sally makes landfall in the us causing catastrophic and historic flooding with winds exceeding 160 kph. and, we go to germany, to find the syrian refugee who crossed europe in her, five years ago. —— in her wheelchair five —— in her wheelchairfive years —— in her wheelchair five years ago.

he was once one of the most powerful men in world sport. but now lamine diack, the former head of the world athletics governing body, has been sentenced to four years in prison, two of them suspended. he was convicted of taking bribes from athletes to cover up positive drugs tests, and of delaying anti—doping procedures against russian athletes, thus allowing them to compete in the 2012 olympics. diack‘s laywers said they will appeal against the conviction. translation: we have just heard the verdict and we are telling you straightaway that diack‘s defence team will appeal that decision. this decision is unfairand inhumane. unfair because we see that the judges have tried to be politically correct and have wanted to use mr diack as a scapegoat.

many have welcomed the decision, including athletes that lost out to people who used performance enhancing drugs. translation: you can't see the smile on my face with the mask i'm wearing but i'm very happy to have been recognised as a victim of the corruption by the iaaf leaders, and i'm also happy for the all the athletes who were. we need to continue the fight against doping and to have been recognised is important for us. jason henderson, editor at the track and field magazine athletics weekly. we heard and aptly describe how she felt. what do you make of what has happened and will athletics recover from this? it is a pretty grim day for athletics. i think this story is right up there with things like ben johnson at the soul of his drugs

positive, a dark day for athletics. he has been found guilty and is out of the sport now, he has a jail sentence and he has been fined but the stuff that he has done in the past really just beggars the stuff that he has done in the past reallyjust beggars belief as president of the iaaf as it was known back then, he is supposed to bea guardian known back then, he is supposed to be a guardian for the sport, the man who protects the integrity of athletics and he was doing anything but that during his reign as president. sol but that during his reign as president. so i think most people in the sport will be glad thatjustice has been served today. it's hard to underestimate just how high this corruption went at the highest level of this work. what's your understanding on how on earth this was allowed to happen? while it is almost unimaginable. it is crazy how it could actually happen. here is the guy who is president of the

world global governing body for athletics and he was just right in the middle of this corruption involving doping and russians, it is crazy. i don't think there were enough checks that were in place at the time and procedures where a person in his position was checked up person in his position was checked up on and people were able to actually keep an eye on what he was doing. he was obviously able to run rampant during his 15 or 16 years in that position and it led to the mess that position and it led to the mess that we have got ourselves incense. this concept he claimed he was looking out for the financial interests of the athletics organisation, what do you make of that? is there any possibility in that? is there any possibility in that? is there any possibility in that? i don't think so. the french court has found him guilty of corruption and has handed out a

prison sentence and a huge financials for him before his son and other people that were involved. so, he's still proclaiming his innocence but the court has decided today that he's guilty and i think we have to go by that. it ends of every dark chapter for world athletics but for the time being, jason thank you so much for your time. jason henderson. there's more evidence in the uk, of the severe problems being faced by people, who need a test for coronavirus, and of thousands of results being delayed. the prime minister borisjohnson blamed the shortage on what he called a "colossal spike" in demand, with the re—opening of schools being the prime cause of the spike. borisjohnson‘s critics say it's also the case that the government has failed to deliver on its promises. our health editor hugh pym has the latest. long waits and frustration for people in southend queueing at a walk—in virus testing centre today — further evidence of the immense strain

on the whole system. i dropped my daughter off with my granddaughter, she was about 350 people behind all these, to be told that they cannot get tested because they don't have enough. they only had enough tests to do for about 150 people. beth, who lives in surrey, has been trying repeatedly since yesterday to book a test, but can't. she and two of her children have symptoms. it is extremely stressful, it has added a lot of stress to what is already an upsetting time for us while we are managing everybody being poorly. trying to get through and constantly trying to check my phone to try and hope that we find a test somewhere, and it is really frustrating, to be honest. experiences like that fuelled exchanges at prime minister's questions. they've had six months, mr speaker, to get this right, and yet the prime minister still can't deliver on his promises. the health secretary said yesterday it would take weeks to sort the situation out.

well, mr speaker, we don't have weeks. what is happening, mr speaker, is that the british people, quite understandably, are responding to that system with a huge, huge surge in demand. later the prime minister, at a commons committee, admitted there were problems. we don't have enough testing capacity now, because in an ideal world i would like to test absolutely everybody that wants a test immediately. the government says the uk is testing more than other leading european countries, and that is the case with the number expressed relative to the population. there are, though, some smaller european nations doing more. but laboratories analysing the tests here are struggling to keep up with the workload. the government says new labs are coming on stream, but not for a few weeks. here is how much community testing, not including nhs staff and patients, has gone up in recent weeks.

on september 1st, there were just over 119,000 tests processed. that day, lab capacity — the ability to handle those tests — was 156,000. then, over the next couple of weeks, demand soared, with 163,000 tests processed in one day. on september 10th, capacity was 161,000. it would have gone up a bit over the next few days, but it still shows how tight things have become. 0ne health expert told me all this should have been anticipated a few months ago. the surge in demand for testing as we enter autumn was extremely predictable. particularly because we expected covid cases to increase again as autumn comes, which we are seeing they are, but also because we were expecting covid—like symptoms from conditions such as the common cold and flu to increase too, and both of those combined for an increased demand in testing. back injuly, people were being actively encouraged to get tests. if you are just worried,

if you have got a temperature, you've got a cough or you are just not quite sure that you feel right, the sensible thing to do in this covid world is to go and get a test. now it is very different. capacity is much tighter and the message is that only those with symptoms like high temperature should book a test. confusion over what to do it may well have added to the recent surge. hugh pym, bbc news. staying in the uk and almost two million people in north—east england are expected to face local restrictions as coronavirus cases rise. areas including newcastle, sunderland and county durham are due to be subject to new measures, which reportedly include pubs closing at 10pm — with "no mixing with other households" and public transport reserved for "essential travel" only. a full announcement detailing the measures is expected on thursday. tropical storm sally has made landfall along the gulf coast in the us state of alabama,

causing devastating flooding and cutting power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses. sally was downgraded to a tropical storm in the last few hours — but the national hurricane center in the us says it could still drench the region with an estimated 60 cm of rain. alabama, florida and mississippi have all declared states of emergency. skyler henry from cbs news is in mobile, alabama. as we've been here in this region for the last few days, several people that we spoke with have said that they aren't necessarily worried about where hurricane sally is going as it has kind of shifted east on the south—eastern part of the united states, they are still concerned about those other tropical storms in that area for that reason. 0bviously, cities like new orleans or biloxi, mississippi — all in that kind of projected area that could be impacted by these hurricanes and so i think you're starting to see a lot of people, particularly officials, take the necessary precautions in terms of warning citizens to either evacuate or

prepare their buildings — whether that's sandbags in front of the buildings or board up their windows to try to prevent as much storm damage as possible. but we're here in mobile, alabama that saw a significant portion of the storm damage from hurricane sally. if you can look behind me, you can see several toppled over trees and things like that. this is one of the historic parks right in the middle of the city here, and basically what has been going on so far here is showers, heavy winds all throughout the day today. we had officials earlier today kind of rope off all of this park here just to try to get people from coming inside of the park because there's still several dozen trees here that could fall at any momentjust because of how wet and windy it is here in alabama. skyler henry in the united states. stay with us on bbc news, still to come... is this a world war ii submarine scuttled off thailand 77 years ago? we'll speak to one of four divers who believe they've

located the uss grenadier. 30 hours after the earthquake that devastated mexico city, rescue teams still have no idea just how many people have died. one day there is people alive, and there is people not alive. we just can help and give whatever we got. a state funeral has been held for princess grace of monaco at the church where she married prince rene 26 years ago. it looked as though they had come to fight a war but their mission is to bring peace to east timor, and nowhere on earth needs it more badly. the government's case is being forcefully presented by monsieur badinter, the justice minister. he's campaigned vigorously for abolition having once witnessed one of his clients being executed. bells ring elizabeth seton spent much of her time at this grotto and every year, hundreds of pilgrimages are made here. now that she's become a saint,

it's expected that this area will be inundated with tourists. the former head of world athletics' governing body lamine diack is jailed for covering up evidence of russian doping. there's more evidence of the severe difficulties faced by adults and children, needing tests for coronavirus in the uk. the us house speaker nancy pelosi has repeated her warning that congress will veto a us—uk trade agreement if brexit undermines the good friday agreement, which secured peace in northern ireland. in a statement after she held talks in washington with the uk foreign secretary dominic raab she said...

mr raab earlier told congressional leaders that the good friday agreement was under threat from the "politicisation" of northern ireland by the eu. we can cross live to our washington correspondent nomia iqbal. slightly different what nancy pelosi was saying to what mike pompeo wasn't saying. fill us in on what nancy pelosi said, that was after meeting dominic raab. that's right, brexit is really high on the agenda here in washington dominic raab has been visiting to try to reassure us politicians that on the latest british developments, he had a press

conference with the us secretary of state mike pipo and when asked a question by the bbc about the concerns around her, mr pompeo said that he trusted the uk to get it right. but nancy pelosi a very powerfulfigure here right. but nancy pelosi a very powerful figure here has right. but nancy pelosi a very powerfulfigure here has her reservations, she said there is no chance of a uk us steel getting through. she is a very powerful woman here. her party controls the lower house of congress. joe biden is also adding his viewpoint in saying if he becomes president on november the 3rd, he would not allow peace in northern ireland to become a casualty of brexit. i want to also put to use something that president trump has set a short time ago. president trump was claiming about a vaccine being rolled out imminently in the us. let's have a listen to what he had to sayjust a little while ago. we are on track to deliver and distribute the vaccine in a very, very safe and effective manner. we

think we can start sometime in 0ctober. so as soon as it's announced, we will be able to start from mid—0ctober on. maybe a little bit later than that but it will be all set. so, as soon it's given the go—ahead they are doing trials as you know, as soon as it is given the go—ahead, we will get it out to defeat the virus. that was donald trump speaking just a short time ago. he is talking about a vaccine be potentially available by october which is an incredibly short timeframe. yet he probably should have a conversation with the director of the centres of disease control and prevention robert redfield who is complete the constituting that facet it he says ifa constituting that facet it he says if a vaccine is indeed available it will not be given to the us public at least by next summer because they have to tested to make sure it's safe and donald trump was asked about mr redfield's comments today at the press conference we saw a clip from aunt mr trump says on the

quite remarkable he called mr redfield confuse. he said that mr redfield confuse. he said that mr redfield has totally got it wrong, mistaken but did not elaborate on that. is not coincident that trump is saying all this in the run—up to the election. mr redfield to testify in front of senate lawmakers and he said that any suggestion that the government has tried to get a vaccine ready as politically motivated is not true he said that "the scientific agents —— agency of his agency output would not become mice under his watch. was with both men's complete at 0z with each other there. indeed. thank you for being ina tour there. indeed. thank you for being in a tour attention. —— bringing that to our attention. germany has announced plans this week to take more than 1,500 migrants following the fire at a detention centre on the greek island of lesbos which left thousands without refuge. the tragedy was a reminder of the scale of a crisis which has seen vast movements of people fleeing war and poverty.

five years ago at the height of the migrant crisis the bbc‘s fergal keane reported the extraordinary story of nujeen mustafa, a syrian refugee, who crossed europe in a wheelchair. today five years on, fergal has met up with nujeen to hear how her life has changed. whatever happened to nujeen mustafa? an extraordinary teenager in a tumultuous time. i'd love to be an astronaut, to go out and see... and find an alien, yes. i want to meet the queen, yes. born with cerebral palsy, nujeen escaped war in syria's aleppo and travelled 11100 kilometres to reach the greek island of lesbos. when i met her on the hungarian border in 2015, surrounded by other refugees, nujeen was exhausted, but irrepressible, a girl

who'd learned english by watching soap operas. you should fight to get what you want in this world, so... yes, it's a journey for a new life. hungary shut its doors to them, so nujeen and her sister nasrine pushed on across the balkans to a detention camp in slovenia, where i found her at her lowest ebb. nujeen, do you know where you're going? i don't know. i'm lost, really. five years on, i'm on my way to meet nujeen in the german city of cologne. hey—hey! he laughs delightedly oh dear! i wish i could hug you, but i can't. oh, my god. not with social distancing. memories flooded back. on that border, all those years ago. that day, where the magnitude

of the whole situation just hit me. germany welcomed a child who experienced prejudice because of her disability in syria. even if some dreams have been deferred. i definitely still want to meet the queen, and i definitely still want to be an astronaut. but, you know, since i've been enrolled in school i found out that i'm absolutely terrible at maths, so i might have to resort to plan b. the experiences of the refugee road defined nujeen‘s life. to help the victims of war and hunger, she's studying to become a psychologist. and she's become a prominent campaigner for disabled refugees, even addressing the un. people with disabilities are forgotten in times of peace. what do you think we expect in times of war? her calls could not be more urgent.

0n lesbos, where nujeen first reached europe, thousands have been left homeless after the moria refugee camp burned down. hello. her own parents are still marooned in turkey. a weekly video call unites those that have made it to germany and those still waiting. mwah! i guess the part that breaks my heart the most is that they don't get to see my life here, so they don't get to see me go to school and have a productive life, and see me moving forward with my future. but that might change soon, nujeen hopes, so that her parents can see the life she's building, with courage and grace. brave