england's footballers have reached their first major final in 55 years. the team beat denmark 2—1 in extra time in the euro 2020 semis. harry kane clinched it, with a rebound from a saved penalty. south africa's former president's handed himself in to police just minutes before a deadline for him to surrender. jacob zuma, who led the country from 2009 to 2018 is to serve a 15—month prison sentence over contempt of court relating to a corruption investigation. gunmen have assassinated the haitian president inside his home, sparking a state of emergency in the country. jovenel moise was injured in the attack. a government minister says police have arrested a number of suspects.

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not this time. ministers are taking the opposite approach in england, confident vaccines will protect more of us from the worst of this third wave. will hospitals cope with rising covid cases, prime minister? more infections mean more people with long covid and the risk of new variants. the labour leader says we're heading for a summer of chaos and confusion. let's be clear why the number of cases will surge so quickly, because he is taking all protections off in one go. that is reckless. is the prime minister really comfortable with a plan that means 100,000 people catching this virus every day and everything that entails? we will continue with a balanced and reasonable approach, and i have given the reasons. this country has rolled out the fastest vaccination programme anywhere in europe. the vaccines provide more than 90% protection against hospitalisation. but the owners of this teashop in grantchester are facing another problem. they're closed because so many staff are at home after coming into contact with an infected person. soon people who have had both jabs will not have to isolate, but the rule's not changing until the 16th of august. the impact on this business and all hospitality businesses like mine is devastatingly serious. we have got a ridiculous system where for the third time

in less than 15 months, this business has been shut down by the rules of this government, and that's not fair and it can't continue. frustrations shared by senior mps quizzing mrjohnson this afternoon. is it the case that until we get to that point on 16th august, people who have been jabbed twice will have to isolate even if they have had a negative covid test? we're asking people to isolate and i know how frustrating it is, but... why? because i'm afraid this is a highly contagious disease and we have to do what we can to stop its spread. you can hear a contradiction at the heart of the prime minister's message. he is lifting almost all restrictions but still urging caution. gone is the euphoric language describing freedom day. instead, it's clear that this pandemic is far from over.

normal life is returning but the pattern of this pandemic so far suggests some difficult weeks ahead. vicki young, bbc news, westminster now on bbc news, it's our world. a warning — this programme contains scenes which some viewers may find upsetting for months, a threat had been looming over northern mozambique. and on the 24th of march, 2021, that threat became real. gunfire. go, go, go, go, go! ijust saw people running and people shooting, mothers dropping their children, people falling. this is the story of the people who became trapped at the centre of mozambique's biggest jihadist attack yet. man: allahu akbar. all: allahu akbar!

i'm catherine byaruhanga. i've travelled to hear the extraordinary accounts of those who survived... this was a particular form of brutality that i've never seen anywhere — and i've been in a lot of wars. ..and to find out if these shores are becoming the new frontline in the spread of the islamic state group. in the morning, greg always gave me a morning call. at home in south africa, mum meryl kept in daily contact with her two sons and their dad, who were working in mozambique. i think they all just loved the life in mozambique — beautiful people and beautiful beaches.

i love you, bro. love you, my man. that morning, her sons wesley and adrian were at the building site with their dad, greg. we build camps all over africa. we're contractors. we'd been working in mozambique for a long time, so we had a big mozambican workforce. jorge was also in parma that day. like many mozambicans, he had come to the town looking for work. located in northern mozambique, palma was booming because of a $20 billion gas project being built by french energy giant total. works had been suspended

amid concerns it could be the target of islamist militants. but that very morning, total announced it was starting up again, after the after the government promised extra security in the area. in the fields nearby, local residents were working their small farms. muanassa was among them, with her large family, including granddaughter ancha.

that morning, greg sent me two pictures of the clouds over palma that day and the clouds over pemba. i thought "that looks a bit ominous". we were all working normally and one of our guys got a phone call that stuff was happening and could not say much but that they are attacking palma. wesley began to film on his phone. gunfire. once it started, itjust didn't stop. go, go, go, go, go! go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go!

19—year—old ancha was heavily pregnant.

with thousands of others. wesley, his dad and brother were also hunting safety. get in! toot, toot! we turned around and we stopped at the amarula hotel. and a whole lot of people just started streaming in. the amarula was known as a local haunt for white foreign workers. with security gates and a helipad, people flocked here in search of safety.

as the attackers swept through town, they targeted key sites like banks, food shops and phone masts. i tried to get hold of all of them on their cellphones, nobody was answering, and i started to panic. eventually at about nine o'clock that night, greg phoned me from a satellite phone and said that we're safe, they're in the amarula, they're going to get evacuated. they were underfire from more than 100 militants, known locally as al—shabaab, who are affiliated with isis. all cheer. an islamist insurgency had been spreading across the impoverished cabo delgado region since 2017. what began with small, scattered hits had grown into bigger, more organised and brutal assaults

affecting many districts. this is the first major attack impacting foreign workers. distant gunfire. around 200 workers and locals had now sought refuge at the amarula. we were inside the hotel, upstairs at — where the restaurant and the bar is. gunfire. we started getting shot at. they were shooting at us over the wall, so we all were lying on the floor and just keeping our heads down. gunfire. we did not have one military guy there. we had no weapons. it wasjust us, with our hands, sitting there. so now you — what's going through your head? "0k, these people are coming, and what?

"am i going to be killed like an animal? "is my head going to be cut off? "are my arms and my body going to be cut in pieces?" as they advanced towards the hotel, the insurgents had been inflicting their trademark act of violence — beheadings. outside, the military were struggling to contain them. 400km away, dag, a controversial private security firm working for the mozambican police, was alerted to the attacks. leading the operation was seasoned former colonel lionel dyck. the initial thing, from the sky, there were bodies lying next to trucks — they'd decapitated some truck drivers. there were a lot of bodies lying around. 0n the ground, people trapped in by the attackers tried to signal to the helicopters. people come running out, waving something. you can't leave people like that alone. gunfire.

whenever dag had choppers above us, that was a big sense of relief. gunfire. we thought "0k, we are going to get rescued". and that's when they did the four loads of evacuating people.

and the one chopper got shot twice. but even after the chopper being shot, they still came back. dag rescued 20 people from the amarula, but their small helicopters could only take a few passengers at a time. those trapped on the ground believed more help was coming. so we wait, we wait, we wait, we wait. but help never came. and dag, struggling forfuel supplies, say they had to leave. we were just left there. no—one sent help. no—one did nothing. we got two—way radios. we managed to speak to the total security control room in afungi. you know what total security control room's

last words about us was? "i am receiving 80—plus phone calls per day from those guys' families." "i can do nothing. "it's time they accept it is what it is. "there is nothing we can do for them." total�*s control room was just 10km away, at the gas project. the government had just agreed to provide a 25km security zone around the site. this should have included palma. but while the town was under siege, the gas project itself was never breached. dag claims that total refused to share fuel, and the military refused to share larger helicopters, hampering their rescue missions. distant gunfire. those inside the amarula had now found a weapon and hatched a plan. so, we knew that by friday night, we won't survive another

night there and they were going to get in. if they got in, we would be slaughtered. we've got the vehicles there. if the choppers aren't going to be able to evacuate us, then we need to try and make a run for it before nightfall. we took a list of all of the people, their names, and worked out how many vehicles we needed and we started to load. we put all the women and children in armoured vehicles. and the rest of us were all in unarmoured vehicles. i have a wife and three children — that was my motivation. to get in a car and to try to drive and drive to a place, that we do not know if the road is open. will we get killed or not?

but if we stay here, we will die. my brother had said to us at that stage that he thinks this is a bad idea. "we've got a weapon. "maybe we should stay?" and, um, isaid, "let'sjust go". in a forest on the edge of town, ancha and herfamily were also planning an escape. before they left, muanassa went back to check on their home. they, and thousands of others, headed for the shore to flee by boat. with little food or water, the 400km journey was a huge risk.

ancha went into labour in the middle of the sea. back at the amarula, the convoy

was preparing to leave. low on fuel and losing daylight, dag says they were unable to give the cars air cover. we just went as fast as we could. about 2—3km out on that road to tanzania, we got hit by the first ambush. the guy that was driving, they shot his glasses off his head — that's how close the bullet was to killing him. probably about, uh, 5km further, we got hit by another ambush. my brother, he got hit.

hejust was shouting, "i'm hit. "i can't drive. "somebody else needs to take over." and i was just shouting to him "i love you!" we pushed him to the back, where my dad was holding him and holding his wounds to stop the blood. and i started to drive and i was just shouting back, "use another pack. "put it in the — put it in the wound!" just before the quarry was — were all the dump trucks that had been ambushed three days before. they had placed bodies across the road. so we had to drive over the bodies to carry on going. by saturday morning, we hadn't heard anything. and, uh... my manager, he phoned me with the news. he started off with saying, "wes and greg are safe, but adrian didn't make it..."

sniffles. so, i said goodbye to him and thank you for saving all of our lives. we then left him in the car and we ran into the bush. and then we hid in that bush and thick undergrowth for two days. four days after the attacks began, wesley and greg were finally rescued by lionel�*s pilots. they landed a small plane next to my brother and ijust held his hand the whole flight back. 17 vehicles left the amarula. it's estimated six didn't make it. jorge and tobias made it to the shore and were evacuated by boat.

jorge is now back home, with no work. he says he would go back to palma if morejobs come up. but the town is almost deserted, and total has suspended this project indefinitely. many believe the company has questions to answer about what happened. my personal opinion is total do not value human life. i do not think they should have the right to operate in mozambique. because as far as i know, i grew up, a human life is worth more than anything. worth more than anything. just imagine if i died on that road, do you think total would have

taken care of my family? would they provide for my children? if they are not doing that, why should they have the right to take any mineral from this country? but there are also serious questions for the government about whether a lack of military strategy cost many citizens their lives. mozambique has now agreed to accept troops from its allies in southern africa, before the jihadism spreads. why was nothing done beforehand? this is going to come to an end, and it's just creeping further and further down the coast. before you know it, we're going to see it right here on our doorstep. the mozambican military did not provide a response to the bbc. total told the bbc that:

ancha and her family survived the crossing and reached the port of pemba. she gave birth to a healthy baby girl. ancha's husband is still missing.

now, they are just two of thousands stuck in temporary camps. while the foreign contractors may have gone home, for many mozambicans, this crisis is their everyday reality. nearly 3,000 people are thought to have been killed and 700,000 displaced by insurgent attacks in mozambique since 2017. ancha named her baby after the boat that rescued them — �*esperanza' — it name means hope.

the weather is looking pretty good for thursday. for the vast majority of the country, it is going to be a mostly sunny day. the early hours are looking on the cloudy side across some areas of the country, but quickly cloud will clear away and it will give away to clear, blue skies. here are the morning temperatures. 1a in the south, maybe 10 degrees and one or two areas. lots of sunshine through the morning. clouds

will develop, other showers and thunderstorms will be while scattered across the country on thursday, that means the majority of us will miss them. a similar day on friday. lots of sunny spells with a scattering of showers here and there. chances are it will cloud over that later on in the day in the south—west of the uk as a weak weather front approaches. temperature is very similar to what we are used to in the last few days.

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