from russia and ukraine points towards president vladimir putin planning what "could be the biggest war in europe since 1945". speaking to the bbc, mrjohnson said that all the signs were that the russian president's plan had already begun. 12 people have been killed, as storm eunice left a trail of destruction across parts of northern and eastern europe. deaths were reported in the netherlands, belgium, britain, ireland, and poland. many victims were crushed by falling trees. gusts of close to 200kph have been recorded. the interim police chief in ottawa has said significant progress has been made in clearing unlawful protests from the streets of the canadian capital — but the operation is not over yet. he defended the police use of pepper spray and stun grenades as they had faced aggressive resistance. those are your headlines from the bbc. a woman from west london says

she's overcome hurdles to play football after bowel cancer. navjohal says she wants to show people they can continue doing what they love despite setbacks. and she's been speaking openly about her day to day challenges with bbc asian network's anisa kadri. back doing what she loves after bowel cancer. when i first came back on the pitch, it was a super emotional for me. yes, i can do it, because that was one of the things i would not be able to get back to. she was diagnosed with cancer in her 30s after noticing bleeding when going to the toilet. she had her tumour removed almost three years ago. following surgery, it took her eight months to get back to playing football, and she initially played with a stoma bag which connects waste. i had my intestines poking out of my stomach, and i put in a pad for two years whilst my insides healed. i was worried about my injury, so i wore a card and i worried

about people going in heavy challenges. the girls i played with were super cautious with me. i now go to the loo in the normal way, it is difficult for me to control my function at times and to be able to be out all day. so having a stoma actually gave me a better quality of life than what i have currently. the advice we give to people is before you go back to doing something physically active like playing football, speak to us, look at exercises you can do to strengthen your core and also look at overall muscle strength activities. as a navjohal decide whether to have a stoma bag again, she says it has been an emotional time. you have played together since you were little kids, then? since we could walk. she is a lot quicker than me, she has gone

through many operations but is still quicker, faster. better football than me. doesn't stop her. from doing anything she wants to be. she will still try. nav says she got back to playing football the help of organisations that provide support. she says it has helped her overcome challenges after cancer. i am really proud of you. preetijohal ending that report from anisa kadri. kush is a cheap, illegal drug that's ravaging communities in sierra leone. africa eye reporter tyson conteh investigates this new drug and asks what can be done to stop its dangerous spread. this report contains scenes which some viewers may find disturbing. kush. a new illegal drug has taken my country's

youth to a dark place. but there are so many losses. young people driven mad, killing themselves, harming themselves and others. our psychiatric wards are filling up with bush drugs, and police are battling to win the war against this drug. so this morning, we're going to say "no" to it! we don't want to in this court, we don't want it around us. but with kush spreading like wildfire, with ever—younger users being exposed to it, how can my country win the war against this drug? my name is tyson conteh. i'm a film—maker from sierra leone. something bad is

happening in my country. recently, i've noticed on social media, a lot of very, very young people dying, untimely deaths, harming themselves. i hear these horrors are being caused by a cheap new illegal high, which has swept across sierra leone over the last 18 months. they call it kush. here in our capital, freetown, is where the drug's grip is greatest. i am coming to visit the guys that are high on the drugs, on kush. here is a place called bombay markets. this is a giant market during the day — but in the night, it's also

a home to many of these young people who are living on the streets. and this kush has just pushed them further into the drains. kush has become king, overtaking more expensive street drugs like tramadol. for many, kush is an escape from their daily lives. this man, who has been forced to survive on the streets for years, first came across kush in 2018.

he shows me what kush is — crushed, dried leaves sprayed with chemicals. desperate young kush addicts search the raw sewage hoping to find something they can sell to survive. smoking kush is an escape from this life. it's a vicious cycle.

i've seen pampers, i've seen parts that are used by women all running through the gutter — and those guys are still playing with all those things. it's not even enough for you to have good food. so what they do is use 5,000 and eat whatever you can, and then they smoke the rest. just so they forget about their frustrations, their suffering. we have to sit back and look, as a nation, what can be done to improve the lives of these guys. one of those sifting through sewage is tinden.

there can be more to kush than easing stresses. he admits sometimes the unpredictable effects of the drug have led him to commit crimes. what makes kush so powerful? i go to meet the kush creator and dealer to find out.

i am calling him "rambo". kush, says rambo, first arrived in sierra leone from abroad and was known as k2 — a mixture of plant material sprayed with synthetic psychoactive chemicals. many around the world know it as spice. but now, rambo claims this kush is harmless — but says the underground industry is now flooded with ever more unpredictable kush cocktails. to my surprise, rambo believes the authorities should

crush the kush business because the drug has become so dangerous. if someone like rambo is calling for the kush trade to be smashed up, things must be getting bad. but then, i already had grave concerns about kush. kush is notjust a street drug, an escape from poverty. young people all around me smoke it. it is why i wanted to make this film. the people i know that are smoking kush are more than the people i know that don't smoke kush. and if it is this popular among people that you think they come from homes, you can imagine how popular it is in the streets.

0ur one psychiatric hospital is feeling the impacts. last year, a new drug rehab ward was opened — and its beds have been filled by kush victims. and there are women, too. this young lady, whose identity we are not revealing, spoke of how kush had crippled her.

kush has increased the number of mad people we are having in this country. an increase which is so alarming. and the question i keep throwing is, what can we do as a society? what can we do as a nation? these are young people — energetic, physically fit youths that really has

the potential to be whatever they want to be. they are destroyed — they are crippled by this substance called kush. the sierra leone police's transnational 0rganised crime units — or tocu — are responsible for cracking down on drug trafficking. the head of the swat team is one of those at the forefront of trying to take kush out. how rampant is it? he takes me to the room where seized kush is stored. some of it was intercepted

on internationalflights. some of it in sierra leone. in a recent tweet, police seized 41 bags of smuggled marshmallow leaves and cartons of chemicals — which they say are mixed together to create kush.

he believes that, despite recent raids, the fact that kush can be made with so many different ingredients makes it almost impossible to stamp out. with police facing an uphill battle to beat kush, we need all the help we can get. meet ibrahim kaboul. known to everyone as piano, he is the public relations officer for the national drug law enforcement agency — set up in 2008 to investigate drugs, as well as to help drug

users kick the habit. i am glad to see that tinden, who i had met earlier, is here. a former police officer believes kush cannot be tackled through law enforcement alone. back at his office, i discovered he has a strong

passion and motivation for helping young people beat drugs. his 16—year—old son is in the grip of addiction, and has run away from home. we have this challenge, as a family. that is, he's on drugs. that one i will not shy away from. he has been on it, and we, as a family, we have been doing our best to see how we can help him out of this situation. so it's over six months now, he has not been with us. we are doing our best as parents, as a family. everybody in the family is concerned, and we are worried. it's a stark reminder drugs like kush can enter the homes of anyone. this man's life has been ruined by drugs. he wants to change, and piano

is trying to help him.

i catch up with tindem after i saw him at pro's meeting. i learned she has two children who live with their aunts. their mother is no longer around. he tries to see them every day. inspired by pro's films, he has now realised his love for his children must triumph over kush. he's determined to break his habits for their sake.

but how does someone who literally lives in the gutter break free from kush, and live a normal life in a country where 60% live below the poverty line, and employment is just a dream for many? tindem told me he'd long dreamt of football stardom. a week after i met him, he's got back off kush

and playing again for the first time in ten years. already, something is changing for the better. it is something — he is talented, really, really talented. well, i can't help but wonder, how many people like tindem started a life with big dreams, only to lose them to the mad world of kush and other drugs. i caught up with another young kush addict, aisha. she says two of her friends died after using the drug. i am worried kush is taking her to the edge.

how many more young people are lining up to be like aisha? what can we do to stop the next generation falling victim to kush? people like pro are crucial to winning the battle — but it feels like we need hundreds, maybe thousands of people like him. why do young people abuse drugs? some said said depression. let's clap for him. i see it as an opportunity to do the best i can. perhaps going the extra mile to see how to help this ones, because i always take into consideration that i have a son who is also going to the same kind at the same time. and the one that is most

common? kush. let's say it together. and so today, we are going to say no to it. we don't want to in this court, we don't want to in this court, we don't want around us! if we can stand up want around us! if we can stand up together and say yes, it is effective the lack could affecting our families and effective the lack could affecting ourfamilies and our kids, ithink affecting ourfamilies and our kids, i think the betterfor all of us. drugs have for many year been an escape from the trauma of poverty and other disasters. the unrelenting march of kush threatens to consume our young people with no pity, placing them in a cruel, mad world. people like 0lamed, tindem and aisha are trying to escape. they and the youth of this country deserve something better. i hope they get it.

hello. sunday, i'm afraid, is going to be a windier day right across the uk once again. we've got a low pressure system that's getting closer, sending wet weather southwards across us. but as it approaches, the winds strengthen too and theyjust get stronger through sunday. it stays very windy overnight sunday night and through much of monday before easing. the potential, again, for strong, disruptive gusts of wind. there are some met office weather warnings. rain moving south, then showers, and after a mild start, it will be turning colder from the north later in the day. a lot of cloud and outbreaks of rain to begin the day

and a focus on the rain in north—west england — 20 to a0 mm, more into the hills, on saturated ground, so this could bring some problems. it'll take a while before the rain clears away from northern ireland and southern scotland. a lot of cloud and outbreaks of rain in wales and england, but then you see this narrow band of quite intense, even torrential rain forms and moves southwards as the day goes on with particularly squally winds along it. now, wind gusts 40—50 mph quite widely, more around some western and southern coasts. but along this narrow band of intense rain, those winds could be gusting in excess of 60 mph, potentially disruptive gusts of wind. and as for temperatures, turning colder behind the area of rain, initially in scotland and northern ireland, and the showers that follow will be increasingly wintry even to lower levels and some of those will filter further south through sunday night. and the winds get stronger still, at this stage, around some of the coasts of scotland, northern ireland and through the irish sea, maybe up to around 70 mph in places, so potential disruption out of those going into monday morning.

and then on monday, the low pressure is pulling away, but still a squeeze in the isobars, still batches of showers moving southwards, though easing later. some sunny spells in between, but it remains very windy out there and still gusting quite widely 50—60 mph for a time, particularly towards western and southern areas. and then those winds will gradually ease later in the day, but not until we've dealt with some more potentially disruptive gusts out there. and temperatures will be close to average, if not a little bit above for the time of year. there is a bit of a lull on monday night. after that, it stays unsettled with further spells of rain and wind, though perhaps not as windy as it's been at the moment. friday is looking like a fine day. it doesn't look like it will last.

this is bbc news — i'm simon pusey. our top stories. borisjohnson says if russia does attack — europe could face its biggest conflict since the second world war. president biden is to meet with key advisers — as the white house warns an invasion of ukraine could happen at any time. a demonstration of power a hundred miles from ukraine's border — russia and belarus take part in huge military exercises. in other news — canadian police use pepper spray and stun grenades to clear demonstrators from outside parliament. and — miracle in miami — a helicopter crashes into the sea near a crowded beach — but no one is killed.