tonight at ten, a devastating earthquake in afghanistan as the taliban appeals for international help. at least 1,000 people have died, many more have been injured. it's the deadliest earthquake to strike afghanistan in two decades. we're desperately trying to work with local partners to get through that rubble and see if there are any survivors that we can administer first aid to and get to local hospitals. we report from the areas worst affected, with the country's emergency services stretched to the limit. all these people have gathered to donate blood in case it's needed, but whole villages have been flattened. this is just the start of this crisis. it's a major challenge for the taliban, which regained power last year.

also tonight... prices are still rising at their fastest rate for a0 years, with the cost of food a prime factor. tomorrow's rail strike will go ahead, after talks between the rmt union and railway employers broke down. and a new tribute to the thousands who arrived from caribbean countries from the 19405 and made a huge contribution to british life. and coming up on the bbc news channel... britain's harriet dart is hitting form a week before wimbledon, reaching the last eight at eastbourne. welcome to the bbc news at ten.

a devastating earthquake in afghanistan has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people and left many more injured. the country, which is governed by the militant islamist taliban, is already in the grip of a humanitarian disaster, with millions facing famine. the taliban have asked for international aid, and britain says it's ready to provide assistance. the earthquake struck near the south—eastern city of khost, in paktika province. afghanistan is particularly vulnerable to earthquakes because of a number of geological fault lines which cross the country. the quake measured 6.1 in magnitude, damaging thousands of homes in one of the poorest countries in the world. 0ur correspondent secunder kermani is in sharana. a desperate search for survivors. hundreds of homes, entire communities, wiped out in a single dreadful moment in the middle

of the night. "everything here has been destroyed," says the man filming this video. the villages worst affected by this earthquake are in remote south—eastern afghanistan. with no paved roads, helicopters were used to transport some of the injured to hospital. "there was a rumbling, and my bed began to shake," shabir tells us. "the ceiling fell down. i was trapped, but i could see the sky. my shoulder was dislocated and my head was hurt, but i got out. i'm sure seven or nine people from my family who were in the same room as me are dead." at the hospital in the city of sharana, patients are treated for their wounds. there's a fight to save lives, but thoughts are already turning to what happens next. shelter is now a crucial need,

because all the houses have been collapsed. food, medicine, you know? i mean, human things that are really, really essential. the scale of this disaster is hard to comprehend. all these people have gathered to donate blood in case it is needed, but whole villages have been flattened. this is just the start of this crisis. this one—year—old was struck on the head by a piece of debris. "three of our relatives were trapped under the rubble," says shamira, his grandmother. "there's nothing left of our house. if someone buys us a tent, we'll find a place to put it and live there. we have no choice." taliban officials have called for aid agencies to help provide support. many are rushing towards the epicentre, though bad weather could hamper their efforts.

this was a country already struggling with a humanitarian crisis, with millions going hungry. now, the misery is intensifying. secunder kermani, bbc news, paktika province. our world affairs correspondent caroline hawley is here. caroline, let's consider this taliban regime, which of course has its problems with the rest of the world community. when they appealed for help, what is your sense of the readiness to provide help? that for help, what is your sense of the readiness to provide help?- for help, what is your sense of the readiness to provide help? that is a critical question. _ readiness to provide help? that is a critical question. the _ readiness to provide help? that is a critical question. the international. critical question. the international community has faced the dilemma of how to respond to the suffering of afghans since the taliban takeover last summer. internationalfunding last summer. international funding for the last summer. internationalfunding for the country was withdrawn. aid agencies had to scale back their work, but the un is still working in the country. it's one of the poorest on earth. it is already facing what the un says is an unprecedented humanitarian emergency, and you have got crisis upon crisis. decades of

war, covid, a serious drought, the worst in nearly four decades, hunger as you head in the report and now this. so the un secretary—general has said this is a moment for international solidarity and time is of the essence if you want to save lives. britain has offered help, not directly to the taliban, but the foreign secretary liz truss has tweeted. she said, my thoughts are with all those affected. the uk stands ready to support them. but no specifics. in the last ten months, most countries have been giving money to the un and other aid agencies, not directly to the taliban government. a senior un official has said that neither the un nor the taliban have the search and rescue equipment they need. it seems they are looking to turkey to provide that, but there is a vital need to act very fast in the situation-— need to act very fast in the situation. ., ., ., , ., situation. caroline hawley, how world affairs — situation. caroline hawley, how world affairs correspondent. - there's more updates, news and analysis on bbc news 0nline — that's bbc.co.uk/news —

and by using the bbc news app. prices are rising at their fastest rate for a0 years, with food costs, particularly for bread, cereal and meat, still climbing. inflation — the rate at which prices rise — went up to 9.1% in the 12 months to may, from 9% in april, according to the office for national statistics. fuel and energy prices are the biggest drivers of inflation, but food costs have pushed it up further. 0ur economics editor faisal islam has more details. there's no respite from the relentless rise in prices rolling everyone's way every day. i'm trying to buy the cheaper brands, but that's it. other than that, if i haven't got the money, i can't eat. i make sure my daughter eats first. if they're not giving us the wage rises, we can't compete with inflation. we're suffering. the rate of inflation is at new ito—year highs and, says the chairman of the country's

third—largest grocer, it's changing what and how households buy. we're seeing a massive change in behaviour. i this is the first time that - consumers have seen significant inflation for 30 or 40 years. people are holding back. they're worried - about their spending. they have a limit. they say, "£30 is my limit" and if they get to more - than £30, that's it, stop. i'm of a generation that remembers what it was like last time. _ and once it gets hold, - it's quite pernicious and it takes a long time to eradicate, so people are fearful. . inflation rose by 9.1% in may amid rising food prices, and is set to be the highest of the g7 group of western countries. but it's heading higher amid further surges in fuel and energy costs, up to 11% in the autumn, according to a bank of england forecast. that makes the entire country poorer, and it's why unions representing nurses, council workers and train drivers are putting in demands for wage rises that sound high. economists are asking why

the inflation problem here in the uk appears more stubborn. so we think that uk inflation might peak a little higher and stay a little higherfor longer than we're seeing elsewhere in the developed markets. there's a number of reasons for that. one is the exchange rate, the other is the way our household energy prices work, and the final factor may be brexit, which might keep the tightness in the labour market and those wage pressures higher for longer. while it is the surge in food prices that explains today's figures, there's been new records set today for petrol pump rises, with diesel close to £2 per litre. in addition, international gas prices are back up again, which will add to the pressure on domestic energy bills in the autumn. all this is made worse by a weakening pound sterling, which increases the prices of the goods that we import, including petrol and diesel, so it's going to get worse before it gets better. the government says it and the bank of england will get inflation under control,

but in stevenage at this haulage company, the perfect storm of rising price pressures just doesn't seem to stop. we only run four trucks. 18 months ago, we were perhaps paying £1,800 a week to fuel them, now it's £3,500 a week, which is a massive increase. also, we have to pay drivers more to retain them because they'll go elsewhere. a really big impact, which we're having to pass on to customers and hope we retain them. rising prices remain in the pipeline in an industry who are under pressure notjust to help workers with the cost of living, but to find workers to run their businesses. faisal islam, bbc news. rail passengers face another day of chaos tomorrow, after talks between industry bosses and the rmt union broke down. the head of the rmt accused the transport secretary grant shapps of "wrecking negotiations" in the dispute over pay, working conditions and

proposed modernisation. but network rail claimed the union had walked away from talks. the rail industry has asked passengers to travel only if necessary. live to katy austin, our transport correspondent, at gloucester station. katy, what do we make now of the state of this dispute?— state of this dispute? well, the disute state of this dispute? well, the dispute goes — state of this dispute? well, the dispute goes on _ state of this dispute? well, the dispute goes on and _ state of this dispute? well, the i dispute goes on and tomorrow it is shaping up to look a lot like tuesday, with some stations including gloucester behind me having no services at all and overall, about a fifth of britain's usual train services running. that will be more in some places and less in others. the rmt claims that the reason talks stalled today was to do with a letter that network rail gave it on monday which said that they would press ahead with formal consultation over what it describes as modernisations to working practices, which would involvejob losses. the rmt accused the

transport secretary grant shapps of not allowing that letter to be withdrawn. he has hit back at that claim, saying it is not true, he had nothing to do with the letter being issued or any request for it to be withdrawn. network rail and the train operators have both said they are disappointed at the outcome of today's talks and said they want to keep on talking, but at the moment there is no sign of a deal that would prevent a third day of strike action this week on saturday. kat? action this week on saturday. katy austin, on action this week on saturday. katy austin. on the _ action this week on saturday. katy austin, on the eve _ action this week on saturday. katy austin, on the eve of the second day of strikes with rail at gloucester station. now for the latest on the conflict in ukraine, and russian forces are closing in on the city of lysychansk in the eastern donbas region, where russian forces have been targeting much of their firepower. the russians are less than two miles from the city limits. they've already captured almost all the neighbouring city of severodonetsk, where fighting is continuing. local officials say about 7,000

to 8,000 civilians remain in lysychansk, from a pre—war population of 100,000. 0ur international correspondent 0rla guerin and video journalist colm 0'molloyjoined volunteers helping civilians to flee while there's still time. 0n the road to war. ukrainian tanks heading towards lysychansk laden with troops. we follow a team of volunteers risking their lives to get others out. along the way, they stop for a daily ritual, praying to god to keep them safe. inside the city, the hallmark

of russia's invasion — destruction, which comes without warning. this shell exploded in front of our convoy. without the pause for prayer, we would have been right in its path. and, yeah, something just landed very close, so we're going to go here and check out what the situation is in town. but it's been landing the whole day very close to the police, so that whole area is very dangerous. 10—15 minutes... at the first stop, katya grabs a few documents from the cherished home where she raised her son. they are leaving with next to nothing.

one more ukrainian family uprooted. "we realise there'll be no happy ending here," katya says. "after the shell landed outside our yard yesterday, we lost all hope of saving ourselves without help." and help comes from anton yaremchuk. he co—founded the aid group base ua with friends. for two months, they've been doing rescue missions on the front lines. they bring out sasha, a suspected stroke victim, who has had no medical help for five days. "sasha, don't be scared," says a relative. "everything is going to be fine." but sasha can no longer speak.

are you worried that a lot of people will be left behind? that it willjust be too late to reach them? i know for sure, i know for sure that they will be left behind. i know that street fights will happen here for weeks or maybe months, and obviously these people shouldn't stay behind, but they will, and many of them will die orjust stay under horrible circumstances for ages. and those who remain are witnessing the death of their city. this was a community arts centre. lysychansk is being hollowed out by loss. and by anguish. a father robbed of his son when the russians hit a field with a cluster bomb. some still have time to grab their belongings and flee with their children. like nina, a mother of four,

clutching her toddler katya. she and her family have just emerged from months in a basement. her 12—year—old is old enough to help with bags and understand adult worries. it's all too much. nina says she tries to calm the younger ones by telling them it will all be ok. well, another family has just been loaded into the truck, another family saying goodbye to their home and their lives. the light is fading here now. there isn't much time to evacuate more people tonight, and the sound of explosions is getting louder and closer. they were driven away

to relative safety at sunset. the russians are closing in. lysychansk is running out of time. 0rla guerin, bbc news, eastern ukraine. russia says it's preparing measures to punish lithuania, which has blocked the transit of some goods subject to eu sanctions from reaching the russian territory of kaliningrad. kaliningrad shares no land border with russia and is surrounded by eu countries, which means that russia relies heavily on rail transit through lithuania. moscow has said any action it takes against lithuania, a nato member, would not be solely diplomatic. 0ur russia editor steve rosenberg sent this report.

it is a piece of russia in the heart of europe. kaliningrad is 300 miles from mainland russia. russia's outpost and fortress. this is the home for supplies, it has relied on rail links through lithuania, but because of eu sanctions, the transit of key russian goods is now banned. and that's a problem for igor pleshkov�*s concrete plant. it's barely operating as it is. and with russian cement now on the sanctions list, that's another blow to his business. translation: the sanctions | won't only affect our business, they will affect everyone. our factory is at a standstill. we aren't making anything, so the builders can't build anything. there is a chain reaction.

lithuania insists it has not blockaded kaliningrad. russian passengers can transit freely through lithuania to get here, and so can russian goods that are not on the eu sanctions list. that hasn't silenced the chorus of criticism from russian officials, or the sabre—rattling. this week, the hawkish head of russia's security council flew to kaliningrad. nikolai patrushev attacked the west and denounced the transit ban as a hostile act. he warned of serious negative consequences for the lithuanian people. today, his boss, president putin, marked the anniversary of the nazi invasion of the soviet union. the kremlin leader has yet to announce his response to the ban. the message from america — don't even think of involving the russian army. our commitment to nato, and specifically our commitment to nato's article 5,

the premise that an attack on one would constitute an attack on all, that commitment on the part of the united states is ironclad. and what does fisherman sergei think? well, like many of the people i spoke to in kaliningrad, he doesn't blame lithuania or the west. "we need to re—establish relations, make them better," sergei says. "i want peace and friendship with all countries." cooperation instead of confrontation — that is not the kremlin line. steve rosenberg, bbc news, kaliningrad. the virus which causes polio has been detected in a number of sewage samples in london, according to health officials. the disease was common in the uk in the 19505 but was eliminated by 2003. the uk health security agency

says the risk is low but that parents should ensure their children have been fully immunised against the disease. 0ur medical editor fergus walsh is with me. what can you tell us about what has been heard?— what can you tell us about what has been heard? , , ., , ~ ., been heard? this is what is known as a vaccine derived polio _ been heard? this is what is known as a vaccine derived polio virus. - been heard? this is what is known as a vaccine derived polio virus. it - a vaccine derived polio virus. it has been brought into the uk by somebody who was vaccinated recently abroad with the oral polio vaccine drops that you and i would have had as children. they were used here until 200a. they contain weakened live virus, that can pass through the gut and potentially infect others and end up in sewage. the sampling suggests there has been some spread in the community somewhere in north—east london but no cases of polio have been identified. infection in these instances can in rare cases cause paralysis so the key message tonight is for parents to ensure that children are fully immunised. the

nhs now uses an inactivated injectable polio vaccine, highly protective. you get five doses in childhood. most important are the ones you get at two months, three months and four months of age. the target is 95% coverage but in london it isjust target is 95% coverage but in london it is just 86% so there will be a push now to immunise children in the capital. push now to immunise children in the caital. , ~ . , push now to immunise children in the caital. , ~ ., , ., capital. fergus walsh, our medical editor, capital. fergus walsh, our medical editor. thank _ capital. fergus walsh, our medical editor, thank you. _ an eight—year investigation costing £6 million into multiple police failings during the rotherham sex abuse scandal has been criticised for letting down victims and survivors by failing to identify any individuals responsible. it's estimated that more than 1,400 children were sexually exploited in rotherham across the 16—year time span. one woman raped by rotherham grooming gangs as a teenager says she is "disgusted" by the failure of a new report to hold any police officers to account. 0ur north of england correspondent judith moritz reports.

it's horrific, it's something that's going to stay with me for the rest of my life. the very people that was meant to be there protecting me and other children was actually a part of this. i gave all the information to the police, _ nothing was done about it. rotherham, the town where children were blamed for their own abuse and where police turned a blind eye. i would have contact with the police on a daily basis. like sammy, who was 14 when she met the man who went on to groom her and get her pregnant. officers who saw them together never intervened. i remember on one occasion the police pulled him over. he looked about the car, asked me how i was. i got back in the car and we drove off. and there were so many occasions like that and, you know, looking back, there was just so many missed opportunities. it's been established that the abuse was predominantly committed by men of pakistani heritage. this woman, who was groomed as a teenager, says that lay behind the way police dealt with her case.

there were one occasion where my dad had rang the police station and a quite senior member of the police had basically said that it had been going on for a long time and that they couldn't do anything for the fear of racial tensions. the police watchdog, the iopc, has published a range of reasons for officers failing to help children who were being abused between 1997 and 2013. it's eight years since the scale of child sexual exploitation was first laid bare here in rotherham and in a sense this report confirms what was outlined then. but what it adds is the detail ofjust how south yorkshire police failed the children in this town. it said the force simply wasn't ready to deal with the nature and size of the problem here. no police officer has been sacked or prosecuted in connection with child sexual abuse in rotherham. senior officers say the south yorkshire police of today is a different organisation which wouldn't make

the same mistakes. today in rotherham we have a specialist team to deal with child sexual exploitation, we work extensively with partners and we have the infrastructure, training and the people to deal with it. the iopc says the focus of its report was to highlight what went wrong in rotherham and why. it made 13 recommendations, including improved training and support for officers. its investigation took eight years and cost £6 million. it's defended criticism that it hasn't delivered accountability. i think the iopc has just let down the victims and survivors. i think it's let down the police by dragging this out for so long, having these things hang over them. i think it's let down us, the public of south yorkshire, by not providing a proper answer to the question of "where does accountability lie? " more than 40 men have been convicted and cases are still going through the courts. you are under arrest on suspicion of indecent assault of a girl aged between 14 and 15 years.

and arrests continue to be made, including this one recently. the justice system still catching up with rotherham's past. judith moritz, bbc news, rotherham. the queen has praised the windrush generation for what she called their "profound contribution" to british life. a new monument at waterloo station in london pays tribute to the thousands of people who arrived in the uk from caribbean countries between 1948 and 1971. it was revealed to mark windrush day. the queen said she hoped the statue would "inspire present and future generations" in memory of those who arrived on board the hmt empire windrush at tilbury docks in 1948. 0ur correspondent celestina 0lulode reports. cheers and applause. dressed in their sunday best, the new monument to remember the vital contribution of the windrush generation.

the statue represents the thousands of caribbeans who travelled to the uk. they first arrived on the empire windrush 74 years ago today to help rebuild post—war britain. but despite living and working here for decades, many were told they were here illegally because of a lack of official paperwork, while some were wrongly detained and even deported. tens of thousands of that generation were profoundly wronged by the windrush scandal. that rightly reverberates throughout the caribbean community here in the uk as well as in many of the caribbean nations. for those who have campaigned for a monument of national recognition, this was an emotional moment. i came here in 1960 as a little ten—year—old, standing on platform 19, walking around this cathedral—like building, not realising what the future held for me.

waterloo station was chosen as the location for this monument because thousands of people who arrived from the caribbean passed through this station on the way to start their new lives. the government has offered compensation, which some are still waiting to receive. it shouldn't have come to that. when they realised things were bad, they should have made up their mind and compensated people straightaway. some are still waiting for answers, but the statue is a permanent tribute to the contribution of the windrush generation. celestina 0lulode, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett. a gorgeous day at glastonbury today, very warm and it has been hotting up over the past few days forced up the highest temperature today was

recorded in london at 28 degrees. and in aberdeenshire, 26, the warmest day of the year so far in scotland. but you know i'm going to spoil it. things are going to change was that it will turn more unsettled with temperatures dropping and that means we have rain in the forecast. 0vernight tonight, a bit of clout in the north of scotland but otherwise skies are clear from top to keep a close eye on this clout in northern france. this is where change is coming from. by the morning there could be rain in the channel islands and through the day tomorrow we will find more cloud and showers breaking out and moving northwards into england and wales. some heavy and thundery. hit and miss, some sunshine, scotland and northern ireland are likely to stay dry with sunny spells will stop not as warm as today in the north—east of scotland but a warm day in england and wales despite developing showers. ahead of the showers temperatures could reach 27 or 28 again. the weather is changing because pressure is falling. when that happens we have more cloud and

the chance of rain particularly with all these