this is bbc news. i'm nancy kacungira. our top stories: the bodies of 46 people have been found in an abandoned lorry in the us state of texas. it's thought they were undocumented migrants. three people are in custody. we are not supposed to open up a truck and see stacks of bodies in their. none of us come to work imagining that. at least 16 people are killed after a shopping centre in ukraine is hit by a russian missile. president zelensky calls it "a brazen terrorist attack". translation: today's russian strike on a shopping mall- in kremenchuk, is one of the greatest atrocities in the history of europe. nato announces a massive rise in the amount of rapid response troops, in what it calls its biggest upgrade since the end of the cold war.

translation: injail you translation: in jail you can use translation: injailyou can use these cigarettes as currency. preparing for prison — we speak to some of the young protesters in hong kong, as the territory prepares to mark 25 years since its handover. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we are going to start with breaking news from texas, where 46 people have been found dead inside truck trailers, next to railroad tracks in the city's southwest side. it's thought they could be migrants. 16 others have been taken to hospital — 12 adults and four children, all believed to be suffering

from dehydration. three people are in custody. within the last hour, the fire chief of san antonio, charles hood, gave this update. at approximately six this evening, the san antonio buyer department responded to a report of a dead person. engine 52 arrived and found the trailer achievement manus mentioned, with a body outside and several they can visibly see inside once the door was open. at this time approximately four to six bodies have been triaged and tagged and declared deceased at this time. fortunately we were able to transport 16 people. 12 are adults and four paediatrics. although conscious at the time of transportation. —— all work conscious.

our north america correspondent david willisjoins me. a very tragic story indeed. 46 people found dead in that tractor trailer. 19 others taken to hospital after it was found in a remote part of the city, close to downtown san diego and close to a freeway note to transport goods into texas from mexico and also is known to be a popular fairing a drug smuggling, people smuggling gangs, i should say. texas does make governor, greg abbott has been swift to condemn the policies ofjoe biden, he is a republican, and said in a tweet a short time ago that those deaths are a result ofjoe biden�*s open border policy and show the

deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law. there have been a record number of migrants seeking to gain entrance into the united states in recent months. large numbers are getting through and that has presented a major headache president biden who has had a lot health on his plate, including the war on ukraine and the problems because hereby inflation. , ., ., inflation. david, you mentioned that there _ inflation. david, you mentioned that there is _ inflation. david, you mentioned that there is some _ inflation. david, you mentioned that there is some talk - inflation. david, you mentioned that there is some talk about i that there is some talk about these being migrants. could you explain to us how unusual this is? why people are responding and saying if this is probably and saying if this is probably a group of migrants? it is a group of migrants? it is known that _ a group of migrants? it is known that these - a group of migrants? it is known that these sort - a group of migrants? it is known that these sort ofl known that these sort of smuggling gangs very often wait after people have been brought across the border to transport

them from places like san antonio to other parts of the united states and about 20 years or so ago, 19 people were found, 19 migrants are found in the back of a truck, a similar incident to this. they were found to have died from dehydration and suffocation after being exposed to record high temperatures. indeed, the san antonio area has seen record temperatures of above 100 fahrenheit over the last day or so. all these factors entered into this tragedy, when of the worse in recent years in this country. "one of the most brazen terrorist acts "in european history" — that's how ukraine's president zelensky has described the russian attack on a crowded shopping centre, in kremenchuk. at least 13 people have been

killed in the missile strike, and more than 50 injured but that figure could rise. the attack happened in kremenchuk, in central ukraine — a long way from the front line. the governor of the city said it was unlikely many survivors would be found in the rubble, because the fire was so big. g7 leaders meeting in germany have called the attack "abominable". the bbc�*s nick beake is in kremenchuk with the latest. this is the smouldering wreckage of russia's latest attack — a shopping centre, although it's barely recognisable, tonight. as those g7 leaders were meeting, president putin was sending his own message, and his missiles were hitting ukrainian civilians. i've got to warn you there are some flashing images and also some details in my report that you might find distressing. this inferno is not a ukrainian military target. it's a ukrainian shopping centre. no weapons here, just families. these were the bewildering minutes

after russia's latest devastating missile attack — today, on the central city of kremenchuk. inside the building, panic. "is anyone alive?" a man calls out. there's a faint answer. "where are you? come here," the man says again. monday afternoon shoppers became paramedics, helping to load the injured into ambulances. those nearby at the time of impact struggling to make sense of what had happened. i was not far away from the place where it happened, some 500 metres away, and people were running around. after about 30 minutes, i started to go and check out the place. the centre was just destroyed. um, ijust... i'm out of words. i did not expect that something like this could happen in my town.

as they began to clear the wreckage, the number of dead was rising, each piece of debris revealing a clearer picture of the damage done. for hours now, they've been bringing out these pieces of mangled metal from the shopping centre, leaving them here, and the work goes on even though it's now pitch black, and that is because there is an urgency. many people were in this shopping centre at the time of the attack, and the fear is that many more people have died. speaking at the shopping centre, ukraine's interior minister told us this was an act of terrorism perpetrated by putin and the russian federation. president zelensky claimed up to 1,000 people could've been inside at the time and had these words. translation: only completely messed up terrorists _ for whom there's no place on earth could strike such a place.

it's not an accidental hit by missiles. it's a deliberate russian strike. this carnage is more than 80 miles away from russian—occupied land, so it was most likely the work of a guided missile. why here? we don't know. but moscow is showing this city and the watching world its assault on ukraine and its people is not going to stop. hope is fading very fast here tonight. you can see some of the exhausted firefighters just trying to catch their breath. the air here is still thick with the smoke that's billowing out of the destroyed shopping centre. you can see members of the military as well. it's past midnight here and the operation continues. they're not giving up, but i think when we look at the devastation behind us and we look at the video of the aftermath of the missile strike, the inferno that took hold, people here are thinking there's really very little chance that people would've survived this. that is, of course, people

who weren't brought to safety in the minutes afterwards. but this was not the only attack on ukrainian civilians today. in the east, in the donbas region, in lysychansk, at least eight people were killed. we're told that two of them were teenagers. more than 20 people injured. and the information we're getting from that particular place is that those who were killed and injured were targeted or certainly hit as they were queuing for water. nick beake reporting there. nato says it will boost its quick reaction force from 40,000 to 300,000 in what the secretary general called the military alliance's "biggest overhaul of defence and deterrence since the cold war". jens stoltenberg was speaking as leaders of nato countries prepare to meet at a summit in madrid on tuesday. he said russia has become the most significant and direct threat to western security.

we will transform the nato response force and increase the number of our high—readiness forces to well over 300,000. our new concept will guide us in an era of strategic competition. i expect it will make clear that allies consider russia as the most significant and direct threat to our security. let's take a closer look at that increase in numbers. before 2014, there were few nato forces in the eastern part of the alliance. but then came russia's annexation of crimea. in response, nato sent battle groups to estonia, latvia, lithuania and poland. and since then those forward, high alert, forces have gradually increased, they currently sit at 40,000. now, in line withjens stoltenberg's statement today, that number will increase seven—fold to 300,000. land, air, maritime and special operations forces, all of them ready to respond

to an attack, within hours. earlier, i spoke to douglas lute. he is retired three star general who went on to be he is a retired three star general who went on to be the us ambassador to nato in the final years of president barack 0bama's administration. i asked him for his reaction and whether this troop increase was a big deal. it is a big deal. the announcement today should be seen as a prelude to other such steps that nato will announce at the summit in madrid later this week but this first announcement is impressive, going from 40,000 as part of the nato response force, as the secretary general announced, over300,000 is a massive step. you are familiar with some of the inner workings of nato. what does the announcement tell us about the state of cooperation between the nations because presumably something like this would have taken a lot of cooperation to put together? it's a very strong signal.

the allies are determined to do everything necessary to defend native territory and deter further russian aggression in the face of the invasion of ukraine. going forward, what will really be interesting is to learn the details of behind this announcement. so which nations are providing these forces, just how ready will they be, will they be prepared to move in days' notice, weeks, months? what will the commanding control relationship be, when activated by nato, who will they work for? finally, how will we ensure their readiness? an annual exercise programme or a combination like that? there are a lot of details that we don't know yet. it sounds like those are very important details that you mentioned. absolutely. it's one thing to make the announcement and the numbers are impressive. it signals commitment and solidarity in the alliance but the devil lays in the details.

all right. when you look at long—term prospects for nato and when you were serving under president 0bama, he prescribed a pivot, away from europe, a pivot to the east. things have changed a lot now. what do you think russia's reaction to this would be and could it define nato's medium to long—term future? at core, nato's always been about the defence of the north atlantic area, so most important in this case, western europe itself. so this is an important step that signals solidarity in the alliance and its commitment that they will defend, the alliance will defence every inch of nato territory and it takes troops to do that. as for the potential pivot to asian, so forth, i think that's perhaps an unfortunate term because it

implies a departure from europe and refocus by us and asia. the 0bama change from the outset actually envisioned that reorientation towards europe, towards asia. it would always be founded on a solid base which was the defence of europe itself. so this is, perhaps pivot isn't the best term but reorientation or rebalance might be a better term. douglas lute. former us ambassador to nato. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: the old knight of the sea — why this norwegian veteran of world war two has been honoured by france. china marked its first day of rule in hong kong with a series of spectacular celebrations. a huge fireworks display

was held in the former colony. the chinese president, jiang zemin, said unification was the start of a new era for hong kong. the world's first clone has been produced of an adult mammal. scientists in scotland have produced a sheep called dolly that was cloned in a laboratory using a cell from another sheep. for the first time in 20 years, russian and american spacecraft have docked in orbit at the start of a new era of cooperation in space. tennis balls thwack. cheering and applause. challenger powered past the bishop rock lighthouse at almost 50 knots, shattering a record that had stood for 34 years, and there was no hiding the sheer elation of richard branson and his crew. this is bbc world news.

the latest headlines: at least 46 people have been found dead in an abandoned lorry in the us state of texas. police are at the scene near san antonio — they say three people have been arrested. this friday marks the 25th anniversary of the handover of hong kong from uk to chinese rule. china promised to protect democratic freedoms for 50 years, but new laws introduced in 2020 have effectively silenced all criticism in the territory. the bbc�*s spent the last year with young journalists and protesters as they live through the most turbulent period in hong kong's recent history, facing arrests and prison sentences. from hong kong, our correspondent danny vincent sent this report. i don't smoke. ijust hope that in jail, you can use these

cigarettes as currency. jennifer is 24 years old and she's preparing for prison. so, i got a pack of this, and i'm trying to see if i can use these as money in jail, but i'm still not sure about that. she was a student in hong kong in 2019 when millions took to the streets to demonstrate against greater control from beijing. she was arrested alongside 40 other protesters and convicted of rioting. i sincerely take it as a challenge for me. it's a challenge. it's like... in everyone's life, you definitely have some trouble that you have

to overcome. there have been more than 10,000 protest—related arrests since 2019. critics say the legal system is now being used as a weapon against those that speak out. a national security law is changing this city. when the authorities introduced the national security law, they said it would only impact a small number of people. two years on, and it's spread fear across the city. some people even say the changes now are bigger than when hong kong was returned to china. i've been following ronson chan, a prominentjournalist who feared he was a target of the new law. after the national security law enacted, as an independent media reporter, i will be on the target of the police. translation: it's much easier to cross the red line. _ we don't know where the red line is.

i'm still confident that i'll be fine. i haven't broken the law, i haven't done anything wrong, so why should i be afraid, right? last year, his publication, stand news, was closed. several editors were arrested under the national security law. ronson was released without charge. pro—beijing lawmakers say the national security law was needed to return stability to hong kong. every country and territory needs national security law to protect itself. we must protect our people from espionage, terrorism, political interference, subversion. that's what every government does. 25 years ago, britain handed control of the city to china. promises were made to protect fundamental freedoms. in the last two years,

those promises have been comprehensively broken. hong kong now seems increasingly like an ordinary chinese city. danny vincent, bbc news, hong kong. the head of the un has warned the world's seas are in crisis while speaking at the opening of the ocean conference in portugal. more than 7,000 delegates from around the world have joined the event. the bbc�*s azadeh moshiri has more. 0ur oceans cover 70% of the planet's surface, generating over half of the world's oxygen. they also have a vital role in the fight against climate change since they absorb 25% of all carbon dioxide emissions. yet all that is in jeopardy should global temperatures continue to increase as expected, and cause sea levels to rise with them. at the opening

of the united nations 0cean conference, the head of the un issued a stark warning, urging the world to stop treating its waters like a rubbish dump. we are facing what i would call an ocean emergency. 0ur oceans are issuing an 505. they are struggling, heating and acidifying. corals are dying. coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, sea grasses and wetlands are being degraded. fisheries are being depleted and the ocean is choking in plastic wastes. that message was echoed by thousands of guests who travelled to portugal to attend alongside environmental leaders like the us climate envoy john kerry as well as heads of state from 20 countries. they came from places like... sao paulo, eu represento universidade de sao paulo. i'm coming from kenya. saudi arabia. napa, california.

ghana. canada. amsterdam. the star of the blockbuster hit aquaman, jason momoa, also made an appearance... i try to be professional. ..as he was named the un environment programme's advocate for life below water. the time now is to act. 0ur ocean is in trouble. if we combine ambition, dedication, and hope, we can change these outcomes. leaders plan to adopt a political declaration the end of the conference as the head of the un warned current pledges and treaties are still not enough to save the world's oceans. azadeh moshiri, bbc news. the number of people who fought in the second world war gets smaller with each day. 0ne survivor is nils severin 0kland — a norwegian who helped liberate france. now, the french government has finally said thank you. tim allman reports.

a nursing home in western norway, a special occasion for a very special man. nils severin 0kland is 107 years old. he is a veteran of the second world war and he is now a knight of the french republic. speaks french. au nom du president de la republique francaise, nous vous faisons chevalier dans l'ordre national de la legion d'honneur. the country's ambassador came to award him the honour earned during the darkest of days so many years ago. file footage: mountainous seas are running — as a convoy battles its way across the atlantic. legend has it winston churchill once said the only thing that really frightened him during the conflict was the peril of the u—boat. maintaining these shipping lanes was vital for the war effort. and playing his part was nils severin 0klund, who served at sea for the best part of four years. he also had a role in the liberation of southern france.

in august 1944, he was part of the allied landings in provence. so what does he think of his new title? translation: very nice. i've experienced a lot in my life, and not everything's been by the book, i'll say no more. i'm saying thank you so much for all the attention you're giving an old stoker. an old stoker who's now a knight of the french legion of honour. tim allman, bbc news. some more details now on breaking story, 46 bodies have been found, on an abandoned lorry on the outskirts of the city of san antonio, officials say they were migrants, 16 people have been taken to hospital. people have been arrested, there is now a federal investigation. local

police are at the scene they say there was no air—conditioning or water on the lorry. thank you for joining us on bbc news. stay with us. hello there. low pressure will be tending to stick close by to the uk throughout this week, so it's going to stay relatively unsettled with sunshine and showers, i think sums it up pretty well, especially for the north and west of the uk. for tuesday, something a bit more unsettled pushes in as that area of low pressure brings in quite an active weather front, mainly to northern and western parts of the country. and you'll see the isobars fairly close together, so it'll be wet and windy across more northern and western areas throughout the day on tuesday. some of the rain will be quite heavy, particularly for western and southwest scotland, that rain getting into western england and wales as well. windy here, breezy further east, but here, a lot of dry weather around, some good spells of sunshine, maybe an odd passing shower here and there, but most places will be dry. it's going to be breezy

wherever you are, but windy in the north and west with gusts in exposure of around 40, maybe 50 mph in the worst affected areas. so, that'll impact the temperatures, the mid to high teens in the north and west, where we have the wind and rain, but further east with that sunshine, slightly lighter winds, 22, maybe 23 degrees. that weather front begins to push its way further eastwards during tuesday night, tending to weaken a little bit. there'll still be some heavier bursts through the midlands, into north—east england. drier, clearer spells elsewhere, maybe the odd shower, and it's going to be pretty mild as well, that air source coming in from the south. lows of 11—14 degrees. so, here's wednesday. 0ur area of low pressure begins to pull away from the uk. we've still got weather fronts across the country, so again, it's going to be another unsettled one. could see some of the heavier rain across eastern england for a time. that'll tend to push its way northwards, clearing into the north sea, and then it's going to be an afternoon of sunshine and showers again, and some of the showers could turn out to be heavy,

maybe even thundery. it'll be fairly breezy, not as windy, though, as what we'll have on tuesday. top temperatures, high teens for many, low 20s. could see 24 degrees across east anglia and the southeast. now, in between the showers, you get the sunshine, the sun will be strong. high uv levels expected in many areas, so just beware of that. then as we move deeper into the week, it stays rather unsettled. further showers, particularly in the north and west of the uk. it tends to stay a bit drier across southern and eastern areas, and signs of high pressure trying to build in next weekend.

this is bbc news. the headlines: 46 migrants have been found dead on an abandoned lorry on the outskirts of san antonio in the us state of texas. 16 people were found alive, including four children. three people are under arrest. there has been international condemnation of a russian missile strike on a crowded shopping centre in the central ukrainian city of kremenchuk. ukraine's emergency services chief said 16 people had died in the attack and 59 were wounded. the leaders of the g7 countries called it a "war crime". nato says it'll boost its quick reaction force from 40,000 to 300,000 in what the secretary general called the military alliance's "biggest overhaul of defence "and deterrence since the cold war".

jens stoltenberg was speaking as leaders of nato countries