this is bbc news, i'm nancy kacungira, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. life in prison for the only survivor of the group that carried out the 2015 islamist attacks in paris, but victims say it's not over for them. nothing satisfying about the verdict and nothing satisfying about the fact that it ends, that we still have our injuries and our traumas and our nightmares and our wounds. the american singer songwriter, r kelly is jailed for 30 years for sexual abuse crimes. at least 18 dead and more than 30 missing after russia targets a shopping centre in ukraine. nato members meeting in madrid declare the kremlin "a direct threat" to their security.

ferdinand "bongbong" marcosjunior, son of the late dictator ferdinand marcos, will soon be sworn in as president of the philippines. and novak djokovic cruises into the third round at wimbledon, but it's the end of the road for britain's andy murray and emma raducanu is also out of the tournament. welcome to the programme. a french court has concluded the country's longest ever trial, for the 2015 terror attacks, by handing down prison sentences to 20 men. an islamist gang killed 130 people in paris in 2015. they targeted the bataclan concert hall, the national football stadium, bars and restaurants. the only gang member to survive the night,

salah abdeslam, was handed a rare whole life sentence. mark lobel reports. guilty. facing a full life prison term, france's most severe penalty for criminals, the only survivor of the gun and bomb attacks that killed 130 people, and the biggest trial in modern french history following the country's worst peacetime attack. it shook paris to its core in november 2015. as well as those killed, hundreds were injured during horrendous attacks on bars, restaurants, the national football stadium and the bataclan music venue. arrested in brussels four months after the attacks, salah abdeslam said he was a soldier of the so—called islamic state group, but later apologised to victims and claimed he decided not to detonate his suicide vest on the night of the attack. but the court accepted evidence that the suicide vest was in fact defective

and there was no last—minute change of heart. his full life sentence now leaves him only a small chance of parole after 30 years. the court convicted all 20 men put on trial, 19 of them on terrorism charges. the rulings can be appealed. translation: i am satisfied with the sentence and i thinki that, like many people, it is fair. i don't actually feel too good tonight. nothing satisfying about the verdict and nothing satisfying about the fact that it ends but we still have our injuries and our traumas and our nightmares and our wounds. as part of this trial, for the last nine months, victims, families of the dead and journalists pieced together the events that deadly night. it is quite important for us to arrive at the end of the trail. and to be able to somewhere, to quit, a kind of collective

tragedy. to go further in our personal tragedy that we have, to go further and to live without my son, hugo. for france, this has been a chance to come to terms with a national trauma. mark lobel, bbc news. let's get some of the day's other news. buckingham palace has confirmed that it will not be publishing the results of a review into the handling of allegations that meghan, the duchess of sussex, bullied members of palace staff. the review was prompted by a report in the times which had claimed that two employees had been driven from theirjobs. lawyers for the duchess have denied the allegations. scientists at a un conference in portugal on the oceans say nearly a quarter of the planet's seabed has now been mapped to a high standard. in the past year alone, an area about the size of europe has been added to sea charts. japan is battling an unprecedented heatwave,

and concerns are mounting about a shortage of electricity to keep air conditioners going. tokyo recorded temperatures above 35 celsius on wednesday for a fifth straight day, making it the worstjune heatwave injapan since records began in 1875. the european commission has proposed banning the use of flavoured heated tobacco products, because of concerns about their increasing popularity and health effects. the eu health commissioner said nine out of ten lung cancers were caused by tobacco, so the bloc wanted to make smoking as unattractive as possible to protect the health of its citizens and save lives. the american singer r kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in prison by a us federal court in new york, after he was found guilty of sexually abusing women, boys and girls for decades. the 55—year—old singer was convicted of all nine counts against him in the sex—trafficking trial

which took place in september. 0ur north america correspondent, nada tawfik was in court, and sent this report. r kelly's victims were ignored and vilified for years, mainly black americans who felt their voices weren't valued. this sentence means everything to them. there wasn't a day in my life up until this moment that i actually believed that the judicial system would come through for black and brown girls. i stand here very proud of myjudicial system, very proud of my fellow survivors, and very pleased with the outcome, 30 years did he do this, and 30 years is what he got. i never thought that i would be here to see him be held accountable for the atrocious things that he did to children. i don't know what else to say except that i'm grateful. i'm grateful for today. # i believe i can fly...# his star power was his shield. he used his inner circle

to exploit minors, women and men. they all came from varied backgrounds but were similar in their adoration for kelly. 0nce under his control, he required them to follow a degrading set of rules. they had to call him daddy and they weren't permitted to leave their rooms for any reason without his permission. he also directed every aspect of the sexual abuse with him and others and recorded many of the instances. for years, his crimes were an open secret, including his marriage to the late r&b singer aaliyah when she was just 15 years old and he 27. the stories from a documentary called surviving r kelly stunned the public and led to calls to mute his music. chanting: mute r kelly! mute r kelly! it also shone a light on an industry said to be rife with harassment and abuse. the music industry has just not even begun to have its reckoning. it isn'tjust one person who's, like, a skeevy predator. it's the scaffolding, it's the system, it's the star machine.

r kelly's legacy will no longer be defined by his voice. he'll forever be remembered as a sexual predator. nada tawfik, bbc news. some more lisa bloom. she says she agrees with thejudge' decision to sentence r kelly to 30 years in prison. thisjudge did not hold back in saying that r kelly used his money and his fame to enslave women, to sexually prey upon minors, boys and girls. he had hundreds of enablers who helped him in this, and he has ruined so many lives. and she felt that 30 years was appropriate and i agree. his lawyers had been pushing for a ten—year sentence and they were citing, for instance, the fact that r kelly himself was abused. do you think there will be an appeal? well, thejudge said that his history of abuse was an explanation

but not an excuse, and i agree with that. yes, his lawyers say that they are going to appeal. that is what lawyers always say when they have a bad day in court. we will see if they really have any grounds. i don't see any. after the sentencing, we heard one of the victims say, "there wasn't a day in my life, "up until this moment, that i actually believe "the judicial system would come through "for black and brown girls." i mean, why do you think it took so long for these victims to getjustice? yes, and i represent many girls and women of colour, and they are not believed, and people are not as outraged by sexual abuse against girls and women of colour. you know, these allegations have been coming against r kelly since the 1990s. there was a trial in 2008. he was acquitted in that case. and now he is going face new charges in a couple of months, related to witness tampering, in that 2008 trial. so, he has gotten away with this for a very long time but ultimately enough girls and women, and boys,

were willing to stand up and testify, and got this conviction and now 30 years in prison for him. as you say, the crimes that he committed were well documented long before this day of reckoning came, and thejudge said this 30—year sentence should stand as a deterrent to him and to other powerful people. does it? is this a seachange? you know, it is a hard question. i think it's important to point out that metoo is not over. i did a lot of interviews after thejohnny depp case, and people think were saying that it's over and they were having a funeral for metoo. and then just yesterday, ghislaine maxwell, another high—profile person was sentenced to 20 years in her sex trafficking case. today r kelly 30 years. metoo is just getting started and i think we are willing now to go back and revisit these cases, where people have been making allegations for years and years — theyjust were not believed. increasingly now, they are believed and i think that is

an important new day in the justice system. there is a significant amount of change but for r kelly himself, are his legal battles over? they are not over. he has another trial coming up in a few months, he has civil cases pending against him. so, he is going to be embroiled in lawsuits and criminal trials for a long time. lisa bloom there for us. she is an attorney and women rights campaigner. newly released footage from ukraine has established that a shopping centre in the city of kremenchuk was hit directly by a russian cruise missile. the death toll from monday's strike in the east of the country has risen to at least 18 while more than 30 people are still missing. russia says it doesn't attack civilians and claims the target was an ammunition warehouse. 0ur europe correspondent nick beake, reports. the brute force of russia's strike. a cruise missile fired from a plane hundreds of miles away, plunging towards ukrainian

families doing their shopping. 18—year—old daria has been looking for her mum ever since. larissa, a cleaner, was at work in an electronics shop. translation: i am so composed, not because i don't feel _ anything, but because i need to support my relatives. that's how it's easier for me, but what i feel is emptiness. many more families have been searching in desperation. four days before the strike, shopping centre management told staff it would no longer be evacuated during air raid alerts. there's now a criminal investigation into that decision. it's obvious that many people simply didn't stand a chance. the operation here is now moving to dismantling the remainder of the building.

the impact on families here in kremenchuk will be felt for months and years to come. but you've got to remember that russia continues to kill civilians across this country. at least five people were killed this morning in this strike on a residential block in mykolaiv. but from elsewhere in the same southern city, russia was releasing this footage, claiming it had destroyed a training base forforeign fighters. russia says that it doesn't hit civilian targets. russia says it doesn't kill civilians. what do you say to that? translation: i know what the truth is, - but i think it won't matter because this won't return my mother to me, it won't return children to hundreds of other parents. the uk's ministry of defence says it's possible russia's missile

was intended to hit another target nearby, but it didn't. and moscow is prepared to live with the consequences. nick beake, bbc news, kremenchuk. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: novak djokovic has made it into the third round at wimbledon, but britain's andy murray is out and so is emma raducanu. 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 3h years, and there was no hiding the sheer elation of richard branson and his crew. this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: the sole surviving member of the group that carried out the 2015 islamist attacks in paris has been sentenced to life in prison after the biggest trial in french history. a court in new york has jailed the singer r kelly for 30 years for using his celebrity status to sexually

abuse women and girls. leaders of the nato defence alliance have declared russia to be a "direct threat" to their security and said that ukraine can count on nato's support for as long as it takes. those words at the leaders' summit in madrid mark a significant beefing up of nato's approach. nato is now on track to comprise 32 countries, as finland and sweden, two previously neutral countries, have been cleared for membership. the nato secretary general reaffirmed that russia is europe's biggest threat. nato leaders have just taken decisions to transform and strengthen our alliance at this pivotal time for our security. president putin's war against ukraine has shattered peace in europe. and has created the

biggest security crisis in europe since the second world war. nato has responded with strength and unity.— strength and unity. nato secretary _ strength and unity. nato secretary general. - from the summit in madrid, kasia madera. jens stoltenberg really wanted to show a united nato and that is certainly what he got with the strategic concept. for the first time, they are talking about russia as a risk. what russia has done in ukraine has galvanised these nato nations to come together and the alliances offer support to ukraine with the bolstering of troops and for the first time since the end of the cold war, there will be a permanent us presence in an eastern european country, in poland. the polish president very much welcoming that saying they will feel much more secure knowing that the us presence will be there. and of course we have the addition of two new countries joining and therefore automaticallyjust increasing,

doubling the border between nato and russia. so, if president putin, with his launch of a war on ukraine had wanted to stop nato enlargement, well, he got exactly the opposite. kasia madera reporting from the summit in madrid. the suspected driver of a truck, found abandoned near the city of san antonio in texas with dozens of bodies inside, has been charged with migrant smuggling resulting in death. the man, homero zamorano, was arrested by police near the scene, posing as a migrant. 53 people from countries in central america died as a result of the incident — the greatest single loss of life from a human trafficking in us history. a second suspect, christian martinez was arrested on tuesday on conspiracy charges. the son of the philippines�* late dictator, ferdinand marcos, will be sworn in as president shortly. ferdinand "bongbong" marcoer

won last month's elections by a landslide, securing the biggest victory since his father was ousted by a popular revolt in 1986 over accusations of widespread corruption and brutality. the marcos family has never apologised, nor given back what they are accused of looting from the country. let's get the latest from our correspondent, howard johnson, in manila. howard, preparations are under way to bring in a new president but what sort of presidency does this inauguration usher in? ., does this inauguration usher in? bongbong marcos jr ran on the ticket _ in? bongbong marcos jr ran on the ticket of _ in? bongbong marcos jr ran on the ticket of unity, _ in? bongbong marcos jr ran on the ticket of unity, saying - in? bongbong marcos jr ran on the ticket of unity, saying he i the ticket of unity, saying he will bring the country together because he ran alongside sara duterte hair, daughter of incumbent president rodrigo duterte though he will leave the palace today, we will see bongbong marcos shaking hands in the next hour or so to begin the inauguration ceremony. by

bringing the tupac political people together from the north and south, the idea of unity, a positive message to the country coming out of a pandemic caused by covid-19 coming out of a pandemic caused by covid—19 and the recession that was triggered as a result of that, filipinos are wanted an uplifting story, they weren't interested in the past, they weren't interested in the stories of ferdinand marcos and e—mailed a markos, famous for autocracy, stealing money from the public purse, she was convicted for corruption in 2018 and the philippines but none of that mattered to the filipinos, 1 million who voted for bongbong marcos who really believe in his message in which he said he will return the country to a golden age of the economy despite the fact that when ferdinand marcos was ousted following a popular revolt in 1986, the country was on the brink and heavily indebted to foreign banks. mil indebted to foreign banks. all right, howard, thank you for keeping an eye on that as we

wait for the inauguration in a short while. heinz has stopped supplying tesco stores in the uk with some of its best known products in a dispute about pricing. baked beans, ketchup and tomato soup are among the items missing from shelves in some areas. people living in a small town near colombia's capital have been fleeing from foam spewing from a polluted river. toxic and stinky clouds of foam flooded streets following heavy rains the night before. residents say they're concerned about potential health impacts. local environmental authorities said that the polluted foam, which has been seen in the town several times over the past few years, is increasing because of people dumping waste, chemicals and detergents into the river system. let's talk some tennis next. wednesday was day three at wimbledon and a disappointing one for the uk's emma raducanu, who was knocked out. 0n the men's side, crowd

favorite andy murray is out too, while the number one seed, novak djokovic, cruised through to round three. here's the our sport correspondent, chetan pathak. as the sun sets on day three at wimbledon, novak djokovic, the defending champion, is a very happy man after sailing through to the third round of these championships with a straight—sets win over australia's tha nasi kokkinakis. djokovic looking much like his old self on the grass of centre court. kokkinkakis causing him few problems, compared with the one we saw on monday where he struggled at times. djokovic far more pleased on wednesday after his win, saying that he feels much more like his old self as he moved up the gears. djokovic targeting all sorts of history at this year's wimbledon. looking for his fourth consecutive title and seventh wimbledon crown.

it will be 21 grand slams. all the more important to him because if he wins this major, it will be one behind rafael nadal, knowing novak djokovic that he may not get to play at the us open and the australian open because of his covid status. in the women's draw, there was disappointment for the home favourite, emma raducanu, the us 0pen champion who gave us that stratospheric success last year at flushing meadows. since then, she's been plagued by injury problems. she'd gone out the second round at the australian open and french open. the same has now happened at wimbledon. she was beaten in straight sets by france's carolina garcia who was aggressive and on the front foot from the start. raducanu couldn't quite cope, but this is a natural part of her development. she continues to get to grips with life on the tennis tour. for some players, like pete sampras and novak djokovic, it was three years

between their first grand slam and second. raducanu is in no rush. she'll be the stronger for this experience in the end. the men's and women's draws are opening up here. anett kontaveit, the number two seed, has gone out and the men's draw, and caspar ruud, the third seed out, too. we've got rafael nadal on thursday to look forward to and iga switatek and coco gauff. shattered pathak with those highlights from wimbledon. finally, to riverside park in manhattan for what has become something of a tradition. it's the the �*running of the goats' — never heard of it — well let me explain — goats from a farm about 150 kilometres away are brought here in order to feast on overgrown bushes, poison ivy and weeds. it's win—win according to conservationists at the park because they don't need to use harsh chemicals on the weeds and for the goats it's

an eat—all—you—can buffet. fantastic. let's go to canada. you may have seen the niagara falls but not like this. this is from a tunnel on the canadian side of the falls, first built in 1905 as a hydroelectric power plant, now transformed into a viewing platform. tourists descend in a glass elevator and go to the edge of the platform where they can take in this spectacular view of the falls. absolutely beautiful. don't forget, you can access all the latest news on our website, including our main story. 20 men have been convicted of involvement in the worst islamist attack in france that killed 130 people in paris in

november 2015. the only surviving attacker, salama slum, has been given a full life term. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. a few more showery days lie ahead for most of us. sunny spells, yes, but also some heavy and perhaps thundery downpours. and some more persistent rain for some of us to start thursday in association with this frontal system drifting its way northwards — a soggy start for parts of scotland and for northern ireland. temperatures as we start the day generally between 10—13 degrees, but let's zoom in on northern ireland because for some eastern parts, especially around county antrim and county down, we can see some very heavy rain through the morning rush hour with the potential for surface water and spray, some poor travelling conditions. also outbreaks of rain across parts of scotland, especially up towards the east and the northeast. a drier start for some western areas. for england and wales, many places start the day dry, but we will see showers popping up, some of those heavy,

thundery and quite slow—moving as well with light winds. all the while, the rain across northern ireland and scotland drifts up towards the northern isles. we may see this area of cloud and rainjust grazing into the east of kent, perhaps coastal parts of suffolk and norfolk through the afternoon. temperatures north to south, 16—21 degrees — no great shakes for this time of year. as we go through thursday evening, overnight as well, we will see some showers continuing across parts of wales and england. most other places staying dry, although there will be some rain grazing into eastern scotland by the end of the night. those are the overnight lows — most of us holding up in double digits. so, quite a complex weather picture to take us into friday. this weather system grazing northeastern parts of the uk, this one will bring cloud and rain later into northern ireland. and in between, yes, we'll see some sunshine, but again, we'll see some showers, some heavy, some thundery. a bit more of a breeze at this stage, so the showers should move through a little more quickly.

15—22 degrees, top temperatures for friday afternoon. into saturday, another belt of heavy, showery rain working its way eastwards through the day, some sunny spells in between. again, relatively breezy, and again, those temperatures in the mid—to—high teens, the low 20s for some of us. but as we move through sunday and into the start of next week, we do see this area of high pressure trying, slowly but surely, to take more control of our weather. so, the showers should become fewer and further between as we head through the weekend and into next week. for some of us, it is set to turn a little bit warmer as well.

this is bbc news, the headlines: the sole survivor of the group that carried out the 2015 attacks in paris has been found guilty of terrorism and murder after one of the biggest trials in ranch history. salah abdeslam was sentenced to life in prison. 130 people were killed in the french capital. the american singer song writer r kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. the grammy winner was called a prolific sexual predator. his lawyers

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