this is bbc news. the headlines: ukraine has asked the united nations and the red cross to investigate the missile strike that's killed more than 50 prisoners of war who were being held by russia in the donetsk region. both sides are blaming each other for the attack. the mayor of washington, dc has called for help from the national guard to deal with almost 5,000 migrants who have been bussed into the us capital. their trip is said to have been organised by republican governors in protest against the biden administration's immigration policy. spain and brazil have reported what are thought to be the first monkeypox—related

deaths outside of africa. spain's one of the worst hit countries — around a quarter of the roughly 20,000 global infections were diagnosed there. now on bbc news, deadly browsing: the lorry driver. how a lorry driver, looking at dating sites while driving, went on to kill three. a warning this programme contains images some viewers may find upsetting. news report: nissan - in sunderland and rolls-royce are among the firms reporting production problems caused l by staff being forced to stay at home... . i'm on the motorway, i think you'll already have a million calls about an accident. there are car's on fire. it'll be all the services. mate, don't go any furtherl because this might blow up any second now. -

you can hear it popping. at least two obvious fatalities. can you push them back a bit? yeah, yeah. of course. l we willjust get rid of these lot. - everyone, clear away! there is still a risk. of further explosion! it is literally like a bomb has gone off. have you got your mobile phone with you at the moment? could i take that from you, please? you are under arrest— for causing death by dangerous driving, all right. there has been some fatalities in these cars over here. - whiskey victor 1—3 golf hotel x—ray. angry. but, yeah, i do still feel partly sorry for him, his life is ruined. so we've got one, two, three dead patients. that we know. i never had a chance to apologise, to say sorry to anybody.

it was quite a nice sunny day, july 15, nothing out of the ordinary really was going on that day, just another day of work, as far as we were concerned. just finishing work, it was my dog's birthday the next day, so i was going home, but by pets at home to get him some birthday presents. it was quite warm, especially when you are pregnant, so the aircon was on in the car. the weather was really nice. i had been sitting out— in the garden before i had come to work, so i was in| a really good mood. just moseying up the motorway heading to work, nothing special. shift was due to start at seven o'clock on the evening. 12—hour night shift, finishing at seven o'clock the next morning. i remember slowing down

in stationary traffic. saw the traffic from a good distance. put my hazard lights on, slowed down pretty much around here somewhere. because there was cars and other traffic on the inside, i i couldn't get off, so ijust had to stay where i was. i i thought to myself, "he is going fast for "the distance he has got to stop for this stationary "traffic." and then i thought, "he's not going to stop." i heard a bang, that must have been when he hit a car. i thought it was my tyre. but then all of a sudden i have gone like this. and then he just literally went into the back of- the queueing traffic. the lorry is travelling nearly 60 mph. it crushes a car and a pick—up truck, collides with michael's hgv, and then swerves into two more cars, including the red one driven by molly.

out of nowhere, ijust felt this impact from behind. ijust remember all of a sudden hearing the kind of crashing sounds of metal. it seemed to go up over the top of vehicles and then skewed - across in front of me. hit the barrier in the middle i of the motorway and exploded. and then all of a sudden being stopped on the ai just with a lot of fire around me. i said, i'm going to ring, . and i picked up my phone, and i literally... my hands were shaking that much i couldn't dial, - i couldn't do anything. anyway, eventually i managed to ring. i i am on the motorway, i think you will already| have a million calls about an accident. i are you 0k? rm 0k. - i'vejust seen it. n-s a lorry. — there is dead people, i'm sure.

it's gone up in flames and everything. - i will be honest, _ icouldn't move, which is... ..one of the things that upsets me a little bit, i because there was all these people, to my mind, - going into what was carnage, and i literally... _ i feel like i froze. a lorry has caught fire and hit something. one minute ago it happened. you have got to get there quick, people are going to be killed. i need police and fire brigade quick to the a1 northbound. did you see anyone exit the vehicles? no, it literally was just - seconds since we have gone past. the fireball was that big i would be surprised - if anybody could have. the cars on fire. it will be all the services. my first instinct was to help the driver of the heavy goods vehicle. there were people screaming at

me to get away from the truck. but my response was, i ain't going to let him die. then i kicked the windscreen in of the wagon and i pulled him out. 0ut he came. didn't say anything to me, don't know what were going through his head. don't know what were going through mine at the time. are you injured at all? i'm all right, pal. 0bviously kind of initially just dazed. what's going on? ijust stood and looked back. it was probably only a couple of seconds, but itjust felt like i was stood still for ages. it felt like i was there five, ten minutes, taking it all in. with being pregnant and the amount of fire that was going on around, ijust thought, "i need to get away from this." you do not know if anything else is going to catch fire or explode or anything like that, so i started to move in the opposite direction. in the distance, i could see

a huge plume of thick black smoke. i shouted up to communications and asked if there was something going on that i needed to know about. they said, yeah, there had been a multiple vehicle rtc at bowburn, and that i was going to be first on the scene. what was noticeable at first was the smell from the fire and the heat coming from the fire. so if you imagine i have gone past, it has been on the other side of the road, gone past at some speed, and it was like opening the oven door, just that intense heat. just to confirm there is a paramedic on scene, army i believe, and there is some deceased inside the vehicle. i had arrived on scene to see that there was a deceased male in the hilux. that is when you know it is serious. try not to associate it with actually being a person. that might sound a bit cold, but, yeah, just try to think of it as just something you have to deal with rather

than it being an actual person. his mobile phone was ringing a lot, which is a shock reminder that this is a person, they do have a family, somebody is wanting to speak to them. that could be my family, that could be me trying to ring any of my family. it's literally like a bomb has gone off. i could only describe what was a scene of carnage, debris all over the place, it was clearly quite a serious crash. it has definitely been hit. mate, don't go any further because this might blow up any second now. you can hear it popping. i think everyone was looking towards us to be told what to do or to help. as one of the first officers on scene, it was quite daunting situation to be faced with. we are going to have to disturb the wreckage just to ensure there is no—one else in there. i have been told there is a second fatality at the scene. there is a deceased dog here,

as well, in the carriageway, in lane two on the northbound. possible causation, obviously not confirmed at the minute. you could see the lane of traffic stationary. i started to slow down. he didn't, there was no brake lights. the next thing you know, he just careered into the whole... right, and that is the white truck that was on fire in the middle of the road? thank you very much for hanging around, mate. are you all right? are you sure? yeah. take a bit of time, 0k. have a sit down in the car, mate. i think the first thing that we tried to do was to gain some sort of control over the scene itself. we have got two hgvs with fertiliser on board. get people away! fertiliser! everyone, clear away! there is still a risk of a further explosion! that is going to blow up any second and it is full of fertiliser. the fire brigade managed to put out the flames and continue to cool the lorry down. i have spoken with fire.

they are burnt beyond recognition, you can barely make out the car here. it has obviously been hit by the hgv. it looks like when we've looked at it, there's possibly... there is definitely two underneath the vehicle. hello. are you 0k? yeah. yeah? what kind of injuries have you got? i thinkjust i banged my head. i knew i'd banged my head, but i hadn't realised that it had, like, cut open and stuff. and i had, like, blood trickling down my face because it was that... the pregnancy was my main concern. do you need to go to hospital? are they checking you in? - yeah, because i am pregnant, so it is best to go get checked. how far along are you? 26 weeks. 0k, yeah, absolutely, - essential you get checked. i don't care about my head. i was like, ijust care about finding out that the baby is ok still. good news, the driver- of the silver wagon on fire has been located. fit and well. - everything happened too fast, everybody pulled the brakes super fast.

attention now turned to the driver of the lorry that caused all of the damage. i didn't have time to react, you know, in such a big machine. the next thing, i was trying to come this side on the middle so not to hit another wagon. is everybody over there 0k? we are trying to get the best help we can to people at the moment. hello. - how are you? i'm glad i'm alive. i bet you are. . what happened? everything slowed down so quick, i just couldn't slow in time, you know. 0k. it was a bit surreal to look at the lorry and to look at him unscathed. it was like, is this the driver of the lorry? how can it be? he was very quiet, reserved. clearly in shock. didn't see any hazards or nothing from the drivers ahead, nothing like that. right, 0k. i just... i didn't realise. yeah.

have you got your mobile phone with you at the moment? could i take that from you, please? yeah, of course. this is the moment that would change 0nut�*s life forever. it is part of the investigation. obviously will be quite a large—scale investigation into what has gone on. just coming up here, the traffic has been at a standstill, and he has obviously not reacted in time, so he hasjust ploughed into the back of it, basically. i have got his mobile phone. mobile phones are one of the things routinely that we seize from drivers involved in cases like this. make sure they are examined and make sure they are not used whilst driving. what are you going to do with him? . can't leave him. on his own, say, "off you go, "we will get in touch - with you later on," can we? no, he's going to be lifted. the time is 18:59, and you are under arrest for causing death by dangerous driving, all right. there has been some fatalities in these cars over here. you do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something which you later rely on in court, and anything you do say may be given in evidence.

do you understand everything that i have said? at the time, i did not know how the accident had happened. it could just be a momentary lapsing, you know, in attention. i don't know, sneezing, a wasp, something like that. i didn't know why the accident had happened, and he had not been — forthcoming in saying so. i felt a bit sorry for him. has anybody put a call in to nat in flc? we knew at that point there was at least three people dead, and that was our main priority. it has got to be, hasn't it? we have got to get to them families and get them death messages delivered before it is out on social media. and we are always in a fight with social media to get to them families and deliver those messages before anyone else. he is the driver of this, yeah. the relatives of 51—year—old paul mullen, from washington on wearside, are quickly located and informed. 2408 from tango... but the couple in the other car are harder to identify. i have got the engine number. we knew that there was people within that vehicle that had perished in that fire, in the worst set of circumstances.

the driver of the car and her partner are named as elaine sullivan — and david daglish, both in their 50s, from seaham in county durham. one of the family pets sadly died at the scene, and we had that...dog had a chip in it, and we got most of our identity of the people involved due to the check that we had scanned off the vet. so, not only are we going to someone�*s house and letting them know that their loved ones have died, we're getting this information — a chip in an animal that's also dead in the road. it was horrendous. it was absolutely horrendous. the focus of the investigation now turns to how the crash happened. in my mind, there's either been a mechanical defect and the vehicle wouldn't stop, has he fallen asleep, the driver? or has he been distracted? and when we get to the scene and have a look at that, it's something in my 20—year police career

that was just different to anything else. it was just... it would make the hairs on your arm stand on end. it's awful. to think that somebody has been able to just plough through them vehicles, setting people on fire, and just ruining lives in an instant. the next day, 0nut is interviewed by the police. he's been told by his lawyer not to talk. you said, "everything slowed down so quick, "i couldn't slow in time, you know." did you say that? no comment. i will ask you, are you responsible for the cause of the death of those three persons, for the offence of death by dangerous driving? no comment. faced with 0nut�*s silence, the investigation focuses on his phone, and the evidence is damning. we could see he'd been on his mobile phone pretty much all of the day. he was on it right to the point of impact. he was travelling at about

58mph on his mobile phone at the point that he ploughed into the back of the standstill traffic. a download of your phone's been carried out and shows usage of your phone throughout the day and the afternoon whilst driving. can you explain that to me? no comment. 0nut had spent most of the day browsing dating sites whilst at the wheel of his ali—tonne truck. the weight of evidence is stacked against him. at durham crown court, he pleads guilty to causing the three deaths and is sentenced to eight years and ten months injail. you must know if you are looking at your phone, especially if you're watching videos, sending messages, you must know that that is a potential consequence, and you've made that choice to do it. it's wasteful of everybody's life, the people who were killed. him, his life ruined for the sake of, well, swiping right or whatever it was he was doing on his mobile phone. 0nut is now injail,

serving his sentence. he's decided he wants to break his silence, to explain his actions and apologise to the families. i was destroyed. you could've just taken my heart off my chest, it would probably not have been as painful as it was, honestly. when i seen the videos, ijust... i don't know, i can't explain. it's just... so tragic and hard to see. it's so disturbing knowing it was me in that lorry, you know, ploughing through the cars. i still remember his reaction now, of pressing play on that cctv and watching him crumble. you know, you can be on the phone for two, three seconds, and if you drive 60mph, you know,

you can travel a few hundred yards, definitely. and the phone that day was the distraction. the phone was the distraction, yeah. it was a bad...bad choice, a really bad choice. and the wrong time and the wrong place. itjust happened and it's... it's... it's just...i can't turn the time back to change anything. i haven't got the power to do that, you know. it's...| wish i could. if the family of elaine, david, paul were to listen to this and were to listen to you today, what would you say to them? there is a million things i can tell people, you know, but i want to apologise,

i want to say i am really sorry because i feel really bad for what happened. i feel bad for the people who lost loved ones, people who were in danger and they have to suffer with flashbacks and injuries for the rest of their lives. it's hard, it's really hard. plus, living for the rest of your life with that in your head is not easy either. i don't know what else to say. 0nut�*s dangerous driving cost the lives of junior sullivan's parents, elaine and david. he taught me pretty much more than anyone else has ever taught me, which is what i loved about him. he sort of gave me all the life lessons that you would expect from a parent, from a father. mum was the complete opposite. small, feisty, she had

that sort of infectious laugh. she epitomised that sort of feisty, sort of strong character. as part of this process, he asked to be interviewed. during the interview, he said a few words about how he feels and how it's affected him. are you sure you're all right in watching it? yeah, yeah. there is a million things i can tell people, you know, but i want to apologise. i want to say i'm really sorry. are you all right? yeah. makes you realise he is sort ofjust a human. doesn't make a difference necessarily in terms of how i feel about him, but it doesn't take away from what he has done, no. but if people look at it and think, actually,

i don't want to be that person, . don-t — want to be in prison, i don't want to have killed three people, i don't want that on my conscience, look at what it is doing to this guy, look at where he is, then hopefully they'll take something away from it. regardless of how i feel about him, he has got to live with the fact that he has killed three people and affected loads of other people's lives. if we want to take one thing that's affected me most about the case, it's got to be going to the families. like. . .someone getting them killed. unfortunately, it will take

more accidents for people to realise, that's the sad truth about it. i've done it myself before. your phone flashes up, you kind of have a quick look, but now, i get a real anger in my stomach. i'mjust, like, i want to shout at them and be like this is what can happen, this is what you could do to someone. you can ruin people's lives, you can end people's lives. i've issue tickets to - people many times before, you get the old attitude, - i'm only using a mobile phone, but i do not think these . people realise how severe the consequences could be. it happened to me. here i am. that's the reason i'm in prison. for what? ruin your life, ruin many other people's lives, to have people like me and other emergency service personnel still think about it,

driving past here and thinking about that day and the victims. we all hear that ding on your phone and think, "0h, what's that? " i can practically guarantee whatever it was on your phone, it's not important at all. _ and certainly not enough to risk killing people. ruining families, ruining your own life. i don't know what else to say. there's my cheeky girl. you so easily could

not have been here. hello there. it really is a bit of a mixture for us this weekend. some cloud, even some rain, but also, some warm spells of sunshine. and we ended the week on a warmer note, with more sunshine around, temperatures in southern parts of england reached 28 degrees. wasn't quite as warm as that in birmingham. and for the commonwealth games this weekend, there'll still be a lot of cloud around. may get some rain actually sunday and later on monday, as well. all that rain will be coming in from the atlantic. this ribbon of cloud here is going to be staggering down across the uk — it's already brought some rain

across northern ireland into scotland, some patchy rain maybe for a while across northern england and north wales. but we start off quite warm, actually, for much of the country on saturday morning. but for the northern half of the uk, this is where we've got the thickest of the cloud, and we're seeing most of the rain. through the morning, though, it should become drier and brighter in northern ireland and scotland, some sunny spells in the afternoon. still some rain for england and wales — most of it will be across northern parts of england and north wales. further south, it's generally dry, and there'll be some sunshine, as well. another warm day to come through much of the midlands, particularly in the south—east and east anglia, temperatures 26, 27 degrees. could make a warm 22, 23 in eastern scotland with some sunshine in the afternoon. but there's a lot of cloud heading our way from the atlantic overnight, continuing into sunday, perhaps bringing some more rain. that's more likely across england and wales, although it could prove to be rather hit and miss. and with that damper weather moving southwards, it'll dry off with more sunshine across north wales and northern england.

may stay dry all day in scotland and northern ireland, slightly cooler and fresher here. but, again, little or no rain, really, ithink, across the far south of england, and it should be quite warm at wembley for the women's euro final. a lot of cloud here — hopefully we've got something to cheer about by the end of the day. heading into the beginning of next week, though, we've got some more weather fronts heading our way from the atlantic, and that potentially is going to bring some more rain. having said that, many places will start dry on monday, and there'll be some sunshine around too. but the cloud is going to be thickening up from the west — that's going to bring with it some rain. at the moment, mostly across northern ireland, wales, moving over the irish sea later in the day to the north—west of england, and into the south—west of scotland. still dry, though, towards the south—east, and temperatures here again into the mid—20s.

from seaham in county durham.

this is bbc world news. i'm david willis. our top stories: in the us, six children are among the 16 people killed in kentucky's flash flooding. 0fficials warn the death toll could double. washington's mayor calls for help from the national guard as a protest sees thousands of migrants bussed into the us capital. spain and brazil have reported what are thought to be the first monkeypox—related deaths outside of africa. pope francis visits canada's indigenous communities to apologise for the abuse many suffered at schools run by the catholic church. and saying sorry, again.