this is bbc news. the headlines: at least 2a palestinians have been killed by israeli air strikes on gaza, as the military continues its campaign for a second day. more than 120 people have been injured. israeli officials say more than 350 rockets and mortars have been fired at israeli territory since friday. the head of the un's nuclear watchdog, the iaea, says he's increasingly alarmed about the risk of disaster at the zaporizhia power plant in ukraine. rafael grossi said military action could threaten public health and the environment. the plant is in the hands of occupying russian forces. ten miners remain trapped in a coalmine that collapsed and flooded in mexico. hundreds of rescuers are now

involved in the efforts, including several divers. the mine is in the north of the country in a region that's no stranger to incidents of this kind. now on bbc news, shrimps, saris and guns — faarea masud investigates how the demand for shrimp is destroying land that women have farmed for centuries in bangladesh. along the coastline is riverbeds of rural bangladesh, thousands of fields where rice was once grown have been converted into intensive shrimp farms, catering to a multibillion—dollar global industry. since the explosion of the industry in the �*80s, when the world's appetite for this luxury food grew, there have been increasing

allegations of violence and land grabbing by criminal gangs. i've come to bangladesh to hear first—hand about the hidden abuses in the industry, and the detrimental effect of saltwater shrimp farms on these women's health and livelihoods. poor people are being exploited by the rich and powerful and poverty is not being eradicated. these shrimp are so expensive, and poor people can't even dream of buying them. it's taken me years to gain

exclusive access to the working conditions of this remote, often secretive community. now these women farmers are fighting back to protect their rights. frozen shrimp exports are worth about $500 million to the bangladeshi economy. after garments, seafood is the country's biggest export. most of it's sold to europe.

baby shrimp are caught from rivers and waterways and hatcheries, and then brought to these shrimp farms where they're cultivated to full size. most of these shrimp farms are along the coastal beds and riverbeds of bangladesh, where there is a plentiful supply of water. but environmentalists and local communities are telling me that the shrimp farms leave the area weak and vulnerable. the land can no longer withstand the effect of cyclones and typhoons which bangladesh experiences regularly. as we travelled to the south—west coast, the effects of saltwater toxicity on the farms was clear. we are surrounded by cracked and grey coastline, which we actually saw using aerial cameras, stretched for miles. local wildlife had disappeared. the landscape is gutted and divided into rough rectangles known as polders, low—lying tracts of land

surrounded by embankments. many of the people farming in this area in the polders live below the poverty line. i began myjourney in polder 23, when there are currently ongoing problems. here, the land is barren and muddy. well, this lady has just told me that because of problems of saltwater exposure, she has actually had to have surgery. in fact, many of the women here have said they had all kinds of related problems to be exposure to salt. many of the women say they have complained to local shrimp farm owners and the local authorities about the health issues they are experiencing,

but they say their complaints aren't being listened to. these coastal areas are overseen by local union councils. the chairman of one such council told me that these days, violence in these shrimp times is not on the same scale as a few decades ago, and that any complaints are dealt with through a more

collaborative system. over in polder 29, i heard about the history of intensive shrimp farming, which included allegations of violent conduct by men with guns. since many shrimp farm bosses live in the cities, far away from the remote coastal areas, they would send local agents or local contacts to maintain the affairs of the shrimp farms. their methods, say local witnesses, got out of hand. during prolonged campaigns local farmers said these men would intimidate them into converting their rice land into intensive shrimp farms.

i heard similar stories in some of the other areas i visited. and when did this happen?

the police didn't respond to our request for comment on the weapons involved in the shrimp industry, but khushi kabirfrom the non—governmental organisation called nijera kori, or "do it yourselves," told me about the history of guns in the industry. they used to be armed. now they are less armed. they were very violent before, because they had gotten away

with it in the past, so they thought they could get away with it, but because of all the noises we were making at all the levels, arms, etc has gone down considerably. now what they use is manipulation. iasked people, especially at the village level, you know you are risking your life, you know you are going to get killed? and yet you resist. and they said, we have nothing else to lose. they had to fight a lot, so did we, but the fact that we don't give up, and i always say that you only lose when you give up, i think that is what empowers the people in the area to feel that they can live their life the way they wish to. and they don't have to be intimidated by goons, thugs or people who are in power. slowly a resistance began against the encroaching intensive shrimp farms. the revolutionary spark originated in polder 22, where we travel to next.

amidst the grey, infertile shrimp land, it remains a shining victorious patch of green. it was here in 1990 where a localfarmer was brutally shot dead. her name was karunamoi sardar. she was unarmed and had little formal education, but she had heard from neighbouring communities about the detrimental effect that saltwater from shrimp farms had on poor communities like hers. this memorial behind me was erected to commemorate her and the beginning of the women farmer's movement to protect their rights. i have come here to speak to her family about her legacy.

what legacy has she left for women? sometimes the women are negatively referred to as "water bandits." i asked him what his responses to rumours that his mother and herfollowers were also violent.

the bangladeshi government department, the ministry of fisheries, responded and said any complaint of harassment or violation of labour laws reported in shrimp industries are dealt with together with local administration. it added that it welcomed more detail on people we spoke with in order to resolve any cases. the slow progress in reducing violence in the shrimp industry has led to grassroots do—it—yourself collectives. kripa goldar led one of the key struggles. these days, she and her colleagues go from village to village re—enacting their fight in short theatrical plays. they each play themselves. it is a way of directly educating their community who often cannot read or have no access to media.

in an effort to see where the money to fund this industry is coming from, i try to trace the global shrimp supply chain.

i go to a fish depot where all of the small shrimp farmers sell their shrimp to factories. then they are sold on to export to foreign countries. but it was impossible to trace where all the shrimp here were coming from. it was an informal bazaar. piles of shrimp poured from unmarked baskets for brokers to sell on to the highest bidder. shrimp were brought in on carts with no license plates. crates full of shrimp had travelled along unmarked roads through off—map villages and a few impromptu ponds. several species of shrimp were often piled on to the same mat. and after a chaotic verbal bidding process, a buyer could walk off without showing any papers. consider that it's from depots like this that most of the world receives its bangladeshi shrimp.

it's a very murky supply chain to verify in any meaningful way. and there is sometimes a problem with drinking water supply in those areas as a result of the saltwater proliferating the area. what solutions would you propose to improve that condition for the farming activity?

whilst bangladeshi shrimp exporters like shyamul push for growth in the industry, the country's law is also at work. environmental lawyer rizwana hassan has been fighting cases around saltwater shrimp farms for years. a substantial amount of agricultural land owned by the poorfarmers are being forcibly grabbed by the shrimp cultivators. but for the government, it's export earning, but it's actually earning by a few... ..totally damaging the traditional livelihood earning of millions. these shrimps are so expensive that poor people can't even

dream of buying them and, you know, meet their protein intake demand. saltwater shrimp farms have many female workers and they've complained to me about things like skin issues and ongoing health issues. what's been your experience of having to handle those cases or those issues? so it's the local people protesting against the undue interests of the outsiders, the undue interest which are being protected by the local lawmakers and the national level policy makers. so then local people come into conflict with these outsiders and one way of suppressing people's movement is to kill them or to, you know, threaten them with tactics so that they don't really open up their mouth any more and they don't get organised any further. and when you see that your land is underwater and you have no chance of getting it back, you are forced to work in the shrimp industry.

bangladesh's department of fisheries said in a statement that more than 250,000 rural families are dependent on shrimp farming for their livelihoods. it said that most of the people employed in shrimp cultivation in bangladesh are marginalised people who live in the coastal areas and are victims of climate change, sea level rise, saline water intrusion and loss of livelihood. it added that for a decade or more these people have been maintaining high global standards and that the government conducts awareness activities, training, formation of trade unions, and that it supports arbitration processes based on labour rules and social compliances. but not all of bangladesh's shrimp farms are problematic, of course. successful efforts to conserve the nearby mangrove forests have led to akashi shrimp farms

having healthier water for both shrimp and farmer. the collective strength of these women has led to some victories against an encroaching, multibillion—dollar industry. the women of folder 22 enjoy rich harvests of vegetables, rice and fruit.

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bans due to come into force over the week ahead, so some rain would certainly be handy. this is the rainfall accumulation, though, for the next five days, and there isn't really any rain across england and wales — it's all up towards the north and north west of scotland, as we saw during saturday. so not particularly helpful. here we do have some weather fronts coming and going across the far north of the country, but it's high pressure that's dominating elsewhere, and that's keeping it dry. still a little on the breezy side in scotland through sunday, and western areas will be cloudy with some light rain or drizzle — drier, brighter and warmer further east across scotland. some clouds, some sunshine across northern ireland and the far north of england. lots of sunshine further south, though, across england and wales, once again. not even a sniff of rain. temperatures continuing to rise, getting up as high as 27, maybe 28 degrees in the south east of england. so there's our area of high pressure that's still around. 0ne weather front moves away overnight and we've got another one just heading towards the far north west of scotland.

so the highlands and islands on monday likely again to see some rain. otherwise it's dry. the winds elsewhere will be light and there'll be lots of strong sunshine. so it's continuing to heat up. some higher temperatures in scotland and northern ireland, but the highest temperatures across england and wales — widely the mid 20s, up to 29 in the south east of england. so a weather front still flirting with the far north west of scotland as we head into tuesday. here, we've got some stronger winds in the north and northwest of scotland. a lot of that rain, though, will get pushed away. high pressure still in charge further south, dry and sunny, and those temperatures continuing to climb in the light winds. sea breezes will make it a little bit cooler around coastal areas, but inland it's certainly getting hot — by tuesday, 29 or 30 degrees even into the midlands. and it's going to be across england and wales that we'll see heatwave conditions developing in many areas during the next week, and by thursday temperatures could be as high as the mid—30s in the south east of england. so the heat is building rapidly because of the dry ground

and the dry weather that we're continuing to see underneath another area of high pressure. so we've got dry weather across pretty much the whole of scotland. that weather front getting blown away by those breezes. light winds across many parts of england and wales, the breeze picking up maybe through the english channel and along the south coast. but those temperatures continuing to rise and, again, it's worth stressing that the highest temperatures are going to be across england and wales, but the heat is pushing its way through the midlands into northern england and parts of wales by wednesday, and continuing that way into thursday, as well. dominated by high pressure, it looks like it's going to be dry again on thursday. a bit more cloud for the northern isles, but otherwise little or no cloud around at all — just a bit of fair—weather cloud, lots of sunshine, and for many the winds are light, still, and those temperatures, as i say, likely to reach the mid 30s, perhaps, across the south east of england. as we head towards the end of the week, then, we're drawing in some heat from the near continent —

that's giving us all those high temperatures. just move things on a few days and we're going to find more of a north westerly breeze, and that will impact the temperatures. so we've got some city forecasts — this is the longer—range outlook. that heat there into the weekend and then that cooler north westerly breeze will start to drop the temperatures and bring maybe a little bit more cloud. but, as you can see from that, there's no rain in the forecast for the next ten days across many parts of the country.

good morning, welcome to breakfast with ben thompson and nina warhurst. 0ur headlines today: after the death of archie battersbee calls for changes to try and prevent legal battles over life support ending up in court. the death toll rises in gaza after israeli air strikes. palestinian militants have fired dozens of rockets into israel overnight. liz truss promises to bring in a cut in national insurance within weeks if she wins the conservative leadership race, but rishi sunak says the plan would do little to help most people.