thank you for having me. i do hope you're having a lovelyjubilee. tea? oh, yes, please! even other members of the royal family noticed the impact of paddington as they thanked crowds in the days after the queen's death. i think paddington might knock the corgi off the top spot now. | the corgis won't take that very well. - after the funeral, the flowers and bea rs were carefully cleared away and moved to buckingham palace, clarence house, and the royal parks nursery in hyde park. one of the sweetest things was a pair of boots and a little paddington bear. they will now be professionally cleaned and given to the children that barnardos cares for in the weeks ahead.

i mean, it's absolutely wonderful that we've managed to find a home for these bears. they were all left there. paddington was left in paddington station seeking a home. these bears were left in the royal parks effectively seeking a home and it's wonderful to think that all of these bears will go to children who will appreciate them and love them for many years. donating the bears to barnardos is a tribute in itself. for more than 30 years, the queen was the charity's patron, carrying out a number of engagements for them before handing that duty over to the then duchess of cornwall six years ago. barnardos says the bears will be well looked after by the children they support and they will be told the story of this special group of bears and how they came to be donated. daniela relph, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise. hello there. plenty of this today. yes, for many, there's going to be a lot of sunshine around,

a lot of winds. it'll feel quite pleasant out there as well. we keep the risk of a few showers across the northern and western isles and anywhere north west to the great glen. and as the afternoon continues, we will see the wind strengthening and some cloud and outbreaks of rain arriving by the end of the day in the southwest when certainly lighter. so temperatures will respond, highs likely of around 18 celsius. that's above where they should be really for this time of year. but as we go through the evening and overnight, we're looking down to the southwest. a spell of wet and windy weather will push its way steadily north. there'll be some heavy pulses of rain through northern ireland, northern england and into scotland. the trailing weather front will sit across east anglia and southeast england as well towards dawn on monday. so monday we'll see that light rain easing away. dry settled weather elsewhere. a few scattered showers continue into the far northwest. take care. genocide of

the chancellorjeremy hunt tells the bbc that nothing is off the table over future tax changes, but says that the government will be �*compassionate�*. china's president xijinping has been defending his controversial zero—covid strategy as a historic communist party congress kicks off in beijing. the irainian authorities claim a fire at a prison in the capital — tehran is now under control — as protests continue. elon musk says his rocket firm spacex will continue funding its starlink internet service in ukraine, a day after he said it could no longer do so. now bbc news investigates a new trend on tiktok: hundreds of families in refugee camps in syria, begging for gifts on tiktok livestreams.

there's a new trend on tiktok. children in camps in syria begging for hours on end. but that money isn't all going to them. we've been following more than 300 accounts going live on tiktok, trying to work out where that money is going. tiktok has got a ferocious appetite for growth. the longer that they spend on the platform, the more revenue they generate. how people living in desperate circumstances suddenly have the phones, internet and tiktok accounts to go live... tiktok is creating and enabling

an ecosystem that runs on the exploitation of people's suffering. ..and why so many of the donors come from the uk. over £1,000 would have been put in there and that to them would have been a lot of money. we've uncovered a network of companies around the world, including agencies contracted by tiktok in china, all making money off these displaced families. earlier this year, tiktok users in the uk began to notice something different on the app. suddenly, their feeds were full of live videos of syrian families living in tents asking for help. this is the account i've been using to follow some of these families in syria. and you can see here, all of these accounts are live right now. and actually, if you watch some of the videos, you can see there's a pattern. the children seem to be saying the same kind of things. they're asking

for likes and gifts. and if you listen closely, sometimes you can hear there's a voice off—camera actually telling them what to say. over the past five months, we've been following hundreds of tiktok accounts posting the same type of videos, to find out who's behind this trend. a lot of them are displaced from their homes because they're destroyed, because of the war, of what's... the last ten years in syria. on tiktok, people started flagging them as scams. i'm sick of scams on live. exploitation of children. unacceptable. we asked mohammed, a journalist based in syria, what he had heard about it.

mohammed recognised one of the camps in the videos. there are hundreds of camps in this part of syria. more than two million people live in them, forcibly displaced in syria's long—running civil war. when mohammed got there, he immediately found families begging for gifts on tiktok live. mona's husband was killed in an airstrike. she now lives with her six daughters. sharifa is blind in one eye and has partial sight in the other. for the past month, they've been going on tiktok live. it's tiring work, but they have limited options to earn a living in the camp

and meet their basic needs. mona and her daughters go live for two or three hours at a time, several times a day. to go live on tiktok, you need at least 1,000 followers. then, when you're live, users can send digital gifts to reward creators for content they like. these gifts are bought with real money, ranging from roses, which cost a few cents, to lions and universes, which cost around $500 each.

the gifts are converted to a virtual currency that you can withdraw as cash. they've got a private jet. that's why they're happy. they�* re really happy. they're celebrating. we wanted to find out how people who've lost everything in syria's civil war were suddenly all able to broadcast on tiktok. the person filming mona's livestream is hamid, who also lives in the camp and sold his livestock to buy the phone. now, he works with 12 different families and he's known in the camp as

a tiktok middleman. mohammed asked him how it all worked. he says he does this to help the families make a living. tiktok�*s algorithm suggests content based on where your sim card comes from. hamid told us he buys british sim cards to get british viewers, because he says

they're the most generous g ifte rs. we found kiosks selling them near the camp — that explains why tiktok users in the uk had been seeing these livestreams and even joining in. big up, my syrian brother, man. big up, my brother, man. thanks, abdullah. let's go. there must have been about 50,000 people that came on my live, and the kids seemed so happy. and even though the man had his legs blown off and he had his arm blown off, he was the most positive guy you could ever meet or speak to. keith used to be a professional rugby player and has nearly a million followers on tiktok. he donated £300, around $350 in tiktok gifts, to a family in syria, and he encouraged his followers to do the same. i love you. i love you, thank you. they was calling me 'muscle man' and stuff and he was going through google translate saying, "my kids love you. "they love your hair, love it."

and itjust the buzz, the energy was fantastic. i probably think over £1,000 would have been put in there and that, to them, would have been a lot of money. we got the money! we asked a charity in syria about how children are being used in these videos. the charity said it could help support these families as an alternative to making money from tiktok live. many families don't receive a fair wage for their work on tiktok.

the first time dokan went live, he says he wasn't paid at all, but he wanted to try again. he was hoping to make money to pay for his daughter's heart surgery. to find out how much people are spending on tiktok gifts, we built a program to scrape data from tiktok livestreams.

we tracked dozens of accounts which said they were going live from camps in syria. the lives we saw would sometimes make over $1,000 an hour in gifts. but people like dokan say they're being paid less than $1 an hour. so, where's all the money going? we asked hamid, who said tiktok middlemen are getting help from agencies in china.

hamid told us he was working with someone who goes by the name martha, from an agency based in china. we wanted to find out how these agencies were involved. so, mohammed in syria contacted martha, saying he lived ina camp. the pictures martha sent appear to show the offices of a tiktok live agency. agencies like this are a growing part of tiktok�*s business strategy.

they're independent, but they're contracted by tiktok to help tiktokers — and tiktok itself — make money from livestreaming on the platform. our team in syria heard of at least five different agencies working with syrian families in camps. so, how much money do these agencies take from the livestreams? we spoke to a number of agencies who say they're paid by tiktok to bring livestreamers to the platform. they told us the longer users go live and the more gifts they earn, the more the agencies get paid. we were told by families and middlemen that tiktok takes 50—70% of profits from live gifts and pays some of that to agencies. we asked tiktok about it, but they wouldn't say how much.

the only way to find out was to try it for ourselves. so, mohammed kept chatting to martha. martha set up an account for us and sent us the username and password. then, we got an invitation to join an agency called giant mena. martha contacted us nearly every day, putting pressure on us to go live. tiktok�*s terms and conditions say you can only go live with more than 1,000 followers. our account had just four, but martha said it would work anyway. so, mohammed went to test it from the outskirts of a camp near idlib. let's buy some coins. yep. we bought $106 — around £90, in tiktok coins. i'm going to call mohammed and tell him to go live. yep.

wejoined the live from london and used all our coins to send him gifts. we were the only ones on that livestream to do so. let's send him a music box? yeah, go for it. 0k. then, mohammed checked the balance of his account. $33. $33? so, it is 70%. wow! they're taking 70%! next, mohammed went to the local money transfer, where tiktokers cash out their earnings. the money transfer shop

and the sim card shop are part of a new economy to help facilitate these transactions. from the $106 we donated to mohammed's account, tiktok took $73. that's almost 70%. the money transfer took 10% of what we had left. and hamid told us tiktok middlemen take 35% of what's left after that. so from those 106 dollars, mohammad would have just over $19. and often, the families we spoke to get much, much less. but in the camps, jobs are scarce and there are few other options. kawtaneh and her family sell scraps from the rubbish dump for a living. it's dangerous work,

pays next to nothing, and comes with many health risks. they also go live on tiktok every evening. they have made money from tiktok, but they know others are profiting from their work. we showed the videos to a non—profit called access now that protects people's rights online. of course, people have the right to go online and share their stories, share the miserable conditions they're living in, try to seek

support and sympathy. when i looked at tiktok�*s website, they publicly state that their number one priority is to ensure that their community is treated with fundamental dignity and respect, and what ijust saw is exactly the opposite of that. what responsibility does tiktok have towards these people, these families, these children? well, tiktok has a responsibility under the un guiding principles on business and human rights. it's hard to see, first of all, how tiktok is ensuring that the rights and dignity of these communities is being ensured. they state clearly that users are not allowed to solicit explicitly gifts. so, this is a clear violation of their own terms of services, not — let alone, of course, the rights of those people. most of the accounts we followed regularly went live, with children begging for hours at a time.

tiktok�*s guidelines say, "we prohibit activities that "perpetuate the abuse, harm, endangerment, "or exploitation of minors on tiktok." we reported more than 30 accounts using children for begging in the app to see what tiktok would do about this. at the time, tiktok said there was no violation for every single one of them and the videos remained live. matt navarra is a social media consultant and analyst. why do you think tiktok is placing so much emphasis on the duration of these lives? tiktok has got a ferocious appetite for growth, like most social media platforms.

livestreams inevitably pull people in for longer duration. the longer that they spend on the platform, the more revenue they generate for the business, the more information they glean from its users in terms of how the algorithm works. in your video, it's obviously prolonging the pain for somebody that already is in a desperate situation. we wanted to put these allegations to tiktok and asked them for an interview. instead, they gave us this statement: tiktok said it removed the accounts that violated its community guidelines and ended its contract with the agency giant mena. we asked giant mena, but they didn't respond. as for tiktok, they told us they don't take 70% of profits

from live gifts, but they wouldn't confirm the exact amount or what commission they pay to agencies. so, we repeated our experiment with accounts in the uk and syria that weren't signed up to agencies, and found that tiktok took just under 70% every time. most of tiktok�*s downloads come from apple's app store and google play. both of these have codes of conduct that say apps that facilitate the exploitation of children will be removed or rejected. we asked them what they were doing about children begging on tiktok, but neither apple nor google would comment on our investigation. hi, how are you? welcome, welcome, welcome! after all of our conversations that we've had with tiktok — and i'm sitting here right outside their uk offices now — i'm still finding videos like this — many, many videos — with children being used to beg for hours.

and it really makes me want to know what will it take for tiktok to stop this on their platform? we called keith again to tell him what we had discovered. we found that 70% of all of the money donated would have gone straight into tiktok�*s pockets. are you kidding me? that's ridiculous. it's very unfair — especially to them families over in syria. you've got to have some transparency. and, you know, to me, that's very greedy. it's greed, innit? it's greed. takaful alsham said they would support the families we spoke to with basic supplies for the next three months, help the children find schools and pay for school expenses. we asked them how people around the world could continue to donate.

many people on tiktok are calling these livestreams scams, but the struggles of the families we met are very, very real. people have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to them but the lion's share lines the pockets of tiktok and its agencies. whilst for these families in syria, life continues with no change in sight.

showers will become few and far between as we go into the afternoon. many we have blue a great opportunity for getting out and enjoying some of the for the remainder of the day for many, it is all about if you sketch

we'll start to see some rain pushing in along that dorset coast down towards devon and cornwall. but it's going to take its time in doing so. so enjoy the sunshine and the warmth as well. not too bad in terms of the feel of the weather, particularly across england and wales, 16 to 18 degrees, a little bit fresher further north, 10 to 13 the high. but we're going to see yet more wet weather arriving from this area of low pressure. it's going to push in through the evening and overnight, rattling through it quite a pace, quite a few isobars once again. so we will see some blustery winds, gale force gusts on exposed coast with the heaviest of the rain likely to be through northern ireland and scotland. but that will be sitting to the far north during the early hours of the morning. and you can see quite a mild start with the trailing weather front down into east anglia, essex and kent. first thing that eases during the morning rush hour. a lot of sunshine is expected once again across england and wales, slowly improving through northern ireland and eastern scotland. but we will continue to see plenty of showers on those exposed north and west facing coasts here.

so, again, temperatures, similar values, 10 to 13 degrees here, highest values where we've got that sunshine, 17 or 18 celsius. it looks likely that that little ridge of high pressure will stay with us as we move into tuesday. but then low pressure start to threaten out in the atlantic, an indication of what's to come later on in the week. so certainly the beginning of the week will be largely fine, settled and sunny. but from wednesday onwards, things be get a little bit more unpredictable with some sharp showers and blustery winds.

you're watching bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. prime minister liz truss and chancellorjeremy hunt will hold talks at chequers, the pm's country house, later as the uk government tries to salvage its economic credibility. the uk chancellorjeremy hunt tells the bbc that nothing is off the table over future tax changes, but says that the government will be �*compassionate�*. i'm not taking anything off the table. i want to keep as many of those tax cuts as i possibly can because our long—term health depends on being a low tax economy. china's president xijinping has been defending his controversial zero—covid strategy as a historic communist party congress kicks off in beijing.

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