this is bbc news, the headlines at six. national mourning in south korea, after 154 people are crushed to death at a halloween event in the capital seoul. more event in the capital seoul. people... and i turned 6 and more people... and i turned around and i told the crowd, you can't come this way. people are dying. at least 68 people have died after a bridge collapsed in india's western state of gujarat. local reports say as many as 400 people were on the structure at the time. an immigration centre in dover has been firebombed, with the suspect reported to have killed himself. the home secretary faces further questions about the account

she gave of sending government documents to people unauthorised to see them. and we'll get latest results from the premier league and women's rugby world cup in sportsday at 6:30. good evening. a period of national mourning has been declared in south korea after more than 150 people were crushed to death while out for halloween festivities in the capital seoul. most of the victims were teenagers and young adults who had gone to the itaewon district,

known for its nightlife and restaurants, and were caught up in the disaster while in a narrow alleyway that runs down the side of a hotel. 0ur correspondent, jean mackenzie, sent this report from seoul. you may find parts of it distressing. as the bodies are counted and the victims identified, devastating accounts of seoul's halloween night of horror are emerging. thousands packed onto the streets to party... until this narrow alleyway became so crowded, people were crushed to death. this is where most people died. most people died here. nuhyil ahammed was in the alley. he managed to climb onto a platform to safety, where he watched the horror play out. at first, someone

pushed from the back. then from here. it was, like, quite a few times, then i realised something's going to happen. there's no way you can breathe. so everyone lifting up, like... he gasps for air. ..and that's what they're doing, like, taking their last breath and things, so kind of suffocating. 0thers describe how people fell to the floor like dominoes. i didn't sleep till now. i couldn't sleep because i see people dying in front of me. one guy, he know that his friend has died, but he was still giving cpr for 30 minutes. and his friend was trying to stop him, but he was still doing it. this nearby community centre is saturated with grief. families and friends come to register the missing. some get the terrible news that their loved ones are among the dead. waves were coming in from both sides. and more people fell, and i lost my friend.

and i turned around and i told the crowd, "you can't come this way. "people are dying." for others, there's no information. this is almost as hard to hear. this woman's son went to work at a club in itaewon last night. i went home. i didn't see him. he didn't come home. he's the only son, the only one i have. visiting the scene, the president, too, said he was struggling to process his grief. "something that should never have happened, happened," he says, an acknowledgement that things went horribly wrong. this footage from last year shows police controlling the crowds at the same spot. this year, multiple witnesses

say this didn't happen. the questions for authorities are, how was this crowd allowed to get so out of control, and what could have been done to stop this terrible tragedy? but for now, this country is mourning the death of so many of its young. jean mckenzie, bbc news, seoul. officials in western india say 68 people have died after a suspension bridge collapsed. more than 400 people were said to be on the bridge in the gujarat state when it went down and fell into the river. videos on social media showed dozens of people clinging onto the cables of the collapsed bridge as emergency teams attempted to rescue them. reports say the bridge had just reopened five days ago after being renovated. earlier i spoke to our south asia correspondent, yogita limaye, who gave us the latest. the incident occurred at around 6:40pm, that isjust around four hours ago. an estimate given to us by a regional government

ministerfrom gujarat, he says that there were around 150 people on the bridge when it collapsed. these are of course numbers estimated by onlookers, people around the area, and we will only find out the true scale of the tragedy in the hours to come. local authorities are saying that there was overcrowding on the bridge because not only was it a weekend, a sunday, but it has also been the week of the diwali festivities, so this is a week in which schools have been asked, families have been on vacation, and this particular bridge, it was built in the 19th century, it is a suspension bridge, there are no vehicles on it, it is for people. it was closed for renovation for about six months and it was reopened only about a week ago. and so, we have been told that an investigation will take place into how that reopening happened, which authorities certified its reopening and what actually went

wrong in the evening. and can ijust ask you about... you mention the timing of this incident, how much harder has that made the rescue operation? that time of evening, as the light starts to fail, it becomes a particular problem to identify people if they are struggling in the water. that's right. it was dusk by then, almost dark by the time the rescue operation started. the police went in first. there were also onlookers, people living in the area, who started aiding with those rescue operations. it isn't a very long bridge. it is about 230 metres long, a quarter of a kilometre, so in the video footage that we have seen film by onlookers on their mobile phones, being circulated on social media, you can see that in some parts, there are people sort of swimming to either sure. you can also see people clinging on to the cables and the net on the side of the bridge,

trying to stay afloat. and so, we have been told the disaster response teams have also been deployed to the area but the first responders really were local police are just people who were living nearby. the death toll has been increased to 68, presumably the worry is that the numbers could keep going up. yes, exactly. we don't have an estimate as of now. this is a number given to the media by a regional government minister, but we have been hearing a lot of different numbers being given by different authorities. and that has been a thing you often see in india, when it is just like in the few hours in the aftermath of an incident, where sometimes you might have the police and other authorities giving different numbers, so i think we will only know the true scale of the tragedy in the next few hours when they are able to see at the hospital how many people have died, how many people

have been saved. what we do differently know right now is that there are women, children and also elderly people among those who have died. kent police have confirmed that a number of incendiary devices were thrown into a border force centre in dover. the police said the incident caused a small fire and one person was injured. the centre is used to process migrants who have crossed the english channel. immigration minister robertjenrick has said he is being kept updated on the situation. natalie elphicke is the mp for dover. she said she was deeply shocked by the incident. she told the bbc that, although the motivation for the attack was unknown so far, tensions surrounding cross—channel migration were rising. the small boat crossings crisis has just got worse and worse and last week, we saw an alarming incident where someone was apprehended and having come in through a small boat in a woman's bedroom. it has caused great alarm

and concern locally and the numbers, we saw 990 people come in yesterday alone, as mp out of control. it is essential that the prime minister gets a grip on the small boats crossings, that these conversations he has had with president macron are immediately put into effect and that the small boats are stopped leaving french shores. we have got to tackle this issue urgently. we don't know at the moment who the individual is or what their motivations are. in relation to the small boats situation, i can say that tensions have been rising. indeed, i raised my concerns about the rising level of tensions with the immigration minister earlier this week. it is absently vital that we get a grip of this issue and that the boats are stopped from leaving france and that is what now needs to happen and i think that is a conversation between rishi sunak, the prime minister, and president macron. earlier our correspondent,

matt graveling, gave us this update from dover. we have mixed messages coming through today and the most important thing i think to say is that we don't yet know a motive for this, despite those three bombs, we believe something like three petrol bombs were thrown at the centre, which immigrants come and they are processed in that centre here in dover, and i can tell you as i look at the scene around me, thatjust behind the camera, there is an army bomb disposal unit with a couple of gentlemen in uniform stood next to it. we have a number of police cars, one, two, three, four, five police cars just down this road and a couple of uniformed officers also on the forecourt. and as you mention, there have been mixed messages coming through today but it was about half 11 today that we started getting reports originally from reuters about a man who had gone to that immigration centre and started

throwing petrol bombs. we believe that of the three he threw, only two of them went off and any fire service were called to put those out. but then following that, he actually drove here to this petrol station and it is here where he took his own life. i don't know if you can see just over my right shoulder, but there are a couple of police officers stood next to a white car with a blue tarpaulin over it, which is the car we believe the gentleman drove here. as i say, we still don't know any motive for this but we have heard from the local mp, natalie elphicke, i spoke to her a couple of moments ago on assume and she is very shocked about what has happened here today but she also took to social media and tweeted, i am deeply shocked by the incident in dover today, i have spoken to the immigration minister about the situation, my thoughts are with everyone involved. and as i say, we don't yet know

the motive for this attack today but natalie elphick said to me that after the attack, she spoke to the immigration minister and she said, this is a problem, we have an immigration crisis and yesterday alone we saw almost 1000 migrants come here to dover. she said that it is something that needs to be taken seriously, so she has already been speaking to the immigration minister this afternoon and as i say, we do not have any motive here of why this attack took place but i willjust leave you briefly with what the home office have told us, and a spokeswoman said, we are very aware of an incident at dover and police are in attendance but it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage and of course, we will be here throughout this afternoon and we will be bringing you more information as it comes. an email sent from suella braverman�*s personal account on the day she resigned as home secretary over a security breach has raised questions about how quickly she took action. the bbc has seen the message, which told the recipient of a highly sensitive document to "delete and ignore" it. ms braverman has said she "rapidly reported" the breach as soon as she realised it.

the government has repeatedly defended rishi sunak�*s decision to reinstate her as home secretary, saying she made an error ofjudgment and accepted the mistake. here's our political correspondent, ione wells. a week in thejob, and not a day without major questions. suella braverman�*s insisted she proactively told officials after she made two data breaches that led her to resign from liz truss�*s government. but evidence seen by the bbc throws doubt on that. we now know the original message she sent from her private e—mail to the office of another mp containing sensitive information, was sentjust before 7.30 on 19th october. at 8.30, they responded, pointing out her mistake. at 10am, she replied saying, "please delete the message and ignore". the bbc understands two hours passed before she told officials what had happened. a source close to suella braverman said this delay needs to be seen in the context of her packed schedule, and cabinet colleagues have said

she deserves a second chance. suella apologised for the mistake she made and indeed resigned from government. but the prime minister has made it clear that suella deserves a second chance and i'm glad suella is in cabinet, because she is a first—rate front rank politician. this government will have integrity. concerns about her are causing a political headache for the new prime minister after he promised to lead a government of integrity, but was forced to spend his first prime minister's questions defending her. the home secretary made an error ofjudgment, but she recognised that. she raised the matter and she accepted her mistake, and that's why i was delighted to welcome her back into a united cabinet. 0pposition parties disagree, and labour want to try and force the government to share any information given to the prime minister before her reappointment. rishi sunak should be replacing her. it was an error ofjudgment

to appoint her to this immensely seriousjob, and to do so for the sake of the political dealjust in order to get his way into number ten just shows a carelessness towards those national security issues. some conservative politicians too have raised eyebrows about the message her reappointment sends. i understand why the prime minister wanted to bring her back. i think he does need to be very careful about the signals it's sending about the ministerial code. the home secretary's in—tray is growing, with issues around crime, policing and immigration to tackle. just today, emergency services were sent to a migrant processing centre in dover after a man drove up to the centre, threw petrol bombs at it, then reportedly killed himself. this is just one of many issues mps will expect to hear ms braverman respond to next week, while some of them continue to question whether she is the right person for thejob. ione wells, bbc news.

strikes planned by royal mail workers in the next two weeks have been called off following a challenge by the company. a series of strikes have taken place in recent weeks and more action had been planned in a long running dispute over pay and conditions. the communication workers union says after a letter from the company's legal team, it had decided to withdraw industrial action notices. the union said strikes would resume from saturday the 12th of november. the headlines on bbc news... national mourning in south korea after 154 people are crushed to death at a halloween event in the capital seoul. at least 68 people have died after a bridge collapsed in india's western state of gujarat. local reports say as many as 400 people were on the structure at the time. an immigration centre in dover has been firebombed, with the suspect reported to have killed himself.

the un says the secretary—general, antonio guterres, is involved in intense negotiations to try to rescue a deal that lets ukraine export grain from its ports in the black sea. russia said yesterday it was suspending the agreement because its fleet in crimea had been attacked. kyiv hasn't admitted being behind the drone strike. the un—brokered deal allowed ukraine to resume exports of crops like wheat, amid a food crisis in parts of asia, africa and the middle east. 0ur correspondent, james waterhouse, sent us this update. there are urgent talks. we understand they are going to stretch into tomorrow. you have heard what the un makes of this pause, describing it as deeply concerning, turkey, who also brokered this deal, have also echoed those calls for the grain agreement to resume and interestingly, an official was quoted as saying that there were grounds for optimism, but it is hard to see where that is because russia has been accused of using the grain

dealers leveraged as its military frustrations continue and they don't get much more frustrating than this extraordinary drone strike that we saw yesterday on the black sea fleet. an attack which ukraine has denied... well, has not confirmed that it was behind but there are very few think it was any other country. the motives for this attack are clear. it is a fleet which russia has used to launch missile strikes across the whole of the country but also, if it was ukraine, it shows that it is willing to take the risk of the grain deal falling apart for the sake of its own population. in iran, there've been more protests across the country including the capital tehran. it's the seventh week of protests following the death of 22—year—old mahsa amini after she was arrested for not covering her hair. students took to the streets, defying an order by the powerful revolutionary guards to stop the demonstrations. the security forces are reported to have fired live ammunition and gunshots at one of the protests,

in the western city of sanandaj. earlier i spoke to our middle east analyst, sebastian usher about the protests and asked him about the use of ammunition. we have seen it used on a number of occasions during these protests. batons being used, mostly to beat protesters. many of the accusations over the fatalities have been that people died from that tear gas being used. as difficult as you can imagine to get videos out, there is a block on the internet that has been imposed, sometimes very strongly, sometimes a bit less so, people have found various ways around it. we do still see videos but not to the extent at the start and what we have seeing over the last few days has been the universities, the campuses and that is very much today, a lot of universities and students coming out, having clashes and confrontations

with the security forces. there is one video where you can actually see on the campus a member of the paramilitary link to the government with a handgun, going down, crouching and then shooting, you cannot quite see where he is shooting but it seems to be towards the protesters. in terms of the fact these protests are continuing, it presumably puts these protest in a lead to some of the others against food prices and the political... politically have seen in recent years? i think what happens with the sort of protest, the last huge one was over food prices, fuel prices, back in 2019, and that was more a kind of grassroots working class, on the fringes revolution, this encompasses all parts of society now. extreme force was used. it is not used at the start but then it was used to a great degree and that has not yet happened to that level with these protests. that warning you mentioned

from the head of the revolutionary guard yesterday was a sign that the authorities are moving towards that, which we would then see far greater fatalities, quite possibly. one would assume that the iranians authorities are hoping that they can sort of keep a lid on this by not allowing the videos to come out to the same degree, but the fact it is now... what we're seeing now is students out there, can almost make it seem as if they are the ones protesting, the greater majority of the people are not. that has not been the case. these are issues that have spread all across iran. that is what they are hoping for, plus they don't... although they have no problem about having blood on their hands, they have shown that before, but this is extremely young blood, high school students we have seen on the streets and some of them, theirfamilies have said were killed. whether they want to start killing 14 and 15—year—olds, that is a big question.

the other question in my mind is this cultural? is it religious? is it generational? is it all three? definitely all three. yesterday was the 40th day since the death of mahsa amini. and that is a very important day in islamic relations. and back to one of the other things that will keep the protest going, those 40 days are coming up and bringing people out on the streets. she died while the cistody of the police, because of not wearing the headscarf. that is the great slogan of this but i have just received a whole bunch of videos from an activist in the azerbaijan area. the ethnicities, the fact she was kurdish and so on, have played into this, as well. when you say religious, i think it is more seen

as a control, a societal, cultural control and a younger generation that has had we have had enough of this. some videos have shown young people actually knocking the turbines of religious people that i think it is more of a cultural up swell of a younger generation, 40 years or more after this revolution came in, why should we continue to live in this way question mark we are connected to the outside world and see the outside world, we live that way, even to some degree, with the hijab, it went up and down, how strongly it was enforced. but they are saying, let's get it of the hypocrisy, lets get rid of all these restrictions which come and go, and to bring you an update. this is a tweet we have had from the former president of iran. he has warned that the protests are a red line, he

says that there is toleration for protests but he says we will not allow the enemy to implement in anyway it's designs to undermine this valuable national asset somewhat he meant by national asset, i am not at all clear. but it is clear that what you might call the brittle side of this, rather than the religious side, the revolutionary guard, is saying that it also has no tolerance for these protests continuing. quite a strong line from the president of iran. brazilians are voting to choose their next president in a closely—fought runoff election. the former left—wing leader luiz inacio lula da silva, who won the first round, has promised to restore peace and reinstate protection for the amazon rainforest. he's facing the far right incumbentjair bolsonaro, who said he will deepen his free market reforms. brazil's electoral authority has stepped up security in anticipation of a close result, amid concerns that mr bolsonaro may not accept the outcome if he loses.

brazilians voting here today are voting with expectation and nerves. this is a tight race. in the first round, the opinion polls vastly underestimated the support forjair bolsonaro, so many people feel that this could go either way. now, brazilians have a stark choice to make between far right incumbentjair bolsonaro, a man who is very popular with conservatives and religious voters, but also a man who has been accused of undermining democracy. and he's up against lula, who was a former president who, during his time, lifted millions of people out of poverty. but since then he has been involved

in corruption scandals, he's spent some time in jail, charges that were annulled, but nevertheless, he has a mixed legacy. so they are two very different politicians at either end of the political spectrum, two populist politicians, and two really big personalities. and the main issues that brazilians here are worried about our poverty and the economy. one in four brazilians struggles to find enough food to eat every single day. it was hit hard by the covid pandemic. but on a global scale, i think these elections are important because of the amazon. jair bolsonaro, under him he has seen deforestation soar, illegal activities such as mining also increase, and many people see this vote, these elections, as a vote on the future of the amazon.

the results are expected around one o'clock, around midnight. when we think of homelessness we usually think of people living on the street — but thousands of families don't have a place to call home and are forced to live in hostels or sofa surf with friends and relatives. there are currently around 120—thousand children living in temporary accommodation in england, according to government figures. nadine, leonie and andrea are among the hidden homeless. they've been speaking to emma baugh. it's quite horrible because they have had to move so much they have not had a home, they have just had four walls. my five—year—old does not know what home is, so he was not even a year old when we were first evicted. and obviously since then we have been so far surfing, and obviously since then we have been sofa surfing, hotels, free accommodation. we don't know where we're

going to up and when. - it's hard to think. i always multiply what i am feeling by ten times to understand how it must be affecting them. they are worried about what their peers would be thinking, how they look, how they are fitting in, i don't know how to put it into words exactly, exactly how is making me feel other than heartbreaking. right now everything is in boxes, literally all we have in this house are the essentials we need to get through daily, domestically. we could be here for another two weeks, we don't know, so what's the point of me unpacking things if i'm just going to be told in a short while that you have to go again. i say to my kids, let's go on an adventure, we are moving and going out to another place, and i am trying to encourage them, not transmit the negative things. this moving from here to there is affecting and distracting

the child from education, when they are thinking i will have to move again, i have to leave my friends behind, i have to do this, i am still living in the boxes, and i am leaving everything behind and the other house, i always multiply what i am feeling by ten times to understand how it and i am leaving everything behind and the other house, the wardrobes, the beds had to be left in the other house. i find myself sometimes at my wits�* end, struggling to keep the kids in some form of routine. it's horrible, i sit there sometimes a thing as a mum, i should be able to have some consistency for them. i think they have lost a lot of schooling, six days this time and then every one of those days as a day that affects what they learn all the friendships they can make out school in those first few weeks or days ofjoining the new year, very important to young children. to keep going through this - constantly, every few months, every

year, it does take its toll on you. these childrenjust have to, l they are expected to just get