you're watching bbc news. the headlines will follow at the top of the hour after this programme. on phone: home office haven't implemented - the decision of the judge. if it's becoming a problem with the university, then we can help. i've got an intimate connection with displacement and persecution and when i see it happening today, i can'tjust ignore it.

sofiia, how much? 750. litres or millilitres? millilitres! well done. she worked when she was in high school so couldn't be able - to concentrate on her studies. what's your favourite subject today? sd design. yeah, i agree. i really feel empowered, i can do something, i have the power of education. if you have a pen, that is the power. without pen, there is no power.

honey. 0h, where is the honey? sophia, how much?

750. millilitres. we have to hundred, 100 millilitres. we realise there were — millilitres. we realise there were ukrainians living a local village — were ukrainians living a local village and there was a possibility some join us but you — possibility some join us but you cannot prepare until you meet — you cannot prepare until you meet the _ you cannot prepare until you meet the child, they come and 'oin meet the child, they come and join us, — meet the child, they come and join us, you don't know their emotional— join us, you don't know their emotional state after everything had been through, how much english they have or their— how much english they have or their ability.

my my name is sofiia, i am eight years old, i live in kharkiv. i have ten friends. and i have a schoolteacher, it is miss nielsen. and miss willcott. there's a lot more i than the classroom. it's the friendship groupsi and having dinneraround people's houses after school. which all help her to feel safe and happyl and that she does belong. you know, it's not easyi having somebody come into your class overnight. who you're not expecting. but it's an absolute pleasure to try and make her feel... l getting emotional... to make her feel happy here is my pleasure. i

my name is salma, i'm 23 years old and i'm from afghanistan. i currently study at brunel university and my degree is bio—medical sciences. currently, my status in uk is as refugee. so i arrived in the uk when i was 16 years old. it was a very kind of mix of feelings. at the same time, i was nervous because i entered into a new world that was very, very different from afghanistan. the culture, the language, the people. it was really difficult situation. but still i knew deep inside me this is where i wanted to be, so i have to adjust myself into the society.

these images are my childhood with war, but i only try to keep the good memories with me. it's just that you miss the country where you used to live and where you were born. in afghanistan, you can't go outside, especially alone. as a woman, you need to have a male with you to go out anywhere, even going to school. i know my family was allowing me to go to school, but not alone on my own like i'm walking now, like i came today alone. school was the first step for me, like a baby step, getting into british life and british society. so i was really nervous. it'sjust the language was a huge barrierfor me, i couldn't communicate very

well. i'm cutting these. at three microns. we make the discoveries that will defeat cancer. one day, hopefully. in this role, salma is working in a really complex team that involves several groups. we give the patient the drugs and we collected samples - and we monitor the response to the drug _ .f we move —

on to the microscope. from a very young age, i have been keen to learn more about how our body works and i wanted to study that more into depth to understand who i am. do you know what part of the body that is? that's going to be i from near the colon. colon, 0k. that's colorectal cancer. have a look. then i found out that, being an asylum seeker, i'm not eligible for student finance. and obviously i did not have any money on me to do my own personal education. and at that time i thought, ok, i think that's the end of my education life. i can't go any further.

i applied to different scholarships, and my scholarships got rejected from many universities and i was getting rejection, rejection, rejection. i was brought up in an orthodox jewish family and the practices and the community and the rituals are very important to me. and if you look atjewish history, it's basically a timeline of expulsion and persecution. and so i had really no choice but to commit my life to supporting refugees.

jews have been using immersion, or mikvah, as a ritualistic practice for hundreds of years. there is a lot of difficulty in the world and when one immerses, puts their entire body under the water, they find a purity, they find a renewal. it's really at the heart of being able to do this work, especially working with people who've experienced terrible things. and immersing myself helps renew my energy and focuses my mind and my body on the task at hand.

asylum seekers don't have the right to student finance. so we coordinate various scholarships which asylum seekers and people with different immigration statuses can apply for and can use to bypass the need for student finance. how's it going? we have a large mentoring program, which matches young refugees who need a bit of help with volunteers that give up their time to support them. without important adults in their lives, without someone to make mistakes in front of, young refugees can turn in on themselves.

she worked when she was in high school so couldn't able to concentrate on her studies. there are ways of making your story livelier. when i was in sri lanka i studied like a levels. but i couldn't finish, so i would like to continue here, because i would like to finish something, to get some degree for my future. because i want to be a social worker in the future. using punctuation consistently throughout your story. english is her second language, just like me, and she's made great progress. i'm very grateful to live in this country. and how do i repay that? by making sure migrants, regardless of if they're economic migrants or refugees, they step up, assimilate the culture and be part of the community, not living on the fringes.

everything was ok before the war. i woke up at five in the morning in kyiv and my mum said to me that the war was started. i couldn't even say anything, because i didn't understand that it's real, it's not a dream. of course it's a shock to be a refugee, because i didn't think that i will move abroad.

we will be able to look at a i management style that fits in. there is a more traditional view that the issue - is about command and control

and decision making, - almost military and autocratic, this must be done. _ good opportunity to use leadership like that... l english teenagers and ukrainian teenagers are different. here people are, i think, more talkative. more friendly. are you liking it? yeah! _ is it a big difference to your old school? yeah. what's your favourite subject this week? i sd design. iagree. they don't want to disturb me or to remind me about the situation. but i never forget about it, of course. oh, my gosh, england's amazing. we're not very good as -

a country recycling our tech. we just kind of, we're done. with our computer so we just put it in a drawer and allow it to collect dust. _ and at the same time, _ there are people who need them. hi, it's moses- from screenshare. great, thanks. when we give devices, l laptops, phones, tablets to young refugees, it. can be transformational. you want to contact your . solicitor, you want to enrol at university or college, - you want to apply for a job, you want to have a skype call, or whatever, with your family, you can't do that| without a device. so i spend some of my timei trying to convince individuals and businesses to give me their used technology. - we then refurbish it- as tech—heads and then pass it on to someone who'sl going to make the most of it.

if i change my identity, i change who i am. and i do not want that. i am part of uk, but still deep inside me i am afghan. it doesn't mean that i have forgotten my own religion or my own culture. but i'm being part of something new, which i'm loving it, definitely. we're of course here to celebrate you, all of our wonderful students who consciously chose to give up the very little spare time you have to take part in non—academic studies.

the current situation in afghanistan really saddens me and it's making me feel more, like, proud and happy to know that i'm here today getting this award and getting myself involved in such activities that i knew i would never get the opportunity in afghanistan. and being a woman, from pashtun background, it's a huge proud for myself to know that i am standing here today. it's an amazing feeling.

i understand that i will be in england for a year, maybe for a couple of years. so, yeah, ifeel good and i feel bad. bad part because i understand that now i am free but lots of people in ukraine are not free today and they struggle to be free. and i can't help them.

can we please, in our order, with our shields, line up at the door? welcome to class assembly.

i'm very happy, because sofiia goes to school in england. she's strong girl, she's happy all day when go to school. "mother, come on! come on! i don't eat, i do to school!" children amazing, teachers very kind for sofiia. so sweet school. like home.

hello. there is no doubt it has been a soggy november so far. some places have already seen twice the amount of rain they would normally expect in the whole month. wednesday really added to those totals with this band of wet weather pushing northwards and eastwards. lots of heavy, thundery showers with squally, gusty winds following on behind, and all of those weather elements also feature in thursday's forecast. another frontal system pushing in from the atlantic, more heavy rain, more squally winds already showing its hand in the western side of northern ireland first thing. most other areas starting day dry, but this rain

is on the move eastwards. it's moving pretty quickly, so it will be a short, sharp burst of torrential rain and strong winds for northern ireland, southwest scotland — wind gusts widely 40—50 mph, maybe gusting up to 60—70mph in exposed spots. the bright colours showing up there across wales, the southwest of england — a really squally band of rain, so as it pushes through, you'll notice the torrential rain, the very gusty winds, but then it clears to a mix of sunshine and heavy, perhaps thundery showers. highs of 9—13 degrees, northeast scotland, eastern england staying dry until after dark, but the rain will eventually work its way through. and overnight, into the start of friday, we will see further showers, particularly up towards the north and west, but more in the way of dry weather, some clear spells. temperatures generally 5, 6, 7 degrees — wouldn't surprise me at all if some places gotjust a little lower than that. but friday should be a somewhat drier day with some spells of sunshine. now, there will still be some showers around western coasts

across northern ireland, northwest scotland. not many of those showers getting across into the east of the uk. temperatures 9 degrees foraberdeen, maybe ia there in cardiff, so quite mild for the time of year. that quieter friday is thanks to this ridge of high pressure, but this frontal system pushing in from the west will bring rain on saturday. eastern areas starting off dry and bright, but we'll see increasing amounts of cloud, and for the western side of the uk, outbreaks of rain splashing quite erratically northwards, perhaps some heavier rain into the southwest later on. but it will be mild, 10—14 degrees, very mild on saturday night, and then that rain may take a while to clear eastwards on sunday, but it will leave behind it some spells of sunshine. bye for now.

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