this is bbc news. the headlines... the united nations has ordered an international probe into iran's suppression of women's rights protests. it said iran was facing a fully— fledged human rights crisis. three hundred people are thought to have been killed in the crackdown. the protests began more than 8 weeks ago. ukraine's first lady olena zelenskay tells the bbc that her country was ready to endure major rolling power cuts from russian missile attacks. speaking to the bbc as part of the bbc�*s 100 women series, olena zelenska says ukrainians believe the only way to achieve peace was to win the war. nurses in parts of the uk are the latest to announce strike action. their union announced its first ever walk out on december 15 th

and 20th in england, wales and northern ireland. scotland is pausing action after the government there reopened negotiations. now on bbc news — we are england: from conflict to classroom. 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 is 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.

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here is my greater- than or less than so on. which way will it be? i've got 200 millilitres, 100 millilitres. - we realised there were going| to be a few ukrainians coming to live in our local. village, in rowledge. so it was always - a possibility that some were going tojoin us. but really, you can't prepare until you meet the child. - until theyjoin us, you do not know their emotional- my name is sofiia. i am eight years old. i live in kharkiv. i have ten friends,

and i have two teachers. it's miss wilson and miss willcott. there's a lot more i than the classroom. it's the friendship groupsj 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 easyj 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 mu.. we make the discoveries that will defeat cancer. one day, hopefully. in this role, selma 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 colon—rectal 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. hey, how's it going? i'm great, thanks. thank you for coming in. i'm really pleased to see you. thank you so much for coming in. shall we go to the mentoring room? 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 3d 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. were not very good as l a country using our tech. wejust 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, 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 time 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's 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. that's welcome.

silence. 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. it's already been an exceptionally wet month, some places breaking record. but again, nearly an inch of rain fell in some parts on thursday along with some really gusty winds. aberdaron on the llyn peninsula, nearly 80 mile an hour, those gusts of wind. even in bridlington, 67 miles an hour. the gusts on this particular weather front, which we call a squally weather front, those winds very squally with the rain pushing through. lots of showers, though, have been following on behind to northern and western areas through the night. still gale force winds here, butjust a little chilly where the winds have eased a little and the shower activity has as we head towards dawn. for the day ahead, it looks drier, brighter, plenty more sunshine than we saw on thursday, but still lots of showers, particularly in the north and west and particularly of scotland, with gales across the northern

and western isles, across the highlands as well. still with hail and thunder here and some snow over the hills and mountains, but fewer showers, less heavy elsewhere. 12 to 14, slightly less windy, so feeling more pleasant out and about. but then through saturday night, it turns quite chilly. we could see a touch of frost, a little bit of patchy mist and fog as well. and further north and west, yes, more rain to come as we head into the weekend. now, it looks as if it'll be initially, for western and northern areas, with the ridge of high pressure holding on in eastern areas for the start of saturday. so the rain may not arrive here until after dark for east anglia and the south—east. but for most, it'll be cloudier with some hill fog, strong winds again returning, potentially gales in southern and western areas. heavy rain here as well. these are the gusts of wind, as you can see, through the day on saturday. so another blustery old day, but mild. temperatures about 12 to 14 celsius. even in the north, ii and 12, so well above where they should be for this time of year. and a mild night will follow because that rain will push steadily eastwards but become

slow—moving, potentially, we think, across southern and eastern areas. and that's the question mark, really, for the weekend, how quickly that rain clears away. it could stagnate in the south and east for a time and then showers follow on behind. once again, it will be another relatively mild day. not quite as for saturday, but still 11 to 13 celsius. and we keep a showery picture as we move into the beginning of the new week. but midweek onwards, potentially something a little drier but colder. stay tuned.

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