a warning from one its creators who says urgent safety measures are needed. and, after last year's success — can the lionesses�* new squad look ahead confidently to this summer's world cup. and on bbc london... on newsnight at10.30... after a string of racists incidents involving police officers use knight learns that the initiative set up to tackle racism in policing in england we start tonight with a special report into the fate of thousands of ukrainian children, many taken from care homes and residential schools, and moved to russia. in the 15 months since the invasion

by russan forces, more than 19,000 children have been taken from occupied areas, according to ukrainian government officials. the bbc has not been able to verify that figure. russia says its motives are purely humanitarian, to protect children from danger. 0ur eastern europe correspondent rainsford has met some of the families, who have been fighting to get their children back. it is the most anxious journey of these mothers�* lives. dashing to reach the children they've been separated from for six months. ukrainian children sent to summer camps run by russia and then never returned. alla tells me every minute now counts. the children have been told they'll be put in care if their mums don't come for them. that means a gruelling trip across thousands of miles from ukraine, deep into the country that's declared war on them.

daniil went to the camp when his city was occupied. when it was liberated, the russians wouldn't send the children back. translation: i should never have i let him go, but we didn't know. l theyjust took him, and that was that. my son had seen explosions, i wanted him to relax from the war. and then this happened. ijust hope we make it in time. it's images like these that scare her. russia has been removing children from parts of ukraine it occupies, delivering them to russian families. it claims its saving them from danger. but the international criminal court calls this illegal deportation. vladimir vladimirovich putin!

it's why he is now a wanted man. vladimir putin has annexed huge chunks of ukraine and claims everything there is russian. even the children. and we've found new evidence of how they're treated. this boy's ukrainian, dressed in the z mark of russia's war on his country. he's a classmate of tatiana's son, who was also taken by the russians. sasha has special needs. his mum had to travel into enemy territory to rescue him. he tells me how russian soldiers in balaclavas came to his school with guns. they loaded him and 12 other children onto buses and drove off with them. sasha had no contact with his mum for six weeks. when i ask how hard that was...

..he says it's too distressing to remember. sasha is now safe with his mum in germany. he's told tatiana the children were banned from even mentioning ukraine. told there was nothing there to return for. translation: it's not only putin who should be put on trial. - it's all the main people, the commanders, all of them, for what they did to the children. what right did they have? so i called the woman in charge of the school where sasha was taken. deep inside russian occupied territory. i wanted to know about that z mark, the ukrainian children dressed as russian soldiers. "so what if they were?" the director shot back. "what kind of question is that?"

soon after the line cut out. for those who do make it back, the long road home ends here on ukraine's northern border. the first groups are just coming through, i can see some of the women and the children waving as they cross the border, finally. but six months apart, then six days of travel to be reunited. daniil had been scared he wouldn't see his mum again, but alla made it. the stories of their exhausting, traumatic trip spill out between the welcome hugs. but alla tells me it was all worth it to see her son again. daniiljust says the reunion was brilliant. this is a war that's created all sorts of victims, brought all sorts of pain.

but it is the fate of ukraine's children that's got vladimir putin indicted as a suspected war criminal. and we can speak to sarah who's in warsaw now. given what you know, is it your understanding that this illegal deporting of children still going on? the children still going on? cases we were able to investigate the cases we were able to investigate took place as russian forces were in retreat and ukrainian forces were in retreat and ukrainian forces were in retreat and ukrainian forces were pushing forward and liberating territory. that hasn't happened for a while, so the deportation on the scale we saw before, i don't think that is happening right now, at least for now. ukrainian officials really hope, the ones i have spoken to, the prosecution, they attempt to prosecute vladimir putin to indict him as a suspected war criminal

could act as a deterrent for other russian officials who may be involved in these abductions. but i think one thing that is clear in all of this, is that the mentality that drove it, the ideology behind it hasn't changed. as we were investigating these stories, that was the most chilling and striking for me, the fact the russian officials involved really don't believe they are doing anything wrong. you heard it in the report, the director of the school he was dressing ukrainian children as russian soldiers, she didn't even understand my question about that. oh people running summer camps where 0h people running summer camps where ukrainian children were meant to sing the russian anthem. they are being treated as russian children because that is the ideology driving this and the warped ideology that led vladimir putin to launch this war in the first place.— war in the first place. sarah rainsford. _ war in the first place. sarah rainsford, thank— war in the first place. sarah rainsford, thank you - war in the first place. sarah rainsford, thank you for . war in the first place. sarah i rainsford, thank you for that. and you can watch much more on that story in a special report from sarah on bbc iplayer,

ukraine: the missing children. the former prime minister boris johnson claims he has handed over all his notebooks and whatsapp messages to the government, and he's urging the cabinet office to share the material with the official covid inquiry. baroness hallett, who leads the inquiry, has given the government until 4pm tomorrow to hand over the material in full. the cabinet office has been arguing that some of the material is not relevant to the inquiry�*s work. mrjohnson says he will hand over the material directly if needed. 0ur political correspondent leila nathoo is at westminster. what's this row about? what do they tell us about the state of the row? this

what do they tell us about the state of the row? , , ., ., ., ., of the row? this is a row about what official records _ of the row? this is a row about what official records the _ of the row? this is a row about what official records the government - of the row? this is a row about what official records the government is i official records the government is going to hand over to the public inquiry about the handling of the covid pandemic. borisjohnson is out of government now, is a third character in this story. so the covid inquiry which has been doing a lot of work behind—the—scenes has asked the cabinet to provide it with boris johnson's whatsapp asked the cabinet to provide it with borisjohnson's whatsapp messages, notebooks and diaries from 2020 to 2020 due in full, unredacted. the cabinet office initially refused on privacy grounds, saying the covid inquiry didn't have the power to demand to see all material, it could contain things are relevant to its inquiries. the inquiry said no, we should see everything and then we decide what is relevant. so tomorrow at four o'clock is a deadline for the government to comply with that request or face legal action. there is a separate but related argument going on between the cabinet office and borisjohnson. the cabinet office said they didn't have his office said they didn't have his whatsapp messages and his notebooks.

so the statement from the cabinet office saying they have handed over 0ffice saying they have handed over all the material in full. this is borisjohnson all the material in full. this is boris johnson really trying to all the material in full. this is borisjohnson really trying to put the ball in the government's court, trying to say he is not the obstacle but the wider picture remains, the government is at loggerheads with the covid inquiry about what material it is going to provide. tomorrow we will find out if ministers intend to continue to resist its demands.— ministers intend to continue to resist its demands. thank you very much. there's been more difficulty for rail passengers with another day of strikes. members of the train drivers' union aslef have been on strike today and will also walk on out saturday, affecting 15 rail operators. members of the rmt union, including train guards, will walk out on friday. both unions are taking action over pay and conditions. around 40% of trains have been running today but there were wide regional variations, with some operators running no services at all. 0ur transport correspondent

katy austin has more details. manchester piccadilly this morning. no rush—hour crowds, just a trickle of passengers. at london bridge station, no trains at all. and workers out on picket lines again, like these in birmingham and newcastle. for rail users, frustration. just terrible. inconveniences everyone. i've had to catch a completely different train, to get up early. i don't know the ins and outs of it all, i don't know how much they get paid. i don't like the striking in general. i think it's entitled. get a newjob. i do think it's important for them |to strike but i think in situationsj like this it can be quite - frustrating for passengers, especially when the rail prices are constantly going up. - train drivers say this dispute is not only about pay but protecting their working conditions and there are no signs at the moment that their dispute is close to being over. these strikes come after their union, aslef, rejected the latest proposals from the train companies. the offer involved a 4%

pay rise for one year, dependent on changes designed to make driver training quicker, and another 4% a rise for next year, if changes to ways of working are agreed with individual operators, for example a contractual commitment to work sunday shifts and giving employers full control of staff rotas. that's fair and reasonable, insist the rail industry and the government, adding it would take the average driver's salary to £65,000. the union argues the deal contains things it could never accept. travel to big events including the fa cup final and epsom derby will be disrupted by saturday's strike. aslef insists it hasn't deliberately targeted them. under the legislation we have to give a minimum 14 days' notice. so we gave the bare minimum of 14 days' notice for the first action. subsequent actions are then based around not hitting the same people twice, about roster patterns and what's best for our members. in their separate dispute, train guards and station staff

in the rmt will walk out again on friday. many rail commuters have got used to working from home on strike days, but leisure passengers and hospitality businesses have felt the impact. both sides say they want to resolve this but right now it looks like a deal is notjust around the corner. katy austin, bbc news. itv has announced a review of the handling of problems at their flagship programme this morning. it follows the controversy surrounding the departure of its star presenter phillip schofield. he stood down after it emerged he'd had an affair with a much younger member of staff, and lied to colleagues about it. another leading figure in the development of artifical intelligence has added his voice to warnings about its safety. professor yoshua bengio says he would have prioritised safety over usefulness if he'd realised how fast ai would evolve. yesterday, ai experts warned that the technology could lead to the destruction of humanity,

and that reducing risk in all forms should be a priority worldwide. our technology editor zoe kleinman reports. big tech is spending billions on artificial intelligence. photorealistic images generated with applications like midjourney are going viral online. chatbots like chatgpt are answering millions of questions every day. this is the fun face of generative ai. but today another so—called godfather of ai, a pioneer of the tech, voiced concerns over its rapid rise, driven by developers. governments need to track what they're doing. they need to be able to audit them. and that'sjust a minimum thing we do for any other sector, like building aeroplanes or cars, pharmaceuticals. it's been a quarter of the century since ibm's deep blue supercomputer beat then world chess champion garry kasparov in 1997.

since then, systems have been developed that acquire new skills through training, called deep learning. ai doesn't have to take the form of science—fiction's humanoid robots. you probably interact with it several times a day without realising it's picking your favourite film. artificial general intelligence is the goal of creating human level or beyond intelligence. one of the bosses of a leading uk ai firm says the pace of change is unpredictable. a year ago, all of this would have been incomprehensible. teachers can no longer set essays at school because of chatgpt. you see images being imagined from nothing. where we are going to be in a year or a few years, nobody can tell. that's why we have to take some action now, to put the appropriate guardrails around it. but its accelerating power has been matched by growing fears of whether we are seeing a new ai arms race. one of the original developers of ai has told me its use in the military should be banned. this is one of the worst

places where we could put a super—intelligent ai. i think there's enough examples of science—fiction. the problem is, if something goes wrong and we lose control of ai and it happens to be ai that can kill people. don't worry about al killing you today. worry more about your bank details being stolen. ai is already being used to generate spam and misinformation from deepfake images to fake news. so i don't understand the purpose of focusing on risks that don't exist yet and ignoring the ones that do. again, if that harm were so very potent and something we should all be scared of, then anybody who's signed that letter, all the ce05, could just agree not to build it. that's literally how easy it is to stop it _ they canjust not build it. there's a new drumbeat of experts calling out the danger of ai, and the world is sitting up and paying attention. the solution is regulation.

we know some of the questions ai poses now. politicians are starting to try and answer them. zoe kleinman, bbc news. at the hague, the united nations war crimes tribunal has increased the prison sentences for two former serbian security officials. jovica stanisic and franko simatovic were both convicted of training death squads accused of mass killings during the break—up of yugoslavia in the i990s. they will serve 15 years, instead of the 12 they were originally given in 2021. the men were key allies of serbia's former president slobodan milosevic. it's the last major verdict to be delivered by the tribunal, 30 years after it opened. 0ur international editor, jeremy bowen, is here. you have covered the workings of this tribunal for the 30 years, you have a unique vantage point in that

sense. just wondering, given this is the last major set of verdicts, what will people make up this tribunal in years to come? i will people make up this tribunal in years to come?— will people make up this tribunal in years to come? i think they will say it is a very — years to come? i think they will say it is a very significant _ years to come? i think they will say it is a very significant way _ years to come? i think they will say it is a very significant way of - it is a very significant way of marking what happened, getting some of the culprits, setting the historical record. i testified in four separate trials at the hague, and if you look back to what was going on in bosnia 30 years ago, exactly two this week, when the united nations did the vote in the security council that set up the tribunal, no—one thought it would work or make a difference. war crimes were going on, and there seems to be a sense of impunity, that anybody could get away with it, particularly on the bosnian serb side. in sarajevo, where i was that very week then, there were thousands of shells every day hitting the city, killing civilians, killing children, and they seemed to be getting away with it. but what the war crimes tribunal did, through

many years of very hard work by lawyers, byjudges, by investigators, buy lots of other people, they got the main people who were responsible for what was happening. it wasn't perfect, and a lot of people were not gods, lower down the line, but people like milosevic, who you mentioned, the serbian leader, the leaders of the bosnian serbs, they are now in prison, serving life for genocide et cetera, so that was a remarkable achievement in doing all of that. now, these processes, these verdicts today, the tribunal itself ended in 2017. but this has still been going on because war crimes procedures are very, very complicated, and that is now fast forward to ukraine, some people are saying, let's try and have the same thing for ukraine — it is not going to happen in the same

form, because for yugoslavia, is not going to happen in the same form, because foryugoslavia, it is not going to happen in the same form, because for yugoslavia, it was set up by the united nations security council, it had that legitimacy and legality. russia is a veto wielding permanent member of the security council, they are not going to vote for a tribunal to investigate what they are doing. jeremy, once again, many thanks. jeremy, once again, many thanks. jeremy bowen, our international editor. the new head of mental health for the care quality commission has told bbc news that he's prepared to close failing services which don't improve, whether in the nhs or the private sector. the cqc recently found three children's wards at the priory group's largest hospital near manchester to be inadequate and did not always provide safe care. the priory group is the uk's biggest independent mental health provider. it says the cqc�*s findings don't accurately reflect the quality of the service they offer. we might get to a point whereby we might have to use our enforcement powers, and it might mean for any provider, whether nhs or independent sector. we might get to a point where we then might get to a point where service is closed.

in the us, all eyes are on congress and a key vote on raising the government's debt limit, or debt ceiling. it's total amount of money the government can borrow to pay its bills for things like salaries for state employees, social security, and interest on the national debt. the vote is usually a formality. but republicans have been opposing a major rise, despite the risk of the us failing to pay its bills. a deal was reached over the weekend between president biden and the house speaker, republican kevin mccarthy. but there's no guarantee it will get through congress. if isn't approved, the us risks defaulting on its debt, with the potential for global financial chaos. financial markets would be severely affected, and the more fragile economies would be dragged into deep recession. the prices of oil and other

commodities would also go up. let's get the latest from our north america editor, sarah smith. sarah, let's start with this agreement and what was achieved, who came out on top there, do you think? well, i think president biden can be pretty proud of himself for the deal he negotiated, which involves some spending cuts, but not nearly as much as republicans were asking for. but he cannot go around boasting of it, because that is not going to persuade republicans to vote for this, and he needs them to do so, and pretty quickly, less than a week to get the deal through congress if america is to avoid its first ever default. the first hurdle tonight is a vote in the house of representatives, and you have a sizeable number of hardline sizeable number of ha rdline right—wing sizeable number of hardline right—wing republicans who say they are not going to support this deal because of the lack of spending cuts, as they perceive it, one so

angry he described the deal as a third sandwich. you also have prominent democrats who do not like the deal either, angry about measures that require people to work before they can receive food stamps, so to get it passed, it will require a coalition of moderate republicans and democrats working together, which doesn't happen often, to get this through. party leaders say they are confident it will pass, but they will be watching very nervously, the vote in the house tonight. mil will be watching very nervously, the vote in the house tonight. mimi vote in the house tonight. all of this happening against - vote in the house tonight. all of this happening against the - vote in the house tonight. all of this happening against the backdrop of the forthcoming presidential election, and it seems the republicans have a new name in the ring. we republicans have a new name in the rin. _ . ., republicans have a new name in the rim. ~ ., , . republicans have a new name in the rin. _ . ., , . ~' ring. we are expecting next week mike pence _ ring. we are expecting next week mike pence to — ring. we are expecting next week mike pence to announce - ring. we are expecting next week mike pence to announce that - ring. we are expecting next week mike pence to announce that he i ring. we are expecting next week i mike pence to announce that he too is running for president, and he is obviously well known, he was vice president to donald trump, but they fell out spectacularly, if you remember, at the end of donald trump's term, because mr pence

refused to blockjoe biden becoming president, and for that reason he is very unlikely to get support from trump loyalist in the process, but people who are looking for anyone but trump to be the republican candidate, well, they will see him as being too close to donald trump, so that could be why, despite his name recognition, is pulling very low, below10% name recognition, is pulling very low, below 10% at the moment. name recognition, is pulling very low, below 1096 at the moment. sarah, many thanks — low, below 1096 at the moment. sarah, many thanks again. _ low, below 1096 at the moment. sarah, many thanks again. sarah _ low, below 1096 at the moment. sarah, many thanks again. sarah smith, - low, below 1096 at the moment. sarah, many thanks again. sarah smith, our i many thanks again. sarah smith, our north america editor there, at the us capitol. the england women's football coach, sarina wiegman, has announced her squad for this summer's world cup in australia and new zealand. beth mead, who was the top scorer at last year's women's euros, is not included because of injury. millie bright and lucy bronze have recovered from their injuries to make the line—up. the announcement was made as the sports ministers of five european countries have urged broadcasters and fifa to make a quick agreement on the tv rights to show the games in the uk, germany, spain, france and italy.

0ur women's sport reporter jo currie has the details. last summer, the lionesses were crowned the champions of europe. and now they have their sights set on an even bigger goal, becoming champions of the world. today, manager sarina wiegman named her 23—player squad in front of a packed media room in sutton coldfield before meeting young aspiring footballers. there were a couple of challenges and a couple of very hard decisions to make. you also look at the balance on your team, and that has consequences for other positions sometimes. sometimes the versatility, it all connects with each other. at the euros, wiegman never changed her starting xi, but a number of those key players are not available this time around. captain leah williamson, prolific striker beth mead and fran kirby are all ruled out with long—term knee injuries.

whilst ellen white retired, as did jill scott. those who are selected include lucy bronze and millie bright, with bright taking over the captaincy. brighton and tottenham strikers katie robinson and beth england are also in after helping their side come through relegation battles. that's the kind of fight england are going to need if they're to enjoy more success. we're under no illusion that we now have a target on our backs that we perhaps didn't have the previous tournament. we have a dream and we have an ambition. we are super excited and we can't wait to get started. last summer, girls and boys up and down the country were inspired by the lionesses' success, with many of them watching on television. however, a feud between fifa and key nations including the uk means that currently broadcast deals are not confirmed. i think how the broadcasters have covered women's football so i do not think that is a problem. ijust hope it gets all sorted for everyone and every country, so everyone can watch the games

throughout the world. some have questioned the diversity of the squad, with only two black players included. it's something wiegman says she hopes changes in the future but that it will take time to evolve. england will travel down under is one of the heavy favourites, looking to become the first country since germany in 2007 to hold both the european and world titles. jo currie, bbc news, birmingham. tennis news, and britain's cameron norrie is through to the third round of the french open in straight sets. he's the only british player left in the singles tournament. 0ur correspondent nesta mcgregor was watching. as the saying goes, it's important to stand out in a crowd and... cameron norrie! ..has every reason to feel on his own — he's the last british singles player at the french open. having already defeated a frenchman in the previous round, cam norrie was hoping for a feeling of deja vu.

oh, it's razor—sharp tennis from cam norrie. the 27—year—old started like he had plans for the evening, easily winning the first set 6—1 in less than 25 minutes. buoyed on by the local crowd, lucas pouille did make the second set more competitive, but at times the pressure seemed to get to him, losing the second and third sets 6—3. a match where norrie always seemed in control, through to round three, he's never been beyond that so won't want to be packing his bags to fly home any time soon. nesta mcgregor, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's louise lear. you should be on holiday in wales this week, you have mist a treat! west has certainly been best, this is western scotland, once again not a cloud in the sky, and in actual

fact we saw temperatures peaking at a high of 24.8 degrees, 77 fahrenheit. it is half term, but it has been a week of mixed fortunes, because out to the east, quite cloudy and grey once again, feeling cool at times, cloud thick enough for drizzle as well. now, high pressure is still with us, but it is the position of the high out to the north—west and the circulation of the winds that continues to drift in this cloud off the north sea. it is not a laughing matter if you are out across eastern england, it is cool and grey for another dull start tomorrow morning, but into the afternoon, once again, the sunshine will start to nibble away at the cloud, so cornwall, devon, parts of wales, the west midlands dry, sunny, quite warm with it, but to the east of the pennines, east anglia, eastern england, cool and grey with

a nagging north—easterly wind. north—west