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live from london, this is bbc news. desperate familes search for loved ones after one of india's deadliest train crashes leaves at least 275 people dead. a fabulous young man — the family of 17—year—old boy who died off the coast of bournemouth pay tribute. petrol and diesel prices could rise as a group of oil producing nations extend cuts in output. and in formula one, max verstappen wins the spanish grand prix — his third victory in a row.
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we start in india where relatives of the victims of friday's deadly train crash have been continuing their desperate efforts to find their loved ones. some have travelled for 30 hours to the crash scene in odisha, searching hospitals and morgues on the way. we know at least 275 people died in the accident involving three trains. these are some of the latest drone pictures from the scene, where work has been continuing to remove the wreckage. an investigation is ongoing but a signalling fault is emerging as the likely cause of the disaster — india's worst rail accident for decades. our correspondent, archana shukla sent this report from the scene. inconsolable and traumatised. hello, hello? himanshu can barely speak. his brother was on the train that crashed. "can i see my brother, just once?" he keeps repeating.
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a student himself, 22—year—old himanshu even sold his phone to come find his brother. he's just one of the many families in their desperate search to find those missing. and at this makeshift morgue, every person is sifting through stacks of photos, hoping to find a familiar face. but not everyone yet has answers. ten members of mukul singh�*s family were on the train. eight found, one dead — and one still missing. his family spent £160, much beyond their means to come here. translation: these photos are unrecognisable. - how can we find him in this? i had never thought this would happen. just a day before we had so much fun. he told me.
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many families are arriving at the accident site, only to find their relatives being moved elsewhere. with limited resources to manage the dead, government has now shifted all the casualties to the capital city five hours away from here, but over 180 bodies still remain unidentified. officials have started posting the photos of dead bodies on government websites, and have said they'll start resorting to dna identification. these tracks that tell the story of loss are still being cleared. rail services yet to be restored, and questions on what led to the disaster still unanswered. what we have found is that there is... there is probability of some kind of signalling, not even, i won't even call it a failure of signalling interference.
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it's now on the government, whose flagship programme has been more high—speed trains, to deliver answers. archana shukla, bbc news, balasore orisha. so as we've heard a lot of question remain about exactly how the india train accident happened. the bbc verify team have been analysing what we know so far. jake horton from the team is in the newsroom with more. we at bbc verify have been looking at the circumstances surrounding the deadly rail crash in india. we've been looking at exactly how and why it happened on friday evening. the image behind me here shows the aftermath in odisha. and aerial footage taken today shows a sheer scale of destruction. three trains were involved, and you can see several passenger carriages derailed and debris strewn across the tracks. this close—up image shows the front of the coromandel express. this is the train which first collided. it hit a stationary freight train. and authorities have said today this freight train was full of iron ore, which meant it barely moved.
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and the passenger train seen behind me, took the full force of the collision. investigators have also said this was likely down to a signalling failure. so let's look a bit how this could have happened. there were two passenger trains involved. there was the coromandel express, highlighted in red behind me here, travelling south. and there was the howrah express, highlighted in blue behind me here, travelling north. investigators said both of these trains were travelling below the 130 kilometre hour speed limit, so this wasn't where the problem laid. the problem happened due to a signalfailure. this meant the coromandel express didn't continue along its expected route along the main line and instead deviated to a different loop line and then collided with the freight train highlighted in gray behind me here. and as these carriages derailed, the howrah express continued
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continued to travel past and its rear end was struck by them, causing some of its carriages to derail as well. authorities said there will be a full investigation into exactly how this signal failure happened. but what we do know is the scenes of destruction seen on friday and through the weekend was india's worst train disaster in decades. here in the uk, a 17—year—old boy who died off bournemouth beach on wednesday has been named. police sayjoe abbess, from southampton died after getting into difficulty in the water. his family say they are "heartbroken and devastated" at the loss of a "fabulous young man" and "talented trainee chef" who was enjoying a day at the beach when he died. it comes as a funeral has been held for a 12—year—old girl who also died in the incident. sunnah khan, from high wycombe, buckinghamshire, was named locally after the incident involving 10 swimmers on wednesday. more than 200 people are understood to have attended sunnah�*s funeral, held by high wycombe mosques on saturday. the cost of detaining and deporting people arriving in the uk on small boats — under proposals in the government's illegal migration bill — could reach £6 billion over
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the next two years. that's according to internal government projections shared with the bbc. the immigration minister has defended the government's approach to migration — saying britain couldn't be a "soft touch." here's our political correspondent, aruna iyengar. stop these boats now. turn back the boats. it's time to tackle the small boats. stop the boats. it's one of the government's top priorities. 16,000 people arrived in small boats across the english channel last year. but the cost of the new proposals could reach £6 billion over the next two years. ministers so far have not discussed these costs, but say they believe the measures will be a deterrent to illegal entry. i will never put the interests of migrants above those of the british public. we also can't allow the uk to be perceived to be a soft touch. and i've just spent the last week visiting european countries like france and italy and those further upstream in north africa and all european countries are grappling with the same challenge. the illegal migration bill,
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if it passes legal hurdles, will mean anyone arriving illegally by boat will be detained and removed to their home country, or other country deemed to be safe, such as rwanda. then there's the cost of actually accommodating these people, providing them with food and health care and all of the other things, and then potentially also the cost associated with paying other countries to process claims as well. labour says the government's policy is flawed. all we've got is unworkable plans, and the costs are always getting worse and worse. and now, even the home office accepting what we've been warning about, that their latest plans are actually going to mean a big, big increase in cost to the taxpayer. this isjust total chaos. it's presently costing the government £6 million a day to house asylum seekers in the uk.
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many are put up in hotels. there's a huge backlog in processing cases, leading to greater accommodation costs. only in the last week, a0 migrants in a hotel in central london protested against having to share rooms. the government wants to cut costs by reducing the need for hotels and to have three to four single men sharing a room. it's right that we get good value for money for the taxpayer. but i'm confused because... and so if single adult males can share a room and its legal to do so, which will obviously depend on the size of the accommodation, then we'll ask people to do that. i think that's a completely fair and reasonable approach. the government's new bill has caused huge controversy and now there's scrutiny over the costs. there's also no guarantee that the new proposals will make it through parliament. aruna iyengar, bbc news. we could all be paying more for petrol and diesel soon. it's after oil exporting countries including saudi arabia and russia, that are part of a big group called opec+, agreed to extend cuts in production. in a statement following
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talks in vienna, the group, which is facing flagging global oil prices, said it was committed to a stable oil market. together the cartel delivers about 40% of global oil production, meaning its decisions can have huge influence on the market and prices. earlier, i spoke to independent energy analyst cornelia meyer, who's been following the meeting in vienna. the opec+ member countries are very concerned about the state of the global economy, and they look at rising interest rates and they look at the effect that will have on the demand. they've also seen deteriorating oil prices for some time now. they came slightly up as people started thinking that, you know, the cuts might be extended, so that's why they took the cuts. it's a preventative measure for what they see as a weak economy. yeah, and they've also decided to move production, haven't they? yep. _ from some countries to others. why, and who's that going to impact? well, i think what they've
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done is two things. one, they have seen their�*s some countries who just were not able for some time to fulfil the quotas. when you look at where the quota was and how much was actually produced, there was an underperformance of more than 2 million barrels a day, so they've shifted from the countries that could not produce to give a little bit more to some countries that could produce. they've done another thing. they've now taken three independent sources, such as platts, such as wood mackenzie, to verify what the production is, so there is more transparency. so this is all intended to increase transparency in oil markets because they see that is actually quite important to determine, you know, what the right production level is. opec+ controls 40% of the oil output but western nations have accused them of manipulating prices,
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undermining the global economy through high energy costs. howjustified are those accusations, in your view? those accusations, in my view, are notjustified, because when you look at... we have an energy transition going on, so we couldn't wish, or we shouldn't think, that oil prices that are to low and encourage people to use more oil is a good thing from that sense. and, also, when you look at it, there's not sufficient investment. there's not been sufficient investment for about ten years in the oil and gas sector, and if you look at what we think will be an increased demand over the next ten years or so, given that, you know, the world population is growing, and especially in emerging economies they will need more oil, we need more production and we need more investment in order to meet the production. so, in that sense, in terms of stability of the oil market, i think it's the right decision, because also for consumers,
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when prices oscillate too much, it's very hard to make the right decisions — let's say, as an airline — in terms of what you want to do. things become — planning becomes — very difficult. cornelia meyer there. to poland, where as many as 500,000 people have taken part in an anti—government rally in warsaw. they were protesting against a new law critics say could be used to target opposition politicians in an election year — and in particular the former prime minister donald tusk, who spoke at the rally. translation: the first step to victory is to recognise - our strength. we're here today so that poland, europe and the world see how strong we are, how many of us are ready, just like back then, 30, a0 years ago, to fight again for a democratic and free poland, for our rights.
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that giant has woken up. i'm proud that i can be here and say, "we will win." this voice will not be stopped. that giant has woken up. i'm proud that i can be here and say, "we will win." the polish government strongly refuted accusations that their actions are undemocratic — and stressed that, in their view, today's protest was an election rally — as the country will head to the polls later this year. the host of the march, the mayor of warsaw rafal tsha — skov— ski — gave the bbc an exclusive interview earlier, let's hear from him well, it was incredible. half a million people — we haven't seen such crowds on the streets of warsaw for the past 30 years. and people just wanted to demonstrate that they have enough of this populist government, that they want a poland which is tolerant, which is open, which is european, and also, yes, in protest to some of the measures taken by the populist government. they've introduced this law whereby there will be this parliamentary commission which could actually bar some opposition leaders
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russian influences, which is, of course, all a huge lie. and people were just startled by that and they wanted to demonstrate their opposition. i've the prime minister saying that they were just a bunch of apparatchiks, but if we have half a million apparatchiks in poland, that means that we are really growing strong. of course, that's not true. there were people from all around poland. from all walks of life wanting to demonstrate that they're against this oppressive government, which is trying to stifle democracy in poland. and poland is still a democracy only because our civil society is so incredibly strong, which has been also demonstrated by this incredible solidarity towards our ukrainian friends. and that's why it is very important that people demonstrate, because it gives us this incredible boost of power, mobilises us, and it makes me sure that we will win the next elections and say goodbye to the populist. now it's time for a look at today's
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sport with lizzie greenwood hughes. we're starting with cricket and a blow for england because just 12 days away from the start of the ashes series. it's been announced that spin bowler jack leach will miss the whole series with a stress fracture in his back. our correspondent joe wilson has more. we have been talking a lot in the build—up to this ashes series about the need for england to have a squad of bowlers available, but really focusing and referencing the faster bowlers. and in that, regard england seemed fine. i mean, josh tongue came into the team to play ireland and did pretty well. but when it first became clear that jack leach had some kind of problem yesterday, the hypothetical question was asked, what would england do if leach was not available? never daring to think that this eventuality would arise whereby he was not available for any of the ashes. it's particularly cruel for leach because this is a time in his england career where he's really blossoming under
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the captaincy of ben stokes. it's very clear that ben stokes trusts him and therefore leach has built up the confidence in himself. in terms of a bowler who can do that as a spinner instead of leach for england, there just isn't one. there is no like—for—like replacement. max verstappen�*s dominance in f1 continues after he won the spanish grand prix to stretch his championship lead to 53 points. the victory was verstappen�*s fifth of the season, third in a row and the double world champion�*s 40th in formula i. he also secured a bonus point for the fastest lap. lewis hamilton finished a distant second for mercedes, with his team mate george russell just behind him in barcelona. for the first time this year, a women's match has been given a prime time slot at the french open tennis. world number two aryna sabalenka is taking on the usa's sloane stephens. and they're giving the crowd a good show because after it had looked like sabalenka was going to breeze the first set, stephens is fighting back. and the latest score in the opening set is 5—4 to sabalenka
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while russia's anastasia pavlyuchenkova booked her place in the last eight, fighting back from a set down to beat belgium's elise mertens, by sets to one, in a match that lasted more than three hours. and in the men's draw, novak djokovic is nowjust three matches away from a record 23rd grand slam title. the world number three swept aside peru'sjuan pablo varillas in straight sets to reach the quarterfinals in paris. djokovic is level with rafa nadal on 22 grand slam titles. the world number three swept aside peru'sjuan pablo varillas in straight sets to reach the quarterfinals in paris. djokovic is level with rafa nadal on 22 grand slam titles. on to football, and some big news from the bernabeu — as real madrid announced their captain karim benzema is leaving the club. the french striker has enjoyed one of the greatest real madrid careers afterjoining from lyon 14 years ago. his total of 353 club goals is only bettered by cristiano ronaldo. benzema has won four la liga and five champions league titles. the 2023 balon d'or winner is reportedly moving to saudi arabia.
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thierry neuville has jumped from fifth to second in the world rally championship standings after winning rally italia. the belgian claimed the 18th win of his career in sardinia after beating hyundai team mate esapekka lappi. toyota driver kalle rovan—pera completed the podium. britain's elvin evans finished fourth and remains fourth in the championship standings. finally its two down, one to go after manchester city added the fa cup to their premier league title and now prepare to take on inter milan in the champions league final in six days' time for the treble. and as they flew back home after the fa cup final, they were greeted by a special guest at the airport. eltonjohn had been performing in manchester and as he was about to leave, he stopped to congratulate the city squad — phil foden not missing the chance for a selfie. he loved it!
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afterwards, the players serenaded elton with a rendition of �*our song'. and that's all the sport for now. studio: lizzie, thanks very much. to ukraine next, where a two—year—old girl has died after another night of russian missile attacks. the attack, on a residential area in the central city of dnipro, injured 22 other people, including five children. our correspondent, james waterhouse, reports from kyiv. weeks of sirens and explosions start to blend after a while, but there's is always a scene which pierces through the monotony. a residential block in dnipro reduced to this after another strike from above. every destroyed building comes with a unique tragedy. "suddenly the fridge fell onto me," says valentyna. "it hit me in my lower back. i was watching how everything collapsed. "i understood what was happening
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when i saw the open sky." russia has been squarely blamed. the pressure caused by its relentless targeting of ukrainian cities is being felt. translation: i was driving home| and missed it by about 15 minutes. so if i had arrived earlier, the window was blown exactly where usually eat dinner. it's been a 2k hours where sirens have sounded across ukraine. six russian missiles and five drones were launched, say officials. most were shot down. here a two—year—old girl was killed. her mother is in intensive care. translation: imagine the tragedy of the father who was working - when it happened and came home to look for his daughter — with his bare hands dragging her from beneath the rubble. russia, as ever, is trying to pull as much of ukraine into the grasps of its invasion.
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into the grasps of its invasion — a cycle kyiv wants to break. james waterhouse, bbc news, kyiv. let's get some of the day's other news now. a 33—year—old man, arrested during saturday's fa cup final at wembley stadium, has been charged over a football shirt which appeared to refer to the 97 fans who died as a result of the 1989 hillsborough disaster. james white, from warwickshire, was charged with displaying threatening or abusive writing likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress. the leader of hong kong's opposition league of social democrats party has been detained by police in hong kong on the 34th anniversary of the tiananmen square massacre in beijing. she was holding a candle and two flowers when authorities surrounded her and forced her to a police van. a number of other arrests were also made. now, six women have set off today on an epic challenge — to row around the entire coast of great britain. if they complete it, the team will smash a couple of world records — while also carrying out scientific research. our environment correspondentjonah fisher has the story —
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and a warning his report contains some rapid flashing images. tower bridge in central london. the start and, if augurs well, the finish line for the journey of 2000 miles around britain. this is known as the world's toughest rowing race for a reason. the women range in age from 29 to 53. 1.4! if they make it, theirjourney will take them 2,000 miles around the coast of great britain, without ever setting foot on land. six knots! amy is the youngest crew member but the only one to have rowed across the atlantic ocean. this is so much tougher than the atlantic. navigating busy coastal waters can be more dangerous than following a course through the open sea. the land, the ships, you've got rocks, you've got islands. it's just so much more complicated. last year, all three boats that
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attempted to go around britain had to be rescued in the irish sea. the waves were huge — you know, like three stories high. emma somehow kept on filming as her boat capsized. this year, she's the skipper, and if the six women make it back to tower bridge in under 51 days, they'll be record—breakers. this is a nonstop challenge which means the crew are going to be taking it in turns — rowing for two hours, then having a breakfor two hours. let's just take a quick look at the living quarters down here. emma, talk me through what we've got here. this is where we are. this is our sleeping bags. we've got food that we keep under here. we get freeze—dried food, so it's nice and light. add boiling hot water there — that's our cooker. dare i ask you, emma, what about showers? what about toilets? the shower is a wet wipe and the toilet is a bucket. that's the loo?! there is also a scientific component to the trip. as they row, the boat will be sampling the sea water,
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recording aquatic sounds and looking for the presence of tiny plastic particles called microplastics. when they leave the thames, the crew will head west along the south coast, before starting the long and potentially treacherous row north towards scotland. jonah fisher, bbc news. good luck to them. we wanted to end this half—hour with some images of a so called strawberry moon that has been captured over england. the full moon marking the start of meteorological summer in the uk was seen glowing in the sky late on saturday night into the early hours of sunday. although, as you can see from these images, it appeared spectacular, the strawberry moon was not considered a supermoon. the first supermoon of 2023 — when a full moon is also at its closest point to earth along this orbit — is expected in august.
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keep this picture is coming into us. they are fantastic. you can see more of the pictures on the website and app. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. good evening. more blue sky and sunshine for the vast majority of us across the uk again today. always cooler and breezier towards the south coast. here's hastings in east sussex. again, in the west county. down in northern ireland, seeing plenty of blue sky and some lenticular clouds, as spotted by one of our weather watchers in the north—west of england over the higher ground of the lake district. now, next week, not a lot is set to change. it's dry and it's settled. there will be a lot more sunshine to come in the forecast. again, always best out in the west. there will be some more low cloud moving in from the north sea.
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plenty of moisture there overnight tonight. the cloud a little more extensive. it's got a head start, of course — it didn't clear for some spots all day, moving into parts of eastern wales and across the south of england, also the central belt. but it's mild underneath that cloud. temperatures in high single figures, clear skies further west, perhaps a bit of mist forming into tomorrow morning, but it won't take too long to lift and clear. and of course, that low cloud is set to burn its way back towards the coast, maybe a few spots of but otherwise dry underneath that cloud. and the cloud could lingerfor some time, perhaps across the wash, perhaps parts of lincolnshire as well, where temperatures will be lower with that onshore breeze. high values out towards the west, south west of scotland, maybe parts of northern ireland, 23 or 2a degrees celsius. don't forget, the sun is strong at this time of year and the uv levels will be high, will remain high. now, as we head through tuesday, we see the same thing all over again. perhaps that low cloud more extensive, though, through the morning. again, we are expecting to burn back towards the coast, perhaps producing a few spots of drizzle here and there. some of that cloud lingering again, cooler on the coast,
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warmer further west, which is where we'll see the best of the day's sunshine yet again — 22 to 2a degrees celsius, maybe for some spots. but things do start to change as the week wears on. now we'll start to see our area of high pressure just gradually migrate its way further eastwards. this is storm oscar, as named by the spanish met service. it's moving its way northwards. towards the south—west of england in particula. maybe a few showers across the south. we join a southeasterly wind across south—eastern areas of england, just bringing some much warmer air our way. so across london, for example, through the weekend, we could see highs of 28 degrees.
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this is bbc news, the headlines. india's railways minister says the cause and those responsible for the country's worst train crash in decades have been identified. rescue efforts have now ended. 275 people are known to have died and more than 1,000 injured. the family of a 17—year—old boy who died off the coast of bournemouth beach have paid tribute to their "wonderful son and brother". joe abbess got into difficulty in the water on wednesday. a 12—year—old girl, sunnah khan, also died in the incident while eight others were injured. the victims were not known to each other. the oil producers' cartel opec plus — which includes russia — is to extend its cut in daily oil production in a move to stop the further fall of the international price of oil which will lead to higher prices at the pump.
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oil prices skyrocketed with the invasion of ukraine last year.

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