this is bbc news a knife attack in france — four young children and an adult are injured — some are in a critical condition. the children include a british and a dutch national. the suspect is in custody. this video shows the moment the man alleged to have carried out the attack was detained by police. it isa it is a syrian national who has refugee status in sweden. scientists in the us confirm that el nino weather event — which sees warmer water coming to the surface on the pacific ocean — has begun. here in the uk — senior doctors say the nhs is struggling to provide safe and effective care for all cancer patients — with half of the cancer units reporting delays on treatments. and the iconic singer googosh has spoken to the bbc for the first time — talking about her career, women's rights in iran and much more.

hello, welcome to verified live. three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. a man with a knife has attacked nursery school children in the french town of annecy. the victims are as young as three, according to french reports, which say two children and a man are in a life—threatening condition. one of the children attacked is a british national and another is a dutch national. a man was arrested near the scene. the moment of his arrest was captured on camera. take a look. people are screaming in the background. the man in this video injured whilst being arrested, police say he is a syrian who has refugee status in sweden,

with no known links to islamist groups. he has a child who is apparently the same age as the little chldren he attacked. this all happened in the town of annecy, in the french alps. the children, all aged three and under, were on an outing to a park, some in pushchairs. the attacker also stabbed an elderly man walking nearby, before he was overpowered by police. the french president, emmanuel macron, said the nation was in shock, calling it an act of absolute cowardice. phone images taken by witnesses show a bearded man in black knee—length shorts and top, wearing a bandana and sunglasses. france's president has tweeted. emmanuel macron said... the french prime minister, elisabeth borne, says the country

is shaken by the attack and has given more detail about the suspect. we are talking about a syrian national who has refugee status in sweden. and who applied for asylum in france but this was overridden by the swedish one which dates from ten years back. this person in question has no criminal record. neither does he have any kind of psychiatric record. i have to say that we are talking here about infants, very young infants, who have been very seriously injured, and i think that

everyone who is a parent, all of us, are terrifically shocked by this event. it is a terrible thing that has happened. i intervened as soon as possible to make sure that everybody was being cared for and looked after. and of course, everybody in the administration is going to be looking at the refugee status of this individual. as i said, he has refugee status from sweden and therefore because sweden is part of the eu, he can come to france without any particular permission. but i think the message, the most important message is one of solidarity with the children, the six victims, and the parents of

those children as well. i want to underline again how shocked we all are. annecy public prosecutor line bonnet said they're starting to build the elements of the investigation. translation: we have launched a criminal investigation into this massacre. the person in question is arrested and in the police station in annecy. there doesn't seem to be any kind of terrorist motivation, at least apparently. we have no evidence as to terrorist motivation. what we are talking about are four minors and two adults. the children are in a very severe state and are in the intensive care. one of the victims has

been lightly injured. when the police arrived, the assailant had a knife. so the inquest is proceeding to determine the circumstances in which the police were using firearms. and as i said, there is no indication as to motivation of the assailant yet. speaking in the last hour, british foreign secretary james cleverly has also pledged help. we stand ready to support the french authorities in whichever way we can. also aware that one of the children injured was a british national. we have already deployed british consular officials who are travelling to the area to make themselves available to support the family. formerjournalist eleanor

vincent is in annecy and witnessed the moments after the attack. i was approaching that end of the lake, i saw and heard multiple police sirens and a helicopter about to land. i knew immediately there was some very dire emergency situation happening. so i stopped where i was, at the corner of the park near the lake, and started photographing. i observed a channel 26 french tv person with her cameraman. it was somewhat chaotic. the police were trying to keep bicyclists and people from approaching the scene, which was fairly far away from where i was standing. you could see it, but it was closer to the lake where the stabbing occurred in one of the public park areas. we have had some reaction from some more uk politicians. the home secretary suella braverman said that she is appalled by the playground attack in the lakeside park in the

french alps and she said she is appalled by the attack in annecy and her thoughts are with the children, theirfamilies and the her thoughts are with the children, their families and the local community who have been affected by this shocking act. i am in touch with my friend, the french interior minister, she said, her equivalent in france. the labour leader keir starmer has offered his solidarity with france and he says on twitter, horrific news from annecy and my thoughts are with the victims of the shocking attack, their families and the wider community, he said. i want to take you now live to paris. live now to our paris correspondent hugh schofield. what more do we know about the attack? ., .,, what more do we know about the attack? . ., , . . . attack? there are videos circulating of what happened _ attack? there are videos circulating of what happened and _ attack? there are videos circulating of what happened and i _ attack? there are videos circulating of what happened and i have - attack? there are videos circulating of what happened and i have seen i attack? there are videos circulating i of what happened and i have seen the worst of them and they cannot be

broadcast. it is a playground like you see in any town in france with slides and tunnels and swings, and children playing. some of them with parents and guardians, some of them in pushchairs, and then a man breaks in, and these are preschool children. children of a very young age. a man appears very suddenly and before you can realise what has happened, he is attacking the children. it is extremely shocking. there are schemes but what is most upsetting is the way that a scene from ordinary life, very ordinary life, suddenly tilts into a scene of horror and some people in the film do not realise what is going on. a man a browse around obviously looking for young children, —— a man

prowls around. and then he goes and he is caught and there is the police intervening and there is a shot of the man is overpowered. —— and the man is overpowered. it is a young man is overpowered. it is a young man in his early 30s, attacking toddlers, which is extremely upsetting to watch. we know more about him, a syrian national who has refugee status in sweden, so he's not illegal. he is travelling perfectly legally around europe but what is significant is that he was in a relationship, in a marriage, with a swedish woman which apparently has broken up. he had come by himself to france leaving behind a child, a girl of three years old. the growing consensus is that that is the significant factor

because the listener missed angle —— islamist angle is not significant. he calls himself a christian, he had a cross on a medallion around his neck, so it is more likely that it is a troubled psychological story. thanks forjoining us. more on that story on the live page, just go to the website if you want to look at what is happening on the very latest. now i want to take you to ukraine. president zelensky has visited region of kherson, that's been devastated by flood waters after the collapse of a major dam. a mass evacuation is still underway, to get people areas already flooded, or at risk from rising waters. around 600 square kilometres of the southern region is now underwater after the kakhovka

dam was destroyed. alongside the humanitarian, environmental and agricultural disaster, aid agencies are now warning that there is a growing risk from landmines that have been dislodged by the waters, and are now floating downstream. water continues to flood out of the dam's reservoir. in some areas, rescue teams have reported coming underfire. kyiv has accused russia of leaving people to die and said the damage caused to farmland threatens a globalfood crisis. president zelensky says it's impossible to tell how many might die without international assistance and has called for help from outside groups. paul adams sent this report from kyiv. a wartime president with yet another crisis on his hands, thanking rescue workers and volunteers who've been working around the clock since tuesday. the president is angry. he says aid agencies have been slow to respond, that ukraine is dealing with this catastrophe alone. the floodwaters in kherson

are no longer rising, but people are still being rescued from low lying areas. translation: i wish i could get someone for this. one of the russians for what they did. how many people's lives are ruined and for destroying our environment? at a local hospital, a warm welcome for mr zelensky. "how are you being treated?" he asks the women. it seems they have no complaints. ukrainian officials say 230 square miles of land either side of the river is under water, an area the size of the isle of man. but the river sustains agriculture across a huge swathe of southern ukraine. the scope of this disaster is vast. while the eyes of the world are on the flooded streets of kherson, fierce battles are raging to the east. ukraine's long anticipated counteroffensive, which seemed to begin in earnest on monday, is still gathering pace. gunfire the long running battle for bakhmut is now part of that offensive.

ukraine says its forces are making progress, hoping perhaps to cut off russian troops inside the city. russia says its soldiers still control the city, but these battles just outside seem intense. translation: the ukrainian tactics are like this. - first, smaller groups move in with the support of armoured vehicles. they make up a concentrated task force, but they've had no success at all so far. but ukraine's main effort is likely to be further south, near the shattered city of vuhledar. it's been on the front line for months. a dire existence for those hardy civilians who remain. translation: people are constantly dying, regularly wounded. _ they're taken away from the city. we're very afraid. ukraine is deliberately saying very little about its military plans, keeping its enemy guessing. we know there's heavy fighting not far away, but we don't know who's winning. pauladams, bbc news, kyiv.

around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. some other stories now developing in the uk. a 14—year—old boy who died following an incident at a school in west lothian has been named locally as hamdan aslam. emergency services were called to st kentigern�*s academy in blackburn on tuesday afternoon. the teenager was taken to hospital but died shortly afterwards. it is understood another 14—year—old boy was involved in the incident which the school has described as isolated. the head of the metropolitan police has apologised for the force's past failings towards the lgbt+ community. in a letter to the human rights campaigner peter tatchell, sir mark rowley, said scotland yard had systems in place that led to bias and discrimination towards the public over many decades. peter tatchell has described the apology as "groundbreaking". there has been a significant shift in how we do our grocery shopping since the covid pandemic and cost of living crisis. retail data, compiled the analyst firm kantar has told the bbc, shoppers now visit the supermarket less often, spend more on own—label goods and are turning to loyalty

schemes to get discounts. you're live with bbc news. welcome back to the programme. cancer patients across the uk are facing longer waits and more gruelling treatment because there is a "chronic shortage" of doctors and trained staff. that's the warning today from the body representing many cancer specialists. the royal college of radiologists says that half of all cancer units are already reporting frequent delays for chemotherapy and radiotherapy. and it's warning that unless urgent action is taken to plug staffing gaps the situation is likely to get worse. our health reporterjim reed has been speaking to some of the patients affected. come on, derek. come on. carol fletcher from south wales has just finished chemo. there we go, there's a tummy rub.

she was diagnosed with cancer last year after routine screening. i could see that there was something very wrong with that mammogram. i didn't have to be an expert to see that. it looked like two fireworks had gone off in my breast, basically. but it took two months from her screening appointments for carol to be called back for tests. she didn't have surgery until november or chemo untiljanuary. every time i have a consultation or have a operation or have a biopsy, it's at least a two week delay. so it adds up. and that's the main thing, isn't it? catch it early, treat it early, better outcome for everybody. i don't want to be... i don't want to leave my family and that has frightened me. i do not want to be that sort of burden that i'm not here for my family. there is no evidence of recurrent disease below the diaphragm, full stop. cancer targets are being missed across the uk as hospitals struggle to shift a backlog caused in part by covid. doctors say one key reason

is a lack of specialists. staff shortages are really the major contributor and staff shortages are getting worse. we're really concerned for patients. we're really concerned that if we don't do something about this, that the delays are going to get longer. in all four nations of the uk, ministers say investment is being made in staff and equipment. in england, a long—awaited plan to grow the nhs workforce is expected in weeks. all this comes as demand for cancer checks has been soaring. don't carry the worry of cancer with you. l in part because of campaigns like this. in blackpool, in lancashire, for example, the number coming forward for cancer checks is up 60% in the last five years and that rising trend is only expected to continue as the population gets older, putting even more pressure on nhs services.

so we're just going to take a locating photograph. at this clinic, they've had to change the way they work. last year, richard was one of the first to have images of his suspected skin cancer taken by a medical photographer. so this is a very suspicious looking lesion. instead of seeing one doctor face to face, these detailed images can be shared and checked far more quickly. a technique known as teledermatology. it's quick and efficient and it's good use of our time. and without it? without it, oh, i dread to think what we'd be like without teledermatology in all honesty. i think we'd really be struggling and we wouldn't be meeting any of our cancer targets and meeting the needs of our patients in our area. come in, take a seat. thank you. how are you? half of us will get cancer in our lifetime. doctors say new ways of working, new technologies and more staff will all be needed. so more patients like richard,

now back for his final checkup, can hear news like this... and that's fantastic, there's nothing concerning about today so that's really good. 50 no concerns there. fantastic, it's good to be signed off. i jim reed, bbc news, blackpool. more on that story in the next half an hour so do stay with us. an undercover bbc investigation�*s unmasked the man behind a number of websites selling videos of women being sexually assaulted on public transport across east asia. visitors to one of the sites could even order their own tailor—made videos. bbc eye'sjow—yin fung reports from tokyo. this is nagoya injapan. translation: there is a guy looking for a target. - the railway police are running a covert operation, on the hunt to catch sexual assaulters. translation: | would - like to follow him to check his behaviourfor a bit.

sexual violence against women in public is a global phenomenon. but injapan, the problem is so endemic that it has its own name, chikan. translation: you're riding back and forth on a single ticket. - it looks like the kind of behaviour a chikan perpetrator would make. the suspect is taken to the police station for further questioning. chikan has been normalised over the years by its prominence in the adult entertainment industry. but the reality is much more sinister. translation: in the trick of the trade, it felt - like a hand hitting me. takako, not her real name, was only a teenager when she was sexually assaulted on the train for the first time. translation: it started to feel like it was touching and grabbing me. i that's when i finally realised that this was chikan. i was sexually assaulted almost every day.

bbc eye has been investigating a network of websites selling thousands of videos of women being sexually abused on public transport across east asia. this is a horrific business of sexual assault. the websites are run by a shadowy figure known as uncle oi. but who is he? our investigation has led us to tokyo, where we tracked down uncle qi and his close associates. translation: hi. hi, noctis? posing as a potential investor, our undercoverjournalist met with them multiple times, until uncle qi himself agreed to meet us. in this meeting, tang zhuoran, a 27—year—old from china, admits to being uncle oi. the man behind all the websites we have been investigating. translation: how many people do you have in your current team? - translation: i have

a team of 15 people. | he also admits to making huge profits. cashing in on sexual violence against women. translation: our daily | turnover is £550 to £1100. we located an address for him in tokyo and went to put our allegations to him. translation: my name's zhaoyin feng, i'm a reporterfrom the bbc. we know that you are the online persona uncle oi. do you do this for the money or do you enjoy abusing these women? stop, stop, stop! hey! we put our allegations to him. his only response is silence, and then violence. he has since leftjapan. his associates say they are no longer working with him. the country is set to reform its sexual assault laws.

however, campaigners say these changes don't go far enough. zhaoyin feng, bbc news. football now — and west ham are celebrating their first major trophy for 43 years after winning the europa conference league. the english premier league side beat italian serie a team fiorentina 2—1 in the final in prague last night with thousands of fans making the trip. jarrod bowen scored the last—minute goal to seal the win and there'll be a victory parade through the streets of east london later today. there was some controversy during the match — fiorentina's cristiano biraghi was injured by an object thrown from the west ham stands. and there was trouble off the pitch too — west ham fans clashed with riot police after setting off flares following their team's win. while 16 italian fans were arrested for attacking west ham supporters outside a bar. for many west ham supporters, it's a night they're likely

to rememberfor a long time to come — including this sweet young fan who spoke to the bbc after the game. absolutely amazing. this is the best night of my life ever, i can't believe i'm here, i think i am dreaming. i can't believe west ham have won something. west ham are the best club in the world. come on you irons! , one of the most active volcanoes in the round has erupted, in hawaii, have a look at these emerging pitches. the kilauea is in the hawaiian national park. stay with us here on bbc news.

hello. some weather changes are now starting to take place. today really has been more of the same, more of the weather we've become used to. early low cloud burning back towards the east coast and then some warm sunshine. but, down to the south west of us, you can see this lumpy cloud, some showers and some thunderstorms looming. and just ahead of that over the next few days, a feed of much warmer and much more humid air. i think you really will notice the difference. now, this weather is not going to be extreme or certainly unprecedented for the time of year, but it will feel very different, much warmer, much more humid by day and by night, with the chance of some thunderstorms. but it's back to the here and now. apart from the low cloud along the east coast, most of us will continue to see some sunshine, just one or two showers creeping across the isles of scilly. highest temperatures in the west up to around 2a or 25 degrees. tonight, we will see some showersjust creeping towards the south west of england. and here, an increasingly warm and humid feel,

a sign of things to come. the overnight low in plymouth, around 13 degrees, still quite a lot cooler further north and east with some of this low cloud rolling into eastern and central parts of scotland and england, then tending to retreat towards the coast tomorrow to give some spells of sunshine. but there is still the chance of one or two showers down towards the south west, maybe in northern ireland later as well. and temperatures will be climbing. we could see highs of 22, 23 degrees in northwest scotland, but 22 to 27 for wales and for central and southern parts of england. into the weekend, this area of low pressure churning to the southwest of us will throw this weather front northwards and that will bring some hit and miss thunderstorms. there will be places that stay completely dry. there will be others that get a real deluge with hail and gusty winds likely to develop. and just ahead of that band of showers and thunderstorms, an increasingly warm and humid feel. temperatures could get to 29, possibly 30 degrees.

and saturday night will be a very warm and humid one indeed. into sunday, those showers and thunderstorms perhaps becoming a little more widespread, spreading north and east, but there will still be places that avoid them and stay dry with patchy cloud and spells of sunshine. still pretty warm for many of us, maybe just a little bit cooler out towards the west.

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