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it comes as cctv footage emerged that shows a man said to be the suspect for the triple murders. we'll have the latest on the investigation. also tonight — another three—day strike byjunior doctors in england got under way this morning. good news for early breast cancer patients — a big improvement in survival rates over the past 20 years. we have a special report on what life is really like now coming up on bbc news. it is official with a real madrid @ 19—year—old international bellingham and his six year deal from dortmund. good evening. this was the scene a short time ago
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at the university of nottingham where hundreds of students joined the families of the two 19—year—olds who were killed in the city in the early hours of yesterday morning. grace o'malley—kumar was a first—year medical student and a talented hockey player. barnaby webber, also 19, was studying history and played cricket for his university team. the third victim was named today as 65—year—old ian coates — a primary school caretaker. our midlands correspondent navtej johal reports from the vigil. thousands united in grief. these students have come to express their shock and share their sadness at the loss of two of their own. it’s shock and share their sadness at the loss of two of their own.— loss of two of their own. it's hard to find the _ loss of two of their own. it's hard to find the words _ loss of two of their own. it's hard to find the words to _ loss of two of their own. it's hard to find the words to express - loss of two of their own. it's hard i to find the words to express their shock and grief felt across our institution at the senseless loss of two talented students who have had
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other. . , it everywhere. so, look after each other. ., _ ., , ., ., other. barnaby was a talented cricketer studying _ other. barnaby was a talented cricketer studying history. - other. barnaby was a talented cricketer studying history. his| cricketer studying history. his family described their complete devastation. they said he was a beautiful, brilliant, bright young man with everything in life to look forward to. grace was training to be a doctor. she too was a keen cricketer and played hockey for england under 16 is and under 18 is. to herfamily she england under 16 is and under 18 is. to her family she was an adored daughter and sister who was a wonderful and beautiful young lady. the attacks third victim was 65—year—old ian coates who worked on a local school. the head teacher said he was a much loved colleague who always went the extra mile and will be greatly missed. his friend paid tribute to him. he will be greatly missed. his friend paid tribute to him.— paid tribute to him. he was a lovel , paid tribute to him. he was a lovely. lovely _ paid tribute to him. he was a lovely, lovely gentleman. - paid tribute to him. he was a lovely, lovely gentleman. hei paid tribute to him. he was a - lovely, lovely gentleman. he was one of those people who would go out of his way to help anyone and i reckon that's what he was trying to do that morning as well. i've been here three and a half years and there's never a day we don't see him with a
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smile. no matter what came his way, he was always smiling. fin a smile. no matter what came his way, he was always smiling.— he was always smiling. on a day of raw emotion. _ he was always smiling. on a day of raw emotion, now _ he was always smiling. on a day of raw emotion, now there _ he was always smiling. on a day of raw emotion, now there is - he was always smiling. on a day of raw emotion, now there is little i raw emotion, now there is little comfort to be found amid this tragedy. i'm standing just by where the vigil took place in the heart of the university of nottingham campus and it's difficult to put into words what we witnessed. it was raw, visceral, but above all incredibly emotional and upsetting. everybody around me seemed to either be in tears or holding them back. over the last 2a hours we've had a great deal about the investigation, but the timeline. but this was a moment simply for those who loved these two young people to come together and share their grief. detectives continue to question the 31—year—old man held on suspicion of murder. we've been getting a clearer idea today of what happened in the time around the three separate attacks —
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it lasted more than an hour and a half in total. from nottingham here's our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford. the police's only suspect in the triple murder caught on cctv, trying to climb through a hostel window, before being pushed away. it happened at around five in the morning. half way through the attack, police believe he was responsible for. it was filmed at this supported living complex for homeless and other vulnerable people. on the footage you see somebody come out of the hostel and apparently tell the man to leave. he then does so, heading down the road, in the direction of the place where ian coates was later found stand. ——of the place where ian coates was later found stabbed. the flowers marking where ian coates died are just around the corner. we don't yet have the name of the suspect, but we do know he is originally from west africa, has no criminal record, but does have a history of mental health issues. he has been in the uk for many years, and has settled status,
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meaning he has permission to stay. at the scene where the two 19—year—old students were murdered the investigation had clearly intensified today. police officers were searching undergrowth and collecting cctv from local businesses. it was at 4.04 yesterday morning that police were called to ilkeston road, where the two students were found dead. barnaby webber and grace o'malley—kumar had been walking home together after an end of exams party. next, police believe the suspect tried to break into the supported living complex in mapperley road. they think he then stabbed ian coates to death in magdala road and stole his van. soon afterwards, the van was used to run over three people, in the milton street area. a mile—and—a—half from there, the suspect was detained using a taser in bentink road. i can tell the house that the police are working flat out to establish the full facts, and provide support to everyone affected. they are currently keeping an open mind as to the motives behind these attacks, but i can confirm nottinghamshire police are being assisted in their inquiries by counter—terror
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police, though this does not mean that it is currently being treated as a terrorist attack. after the drama of yesterday morning's raids, the police are now working methodically through the evidence, hoping they can build a case against the man being held on suspicion of murder. as well as the three murder victims, a man remains in a critical condition in hospital. danieljoins us from nottingham now. do we know any more about why this happened, daniel? as you heard from the home secretary, counterterrorism police are still involved in assisting in the investigation but they haven't taken it over. that suggests it hasn't become clear there was a political or religious motivation for the attack but it is baffling. why would it be that someone at four o'clock in the morning would suddenly stab two apparently complete strangers to death on this street and then walk across the
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city, try and break into a homeless hostel and then go round the corner when he was turned away, stab someone and then steal their fan, then go into town and try and run three people down before eventually being stopped. it's an odd sequence of events particularly at that time of events particularly at that time of day and so i think the motivation will go on being a very important part of the investigation. the investigation _ part of the investigation. the investigation continues. police have said from the start they've got an open mind about the motive and counterterrorism police are still involved. , ., ., ., , , ., involved. they are and at this stage involved. they are and at this stage in the investigation _ involved. they are and at this stage in the investigation when _ involved. they are and at this stage in the investigation when you - involved. they are and at this stage in the investigation when you have l involved. they are and at this stage | in the investigation when you have a suspect in custody who has been charged, it's all about building the case. we've seen those offices today going through the undergrowth, going around local businesses, asking for cctv. you can imagine that in the incident room they are starting to assemble a set of evidence which they will then take to the cps and say, do we now have enough evidence to charge the person in custody? they still have some time for which
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they can hold their suspect but it has to be in the next day or two that a decision has to be made whether this man can be charged with the murders of these three people. thank you. thousands of nhs appointments in england are thought to have been cancelled, as the another three—day strike byjunior doctors began this morning. members of the british medical association walked out from 7am after rejecting a 5% pay offer from the government. with the heat placing extra demands on a&e units, bosses have urged people to use services sensibly. our health correspondent, dominic hughes, reports. once again, junior doctors across england are back on the picket lines, arguing their work is a matter of life—or—death, that their current pay fails to reflect the responsibilities of a junior doctor. a first yearjunior doctor will be running a hospital at night, so they will be the first port of call for about 200 patients. they will also be the one
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to restart your heart if it stops in the middle of the night. a first yearjunior doctor is on £14 an hour. we are just asking for £5—£10 per hour more for every doctor. at royal preston hospital, 40% of theirjunior doctors who are bma members havejoined the 72 hour walk out. this is a busy emergency department and it is for emergencies. they have planned ahead, but the hospital boss is frustrated. we have had six months now or so of strikes, and each subsequent strike becomes more difficult to plan for, there is more disruption. we support ourjunior doctors, and we understand why they need to go on strike, but we have to get a resolution to this, because the only people who are now suffering are our patients. the health service has been faced with a series of strikes since before christmas, and while those staff who are working on strike days have dealt with the day—to—day demands, the impact of strike after strike has been building up. half of all today's planned surgery
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has been cancelled at preston. waiting list for endoscopy, waiting list for surgical procedures. for doctors trying to work through an already significant backlog of cases, the strike is another frustration. immediately after the strike i'll be going through my list of patients who have been cancelled to ensure that, for instance, somebody who has had a scan, and they were due to be seen by me, and that scan finding requires attention, that could get delayed. so that is the kind of cumulative impact. and the good weather could add to the pressures, in an already busy emergency department. while we are here for anyone who needs us, we are delighted when patients don't become unwell, don't become injured and don't need to attend the hospital. but even as hospitals and patients face the fall out of another strike, the government is insisting its pay offer to doctors is fair. we have made them an offer — 5% plus a lump sum — in line with what has been offered for paramedics, for midwives, for nurses, for many others with the nhs, and today, unfortunately, thejunior doctors have
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refused to move at all. this dispute feels a long way from being resolved. with hospital consultants voting on strike action, and junior doctors in scotland also set to walk out, there is more to come. dominic hughes, bbc news. 78 migrants are now confirmed to have died after their boat capsized off the coast of greece. more than 100 were rescued but it's not clear how many were on board. authorities fear the death toll will rise. this is the deadliest tragedy involving migrants so far this year, it's thought they were trying to reach italy from libya. more women with early breast cancer are surviving thanks to improvements in treatments. a study found that women were 66% less likely to die from the disease within five years of diagnosis than they were 20 years ago. our medical editor fergus walsh is here. this is reassuring news for patients regarding the uk's most common cancer.
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more than 55,000 women — and nearly 400 men — are diagnosed with breast cancer each year. researchers at oxford university tracked around half a million women in england with early invasive breast cancer that had not spread elsewhere in the body. all had surgery as their primary treatment. it found those diagnosed in the 1990s had a 14% chance of dying from the disease in the first five years. but for those diagnosed from 2010 it was much lower, at 5%. it means most women whose disease is caught early can expect to be long term cancer survivors. so what's behind the improvement? cancer research uk, which funded the study, said it includes — more targeted treatments. new hormonal and chemotherapies. advances in radiotherapy. plus improvements in detection and public awareness.
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myrate mackenzie who's 69 and from surrey was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002 after finding a swelling under her arm. she's grateful for all her treatment, but remembers feeling very scared at the beginning. i had no idea what my future was going to be, you know, how long i was going to live, oranything, and i had the chemotherapy, then surgery, radiotherapy, drug therapy, so, the whole book thrown at me, but it's clearly worked. but there are concerns about the current state of cancer care with severe staff shortages. the charity breast cancer now says many patients are waiting far too long for a diagnosis and for treatment and without urgent action we risk seeing decades of progress unravelling. the time is 6:15. our top story this evening.
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emotional tributes have been paid to the three victims of yesterday's attacks in nottingham. and still to come — the wreck of a world war ii submarine that's been missing for 80 years has found off the coast of greece. on bbc london, junior doctors start their three day strike over pay, with the hot weather adding to nhs pressure. and get your skates on as a venue with two olympic sized ice rinks is opening in east london. this is the image north korea likes to project to the world — but the truth is very different. it's been more than three years since north korea sealed its borders during the pandemic. no—one has able to leave or enter the country since. for a long time even food and medical supplies were stopped. three people living in north korea have risked their lives to tell the bbc what is happening. we've been secretly communicating
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with them for months with the help of an organisation in south korea, called daily nk. those people can't be identified for their own safety, so, in this first exclusive report, we have used animations to tell their stories. they tell us that food is so scarce their neighbours are starving to death. this report is from our seoul correspondentjean mackenzie — a warning it contains some distressing images. these supplies are so low, people have started dying. this chilling testimony comes from inside north korea. once, i didn't eat for two days. i only drank water. recently people have been knocking on the door, asking for food, - because they are so hungry. hearing from people inside this
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isolated country is extremely rare. but with fears the country is on the brink of a famine, we have been secretly communicating with people who live there. we are using actors and animations to illustrate their words, and have changed their names to protect them. in our village, five people have starved to death. chan ho is a construction worker living near the chinese boarder. in one family, the wife was too ill to work, so the two children were surviving by begging. in the end, all three of them died. at first, i was afraid of dying from covid, but then i began to worry about starving to death. at the start of the pandemic, north korea completely sealed its borders. these pictures released by the regime are all the world's been able to see. for years, no—one has been allowed to enter the country. authorities even stopped
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food and medicine from crossing the border. in south korea, we began to get reports of chronic food shortages, and so we teamed up with an organisation here. daily nk has sources inside the country who were able to get our questions to people. this isji yeon, who lives in the north korean capital pyongyang, the wealthiest part of the country. she tells us even here supplies are running dangerously low. once i didn't eat for two days. i thought i was going to die in my sleep at night. my husband and i survived by thinking ten more days, and then another ten days, thinking, if something happens, we might starve, but at least we will feed our kids.
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there are lots of beggars now. if they are lying down, we check them and usually find they're dead. there are others who kill themselves at home or disappear into the mountains. what these people are telling us evokes memories of the devastating famine of the late 1990s, known as the arduous march, which killed as many as three million people. for the past 10, 15 years, we rarely heard of death by starvation. that was something that happened in the late 1990s or early 2000s, but to hear it happening, again, you know, in the past two, three years, i think, you know, it is taking us back to the arduous march, which was the most difficult period for the north korean people. when covid finally breached the country's borders, the authorities banned people from leaving their homes. during one lockdown,
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i know of five people that were trapped in their house for ten days. they were half dead by the time they were let out. they managed by sneaking out at night to get food. but the speckster of another famine has not stopped kim jong—un from funnelling his limited finances into building nuclear weapons. the money he spent on missile tests last year would have been enough, according to some estimates, to ensure his entire population was properly fed. the people never wanted this endless weapons development that brings hardship to generation after generation. i want to live in a society where we don't starve, where my neighbours are alive. north koreans are more isolated than ever before. it is getting harder for them to survive, and impossible to help them.
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jean is with me now. how has the north korean government responded? well, firstly, the very fact they did respond to us, which they have, is very unusual. they didn't actually refute any of the specific details in our report, but they did say that the report was not entirely factual, because it had been derived from testimonies from anti—government force, it also went on to say that the north korean government prioritised the interest of its people, even during difficult time bus the mere fact they have even mentioned difficult times is interesting, because this is a regime that is well—known for pretending things are fine, when they are not. so i think this gives us an indication sophie, ofjust how serious this situation is at the moment. , serious this situation is at the moment-— serious this situation is at the moment. , ., ., , ., , moment. they were harrowing stories we heard, moment. they were harrowing stories we heard. tell— moment. they were harrowing stories we heard, tell us _ moment. they were harrowing stories we heard, tell us more _ moment. they were harrowing stories we heard, tell us more about - moment. they were harrowing stories we heard, tell us more about how - moment. they were harrowing stories we heard, tell us more about how you were able to obtain them? it impossible to talk directly to people in north korea so we have had to work with this network of sources
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to work with this network of sources to get our questions to people and get the answers back, it has been a painstaking process, it has taken us many months as we have had to wait for the answer, they have been sent backin for the answer, they have been sent back in hundred of instalment, it was too risky to send one complete answer at a time, but given how isolated north korea is at the moment, and the extent of the suffering we thought people were enduring, we decided that in spite of the challenges this was such an important story to report on. b, important story to report on. a fascinating report, you can see more on this story on the documentary north korea: the insiders. that's on bbc two at seven o'clock tonight, or you can also watch it on the bbc iplayer. now, this was the scene in milan cathedral this afternoon as italy bid farewell to its former prime minister, silvio berlusconi, with a state funeral. he died on monday at the age of 86. his coffin was carried
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in to applause. crowds outside chanted his name. a day of national mourning has been declared, the first time that a former prime minister of italy has been honoured in this way. the one—time cruise singer who led italy with no prior political experience became a billionaire tycoon, whose business empire spanned media to soccer. more than 80 years after it went missing on a top—secret world war ii mission, the submarine hms triumph has been found off the coast of greece. at the time she was lost, the submarine was known to have 64 people onboard. as nicholas witchell reports, the wreck�*s discovery by a greek diver ends a nearly 25—year—long search for the vessel that was one of the royal navy's most successful world war ii subs, sinking 15 enemy ships injust eight months. she set sail on boxing day 1941, supposedly on one last mission before heading for home. but hms triumph was never seen again.
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she was lost with all hands, a crew of more than 60. these are some of the last photographs of crew members, on shore leave in egypt. the highly decorated crew of submariners selected for a secret mission. theirfate has been a mystery for more than 80 years, until now. because the wreck of hms triumph has finally been found by greek divers. she lies more than 200 metres down in the aegean sea. extraordinary. extraordinary detail. this is amazingly intact. it's an escape hatch. robinjanvrin is a former naval officer himself. his uncle michael was 23. he was the submarine's second—in—command. i was extraordinarily moved to see the detail.
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it looks as if this is a true war grave, and within are 64 souls. one of which is my uncle. the closed hatches tell their own story. no one escaped from hms triumph. descendants of those who were lost finally have answers. for me, this has been the end of a 50 year question mark. and i spent 15 of those actively looking for triumph. so, it's the end of a long journey and the end of a quest. there is a little community here who are getting closure after all these years on the where, when and how of what happened to hms triumph. sunk by a mine. hms triumph, a reminder of the losses suffered by british submariners in world war ii. back to our main story, the vigil at
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the university of nottingham for the youngest victims of the attacks in the early hours of yesterday morning. it was very difficult to watch wasn't it it was very raw, very emotional, the devastated families there, but it was clear they wanted to be there and to say thank you for the support? absolutely sophie, there were some emotional moments throughout the course of this very powerful vigil, but i think the most moving was when the two fathers stood up on the platform, and addressed this huge sea of faces in front of them. and the courage and the emotion with which they spoke to the huge crowd in front of them, was absolutely palpable and i think the moment that will stay with people, perhaps the longest, is when david webber, who was still clearly so consumed with grief, said to the crowd, they have lost my child, i have lost my baby boy. and that caused a huge ripple
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of a reaction across the crowd. it has been an incredibly emotional afternoon here. bud has been an incredibly emotional afternoon here.— has been an incredibly emotional afternoon here. and very difficult time for nottingham _ afternoon here. and very difficult time for nottingham for - afternoon here. and very difficult time for nottingham for the - afternoon here. and very difficult time for nottingham for the city | time for nottingham for the city itself, i was there just yesterday and there was such a sense of shock and there was such a sense of shock and so many questions still, people still not clear what has happened. absolutely, i think the questions one of the reasons why, when i was speaking to people this morning, we were at a church in city centre and people were come together pay their respects, to light candle, lay flower there was a sense of fear, people scared about what this incident had done to the city, how it had transformed it. there is a hope that the city will come together, that it will recover, move beyond this, but i think for the time being, that feels still like it is quite far away.— thank you. time for a look at the weather. here's tomasz schafernaker. sophie, thank you and the heat wave continues for some of us, temperatures in one or two spots have once again approached 30
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degrees, it is not quite but nearly, and the outlook remains very warm, yes, a few scattered showers on the horizon, not enough new the short—term, some of us really would like some rain but this is the outlook for the next few day, low pressure to the west of our neighbourhood scooping up that heat from the southern climbs and pushing it in our direction and this pattern isn't likely to change in the short even midterm, so this is what the forecast looks like for thursday morning, a lot of clear sunny weather with temperatures typically in the mid—teens, and then it is pretty much sunshine all round, across the uk, there will be a few showers is and thunderstorms breaking out, i think across parts of northern scotland, lightning symbol here indicates the possibility possibility of one or two shower, this is where we had one today, very isolated but other than that, sunny weather across scotland. 26 degree, 27 in the north—west of england, could be some showers and thunderstorms breaking out across
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the hills of wales, maybe down in the hills of wales, maybe down in the moors as well but on the whole, it is a sunny day, temperatures again in the high 20s for some of us, now that low pressure i showed you to the west, south—west of us, you to the west, south—west of us, you can see it on the pressure chart, couple of weather fronts spiralling into this low pressure, that means outbreaks of rain starting to nudge closer, i think on friday, we will see some showers may be clipping south—west parts of england, possibly nudging into wales and into northern ireland, so very much western parts of the uk, but across the rest of the country, it is another hot one, notice that the temperatures a bit more uniform, 26 in london and glasgow and on the north sea coast with a subtle change in the wind direction, we will see the temperatures rising. saturday into sunday, that is when the shower also become more widespread, good news for gardens and park, i want to emphasise this is good new, even though it is weekend, we would like some rainfall but there will be sunshine round as well, so hopefully
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won't rain over your barbecue, you can see the temperatures

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