live from london, this is bbc news. 41 people, mostly students, are killed in an attack on a school in western uganda by rebels linked to the islamic straight group. you western uganda by rebels linked to the islamic straight group.- the islamic straight group. you are tellin: us the islamic straight group. you are telling us the _ the islamic straight group. you are telling us the borders _ the islamic straight group. you are telling us the borders are - the islamic straight group. you are telling us the borders are secured, i telling us the borders are secured, security is tight, i want the security is tight, i want the security to tell us where they were when these killers came. fix, security to tell us where they were when these killers came.— security to tell us where they were when these killers came. a day after visitin: when these killers came. a day after visiting ukraine _ when these killers came. a day after visiting ukraine a _ when these killers came. a day after visiting ukraine a group _ when these killers came. a day after visiting ukraine a group of _ when these killers came. a day after visiting ukraine a group of african i visiting ukraine a group of african leaders meet vladimir putin in russia and call for peace talks. teachers in england announced two more days of strike action as part of a long—running pay dispute. and they fly passed fit for a king, aircraft spell out the nations of charles rex as part of the trooping the colour birthday celebrations in london. —— the initials.

hello, i'm samantha simmonds. 41 people, mostly students, have been killed in one of the deadilest attacks in uganda. the massacre happened at a secondary school in mpondwe in the west of the country. survivors say the teenage students were killed with machetes before a bomb was thrown into a dormitory. as well as the dead, six students were also abducted and eight are critically injured. security forces are tracking down rebels from the allied democratic forces, or adf, which is linked to the islamic state group and allegedly carried out the attack. police say the fighters had crossed the border from the democratic republic of the congo. the adf has been operating from inside the drc for the past two decades. the mayor of mpondwe provided an update on the death toll of the attack. the secondary school,

where the suspected rebels could be adf. i talked to the school and they murdered on the spot by killing 22 students from this school and then threw a bomb in hostel that also killed 17 students. now the total at the school is going up to 39 and, within the community, as they were going back, they also murdered two people, a female and a male. this is bringing bringing up the number to 41. this local resident expressed her anger as she questioned the ugandan authorities ability to protect their people. if they are telling us the borders are secured, security is tight, i want the security to tell us where they were when these killers came to kill our people. they are rebels that came to kill our people. is this security within uganda?

why is it that we see them scattered here? where were they at night? because we are told guns... people heard the gunshots as early as 10pm and security could not come to compound the situation. now this time they come in thousands. where have they been? the information minister of uganda, chris baryomunsi, says that the hunt is on to find the attackers. they are already on the ground and the security and intelligence officers are on the ground. a search has already been mounted to see whether we can recover and get back all the six who were abducted but also get to the killers where the hunt is on. and our army and security officers, intelligence officers, are combing the bushes around the area. and we hope to be able to capture these terrorists and also save the six students who were abducted.

so the border is porous, so they could have crossed through those areas which are not secured. but all this would be found out. and if it is true that they have been loitering in the area for the last two days, we have to find out whether there could be local collaborators in the area because it was also surprising, because we have an operation in the drc which is done jointly by the forces from uganda and drc, we know the bases have been destroyed over the adf. these are the marauding terrorists who have beenjust in the bush. so they crossed into uganda. but we shall find out the details, how they could have been in the area for a few days without being detected.

adf is an islamist group that originated in uganda. they waged war. the attackers were about five in number. they were initially led by ugandans and they waged war against the yoweri museveni government in the 1990s. they were based in that same region in the rwenzori mountains and they were pushed in the �*90s into the drc. but even then, their methods of operation were very similar to what happened friday night. they burned villages, attacked travellers on buses, and in 1998 they had attacked a technical school and killed about 80 students there. they burned their dormitories down as well. but in the last couple of decades, they've only been based in eastern drc, except for 2021, when a series of suicide bombs in kampala were blamed on them. the rebels now say they are linked

to the islamic state. the community is in mourning. it's in so much shock. it also brings memories for those who were alive then of what used to happen in the �*90s. so the community have been here before, have been at the hands of this kind of terrorism from the adf. and the motive this time seems to be just the same — destabilise communities, give the security forces sort of the idea to say, you can't fight us, you can't break us down. it's very horrifying, the community... we've seen photos of parents crying, children, some of them who are injured in hospital and trying to get care. in sudan, violence erupted in mid april, a civil war effectively, more than 3000 people have been killed with 6000 injured since that conflict erupted in the middle of april, that's coming from the country's health minister speaking to a saudi owned tv, saying only half of khartoum's hospitals are

still operating and all of the hospitals in west darfur state were out of service, but that death toll, 3000 people have been killed since that fighting erupted in mid april, 6000 injured in sudan. vladimir putin has been holding talks in st petersburg with a delegation from seven african nations who've called for peace talks to end to the war in ukraine. mr putin told the south african president, cyril ramaphosa, and his colleagues that improving ties with african countries was a priority. he praised what he called their balanced position on the war. many african countries have been hit by the cut in exports of grain and fertiliser as a result of the russian invasion. in his opening remarks, mr ramaphosa said he hoped the talks could lead to the end of the ukrainian conflict. we do firmly believe that this war must be settled, and it must be settled through negotiations

and through diplomatic means. the war cannot go on forever. all wars have to be settled and come to an end at some stage. and we are here to communicate a very clear message that we would like this war to be ended. we say so because this war is having a negative impact on the african continent and indeed on many other countries around the world. 0ur bbc africa reporter, shingai nyoka, is in zimbabwe's capital, harare, and has sent this update about the visit. well, as you mentioned, those say that the leaders of seven people, representatives from seven countries, met with president putin

and essentially expressed concern about the stability in the region. and they called on him to ensure that there's stability in that region. they also expressed concern about food security. president cyril ramaphosa from south africa, who is leading that delegation, presented a ten—point plan, if you like, or the key elements of their mission. firstly, he said that they were there to listen, that they were there also to support previous peace proposals, that they wanted to ensure that the blockages that have stopped grain and fertiliser from moving from ukraine in the black sea to africa, that they be allowed free passage. and as you heard there, he essentially wants russia to respect sovereignty. he also raised the issue of prisoners of war that are in russia, as well as children

who have been abducted, allegedly, as ukraine says, into russia. president putin interrupted the presentations by the african delegation very briefly to defend his position, essentially saying that the reason for the instability was the coup d'etat from 2014. it was his version of history. and he also said that he was open to the children being returned to their parents and that they had been evacuated for their safety. so clearly a very defensive position from president vladimir putin. but that meeting is still ongoing. yeah. as you say, president putin giving his own version of events. but he did warmly welcome the african leaders, didn't he? and he did say that we are open for dialogue. do analysts really think, though, that this will lead to any hopeful talks between ukraine and russia? i don't think that there really

was an expectation that anything would emerge from this particular meeting, even though president putin has welcomed the dialogue. he said that they were not averse to having dialogue with ukraine and that their previous meetings or previous proposals — that they have acceded to. it's really not clear the extent to which he respects this particular mission. as we saw yesterday when they arrived in ukraine, there were explosions that that were heard outside of kyiv. and to many people, that really was an indication of how russia is reacting to this particular mission. but on the face of it, he welcomes it. whether there'll be any change as a result of this meeting, i don't really think that anybody has an expectation that he is going to change his mind about the war in ukraine.

those negotiations are now over. they lasted more than three hours and russia said they are welcoming all initiatives for peace. the egyptian park —— prime minister said the african states had to continue their efforts to seek a resolution to the conflict between russia and ukraine and a ceasefire would pave the way for serious negotiations. more on that as we get it. the metropolitan police have named the four people found dead in hounslow. they are michal wlodarczyk, monika wlodarczyk, maja wlodarczyk, and dawid wlodarczyk by the metropolitan police. police officers forced entry into the property in hounslow before discovering two children. let's bring you some stories from the uk... a man charged with the murder of three people in nottingham on tuesday has appeared in court. he is accused of stabbing university

students barnaby webber and grace 0'malley—kumar, and school caretaker, ian coates. the 31—year—old is also charged with attempted murder after three people were hit by a van. he's been remanded in custody. teachers in england will strike on two more days injuly in their long—running dispute with the government over pay. the national education union says teachers will take action on wednesdayjuly 5th and fridayjuly 7th. the government says the strikes will cause damage to learning and disruption to parents. there's a warning that uk homeowners who remortgage may have to pay nearly £3,000 extra in their annual repayments from next year. the think tank the resolution foundation, which campaigns on living standards, is predicting a mortgage crunch over the coming years as cheap deals run out and interest rates rise. a search and rescue operation has found no new survivors, nor recovered more bodies,

from the boat carrying hundreds of migrants which sank off the coast of greece on wednesday. 78 people are confirmed to have died but up to 500 remain unaccounted for after the overcrowded vessel sank in one of the deepest parts of the mediterranean sea. nine suspected people smugglers have been arrested, and the greek authorities are facing mounting questions over whether more could have been done to prevent the disaster. 0ur reporter, sofia bettiza, is in kalamata. the operation continues today here in southern greece because up to 500 people could still be missing at sea. many of them are feared to be women and children who could have been trapped in the boat. this is the third day that officials are looking for survivors but nobody has been found yet. that's partly because this is a very complicated operation because this accident happened in one of the deepest parts of the mediterranean sea.

on monday, nine people who have been arrested, all from egypt, all accused of people—smuggling, will appear in court and will have to answer questions from a judge here in kalamata and hopefully this will help us piece together what exactly happened because we keep hearing conflicting reports about why the boat capsized and why the greek coastguard did not intervene sooner. the un has called for an investigation into what happened and they also said that the greek authorities had a moral and legal obligation to help the people they found at sea. the attack in uganda is said to have been carried out by adf. will ross explained how rare it is for uganda

to experience this kind of attack. in the last couple of years there have been small scale bomb attacks including the capital kampala that the authorities have blamed on this adf group, but western uganda has not been seen as particularly vulnerable to attacks by this group, and certainly the presence of the ugandan army, working with the congolese military, may have provoked the group into this attack, if indeed it was the adf, because we only have the official saying it was. but parents will be absolutely desperate now, also knowing that the army says that the rebels were in that area for about two days before the attack happened, so some questions about intelligence and why

they were not picked up before the attack took place. but horrific news coming out of western uganda and is very reminiscent of some of the attacks that happened way back in the 1990s, committed by the adf in that area, largely on schools, possibly because that creates large waves of publicity but it's also possible they may have been trying to recruit as well and sees people. but we are yet to hear whether the ugandan military has had any success as it tries to pursue the rebels across the border and rescue those people who have been abducted. the first minister of scotland, humza yousaf, is urging the uk government to step up efforts to secure the release of a scottish blogger who's been jailed

in india for six years. in a letter to rishi sunak, the first minister said jagtar sinthohal had been wrongfully imprisoned. mr sinthohal was in punjab for his wedding when he was arrested over an alleged murder conspiracy. 0ur news correspondent, jamie mcivor, has more on this. he is from dumbarton. his family claim he has been tortured and forced to sign blank confession documents, a claim strongly denied. he has been detained in a number of prisons over the years, accused of funding the purchase of weapons used to assassinate hindu political and religious leaders. he claims his arrest was politically motivated, and earlier this week his brother met the new first minister of scotland. it met the new first minister of scotland. . , ., ., , scotland. it was a really positive meetin: , scotland. it was a really positive meeting, straightaway _ scotland. it was a really positive meeting, straightaway after - scotland. it was a really positive meeting, straightaway after the | meeting, straightaway after the meeting — meeting, straightaway after the meeting he has called forjagtar's

release _ meeting he has called forjagtar's release and written to rishi sunak. i don't _ release and written to rishi sunak. i don't know— release and written to rishi sunak. i don't know what he can do because it is not_ i don't know what he can do because it is not within their reach to bring — it is not within their reach to bring him _ it is not within their reach to bring him back home but it is within the uk _ bring him back home but it is within the uk government's reach. i�*ve bring him back home but it is within the uk government's reach. i've got a statement — the uk government's reach. i've got a statement here _ the uk government's reach. i've got a statement here from _ the uk government's reach. i've got a statement here from the - the uk government's reach. i've got a statement here from the uk - the uk government's reach. i've got l a statement here from the uk foreign office, it says it has raised concerns including the allegations of torture with the indian authorities on more than 100 occasions. it also says that consular staff visit him regularly to check on his welfare, the most recent visit was last month. meanwhile the uk foreign secretary most recently discussed mr singh johal�*s case with india's external affairs minister in march. a former barclays trader who blew the whistle on a fraud which he says was ordered from the top of the financial system has spoken publicly for the first time. peterjohnson, who was later jailed in the scandal, confirmed that he'd sought to alert central banks to interest rate manipulation, only to be instructed against his wishes to take part in it. evidence uncovered by the bbc indicates pressure on him to lie about interest rates came

from the bank of england and uk government — something the government's denied. andy verity has this exclusive report. for petejohnson, the last 16 years are filled with painful memories. i think the hardest day of my life, i had to go and tell my father. i burst into tears. i felt i'd sort of let him down. a former barclays trader, he blew the whistle on a huge scandal during the financial crisis where banks were lying, understating the interest rates they pay to borrow cash on instructions from top managers. they call it lowballing, and banks later paid billions of dollars in fines for it. in a recorded phone call in october

2008, he told the us central bank all about it. audio: three months' libors have come in at 3.53. - so it's much lower than yesterday's. but please don't believe that, its absolute rubbish. i have to say the libors are incorrect and they are too low. but on the 29th october 2008, his immediate boss, mark dearlove, reluctantly passed on an instruction from above to take part in the very fraud he'd sought to expose. barclays board directors had come under pressure from the top of the financial system. but it wasn't board directors who

got prosecuted or central bankers. instead, the serious fraud office indicted peterjohnson for a much smaller so—called interest rate manipulation that the us courts have now decided wasn't illegal and broke no rules. believing he'd lose at trial, he pleaded guilty and in 2016 went to jail. were you ordered by your bosses to post false libor rates under pressure from the bank of england? yes or no? no comment. what were you thinking at that moment when i confronted you? i was thinking, damn right i was. you said no comment. i had been advised by my lawyers to just say nothing. but you would have liked to have said yes. oh, absolutely. the serious fraud office said nine traders knowingly rigged rates for their own benefit and juries in the court of appeal had agreed they committed a crime. whilst the real villains got off scot free, the scapegoats, including some whistle—blowers, face coercion and injustice. in a newly published book,

i've revealed peterjohnson�*s story and mps are now demanding a renewed parliamentary inquiry. the house was misled from all the evidencel that's available to us. they want cases sent back to the courts. the bank of england said it had cooperated fully with the serious fraud office investigation. the treasury said the government didn't seek to influence individual banks' libor submissions. barclays declined to comment. andy verity, bbc news. king charles has become the first monarch in more than 30 years to take part in trooping the colour on horseback. thousands of people turned out to watch his birthday parade — among them our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. finally, it was a birthday parade for him. guards! royal salute! present arms! god save the king plays. king charles took the salute in his own right as monarch.

the king was on horseback on a rather friskier mount than he might have wished. princes george and louis and princess charlotte were taken to watch from a window overlooking horse guards as the parade got under way. on the dias, queen camilla in an outfit modelled on the uniform of the grenadier guards, of which she is now honorary colonel. and the princess of wales in emerald green — she's colonel of the irish guards. for the first time in more than 30 years, all five of the foot guard regiments were on parade. the colour being trooped was that of the welsh guards. and then back up the mall to buckingham palace. a carriage ride for the children,

with george leading the waving. the king led the principal members of the family onto the palace balcony for the fly—past, which couldn't take place on coronation day because of the weather. but in the clear skies of summer appeared the battle of britain memorial flight and some of the raf�*s latest and loudest jets, including 18 typhoon fighters spelling out the letters cr, charles rex, in tribute to britain's new king. nicholas witchell, bbc news. you can download the bbc news app but that's it from me for the

moment, but you can reach me on twitter. hello. it's fairly quiet on the weather front right now, but quite a wild day on the way for some of us on sunday with thunderstorms forecast. some of them could be severe, bringing hail, gusty winds and a lot of rainfall in a short space of time, leading to flash flooding. butjust down the road, you might miss the storms and it'll end up being fairly dry and bright. low pressure is close by to the uk. you can see it on the satellite picture here. this vortex and this low pressure will help to spawn some of these storms over the next day or two. now, there's already a lot of cloud across the uk. skies have been quite hazy in places and we've had some showers as well, drifting from south, moving northwards. quite a muggy air mass. so that means that tonight will be quite close for many of us. a generally dry night, but not completely. there will be some showers around.

the temperatures early in the morning will be around about 15, 16 degrees in the warmest spots. but in the fresher areas there, newcastle, hull closer to ten degrees. so when will these storms start forming? well, from late morning onwards into the afternoon, i think the risk of thunder increases across england and wales in particular. a big range in the rainfall forecast. locally, 30 millimetres of rain in an hour is possible later in the afternoon, perhaps even 80 millimetres in a few hours from central southern england through central england, all the way to the north. but i think the really widespread heavy showers will start to form later in the afternoon and into the evening hours. and it does look as though it's these more eastern and northern areas that are at risk from these big downpours, gusty winds, hail and, of course, flash flooding, the met office warns. on monday early, we could see still some stormy

weather across parts of eastern scotland. but then again, that weather front moves northwards quickly and then, behind it, it's a case of sunny spells and just a scattering of showers. and again, one or two thunderstorms as well. so if you miss the storms on sunday, you might actually catch one on monday or even tuesday. now, it stays on the warm side and, into next week, it does look as though those temperatures will start to pick up again. but you can see from the weather icons, it does look a little mixed. bye— bye.