distorting space and time? morna for the uk government's pledge to fight illegal ruling —— more now on the uk government pledging to fight a legal ruling that its plan to deport asylum seekers to rwanda is unlawful. seniorjudges at the court of appeal ruled, by a majority, that rwanda could not be treated as a safe third country. theirjudgment is being seen as a major setback to prime minister rishi sunak. he says ministers will now seek permission to appeal against the decision at the supreme court. our correspondent barbara plett usher has been following reaction in rwanda. she sent us this update. their rwandan government issued a statement saying that it took issue with the ruling that found it to be an unsafe third country for refugees, disagreed with that completely, said that it was one of the safest countries in the world and that the un had recognised it as giving exemplary treatment to refugees.

now, the un has actually opposed this uk policy, focusing mostly in britain's responsibility think that britain was abdicating its responsibility to others and should come up with a more humane policy, but it has previously raised concerns about specific incidents in which it said refugees in rwanda where for us to return to their home countries despite the risk of persecution. but the rwandan government remains committed to the policies and are remained committed to the partnership depending, of course, where it went, because that will be decided in the uk. the opposition green party, however, welcome to the ruling. it said that the deal was illegal because it violated international regulations and had opposed it and now felt vindicated. the russian president — vladimir putin — has made significant changes in the highest ranks of the russian military following the wagner group's mutiny last week. sergei surovikin, a senior general who had previously supported wagner group leader yevgeny prigozhin, has not been seen since saturday morning, when the short—lived coup attempt began.

our russia editor steve rosenberg has more. if you're the president and you faced mutiny, what you really want are public displays of adoration. "we are with you, we'll support you," she says, at this moscow event. vladimir putin liked that. and look what happened last night. putin mobbed in dagestan in the south of russia. very un—putin like, this, getting up close and personal with people. good timing, though. a few days ago, it was the wagner mercenaries being cheered, including their leader, yevgeny prigozhin, as they ended their rebellion. state tv went into overdrive about putin. "even rock stars don't get this

treatment," she says. this is a turbo—charged putin we are seeing suddenly. he's here, he's there, he's everywhere trying to show he's super popular and in control. but, having survived this mutiny, russia's president faces another pressing task — trying to work out who he can trust. can he trust this senior commander? general surovikin was head of russia's invasion force in ukraine. he is thought to have been close to mr prigozhin. he hasn't been seen in public since saturday, fuelling speculation he may be under suspicion. for many here, the mutiny has added to the atmosphere of uncertainty as russia's war in ukraine grinds on. in reality, few russians are cheering about what's happening to russia. but some still have hope. when this story is finished, this way or the other way, then will be a new beginning.

and it is necessary to be prepared. but would a new beginning be better or possibly worse? first it would be worse. and then, if we survive, it would be a window of opportunity. and it would be necessary to use it. as for russia's immediate future, after the mutiny, that's unclear. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. dr marina miron — a russian expert at king's college london — has shared with me her thoughts about putin's future. i think for putin, it was a very important moment, the so—called mutiny or rebellion because he had the time to observe how the high—ranking military officers would be acting, how local governors would be acting and who is essentially

going to support putin and stand on his side and who is going to side with prigozhin. and when putin said he would punish the traders, i don't think that he was directly referring to prigozhin himself. rather prigozhin was used in this context as bait as to who is loyal and who is not and it serves the purpose of who is now...to initiate this witchhunt for a high—ranking military such as general serge, who allegedly knew about the mutiny by two failed to inform the offence. ——but who failed to inform the office. so there will be restructuring in the ministry of defence, and putin has carte blanch now because he has a very good reason to justify his actions without seeing resistance from his counterparts. this last week, how do you think it has changed, the face of the conflict?

well, i think in terms of the conflict, putin saw what he essentially wanted to see in terms of the armed forces on the ground. in ukraine, they maintained their defensive positions, so it didn't really have the short term impact that putin was fearing perhaps in the grander scheme of things, now there is the question of who is going to replace the wagner group in ukraine, and some of the state politicians believe that the wagner or this segment of wagner will still be fighting in ukraine. their hopes that they will be signing those contracts with the ministry of defence in order to be repurposed because the kremlin recognises that those are the best fighters that they can hope for to have, and therefore it will be important to be able to use them again for solving the specific battlefield tasks, especially when it comes to offensive operations. so russia has a window

of opportunity because it is on the defensive now to see how this capability gap can be filled. what about wider morale and that the russian forces? is there a reliable way ofjudging where it stands right now? it must be mixed because obviously simple soldiers might not be very much in favour of corrupt and top leadership, so for them, this overhaul or the upcoming overhaul might actually boost morale. on the other hand, there are also those who do not really like prigozhin and see him as a competition when it comes to his performance in ukraine and how that has been depicted by the russian media and how people cheered on, were as regular troops don't get that kind of treatment, so for them, the main competitor is essentially gone now. so i think that morale will be mixed.

some will be obviously disappointed, others will be more happy to get rid of prigozhin and maybe work with somebody else, because he didn't have the support of the entire armed forces behind him, so he had his enemies as well. nicola sturgeon says she weighs ——nicola sturgeon has said that she still worries about whether scotland lacked resources, such as ppe, to cope with the covid—19 pandemic. the former first minister was giving evidence to the uk's covid inquiry. she highlighted what she said was a key difference between the approaches of the scottish and uk governments saying her government tried to suppress the virus as much as possible, rather than deciding to live with it. the government i led did our best to take the best possible decisions, but equally i know that we did not get everything right. the learning from the pandemic is of critical importance and this public inquiry has a central role

to play in ensuring that those lessons are learned. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. bbc news — bringing you different stories from across the uk. nights out are supposed to be fun, but that's not always the experience of women and other vulnerable groups. in colchester, money from the home office safer streets fund has been used to try to make the night—time economy safer. businesses have been offering training for bar and security staff to look out for those needing help. the county's police and crime commissioner hopes the new £4 million fund will mean other areas can now benefit. karen helped create chelmsford's women's safety charter — her research shows women, more than men, feel unsafe in public areas. we still need to focus on hardware, so things like cctv and lighting, because people do report that those things make them feel safer. but i think we also need

to focus on prevention. the aim is notjust to reduce crime, but to make sure women and other vulnerable groups feel safer. for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you're live with bbc news. a secret police unit in the uk, which spied on more than a thousand political groups and trade union activists over a0 years should have been disbanded as far back as the 1970s had the public known about its activities. that's the conclusion of a seniorjudge heading the undercover policing inquiry. in his first interim report sirjohn mitting says most of those spied on didn't threaten state security or pose a risk of serious crime as our home affairs correspondentjune kelly reports the vietnam war — one of the defining episodes of the 1960s.

protests outside the american embassy in london led scotland yard to set up an undercover police unit, the special demonstration squad, to gather information on anti—war activists. soon the sds had infiltrated scores of campaign groups. none of it was justified and the sds should have been disbanded early on says the chair of the undercover policing inquiry. today, his words were quoted by those targeted. the question is whether or not the end justifies the means. i have come to the firm conclusion that, for a unit of a police force, it did not. amongst those spied on in the �*70s were the women's liberation movement. anti—apartheid campaigners, including key figures like peter, now lord hain, who went on to become a labour cabinet minister. and trade unionists who ended up blacklisted and on the breadline. this is a national scandal.

this report that's come out today should be the final nail in the coffin of the metropolitan police — today the force said the sds was set up at a time of political and social change, but it acknowledged that officers should not have used the identities of dead children as part of their cover stories or had sexual relationships with activists. with the benefit of hindsight, there should have been more work in relation to reviewing the information that was being gathered and more care taken in relation to the groups that were being infiltrated. the undercover policing inquiry will now examine the activities of the spy cops who infiltrated groups in the decades since the �*60s and �*70s. june kelly, bbc news. we will speak now to someone who is in that report there, a car

participant in the inquiry, he's been giving evidence. thank you so much for coming on the programme. thanks so much for having us. {flare thanks so much for having us. give us our thanks so much for having us. give us your brief _ thanks so much for having us. give us your brief reaction _ thanks so much for having us. give us your brief reaction they are, and we will come onto tomorrow that in a second, but first ijust we will come onto tomorrow that in a second, but first i just want to hear your story. what was the impact on your life of being blacklisted? yeah, i mean, the reason i was blacklisted is because i was a trade unionist, i worked blacklisted is because i was a trade unionist, iworked in blacklisted is because i was a trade unionist, i worked in the building industry, which is very dangerous, everybody knows they terrible fatality rates, so as a trade unionist there, we organised and safety campaigns, if a worker died, we went to visit that building sites, you know, memorial events, that kind of stuff, and basically campaign for better health and safety, and because of that, undercover police officers were spying undercover police officers were spying on us and we later found out that they were providing, we know

this because the police have been an internal investigation, that the police and the security services were handing over information and that they had on us to the consultant association which are notorious blacklisting organisations which are both illegal and yet the police were handing over information to them, and also a major construction company, so what it meant was myself, notjust me, but thousands of honest men and women who are working on building sites where on this construction blacklist, basically in the middle of building, but we couldn't get a job was not virtually unemployable. some people unemployable for years on end. and it sounds like you can easily get a job, but you would get a job but in two or three weeks, and he would be sacked again. and at that time, you know, long periods of unemployment, my kids were on milk

tokens. i'm a skilled engineer! and a qualified experienced construction worker. i've never been sacked for poor workmanship, worker. i've never been sacked for poorworkmanship, but worker. i've never been sacked for poor workmanship, but i ended up being repeatedly sacked time and time again, and what i need to say it is notjust me, thousands of people were doing this and the british state who were spying on us were getting the intelligence they gathered from undercover police officers to the major construction companies. officers to the ma'or construction companies._ officers to the ma'or construction comanies. . , . . ., . , companies. that is an extraordinary sto . the companies. that is an extraordinary story- the impact — companies. that is an extraordinary story. the impact on _ companies. that is an extraordinary story. the impact on you _ companies. that is an extraordinary story. the impact on you must - companies. that is an extraordinaryj story. the impact on you must have been devastating. given that it had to live and carry that for so long, what has been your reaction today? my what has been your reaction today? my reaction today is relief, to a certain extent because theresa may set up this public inquiry in 2015 or 2014 when she was still home

secretary we've waited eight years before a judge to actually finally write a report, and when the judge writes a report that says, despite the police spying on 1000 political campaigns, supposedly because we were all subversives and we were in a conspiracy to overthrow democracy, thejudge says all the a conspiracy to overthrow democracy, the judge says all the evidence and all of the disclosed evidence and speaking to police officers getting witness statements in the public inquiry, this isjust nonsense. this is complete and utter nonsense. so, for thejudge, is complete and utter nonsense. so, forthejudge, no is complete and utter nonsense. so, for thejudge, no bleeding heart liberal by any means. he is very much an establishmentjudge who has been adjudicating in secret courts very often to do with national

security, for thatjudge to say that none of us where a security risk, none of us where a security risk, none of us were likely to overthrow the democracy or anything like that, and none of the work for close on 50 years was justified. that is a vindication for all of us, we think. thank you so much for coming on the programme. thank you. the cost of all—inclusive package holidays to places like spain and greece has soared — according to the price comparison website travelsupermarket. the average price of a week with everything included in majorca in spain is up 21% on last year. and crete in greece is 25% more expensive than last year. 0ur cost of living correspondent colletta smith has more. sophie and her best pal sarah have saved up and packed up, but there's one lastjob to do. i like orange. when you've got a tan, it stands out. this year, it's crete with 25 other friends and family and they've opted for all—inclusive. it's mainly for my brothers because they've all got kids, so it's so much easierfor them

to know that they don't have to take any other money. they can literally get what they want while they're there. it's not just flights and accommodation costs that have gone up. fabulous! research for the bbc showed the cost of 23 basic items, france came out the most expensive, then spain, then italy, then the uk, so if you were depending on a cheap pint or a cheap loaf of bread, you might be stung for more than you hoped. rather than the traditional 14—night holidays during school holiday time, then they might be going for ten or 11 just to save that little bit. we've also seen an increase of multi—generational holidays where grandparents are taking their children and grandchildren on holiday, because we are finding that some of the grandparents weren't affected as much financially by covid or the cost of living crisis. despite the costs, there is still big demand for flights this summer. yes, it is a lot of money, _ but we decided to come to manchester because it's a lot cheaper to fly from manchester than -

it is from glasgow. but plenty of people are reining back. this year i've done butlins a couple of months ago. we're going again next weekend, but, other than that, maybe a couple of camping trips, so cheap this year. a few days on and sophie and sarah have left castleford for crete, but they are feeling the pinch. literally a ten—minute taxi down the road was 17 euros for us. we thought we're paying it anyway because it's only a one—off. but equally, i'm pretty sure most holidays in the past, like a taxi to your local strip of bars should be like, what, five euros? here she comes. whatever the price tag, sophie's making the most of it. coletta smith, bbc news. angry international reaction with a copy of the koran was burned.

the act has sparked protests in iraq. demonstrators gathered in front of the swedish embassy in baghdad to protest the burning of the quran, and called for the swedish ambassador to be expelled. dozens of people briefly stormed the embassy compound. the governments of several other muslim countries, including the united arab emirates, jordan and morocco also issued protests. turkish president recep tayyip erdogan denounced sweden for allowing the protest to happen in the name of free speech. take a listen. asa as a representative turkey can i wanted to be known that we will never yield to the politics of provocation or the politics of threat. we will show our reaction in the strongest possible terms until a determined victory against terrorist organisations and islamic phobia is achieved.

now heading into space because scientists believe they have picked up shock waves from supermassive black holes which exist at the centre of every galaxy. they say they could hold information about "some of the best—kept secrets of the universe". 0ur science correspondent pallab ghosh explains. up in space, at the heart of every galaxy is thought to be a gigantic black hole. here's a real picture of the one at the centre of our own milky way. it's four million times the mass of our sun. it became that big by colliding with other huge black holes inside other galaxies. astronomers atjodrell bank and across the world think they've detected some of these cataclysmic events. pulsars, which are like nature's clocks, really... 0n the dish of the giant lovell telescope, dr hannah middleton tells me that ideas on how galaxies merge and grow have all been theoretical — until maybe now. we believe that galaxies and the black holes at the centre

of them grow over time by mergers. but we haven't got evidence for this as yet. so if this is the signature of these mergers, it teaches us about the formation of galaxies throughout the universe. astronomers have made the detections by measuring the signals coming from spinning objects in space called pulsars, which are flashing stars at the end of their lives. pulsars are the lighthouses of the universe, sending out bursts of radio waves at regular intervals. the researchers noticed that something was changing their speed ever so slightly. they think that it's caused by gravitational waves constantly bombarding the earth. and the source, they believe, is giant black holes in orbit around each other, all across space. these are at the heart of distant galaxies orbiting each other. the forces between them are so powerful that they distort time and space and send ripples of gravitational waves across the universe.

the lovell telescope is among a network of observatories that have picked up these gravitational waves. astronomers want to use them to study the black holes. currently, the signal that we're seeing is a noisy background from all over space. it's a bit like being in a noisy restaurant with people talking all around you. what we hope is that in the near future, we'll be able to zoom in and listen to some individual conversations, take the measurements from individual black holes and be able to really zoom in and study them. the researchers now have a new way to study the cosmos. they hope to learn how galaxies formed and discover new things that may reveal how the universe first came into existence. pallab ghosh, bbc news, at the lovell telescope atjodrell bank. dr mike keith from manchester university — who you saw in pallab�*s report there — was part of the research team. he spoke to me earlier and started by explaining

what exactly a black hole is. the black hole we are looking at, they are the most heavy object in they are the most heavy object in the whole universe, they are so massive that they collapse space and time, nothing can escape, not even light can escape. time, nothing can escape, not even light can escape-— light can escape. they suck everything _ light can escape. they suck everything in _ light can escape. they suck everything in and _ light can escape. they suck everything in and the - light can escape. they suck - everything in and the interaction between them, what can we potentially learn from that? so this interaction can _ potentially learn from that? so this interaction can think _ potentially learn from that? so this interaction can think of _ potentially learn from that? so this interaction can think of these - potentially learn from that? so this interaction can think of these black| interaction can think of these black holes as being, they are dragging around on the fabric of space time, and as they do this, they distort space time, and these surplus of gravitational waves radiate out and this is what we see wash over the earth, the waves from these gravitational waves. white necks of these waves, what can we learn from them? well, we can learn about the origins of the black hole commit a

supermassive black holes like we see in our own galaxy, we want to know where they come from, how they grow, how do they where they come from, how they gfow, how do they interact where they come from, how they grow, how do they interact with the galaxies that they live in, and they will help us to understand how our own galaxy comes about. even we can try and test theories of gravity, so like einsteins general relativity, we can test whether this is really correct and find by probing the most extreme environments in the universe, we can really test these theories and push them to the absolute limit. it’s theories and push them to the absolute limit.— absolute limit. it's absolutely fascinating. _ absolute limit. it's absolutely fascinating. it's _ absolute limit. it's absolutely fascinating. it's an _ absolute limit. it's absolutely fascinating. it's an amazing i absolute limit. it's absolutely - fascinating. it's an amazing career to have. i will ask a slightly more personal question. just getting into all of this committee everjust sometimes feel completely tiny and insignificant when you are dealing with these huge things here in a blink of an icon that must be a strange kind of existential feeling.

itjust puts into perspective the cosmos and how small we are. and how when we work together as an international community, we can belt effectively a telescope that's the size of a galaxy. that really shows that we can achieve great things. hello there. it wasn't the most promising start to the day on thursday. a lot of cloud around for central and eastern areas with some rain, too. but that all cleared out of the way, and the air turned fresher through the day with these sunnier skies working in for most of us, so didn't end up being too bad. there's the weather front then that brought the early morning rain, and that was significant rain for some. for example, in parts of essex, in andrews field, we had 12 millimetres of rain, half an inch recorded in the space of six hours. this was actually more rain than we'd seen for the whole of the month ofjune. before this, there'd only been seven millimetres falling. it has been very dry for parts of eastern england. 0vernight tonight, well, initially we've got clear spells and a fresh feel to the weather,

so not a bad start to the night, but it will be turning progressively damper and more humid from the west as we go through the second part of the night. so eventually, it'll start to turn out to be quite muggy. along with that more humid air that will be pushing in as we go through friday, we will have some low cloud, some mist and fog patches around some of our western coasts and hills, and spots of drizzle falling pretty much anywhere, but particularly so in the west. a bit of heavy rain for a time into western areas of scotland. so completely different day today, sunshine certainly in short supply and a muggy feel to the weather. temperatures for the most part between 18—21 celsius. the weekend weather prospects — we start to lose that muggy air as a cold front works its way in through the night. and then, saturday and sunday, and then, saturday and sunday, we're in this basically west—northwesterly airflow. we're in this basically so a fresher feel to so a fresher feel to the weather returns as we go through saturday morning. there will be quite a brisk wind with us throughout the whole of the weekend, and close to an area of low pressure to the north of scotland. here, we'll see showers or some longer spells of rain across the northwest. the weather returns as we go

a few showers getting into the north west of england and northern ireland, but moving through with time, there'll be some sunshine — the driest and brightest weather through the afternoon across more southern parts of england and wales. it'll still feel quite warm where the sunshine pops out. and it's a similar story, really, on sunday — again, there'll be some longer spells of rain across the north west of scotland, else a few showers across the northern half of the uk. the driest, sunniest weather further south. still quite windy, temperatures for the most part between 17—23 celsius, but turning a bit cooler in the northwest of scotland. into next week, low pressure stays close to the north of the uk. so it's a case of quite unsettled weather with showers, or some longer spells of rain in the north. to seek permission to appeal -

hello, i'm nancy kacungira. you're watching the context on bbc news. there is a real risk that persons sent to rwanda will be returned to their home countries, where they faced persecution or other inhumane treatment, when in fact they have a good claim for asylum. in that sense, rwanda is not a safe third country. the government needs to seriously reconsider its policy. the court has said, look, it's not safe to send asylum—seekers to rwanda. you need to make sure it is safe before you try to send anyone there. whilst of course we are disappointed with the decision today, _

we will be putting in an application the judgment very, very swiftly.