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why they have the energy! fantastic, guys. have a great time. add to you guys! i guys. have a great time. add to you au 5! ., , . guys! i did not expect those white wellies to come _ guys! i did not expect those white wellies to come out! _ thousands of hospital consultants in england will strike on a long—running dispute over pay. the walk and will affect routine services but medics will continue to provide emergency cover, including a&e. ministers do say there are 6% pay offer was fair. retail sales slowed down injuly as wet weather dampened demand for summer clothing. the british retail consortium said the total sales across the uk grew by 1.5% last month compared with 2.3% injuly last year. police say seven officers became ill

and receive treatment after a hazardous material was found in a flat in glasgow last night. around 80 people were evacuated from their homes in the shettleston area with many spending delight at an emergency centre set up in a nearby swimming pool. most people are now being allowed back into their properties. supermarkets are being urged to hire more staff to make them safer. research from leicester university suggests that thieves are taking advantage of the fact that fewer people work on shop floors because of increased ultimatum. the british retail consortium say retailers are spending hundreds of millions of pounds on fighting crime.

a co—op store in london in february of this year. cctv footage shows how men jumped over the counter to steal alcohol and cigarettes. the retailer says attacks like this one are on the rise, with criminal gangs sometimes physically assaulting staff or threatening them with weapons. i have worked in retail for the past 12 years. you know, when i have worked in stores i have had knives pulled out at me, verbalabuse, homophobia. recently when i was in a store, two men came in with machetes trying to steal cash. it is frightening, and it is frightening for all my colleagues across manchester. cases of shoplifting are estimated to have risen from 2.9 million in 2017 to 7.9 million in 2021, while the value of the thefts during this time has risen from £663 million to £953 million. like in other stores, co—op staff are now using body—worn cameras to deter rising levels of theft. convenience stores are notjust a place where people buy a pint of milk and a loaf of bread.

it sometimes acts as a place for locals to congregate, grab a coffee, have a chat with the shop assistant. so when they are under attack it can often feel like the local community is under attack too, building a sense of fear and trepidation. now several shop workers from various supermarkets have told us self—checkout tills are making stores more vulnerable to theft. this shop worker from one of britain's most popular supermarkets doesn't want to be identified over fears he will lose his job for talking to us. what we see in the supermarket chain, we see lots of automation and less and less members of staff, so they can pay less and less wages. the less people there are on the shop floor, the easier it is for the shoplifter. we only have one set of eyes. the british retail consortium said automated checkouts make shopping faster and more convenient for many customers. at the same time, it says, retailers are spending hundreds of millions on security staff, cctv, security tags and other anti—crime measures.

but research shows 93 retail stores surveyed around the world, including some in the uk, said self—checkout systems accounted for almost half of what they call their malicious business losses, such as people leaving without paying. self—checkout tills have changed the dynamic of the shop floor, but there are concerns they have created opportunities for some serious crimes. sima kotecha, bbc news, manchester. you can see more you can see more on you can see more on this story and the research behind it on the start —— newsnight tonight at 10:30pm. hedgehog numbers are falling in the uk because they are losing safe places to live. charities are over many centuries in recent years but none are quite like the secret garden in devon. it treats disabled

hedgehogs and gives them a secure new home. this baby has just arrived. there we go, my darling, you're not a very old chap. he's dehydrated and needs urgent care. everywhere you look injudy�*s house, you'll find hedgehogs — almost 200, in fact. who have we got here? this is fergus — he needs to be weighed and his wound checked. judy's a part—time nurse in the nhs but has been rescuing hogs for 16 years. i love everything about hedgehogs. they say your animal chooses you. i also think i'm beginning to look a bit like a hedgehog because i'm short and i'm round, i love my food and i can be a bit prickly on occasion. sorry! she chuckles. hedgehogs have been placed on the red list of vulnerable species in the uk. it's thought populations have fallen by around a third since 2000. they're in decline due to habitat loss and it's estimated hundreds

of thousands die on our roads each year. the two most important things that anybody can do is make a hole in yourfence, only four and a half inches by four and a half inches and allow the hedgehogs passage between your gardens, so you've linked them up, and a dish of water out all the time, all year round, because they're incredibly thirsty little creatures. the other thing you can do is to stop using slug pellets. well, this charity is so overrun with hedgehogs, they've actually transformed their garage into a hedgehog hospital. if i can find herfirst, and here she is. so, jemima, she's quite a big girl. she had a very bad strimming injury and she lost some of her face because of it. you'll be able to see she's got one eye missing completely. sadly, jemima's remaining eye is infected and will have to be removed, but with no sight, she wouldn't survive in the wild.

and that's where the secret garden at powderham castle comes in. here, disabled hogs can live safely within a two—acre walled garden with no predators, like badgers or vehicles. one of the residents here is miracle. she lost an ear when she got caught up in garden wire. one of herfriends is missing a leg. and then we have another one that was unfortunately caught by a strimmer. so she has half a set of teeth, so she needs to have softened food. so we just have the hedgehogs here, which are just... need a little bit more love and attention. so they're down at the far end of the walled garden here. we've got several sort of, like, hedgehog houses and a food station, and we check on them and feed them every day to make sure that they're all 0k. the hogs getting a second chance at life in the secret garden.

what a heart—warming story to finish on. that is it from me for now. let's take a look at the weather. hello there. i think most of us have had to manage our expectations a little with summer 2023 across the uk, and the next few days no exception, i'm afraid. so far today the best of the sunshine has been through the north — scotland, northern ireland and northern england. there has been a bit of a north—south divide. further south it was a cloudy, misty, murky, drizzly start to the day and that cloud and drizzle is pushing its way steadily east as we speak out of wales, out of south—west england, over towards the capital and along the kent coast for the remainder of the afternoon. in fact, we draw a line really from north wales over to lincolnshire. anywhere north of that will continue to see the best of the sunshine. a few scattered showers. the winds will strengthen close to gale force across the northern isles, as tied in to storm hans that's affecting scandinavia at the moment. but one unifying factor is the feel of the weather — still disappointing for this

time of year. high teens for most, maybe, if we're lucky, 20 or 21 degrees. now, as we go through the evening and overnight, we'll see that rain easing away from the kent coast. we keep some cloud filtering in across the south—west. where we've got the breaks in the cloud temperatures into single figures, but it feels quite humid down to the south—west by the end of the night as we're tapping in to that warmer air coming from the near continent. high pressure is building and we will start to see an improving picture on wednesday, but this warm front toppling across the high will still introduce more in the way of nuisance cloud and drizzle. quite murky conditions once again on those exposed west coasts. northern and eastern areas seeing the best of the sunshine and potentially the best of the warmth on wednesday, but all of us will be a degree or so up in comparison to of late, so low 20s, possibly as high as 2a or 25 degrees. that's the mid—70s fahrenheit. warmer still as we go into thursday. we're going to tap into some extreme heat that's pushing

its way up from iberia. by the time it gets to us, it's not going to be, obviously, as hot. but nevertheless, thursday is likely to be the hottest day of the week as we see those temperatures widely into the mid—20s, possibly as high as 27 degrees. that's 80 fahrenheit. but it's not expected to last, as somewhat cooler and showery conditions are set to return from friday and into the weekend. that's it. take care.

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this is bbc news: a warning from washington about the wagner mercenary group taking advantage of the coup in niger. us secretary of state, antony blinken, speaks to the bbc... every single place that this group, wagner group has gone, death, destruction and exploitation have followed. south american leaders meet to discuss measures to save the amazon rainforest. thousands gather on the streets of bray — to pay their respects to the singer sinead o'connor. hello, i'm lucy hockins, welcome to bbc news now. three hours of fast—moving news, interviews and reaction. we begin with the major political emergency unfolding in west africa — following a military coup in niger. diplomatic efforts to find a resolution to the crisis have stepped up a gear — with a warning from washington. speaking to the bbc, the us secretary of state,

antony blinken, has voiced his concern that