live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's news day. —— newsday. welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin with the breaking news from the us, where the former leader of the proud boys militia, the far right group that took part in the january 6th attack on the us capitol has been sentenced to 22 years. henry "enrique" tarrio was convicted of seditious conspiracy and other charges. he wasn't present in washington during the riot — having been arrested and ordered to leave the city before the unrest. i spoke with our correspondent in washington — wyre davies about the latest from inside the courtroom. 22 years is by far the biggest sentence handed down to a member of the proud boys.

but enrique tarrio, although he was the last of the proud boys to be sentenced for his role in the violent events of january six, 2021, he was the leader of that group, and thejudge had made it clear that even though he wasn't in washington on the day, that fateful day, he did orchestrate, organise and take credit for what happened. many viewers will remember, of course, the violent scenes when people died. many people were injured during the attempts by the proud boys and other right wing groups who supported donald trump to stop the peaceful and constitutional handover of power from one elected president to another. of course, presidentjoe biden won that election of 2020, even though that was denied and they still denied by many supporters of donald trump. tarrio was in the courtroom, sat in a head to toe in an orange prison, prison issued jumpsuit. as he listened to his lawyers

try to plea for some leniency. he stood up himself. he showed a lot of remorse, even though, as the judge pointed out, he hadn't shown remorse in the days and months since the events of january the sixth. but this is a very long sentence, although it falls short of the 33 years that was asked for by the prosecution. what exactly was henry enrique tarrio role? we understand, of course, his main argument was that he wasn't there. what more was said by both sides in court where? yeah. he tried to persuade the judge, although, remember, he'd already been found guilty by a jury of seditious conspiracy. now, this is a very serious offence. his defence tried to argue that he wasn't some foreign born conspirator determined to bring down the us government. but the prosecution and thejudge said he'd been found guilty of very serious charges and he was clearly in control. he was clearly orchestrating what his fellow proud boys were up to.

the proud boys tried to almost brush this off, saying they were a pro—western boys drinking group. but the prosecution said they had been very nearly successful in achieving what they wanted to achieve, which was to stop this peaceful, constitutional transfer of power. what vice president pence was due to do that day, what he did that day was to hand over formally the votes that had been collated in the electoral college in the election of 2020 and formally declared joe biden as president. and quite clearly, the proud boys and the other groups wanted to stop that. donald trump wanted to stop that. donald trump himself urged mike pence not to carry out his constitutional duty. and in fact, the proud boys lawyer had has on a previous occasion said that donald trump himself should bear some of the blame for what happened. of course, donald trump will appear in this courtroom behind me. he's due to appear there in march of next

year on lesser charges. he's not been charged with conspiracy, but donald trump also has been charged on other criminal charges in relation to trying to overturn the election result of 2020. moving to the breaking news in the uk — where the russian mercenary group wagner is set to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation — meaning it will be illegal to be a member or support it. a draft order to be laid in parliament will allow its assets to be categorised as terrorist property and seized. i asked our security correspondent frank gardner about what this effectively means for the wagner group. well, it means that it is an offence, as you said, imprisoned by up to m years for anybody to be a member of or to support the private military company, this mercenary group. and the british government has been under a fair bit of pressure for not doing enough to restrain wagner, which is acted as a kind

of proxy force for the kremlin across three continents. it's been operational in ukraine, in syria, in libya, in a number of african countries such as central african republic. it's been accused by human rights organisations there of carrying out atrocities, of torturing civilians and making an awful lot of money for themselves in the process. so i think a lot of people are going to say, well, this is this is closing the stable door after the horse has bolted because wagner today is not nearly as powerful and effective and organisation as it was even just three months ago, because if you remember, it launched that failed mutiny march, that mutinous march against moscow at the end ofjune, which was stopped. and then a few days ago, a couple of weeks ago, in mysterious circumstances, the former leader, yevgeny the wagner leader, yevgeny prigozhin, and the senior leadership all died in a plane crash, which a lot of people in the west said, well, this is president putin

getting his revenge for that mutiny. but the kremlin has absolutely denied it and said that that's just a load of nonsense. it was an accident, but it's being looked into. actually, they've stopped saying it was an accident. they're now saying it was seems to have been foul play, but they deny any responsibility. but going back to the prescription, the banning of the wagner group as a terrorist organisation, the difference i think this will make is primarily in law. it now means that this provides the legal basis for thousands of ukrainians to sue the wagner group through british courts and lawyers already rubbing their hands at how much money could be at stake here. up to £5 billion. that's six or seven billion usd. so there's a lot of money here and it is going to make it make it harder for the wagner group to operate around the world, given that they are now proscribed or about to be a proscribed terrorist organisation. frank, just for more context, i want to press on that point.

after yevgeny prigozhin, death, what more do we know about the group in the sense that how much of a threat really does it continue to be? well, they're kind of in limbo at the moment because they've had to hand over their heavy weapons after that march. the kremlin and president putin in particular has never again going to tolerate such a powerful, well armed, essentially independent force that ended up marching against his own generals. he can't have that again. so he allowed them, thousands of them, to relocate to belarus, the neighbouring country, and an ally of russia. quite a lot of them are still there, but they are unhappy there wages have been reduced. there is a potentialfor them to cause quite a bit of problems on nato�*s borders with poland and lithuania and possibly letting in migrants, for example, encouraging migrants to come into belarus and then cross over that border into nato countries. wagner boasted that they want to do a raid on warsaw and go and have lunch in warsaw. it's the last thing the poles want, but in africa

they are quite a powerful, well connected network. they've got a business there, a very successful business model, which essentially means providing security services to undemocratic, autocratic regimes, mostly military juntas. and in return they get a lot of mineral and precious metals resources. they're smuggling, not smuggling. they're shipping vast quantities of gold, diamonds, timber and other materials out of africa, enriching the kremlin in the process. the people who lose out on this are the populations of those countries. birmingham city council — the largest local authority in europe — has declared itself effectively bankrupt. it says all new council spending in the city must stop — except for services that it has to provide by law — schools, social care, waste collection, protecting the vulnerable for example. the labour run council is still struggling to pay off a huge equal pay claim that dates back more than a decade. it has also had major issues with a new it system. 0ur midlands correspondent,

navteonhal is there. the pressure on this city's finances has been rising and rising, and europe's biggest local authority is now in big trouble. the news that their council is, in effect, declaring itself bankrupt has left many people living in birmingham shocked and angry. oh my god, i've never heard of such a thing in my life. how can the council be bankrupt? after the commonwealth games last year, this city was thriving. it is a dynamic vibrant city. but this should never have happened. it should never have got to this point. it's really, really sad. its problems began more than a decade ago, when a landmark case was brought against the council which has led to it having to pay out more than £1 billion so far in equal pay claims to mostly female staff. but earlier this summer the authority announced it had up to £760 million

still to find to settle the equal pay claims and that is on top of the cost of a botched roll—out of a new it system which has set it back another £100 million. the city council leader who is currently abroad, he says, as part of a long—standing family commitment, told us questions on this will be answered. we have already got a governance review that has been commissioned jointly with the department for levelling up that's looking at those issues of governance and accountability within the authority. i've also made it clear that at the end of this, there needs to be a judge—led inquiry that looks at the issues around equal pay. this is devastating news for birmingham taxpayers here. the administration have had to declare that they are effectively bankrupt because of their failure to deliver proper accounts for the last three years and their failure to get to grips with the equal pay mess. the council is responsible for, among other things, social care, housing, and waste collection. it says it will protect core services but nonessential

spending has stopped and no new expenditure is permitted. it's currently unclear what services will have to be cut, but could include parks, libraries orfunding for cultural projects. the fact they've done this, the nuclear option, the last possible thing, because they know going cap in hand to government, they are not going to get much joy, anything the government do for them is going to come with lots of strings attached. the commonwealth games here last year were supposed to herald the start of a golden decade for the city but instead, the outlook for residents is one of cuts to services instead. navteonhal, bbc news, birmingham. now to the crisis engulfing the management of spain's women's football team. the country's football federation has sacked jorge vilda, the coach

of its world cup—winning women's team. he is considered a close ally of luis rubiales, the suspended president of the federation who has been underfire for kissing the playerjenni hermoso on the lips without her consent as the team celebrated winning the tournament. it's named montse tommay to replace him, becoming the first female coach of the national team. here's our sports correspondent katie gornall. 16 days ago, george a seemed on top of the world. little could he have known what was to unfold. the fallout from louis rubiales is now infamous kiss onjenny hermosa today taking a new turn. the writing had been on the wall after he was seen applauding rubiales at a federation meeting on friday when instead of resigning, rubiales announced he was going nowhere. vilda later distanced himself from the spanish fa president, but stopped short of calling for him to go. the spain coach was already a controversialfigure. last year 15 of his players went on strike, accusing the leadership of poor treatment. the federation supported him back then. not any more.

he is notjust a coach that has won a world cup. he has also played an active role in this kind of misogynist culture within the federation that the players are now speaking up about. things would have remained the same, but now the world is looking and this is what happened, just because it happened in the middle of a world cup celebration. two weeks on from that incident, the spanish football federation has today apologised for the enormous damage caused by its suspended president, describing rubiales behaviour as totally unacceptable, saying it had tarnished our national team, our football and our society. now spain want to look to the future months. tome has been announced as wilder's successor, becoming the first woman to hold the role. spain's next match is september's nations league fixture against sweden. currently, all of this squad are refusing to play while rubiales remains in post. will these changes be enough

to persuade them back? around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. more than 13 hundred jobs are to go at the collapsed retail chain wilko after it failed to secure a buyer for the whole business. a rival chain has agreed to buy 51 shops, but 52 others will be closed. the stores affected won't be made public until tomorrow morning once staff have been told. the uk government has confirmed it will "immediately" change planning rules to make it easier for developers in england to build onshore wind turbines. in a written statement, the levelling up secretary, michael gove, said councils would be able to approve developments as long as there was community support for them. laughing gas — nitrous oxide will be made illegal in the uk by the end of the year and will be classed as a class c drug.

possession will carry a sentence of up to 2 years in prison, but health experts have warned a proposal like this could stop people using it going to hospital for medical help. you're live with bbc news. at least one person has died in eastern greece after severe rainfall triggered flash floods. the regional capital volos has seen the same amount of rain falling in 2a hours that it usually gets across the whole of autumn. in turkey two people died after the storm flooded a subway station in istanbul. here's rita chakrabarti. greece this summer — first, wildfires now rain so torrential, it's turned roads into rivers and has washed away trees, cars, anything that stands in its path. the island of skiathos in the northeast has been

transformed, usually a buzzing holiday paradise now deluged as fierce rainstorms lash its streets. happy holidays, clive. tourist plans are in disarray and there are reports of tourists, including from the uk, forced to stay in their hotels, effectively stuck while the downpour continues. volos on the mainland has also been lashed by the storm. one man has been killed and the local mayor has pleaded with people to stay at home. translation: in a little while, it will overflow . onto the street. look, it will be sweeping people up. look at the bridge. please stay in your homes. with homes flooded and people stranded, it's another punishing bout of extreme weather for the people of greece and its visitors. and it's not just

and it's notjust grease the same weather system is hitting neighbouring turkey. this is the scene in istanbul. it's emerged that three major water companies in england discharged sewage hundreds of times last year on days when it wasn't raining and that's illegal. the practice is known as "dry spilling". this is what should happen when the sewage process is working normally. the wastewater flows smoothly through the system to the sewage treatment plant and stays out of rivers and the sea. if it rains very heavily orfor a long time — water companies are allowed to spill untreated water under certain conditions. but what is illegal is when wastewater spills straight into rivers and the sea when there is no rain — that is called dry spill. it's been uncovered by a bbc investigation, as our environment correspondent jonah fisher reports. rural west sussex, and one of southern england's celebrated chalk streams. here we are, welcome

to the river lavant, or as we locally call it, the river lav. the river lav? the river lav, just full of effluent. rob, a retired businessman, is notjoking. there would be no river lavant in the summer without the treated discharges from the next door sewage plant. we had the storm overflow coming out here. untreated sewage coming out here. last march, rob found and filmed a spill during dry weather, illegal under environmental law. much to his annoyance, the company involved, southern water, only received a warning from the environment agency. they treated it as a one—off, absolutely, whereas it had probably been going for three to four months. it is a scandal. so how common are dry spills? to find out, the bbc requested details from all nine english water companies. three of the largest complied, providing us with huge amounts of data.

we then cross—referenced that with rainfall, and found what looks like nearly 400 sewage spills, lasting thousands of hours, that started during dry weather. many of the water companies, like southern water at the lavant, say ground water leaking into cracked pipes is behind some of the spills. thames water apologised, while wessex told us there were flaws in their own data. there should never be a dry spill, and any suggestion that there has been one should be investigated fully by the environment agency. the environment agency is the regulator, they are the people who will do the detailed investigation and understanding. but the environment agency has endured years of cuts. this man has worked at the regulator for two decades, and told us it no longer had enough resources or experienced staff. it's quite simple. we are doing less and less, and therefore the potential is there for more to get by us.

this ea official told us morale was good, and that they were investing in digital monitoring of water quality. it's the water companies' job not to pollute our environment. and it's yourjob to police them. and that's what we're doing. in the last... but you're not doing very well, are you? because the spills are still taking place. but in the last eight years alone, we've brought 59 prosecutions, with fines totalling £150 million. stopping the sewage spills will require many billions more. it is a cost likely to be paid by all of us through a higher water bills. jonah fisher, bbc news. two people have been arrested for severely damaging the great wall of china by using a digger to drive a hole through it. take a look at this — a road has been carved out through the ancient barrier. the man and woman, from the northern shanxi province, are said to have admitted creating a shortcut for their construction work

through the ancient wall, which is a unesco world heritage site. here's our beijing correspondent stephen mcdonell with more. the machinary tracks were the giveaway and you can imagine the scene, the police have arrived, there's the great wall of china and there's a huge hole in it, and they simply followed this trial down, down, down, down, to where there are a couple of people sitting next to an excavator. apparently, we are told according to state media, they questioned a man and a woman who admitted they had punched a hole through china's most famous historical structure in order to create a short cut for them in the future to get from point a to point b, presumably they live nearby the great wall. this will seem shocking to people across the world but to explain a little bit what it's like — the great wall of china is really a series of structures that goes over vast areas right

across northern china. all these different types of battlements in different states of disrepair, they were built at different times, and actually, a lot of the destruction to the ming dynasty great wall — and that's what we're talking about here, a part that was built between the 14th and 17th centuries — a lot of the destruction to that great wall has been because farmers have stolen bricks from the great wall and use them to build farmhouses or pig pens and the like. in recent years, the government has gone to a lot more trouble to protect the wall because it is so important historically and culturally for chinese people, and while those local farmers might be blase about smashing up a section of it, i can tell you a lot of people in china will not be happy about this. and these two people who have

been caught by the police, they are in a lot of trouble. to the us now where a mass exodus is continuing from the burning man festival in nevada after organisers gave the go—ahead for attendees to leave. over 70,000 people were left stranded for days after heavy rain led to flooding and muddy conditions making it difficult to leave the area. 0ur reporter nicky schiller is in the newsroom with more. imagine being a festival girl stuck in this, the giant trafficjam of cars and caravans trying to leave the festival site. the issue is, though, there is only one road, this one out, and even in a normal year it can take up to 12 hours to leave the festival site. now organisers are urging people to stagger their journeys. they say at midday on monday there were still 62,000 people on the festival site. now the trafficjam, it can be seen from space on this satellite image. and i want to show you this if i zoom in. these are the coaches waiting

to leave and the queue of people waiting to get on board. but some festivalgoers couldn't wait and decided to walk, even putting plastic bags on their feet to get to that road, which is about ten kilometers or six miles away. of course, the reason the muddy mess from over the weekend after a giant thunderstorm. 0rganisers say the biggest to hit the festival site in its more than 30 years. it meant festivalgoers had to stay on the site and ration supplies. some of them are blaming organisers for not sending weather updates. the big question though is, would people go back again? i had an amazing time. would i want to do it again for another three or four days the same way as the last three or four days? never. i think i will come back. yes. i don't know if it will be next year or an every year thing, but i would like to come back and see it again. the festival ended with the iconic burning man lighting up the nevada sky one day late

and ending the chaotic event. 0rganisers will be hoping for better weather next year. you can find more on that story and all the other stories on the bbc news site. that's all for now — stay with bbc news. hello there. 0ur september heatwave is set to continue with more sunshine around the corner over the next few days. now, temperatures on tuesday reached 30.8 celsius in hampshire. we don't see 30 degrees every single september. we had similar kind of temperatures back in 2021 and 2020. now, so far this year, the highest temperature we've recorded all year was 32.2 celsius and we're going to get really close to that during wednesday. if we get past 32.2, well, that becomes something quite unusual. there have only been four years in the last century that have had the hottest temperature of the year recorded in a september.

so we'll be keeping a close eye on that stat. now, right now, we've got some low cloud filtering in and around some of our north sea coasts, a little bit of mist and fog around as well, but otherwise clear and starry skies and pretty warm as well. temperatures only towards dawn getting down to around 15 to 17 celsius. now, you might have been hearing about the extreme rainfall we've seen across south—east europe with some severe flooding here. we're underneath this area of high pressure, though, and that's what's bringing us the fine, settled and sunny weather. so we've got more of that to come on wednesday. any morning mist and fog, low cloud will tend to burn away from these eastern coasts and then the sunshine comes out. it's going to be another hot day. temperatures quite widely in scotland and northern ireland reaching the mid 20s. but for england and wales, somewhere between 26 and 32 degrees for most of us, very hot for the time of year and could be the hottest day of the year so far. now, for thursday, more of the same to come. a few subtle changes — there'll be a little bit more in the way of high cloud across north—western areas, making the sunshine little hazy. and you'd be unlucky, but you could see an odd shower

in the west as well. most, though, will continue with the hot, dry, sunny weather with those high temperatures as well. for friday, probably a little bit more in the way of mist and fog patches running both through the irish sea coasts and also our north sea coasts. but aside from that, it's another dry day with lots of sunshine around for the vast majority. top temperatures, well, again, mid to high 20s, pretty widely. low 30s in the very hottest areas. and we've got more of the same into the weekend. it's only really probably during the second part of the weekend and more especially next week, that we start to see the weather pattern breaking down, rain starts to arrive and those temperatures drop closer to normal for the time of year.

representatives from asia's three large economies are expected to hold its first three way meeting since 2019. we'll have analysis on the region's outlook. plus growing fears that an erractic monsoon could derail the auto industry's recovery in india. hello and welcome to asia business report. i'm arunoday mukharji. asian leaders are gathering in the indonesian capitaljakarta this week for the asean summit. later today, asia's three large economies — china, japan and south korea — are planning to hold a meeting.

the regional heavyweights haven't had a three way meeting since 2019. it comes at a challenging time for asia as china struggles with a slowdown and relations between beijing and washington remain frosty. paul gruenwald is the global chief economist for s&p global ratings and he told me the current state of china's economy will weigh heavily on export reliant economies. we think china's going to struggle to make its 5% growth target this year. we have a couple of economies, india and indonesia being the prime ones here that are more domestically driven. but we're in a period where rates are high and global growth is slowing. so these trade dependent economies in the region are going to continue to struggle to put up high growth

numbers while the major economies are raising rates and china's growing below