to russia for talks with president vladimir putin. a bbc team joins relief efforts as they reach remote areas of morocco, as anger grows over the official response to friday's earthquake. and thousands protest in israel, ahead of a vital meeting of the country's supreme court. hello, i'm caitriona perry. you're very welcome. we begin with the unfolding travels of the north korean leader and his upcoming meeting with russian president vladimir putin. kim jung—un has now crossed into russia's eastern region, by private train. the kremlin confirmed the visit, saying it

will strengthen the friendship between the two nations. the pair are expected to discuss supplying weapons to russia for its war in ukraine. the new york times reports that mr kim is seeking advanced satellite technology, nuclear—powered submarines, and food aid. the us has warned north korea against weapons sales, and critisized mr putin for needing north korea's help. president putin launch this wall with a dream of restoring the glory of the russian empire. that hope, that expectation of his has failed, it will continue to fail and i think there is no better evidence than that that year and a half later, not only has he not achieved his goals the battlefield but he is travelling across his own country had in hand to beg kim jong—un for military assistance. russia says it's not interested in washington's warnings against the talks. well, mr kim's journey is some 1,000180 kilometers — or 733 miles — on a slow—moving armoured train. for security reasons, north korea hasn't provided details about mr kim's movements, but bbc verify has mapped out the likely route from pyongyang to the city of vladivostok

in eastern russia. the train itself is bulletproof, making it heavy and slow. his journey will likely take over 20 hours. inside, it's said to be opulent, designed with a restaurant serving fine french wines and dishes of fresh lobster. the meeting with vladmir putin is kim jong—un�*s first trip abroad in four years and his tenth foreign trip after more than a decade in power. but, he's only been to five different countries in that time. he became the country's leader in 2011, after taking over from his father. but it wasn't until march of 2018 that he made his first international trip, heading to china for talks with chinese president xijinping. in april that year, he became the first leader of north korea to set foot in the south korea, meeting with then south korean president moonjae—in. in may he met again with mr xi, taking a personaljet to china's northeastern city of dalian. a month later he flew to singapore for the first ever

us—north korea summit with then—us president donald trump. a few days later, he visited china to discuss denuclearisation with mr xi. injanuary of 2019, he traveled again to china for his fourth visit, taking the infamous armoured train. he traveled to vietnam in february for a second summit with mrtrump. those talks collapsed after the leaders disagreed on lifting sanctions and denuclearization. in april 2019, kim turned his attention to russia, going to vladivostok for the first summit with russian president vladimir putin. that summer, he crossed the inter—korea border again for yet another round of talks with mr trump. this is mr kim first trip since meeting with mr trump and the outbreak of the pandemic. he's stayed isolated until now. we're learning more details about a prisoner swap involving the united states and irna. the united states and iran.

us secretary of state antony blinken signed the waiver needed to transfer $6 billion of frozen iranian money to qatar as part of the swap. in addition to the money, five iranian citizens will be released from the us in exchange for the five american citizens held in iran. a statement from us national security council spokeswoman adrienne watson said, spokeswoman adrienne watson said: responding to criticism of the deal, a state department spokesperson told our partners at cbs news that the move is in line with longstanding policies that allow humanitarian money into countries with what they call "objectionable actions." the us says it will have oversight on how it is used and that no sanctions have been lifted against iran. the official says the funds do not go directly to iran and are for humanitarian use only. iranian officials have also weighed in. the country's foreign ministry told reporters on monday that he's hopeful the prisoner swap will happen in the nearfuture.

turning to morocco, where the death toll from a devastating earthquake has soared to nearly 3,000. many of the deaths are in hard—to—reach mountain areas, with people are using their bare hands to dig for survivors due to a lack of heavy—lifting equipment. here's what we know so far. the country's state tv says the death toll rose to 2,862, with nearly the same number injured and morocco�*s government has accepted aid from countries including britain, spain, the uae and most recently, algeria. international emergency workers are joining the recovery effort with some saying the government response is too slow. nick beake joined the first aid convoys to reach some of the most remote villages in the taroudant region and has this report. finally, help is on its way to the most remote victims of this disaster. we'rejoining a team

of spanish firefighters, the first rescuers to negotiate in treacherous mountain road now that the path has been cleared. we reach the village of algou. in the hours after the quake, screams rang out here. but the trapped couldn't be freeded. then the screams turned to silence. these dogs are trained to find the living. they're detecting nothing. for three days now the villagers in this place have been using their hands, and shovels to go through the rubble. desperately trying to find their loved ones but the grim reality is there is now a stench of death that hangs in the air here. all hope of finding people alive has now surely vanished. and it is taking its toll. this fractured community, already isolated, is increasingly angry.

these spanish rescuers responded to turkey's earthquake in february, where people were pulled out alive days later, but conditions are very different here. here, the house is building with rocks, and in turkey, made with steel, and it is more strong, this type of house. so here it is very little hope you will find in more people alive. we move on to the next village where frustration is also rising in the unrelenting heat. the moroccan authorities are under pressure, to accept more help from more countries. this is, after all, the most challenging of locations. no more so than the village of ait hamid, now slumped on the edge

of the mountain side. it is hard to believe this grotesque heap was home to 28 people. just seven of them survived. this is 0mar. still waiting for his two daughters to be found, hanan, 17 and khadija,14. singing. they found them. two sisters, inseparable in life and now united in death. as his girls are lifted from the rubble, ibrahim says he wants to send a message. as his girls are lifted from the rubble, ibrahim says he wants to send a message. "i want people to help me. i want the world to help me," he says. "i lost my kids, my home, everything i own." his son hassan, is now his only child. rescue teams have reached the most remote parts of the atlas mountains but what we have witnessed here today perfectly encapsulates the reality of this disaster.

people either died immediately, orfor so many, the help simply didn't come soon enough. talk of how to rebuild morocco�*s shattered communities would feel premature tonight — callous. just where do you begin? nick beake, bbc news, in the atlas mountains. the earthquake struck about 45 miles south—west of the tourist hub of marrakesh, in the high atlas mountains. earlier, i spoke with conflict zone director for the ngo global empowerment mission, tom berhane, in marrakech. tom, thanks forjoining us. what kind of conditions have you encountered? so, in the last 2a hours that i have been here — ijust got here yesterday — and the conditions that i have been seeing, obviously, buildings destroyed, destructed, but people just sleeping on the side of the road, just wherever

they can because they are just afraid of being inside structures or another earthquake happening. so, there's a lot of people that are just sleeping outside, don't have mattresses, no blankets, no tents. nothing like that. so, that's the kind of conditions we are seeing right now on the ground. what have you been able to do to help so far? so, upon landing we went ahead and did 200 meal kit distributions to families today, in a small little villagejust outside of moulay brahim. so we gave out about 200 family meal kits, sorry. and how challenging is to actually get to people? what are the conditions like in that regard? so it has been pretty challenging because actually were trying to get into the mountains and the reason we had to kind of pull back was because of the rubble that is on the road had still not been moved and traffic has been kind of slowed down so that is kind of stopping a lot of the progress to get

to the mountains, to get to the villages that have been really affected in those regions. so what is your plan for tomorrow? what are you going to do? tomorrow we're going to try to go back to the mountain, we're going to go ahead and get an early start tomorrow. we've got another 200 meal kits that we're going to have to get ready plus another 200 mattresses, foam mattresses that is the number one thing that everybody has been asking for, i heard. like i said, everybody sleeping outside and the number one thing outside of food is mattresses and blankets. we have heard reports than more than three days on from the disaster, that there are some people who have not had any aid get to them at all yet. have you seen that? so, we have not seen that yet because we have been so focused on trying to get aid to the immediate locations here and trying to get up to the mountainside. so, you know, from what we have been doing right now, yesterday, just to give an example, yesterday, at about two o'clock the morning, people sleeping on the side of the road, hungry, so we stopped and got them food. some of them have said

they have not eaten in at least a day so that was a little relief were able to do for them, pass out water, pass out some food for them, just give them a little bit of hope, a little bit of relief for the night. the government though there has been criticised for the pace of the recovery, of the rescue missions. what is your assessment from what you have seen? i mean, you go to a lot of situations like this, how does this compare? i do. and i think everyone is doing 0k their part right now. it is very challenging, especially when an earthquake of this magnitude happens, i don't think anybody is that prepared for it. i think the government is doing everything that they can but we are concentrating specifically right now, just trying to help out people in this region so we're kind of focused on our mission right now. there are criticisms as well as some other countries have offered aid for the moroccan government has not accepted, for example the french government said

they offered aid which the moroccan government has reportedly not yet accepted. do you think the authorities could be doing more? i am going to be honest, i haven't been really focused on that. i have been going from natural disaster to natural disaster, started with hurricane hillary in mexico, and then it was maui and now i'm here. i am very focused on just bringing relief to the victims, to the victims that have been traumatised by this 6.8 magnitude earthquake. what is needed on the ground right now? you were mentioning fair that mattresses are really in demand? they are. mattresses, tents, blankets. you know, that goes without saying, food is always a necessity but the one thing we keep hearing over and over is mattresses, blankets, tents. so that is what tomorrow we're going to go ahead and distribute about 250 — 300 mattresses will be get up to moulay brahim. those are very acute and immediate humanitarian needs but what you think is going to be required into the medium and longer terms, such is the scale of the tragedy here? right now we're kind of focus

on the 25 minute target, focus right now i'm trying to bring aid immediately right 110w. we have higher up headquarters that are focused on the long—term right now. has the construction type of the homes there, mud brick buildings are the most common type of construction in the worse hit areas, that made it has come it has. you can deftly tell the difference ructions from the more modern homes built recently compared to homes that have been up for upward to 100 years or even 80 years, so, yes, most buildings have been just demolished or destroyed completely. we will let you get back to the important work that you are doing there. we do appreciate your time. the us state department says it is co—ordinating with the un and libyan authorities after a powerful storm swept through

the country, leaving at least 200 dead and many more are missing. for more on this developing story, here's sergi forcada in our london newsroom. storm daniel has caused devastating floods in libya and has brought its own trail of destruction, with many left missing, especially in coastal towns. the worst affected area is the port city of derna in the east of the country. it has a population of around 100,000 people and two them and four bridges there are reported to have collapsed. these are pictures from the region. as you can see, much of the city is under water. flooding has damaged homes and roads there and schools and shops have also been ordered to close. the city of derna has been declared a disaster zone and some local officials said the situation is completely out of control. some victims have already been buried. and we're also hearing that there are areas without power or internet connection. libya has for years had two rival governments. there is an internationally

recognised administration based in tripoli. they have been asking for international help. but most of the destruction from storm daniel appears to be in territory controlled by the eastern government. the disaster, though, seems to be transcending political differences and both administrations have declared three days of mourning. storm daniel already brought catastrophic flooding to greece last week. now the remains of the storm are affecting northern libya and it will slowly head east towards egypt. libyan local authorities are urging for international help as they warn the death toll from flooding could be extremely high. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news: police in the us state of pennsylvania have said they�* re expanding their search perimeter for escaped prisoner danelo cavalca nte. that's after he stole a van and visited the homes of two acquaintances over the weekend.

cavalcante was sentenced last month to life without parole for killing his ex—girlfriend, and has been on the run for nearly two weeks. ukraine says it has retaken control of four gas drilling platforms close to crimea. video of the operation shows special forces removing russian military equipment. russia seized control of the so—called boyko towers in 2015, shortly after it illegally annexed crimea. the bbc has not been able to verify the video. britain's prime minister has said he "will not accept" chinese interference in the uk's democracy. rishi sunak�*s comments come after news that a parliamentary researcher was arrested amid accusations he spied for china. police officials confirmed that two men were arrested under the official secrets act in march. the researcher denies the allegations. you're live with bbc news. thousands of israelis have

been protesting ahead of a supreme court hearing on tuesday on the government's judicial overhaul. justices will hear petitions against a recently passed law which prevents the use of the so—called reasonableness clause. yolande knell has more. so another huge, noisy protest. this is in the heart of jerusalem, outside of israel's supreme court. now, after months of demonstrations against the hardline government's plans to overhaul the justice system, really things are starting to come to a head. the supreme court, with all 15 of its justices — this is something unprecedented — is having a hearing about a bit by this government to limit the powers of the court itself. critics of what's happening, the people here, say that the court's powers are being diminished, that this could lead to more corruption, that it threatens democracy. whereas supporters of the government say no, it strengthens democracy, because the court is

too easily able to overturn the decisions that are made by the elected government. now, all of this has added town the worst domestic crisis in israel in years. it's opened up social divisions and, at the moment, there's no sign of an end in sight. here in the us, the food and drug administration approved updated covid vaccines, as cases and hospitalisations continue to rise. the boosters, made by pfizer and moderna, target new variants currently circulating. once the cdc signs off on the vaccines, shipments could get to pharmacies by the end of this week. the updated vaccines were approved for people 12 and older. and an emergency approval was authorized for those six months to 11 years old. it's been a day of remembrance and reflection here in the us, on the 22nd anniversary of september 11th, 2001 — the deadliest terror attacks on us soil.

at the site of the world trade center in lower manhattan, family members read out the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed when planes crashed into the twin towers. 0ther solemn ceremonies also took place at the other two attack sites — the pentagon in virginia and shanksville, pennsylvania. first ladyjill biden visited the 9/11 memorial at the pentagon, laying a wreath at the remembrance ceremony in arlington. touching down in alaska, us presidentjoe biden visited troops and their families at a base in anchorage. there, he repeated the immortal words: never forget. it's been close to 30 years since the bosnian war in the former yugoslavia. the srebrenica massacre is known as the worst conflict in europe since the world war ii, claiming 100,000 lives and displacing over 2 million people. bosnia hoped to begin healing after a peace deal was signed in 1995 between

leaders of the muslim, serb and croat communities. this is the region today, and now the united nations is warning of renewed crisis as the serbs are threatening to break away from bosnia. ethnic serbs live primarily in these areas. some are angry after the idea of genocide denial was banned. this after their leaders described the genocide of 8,000 bosnian muslim men and boys at srebrenica during the war as a myth. our special correspondent, fergal keane, has this report it can feel as if it all happened yesterday. the past is constantly revealed. dragana vucetic is a forensic anthropologist. it is all here in body bags. some cases are not officially identified. for nearly 20 years, working to identify the dead of srebrenica. 80% of the missing from srebrenica we found so far, but still we have to do a lot. 1,000 people is still a lot. a lot of families, yeah.

1,000 families wait for our phone call. around 8,000 men and boys were massacred at srebrenica in europe's worst atrocity since world war ii. they'd surrendered to the serb commander general ratko mladic. he separated men from the families with false promises of safety. but leaders in serb—controlled territory call the genocide a fabricated myth. those responsible like mladic and radovan karadzic are now revered. "we must remember those men, regardless of whether they say "we are glorifying," says the current bosnian serb leader, milorad dodik. music plays.

at this serb religious festival, we found souvenirs of general mladic on sale. and in the local church remembering serb war dead, we met one of mladic�*s generals. vinko pandurevic spent ten years in jail for crimes against humanity at srebrenica, failing to stop and punish atrocities by his troops. but he won't accept serbs committed genocide there — rather, a massacre for which he doesn't bear responsibility. forgive me, but how on earth can your conscience be clear when you've been convicted of crimes against humanity? translation: simply put, a person just has to accept| the things as they are. if you cannot change them, then let it be. this thing i cannot change. i accept that it exists. i live with it.

for survivors, memory lives in the photographs of the dead. a grandfather, a father. of this child of the genocide, now a law professor and fearful of new conflict. it's very dangerous, especially for the survivors of genocide. everything looks very familiar. the dehumanisation, the celebration of war crimes and war criminals that caused unimaginable suffering. history, the manipulation of history, has long helped to fuel conflict here. that's why truth matters so much now. fergal keane, bbc news, srebrenica. we want to end the programme on some good news: rescuers have freed the

american caver trapped underground for over a week. mark dickey developed internal bleeding while exploring turkey's third—deepest cave. more than 150 people helped bring him to safety. he told reporters about the ordeal. the only feeling i have is this curve of, will i live? it literally went through my head, i thought, this is a bell curve. and then my consciousness started to get harder to hold onto, and i reached a point where i thought, i'm not going to live. 0rganisers say this was one of the largest and most complicated underground rescues ever carried out. that's all for this hour, but i'll be back in 30 minutes with more. stay with us here on bbc news. hello. 0ur unprecedented run

of september days over 30 degrees did not continue into monday. that said, parts of the south and the east were still quite warm and humid — 27 celsius in suffolk. for tuesday, the process of things turning cooler and fresher does continue for most of us, although some warmth and humidity will hold on down towards the south. this humid air really quite stubborn, quite slow to clear, whereas fresher conditions are now filtering in across scotland and northern ireland. morning temperatures of around two or three degrees in parts of the highlands, whereas further south, 1a, 15, 16 degrees in that humid air. through tuesday for scotland and for northern ireland, we will see lots of sunshine and just a few mostly light showers. but for parts of northern england, particularly yorkshire and lincolnshire and down into the midlands, we will have a lot of cloud, we'll have some outbreaks of rain continuing for a good part of the day, and then for east anglia and the southeast in that humid air, we've got the chance for some

big thunderstorms to pop up. 23 or 2a degrees down towards the southeast. further north, though, just 15 for aberdeen, 17 there in belfast. that cooler, fresher air continuing to work its way in and that process continues into tuesday night. still some cloud and rain across parts of eastern england, but clear spells elsewhere, one or two mist patches. and temperatures for some spots in the highlands, i think we'll get very close to freezing. there could be a touch of frost in places still, though, 15 or 16 in some coastal parts of eastern england. now for wednesday, high pressure temporarily, at least, builds its way in across the uk. so wednesday, probably one of the driest and brightest days of the week. there will be some spells of sunshine, but our next weather system looks set to bring cloud and rain and strengthening winds too into northern ireland and western scotland later in the day. fresher conditions even getting down into the southeast at this stage, 21 there for london. now, a lot of uncertainty in the forecast by thursday, there will be a weather front pushing southwards. but the exact timing, the exact progress of that frontal system is still

open to question. to the south of it, something warmer developing again, 2a degrees. further north and west, we are in the cool fresh air. as we look towards the end of the week, it's quite changeable. some rain at times and still signs of something relatively warm in the south.

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