and a new report in the uk describes sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape as an "open secret" within surgery. we hearfrom one doctor about the abuse she suffered. the republican—controlled house of representatives there opening up a formal impeachment inquiry intojoe biden. formal impeachment inquiry intojoe biden. the regulators of england's water companies are being investigated, after raw sewage was discharged into england's waterways more than 300 thousand times last year. hello, welcome to the daily global, where we'll bring you the top stories from around the world. "what i've seen is beyond imagination" — the reaction of a minister from libya's eastern government to the country's devastating floods. the number believed dead now stands at two thousand eight hundred, but that number just grows and grows. as many as ten thousand people

are reported to be missing. much of the country has been declared a disaster zone and three days of mourning have already begun. the un has said, they are deeply concerned by the situation and are mobilizing emergency teams. what began with a huge storm led to widespread flooding and then the collapse of two major dams. more than a thousand bodies have now been recovered in the worst hit city, derna. and the eastern cities of benghazi and al marj are also badly affected. aid agencies and neighbouring countries like egypt are sending help. tamer ramadan of the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies says the death toll is likely to increase dramatically. the death toll is huge. it might reach 2000 really but we don't have a definite number right now. we've confirmed from independent sources of information that number of missing people is hitting 10,000 persons so far. lots of videos of the flooding

in libya have been posted on social media. anna foster has been working with the bbc verify team looking at what we know is real. she is in the bbc verify hub with more. one of the really important and key ways that we can actually work out exactly what has happened in libya is using some of the videos, some of the photos that have been on social media, but checking them. and that's what the team at bbc verify have been doing today. now, i want to take you notjust to libya, but particularly to the east of the country. now, these are some of the cities that have been suffering from flooding, and in particular, this one, derna, is one that has been very badly affected. now, you can see here the river that runs all the way down to the sea and these two red blocks, mark dams. now, this was holding a huge volume of water back from the population that live here. and if you look at this video, first of all, now, this is one of the videos that we've been able to verify on social media. and the reason we know this is genuine is because it was posted

on snap maps. you can see the water running through the streets and snap is one of the apps that we can really use to work out where a video is filmed because the location data is automatically uploaded along with the video. similarly, here is another one and in this one you can see some of the water, but also the aftermath, the devastation, the buildings that have been damaged, some of the water that's been left behind and the vehicles that have been picked up and really thrown around by the flooding that has moved through this city. now, another really key part of what we're doing at bbc verify is using locations to prove what has been happening and to really authenticate some of the videos that we're seeing. so this is an absolutely landmark building in derna. this is the mosque. and if you see here in this video, you will recognize, again, that mosque. but this time you can see look at the water gushing through the streets down here. and again, there's another video from a slightly different direction. but again, you can see the water moving through the streets

and crucially, the mosque that is there that shows us this area. now, we want to know what happened after the floods moved out. and we can see here really some of the devastation, the destruction. we can see the rubble lying in the streets. we can see the buildings that have been damaged. but the way that we know that this is real and this is the location that we're talking about as the camera moves around, look, there's that mosque. again, geo locating this video and showing us the area that we're talking about. and then finally, we can do that again with another landmark building. now, this particular video was filmed from the other side of the river. but again, you can see the devastation, you can see the destruction, and you can see a very distinctive building, this l—shaped building here, which is a school. now, if we move on to a satellite image of this same building, look, it's really distinctive. and it shows you down here what things looked like before the floods

actually pass through. this is from google maps earlier this year. you can see the building. but look look at the way the land has just been carved away underneath that school. and it really gives you an idea of the power of that water and some of the destruction that has been wrought in that area. and finally, just one more video where we're talking about the dams. now, this video is the area around the breach dam. 0ur colleagues at bbc monitoring who've been watching a lot of the libyan media are seeing reports about criticism of the upkeep of the dams themselves. you can see there a dam which has clearly been breached. and again, this is something that i think politically will become even more important in the days and weeks that follow. and bbc very bbc verify, looking constantly at these photos, these videos, using these specialised techniques to make sure that we're always showing you what is real, showing you videos, images, things from the ground that you can trust. so you know what the story is. earlier i spoke to ahmed bayram, he is part

of the norwegian refugee council's libya response team. it's a state of chaos, i have to say. and obviously, rescue operations are also under way while people are still trying to locate their family members, not knowing whether they are alive or not. 0ur teams, based mainly in benghazi, say that, you know, there is no way into the city of derna, the impact area. the only way is through a sole road in the south of the city or through the sea. and that is... that creates a problem already for, you know, aid workers or rescue workers who want to get in there. so we're just looking actually at pictures of derna. as you say, this appears to be where the most significant damage has occurred.

it is, the collapse of the two dams has exacerbated the problem. it has overflowed the nearby villages, towns, street and neighborhoods. and a lot of people are trapped. the rescue workers are working around the clock. and this is a very under—resourced let's not forget, this is a very hard to read, hard to reach area to begin with. in terms of in terms of aid, it has been underfunded for years. the infrastructure is not ready to take a blow of this size. so the humanitarian catastrophe that we're witnessing that is unfolding in libya is going to be huge in terms of three things, in terms of the number of people, obviously the heavy casualty that we're expecting, the people who are missing and also the people who will be displaced. and we're talking about tens of thousands who will have no dry spot to spend a night on tonight.

and just the fact that it has taken a few hours of probably even 2a hours before we have woken up to this tells you how how far a remote this this area has been in terms of coverage in terms of geographical location. female surgeons, working in nhs hospitals are subjected to a culture of sexual harassment and assaults by male colleagues — according to a major new report shared exclusively with bbc news. the research, described by the royal college of surgeons as "truly shocking", identifies a pattern of female trainees�* being abused by senior male surgeons. 0ur health correspondent james gallagher reports. one example that i've got when i was a junior surgeon, so the person with the least power in the operating theatre is, i was assisting a consultant on a case. i guess he'd got a bit sweaty but turned around and just

buried his head right into my breasts. and i realised he was wiping his brow on me. and you just freeze, right? why is his face in my cleavage, you know? and then a little while later, he turns around, he does exactly the same thing all over again. so i said, "excuse me, do you want me to get you a towel?" and he said, "no, this is much more fun." and it was the smirk and that, you know, just everything about it. i felt dirty. i felt humiliated. the operating theatre — home of life—saving surgery performed by our brightest minds and now revealed to be the scene of sexual assault. there were four consultants in that room, two registrars, a whole surgical scrub nurse team, and not a single person thought that that was wrong. this person wasn't even the most senior person in the operating theatre, but he knew that that behaviour was ok, and that's just rotten. judith�*s experience was over a decade ago, but this report

invited surgeons to share what happened in just the past five years. 1,400 responded. the experience of women surgeons is rarely talked about openly. for the first time, this report reveals the problem. more than 60% were sexually harassed, such as receiving suggestive messages. almost 30% were sexually assaulted by a colleague, including instances of groping. nearly 11% experienced forced physical contact linked to the progression of their careers. the report states men and women surgeons are living a different reality. female surgeons have had their breasts fondled underneath their scrubs, and in the most serious cases, have even been raped by their colleagues. i didn't know him well, but i trusted him. i looked up to him. he walked me back to the place i was staying. he just suddenly turned on me

and he had sex with me. i froze. i couldn't... i couldn't stop him. it had never been what i'd wanted. it was totally unexpected. and you were a trainee? yes. and he was a consultant? yes. the next day, when i saw him, i was barely able to hold myself together. i didn't feel i could make a fuss. i felt like there was a very strong culture ofjust putting up with whatever was done to you. more women choosing surgery as a career and getting into senior positions is helping to drive culture change. but these figures show that sexual assault and harassment are not yesterday's problem. so what needs to change? one of the report's authors tells me there's little faith that incidents will be properly investigated. the commonest scenario is that a juniorfemale trainee is abused by a senior male perpetrator who is often their supervisor. people are in realfear of their future in their careers if they do speak up. we need there to be major

change in investigation processes so that they become external and independent and are trusted in order for health care to become a safe place to work. the royal college of surgeons of england said the findings were truly shocking, incredibly upsetting, and that such abhorrent behaviour will not be tolerated. is surgery a safe place for women? not always. and that's a dreadful thing to have to admit. live now to tim mitchell — he's the president of the royal college of surgeons of england. thank you for speaking to us. we heard in that report the reaction from the college and then this report is shocking. shared with bbc news, was this something you were aware of as being a problem with mac

were your members talking to about this? ., _ ., were your members talking to about this? ., ., ., , , this? can i say that the answers you 'ust heard this? can i say that the answers you just heard are _ this? can i say that the answers you just heard are totally _ this? can i say that the answers you just heard are totally unacceptable. | just heard are totally unacceptable. there is no place in surgery for such behaviours are indeed across the nhs or in any workplace for that matter. clearly the report has shown their prevalence of this. the female surgical leaders say they rather thought the circumstances might improve over the years and to reflect that perhaps what is happened is that they are less aware of it because they are now in more senior positions. clearly there is a problem that has to be dealt with. it is totally unacceptable that people who work under these circumstances. we're very keen to encourage more women into surgery. it is still very male dominated with only around 16% of consultant surgeons being female despite the fact that the entry into medical school has been more than 50% female

since the early 1990s. we have to ensure that people are working in a safe, welcoming environment. as you just heard, it's a critical part of that that mechanisms are in place so that that mechanisms are in place so that individuals who have been subject to the sort of behaviours can call them out and know that when they do so that they will be taken seriously and the perpetrators will be dealt with appropriately. i5 seriously and the perpetrators will be dealt with appropriately. is that not happening _ be dealt with appropriately. is that not happening at _ be dealt with appropriately. is that not happening at the _ be dealt with appropriately. is that not happening at the moment? - be dealt with appropriately. is that i not happening at the moment? that seems to be the implication from these findings. i seems to be the implication from these findings.— these findings. i think it's clear that it hasn't _ these findings. i think it's clear that it hasn't been _ these findings. i think it's clear that it hasn't been happening. | that it hasn't been happening. because people don't feel safe in terms of coming forward and raising concerns. we need to make sure the different organisations working together across the health service together across the health service to make sure we can give people confidence that when they speak up they will be taken seriously and put in place those mechanisms. last week nhs england launched its sexual safety chancellor, which we know that organisation signed up to as part of that process we will look at our intern or policies and

procedures within the college and work together with other organisations to help make the nhs a safe place to work in. d0 organisations to help make the nhs a safe place to work in.— safe place to work in. do you get the impression _ safe place to work in. do you get the impression that _ safe place to work in. do you get the impression that it _ safe place to work in. do you get the impression that it is - safe place to work in. do you get the impression that it is surgery| the impression that it is surgery that has a particular problem compared to the rest of the nhs? it's hard to know that for certain, so now from that report there are reasons that they might be the case. i talked about the male dominant in surgery. traditionally surgery has been a rather hierarchal environment. those things are changing but they probably contribute to surgery being more of an issue then perhaps other disciplines.— an issue then perhaps other discilines. �* . ., disciplines. bearing in mind that this report _ disciplines. bearing in mind that this report is — disciplines. bearing in mind that this report is just _ disciplines. bearing in mind that this report isjust out _ disciplines. bearing in mind that this report isjust out today, - this report is just out today, people digesting the findings. how do you reassure particularly young potential surgeons coming through the training practice, how do you try to reassure them that this is a safe job for them to come into?

try to reassure them that this is a safejob for them to come into? i safe job for them to come into? i would say a career in surgery is fantastic. it's a great privilege to be able to operate on other people and to make them better and have a positive impact on them two their lives by your own hands. a very rewarding career. clearly a cause for concerns and we been working with other organisations to make sure that surgeries are a safe environment for people to work in. tim mitchell, president of the royal couege tim mitchell, president of the royal college of surgeons in england. thank you. if you have been affected by sexual abuse or violence, details of help and support are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline, or if you are in the uk, you can call for free, at any time to hear recorded information on 0800 077 077. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making new. wages in the uk are rising at the same rate

as inflation for the first time in nearly two years. the office for national statistics says pay increased by 7.8% between may and july, compared to a year ago. poundland has said that their mother company — pepco will take control of up to 71 wilko store leases and convert them into branded poundland stores. wilko fell into administration in august as it struggled with sharp losses and a cash shortage. for the first time, the international energy agency is predicting that demand for the three fossil fuels — oil, coal and gas will peak sometime this decade. it said the shift to cleaner energy sources was speeding up efforts to tackle climate change. labour's deputy leader, angela rayner, has told unions at the tuc conference in liverpool that her party would start to introduce new workers' rights within one hundred days of winning power. the delegates represent a major part of labour's donor base. you're live with bbc news.

the most senior republican in the us congress, kevin mccarthy, says he has ordered house committees to begin a formal impeachment inquiry into president biden. mr mccarthy said his party had uncovered what he called serious and credible corruption allegations linked to mr biden's son hunter — though they have not presented evidence. here's mr mccarthy speaking in the last couple of hours, that's why today i am directing our house committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into presidentjoe biden. this logical next step will give our committees the full power to gather all the facts and answers for the american public. that's exactly what we want to know. the answers. i believe the president would want to answer these questions and allegations as well. now, i would encourage the president and his team to fully cooperate with this investigation

in the interests of transparency. we're committed to getting the answers for the american public. nothing more, nothing less. we will go wherever the evidence takes us. earlier i spoke to our correspondent sean dilley in washington. this is political grandstanding by kevin mccarthy is political grandstanding because he knows that no president has ever been successfully removed from office by way of impeachment. but what he's doing is he's pointing to three republican led subcommittee inquiries by the oversight, the judiciary and also the ways and means committees within the house. within the house, within congress. they've taken evidence from witnesses who claim to have seen joe biden on telephone calls with his son, hunter biden questions in and around how involved joe biden was then as vice president. was then as vice president in that time under barack 0bama, he had a role as vice president in overseeing efforts to combat

corruption that existed very much in ukraine at the time. and there have been allegations since then, particularly from republican party supporters, that he was very, very involved within this. now, each of these committees, they've looked at this, they've heard, according to kevin mccarthy, evidence suggesting that $20 million was piped through shell companies, both to the biden family and indeed their associates. now, these are things that would obviously have needed to be looked into. the white house have already responded. they've said this is, as they call it, "extreme politics" because each of these inquiries haven't found any evidence of wrongdoing. now, that's actually true, and this is important. they haven't found anything conclusive at all. the republican party argument is that it's for the house generally, the inquiry to look at this, but very academic when you consider that the democratic party has a 51 to 49 majority in the senate, and that's important because that upper house would need to vote in favour of removal in the event that an inquiry did impeach him by two thirds majority.

that is not going to happen. rescue efforts are continuing in morocco for any survivors after an earthquake hit the atlas mountains area on friday night. bbc arabic team has been to one of the closest towns to the epicentre of the quake where people are still digging to pull their loved ones out from under the rubble. bbc arabics' careen torbay sends us this from the atlas mountains. in this village there were about 100 homes. people have been digging through the rubble since the deadly earthquake hit on friday. now that the rescue teams have arrived, the search continues for any bodies. days after the earthquake, there is no more hope to find any survivors in this village. these rescuers are looking for a three bodies, a grandfather, a father and a toddler. they are doing so with their bare hands. this is also how this man searched

for his wife, son and daughter, whose bodies he recovered hours after the earthquake hit. translation: my wife was here. there was my daughter. she was like this. and over there, my son. i dug with my own hands and with the help of some people here, we pulled their bodies out. i lost my kids, i lost everything. i appeal for the authorities and his majesty the king to help me. amen. the only people trapped under the rubble who survived were those rescued by the villagers the night

the earthquake struck. translation: there were five of us. we went from one home to another, calling the residents by name, from door to door. we only focused on houses from which people answered. where we didn't get a reply, we moved on. we had to. residents of the town are now refugees living on the road. during the day, they take shelter from the sun in the shade of a tree or under a makeshift tent. but at night the bitter cold reminds them that winter is coming and they have no shelter. careen torbey, bbc news. an american explorer who was trapped more than half a mile underground in a turkish cave for 9 days, has been brought to safety. jessica lane has the story. (tx vt)

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traverse. ~ ,, ~ �* , traverse. translation: we've been very emotional — traverse. translation: we've been very emotional and _ traverse. translation: we've been very emotional and i've _ traverse. translation: we've been very emotional and i've been - traverse. translation: we've been very emotional and i've been trying l very emotional and i've been trying hard not to cry for days. at the end of the day we're working as rescuers here. we could not become emotional. i was forcing myself that when i saw him come out i cried of happiness. the caper said he was grateful to everyone who saved his life. i don't know what — everyone who saved his life. i don't know what to _ everyone who saved his life. i don't know what to say. _ everyone who saved his life. i don't know what to say. this _ everyone who saved his life. i don't know what to say. this is _ know what to say. this is overwhelming —— the cave. this is a 1st. make it the last. make it the last time too, thank you.- 1st. make it the last. make it the last time too, thank you. while mark was taken for — last time too, thank you. while mark was taken for immediate _ last time too, thank you. while mark was taken for immediate medical - was taken for immediate medical treatment rescuers continued to celebrate what they are calling one of the largest and most complicated underground rescues ever carried out. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. tuesday certainly brought with it a day of contrast. we had heavy rain across northern

england, but after a chilly start, some lovely sunshine. further north in aberdeen, it was a beautiful afternoon. if we take a look at the satellite picture, you can see where the sunny spells were through scotland and northern ireland with a few isolated showers. but the heaviest of the rain certainly across parts of east yorkshire, lincolnshire, north norfolk and a few sharp showers ahead of it. now, this weather front will gradually drift its way south and east and clear that humidity from the south—east corner. high pressure will build, keeping things largely fine and quiet. so a murky start in the southeast. chilly start once again in scotland, but a lot of dry, sunny weather around to begin with and then eventually clouding over from northern ireland and into western scotland. some of that rain turning quite heavy. so temperatures here 14—16 degrees notice to fresher as we've lost that humidity in the south—east as well, 21 the high. so through wednesday evening some of that rain will turn quite heavy as it pushes its way steadily east. and there will be some gale force gusts of winds at times just closest to the low pressure as we move through thursday.

that weather front will continue to slip its way steadily south and east and will weaken considerably. and down to the southeast corner. once again, we're going to tap into a little bit more heat and humidity. so temperatures will climb again. we could see 2a degrees, that's 75 fahrenheit. but further north and west, we keep that fresher feel 14—17 celsius. now, as we move into thursday, we're going to see that weather front lingering and pushing up from the south—west. the position of the front still potentially subject to a little bit of change, but it's certainly the dividing line between this warmer, more humid air pushing in from england and wales again and the fresher air through scotland and northern ireland. so you'll notice the difference with the temperatures as we go through friday. so friday we'll see some rain and some of that pretty slow moving. so there could be some issues with rainfall totals totting up, to the north of that cooler and fresher to the south, we could see temperatures as high as 25 degrees, 77 fahrenheit.

that frontal system will still cause some issues as we move into the weekend. so it looks likely that the weekend is going to stay showery with heavier rain at times further north.

this is bbc news, the headlines... the death toll from floods in libya now stands at 2,800. 0ne minister calls the disaster

�*beyond imagination'. the north korean leader, kimjong un has arrived in russia for a meeting with president putin. a van gogh painting stolen from a dutch museum in march 2020 is back in safe hands, after a three—and—a—half—year quest to recover it. and we returnm to our top story in libya where thousands of people are feared dead after a powerful storm triggered heavy flooding in the east of the country. the red cross says 10,000 people are missing. the eastern cities of benghazi, derna and al—marj have all been affected. a minister in the eastern government said more than a thousand bodies had been recovered in the worst hit city, derna, where two dams collapsed. he described the situation as "disastrous". meanwhile, medicalsupplies from egypt have been flown into eastern libya to help survivors. the egyptian military�*s

chief of staff arrived in the city of benghazi — along with three planes full of aid.