satellites and develop its space programme. officials in libya say more than 5,000 people are dead, and thousands more are missing after two dams collapsed in the eastern city of derna — causing devastating floods. new figures show the uk's economy shrank by 0.5% injuly — a sharper drop than expected. and the bbc speaks to us star 0livia rodrigo about her music, breaking records and overnight success. let's return to our top story now — the flooding in libya. more than 5000 people are now feared dead, and thousands of others missing. 0ur middle east correspondent lina sinjab has more from beirut.

u nfortu nately unfortunately the situation is really devastating in the port of derna. people arejust really devastating in the port of derna. people are just counting the dead, waiting to retrieve bodies from the sea. most parts of derna have been enveloped by water, along with its residents, so there is huge concern that the death toll is only going to rise. the problem is the flooding, the storm, it caused huge damage to infrastructure. roads are destroyed, so aid and medics and support will be challenging to arrive in time for the rescue operation. the locals there are working hard around the clock to find the relatives and retrieve bodies from the sea but it's going to be a really difficult situation for them. , ., ., , ., for them. tell us more about derna where much — for them. tell us more about derna where much of _ for them. tell us more about derna where much of the _ for them. tell us more about derna where much of the fatalities - for them. tell us more about derna where much of the fatalities so - for them. tell us more about derna where much of the fatalities so farl where much of the fatalities so far have been reported.—

where much of the fatalities so far have been reported. basically derna lies 250 kilometres _ have been reported. basically derna lies 250 kilometres away _ have been reported. basically derna lies 250 kilometres away from - have been reported. basically derna lies 250 kilometres away from a - lies 250 kilometres away from a bigger city and it is surrounded by the green mountains. when the storm happened, apparently one of the big dams on top of the hill collapsed and caused flooding which caused the collapse of another down. bridges and roads were destroyed. if you look at satellite pictures of before and after the storm, most of the city of derna basically disappeared, it was washed away on water. the situation in libya is not great in terms of infrastructure and its health system. it's been damaged and crumbling over the past decade because of the conflict between two rival parties. 0ne leading the east side and one leading the west side.

at this time of national crisis, i think everyone wants to get along, to provide aid and help that's needed. the problem is the infrastructure is not helping a speedy operation to rescue. you talked about _ speedy operation to rescue. you talked about rival— speedy operation to rescue. you talked about rival factions and the conflict we have reported on over the years in libya. how much will these rival governments come together, though, to actually ensure people get the help they need? we have people get the help they need? - have already heard from the internationally recognised government in western libya. they have called on the area as an area which is a disaster zone that needs international help. they already mobilised and are ready to mobilise all their capacities and personnel for the help needed. the government in the eastern side in the devastated area are also saying we

need to step in and provide aid. the problem is the logistics. this is not an easy or small scale catastrophe. it's on a level the city and country has never witnessed before, a national catastrophe as well as a human one with a dime collapsing, so it needs international efforts. right now the international red cross federation is on the ground but i think in the coming hours and days the city and area will need more and more help from around the world to come in. caroline holt is the global director for operations at the international federation of the red cross and red crescent. she says calculating the exact numbers of dead will be very difficult. this is a huge disaster and would have overwhelmed many nations if it happened. the unprecedented levels of rains plus the weaknesses in

infrastructure we have seen that have created this disaster are huge. the numbers will unfortunately, no doubt the number of dead will go up during the course of today as the picture starts to become clear and the floodwaters start to recede. but it's very difficult to put a final number on those dead and missing. we don't know how many people would have moved far away from this scene in order to make themselves safe. and it would have necessitated a journey of a long way in order to make one safe in this scenario because of the extent of the floodwater, but it's really unclear right now. i think we know those numbers are between 2000 and 5000 dead, and you can see it must be a very difficult situation to quantify correctly. we just want to bring you a little more on our top story this hour. talks between north korean leader kim jong—un and russias president vladimir putin have come to an end.

to bring you the pictures, the pair held a lunch together in which president putin toasted the future cooperation with north korea as he hosted kim jong—un at an official dinner. he said according to state television, mr putin said a toast to the future, strengthening of cooperation and friendship between our countries. and there you see him speaking there, stood up to make that toast. he had his foreign and defence ministers sitting next to him as well and he said, we strive to strengthen the bonds of camaraderie and good, neighbourliness. that meeting between the two has concluded, and it ended with a toast. former british prime minister theresa may has said the uk would have been better off under her brexit deal. in a wide ranging interview for the bbc�*s political thinking podcast, the former pm said that leave and remain "hardliners" had thwarted her deal.

live now to westminster and our political correspondent helen catt. theresa may's been talking about this issue that dominated her term in office. tell us more about what she was saying. tell us more about what she was sa inc. �* . tell us more about what she was sa inc. �* , ., ., tell us more about what she was sa inc. 3 ., ., ., ., saying. it's quite rare to hear from theresa may _ saying. it's quite rare to hear from theresa may in — saying. it's quite rare to hear from theresa may in this _ saying. it's quite rare to hear from theresa may in this sort _ saying. it's quite rare to hear from theresa may in this sort of- saying. it's quite rare to hear from theresa may in this sort of wide i theresa may in this sort of wide ranging interview. since she left office as prime minister she has made interventions and said things in the house of commons from the backbenches but hasn't given many of these sort of reflective interviews. but she has a book coming out, which tends to make politicians more amenable to that and she has given this interview in which she looks at a number of issues that affected her time as prime minister between 2016 and 2019. in it she addresses for example the grenfell tower fire which happened in 2017 in which 72 people died after a fire at a block of flats. she apologises for not going to meet the people in the

buildings in the immediate aftermath. she has taken a reflective view. but the issue that dominated her time as prime minister was brexit. in those years her government was responsible for negotiating a withdrawal agreement with the eu which she then failed to get through parliament. she couldn't get through parliament. she couldn't get it approved by the uk parliament and as she addresses that, and she talks about that being down to hardliners on both sides. if you like comedy hardliners on either_ if you like comedy hardliners on either side, the hardline brexiteers and hardline remainers who wanted a second _ and hardline remainers who wanted a second referendum and wanted to stay in, second referendum and wanted to stay in. were _ second referendum and wanted to stay in, were increasingly trying to find ways— in, were increasingly trying to find ways to _ in, were increasingly trying to find ways to thwart a deal that i think would _ ways to thwart a deal that i think would have been better because it wouldn't _ would have been better because it wouldn't have given either side 100% of what _ wouldn't have given either side 100% of what they wanted but it would have _ of what they wanted but it would have given the country a better overall— have given the country a better overall deal. and major thing she did as prime minister was to write into law the uk's commitment to reach net zero,

not put any additional pollutants into the atmosphere by 2050. that has been quite a live discussion in uk politics in recent weeks. there have been some suggestions that maybe rishi sunak was looking at throwing back a bit on that, made by people like former minister lord goldsmith when he resigned the other week. downing street refutes that, saying the fact rishi sunak created a department for net zero shows his commitment to that, but there's certainly a lot of discussion about this in uk politics at the moment. theresa may made her position on it very clear, saying the uk needs to go full throttle. if we poke, shake our things that people _ if we poke, shake our things that people and say, you can never fly again. _ people and say, you can never fly again. drive— people and say, you can never fly again, drive a car again, people and say, you can never fly again, drive a caragain, eat people and say, you can never fly again, drive a car again, eat meat again. _ again, drive a car again, eat meat again. we— again, drive a car again, eat meat again, we will never get where we need _ again, we will never get where we need to— again, we will never get where we need to he — again, we will never get where we need to be because people will say, han- need to be because people will say, hang on— need to be because people will say, hang on a _ need to be because people will say, hang on a minute, no, that's not me. we have _ hang on a minute, no, that's not me. we have to _ hang on a minute, no, that's not me. we have to take people along with us, and _ we have to take people along with us, and i_ we have to take people along with us, and i think that's important. i think_ us, and i think that's important. i think the — us, and i think that's important. i think the uk_ us, and i think that's important. i think the uk should be grasping the

economic— think the uk should be grasping the economic opportunity. as rishi sunak says. _ economic opportunity. as rishi sunak says. he _ economic opportunity. as rishi sunak says, he wants it to be about jobs and economic growth and i think it realty— and economic growth and i think it really can— and economic growth and i think it really can be and i want to see the government coming full throttle behind that. in her view the government _ behind that. in her view the government should - behind that. in her view the government should be - behind that. in her view the | government should be going behind that. in her view the - government should be going full throttle but still echoing the view that downing street has put out that you need to take people with you on the move to net zero. a very live discussion in uk politics at the moment about how that happens and how we get there. quite an interesting interview from theresa may addressing a wide range of issues that affected her time in downing street. you can listen to the full interview on the latest episode of political thinking with nick robinson at 10:30pm this saturday. and it is also on bbc sounds. the issue of voter id has become more of a global concern in recent elections. here in the uk, the government is being warned that there

is a "significant threat" of disruption to the next general election because of a new requirement that everyone must have voter id. the elections minister has said she is confident in the ability of local authorities to roll out voter id nationwide, but both the electoral commission and local government staff responsible for polling are calling for changes. here's our political correspondent damian grammaticas.. last year's elections in england were the first outside northern ireland where voter id was a necessity. we're not allowed to film inside polling stations, so this scene was set up by the electoral commission to show the changes in action. do you have your id on you? yes. a driving licence or other approved id required to vote in person. the electoral commission estimates that at least 1a,000 individuals couldn't cast a ballot because of this. 199. most who wanted to vote were able to, but some were unaware they needed id, some don't possess the right type. and disproportionately

affected were disabled, unemployed or younger people, and those from ethnic minorities. many didn't know you can get a special voter certificate, but had to apply a week or more before polling day. the local government information unit is now warning of serious disruption to the next general election. election administrators worry they lack the staff to cope with the national roll—out of voter id. and the election commission says the government must act because it says there is a significant threat to future elections. among its recommendations... more types of id could be accepted, voter certificates should be easier to get — up to just before polling day — and someone should be able to vouch for you on the day if you don't have id. the government says it will consider the recommendations and look at areas for improvement. it says it's confident local authorities can implement voter id, which it believes will help stamp out what it calls the potential for voter fraud.

the liberal democrats say that is a non—existent problem, and the id laws must be scrapped. labour says the government must recognise the potential for wider damage to democracy if they fail to make the changes to the system. damian grammaticas, bbc news. latest figures show that britain's economic growth fell by 0.5% in july, the biggest contraction in economic output this year. the data showed that all major services in the economy, including services, manufacturing, and construction, declined. economics correspondent andy verity says the decline is not what was expected by economists. the consensus was that economic activity would reduce a little bit, by 0.2% injuly, but actually it reduced by 0.5%, so considerably more. you have to be a little bit careful. these are monthly figures. they're quite volatile and wobbly and therefore you can't set too much

store on them in terms of how you measure the performance of the economy. nevertheless, disappointing compared to expectations. part of that is down to industrial action. we know that the senior doctors and radiographersjoined thejunior doctors on strike injuly... excuse me. and that had an effect on the output of the services sector, which of course includes health. there are also things like the wet weather, which meant that shoppers stayed away from the shops as they tend to when it's a bit wetter and that reduced the level of retail sales. nevertheless, it was down across the board. so construction too, again probably hit by the weather, and production, oil and gas, manufacturing. it's a broad picture of an economy stagnating. and although over three months there was a little bit of growth, about a fifth of a percentage point, it doesn't exactly indicate a robust recovery. if you look at the graph of economic growth, it sort of goes like that before the pandemic, but it goes like that now — pretty much flat. a developing story from germany now. our correspondence there says police 0ur correspondence there says police

have arrested two men last night after they discovered 49 migrants, including 20 children, in the back of a lorry in saxony. a police spokesman said the migrants, who are turkish and syrian nationals, had been on the back of the lorry for several hours in extremely high temperatures with limited water supplies. officers made the discovery near the border with the czech republic and poland early yesterday evening. the people were dehydrated, but with the exception of one woman who was taken to hospital, were believed to be on harmed. we will have more on that developing story as and when we get it. for now, let's look at some of the day's other news. state media in vietnam say many people have died in a huge fire in an apartment block in the capital of hanoi. it says around 70 people have been rescued from a ten story building with many taken to hospital. authorities are yet to confirm the number of dead. the fire which broke out during the night has been extinguished but rescue

operations continue. the usjustice department has taken google to court in washington, accusing it of misusing its position as the world's top search engine. google denies this and says people use it because it's better, not because they have to. the trial is seen as a battle over the future of the internet, and whether governments can rein in the power of big tech. the chief executive of the energy firm bp has resigned with immediate effect after a review of his personal relationships with colleagues. the company said it had recently started its second investigation in two years into bernard looney�*s conduct. he admitted he had not been fully transparent initially. mr looney has led bp since 2020. the firm says it has strong values which it expects everyone to follow. the operators of the panama canal say they are considering further restrictions on the number and size of ships crossing daily because of a serious drought impacting the region.

a total of 116 vessels are currently waiting to enter the canal, much higher than usual. here's our business reporter david waddell. the panama canal handles about 5% of global trade. now shipmasters traversing the canal one way or the other between the atlantic and pacific oceans save their vessels about 8,000 nautical miles of sea time, or 15,000 kilometers. the challenge is that every time a ship passes through, it costs the canal system about 190,000 tonnes of water bled from lake gatun, which feeds the canal. right now, that's simply unsustainable, especially with an ongoing drought in the region. some ships have been restricted in the number that can pass through. others are constrained by their draught — that's been reduced too by the panama authorities. that means some ships have been offloading cargo onto trains to make it from one side to the other. other ships simply have to batten down the hatches and make the much longer passage around cape horn. when medicinal cannabis

was legalised in 2018 it was hailed as a breakthrough for patients with illnesses such as epilepsy, chronic pain and neurological disorders. but patients say they are still being blocked from accessing it on the nhs. here's our health correspondent, alastair fee. what do i do with this? jasper is 13 and these days is a typical teenager, but much of his young life has been spent in bed or being rushed to hospital. by the time he was 11, he was having about 800 seizures a day. the doctors did sort of say, you know, "you're out of options." so the expectation was one — eventually a seizure would kill him. can ijust rearrange his hair? he has a rare form of drug—resistant epilepsy. over the years, he's tried nine different medicines. come here with your meds. nothing has stopped his fits — until now.

there you go, and swallow. sorry, he's doing what he would normally do, which is run away and go and play minecraft. jasper takes cannabis as an oil — legally prescribed by a private clinic. we were told that the chance of any medication ever working were just tiny. for this medication to have done as much as it has, it is incredible. now i can do things like go to the cinema and to my friend's house and everything like that. if i do have a seizure, i can recover from it. we now need to look i more closely at the use of cannabis—based medicines in the health—care _ sector in the uk. the law change means patients can take the whole plant — which contains cbd and the psychoactive ingredient thc. but though its legal, in the last five years, hardly anyone has been given it on the nhs. morning, want to put your order in for breakfast? i find it shocking that the government have literally just washed their hands

of this problem. where's table seven, is it down here? alfie is one of the few with an nhs prescription. like jasper, he too has severe epilepsy. so i give alfie his cannabis oilfour times a day and we get it into him before he goes to school. thank you! without the cannabis, we'd be in hospital in a few days with hundreds of seizures. alfie was the first person in the uk to be given it after a high—profile campaign led by his mother. all it's done is blocked it, because all the parents now trying to get access for the children with epilepsy are blocked at every turn. and that broke my heart, actually, and that was sort of the beginning of when i realised that, actually, people weren't going to get access on the nhs. see you at two—two. bye— bye. in the last five years, fewer than five patients have been given whole—plant cannabis on the nhs. in contrast, private clinics have handed out more than 140,000 prescriptions.

it's legalised, but it's not freely available for me to prescribe. one of the problems is that consultants need to apply to nhs england when they want to prescribe, but they're almost always turned down. i did feel it was disingenuous at the time, because it shifted the heat from the government to practitioners like myself. parents were clamouring at our door because they believe we were now in a position to prescribe, and that was not the case. the government's told us it's important to carefully review evidence on unlicensed cannabis—based treatments to ensure they are proved safe and effective before they can be considered for roll—out on the nhs more widely. few understand the cost of cannabis more than jasper�*s family. the bill for his latest supply came to £1,600 forjust over a month of cannabis medication. it's eating all our savings — going on holiday or anything

like that is out. crippling as it is financially, we still know that we're so much luckier than other parents in the same situation. the campaign for easier equal access on the nhs continues. alastair fee, bbc news. american singer olivia rodrigo was just 18 when she achieved overnight success with the release of her debut single drivers license, in 2021. since then, she's sold 18 million albums, played a sold—out world tour and won three grammy awards. her new album — guts — is currently outselling the rest of the top 10 combined. our music correspondent mark savage caught up with her. we've been listening to this new album. what an achievement. you've called it guts. yes. it's a bold title, but tell me what you were thinking about. yeah, i've had the title guts for a while. i think its short and sweet and it

has so many different meanings. like, following your gut means trusting your intuition and guts can mean bravery, and spilling your guts is just like telling everyone all your secrets, which i feel like is just what songwriting is. so i like all the meanings that it has. am i right that you wrote more than 100 for this record? it sounds way more impressive than i feel like it actually is. i write all the time. i think that waking up every day and stretching that muscle is just so important. and even if you don't really write anything that you feel like you'll ever use. so what's the ratio? if you've written 100 songs, how many are actually worth keeping? oh, very little, but that's why you have to show up every day. you never know. you wrote the first album with such freedom, away from the spotlight. how do you secure that freedom when you're writing after the success of sour? yeah, i mean, it's really hard. i think i struggled with it towards the beginning of writing the album. ijust remember i'd sit down and write at the piano and i would write the lyrics and the only thing i could think about is, like, people on twitter, like, dissecting the lyrics or making it about this one thing or, you know, that was hard.

and that's obviously the antithesis of creativity is thinking in that mindset. so i had to shift my mindset about halfway through making the record into just trying to make songs that i would like to hear on the radio. # yes, i know that he's my ex. # why can't you people reconnect. # i only see him as a friend... the opening track, i'm not allowed to say the name on bbc. we'll call it all—american girl. 0k. yeah, yeah, yeah. but that feels like a song about the expectations that are put on you, perhaps, but on women in general. yeah, i think that's my favorite song on the record. i've always thought about this idea that, you know, women are so discouraged from showing emotions like anger or dissatisfaction for fear of being ungrateful or complaining or, you know, hard to be around. so, i don't know. i've always struggled with that. and i think because i've always felt that pressure to be this, like, perfect all—american girl, i guess. i kind of repressed a lot of feelings in my life, and i think that came up and hurt me in different ways. and so i've always thought about that sort of push and pull between the two sides

of the feminine, you know. i know dan, your co—writer on a lot of the songs, he said to me that when you're in the studio and you're struggling with the vocal delivery on a song, he'll video you because you can perform better there. that's quite unusual. i know. isn't that weird? it makes me sound, like, vain or something. i grew up, you know, on tv shows, essentially, and so i think maybe in some weird subconscious way i, like, perform better when there's camera on. it sounds so weird but it works like a charm every time. can't explain it. incredible. well, congratulations on the new album. thank you. congratulations on all the success. thank you. it's very well deserved. thank you so much for your time. oh, my gosh, thanks for your time. pleasure. # i guess you didn't mean what you wrote in a song about me. # you said forever, now i drive alone past your street.#

now it's time for a look at the weather. hello. this morning we saw our first frost since the start ofjune and our coldest us overnight temperature since the end of april. but it did mean a bright, sunny start for many and for most, sunny spells continue through the day. changes in the northwest later. it's this area of cloud here already spilling its way in, going to bring more and more rain across northern ireland and eventually western scotland to the cloud that we have seen across east anglia and south east continues to break up through the afternoon. dry here, sunny spells. it's the breeze easing down a little bit as well. most sunny spells. but we will see a bit more clouds far west of england wales isolated shower. but it's northern ireland and the west of scotland where the lead up to the evening rush hour will be an increasingly wet and windy one. temperatures today across the uk actually on par with where we should be for this stage in september.

rain this evening in northern ireland, clears soon. rain at times tonight in scotland and then strengthening winds across the northwest highlands and islands could see winds top around 65 miles an hour. that will have an impact on the ferries as we go into tomorrow morning. rain spreads as far south as northern england, north west midlands and wales to start the day. it's this weather front here which will grind to a halt across the central swathe of england. wales once again tied in around that area of low pressure, which will be moving across the far north of scotland with strong to gale, if not severe gale—force winds here. sunny spells south of that. one or two showers around. might be a bright day for much of northern england, but the further south you are will see the cloud outbreaks of rain or drizzle mainly across parts of the midlands, lincolnshire and wales. some of that gets heavier later on. far south of england stays dry and bright and starting to feel a bit more humid again. and that slightly more humid air will push its way northwards as we go through the night into friday. the rain shifts its way northwards too. starting out across parts of northern england, north west wales, the isle of man, edging in across central southern scotland and northern ireland. far northwest should be dry,

brighter and less windy compared with thursday. further south, well, we should see some sunny spells develop more widely through the afternoon and temperatures creep back up into the 20s with a slightly more humid feel to take us into the weekend. but whilst we're dragging in that slightly more humid air, we're going to see some weather fronts around, low pressure close by to the southern half of the uk, initially bringing in outbreaks of rain, some of which will be heavy and thundery. we could see that develop a little bit further north as well as we go through into sunday. that's how it's looking. take care.

live from london. this is bbc news.

talks between president putin and kimjong—un wrap up as putin promises to help north korea build satellites and develop its space programme. officials in libya say more than 5,000 people are dead, causing devastating floods. moscow says ukraine has carried out a missile attack on the home of its black sea fleet in crimea — causing a large fire at a shipyard in sevastopol former prime minister theresa may says the uk would have been better under her brexit deal.