the uk government has appointed commissioners to take over birmingham city council, after it this month declared itself essentially bankrupt. a damning report on the mistreatment of detainees at an immigration removal centre has recommended that no one should be held for more than 28 days while awaiting deportation. at the moment there is no time limit. the report is the result of a public inquiry triggered by a bbc panorama documentary in 2017, which investigated the mistreatment of men held at brook house near gatwick airport. the report found a "toxic" culture among staff, and that it was a place of "stress and distress". our home affairs correspondent, tom symonds�*s report contains offensive language.

he had no idea that isjournalism or result in a highly critical report by a public inquiry.— result in a highly critical report by a public inquiry. then i got a 'ob by a public inquiry. then i got a job here- _ by a public inquiry. then i got a job here- at — by a public inquiry. then i got a job here- at a _ by a public inquiry. then i got a job here. at a place _ by a public inquiry. then i got a job here. at a place you've - by a public inquiry. then i got a - job here. at a place you've probably never heard of. brook house. described is when societies hidden places where people are locked up before being deported, callum obtained footage of incidents like this. an egyptian detainee with mental health problems held to the ground by the neck by custody use officer. inhumane and degrading treatment.

and this former detainee in brook house at the time says the culture was abusive. i was terrified. you know, i was terrified. that place, we was treated like animals. they were trying to manhandle you by putting handcuffs on you or a lot of officers would come and run you down and put you to the ground, try to get everyone locked up, then come for you. you know, they'll come for you physically and aggressively making sly comments, you black monkey. why are you doing here? go back to your country. go back to where you're from. the inquiry concluded the human rights of 19 detainees was violated in just five months and this was one of the reasons. the use of force approach is based on a prison model and immigration detainees are not prisoners. so it's completely inappropriate. and i found evidence of misuse of dangerous techniques being used, of inappropriate and excessive use of force, and that cannot be allowed to happen in that environment. i'm not the first person to say that a 28—day time limit is needed. i think the evidence showed that the levels of distress, the anxiety, the uncertainty are very real for people in an environment such as brook house. but the government's priority is stopping the boats. ministers plan to detain more immigrants infuture, though it insists for the minimum time possible. the home secretary didn't respond

to the call for a limit today. she said the government takes the welfare and safety of those we detain very seriously and has made significant improvements to immigration detention. we will carefully consider the findings of this inquiry in its detailed report. it's six years since callum tulley�*s landmark investigation. it deeply affected him personally. it has also had an impact on the debate about immigration. tom symonds, bbc news. softening several green policies days significantly changing government plans to admit zero by the year 2050. the prime minister is considering the length of ban on diesel cars and beginning plans to phase out gas boilers and entrance that landlords want to face new energy efficiency regulations and let us go to caroline lucas and

thank you so much for your time and what is your reaction to this information that we have had. almost comlete information that we have had. almost complete disbelief, _ information that we have had. almost complete disbelief, to _ information that we have had. almost complete disbelief, to be _ information that we have had. almost complete disbelief, to be honest. - complete disbelief, to be honest. it's so economically illiterate as well as being a prime example of environmental vandalism. people are paying more than they need to endure the heat their homes because they are locked into more and more fossil fuels and they're going to be standards that are going to mean homes are going to have be more energy—efficient and landlords of to make those homes more energy—efficient and by describing those, what rishi sunak is going to do is basically consigned more people to form more for their energy bills and when it comes to investment in the green economy, there's going to as more businesses extremely angry and confused because he is changing the goalpost but it comes to green investment. we the investment is good forjobs, discover environment and economy and

he seems to be doing this simply to draw some political dividing lines with labour and. if draw some political dividing lines with labour and. if i draw some political dividing lines with labour and.— with labour and. ifi can interrupt ou with labour and. ifi can interrupt you there. _ with labour and. ifi can interrupt you there, what _ with labour and. ifi can interrupt you there, what is _ with labour and. ifi can interrupt you there, what is your— with labour and. ifi can interrupt you there, what is your response i with labour and. if i can interrupt i you there, what is your response to rishi sunak�*s saying that he is expecting to argue that britain has over delivered on confronting climate change and other countries need to pull their weight? i climate change and other countries need to pull their weight?- need to pull their weight? i would sa the need to pull their weight? i would say the uk _ need to pull their weight? i would say the uk has — need to pull their weight? i would say the uk has a _ need to pull their weight? i would say the uk has a historic- say the uk has a historic responsibility to go further and faster too many countries and we were the first country in the industrial revolution and we have done more to put fossil fuels industrial revolution and we have done more to put fossilfuels into the atmosphere than many other countries. the idea that we should go slow on this is just economically foolish because there's a strong economic case for this as well as a strong environmental case for this. we know renewable energy is far cheaper than fossil fuels so, why is he basically locking the country into more dependence on fossil

fuels? , , , ., into more dependence on fossil fuels? , , ., fuels? the responses from some --eole fuels? the responses from some peeple have _ fuels? the responses from some people have been _ fuels? the responses from some people have been met _ fuels? the responses from some people have been met it's - fuels? the responses from some i people have been met it's because fuels? the responses from some - people have been met it's because in people have been met its because in terms of the plans and the cost of living christmas and people would struggle to afford that, what is your response to that?- struggle to afford that, what is your response to that? when it comes to eo - les your response to that? when it comes to peeples energy _ your response to that? when it comes to peoples energy bills, _ your response to that? when it comes to peoples energy bills, they're - to peoples energy bills, they're going to struggle to afford it if we do not get higher standards when it comes to energy efficiency in the homes. the economic arguments and we does not work. in terms of whether or not you should change the deadline on fossilfuel or not you should change the deadline on fossil fuel boilers, this actually gives people more finance to enable that shift but for as long as they are dependent on fossilfuels are more as long as they are dependent on fossil fuels are more expensive than alternatives, it makes no economic sense and is an ordinary people struggling with the cost—of—living crisis and investing in energy efficiency gets homes warmer. thank

ou so efficiency gets homes warmer. thank you so much — efficiency gets homes warmer. thank you so much for— efficiency gets homes warmer. thank you so much for your _ efficiency gets homes warmer. thank you so much for your time. _ relations between canada and india have further deteriorated with india expelling a senior canadian diplomat. it was in response to allegations that indian agents might have been involved in the murder of a canadian sikh activist. hardeep singh nijjar was shot dead outside a temple in british columbia, less than three years after india designated him a terrorist. the indian foreign ministry described the allegations they were behind his death as absurd and motivated. the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau, told parliament he'd raised the issue with his indian counterpart narendra modi at the g20 summit. canada has also expelled an indian official. thank you forjoining us, michael. what is your reaction to the strength ofjustin trudeau's words? were you surprised? i

strength ofjustin trudeau's words? were you surprised?— strength ofjustin trudeau's words? were you surprised? i was surprised only because — were you surprised? i was surprised only because while _ were you surprised? i was surprised only because while india _ were you surprised? i was surprised only because while india has - were you surprised? i was surprised only because while india has been i only because while india has been publicly accused of targeting assassinations and countries and its neighbourhood like pakistan and nepal, rarely, if ever it is indeed been accused of an assassination in the west, including in a country thatis the west, including in a country that is a close partner of india as canada is the fact that this is so rare and that is what is so surprising for me about this. find surprising for me about this. and how does this _ surprising for me about this. and how does this deterioration between these two countries affect the rest of the world? what you see as the repercussions for this? i of the world? what you see as the repercussions for this?— repercussions for this? i think this is a wake-up _ repercussions for this? i think this is a wake-up call— repercussions for this? i think this is a wake-up call and _ repercussions for this? i think this is a wake-up call and that - repercussions for this? i think this is a wake-up call and that india i repercussions for this? i think this | is a wake-up call and that india has is a wake—up call and that india has really strengthened its relationships with countries in the west over the years and i think this crisis shows there is nothing sacrosanct about india's relationships with western partners and it is a critical region for

trade in strategic reasons and candidate in the us and uk view india as important business and reason but we are seeing here that there's this one particular attention point that can cause a major crisis and hopefully not in our raid rupture and important relationship.— our raid rupture and important relationship. our raid rupture and important relationshi -. �* . , ., our raid rupture and important relationshi. �* . , ., , relationship. and we have seen a bit of tit-for-tat — relationship. and we have seen a bit of tit-for-tat but _ relationship. and we have seen a bit of tit-for-tat but what _ relationship. and we have seen a bit of tit-for-tat but what do _ relationship. and we have seen a bit of tit-for-tat but what do you - of tit—for—tat but what do you expect india to do next? we of tit-for-tat but what do you expect india to do next? we have seen india — expect india to do next? we have seen india expels _ expect india to do next? we have seen india expels senior - expect india to do next? we havej seen india expels senior canadian diplomats and that was expected and thatis diplomats and that was expected and that is what happens we have diplomatic spats like this but for me, the bigger issue is, if anything beyond that, home owners might india react? to take further steps searches choosing to reduce security for a canadian diplomatic facilities in india ) for a canadian diplomatic facilities in india) india downgrade relations with canada and trade in defence of something like that, those would be

new escalations and would mark a new phase in the relationship. i also think we can look at the next few days, prime ministerjustin trudeau will be briefing the un later this week and will he repeat his allegations against india? if he does, that would clearly be another escalation in the crisis.— escalation in the crisis. something our correspondent _ escalation in the crisis. something our correspondent mentioned - escalation in the crisis. something our correspondent mentioned was | escalation in the crisis. something - our correspondent mentioned was the importance to mr trudeau coming across a strong given there is an election upcoming, how much do you think that plays into his response to shallow we cannot rule out the domestic political factor and after she went out there and made his allegations of publicly massive, and, the opposition united around them and support and i think that is very significant, but i would argue that for me, when are other reasons whyjust that for me, when are other reasons why just should that for me, when are other reasons whyjust should or might have been going to come up publicly with his allegations which is unusual as he

thought he was correct and so confident they were correct and want to bring them up for the canadian public but also before the world as well in domestic politics to be a part of this but not necessarily the full story by any means. this is a diplomatic row but there's also a person has been killed and leaving aside at the claims of was responsible for that, think the countries view is of him? it responsible for that, think the countries view is of him? it gets to the crux of — countries view is of him? it gets to the crux of the _ countries view is of him? it gets to the crux of the issue _ countries view is of him? it gets to the crux of the issue here - countries view is of him? it gets to the crux of the issue here which i the crux of the issue here which is why indian canada relationships are in such a bad state. and he regards them as a terrorist, as a separatist and someone who's willing to fight violently for a separate seeking nation where his candidacy as things very differently and sees this as someone who deserves to process ——

sikh freedom of speech and so on and canada was not willing to act against these individuals that india regards as major security threats thatis regards as major security threats that is a big reason why this relationship is in deep crisis right now. i think you so much for speaking to us. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. bringing you different stories from across the uk. gearing up for it could be that busy autumn. near the the area is a handful of places equipped to help orphans seal pups. begin average about 35 seals roughly each year and will get them in august and september and the seals you see here common. these are the first ones that we get and late september and october, we will get great seals and. find

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write to media outlets including the bbc and channel 4. one of those questions is about the bbc�*s response to the allegations. it is already removed some content such as this podcast and at an internal bbc event, the director—general announced an inquiry. we will look at any complaints made about russell brand's conduct at the time, what was known at the time and what was done so full transparency we are digging into anything we have got. there was also an inquiry about this exchange on gb news. you say you are a hero, don't you think before you say... andrew pearce challenging his co—host beverley turner over her description of russell brand as a hero. you say, where is the proof... so questions about impartiality... and also what the wider media may have known or perhaps ignored

about russell brand. david sillito, bbc news. there have been angry protests in libya, after the collapse of two dams triggered disastrous flooding in the country's east. hundreds of people in the city of derna vented their fury at officials, including the head of the eastern—based parliament. libya has two rival administrations — an internationally—recognised government in the west, and a self—proclaimed government in the east. there are also reports that the mayor's house was burned down. the extensive recovery process continues in the region. the united nations has revised down its estimate of the number of deaths, to 4,000, with at least five thousand missing. nick beake and the verify team have been taking a closer look at what's happening. thousands of libyan families are grieving their loved ones killed in the floods. but now we're seeing growing anger

in the devastated city of derna. this is outside the sahaba mosque in a video that we've verified. you can see hundreds of people chanting. they�* re absolutely furious. why is this where they say the authorities have done a really bad job in protecting them? in this next video, which is one of many unverified videos, people are apparently attacking the house of the mayor. they're throwing furniture and other appliances off the balcony there. and later on, the place was actually torched. people here saying that many lives should have been saved. in this third clip, we can see a man is talking to the camera and he's explaining that he's lost 25 members of his family. he says if there had been a city wide evacuation before, those two huge dams burst and flooded the city, his relatives may still be alive. let's just remind ourselves the extent of the damage in derna last monday. this map here shows in yellow the areas that were partially damaged by the water in red there, the homes, the neighbourhoods that were completely destroyed by this.

it begs the question, what actions did the authorities actually take? well, i want to show you this video here, because it's a slick, well produced video. and these are officials meeting two days before the dams burst. and the reason they've been brought together here is that they were worried about storm daniel, which was on the way. and basically they explain that people living in coastal areas will need to leave their houses because of the risk of flooding. the problem, though, is that at the same time, there was a curfew order imposed on the rest of the city of derna. and so that meant that when the two dams burst at 3:00 in the morning, tens of thousands of people were at home in their beds when the water came crashing down. the context here is that this took place in a country which hasn't been functioning properly for the best part of a decade. and if you have a look at the map,

you can see why derna is in the part of libya, which is controlled by the libyan national army. tripoli over to the west part of the government of national unity. that's the recognised government. and if we look further to the south, you've got all these militias denoted here in in the purple swathes of militias that already made for a really difficult, complicated picture. but now you've got a position where in other countries, international aid agencies would be trying to pour in to try and help give out aid. but there is no single point where these charities can talk to people here. there's no single place where they can say, where do we start this coordinated effort? it means that in the city today, in derna and elsewhere, there is this grief. but also, as we see here, the anger. people are on the streets. they're demanding answers from the authorities and there's no sign of this anger going away.

in the past half hour, president zelensky has been speaking to the united nations general assembly and gave an assembly in court for further support in the war against russia and the urge the gathering of world leaders to unify and got a standing ovation and there is more you can find out in the bbc website. the uk government has appointed commissioners to take over birmingham city council, after this month it declared itself essentially bankrupt. the labour—led council is facing a bill of 760—million pounds to settle equal pay claims. labour's shadow communities secretary, angela rayner, has blamed the government. but, levelling up secretary michael gove told the house of commons that senior leadership

figures in birmingham have harmed the city. birmingham city council has not served the citizens of the great city as it should have. for years now the city has suffered in the council has failed or encrypt and underperform. poor leadership, weak governance, willful mismanagement of employee relations and an effective service delivery of harm the city. senior leaders, both elected members and officers have come and gone but the one constant has been a failure to deliver for residents who deserve better. ,, , ., ,, ., to deliver for residents who deserve better. .. ., ,, ., ., , to deliver for residents who deserve better. .,~ ., ., , ., better. speaking of the house of commons earlier, _ speaking of the house of commons navtej johal is our midlands correspondent and gave us this background to the unfolding situation there. the news that they will be overseeing the running of the city council is not an expected news but it is the latest chapter in this long—running saga of birmingham's financial woes the journey of how we got here goes back years and more than a decade ago when a court

ruling said that the city council have been underpaying staff in traditionally female roles like teaching assistants and compared to its male counterparts in traditionally more male roles such as refuse collectors, the bill to settle those claims has cost the council more than £1 billion but earlier this summer, it is still having to find another £760 million to settle those claims and on top of that, there's been a botched roll—out of a new it system which could counts cost of the council more than hundred million pounds. and apologising to the residents of birmingham for these problems i would may be to come and also set up the core services provided will be protected. despite measuring the section 114 notice effectively declaring bankruptcy, the council

still has a legal duty to provide services, things like wage collection, social care, education and lots of non—statutory services that also provides libraries, leisure centres and coastal projects and all of the speculation of what the counsellors (for the last few days and of the last couple of weeks since the announcement was made by the section 114 notice, how this will affect the residents of birmingham? some of the things that potentially could go to the city council share and birmingham airport and 40% of the land within the city boundary and tens of thousands of social housing properties and also the library here in birmingham in the library here in birmingham in the library here in birmingham in the library birmingham and the museum and art gallery in the stadium where the athletics took place in the commonwealth games last year, there'll be lots of decisions to be made by city council and the councils under commission and coming in and is a full council meeting

taking place on monday where they would discuss the financial recovery plan with lots of difficult decisions lying ahead and still to be made which will eventually translate into the lives of people living in the uk second city. london fashion week concludes tonight. following a spectrum of emerging talent alongside household names. reporter yasmin khatun dewan caught up with kazna asker, a british—yemeni muslim designer who presented during the week for the first time. for my debut presentation, i presented a film called fight for me, sheffield. it is a love letter to the city that raised me and what inspires me in my work. this to the city that raised me and what inspires me in my work.— to the city that raised me and what inspires me in my work. this is your first presentation _ inspires me in my work. this is your first presentation to _ inspires me in my work. this is your first presentation to london - first presentation to london fashion week, what inspired you to make the

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it is time for the weather. hello there. well, it has been a very wet and windy day for a number of you today. we had some large, impressive waves running in off cardigan bay, pummeling the coastline of west wales, and it was wales that had some of the strongest wind gusts, 68 mile an hour gusts there in aberdaron. and some of these strong winds have been causing a few issues. earlier on today, the m48 seven crossing was shut during the morning and the m4 crossing has been running with some speed restrictions as well. now, this area of low pressure contains the remnants of hurricane lee, and it's this that will continue to bring wet and windy weather overnight and into wednesday, as well. now, it's not been that windy in scotland today, but things will change overnight as heavy rain moves in here and the winds really strengthen.

it's going to be a gusty night for the vast majority and very mild 15 or 16 degrees. but these strong winds have the potential to cause some problems where the irish sea coasts in wales, gusts of 60 to 70 miles an hour tomorrow morning. again likely to lead to some disruption. inland gusts more like 40,50, maybe a bit stronger than that in terms of miles an hour — strong enough to cause one or two issues. and we've got similar wind speeds for northern ireland and for scotland, the strongest winds working into western scotland where again, we could see gusts of around 60 to 70 miles an hour. now, once this band of really heavy, squally rain has moved through, the winds actually will drop pretty quickly behind it across the midlands, wales and western areas of england. so you will know when that weather front has pushed its way through. now by thursday, the area of low pressure becomes slow moving to the north of scotland. it will be bringing a band of heavy rain across scotland and northern ireland with gale force gusts of wind here. england, wales, the winds calming down a bit, but it is an unsettled day, a day of sunny spells and heavy

showers, probably some thunderstorms mixed in with those. and there's a tendency for temperatures just to edge down a degree or two. that continues to be the case into friday. again, an unsettled day, the same low pressure still there, still with those strong north—westerly winds showers most frequent across northern and western areas, but a few getting blown into central and eastern portions of the uk as well. so nowhere is immune from seeing an odd downpour and those temperatures just edging back a little bit closer to average for the time of year. now, this weekend, saturday's the better of the two days, dry and sunny for most of the day. bit of rain returning later on in the west, but we're back to wet and windy conditions by sunday.

hello, i'm christian fraser. you're watching the context on bbc news. what has been considered from downing street is a request that various government departments around here looking into eight different potential policies which is related to the environment. i would say, and it's very hard to measure this, but i would say there are more people in the parliamentary party, and it's probably true of members as well, who are committed to seeing through the commitments we've made on the environment. the united states has treated this

crisis as an ex potential threat from the time we took office. not only for us, but for all of humanity. is rishi sunak walking back some of his major green commitments? speculation tonight the pm will delay the ban on the sales of new petrol and diesel cars, and the phase out of gas boilers. and all this on the day the un warns world leader they are falling abysmally short on their net zero targets. also tonight... doctors in england stage the biggest walk out so far, in the dispute over pay. but could the government force them back to work? and in paris, sir keir starmer presents emmanuel macron with an arsenal shirt. but what would he want in return if he becomes the prime minister? the bbc has learnt that the prime minister is planning to water down significant commitments to net zero, and will argue that the uk has