this is bbc news. the headlines. life in war torn sudan. the desperate plight of millions of people facing starvation. yet the next 16 months of war had had a devastating impact on people�* lives. millions have had to flee their homes and if they escape the bombs and bullets, they have hunger. tackling illegal migration to the uk, the uk secretary holds a summit dressing the gangs smuggling people. as the prison population of the uk and to the reaches records, we have a report on overcrowding. you are

watching bbc news. just wanted to bring you some breaking news about the figures of overcrowding in prisons. they show that the prison population is at a new record high, 88,521. it has risen by 1159 since the 2nd of august. that is a significant week, when the riots began. as you are aware, lots of new people have entered in the criminaljustice system so you can see here, from 26th ofjuly 87400 and that number has continued to rise throughout the weeks of august until they have reached the new record high — 88,521. this comes at a time when thousands

of offenders who served 40% of their prison terms will be eligible for early release. it is necessary, says the government, because of severe overcrowding injails. there are fewer than 500 spaces now left in men�*s�* prison in england and wales, made worse by the convictions of hundreds of people convicted in the riots of last month. we have been given access. siren blares. chaos in hmp pentonville. shouting. we�*re the only broadcast journalists given access... it�*s a code red. ..to one of britain�*s most dangerous jails since the current crisis. 0k, come on, folks. and some prison officers

are so frightened of being targeted on the outside that we�*ve had to blur theirfaces. hmp pentonville! staff are overstretched. .. another alarm here. ..and on the verge of breaking point. you worry about, you know, opening the door in the morning and making sure that they�*re alive. anything could happen. there's been deaths in prison. all right, what have we got. coming this afternoon, then? each day more bus—loads arrive, making this jail one of the most crowded in the country. can you stand in the middle of the black and yellow box for me? they undergo body checks. so this scanner will show whether they�*re hiding anything inside their body? yeah. any drugs, any weapons? yeah. just there, there's a gap — that will be the entrance most of the inmates are on remand, so they�*re waiting for their trial or sentencing. others are doing time for crimes such as murder, robbery and rape. and anything can happen. alarm blares. there�*s an alarm going off. yeah, we�*re going to see. it�*s a code red, so...

a code red alarm involves blood or burns. an inmate has self—harmed. a moment of apprehension as they assess the situation. can you talk me through what�*s happened? yeah, so we�*ve got a prisoner who�*s self—harmed, yeah. he�*s made superficial cuts to his arm. staff say overcrowding is leading to an increase in self—harm and violence... banging. ..because of inmates�* frustration with being locked up for longer. shouting across the wing, michael�*s inside for drug offences. there are some people who simply don�*t care about prisoners. they�*re like, "they broke the law — they should be locked up. shouldn�*t be a hotel." mm—hm. but you are supposed to be rehabilitated inside. do you think prison is providing a rehabilitation? no. it's a punishment. it's not a rehabilitation. it's hard to rehabilitate

yourself in a place where you've got gang violence, postcode wars, drug violence, money wars. if you've got beef there, violence there, drugs there, people collapsing here, the staff, they are outstretched, they're trying to do this, this, this and this. but now you want help, as well. alarm rings the fifth of the day. yesterday there were more than 30. so they�*ve just jumped on the netting. prison officers are running up the stairs to try and get them down. what the staff are saying is that it can turn really quickly. a quiet moment can become chaotic within a matter of seconds. as one prison officer said, "it�*s like the flick of a switch." staff do what they can to calm things down. you told me about it yesterday and i�*ve told you. i said, "washing up liquid

and a form for the pen." and very quickly they�*re back on normal duties. there have been some hairy moments. they kind of... they all kind of blur into one because it's not like, "0h, once in a blue moon something happens." it's like day in, day out, you kind of are dealing with incidents from self—harm to violence to kind of...people with severe mental health issues. gang violence is an ongoing threat at pentonville and has had some serious consequences for staff. shouting. this prison officer broke both her wrists while separating two gang members during a fight. it's probably the biggest thing in london. like, the gang affiliation, gang issues are the biggest reasons why we have so many, probably, people injail, so it ends up us trying to stop them. we're just trying to stop the fight. that's how i broke both my wrists, just trying to stop it. that wasn't even... yeah, itjust gets really messy sometimes. and they're quite small space. stressful? stressful, yeah. stressful.

the pope is on a 12 day tour of the far east. the pictures are in papua new guinea. this is the second stop of the trip. he spent the last three days in indonesia and yesterday he was preaching at a mass to 80,000 people in indonesia. he is going to carry on on this tour. this is the latest stage in papua new guinea. you canjust see him there disembarking the plane. he is 87 years old now. he is making only the third visit to papua new guinea. the majority of the population there are christian.

just disembarking at the airport. 87 years old, this is the longest visit that he has undertaken after having to cancel quite a few recent engagements due to ill health. this is 12 days. the first three days in indonesia, now arriving at papua new guinea. people have been talking about the fact that this is a pretty hectic schedule for somebody who is 87 years old, intensity. yesterday he was presiding over a mass of more than 80,000 people at a football stadium. landing now. we understand that according to his official schedule, he has no other advanced planned for the rest of the day. time for him to get some rest before starting

official engagements and of his tourin official engagements and of his tour in papua new guinea tomorrow. the pope there in the second stage of his 12 day tour. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has said that it�*s what he described as incumbent for israel and hamas to say yes on remaining issues to reach a gaza ceasefire deal, saying, "based on what i have seen, 90% is agreed but there are a few critical issues that remain". meanwhile, the israeli prime minister has been speaking to fox news in the us. benjamin netanyahu said there is not a deal in the making. speaking about a potential agreement with hamas, he said...

i spoke to james landale who�*s been following the latest developments. he is essentially trying to counter the narrative that there is almost a deal ready to go if only he would make concessions on his insistence that israeli forces must remain in a little southern strip of land in southern gaza on the border of egypt during any kind of ceasefire, which is a sticking poing on both sides. he is trying to counteract that narrative. but the americans say, no, there is a deal there. it is 90% done. yes that little strip of land in southern gaza is an issue, but also the precise way in which israeli hostages in gaza could be exchanged in return for the release of palestinian prisoners and how that works. theose are the two outstanding issues. what antony blinken was saying is that a deal is there and ready to be taken and it is incumbent on all

sides to move to that place, he said that the us is going to be talking to other mediators in the coming days. in his words was a very coded warning to benjamin netanyahu when he said look, it is a fragile apple which could be overturned and the events of last week can be repeated, more israeli hostages can be killed. that is the one he is making. idf troops withdrawn. there has been a series of what israel calls counter terrorism operations. the focal point of that was very muchjenin and the north.

israeli forces have now pulled out and amidst the rubble the funerals are now beginning for the dead. palestinian health administration said that 21 people died including civilians. israel said that they killed 14 of what they called terrorist palestinian fighters, and arrested 13 suspects, they call them. they said that they dismantled 30 explosive that were in the roads in and around jenin. they said that that they were taking out a weapons store under a mosque. the problem is that the witnesses are saying that there is rubble and roads have been damaged or destroyed. so the reconstruction is beginning and the first funerals believe any debtor beginning this morning. more than 90 private tutors in the uk have been convicted of sexual offences involving children over the past 20 years, the bbc has found. recent research suggests 30% of secondary school pupils in the uk have used private tutors, and there

are currently no regulations requiring them to have criminal record checks or formal qualifications. the children�*s commissioner for england dame rachel de souza says that must change, as our correspondent angus crawford reports. i guess i kind of assumed there was some sort of protection in place. imagine finding out the man who tutored your daughter for years had also abused her. do you remember when your daughter told you what had been happening? very clearly, yes. it was one of those bottom falling out of your world moments that as a parent, you know, you never, ever want to think. faltering: you feel like you�*re you really failed as a parent in your kind of most basic duty of keeping your child safe. but how do you keep them safe? private tutors are unregulated. they don�*t have to undergo any criminal record checks. when you are hiring a tutor, you�*re hiring a tutor to help your child. it�*s like this dreadful irony

that actually, you know, you can be putting them in the worst danger, you know, of your life. that�*s no exaggeration. look, the faces of private tutors convicted of sex crimes involving children. our investigation found 92 over the last two decades across the uk, men like thomas rogers, a music tutor. music plays and here, conducting a choirfound guilty of abusing two boys aged under 11. he's never admitted what he's done. he's been in complete denial, so that's been quite hard. george was one of those boys, now an adult. he�*s horrified that even after conviction, rogers was able to carry on giving private music lessons to children. you got the conviction, but then you realise that he could still teach privately. yeah. and that's...to this day ijust don't understand. he's free to go and

teach other children. and if people don't have the capabilities to, you know, read the internet or have missed the story or anything like that's happened, they can literally open up a door and send their kid in with someone that's done these horrific crimes. it'sjust insane. but how can abusers be free to offer tutoring? the answer? the law doesn�*t demand qualifications or criminal record checks. parents may have no way of checking. there are now urgent calls for change. look, i think it's. deeply concerning. anyone who is working with| a child, one—to—one, should really have had their db5 and gone through proper vetting. | and it seems to me obvious that if there's one on ones _ with children and adults, - whether that's a music lesson, whether that's some catch up, we need to make sure - that that child is safe. what do you think of the system? it�*s broken. the system�*s 100% broken, and it needs change before there�*s serious damage done to other children.

the system is not fit for purpose. it's not safeguarding children. it's not helping parents. it's appalling. this whole industry is unregulated. you have no idea who you�*re handing your child over to. so when will a child in a tutor�*s home get the same protection as in the classroom? angus crawford, bbc news. hejoins us now. many parents i�*m sure, as well as myself, are incredibly shocked by this report. we would assume that they would be checked.- they would be checked. yes, this is a story _ they would be checked. yes, this is a story of _ they would be checked. yes, this is a story of double - this is a story of double standards. any other teacher in a school has to go through deep background checks. that is where they stand. but should a private person decide to offer

lessons in their home or your own home there is no requirement to go through a background check or have relevant qualifications. why does this matter? because a parent cannot check who they are sending their child too and if they are safe. the other thing that could happen is that a teacher who gets struck off for miss convert —— misconduct and go home and give lessons to other children. the worse i have heard is that someone who was sexually abusing children was sexually abusing children was still able to tutor a month orso was still able to tutor a month or so before his conviction. it or so before his conviction. it seems incredible. more than 90 tutors have been convicted in the uk over the past 20 years. how does this develop? i the uk over the past 20 years. how does this develop? i think this is a historical _

how does this develop? i think this is a historical anomaly. - this is a historical anomaly. safeguarding came into legislator environment like schools and colleges and activities but the private tutoring activities seems to have dropped out of this picture. i think it was seen by previous administrations as a restraint of trade if they were to make things more difficult to make things more difficult to private tutors. so they are seen as individual small businesses which would be extra red tape. the tudors association has said that this is exactly what is going to happen. i have spoken to parents of somebody who was abused and somebody who is was abused and somebody who is was abuse and they are adamant that they should happen. the government is saying that these findings are deeply concerning and they are deciding what the future action will be appropriate to protect children from harm when dealing with private tutors.—

it�*s a powerful sedative commonly used by vets, but now the so—called zombie drug xylazine is set to be banned in the uk under new rules aimed at tackling the growing use of highly addictive synthetic opioids. it�*s one of more than 20 dangerous substances expected to be re—categorised under new legislation. graham satchell reports. 0n the streets of philadelphia, the paralysing effect of the animal sedative xylazine. it�*s known as the zombie drug for good reason. it lowers the heart and breathing rate, leaving people seemingly lifeless. xylazine is used in combination with opioids like heroin, fentanyl and nitazen as a cheap means of stretching out each dose. it has spread rapidly across the states, leading to a significant rise in the number of drug overdose deaths. in this country, we�*ve seen similar images from the use of the synthetic cannabinoid spice, but the use of xylazine is also on the rise here. now the government is banning the drug, along with 21

other dangerous substances. xylazine will become a class c drug, resulting in a prison sentence of up to 14 years for anyone caught producing or supplying it. we�*re really clear with our safer streets mission that we�*ve got to deal with this kind of problem that we are seeing on some of our streets, and also we�*ve got to make sure that those who are exploiting vulnerable people are held to account. the head of the national crime agency has said there�*s never been a more dangerous time to take drugs, as the number of deaths linked to tranquillisers and synthetic opioids continues to rise. graham satchell, bbc news. known for their brightly—coloured beaks and charismatic charm, puffins attract visitors to the northumberland coast hoping to see them, every year and now their numbers are growing. puffins squawk. they�*re precious and they need to be protected.

there are about 20 fledged ones on the beach, so there were loads, but they seem to have gone. i mean, i�*m sure they�*re around. so day by day, metre by metre, the rangers here have been counting them. this one looks very occupied. there�*s lots of fresh droppings in there. this one�*s also occupied. bit of eggshell and feather, as well, which is good. and now there�*s good news. it's gone up by 15%, which means the population is stable. i think all the rangers are super happy, and you're sort of proud because you've looked after them and done all the work. you must have been so relieved. so relieved, because they are such characters, as well. and you do become attached to them, you just do, every single one of them. this is what they were worried about. during the avian flu outbreak, around 10,000 birds perished. 900 of them were puffins, which only lay one egg a year. little did they know, the birds�* quirky behaviour would actually end up

protecting some of them. puffins are clever little creatures. they keep their burrows clean. they self—isolate like we did during lockdown. and rangers think that�*s one of the reasons why they�*ve done well, despite bird flu. another reason is that there's been less named storms. the waters churned up from storms, they can't see the fish, and so it meant they were bringing back more fish, which is successful, so the islands are ideal for them this year. all life is fragile on these remote islands, and the puffin count helps researchers understand what�*s happening with the wider environment. puffins, like all the seabirds we have here in the farne islands, they�*re very indicative of the health of our seas, the state of our environment. if there�*s anything wrong with the seas, then the seabirds, they�*ll be the first to suffer. so it�*s really important that we have an idea ofjust how many we have. the ambition now is to monitor the puffins every single year. known as the clowns of the sea,

these colourful characters entertain us but can teach us so much more. fiona trott, bbc news, northumberland. the actor and monty python star terryjones was described as one of the funniest writer performance and performers when he died in 2020. now people are determined to raise funds to get a statue of terry raised. it aims to raise £120.- get a statue of terry raised. it aims to raise £120. now, you listen here! _ it aims to raise £120. now, you listen here! even _ it aims to raise £120. now, you listen here! even without - it aims to raise £120. now, you listen here! even without a - listen here! even without a statue, terry _ listen here! even without a statue, terry jones - listen here! even without a statue, terry jones is - listen here! even without a - statue, terry jones is someone statue, terryjones is someone who has created unforgettable

characters. this is why people think that a permanent memorial on the day will remind people working from i on the day will remind people working from— working from i don't think he liked... he — working from i don't think he liked... he sat, _ working from i don't think he liked... he sat, there - working from i don't think he liked... he sat, there must. working from i don't think he l liked... he sat, there must be something else. it may be because he is welsh. a real credit to this day and the surrounding area.- credit to this day and the surrounding area. terry jones came back — surrounding area. terry jones came back here _ surrounding area. terry jones came back here several- surrounding area. terry jones| came back here several times surrounding area. terry jones i came back here several times to support local theatre in the town where his family had theatrical gold rings. mr; theatrical gold rings. my grandfather _ theatrical gold rings. my grandfather -- - theatrical gold rings. my grandfather —— had theatrical links — grandfather —— had theatrical links. they used to do theatre on the — links. they used to do theatre on the pier. links. they used to do theatre on the pier-— on the pier. also surviving member— on the pier. also surviving member emma _ on the pier. also surviving i

member emma thompson... on the pier. also surviving _ member emma thompson... putting cash towards the statue especially if it represents a particular side of terryjones. gray i want to help get this thing built. it is a wonderful thing. i thing built. it is a wonderful thin. ., thing built. it is a wonderful thin _ ., ., , , thing built. it is a wonderful thin. ., ,~ thing. i do hope they choose terry naked _ thing. i do hope they choose terry naked playing - thing. i do hope they choose terry naked playing the - thing. i do hope they choose l terry naked playing the organ. it is terry naked playing the organ. it is such— terry naked playing the organ. it is such a _ terry naked playing the organ. it is such a classic _ terry naked playing the organ. it is such a classic piece - terry naked playing the organ. it is such a classic piece of- it is such a classic piece of terry— it is such a classic piece of terryjones and it would be wonderful to see it here. people _ wonderful to see it here. people will come here just to rub the bare bottom! for good luck. ., , rub the bare bottom! for good luck. ., _., ,�*, rub the bare bottom! for good luck. ., ., luck. for terry jones's son and daughter. _ luck. for terry jones's son and daughter, whatever _ luck. for terry jones's son and daughter, whatever it - luck. for terry jones's son and daughter, whatever it is - luck. for terry jones's son and daughter, whatever it is it - daughter, whatever it is it will be a special memory of their late father. is will be a special memory of their late father.— will be a special memory of their late father. is the kind of silly thing _ their late father. is the kind of silly thing that _ their late father. is the kind of silly thing that he - their late father. is the kind of silly thing that he would l of silly thing that he would have — of silly thing that he would have enjoyed. the idea of him being — have enjoyed. the idea of him being in— have enjoyed. the idea of him being in character here on they would — being in character here on they would have absolutely tickled him so — would have absolutely tickled him so we're really excited to

finally — him so we're really excited to finally get the fundraising message out there. finally get the fundraising messaue out there. ., , message out there. spam, spam, sam, message out there. spam, spam, spam, baked — message out there. spam, spam, spam, baked beans, _ message out there. spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam! - message out there. spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam! just l spam, baked beans, spam! just brilliant. good _ spam, baked beans, spam! just brilliant. good luck to them, what a nice idea. now look at the weather. it is a day of great contrast north to south with some heavy showers and thunderstorms in the south and warm sunshine in the north. it will feel humid out there from all of us that you watch out for any rain which could bring some flooding. in the satellite image you can see the swirling mass of cloud which is marking an area of low pressure which will throw towards us some quite humid airand will throw towards us some quite humid air and heavy downpours, as well. easterly breeze further north so any mist and fog we see clearing away with long spells of

sunshine in these areas where it will feel long and humid with 25, 20 6 degrees in the north. cooler towards the east coast where you have the breeze coming in. heavy showers and thunderstorms will ease away from southern england and wales through tonight with perhaps a drizzle around still. the north gaining some fog patches and clouds with a murky start with temperatures in the mid—teens. some humid air into the weekend with the area of low pressure in the south on saturday but a little bit of a quieter day with not as many showers coming in, certainly compared to the heavy rain of today and yesterday. still a lot of cloud and mist in the north and east which should break up and improve the picture with warm sunshine and light winds in northern wales and ireland. the south will still have the cloud hanging on which will bring a

few showers but more as we head into sunday. they will work their way north across england and wales and could be the odd rumble of thunder, as well. could be some sunshine in between. scotland and norther ireland having another try and saddle day. temperatures not as quiet as one of today but highs of about 22 degrees. so the one area will get shifted away next week will go south. a westerly airflow which will bring a cool field to the weather. another warm and humid day with that had rain in the south and the next week could drop in temperature with a mix of sunny spells and scattered showers. goodbye.

live from london. this is bbc news. life in war—torn sudan —

we have a special report on the desperate plight of millions of people facing starvation. 16 months of war have had a devastating impact on people�*s lives here. over 10 million people have had to flee their homes. and if they escape the bombs and the bullets, there is another killer, hunger. tackling illegal migration to the uk. the home secretary holds a summit aimed at destroying the criminal gangs which smuggle people across the channel. as the prison population of england and wales hits a new record high — we have rare access inside a londonjail — to report on the consequences of overcrowding. ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky is at ramstein air base in germany attending a meeting with top military leaders about support for ukraine. we need to force russia to seek peace. we need to make russia see this and even russian soldiers think about what they need, peace or putin.