welcome back. let's turn to the main headlines this half hour, 70 children are missing after a fire broke out at a primary school in central kenya, 17 boys are known to have died. ukraine's president zelensky calls for allies to allow the use of long—range missiles inside russian territory saying use of long—range missiles inside russian territory saying it is the only way to end this it is the only way to end this war. ahead of a new early war. ahead of a new early release scheme to release release scheme to release

prisoners because missiles prisoners because of overcrowding, the bbc gets special access to one of britain's most dangerous prisons and good news in northumberland in the uk as a puffin population is declared stable despite fears of bird flu. those are our headlines on i move on i want to take us to new york and show you the live pictures because these are the pictures because these are the pictures where we expect in a little while to hear from donald trump because he has already been inside a courtroom in manhattan with his lawyers

already been inside a courtroom in manhattan with hi original; that the judge in the original case should not have allowed a couple of the key witnesses to give evidence and another number of other lines in terms of the appeal so we will watch and listen to donald trump when he arrives at those microphones. we may also here today when we all get sentencing in a different case in the hush money case after that conviction back in may of falsifying business records to cover up the payment to silence the adult film star stormy daniels so we expect that development today and the crucial development on that will be whether sentencing happens before the november election or after it, so we are keeping our eyes on those two different court cases and on that microphone because donald trump will be there in the next we think 20 minutes, 30 minutes orso we think 20 minutes, 30 minutes or so so will carry that i live just as soon as it starts.

let's get more on those events from germany where president zelensky urged ukraine's military backers to authorise the use of long—range missiles to attack targets within russia. president zelensky said it was the only way to bring about an end to this war and he was speaking at the start of that conference, have a listen. now we hear you are —— your long—range policy has not changed but we see that a shortage of missiles in a and that applies to our territory which is applying to russia. it is wrong. we need to have these long—range capability, not only in occupied territory of ukraine but also on the russian territory, yes, so that russia is motivated to seek —— to cease this. is motivated to seek -- to cease this.— is motivated to seek -- to cease this. straight back to new york _ cease this. straight back to new york because - cease this. straight back to new york because slightly | cease this. straight back to - new york because slightly ahead of time donald trump is arrived at those microphones so let's

put them up. jae at those microphones so let's put them um— put them up. joe and all the rest of them. .. _ put them up. joe and all the rest of them. .. we - put them up. joe and all the rest of them. .. we have - put them up. joe and all the rest of them. .. we have a i put them up. joe and all the - rest of them. .. we have a whole rest of them... we have a whole rigged election system. i understand we are bringing in the russia thing again, russia, russia, russia they've done that for years i neverfound anything. but they should be looking at china, china, china. iran, iran, iran. lots of other places. i have not spoken to anybody from russia in years. they know that but it is a scam. but it all goes back to the doj because we had a trial today and it is an appeal of a ridiculous verdict of a woman i have never met, i don't know, i have never met, i don't know, i have no idea who she is, she wrote a book and made a ridiculous story up, she put it in her book and we are now

appealing the decision. we had an extremely hostile judge appointed by clinton, very good friends of clinton, i guess he married, presided over the marriage ceremony of one of the lawyers on the case against us and it is very sad, judge lewis kaplan, angry man, he was so angry, iwent to kaplan, angry man, he was so angry, i went to the trial, i've been in a lot of litigation over the years and they've never seen such anger of wanting to throw one of our attorneys in jail, of wanting to throw one of our attorneys injail, threatened her with jail. attorneys injail, threatened herwith jail. no attorneys injail, threatened her with jail. no one has ever seen anything like it, over nothing. nobody has ever... i've never seen such anger but all of ourjudges, we had a brilliantjudge and i think a very fairjudge in florida and i think we have anotherjudge who is very fair. ijust i think we have anotherjudge who is very fair. i just asked, i don't want anything different from anybody else, just ask for fairness. we have anotherjudge

or couple ofjudges who i think are fair and or couple ofjudges who i think are fairand then or couple ofjudges who i think are fair and then we have other judges that i think the whole thing... the system is a disgrace. the case he met on today and then we'll talk about job numbers which are horrible by the way, horrible. like, really bad. and you know that. i'm sure you will not report on it but thejob i'm sure you will not report on it but the job numbers are terrible. we will talk about the appeal today, we had a great lawyer going down representing us and i think john did a very good job, you have a matter of minutes to speak, it is a very complex thing because it was a setup, a rigged deal. they had two witnesses and before i start, i have no idea who this woman is. they have a picture from they say about a0 years ago, a picture and the picture depicts her and her husband on a

celebrity line where i was the celebrity, i've been a celebrity, i've been a celebrity for a long time. they were shaking my hands along with hundreds of other people. nobody even knows the problem is she does not know the date of this incident.— of this incident. well, more denials and _ of this incident. well, more denials and a _ of this incident. well, more denials and a certain - of this incident. well, more i denials and a certain deviation from facts from donald trump because in the original trial he is trying to overturn as a $5 millionjury he is trying to overturn as a $5 million jury trial where he was accused of sexually assaulting ejean carroll and he is speaking of that dressing room encounter they had in manhattan from decades ago and of course donald trump posting on truth social calling the claim a hoax. after all of

that, jurors awarded her 2.02 million and 2.98 million for her sexual assault and the defamation claims and in a separate case, also having repeated some of what he has just said there on camera, there was another hearing with another award of more money but thatis another award of more money but that is a separate appeal with donald trump today saying he never met ejean carroll in speaking about a hostile judge, judge lewis kaplan, who resided over that case. so a lot of things that donald trump is saying that have been totally discounted he is repeating again but that appeal is being heard and has started on your last few hours. before going to that, we were listening to president zelensky of ukraine, he was there in germany earlier

talking about the additional aid that allies have given ukraine but also repeating that plea to be allowed to use long—range missiles that hit targets in russia so let's talk to the director of military sciences at the royal united services in let's talk to you, thank you for your patience, we were going to talk to you just moments before donald trump arrived at the microphone to thank you for staying with us. let's that has the new commitments. what is your assessment of the more aid and short—range missiles? assessment of the more aid and short-range missiles?— short-range missiles? what we saw announced _ short-range missiles? what we saw announced today _ short-range missiles? what we saw announced today from - short-range missiles? what we saw announced today from the | short-range missiles? what we i saw announced today from the uk side are short—range missiles which would probably be used in an air defence role so the sort of thing you might see being used either around ukrainian cities or it could go to troops in the front line and it is well suited to shooting down things like small drones and

not to be confused with the question from president zelensky about longer range missiles which are for attacking targets inside russia and the us pledge pledge is essentially more money being spent from presidential drawdown that has previously been allocated for a range of equipment that was essentially promised at the start of the year and i promised at the start of the yearand i think year and i think some of the criticism there has been whilst it was... it took a while to get into the country. i it was. .. it took a while to get into the country.- get into the country. i will come back _ get into the country. i will come back to _ get into the country. i will come back to that - get into the country. i will come back to that point i get into the country. i will come back to that point in get into the country. i will i come back to that point in a moment but you may the point about the long—range missiles and president zelensky has been repeatedly asking and pleading with western allies in the us to be allowed to use his long—range missiles the west have given him to hit targets inside russia. why do you think, or do you think the us and nato have to come to a decision on this? repeatedly

they have been pressed on the importance of that.— they have been pressed on the importance of that. these are a combination — importance of that. these are a combination of _ importance of that. these are a combination of air _ importance of that. these are a combination of air launched - combination of air launched cruise missiles or ground launched ballistics being fired from some of the rocket artillery systems that are provided by international backers and the argument from the ukrainians is that these are needed to strike some targets inside russia that would be off sick look and value to their ground forces and that is a combination of deep buried bunkers or ammunition storage sites and thatis ammunition storage sites and that is where the air launched missiles with a penetrating warhead would be useful, or aircraft caught on the ground at airfields where the ballistic missile could use a warhead to destroy them before being launched on the problem as it seems like the russians have moved a lot of those aircraft and helicopters further back and they are now probably out of range. whatever

the practicalities, _ probably out of range. whatever the practicalities, sorry- probably out of range. whatever the practicalities, sorry to - the practicalities, sorry to cut across you, how do you think it is looking when people watch repeatedly the ukraine president, after russian strikes that are killing so may people, and we are not getting that answer from nato allies and i suppose most importantly the americans? i and i suppose most importantly the americans?— the americans? i think what it robabl the americans? i think what it probably looks _ the americans? i think what it probably looks like _ the americans? i think what it probably looks like is - the americans? i think what it probably looks like is the - the americans? i think what it probably looks like is the case of the ukrainians have made which is the incursion into kursk, they say shows a russian rhetoric about escalation is probably ever played, the russians to escalate that what they do is strike ukrainian civilians and in essence, the russians seem to have priced in the continuation and expansion of the war, basically the front line happens to have moved into russia and i think it is probably unfortunate that it has taken place so publicly because it exposes some disagreements with international backers and ukrainians and that effectively

gives the russians some warning about what might be coming your way. white make one sentence, do you think the americans will change policy on this? i don't know but i sense that the weight of opinion is heading the ukrainian way and we've also seen some suggestions they might in turn, actually the us, supply some of their own air launched cruise missiles but it is genuinely difficult to know, i think the ukrainian urgency is being really pressed on now. great to talk to you, thank you forjoining us in the programme. thanks for your time. ., , programme. thanks for your time._ around l programme. thanks for your l time._ around the time. no problem. around the world and _ time. no problem. around the world and across _ time. no problem. around the world and across the - time. no problem. around the world and across the uk, - time. no problem. around the. world and across the uk, you're watching bbc news.

welcome back to bbc news. china has announced that his ending the practice of allowing children to be adopted overseas. at least 150,000 chinese children have been adopted abroad in the last three decades and is more, having gone to the us than

anywhere else. to explain a decision a spokeswoman said that the rule change was in line with the spirit of international agreements. the chinese international agreements. tue: chinese government has international agreements. tte: chinese government has adjusted its intercountry adoption policy, henceforth except for the adoption of children and stepchildren from collateral relatives by the board of the same generation or within three generations by foreigners coming to china, china will not send children abroad for adoption and this is also in line with the spirit of relevant international conventions. we express our gratitude to foreign governments and families who wish to adopt chinese children for loving—kindness. that wish to adopt chinese children for loving-kindness.— wish to adopt chinese children for loving-kindness. that has a spokeswoman _ for loving-kindness. that has a spokeswoman for the - for loving-kindness. that has a spokeswoman for the foreign l spokeswoman for the foreign ministry. let's talk to a professor at the university of michiganjoining is life in the programme. welcome to bbc news. this is a very, very interesting move from the chinese. why do you think they

are doing it?— are doing it? thank you for havin: are doing it? thank you for having me- _ are doing it? thank you for having me. the _ are doing it? thank you for having me. the exact - are doing it? thank you for i having me. the exact moment are doing it? thank you for - having me. the exact moment of banning foreign adoption, the decision making behind that, is opaque as it is with policy—making in contemporary china but the writing has been on the wall for a while in terms of international adoption. in recent years, we have seen concerted promotion of what it means to be chinese, in chinese family. what an appropriate chinese family value system should look like, as china experienced its population decline, it's drop in birth and at the same time, we do see bubbling nationalistic sentiments about who gets to belong be counted or not counted as the appropriate... what appropriate family looks like. that sentiment _ family looks like. that sentiment is - family looks like. that sentiment is really - family looks like. that - sentiment is really interesting i will come to that thought in a moment but i said in the

introduction it over the years, about 150,000 chinese children have been adopted, most of them going to the united states so what can you tell about the make up of those 150,000 in general? make up of those 150,000 in reneral? ~ , , general? absolutely. the majority _ general? absolutely. the majority of _ general? absolutely. the majority of international. majority of international adoptees from china are girls with some boys with physical and developmental special needs and developmental special needs and this is in part due to the deeply entrenched family values that privileged, healthy boys above all, thereby making them make up of international adoptees what we are observing today. t adoptees what we are observing toda . , , ,.,, today. i suppose underlining that, not _ today. i suppose underlining that, notjust _ today. i suppose underlining that, notjust the _ today. i suppose underlining that, not just the value - today. i suppose underlining i that, notjust the value placed on boys, it was for many years that draconian policy of a one—child policy, does that factor into the sort of children who ended up going up

for adoption? children who ended up going up foradoption? it children who ended up going up for adoption?— for adoption? it absolutely does. china _ for adoption? it absolutely does. china has _ for adoption? it absolutely does. china has a - for adoption? it absolutely does. china has a decades| for adoption? it absolutely - does. china has a decades long one—child policy which has exacerbated the separation at birth we have been observing in china at this very moment so as a result we see prevalent preference given to boys resulting in the abandonment of girls they are by making the demographic composition of international adoptees heavily female. a, international adoptees heavily female. �* ., , international adoptees heavily female. ., , ., female. a final couple of questions _ female. a final couple of questions because - female. a final couple of questions because for. female. a final couple ofj questions because for all female. a final couple of i questions because for all of these people watching, there will be some who are probably within or starting a process thinking about a process of adopting a child from china, what happens to all of those adoptions that perhaps are in the very early stages? because of how sudden and how opaque the policy change was carried out, people are left in limbo

with uncertainty and anxiety as they look towards the future so it is imperative to have this conversation about international adoptions from china and elsewhere that we centrally writes to dignified parenthood, to dignify childhood and consider who is included or excluded from the rights to health, education and we the gender equity and justice as a paramount issue as we think about what a family looks like and what a family can look like.— can look like. just a final thought _ can look like. just a final thought coming - can look like. just a final thought coming back - can look like. just a final thought coming back to l thought coming back to something you started by saying, how much do you think of this is a political decision rather than a democratic one and how much about national pride is there a flexing of that from president xi? in china that from president xi? t�*t china cultural population dynamics is as much of a

demographic or issue as it is a political issue because it is something that is viscerally emotional and deeply fraught about who is chinese and who can be chinese, and what a chinese populace looks like. thank you so much for taking time to speak to ours, it's a really fascinating story that we are learning more details on so thank you very much for being with us here on bbc news. just a quick pointer before we leave viewers watching from around the world, we will have more on the programme in the next few minutes, starting in about ten minutes' time, an expedition, the latest from that fire in kenya where the latest from the middle east as well after the death of an american in the occupied west bank and we will talk more about that 1a—year—old who has beenin about that 1a—year—old who has been in court today charged with murder after that school shooting in georgia. all of that coming up on bbc news.

well, for viewers here in the uk, let's turn to a different story because a puffin population has been declared stable after fears that bird flu might have had a more devastating effect. the first full count for five years on the farne islands of northumberland has revealed that the species has in fact increased by 15% since 2019 with are now thought to be 50,000 breeding pairs on the site which has cared —— which is cared for by the national trust. here is more on that. 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. a 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 like 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 island's 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 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. well, before we get the latest weather details, let me tell you the european union cosmic climate monitor has said during the past three months, the globe has experienced the hottestjune and august ever recorded and the hottest day on

record as well. a report from the agency said 202a saw the highest temperatures ever recorded for the northern hemisphere, beating last year's record. the report suggests the string of record temperature increases the likelihood of 202a being the hottest year on record. the meteorologist from reading university told us this was very likely to be the case. almost certainly will break the record, it would need an unprecedented amount of cooling down again over the next few months to not break the annual record so we are almost certain to break the record and there are reasons for this, obviously the climate change, global warming is obviously a factor but we've also had el nino, a big, globalsystem but we've also had el nino, a big, global system pushing sea water up anyone pacific towards the east of the pacific and it really warms the entire globe a little bit but enough that it can really make a difference of

sort of a little bit, enough to set records and so on, so we are probably at a point where the upper trend, followed by the upper trend, followed by the extra peak from el nino is what is causing us to set the records but we have to remember that el nino is always happening, we've always had his ups and downs of the upper trend is the real threat to us, i suppose. as humanity. before we to i suppose. as humanity. before we no to i suppose. as humanity. before we go to the — i suppose. as humanity. before we go to the weather, - i suppose. as humanity. before we go to the weather, let - i suppose. as humanity. before we go to the weather, let me i we go to the weather, let me tell you, in the next hour, life on this programme will get the latest from new york, we saw donald trump speaking, still speaking as i'm talking to you and we will also be live injerusalem, the latest to you and we will also be live in jerusalem, the latest after the death of that american citizen, the 26—year—old woman in the occupied west bank. and of course updates on the rest of course updates on the rest of our main stories, all of that coming up in the next few minutes but first, let's get the weather details with chris fawkes. hello there. we had some enormous contrasts in weather fortunes across the uk on friday.

many of you saw some warm afternoon. spells of sunshine felt quite humid and temperatures surged as high as 28 c in cambridge. that was one of the highest temperatures. it was pretty hot elsewhere in east anglia and also the northwest of the uk, west through in dumfries and galloway. ten degrees above average and 27 degrees here set a new temperature record for september at this particular site, with records going back a0 years in the south. different story. cloud and rain once again worked its way in, and have been totting up all of those rainfall totals both through thursday and friday. in farnborough. in hampshire, we've recorded 56mm of rain that's only three millimetres away from the entire average rainfall for september we would normally expect, so it's been nearly a month's worth of rainfall that's come our way. now, looking at the weather picture overnight tonight, it turns murky again with low cloud becoming extensive. some mist and fog patches with that spots of drizzle. but finally the weather fronts in the south will give up the ghost. the rain will ease off in intensity. just a few patches of damp and drizzly weather left over on into the weekend. the same area of low pressure that brought the soaking to the south is still going to be bringing

the threat of heavy, thundery showers or some longer spells of rain to england and wales. now it's going to be a murky start to the day for many. watch out for these showers as they work into parts of eastern england. they could be quite heavy through the morning. elsewhere, a few thundery showers could pop up into the afternoon. hit or miss in nature, but1 or 2 of those could be quite intense. scotland and northern ireland. the cloud will tend to thin and break with sunshine coming through, and it should stay dry here. we'll have some of the highest temperatures in the uk again across northwestern areas. for sunday it's a case of showers or some longer spells of rain, probably some thunderstorms mixed in. we might see some localised surface water flooding from some of the heaviest downpours across england and wales, and again hit or miss in nature in terms of how much rain that we get from this system. scotland and northern ireland having the drier weather but probably turning a bit cloudier. the jet stream next week is going to change. it's going to pull in a slab of colder air from the north west, and with that will come some rather unsettled and showery weather conditions. temperatures dropping across the board and some chilly nights developing

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israeli forces are reported to have shot dead a 26—year—old american activist in the occupied west bank. we'll bring you the latest on this developing story. from our correspondent in jerusalem. a lawyer for donald trump has asked a federal appeals court to overturn a jury verdict finding mrtrump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming the writer ejean carroll. we will be live in new york. 70 children are missing after a fire broke out at a primary school in central kenya. 17 boys are known to have died. prime minister keir starmer says the government is working to crack down on criminal smuggling gangs days after 12 die in an attempted channel crossing. we are making progress. i acknowledge more needs to be done. we've got to take down the gangs that are running this vile trade of putting people into boats in the first place. san marino! and success at last

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