people on board including eritreans, sudanese, syrians and iranians. six people including a baby with hypothermia have been taken to hospital. so far this year 45 people have died trying to make the journey across the channel. that's the highest number since 2021 and nearly four times last year's figure. just yesterday alone, around 800 migrants in m boats crossed the channel. the boat got into difficulties off the french town of ambleteuse and was driven onto rocks where it came apart. the rocky shore made the french rescue effort difficult. it comes as sir keir starmer will be in italy on monday for talks with counterpart giorgia meloni about her efforts to tackle the problem of illegal migration. leigh milner has the latest. it's here on this beach, near the town of ambleteuse, where eight people were declared dead last night after a small boat started

to sink not long after leaving the coast of france. translation: the vessel - departed from the slack sector near the town of wimereux. it quickly ran into trouble and appears to have crashed on the rocks directly in front of where we are now. a total of 45 people have now died in the channel this year, the highest reported number since 2021, according to the un's international organisation for migration. sir keir starmer is expected to meet the italian prime minister in rome tomorrow to discuss italy's offshore processing plan, where asylum seekers are sent to albania. speaking to the bbc this morning, foreign secretary david lammy said the government was open to using some of the schemes to tackle the issue. well, they have a comprehensive scheme with albania, understanding that that balkans

route, as well as the channel and the southern mediterranean, are routes which migrants use, so of course, because it has reduced the numbers, we are actually discussing with italy the schemes that they have developed not just with albania but upstream schemes with syria and libya as well. his comments were met with criticism from the shadow home secretary. we've seen fatalities of illegal channel crossings going up, we have seen the numbers coming up, because the very first action of this labour government was to scrap an international partnership which was deterring migrants, we know this because those migrants told us so. this latest incident comes less than two weeks after 12 people including six children and a pregnant woman died when a boat carrying dozens of migrants sank in what was the deadliest loss of life in the

channel this year. as the investigation into what happened last night continues, so do the ongoing discussions as to what can be done to prevent further deaths. leigh milner, bbc news. enver solomon, ceo of the refugee council, gave us his reaction to this latest channel crossing attempt. it's devastating news, just days after the tragic loss of life of 12 people, another eight people have now perished in the channel. and these deaths are not inevitable. it's important to note that. so it's important to recognise that these are people from countries like afghanistan, fleeing the taliban, from syria, fleeing bombs and bullets, they are seeking safety in the uk, seeking to be given refugee protection, and we need to look at ways of allowing them to come to the uk without having to take these dangerous journeys. tony smith is a former director—general of the uk border force and head of border control,

who's now a global border security consultant. he gave us this assessment of how the channel crossings have changed of late. well, it is indeed tragic that this has happened, but i think what we're seeing increasingly now is more and more of these vessels are capsizing much closer to the french beaches, and they are much more overcrowded, more people are cramming into them. they have always been unsafe, but it is getting worse, and as your report showed, record numbers are now drowning, so it is clear to me there are still a supply of migrants who are willing to put their lives at risk and pay smuggling gangs to get across, but it is ever more dangerous, i'm afraid. what needs to happen in terms of cooperation between the uk and france to stop these vital crossings? well, the only way we are ever going to stop the boats altogether is to come to an agreement with france that any migrants picked up either in french or british territorial waters are returned immediately to france,

which is a safe country, a signatory to the 1951 convention. if they fear persecution, they can claim asylum in france. we need to send a clear message to smugglers that this will not work and they will not get into the uk. whether the french government or eu authorities will agree to such an arrangement is another thing, but it is a fundamental principle of maritime law that people in distress at sea should be taken back to the nearest safe place, and that clearly is france. what is your view of the idea of this albanian scheme, whereby people would be sent to albania for processing, something akin to what italy is doing? i think the new government here has been a bit hasty in dismissing the previous plan with rwanda, because a lot of money, time and effort was invested by the british government in doing something similar, although it was offshoring, outsourcing, meaning that people coming across

the channel could be resettled in rwanda. that was dismissed out of hand, but it was a good model, and we set up a lot of facilities in rwanda to do that. i'm not sure the arrangements with albania are as well advanced, so i think they would have been wise to take a bit of a breath before immediately dismissing the rwanda plan. by all means, look at the albania plan, but it seems there is growing momentum across europe for this idea that asylum processes could be dealt with in another country, so i will be interested to see what happens with that. countries across central and eastern europe are facing extreme flooding as storm boris wreaks havoc across the continent. more torrential downpours are forecasted until at least the end of monday. at least four people have died in romania, one person drowned in poland, while in austria, a fire fighter died tackling the floods there. the rain has mainly hit the eastern part of romania.

authorities are creating displacement camps and sending emergency aid to those forced to evacuate their homes. in the czech republic, 38 locations have declared the highest flood alert. some parts of poland and the czech republic faced the worst flooding in almost three decades and a bridge collapsed in this historic polish town near the czech border. the czech interior minister has told the bbc that the situation is extremely serious. now the situation, it is extremely serious, because we had to provide some evacuation in these cities, and we also have some isolated villages and the people there are waiting for help of rescue system, so we are really now on the top of

the crisis management in the czech republic. i have to say, compared to 2002 czech republic. i have to say, compared to 2002 and czech republic. i have to say, compared to 2002 and 1997, czech republic. i have to say, compared to 2002 and 1997, we are really much better prepared, and also we really had really good, well—prepared meteorological data, and we have invested, as the czech republic, in anti flooding messages in the last 25 years, so we really hope that the destroyed homes that we don't want to have such high numbers as we had before. firefighters and police are now in the towns and police are now in the towns and villages, and we have great cooperation, with the regional governments, and so far they are handling it very well, and we can see that our crisis manages in the region, that

they have huge experience, but with huge commitment of manpower and technology. i spoke earlier to our correspondent rob cameron, who is following the story from prague. he says the situation in the czech capital has eased. i think we have seen the worst of what the rain and flooding has to offer here in this part of the country. if i step away, you can see how high the river is now, but it hasn't burst its banks, and it is not expected to do so. in the other half of the country, the other side of the country, in north moravia, silesia, up injesenik, the spa town has been completely cut off with not even the fire brigade able to get to those people who didn't heat those calls to leave their homes, to evacuate, and instead the army and the police have had to come in helicopters to winch them to safety. another town, 80% of which is under water,

and now as the waters begin to recede from those towns in north moravia and silesia, the extent of the damage is beginning to be clear. we have seen on social media some of the pictures from jesenik and other areas where houses have been destroyed and massive amounts of debris left in the streets, and many people, of course, now looking for somewhere to spend the night, looking for warmth, looking for food and water. how well—prepared were the authorities, given what was forecast? i think the consensus is extremely well prepared, this region was very badly hit in 1997 and then in 2002. in 1997, north moravia took the brunt of the flooding, 2002, it was the capital, but since then so much has improved, they have poured literally1 billion euros in two flood defences, notjust here in prague but other parts of the country as well.

the computer modelling that they used to predict the volume of rain that will fall under where the rain water will flow, what pattern the flooding will follow along these tributaries and into the major rivers, all of that has improved massively over the last few decades, and it has given the authority is much more time to prepare and pinpoint and target exactly what they need to do when they need to do it. to the middle east now. israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has warned the houthis in yemen of a heavy price after a ballistic missile managed to enter israeli airspace. the missile, launched from yemen, fell in an open area. there were no casualties. a spokesman for the houthis in yemen said the operation involved what he called a new hypersonic missile, which travelled more than 2000 kilometres in less than 12 minutes. israel has said it is investigating how the missile was not shot down before entering the airspace. 0ur diplomatic correspondent paul adams has the latest on this attack. this is an interesting attack.

as you say, it didn't cause any damage, but it does not appear to have been intercepted by israel's extremely sophisticated and multilayered air defence system. in fact, the israeli army in its statement said that there had been multiple efforts to shoot it down. it appears to have broken up, and the damage caused on the ground seems to have been caused by israel's own interceptor missiles. the question is, how did a ballistic missile fired from yemen reach israel, so far into israel, the furthest any yemeni ballistic missile has reached, without being intercepted ? the yemenis, in a statement this morning, the houthi rebels say that they fired a new type of hypersonic missile. they say that it travelled more than 2,000km in 11—and—a—half minutes. now, there have been claims in the past that the yemenis either had or were developing such missiles. and clearly, if such a thing has been proven today, then that is an additional challenge for the israeli military, as it figures out how to deal with

this occasional threat. as for mr netanyahu, well, he has, as you say, threatened retaliation, and he has said, in his words, those who need a reminder in this matter are invited to visit the port of hudaydah. that is a reference to israel's extremely dramatic air attack on the port of hudaydah back at the end ofjuly, which caused a huge fire in an oil storage depot and was designed to be a major signal by the israelis to the houthis not to launch any further attacks against israel. paul adams reporting. time for a look at the dow's sports news now with 0lly foster. arsenal have moved up to second in the table after winning

the north london derby at tottenham 1—0. gabriel scored the second—half winner with a close—range headerfrom a corner. a good start for what promises to be a tough week, they open their champions league campaign at atalanta on thursday night before a trip to leaders manchester city next sunday. they are two points behind city in the table. the next premier league game kicks off in the next 15 minutes at molineux. wolves have just one point from their three games so far. a win for newcastle would see them move up to third at the very least. really pleased with the start we have made in what is such a difficult league. yeah, we know we still haven't hit top gear, we have done well in different passages of each game, but not consistently through the 90 minutes, that is what we are looking to do, and about going into a spell where we are playing away from home, some difficult games, so we are preparing for that test. at this moment, we will play a lot of teams who are expected

to finish high up the league, so not many people outside of here expect us to take many points out of the few games at the start of the season. but that is not our expectation — our expectation is to give everything to show that we have got good players, a good side. mclaren�*s 0scar piastri has won the azerbaijan grand prix on the streets of baku. piastri took the lead at aorund the half—way stage from charles leclerc who had started on pole and he maanged to hold off the ferrari to take his second race victory this season. behind him, there was more drama as red bull's sergio perez and ferrari's carlos sainz collided with two laps to go, that handed mercedes�* george russell a place on the podium lando norris finished fourth after starting from down in 15th. he finished ahead of championship leader max verstappen to close the gap between the two to 59 points with seven races left.

great britain's hopes of reaching the davis cup finals are over. they had to win all three of their rubbers in the tie against canada in manchester, but they fell at the first hurdle, dan evans was unable to recoverfrom his poor start against denis shapovalov — he lost the first set 6—0 and the second 7—5. the win means that canada qualify for the finals in malaga in november, along with argentina from this group. jack draper is playing felix auger—aliassime right now. all 12 singles matches are under way on the final day of the solheim cup in virginia. the usa led by 10—6 so need just four and half points to win back the trophy. charley hull and georgia hall have made strong starts for europe, but usa are up in more of those matches at the moment as holders. europe need 1a points to claim the title for a record fourth time in a row, just as they did last

year with a tie in spain to retain the trophy. the start of the final t20 between england and australia has been delayed at old trafford. play looked unlikely, but they are having a pitch inspection in manchester as we speak. some other news coming out of the england camp is that white—ball captainjos buttler will miss the five—match 0di series against australia as well. buttler has not played since the t20 world cup injune because of a calf injury. harry brook will captain the side in buttler�*s absence, while liam livingstone has also been called up to the one—day squad as a replacement. and that's all

the sport for now. nice handbrake turn! thank you. sir keir starmer has been accused of a breach of parliamentary rules relating to donations used to buy clothes for his wife from the labour donor lord alli. the prime minister has now registered the gifts to lady starmer, but he didn't do it within the time that mps are expected to make such declaration. according to the sunday times, lord alli covered the cost ofa personal shopper, clothes and alterations for victoria starmer, both before and after the general election. according to the rules, you are supposed to do this within 28 days, it didn't happen initially. downing street said to us they thought they had complied with all the rules on donations but then they got updated advice, and it was at that point that they declared further items. why does this matter? the first reason is

the identity of the donor, lord alli, a huge donor to the labour party, he has already bought accommodation, clothes, even glasses... as in spectacles? yes, worth tens of thousands of pounds, and there have already been allegations of cronyism after it emerged that lord alli was given a downing street security pass in august, hence there was talk of passes for glasses from some of the opposition mps. and secondly eyebrows being raised over whether the prime minister is right to take donations of things like clothing and glasses, particularly because he has talked about cleaning up politics. david lammy was asked about this this morning, he said that most prime ministers rely on donations so they can look their best when they represented the uk. the conservatives not impressed, calling for a full investigation, accusing the prime minister of hypocrisy, contrasting these donations with a decision to cut winter fuel payments for pensioners.

the leader of the liberal democrats, sir ed davey, is urging the labour government to invest more in the nhs or accept continued decline. ahead of his speech to his party conference in brighton, sir ed called for a budget for the nhs and said his party would provide a strong opposition. we are worried that in the nhs debate, — we are worried that in the nhs debate, they are talking about reform — debate, they are talking about reform before investment when we think— reform before investment when we think there needs to be reform _ we think there needs to be reform and investment. so reform and investment. 50 we _ reform and investment. so we will hold them to account, but we will be different from the conservatives, because being constructive means you have a different — constructive means you have a different tone, you don't do the yah _ different tone, you don't do the yah boo politics that i think_ the yah boo politics that i think people are sick of, and you — think people are sick of, and you also— think people are sick of, and you also put your alternatives forward _ the foreign secretary, david lammy, says careful discussions are taking place about whether ukraine will be allowed to fire long—range western missiles into russia. ukraine has repeatedly urged britain and the united states to let it use weapons like the british storm shadow missile to hit targets in russia. mr lammy told bbc news today more talks involving

the united states will take place later this month. closely watching this discussion are russia's neighbours, including finland. i asked elina valtonen, foreign minister of finland, for her view of president putin's latest threats. we know that we have very strong defence and deterrence ourselves and have invested in out with friends and allies. we do not see any military threat targeting finland or any of the other neighbouring countries here. what concerns does finland have for its own security, given that you have that long land border with russia? we have always taken the potential threat of russia very seriously, and therefore even before wejoined nato, we invested very heavily on our own defence, we never let go of our conscription—based army, for instance, and we have, in absolute terms,

one of the strongest armies in europe to this day, and now of course we are happy to share our capabilities with the entire alliance. but what we have observed in the recent months, and this not only concerns finland, i guess, but every european country, there has been an increase in hybrid—threat activity or hybrid attacks from russia, acts of sabotage and cyber attacks, of course misinformation and disinformation, and clearly also instrumentalised migration that russia has been using against finland and other neighbouring countries. what has changed for finland in how you as a country regard russia and president putin since you joined nato? we have seen, unfortunately, that aggression russia has not diminished, and on the contrary we been disappointed to see

that russia has submitted itself to being a sort ofjunior partner to china as well. we do see that, with the increased trade activity between those two countries, russia has been able to continue waging war in ukraine. in the long term, i am pretty pessimistic about the russian outlook, especially the economic outlook, but in the short and medium term, they will be able to wage that war, which means that we, other friends of ukraine and all the friends of the un charter and international law, we simply have to be aiding ukraine even heavier than we have been thus far. would that include, then, support for ukraine using western supplied long—range missiles, which president zelensky has been asking the united states and britain to permit for some time?

just on friday, we published a new military aid package to ukraine, and right from the outset we haven't set any constraints on the materiel we have been sending over for the ukrainians. obviously, we do rely on the fact that they have the full right to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity, and at the same time they are also able, based on international law, to also strike military targets. they have the full support of finland in that. a spacex capsule carrying the crew who undertook

the first spacewalk by private astronauts has returned to earth. standing by for a splashdown of the polaris dawn crew... it splashed down off the coast of florida. the four people on board had travelled further into space than anyone for more than 50 years. hello. we've got quite a mixture of weather around, across southern areas of england the sunniest and warmest of the weather to come today. high cloud working in over the next few hours. a couple of stripes of rain across northern england and the midlands, another in scotland, a couple of weather fronts bringing wetter weather for some of you over the next few hours, and with that some low cloud in lancashire. as we go through the afternoon, this band of rain will sink southwards across wales, the midlands, probably reaching parts of east anglia as well.

the far south will be dry with sunshine. brightening up in northern ireland, heavier rain working across scotland for a time with sunny spells chasing that rain in from the west later today. temperatures: high teens to low 20s. now, overnight, very gradually, we will see that rain ease away, but in the colder air that follows, a risk of a few dense fog patches forming as we go on through the latter part of the night. it could turn quite murky, some low cloud, probably spits and spots of drizzle across the far south from our weak weather front, but high pressure building right the way across the uk from monday bringing a lengthy spell of dry and relatively warm weather in the week ahead. starting with that low cloud, drizzle first thing across eastern england, mist and fog clearing quickly across the northwest. most areas will have a fine day with long spells of sunshine. temperatures for many between 17—21 celsius, but a little bit cooler across the far north of scotland, where temperatures will be around 13—15. high pressure reorienting on tuesday, mild air pushing into scotland, so temperatures will start to rise a little bit.

highs of 21 celsius in the warmest spot in scotland, quite widely about 19—21 elsewhere in the uk as well. for wednesday, one or two mist and fog patches first thing, perhaps a slightly stronger breeze coming in off the north sea, keeping some coastal districts of east anglia a little bit fresher, but come inland, 2a celsius in london, up to 22 in parts of scotland and 20 in parts of northern ireland, warm in that september sunshine. more of that by the end of the week, but a risk of showers across england and wales from thursday onwards.

this is bbc news. the headlines: a rubber boat taking migrants across the channel from france to england has sunk off the french coast, killing eight people. 45 migrants have now died in the channel this year. exceptionally heavy rain is still lashing parts of central and eastern europe and has killed at least five people in romania and one each in austria and poland. israel's prime minister warns the houthis in yemen of a "heavy price" after a ballistic missile managed to enter israeli airspace. the missile launched from yemen and fell in an open area. the houthis said their attack

was only the beginning. and a successful end to the polaris dawn mission, whose four member team on thursday completed the first—ever commercial spacewalk. the spacex dragon capsule safely splashed down off the coast of florida. now on bbc news, newscast. yesterday, laura, you yesterday, laura, you were yesterday, laura, you were telling me and the one listening to the podcast that it's just got really real for labour. it'sjust got really real for labour. . �* , it'sjust got really real for labour. ., �* , , , ., labour. that's the sense i got with conversations _ labour. that's the sense i got with conversations with - labour. that's the sense i got| with conversations with people last week and i think this morning you look at all of the headlines, all difficult things, all issues with not obvious solutions and i think that's absolutely the case. the story is around, there's tonnes of them. , ., .,

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