three, two, one, ignition. blasting off to explore one ofjupiter�*s moons — where there's potentially twice as much water as earth. and fresh controversy for strictly after what appears to be an awkward moment is caught on camera. and on sportsday later in the hour on bbc news, four games into his interim role, what hope does lee carsley have of the permanent england job after a less—than—convincing international break? good evening. a jury at the old bailey has heard a recording of a phone call to the police made by the father of a ten—year—old girl confessing to killing her. "she was naughty, i beat her up, and she died", he said. sara sharif�*s body was found in a bed at the family home

in woking in surrey last year. herfather, step—mother, and uncle are charged with murder and causing or allowing the death of a child. they all deny the charges. our uk home affairs correspondent daniel sandford was in court. the beaming face of ten—year—old sara sharif before she died in a summer of 2023. the first police knew of her death was when her father called them tearfully from pakistan. i have killed my daughter, he said. i have killed my daughter, i did legally punish my daughter and she died. i think she was naughty over the last three or four weeks. i beat her up. it wasn't my intention to kill her but i beat her up too much. the first police officer was dispatched immediately and arrived at the family home in woking at around the same time as the call ended. the prosecution say that when police arrived at the house they found sara's body in the children's bedroom and the handwritten letter

saying, if you have received this note it is me, who killed my daughter by beating. i swear to god that my intention was not to kill her. the three adults in the house, sara's further, her stepmother and uncle had all flown to pakistan the previous day along with her five siblings. from there her stepmother sent this video to the media. i would like to talk about sara. her death was an instant. fix, would like to talk about sara. her death was an instant. a postmortem examination — death was an instant. a postmortem examination showed _ death was an instant. a postmortem examination showed that _ death was an instant. a postmortem examination showed that sara - death was an instant. a postmortem examination showed that sara had i examination showed that sara had serious burns, multiple bone fractures, some at least six weeks old, white marks and a significant head injury. thejury heard old, white marks and a significant head injury. the jury heard that the three adults returned to the uk from pakistan just over a month after sara's death. today separated by security officers in the dock, they sat without showing emotion as the prosecution said, the father was blaming the stepmother, the

stepmother was claiming the father and the uncle was denying any knowledge. the kc said, they are pointing the finger at each other, there is a head—on conflict brewing between the defendants. he said sara's treatment at the house had been brutal, it had been appalling. he said all three of them were guilty of murder. but the three defendants all deny murder and causing or allowing the death of a child. some of the details we heard in court today of sara's injuries are frankly too distressing to report on television. but the prosecution pointed out that her medical records show that none of her injuries were reported to or seen by a doctor, little untreated. and she hadn't been in school performance. fiona. studio: thank you. —— herfour months. the un human rights organisation says it is appalled by israel's continued attacks on northern gaza, where it says tens of thousands of people are effectively cut off

with no access to food or other necessities. the hamas—run health ministry claims more than 60 people have been killed by israeli forces in the last 2a hours — with attacks on the al aqsa hospital compound and the nuseirat camp — where a number of children are reported dead. israel's military said it was �*looking into the reports�* about the attack. israel is not allowing internationaljournalists from media organisations, including the bbc, independent access to gaza. but we have a team of trusted freelance journalists filming for the bbc there. fergal keane's reports contains images you may find distressing. people are burning. the israeli strikes at the refugee tents on fire. helpless to stop the flames spreading. gas canisters exploding. a figure enveloped by the inferno. too distressing to show here, but all of it witnessed by the refugees.

translation: it was around 1am and we were sleeping in our tent. i have eight daughters. we woke up to the fire over our heads. 0ur daughters are all burned and our sons are injured. all my daughters are in a dire state. look at our situation and what has happened to us. israel says it targeted a hamas command centre next door to the hospital. the eu's top diplomat said violations of international law, disregard for civilian casualties wouldn't make israel safer. in gaza, no safety. not in hospital grounds or un schools. a grandmother mourning 18—month—old yamam. "i'm the one who raised you, yamam," she says. "i'm the one who raised you."

to the north, the children killed by a strike in the al—shati camp. among the wounded, boys who were playing marbles at the time. wael naim was grieving his 14—year—old son, rami. translation: he wasn't holding a weapon or anything else - unless children's toys have become a threat to them. that's something else. in this place, childhood vanishes fast. fergal keane, bbc news, jerusalem. a public inquiry has begun into the poisoning with novichok of a british woman in salisbury in 2018. the death of dawn sturgess was blamed on two russian agents who used the nerve agent to try to murder the former spy sergei skripal and his daughter. dawn sturgess was inadvertently exposed to the novichok when it was found in a discarded perfume bottle. duncan kennedy reports.

it's been six years since caroline and stan sturgess lost their daughter dawn. today they came to the inquiry to find answers. in the ornate surroundings of salisbury�*s guildhall, the chair of the public inquiry started with an expression of sympathy. we should begin by assuring them of our understanding, so far as we are able, and of our sympathy. today the inquiry released a series of unseen photos, including these ones of dawn the day before she became ill. the inquiry had she'd unwittingly spray the deadly nerve agent novichok on her wrist from a perfume like bottle her boyfriend had found. the real possibility emerged that she'd been caught, an innocent victim, in the crossfire of an illegal and outrageous international assassination attempt. the real target lived here on the outskirts

of salisbury, which became a massive crime scene. the inquiry released these photos of sergei skripal and his daughter yulia on the day they were poisoned with novichok four months before dawn stu rg ess. for the first time we see them slumped on a bench as they became seriously ill. and in another first today, we heard the views of sergei skripal himself. it came in the form of a written statement to the inquiry, in which mr skripal, who once worked for russian military intelligence, said he never thought that the russian regime would try to murder him. he went on to say, "i believe that putin makes all important decisions himself. i therefore think he must have at least given permission for the attack on yulia and me. nobody can be protected 100% from an assassin." he was a close and a clear and obvious target of an attack from mr putin, and his henchmen.

russia has always denied sending these two agents to kill sergei skripal. the inquiry will spend six weeks examining every piece of evidence. duncan kennedy, bbc news, in salisbury. the prime minister has opened a major investment conference in london — telling business leaders that now is a "a great moment" to back britain. sir keir starmer told delegates that he wanted to give companies the best conditions to succeed and insisted changes to workers�* rights are "pro growth". our business editor simonjack was there. london�*s financial district was brought to a standstill this morning as the roads around the guildhall, a place of commerce for nearly 600 years, were closed for some very important people. inside that ancient room there, there are a couple of hundred of the world�*s most powerful business people with hundreds of billions to invest. and the idea of the summit is to get them to spend as much here in the uk as possible. now, the precincts may be ancient

but the message is modern: we are laser focused on growth. that seemed like news to the former boss of google. i was shocked when labour became strongly in favour of growth. wealth creation is the number—one mission of a labour government. his promise to these high rollers was a new area of stability after four prime ministers and six chancellors in eight years. we have a golden opportunity to use our mandate, to end the culture of chop and change, the policy churn, the sticking plaster politics that makes it so hard for investors in. that seemed to go down well. stability for investors, - and predictability, is always important for us as an investor. while a promise to speed up planning and regulation also got the thumbs up. i think the mood in the room is really positive. we can commit to doing projects but if you can�*t get the planning permission, you could be sitting with the project for two to three years when you�*ve got money ready

to go to work, that isn�*t being put in place. but new employment regulations that will make it more expensive to hire and harder to fire new workers worried some rich labour fans. i'm not very keen on that, actually, at all, as you might well imagine. i think it's a real burden on businesses. but it's all about balance, and labour have always been for workers' rights, so i expected something like that when i voted for them. the chancellor said she wanted to invest government money too — money she doesn�*t have unless she changes the rules about how much she can borrow. i do want to free up _ investment in those long—term, responsible investments that we need to make to unlock the private - investment into our economy. that sounds like a yes to changing the debt rules. we'll set out the detail of that in the budget, i but getting a grip of day—to—day spending is also essential - i if we are going to free up moneyl for those long—term investments. these events are predictably upbeat, but the budget is likely to see businesses like these hit

with higher costs and taxes — an altogether more painful affair. simonjack, bbc news, the guildhall. 0ur political editor chris masonjoins me now. as we saw, labour are trying to balance what are sometimes competing interests, business and workers�* rights are. we interests, business and workers' rights are-— rights are. we have seen the awkwardness _ rights are. we have seen the awkwardness of _ rights are. we have seen the awkwardness of that - rights are. we have seen the awkwardness of that and - rights are. we have seen the awkwardness of that and it i rights are. we have seen the - awkwardness of that and it plays out in the last couple of days with the row about p and 0 ferries and their previous employment practices, and the words of the transport secretary being contradicted by the prime minister and the company threatening to pull out of today�*s summit and in the end turning up. if you take up a step back what we can see is the government are eyeing absolutely everything at today�*s gathering, so the king has been deployed, so has eltonjohn, paddington bear must have been double booked because every big british brand seemingly being thrown in the direction of trying to woo these mobile money men and women of global capitalism is

there as well as from ministers that their wealth is fluid and they have to make the case to bring that wealth here. it is a three prong pitch if you like. we heard so that they are from simon. regulation doing a little bit less of it, but let�*s see how that actually plays out. stability, the idea that a big government majority means they will be around for a little while at least. and then planning, trying to make it easier to build stuff and build it quickly. this the first of two big economic moments this month for the government, with the budget coming up two weeks on wednesday. that hope for dream of economic growth so key to so many of the other promises that keir starmer is making. other promises that keir starmer is makinu. , ., ~ i. making. chris, thank you. the time is cominu making. chris, thank you. the time is coming up _ making. chris, thank you. the time is coming up to _ making. chris, thank you. the time is coming up to a — making. chris, thank you. the time is coming up to a quarter _ making. chris, thank you. the time is coming up to a quarter past - making. chris, thank you. the time is coming up to a quarter past six. l is coming up to a quarter past six. 0ur is coming up to a quarter past six. our top story... the father of ten—year—old sara sharif tells police in a phone call that he killed her. and how the digital finance app revolut has been named in more

complaints of fraud than any high street bank in the last year. and on sportsday in the next 15 minutes on bbc news, we�*ll hear from the england captain ben stokes on his return to the test side, as they look to seal a series victory against pakistan in multan. local authorities across the uk responsible for services from adult social care to bin collections and pothole repairs, are planning additional cuts across a wide range of services to meet a shortfall in funding. bbc research found they are making around three billion pounds worth of savings this financial year alone. but they�*ll still face a total shortfall of more than five and a half billion pounds by 2026. let�*s find out from the bbc�*s political reporters what�*s happening in three different councils across england. gemma dillon is in leeds, hugh casswell�*s in nottingham but first here�*s rob trigg on the challenges faced by shropshire council.

the health of ouncil is at serious risk of running out of money. i it needs to save £62 million from its budget this financial year, ——here in shropshire, the council is at serious risk of running out of money. it needs to save £62 million from its budget this financial year, which is almost £200 per resident. the council is blaming a rise in the demand for services, especially around social care, which makes up almost 80% of its budget. to save the money, the council wants to focus on people and places. firstly, it thinks it can save almost half by removing one in every ten jobs. and forget big buildings — the council wants to move its entire headquarters to a small office here in the town centre. then there�*s the downgrading of shrewsbury�*s cctv network. up until now, the cameras here have been monitored 24/7 by a team at the council. but in future, those cameras will still roll but no one will be watching in real time. we have had multiple break—ins over the years. you know, to know that there is not someone manning it,

looking at the cctv, is a worry. the council says it has to make savings. here and across the country, councils will continue to investigate ways to keep their budgets on track. how does a council save over £270 million in the next five years when it's already had to save almost three times that amount in the last 14 years? that's the challenge facing leeds city council, which has to make more savings than almost any other council in the country. one of the things it's planning to do is hand back the lease on this place, thwaite watermill, one of the last working watermills in the country. they've already increased council tax, introduced more car parking charges. they're proposing to cut around 300 full—time jobs this year, when they've already lost over 3000 jobs.

all of this as they try to balance a budget that is coming under severe financial pressure, including a big rise in demand for those needing support with special educational needs. but leeds city councillors aren't alone in having to make this wide range of difficult decisions. fireworks — plenty of those in council funding meetings across the country, but no actual official fireworks here in nottingham, with the council funded display cancelled for the fifth year in a row. and i�*m told it�*s unlikely to happen ever again. far from the most significant cut, but perhaps a sign of the sort of thing that�*s just nice to have, but councils can�*t commit to any more. few places have had as much difficulty as nottingham. this is one of the authorities which has effectively declared itself bankrupt in recent years. there have been changes, including a new leader. but the challenges don�*t seem to be getting any easier.

it's only when you're in the hot seat, you actually look- at the figures you have access to, and realise the demand is not - slowing down, it's getting... the gap's getting bigger. so we need to make - fundamental changes here. there have already been huge cuts to things like council jobs and youth services, and now libraries like this one are at risk of closure. and all the signs are there is more pain to come for nottingham, with predicted gaps in the council�*s budget over the next few years totalling more than £170 million. and our political correspondent alex forsythjoins me now. i9 councils have asked the government for emergency funding, which is believed to be an unprecedented number. yes, and there are cancers that have effectively said, we can�*t make the sums add up without help, and a number have reached that point. what is going on here, as you heard from our regional colleagues, is that

there is a growing demand for key services, social care in particular but also support for children including those with special educational needs, and people facing homelessness. and as councils are spending more of their budget on those services, everything else is getting squeezed. the government says they inherited a crisis in local government, they are talking to councils about ways they can help to councils about ways they can help to give more stability, help them plan their budgets, maybe have more power over local services, but the truth is there�*s no quick fix here. we have heard warnings about the public finances ahead of the budget, and if you want to change the way the system works, it will take time, it will be complex and crucially, many people say, you can�*t do it without a plan for social care. so in the meantime we will continue to see this squeeze on services, and the people that will feel that our the people that will feel that our the residents who rely on those services. �* , ., a police officer accused of murder has told a court he and thought one of his colleagues

would be killed, before a man was shot dead in south london. chris kaba died after he was stopped by police in streatham two years ago. the bbc has found that revolut, the digital—only financial app, was named in more reports of fraud in the last year than any of the major high street banks. the firm, which has more than nine million uk customers and 45 million around the world, says it takes fraud incredibly seriously. marc ashdown reports. my name's chris from the revolut fraud prevention team. _ how are you doing today? all right, thank you. this is a recording of a scam call. the fraudster is targeting laura bailey, a businesswoman who had a revolut account. he asked me to go onto the website and do some checks. so it is definitely fraud. what this means is somebody might have your personal - pins and passwords. he claims her account is under attack and convinces her to download software so he can help stop it. he relentlessly kept saying he was trying to help me, that i shouldn�*t be worried. in fact, he was trying to steal her money. within seconds, my computer was flashing, my screen

was flashing, and i was like, "what are you doing?" the scammer stole £24,000 in a matter of minutes. i never thought it would affect me how it did. high street banks have systems that monitor routine customer behaviours, which should, according to specialists, interrupt suspicious payments. if somebody is suddenly processing a vast amount of transactions and processing a tonne of payments to either a new account, or account that they previously maybe had a few touch points with, it is something that is a red flag, and then banks should typically engage in some way with the customer to ensure that those transactions are, in fact, legitimate. revolut isn�*t a bank, at least not yet. it�*s one of a new breed of digital—only financial institutions. you do get a card, but you access services online or via an app. now, customers say they really like this ease and convenience. last year, action fraud received almost 10,000 reports of fraud in which revolut was named. that was nearly 2,000

more than barclays, one of britain�*s biggest banks, and nearly double the number made about monzo, a similar—sized e—money firm to revolut. revolut says it�*s invested heavily in its financial crime prevention team and has robust controls to meet its legal and regulatory obligations. laura says she reported what happened to revolut but has not received any money back. the premise behind the chat from revolut afterwards, that it was all my fault. revolut says it can�*t comment on laura�*s case, as it�*s being looked at by the ombudsman, but that each potential fraud case is fully investigated. revolut has been granted a provisional banking licence by uk regulators. within a year, it could become britain�*s newest fully fledged bank, bringing even tighter rules and regulations — too late for customers like laura who were scammed out of thousands of pounds. marc ashdown, bbc news. and you can watch more of that story tonight on panorama

at eight o�*clock on bbc one. after premier league footballers recently warned of possible strikes because too many matches are being played each year, the football player�*s trade union and a group of european leagues, including the premier league, have filed a legal complaint against fifa. they�*ve told the european commission that there is an abuse of dominance by world football�*s governing body. laura scott reports from brussels. 0n england duty last night, jude bellingham, predicted to play more than 1200 matches in his career, replaced by phil foden, who last season played 72 matches for club and country. this fixture fell as football�*s busy calendar continues to dominate discussion. and england are in front! a cause for concern for players and administrators, whose ire today was aimed at fifa. enough is enough. we can't take it any more. we have now an international match calendar which is beyond saturation, an international match calendar which creates risks for players, for their health.

billed as one of the most important days in football, the players�* union and top european leagues came together to lodge a complaint here at the european commission in brussels over what they call fifa�*s abusive and anti—competitive behaviour as both governing body and competition organiser. this was manchester city midfielder rodri, limping off with a season ending injury. just days after suggesting players could strike over their workload. it's could strike over their workload. it�*s clear, it was clear, if fifa don�*t change it, it will go to strike. wejust don�*t change it, it will go to strike. we just need to manage the player but... the players will go. white maxi for introducing a 32 team club world cup every four years next summer and insist the club counter was unanimously—

summer and insist the club counter was unanimously improved by the fifa council and accuse _ was unanimously improved by the fifa council and accuse leagues _ was unanimously improved by the fifa council and accuse leagues of - was unanimously improved by the fifa council and accuse leagues of acting i council and accuse leagues of acting with commercial self—interest and hypocrisy over pre—season friendlies and summer tours. but on a day when the sport was accused of eating itself... the debate rages on about quality over quantity, and whisper it quietly, whether there is currently too much football. laura scott, bbc news, brussels. the strictly come dancing contestant wynne evans says he�*s "heartbroken" after the fallout from "a stupid joke that went wrong" on saturday�*s show. viewers noticed some apparently awkward moments between the opera singer and his dance partner katya jones. it follows controversy at the show about the treatment of the celebrities by some of the dancers. nickjohnson reports. strictly quicksteps into its 20th series. one of its veteran professional dancers is katya jones, who has been paired with the opera singer wynne evans, best known to many as the moustached singer from the gocompare adverts. but on saturday, four weeks into the current series, viewers noticed what appeared to be an uncomfortable dynamic playing out between the pair.

following their performance, katya seemed to ignore wynne�*s attempt at a high five and appeared to roll her eyes after doing so. later in the show, katya moved wynne�*s hand from her waist. the pair�*s reaction on saturday night to the resulting social media storm: nothing to see here. we just wanted to say, we were just messing around in the clauditoreum on saturday night. and just want to say sorry, it was a sillyjoke. yeah, sorry. wynne evans said he is heartbroken by the fallout. it was a stupid joke that went wrong, 0k? we thought it was funny. it wasn't funny. i feel weird apologising because i feel like i've not really done anything. katya jones said the idea she had been offended is complete nonsense. the bbc says the show�*s welfare team have checked on the pair and will not be taking further action. strictly�*s 20th year has not been a waltz in the park. following complaints about the behaviour of two former professional dancers, the bbc announced steps to strengthen support measures for the programme�*s celebrities and dancers.

with another eight weeks of its 20th series to go, the show will hope eyes are trained on the dance floor, not the headlines. nickjohnson, bbc news. a spacecraft has blasted off from florida on the hunt for signs of alien life. its destination is europa — a deeply mysterious moon orbiting the distant planetjupiter, with potentially twice as much water as earth. the clipper won�*t arrive until 2030 but what it finds could change what we know about life in our solar system. pallab ghosh reports. two, one. ignition. and lift off. up and on its way, on a mission to see if life could exist on another world. the europa clipper spacecraft sets off on a 1.8 billion milejourney. it�*ll passjupiter and heads towards the ice covered moon the spacecraft is named after.

europa is almost the same size as our own moon but that�*s where the similarity ends. it doesn�*t have any craters. instead it has an icy surface because it�*s so far away from the sun. and you can see cracks and ridges, which has been caused byjupiter�*s powerful gravity stretching and squashing it. and it�*s that movement that scientists believe has melted the ice underneath to create a vast, salty ocean, which has got twice as much water than all the earth�*s oceans combined. these telescope pictures show what seem to be jets of water spurting from europa, more than 100 miles into space. europa clipper is making 50 different flybys around the moon�*s surface, catching any particles that might have been thrown up into the atmosphere, and then it can do chemical composition analysis to find out, are there any amino acids? are there any sulphites? those really key building blocks that we know are essential for life here on earth.

the results will take us a giant step forward in knowing whether life is possible on this icy world. pallab ghosh, bbc news. let�*s come back down to earth. time for a look at the weather. here�*s darren bett. it's it�*s been miserable, but it�*s getting warmer, apparently? apparently so! i�*m here to tell you. it is getting warmer, the wind direction is changing, temperatures will be rising but still some rain in the for because, as we will see in the for because, as we will see in the moment. today if you�*re in much of scotland, ireland, the far north of england that you had sunshine, it probably didn�*t feel too bad. but a very different story for the south, where we had rain to start the day, still grey, misty and stand in places. although this low cloud across the southern areas is moving its way northwards overnight, but for a while we will have clearer skies in scotland, and there is a

risk again of a touch of frost here, but further south it will be quite mild. temperatures not changing much. there will be a lot of cloud around tomorrow, still could produce one or two spots of result to begin with. the cloud will thin and may break up a bit but the best sunshine will be in northern parts of scotland. latertoday will be in northern parts of scotland. later today northern ireland at the far south—west of england could see start so a few spots of rain, otherwise, dry and temperatures higher than today, widely 1a temperatures higher than today, widely14 or 15 but could make 17 or 18 in southern parts of england and we put up why? it�*s because we�*re getting a southerly wind, bringing the works up why? it�*s because we are getting a southerly wind, bringing the worktop from spain across france towards the uk. but there is rain not far away, which will start to move our way of tuesday into wednesday. and this could be heavy in places as well put up could be heavy in places as well put up still a southerly breeze, so even where we have rain, it will be mild but if we get a bit of sunshine for a while across east anglia, the south—east of england and lincolnshire, temperatures could reach 20 or 21 on wednesday, all

depending on how quickly the rain moves across. the