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>> you can still smell the smoke in the air. it has been several hours since the riots intensified in the early hours of the morning here. as you can see as we walk around, these cars were torched. ♪ >> welcome to the program. thanks for joining us. more clashes across france for a fourth night as they continue to spread following the shooting of a teenage boy on tuesday. 45,000 police have been deployed to deal with the riots. also, rishi sunak annnces a major plan to revise the nhs with a focus on getting more nurses and doctors into the workforce. we will have reaction from the head of nhs providers. a bbc investigation finds tiktok is not removing some videos that deny climate change despite the

promise it would. th over e ion people expected to celebrate pride in london tomorrow, we will talk to the ukrainian singer representing her country in the parade. first, we go to france where in the last few minutes, all bus and tram services have been stopped under the order of the interior minister. tensions are still running high after three days of violence over the police killing of a teenage boy in a paris suburb. in the last hour, poce have confirmed a young man has died after falling from a roof during the protests. armored vehics are being deployed to avoid more scenes like this from last night. at least 870 five people were arrested in clashes in multiple cities. speaking earlier, president emmanuel macron said nothingan justify the violence. he also criticized social media saying it played a role in stoking recent violence. many of the protesters have been young teenagers. >> there are lots of young involved in the demonstrations.

sometimes very young people. it is the responsibility of parents to keep them at home. that is something we all ought to do. parental responsibilitmust be engaged. i should like to appeal to everybody's sense of responsibility here, mayors included. >> [speaking french] >> the administrator of justice will be taking all necessary measures. the social network platforms have played a very conspicuous part in the events the last couple of days. we have been looking at that. the organization of violent meetings are convoked by social networks but it also encourages copycat reactions and these videos have intoxicated the

young people. >> that was present macron speaking earlier. a lot of concern from the president and authorities about further escalation. tell us what you have seen and heard today. >> yes, in particular a message from the authorities to parents as well telling them to make sure their children are not taking part in these protests. what we heard from president macron is a large number of people who participated in the violent clashes were between 14 and 17. i am in the central area. this is where last night in the morning there were a lot of violent clashes. we've seen shop fronts and buildings smashed, cash machines bashed apart, traffic lights melted in the fires.

fireworks were let off here as well. quite a few things have been put in place to try to minimize the trouble tonight. for a start, public transport has been suspended for another night. that is a huge deal in paris. buses and trams. there has also been the ban of the sale of fireworks and more armored police are going to be out tonight, including armored police vehicles. another thing the government hopes will be a deterrent. of course, you talk to people here and they say they are deeply frustrated by the death of the 17-year-old which happened just behind me. this traffic signal is where his car was stopped. it is where he was shot dead by police. over my shoulder, you will see flowers that have been laid in his memory. there is a sign in french which says "how many have we not seen on camera?"

hiats deh wasthe footage was pld the world. that has sparked some of the widespread anger. you talk to people in this very diverse neighborhood who say, how many other people has this happened to? how many other young people have be targeted by the police. the heart of this is what people say is a real problem when it comes to the police in france who they say are racist. you heard from the united nations today also echoing that saying the french police do need to deal with what they say is a problem with racism. we heard from the french government hours later saying the same thing the u.n. said. many people here, either way, there is a deep-rooted problem of the relationship people have with police.

until that is addressed, we can expect protests to continue. >> as we hea from authorities, there is a lot of concern about how many young are involved in this. it could not have happened at a worse time for the in the midst of summer, school holidays about to start. a lot of young people with time on their hands and anger in their hearts. why is there so much anger? put that into context for us. where is that coming from? >> is a little bit of what i touched upon, that relationship people have with the police. you have young people who in many cases feel they do not have many prospects of hope. there is a lot of inequality here as well. i think the main thing people talk about is the relationship with the police. this has to be dealt with by the president and prime minister. they have come out and made various statements. at the end of the day, the protesters are not directing

iron at the politicians. they are directing it squarely at the police and what they say is broken trust. they believe the police are supposed to protect them and are not doing that. say the death has come to symbolize what i was saying before, what they believe is a deep-rooted problem, even one the u.n. has read today. the biggest question is what will happen next if the protests keep happening night after night. there has been some talk about whether the government would introduce a state of emergency that would bring widespread curfews and been public gatherings. that has not happened yet. it happened when there were riots over a decade ago and it did make an impact back then. many people are debating whether that would be the think or whether that would provoke people more at a time when tensions are very high. >> thank you. thank you for the update from

paris. it is no secret the national health service in england has been struggling for years with high wait times understaffing, and the lack of beds. the government announced a plan today to try and fix it. the nhs will get more than 300,000 extra staff over the next few years with an extra 2.4 billion pounds injected into health services could the prime minister says it is the largest single expansion in training in the history of the nhs. labor says the government has simply adopted its ideas. to discuss the plan more, i am joined by the chief executive of nhs providers. thank you for speaking to us. can we get a sense from you of how important you feel this plan is for the nhs? >> i think it is incredibly important. it comes at a crucial time for the nhs which is under enormous pressure. chief among those pressures is workforce.

to have the plan published at this point, we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the nhs next week. the nhs has always relied heavily on the quality of staff. this plan is vital in the sense that it looks ahead 15 years and sets out the growth of doctors, nurses, all of the allied health professions. and crucially, addresses the important question of retention. it is not just about bringing in more staff. it is about how we keep and support our staff. >> the plan is only as good as the implementation. do you have concerns about how that will work? >> ihink it will mean all nhs organizations will be gearing up to make su they will have the capacity to train and develop the increasing number of doctors d nurses put forward in the

plan. over the next five years, 2.4 billion will back up the way we manage to ramp up training places and capacity to do that. one of the risks is the nhs and social care are inextricably linked. social care is experiencing enormous pressures in its own workforce. addressing social care is important in the context of enabling the nhs workforce pla to make progress. also what will be crucial is the fact we are going to see more colleagues getting a chance to come into the nhs through apprenticeship. that will widen participation in the context of nhs employment and the use of technology is a big part of this. that will mean more rapid treatments. the use of artificial intelligence, robots, and so on, and a different way of skills being deployed across the nhs. >> it could be a good way to get

more people into the workforce. what about the workforce that does exist. there are concerns about working and pay conditions. how will those be resolved? >> where in the middle -- we are in the middle of the longest inaction nhs health faced. we need resolution. it is crucial we get the result as quickly as possible because it is having a damaging effect on the nhs ability to deliver and treat as many patients as it can in the context of getting waiting lists down. we need to see those issues resolved if we are going to deliver on what we see in this plan. many staff are fatigued, under pressure, so the part of the plan that is about supporting the workforce in terms of childcare and flexibility in health and well-being, all of

that is vital to be focusing on right now if we are going to improve the current set of circumstances the nhs faces for staff. >> that really does help our understanding. very good to have you joining us. the chief executive of nhs providers, good to have you on "the context" today. around the world and across the u.k., this is bbc news. we will take a look now at other stories making news across the u.k. the former senior civil servant has been cleared to start working for the labour party from september. the advisory body recommended a six-month break from when she quit as an official in march. some tories expressed anger at the job offer saying it undermined her report on lockdowns that contributed to boris johnson's downfall. u.k. government minister accused of being part of a campaign to undermine the inquiry into boris

johnson has resigned and immediately launched an attack on rishi sunak accusing him of being uninterested in climate issues. households across the cable pay less for gas and electricity from this weekend when a new energy price camp comes into effect. the price c sets a limit on how much customers can be charged for units of energy. from tomorrow, that will work out around 2000 pounds for the average household and that will be over a year. it is still almost double what prices were three years ago. you are live with bbc news. is is "the context." to the u.s. now, after the landmark ruling on how exports, the supreme court has delivered two more massive judgments. the court blocked president biden's plan to forgive student loan debt for more than 40 million americans. his plan announced last year would have forgiven up to

$10,000 per borrower and in some cases $20,000. in a blow to lgbt rights, the top court ruled the constitutional right to free speech allows certain businesses to refuse to provide services for same-sex weddings, ruling in favor of a web designer who cited her christian beliefs in challenging the colorado antidiscrimination law. our correspondent joins me now from washington. two significant rulings today. let's start with getting more detail on this one about president biden's student debt forgiveness plan. >> president biden in his 2020 election campaign talked about how he wanted to tackle student debt. it was seen as an important thing to energize younger voters. high political stakes on this, the white house will be extremely disappointed. it is a major blow the supreme court has junked the plan

that could have seen some borrows getting $10,000 of relief and others up to $20,000 of relief. it was a huge plan costing in the region of over $400 billion. i didn't biden was accused of overreaching his powers -- president biden was accused of overreaching. this was far beyond any kind of modification and he did not have the authority to do this. now what we will hear from president biden shortly is what else he might try to do to ease the debt burden because we were speaking to students earlier here. they want to see more action because of mounting student debt and the burden is placing on them. >> we are expect and present biden to speak from the white house very soon. the second ruling, at the heart

of it, a graphic designer citing the christian faith. >> this is a case that came out of colorado. it has been running for some years now and ended up at the supreme court. a graphic designer, website designer, took preemptive action. she says she was concerned colorado's antidiscrimination laws meant she would not be able to refuse giving her services to example same-sex couples when she does not believe in same-sex marriage as an evangelical christian. she took this action citing her free speech rights. the supreme court found in her favor. colorado says she can say what she likes but she has to provide services to everyone because of the antidiscrimination adulation. this could reach well beyond colorado. many other states have these types of laws. those are upset and concerned

about the ruling fear it will open the door for further forms of discrimination, not just against lgbt people but on the basis of ethnicity or gender as well. >> for people watching who may not understand why this is happening now because we have these rulings tay and another yesterday about affirmative action, explain the makeup of the supreme court and why we are seeing these decisions. >> on the makeup of the supreme court, there is a familiar dividing line we have seen play out the last couple of days with six more conservative justices and three more liberal ones. you have seen that divide in the contentious high-profile issues. president trump nominated three conservative justices. that is seen as having a big impact now reaching into areas they kept more at arms length before as a court. why now? it is reaching the end of the session so we knew that key

decisions had to come out yesterday or today. they have done so and they are making plenty of headlines. >> very useful context. thank you for joining us from washington. it has been almost a week since vladimir putin faced mutiny by the leader of another group and his troops. huge questions remain about what happened to him and what is next for russia's most effective fighting force in ukraine. they had been given a deadline of tomorrow to join the regular russian army, go home, or move to belarus. at the bbc revealed yesterday, they are still continuing to recruit fighters. they have been looking at what could happen next. >> there is a lot of interest globally in what has come of this man here. this is the last known verified pictures of him. this was him leaving the city in southern russia.

he and his forces were able to take it over without a shot fired last saturday. if you compare his absence at the moment with what he was like the previous three months, he was popular all over the place between february and the end of may in the city which is forces took after months of hard ghting. he would be popping up in various video appearances on the telegram channel often ranting against what he considered to be the poor mismanagement of the war in russia. he and his supporters said if it was left to us, we would have finished this in a short time. he was very hostile towards russia's generals. we know from flight data, a plane linked to yevgeny prigozhin landed at an airfield south of minsk. he was seen in belarus.

the plane flew to moscow back down to moscow. it is still a mystery where he is. the bigger mystery is about the group he has been controlling. he was almost synonymous with the wagners group. he has been able to establish proof camp in belarus is being updated and rebuilt to house wagners mercenaries. here it is two weeks ago abandoned, deserted, former soviet camp, nothing to see, ve along. two weeks later, look at this. this is the transformation. 304 tt structures, enough to house over 2000 fighters should they choose to do that. we don't yet know how many will go there or what they will do there. already, this is rattling belarus's neighbors.

they are not comfortable about the idea of these hardened x fighters, some of whom include convicted rapist and murderer's, setting up in belarus. it looked like they will continue in some form but quite possibly now answering directly to the kremlin. as a fighting force in ukraine, it is finished. >> i am joined by a senior fellow on the atlantic council based in odessa. it would be great to start by getting your thoughts on what we have seen, the satellite images of what could be a new wagners base. >> bravo to the bbc for verifying the spirit it makes me wonder what intelligence the pentagon for sharingith ukraine. fascinating stuff. it does not look like benevolence by that president to create a summer camp for boy scouts or girl scouts.

this looks like quite the impressive new base for the wagners group. i have been one of the feud that does not subscribe to the consensus view that they are finished. the next performance could be striking at a neighboring country. that could be lithuania, latvia, even ukraine. should they attempt to strike at ukraine from belarus, and it could beat presented as a false flag operation, should they try to breach ukraine's northern borders, my understanding is ukrainian forces are prepared for that. it would not be a cakewalk by any means. >> from what you have said, we get some idea of why russia would want this to happen. what is in it for belarus? >> a couple of things.

he is a puppet of mr. put in so he does not have the luxury of saying yes or no. he could also benefit from the muscle the wagners group provides. there are parliamentary and local elections next year in belarus. and that he is supposed to face the ballot box the year after. also again, i think it could be a base for the wagners group with the backing of belarus to strike. it does not mean the head of the wagners group is safe. and of russia extend far into belarus. if i were walking the streets of minsk on a sunny day, i would run the other way trade quickly. >> we have a brief moment left. when we look at the future of the wagners group, we do not know exactly where he is now.

they still appear to be recruiting fighters. it is far from over to them. >> sarah did great reporting across the russian time zones. the group remains a lethal fighting force. it causes a lot of minutes from the united states down to africa. it raises $1 billion at least every year to help fund the putin war. i think they are codependent on each other in that regard that they cannot live without each other. that is why i think they will keep him around a little longer but perhaps more at an arms distance to prevent him from causing more trouble in russia. >> thank you. thanks very much for having joined us. you can find many of those pies mentioned by michael on

our website. search bbc news. the piece by sarah as well that shows the wagner group is still recruiting fighters across russia using a russianhone number. she caused her than a dozen centers and found it was business as usual -- she cled more than a dozen centers is as usual. more to c narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪

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