bbc news. we'll have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. bbc news arabic goes undercover investigating for the first time a hidden who sexually exploit... assault... or abuse women who seek their help in morocco and sudan. when i was little, my grandmother would recite the koran to me as i went to sleep. she made me feel blessed. this practice has become really popular where healers recite the koran in order to solve problems by expelling evil spirits. but there is a darker side to this, exploiting vulnerable women. this woman is a woman right�*s activist, she has made it a safe space for girls struggling to be footballers. her activism today springs from an injustice she has been living with for 20 years. when she was 16, she started having blinding headaches. her parents brought a spiritual healer to see her. the healer remained a respected member of the community until he died a. bushra never told herfamily and is not he died a. bushra never told her family and is not sure he died a. bushra never told herfamily and is not sure how they would react if sh

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anna foster, bbc news, derna. bbc arabic�*s mohamed taha joins me.ems to watch there, as people try and search. we have seen the scale of the damage done. what is the latest on what help people there? ,., ., latest on what help people there? h, ., ., , latest on what help people there? ,., ., ., , there? good morning, lewis. so there? good morning, lewis. so the help that _ there? good morning, lewis. so the help that people _ there? good morning, lewis. so the help that people need - there? good morning, lewis. so the help that people need in - the help that people need in this tragedy, with that immense magnitude, is trying to find their loved ones, their bodies. where are they? there are thousands of people that are missing and thousands of bodies that are missing, and this is really the main issue at the moment. the people who are putting the corpses of the dead people in group graveyards, and this caused problems. people said this could cause diseases if it will not be treated well. and also, the un said this will leave a big emotional shock wit

bbc news. live now to bbc arabic�*s special correspondent feras kilani. to enter the city of derna and more pictures and videos on social media and you can see how big the disaster is. the last video circulating in the last showing thousands of dead bodies on the ground waiting for families to identify them and as we talk to some of the officials there the decision was taken not to keep these bodies for long because there are fears if they are out of the mortuaries because there are no electricity and no resources so they are burying the bodies even if there are no families are anyone to identify them. we know almost half the 5000 dead bodies are identified by theirfamilies but half were buried without anyone to recognise or identify them. on the ground people are talking about 10% to 15% of the population of derna maybe dad because of the storm, maybe dad because of the storm, maybe 10,000 tooth 15,000. it happened —— maybe 10,000 people are 15,000 people. they are using large fishing nets to collect dead bodies because they have no other ways to deal wi

anna foster, bbc news, derna. bbc arabic�*s mohamed taha joins me.ures we just saw there of derna and the state of people trying to — what? leave, stay, rebuild their lives, not rebuild their lives, trying to recover there right now? what's the latest? good morning. so, the city, as anna described in her report, became more or less uninhabitable. so, the situation of the clean water is not good. there is no clean water. the un is warning the people of drinking even the water from people of drinking even the waterfrom under the people of drinking even the water from under the ground, because it might be contaminated with bodies. also, the situation of the city, as we can see in the picture — infrastructure is destroyed. there is no electricity. there are lots of calls of relocating all the people who survived from this tragedy to somewhere else. the local authority is emphasising that they can rebuild, but the international calls is preferring for the people to be relocated somewhere else. interesting. what do you _ somewhere else. interesting. what d

bbc news. live now to bbc arabic�*s special correspondent, feras kilani.cials in libya have revised the death toll upwards now, more than 5300. but there are fears it is just going to get higher as the day goes on. we get higher as the day goes on. - mentioned that number in the last bulletin and i think it is 5300 confirmed by the interior ministry now, but it can be higher by far in the next few hours. what we are talking about is the dead which has been recovered. they are burying all of the bodies, notjust the identified ones. we have some figures that they identified some 2100 of these dead bodies, but they have buried 1500 as well. the decision was taken to bury any dead bodies, even if theirfamilies don't recognise them. so the situation now is really, really at that age, that they have to deal with the situation as it is. they cannot leave the streets or on the shores of the mediterranean, which they believe there are thousands, because as you know the river swept everything away to the mediterranean. even the number of 10,000 missing is still to t

bbc news. for almost a decade a civil war has been grinding on in yemen — pushing the arab world's poorest countryceasefire last year but there is no sign of a deal to end the conflict. yet in the midst of all the death and destruction, there is also resilience. 0rla guerin has returned to the city of taiz in the southwest to see an extraordinary 11—year—old boy she first met two years ago. smiling through. this is ahmed. he's 11 years old and he doesn't let much get in his way. he's heading to the river to get water, a daily ritual. life was tough here, even before the war. but ahmed is a fighter. he's been blind from birth, along with four of his siblings. we've come back to meet him at his home near a front line river. —— we've come back to meet him at his home near a front line. it's very scary, he tells me. we're afraid of gunshots. when fighting starts, we can't go to the park or the valley or anywhere. when was the last time you heard fighting and explosions as well? last night, he says. for ahmed, school has always been a refuge of sorts. this was our first glimpse of him injanuary 2021, l

arab emirates. christian, thank you. stay with us here on bbc news and we be back with more very shortly. above 30 degrees today. so heat and humidity for many of us. but those thundery downpours on the cards, too, over the next few days. and by around about tuesday, we're going to start to see that cooler air filtering across all parts. but it will take a while for the hot and humid weather to get out of the way from the southeast. but anyone running the great north run today, i think it's looking dry through the morning, threat of some heavy showers and some thunderstorms into the evening hours. and it certainly will feel quite hot and humid for running into the afternoon. we'll see heavy showers affecting wales, through the midlands, perhaps into parts of central southern england as well. still some sunshine for east anglia in the southeast, but sunshine for central scotland, northern ireland as well. and the weather will improve for the likes of devon, cornwall, somerset as well. here's where we'll see the heavy showers and the thunderstorms. if you do catch one, particularly through

bbc news. rescue efforts in morocco continue in search of any survivors or bodies after an earthquake hit the atlas mountains area on friday night. bbc arabic closest towns to the epicentre of the quake where people are still digging to pull their loved ones out from under the rubble. bbc arabics' cahreen torbay sends us this from the atlas mountains. in this village there were about 100 homes. people have been digging through the rubble since the deadly earthquake hit on friday. now that the rescue teams have arrived, the search continues for any bodies. days after the earthquake, there is no more hope to find any survivors in this village. these rescuers are looking for a three bodies, a grandfather, a father and a toddler. they are doing so with their bare hands. this is also how this man searched for his wife, son and daughter, whose bodies he recovered hours after the earthquake hit. translation: my wife was here. there was my daughter. she was like this. and over there, my son. i dug with my own hands and with the help of some people here, we pulled their bodies out. i lost my kids, i lost everything. i appeal for the authorities and