i'm nancy kacungira in london. our other main headlines: saudi arabia says a report detailing the systematic killing of ethiopian migrants by its border guards is unfounded. the guards is unfounded. dramatic aftermath of storm hilary the dramatic aftermath of storm hilary after southern california is hit by its first tropical storm in 80 years. and a wind—assisted cargo ship embarks on its maiden voyage in a new approach to reducing carbon emissions. hello, iam nancy hello, i am nancy kacungira, hello, iam nancy kacungira, welcome to the daily global. we will start with the sentencing of lucy letby and go to my colleague anna foster. it has been a day of high emotion. finally last week we were able to report that lucy letby had been convicted of the murder of seven babies in her care and the attempt and murder of six more, and today was in many ways the conclusion of that legal process, when sentencing was handed down by thejudge, in this case mrjustice goss. lucy letby herself, all being driven her to manchester c

hello, i'm nancy kacungira.king out the truth behind them. we start in the united states, as a major hurricane has made landfall in florida, bringing with it fierce winds, water surges and potentially life—threatening conditions. some areas of the state are already seeing flooding, with knee—deep water covering roads and inundating towns.

hello, i'm nancy kacungira, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking outousands of travellers facing days of disruption after a technical fault hit the uk's air traffic control system. this was the scene at heathrow airport today. there's still chaos in airports across the uk with flights grounded, leaving huge crowds trying to enter airports and in departure areas. by one estimate, more than 25% of planned flights — that's over 1,500 journeys in and out of the uk — were cancelled on monday. that includes 790 departures and 785 arrivals. heathrow saw the highest number of cancellations,

hello, i'm nancy kacungira, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking outis hour. the first one is here in the uk, where a technical issue has hit air traffic control systems, with thousands of people facing long delays at airports. and our other big story, afp is reporting that prosecutors

hello, i'm nancy kacungira. country's coup have hours to restore the ousted president, or face the possibility of military action as deadline for the ruling junta to step down or face millitary action is due to expire today. thousands of people gathered in the country's capital to support the militaryjunta — as that deadline expired.

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hello i'm nancy kacungira.least 30 passengers have been killed after an express train derailed in southern pakistan. a police officer supervising the rescue operation said more than a hundred people had been injured in the incident. the hazara express came off the rails near nawabshah in sindh province, as it travelled from karachi to abbottabad. it's not immediately clear what caused the derailment. these are the latest pictures from the scene, in a remote area. emergency workers are battling to rescue passengers trapped in at least five overturned carriages, with more rescue teams deployed to the scene. an emergency has been declared in nearby hospitals including this one in nawabshah — where casualties have been arriving. our correspondent tarhub asghar is following developments from lahore. well, a rescue operation is still going on. and according to the chief minister, he said that 30 people have been killed in this incident and 84 people are injured. and according to the officials, approximately 17 bodies

hello, i'm nancy kacungira, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking outruth behind them. we start in the united states, as a major hurricane has made landfall in florida, bringing with it fierce winds and water surges. it's now a category two hurricane, but it's still a very serious threat to life. these are live pictures from tampa, high winds continuing to batter the highways as storm c surges threatened to overpower low—lying areas. some areas of the state are already seeing flooding, with knee—deep water covering roads and inundating towns. these are the latest pictures from jacksonville near to where the hurricane hit land. although the storm has continued to weaken, it is still bringing sustained winds of up to 105 miles per hour, that's 165 kilometres an hour. in a briefing just before the storm made landfall, florida governor ron desantis warned people against taking any risks. more than a quarter of a million people are without power. you don't want to be messing around with these winds. there's going to be things flying all over the place. obvio

hello, i'm nancy kacungira.he former pakistani prime minister, imran khan, has called on his supporters to protest peacefully, after he was found guilty on corruption charges and sentenced to three years in prison. a court in islamabad ruled that he had failed to declare income from the sale of gifts he received while in office. the verdict means he isn't allowed to hold public office for the next five years. pakistan is just months away from a general election. from islamabad, caroline davies reports. sirens blaring, police truck after police truck, arresting former prime minister imran khan. the judgment came from here. police filled every corner in islamabad's session court. mr khan says that the case is politically motivated. the court said he is dishonest. so, this is after months and months of waiting, we now finally have an announcement. imran khan has been found guilty and has been sentenced to three years�* imprisonment. outside court, shouts of, "your show is over, khan." minutes later, we heard he'd b

hello, i'm nancy kacungira, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out florida are now a category one hurricane. still bringing fierce winds and water searches.

hello, i'm nancy kacungira, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking outow a category two hurricane, but it's still a very serious threat to life.

hello, i'm nancy kacungira, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we start in the united states. hurricane idalia claims his first death making landfall in florida are now a category one hurricane. still bringing fierce winds and water searches. these are live pictures from clearwater in florida. all around the state there is flooding, one man died in the big bend region after he lost control of his vehicle and struck a tree. some areas of the state are already seeing flooding, with knee—deep water covering roads and inundating towns. these are the latest pictures from jacksonville near to where the hurricane hit land. although the storm has continued to weaken the winds are around 90 mph. that is 150 kph. earlier florida governor ron desantis said 16 foot storm surges were expected in some areas. more than a quarter of a million people are without power. the hurricane is not crossing into southern georgia and we are expecting an update in the next hour from the authorities in florida. in a briefing just before the storm made

hello, i'm nancy kacungira. welcome to the daily global, where we'll bring you the top stories from around the world. we begin in canada, where emergency workers have begun evacuating thousands of residents of an entire city in the north—west of the country, which is in the path of a huge wildfire. more than 20,000 people in yellowknife — the capital city of canada's northwest territories — have been told to leave by friday. the authorities said the wildfires had taken a turn for the worse and posed a "real threat". yellowknife is now blanketed in smoke. and fires are burning close to the one major road into and out of the city. shane thompson is the minister of environment and climate change for the northwest territories. he's involved in the emergency effort and joins me from fort simpson. thanks very much for coming onto the programme. just tell us how it's going with this effort to the city. so the evacuation actually started probably before the order was issued. so people were starting to leave, there was a

hello, i'm nancy kacungira, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. the head of the wagner mercenary group — yevgeny prigozhin — has been buried in st petersburg, according to his press service. prigozhin, who led wagner fighters in a mutiny injune, was one of ten people on board a private plane that crashed in russia's tver region last week. there is widespread suspicion that prigozhin was killed in revenge for leading a failed mutiny injune, it was widely seen as a challenge to the authority of president vladimir putin. no video or stills of the grave have emerged yet. russia's tass state—run news agency says it was relatives' will to hold a private ceremony. let's talk now to vitaly shevchenko, a la russia epitaph. the tally, no pictures, no video, very private good buy. it pictures, no video, very private good buy-— pictures, no video, very private aoodbu. �* , ., , ., good buy. it can't be more private. earlier today. _ good buy. it can't be more private. earlier today, the _ good buy. it can't be more private. earlier toda

hello, i'm nancy kacungira.elcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we start in the united states, as a major hurricane has made landfall in florida, bringing with it fierce winds, water surges and potentially life—threatening conditions. some areas of the state are already seeing flooding, with knee—deep water covering roads and inundating towns. let's show you this timelapse footage that captures the dramatic transformation of the weather conditions on the coast of miami, as hurricane idalia moved in. you can see the cloudy blue sky rapidly morphing into a dangerous, stormy grey. and these are some of the latest pictures of a highway in tampa — streets are flooding there, as surges of seawater brought on by the storm threaten to overwhelm low—lying areas, and wind speeds reaching around 125 miles an hour. several roads and bridges have been closed. more than a million residents have been told to leave their homes. in a briefing just before the storm made

hello, i'm nancy kacungira, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking outigozhin — has been buried in st petersburg, according to his press service. prigozhin, who led wagner fighters in a mutiny injune, was one of ten people on board a private plane that crashed in russia's tver region last week. no video or stills of the grave have emerged yet. russia's tass state—run news agency says it was relatives' will to hold a closed cemetery.

hello, i'm nancy kacungira, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we have two big stories this hour. the first one is here in the uk, where a technical issue has hit air traffic control systems, with thousands of people facing long delays at airports. and our other big story, afp is reporting that prosecutors in spain have opened a preliminary investigation into spanish fa president luis rubiales kiss on the lips of playerjenni hermoso on grounds it could constitute a crime of "sexual assault". the spanish football federation is also currently meeting now. we'll have more on this story in a moment. but first a technical issue has hit air traffic control systems across the country. britain's national air traffic services has said it is affecting their ability to automatically process flight plans which are currently being input manually meaning they cannot process them at the same volume. that is causing the traffic flow restrictions. monday marks the close of a holiday weekend in the uk — so it's usually a very busy day for fl

hello, i'm nancy kacungira.irst to niger, where the leaders of the country's coup have hours to restore the ousted president, or face the possibility of military action as deadline for the ruling junta to step down or face millitary action is due to expire today. thousands of people gathered in the country's capital to support the militaryjunta — as that deadline expired. some neighbouring countries including — mali, burkina faso and guinea — have voiced support for the coup leaders. and algeria, which borders niger to the north, has said it is categorically against armed intervention. france says it will support efforts by ecowas to restore niger's elected president. niger s prime minister was in paris on saturday, meeting lawmakers and greeting protestors outside the country's embassy. let's now go live to our correspondent in lagos in neighbouring nigeria. we are yet to hear from ecowas and what of would be concerning niger. the ultimatum has elapsed the sunday evening and we are yet to hear from ecowas. but

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hello, i'm nancy kacungira, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we start with the thousands of travellers facing days of disruption after a technical fault hit the uk's air traffic control system. this was the scene at heathrow airport today. there's still chaos in airports across the uk with flights grounded, leaving huge crowds trying to enter airports and in departure areas. by one estimate, more than 25% of planned flights — that's over 1,500 journeys in and out of the uk — were cancelled on monday. that includes 790 departures and 785 arrivals. heathrow saw the highest number of cancellations, followed by gatwick and manchester. there were also reports of thousands of passengers stranded in airports overseas. tenerife airport set up camp beds to assist stranded passengers. in the last hour, the air traffic control service nats says their systems are operating as normal after the technical fault was fixed and they're working to clear the backlog of flights. they added that an investigation has started to understand the r

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the bbc�*s nancy kacungira has this breakdown of the issues as we know it. is the largest country in west africa. it's a key part of the sahel region. that's the belt of land that stretches from the atlantic ocean to the red sea. now, this is a territory that's been destabilised byjihadists and military regimes, and that's one reason why niger is so important. it was seen as an oasis of the walk an otherwise troubled reason. so, what went wrong? the soldiers said they staged a coup because of the lack of good government and insecurity in the country. translation: the government and insecurity in the country. translation: the action of the cns pete — country. translation: the action of the cns pete is _ country. translation: the action of the cns pete is motivated _ country. translation: the action of the cns pete is motivated by - country. translation: the action of the cns pete is motivated by the - the cns pete is motivated by the sole desire to preserve our beloved homeland in the face of the termination of the security situation in our country —— cnsp. b

hello there, i'm nancy kacungira. this is the daily global, bringing you the top stories from around the world. we start in the us, where donald trump says he'll release a report next week on what he's calling "election fraud" in georgia. he's facing a fourth set of criminal charges, accused of trying to overturn his defeat in the state in the last presidential election. 13 counts against him include violating georgia's law on racketeering and conspiracy to commit forgery. he says the charges are a "witch hunt". our north america editor sarah smith reports from atlanta, in georgia. the courthouse in downtown atlanta, where donald trump and his allies will be tried for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, on charges usually brought against mobsters that carry a minimum of five years injail. he has successfully made all the charges against him part of his campaign to be re—elected president, claiming — as usual — this is a witchhunt against him, accusing the prosecutor of political motives. i make decisions in this

hello, i'm nancy kacungira, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out behind them. we start with some breaking news. the head of the wagner mercenary group — yevgeny prigozhin — has been buried in st petersburg, according to his press service. prigozhin, who led wagner fighters in a mutiny injune, was one of ten people on board a private plane that crashed in russia's tver region last week. no video or stills of the grave have emerged yet. russia's tass state—run news agency says it was relatives' will to hold a closed cemetery. we'll have more on this when we get it. we start here in the uk where the government has told airlines they must "fulfil their duties" to passengers who've had their flights cancelled or delayed due to monday's air traffic control problems. hundreds more flights have been cancelled on tuesday — and thousands of passengers remain stranded. the disruption is expected to continue for several more days. this report from our transport correspondent — katy austin. the august bank holiday descended into flight chaos, with hundreds canc

hello, i'm nancy kacungira, welcome to verified live — three hours of breaking stories, and checking systems, causing hundreds of flights to be delayed or cancelled, has now been fixed. but the knock—on effects are substantial. a statement from the national air traffic service says...

hello, i'm nancy kacungira, welcome to verified live — three hours of breaking stories, and checking the truth behind them. britain's national air traffic service says a technical issue which hit its systems, causing hundreds of flights to be delayed or cancelled, has now been fixed. but the knock—on effects are substantial. a statement from the national air traffic service says... monday marks the close of a holiday weekend here in the uk, so it's usually a very busy day for flights. clearing the delay of flight backlogs is now a big issue. airports across the country are currently facing delays and cancellations. airports in edinburgh, manchester, birmingham, and several airports in london, including heathrow, gatwick and luton, all confirmed they were affected by the system outage. a short while ago, the home secretary, suella braverman, spoke about the situation. what we do know is that there has. been a national outage at nationally control and this has affected uk airspace, it will affect _ all incoming and outgoing flights and those aircraft. which are in the uk airspace right

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hello, i'm nancy kacungira, welcome to the daily global, where we'll bring you the top stories from aroundorld. a stories from around the world. big breaking storyt the russian federal agency for air transport says the wagner mercenary group boss yevgeny prigozhin was on board an aircraft that has crashed in tver region in russia. the russian emergencies ministry has said that the aircraft "came down" near the village of kuzhenkino in the tver region. the ministry said the jet was flying from moscow to st petersburg, and that ten people, including three crew members, were on board. the statement says everyone was killed. with me is our russia editor, steve rosenberg. for those joining for thosejoining us, tell us what we don't know. for those joining us, tell us what we don't know.— we don't know. there's a lot we don't know _ we don't know. there's a lot we don't know. so _ we don't know. there's a lot we don't know. so we _ we don't know. there's a lot we don't know. so we know- we don't know. there's a lot we don't know. so we know that a l we don't know. there's a lot we - don't know.

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hello there, i'm nancy kacungira.at in the state in the last presidential election. 13 counts against him include violating georgia's law on racketeering and conspiracy to commit forgery. he says the charges are a "witch hunt". our north america editor sarah smith reports from atlanta, in georgia. the courthouse in downtown atlanta, where donald trump and his allies will be tried for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, on charges usually brought against mobsters that carry a minimum of five years injail. he has successfully made all the charges against him part

hello, i'm nancy kacungira.ty of canada's northwest territories — have been told to leave by friday. the authorities said the wildfires had taken a turn for the worse and posed a "real threat". yellowknife is now blanketed in smoke. and fires are burning close to the one major road into and out of the city. shane thompson is the minister of environment and climate change for the northwest territories. he's involved in the emergency effort and joins me from fort simpson. thanks very much for coming onto the programme. just tell us how it's going with this

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