, but the a nswer squadron in the royal navy, but the answer is we do not have sufficient ships, vy could coordinate lots of these other departments, so we don't need a huge number of small ships to do this, we need better airborne surveillance, we already use satellite surveillance, and we would need to set number of ships, and i'm afraid this will mean an uplift. you don't get any of these things free that someone will have to pay for it but the navy would not do this task on its own, it would coordinate other departments and it would need small craft and extra men, and these other departments, the border force has only got five cutters and at one stage i think three years ago i remember complaining about the fact that only one of them was operational, one was in the mediterranean and three were being repaired, so we have scant resources and if we are going to do this we need resources. admiral lord west, thank you for being with us this afternoon. thousands of lebanese people, furious with their political leaders, are taking to the streets in beirut again four days after a huge

the royal navy can't just go charging agreement, and anyway the royal navy can'tjust go charging andrench waters, so it is a very, very difficult dossier. it is human lives we are dealing with. that is the core of that, what it all comes down to. thank you so much for talking us through that so expertly. we have run out of time, i'm afraid we haven't got time to come to the observer, which basically says england one cricket. but for the moment, thank you for being with us. that's it for the papers for this evening. my thanks to benedicte and lucy. next up, it's the film review with anna smith. hello, and welcome to the film review with me anna smith. i'm filling in for mark kermode to review this week's releases. first up, a film that's on digital and in some cinemas now — perfect ten. a gritty british drama in the vein of andrea arnold's fish tank. it stars frankie box as a 14—year—old gymnast called lee who suddenly discovers she has an older half—brother. dad? are you lee? frankie lives outside brighton with a neglectful father she rarely sees. she loves gymnastics, but she's pick

simon, what could the royal navy do that the border force can't?l have to be thrashed out, but yesterday we have 15 more boats arriving on the kent coast, taking the total number of people who have arrived over the past three days to more than 500, and once again, conditions in the channel this morning are pretty calm. a couple of important developments. the home secretary has created a new role call the palestine channel threat commander. she has appointed a man called dan 0mani to that role. he isa a man called dan 0mani to that role. he is a former marine, served in iraq and kosovo and his task is to try and make this route unviable sloppy that he wants to tackle what he calls the heinous crime of people trafficking, saying this is a critically important issue, and as you say, he could have the help of the military. in the past, the military have been brought in to help with things like coronavirus testing and flooding, but what potentially is being proposed here could be something quite different. there is talk that the navy could be used to tr

a lot of talk about bringing the royal navy, spotter planes, a kind of concerted attempt to stop thence money to get them on-board with this? one of the ironies of the story of courses brexit has it much harderfor us ironies of the story of courses brexit has it much harder for us to do this because we had a relationship with france which we have further damaged. the sunday telegraph, massive supporter of pack six, so not the focus of this piece. it does feel like a distraction right now —— massive supporter of brexit. a lot of people feel it is quite a strange thing to be focusing on, afew quite a strange thing to be focusing on, a few people making it, including a pregnant woman, who made it across the channel in a dinghy, absolute desperation that must take to put your own life let alone your child's life in danger like that. so, it does feel like a bit of a distraction when we have this extraordinary situation where we have this terrifying pandemic and on top of that all of the effect on the economy that would have, to focus on a few people and to talk about deploying royal navy

those for the whole of last year and the government is reported to be drawing up plans for the royal navy to turn back migrant boats before they reach british beaches.ap london blames paris, clive you mentioned the refugees in lebanon. here we have a british government who said there would not be any of these crossings are very few by this time, it said that late last year. what has happened? it is a very good question. the weather has been great and the seas have been, and that has encouraged people to get out on the water. you have also got the slightly more scattered nature of the migrant situation, as it were, across northern france. in the last few years you have seen the dismantling of certain camps and

from the royal navy. —— lieutenant commander. you volunteer to be here today.e to be here today. why did you decide to come? it is an absolute honour and privilege to be here and i would like to thank the royal british legion for organising this event and to the veterans and their family for attending. it has been a lovely ceremony. attending. it has been a lovely ceremony. i wanted to volunteer this event. my grandfather served in the south china sea at the very early pa rt of south china sea at the very early part of the world. from the stories i heard i don't know that much about his time out there that he was lucky to leave as late as 1941 before coming back to the uk and captioning or captaining other ships within the royal navy and then formally retired asa captain royal navy and then formally retired as a captain in 1966. we know that it was an extremely arduous theatre of conflict because of the condition isa of conflict because of the condition is a lot of humidity, also the disease, the dysentery, malaria. did you get any of a sense ofjust how tough i

this country owes them a great debt. 0n the 1st of april we were the first royal navy ship to be hity a kamikaze attack. i was positioned in the gun turret and unable to see it, but the sounds and smells around me portrayed the chaos and destruction above. the smell of cordite still lives with me. strangely we felt safe. the commanders were tenacious, and we stuck together. often we thanked the workers of the shipyards who forged our decks of steel. today, i am so glad of the memories with my hms indefatigable shipmates, and of our time serving the royal navy and our country. we are here to remember all those who cannot be with us. you have not been forgotten and never will. ladies and gentlemen, those who are able please be upstanding as the nation comes together to remember those who did not return, and gave their futures for the lives we are able to lead today. they shall grow not old as we that are left grow old, age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn, at the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will rememberthem. plays last post plays piper's lament when you go

getting the royal navy back out to turn people away.ou are able where does the law stand on all of this? the law is very clear. if you are on the high seas and a bad boat and someone comes across today have to pick you up. and if a british government vessel does it they are going to be processed by the british government. now, the french coastguard, who intercepts them close to the shores of france and had them back that is one thing. to find them in the territorial waters of britain and try to hurt them back to france is illegal. they must be processed in an orderly fashion. there are agreements to take migrants back to the countries that have allowed them to get from wherever they have come from, may be through germany or france, to britain. those countries are supposed to take them back from but in an orderly process. and so, i mean, ido but in an orderly process. and so, i mean, i do think it is overblown. there were 4000 this year. that is out of 49,000 refugees that britain has processed and out of 700,000 long—term migrants brita

once great u-boat fleet, one by one they enter british ports that are taken over by men of the royal navyed shipping, are now like all their comrades in arms, nothing but prisoners of war. ♪ the news of germany's surrender reaches the people of brussels five years almost to the day after the german invasion of the country. at dawn on v day, every city house is alive with flags, every street alive with happiness. ♪ orange smoke flares, no longer needed for warfare, make effective fireworks. ♪ in paris, from notre dame, from sacre coeur, from every church goes out the resounding message of peace and hope for the future, and joyful thanksgiving. in the place de l'opera. in the rue de madeleine. ♪ while general de gaulle approaches the arc de triomphe to pay homage from the people of france at the grave of the unknown soldier, to pledge their victory with the the memory of those who died to gain it shall for all time be preserved in peace. ♪ the capitulation to field marshal montgomery of the remnants of the northern german army and navy is not only a signal of germany's total defeat, it was

britain's home office has formally requested the royal navy's help to deal with migrants attempting toss the english channel from france. a total of 151 people reached the uk via small boats yesterday, following record numbers earlier in the week. simonjones is in doverfor us. what is the latest this morning? 15 boats yesterday and today the migrants crossing the channel has continued. we saw border force leave the port of dover early this morning, head out into the channel and a border force boat has picked up and a border force boat has picked up some and a border force boat has picked up some more and a border force boat has picked up some more migrants who managed to make it into uk waters. they were then brought back here to the port. we saw them being brought to shore and then the migrants being taken off the boat and then they initially had a temperature check over concerns of coronavirus. they then had their photos taken. it is hardly surprising on a day like today because the sea is incredibly calm, as it has been over previous days, and you might say perfect conditions for at

could the royal navy deter people smugglers and migrants in the channel. the government officially, asks for help. preston's tougher coronavirus restrictions come into force, to tackle a significant rise in cases. and, england's cricketers pull off a dramatic victory, in the first test, against pakistan. good evening. thousands of people have taken to the streets of the lebanese capital beirut, in anger at the country's leaders, after this week's devastating explosion in the port area of the city. some protestors have stormed the foreign ministry building, declaring it the "seat of the revolution". the country's prime minister called for early elections, as riot police fired tear gas at some demonstrators throwing stones, and sounds of gunfire could be heard coming from central martyrs' square. tuesday's blast was caused when a huge stock of ammonium nitrate blew up, killing at least 158 people and leaving more than 300,000 homeless. 0ur middle east correspondent, quentin sommerville, reports from beirut. shouting. this is lebanon's rage against the elite.

the two determinants of british policy the royal navy must always be superior to any other power or group of powers. that's all we've got. and there must be no continental launching pad adjacent to the british isles that could be used as a stepping stone or a launching pad for an invasion. i think that the british stuck to those rules comes exceptionally. there was a chill in british army. various british officials including churchill try to draw down and taper off and stop building so many. why did we need these. nobody tells germany what to do. the british built their navy we are going to build ours. it would became in the asian. britain did that for two reasons. they didn't want anybody that close napoleon had stood and looked across the channel and hitler did. and this was an absentee app. they have to fight to preserve the home islands. i don't know if that answers your question. britain could have stayed out the understanding with friends. if the germans have it invaded belgium. i don't know that. and that's another thing. it raise an interesting point. to why they didn't stop in 14

following calls from the home office for support from the royal navy the ministry of defence says a royalhas been flown to support border force operations in the channel. they say the surveillance aircraft is an initial offer of assistance. our correspondent simonjones is on a boat in the channel and sent this update. we took to the water just after five o'clock this morning and, initially, it was much rougher than it is now, where it is pretty calm at the moment. as we were heading out, mid—channel, we heard from the coast guard that they thought potentially a boat carrying migrants had set off from the north of france. and then the skipper with binoculars or something coming towards us. it was a boat carrying migrants. as they got closer, i tried to speak to them. are you ok? are you all right? 0k? 0k! where are you from? syria! syria? how many people? so, they say they are from syria, they say they are ok. i can see there are some women on board, the majority are men. where are you going? where do you want to go? their destination is dover, obviously. so, at the moment they are motorin

the uk home office has formally requested help from the royal navy, to deal with migrants attemptingtry of defence says it's ‘working hard' to find a way to assist. a record number of unaccompanied migrant children arrived in the uk in the past two days, as gavin lee reports from northern france. at first light this morning, on a beach close to calais, we watch from a distance as migrants, men and women, children holding hands at the back, take to the water with a rubber boat and a motor. this is a glimpse of what's happening almost every day in the early hours, here in the town of gravelines. these men, who appear to be in charge of the crossing attempt, leave the migrants and start to exit the beach. but the boat's already in trouble. 0verloaded, they come back, leaving behind a woman and her child. they try again, finally getting out to sea. we've been on this beach for almost an hour. we've watched the migrants struggling with the boats and finally getting out to sea, and people heading back towards the dunes, possibly smugglers. and in this vast beach, one of the areas we're tol

another 150 migrants reach the uk by crossing the channel over the past 24 hours as the royal navy considersred at protesters in beirut during mass demonstrations following tuesday's deadly explosion. everything discovery it is useless. they killed us,

it's understood she wants the royal navy to join the border force cutters on patrol.ght is due to leave for france and germany in the middle of next week as british and french immigration officials monitor a crisis that has every possibility of becoming a tragedy. today's beautiful weather has, of course, seen thousands of sun—seekers relaxing on the beaches of kent, while just out to sea, border force vessels are still patrolling, on the lookout for more desperate migrants, risking their lives crossing the busiest sea lane in the world to reach those same beaches. mark easton, bbc news, dover. there were few countries less prepared for covid—19 than venezuela. its economy was already on the verge of collapse, and the healthcare system was in a similar state. the government has struggled to contain the virus, and human rights groups say the authorities are going too far in enforcing a lockdown, as tim allman explains. lined up in rows, sitting in the heat of the daytime sun, these people are being punished. their crime? breaking the rules during a pandemic. there are

britain's home office has formally requested the royal navy's help to deal with migrants attempting tolish channel from france. a total of 151 people reached the uk via small boats yesterdaym following record numbers earlier in the week. simonjones is in doverfor us. it isa it is a lovely morning here in dover. conditions in the channel are very calm once again. yesterday, 15 boats managed to reach the uk. in the past three days more than 500 migrants have made the crossing. judging by what we are seeing at the moment, more are likely to do so today. dine at the port we have seen border force staff arrived. it in the channel there is a border force vessel that is likely to bring migrants back to shore. there has been talk from the british government of using the navy to try to stem this issue. it is not exactly clear what the navy would do. there is some suggestion that the navy could try to turn boats back at sea, to act as a deterrent, but for that to happen to british government would need the permission of the french authorities if this was to take place in french water. also, coul

it's understood she wants the royal navy to join the border force cutters on patrol.for france and germany in the middle of next week as british and french immigration officials monitor a crisis that has every potential of becoming a tragedy. today's beautiful weather has, of course, seen thousands of sun—seekers relaxing on the beaches of kent, while just out to sea, border force vessels are still patrolling, on the lookout for more desperate migrants, risking their lives crossing the busiest sea lane in the world to reach those same beaches. mark easton, bbc news, dover. friday was the hottest day in august for 17 years as large parts of the uk experienced high temperatures and the south of england baked in a heatwave. london reached just over 36 degrees celsius. ican i can vouch for that! people are advised to avoid busy beaches and maintain social distancing as sangita myska reports. sun, sea, sand and social distancing. this is british summertime in our new normal. the sun—seekers of essex today flocked to southend sea front as temperatures here and across englan

captainjim forbes, who now lives in shucknall, began his sea—going career at the royal merchant navyyou so much for being with us. what are your memories, first of all, of d—day? my memories of the day are very clear. it started off on the fifth when we were at anchor in southampton. the night of the fifth, we went over to normandy but prior to this, the ship had a little bit of damage. we had a slight leak of aviation spirit, which was very dangerous and could have blown the two ships up altogether. however, we survived that. and the convoy we picked up at midnight proceeded over to the port. and at that time at the port, we were given orders to do this and do that and we had eventually to go to... that is where most of the orders came from. we discharged a little bit of cargo there but most of our cargo was kept for further down the coast. hello? and just tell us, how i would wear you at this time. you were very young, weren't you ? wear you at this time. you were very young, weren't you? i mean, it must terrifying to take part in such a massive military operation. we were not myst

it's understood she wants the royal navy to join border force cutters on patrol.ght is due to leave for france and germany in the middle of next week as british and french immigration officials monitor a crisis that has every possibility of becoming a tragedy. today's beautiful weather has, of course, seen thousands of sun—seekers relaxing on the beaches of kent, while just out to sea, border force vessels are still patrolling, on the lookout for more desperate migrants, risking their lives crossing the busiest sea lane in the world to reach those same beaches. mark easton, bbc news, dover. stay with us on bbc news, still to come — why latinos in texas are more likely to die from the coronavirus than other groups there. we have a special report. the question was whether we wanted to save our people and japanese as well and win the war or whether we wanted to take a chance on being able to win the war by killing all our young men. the invasion began at 2am this morning. mr bush like most other people was clearly caught by surprise. we call for the immediate and unc

i have no difficulty with using the royal navy to assist in surveying and securing the safety of thee waters around the united kingdom, whether it be the exclusive economic zone of 300,000 square miles or our coastline of 11,000 miles or our coastline of 11,000 miles because there are a disparate number of agencies or responsible for this, so i have no difficulties in working with them, but this is not a panacea to stop the problem in calais of illegals crossing into the channel because we will be able to monitor and pick up more and we will be sure that none of them are getting to the shore unspotted which we are not sure of at the moment and i have no doubt whatsoever that some have died having been hit by a large container ships at night and no one ever knows about it, so it'll help assist that but it will not stop them because once they get on a ship, unless we have an agreement with the french in the same way as the border force, then we have to ta ke the border force, then we have to take them into the uk and the same issues than all arise. the only way to stop the flow as if w

the uk government has formally asked the royal navy to support border force patrols in the english channely enter the uk from france this week. the ministry of defence says it's "working hard" to find a way to assist. more than 500 people, including children, have arrived in uk waters in the past few days — many of them on overloaded inflatable dinghies. a grand council of elders — or loyajirga — in afghanistan has approved the release of 400 taliban prisoners, hoping the move will bring progress in peace talks. the council includes both afg hanistan's elected leaders, ashraf ghani and abdullah abdullah, and it agreed to the release after meeting for a third day in kabul. the government has already complied with taliban demands to release several thousand other prisoners but the remaining 400, described by the government as "serious criminals", had become a sticking point. it seems very significant. there is a real sense of sudden movement again and hopes coming up again of a peace process after quite a long time of stalemate. as you say, the government has already released nearly 5000 tal

meanwhile, the royal navy survey ship, hms enterprise has arrived in beirut to help support the investigationart of £20 million support package to help the humanitarian effort in lebanon. the british ambassador to beirut, chris rampling has been giving details on how the uk is providing help to lebanon this explosion at the port here was just an unspeakable tragedy and was a terrible further tragedy on top of the pain that beirut and lebanon has already suffered. the international community has come together, as was demonstrated clearly in paris yesterday and lebanon‘s friends have come together to support the country and the people. as for the uk, we have a blend of support of the most critical, urgent needs. i would say that includes key humanitarian support. yesterday we announced another £20 million to provide food, shelter to the vulnerable and we provide that on top of the 5 million we‘d already committed, including 3 million through the red cross for urgent needs. and on the medical side, we also had experts and technical people who are already in this country and more will be coming i

dangerous and busy waterway, the english channel, the border force, hm revenue and customs, the royal navyns and we need one overall body to look after this. the whole of the law is difficult here which is why priti patel is having such a difficult time as home secretary trying to stop this wave of migrants coming over and why the mps, the 40 mps on the zoom call while asking so many questions about why the migrants are so desperate to get over to britain. we have this covert threat commander appointed last week a, it will be interesting to see what impact that has. let's move on to the sunday people, the reality is whoever is responsible for it, it is a pretty pessimistic prospect, boris' three year slump. nobody really knows when we will be out of this recession, if only we did. it depends on so many factors. a vaccine that gets people back to work, more immediately the return to school on which so manyjobs actually depend. how many women will not be able to return to theirjobs full—time and the schools are back and also on the creation of newjobs to replace the hundreds of thousands ofj

the government has formally asked the royal navy to support border force patrols in the english channel the uk from france this week. the ministry of defence says it's "working hard" to find a way to assist. more than 500 people, including children, have arrived in uk waters in the past few days — many of them on overloaded inflatable dinghies. the coronavirus death toll in brazil has reached 100,000 — on the same day that the country registered a total of three million cases. it's the worst—hit country after the united states, and there's no sign of the virus slowing down. gail maclellan reports. grief. as south america's largest country passes 100,000 deaths due to coronavirus. infections have reached the three million mark. experts say the official figures are most likely an undercount and they estimate the total number could be up to six times higher due to insufficient testing. translation: this dramatic situation is notjust a consequence of the seriousness of the illness, but also from the complete disorganisation of federal institutions for the adequate confrontation of the disea

the uk is sending the royal navy ship hms enterprise to survey the damage at the port.diplomatic correspondent james robbins. despair, grief, worry and anger are the dominant emotions in beirut. with so much of the lebanese capital destroyed, so many lives lost, the first efforts to clear up and begin the gargantuan task of rebuilding and repair have to be combined with emergency distribution of drinking water and essential supplies. translation: i know that every one of my age invested in their effort in this country. now look at what is happening. we have gone backwards 100 years. translation: you cannot feel anything in lebanon. there is nothing to think about. our country is this way. tuesday's massive explosion of dangerous chemicals stored in the port for six years also destroyed green supplies and close of a vital route for 11 on's food imports. french president emmanuel macron, the first foreign leader into lebanon, is not holding back. he insists that aid to this former french colony must be in exchange for a fundamental political reform of a rotten system whic

landed on thursday pardon me most from yemen egypt sudan and iraq critics warn that calling in the royal navy to block boats will endanger people's lives britain's immigration minister is expected to urge france to take more preventative measures during a meeting planned in paris next week. has declared a state of environmental emergency after a japanese own ship began spilling tons of oil the islands appealing for help from france over a volunteer cleanup operation is underway and only super ports aereo and satellite photos show the extent of the oil spill off the southeastern coast of. the japanese owned ball carrier like a shia ran aground late last month and began leaking its 4000 tons of fuel into the indian ocean or 20 crew were taken to sure but rough seas hampered attempts to stabilize the ship and pump the fuel off. after declaring a state of environmental emergency prime minister pravin juggernaut appealed for help from france he says islanders don't have the expertise to clean up the spill president emanuel kwan promised to send teams and equipment from the nearby french island off

landed on thursday most of them from yemen egypt sudar and iraq critics warn the that calling in the royal navy to block boats will endanger people's lives. britain's immigration minister is expected to urge friends to take more preventative measures during the meeting planned in paris next week. the last intact ice shelf in canada has crashed into the arctic ocean satellite pictures show the 4000 year old milne shelves collapsing to form huge icebergs it lost 40 percent of its area in just 2 days canada used to have a continuous i shove running across the northern coast of ellesmere island global warming has contributed to its break up over the past few decades. georgiades 0 with me as a whole robin a reminder of our top stories afghanistan's president is backing the release of $400.00 taliban prisoners of guard he says he respects the decision of the loya jirgah consultative body to approve freeing so-called hardcore prisoners it's a taliban precondition for peace talks on the future of the country international leaders will hold virtual talks to raise money for lebanon in the wake of the exp

my heroes, winston churchill who was the equivalent of the secretary of the navy of the british royal navyin the early part of the 20th century. and he was constantly wanting to innovate and drive change and therefore he was constantly in conflict with the admiral and at one point, he simply heard too many times well, we can't do that. it's against the traditions of the navy and he exploded and said i will give you the traditions of the navy. in other words, there is time when we have to move forward he found someone in early 20th century and the two of them formed a partnership that helped to move the royal navy along. >> host: your most recent book is called failing true north. what is true north? >> guest: adherence to what we broadly conceived of the as moral and ethical behavior. so, in my mind, that means you are trustworthy, you were honest and care about others. you are kind to others. you have empathy to try to put yourself in the shoes of the other and not just your friends and family, but the shoes ofop your opponents and those with whom you disagree. you believe in things like

over 300 ships of the u.s. 7th fleet and royal netherlands navy participate in the invasion.t ships help with the defenses, taking part in the defense aerial that preceded the invasion. clouds of black smoke from burning oil tanks and refineries hang over the beach, as guns fire at our fleet understand offshore. landon craft bring the australians to shore. the european suburb here. after quickly establishing a beachhead, infantry push inland past the flaming ruins of buildings and military installation. enemy small arms and mortar fire is encountered, as they strategically take over the ridge overlooking the city. infantry flame throwers destroy, the few natives remaining are rounded up by the australians. many are starved and malaria-ridden. knocked on the enemy coastal guns. 17 of 28 known were destroyed about i flames of the 13th air force. captured japanese anti-aircraft, similar to that employed by salvaging wrecked trucks at a maintenance battalion area on okinawa. the trucks are stripped and motors sent to the shops for a complete reconditioning. the motors are first p

and the british behind there was to determinants of the british policy where the royal navy must always be superior to any other power or group of powers. that's all they've got. there must be no continental launching pad adjacent to the british house which could be used as a stepping stone or launching pad for an invasion which is going to be larger. i think that the british rules sequentially when they saw the germans building a great navy, there was a chill with various british officials including churchill who tried to drawdown and stop building so many. if you stop they will stop. they basically said nobody tells germany what to do. officials there navy. we are going to go powers basically. as far as the belgian invasion in persian, it became an invasion once belgium signed the racist but it did that for two reasons. they explained that were excused if he will on this treaty. but they didn't want anybody that close. napoleon had stood and looked across the channel and this was in cynthia. so they felt that they had to fight to preserve the security of the home islands. i don't know

over 300 ships of the u.s. 7th fleet and the royal netherlands navy participate in the invasion of theich area. rocket ships help shore installations and defenses taking part in the intense aerial and naval bombardment which preceded the invasion. >> clouds of black smoke from burning oil tanks and refineries hang over the beach as 5 inch coastal guns fire at our fleet units offshore. amtraks and landing craft bring the australians to shore. 7th division troops land in force 1st july hitting the beach. the european suburb. after quickly establishing a beachhead, australian infantry supported by alligator tanks push inland past the blazing ruins of buildings and oil installations. enemy small arms and mortar fire is encountered by the australians who quickly capture strategic parramatta ridge overlooking the city. infantry flame throwers destroy japs taking refuge in pillboxes. the few district are rounded up by the australians. many are starved and malaria ridden. knocked out enemy coastal guns prior to the invasion landings 17 of 28 known 90 millimeter gun positions were destroyed by

from a french point of view, would you welcome any involvement from the royal navy? dangerous boats at sea, filled with migrants, you need to save lives first. and then you see what could we do with these people. but, again, we are talking about human beings. we are not talking about cattle or animals. so first we need to save lives and then we see what we are going to do. but we see what we are going to do. but we are doing a lot on the french side. we are trying to stop all of these crossings. you know, with brexit, the united kingdom, they will no longer be part of the agreement on immigration. that means all immigrants that arrive in europe in the last few years, and get fingerprinted in greece or italy, they can now go to the uk, or at least they will go after the transition period on the 1st of january. without facing the risk of being deported back into greece or italy. that would cause a huge increase in the number of migrants trying to cross the channel again. 0k, trying to cross the channel again. ok, lord west, you shaking your head and raising your eyes a

we will see what the royal navy says first, whether or not it is good enough, but hopefully yeah.f you've just got or are about to get your results we'd love to hear from you. are you happy or not with your grades? are you going to appeal based on your mocks results or do you think you might need to take the exams in the autumn? do get in touch at annita—mcveigh on twitter or use #bbcyourquestions. in other news — investigators are working to identify what caused a train derailment in aberdeenshire in which three people died. coronavirus cases surge gci’oss much of europe, with germany, france and spain all registering a record number of infections. a major study suggests that almost 3.5 million people in england may have already had covid—19 — far more than the 270,000 confirmed cases. warnings of severe thunderstorms are in place across much of the uk — after record—setting high temperatures. good morning. a—level and vocational results in england, wales and northern ireland are being released this morning, amid continuing controversy about how they are being calculated. almost

illustration, was one of the many sea monsters legitimate people thought they saw in 1847-1848, a royal navyship. created a sense of really intense period we are talking about. and strang, it was not his only reason for going to that island. he started a criminal enterprise. he basically had a pirate phenomenon, since his people all over the lake to raid various towns through the midwest to still horses and other items. there has been a lot of controversy about this. early writers so there is no proof that he pulled this off, these crimes, and that it was all antiwoman bias. there was plenty of antiwoman bias but he pulled it off and one of the things "the king of confidence" does is move that along a little bit. there is pretty solid undeniable real-time reporting of strang's crimes in this book. >> there is the chapter on the horse rustlers in ohio and if i cut it right, this is new research. >> that is all new. it is lots of fun, lots of great 19th-century journalists and the editor of the ohio newspaper, a wonderful sarcastic writer but this is important because in real time there's a se

british admiral who was an innovator like churchill and the formed a partnership with helped move the royal navy along. >> host: admiral you moe recent book is called "sailing true north." what is true north. >> guest: true north ised a here's to what we broadly con conceive over of as moral and ethical behavior. you are trustworky, you are honest, you care about others, you are kind to others, you have empathy and try and put yourself in the shoes of the other, and not just your friends and family but in the shoes of your opponents and those with whom you disagree. you believe in things like democracy, liberty, freedom of speech, freedom of education, gender equality, racial equality. we execute those values imperfectly but they are the right values and when taken together, that value set, plus the personal qualities i mentioned a moment ago, that is what it means to sail true north. >> host: in that book you wry, quote: i am also motivated by a greg sense that we are witnessing the slow death of character. >> guest: we are. i also say in the book that i think we overshare publicly and we under

you have been hoping to go on and join the royal navy. let's have a look.moment the covid recession may be beginning to bite. let us talk to the principle. when you look to the future, you have incredible students, but do you worry about the trajectory of their careers? of course there are national concerns about economic retraction but we have produced students here with btec qualifications with the underpinnings of academic knowledge and the applied skills and competencies and i think what will be an increasingly competitive market these students have the edge and are going to be able to compete and are going to be able to compete and step into those jobs that are available and let's not forget there are already workforce shortages in some sectors and an ageing workforce and that gives us tremendous opportunities if students and adults have come through vocational routes. what would you like to say to the government? they have said we know we have underfunded and undervalued vocational roots in the past. this is the first time in my career i am seeing ali

as a young royal navy officer, he was on board a british warship in tokyo bay for the signing by ther main story this morning. it was an explosion so powerful, it was felt more than 150 miles away. this morning, residents of beirut‘s capital city are assessing the damage caused by yesterday's deadly blast. the lebanese red cross say at least 100 people have lost their lives, while thousands more have been injured. bel trew is a beirut—based journalist for the independent newspaper and joins us now from the city. we can see from where you are that the damage, but give us an idea first of all when that explosion happened, what was it like?m happened, what was it like?m happened at about 6pm yesterday evening, and even though i was a few kilometres away from the epicentre of the blast, it still knocked me to the floor. it was extraordinary scenes, an enormous blast and a shockwave that basically raged through the whole of beirut, shattering windows, ripping balconies from buildings, completely destroying whole areas of the city, and you can see behind me here, shops have their front win

landed on thursday most of them from yemen egypt sudan and iraq critics are on the calling in the royal navy's a bloc votes were in danger migrants lives britons and immigration minister i'm sorry is expected to urge france to take more preventative measures during a meeting planned in paris next week. now the president of belarus is facing the strongest opposition yet to his long leadership alexander is expected to declare victory after sunday's election his 6th and 25 years the opposition is vowing to contest the election results of course the reports from the capital. election observation belorussian style. because i am. independent observers have not only been detained but also been barred from entering polling stations nonetheless they have found irregularities in the voting process that started on tuesday and will have its peak on sunday the 1st day of the elections. 39 people go out in the evening protocol. commission so there where 89 so they added 50 people is the president alexander lukashenko has been accused of stealing previous elections but this time he's facing an opposition on

this is a royal navy ship that spotted the sea monster somewhere.so that just gives you a sense of intense. we are talking about. and so strang, i was not his only reason for going to that island. he also started a criminal enterprise. you can take it down advantage. he basically had a pirates colony going out where he'd sent people throughout the lake and to steal horses and other items. is a lot of controversy about this, early writer said there's actually no proof that strength hold off any of these crimes and that it was all antibias. there's plenty of anti- moment bias that strang pulled off these crimes. and one thing the confidence does is move that along a little bit. there is pretty solid, undeniable real-time reporting and strength times in this book >> you discover there's a whole chapter on. [inaudible] in ohio. if i caught it right like this is new research. >> guest: yes that's all new. i think it is important first of all the 19th century journalists in small towns in perrysburg ohio was a wonderful, sarcastic writer but this is impor

french are already doing a lot to stop migrants making the crossing and questioned what support the royal navyis, what for? if a small boat full of migrants is entering the british waters, is the british navy going to shoot at them? is the british navy trying to impede them entering british waters? that is totally against the law of the sea. you know, the moral duty of everyone, when we are at sea, is to save lives. so, basically, when you see a small boat, very dangerous boats at sea, filled with migrants, you need to save lives first. and then you see what could we do with these people. but, again, we are talking about human beings. we are not talking about cattle or animals. so first we need to save lives and then we see what we are going to do. but we are doing a lot on the french side. we are trying to stop all of these crossings. you know, with brexit, the united kingdom, they will no longer be part of the agreement on immigration. that means all immigrants that arrive in europe in the last few years, and get fingerprinted in greece or italy, they can now go to the uk, or at least they w

as a young royal navy officer, he was on board a british warship in tokyo bay for the signing by thetarctic. the locations were identified from the way the birds‘ poo, or guano, had stained large patches of sea—ice. the discovery increases the known number of emperor penguins by between five and 10% to more than half a million birds. victoria gill has more. they‘re the biggest and possibly the toughest of antarctica‘s penguins. when they are not foraging in freezing waters, they live and raise their chicks on the ice. and that icy white backdrop has meant that scientists have been able to use satellite images to search the vast antarctic continent for undiscovered emperor penguins. these are the tell—tale markers that gave away their location. giant stains left on ice from thousands of penguins‘ droppings. we have found about 25 to 55,000 new penguins located in the 11 emperor penguin colonies. it is great to have more emperor penguins because this is a species which is really quite vulnerable to climate change and we expect over the coming decades that the numbers will reduce dramat

as a young royal navy officer, he was on board a british warship in tokyo bay for the signing by thes voiced the hope of all of his comrades. nicholas witchell, bbc news. the latest pictures now from beirut where the ongoing search continues for survivors after that huge blast yesterday, in which around 80 people have died, with more than 4000 others injured. we have been hearing from the governor that up to three health —— 3000 people are homeless, there will be a cost of over $3 billion and it has affected around half of the city of beirut. those are the latest pictures coming into us from beirut, after that massive blast yesterday. you're watching bbc news. thank you for staying with us. and we can catch up now with carol kirkwood. let's have a look at the weather. hello again. there is some rain in the forecast today but it is not going to be quite as heavy as it was yesterday. the front that brought the rain yesterday has pushed off into the north sea but you can see the tail end of it coming in from the west. that is going to produce some rain. rain moving across northern engla