simon adams, ceo of the centres for victims _ attention. ceo of the centres for victims for torture, i centres for victims for torture, thank you so much forjoining us on the programme. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme... serena williams suggests she's planning to retire from tennis after the us open, having dominated the sport for almost a quarter century. the big crowds became bigger as the time of the funeral approached. as the lines of fans became longer, the police prepared for a huge job of crowd control. idi amin, uganda's brutalformer dictator, has died at the age of 80. he's been buried in saudi arabia, where he'd lived in exile since being overthrown in 1979. 2 billion people around the world have seen the last total eclipse of the sun to take place in this millennia. it began itsjourney off the coast of canada, ending three hours later, when the sun set over the bay of bengal. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani in singapore. i want to tell you about how south korea has experience it

simon adams is ceo of the centerfor victims of torture, one of the biggest organisations in the worldo carries our human rights advocacy. he's been giving me his reaction to the findings of the report. i was appalled, but not surprised. i was obviously sickened by the report, but not at all surprised. i think some of those figures that you mentioned there in your introduction — let's look at the situation since february of 2021. more than 2,000 people killed. i think there's 11,900 people still in detention as of today. more than 100 people have been tortured to death, and recently in the last couple of weeks, we saw four activists hanged for the first time in many years in myanmar. thejunta is kind of waging a waragainst some of its own people. air strikes in rural areas, scorched earth policy in minority ethnic areas and mass repression and killings. so, that's kind of what this un report says. it says this is what's going on, these are crimes against humanity and the perpetrators need to be held accountable, and here's the evidence. and i think that's a positive thing that the repo

we saw adam a little earlier and simonjack�*s report, earlier and simon jack's report, thank earlierhank you very much. just how worried are you for people in this country, particularly those most vulnerable and unable at the best of times to truly heat their homes? beyond words. what worried me is there is a risk of something happening, it's nails on. in september of last year there were about 4 million households and what we call fuel poverty, having to spend 10% of their income to afford a decent level of heat. that's just below the weight now. you're talking about people especially our lowest incomes spending three quarters of their disposable income after housing because for them or have their disposable income after housing because on energy bills. that means two things, they're either going to get into huge debt or they simply will not turn on the heat. they will not have a bath or a shower or boil the cattle up with a toasted or wash their clothes for their children. it is literally terrifying. i think we are getting used to it now as these predictions get worse and worse in

adams in 2002. he received the national book award for the path between the seas about the building of the panama canal and for mornings on horseback. biography of theodore roosevelt, publisher simon and schuster says mcculloh died in his massachusetts home yesterday , less than two months after his wife, rosalie. northern california woman who worked as a fire lookout has been killed in the mckinney fire here in our state for nearly 50 years, 73 year old kathy shuman watched for wildfires from u. s forest service towers in cisco county, and she died trying to evacuate the town of klamath river where she lived. a small community was nearly leveled by flames. at least three other people have also died in the massive mckinney fire. is burned more than 60,000 acres and is 40% contained and is currently the largest fire in california with more than 3000 firefighters out there on the front lines, just 20 miles west of the mckinney fire, there's another fire burning in the klamath national forest lightning sparked that fire, which has been named the yeti complex fire, and it's now grown to about 8000 acres. it is 50% contained as of this evening and the flames are still threatening homes