that is tom symonds — friends who live next to them. that is tom symonds reporting there.n writer who was caught up in the russian missile strike on a restaurant last week has died from her injuries. victoria amelina, who was a war crimes researcher, was having dinner with otherjournalists and writers when the restaurant was struck in the eastern ukrainian city of kramatorsk. she's become the 13th person to die in the attack. let's talk to olga tokariuk, a friend of victoria's. thank you so much, olga, forjoining us on the programme. i was looking at your twitter feed and clearly victoria was a very close friend and this is unlike so many other killings in ukraine —— this is, like so many killings in ukraine, so close to home for you.- so many killings in ukraine, so close to home for you. thank you for havin: close to home for you. thank you for having me- — close to home for you. thank you for having me- it — close to home for you. thank you for having me. it hits _ close to home for you. thank you for having me. it hits really _ close to home for you. thank you for havi

tom symonds reporting for us from paris.k. the average monthly temperature was 15.8 c, 60 which was 0.9 celsius above the previous highest. records were broken and 72 of the 97 areas in the uk from which temperature data is collected. the k—pop and blackpink have become the first ever korean band to headline a major. the goal group who have a combined 356 million instagram followers played to a crowd of 65,000 fans in london's hyde park. 17 days to go before the women's world cup kicks off and one of the co—host, australia, ticket sales have been so high that bigger stadiums are being pressed into action. but new zealand interest in the tournament seems to be a little bit lower. i spoke to a zoe george — a senior sports reporter at stuff, new zealand's largest news website — if enthusiasm is building up. kia ora. enthusiasm is growing and thankfully more than 1.1 million tickets across aotearoa and australia have side, making it one of the biggest if not the biggest women sporting eventin the biggest women sporting event in

tom symonds, bbc news. ticket offices at railway stations across england will be extended until september. the rail delivery group says many offices are increasingly under—used, with most people buying tickets online orfrom machines. but there have been complaints particularly from disabled people that they'll be adversely affected. junior doctors in england are to stage a four—day strike in august, from 7am on friday 11 august and end at 7am on tuesday 15 august. the british medical association have asked for a 35% pay rise. the government is giving them 6% this year, plus a lump sum of £1,250. england's lionesses are preparing for their second game of the world cup — they play denmark on friday, it follows their win against haiti at the weekend. they're staying north of sydney at a hotel that has been adapted especially for them and has everything to keep them entertained — from arcade games to craft areas. our sports correspondent katie gornall sent this report from inside the camp. ina room in a room wi

. >> tom symonds reporting from paris. good to speak with you. turn to iran where there has been a wave of alcohol-related deaths. consumption of alcohol is illegal and punishments range from lashes to the death penalty. it means those falling ill after drinking often delay seeking help and the production is unregulated with deadly consequences. >> iran, a country where alcohol is strictly banned but produced with such devices behind closed doors or smuggled into the country. those who drink risk going to prison or being whipped up to 80 lashes. if found guilty four times, one can be hanged. that has not deterred iranian youth like the ones in these videos obtained by bbc persia. toxic alcohol has killed some ind.ntre ceeeshe is one of them. she was 24 andied almost two weeks ago. bbc obtained her toxicology result. it shows methanol was found in her blood. unlike her friends who received treatment and survived, she was taken to the hospital after a 24-hour delay. even then, she did not openly admit to drinking, as her father recalled. >> the doc

here's our correspondent tom symonds with the latest.nantere which is the neighbourhood just behind me, the tall buildings that are mainly public housing and there are multiple burnt cars, sections of road that are burnt, there is one building that has had all of its glass windows smashed and clearly that will all cost a lot of money to put right. tonight, though, does not looking too bad. we are told 16,000 police officers are on the streets i suspect they are not in this neighbourhood, i suspect they are in other parts of paris, probably in central paris where the reputational damage of perhaps rioting on the champs—elysees would be a great deal for emmanuel macron to handle at the stage. he is actually visiting a senior police officer to show support but apart from that things are relatively quiet, sissy we drove around nanterre behind me just a few minutes ago and very few people on the streets. some of the rioting has started later in the night but i think it is possible that a corner has been turned. it's also interesting that crow

tom symonds is at the high court. tom, was this expected?ad six — tom, was this expected? well, prince harry had six years — tom, was this expected? well, prince harry had six years under _ tom, was this expected? well, prince harry had six years under the - tom, was this expected? well, prince harry had six years under the law- tom, was this expected? well, prince harry had six years under the law to i harry had six years under the law to claim about phone hacking in the court and many of the allegations he made go back several decades, so the question what has he ran out of time? his case was that he couldn't have sued news group newspapers, the publisher of the sun, because the palace had a secret agreement which meant it wouldn't suit those newspapers and would settle at some point in the future. the judge decided the evidence for that was vague and limited. he said it became pretty clear at around 2012 there was a big phone hacking scandal and if the prince had exercised reasonable diligence he could have got his lawyers onto the case.

live now to our correspondent tom symonds. take us through today's events.ack on the mayor of this quite quiet suburb in south—eastern paris has led to the town hall there, you can say, being protected by razor wire. that is because vincent jeanbrun, his house was attacked with a car, it was driven at his house. he wasn't there, he was at work. his wife and children were in the house and his wife was injured. today, this afternoon, a lot of people from the town turned out to support him as he walked through, down the streets, outside the town hall, to call for order to be restored on the streets of paris and elsewhere. i asked restored on the streets of paris and elsewhere. iasked him, when restored on the streets of paris and elsewhere. i asked him, when i grabbed a word with him in the crowd, how his wife was. she said she was not very well and it was a difficult situation. i asked him about what he made of the protest. translation: what happened today is really strong, shows when we're on our own. _ really strong, shows when we're on our own. we — really

our home affairs correspondent tom symonds is here to explain more.loid headlines. he's suing three newspaper publishers. today's judgement was about his accusation against news group, now news uk. he's accusing them of hacking into his mobile—phone voicemails. the allegations go back to 1996. usually, there's a six—year limit for legal action in privacy cases. prince harry left it until 2019, so he needed the court to give him a bit of leeway. he said he didn't sue because buckingham palace had reached a secret deal with news uk. the palace would hold off from taking legal action in return for cases being settled by the newspaper in the future with an apology. but thejudge, mrjustice fancourt, said there was only "vague and limited evidence" of the secret deal. and he said prince harry could have got his lawyers onto the case?in 2012, when journalists working for rupert murdoch's news uk were investigated by the police for phone hacking and the scandal broke wide open, demonstrating that there was plenty of evidence. so he rejected the duke's request

our correspondent tom symonds sent in this report from nanterre. with lots of social housing blocks where the rioting first broke out following the death of that 17—year—old nearly a week ago now, after a police shooting. we�*ve driven around the streets, very little happening, very quiet, very few people on the street and has to be said over the last few days of rioting has started much later in the evening, three or four o�*clock in the morning, but so far not looking too bad. having said that the damage that�*s been done is still very evident on the streets with lots of burnt out cars, places where the road has been damaged by a burnt vehicle. across france 16,000 police officers are on duty tonight, no letting off of the policing. that�*s very much a position the french government is currently taking. emmanuel macron has said this is not a situation where whole neighbourhoods like this are rising up in some sort of rebellion, this is a situation where individuals, often quite young people, has decided to stand up and take these actions on their

tom symonds is there for us now. more about the scale of the unrest, what did they have to say? responses from the french government about the last week of unrest and damage on the streets, 3500 arrests, 8000 police injuries. 12,000 bin fires, 1100 buildings damaged. serious unrest here. that likely has stopped, overnight very little going on, some arrests still. we also have in the last hour or two something from emanuel macron, french president, new emergency bill offered to mayors of towns affected by the rights to speed up reconstruction of buildings, street furniture and transport and also for repairs to roads, municipal establishments and schools. it is quite vague on detail, doesn't seem to be any sort of a dressing of the underlying social issues that i think some of the mayors that have been to see emanuel macron behind me that they may have been demanding. for example massive investment to try and improve the fortunes of some of the not very well suburbs of cities like paris. we heard from one mayor as he c

straight to paris, and tom symonds is there for us now.ey have to say? you see, some interesting figures from the interior ministry about the scale of what has happened over the last week. 3500 arrests, 800 police injuries, 269 police stations attacked, 12,000 fires, usually men fires in the streets, and 1100 buildings damaged. that tells you that this has been a significant eventin that this has been a significant event in france in the last week. emmanuel macron visited a police station during the night to give his support to officers who do feel that they are being physically threatened quite seriously during this process. he has now said inside this meeting with the murders that the peak of the trouble has passed. , so what is the trouble has passed. , so what is the solution? the discussions taking place with more than 200 mayors, they are likely to be asking for a wide range of responses, certainly more law and order from those on the right of politics, but i think we are going to be seeing more requirements from government to unlock

our correspondent tom symonds is there. this is normally a very quiet suburb, known for its park. its park. a quiet suburb where the act you have just described, in a car being driven into the mayor, has really done two things, it is but everyone out here on the street for a protest. if i could take you around. you can see how many people are out here in the streets protesting. they are going to be marching in a short while it is put them onto the street and acted as something of a turning point. the violence on the streets of france. it is made people feel that this is to some extent an attack on the state itself. and that i think has brought them out to make this protest a protest about the protests. we actually just came from non—terror, which is where the trouble started nearly a week ago with the death of a young man as a result of the police shooting. are clearing up —— we actuallyjust came from nanterre. isaw clearing up —— we actuallyjust came from nanterre. i saw a cash machine that had been damaged here, not much. but here it is the attack on the instrument of the state,

straight to paris — tom symonds is there for us now. hi tom, what's been happening today?c that tonight the heavens have opened. tonight on the champs—elysees where we are now, it's back to normal. there are no troubles here. but there are some shops that are continuing to board up shops that are continuing to board up their plate glass windows just in case something happens overnight. and we've heard some figures recently in the last hour or so that, during this last week, hundreds of hundreds of shops and banks, and ten shopping laws have been attacked by protesters. but president macron said today that the peak of the trouble is past. his meeting with the more than 200 mayors from all over france was an attempt to start to find solutions to what had happened here. did the mayors of all political persuasions here but they wanted to? well, we caught up with the mayor who represents the people of a residential area southwest of paris, a not very well off area that has suffered quite badly in these protests. translation: ~ �* protests. translation: �* ., ., protests. transl

let's go live to our correspondent tom symonds in paris.hat is happening. the tell us more about this meeting and what is happening.— what is happening. the first thing to sa is, what is happening. the first thing to say is. just _ what is happening. the first thing to say is. just to _ what is happening. the first thing to say is, just to stress, - what is happening. the first thing to say is, just to stress, it - what is happening. the first thing to say is, just to stress, it has - to say is, just to stress, it has been a peaceful night overnight. just 72 arrests and that is regarded as good news. we took a drive around the area of north—west paris where a lot of this trouble started. it is quite a hostile area to the media. we saw no signs of trouble. so, good news there. so all attention turns to these meetings today at the palace, the home of president macron. he has invited more than 200 meas to his meetings, once from all over france. what that symbols is the way in which this period of unrest has been targeted on symbols of the sta

live now to our correspondent tom symonds. monitoring the situation on the ground.e moment? we have been places today, firstly non—terror, where this outbreak of violence started with the car incident involving the police, and there we saw burnt vehicles, burnt roads,. and then we came here to this small parisian suburb, quite a quiet place, which was filled with several thousand people about an hour or two ago as they surrounded their mayor, vincentjeanbrun, who you say, his home was attacked two nights ago. he was was at the town hall, but his wife and children were there. somebody drove a car into his house, his house, his wife was injured and they came out, the people in this area, to support him today as he said that this has to stop. firstly, nanterre. iasked him how his wife was and she said that she wasn't very well and that the situation was very difficult. and he said that what had happened here today in this suburb showed strength because when people are on their own they are fragile and isolated, but when they are together they are strong. and he said he

our home affairs correspondent, tom symonds, is outside the high court. tom?t his voice mail messages were - tom? yes, prince harry's claims thati his voice mail messages were hacked date back to 1996 rngs but there are rules in law that if he was going to sue he needed to do it within six years. prince harry made the case today that he couldn't do that, because the palace reached a secret agreement with the publishers of the sun that it wouldn't sue the newspaper in return for the newspaper in return for the newspaper settling the case and apologising. thejudge decided newspaper settling the case and apologising. the judge decided that there was vague and limited evidence of that secret deal. he side prince harry could have sued as soon as 2006. so he has thrown the case out, the newspaper in return for the newspaper settling the case and apologising. thejudge decided newspaper settling the case and apologising. the judge decided that there was vague and limited evidence of that secret deal. he side prince harry could have sued as soon as 2006. so he has thro

live now to our correspondent tom symonds. surrounded by thousands of people from this town and around the area, and they are here because it was his home which was attacked two nights ago by somebody, not clear who come up with a car that drove into his house. the mayor was not at home. his wife and children were there, and his wife was injured in that attack. and that attack seems to have been a turning point in the events of the last week here in france. we have seen plenty of protests at night, during the darkness, mashed up cars, burnt cars, attacks on buildings, attacks on the police, attacks on the media, but the mood has changed in the last day with events like this. there are thousands of people listening to the speech of the mayor, he was just that we are the silent majority and we say stop, it's enough. we that we are the silent ma'ority and we say stop, it's enough.- we say stop, it's enough. we are 'ust we say stop, it's enough. we are just watching _ we say stop, it's enough. we are just watching the _ we say sto

our home affairs correspondent tom symonds has been tracking developments and hejoins us now at the hight his case,, for a lawful gathering, private investigators working for local newspapers, who are able to get it to bank statements and medical records and flight details, that that case can go ahead. a trial, possibly next year, possibly the year after. i think perhaps the most important news today is that his phone hacking claims have been rejected by the court. effectively he ran out of time. his claims go back to 1996, but there is a six year limit in british law, privacy law, to make a claim at the court. prince harry had argued that he couldn't make a claim because there was a secret deal between the palace and news group newspapers, the publisher of the sun, in which the palace said it wouldn't sue the publisher in return for newsgroup paying damages at some point in the future and making an apology. prince harry said that that meant everything was on hold and he couldn't make any progress. the judge said he thought there was a vague and limited evidence for that claim, which he

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tom symonds, bbc news. mitsotakis, has said the next few days will pose a "big test" for his country, as wildfires continue to burn out of control across several islands, yesterday, two airforce pilots, were killed after their firefighting plane crashed as they attempted to help distinguish flames on the island of evia. more evacuation flights are taking place today and more than 20,000 people have left their homes and holidays. the court of appeal will be asked to quash the conviction of a man who spent 17 years in prison for a rape he said he never committed. he was jailed 20 years ago for the attack on a woman in salford but the case is finally being reviewed after dna evidence linked the crime to another man. if his conviction is quashed, it will be the longest miscarriage of justice on the 21st century. radiographers who perform vital health scans are entering the second day of strikes today in some parts of england. staff at 37 nhs trusts are walking out after rejecting the government pay offer of a 5

thank you very much, tom symonds _ harry next year.ns would have _ on earth? the technology that these aliens would have to _ on earth? the technology that these aliens would have to have _ on earth? the technology that these aliens would have to have is - on earth? the technology that these aliens would have to have is beyond| aliens would have to have is beyond our comprehension, in order to reach us. we have barely left our solar system and that was with spacecraft at the launched in the 705, so to be able to travel through the stars, it is just beyond u5 able to travel through the stars, it is just beyond us at the minute. we cannot comprehend how we might be able to do that. that is not to say that there are not civilisations far more advanced that are able to do it. ithink, at more advanced that are able to do it. i think, at the minute, if we are to have contact with aliens, it is going to be through radio communications. we have only been broadcasting radio communications at interstellar level for the past 60-70 interstellar le

tom symonds, bbc news, paris.tting charges relating to polluting rivers. the court earlier heard how millions of litres of undiluted sewage caused rivers to turn "black" and kill more than 1,000 fish near gatwick airport in october 2017. facebook owner meta says it will be launching its own app to rival twitter this week. "threads" is a "text based conversation app" that will go live on thursday, according to the company, and will be linked to instagram. plans for the orkney islands to change its status within the uk or even become a self—governing territory of norway are set to be debated by councillors today. a motion will go before the local authority to investigate "alternative forms of governance." but the prime minister's spokesperson rejected a suggestion the islands could loosen their ties with the union. next month, the congestion charging zone in central london will be expanded across the whole capital, as part of the mayor's flagship clean—air policy. it's a controversial move, which is being challenged