nicolas cruz pleaded guilty to gunning down 17 people, at his former high school. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in western france which is facing what experts are calling a heat apocalypse , as extreme temperatures continue to hit much of europe. they say temperatures could reach record levels in 15 regions of the southwest, with firefighters battling wildfires and thousands forced to evacuate. wildfires in spain, portugal and greece have forced thousands more to flee. our europe correspondent jessica parker has the latest. into the forest and the front line of an exhausting battle, and one that, today, we were given special access to. up in the woods, you can see guys tackling the fires. there s a huge amount of activity down here, and it is hot, it is smoky just look at the haze in the trees. the smoke thickens the further in we go the flames sudd
their own language, and so that s when our colleagues decided to trace exactly what the source of these videos were. we had one colleague doing this investigation using data journalism tools within china, and another who was doing on the ground reporting in malawi, to trace exactly where these videos were coming from and who was behind it. azadeh, fascinating stuff, particularly given the fact that the tools that they used, as you described, really allowed them to get a sense of what was happening. just talk us through what the implications of this investigation have been. some of the big issues here were that these videos were going for as much as $70 apiece online and they were becoming widely shared, and so when this investigation came out, there was obviously a lot of discontent within malawi, especially within the communities who were affected, because of the fact that these children were being put in this position. and so the government in malawi launched their own probe injune,