Can claim back. A 30th Gold for paralympicsgb as Faye Rogers wins a thrilling 510 100m Butterfly final In Paris. Whats occurring on Barry Island . The cast of Gavin Stacey have been spotted filming the last ever episode of the much loved comedy. Sunshine and showers across the uk, one or two saying dry. Feeling fresher for many but the humid air will make a comeback later this week. I will have the details. Its wednesday 4th september. Our main story. A pregnant woman and six children are among at least a dozen people who died when their small boat capsized off the french Coast Yesterday 51 others were rescued, some are in a critical condition. It is the biggest single loss of life so far in the channel this year. The government insists its taking action to target the criminal Smuggling Gangs, describing the deaths as truly horrific. Our Paris Correspondent Andrew Harding reports. French Rescue Helicopters busy once again, bringing casualties from the sea to the shore. This the scene a
sleep. lucky to be alive almost 350 people rescued from a truck in mexico. the driver s whereabouts are unknown. the legacy of japanese boyband moguljohnny kitagawa is examined in a new bbc documentary, including multiple allegations of sexual abuse and we meet the team behind the elephant whisperers, the indian documentary hoping to win at sunday s oscars. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. welcome to the programme. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky says the country s military commanders want to continue defending the embattled eastern city of bakhmut. it follows reports from a us based think tank suggesting ukraine was probably withdrawing some of its forces from the city. russia is continuing its all out assault to capture the eastern ukrainian city, while the city s deputy mayor has told the bbc that not a single building had remained untouched and that the city is almost destroyed. our correspondentjames landale sent this report fr
this time they survived. what do we know about this incident? it doesn t seem like pure luck that people survived on this instance. this is a shocking case simply in the fact it involves more than 100 unaccompanied minors heading north from central america, almost 350 people in total. the truck had a sort of two layers in it because the smuggling gang, who was presumably moving this people north to the united states, created a second level so they could cram more people in there. it was found abandoned on a highway in the eastern state of veracruz, no driver anywhere to be found. and had things gone on for longer with the temperatures, even though there was some rudimentary effort to get ventilation, it might not been enough for very long. very
this week where tankers came under attack. a suspected hijacking of this ship, the panama flagged asphalt princess, is now over. it began on tuesday when armed men boarded the vessel. a uk maritime security agency tweeted earlier today. it s thought a criminal smuggling gang might have been behind that incident. but an attack on another tanker last week has been blamed on iran. two men died when a drone carrying explosives struck the ship. one of them was named today as a british security guard and former soldier, adrian underwood. the mt mercer street is the tanker, it s operated by an israeli owned company. israel s defence minister benny gantz has publicly named the iranian official he says ordered the attack, blaming it on the head of the revolutionary guards drone command. mr gantz called it an assault on global trade routes and an international crime . the head of the british military,
obviously, all the obviously, all the fin-er obviously, all the fin-er has obviously, all the fin-er has been obviously, all the finger has been pointin- towards iran for the pointing towards iran for the incident, the drone attacks against israeli ship on thursday. but iranian officials have denied any involvement with these incidents and even the head of revolutionary guards denied this, any link with this incident, but what we know now about the incident on tuesday night, the panama flagged ship which was allegedly hijacked, obviously it is over and they say the crew is safe, but we are hearing conflicting news of. some said it might be a group linked to iran, but also we are hearing it might be a smuggling gang, as you said, and trying to take over the ship. but they were