yevgeny prigozhin, has been buried in a private ceremony in st petersburg, according to his press service. it was a low key affair with no military honours, and the media were kept well away. the kremlin is hoping this closes the chapter on a man, who threatened russia's military establishment. there are still questions tonight over who controls the thousands of fighters in the wagner mercenary group, many of whom have died fighting in ukraine. we'll have a special report from the frontline in a moment, on kyiv�*s war dead. but first, from st petersburg, here's our russia editor, steve rosenberg. right now it is probably the most tightly guarded cemetery in russia. along the perimeter fence we saw a police officer every five metres and there were many more inside on guard because of this fresh grave. yevgeny prigozhin, we are told, was buried here today but there were no military honours for the mercenary chief accused by the kremlin of treachery and few people came to the funeral. the location had been kept secret until this evening. by the time the media arrived it was already no entry. we had been told the cemetery is officially closed for the day and we cannot go in. just to make sure that the media doesn't try to get in the whole place is pretty much under lockdown. by place is pretty much under lockdown. by all accounts, the funeral itself was low—key. the security, far from it. the yevgeny prigozhin story is an astonishing one. from hot dog seller to paramilitary chief, fighting on the kremlin�*s side in ukraine. but then insurrection. a brief mutiny by the mercenaries and their leader. an unprecedented challenge to president putin. two months later, this. yevgeny prigozhin�*s jet crashed. ten months later, this. yevgeny prigozhin�*sjet crashed. ten people were reported killed, including the chief himself. not our work, says the kremlin, but there is widespread suspicion the authorities were behind this. those in power may be hoping that russians will now forget yevgeny prigozhin that despite his reputation for ruthlessness he had become a celebrity. translation: become a celebrity. tuna/mom- become a celebrity. translation: ., , , translation: he had become very --oular, translation: he had become very pepular. yevgeny — translation: he had become very popular, yevgeny prigozhin - translation: he had become very popular, yevgeny prigozhin was - popular, yevgeny prigozhin was perhaps the most popular person. a lot of people will come here. across russia, lot of people will come here. across russia. peeple _ lot of people will come here. across russia, people are _ lot of people will come here. across | russia, people are remembering the brazen, straight talking tycoon turned paramilitary leader who fell foul of the kremlin. steve rosenberg, bbc news, saint petersburg. yevgeny prigozhin�*s mercenary group has been central to russia's war effort in ukraine, where it's been impossible to calculate how many troops on either side, have died. official figures are never released, but it's likely to be tens of thousands. us estimates suggest there has been a dramatic rise in the number of dead, since ukraine's counter offensive began a couple of months ago. hundreds of new graves are being dug everyday. quentin sommerville, and camera journalist, darren conway, have visited the frontline in the east of the country, where sunflower fields give way to graveyards. a warning, their report contains some distressing images. singing. the lament for the fallen grows louder with each passing day of war. the song is of battles gone by, but resonates again far and wide in every corner of ukraine, where a new generation is learning the pain of grief and sacrifice. maria's come here to pay her respects and pray for a relative missing in action. it's the second summer of war, and its toll hangs heavy here. singing continues. everyone has lost someone. for oksana, it's her husband she mourns. for five years, they were together, and the grief is still raw. pavlo was a fitness champion who volunteered to fight. a russian airstrike destroyed his convoy last november. translation: honestly, it's still very hard - to accept that he has gone. it's only when i'm here that it sinks in. i feel he's still somewhere, that he's still alive and on a mission, doing hisjob. at cemeteries all across ukraine, the military dead just keep coming. here in lviv, near the border with poland, very far from the fighting on the eastern front, the fresh graves of soldiers number in their hundreds. there are so many, in fact, at this cemetery, that, up the hill here, they're clearing the way of the fallen from previous wars to make room for those lost in this conflict. the discarded, bloodstained blankets, tourniquets and dressings from lives that couldn't be saved. but, at this town mortuary, it's margot�*s job to make sure their sacrifice and their names are remembered. before the war, it was mostly the old who crossed this threshold. now, it's the corpses of ukraine's young men and women who pass through daily. their numbers have doubled since the counter—offensive began injune. they leave in single file, a trail of grief without end. ukraine doesn't release official figures of those killed in action, but it's in the tens of thousands. this is a routine that they repeat here every single day. many are unrecognisable, so they search for phones, wallets, clues to identify the dead. each loss is personal, but one arrival was especially so for margot. translation: the worst day was . when they brought my husband here. he died while defending his motherland. it was the hardest day of my life. that moment made me realise that i have to be here. but that was the hardest day ever. this is only one day's worth of losses from one small part of this war�*s long front. but still, there is no slackening in the will to battle on. in marriage, oksana made a pact with her husband — she would join up if he was killed in action. she's still getting used to army life and the dangers that come with it. this road is regularly shelled. here, outside bakhmut, they head out and immediately take cover in nearby woods. this position is in range of russian guns. like thousands of other ukrainians, oksana had very little time to mourn. instead, she chose to fight. and what we hear from a lot of soldiers on the frontline is that the time to grieve will come when the war is over. she's now part of an aerial reconnaissance team, hunting for a russian anti—tank unit. they have to work fast. the risk is real out here in the open. it won't take long for russian artillery to find them. why, after your husband's death, didn't you just stay at home? you decided instead to come here to the front line. translation: i didn't have the strength to l stay at home any more. i really wanted to continue his work so that his life would not be in vain. he was working towards his goal, to end the war. he wanted peace so that people could continue to live happily in our country. but the hope of peace, and victory, too, is still a far—off dream for oksana. singing. she and margot will do their part to serve the memory of the fallen and to keep their country free. singing continues. ukraine's soil bears witness to how much it has already given and to the sacrifice still to come. singing concludes. quentin sommerville, bbc news, eastern ukraine. the head of air traffic services, has confirmed a technical failure, led to more than a quarter of uk flights being cancelled yesterday, and not a cyber attack. martin rolfe, says flight information received by the national air traffic services, triggered a suspension of automatic systems, which meant data had to be managed manually. thousands of travellers have been affected, and it could be several days before flight schedules, are back to normal. more than 1800 flights have been affected so far. the transport secretary, mark harper, says it's the worst incident of its kind to hit air traffic control, in nearly a decade. here's katy austin. the shock waves from yesterday continued to be felt, as these passengers at liverpool this morning discovered. we booked to take the kids to dublin for the day and just got here and were told it has been cancelled, so we are waiting now in line to see if we can find something else. struggling to figure out how we feel in our day now till 11pm tonight, and just the extra cost, you know? aircraft and crews have been left out of position by the hundreds of cancellations and many flights back into the uk were already full. airlines say they are doing all they can to get people home, but some face a long wait. our next available flight that easyjet offered us is this friday, and it's going to take eight hours via geneva, so we have a four hour stopover in geneva, which is quite frustrating. then we have had to fork out nearly £1000 for hotels for the next four nights. we stayed in paris. we haven't had any information. they weren't able to put— any information. they weren't able to put us_ any information. they weren't able to put us on— any information. they weren't able to put us on anything until thursday morning _ the disruption was caused by a technical issue at air traffic control services provider nats. nats has apologised but has not yet given a full explanation of exactly what went wrong and why. our system received some data on an aircraft and it was unable to process it. that doesn't happen normally. in the circumstances when that does happen it is safer for us to revert to a manual system. this meant that — to revert to a manual system. this meant that for _ to revert to a manual system. this meant that for a _ to revert to a manual system. this meant that for a time _ to revert to a manual system. this meant that for a time yesterday fewer flights could be meant that for a time yesterday fewerflights could be handled. the boss said he was confident it wouldn't happen again. we understand the wa the wouldn't happen again. we understand the way the system _ wouldn't happen again. we understand the way the system didn't _ wouldn't happen again. we understand the way the system didn't handle - wouldn't happen again. we understand the way the system didn't handle the l the way the system didn't handle the data that we sought, the way it failed, if you like, so we've put in place already procedures to make sure that if that happens again we can resolve it very quickly so we are very confident on that. fix, can resolve it very quickly so we are very confident on that. a review is now being _ are very confident on that. a review is now being carried _ are very confident on that. a review is now being carried out _ are very confident on that. a review is now being carried out and - is now being carried out and a preliminary report is due to be presented to the transport secretary on monday. it'll be days before things get completely back to normal, though, as well as causing misery for those whose holidays and flights have been cancelled this will be a costly and frustrating episode for airlines. it's not the way the industry or passengers wanted summer to end. a police officer who was hit by a train while trying to save a distressed man on railway tracks in nottinghamshire has died. it happened last thursday in balderton, near newark—on—trent. police say sergeant graham saville, who was a6, was a hugely respected and popular colleague. on thursday, we went to work to protect the people of nottinghamshire from harm and its testament to graham's dedication and bravery that he was killed in the line of duty while trying to save the life of another man. his service and sacrifice will never be forgotten. the inquest into the death sara sharif, the ten—year—old girl found dead at a house in woking in surrey, has opened and been adjourned, to allow more inquiries by the police. a pathologist still hasn't been able to give a precise cause of death but says it's likely to be "unnatural". daniel sandford has more details. 19 days after sara sharif�*s body was discovered at her home in woking, specialist search officers are still at the semi detached house. the coroner today suspended his inquest for six months while the police continue what they have called a murder investigation. but the precise cause of sara's death has still not been established by the pathologist, though he has said it was likely to be an unnatural cause, to use his phrase. so, nearly three weeks after sara sharif was found deadin weeks after sara sharif was found dead in herfamily home, exactly which injury caused her death still remains unclear. detectives have explained this is because she suffered multiple injuries over an extended period of time to stop police want to speak... police want to speak to the three adults who were living in the house. they all flew to islamabad the day before her body was discovered. they are sara's father, urfan sharif, seen here on the left, his current partner and his brother. police in pakistan are searching for them on behalf of surrey detectives, a search that was expanded overnight. at the main mosque in woking, the imam told me the whole community had been shocked by sara's death and was surprised that her father still hadn't contacted the police after almost three weeks. as a father, it is his responsibility. it is a duty, duty of care. he should come forward and speak with the pakistani police or the uk police. if my daughter or my son in danger here, and if someone told they are injured in an accident and they died, they cancel their trip straightaway, buy a new ticket and come home. sara sharif�*s father booked the tickets to pakistan through this woking travel agent a day and a half before her body was found. he bought one—way tickets for the whole family, including the five children. only sara was not on the booking. daniel sandford, bbc news, woking. the government is planning to scrap rules which require house builders to prove new developments won't cause pollution to nearby rivers. rishi sunak says the change will allow 100,000 new homes to be built in england by 2030, but campaigners warn vital safeguards will disappear, maintaining river quality and wildlife habitats. here's helen catt. they should be busy building homes on the st giles park development near norwich. but four months ago work stopped. the construction workers were let go. 201 homes had already been built, but the developers couldn't get the go—ahead for another 149 on the remaining land. because of rules on water pollution. for the local council, which owns the land, it's frustrating. on sites like this, when you can't build homes, you're materially affecting the ability for people to get a roof over their head and you're actually driving the price of the homes that are available even higher than they otherwise need to be. so sorting this problem out has been essential notjust for the building industry, but for the entire economy. not far down the road, the prime minister was at another development to announce that those rules would now be scrapped and he would bring in other environmental measures. well, today's announcement will unlock 100,000 new homes and we're able to do this because previously, it was a disproportionate and poorly targeted old eu ruling that blocked these homes. thankfully, we can now reverse that and alongside that, we're investing hundreds of millions of pounds to continue protecting and enhancing our precious natural environment in norfolk. in norfolk, it's the impact on the broads that's the concern. natural england says high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus are seriously damaging the waterways here, and it's the same in other parts of england. so, underthe law, developers in those areas have had to be able to show they can build new houses without increasing the levels of pollutants. this is a shocking announcement by government today that completely breaks promises that they made to parliament and to the british people in just the last few months not to remove environmental protections, but this is what this announcement does today. it makes me wonder whether actually we can trust any environmental promises made by rishi sunak�*s government in the future. this brings together two big political issues. on the one hand, there is the need to build more housing, on the other, how to protect the natural environment. and there has been a particular political focus on the quality of rivers and waterways in recent months. we've had a real sewage issue in many rivers across our country, and now the conservatives want to reduce the protection for our rivers and play into the hands of their developer friends. this is exactly the wrong move. labour has accused the government of failing on both the environment and house building. ministers hope this change will get stalled. change will get stalled developments moving again. the question from opponents is at what cost? helen catt, bbc news, norfolk. london has become the world's largest ultra low emission zone, after the existing scheme was expanded to cover the whole of the capital. all of london's 32 boroughs are now inside the zone, meaning drivers who own vehicles that don't meet emissions standards, will now have to pay £12.50 a day to travel in any part of the city. critics say the financial burden will fall hardest on the poorest households. the foreign secretary, james cleverly, has arrived in bejing, for the first visit of a senior government official in more than five years. he's expected to meet his chinese counterpart and the country's vice president, to discuss issues ranging from climate change to the war in ukraine. stephen mcdonell is in beijing for us. what can we expect from these meetings? relations are anything but smooth at the moment between beijing and western governments, so we expect at least some level of tension between the uk foreign secretary and his chinese counterpart when they sit down. these could also be difficult waters forjames cleverly to negotiate because there are backbenchers in his own party who don't even want him here in the first place. they argue that the chinese government is now beyond the point of no return when it comes to authoritarianism, that there needs to be more decoupling, which means less engagement with china on all fronts. however, the foreign secretary would argue, no, that's not the way forward. what is needed is direct talks to smooth trade relations with this economic giant. he says he will raise human rights abuses and he will pressure beijing to do more to call on russia to end its invasion of ukraine, plus deal with his enormous global problems like climate change which simply cannot be solved without edging possible involvement. so you might expect positive sounds coming out of these two governments over the next 24 these two governments over the next 2a hours but not all smooth sailing. thank you. look away now if you're squeamish. in a world first, doctors in australia were startled to find an eight—centimetre parasitic worm alive in a woman's brain. for 18 months, the 64—year—old had been experiencing mysterious ailments and was horrified by the cause. our medical editor, fergus walsh, has that story. it's like something from a horrorfilm. surgeons say it's the first time this type of worm has been found in a human brain. the patient was first admitted to hospital in south—eastern australia in 2021 with stomach pain and diarrhoea but the cause couldn't be identified. a year later, her symptoms had progressed to include forgetfulness and depression, so she was sent for a brain mri, which showed damage to herfrontal lobe here. surgeons in canberra performed a biopsy and got the shock of their lives. it definitely wasn't what we were expecting. everyone was shocked. the worm that we found was happily moving quite vigorously outside the brain. for many months she'd been really struggling and it was really courageous of her to come and have further testing after not having answers for so very long but she did really well from knowing what was causing all of her trouble and having now a treatment for what was causing the trouble. how could this happen? the woman, originally from england, lives near a lake in new south wales which is home to these, carpet pythons. it is thought she ate something contaminated with a parasite found in their poo, namely the eggs of a round worm. after these hatched in her body, causing her symptoms, one eventually made it to her brain. possibly as a result of medication she was taking which suppressed her immune system. the patient is recovering well now the eight centimetre worm has been removed. infectious disease experts say it is an example of the growing number of parasitic and animal infections which are threatening human health. hurricane idalia is strengthening, after passing over cuba towards the gulf coast of america. officials in florida are now urging millions of people to brace for a possible major storm when it makes landfall on wednesday, warning of potential deaths and destruction. john sudworth is in tampa. john, just how bad could this get? well, you can probably see the wind started to pick up behind me here in tampa, but the hurricane is still well over 100 miles away, out in the gulf of mexico, still a bit of traffic on the streets here because it is not expected to make landfall for another 12 hours or so, but as the storm approaches the shore, it's the storm approaches the shore, its expected to gain energy from the unusually warm sea temperatures, and that's where the real risk to life comes from, notjust because of the wind speed, expected to reach up to 120 mph or more, but because of the storm surge, those winds forcing water up among the gulf coast of florida and threatened communities from here all the way up the coast. the authorities are saying repeatedly that this could be catastrophic. it's a word we hear time and time again about the potential impact the governor, ron desantis, today telling residents of the state that they need to buckle up. the state that they need to buckle u . _ ., ~' the state that they need to buckle u n . ., " , ., the state that they need to buckle up. thank you, john sudworth, in tam a, up. thank you, john sudworth, in tampa, florida. _ there's much the england women's football team can be proud of, after reaching the final of the world cup, and a key player was the attacking midfielder, ella toone. she's been reflecting on the success of the lionesses, who fell a little short in the final against spain, and she's been offering her thoughts on the controversy surrounding the behaviour of the spanish football federation president, luis rubiales. she's been speaking, to katie gornall. for ella toone, this was the shot of her life. and it helped to fire england passed the hosts and into the world cup final. nine days on from their defeat in the final to spain, ella toone at the lioness is over the jet lag and spain, ella toone at the lioness is over thejet lag and did demand. but the memories are bittersweet. heartbreaking we got that far and we couldn't push over the line but when you come back and hear how proud everyone is, you have that sense of pride, and i'm proud of how far we have, and what we have done for the women's game. where do you keep your metal? my dad has not it, where do you keep your metal? my dad has got it. he's — where do you keep your metal? my dad has got it. he's got _ where do you keep your metal? my dad has got it, he's got the euros _ where do you keep your metal? my dad has got it, he's got the euros one - has got it, he's got the euros one at the world cup. the world cup and is so heavy. it was like that around my neck. fix. is so heavy. it was like that around m neck. �* �* �* is so heavy. it was like that around m neck. “ ., . ., ., my neck. a bbc audience of over 21 million watched _ my neck. a bbc audience of over 21 million watched include _ my neck. a bbc audience of over 21 million watched include an - my neck. a bbc audience of over 21 million watched include an spain i million watched include an spain in the final but one moment stole headlines that schaub real as possible are now intimate kiss of jenni hermoso has seen the spanish fa president widely criticised england boss claude lionesses released a statement condemning what they called unacceptable actions. grip it said things like that are still happening and we are talking about that every day after the world cup when really we should be praising spain and thinking about how well we've done in the world cup and how far the women's game has come. d0 and how far the women's game has come. y ., and how far the women's game has come. ,, ~ , ., come. do you think he should go? yes, i think— come. do you think he should go? yes, i think so. _ come. do you think he should go? yes, i think so. it's _ come. do you think he should go? yes, i think so. it's too _ come. do you think he should go? yes, i think so. it's too far- come. do you think he should go? yes, i think so. it's too far gone i yes, i think so. it's too far gone for an apology, not something you can apologise or move on from. it's much bigger than that now. elia much bigger than that now. ella toone and _ much bigger than that now. ella toone and england wanted nothing more get their hands on this trophy and now they are supporting their rivals in a debate which extends well built. time for a look at the weather. here's ben. we were just hearing about the situation with that hurricane heading towards florida. it's no wonder the authorities are issuing stark warnings, because the storm means business. hurricane idalia is now a category two hurricane, moving over very warm waters in the gulf of mexico, with the sea temperatures above i would expect them to be at this time of year, and so as the storm makes landfall tomorrow, it's that combination of very heavy rain, damaging potentially devastating winds and that life—threatening storm surge, four metres or more, along parts of the coastline. so a very serious situation. back home, things are a good deal calmer. we got some showers out there right now. we will continue to see a few showers streaming south—east is the night wears on under clear skies, it's going to turn quite chilly for the few places down to five or six a eight. tomorrow morning but for most of us a bright start with plenty of sunshine. you will see shower clouds bubbling up through the dated there will be some showers, the odd heavy one, but big gaps between those showers. quite a lot of dry weather and i think by the end of the day northern ireland, wales, south—west england should be mostly drivers 15 to 19, perhaps 20 to four thursday, a band of rain which is in from the south—west, affecting a good part of england and wales but north lincolnshire should stay mainly derived northern england, south—west scotland seen rain again. somewhat weather as we entered august for the start of september, there is a change on the way. high pressure is set to build across the uk and high pressure tends to mean settled weather. that is what we are going to get as we move into the weekend it will be largely dry with some spells of sunshine and it will start to feel a bit warmer as well. that's it.