i'm anjana gadgil. our top story... we start in the uk — where a manhunt is continuing for a suspected terrorist who escaped from a london prison. daniel khalife escaped from wandsworth prison on wednesday morning, by clinging to the underside of a food delivery van. thejustice secretary has ordered an urgent investigation into what happened, and why the former soldier wasn't held in a higher security prison. our reporter simonjones has more. they have released a statement, saying cuts of consequences. they said you cannot reduce the budget and expect the prison service to operate as if nothing has happened. the government has to take response ability for the decimation of the prison service with less staff and more prisoners and one is worth as a technology example of what life is like for serving prison officers operating in a stressful and violent workplace with staffing levels meaning you care for more than 100 prisoners and they are calling for urgent commission notjust for urgent commission not just for prisons urgent commission notjust for prisons but for the whole criminal justice system saying otherwise things are going to get worse. later this morning, or very shortly, we will here from the lord chancellor and the justice will here from the lord chancellor and thejustice secretary will here from the lord chancellor and the justice secretary who will here from the lord chancellor and thejustice secretary who will speak in the house of commons, responding no doubt to some of those things and statements being made by the poa. thejustice secretary has already ordered an urgent investigation into what happened and why the former soldier was not being held in a high security prison. 0ur reporter simonjones has more. currently britain's most wanted man. the hunt for daniel khalife, facing serious charges of threats to the state, is being described as urgent and extensive. despite all the security that should have been in place here at wandsworth prison, the former soldier managed to escape from the jail�*s kitchen by strapping himself to the bottom of a food—delivery van. he was wearing his distinctive chef's uniform. he could be anywhere in the country at the moment and, yes, of course we're mindful of the risk of him potentially leaving the country. we're focusing our efforts in london at the moment. so we have counter—terrorism officers now deployed across london, working with colleagues from across the metropolitan police and our partner agencies to try and find him here. he has connections to the north west of the country, so we are also working with colleagues all around the country. the hunt for daniel khalife extended to the borders, too — additional security checks at airports and ports led to long queues forming for passengers. daniel khalifejoined the army in 2019. three years later, he became the subject of a counter—terrorism investigation. he's accused on the 2nd of january this year of planting fake bombs at the barracks in stafford, where he was based. he was arrested later that month. the charges he face include preparing an act of terrorism, and collecting information that might be useful to terrorists or enemies of the uk. i'm surprised doesn't happen more often. you look at a place called wandsworth that is abject chaos on a day—to—day basis. there are not enough staff on the staff that there are not properly trained. the staff that there are not properly trained. there is also very vulnerable prisoners they are with mental health and drug problems that people have to deal with and it is exceptionally dysfunctional, the process of how they run the place is decades old. the justice secretary, alex chalk, has echoed those concerns, demanding an urgent investigation by the prison service into why daniel khalife wasn't being held in a high—security category a jail. but labour says the government itself has explaining to do. we know that there are huge problems with prisons, and prison places in particular. and, as we've seen, there is now a terror suspect on the loose, having escaped from wandsworth prison. so big questions for the government to answer. in a statement, the prison service said... "an internal investigation is under way, and thejustice secretary is working to understand from operational colleagues both the categorisation decision, and the situation that led to the escape, what protocols were in place, and if they were followed." the police say although they don't believe daniel khalife poses a threat to the wider public, anyone who sees him should call 999 immediately. simon jones, bbc news. earlier this morning, the labour mp for tooting, the constituency in which wandsworth prison is based, told the bbc about the communication she'd previously had she'd previously had with the institution. i was made aware that there were significant staffing shortages. so, i looked about investigating this and actually discovered that in december last year only seven members of staff turned up for a night shift to look after 1,500 inmates. the prison itself was also without water for six days. so there has been ongoing staffing issues at wandsworth prison. now what this meant was that on shifts like that that were so understaffed people were then asked to stay to do double shifts to make up the shortfall. now, undoubtedly, when you have situations like this, things are going to happen, mistakes are going to be made. it is really, really disconcerting that there is now someone on the loose who was able to escape. i actually raised this with thejustice secretary as well many months ago when i was alerted to this. live now to the bbc�*s mark lobel who is outside wandsworth prison in south london. what's the latest on the search for daniel khalife?— daniel khalife? well, 27 hours on, the manhunt _ daniel khalife? well, 27 hours on, the manhunt continues _ daniel khalife? well, 27 hours on, the manhunt continues after- daniel khalife? well, 27 hours on, the manhunt continues after that l the manhunt continues after that unimaginable escape from the building which you can see behind me where daniel khalife, a terror suspect, crawled under a food delivery van and clung onto the underside as it drove out onto the main road. somehow bypassing checks that would normally have seen extended mirror balls ago under the vehicle and checks all round to check as it came out of an airlock unit before it came onto the main road so that escape happened, it is understood that the police officers inside, prison officers inside russia that the police officers inside, prison officers inside russia limerick searching around for a while and inform the police once they had done quick, routine checks and the public was in form just at the afternoon. the appeal from the police is notjust about the public but all police forces around the country and also to all border points such as at dover and airports as well. but the police are still sticking with the latest information they gave us on wednesday afternoon which is that they do not believe, or have not had any reports of sightings of daniel khalife, no report she has left the country and they are working on the assumption at the moment that he is probably still remaining in the london area and of course there is huge scrutiny, as you've just heard, about what is going on inside the prison, how it is being run and the decision that was taken to put a terror suspect in a category b or lower security prison when there are high security options very close to here. . ~ ,, high security options very close to here. . ~' ,, , high security options very close to here. . ~ ,, , . we've heard from the prison 0fficers' we've heard from the prison officers' association this morning who say the government needs to take responsibility for the decimation of the prison service saying wandsworth is a typical example of what life is like for serving prison officers and at 1230 pm on bbc news, we will hear from the prisoners association and the justice secretary alex chalk from the prisoners association and thejustice secretary alex chalk in thejustice secretary alex chalk in the house of commons. meanwhile, there's another ongoing manhunt — this time in the us. a convicted murderer is still at large, more than a week after he escaped from prison in pennsylvania. new footage has emerged. the individual seen here crab walking up a wall going through razor wire and escaping. he was sentenced last week to life in prison for killing his former girlfriend. here's the pennsylvania police department describing the risk posed by the fugitive. we do consider him to be a very dangerous individual. he is convicted of homicide here. he was involved, i am told, in another homicide in brazil some years ago. it's somebody that we think poses a threat and needs to be taken out of the community, needs to be incarcerated. he has the option to surrender. that is what we hope he will do. here in the uk, the former conservative whip, chris pincher, ss standing down as an mp after losing his appeal against an eight week suspension from the commons over groping allegations, which allegedly took place at a club away from the houses of parliament. the decision will trigger a by—election in his tamworth constituency in staffordshire. live now to tim montgomerie, who was a socialjustice advisor to the former prime minister borisjohnson. thank you very much forjoining us. a by—election in tamworth in staffordshire, that must be the last thing the conservative government wants right now.— thing the conservative government wants right now. well, it ends what has been a — wants right now. well, it ends what has been a very _ wants right now. well, it ends what has been a very difficult _ wants right now. well, it ends what has been a very difficult week - wants right now. well, it ends what has been a very difficult week for i has been a very difficult week for the conservative party and there has been this controversy in britain about the use of concrete in schools and a general sense that the prison escape story that you've just been talking about reinforces the idea of the tories not really being the competent party that they traditionally had a reputation for and now another by—election. they have been so many by—elections in this parliament, much more than normal, caused by the resignation of tory mps either through scandal or protest at the current prime minister rishi sunak�*s policies and although the tories have a majority of 20,000 in this seat, normally thatis of 20,000 in this seat, normally that is the kind of amount that you would say is safe, recent history suggests it is anything but safe and this could be yet another loss of a tory seat and another headache for rishi sunak. tory seat and another headache for rishi sunak— tory seat and another headache for rishi sunak. after chris pincher had monitors with _ rishi sunak. after chris pincher had monitors with mike _ rishi sunak. after chris pincher had monitors with mike lost _ rishi sunak. after chris pincher had monitors with mike lost his - rishi sunak. after chris pincher had monitors with mike lost his appeal. monitors with mike lost his appeal —— mac lost his appeal, did he have to resign? -- mac lost his appeal, did he have to resin? ., ., ., ., -- mac lost his appeal, did he have to resign?— to resign? you did not have to but the mechanism _ to resign? you did not have to but the mechanism is _ to resign? you did not have to but the mechanism is that _ to resign? you did not have to but the mechanism is that you - to resign? you did not have to but the mechanism is that you get - to resign? you did not have to but the mechanism is that you get a i the mechanism is that you get a large petition of local voters and they can then force a by—election and what he said is that recent experience including rutherglen in a scottish constituency suggests that the voters are angry enough at the moment to put that petition together and forced the by—election to happen, and i think probably from the prime minister's perspective, he already has a by—election in mid bedfordshire caused by the resignation of nadine dorries. so there will be possibly two defeats for the conservatives in one night but that is probably better than having one defeat and then a month later another defeat, so it gives a chance to clear them out of the way perhaps by the middle of october. and potentially a strange situation for a successor to chris pincher in tamworth because of boundary changes. tamworth because of boundary chances. ~ , , tamworth because of boundary chances. , ._ changes. absolutely. boundary chan . es changes. absolutely. boundary changes still _ changes. absolutely. boundary changes still gives _ changes. absolutely. boundary changes still gives the - changes still gives the conservatives an advantage at the next election of probably another 10-15 next election of probably another 10—15 seats in these boundaries that have been decided by boundary commissions and been in operation since 2019, if so they would have had an even bigger majority of maybe 100 but it's a complicated situation.— 100 but it's a complicated situation. ., ~ , ., , . situation. thank you very much. that's tim _ situation. thank you very much. that's tim montgomery, - situation. thank you very much. that's tim montgomery, former situation. thank you very much. - that's tim montgomery, former social affairs adviser to borisjohnson. let's turn to the war in ukraine, because russia says it has downed several ukrainian drones overnight. one was reportedly intercepted close to moscow, and at least two more were brought down over the southern rostov region. it comes as the us secretary of state, antony blinken, continues a two day visit to kyiv — he's already announced a new aid package of more than a billion dollars for ukraine. just hours before the us announcement, 16 people were killed in what ukraine says was a russian missile strike on a crowded market near the front line of the fighting in the eastern of the country. another 32 people were wounded. and just a warning you may find some of the images in paul adams report disturbing. explosion close to ukraine's eastern front lines, death falls from the sky without warning. two o'clock in the afternoon, a row of shops in the town of kostiantynivka. they're used to attacks here, but not on this scale. in the blast�*s shocking aftermath, a search for the living and the dead. it's not immediately clear what kind of weapon landed here, but shrapnel tore into the road, into cars and people. translation: this is a civilian pharmacy. . at the time of the strike, civilians were here, buying medicines, and this is what happened. ukraine's president, as he has so many times before, sounded outraged. translation: we understand what they are doing. _ they did the same in the past. whenever there is any positive offensive step by ukraine's defence forces, russia targets civilians and civilian infrastructure. this was one of the worst attacks on ukrainian civilians since the spring. and it came as the us secretary of state, antony blinken, was here in kyiv pledging yet more support. president zelensky, fresh from visiting troops at the front, gave his visitor a positive account of ukraine's recent advances. in the ongoing counteroffensive, progress has accelerated in the past few weeks. this new assistance will help sustain it and build further momentum. that may be, but this grinding conflict continues to exact a terrible price. pauladams, bbc news, kyiv. network rail has pleaded guilty over charges related to of health and safety failings, following an aberdeenshire train crash in which three people died. train driver brett mccullough, a5, conductor donald dinnie, 58, and passenger christopher stuchbury, 62, died in the derailment near stonehaven, aberdeenshire, on august 12 2020. six other people were injured, the train hit a landslide and the driver was filled to be warned. network rail says they have introduced more safety measures since the incident. —— the train struck a landslide, which appeared to have been caused by heavy rain. network rail admitted failing to impose a speed resriction or warn the driver, and several other failures over the maintainance of the area. it says it has introduced a number of new safety measures since the incident. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. pet—owners are being invited to contribute to a review of the veterinary industry being carried out by the competition and markets authority. the watchdog is warning that the cost of animal care is rising at a faster rate than other goods and services and people may not be getting value for money. a scheme that provided free heating on prescription to people with underlying health conditions has found it reduced the need to see a gp. sheffield hallam university said it was too soon to say if a wider scheme would save the nhs money. the uk government said it would "keep options under review to further help vulnerable households". the bp—funded scheme has ended. royal mail has unveiled a collection of stamps to mark 70 years since the start of dame shirley bassey�*s career. they include a picture of the welsh singer's performance at the opening ceremony of the 1999 rugby world cup in cardiff. she is the first solo female music artist to be honoured with a dedicated stamp issue. you're live with bbc news. for almost a decade a civil war has been grinding on in yemen — pushing the arab world's poorest country to the brink of collapse. there has been less violence since a temporary ceasefire last year but there is no sign of a deal to end the conflict. yet in the midst of all the death and destruction, there is also resilience. 0rla guerin has returned to the city of taiz in the southwest to see an extraordinary 11—year—old boy she first met two years ago. smiling through. this is ahmed. he's 11 years old and he doesn't let much get in his way. he's heading to the river to get water, a daily ritual. life was tough here, even before the war. but ahmed is a fighter. he's been blind from birth, along with four of his siblings. we've come back to meet him at his home near a front line river. —— we've come back to meet him at his home near a front line. it's very scary, he tells me. we're afraid of gunshots. when fighting starts, we can't go to the park or the valley or anywhere. when was the last time you heard fighting and explosions as well? last night, he says. for ahmed, school has always been a refuge of sorts. this was our first glimpse of him injanuary 2021, leading morning assembly at al wahda primary. it was bombed by the saudi led coalition when it was occupied by houthi forces. ahmed was leading the class atjust nine years old. he had a wish list of repairs for the school, and viewers responded. thanks to him... so this is the new school. ..much has changed. a yemeni donorfunded a new block and a british charity refurbished classrooms. saudi arabia, after years of bombing yemen, is building another school nearby. ahmed is pleased with the results and has plenty of big plans. translation: the rest of the year i want to be a teacher, pilot, engineer, driver or a doctor. do you think you'll be able to do all these things? ha! "sure, i'll do everything. and i'll marry a beautiful city girl and she'll make me biscuits." "the girls here in the village don't know how to make good biscuits." back at the river, ahmed has a few moments of fun. but childhood in yemen is short. he is full of hope, full of promise, and he has already overcome so much. but he is still a child of war. the supreme court in mexico has decriminalised abortion nationwide. the decision comes two years after the court ruled that abortion was legal in one