more than 600 people are so far known to have been killed in a powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake in morocco, with marrakesh among the hardest hit areas. the epicentre was in the high atlas mountains. police have confirmed sightings of missing prisoner daniel khalife in chiswick, west london. in a new description, he is said to be wearing a black baseball cap and a black t—shirt. the african union has been welcomed into the 620 as a permanent member during the opening of the group's summit in delhi. the announcement was made by the host, prime minister narendra modi. you are watching bbc news. let's return now to morocco where an earthquake has killed more than 600 people. the epicentre was in the high atlas mountains — 71 kilometres south—west of marrakesh. but tremors were said to have been felt in the capital rabat. many of the fatalities are said to be in hard—to—reach areas south of marrakesh. earlier i spoke to bbc arabic�*s mohamed taha

about the situation in morocco. as you can see, the numbers of casualties are rising. there are over 600 now. we started with 30. then over 300, and the number is now reaching over 600, and we are unfortunately expecting these numbers will get higher and higher with some estimations that numbers will exceed 1000 very soon. as the report said, the epicentre was out —— outside marrakesh old city, and the epicentre was the on the high atlas mountains, and these mountains are full of poor and old buildings

and villages that will be really difficult to reach. as you can see, the whole attention of the world turns to morocco. condolences and offers of support came from india, from germany, from france, and everybody is trying to stand with and try to offer support to morocco. yes, as you say the area affected is huge. this happened less than 12 hours ago, and lots of countries offering to help. what immediately though is available in terms of rescue efforts from the moroccan authorities? the rescue efforts from the moroccan authorities?— rescue efforts from the moroccan authorities? . ., ~ ., , , authorities? the earthquake happened at 11m last authorities? the earthquake happened at 11pm last night. _ authorities? the earthquake happened at 11pm last night. there _ authorities? the earthquake happened at 11pm last night. there wasn't - at 11pm last night. there wasn't much help at that time. people were

sleeping. they spent the whole night in despair, in shock. the flood to the streets, afraid of aftershocks. the earthquake was felt in a massive area that ranged from the canary islands, from the shores of morocco to neighbouring algeria on the eastern borders of morocco. and now the moroccan authorities are trying to assess what happened. massive damage, we saw pictures of the massive damage of buildings, and massive damage of buildings, and massive destruction. this destruction also affected areas of cultural value like the old walls of

marrakesh and also a very well—known mosque in marrakesh. the united nations has issued a fresh warning that radical changes are needed to stem global warming, including a quicker phasing out of fossil fuels. before we get to that — let's take a quick look at how we got here. in 2015, almost all the world's nations — that's 193 countries plus the eu — signed the �*paris agreement�*. there were several targets — but a key one was to "pursue efforts" to limit global temperature rises to 1.5c. but the un estimates the planet is currently due to warm by 2.4 centigrade above pre— industrial levels — that's well above the target. on friday, the un released the first comprehensive assessment on climate action since that paris agreement was signed — a global stocktake, ahead of climate talks in dubai later this year. here's climate editor justin rowlatt. wildfires raged through southern

europe this summer, made more intense by heat waves that would have been virtually impossible without climate change, according to scientists. but today's un report says it is not all bad news on global warming. virtually all the nations of the world agree on the urgent need to tackle the problem, says the un. and they are already taking some action. the problem is, itjust isn't anywhere near enough. i'm in a place of hope and despair. despair because we have warmed the planet already well beyond one degrees. we are on track for 1.5 and two. these are worrying places to be in. i also have hope because we see how countries are putting together real plans to change their entire economies. but progress is being made. just look at this global thermometer. back in 2010, the un reckoned the world was on track for a temperature increase of 4.8 degrees celsius.

it warned that would be catastrophic by 2015. countries had promised cuts that brought that down to 3.2 celsius. by the end of the climate conference in glasgow in 2021, it was down to 2.7 celsius, and the un now reckons we are headed towards a temperature rise of around 2.6 celsius. but that is still way over the 1.5 celsius target the world has agreed. this is about pace and it's about recognizing that we need to speed things up, whether that's in the uk or indeed across the world. and that's why it comes back down to the appetite of world leaders to recognise the urgency of the situation and be willing to act. but is the appetite there? a rapid switchover to renewable energy will be indispensable, says the un. the uk has made world leading progress on that transition, but today it appeared to falter.

there were no bids for new offshore wind projects because said energy companies, the cash on offer from the governmentjust didn't make it worthwhile, raising questions about the uk's commitment to climate action. justin rowlatt, bbc news. more than 60 people are still missing more than a month after fires devasted the island of maui in hawaii. you may remember these scenes — this the historic town of lahaina, which was mostly destroyed. the death toll currently stands at 115 people, but officials say a final figure is uncertain. more than 6,000 survivors of the fire are still sheltering in hotel rooms. the fires are now considered the worst natural disaster in hawaii state history. speaking earlier, governorjosh green had this message for the survivors. i need to share this with you. the ash, we are told, is quite toxic so we need to be careful. 0nce ash, we are told, is quite toxic so we need to be careful. once the epa has completed its removal of

hazardous materials from affected areas, which is ongoing, and this process will take up to four months, we can begin the removal of other debris. people will get in soon, but the long—term debris removal is going to take a great deal of time. a police officer in the us city of philadelphia has been charged with murder over the fatal shooting of a motorist at a traffic stop. mark dial shot eddie irryzarry at close range as he sat in his car after being pulled over. new body camera footage that has been released is providing important new evidence. john sudworth reports. and a warning, this piece contains potentially disturbing images. captured on surveillance cameras. eddie irryzarry, his car going the wrong way down a one—way street, can be seen pulling over the police in pursuit are there moments later. now, the newly released body cam footage provides a clearer view of what happens next. just five seconds later with a shout of, "i'm going to shoot you, shoot you!",

six bullets have been fired into the car. shots fired, shots fired. mr irryzarry is then pulled out and dragged like roadkill, the family's lawyer says to the police car and rushed to hospital. the initial police claim that he got out of the car himself and lunged at the officers with a knife is now clearly disproven. and the one who fired the shots has been charged with murder. we will not cover up for power. we will not cover up for insider—ism. and we will not cover up for politics, as was, in fact, the practice of previous chief prosecutors in the city of philadelphia for decades. but the new police footage also shows something else, mr irryzarry seemingly with a knife in his hand. this decision today puts police officers in peril at a time when they're dealing with perhaps the most violent time in our city's history. we intend to right this wrong

and bring this young man home. while the legal process takes its course, there have been protests in philadelphia, the questions over police transparency and the use of lethal force once again at the fore. one more life lost, added to the hundreds of others who've died in police traffic stops in recent years. bbc news, washington. let's get some of the day's other news now. a districtjudge in the us state of georgia has refused to allow the case against donald trump's former chief of staff to be heard in a federal court. judge stevejones rejected mark meadows' claims that he was fulfilling official duties when he was accused of trying to reverse the result of the 2020 presidential election. mr meadows is one of 19 people charged in the case — all have pleaded not guilty. the new prime minister of gabon has told the bbc that he hopes democratic elections can be held within two years, following the recent military coup. raymond ndong sima said the generals who seized power last week wanted to hand back power. the hosts france have won

the opening match of the men's rugby union world cup, beating the three—times champions new zealand 27—13. it's the first time new zealand have lost a pool match in the tournament. france have been runners—up three times, but fans hope this is the tournament their team becomes world champions for the first time. with hundreds of thousands of men now serving in its armed forces, and overfive million women having fled the country, there are few families in ukraine that have escaped being split apart by the russian invasion. ukrainian scientists are warning this could have a long term impact on the country's population, with birth rates having plummeted since the war began. but there are young couples who have decided to bring a new life into the world, in spite of the circumstances. 0ur ukrainian correspondent zhanna bezpiatchuk has been speaking to mothers and medical professionals in the town of bucha, the site of some of the wars most horrific atrocities.

39—year—old natalia is a children's doctor in russia, —— bucha — which has gone through the worst kind of mass deaths. discussing the impact of the war on bucha, and her decision to come back immediately after its liberation from the russian occupation, she starts crying just a moment ago. all my life is here. bucha is my hometown. i grew up here. i needed to come back. this doctor used to register ten newborns on average per month. two years into the war, if she gets one or two new patients, she sees that as a sign of hope, which, parents feels a danger is still here. to give birth now in ukraine is an exploit in itself. all mothers are heroic to me. 0ne—month—old mia is the third child for 38—year—old yulia.

she's a quiet child, as if she feels how difficult the situation is for her mum. you just gets more hardened, you get used to attacks and constant air raids. you get stronger. when i found out that i was pregnant, my husband and i decided to give birth to our third daughter. thejob natalia does in the bucha community goes far beyond ordinary health care. after the fear and despair of the occupation. doctors and midwives came back to bucha immediately after the liberation because they were needed by their patients. one of the first signs of the normalization is the birth of children by mothers who had to spend nights in bomb shelters to save their lives and lives of their newborns. yulia says she knew giving birth in wartime would come with many risks.

it's already a standard thing for me to get up at 2am to breastfeed mia, and then sirens are going off. it is so exhausting. doctors are concerned that stress suffered by ukrainian mums might cause their babies delays in speech and emotional disorders. the levels of risks and danger are too high. ukrainian pregnant women experience dual stress. pregnancy is in itself a stress. moreover, they live under constant uncertainty and anxiety and the need to run to bomb shelters. parents in bucha, like anywhere else in ukraine, hope the war willjust be a story in a textbook for their babies. here in the uk, the prime minister rishi sunak says different government departments will deal with crumbling raac concrete in their "own particular way". he added that the decision to close

some school classrooms in england was in response to new information relevant to those buildings. labour has compared the government to "cowboy builders". jon donnison has the report. it can be quite hard. sometimes there's no—one ready to help you. home learning for friends harry and louis. their school in warwick is one of scores that has not been able to fully reopen this week because of concerns over raac concrete. it feels like an extended holiday. it feels like it's a strike day again. they're giving us something to learn, but i feel like we can't learn too much because you might not understand it. and there's not a teacher here to help us. their head teacher is not happy with the government's department of education. 0ver the course of this week, the dfe have ordered us- to close the building. in december, the dft declined a rebuild grant for it, saying i that the building wasn't in high - enough need in order to be rebuilt. so we have applied for a rebuild of this block last year, -

which was declined. and just over a week since the raac concrete crisis came to light. concrete crisis came to light, it's becoming more and more apparent that the problem is not just in schools. glasgow university has had to close the top floor of one of its halls of residence buildings for safety checks. the university of east anglia has also had to shut some of its campus, and the forum theatre in stockport has had to temporarily close its doors. meanwhile, heathrow airport says it's reviewing how it will deal with raac concrete in one of its terminals, although it says it's been aware of the problem for some time. add to that hospitals, court buildings, the list goes on. all of it proving a headache for the government. speaking on his way to the g20 summit, the prime minister, rishi sunak, said each government department would have its own particular way of dealing with raac and would individually follow advice as it relates to their particular estate. labour has accused the government of acting like cowboy builders.

jon donnison, bbc news. for more than nine months, the condition of freddie flintoff has been unknown, after the presenter and former cricketer was in a car crash whilst filming an episode of top gear. today he was seen in public for the first time since the accident, asjoe inwood reports. very little was ever revealed about what happened to andrew flintoff, the cricketer they call �*freddie'. this is the first glimpse we have had of the injuries he suffered in a high—speed crash last december, some of those injuries still visible. he was with the coaching staff to watch the england cricket team play new zealand. 120! this was his post—cricket career. his charisma, game attitude and chemistry with co—hosts paddy mcguinness and chris harris, had helped revive the fortunes of one of the bbc�*s biggest shows. then, the crash at the dunsfold park aerodrome brought it all to a shuddering halt.

freddie flintoff was airlifted to hospital, his injuries unknown. series 3a of top gear was ended. bbc apologised and held an investigation. nothing more was heard or seen of freddie flintoff, until now. fans of the sportsman and tv presenter would be pleased to see him looking well and back where he belongs, at the cricket. joe inwood, bbc news. turning to music now, and the uk is seeing a resurgence in jazz. on thursday night, the band ezra collective won the prestigious mercury prize. the award goes to the best album released in the uk by a british or irish act. david sillito reports. the winner of the 2023 mercury prize, ezra collective! it will be fair to say the ezra collective enjoyed this moment and it was also a chance to say thank you. this moment that we're celebrating right here, it's testimony to good,

special people, putting time and effort into young people to play music, people to play music. do you hear what i'm saying? and this is what he was talking about. meet tomorrow's warriors. this workshop that nurtured the musicians of esra is free and packed with a youthful passion for jazz. jazz speaks to my soul. it's a way for me to express myself, and it allows you to just play through your different experiences. like, if you're going through something, i can speak that through the trumpet in a way that words can't. and for the man in charge of the last 30 years, jazz bassist gary crosby, this is a moment to savour. first it was, oh, my god. it's...a benefit for all of us that are interested in playing this wonderful music, what we calljazz.

but the music that's emerging in and around bands like ezra isn't looking to jazz�*s forties and fifties heyday. this is steam down, which grew out of a club night in deptford in south east london. founded by anansi here, and for him, the music from the scene represented by ezra is jazz, but it's also something more. this is something different. it's music that you can dance to, music that you can socialize to, in a world that you know, most of us don't go to jazz clubs. most of us don't go to sit down, to listen to music, you know, to listen to music, you know. and very much born out of 21st century britain. completely. this is something that could only happen in the uk. in britain, they don't think it can happen anywhere else. it's a combination of... yeah, all of my friends that come from all of these different places.

and it's also a reminder that music education like this is only possible because of a music charity. to see them recognized by the industry and see them recognized by their peers and to see them elevate all of this music that's happening that they've been part of was just such a great moment. for ezra and all the people following their footsteps, this really is a moment to enjoy. david sillito, bbc news. she's the queen of crime writing, but despite her world—wide fame agatha christie managed to keep her whereabouts under the radar. for more than a0 years the author was living in the 0xfordshire town of wallingford, unknown to many residents. today a life—size statue will be unveiled there in her honour, as katharine da costa reports. like the intrigue from one of her novels, agatha christie's

love affair with the market town of wallingford was one of her best kept secrets. agatha christie made wallingford her home. she lived here for more than a0 years, from 193a until her death in 1976. but she was such a private person, many here wouldn't have even known that the queen of crime writing was living in their midst. it was special because it was a place that she and her second husband, who was an archaeologist called max mallowan, actually were able to have privacy to themselves. they were able to live a more normal life. in the town, she only introduced herself to people as �*mrs mallowan�*. not everybody knew that she was agatha christie. i'm from the bbc. may i congratulate you on unintelligible put out by the mousetrap? do you think it is the best player you've written? i don't know! other people seem to think so! while agatha may have shied away from the limelight, her work continues to bring in audiences around the world

with kenneth branagh currently reprising his movie role as christie's famous belgian sleuth hercule poirot. come with me to a seance. spot the con i can't. detective, you are here to discredit me. more than two billion copies - of her books have been published and read around the world, and they are translated - into hundreds of- different languages. she is incredibly well known - and people from all over the world come to visit her grave at cholsey. i they leave little gifts for her, i little mementos, just to say how much they appreciated her writing. now, with permission from herfamily and the aid of an arts grant, the town's ready to celebrate its links to the novelist with a newly commissioned bronze statue. agatha christie is basically a generational — generation to generation, fantastic, iconic, wonderful thing and there it was,

doing really nothing, so along came this project and i think, really, we've had to grasp it and grab it with both hands. it's taken sculptor ben twiston—davies over a year to design and create this life—size statue called a monument to imagination. i imagine that she's sitting in the park and, as we all might do, if you take ten minutes to sit on a park bench and just relax from the kind of busyness of your day, your imagination wanders. she's having a moment of inspiration at that sort of moment of the sculpture, if you like. what do you think she would've made, then, of this bronze statue being unveiled in her memory? she would have hated it, ithink, |actually, to be perfectly honest. | this is the secret that's now out that, actually, | she was a resident in- wallingford for 42 years. this is where she lived, _ where she was an ordinary housewife, and enjoyed having a family life here. i the finished work will be unveiled later today as part of a weekend of celebrations in memory of a local icon. katharine da costa, bbc news.

let me bring you an update on the earthquake which has struck central morocco. state tv is reporting that 820 people are now known to have been killed. the 6.8 magnitude quake struck shortly after 11 o'clock last night, causing buildings to collapse. spain has offered to send rescuers to the quake—hit region. and returning to the g20 summit in india, we can now bring some pictures that have just come into us of uk prime minister rishi sunak meeting indian leader narendra modi. these are the first images of a bilateral meeting between the pair at the summit. the two countries are expected to announce a new post—brexit trade deal, soon. stay with us here on bbc news.

hello. we're likely to see the hottest day of 2023 today, 33 celsius possible and the sixth consecutive day of temperatures in september above 30 celsius. if you're not a fan of heat and humidity, gradually through the weekend it will ease with some thundery showers on their way as well. the satellite image shows a line of cloud. it's a weather front moving on to the north—west but also cloud down towards parts of the bay of biscay, of the bay of biscay. that cloud is going to approach our shores through the weekend and gradually throw us a few heavy showers. one or two showers today for parts of wales, the midlands and parts of northern ireland and scotland, temperatures here in the mid 20s, not as hot as yesterday but 32 or possibly 33 for london on the south east today. with the heat comes the threat of hit—and—miss heavy showers

particularly for east wales, the midlands, up towards lincolnshire with the chance of very localised flash flooding and large hail. but for the majority of us it is going to be very localised. that is the line of cloud and fresh conditions with some rain across the north—west of scotland. mist and fog particularly towards the west and a few showers working in from the south—west but temperatures 17 or 18 degrees overnight at their lowest so it will feel quite muggy. sunday is the great north run and if you're running in that or watching, the weather looks pretty decent, perhaps a bit on the warm side, generally the low 20s. the threat of a thunderstorm, but probably later in the day. sunday morning, those showers should be for wales and the south—west of england. could be one or two for northern ireland and southern scotland later. down towards east anglia and the south east staying dry once again. not as hot as today but still 31 or 32 degrees, the seventh day in a row above 30 degrees, but we are looking at the low to mid 20s further north. heavy, thundery showers overnight are possible for northern ireland and parts of northern england and scotland and more persistent rain in the far north—west, so you might hear the odd rumble of thunder.

towards the south—east really muggy and sticky, and 16 or 17 degrees into monday morning. gradually through next week the orange colours — the very warm muggy air — get squezeed away towards the south and we will start to see something fresher and more welcoming. still a hot day in the south on monday but then we are typically looking at the high teens and low 20s for the rest of the week. bye— bye.

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live from london, this is bbc news. more than 630 people are killed after a powerful earthquake six central morocco. the death toll is expected to rise. uk police confirmed sightings of missing prisoner daniel khalife in west london as the search the fourth day. rishi sunak is greeted warmly by his indian counterpart at the g20 summit in delhi. can a bilateral trade deal be on the cards? hello. welcome. we start in morocco which has been hit by a powerful earthquake. the country's interior ministry says at least 632 people have been killed, with more than 300 injured. residents and tourists — in the city of marrakesh, were forced