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“They've surrendered their country to vandals,” claimed Donald Trump this week, as videos of protests and looting across France spread across social media and TV news bulletins.

The US president has framed the unrest in France – and similar protests across Europe – as a migration problem. But what’s actually getting people out on to the streets in their thousands?

The BBC’s Europe editor, Katya Adler, joins us to explain how years of discontent and disenfranchisement among young people have coalesced in this period of fiery protest.

At least 64 people have been killed after a Spanish high-speed train collided with another south of the capital Madrid, officials say.

The updated death toll makes the rail disaster the country's worst since 2013, when 80 people died after a train derailed in north-western Spain.

Investigations are ongoing but Francisco Badea, a professor of engineering at Nebrija University, says unacceptable failures in the system likely occurred before the deadly crash.

More than 500 passengers were travelling on the trains involved in Wednesday's collision, the spokesperson for the regional government says.

The Russia-Africa Summit opens in Moscow while the Kremlin seeks to strengthen its foothold across the continent.

All of Stephen Mwiti Joseph’s children are presumed dead after his wife abducted them to follow self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie into Kenya’s Shakahola Forest. A court found Mackenzie guilty of the murder of 191 people, with his cult alleged to have forced children to starve so they could “meet Jesus”.

Tens of thousands of people have fled southern Ethiopia into neighbouring Kenya after fighting erupted between forces from the Oromia and Somali regions in the border town of Moyale. The clashes have reignited a decades-long dispute over territory, grazing land and water resources, forcing families to abandon their homes and seek shelter in schools and other temporary facilities. The Kenya Red Cross says it is organising assistance for at least 30,000 displaced people, many of whom have gone days without food. Refugees describe fleeing under cover of darkness and struggling to access food, shelter, clothing and medical treatment, particularly for pregnant women and children. The conflict has erupted repeatedly since Ethiopia redrew its internal boundaries along ethnic lines in the 1990s, leaving the disputed border around Moyale unresolved. Ethiopian government troops have yet to stop the fighting, while the military faces rebellions in several regions and rising tensions with neighbouring Eritrea. With humanitarian aid budgets shrinking and no sign of an end to the violence, displaced families face growing uncertainty over when they can return home and how long assistance will remain available.

Residents of Taiz, Yemen's third-largest city, are struggling to find fuel and food after the Houthis imposed a siege earlier this month, cutting off supply routes to more than 600,000 people. Hospitals warn they could be forced to suspend services, with the UN reporting 42 facilities already short of fuel needed to run incubators, oxygen supplies and ambulances. Aid agencies say a humanitarian emergency is unfolding as prices for scarce fuel continue to surge.

The rubble of Gaza is now a tomb.

Since the Hamas-led attacks in Israel on 7 October, tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip, many of them women and children. More than 1,400 Gazans have been killed since the ceasefire last October.

The bodies of many of the victims still have not been recovered, with the remains covered under thousands of tons of rubble.

Israel still doesn't allow journalists in, so working with a Gazan filmmaker we've followed efforts to retrieve the thousands of bodies trapped there.

Warning, this report contains distressing images.

Israeli voters are preparing to head to the polls in the country's first general election since the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023.

Tuesday's vote could see Benjamin Netanyahu's lengthy rule end.

Barclays is cutting its staff by around 5,000 as it is increasing reliance on artificial intelligence (AI).

The banking group expects to close what amounts to 5% of its global workforce by the end of this year.

The bank's cost reductions are focused on its UK retail bank, but some back office functions for the UK are done in India, where a significant proportion of the job cuts are expected to fall.

Barclays said the changes were the result of an ongoing modernisation plan, with the use of AI being the "icing on the cake" of its strategy.

The fall of el-Fasher in Sudan in October 2025 was on the most brutal chapters of the civil war that has raged between the government's Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Now, a BBC investigation has found evidence RSF fighters systematically destroyed the city's healthcare system during their long siege and subsequent takeover.

UN human rights chief Volker Türk called the findings "deeply disturbing", saying multiple attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on civilian infrastructure, including health facilities, were serious violations of international humanitarian law and may amount to war crimes.

The RSF rejected BBC's findings. A paramilitary-aligned health minister in Nairobi dismissed the allegations as Sudanese government propaganda.

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he would welcome an "honest discussion" about the prospect of returning to free movement between the UK and European Union.

In an interview with the Sunday Times political editor Ben Riley-Smith, he said a new relationship with Brussels could also include full EU membership or joining the single market.

Ben is in the studio to talk about what the PM told him, along with Laura, Paddy and Joe Pike.

The UN investigates abuses worldwide. But when its own personnel or operations cause harm, who can deliver justice?

From sexual abuse allegations against UN peacekeepers to Haiti’s deadly cholera epidemic and major corruption scandals, the United Nations has faced serious questions about its own accountability.

The organisation investigates governments, documents violations of international law and calls for justice. Yet its own legal protections, internal oversight systems and dependence on member states can make accountability far more complicated.

Why can’t the UN prosecute its own military peacekeepers? How does legal immunity affect victims seeking justice? And who investigates the organisation when its own safeguards fail?

Has Brazil turned back the tide of right-wing, pro-Trump leaders, sweeping across Latin America? Left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won re-election against Flavio Bolsonaro - the son of the jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro, whose family has close ties to Donald Trump. Analysts have described it as a stunning comeback victory, after Lula finished second to Mr Bolsonaro in the first round of voting. Mr Bolsonaro has refused to concede defeat, and is calling for the result of be annulled.

In this episode, we look at how President Lula's campaign turned its fortunes around, and ask what grounds Mr Bolsonaro has to challenge the election outcome. Plus, we'll ask our reporter what Lula's victory means for Brazil's position in an increasingly conservative region, and the country's relationship with Washington.

A truce has begun in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky, where residents have been trapped without food, water and electricity.

Ukrainian officials and Russia's defence ministry say the limited ceasefire is being respected. The truce, which the White House said was secured by US First Lady Melania Trump, is meant to allow aid deliveries and a civilian evacuation on Friday.

But some residents have told the BBC there are concerns the ceasefire will not hold.

The current truce is supposed to allow supplies in and enable roads to be cleared of mines to allow people safe passage out in an evacuation planned to take place on Friday.

With counting almost complete in Israel's first general election since the 7th October attacks by Hamas and the start of the war in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc is in the lead. But neither Mr Netanyahu, nor his main opponent, Gadi Eisenkot, have enough support to form a government. They will now have to seek out fresh political alliances, or coax opposition members onto their side.

We'll take a look at how that could play out, and where this election leaves the Palestinian people. Would a coalition led by Mr Eisenkot take a different tack on Gaza, the occupied West Bank or Palestinian statehood?

Trade between Russia and Africa reached just $27 billion last year — less than a tenth of Africa’s trade with China.
Russia exports five times more to Africa than it imports.
So, beyond the promises, what are African nations gaining from their growing ties with Russia?

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's alliance made up of the right and far-right is short of a majority after the most consequential elections in decades.
Tuesday's poll saw a record turnout. But the main opposition bloc led by former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, also does not have the numbers to form a government on its own.
Meanwhile, Palestinian Israeli parties have made unprecedented electoral gains.
While Netanyahu has refused to work with the Palestinian Israeli blocs, will the opposition alliance reach a deal with them?
Or is cooperation a bridge too far-- while the Israeli military assaults on Gaza and the Occupied West Bank continue?

At least 68 people are dead and dozens injured after two high-speed trains collided in Spain’s Toledo province on the Madrid–Seville line. Rescue teams search wreckage as the PM orders a full probe amid concerns over repeated safety failures.

Days before the UK budget and the Prime Minister Andy Burnham has steered the political debate back towards Brexit.

He says he wants an "honest discussion" about a new relationship with, or even rejoining, the European Union. Including, possibly, a return to freedom of movement.

But the rise of Marine Le Pen's right wing National Rally party in France is raising eyebrows here about Andy Burnham's warm overtures towards the EU.

Iran hosts talks in Tehran with senior military and security officials from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey for talks in Tehran to discuss regional coordination.

US President Donald Trump backs Benjamin Netanyahu to win Tuesday's Israeli election while Egypt approves military support for Saudi Arabia in its fight against the Houthis.

When immigrants can't be deported to their home countries, the U.S. sometimes sends them to other countries. But some deportees end up in places where U.S. judges have ruled they will likely be persecuted.

Yemen’s humanitarian crisis, already one of the worst in the world, is deepening, with continued fighting between government forces backed by Saudi Arabia, and Iranian supported Houthi rebels.

The conflict has intensified in recent weeks as government troops hit back after Houthi attacks on Saudi oil facilities.

The United Nations says there are more than two million malnourished children in Yemen, with the deepening crisis resulting in more than 800,000 unable to get aid. Most of them are in the city of Taiz, which is under siege by the Houthis.

Iranian-state media emphasises the country's readiness for war, amid renewed concerns in Tehran about a return to fighting.

Also in the programme, with the elections in Israel less than a week away, we assess what they could mean for the war in Iran.

And the Houthis' intensified campaign against Saudi Arabia continues, as the kingdom struggles to contain attacks from the Iran-backed group.