Four children were among at least 14 people injured in an overnight Russian air attack on the capital Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said.

Two high-rise residential buildings were hit in the strikes, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, without specifying if they were hit directly or as a result of falling debris.

"Everyone is receiving medical assistance, some have been hospitalised," Kyiv's military administration said in a post on Telegram.

Meanwhile, Russian air defences destroyed a drone heading towards Moscow, according to the city's mayor, Sergei Sobyanin.

The strikes come as US President Donald Trump said that he would only meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin if he knew that "we're going to make a deal", days after plans for the two to meet in Budapest collapsed.

"I've always had a great relationship with Vladimir Putin, but this has been very disappointing," Trump said on board Air Force One, as he began a week-long trip to Asia.

"I thought this would have gotten done before peace in the Middle East," he added.

Trump also said that he would like China to help efforts to end the war in Ukraine.

The US president is due to meet China's President Xi Jinping in South Korea on Thursday.

Ending the Russia-Ukraine war has become a focal point for Trump in recent months, with a ceasefire deal so far eluding him, despite his campaign promises to solve the situation quickly.

A summit with Putin in August failed to yield any tangible results, and Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with Moscow.

"Every time I speak to Vladimir, I have good conversations and then they don't go anywhere," Trump said earlier this week.

However, senior Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev, who met US officials in Washington on Friday and Saturday, told CNN that he believed Russia, Ukraine and the US were close to a diplomatic solution to end the war.

"It's a big move by President Zelensky to already acknowledge that it's about battle lines," Dmitriev said, a reference to the Ukrainian president's description of using current front lines as the starting point for negotiations as a "good compromise".

"You know, his previous position was that Russia should leave completely so actually, I think we are reasonably close to a diplomatic solution that can be worked out," Dmitriev added.

Trump this week said that talks with Putin "don't go anywhere", as he announced new sanctions targeting Russia's two largest oil companies - Rosneft and Lukoil.

A migrant sex offender mistakenly released from an Essex prison was last seen in the Dalston area of Hackney, north London, just before 20:00 on Friday, according to the Metropolitan Police.

CCTV footage released by police shows Hadush Kebatu in a Dalston Square library at around 18:00, wearing a prison-issue grey tracksuit and carrying a white bag decorated with pictures of avocados.

Additional officers have been deployed to locate the Ethiopian national, who was set free weeks after being jailed for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping, Essex, while staying in a hotel.

Appealing to Kebatu, Cmd James Conway said: "We want to locate you in a safe and controlled way."

He added: "You had already indicated a desire to return to Ethiopia when speaking to immigration staff. The best outcome for you is to make contact directly with us by either calling 999 or reporting yourself to a police station."

On Saturday, Conway said the force was "pursuing all lines of enquiry" into his disappearance, adding that Kebatu had access to funds and had sought assistance from members of the public.

Kebatu, who arrived in the UK on a small boat, has made a number of train journeys across London since he boarded a train in Chelmsford at 12:41 on Friday afternoon, before getting off at Stratford, Conway added.

Anyone who sees Kebatu should call 999 immediately, the Met Police said in a statement.

Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy has ordered candidates to be chosen to lead an independent investigation into Kebatu's accidental release.

In addition, new procedures for prisons will come into effect on Monday, mandating additional checks the evening before a release is due to take place.

Duty governors - responsible for the daily secure operation of the prison - will have to confirm the procedure is in place on Monday.

A Sexual Harm Prevention Order was made against Kebatu, when he was sentenced in September, on the grounds the judge agreed he posed a risk of sexual harm to female adults and children.

Earlier, Essex Police - who handed the lead of the investigation to the Met at 11:30 on Saturday - said: "It is not lost on us that this situation is concerning to people, and we are committed to locating and arresting him as quickly as possible."

It is not clear exactly what led to his release, but prison sources have told the BBC prison staff from HMP Chelmsford lead Kebatu away from the prison and towards the train station.

A prison officer from HMP Chelmsford has been suspended, but a senior prison staffer said the error was "down to a series of mistakes, probably because staff are overworked and in short supply".

"It's not just one prison officer who's to blame. That would be unfair," they added.

John Podmore - a former governor of HMP Brixton, Belmarsh and Swaleside, and a former prison inspector - said the error should be seen "in the context of wider failure", adding he hoped a "lower down official is not thrown under the bus".

"I am afraid this is what happens in a broken system and the prison system is broken," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Kebatu's arrest in July sparked protests outside The Bell Hotel in Epping, where he had been living after arriving in the UK.

In September, Chelmsford Magistrates' Court heard Kebatu tried to kiss a teenage girl on a bench and made numerous sexually explicit comments.

The following day, he encountered the same girl and tried to kiss her before sexually assaulting her. He also sexually assaulted a woman who had offered to help him draft a CV to find work.

During the trial, Kebatu gave his date of birth as December 1986, making him 38, but court records suggested he was 41.

He was found guilty of five offences and sentenced to 12 months. He was also given a five-year sexual harm prevention order, which banned him from approaching or contacting any female, and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years.

The court heard it was his "firm wish" to be deported.

It is not clear where Kebatu was being deported to but under the UK Borders Act 2007, a deportation order must be made where a foreign national has been convicted of an offence and has received a custodial sentence of at least 12 months.

Kebatu was arrested on 8 July and was released in error 108 days later. Upon his release he would have been eligible for a £76 discharge payment.

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said the release was a "level of incompetence that beggars belief".

"Conservatives voted against Labour's prisoner release program because it was putting predators back on our streets," she said on X.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said: "He is now walking the streets of Essex. Britain is broken."

A report from His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service said 262 prisoners in England and Wales were released in error between April 2024 and March 2025, up from 115 in the previous 12 months.

A Turkish charity owner at the centre of sexual abuse allegations, brought to light by a BBC investigation, has been arrested.

BBC News Turkish revealed accusations that Sadettin Karagoz sexually exploited vulnerable women, promising them aid in return for sex. He denies all the allegations.

Mr Karagoz set up his charity in Turkey's capital, Ankara, in 2014. Syrian refugees desperate for help said at first he seemed like "an angel".

One of them, Madina, fled the Syrian civil war in 2016 and said that two years later, one of her children became critically ill and her husband abandoned her. Her name has been changed to protect her anonymity.

Left to care for three children alone, she went to Sadettin Karagoz's organisation, which translates as the Hope Charity Store. It gathers donations for refugees such as nappies, pasta, milk and clothes.

"He told me: 'When you have nowhere to go, come to me and I will look after you," she says.

But when she did, Madina says he changed. She describes how Mr Karagoz told her to go with him to an area in the office behind a curtain to get some supplies.

"He grabbed me," she says. "He started kissing me… I told him to get away from me. If I hadn't yelled, he would have tried to rape me."

Madina describes how she escaped from the building but Mr Karagoz later went to her home.

"I didn't open the door because I was terrified," she says, explaining that he threatened to have her sent back to Syria.

Scared of repercussions, Madina says she never went to the police and did not tell anyone else what had happened.

Mr Karagoz, a retired bank worker, denies the allegations and has told the BBC that his organisation has helped more than 37,000 people.

He says that the aid distribution area in the charity is small, crowded and monitored by CCTV so he could not have been alone with any woman.

Over the years, his charity has gained widespread recognition and won a local newspaper award in 2020. It has been featured on national TV, and he says it has attracted support from national and international organisations. In March this year he changed its Turkish name to My Home-meal Association.

In all, three women, including Madina, told the BBC that Mr Karagoz had sexually assaulted and harassed them.

Seven other people, including two former employees of his charity, say they either witnessed or heard first-hand testimony of him committing acts of sexual abuse between 2016 and 2024.

According to 27-year-old Syrian refugee Nada, he said he would only give her aid if she went to an empty flat with him. "If you don't, I won't give you anything," she says Mr Karagoz told her. Again, her name has been changed to protect her anonymity.

She was with her sister-in-law and says they stormed out. But desperate to provide for her family, she explains she didn't know where else to turn, so went back.

On one occasion, Nada says Mr Karagoz took her behind a curtain to get nappies for her son where "he tried to touch my breasts".

Another time, she says that "he came from behind and grabbed my hand… he forced me to touch his genitals".

Afraid of the stigma attached to sexual abuse and scared she would be blamed, Nada says she didn't feel she could tell anyone, even her husband.

The third woman who told the BBC that Mr Karagoz had assaulted her is Batoul, who has since moved to Germany.

A single mother, she too says she went to him for help. "When I turned away to pick up the aid, he put his hands on my backside," she explains. "I left the aid and walked out of the shop."

These testimonies were not the first to surface against Mr Karagoz.

In 2019 and 2025 he was accused of sexual harassment and assault, but on both occasions prosecutors decided there was insufficient evidence to prosecute him. Police said neither victims nor witnesses were willing to come forward to make formal complaints.

Some women told us they were afraid testifying could lead to them being harassed or deported.

But after the BBC investigation, it is understood two other women came forward to report Mr Karagoz, and their testimony resulted in him being charged with sexual abuse. He is now in jail awaiting trial.

Batoul says she is "truly happy" he has been arrested, "for myself and for all the women who have suffered in silence and couldn't speak out because of fear".

She adds that she hopes it "gives courage and strength to all women who are being exploited in any way".

Before he was arrested, we put the allegations made by Madina, Nada, Batoul and charity workers to Mr Karagoz.

He denied all the accusations and claimed if they were true, more women would have come forward.

"Three people, five people, 10 people [could complain]. Such things occur," he said. "If you said 100, 200 [had accused me], then fine, then you could believe I actually did those things."

He also said he had diabetes and high blood pressure and showed us a medical report with details of an operation in 2016 to remove his left testicle. This meant he was not able to perform any sexual activity, he said.

However a professor of urology and specialist in men's sexual health, Ates Kadioglu, told the BBC that having one testicle removed "doesn't affect someone's sex life".

We put this to Mr Karagoz who insisted that sexual activity was "not possible for me".

We also put it to him that sexual assault may be motivated by a desire for power and control. He responded by saying: "I personally don't have such an urge."

"All we did was good deeds and this is what we get in return."

Sadettin Karagoz said women who accused him of assault in the past did so because he had reported them to the police for being involved in illegal activities.

All the women we spoke to denied they or their relatives were involved with crime and the BBC has seen no evidence to suggest that they were.

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A giant mug of instant black coffee and no food is not what you'd expect the host of a wellness podcast to have for breakfast.

Yet it's what Dr Chris van Tulleken, who hosts the BBC's What's Up Docs alongside identical twin brother Dr Xand confesses to having.

"I'm approaching middle age so don't want to eat all day. My way of not eating all day is not eating breakfast," he says.

It's this kind of honesty about not leading the perfect life and struggling with the stuff they know they should do but still don't, that makes them so relatable.

The brothers are both medical doctors who've become household names through their TV and radio work - they present children's series Operation Ouch! and Dr Xand is one of BBC's Morning Live resident experts while Dr Chris is well known for his bestselling book Ultra-Processed People.

On the podcast, they often disagree with each other over competing claims about health and wellbeing, much like they do in real life.

Xand laughs after Chris says it's a hard job working "with a brother like Xand who is so intensely annoying".

But really the brothers love working together and Chris admits that they started the podcast "quite selfishly as we were just trying to answer our own questions".

"But it turns out our problems are similar to everyone else's."

They say the podcast has changed their lives for the better and share what they have changed about their behaviour over the course of more than 30 episodes.

1. Don't obsess over eight hours sleep

Like most of us, the brothers assumed eight hours was the gold standard for sleep and anything less was a failure. Now, they're far less dogmatic.

The brothers say a healthy range of sleep can be anywhere between six and 10 hours.

"There's so much anxiety around getting eight hours but some of the most important things in my life, like raising kids, I've done sleep deprived," says Chris.

Realising that everything from winning wars to completing exams were often done with very little sleep, made them understand that sleep deprivation can sharpen your focus in the short term.

Xand says this helped him "shed all that anxiety" around optimal sleeping patterns and times.

"It no longer dominates my life and I think about it a lot less."

He also feels a lot more comfortable taking naps when needed and says he will sometimes "have a 20 minute sleep if I'm exhausted".

• Am I getting enough sleep?

2. Pause before saying yes or no

The pair both find saying "no" difficult and Xand says it can feel "almost physically painful."

They have now learnt the "power of the pause". If something does not require an immediate decision, they now ask for more time to think about it so they don't feel pressured into saying yes.

Chris says this has helped him have difficult conversations he may otherwise have put off. However, he admits he's still figuring out how to be more forceful.

"I know I should do, but somehow I'm not and I know I need to focus on that."

The podcast episode on this topic also taught them that they needed to work out what their values are and then weigh up whether requests fitted in with those. For Xand, his priority was spending more time with his wife and two sons.

He has since managed to say no to a number of things that he would have otherwise gone along with for an easy life.

"I recently said no to a very big and important work thing even though there was a lot of pressure on me to do it, but it didn't fit with my other commitments and what I wanted to do."

• Should you say 'no' more often?

3. Brush your teeth mindfully

One of the most practical tips that has stuck with the brothers is how they brush their teeth.

The small act has become a mindful task and Xand explains he's totally changed the way he brushes.

"My wife, Dolly, hasn't complained about my bad breath since the episode.

"I use brushes for flossing, hold my toothbrush at a different angle and I don't look at my phone while brushing."

While Chris is shocked that his brother ever used his phone while brushing his teeth, he agrees with how powerful the changes have been.

"It's about the angle of the brush, being more gentle and having a better picture of what you're trying to achieve - you want to clean every surface of every tooth."

• How can I freshen my breath?

4. Willpower doesn't exist

Many people believe that struggling with diet, exercise or breaking habits is down to personal weakness, and Xand shares those feelings.

"I feel lazy and inadequate most of the time.

"I go to Manchester every week and I usually arrive late after a long train journey and I order a takeaway and do no exercise then I beat myself up about it."

Their expert guest on this podcast episode, psychologist Kimberley Wilson, helped Xand understand that "there's no such thing as willpower".

Willpower is not this magic thing inside you, instead your ability to stick to something is "about the way you've arranged the world around you," he says.

For example, by planning ahead and thinking about what you'll have for dinner, you can more easily ditch the takeaway and eat something healthy.

Since the episode, Xand has managed to increase how much exercise he is doing, but still doesn't enjoy it.

"I just get on the exercise bike and have those negative thoughts while I do my workout," he says.

Another simple change he's made is taking a bag of apples with him on his regular commute between London and Manchester, rather than buying unhealthy snacks on the train.

Chris realised willpower wasn't about increasing your tolerance to distress and suffering, but simply being more organised.

"I've started batch-cooking which now releases time for me to do things like read with my daughter."

• How important is willpower?

For all the changes they've embraced, the brothers are the first to admit they don't follow every bit of expert advice.

Take sunscreen, for example. "A dermatologist gave us really good advice," Dr Chris says, "but there's something about the sun that feels so powerful. Academically, we know sun exposure is bad and causes cancer but we still find ourselves drawn to it."

That tension - between what we know and what we do - is at the heart of their podcast.

If there's one thing the doctors hope listeners take away from the show, it's that struggling with health isn't a personal failure.

"So much of your health and well-being isn't your fault," says Dr Xand.

"There are loads of forces trying to take your money, attention and time away from the things that matter. What we're trying to do is sweep that out of the way, help you identify your values and align your life with them."

When Saki Yew stepped off stage at this year's Manchester Pride, she felt "joyous".

The former Drag Race UK queen had spent weeks rehearsing and creating costumes for the performance at the city's Sackville Gardens in August.

It was effort she was happy to make for one of the UK's biggest LGBTQ+ events, and the reaction from the crowd made it worth it.

But when she asked Pride's organisers for her payment, she says there was silence.

The charity behind Manchester Pride went bust this week, leaving dozens of performers, vendors and backstage workers unpaid.

In a statement confirming it had gone into liquidation, bosses blamed a "combination of rising costs, declining ticket sales and an ambitious refresh of the format aimed to challenge these issues".

But some believe repeated warning signs about the sustainability of the event weren't heeded.

Warning signs

Manchester Pride started in 1985 as a two-week fundraising event.

Since then, it's grown in size and influence, becoming the first UK organisation to add black and brown stripes to the rainbow flag to represent LGBTQ+ people of colour.

By 2025 Manchester was one of the biggest Pride events in the UK, alongside London and Brighton's annual celebrations.

With its increasing size came bigger names, including Ariana Grande, Sophie Ellis-Bexter, Anastacia and Zara Larsson.

This year's star-studded line-up featured Nelly Furtado, Olly Alexander, and former Little Mix star Leigh-Anne.

But behind the scenes there were signs all was not well, according to people who worked on this year's event.

Event manager Abbie Ashall had worked for Manchester Pride since 2023, and was a project manager for this year's parade.

She tells BBC Newsbeat many charities were hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, and there was evidence Manchester Pride had also been affected.

Abbie says she was given strict budgets to stick to, and noticed that former colleagues who left were not replaced.

Yet, at the same time, Abbie says, Pride's organisers launched Mardi Gras this year - a two-day, ticketed event at Manchester's high-capacity Mayfield Depot.

Attendees reported that crowds were small, and Abbie says the event was not considered successful.

Contractor Chris O'Connor worked at Manchester Pride for five years as a runner, a role he describes as a mixture of organisation and "troubleshooter-slash-firefighter".

He says working in the run-up to previous Pride weekends had been "a joy", but that 2025 had presented "red flags" and "major issues" for him to resolve from the start.

He believes Manchester Pride, which reported a loss of about £468,000 in 2023, should have had better control of the finances.

'I rely on that money to live'

Both Chris and Abbie say they are still owed money for their work on 2025's event.

In Chris's case, he says not being paid prevented him visiting his son, who has just started university in Ireland.

Saki Yew tells Newsbeat she has "a life outside of drag" and "bills and groceries to pay for".

Like Chris, Saki believes Pride's organisers could have been more transparent about their financial troubles while people waited for payment.

"It's highly disrespectful," says Saki.

"You've kept us in the dark, you've just disrespected every single person on what they do and what they provide for you."

Some suspect the lack of communication from Manchester Pride's organisers over payment is linked to its failed bid to host 2028's Europride.

The international event usually attracts huge crowds, and Abbie believes Pride bosses were banking on "the funding that would have come with that from Manchester City Council and beyond".

When it was announced that Limerick and Clare, in Ireland, had won the bid earlier this month, hopes for potential Europride investment disappeared.

"I think they took a massive swing and it was a miss," says Abbie.

The exact details of the circumstances leading up to Manchester Pride going into liquidation aren't yet known.

However, the Charity Commission, which works to ensure organisations in England and Wales comply with the law, is "assessing concerns" after Pride's bosses submitted a "serious incident report relating to its finances".

There are also questions about future events in Manchester, and what shape they will take.

On the streets of the city, it's not hard to find people who attended this year's Pride and want to see the celebration return.

Kieran, 24, from Oldham, believes "it's something that everyone in Manchester looks forward to".

"It brings all types of culture and people together," he says.

Lexi agrees Pride is "a big part of not only the culture of this city, but so important for the community itself".

"If we don't have Pride, what else do we have?"

Lexi says attending Pride events after she'd just come out was "a really important time" and "it would be horrible for people to lose that opportunity".

'A new chapter'?

Manchester City Council has said it will "support a new chapter for Manchester Pride weekend, which will take place next August".

Lexi is optimistic.

"I would be happy to put my money into something, especially if it's going to go back to the community," she says.

There had been complaints about staging events outside Manchester's gay village and focusing on spectacle over supporting LGBTQ+ causes.

"Maybe there's a way around it in creating a cheaper, more sustainable Pride," Lexi hopes.

But for the workers that may depend on, trust has been lost as well as money.

"This charity is there to platform and support queer artists and practitioners," says Abbie.

"For all of those people to be at a loose end when this is the charity that is meant to raise them up more than anybody - that's where it's deeply frustrating and really upsetting."

The BBC approached Manchester Pride for comment but it did not respond.

In a statement shared on social media, Manchester Pride's Board of Trustees expressed "regret" for delays in communication, but said it was "keen not to jeopardise financial opportunities while our discussions were ongoing".

It said it had hoped to find a way to continue to support those who had contributed, and was "sincerely sorry for those who will now lose out financially from the current situation".

"We have put our hearts and souls into the celebration and community activities over two decades," it added.

"We hope and believe that this leaves a positive and lasting legacy for the Pride movement in Greater Manchester."

Additional reporting by Georgia Levy-Collins.

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