The text message came from Dubai with a Santa emoji. "OK lads. No need for luck. Really this couldn't be any more straightforward. Just relax and this will all be over soon."

It was sent to a fisherman from Ukraine and an unemployed man from Teesside who were sailing to the middle of the Irish Sea to collect cocaine from a passing cargo ship, the MV Matthew.

As it turned out, they needed plenty of luck and very little was straightforward.

The two men were part of an audacious attempt to traffic more than 2.2 tonnes of cocaine into the UK and Europe. It ended in failure, with a successful strike against the powerful drug cartels by the Irish authorities.

Eight men were convicted and jailed for a total of 129 years. All of the cocaine was destroyed.

But despite this result, law enforcement agencies across Europe admit they are struggling to stop the growing quantity of cocaine crossing the Atlantic from South America.

The Maritime Analysis Operations Centre (MAOC), which polices the transatlantic drug trade, says 100 ships suspected of trafficking drugs to Europe were not stopped last year because the authorities didn't have enough vessels to intercept them.

"We have the intelligence of the vessel that's crossing the Atlantic... that it's loaded at that time, and still we don't have the interception assets available," its director, Sjoerd Top, tells Panorama.

Up to 600 vessels are monitored by MAOC each day, while record amounts of cocaine are being produced in South America, he adds.

UK users consumed 117 tonnes of cocaine last year, the UK's National Crime Agency reported. The number of cocaine-related deaths has risen ten-fold since 2011.

The drug is usually shipped in large container ships to European ports like Rotterdam and Antwerp. But security has been tightened there, so smugglers are looking for alternative routes.

Many are now using at-sea drop-off methods, unloading bales of cocaine from a "mother" vessel to be picked up by a smaller "daughter" craft and taken to shore.

"We've intercepted tonnes of cocaine in the last six months alone, multiple one, two tonne seizures through this method at sea," Charlie Eastaugh, UK Border Force maritime director, tells us.

But the cartels are unrelenting and have increasingly been targeting Ireland - the only European country with an open border with the UK - as a back door.

'Narcotic superhighway'

Ireland has almost 2,000 miles of coastline, much of it ideal for smuggling, with many hundreds of isolated inlets.

And that coastline is vulnerable. The country's defence forces help combat the cartels. Ireland has the lowest defence spending in the EU, just 0.2 % of GDP. The Irish Naval Service has eight ships but can usually put just two to sea because of a shortage of sailors.

"We have 132,000 square miles of water under our jurisdiction. A responsibility to the EU for 16% of European waters… two ships. It doesn't make any sense," former naval commander Eugene Ryan says.

It is the same with air support. The Irish Defence Forces are supposed to provide the helicopters to help protect the coastline. But Panorama has been told that sometimes they don't have a single one available that can do the job.

"The narcotic superhighway comes right across the Atlantic and one of the first countries it reaches is Ireland. Our territorial waters are a free-for-all really, it's like the Wild West out there," says Cathal Berry, an ex-Irish Army commandant.

The Irish government says it maintains a "continuous presence and vigilance" within its maritime domain. It says funding for defence will increase by €600m (£520m) - a 55% increase over four years - and "significant initiatives... have also resulted in the stabilisation of Naval Service strength".

While the record cocaine seizure on the MV Matthew was a success for the Irish state, it also showed the potential weaknesses in the country's defences.

A group of cartels, believed by law enforcement to be led by the notorious Kinahan organised crime group, bought the cargo ship for around £10m in August 2023.

In mid-September, three men were sent to buy a trawler called the Castlemore in the fishing port of Castletownbere, in the south-west of Ireland.

They were Ukrainian Vitaliy Lapa, Jamie Harbron from Stockton-on-Tees and a Scottish man who had arrived from Dubai - who police called Person of Interest One.

Police were watching as the Scotsman oversaw a €300,000 (£260,000) payment from a building company in Dubai. Panorama has identified him as Glaswegian Stefan Boyd - although it is not known if he played a wider role.

Boyd flew back to Dubai first class, where he is believed to remain. Panorama has been unable to contact him for comment.

Lapa and Habron - who were later convicted - took the Castlemore to sea on Friday 22 September, not knowing that police had fitted a tracker to the vessel.

The police later obtained messages that showed the crew were getting instructions from Dubai.

The Irish authorities tracked the MV Matthew and the Castlemore over the next two days, as the two vessels attempted, but failed, to rendezvous in the Irish Sea during storms. The trawler had engine problems and lost power intermittently.

As the weather worsened, the Iranian skipper of the MV Matthew, Soheil Jelveh, wanted to head north, but his Dubai bosses warned him to avoid UK waters. "The Irish coastguard has VHF only, the British coastguards have boats too," they messaged.

At the time, the Irish navy only had one ship at sea, the WB Yeats. It was, in fact, already tracking the smugglers and awaiting an order to intervene.

On Sunday night, the Castlemore ran aground on a sandbank in the storm and the traffickers on the trawler had to call the Irish coastguard to save them. They were winched to safety by helicopter.

On the MV Matthew, panic had set in. Less than 24 hours later the skipper falsely claimed he had been injured and needed urgent treatment. He too was airlifted to safety by the coastguard, which was unaware of the navy operation.

At hospital, it was discovered Jelveh had more than $50,000 (£37,982) in his bag. He was arrested after jumping off a bed and trying to make a dash out the hospital doors.

Meanwhile, a Filipino man, Harold Estoesta, had taken over as skipper and tried to evade the navy.

Voice messages and texts tell the tale of the next few hours.

A boss in Dubai, calling himself Captain Noah, told the crew to hold their nerve.

"My stress level is near to heart attack. Try to be calm, be calm. Full speed go," he said in a voice message.

But the navy ordered the MV Matthew to redirect to Cork - eventually firing warning shots. The first time since the 1980s.

One recorded exchange gives a sense of the drama, with the new skipper telling the navy, "We are afraid. We will go away because you fire at us. Please do not fire at us. My crew now panicking, crying".

The navy commander responds: "You do not have to be afraid. All I ask is that you proceed to Cork Harbour."

The Irish authorities decided to board the MV Matthew using the Irish Army Rangers Wing, but there weren't any suitable helicopters available.

Five were in a hanger, waiting for spare parts and servicing. The only airworthy helicopter was being used as an air ambulance.

"They had to strip out all the medical equipment, and re-task it for a military tasking," says Cathal Berry, a former deputy commander of the Rangers Wing. Two machine guns were quickly installed.

The bosses in Dubai still did not think the Irish military could stop them.

Captain Noah told them in an audio message, "Guys, please listen to me. 'Til now there is no helicopter for you guys, no commando, nothing. OK, be confident."

The final messages sent to Captain Noah from the MV Matthew were pictures of a helicopter hovering over the ship. Seconds later, the rangers dropped onto the deck and captured the crew.

Against the odds, and despite the shortage of ships and helicopters, the drug bust was a win for the Irish state.

Since then, another four attempts to traffic large quantities of cocaine to the UK have been uncovered by Irish police. But the traffickers are relentless and have huge resources.

"If I was in narco now I'd be rubbing my hands together," says Eugene Ryan, the former commander of fleet operations in the Irish navy.

"If they send 20 tonnes of cocaine on a number of vessels and some get caught, they'll still get 12-15 tonnes in."

Drug trafficking is a growing problem across Europe - and those leading the fight say every country needs to do more to stop it.

Warning: This article contains detailed description of sexual harassment.

It had been a long and tiring day for 23-year-old Eve Robinson who was having after-work drinks with colleagues.

On a summer evening, the pupil barrister was sitting in the outside section of the bar when a barrister she had met only a couple of times before sexually assaulted her.

Speaking exclusively to the BBC for the first time about her ordeal, Eve says: "He put his arm around me and he put his arm up my dress and down inside my tights and when I pulled his arm out he did it again.

"He then put his hand up my dress and onto my chest and again I pulled his hand out and then for the third time he put his hand up my dress and down my tights," she says.

Eve says she froze in shock for several seconds. She rushed to the toilet and locked herself in the cubicle as she tried to process what had just happened. Her heart was pounding loudly.

"To sit there and think why has that just happened to me and that was really difficult. I felt shame. I felt dirty. I felt really uncomfortable and I just felt completely overwhelmed by it, in a really negative way. It was awful and was a complete violation of your personal space, the respect for you, he completely violated that," she says.

One month later, Eve made an official complaint to her then chambers and the matter was later referred to the Bar Standards Board.

A tribunal found that Craig Charles Tipper's behaviour could amount to sexual assault and unlawful harassment. He was suspended from practising law for several months.

The tribunal accepted that he had admitted the allegations early, showed genuine remorse, and had taken action to prevent a recurrence of the conduct.

According to an independent review carried out by Baroness Harriet Harman KC, Eve's experience is not rare.

It concluded there was "systemic sexual harassment and bullying" in and around the Bar. It also found there was a "cohort of untouchables" and trainees felt that reporting bad behaviour was "career suicide".

"There is definitely a power dynamic in law and those who aren't as senior are scared of complaining because it could explode your career. And nobody wants that," another female barrister, who declined to be named, says.

The Bar refers to the legal profession and community of barristers who provide legal advice and argue cases in court. There are 17,864 barristers practising in England and Wales, according to The Bar Council.

The review received more than 170 written submissions, and Baroness Harman also met pupils, junior and senior barristers, and those working in chambers, where barristers share offices, to listen to their experiences.

Some shared how they had been groped, propositioned, shouted at in court, and were left feeling "completely isolated" by what they had been through.

Harman said: "Bullying, harassment and sexual harassment is a problem at the Bar and on the Bench, within chambers and courtrooms, in open court and behind robing room doors.

"It needs to be acknowledged and dealt with to protect future victims. But it is also vital to protect the reputation of the Bar from the stain of misconduct. The Bar is at the centre of the rule of law. It must uphold high standards."

The Bar Council asked Harman, a former leader of the House of Commons, to carry out the review after 2023 research found increasing numbers of barristers were experiencing or witnessing inappropriate and unacceptable behaviours within their chambers, workplace and in courts.

The report found 44% of respondents said they had experienced or observed bullying, harassment or discrimination while working either in person or online over two years.

"When I was 20 where I was the only female, a male barrister asked me if I liked sadomasochistic sexual acts and whether he should demonstrate them for me. Afterwards, he got my mobile number and messaged me, asking me to go out with him," said one woman who spoke to Harman as part of the review.

Another said: "A male barrister at a Manchester set of chambers offered to pay for my Bar Professional Training Course if I engaged in an intimate relationship with him. When I refused, he called me frigid and suggested that it was my fault for asking him to review my pupillage application. I assumed he was being helpful, but I now understand he made similar offers to other female law students."

The review acknowledges that action has been taken to try to tackle the bad behaviour but concluded more needs to be done to bring about real and sustained change.

Baroness Harman made 36 recommendations including:

• Mandatory anti-bullying and anti-harassment training
• A new conduct tsar within the Bar
• A new complaints system
• Banning relationships with junior staff in barristers' offices – including with those on work experience

In the report, Harman writes about a fee-paid judge who had sex in his judicial chambers more than 15 years ago. Paul Kirtley was found to have committed misconduct and issued with a formal warning. He remains on the Bench.

Harman said: "In my view, the courts are a place for the administration of justice not for sexual activity. I cannot see how it is acceptable for a judge to continue on the Bench when he has had sex in his judicial chambers during an adjournment."

The report also exposes bullying behaviour among the highest echelons of the legal field.

A contributor told the review of one judge in the Midlands who "regularly shouts at, and bullies junior counsel". It is alleged this behaviour caused panicked barristers to prioritise the judge's cases over others, leading to delays for others.

In response to the review, chair of the Bar Council, Barbara Mills KC, said: "There is no place for bullying and harassment at the Bar. We're aware of the scale of the problem, but seeing its impact on our colleagues and those aspiring to join the profession in this report makes for uncomfortable reading."

"It is clear from the review that decisive action is required," she added.

You can access a range of support for the issues raised in this article through BBC Action Line.

Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that the state is failing to provide adequate food to Palestinian prisoners, and must take steps to improve their nutrition.

The three-judge bench said on Sunday that the state was legally obligated to provide prisoners with enough nutrition to ensure "a basic level of existence".

Thousands of Palestinians have been held in Israeli jails for years, including over terror charges - and thousands more have been detained since the war began in October 2023.

Talks for a ceasefire have stalled but on Sunday night US President Donald Trump issued a "last warning" to Hamas, urging them to accept a deal to release Israeli hostages from Gaza.

On a post on Truth Social, he said that Israel had accepted his terms, and it was "time for Hamas to accept them as well".

The president wrote that "this is my last warning, there will not be another one!"

Hamas responded in a statement and said it was ready to "immediately sit at the negotiating table" following "some ideas from the American side aimed at reaching a ceasefire agreement".

Trump also told reporters that there would be "a deal on Gaza very soon" and he thought that all the hostages would be returned, dead or alive.

Of the 48 hostages still being held in Gaza, as many as 20 are believed to be alive.

Israel has yet to formally respond to a deal that would see the release of some hostages, but has previously demanded the return of all the hostages in any agreement.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists total victory over Hamas will bring the hostages home.

Pressure has been growing on Netanyahu in Israel, where thousands took to the streets on Saturday to call for an end to the war in Gaza and urge the prime minister to agree to a deal to free the remaining hostages.

Despite international calls for Israel to halt its offensive in Gaza, Netanyahu has said the IDF will intensify operations in and around Gaza City.

Reports from health officials in Gaza said that at least 87 people had been killed over the last 24 hours.

Israel has also refused to grant the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) access to Palestinian detainees since the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, in which some 1,200 people died.

Israel launched a massive retaliation campaign to destroy Hamas which has resulted in the death of at least 64,368 Palestinians, according to figures from the Hamas-run health ministry. The UN considers the figures reliable, although Israel disputes them.

Human rights groups in Israel have long criticised prison conditions, and brought a petition last year alleging that changed food policies were causing prisoners to suffer malnutrition and starvation.

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), which was one of the groups that brought the petition, posted on X after the verdict, calling for it to be implemented immediately.

Palestinian detainees released back to Gaza had previously told the BBC they were subjected to mistreatment and torture at the hands of Israeli military and prison staff.

Israel's Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir lashed out at Sunday's ruling on 'X', writing that Israeli hostages in Gaza had no Supreme Court to protect them and he would continue to enforce the "minimum conditions required by law" on "imprisoned terrorists".

As Israel intensified its assault over the weekend, the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) struck another high-rise building in Gaza City on Sunday - the third to be destroyed in three days - alleging that the building was being used by Hamas. This has been denied by the Palestinian interior ministry.

The Al-Roya Building was struck by an air raid on Sunday, the third multi-storey building in Gaza City to be targeted by the Israeli military in as many days.

The Sussi Tower was destroyed on Saturday, and the Mushtaha Tower on Friday.

Evacuation warnings were issued to residents of the building and those in surrounding tents ahead of the strike.

A spokesperson for the IDF said the Al-Roya building housed Hamas intelligence-gathering equipment, and numerous explosive devices had been placed by Hamas "near the building".

The Palestinian Ministry of Interior denied the claims, and said the "false and baseless" allegations were being used to justify what it called Israel's "crimes against civilians".

A South Korean worker who witnessed a massive immigration operation at a car factory in Georgia has told the BBC of panic and confusion as federal agents descended on the site and arrested hundreds.

The man, who asked to remain anonymous, was at the factory which is jointly owned by Hyundai and LG Energy when agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 475 people, including 300 South Korean nationals, with some being led away in chains.

He said he first became aware of the Thursday morning raid when he and his colleagues received a deluge of phone calls from company bosses. "Multiple phone lines were ringing and the message was to shut down operations," he said.

As news spread of the raid, the largest of its kind since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, the man said panicked family members tried to contact the workers.

"They were detained and they left all their cell phones in the office. They were getting calls, but we couldn't answer because [the office] was locked," he said.

According to US officials, some workers tried to flee including several who jumped into a nearby sewage pond. They were separated into groups based on nationality and visa status, before being processed and loaded onto multiple coaches.

Some 400 state and federal agents had gathered outside the sprawling $7.6bn factory complex, which is about half an hour from the city of Savannah, before entering the site at around 10:30 on Thursday.

The 3,000-acre complex opened last year and workers there assemble electric vehicles. Immigration officials had been investigating alleged illegal employment practices at an electric vehicle battery plant that is being built in the compound.

The operation ultimately become the largest single-site immigration enforcement operation in the history of Homeland Security investigations, officials said, adding that hundreds of people who were not legally allowed to work in the US were detained.

BBC Verify has been reviewing footage posted on social media and apparently filmed inside the battery plant.

One video shows men lined up in a room as a masked man, wearing a vest with the initials HSI - Homeland Security Investigations - and holding a walkie-talkie, tells them: "We're Homeland Security, we have a search warrant for the whole site. We need construction to cease immediately, we need all work to end on the site right now."

BBC Verify met the worker, who is legally entitled to work in the United States, in Savannah, the nearest city to the massive car factory.

The man said he was "shocked but not surprised" by the immigration operation. He said the vast majority of the workers detained were mechanics installing production lines at the site, and were employed by a contractor.

He also said a minority of those arrested had been sent from head office in Seoul and had been carrying out training, which the BBC has not been able to confirm.

The man said he believed nearly all the workers had some legal right to be in the US, but were on the wrong type of visas or their right to work had expired.

The BBC has contacted both Hyundai and LG Energy for comment.

In a joint statement released after the raid, Hyundai and LG energy said they were "co-operating fully with the appropriate authorities regarding activity at our construction site. To assist their work, we have paused construction."

Hyundai also said that "based on our current understanding, none of those detained is directly employed by Hyundai Motor Company".

It added it "is committed to full compliance with all laws and regulations in every market where we operate".

BBC Verify has also contacted the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for comment and for more details about exactly why the workers were detained and what they were doing at the plant.

On Friday, the day after the raid, the ICE agent in charge of the operation, Steven Schrank said all 475 detainees were "illegally present in the United States".

He said they were workers "who have entered through a variety of different means into the United States, some illegally crossed the border, some that came in through visa waiver and were prohibited from working, some that had visas and overstayed their visas".

The raid, dubbed by officials "Operation Low Voltage", targeted an electric battery plant which was being built on the same site as an existing Hyundai car factory.

ICE has released footage of the raid showing federal agents arriving in armoured vehicles and lining up workers outside the factory, with some shown chained together before being loaded onto coaches.

Other images show two men in a river apparently trying to escape, and another man being hauled out of the water by agents who are speaking to him in Spanish.

The worker we spoke to said he had sympathy for those who had been detained, but he said a crackdown was not a surprise under the Trump administration. "Their slogan is America first, and if you work in America legally, you won't have an issue," he said.

The man said the time and administrative hurdles involved in obtaining US visas had encouraged foreign companies to cut corners in order to finish projects on time, but they might now need to reassess.

"I mean, after this happened, many companies will think again about investing in the United States because setting up a new project might take so much longer than before," he said, adding that many of those who were detained were specialists and finding local workers to replace them would not be easy.

When the BBC visited the site over the weekend there were few visible signs of Thursday's raid, although two security teams asked us to move on as we filmed from the side of the road.

The electric car factory in Ellabell, Georgia is a huge complex that dominates the landscape and has been a major source of employment since the project was announced in 2022.

Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Kemp has hailed the $7.6bn complex, describing it as the largest economic development project in the state's history.

The impact of the venture has been reflected in the resurgence of the Korean American Association of Greater Savannah. "It's a growing community," said Cho Dahye, the association's president.

Ms Dahye, who became a US citizen in the 1980s and is also known by her American name Ruby Gould, said the ICE arrests had left people shocked.

She hopes the raid on her doorstep would not have a wider impact on US-South Korean relations. "It's very shocking to me and the image of a global, well-known company," she said.

Additional reporting by Aisha Sembhi

A former Army Sergeant Major has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage female soldier who took her own life after being left terrified by the incident.

Royal Artillery Gunner Jaysley Beck, who was 19, was found dead in her barracks at Larkhill in Wiltshire on 15 December 2021.

She had filed a complaint against Battery Sergeant Major Michael Webber after he pinned her down and tried to kiss her at a work social event.

An inquest into Gunner Beck's death earlier this year determined the Army's handling of the complaint played "more than a minimal contributory part in her death".

Webber, who has since left the Army, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault at a pre-trial hearing last Friday. He is now awaiting sentencing.

In a statement, Gunner Beck's mother, Leighann McCready, said: "We are relieved that Michael Webber has admitted his guilt and not put us through the trauma of yet more legal proceedings, but nothing can undo the devastating loss of our beautiful daughter Jaysley."

Gunner Beck reported the assault, despite attempts by superiors to persuade her not to. Her mother said she had done "everything right".

"She reported the assault immediately, not once but twice."

She said the Army's chain of command had failed her daughter by not reporting the sexual assault to the police.

"If they had done that one simple thing, we believe with all our hearts she would still be with us today," she added.

At the inquest, the coroner said Capt James Hook put pressure on Gunner Beck to drop the allegations, and only reported it to a higher command "when the cat was already out of the bag".

The inquest heard a subsequent "miscommunication" through the chain of command meant details of of Webber's attempt to touch Gunner Beck's leg were lost.

Rather than being reported to the police the incident was recorded as "inappropriate behaviour unbecoming of a warrant officer".

At the time, BSM Webber was given a "minor administrative action interview" with no further consequences.

Just weeks after the assault, the inquest heard that Gunner Beck had also been subjected to "relentless harassment" by another soldier.

Bombardier Ryan Mason, her line manager, sent her more than 4,600 text messages confessing his feeling for her, along with a 15 page "love story" detailing his "fantasies about her".

Following the inquest in February, Gunner Beck's family asked Wiltshire Police to consider criminal proceedings against Mr Webber.

In June, the force passed a file to the Service Prosecuting Authority who then confirmed that Mr Webber would be charged with the offence of sexual assault.

He pleaded guilty to the charge at a pre-trial hearing on Friday.

The Army has already apologised to Gunner Beck's family for "letting her down".

Following the inquest in February, it said: "We could have, and should have done more."

The Army says it has now introduced clear and unequivocal policies to state there will be "zero tolerance to unacceptable sexual behaviours".

Emma Norton, the solicitor acting on behalf of Gunner Beck's family, said it was an enormous relief that the man who had sexually assaulted her had now pleaded guilty.

But she added: "What an enormous difference it would have made if the Army and its chain of command had just listened to Jaysley when she first told them about the assault and reported it to the police, instead of trying to persuade her it wasn't that serious."

If you or someone you know has been affected by the details raised in this story, advice on where to find help and support can be found at BBC Action Line.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will meet her counterparts from the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in London on Monday to discuss efforts to tackle people-smuggling.

Mahmood will meet with members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, in her first major engagement as home secretary.

The talks come as 1,097 people arrived in the UK in small boats on Saturday - Mahmood's first full day as home secretary - one of the busiest days on record.

That brought the total number of people arriving in the UK by small boat to more than 30,000 this year, according to Home Office statistics, a number that Mahmood described as "utterly unacceptable".

The number of people arriving in the UK by small boats this year is up by 37% on last year, according to analysis by the PA news agency.

The meeting with Five Eyes partners comes days after Mahmood was appointed to her new role, following a cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

Sir Keir has told his new cabinet to "go up a gear" in delivering on pressing issues for voters, according to Defence Secretary John Healey.

Healey confirmed that the government is looking at expanding the use of military sites to house asylum seekers, as it looks to move people out of so-called asylum hotels.

He confirmed officials were also considering other types of "non-military accommodation".

Enver Soloman, chief executive of Refugee Council, criticised the plan, saying that "the solution is faster, fairer decisions and safe housing in communities, so refugees can work, study and rebuild their lives".

US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem will be among the officials attending the talks in London, which Mahmood said will also address ways to tackle child sexual abuse online and the spread of deadly synthetic opioids.

European leaders will visit the United States on Monday or Tuesday to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine, Donald Trump has said.

The US president added that he would also speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin "soon", as well as signalling that his administration was ready to move to a second phase of sanctions on Moscow.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the sanctions were the "right idea", and urged European nations to stop buying Russian energy.

It comes as Russia launched its largest aerial bombardment on Ukraine of the war so far, killing four and hitting Ukraine's main government building in Kyiv for the first time.

After the attack, during which Russia fired at least 810 drones and 13 missiles at Ukraine, Trump said he was "not happy with the whole situation".

"Certain European leaders are coming over to our country on Monday or Tuesday individually," Trump said. It was not clear to whom Trump was referring.

Russia has intensified attacks on Ukraine since Trump and Putin held a summit in Alaska last month.

Speaking to ABC News, Zelensky said that European partners continuing to buy Russian oil and gas was "not fair".

He added: "We have to stop [buying] any kind of energy from Russia, and by the way, anything, any deals with Russia. We can't have any deals if we want to stop them."

Zelensky also welcomed Trump's plans to impose secondary tariffs on countries that trade with Russia - aimed at frustrating Moscow's ability to fund the war.

"I think the idea to put tariffs on the countries who continue to make deals with Russia, I think this is the right idea," he said.

Russia has sold around $985bn (£729bn) of oil and gas since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in March 2022, according to the think tank the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.

The biggest purchasers have been China and India. The EU has dramatically reduced - but not completely stopped - purchases of Russian energy. In June, Brussels laid out plans to end all purchases by 2027.

Last month, the US imposed tariffs of 50% on goods from India as punishment for continuing to buy Russian oil. The Indian government has said it will continue to pursue the "best deal" on buying oil for the economic interests of its population.

And at a meeting in Beijing last week, Russia said it would increase supplies of gas to China.

Zelensky's intervention comes as the OPEC+ group of oil producing nations, which includes Russia, has again agreed to increase production, a move which will put downward pressure on oil prices.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told NBC's Meet the Press that the US was looking for more support from the EU to impose secondary tariffs on countries that buy Russian oil.

Bessent said that if EU nations increased sanctions and secondary tariffs on countries that buy Russian oil, "the Russian economy will be in total collapse, and that will bring President Putin to the table".

He added: "We are in a race now between how long can the Ukrainian military hold up, versus how long can the Russian economy hold up."

Margaret has lived in a different country from her husband for the past 15 years.

She lives in London and he lives in Australia. The travelling between continents means the time she and Peter see each other ranges from once a year to every 18 months.

Despite the distance and the time between visits, they remain a faithful and happy couple.

"I've made a whole set of new friends and I live in my cosy flat in London alone. So I've done all of that while still staying married, it's been a wonderful experience," she told Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.

Living in a different home to your partner isn't that unusual, the term even has its own acronym - LAT - to describe couples "living apart together".

But, the proportion of people married or in a civil partnership living apart is very low at 3%, according to official figures.

Margaret believes you can still have a fulfilling marriage, even when you don't share a home.

Many high-profile couples have also spoken openly about choosing to live apart.

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow and her writer and director husband Brad Falchuk spent the early part of their marriage in separate homes which Paltrow said helped keep the relationship fresh.

Model Ashley Graham and her husband Justin Ervin lived apart for many years in a long-distance relationship as did actor Helena Bonham Carter and director Tim Burton during their 13-year relationship.

Recently, Abbott Elementary actress Sheryl Lee Ralph revealed that she and her husband have been living on opposite coasts of the US for almost 20 years as her work requires her to live in Hollywood and her husband, as Pennsylvania's state senator, needs to be in Philadelphia.

For Margaret, life was very different 15 years ago. She lived in Australia and didn't work outside the home and looked after her four children, while her husband Peter was a full-time doctor who was financially responsible for the family.

When she turned 57, Margaret went back to university, graduating with a PhD in applied linguistics.

After finishing her studies, and the children had left home, she believed this was time to do something different, and decided to move to London.

"It became obvious that Peter and I had different goals for that stage in our lives. He wanted to stay in the family home, continue working, whereas I saw it as an opportunity."

She is now an Education Officer at the Royal College of Surgeons.

"I've got onto the career ladder when most people are thinking of retiring.

"Yes you can get a full time job at the age of 60 if you want. Yes, you can live in another country and do all of these exciting things, even move to a different continent."

But Margaret stresses it hasn't all been smooth sailing for the couple.

"On a personal level, the disadvantages are, for Peter, that he's still living in the same family home in Brisbane, and he doesn't socialise that well on his own, and he may feel a bit lonely there. And for me, the disadvantage is the lack of companionship; I don't have that."

She says the key to making it work has been talking regularly.

"I tell Peter everything about my life in London, my work, my new friends, my travels.

"It's given him another dimension in life, the same for me when he comes over to London, he loves it."

Woman's Hour listener Kerry, said she'd been with her partner for three years and they'd agreed at the start to never co-habit as a way to keep their "freedom and independence".

"We bought houses close to one another and have housemates to help with the mortgages."

They do eventually plan to marry and even then Kerry says she wouldn't change their living arrangements.

"It works incredibly well for both of us and feels like the strongest relationship either of us has had as a result."

Ammanda Major, Clinical Quality Director for Relate at Family Action, says that this arrangement is not for everyone, but for married couples set on living apart, it can have benefits.

"It provides some space, some place to go back to where you can maintain your own interests, maintain their own sense of identity."

"It can be a useful way of supporting people to feel that whilst I am married to you, I have my own space, I have my own interests, and that I come together with my spouse when that feels appropriate for us."

How to live apart and stay together

• Be firm that this is a decision both parties really want, not to feel pressured because it suits one partner and not another
• Have some ground rules in place that have been fully discussed
• Check in regularly to make sure both parties feel it is still working
• This could mean discussing what days are spent together, managing a sexual relationship or managing children if they are involved
• Have very clear communication with your partner at all times

Advice provided by the Clinical Quality Director at Relate, a relationship counselling service.

France's parliament – deadlocked for a year and more poisonously divided than it has been in decades – looks set to throw out yet another prime minister on Monday.

But the acute sense of drama surrounding this latest vote of confidence inside Paris's Assemblée Nationale is counterbalanced by a despondent consensus that the almost inevitable removal of 74-year-old François Bayrou, after nine relatively ineffectual months in office, will do nothing to break France's political stalemate.

"It's a disaster. The situation is absolutely blocked," veteran political commentator Bruno Cautrès told the BBC.

Others have been even harsher in their diagnosis.

Marine Le Pen, parliamentary leader of the hard-right National Rally party, accused Bayrou of committing "political suicide".

The prime minister, a consensus-seeking figure from south-west France with a tendency to frown and to bluster, initiated Monday's surprise vote himself, seeking, as he explained it, to "shock" politicians into agreeing on a way to tackle the country's looming debt crisis.

Describing France's spiralling national debt as "a terribly dangerous period… a time of hesitation and turmoil", Bayrou warned there was a "high risk of disorder and chaos" if parliament failed to back his austerity budget with its aim to slash government spending by €44bn (£38bn).

Bayrou says young people will be saddled with years of debt payments "for the sake of the comfort of boomers", if France fails to tackle a national debt of 114% of its annual economic output.

But Bayrou's gamble – variously characterised as a kamikaze gesture, a pointless Cassandra-like prophecy, and an attempt to end his political career with a heroic act of self-sacrifice – looks almost certain to end in failure later on Monday.

Despite some frantic last-minute discussions, it appears clear Bayrou simply doesn't have the votes.

At the heart of this "crisis" – a word that seems to have spent an entire year dominating French newspaper headlines – is President Emmanuel Macron's widely derided decision, in June 2024, to call a snap parliamentary election in order to "clarify" the balance of power in parliament.

The result was the exact opposite of clarity. French voters, increasingly unhappy with their brash, eloquent young president, edged towards the extremes, leaving Macron floundering with a weakened minority centrist government, and a parliament so divided that today many rival MPs cannot even bear to shake each other's hands.

So, what next?

Far from the parliamentary power struggles on the left bank of Paris's River Seine, the mood across France appears to be drifting towards the right and the far right.

"Jordan, Jordan," shouted several hundred people crowding around the 29-year-old leader of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, as he arrived at a large agricultural fair in Chalons-en-Champagne, east of Paris.

For an hour, Bardella inched through the crowd, taking selfies with his admirers.

"He seems like a good bloke. Someone you could get a drink with. France is struggling. We pay too many taxes, and we don't understand how they're spent. And prices keeping rising," said Christian Magri, 44, a computer programmer.

"[Bardella] is going to overhaul our country. I'm not at all racist, but I feel that in France we already have a lot of people waiting for housing and we can't take in all the wretched of the world," said a woman named Christine.

"He's a handsome man. His ideas are good. There are too many immigrants coming here. Mr Bardella… wants to put French people first," said Nadine, 61, who, like many others in the crowd, declined to give her surname.

At some point, in the crush, I managed to reach Bardella and asked if he thought that – after Monday's confidence vote - there might be another snap election that could see him emerge as France's next prime minister.

"We're working on it. This country has been deadlocked for over a year. It is dangerous to leave France drifting like this and to let those who've been in power for decades destroy the country. We want to do our best to stop mass immigration into France. If we come to power tomorrow, we will implement a referendum on the issue of immigration," he said.

And yet few in France believe that President Macron will call another early parliamentary election, or indeed that he will step down from his own role before his term ends in 2027.

More likely is another attempt to find a path towards a functioning minority government. Having repeatedly tried to cut deals on the right, some wonder if Macron might try something new.

"We think that it's time for the president to give the left a try because we will have a different method. We will try to reach compromises. We've proposed a budget that will make savings but also make investments for the future, for a green transition… while also taxing the richest persons on their fortunes," said Arthur Delaport, a Socialist Party MP from Normandy.

While speculation continues about who Macron might chose as his next prime minister, other challenges are looming.

There is growing focus here on the prospect, not just of significant industrial action in the coming weeks, but of a wave of street protests. A fledgling grass-roots movement, calling itself "Let's Block Everything," has been active on social media, urging French people to bring the country to a standstill this Wednesday.

"There is a bubble of exasperation in the country," explained the commentator, Bruno Cautrès, offering a warning to Macron.

"Macron has been extremely, extremely active at the international level, particularly with Ukraine these last two weeks. And I think that it is time that Macron is talking to the French. Because…. there is a very high level of anger, frustration, tensions."

The UK's most senior trade unionist is calling on the government to demonstrate "whose side it is on" following the Labour reshuffle.

The General Secretary of the TUC, Paul Nowak, will tell his annual conference in Brighton today that the government must do more for working class communities.

He will argue that Labour's promise of change at the last election doesn't feel like "a lived reality".

He will say that the Labour government needs to make what he calls "the right political choices" to persuade voters that it is on their side.

He will call for the two child benefit cap to be lifted - paid for by new taxes on wealth.

There is a similar message from Sharon Graham, the leader of the Unite union - though her warning to Labour has financial as well as political consequences.

At her own union's conference in the summer, delegates voted overwhelmingly to re-examine its relationship with Labour.

She has now told the BBC that at a future Unite conference, there will be an opportunity to sever a long-standing link which is worth around £1.3m a year to Labour.

She said: "Instinctively, workers don't feel that Labour is on their side. We will be giving our members the opportunity to vote on whether to remain part of Labour when the time comes.

"If that vote was today, I think they'd vote to disaffiliate. There's no doubt about that in my mind."

Ms Graham predicted that Reform UK would be the chief beneficiaries if Labour failed to improve standards of living. She argued that "unless Labour do something quite radical", then "they are going to find themselves in huge difficulty."

She added: "They've got about a year to get this right. And if they don't do that, people will start moving away from them, and I don't believe they'll go back."

The warnings come as the leader of the UK's biggest trade union Christina McAnea said it would be a "huge mistake" for the government to water down its Employment Rights Bill, which is due to become law in a few weeks.

The legislation would be a major shake-up of workers' rights, including protection against unfair dismissal and a ban on "exploitative" zero-hours contracts.

McAnea said she is concerned that ministers are no longer committed to implementing the bill in full, following Angela Rayner's resignation and the cabinet reshuffle.

Labour has said it is delivering the biggest uplift in workers' rights in a generation and that wages are now rising faster than prices.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said that the next phase of government will focus on "delivery, delivery, delivery" of its promises.

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The UK government will unveil a new Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS) on Monday, backed by £250m in funding, to support regional economic growth and boost innovation in the defence sector.

Defence Secretary John Healey will launch the strategy during a visit to Bristol-based defence tech firm Rowden on 8 September, to open its new facility.

The government says the strategy will offer working families across the country new opportunities such as highly skilled engineering positions or apprenticeships for young people.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the plan would "unleash the power of local economies while securing our country".

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The government anticipates that up to 50,000 new defence jobs could be created by 2035.

At the heart of the strategy are five new Defence Growth Deals, aimed at unlocking the potential of local economies across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The £250m fund will be used in collaboration between local authorities, businesses, academia and the defence sector to support job creation, skills development, and innovation.

"These deals offer a new partnership with UK Defence to build on industrial and innovation strengths that regions already hold," said Healey. "Together we aim to drive an increase in defence skills, SMEs and jobs across all four nations."

The first Defence Growth deals will be in the following areas:

• Plymouth – With £4bn of naval investment over the next decade, Plymouth will become the UK's national centre for marine autonomy.
• South Yorkshire – A hub for advanced materials and steel production for defence, including specialist components for submarines and weaponry.
• Wales – A growing centre for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and autonomy research, supported by companies like Tekever and the Snowdonia Aerospace Centre.
• Scotland – Hosting innovation in maritime and space technology, with key clusters around the Clyde, Rosyth, and academic centres.
• Northern Ireland – A leader in cyber security and dual-use technologies, home to firms like Thales and Harland & Wolff, and Queen's University Belfast's Centre for Secure Information Technologies.

The DIS also aims to respond to evolving global threats, such as the war in Ukraine, underscoring the need for rapid innovation and industrial capacity to support national security.

With defence spending set to rise to 2.6% of GDP by 2027 - and an ambition to reach 3% - the government says the DIS is a long-term investment in both security and a high-growth economy.

Huge crowds gathered at Tunisia's port on Sunday to welcome Greta Thunberg as her aid flotilla, bound for Gaza, docked at the port.

The Swedish climate activist is travelling with 350 pro-Palestinian activists on boats stocked with aid that they are hoping to deliver to Palestinians in Gaza.

Pictures from the Sidi Bou Said port show hordes of people surrounding the 22-year-old as she addressed the crowd. "We all know why were are here," she said. "Just across the water there's a genocide going on, a mass starvation by Israel's murder machine."

Israel has repeatedly denied that there is starvation in Gaza and has blamed any hunger on Hamas and aid agency failures.

Last month a UN-backed body confirmed that there was famine in the territory and the UN's humanitarian chief said it was the direct result of Israel's "systematic obstruction" of aid entering Gaza.

French-Palestinian Member of the European Parliament Rima Hassan was at the port.

"The Palestinian cause is not in the hands of governments today. It is in the hearts of peoples everywhere," she said, adding praise for those who stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Flotilla organisers have said that the aim of their mission is to "break Israel's illegal siege on Gaza", but the trip has not always been smooth sailing - a previous attempt in June was intercepted by Israeli forces.

This latest attempt started on Monday, when the flotilla of about 20 vessels set sail from Barcelona.

The group will now stay in Tunisia for a few days, before resuming the journey to Gaza, Reuters news agency reports.

"Some of the flotilla ships bound for Gaza has reached Sidi Bou Said port in Tunisia, where it will be expanded, loaded with additional aid, and joined by the Tunisian team for the next stage of the mission," the collective group of activists Global Sumud Flotilla wrote on X.

Israeli authorities have characterised Thunberg's previous attempt to sail aid to Gaza as a publicity stunt that offered no real humanitarian assistance.

In March, it introduced a nearly three-month total blockade on supplies entering the Strip, claiming the aid was being taken by Hamas. It started allowing a limited amount of aid back into the territory after increasing international pressure.

Sky-watchers around the world have been witnessing a striking Blood Moon - a phenomenon that happens when the Moon passes through the Earth's shadow, taking on a deep red hue.

The captivating display was visible in its totality in several countries around world.

The TUC has urged the government to "stay on course" in delivering its Employment Rights Bill.

The bill would be a major shake-up of workers' rights, which would include protection against unfair dismissal, and a ban on "exploitative" zero-hours contracts.

Speaking at the TUC congress in Brighton, TUC general secretary Paul Novak told the BBC: "I am confident that the government will deliver on its commitments to enact that employment rights bill in full."

This comes as a senior Labour MP told the BBC that the Employment Rights Bill risks being ''slow walked''.

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The MP warned: ''Many Labour colleagues fear that with the economy under strain, ministers may be tempted to drag their feet on implementation as an olive branch to business.''

Concern is coming from unions on the right of the trade union movement, not the usual suspects who might be expected to criticise the government.

Mr Novak said the bill "will give a massive boost to rights for millions of working people in this country, lots of whom are in insecure, low-paid employment".

"My message to the government is, stay on course, deliver the employment rights bill, and deliver it in full," he said.

He also pushed back on the idea the government could make concessions to business in the legislation

"I think that's the last thing government should countenance", Mr Novak said.

"Having people in well-paid, secure employment is good for everybody. It's good for workers, but it's also good for the good employers who are being undercut by the cowboys, and it's good for the UK economy".

At the Trades Union Congress, senior union figures have been voicing their concerns that the Bill will be watered down following the departure of Angela Rayner, the sacking of Justin Madders as Employment Minister and the decision to move Jonathan Reynolds from the Business brief to Chief Whip.

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The union is concerned that an amendment to the Employment Rights Bill, which was added by the House of Lords in July, could be adopted by the government.

The amendment seeks to change the Bill from a requirement for an employer to offer guaranteed hours to a right to request guaranteed hours by an employee.

The union is concerned that this would be a weakening of their members' rights because there would no longer be a right to a contract that reflects their normal hours of work.

The Federation of Small Businesses has told the BBC that Angela Rayner's resignation and the government reshuffle present an opportunity to 'fix the issues' with the Employment Rights Bill.

"In some of our recent polling of members, 92% of employers said they were worried about this legislation. We have never got to that level in a poll", said Craig Beaumont, director of policy at the FSB.

"They are overwhelmed by the changes that are coming. They don't have HR teams. All these different measures scare them, and this is a chance to fix the issues"

Mr Beaumont said that Rayner's resignation and the sacking of employment minister Madders - two key government supporters of the bill - could allow for some compromise.

Microsoft's Azure cloud services have been disrupted by undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, the US tech giant says.

The company said Azure users would experience delays because of problems with internet traffic moving through the Middle East. Azure is among the world's leading cloud computing platforms.

Microsoft did not explain what might have caused the cuts to the undersea cables. It added that it had rerouted traffic through other paths.

Over the weekend, there were other reports suggesting that undersea cable cuts had affected the United Arab Emirates and countries in Asia.

An update posted on the Microsoft website on Saturday said that Azure traffic going through the Middle East "may experience increased latency due to undersea fibre cuts in the Red Sea".

It stressed that traffic "that does not traverse through the Middle East is not impacted".

Cables laid on the ocean floor transmit data between continents and are often described as the backbone of the internet.

On Saturday, NetBlocks, an organisation that monitors internet access, said a series of subsea cable cuts in the Red Sea had affected internet services in several countries, including India and Pakistan.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Company said in a post on X that the cable cuts occurred in waters near the Saudi city of Jeddah and warned that internet services could be affected during peak hours.

On Sunday, NetBlocks said services were also disrupted in the United Arab Emirates.

Undersea cables can be damaged by anchors dropped by ships but can also be targeted in attacks.

In February 2024, several communications cables in the Red Sea were cut, affecting data traffic between Asia and Europe.

The incident happened about a month after Yemen's internationally recognised government warned that the Iran-backed Houthi movement might sabotage the undersea cables in addition to attacking ships. The Houthis denied that they had targeted cables.

In the Baltic Sea, a series of undersea cables and gas pipelines have been damaged in suspected attacks since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Earlier this year, Swedish authorities seized a ship suspected of damaging a cable running under the Baltic Sea to Latvia. Prosecutors said an initial investigation pointed to sabotage.

Police in the Czech Republic have finally arrested the driver of a Formula 1-type racing car which had been spotted on the motorway on numerous occasions since 2019.

The red racing car, decked out in full Ferrari livery, was followed to a property in the village of Buk, some 60km (37 miles) south-west of Prague, after the latest sighting was reported to police.

Video emerged on Sunday morning showing the distinctive car driving along the D4 motorway and stopping for petrol.

The driver - a 51-year-old man - was arrested at his home and taken into custody after briefly refusing to get out of the vehicle.

Video footage captured by local media showed him sitting in the car in front of his garage, arguing with officers and saying they were trespassing on private property.

Eventually he relented and agreed to be taken to a police station for questioning - still wearing his red racing driver's outfit and helmet.

According to subsequent media reports he refused to answer any questions when he got there.

A man identified as his son told local media that the house had been surrounded by several dozen police cars and a helicopter, in what he said was a disproportionate response "to a supposed traffic violation of ours."

He said police "allegedly saw us towing a Formula 1 car which they claimed had been speeding along the motorway a few minutes earlier - of course we know absolutely nothing about this."

Police first managed to speak with the phantom F1 driver in 2019, when images and video of the car on the motorway first started to appear online.

They tracked down the vehicle and questioned its owner, who denied ever driving it on the motorway. It is unclear if that is the same person police have now arrested.

Because the driver wore a helmet in the videos and photos, they could not be identified and police were unable to take the matter any further.

The vehicle has frequently been described as "a Ferrari Formula 1 car".

However, according to the website auto.cz it is in fact a Dallara GP2/08 - a racing car developed by the Italian manufacturer Dallara for use in the GP2 Series, a feeder series for Formula One.

The contest has since been rebranded as the FIA Formula 2 Championship.

Regardless of its exact provenance the owner now faces a fine for driving a vehicle on the motorway without headlights, indicators or number plates.

Siren sounds have blared from mobile phones across the country in a test of the national emergency alert system.

At around 15:00 on Sunday, mobiles vibrated and sounded for about 10 seconds in the second test of the system.

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said "tens of millions of phones successfully sounded" in the test, which he said was "an important step in keeping people safe during national emergencies".

Sporting and other events had to adjust for the alert. The women's Rugby World Cup match between Ireland and New Zealand in Brighton paused mid-game, while theatre-goers were advised to turn off their phone before curtains up.

Mobile phone users received a message making clear that the alert was a drill.

The alarm happened between overs at England's third ODI cricket match against South Africa at Southampton. Fans had been warned via a message on the big screen about the alert.

Drivers were urged not to be distracted behind the wheel.

Video posted on social media shows the siren sounds blaring inside the usually tranquil British Library in London. One patron can be heard whispering "shush".

At the BBC, the alert was covered in a live broadcast as presenters checked to see whether their phones were sent the alert.

The system appeared to reach into the tunnels of London's Underground system. A couple said they received their alerts while on a tube train heading towards Liverpool Street Station.

Mark, 44, of Essex, told the PA news agency: "We were on the Tube. It came through twice for me. The whole Tube carriage's phones started going when we got signal."

His partner Abby said no one appeared surprised.

Some people did seem to experience problems with the test. The BBC's science reporter Esme Stallard and other users received a garbled message with her alert.

But a government spokesperson said the alert message "was broadcast correctly and mobile operators have confirmed that the test ran as expected".

The first national test in 2023 was largely successful, although there were some reports of no alerts being sent, or too late.

The government has used the system to issue real warnings five times, including in January during Storm Eowyn to warn people in Scotland and Northern Ireland about severe weather.

Approximately 3.5 million people across Wales and south-west England received an alert during Storm Darragh last December.

A 500kg unexploded Second World War bomb found in a Plymouth back garden triggered a warning to some 50,000 phones in February last year.

Messages can be targeted to relatively small areas to pinpoint those at risk.

Around 15,000 phones were alerted during flooding in Cumbria in May 2024, and 10,000 received a warning during flooding in Leicestershire in January this year.

The system is designed for use during the most likely emergencies to affect the UK and warnings would also be transmitted on television, radio and locally by knocking on doors.

Government officials also met domestic violence charities and campaigners for discussions on helping those who needed to opt out of the test.

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London Underground staff have started a five-day walkout over pay and conditions.

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union are carrying out rolling action over pay and fatigue management, and have asked for a 32-hour week.

There will be limited service until 18:00 BST on Sunday and little or no service between Monday and Thursday. The Elizabeth line and the Overground will operate as normal but are expected to be much busier, along with buses and roads.

Transport for London has offered a 3.4% pay rise and said it "welcomes further engagement with our unions", but said a reduction in the contractual 35-hour week "is neither practical nor affordable".

A separate dispute on the Docklands Light Railway will stop services on Tuesday and Thursday.

As various parts of RMT membership walk out on different days, London Underground services will not resume before 08:00 on Friday.

The last Tube strike to close the whole network took place in March 2023.

Last year, the mayor of London used £30m of Greater London Authority funds to avert a Tube strike at the last minute.

He was later accused of misleading the London Assembly over the figure until it appeared in budget papers and unions had been briefed.

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Former Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas waved an emotional goodbye to cycling, with his final ride in his home city.

The former Whitchurch High School pupil won the iconic French race in 2018, along with Olympic gold in Beijing, China, in 2008 and London in 2012.

But he was on more familiar terrain on Sunday, taking part in his final race - the Tour of Britain, which ended in Cardiff.

The final 122.2km (76 miles) stage started at the velodrome in Newport named after the 39-year-old and where crowds turned out to cheer him. It also passed his childhood cycling club, Maindy Flyers, before it ended in his hometown.

"A a whole club we're extremely proud, we've been fortunate that we've had a number of youngsters who have come through this club and who've gone on to achieve Olympic golds, world records world championships," said co-chairman of Maindy Flyers Alan Davies.

"But Geraint was the first, he was the one who showed the others the way.

"This is Geraint's legacy within cycling in Cardiff."

Mr Davies said it was almost 30 years to the day that Thomas first began cycling at Maindy, joining in late 1995.

He was his first coach, and in testament to the effect he has had on the sport in the city, many young riders are present to pay tribute to him.

"He's inspired so many children to join Maindy, it's just great what he's done," said 10-year-old Gwen.

"It's his last year and he's done really well."

Imogen, 12, said it gives her "a nice feeling" to know he started his career at the club.

"And then he went on to be an Olympian, Tour de France winner, and then is finishing his last race here," she added.

Raima used to go on bike rides with her dad, and "really liked beating him", with the success of Geraint Thomas allowing her to dream.

"It gives you a sense of hope and brings everyone together - it makes you want to do better," she said.

Speaking after the race Thomas said he had expected a good atmosphere for his final ride, "but this is something else".

He added it was "bonkers" that Newport's velodrome, where the race started, was now named after him.

He said fellow Welsh rider Nicole Cooke inspired him, and recalled thinking at the time "if she can do it, why can't other Welsh people do it", adding that the thought of young children looking at him and thinking that was "strange, but really nice".

He added that riding along Ben Swift was emotional.

"Swifty, who I started racing with when I was 12 [years-old] - we're 39 now, that's a long time.

"To ride in to the finish with him, I just broke down."

Thomas added that one of the most special moments of the ride in Cardiff was having his son Macs old enough to remember it.

"That's what gets me, I never thought I'd still be going when he's at the age to remember.

"I thought I would've stopped a couple years ago, so its nice that he can enjoy it."

His final race also featured a custom-made jersey carrying the name of those closest to him, along with a drawing by Macs.

"There's a lot of teammates, current and ex-teammates, Swifty, Mum and Dad - its nice.

"And on the back, Macs designed a picture. Apparently its me on the top step, so that's good."

At least two people have been killed and 11 injured in a new Russian overnight drone attack on Ukraine's capital Kyiv, local officials have said.

One of the victims was a one-year-old baby, whose body was pulled from the rubble, Kyiv's military administration head Tymur Tkachenko said Sunday. A young woman is also believed to have been killed.

Russian strikes were also targeted at Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown in central Ukraine, where three infrastructure facilities were hit. Air raid warnings were activated overnight for all of the country's regions.

The fresh attack came as Russian President Vladimir Putin has been hardening his warning on the West not to aid Ukraine.

Overnight, several multi-storey residential buildings were partially destroyed and continued to be ablaze after direct hits.

"The Russians are deliberately hitting civilian facilities," Tkachenko said, urging Kyiv residents to remain in shelters.

City authorities said residential buildings were hit in the western Svyatoshynkyi and south-eastern Darnytskyi districts.

There were multiple explosions in Kyiv in the early morning, including at least one in the city centre, seen by the BBC. Several cruise missiles also targeted the capital.

Russia's military has not commented on the reported drone strikes.

Earlier this week, Putin rejected Western proposals for a "reassurance force" in Ukraine the day after any ceasefire comes into place, following a Paris summit aimed at finalising plans for security guarantees.

French President Emmanuel Macron said 26 of Ukraine's allies had formally committed to deploying troops "by land, sea or air" to help provide security the moment fighting was brought to a halt. He gave no further details.

Putin sought to quash the allies' initiative, warning that any troops deployed to Ukraine would be "legitimate targets".

Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and Moscow currently controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory - including the southern Crimea peninsula illegally annexed in 2014.

Police say 890 people were arrested at a demonstration in support of the banned group Palestine Action in London on Saturday.

The majority of the arrests were for supporting a proscribed group under the Terrorism Act, while the Metropolitan Police said there were also a "significant" number of arrests made "after the protest turned violent".

The government proscribed Palestine Action under anti-terrorism legislation in July, making membership of or support of the group a criminal offence, punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

The number of arrests at the London demonstration has risen from the 425 announced on Saturday.

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The next time you travel from the UK to Europe, you might notice some changes.

The EU's much-delayed new digital border system, the Entry/Exit System or EES, will be gradually introduced this autumn.

The system is meant to strengthen security and ultimately make travel smoother, but there are concerns it could lead to long queues when people first register.

What is EES and where is it being introduced?

EES is a digital system designed to keep track of when non-EU citizens enter and leave the Schengen Area.

This covers 29 European countries - mainly in the EU - which member citizens can travel across freely without border controls.

It includes many popular destinations for UK travellers, such as France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece.

EES will eventually replace the current system which requires individual passports to be checked and stamped by a border officer.

When will EES start?

After being postponed several times, the European Commission confirmed in July that EES will begin on 12 October. It will be phased in gradually over six months.

At Dover, coach passengers will start using the new system on 12 October, followed by other tourist traffic on 1 November.

At Eurostar terminals, EES will be introduced more gradually.

Only a small number of business travellers will be invited to use the new system from 12 October. More passengers will be directed to use it over subsequent months.

Eurotunnel, which runs vehicle shuttles through the Channel Tunnel, is also expecting to introduce EES in stages from 12 October.

EES should be active at every Schengen border crossing point in all 29 participating countries by 10 April 2026.

What will passengers have to do under EES?

The first time they use the new system, people from most non-EU countries - including the UK - will have to register biometric information while having their passport scanned.

This may be done with a border officer, depending on where people travel to.

Flight passengers will register when they arrive at their destination airport.

But registration will be done as you leave the UK if you are crossing the English Channel by ferry from the port of Dover, taking the Eurotunnel shuttle to France, or getting the Eurostar train.

At these places, passengers will have to follow the instructions on kiosks - automated machines installed in dedicated areas.

The machines will scan each passport, then take fingerprints and a photo.

Children under 12 won't have to provide fingerprints. Staff should be on hand to help.

The machine's screen will also present travellers with four questions about their trip, such as confirming where they will be staying and that they have enough money.

Eurostar has installed 49 EES kiosks in three areas around its London St Pancras terminal. Passengers will use them before presenting their ticket at the departures area.

But it says all passports will continue to be stamped manually until EES is fully rolled out in 2026.

Eurotunnel, which runs vehicle shuttles through the Channel Tunnel, has installed more than a hundred kiosks at each side.

A mobile phone app has been developed to enable passengers to do part of the process before reaching the border. However, this won't be widely used when EES is first introduced.

The EES registration will be valid for three years, with the details verified on each trip during that period.

What are the concerns about the introduction of EES?

Concerns have repeatedly been raised that the time it takes to complete the registration process could lead to big queues, particularly at space-constrained Dover.

The port of Dover previously planned to give ferry passengers tablet devices so they could register inside their vehicles. However, a source told the BBC that Dover now plans to also use kiosks.

During the initial transition period, the port will be able to temporarily stand down EES if queues get too long, and revert to manual passport stamping.

Eurostar hope its decision to limit EES initially to some business travellers will help to avoid any significant queues.

What is ETIAS and when is that coming?

The EU is also introducing a new visa waiver system linked to passports called the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS), which will build on the EES.

Citizens of non-EU countries who don't need a visa to enter the EU - including people from the UK - will be able to apply online for authorisation before they travel.

ETIAS isn't due to start until the end of 2026, but the final date has not yet been confirmed.

It will cost €20 per application, and will be valid for three years.

People aged under 18 and over 70 will need to apply, but won't have to pay.

In May 1989, Dame Anna Wintour did something that would become a hallmark of her time as editor-in-chief of US Vogue: She put a pop star on the cover.

Just a year into her tenure as the top of the magazine's masthead, Dame Anna had already made a name for herself as an editor who instinctively understood the zeitgeist. She was the first to put a model in jeans on Vogue's front, and now, Madonna.

"If it was edgy to do jeans for November 1988, I think it was even edgier for her to do Madonna," says Amy Odell, author of Anna: The Biography.

For Marian Kwei, a stylist and Vogue contributor, this move speaks to Dame Anna's ability to make Vogue "relevant to our times, make it contemporary, make it accessible".

"Before, it was women who could buy couture who were interested in what Vogue had to say," she says. "But Dame Anna realised the need to reach out to the kids listening to Madonna."

Now almost 40 years later, Dame Anna is preparing to hang up her Manolo Blahnik's, sort of – while she will no longer be editor-in-chief, she will remain on as global editorial director. Down the hall will sit her heir, the 39-year-old Chloe Malle, who is stepping in as head of editorial content.

While some have attributed her continued presence as a sign of unwillingness to cede total control, one could also see it as a recognition of her unmatched place in the fashion industry, and the fear that should she go entirely, this print magazine – already a relic to some – will lose its remaining clout.

Once, fashion magazines like Vogue ruled the industry. They didn't have to fight for attention so much as just decree from on high what was and wasn't "chic".

Whether you still see – or ever saw – Vogue as an arbiter of good taste, or reflection of our times, depends on who you talk to.

"I think it's more relevant than people want to admit honestly," Odell says.

For Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, the founder and editor-in-chief of academic fashion publication Vestoj, less so. When she was a teenager growing up in Sweden, "Vogue represented the world out there, something glamorous and different and the wide horizons that I was striving for."

But she stopped reading it 25 years ago.

Today, print magazines are fighting for survival in an increasingly crowded, fast-paced landscape – a monthly publication loses a lot of relevance in a by-the-minute digital world.

"There's no one magazine that is relevant in the way Vogue might have been relevant in the 80s," says Cronberg.

"There are so many other vehicles for culture today," she adds, like TikTok and Instagram.

All this will be factoring into Malle's thinking as she takes on the job of head of editorial content. She reportedly plans to put out issues less frequently, centred around themes or cultural events rather than months. She says she wants to lean into the idea of Vogue in print as something to collect and cherish.

One of the ways that Dame Anna has kept Vogue a part of the conversation is by expanding the people she invited onto the cover.

Since Maddona's debut, Dame Anna has placed royalty, politicians, pop stars, writers and gymnasts on the cover.

"She definitely bridged fashion and entertainment as editor-in-chief of Vogue," says Odell.

It wasn't always well received. When Dame Anna put Kanye West and Kim Kardashian on the cover in 2014, "it sparked so much debate", says Kwei.

"Nobody really wanted to dress [her] because she was a reality star."

Looking at the almost mythological position the Kardashians have gone on to occupy, the cover spoke to Dame Anna's uncanny ability to anticipate culture – as well, arguably, as drive it.

But whether Dame Anna remains the right person to be at the helm, and whether the magazine can withstand increasing financial pressures, remains to be seen.

It is a far more corporate world than it once was.

Her decision to spotlight Lauren Sanchez, the now-wife of Jeff Bezos, also sparked accusations that the magazine was selling out. It was read by some as more about celebrating wealth and luxury than style. Interestingly, it was Malle who apparently organised the story on the power couple's wedding and was dispatched to write it.

Vanessa Friedman, chief fashion critic of The New York Times pointed out in a recent article that "while elite weddings are a hallmark of Vogue, they almost never made its cover, and Ms Sánchez Bezos seemingly had neither the celebrity nor modelling credentials that usually merited cover treatment." The couple's presence at Donald Trump's inauguration also drew criticism from some - and contributed to the cover's backlash, especially on social media.

Dame Anna, who has supported Democratic candidates in the past, has over the years featured Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Jill Biden and, most recently, Kamala Harris. It feels pertinent that whether or not she will invite Melania Trump to be on the cover has been the subject of much discussion – and continues to be, even as Malle steps into the role.

But Vogue can arguably withstand more of this kind of criticism than most because of its fabled history. As Lauren Sherman, the fashion journalist who broke the news of Malle's appointment, tells the BBC: "The Vogue brand stands apart, and is one of the most important fashion brands in the world."

A large part of Vogue's standing in the world is wrapped up in Dame Anna's own - the enigmatic editor-in-chief of fashion, with her instantly recognisable bob and her unknowability.

She has maintained a certain relevancy for the title almost by being the relevancy.

"Anna has been able to stay relevant despite all the various eras we've lived through simply by being as synonymous with culture, fashion and beauty as possible," says Kwei.

This, despite being criticised for being late to make Vogue more diverse compared to other sections of the industry.

"She's a mainstream celebrity figure," says Odell. "What other editor has had a book and an iconic movie made about them? You know, she's been played by Meryl Streep!"

For Cronberg, she is "a brand in and of herself at this point".

So what next?

"I think we're about to see how much of the relevance of Vogue comes from Dame Anna," says Odell.

While Malle may have inherited the magazine's prestige, "it'll be up to Chloe and her team to see if they can use it wisely to influence the way the culture moves," says Sherman.

Ellie Violet Bramley is a freelance writer and former Guardian fashion and lifestyle editor.

More than 15,000 people have taken to the streets in Israel to call for an end to the war in the Gaza Strip and urge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a deal to free the remaining hostages.

Families and supporters of the hostages still being held by Hamas thronged Jerusalem's Paris Square, with others gathering in Tel Aviv.

Of the 48 hostages still being held in Gaza, as many as 20 are believed to be alive.

Israel has yet to formally respond to a deal that would see the release of some hostages, but has previously demanded the return of all the hostages in any agreement. Netanyahu insists total victory over Hamas will bring the hostages home.

Hamas took 251 hostages back to Gaza after its attack in southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which some 1,200 people died.

Israel launched a massive retaliation campaign to destroy Hamas which has resulted in the death of at least 64,368 Palestinians, according to figures from the Hamas-run health ministry. The UN considers the figures reliable, although Israel disputes them.

Voices of protest on Israeli streets and international demands from some of Israel's allies to stop its military offensive in Gaza have been growing steadily.

Yet all the signs are that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is preparing to intensify the war, as the Netanyahu government vows to gain full control of the Gaza Strip and finally defeat Hamas.

On Saturday night, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem saw some of the biggest protests in recent months calling for the release of remaining hostages and an end to the war.

Within earshot of Netanyahu's residence in the city, speaker after speaker called for Israel's prime minister to strike a deal with Hamas that would see the safe return of their loved ones, almost two years after their abduction.

Among the many family members with angry messages for Netanyahu was the mother of Matan Angrest, an IDF soldier being held in Gaza.

"This is not a threat, Mr Prime Minister. If something happens, you will pay for it -this is a mother's word," shouted Anat Angrest, according to the Times of Israel.

Many protesters say the expansion of the war will further endanger the hostages' lives.

If Netanyahu, indeed, was in his nearby Jerusalem home, the appeals from parents and supporters appear to be falling on deaf ears.

Israel's beleaguered but resolute prime minister has shown no sign of ending the war even though many former military leaders have repeatedly said the IDF has probably achieved as much as it can militarily in Gaza, without further endangering the lives of hostages and exacerbating the desperate humanitarian crisis there.

That is a view, reportedly, also held by many serving army generals but they are now being asked by their government to prepare for a huge land incursion to overrun Gaza City and the rest of the war-damaged Palestinian enclave.

Netanyahu's Defence Minister Israel Katz has repeatedly taken to social media in recent days, posting videos of high-rise buildings in Gaza City being blown-up with the blunt message that this was just the start.

Israel justifies the destruction of Gaza's most prominent buildings because it says they are used by Hamas as "command and control centres".

It denies accusations of implementing a "scorched-earth" policy - the systematic destruction of public buildings and homes to make Gaza practically uninhabitable.

Katz had earlier threatened to "open the gates of hell" as Israel warned Gaza City's residents to leave for the so-called "humanitarian enclave" of al-Mawasi further south.

But nowhere in Gaza can realistically be described as "safe" and al-Mawasi has itself been repeatedly targeted by Israeli air strikes in which dozens of people have been killed - many, including several children, in the last week.

It is against this backdrop that many of Israel's allies have repeatedly called for an end to the fighting in Gaza and an urgent return to ceasefire negotiations.

"We are extremely concerned about the humanitarian disaster in Gaza and that's why we repeat our calls for Israel to stop the military offensive," said Denmark's Foreign Minister, Lars Rasmussen, on a visit to Jerusalem on Sunday.

That message was politely ignored by his Israeli counterpart, Gideon Sa'ar, who not so subtly warned that the intention of some European nations to recognise soon Palestinian statehood would be counterproductive and could have dire consequences.

Asked by a reporter where the Netanyahu government stood on highly controversial proposals to annex the Occupied Palestinian West Bank, Sa'ar said: "We've had discussions on this issue with the prime minister and there will be a decision. I don't have to elaborate."

The foreign minister also said he had recently spoken to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio about the matter, amid other reports citing US officials, including Mike Huckabee - the high-profile US ambassador to Israel - who indicated that the Trump administration would not "tell Israel what to do" if it chose to declare sovereignty over much of the West Bank.

If that did happen, tensions in an already divided region would move up a notch or two.

The number of dead in Gaza continues to rise as Israel's position hardens.

At least 87 people were killed over the last 24 hours in air strikes across Gaza, according to local officials.

The Gaza health ministry also reported that five people had died during the same period, including three children, from famine and malnutrition.

Against this backdrop, Netanyahu digs in deep.

"If I have to choose between victory over our enemies and evil propaganda against us - I choose victory, " said the prime minister on Sunday as he made clear Israeli troops were "deepening manoeuvres" around and inside Gaza City.