you are live with bbc news. straight to breaking news, you may remember that bbc investigation last week where this man, wanted by police forces in several countries, including the uk, has been arrested including the uk, has been arrested in the north of iraq. he was arrested this morning. if you remember that investigation last week, the bbc tracked down and confronted one of your�*s most wanted people smugglers. he has been on the run for over a year and until that investigation, no one knew his location. the bbc tracking him down, talking to him about the people come across the channel for several years. he and his gang controlled much of their people smuggling

trade, in boats and lorries across the channel. the arrest has been welcomed in the last few minutes by the nca and also by the belgian authorities. so news that barzan majeed, also known as scorpion, has been arrested this morning. i mentioned that bbc investigation that was done by sue mitchell. we will speak to sue in the next few minutes on that break —— breaking development. millions of indians are voting in the fourth phase of the seven week long general election. polling is being held for 96 seats, largely covering southern and eastern states. prime minister narendra modi is seeking a third straight term in a contest that pits his bjp against an alliance of more than two dozen opposition parties led by the congress party. voting is also taking place in srinagar, the main city

in indian—administered kashmir, for the first time, since mr modi imposed direct rule on the region in 2019. our correspondent in delhi, samira hussain, explained exactly where the votes are taking place, and the key issues in each region. we're looking at about ten different states that are currently voting. some, as you rightly pointed out, in the south. and then of course there's the territory ofjammu and kashmir that are also voting. and by the time this fourth phase is over, about 70% of the entire country will have finally voted. and we've been looking at the issues right across the country. and according to recent polling and interviews that we've done, on the minds of voters in terms of the most pressing issues, bar none, it has to be the economy. and most importantly is unemployment, that there is a real struggle with unemployment, particularly among young, educated men. and that's a real problem. and also a real difficulty which is something you are seeing right across the world is the fight with inflation, of higherfood

prices, and the increased cost of living — that's really putting a lot of pressure on everyday people. let's turn to the middle east. so much focus on rafah and worries about the full scale invasion from israel and the impact it is already having on the ground. we will hear about berthing facilities from a doctor i spoke to a moment or two but the uk foreign secretary is warning that suspending british weapons sales to would strengthen hamas. lord cameron also said the uk did not support a "major operation" in the southern gazan city of rafah without a plan to protect civilians. i have been finding out more about the challenges facing civilians. dr hina cheema is an obstetricician and gynaecologist who worked in rafah in march as part of medglobal�*s medical mission there. she is usually texas based,

but spoke to me from thailand. i was there for two weeks and i was based at the emirati hospital at that time. the hospital was delivering about 50% of all of us the hospital was delivering about 50% of all gaza's pregnant patients. i saw a lot of stillbirth, which wasn't happening before. the physicians there were telling me that the rate has significantly increased. they were also seeing ward amenorrhea, where women are not they were also seeing war amenorrhea, where women are not having, quite a few women are not having periods because of the stress of war and giving rise to infertility. the physicians were overwhelmed because the volume this was a 42—bed hospital and it was not equipped to handle the volume that they were seeing.

there were more than 300 patients coming in through the obstetric triage, which is the emergency department for obstetrics and gynecology. and there were literally only two labour rooms and one labour room had three beds and the other had two beds, and they were delivering 70 to 100 women over 2a hours. and i read that you describe the workload, and particularly you witnessed interns operating, working with virtually no supervision because the pressures were so great. yes, indeed. and my role was not defined. we were just there to support the team and just place ourselves where there was need. and i placed myself in the supervisory role for the residents and interns

and just take some load off of them. they were working without any pay, so they would do a 2k hour shift and then they're not getting paid and still need to feed theirfamilies. and they would go take up another 2a hour shift at one of the field hospitals of some non—profit organisations. and that's how they were able to support their families. let's return to that breaking story from the last few minutes. last week of the bbc tracked down and confronted one of your�*s most wanted people smugglers. he has been on the run for over a year until the bbc investigated and tracked him down. no one knew his location. barzan majeed, also known as scorpion, wanted by several countries. he has been arrested in the north of iraq earlier today. with me see mitchell

he was part of that investigation and we were talking to you last week on this programme.— and we were talking to you last week on this programme. events have moved really rapidly- — on this programme. events have moved really rapidly- the _ on this programme. events have moved really rapidly. the iraqi _ really rapidly. the iraqi authorities immediately got in touch with us and said what evidence can be provided to them? we have had munication with them and the national crime agency here in britain and this morning at 7am, they sent police forces out to arrest ba rzan they sent police forces out to arrest barzan majeed in the north of iraq. as far as you know, he is now being held in attention and there is great interest with police forces across britain and belgium waiting to find out what turns of extradition there might be. there is such a development _ extradition there might be. there is such a development because - extradition there might be. there is such a development because police | such a development because police officers had been searching for this man and take your investigation to find him. just remind our viewers watching, perhaps they missed the

piece last week. when you tracked him down, what did he say to you? it was price amazing to actually track them down. when we finally confronted him with his crimes, he admitted smuggling 10,000 more people into britain. he said he couldn't remember how many. he was very blase about the dangers and the risk on his crossings. there have been incidents of great injury. he was blaming the migrants themselves, saying they need —— they knew the risks when they got into the small boats. he said he did thejob because people were begging him to get to the uk, so he saw himself as not doing anything wrong. he has beenin not doing anything wrong. he has been in hiding and he never thought we would find him so he was very surprised and must be very baffled ljy surprised and must be very baffled by recent developments today. just take us through what is likely to happen next. i suspect it is a very fluid situation but of course he is wanted on several different countries we have any sort of idea

about where he will end up? i was s-ueakin about where he will end up? i was speaking to _ about where he will end up? i was speaking to the — about where he will end up? i was speaking to the iraqi _ about where he will end up? i —" speaking to the iraqi authorities in the last hour and they are very keen to start questioning him. they have instances they want to take to him that they are liaising with britain and britain. police forces in other countries want to have input into what will happen to next —— belgium. he will be in iraq for some time now. they will keep us updated on developments because they are very thankful to the bbc and this investigation for securing this and for them, they see it as highlighting a real step forward in dealing with smugglers at this kind of level at this top—level, so they are very thankful to us for breaking the story. sue are very thankful to us for breaking the sto . ,, ~ . ., ~ are very thankful to us for breaking thesto . ,, ~ . ., the story. sue mitchell. thank you ve much the story. sue mitchell. thank you very much for— the story. sue mitchell. thank you very much for bringing _ the story. sue mitchell. thank you very much for bringing the - the story. sue mitchell. thank you very much for bringing the latest l the story. sue mitchell. thank you. very much for bringing the latest on that breaking developments that have just been published, that is sue mitchell and head to the website and you can see much more background on that bbc investigation. we will

pause and catch up with the weather details in a moment. ijust want to take you through what we have coming up take you through what we have coming up in a busy next 60 minutes here unverified live because we will be backin unverified live because we will be back in new york to have the very latest on donald trump's criminal case. that man there, michael cullen, former lawyer to donald trump, he has been giving evidence from the witness box today. the absolute crucial star witness in this case. we will be with our correspondent in new york to get the very latest on that case. we will also get the latest on that development here that i brought in the last 20 minutes or so that a judge in belfast has a role the uk plans to send asylum seekers to rwanda shall not apply to northern ireland. our home editor will be giving us the very latest on the development. the solicitor involved in bringing this case in belfast describing it as a spanner in the works for the uk government and

their plans. so we will get the latest from mark on the application is just a latest from mark on the application isjust a moment latest from mark on the application is just a moment or two. those are a couple of the main stories we will be looking at that first let's get the weather. we've seen a real mixture of weather across the country today, across parts of northern and eastern scotland and down the eastern side of england, there has been some warm spells of sunshine. i've seen temperatures go to 23 degrees in a few spots, but it's a different story further southwards and westwards, with outbreaks of rain for northern ireland, wales and south west england. the rain has all been tied in with this curl of cloud, which is an area of low pressure. these weather fronts have been particularly slow moving, so it's been raining for most of the day for these areas and the front will continue to be slow moving as we go through the night. eventually, the rain crawls its way across the midlands into eastern england, gets into more of scotland through the night. but it should start to ease off across parts of wales, and the south west of england, although there could be a few showers here.

temperatures overnight for most around 11 to 1a degrees. so we are looking at a mild night and a mild start to tuesday. this time, though, the rain will be pushing its way in across scotland and eastern areas of england. so that's where some of the wettest weather's going to be. a bit brighterfor northern ireland, wales and south west england, but not dry. it will be a day of sunshine and showers for these areas and some of the showers through the afternoon could turn out to be quite heavy with an odd rumble of thunder. for many areas, temperatures reached the upper teens. it is a bit above average for this time of year and where the sunshine comes out, it won't feel too bad. for the middle part of the week, wednesday we've still got our low pressure still in the same kind of area, still a day of sunshine and showers for many of these southern and western areas, although we could have some more persistent outbreaks of rain for eastern england. the driest, warmest weather, it's likely to be across northern scotland where the warm spots could get up to around 22 or 23 degrees celsius or so. 0therwise, high teens to low twenties. again, not feeling bad where the sunshine bothers to put

in an appearance. thursday, low pressure is still with us. this time we could have some lengthier heavy outbreaks of rain moving into central and eastern parts of england. but again, the driest weather is likely to be across northern scotland, where locally could see temperatures of around 22 01’ so. 0therwise, generally our temperatures into the high teens. through friday and indeed the weekend start of next week, it's the north of the country that will have the driest and some of the warmest weather as well. with some pockets might we see temperatures into the twenties across northern scotland for england and wales though, different story generally it's going to be quite unsettled with plenty of showers around.

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