Evening briefing Thursday 27th August

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0:44Experts are looking at whether lakes that have formed following Wednesday's disaster could burst their banks. The Times' environment editor, Adam Vaughan, says experts have been struggling to establish the risk amid scenes of devastation. People weren't even sure what happened to all that water and debris when it had come down from the mountain. There was some speculation that it may have created a sort of natural dam and then the water was then sort of backing up behind that. Hundreds of people are dead and helicopters are being used to try to find those still missing. The Times' senior news correspondent David Brown is outside Kathmandu Trauma Centre.

1:19This is an enormous task in extremely difficult terrain. There is now an enormous downpour of rain which is just going to make this rescue operation even more difficult. Britain has offered£5 million for the relief efforts and the King and Queen are said to be devastated. Speaking to Times Radio, a Middlesbrough MP has compared criminal activity in the town to terrorism. Detectives investigating allegations of serious organised crime are trying to establish whether the deaths of two people in a house fire are linked to a crash that killed seven people, including two police officers. They're also looking into reports a car rammed into the wall of a house.

1:59Andy MacDonald is the Labour MP for Middlesbrough and Thornaby East. People are saying that they're going to their shops and not feeling safe to do so and feeling trapped in their own homes. That is just unacceptable. This is terrorism and we've got to have an appropriate response to deal with the people who are causing such mayhem in our communities and to allow people to lead their peaceful lives. The Ministry of Defence says Russia should be in no doubt the UK stands shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine. The Kremlin's threatened to hit British military targets as it continues to supply Ukraine with weapons.

2:34Home office figures show nearly 200 ,000 migrants were given indefinite leave to remain in the UK in the 12 months to June, a 16-year high. It's thought people have been rushing to get their status sorted ahead of new rules that double the amount of time it takes to qualify for settlement. The teacher has been convicted of indecently assaulting two teenage boys at the school in North London she taught at in the late 80s. 65-year-old Sally Ann Bowen from Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire will be sentenced later this year. Mrakko Mladic has died at the UN's detention centre in The Hague. He was serving a life sentence for genocide after orchestrating the 1995 massacre of at least 8 ,000 Muslims in a UN-designated safe area of Bosnia.

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