A convicted people smuggler, described as the “godfather” of the French migrant camps, is living and working in an English village where he’s believed to be seeking asylum, a BBC investigation can reveal.

Twana Jamal was given a five-year jail sentence in France in 2016, where authorities described him as one of the most successful people-smugglers ever caught.

Following a tip-off this year, the BBC traced Jamal to Blaby in Leicestershire, where we witnessed him working illegally, driving a car without a licence and apparently using a false name.

Jamal is one of more than 20 people smugglers the BBC has found to have reached the UK, raising serious concerns about whether existing border controls are effective in checking asylum seekers who have committed serious crimes overseas.

The Home Office told us: “All asylum claimants are subject to mandatory security checks to confirm their identity for the purpose of immigration, security and criminality checks”, and that the UK has “a number of agreements with countries which enable the sharing of criminal record information”, adding that immigration enforcement action is currently at its highest level in history.

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Tourists from all over the world visit Uluru every year, but for decades there has been a dispute over the controversial practice of climbing the rock – which is a sacred place for Australia’s indigenous Anangu people. From the end of 2019 the chain that makes the climb possible will finally be removed. As the BBC’s Rebecca Henschke reports, it is a vital step for the Anangu people in reclaiming the rock

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Rescue efforts are continuing in Venezuela for a third day after two back-to-back earthquakes, killing at least 920 and injuring more than 3,360 people.

The quakes, with magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5, hit less than a minute apart on Wednesday.

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0:00 – Deadly earthquakes hit
0:43 – Search efforts
01:38 – BBC reporter’s home hit
02:56 – International aid
03:40 – Lasting impacts on Venezuela
04:23 – US-Venezuela tensions
05:22 – How bad is the damage?
06:04 – Why is Venezuela vulnerable?
07:02 – What next for Venezuela?

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Residents and families are desperately searching the rubble for their loved ones and belongings. They are listening carefully for any sound that might indicate someone is alive trapped under the concrete and metal wire debris.

So far, officials have confirmed at least 1,430 deaths from the magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes – the latter being one of the strongest quakes recorded in the country in the last century.

Hundreds of buildings collapsed and beneath the rubble, thousands of Venezuelans remain. The number of dead and injured rises by the hour. The UN estimates around 50,000 people are missing.

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Russian forces have launched a major drone and missile attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv overnight, killing at least 13 people, officials said.

Several neighbourhoods were evacuated as strikes rocked buildings throughout the city, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Russia was preparing for a “massive” attack.

Children were among the “significant number” of casualties, Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, said. “The enemy is once again deliberately targeting residential areas and killing civilians,” he said early on Thursday.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence claimed it targeted energy facilities in response to recent Ukrainian strikes.

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