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Kenyan police say they have arrested a serial killer who's admitted to more than 40 murders. Republicans arrive for their national convention in Milwaukee, where Donald Trump will be confirmed as the Republican candidate for president after his failed assassination attempt. Will a special meeting of the Communist Party in China help to turn the economy around?

Also in this podcast, the intriguing tale of the Brazilian influencer and the fans who accuse her of people trafficking. They are absolutely ridiculous and that they need to run back to their parents. And a new malaria vaccine is rolled out in Africa.

On Sunday's podcast, we told you about the discovery of eight mutilated corpses found in a rubbish dump in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. That figure is now up to nine, and there may be many more. Kenyan police have arrested a suspect who they say has admitted murdering 42 women. A senior police officer, Mohamed Amin, said they were dealing with a psychopathic serial killer. We have this morning arrested the prime suspect, Mohamed Amin,

known as Collings Jumaisha Halusha, 33 years old. On interrogation, the suspect confessed to have lured, killed and disposed 42 female bodies at the dumping site. All murdered between 2022 and as recent as Thursday, 11th of July,

2024. But from the look of things, it is crystallising that we are dealing with a serial killer, a psychopathic serial killer who has no respect for human life. Francis Ontwoma is the security correspondent at KTN News, and he's been to the site where the bodies were found.

It has been a horror, I can tell you, that I've covered crime and homicide for the longest time, but this one was something out of the blue, something that is really horrifying. So we had bodies that were decomposing, that were fetched out of a dump site that is at Kware.

area in Mukuru Kwanjenga that is a slum area that is three to four kilometers from the capital Nairobi and all these bodies were all female they were mutilated some they were dismembered and they were all stashed in sacks

Our correspondent in Nairobi, Ian Wafula, told us more. As at this point, it's still not clear who the identities of the nine bodies are. But then police do say that the suspect has confessed to having killed the first victim, being his wife, and they managed to identify her as Judith Kalenya.

And so it's still not clear because they're still looking at the facts behind these murders, the facts behind these bodies. And so we're waiting to see how that unfolds. However, in the meantime, Rachel, police have asked families here in Kenya who believe that they have reasonable belief that their loved ones may have fallen victim to the murders to come forward and try identify these bodies, Rachel. And there's been much criticism that violence against women in Kenya is not taken seriously enough, isn't there?

Yeah, that has been the case. In fact, about two months ago, the BBC covered a protest right here in the capital, Nairobi, where women and human rights groups were saying that the police have been relaxed, so to say, when it comes to investigating cases against femicide, given that they had been on the rise. And there were reports that about 500 women had been killed.

killed within a period of one year. So this will contribute to the kind of criticism that the police are getting. In fact, human rights groups are calling for further investigation. And even before I came on air to speak to you, a group of women, members of parliament, including governors, are calling for further investigation, especially because the police say that the nine bodies they retrieved are all women. And then the suspect comes forward and says that he has actually, for a period of two years, murdered about 42 women, Rachel.

Ian Wafula in Nairobi. The former US President Donald Trump is in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, where he'll be confirmed as the Republican presidential candidate and is expected to pick his vice president. Both Mr Trump and President Joe Biden are trying to dial down the rhetoric after Saturday's failed assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

President Biden told Americans that people needed to lower the political temperature and stand together. And Donald Trump told the Washington Examiner newspaper that he'd completely rewritten his speech to call for national unity instead of targeting President Biden's policies. Our correspondent, Nomia Iqbal, is in Milwaukee and has been speaking to Trump supporters who see the former president's survival as simply miraculous.

Thank God for protecting President Donald Trump yesterday. There are dozens of Donald Trump supporters congregated in this park just near the convention center. One of the pastors here is leading a speech. Just next to me, there's this huge photo of Donald Trump laid out on the grass. And there's a big card that says, get well soon. And lots of people are signing it in support of Donald Trump. I love him.

That's all I can say is I love him. Ray Paul has driven here to attend this vigil for Donald Trump in his blue van. On the outside of the vehicle, the former president's policy accomplishments are all printed in white. What was your reaction when you heard that he'd been shot? Oh, gosh, I cried. Couldn't believe it. But it's in God's hands. I'm glad it happened now.

because now his security will be even better than it was. Turning his head in a particular direction actually saved his life. So we are thankful to God for that. Donald Trump's supporters here were already all in for him. They say the attempt on his life has made them even more entrenched. And then I saw the news and I saw our epic leader stand up in the face of terror, being injured and say, fight! Fight!

And we have got to fight now more than ever for our nation, because our nation is in the balance. Linda is here with her friend Fanchon from the state of Nebraska. People are mad at what the Democratic Party have done. They're voting for Donald Trump. I can't tell you how many people that say, we're done, we voted for Biden, but we're not voting for him anymore. You think the assassination attempt has got more people behind it? Are you kidding me?

Every time something happens, more money is raised. My fellow Americans. In an address to the nation, President Biden aimed to lower the temperature. And when it came to violent language and actions, he cast the net widely. Violence has never been the answer. Whether it's with members of Congress of both parties being targeted and shot, or a violent mob attacking the Capitol on January 6th, or a brutal attack on the spouse of former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

or information and intimidation on election officials, or the kidnapping plot against the sitting governor, or an attempted assassination on Donald Trump. There is no place in America for this kind of violence. The U.S. Speaker of the House, Republican Mike Johnson, also called on both sides to tone it down. This is a horrific act of political violence. It ought to be roundly condemned.

Obviously, we can't go on like this as a society. But others are playing the blame game. Some Republicans are saying inflammatory comments about Mr Trump by parts of the media and the Democratic Party led to this violence. Here's his son, Donald Trump Jr. I don't want to ever hear another word about January 6th, you know, after July 13th. Not one more. It needs to stop. This turbulent election race has taken another sharp turn.

Contrast those pictures of a defiant and bloodied Donald Trump with President Biden, who still views him as a threat to democracy, but now compelled to show some compassion. As the convention gets underway here in Wisconsin amid very tight security, America's two political parties will have to now hugely adjust to an entirely changed campaign. Nomia Iqbal reporting.

In China, the economy has been sluggish, mainly because people aren't willing to part with their money. But a rather innocuous-sounding meeting of the Chinese Communist Party, the Third Plenum, might be key to turning the economy around. And what happens in China affects the world's economy. Stephen McDonnell is in Beijing.

There's been considerable speculation that this week's big political meeting here in Beijing will involve some sort of major announcements around the lines of what plans the government has to turn around the Chinese economy. And the reason for this is precedent.

The Central Committee, the full Central Committee, with its hundreds of delegates over a five-year term, meets roughly seven times. The third of these meetings, known as the Third Plenum, has often involved major announcements of...

significant changes to policy and the thinking is this time around it could be the same because the word modernization was included in the blurb introducing the meeting it's thought that we could see an even greater push from the central government to drive funds into the high-tech industries which are really taking off here like solar power like electric vehicles but the question is even

Even if this was to work, would a newly modernised Chinese economy necessarily employ enough people, give wages enough of a boost to drive up household consumption? And that's what's needed to have a significant change in the economy here.

The meeting itself, though, by and large, would just rub a stamp. Decisions already made by the senior leadership of the Communist Party. It takes place over four days behind closed doors. And so we won't know until Thursday night at the end when they give us an official readout if there is to be some sort of significant change in economic policy or in China's political system. Stephen McDonnell in Beijing.

Argentina's record in football's Copa America is remarkable. Their 1-0 victory over Colombia in Sunday's final in Miami means they've won the competition a record 16 times. It was expected that the big talking point would be how Lionel Messi performed and whether this would be his last international game. But much of the attention was on the chaos and violent clashes outside the stadium.

Our sports reporter, Sara Menai, told me about the problems in the run-up to the match. Kick-off was delayed by 80 minutes. Reports said that an estimated 7,000 people arrived at the stadium without tickets.

and tried to force their way into the stadium prior to kickoff, leaving some fans waiting for hours in the Miami heat for the gates to open. So videos were posted on social media that showed fans jumping over security railings. So both teams were taken off the pitch during their break.

warm-up sessions. The stadium briefly went on lockdown. The security was overwhelmed by the amount of people trying to force their way in. Do we know if anyone was hurt? We don't have figures yet, but yeah, definitely some people were injured because we've seen medical emergency teams on the ground trying to help people, trying to, people that were crushed. We don't have the exact figures for now. We will definitely have them in a couple of hours to see how the situation had evolved.

This Copa America Cup has been plagued with problems with the crowds, has it not? Yes, it's definitely not the first time. The scenes we've seen, you know, in Miami came only two days after a very angry crowd

Uruguayan manager Marcelo Bielsa criticised tournament organisers for not doing enough to protect fans in the stadiums and to protect families of his players because during the semi-final that Uruguay played against Colombia, some families were attacked in the stands and

And some players had to intervene and to go in the stands to save families that were in the stands being attacked by Colombian fans. So it's definitely not the first time. It poses really serious questions about the next World Cup in two years. You know, this stadium in Miami where the final was taking place last night, the Hard Rock Stadium.

stadium is supposed to be hosting seven World Cup games and that poses really serious concerns about whether this World Cup is going to be safe enough for fans to travel there.

Obviously, after that, the football did eventually go ahead. Tell us what happened. Nil all after, you know, the 90 minutes regular time. So it went into extra time and it's Lautaro Martinez, who was a hero of a nation for Argentina. He scored the only goal of the game that was in the second half of extra time.

And this game apparently may have signalled the end of Lionel Messi's international career. Lionel Messi, of course, one of the world's most renowned footballers. Lionel Messi refuses for now to officially announce that that was his last game. He said he wants to go on. He said he's still ready to play for his country, but he's already 37 years old. He's going to be 39 at the next World Cup. So it's difficult to imagine Lionel Messi...

going to that World Cup. Bear in mind that tonight he was, he left the pitch early because he sustained an injury, an ankle injury and it was a very emotional scene because he was seen on the bench crying. So,

We'll have to see about the end of his international career.

I'm absolutely thrilled. I'm going to work with a big smile on my face today. Delighted to have won. It's divine. It was wonderful. I'm extremely proud of my country. I'm really happy. We suffered a bit at first, but it's all good now. It's a happy day. Let's party. Of course we're celebrating.

I'm going for a run and then I'll enjoy the rest of the day. Lucky him. Well, Spain ended the tournament as top scorers and are the first men's team to win the Euros four times. Their coach, Luis de la Fuente, has praised his players as an example for society. Guy Hedgcoe is in Madrid.

Going into the tournament, Spanish fans really weren't that confident about their team. They didn't expect it to get very far at all. And as the competition went on, they became more and more confident in their team and more and more impressed by how it was performing.

Something which has been talked about a lot throughout this tournament has been the issue of immigration, because a couple of the big stars of this team are children of African immigrants, and that's Lamin Yamal, the 17-year-old winger, who's been such a sensation, and the other winger in the team, Nico Williams, child of Ghanaian parents.

And that has triggered a lot of talk about the issue of immigration, which has become quite a hot-button issue politically, particularly for the far right. And so a lot of people have been saying how this shows that the country can unite and immigration can be a good thing for the country and that the Spanish football team does in fact reflect Spain's multicultural reality. Kai Hedgko in Madrid.

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Rwandans have been voting in presidential and parliamentary elections, with the African nation's leader Paul Kagame widely expected to cruise to victory and extend his rule for another five years. There are only two challengers facing Mr Kagame, who's been Rwanda's de facto leader since the end of the 1994 genocide and president since 2000.

The line-up is a carbon copy of the last election in 2017, when Mr Kagame obliterated his rivals with almost 99% of the vote. Our senior Africa correspondent Anne Soy has been speaking to the BBC's Rob Young.

This is a president who's won previous elections with more than 90 percent, and it has been rising. The last election in 2017, he secured 99 percent of the vote. And we're talking about a very huge voter turnout, 96 percent of voters.

registered voters turning out and the 99 of those voting for the president. And therefore, his critics have been, you know, talking about this and saying that, how can it be? And looking at this election and previous elections as well, some of the opposition or would-be opposition...

not allowed to run in this election. There are several people who wanted to run for president, but they were ruled out by the Electoral Commission. And that is really fueling those criticisms against President Kagame. But he has spoken to these things during their campaigns. He said that there are those who think 100% is not a democracy. And some of his critics are saying he hopes to improve on that 99%.

And he says there are many who voted elsewhere into office with 15%. How is that democracy? So that is really the position. He hopes to improve on his 99%. That's quite an ambition, isn't it? So there are some opposition candidates, just not the candidates that some parties would have liked to have put forward. That's right. There's Frank Habineza of the Democratic Green Party and an independent candidate who's a civil servant, Philippe Mpaimana,

Frank Habeneza is 47. He first entered politics and formed this party in 2009, but then it faced challenges. And in 2010, its deputy president was murdered. And then Habeneza fled to Sweden, but he came back in 2017, stood in the elections.

and won a parliamentary seat in 2018. The other opponent, Paimana, is currently a civil servant. He is running as an independent. And between these two candidates, who both ran in 2017 as well, they got less than 1%.

There have been election rallies taking place. Have, therefore, the opposition as well as for the government? That's right. And there's a stark difference between the turnout in both rallies. So you would go to President Kagame's rallies and there's a huge turnout. Critics, however, say that, you know, many of the people are bussed in to attend these rallies. When you look at the other two men running in this election rally,

Barely 100 people turning out to listen to them. So very subdued turnout during their rallies. And it really speaks to what is to be expected in the elections today. It's a foregone conclusion that President Kagame will win with a big, big margin. And when will we get the results? The hope is that we will have provisional results soon.

by the end of tomorrow, and then within five days we should have the full outcome of these elections.

A popular wellness influencer and life coach has been sentenced to eight years in prison in Brazil after being found guilty of human trafficking. A judge found former model Kat Torres, who had more than a million followers on Instagram, groomed a woman on the social media platform, lured her to the US for the purpose of sexual exploitation. The BBC has also been told charges have been filed against Torres in relation to a second woman. Hannah Price has this report.

Anna was in her early 20s when she came across the perfectly curated Instagram account of Cat Torres. She kind of resembled hope for me. She seemed like she had overcome difficult childhood, violence, abuse, many of the things I related to it. She lived with Cat Torres in New York for several months, working as her live-in assistant. She says the agreed salary was $2,000 a month, but what waited for her was unpaid forced labour.

I think I was probably one of the first victims of human trafficking. In 2022, Cat Torres encouraged three women to come and live with her in Texas. One of the women, who we are calling Sol, says they were forbidden from communicating with each other and needed Cat Torres's permission for everything. We were never allowed to leave the house. It was very difficult to...

get out of the situation because she holds your money, she holds all your information. Another of the women, Desiree, says Cat Torres used witchcraft and threats to coerce her into stripping and eventually prostitution.

She says she made thousands of dollars a week, which Cat Torres took. After six weeks, Sol managed to get out and went to the police. In Brazil, the families of the women left in the house in Texas reported them as missing after they lost all contact with them. A US officer tracks Cat Torres down and calls her while she's on the road. He asked to speak to Desiree. Is she liking America? Very nice.

Cat then jumps in. What Cat Torres doesn't know is that she is being recorded. And on the tape obtained by BBC News, you can hear her threatening the women in Portuguese.

Cat Torres was arrested, deported to Brazil and charged with subjecting Desiree to human trafficking and slave labour. We were granted a rare court order, allowing us to interview her in prison while she is waiting the outcome of her trial. When I was seeing the people testifying, they were saying so many lies, so many lies that at one point I couldn't stop laughing.

How does it make you feel when you're hearing that former clients are traumatised? Do you have any emotional reaction? I have to say they are absolutely ridiculous and that they need to run back to their parents. Did you believe in the advice you were giving these women? Oh, yeah. I believe a thousand percent. Do you take any accountability for any of these allegations? Absolutely not. Zero. Zero.

And do you think you deserve to face any punishment or justice? Absolutely not. Two months later, Kat Torres was convicted. An investigation into the allegations brought by other women remains ongoing. Kat Torres's lawyer told the BBC she has appealed her conviction and maintains her innocence.

Hannah Price with that report. And you can hear the full story, Instagram's fake guru, in the documentary on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts. And you can watch the documentary on BBC World Service YouTube.

Scientists have spent decades trying to produce a vaccine against malaria that's not only effective but affordable. The disease, which is spread by mosquitoes, kills more than 600,000 people a year, many of them in low-income nations. Today, the first doses of the cheapest vaccine to date are being rolled out in Cote d'Ivoire, costing under $4 a jab.

The vaccine is the result of decades of research and testing at the University of Oxford in England. My correspondent, Justin Webb, spoke to one of the lead researchers, Professor Adrian Hill, who told us why this new development is so important. It's less expensive, it's more available and it works better. So this is a vaccine that was

and developed in 2012 and has been progressing since then. And previous vaccines haven't, you know, been able to build on what was known previously and develop something that really is at a price point where it's realistic to roll this out in many tens of millions of doses from now on.

Why is that? I mean, why is it potentially at a price point that works, whereas the previous vaccine wasn't? What is it that has changed? What is it that's been able to make it available in the way that it is now going to be available?

Yeah, in a word, scale. So we partnered this vaccine from Oxford with the Serum Institute of India, who are the world's largest vaccine manufacturer. They can literally make billions of doses a year. They did with us in COVID in 2020. And like for many things, the greater scale you manufacture at, the less the price for an individual dose.

So instead of this being $9 or $10, as with the original vaccine per dose, this is just under $4. And that makes a real difference in low-income countries. And that's why the development with the first doses being given...

almost as we speak in the Ivory Coast today, is really important because everyone sees this as an affordable vaccine. Tell us a little more about what's happening, as you know it, in the Ivory Coast, because eventually it'll go out to other places, won't it? Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, I see here, Central African Republic. But it's starting in...

the Ivory Coast. Do you know what the setup is? Who's been chosen? Why? Vaccine supply has gone to several countries. There is quite a bit of training of the staff to be done before you can start deploying.

This is a three-dose vaccine, typically five, six and seven months of age, then a booster a year later. So that's not a time point that other vaccines are usually given at. So there's training required in these largely relatively low-income countries. So that's a lot of work for people in-country to get set up, particularly when you're aiming to distribute millions of doses from this year. Professor Adrian Hill.

Let's just return to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump and one of the incredible images to surface taken by a New York Times photographer. Doug Mills captured the image of a bullet streaking past the former president's head. So how did this veteran photographer capture the moment? He spoke to my colleague, Paul Henley.

I was in what's called the buffer zone, which allows just four pool photographers to have that kind of access up close and personal kind of. And I was right next to the stage when he was speaking, and I happened to be directly head on with him because we're only allowed in that buffer zone for, you know, maybe five to ten minutes at the beginning of the former president's remarks. So I knew I had to get my, you know, my work done early, and it was, you know,

It was a regular, so to speak, rally for him. You know, lots of people, thousands of people. And he was making remarks and there was a huge flag flying over his head above him. So I wanted to try and get down low and get close to him as I could to photograph him in the foreground with the flag above him. And then that's when I, you know, I heard the pops that happened, which turned out to be gunshots. I'm not a gun owner, so I don't.

I didn't immediately think that it was a gun. I thought it was some sort of vehicle or something like that. But when I saw him grimace and then grab his ear and then immediately pull his hand off his ear and there was blood on it, and then the next thing I knew –

he was down behind the podium and I couldn't see him anymore. So you mustn't have looked away at all and you must have taken a lot of shots in quick succession, did you? I did. I was using a Sony A1 camera and shooting it on 8,000th of a second because it was such a bright sunny day and I had a 24mm lens on which has a very minimal aperture and I probably took maybe 20 frames during that moment.

And, you know, Paul, I did not know that I had that picture until probably 40 minutes after it happened because I was so concerned with getting the pictures out of the former president being escorted off the stage by the Secret Service that it kind of slipped my mind that I was even taking pictures during that moment.

Obviously, a lot of adrenaline going. I'm shaking. Everybody's still amped up and yelling. Then we went backstage to a secure area because we were walking through what they were calling a crime scene. So we had to go into a special tent, which normally the president holds in before he comes on stage. So then I started looking through the pictures. I thought, oh, my gosh, I think I did take pictures while he was speaking when this all started. So I started looking back.

And I saw him grimace and then reach for his ear. Then I zoomed in and I could see the the actual blood on his hand. And I called the office and I said, hey, I think I've got the pictures, you know, right when he was, you know, being shot. And they said, well, we don't think he was shot. We think it was, you know, from the teleprompter. There's rumors right now that it was from a teleprompter. So we're not saying he's been shot yet. And I said, well, these pictures will tell you that he's been shot.

because the teleprompters are fully intact and there's no shattering of glass around that. And he grabs his ear immediately. So they said, send him in right away. So I immediately sent in, you know, probably 10 or 15 pictures to one of the editors. And she called me back about five minutes later and said, you won't believe what's in one of the pictures. And I said, what? She goes, we think there's a bullet flying behind his head in one of the pictures. And I got chills and I was like, oh, my God, are you kidding me?

And so then she sent me a screen grab of it right away. And I said, yeah, that's surely what it looks like. Veteran New York Times photographer Doug Mills speaking to the BBC's Paul Henley.

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