Nick Miles

The opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, has blamed the deaths on what he called official mismanagement. What measures are in place to try to reduce the dangers?

Samira, do you get a sense that people are angry with the authorities or do they just accept that these kind of tragedies do happen when so many people are gathered in one place?

Samira, do you get a sense that people are angry with the authorities or do they just accept that these kind of tragedies do happen when so many people are gathered in one place?

Samira Hussain at the Kumbh Mela Festival in India. International pressure is mounting to find a peaceful solution to the escalation of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A Rwandan-backed rebel group is now tightening its control over the city of Goma, where many people have been killed and hospitals are said to have been overwhelmed.

Samira Hussain at the Kumbh Mela Festival in India. International pressure is mounting to find a peaceful solution to the escalation of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A Rwandan-backed rebel group is now tightening its control over the city of Goma, where many people have been killed and hospitals are said to have been overwhelmed.

But now the Democratic Republic of Congo's president, Felix Chisakedi, says he will not be attending a crisis meeting with his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, which was organised by Kenya to stop the fighting. Anne Soy is our senior Africa correspondent.

But now the Democratic Republic of Congo's president, Felix Chisakedi, says he will not be attending a crisis meeting with his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, which was organised by Kenya to stop the fighting. Anne Soy is our senior Africa correspondent.

And without him being there or a senior representative, what good can these talks do?

And without him being there or a senior representative, what good can these talks do?

That's extraordinary, really. I had no idea about that. They're that ambitious.

That's extraordinary, really. I had no idea about that. They're that ambitious.

That was Anne Soy. In Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko has claimed yet another political triumph, awarded 87% of the vote in a presidential election. But it was an election in name only, with all genuine opposition either in prison or forced to flee abroad after mass protests in 2020 ended in police brutality and mass detentions.

That was Anne Soy. In Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko has claimed yet another political triumph, awarded 87% of the vote in a presidential election. But it was an election in name only, with all genuine opposition either in prison or forced to flee abroad after mass protests in 2020 ended in police brutality and mass detentions.

Opposition figures now in exile warn that Lukashenko is a danger far beyond the borders of Belarus because he's such a close ally of Vladimir Putin. But the activist mood these days is more depressed than defiant, as our Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford reports from Warsaw.

Opposition figures now in exile warn that Lukashenko is a danger far beyond the borders of Belarus because he's such a close ally of Vladimir Putin. But the activist mood these days is more depressed than defiant, as our Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford reports from Warsaw.

Sarah Rainsford with that report. More and more people are turning to grief apps to cope with the loss of family and friends. The apps focus on helping people's mental health, but critics say they could be putting vulnerable people at risk. The technology journalist Lindsay Lee Wallace has researched the issue for the BBC. She's been telling me more about the apps and how they work.

Sarah Rainsford with that report. More and more people are turning to grief apps to cope with the loss of family and friends. The apps focus on helping people's mental health, but critics say they could be putting vulnerable people at risk. The technology journalist Lindsay Lee Wallace has researched the issue for the BBC. She's been telling me more about the apps and how they work.

You mentioned AI there, and I think that's one of the concerns that people are raising, that if you use AI, which I know these apps say they don't, but to respond to other people's posts, that might increase the sense of isolation and non-human contact that people are craving for.

You mentioned AI there, and I think that's one of the concerns that people are raising, that if you use AI, which I know these apps say they don't, but to respond to other people's posts, that might increase the sense of isolation and non-human contact that people are craving for.

As you said, that people are vulnerable, they're sharing very personal information. One imagines that the safeguards are there in place. Are they in terms of keeping this information where it should be?