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Three days of national mourning have started in Kenya, after at least seventeen children died in a fire at a school. Kenya's president William Ruto said there would be an investigation into how the disaster had happened, and that those responsible would be held accountable. Seventy children remain unaccounted for following the blaze which swept through a dormitory in the central county of Nyeri.

Also in the programme: Brazilians are expected to take to the streets today, in part to protest the outright ban of the social media platform X; and we examine changes in the national sense of self and identity of people living in the UK.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss this are Gina Yannitell Reinhardt, a professor of government at the University of Essex, and Fuad Musallam, an assistant professor of social anthropology at the University of Birmingham.

(Picture: Members of security forces stand guard outside the Hillside Endarasha Academy in Kieni, Nyeri County on 6th September, 2024. Credit: Daniel Irungu/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)