a close ally of the late russian opposition leader, alexei navalny, tells the bbc he'll �*never give up' fighting putin. he asked us to never give up and to continue our work and to build and defeat putin and build this beautiful russia of the future. and — a �*boil water notice�* has been lifted for most residents after a parasite outbreak in devon. hello and welcome to bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the head of the un agency for palestinian refugees says more than 800,000 people have been forced

to flee rafah in southern gaza — due to the ongoing israeli offensive. philippe lazzarini said they were having to do so without any safe passage or protection and were fleeing to areas with little water or sanitation. more than a million palestinians had taken refuge in the city after it was designated a safe zone, early on in the conflict. the us has warned israel not to launch an all—out offensive on rafah, forfear of huge civilian casualties, but israel insists it's necessary to route out hamas. this development comes as israel's military says it's recovered the body of another hostage inside gaza. the remains have been identified as ron binyamin — who the military says was killed in the october the 7th attack on israel by hamas. his body — the fourth

to be found in 2a hours — has been returned to israel for burial. this is the scene live in tel aviv, where the relatieves of the hostages are among those protesting against benjamin netanyahu's government and demanding new elections. him him they are asking for more government action to release their loved ones. and in a further development — israeli war cabinet minister, benny gantz, is threatening to bring down prime minister benjamin netanyahu's government if he doesn't agree to his post—war plan for gaza within three weeks. i spoke to our middle east correspondent paul adams about all these developments — starting with the body of the hostage ron binyamin the fourth of a number of the the fourth of a number of the four the fourth of a number of the four bodies recovered yesterday includin- bodies recovered yesterday including that of luke and there was a delay

in identifying the body we do none of the circumstances aware in the gaza strip these bodies recovered and is likely they were all recovered together and once again, it is another reminder that the longer this war goes on, the blink of the prospects are for the remaining hostages who are still thought to be alive in gaza and we do not know whether any of the four survived beyond 0ctober do not know whether any of the four survived beyond october the 7th and we know for a fact that luke was killed that day and it is possible that maybe even likely that three russell charted the time but, as families and friends gather once again in tel aviv tonight and demanding the government do more to release their loved ones, this is just more bad news. we release their loved ones, this is just more bad news.— release their loved ones, this is just more bad news. we got those imaaes just more bad news. we got those images coming — just more bad news. we got those images coming live _ just more bad news. we got those images coming live from - just more bad news. we got those images coming live from hostagesj images coming live from hostages square in tel aviv where there are

families and supporters of families and hostages that are gathered for yet another protest and the pressure really is on prime minister benjamin netanyahu and what do you make of the intervention this evening? i5 the intervention this evening? i3 essentially threatening to walk if the government does not adopt a series of measures that is outlining, including bringing hostages home and including ending hamas rule in gaza and establishing and this is the best that benjamin yahoo would not like to hear. establishing an american european arab palestinian administration that will administer the gaza strip and a civil manner the foundation for a future alternative. whenjesus will not be hamas or abbas. it is setting

a deadline and laying out an ambitious agenda and he does not himself of the power to bring the government down and he could walk in the government will survive by coming on the top of the remarks made by the defence minister the other day who urged benjamin netanyahu to lay out a plan for the future, these are just the latest signs of tension right at the heart of the war cabinet. the signs of tension right at the heart of the war cabinet.— signs of tension right at the heart of the war cabinet. the agency for palestinian _ of the war cabinet. the agency for palestinian refugees _ of the war cabinet. the agency for palestinian refugees see - of the war cabinet. the agency for palestinian refugees see some - of the war cabinet. the agency for palestinian refugees see some it. palestinian refugees see some it 100,000 people have been forced to flee rafah, where on earth are they going? it flee rafah, where on earth are they auoin ? , flee rafah, where on earth are they oiiin ? , ., flee rafah, where on earth are they iioin ? , . , . , flee rafah, where on earth are they iioin? n, , . , . going? it is a staggering number and those are peeple _ going? it is a staggering number and those are people who _ going? it is a staggering number and those are people who have _ going? it is a staggering number and those are people who have fled - going? it is a staggering number and those are people who have fled justl those are people who have fled just under two weeks since the israelis announce their operation on rafah was beginning, they've some left on

west along the coast and some are heading back to khan younis and an absolutely devastated city where people are simply finding palmtop buildings and making makeshift shelters and others are going to the central plaza area around the area and pictures that we have seen over the past week show his colossal sprawling tent cities that have been getting bigger and bigger along the coast, some of the aid that is coming in and the aid that came in along that american maritime corridor yesterday is shelter equipment but the numbers involved are pitifully small and barely able to scratch the surface of these huge numbers of people who live at to pack up and leave and some of them carrying drunk shelter with them because do not forget, these are people who fled from other parts of the gaza strip early on the conflict.

now to ukraine — where president zelensky says his country only has about a quarter of the amount of air defences it needs to fight off russian attacks. he said ukraine needed up to 130 fi6 fighterjets. dozens are due to arrive sometime this yearfrom european donor countries — as ukrainian pilots continue with their training. mr zelensky added that the military was still short of manpower and russia could increase its attacks in ukraine's northeast following its recent gains near the city of kharkiv. translation: we need to staff the reserve. - there are a serious number of brigrades which a large number of them are empty. we need to do this so the guys can have a normal rotation, then their morale will be improved. 0ur correspondent in kyiv, james waterhouse, outlined just how stretched ukraine's defences are. well, he always plonks air defences

at the top of his wish list, that's been the case for the last year or so, because of two things — russia has continued to launch missile attacks on cities across ukraine, but russia has become more dominant in the air, right across the front line. so that means that when you have exhausted, thinly stretched ukrainian troops trying to defend cities, you have russian fighter jets flying in and dropping missiles and glide bombs, and as in the situation in the north—east with this incursion, we hearfrom authorities around the town of vovchansk on the border, they are saying thousands of glide bombs have been dropped, which reflects, i think, russia's ability to mount these

strikes unchallenged. so president zelensky has been quite specific on what he needs and lacks. he wants more air defence systems, he says he's only got a quarter of what he needs. he's also specified how many f—i6 fighterjets he would like. despite ukrainian pilots being trained and thejets being promised, not one has been used operationally by ukraine. it has not happened, we are halfway through 2024 and no fighterjets, but he's not giving up on that, clearly. georgia's president has vetoed a controversial new law on foreign funding that's sparked weeks of mass protests. salome zourabichvili says the legislation was an obstacle on georgia's path to eu membership. she spoke earlier. 0ur correspondent rayhan demytrie has more from tbilisi — where protesters gathered following the president's announcement. and these protesters

favour their president, salome zourabichvili, who has been campaigning relentlessly last year to make sure that georgia gets its candidate status with the eu, and georgia did indeed receive this candidate status, but the problem now that these people see, that their adoption of this law may derail the country from its chosen path tojoin the eu. that is why we have seen such a huge reaction here from the youth — these protests have been driven by georgia's youth, students, schoolchildren and they believe that georgia's european future is at stake. the former chief of staff to the russian opposition leader, alexei navalny, has vowed to never give up fighting against president putin. mr navalny died in february

in a russian prison. leonid volkov said the fight to change the country must go ahead despite his death. the politician who was badly beaten in a hammer attack in march, in lithuania, believes the brutal assault was ordered by president putin's regime. in his first interview since the attack, he backed mr navalny�*s widow, yulia, to lead the opposition campaign against mr putin. he spoke to the bbc�*s, laura kuenssberg. it was like he was a close friend, a great guy and inspiring personality. a true hero, and a great and very capable political leader. there is no substitution for him, and this loss will always be just like an open wound in our hearts, in the hearts of his colleagues and friends. but we also know that he asked us to never give up and to continue our work and to build this to defeat putin and to build this beautiful

russia of the future that alexei dreamed of for so many years, is the only practical way to preserve his legacy and to make his ultimate sacrifice not to be in vain. yulia is also a very strong personality and a charismatic leader. she never wanted to be in this public role, and she was always a very close political advisor to alexei, and for us, as navalny�*s organisation, the teams that navalny organised, gather together, its very clear and natural that our task in this situation is just to support yulia and all her endeavours in everything that she does. and that's what we are doing now, of course. leonid volkov speaking there. and viewers in the uk can watch the full interview on sunday — with laura kuenssberg —

on bbc one at 9am. thousands of people who were having to boil their water in devon, due to a parasite outbreak, are being told they no longer have to do so. south west water said it was no longer advising some households in part of brixham to boil their water, after a parasite in the local supply left at least 46 people sick with crypto spiridiosis — an infection that causes diarrohea. the water company said around “1,500 households in the alston supply area can now use their tap water safely, although some 2,500 properties in hillhead, upper parts of brixham and kingswear should continue to boil their supply before drinking it. the local mp, anthony mangnall, says the company's response has been "contemptible".

0ur climate and science reporter esme stallard is in paignton, devon and shared this update. it will be a massive relief for those living here behind me it will be a massive relief for those living here behind me and the surrounding areas and for those living over there, there was to be boiling their water for at least a few days will still be coming to water collection points like this to pick up. there are people who were still sick in the community and are angered by the response from southwest water and the lack of communication early in the week and they denied there was a contamination to worry about and part of their statement in which they explained what happened, they said a damaged valve on private land in the hill supply area has been identified as a possible cause of contamination and has since been isolated from the network and repaired. it sounds like they're pretty confident and where the leak came confident of where the leak came

from and they will continue investigations to make sure the rest of the network is clean. now it's time for a look at today's sport with lizzie. xander schauffle still leads the uspga at valhalla — golf�*s second major the year. the american is fairly early into his third round and so far he's maintained his advantage over the field, out in front on 12 under par above. but the biggest mover of the day so far in kentucky is ireland's shane lowry — who's moved up more than 20 places after a sublime front nine including six birdies. england's justin rose, and rory mcilroy. 0nto football and chelsea have won the women's super league for the 5th successive year. they pipped title rivals manchester city on goal difference

after thrashing manchester united 6—nil at old trafford on the final game of the season. british record signing mayra ramirez produced an outstanding individual display, scoring twice and assisting twice. manchester city would have needed a huge win at aston villa to overtake chelsea but they could only manage 2—1 at aston villa. elsewhere, vivianne miedema scored for arsenal in her final game for the club. they thrashed brighton to finish third in the table. but it's been all about the title race today — it's a seventh wsl title for chelsea's manager emma hayes and a fitting send off as she leaves the club to take over as the usa head coach. all the leaders on the pitch was absolutely essential, a big occasion and the experience of everyone delivered today. i don't think i have any words. i'm probably mixed with a tonne of different emotions and it's the end and being with this team and these fans there are always

in my heart. bayer leverkusen have become the first team in bundesliga history to go through a season unbeaten. the champions' 2—1 home win over augsburg earlier extends their run to 51 games without defeat. goals from victor boniface and robert andrich gave them their 28th league win of the season. and they have a busy week ahead — they face atalanta on wednesday in the europa league final before the german cup final on saturday. brighton have confirmed their head coach roberto de zerbi will leave the club after sunday's premier league match against manchester united. the italian has been in charge for two years and led brighton to their highest top—flight finish when they came sixth last season. they're currently 10th in the league heading into the final game of the season. chairman tony bloom says the club and de zerbi "have mutually agreed" for him to leave. he's only halfway through a four year contract. red bull's max verstappen will be on pole once again in sunday's emilia romagna grand

prix in italy. it's his eighth pole position in a row, matching the all—time record set by ayrton senna. the three—time world champion beat mclaren�*s 0scar piastri and lando norris in a super tight qualifying session with only a tenth of a second diving the top 3. elsewhere, mercedes�* george russell was sixth quickest while lewis hamilton was down in eighth. in just a few hours, history will be made in saudi arabia where tyson fury and 0leksandr usyk will go head to head in what�*s being called�* the fight of the century�* where one of them will become the first undisputed four belt heavyweight world champion. there were the usual pre—fight theatrics after the weight in as they had to be separated. at 15 stone 13 pounds, usyk is almost three stone lighter than fury. the ukrainian holds the wba, wbo and ibf belts. fury is the wbc champion. i�*m going to make this short and simple. i want to thank god for the victory i have received already and i want to thank everybody

involved in putting this event on. i want to thank my opponent for turning up and challenging me. thank you to the fans who travelled over to support me because i know it�*s tough times at the moment and money is hard, so i aim to put on a show. thank you very much. god bless. and that�*s all the sport for now. an inquiry into the uk�*s biggest health scandal will release its final report next week. more than 30,000 people in the uk were infected with hiv and hepatitis c — after being given contaminated blood products by the national health service between 1970 and the early 1990s. it is known as the biggest treatment disaster in nhs history and so far we know that 3,000 people have died in the uk from infected blood and infected blood products given by the nhs. 0verall, 30,000 victims have been identified and these fall into two main categories — the people with rare genetic blood clotting disorders and people

who needed blood transfusions after surgery, for example. let�*s start with this first group, the haemophiliacs. people with blood clotting disorders need a special protein called factor viii orfactor ix injected which helps their blood clot but by the 19705, the uk was really struggling to meet demand for these blood products and so they started to import from america. but because america pays for blood plasma rather than it being donated forfree, it came from a lot of high risk individuals including prisoners, drug addicts and those most in need for money. with these donations came some deadly viral infections such as hepatitis c and hiv. in the late �*70s us drug companies were aware that their product was infected with viruses including hepatitis but did not take steps to stop the transmission. instead what they did was they mixed together ever larger batch numbers of donations, sometimes up to 50,000 plasma

donations mixed together in one batch and it tookjust one infected donor to infect the entire batch. by 1983, the pharmaceutical companies were aware there was a link between haemophiliacs and hiv but instead of raising the alarm, they kept it quiet. some medics and whistle—blowers did try to raise the alarm around the world but health officials did not listen. we now know 1,250 people were infected with hiv and hepatitis c that had blood clotting disorders in this country. 320 of them were children. and almost all have now died. let�*s look at the second group of people, those with blood transfusions. they were given blood transfusions in surgery or after childbirth or an accident, it was infected with hiv. it was known that blood transfusions could infect people with hepatitis as early as the 19705 but those exposed were not tested, even when a test became available. minimal effort was made to identify those affected. to identify those infected.

even now we still have people coming forward in this country that have just been diagnosed decades after their infection, but often it is too late. hepatitis attacks the liver, leading to cirrhosis and eventually cancer, so a late diagnosis often comes with a dire prognosis. the inquiry said through blood transfusion treatment, up to 27,000 people were infected with hepatitis c and between 80 and 100 got hiv. during the inquiry we heard from children who grow up as orphans, mothers who buried their children and husbands who unknowingly passed infections onto their wives. victims said they were ignored by doctors and treated as dirty or second—class citizens by the nhs. victims and their families have waited a0 years forjustice. the focus now is on compensation.

chloe haywardand you can follow monday�*s proceedings on bridgerton has certainly been a fan favourite on netflix forfour years — and it has returned for a third outing. set in the early 1800s, the series showcases the regency era with its decadent gowns and grand ball rooms — and grimsthorpe castle in lincolnshire has served as the backdrop to some of this year�*s scenes. let�*s take a look at how the filming went. we�*ve been open since about 1978, so we�*ve been open a long time. but you don�*t really see us, you know, that much on the internet or anything like that. so, yeah, seeing usjust randomly scrolling through your phone, you�*re like," oh, that�*s grimsthorpe castle", in a little advert by netflix. yeah, it was really cool. you look especially beautiful tonight, ms featherington. this is the bamburgh hall,

and this is where they filmed their ballroom scene. and it was amazing. so they they hung these beautiful blue curtains and they made sure they matched the colours, blue and gold, to the grimsthorpe colours. so we�*re blue and gold. so this floor, you can see, is stone and marble. and because they wanted to bring in 200 dancers, film crews, as you can imagine, that�*s heavy trolleys, lots of cameras, lots of lights, so they built a fake floor. it was the first night they filmed coming out of a carriage, and they came in the doors and you could just see theirfaces change.

they sort of were acting, came in and then theyjust stopped, looked around and were like, wow! and they said it was amazing, and that it was one of the most beautiful properties they�*ve actually filmed in. so that was nice to hear. i�*m really hoping it�*s going to bring more visitors to grimsthorpe. more visitors to lincolnshire, and a slightly different demographic as well. maybe like a younger audience that don�*t normally visit stately homes. stay with us here on bbc news good evening. whilst we�*ve had some warm sunshine today, we�*ve had some intense thunderstorms and some sea fog persisting. now, those storms will rumble on for a few more hours yet into this evening, giving quite significant rainfall. so, local flooding where they fall. the details, of course, more online.

the other issues through the day have been this weather front, bringing more cloud across the north and west of scotland. that�*ll still be with us through the night. elsewhere, through the rest of this evening, the showers will rumble on, giving some localised flooding before fading away. and then the mist, and the low cloud and the fog returns very widely. we�*ll see some home—grown fog, if you like, inland as well. so a fresher night, cooler than last night, eight or nine degrees celsius. and a really grey and misty slow start to our sunday morning. but that should then retreat back to the coast, that sea fog and any inland fog will clear. then there should be fewer showers for sunday than we�*ve had during the day today, particularly across england and wales. and there�*ll be more cloud anyway across scotland. so that�*ll inhibit as many showers to form. but there will be one or two isolated showers and intense downpours because there�*s little wind to move them around. and it could be that

some of that sea fog, notjust the north sea, but around the irish sea coast, lingers for much of the day. so, a slow start, but finally, when the sun comes through, it�*ll be a little bit warmer across england and wales inland than today, and perhapsjust a notch down across scotland, only because we�*ve got more cloud to start with. it should brighten up with some sunshine and the sun is strong. but at this time of year, with the chilly seas around our shores, when you get this warm, moist air, as we have at the moment, coming over that sea, it condenses out and it forms that fog. so it�*s, again, a similar process as we start monday morning. lots of misty, grey weather, fog around as well. retreating back generally to the coast, one or two isolated showers and thunderstorms then developing. butjust because we�*ve got a bit of a northerly drift on monday, temperatures might be a notch or two down on those of sunday. but still strong sunshine, still just as strong, even though the temperatures are a little down. moving beyond monday to tuesday, we might well pick up low pressure towards the south and west. so, more showers. and then by wednesday, the threat of something wetter and windier moving its way northwards, which will cool things down significantly. and it will be windier, quite a lot of rain is forecast as well.

it might well ease towards the end of the week. more details of course, as ever, on the website.

this is bbc news — the headlines: the head of the un agency for palestinian refugees says 800,000 people have been forced to flee rafah since an israeli offensive began in the southern part of the gaza strip nearly two weeks ago. president zelensky says ukraine only has about a quarter of the air defences it needs to fight off russian attacks, warning that russia could increase

strikes in the north east of the country following recent gains near kharkiv. a close ally of the late russian opposition leader alexei navalny tells the bbc he�*ll never give up fighting putin, months after a brutal hammer attack outside his home in lithuania, where he lives in exile. thousands of people who were having to boil their water in devon due to a parasite outbreak are being told they no longer have to. traces of cryptosporidium were identified on wednesday. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello, and welcome to political thinking. stop talking to the media. stop tweeting. meet in private.

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