alexei navalny tells the bbc he will "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 leaving without safe passage or protection, heading 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. 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 7th attack by hamas. and in a further development, the 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. here's what he said. translation: the people of israel are watching _ translation: the people of israel are watching you. _ translation: the people of israel are watching you. you _ translation: the people of israel are watching you. you must - translation: the people of israel are watching you. you must choose i are watching you. you must choose between zionism and cynicism, between zionism and cynicism, between unity and factions, between responsibility and lawlessness, between victory and disaster. if you

put the national over the personal and chose to follow in the footsteps of herzl, bengurion, you will find a struggle. if you lead the nation to an abyss, you will be forced to quit the government. seems coming from one of the protests held here, held nearly every weekend now. it appears to have turned slightly more violent. we have seen scuffles. you can see their members of the israeli police services taking some of those protesters away from the main area. just a reminder why they are there on the streets in an area which is well known now as hostage a square. they are not only demanding new elections, they are the relatives, supporters of the families, the hostages asking for more government action to release their loved ones.

life seems coming in from tel aviv. this protest has been going on for a number of hours now. 0ur middle east correspondent, paul adams, has more on all those developments from jerusalem, starting with the latest on the body of the hostage. he is the fourth of the four bodies that were recovered yesterday, including that of shani louk. i think probably there was a delay in identifying the body. we don't know the circumstances, we don't know where. in the gaza strip these four bodies were recovered. it is likely that they were all recovered together. but once again, you know, it is another reminder that the longer this war goes on, the bleaker the prospects are for the remaining hostages who are still thought to be alive in gaza. we don't know whether any

of the four survived beyond october 7th. we know for a fact that shani louk did not. she was killed that day. it is possible, maybe even likely, that the other three were also killed at the time. but as families and friends gather once again in tel aviv tonight, demanding the government do more to release their loved ones, this isjust more bad news. lukwesa: yeah, we've got those images coming live from what now is known as hostages square in tel aviv, where there are families and supporters of families of hostages that have gathered for yet another protest. i mean, the pressure really is coming on prime minister benjamin netanyahu. what do you make of benny gantz�*s intervention this evening? he is essentially threatening to walk if the government does not adopt a series of measures that he has outlined,

including bringing hostages home, including ending hamas rule in gaza, as he puts it, and establishing — and this is the bit that benjamin netanyahu will not like to hear — establishing an american—european—arab palestinian administration that will administer the gaza strip in a civil manner and lay the foundation for a future alternative, which he says will not be hamas or abbas — a reference to mahmoud abbas, the palestinian authority leader in the west bank. so he is setting a deadline and laying out an ambitious agenda. he does not himself have the power to bring the government down. he can walk and the government will survive. but coming on the top of the remarks made by the defence minister, yoav gallant, 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 un agency for palestinian refugees, of course, have said that some 800,000 people have been forced to flee rafah. where on earth are they going? it's an absolutely staggering number and those are people who have fled in the lastjust under two weeks since the israelis announced their operation on rafah was beginning. they're going to a number of places. some of them are heading west to this area known as al—mawasi along the coast. some of them are heading back to khan younis, an absolutely devastated city where people are simply finding bombed out buildings where they can set up some kind of makeshift shelter. and others are heading further north to what's known as the central gaza area

around deryl bhalla. and the pictures that we've seen over the past week show these colossal sprawling tent cities now that have been getting bigger and bigger along the coast. some of the aid that is coming in, some of the aid that came in along that american maritime corridor yesterday is shelter equipment, but the numbers involved are pitifully small. you know, barely able to scrape, scratch the surface of these huge numbers of people who have had to pack up and leave, some of them carrying their own shelter with them, because don't forget, these are people who fled from other parts of the gaza strip early on in the conflict. that was paul adam speaking to me earlier. here in the uk — south west water has lifted restrictions on more than 80% of properties which had been affected by a parasite in the water supply. when the outbreak was first identified in devon earlier this week, some 17,000 households and businesses were told to boil their tapwater. but today 14,500 of them in the alston supply area

were told they could resume using it as normal. 46 cases of cryptosporidiosis have been confirmed — and more than 100 other people have reported symptoms of sickness and diarrhoea. ben woolvin reports from churston. the english riviera — where until this afternoon, 17,000 homes and businesses were being told to boil their water. 2,500 customers are still being told it's not safe and investigations are ongoing. the important thing now is to look in the hillhead area and make sure we absolutely have confirmed the source of the issue, to fix that issue and then to make sure that we have got evidence that supports that the water is absolutely safe to drink. south west water believes a damaged air valve on a pipe in a field containing livestock is how the parasite, which can be found in animalfaeces, got into the system. the other side of that hedge is the water tank,

early this week. the water company says it was drained last night and has been thoroughly cleaned today. it's the customers served by this water tank that are still being told to boil, probably for another week. the compensation they're being offered has today been increased to £215. i've been looking at different water cooler options. i don't think we will be drinking the tap water around here. michaela lewis' daughter evelyn is still having bad stomach pains today, two weeks after she first came down with severe diarrhoea. to say the water is safe when they didn't genuinely have adequate evidence to back that up — that's not okay. as a mother myself, i find that incredibly distressing and i can only apologise. lifting this boil notice is a joint decision. it's not just for south west water and so where customers are concerned about this position,

they can take comfort from the fact that this is not only south west water, but we do have scientists and experts making the decision. some businesses have told us they've already lost thousands of pounds. south west water says it will negotiate individual compensation offers for them. ben woolvin, bbc news, torbay. 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 f16 fighterjets. dozens are due to arrive sometime this yearfrom european donor countries, and ukrainian pilots are currently being trained. according to the president, 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 in the reserves. translation: we need to staff in the reserves- there _ translation: we need to staff in the reserves. there are _ translation: we need to staff in the reserves. there are a _ translation: we need to staff in the reserves. there are a serious -

translation: we need to staff in the reserves. there are a serious numberl reserves. there are a serious number of brigades 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 ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse, outlined how stretched the country's defences are. well, i mean, he always plonks air defences at the top of his wish list. that's been the case for the past year or so because of two things, really — russia has continued to launch missile attacks on cities across ukraine, but also russia has become far more superior, more dominant in the air right across the front line. so what that means is 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 of the situation in the north—east, where this incursion is taking place,

you know, we're hearing from the authorities around the town of vovchansk, which is on the border — they're saying thousands of glide bombs have been dropped, which reflects, i think, russia's ability to mount these kind of strikes unchallenged. so president zelensky, he's been quite specific on what he both needs and lacks. he wants more air defence systems. he says he's got a quarter of what he needs, as you say, and then he specified how many f—16 fighterjets he would like. it's worth pointing out that despite ukrainian pilots being trained by western allies in the uk, for example, and others promising them not one has been used operationally by ukraine. it was once predicted they would arrive last year. that hasn't happened. here we are halfway through 2024 — no fighterjets yet, but he's not giving up on that clearly. james waterhouse there. to address the issues ukraine is facing with staffing and morale, a mobilisation law which came into force today

will make it easier to identify every conscript in the country. it also provides financial incentives to soldiers. earlier, i spoke to member of the ukrainian parliament, lesia vasylenko, and started by asking her about this new legislation. it's one of the most debated laws in ukraine as of today. the biggest issue was this law on mobilisation is that it doesn't cover... it doesn't have provisions on demobilisation. that means letting go of the people who have been serving since 2022 and possibly even earlier than that, essentially giving them a break, giving them some time with theirfamilies, the possibility to recover properly from their wounds, for example, the nonvisible wounds, which might be mental health wounds. why is that? i mean, surely mr zelensky has addressed this point. what reason has he given for not

allowing his troops to recuperate? so there is... ok, this is a complex question, but the simple answer to that is that another law is on the way that will allow for the demobilisation of the existing soldiers. right now, ukraine is in such a position that we need as many men and women, for that matter, who can fight and who can hold the ukrainian defences, and so this law on mobilisation actually does exactly that, making sure that the army will not be short of resources. it doesn't mean that all of a sudden tomorrow there will be military commissariats out on the street, grabbing every man possible and sending them off to the front lines. that's not the way that it works. the troops that are fighting today for ukraine's freedom, they are well—trained troops that need to go through training centres, that need to go through education centres for them to be able to properly do theirjob. this is exactly the reason why it's

not possible all of a sudden to let go of the men and women who are well—trained, well—skilled to counter russia's offensives on the battlefields. this needs to be done in a systemic way, and that systemic way is exactly what is being prepared by the legislators today. are those the incentives the incentives that have been are those the incentives, the incentives that have been included as part of this new law, is that enough to recruit soldiers? it's a step in that direction. definitely there need to be more incentives within the army itself. these are dependent largely on the military aid that ukraine actually gets, not only gets pledged or promised, but that actually arrives in ukraine, and that largely depends also on the financial capabilities of the budget of ukraine. you understand that we cannot have, for example, financial motivations and incentives if there is no

investments into the economy and if the economy is at a standstill. also, there is no way of guaranteeing that you will have all the equipment that you need to carry out yourjob in the army if that equipment is not coming because the aid is not coming to ukraine. 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 was badly beaten in a hammer attack in march in lithuania, which he believes was ordered by president putin's regime. in his first interview since that attack, he also backed mr navalny�*s widow yulia to lead the opposition campaign against mr putin. he was speaking to the bbc�*s laura kuensberg.

alexei was a close friend, a great guy, an 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 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, to alexei, and for us, as for me, navalny�*s organisation, the teams that navalny organised gather together, it's very clear and natural that our task in this situation is just like 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. let me show you these pictures from here in london, where a single—storey bus was destroyed after it caught fire on richmond road on saturday afternoon. video footage from the scene in twickenham showed firefighters battling huge flames and billowing black smoke in the middle of the street. no—one was hurt and the road has

been closed for the rest of the day while investigations continue. five fire engines and about 30 firefighters tookjust over an hour to extinguish the fire. now it's time for a look at today's sport with lizzie. hello from the bbc sport centre. xander schauffele still leads the uspga at valhalla — golf�*s second major the year. the american is midway through his 3rd round. and after a very steady start he's finally made a birdie to move ahead of colin morikawa on 13 under par. but the biggest movers so far in kentucky are ireland's shane lowry, who's playing incredible golf for 12 under with england'sjustin rose a further shot behind. rory mcilroy is still in contention on 9 under. 0nto football — and chelsea have won the women's super league for the fifth successive year.

they pipped title rivals manchester city on goal difference after thrashing manchester united 6—0 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 seveth 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. having all the leaders on the pitch i felt was absolutely essential. it was a big occasion and you need the experience and everybody delivered today. i don't think i have any words. i'm probably mixed with a tonne of different emotions and now it is the end and i won't be with

this team are these fans again, but... 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. 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 three. elsewhere, mercedes' george russell was sixth quickest while lewis hamilton

was down in eighth. the world number one iga swiatek has won the italian open for a third time. she beat her rival aryna sabalenka in straight sets in rome. and unlike their thrilling clash at the madrid 0pen earlier this month, swiatek was totally dominant in this one winning 6—2, 6—3 for her 21st career title. in just a couple of hours' time, 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 weigh—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 will keep this short. i want to thank god for the

victory i've received already. i want to thank everybody involved in putting this massive event on. i want to thank usyk for turning up and challenging me. and that's about it. thank you to the fans who travelled 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. can find out what happens if you followed on the bbc sport website, but that is all the support from me. thank you, lizzie. 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. translation: today, ivetoed translation: today, i vetoed the russian lava _ translation: today, i vetoed the russian law. this _ translation: today, i vetoed the russian law. this law _ translation: today, i vetoed the russian law. this law in _ translation: today, i vetoed the russian law. this law in essence i translation: today, | vetoed the | russian law. this law in essence and in its but it is a russian law which contradicts our constitution and all russian standards and represents an obstacle on the european part. db2

is legally correct and will be to parliament. —— the veto is legally correct. however, salome zourabichvili acknowleged her veto was merely symbolic, as the governing party can overturn it with a simple majority in parliament. critics say the "foreign agent" law, which was passed on tuesday, will stifle democracy. it would oblige ngos and media organisations to register if they receive more then 20% of their funding from abroad. 0ur correspondent rayhan demytrie is in tbilisi. protesters had gathered following the announcement. these protesters favour salome zourabichvili who has been campaigning since last year to ensure georgia gets its candidate status with the eu and georgia did indeed receive candidate status, but the problem now is that these people see the adoption of this law may derail the country from its chosen

path to join 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 may believe that georgia's european future is at stake. full stop speaking to his earlier from tbilisi. —— are corresponded speaking to us earlier from tbilisi. stay what is 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 800,0800 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. hello, i'm lukwesa burak. 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 in the 19705, �*80s and �*90s. many have since died, others unknowingly passed infections on to partners — who then died.

victims and their families have spent decades fighting for compensation. chloe hayward has more. it is known as the biggest treatment disaster in nhs history and so far we know 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 blood transfusions could infect people with hepatitis as early as the 19705 but those expo5ed were not tested, even when a test became available. minimal effort was made to identify those affected. 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 cirrho5is

and eventually cancer, so a late diagnosis often comes with a dire progno5i5. 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 orphan5, mothers who buried their children and husbands who unknowingly passed infection5 onto their wives. victim5 said they were ignored by doctors and treated as dirty or second—class citizens by the nhs. victims and their families have waited a0 year5 forju5tice. the focus now is on compensation. chloe hayward. and you can follow monday�*s proceedings on the infected blood scandal live here on bbc news and iplayer. now to the plight of unpaid carer5 in the uk, who look after elderly or disabled relatives. more than a 1,000 unpaid carer5 are being forced to repay

an average of £1,800 — or almost $2,300 — each, money that many of them say they don't have. radio 4's moneybox reporter, dan whitworth has more. unpaid carer5 do an incrediblejob, caring for a loved one, often day in, day out, week in, week out, with few, if any, breaks. but many tens of thousands of them have unwittingly or accidentally received overpayments of carer�*s allowance, and now they're being asked to pay it back. people like karina moon, whose daughter amber require5 round—the—clock care. she told breakfast three weeks ago that she's having to pay back £11,000 after unknowingly earning slightly over the claim limit at her part—time supermarketjob. at the moment i pay £60 a month and i've been paying that for the last four years, to repay my overpayment,

which was the £11,000. and i will be paying that until i'm 73. so i've got another 11 years of paying the £60 a month, which takes money out of our income. it's money that would help me run the car, help pay bills, put food on the table, all of those things. 0r people like gina, who's also been landed with a bill. i was presented with a bill, that obviously i'd been overpaid, and it was sort of £7,600. you know, receiving that bill was a huge blow. because, you know, it is a big debt by anyone's standards, even though i was only working part—time. for me, it was huge. the5e latest figures show £251 million is currently owed by more than 134,000 carer5, which works out as an average debt of nearly £1,900 each.

liberal democrat leader sir ed davey, who's a carer for his teenage son, has previously called for these debts to be cancelled. it's just unbelievable that the government should be clawing back this money and blaming the carer5, when it's the government's own incompetence and the government's flawed 5y5tem. there's something seriously wrong here. you know, people work hard. they pay their taxes, they look after their loved ones. the government should be incentivi5ing work, helping the5e carers, and it's doing the reverse. if unpaid carer5 care for someone for more than 35 hours per week, they're entitled to carer�*s allowance worth £81.90 a week. but they're not allowed to earn more than £151 per week take—home pay. if they do, even byjust a few pence, they lose the entire allowance. but because they don't realise or aren't informed for months or even years, some carer5 keep receiving overpayments,

and unwittingly racking up debt. it's really tough. they are shocked and horrified when they get a notice that they've been overpaid and it's devastating for their mental health and feels really tough paying that back sometimes as well. the department for work and pensions says the total owed by carer5 include5 historical debt, compares to a forecast budget of £4.2 billion on carer�*s allowance this year alone, and that it is committed to fairness in the welfare system. new figures show that alcohol abuse in england costs 5ervice5 £27 billion a year. it's according to research from the institute of alcohol studies, which found that the harms of drinking put an extra strain on the nhs, social services, the criminalju5tice system, and labour market. the department of health and social care said its funding 5pecialist care teams in hospitals in england.

families who's loved ones have been killed because of knife crime are urging young people to understand the devastating consequences of carrying a blade. ashi5h nahar was attacked while walking through a park. his 16—year—old killer was sentenced to 1a—and—a—half years in prison. 0ur reporter, janine machin, has been hearing his story. he was a fun, happy, cheerful, loving and very, very caring boy. in june last year, 25—year—old ashi5h nahar was walking throuthubilee park in bedford when he was attacked by kamil serba. the 16—year—old had cycled over and stabbed him through the heart. in 5econds, his life was lost and his family's lives changed forever. i was singing a song in the garden. i texted a friend.

just to wish them eid mubarak. and then i told them that ashi5h was doing well, he had a good job. you know, "he's turned his life around". three hours later, i'm texting the same person to say that he's passed away. one morning, iju5t went straight to the park. everything was sealed off. and there was police guarding the area. i was sitting there crying, everybody wondered where i had gone to. i've been brave to walk around, talk, laugh, but deep down, i know how much it kills me. but i have to keep going for my little boy. everybody is broken. my dad doesn't know how to reassure me. when she talks about ashish, she starts crying.

my heart gets broken because i can't handle it. i can't explain to anyone how i miss him. tho5e feelings are something ben hardwidge's family knows too well. he was 22 when he died after being attacked in essex. he had been stabbed 50 times. that was 20 years ago, but his brotherjames says the emotions are raw. when i come to see ben at his grave, it does get to you _ it does get to you. what would it be like if he was still here? i everybody loved him. i looked up to him. i've always looked up to him. he was my little brother. it was hard, especially for my mum and dad. i my mum and dad ended up moving away, kind of — it destroyed us. _ destroyed us, really. such a fun—loving guy.

and i stayed, and mum and dad went to spain. j two families, 20 years apart, but united in grief. each hoping that by sharing their story for theju5t drop it campaign, they can help save another life. talk to your child. the way you talk to them about sexual abuse and strangers. talk to them about knives. the severity of it. the damage it does. i won't be able to see a5hi5h's children, grandchildren. thousands have marched in a pro—palestinian prote5t in central london calling for the end of the war in gaza. crowds took to oxford and regent 5treet carrying palestinian flags. the protest was commemorating the anniversary of the events in 19118 described as the "nakba", meaning catastrophe, by palestinians. this was when israel was established as an independent state, and where, up to 750,000 palestinians who had lived on that land fled or were expelled from their homes.

to slovakia next. the man charged with an assassination attempt on prime minister robert fico will be held in custody. the 71—year—old was brought to court in a police convoy. a court spokeswoman said the reason for his pre—trial detention is because of concerns about a potential escape or that criminal activity may continue. doctors treating prime minister fico say they will not be able to transfer him to the country's capital, bratislava, because his condition is still too serious for him to be moved from the small town hospital near where he was shot on wednesday. 0ur europe correspondent

bethany bell is in bratislava. we had a statement from slovakia's health minister earlier today saying that mr fico underwent surgery yesterday to remove dead tissue from the gunshot wound and that appears to have stabilised his condition. she spoke of what she called a positive prognosis. but, of course, mr fico remains in a very serious condition. as you said there, he's not able to be moved yet from this hospital in central slovakia to the capital. and people have also said, the deputy prime minister said they are able to communicate with him within the limits of his condition. and, for now, they would not be appointing a caretaker leader. six people have been killed as unrest continues in the french pacific ocean territory of new caledonia. the protests have been sparked by changes to voting rights. some areas are calm, but residents have reported hearing gunfire and explosions.

emily brown has more on how events unfolded. let's have a look at the background into why this has happened. new caledonia in the south pacific has been french territory since colonisation in the late 18005. politics remains dominated by debate about whether the island should be part of france, autonomous or independent. the latest cycle of violence was sparked by plans in paris to impose new voting rules that could give tens of thousands of non—indigenous residents voting rights. and there have been tensions between france and azerbaijan over this. paris has pointed to the sudden emergence of azerbaijani flags in the protests. relations between the two countries have been difficult since last year, when azerbaijan took the region of nagorno—karabakh. this crushed armenian separatist forces, and france is a supporter of armenia. france has now accused azerbaijan of political interference in its pacific territory, new caledonia. but baku has denied the claims.

the french prime minister has met parliamentary liaison committees to discuss the new caledonia crisis. meanwhile, the french government has even banned tiktok in new caledonia, as it's been popular with rioters in the region. but, despite another night of unrest, french authorities now say the situation is being brought under control. cctv footage has emerged of the rapper sean "diddy" combs physically assaulting his then—girlfriend cassie ventura in the corridor of a hotel in 2016. ms ventura made allegations of rape and physical abuse against him in a lawsuit that was settled last year. combs is at the centre of several civil lawsuits accusing him of sex offences. this report from emma vardy has some distressing images.

cassie ventura claims she suffered years of abuse in her relationship with p diddy, one of the most influential artists in hip—hop. in the cctv footage, she is seen leaving a hotel room. sean combs appears to run after her, before carrying out a violent assault. the full tape shows her being kicked as she lies on the ground. after taking her items, next, the rapper seems to be seen throwing an object towards her. the video — obtained by the american news channel, cnn, has not been independently verified, but lawyers for cassie ventura, who has not objected to it being shown, say it confirms p diddy�*s disturbing and predatory behaviour. last month, homes linked with sean combs were raided by police in what they said was an ongoing investigation into sex trafficking. 0fficers searched properties in beverly hills, new york

and miami associated with his production company. cassie ventura had previously brought a lawsuit against sean combs in relation to the incident in the video, said to be at a los angeles hotel. she settled out of court, but since then, several others have come forward, accusing him of sexual abuse. sean combs has previously denied all the allegations. in march, his lawyer called it a witch—hunt. today those lawyers said they no longer represent him. the video appears to corroborate one of the incidents described in cassie ventura's case. her accusations and others against p diddy — a self—proclaimed bad boy — now part of a dramatic downfall for one of hip—hop's biggest names. emma vardy, bbc news, los angeles. the personal wealth of the prime minister and his wife, akshata murty, rose by £122 million last year, making the couple richer than king charles. that's according to the sunday times rich lis.

it's mainly due to ms murty�*s shares in an it company co—founded by her father. the allied troops who fought german forces in italy were known as the d—day dodgers — mocked for sunbathing on beaches and missing the normandy landings in 19114. yet the battles for catholic monastery of monte cassino situated above the hill town of cassino were some of the most bitter and brutal of the second world war. this weekend, commemorations taking place mark the last milestone anniversary for the few remaining veterans well enough to take part. peter caddick—adams is an historian and author of monte cassino: ten armies in hell. i spoke with him earlier and started by asking him about the significance

of the coalition that fought during those battles. yeah, the allied coalition was really run by the americans, the canadians, the british, the free french and the poles. but there were other nations who sent detachments as well. and in the end, field marshal alexander said that he reckoned he had 21 different coalition partners under his command for the italian theatre. and that has a very modern resonance, because those are the sort of numbers of coalition partners we've had in bosnia, or iraq, or afghanistan. and the learning of how to work together and cooperate was extremely important. and that was really the reason for allied success. at the end of the day. i don't know if you're aware of who will be attending this anniversary? i mean, it is hugely significant and important. particularly, it's probably going to be the last one for the remaining survivors of world war ii. yes. it's largely been lost,

because it's happening just before the d—day landings in june 19114. so this is not one but four battles that take part in central italy, about an hour's drive south of rome, at the confluence of several valleys overlooked by a mountain. and on the top of that mountain is an abbey that's about 1,500 years old, founded by st benedict in 529 ad. it was the allies who bombed it, and it was the germans who removed a lot of the art treasures beforehand and put them in the vatican. so it's one of the very few battles where the germans come out with an enhanced reputation, and they're very well thought of in the cassino area and even in the vatican for their efforts to preserve all these art treasures. so the commemoration is is equal on both sides. the british museum has recovered another 268 stolen artefacts, some of which had been sold on ebay forjust a few pounds. most were gems and jewellery from greek and roman times. they were part of a trove of items

revealed last year to have gone missing from the world—renowned museum, causing a global scandal. a senior curator suspected of involvement was sacked but he denies any wrongdoing. about 1,500 items in total disappeared from museum store—rooms nearly half of those have now been found across europe and north america. now, bridgerton has been a fan favourite on netflix forfour years — and it has returned for a third outing. set in the early 18005, 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. i want to show you these pictures of pope francis — who found has found himself surrounded by a group of nuns, as he attended a ceremony in verona. the nuns, who rarely leave their convents, were released for the special occasion and took the opportunity to touch the pope's hands and kiss his crucifix.

good news if you enjoyed the solar storms that led to spectacular displays of the northern lights a week ago could return towards earth in two weeks' time. the conditions have been caused by a sun spot — 15 times as wide as earth. we could be seeing the northern lights once again. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willetts. 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.

live from london, this is bbc news. the un says 800,000 people have been forced to flee rafah since an israeli offensive began nearly two weeks ago. restrictions are lifted on more than 80% of properties affected by a parasite outbreak in devon's water supply. president zelensky says ukraine only has about a quarter of the air

defences it needs to fight off russian attacks. a close ally of the late russian opposition leader alexei navalny tells the bbc he will "never give up" fighting putin. he asked us to never give up and to continue our work and defeat putin and build this beautiful russia of the future. hello, i'm lukwesa burak. welcome to bbc news. 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.