live from washington. this is bbc news. president biden calls monday's us supreme court ruling that gives presidents broad immunity a dangerous precedent. no—one is above the law. not even the president of the united states. today's supreme court decision on presidential immunity, that fundamentally changed. american becomes a record—breaking category five storm as it moves through the caribbean. centrist and left—wing parties in france work together to try and block the far right in the second round of parliamentary elections. hello, i'm carl nasman. by by and addressed the country a short time ago after the

supreme court granted donald trump for criminal prosecution. all form and future presidents will be shielded from criminal charges for any official acts taken during the presidency but not for unofficial actions they take as a private citizen. he urged americans to vote tactically at the polls in november. the american people must decide if they want to entrust the president once again, the presidency to donald trump. now knowing he'll be more emboldened to do whatever he wants to do. you know, the outset of our nation is the character of george washington, ourfirst president who defined the presidency. he believed power was limited, not absolute. that power always resides with the people. always. however 200 years later, today's supreme court decision once again will depend

on the character of the men and women who hold that presidency. that will define the limits of the power of the presidency. because the law will no longer do it. i know i will respect the limits of the presidential powers i have for 3.5 years. but any president including donald trump will now be free to ignore the law. i concur with the justice�*s dissent today. in every use of official power, the president is now a king above law. with fear for our democracy, i dissent. end of quote. so should the american people dissent. i dissent. the top court's decision will also cause further delay in donald trump's election interference trial in washington, dc. it is now highly unlikely it will finish before the presidential election. in a social media post, donald trump praised the ruling

as a big win for our constitution and democracy. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal has more on what the top court's decision means amid a fraught presidential election. this is seen as a huge victory by donald trump and his supporters and the republican party. they have been taking a victory lap, they view the ruling by the supreme court as some sort of defence against what they claim is the weaponisation of the political system by joe biden against donald trump, a claim they make without any evidence. for the democratic party, this is a loss in many ways because they believed that donald trump should be held accountable for the allegations against him. joe biden�*s campaign team released a statement after the ruling saying that it doesn't take away what happened onjanuary 6. those riots, they believe that donald trump is

responsible for that. we were on a call earlier, a press call involving the democratic party, the campaign team and they said that this reiterates the message that they are giving to the american electorate that democracy is at stake. democracy is on the ballot. and what the supreme court has ruled today effectively confirms that. clearly they are going to make this a campaign issue going forward. whether or not this ruling and the implications of it matters to americans and compared to all the other issues they will be having to deal with and think about as they head into the election remains to be seen. the landmark decision is the first time in the nation's founding that a supreme court has ruled that former presidents can be shielded from criminal charges. the supreme court's ruling was divided along partisan lines with a 6 to 3 vote. chiefjusticejohn roberts delivered the conservative majority

opinion that has now granted mr trump presumptive immunity. spoke to the scotus blogs reporter amy howe. it said donald trump could now be free to be above the law.— to be above the law. there is a core set of _ to be above the law. there is a core set of presidential - to be above the law. there is a core set of presidential powersi core set of presidential powers from which a president can never be prosecuted in connection with and there is a presumption of a president is acting in his official capacity and they said he can do that broadly, the president will be immune for that as well. it could come down, if the president said this will be dependent on the character of the people in office. how broad of airpower

does this really give the presidency? that's what we will find out. the dissent thought, it was quite broad and it said this was really extraordinary language. from the two dissenting justices. one took a step of reading from her dissent in the courtroom which is something the justices only do when they really want to make a statement and will strongly about something so the president quoted from the end of her dissent where she said with fear for our democracy and the other justice jackson also had a dissent where she called the decision sounding a five alarm fire for democratic self—governance. on the other hand, it is interesting to hear from donald trump himself calling it a victory for himself legally but he also said it's a victory for democracy. what you make about those comments and the arguments from many republicans say that this was something that was necessary and the office of the presidency needs to be protected and should feel confident to take any action it feels necessary as president while in office? that was the rationale for the supreme court decision.

two real rationales that they pointed to, the first is when a president is in office he or she needs to be able two decisions without worrying that they will face prosecution when they leave office. and then the second concern was if a president could be criminally prosecuted after they leave office, this would set up a vicious cycle in which former presidents will be prosecuted and so the next president would prosecute his successor or predecessor. for the comments from the former president, continuing the remarks that we heard from him — this idea that this is not real charges and this is a part as a witch hunt. there will be some fallout here when it comes to the many trials that donald trump is facing. i want to ask you first how this might change the way special prosecutor jack smith goes about this election interference case in washington, dc? it will not go back even immediately to the lower

courts, it is a procedural step where it takes a bit of time. when it goes back to the lower court, he is going to have to show that the conduct that he is alleging as the basis for the charges is part of the unofficial act by the former president rather than an official act and the supreme court even said in the majority opinion this will be a very fact intensive analysis. they suggested some of the charges are some of the conduct alleged involving for example former president trump's conversations with officials in the department ofjustice would be an official act that he couldn't be charged for that. they suggested that his conversations with the then vice—president mike pence trying to convince him not to count the electoral votes onjanuary 6 could be part of his official act but they left the door open a little bit forjack smith to come back and prove it was not. the judge will be hearing a lot of arguments assuming the case goes forward

about what is and is not exactly official conduct. about a minute left but i want to ask you, we are hearing reports for our cbs news partners saying donald trump is now looking to overturn his conviction in the new york hush money case. citing this supreme court ruling. what are the chances that legal argument may be successful? it could be a little bit of a tough sell that the allegations, the conduct at the centre of the case i'm not an expert in it but it spans both before and after trump was elected president and when he took office and the supreme court in the decision today made clear that this applies to a president's act while in office. to be extent that some of them have happened after he was president, they went to the idea that falsifying business records and signing cheques to michael cohen and it could be a tough sell to the new york state

judge that this was part of a president's official act. we are going to hear this argument in some detail. donald trump's former top adviser steve bannon reported to prison on monday to serve a four—month sentence. he was convicted for defying a congressional subpoena from a committee probing the january 6 2021 attack on the us capitol. mr bannon claims his conversations with then president trump that day should be protected under executive privilege. but on friday, the supreme court rejected a last—minute bid to delay his sentence. our north america editor sarah smith sat down with mr bannon for an interview last week. she began by asking him how he feels about his prison sentence. how do you feel about that? it doesn't make a difference, that's four years on a navy ship, i served my country now for the last ten or so years focusing on this. if i had to do that in prison i will. no difference at all. well, several months away from the election, do you accept it is possible that joe biden could fairly win the election in november? impossible. remember, early voting,

the ballots get mailed but early voting starts in this country around mid—september. we are only 100 days away from when it starts. if you say it's impossible for him to win fairly... crosstalk you are declaring now are you that if he... hang on, hang on. if he is declared the winner you will claim the election is stolen? he didn't win in 2020. he is totally not legitimate. this is the basic thing, this is why this show, our audience have never wavered from this ever. there were 60 court cases where judges found no evidence. that is not true. they didn't have standing. this is never adjudicated. look into this november... if he is declared the winner you will immediately cry foul and say... how do you say declared winner? by certification by the states? he will not get certified by the states. he would not have been certified last time if we didn't have the

fiasco of january 6. you said to supporters that they need to be ready to fight back. what does that mean? we mean on tables like this, it is not votes it is ballots. right now we have trained up an army of poll workers, poll watchers, election officials, we have been training upforyears, lawyers will be ready and this time they will have their filings ready to go and there will be outside the courthouse. and just some clarification on those comments — president biden fairly won the 2020 election as certified by all 50 states and washington, dc that year. according to politifact, a nonpartisan fact—checking operation run by the poynter institute, mr trump's election fraud lawsuits failed either due to error or lack of evidence. in addition, the associated press reviewed every case of potential voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by mr trump, and found fewer than 475. these cases would not have changed the outcome

in any state. the first major hurricane of the atlantic season, asa as a category five, it is triggering flash flooding and bringing windspeed of 250 kilometres an hour or 160 miles an hour. this is a look at its projected path, berrill threatening to bring dangerous conditions to barbados, st vincent and the grenadines and tobago stopper the national hurricane centre it is expected to bring threatening wind and storm surges to jamaica this week. it shattered records becoming the strongest atlantic hurricane to form this early in the year. the earliest category five that had formed previously was hurricane emily onjuly i6 2005. i have been speaking to a meteorologist and i asked him

how prepared countries in the region r4 hurricane is of the strength. region r4 hurricane is of the strength-— region r4 hurricane is of the strength. they don't see this kind of storm _ strength. they don't see this kind of storm often - strength. they don't see this kind of storm often or - strength. they don't see this kind of storm often or at - strength. they don't see this kind of storm often or at alll kind of storm often or at all certainly not injuly if you think about preparations with things like holidays you think of them in terms of seasons this is the kind of hurricane you might get if they are in august or september not on the first ofjuly. fortunately it did not hit the big islands, did not hit the big islands, did go right over carriacou, reports of widespread damage there and hopefully no loss of life. it is now healing to the caribbean en route to jamaica on wednesday, could go right overjamaica to the south. jamaica has never seen hurricane force wind at any time in the month ofjuly much less the first week ofjuly once again, it is weeks and weeks before expectations. what weeks before expectations. what does be 1 weeks before expectations. what does beryl tell — weeks before expectations. what does beryl tell us _ weeks before expectations. what does beryl tell us about - weeks before expectations. what does beryl tell us about the upcoming hurricane season, you said it is early, is this a

sign of bad things to come? it's been abundantly clear from looking at ocean temperatures over the last year the ant atlantic has been setting records for warp and pumping greenhouse gas into the atmosphere and warming the oceans, they are now at a high point on the warming trend, if you heat up the burner and heated up early you will get more bubbling and that's exactly what has happened. 0cean temperatures are like kindling in a dry forest, you don't know you will get by but the potential is laid down and then you need to spark and that is all we were waiting on was a spark in form of an easterly wave coming of africa forming the nucleus for hurricane and we expect more of those into and september and we have all the all we need, certainly forecasters that do seasonal forecasting are pretty unanimous this will be an exceptionally active and busy year. it all comes down to whether and where they make landfall, hard to not imagine getting some very bad landfall.

will this be the new normal you mention the role climate change plays in the extreme temperatures and oceans, could we see more intense hurricane seasons to come, is just —— is this the beginning? in seasons to come, is 'ust -- is this the beginning?_ this the beginning? in the atlantic that _ this the beginning? in the atlantic that trend - this the beginning? in the atlantic that trend has - this the beginning? in the l atlantic that trend has been upward in terms of number of hurricanes that become intense, category four or five the case in many parts of the world. the total number of hurricanes globally is level there is an evening out, one baseness and one is less is, the pacific has been quiet this year, when hurricanes develop in any of these oceans warmup waters give them more of a chance to grow so the proportion that get dad is growing and we see no sign of that changing. bab is growing and we see no sign of that changing. bob hansen, “ournalist of that changing. bob hansen, journalist and _ of that changing. bob hansen, journalist and meteorologist i journalist and meteorologist thank you were your information. hurricane beryl hoping for the safety of everybody in its path.

around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. with just days left to convince voters before thursday's general election, parties have been hammering home their core messages. rishi sunak has warned about what he called the "danger of an unchecked labour government with "a supermajority" but denied having given up hope of trying to win the election. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, has called for a "summer of change". england midfielder jude bellingham is being investigated for a gesture he made after his very late equaliser against slovakia. european football's governing body uefa says it's looking into a potential violation of the basic rules of conduct. jude bellingham says it was an inside joke with some friends at the game. military horses broke free and ran loose through the centre of london on monday. it's the second such incident since april. the uk ministry of defence said the three horses came loose from their riders during exercises. they were soon returned to their barracks.

one of the horses sustained minor injuries. none of the horses that escaped were involved in the previous incident. you're live with bbc news. french political rivals are back on the campaign trail after the far right party made historic games. the far right leaders party came out on top of the votes, the centrist movement finished in third place, now french voters will go back to the polls on sunday for a second round of voting in an election that has the potential to plunge france into a political crisis. andrew harding has the latest and a warning there are flashing images with his report. paris, the day after. and for many here, a profound sense of shock. "it's like having a hangover," says sandrine, a legal assistant of yesterday's

election results. "people are fed up with politics," says caroline, "so they're turning to the extremes." "it's like the plague". when the far right gets power it holds onto power. this woman is morning. they're all talking about this woman, marine le pen, whose party, the national rally, took the lead in sunday's vote. if the surname is familiar, that's because her father, jean—marie le pen, was a notorious far right politician, a racist and anti—semite. but his daughter has softened the national rally�*s image and platform, and last night won big across the nation. her party's populist, anti—immigrant, eurosceptic message and its 28—year—old candidate for the prime minister's job, finding broad appeal. formerly, it was more people that were workers in complicated economic situations.

now you have also white collars voting for national rally. you have women voting for national rally, you have young people. meanwhile, france's president is in trouble. no wonder it looked like emmanuel macron was trying to hide yesterday. his election gamble has backfired. his centrist party on track to lose heavily. so what of plans to block the far right from sweeping to victory? this afternoon, different parties began arriving at parliament, aiming to forge a united front against the national rally. but the divisions are all too evident. the leader of the green party here brought to tears of frustration during this debate. france is still digesting the shock of yesterday's election result. love it or loathe it, the national rally is now at the heart of france's political mainstream. more than that, it is the most powerful party across the country.

but can it translate that into enough seats in parliament to win outright? if it can, france will be changed utterly. andrew harding, bbc news, paris. if national rally wins majority in the french parliament we could see an outcome that run schools cohabitation that would likely see emmanuel macron forced to promote a rival as prime minister while he remains in charge of running the government. if the national rally gets a majority the candidate will run the french government is the youngest ever primed us to, and the president would be at odds as the prime minister reports to the parliament leaves the government and introduces bills while the president will still hold some powers over foreign policy, european affairs. there is only been other three times

in french history when it has experienced cohabitation the last one was from 1997 — 2002. the israeli military has ordered palestinians to leave the southern gaza city of han eunice after rockets would hide towards israel, witnesses save many had already fled after receiving audio messages telling them to leave for the israeli military posted a second warning to social military —— media. it covers the area around the european hospital with staff moving key equipment to another hospital, the israeli prime minister said the israeli prime minister said the intense phase of the war with hamas was about to end but vowed to continue operating until they were eliminated. the head of elsie hospital has been released after seven months of detention. he said he was subjected to severe torture while in custody, one of dozens

of palestinian prisoners return to the gaza strip. the israeli prison service said it was not aware of its claims. the doctor was released _ aware of its claims. the doctor was released this _ aware of its claims. the doctor was released this morning. - he has made several statements, he alleged he was tortured and he alleged he was tortured and he saw torture in the prisons as well. we have heard similar allegations from prisoners who have been released recently. there have been many more prisoners who have been detained by israel since the war erupted between israel and hamas full the internal security service said the reason why people like the doctor are being released now is because prisons are overcrowded there is not the space to keep them, great criticism from a number of ministers the former war cabinet minister benny gant said should resign over this but someone who is a suspect accused of sheltering those who carried out the october seven attacks should not be released. what the doctor made this

allegation of torture, we conducted — meet we contacted the israeli prison service which said it had not heard any of those complaints so far, that all rights of prisoners are respected but that everyone who goes to prison in israel has the right to file a complaint and it will be fully examined. complaint and it will be fully examined-— complaint and it will be fully examined. ., , ., , examined. some other stories makin: examined. some other stories making headlines. _ examined. some other stories making headlines. 19 - examined. some other stories making headlines. 19 people l making headlines. 19 people have been killed in a clash between two drug gangs and a southern mexican state, it says a cargo truck was found with 16 men shot dead inside while three others were found dead outside the vehicle, an initial investigation said the clash was between this and a lower cutter one of the most powerful in mexico. nigeria's vice president says many are dead after multiple suicide bombings in the south of the country, the attacks targeted a wedding a funeral and hospital and were

believed to have been carried out by female suicide bombers, it is one of the worst in northeast nigerfor it is one of the worst in northeast niger for years. it is one of the worst in northeast nigerfor years. he wrote this is one of its planes had to make an emergency landing in brazil after it was hit by severe turbulence that injured 30 people, the boeing 787 dreamliner was flying from madrid to montevideo and hit turbulence over the atlantic ocean near the brazilian coast. 0cean near the brazilian coast. the authorities injapan have imposed restrictions on the number of tourists allowed to climb the country �*s most famous volcano mount fuji. from today only 4000 people a day will be allowed to use the popular trail and they will each be charged $13 to do so. last summer close to quarter of a million people climbed mount fuji leading to congested paths littered with rubbish. i am kyle essman in washington. we will hand over to our colleagues in london. plenty more on the day developments and all our top stories. stay

with us, right here, on bbc news. hello there. not much change to the weather as we move into tuesday. in fact, the upcoming week will remain pretty unsettled, i think, with low pressure always nearby. it will be breezy, even turning windier across northern areas by the end of the week. some rain at times, mainly in the north and the west, and it will remain on the cool side for earlyjuly. this ridge of high pressure, though, bringing quite a bit of dry weather, i think, on tuesday. we'll start off with quite a bit of sunshine around in northern, central and western areas. more cloud for eastern england, a few spots of rain — that rain will tend to ease down. and then as we head into the afternoon, skies will turn cloudy again as the temperatures rise a little bit, and we'll see some patchy rain pushing into western scotland, mainly through the afternoon. again, disappointing temperatures, 13 to maybe 19 or 20 degrees across the south. so i think it should stay mostly dry for wimbledon on tuesday — temperatures around 20 degrees — but with low pressure moving in on wednesday, i think there's a greater chance of seeing some disruption to play

with temperatures also at around 18 degrees. so as you move out of tuesday into tuesday night, we start to see this low—pressure system moving in, bringing thicker cloud, outbreaks of rain and stronger winds. i think the far southeast will stay dry until we reach the morning period, but because of the cloud, the rain, and southwesterly winds, i think it'll be a slightly milder night for all. so wednesday, we have this area of low pressure and its weather front crossing the country. it'll be a breezy day for most and a cloudy one. i think cloudy from the word go, outbreaks of rain splashing their way from west to east. i think it stays quite wet across northern and western scotland through the day. we could see something a little bit drier, perhaps, into the afternoon across eastern areas, maybe skies brightening up out west, certainly for northern ireland, but a breezy, even blustery day to come for all areas — these are mean wind speeds. temperatures disappointing for earlyjuly at 12 to 17 or 18 degrees across the south. so that's wednesday out. as we move through thursday, this area of low pressure will bring even stronger northwesterly winds

to the country, most of the rain across the north. and then for friday into the start of the weekend, could see another area of low pressure hurtling across the uk to bring another spell of wet and windy weather. so yes, an unsettled outlook for the end of the week. most of the rain in the north and the west. there will be a little bit of sunshine at times in the south and the east.

voice-over: this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. israel's military assault on gaza has lasted almost nine months, and there seems little prospect of it ending any time soon. international diplomats are pushing a phased ceasefire formula, but the israeli government and hamas have staked out positions which remain unbridgeable. for the population of gaza, for the israeli hostages still held in captivity, it means no relief from their prolonged trauma. my guest is the chief palestinian diplomat in london, husam zomlot. is there any chink of light in all this darkness?