singapore, i'm steve lai. the headlines.. a crush at a religious festival in northern india — has left more than 100 people dead. the un says a quarter of a million people in southern gaza are trying to flee from khan younis — after the israeli military issued evacuation orders the former british nurse lucy letby has been found guilty of the attempted murder of another baby after multiple convictions last year hurricane beryl advances toward jamaica after becoming the atlantic's earliest ever category five storm. less than 48 hours before the uk general election — former prime minister boris johnson makes a surprise apperance to help boost rishi sunak�*s campaign

welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in northern india where at least 116 people have been killed in a crush at a religious gathering. many of the victims are women and children. a large number of people are being treated in hospital. there are fears casualties could rise. authorities in the state of uttar pradesh say thousands had gathered in the city of hathras for a prayer meeting led by a hindu preacher. what triggered the crush isn't clear, but reports from the area suggest the hot and humid conditions inside a tent set up for the meeting may have been a factor. these witnesses explained what they saw. translation: people started falling one upon another, - one upon another. those who were crushed died. people there pulled them out. translation: | came to this | event with eight other people, but none of them survived.

india's prime minister narendra modi has also commented on the tragedy. translation: i'vejust received this sad news. we're getting reports of many deaths in the stampede in hathras. i express my condolences to the families of those who've lost their lives in this tragic incident. our south east asia editor anbarasan ethirajan sent us this update from uttar pradesh on the situation. this is one of the health centres where dozens this is one of the main hospitals and does the people are waiting in the corridors inside this hospital to know more about their relatives who attended this religious gathering earlier in the day. in a village about 35 kilometers from here. officials here say they given permission for about 80,000 people to

attend this legislature by a very popular later here in this part of uttar pradesh, and people that come from not only uttar pradesh but also from daily, and other areas. and what officials believe because of overcrowding, this crush happened. some of the people who we spoke to, they said people were waiting in nine to get the lessons of this religious leader and that's when people started pushing each other and this unfortunate thing happened. now, more than 200 people are taking treatment in four different hospitals in neighboring districts because this practical hospital alone cannot handle. it's a huge truck for the communities around here because most of those killed were women, about 100 in each of them so far, and the officials are expecting the casualty figure to go up, and effects we met a couple people a few minutes ago, we are going into the hospital looking for

one of their aunts. they said they went to other hospitals and there was no information and there was no information and no response from her phone as well, so we have people like that looking for relatives, no information as such. this also raises questions about higher far the officials were crowd control and enforcing safety measures, horrified to see if the audit was done before alone a gathering of this nature. it is not the first time this is happening here in india. there have been previous incidences a couple of years ago in the northern indian states, and also other parts of india in the last 20 years, hundreds of people have been killed in crush, and that is a big question been asked by people here, why the authorities are not taking any preventative measures to stop events like this. the un says a quarter of million people in southern gaza have been affected

by evacuation orders from the israeli military. there are signs israeli troops are likely to launch a new ground assault. palestinian patients have been leaving a hospital — and other people who've already been displaced are having to move again on foot or by car. around the european hospital, ambulance crews took patients to alternative nearby medical sites. much of khan younis was destroyed in a long israeli offensive earlier this year, but israel says palestinian fighters are now regrouping. a senior un humanitarian official, sigrid kaag says the war in gaza has created a �*maelstrom of human misery�* and that nowhere is safe. our middle east correspondent sebastian usher has more from jerusalem.

in the meantime, we will get to up in the meantime, we will get to up to news with speed —— news in the uk. in the uk, former nurse lucy letby has been found guilty of trying to kill a premature baby girl, known as baby k, following a retrial. last summer, the 34—year—old was convicted by a different jury of the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six more at the countess of chester hospital in 2015 and 2016. in a statement, the baby's family described having to endure a long and tortuous journey twice. our correspondentjudith moritz has followed the case throughout and this has this report. we are having a few technical difficulties with some of our clips, will bring you that shortly. several caribbean nations are trying to reach the worst affected areas after hurricane beryl made landfall over their territories. at least one person has died in st vincent

and the grenadines and two died in grenada, although the authorities have said those numbers may rise. these are pictures from the island of martinique where there was heavy flooding and damage caused by the high winds. beryl became the earliest category five hurricane to develop in the atlantic, although it was downgraded to a category four storm as it continues its path across the region. back to that story about lucy letby. in the uk, former nurse lucy letby has been found guilty of trying to kill a premature baby girl, known as baby k, following a retrial. last summer, the 34—year—old was convicted by a different jury of the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six more at the countess of chester hospital in 2015 and 2016.

in a statement, the baby's family described having to endure a long and tortuous journey twice. our correspondentjudith moritz has followed the case throughout and this has this report. lucy letby didn't come to this retrial as an unknown prospect. that would have been impossible. instead, the jury was told to take her status as a multiple murderer and attempted murderer into account as part of the evidence. last year, letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder another six. the jury couldn't decide whether she'd also tried to kill a premature girl known as baby k in february 2016. the charge was put before a new jury at retrial, and they have convicted her unanimously. the police gave this reaction on behalf of the baby's parents. we have had to go through a long, torturous and emotional journey twice, but this justice will not take away the extreme hurt, anger, and distress that we've all had to experience. it also does not provide us

with an explanation as to why these crimes have taken place. this consultant, doctor ravi jayaram, caught let be virtually red—handed. he could see that the baby was in trouble and the nurse was standing by her doing nothing to help. this is the tube that is then passed through the baby's throat and down into the lungs. this video was shown to the court to demonstrate how babies are given breathing support by ventilator. low pressure warning with no alert. lucy letby had dislodged baby k's throat tube and the monitor alarm was silenced. it's a technique that the prosecution expert at letby�*s first trial, doctor dewi evans, believes she used on further occasions, too. i reviewed a number of cases other than the ones in this i trial, and found a number of cases where the tube, i breathing tube, had been. displaced going back at least a year prior to l the first fatality.

do you think that this was what she started doing as perhaps the easiest way of harming babies before moving on to other techniques? i think so. i think that she could well have started offl by displacing breathing tubes. i think she then moved. on to injecting stomachs with lots of milk and air. letby�*s already serving 1a whole life terms, so the extra conviction won't increase her actual jail time. why have a retrial? i don't know what was going through the minds of the prosecutors in this case, but in previous cases where i've. .. where somebody has been convicted of a homicide and been given a significant sentence, it would take a lot for me to then retry them for something else that wouldn't necessarily add to their sentence. however, children being harmed, uh, you know, losing their lives in this case, i can understand why it was significant enough for them to say we will pursue this case.

lucy letby told the court she wasn't guilty of the crimes she's been convicted of. she'll be sentenced on friday. judith moritz, bbc news, manchester. several caribbean nations are trying to reach the worst affected areas after hurricane beryl made landfall over their territories. at least one person has died in st vincent and the grenadines and two died in grenada, although the authorities have said those numbers may rise. these are pictures from the island of martinique where there was heavy flooding and damage caused by the high winds. beryl became the earliest category five hurricane to develop in the atlantic, although it was downgraded to a category four storm as it continues its path across the region. for the latest, i spoke to our central america and caribbean correspondent will grant who's in mexico city. the worst of the damage really was on those smaller islands that were right in the path of hurricane beryl. they felt the full force of this category four to category five at the time, storm, and some of

them are very small. so the infrastructure wasn't great to begin with. and then i've been speaking to people on the island, for example, of um, uh, union island just off, uh, saint vincent and the grenadines. they talk about the island being flattened by 90% or more of structures being completely damaged, uh, destroyed, and virtually the entire island being made homeless. elsewhere in grenada, there's a similar story on an island off the coast there, so it's the smaller islands that are part of bigger nations. but those nations, too, don't have huge amounts of resources. they're stretched and they're doing their level best to reach those communities. but it is obviously a very, very difficult task. yeah, will, it was being called a category five hurricane. it's now been downgraded to category four. but it's not done yet, is it? no, it's certainly not. it's sort of continuing its way through the caribbean. we heard obviously from

the minister injamaica. it also will be passing the island of hispaniola, that's haiti and the dominican republic, as if they didn't have enough to contend with in haiti, too. so, you know, everywhere where it's dumping rain, bringing these hugely powerful winds, these gusts of up to 150km an hour or more. you know, there's the potential of life—threatening, you know, dangerous extreme weather. it is expected to make it to jamaica somewhere in the next 12—24 hours. and then from there, continue on to the yucatan coastline here in mexico. the question there will be whether or not it is completely sort of spent by then, or if it's still hits mexico with quite a lot of power. authorities even here beginning to think about the steps that they need to be taking, about moving people out of those low—lying areas. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

letting prisoners out early in england and wales will probably need to continue under a labour government, sir keir starmer has said — due to what he called a "broken system". under a recent policy, some less serious offenders can be released up to 70 days early to tackle the ballooning prison population — caused by tougher sentences and court backlogs. in the final days of campaigning, the labour leader has been talking to our political editor chris mason. the man hoping to get his hands on power on friday. but if he's dreaming of downing street, there are other stopping off points first. tannoy: in a few moments i we will be arriving at beeston. after our day following rishi sunak yesterday, today we are with keir starmer. sir keir gets off in nottingham. he claims he's taken his party on a long walk back to credibility and competitiveness.

and the polls suggest he is on the brink of victory. in nearby hucknall, at yet another football ground, a collection of labour activists and his big pitch. we've been campaigning for a long time now. i'm yet to meet a single person that said to me, "look, keir, everything is great, please don't change anything, it's fine as it is." people want change but change will only happen if you vote for it. hello. i'm keir. nice to meet you. welcome to my tea and coffee shop! it turns out the liberal democrats don't have a monopoly on splashes of campaigning absurdity. strong tea. absurdity. same as you. absurdity. - so... absurdity. yeah. absurdity. two bag starmer, as i'm known to be called! and from what he says he's been called to what he might be called soon. are you ready to be prime minister? we've worked for four and a half years to change the labour party, but we have obviously done the preparation to make sure that on day one, we reset politics to a politics of service. i wanted to find out

for you who might be running the country alongside him if labour wins, but he reckons saying that now could sound complacent. i'm not accusing you of complacency. i would suggest to you that people deserve to know who your top team might be if you are to win. well, i'm not going to run through a list of names, however hard you try. but i'm still after some specific answers. would you let prisoners out early because the jails are full? this is going to be a problem we'll inherit if we are privileged to come in to serve, and i'm not going to sit here and pretend to you that i can build a prison on the first day of a labour government. so that means letting people out early? in all likelihood we will have to continue with that because it simply wouldn't be realistic. will people pay income tax on the state pension under labour? the position for pensioners in relation to tax will be exactly as it is now, and that is... but that could mean yes, couldn't it, in the future? that is the position set out at the last budget under this government. and that will remain

the position. ladies and gentlemen, the prime minister. his rival rishi sunak has been in oxfordshire, with this warning about a labour government. don't sleepwalk into - something that you haven't thought properly about. think very hard about what it . means for you and your family, and in spite of what all these i polls say, every vote matters. i asked the same question of the prime minister, along these lines yesterday. do you...? you must share a sort of sense of solidarity with gareth southgate, that you're doing a job where a million and one other people think they could do a betterjob than you. yeah, everybody in the stands and watching the television has got a better idea of how gareth southgate should do hisjob! and there are some similarities. i've got no end of advice, i've had it forfour and a half years, and no doubt i'll be getting a lot more. and he has more places to visit. via a trip to derbyshire, it was on here to staffordshire. just one more day of this ahead.

the former prime minister boris johnson has appeared alongside rishi sunak at a conservative rally in london — it was his first appearance during the election campaign and he had this to say to the party faithful. if you want to protect our democracy and our economy, and keep this country strong abroad by spending 2.5% of our gdp on defence, which labour still refuses to commit to, then you know what to do, don't you, everybody? cheering. there is only one thing to do. vote conservative on thursday, my friends. the sentencing of donald trump forfalsifying business records has been postponed until september after the supreme court ruled the former president has partial immunity. lawyers for the former president asked for the chance to argue he should not have been prosecuted, given some evidence they say came from his time in office. prosecutors did not object though they said the argument was entirely without merit. mr trump was convicted of paying hush money to a pawn

of paying hush money to a porn actress as he campaigned in 2016. the supreme court on monday ruled presidents enjoy immunity from prosecution for official acts. the first democratic congressman has urged president biden to make way for another candidate in november's presidential election. lloyd doggett said because mr biden had always put the country first, he was hopeful he would take the painful decision to withdraw, following his performance in last week's debate with donald trump. and former us house speaker nancy pelosi has also weighed into the debate over presidentjoe biden�*s fitness for office. she was speaking to msnbc. we have all these things that he was masterful in helping to write and pass, so he has a vision, he has knowledge, he hasjudgment, he has a strategic thinking and the rest, he has a bad night. now, again, ithink it is a legitimate question to say, "is this an episode or is this a condition"? and so when people ask that question, it's legitimate of both candidates.

let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. the taliban has told the bbc that its treatment of women is an internal matter that won't be discussed with other countries. the comments came after much— criticised international talks on the future of afghanistan in which afghan women weren't allowed to take part. the former south african world high—jump champion, jacques freitag, has been found shot dead. police say they're treating the case as murder. freitag won his gold medal in paris in 2003. the 42——year—old was last seen leaving his mother's house with an unknown man more than two weeks ago. south african media say his body was found in grass near a cemetery outside pretoria. scientists have shown that ants amputate their nestmates' infected limbs to save their lives and stop the infection spreading in the colony. they are the only non—human species to carry out such operations.

the number of fires in brazil's amazon rainforest has gone up by more than 60% in the first six months of the year, reaching its worst level in two decades. brazil's space agency has reported 13,500 thousand fires. the country's environment minister says most of the fires have been initiated by farmers clearing the land for agriculture. she's also blamed climate change and the el nino weather phenomenon for the drought that has parched the region. the data makes for difficult news for president luiz inacio lula da silva , with the number of fires increasing even as the rate of deforestation in the amazon falls. the opposition has accused his government of failing to protect the environment since returning to power 18 months ago. i've been speaking with carlos nobre, an earth system scientist , currently with the university of sao paulo's institute for advanced studies. it's a big, big challenge because in the amazon,

as you said, there's a record breaking number of fires in 20 years for the first six months. but of course, there was the record—breaking drought in the amazon, uh, 2023, 2024 all over the amazon. and this is, yes, this is related to a strong el nino phenomenon from, uh, june, july 2023 through april may 2024, but also, uh, record—breaking north atlantic ocean temperature that is changing the climate of the whole planet, including, as your report show earlier, this, uh, record almost record—breaking hurricane now hitting, you know, in the caribbean. this is all related to this very, very hot temperature in the ocean. so that induced this

record breaking drought. but of course, when there is a record—breaking drought there is not many lightnings. so lightning ignited fires are very, very little. so out of these 13,000 fires, less than 3% are related to lightning—ignited fires. so it's all related to man—made fires. organised crime wants to get rid of the amazon forest. they want to get rid of the forest, to transform the forest into huge cattle ranches, uh, gold mining, other mining. so because all amazonian countries were very, uh, more, i would say successful in 2023, even going to 2024 to reduce the deforestation.

so you know, in my understanding, a lot of these fires, the 13,000 fires in the first six months, they are associated with organised crime. in tennis andy murray's wimbledon singles career has come to an end after a back injury forced him to pull out of the men's draw. he had a back operation ten days ago and waited until the last moment to make the decision. but the two—time champion has committed to competing in the doubles competition with his brotherjamie. zoo—goers in santiago, chile, have been treated to a cuteness overload today — when they were introduced to the zoo's newest member — silverio the baby white rhino. silverio, seen here with his mother hannah, is the third white rhino born at the buin zoo. thanks for your company here on newsday, business today it is “p newsday, business today it is up next.

hello there. well, we're not expecting summer to make a big return any time soon. in fact, it will stay unsettled across the whole of the uk. as we head through the rest of this week, it will be unseasonably windy. there'll be rain, more showers to come in the forecast, but it won't be raining all the time. lots of dry weather, too, some bright and some sunny spells, but all the while feeling cool for this point injuly. temperatures a good few degrees below the seasonal average. and there's more rain to come as we head through tonight and into wednesday morning from these weather fronts out towards the west. the heavy downpours reaching eastern england by the time we get to tomorrow morning. of course, it will be mild underneath the cloud, the rain with more of a south—westerly wind, temperatures in double figures. the rain clearing away from eastern england through the morning. always cloudy, perhaps a few showers across england and wales, but some brighter skies to the lee of high ground. more showers pushing into northwest scotland, sunshine and showers here through the afternoon, and brightening up for northern ireland and perhaps western wales and southwest england by the time we get

to the end of the day. temperatures disappointing for this time of year, just the high teens in celsius. so those fronts clear away, yhen you can see a tight squeeze on the isobars into thursday as the wind turns so those fronts clear away, then you can see a tight squeeze on the isobars into thursday as the wind turns more westerly and then north westerly again, this little feature likely to bring some heavy, thundery showers across northwestern areas of scotland, perhaps through northwest england as well. further south, then, we are expecting some sunshine, although still very windy conditions, particularly up through the dover straits. and in the best of the sunshine, well, it's stilljuly, so it will feel quite pleasantly warm, but temperatures won't get much past 18—20 celsius. now, if you're a tennis fan over the next couple of days, mostly dry on wednesday, chance of one or two showers, probably dry on thursday with some sunny spells but windy for the time of year. and of course, those temperatures still below the seasonal average. we'd normally expect to see 22 or 23 celsius. as we head into friday, then, we're likely to see more rain across the south,

and that could certainly interrupt play at wimbledon. these little features just running in from the west here. on saturday, most of the rain will be further north, probably leaving southern areas with a largely dry day, perhaps a few showers around to start. and then it's mostly fine and probably dry on sunday. bye—bye for now.

tesla's sales improve in the second quarter, sending its stock soaring 10%. with the olympics nearly upon us, we take a look at how technology is transforming the games. hello and welcome to business today. i'm steve lai. we begin in the us, where we've had comments from sticking with the us — shares in tesla surged 10% after billionaire elon musk�*s firm reported better—than—expected vehicle delivery and production numbers in the second quarter. the bbc�*s north america business correspondent michelle fleury has all the details. after going through a slump, tesla may have finally turned a corner thanks to demand for its model three sedan and its model y suv. the company delivered nearly 444,000 cars in the last three months, a figure that is up sharply from the previous quarter, although it's still down nearly 5% from a year ago. as a result of these

better than expected performance, tesla retains the title as the world's top