welcome to newsday. i'm steve lai, reporting live from singapore. the headlines: a crush at a religious festival in northern india has left more than a hundred people dead. hurricane beryl advances toward jamaica after becoming the atlantic's earliest ever category 5 storm. donald trump's sentencing in the hush—money case gets delayed until september after supreme court ruling on presidential immunity. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers 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 fallinu , translation: people started falling. one — translation: people started falling, one upon _ translation: people started falling, one upon another, - translation: people started | falling, one upon another, one upon another. those who were crushed died. people pulled them out who were there. translation: i them out who were there. translation:— them out who were there. translation: i came to this event with — translation: i came to this event with eight _ translation: i came to this event with eight other - translation: | came to thisi event with eight other people but none of them survived. india's prime minister narendra modi has commented on the tragedy. translation: i've just received translation: i've 'ust received the sad news. _ translation: i've 'ust received the sad news. we _ translation: i've just received the sad news. we are _ translation: i've just received the sad news. we are getting i the sad news. we are getting reports of many deaths in the stampede in threats, express my

condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in this tragic incident. our south asia editor anbarasan ethirajan sent us this update from uttar pradesh on the situation. this is one of the health centres where dozens of people have been admitted with injuries, and also many of those killed. along the corridor, dozens of relatives are still waiting for information about they want to know what happened to their loved ones. officials say they had given permission for about 80,000 people to attend a religious lecture in a very popular part of uttar pradesh, people had come not only from uttar pradesh but also delhi and other areas, and officials believe because of overcrowding this cross happened. but some of the people who we spoke to

said people are waiting in line to get the blessings of this religious leader and that's when people started pushing each other in this unfortunate thing happened. now more than 200 people are taking treatment in four different hospitals in neighbouring districts because this particular hospital alone cannot handle all the patients, but this has come as a huge shock for the communities around here, because most of those killed were women, about 108 of them so far, and the officials are expecting the casualty figure to go up. and, in fact, we met a couple of people a few minutes ago, we were going into the hospital looking for there aren't, they said there were other hospitals and there was no information and there was no information and there was no information and there was no response from her phone as well. so we have people like that looking for their relatives, no information as such. this also raises questions about how far the officials were efficient in terms of crowd control and also

enforcing safety measures, how far the safety audit was done before allowing a gathering of this nature. and it is not the first time this has happened here in india. there have been previous incidents a couple of years ago in the northern indian state of german ankersmit and also in parts of india in past 20 years, hundreds of people have been killed in crosses. that is a big question being asked by people here, why the authorities are not taking any preventative measures to stop events like this. 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 5 hurricane to develop in the atlantic, although it was downgraded to a category 4 storm as it continues its path across the region.

earlier, president biden spoke about hurricane beryl during an announcement on plans to protect workers from the deadly effects of extreme heat. and, look, right now we are also tracking hurricane beryl is passing through the caribbean, it is the earliest time ever a dangerous category 5 hurricane has been recorded in american history. people impacted, islands and committees, are in our present wisdom by to provide assistance to them. look, extreme weather events drive home the point they have been seeing for so long, ignoring climate change is deadly and dangerous and irresponsible. these climate field extreme weather events don't just affect people's lives, they also cost money, they hurt the economy, and they have a significant negative psychological effect on people. jamaica's information minister, senator dana morris dixon, spoke to the bbc world service and said the entire country was prepared for an emergency.

every area of government from our disaster preparedness entity to the police force to our fire entity to the police force to ourfire brigade, all aspects of the government are in a state of readiness and we are ready for hurricane beryl and we're working with our communities, especially our concern is for those members of the jamaican community that live in flood prone areas or low—lying areas. and so we are working to start the process of thinking through evacuations that may be necessary for those individuals we are also opening up individuals we are also opening up a lot of shelters across the country. we have over 900 shelters that have been listed. the individuals who may need to move from their homes in the events of the impact of the wind or the rain they will be able to go to government shelters right across the

island. 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 4 to category 5 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 5 hurricane. it's now been downgraded to category 4. 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. a new yorkjudge has delayed donald trump's sentencing in the hush—money case until september as his lawyers seek to challenge his conviction after a supreme court ruling. he was initially scheduled to be sentenced next week. 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 porn actress as he campaigned in 2016. the supreme court on monday ruled presidents enjoy immunity from prosecution for official acts. i've been speaking with our correspondent helena humphrey in washington about the significance of the delay to donald trump's sentencing. i think it will be interesting to look at the potential political impact, as opposed to just the legal impact of this delay. so essentially what's happened

here is that the sentencing will be delayed from 11 july, when we were expecting it until 18 september. and that is because donald trump's legal campaign team have said that what they want to be able to do is put more evidence forward from his time in office. now, this is key because, of course, with that supreme court ruling with regards to presidential immunity, they say that this could have a bearing in that case. now, judgejuan merchan, for his part, has said that he doesn't think that this argument will have merit. however, they will allow donald trump's legal team to file it. so essentially this is about optics. and if we then see this sentencing as we will delay to september instead of being in the summer at a time that we know that president biden and the biden campaign is having a more difficult time, based on that conversation that has been swirling in light of his performance at the debate, and some questions from some ranks of the democratic party

about whether he should continue on in this race. so this is also about political optics as much as about what this legally will mean for former president donald trump. well, let's come back to president biden then. and you talked about the pressure he's been under since that debate. and some of the pressure is coming from within his own party. and this is key. this is a really significant moment in this, because in the days after the debate, panic conversations among democratic party voters, but no elected official had come out on the record saying that they had concerns. that's changed today with lloyd doggett, congressman of texas, coming, coming out to say that he believes that president biden should step aside. we've also heard from jim clyburn of south carolina, congressman there, who was really key to helping president biden in 2020, saying that he would actually support vice president kamala harris for top of the ticket,

although he does hope that it will be a biden harris ticket. and then, of course, nancy pelosi, someone as former speaker of the house for the democrats, influential in the party, saying that it's right for people to ask these questions. although she has also praised his strategic thinking, she says that perhaps president biden should take a mental fitness test, a cognitive test, or engage in more interviews on tv. we do now know that president biden will be speaking to abc's george stephanopoulos in a closely watched interview that will be going out on 5july, the white house saying that he intends to stay in the race and that voters will have a chance to judge for themselves with him being out on the campaign trail. i think the issue here, steve, is that many voters say that they did have an opportunity tojudge. they saw what happened on the debate stage and they were concerned about it. as my colleague helena was saying there, 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. we have all these things that he was masterful in helping to write and to pass, so he has a vision, he has knowledge, he hasjudgement, he has a strategic thinking and the rest. he has a bad night. now, again, ithink rest. he has a bad night. now, again, i think it is a legitimate question to say "is this an episode or is this a condition?" and when some other question it is legitimate, both candidates. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

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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. following the israeli offences against rafa since 6 may over1 million people have been displaced once again. desperately seeking shelter and safety. 1.9 million people are now displaced across gaza. i'm deeply concerned about reports of new evacuation orders issued

into the area of hand units. its impact on the civilian population is deep. in gaza nowhere is safe. our middle east correspondent sebastian usher has more from jerusalem. the images coming out of gaza are ones that the world has become familiar with. in the past 2a hours, since an evacuation order was issued by the israeli army to around a quarter of a million people living in towns and villages in tents to the east of khan younis, the second city in gaza, they've been on the move again, in donkey carts, on bicycles and on foot, moving many of them saying they don't know where to. the israeli army told them to go to the west of khan younis, to an area known as al—mawasi, which is on the coast, which is where there's been a long time humanitarian zone established in the early days of the war by israel that is very overcrowded. it's unsanitary as so many other areas are in gaza, and some of the palestinians who are in this zone that may come under a new major assault

by israel, essentially have said, "we will wait and see what happens for others". there are patients in one of the main hospitals, the european hospital that was still functioning in gaza, who left very early, even though israel had said that it wasn't actually included in the evacuation order, but the feeling by the hospital administration, by the patients, by the medical staff was that they needed to go. we've seen what has happened in hospitals before in gaza, and they didn't want to wait. they've moved some of them by ambulance, some of them finding other ways to another hospital, nasser, but that too is overcrowded. one person that spoke to the bbc, a cancer patient, said but he'd got to nasser hospital, it was so overcrowded that he couldn't get in and now he's sleeping on the streets. and there are many other people also sleeping on the street who don't want to take the chances of staying in this area. there have been strikes, but as i say, so far, the israeli army says they've been targeted on specific locations that they believe palestinian fighters were firing from on monday morning. there's still anticipation that there may be a bigger assault coming from israel.

we've seen that in gaza city over the past six days in a district there. and i think that people in this area in khan yunis have big concerns that this may be what is coming towards them, and this is what has set people on the move. the figures that we've been given by the un is that up to 250,000 people could have to move, but i think there is still a little time to wait to see what kind of operation this becomes. and all of this as israel, the government, the military has said that the intensive phase of its campaign in gaza was coming to an end. the people on the ground in gaza, in these areas, obviously that doesn't seem to be the case. the deadline has ended for candidates to declare themselves for the second round of the french parliamentary elections. marine le pen�*s far—right national rally was the clear winner of the first round on sunday. but many candidates from opposing parties have withdrawn from the race in order to concentrate the anti—rn vote in their constituencies. our paris correspondent,

hugh schofield, gave us this update. certainly, the immediate effect of this withdrawal of candidates by the left and the centre will be to make it harder for the centre will be to make it harderfor the national centre will be to make it harder for the national rally to get through to that key number of 289 seats in the new assembly. that's because in these many seats, more than 200, where there is a 3—way fight one or other of the other candidates is withdrawing so the anti—rn vote will be either the anti—rn vote will be either the left of the centre, that will make it harder in the constituencies for the are in, the national relegated to win through, so it will affect the overall performance. i would qualify that by just exactly that point, there is clearly a sense among people who feel sympathetic towards the are in that once again it's happening, that once again it's happening, that the system is there to support them, that they may now

be the democratically chosen biggest party in the country but still they are never going to get within a sniff of power because yet again the others are going to get together — everyone from, you know, sort of the right wing of the centre even through to the far, far left get together in this unnatural alliance alliance is only point in common is their hatred of the are in and determination to keep them out. from one election to another — in the uk, party leaders have been touring around the country to reinforce their key messages, with two days to go until polling day. labour leader keir starmer has said that letting prisoners out early in england and wales will probably need to continue under a labour government — 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 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. same as you. so... yeah. 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 forfour 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 yourfamily, and in spite of what all these 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 for 11.5 years, and no doubt i'll be getting a lot more. applause 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. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. president putin will hold meetings with president xi jinping later today at a summit of the shanghai cooperation organisation in kazakhstan�*s capital astana. the two leaders last met in may when putin visited china on his first foreign trip after being inaugurated as president. the sco is a eurasian political, economic and defence organisation established by china and russia in 2001. 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 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 fires. the country's environment minister says most of the fires have been initiated by farmers clearing the land for agriculture. and before we go, a story for the animal lovers. meet the newest member at the buin zoo in santiago, chile — silverio the baby white rhino. silverio, seen here with his mother hannah, is the third white rhino born at the zoo. excited children and adults watched on as the pair ran alongside each other in their enclosure. the almost endangered species faces threats from poaching and habitat loss, with just 10,000 estimated to be left in the world. that's all for now. stay with bbc news.

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 southwesterly 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, then you can see a tight squeeze on the isobars into thursday as the wind turns more westerly and then northwesterly 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. the ev mega shares of tesla surged 10% off reporting better—than—expected delivery and a 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