welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. i'm stevfe lai. the headlines: its day two of the republican national convention — where the theme is "make america safe again". this is the scene live from the convention — we'll bring you the latest lines as the republicans get set for an evening of rousing speeches. six people are found dead in a luxury hotel in bangkok — in what police suspect was a poisoning. bangladesh closes all its schools and colleges indefinitely following a day of violent demonstrations against a quota system for governmentjobs.

it's seven in the morning in singapore, and six in the afternoon in milwaukee, wisconsin — where the republican national convention — which has already confirmed donald trump as its party's presidential candidate — is getting under way for a second day. this is the scene live at the convention centre. we're expecting speeches from several senior republicans in the hours to come — and we'll bring you the best of them here on bbc news. we are also hoping to see mr trump and his vice—presidential nomineejd vance again — although they're not expected to speak today. we'll bring you the latest on the investigation into the attempt to assassinate mr trump — and president biden�*s latest comments — but we start our coverage with this report from our north america editor, sarah smith. unusually emotional, almost vulnerable.

he walked among them, the great survivor, appearing unbloodied, with just a bandage on his ear. he didn't speak. just seeing him was enough for his followers. welcome to the church of trump. chanting: usa, usa! what a reception this is. donald trump being treated like some kind of messiah. he is absolutely adored by these people. this is not politics as usual. how does it feel seeing donald trump here? wonderful. i can't say the words, but he is the anointed, he is called to lead our nation, and prayers unto him to bless him and bless the usa. the attempt on his life and his narrow escape has changed his relationship with his party — and maybe, just maybe changed him?

what's really interesting to see from here is that donald trump himself looks really moved, genuinely emotional. the mood is a little reflective, extremely relieved and even quite upbeat. you are going to be so blessed. cheering. you are going to be tired of being blessed. i guarantee it. this merry bubble will surely soon burst. promises to change the tone of the election campaign are bound to be broken. president biden is also urging everyone to cool down the temperature of their rhetoric. the pressure on him from his own party to step down has been muted but not silenced. in an interview with nbc news, he was asked if he regretted saying it was time to put donald trump in the bull's—eye. what i guess i was talking about at the time was, there is a very little focus on trump's agenda. the term was bull's—eye. it was a mistake

to use the word. i didn't say crosshairs, when i said bull's—eye i meant focus on him, focus on what he's doing. robert kenneder, who is running as an independent candidate for president, was recorded on the phone to donald trump as he described the shooting. and i sort ofjust turned my head. it sounded like the world's largest mosquito. and it was, it was a bullet. the assassination attempt on donald trump has upended the election. it might take the heat out of a febrile campaign. it may even affect the result and forever shape how donald trump is seen by voters. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal will be following developments from the floor of the convention — in among the delegates and political fans. she gave us her take on what we can expect in the coming hours.

people are obviously streaming in because there are speeches that will be held tonight, as you mentioned there, you know, really significant ones from the former un ambassador, nikki haley and from the florida governor, ron desa ntis. they were the last two big rivals of donald trump who were challenging him for that presidential nomination. with nikki haley, it became pretty bitter. there was one point there where nikki haley, at the heat of the primary, called donald trump unhinged and said that america could not afford four more years of chaos, drama and vendettas. but she has changed her mind, released all her delegates, urged them to vote for donald trump. and tonight we will hear from her and ron desantis, where we fully expect them to endorse and embrace donald trump. while donald trump has been making his mark in milwaukee, president biden has been shoring up some of his support at the naacp — the organisation which lobbies for black americans — in las vegas. his message was critical of his opponent. but he once again was forced

to address the attempt to assassinate mr trump — and he called for a ban on the sort of weapon used to shoot at him. i used to shoot at him. am truly honoured to be hen ed's i am truly honoured to be here. ed's tense moment in this country, it is a tense moment. just a few days after the assassination of donald trump attempt, we're grateful he was not seriously injured. we continue to pray for him and his family. time for an important conversation in this country. our politics have gotten too heated. we all have a responsibility to lower the temperature. and condemn violence in any forum. meanwhile questions are still being asked about how the gunman, thomas crooks was able to carry �*out the asssassination attempt against donald trump on saturday. gary o'donoghue has been back to the scene of the shooting.

almost 72 hours on and still no nearer to understanding why thomas matthew crooks tried to assassinate a former president. the fbi say they have interviewed 100 friends and family. they've gained access to his phone and internet history, searched his car and home and still no real clue to explain why he did what he did. but more details are emerging about his movements in the run—up to the shooting on saturday evening. on friday, crooks went to a gun club where he was a member and shot on a range whose targets are 200 yards away, further than the distance there would be between him on the top of that building and donald trump on stage. from a diy store and 50 rounds of ammunition from a gun shop before driving his hyundai car north to butler county where he was initially spotted by local police acting suspiciously around the metal

detectors which controlled access to the rally venue. right there, a guy on the roof! but the next time he was spotted was by those eyewitnesses who saw him on the roof of that building and tried to alert the police. this is about as close to the scene of the shooting as police will let us get. the recriminations over who was to blame for the security failure is now in full swing with finger pointing between local police and the secret service. everything is focusing on who was responsible for that building top where crooks took his shot from. and there are reports in us media that there were local police snipers inside that building while he was on the roof. in his first major interview since the shooting, the president said there were questions about security to answer. the secret service who responded risk their lives in responding. they were ready to give their lives for the president. the question is, should they have anticipated what happened, should they have done what they needed to do to prevent this from happening? that's a question,

that's an open question. how the security at the venue was handled is now the subject of an independent inquiry and congressional leaders are also demanding answers. gary o'donoghue, bbc news, pennsylvania. earlier i spoke to peter fields, from canterbury university in new zealand. i asked what direction the expected tone shift of donald trump's address to the convention was likely to take. the claim that he had a speech full of red meat, which shouldn't shock anyone, i suppose, and that he threw that out. so he's obviously taking a different direction after recent events, and that's not a surprise. i guess we're all feeling somewhat different. but i wouldn't go overboard. i imagine that, uh, 77 years is is not going to change him, uh, overnight. likely he'll be a little quieter, a little more reflective, but probably still plenty bombastic. peter, you referenced the events over the last two weeks. quite a lot has happened in that time. there have been calls

for biden to leave the race. we've had that assassination attempt, of course, and we've also had that decision in the documents case against donald trump at being dropped. it does seem that momentum seems to be with the republicans at the moment. well, i mean, yes, though let's not overdo that. even with all of these events that seem to have gone the republicans way, and the convention is always a time for a bump for this particular party. joe biden still easily within reach in all the swing states. there's a long way to go yet. in this election cycle, to be sure. yeah. there are four months to go before the election takes place. we now know who the vice presidential nominee will be for the republicans, jd vance. he has said that china poses the biggest threat to the united states, and there has been a response to that from the chinese foreign ministry spokesman. he says that they have always been opposed to us hyping been opposed to us hyping

issues related to china during their elections. is it just hype? well, i mean, i guess the main thing is he's talked about chinese economy and how economies are central to defence forces. and if you run down your economy, then you're likely to, suffer later on if you have, uh, your interests abroad. and this is bipartisan, at least let's be sure of that. the democrats are going to say the same thing. so at least in that sense, thinking about international affairs when it comes to china, i think trump, largely in 2016, 2020, changed the tune there and the democrats have followed suit. so has biden. so we might expect a more china bashing in the run up to the election from both sides, perhaps. how will democrats be viewing the rnc? well, i guess democrats are plenty worried. as you said, the momentum is not on their side. look, i'm an author, i consult my books.

i can talk aristotle and plato with you, but mostly i talk to my mother in florida, and my mother is a great bellwether because after the debate or debacle, all she wanted to talk about was biden. and that's a key issue. what your viewers should know is if trump isn't the issue, then the democrats are in grave danger. the only way trump could be an issue, and this is indeed ironic and strange would be, i guess, if there were an assassination attempt that he survived, which is exactly what's happened. but if the issue is not trump, if the issue is biden, biden�*s health or anything else, then trump has a clear way to 270 electoral votes and becoming the next president of united states. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

police in thailand say at least six people have been found dead at a luxury hotel in central bangkok. two are vietnamese americans and the rest — vietnamese nationals.

police say seven guests were booked in, and believe one person is unaccounted for. the bodies were discovered by housekeepers. the guests were supposed to have checked out on monday. 0fficers said suspicious substances were found at the bottom of glasses inside the room. there are no signs of a struggle. the prime minister, sretta thavisin — who visited the scene — has ordered an investigation. police are not ruling out anything. 0ur reporterjay sung lee has more on this story. the thai prime minister, srettha thavisin, and the thai police chief held a press conference in this hotel. now this, as you mentioned, is a luxury hotel in central bangkok. and in that press conference that's now been wrapped up, what we learned is that, as you said, six bodies were found inside this hotel room. two were vietnamese americans, four were vietnamese nationals. three of them were men, three of them were women. so far, what we do know is that no bodily harm was found on these bodies.

but an autopsy is needed to really establish the exact causes of the deaths. the police say they suspect that they had been dead for around 2a hours because the bodies were discovered today, earlier today, at 4pm local time, that's about seven hours ago from now. but there was a room service order that came from this room on monday, so yesterday, at around 1.55pm, so it shows that there were signs of life until at least then. now we don't know what happened since then and when they were found earlier by cleaners today. they were supposed to check out today, so it's unclear what has happened since then. the food that was ordered by room service hadn't been touched at all and the authorities were able to find six glasses in the room which matched the dna of those who died. as you've have said, seven people have made the bookings and five people,

they say, have checked into the hotel and six bodies were found and now the five of those people who were found dead today match the hotel records but the sixth body did not. and the seventh person, they believe, has still not been found. it says the door was locked from the inside, so police think that this may have been done, it may have been an insidejob, but, you know, it's very unclear right now. the�*ye not ruling out anything. the government in bangladesh has closed all schools and colleges indefinitely, following a day of violent demonstrations against a quota system for governmentjobs. riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets. mostly peaceful protests had been taking place for several weeks, with thousands of university students demonstrating against a system that they say favours the children of war heroes for high—paying governmentjobs. critics say the system unfairly benefits pro—government groups that support prime minister sheikh hasina. with more details, from dhaka, here's najib bahar

at the city's university. dhaka university has been like a war zone for the last two days. yesterday, violent clashes erupted between two groups of students. one other pro—government student wing, actually the student wing of the ruling party, chhatra league, and the other group there have been protesting for the last two weeks demanding reform of the quota system in governmentjobs. now, in the clashes in yesterday, which actually started in late afternoon and continued till midnight, both groups have claimed that around more than 250 to 300 of their students, and in total, according to their claims, in total, it's somewhat around 600 students got injured yesterday. so today both the parties, both the student groups called for a protest in dhaka university. so the pro—government student wing, the student wing of the ruling party, they staged a protest, 200 to 300m away from here in the centre of dhaka

university. and the other group, the quota reformers, the protesters, they've staged a protest here. and in both the protests, there were more than two to 3000 students, holding, uh, bamboo sticks, iron rods, wearing helmets. i mean, ready for a violent situation. and as far as we've heard from across the country, in many places in dhaka, students demanding reform of the quota system has come down to street and blocked roads. and in northern part of the country with clashes with the police. as far as we have confirmed, one student have died already. the family of the british teenager, jay slater, say their "hearts are broken", after it's been confirmed his remains have been found on the spanish island of tenerife. a major search began when he went missing in rocky terrain a month ago,

while on holiday. tonight, in lancashire, friends and family have gathered to remember him. fiona trott reports . a remote place, thousands of miles from home. it's heartbreaking to think this is where a teenager lost his life. "just a normal lad from lancashire" — that's how his family described him. all they know so far is that jay came to this holiday home with two men he met at a music festival. a neighbour told us he asked her about bus times. she then saw him walking up a mountain, the opposite direction to where he needed to go. and then today, news here from the high court. fingerprint tests have shown that the body found in that area was their son, their brother, and he died from an injury probably caused by a fall in a rocky area. away from the investigation, jay slater�*s family need answers of their own.

they have recruited these volunteers from the netherlands to trace his last known movements. i think it is very important for them, what has happened in the last hours forjay. you can try and help them understand that. yeah. it all looks and feels very different to the place jay knew. a month ago, people in his hometown of 0swaldtwistle tied ribbons to bring hope. tonight, they came together to remember. i used to go out with him round town, and he was such a lovely lad. it's really upsetting. he was just so lovely. he was a really good friend and ijust want him to know that we all miss him. jay slater was 19, a young man, but his mother still described him as "her beautiful boy". "our hearts," she said, "are broken." fiona trott,

bbc news, tenerife. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. the deadline has passed for ukrainian men aged between eighteen and sixty to update their personal data. those who don't, risk fines and possible prosecution under april's mobilisation law. earlier, queues formed outside enlistment offices. ukraine's defence ministry says more than four—million men have updated their data so far. at least four pakistanis and one indian national have been killed in a shooting near a shia mosque in the capital of oman, muscat. thirty other people have been injured. the shooting happened as people were marking ashura — an important religious ceremony for shia muslims. the group calling itself islamic state has claimed responsibility. countries across the western balkans have issued extreme weather alerts — as temperatures rise beyond a0 degrees celsius. north macedonia has declared a state of emergency — as it struggles to tackle more than a dozen forest fires, and is asking neighbouring

countries to help. the israeli military says half of the leadership of hamas military wing has been eliminated, and approximately 14,000 fighters killed or captured since the start of the conflict in gaza. meanwhile the hamas—run health authority in gaza says at least 50 palestinians have been killed, and many more people wounded, in a series of air strikes. with the details — here's our correspondent injerusalem, barbara plett usher. the deadliest strikes was on a un school in central gaza, where displaced people were sheltering. in fact, that's the case in many of the schools. but the israelis say they were targeting militants who were operating there. in fact, this is the sixth un school the israelis have hit in ten days. they say that hamas uses the schools for military purposes, something that hamas denies. and the un strongly condemns these attacks. the other big strike took place in al—mawasi in southern gaza.

the strike was on a car in a street where there were many tents set up housing displaced people. now the israelis have designated al—mawasi as a humanitarian zone, and they've told civilians to go there to escape the fighting. but they confirmed that they had carried out an air strike in the area on palestinian militants, and they said they would look into reports of civilian casualties. and the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has vowed to increase the military pressure on hamas. he has always said that one of the main aims of the war is to defeat the hamas military leadership and its capabilities, and the israeli defence forces have now released figures saying that since the war started on october seventh, they have eliminated half of hamas�*s military leadership. they have captured and killed some 14,000 militants, they said, using precision intelligence and targeted raids. but that has not been the palestinian experience. the palestinians have paid a very heavy price. the health ministry in gaza,

which is run by hamas, says more than 38,000 people have been killed. the democratic senator bob menendez has been found guilty of corruption on all 16 charges he faced at manhattan federal court. the newjersey senator was convicted on charges of participating in a vast international bribery scheme. prosecutors said he'd accepted gold, cash and other payoffs worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for political favours abroad and at home. mr menendez once led the senate foreign relations committee. sentencing has not yet taken place. with the details of the case — and the way it was prosecuted — here's our north america correspondent, ione wells. well, certainly at the moment multiple democratic senators have called on him to resign to stand down. he certainly does potentially face expulsion from the party. now he is seeking re—election for his newjersey seat at november's election as an independent, after the democrats kind of distanced

themselves from him after some of those gold bars were found at his home as part of this investigation. now, this guilty verdict is certainly very damaging, both for him and for potentially for the party more generally as well. he was found guilty, as you mentioned there, of 16 counts in this bribery case of accepting gifts, including gold bars worth $100,000, but also cash a car $100,000, but also cash, a car in exchange for aiding the egyptian government illegally. now, he has still continued to strongly refute these claims, saying that he never, ever acted as a foreign agent and suggested that he plans to appeal this case. but certainly there is pressure mounting on him to step down, not run for re—election, and it could well be that he faces time in prison to. in prison too. (tx sor) that's all for now — stay with bbc news.

hello. well, it looks like we're in for a break from the heavy rain, the cooler weather. and in its place, something warmer is heading our way. in fact, it'll turn quite hot for some of us briefly towards the end of the week, maybe into the weekend as well. i want to show you the big picture. here in blue, colour—coded, is the jet stream, and you can see it sort of curving northwards, and that opens up the doors for the hot air to stream in from the southern climes. but that's still to reach us. this is what it looks like right now. it's relatively quiet on the weather front. plenty of clear weather through the early hours, a bit of mist and fog here and there, but that's pretty much it. and early morning temperatures, about 12 to 1a degrees at about 7am. so the forecast, then, for wednesday shows a weak ridge of high pressure over the uk, but not too far away,

there's a weather front. that's going to brush ireland and maybe western parts of scotland, so at times cloudier here. and also inland, we'll see clouds bubbling up, those cumulus clouds. some of them will turn into showers, so there is a chance of catching a shower on wednesday. but the vast majority of us should have a dry day. 2a in london, about 21 expected in the lowlands of scotland. really, a fine day for some of us. you'd call it a perfect summer's day. now, thursday, this weather front approaches western parts of the uk, so admittedly cloudier with some spits and spots of rain here. further east, it'll be sunny and turning really quite warm by thursday — 27 in london. we're approaching the low or mid 20s across northern england too, and then by the time we get to friday, very little in the way of wind. the air�*s coming in from the south. the weather's been dominated by this high pressure here, although in the north—west, we are being brushed by a weather system, so perhaps some cloud and rain here. no heat wave on offer for north—western parts

of the uk, but a brief dose of heat. let's call it a hot spell, not a heat wave, on the way for parts of england. in fact, in the south—east... well, 29 is the forecast for london right now, but i wouldn't be surprised if one or two spots reach 30 celsius. but it is going to be brief. hence it's not technically a heatwave. you can see by the time we get to saturday and sunday, the temperatures ease to the seasonal norm. bye— bye.

the last straw. elon musk acts on the threats that he will move more of his companies headquarters out of california. in the startup that was once considered to be the best education outfit faces more legal troubles. hello and welcome to business today. i'm steve lai. for some time, billionaire elon musk has been threatening to move some of his companies out of california. well, now, he's announced that he's taking two major headquarters to texas. he's been sparring with policymakers in california for some time now, but the news also comes at an interesting time with the republican national convention taking place. the bbc�*s suranjana tewari explains. the tech billionaire elon musk says he is moving the

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