more democrats call on us presidentjoe biden to end his re—election campaign. the un's top court says israel's occupation of palestinian territories violates international law in a landmark opinion. and a russian court sentences american journalist evan gershkovich to 16 years in prison in a spying case the white house calls a sham. hello, i'm sophia long. —— hello, i'm sophie long. businesses are slowly beginning to recover from the chaos caused by an it outage that disrupted the lives of millions of people around the world. essential industries including airlines, banks and healthcare are slowly coming back online. but now the focus is on the cybersecurity firm crowdstrike, which confirmed that a bug in its software caused issues on microsoft devices.

the company's ceo apologised for the outage, saying it was not the result of a security incident or cyber attack. although crowdstrike has resolved the issue, the company warns it could take some time before systems are back up and running. our technology editor zoe kleinman takes a look at what exactly happened and how it affected patients, passengers and businesses. the world woke up this morning to global chaos. massive tech outages are impacting airlines, businesses, offices... thousands of flights grounded globally, long queues, frustrated passengers. there was nothing on the boards. there was nothing. there was no ground staff. in the uk, doctors' surgeries forced to let down patients... we're going to have to cancel your appointment. ..businesses unable to serve customers... well, i tried to receive a credit card payment and it just would not accept it —

credit card and debit card. ..and tv programmes abruptly taken off air. the cause? at crowdstrike, we monitor trillions of cyber events... a single update from this us antivirus company. you may have never heard of the cybersecurity firm crowdstrike before but it has nearly 2a,000 customers around the world, many of them huge organisations like airlines and banks. we stop a lot of bad things from happening. we're deeply sorry for the impact that we've caused to customers, to travellers, to anyone affected by this, including our companies. so, we know what the issue is. we're resolving and have resolved the issue. now, it's recovering systems that are out there. so, what went wrong? first of all, to be clear, this was not a hack or cyber attack. you don't need to change your passwords. a faulty update meant millions of microsoft users saw this screen pop up. if you know it, it'll make you shiver — the blue screen of death. it pops up when there is a critical error affecting

the operation of your pc — in this case accompanied by an unending loop of trying and failing to restart and launch properly. it only affected machines running microsoft, but there are a lot of them. and what's the fix? well, it's not straightforward. every single machine affected needs a manual reboot in safe mode, which is not as simple as turning it off and on again. microsoft says some people have had to do it 15 times, so it could take a while. spare a thought for it departments. there will be someone in crowdstrike who will be in a lot of trouble right now for not getting this right and there will be a lot of people working this weekend in businesses all over the world to try and fix this problem and to patch it up. but at the same time, you know, this is the price we pay for being so reliant on digital infrastructure. from travel chaos to grocery shop payment problems, there'll now be tough questions about the damage done by one faulty update. how did it slip through

microsoft's safety nets? the cybersecurity world still advises that it's a good idea to keep on top of software updates, although perhaps today is not the day to bang that particular drum. zoe kleinman, bbc news. and as zoe mentions in her report there, thousands of commercial flights have been cancelled worldwide. here's a look at the airport in the spanish capital, madrid, where passengers waited for their flights. airports in the italian capital of rome were also severely affected. some of the first countries to report problems were in asia. changi airport in singapore — one of the world's busiest airports — said it was manually checking in the passengers of some airlines. in australia, travellers were also kept waiting at sydney airport's domestic terminal. our correspondent in tokyo, shaimaa khalil, has been looking at the issues across the asia—pacific region. well, the effect of the outage has varied in the asia—pacific region. if you speak to our colleagues in south korea, for example, they've barely felt it. here injapan, it's been a mixed bag.

we've been hearing this "blue screen of death" many times throughout the day. thankfully, we haven't seen many of those here injapan — especially where i am here in shibuya, in the heart of the capital, tokyo, famous for its screens and its neon lights. these have been going strong. in narita airport, for example, one of the country's biggest airports, the budget airline jetstarjapan has been affected and had to ground 20 — at least 20 of its flights and again, we've been seeing these pictures of people manually being checked in, these whiteboards with handwritten notes of cancellations. all in all, i would sayjapan had gotten off lightly. compare that to australia. this outage has affected them deeply, and on so many levels — universities, government agencies, blood donation centres, for example. our colleagues at the abc news australia said that they haven't been able to function normally at the beginning of the day. in brisbane airport, for example, jetstar has said that it grounded all domestic flights for the day.

it's very late at night here in asia—pacific. the region is going to wake up to see if this problem has been resolved or if they'll have to deal with the knock—on effect of that outage. and here in the us, more than 1800 transportation services were cancelled on friday. the nation's top aviation agency says it continues to work closely with airlines to resume normal operations. our correspondent ione wells is at washington national airport with the latest. the main way that this tech outage has impacted the us so far has been travel — in particular, airlines that have experienced significant problems. we know there's been thousands of flights that have been cancelled, thousands more that have been delayed as well. and the main airline that has been impacted has been delta — the world's second—biggest carrier by passenger numbers — and their big hub in atlanta has been particularly badly impacted. we've seen some pictures from the airport where there's been huge queues and

crowds of people waiting to hear the latest on their flight. some people reporting on social media as well that they've had a number of delays or cancellations already in atla nta. more generally, here in reagan airport, for example, in dc, people are saying that they've had flights rescheduled for later today or tomorrow, so i think most airlines are starting to pick up services again, but still with significant disruption. elsewhere in the us, there are other services that have been impacted, too — things like ups, affecting deliveries. there are reports that 911 has been disrupted in certain areas as well. also, things like grocery payments and some electronic payments being disrupted by the outages that've been happening. generally speaking, it does seem like things are starting to get up and running again compared to where they were this morning but, certainly, i expect this disruption is expected to continue over the weekend because it's notjust the impact of some of the delays and cancellations today but also, the knock—on impact that they will have over the next few days and the weekend. ione wells. the number of democratic

senators urging president biden to drop out of the 2024 race doubled on friday from two to four. new mexico senator martin heinrich — on the left — released a statement this morning. and in the past couple hours, 0hio senator sherrod brown became the latest to do so. he said in part: also on friday, at least 10 more democrats in the us house of representatives called for mr biden to step aside. they are among more than 30 house democrats who say publicly that they want biden replaced. meanwhile, republicans wrapped up their national convention in milwaukee with a 92—minute speech by donald trump. it's been less than a week since the former president narrowly escaped an attempt on his life — something trump described in detail in his speech. for more, here's our north america editor sarah smith — and a warning that this report begins with flashing images. with his name in lights, there is only one star in this party.

in fact, the entire election is all about him. we were told he had changed, softened since the shooting, to sound like this. the discord and division in our society must be healed. i am running to be president for all of america, not half of america. there was a tribute to corey comperatore, the firefighter killed in the shooting. his funeral is taking place today. i'm not supposed to be here tonight. he described his response to the attempted assassination. i raised my right arm and started shouting, "fight, fight, fight". crowd chants: fight! and then, the real donald trump started to fight his way out... drill, baby, drill, and close our borders. ..claiming falsely that he'd won the 2020 election, as well as this. has anyone seen silence of the lambs? you see? he's back. the late, great hannibal lecter.

that's what we're more used to. he'd love to have you for dinner. laughter he just can't help himself, and it's what the die—hard fans adore. the speech, as written, was designed to appeal to undecided voters watching on tv. they got vintage trump instead. but he is ahead in the polls, so he can probably afford to be himself. god bless you, wisconsin. there was a very rare sighting of his wife, melania — which seemed to catch even him by surprise — then an attempt at a kiss, of sorts, and an entire trump dynasty in waiting now that he has totally taken over the party. republicans have got good reasons to be celebrating — donald trump escaped death to become their candidate and he is leading in the polls. so, whilejoe biden may have to pull out of this race, trump can say he's on course for victory. joe biden is still isolating at home after contracting covid

but he has released a statement, saying he's looking forward to getting back on the campaign trail next week. he says: his campaign is furiously denying reports that he is considering dropping out. joe biden is more committed than ever to beat donald trump and we believe, on this campaign, we are built for the close election that we are in. the, uh... it is just three weeks sincejoe biden�*s disastrous performance threw his whole campaign intojeopardy and things have only got worse since then, while donald trump just seems to go from strength to strength. there are three months till the election. sarah smith, bbc news, milwaukee, wisconsin. for more on the latest group of democrats calling for biden to step aside, i spoke with the politico reporter daniel lippman. pretty clear words there from sherrod brown earlier — "i think the president

should end his campaign". how significant is that, do you think? well, it'sjust one in a number of democrats who say that the writing is on the wall for biden. they've been trying to get him to see the light on this without too much public pressure. but remember — sherrod brown is a democrat who is facing a very tough senate re—election campaign this year and so, he needs to distance himself from biden, who is an unpopular incumbent. and there's a lot of democrats who think that biden is going to drop out of the race in the next few days, especially since you need time to introduce the next presidential nominee to the american people and have them sell their case and become more well—known. so, how do you see this panning out over the weekend? are we going to have more names coming forward to publicly urge him to do what they believe to be the right thing? we very well might but

on a weekend, politicians don't want to break too much news because they want to get as much media attention as possible and so, they often wait for the weekdays. the issue in terms of if biden does drop out — he is right now in wilmington, isolating from covid — and so, he would likely want to do a big speech at the white house with all the media and be able to frame his legacy in a way that is good for the history books. he's not going to just issue a release and say, "hey, i'm not going to run for re—election". and so, he wants to be able to make sure that he can kind of retell his record and frame whoever is next, be able to use the good parts of his legacy as president to beat donald trump in november because right now, as long as this campaign is about biden�*s age — and it has been for three weeks — the democrats are not

going to win in november. well, speaking about who might take the role, we are starting to see some polling showing that kamala harris is polling well against donald trump. if mr biden does decide to step down, is there unified support, do you think, for her? i think that the party would likely coalesce around her but they don't want to anoint her in a smoke—filled back room, like in, you know, 50 years ago in politics. they want to have an open, democratic process with all the delegates. they want to make her fight for this nomination. but already, you've seen some of her strongest potential opponents, like gavin newsom and gretchen whitmer, say they would not challenge her for president. and so, i think that, you know, they don't want to also turn her aside because black voters and black women especially are at the core of the democratic party and so, if you nominated a bunch of white people to replace her

as the presumptive nominee if biden drops out, that's going to be a major issue and cause democrats to lose significant voting blocs. it sounds like it could be quite an interesting dnc this year. yeah, i'm excited to attend. chuckles i'm sure it's not going to be just the lovefest that it was in milwaukee, where there are a lot of pictures of trump, no dissent from inside the party, and so, i think democrats would get a kick out of having a new candidate who can actually, you know, string more sentences together than joe biden. and now you mention milwaukee — let's just — tell us a little bit more about that. what was the atmosphere like when you were there? it seemed very upbeat, shall we say? yeah, no, the republicans are very unified. they feel confident that they're going to win in november, even if biden is off the ticket, so there were a lot of young republican staffers thinking about, "whatjob do i want

in the trump white house if it "comes back, or the trump administration?" lots of parties, drinking and people feeling like it's a different republican party. it used to be a country club—type republican party. now, it's a working class, populist party and so, you don't see a lot of traditional republicans there — not as many senators or congressmen like during the bush administration, when he was renominated and so, i think that especially with the choice ofjd vance — that's another way that trump is putting his stamp on the republican party in terms of, you know, having someone who comes from a working class background. and just briefly, are there any potential democrat nominees that you think that donald trump would be worried about? i think that one reason they're attacking harris so much in the last few weeks is that they are worried

that she would be a stronger candidate than biden and so, she would not face any issues with her cognitive ability or being too old and so, i think that, you know, they — that if you talk to them, they are more concerned about her but they still think that they can kind of blame herfor the border crisis and tie her to inflation but that's only, as you mentioned, polls show her doing better than biden. daniel lippman. the un's top court, the international court ofjustice, says israel's continued presence in the occupied palestinian territories is illegal and should come to an end "as rapidly as possible". in a non—binding opinion, the court also said israel must pay reparations to palestinians who have lost land and property due to its occupation. the land and its ownership have been under dispute since 1967 after the six—day war, when israel almost tripled the size of the territory under its control. before the hearings, israel said it did not recognise the legitimacy

of proceedings at the world court. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu called the opinion a "decision of lies". bbc�*s barbara plett usher has more from jerusalem. this is not a judgement or a ruling, it's an advisory opinion, so it's not legally binding but it does carry moral and political weight to have the world court determine that israel's occupation violates international law and must end as soon as possible, that it should stop building jewish settlements and evacuate the settlers and make reparations to the palestinians for damages. not surprisingly, the israelis angrily rejected it. the prime minister called it lies. he said thejewish people are not occupiers in theirown land. the foreign minister said it was warped, one—sided and wrong, and he said that it ignored israel's security needs — its need to defend itself from hamas and from other armed groups on various fronts. but this is exactly what the palestinians were looking for. palestinian leaders call this a watershed moment for palestine and forjustice. they called it an historic victory. they said the international community should respect the opinion and force israel to end the occupation. now, israel can't be

forced, but this will add to the international pressure — it's already facing criticism for the way it is conducting the war in gaza. meanwhile in israel, a drone attack killed one man and injured at least eight others in central tel aviv. a block of flats was hit by what israeli military officials are calling an iranian—made unmanned aerial vehicle which has been modified to fly long distances. the israeli military said it detected the drone but had not tried to shoot it down because of "human error". the houthi movement in yemen said it carried out the attack and vowed further raids. 0ur middle east correspondent lucy williamson has more. drone buzzes through the night sky, through israel's defences, an iranian—made drone fired from yemen, exploding over tel aviv. a reminderfor this laid—back, secular heartland that its country is at war. shrapnel from the mid—air explosion metres from the us embassy flew through these

residential streets, killing one man in his home and injuring others. all of a sudden, here, i see, like, this weird, small aeroplane sort of thing. so, i asked them, like, "guys, what is that?" like, i literally was like, "oh, what is that?" and then, they all turn around, and, boom — like, explosion. in the flat next door, shattered windows and shattered nerves. we were really, really scared. i mean, it was such a blast, such a huge noise. i'm thinking that maybe it should've sort of been stopped when it was on its way. i hope next time — if there is a next time — they'll do better. residents in these buildings are still reeling from the explosion that shook them awake here in israel's laid—back, secular heart. and the question many of them are asking now is with israel already at war, its military

already on high alert, how could this happen? israel's army spokesman blamed human error and promised appropriate responses. this explosion hit a soft target, barely touched by israel's conflicts — an attack with limited impact on the ground that will still leave its mark. lucy williamson, bbc news, tel aviv. a russian court has sentenced us reporter evan gershkovich to 16 years in a high—security penal colony on charges of espionage. it's the first conviction of a us journalist for espionage in russia since the end of the cold war. russian investigators claim the wall streetjournal reporter was working for us intelligence when he was arrested in march 2023 — accusations that his employer, his family, and the white house all deny. president biden criticised mr gershkovich�*s sentencing in a statement, writing, quote:

us national security adviser jake sullivan said on friday that getting mr gershkovich home is a top priority for the biden administration. 0ur russia editor steve rosenberg was one of the journalists at the verdict in moscow, and sent this report. the trial was behind closed doors. for the verdict, we were allowed in, but where was evan gershkovich? there, almost hidden from the cameras in the far corner of the glass cage that is the dock in a russian courtroom. he looked like he'd lost weight. thejudge found him guilty of spying and sentenced the wall street journal reporter to 16 years in a high—security

penal colony. whatjust happened in this courtroom is unprecedented in the history of modern russia. an americanjournalist convicted of espionage in a trial that was held behind closed doors — a trial that us officials have dismissed as a sham. evan gershkovich�*s employer condemned the verdict. he isn't a spy. he's a journalist. he was on a reporting trip. he was gathering news. this is completely cooked up. it's a total sham and, you know, the whole thing is just utterly appalling. evan gershkovich was arrested at this steakhouse in yekaterinburg. he was accused of gathering secrets about a local defence factory. the wall streetjournal has accused moscow of stockpiling americans in russian jails to trade them for russians jailed abroad. are moscow and washington ready to trade? it's happened before.

in 2022, russia freed us basketball star brittney griner. she had beenjailed on a drugs charge. in return, america released convicted russian arms dealer viktor bout. as soon as i win the election, i will have that reporter out. promises from donald trump but the biden administration is already talking to moscow about evan gershkovich and other jailed americans. it's unclear if a deal is close. what is clear is that a us reporter has been pronounced a spy without any evidence having been made public. someone cries, "we love you, evan". all he can do now is wait. steve rosenberg, bbc news, yekaterinburg. ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky said on friday he will continue to discuss efforts towards peace in ukraine with former us president donald trump. the pair spoke by phone on friday — their first call in five years.

in a statement on truth social, mr trump vowed to "end "the war," saying that under his leadership, quote: mr trump's bid for the oval office has renewed fears that us commitment to ukraine could falter if mr trump is elected president in november. on thursday, mr zelensky told the bbc he was willing to work with anyone who commands the white house. stay with us here on bbc news. much more to come. i will be back at the top of the hour. of course, you can look at our website. you can catch up with anything you are looking at on your favourite social media apps as well. hello there. warm with plenty of sunshine on friday — temperatures widely into the mid to the high

20s in celsius. in fact, it was the hottest day of the year so far with nearly 32 degrees reported in stjames's park in london. but the heat is not set to last because it will be turning cooler through the weekend. distinctly fresher by sunday. yes, still some bright and some sunny spells and still plenty of humid—feeling air around on saturday but also some outbreaks of rain, courtesy of this weather front pushing eastwards as we head into tomorrow morning. still some clear spells out towards eastern areas of england. it's going to feel muggy and warm — uncomfortable for sleeping. this is how we'll start off the day at 7 o'clock in the morning on saturday. temperatures for some towards the east already 18 or 19 degrees. so, on saturday, then, we'll start to see that rain move across northern ireland, western scotland, through wales and into northern england, too. it could stay dry and fine for much of the day across eastern areas of scotland. some of these showers likely to be heavy as we head through the afternoon in the southwest of england and there could be one

or two thundery showers, too, breaking out towards these eastern coastal areas. top temperatures of 25, 26 degrees out towards the east. we're hanging onto that muggy—feeling air through the day on saturday but it does feel fresher by sunday. now, we've still got a legacy of cloud through the morning for eastern parts. that's going to clear away. one or two showers developing but also some sunshine and then, yes, more cloud out towards the west, especially through the afternoon. temperatures this time just 15—22 degrees celsius. that's quite the drop in temperature from friday to sunday. and then on monday, we've got more weather fronts moving through, likely to bring some further showers, some outbreaks of rain and again, some rather blustery conditions perhaps towards southern areas of the uk. we won't all be seeing the showers — some areas perhaps staying dry. there will be some brighter spells, perhaps, here and there. most of the rain out towards the north and the west as we go through monday but temperatures just slightly below for some the seasonal average —16—22 degrees north to south.

by the time we get to tuesday and wednesday, a little ridge of high pressure will bring some drier conditions and it could start to feel a little warmer again but certainly not the sort of heat that we saw on friday. bye—bye for now.

tonight, and it crisis causes chaos, arrest warrants and leaves, and counting swans. you've probably seen the chaos unfolding around it outages affecting industries around the world. loads of flights have been cancelled, businesses have struggled to take payments, gps and pharmacists have been hit and pharmacists have been hit and tv channels have even been knocked off air. it's basically all down to one software update via cyber security firm called crowdstrike. we didn't quite agree with windows operating systems, which lots of businesses use. it will take some time before services are back up and running. some other stories now: several arrests have been made after riots in leeds last night. hundreds of people took to the streets. this police car was flipped

over and a double—decker bus