services. 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 sophie long. we come on air with breaking news this our—a congresswoman from texas sheila jackson lee has died. she was 7a years old. she announced at the beginning ofjune that she had pancreatic

cancer. herfamily, in a statement, said today with incredible grief for our loss yet deep gratitude for the life she shared with us, we announce the passing of united states representative sheila jackson lee of the 18th congressional district of texas. fes champion of the people, she was and simply knows as congresswoman by her constituents in recognition of her nearly ubiquitous presence and service to their daily lives for more than 30 years. a local national and international humanitarian, she was acknowledged worldwide for her courageous fights for racial justice, for her courageous fights for racialjustice, criminal justice and human rights with a special emphasis on women and children. the statement goes on to talk about her legislative victories, including reauthorising the violence against women act, again, this breaking news, congressman sheila jackson lee has died at the age of 7a. 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. 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, joined by ian thompson, editor at the register who joins by ian thompson, editor at the register whojoins me by ian thompson, editor at the register who joins me live. give a being with us. what a day for so many millions of people! what are your thoughts on the causes and the response to this? ~ ., on the causes and the response to this? ~ . ., , to this? well, i mean, as journalists, _ to this? well, i mean, as journalists, this - to this? well, i mean, as journalists, this is - to this? well, i mean, as journalists, this is an - journalists, this is an absolute field day because there is so much to write about what the cause of this was basically a very small piece of software which the company pushed out to all windows ten and ii pushed out to all windows ten and 1! machines and some of the server systems as well as usually with an update, it will

test and test and test again on a variety of systems but with something this small, it is looking like at the moment they've basically pushed it out and it caused this almighty kerfuffle and as has been said, i should imagine there are some people at crowdstrike about having to ask some serious questions at the moment. crowdstrike have said it has resolved the issue but it may be some time before things are back to normal. what is your understanding of what "sometime" might mean? ithink the are "sometime" might mean? ithink they are being — "sometime" might mean? ithink they are being politely _ they are being politely understated. based on the administrators we have been talking to all day today, it is going to be at least a couple of weeks before this is really cleared up all the way because, as you say, it has to be done manually. i was talking to an administrator today and he was saying "look, we have 500 warehouses spread across america and people running them are warehouse managers, not it people, and this is not a simple fix. you have to restart the computer plenty of times and delete certain lines of code — if you know where they

are, is easy enough to do it and then break the system again" so personally speaking i think a couple of weeks. they will get core systems up again shortly but it will be a nasty weekend for a lot of it people but the long—term effects, a couple of weeks before we see this properly cleared up. find this properly cleared up. and it's a day _ this properly cleared up. and it's a day that _ this properly cleared up. and it's a day that a _ this properly cleared up. and it's a day that a lot _ it's a day that a lot of people aren't going to forget for some time for all of the wrong reasons, i'm sure. was this a unique experience, do you think that we are going to see repeated in the future? i think this is going — repeated in the future? i think this is going to _ repeated in the future? i think this is going to be _ repeated in the future? i think this is going to be not - repeated in the future? i think this is going to be not a - this is going to be not a commonplace thing but it's certainly going to happen as long as there is security. in an interesting coincidence in fact the same thing happened to an antivirus company mcabee in 2010 when they suddenly started affecting windows xp machines and the chief technical officer thenis and the chief technical officer then is currently the ceo of crowdstrike so he has some experience in this area but you would have thought they would have encouraged a bit more care. most of us take for granted things will work so give us an id —— idea about

what goes on behind the scenes to make sure the computer system stay stable on these things don't happen? crowdstrike itself is a very well respected company and has a fantastic security suite and if it's a choice between not having computer security and risking this then definitely brisket because it's a very, very dangerous atmosphere out there unless you've actually got the security software in there. as i say, as long as updates continue, there are always going to be problems but something on this scale is hopefully a once in a decade event. ,, ., a, ., , hopefully a once in a decade event. ,, ., , ., ., event. should moore be done to ensure things — event. should moore be done to ensure things like _ event. should moore be done to ensure things like this _ event. should moore be done to ensure things like this don't - ensure things like this don't happen again?— ensure things like this don't happen again? yes, certainly, i should imagine _ happen again? yes, certainly, i should imagine the _ happen again? yes, certainly, i j should imagine the crowdstrike testing procedures are going to get a significant update. if you go to somewhere like microsoft, for example, who put out a patch of remote, they have banks and banks of different computers running different computers running different operating systems in different operating systems in different configurations and they run each patch through them many, many times to make sure there's not a conflict than when they find one, they

fix it. but when you are dealing with really complicated pieces of code, there is always the danger that even just a of lines missing or misspelled, it will cause a serious problem. we haven't seen anything this serious for quite some time. you can never rule it out but on the other hand, even security that is faulty is better than no security at all. very good to speak to you, iain thompson. thank you for taking the time. ., ., , the time. not a problem. goodbye- _ 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 of 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? laughter 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... # hold on. # i'm coming. ..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's 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. 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, they — 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. 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 — then 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, you know, 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. 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 a short time ago i spoke to reporters without borders's rebecca gibson. well, we think that this is an example, of course, of russia engaging in these practices of state hostage—taking, which have impacted otherjournalists and civilians beyond journalism as well.

perhaps it's part of their political manoeuvring to try to force the us position, but the impact on this journalist and journalism is devastating. when anyjournalist is targeted in this way, it's notjust a matter of that person, of course, but about freedom of the press, freedom of information. and this is taking place against the backdrop in russia of a very serious press freedom situation. evan is one of 46 journalists currently detained there, and in fact there is another americanjournalist held, too. so we would call on their own government, the us, to do everything in their power to bring both of them home. and the world needs to take note of this broader situation and stand up forjournalists in russia beyond just these americans who have been targeted as well. 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. let's turn to some other important news around the world. several people were arrested on thursday night after violence broke out in a suburb of the city of leeds in england. the uk's home secretary criticised what she called "unacceptable scenes of disorder and criminality" after a police car was flipped and a bus was torched. disorder broke out after social workers were met with hostility when attending to a child protection matter. the bangladeshi government says it's imposing a nationwide curfew and deploying the military to keep order after days of protests in which dozens of people have been killed. a spokesman for the prime minister says the decision was taken after a meeting of the parties in the governing alliance. bangladesh is experiencing nationwide unrest as protesters demand that the authorities scrap a quota system for governmentjobs.

spain is bracing for its first heat wave of summer with temperatures expected to reach as high as 44 celsius in some areas. red cross volunteers handed out gazpacho soup, water and soft drinks to homeless people in the southern city of cordoba to help them in the sweltering heat. at least a0 haitian migrants have died and many others injured after a boat carrying at least 80 people caught fire. the boat was headed for turks and caicos when it caught fire shortly after embarking from the haiti's northern coast. a rise in gang violence across haiti has exacerbated a long—running humanitarian crisis that is displaced more and more in automatic many to flee the country. stay with us here on bbc news. much more to come.

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.

voice—0ver: this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. hello and welcome to the media show with me, katie razzall, and ros atkins. well, on this week's edition, we're focused on one subject — the attempted assassination of donald trump, and how the media covered the story. and we're also looking at the questions raised about the intersection between the media and politics in the united states. take a look at what happened... gunfire get down, get down, get down! screaming let's begin the programme by speaking to three journalists who were at the trump rally where the attempted assassination took place. in a minute, we'll hear from the bbc�*s gary 0'donoghue, also anna moneymaker, a photographer with getty images. but first of all, from hadriana lowenkron from bloomberg. i was standing among the crowd, the crowd who had been waiting for several hours in anticipation of hearing the former president speak.

for me, what was important was speaking with the people