joe biden faces continued pressure from his party to abandon his run for president — but top aides vow he'll stay in the race ceremonies are held to mark the fiftieth anniversary of turkey's invasion of cyprus — turkey's president insists there's no point resuming peace talks. and — members of the refugee olympic team arrive in paris — just days before the games are due to start. hello. i am at lewis vaughanjones. welcome to the programme. there are warnings that cyber criminals — looking to exploit friday's global it outage — could cause further disruption. cyber agencies in the uk and australia are urging people to be vigilant to fake emails, calls and websites. the boss of crowdstrike,

the cyber—security firm responsible, warned of "bad actors" that "will try to exploit events like this." in total, more than 9,000 flights have been cancelled since friday with the potential for more delays on saturday. here in the uk, airports, which saw severe disruption, say that systems are working again but advised people to check before travelling. a flawed update — rolled out by the cybersecurity firm, crowdstrike, knocked many machines offline, hampering retail systems and health care, with problems for gps and pharmacies. here's our technology editor zoe kleinman. yesterday, the global it outage caused worldwide chaos. today, we're still dealing with the aftermath. thousands of flights were grounded and while airports are getting back to normal, there are still many travellers who are stuck. my flight got cancelled while i coming out of my aeroplane while i was coming out of my aeroplane and i've been stranded for around... 0ver 2a hours by now, i think. i have been on my feet for four days by now, i think. no—one can really help me right now.

now the children are napping on the floor. we had no help. we found another flight, but it's not on the same company and it's only tomorrow morning, so we have to find a room for tonight. queues quickly built up at dover this morning, with people trying to find other ways to get abroad. the port's advice is not to arrive without a ticket. gps were forced to cancel appointments and some patients struggled to get hold of vital medicines. pharmacists had difficulties issuing prescriptions — including for themselves. in terms of pharmacy workload, it has impacted on how we interact with patients because, obviously, those electronic prescriptions and that sort of more seamless service hasn't been available. then, personally, i have also been unable to access my electronic prescription, so i really feel for the patients because i am one of them. however, workarounds

are possible for those with urgent medicine needs. they were able to take my nhs number and look me up in their system to see that i have been prescribed this before. so the pharmacist will be able to dispense it today. when i saw that it systems were down i thought, well, i'm glad i'm not flying anywhere today, but it didn't occur to me that something like getting my prescription would be impossible. will anyone be liable for the cost of all this turmoil? the us cybersecurity firm crowdstrike has apologised for its disastrous update but it was only microsoft—powered computers which crashed. there's also the companies themselves, who don't seem to have had back—up systems. it shows just how dependent we are on a small number of big tech companies to run our digital lives, and how vulnerable this leaves us when something goes wrong. zoe kleinman, bbc news. zoe with a round—up on the events.

our technology reporter, chris vallance, explained more about the ways cyber criminals could exploit the the crowdstrike outage earlier. people will try and exploit the fear, the uncertainty they create. so essentially, warnings from computer security officials, the us, the uk, australia, someone from singapore, essentially setting out that criminals are trying to impersonate crowdstrike, sending out phishing e—mails, saying, "you need to do this to make sure you are safe." and it usually involves handing over information you wouldn't otherwise handover or downloading some software that does the exact opposite of fixing your computer, it gives hackers access. warnings are specifically for businesses or individuals? that is an interesting point. crowdstrike mainly supplied enterprises. so as an individual, you are not really likely to be affected by this on your personal computer. so that in itself is a kind of red flag.

if you get a message on your phone or e—mail saying, you need to fix this thing, really crowdstrike�*s customers are a bit bigger than you. so be wary if you get any communications — what about a recovery process. we have heard there are lots of things back up and running and 0k. give us an idea of where we are, and the rough timescale. the timescale is the critical thing. the fix that crowdstrike have rolled out, that is kind of dealt with. but where computers have ended up with the blue screen of death that we are all horribly milia with, if you are a large organisation, that we are all horribly familiar with, if you are a large organisation, fixing that means going out to the machines. computers can be stored way away from corporate offices, so it's a really big logistical exercise, that will take a while, and then the knock—on effects of the disruption which causes further disruption. we are still seeing companies continuing to try and recover. is it too early for lessons learned,

what these businesses are going to be thinking about now? i think inquiries began as soon as the event happened. it's been a really big outage. we've not seen anything on this scale, i think it's fair to say, lots of experts are saying. lots of questions about our reliance on if few key bits of tech, on a few key bits of tech, lots of questions about how prepared we are for when, inevitably, that tech goes wrong. and we depend on this stuff increasingly, our lives are ever more digital. chris, thank you. the bbc�*s simonjones is at heathrow airport, he gave me a sense of how disruptive this has been for passengers and crew. a short time ago, we were down at terminal 2, and it was very, very busy. to be fair, this was always going to be a very busy day at heathrow, because it's the start of the school holidays for many families. but what you now have to add into the mix, you have hundreds of people turning up at the terminal, desperately trying to find flights today,

because their flights yesterday were cancelled. so add that in, that creates more people in the terminal. i've been speaking to the main airports around the uk, and the good news is they all say there are no longer any it issues, those have been resolved. the bad news, because there were so many cancellations yesterday, you have a lot of planes, a lot of cabin crew and pilots, in the wrong place. that means there are going to be further cancellations and delays throughout the course of today, and into tomorrow too. it is an improving picture, because globally, almost 7,000 flights were grounded yesterday. today, so far, that figure stands atjust over 1,500, but it still leaves a lot of people wondering how they are going to get away on holiday or get back home if they've been in the uk, so still a worrying time for some people. passengers i have spoken

to in heathrow, really, they're saying they don't blame the airlines or the airport, this does seem to be out of their control, but they do complain about a lack of information. there are a lot of staff from heathrow in the terminals, extra staff have been brought in to try to help those people still trying to get to where they need to go. but one thing passengers have been saying to me is they don't want to spend another night sleeping on the terminalfloor. thank you to simon for that. now, we had to the usa. —— now, we head to the usa. joe biden has said he's "looking forward to getting back on the campaign trail next week" after his isolation with covid. pressure mounted on the us president overnight, when a democratic congressman, who described mr biden as a friend, said he didn't seem to recognise him at a d—day event last month. let's speak to kadia goba who's national politics reporter at semafor. thank you for coming on the programme. thank you for having me. what

you for coming on the programme. thank you for having me. what you think the state _ thank you for having me. what you think the state of _ thank you for having me. what you think the state of players _ thank you for having me. what you think the state of players this - think the state of players this weekend forjoe biden? i think the state of players this weekend forjoe biden? i don't see an hinu weekend forjoe biden? i don't see anything emerging _ weekend forjoe biden? i don't see anything emerging this _ weekend forjoe biden? i don't see anything emerging this weekend, l weekend forjoe biden? i don't see i anything emerging this weekend, yet. i can say that pressure is mounting every day to remove him from the ticket. we heard about almost a dozen lawmakers yesterday coming out and saying, including some senators, that they would prefer that he step down. some of them are rallying around, harris. joe biden has said things very differently publicly. the president of the usa is going to say this until the very end, but there have been multiple reports to say that they are, him and his family, thinking about an exit strategy. family, thinking about an exit strate: . . , , strategy. that is interesting. donald trump _ strategy. that is interesting. donald trump is _ strategy. that is interesting. donald trump is in _ strategy. that is interesting. i donald trump is in milwaukee, strategy. that is interesting. - donald trump is in milwaukee, and there is a sense —— is there a sense

from the people you have spoken to about from a strategic point of view what would be better? forjoe biden to stay in place will be replaced? i think so. we serve over convention attacks around kamala harris, who would be his presumptive successor. also, you see people close to former president trump coming out on x or other social media platforms to say: i cannot believejoe biden is going to let them bully him. it is in their best interest forjoe biden to stay in the race, obviously. we see polling showing joe biden... kamala harris has a better chance of beating donald trump. however, there is a slight difference, the polling suggests, harris has a better

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good, because all of the infighting is undermining the current candidate, joe biden. it is is undermining the current candidate, joe biden. it is a fascinating _ candidate, joe biden. it is a fascinating time. _ candidate, joe biden. it is a fascinating time. thank - candidate, joe biden. it is a fascinating time. thank you j candidate, joe biden. it is a i fascinating time. thank you for coming in the programme. thank you for havin: coming in the programme. thank you for having me- _ a hard—line ukrainian nationalist party has blamed russia for killing one of its most prominent members. iryna farion was shot while walking through a street in the western city of lviv. she was a former mp for the svoboda party, and had achieved notoriety for insulting the country's russian—speakers. a statement by svoboda said that farion had been murdered on the orders of moscow. however, ukraine's interior ministry said it had "several versions" of who might be responsible. at least five more people have been killed in bangladesh, as troops enforce a nation—wide curfew, following days of unrest. security forces used live rounds, rubber bullets and teargas as protesters defied the curfew and blocked roads.

students have been demanding that ministers scrap a quota system that reserves many public sector jobs for the relatives of veterans of the country's war of independence. on sunday, the supreme court will consider a government attempt to overturn the court verdict which reintroduced the quotas. maya tudor — from the university of 0xford's blavatnik school of government — explained more about the background to the violence. the impetus for these protests was a recent bangladesh high court decision to reinstate, as you said, civil service employment quotas for relatives of the country's freedom fighters. to understand why these quotas are so contentious, one has to understand that the independence struggle for bangladesh is relatively recent. it was only in 1971, in a very bloody battle that some scholars call a genocide, that the country gained independence. in the context of that time, quotas, which reserved 30% of civil service seats for those veterans,

were widely accepted as legitimate. today, however, that context feels very different. first, thosejobs are incredibly stable and lucrative and prestigious. there are just a few hundred of them, and almost half a million bangladeshis compete for those jobs. and in addition, the current government, the incumbent government, prime minister sheikh hasina is the daughter of the country's founding father. that means many of her party's members benefit from these quotas. in the context today, according to some of the students i have spoken with, that effectively entrenches the incumbents in positions of power. turkey's president has said the reunification of cyprus is not possible, and that there is no point holding talks with that as the goal. recep tayyip erdogan was visiting

the island to mark the 50th anniversary of turkey's invasion. with me is paul moss, europe editor for the bbc world service. hello. before we get into some of the details of today, reminders of the details of today, reminders of the background.— the background. cyprus became independent — the background. cyprus became independent from _ the background. cyprus became independent from britain - the background. cyprus became independent from britain in - the background. cyprus became l independent from britain in 1960, but there were always tensions between greek speakers and turkish speakers which spilled over into violence, and there were horrible atrocities committed on all sides. in 1974, cyprus, the greek speaking dominating majority said: we want to join greece and become one country, and at that point, turkey invaded cyprus. they did it, they said, to protect their population from the kinds of atrocities that they had seen. there was fierce fighting and they occupied one third of cyprus. to this day, turkey as there were tens of thousands of troops occupying what they call the north

cyprus republic, though nobody recognises it. the greek cypriots fled the circus side and turkish cypriots fled the creekside. it has been divided like that ever since. —— fled the greek side. it is now seen very differently by both sides. the greeks see it as a time of mourning for an invasion which lost one third of the island. for the turkish speakers, some of them, it is the time to celebrate, because as far as they are concerned, the invading army liberated them from possible atrocities. all sides are remembering a conflict which left a lot of people dead. what remembering a conflict which left a lot of people dead.— lot of people dead. what about the --rosect of lot of people dead. what about the prospect of peace _ lot of people dead. what about the prospect of peace negotiations? i lot of people dead. what about the i prospect of peace negotiations? they have been prospect of peace negotiations? iie: have been ongoing peace prospect of peace negotiations? "ti2 have been ongoing peace negotiations since, and most agreed on a peace agreement —— back on what a peace agreement —— back on what a peace agreement would look like, a federal country with autonomy for both

sides. that wasn't the basis of peace talks. in 2004 they got very close and the united nations secretary came up with a agreement for the people to vote on but it was rejected. negotiation hasn't been given up on and today the cypriot government expressed hope it could happen. translation: ., , ., happen. translation: ., ., translation: if we really want to send a message — translation: if we really want to send a message on... _ translation: if we really want to send a message on... it _ translation: if we really want to send a message on... it is - translation: if we really want to send a message on... it is to - translation: if we really want to send a message on... it is to do i send a message on... it is to do anything — send a message on... it is to do anything possible to reunite our homeland. ., anything possible to reunite our homeland-— anything possible to reunite our homeland. ., ,. ., homeland. that optimistic idea was scotched roundly _ homeland. that optimistic idea was scotched roundly by _ homeland. that optimistic idea was scotched roundly by the _ homeland. that optimistic idea was scotched roundly by the turkish - scotched roundly by the turkish president. read check type erdogan as a machinist figure. —— recep tayyip erdogan. he has no desire to withdraw his country pass troops. he

basically said: reunification is not going to happen. translation: we cannot get anywhere by ignoring - the realities on the island. we believe that a federal solution in cyprus is not possible. given those words, what next? not ve given those words, what next? iirrt very optimistic, is it? there is another factor: very optimistic, is it? there is anotherfactor: a very optimistic, is it? there is another factor: a few years ago the discovered gas off the coast of cyprus, that gives both sides an incentive to hold onto what they have, because there is clearly money to be made on that prospect. one of the sad thing is when you go to cyprus is that the wounds from this are still very alive. people are still digging for bodies. there are thousands of dead bodies never recovered, thousands of people still missing. you see volunteers taking in the soil, trying to recover people. that is one attempt to heal things, but if i am honest, i wouldn't be that surprised if in 50 years there is a present modern

version of you and a future version of me sitting here having exactly the same conversation. we of me sitting here having exactly the same conversation.— of me sitting here having exactly the same conversation. we have to leave that on _ the same conversation. we have to leave that on that _ the same conversation. we have to leave that on that is _ the same conversation. we have to leave that on that is not _ leave that on that is not particularly optimistic note. thank you. in the uk: the mother of two sisters who were stabbed to death says she forgives the man who killed them. 27—year—old nicole smallman and 46 year old bibaa henry were murdered in wembley injune 2020. but speaking to bbc radio 4's today programme, mina smallman says she can't forgive the police officers who took photos and selfies with their bodies and shared them with others on whatsapp. chi chi izundu reports. it wasn't until after the trial, mishal husain interviewed me and she said, "do you forgive the killer?" "have you forgiven the killer?" she said. and, you know, a quick soulsearch, and i had. there was nothing there.

mina smallman said she was surprised that she no longer held any hate in her heart for the man who had brutally murdered her two daughters, bibaa henry and nicole smallman, in 2020. i didn't need that additional burden in my head. i don't feel revenge, i don't feel hatred. it's...it's gone. but she says that forgiveness has not been extended to the two met officers who took pictures and selfies with the bodies they were supposed to be guarding and shared them on whatsapp. they both were sentenced to 33 months in prison. some may find that really strange. you've forgiven the killer but you can't forgive the police officers. and i don't think... it's not a question of i can't, it's a question of, actually, that has given me the impetus to keep on reforming and working with the met and other police forces to ensure that we have the police force that we deserve. mina smallman admitted her low

was attempted suicide after finding out one of the officers had been released, but she now believes their actions propel her fight for better policing in the uk. chi chi izundu, bbc news. thousands of workers at disneyland in california have voted in favour of strike action in a dispute over pgy- employees say they can't afford to live in the expensive neighbourhoods near the amusement park. disney says it is committed to reaching a deal. members of the refugee olympic team have arrived in france ahead of this year's olympics as they prepare to go for gold at the summer games. it's the largest refugee team to date — made up of 37 atheletes — and this will be the third consecutive olympic games to field the team. our reporter meghan owen gave us an insight into the refugee team. we have to remember, there are 15 countries in this team, and 12 sports. so there is a huge variety of athletes, and this is a chance

for them to do some pre—olympic training together, to meet each other in normandy for a pre—games welcome. they then move to paris to the olympic village and then they can join their host countries to train with them. there are a few rising stars to look out for, including cindy nagamba, a cameroon—born boxer who moved to the uk aged 11, the first refugee boxer in the olympics. we will also see the cycling sisters from afghanistan, and what makes their story so interesting, there is a ban on women playing sport in afghanistan, so they have defied the odds and made it to the olympics. let's listen to some of the other athletes competing as part of the team. we met and we are from different backgrounds. we do different sports. but yeah, it was really important. yeah, i hope we will inspire other refugees and we want

to make proud this team. i want to prepare and go and run again, to improve time, - also to win, to get number two and three and four. _ i'm so grateful about this programme they have to support the athletes. i use it for my training camps, my races that i had in sweden. remind us of the background of this team. it began in 2015 when the international olympic committee decided to designate some funding as part of the refugee emergency fund to encourage refugees to take part in the olympics. the first time we saw a refugee team was in 2016 in the rio olympics in brazil. it's managed by the olympic refuge foundation. the idea is to get elite athletes from refugee communities. to be eligible, the athletes must be

elite competitors already and they must be recognised refugees by the un refugee agency. according to the president of the international olympic committee, he said that this demonstrates the human potential of resilience and excellence. he also hopes this will help to inspire over 100 million people worldwide who have been displaced, and that, actually, you can still compete in the olympic games as a refugee. american singer bruce springsteen has officially reached billionaire status. according to forbes, the boss is apparently worth $1.1 billion, following a six—decade career that's seen him release 21 studio albums, seven live albums, and five eps, selling more than 140 million albums globally. two pandas at a zoo in the united states have made their official debut. yun chuan and xin bao are the first

pandas to enter the us in 21 years. since arriving injune, the pandas have been acclimating to their new home and are expected to be seen by the public on august the 8th at san diego zoo. breaking news on the it outage: 81.5 billion computers were hit by the it outage according to microsoft. that is less than 1% of all windows machines stop i am lewis vaughan jones, this is bbc news.

someday contrast in our weather right now. across eastern parts of the uk it is dry, further west it is cloudy. we have had outbreaks of rain for some time, that is how it will stay this evening. quite humid in the number of areas. here is the satellite hearing it with the superimposition of rain. we've had the outbreaks of rain for quite some time now and that's how it's going to stay through the course of the evening. also quite humid in a number of areas. now here's the satellite picture with the radar superimposed and you can see the outbreaks of rain here, the dark blue colours indicating the heavier rain in south—western areas, through the irish sea, just about clearing northern ireland at this stage, but wet in the western isles. further east, it's dry. now, let's have a look at the picture around nine o'clock. so by this stage, most of the rain actually in the south will have fizzled out, although we have a few showers dotted around. dry in the extreme south east, east anglia, most of lincolnshire. the thick cloud with the persistent rain is from around about the lake district northwards into the lowlands of scotland, much of scotland, in fact, and all the way into the northern isles.

but at this stage you can see clearer skies already in the outer hebrides. and much fresher here 13, degrees, whereas many other eastern parts of the uk still 23. now, the forecast for tonight shows that heavier rain moving away to the north, it sort of fizzles out, evaporates really in the south. and then we're left with a cloudy, muggy morning for many of us in the east. 17 in whole, about that in london. 17 in hull, about that in london. out towards the west, it's a fresher start with some sunshine. and i think overall, sunday is not looking bad at all. there'll be sunshine in the morning in many areas, but then the clouds will bubble up. could be a few showers scattered across england and wales, scotland too, perhaps layers of thicker cloud in northern ireland earlier on as this weather front brushes ireland here. and the temperatures — 18 in the north tomorrow, about 23 in london, and we'll start to lose some of that humidity. now, early next week, still a few weather fronts to get through. they're coming off the atlantic. the winds are mostly from the west, so they're still pretty warm. still a fair amount of humidity in the air, moisture, but really quite brisk winds, especially around some of these coasts. most of the rain will probably be further north, i think further south it's cloudy rather than wet and certainly some sunshine around. temperatures, 24 degrees

expected in hull. ok, let's have a look at the outlook then. it's a bit of a mixed bag, but if you look at the temperatures, they're actually pretty much bang on where they should be this time of the year and actually into the weekend and the following week, it's starting to settle down.

this is bbc news. the headlines... warnings that criminals may try to exploit friday's global tech outage, amid concerns over

the vulnerability of it systems worldwide. joe biden faces continued pressure from democrats to abandon his run for president, but top aides vow he'll stay in the race. nature finds a way — why the reintroduction of wild bison in the english countryside is proving to be successful. and is modern life still rubbish? a new documentary about the british band blur tries to find an answer. now it's time for a look at today's sport. thank at today's sport. you very much. let's take you to the west coast of scotland for the third day of the open at royal troon. the overnight leader shane lowry is on the course, as is ben croucher. weather has taken a turn after calm conditions this morning — how is lowry getting

on on day three? absolutely, he is doing very well right now, good weather for ducks this, but other birdies should be a little harder to come by in these conditions. some of the best golfers in the world are producing some fine displays out there on the course right now. birdies can be found, you need great, mentalfortitude in these conditions and shane lowry, thatis these conditions and shane lowry, that is a man who has that in spades. there is a huge irish contingent following him around the course today, theyjust have a short little hop over the irish sea to make it to scotland and they have done so in their hundreds and a huge role, about 45 minutes ago, when he made a birdie on the force. no blemishes on the scorecard for him today, not really been in any massive danger and that is probably the key to success around royal troon right now. just staying out of danger and not attacking the course too hard. he continues to lead the

open championship by two shots. if we have a look at how others behind our fairing, we have a look at how others behind ourfairing, dan brown, whata story, character he has shown. he made a bogey but has made two birdies since to keep the pressure on shane lowry. remember, when lowry was winning a major brown was playing on essentially the fourth tier of golf and struggling to make his living. third and fourth place are doing well as well, but this rain is still very heavy and does not look like it will go anywhere, plenty of peril for the players to come. , . ., ., , ., come. interesting conditions at ro al come. interesting conditions at royal troon- — come. interesting conditions at royal troon. thank _ come. interesting conditions at royal troon. thank you - come. interesting conditions at royal troon. thank you very i come. interesting conditions at - royal troon. thank you very much. england are batting on day three of the second test at trent bridge, but they have just lost two wickets, those of ben duckett and ollie pope who had been building a good partnership in this second innings. duckett with an excellent knock of 76.

the west indies finished their first innings, leading england by 41. all out for 457. england are now 176—3, leading by 135 runs with seven wickets remaining. lando norris will be hoping he can claim his second win of the season at the hungarian grand prix after claiming pole for sunday's race. the british driver will be joined on the front row of the grid by his mclaren team—mate oscar piastri. world champion max verstappen was third. lewis hamilton is in fifth, while george russell, who was on pole for the last race at silverstone, and his mercedes team made mistakes, which will see the briton start from 17th. tadej pogacar has won stage 20 of the tour de france, the penultimate stage of the race which heads to nice on sunday. pogacar retains the race lead but was pushed all the way to the finishing line by the defending champion jonas vingegaard. and the slovenian will lead going into sunday's time trial, which is a break with tradition

as the race won't finish in the french capital in paris because of next week's olympics. the 22—time world champion, rafael nadal is into the final of the swedish open after a three set victory over croatia's duje ajdukovic. the spaniard is using the clay court tournament to build up his fitness ahead of the olympic games and had a deciding set victory over the croatian 23—year—old. it's nadal�*s first atp final in over two years following time away from the sport with several injuries. and that's all the sport for now. thanks for that. west yorkshire police are continuing to search for people involved in violent disorder in leeds on thursday. five people have already been arrested in connection with the disturbances in harehills in which a police car was overturned and a bus set alight. the trouble began after social services investigated a child protection issue at a house. our reporter phil mccann is in leeds.

leeds city council says that it's, well, it's released a statement which it says was on behalf notjust of the council but also of the romanian and roma community, which really signifies the kind of tensions that there have been here with local people, especially in the romanian and roma community, blaming the council for being biased against them. this all goes back to the incident that happened here on thursday night, in which some children were removed by social services with police assistance from a local family. that then led, over the coming hours, to disturbances on the streets. it led to a car, a police car being overturned, a double decker bus, which i think you mayjust have seen, being set alight. that actually happened just here. you can still see on the road behind me the kind of charred remains. you can still smell it as well, in fact, the kind of acrid smell that you get from when you have a bonfire from what happened here, just, well, a couple of nights ago now. this statement from the council and the romanian and roma community says that the council has agreed to undertake an urgent review

of the case that led to those children being removed and work with romanian and roma—led communities. and in that statement, they also appeal for calm. well, yesterday we also heard from the home secretary, yvette cooper. she came to leeds, spoke to west yorkshire police and said that the full force of the law should be used against those who were responsible for the disturbances here, and west yorkshire police have said that their investigation will be relentless. and it's important to mention, of course, that we also saw people from the local community, including local councillors, come here on thursday night pleading with people to go home and shouting at people really saying, "this is our community, this is your community," asking them what they were doing. and then the next day, of course, on friday, you saw people in the community coming together to try to clear things up, physically taking part in the clean—up. but then we also, the bbc, yesterday spoke to people from the roma community here, which is quite sizeable in this part of leeds, who said that they thought that, as i said, the council, the authorities were biased against them and one person said, "the authorities, they think we're bad."

so that's where the tension's come from in this suburb of leeds, which is full of lots of terraced streets, quite tightly packed here. so lots of appeals for calm. and this morning, well, this afternoon rather, it is, as i say, calm. the metropolitan police says it is making advances in tackling mobile phone fraud using new investigative techniques and intelligence. criminals are increasingly stealing handsets in order to access people's banking and financial data. the thefts often leave victims out of pocket — sometimes by tens of thousands of pounds. dan whitworth from radio 4's money box reports. having your mobile phone stolen, however it happens, can be a traumatic experience. but the impact of mobile phone fraud, when criminals use a stolen handset to steal even more money, can be even worse. this victim, who wanted to remain anonymous, had his drink spiked on a night out with colleagues, his phone taken, and more than £20,000 stolen

using a mix of a credit card payment and three bank transfers. these criminals had my phone, they were able to access my financial apps and these four transactions resulted in significant money being withdrawn from my business and personal accounts, which has had a serious impact on my ability to run my company, and it has also had a serious impact on my mental health and that of my family. last year more than 20,000 victims had £45 million stolen this way, both big increases on the year before. commander richard smith, who works for london's metropolitan police, but has national responsibility for robbery, told radio 4 money box offices were in the foothills of tackling this emerging crime. it's notjust the handset being taken, it is the access to a great deal more value in banking applications, through taking out loans,

through the theft of crypto assets. but it's also the access to all the personal data on the phone. we have our whole lives there. so we are completely alive to that, that is why we are taking this so seriously, that's why we are rolling out this methodology, but through london and nationally. commander smith says that methodology has helped pinpoint those who need to be most aware of this crime, men in their 20s and 30s on nights out in places like bars, pubs, and clubs, and helped officers learn how to follow the digital footprint of criminals, things like email addresses, social media posts and online registration details, to pursue suspects. more generally, the advice is the people to use face orfingerprint id if possible, have different passcodes to unlock phones from ones used to open apps, and to never store any notes containing passwords on the mobile itself. dan whitworth, bbc news. a 19—year—old woman has been arrested in leeds

on suspicion of arson, after a car was set alight with two children inside. the children were rescued unharmed by their mother and a neighbour at around 11pm on thursday, in the tong way area in the west of the city. they were checked over by paramedics at the scene. just two years after three wild bison were released into the kent countryside to help restore the area to its natural state, their numbers have doubled. it's the first time the species has roamed free in the uk for centuries, and it's hoped the project will serve as a blueprint for similar wilding initiatives, as claudia sermbezis explains. three bison have now become six, including two calves — one being a happy surprise.

it's been described as a ground—breaking rewilding project because these creatures help us manage our woods in a natural, sustainable way. you go to europe and there are wild animals that people live with. people live with wolves and lynx and bison. you know, in america, people go camping in yellowstone, where there are american bison, which are very, very similar to the bison we've got here. they're not dangerous animals, but we're not used to living with them in this country. and it's so important for them to be out in the wild, to act as ecosystem engineers. you know, bison are rocket fuel for biodiversity. in romania, where they have reintroduced bison back into the wild, they've done some research at harvard recently, and 170 bison living in the wild were capturing the carbon of 43,000 cars. they're impressive, strong — the heaviest wild land animal in europe. some weigh a tonne, and they're having a big impact on the 56 hectares they're

currently roaming on. bison, they they do a lot of grazing and browsing on the trees and this opens up long corridors. we've got lots of pathways through the woodlands. and, basically, this allows more light to the forest floor and light's essential for new growth. if you have a really thick canopy, nothing really grows on the other layers, so it's not good for other species. there's a line injurassic park — "life finds a way". now i know it's a hollywood fiction, but stay with me on this because it's exactly what they're doing here. by helping the bison, they're letting nature find its own way to survive. conservationists say we're facing a nature biodiversity crisis. but by using these large herbivores to reinvigorate and create dynamic ecosystems, the project is becoming part of the solution.

just want to bring you up—to—date with that it outage, we now have numbers from microsoft saying 8.5 million windows devices were impacted which are likely makes it one of the largest tech failures ever. plenty more coming up. now on bbc news, it's newswatch. on this programme, we hear from the woman leading bbc news. welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. coming up... i think it's trust that is the issue for us.

deborah turness talks to us about trust, impartiality and transparency. and about how bbc news maintains its influence in a time of falling television audiences and declining budgets. it's fair to say that big news follows deborah turness around, after a career in the commercial sector where she ran itn. she arrived at the bbc in september 2022. before the week was out, a new prime minister, liz truss, had taken office and the queen had died. significant events since then have come thick and fast, including two more new prime ministers, the war in gaza and this week, the attempted assassination of former president trump. one of her biggest challenges has been to ensure the impartiality of bbc news output, identified by the director general, tim davie, as the corporation's number one priority. she gave this definition of impartiality recently to a parliamentary select committee. it's about not taking any sides.

it's about reporting withoutjudgement, journalism withoutjudgment. and the bbc is seen to be the most scrupulously aware of anything that might be perceived as some kind of bias or preference to either side of an argument. but not everyone agrees with that. we've heard criticisms during the recent election of bias in all directions. steven pullen wrote to us during the campaign, saying... meanwhile, susie hq this week raised the subject of airtime for nigel farage. well, let's speak to deborah turness, the chief executive

of bbc news. thanks for coming on newswatch. the director general has identified impartiality as the bbc�*s number one priority, and you've heard accusations from viewers of bias during the general election campaign. what was your approach to impartiality during the campaign? well, thank you for inviting me on the programme, samira. when i came to the bbc, understanding the director general�*s real focus on impartiality, we did a really big piece of work asking audiences across the uk and around the world what they needed today to trust us, and they told us they wanted fairness and respect, and fairness and respect really come together to form impartiality, fairness in reflecting the fullness of the political conversation and respect in showing that we are listening to them because they pay for us. and the bbc is here for everyone. eight in ten uk adults came to the bbc during the election period. they said when asked who would you choose fortrusted, impartial coverage of this election? four times more chose the bbc

than any of our nearest other competitors. so i would say i really am incredibly proud of our output during the election, and i really feel that we stepped up to deliver on our democratic duty as a platform for freedom of speech and to reflect the fullness of the political conversation that was happening across the uk. lots of the complaints we received during the election, and you heard one earlier, concerned the perception that nigel farage and reform received more coverage than was warranted. did they? we were very, very thoughtful and very careful about this. and first to say, equal numbers of people contacted the bbc to say that there was too much and too little coverage of nigel farage and the reform party. we make very careful determinations and we look at, you know, a sort of cross—section of data and inputs to make those decisions. for example, ofcom has a framework, the bbc charter has a framework. some of it is about past electoral performance and some of it is about polling.

and in the end, we came out to a decision whereby nigel farage was interviewed by nick robinson on panorama in peak time, as were the greens and all the other major parties. and i think that was a really important decision that we took because he was scrutinised like every other major politician in peaktime. a big reach, important questions were asked. and i think when you look at the reach that reform ended up having, which was 14% share of the vote ahead of the liberal democrats, i think we got it about right. 0k. the tv audience who were watching the bbc one election night results programme live was down a third from 6.1 to 4.2 million compared to 2019. how much does that worry you? i think when you look at the totality of our linear television reach that night and the next day, 25 million people came to bbc news to watch that coverage.

but they also went to our audio feed, which was radio 4, radio 5 and sounds. they also went to the newscast all nighter. the audience is fragmented. they were on our live pages. we had massive reach. so you are not worried? no, because i think that we are part of the story of the fragmentation of the audience as they are on more and more platforms looking for different ways to consume news through podcasts, through live pages, through digital content. we are there on all these platforms, and what you're seeing is this fragmentation story. so i'm not worried. and i look at the the total reach of our total audiences through the election campaign was 45 million people across all of our platforms. that's enormous. 0k. the news channel saw a lot of viewers were very glad bbc provided a dedicated domestic service during the election campaign, as indeed they had used to be. and they feel the merged news channel for global and uk viewers

doesn't serve licence fee pay as well. called josh, he says... what's your answer to josh? well, my answer tojosh, first of all is thank you for watching, josh, and thank you for caring enough to ask that question. and we were very proud of our dedicated election stream, which did really super serve our uk audiences with all election, all the time for those weeks. and there was a real appetite for that. and asjosh has pointed out, we do always make sure with what we call our break—out service, that when there is a moving, developing story in the uk that we do the break—out and we make sure that our uk audiences are getting the moving, breaking story while the global stream goes off and conserve the global audience. so that is a well established principle and working really well. so you're going back to that? that's what we've been doing since the changes to the channel and that has been successful. but what i would say tojosh is this the break—out, um, streams that we put onto the channel

when there's changing, evolving stories in the uk also go on to iplayer and we're seeing real success with that and that's a real growth area. we also put them into our live pages and our digital platforms, and that is a growth area and an area of investment for us. so he's going to see more single—story live streams in more places in the future, because we can see that the audiences have an appetite for that. now, the last government's funding reductions for the bbc saw bosses make cuts to the news channel and also to newsnight, local radio and the world service. and this week your departing director of the world service, lillian landor, said she thought cuts to radio had been made too quickly. have you gone too far, too fast and will there be more cuts to come? look, we're living in the real world. we have a diminishing licence fee. we've seen successive periods of licence fee renewal which have been below inflation. that's a real impact. we also have been hit by inflation ourselves as a business, as an organisation, and we're having to find the investment in our digital product, our digital infrastructure and to move with the consumers

onto digital platforms. so we have to find the cash and the money to invest. so of course we have to make difficult choices and trade—offs. we hope to make them always led by audiences. we ask our audiences where their priorities are, what they most care about. you mentioned newsnight there. we recently made the changes to newsnight, and actually in the seven weeks that the new newsnight has been on air, it has grown 35%. now, we know younger audiences are deserting news broadcasting in large numbers. that could be an existential challenge for bbc news, couldn't it? it could be, but it's not. and i'll tell you why. a recent data point — on election night alone, double the percentage of audiences that came to us were 18 to 35. we doubled our percentage of 18 to 35.

reach on election night, eight in ten young audience members came to us for election news on that night, and that is a really, really positive sign. what we're trying to do, though, is to say, yes, of course. we want those audiences to come to us on our platform, but there's also the world that we live in, the real world. and so we are also investing to find those audiences on tiktok, on instagram, and on those platforms, to tell them about bbc news journalism. and we are targeting ruthlessly under 25s on tiktok, and the aim of that is to bring them back to our platforms, where they can enjoy bbc news content on bbc news platforms. right. transparency is one of your watchwords, on newswatch we like to think we embody that. here are a couple of messages we've had from the viewers.

so, without being too self—serving, could you commit to senior bbc staff coming on the programme more often to respond to licence fee payers, and perhaps even looking at finding us a longer slot? well, first of all, on transparency, thank you for doing this programme. i truly believe that we must be transparent with our audiences. everybody pays for the bbc, the bbc must be for everybody, and they have the right to ask questions and to demand the right answers. i have really enjoyed seeing nick robinson, marianna spring, jonathan munro, my deputy, you know, members of the of the news team, richard burgess, also head of content coming on. and i hope that we'll all continue to come on the show and to answer your questions, because they're very important. in terms of, i won't dodge your

final points about the length of your programme. i believe in transparency, but i don't think you would expect me to make a programming scheduling decision with a camera in my face. thank you for coming on. thank you. thank you very much for your time. thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see or hear on bbc news, on tv, radio, online and social media, email... that's all from us for now. thank you forjoining us. we are off the air now until the first week of september, but do continue to send us your views and join us again then. goodbye. hello. we have some big contrasts in our weather right now. on the one hand, across many eastern parts of the uk it's dry,

but further west it's cloudy. we've had the outbreaks of rain for quite some time now and that's how it's going to stay through the course of the evening. also quite humid in a number of areas. now here's the satellite picture with the radar superimposed and you can see the outbreaks of rain here, the dark blue colours indicating the heavier rain in south—western areas, through the irish sea, just about clearing northern ireland at this stage, but wet in the western isles. further east, it's dry. now, let's have a look at the picture around nine o'clock. so by this stage, most of the rain actually in the south will have fizzled out, although we have a few showers dotted around. dry in the extreme south east, east anglia, most of lincolnshire. the thick cloud with the persistent rain is from around about the lake district northwards into the lowlands of scotland, much of scotland, in fact, and all the way into the northern isles. but at this stage you can see clearer skies already in the outer hebrides. and much fresher here 13, degrees, whereas many other eastern parts of the uk still 23. now, the forecast for tonight shows that heavier rain moving away to the north, it sort of fizzles out,

evaporates really in the south. and then we're left with a cloudy, muggy morning for many of us in the east. 17 in hull, about that in london. out towards the west, it's a fresher start with some sunshine. and i think overall, sunday is not looking bad at all. there'll be sunshine in the morning in many areas, but then the clouds will bubble up. could be a few showers scattered across england and wales, scotland too, perhaps layers of thicker cloud in northern ireland earlier on as this weather front brushes ireland here. and the temperatures — 18 in the north tomorrow, about 23 in london, and we'll start to lose some of that humidity. now, early next week, still a few weather fronts to get through. they're coming off the atlantic. the winds are mostly from the west, so they're still pretty warm. still a fair amount of humidity in the air, moisture, but really quite brisk winds, especially around some of these coasts. most of the rain will probably be further north, i think further south it's cloudy rather than wet and certainly some sunshine around. temperatures, 24 degrees expected in hull. ok, let's have a look

at the outlook then. it's a bit of a mixed bag, but if you look at the temperatures, they're actually pretty much bang on where they should be this time of the year and actually into the weekend and the following week, it's starting to settle down.

live from london — this is bbc news. warnings that criminals are trying to exploit the global tech outage — with concerns over the vulnerability of international it systems.

joe biden faces growing pressure from democrats to abandon his run for re—election — but top aides vow he'll stay in the race. and — members of the refugee olympic team arrive in france — just days before the paris games are due to start. hello, welcome to the programme. there are warnings that cyber criminals — looking to exploit friday's global it outage — could cause further disruption. cyber agencies in the uk and australia are urging people to be vigilant to fake emails, calls and websites. the boss of crowdstrike, the cyber—security firm responsible, warned of "bad actors" that "will try to exploit events like this." in total, more than 9,000 flights have been cancelled since friday. here in the uk, airports, which saw severe disruption, say that systems are working again but advised people to check before traveling. a flawed update — rolled out

by the cybersecurity firm, crowdstrike, affected about 8.5 million microsoft