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. ceremonies are held to mark the 50th anniversary of turkey's invasion of cyprus — turkey's president insists there's no point resuming peace talks. hello, welcome to the programme. we start this hour with some breaking news from the middle east and, israel says it has carried out a series of air strikes on the port city of hodeida in yemen — which is controlled by the iran— backed houthi rebels. this video show huge fires raging with the houthi—run government in sana'a saying the israelis had struck oil storage facilities close to the coast, as well as a nearby power plant. israel's defence minister yoav

gallant said the idf had struck the houthis to send a message after hundred attacks on israel in recent months. on friday, a long—range iranian—made drone hit the centre of tel aviv, killing one man and wounding four others. the head of the idf spokesperson�*s unit — daniel hagari, said israel was fighting a war on multiple fronts. in the area of the port, the israeli air force struck dual use infrastructure, used for terrorist activities, including energy infrastructures. israel's necessary and proportionate strikes were carried out in order to stop the houthi terror attacks. however, this threat goes and israel. goes beyond israel. the houthis target other countries in the middle east,

the united states of america, and the world with their attacks on international shipping in the red sea. and notjust the red sea. who is behind the houthis? one country: iran. the iranian regime funds arms and directs the hootie terror activity. israel is fighting a multi—front war against iran's aggression proxies: hamas in gaza, hezbollah in lebanon, iranian militias in syria and iraq, and the houthis in yemen. let's speak to our diplomatic correspondent paul adams who is in eastjerusalem. paul, considering the significance of these israeli strikes on yemen. this is the first time the israelis have hit back in spite of more than 200 projectiles, drones, missiles, fired by the houthis in recent months in the direction of israel. some of those have reached israeli territory, but until yesterday, they hadn't really done much damage and they hadn't caused any casualties. i think that everyone knew after that

attack, the drain that landed in the heart of tel aviv and killed one israeli civilian, but an israeli response was completely inevitable. and, within 24—hour is also, we have seen precisely that. so, after months and months of the americans and the british trying to deter houthi action, both against israel but also against a shipping in the red sea, the israelis are saying: you kill one of our people, and we will do this ourselves. you mentioned _ will do this ourselves. you mentioned the _ will do this ourselves. you mentioned the uk - will do this ourselves. you mentioned the uk and - will do this ourselves. you mentioned the uk and us strikes in hodeidah. initially, the houthis thought this was another uk— us strike before it became clear it was he israelis this time. how does it take the whole regional conflagration? we have the war in gaza on various fronts, where does it take us? we

gaza on various fronts, where does it take us?— it take us? we have had repeated reminders of _ it take us? we have had repeated reminders of the _ it take us? we have had repeated reminders of the wider _ it take us? we have had repeated reminders of the wider regional. reminders of the wider regional dimension of the conflict in gaza, and it is that conflict in gaza the houthis say that they are responding to, showing solidarity with the palestinians in the gaza strip. we have seen that reflected along the northern border between israel and lebanon where another iranian sponsored militia, hezbollah have been engaged in sometimes very fierce battles. at times there has been real concern that front will spiral out of control. you will remember that back in april we saw a whole series of tit—for—tat attacks where the israelis attacked an iranian consulate in damascus, iran responded with a huge barrage of missiles and drones directed at israel for the first time, and israel for the first time, and israel also for the first time hit back, firing missiles at targets

inside iran. i think we are seeing these episodes, and each time that they flare up and each side makes its point, it seems to calm down a bit again. we get these regular reminders that this is a regional power struggle in which, at israel says, it is battling iran and what it sees as iranian proxies around the region. figs it sees as iranian proxies around the region-— it sees as iranian proxies around the reuion. �* , ., the region. as you mentioned, the houthis are _ the region. as you mentioned, the houthis are iran _ the region. as you mentioned, the houthis are iran backed _ the region. as you mentioned, the houthis are iran backed proxies. . houthis are iran backed proxies. could this have a more open way this time around? this could this have a more open way this time around?— time around? this is an ongoing relationship _ time around? this is an ongoing relationship and _ time around? this is an ongoing relationship and there _ time around? this is an ongoing relationship and there is - time around? this is an ongoing| relationship and there is nothing time around? this is an ongoing i relationship and there is nothing to suggest iran has backed off on its support for the houthis. israeli military spokesman in every fee i was listening to an hour ago pointed out hodeidah is the main port of entry for iranian equipment into

yemen. there are other routes through the desert via a more, but hodeidah has certainly been an area of interest in terms of the way that iran continues to sponsor the houthis militia. the houthi is say that they will retaliate. the israelis say that if there are further attacks like the one we saw in tel aviv that they will also retaliate. when iran chooses to get directly involved this time, who knows. there is a new president in power in iran. we don't know if that yet signal is any change in iran's approach to it's yet signal is any change in iran's approach to its regional allies and regional contest. but, this is an ever present danger, and the threat of a wider regional escalation which has been there since october has simply not gone away.— has been there since october has simply not gone away. thank you very much indeed — simply not gone away. thank you very much indeed for _ simply not gone away. thank you very much indeed for your _ simply not gone away. thank you very much indeed for your analysis. -

much indeed for your analysis. microsoft says the it chaos caused by a flawed update rolled out by the cybersecurity firm crowdstrike affected 8.5 million windows devices. there are warnings that cyber criminals are looking to exploit friday's global it outage — which 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 travelling. a flawed update — rolled out by crowdstrike knocked many computers offline, hampering retail systems and health care, with problems for doctors 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 was coming out of my, um, aeroplane and i've been stranded for around over 24 hours by now, i think, um, i've been on my feet for four days by now, i think. and no one can really help me right now. now the children are napping. on the floor, so we had no help. so 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. we can offer a turn up and go service down here. what we do ask you to do on the busy days is please book before you come. so if you book before you come, and then we can anticipate when you're going to arrive, that helps us with everything.

gp�*s 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 how the interaction has been with patients because obviously those electronic prescriptions and that sort of more seamless service hasn't been available. and then personally, i've 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 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 software 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. emily taylor is the ceo of the oxford information labs, she also works for the dns research federation, that monitors phishing activity connected to the crowdstrike outage. she told me what should we be looking up for. we've seen a real uptick in in the reports. so we monitor a variety of abuse feeds covering phishing scams and spam and other malicious activity relating to domains. and if you look at domains reported yesterday, the day of the attack, we see it, um, we've got a total of 73 reports, including 30 phishing reports,

which are the more serious. so all of these tend to include the crowdstrike name and things like bsod, the blue screen of death or fix the blue screen of death or "fix", these sort of action words combined with the brands and our research with consumers and consumer focus groups indicates that when people get a link, or an email with a link in it, and there's some kind of brand name there and an action word that gives there and an action word, that gives people a sense of reassurance that this is legitimate, where it may be a malicious link. so clearly this has highlighted vulnerabilities of the global it system. what measures do you think need to be put in place now to avoid this kind of thing happening again? i think the first thing to say is that although this event is truly terrible and has caused very widespread damage, these sort of events are quite rare.

you'll remember a couple of years ago, facebook managed to take itself offline with a bad configuration of a protocol. this is a you know, the crowdstrike has said it is not a malicious actor. it was a mistake, but it does indeed, as your report said, it does highlight the dependence that we have on a small number of suppliers, crowdstrike plus microsoft in this incident. if you have those combination, then the fix is also really, you know, it's not difficult, but it is time consuming. you need to have hands on keyboards on every computer, so it's going to take some time to get back to normal. 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. reminders of the background to all of this. , , , reminders of the background to all ofthis. ,, ,, , of this. cyprus became independent in 1960 and from _ of this. cyprus became independent in 1960 and from then _ of this. cyprus became independent in 1960 and from then there - of this. cyprus became independent in 1960 and from then there were . in 1960 and from then there were terrible tensions between the turkish and greek speaking population, spilling over into violence with appalling atrocities committed on both sides. in 1974, cyprus announced it was actually going to join with greece. that caused a lot of the fear among the turkish speaking population. that prompted turkey to invade, they said they were doing it to protect their population and took one third of the island. it meant the greek speakers fred daley fled and turkish speakers fled from each parts respectively. the island has been divided ever since. this 50th anniversary is seen very differently from the two sides. for the greeks it marks when the invasion saw them losing the third of the island. the turks, some of

them are celebrating as the greek army they see as liberators who came to protect them. we are left with the status quo we have now. what to protect them. we are left with the status quo we have now. what are the status quo we have now. what are the ho es the status quo we have now. what are the hepes of— the status quo we have now. what are the hopes of peace _ the status quo we have now. what are the hopes of peace negotiations? - the hopes of peace negotiations? peace negotiations have been going ever since. peace negotiations have been going eversince. people peace negotiations have been going ever since. people know what the end goal looks like, or they thought they did. the idea was to bring cyprus together as a single federal—state bed with a lot of authority for the two sides and compensation for the people who lost their homes. in 2004 they got very close. their then secretary general had a plan basically drew closely based on this but when it was put to a referendum on the greek cypriot side rejected it. at the moment of the anniversary, the greek cypriot president said that there was still hope for unification could happen in that way. translation: our mission | is the liberation, reunification and solution of the cyprus problem. translation: our mission | is the liberation, reunification

and solution of the cyprus problem. is the liberation, reunification if we really want to send a message on this tragic anniversary and really honour all those who sacrificed themselves in order for us to exist today, it is to do anything possible to reunite our homeland. that optimism was quickly scotched. recep tayyip erdogan is considered a nationalist in his country. he has no real desire to pull out of cyprus and pull his troops out of cyprus. it doesn't fit with his nationalist agenda. he said that as far as he was concerned, 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. what happens now? i don't think recep tayyip _ what happens now? i don't think recep tayyip erdogan's - what happens now? i don't think. recep tayyip erdogan's comments what happens now? i don't think - recep tayyip erdogan's comments will inspire anybody with optimism, and there is a new fact i haven't mentioned: a few years ago they found gas off the coast of cyprus, meaning both sides now have even more interest in hanging on to what

they have. there is money to be made, there. at the same time, when you go to cyprus, people genuinely want peace. i remember sitting in the home of a turkish man on the turkish side that has been taken from a greek family 50 years before, and he said: i would give this back tomorrow to have peace and reunify the island. at a grassroots level lots of people and one to happen. at the same time it feels like the politics are against them, i'm afraid. . ~' , ., , politics are against them, i'm afraid. ., ~ , . joe biden says he's "looking forward to getting back on the campaign trail next week" after being isolated with covid. pressure is growing on the us president to quit his run for re—election. 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. eric ham is a political analyst based in washington. he explained the pressure president biden is under. nobody knows exactly what will be the final end all solution the final end or solution

within the democratic party, but president biden appears to be dug in. even as the calls to accept that the rates continue to grow, and more importantly, we are hearing more hearing more and more congressional democrats, as well as big dollar donors wanting to see the president leave this race. however, we also continue to see rank and file voters within the democratic party continuing to voice their support and want the president to stay in this race. we have had some visible calls from people wanting him to step down but also some indirect pressure from our visible lack of support from people like president obama. i think former president barack obama is one of those people who is perhaps orchestrating away for the current president who is perhaps orchestrating a way for the current president to leave this race. we are told joe biden is very incensed by that. the more these calls grow for biden to leave, the more dug in he becomes, and what we are seeing here, i think, is that the crisis in the party becoming increasingly more problematic as the republican

party becomes more unified. that could lead to a certain drop in the polls. but, again, it is around 100 days until the election, that is plenty of time to right the ship. the question is: can they? one option people have mentioned is kamala harris. who else might be in the running? what does polling suggest about how these people might do against former president trump? we are already hearing from people like the governor of michigan and the governor of california saying that, if in factjoe biden drops out of the race, they will notjoin, meaning they will not want to be part of an open primary. and, if kamala harris is the nominated candidate, they don't want to be seen as her running mate. what we are seeing here is that even if biden drops out,

that this might be much more difficult than some of those leaders imagined because some of the people they might want to lean on to take biden�*s place now say they want nothing to do with the ticket if the president does decide to exit the race. republican presidential nominee donald trump and his running mate, ohio senatorjd vance, are due to hold their first rally together as a ticket in grand rapids, michigan, on saturday. it's nearly one week since a shocking assassination attempt on the former president in pennsylvania last saturday when a 20—year—old gunman opened fire injuring mr trump and killing one person, corey comperatore. anneke green is founding partner of reach global strategies — and former speechwriter for president george w bush. she told me what she expected at this rally. a lot of energy from the convention. the notes in his running mate, jd vance sounded as he was introduced as the running mate,

and it didn't leak ahead of time, where exactly right. were exactly right. his speech wasn't very exciting, he didn't overshadow donald trump, which would have been hard to do given the assassination attempt on trump. as they come out together, we will see how they work as a team, and probablyjd vance will come out first, then trump. people will be thinking about safety, but they will show up in big numbers. the acceptance speech, a lot of the talk was about that call for unity. president trump then went back to his old style as part of that when he went off the teleprompter. how much will it he be trying to broaden his electoral appeal in this event? i don't think he is going to make big changes. the attempt on his life certainly affected him personally and has caused more introspection and more emotion than we have seen from him in the past. in terms of what he is bringing and presenting

to the american people, that won't change, that is a critique of the biden presidency. as we saw at the rmc he isn't letting go of his opinions of the 2020 election and his belief that wasn't conducted appropriately or legally. i don't think he will change those critiques. he has an opponent and is making his case, and it seems to be a growing message which more and more people are supporting. for donald trump's camp, what is their view on what happens on the other side? are they hoping president biden stays in all goes? are they hoping president biden stays in or goes? i think they hope he stays in. the longer he remains... the tension associated with biden as the president or democrat nominee is chaos. it doesn't look like the democrats can pull together or agree with who they are running, not speaking well to their ability to govern, and that will affect the people running

the race and the democratic race for congress. at this point, the party leadership is not only concerned about losing the white house, which they are designed i think pretty about losing the white house, which they are resigned, i think, will happen if biden doesn't step down, but also losing any chance at having the majority in the senate. going back to the rally, you have been a speech writer for george w bush. if you were advising these two to try and win voters who aren't already behind them, these rallies have core supporters who will lap up whatever is said, but presumably they are trying to reach a broader audience, what would you advise him to put in their speech? i wouldn't say rally to focus on broader appeal, they are about mobilising bases. that strategy was pursued in the 2004 election, cole rovers was given a lot of credit for that architecture and encouragement for people to go out and vote and may be see their friends. that is why you went to the watering down of the messages. they are energising the people already supporting them and if that broadens, that is great,

but that is more likely to come from biden looking weak than any rally. the typical american voters will have heard more from the convention than any rally going forward. thank you very much indeed, anneke green. we had a response from the israeli prime minister: the port attacked in yemen is not an innocent port and it is for military purposes. netanyahu said: israel attacked a port that is an entry port for weapons from iran and said that the yemen port tack reminds enemies that there is no place israel cannot reach. this is a day after a drone attack from houthi rebels killed a civilian in tel aviv. they have been a number of attacks from drones and missiles hitting israel. this is serviceable isjust hitting israel. this is serviceable is just now from the israeli prime

minister, benjamin netanyahu. we will bring you more in that story when we get it. the bbc understands that the uk's independent pay review bodies will recommend an above—inflation pay rise of 5.5% for teachers and nhs staff. the figure will represent a challenge for the new government's budget this year. our political correspondent charlotte rose has more. this relates to the school teachers' review body. that represents about half a million teachers, and also the nhs workers' pay review body, representing 1.3 million nhs workers, but importantly, not doctors and dentists. that is a separate pay review body and these discussions are different to the ongoing pay dispute in england with junior doctors. the government is due to resume those negotiations next week. this is about the annual pay review settlement. but we have had some reaction from unions this morning. the general secretary of the national education union said that a pay award is needed to stop the recruitment and retention crisis in schools.

he suggested if the government were not to meet the recommendations of the pay review body in full, then that could lead to strike action. 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. a quick reminder: we have had a comment from the supreme political council of yemen saying that there will be an effective essence of the israeli air strikes on hodeidah port. more on that shortly. stay with us here on bbc news. 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.

this is bbc news. the headlines... israel says it's carried out a series of air strikes on the port city of hodeidah in yemen,

which is controlled by the iran—backed houthi movement. the israel defence forces say their fighter jets struck military targets in response to hundreds of attacks on israel over recent months. there are warnings that criminals may try to exploit the problems caused by friday's global computer glitch. the company that caused the chaos, crowdstrike, says adversaries and what it called "bad actors" would try to take advantage by offering bogus software fixes. joe biden says he's looking forward to getting back on the campaign trail after his isolation with covid. pressure's mounting on the president, with a democratic congressman who described mr biden as a friend saying he didn't seem to recognise him at a d—day event last month. now on bbc news, it's sportsday.