us presidentjoe biden says he is looking forward to getting back on the campaign trail next week, despite growing pressure to step aside. israeli fighter jets strike houthi military targets in yemen in response to attacks on israel in recent months. microsoft admits friday's tech outage affected more than eight million devices, and there are warnings criminals might try to exploit the chaos. hello, i'm sophie long. former us president donald trump has given his first campaign speech since surviving an attempt on his life a week ago. he spoke for more than 100 minutes to a crowd in grand rapids, michigan, in an address that included attacks on his democratic party rivals. he spoke about the assassination attempt as something he survived "by the grace of god," while denying claims

he is destroying democracy. and they keep saying he's a threat to democracy. i'm saying, what the hell did i do for democracy? last week i took a bullet for democracy. applause what did i do against democracy? crazy. thousands of supporters gathered to hear the former president's speech, with a queue stretching for miles outside the arena. it took place at an indoor venue after a lapse of security at last week's outdoor rally allowed a gunman to open fire from less than 150 meteres. mr trump told the crowd that he is sure he'll win the presidential election in november. he was introduced to thousands of cheering supporters by his new running mate, the ohio senatorjd vance, who earlier took aim at his democratic rival, vice president kamala harris.

what has he done other than collect the check from her political offices, and we have to give her credit, my friends, she did serve as border czar during the biggest disaster, open border, that we had in this country. let's get president come back there, close down this border and bring some common sense and security to this country. our senior north america correspondent gary o'donoghue was at that pennsylvania rally last week where the former president was shot. he was also inside the arena for us tonight at trump's speech in michigan, and filed this report. a week to the day after he was shot by an assassin, donald trump is back on the election campaign trail. almost two hours on his feet, attacking migrants, attacking the media, attacking joe biden for the way he walks, for the way he talks, attacking his iq. the crowd responded with huge cheers practically every sentence. thousands were left outside. if you expected unity to come

after that assassination attempt, then you'll be waiting a long time, because donald trump is singing the old songs and his supporters love it. this will be a moment the democrats will worry about. they remain divided, they remain unsure about joe biden as their candidate, and while they're that, they can't take on donald trump and thejuggernaut of his campaign. joe biden says he is 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. for more i spoke with amie parnes, senior political correspondent for the political website the hill. there's a very different atmosphere in the two campaigns at the moment, isn't there? he's been under pressure to make a decision, butjoe biden has made that decision, it's just not the one

that some people want to hear, it seems. i know, and so far it's a stalemate, and that is what is kind of angering and frustrating a lot of democrats. they're seeing former president trump at these rallies, at the convention. his party is behind him, they're unified, and the democratic party is not, and so i think right now they're trying to break the stalemate. obviously both sides are very dug—in. you have the president defiant and saying, "you know what? i beat donald trump last time, in 2020. i'm going to do it again." he thinks he is the only candidate who can do this, and that's why he's so dug in. and then you have the lawmakers on the other side, and donors and pundits and everyone piling on. and the pressure will only mount, because i'm hearing from democrats that they're expecting more lawmakers to come out in the coming days. and so it's not going to get easierfor the president.

yeah, they're in a difficult situation at the moment, aren't they? because they've got, on the republican side, someone who seems to have survived an attempt on his life, and meanwhile the biden camp is asking people to put their faith in a frail and diminished man, while you've got senior democrats coming out and saying he's neitherfrail nor diminished. so, yeah, where do you see this going? well, i think in the coming days it's got to come to a head. we're nearing the ioo—day mark before election day, and i think that democrats really are feeling the need to make a move here. you know, if they're going to go to vice president harris, if they are going to go and have an open convention, they need to start moving on this quickly because of the ground game. it takes a long time to establish a ground game, organising, testing. if a vice presidential candidate is new, they're going to want to test this person. all of this is going to take a lot of time, and time is not on their side right now.

do you see them becoming any more unified at all? several people coming out today to say that they are behind the president, and even if he does decide to step aside, they've got a brilliant person in kamala harris who can step up. do you see them sort of coming behind her at this stage? i think that is where the stalemate is, because a lot of people say, "ok, let's say the president steps down. then what? is kamala harris ready for this?" and there is a disagreement there. and if not kamala harris, then who is it? an open convention will obviously further divide the party. and so i think a lot of the next steps are what is scarier, almost, to democrats, more than what they're facing right now. so i think it's going to be a rough, bumpyioo days. and this speculation about "will he, won't he," has now been going on for three weeks. what will be breaking point, do you think?

i think a lot of lawmakers are careful to give him his space. obviously he is recovering from covid. this is the biggest decision of his political career, and he's doing it while he's sick, and so a lot of people are being respectful of that. but they were also trying to give him time in recent weeks to recover from the dismal debate that he had, from that performance. they wanted him to prove, almost, that he is able to do this. and he did in certain moments, like in the moment in detroit last week where he had a rally, a fiery rally, and people there — voters urged him not to quit, his supporters there. but democrats wanted to see more of that in the last few weeks, and they feel like the president hasn't delivered. and when you look at data surrounding this, can he come back from this, do you think? is it possible that he can get back on the campaign trail this week and put all this behind him? i think it's going to be an uphill battle. can he? maybe, but i think that

the tide is against him at this point, and i don't think it's turning. i think he's going to have to really show people, day in and day out, that he's capable of doing this. even his silence in the past few days — democrats have said, ok, he has covid, but let's see him. he can do videos, he can do other things, and the fact that he's not is kind of proving their point. so i think they want to see him out and about. they want to see him put this behind him, but i don't know if he can at this point. israel lauched a series of retaliatory airstrikes on sites in yemen linked to the houthi movement. it is israel's first direct attack on the group following a string of attacks by the iran—backed militia. israeli fighterjets hit oil and gas facilities on the red sea port of hodeidah on saturday evening. it comes just a day after a residential area in tel aviv was hit by what israel claims was an iranian—made drone which had been modified to fly long distance. in a televised address israel's prime minister said, "anyone who harms us will pay a very heavy price for their aggression". a spokesman for the houthis vowed to respond to what they described as brutal agression from israel. a houthi—run tv channel

in yemen reports at least three people were killed and more than 80 injured in the israeli raid. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams sent this update from jerusalem. this is the first time the israelis have retaliated against the houthis in yemen, following months and months of houthi attacks directed towards israel. the israelis say as many as 220 separate drones and ballistic missiles have been fired towards israel in the last nine months. none of those really did very much damage and none of them killed anyone. that, of course, all changed in the early hours of friday morning, when a drone somehow made its way through israel's air defences, landed right in the middle of tel aviv, close to the american embassy, and killed one civilian. it was absolutely clear following that incident that

israel would retaliate, and they have done so quickly. as for the choice of target, well, hitting the port city of hodeidah, a port which israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, this evening said is not an innocent port — it's the place where israelis believe the houthis bring in weapons smuggled from iran — but also hitting these oil storage tanks and setting off this vast inferno, with huge flames leaping up into the sky and a vast black cloud drifting over the city, i think was designed to send a very symbolic, emphatic message around the region. in fact, israel's defence minister, yoav gallant, essentially said that — a message to israel's opponents around the region that israel will not hesitate to launch attacks, even as far away as distant yemen, if israeli lives are at stake. we have had repeated moments over the past nine or ten

months at which the war in gaza has threatened to spill over into some wider conflict. the main one, of course, among those various other fronts is lebanon, where israel and the hezbollah militia, also supported by iran, continue to wage sometimes very ferocious fighting, and yemen has been part of this wider regional dimension too. do the latest tit—for—tat exchanges between israel and yemen amount to a new escalation? well, we'll see. probably not, but it's worth remembering that the americans and british have been mounting similar air strikes against the houthis for months now and none of that has so far deterred them. paul adams reporting from jerusalem. for more analysis on the significance of today's strike, i spoke to senior yemen advisor for the european institute of peace hisham al—omeisy. we were hearing there

from paul adams. he said, "does this amount to a new escalation?" does it, do you think? i think it does. the houthis were craving this escalation to legitimise their claims that they're actually fighting on behalf of the muslims and the arabs against israel for the sake of the palestinians. they will definitely escalate. the houthi leaders over the past few hours have been all on tv, on radio and on twitter and facebook saying, basically, they will definitely respond to this latest attack, so you'll definitely see an escalation. we've seen this happen over the past nine months, when basically the coalition on the red sea that targeted the houthis did not deter them. it did not put a dent in their operations. in fact, it increased the intensity of the houthi attacks, the range of those attacks and the complexity of those attacks. and the same thing will happen with israel as well. and we're seeing the pictures

as you speak, there, of the oilfields on fire. it always looks very bad. in terms of the intelligence you're getting from yemen, just how much damage has been done by these strikes? quite significant damage, when you consider that hodeidah is the main port through which aid is coming through. 70% of the aid to yemen goes through that port and almost 84% of the population is reliant on that aid — specifically, the fuel and electricity and gas stations which were targeted by israel today. they've called it brutal aggression from israel. how do you see this playing out, then? it will basically come down to a tit—for—tat, but it will also anger the local population, whether you're pro—houthi or against houthi. the yemeni government itself, which is anti—houthi, released a statement an hour ago condemning the attack, and the saudis have also issued a statement basically saying they're not going to allow any flights attacking yemen, or basically any in

the region, for that matter. but it's going to create this notjust local but regional angry reaction, and the houthis are going to capitalise on that. they will ride that popular anger and, again, attack tel aviv, but also attack the red sea and other locations as well. and israel says this is a port of entry for iranian weapons, so they claim it was a valid military target. do you agree with that? yes and no. it was one of the entry points. houthis smuggle weapons through multiple points, multiple ways. we have a very porous border and a very long coastline, so it's notjust hodeidah, if we're being honest. and civilians were hit. we've heard from yemen sources that — i think they say three died, 80 were injured. are you getting the same kinds of intelligence? yes, for now, but that number could increase. the data that is coming from the ground is very scant

right now, and the houthis have a tendency to sometimes exaggerate but also sometimes downplay when it's hit by an enemy force. they don't want to be seen as a weaker force. this, of course, came in reaction to the drone attack on tel aviv yesterday in which one person was killed. now, we're told that that was drone that had been adapted so it could travel long distances and bypass enemy interception devices. just tell us a bit about that. is that a new thing that we're going to see more of now, coming from the houthis? oh, yeah, definitely. i mean, houthis have been extending their tech and advancing their weaponry, their arsenal, of course thanks to iran. but also, you have to remember, we don't have a correct confirmation of that being launched from yemen. it might well have been sent by an ally from the axis forces, with houthis taking the claim. and ijust wonder, just a final thought. this comes at a deeply unstable time, of course. what does this mean for the stability or lack

thereof in the region at the moment? it doesn't bode well, honestly, because if indeed it was a co—ordinated attack by the resistance axis, it means a willingness to escalate in the region. and more players are getting involved, which is basically adding fuel to the fire in the region. tensions remain high at the israel—lebanon border. just hours ago, israel's military struck a depot storing ammunition linked to the hezbollah militia group. earlier this week hezbollah�*s leader, hassan nasrallah, warned that they would hit new targets in israel if more civilians were killed in israeli strikes. reports say that at least 104 civilians have been killed in lebanon since october. transportation providers, businesses, governments and hospitals are rushing to get their systems back online today after disruptions following a widespread technology outage.

microsoft says that the it chaos, caused by a flawed cybersecurity update, affected 8.5 million windows devices. the glitch came from an update rolled out by the cybersecurity firm crowdstrike. travellers across the world continue to face disruption as airlines try to recover. airlines cancelled thousands of flights friday, and flight—tracking services list at least 25,000 current flight delays. our technology editor zoe kleinman has more. 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 aeroplane, and i've been stranded for around — over 2a hours by now, i think. 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.

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. 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. 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 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 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 are also the companies themselves, who don't seem to have had backup 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. evan gershkovich is now serving

a 16—year sentence in a russian prison , the first american journalist to be convicted of spying since the end of the cold war. evan's employer, the wall streetjournal, evan's family and the white house all deny the charges. his conviction comes at a time of extreme media restrictions in russia, especially on foreign reporters. the committee to protect journalists names russia among the worstjailers of journalists globally. of the 17 foreign reporters injail worldwide, 12 are held in russia, including evan and alsu kurmasheva, another us journalist. press freedom groups are pushing the us to do more to bring them home. the us government has designated evan as wrongfully detained, meaning it can take special measures to push for his release. evan's family and employer are, in the meantime, running media campaigns to raise awareness of his plight. peter greste was detained for 13 months while working as a journalist in egypt and now is the executive director at the alliance forjournalists freedom.

he told me he is reasonably hopeful evan will be released. unfortunately you do have direct experience of what extended confinement with an uncertain future can feel like. can you just give us a sense of what might have been going through evan's mind when he heard that verdict come down? i mean, there's no real easy way of preparing for this. i think the evidence is pretty clear that it was always going to be a conviction. the conviction rate in russia is about 99.5%, so it was always highly unlikely that it was ever going to be any other outcome. but it's always still a very, very difficult thing to hear that sentence, and to have to shift your brain into thinking for a much longer term than you might have originally hoped. having said that, i think evan will also be very aware of the campaign to get him out. there is a huge international

support for him, both from governments and press freedom groups like my own, and individuals around the world, and i think that makes a big difference to your ability to cope with these kinds of situations psychologically. so he will be aware of the efforts to get him out and bring him home. we've heard that the biden administration have said it's a top priority. he will be aware of that, will he? yes, almost certainly he'll be aware of it. i mean, he'll be getting consular visits and messages from friends and family and so on. i believe that the communication is very restricted but that he is getting some messages, so he'll be aware of it. but even then, the prison grapevine flows reasonably freely. it is incredibly important that we keep up the pressure, notjust for evan's psychology, of course, but also to keep up the pressure on the russians to try to and get him out.

because the secret to ending these kinds of situations is to make the price of keeping someone like evan higher than the value that they present to them as a prisoner, as a detainee. your release came after a co—ordinated international campaign headed up by family and colleagues. we see the same thing happening now. how hopeful are you that evan's situation will be resolved, and in a reasonable timeframe? i am reasonably hopeful. the russian government and president putin himself have hinted that a prisoner exchange is the most likely outcome. it's happened before, and the united states has also been involved in prisoner exchanges. we also know that there is a russian detainee, a russian prisoner, who's serving time in a germanjail for the assassination of a chechen rebel in berlin a few years ago, and he seems to be the most likely candidate for some kind of prisoner exchange. there's also indications that negotiations are moving forward. evan's trial was brought forward by about a month at the request of the defence lawyers, and so it looks

as though that may be — and i don't want to pre—empt anything, but it's possible that may be related to some sort of prisoner exchange. either way, as i said, the whole point is to make sure that we keep up the pressure on the russian authorities, notjust as individuals or as press freedom groups, but from all quarters. the russians will be sensitive — even though they've indicated or they suggest that they're not, they will be sensitive to international public opinion. they want the respect of the global community. they want people to have some kind of confidence in the judicial system, even though it seems completely contrived and a tool of the kremlin. but as long as we keep up the social media pressure, the diplomatic pressure, the political pressure, the economic pressure, then i think there is a reasonable chance that we can get evan out. let's turn to some other important news around the world:

a bridge has partially collapsed in northern china, killing 12 people. chinese state media said that sudden downpours and flash—flooding in shannxi province caused the collapse, with many cars and trucks falling into the river. at least 31 people are still missing. large parts of northern and central china have been battered in recent days by heavy rains. here in the us, a missouri woman was freed after 43 years in prison for a murder she didn't commit. in 1980 sandra hemme was found guilty of murder and given a life sentence, despite a lack of evidence linking her to the crime. a circut courtjudge has now overtuned her sentence, saying that ms hemme�*s lawyers had clear proof of her innocence. ms hemme is believed to have served the longest known wrongful conviction of a woman in us history. stay with us here on bbc news. we'll have more news at the top of the hour. hello there. well, saturday saw some more

sunshine towards eastern england in particular. it was warm and humid still here, with some of our temperatures rising again into the high 20s in celsius, whereas further west, it was a wetter story. plenty of thick clouds, fresher—feeling conditions developing here. we're all coming into that cooler—feeling air as we head through sunday. there'll still be some sunshine around for most of us at times, but also some wet weather in the form of showers. and overnight tonight, we've been seeing some rain move northwards and eastwards, showers following on behind. most of the rain by dawn on sunday will be across the northern isles. still that hang—back of cloud towards eastern england, and still that warm, muggy—feeling air. temperatures 16—18 celsius to start off the morning. now, many of us will get off to a sunny start to the day, but cloud will thicken as we head through the late morning into the afternoon, mostly from the west. and there'll be a scattering of showers for western stretches of the uk as well, with heavier rain moving into northern ireland later on through the afternoon, eventually to south—west scotland. temperatures will be more or less the seasonal average, 16—23 degrees celsius, so quite a drop for eastern

areas of england in particular. staying in that cooler air on monday, a whole host of weather fronts bringing some more wet and some windy weather at times too. most of the rain will tend to be out towards the north and west. a few sharp, thundery showers across scotland. down through north—west england, a scattering of showers, but also some sunny spells for northern ireland. and it's blustery in the south, with a brisk westerly wind, a few isolated showers, but also some sunshine. the sunshine will help to boost the temperature, perhaps, for south—east england. we could see 2a or 25 degrees in the best of that. and then on tuesday, high pressure starts to build in, so the sunshine will be making a return across pretty much the whole of the uk. a few showers to start off the day and a few isolated showers developing as we head through the middle part of the day as well. more of a north—westerly wind, so it's quite a cool wind direction. but temperatures will be boosted by the sunshine, so rising a little higher again as we head through the day on tuesday. the high pressure, too, lasting into wednesday. so if we take a look

at our outlook for the capital cities as we head through the rest of the week, its warm and it's mostly dry again on wednesday. temperatures rising a little further, but more showers on thursday and friday. bye— bye.

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hello and welcome to the media show with me, katie razzall, and ros atkins. well, on this week's edition, we're focussed 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. 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're going to hearfrom the bbc�*s gary o'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.