will not reduce bills "overnight". israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu tells the us congress that his country will need to control security in gaza when the war there is over. after pummelling taiwan and the philippines with torrential rain and strong winds, typhoon gaemi heads for southern china. and we're in paris, where the first events of the olympics have taken place, ahead of friday's opening ceremony. hello, i'm samantha simmonds. president biden has used a televised address from the white house to say that he abandoned his re—election bid "to save american democracy". the 81—year—old — who, until last weekend, had resisted calls to stand aside — said it was time for younger voices to emerge, and he wanted to pass the torch to a new generation. he praised his vice—president, kamala harris, as a tough and capable leader. at a republican party campaign rally, donald trump told his supporters that biden had

pulled out because he was losing. from washington, will grant reports. this report from our correspondent, will grant. in a speech no sitting president has delivered in more than half a century, joe biden confirmed his decision to drop out of the race to the american people. it was time for new voices and, yes, he acknowledged, younger voices. so i have decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation. that's the best way to unite our nation. nothing could get in the way of saving democracy, said president biden, including personal ambition. he painted november's vote as a choice between forwards or back, hope or hate, unity or division. despite republicans calling for him to resign the presidency, mr biden said he had no intention of stepping aside. over the next six months, i will be focused on doing that means i'll continue to lower

costs for hard—working families, grow our economy, i'll keep defending our personal freedoms and our civil rights, from the right to vote to the right to choose. it's just a month since his make—or—break presidential debate with donald trump. his halting, at times, garbled performance, a moment he never came back from. the, er, with the covid... excuse me, with, um, dealing with everything we have to do with, er... now it's almost certain the person he's passing that torch to is his vice president, kamala harris. # i break chains all by myself # won't let my freedom rot in hell...# _ her campaign has gone from strength to strength, generating tens of millions of dollars in record time, and has energised a despondent base. she even seems to have settled on a slogan. we are not going back. we are not going back!

many of those watching weren't alive the last time a us president did this. in 1968, lyndonjohnson moved aside, only to see the republican challenger, richard nixon, ultimately win the presidency. mr biden will hope that history won't be repeating itself with donald trump. in north carolina, the republican candidate dropped the short—lived unifying tone of his campaign turning on both the president and his new presumptive rival alike. we officially defeated the worst president in the history of our country, crooked joe biden. he quit because he was losing so badly in the polls, he was down in every single poll and down by a lot, so he quit. politics is all mr biden has ever known. a career which has spanned five decades from, as he put it, a kid with a stutter from scranton to the white house.

this decision will define his legacy. november's vote will define whether that gamble has worked. will grant, bbc news, washington. let's speak to gina yannitell reinhardt, a professor of government at the university of essex. welcome, good to have you on the programme. what did you make a president biden�*s speech, given he glossed over shoes around his cognitive abilities?— cognitive abilities? well, he certainly didn't _ cognitive abilities? well, he certainly didn't want - cognitive abilities? well, he certainly didn't want to - cognitive abilities? well, he i certainly didn't want to address thoseissues certainly didn't want to address those issues and give them credibility. he is trying to make sure that he has six months where he can still accomplish something and still have authority and respect and credibility, rather than be dismissed and continually calls to resign. he dismissed and continually calls to resin. ., , resign. he said he would finish the “ob, didn't resign. he said he would finish the job. didn't he? _ resign. he said he would finish the job, didn't he? what _ resign. he said he would finish the job, didn't he? what now- resign. he said he would finish the job, didn't he? what now for- resign. he said he would finish the job, didn't he? what now for his i job, didn't he? what now for his remaining six months in office? is he a lame—duck president or will he use this as an opportunity to push things through that may be unpopular and he may not have been able to do

otherwise? it is and he may not have been able to do otherwise? , ., ., , ., , otherwise? it is going to be a bit of both, actually. _ otherwise? it is going to be a bit of both, actually. there - otherwise? it is going to be a bit of both, actually. there are - otherwise? it is going to be a bit| of both, actually. there are many people in congress, the entire house of representatives and one third of the senate are also campaigning for real election right now. that means that many of them will not be paying a lot of attention to laws being made and they will definitely try to thwart any legislation that biden would attempt to push through. so he will probably concentrate on the things he can do without new legislation. that is going to be a lot of the foreign policy, the israel—palestine situation, ukraine and russia. it is also going to be continuing to push some of the domestic issues that he still can come any major legislative initiative. come any ma'or legislative initiative.— come any ma'or legislative initiative. . . ., ., , , come any ma'or legislative initiative. . . . ., , , . initiative. kamala harris his vice president is _ initiative. kamala harris his vice president is sitting _ initiative. kamala harris his vice president is sitting the - initiative. kamala harris his vice | president is sitting the campaign trail hard now. how does she play this, given she has been number two in the white house for four years

now? does she distance herself from any biden policies that may have made him unpopular and what does she do to try to push this over the line? i do to try to push this over the line? ~ , ~ , do to try to push this over the line? ~' , ~ , ., line? i think it is unlikely for her to distance _ line? i think it is unlikely for her to distance herself— line? i think it is unlikely for her to distance herself from - line? i think it is unlikely for her| to distance herself from anything line? i think it is unlikely for her . to distance herself from anything at this point. she was a part of the policies and the administration. and trying to pretend that she is not a part of that is a bad idea. but i think she is going to do a live and what we will see, is that she will be pushing herself ahead of those things —— i think she is going to do,. working on putting herself out in front of those issues, so to speak. so she will take a harder stance against trump's felonious actions. making a bigger priority speaking about women's rights and reproductive rights. evidenced in herfirst campaign reproductive rights. evidenced in her first campaign speech she gave

to a group of women.— her first campaign speech she gave to a group of women. officially, she is not the presumptive _ to a group of women. officially, she is not the presumptive nominee - to a group of women. officially, she is not the presumptive nominee for| is not the presumptive nominee for the democratic party, but it seems like everyone is assuming she will include donald trump, who yesterday called her a radical left lunatic. a lot of attack adverts have been put out by the republican presidential campaign already. how nasty do you think this is going to get? horribly, horribly nasty. she is able to withstand that, which is really great. what we are going to see is that there is very little in terms of a scandal that she has in her background. and because of that, we are likely to see the trump campaign make up and potentially fabricate things for people to worry about regarding kamala harris. they are going to continue to attack her character and they are going to continue to try to come up with new

things that we don't know and that nobody knows full reasons for people to oppose her. nobody knows full reasons for people to oppose her-— to oppose her. thanks very much for bein: with to oppose her. thanks very much for being with us- _ to oppose her. thanks very much for being with us. breaking _ to oppose her. thanks very much for being with us. breaking news - being with us. breaking news following a typhoon that has hit the philippines. the philippines coast have said they found the body —— body of a missing crew of an oil tanker that sank earlier today in manila bay. they said the terror nova capsized and submerged 3.6 nautical miles off the coast today. maritime and environmental personnel are mobilised to help contain it. more from the fallout of that later this hour. a major new energy plan — which was at the heart of labour's uk election manifesto — will not reduce bills overnight, the government minister ed miliband has admitted. details of the first major plan from the new great british energy

company are being announced, and include building thousands of new windfarms on areas of seabed owned by the royal family. our cost of living correspondent colletta smith reports. the price, the source and the future of energy in the uk are hot topics. so now the government is putting a little more meat on the bones of their election pledge to create great british energy. the company won't supply any power to households. instead, the goal is to change the way energy is made and who owns those resources. the government is committed to spending £8.3 billion of public money, investing in wind power on land and at sea, new technologies, like carbon capture, nuclear power, and community schemes on a small scale, or for local communities to benefit from big projects near them. they hope that will be matched by £60 billion of private company investment. but there's no guarantee

that will happen. so will it work? i think gb energy is fixing a different problem, which is more about who owns the assets, rather than whether or not they get built. it's a government priority to say that the gb state owns some of it, which doesn't necessarily fix the issue, which is making it investable. it's a bigger issue for hitting our targets. we need to have the certainty of revenues for investors to say, "yes, i will put my money down." because with a renewable project, most of the capital injection is up front. you need to spend a lot of money at the beginning. today, the crown estate is getting in on the act. it owns vast swathes of coastline and seabed around the uk, and says that partnering with the government will halve the time it takes to get offshore wind projects delivering power. so, the ball is now rolling on a key election promise. but it's a long—term plan, which needs a fair wind from investors. that means customers are unlikely

to see any benefit in their bills for a long time yet. colletta smith, bbc news. the conservative party have called the government plans "a gimmick", but energy secretary ed miliband insists the new company is "absolutely the right plan". the mandate on which this government was elected was to make us what we call a clean energy superpower, to drive forward investment in renewables, in nuclear, in clean energy, to get off that dependence on fossilfuels. now, gb energy — great british energy — is one of the most important tools in the box to help us do that. a publicly—owned energy generation company, investing in that clean power to get us off our dependence on fossil fuels, create good jobs and, frankly, generate wealth for the country. fraser stewart works for the independent, not—for—profit energy research

organisation regen, where he leads work on making the transition to net zero work for communities. thank you for being with us. we were hearing in the report the government is committing 8.3 billion to this idea. but actually, 60 billion is needed from private investment and there are questions around whether that money is going to be readily available. what is your view on that? so available. what is your view on that? ~ ., ., , ., that? so we know that in terms of the scale of _ that? so we know that in terms of the scale of the _ that? so we know that in terms of the scale of the transition, - that? so we know that in terms of the scale of the transition, we - the scale of the transition, we absolutely need significant amounts of private sector investment to get us over the line, particularly on these larger technologies like offshore wind. there is plenty of interest in investment in this area. the challenge that we have is the scale of these projects, the initial investment is really significant. some of these technologies such as floating offshore wind are quite risky. we haven't really proved the business case for them yet. so while the scale of government input through gb energy is small relatively to the amount of investment we need, it will stir —— still serve a function of de—risking

some of those more ambitious technologies. but something we have to keep in mind is well gb energy will serve a purpose and de—risking private service investments, is a publicly owned energy company, what we really need to see at the heart of gb energy is to make sure it is focused on capturing that ownership stake in delivering back value to citizens across the country. the conservative _ citizens across the country. the conservative party _ citizens across the country. the conservative party have called these plans a gimmick. any sympathy with that view? i plans a gimmick. any sympathy with that view? ., �* ~' plans a gimmick. any sympathy with that view? ., �* ~ , ., that view? i don't think it is a gimmick- _ that view? i don't think it is a gimmick. what _ that view? i don't think it is a gimmick. what has _ that view? i don't think it is a j gimmick. what has happened that view? i don't think it is a - gimmick. what has happened through the election is gb energy was not clearly enough to find and i think that was on purpose. in terms of driving that investment and particularly for taking an ownership stake, it is definitely a positive first step and we would like to see that scale up in the future. on your drive to work and you look out of the window and you see solar farms or wind turbines and you see a big offshore project at the coast, while it is positive to decarbonise the energy system, the vast majority are not owned by the uk and citizens and

communities. so gb energy even starting at a relatively small scale redresses some of that by investing public money to take a shed to make sure the profits in the value from that are recycled back into the uk economy. but ideally, uk government and gb energy will work with local citizens and community to make sure we put power meaningfully back into their hands as well. find we put power meaningfully back into their hands as well.— their hands as well. and the government _ their hands as well. and the government has _ their hands as well. and the government has admitted . their hands as well. and the l government has admitted this their hands as well. and the - government has admitted this gb energy is not going to see the reduction of any of our bills overnight. how important is that to have communities that you work with, ordinary people on board supporting this if we cannot see the benefits our self? i this if we cannot see the benefits our self? ~ ., , ., . our self? i think that is a critical oint our self? i think that is a critical point and _ our self? i think that is a critical point and one — our self? i think that is a critical point and one of— our self? i think that is a critical point and one of the _ our self? i think that is a critical point and one of the big - our self? i think that is a critical. point and one of the big challenges for labour is to accelerate gb energy investment and training position to get energy affordably and securely from the wind and sun and securely from the wind and sun and the waves. people have been made promises and we know the renewables we have shielded us a small amount

from even sharper impacts from the energy crisis over the last four years. lack of investment and a lack of progress on renewables has cost us in our pockets again as we have seen through the energy and cost—of—living crisis. so we are working against the clock a little bit to accelerate things to make sure people do feel it in their pockets. it is not going to happen overnight. but that is not a reason to not do it, that is a reason to pull up our sleeves and get on with it with citizens and communities at the forefront of the mission of gb energy. the forefront of the mission of gb enera . , ., , ., energy. interesting to get your thou~hts. energy. interesting to get your thoughts. thanks _ energy. interesting to get your thoughts. thanks for _ energy. interesting to get your thoughts. thanks forjoining i energy. interesting to get yourl thoughts. thanks forjoining us. breaking news concerning an incident filmed at manchester airport on tuesday evening. it follows growing anger after a video emerged showing a police officer kicking and stamping on the head of a man lying on the ground at manchester airport. matt greater manchester police have suspended a police officer from all duties following anger after this

video emerged. we are getting this information. they have also prompted a thorough review of the incident and referred themselves to the independent office for police conduct for a full independent investigation. yes, apologies, we should have given you the warning for those images which were distressing. more on that as soon as we get it. another piece of breaking news. we have just we get it. another piece of breaking news. we havejust had we get it. another piece of breaking news. we have just had an army officer that was stabbed early this week named. jonathan beale says a defence source has confirmed the stabbed soldier is named as lieutenant colonel mark teeton. that is the information we have at the moment. we understand he is in a serious condition after that stabbing. stay with us here on bbc news. around the knees and across the uk, this is bbc news.

typhoon gaemi is moving towards southern china after pummelling taiwan and the philippines with torrential rain and strong winds. the authorities in mainland china have issued this year's first red alert for parts of the south—eastern coast. the storm hit taiwan on wednesday, killing three people and forcing thousands to evacuate. as we heard, the philippine coast guard has found the body of a missing sailorfrom an oil tanker that sank in manila bay. our correspondent rupert wingfield hayes is in the taiwanese capital, taipei. we see it is still raining here in taipei. it's been raining solidly for the last 2a hours, but also, the winds have now dropped in the last couple of hours. very strong winds this morning. now the storm has pretty much passed in terms of winds off into the taiwan strait, now heading for the south—east coast of china. it's sat over the island for most of the night. it slowed right down and did a big circle over taiwan and moved

very slowly over the mountains last night. and that means there was a huge amount of rainfall, and that has caused extensive flooding in the east and south of the island. and sadly, yes, as you say, several people have been reported as being killed, um, from falling trees and falling masonry during those very high winds last night. but other than that, the damage fortunately appears to have been limited. as i say, quite extensive flooding. but in terms of structural damage, that appears to to be fairly limited, and most places appear to have come through this storm fairly unscathed. we have now got reports of a ship off the south coast of taiwan sinking, and the crew of that ship is currently missing. that's what the coast guard is telling us. so there is a rescue operation ongoing off the south coast of taiwan to try and find the crew of that ship. but other than that, the storm has now mainly passed and is heading for the south—east coast of china. let's speak to jan camenzind broomby, a journalist based in taipei.

what is the latest you can tell us? the information from the philippine coast guard about this oil tanker. that's right, that information coming in in the last few minutes that the philippine coast guard has found the body of, sorry, the fishermen that were thought to be missing on the ship. i should say the sailors. we didn't know before, they were not specifying whether they were not specifying whether they thought the ship had been impacted by the typhoon. it seems now the coast guard is suggesting this has come as a result of those wild and choppy waters we have been seeing as a result is the typhoon that did not make landfall in the philippines, but still had a big impact before shifting up and picking up strength and making landfall over taiwan over the last 24 landfall over taiwan over the last 2a hours. landfall over taiwan over the last 24 hours. ~ ., i. , landfall over taiwan over the last 24 hours. ~ ., ,., 24 hours. what can you tell us about the latest impact _ 24 hours. what can you tell us about the latest impact this _ 24 hours. what can you tell us about the latest impact this typhoon - 24 hours. what can you tell us about the latest impact this typhoon has i the latest impact this typhoon has had where you are? $5 the latest impact this typhoon has had where you are?— the latest impact this typhoon has had where you are? as rupert was sa in: , had where you are? as rupert was saying. the — had where you are? as rupert was saying. the impact _ had where you are? as rupert was

saying, the impact in _ had where you are? as rupert was saying, the impact in taipei - had where you are? as rupert was saying, the impact in taipei has. saying, the impact in taipei has been relatively small. you walk around the streets and they are far emptier than what has happened. they are having a typhoon day. shops, schools, businesses are largely closed, although some have remained open. people are boarded up windows to protect them from any damage. but the real focus is shifting away from taipei and towards the south and the east of taiwan's island. there we have seen significant levels of rain and flooding even in the south. social media video showing water flooding into car parks and people trudging through the streets that were once filled with cars, now filled with flood water. as rupert was adding, there has been a ship we believe has sunk with nine myanmar nationals on board. those nationals missing and have not been heard from since the distress call they sent out. three other ships have run aground off the southern coast of taiwan and the hopes from local coastguard and local government is they will be able to rescue the

people on those ships very soon. thank you for updating us from taipei. the first events of the paris olympics have got under way, ahead of friday's opening ceremony along the river seine. amongst the events taking place were football and rugby sevens. our correspondent katie gornall is in paris. overlooking the eiffel tower, the beach volleyball venue is nestled just in front of it, and that's one of the things that makes this olympic games unique and special. the fact that you have these major landmarks scattered throughout the city — the venues, rather, scattered throughout the city, with major landmarks as their backdrop. the likes of the beach volleyball or the place de la concorde, which has been turned into an urban sports hub. but it's also one of the things, as well as making the games special, that makes them very complicated and difficult to secure. and what we're seeing now on the ground in paris is a huge security operation, particularly focussed

around the river seine, and that six—kilometre stretch where the opening ceremony will take place. and it's not so much a ring of steel, but a maze of barriers and checkpoints, with police and security guards asking for passes, asking for qr codes. it's very difficult at the moment to move around the city centre if you are a local, it's closed mostly to pedestrians and to cars, and that's caused, from what we've seen, quite an element of frustration among the local people here. but then we've also seen great enthusiasm as well. you mentioned that the sport has already started. france have begun the rugby sevens, and that means that the poster boy of these games for the french, antoine dupont, has been in action as well. and we've seen bars and restaurants packed with big screens watching him and cheering him on and the french on. so i think a mixed picture, but i think we will see that enthusiasm grow once the opening ceremony starts, once the security operation around that specific area loosens up a bit

and once the sport really kicks into place from saturday. katie gunnell. the world's largest platypus conservation centre has welcomed its first residents, as part of a project to protect the semi—aquatic mammal found only in australia. four platypuses have been released into the custom—built research centre at the zoo. yes, that is the plural, we have checked! it features multi—tiered streams, waterfalls, pools and earth banks. the facility will help researchers understand more about the species which is under threat from extreme weather and humans. since 1943, there's only been 23 platypus born in zoos. and a lot of those, we don't have today, a lot of them haven't survived. so for us to better understand how to breed platypus in a zoo environment is key to their survival because right now, we don't know how

many platypus we even have in the country, it's an unknown number. this is a shot of the skyline in paris. the iconic eiffel tower. the olympic opening ceremony gets under way tomorrow. all very exciting, along the river seine. they have been preparing for many months, as i'm sure you can imagine. the game that will be played underneath the eiffel tower is for each volleyball. tens of thousands of people heading to the french capital for the games over the next few weeks. stay with us here on bbc news. hello again. if you're not a fan of the humid weather that we've been having of late, it's going to change through tonight and especially so into tomorrow. but today, it still is going to feel humid, it is already, and for some of us, we are looking at some rain topping and tailing the country. rain pushing across southern areas into the south—east,

some of this could be heavy. and we've also got some showery rain coming in across western scotland and also northern ireland. in—between, a lot of cloud, producing the odd shower, but equally, some brighter spells, some sunshine, and brisk winds, more especially in the south. now, in this sunshine, around lincolnshire, for example, we could reach 23 or 24 degrees. through this evening and overnight, more rain comes in across the south and south—east. there will be some clear skies, a few showers knocking around as well, but one thing you will notice is it's going to feel fresher for the bulk of the country. the exception to that is the far south—east, where we've got the dregs of a weather front, and here, it will still feel quite humid. but tomorrow, early doors, this weather front producing that will move away and we are into some fresher conditions across the board and westerly breezes. so there goes the cloud early doors, a lot of dry weather and a lot of sunshine, but through the day in the northern half of the country, we could well see those showers develop. one or two could be heavy and possibly thundery. we won't all see them, of course, and temperatures, 15 to about 23 degrees.

as we head on through the weekend, then, with saturday first of all, again, a lot of dry weather, some sunshine, fairweather cloud bubbling up through the day. again, we will see some showers across the northern half of the country, but fewer than we are going to see on friday. temperatures, 15 to about 22 degrees. and then on sunday, high pressure establishes itself across the uk, even into the beginning of next week as well. we've got areas producing fronts coming in from the atlantic at times, which could produce some rain at the beginning of the week for some, but on sunday, a lot of dry weather, fairweather cloud, the odd isolated shower, and feeling very warm in the south, with highs up to 25. 20 degrees in aberdeen. that high pressure will be with us as we go into next week. with the weather fronts coming into the north—west at times, we could see showers, even some rain and breezy conditions. but come further south, it's drier, it's sunnier and it's warmer.

good morning to viewers on bbc news. we are talking about the airport arrest video, how does it make you feel? if you had a chance to look at it on the bbc website, it's all over social media, and it's really, really shocking. that's what we're talking about this morning to stop filmed on tuesday evening, showing a male police officer holding a taser

over a man who is lying on the floor. the officer then appears to stamp on and kick their man in the head while other officers shout at onlookers to stay back. what happened, what do we know and what's your reaction to it? muhammad has been talking to me on the radio so far. and unleashed to a wider audience. you were going to make another point. i will let you do that right now and apologies for breaking off to speak to somebody else just before. breaking off to speak to somebody elsejust before. sam breaking off to speak to somebody else just before. sam will be joining us in a second, a serving police officer. mohammed, what was your further point? police officer. mohammed, what was yourfurther point? mt; police officer. mohammed, what was your further point?— your further point? my first point was this, i _ your further point? my first point was this, i think _ your further point? my first point was this, i think this _ your further point? my first point was this, i think this isn't - your further point? my first point was this, i think this isn't just - was this, i think this isn'tjust isolated. if we look at the pattern of policing in recent months and in particular since the demonstrations that have been taking place in relation to palestine, i think that there is a deliberate policy decision made somewhere along the

line to unleash