he is seeking a third consecutive term in office. the biggest wildfire to hit california this year is continuing to spread rapidly, forcing thousands of residents to flee their homes. the so—called �*park fire�* — which started after a suspected arson attack — has consumed over 350,000 acres of land. hello. we will have more of the day's news in a moment. first let's get more on the day's sport. we will hear more on the olympics today. yes, as you descend more on the olympics but first, england have one 0lympics but first, england have one in edgbaston after a superb batting and bowling performance. captain ben stokes, who promoted himself to open up, finish the game off in style

after securing a place in the history books with england's fastest first test. the west indies were bowled out for 100 and five. england claim a 3—0 series win. more star draws at the olympics today — and perhaps none more so than at the bercy arena, where simone biles has been out for the artistic gymnastics. and what star—studded cast there's been in attendance. biles put a calf issue to one side, with stunning performances in the floor, and vault. in the floor, and vault in qualifying in front of fans like tom cruise — hoping to see it's not mission impossible for her and team usa! along with snoop dogg, ariana grande and others, they saw usa finish with a team total of 172.296 to put them in the lead. britain's beckie downie was 6th on the uneven bars. two—time olympic champion helen glover and her great britain team—mates rebecca shorten, sam redgrave and esme booth are through to thursday's women's four final after a comfortable win in their heat. they pulled clear early on and kept the rest of the field,

led by new zealand, at bay. after winning olympic gold in london and rio, but finishing fourth in tokyo, glover now has the opportunity for a third games title. the men's four finished second in their heat but also progress directly to the final. there has been, though, dissapointment for two team gb athletes today, with chelsie giles losinig in her second round of the women's judo to larissa pimeta of brazil. in boxing, another of those hoping for a medal, rosie eccles, lost to polands�* aneta rygielska in the women's 66kg event on a controversial split decision that drew some booes from those in attendance. tennis continues today too. rafa nadal is playing his singles match against hungary's martin fucsovics, despite concerns over a thigh injury. nadal won his doubles match with carlos alcaraz on saturday but hinted he may pull out of the singles. he won the first set comfortably, 6—1, but trails in the second set with the hungarian leading 4—1. since last year, nadal only played six tournaments

ahead of his first—round match at roland—garros. andy murray will start his doubles journey later with fellow briton dan evans. they take onjapanese pair taro daniel and kei nishikori in the first round at roland garros. evans won his singles match against moez echargui a short while ago. cam norrie has pulled out injured. convicted child rapist steven van de velde made his 0lympic beach volleyball debut on sunday, to a mixed reaction in paris, with audible boos. he and volleyball partner matthew immers lost 2—1 to italy's alex ranghieri and adrian carambula at the eiffel tower stadium earlier. his playing partner immers, speaking after the match, says he feels it was right that van de velde could compete at the games. we talked about it one time and we want to enjoy every moment on this stage because we qualified for it, we gave everything together for the past three years, two years, to qualify. i am really happy about it, that we can stand here and say, ok, next match we will give everything. you believe it is right

that he is here at the olympics? yes, of course. we qualified. we gave two years, everything for it. i think it is right. to football, and manchester united face an anxious wait to discover the extent of injuries suffered by rasmus hojlund and new signing leny yoro as pre—season preparations continue. hojlund had scored in united's 2—1 defeat by arsenal in the opening match of their us tour in los angeles, but suffered a muscle injury soon afterwards and had to go off. hojlund's team—mate yoro needed treatment during the game as well — and united will hope both can be fit for the start of the premier league season in fewer than three week's time. some more news to bring you — george russell has won the belgian grand prix. he had a dramatic finish. you can get more on the bbc sport website as well as all the rest of the day's news. a busy afternoon for you will be back with you on short while. police say two men have died

after a light aircraft crashed in north yorkshire earlier today. officers were called to thorganby, near selbyjust before 10am, after a two—seater plane crashed in a field. they say two men in their 20s, thought to be the pilot and a passenger, have been pronounced dead. no other injuries have been reported. the mayor of greater manchester andy burnham says we now have a fuller picture of the manchester airport incident, after new footage emerged late last night showing the moments before a police officer kicked and stamped on a man last week. the new video, obtained by the manchester evening news, shows two police officers being punched to the ground after trying to restrain one of the men. a warning you may find this report by phil mccann distressing. you have got him on the floor, stop being aggressive! you have got him on the floor. the man in blue here is now known to millions as the man who had his head stamped on by a police officer. this new footage, obtained by the manchester evening news, shows what happened just beforehand. as police appear to try to apprehend the man in blue,

a man in a grey top comes in and punches are thrown. the man in blue breaks free and more punches are thrown between him and two other officers, who fall to the floor. he then drags the other officer down as he holds a taser towards the man in grey. one of the other officers tasers him. and this footage ends as the man in blue is kicked in the head. a man with his hands up, who is later hit in the back of the head with a taser, appears to be the same man seen in grey in the new video. it is an extremely difficult situation, but at least this morning it has moved forward, i'd agree, because people now have a fuller picture. and it confirms what i said last week, which is that this is a situation that escalated very quickly, it was a very violent situation. issues on both sides. four people were arrested after the incident and released on police bail. a police officer is now facing a criminal investigation

over kicking, stamping, and using incapacitant spray. shame on you! the original video sparked protests, including in the hometown of the brothers involved in the incident — in rochdale. we should be clear in that the actions of the officer, of kicking that person on the ground in that particular way, is very uncharacteristic of british policing and something that we are not used to, and should be called out as equally as the violence towards the police. greater manchester's chief constable has said the shock and upset caused in some communities is a matter of profound regret. phil mccann, bbc news. chancellor rachel reeves will make a statement to mps tomorrow, setting out what she claims is the financial black hole in the public finances. it has been reported that ms reeves is set to officially delay a raft of road and hospital schemes as the chancellor seeks to fill an estimated £20 billion fiscal hole, which she claims was left by the last conservative government. with me is our political correpondent, helen catt.

to discuss that and the other political news of the day. let's start with what we heard about the chancellor. we start with what we heard about the chancellor. ~ ., ., chancellor. we will hear from her tomorrow _ chancellor. we will hear from her tomorrow. when _ chancellor. we will hear from her tomorrow. when she _ chancellor. we will hear from her tomorrow. when she went - chancellor. we will hear from her tomorrow. when she went into i chancellor. we will hear from her. tomorrow. when she went into the treasury, one of the first thing she did was commissioner spending audit, looking at all of the spending plans that the last government had put in place. she said that as soon as she open the books there was a nasty surprise. she wanted to put it all out there to see what they were dealing with. so we are expecting had to give a statement tomorrow in which she will set out area by area, what she says is different to what was anticipated. here is what the environment secretary said... we knew the inheritance was going to be bad, and that was being flagged up through the election. but we've got into our offices now, we've seen what's really been going on, and it's catastrophic. it's worse? there were things that we could not have known during the election, because the conservatives had not only not released the information but in some cases they'd

deliberately covered up. now, the conservatives say that this just isn't the case. they said that everything about the state of the economy was publicly available all along. they say that this is labour rolling the pitch for what they say will be inevitably a tax raise. speaking to economists about the state of the economy, they said at the time that neither labour or the conservatives were really giving a full picture on the state of the economy and that they would have to be tough decisions made. what steve reedis be tough decisions made. what steve reed is thing is that their surprise in areas like prisons. there was a lot of information about the state of prisons before the election, we saw the are pasty numbers were very full, reporting police stations. still, he said when we got in there were things that we didn't know about that which meant that prisons would have been full by august if

they hadn't taken steps. that's the argument that they are making. when we get the speech tomorrow from rachel reeves, we will look at some of the detail of that and when you look at some of those claims about what they are saying they have found, and to be able to examine the more fully, there is always a degree of... we have had a consistent message from the government since they took over, virtually every department said that things are worse than what we thought. that is in some part a bit of framing, that will allow them to say down the line, this is what the conservatives left us. we should say, that is what the conservatives did in 2010 when they took over from labour. still be watchin: they took over from labour. still be watching that _ they took over from labour. still be watching that statement _ they took over from labour. still be watching that statement from - they took over from labour. still be l watching that statement from rachel reeves tomorrow. we will also be looking at the final list of candidates for the conservative leadership nomination. just remind our viewers who has officially thrown their hat in the ring and then we might go through who hasn't

but might do. then we might go through who hasn't but might tie-— but might do. nominations close at 2:30m but might do. nominations close at 2:30pm tomorrow _ but might do. nominations close at 2:30pm tomorrow afternoon. - but might do. nominations close at 2:30pm tomorrow afternoon. so i but might do. nominations close at| 2:30pm tomorrow afternoon. so far but might do. nominations close at - 2:30pm tomorrow afternoon. so far we have five can contenders. the first to come out of the traps was james cleverly the former foreign secretary. he announced early on in the week. there is also the former security minister tom tugendhat, and mel stride. most recently, just last night, anotherformer home mel stride. most recently, just last night, another former home secretary priti patel said that she will put herself forward too. they have said that they have all secured the ten mps that they need to get on the ballot. what's interesting is actually listening to all of their pictures, each of them talking about the need to unite the conservative party. it will be interesting to see going forward how they are going to paint themselves as the person to do that, as opposed to all the others. as you said, there are some names that we don't know about. the as you said, there are some names that we don't know about.— that we don't know about. the two that we don't know about. the two that most people _ that we don't know about. the two

that most people are _ that we don't know about. the two that most people are talking - that we don't know about. the two that most people are talking about is kemi badenoch and suella braverman. kemi badenoch has been cited as the favourite, she is yet to put her hat in the ring as is suella braverman. she to put her hat in the ring as is suella braverman.— to put her hat in the ring as is suella braverman. she has got the signatures. — suella braverman. she has got the signatures, kemi _ suella braverman. she has got the signatures, kemi badenoch, - suella braverman. she has got the signatures, kemi badenoch, and i suella braverman. she has got thej signatures, kemi badenoch, and is intending to come forward. she is currently the shadow housing secretary. we are expecting to hear from herfairly secretary. we are expecting to hear from her fairly shortly, secretary. we are expecting to hear from herfairly shortly, nominations close tomorrow. suella braverman had been long contended as a leadership contender, she ran in the race to replace borisjohnson but we haven't heard anything from her in recent days. it's unclear at this stage whether or not she will put herself forward. �* ., ,, ., whether or not she will put herself forward. �* ., ., , forward. before you go, 'ust remind us of the process. h forward. before you go, just remind us of the process. leadership - us of the process. leadership elections in the uk take some time because then they go for party membership. just take us through the diary in the next few months. everyone is different. each time they have the leadership contest, it's up to the party to set the rule. this time, it would be a much

longer contest than what we saw, for example, when the conservatives replace borisjohnson. that was a much shorter contest. this time, nominations close tomorrow to get on the ballot. then candidates will have all summer to make the pitch to their colleagues, members, when parliament returns in september, mps will whittle down the candidates to just four. though for —— those four, will have what is described as a beauty pageant at the conservative party conference and then that will get whittled down to a number two. membership will then vote on it on an online vote we will finally find out how the newly —— who the new leader is on november two. quite close to the _ leader is on november two. quite close to the us _ leader is on november two. quite close to the us presidential- close to the us presidential election as well. lots happening. as always, great to have you in the studio with us, helen. thank you. voting is under way in venezuela, in what's being seen as the most consequential presidential election in a generation.

president nicolas maduro, who's been in office since 2013, is seeking a third consecutive term. he told voters they have a choice between war and peace — and warned of a bloodbath if he loses. opposition candidate, edmundo gonzalez, said it's time to re—establish democracy and prosperity in the country after a quarter of a century of socialist rule. let's show you the live scene in caracas. what we are seeing is that there are long lines as people try to cast a ballot in those elections. you can see that the scene live in venezuela in caracas. it's nice to show you scenes live inside the voting station as well. as you can see there, people are casting the ballot. nicolas maduro has been in charge since 2013 these hoping for another term in office. in recent years, we have extensively reported

on the dire economic situation in the country, high levels of policy that poverty as well. we understand that poverty as well. we understand that nicolas maduro has cast his ballot in caracas already. he said that he would make sure the results announced would be respected. the body that organises that vote is stacked with his allies. many opposition figures have been barred from running. millions of venezuelans have been unable to register to take part in these elections, raising concerns and questions about how free and fair those elections are. nicolas maduro has been trailing his opposition candidate edmundo gonzalez in the opinion polls and as you can see there, long queues at polling stations. many analysts feel that a high turnout could help the opposition. of course, we will have full coverage of those elections throughout the day on bbc news. a devastating wildfire has ripped through bushland in northern california,

forcing around 4000 residents to flee their homes. it's been described as the biggest blaze to hit the state this year and is thought to have been started deliberately. duncan kennedy reports. it's california's biggest wildfire this year, already burning through more than 300,000 acres of land. and it looks like some of it was started deliberately. a lot of our crews are what's doing called prepping, basically getting out ahead of the fire, um, finding those structures, communities, making sure those areas are more survivable should the fire go through. the centre of the fire is in northern california, in places like butte county, leaving homes and cars burning. . .and burned out. the same county was hit by another fire in 2018 that killed 80 people. agh! your house down there, too? and even when vehicles can move around in this cauldron of flames and smoke, the very sides of the roads

are themselves on fire. in chico, brian is now sleeping out in the open, just his dog rescued from the inferno. right about the time i go out the door, i got two city pd officers at the door telling me i needed to get out. and, uh, well, i packed up what i could pack up in the car — me and the dog — and i got out. sherry made sure she got out with all of her 12 dogs, her most precious companions, amid the other physical loss. as long as i have the dogs and they're safe, i don't really care about many material things, you know. a 42—year—old man has been arrested on suspicion of starting the butte blaze by rolling a burning car into a gully. it's already too late for many properties — here, just the brick chimney is left standing. elsewhere, rows of homes are evacuated, their owners in shelters. i want to go home right now, but, uh, those things can be replaced. lives can't, pets can't. you know what i mean? that structure will be replaced eventually.

a state of emergency has been declared, as around 2,500 fire crews and emergency workers try to contain what they can, when they can. in some places, that means creating fire breaks and hosing down the ground to try to stop embers building back into fires. but wind and very dry shrub are making this another summer of destruction. duncan kennedy, bbc news. the television presenter laura whitmore has alleged she was subjected to inappropriate behaviour while taking part in strictly come dancing eight years ago. she didn't name who was involved in her case, but she was paired with professional dancer giovanni pernice, who's previously denied threatening or abusive behaviour — and since left the programme. in a statement on social media, laura said: "i thought my experience was specific to me but i've since learned i was wrong.

the aim of this is to show a pattern of behaviour that i believe needs to stop. i am not looking for anything, just an acceptance that what happened to me in the rehearsal rooms during my time on bbc strictly was wrong and that it won't happen to anyone else again." before we leave you... the king has been speaking to members of the public as he walked to church at sandringham this morning. well—wishers turned out to see charles as he strolled to the service at st mary magdalene. the king — who is continuing to receive treatment following a cancer diagnosis — was greeted by the reverend canon dr paul williams and he also spoke to air cadets. rugby league's kevin sinfield says he's committed to three more challenges to raise money for mnd charities in honour of his friend rob burrow, who died last month. the former leeds rhinos captain and now england coach was at the university of leeds to receive an honorary degree, as amy garcia reports. i'm honoured to present - to you for the degree of doctor of laws, honoris causa,

kevin sinfield. - kevin, congratulations. what does this honorary degree mean to you? thank you. ijust think it's incredibly humbling to be here today to share in a special day with so many people who have worked so hard. and being amongst so many people who are graduating and with their family and friends, and it's such an important day for them. so, yeah, ifeel very humble. looks great to be back in leeds. you're a lad from the other side of the pennines, but yorkshire, leeds in particular is really special to you, isn't it? less yorkshire, more leeds. rob inspired me to be a better person, a betterfriend, to be more kind, to think of others. by doing this, amazing things happen. life becomes so much more fulfilling and special. that beautiful speech, it was very much about love and friendship, wasn't it? i played in a team for a long time where medals and trophies were so important.

but now we're finished, it's the memories and the friendships that are what we all hold the dearest. and to make the most of the special moments we have with people we love and care about, and to cherish those moments. rob has been a huge part of my life. when you think we played together for so long, and then how close we became over the last four and a half years. and i spoke about him today. i think his impact across the uk, throughout the mnd community will never be forgotten. together, you and rob raised over 15 million for mnd charities. you always said that you were just helping out a mate. the challenges, the fund raising, does that continue now? yeah, probably more so than ever. the challenge is to, you know, i've committed to another three, you know, probably first time i've said that. but it means we've done seven running challenges then. can you tell us any more about that? well, the first one is the only one that had been planned.

and the next two, we'll see what happens. how will you best remember rob? in probably the best way possible, which was that smile. obviously the stuff he did on the field was incredible, but everybody saw the bloke in the dressing room. the guy who was cracking jokes and what he's done the last four and a half years, i think for somebody to be so brave and courageous is, it just shows what a special guy he is and was. and it won't be forgotten. blackpool illuminations have been a draw for visitors for more than 100 years and preparations are already under way ahead of this year's switch on. earlier this week, some of the upcoming displays were revealed and our reporter ian haslam went to take a look. blackpool's big switch—on is the biggest night of its events calendar. for many years, celebrity tv designer laurence llewelyn—bowen has led the illuminations illuminati. now he's come up with this donkey—based feature. tell me about this. i can't work out. it's either the work of a genius or a madman.

i love the fact that you are absolutely right. it is perfectly poised between pleasure and pain. donkeys are so synonymous with blackpool. and actually i love the idea of northern soul. and i love the idea of ice creams, and i love the idea of kind of mushing it all together. now, people want that kind of, you know, instagram—able moment. something this town is rarely short of. blackpool design is like design you won't find anywhere else in the uk. but of course this is what inspired las vegas. we did it here first. even though we're world leading, we're the ones that always understated, but i think not so much this year. yeah, and the ice cream as well. it's not quite the tallest around, but... this is the most frustrating thing. we found out this morning that it's not the tallest ice cream in the world. so we have decided that actually we can get over this inadequacy by adding a 30 centimetre cherry. what we create here in blackpool is art, light art. and it's an amazing display which can be, you know, seen from space, which people have an amazing amount of affection for.

do you think some astronauts go into space just to look down and see the blackpool lights? i would hope so. this year, local art students have helped with the designing. i mean, i remember going- when i was quite little as well, and i've never really thought too - much about the design process of it. i think it's quite interesting - for a lot of people to see newer, newer designs coming in. at blackpool's new short town museum of entertainment, there's a gallery dedicated to the illuminations. kids or adults can design their own and see what they'd look like. oh, and there it is on the prom. arguably my finest hour, this. blackpool's history with illuminations runs back all the way through to 1878, when we first installed electric streetlights on the promenade, and thousands of people came to the prom to see them be switched on, and it's snowballed from there. this is the old and the new is very much thriving as well, isn't it? it is. yeah. i mean, the format has still been the same.

it boosts civic pride and it celebrates blackpool's local history. this year's illuminations switch—on is on august 30th. ian haslam, bbc news. that looks brilliant. now it's time for a look at the weather with tomasz schafernaker. hello. sunny skies with temperatures well into the 20s across much of the uk, and whether you like it or not, the first half of the week will be really quite hot — particularly across southern and central areas of the uk. let me show you the satellite picture with the jet stream superimposed. here it is — this big ridge allowing the hot air to come in from the south, and the dip in thejet stream with the weather fronts there — that's the bad weather that recently affected paris and the opening ceremony. here in the uk, admittedly it is not gin—clear everywhere, the blue skies are further south. in scotland and northern ireland here, it's a little more hazy with fair weather clouds, and cooler — around 21 in belfast and glasgow, but the rest of the country, typically inland, in the mid 20s. so after a warm and sunny day, it's going to be a warm and clear night,

but just to the north—west this weak weather front is trying to push in, it doesn't make much progress. but maybe some cloudier skies and damp weather here in the far north—west. the rest of the country — it's a dry and sunny morning. and we do it all over again on monday, with high pressure in charge, and just weak weather fronts trying to move into north—western parts of the uk. so right from the word go, it is blue skies once again across many parts of england and wales. a little bit more cloud here in the north—west of the uk, and just the risk of a shower here and there. so cooler — around 20 or so — but the bulk of england and wales again well into the 20s and the high 20s expected across the south—east and east anglia. and that heat will continue to build. as we head through the course of tuesday, we see that hot air spreading in from france, really quite oppressive for the olympics — in the south of france pushing a0 celsius, paris the mid 30s. here in the uk in the extreme case,

we might even get around 31 or 32 in some southern and south—eastern part of the country. now i'm going to speed up the weather forecast — tuesday into wednesday, then wednesday night with the heat, we are going to see some showers and thunderstorms developing, i think more especially by the time we get to thursday. but trying to pinpoint where they are going to be at this stage is going to be very hard. but here is the summary, then, for the week ahead. this increasing cloud here on the weather apps, that's an indication of those storms starting to build by that stage. bye— bye.

live from london, this is bbc news. funerals are taking place for the victims of a rocket attack in the israeli—occupied golan heights. israel blames lebanese militant group hezbollah, which denies involvement. new video has emerged of the events leading up to a police officer kicking a man in the head as he lay on the floor at manchester airport last week. venezuelans are voting in what's being seen as a pivotal presidential election — with president nicolas maduro trailing his rival in opinion polls.

hello, i'm rajini vaidyanathan. welcome to this hour. the israeli air force says it's carried out strikes against the hezbollah group in lebanon, after a rocket hit a football pitch in the israeli—occupied golan heights, killing 12 young people. the rocket struck a druze arab town close to the border with lebanon. the israeli defence minister blamed hezbollah but the group has denied any involvement. today funerals have been taking place in the town of majdal shams. barbara plett usher sent this report. impossible to count the losses when they are measured in the lives of your children. villagers gathered in their thousands to mourn their unspeakable tragedy. this druze arab minority stayed

in the occupied golan heights