when we fight, we win! israel's most wanted man, yahya sinwar, is announced as the new overall head of hamas. and we're at one of the biggest cultural celebrations on the planet, the edinburgh fringe — where we'll meet some of the acts. hello. we start here in the uk, where 6,000 police have been mobilized because of fears of more riots across the country. there are reports up to 30 protests are planned for wednesday. the prime minister has promised communities will be kept safe. sir keir starmer said he had assurances there were adequate officers in place to cope if violence flared. 0ur political correspondent, damian grammaticas reports.

it's just over a week since these riots began. violence first in southport, spreading to other parts of england. now, for those who've taken part, the legal consequences are starting to be felt. this morning in liverpool, three men who've all pleaded guilty to violent disorder are due to be sentenced. yesterday, police chiefs were summoned to downing street for the second emergency coordination meeting in two days. the prime minister says more sentences will be handed out in the coming days. over 400 people now have been arrested, 100 have been charged, some in relation to online activity, and a number of them are already in court. and are now expecting substantive sentencing before the end of this week. that should send a very powerful message to anybody involved, either directly or online, that you are likely to be dealt

with within a week and that nobody, but nobody should be involving themselves in this disorder. some have already appeared in court. this was 20—year—old liam grey, arrested in rotherham on sunday. he denied the charge against him. a list circulating online has suggested more than 30 locations could be targeted by rioters today. police in london issued a warning saying, �*we know about the events planned by hateful and divisive groups across the capital. after the rioters targeted hotels housing asylum seekers, some groups who work with refugees have been told they are at risk. 0ne organisation in merseyside says it has closed its offices but will try to protect the premises today. we will also be creating, i suppose, what i would call a peace line, for want of a better expression,

so that we and the local community and the priest from the local church, which is part of our building, that we can all come together to demonstrate that we believe that we should have hope in the future, rather than putting up with hate. disperse immediately as force is about to be used against violent individuals. sir keir starmer last night said those who felt threatened would be kept safe. but it's a severe test for a government that's been in office forjust a month. damian grammaticas, bbc news, westminster. the communities minister, jim mcmahon, said he wanted to ensure that people felt safe and protected: i think it's fair to say that people are feeling very anxious at the moment when they're seeing the scenes that are on tv, when they've seen the locations that are being circulated online, that is genuinely causing anxiety in the community.

and of course, it's right that people are vigilant, that people share any intelligence that they've got and that people look after each other. but, the vast majority of people today will go about their everyday business like they do every single day of the week, in the year, in peace and security. and for those people who want to disrupt, who want to cause damage, who want to cause the scenes that we have seen again, they can absolutely expect to face a full force of the law because it's important. let's speak to our correspondent catherine byaruhanga, who is outside the new scotland yard building. hi, catherine. plenty of these preparations today?— hi, catherine. plenty of these preparations today? yes, their messa . e preparations today? yes, their message really _ preparations today? yes, their message really is _ preparations today? yes, their message really is clear - preparations today? yes, their message really is clear all - preparations today? yes, their message really is clear all the | preparations today? yes, their - message really is clear all the way from the prime minister to police chiefs, including here in the capital that anyone who goes out and perhaps causes any violence, disturbances. the message is clear that they will face the full force of the law and we've actuallyjust had a statement from the mayor of london sadiq khan, saying if you break the law, action will be taken against you, arrest will be made and

you will be facing the full face of the law. which echoes the statements. we have also been hearing from the police in the mid west midlands, there have been disturbances there, physically in birmingham. they are asking mums of the public, to send them any information that can help the authorities —— members of the public. we are expecting 30 protesters have been organised in areas, targeting immigration areas, such against immigrants come into the country. what police are trying to do is get ahead of any possible disturbances. what is interesting as they are going to step up police presence across the country, particularly in the capital and went to the met police has said is there will be a visible presence of offices and they are urging the public to come forward, ask them from any advice and help. this is part of the main preparations for

this evening. part of the main preparations for this evening-— part of the main preparations for this evenina. ., . , _ this evening. catherine, a busy day in the courts— this evening. catherine, a busy day in the courts as _ this evening. catherine, a busy day in the courts as well? _ this evening. catherine, a busy day in the courts as well? exactly. - this evening. catherine, a busy day| in the courts as well? exactly. what we have heard _ in the courts as well? exactly. what we have heard so _ in the courts as well? exactly. what we have heard so far— in the courts as well? exactly. what we have heard so far from - in the courts as well? exactly. what we have heard so far from the - we have heard so far from the government is that if anyone takes part in this protest, they will be arrested, they will be sentence and charge. what we are going to see today at liverpool crown court is that three individuals who pleaded guilty to causing violent disorder will be sentenced later today. there has already been individuals sentenced before this, but the key point there is that people have pleaded guilty to vinous disorders. we have seen hundreds of arrests over the last few days, here in the capital, the met police say at one point, they arrested more than 100 individuals. so those sentences and actions were seen in the courts, the authorities are away that this is that mrs do not continue. thank you so much, catherine. _

next, to the us,where vice president kamala harris has made herfirstjoint appearance with her running mate for november's presidential election at a rally in philadelphia. ms harris said she and minnesota governor, tim walz, were underdogs going into the election, but they were fighting for the country's future. 0ur north america correspondent, nomia iqbal, reports from philadelphia. this is the new face of the democratic party. out with biden harris, and in with harris and walz 202a. kamala harris beamed as she introduced her fast track vp, a governor, an army veteran, former teacher and football coach. coach walz and i may hail from different corners of our great country, but our values are the same and we both believe in lifting people up, not knocking them down. mr walz appeared emotional at times and when he spoke, wasted no time laying into donald trump. first of all, he doesn't know the first thing about service.

he doesn't have time for it because he's too busy serving himself. and showing off his midwestern wit, the crowd lapped up what has now become his most famous line of attack on mr trump and his running mate, jd vance. i have to tell you, i can't wait to debate — i have to tell you, i can't wait to debate the _ i have to tell you, i can't wait to debate the guy. cheering and applause . that is if he is willing to get off the couch _ . that is if he is willing to get off the couch and _ . that is if he is willing to get off the couch and show - . that is if he is willing to get off the couch and show up! is . that is if he is willing to get - off the couch and show up! is see what _ off the couch and show up! is see what i _ off the couch and show up! is see what i did — off the couch and show up! is see what i did there! —— you see what i did there! —

there's a lot of love for harris and walz in this almost packed out arena. it's got a real rock concert vibe to it. of course, people here mostly are faithful to the party. they've been re—energised by this new democratic party ticket. the fight with their republican opponents really begins now. donald trump is defining them both as the most radical left duo in american history. in a social media post, he said there has never been anything like it and there never will be again. there's just 90 days to go until election day. kamala harris and tim walz will now embark on a whirlwind week long tour of key battleground states, which will likely determine who gets into the white house. nomia iqbal, bbc news, pennsylvania. scott lucas is professor of us and international politics at the clinton institute, university college dublin. he says he'll appeal to both centre and the left side of the democrats i think it's a solid choice for a harris campaign that really hasn't put a foot wrong sincejoe biden was replaced

two weeks ago. uh, you've got tim walz with his record of public service. two words that will be important in this campaign. uh, teacher, uh, member of the army national guard and 12 years as a congressman from a largely republican district in rural minnesota, then a two—term governor, has been hailed, uh, not for being a radical. that's a trump falsehood, but being a bipartisan congressman, he was the seventh most bipartisan legislator in the us congress. and then as a bipartisan governor, he has tended to govern from the centre, uh, focusing on, for example, the importance of agriculture in minnesota, focusing on the importance of manufacturing, while at the same time, uh, sort of taking out progressive stands on issues such as health care supporting 0bamacare, providing food for underprivileged children, especially during the conditions of the pandemic in 2020, and also

for advocating measures to deal with carbon emissions, part of the effort to safeguard the environment amidst climate change. so this is a person who can appeal to the democratic party from the centre, across to the progressives, and he can do so, i think, and this may be the reason why he was chosen in the end with that folksy manner, which is both gentle but also pushes back against trump and the vice presidential pick on the republican side, jd vance. what about the concern held by some democrats that he just doesn't have the name recognition? and we're only 90 days out from the election. vice presidents often don't have the name recognition. i mean, i can take you back through a number of choices that would have been made, including, for example, uh, when donald trump chose mike pence, uh, in 2016, these would be candidates that would be known at the regional level, but not necessarily the national level. but first of all, you're not there to overshadow the presidential candidate.

so what's important first is the name recognition for kamala harris and then secondly, your vice president in that supporting role, then builds up a profile during the campaign. uh, two things i'd probably point to is part of that. one will be if there is a debate, as there usually is between vice presidential candidates, and secondly, that where kamala harris can be campaigning in one part of the country, tim walz can be campaigning in another part of the country in a race which is much more wide open. now, where we're talking about eight, maybe nine swing states as opposed to only 3 or 4 just a few weeks ago. thanks to scott lucas for that. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

the israeli army has issued a new evacuation order for palestinians in gaza, this time for people in beit hanoun in the north. it says it's in response to a series

of rockets fired from the area into israel on tuesday. earlier, hamas announced yahya sinwar, israel's most wanted man, had been chosen as the new overall head of the group. he succeeds ismail haniyeh, who was assassinated in the iranian capital, tehran, last week. let's take a look at yahya sinwar�*s background. he was most recently the leader of hamas in gaza. israel holds him, along with others, responsible for the october 7 attack on israel, which killed around 1200 people and saw more than 200 kidnapped. the 61—year—old was born in the khan younis refugee camp, in southern gaza. his parents were refugees. after his education, he was arrested by israel at age 19. two years after the formation of hamas, when he was just 25, sinwar set up the feared internal security organisation —

al—majd. in 1988, sinwar allegedly planned the abduction and killing of two israeli soldiers. he was arrested, convicted of murder and imprisoned. 0ur correspondent yolande knell injerusalem. i asked her about the reactions to his appointment. uh, well, a mixed reaction from around this region, really. i mean, certainly yahya sinwar is one of the most prominent figures in hamas, and there are different ways of looking at this appointment. i mean, you could say that. anyway, he has been calling the shots. he's presumed to be in some kind of underground bunker in gaza at the moment, having masterminded those devastating 7th of october attacks which triggered this devastating war. um, the us secretary of state, antony blinken, came out and said that he has been and remains the primary decider in any ceasefire and hostage release deal. but of course, this also does show us that hamas is going into a more hardline direction. he's certainly seen as one of the more extremist faces within hamas, even though the group

is widely deemed to be a terrorist organisation in western countries, in israel as well. of course, this is very provocative to israel. the israeli foreign minister, israel katz, came out. he said that this appointment was yet another reason to swiftly eliminate him, meaning yahya sinwar and wipe this vile organisation off the face of the earth. and yolande, just talk us through. we gave a little bit of his background just in the introduction, butjust talk us through a little bit about the man. yes. so he is somebody who served a large portion of his life in israeli jails. actually, part of the reason that he was there was also for being convicted of killing alleged palestinian collaborators. so he's somebody who is sort of widely feared, but seen as being very powerful as a figure, even within hamas. he's somebody who has put a lot

of effort into building up hamas's military capabilities. so his appointment also brings together both the sort of military and political wings of hamas, very much in terms of what it could mean for a ceasefire deal. um, one of my colleagues has been asking hamas officials about that, as they've been meeting in doha to decide on this appointment of yahya sinwar, and they have been stressing to him that they see that their negotiating team, this five—member team that had been overseen by the late hamas leader ismail haniyeh, or the five members remain there, they are ready to to resume negotiations, they have been saying, and they're continuing to say, that yahya sinwar himself agreed to a ceasefire deal on the table, and they're putting the blame on the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, for really holding that up.

meanwhile, those living in haifa in northern israel are preparing for a potential conflict with the iranian—backed lebanese group hezbollah. the port city was badly hit during the second lebanon war in 2006, and it is expected to be a target once again. 0ur middle east correspondent jenny hill visited the city and sent this report. deep underground, a place of last resort. this car park is now a hospital. if there's an attack on haifa, the vast bunker will shelter the sick and take in the injured. when? when is it going to happen? nobody knows. we talk about it a lot. we're...in general people are optimistic. we hope it's going to be in short duration. there are operating theatres, a maternity ward, a command bunker and supplies to keep going for three days. they tell us here they're fully prepared for an attack. israel insists it's ready

for any eventuality. and yet you can sense the unease. you can feel the fear in this port city is vulnerable. lebanon and hezbollah's rockets are close by. just look across the shipping lane. you can see the border. it's a ticking time bomb. any minute now, it could be like an alarm. will i die? will i have time to go home to my family? it will be probably drones or missiles, and it will be problematic for us to evacuate haifa. but for this man, who opened his coffee shop six months ago, the constant threat has dulled the fear. are you afraid? i'm not afraid. for the mayor of haifa, sleepless nights. he ran the city when israel was at war with lebanon nearly 20 years ago. i'm very sad about it that there is a fork in the middle east

which their leaders are only concerned about destruction, killing, fighting instead of building. so haifa's doctors continue to prepare their fortress hospital. but international diplomacy is ongoing. hope still perhaps they'll never have to use it. jenny hill, bbc news, haifa. more than a thousand british military personnel have been put on standby to help with the evacuation of british nationals from lebanon. the foreign office has warned that the situation in the middle east could deteriorate rapidly and called on uk citizens to leave. hundreds of troops have been sent to cyprus, where the uk already has a military presence. hundreds more are on notice in the uk, ready to go to the region if necessary. some breaking news to bring you from thailand now. the reformist political party which won last year's general election in thailand has been

dissolved by the country's constitutional court, over its proposal to amend the harsh royal defamation, or lese majeste law. 11 of the party's top leaders have been banned from politics for ten years. now to paris, where the twelfth day of the paris 0lympics got under way with a new event: the race—walk relay. teams of one man and one woman are covering a marathon distance, without breaking into a run. in the last half hour, spain won the inaugural 0lympic title — the first round of the women's golf has also started at le golf national. the british number one charley hull is competing in that, hitting a stunning second shot. let's speak to our reporter grace harbage who is in paris. how common how common grace. how common grace. morning, lewis.

here we are day 12 of the olympic games. i want to that they were some good news which is the paris 2024 organisers have confirmed today that a training session for the swimming marathon event will take place today, it had been cancelled yesterday due to unacceptable levels of e. coli in the seine. as you know, the issue of water quality in the seine has been going on during the seine has been going on during the height of the games. the women's marathon swimming event is scheduled for tomorrow morning and the men's on friday morning. as you mentioned, we had that mouth the mixed relay, spain taken god, ecuador in silver and australia silver. —— spain taking gold. we had the hundred metre women's how do, and good news for the team gb �*s cindy, she

finishes second place. the semifinals for that would take place on final. with the final happening on final. with the final happening on saturday, fingers crossed we will see that costs do live in that final. in the 15 metre final, team usa took home the gold and break a new 0lympic record time butjosh also broke the british records are very quick race for them. we also saw skye brown, 16—year—old skateboarder, who took home the prize after dislocating her shoulder but today is the immense park skating event. you not see a teenager for skating event. you not see a teenagerfor team gb skating event. you not see a teenager for team gb today, skating event. you not see a teenagerfor team gb today, but skating event. you not see a teenager for team gb today, but 51 year andy mcdonald so what an amazing story for him. we know that skateboarding has a wide range of ages taking place. we had a 15—year—old sky buying yesterday as long as china's11—year—old athlete

—— sky brown. so it goes to show that we are open to a range of rangers. and andy is not the oldest athlete, that goes to a spanish athlete. we have got the women speak climb, sailing down in marseille, track cycling, weightlifting and artistic swimming. you public remember that is actually being caught is synchronise simpering —— but i swimming event, which was actually being called the synchronised swimming in years gone by. we very glad for today's events. for my permission, please go to the bbc news website.— bbc news website. thanks for that. lots more on _ bbc news website. thanks for that. lots more on that _ bbc news website. thanks for that. lots more on that later. _ bbc news website. thanks for that. lots more on that later. they - bbc news website. thanks for that. lots more on that later. they use . bbc news website. thanks for that. lots more on that later. they use it| lots more on that later. they use it as a eat dog world out there. and

this has been the case, it seems, for an australian quality. an australian man has been charged with stealing limited edition coins worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. here is whatjoseph doueihi, new south wales detective superintendent, said about the case. we have investigated the effects of what we know to be 60,000 coins from the storage facility. we are aware of how popular our cartoon is and that —— like the fact that these quotes have deprived a lot of young children from accessing these coins. so we are doing our absolute best to get these coins and put them back into circulation.— into circulation. that is it. this is bbc news. _

hello. the ups and downs of our summer weather continue, all sorts being thrown at us over the next few days, and in the short term it is a sunshine and showers day really for the rest of today. quite breezy, in fact, quite windy across the far north of scotland. we've got this stripe of cloud you can see on our earlier satellite picture. that's what brought the rain for some of us yesterday. and still, this area of low pressure swirling to the north west, driving those showers, most frequent across the north of scotland where some will be thundery, but quite a few showers further south across scotland into northern ireland, northern england, quite a breezy day, generally across the uk, in fact really quite windy up towards the far north. wales, the south west of england rather cloudy. the best of the sunshine, i think, across central and eastern parts of england. 23 degrees there in london. more like 15 for lerwick and for stornoway. and then through this evening and tonight, many of the showers will fade, but we will see more cloud rolling its way. and from the west, across the southwest of england, wales into northern ireland, northwest england, some splashes

of rain and an increasingly humid feel with that, thanks to an approaching warm front which you can see on the weather chart for thursday morning. now initially, this will bring some mostly light and patchy rain, but as that pushes northwards and eastwards, some of that rain will start to turn heavier. some sunshine to start off across a good part of scotland, but that will be replaced by cloud for many, those outbreaks of rain pushing northwards and eastwards and turning heavy across parts of northern england, northern ireland and southern and central scotland. south east england likely to stay largely dry for a good part of the day. we could get to 23 degrees in norwich, 18 there underneath the rain in glasgow. now into friday, this frontal system will clear south eastwards. sunny spells and showers following on behind the showers most frequent up towards the north west where we will see blustery winds. temperatures for many in the high teens or low 20s, but we could get to 25 degrees in london. perhaps a sign of things to come. we're keeping a close eye on developments over the weekend, because it looks like we could start to tap into some very warm, perhaps even hot air from the south.

now, this is unlikely to affect all of us, most especially affecting the south and the east of the uk, where temperatures could climb to the high 20s, even the low 30s celsius. but that heat, if it does arrive, is unlikely to last long.

this is bbc news, the headlines. nearly 6000 police officers are mobilised across the uk, with fears of more riots planned for today. us vice president kamala harris makes her first public appearance with new running mate tim walz. israel's most wanted man, yahya sinwar, is announced as the new overall head of hamas. a hotel collapses in germany, killing two people — three others are still trapped in the rubble. and we're at one of the biggest cultural celebrations on the planet the edinburgh fringe — where we'll meet some of the acts. let's return to our top story — police sources say thousands of officers are ready to respond, after reports suggested more riots are planned for today. the commons speaker, sir lindsay hoyle, has advised mps

who have high—profile constituency offices to consider