alert" for more disorder — 6000 extra officers will remain mobilised over the weekend. and breaking makes its debut at the olympics today — as the b—girls go for gold in paris. hello and welcome to the programme. i'm lukwesa burak. we start with events in the middle east and the three mediating countries in the gaza conflict — the us, qatar and egypt — have issued a joint call for israel and hamas to resume ceasefire negotiations next week to overcome their differences. they suggested the talks based on a new framework agreement take place either in cairo or doha. israel has agreed to attend — but there's been no response, so far, from hamas. the palestinian group has previously said it wants

a ceasefire to end the war, while the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has said the conflict can only stop once hamas is defeated. in a joint statement, president biden, egyptian president, abdel fattah el—sisi, and the emir of qatar say there is no further time to waste — nor any excuse for further delay. adding, �*it�*s time to release the hostages, begin the ceasefire and implement this agreement.�* mohamed taha from bbc arabic is with me in the studio. always good to have you with us to talk us through the details of this and it is about the detail isn't it? what we do not know. what have mediators been saying on that? the know. what have mediators been saying on that?— saying on that? the main detail at the moment, _

saying on that? the main detail at the moment, as _ saying on that? the main detail at the moment, as always - saying on that? the main detail at the moment, as always is . saying on that? the main detail| at the moment, as always is the israeli full withdrawal from gaza and the permanent ceasefire. it is never on these two terms that hamas is always focusing on in reaching any deal that israeli forces have to fully withdraw from gaza and also that there should be a permanent ceasefire. israel wants them to continue fighting hamas and not stop the war, evenif hamas and not stop the war, even if they reach a deal and they want to keep certain positions especially with the border with egypt and the corridor separates the north from the south of gaza. timing. the ut from the south of gaza. timing. they put a _ from the south of gaza. timing. they put a date _ from the south of gaza. timing. they put a date here, _ from the south of gaza. timing. they put a date here, they - from the south of gaza. timing. they put a date here, they have said the 15th. i5 they put a date here, they have said the 15th.— said the 15th. is that significant? - said the 15th. is that significant? it - said the 15th. is that significant? it is - said the 15th. is that| significant? it is very significant? it is very significant because the united states wants to achieve four main aims from this. the main aim is to delay the iranian and hezbollah response of killing

their top leaders and the second is to keep the israeli military superiority that managers to reach by killing these leaders. the third is to stop the economic drain in the region because of the stance that iranian hezbollah have put the region in on the fourth aim is to try to finish biden�*s presidency in glory but this will feed into the favour of harris over trump.- will feed into the favour of harris over trump. and you mentioned _ harris over trump. and you mentioned iran _ harris over trump. and you mentioned iran and - harris over trump. and you i mentioned iran and hezbollah. how much pressure is this also putting on all parties involved?— putting on all parties involved? , , involved? indeed it puts pressure _ involved? indeed it puts pressure on _ involved? indeed it puts pressure on all - involved? indeed it puts pressure on all parties l pressure on all parties involved because it offers peace rather than war so the united states wants to say no response from everyone let's go back to the negotiating table,

let's end this war, let's reach a deal, let's end the suffering and gaza where 170 a deal, let's end the suffering and gaza where170 sheltered positions were targeted and let's end this war that destroyed more than 60% of the buildings in gaza. let's end the suffering and return back, the suffering and return back, the hostages back to israel, let's work positively to reach a deal rather than continue war and doing actions and counter actions and killing leaders and killing more civilians.- killing more civilians. thank ou killing more civilians. thank you very — killing more civilians. thank you very much _ killing more civilians. thank you very much indeed. - abc news has confirmed that donald trump and the us vice president, kamala harris, will take part in an election debate on its channel on the 10th of september. it's the first confirmed tv showdown between the two presidential candidates. at a news conference, mr trump also said he wanted two additional debates in september — the first of them on fox news. he also attacked ms harris'

record and character. the honeymoon period has got to end. look, she's got a little period, she's got a convention coming up. it's about policy. it's not about her. i think she's incompetent because i've watched her. she destroyed california, she destroyed san fran — everything she's touched has turned to bad things. i want to use — i'm not going to use foul language — but everything she's touched has turned bad. she's incompetent. kamala harris gave this response to reporters before boarding a flight in detroit. iam glad i am glad he finally agreed to a debate. i hope he shows up. are you open to more debate? i am are you open to more debate? am happy are you open to more debate? i am happy to have that conversation about an additional debate after september. he additional debate after september. additional debate after se tember. , ., ,.,, ., september. he proposed two more. i september. he proposed two more- i am — september. he proposed two more. i am happy— september. he proposed two more. i am happy to - september. he proposed two more. i am happy to have - september. he proposed twol more. i am happy to have that

conversation. _ more. i am happy to have that conversation. i— more. i am happy to have that conversation. i am _ more. i am happy to have that conversation. i am beyond - conversation. iam beyond trying to speculate. let's go live to our north america correspondent, peter bowes. hello, peter. how anticipated, hiuhl hello, peter. how anticipated, highly anticipated _ hello, peter. how anticipated, highly anticipated is _ hello, peter. how anticipated, highly anticipated is this - hello, peter. how anticipated, highly anticipated is this next | highly anticipated is this next debate, well, the first debate between these two presidential candidates? this between these two presidential candidates?— candidates? this is going to be must view _ candidates? this is going to be must view television. - candidates? this is going to be must view television. you - candidates? this is going to be must view television. you are l must view television. you are right there is a little confusion because of course there was a debate between president biden and donald trump and of course it was hugely consequential because of mr biden's terrible performance that ultimately led to him stepping down from the race for the white house so it is kamala harris now and donald trump, their first debate and as we just heard donald trump wants a further two. just heard donald trump wants a furthertwo. he just heard donald trump wants a further two. he thinks there should be three debates. and although it has been difficult in the last few weeks to get a

straight answer from donald trump as to whether he wanted these debates in the first place and now he says that they are very important. and that does play into what we know about donald trump, that he likes television, he likes that format. in some respects he is very good at television in achieving what he wants to achieve a certain situation and it seems that with the race tightening, the opinion polls certainly looking much closer now between the two candidates that these debates, whether other one or three will be hugely important for those candidates. we be hugely important for those candidates-— be hugely important for those candidates. ~ . ., , candidates. we are hearing very familiar attacks _ candidates. we are hearing very familiar attacks coming - candidates. we are hearing very familiar attacks coming from - familiar attacks coming from donald trump including an obsession with size. he made a point of pointing out that his crowds were bigger than, harris's crowds. what is it about size and donald trump? we should about size and donald trump? - should also say that he said that because he was asked by a reporter at the news conference

what he thought of the size of kamala harris �*s crowd. he was prompted but he did not need much prompting because of he went on a thai raid in terms of comparing the size of his crowds with those that kamala harris is attracting and it is true that her campaign has gotten off to an impressive start. in terms of the excitement and the enthusiasm that seems to have generated amongst democrats and that is certainly being reflected in the size of her crowds. but donald trump being donald trump says, well, if you look at his crowds the media does not properly report the number of people were still queueing outside, we have heard the stories before but he still insists that he gets far bigger and far more enthusiastic audiences.— and far more enthusiastic audiences. ., ., ., audiences. you mentioned that the olls audiences. you mentioned that the polls indicate _ audiences. you mentioned that the polls indicate that - audiences. you mentioned that the polls indicate that this - the polls indicate that this tightening. we have seen how things can flip and turn around following these tv debates.

could you talk us through how kamala harris has performed in past debates? she kamala harris has performed in past debates?— kamala harris has performed in past debates? she has performed reasonably well _ past debates? she has performed reasonably well but _ past debates? she has performed reasonably well but of _ past debates? she has performed reasonably well but of course - reasonably well but of course she has a long history. we know she has a long history. we know she initially stood for the presidency herself and eventually dropped out. she is known, of course she is a prosecutor, she is a prosecutor from san francisco with a long history of being a prosecutor and i think where she is best is at posing questions and trying to needle a person or perhaps other candidates in terms of digging deep into some of their policies and asking difficult questions of which she is possibly better at asking the questions. we know she has a good track record in washington, appearing on committees and questioning people brought before congressional committees, for example. so in that role she is quite effective. she is criticised sometimes for not

being particularly coherent about her policies and there was an example of thatjust recently when she was speaking on the tarmac on the return of the american hostages from russia, she gave an impromptu press conference and then when you actually decipher what she said it did not make a huge amount of sense. the scrutiny across everything at the moment including private life and public life, tim walz is on the receiving end of this at the moment i understand. why is there so much scrutiny over his military service at the moment? this is american politics. whenever you get a candidate making a claim whether it be about their military service or some other aspect of their past career and we know that he is also a sports coach, he has been a teacher, the other side will always scrutinise exactly what they said and whether it was true. indeed in terms of military service, whether he

actually served overseas, whether he went to iraqi or whether he went to iraqi or whether his role was predominantly here in the united states, what is his reasons for leaving the military and he left because he went into politics. he has given examples of some of his students encouraging him to move into the political arena. you will always get this, as to whether the candidates stand up in terms of dotting eyes and crossing teas and that is what we're seeing. because he is new, is new to most americans. not many people knew about him or knew of his history. so every detail of his past is being scrutinised.- every detail of his past is being scrutinised. thank you very much — being scrutinised. thank you very much indeed. _ being scrutinised. thank you very much indeed. let's - being scrutinised. thank you very much indeed. let's get| very much indeed. let's get some of— very much indeed. let's get some of the _ very much indeed. let's get some of the days _ very much indeed. let's get some of the days of - very much indeed. let's get some of the days of the - very much indeed. let's get i some of the days of the news now. a catalan separatist leader says his fellow separatist, carles puigdemont, is healthy safe and free. mr puigdemont earlier evaded police to address supporters in barcelona, despite facing an arrest warrant.

two police officers have been detained on suspicion of aiding his escape. the african union's health agency says m—pox is spreading at an alarming rate, and a public health emergency will be declared soon. it said infection rates had gone up by 160% in the past year. a new variant of the infectious disease is spreading beyond the borders of the democratic republic of congo, where m—pox is endemic. venezuela's president, nicolas maduro, has signed a decree blocking access to the social media platform x for ten days. mr maduro accused elon musk of of inciting hate, civil war and death. the two men have traded insults since nicolas maduro was declared the winner of last month's disputed presidential election. un member states have approved a treaty targeting cybercrime, despite criticism from human rights activists that it could be used to justify restrictions on freedom

of expression. the treaty — originally proposed by russia — will come into force once a0 countries have ratified it. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

the british prime minister has told an emergency cobra meeting that the police will remain on high alert, after a week of violent disorder following the southport stabbings ten days ago. he said there was "no doubt" rapid sentencing and extra police officers on the street helped to prevent further unrest — that had been expected on wednesday. 0ur political correspondent, harry farley, has this report. two arrests and a heavy police presence in barnsley yesterday. but widespread riots expected

on wednesday night never materialised. antiracism protesters instead thronged the streets chanting their support for refugees. government sources insist it is too early to tell whether a corner has been turned. ministers and police chiefs were tightlipped as they left a meeting of the emergency cobra committee last night. the prime minister is understood to have told them to remain on high alert. he said there is no doubt rapid and public sentencing as well is pleased station across the country acted as a deterrent to prevent violence on wednesday night. we will continue with this strong policing response and making sure that there are additional police officers ready to respond and also making sure we continue with the prosecutions, with the taking cases rapidly to court and getting sentences. we have seen prison sentences following. the home secretary think the police for their role. the 6000 extra specialist

officers were obliged to tackle violence remain on standby. more sentences will take place today including for those guilty of posting material online to stir up racial hatred. the focus for now is the police and the courts. the questions are already turning to the role of social media companies on whether the laws due to regulate them are sufficient. labour's mayor of london says he thinks they are not fit for purpose. now to events in bangladesh. the nobel peace laureate, muhammad yunus, has been sworn in as interim leader. he says his priority is to restore law and order. bangladesh has seen weeks of turmoil — sparked by demonstrations over civil service job quotas. more than 400 people are believed to have died, after the protests became a broader anti government movement.

the son of the former president has told indian media that his mother plans to return to the country when the caretaker government decides to hold elections. let's get some analysis from professor lailufar yasmin, professor at the department of international relations at the university of dhaka. hello and welcome to the programme. first off i wonder if you could remind us who mohammed yunus is. he is 84 years old. mohammed yunus is. he is 84 years old-— mohammed yunus is. he is 84 ears old. , ., , ., years old. yunus has been doing social work— years old. yunus has been doing social work since _ years old. yunus has been doing social work since he _ years old. yunus has been doing social work since he was - years old. yunus has been doing social work since he was a - social work since he was a teacher and he started with a simple proposition that whether people can dream, whether people can dream, whether people can dream, whether people can live better although they did not have much. he started with 42 families and

the amount of money back then was not much, he made people think that you could invest and you can actually get a return and that can lead people to live better. so we already has a connection with the grassroots and he already knows how people can have faith in themselves and how they can actually work to improve what they have and have a better life. how do you transform that into action? he has said he will perform his duties sincerely and he said he spoke about his priorities, he wants to restore order.— about his priorities, he wants to restore order. how big a 'ob awaits him? �* to restore order. how big a 'ob awaits him? it is d to restore order. how big a 'ob awaits him? it is a d to restore order. how big a 'ob awaits him? it is a massive h to restore order. how big a job awaits him? it is a massive job awaits him? it is a massive 'ob because «fl awaits him? it is a massive 'ob because of the d awaits him? it is a massive 'ob because of the turmoil i awaits him? it is a massive 'ob because of the turmoil thath awaits him? it is a massive job because of the turmoil that we j because of the turmoil that we started having since august five and then you must remember that we had an unelected government for over ten years.

so the way everything was centred around one person, the way all the acts of the institution were appointed, all of this has taken a toll on the country and for ten years we have only had one and many people have had to say yes just to save themselves. he has to actually clear off a lot of things left by the previous government. it is a big task a mammoth task but as i say he has experience. his business proposition is implemented in many countries around the world and there is a benefit in how to work with the people. business, societal issues, you

laid those out there for us but what about geopolitics? what will his appointment mean, his interim appointment, what will it mean to his immediate neighbours and also the united states? the relation between the country have become quite tense, haven't they?- tense, haven't they? coming from an international - tense, haven't they? coming | from an international relations background bangladesh's particular location at the mouth of the bay of bengal, it is a key state giving us a balance between the north—east of india and india and this is, bangladesh has been a big influence on india and it always wanted a friendly government in the country. but in bangladesh it is surrounded ijy in bangladesh it is surrounded by india on three sides and it shares one of the largest land borders in the world with india. so in the interest of countries and yunus has already

stated that stability in northeast india depends on stability in bangladesh. so bangladesh and other nations as i have written, it has been institutionalised. so now is the time when bangladesh has a greater advantage in setting up norms, setting up the roots of business within india. and with the united states and other western countries, this government shows a promise that there is a transparent manner so that matters a lot.- so that matters a lot. thank ou so that matters a lot. thank you very _ so that matters a lot. thank you very much _ so that matters a lot. thank you very much indeed. - today at the olympic games, history is to be made. the sport of breaking set to make its debut with two days of competitions. two gold medals are up for grabs, with 32 athletes, known as b—boys and b—girls competing at paris' place de la concorde — a major public square situated at the end of the champs—elysees.

let's speak to macca malik, a b—girl and us dancesport representative. hello and welcome to the programme. just to point this out to people, most people would know this is breakdancing. but it is not. what is braking?— breakdancing. but it is not. what is braking? thank you so much for having _ what is braking? thank you so much for having me. - what is braking? thank you so| much for having me. breaking, some people call the breakdancing and some media term but raking, be boil big girl is a very high energy athletic art form and dance which has some sport components to it as well. it is part of hip—hop culture as well and started out in the late 19605 early 19705 in new york in the inner—city black and brown youth who created and evolved

into something so major worldwide that we have participants now but it is something where we dance to the music, we have dynamic and explosive movements where you see us get down and break and, yeah, we're at the olympics now. like you said it has deep cultural and artistic significance but who has the power during what we will see, what the world will see for the first time? the dj controlling the music all the bee boy or big girl? what is going on? what do we need to work out and watch? exactly. so the dj, we break to the music. if there is no music we cannot get down, we cannot break. so the dj does have the power in that sense, to know what songs are going to be played. we have to improvise to be in the moment and hear

the music and the music that will be played and watching our opponent going out and around before us before as we get down. so... . before us before as we get down. so...— before us before as we get down. so... . we will come to the favourites _ down. so... . we will come to the favourites in _ down. so... . we will come to the favourites in a _ down. so... . we will come to the favourites in a moment. it is not about speed, it is not about strength. so how are competitors marked? there are five categories _ competitors marked? there are five categories that _ competitors marked? there are five categories that the - five categories that the competitors will be judged on. one of them is technique and we are talking about dynamics and form and to control with technique. vocabulary. how many moves do you have? are you repeating any of your moves? how many variations do you have? then we have execution. we do not want to see you fall out of your role, we call the question. we don't want to see you crashing. so it should be clean. musicality, which is my

favourite, i love dancing to music so how are you connecting? do you have rhythm, you need rhythm. just connecting? do you have rhythm, you need rhythm.— you need rhythm. just quickly we only have _ you need rhythm. just quickly we only have about _ you need rhythm. just quickly we only have about 20 - you need rhythm. just quickly i we only have about 20 seconds. the wider audience the younger audience all of this is very important, who are the favourites?— important, who are the favourites? ., ,,~ . important, who are the favourites? ., . ., favourites? team usa. we have sonny and _ favourites? team usa. we have sonny and jethro _ favourites? team usa. we have sonny and jethro and _ favourites? team usa. we have sonny and jethro and logistics l sonny and jethro and logistics so definitely look out for them. . ., , so definitely look out for them. , �* so definitely look out for them. , ., ., them. of course you're going to sa team them. of course you're going to say team usa! _ them. of course you're going to say team usa! what _ them. of course you're going to say team usa! what a - them. of course you're going to say team usa! what a silly - say team usa! what a silly question. good luck for your team and for everyone else. hello there. we did have a lot of cloud through thursday afternoon, and with that came drizzle, some heavier outbreaks of rain across northern portions of the uk — for example, here in stirling. with that rain, some low cloud and misty conditions. the air�*s actually been very humid.

the humidity caused by southwesterly winds brought in by a warm sector. cold front out in the atlantic is going to be spreading fresher air in from the west over the next few hours, and with that, drizzle will tend to ease away from scotland, northern ireland, northern england and wales, eventually leaving the rather humid airto start the day on friday across east anglia, south—east england, where there could well still be a few patches of drizzle, a bit of mist around, too. but that lot should clear out of the way quite quickly, and then we're looking at those fresher conditions spreading across all of the uk. sunny spells widespread. 0k, there could be some patches of cloud at times across england and wales, won't be completely gin—clear sunny skies, and there will be some showers, particularly for western scotland, one or two possible for northern ireland and north wales. but there will be a lot of dry weather through the afternoon and plenty of pleasant, warm spells of august sunshine. now, for the weekend, we have weak weather fronts pestering england and wales, bringing a rather mixed weather picture here. cloud will vary through the day. it will tend to come and go. there could be a few patches of rain, but equally some

warm spells of sunshine. the sunniest weather, though, will be further northwards for scotland, northern ireland, northern england. could be a few showers, though, for western scotland once again. temperatures widely climbing into the low to mid—205, so again it's going to feel warm in that august sunshine. but then, for some of us, it gets hot on sunday. the reason? well, we get this ridge in thejet stream. that encourages air to descend over parts of the uk, and that boosts temperatures. now, the hottest weather on sunday will always be across parts of england and wales. to the northwest, we're going to have to watch this area of potentially heavy, thundery rain. it could get into northern ireland and western scotland through the day, so it certainly won't be hot and sunny absolutely everywhere, but it will be pretty humid for most of us. and in the sunshine across england and wales, yes, you do have hot weather, high 205 to low 305. sunday night and into monday, quite extensive, heavy and thundery outbreaks of rain across the uk. could cause some localised surface waterflooding issues, but towards the south—east and probably parts of east anglia, it's another hot day — temperatures peaking somewhere between 30—33 celsius before those temperatures drop away again as we head into tuesday. bye for now.

delta airlines reveals it lost over $500 million from last month's software chaos. we'll take a look at russia's steaming economy. why's inflation running rampant under western sanctions?

barclays bank ramps up the cap on its bonuses. some bankers will be able to earn up to ten times their salary. and how to get young workers to pick up their phones. we'll hear about gen z�*s communications barrier. live from london, this is business today. delta airlines says disruptions caused by the recent global software outage and subsequent flight cancellations cost it $550 million. the us carrier says it's pursuing legal action against crowdstrike and microsoft. crowdstrike had denied it was solely responsible for delta's flight disruptions, which it said continued after other carriers came back online. with more from new york, here's the bbc�*s michelle fleury. delta air lines said it was reimbursing its customers for cancelled flights and providing compensation the form of cash and skymiles —