ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has acknowledged, for the first time, that his military is conducting an offensive inside russia's western kursk region. it comes as russia carries out overnight missile and drone attacks in six regions of ukraine — killing at least two people in kyiv. the first of three funerals, for the young girls killed at a taylor swift dance class in southport last month, will take place later today. alice dasilva aguiar will be laid to rest at st patrick's catholic church in town. the killing sparked disorder across the uk. hello, welcome to the programme. we will focus in the next ten minutes or so on the olympics. the paris games will come to a close later but before that, there are more chances for great britain to increase its already impressive medal haul. yesterday the tally grew to 63 after a successful day on the track,

the taekwondo mat, and the pool. our sports correspondent joe lynskey has the round—up. it started aged eight in a bristol leisure centre, when kate shortman and izzy thorpe performed their first duet. two swimmers in sync on one breathless journey, now it's led to this... silver medallists. ..britain�*s first olympic medal in artistic swimming. yes, time for everybody in great britain to now hold their breath. they were fourth when they started a routine called the rising phoenix, a name that sums up how this pair have reached this point. in tokyo they came 14th, they almost quit the sport. but three years of perseverance have helped in their ascent. china took the gold but for kate and izzy this silver was reward for what goes on beneath the surface. they've done it, - they've got a medal. honestly, it feels like a dream. i can't believe... i can't believe it.

we have worked so hard to get here. i didn't want to cry but i am because we've been through some really hard times these past three years trying to get here and it just makes me emotional that it was all worth it. the twists in the air brought their country a breakthrough. in taekwondo, caden cunningham looked for the same. no british man had won gold in this sport. he won three bouts to make the final before a last kick to the head. oh, the headshot makes the difference. cunningham was beaten but with this silver looks forward. in martial arts, there are big opportunities. i work very hard. if i choose something else, i'll choose something else and i'll master it. if i stay in this, i'll be the king of taekwondo for the next four years, no problem. tonight, paris will pass the baton onto la 28. the last night of track and field brought two british relay medals — bronze in the men's and women's 4x400, where amber anning held on for a national record time.

great britain with another medal. the same achievement to win bronze came for georgia bell in the 1500 metres but her way to the finish had been quite remarkable. she'd been a good junior runner but then quit the sport. she was inspired to return when she ran a quick parkrun. georgia bell is so close. faith kipyegon won the gold but here was bell's resilience — back from the brink to win a place on the podium. georgia bell gets the bronze. when i got back into running the goal wasn't to try and make the olympics, that would have been absolutely bonkers at the time. it was just going back to something that i really loved. it was just so unlikely that i would be here in the first place, so i thoughtjust go for it and see what happens. ten track and field medals is britain's best haul since 1984. the target for a team is always the podium but each route there is unique. joe lynskey, bbc news.

great britain won six medals on saturday — they need two more today to beat their tally from the tokyo games. team gb�*s noah williams got the first medal yesterday with a bronze in the men's iom platform. despite looking out of contention after his first few dives he capitalised on the mistakes of others to claim his second medal of the games. when you are first, i'm not focused on anyone else because i'm the first one going. ijust can do what i can do, which was great. and then, you know, i was just able to literally do what i had to do to get the medal. one of my dives wasn't great but overall obviously i'm so happy and i couldn't ask for more. he got the silver with the tom daley with the synchronised swimming. —— synchronised diving. former chelsea women manager emma hayes guided the usa to the olympic gold medal. she only took the job less than three months ago and this

was her first tounrament in charge. they beat brazil 1—0 at parc des princes. mallory swanson�*s second—half finish was enough to secure the americans' first olympic gold since 2012 — and their fifth overall. the win underlines hayes status as one of the best coaches in the women's game. it's been a rough year. this time last year my dad was dying and i didn't think that i had the courage to come and do this. and this team have embraced me and welcomed me into theirfamily and allowed me to lead them. and honestly it is the greatest moment in my professional career. ollie wood and mark stewart fell short of the medal places in the men's madison after a crash put paid to their chances. wood said he felt like he'd been rear—ended by a lorry after this incident with netherlands�* jan—willem van schip. the british pair — current world silver medallists — finished 10th as portugal won a historic first olympic gold on the track. after missing out on a medal

in the 1500 metres, jakob ingebrigtsen made up for it by storming to victory in the 5000 metres. the norwegian world champion made his move with 200 metres to go and finished comfortably ahead of kenya's ronald kwemoi who took silver, with bronze going to american grant fisher. britain's george mills finished last. let's take a look at the medal table. china are top with 39 golds — just one ahead of the united states. the hosts france are in fifth place with 16 golds. great britain are sixth — with 14 golds. let's hope we can add to that today. our sports news correspondent, laura scott, has been looking forward to the medal chances for team gb today. team gb only picked one weightlifter for these games and that is emily campbell,

who made history in tokyo winning a silver medal. she is hoping to go even better here in paris but she faces a formidable force in china's li wenwen, who is widely expected to take the gold. but campbell said that when she feels and looks her best, she performs her best, and she has actually brought her own eyelash technician here to paris with her. and then the final of the women's modern pentathlon and great britain have two medal chances in that with the defending champion kate french and kerenza bryson both in strong positions heading into today's final. and this will be the final time we see horse riding as part of the modern pentathlon, as organisers try to keep that event relevant for younger audiences and make some changes to the format. and it has been a successful stint in the velodrome for team gb at the olympics and there are three more gold medals up for grabs in the velodrome, including emma finucane in the women's sprint. she is trying to get her third medal of these games, as is jack carlin as well,

so look out for those as team gb tries to beat the tally from tokyo of 64 medals. they are currently on 63. they will be down on golds because they're on 14 at the moment versus the 22 in tokyo but it has been a successful games for team gb already with more medal chances to come. that is laura scott and she mentioned jack carlin. he his through to the semifinals, that is continuing live over on bbc one right now if you want to continue watching the cycling from the velodrome. because of course the paris olympics will draw to a close tonight with the closing ceremony and then we talk about the next host already looking ahead. organisers of la28 have been explaining why they've chosen some new sports among the 36 that'll be on show. we want to have the greatest sports programme in the history of the olympics because we are a great sporting city. this and so we are bringing some

of the most important, _ most traditional, most meaningful sports in our country — baseball, softball and flag football. and we are bringing some of the most important, most accessible sports in the world — cricket and squash. and the 36 sports we have on our programme will mean this will be the greatest collection of athletes the history of the world has ever seen in one place. and a reminder you can follow all of the action on the final day of the paris olympics and the closing ceremony later online. the bbc sport website and app has a live page running, along with today's schedule and full medal table. they have just posted a picture of they have just posted a picture of the olympic mascot doing some weightlifting. you can see that picture on the website or on the app. away from the olympics, the first of three funerals, for the young girls fatally stabbed at a taylor swift dance class in southport will take place today. nine—year—old alice da silva aguiar will be laid to rest at st patrick's catholic church in southport. the service comes after the parents

of another victim — six—year—old bebe king — revealed that her older sister witnessed the attack. olivia richwald reports. alice da silva aguiar, aged nine, described as amazing, caring and confident. she was killed alongside six—year—old bebe king and seven year old elsie dot stancombe on july 29th. ten others were seriously injured in the attack on a taylor swift themed dance event. last week, a memorial service, a celebration of alice's life, took place at saint patrick's church on merseyside, where alice had celebrated her first communion just a few months ago. family and friends of alice sang hymns and read tributes in portuguese and english. and today, alice's funeral will take place at the same church. fatherjohn hennigan said herfamily feel she is now in heaven. they believe that we've got to let her go dancing into heaven.

that's one of the messages they gave to me. she's going dancing into heaven. that's how they see this and this funeral is, of course, going to be profoundly sad. but it also will have that deep joy because that's what they believe. they believe she's gone home to heaven, dancing with the angels and saints. all those who were injured in the attacks have now been released from hospital. the funerals haven't taken place yet for elsie dot stancombe and bebe king. yesterday it emerged that bebe's older sisterjeannie, aged nine, witnessed the attacks and escaped. her parents said jeannie had shown incredible strength and courage and bebe was sweet, kind and spirited. 18—year—old axel rudikabana, from southport, has been charged with three counts of murder, ten counts of attempted murder and possession of a knife. he's been detained into youth custody. olivia ringwald, bbc news, southport. a government minister has said

the impact of the riots which hit parts of the uk over the past two weeks will be felt "for years" to come. thousands of anti—racism protesters rallied in towns and cities across the uk on saturday with people taking to the streets in cities including belfast, birmingham, cardiff and glasgow. it follows the disorder in areas of england and northern ireland, fuelled by online disinformation following the southport attack in which three young girls were killed. more than 775 people have been arrested. the far—right used social media to organise some of the protest. our security and home affairs journalist lizze dearden told me earlier how it worked. there was a mobilisation across different social media platforms which includes x, formerly twitter, facebook, tiktok, snapchat and more encrypted and secure platforms like telegram. what they were seeking to do was really use the grief and anger

and confusion that so many people felt after the murders in southport to turn that into something that would be useful to them and the way they see the world and to get their message out to people. and so what we have seen is scenes of protest, the use of misinformation and fake news all by these different groups are trying to get their point across about how they say that non—white people are dangerous, how they say that muslims are dangerous, to a much wider pool of people. and so for example on telegram, how many people would be involved in a group that was talking about protests? well it works like other social media channels like for example whatsapp in that you can join individual chats or very large groups, and many groups after southport were set up so people could find them, some of them got up to 15,000, 20,000 people in them but what we saw very quickly is that when the discussion in those groups turned violent, when people started to discuss targeting asylum seekers and mosques, telegram did take them down.

so they split into very much smaller groups. do we have any idea who is behind them? yes, it is a range of people. some people have been trying to keep their identity secret, some people are actually very high profile activists who have been kind of large voices on the scene for many years. and we are seeing a kind of shift in tactics now because the police in the uk have started to very openly say that they are going to seek to go after people who have incited some of this disorder. some of these figures are now climbing down and they have stopped calling for disorder and protest but some people are doubling down and they are still trying to get people onto the streets and it remains to be seen if that will continue working. this is an interesting tactic from the government to push forward with those prosecutions. i know you have been in a number of the courts seeing people being processed.

did you get any idea of their motivation? it is actually very confusing picture and part of that is a product of british law. a lot of the offences that people are being prosecuted forfor example violent disorder and assault, they don't need prosecutors to prove motivation. in court a lot of people are saying i'm not racist, i wasn't out there to attack muslims. i was caught up in the energy of the moment. at the moment i suppose we're going through the slightly more simple cases, people being caught on the scene throwing a rock but it will get more complicated and more involved in that motivation picture as we start moving into seeing people prosecuted for online offences, where they have been encouraging people to come out and organising events. so at the moment some people are denying any motivation at all really, they are just saying they were simply there. but that may change as more cases come through the courts. yes, and i suppose when it is

someone who has done something something out it is easier to prosecute and easy for them to plead guilty, rather than something online. yes, exactly, and that is what we're seeing in the first wave of prosecutions. some people are being jailed within two, three, four, five days of as you say being caught physically at the scene with footage and they plead guilty and it is over very quickly. but we will start moving into a more complex space where people will start denying offences or if more serious crimes are charged then we might start in full trials was white fascinating stuff. a veterinary charity has warned that some of its services are under threat because of unprecedented demand and a 60 per cent increase in bills over the last decade. the pdsa carried out more than two million treatments last year and says it needs more donations to meet demand. our correspondent ben godfrey went to one of the charity's animal hospitals, in birmingham.

at the pdsa hospital in aston, a returning patient, with a suspected infection, it's an xl bully. it's now a criminal offence to possess one unless you have an exemption, a breed keeping vets busy. in public they have to have a muzzle and be restrained. also as part of people being allowed to have one is to have them muted, and of course that is something we need to try to meet the demand. the aston hospital averages 120 patients a day. from eight o'clock in the morning there are pre—booked appointments and emergency admissions. today the hospital has reduced staffing. so now guarantee you will be seen quickly but then this is a vet service across £200,000 a day to run

an entirely reliant on public donations. that care is expensive and health care is expensive and we know because we have to run 49 pet hospitals every year. those doors are open. we do have these challenges but we have to keep going. this is what we are here for. it was 70 quid just to be seen here the other day and the medication and everything so it was a lot cheaper. the charity has treated more than 430,000 animals in 2023. of those, 90,000 were emergencies and demand is increasing. it would be wonderful if things did ease but we have to be prepared for the worst and we have to make sure that we are really careful on budget so pets do not suffer as a result of financial hardship. there is a daily uncertainty to this job but also joy.

a kitten, one of a litter of five born prematurely is here in their care. the sole survivor. ben godfrey, bbc news. that cute kitten has got to me! more of us are trying to get out and about to enjoy the summer weather, which means rescue teams in wales' largest national park are expecting another record year for callouts. groups in eryri, formerly known as snowdonia, say beautiful pictures on social media are encouraging people to head to the beauty spot, without being aware of the dangers. george herd has been out in the mountains to find out more. it may be a little overcast, but the car park here at ngen cottage in the national park is already full and walkers are heading out onto the hills in their droves. from here it's a short walk to the relative safety of combe idwal. however, it could also lead you to the technically challenging climbs onto the 3000ft trefan.

with stunning views like this, it's no surprise it attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors a year here to eryri. but are people thinking enough about mountain safety when they head out on the hills? this is our operational area. you can see we come from colwyn bay all the way down here to pentrefoelas. according to the ngen valley mountain rescue teams, the answer all too often is no. tryfan alone accounts for nearly one in three call—outs, often novice walkers whose only experience is watching videos on instagram or tiktok. things have changed, i think. certainly all mountain rescue teams have noticed a big difference since lockdown, and i think one of the things is social media. people are doing podcasts, other people are seeing the podcasts and getting the idea that they can go up there. but they haven't seen how that original filmer of the podcast was equipped and haven't seen how experienced he was. and we're getting a number of people who are going up, getting into difficulties

because they aren't suitably equipped or experienced. so what do some of those heading out onto the hills think? we've seen people equipped today wearing birkenstocks and trying to climb, you know, pretty big heights. and not only is their feet going to be cold, but they're, you know, it'sjust not suitable. you have to be careful, uh, and not doing stupid - things by trying to play| the hero or something. but i think everythingl is relatively safe here, so we don't see any, any problems. it's probably a more education you need so that before people approach the mountains, maybe there should be some way of them knowing how to assess what they're capable of. and that role of educating visitors is being taken up by adventure smart, a body championing safe outdoor activities. everybody has caught the outdoor adventure bug. ithink, you know, post—covid people have discovered that the outdoors is good for their wellbeing, but they're not doing it with any real understanding, or many of them don't have an understanding of the risks

involved and the fact that, you know, they could take a few simple actions which would help them mitigate those risks, have a far more enjoyable day, and actually not have to call our mountain rescue teams out. the message from mountain rescue teams and adventure smart is simple — do some planning, come prepared for the weather, and finally, do enjoy the mountains safely. we've all seen our high street shops dwindle in recent years but residents of south london will soon be saying goodbye to a real one—off. allodi accordions in lewisham has been selling and repairing the instruments for nearly 50 years, but its owner is calling it a day. our reporter wendy hurrell went to meet him. joyful accordion music. from this shop, selling and repairing accordions, this is the sound that has drifted

out onto the lehi road in lewisham for more than a0 years. joyful accordion music. that is claudio, playing, and his brother emilio owns the shop, a highly—respected and sought after accordion restorer. it has been great but it has taken its toll on my fingers, if nothing else. the air will blow through and... you make the sound. when the accordion gets old and needs overhauling, the valves all have to be changed or rejuvenated. that is intricate work, isn't it? yeah, yeah, but i've done it a few million times! it is the craft he continued from his father, bruno, when he moved from italy in 1951 and established allodi accordions, in north london. my dad would be working and repairing downstairs and say emilio, come down and hold this

and can you see what that is doing and as a young kid you do what you are told and leading at the same time. we were immersed in the accordion world completely. he has sold instruments bearing the family name to musicians playing for status quo, sheryl crow and sir paul mccartney. they got to play at the white house when it was michelle obama's birthday and they wanted to play michelle from the beatles and there it was, people were phoning me up and telling me my name was splattered across the screen because they kept flashing the name with allodi next to obama. # que sera sera... # whatever will be will be... # the future is not ours to see # que sera, sera... but now, his hands sore, wanting more time with his wife, kim, and grandchildren, emilio, with a heavy heart,

will close the shop at the end of the year. what legacy are you leaving? my dad's name and reputation is the biggest thing of all. to not let him down, his name, and hopefully i have continued in the same way and, yeah, kept his name at the top of the tree, hopefully. # what will be, will be... # what will be will be.# wendy hurrell, bbc news. and finally, it was show time for some dogs and cats as the annual west end woofs took place in the uk — an adoption event to help dogs and cats to find their forever home. stage legends elaine paige and bernadette peters were there to help. they started the event started during the pandemic to tackle the growing number of abandoned animals. and they brought some of their friends along too. in attendance to introduce the furry

pets were celebrities such as christopher biggins, lesley nicol, peter egan and bonnie langford. now it's time for a look at the weather with elizabeth rizzini. hello there. hot and humid—feeling conditions particularly for southern and eastern areas of england. thunderstorms north and west. all of this to come in the forecast tonight and tomorrow. but for the rest of the day today across the uk it looks dry. a lot of sunshine around. it will be feeling warm. it's been a bit of a slow start towards the south coast of england. the risk of some sea mist and fog lapping on shore at times but even toward southern areas of devon, that should tend to break up as a south—easterly wind picks up with the onshore breeze. cooler towards the coast than yesterday but temperatures widely in the low—to—mid 20s. maybe 29 or 30 in london

and parts of berkshire. overnight tonight, we keep the clear skies towards the east. but here come those thunderstorms. torrential downpours for northern ireland and western scotland. showers for western wales, south—west england. temperatures across the south of england may not drop locally below 20 celsius, but warm and sticky and uncomfortable for sleeping. here comes the fresh feeling air on monday behind this cold front. where these two air masses meet, the cool air from the atlantic and the hottest streaming from southern europe will see thunderstorms break out most likely for the early part of the morning for western scotland, northern ireland, anywhere from northern yorkshire to north lincolnshire northwards. further south, largely dry. an improving picture for everybody with a lot of sunshine through the afternoon. but very hot in southern and eastern areas of england, parts of london, cambridgeshire, perhaps as high as 3a celsius. still warm on tuesday but not quite as hot. here come those atlantic fronts. pushing further eastwards,

sunshine developing behind but no fresh feeling air. most of the uk still 28—29 towards southern and eastern england. cooler north and west, with further outbreaks of rain. some more widespread showers on wednesday particular for northern and western areas. again, sunny spells around. temperatures still in the low to mid 20s but many parts of england and parts of eastern wales as well. it's going to be quite unsettled through next week. fresh feeling air, some sunny spells at times but also some further outbreaks of rain. bye bye.

live from london. this is bbc news the final day of the paris olympics is under way — and it was gold for the netherlands�* sifan hassan in the women's marathon. there are 12 more gold medals up for grabs ahead of the closing ceremony. iam i am live in paris. i will bring you the latest on those medals and what to expect from the closing ceremony,

which is on later this evening. in other news: russia carries out overnight attacks inside ukraine, killing two people in kyiv as ukraine's president zelensky confirms his military is on the offensive inside russia. the funeral takes place today of nine year—old alice dasilva aguiar — one of the three young girls killed in the southport knife attack that sparked violent protests in the uk. us vice—president, kamala harris, adds her voice to international condemnation of the loss of civilian life in saturday's deadly israeli air strike on a school compound in gaza. and coming up — a sixth banksy in six days with a seventh rumoured to be on its way. what might the elusive street artist reveal next? hello, welcome to the programme. we start with the olympics. after more than two weeks of celebrations, heartbreak and,

at times, controversy, the paris games are coming